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FOREST AND STREAM. 


A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 


PiGeiNG, SHOOTING. THE KENNEL. 
PRACTICAL NATURAL HISTORY, 


PISHCULTURE, PROTECTION OF GAME, 


--AND THE— 
| INCULCATION IN. MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTEREST 
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OD T-DOOR RECREATION AND STUDY. 


VOLUME XXII. 


} Nox t\ rts 
February, i884—July, 1884. 


PAP Shep BYoTHE 


FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, 


NEW YORK. 


1884. 


FOREST AND 


STREAM. 


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INDEX---VOLUME XXII | 
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EDITORIAL. Page agtPage. eae 
Raw Page. Wibod saeuben- apm) Se hil) Bete keer en eter 3 6x CouesiindPeriod SF) wee ses tee ees 323, 343, 302, 404, 423 ‘Luntles, Denacity of loiter. An). ask. soem aie «465 
(Adirondack Forests. .... 0 .4.-- 2.65 I, 121, 221, 281, 401 Yacht. Launching Stupidity (..5.00..5..0-,7..2 25. 281 Gfossbillsyg Meee center tel Geechee AS Bok tT K wae 244 Uplatrt Je konidern hotly Galeqabietole oe, OO se «284. 
Amateur Photography... ae Se? ea” ae 162 Yacht Measurement..... ... he dried ich tea 22, 261 Grossbillsuns New Jerse ya jonas ce 5 ee ee et ote 302 Weapons found in Game..... .... ...... 184, 228, 285 
‘American Kennel Register”’,.........+-.---.-+5- 20 WAGHESea SIRIctlle Meson «oun trier: tees frosrtr ent od ohne 441 Cros Peri Bi, SN eet eke ae oe aie ia abt 143 Wald GAtES ei efp eto Ae apie. ee oer tal ese ee 25 
Angling ett CLG ates caiman gt Sen ea 36 Zoplorical/ Gardens sy aves wns Mensa 2s apts 2 os oe 181 row saliitelits: Pe net open as a mete y se eee se we erg an Wallewin DeldWwate Bavienaun 2: aiesdetat say metins 364. 
Angling SEG Ges op tt cere Seat er ge oe ee te I @rowsiramesvte. tc oseus afy- nets ee Senne eLearn 46 Woodcock Early Migration... ............ ..+-- . 46 
PAIL reine ste rt ee yy EES we ew oe eine ha mieine = He camels 18r 4 5 Deer in the Adirondacks...,.... 243, 264, 286, 307, 363 WY Gon coGksint su mre tintaee ae ierte se enreee eeenen 402 
APGricebaeploratlOmee secon + s.ts cree islalere=|-1= Seis 241, 50 Deer of Ottawa Valley........:.-... .-. +723, 143, 164 Woodpeckerstitmtites@ity= see se ee eee 184. 
Army Mites EACH CON MO mutta s cassie cele cer tet 8x Deer Superfetation ........ AE SH tid dee Ube toe 181, 303 Zoogenic Paradox, 1 .s+..serleesass 22 cose 224, 303 
Bare=Poot, Wse for the.4. yes... .cb-ese-, 22-0 421 SPORTSMAN TOURIST. IB hoe Sookie bine Wea net ea oA tea Ate 44 Zoological Garden.... ..... Ae et ae een Bere $7.1 
Bench Sh Orta oy Uke Wh eats ac ao SOG : F i 
} wae ow Judging 281 Pree py hearts ees cee ey ly We wh ste Le Electric. spare) SBOEES EAE being bee eae 424 
Tstewdish UPajeyal 4, 7 ay Hae RRR Rte ASE 8 501 A disondack ur Gresko waste 6 flectriceAmphibiate mapas yea eeam eons Ben ys 5 443 
Boston Game Market... ..----:sesdsedseeaetns Ior " Ri ieee y SU ae Ot : IDI sles Ged MehzRaval IBNUE ES yy yo bons oA GR ee 5 26 Seta’ 
‘Brooklyn Water Supply 22 BEBE MDIES cE QECLY ons 2 PIT Se. Ue ace aa a English Sparrow Investigation 66 
I » Shits ‘ . } See na on i BA kerr (ate DE ee Sar oat 3, 24, 42, 93, 102, 142, 162 A $8 ‘i a eee ZatloOn .-- 2... Lee eee ees 
peas ; mS on iit jee iba pe a8 4 Cascade Mountains......- RS cee Nias Sole 422 Nas FOS ae BECP EEE 9. BSG SOAUER FO aGtiG2¢% aoe GAME BAG AND GUN. 
Camp-Fire Flickerings:. ......+-2. s:++ -+-++- 21, 42 HueldnGiass#Uittlitye. eo sec aie gee agen ane 443 
Charleston to Cape Roman:....5..:.....+.-.+-+-- 262 £ . poh 
\Canoe Ciattithunats. Doo ae RASA AA og 45 foc cens: 22 ealanaaaeeect AE ishvand! Snakescssse ene cst eestne ennai 404, 424 Adirondack Deer Complications.....-. .......... 467 
| Ciera uelicttyes at Sones ASE ee ee hy EEao = CODD ore shat oe - Cag» Sa ee So ey ae ee lace aWalsone east debies te: sso estantatel ec srer fate race Adirondack: Wores trys Hil 7) aie enn eae eee 325 
Court of Arctomys Monax...........2-+--++seseee-+ 5 A x i 
[Dyas (Ouse Shmme Sebaaure tease sac ee or See ee as 42 Bloridan Petsi rhea cee odie as Maes eect tate aat 203 AIT MESSAGE | NA epstas 3 ol solne selene ci eae rane 
Decorations ay.SloLy tesa eee ee EEE 342 : 2 2 | 
WtgearanndOsheepea. Genes. deen Sheet tals amie 8x ase SHEptS a lying wsyeiiinre Aepye. a see ee Ss = eee «4 65 Ammateta)) Ger Shootitien ) oak mer see ene 385 
‘Dogs STM TriTle Seances ee oe. Pea Ki Se cies oak an aang Ms 36 wk oe ie cat ee ee ig eb ta a iS HoseRainbowaeler ese aeis «eee eases are 26, 104 PeNyatyskor na vide Over Bl S40) Soa 225, 285, 344 | 
Down the Madawasca ........--s-...20e0-2s0eee- 222 z . . beers 3) N 
Dogs, Worth of...-....2:- teens te eeee cre eeee ee 321 EJk Hunt (Poetry) Gs Mores tran eh oG See antennae ot. Seite eee re eeene 83 Bear Hunting Device............ Steerer enalee a++ +87 | 
‘Dog Tax and Game Law.... .---+--+ssseees sees 61 Peers eal Ba Me ah heise pe ee” SoC” SN 8 HORST Geen ect ins clears, Otel e = Paste 424 Bears in Pennsylvania............ tttteees tee tees 486 
Tey cle 4 SN ee yok Ee RAS OBE ose 61 Henig MP oaey Sabena oy OLS Wow Meh bhava dyer POE ha nie se coud becDesn » 224 Birds Tanke). SA oeg maya eas ie ete ee we es 168, | 
2 Broe e@archers; she hye etre tee tte te meee -. 202 Pandas aye yt k Hi 
Dynamite Guns... . 1.0... .cce eet e eee ees e eens 26 M2 : Gorillamine Captivity. oe sees nee ents 444 Black Halls:Chibes2 2) eaaeres = ey ot ee ee 
a Te GamesBirdsaniwanten.. senses sect e re eer eee 22 : y 
Firearm Interchangeability ...........-.+-eee- ees 381 G ; ; GrizzlysBearindeabrador a. aejsseye js eee een 324 Black-tailed Deer Antlers.... .......... .. Stn 
c =e uagus Angling Trips. A 9 11.6. sec e eee gteeeee 464 > 
\Fishcultural Association ........2...0-.0-2000e0: .321 ; Grizzly, Early Accounts of.......... -. -..----.+- 364 Hranteat Cha thamie wats ssi eeee eee ce een ae 
eee Greely’s (ReScie ss. oie ne ete te na ollie ot 503 a 
lWishing for Bass...6---..02. 022 «+ ser sees nes 0222 ios Sie Grouhdsblag eDiaye a: aeaeee ses ea eee eee 26 British Columbia Game.. ... ..... --......- 
| ; How. Old Mistis Kalter Bars.....;-..:.7-- 2235. 382 G d Snak 6 Bulletwse Buckshor 
FORESTRY: ye TERIA ie aS eee tee ee eee ie round Snake. ..5 s. 0s. er erence ere ecse cheane etree 50 SOU CRSIOR 535-13 is ears aoa ene 
Adirondack Forest Preservation (which see). v fe SAAS r (SFoUSe sOOU Mer te FTN te seen eee iare Sanaa) aE 224, 24 Camp Covkery...... ph Sch SEES. Min Maat agthat tds 
4, 243 
Jimmy O’Brien’s Bear............ ee re cp 82, 223 a7 A 
\ WWorest. Wealth)... ....¢sturseceer capes et erent 2, 41 i ‘ TalSwop baie NAR NIKE Subbed Ma ele sauces Boece: AAAS: 506 Camp mM Ware wacclaas tel aerise «tee sean tee haters 305 
Ioan tennis (Crbaego) # og h ss ded soutien eee sac 322 i E 
Forestry Officer... . 25 544 ester et eect eer renee 301 K:. ‘ackson’s Mule cj HoopeSnalken. essai: 1e- aee ce Maher deen anaes 26, 484 Cartridge Loading Machine... .... We oh Sakata nae 
WET web esWV ater GrOCS. .. 0)... ciles Feet 42a etueawes 221 Pt Grea"? SY pat? gow in ait meine oes Rea Horned Lark Early Breeding................ ..-- I44 Gate Storiessee ete. -eyet nee heel cite sate See nee 475 LOA 
| : Whancrofethe:aGotleGrul cs sacle ee alee ee cepa rat cece & 62 i * Z 
|\Game Bird Preserves. 2... .. se: cceeeeee cree tees 16 Teabradopesteains:sah see vn canneries apne 184, 223 Chatham County (N.C. ) Sra pier ee AAR REP e, 
. % TC ayavaleepiiel soul PANE eto) shy on eee th aarti Ghia asta i B On, +82 3 
Game Law Uniformity.......0..00..2.0eee seen ee ee 6x : Hieasts Bitteriiwe ear. cu ctetgne tae aaa tie epnteee sonore 25 Chill Days in North Carolina .....--..-.4.+-.+... 
E Lassoing a Man-Mater...........-..----:-.2-eie 382 é 5 ps 
Game Protection.........-0.:seesereee te cee ec ees r8r . INSP RS) tA koe WARREN po Lope ticas ticbatstersy 46 Cimarron to Cimarron Canyon.....--..... .-..--. 
: Life Among the Blackfeet........... 4, 24, 63, 122, 143 3 ; ; : = 
|\Game Protection Fund........ ...---. seeee---s: 5ol - Mink as Mow] Destroyer. ..........0.-.. +005 5-+ ee 184 Coons and ’Coon Hunting,....... Pe RA senso aA 
: TosHunt.onsstaked! Plains: .0 Sass ce eee 502 ‘4 tar 
Greely Rescue .... 02.622. ee erences eens 241, 501 ; 2 Muskrat as Fish-eater... ....--...-.---. 163, 285, 404 Guba /Shootitig. ti ory aces ep eters meron eee Aap 
; : Major Joseph Verity........-..--.---- 42-44, 143,182 : 2 : i 
Cea erconisexb itl: © .< icte acy Geet | aaleleG Win. aefree 201 4 NS Natuesshll calimpusA rbseeer vrs aeeeny aoe oa lehae estate lott 444 Deer Family, American............ ----.-.+--s. 
mae Major Verity’s Steam Cat... ..,.....-5-.+.-----, 283 , a ee 3 . 
UESILOHS Wea SSE AB ODE ODE OL. Settee gate weeb aed .I4I “Monty” a ‘tNorth American Birds’”............-s+0++-+s008 403 Deer Floating Incidents............ SAL pyc 
eC ie ae ee bn eet Sa al a ae en bik ar K S mere a eat peat Gilat cdela bye Deer ina Tree... i 0 sc. sce eeccccsec semen ecwenses 
A ea ae ai ad Ce its Moosehead Lake Notes......-.2-2. 0222-500 -ese 483 Rees shape ua af = Sa 
Intercollegiate ; Slenieletattar sth cj agti eb eoecnan 24 NES Gari cuns 2, Mn obtcrt, cc. eeereeraiee a PHidianay e.g sth esd San epee: Bom Rie slnte ee merce 5 | Deerin Vermont.............-+-+- Ress lait eitene ale 
International Rifle Match...........5....---.--+->s 6 A OPOSSHLW as bas iatears emse ree eee ee ieee tues eee Slee 204 Deer, Sunday......-........ sh ateed eePt yd esity 
i : soma Vives Wars tats Gates ara cere sateen aoe, Ga te Pare eS eee 45 i D ; oa 
Lake Yachting Association............0+-.+-ese++ 182 Fi td O@possyimss Wate ee ec ae ee ee tine ne eee To4 estruction of Arctic Game...........+.+. ++..+.466! 
INESSINIK S) MPOEIISE « -oin as rests hale a antes nies 453 2 a 3 { 
Lawyers’ Fees ys. Champagne.......-.-- ++----- IO Olevadnoianae _ Orioles in Masssachusetts....... ...-.------+---- 444 Detective Fund Needed)... -2.-.....-.. 208 Spouses Gis 
| Leading at the Score .-..--..++++++4++-+ +++ rr cote 4I ieune RS ac kre at ae Pek et Sagat “Cir he iy Ornithophilologicalities.............22-....4-5. ... 26 Detroit Notes... ....-..+..-- he pees Sistaberdlgssterong gE 
Long Island Game Protection......-.++++++-+++- 261 rag Matte 3 aa ke OS SMM Ne “E50 rg * Ortyx Virginianus in Arizona............ .---++. 104 Dorchester Bay Ducking......................45 327 
Roping the! Blacktatlsot4c. se.dde onesies oye = 142 Ducking L : 
EAT a aa nested ich, Mois Siri act Peiraea, eso ert 342 . Owl and Steel raphaes sei. ee ves pees ee 424 weking: aw. - 26. ewe ener s sien ctens aprplateaiae slap 
Genachwatser lealkcezey nit seep d,s a yee taee met yl eol 482, 502 b 
|Lundborg’s Revolution......-- ees AOU MOE oo I, 42 Z eat Owl Gramniyoroust 524. 2. sas asters re sees 2 144 Ducks on Delta Bar........ .... te MOS sosgca shay 
Shanghai Reminiscences. -..,.---.----+-++++++++-+> 463 , i : x - 
Maine Wild Dogs.... -.+-++--205 eerreeterestees 36x : - : = Owl's Strange Antics: aries ont eee eeonee 507 TDR PGK, bed oye ce ooo sos PP EC Ae 
| Spence Pitcher’s Bear. ,~ , . 202 ‘ . > 
Maine Wolves...-....- 0 ceeeeteee ees sect ee es 82, 142 toh Painted Finch on Long Island.......-.....-+-.+.- 424 Fisher's Island 23024. pas - wale e a0 pet solace 67, 128, 187 
; SummerG@antp Ground yale. seeesate sees ele pe: 402 ers ‘ ves N ae 
\Migratory Quail.......-.+-:4ee+ ven ree eens tees es I4L MPacderinat emirstDece ait Picoides Arcticus in New England.... ........... 25 Flickerings;”” Hint About... .2./.7. <0. essees avs 147i 
iati ; a eng ie goad atk tae ehh | in ini 2 SAR Hloridaibird Weerease 2 sopaas oad sae mae ss ee 
National Bench Show Association.....--..----+- 341 (Hagin ashes Sinha. yee Ni Aiiny viet epi IMG a Pin in Hawk's Maw test tenlnetie vroessertee fenees 65 OTIC ERD HAS ekeas: 
‘National Sportsmen’s Association..-...-.+-+- 302, 322 Prairie Seasons and Birds..............2+00+-00-- 403 Florida Cruising......-.-.-.---+--+++.. PRS ee 
Where the Bung Tree Grows........ ..-.-+- 242, 263 $ sack Florida G e 
|National Yellowstone Rarleuiies =< 21, 121, 16, 201, 347 3 5g @Opail=Domestieation. 7... ee eevee 7, 65, 224, 500 Onda name wee anata eae oe es Pearl Orme 326) 
Winter Fireside Thoughts........ ...-+-+++----- ~44 wi. r 3 , 3 
|New England States Game Laws --rnene---- 61, 261 uNitoodenati? Ae Quail’s Flight against House..........-+.--.+.++- 507 Florida, Game in Southwestern......-.-..-......+5 
New York Game Law... .veeesseerttper eee 4x, 282 Yukon Te ee Sao Te rt se eee pas as )) Ouail/sibarenacuty meee ee ee Raheem alnee fence 408 Forty Years in the Vield......-..... PPR ACOR RA 
'New Vork Non-Sporting Dog Show ..... he. 241, 3 rt ee ee ee, ee ee Quail New to United States.... 22. .....0..45--2 +243 Nase Leven tates oe cetera einige, Unis aay a Att 
Ohio Floods ....... * et ROY: tbe ete ne ae — at (OEMS Che tba ooh Soo eo i nosy Baas AAs 103 Great Lone Land....... Pe re rete ye 
QOuters and Shut-Ins.... .....-.. Se Sun nineties es rans +441 oe Quail, Southern Limit. .2..4..-.-.;-.35-+5- 224, 243 Grizzly, Death of the....-.--.,... +9. <..-- oo oa OG 
Oyster Cultivation. /.......0.5s2se ete veee ee rte 401 (OWE MP ton ARE BA See gecconendies Pa io re oe 46, 202 Vr o0se AS HOO PIN Eee see eS ge oy teers oleae eee aecrem eae Eee 12 . 
'Piegan Indians Starving... .-++0+-+2+-- serene 442 | NATURAL HISTORY. Ramble of a Naturalist.....,.,---..+2.2..65 ara 6 Guns, Cost of .. treetes pereenererees ort ey oe . 
|Pilotage Compulsory ..2...---- Bate eo 34-8 «1 221 ’ Tern d eee a eyelash. Sno pabs Moher ans ase Bee 124 Home-made Hunting Suit........... elatelel ene ine eae 
| Pistols and Children ....2ig.-..-++---- +0 fe Ae Adirondack Winter Notes.........+--+--+-+++ Os Piabtlesivalceammns ch clscetete ake teak a eet eee teresa 203 funter, Ami@id Scncc2 sors eoacrear stale eo | 
|Pointers at New York.......-- FooeRsa ener 362, 401 jlostaroy| Cee tyem ene As) AS SOAS Gn eee seek 7 Robins Perseyering.. 2. ..oskssa. os caes theese +4404. Hunter’s Camp .........- 3 alee ies So haps Sechelt 3 
Prairie Fires and Prairie Chickens..........-..+.. 422 TMoyitlons SAU gs) Ro ORE Cette? Aran donee 1 ak: 465 Og SES iS: CATHIV.OLES? Pes aenen yr eentere sien gates 404 Tdtho Games). 2c jp-eleneede Anse eantee sine tee 
Pseudonyms,,...---+---- bad Sy AP na oh eee I4I PA Windy WOO COCK athe tna etete: ops ease iain wie ace 466 Rose-Breasted Grosbeak Abundant............... 444 Idaho Snow Slide. 2.05. cscs s- seen eee e res ele ate 
| Quail in Confinement ..- 1.111.544 sees ereeess ce .I3E Amphibious Insect .,- 9 ..+-+--+++++++0tere +++ +507 Rough-Legged Hawk. ..2....0+----ss ese rece eeee 7, 44 Ina Cold Water Hole...... Soentet hkl 4 Sade So ae 
VReambow Shrout,..9 2 ctacsse sees meee ert ce ea eo “ Antelope and Deer of America’’,......-..--..-.. 45 “St. Nicholas’? Agassiz Association.... .......... 444 ithe: Backes Goumtrye: aes sre wre ana araleievotalelolal cee clege 44 
| Rattlers and Rattling -.22..-...-+++ sere cers eee +341 Arizona Quails::. ...-5+.4. ee Sha dclette ee 104, 245, 484 ISxolayereteilop hia cameyr ety woyyrrtys init Sh eo oe ee 404, Tower (Gaiters eye aes ieee ve teeter erer eens e 22 
| Rifle and Shotgun....2... 2.1. .e esse eee e eet rere es 381 Baltimore Orioles s.cpc a nles cseeeee tee ge aaellaree 342 Screech Owl in Chine’ SOY ac, MOC Ree 46 Towa Notes .....2++-+ es: hoor Gott wa sSacp bone 2 
Rifle Improvement ...-...--+.ss0-5 + revere tees 22 Beaver’s Range... .- ees sree ctw peeesewee Seats 444 ee OLOT 4 o4+1< sia: | gn olf Oe ee ee 103 Towa Prairie Chickens........... aU oie 
| Rifle Practice in Army....-.-..-:se--+4 ceeeeee es 282 Bird Arrivals. . 103, 124, 143, 163, 184, 203, 224, 245, 205 Sealtinslake @ntanlo sxameeeis ae We airs eee oat 303, 324 Kentucky Game Law.........++-++20+--++--+--- 
Rifle Range, Afternoon 0n....-...+sseeeer cress 481 Bird Migration......-...++0+easeen cesesererc es 21324 Seals in Hudson River..,.,.-..:2+---6.+++-5+4s- 203 Long Island Poaching.....- 106, ey 168, 188, 225, 
Rifle Shooting not Declining ...... .....--.sss. 0s 442 Bird Prorecrloms «2. sdeos gant ee eet eee 8 63, 183, 203 Seals of Upper St, Lawrence....,<.-++-+-++++-+-- I24 Thong Shob 22 Sete een Fain bie ace pee mey inn peas -» 48) 
Get. Clair Plats in Congress... 25: eerss seteene ee 321 Birds, Feeding in Nest -...---.-.-.+-+++--+++-- 484 Sheep bbybrids (05 seen tges osbies cpletters wet ease Sas 423 Maine: Deer’ Case, -fptn, 250 ensk eaenotiase cere 4 
Galt-Water Fishing ...20. 0.060020 cee cee eae ,. 46 Birds in Confinement.......-.-.s4see0eeeees teens 244 ShoresBirdeN ores hance ys hen eres iwe Urckia- 0 -bebts -483 Maine Deer Transportation........ ....-+ mete 
| Sanborn, SDnEG, S.A Be Re eee... areas 42 Birds in Winter. .... 0-5. s esate cope eee sete tes os 7 Snake Gossipy...... -- fates trey cesueyker se se 65 Maine qyarce tines © gear es psn Gant tafe tate 
WSeieliets (Wiel Teac Re Se Seco 6 Oe AC EAN s 6.542 44 Birds of Gulf of St, Lawrence.....-.,.--++---++++5 465 | Song’Bird Protection........5.-. «++ +: 183, 203, 300 Maine WolveSaa.aa cis2 -fonh slslelests ots cta ap teint 
Seafowl D4@Struction. 25.0 cect e nee echt cere ce aee 461 Brown Thrush......... OPERA RL She gets A 323 Spikehorrw Gel sot Meee pee ee eel den oes huene 363 Mayor Wenibysa lees is oe erat Peay ee tet E 
Shotgun Philosophy.....--...-.2seeseereeee eens. ror Buffalo Hybrids......-.6++ -ssee ese ere reer etee ro4 © Spotted’ Sandpiper under Water Te ae 8 444 Major Verity’s Steam Cat...........5 ..- «2+... 4 
| Sports Defense Society... ...-.--4 sesecsseeeeeee 50r Butcher Bird and Mice........---. --+------ pe nee zon Squirrel Breeding 22... ase. anes eae eee =. MOS Manitoba Game...........- .--.-- Boge Sede p de 
Slimmer Shootime:. 6. .-< cept iae ee cee weer nie re 442 Buletersthra Sev Oke vee, jyese ae ce a ane ema 65 Squirrels, Friendly........ -..-.. Set poate era 484 Maniteba Game daw. 943 442%4s22eeeioe eS ake 3 
| Swamp, The Old..... 25... sess eeee cesses esses 44 California Quail in Confinement.......-...-++---- 7 Squirrels in Confinement....-...-. ep OD ae eka 45 Massachusetts Bill........----..--+ past =U pce d 
Tricks upon Travelers... ..--+s--stses sete teers 48x Caribou, Horns of Female.....--..+...+--++-++055 65 Squirrels, Tames... hes teee fear oes tp weer to +444 Massachusetts Game.........--.0.2.0.-4. 84, 227, 39 
Trout, Large... 22.1. .e ewer eee ence ees ‘ h) gheceyii Caribou, Woodland and Barren Ground ....-. ++ +103 Stearne’s Labrador.........--..+-.-++ ee aren 184, 223 Massachusetts Game Law..........-- 4, 3 tees a 
Yrout Opening Day.....-...--seseee seen reese eee r6r ‘Gathicd <5 Rae ee oe eta oan Recerictocencaieg Ol 302 Swallows and Bluebirds..... 5A +a Eee aCe = 324 Michigan Deer Skins........ 20: ts-+e:- bene 
Weapons Found in Game .....+4-.000-+ sees sees 241 Chimney SwallowS..........24002¢s+s0eeesee+ 171303 Swallowsan Mud) 120.22. 00-4. .0..+- +20 Sas Lane 203 Michigan Notes.....:..---....- potest Rees cor 
ISA tee Eti) hen -cot Reae PO DOADD Soros easctnn Fc 501 Coachwhip Snake. ....-0.se-escee eee ener tee 244203 Mele rahi nWaresa tel ods sists dus aay: he oe he esos 444 Michigan Proposed Preserve........--+rreee-+e++004 
DAWildfowl Shooting 22.5.0: sccrceves wraer ence eee tes a Congratulations and Speculations.... --...--.---. 244 PoadandsSnake cc, ee. ee ae adroit eerie it 424 Michigan Shooting. ae ens Reet ers ab ees 
| Wolf Cry in Maine. .....-1.--.++++ eee ds eae 82, I4I Coopersiblawhke 20+ so eee a eer coe see tk +443 Toad’s Voracity........... Somer. Osseo oe ea eh 465 Michigan Winter Notes........... mo Byegpbien eescive bee sss, 
Woodcock in June sees pees eee cee e eee eee ress 401 Cormorant Nesting Ground........ DPS hae h od. Trinomial Nomenclature. Reda anand Sipe ae ie 264 | Midnight Melody of Wildfowl... secon 14s ase ote 
Pear att Re Aitr ans Aeration eg asthe aaey Bee SLOT Corn Crake in New York........ Seats nodes 44, 303 Parts p Holes... ; 1 eee 2s even aes tee + 507 Migratory Quail.......... Saletih sine plenr piste Giron geo andy 
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IMGSSISSIP PI Cee MEs sfc avecd os eyes eee es SAU Soo Wt pes SIS 

— “Mucilaged Wads,........0c0008. ceeeeees 4% 106, 187 
PRICGSCHITNTEItODAN SG ons pean ieee beeen 3454445 
Mountain Sheep and Grizzly Bear...... beh sade 168 

PP SCIMTOSE REVEMUVEN atic vlelbc eRe © ees nek 6 Pe enw UT 

SN ine Gites Ghee chs es BE A eB 324 

New England Game Laws.,... . -...... 66, 104 

New Hampshire League..............--0...0 227 

ING we Mork ASSGClatiorty fc 50 5.5 phot eeett, eet 67, 463 

Wew York Bill .:.....5.. stitutes jee ee 346 

New York Game Protectors..... ....../....+.- = ye 85 

Old Gutsy THE. wu... Cay Ne cra 145, 507 
Gldwilinme Griditiesteis ge -.uris cee e {et ae aes 146 
Onlya Brace. .......... pais ono ea eee: ert any. 

Open Seasons......-. 4 PAAR? cabo cae CAA OO es 485 
Grepon Dter Biitelierye: . 2.22) she oe eyed ee ec 500 
Passaic ASsaGiatioh 22¥ateatest once cts ceed ese 228 

Hen anicalnieoiGrchingh! «atteee breasts cto nS th 406 
Philadelphia Notes. ........ 325, 167, 187, 227, 247, 305 
Powder Measures........ A Ae rh Ba oat f 206 
IPC Me NIGKBMSIOG, Made) deuce hid earn se ash ea +466 
Quail Distribution in New Jersey............. 5. 128 
Quail Transportation. ...... Se Meet per tere h ttt 247 
RESO TISESALLE Mes piensa. of-teltuens) olare’ etal ces eto chet of Bohs BAAS 
Reloading Ammunition... ..-..-., a etgarey tr 507 
Revolvers for Game........ EL aL PARR SSet Bape MONEE 87 

en Ces Saha AIe cle sen ae Mets Pe) alee 0 I4. 
Rifles, Choice of.8, 29, 46, 67, 85, 106, 125, 145, 163, 185, 

205, 226, 246, 287, 306, 326, 345, 365, 385, 425, 467 

Robin Shooting ..... Pe scott eee hia ok ee here ak 266 
Sausthed BG a Aaa iio hee | a ee ae 386 

iE Fy cel D1 tet Sy Sy Re Be Je a 324 

St, Clair Flats Spring Shooting................... 147 
Stilawrence:Game- Clip 4c. ge tpe send teat +205 
Sagadahoc Association, 005 .0......e.. ees eees eee 30 

Gem ECEINGHOGUIMEN whit as Peeanec URC OPP Sea cee ban « 325 
Shotguns, Performance of...,30, 66, 105, 125, 145, 163, 
185, 204, 225, 246, 266, 286, 306, 327, 345, 365, 425, 446 
Smallirdaestruction;--0---8 0. eet yeye ces oe I45 
RTO PEM LENIOLIES Lycee ile we wae ove Si - 425, 445 
Snapping Turtles and Santee Bod sere beta teers 344 
Snaring on Long Island (see Long Island). ,.......148 
Sri egestas on See SE Ms ILLS” Ug erat etal or He 167 
Snipe PivmesttomsWatere.. jg... e+ ntess os 9842300 
Snipe stiuntine: G riGhkc2.55% 5.2.75) ssttene vers 385 
MIME E SSUOOUNTS. 2 cee mrs SE RE a htt ta pete heehee 27 
SerrEhear Glau AVS ey clay oa sd alalllele da cajae vye wide 168 
Southern Game Grounds.... . ........ ee OG 28 
Southern Shooting Grounds ...........-...--25-- 286. 
Portleriie ce MGmaireat te cdc Uae e tenes ns te © 509 
Spring Shooting......+....- Sel pigis athe ae ORs DOT, 
Spring Shooting Advocated.................. 127, 147 
Squmbop ear Merhiness fees. heer cele acces 106 
Squirrels and Rifle Shooting.... . epee it ye 85 
Sammenr Shooting... ¢ hee eng bey oes cob cen 206, 226 
Summer Woodcock Shooting (Poetry)....... ..... 507 
> SRE NT To] s1e]0101 1 25 OO REG er ne Relate ee eee ee 128 
Swamp, The Old .. ......... Pai Bay be seb ne: 444. 
PentesStarGOnMentiOl fra veaiyeenle) ciclelemia «melee el-'s 227 
Texas Duck Shooting.....-... Ca te tbe a 204 
plexes sae. Saath, (SPH Aha tusiberoaitoraen y Guts 11, 206 
PER ASMOMAN I Beitr on, es 5. a sie BO asia tis ele sabi o¥ 327 
Pippa CAVeL entra wage: to Petters ates cat 366 
“LS ite pe ea ee OE ene ae, he 8 
Two-Eyed Shooting........ PRS EER ee oe 466, 485 
Leng alileye inserts V2 eas ar anes Bee oom aeees 167 
Atte AED Pha Hees tires oe wagaee leas Atos 425 
MORES Hii retin alae vier ts a pe et gS ea tprat 978-300 
MOC a LEMME Witt IE ts ects fat cestode [at Satat AS.) al uy staat aaka at ...186 
Wads, Mucilage-Edged ...........--.... 47, 106, 187 
Washington Territory Game Law.............-...-. 30 
Weapons in Game (see Natural History).......... 228 
\AESes reehiteyecalel Etta Se ea ag 148 
PYelCammepELonie sea cr nts tea sdf oct uae tone coho 6 444 
AVeSIAVATSIMISESRUOUDE .0 fuvteeede. oo oa operas’, 47 
(WigenywesIOXSer 522 oe Sah ona Tee te ite abet en 80 128 
WiltiresPP eet: CE OCELY ised asd yak eit bics vielen aaa eythane te 404 
White Elephant Shooting in New York be sah! 458 . 287 
“— Wildfowl Arrivals............ Pan Res ee ede 167 
WildidwAlPoniesticationy.s 4.0.05 wad s-scche anes 346 
Wildfowl in New Brunswick................... .. 425 
WatloltOw ons Pacitic GOASt cae. co) co te herrcentis x e0cs 67 
- Wild Turkey Shooting, New Style ................. 49 
ByGr cele eons aie Sree crararg ety ins oie aren Ghana 12 84 
ZL COG Ka Tw cee MOTTON Tre lob Pol. 2 9s, Phage, e 265 
Woodcock Covers near New York,..........-....-. 84 
Woodcock in Ohio.................22. A nes Seah eee 486 
Wolves in Michigan............ .... hing #0 Maan 128 
NVicodcopk sine simier jaa pia. wec cete sno poe hee 147 

AN crea lero retical DETeh Wl tga ap don ee Meee PU OP poten LOT 

: Woodcock Migration........ Ae 37 Omega RS 167 
Be WOOD C TALE re oe oct g Pecos eth kt Ai ne 425 
iMellowstoneharins.. p25. -vintictasae. vases. 124, 204 

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ANGLING AND FISHCULTURE. 

Pxdrnondacebtat el eryen sas deflect. ape,-tejeleton ele dites “tae Sr 
African Pompano...... Astnitee seis AA Seca GAM eh Cece eee 388 
Alaskan Fish and Fishing............... . mit bot 488 
Mmapeun Rodan ay yee elec «leis ev eres clales 368 
American Fishcultural..... 269, 329. 350, 368, 409, 428, 

i? i : 449, 469, 488, srr 
Androscoggins Drainage... +...s.ccsceeeeseseees 268 
Androscoggin Salmon............ a narns ss ae peyed4y 
Angler's Wife in Camp....... bea SBR ys 308 

: Aneline tore Charityy yu yeett. ebb fees eeee dre susie . 69 
’ ~SESTTEAE TASTE za Ee ance AP Ree AA Cae Sap pee 32 
Anti-Fingerling Law........... eH See 130 

- Bad Luck...... Lah a RES iment. WE, . 488 
— Ps ISSeaTi hI CoS LET Sates en Hale etd cee Apo Orey eeeear (3) 
Bass at St. Clair Lakes........... Sirk inant be ee 409 

HoaSSe MMV SIUM aah ededrs tds ae eso Poe pee WY 448 

} JAIgS dpe dveee Be REE Geese oben Ne Bette as Pelee ee 288 
Bassatly Wishing elon sib anas pets 2 oes ccs hn de 24488 

Bass in Central New York.............-.. ic eater 247 

-: Bass in Maine .......... 9 aN An 9 Anno a erg Pee 
| Bass in Massachusetts ............-- Meee tee ee 2) 
q Passi InGniessecte sre tet Soi AP. ee 367 
k Bass Shaking Free. Seales weet cern caters s 4s LO7y 150 
Bass, Size and Weight................+- Bette nes 5 TO 


eB ips bass. a ete: ee ee eee eee sy thes eae 
Birch Like Perch 34 tiie Pek 8 0 Ts cr 229 


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Page, Page Page. 
Bisby Club.....-.. +++. ++: test rres serene eres . 170 Prncebaward ISlandesnpuslse vars cue, poet acter 469 Let OR eee © eRe eee eae 120473 
Bindderwhtiawwesdsh sicerr. strrtseeeessca eer SLO Private Ponds out of Season.... ... ey. ee ng 8 German WOble. wis, ppancs sien Diaatcesi cetera ast 13 
Blooming-Grove Parks 9.4.0. ccc. .ckieatalsta 388 IPS Keane Den a en oe ne eee ie ee 169 Grkoy i sials. Geto teak onan ado bole n teem g ees gs 13 
Bluefish in Great South Bay.... ...............05 349 Rainbow Trout.... ........ i pete tog, 386, 409 CrOrdon SATORU esate cleletie rath Mea eary eel $06 LES 
Bow River Trout..... i halat's semed be Heda slawien ow +448 Rainbow Trout in Greenwood Lake ............. 368 Home for Dopss... = :saeereds ak oe peal Sasol et 12 
Bread for Camp....... eS ny 487 Rainbow Trout in Salt Water... ......... ce. eeeee 249 International Cocker Spaniel Club............... 189 
Pe TotieratGess sak tale ir «nico cee RTA 2, eee 51r Riagivelensq amar ry's meubite «ihre de fo kool y @ivteetes 407 {iPS Disduilification: (00. eene ees se 170 
BMigearc. Sebray WASHING. sn: sane cp hmeedey sod ses +388 AEE hE ene, en IH Oc IH Ore, Jay tee tt 448 KenNeEL Hosprrau: 
RU ATatIATOMISMOMLhIne, .c, see ce etee cee te eee 369 Reardon. Joy aesnss ons NPs Re EW ihteness wiacs 4s +139 thielersncistvten Mpa ey te eee oo oh AAR rl QI 
Canadian Riparian Rights.....0.0..0..saeceseeeens 170 Rhyme of a Bass (Poetry).......... wit: 6 nie 386 Results of Inflammation.........-....-.-.-.+55 250 
Gafdenas Bay Fishing. .o.. ceesns siete dee cee aes 129 PRIN ETON COs. c4 | 5 copes Lew Oy cacy ¢ ORs 169 WOUTSs w/o oo ao dlok 6 seta sip 7s) Ee Peter oe + 457 
Carp Hibernating............ oddities I50, 170 Rod and Reel Association......2...2s-+e00000-00- 448 P -rfietlar Practiiness ss. neve ae cecet one cane 2+ 40 
Catp Cooleing seri prime oe se coms aay oparesd 89 Rod, Hints About Making...... . ........---.+- 348 WOUNGB se. «cule rami e te cle nt heey Lente Enemies 492 
Warp sliGod Guat teann no ae ewy Ay cen) ees 5t Rod Joints and Reel Seats.... ....-...--+++-+- ,.. 408 Knickerbocker (with portrait)............ .++0-0+.17 
Carp Hatching ,...........- eee e eee cee eee enee 5r AeaES RAS GA PAN Esso eee Omee ce Geren y 49, 208 TsaiverackeHunitys.2 sr nes + note yecs ¢ereld = ae ttean a per 292 
Carp in South Carolina... .., yh this ey apy Tt PGt Past ance Tesen ta d-kfaices «eels aa sus base ae mee 228 TeAVGPHURS «spe tree Pore eon che 6+ 4Q04 512 
Catfish Culture...... hau pth bleu Ae nlsfeledias bala tak 389 Rods one andro Otbae «ecw racer rit tna aeye aaa ens 248 I bray et 1 OFT) oO ee ERS eek rats 333 
LOVE TraRs5 18 Kayne SRLS oe eS ey ye rebar 348 Salmon and Trout of New England ............... 290 Llewellin, Letter from.........,.-..-- eile tetn hie 491 
Chronicle of the ‘Compleat Angler’. ........... =. 70 Salmon Casting’in England.................--.< +408 Dam «RS fhe Seo te ee ee ee eee ei RE oon go 
Cold Spring Harbor Hatchery.................... 350 Salmon in New Brunswick,... ... :--seseieese -: 5ir Maine, Dogs thv.csan csp 4 aeceee anes eae tare +370, 431 
SOIT eN IIIT ates os tec tys ec Fee As Cie erat 488 Salmon on Massachusetts Coast.........--.+-++.+s 368 Mangesity pi ainccas ice imaea eat RRS ah rts 131 
Colorado Fishculture........ Oop oa ines: peace. 270 Salmunekivena ers eeeddant advises at poe eee ee 130 Massachusetts Dog Law.....2...0....00+-:euess +. 12 
Columbia River Salmon Hatching................ 368 SONMION ge POLSON opis ee sls ye wes s+ ome sae samt ais 367 Mastiff Temperament... s4..----) sssccees Vruian D5 
Connecticut Commission. .....-2..+-seeeeeee ee II, 109 Saltefor Wishes Munpuse. teas. estes abrasions aye n whe 409 Meteor Cwith, portrait) or. dee ace ene eat eae 3IL 
Connecticut Shad Hatching...........5 .++---4-- 489 Salt-Water Fishing...................005 328, 487, 510 Mari tel ea. be te oe eens AG ie, ett we OPI 41k. 
Connecticut Shellfish Commission................ 150 Sawdust amdeMalariaiverceesenes «udetie ch pad4 488 Ny ti KG: “Stud BaGhy vg gas s ik he Awppee iin ates +e RSR 
COpOUG Dallse ce erie resets Mg eres. fap cla to a bn 511 SBHOOCIGAIREEC Sets ub odoin he hee cours ware exicicriore mers 5I1I Nia Ay she, 00 Olcott ane eae ne oe Ce 352 
Waoeshoshinoy a. ese fase c Lite cee state 249 GCHIOUMMINa ROMMEL eet edo, Sawn, ENG Ie UE Stee 349 New England Kennel Club.....--...-... I7I, 390, 430. 
Delaware River Fish Baskets...................-: 469 SOOEHSNMPASE WANS 005 0 WopumevieW rte aiie sa nscale 2 290 Net Paver SHo was ona. poice be ot date cde >» bse aerapeet 151 
DowellPin: ..0425--45.- 79, 107; 129, 149, 169, 189, 207 Bearmass dr ceanaday pacieecnadas cle pilots! dere ae itatas 169 eo avi SILO se ~o' 20g aicietcia, Fotewiell sitet 292, 310, 371 
Draining and the Floods; .... 656 tescceceses sens +130 MQ HLrOTIES eee ae pees ela tension vice Shee tees 469 Won-Sporting Show........ 50 -0+ een ees cect ees 472: 
Pu IneOned: erates dates cp as.) bays 130, 170, 229 Heaslrotiociug Canadas mon saila. wc econ etre +428 Nimrod (with portrait)........0...seeeseee sees eee 250 
PIAPICURIVET WVLICH an aiectarsneke ot bail ojaieertilbanielstasya e's 388 Seven™ Ponds. se fi hans pias hadnt. add Tee 340, 426 Philadelphia Kennelsys.2% tr esses ss entrant 431 
RelseWatenby Meouth sit .c.5sFep ay ce teres ee It haw Ly High noo sane ts sidpacger lee ts carver re 308, 309 Pilkington Pointer Sales......i2+erecerecns eerie 514 
English Fishcultural Farm,.......... fesse +4 6209 Shad Hatching in Spring Water.... ....-..+---.. 450 PrOtisul GimteT ale uae W Heise ice cee Pepe ie alae iecaare +231. 
English Trout for America_.................. tog, 428 Shute CONNECTIGMtr. capa aes es swt eapae ram me 428 Pointer PYOtest: sacs oopckan es orto ee eee Auer emes Hee 4it 
Ui TS Te oe Se oc tee loc bulr SRO bee Ne aero Smelt Fishing Through Ice.............-.----+ 31, 89 Pointers: at Cincinnaty,. 00.0... =a + con ceueaaee 189 
RIS GtT CEA ORM Cane ps yas en RU A oe he oe 489 Snapping Turtle Experience.........-.-.----.---. 1go Pointers at New York...... 330, 351, 371; 389, 410, 429,, 
PASI GUI DINE OL KO Gah are eed CE hi epee 89 PSH EeaTIPO GME MUI eiads wag cite cams of bes Gkrvieris) axe 88 450, 472, 489, 512 
UIMSHCIBY Sar 3d taco eek aed dat Rob iehe « 486 State Senator Nabbed..........-. cece cecbeaeeeees 408 Pointers ys. Setters... cse cess seceeteseewraes funed 130 
(as Des Erailin bela Sie ee pea pects ee) ae 7510 Staeleacn ses Ree ee een © Ao 356 Prince Phaebus (with portrait), . wastes ereeneesanes 33 
IRS eNO Usrerestry sreeete do foe Soven fnaiene SMa eeL Toone Ae Ee 289 SUS TOP EES Gye two PASI Seyi a bte wn oneg sewers +11 rere 109 PHZeS VV LED GIG. wy a ur vt date cia Dials olota cleteibepeearue Fras 272. 
Fishing and Fishermen,,...... :...--.++--.- 107, 208 Strickens’irout, The (Poetry)... 22-25 a: 5 -bias Be: 2} Rabies, Ancient Testi... ..2-0..tsc0e yeepesgerens 514 
ION AE BIE sates Seam OR BEAN CCS OOOe arr Ay Cer fal Stitreeomeb yshinp. cesta 0 a4 un oes 0 eo epee 129, 290 Raibronds atic oes. ise 4s. sss ys Hee ste ae ieneeny © miata 431 
LOS Clibistegs Corn L Oo) Ce RPE, PORT et eae ek es 309 Shuppeome rarest Bee ace SORA a eens ooh es 89 TOR, eee Si ey 7) Anes tz 
Fishways in Nova Scotia. 2... ..0..5 ose eee eee eee 170 Sword Swallower Choked .........2..2+---2222-. 394. Registration in the A. K. R........ epee eee ee eee poe 
DIN OOKS oe iene dete nies ne ratne names oer 268, 289 Maker gt pbs (ROGtrW)oeete tials « «seme se ls.- cle/lbasions 487 Retriever Challenge. ss asc dsss cc dees seayeae dance 413 
1G otal Dicey ge Was R Se ie Sen i a 129. 169 WPAUEOR ANON acta cate t rales sve car aaesipes gee 428 RELIG GTS Oe aig ee Ks ali ne 2 * Spel aah teste ree Pen partons 270 
BilyaRod katemalss 0. 0S) acted Deane Ee oO: ETGMNGSSEGH weet capa ayes ores sap buys oops an eiae) Vein acs Bere» 229 Wobing Lsland Clinic. 2 iis. htelelgjenn t)sleleisietse ie aia eh FE 
Ib patetr say DER eo aS ala eo 89 Eire ASIN A LETS Sk Bera cicre sea due a ecmrng Ble See ieee Ras Eee 427 SPS GUIs SHOW o. we cies « Hee bert caw oly tort nl Aabanda nate 27 
Food Fishes, Excellence of... 1... -cecescaess ose 488 Aree tS EPO T eS Pe On Ee Ge, ne NCC or, Lea yee 349, 426 Geinbdyasebys Oh. ody faite Ase ote Doe ee es ae 133) 153 
(Srey Nnge COLA to eerie «eo Ge es avr as 107 Trout and Blectrictty. Ora ede g AAR St hdd oe 209 SpantelbGlassification. .. oc).-+c-seaceese te ot steam 212 
Gaffing a Sturgeon...... PERE 8 oS MOE Bon aS 48 rout ane abens ond Ke Sebi) tains adie ih thes es 388 Spaniels’ Intelligence. 1scs: 05.2 eecceecnenenees 293 
German Trout for America..... Rote tee erase Pe hone Tog Oyo ried hoje p Bon So pwMe oo woce str ne lor ges Sear et SOESE SCENE, eres eee eke s | ier plaee Mas rAnEeS 430 
(GioiistSna alah: i AR Ban RAHA AA Beran Sie 200 Trouting on the Bigosh.,.31, 46, 69, 108, 149, 150, 188, Pekaslors, tet. l ieee sh en ahecr eee eae aes 1r 
(onanal ints aes Dpitees tis metcnicen ciriel icers.a'm sm cheers ean a3 228 Taranto ShOWs.., ¢ - oc atevie es ons agaete sah aale es etal: 190 
GreatallswEshyay noes ys co.st cite Me os ed Seal 472 Trot caw tina’ WiOrtias 24h senedeisote.b sree ee ceria -447 Peseta yt Oo RA ear 8 Sr se oe loo 252 
Greenwood Weaker! a iia dees eaghid sore ateacece 368 ARCOM EAL es ous) lara Peed wich Ee eae Goatees se ts 449 Vicar's Testimonial. sks nds nee cone nresieg 270 
Greenwood Bond (Mes) ic cece ete vies oe rin win oat ne bee 51I AD oye Gath ahs As Soe eS ASA oboe oo Sere 183 SABC 2 RAT ESR Se cece scobpeetaccre io SA 173 
take berg hOrtASy 4 lec okt ore, om see Rn hee a oe ae 170 MoU baton em) OMLESTIG Ta sto oes Naveen tate cee ye ro08, 149 Wrarts: sl a0 ule aces elat biotin mtn eecraans we deii reins Tene 133 
HermaphroditesShads sq. ess -seasiessanges ds «+4269 Trout Streams near New York......-..--+-.++000+ 268 WraryiC SHOW cee terctate-caie)eierdoleteimelartacs tie 29%, 412, 473. - 
Lenning AV eIatl Only ss yp seb eee oe OER sielelclaclatstels 249 Trout Streams, Restocking. ........,.0..2. ..i 20. 32 Wasbingtonsohows oer -ve. s.90 teen terse aera! ratte 
MUEIGROIy SA | Bile. sis certien tamed Hes ace Soe ok 350 United States Commission in Michigan rien ioe go Waterloo Cup......-.- 7 CASAS en ft ee ai Boke 153 
erseH irs tts ASS tse, taeelaia sishe esl « MSL irc ores aNd 487 Metmornt tittese etean aut ene gls hrs bo ktee yougtenseee 309 Woodcock, Working the Dogs on........ .-.++,-- fo 
EL OO KS eu NWUIE De Ess Ol tec 2 erent sr tes erie Pleo els faieict= Ir Vermont Bass Grounds.... 2.2.5 .....eceeeeeees 469 Worms) Clirestiorin . «csc s.c6a eteiiee scent eats ITI, 133. 
Tee ishing. 25 obese AG en EN Cd ge EOD 229 Werriron tla WSriivd sie csere on oetoteme he rare Cue 1s eee be egos ane 169 Mork Royal SHOW. «jo. 9p cane seas aeeneian ate lte 430 
UrGriGlade athe tira aes hod. cics an ostbelaiy sueehels oh 329 Wiatersnaketand Ganiie sccm ayipnalnsieme prlelca tse laiels 51 
RA PAish eri OU ie peti s Me cst ieb leielerstiis) emis. we « 89 West Virginia Grounds.......... Peed test ieee 428 
‘“\Kingfishers,’’ Camps of...307, 347, 366, 386, 407, 426, White Perch in Lake George..... .........-- 309, 329 
446, 468, 486, 509 Whitefish in Confinement..........-.... -22.00-05 249 
Weaicea Vito Soa ee eee Oe emmy CIN. Eas = ee 449 AWETNG Leith Ae WER SRA AG Ge Ree Sore COL 409, 428 RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Lake Ontario ES epcond et [eyes Wine > stl ye 449 Woodmont Club Boda n ee potent Loar sBAABsecs 350 i en Pw ey 
alter OntariotsalniOtssbeeenien Athan ite ee: ee ne 328 \Wifoyeeeradey ail ly DF ire ey eh eile brah Senet Ee 349 i 
L k T t it, 2 Cc Set mA Army Practice cower ee cee ee gees 92, II2, 293, 313, 393 
Biles: Dhiohige Ite Ao AERA MEO S Switew Goce eee 449 Wyoming Commission.........----++-s.s-e.seseee 3 FRC eh dhl Bead Dann cool digcateties 
Mand-Logked= Salmon... :e25+ecenenetlss aeesee 49 : 
BullardeRtfe itn nn ct ihets i e-teenhedeeacte hh 154 
Land-Locked Salmon’s Name.......,........-..0. 130 : 
ae ae Calibers Sinalle as eeetek cclenes cite, atta eel alate lece Ae 14 « 
Land-Locked Salmon in Sebago ... .. .......... 328 F ia RG ia 
Jmiiths California Rifle Association. ......-.-2+.sseeeseee 372 
LeaWWOVAG la TRON Sts yr hasseh See OEE ay stan ater fe 208 . = “4s 
Tico dtheeuiets Berk Carolinas Association............-s2+4+-4s-- Aare Ge: 
Ha asia hike he eine REE Ce a oi Mahe Oe ag rete THE KENNEL. Clay-Pigeon, International Tournament. .74, 353, 373, 
Dtlettin As bie ester. Coon ok MD LAA SPB 49 
é 513 
Leaders, Color ae eo dtedd ger Ree Nek ns 31, 88, 128, 387 Ne AS Pe Ae ob Oma COted Gn SAAS GARR Saat Ge 192 CGcBta SuiaParntera ats SAN Lasieer lees See aoe 
FLERE MRO KS prck ee esl aiid ne ocpirn och canine esersigranecce et 248 AlMmOSteaeDOUDIE® sale eee ens Lal eee et A 71 3 
: a (CTay=Pigeons Pugzleges, -opnld aneun odie oe oaks 392; 433 
Lobster Protection............ I eee SB aa aaees +449 American Kenne ub, New.............--.+-. .190 : 
t £ oe ee Connecticut State Shoot............ hae eee os 255, 414 
Monge islandsb reserves cee sah es Uy streak Sciae 306 ‘‘American Kennei Register’? Collar Dog.......... 251 
: : Son J CreedHOG, «2 J. Here etete enFusatete ea 372 
Pitrckawith, Gaesuorenosess weet so pean so Serio ces 69 ears hrsttioniie Asap Enel, Pes eee tps = woe 1it 3 
my j . (Pectin al “Rare tes ists «sole tte nes gine neues Sct acalt ERO 
Maines Pits rusty ate 5 .0e execs aes Se a Se ot BOCA 469 Bang Bang (with portrait)... .....6.eesesa+-sseeeeeee 53 fo ; eit 
‘ : Dominion Rifle Association...............+.20+0- . 92 
Mictiitea tits trey arc nies lop itetl-(e Sento eee sehr: © lla, 129 Beagle Club.......... BATE AAR POR OPER GI 12, 72, 153 Dufter Club aS 
. ‘ UMEY CLUD, 2c cee ewww ee eet eee eee vee eee ee iwe 
Maine Sal monelatChingue eee es ee eselnevis Larsen 329 Beagles....72, 90, 133, 189, 212, 213, 270, 351, 371, 399, Fy cen EBT Recevtion ae aatgitt ekg ab 
Maine Season Opened...,..5... 22. cee. cess ees 268, 308 430, 451 . 
: : Kennedy Rie. Ger atvoagecdacdsrcceyercemrewsn ns 402th 
MicinemoLcin teh cers\ seed eee es eiceen eee syne es 32 Bearles taney VOuee tea ses oo toc owdh sh eon ee 330 : 
= - F Knoxville Tournament. ....... teen eet ae ese AER 
NIA IEG OTIE Meets phobias» SmPesrmene te tee ele ares Une see 427 Beagles, Shooting Over... fo. ee ees cee eee es 490 
A < i Meir lin Rites eae aes oie Ona oe ne Se Ot Cee SMa +1252 
ManitobatAmeling 2 202.0. seek tte cs cerecce os 305 Beas thyaiotSINesse pens pet tse meee tints tate cere § 12 
«os , Massachusetts Daa stvamtent B32 SC BRC REY hacen 296434 
Mies calompestasittiioy pp tntess hyn niee odes Sus Sel 107 Beaufort (see Pointers at New York), 
WMirliterrymiR ies: giles pl a ebssiawerties baremin aye nlern trate Ree 34 
Massachusetts Changes Proposed............ ...- 189 Benefit ofthe Doubts oer. ee ove ers seeing 390 Militia Shootin AM 
Massachusetts Fish Commission................... 32 leybtsy 4 ACleeveay ew tele 9 oo oe Mie nnesnoneortcont sing 402 a SNe ety Riis (ar ek oe : 
i National Trap-Shooting Association........ 74, 93, 314 
Menhaden @uestionin. oi... c0044<50-. 5 32, 71, 309 Garcer oftth exh al terse aor co iahietele fafoderesteiee oe 73, 131 i e, 
Roan Le % c Newark il cuonainientercy san ce sacne wore. we cies Mee Shi 
Michigan Fishing....... sey AEP SE Ben abit techs Ee 32, 349 (CUT EEIZO SOM PRL Cert gine acocesn. ee orcnortc ake AIT y, Rane 
oie z Tt. : New England Association ...........0..0200.0005 492 
Michigan Grayling...........2--..0. shderdentcd tie aieie 428 ‘Cincinnaty sShowrases set eet RNs Suet te tel) te 13I 2 s 
aS eeaNS Fr ; New York Clay-Pigeon Tournament.... . ntigmte 493 
WhithivanWakess a-8 5p sautite toils ek tel canons ct 188 Cr VaDOP SELIG er ferstntete eisintctgepielel eros si eters see 12 Ee 
* Non-Cleaning Scores ....... --.¢++-4-0. Bete ts. 173 
Midsummer Lake Scene.... 2.0.0... ..euecse cases 468 Glevelmncde Shows. weer steed cote ches, Univ nee ee 210, 231 aa 
f Exes yrstare WenyN GON Me eee AO GALA Yu Aono Boe IO2, 252 
Minnetonka, Day at.... . ....... Poem AL Daa A Ah 447 BG lOverebelle i tnusieresdene steals eah bs eee ioa 173, 272, 390 : A 
: Queries about Rifles: ...... ess sos oe 73, 112, 133; 252 
Wibiimyatenypsiatene UstOne eer as oe oy ognoean 1 Ne ee 309 (hiram Soba ees, se Ae hotdog ands Goose uaz e 33, 72 cs : 4 
re - + Ratton)! Irarset ractice- = waned: 0d ccm semen -293 
Missisquoi Marshes....... asthe Satyt «sagt en Oo AS 388 Cocker Spaniel Produce Stakes,...........---+ +++: 52 = z - 
«yg. Pah? A : RerninZFOTIREC ie... Linnie a nstesette tates, «a eee hats 433 
Wa Bos ents vee tsa UTES CBHEEENA POE on oh Wek ti Sahay A 510 Crab etslavai yc eetel Tire et Se Ped ee es oe peer 512 Sei f Rifle Shootin Lp: {igen | 
Movements of Fish in Rivers.................2.-.. 51z Golpmioreedin encores bas Manas geen eeeRiee yaaa. 272 cash tey Sears fet re 
. Y Mearoet, Close ae bern 2 <3 sor Steere lee et tans 54 
Muddy Flavor of Fish...-........... Slag cae ee 109 FE OULESITAG a | Nag tye ee ga tans alee eiatenchh ychileerires 51 : 
i r Wrheelimestpsee en es = sete rr ahah e. oe nts. gat 
NetSiislaakeGhanrplaia™, 1. ehteberianra |). se... 329 nystaleBalage DOs SMO Won ec4oslouls'eslaitsbnn> oe 52, 512 3 F 
" 2 ae, Wren ciaes erteemarp te eee eee to we 293 
Newfoundland Codfishery........ ........0. .2. 427 Current Dog Stories......... A nea a, I2, III, 352, 452 Winchester Rifle ak 
NemebernanS bine: . ded. oc. 0 eee ws pee el, 209 Duchshumde fa ee ed « shir tees, aie I3I, 251 Wonchossdtictttiece |, <o<i8 2, (tks eee ie 3 om 
New Hampshire Fishculture . ......... ......... 230 Dori Taxand Gameulawis.sosehsy ens nines Er hi az. |e" totes team => 92 ee nana aaah, ? 
New Jersey Commission ....... ak cht Sees +230 Dil cane Tee heat Pere PEPE hiner here: el. - 12 
New York Commission........-...22...... -..005 269 Eastern Field Tiials Club.......... SA posse T3, 230 pa Bi 
Ocean Fisheries Protection ......., bcd eee Aa 428, 449 English Kennel Notes...... IgQ0, 230, 271, 331, 371, 413, 
Ohio Bass... ante tng geet Me nr 2a 1 329 ; 451, 401 YACHTING. 
Ohio Commission.........-...--.-++- (te SEARS 409 CHericnce: WIteb oes ql aan sages ee 3 ele 5, 212 ; 
Mawoss&GcHARe= 24 alee. ae ee hele eh eee Joh +388 Pantyrs Pedigree. sa san, o2 a. - 20 QT, 452, 473, 514 PATHALCTUTIMOP ION, piercer bee ure tiyeite sterile Oedretetet tie pe 38 
Oswego Pishways: .-.<.¢-2 cst sep teee cece wee 309 Freip TRIAtLs: ATHELICANe Vo Oa aeaghs 2 pte ees ST aeeR clink ARES ge +496 
Oystershgeniest |. is c.p)a ssa Reee are ee eee 389 Re rb yan teleSea ed. seis nos 2S 133, 171, 213, 292 AmericaurwachtsBist 0; wrote orate ee ass) areats 435 
Pennsylvania Association...... PAP cen asp 49, 367 Bee fa Mle A Ca ee pe iS we>-332, 352 Atlantic Wt Gat two beep anees ea pave 2 eran we SO ceed ecg 
Pennsylvania Seining Case..... SGI ED. Eos tanae ye: .88 ere Sheet bests clea etsy =n oat aise Fires Se ot 0249 8) Ere Neh heey oa eee AP -ecirticcae toh thera oe Sera sh 234 
Philadelphia........ Ratals tetas, ated bed, 289, 448, 468 AE Tai yext Dee ope ater iat cael s cea eet EERE ice ys 330 TET kM eens sec Se oconeeedcut ots lo Acs se 315 
_Pickerel Fishing...,....... eee aia an tate? aos STOO TONER GSS Ud atrefoptye EE Son eog pene) UE Oth) os aoa Ge 411 Beverly Yo C......2+i +) ow ples bw os 455A 70) AO, SER 
Pike Fishing ... ..... hiepietiens sae h Set eae) AC, Foxhounds... 20 tenons (ean gedeis pany HE ee +0233 SFO AeI eR Rots Asche eee vere k Porine th eden fe +1475 
Pompano, Large..... tenet eens ARIAAS SA! tS Ae +290 Fox Hunting., ra 72, 90, L7I, 212, 250, 450, 452 THRO Syeo 5 bee SOOrobn cm Sie io hs. So aaa es ee ope ease LER 
opted “Sirens sean, ty hers eum eet Asie ZAG TROFEO Brera Gr poe Ci obs Re Pee ee ore +17 Chesapeake Craft........ sca RES Bille vale ete egies og 


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MOMs Oh tarinelu bie rece staat autsasttyy salen toed erase 58 EN Ow. sb Lavienben Cx rte Suge net tect ateNsrcie Seas sh 0 376, 435 Amateur Canoe Building. .14, 55, 77, 97, 116, 136, 155, Merrimack @rilise. 4. vcviesswiisrene eaters aera 516 
NSOStiOl ACM tn. pose secs tiesto tthe erage ...-16, 36 New Jersey Y.C..... OAS meets easier 434, 455 196, 234, 276 Mermina ckeMee ten eet tieiva deere wit arene 376, 436 
Daisy cits cokes A een Ora eel tet le magic, 751 95 INTE Wa) NOK Matfer © spressse ern ervsegeicatt gs Weed hehe ats +.295, 415 American Canoe Association Badge.. ..... ...16, 474 IMISSISGUOIURIVe reset! (Aalst a kr bee womens 377 
Delaware Notes... ..25.5..00: 2 eee ers) 57) 205 IN IGE ARE Battarwenay aintecbeecitee waa weare cine 295, 315 American Canoe Association Book ........... ..-355 MissiSsippise Own thei. 2 eee ot oss oe net ree 35, 56, 77 
Displacement ano ee Dec ee fad meee 295 EN OLIM Ate ay euleu c  eirye ote bata eee tne 176 American Canoe Association Meet... .....436, 454, 474, MiohicaniG' © 20 vee ss eae <1 275.02004.31 75h 4d 7S 
MBorchester ViGieses mlbioveyieverss pees icles 435, 515 INGvemibereDashmete ties. cotcn cs eet tee ae tere 17 ¥4949:5810° | 0 Mlontrealy CC tare sre ae sees 2 et ok eee fee 495 
eth eR a, Me coe a IeePricry sare Sitale aepalett ie nda oios 136, 194 Niimbersiewelvey is te s.t2 oh obhis, oS uct cen ease AS JaGuks io qatsnot (G7 KOp ee AGN EAA! | Wao pote M6! 97, 217 Mosquitoes! Aetieteeccrt on) thes nee ee 96, 226 
Eastern Cla Sica, iro atoge silty} aeeme 395, 455 ING SSAGS cscs aan tetra aot nctate Clot foes Mr eb derma 275 PATIGIOEEME CUSED Ae Sa A age ee mane pst we Bt 494 Naititilus; Newark Atgee iim hy eae eee 517 
WE etc tart Cte Eger ME es vel eerie na. Tbe ee 236 Olds Hand ond eck! -o.07 2 koe a ee eee eee 254 Bary Ontie, Cas) rye ink Dial, ne Nee On er 436, 475 Newburgh Meet. so... 2. .a..--s 316, 356, 376, 394 
\English J REVS Nee Seng Je SEO SOO CE eae MOREE IE ne 205 PACT CSV. PTCE cge oe spt 3 Sa ace ail, Ort seni reefs Peysee 496 BOGS aaa op Bet alee cae en es AANA cele eae ..96 New. England! Canoeing weamer see ur neta ee ce 355 
florida. 232.420) Phone ate bhai aoe kt oet 295 PySoy aed aOR am sn 8 BN 156, 157, 175 Wander Boge JIS fea et cles 296, 316, 337, 350 New: Vork:Gi Gi. cyan | aie ee eee Oe a 138, 436 
‘Food aboeauier os ey ates GE ee ais Baa ee 355 Petrelts; Cruse 204 ee, ee eae eee ees oe 194 CaloosahatchecsRiuyc tracey ety er eee oie ere a 276 OR SeChoObee cry «, 120 (oi: lols Aa a ern ee PETE sa 276 
HOE IMAP SAGKUISE sr. speak ore tte a tna i tle ane yrase a tsare 274 Port. Mornis tomea kes Georg came ren ne nee 495 Camp Outs ae Wns Eee ee ene eee 56 Old! Tinie: Cruisés....4)..09 12 Sate ee eee 337 
NGMETINAS EM en elas he Hila gai nicst ary as puselecels was 255 Port, Oranges siesa-te. eyace eet tee fair ee eee ere = 496 Canvas Boats..... BPD Dent Phe Rtg se web. 336, 394 @shkoshtGs Cea apae ee aaa ter wanes 4545 495» 527 
EAST 5.5 a Sale dou Oot Ae ORG po ot ete pee ee 16 Quaker Cittyavy Ge eeas coat Gere -76, 396, 515 Ganvas Canoe batching se. ie ben tece nee 436 Pelican: Ga@\ 2. Dah i sdes ie ee 257, 454 
KGiteanieen, 22 pce taeee ds, Bis aresaravecehe ake oe playa to 195, 215 RATA cep as eer eee. Bers Meee agent Perea eee tates 274 Centerboards) | Movs a: semetaty et de aetna aes Sere 516 PilObS ie cst gle ceed oe cee PAE aati (oh Chae ee 336 
2 ELGTR ANS, Dy ges Mic cull CAN ice als ge et et Perec 136 REMINISCENCES oh tear ens ceeer et eaters ena ce opel ees 36 @hicagos©mGr nln oe povere en Ce 16, 296 Vests esa) boifed rt (ORM Cs ei Des iA oe rc cs 36, 78, 377, 494 
TBE STS SS Cha TS Se res ar re 336 ROM CT Ta ees -s Bh spe cP RCo I Vom ore ee ees 16 Cléveland: Ci Cy eke Punt i, ee even ee a tne 296 Po fowono le. Gu Grates eras seh eee igh are 414 
TBE GENT Coie aNd a a a el ee 4355 4755 495, 496 alse kee Lalas Et cretion bel haae TEE Se dea aE ese ed 57, 96 Club @onstitutionse ermeran eee yeh en rere 356 RivermandWoast-Oritises voinessceki Pema bam ee eeents 454 
\International Amateur Match..............-...- +274 Sand bageersy, u.n cation swirls yar eee eee ae ele 374 Connecticut River Meet.... ................ 356, 414 ROb WRGyC oC eee ut dae pte eet as (Wee sees 177 
Tiss <a eta Mid BSE) nee eee 8 Ae ee 175 SanilranciSco: niveeicute cna mathe te lope an eames LS Cookery ....15, 36, 56, 116, 138, 197, 217, 257, 296, 317, Rochesten Gy Ceeremarn eure Mn aee hd oeddtee Send 257 
Merseya Git yay Cy. cicais'acletsetarc ns Me ties cachet eect 415 Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C........., ...... 374, 415 414, 494 Royal CLC (ee ea wesee 217, 3775 3941 4759 4955 516, 454 
i Roinee Cached 3 ate eaer ee aie earl eerie Se ar 75 Sharples Rudd ersp ae seaeteauc hte uae on at tet eee 74 MeserontorCweC la ots tee ee tere e rs 355 Txtopetaboyides (CH Cig ae Ne She ooh EE Sens a 155. 474 
KGILC SPAIDAIISEASATIS . nuiele Deets eisoa place tom emir. = Miele 495 Skippers Wanted.. ..... EE ee ne oe MY 235 Deublexyss single} .ieues ue cactus) Sena ee 55 Rushton Canoes). 60.2500... a. segs eee ++. 356 
(Knickerbocker Y. ©... 0.600300. 00% 315, 374, 455) 475 SV oy ORIG R ee euere rrr idrmeGn bet eA ore, dau: 215 Dubuque © O71 en A a OP Ee araayey a Regie ems EPs 15 SeuO RS UCt ie area um irs 5 4h mise cramer each +.» 436 
peetrmbardt Muetter fkomianeen wet bees oc alee vals 456 SmiallisViachtamte: sie ek tae raieeeee ya Meer Ours 37, 74 English and American Canoeing ..............:.. 177 DIL, IBM See eee etsy Ooi coh Sees genoY 394, 436 
flake Association ot yee sees cn.- =~ -= 94, 215, 216, 235 SouthuBostoniieig- cts seh oie eee Uenape er ee ae aee 374 BV érson- Canoes: Awatin Ate St nse te sureiees Eee 156 Sail Mohicative..:in Seca eter heen en eer rena 377 
HaakesOntamo rewrites sheer ca cee a Se eM aes 476 Steam Vachs: tte enna ne. hae. oe 57, 515 iNtoaielay (Catster nuh Cahaued Age cok pnue aos 296, 339 Sails Worse nieve te cere Sy Zesuhop Aneace 256 
Marelce pVeLoHtin ease ny ler Sete, Calne ve ES Sail eg 4.496 Steel ci spel eae ey eh Ae eae re een 304 Blorid aatacth@oas terscty eee ee re ete er 256 Steluawrence©.. © cig eg 0 tertiary triers +76 
MeaRIN IDLE Ne wae. Siecitterts mois a Seem cm cease tts 476 TelleTalerr eG eA errata slay oe aes BEES, Witlt GAC“ Cadaed HAN eee eee ee eee 55 SairysGarnpyn.. cays -yteieteaayty tates pce nee aera one nia 16 
Warohniout Vs. Gy sc.tecitnccie-scuvies es 375 395s 475 Mend er inn, fats ANA Tage tate ere are eee E330 GreatBritains @anoernpaines ern eet eee 233 Simm d ges... u. sen ee ea Meet Gane ae ered 96, 216 
URS Saat Bae ee eo Gey ph een 38 RAaperiny dO OW Nas teeeee style esis See terior bs, vers 315 Fharttordi@ Gist. tins sae nas dts neo ete iets eet eee 96 Sneakbox....35, 56, 77, 96, 116, 156, 177, 196, 216, 233, 
\ines for Club Archives)... ..... 2.5.25 522. seen: 254 Trading sc DOONEL ER ACE ceuee sn: peneeniae ee ee ene nes 496 Harvard: CS Cane ed Pein Sige Ores. oer eet 356, 393 257 
Waouvalis land sRece lat i tiat's cctats esti «cis eloesejer 415, 435 Watersnake ect teen c8 2260s scene opine settee sions 215 bind sonsRivere ee tasers athe eerie ete ara 233 Spring fields (s Gus Frese ese nyt nee ace rere 96, 296 
Waunelbore 7s Patent... .ase..</0' sole o, oly Les s-cisupeiets. -p.ateyy 57 Weight'forLaght Airs4.80 <2. ads nechs epee eee ete 104 Pant hex@ gC oe cine trie tt eeyo, eee A eee AS 316 Sto Wace, wiiya tle coat. Need cide aaa +356 
jLynn BVIEBEGIVGS fem sste «pAayercr ake ais iche signi ye 2 cloned eters 456 Wand ward Sone nbe tester Os senate berets Abels fat 37, 295 Irawaddie Gre Cc ey hs 2 os lah AUN oe cer Beas 35 Sybiyathts repr Mohs Siri oh eancvanpusneeede2os Oc) 296 
‘Mabel’s Cruise........ ha tks eis eae ers oats 476 MACH ESS COS Teme ank Gm ene gant eich rence mone McG 176 nickerboc ker Or. Ga cams erate eee aes E77-A14) 1 Dalevofia Boater aee se elec a ees aun earner +376 
ALN EybY? jar So eh aA Ne tare YO oe 9 AIK Fa oa «235 Wa Wwishixpeniencemnnat) stl tac. creamer ors ster nats 156 HakesGeorze\CaCanrpaaiet nee meee tes 137,356 ‘Whousand AslaniGse vce ees) Mee sete ee eee 216 
DMastscostayinpl ane ce os ks Ae | Miss yeaah gin noel 16 TAINS, ceee te Mills Wommctiso en Mere Te res eave eeias 96 Moledo G2 © ry Fe acess sot eee ss sae 217, 336 
Measurement..............-225 00: 36, 38, 57, 215, 235 PI BR PP Large vs. Small Canoes............... 35, 76, 17, 177 Woronto C..C..--7. 1... oe. 138, 233, 344, 436, 495 
IW SSB Bins, 5 bas ote Wi hk SN Oe PAS Ls 3559 375 HocaleVicets mk ir es eseene. ope. Weer ceey estore 177 Tricks... 0.12.20 see ee eee cette rete tet eee ees 337 
Miapronetter iste ste seetee Stacker et semis as 114, 115 OSM AM vere om Wile, ani sd ant ree Pato a dbedo ..316 Warren C. C.... 1... e eect veces tee ee ees 177 
Morte ilar AeMU remot et cols Ada tanne ee 38, 94 CANOEING. Ween ag@ruisess feeble rs: Cert Rema ntcesrs ove 454 Wihitelall CLG, lose e de ae een enees 233 
lewark Bay WatGs 2.820.002). speci tung aaess2 305 Air-tight Compartment.................. 216, 316, 377. owellQRacesnpmaweutirs iar ahi cleric tease eee 454 Winter Camp-Fire...... PR ae Siorost ctl abe. 36, 156, 217 
New England Association....... 36, 74, 114, 136, 274 IAN =Atrouinds@anoes eee eetis pares ne es Asie eo tayse-e ee te 177 Mietin emlinlan dN tec serene ee te ttcrrsr meses 98, 150 Wiin Fer Sportin tn reoitte statins 2 o-oo er eee ae Reena 56 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL, | Tor KENNEL. 
An Adirondack Bill, SAR ASRS 


No Money for Revolutions. 

The *“Flickerings’* Vote. 

Angling Slang. 

Forest Wealth. 
‘THE SPORTSMAN TourRIst?. | 

An Oregon Episode. 

Between the Lakes,--0. : 

Down the Yukon on a Raft.—v. 

Life Among the Blackfeet,~-x, 

The Court of Ar ctomys Monax, 


Dogs and Game in Texas. 
A Home for Pet Dogs. 
The Massachusetts Dog Law. 
Cincinnati Dog Show. 
Duke. 
Current Dog Stories. 
Beastly Business. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Newark Tournament, 


Natura History. The Trap. 
The Ramble of a Naturalist. Rhode Jsiand Notes. 
Fed the Birds. | CANOEING, 


California Quail in Confinement | 
GAMP-FIRE FPLICKERINGS. 
GAME BAG AND GUN. 

Chill Days in North Carolina. 

The Great Lone Lana. 

“Trial by Jury 

Winter Notes Meili Michigan, 

The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
SA AND RIVER FISHING. 

Trouting on the Bigosh, 

Big Land-locked Salmon. | 
FisHCULTURE. } 

Food for Trout. 

Report of Connecticut Com’n, 


Dubuqne CG. C. 
Amateur Canoe Builuing.—y. 
Galley Fire, 
Practical Cookery. 
Chicago C. C. 
The New A, C. A, Badge. 
YACHTING. 
The Cost of Yachts. 
Cruising in the Gem. 
The Staying of Masts. 
A November Dash in a Seven- 
Tonner. 
New Cutter. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


AN ADIRONDACK BILL, 


BILL forthe preservation of the Adirondack forests 
was introduced on Tuesday in the New York Legisla- 
ture, ‘This bill, which is said to have been drawn up by the 
Chamber of Commerce Committee, provides for a commis- 
sion to inquire into the ownership of Adirondack Jands, and 
authorize the appropriation by the Legislature of $500,000, 
for the purpose of acquiring these lands for the State, and 
adding them to those already owned by it. The whole is to 
form an Adirondack Reservation. The purpose of the bill 
is the protection and increase of the water supply of the Hud- 
son and Mohawk rivers, and their tributaries, and of the 
Eric and Black River canals. The lands to be selected lie 
in the counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamil- 
ton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence and 
Warren. 

The work of selecting these lands and protecting’ them 
after they shall have been acquired by the State is to be 
placed in the hands of three individuals, to be known as the 
Commissioners of the Adirondack Reservation. These 
officials are to be appointed by the Governor and the Senate, 
and are to serve fortwo, four and six years, respectively. 
They are authorized to care for and improve the lands, 
forests and waters under their control, and to appoint forest 

*wardens 10 carry out this improvement, and to bring suits 
tgainst trespassers on the State lands. In fact, the bill pro- 
_ yides for a forestry commission modeled after some of those 
of Europe recently alluded to in ForEst AnD STREAM, 
’ It is to be observed, however, that only about one-haif of 
the Adirondack region is provided for in the bill, the water- 
- shed only of those rivers flowing south being protected, 
“while those which flow north are passed over. No doubtthe 
increase of the water supply of the Hudson, the Mohawk, 
and the Black tivers is most important, and it is perhaps wise 
to begin the work in a small way, selecting that portion of 
thezegion in which the benefit of forest protection will be 
most speedily felt, 

A. most bilter opposition to the bill may be expected from 

- the lumbering intere t, which is unwilling that the forests 
: ine be protected ‘until they shall have been entirely cut 


Still, so great is the public interest aroused by the re- | 


NEW YORK, JANUARY 31, 1884. 


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cent discussion of this subject, that the friends of forest pro- 
tection have strong hopes that the present bill may become 
a law. 

It is only a short. time since a large proportion of the pub- 
lic appeared to think that forests were useful only as supply- 
ing lumber and firewood, but this ignorance has now been 
replaced in many minds by a much more intelligent compre- 
hension of the value of our woodlands. 

Those who have carefully read what we have recently had 
to say upon this subject, cannot have failed to comprehend 
the immeasurable importance of our forest lands to every 
class of people. It is the duty of every man to use what 
influence he can to protect these forests. 


* ANGLING SLANG. 

( UR attention has been called to this matter by an edi- 

torial note in the London Fishing Gazette, which com- 
plains of'a want of originality in writers who use the terms 
“spotted beauty” for trout, ‘‘finny tribe” for fish, and 
“rodster” for angler, and says that these terms cause worse 
language on the part of readers and a frequent use ef the 
editorial waste basket. 

We have noticed a growing tendency to this evil habit in 
America, and our pen is often drawn through the obnoxious 
words and the correct ones substituted. If any correspond- 
ent, in giving an account of our fishing to some local paper, 
should call us a ‘‘rodster,” he would forfeit our good opinion 
forever. We do not know who coined this yile term, nor 
why, having been coined, others allow its use. Worse than 
this, if possible, is the phrase “‘chucking a bug,” for casting 
or throwing a fly. To speak of a gentleman as a ‘‘bug 
chucker” may appear to some to be the very essence of wit, 
while to others it seems a coarse vulgarity. 

Even if these things were wit in the originator, they have 
become oftensively stale by repetition, and no writer, who 
has any wish to appear original, will use them, ‘‘Disciples 
of Walton” is another hackneyed term, It is not as offen- 
sive as the disgusting “rodster” and “bug chucker,” which 
none but.the coarsest natures indulge in, but it has been in 
use to describe anglers so long that it is at least threadbare 
and has ceased to be an improvement on the word which it 
supplants. 

Slang may occasionally be effective in tersely describing 
in a word what otherwise would take a sentence, but it is 
usually a very transient thing, and stale slang has not only 
lost its savor, but the dose is nauseating. 


NO MONEY FOR REVOLUTIONS 
C APTAIN LUNDBORG, attached to the Swedish Lega- 
“ tion in Washington, is before Congress as a petitioner 
for national alms. Captain Lundborg has been for several 
years hawking about a “revolution” in nayal architecture, 


and failing to receive any encouragement from private: 


sources, now seeks to float his scheme at the expense of the 
nation. 

This scheme consists in so alteciing the present forms of 
yessels that the “‘water shall be parted upward” instead of 
horizontally, the worthy Captain being under the impression 
that he has made a discovery which will result in materially 
diminishing the resistance of ships to passage through the 
sea, It is almost needless to say that the scheme is very 
ancient, equally as chimerical, and only the superficial con- 
ception of an amateur at the business. No vessel, whatever 
her form, can part the water in any other direction than 
upward. The plumb sides of a steamer of usual shape 1m- 
part their pressure laterally, it is true, but that pressure, by 
well-known physical characteristics of water, is instantane- 
ously transmitted in all directiofis, and finds relief in the 
direction of least pressure, which is upward, as demonstrated 
in practice by the creation of bow waves. To construct a 
vessel of special form to accomplish what every vessel 
already accomplishes, is the wonderful piece of crude engi- 
neering, for which Congress is asked to vote money to the 
material gain of Captain Lundborg in particular. His pro- 
posed variation upon ordinary forms involves a swell in the 
bilge with afore and aft section resembling a cigar. A 
structure of the kind would cost a great deal more and be 
far heavier than the simpler forms in existance, It would 
call for greater driving power, and could not compete in 
point of economy with steamships now afloat. Its qualities 
af sea are likewise yery much open to question. 

The whole scheme is silly, and can fittingly be classed 
with the Voorhees steam catamaran, the notorious Meteor, 
the ‘‘globe” steamér, the Keeiy motor and similar humbugs 
of the day. Had Mr, Lundborg’s vagary the slightest merit 
or had it received the indorsement of competent naval 


architects and engineers in place of the sympathy of a few 
old-fashioned Admirals not versed in marine engineering, 
there would not be any difficulty in attracting the attention 
of private capital in these times when money goes begging. 
If the petition recently introduced by General Rosecrans is 
not smothered in committee it is to be hoped Congress will, 
by a large negative vote, promptly choke off this attempt 
to experiment at the expense of the national income, or else 
a flood of quacks will pour in from all quarters with similar 
fantastical ventures. Why should Captain Lundborg, an 
alien, receive aid for his nonsense any more than any other 
of the million of more deserving inventors who are, al 
least, citizens of the country? His appeal to Congress is 
preposterous. 


THE “FLICKERING” VOTES. 

HE polls will close to-morrow. <All votes received then 
A+ will be counted, whatever may come in Saturday will 
be just one day too late. The limit of time was made that 
our British Columbia subscribers might have opportunity to 
be represented, and their votes reached us last Monday. 
Others had previously come in from Mexico, Cuba, Ber- 
muda, England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany. Total 
number of ballots received up to date (Wednesday, Jan. 30) 
1929, not including a number of anonymous cards which 
have not. been counted. The winning stories will be an- 
nounced in our next issue, and the winning voters, if they 
can be determined by that time, but it is probable that they 
will not be decided before the week following. 


In Caertarmn LocArrins along the Atlantic coast the fow! 
shooting during the month of January has been remarkably 
good. Earlier in the season, indeed during the whole of 
November and December, the weather was so mild and 
pleasant that, although the birds were present on the feed- 
ing grounds in great numbers, they did not afford any good 
shooting. We have recently learned, however, of the score 
of two gentlemen, who have been shooting on the grounds 
of the Narrows Island, in Currituck county, N. C., which is 
remarkable. During a month spent at the club house they 
killed 10 swans, 104 geese, 194 eanvas-backs, 27 redheads, 
469 common ducks (teal, widgeon, black ducks, mallards, 
etc.), 9 quail and 51 English snipe. Taking out Sundays, 
stormy and other days, when no shooting was done, it will 
be seen that this makes a very high average for the month, 
The grounds over which this shooting was done aré among 
the best for fowl on the Atlantic coast, and, in these days 
of game scarcity, it is satisfactory to know of one locality 
where it is still abundant. With proper attention to preser- 
vation, and with the abolition of battery shooting, the mem- 
bers of the clubs situated along Ourrituck Sound should 
have good shooting for all time. 


Tun Cartep Stag AGArn.—Last week we referred to the 
importation of the English carted stag hunts, and mentioned 
that such a hunt had been held in Missouri. In another 
column will be found some account of a similar disgraceful 
occurrence near Cleveland, O. Now Cleveland is fortunate 
in possessing, among her older citizens, some of the best 
sportsmen of this country, men who are a credit and honor 
to the company of those who handle rod and gun. We can 
imagine the disgust they must feel at such a travesty of deer 
hunting as that at Newburgh the other day. 


Doe Ciuss.—As may be learned from our kennel columns 
the proposed beagle club is on a fair way to successful or- 
ganization, We count the formation of special clubs of this 
kind a promising indication of the growth of intelligent in- 
terest in the several breeds. ~ The new beagle club ought to 
have a membership of five hundred. 


New Game Laws.—We hope that our readers in the sey- 
eral States will take pains to inform us of any changes that 
may be made in the game laws this winter, One way to in- 
sure the good effect of such laws is to give them the widest 
possible currency, and such an effectual pebherye is secured 
by printing them in this journal. 


THe Massacuusetts Dog Laws are the subject of an in- 
structive paper printed in another colamn, We commend a 
perusal of it to the individuals who propose to make the old 
Bay State ridiculous by enacting the dog-bond provision al- 


ready adverted to in our columns, 


Tun Cuay-Picron TournNAmpnt,—Seyeral news notes 


relating to the Chicago clay-pigeon tournament have been 
necessarily postponed to our next issue, 


€ 


Pe ae 
[Jaw. 81, 1884, 


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Q FOREST AND ‘STREAM. 


comprising the entire kitchen outfit, were scattered about on 
the other. The liinb of a fallen tree, conveniently located, 


which had been let alone. ‘He thought that had the land 
been judiciously thinned yearly, enough would have been 
obtained to have paid the taxes and interest on the purchase, 
above the cost of cutting and drawing out, besides bringing 
the whole tract up to the yalue of the two acres which had 
been thinned out.” Atthe end of twenty-five years from the 
seed the larger trees were frem forty to fifty feet high, eight 
inches on the stump, and furnished timber which could be 
hewed for rafters. ‘‘After the next twenty-five years (fifty 
from the, seed) he * * estimated that the trees left on the 
two acres would average six to cight fect apart. ‘They were 
mostly Norway pine, ten to twenty inches in diam- 
eter, and eighty to 100 feet high. He was greatly surprised 


FOREST WEALTH. 
WN a recent article on Forest Schools in Europe we alluded 
to the great loss just ahead of us because of our reck- 
less waste of the woods with which the white man found 
this country so richly endowed. 

That loss was stated as likely to reach the bewildering 
total of a billion dollars a year, that can be estimated and 
méasured with some degree of certainty; besides a vast 
amount of incidental damage through the crippling of the 
industries dependent upon wood, and especially the white 
pine, for their material; through climatic change, and through 
diminished water supply for the needs of cities, for agricul- 
ture, and for transportation. 


furnished us with comfortable seats when we were not 
lounging upon the blankets, and also a rest for our rifles and 
extra clothing. - Just beyond the kitchen utensils the saddles 
of eight or nine deer wrapped in the hides and tied ready for 
packing were piled together—for we were making arrange. 
ments to leave the burn that day—while a large buck, upon 
whose sides the clear fat was at Jeast half an inch thick, and 
which had for that reason heen selected for our special de- 
lectation, was suspended just.clear of the ground from an- 
other limb of the fallen pine. Over becs of coals drawn out 
on each side of the fire, and transfixed wpon forked sticks, 
with one end stuck into the ground or beneath a stone, hung 
several ribs of the above mentioned buck, the rich fat slowly 
dripping on to the coats, and sending up to our nostrils those 


Just a few figures to show that this is not wild guessing. 
Mo. James Little, of Montreal, who is no doubt one of the 
most painstaking and well-informed statisticians upon this 
subject, gives the value of the lumber produced in the United 
States, ‘‘as it falls from the saw,” for 1882 as not less than 
three hundred millions of dollars, Of this inconceivable 
total, white pine is the principal factor. We have almost 
reached the end of our supply of that wood. At our pres- 
ent rate of consumption not more than seven years hence 
we shall see the last of it. Prof. Sargent, curator of the 
Arnold Arboretum, connected with the Bussey Institution 
of Agriculture belonging to Harvard University, is’ also the 
special forest statistician of the U. 8. Census Bureau. He 
reported in 1882 to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture 
that only eighty billion feet of white pine remained at that 
time inthe United States, and this total included much 
smalland poor timber. He said thatihe average annual 
consumption was then ten billion feet, and the cut for the 
year next after his estimate was the largest eyer made. 
Nearly two out of the eight years’ supply which remained 
when Prof. Sargent made this terrible revelation have 
already gone, Thatstatement was the cause which doubled, 
and in some cases more than doubled, the price of standing 
‘white pine. In favorable locations it is now held at two 
hundred dollars an acre and often more. 

Mr. Little further assures us that the Dominion of Canada, 
except for her supply upon the Pacific coast, is almost as 
badly off as we are. Her stores, which were thoughtlessly 
spoken of as exhaustless, are not so. From earliest times 
men haye been so impressed with the maguitude of great 
forests that they have called’them inexhaustible. But not 
even tropical abundance and reproductive power could supply 
the awfully expeditious, and awfully wasteful modern 
methods of lumbering with material for any great time. 

The pine of the Pacific coast, thongh, no doubt, rich and 
abundant, will be very expensive by the time it is brought 
to the markets which the forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
Michigan and Canada have been supplying. Besides it 
will be found a far from limitless store if attacked as the 
woods of the Hast have been. 

But to return to our figures: $300,000,000 at the sawmills 
and $450,000,000 at the places of consumption was the value 
when Mr. Little made his estimates. To replace it from 
other lands-(if they could spare it, which they could not) 
would cost two or three times more, and would require more 
than all the tonnage of seagoing vessels in the world to 
transport it. Here, then, is a commodity which will soon 
he gone, and when gone would cost not Jess than a billion 
dollars a year to replace if it could be had. 

Since we cannot replace it from abroad, what shall be 
done? Passing by with a mere mention the obvious expe- 
dient of using as many substitutes as possible for white pine 

‘in buildings—and if non-combustible materials like iron, 
stone, brick, ete., are used, the saving in insurance will be 
unmense—we come to the matter of economy in cutting and 
marketing. 

Pine lumbering, as at present carried on, is a terribly 
wasteful business. Experts say that on an average fifty 
small trees are sacrificed in getting out one large one. Tops 
and brush are left where they become resinous tinder heaps 
in a dry time, and any spark may start a conflagration 
that noman can stop. Campers, hunters and anglers often 
start fires through carelessness. Hyery reader of Forms? 
AND STREAM who goes into the woods should appoint him- 
self 1 committee of one to impress upon the thoughtless the 
duty of taking care not to startfires. And the public ought 
to protest against leaving brush as lumbermen generally do 
leave it. Forest fires often cost awful waste of life, such as 
all can remember to haye occurred in Wisconsin and Michi- 
san within a few years. 

But after all, the great dependence must be upon repro- 
duction. This is not by any means impracticable. Almost 
always, if firesand cattle and other browsing animals are kept 
off land which has once been coyered with white pine, it 
will soon seed itself. Sowing is nota complicated matter if 
the young shoots do not appear thick enough, Then trim 
up and thin out, as the case demands, and in fifty years 
there will be from 100,000 to 150,000 feet of lumber to the 
acre; and the material taken out in theinterval will, inmany 
‘cages, perhaps in most, pay taxes, interest and cost of labor. 

In 1800, 2 tract of Jandin New Hampshire, which had 
heen burned and cleared, was allowed to seed itself with 
white and Norway pines. Hon, Levi Bartlett becameowner 
in 1825. He thinned two acres, taking off over half the 
emallest trees, Which he reported much more than paid, 
as fuel, for the labor of this thinning, ‘Twenty-five years 


later, a careful estimate showed that the land which had. 


been thinned was worth at least one-third more than that 


seven or eight years after this to see the increase of growth, 
especially in the two acres thinned thirty years before. 
owner had done nothing, except occasionally cutting a few 
dead trees.”’ 
twice as much as that which had not been. 
twice as much wood, but owing to the greater size and length 
of the trees, they were worth twice as much at the mill. 
“There were hundreds of Norway and white pines that céuld 
be hewn or sawed into square timber from forty to fifty feet in 
length.” 
vastly greater number of dead trees—many of them fallen, 
and nearly worthless.” 
Agriculture 1877, pp. 400 and 401.) It was estimated that at 
this time the land would yield 150,000 feet of lumber to the 
acre. 


The 


That which had been thinned was now worth 
There was not 


‘On the part left to Nature’s thinning there was a 


(Hough’s Report to Department of 


At the enhanced price which, twenty-five years from now, 


white pine will surely bring it is easy to see that there is 
money in these two things; cutting only the large, and in 
every way saving the small trees; and in planting, protecting 
from fire and cattle, and thinning wherever white pine will 
thrive. 
agating and cultivating other trees which will mature more 
quickly, and furnish for many uses an acceptable substitute 
for the white pine. 


In another article we may speak of methods of prop- 


Che Sportsman Caurist. 


AN OREGON EPISODE. 
IN WHICH IT IS RELATED HOW KIT JACKSON'S MULE WAS 
SURE. 


669 OOK, boys, quick, thar goes one of the Big Sandy 
cattle as sure as Kit Jackson’s mule.” 

Three men sprang to their feet from a prostrate log, where 
they had been sitting, and gazed eagerly in the direction 
indicated by the speaker; just in time to catch a glimpse of 
a large animal, evidently of the bovine species, as it disap- 
peared in a thicket of tall salmon berry bushes about two 
hundred yards distant. 

The time was early morning in the latter part of Septem- 
ber, The place was a large “burn” between the Big and 
Little Sandy, two small streams that spring from sources on 
or very near Mount Hood and flow in a nosthwesterly direc- 
tion until they reach the Columbia. The men were four 
hunters, who, with four pack animals, had been hunting in 
the vicinity for nearly a week, and whom I will briefly in- 
troduce to the reader. Wilson, the speaker above mentioned, 
was 4 tall, spare man, between forty and fifty, who owned 
a small clearing on the great trail from Eastern to Western 
Oregon that skirted the base of Mount Hood asit passed 
through the Cascade range. Here he bad built a small log 
cabin, where his wife and several children resided, and 
where Wilson himself, who did a very small amount of 
farming—and no end of hunting and trapping—put up when 
he was out of the mountains, His dress was a nondescript 
affair of buckskin and butternut, and hisrifle a long octagon- 
barrel muzzeloader, with a buck-horn sight, such as was al- 
most invariably seen in the hands of the old line of Western 
hunters and trappers twenty years ago, Two of the remain- 
ing three were brothers, named Charles and Ben Doyle, who 
were several years younger than Wilson, and owned a farm 
together a few miles from the location made by the latter, 
The last of the party was the writer, who had drifted up 
into that remote quarter from San Francisco on purpose to 
have a good hunt, and a surfeit of venison. 

Before going further it may not be out of place to describe 
the nature of a ‘‘burn” for the benefit of those unacquainted 
with the terms used in the far West. The immense forests 
of pine, spruce, hemlock and fir that cover the western 
slopes of the mountain ranges from Mendecino county, Cal., 
to Alaska are subject almost every year to devastating fires 
that destroy sometimes in one year more timber than all the 
sawmills that are scattered through that country have con- 
sumed since its first settlement by the whites. These tracts, 
which ate frequently many miles in extent, are called 
“burns.” All, or nearly all, of the trees will be killed, 
many of them entirely consumed, others are burned so 
badly at the base that they are overthrown by the winter 
gales, and the remainder, stripped of bark and foliage and 
bleached by sunshine and storm, present anything -but an in- 
viting picture to the lovers of the beautiful in nature. 

These ‘‘burnus,” however, are the fayorite resorts of almost 
every species of game found in the country. After the fire 
comes x rank growth of wild pea vine, salmon and salal 
brush. Then come the deer, who feed greedily upon the 
pea vine, while bear and grouse grow fat upon the salmon 
and salal berries, especially the latter, which are frequently 
found in such profusion that they can be stripped off by the 
handful, and as they much resemble a large huckleberry in 
size, color and taste, are not to be despised by the hunter 
himself. : ; 

With this explanatory digression, | return to my camp-fire 
on the Sandy, I use the word ‘‘camp-fire” advisedly, for 
that was about all there was to indicate the place where we 
had located, unless it was the four horses tied to the bushes 
near by where the pea vine was thickest. The certainty of 
fine weather in ‘ 
sity of a shelter of any kind, and therefore we had mone. 
Four beds made by layers of pea vine a foot deep and cov- 
ered with blankets occupied the space on one side of the fire, 
anda small Dutch oven, an old tin coffee pot, with afew 
cups of the pa material, and a sack of self-raisiDg flour, 


- 


this season and latitude obviated the neces- | 


delicious, appetizing clouds, whose flavor lingers with me 
still. “. 


It was thus we were situated, and thus we were engaged, 


when Wilson with a pone of bread in one hand and a half- 
picked rib in the other arose from his seat, and after scann- 
ing the brush as far as he could see with the instinct of a” 
true bunter, brought us all to our fect by the remark with 
whieh I have headed this chapter. 
there did not seem to be anything very mysterious about the 
affair, but the writer,who had only been upon the upper coast 
three or four weeks, was as profoundly ignorant of exactly 
what was meant by the “Big Sandy cattle,” as.he was of the 
certainty of Kit Jackson’s mule. 


To the Doyle brothers 


“How many of them are left now, Wilson?” said Charley 


Doyle, after we had become satisfied there were no more 
cattle in sight, and resuming our scats, had attacked the 
spare ribs with renewed vigor. 


‘Only three or four. Miller killed one early last spring, 


and saw one heifer and two steers besides, but as there were 
at least seven when they were first seen and only three are 
killed, I think there are four yet,” was the reply. 


Upon inquiry I found that the cattle were some that had 


been lost from a herd that a drover had attempted ito drive 


across the mountains nearly’ two years before, and being 
overtaken by a severe storm, the whole herd had stampeded 
into the timber and many of them were never recovered, but 
haying broken up into small bands and drifted off miles 
away from the road, had become much wilder than were 
the deer in that vicinity. _ 

“T think we'd better give them fellers 1 whirl before We 
dust out of this,” said Wilson, sending » denuded ri spin- 
ping over the brush, and taking a fresh one from the fire. 
This suggestion seemed to meet with the approval of all 
parties, the novelty of the thing being of itself sufficient to 
enlist my hearty co-operation. So it was agreed to postpone 
our departure another day, in order to give the wild cattle 
“a whirl.” Accordingly after breakfusi was finished we | 
rolled up the blankets, tied the horses tofresh feed, and | 
shouldering our rifles struck out toward fhe narrow bottom — 
of the Big Sandy, where the animals had disappeared. So 
thick was the fallen timber that our progress on foot through 
the burn was exceedingly slow, and going on horseback was 
entirely out of the question, for it had been with the great- 
est difficulty that we had succeeded in getting our horses 
into the place selected for our camp, although the intelligent 
brutes, who had all been raised in the mountains, never failed 
to attempt to surmount any obstacle that we led them up to 
by the bridle. Upon reaching the edge of the bottom it be- 
came evident that our only chance of success lay in separat- 
ing into two parties, one to go to the upper end of the bottom 
and lie in wait at the passes, while the other beat np from 
below. Wilson and I therefore slowly moved up the edge 
of the bottom, while the Doyles went for the lower end. 

Reaching our destination we sat down on a log to wait, 
and knowing it would be some time before the boys below 
us would be in a position to need ourassistance, 1 thought it 
a favorable opportunity to learn something of the history of 
my companion, which I had reasons to believe had been 
rather an eventful one, us he had been many years in the 
State, and was a volunteer scout all through the Jong and 
bloody struggle of the settlers with the Rogue River Indians. 
With most men who have spent many years hunting and 
trapping, especially in those portions of the country imfested 
with hostile Indians, silence becomes a second nature, the 
necessity of caution, the dearth of any great variety of sub- 
jects to excite conversation, and the very limited number of 
their companions, all tend to promote this reserye until it 
becomes habitual, and as Wilson was no exception to the 
rule, my efforts to draw him out were only partially suecess- 
ful such as they were, however, I give in substance with- 
out any attempt ata literal rendition. : 

“Wilson,” said I, as a leader, ‘‘were the Rogue River 
Indians a cowardly pack of ragmuffins like the Diggers, or 
‘did they more nearly resemble the Sioux, Oheyennes and 
other warlike tribes of the buffalo country?” 

“They were the bravest tribe of reds I ever saw, and were 
themselves so confident that they were nearly our equals 
man for man, that Capt. John, their war chief, offered to 
select a given number of men and fight a pitched battle with 
an equal number of whites, the result_of which should de- 
cide who should possess the land. Scores of the settlers 
were eager enough to accept the challenge, but of coure no 
one had any authority for such a proceeding.” 

“Did you have any hand to hand encounters with them 

“We had many of what might be called rifle duels, but 
the country was so rugged and so heavily timbered that those 
were usually conducted at very short range, and as the 
abundance of game there had made excellent marksmen of- 
both sides, they were almost always very short and deadly. 
On one occasion two of us were scouting in the neutral 
ground, and after a Jong and fatiguing march had stopped | 
to rest by the side of a trail. Being still far from the Indian 
encampment we did not consider the neighborhood very dan- 
gerous, and had taken no special precautions although we 
were far from being noisy, when a slight rustling off in the 
narrow trail ahead of us put us both on the alert, We had 
barely time to cock our rifles when the Indians, evidently 
scouts like ourselves, appeared in full view walking one be- | 
hind the other, and only a few yards from us, Quick as a- 
flash it occurred to me that my pardner would be likely to_ 
take the oue in front and without x moment's hesitation I 7 
fired at the other, Our rifles cracked as one report, and both — 
Indians dropped dead in their tracks.” _— 

Thad become so interested in Wilson's narrative, albeit it: 
was only drawn out by persistent questioning, that | almost 
forgot what we were there for, The chivalrous conduct of | 
Chief John, who must not be confounded with Capt, Jack, 


my 


the Modoc chief, who flourished at least two dec 
was so different from that of most of th 
with whom I had been personally acquainted, 
minded me more of the Sultan Saladin th 


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Pee 


ored friends I had known, and I was about to fol- 
up the pumping operation still further when the crack 
of arifie, followed instantly by aloud shout from one of 
the Doyles, brought both of us at once to our feet, From 
our position we could see by the swaying brush that the 
brute had been started and was coming toward us as rapidly 
as the nature of the thicket would permit. Stepping a few 
yards apart, in order to command as much of the front as 
possible, we cocked our rifles and awaited the result. Nearer 
and newrer he came, the loud cracking of the brush accu- 
rately marking his advance, until the brushes parted in front 
of Wilson, who stood in plain sight in the knee-high salal, 
and a long-legged, gaunt, red and white steer of the genuine 
Texan slamp came into full view almost ata bound. We 
had arranged it thus with the expectation that as soon as he 
saw us in front he would attempt to turn and re-enter the 
thicket, giving us a chance at him bebind the shoulder as he 
turned, and driving him back toward the Doyles should we 
fail. This would probably have been the result had he not 
been so desperately wounded, but with the blood dripping 
from his mouth, if he had any intention of showing the 
white feather it was not visible. for with accelerated speed 
he charged straight for Wilson, who coolly stood with his 
Tifle to his cheek near the log upon which we had been 
sitting, 

Unable longer to stand the tension upon my nerves, I 
fired quartering at the steer’s head, but unfortunately just as 
he dropped it for theassault. The .44-caliber bullet struck the 
far horn squarely near the ,base, shattering it in pieces, and 
the next instant, either dazed by the shock or choked by 
blood from the bullet of Doyle, which had evidently pierced 
his lungs, he stumbled and came down upon _his knees, only 
a few feet from Wilson, who sent his bullet through his 
‘brain before he could recover himself. We were surprised 
to find him in such poor condition, considering the great 
abundance of feed around us, until we found an old bullet 
wound in his lower jaw that had carried away several teeth 
which must have seriously interfered with his eating, and 
rendered it a matter of much doubt whether he would have 
been able to survive the following winter. 

“That ere feller had a leetle idee of showing fight,” said 
Wilson, as he drew several bullets from his pocket, and after 
carefully selecting one placed it in the palm of his hand, and 
from his horn poured out sufficient powder to just cover it, 
which was his method of measuring a charge, then putting 
a strip of buckskin over the muzzle he placed the ball on top 
and forced it down until it was level with the end of the 
barrel, after which he trimmed off the surplus buckskin 
‘with his sheath knife, and sent the lead home with the 
hickory ramrod. 

We were soon joined by the Doyles, and learned that the 
old Texan had been lying in a little opening overgrown with 
rushes, probably the bottom of what was a pond in the rainy 
season, Ben had heard him as he jumped and started to 
run, but was unable to see him while Charley, who was a 
little in advance and at some distance to the right, caught a 

limpse of him just as he reached the edge of the surround- 
fig thicket and fired with the result above stated. We were 
wnable to find any fresh traces of the remainder of the band, 
but as we found the encampment of a party of stragglin 
Indian hunter, that did not appear to have been deserte 
more than a week, it is possible they may have been able to 
have given some information upon the subject. After skin- 
ning the animal we slung between two poles the hide and 
such portions of the meat as we wanted and returned to 
camp. It was still early in the day, butas we expected to 
leave the burn in the morning, and already had as much 
meat as we could easily pack out, we concluded to do no 
more hunting but to devote the remainder of our time to 
mending our clothes and lounging by the camp-fire, where 
more or less cooking was going on nearly all the time. 


Our trip had indeed been a very satisfactory one, for al- 
though we had only hunted a little while in ‘the morning 
and evening ofeach day, we had killed eleven deer and one 
black bear—grizzlies are not found in that section of Oregon 
—hbesides asmany blue grouse as we cared to shoot, which 
Was not many, as we took no notice of them, unless close to 
camp, aud we hada chance to make a fancy shot at their 
heads. The only real temptation I had from them was one 
morning while passing around the butt of a fallen tree I saw 
a number of them sitting on the other end, and could easily. 
have killed three with a single shot from my rifle, but as they 
would have hardly been worth picking up after being shot 
through the body with so large a bullet I passed them by. 
Black bears were plenty enough, but as nobody would eat 
bear meat at our camp so long as fat bucks could be obtained, 
that incentive, at least, was wanting in the chase. 


Late in the afternoon, after completing as far as possible 
our arrangements for departure the next day, my idle 
thoughts reverted to the old Texan and the first sight we 
had of him; and turning to my companion of the morning, 
I said, ‘‘Wilson, how sure was Kit Jackson’s mule?” 
“Well,” said that worthy, who was busily engaged sewing 
a rip in his bootleg with a buckskin whang, “according to 
Kit himself there wasn’t anything he warn’t sure of doing 
that he started in on. He allowed that mule could out-pull, 
out-kick or out-buck anything that went on four legs and 
wore hair, and as far as { ever heerd on Kit was about right; 
but where he got the name of being so dead sure was one 
day when Kit came to the village, and after taking in a big 
load of bug juice, began, as he allers did, to brag on bis 
mule, and tell how far he throwed a feller that tried to ride 
him. ‘I tell you what,’ said Kit, as he stood at the bar set- 
ting em up tor the boys, ‘ennybody but me that thinks he 
can ride that mule isadern fool, for he is going to get 
throwed sure pop.’ Now, there happened to bea chap from 
the cow counties in there that day, who called himself a 
buckarer (vaquero), and he allowed the mule might throw 
“em some pops, but when Jackson or ennybody else talked 
about its being sure pop, he was ready to chip in, as he cal- 
kelated he could ride ennything that ever wore a saddle, 
Some words passed between him and Kit, and he bet the 
drinks for the crowd that he could ride the mule. This 
offer suited everybody there, and they all took a hand in 
ae OP the thing, because, you see, they all had an inter- 
est in it. 

_ “Kit trotted out his mule and pretty soon out came the fel- 
ler with a Spanish saddle with two hair sinches and a crup- 
per, got up on purpose for the occasion. Now that ere mule 
knew thar was uncommon going on, the minute that 


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Sane 


suthin’ 
cha began to draw w yon them two sinches, so he began to 
swell up eae ig toad. But it was no use, Dunk, 
that’s what f y called the feller, had been there before, and 
he drawed up fi ton one latigo and then on the other till 
ouldn’t stand it no longer, so he jest looked ‘round 

= yy sau: e mM} 


is eye and let go his breath 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


till the sinches were up to the last notch. Well, begot on, 
and for about five minutes there was some of the tallest 
buckin’ ever seen in them parts. The mule dropped his 
head between his knees, roached his back; and some of his 
stiff-legged jumps, they said, measured ten feet. He fetched 
the blood out of Dunk’s nose and mouth, but he couldn’t 
fetch Dunk. Then he opened up on a new deal and tried to 
fall over backwards on Dunk and smash him, but that didn’t 
work either, for when he was just balanced and going to fall, 
Dunk would slip his right foot out of the stirrup and step 
onto the ground and let him come down; then as soon as the 
mule got.on his feet again, he found Dunk on his back with 
the rowels of his big spurs hooked into the sinches. : 

“Then he made for the trees along the sidewalk and tried 
to serape Dunk off by running under the low limbs and 
against the trunk at the sametime. No go. Dunk seemed 
to ride just as well with his toes hooked round the cantle of 
the saddle and his body down by the mule’s knee as he did 
anywhere, — : 

“The boys had been betting on the mule all the time, but 
they begun to hedge now. Things begun to look a little 
streaky for Kit, when all at once the mule made a break for 
the river. What he was going to do there nobody could 
guess. In he went and started as if to swim across just 
below the bridge, but when he got right over the deepest 
place down he went, mule, rider and all, plump out of sight, 
like a porpoise, Then the boys got scared and made a break 
for the bridge as fast as they could hook it. Looking over 
the rail down into the deep water, there they saw. old Jeff on 
the bottom hanging on to a big root with his teeth, and Dunk 
on his back a clappin’ the spurs into his ribs and jerkin’ on 
the bridle, trying to raise him tothe top. When Kit’s backers 
seen that they got fast again to bet on the mule, for you see 
they allowed that as old Jeff knew what he was going to do, 
he’d fill up his bellusses before he went down and so had the 
bulge on Dunk; but the rest thought that Dunk had dropped 


_on it time enough to get in a square breath; and even if he 


didn’t the mule was sinched so tight Ire couldn’t hold much 
wind nohow. 

Pretty soon, though, they seen Dunk look up, then he let 
go of the saddle and made for the top. He didnt say noth- 
ing when he got up, but jest took a good long breath and 
went down again, but he was a leetle too late, for jest as soon 
as he let go the bridle, Jeff slid out from under him and 
started for shore with his head and neck stretched out like a 
loon after shiners. °*Twas no use for Dunk to try to ketch 
him then; it couldn’t be did, so he paddled for shore too. 
When Dunk had crawled up the bank and shook himself, he 
cum up to Kit and said, ‘Mr. Jackson, 1 was wrong; and 1 
ask your pardon, When that are mule starts in to do any- 
thing, he’s going to do it, sure pop. Boys, less all goup and 
take suthin,’ ” 

“Had that account been properly sworn to before a jus- 
tice when you heard it?” said I, when Wilson had finished 
his bootleg and his yarn at the same time. 

“Well, I can’t say as to that. The crowd that put in their 
spare time at the Bullwhackers’ Retreat, didn’t fool away 
much spare cash on legal dockyments, leastwise during saloon 
hours; but that’s how the boys cum to swear by Kit Jack- 
son’s mule.” * FoRKED DHER. 

SAN FRANcISco, Jan. 7, 1884. 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Second Paper. 


THE CAMPING GROUND FOUND. 


W HEN an Indian skipper, Captain Kishkatog, and his 

able and his ugly mate, Dan Sky, sailed away and 
left us at our camp onthe Ahmeek-we-se-pe, it was with the 
knowledge on our part that we were nineteen miles from the 
nearest point to which we could look for relief in any con- 
tingency. Wewerein an unhacked wilderness—a wilder- 
ness in whieh men had been lost and neverfound. It is true 
that steamers were not infrequently seen from three miles 
out to as far as one could see, but for all the relief any 
steamer would or even could bring to us, it might as well be 
on the broad Atlantic. When our man left us, he left us 
alone; left us beyond the reach of wedarying clients and vex- 
ing students, and book and insurance agents and lightning- 
rod and tree peddlers, with no sounds to hear beyond the 
circle of our own voices, save the sounds that came from out 
the woods and from off the waters. 

Were we happy at being thus left? Was not this the ful- 

iment of the dream of each one of us ere we left home? 
Yes, but I dare say not one of us but nursed an uneasy feel- 
ing, as he watched the Indian’s boat dancing away on the 
bosom of the broad waters. What if something should hap- 
pen? What if one of our number should get hurt, or become 
sick or get drowned? These and like questions our thought- 
ful wives had propeunded before we left home, and with a 
courage born of a then state of safety we had answered 
lightly, as became truly brave men; but now, when we stood 
alone in the wilderness, the anxious faces of our dear wives 
looked out from the little cloud of mist that overhung the 
Ahmeek-we-se-pe, and we thought of the questions they had 
once asked, but our courage was gone. The questions were 
unanswered. 

Away with forebodings! Let uslook around! Here upon 
this sand bluff, sixty feet above the lake’s level, in the edge 
of a little grove of Norway pines, whose straight and tall 
and slender boles ceaselessly wave to and fro in the breeze, 
our white tent, lifts its humble comb and is to be our roof-tree 
the coming three weeks. The view lakeward in storm or 
calm will never fail to please. Ah! The gorgeous sunsets 
we will see, and the tempesta of rain and thunder that will 
drive over the bosom of the waters! Four miles westward a 
great rock promontory, three hundred feet high and a thou- 
sand feet long, and crowned with a forest of evergreen trees 
—the Grand Pertal of the Pictured Rocks—gleams in the early 
Se ee sunsbine like a great wedge of gold. At the foot of 
our sand bluff the Ahmeek-we-se-pe, flowing from beneath a 
drift of stranded trees, races over the bar down to the lake 
and leaves a long rippling trail in its waters. Beyond the 
helt. of Norways, to the south, is the ‘‘deep, tangled wild 
woods,” through which a footpath winds half a mile, ending 
at the shore of the Ahmeek-sah-kah-e-gan, the Beaver Lake 
of the Ojibwas. This lake, a mile in width and two in 
length, with its longer axis parallel with the great lake shore, 
is surrounded by an unbroken fringe of green woods—woods 
as green and impenetrable as on that day two hundred and 
forty-two years ago, Father Allotiz first yailed the south 


shore of the great lake. A lovyelier sheet of water is not to 


be found in allthis region of lovely lakes, Next the shore 
the water is shoal all the way around, but as it recedes, it 
becomes gradually deeper until at a distance yarying from 


Oo 


fifty to one hundred yards from the shore it suddenly drops 
down into a deep basin; and lying clese in against the rim 
of this basin are bass and pike, in size and numbers seldom 
equaled. 

“West of Beaver Lake and connected with it by a narrow 
and short canal is a small lake, one not much short of three 
miles in circumferenee, and east of it is a cedar swamp and 
next a pond, after which comes a small deep lake which has 
never been fished. 

This system of small lakes and ponds and swamps, is 4 
peculiarly interesting geological feature of the region. Lying 
in the shape of a strung bow with the back to the hills and 
the arms curving to the great lake shore, they suggest that 
once they formed a part of the great lake itself, No doubt 
such was the fact. The evidences here and elsewhere along 
this south shore are indubitable, that at some period in the 
remote past, there has been a subsidence of not less than 
sixty feet and probably a great deal more than that, of the 
waters of Lake Superior. As that subsidence went on, the 
drifting sands from the Pictured Rocks above, lodging at the 
wide mouth of a narrow bay, a high bar or ridge was piled 
up, back of which lay a semi-circular basin six or eight miles 
long and one in width, which has since developed into these 
small lakes, besides ponds and swamps. On this high sand 
ridge grow soft woods almost exclusively, while back on the 
sandstone hills—ihe true ancient lands of the rezgion—hard 
woods mainly grow, interspersed with occagsional white 
pines of enormous size. 

The region is not only interesting from its goological his- 
tory, but from its classical associations also. In that unique 
poem, ‘The Song of Hiawatha,” a poem that carries with it 
the odors of the pine woods and the gurgle of trout streams, 
wept told that after the mischief-making Paw-Puk-Kewis 
ha 

“Vexed the village with disturbance,” 
by teaching the young men 
‘All the game of bowl and counters,” 


and by raiding the house of Hiawatha and insulting old No- 
komis his mother, and Minnehaha his bride, and finally, 
from the lofty brow of the Grand Portal, by killing his 
chickens, the gulls ,that greatly wronged hero, in great rage, 
set out to bring the evildoer to just punishment. Long was 
the pursuit and well sustained the fight, After many and 
marvelous vicissitudes, however, the wily fugitive took re- 
fuge among the beavers, who in some mysterious manner 
changed him into a beayer, and made him 


“Ten times larger than the other beavers,”’ 


after which he became their king, As might have been ex- 
pected, his elevation to the beayer throne puffed him up 
enormously, so much so that he could not pass the doorway 
of his palace; and so, when Hiawatha had discovered the 
place of his retreat he cut the dam, and after the waters had 
run off the beaver king was at his mercy, He and his young 
men, 

“Pounded him as maize is pounded, 

Till his skull was crushed and broken.” 


The region we are now in, is the locus in quo of this tragic 
tale, Beayer Lake was the Ahmeek-sah-kah-e-gan of the 
Ojibwas, and here was in ancient times a great beaver center, 
and even yeta few stray beavers linger around the seat of 
that ancient empire, whose “‘signs” may be seen on every 
stream. The story as told by the poet is founded on Indian 
tradition, and as every tradition has some groundwork of 
truth to rest upon, [looked around me to see if I could find 
some one stream where the greatest number of conditions 
were to be found, which made probable the supposition that 
it was the one across which a dam was built, and where a 
beaver colony of such magnitudes was established, as to ex- 
cite the Indians’ particular attention, and thus give rise to 
legends and extravagant stories. Into the south side of Beaver 
Lake a stream flows, and between that and the hills south- 
ward many miles of stream intervene, though as the crow 
flies the distance is not over two anda half miles, Along 
that stream in its upper half, I traveled for I know not how 
far, and as I whipped the little pools and eddies and filled 
my creel with richly tinted trout, [remembered that Paw- 
Puk-Kewis in his flight 


“ * * * * came unto a streamlet 
In the middle of a forest, 

Te a streamlet still and tranquil 
That had overflowed its margin;” 


and here, thought I, is the forest and the tranquil streamlet, 
and what was more to the point, the entire course of the 
stream as far as [ explored it, was filled with the ruins of 
ancient beaver dams and habitations. Indeed these curious 
animals have not altogether abandoned the stream yet. Oc- 
casionally fresh cuttings were met with, as also was an 
Indian camp that had been occupied the preceding winter, 
from which I secured a handful of the yellow and beautifully 
curved beaver teeth, plucked from the numerous decaying 
jaws lying around. This stream has been seldom visited by 
any save the Indians, and as it is unnamed in the Michigan 
maps, I venture to ask that it henceforth be known as the 
Paw-Puk-Kewis. 

In addition to bass and pike in the small lakes, every 
stream in the neighborhood is a trout stream. Three miles 
west of our camp a stream thirty feet in width plunged over 
a rock wall, falling according to one authority one hundred 
and fifty feet. We did not visit this stream but were teld 
that it abounded in trout of good size. Mr, Frank Milligan, 
a D. M. & M. Railroad official, had fished in it, and he said 
the trout were so plentiful and took the hook so greedily, 
that one soon tired of the sport. 

We spent a longer time making camp than I had antici- 
pated. One of the Judge’s favorite maxims was, ‘‘That the 
success of a camping excursion depends mainly upon the 
comfortable arrangements in the camp itself.” ‘‘No matter 
how successful in your hunting and fishing and tramping ex- 
cursions,” the Judge was wont to say, ‘‘unless you haye a 
nice, comfortable, cozy camp to go to you will soon grow 
restless and discontented, and want to go home,” And now 
that we had selected a permanent camping ground, I soon 
learned that, according to the Judge’s standard, who was 
ably seconded by the Greek Professor, a camp meant a great 
deal more than setting up a tent. An awning was erected 
separate from the tent, which not only accommodated our 
table but afforded us protection from the dews as we sat in 
front of our night fire and talked over the events of each 
day. Boxes were converted into cupboards for the conve- 
nient and safe storage of provisions; racks were made on 
which to hang cooking utensils, and the camp ground was 
cleared of unsightly rubbish. The tent itself received par- 
licuiar attention. A gun-rack was set up at the head of our 
bed, and the bed itself was a work of art. ‘More than a 


4 FOREST AND STREAM. (Jan. 81, 1884, 


third of our time will be spent in bed and surely that third 
warrants us in doing our best to make it pass pleasantly,” 
said the Judge, and the sweet and restful sleep that came to 
us all through our camp life on the Ahmeek-we-se-pe proved 
the wisdom of his words. Many campers-out, through 
ignorance in some instances doubtless, but generally through 
indolence, neglect to provide their camps with fixtures con- 
ducive to convenience and comfort, and as a consequence 
the discomforts endured often overbalance the pleasures en- 
joyed. A few hours of intelligent labor will make a com- 
fortable woods home. 

T think it was the afternoon of our third day in this camp 
‘that the Greek Professor came up the bluff with rod in hand 
aud eyes fairly bursting from their sockets. ‘I never saw 
the like!” he exclaimed. 

“What is it? Where is it?” we both asked. 

_“T never had such an experience before,” returned the 
Greek Professor. 

“Was it a bear?” asked the judge. Hyery novel happen- 
ing in the woods can generally be connected in some way 
with a bear, although a bear is less apt to be encountered by 
the summer visitor to the lake region than any other animal 
save the wolf. 

The Greek Professor said it was nota bear, but trout— 
Speckled trout. ‘I have just caught seyenteen running 
eee ten inches up to fifteen down there at the mouth of the 
creek. 

“Oh, pshaw!” exclaimed the Judge as his under jaw per- 
ceptibly dropped, 

“But I have!” said the Greek Professor with energy, ‘‘and 
they are down there now in the minnow bucket.” 

“Darn it! Why didn’t you tell me?” 

“T couldn’t,” said the Greek Professor, ‘I mean I hadn’t 
the time—that is, I couldu’t stop.” 

But 1 don’t think the Judge heard all the Greek Professor 
said. He flung aside the book he had been reading, and 
jointing his rod and tieing on his flies, he fairly flew down 
the bluff, notwithstanding his avoirdupois made such a feat 
somewhat hazardous, and cast into the swift waters below 
the drift pile at the mouth of the stream. The feathery 
lure scarcely touched the rough water ere there was a splash 
and a bite. The Judge ‘never saw the like,” he said, The 
Greek Professor had followed close after the Judge’s heels, 
and with great interest | watched the two as they plied their 
rods, ‘Trout of excellent size and shining in the sun as un- 
willingly they came ashore, as if studded with briiliants, re- 
warded the fishermen’s zeal. 

O, what happiness, what felicity! Butalas! They reminded 
me of children playing with pearls. Time and time again 
both had descanted on the criminal waste that characterized 
the sportsman in general and,each had over and over asserted 
his abhorrence of the wanton destruction of fish and game, 
s0 common in our country; yet there they were fishing away 
till not a trout would rise to fly or spring at a worm. They 
had exhausted the preserve, The fish were ‘on the feed,” 
and all the conditiens happening to be right for them rising 
to the lure that afternoon, the beautiful and wary creatures 
had been transferred from the swift waters of the stream to 
the narrow confines of the minnow pails, and ere we could 
consume them, the half died and were thrownaway. Thence 
on the greedy sportsmen were driven to other waters. The 
creek above its mouth contained many fine trout, but it was 
with great difficulty the fishermen could make their casts for 
the overhanging brush and the log-filled channel. In my 
presence they never afterward denounced in strong language 
greedy sportsmen. 

‘The country we were in abounded in game as well as its 
waters in fish. (Grouse, called partridge up there, were not 
infrequently met with in the woods, and any bright day the 
Beayer Lake visitor would be rewarded with a view of a 
fleer at some point on the lake’s margin. On the north shore 
of the lake and immediately across the ridge from our camp, 
the bank was high, whence you could see seven-eighths of the 
entire south shore Jine. One day we counted six deer at 
one time feeding here and there along that shore, and it was 
seldom, when the weather was favorable, that one or two 
Were not seen. 

‘The smaller lake lying westward of Beaver Lake, was even 
more frequented by them than the larger one, Along its 
west shore was quite a pasture ground of lily pads which was 
daily and nightly visited. One afternoon the Judge and I 
made the tour of this little lake, and we ran four in as many 
separate places out of the water, 

[To BE CONTINUED. | 


fish-spear, which is such a common fishing instrument 
among nearly all the nations of sub-arctic America, and even 
further south and north, and which I represent in the engrav- 
ing. 

The bent arms are made of very elastic wood or of the 
horn of mountain goat, musk-ox, or some such material, and 
armed at their free ends with re-entering, sharpened spikes 
of metal, the long pole to which the bent arms are attached 
haying a third spike, complete the triangle of barbs which 
receive the fish when speared from overhead, 8 in the 
figure being a salmon’s back as the harpoon is applied. I 
never noticed the Tabk-heesh or ‘Sticks,” with any nets, 
although they could easily have had them, so slight were my 
investigations in this respect, Among my trading material 
to pay for services, fish hooks were eagerly sought for by all 
of the Indians, until after White River was passed, and then 
the Yukon becomes too muddy for any kind of fishing de- 
pending on the fish’s eyesight, Lines they are not so eager 
to obtain, their common ones of sinew evidently subserying 
all their purposes. 

No good bows or arrows were seen among them, their only 
weapons being the stereotype Hudson Bay flintlock smooth- 
bore musket, the only kind of gun throwing a ball that this 
great trading company has ever issued since they have come 
into existence. They also sell a cheap variety of double- 
barreled percussion-cap shotgun which the natives buy, and 
loading them with ball find them superior to the first named 
instrument of destruction (to powder). Singular as it may 
appear, these natives, like the Esquimaux 1 found around 
the northern part of Hudson’s Bay, prefer the flintlock to 
fhe percussion-cap, probably for the reason that the latter 
depends on three articies of trade—eaps, powder and lead— 
while the former depends on but twoof these, and the 
chances of being short of ammunition, often many weeks’ 
journey away from these supplies, are thereby Jessened, 
These old muskets are tolerably good at forty to fifty yards, 
and are even reasonably dangerous at two and three times 
that distance, and in all their huntings they manage by that 
tact peculiar to savages to get within this distance of moose, 
black bear and caribou, and thereby to havea pretty fair 
subsistence the year round, with a summer diet of salmon 
and a few berries and roots. Some few of them had old 
horse (mustang) pistols, flintlock and smoothbore, that I 
could hardly imagine the use to which they could possibly 
put them unless it would be to present to their enemies on 
the verge of a war, orto give to the mother of their in- 
tended bride as one of the gifts usual to savages under such 
circumstances, 

This Camp 15 was on a soft boggy shore covered with 
reeds, where a tent could not be pitched and blankets 
could not be spread and with the ratt way oul in the lake 
through soft white mud. I think that the whole combina- 
tion, taken together and mixed with the inevitable mosquiloes 
and a few rain showers, made about as disagreeable a predica- 
ment as could be well imagined, and shows in a small way 
some of the usually unmentioned concomitants of explora- 


in front of islands, much more common than one 
would suppose, atid too common rot to be some 
dependency between them. These bars ‘were not 
prolongations from tlie point of the island, but sub- 
merged islands, just in front of them, and between the two 
probably a steamboat could have passed, Ustag irees as 
guides to tell on which side of the island the raft might pass 
was, a8 J haye said, not so easy as appears at first sight, for 
unless the tree directly over the splitting point of the current 
could be made out, all suesses were of but little value, The 
trees on the right and left flanks were always the most con- 
spicuous by being fewer in number than the dense growth of 
the center of the island, and persons were prone to use these 
in making their calculations, and one can readily reason that 
when they were near and the island wide, both outside trees 
would appear to diverge, and according as you took right or 
left you would surmise you were going to left or right of the 
island. As a person steod on the bow, or down-stream end 
of a raft, and looked out on still water flowing along, the 
imagination easily conceives that they can follow up from 
that position to anything ahead and see the direction of the 
current leading straight for it. Again, eddies and slack cur- 
rents are great nuisances, for though you may not get into 
the very heart of them, every time the sum total in a day’s 
drift that they can injure you is considerable, and by a little 
careful management in steering the raft they can nearly al- 
ways be avoided. Of course, you are often called upon to 
choose between them and other impediments, so that the mind 
is constantly alert as you drift on. 

In a stream with no eddies or slack currents, eyery- 
thing goes happy until along toward evening, when you 
want to go into camp and the river tearing along at four and 
five miles anhour. 1 defy any person, who has never been 
sinilarly situated, to have any adequate conception of how 
a ponderous vessel like our raft, made of large logs and 
loaded with four or five ‘tons, will bring up on any obstacle 
going at the rate already mentioned. If there are no eddies 
or slack currents into which it can be rowed or steered and 
its progress stopped or slackened, it is almost impossible to 
go into camp, for should the raft strike end on, a side log 
may be torn out and the raft converted into a lozenge by the 
shock. Under these circumstances we would bring the raft 
close intu the shore, and with the bow oar hold the head ont, 
while with the steering oar the stern end would be thrown 
against the bank, and this frictional brake would be kept up 
until the raft slowed down a little, when one or two, or even 
a half a dozen would jump ashore at 4 favorable spot, and 
with a rope complete the slackening until it was 4 gail that 
would warrant twisting the rope around 4 tree on the bank 
and a cross log on the raft, when from both places the rope 
would be slowly allowed to play out under strong and in- 
creasing friction, or ‘‘snubbing,” as logmen Gall it, and this 
would bring the craft 10 a stand where she would receive a 
series of snug Jashings if the current was swilt. 

Good camping places were not to be had in every stretch 
of the river, and worse than all, they had to #e picked out a 
long ways ahead in order to swing the rait into them from 
the middle of the broad river. Oftentimes a tine place would 
be seen just as we were abreast. of it, that had been concealed 
until then by some heavily wooded spur or point, and then 
of course it would be too late to reach it with our slow craft, 
and to go skimming along near shore was to compromise 2 
good deal of our rapid guit, Running from swift into slacker 
water could be readily dove by simply pointing the craft in 
the direction one wanted to go, but the reverse was not so 
easy, at least by the same easy means, I suppose the proper 
way to manage such an amphibious animal as a raft would 
be by side oars and rowing it end on, but as our two end 
oars—bow and stern—were the most convenient for work, 
and in going into camp at night or seeking the middle of the 
current in the morning we used them entirely, and rowed 
our bundle of logs broadside on 1o the position we desired, 
that is, if nothing prevented. We generally kept the bow 
end inclined to the shore we were trying the reach, and this, 
in passing from switt 1o slack, water helped us as alreatly 
stated, and in a three-mile current we could keep at ubout 
an angle of thirty degrees from the axis of the stream as we 
made shorewards, and thus roughly calculate the spot ov the 
beach where we would bring up. The greater or less swift- 
ness of the current. would vary this angle of course, and our 
calculations accordingly. 

Our bundle of effects on the two decks made quite high 
piles fore and aft, and when a high wind was blowing—and 
Alaska in the summer is the land of wind—we had a sailing 
power with us that we could not lower, and that olten 
swept us under “‘sweepers” or dragged us over bars or sent 
us down unwelcomed channels of slack water and in yiolent 
gales actually held us against the bank and successfully 
vetoed all possible movementsforward, During hot days on 
the wide, open river the sun would come down with a blister- 
ing effect that would make one feel as if he was floating on 
the Nile or Niger, anywhere in fact except under the shadows 
of the Arctic Circle. Roughly improyised tent flies helped 
us screen ourselves toa limited extent from this equatorial 
torment, but if built too high, the stern oarsman, who had 
charge of the “‘ship,” could see nothing ahead and it would 
have to be pulled down. 7 

“Cut-offs” through channels that led straight across were 
often most deceptive afiairs, the swifter currents always 
swinging around the great bends, and time was always made 
by keeping in them, Especially bad was a peculiarly se- 
ductive ‘‘cut-off” with a swift current as you entered it, on 
account of flowing over a bar, and then immediately deepen- 
ing the current would slow down to a rate that was provok- 
ing beyond measure as you saw piece after piece of drift 
wood go rushing by.in the main channel behind you, and in 
a little while could be recognized passing in front, having 
‘taken the longest. way around and the shortest way home,” 
especially if both ends of the ‘‘cut-off’’ were visible from its 
interior, 

Of submerged obstructions, snags were of little account, 
for the great ponderous craft would go wading through 
them. Sand, mud and gravel bars were by far the worst 
that we had to contend with, and I think I have given them 
in the order of their general meanness in raft navigation, 
Sand was particularly obstreperous, and when the gridiron 
of logs ran up on one ina swift current there was ‘‘fun 
ahead,” to use a Western expression of negalion. Sometimes 
the mere jumping overboard of all the crew would send the 
craft ahead a few yards, and in lucky instances clear the 
obstruction; but this was seldom, and those who made pre- 
parations for hard work were seldom disappointed. In a 
swift current the water would sweep out the sand around 
the logs until its buoyancy would prevent nate 2 any 
lower, and out of this rut the great bulky thing would have 
to be lifted before it would budge an inch in horizontal direc- 
tion, and when this was done we would often be cheered. 


tion. 

On the 29th of June we passed out of Lake Marsh and 
once more entered the river, On the lakes one man at the 
stern oar of the raft had been sufficient, but on the river an 
additional oarsman at the bow was needed, for at short turns 
and nearing sunken boulders or sand and grayel bars or steer- 
ing clear of eddies it Was often necessary to do some lively 
work in swinging tae ponderous craft around to avoid these 
obstacles, I believe I made the remark in a previous article 
that managing a raft on a lake, especially with « favorable 
wind (and you cannot manage it at all if you have nota 
favorable wind) was a tolerable simply affair, It was cer- 
tainly simplicity emphasized compared with managing it on 
a viver, although one would think the reverse, Hspecially 
was this so on a swilt river like the Yukon or any of its 
branches. Naturally a raft or any floating object will keep 
the center of the current of a stream if only left alone, after 
it is once put on that part, but the number of things that 
present themselves from time to time to drag it out of this 
channel seem marvelous. Old watermen and luntbermen 
know that when a river is rising it 1s very hard to keep the 
channel, and even the drift wood lines the shores of the 
stream, and they eagerly await the time when this com- 
mences flowing along the main current or at least is equally 
distributed over the water, for then they know that the water 
has started to subside, or is ata ‘stand still,” as they say. 

Again, a river with soft banks (and in going the whole 
length of the Yukon, oyer 2,000 miles, we saw all varieties 
of shore), the swift current, which one desires to keep in, 
using it for his motive power, only nears the shores at points 
or curves, where it digs out the ground into steep perpen- 
dicular banks, and here it is almost impossible to find a 
camping place, and this swift current has to be rowed out 
of to secure a camp at night, and has to be worked back 
into after breaking camp next morning. If the banks are 
wooded the trees that are constantly tumbling in off of these 
places that are being cut out, and yet hanging on by their 
roots, form a sort of chevaux de frise, that have received the 
backwoods cognomen of “sweepers,” and a man on the 
atmospheric side of a raft plunging through them wishes 
he was dead, or at least that he was a muskrat so that he 
could dive out. To the inexperienced man who has never 
had his hair combed by a whole timber district in a brief 
minute these remarks may scem absurd, but to the old vet- 
eran raftsman itwill awaken many a sigh of sympathy from 
his breast as he picks splinters three inches long out of it 
and digs the moss driftwood and leaves out of his eyes to 
look at his hat dancing on a limb a mile back, and takes an 
inventory of stock to see if that is all that is lost, 

Again, when an island is made out ahead, the varieties of 
guesses as to which side the raft will pass shows how hard it 
is to tell, and it would be a splendid question for a civil ser- 
vice reform examination. It takes a peculiarly practiced 
eye to follow the line of the eurrent of the stream from the 
raft’s position beyond any obstruction in sight a good dis- 
tance whead, and more times than one our hardest work was 
rewarded by stranding us on the yery bar or flat we were 
striving to avoid. The position of the sun, the clearness 
and swiftness of the water, the nature and strength of the 
wind blowing, however light it might be, and a dozen other 
abstruse functions determined whether a person could solve 
this apparently simple problem. If the upper point of the 
island that split the current around its two sides could be 
determined (and this was often as hard a problem ag the 
other at any great distanee) one could tell by projecting a 
tree directly beyond this point against the distant hills or 
mountains, and if it crept along them to the right, the raft 
might pass to the lett of the island, and surely would do so 
if the current was not deflected by some bar or shoal be- 
tween the raft and the island. such shoals and bars of 
gravel, sand and mu@ are very common obstructions 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT. 


BY LIBUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, U. & ARMY, 
Fifth Paper. 


T Marsh a few miserable ‘‘Stick’’ Indians put in an 
appearance, and not a single solitary curiosity could be 
obtained of them. A rough-looking pair of shell earings 
that a small boy had he instantly refused for the great finan- 
cial consideration of a jack-knife trom one of the party, who 
supposed them to be purely local in character. Another 
trinket was added to the jack-knife, and still refused, and 
additions kept on to the original offer, until just to see if 
there was any limit to their acquisitiveness, the last offer 
stood at a double-barreled shotgun with a thousand rounds 
of ammunition, a gold watch, two sacks of fourand a camp 
stove, and in refiisimg this the boy generously added the in- 
formation that its value was based on the fact that it had 
been received from the Chilkats, who had gotten it from 
the white traders, It had probably been made in Connecti- 
cut. A few scraggy, half-starved dogs nearly completed 
the outfit, the greater part of their composition being unmiti- 
gated belligerency, two of them fighting until they were so 
exhausted that they had tolean up against each other to rest. 
A dirty croup of assorted sizes of children finished out the 
picture of one of the most dejected races of people on the 
face of the earth, They visited their fishlines at the mouth 
of the incoming river at the head of Lake Marsh, and 
caught enough to keep body and soul together after a fashion. 
This manner of fishing of theirs is quite common in this 
part of the country, and at the mouth of a number of 
atreams, or where the main stream debouches into a lake, 
their long willow poles driven into the mud far enough to 
prevent washing away, are often seen sticking up, swinging 
backward and forward by the force of the current, and on 
closer examination they reveal a sinew line tied to them 
about or a@ little above the water line. They occasionally 
did us good service as buoys, indicating the mud flats which 
we could thereby avoid, but the number of fish that we ever 
saw taken off of them was not alarming, The greatest num- 
ber are usually secured by means of their double-pronged 


Jax, 81, 1884] 


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= 
8 ccing the noble craft sink down again to repeat the same 


process. The simplest way off of a sand bar was to find 
the nearest point to 4 deep channel and swing the raft end 
for end up stream, even against the most rapid current, 
until the channel was reached, or in the most aggravated 
eases the load would have to be taken off and placed on 
shore, and when the ‘‘boat’’ was free she was “snubbed 
into the first favorable place on the bank with respect to 
loading. ; 

Looking back, it seems almost miraculous thata raft could 
make a voyage of over 1,300 miles along a river, starting at 


the very head, where it was really narrow enough to stop | 


out of a straight course end on 


he yaft if it should swin 
age in the F Rapids), and covering nearly two 


(as it did in the Payer 


months of daily sticking on bars and shooting through rapids* 


and yet get through almost unscathed. When I started I 
had anticipated building two or three of those primitive craft 
before I could exchange to good and sufficient native or civ- 
ilized transportation. Mud bars were not near so bad, unless 
the material was of a cleyey consistency, when there would 
be added a: little bit of adhesiveness to the other impedi- 
ments. In general, it was possible to pry right through them 
with muscle and patience. The best of all were the gravel 
bars, and the larger and coarser the gravel the better, and 
when they were cemented into a firm bed by a binding of 
clay almost as solid as rock, and as little yielding tendency, 
we could ask for nothing better, and always went to work 
with cheerful prospects of a speedy release. The prominent 
benefit from a gravel bar in assisting one over is not wholly 
due to the material, but in the fact of the swift current, 
which is a great assistance. By simply lifting the raft this 
great power throws it forward, and by turning it broadside 
to the current and ‘‘biting” alternately at each end of the 
long “boat,” we passed over gravel bars on which I do not 
think the water was over eleven or twelve inches deep, 
although the raft drew nearly double that. 
[TO BH CONTINUED. | 


LIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET. 
BY J. WILLARD &s&CHULTZ, 
Tenth Paper—Folk-Lore. 


THE OLD MAN AND THE ROOK. 

Once the Old Man was crossin@ a large prairie, and becom- 
ing tired, he sat down ona rock to rest. After a time he 
arose to resume his journey, but before going he threw his 
robe over the rock saying, ‘‘Here, I give you my robe because 
you have let me reston you. Always keep it.” And he 
went away, 

Now he had not traveled on very far when it began to rain, 
and meeting a covote, he said to it; ‘‘Little brother, little 
brother, run back to that rock and gel. my robe, and we will 
get under it and, keep dry.” So the coyote ran to the rock, 
but returned without the robe. ‘Where is it?” the Old Man 
asked, ‘“‘Si-yah!” replicd the coyote, ‘‘the rock said you 
gaye him the robe and that he was going to keep it,” 

Then the Old Man was very angry, and he went back and 
jerked the robe off the rock saying, ‘‘I only wanted to bor- 
row the robe until this storm is over, but now that you have 
weted so mean about it I will keep it, you don’t need a robe 
anyhow, you bave been out in the rain and snow all your 
hfe, and it will not hurt you to always live so.” Saying 
which he and coyote went up in a coulee and got under the 
robe. — 

Ere long they heard a noise, and the Old Man said: 
“Litile brother, run up on the hill and see what is making 
that noise.” Soon the coyote came running back and said: 
“Run! run! the big rock is coming,” and they both ran 
away 1s fast as they could. The rock gained on them and 
the coyote, running into a badger hole, was run over and 
killed. The Old Man was very scared, and as he ran he 
threw off all his clothes, but the rock kept gaining on him 
all the time. Not far off he saw a band of buffalo bulls, 
and he cried out to them, saying: “Oh, my brothers, help 
me, help me; stop that rock.” And the bulls all ran at it 
and tried to stop it, but it crushed in all their heads. Deer 
and antelope also tried to stop the rock, but they shared the, 
same fate as the buffalo, and a number of rattlesnakes 
formed themselves into a lariat and tried to noose the rock, 
but those that formed the noose were ground to pieces. The 
rock was now very close to the Old Man, go close that now 
and then it would strike his heels, As he was about to give 
up he saw a flock of bull-bats circling over his head, and he 
said tothem: “Oh! my little brothers, help me; I am 
almost gone.” Then the bull-bats flew down against the 
rock and made their peculiar ery, and every time they struck 
it they chipped a piece off, and at last the chief bull-bat 
broke the rock in two. Then the Old Man, to pay them for 
saving his life, made very wide mouths on them and named 
them ‘‘PYs-t6'-Iks’’—fighters. 

Moral: When you make a present never take it back, 

THE OLD MAN AND THE ELK, - 

One evening the Old Man was walking along a ridge and 
he was very hungry. Not far off he saw a large band of elk, 
and he said to himself; ‘I will kill every one of those elk, 
and then I won’t be bungry.” So he went up to the elk and 
said, “Oh, my brothers! Iam lonesome because I have no 
one to follow me.” The elk said, “Go on, Old Man, We will 
follow you.” 

Ther the Old Man led them close to a high cut bank, and 
he ran up a little and got down and came under the bank 
where it wasstraight up and down, and he called out to the elk; 
“Come on, here lam; jump right down,” But the elk said, 
“It is so dark we can’t see to jump. Build a fire.” Then 
the Old Man built a fire, but still the elk were afraid to jump, 
“Don’t be afraid,” the Old Man said, ‘‘jump right down; it’s 
nice; you will laugh.” 

Then the elk jumped and were killed, all except one doe 

_elk, which stood on the bank yet. “I don’t hear any one 

5 laugh,” she said, and she was frightened and ran away, 

____ Then the Old Man skinned all the elk and cut the meat up 
to dry and hung the tongues up on a pole. When it was 
daylight he went off, and at night came back-yery hungry. 
All the meat was gone; the wolves had eaten it all up. He 
took down the tongues one by one, but they were all hollow; 
the mice had eaten all the meat out of them. So the Old 
Man had Hobie to eat that night. 

Moral: Never kill more meat then you need. 


THE OLD MAN MAKES SOME BAD WEAPONS. 
_ Once the Old Man was fording a river when the current 
_ carried him down stream and he lost his weapons. He was 


Lie 


hungry, so he took the first wood he could find and 
some arrows, @ bow, knife and spear. When he 
id fini ae ie ss up = ean Pretty soon 

saw cates ng roots, and he thought he would have 
ome fun, so he bi "Bohid a log and called out “‘No-tail ani- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


mal, what are you doing?” The bear looked up, but seeing 
no one kept on digging. y 

Then the Old Man called out again, ‘‘Short-tail ground- 
eater, what are you doing?’ ‘Then the bear rose up on his 
hind feet, and seeing the Old Man ran after him, The Old 
Man commenced shooting arrows at him, but the points only 
stuck in a little way, for the shafts were rotten and the bear 
pulled the points out as fast as they struck him, When the 
arrows were all gone he threw his spear, but that too, was 
rotten, and broke off. Then the Old Man grasped the bear 
by the hair and tried to stab him, but the knife handle also 
broke, for it was rotten. All his weapons were broken, so 
the Old Man turned and ran, and the bear pursued him, As 
he ran, the Old Man looked about for some weapon, but he 
could find none. Neither could he see any animal to help 
him. At last he saw a buffalo bull’s horn lying in the path. 
Picking it up, he placed it on his head and turning round, 
shook his head at the bear, and bellowed so loudly that the 
hear was scared and ran away. 

Moral: Always make your weapons of good wood. 

[vO BE CONTINUED, | 


THE COURT OF ARCTOMYS MONAX. 
A LEGEND OF THE HOCKHOCKING. 


Ae my boyhood days I listened to iabored and exhaustive 
exhortations upon the ground hog and how he influenced 
the weather for six weeks following the 21 day of Febru- 
ary; but it was not for many Seasons afterward that the 
sage and learned theories came back, like a flock of summer 
birds, bearing with them memory of the warmth still existing 
beyond the long, long portage of thirty years. 

Last winter Tread your request for some one to write of 
the ground hog. I felt impelled to write yon then, but re- 
alizing the responsibility resting upon the historian, and 
knowing how necessary it is that he should be unbiassed 
when called upon to decide which version of many and con- 
flicting stories touching past events shall be handed down to 
coming generatigns and preserved through time, my fears 
and diffidence overcame me and I refrained. 

It is, true that in what I send you now I may digress occa- 
sionally from the language of the narrator, but if [ do it 
will be like a bright feather stuck in the ebon plumage of 
the crow, distinctly a child of adoption that does not affect 
the identity of the parent. 

The ground hog is known to science as Arctomys monax, 
and passing the generic, possesses the following specific 
character: -‘Length to base of tail 14.50 inches, varying from 
13.00 inches to 15.50 inches; of tail vertebrae about 4.50 
inches; of tail to end of hairs about 6.75 inches. Color above, 
generally mixed fulvous, brownish-black and gray; below, 
yellowish-rufous, yarying to brownish-rufous. Top of head, 
upper surface of all the feet and the tail, usually black 
or brownish-black, varied slightly with pure gray or rusty 
gray, and even to nearly uniform intense black, The ears 
are large, rounded, thinly-haired, generally gray. Tail full, 
rounded and bushy.” 

The ground hog is strictly a herbivorous animal. It is 
especially fond of peas, clover, grain, leayes and buds. It 
burrows principally in banks and bluffs, along some stream, 
though often found in the open fields. It usually produces 
from four to six young in the early part of the summer, lt 
isnot gregarious and hibernates through the winter, with 
an occasioual exception, that I may hereafter mention, 

The habitat of A. monaw extends from the Carolinas north- 
ward to Hudson’s Bay and from the Atlantic to Iowa and 
Minnesota, and is generally known as the woodchuck. 

AImanacs in general have neglected to give due praise to 
the sage, but what they lack is more than made up in the 
loyalty of the oldest inhabitant. 

The ground hog, as known to the ‘‘Moss-backs” of the 
Hockhocking, agrees in the main with the description of the 
naturalist, and while some may feel sore at my makin g 
public one of the oldest. traditions of the valley, I here assert 
that I am not actuated by any motive of ill will in present- 
ing to the world these facts, for lama descendant of the 
oldest settler, and do not feel that it is my mission to bring 
discredit upon the sayings of a hundred years ago. Nor do 
I wish for any one to seek for personalities in the notes 
presented, for the garden has been weeded, and nothing will 
be entertained but the question touching their authenticity. 

Once, possibly before the cliffs along the river had quit 
growing, & young man came into the valley, and by his 
decorous and gentlemanly bearing soon won the confidence 
of the people, and was: quickly assigned a place in society. 
His accomplishments were many and varied. His expe- 
rience, as given before the deacons and elders, was lucid, and 
clearly defined the influence of a great moral director in the 
formation of his character. He was a power among the 
young people. He acknowledged one day that he wasa 
true sportsman, When afterward chided for shooting quail 
on the ground, deer out of season, and catching fingerlings 
for count, he defended his position by explaining that such 
divergences were allowable among sportsmen, when they 
were desirous of realizing just how many pangs and stings 
were apportioned the ‘‘pot-hunter.” Such a show of phil- 
osophy, 11 is needless to say, silenced idle tongues, though 
it is thought to this day that the humanity of the most ex- 
pert and discreet hands lends to them a weakness that drops 
into the experience of all sportsmen a something they would 
like to blot out. 

Among the less orthodox portion of the community this 
young man was a wonder, He loved a good story, and had 
apenchant for “moonshine whisky” that inspired them 
with confidence and left his character unblemished, He 
was 4 “jem up fiddler,” and through this accomplishment 
was able to win and marry Cindy Stone, the best looking 
girlin the valley, Smith—that was his name—lived to raise 
fourteen children and then expired. Peace to his ashes, 

One time, ata barbecue on the 2d of February, Smith 
remarked that they would have six weeks more of rough, 
stormy weather, ‘Ground hog seed his shadder?” asked 
the boy from whom I have descended rather indirect] y. 

“No, responded Sinith, “Arctomys monarhas decreed it in 
open court. The king’s will is law.” 

After the tempest of question had subsided, he explained 
that A. monax was the ground hog’s other name, and that 
his palace was accessible to men once in a hundred years, 
and that the next reeeption would be the following season, 

This news of course set things on end, and ag many as 
four hundred meetings were held before it was decided who 
should go as an ambassador from the tribe of ‘“‘Mogs-backs.” 
The choice fell on my father’s father’s father, he being a boy 
ten years old, and the son of the “‘boss chief.” It was 
thought that his posififon in society better qualified him-for 
the honor, such standing in society then, as now, rather giv- 
ing a man the best show, though I have since been humiliated 


a 


5 


and mortified by learning that my ancestor did not even make 
a good cobbler, when in after years he renounced barbarism 
and became civilized. However, I am glad to be numbered 
among the children of that barbaric sire, who has handed 
down to his progeny honors that inspired with pride even 
the fourth generation, 

Smith coached the young ambassador, and each day saw 
him better fitted to meet his ‘‘highness,” A, monaz, The 
tribal knowledge of royalty in those days was limited, but 
allowing this weakness, it was not an unplatonic gang, and 
the Jad was armed with an address that was expected to take 
the cake, being couched in words of elegant diction and re- 
plete with beautiful conception. He was also instructed to 
bear clover and red and black haws as offerings. Eyery- 
thing being in readiness, the ambassador went into his 
father’s tent for his blessing, and then started due east, ex- 
pecting to ‘‘pull up” somewhere about what is now known 
as New York State. His instructions were not clear on that 
point; the ways of transmitting news in those days were de- 
fective, and doubtless degencrated into what is now known 
as the ‘Associated Press.” 

Many mishaps befell the boy during his travels, but he 
never faltered once, which fact has ben accounted for in 
the family circle by the parting injunction of his father: 
“Get there, Eli!” 

Ii matters not what destiny ruled him, for we know that 
on the Ist of February the footsore pilgrim knocked at the 
door of a humble cot among the mountains and struck the 
old hermit for a bed. After doing the weather and kindred 
subjects, the old lad drew a jug from some hidden recess 
and pronounced it crab-apple cider. 'Tl.is was fine on the 
old man’s part, for the revenue officers were as strict then 
as they are now, and the productiim of fine old liquor in 
such an out of the way place might at some time have been 
the signal for a gentleman to rise to a point of order. The 
old*man napped off for a moment, and finally came up 
standing: ‘‘Plcasure is transitory when you do not include 
mankind. !)on’t lie, even in telling a fish story. Don’t steal 
even a watermelon, Meet all men as gentlemen and treat 
them as they deserve, even if you make a mistake. <A kind 
word costs less than a bitter one; the first will warm, 
the latter chill a sorrow-laden heart. Don’t preach charity, 
but practice it. At daybreak arise and trayel to the east. 
Do not be surprised at what you may sce, but learn all you 
can, Your coming will awake a king and his subjects from 
their winter sleep.” 

The next morning the pilgrim took up his grip-sack and 
tramped, He passed up a dark hollow and was soon lost 
among the shadows. It was a ghostly place to explore. 
His footsteps woke up old hoary-headed echoes that had 
slumbered for a hundred years. It sounded as though an 
army was marching up the defile. Fortunately, the diplo- 
matic corps was “sandy,” snd marched on like a little man. 
By and by he came to w place where the rocks rose in a 
sheer precipice hundreds of feet high. For the first time 
he weakened, but soon rallied, when he noticed an escuteh- 
con carved in the cliff and below 1t a huge knocker, which 
he at once sounded. The effect was magical. The time 
bull went down at six, the signal station displayed a storm 
flag, and down deep in the bowels of the earth he heard the 
hoarse baying of the dogs of war. Then, for the first time, 
he loosened his hunting knife and unslung his tomahawk, 
resolving to die as it best becomes the brave. 

Just then two vast doors swung open, and sweeping up 
from measureless caverns, came soft winds laden with the 
perfumes of asummer clime. A few minutes later a daz- 
Zling light illumed a transparency and he saw this legend 
in characters of fire: 


Po mma eww meee make emma wines erst beter tb ensrussensens 


Proceeding cautiously, he soon found himself in a large ~ 
and spacious room, well filled with the satellites of Winter 
and Spring. The stern old King in arnior of white and with 
amace of ice, glowered on him as he passed, while the gra- 
cious Queen and her train made him their captive and 
bound him with garlands of flowers. While contemplating 
the wonders around him, an unseen hand drew back the 
great curtain of mist that hung like a bank of snow to the 
north, and he marched with his fair captors into a grand 
audience hall, possibly a third larger than the Coliseum at 
Rome. To the right, to the left, and in fact, all around him, 
was a vast multitude of ground hogs. It was asif there had 
been a great storm, where it rained nothing but ground 
hogs. High up among the shadows of the vaulted roof, he 
heard the birds of passage singing snatches of songs. The 
brooks were freed from their chains of ice and the music of 
their babblement welled up out of the distance. 

On a throne of gold, patterned atter a bunch of clover 
leaves, slumbered the King. Back of him, on canvas, was a 
trout stream wandering through a clover field, The stream 
was full of speckled beauties, and bees foraged along the 
blossoming banks. It was a work of art, by an old master. 
The silver-haired King of Storms was called to the chair, but 
his wand failed to awaken the congregation, so Spring 
touched the sleepers and the great walls trembled at the 
tumultuous yawn. 

Music, soft and sweet, floated down from hidden galleries, 
Deeper and stronger grew the measures, and when the fluted 
columns lent their thunders to the mighty symphony the 
ambassador beheld a kingdom*of grouad hogs tripping the 
light fantastic toe. 

When his Excellency had finished a very difficult Trish 
jig, it wasthen that the offerings of the ‘‘Moss-back” were 
presented. Tears welled up into the eyes of the King as he 
looked upon the divine fruit. He called the young man to 
aseat on the throne, and after accepting his credentials as 
an ambassador, expinined. to him that the ceremonies yet to 
follow originated when Time was a yearling. 

All sounds of the festivities had died away, On the right 
was the Queen and on the lett the King. On the throne the 
“‘moss-back” and his Majesty. Ata signal, a giant carried 
in a sun dial, about as large as the turntables now used 
about railroad shops. This he placed in the center of the 
hall and taking a hundred-pound cannon ball from his hip 
pocket stood facing the south. ‘At 12 o’clock,’’ said ‘the 
King, “‘he will throw that ball through the- wall, and if the 
sunlight marks the hour, storms will rule for six weeks. If 
not, spring will take charge.” 

The bruised air shrieked along the track of the ball as it 
pierced the south wall and was lost in the blue deep beyond. 
Four minutes and a quarter went by, and lo, an arrow of 
‘sunlight dropped lightly upon the sun dial at high twelve. 

My countrymen, what an hour was that. 

In the twinkle of an eye eyery ground hog disappeared, 
Spring fled weeping from the hall, and Winter's buglers 


: : ~ ee lk 


6 FOREST AND STREAM. ; Jax, Bi, 1884, 


sounded call after call along the corridors. The gusty clouds 
turned their mighty bellows upon the doomed building. 
Giant hands tore away section after section of the rocf, 
From the lofty walls heaven’s archery trained its enginery 
and filled the air with arrows of snow. Mocking voices cat- 
called among the shadows, while the Vulcan of Winter 
forged chains to shackle the universe. 

The ambassador of the ‘“Moss-backs” felt strange and out of 
place among such tumultuous scenes. <A great longing 
sprung up in his heart to be at home, but he compromised by 
erawling into a hole. 

At 6 o'clock atrain as of giant powder knocked the 
palace into a cocked hat. A few minutes later the trium- 
phal car of the Storm-king, drawn by a lumbering old 
blast, rolled noisily away toward the north; and then 
silence reigned. 

When one week later the traveler stood in the council 
chamber of his people and related his experience, an aged 
chief arose and said: “Truth ismighty. Before it the fal- 
lavies of ages crumble away. It pains me to know that I 
was 80 Many years in darkuess. I repent, and feel that if 
a few more cannon balls could be thrown, and a few more 
arrows of sunlight illume the sun dial of life, we would 
have a fuller knowledge of our own weaknesses, and be better 
able to guide our fellows away from the shoals that have 
canght the wreckage of many a soul, that lied well but not 
wisely.” 

The hero was feasted on boiled dog. 

Here tradition ends, 

Some people aro slow to believe this story, but among the 
‘Moss-backs” it is never questioned. 

A fitting monument has been erected in memory of Smith, 
Without him the world might have remained in darkness 
upon the great subject Parson O’GaTH. 

Bairp Tron Works, Gore, Ohio, be 


Blatuyal History. 


THE RAMBLE OF A NATURALIST. 
BY JUDGE JOHN G, HENDERSON, 


; my hoyhood days, long before I ever heard of Audubon, 
Wilson, Nuttall, or the Prince of Musignano, it was my 
delight to go alone into the deep woods with my shotgun, 
note-hook and pencil, to study the habits and character of 
birds. And now, as often as spring returns, bringing with 
it the soug of the robin, bluebird and the whip-poor-will, the 
old desire for the woods.and the birds comes over me again. 
As oiten as the duties of my profession will allow, I gratify 
that desire; and although these ornithological rambles are 
not so frequent as they once were, yet even now the ery of 
the cathird, or the song of the brown thrush causes the 
blood to bound again through my veins, just as it did long 
years ago, when a barefoot hoy I first saw the blue eggs of the 
one inthe nest hidden in the briar patch, or counted the 
speckled eggs of the other as I peered into its curious nest 
hidden under the end of a rail on the corner of the old worm 
fenee, Never shall I forget some of the impressions made 
upon my mind during these juvenile rambles. For example, 
I remember shooting the yellow-billed cuckoo (Coceyzus 
americanus.) To me it was then entirely a new bird, and I 
now remember distinctly how curiously I examined it; 
counting the feathers of the tail, noting the terminal spot 
upon each, the long pointed wings, and long curved bill, 
and the thought then came to my mind, ‘‘What an interest- 
ing book it would make, if some one would write a descrip- 
tion of all the birds, and tell all about their food, their nest- 
ing and their habits.” Poor, ignorant boy! What a treat 
would it have been had some friend placed in my hand 
Wilson’s ‘‘American Ornithology,” or Audubon’s *“‘Orni- 
thological Biography.” — 

But I have forgotten the object I had in view—that of 
taking you from the busy city, with its milesof sidewalk 
and monotonous stone or brick buildings, with me to the 
woods and the green fields. Billy is saddled and ready, 
while Pete, the old pointer dog, and Birdie, the little cocker 

- spaniel, are both barking impatiently, so let us be off. 

What is that bird with the long tail, the brownish pack 
and light yellow abdomen in the old elm at the end of the 
lane? Listen to his harsh note, and see, there is his mate 
with something in her mouth. She is making a nest near 
here. ~ Let us look for it, forthey are hardto find. We need 
not look among the terminal bunches of leaves for a hang 
nest like that of the origle, nor on the branches for a nest 
like that of the robin, or wood thrush, for the great crested 
flycatcher, builds its nest ‘in hollows in trees, stumps, or 
limbs.” Its scientific name is Myiarchus crinitus. The 
eggs, four, five or six in number, are desposited on a bed 
composed of loose hay, feathers, hair of small quadrupeds, 
or the exuviee of snakes. ‘‘Their ground color is a light 
buff, rather than cream color, ‘over which are waving lines, 
marblings, markings, and dots of a brilliant purple, and 
others of a more obscure shading.” (Baird, Brewer & Ridg- 
way’s North American Birds, Vol. II., p. 886,) “This fiy- 
catcher is tyrannical in a degree surpassing the kingbird it- 
self,” says Audubon, and he adds that they have frequent 
encounters among themselves in which they exbibit unre- 
lenting fierceness and cruelty, sometimes even plucking # 
conquered rival. But see the female has gone into that hole 
on the underside of that big limb, fuil sixty feet from the 
ground, undperhaps some other day we may come with 
ropes and other centrivances to assist us in mounting to it, 
where we may obtain for our collection a set of their beau- 
tiful eggs; but now we will go on our journey. 

An! there is a nest in the old thorn tree, about six feet 
from the ground. The reins are thrown over a stake and 
“Billy, stand there while we reconnoitre.” That is the 
slender apology which the turtle dove calls her nest, a few 
eoarse sticks laid together on the thorns in the fork, for a 
foundation, and lined with grasses. The cavity is not as 
deep as a saucer, and yet there is something there for that 
little bird-mother to love, and of which she is proud; for 
sec, my hand is within a foot of her and yet she only eyes 
me curiously. Listen! we can almost hear her heart beat. 
Look at her beautiful eyes, and the lovely outline of form, 
her soft, blended plumage; but she is off, and pretending to 
be wounded, she goes fluttering through the bushes. That 
is what was once called instmct, but we have no time now 
to discuss the question whether it is instinct or intelligence, 
and, ‘‘Mother birdie, you cannot fool us now,”: Well do I 


now; so, leaving our frightened bird to carry on her per- | is an interesting fact, and the only evidence we now lave 
formance, as the lawyers say, ex parte, we will peep into her | that these birds are reared by birds of superior size. (Baird, 
nest. One little red, downy dove and another just ready to | Brewer & Ridgway’s North Amer. Birds, Vol. TI., p. 155). 
break the shell! ‘‘Come back little birdie, we won’t rob you | Our haste in the removal of this nest preyented the oppor- 
of your treasures.” tunity for making valuable observations upon this point, 
Listen! No such music as that ever fell on mortal ear, ex- | but it is too late now, and as we sit down on the sloping: bank 
cept in the deep tangled woods, under the shade of the great | to number the nest and eggs, we fancied we could see the 
elms where sunlight seldom goes. That is the song of the | little female cowbird, with palpitating heart, hurriedly de- 
wood thrush (Zurdus mustelinus); but, lest you think me | positing her egg in the stranger nest, and the consternation 
unduly enthusiastic over the song of a bird, let us recall Au- | of the thrushes when they found it. 
dubon’s description of these notes.. “Seldom,” he says, | Careful observers have noted these occurrences and de- 
“have J listened to the notes of this thrush, without feeling | scribed them in felicitous language, Audubon says: ‘*When 
all that tranguillity of mind to which the secluded situation in | the female is about to deposit her eggs she is observed to 
which it delights, is so favorable. The thickest and darkegg | leave her companions and perch upon a tree or fence, as- 
woods always appear to please it best, The borders of | suming an appearance of uneasiness. Her object is to ob- 
murmuring streamlets, overshadowed by the dense foliage of | Serve other birds while engaved in constructing their nests. 
the lofty trees growing ou the gentle declivities, amid which | Should she not from this position discover a nest, she moves 
the sunbeams seldom penetrate, are its fayoriteresorts. There | off and flies from tree to tree, until at length, having found 
it is, kind reader, that the musical powers of this hermit of | a suitable repository for her egg, she waits her opportunity, 
the woods must be heard to be fully appreciated and enjoyed. | drops it, flies off, and returns in exultation to her com- 
The song of the wood thrush, although composed of but few | panions,”” (Ornith. Biog., Vol, J., pp. 495-496). 
notes, is so powerful, distinct, clear and mellow, that it is| Dr. Elliott Cones describes the same performance im the 
impossible for any person to hear it without being struck | following quaint and felicitous language; ‘It is interesting 
by the effect which it produces upon the mind. I do not | to observe the female cowhbird ready to lay. She becomes 
know to what instrumental sounds I can compare these | disquieted; she betrays unwonted excitement, and ceases 
notes, for I really know none so melodious and harmonical. | her busy search for food with her companions. At length 
They gradually rise in strength and then fall in gentle ca-| she separates from the flock, and sallies forth to reconnoitre, 
dences, becoming so low as to be scarcely audible; like the anxiously indeed, for her case is urgent, and she has no 
emotions of the lover, who at one moment exultsinthe hope | home. How obtrusive is the sad analogy! She flies to some 
of possessing the object of his affections and the next pauses | thicket or hedgerow, or other common resort of birds, where 
in suspense, doubtful of the result of all his efforts to please.” | Something teaches her—perhaps experience—nests will he 
Such is the American Backwoodsman’s glowing description | found. Stealthily and in perfect silence she flits along, peer- 
of the song of the bird whose notes are now falling upon | ing furtively, alternately elated or dejected, into the depths 
our ear, Doubtless he is singing to cheer the heart of his | of the foliage. She espies a nest, but the owner’s head peeps 
beloved, who is. patiently sitting upon her nest somewhere | over the brim; and she must pass on. Now, however, comes 
near us. We know it is astride of a low limb, perhaps in | her chance; there is the very nest she wishes, and no one at 
the dogwood just beyond the brook, No, it is not there. | home. She disappears for afew minutes, and it is almost 
Let us look in the tangled thicket away to the right, The | another bird that comes out of the bush. Her business 
brush is thick and apparently impenetrable, but by stooping | done, and trouble over, she chuckles her self-gratulations, 
we can get through, and when once in the middie we can | rustles her plumage to adjust it trimly, and flies back to her 
easily see a nest if there is one there. Yes, there 1s a nest in | associates. They know what has happened, hut are discreet 
the top of that low bush, supported partly by the bush and | enough to say nothing—charity is often no less wise than 
partly by the blackberry briars, but it is not that of the wood | kind.” (Birds of the Northwest, p. 185.) 
thrush, but of his cousin, the catbird (Mimus carolinensis), | Audubon says: ‘‘When the temale returos and finds in 
The scared mother has just left it and plunged through the | her nest an ege which she immediately perceives to be dif- 
thicket. Listen, thereis her complaining note. The eggs | ferent from her own, she Jeayes the nest and percheson a — 
are warm and fresh, and henceforth evgs and nest will | branch near it, returns and retires several times im succes- : 
occupy a place in our cabinet. As we deposit the eggs in | sion, flies off, calling loudly for her mate, who soon makes — 
our basket we think of the similarity of color in the eggs of | his appearance, manifesting great anxiety ab the distress of — 
this species and those of the robin (Turdus mégratorius), the his spouse, They visit the nest together, retire from if, and 
wood thrush and other members of the same family, except | continue chattering for a considerable time. Nevertheless, 
the brown thrush, and that this similarity extends even to | the obnoxious egg retains its position, the bird continues to 
those of the bluebird (Sialia),* deposit its eggs, and incubation takes place as usual.” 
Carefully depositing the eggs of our catbird in the basket | (Ornith. Biog., Vol. I, p. 497) } 
we are off again, wishing Mrs. Catbird better luck next | But leaving our wood thrush to console herself in her af- 
time. Round and round we tramp, with both eyes wide fliction over the loss of her eves and nest, with the fact that 
open, but no nest of the wood thrush can we tind. the hated cowbird egg is gone too, let us passon, Nowhold | 
So we mount Billy again and ride another mile, then tie | ou to my hand while we cross the slender log over the — 
and into the woods again. Birdie is giving tongue, as the | creek, and we will follow up the ravine iu the wheatfeld, 
sportsmen say, beyond the creck, but he is only after a gray | 1t18 skirted with bushes—just the place for birds’ nests. Out _ 
rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus), Seel there it goes skulking | from under that clump of bushes Pete scares a yellow-hilled 
through the grass and weeds, crouched down almost to, the | Cuckoo (Coceyeus amemcanus), but no nest there, Further ; 
pround. Old Pete looks at it as it passes, but too well | 0m 1n a little brush, on the margin of the ravine, we find the © 
trained to ‘‘chase fur” he only looks at us and wags his tail, | nest of a little sparrow, probably the black-throated bunting | 
But a little gray bird arrests our attention as he sits upon | (Zuspiza americana), but as it contaims but a single egg we 
the end of that old snag jutting out over the creek. That is | !eave it. Its unusual position—about five. feet from the | 
the wood pewee (Contopus virens), busy getting his break- ground—causes us to hesitate as to the species. There, in 
fast. See him turn his head from side to side as he watches | that clump of roses, is a nest of the brown thrush (Harpor- 
for insects. Look at him through this field glass. See the | Zynchus rufus), with a single half-grown young one in it, and | 
expression of his eye, his erected crest. See him launch | beyond, in the forks of a small elm, about eight fect from | 
into the air, seize his prey, always returning to the same | the ground, we find the nest of the bluejay (Cyanwrus erista- 
spot. He is small and not brilliantly colored, but he is a | #4), containing three eggs, all of which are numbered to cor- 
curious bird. His nest may be within twenty feet of us, on | tespond with the entries in our ‘‘Field Book,” and we seek 
the jutting limb of that old oak, and his beloved little part- | for other “spoils,” but we know hy experience that itis use- 
ner eyeing us curiously; but we will have a good time find- less to expect to find other nests very near that of the blue- 
ing it. Of the nest of this bird, Audubon says: ‘‘Were it | JY, because birds are careful to shun such a robber. 
not thal the bird generally discloses its situation, it would Trudging on up the ravine, Pete comes toa point on & 
pe difficult to discover it, for it is shallow, well saddled to | turtle dove, she flushes, feigns to be wounded, and her nest 
the branch, and connected with it by an extension of the |} found about three feet trom the ground in the farks of a) 
lichens forming its outer coat in such a manner as to induce | little elm, on the bank of the Ray Tt contains two fresh | 
a person seeing it to suppose it merely a swelling of the | ess*, and, as the nest ae Leas ly good one forthe dove, 
branch.” ~[Ornith. Biog., Vol. IL, p. 95]. we number it among the ornitho ogical specimens of our 
So giving up the search without an eifort, let us ramble cabinet, and, while making the entries, we see a female 
on. Yonder isthe cardiual grosbeak. Somewhere near us black-throated bunting (Huspiza americana) slip, off her | 
is his nest, for his song, that we heard but a moment ago, is | Hest and steal away amid the briers. The nest, within six 
hushed, and he now only utters a short alarm note at inter- | feet of that of the dove, is about a foot from the ground, 
vals as he watches us, Now, while crawling on our hands | 2eatly made, lined with slender grasses, and supported by 
and knees in the brush on the hillside near the creek, directly | beiug built against 2 blackberry bush, and held in place by’ 
overhead we spy a nest. It is about eight feet from the weeds or grasses. All the nests of this species which we 
ound astride of a small elm that is bent over at the top, | have ever found have heen up off the ground, although the 
See the bird is on. We can only see her head, the underside books say that the usual nesting place is on the round. It 
of her bill and throat; but we know by the specks on the | Contains three pale blue eggs, about the size and shape of 
latter that she is the wood thrush; but she is off and away | those of the bluebird (S. stalis), and, as these nests are hard 
through the thick brush, before we haye time to get a good | t find, of ee “ake a. A Adit a ona pst pate 
look ather, The nest is too high for us to look into, the tree | Ya7ds, in a little thorn, about-fifteen inches from the ground, 
: Reati if we find a beautiful nest of the fiéld sparrow (Soizella pusilla), 
too slender to climb, so we carefully remove it, and what do oe ; 
wetind? Three eggs of the wood thrush and one of the cow- | COptInINE four eggs, about the sizeand shape of those of 
pird. This is the fourth time this spring that we haye found | the chipping Spare ang oe ee erat sh ee 
nests containing the egg of the cowbird, viz.: one in the These are white, with Ha pe et ceatedt aa Ae SES 
nest of the robin, one in the nest of the field sparrow (Spizella while those of the chippy ate pale Path with similar dots. 
pusilla), swith two eggs of the rightful owner; Gnesi the edi a to take the bird, we leave the nest and eggs for 
nest of the wood thrush, with three eggs of the owner, an Ale : 4 + 
three in the nest of the cardinal grosbeak (?) with three eggs |__ Returning down ue ger ea gah coeur os find , the 
of the latter, and the present instanue. Tee aca ae ‘ ee Fe a dicta inensia) in 8 
The three cowbird eggs were brought to me by a little pe Scent Ce: 
boy, who said he found the six eggs in one nest. The nest Ce the pteaiels ay an beck = pid) aati: 
' i n ec ; ; ; igbsr Boy: 
ie: shady) destteycdi yea lhadaiy ‘neans Of ee aevne ow neve Heoulon chanting Ban aba Mat phind: eilege threat 
rightful owner, except by the eggs, which I believe to be Geo tl =» triohive ae P which, bi-tiehs on ae babe : 
hose of the cardinal grosbeak. Had we known that the | (@eléypis drchas), al of whieh, by mer actions, pro 
i . have nests in the vicinity, but none of which are we able to) 
nest now before us contained an egg of the vagabond cow- find. All t 4 that vet Have? had tha 
bird, we would not haye taken it down, but allowed the | 7°"; cant Whi ee hae Rea ag i paneer 4 “The books 
wood thrush to incubate it, and by observation have deter- | 25°" 1°" eS aot ears + 5 


: . petty all tell us where to look for them, in old brier patches, on 
mined whether birds as large as this thrush rear the young the ground, and, judging from the number of “a ae of thi 
species seen in a day’s tramp, they must be plenty in my 
locality, yet, as above stated, 1 haye never tound a nest, 
By the way, all three of these birds are the victims of tk 
cowbird’s laziness. Audubon told Brewer a curious story) 
of how the cowbird got its egg into the nest of the golden) 
crowned thrush. This nest, built on the greund and so con 


structed as seemingly to preclude the possibility of the coy 


cowbird, 

These eggs were all fresh, but the mother bird was care- 
fully sitting onthem, just as if the whole four were her own, 
Mr. Ord mentions two instances in which the wood thrush 
hitched the egg of the cowbird, and Mr, J. A. Allen saw in 
Western Iowa a female brewn thrush (Harperlynchus rufus) 
feeding a nearly full grown cowbird. Dr. Brewer says this 
cas . f birds depositing its eggs in it, but Dr. Brewer says that A 

* Aucubon mentions many points of resemblance between the dubon told him that it was the custom of the cowbird to ro 1 
i ‘bluebi hich might be ad Of reast of f A “ 
Heiter ecs Se alae tng danilarity in ine pre ee Pe Ath her egg along on the ground and thrust it into the nest wit 
tt Dorin ns oom or De tes of ene Ope ee slau datos 20 now otuamdenere rer babe 
nceive it proper to assign the bluebird a place SEAN LOS) Sees So Lae aie ret hese ioi 
Sy ee eecanaOnnithy Bivg., Vol IL,p, 86. Place | os the bald, grassy is iat: Iocl he amas HR 
7 = 


remember, when 2 barefoot boy, I set down my basket of 
seed corn and gave chase to what I supposed was a wounded 
meadow lark (Sturnella magna); but such tricks won’t win 


a 4 
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rthere. Goming to a heavy undergrowth on the bank of 
Sey st be aha miuete it enters the lowlands, again 
illy is tied to the fence, and we plungeinto the almost impene- 
‘brush. Just to the left, beyond that big log, is the 
ject of our search. Aout twelve feet from the ground, in 
that slender box-elder, we see a nest, looking forall the 
world like ai overgrown nest of the turtle dove, and aboye 
_ it we see the eye and the long bill of the mother bird. It is 
‘but a moment's work to mount the tree, and, as we do so, 
the flapping wings and long, dangling legs of the bird as she 
leaves show her to be the green heron (Ardea virescens). 
This we knew before, for already we have taken six eggs 
from this nest, four on the 7th day of May, two more on 
May 25, and to-day, June 4, we find three more, which we 
¢arefully number and place in our basket, for in this locality 
the nests of the green heron are not found every day, This 
makes nine eggs added to our collection from this one nest. 
They arc of « heautiful pea-green color, about the same 
shape at either end, and are an inch and three-eizhths in 
and one and one-eighth in breadth, The nest we 
earefully leave, expecting to get a dozen more eggs from it 
at least, and then add both nest and bird to our collection; 
but counting eggs before they are laid is the next thing to 

counting chickens before they are hatched. 

Again the notes of the wood thrush greet our ears, and 
again we search for the nest, and in doing so find two nests 
of the cardinal grosbeak in alder bushes, They are just 
tompleted, apparently, and their location is carefully noted 
in our field buok, to be looked after in the future. 

That Jong-tailed bird that just flitted by us is another 
yellow-billed cuckoo. Wilson says that the nest of this 
bird is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an 
upple tree; sometimes in a solitary thorn crab, or cedar, in 
some retired part of the woods. The eggs are greenish blue, 
The only nest of this bird 1 ever found was in the top of a 

. Jow true overspread with a grape vine, and as many of these 
4re near us forthwith we examine them hoping to find a nest 
of this species. See, there is something in the top of this 
one, We shake the vine that scrambles over the tree, and 
out bounds a fox squirrel (S$. magnicandatus). Striking flat on 

' the ground, he bounds away, with Birdie at his heels, Pete 
refusing to ‘‘chase fur.” 

But now itis near night, and we haye one other locality to 

Visit. In the lowlands beyond the sandridge the redwing 
blackbirds (Ageleus phaniecus) are, or ought to be, nesting. 
Our faithful Billy scon carries us there, aad the first sound 
that greets us is the con-eur-ree-e-c of the redwing, as he rises 
and falls with the wind on a swaying reed in the marsh. In 
a tew minutes Billy carries us to the middle of the swamp, 
for the mud is not deep, and all about us are the nests 
attached by their sides to the weeds and grasses, and in them 
are the beautiful marbled eggs of this species. We take the 
first, containing four as pretty eggs as ever gladdened the 
eye of the odlogist, and then another, and another, until our 
urms are full. Riding ashore we deposit our treasures, and 

Wading in, we collect more, until want of carrying space 
cries ‘‘hold, enough.” 

-And now with our collecting basket packed with eggs, 
and another great basket full of nests, we start for home, 

_ fully satisfied with our day’s ‘work, and only regretting that 
we did not take our breech-loader with us, in which case 
some of the feathered Leauties that complained so bitterly of 
our robbery would add their beauty to our case of birds, As 
we ride slowly home, thinking of loved ones, our heart is glad- 
dened by the clear ringing ‘‘Bob White” of the quail from 
the neighboring wheatfields, and we remember that last 
summer, while attending the meeting of the American As- 
sociation at Cincinnati, amid the noise of the city, we were 
suddenly greeted with the same ‘Bob White” inone of the 
busiest streets, when looking overhead we saw our familiar 
bird ina cage at a nesro woman’s window. But we are 
home again. Billy is ted, we have disposed of a fine spring 
chicken, our ornithological treasures are spread out on the 
table in my study. To-night will bring us ‘‘balmy sleep,” 

_ and to-morrow we will go to our briefs and law points again, 
just as if we never inhaled the country air, laden with the 
perfume of clover blossoms, just as if our hearts had never 
been gladdened by the coo-cvo of the rain crow or the song 
of the wood thrush, 


FOOD FOR THE BIRDS. 


T is the ‘‘off season.” Very off. Out of season for man, 
beast or bird. It is an exceptional season. Sitting 
here, in my. little back-woods den, I see the snow come 
down, hour after hour, until past midnight. Then comes 
a dash of rain. It lasts half an hour. Next, a light, feathery 
snow, and a sudden drop that sends the thermometer to 10° 
below zero. Then seven successive mornings in which the 
mercury ranges from 4° to 11° below, and another snow- 
storm, ended by a sudden rain of two hours, topped off with 
alight snow. Two heavy falls of snow, each with a crust, 
and a light tracking snow on top. 

It isnot a bad winter for game. There is no ice-glaze on 
the trees to starve the grouse. No hound can run on this 
double crust, but hares can. The fox laughs at the hound: 
also the rabbit and hare. Itis a rough season for beasts 
-and birds of prey. 

A horned owl, the Canada owl, came into my barn last 
night and collared my last game hen. I heard the row, and 

jumped out mito two feet of snow in my stockings. As he 
was heavily sailing off with his prey I took a snap shot and 

_he dropped the hen, but went off to the dense hemlocks to 
the eastward all the same. 
in the hen, we are afrard he will not come back. 

A family of muskrats come into my orchard nightly on 

_ the chances of rotten apples. I do better by them. I have 
_ bushels of apples in the cellar that are slowly decaying, I 
take these out. and empty them where rabbits and muskrats 
can easily and safely reach them. It amuses Mrs. N. and 
me to sit by the window and see them work, carrying off 
the worthless apples in the dim moonlight. Then we have 
' chickadees, chickarees, bluejays and woodpeckers. We 
feed them faithfully, even the little blue-grey nuthatch. We 
hang liver, pluck, kidneys and suet in the trees, and we 
couple up ears of corn with twine and tossthem into the 
tops of apple trees for the bmejays and chickarees. We are 
so far and a trifle lonely. A little amuses us. Nessmux. 


WELLSBORO, Pa. 


An Axsivo TEAL.—I saw an albino duck to-day—a 

green-winged teal. It was caught ina net with others and 

preserved alive. On Christmas Day it was sent as a present 

to the market-man, and is now confined in a cage—as tame 

d fearless as any domestic duck. It is not pure white, 

but a ji ht ashen gray, save a dark spot on each wing.— 
W.N. B, Denver, Col., Dec. 27, 1808), 


As we courted seven shotholes: 


tor 
TOREST AND STREAM. 


CALIFORNIA QUAIL IN CONFINEMENT. 


(pak a year ago there was presented to a lady here, a 
f pair of California quail. By exercising a great deal 
of care, and paying the birds daily attention, she has kept 
them in perfect condition and pinmage, 


They originally came from New Mexico, being brought j 


here by a gentleman on his homeward journey. Their 
traveling companions was a pairof mocking birds, who died 
shortly after their arrival, but the quail, seemingly liking 
the change in climate, flourished. : 
Their present home is avery large cage. Hach morning 
the bottom is covered with fresh earth, in which the birds 
delight to bathe and wallow, much after the fashion of a 
chicken, ; 
At first they were very wild, all attempts to quiet their 
fears proving ineffectual, but as time went by, they gradu- 
ally lost their shyness, till now they areas gentle as they 
were wild at first. They are perfectly happy and contented, 
enjoying each other’s society as much as they would in their 
natural haunts, 
Their diet consists solely of wheat, with greens given every 
now and then, as a relish, : ' 
One peculiar feature regarding these birds is, that during 
their captivity they have never been seen to bathein water, 
although the sand bath is a daily performance. They have 
made no effort to breed, Nwmo (of Texas), 
FRANKLIN, Jan. 26, 1884. 


Nov a Brar.—A Berwick, Pa,, correspondent informs us 
that the telegraphic report (quoted in Mr. Litchfield’s article 
two weeks ago), stating that a man had been killed by a bear 
near Retreat Station, Pa,, was Incorrect. The tracks were 
made by the bare feet of the man, and were at. first supposed 
to have been the traces of a bear, This only illustrates the 
unreliability of the average newspaper bear stories, The 
rest of Mr. Litchfield’s paper, howeyer, commends itself as 
a, plain, unvarnished tale of actual experiences, and may be 
accepted as a valuable addition to the authentic records of 
the grizzly’s ways. 


A Fox» Rover-Lec.—lIt is rare that a really fine specimen 
of the black hawk variety of rough legged hawk (Archibuteo 
lagopus sanctijohannis) is captured. There is now a beauti- 
ful specimen of this fine bird in the shop of Mr. O. B, Deane, 
taxidermist, Springtield, Mass,, that was taken at Northamp- 
ton. There is hardly a feather on him of other color than 
pure black. The meadows about Northampton abound with 
this species more than of any other, the mottled variety I 
mean, and I think no less than fifty in various plumages 
have been taken during the past few years,—W. A. 
STEARNS, 

Marne WinTER Brrps?—Vinalhaven, Me,, Jan. 24.—I saw 
severai robins yesterday; they were feeding on the snow 
among some tall grass. My curiosity prompted me to in- 
vestigation, and on repairing to their dining room found 
they were feeding on small spiders. The spiders seemed to 
be lively, and I supposed they came out of the bunches of 
grass. Temperature at the time 42° F. Saw a crow black- 
bird about a week ago, also a golden-winged woodpecker. 
Is it not rare to see them in this far north country during 
such extreme cold weather?—Menrcus IT. 


ALBINO RurFED Grousr.—Somerset, Pa.—Mr, George H. 
Tayman has received a full-grown, pure white, pink-eyed 
partridge, or pheasant, as they callithere. It was shot near 
Oakland, a summer resort on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 
about thirty-five miles from this place.—W, Y. T. 


Camp Sire Hlickerings. 


—S 


“That reminds me.”’ 


9%. 
MA: many years ago, | was a youngster and semi-at- 
tached to a command of our country’s brave defenders, 
who did duty along the Gulf coast. I was fond of a gun, as 
what, boy is not? Upon one occasien a small detachment of 


our command was encamped upon a small grassy island off 


the coast of Texas. Itwas plentifully stocked with deer and 
the easiest way to get them was for the hunter to bury him- 
self in the sand and wait for them to come within range. 
One day I borrowed a gun from the engineer, and set out 
on a deer hunt by myself. Proceeding about three miles ] 
sighted the game, picketed my horse, crept up as near ag I 
could safely, scooped out a hole in the sand and covered 
myself up, all except head and arms, completing the ‘‘blind” 
by some tufts of grass I had plucked for the purpose. The 
deer were feeding quietly but approached my hiding place 
very slowly. The sand was warm and comfortable, and 
without a thought I dropped asleep. When I awoke, the 
sun was just going down and deer were feeding all around 
me at short range. Cautiously taking up the gun which lay 
in front of me, I got ready fora shot. Then I concluded 
that I might as well get two or three deer and waited for a 
string of them to get inline. At length a splendid buck and 
two does came in range and I cut loose, 

When I again awoke the stars were shining, There was 
a peculiar feeling about my face, and upon putting up my 
hand I found it was caused by a thick covering of blood 
that flowed from a long deep gash in my forehead. Under 
my hand lay the butt of the gun stock. I dug myself out of 
the sand, and feeling around in the grass, I picked up a 
piece of gun barrel about eighteen inches long and split open 
through most of its length. Wearily making my way to 
where the horse had been left I found him gone and con- 
tinued the pilgrimage on foot to the camp, 

The next morning I laid the relics before the engineer with 
the remark, ‘‘Mr.—, here’s your gu'—two of them I might 
say.” ‘Yes, yes, but what’s the matter with it?’ ‘That's 
just what 1 would like to know,” 1 replied. He looked it 
over again and then asked, ‘‘Did you load it?” ‘‘No, sir; 1 
supposed it was loaded when I borrowed it, and I still think 
it was.” Then he called “Sam.” An ebony chattel belong- 
ing to him and of about my own age responded. ‘‘Sam, did 
you load my gun?’ ‘Ye-yes-yes, massa, me load ’m.” 
‘How did you load it?” ‘‘I-I-I jes put in a heapin’ handful 
of powder, massa.” ‘Then what?” ‘Then I jes put in four 
big bullets an’ pounded ‘em down with a iron ramrod as far 
as they’d go, but they wouldn’t go clean down.” 

Then I went back to the scene of the hunt to gather up 
the slaughtered deer, buf none were to be seen, nor was there 


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either blood or hair to suggest a tragedy except around the 

sand hole where I had taken my nap, and they had neyer 

belonged to a deer. DopeERs, 
Gone TO FLORIDA. 


98. 

Story 67 of '‘Camp-Fire Flickerings” reminds me of one I 
have either read or heard told. An elderly darkey, coming 
home one winter's evening with rather more benzine than 
ought to be carried at one load, took up his position before 
the old-fashioned fire-place. Putting the heel of one boot 
upon the toe of the other he proceeded to warm his feet and 
in so doing fell asleep. On awakening his first glance was 
directed to his boots. With a half drunken leer he said, 
“Stan’ aside dhar sonny an’ let yer poo’ ole fodder warm his- 
self.” Just then the top foot fell to the floor, and with a 
“tank ye chile, tank ye; I'll award ye,” he resnmed his nap. 

MILLARD. 

CHEYENNE, Wyo. 


99. 

In your **Talk” you say that Cuvier, with a single bone could 
reconstruct, or at least said he could, the animal] from which 
the bone was taken. That reminds me of an cccurrence in 
this place a good many years ago. One day an alarm was 
sent out that a bear had crossed some open lots on the out- 
skirts of the village. AJl the little, and big, and old and 
young hunters started out to trint that bear,. The stories 
which were told at the post-office and stores by the returned 
hunters in the evening were remarkable. “None had seen the 
bear, but a good many came very near seeing it. At last 
Gus, the oldest hunter and greatest prevaricator in this 
region, came in, All turned to him to hear his report, ‘‘ Well, 
Gus, did you get a shot at the bear?” was asked? ‘‘No, I 
did not get a shot at him, but I saw him and he weighed 400 
pounds, I am sure!” he replied. ‘‘Why in the world didn’t 
you shoot him?” they all asked. ‘‘Well, you see, I could 
only see a spot of him about the size of my hand, andi 
wanted to get a better view of him and he disappeared in the 
bushes. A, 

JEFFERSON, Ohio, 


Gane Bag and Gun. 


CHILL DAYS IN NORTH GAROLINA, 


The wind it blew, 
And then it snew, 
And then it thew, 
And then it friz.—Anonymous. 


| fs wus my purpose on Friday, the 4th of January, 1884, 
to get my friend Teceel, with his two dogs, Nip and Joe 
(the latter a young black and tan setter, recently sent him 
by Calvin Pemberton, of Arkansaw), and go on the Monday 
following tothe old Leak plantation, at the confluence of 
Little River with the Pee Dee, to pay our respects to the 
birds, which are abundant at that locality. I bad written 
to my philosophic kinsman, Crickett, who lives on. the west 
side of the river, to listen for our guns in the afternoon, and 
if he heard them to make his appearance that night at the hos- 
pitable house of a gentleman whose kindness and that of his 
family T have often enjoyed, and the next day we would go 
up to Toney’s Ford, where he could get an opportunity to 
redeem his character, which was somewhat imperilled at 
that place on a former occasion. He had announced his 
purpose to join us, provided he could get some gunpowder 
and wads with which to load his shells. For his supplies of 
all kinds in this line he generally jooks to me, and though his 
guardian (‘‘ad litem” will do in this case) I find it somewhat 
difficult to provide for his adequate support, owing to his 
constant shooting at anything which can fly or run, My 
‘own shells were ready. I did not doubt that we should 
have several days of capital sport, for I knew game was 
plenty enough to afford it, and [ had great confidence in the 
foresight of the weather prophets, who had assured us of an 
exceedingly mild winter. 

On Saturday, the 5th, though the morning looked a little 
gloomy, I supposed it was only premonitory of a gentle rain, 
and that when Monday came the ground would be dry, and 
the sky clear—a bright sun making the atmosphere quite as 
pleasant as could be desired. So, taking a broken umbrella 
—the only one which the familiarity of my friends has left 
me—and leaving my overcoat at home, I collected my letters 
and went down to my office to transact such business as my 
position imposes upon me, and get all things ready, so as to 
enable me to be absent for several days. The wind was 
blowing somewhat keenly from the north, to be sure, but I 
took it that the temperature was not likely to become colder, 
Thad not been seated at my desk very long before the gentle- 
man who has charge of the construction of a stone dam for 
the mill came in and told me that he was apprehensive he 
should be obliged to stop work, for the snow was beginning 
to fall. I looked out and saw that the flakes were falling 
rapidly then upon the pond, ‘‘a moment white, then gone 
forever,” but the others lay and accumulated upon the 
ground. When I returned to my home the whole earth was 
covered with the white mantle for the depth of over an inch, 
and there was no abatement of the fury of the storm. The 
thermometer indicated a falling temperature, and next morn- 
ing the mercury showed 1° above zero. This is rare with 
us. On the 20th of January, 1857, the register was 8° below, 
but never since then, until Sunday morning, the 6th of 
January, 1884, have we had so cold a time by several de- 
grees. ‘They who are accustomed to a more rigorous lati- 
tude must not smile at the shivering of one who complains 
when the mercury sinks in the tube only 40° below the 
freezing point. 1t is now too cold for any comfort. 

By the way, the phrase ‘‘cold comfort’ used by King 
John when, because of a burning fever which raged within 
him, he wanted all the rivers of his kingdom to flow through 
him, ‘and comfort bim with cold” (Act V. Scene VIL.) has 
no very agreeable significance when ‘‘the winter thrusts his 
icy fingers in our maws.”] ; 

It was but little while after reaching my house, kicking 
the dry snow from my boots, entering the door and coming 
before a blazing fire, that I reached the conclusion that the 
proposed hunt for Bob White must be abandoned for a more 
congenial occasion. And thus that trip was not taken. 

But about ten days before that time, Jim LeG. and T, 
with my son whom I call Dumble, with our dogs, and a 
young man named Rill Wobbins. who was going to visit. his 
sister, drove up to the plantation before named, which is 
about fifteen miles northwest of the place where I live. 1 
started with only 118 shells, supposing that Dumble would 
not want more than thirty-eight, onat could use the others 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


in my 16-bore hammerless. Seon after arriving we got up a| splendid sport during September, October and November, 
splendid zovey, out of which we bagged six. Crossing a; and in my next I shall give you an account of some of my 


lagoon and going down the river we started three or four 
others, and that night reached the house of our friend P. N. 
8. with twenty-eiclt birds. Next day we bagged over forty, 
exclusive of a woodduck anda woodcock, and would have 
done still better but for a rain which interfered with us. 
Owing to the fact that my dog Branch not only refused to 
hunt where I wanted him to, and when I was somewhat im- 
}erious in my commands actually ran from me. I saluted 
him with a load of No. 8 shot at less than forty yards. This 
expedited his retreating movements somewhat, and I did not 
have the pleasure of his company again. My friend Tom 8. 
had a bitch, however, who fully supplied his place. This 
bitch was the same one I bought two years ago, because she 
Was recommended as ‘‘a good retriever from Jand and 
water,” and whose exploits in Chatham I faintly described 
to the Forest anp STREAM. Well, she has improved since 
that day, and is now a very fair field dog. 

I found Branch that night about feeding time, and he 
looked at measif he feared I would shoot him again, His 
fears may not be groundless. That depends, very greatly, 
upon whether Tam simple enough to give him a chance to 
try my patience, and if J am, whether he attempts to run off 
from me. If he does, ke will cet a load at very short range, 
and there will be a dog skin for somebody. I very much 
fear that 1 was badly tooled in that dog. J have another, a 
Laverack, about fourteen months old, and alack and tan pup, 
aboutfive months old, presented to me by my friend A. H.Gal- 
leway. of Rockingham county. I trust these two may be 
made of some value. In the hands of a dog educator, no 
doubt, they would be made so. But I am hardly patient 


‘enough for that sort of business. 


After this digression, I return to the subject to say, that 
the day following we returned home, and on the way called 
at the plantation where we five hunted. We soon had up 
some birds, and after I had shot awhile, I found that my 
shells were exhausted. Rill Wobbing had used my little 
Webley, and had fired more than thirty times. Tom 8., 
however, who rarely hits a bird, though he is an adept on 
rabbits, generously tendered me the use of his 12-bore, and 
I was thus enabled to finish the hunt. We got thirty-one 
birds, and after taking ten each for oursélves, and giving 
Tom an equal number, got in our buggies and reached home 
that night. During the trip we killed over 100 birds, and 
leit enough to stock several thousand acres of land. 

1f the weather and my business permit, I shall try that 
section again before the scason expires. It may be that I 
shall have Mud along with me, with the gun he did not 
Swap, aud I shall have some amusement. Healwaysaffords 
it. Tf I can get lim to accompany me, and then match 
Crickett against Teceel, we shall, at least, have a jolly time, 
and, besides, supply our hospitable friends with all the birds 
they can eat. 

This bas been written when the temperature was too low 
for any comfort, and after thawing the ink. My hand- 
writing, which, my friends say, is none of the most legible, 
J apprehend you will find trouble in reading. WELLS. 

Jan. 7, 1884. 


THE GREAT LONE LAND. 


LTHOUGH 1 have perused the columns of your valu- 
= able and entertaining paper for nearly two years, I have 
failed to perceive any correspondence from what I consider 
the gportsman’s ‘‘Hldorado,” this great Canadian Northwest. 
Tt is universally conceded to be so by all sportsmen who have 
visited the magnificent grounds, shot ducks and _ prairie 
chickens, geese and swans, pelicans and wayys, partridges 
and rabbits by the score. 

The city of Winuipeg is situated on the main line of the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, at the junction of the ‘‘Rushing 
Red” and the Assinaboine rivers, about 475 miles northwest of 
St. Paul, Minn., where there now stands a city of some 
thirty or forty thousand inhabitants. Many old settlers re- 
member when the buffale, a race now nearly extinct in the 
Canadian Northwest, roamed in countless hundreds; and 
even now, in close proximity to the city, their trails, on 
which they tramped single file during the troublesome and 
rebellious years of our forefathers, are still distinctly visible; 
and, should you visit the town of Calgary, on the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, some 800 miles west of Winnipeg, you will 
find the whitened and bleached bones of thousands of these 
ounce noble and numerous animals. By the way, Mr. 8. L. 
Bedson, Warden of the Provincial Penitentiary, a splendid 
und ardent sportsman and genial companion, is in possession 
of a herd of some twenty-five pure, full-grown and domesti- 
cated buffalo, which were, I believe, raised from calves cap- 
tured by some Indian hunters while on the chase. They run 
at large on the prairie, mingle readily, and cross with our 
domestic cattle. 

The country here consists of level prairie, for the most 
part, to the west intersected here and there with bluffs of 
poplar and magnificent lakes; also, in some places, with 
marshes, which are fairly alive with fowl, while on the 
farms and prairies are found prairie chickens in abundance, 
and on the bluits rabbits without nuraber, In the north and 
east 11 is heavily wooded with fine spruce and tamarack. 
The country cast is very rocky, and contains valuable gold 
and iron mines, also scenery which is, I believe, wurivalled. 
The beautiful Lake of the Woods, surrounding the pretty 
City of Rat Portage, which is fast becoming a popular sum- 
mer resort, will, we may rest assured, not remain long in 
obscutity, and the day is not far distant when people will 
fiock in thousands to this place, bathe on the magnificent 
beaches, camp on the thousand islands and enjoy the 
splendid trout, bass, pickerel and pike fishing of which it 
affords an abundance. Jn the south the country is not so 
heavily wooded as in the east, and at or near the Souris 
River rich coal mines are now being developed, while raii- 
way construction is pushed forward rapidly in order to open 
up the country. 

Ti is said by sportsmen, who certainly should know, that 
tle Souris affords the best prairie clticken, deer and elk 
hunting they ever found, It certainly must afford the for- 
mer, fur atriend of mine, who isa very poor shot, recently 
bagged over seventy chickens in one day’s hunt. Judging 
from this feat 1 should say a good sportsman could bag 
an unlimited quantity in the same space of time. The Man- 
itoba prairie chicken is somewhat similar in appearance, 
though larger and has coarser feathers, than the pinnated 
grouse. They are found in countless numbers on the bare 
pruirie, rarely, if ever, seeking cover, not even in winter, 
when they burrow in the snow and are very wild toapproach, 
bat in warm weather they will permit you to approach 
within twenty feet of them, while they are concealed in the 
long grass, before rising. With a good seiter they atford 


hunting excursions after them and other kinds of game in 
the ‘Great Lone Land.” OgIBWAY. 
WinntrPse. Manitoba. 


“TRIAL BY JURY?’ 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of Jan. 17, an erticle appears headed ‘‘Tyial 
by Jury.” A week or two before ibat, in a short article the 
statement was made that the game Jaws as they stand at 
present were better than any that were likely to be passed 
by the Legislature at Albany. In this I fully concur, and as 
the article ‘‘Trial by Jury” has undoubtedly been read by 
thousands of sportsmen in this State who recognize FoRnST 
AND STREAMas the standard authority in all such matters, 
I would like, with your permission, to endeavor to show 
that even in these cases, one of which is an extreme one, the 
law afforded ample protection. IT am not a- ‘country 
lawyer,” but I believe that light penalties rigidly enforeed 
are hetter than very heavy ones. During Governor Cornell’s 
administration, as many of your readers will remember, 
a new game law was passed by both the Assembly and 
Senate, and was vetoed by the Governor on the ground that, 
as the violation of the law was only a misdemeanor, the fines 
and punishment were excessive. 

Now, in the case of Murdock, the plaintiff was compelled 
to sue for trespass as the season was open, but he should 
have accepted the defendant’soffer or tender of $2 and costs, 
which could not have heen less than $1.50, his lawyer’s fec 
was at least $5, for even in the country they seldom forget 
to charge. There was also the loss of his dav to appear for 
trial, probably $2 more, which would make $10.50, and had 
he went to trial without making the tender, he would have 
been compelled to pay costs to the amount.of nearly $4 in- 
stead of $1.50. As I said before, the plaintiff should have 
accepted the offer to settle and quietly waited for the next 
customer to be served the same way. He thinks he accom- 
plisbed nothing; he will find that he has done more toward 
the protection of game in his section than he imagines, He 
has shown to this man that with a jury, no doubt reluctant 
to impose a heavy fine on a laboring man, they were still 
compelled by duty and the obligation of their oath to fine 
him. There are few people who like to be brought into 
court with the certainty of being beaten. In regard to the 
clergyman’s case it was very simple, Instead of suing him 
for trespass, he should have been arrested for killing game 
out of season, the case proven, and the jury, by their oaths, 
would have been- compelled to convict him; the law pres- 
cribes the penalty, and if the magistrate refused to impose 
it, he too became liable. JoHn H. Davis. 

East CHEester, Jan. 20, 


[In this case the plaintiff’s purpose was to test the law, 


not to punish the defendant. ] * 


WINTER NOTES FROM MICHIGAN. 


OOR Bob White is having a hard row to hoe here- 
abouts this winter. Not only has the thermometer 
had a disgusting habit of diving down under the zero mark 
for the last month or so, but the poor little quail have also 
been obliged to hunt hard for feed. The corn crop was 
nearly a total failure last year in this State, so the birds are 
dependent for their food upon rag weed and the grain that 
cau be picked up along the railroad tracks. The crust upon 
the snow is a blessing to the birds just now, enabling them 
to run across it in their search for rag weeds. As for 
the grain cars, wouldn’t it be quite a scheme to start a 
fashion among the bad boys of boring a hole here and there 
in every grain car they came across? I wish some one would 
set the thing going, And I think the augers wouldn’t cost 
the boys much if applied for at the right place. ~ 

A great many rabbits have been killed during the winter 
in this vicinity. It is to be regretted that the use of ferrets 
is becoming more and more common. How different this 
hoggish way of hunting the rodents and that portrayed by 
“Mark” in Forest AND StRHAM of Jan, 17. 

Reports come down from the pineries that wolves are re- 
markably numerous this season. In Roscommon county 
especially they appear to have increased in numbers over 
previous years. Talkingof wolves ‘‘reminds me” of one we 
shot some six or eight years since. We were walking along 
a “tote” road, when of a sudden one young hound bristled 
up and snuffed the air excitedly. Thinking he scented a 
Geer we let him go, whereupon he bounded off eagerly and 
fiercely, and disappeared over the side of a slight ravine. In 
less than two minutes we heard a crackling of brush and 
made ready to shoot the expected deer, but were surprised 
at the sight of our heroic hound coming back to us at full 
speed, tail between his legs, and twenty yards behind, fol- 
lowing hard after, was a large gray wolf. And when the 
wolf saw us for the first time not fifty yards away, what a 
surprised and foolish-looking wolf he was. He dropped on 
his haunches with a hang-dog, chop-fallen expression, and 
seemed to say: ‘‘Well! What an assI have made of my- 
self.” He seemed to know that he was done for, and sat 
still until a .50-caliber ball tumbled him over. 

A new organization in Detroit is ‘“The Michigan Gun 
Club and Game Proteetive Society.” The officers are as 
follows: E. H. Gillman, President; Al. Henkel, Vice Presi- 
dent; H. Dunnebeck, Treasurer; B. Worcester, Secretary; 
U. G. Chilvers, F, A. Woods, L, N. Hilsendegen and Her- 
man Bowman, Directors. 

The Island Club, of East Saginaw, are planning to build 
this spring a club house, to cost some $7,000, upon Herri- 
man’s Island, in Saginaw Bay. 

Fishing through the ice is now at its height upon nearly 
all the waters of our State. At St. Clair Flats, St. Ignace 
and, in fact, at places innumerable, immense numbers of 
large pike and other varieties of the finny tribe are speared 
daily, and is exciting and comfortable sport, sheltered as 
most of the fishermen are in a warm, portable little house, 
which protects tyem from wind and cold while they play 
their decoys and spear their victims. bs 

Mr. J. B. Horton, of St. Paul, Minn., has been in Detroi 
for a day or so showing up to sportsmen a new hammerless 
gun, invented by Burkhard and Novotny, of St. Paul. I 
saw the gun taken apart and critically examined by several 
gentlewacn, and it really embraced some new principles that 
would seem to make it a strong candidate for popular favor. 
As yet but five or six have been made. Mr. Horton is now 
on his way East for the purpose of introducing the gun. 


DETROIT, Jan. 26 


[Jan. 81, 1884, 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
Liditor Forest and Stream: : 

Ihave been very much interested in the ideas of my 
brother sportsmen in regard to a .40-90 repeater, and as f 
hunt large game four months in every year with a reasona- 
ble amount of success, I will give my opinion. I want a 
40-90 repeater, Winchester preferred, if it can be made so 
that it will stand the work and be safe. 

If after a thorough test, the manufacturers think a lever 
gun will not be safe, let them make a bolt repeater, with if 
possible, a set trigger, and I will be willing to pay whatit is 
worth and try it. I use a .45-60 Winchester. It is a good 
gun, and I like it, but my hunting companion has got u ,40- 
70, that he uses as a .40-75—pounds in 75 grains of powder. 
At from 75 to 125 yards I can kill as well as he can, but at 
200 yards, more or Jess, I am not certain to get there, and he 
is; and I know it is not my fault, for I have tried his gun, 
and I can do as well as he can with it, But when it comes 
to game on the run, I can kill more than he can, because 
mine is a magazine and his is a single shot. Of course a .40- 
90 will be an experiment, but Iam willing to help pay for 
it. 

In regard to sights, J have tried pretty much all the new- 
fangled sights in the market, and have laid them all aside 
and gone back to plain open ones, I have half a dozen 
patent sights that are for sule cheap, for I shall never use 
them again, ; 

I must say a few words in defense of the magazine guns, 
Winchester especially, in reply to ‘“‘W. N. B.,” in your 
issue of the 10th. 1 have carried a Winchester full of 
cartridges as a saddle gun since 1871, Ridden always with” 
cartridges in it, and never had it to fail me but onee, and 
then I had got a .45-caliber Celt’s pistol cartridge into the 
chamber by accident. I have heen in lots of tight places, 
and my Winchester has always pulled me through—and I 
have never had to climb atree, just because the pump handle 


arrangement was so speedy. W. J. Dixon. 
CimMARRON, Kansas. 


Ihave been accused of heresy in some points relating to 
the rifle, and justly so if heresy be deliberately butting one’s 
head against the stone wall of popular opinion. But heresy 
may well be pardoned if accompanied by no proselyting 
spirit, I think that not a line of mine can be found in 
which I have advised buying any particular rifle or in which 
I have said what was the best rifle. I have said what I 
preferred, but preferred ouly because I wanted immediate 
results and no cripples, thereby cleavly implying that other 
tifles would be better for those who enjoy hunting up 
wounded game. 

For several years I have had but one opinion as to the 
best hunting rifle, the best for general use and for average 
results over a long reach of time. And that opinion is this: 
That (for one who cares nothing about how many cripples 
he makes) the rapidity of fire of the repeater overbalances 
all its own defects and all the advantages of any other rifle. 

Few who have read what I have heretofore written would 
suspect that nearly all the time I was writing against small- 
bores as being cruelly wasteful of game, 1 was using arepeater 
for small game, and sometimes (on account of its conyeni- 

ence) for deer. I have used only the Winchester models, 
but I presume all others made on that plun are as good or 
good enough. And looking back over the years that I haye 
hunied with and without them, I haye no hesitation in say- 
ing that, throwing the convenience of their cheap and easily 
obtainable ammunition, their streng¢th and perfect working 
under the shabbiest treatment, and other points entirely out 
of consideration, their speed of fire—in the Jong run—over- 
balances all else. A few days, or even months of hunting 
may indicate other results, and many will disagree with me 
in this opinion. But, as Pindar well says, the rolling years 
are the wisest witnesses. A double rifle delivers its first two 
shots a trifle more quickly than the best repeater, But when 
I look down the long line that stretches back into the dawn 
of my rifle hunting, I can see hundreds of instances where 
the third and fourth shots were worth oh!so much, yet were 
just a second or two too late. And many, very many times, 
they would be too late even for 2 hammerless double rifle with 
automatic ejectors. 

The ease of obtaining ammunition and the absence of all 
“traps” commends the Winchester to me more than any 
other point. {don’t care for killing much game, as I kill 
nothing to sell or to throw away; but in traveling about as I 
do, it is a great relief to have no loading tools, powder, lead, 
ladle, etc., to carry with me. ; , 

The question of its accuracy is readily disposed of. I shall 
not discuss the muzzlelooding question again. I expressly 
stated long ago that what I said about the muzzleloader was 
said only to induce makers to improve still further the breech- 
loader, I think Maj, Merrill goes too far insaying that the 
muzzleloader is the best hunting rifle. He is driven to the 
other extreme by that absurd, unreasoving idolatry of the 
breechloader that denounces as an old fogy and » tool every 
one who does not drop on his knees and remain there in blind 
adoration. Game is now so wild that noslowly-loading rifle 
can be the best hunting rifle, even though it be a breechloader, 
much less if a muzzleloader. 

But there is still another pomt that the most devout wor- 
shippers at the shrine of the breechloader have entirely over- 
looked. They have been too busy in abusing as old fogies, 
etc., men who used the breechloader all the time, and would 
use nothing else for hunting, yet had the wicked aucacity to 
hunt for defects in the great idol in the hope that its maker 
might remedy them. That point is, that the Winchester, as 
now made, will do better average shooting than any muzzle- 
loader will do, unless the muzzleloader is in the hands of one 
who is both careful and expert in loading it. The loading 
of a muzzleloader, so as to insure better work than the Win- 
chester will now do with its factory ammunition, is one of 
the fine arts of shooting. Not only is much experiment 
necessary to find the exact diameter of bullet and the exact 
thickness and quality of patch—matters in which the rifle is 
amore whimsical than an old Age a care must be taken 
in loading at every shot. can muke any muzzleloader 
throw as many wild balls as any breechloader, yet any one 
not an expert, and a keen one at that, could watch me load 
it all day without discovering any difference in the loading. 
Phis is one reason why some muzzleloaders, taken from the 
corner where they have stood for years, to compete with the 
modern breechloader, have failed to show the accuracy that 
Major Merrill and others besides myself have ascribed to the 
muzzleloader in general. The “fitting” has been forgotten, 
and it would take a day or two of experiment to regain if. 
And perhaps even its importance has been forgotten or never 
was known. ‘ee 

The chances are, therefore, very great that the breech- 
loader will excel the muzzleloader in ordinary hands, Aud 


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earl yal th tends into which the hunting rifle ever finds 
‘are extremely ordinary (in respect to care and skill 
hn such matters), the question of the iia yas of the 
sreechloader even for accuracy seems scttled in its favor, 
While on this subject I will give my method of getting 
muzzleloading accuracy from a breechloader, without using 
“# ramrod, so that those, who, like Major Merrill and myself, 
admire supreme accuracy, may not feel that a screw breech 
in is essential, This may not work with all rifles, but in 
Bree in which 1 have tried it the shooting is absolutely 
erfect. 
= Take a new and clean shell and cut a hole through the 
‘rear; but leaving the rim intact so that it can be readily ex- 
tracted. Into the muzzle of this empty shell patch and 
insert any ball, round or long, just as you would into the 
“muzéle of a muzzleloeder, and put it into the gun. Then 
make asmaj] ramrod half an inch or se longer than the 
shell, having a shoulder that will not allow it to pass beyond 
the mouth of the shell. With this ramrod push the bullet 
out of the shell into the grooves. Then pull out the shell 

d insert one loaded with powder and wad. If properly 

done this leaves ball and patch in exactly the same condition 
as if pushed down from the muzzle and left in the grooves, 
‘the sole cause of the muzzleloader’s. accuracy, You need 
have no fears of ‘‘air space” as it would in any event be too 
rifling for injury. The same care in fitting ball and patch 
must be observed here that is necessary for any muzzleloader, 
-and if the powder is forming dry hard dirt, the lower part of 
of the grooves should be wiped for two or three inches. In 
this way arifle may be loaded more quickly than with a 
yamrod, and it can be done in the field whenever there is no 
haste. More powder may also in this way be used, and by 
“pushing the ball still further into the barrel and inserting a 
paper cartridge of powder in front of the shell, express charges 
of any desired size may be speedily loaded. 

The safety of repeaters I judge of as of the safety of all 
other guns. IJ never heard of an accident with any repeater 
that must be closed tight before it can be fired, as the later 

models of the Winchester must be. Excessive recoil might 
explode a cartridge in the magazine, but there need be no 
such recoil if we can only get clear of the idea that a rifle 
needs a bullet at least aninch long. It is length of lead that 
makes recoil. The repeaters have, no doubt, been tested at 
the fuctory with vastly heavier charges than they are ever 
called upon to stand, and if the danger were at all real we 
should before this have been furnished with some positive 
proof of it. Any kind of rifle is liable to burst. Within a 
mile of where | am writing a Remington rifle with a factory 
cartridge burst, a few years since, in the hands of one of 
my friends, blowing the barrel to pieces at the breech and 
nearly taking his head off. The rifle can be seen to-day in 
San Diego. There is no absolute safety with any kind of a 
gun light enough to fire from the shoulder. Judging from 
the number of repeaters in use, the length of time they have 
been in use and the trifling number of accidents we can hear 
ot, 1 do not see any evidence that the action is not as safe as 
that of any of ourdouble rifles or shotguns. Undoubtedly the 
Sharps action is stronger, but if the Winchester is strong 
enough it is better. It may be said that ina gun nothing is 
strong enough if it can be stronger. If you say—just 
as well be stronger—I agree. But no one prefers Sharps 
action for a shotgun because its additional safety is handi 
Capped with clumsiness: We all prefer a weaker action 
because we deem it strong enough and mueh neater. If 
the Winchester could just ‘as easily be made stronger’ I 
would preferitso. But if additional clumsiness is to be the 
price of the extra safety, then I sayait is now strong enough; 
by strong enough I mean for short bullets. I once had an 
‘old musket barrel that 1 tried to burst by increasing the 
powder charge. Even four ounces of powder behind an 
ounce of lead failed to shake it. Then I tried four bullets 
with about half an ounce of powder, and | never found any- 
thing but the forward end of the barrel. I have shot a 
double charge of powder in both the Winchester express and 
.45-60—loading as above described—and am not in the least 
afraid of them, With twice the weight of lead in them I 
should be shy of even 100 srains of powder. Five hundred 
erains of lead makes a yery Jong bullet for a .40-caliber, and 
is about equal to five round bullet of the same caliber. A 
round ball in a 16-bore shotgun corresponds. 

In a 16-bore shotgun the round ball weighs the same as an 
ounce of shot. Five times that amount of shot would soon 
use up the gun, even with a small charge of powder, and 
with a heavy charge would be apt to burst it, It is not 
probable that such a gun of ten pounds weight or under 
would be safe with five ounces of shot, with one-fourth of an 
ounce of powder behind it. And itis quite certain that no 
shoulder could endure it. This is a powder and lead propor- 
tion of only one to twenty and yet there is too much powder. 
And comparing it with other loads, we may find that the 
strain upon the gun follows increase of lead in more than 
geometrical ratio. 

It is true that the rifle is much stronger than the shotgun. 
But it is no less true that whatever element of danger there 
may be is increased in almost thesame proportion by increase 
of length in the ball. 

There aré other reasons, howeyer, why I think the proposed 
500-rain ball too heavy. 

First—It will be entirely too slow and cannot be given a 
high velocity. ‘ 

Second—Ilt may give such recoil.as to cause irregularity of 
shooting as the balance of the gun becomes changed by emp- 
tying the magazine. 

The evils of low velocity are generally unnoticed except 
by trial. Take a Winchester .44-40-200, and sight it with 
globe sights to the center of an inch bullseye at 30 yards, 
Then fire it with the same sight at 100 yards and you will 
find the ball somewhere about nine inches below the mark. 
With such arifle how much small game can you hit even 
between 50 and 150 yards without knowing its distance 

and changing the sighting accordingly? And if the varia- 
tion will bother one on small game, why not on big game, 
pence it is necessary to hit it in exact spots with solid balls, 


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impaired in the least, although the rifle may be pointed so 
far off the mark that you cannot see it by looking through 
fhe bore when aimed for firing, It is scarcely necessary to 
add that where recoil is sufficient to require the axis of the 
bore to be turned off the mark—as would almost certainly be 
the ease in a .40-90-500 of ordinary weight and length—a 
change in the balance of the gun from shot to shot might 
cause irregular deflection of the bullet. T, 8. Van Dyke. 
CALIFORNIA, 


liditor Forest and Stream: *. 

Tnotice a correspondent in your issue of Dee. 27, advocates 
a 12-bore rifle for shooting grizzly bears. In India, double 
rifles of this caliber are very much used for dangerous game, 
though lately the .577-caliber express, a very powerful 
weapon of about the same weight, has come into favor, and 
has to a great extent superseded the lighter 12-bores, having 
a greater muzzle velocity and flatter trajectory, with great 
penetration and smashing power when used with solid 
bullets. Its charge varies from five to seven drams, and 
the usual hollow-fronted ball is 480 rains, but some are 50 
or 60 grains heavier, The usual weight of the rifle is from 
10 to 12 pounds. 

The 12-bores built during the last few years, being mostly 
intended as special rifles for use against very dangerous 
game, have been made as powerful as this caliber and the 
powers of endurance of the sportsmen will allow, and carry 
from six to eight drams powder with a spherical ball. 
They weigh from {1 io 18 pounds, and if fitted with anti- 
recoil heel-plates, their recoil is not inconvenient. They 
can also take a short blunt-pointed conical bullet, which is 
generally of hardened lead when great penctration is required, 
as in the case of tough-skinned or heavy-boned animals, 
but as this ball is heavier than the spherical, a little less 
powder has to be used. Explosive shells are also sometimes 
used; 2 bullet of this caliber can take a good charge of ex- 
plosive powder, which is generally composed of chlorate of 
potash and sulphate of antimony in equal parts by weight, 
the ingredients beimg ground into powder separately and 
mixed dry, a little at time, with the feather of a quill on a 
clean plate or piece of glass. Explosive bullets loaded with 
this mixture are perfectly safe to carry about and will stand 
rough handling without danger, Any hollow-pointed bullet 
can be made explosive by bemg filled with this mixture, the 
mouth being closed with wax. 

Another variety of explosive bullet which carries a heavier 
explosive charge, 1s used in India; it carries the explosive in 
a copper core, which is held in position in the mold,.on the 
bullet being cast, by the plunger, the withdrawal of which 
leaves a hole by which the explosive can be introduced—this 
hole is closed with wax or a shot pellet jammed in. ° Bottle- 
shaped cores are used for conical bullets, and spherical cores 
for spherical bullets, which are generally used with smooth- 
bore shotguns. 

Opinion varies a good deal among Indian sportsmen as to 
the efficacy of these explosive balls. They are apt to ex- 
plode at or near the surface of an animal’s body or ona bone 
just under the skin, where they do not, of course, prove fatal, 
but when they penetrate well before exploding, they are 
very deadly. 

Your correspondent’s remark as to the incorrect sighting 
of English express rifles is very true, though it does not ap- 
ply to the rifles turned out by the best makers. The high 
shooting of some English rifles at medium sporting ranges, 
theugh no doubt sometimes caused by an attempt to obtain 
an apparently long flat trajectory, is also due to the fact that 
some makers sight their rifles for the aim to be taken with 
the bead of the fore sight below the object instead of on it. This 
can be remedied by cutting the notch of the back sight deeper 
or by having the fore sight raised. ‘These points should be 
attended to in ordering a rifle. Another very common fault 
of double rifles of the cheaper makes is that the two barrels 
do not shoot exactly alike with the same sight, one some- 
times throws higher or lower than the other, and this is a 
very bad fault. Sometimes the shots from the two barrels 
cross one another, the right barrel usually throwing to the 
left and the left barrel to the right of the object fired at; this 
is not such a grave fault, but rifles can be made to shoot ex- 
actly alike with both barrels at all sporting ranges if enough 
trouble is taken by the makers in adjusting the barrels, This 
putting together the barrels correctly takes time and Jabor, 
and is the chief reason for the great cost of good doublerifies. 
Double rifles should have back action locks; bar locks re- 
quire the action to be much cut away and weakened to allow 
the main spring to be fitted. For heavy charges a double 
grip lever under the guard, with some good kind of top tas- 
tening in addition, is the best; the strain on the breech of a 
double rifle is much greater than in a shotgun. There is no 
doubt that a good double large bore rifle is the best weapon 
yet known for large and dangerous game. 

Benga Suppor, 

Lonbon, England, 


Editor Hovest and Stream: 

T can readily understand why ‘“‘W. N. B.” should have 
such.a prejudice against the present spiral spring magazine 
arms, or those arms with a magaziue that permits the point 
of one bullet to rest against the primer of the one next in 
front. His experience is but the repetition of many others 
with the addition of frequent premature explosions caused 
by the point of the builet striking the primer in front, 

While seeking an effective arm, we should not lose sight 
ef the fact that the first thing to be considered in a repeat- 
ing arm is the safety of the magazine. It should be so con- 
structed that the points of the bullets cannot strike the 
primer of the cartrldge in front, either from the recoil or 


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the magazine guns now before the public the Chaffee-Reece 
would be the only one that could safely use them. 

The great objection to a,40-90 repeater is the length of 
cartridge it would require. A .40-caliber straight shell with 
90 grains powder and a bullet crimped in, as in the Govern- 
ment cartridge, would be 3.40 inches in length or .52 inen 
longer than the entire length of the Government cartridge; 
the front end of the bullet projecting ,60 inch beyond the 
end of the shell would give us a cartridge 4 inches long, 
vice would be 1.12 inches longer than the Goverment cart- 
ridge, 

This cartridge could be made shorter by the use of a bottle- 
shaped shell; but this is a thing of the past, it having been 
tried by the Government and fong-ran ge shooterg and dis- 
carded; the straight shell is better for accurate shooting. 

A repeuting arm with the lever system for the use of the 
Government .45-caliber cartridge 2.56 inches long, required 
the receiver to be about 10 inches long. To use the .40-90 
cartridge would add 1.40 inches to the length of cartridge, 
which of necessity would increase the length of the receiver, 
which would look to be about as long as the barrel, also re- 
quiring the lever to describe two-thirds of 2 circle to extract 
the shell and place a new cartridge in the chamber. 

The change to a .40-90 repeater seems to have been sug- 
gested for the purpose of getting greater range and penetra- 
tion. For the benefit of those interested in rifle shooting I 
desire to say that a .45-caliber 500-grain bullet with a charge 
of 80 grains of Havard’s F. G. powder, shot from a 32-inch 
barrel, will reach a target at a distance of 3,500 yards and 
kill, Thisis the record made by R. T, Hare, Government 
expert, while experimenting at Sandy Hook, N. J., to deter- 
mine the extreme range of the Springfield and Martini-Henry 
rifles and carbines with their ammunition. The extreme 
range of the Martini-Henry rifle was found to be 3,200 yards; 
at a distance of 3,500 yards the 400-grain bullet went through 
the target, which was made of three thicknesses of one-inch 
spruce boards, and down into the sand on the beach eight 
inches. Is this not range and penetration enough to satisfy 
any one? To shoot this distance the angle of elevation was 
about 22°, the height of trajectory for the Maitini-Henry 
at a distance of 3,200 yards with its 480-srain bullet was 
2,700 feet, and for the Government 500-grain bullet at 3,500 
yards about 2.800 feet. 

A repeating or magazine arm is not only required to be & 
rapid repeater, but it must be a rapid single-shootcr, admit- 
ting that the lever repeating magazine guns are rapid repeat- 
ers. Atthe same time we must admit that they are very 
slow single-shooters. The bolt magazine guns are the fastest 
single-shooters and they are very rapid repeaters, the Chaf- 
fee-Reece being able to fire eight shots in five seconds. The 
bolt system is conceded to be much stronger than the lever 
system, The repeating arm that is bound to win is the one 
that has a safe magazine. : 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Iconcur fully with your correspondent ‘“‘W. N. B.” in 
his views respecting the relative merits of the magazine and 
hand breech-loading rifle. The fewer the parts and less 
intricate the apparatus, whether it be a watch or a gun, the 
Jess liable it is to derangement, Safety, efficiency and sim- 
plicity constitute, in my opinion, the chief essentials in the 
mechanism of the arrangement for loading at the breech, 
and these I think are fully embraced in the Remington rifle, 
But in the communications which have so far appeared upon 
the subject of sporting rifles, the fact appears to be ignored, 
if not entirely lost sight of, that the grizzly bear and Apache 
Indians are not the game of this country. There are few 
sportsmen who have either the opportunity or inclination to 
indulge in an encounter with that kind of game, and for 
strictly sporting purposes the necessity of an arm of large 
caliber and extreme range with heavy charges of powder 
and lead may be regarded as exceptional. The essentials 
for convenient loading at the breech being attained, abso- 
lute reliability in the accurate shooting at what, in the pres- 
ent target practice is called short range, must be afforded to 
give any value whatever to the improved rifle over the 
muzzle-loader for ordinary sporting purposes. 

Thirty years ago with a muzzle-loading rifle made by 
James Doherty, of Petersburg, Va., | placed twelve shots 
successively in a one-inch bullseye at eighty yards with 
a standing rest, the shots forming one hole vertically across 
the center. At 200 yards, with a reclining rest, I could put 
all of my shots in a two-inch bullseye. This wis the extreme 
limit in distance of my target practice at that day. The 
twist in this rifle increased from the breech to the muzzle; 
the bore was about .58-caliber and was loaded with a round 
ball and linen patch. From 200 to 800 yards every ball 
ought to be shot inside of a 2-inch circle. A hunter of tact 
can always get within that distance of his game, anda round 
ball of .88-caliber is ample, if putin the right place, to bring 
down the hardiest buck, Has the increasing twist been 
applied to any of our breech-loaiders for imparting the rotary 
motion gradually to the ball as it leaves the sun, and has the 
round ball been tried fcr distances up to 300 yards in breech- 
loading rifles? There would-be less powder required, less 
concussion and greater steadiness would ensue, and I think 
less liability to deflection with the round than with the elon- 
gated ball, it being more likely to preserve its rotary motion 
around the axis of its direction. Jam making some experi- 
ments with a Remington .32-caliber to test the relative ac- 
curacy of theround and elongated ball at from one to 200 
yards, and would like to know if any conclusive facts in 
this respect, and in regard to the adaptation of the increas- 
ing twist to breechloaders, have been already gathered by 
our rifle make and rifle shots. H. H. 

PENNSACOLA, Fla. 


KansAs.—Independence, Jan. 20.—Hditor Forest and 
Stream: Waving been a constant reader of your valuable 
paper since the first of 1876. I thought I wight ventnre to 
write you a word of the sporting prospects here. Chickens 
or pinnated grouse are here in some numbers, but the greedy 
market hunter and the prairie fires have yery much lessened 
their numbers, though good shooting may be had in season 
within a day’s drive of our town. ‘Bob Whites” are in 
abundance on every hand. Ihave known a party of two to 
go out for a three days’ shoot and come in with 208 birds 
and 9 chickens. Bags of 40 and 50 birds are quite frequent 
among the practical shooters. The great opportunity here 
for sport is south, in the Indian Nation, where there is 
abundance of deer and turkey, besides small game, but the 
Indian is getting quite jealous of having his game destroyed, 
so that the sportsman is liable to get into trouble unless he 
has native friends with him,.—Jvpex. [‘‘Judge” can 


| hardly blame the Indians for resenting the encroachment of 


game trespassers on their reservation. | 


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New Orieans, Jan. 22.—Last night a meeting of the 
hunters who are to participate in the annual hunt for a game 
dinner was held at the store of Cardona & Hunt, for the pur- 
pose of selecting teams for the shoot. Messrs. BH. T. Man- 
ning and A. M. Aucoin were elected captains, and the teams 
selected are as follows: No. 1—Captain A. M. Aucoin, F. A. 
Cousin, Paul Chaudet, J. V. Guillotte, Martin Huber, Louis 
Cook, Emile Dupre, John Stumpf, J. V. Leveque, George 
Lessasier, Rene Sarrazin, E. Wash. Vinet, Albert P. Noll, 
Dr. W. H. Watkins, Walter Saxon, William A. Davis, Wm. 
Dupre. No. 2—OCaptain BH. T. Manning, John K, Renaud, 
N. D. Wallace, Richard Frotscher, A. E, Livaudais, A. 8. 
Ranlett, ©. H. Wood, C. J. Lewis, A. Cardona, Jr., J. H. 
Maury, W. T. Coleman, Captain Octave F. Vallette, Thos. 
MeGinty, J. C. Lyons, Jr., Wallace Wood, John R. Kent, 
Chris, Collins, The list of names of those to participate in 
the hunt will be kept open until Thursday next, and those 
who present themselves will be chosen by the captains of 
the teams. The hunt will take place on Saturday and Sun- 
day, the 26th and 27th, and the annual dinner on Tuesday, 
the 29th. The points to govern the hunt are as follows: 
Robins, 1; doves, 2; snipe, 8; quail, 10; mallard duck, 15; 
other ducks, 10; squirrels, 10; rabbits, 10; hawks or owls, 
25; woodcock, 25; prairie chickens, 30; geese, 50; turkeys, 
250; deer, 500; bear, 1,000. 


Brookuyn, Jan. 21.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 1 have 
heen a reader of your paper for the past eight years, and 
have always read with great interest any communications 
on the subject of hunting rifles. I never had the time to go 
where I could hunt large game, but have had some very fine 
sport with squirrels, using a .22-caliber Ballard, but it is a 
little too small for foxes or woodchucks. I think it is very 
good sport to wait for a fox that the dogs have started and 
shoot at him with a rifle as he goes by, so when I read in 
your issue of Jan. 3 that a rifle of- .25-caliber was going to 
be put on the market I made up my mind to haye one, I 
also spoke to a friend and he told me to let him know when 
it was ready and he would go and get one with me. Now I 
would like to suggest one thing to the makers, and that is 
that they put a ramrod under the barrel, Ido not think it 
would cost much more, and I for one would be willing to 
pay for it. Then we could put a primed shell in the pun 


and load from the muzzle if we wanted to, and it would be | 


so hendy for a cleaning rod. Let us hear from others.— 
Moro. 


PENNSYLVANIA MARKET.— Williamsport, Pa,, Jan. 21.— 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: There exists in this county, Ly- 
coming, 2 noted organization called the Lycoming, County 
Sportsmen’s Association, which was established for the pro- 
tection of game. Last Saturday I noticed hanging on poles 
in the market, large bunches of quail, grouse and rabbits, 
which were evidently killed after the first of January. This 
is certainly a flagrant violation of the law of this State, so 
far as it relates to the capture and sale of wild game. Do 
you know whether this town has any game wardens? If 
such officers are to be found here they should certainly be 
stirred to a performance of their duty, since the society re- 
ferred to above seems to be dead to the interests of those 
matters which most pertain to it. I saw a jack rabbit the 
other day, sent to a gentleman here in town, from Akron, 
Ohio. Does this species of rabbits abound so far east as Ohio? 
—W. K. M. [We do not knew whether Williamsport hasa 
game warden or not, but possibly by inquiry our corres- 
pondent could find out, The jack rabbit is not found in 
Ohio. | 


Tat lowa S1rpr-Howt,—Decorah, Ja., Jan. 21.—ditor 
Forest and Stream: see an account in your columns of a 
side-hunt, held at Rippey, Ia., Dec. 20. ‘‘Wild Doc” com- 
plains of game being scarce around there. No wonder, with 
such law-abiding citizens, or sportsmen, as they may call 
themselves. If they were to look at the game laws of the 
State they would find that it is unlawful to shoot prairie 
chickens after Dec. 1, and yet on Dec. 28 ‘‘Wild Doc” and 
his party of twenty-one men on each side go out to shoot 
them; and, worse still, he proposes to have the shoot over 
again in the spring, at which time all the birds will have 
mated. It seems strange, when we have game laws in the 
State, that ‘Wild Doc” and his party cannot he restrained 
from breaking them. He not only breaks them, but openly 
publishes the account afterward. Where Rippey is 1 do not 
know, but only wish it were near this part of the State, as 
then I guarantee we would make it hot for ‘*Wild Doc” and 
his party. —F Arr Puay. 


Buack BRANT ON THE ATLANTIC CoAsT.—I have learned 
of what I suppose to have been two black brant (Brenta nig- 
qpieans) that were killed in Tuckerton Bay this winter. It 
was bere that Cassin secured two of the specimens 
he writes about when he describes the variety. I 
did not learn the name of the gunner who shot them, but 
imagine he wasa Parkertown bayman. I hear also thata 
more than usual number of white-fronted geese (Anser albi- 
jrons) have been seen passing over these waters, but none 
stopped in them, Will not Mr. Yan Dyke who wrote of 
what he thought, and possibly might have been, black brant 
on the Pacific side, let us Wear from him in reference to 
what he has further learned of this bird, and if possible for- 
ward the promised specimen. Brant have been very plenti- 
ful on our Atlantic coast this year, but each year they seem 
to be getting wilder and wilder and more difficult to stool. 
—Homo. 


Raseir SHootTmne wire Pistous.—My experience in re- 
volver shooting will cover aspace-of fifteen years and I never 
could find one in all that time that wouldn’t overshoot at short 
range, and to remedy that have had to take out the front sight 
and replace it with a higher one. Why wouldn’t it be better 
for both the manufacturer and the buyer if the pistols were 
sighted so that if a man wanted to hit anything from ten to 
fifteen yards off he would not have to aim from six to twelve 
inches under. In order to do good shooting with a pistol it 
has to be sighted so that the object to be hit can be directly 
aimed at.—W. F. C. (Saco, Me.) 


Friss Domesticus Once Morr,—P. 5.—1 neglected to 
write the P. 8. to my Philadelphia cat story last week, just 
as my friend neglected to tell it to me until I had expressed 
my surprise. Upon careful investigation he found that the 
Tom which he had killed (cutting off his tail in the process) 
and buried was not his own, but that of his: neighbor. His 
own cat had been away on a visit for two weeks and so had 
escaped a tragicend. Now let ‘‘Reignolds” stand up and 
tell the “postscript” to his story; we all know there 1s one. 


— 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Hm Can Catt Woopcocx.—Dyersburg, Tenn., Jan. 
22.—Robins have made their appearance in considerable 
numbers at this place; very fewsnipe yet. Nat Tarrant, 
the sheriff of this county, and Rome Ferrell killed 130 quail 
in oné day recently. They had only one dog to shot over, 
and one man to carry game. Mr. Tarrant is the best shot 
and best hunter im the State, and can imitate the notes of 
any bird, or the barking of squirrels, ete., ete. He tells me 
that he has caught young woodcock on the snow in March, 
and he can imitate the occasional note of a woodcock, or 
the guttural sound that is produced by theinin spring, He 
has watched them by the hour in the plewed ground in the 
early morning or late evening, and is standard authority in 
this section on hunting and fishing, He has caught "pos- 
sums lately that dressed fifteen pounds,—T, L, W. 


COWEENS IN THH NrAGArsa.—Buffalo, Jan, 20,—Large 
numbers of coweens and whistlers are wintering with us on 
Niagara River, and they afford considerable sport to those 
hardy enough to endure the cold. The fall duck shooting 
has been very good, being the best we have had for seyeral 
years. We are wailing patiently for the reappearance of the 
ducks in the spring. Several days ago I noticed a bevy of a 
dozen or more quail across the river, the first I haye ever 
seen in this vicinity, The State Sportsmen’s Association 
will hold its next annual meeting in this city. The Audu- 
bon Club have the arrangements in charge, and it is expected 
that some of the best shots in the State will be present. 
The club will hold a meeting Feb, 1.—W. A. A, 


Rarip MANEUVERING.—Lieut,-Col. Mabee and I were beat- 
ing through very thick woods, being about 200 yards apart, but 
out of sight of each other, and working the Colonel's setter 
between us, when suddenly, with a whirl and a buzz like a 
St. Catharine’s wheel, [ received a smart blow on the fore- 
head, knocking my hat off and causing me to stagger back 
a pace or so, more with astonishment than concussion. 
did not wait long to take in the situation and circumstance, 
knowing full well that a partridge or “ruffed grouse’ had 
flown in my face and was again ‘‘winging his way,” I 
turned, fired and killed the bird before it had time to disap- 
pear even in those thick woods. Rather peculiar, but— 
VERAx (Port Rowan), 


Wuit8-BREASTED BrARrs.—Fort Dodge, Jan. 18, 1884.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of Jan. 10 you 
ask for further hints as regards the belief among hunters 
that a black bear with a white spot on the breast is more 
dangerous than those not having this mark. I once had an 
old hunter in Florida teli me that a bear with a white spot 
on the breast was the most dangerous of all the wild ani- 
mals on the peninsula, the panther not excepted. I have 
also heard this belief spoken of among old hunters in parts 
of New Jersey.—H. E. 


A Frorma West Coast Resorr,.—Manchester, N. H., 
Jan. 23.—Hditor Korest and Stream: Ii ‘‘G. G. F.,” Cinein- 
nati, desires good hunting and fishing, plain living, no 
“fuss and feathers,” he can get it at Crystal River, Her- 
nando county, reached by small vessels from Cedar Keys, 
which make trips twoor three times a week. He could 
probably get boarded at E. R. Kings, a farmer, with whom 
I boarded some years ago.—A. B, D. 


Kansas—Independence,— We have very little of my fav- 
orite sport here (that is fishing), though we have some bass 
of the green or striped kind, here called black bass, 1 haye 
caught some nice strings of them in the past season, running 
in weight from 4to4 pounds. We catch a good many cat- 
fish, some eels, and the market fishermen with their nets catch 
an abuu.lance of buffalo, and others of the sucker family.— 
JUDGE, 


ReBounDING Locks.—Long Island City, N. Y., Jan. 24. 
—Hditor Forest and Stream: After reading the communica- 
tion in last week’s issue, I tried the locks of my gun, a 12- 
gauge, bought a year ago, and found that if [raised the 
hammers almost to fill cock and Jet them go they would 
sometimes strike and explode the caps. The hammers would 
not strike the plungerginless at as near half-cock as it would 
go.—Tip. 


Sea and River Sishing. 


BIG LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 


(XE morning early in December as Messrs. J. Li. May- 

berry and W. P. Farr were hunting partridges in the 
woods bordering upon Rodgers’s Brook, in Bridgton, Me., 
they met with the material for a fish story of unusual inter- 
est. Just above the first rapids in the stream, and but a 
few rods from where it flows into Long Lake, they found a 
“black spot” trout, orland-locked salmon, The fish, lett 
there by a sudden fall in the water, had evidently been dead 
for several hours, and was only partly covered by the water, 
which was here but afew inches deep. The gentlemen 
took the specimen and carried it to the residence of Fish 
Guardian J. Mead. It was found that this fish measured 
thirty-eight inches in length, nine in depth, and weighed 
twenty-five pounds—proportions that considerably exceed 
those of any specimen of which there is an authentic ac- 
count, at least in these waters. The hook on the under 
jaw of this fish was fully an inch and a half in length, and 
strong and hooked enough so that the fish was hung upon 
a stake by it and carried to Mr. Mead’s, a distance of near] 
amile. ‘This hook, which terminates the lower jaw, and, 
in this specimen, passed into and through an opening in the 
upper jaw, it is said, is fully developed only at breeding 
time. It then acts as an effectual muzzle, and prevents the 
wholesale slaughter which would be sure to result from the 
fierce battles between the males of this and every member 
of the trout family, The celebrated eleven-pound “‘red- 
spotted” trout in the possession of Prof. Baird, of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, has this hooked jaw in a very marked 
degree. It was taken off the spawning beds at Nupper 
Dam, Androscoggin Lake, the last day of September, 1880, 
and is the largest specimen on record of that species of trout, 
the Salnio fontinalis. 

Mr. Mead has in his possession an ancient sign which is a 
representation of a land-locked salmon, and is stated to be- 
an exact model of a specimen taken from these waters half 
a century ago, This sign fish is forty inches lone and nearly 
ten inches deep, and it is said that the fish from which it. 
was modeled weighed thirty-five pounds. Hardly any one 


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in its mouth, and there it goes across the lake into that tal 


am 


‘Paw. 81, 1884, 


has believed the sign fish story until the finding of the fish 
mentioned above, owing to the formidable proportions, 
hooked jaws and other features which appeared to be 
monstrosities in the sign model. But placing the fish lately 
found and the sign side by side, it is seen at once that the 
sign is a faithful model of a fish, only a little larger, 

The fish in Mr. Mead’s possession has attracted a large 


number of visitors, and has awakened a renewed interest for ~ 


the protection of these noble inhabitants of the mountain 
lakes from the hayoc which is made among them by sneak- 
ing poachers, at breeding time. So plenty were these fish 
formerly in the waters of Sebago and Pout Lakes that some 
of the older residents tell of canoe loads being taken in a 
very short time. An old gentleman of eighty years says 
that, when a boy, he and a companion captured two barrels 
of land-locked salmon during the time that a third member. 
of their party was collecting wood and making a fire to cook 
their suppers. The untimely war waged upon them at 
breeding time had nearly depleted these waters a few years 
ago; but the protection afforded by the statute laws has al- 


ready worked a marked change, and there is no question but — 


that the fish are rapidly multiplying, In proof may be men- 
tioned the noble specimen mentioned in the Herald the other 
day and the one above. Besides, a gentleman writing from 
Portland last week gives another account of a land-locked 
sulmon, found stranded on the banks of the same Rodgers’s 
Brook on Tuesday, which measured 27 inches in length and 
weighed 224 pounds. The gentleman thinks that when first 
out of the water it must have weighed at least 30 pounds. 
It is evident that the fish, weak from terrible exertions in 
ascending the little stream to breed, were stranded by the 
sudden fall of the water after the rain of Monday,—JSosten 
Herald. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 


A TALK WITH JACK. 


geen the party went out to initiate the Colonel into the 
ar mystery of lake ranges, and the Doctor into the cap- 


‘ture of lake trout, Jack and I went along the shore to find an 


inlet which Uncle Ben said did not exist. I had, on several 
occasions, seen a line of fog above the swamp on the west 
shore of the Jake, in the morning, and felt sure that it indi- 
cated a stream of water, so, with our wading boots, hatchet, 
landing-net lined with mosquito bar, and a preserve jar filled 
with alcohol and slung in a net, we started. Coming to 4 
small spring stream, flowing into the lake from the hills 
which rose high on this side, we put the net below some 
stones in it and then lifted them. 

“Lobsters,” said Jack. 

‘They are not lobsters,” I answered, ‘‘but crawfish, or 
crayfish, as the older name was.” 

“Tf that isn’t a little lobster, then I don’t know one when 
Tsee it. You may call it a crawfish, because it lives in fresh 
avater and never gets large. There are the big elaws and the 
other eight pairs of legs, head, tail, and all. Id like to 
know why it is not a genuine fresh-water lobster?” 

“Jack, things are not always what they seem. This 
animal differs from the lobsters in several important points, 
and, although closely related to the lobster, it is as distinct, 
as a panther is from alion, or asa trout is from a salmon. 
One of its differences is that in the crawfish their young 
when hatched are perfectly formed and eling to the tail of 
the old.one. See here! this one has young how hanging on 
to the appendages under the abdomen or tail. The egg of 


a lobster hatches outa larval form that does not appear a ~ 


bit like its parents. Save these alive, we may want them 
for bait if we conclude to try other kinds of fishing to see 
what is in the lake.” 

“What are these other things?” 

“These long stick-like things, and the tubes made of small 
snail shells are the cases of what are called caddis worms. 
They are larvee of a large fly which is about the water and 
on whieh trout feed; put them back in the water. This dirty- 
looking grub is the larva of a very destructive water-beetle; 
put it in the alcohol, it is not often that we find the larva of 
this beetle on the hillside; it is usually in ponds, where we 
also find the young of the dragon fly. Let us go on and 
keep as near the edge of the lake as the boulders and fallen 
timber will allow. If we had a boat we could explore to 
better advantage, yet Uncle Ben has been over the Jake, both 
in boats and on the ice, and declares that there is no inlet in 
the swamp, but that the lake is entirely fed by springs. If 
this is so then my fog-line theory amounts to nothing.” 

“Took there,” said Jack, pointing at a crow on a dead 
limb a short distance ahead, how I wish J had a gun.” 

‘‘And I am glad that you hayen’t. Why do you wish to 
kill that poor crow? He has never harmed you and is of no 
use if you had it. Never kill anything that you do not want 
unless it is liable to injure you in some way. If you want 
to shoot you can learn to have as much pleasure in bitting 
inanimate objeets as in taking life. I tell you what it is, 
Jack, in this free country of ours there is too much freedom 
for men. and boys to roam about with guns shooting robins, 
song birds, and harmless things. There is hardly a spop 
within ten miles of any city or village, where one can sit and 


observe wood life, because all that has not been kilied has — 


learned wisdom and keeps out of sight. Not-one idle fellow 
in a hundred, who had a gun in his hand, would pass a rab- 
bit, squirrel, woodpecker, or eyen a little chipmunk in 
summer, when they have young dependent upon them, with- 
out shooting it. Now I beg that you will pass the poor crow 


when out gunning, and will confine yourself to legitimate — 


ame,” 

“But,” said Jack, ‘‘the crow pulls the farmer’s corn and 
carries off his young chickens, and is a nuisance, anyhow,” 

“Then let the farmer shoot him, if he will, but as you 
have neither chickens nor corn, J don’t see why you should 
trouble yourself about the matter. There are plenty of 
worms boring into the farmer’s apple trees, but you do not 
go around probing their holes with a wire to kill them. 
Your excuse is a poor one, and as to the question ot the 
crow being a nuisance, there are two sides to that, The 
crow could show you a list of grubs, cut worms, etc., that he 
destroys, which might balance his account. I think, Jack, 
that you only try to excuse your natural desire to kill, and 
this desire seems an instinct born with man and only élimin- 
ated with age or education, which in this sense may be 
synonymous, Now watch that crow! See, il has generac 
pine where perhaps may be a nest with young ones that will 
ereet the coming of their mother with open mouths. Had 
you killed the old one there might have been starvation in 
the now happy family in yonder pine. There runs a little 
‘teeter-snipe’ along the beach, there is no reason to kill it, 
certainly it is a beautiful object, and its life lends a charm 
to nature. Ican conceive of nothing more desolate than 
. my. 4 ‘ ‘ae « 


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ods witheut animal life, Of course there are cer- 
cinds of this life which are tecognized asgame, and the 
a1 killing of which, in seasou, cannot be objected to, 
kill anesting bird should be a heinous offense.” 

li,” replied Jack, ‘what you say may be true, but it 
sere poison when a quail rises before you while 
oting woodcock in summer, and I think that if I don’t 
kill it some one else will.” 
_ Now, Jack, that isno excuse at all. What would you 
think of aman who saw another asleep on the road and 
said thatif he did not rob him of his watch and pocket- 
hook some one else would. Never mind what others might 
or might not do. Do what you know or believe to be right 
' and you will have no cause to regret having passed by the 

uail in the forbidden season, even though you know 
that some pot-hunter will bag it inside of an hour, 
_ “This,” said Jack, ‘is a new way to look atit. Father 
always told me not to kill certain things at certain seasons, 
bet he never took the trouble to explain why, I will never 
again shoot a crow, nor # bird during the breeding season. 
Here is the edge of the swamp, but there is no inlet to be 
seen. What shall we do, go back?” 

“Wo, we have wading boots, let’s change our shoes for 
them and goin. Leave everything here except a creel and 
a landing-net, and we will see what the swamp looks 
; ike,’* 

In half an hour we had penetrated the swamp by wading, 
going around deep places, climbing over fallen trees, and 
dodging under vines and limbs, and then we struck a fine 
stream, which yielded small shiners and chubs to our 
landing-net, and we saw evidences of trout that we knew 
would gladden the Doctor’s heart, for he was a wading fish- 
erman, who only fished the Bigosh from a boat because 
there was no other way to do it, With a good collection of 

_ Oyprinoids, for which Jack said I could lie awake all night 
inventing jaw-twisting names, of which neither I nor any 
‘other man knew the meaning, we returned to camp to hear 
how the Doctor had succeeded in getting a lesson in fishing 
for lake trout and how the Colonel had found the ranges. 

Frep Matner. 


Bens Devourep THE Trout.—The Hartford, Conn,, 
Times says: ‘In the middle reservoir, at West Hartford— 
one of the reservoirs which supply the city with water— 
were placed several years ago 13,000 young trout and 1,000 
land-locked salmon. Mr, J. G. Lane contributed 5,000 trout, 
and Mr. J. Holeomb as many more, The salmon, we believe, 

were put in by the fish commissioners. Occasionally some 
Jucky fisherman has landed a nice trout from this reservoir, 
but the catch was not commensurate with the expectations, 
' and it was surmised that the trout and salmon families were 
| becoming depopulated by some agency besides the hook and 
line. When the reservoir was drawn off a discouraging 
state of things was revealed to those who had advocated the 
feasibility of stocking the reservoir with trout and salmon, 
Nota salmon was found and only about one hundred trout 
_ could be discovered. But there were twenty bushels of 
_ shiners, the size of one’s fingers, and a few carp weighing 
_ half a pound, and also thirty eels of large size, but no small 
ones to speak of. The ecls as they were killed and stretched 
out upon the bank, side by side, were a sight to look at, 
None of them were Jess than three feet in length and three 
inches in diameter, while the largest was 45 inches in length 
_ and plump 34 inches in diameter. The man who attempted 
to strangle the large one with his naked hands was subjected 
to a very lively shaking up, and he was willing to let out the 
job long before the lively eel showed any signs of yielding. 
Now the supposition is that the eels had trout and salmon 
diet until these fish were nearly exterminaied, and the few 
that escaped had grown out of their reach and were able to 
take care of themselves. 
‘tickled the epicurean palates of their enemies, till no more 
could be gathered in for the sacrifice, we are at liberty to 
guess that shiner diet was not ignored by the greedy eel, 
though their number would indicate that they had not been 
seriously thinned out. President Clark, of the water board, 
ie into the big Farmington reservoir, last fall, about one 
undred German carp, and as nothing has been seen of any 
of them since, he is of the opinion that they may also have 
become rations to some rapacious bigger fish. But he may 
be wrong, as this reservoir is so large that one hundred lit- 
tle fish could easily keep out of the way for a few months, 
Mr. Clark proposes to get some more of these carp and keep 
them by themselves in some running stream until they be- 
come large enough to take care of themselves and then put 
them into the reservoir and watch results. The German 
carp grow to be of large size—somé weighing as high as 
seventy pounds. They take on weight at the rate of three 
poundsa year, Another thing. Of the trout caught in the 
reservoir after it had been drawn off, the largest ones were 
not fit to eat, while the half-pounders were equal in flavor 
and taste to the nicest brook trout,” 


EXHIBITION OF FisH.—At the second annual display of 
the New York Fanciers’ Club, held at Madison Square Gar- 
den during the past week there was a fine exhibit of fish and 
fishculture. Mr. E, G, Blackford had an array of tanks 
and hatching jars which contained black bass, carp, tench 
and gudgeons from France, goldfish, catfish, axolotls, cray- 
fish, terrapins, gars, sea. anemones, eggs of whitefish from 
Michigan, and fry and eggs of brook trout. The South Side 
Sportsmen’s Club of Long Island, exhibited rainbow trout 
of from half a pound up to three pounds weight, brook 
trout, salmon and land-locked salmon of fair size. This dis- 
play of fish, in charge of Prof. H. J. Rice, was one of the 
principal features of the exhibition and held the crowd 
longer than any other feature. 


Unirorm Noumeurs For Hoons.—We notice from Fornsr 
AND Stream that American anglers are agitating to get their 
rod makers to adopt one uniform size for winch plates. 1t 
would be very desirable for our English rod makers to adopt 
some uniform size. The present system of making the fast- 
ehings of different sizes causes the angler an endless amount 
of entirely men seeety worry, while it does not add one 
farthing to the profit of the muker, in fact, the reverse, for 
an angler frequently declines to purchase a winch he has 
taken a fancy to when he finds it will not fit his rods. In 


the same way the present bewildering system of numbering |f 


hooks is of no advantage to the makers; indeed, it only gives 
them and their customers an endless amount of unnecessary 
trouble. Why should there not be as much certainty of 
‘getting what you want when ordering hooks as when oyder- 
ing a gun or cartridges? We are certain that the sporting 
papers and anglers generally will warmly support any 
ys ¢ . ’ 


After the trout and salmon had: 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


combined aetion of the trade for the purpose of establishing 
a uniform size for winch fastenings, and a uniform number- 
ing of hooks. We would gladly aid our manufacturers by 
giving illustrations, drawn to scale, of any stundards that 
might be decided upon. Werecommend these suggestions 
to the attention of the hook makers of Redditch and Kendal, 
and ef manufaeturers of rods and lines generally, They 
could not show their known willingness to please those for 
whose use they make their goods better than ee remedying 
a long-felt grievance—one which has been complained of by 
every angker and angling writer.—London Fishing Gazette. 


PickerREL Fisnine Trrouea tHe Icr.—Saco, Me.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: A. party of four of us spent five 
days on the Parsonfield Pond and had fair success with the 
pickerel. We cut holes in the ice, but the first two days 
were too cold to fish. The third day was better and wetook 
several fine fish. One of our pickerel weighed five and ahalf 
pounds, and measured twenty-seven inches in length, and 
an eel was taken that was twenty-eight inches long. In all 
we took twenty-eight pickerel.—_W. F. C. 


CANADIAN SALMON Rivers are advertised for lease, in 
our advertising pages. 


Hishculture. 


FOOD OF TROUT. 


I AM in receipt of the proceedings of the American Fishcul- 

tural Association, at their meeting last June. I notice 
that the discussions partook largely on food for fish. This is 
an important subject in artificial fishculture, and has been 
heretofore somewhat overlooked. Wemight as well expect 
John Bull to go without his roast beef, as a fish to live and be 
in good condition, without an abundance of good food, and 
such food as is suited to its wants. Some fish feed largely on 
crustaceans, some on small fish, and others on insects. The 
wants of all can be easily ascertained, The trout of the 
Castalia spring, near Sandusky, mentioned in a former paper 
of mine, feed largely on a small crustacean, that abounds in 
the extensive banks of aquatic moss, found in that famous 
spring. 

This moss also abounds in two species of the little fish, 
known as the stickleback. The trout feed largely on this fish, 
which is ofthe genus Gasterostrus (Linn.), 

The brook trout of Lake Superior, in many places, feed 
largely on this fish. At one time I was fishing for trout at 
Partridge Island, near Marquette. I took a large trout with 
a fly; after landing it, she threw out of her stomach a live 
stickleback, which swam off lively enough. I have at this 
time over a half-dozen of the five-spined stickleback fishes in 
my aquarium, in my dining-room. They are a very interést- 
i fish, and a favorite pet with me. They are a nest-building 
fish; the male builds the nests, and takes care of the eggs and 
the young. The nestis built among the aquatic plants, some 
distance above the ground, and is shaped precisely like a 
lady’s muff, and the material is little bits of plants that he 
picks up, cemented together by mucus that he secretes, The 
male pele the nest in one night (or did with me, once upon 
a time). 

I have never seen a stickleback over two and a half inches 
long; we have at least two species in Ohio; the three-spined, 
and the five-spined. While lying at anchor at Fort Mackinaw 
one day, I saw myriads of them near the surface of the water, 
and captured a lot and brought them te Cleveland, alive. I 
would say more about this interesting little fish, but I am too 
si T, GARLIOK. 


ck. 
Brprorp, O,, Jan. 19. 


REPORT OF THE CONNECTICUT COMMISSION. 


Pae eighteenth report of the Fish Commissioners of this 
State opens with the question of the pollution of waters, 
and says that this is a matter which was not deemed worthy 
of an Ne Ae by the last Legislature. After referring 
to a bill which was introduced in 1882, and which provided for 
a Commission to examine and report on this subject, they say 
that the question is a serious one, and one that _will,be sure to 
command attention again at no distant day. 

There is no doubt that the pollution of rivers, streams and 
harbors by individuals and corporations in their greed of gain 
is a great and growing evil. hy the people of Connecticut, 
New York and other States have allowed their fisheries to be 
injured by manufacturers, whose only excuse for making 
sewers of our streams is that it would cost them more to dis- 
pose of itin any other manner, is beyond our knowledge. 

he report quotes from a Hartford paper concerning the 
growing scarcity of shad in the Connecticut Riyer as follows: 

‘The reason fer the falling off is laid to the failure to pass 
stringent laws to prevent the taking of young shad, and the 
unwillingness of the fish to entera stream so polluted by sew- 
age and manufacturers’ chemicals as the Connecticut is be- 
coming,” 

A comparison of the fishing twenty years ago and now is 
thus made: ‘There are always people fishing off the docks at 
the river, but the catch is pitifully different from what it 
used to be, even twenty years ago, and the change is probably 
due more to the pollution of the water by manufactories on 
the main stream and its branches than to any other cause. 
At that time there were great numbers of perch, and in the 
course of a season a good many striped bass were caught, 
running usually from half a pound to five orsix pounds. In 
the shad season, boys fishing for the perch with shad roe for 
bait used to get long strings, and, occasionally at such times, 
the water was fairly alive with small perch that could be 
caught litterally as fast as the line could bethrownin. All 
through the season there was a possibility of getting a reason- 
able quantity of good fish. Those who had occasion to drive 
across the river frequently will remember the bass fisherman 
who could Haualty. be seen in a boat, anchored just above the 
bridge, and who kept at it day after day, Ten-pound bass 
were not so rare but that several were usually taken in a sea- 
son. At present, very few of these fish are caught, and the 
idea of going out to fish all day for striped bass hardly occurs 
toany one. It is very probable that the putting in of black 
ass has done something to reduce the numbers of other fish, 
but those familiar with the river and with the ways of fish, 
attach more importance to the change in the water, and in- 
Stance, among other things, the decrease in shad, which is 
sufficiently indicated by the fact that, with all the stocking of 
the stream from year to year, the supply does not reach the 
point that would be expected. Something is to be inferred 
alco from the decrease in dace, a fish of no particular food 
value, but handsome, active fellows that thrivein clear water, 
and were dae and abundant a few years ago, but are now 
much reduced in numbers, while comparatively few large ones 
seem to be left, The failure of the attempts to stock the river 
with salmon points in the same direction. Of all the young 

ry pie in, very few reached maturity and returned; not 
hearly as many as might naturally be expected to escape the 
perils that attend small fish. The actual condition of the water 
may be seen by any who will examineit. In appearances, taste, 
and smell itis very different from what it was. The same pro- 
cess is going on. that has been pretty well carried out in such 
streams as the Hockanum, where the mills have almost killed off 
all the fish that used to abound inthe stream, One curious thing 


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in both cases is, that though the fish are not nearly as plenty 
as before, there are still considerable numbers of young ones, 
apparently one year or sometimes two years old, while larger 
ones have disappeared. Allowing all that can be allowed for 
the use of fine meshed nets in the spring, it still seems as if 
the fish did not find food enough to thrive on in the contami- 
nated water, or become diseased and died off. The fish that 
are now most abundant are the poorer sorts, that do as well 
in foul water asin clean, Artificial prope apte partly meets 
the difficulty, as in the case of shad, but it cannot take the 
place of suitable natural conditions for the fish; and good 
udges maintain that the flavor of a Connecticut River shad 
is not what it used to be, even of those caught far up the 
stream so as to allow for the slight difference that used to 
exist, or was said to exist, between fish caught as they on- 
tered the river and those that had spent some days in fresh 
water. As long as the river receives so much poison from fac- 
tories, and so mvuch sewage from cities, itis probable that the 
supply of fish will remain small in quantity and poor in 
quality.” 

The catch of shadin the Connecticut for the past three years 
was: In 1881, 351,678; im 1882, 272,903: in 1883, 177,308. In the 
Rerniteaton river it was: In 1881, 11,505; in 1882, 3,800; in 1883, 

155. 

These facts are serious ones to reflect upon. Are the present 
modes of fishing so destructive to the shad as to lead to their 
extermination! The Commissioners have always believed this 
to be true, unless the natural increase be aided by artificial 
propagation. In fact they predicted exactly what has oc- 
curred. Bg referring to page 15 of the report of 1879, these 
words will be found: ‘For various reasons, but chiefly for 
want of a sufficient appropriation, the artificial hatching of 
shad at; Holyoke has been discontinued for the last three years. 
A decrease in the catch of these fish may consequently be 
looked for during the next three, or perhaps four years.” This 
prediction was based upon the fact that thrée or four years 
are required for a young shad to attainmaturity. The above- 
mentioned figures show how just was the prediction. In 1881 
artificial propagation was again commenced on the Farming- 
ton River, and each year since it has been continued as far 
as possible, though the location is far inferior to that in Massa- 
chusetts below the Holyoke Dam. 

The report of the Superintendent, Mr. H. J. Fenton, givesa 
total of 3,215,550 shad fry planted. We will refer to the report 
again, 


MARYLAND,.—Elkton, Md.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Col. Thomas Hughlett haying been appointed clerk to the 
Court for Talbot county, has resigned the office of Fish Com- 
missioner for the eastern shore of Maryland. During the time 
he held the office just vacated, he distributed twenty millions 
of fish to the waters of the eastern shore, against eighteen 
hundred thousand distributed by his predecessor. Tt is a 
matter of regret that the services of so efficient an officer 
should be lost to the lovers of fish and fishing. His successor 
has not yet been appointed.—T. 


The Zennel. 


FIXTURES, 
BRNOH SHOWS. 


March 4, 5, 6 and ?.—Cineinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall, En- 
tries close Feb. 25. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B, KEst- 
tredge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

March 12, 13 and 14,—New Haven Kennel Club's First Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory, Edward 8. Porter, Secretary, Box 
657 New Haven, Conn, 

March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. C. Greyille Harston, Secretary, 
Toronto, Canada, 

April —, 1884.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show, Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. C. M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio, 

May 6, 7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Eighth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas. 
es SUL ee eaRCur? R. C, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 

Yew York. 


A. K. R. 


a (es AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,’ P.O. Box 2832, New York, Number 
of entries already printed 744, 


DOGS AND GAME 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Texas sportsmen do not take as much interest in ‘‘feathered 

ame” as the sportsmen ot the more Eastern and Southern 
States, owing to the fact that we have always had an abund- 
ance of larger game, such as deer, antelope, bear, panther, 
cat, fox,-etc., etc., and until quite recently plenty of buffalo 
inhabited the unsettled part of the frontier. Hence, we have 
but few good wing-shots as compared with the older settled — 
States; and we are even further behind on dogs and dogs-train- 
ing than we are on good shooting. However, we have some 
fine shots and here and there a good dog. As a general rule, 
however, they are quite imperfectly trained, owing to the fact 
that eash sportsman trains his own dog, professional trainers 
not being accessible. This has resulted in an entire absence of 
system throughout the State. 

Dogs thus trained are entirely worthless except to the one 
who trains them, as they have by such a system only learned 
their master and not the science of hunting. Forinstance: I 
have a dog (a pointer) that I trained myself, or rather he and 
Ihave learned each other by constant association from his 
puppyhood, for I know nothing about training, To me he is 
a good dog, and with him I venture to say that I can bag as 
many birds in a day as Mr. Crawford with his matchless Gath, 
because he knows me eyen to 2 frown and I know him as 
well; but he cannot be handled by any oneelse atall, Neither 
can | handle him effectively in the field with other dogs with- 
out interfering with them. Nor can I instruct others how to 
handle him, because [ have no system about it, 

A good working dog is the very life of a hunt, and as aie of 
your correspondents has remarked, “‘of infinitely greater sat- 
isfaction than a well-tilled bag.” 

And here I would call the attention of Texas sportsmen to 
the importance of organizing a State kennel club, to the end 
that we may bring order out of the present chaotic state of 
affairs and drive the mongrel from the field. Besides, such 
an organization might pueaalty: aid in the preservation of 
game, whichis now so abundant, but which under our present 
system is subject to devastation from every conceivable 
quarter. 

Texas at_ present is indeed a fine field for the sportsman. 
Game of all kindsis abundant. Of the feathered class, we 
have the wild turkey, prairie chicken, geese, ducks innumer- 
able, both as to quantity and kind, plover, various species of 
snipe, and two species of quail—the Bob White and blue quail, 
as he is called here. The Bob White is the most abundant and 
by far the best game bird, indeed, with me he is the ace of all 
birds, The blue quail is about one-third larger than the Bob 
White, bluish color, with speckled breast and crested head, 
presenting a handsome appearance. They are usually found 
I coveys ranging from 25 to 60; are fleet of foot, and will not 


IN TEXAS. 


12 


take te wing sree when hard pressed, While the covey re- 
mains unbroken they will not lie from a dog or anything else. 
When broken and very much scattered, if they have good 
coyer. will sometimes lic, though are quite unreliable. They 
are “no good” for the sportsman, but are the chief delight of 
the pot-hunters, who frequently killas many as adozen at a 
shot. Asa table bird, they are about the same as the Bob 
White. They inhabit only the extreme western part of the 
State. Plenty of them in this immediate vicinity, and pot- 
hunters are how daily bringing in large quantities. M. M. 
SAW ANGELA, Texas, January 1884. 


A HOME FOR PET DOGS. 
Edatoy Forest and Stream: 

There are in the city of New York a very great many gen- 
tlemen who wish to keep a dog as a companion, but complain 
that they have no, place to Keep one. If they ive at home 
there are many objections, and if they live at any of the hotels 
or boarding houses there are still more, 
IT would suggest that a certain number of gentlemen get to- 
gether and form a club, the object of which shall be to hire 
premises im a convenient neishborhood, say some stable 
where suitable kennels can be made, and tented by members 
by the year, and a good man and assistant be engaged who 
shall take chargeand feed the dogs, The owners would then 
take an interest in the kennels, and it might then be further 
extended for the summer months by taking seme place in the 
country, where the breeding and improvement of dogs could 
be thoroughly gone into, I think this idea would reach a 
class who are lovers of dogs; but perhaps have not the time 
or money to indulge in their hobby. We must commence 
in a small way. What we do afterward must be @eter- 
mined by the club ora committee appointed by the mem- 
hers, I shall be glad to receive any communications from 
your readers, and will say for myself, that finding the dificulty 
of keeping any of my dogs in city, I would like to meet with 
afew who are in thesame fix, willing to rent a stable or some 
suitable place where we can have the pleasure of seeing our 
vanine friends, andtake them fora walk. I also think thatif 
we get a sufiicient number of members, we can institute a 
home for friendless dogs, and if we are suiticiently prosperous 
Wwe Gan engage the best veterinary talent and institute a dog 
hospital; but thisis allin the future, what I want to do now 
is to get enough men together who wil! share the expense of a 
kennel in New York for companionable dogs. 

JOHN HE. I. GRAINGER. 


THE MASSACHUSETTS DOG LAWS. 


A hes present agitation of the question of the dog laws of 
our State, is due, so it issaid, to the efforts of those acting 
in the interests of the sheep owners, with a view to encourag- 
ing the pastoral ambition of our people, . 

Let us look at the matter then from the sheep owner's stand- 
point, Let it be conceded that our legislators should look with 
a single eye tothe development of the prosperity of such per- 
sons as desire to lead the guileless life of shepherds, and let it 
be conceded that other interests, even if they ure those of a 
majority of our citizens, must be subservient to thesmall shep- 
herd class, Then letus examine ourstatute books, and briefly, 
or fully, investigate the results of our present law, and it must 
be at once apparent that the gentle shepherds are amply pro- 
vided for, 

Chap. 102, of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts, Sec. 98, is 
to this effect: “Any one who suffers loss by the worrying, 
maimine, or killing of his sheep, lambs, fowls, or other domestic 
animals, may inform the chairman of the selectmen of the 
town, wherein the damage occurs, the chairman shall then 
decide whether the injury was caused by dogs, if so he shall 
appraise the amount thereof, provided he does not think it ex- 
ceeds $20, if he thinks the amount of damages greater than 
that sum, he shall appoint two other appraisers to act with 
him; in either case a certificate of the appraised loss shall be 
made, which is to be allowed by the county commissioners, if 
no objection to the appraisal is proven before them, where- 
upon they shall issue an order for the amount of the certificate, 
which is paid from the dog taxes received and in the county 
treasury.” This generous law does not compel the suffering 
farmer to prove his actual loss, nor to demonstrate that any 
particular dog, or, indeed, any dog did the mischief, the 
declaration of the omniscient selectman is sufficient, and upon 
it the dogs are convicted, his judgment is usually to the effect 
that the sheep or fowls came to their deaths by some means 
unknown, probably a dog. 

Should the dog be decreed to be the criminal, theselectman 
then receives a fee of one dollar for making the appraisal of 
damages, but should he decide that any one of a thousand 
other possible causes led to this loss of the complainant, then 

such selectman receives only his mileage fee. Under such cir- 
cumstances is it to be wondered at that only by a direct inter- 
position of Proyidence are the dogs ever declared innocent, 
and isit nob natural that t1e amounts disbursed from the 
county treasuries, on account of damages alleged to be caused 
by dogs, are so enormous? The decisions of the selectmen or 
the appraisers are, of course, chiefly based upon the ex parte 
statements of the complainant, and damages are assessed ac- 
cordingly- 

Here isa fact within my own knowledge to illustrate the 
working of the law: 

Tn a certain town, which could be named, a certain farmer 
discovered one morning that several of his fowls had departed 
¢his life during the preceding night. Conscious that this ap- 
parent misfortune isin fact areal bonanza, he complains to 
the selectmen, and his loss is promptly assessed at about 540, 
to be paid from the dog taxes; after the certificate of damage 
had issued, a neighbor of this farmer confidentially informed 
the writer, that upon the night of the slaughter of the poultry 
he Himself saw a fine fox emerging from the farmer’s hen 
roost. “But,” said he, “I shallsay nothing of this, because 
there is no reason wity my neighbor should not get his money.” 

But we have recited but one of the remedies allowed by our 
impartial law. When, asis rarely the case, a farmer has any 
legal proof that a dog did the miuschiet of which he complains, 
he may then recover from the ownerof such dog, in an action 
ef tort, double, or in certain cases triple, the amount of dam- 
ages caused, This remedy is analternative to the one first 
mentioned. Are these facts of a nature to bear out the asser- 
tion that sheep cannot be profitably bred in this State because 
our law does not afford the farmer adequate protection? 

Having considered the case of the sheep owner, we may now 
fairly devote a few lines to theinterest of thedog owner. He 
is taxed two dollars per year for every male dog over three 
months old, and five dollars for the same time for every 
female dog, and these taxes are furtherincreased by muvici- 
pal regulation, a perfectly enormous percentage when the 
average market value of dogs is estimated. These taxes are 
paid into the county treasuries to meetthe drafts of the county 
commissioners under the provisions of law already cited, This 
charge is then, strictly speaking, rather of the nature of an 
jnderanity fund, than a tax, and is.deposited in order torescue 
all possible losses attributed to the injuries caused by dogs. 
The ease with which this deposit may be drawn upon by 
claimants, and the want of any proper restrictions as to proot 
of claims, have been sufficiently iilustrated. Yet in spite of 
the exorbitant dratts upon this fund, there is stilla large sur- 
plus paid back to the towns hes year for the purpose ot 
Taintainine schools or libraries. Why dog owners should be 
fixed upou as the victims to bear this burden, though it be 
to support excellent institutions, is certainly not clear. Wor is 
this all; amy Owver of a dog which has actually caused a loss 


for which damages have been paid trom the county treasury 


as already mentioned, is still Gable to the county tor the 
damages so paid te be recovered in an action of tort. 
Further aah this, any person, be he of good or illvepute, 


To obviate all this: 


tion, which accounted for much of his wit and humor. 


watched her spread them out, 
teoons dar dat ‘ill take de shine offen dem fixins.” 


Manuel! j 
‘specs he’s jis put dat bonnit on an’ gone down stars to show 
off. Come back yer. Manuel!” 


sith as he looked sleepily at Phyllis. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


may, by simply making oath that he believes a certain dog to 


edangerous, and giving notice of such oath to the owner, 


cause such dog, however innocent he may be, or however yal- 
uable to his owner, either to be killed or kept constantly con- 
fined; and any person may kill such dog if it be afterward 
found ontside the inclosure, or away from the immediate care 


of its owner, however harmless the dog may be at the time. 


Thus, under the sanction of the law, an evil-minded person 
may maliciously cause loss and suffering to an honest, peace- 
able citizen, either by compelling him to kill an unoffending 


animal, or at least to keep him perpetually imprisdned. 

If an exhaustive investigation be made into the condition of 
things under the present law, there can but one result follow, 
the public will learn how, for the henetit of afew, the many 
labor under an unjust and overwhelming burden, and if any 
change in the dog laws be made, it should certainly be in the 
direction of reliéf to the dog owner. 

It would seem to be wise then for the sheep owner and his 
friends to hold their peace, and be at least satisfied with the 
existing undue fayor shown to them. Let them consider well 
the experience of the farmer in the fable, who in seeking too 
much, lost what he had, in killing his generous goose. Lrx. 


CINCINNATI DOG SHOW. 


eee we is the premium list of the bench show to be 

held at Cincinnati, O., the first week in March: Mastitts, 
St. Bernards, Newfoundlands, greyhounds, Scotch deerhounds, 
Irish water spaniels, feld spaniels (over 28 pounds), cocker 
spaniels’ (under 28 pounds), foxhounds, beagles, dachshunde, 
bull-terriers, black an’ tan terriers (over 7 pounds), Bedling- 
ton terriers, Skye terriers, hard-haired Seotech terriers, Irish 
terriers, Yorkshire terriers, pugs, toy terriers, King Charles, 
Blenheim and Japanese spaniels, $10 for the best dog or bitch, 
and &5 for the second best; champion English setters, [Trish 
setters and pointers, $20 for the best dog and $20 for the best 
bitch; champion Gordon setters, $20 for the best dog or bitch; 
champion tox-terriers, collies and pugs, $10 for the best dog 
or bitch, Open classes, English setters and Irish setters, $15 for 
the best dog, $5 for the second, bitches the same, puppies 37 
and $5, dogs or bitches; black and tan or Gordon setters, $15 
for the best dog or bitch, $5 for the second; puppies 47 and $3, 
dogs or bitches; pointers, dogs over 55 pounds, pointers, dogs 
under 55 pounds, bitches, any weight, $15 and #5; puppies 37 
and $3, dogs or bitches; fox-terriers, collies, bulldogs, dogs, $10 
and $5; bitches the same; fox-terrier puppies, $9 for the best 
dog or bitch; miscellaneous, three prizes of $5 each, making a 
total of $840 distributed among fifty-one classes, 


DUKE. 


peste Duke without any extras, Acommon enough 
name, but no common dog, thank you! Of Irish See 
eft 
an orpan at an early age, his youthful owner raised him on 


the bottle, sleeping on the sitting-room Jounge that he might 
conveniently feed the puppy during the night, At two montlis 
of age Duke would retrieve nicely, and in due time became a 
reliable field companion. 
am going to tell, 
original owner presented him to a brother-in-law, an official 
at Washington whose residence was in the country, fifteen 
imiles from Washington and four miles from the railroad 
station. 
model of perfection; but when business at the capital required 
the daily presence of his owner, Duke grew restless and cast 
his eye about for employment and recreation. 


It isnot of his field qualities that I 
utsome of his pranks and misdoings. His 


While his master had time to hunt, Duke was a 


Duke wished to follow his master’s carriage to the station 


each morning, but fearing to lose him, Mr. H. always fastened 
the dog in the house before starting. 
to Duke, so he changed the programme by disappearing on 
the appearance of Mr. H, at the breakfast table, All search 
for him was fruitiess, but at the sound of wheels going out the 
lane, Duke’s head would appear around the corner of the 
barn, and setting off across the wood he would meet the cai- 
riage at a curve two miles from the house, and smile just as 
sweetly as if he was there by appointment, and there was no 
resisting that smile. 
rest fora half hour and then start onthe war path. After 
overturning. the feed troughs of the chickens and turkeys, he 
would gnaw the halter of a favoritehorse and race him down 
the lane. If the oxen were in the pasture, he would drive 
them into a Gorner and keep them there until some 
called him away. He was contented if anybody woul 
and play with him, but he must play, and it left alone would 
seek company among the stock, or amuse himself at the ex- 
pense of somebody or something. 


This grew monotonous 


Returning with the coachman, he would 


erson 
stay 


Phyllis, the cook, was invited to a wedding which would 


take place on Monday, and accordingly her best ‘‘fixings” had 
to be dusted, aired and trimmed up to the height of fashion. 
By Saturday noon all was ready and laid out on the bed of 
Phyllis’s room in the ‘‘quatters.” — 


“Golly! Dey’s prone!” said Manuel, Phyllis’s husband, as he 
“Guess dar won't be many 


“Um, well L’specs not. Jis’ you go an’ stir dat soup while 


1 go fotch missus to look at my boardrobe,” and the darkies 
left the room on their respective errands. 


‘“Vessum, tis mighty putty, an’ dem dar niggers ‘ill be bilin’ 


ober wid jellesum,” said Phyllis, as she ushered in Mrs. H. to 


admire her outfit 

“Very pretty, Phyllis!” 

“Vassum, and dat dar—uim, 1 ‘spees—whar’s dat—bonnit? 
Manuel! What you do wid dat dar bonnit? I 


‘Why, Phyllis, I haint got no bonnit, Fo’ goodness sake, 


honey, what you tink I want wid yoo bonnit/” and Manuel 
rolle 
went to the window and looked out on the lawn. 


his eyes and gazed around the room, while Mrs, H. 

Down stairs and out doors flew Phyllis. Duke was lying 
quietly on the grass, and raised his head and heaved a deep 
“Mishty funny—dat 
doz’s bin asleep, else I'd b’leye he’d bin dar. Um, what's dat 
doin’ dar,” as she picked up a large red feather from a flower 
border. ‘You Juke, come yer!” but Duke stirred not. Her 
repeated calls only caused him to spread himself flatter and 


blink uneasily. 


When Manuel appeared at the door Duke arose cautiously 
from amass of tangled green silk, red ribbons and bonnet 


wire, which he had been lying on to hide, and bounded off to 


the woods. Mrs. H. made it all right with Phyllis by giving 
her another bonnet and a pair of earrings, and when Duke 
rea 
that e was anything but an orderly, rather sober dog, 

M. Von CULIN. 


THE BEAGLE CLUB,—We have received seyeral ballots 
for officers of the Rew American-English Beagle Club. Blanks 
for voting will be furnished by ate W. H. Ashburner, No. 27 
North Thirty-eighth street, Philadelphia, Pa, The nomina- 
tions are: Hor President: W. H. Ashburner, General R. 
Rowett, For Secretary and Treasurer: A. C. Krueger, O, W. 
Roger's. For Executive Committee (three to be elected): J. 
M. Bergold, Dr. J. W. Downey, F, D. Hallett, General F, A. 
Bond, Dr. C. E, Nichols, A. Butler Duncan. A. D. Barber, 
Louis Sloan, T. T. Phleger, Jas. A. Stovell, J. N. Dodge. In 
compliance to the requesb of those who are interested we will 
receive and count the votes, which, the committee states, 


must be in hand by us not later than Feb. 5, We shall be very 


glad to see this club established, and we hope that all our 


readers who take 4n interest in the beagle will add ‘strength: 


to the club by enrolling themselves.in its membership. 


performance at the New 
yearsago will remember that ainong the evidences of popu- 
lar favor which followed his superb rendition of Manrico in 


have been desired. 
glow to the cheeks, but the cold was not severe enough to put 


in from 


red with his master’s carriage no ove would dream | 


ase, Bi, 188d, 


CURRENT DOG STORIES. 
> EXIV. 


Madame Christitie Nilsson’s heroic rescue of a doe from the 
clutches of a parcel of boys caused a great deal of favorable 
comment among the members of the Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty te Animals yesterday, and it wvas suggestaa by 
one of them that the society might present one of their new 
$1.50 silver medals to the songstress, Tha face of the medal 
bears the seal of the society. This represents a fencing mateh 
between Justice—with a sword—and a draymanu—with a club 
—overthe prostrate body of the latter’s horse, The same 
member of the society who suggested the giving of the medal 
thought that Madame Nilsson—having protably a foreiguer’s 
contemptuous ideas of American art—imight consider the scene 
portrayed on the face of the medal to be an attempt at a de- 
scription of that enacted between herself and the boys. 
Neither Mr. Abbey nor Charles Mapleson had seen Madame 
WNilsson’s new dog. Mi. Abbey had ealled, but the dog was 
‘not at home.” Tbe occurrence has revived in theatrical 
circles many touching stories about actresses and dogs, most 
of which are comparatively new. 

“Tong before Mr. Abbey—I mean Madame Nilsson—rescued 
that dog,” said John Stetson’s representative at the Walnut 
Street Theater, ‘Miss Sara Jewett's dog fell out of the fourth 
story window of the Continental Hotel. This was last week, 
during the engagement of the Iitth Avenue Company here. 
Two legs and a rib were broken. Dr. Agnew was sent forand 
repaired the damages. Miss Jewett bore the shock with great 
fortitude, She took it as oneof the trials of a stav’s life. 
When she was in a stock company her dogs neyer fell out of 
the window, Speaking of dogs, have you seen cur png?’ 

“Miss Jewett’s dog is just a little too previous,” said Manager 
Rice, at the Arch Street Opera House.” Miss Marie Conron lost 
her dog, a beautiful Skye, when the Duff Company first came 
here. It was one of the first things that Mr. Duif did—I mean 
ib was one of the first misfortunes that happened to the com- 

any. 

“One of the saddest incidents that I ever beheld,” said Ma, 
Gilmore, at the Grand Central Theater, ‘was when Miss Lyddy 
Denier’s dog, a toy terrier, hardly larger than a mouse, leaped 
from its mistress’s arms as she was leaving this theater, and 
was positively crushed to a jelly by a passing coupe, iss 
Denier was the leading lady of the Buffalo Bill eombination, 
which J need hardly say was here before the Duff Company. 
I hardly like to accuse Miss Conron’s dog of plagiarism, but I 
think that Skye is a trifle left, so to speak.” 

“All these Bee forget,” said Stage Director Frank H. 
Wade, at the Arch Street Theater, ‘‘that Miss Rose Eytinge’s 
bulldog which appeared in ‘Oliver Twist’ leaped from the 
lightning express train, while on its way to this city from 
New York, at the very beginning of the season—way back in 
September—and has never been geen since. Kate Claxton 
lost her diamonds a little while before. The bulldog recog- 
nized the crisis and leaped.” 

Mr, Zimmerman ret the 7iines reporter as he returned to 
the Chestnut Street Opera House after his round of the 
theaters. ‘‘The dog stories of this season are all very well,” 
he said, coldly, after listening to them, “but the original] 
canine calamity befel a member of Mr, Abbey’s. company 
nearly two years ago. I haye ast been given by M, Manrice 
Grau the real reason of Signor Campanini’s absence from this 
country last year, Most people who witnessed his farewell 
ork Academy of Music nearly two 


‘Trovatore’ was a small dog collar. The singer hid the break- 


ing heart with which he accepted the gift underasmile, Its 
intended recipient was no more. 
lish pug in whose existence the first of living tenors was 
wrapped up had broken his neck in striving to touch the high 
C of the final *Addio,’ which his master reaches with such 
ease in the tower seene, 
revisit the scene of his anguish. Colonel Mapleson was unable 
to cause him to change his determination, but he yielded to 
Mr, Abbey’s arguments, I think you might just as well sug- 
gest to those other gentlemen the propriety of calling in their 
dog stories."—Philadelphia Times. 


On that very day the Eng- 


Signor Caimpanini vowed never to 


BEASTLY BUSINESS.—Jefierson, O., Jan, 14,—dztar 


Forest.and Stream: They had a‘‘deer chase” at Newburg, near 
Cleveland, day before yesterday. I send you the following 
extracts from the Ledder’s account of the indecent scrimmage. 
For their next hunt these gallant “sports” will probably em- 
ploy a pet lamb. The account says: The excitement was 
heightened when there arrived from the city a heavy vehicle 
in which was a fine buck deer. 


The lone wooden cage in 
which it was secured was lifted to the shoulders of four stal- 


wart hunters and carried withim the barn, where an oppor- 
tunity was given to view the prisouer 
specimen of : 
savage or ferocious. E 
thing of a tinge of pride by his keeper, was 240 pounds. 
porter rode out to Newburg on an early train and started to 
walk ta the scene of the great hunt about two miles distant: 


He was a beantiful 
his much hunted race, but looked anything but 
His weight, as announced with pie 

" re- 


The event that was to take place could haye been fuessed if it 
had not been known. Great sleigh loads of men and boys, 
some of them carrying rifles or shotguns, dashed by, Sleek 


black and tans and speckled hounds wera being led to thescene 
of conflict, and at their heels snapped and snarled a beyy of 


A more perfect day for the chase could not 
The alr was crisp and imparted a ruddy 


interior curs. 


a too heavy crust upon the snow. Scores of men bad walked 
Bedford, Independence, Brooklyn and Newburg, 


They were gathered about in groups, and were dis- 
cussing the merits of the various hounds. The hounds 
were corralled in the woodshed adjoining the hotel 


They howled incessantly, and were apparently anxious 
for the chase. ‘We're ready for the chase now,” shouted one 
of the hunters, whose dogs were yelling and howling inside. 
The management, however, didn’t seem to be ready, and [or 
about thirty minutes the prospects for a first-class row were 
quite flattering. The management wanted just $3 more, they 
said, to make up the cost of the deer. Hd. Lamb scratched 
around, and hustled together the cash. ‘Now for the hunt,” 
he.cried. “Not yet,” yelled another member of the manage- 
ment, coming through the door. ‘You said you would go on 
when we raised $3 more,” said Lamb. The management said 
they must have $) more. Then the hunters kicked. They 
were not ferocious looking citizens, but they seemed to mean 
what they said when they told the management that either 
the deer would runor they would have their money back, 
Then the excitement becamealmost unbearable. The deer’s 
cage was dragged outot the barn and the crowd jammed 
around it, A boy climbed upon the fence. and lifted the door, 
The deer walked out and looked around him. A man jumped 
at him, but the animal didn'trun. Then one of the hounds 
was Jed up close to him, but still the wild and untamed child 
of the forest didn’t ipa i anal Kn cab Teper way that it 
is eenerally supposed anything but a pet deer moves. 5 
ihe crowd val ed in unison ait the deer started off through an 
orchard. That wasn’t the way he had been expected 
to go, and the crowd chased him. "A young fellow 
hist him and he wus brought back and put in the wage. 
Then the deer, and cage, and boy on top were loaded into_ 
a wagou atid driyen off intoaf eld, Again the door was lifted 
and again the crowd chased after the deerto make him run, 
A hound was finally let loose, but did not venture. vee 
tothe animal. A crowdof small boys then induced him to 
gallop slowly down the hill toward the river. A five-rail tence 
surrounded the lot and the savage animal couldn’t ge out. 


The crowd drove him around tea low place and the deer Sue : 


santo the road, He wanted to go back to the barn, bub 


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= ——— 

crowd blocked the roadway, A dozen little curs were set on 

heels, and the deer started on a slow run down the road, 

“poys trotted along after him on horseback, The crowd 
ame to the hotel and the dogs were chained up tio wait 

mntil the 


ploodthirsty animal had -been gone an hour, when 
‘st the vate of speed he was under way when he disappeared 
he would have been about two miles away, The deer, how- 
éver, is sail tO haye exhibited considerable mettle after get- 
ting away fromthe crowd of men and the snarlings of the 
petty curs, and dashed away ata lively rate across the coun- 
. About forty minutes after his disappearance down the 
road the dogs were turned loose on the trail. Kuss, owned by 
H. Miller, of Bedford, took the lead early im the chase, and in 
about two hours overtook the deer ina field near Bedford, 
Hookaway’s dog was close behind with one of Stanton’s 
hounds a good third. Men in sleighs and on horseback had 
followed the general course pursued by the dogs, and were 
' soon on the spot. The animal’s throat was cut and he was 
loaded into a sleigh and taken to Gray’s Hotel, Bedford, where 
‘one of the quarters was cut up into steaks, broiled and passed 
around among the hunters. 


_ THI PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB.—In the Kennnel 
department of ForEst AND STREAM you stated, in reference to 
the non-holding of a bench show this year by the Philadel- 
_ phia Kenne! Club, that ‘if an exhibition was not to be given 
"you could not imagine for what purpose the society was or- 
“ganized,” J have been talking to several members of the club 
and feelthet the executive committee was perfectly justiii- 
able in reporting against the giving of a bench show this year 
and to wait until a better organization was effected. The pres- 
ent soviety is composed of the members of the old and par- 
ties, ax it were, of another, and is, in a certain sense, the join- 
in of two clubs, The great object in view in answer to your 
question is the holding of successful dog shows each year, 
which of course tends to improve and perfect the different 
Dreeds of sporting and non-sporting dogs, When the Philadel- 
hia Kennel Glib can secure the proper building and has 
thoroughly perfected its organization a show second to none 
will be held each year. The society has now sixty odd mem- 
bers and comfortable rooms for ineeting and social intercourse, 
‘and those whose names are on the roll are practical sportsmen 
who, if the truth was known. wouid much rather discuss the 
ee of the setter and pointer in the field than onthe bench, 
—liomo, 


THE GERMAN DOGGE.—Pittsburgh. Pa,, Jan. 24.— 
Hditor forest and Stream: In last week’s issue of ForREsT 
AND STREAM a short piece headed “'The German Dogge,” 
claims that an article written by me some time since on the 
“Great Dane” has ‘‘many geographical as wellas canine mis- 
takes.” Let us dissect his first charge. By running my eye 
over the article in question I see the sentences, ‘In Germany, 
at Aix, and in Prussia,” this being the only geographical men- 
tion. Ipresume my accuser must refer to this when he says, 
"Aix la Chapelle belongs to Prussia,” and then says. ‘‘Prussia 
is in the great German Empire,” two important truths which 
i donot, nor never have denied nor affirmed. So much for 
the “geographical mistakes.” As regards the remainder, Mr. 
Solms, of the Austrian Consulate, translated the words 
“Deutsche Dogge” as “German dog,” and I respectfully refer 
the gentleman to him for further argument.—H. P. HopGss. 


SALE OF RECTOR.—Mr. J. K. Emmet, the well-known 
actor, has purchased therough-coated St, Bernard dog Rector, 
recently imported by Mr. H. R. Hearn, of Passaic, N. J. 
Rector is the largest known dog inthe world, measuring close 
to thirty-five inches, standard, at the shoulders, and when 
sold weighed 195 pounds, During the past year he was yery 
successful at the English shows, in the hands of Mr. 8. W. 
Smith, and he certainly is a most commanding dog. His de- 
fective point is his head, which tapers so much as to quite 
deprive him of the dignity so much desired in a St, Bernard, 
Tm all other respects he is a splendid specimen, and is worthy 
‘of the encomiums bestowed on him by Col. Stuart Taylor, in 
his letters to ForrEsST AND StREAM. The price paid was $4,000. 


BASTERN FIELD TRIAL CLUB.—At the annual meeting 
of the Eastern Field Trial Club held on Jan. 22, it was voted 
to close the entries for the Derby of 1884, onthe Ist of May. 
The report of the treasurer shows that the club is ina very. 

_ prosperous condition. Following is a list of the officers for 
the ensuing year: President, Elliot Smith; Vice-Presidents, 

' Henry F. Aten, M.D., J. Otto Donner; Treasurer and Secre- 
tary, Washington A. Coster; Board of Governors. 6. Fleet 
Speir, M.D., Chas. H. Raymond, A. E. Godefiroy, H, E Ham- 
ilton, KR. C. Cornell, George DeF, Grant, George T, Leach, 
Jno. Heckscher, Jno. B®, I. Gringer, J. W, Orth, D, 8. Gregory, 
dr,, Alexander Taylor, Jr. 


THE PRILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB.—Zdaitor Forest 
and Stream: The Philadelphia Kennel Club have secured 
pleasant and roomy quarters at 138 Market street for their own 
Tse and are now in a flourishing condition. The club now has 
seventy members on the roll and have an active executive com- 
mittee. it has been decided best not to hold a bench show the 
comings spring, but hope toin the future, when it will become 
a fixture here, Therooms of the club are made attractive 
and all the leading papers are subseribed to and are on file. 
Besides the regular meeting nights, one evening a week is 
spent by the members in social enjoyment.—W.H, ASHBURNER, 


orresponding Secretary. 


THE GILROY FIELD TRIALS.—San Francisco, Cal.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: Inote in your report of the Gil- 
roy trials that it has been edited so carefully as to make it 
inaccurate in several little points. At page 460 of Forrst 
AND STRHAM, where the report of the running of the second 
brace inthe Puppy Stake is given, my recollection is that 
Paine’s Belle was described as a smooth collie. That is what 
she is, and I was anxious to have her appear as such, because 
her owner manufactured a pedigree for her, and may think 
now that your reporter could not tell a collie from a Gordon. 
—FRANCISCG, 


NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW,.—The bench show to be held 
in New Haven next March, under the auspices of the New 
Haven Kennel Club, will undoubtedly bring out a large 
number of dogs. The classification, with one or two minor 
exveptions, is similar to that of the last show of the West- 
‘“tminster Kennel Club. The prizes will be silver medals, suit- 
ably engrayed, for the champion and first. and bronze medals 
ior second prizes. Mr. James Watson will judge the setters, 
pointers, spaniels and hounds, and Mr, James Mortimer the 


‘ 


- Pemaining classes. 
_ THE DOGS MUST GO if they are advertised for sale in the 
REST AND STREAM. See what Mr. Wilmore says (m Kennel 
Notes), and here is a ne from Mr, George Laick, who recenth 
advertised two dogs: “Please say to many inquirers that 
have sold both my dogs, one twenty-four hours after the ad- 
yertisement came out and both inside of ten days after. I 
have had a great many letters from all parts of the country 
from my advertisement in FoREST AND STREAM.—GwORGE 
Latcr (North Tarrytown, N. Y.). 


_ STOLEN. —On the night of Dec. 16, some one stole from the 
ry O'More Kennel, Albany, N. Y,, the red Irish setter bitch 
She has a small white spot on breast, and is heavy in 
Mr. Callender offers $500 reward for information that 


to the couviction of the thief and the recovery of the 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


THE LARGE POINTER CHALLENGE.—Luzerme, Pa., 
Jan. 2%. Editor Forest and Stream: I hayo just learned of 
the acceptance of my challenge by Mr. C. H. Mason with his 
dog Beaufort. Owing to some mistake or delay our news- 
dealer failed to receive the issue of ForEsT AND STREAM 
which contained Mr. Mason’s reply, so I know nothing of its 
character. It gives me great pleasure to think that I shall 
have an 3 rd toshow my dog against Beaufort. It is 
my honest belief that in a fair and impartial trial I can beat 
him. If1am beaten I will accept the defeat like aman, All 
Lask is, no matter where the competition takes place, that I 


get fair play.-Guno. W. FISHER. 


PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Western Pennsylvania Poultry 
Society haye elected the following officers: President, Hdward 
Gregg, of Allegheny; Vice-President, B. F. Wilson, of East 
End; Treasurer, C. A. Stephen. of Allegheny-; Secretary, C. 
B. Blben, of Pittsburgh: Directors—T. Booth, of Allegheny; 
Wim. Myer, of Sharpsburg; J. P, O'Neill, of Sewickley; Wm, 
Wade, of Pittsburgh, and Howard Hartley of Pittsburgh, 


This election retains the president, who has held the position 


tor fourteen years. 
INFORMATION WANTED.—Editor Forest and Stream; 


Can you orany of your readers give me the name, or any in- 


formation peearding A bitch imported about twelve years ago 
in whelp by Bang Bang or Bonny Bang, owned by James 
Shaw of England, She had her pups in Syracuse or Auburn, 


N. Y., and one of the pups, Ponto, took the ea at the Mon- 
treal bench show, which was presented by the champion 


pigeon and rifle shot of Canada,—PoIntTER. 


KENNEL NOTES, 
NOTICH TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of inate To nusure 
follo 


publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the 
ticulars of each animal; 


wing par- 


1. Uolor. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2, Breed buyer or seller, 

8. Sex. %. Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4. Ave, or 8. Owner of sire, 


3. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10, Owner of dam, 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
| aper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED. 


LE See instructions at head of this column, 
Whisper. By : 
English setter con. helped June 20, 1883 (champion Gath—Lit), 
Lufra, By Mr, H. W. Smith, Worcester, Mass,, for fawn greyhound 
bifeh, 5 years old (Ferret—Little Bess). ; ; 
Ringweld and Chimer. By Mr. 8. ©. Graff, Pittsburgh, Pa., for 
black, white and tan beagles. dog and bitch, whelped Aug. 81, 1883, 
by Gee CRY, (Major—Diana) out of Wicklow (Dyke—Ringlet). 
LONLOIGE FIC. 


Vic) out of Gipsey (Viper—Vernon), 


Gibbie, Luath, Coilyus, Dugald and Renald, By the Kilmarnock 


Collie Kennel, Boston, Mass., for sable and white collie dogs, 
whelped Dec. 4, 1883, hy champion Robin Adair ont of imported Isle, 

Monica, Elsie and Nannie. Ry the Kilmarnock Collie Kennel, Bos- 
ton, Maes., for two sable and white and one black, tan and white eol- 


lie bitehes, whelped Dec. 4, 1883, by champion Robin Adair out of 


imported Isle, 
KILMARNOCK COLLIE KENNEL. 
Mr. T, C. Faxon, Boston, Mass., claims the name of Kilmarnock 
Collis Kennel for his kennel of rough-coated Scotch collies. 


BRED, 


GE- See instructions at head of this column. 

Smut I.— Lava Rock. The Locust Grove Kennel's (Manton, R. I.) 
Kneglish setter bitch Smut II. (Pratt’s Trim—Harle’s Smut) to their 
Laya Rock. 

Lucid—Hmperor Pred. Mr. H. A. Herzberg’s (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Eng- 
ee bere bitch Lucid (A.K.R, 176) to his Emperor Fred (A.K.R. 33), 

an. 

Queen Bess—Friday Night. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) erey- 
hound bitch Queen Bess (Leo—Juno) to Mr. H. W. Smith’s champion 
Friday Night, Jan. 25. 

Belle—Beaufort. Mr. D. 8. Gregory, Jr., 21’s, pointer bitch Belle 
(Sensation—Wohite’s Grace) to Mr. 0. H. Mason’s Beaufort (A.K.R. 
694), Jan. 28. 

Josephine—Tippoo, Mr, John E, Thayer’s (Boston, Mass.) bull 
bitch Josephine (A.K.R. 388) to his Tippoo (A. K.R. 390), Dec. 9, 1883. 

Judy—Romulus. Mr. John BE. Thayet’s (Boston, Mass.) bull bitch 
Judy (A.K R. 322) to His Romulus (A.K.R. 389), Dee. 23, 1883. 

Floss—Rex, Mr. Jason Houghton’s (Milton, Mass.) collie bitch Floss 
(ALK R. 675) to Mr, J. Lindsay's Rex (A.K.R. 149), Dec. 14, 1883. 


Princess Hugenie—Buckellew, Mr. Sheriden’s English setter bitch 


Princess Eugenie to Mr, W. A. Coster’s Buckellew (A,K.R, 30), Dec. 
15. 1883. 

Ace of Spades—Obo IT. Mr. G. H. Gilbert’s black spaniel bitch Ace 
of Spades to Mr. J. P, Willey’s Obo IT. (A.K.R. 482), Noy. 30, 1888. 

Lofty—Obo II. My. J. P. Willey’s (Salmon Falls, N, H.) spaniel 
bitch Lofty (A.K.R, 480) to his Obo 11. (A.K.R, 482), Dec. 15, 1883, 

Ruby—Fennel. Messrs. Morris & Baldwin's (Deer Park, Ont.) fox- 
terrier bitch Ruby (A.K.R, 741) to Mr, R. Gibson’s Fennel (Spice— 
Bloom), Dee. 7, 1883. ' 

Vision—Bang Beng. Mr. F. R. Hitcheock’s (New York) pointer 
bitch Vision (Croxteth—Vinnie) to the Westminster Kennel Club’s 
Bang Bang (A.E.R. 394), Jan. 26. 

WHELPS. 


{e=— See instructions at head of this column. 

Madge. The Ashmont Kennel’s (Dorchester, Mass.) mastiff bitch 
Madge (A.K,R, 548), Jan. 26, ten (six dogs), by their Diavolo (A.K.R. 
543 


Peat. The Rory O’More Kennel’s (Albany, N. Y.) red Irish setter 
bitch Pearl (Dash—Kate). Dec. 6, 1883, eleven (six dogs), by their Pat 
O’More (Rory 0’ More—Norah O’More). 

Sylvia. The Rory O’More Kennel’s (Albany, N. Y.)ved Irish setter 
bitch Sylvia (Rory O’More—Sampson’s Nora), Dec. 20, 1883, nine (six 
dogs), by their Rexford (Berkley—Sampson’s Nora). 

Sybil. The Rory O’More Kennel’s (Albany, N, Y.) red Irish setter 
bitch Sybil (Larry—Anne Boleyn), Jan. 1, ten (six dogs) by their 
champion Rory O’ More. 

Rose. Mr. Gardner G. Hammond's (New London, Ct.) Chesapeake 
Bay bitch Rose (A.K.R. 142), Dec, 19, 1883, seven (two dogs), by Mr. J. 
A. Loring’s Sport. Allsince dead. 

Rusk, Mr. Gardner G. Hammond’s (New London, Ct.) Chesapeake 
Bay bitch Rusk (A.K.R. 144), Dec. 9, 1888, eleven (five dogs), by Mx. J. 
A. ne eee Sport, Three bitches living, 

Lorna ll Mr. John E. Thayer's (Boston, Mass.) deerhound bitch 
Lorna Il. (A,K.R. 336), Dec. 27,1883, eight (five dogs), by his Lance 
(Brau—Maida I1.). 

Daisy, Mr. John H. Thayer's (Boston, Mass.) pointer biteh Daisy 
(A.KK,.R. 395), Dec, 27, 1883, two dogs, by his Bramble (A.K.R. 265). 

Brenner. Tue Chequasset Kennel’s smooth-coated St. Bernard 
bitch Brenner (A.K.R. 706), Nov. 2, 1883, six (five dogs), by Alp II. 
(A.K.R. 705). 

Rube. r.S H. Green’s (Newmarket, N. H.) spaniel bitch Rube 
(A. K.R. 734), Dee. 18, 1883, ten (six dogs), by Obo IT. (A. K.R. 482), 


SALES. 


=" See instructions at head of this column. P 

Whisper. Black and white English setter dog, whelped June 20, 
1683 (champion Gath—Lit), by Major J, M. Taylor, Lexington, Ky,, 
to Mr. C.K. Drane, Burnside, Ky. 

Rory O’More, Jr.—Lady Biddy whelp. Red Irish setter dog, 
whelped Noy. 19, 1883, by Mr. Chas. R, Thorburn, Ridgefield Park, 
WN. J., to Dr. J. M. Allen, New York. 

Sherwood. Red Irish setter dog (A.EK.R. 641), by Mr. Chas, R, Thor- 
burn, Ridgefield Park, N. J..to Mr. W, W. Sharpe, - 

Ridgefield, Ked Trish setter dog (A.K.R. 647), by Mr. Charles R, 
Thorburn, Ridgefield Park, N. J., to Mr. H. M. Drake, New York. 

Lenox, Red Irish setter dug (A.K.R, 625), by Mr. Charles R. Thor- 
burn, Ridgefield Park, N. J., to Mr. E. 8. Tappen, New York. 

Bush, Black, white and tan beagle bitch (A.K.R. 89), by Mr. W. H. 
eae Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr, Albert H. Wakefield, Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

Harry §.—Fanny Fern whelps. Red Irish setters, whelped Noy. 10, 
1883, by Mr. Henry May, Augusta, Ga.,a dog to Mr, W, D. Wilson, 
same place; a bitch to Mr. Thos. Dortic, same place; a dog to Mr. 
Holmes Johnson, Macon, Ga.; a dog to Mr. A, Long, Athens, Ga.,and 
bitch to Mr, Bennett Vonyers, Conyers, Ga. 

Reaford—Anne Boleyn whelp. Red Irish setter bitch,whelped Oct. 
10, 1853, by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N. ¥., to Mr. Iva N. 


Hanly, same place. 
Dell. White, black and tan beagle dog (A.K,R, 319), by Mr. P. H. 
ass., to Mr. Geo. B. Inches, Bostqn, Mass. } 


Horne, Stoneham, 
Rake—Rose whelps, Chesapeake Bay dogs, 9 months old, by Mr, 


Mr. C. K, Drane, Burnside, Ky., for black and white 


By Mr. 8. C. Graff, Pittsburgh, Pa., for white, black 
andtan fox-terrier bitch, whelped Feb. 6, 1883, by Curate (Rector— 


13 


Gardner G. Hammond, New London, Ot., 4 doz each ta Messrs. I, W, 
Griffin, C. Kendall and D. H. Talbot, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Sénsation—Rose whelps. Lemon and white pointers, whelped Oct, 
29, 1883, by the Westminster Kennel Club, a dog to Mr, H. K. Powell, 
Newton, ll.: a dog to Dr. O. M. Keyes, Dana, Ind., and a biteh to Mr. 
Win. H. Colcord, St. hie Mo, 

Gokiath—Fly uhelp. Newfoundland dog, whelped Oct. 26, by Mr, 
J. A. Nickerson, Boston, Mass,, to Mv. W. A. Tick, Wilkesbarre, Va, 

Fertig. Rough-ecoated St. Bernard dog (A.K.R, 475), by the Che- 
Gnaee! Kennel, Lancaster, Mass,, to Mv. rrancis Lynch, Newburgh. 


Falko. Rough-coated St, Bernard dog (A.K.R, 477), by the Ohe- 
Utes Kenuel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr, A. A, Whittemore, New 
ovr. 

Black Ned, Black spaniel dog (A,K.R. 726), by Mr. J, P. Willey, 
Salmon Falls, N. H.. to Mr. W. Warren, sagne place. 


Blondy. Orange and white spaniel dof (A.K.R. 727), by Mr. J. H, 
Rushforth, Yonkers, N. Y., to Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Woodstock, 
Ont. 


Bruce. Liver spaniel dog (A.K.R. 728), by Mr. J. W. Rushforth, 
Yonkers, N. ¥., to Mr, Andrew Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ont. 

Flash. Black spaniel dog (A E.R. 652), by Mr. Yorest. W, Forbes, 
Westboro, Mass., to Mr. Geo. M. Howe, same place. 

Busy. White, black and tan fox-terrier bitch (A,K.R, 485), by Myr, 
W.5. Jackson, Toronto, Ont,, to Mr. John T, Cable, sume place, 

Rory O'More—Gay whelps. Red Trish setters, whelped Oct, 16, 1883, 
by champion Rory O’More out of Gay (Elcho—Fire Wy), by the Rory 
O’More Kennel, Albany, N. Y., a dog to Mr. W. K, Trimble, Pringe- 
ton, Tll.; a dog to Mr. W. R. Roelofsen, Jersey City, N. J; a dog to 
Mr. M. H. Brensinger, Harrisburg, Pa.; a dog to Mr. C. P. Craven, 
Uniontown, Pa.; a doz to Mr. Alexander Perrin, Thibadeaux, La.,and 
a bitch to Mr, Daniel Miller, Baltimore, Md, 

Rory O'More—Quail 117. whelp. Red Trish setter bitch, whelped 
Aug. 6, 1823, by the Rory O’More Kennel, Albany, N. Y., to Mr, Jas, 
A, Stinson, Cohoes, N. ¥ 

Rectory. Rough-eoated St Bernard dog, whelped Nov. 6, 1875 
(E.K.0.8,B, 11,758), by Mr, C, RK. Hearn, Passaic, N. J., to Mr, J. K, 
Emmet (Fritz), New York, Price, $4,000, 

ENGLISH BEAGLE SALES. 

The following English beagles have been sold by Mr, N, Filmore, 
Granby, Ct. Mr. Elmore writes: ‘It may be a satisfaction for you 
to know that almost all of these sales were madethrough Forms? Ayn 
Stream, and 1 could easily have sold as many, more if I had had stock 
to fill orders with.”’ The sales are: ‘ 

King—Mary whelps. (Oct. 11, 1883.) White, black and tan dog, 
by King (Victor—Lucy) out of Mary (Flute—Lucy), to Mr. W. Pf, 
Streecer, Lehigh Tannery, Pa.; white, black and tan dog to Mr N. 
Randall, North Seifuate, R.J ; white, black and tan dog to Mr. H.C. 
Bailey, New Britain, Ct.: white, black and tandog to Dr H_K. Leon- 
ard, Plymouth, Pa.; a bitch to Mr, O. 8. Presbrey, Uheever, N. ¥. 

Pussy. White, black and tan biteh, whelped Juve 18; 1882, by im- 

orted Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) out of Maida (Victor—Lucy), to 
Mr, George Miller. Ithaca, N. Y. ‘ 

Flute—Collette whelps, (June 5. 1883.) All white, black and tan, 
by Flute (Rattler—True) out of Collette (imported Chanter—Beauty), 
a dogto Mr, H. M.Ward, Grovestend, N. J.; a biteh to Mr. 1.5. lodges, 
Beeville, Tex,; a dog to Mr, W.W, Mills, Barton, Vt.; a dog to Mr.Chas. 
§. Krebe, Tamaqua, Pa. ; 

Pluie—Lucy téhelps, White, with mottled ears, bitch, whelped April 
16, 1883, by Flute (Rattler—True) out of Lucy (Juno—Old Bess), to Mr. 
T. F. Durant, New York Ciry; white, black and tan dog,whelped Nov. 
1, 1883, to Mr. James E Lebby, Hammondville, N. Y. 

Flute—Pussy whelp. White, black and tan dog, whelped July &, 
1883, by Flute (Rattler—True) out of Pussy (Ringwood—Maida), to Mr. 
Richard Moon, Morrisville, Pa. : 

Flute—Queen whelnys. (Aug. 11, 1888.) Both white, black and tan. 
A bitch to Mr. J. 8. Hodges, Beeville, Tex.; a dog to Mr, M.V, Blyden- 
burg, Bay Shore, L,I. _ : 

King—Chase whelps. (July 22, 1883.) White, black and tan doz 
and bitch, by King (Victor—Lucy) out of Chase (imported Ringwood) 
(Ranter—Beauty), to Mr. T, F, Durant, New York City. 

King—Music whelp. White. black and tan bitch, whelped July 16. 
1883, by King out of imported Music (Rockwood —l’aithful), to Dr, C. 
E. Nichols, Troy, N. Y. 

Ringwood—Roxy whelps. White, black and tan ticked dog. whelped 
March 13, 1883, by imported Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) out of Roxy 

attler—True), to Mr,T. B. Curtis. Danbury, Ct.; a bitch, whelped 
Sept. 17, 1888, to Mr, Jas. E. Lebby, Hammondyille, N, Y. 

Ringwood—Silver whelps. (Mey 30, 1883.) White, black and tan 
ticked bitch, by Ringwood out of Silver (Flute—Bess), to Mr. John 
Fitzpatrick, Waterbury, Ct.; white, black and tan dog, to Mr. M. G. 
Er pean, Medfield, Mass.; three dogs to Mr, A, Rogers, Hyde Park, 


Ringwood—Thorn whelps. (Aug. 16, 1883.) White, black and tan 
dog, by Ringwood out of Thorn (Victor—Lucy), to Mr.W. F. Streeter, 
Lehigh Tannery, Pa,; while, black and tan dog to Mr. B.W. Richards, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; white, black and tan dog to Mr. J. §. Leig, 
Akron, O.; two white, black and tan bitches to Mr, A, H. Wakefield, 
Previdence, R. I.; while, black and tan dog to Mr, Abraham Bennett, 
Hammondyille, N. ¥.; white, black and tan ticked bitch to Mr. Jas. 
CO, Bennett, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , 

Ringwood—Maida whelps. (June 29, 1883) Both white, black and 
tan, by Ringwood out of Maida (Vietor—Lucy , a dog to Mr. 0. A. 
eS Utica, N. Y.; a dog to Mr, Charles D. Goodrich, Lima, 

Ringwood—Queen whelp. White, black and tan ticked bitch- 
whelped Jan, 14, 1883, by Ringwood out of Queen (Victor—Lucy), to 
Mr. A. H, Wakefield, Providence, R. I. 

Ringwood—Roaxy whelps. (Sept. 17, 1883.) White, black and tan 
ticked bitch, by Ringwood out of Roxy (Rattler—True), to Mr. Geo. 
Laick, Nortli Tarrytown, N, ¥.; white, black and tan ticked bitch to 
H, M. Ward, Groyestend, N, J.; white, black and tan dog to Mr, John 
Heinemann, Colegroye, Pa. 

Ringwood—Bunnie whelp, White, black and tan dog, whelped 
April 16, 183, by Ringwood eut of Bunnie (Ranger—Luey), to Mr, F. 
W. Bronson, Waterbury, Ct. 

Ringwood—Colletie whelp. White, black and tan bitch, whelped 
March 5, 1883. by Ringwood out of Collette (Chanter—Beauty), to Mr. 
W. #H. Coldwell, North Westport, Mass. 

Ringwood—Dime whelps. (June 8, 1883.) All white, black and tan, 
by Ringwood out of Dime (Flute—Queen), a dog to Mr. T. F. Durant, 
New York City; a dog to Mr. T. T, Phlegar, Pearisburg, Va.;a dog to 
Mr, A. Rogers, Hyde Park, N. Y. 

Ringwood—Maida whelps. (June 29, 1883.) All white, blaek and 
tan, by Ringwood out of Maida (Victor—Lucy), a biteh to Mr. Geo. 
D. Carrier, South Windsor, Ct.; a bitch to Dr. J. B. Enos, Belle Ver 
non, Pa.; a bitch to Mr, Geo. Laick. North Tarrytewn, N. Y. 

Fiute—Queen whelps. White, black and tan dog, whelped Ang. 11, 
1888, by Flute (Rattler—True) out of Queen (Victor—Lucy), to Mr. v. 
H. Parks, Mystic River. Ct.: white, black and tan dog, whelped June 
8, 1883, to Mr. W. J. Percival, Palo, Mich.; white, black and tan 
ticked bitch, whelped Jan, 14, 1883, to Mr. Joseph A, Blake, New 
Haven, Ct.; white, black and tan dog and bitch, whelped Aug. 11, 
1888, to Mr. A. H. Wakefield, Providence, R, 1.; white, black and tan 
dog, whelped Aug, 11, 1883, to Mr. Geo. Fentch, Southington, Cb. 

FKiute—Victress whelp, White, black and fan bitch, whelped Sept, 
10, 1883, by Flute out of Victress (Victor—Lucy), to Mr, Enos A. 
Messenger, Hartland, Ct. 

DEATHS. 


IES See instructions at head of this column. 

Tom. Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R, 405), owned by Mr. 
James P. Swain, Jr., Bronxville, N. ¥., Nov. 16, 1883, from dis- 
temper. 

Kate. Lemon and white pointer bitch (A.K.R. 460), owned by Mr. 
James P, Swain, Jr., Bronxville, N. ¥Y., Nov. 20, 1883. 

Grace, Lemon and white pointer bitch (A.K.R. 852), owned by Mr, 
James P. Swain, Jr,, Bronxville, N. ¥., Dec, 18, fromm pneumonia, 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT, 
(Ss- No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


R. R. W., Albion, N. Y,—Clip the hair evenly. It will soon grow 
again, 

¥, B, L., New Market, Md,—The pedigree isin such shape that we 
can make nothing of it. Write to Mr. Pollock, 

Porter, Thomaston, Ct.—Your dog has probably caught a severe 
cold, and with careful nursing will be ail rightin a few days. 

H, M., Princeton, N. J.—Giye the puppy an occasional small dose 
of epsom salts, and wash the sores with a weak solution of sulphur— 
ous acid. 

G, B. F., Dover, Me.—1. We are not aware that there is any agent 
in this country; write tothe Field, 46 Strand, London, Bnz, 2, We 
could not preseribe for your dog without a more definite description 
of thesymptoms. Write again, giving full particulars of any cause 
that may have induced the tyouble. 


THE Sovacw or Ruwumatio Orp Acu,—A coryespondent writes: 
‘Although so large a number of sportsmen have coutributed to the 
FOREST AND STRHAM, there are many others—ftrom whom we seldom 
ornever hear—who 4re abundantly apie to interest and instruct, I 
contess to a large degree of selfishness in this, forI haye arrived at 


| that point when J must get the most of sporting pleasure from the 


experience of others, 50 ‘keep up tle motion!” 


14 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


, 
[an 81, 1884, 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


THE NEWARK TOURNAMENT. 


HH third match in the tournament series has just ended at the 
Celluloid Range. The clubs have greatly improved in shooting 
since last match, which will be seen inthe scores. Thereare six 
matches to complete the tournament, three haying been shot. The 
Hssex Rifle Club have heid the lead for the past three years by two 
or three points over all others. The Frelinghuysens, who have held 
a good second, are now coming to the front, having succeeded in 
winning two out of the thres matches, and above all making the 
handsome score of 471 out off possible 500 in the Jast match, placing 
them ahead of the Essex one point sofar. The Domestic, Club, num- 
bering 120 men, are siriving for third position. they being only 32 
points behind, and three matches to shoot. The last match is given 
below. We now have in our association about 500 members; of these 
100 are excellent shots; the remainder shoot on an average. 
The fourth match of the Newark Rifle Association will be held on 
the Domestic Range, Market street. 
Frelinghuysen Rifle Association. 


Celluloid Rifle Association. 


AC Neumann,.,...- 5pbobbo45pp>—49 WA Coe..-....:.... 5b55454555—48 
G@ Williams ......... 655555545549 WBrant............. 545555555448 
EB O.Chase... 2.02001 555554555549 W F' Wilsey....,...- 545545545547 
Geo Zimmer...,.... 445655555548 W A Vreeland...... 5554545555—47 
Geo Weigman ..... 545455555548 § T Simmonds...... 4555444555—46 
R Westerman....... 454554555547 -C F Jackson........ 5155545444—45 
Wm McLeod........ 544554555547 CE Coe............. 4544455453—43 
S Shackelford....... 506445144546 M Puder............ 54545454438—43 
Sp Fas 015) 00 Se 444454545544 H Babbitt.......... 4352455544—41 
JK Walsh.........: 454444455544 A Erhard.......... 5444443454—41 

471 449 


Bssex Rifle Association. Plymouth Rifle Club. 


Wm. Watts........ 5565555505— 50 J EF Pollard..... ... §455555455— 48 
A Walters: ones: 5555455585— 49 J LSommers....... 5555444454— 45 
1g) £74 ot ee 5b55p05554— 49 H Greiye..... ...... 4454545545— 45 
J Coppersmith. ...5555545455— 48 C H Townsend. .....4455445455— 45 
gh Gt 6445555555— 48 Wm Parks........ - .0455555434— 45 
PIB AVE iNet jeye- sae 455p552465— 48 GM Townsend,--..- 4445454555— 45 
Wm Felts .........4445455555— 46 J A Foster......-.. 5555444485— 44 
A Behrens......... 4455544545— 45 MS Braell........-. 45445455538— 44 
F Smehbling........ 4555554444 45 PL Sommers.,,.... 5453444445— 42 
N Deithrick....... 4445453444 41 HL Leibe......,_...5485444585— 40 

469 443 


Domestic Rifle Association. Warren Rifle Association. 


J Seitz ... ..5dnb654555—"49 FW Miller.......-...- 4445555555— 47 
J fe . .9p44550534— 47 A Welsher. _.6554464454— 42 
B Jefferys. . . .5005555444— 47 Wm Hunley 5894553445— 43 
weveiser 20 t Se 4545554454— 45 Wm Alexand 38445445545— 43 
W Wadams........ 5554444545— 45 J Woffe.... 5944445444 — 43 
A Valentine....,... §445554445— 45 GVreche........... 5455444435— 43 
J Reynolds,........ 4554444455— 44 W Sidey............33854354544— 40 
W McConnell...... 4545444545— 44 C Wage... ...... 3354354434— 38 
MecGuinnes,......... 4584435554— 42 W Cobb............ 54444344338— 38 
F Millward. ........ 52455453835— 41 W Cheesman....... 3335444434— 37 

449 417 


BOSTON, Jan. 26,—The fine, bright weather of to-day served to 
attract a large number to the comfortable and commodious shooting 
Louse of the Massachusetts Rifle Association at Walnut Hill, but on 
arriving there it was found that the bright promises of the morning 
were not to be fulfilled, The wind did not appear to be very strong, 
but it proved to be adifficult one. The light was good, and had the 
wind been a little less fickle it would have been plumis for the shoot- 
ers, but they would have lost much valuable experience. Next 
Wednesday the glass-ball and clay-pigeon shooters will contest. The 
following are the best scores of yesterday: 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 
JB Fellows........- §504444555—46 PJ Forest (mil)..... 5344444344 39 
OB Bdwards....... 44454555}4—45 w Kirkwood........ 4454444441 —39 


A LBrackett....... 4455444455—44 A L, Henry (mil)_...4444444434—38 
Samuel Merrill...... 445444554444 J 1, Towle (mil)... ...4484443453—38 
As Epitec ey. cele. 455544435442 P Johnson (mil)..... 4444533432—37 
H A Lewis (mil)..... 444444445549 BJ White (mil)..... 4343345334—36 
EMSamuels........ 4534444444 4) Oharles Peirce (mil),43852433233— 33 
J Payson (mil).....-. 4434544444 —89 
Creedmoor Prize Match, 
W Faber....0.. 2.2: 545545454546 .O M Franks_...,.... §444445444 42 
Hi Withington....... 545455455445 A L Brackeit........ 5584944444 42 
J B Thomas (mil)...4544454455—44 J P Bates............ 4555343354— 4? 
W F Franks... ., 844455444544 J A Cobb.........:.. 44444454444] 
HW Padley.. _..0444544544 43 WJ Look........ -.4944445444 40) 
BA Lappin.......... 4454454454 43 A Darling (mil) 444344544440 
Combination Mateh. 
MRT GI care ts avtaswiaoes Ss ssc 7 7 8 810 7 9 8 79 
PUSAN EHTS ohana kev peepee Wenn mt eae 910 7 7 9 Sa 6—7 
AC 7F1 pe E00) ee a en ne ei § 610 7 8 810 5—%5 
Novelty Match, 

DWTRENIGI scone ce cee seis hs tease 88 7449 5 5 8 8—66 
MENA WALES Sct ere etre mes goes eal a tes 16910 7 3 7 9 6 462 


GARDNER, Mass., Jan. 24.—The last regular meet of the Gardner 
Rifle Club was omitted. Yesterday the club went out to Hackmatack 
range for practice. They used the American decimal target. The 
snooting was off-hand, distance 200yds. Outof a possible 100 the fol- 
Jowing scores were made: 


hese TAs) 8445. oso=stteeres ae 910 9 9 8 8 8 9 9 10—89 
GHEY. ci toon eee c scene bio rrinyaitie 8 56 91010 8101010 9—89 
G F Ellsworth y 9999 9 9 § 9-87 
CEST TAC SW Rae ae es Bere ere oe Pa 9 9 8 8 910 9 9 8—B5 
PANIVESEE TONY She edckls ses SR Bawls Tepe ide ues 710 9 4-710 8 9-83 
WATHETEON, cre), oer Se eieh gs besaaw se 610 69 7 8 9 9-80 
W C Loveland 10 6 9 8 810 8 5—80 
L Warren.... Le MRT Sve (—79 
SUMING TALIS, Peeters es «terres den eric 9 8 7 61010 4 9 5 10—78 


The club are soon to shoot a match with the Brattleborough (Ver- 
mont) Club, they having received a challenge. The shooting is to be 
on the grounds of each club, the score to be exchanged by telegraph. 

BOSTON SCHUETZEN CORPS.—The East Boston Schuetzen Corps 
held its weekly shoot on Friday at the range at Oak Island. The day 
was anything but favorable, but some good shooting was done. The 
neéwly-eleeted captain of the club had the van, closely followed by his 


predecessors, The following are the scores: 

Captain Garney...-. 544554545546 F Kline.............. 4544545453—43 
© ML Gueth...... .... 544544545545 FE Bennett........... 454443445542 
MOMOUISH es sos 445444554544 M Sharp............- 454535584442 
Mirth. 27.7-- 22-3. 444555544444 BL Gibbs..........- 5804284445—39 
SHEGHEDY ire eye 2 vs, tins et 444444554543 W Saunders......... 3433054544— 35 


LUTZOW vs. ESSEX.—New York, Jan. 23.—Match at Zettler’s Gal- 
lery between the Lutzow team, of New York, and the Essex second 
team, of Newark; 12-ring target; 10 shots per man; possible 120: 

Lutzow Team. Essex Team. 


A Lober ........ Sar. i 24s 114 C Rittmeyer...... .,..:+0:5-+-: 107 
1130" eS BAe ob bbe beorea pepo) Coed 1G Nicle(e) By yee RANE See Sonar yt) 100 
1535Gy 2) 07] GRAB A, pee Mees tid Webtitehers 7 7225), 0h aerecsas 90 
Aerteest AUIS cle de oie esr 9 J05 e ealaress rl pean ie se 101 
FAGIIGLIPT woes esahstsacetriis 105 G Vanburghe cst cie2. 2k 98 
L Zittmann,......-...---+.6+++ 96 W Yaugmann............ ..... 106 
G@ Spanier. .... 055.525. s25.---5- ae ean, Pls pata eee rel mane 86 
G Zimmermann..........++ ae OLA ORADSE VE pate kpihe aoc 103 
W Berger... ......-:22e4i+- -+- 1064 SES DSAGRDIGH ne ot eum sheet mune 103 
V Steinbach......-..-...+-. OS Ot OL SCLC NE octets: phe Ms eisteslsveus tte 113 


1 1,006 
SARATOGA RIFLE CLUB, Jan. 12.—The following are the best 
scores of cach man for this week: 


PEL yale Gt Goer ne ea ydbh ageaee . 12 10 12 10 11 12 11 10 10 10—1L8 
PAUGRLININT CaS Senet pat teks ea 10 12 10 12 12 10 11 10 10 11—108 
SUT BS ath 9 eats a SHIR oe 4i 10 10 11 41 12 10 10 10 12—107 
TEES RP ee) a a ne 811 9 12 12 12 11 11 10 11107 
WB NGA BOs. star tarpon nen nieens 121110 8 911 12 11 10 11—105 
WARBHTRILIDOE TIGL Cy cicacine sto pen co¥ 5: 1211111110 910 9 9 10—102 
RES Cert Bee eee 61010 811 9 1011 10 12-98 
AU DCN S earcn tan lore der ms oe gd ors 12 812 71011 § 10 10 10— 98 
SHRP EHIP LON tf... thes tv ere te yess 9 71111 810 911 8 1R— 96 
Val bebe lf Ae eS en ee 2291111 9 8 9 810 9 96 
TTAB itzaye Se p'yweed Set eno emer .61210 9 ¥ 9 910 911-92 
ING Pel ihiey=2 tt) ee ene nate oss -1111 7 911 8 611 6 + 8 
Jan. 19.—Best scores for this week; 
INSET g | ee ae Te = ee OE dd 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 9 18-113 
PAVE oles aeer reel tin een visa 12 911 11 11 11 11 12 12 11-111 
W B Gage EY ete: W1011 101071 9 9 12 11-4 
J Davis.....-. So a ne 1111121111 9 712 9 11—104 
JHays....-.:- vaseay ee O12 91 9 9 910 9 10 12—101 
FD Wheeler. - oe 91111 121010 9 911 9-101 
H Hays.....- Panes ..10 930 9 911 10 10 11 19— 99 
NRUVAGIYY LUTE Rockers eee otic htt 12 §10 81010 8 % 9 12— 94 
STOLE cee teers 465-05 60s 55 bee W1i21012 7 81011 9 6— 96 
O J Wing...-. piece ey sesenceree O11 9 9 932 8 910 9— 64 


ZETTLER RIFLE CLUB.—New York, Jan. 21,—Regular shoot, 12- 
ring target, 10 shots per man, gallery distance: 


P Pennings ae ade 116 Lober ....., Ae SENEET CIES TN 11 
LOILUT Cito icy Be a gece see Ait) Stein baGH Ys > ors t otis tas 106 
Wat IIE tte ye oe oe tae ad De ESHOP er ese ane sre nce 116 
Ch ZG puleres east ct viccieeaty sak 110) EP ACbersonss. cesta ener es 103 
PeAiGuulep’. ca wus ae abe SER Ee pinks ear OF) a1:( ir we neaick ee, 2 oy ee pa 103 
LN Genes ey ee willie sid 35 H Buckhater. 1.2.52.) i)s441.. , 98 
D, Warp, Sec. 

BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB,—Thursday, Jan, 24.—Twelve-ring tar- 

et; possible 120. 

+ Zimmermann...... HH Gunther. yo... 2. ack 110 
M Dorrler ......... JJ Jordan.,.¢...... ....-...... 108 
BY Hol ein at es ee 23 J Sehneider.................005 107 
ANLODEE: sons od nite eesdeckens Pa AWRRGORS na) Go nceen ue ree iy 105 
O RET 6 tp were un eae Be G Wendelken............--. _. ..102 
H Hackmann......... ....:.,. J F Campbell.......... - Wine) 96 
GOMGHTE RIGHTS fey es Mates cee H. Loner, Secretary. 


GALLERY SHOOTING.—Some very good shooting has been done 
during the past week by amateurs at the Mammoth gallery, Boston, 
and many who do not care to face the cold winds, resort there to keep 
up their practice at 50yds. range. The following are the best scores 
made during the week, off hand; 


OD, PLDT eer ry 4444455555—45 KR McRobbie........ 4454455444 43 
PD Parker, oF... 6 444444555544 K E Bellows........ 8344455555 —43 
IE iS se ee 554454444544 TI Ennen............ 44444444 (541 
JE Leonard......... 552544444444 MA King........... 544444444441 


A SOLDIER'S INVENTION.—An invention of great utility to the 
militia, and also of value to hunters, has lately been patented by a 
soldier of the U.S. Infantry. It is a device for the extraction of 
headless shells, in regard to which great difficulty has heretofore 
been experienced. The chief trouble has been to remove the impedi- 
ment withont injuring the grooves of the rifle. The present invention, 
which is a product of the brain of Mr, William Pratt. of the Seventh 
Infantry, stationed at Fort Laramie, seems to accomplish this, and 
so succesfully that it has been recommended by General O. O. Howard 
and other officers of the Army of high rank who have tested it, 


DEATH OF CAPT. BROCKHOFF.—Capt. William H. Brockhoff, a 
famous rifieshot, formerly a resident of this city, died recently on 
his ranch in Sonoma county from a fracture of the skull, eaused by 
the runaway of a team which he was driving. The deceased was ex- 
cellently well known here as the captain of a German militia com- 
pany and abroad as the National Guardsman who made the highest 
individual score atthe Cieedmoor Centennial trials._San Francisco 
Chronicle, Jan. 6. 


THE TRAP, 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only, 


RHODE ISLAND NOTES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The gate season now being over, the ‘‘boys” are beginning to take 
more interest in trap-shooting, and every Thursday, stormy or pleas- 
ant, finds a goodly company at the club grounds on Broad street. 

How differently we are situated now with our comfortable warm 
elub house, with a red hotstove diifusing its grateful heat, the “boys” 
drawn up in a cirele around it, spinning yarns about the past hunting 
season, how old Trim stool that cock partridge on the edge of the 
“Great Swamp’? and how Sancho roaded the big bevy of quails the 
whole length of **Long Meadow” and finsijly ‘‘nailed” them in the old 
cranberry bog; and as we glance upward and view the elegant speci- 
mens of the taxidermist’s art that adorn our walls, not to speak of 
the tasteful oil paintings, ete., we can but think of the contrast of the 
old shed of but two short years ago, whena few of the ‘boldest 
spirits’? among us used to gather on this same spot and “peg away” 
at glass balls. We had no fire then and the only way to’ warm our 
fingers was to shoot fast enough to heat our gun barrels. Speaking 
of glass balls, they are with us almost a thing of the pact, we are now 
shooting clay-pigeons almost exclusively, and those from five traps; 
the object being to put ourselves in ‘‘trim” for the great event at 
Chicagoin May next, where we expect to send a team providing our 
scoresin practice seem to warrant us afair show of success. The 
spring, however, is our season par excellence for trap-shooting, as 
after the long winter the boys creep out, like woodchucks from their 
holes, and make it decidedly warm forthe clay-pigeons, glass balls, 
ete., although with our now comfortable quarters, we have more 
winter shooting than we formerly did. 

The game season has been a remarkably good one with us during 
the past fall, though doubtless those sportsmen living in more 
favored sections would laugh “long and loud’’ at the idea ofa half 


dozen partridges (ruffed grouse) or a dozen quails being considered | 


a good day’s work; but so it is here, and we haveto make the best of 
it. Quail seemed to breed well here last season, and if we have the 
remainder of the winter favorable for them we shall probably have 
fair shooting again next fall,as there are a good many left over, 
Not so, however, with the partridges,as they have been snared 
terribly in most sections of the State. I was credibly informed that 
in one county alone 5,000 bird were snared and shipped to market, 
and on ground where, in September, another gentleman and myselt 
killed thirty-five birds in two days in November; with three good 
dogs in two days’ hard hunting we failed to start half that num- 
ber on the same ground, although we left plenty of birds on the first 
occasion, the cover being very thick at that time; the woods were 
full of hedges. and that told the story. I think I heard some one ask 
why don’t you stop it? Well, that is easier said than done. Most of 
the trapping is done by farmers’ boys, and there is a clause in the 
game laws which allows one to trap en his own land; besides we do 
not wish to ineur the everlasting hatred of the tillevs of the soil, as 
by so doing we should ‘“‘kill the goose, etc.,” for we should be uncere- 
moniously told to ‘git’? every time ve ventured on their lands, so 
there you have it, and we hayeto be thankfulfor the few birds we 
do get. W. H, SHELDON, 
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 20. 


MASSACHUSETTS CLUBS. 


HE Boston Gun Club held a tournament at WeHington Jan. 23, 
T the same being the initial meet of a series of alternate Wednes- 


day shoots. The attendance was over 60, including He Dee RUE es 
from the various gun clubs of the State. The sweeps of the day are 
subjoined: 


Firstevent (7 birds, 18yds. rise, miss and out, 25 entries)—Wilbur and 
Williams first, Jenkins, Kirkwood and Johnson second, Sawyer and 
Sampson third, De Rochmont fourth, 7 é 

Second event (7 birds, 18yds., 25 entries)—Jenkins and Wilbur first, 
Houghton and Kirkwood second, Clark, Williams, Allen and Webber 
third, Gerrish' and De Rochmont fourth. 

Third event (7 birds, 28 entries)—Perry and Clark first, Smith, 
Sampson and Davis second, Johnson, Gilman and Harrison third, 
Jenkins fourth. ; ; ; 

Fourth event Wy pair doubles, 28 entries)—Gilman and Curtis first, 
Emerson second, Cooper, Tinker and Wilbur third, Smith fourth. 

Fifth event (7 birds, 5 traps, 34 entries)—Cuttmg and Clark first, 
Tinker and Davis second, Schaefer and Wilbur third, Mann and Hager 
fourth. 

Sixth event (3 pair doubles, 5 singles, 28 entries)—Williams, Harri- 
son and Jenkins first, Perry and Stanton second, Davis, Clark and 
Schaefer third, Gilman fourth, \ F 

Seventh event (7 single birds, 87 entries)—Kirkwood, De Roehmont, 
Smith and Gilman first, Evans and Wilbur second, Dayis and Emer- 
son third, Schaefer and Paine fourth. d 

Big bth event (7 singles)}—Emerson first, Eyans and Kirkwood sec- 
ond, De Rochmont and Jenkins third. . 

Ninth event (8 pairs, Chicago rules soverning Tony, Curtis and 
Nichols first, Jenkins and Wellman second, Smith third, Sawyer 
fourth. Much interest centered in the ninth match, the rules bein 
similar to those which will be adopted in Ligowsky sweepstake ai 
the Chicago meet. Altogether the shoot was of a most enjoyable 
kind. Over 3,000 birds were trapped, and the hum of the seven traps 
betokened the liveliness of the shoot. The next meet.on Feb. 6, 
will also be represented by the noted shots throughout the New Eng- 
land States, and of which you will receive report of same. Upon 
inquiry among our members, seven-trap shot is most used upon 
clay-pigeons. * DK. 


The Lynn Central Club held its ninth shoot for the silver cups 
Triday, Jan. 25. There was a good party present te contend for 
them. E.L. Beale of Newburyport, took the cup for clay-pigeons 
on ascore of 17. J. P. Randall took the glass-ball cup on a score of 
18 out of 20. There are three who have one chance each in the clay- 
pigeon cup, and four with one chance each in the plass-ball cup. 
There were twelve sweeps at clay-pigoons and six at glass balls. The 
next shoot will be held Feb. 1. 


Quite a number of sportsmen were present at the range of the 
Malden Gun Club this afternoon to participate in the competition 
match for the Roe: badges. The conditions were unfavorable for 

ood scores. Following are the winnerg of the medals: J. um 
fook first with 15, A. . Adams second with i1,and F. J. Scott third 
with 9 out ofapossible20. W.H, Trebor was first in the match 
fora keg of powder, the conditions being 21yds. rise, both barrels, 


known to the shooters 


at 5 birds. In the match for a bag of shot, Fielding, Adams, ~ 

Law and Hopkins tied, and in the shoot-off Hopkins won. This 

match was quite interesting, and was shot under the rules adopted 

for the coming Chicago tournament, the shooters standing back some 

thirty yards and then pen from one to ten yards, the distance un- 
efore the trap is sprung. 4 


There was not a large attendance at the grounds of the Boston Gun 
Club, Jan. 26, and the weather conditions were unfavorable for good 
scores. Following are the winners in the sweepstake matches; 

First event, seven birds—Law, first; Sawyer and Kirkwood, second, 

Second eyent—Kirkwood, first; Sawyer, second. 

Third event—Emerson, fir-t; Chambers, second. 

Fourth event—Emerson, first; Snow, second. i 

eae event, three pairs of double birds—Emerson, first; Chambers, 
second, 

Sixth eyent—Sawyer and Emerson, first; Chambers, second. 


ONTARIO MATCHES.—Several shooting matches cameoff at St. 
George on the 2ist, opening with a match bebween Wayper, of 
pee and Stroud, of Hamilton, for $25 a side, at twenty-five birds 
each, 


oodstock, Brantford. 
sh HODBES <ce oe. pie ates ao eok 7 Ts Westbrook, 22... 2. eee 8 
oe pees o huWestbrookcsc! Meyierss5 soe. ee 
eee st See ee pe 7 W Baxter becstene <n 

A sweepstakes followed, at five birds each. 

1 —4 T Westbrook...... 1001 1-3 
j—4 Mackenzie........ 1110 0-8 
1—4 Passco........ ... 0110 1-3 
1 G4 Stroud... ..0....: 1010 0? 
1 0 1—4 Miller.... ........ 1001 0-3 


winning on second tie. 
NEWTON CENTRE GUN CLUB.—Boston, Jan. 27.—The Newton 


Centre Gun Club was formed the past summer. *tarting with ten 
members, it now numbers twenty-eight, and is a wide-awake organi- 
zation. It has secured a club room, and during the winter has the 
use of a bowling alley, and meets occasionally on its shooting g:0und 
for glass ball and pigeon shoots. Next week, by invitation of one of 
its members, the club goes on a sleighride, and lots of fun is sure to 
comy. Wenumber a few crack shots, and have accepted an invita- 
tion froma neighboring club for a team shoot, which will come off 
within ten days.—H, H. R. 

SIZE OF SHOT FOR CLAYS.—In last issue I notice a request from 
a correspondent for opinions as to proper size of shot to use in shoot- 
ing clay pigeons. I have had some experience with this festive bird 
and I find from repeated trials that No. 7 chilled gives the most satis- 
taction.—-Ocro. 

RIDGEWOOD, N. J., Jan. 21.—Match at twenty-one biyds each; 
2iyds. rise, trap and handle; R. Busterd, 1011110001000100i—8; D, 
Hopper, 11111001111011011—13, 


Ganaeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Tuesday, Feb. 19, 8 P, M., No. 28 Hast Fourteenth 
street, Room 16. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to ForusT anp 
Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete., of 
their clubs, and also notices in adyance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrst anp STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
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Wire lines of the drawing now show the outside surface 
of the plank, but the moulds over which the boat is 
built must, of course, correspond with the inner surface ot. 
planking, In large work the model is often made to the 
outside of the frames only, then the breadths when taken 
off show the actual size of the frame. If the working draw- 
ings are made to include the plank, the thickness of the 
latter is deducted at some stage of the drafling prior to lay- 
ing down. In our canoe, for convenience, the drawings will 
ali include the plank, so in making the moulds its thickness, 
din., must be deducted. 

To copy the frame lines, a piece of thin board or card- 
board, A B C D, Fig. 3, is slipped under the paper of the 
large drawing, adjusted unaer the line tobe copied, and 
held in place By a couple of tacks. Setting the points of the 
compasses din. apart, a row or spots is pricked through the 
paper into the board, jin, inside the frame line, shown by 
the small circles in Fig. 8. At the same time points on the 
center line, E F, load water line and the diagonals Di and 
D2 are also marked. The board is then removed, a batten 
run through tue spots,and the wood trimmed awayt o the line, 
If the drawing is made ona board or floor the lines may be 
taken off, as in Fig. 4. 


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A batten about $x4in. is bent along the line on the floor, 
and held down by flat-headed nails. A piece of board is 
laid on top of the batten and a mark-scratched on its under 


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side with the piece of bent wire shown at A. In this case, 
after cutting to the mark another line must be gauged tin. 
inside the edge, anda second cut made to it, after which it 
is laid on the drawing and the center line, water line and 
diagonals laid off on it. 

To make the complete mould, a piece of lin. pine is 
planed up on one edge, H [, Fig, 5. a centerline EF, is drawn 
at right angles to it, and also the load waterline, then the 
pattern is laid on this board, adjusted to the center and 
water lines, and one-half marked off; then the pattern is 
turned over, adjusted on the other side of E F, aud that side 
also marked oft the diagonals being marked at the same 
time. 


As the boat tapers from midships to the ends, it will be 
eyident that the after side of the forward moulds will be 
slightly larger than the fore sides, and the reverse will be the 
case with the after moulds, No, X having both sides the 
same in most canoes. To allow for this bevel, moulds 2, 4, 
and perhaps 6 must be sawed out din. larger than the marks 
show. The bevels at the deck height and on each diagonal 
are new taken from the drawing with a common carpenter's 
bevel, applied in turn to each of the above points, and the 
edges of the mould are trimmed accordingly. 

To complete the mould, a notch K must be cut at the 
bottom to admit that portion of the keel or keelson inside of 
the rabbet, as will be explained later. 

Besides the moulds described there will be required a stem 
mould (Fig. 6) giving the outline of the stem, a rabbet mould 
made to the rabbet line (if the stern is curved similar moulds 
will be required for it) and a,beam mould, showing the curve 
and depth of the deck beams. These should be made of tin. 
pine. They are taken off by either of the above methods. 

The tendency of light boats if to spread in width in build 
ing, to avoid which in a canoe, where asmall excess of beam 
may bar the boat from her class in racing, the model and all 
the drawings are sometimes made about one inch narrower 
amidships than the desired beam of the canoe, and the sides 
are allowed to spread when the deck beams are put in, if 
they have not done so previously, as often happens unless 
great care is taken. 

METHODS OF BUILDING. 


While but few of the many different methods of building 
are adapted to the purpose of the amateur, a description ef 
the principal ones will enable him to understand the entire 
subject more clearly, Of these, two are by far the most 
common, the carvel, and the lapstreak, also called clinker or 
clincher. In the first, usually employed for ships’ boats, 
yawls, Whitehall and other boats, where lightness is not of 
first importance, the planks (six to eight on each side) are 
laid edge to edge, not overlapping, and nailed to the ribs or 
timbers that make the frame, the latter being spaced from 
nine to fifteen inches apart. To prevent leakage, a small 
thread of raw cotton, lamp wick, or in large boats, oakum, 
is driven into the seams with a mallet and caulking chisel, 
and the seams afterward filled with putty, marine glue, or if 
oakum is used, with pitch. To stand the strain of caulking 
and to hold the cotton, the planks must be at least three- 
eighths of an inch thick, which would be too heavy for a 
canoe, 

_ Iva lapstreak boat the planks lap over each other a dis- 
tance of one-hulf to one inch, the edges being held together 
Byers, some of these also passing through the ribs. In 
ill cases the upper board laps on the outside of the one be- 

low it. Three objectious are made to this mode of building— 
liability to leakage, difficulty of cleaning inside, and the ob- 

struction that the laps offer to the water. 

As to the first, it 1s almost entirely dependent on the skill 

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drying out fora long time, it will very soon be perfectly 
tight. While the second point is an objection, it is by no 
means a serious one, and with a little care the boat may be 
kept perfectly clean, if not, a stream of water from a hose 
will wash out all dirt, The third point is the one most em- 
phasized by the opponents of the lapstreak, but they over- 
look the fact that the laps, or lands, as they, are usually 
called in England, are very nearly parallel, not with the 
water lines, but with the course of the water, which is largely 
down and under the boat. At the ends the lands are dimin- 
ished to nothing, if the boat is properly built, and that they 
detract nothing from the speed is well proved by the fact 
that a very large majority of all canoe races have been won 
by lapstreak boats. 

As to their advantages, they are at least as light as any 
other boat of the same strength, they are easily repaired 
when damaged and they will stand larder and rougher usage 
than any other boats of theirweight without injury. The 
lands on the bottom protect it greatly when ashore, and if 
anything they add slightly to the initial stability. 

The oyster skiffs of Staten Island Sound and Princess Bay, 
boats from 18 to 25ft. long, lapstreak, of gin. plank, are con- 
sidered by the fishermen to be stiffer and to rise more quickly 
than smooth-built boats 6f the same model. As after some 
experience with different modes of building, we have settled 
on the lapstreak as the best for canoes, and the easiest for 
amateurs, we shall later on describe it in detail. 

Tn order to obtain a smooth skin, canoes are sometimes 
carvel built, as before described, but of in. stuff, and as 
this cannot be caulked, a strip of wood about 4in. thick 
and lin. wide, is placed on the inside of each seam be- 
tween the timbers, the edges of the planks being nailed to it. 
This is called the “rib and batten” plan, and is largely used 
in Canada. 

Another and similar plan, the ribbon, or more properly 
ribband carvel (not ‘“‘rib 4nd carvel’”’) is used in Massachu- 
setts and Connecticul for whaleboats, and in England for 
canoes. In these boats the ribbands are of oak or ash, 14x 
din., slightly rounded on the back and as long as the boat. 
They are screwed to the moulds, when the latter are in posi- 
tion, just where the seams ot the planks come, and as each 
plank is laid on, its edges are nailed to the ribbands for their 
entire length. When the ribs are put on they must be 
‘“4ogeed” or notched over the ribbands. In both of these 
methods the boat is improved if a strip of varnished or 
painted muslin is laid along the seam, under the ribband, 
but this is often difficult to do. 

In a similar way the boats of the yacht Triton are smooth 
built, with a strip of brass inside each seam instead of a 
ribband of wood. While haying a very fine surface these 
boats are usually not as tight as the lapstreak, and are more 
easily damaged. 

In another method sometimes employed for canoes, the 
skin is double, the boat being first planked with +4in, boards 
and then with a second layer, crossing the inner one. The 
first layer sometimes is laid diagonally, sloping aft from bow 
to stern with the second layer sloping the other -way, so as 
to cross it nearly at right angles; a method used in U.S. 
Navy launches and lifeboats. 

Sometimes the inner skin runs across the boat, and the 
outer fore and aft, as in the well-known ‘‘Herald” canoes, 
and sometimes both run fore and aft, the seams of one skin 
coming in the centers of the planks of the other, rivets being 
placed along all the edges, a method of building followed 
also in some of our largest cutter yachts. 

With either of these methods a thickness of muslin is laid 
in paint between the two skins, and both are well nailed 
together. While making a very strong boat, it is often 
heayy, and when water once penetrates between the skins, 
as it will in time (with the thin plank used in boat building), 
the leaks cannot be stopped, and the wood will soon rot. 
Another serious objection to it is the great difficulty of 
making repairs, JERSEY BLUE. 


NEW CANOE CLUBS.—We learn of clubs being formed at St. 
Lawrence, Fulton and Rondout, N. Y.; St. Paul, Minn., and Chicago, 
Ill, This speaks well considering the recent weather. Canoeists are 
still alive and loeking for spring. Send in your signals to Forrest 
AND STREAM as soon as possible. 


THE LOCAL MEET.—Mr. Smith, of Newburgh, has laid out 


courses on the ice opposite to the proposed camp ground of one- 
half, three-quarters, one, and one and a quarter miles. Also, a three- 
mile course for sailing. The course for (paddling, one-half mile, is 
directly in front of the camp. 


DUBUQUE CANOE CLUB. 


Membership limited to eight canoe 


RGANIZED Oct. 1, 1883. 
Signal, upper half red; 


owners. Captain, Eugene A. Guilbert, 
lower, blue, white square. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


PRACTICAL COOKERY. 


HAT the canoeist has a heartis evident from the fact that the 
turnpike reaching it leads through the stomach; and the way to 
win it, I suppose, is by that prescribed route of old. 

Asthe “galley fire’ is kindled by that slightly traveled roadside, 
let us keep it burning, not smouldering, but blazing; and when the 
coffee pot is removed, let it be replaced by the kettle, the frying pan, 
or the gridiron, 

That model rig, fixtures, water courses, etc., need discussion, and 
the discoveries and improvements therein spread among the brother- 
hood, is now evident, but let the cuisine keep pace with the advance- 
ment in other respects. Accustomed to our meals at home, withnone 
of the attending trouble on our part, we are apt, in the contemplation 
of a cruise, to neglect giving them the consideration they deserve; ‘tis 
hard to see a future appetite, with a full stomach. But it mattersnot 
how beautiful the hills among which you fioat; if the stomach is fed 
on badly cooked food, the “inner man” rebels, and the glory of the 
ene has departed. Yes, the rills may murmur and the pine tops 
sigh, but 


‘Man is a carnivorous production 
And must have meals,” 


and neither murmurs nor sighs fill the stomach as they fill the heart; 
there isa sympathy between the last mentioned articles which will 
allow no encroachments from either side. 

There are many dishes agreeable in camp which any one with two 
hands and a limited amount of wit can produce when on a comfort- 
able cruise. By a comfortable? cruise 1 mean one in which time is 
taken to ‘camp by the way,’’ aud not live on cold lunches, canned 
goods, Brunswick soup and hotel dinners, asis too frequently the 
ease. There are those among canoeists (and very few | trust) who 
mark out a route, which would require four weeks to properly ac- 
complish. and rush through in a week, as if after the pot of gold at 
the end of the rainbow. Then they tell with pride how many miles 
they made this day and that. They must be ‘through by daylight’ or 
burst the boiler. 

As the pot-hunter’s enjoyment is measured by the weight of his 
bag, so is he delighted by the number of miles covered each day. 
He is in search of solitude, and the moment it is found rushes again 
for the society of men. There are times when camping places are 
“few and far between; then this undue haste may be excusable. 
That a few such canoeists exist I know, and they do not tend to up- 
hold the idea that the paddler is that independent individual upon 
whom the railroad and hotel have no claim. 

If there is a being on earth who is not the “‘sport of circumstance,” 
it is the canoeist; rain or shine neither sends him from any location 
or holds him to it if properly equipped. He is pre eminently a man of 
leisure; he has been ‘‘cast upon the waters,’ and the ‘*world has 
found him after many days;” he is the product of the nineteenth 
century, a hurrying age ’tis true, though he came notin a hurry. 
“No fashion makes bim ape of her distortions.’’ He sails, he eats, he 
sleeps in his diminutive home, and why should not the art of cooking 
be as much a part of his education as the handling of his paddle or 
mainsheet. Do not the preparation and consumption of food bring 
their share of pleasure? Is not that a happy moment when, after a 
long paddle, you sit down with aravenous appetite to a meal pre- 
pared by one acquainted with the mysteries of the cuisine. The noy- 
elty of the position brings it a charm, and when cruising in company 
does not the good cook command the respect and admiration of all? 
and when he has produced something extra to the “hill of fare” to 
tickle the palate, how he is looked up to in his wisdom, and how all 
wonder in what mysterious way the delicacy was produced, Ah! is 
he not their ‘‘bosom” friend? Verily, he rules the roast. 

The best place to get ideas, certainly, is the kitchen; try it your- 
self under the supervision of ‘‘your sister or some other fellow’s 
sister.’ Carefully note each operation, then, when in camp, you 
may trust greatly to the ‘‘necessity which compels you to do these 
things,” as Virgil used to say. A good plan is to carry a small book 
and when anything pertaining to the “art”? is found that may be of 
use, jot if down; when the eye rests on ‘‘Camp Cookery’? in Forrst 
AND STRHAM, or when you see any dish whose simplicity allows its 
production in camp, put it down in black and white; then when tke 
“critical” moment arrives you are not bothered by the ‘thousand 
and one’’ minute difficulties which beset the amateur cook. 

One of the most common products of every camp, canoeists or 
otherwise, is, or should be,a gamestew. With it every one is fam- 
iliar, and each cook, T suppose, makes it after a manner peculiar to 
himself. Its preparation 1s most simple, and that must be the reason 
itis never seen in print, There is one ingredient, however, which 
may not agree with the ‘‘knights of the paddle.” ‘That is time, A 
stew must be stewed. Wish, or eggs, or steak may be flopped in and 


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out of the pan inshort order, but a stew takes time and a steady fire, 
and why not? Is the paddler always on the go? Does he never spend 
a quiet hour or two under the pues He does not want a stew for 
every meal, but when he does what has an hour or two to do with if. 
This is the modus operandi with us: 

Put game (anything froma goose to 4 sparrow, biped or quad- 
ruped), after beine washed, into a kettle with pork and good supply 
of water, over a slow fire. Let boil welland skim. Cut up three or 
four good-sized onions, and add with seasoning, salt, pepper parsley 
8nd summersavory. Boil slowly for one anda half or two hours, 
and when game is nearly done, put in pared potatoes, the large ones 
cutinto two or three pieces. Mix three tablespoonfuls fiour in a 
little water, and stir after thirty minutes, and allisready. Water 
may be added when necessary. 

Here is another simple method of cooking squirrels: Cut up 
squirrels into about four pieces each, put in frying pan with afew 
slices pork, and cover with water. Put coyer over pan, boil well and 
skim, Out a few onions over all,add pepper and salt, cover tightly 
again and cook toa nice brown. Remove meat, and to make gravy, 
dredge in enough flour to thicken, and stir well till blended. Q. 


CHICAGO C. C. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The banquet of canoeists held at ihe Matteson House on Friday 
evening, Jan. 11, was a grand success in every particular, and the re- 
sult, from present indications, will be one of the largest and most 
active canoe clubs in America. 

Twenty-two canoeists were present. all but two or_ three being 
canoe owners, An informal reception was held in the hotel parlors 
till 3:30, when the company adjourned to the dining-room. In the 
center of the artistically arranged table, elevated on a standard en- 
twined with smilax, stood a model Racine canoe some four feet long, 
filied with the rarest of cut fowers. ‘Thi; beautiful center-piece, the 
gift of Thos. Kane, Esq., of the Racine Boat Co., was deservedly 
much admired, The dinner and service were in keeping with the 
decorations. 

About 10:30 the meeting was called to order, with Mr. J. F. West as 
chairman protem. The Chicago G. C. was organized and the follow- 
officers were elected: 

President, Mr. G. M. Munger; Vice-President, Mr. J. W. Keogh; 
Seeretary and Treasurer, Mr, F. R. Seelye. 

A committee consisting of Messrs. Seelye, Pullen and Ellis, was ap- 
pointed to drafta constitution and by-laws to be submitted at the 
next meeting, to be held on Friday. Jan, 25, atthe office of Messrs. 
Thos, Kane & Co. on Wabash avenue. Other business was transacted 
and meetizug adjourned at 12:15. 

Asa direct outcome of the banquet twonew canoes have already 
been ordered and several others are being talked of. There is great 
enthusiasm and every prospect of an immense boom during the com- 
ing season. Qui Vive. 

Curcaco, Jan, 14, 1884. 


A NEW A. C. A. BADGE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The question of a badge for the A. C. A. being now agitated, I have 
just forwarded to Commodore Nickerson for bis approval, and after- 
ward that of the committee, a design which I drew up last season 
with the intention of bringing the subject before the last annual 
meet, This I was prevented from doimg on account of my not being 
able to attend the business meeting of the Association. The design 
consists of a rope arranged in a circle and tied at the lower side in a 
sailor's knot; inside thé circle is a canoe with mutton-leg sail set 
(the mutton leg being the simplest for design), the prow aud stern of 
the canoe and peak of sail touching the edge of circle; beneath the 
canoe, extending from keel to edge of circle, are the letters A. Cy A, 
the whole being suspended from a double-bladed paddle by two 
single blades arranged yeriically, one on each of the upper edge of 
cirele. The design should be in geld, with the exception of the sail, 
which should be chased silver. This design combines as many of the 
distinctive apparatus of canoeing as can be worked in with neatness; 
represents the Canadian as well asthe “States” method of propul- 
sion, the saileras well as the paddier, and combines a contrast of 
color in metal. I hope the Association will not adopt a burgee as a 
badge. It isso common and represents nothing. It may be worn 
py a patron of atilitia company or a fire laddie, the engineer of a 
steamboat ora meniber of a secret organization, so faras tae gen- 
eral public would know. Letus have a badge we may be proud of, 
as typically representing the most perfect and manliest of all out- 
door sports. ORANGE FRAZER, 

CoLtumsBts, O., Jan, 21, 


THE SATRY GAMP.—I have a letter from J. H. Rushton. He writes 
well, He has takenin your camp-fire and he has seen the Sairy 
Gamp in your office. He speaks well of her. She is still staunch and 
tight. She is a beauty; a corky light-weight. I 'can paddle her 
from the Battery to the Lower Quarantine, Swash Channel, without 
shipping a quart of water. My dexter pectoral to the canoeists who 
My next cruise shall be a rattling, 
rackeling, canoe-down-stream tumble, from the meadow dams to 
Philadelphia. I reckon this will test the endurance of a canoe. I 
believe, on my soul, that Il can cruise the Sairy Gamp from the Bat- 
tery around the lightship and bring her back all right.—NeEssmuk. 
(Yes, the Sairy Gamp is tight. We filled her half full of water the 
other night and launched a yacht model by gaslight. There is a 
chance for some one to work np a poem. | 


RONDOUT GC. C.—A meeting was held at Rondout, N. Y., on Wed- 
nesday lastto organize a canoe club, as there have been several 
eruisers there for some four years past. The following officers were 
elected: Commodore, Grant Van Deusen; Vice-Commodere, Jansen 
Hasbrouck, Jr.; Secretary and Treasurer, H.§. Crispell. The re- 
insining members are C. W. Crispell, C. H. De La Vergne, C. V. A. 
Decker. F. B. Hibbard, KE, W. Knapp and Julius H. Marsh. The club 
expect to have four or five boats at Newburgh, and at least three at 
the A. C. A, meet. 

TORONTO C.C.—Mr. Johnson is having a 16%28 eanoe built for 
next season, and with his 18x24 and open 1631 will be well prepared 
ta make a pace for all comers. 


Machting. 


THE STAYING OF MASTS. 


or the springing of Deen's mast a great deal of correspondence 
has been ¢oing on dnezt the subject, the principal burden thereof 
being an erroneous impr¢ssion that spars cannot be as well held in 
a@ nurrow boat asin a broad one, This is an entire misapprehension, 
There is no reason why the springing of masts should be considered 
a special weakness of cutters simply because one of them recently 
had @ misfortune of that kind. Plenty of instances can be found in 
the history of last year in which broad boats met with the same mis- 
bap. But everything which happens to a cutter is at once laid at the 
door of her form, while similar troubles of broad boats appear to 
make no impression upon the public mind. The schooner Ruth not 
only sprung but carried away her foremast going into New Bedford 
harbor last summer in smooth water. The schooner Agnes sprung 
hier mainmast upon being knocked down in.asummer squall in smoet 
water in the Sound. The schooner Clytie was oyertaken by a similar 
aecident without even being struck by a squall. Thesloop Schemer 
rid herself of -her stickin New York harbor last fall and the Aneto 
did thesame. Now one and allof these were beamy boats, some of 
them the broadest of their class. All had greatspread to theirshrouds, 
yet this was of no avail, for the sticks went by the board just the same. 
We might with justas muck reason point to those casualties as 
“proof” that wide boats could not hold their masts, as they seemed 
to be continually springing and carrying them away upon very slight 
provocation, 

The Teen had some excuse for getting into trouble. She was 
caught in a winter blow and steep sea off Hatteras. That alone 
would palliate her case to a great extent. But Ileen’s mast was 
sprung on the offer side. Her chain plates did not pull up, nor did 
her rigging or lanyards strand or stretch in any manner, showing 
very plainly that the mast did not go for want of lateral support ab 
all, but that it pitched oyer forward beyond the elasticity of the 
slick in direct consequence of the breaking of the iron cra ae the 

ainblock of the weather runner tackle or “backstay.’? We have 

efore 18 a photograph of thay block showing the fracture as stated. 
Tt was. therefore, not for lack of spread to the shrouds that the ac- 
cident occurred, but for the sudden giving ont of support to the 
masthead from aft for which no amount of thwartskip spread to 
shrouds could compensate. It is true that narrow vessels pitch 
throvgh a somewhat greater are tian flat-iloored craft, which bring 
up with a kachunk to each oncoming wave. But it is also truethat a 
narrow boat pitches with much greater ease and cushioninz, and that 
the masts of such boats are not as taunt. Hence itis likely that 
their mastheads whip through no greater are than those of vessels 

f slower scend and acqnire no greater momentum. At all events 
the ‘difference is not material, end as likely sometimes to be against 


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onouaEe as another, according to angle of oscillation and length of 

Now to provide against accident, it is evident that the greater 
the angle between mast and backstay, the better can the mast be 
held, Narrow yachts with short lower masts offer a better lead to 
backstays than beamy boats with lofty spars. So far then from 
charging cutters with especial liability to springing spars, their sticks 
can actually be held to better effect than 1n yachts of great beam. 
Furthermore, thesupport from shrouds cannot be judged by a simple 
comparison of beam, but by the angle from the masthead down, A 
beamy sloop with lofty stick may show no greater angle than a 
narrow cutter with shorter lower mast. So far as we could judge 
by a view end on, the angle of the shrouds of the cutter Bedouimis 
exactly the same as that of the sloop Gracie in spite of the latter’s 
excéssive beam. Again, the midship breadth of a narrow boat is held 
well fore and aft, and regular “‘channels” in wake of the rigging add 
to her breadth, but a wide boat pinches in rapidly unless suttering 
from objectionable flare in the bow frames, and the mast of a cutter 
is also stepped further aft than in a sloop, so the difference in spread 
to the shrouds disappears to a great extent, and’ the effective angle 
of their lead is often as great in the cutter. : 

There is no more danger of Ileen’s mast going square over the side 
than the mast of a beamy boat. In fact it is a physical impossibility 
ifthe work abeut her has been at all honest. And against pitch- 
ing the mast over the bow she presents a better lead in her backstay 
than would be found in a broad boat. The recent ill fortune which 
overtook the Ileen was due solely to the giving out ofsome iron 
work, which, in view of the treacherous nature of all blacksmithing, 
is liable te happen to any yacht at any time, It must also be remem- 
bered that Ileen did not cut down her spars and butcher her rig as 
customary with our beamy yachts when fitting out for a foreign 
cruise. me thing can be carried out in beamy boats better than in 
narrow ones, presupposing the spread athwartshirs between dead- 
eyes to be greater in wide boats. The atter shroud or “swifter’’ can 
be set up further aft, allowing the boom to swing off to a given angle 
when sailing free. In this manner the after shroud can be made to 
serve somewhat as a backstay, Butitslead as suchis so manifestly 
unequal to that of the runner of a cutter that it cannot compare with 
the latter in efficiency. 

So little weight is put upon the shrouds of a cutter for staying the 
mast, except in a lateral direction, that the rigging has been set up 
closer and closer right along, In old-fashioned beats of considerable 
beam, the fore and aft spread used to be 2ft. fin., but nowadays this 
is réduced to 1ft. 6in., which serves just as well for lateral staying, 
while the jump and spring forward is provided for by a »pecial back- 
stay of good lead, in the shape of the runner and its tackle, and this 
can have a larger angle of trend more directly aft m a narrow boat 
than in a wide one, as before explained. This is not put forward as a 
“defense” of the Ileen. She needs no apologies. But itis meant to 
remove another popular misapprehension which is not borne out by 
the mechanics involved in the staying of masts. Rigging of narrow 
spread does not risk the mast at all. What it does risk is the pulling 
up of chainplates or topsides, as the strain upon these is greater than 
with more spread, This can easily be provided against in toto by 
cheap and simple, yet very effectual measures in construction, to 
which we have reverted often enough in these columns. Further- 
more, auarrow boat is so very much easier in her lateral oscillations 
and general behavior than a wide, hard-bilged yacht, that it1s still a 
question whether the pull on her chainplates would be greater even 
with less spread to the rigging, Cutters are proverbially economical 
in wear and tear aloft, and it needs only one day’s sail m such boats 
to make the reasons self-evident. 


NEW CUTTER. 


HE details of the new cutter building by Lawley & Son for Dr. 
W. #. Whitney from plans by Burgess Bros. are as follows: 


Aerie ed doh ye) Nie eRe RO ane ee AS | 36tb. din. 
Beneih yy weathers es. os wen pemne tamae ghey eens += 30fb. 
Beam on water line............-- aaa atone mts 8ft. 
Beam Oxtrenme. ve a ee Sit. 2in. 
DOTAE A reais ien ieee on he te apnea TT 6rt. 6in. 
Teast TYCCDOATOS seas ek 1 lege > hee see eae Cet 2ft. Zin. 
Displacement, Jonf tons... .... ++ -s-22---2+---- 20 oe 12.75 tons. 
Tromon-Keel, Jone tons... 42s. ++00--- sep +e eee 6 tons 
Ebcoj cmp ters) (0 Le ie a ye Meme y see ER A LSA 0.5 tons 
Aras protdshipeecmonn'.\ 2, ps seinaay led detalles 2isq. tt 


Area immersed longitudinal section.............. 159sq, ft. 


Area, losdline plane .. ..6 pack senna ns corer eer ede 134.5sq.ft. 
M.S. aft eenter of DW.L. .... eee eect ene 1.5ft, 
Center lateral resistance ditto.............-.--. 2.56ft, 
Center buoyancy dilto............--..---.--+40+ 1ft. 
Area cruising lower sails......-.........-+2++02-) 98isq. ft. 
Center effort forward C.L.R...........----+---+4+ Gin. 


This handsome addition to the fast swelling fleet of cutters in 
America will be named Rondina (Italian for Swallow). She has full 
flush deck with quadrant companion hatch, anda 4f6. skylight over 
the cabin. The forecastle hatch willbe of iron. A watertight well 
aft for the steersman will be 2ft. 9in. by 2ft. 4in., with the hatch to sail 
room abaft of it. The cabin is 11ft. long with 3ft. floor, and 5ft. 9in, 
headroom under the beams. Lockers and sideboards at ends of 
sofas, and the run devoted to stowage and clothes press. The backs 
of the sofas lift up and sling from above as bunks so that four sep- 
erate berths can be had for the night. There will be a porcelain 
cabin stove in the bulkhead; meals will be seryed on a ‘swing table,” 
so that soup can be had ina gale. |Im the forecastle there will be two 
swinging bunks, which stow up against the side In daytime, icebox, 
china closet, cook stove, ete. This cutter will be used mainJy for 
cruising, and will have large, cool, and airy accomodations for the 
hot summer months, it being well known thatthe cabins of a cutter are 
more refreshing than those of sloops with wide superstructures upon 
which the July and August sun beats down until the heat beiow be- 
comes eyen more sweltering than on deck. 


THE COST OF YACHTS. 


dss weeks ago reference was made in these columns to the cost 
of yachts here and abroad. In a conversation with the Boston 
Herald, Mr. Lawley, the well-known builder of Boston, expressed 
the opinion that we had overestimated the difference and that he 
could build for 15 to 20 per cent. above the English prices. This 
“interview” has since been going the rounds of the press in more or 
less garbled form. Now, we are notin the habit of making state- 
ments without the fats to back them, and if Mr. Lawley will under- 
take to duplicate the Ileen for one-fifth more than she would cost in 
England, we can give him an order on the spot and guarantee him 
half a dozen more during winter. According to the London Field a 
forty-ton cutter like the Heen can be built for $12,000. That vessel 
here cost over $25.000, thereby more than justifying our statement 
as to the excessive cost of building fine yachts in this country. If 
Mr, Lawley will agree to build a new Ieen for $15,000, which is 25 per 
cent. above the figure given by the Field, we will be most happy to 
accommodate him with araft of orders at once. But Mr. Lawley 
must also be able to sink $10,000 on each job and grow fat on it. 
People here do not understand what constitutes prime yachtin 
work and finish. That the difference may be made clear we appen 
below the average custom in America and England for so-called 
first-class work. 


AMERICAN, ENGLISH. 
Soft plank, Hardwood throughout, 
Wood floors. “Yellow metal floors. 
Iron keel fastenings. Copper rod. 
Iron spike and nail work. OJench copper fastened. 
Wood knees. Tron knees. 
Spiked floors and garboards. Through bolted to keel. 
Single skin. _ Double skin or composite. 
Plank waist. Stanchion waist. 
Bare bottom. Coppered bottom, 
Iron wire rigging. | Best steel wire. 
Seven sails. Fourteen sails, 
Anybody’s chain. Chain to Admiralty_test. 


Light gear and meagre fittings. Strong and very complete. 

We might goon to enumerate a great many more things of the 
same kind. Of course all yachts are not built as stated above in 
either country, but it represents the general practice nevertleless. 
Add the amount of work entailed by more completely arranged ac- 
commodations below customary in English yachts, the greater atten- 
tion to detail and finish in all parts, and there is very good reason 
why English yachts should be classed superior to our own, Of course 
we are making rapid strides m quality of build as well as in model, 
rig and outfit, ene ve do not ees lo remain in the wake of our 
cousins very long in any respect. 

‘A large, beanty and deep yacht of the Itchen type, sa 26ft. load- 
line, 22ft. deck, 8ft, beam and 6ft. draft, with 5 toms lea ballast on 
keel, metal floors, hard wood all through, copper fastened, tmahog- 
any, teak and brass fittings, 14 sails for a full racing cutters rig, 
with housing topmast and reefing bowsprib, anchors, tested chain, 
all fittings such as brass rudder cap, leaders, cleats, cavils, pin rails, 
best steel wire ri ae Dacleiae pate Satan ue : one pa 
tenances of evi ind except upholstery, linen and silver-ware, © 
be pened eat crack English builder for $2,000, A similar boat 
d cost all of $4,000 or more here, amd without 


ual ality woul 
f aoe ae, S peitieations she could not be turned out at all for 
love or mone 


The little Mona, with English sails and recent improvements is held 
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at $5,000, The amount expended all old on keel, spars, American 
sails and her fiftings, in the first place, reached over $4,000. The 
Mona is a light displacement cutter of 36ft. by 8tt., and could be built 
in superior style for $2,800 to $3.000 abroad. The Oriva, 50ft. by 11ft. 
6in. cost here $12,000. She could be duplicated abroad for $8,000. The 
Yayu, of Boston, 31ft. loadline, with iron ballast and fastenings, cost 
ei She could be duplicated in England, quality for quality. for 


CRUISING IN THE GEM. on 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Reading the account of Mr. Osgood’s predicament with Gem re- 
minds me of some experience [had in bringing Gem around from 
Boston. We were out in rather nasty weather, and had occasion to 
put reef m jib, when she came up in the wind. Captain called out to 
give her a little jib to get her off. I don’t remember who it was had 
occasion to £0 out on the bowsprit; howeyer.I am positive it was not 
the cook, who was holding coffee pot in one hand, kettle in the other, 
and frying pan with his teeth. I don’t think it was that fellow whom 
tie captain had just caught hold of by the leg in his attempt to make 
a full tiood in that locality, and was just about to take a header; 
butit was that old veteran, Joe D.,of the Jersey City Yacht Club, 
who went ont on the end of bowsprit, and 4s he did so Gem got a full 
instantly. We went on about our business, fixing jib at our l+isure. 
I know another thing or two about Gem. Oneis that she is the best 
boat of her inches, properly handled, in our waters or in Boston, and 
Mr. Osgood may well feel nous of her; sheis worthy of his confi- 
dence. The otner thing is, [ would have those ordinary iron bolts 
which hold the lead to keel changed for gun metal, or some day she 
may drop her lead, 


After our tussle with wind and sea for a night and day, negessary 
articles, as our cook can youch for, including compass, binnacle and 
yawl, were all lost. Inever will forget the look of despair and dis- 
torted features as were on the faces of our cook and that other fellow 
the captain caught by theleg. “Breakers ahead,’ shouted our look- 
out. “Every one on deck,” roared the captain, ‘Where is that life- 

reseryer?” screamed the cook. The other fellow was looking around — 

or the cuspidor. finally. after considerable delay, the remaining 
crew got their oil skins and appeared on deck. time enough, as the 
captain said, to have run ashore half a dozen limes. ‘‘Hard-a-lee!” 
Cook came up with life-preserver on and wanted to know if we had 
seen land. Atthatinoment the fog lifted and we sighted Point Ju- 
dith. Captain thought we would run for Newport, and word was 
sent down below to the cook, who immediately commenced to get 
his things ready to say good-bye to us as soon as that harbor was 
made. *“‘Haid-alee!* again and again came from the captain. That 
evening we got into the quiet waters of Long Island Sound. Ourecook 
wanted to know what time we would getto Newport. Nextmorning 
all hands reported for breakfast, an unusual event. After a delizht- 
ful sail down the Sound we anchored safe aud all well, having bad 
the most pleasant sailin my life. So much confidence had the cook 
and that other fellow developed in the ability of our Gem. that they 
both sugzested we continue our trip downto Florida. I am only 
waitmg for the time of my ¥ondage to expire before I will take an- 
other flyer at just such aboatas Gem, ouly a little larger, a lithe 
deeper, and a little morelead away down about eight feet. 

H. 


EVIL EFFECT OF LENGTH MEASUREMENT.—That a length’ 
rule ostracises all forms but one, and that the most expensive and 
difficult to manage, is generally known. We find this well illustrated 
in the experience gained in Solent waters m recent years with the 
“length classes.” It forces the greatest beam and depth with the 
greatest displacement and largest sail plan. An Itchen boat of 3Jft. 
loadline has something like 13 tons displacement, 7 tons cf lead and 
[ft. 6in. draft, all of which is in excess ot an ordinary cutter of same 
length. Already there is an outcry in Southampton waters against 
the “‘simple length” rule. and a demand that boats of moderate pro- 
portions shall not be drivento the wall by the monsters the length 

| rule fosters, but that-all shall be recognized through the adoption of 
a sail area and length rule, which will make the big ones pay for their 
size. We quote from 2 letter in the London Field; “I am gled to see 
there is a recommendation by the Y. R, A. sub-commiltee to intro- 
duce the length and sail area rule in the length classes. It is 
time that a fair chance were given to boats that are not of any ex- 
treme type.. The length rule has already produced boats that are 
eapablé of carrying such large sails from their great stiffmess, that 
they are almost unmanageable in rough water, being overwhelmed 
by the weight of their spars and gear. This stiffness is the result of 
excessive draft and beam, a boat of 30ft. long having a draft of 7it, 
6in. and beam of 9ft. bin. or se.” 


THE NEW RULE.—The sail arewu and length rule is working its 
way into favor abroad. Itseemsto be the only rule lilcely fo class 
varying types, until the day when the equity of bulk shall be more 
fully understood. The Thames Sailing Club will arrange four matches 
for next season on purpose to give the new rule a trialin practice. 
On the other hand, Land and Water rather hastily gives an opinion 
adverse to the outlook for the new rule. But one fact like the fore- 
foing is worth more than tons of opinion. For our part, we think it 
quite certain the sail area rule will come into very general yogue. 
All innovations start slow, like a railway train. and gradually gather 
momentum, justas we haye seen in the change from centerboard 
trap to yachts of good depth in America. At first nobody would 
listen to the change, now everybody wants a deep boat. Concerning 


the silly proposal to substitute handicaps for time allowance proper, — 


it was never seriously entertained by any one, and Land and Water 
is safe enough in its remark that ‘handicaps are not likely to become 
popular, and we neither expect nor wish to see them on many of the 
programmes during the coming summer.” 


_ SMALL BOATS.—There is or oughtto be just as much and even 
more dignity attached to the ownership of a small yacht yalued at a 
few hundred only as to the posstssion of the biggest frigate in the 
fleet. Itis more creditable to take charge of your own boatand work 
her throughout the season than to lay off in an armehair and be 
driven about by a hired crew, who look upon you as nothing more 
than a victim, privileged to act as their paymaster. It is of more im- 

ortance to nautical sport that one little twenty-foot yacht be 
aunched and skippered with spirit than the building of a two hun- 
dred-ton schooner whose wheel never passes out of professional 
hands. Neither money nor tonnage should be the criterion in yacht- 
ing, but the best model and equipment and the greatest proficiency 
inthe theory and practice of seamanship, navigation and kindred 
acquisitions. The manly instructive and athletic sides of the sport 
should constitute the field for emulation, and not the squandering of 
money with ostentatious lavishness in the race for display or the in- 
dulgence in luxury, sensuality and mental imbecility. 


KEELS.—We bear of a number of boats to be altered into keelsthis 
winter. Itshould be remembered that the keel of a flat-floored boat 
should have considerable rocker and be cut up to nothing with a long 
sweep from midships forward and a slight round-up to the heel in 
order to be effective. A year ago Mr. Rathbora altered the sloop 
Sparkle intoa keel with a great deal of rocker. She proved very 
handy, much abler in every way, and lost none of herspeed. Long 
straight keels are neither handy nor effective. If ballast is bolted up 
from below, as it ought to bein every good boat, the flitchkeel of a 
centerboard can easily be strengthened to any extent by a keelson 
over the floors with chocks between, the keel bolts going up through 
all. The gain in room by such a change in a small boatis astonish- 
ing. 

YACHTING IN HUNGARY.—On Lake Balaton there is at present 
great interest developing in yachting. A clup has been organized 
and an English builder has established himself on the lake, haying 
already turned out some sixty boats of all kinds. A large fleet is 
stationed on the Plattensee, including one schooner, seyeral steath~ 
ers, cutters, yawls and sliding gunters ranging from twenty tons 
down to one ton. Most of the yachts are owned by noblemen of the 
country, among whom yaehting has become quite a fashion. 


NEW MODEL.—We have seen a yery handsome and well-propor- 
tioned model by “Ezekiel” fora large keel schooner likely te be 
built by a salt-water yachtsman accustomed to extensive cruising. 
Length over all, 105ft.; water line, 94ft.; beam, extreme, 20.6ft.; hold, 
12ft,; draft, 12left. There will be 55 tons of lead on the keel, Main- 
mast, 88ft.: foremast, #3ft, Will carry staysail, jib and outer jib. 
Ene pei is plumb and the counter fashioned atter the style of a 
eutter. - 


LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION,—The results of several years of 
experiment with the electric light in French lighthouses seem to 
have been sufficiently satisfactory to encourage a more extensive 
use of the light for that purpose. Of thé 332% lighthouses alorg the 
Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France, 45 will be f urnished 
with the electric light immediately, and there is every prospect of an 
early addition to their number. " 


THE NEW STEAMER.—We learn that the naw steamer building 
at Poillon’s for Mr. Munro is one of the best-looking craft of the kind 
Mee oni out an othe bse ba ne eae ue ip sais 2, Ww 

as made some handsome drawings, which the ht is beir 
laid down. Mr. Hubbe has pint i Hear é 
abroad. m. ; 

PUBLIC OPINION— Says the Kosten Merald: ‘ 
quiries of builders regarding cutters and deep keel 
number Wee cen racket this Seite be sents 

‘opens, Mr. George Lawley , Judging trom 
that the days of flat eenterboards are nearly g 


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his time and has seen 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


A NOVEMBER DASH IN A SEVEN-TONNER. 
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FTER driving through the Brothers passage sheet; were checked 
‘all round, and merrily the cutier powled along, going through 
elean as a knife, scarce leaving a ripplein her wake. The wind had 
sensibly abated with the sinking of thesun, and only at times did 
dark streaks chase over the broadening expanse of the waters as we 
flew across Flushing Bay. Abreast of Hunt’s Dock, a sort of land- 
mark, known to Hast River racers as the finish of many a hot con-. 
test, a black hull was made out steaming upon us rapidly. It re- 
nired but a glance at the way she loomed up to make her out one of 
Herresholt’s far-famed high speeds. She stole up on our weather 
and screwed noiselessly by like a fleeting apparation, pursuing the 
even tenor of her way straight as an arrow without a quiver to the 
hull nor a throb from the engines. In form she was a beauty, and in 
styie she was smart. for with the rig of a three-master and a yellow- 
washed stack, orthodox and al’Anglais, there was an air about this 
steamer which put us in mind of the nobbiest screws 10 be met with 
abroad. She turned out to be the first Parmelia, but recently returned 
from Michigan waters, and now the property of Mr. W. P. Douglas, 
N.Y. ¥. C. ° Like all the Herreshofis, she was light as a feather, with 
a frace and pose peculiar to the Bristol conceptions, and with her 
high side, straightish sheer and long, easy body, a very good sea boat 
_withal, who could drown out any of the sprawling, low-waisted things 
Which New Yorkers have been brought up to consider good steam 
achts. She was bound to Little Neck Bay, and had aboard a num- 
ber of passengers, who looked lost and forlorn as they stood on the 
quarier-deck in great overcoats, shivering, against the bleak, cold 
scenery in the background. 
_A steam yacht is after all an anomaly which cannot easily be 
classed. There seems to be nothing for any one to do or with which 
to occupy one’s mind,so youare forced to take it out in gaping, 
unless you are amateur mechanic enough to strip long togs and 
Tével in grease and oily smells, keep an eye on hot boxes, and listen 
for thumpmgs in the mysterious inner of cylinders and steam chests. 
‘Or mayne the doctor has recommended a warm climaie and athlet- 
ics, in which case you go in for a roast with furnace doors open and 
fire up with a shovel which I conlu scarcely lift. Or perhaps you 
dote upon the intricately scientific and loveto riot in square roots, 
Marriott's laws, parallel motions, vacuums, cushionings, back press- 
ures, slips of all kinds, helical curves, thrusts and frictions, and the 
endless snares and complexities of steam engineering. Or possibly 
you pride yourseit on pilotical proficiency, and a trick at the wheel, 
-sheering all over the river, with toots at the whistle to vessels going 
by. is the redeeming aittractien for the mint of money expended. I 
tan imagine all this being very great fun. Once upona time I used 
to stand upon the bridge, lord of all I suryeyed, and know the pleas- 
ures of skillfully navigating a steam vessel over trackless seas and 
along coasis unknown, with the chart aud lead as their interpreta 
tion. But this listless screwing up a river and then screwing down 
again, without taking a hand in the mechanical management of the 
vessel whose decks you tread, is to me the feeblesi kind of a pas- 
time and as a sport quite beneath mention. Yet thatis the style in 
which steam yachting is altogether pursued in this country, so after 
all, owning @ tea kettle resolves itself into a match at doing the most 
gaping. The most tired, ennuied and helpless looking object in this 
world is the American owner of steam tonnage. Nothing can be a 
teater bore to him than “yachting,” for it means only a crowd col- 
lected aft, the steward actively making the rounds, a bottomless 
consumption of viands and wines, with the pleasure of paying there- 
for, the usual contest of insipid jokes and lubbers’ yarns, and a sur- 
feit of swagger and exaggeration as to the speed of the partic- 
war rattletrap for which you happen to have paid double her 
value. I contess it makes me yery tired to tallk about the speed 
of steam yachts with their owners. Experience teaches me to 
divide theirestimates by two andthen there is generally margin left 
before hard pan is reached, It is conveniently customary to get 
knots and miles mixed up, and for land miles thé owner has a weak- 
ness. The number of steam yachts in America which ean maintain 
_ an average of 10 knots are extremely scarce. Those which can reach 
_ 12 Knots can be counted on one’s fingers, and few, if any,can make 
tore onastretch. With the exception of some Herreshoff launches, 
owe have no such things as ‘‘high speeds’ in the country and the 17 
to 25 knot yessels exist only in the wild imaginative powers of 
“quick transi’ schemers, ‘‘mastless dome vessel’? quacks and like 
_humbugs. Let the sanguine passessor of a skinny knife blade set his 
taffail log unbeknown to the builder, and with normal boiler pressure 
and bis fanciful dreams of railroad speed will sink as fast asthe 
mercury in the vacuum gauge of the condenser. Wor mere travel, as 
_ implements of locomotion from place to place, the fleet of so-called 
Steam yachts in our waters will serve as well as anything else. But 
_as affording indulgence in a maritime life for the sake of sport. give 
me the genuine steam cruiser, built to cover the greatest distance at 
362 UPC a Minimum of power and coalconsumptiou. Put me on the 
idge. in the engine room or even in the stoke hole, and I can see 
me point to the whole business. But. ask meto own one of the low- 


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Tsiand Sound from the eastward, the other, the favoring current, we 
brought with us pouring up from the Atlantic through the pent up 
rocky intricacies of world-known Hell Gate. We kept off half a 
point to be sure of clearing the black eee buoy until we could make 
out that sentinelin the dark, ‘Now boys. aft to the mainsheet,” 
cheerily echoed fore and aft. Ina moment three hands had collected, 


oue threw off the turns and passed the hauling part along to the rest, 


while the fourth, our man with the iron grip, fumbled across into the 
Jee waist ready to give head sheets a pull. Rapidly we closedin with 
the buoy which was bobbing up and down, and chasseying across in a 
double shuffle all to itself. As we reached up abreast, it was ‘In 
with the boom, trim fiat headsheets.** No sooner said than done, for 
the bracing air made all hands take to hard work with awill. It is 
strange how old yachtsmen tumble into their respective berths by in- 
tuition witheut any prearranged programme. 

Our heavy weight selected the heaviest jobs and no one interfered. 
The others tailed on as required, and my long apprenticeship at un: 
ravelliug Knotty questions peculiarly fitted me for clearing turns and 
giving the gear afairlead. Upon these lines we settled down atonce, 
and all through the cruise the same policy was obeyed. Whetherthe 
heavy man thought if & square deal or notis unknown. As he did 
not grumble or kick, no one else was going to doit for him, and I 
disliked to disturb the peace of the family too much to get into his 
way. So thatmainsheet cleat came to be considered my share, and 
quite an affection sprang up between us. If slacking away or pre- 
paring to flatten in called for no muscular contortions, the duty was 
highly responsible, as every one knows who has tied up_his thumb in 
the turns or let the parts get away through his butter fingers. “Haul 
again, once more. another puil, so! belay,*’ and the boom was in two 
blocks, j‘b trimmed down and foresail flat as a board, almost chafing 
the mast and clump blocks scraping the deck. Itis always so. Never 
knew it to be different. The moment we had got everything two 
blocks, down came the wind in vicious blasts out of revenge, as if to 
take the starch oui of us, and luff-skipper out of his wits and boat up 
on the beach, or compel us to check all round and half spill to save 
our bacon, fetching to leeward!way below your scientific calculations. 

This time the wind got awfully fooled, It had tackled a cutter, and 
the cutter just smiled all over as she prettily hove down to business, 
never sailing planksheer under even in the hardest of knocks. That 
wind retired disgurted. It had been accustomed to frightening the 
flat traps and making light sport of such flimsy game, had come for 
us cheeky fellows with topsail mastheaded in the muchly mista‘en 
notion that we would flinch like the rest of its victims. We had to 
pinch for all we could to feteh up to our objective anchorage off 
Byles’s Yard on City Island, and the yacht was rammed through 
everything without let up. Sheets were belayed all round, crew 
loafing about decks with minds perfectly at ease, and the skipper 
toying with his hand lightly on the helm. No one said boo to the 
blasis. No one cared a continental for the ire of old Boreasand the 
cutter cared less than anybody else. Every time she was hit she 
merely rolled down slowly and easily, looked higher than ever and 
gathered additional way, which she carried along through the flaws 
without check. Such sailing was glorious. It was her game and her 
play. A cutter sails best on her side, and the further over she is 
pressed the faster she foots and the more she soaks bodily out to 
windward as long as you do not overerowd her with sail beyond what 
her form will admit to advantage. So far as her heeling is con- 
cerned, I will back a cutter to put in her best licks to windward when 
Tail to, don’t care what fairy tales theorists may compose to the con- 
trary. Iderive my conclusions from actual test, which knocks the 
stuffing out of theory every time. No one ever discovered that 
Madge “‘slid off’ or could not hold her wind in the memorable tan- 
ning she inflicted upon the sloops some seasons ago, hor can any 
authentic cases be mentioned where a good cutter can truthfully be 
charged with greater lewardly tendencies than any other kind of 
vessel. Fact seems to be they have enough to hold on with and to 
spare, and maybe, as the lead goes dawn when the yacht rights. the 
top is cuffed over to windward as well, and then the pressure on the 
sails when heeled way over has not as much effect to drive sideways 
as when nearer the plumb. 

Yes, but how do you explain the Newport race of last August? 
Well, we are now driving along nicely, fetching under the lee of City 
Island, so I may az well answer that question, foreign as it is to this 
log. Three cutters started in thatrace. No one found the least fault 
with Bedouin’s close windedness, nor has it ever been hinted that she 
did not hold as high as the sloop Gracie after the leeward mark had 
been turned, No one found any fault with Maggie on that score, for 
she was beaten by Vixen through faster footing, and that only. But 
Wenonah had to make a hitch up to weather the committee at the 
finish, and upon this a great deal of fairy tale has been spun, all the 
performances of the same and similar yachts upon this and other 
occasions being entirely overlooked. They flatly contradict the 
charge that Wenonah lost the match for lack of weatherly powers 
hke those of the centerboard sloops,and as we have it direct from 
eredit \ble source that Wenonah’s masthead had to ve nursed, and 
that she suffered more than the others through the backing of the 
wind, her defeat is sufficiently explained without drawing upon any 
imaginary shortcomings in respect to close-windedness which cannot 
re repgnerod with numerous other tests and the fall races which 

vllowed. 


But we are closing in on the land now and haye to keep wits about 
for coming to. It was dark as pitch mixed with a little whitewash 
and dificult to separate beach and water, but the twinkling lights 
along the shore served as beacons, The wind got the worst of the 
fight with the cutter and had subsided, so that we skinned the island 
atan easy jor. But where was Byles’s yard, who could tell? No 
fences could be seen, no houses could be made out, nothing but a low 
wall of general blackness, All of a sudden the cutter got a last little 
blast over the trees, and the skipper being on his feet peering into 
darlmess with the helm slack between his understanding, the yacht 
first bowed down a couple of strakes, then with along sweep rounded 
up, slowed and rattled her canvas head in the wind. She had come 
to right off the yard which had seen her birth, like the steed who can 
smell his stable miles down the read, ‘‘Here we are, and here I am 
going to stay. If you galloots don’t know where I 
showed you.” We did not argue the point with the yacht but took 
the hint, After pe at eee lead in 24¢fms, word was passed to 
mend by and let go the port anchor. It went to the cook's gentle per- 


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suasion. Then there was a short musical racket of rattling chain as 
it battled its way through the hawse hole and the active man, assisted 
by his cousin, had the jib on deck and the bunt snugged up at the 
same instant, the foresail having been taken off upon closing in with 
the land. ‘‘Hold on forward, wait till she takes if.” A moment or 
two and the yacht gathered sternboard and then fetched up with a 
scarcely perceptible snub as she tailed to the full extent six fathoms 
allowed. The skipper stepped clear of the helm. The dash for that 
evening had come toanend,. ‘All hands furl sail,” was the next hail 
from the quarterdeck. ‘Topsail clewline, hand by the halliards. 
Clew up. Go the halliards, clew down!’ After some tugging, the 
extent of which is known only to the active man, the jibheader was 
snugged down on the cap in a pucker, fisherman fashion, and so left 
for the night, as an early start was contemplated next morning. I 
broke out the gaskets from the sail-room below and passed them over 
the boom, beef forward getting a top up on the lift, while the skipper 
shipped the crutch to receive it. After dropping into proper housing, 
the mainsheet was hauled taut and made fast to prevent the boom 
getting adrift, In the meanwhile gear had been cast off from the jib, 
the cousin held the bag and others rammed the sail into a snug bun- 
dle, which was then tossed down the hatch into the sail-room for the 
night. Foresail was furled, the clew lifted clear of all by a tricing 
line forward the mast, Mainsail next received attention. Halliards 
were let go and the gaff came down by the! run, with that clicking of 
the patent blocks which is sweet as music to the nautical ear. All 
hands ranged along one side, leech was passed in, topsail sheet not 
forgotten, and then with an “altogether. boys,” the bunt was rolled 
up and lifted on top of the boom, the gaff settled riding the sail, and 
the gaskets speedily tied. “Cook down below. Clear up the decks 
fore and aft.”” Just imagine yourself half frozen through, hungry as 
a_bear awakening from his winter’s doze, smoke curling out the 
Charley Noble giving rise to gastronomic anticipations, and the last 
command which pipes down for the night sounds as welcome as the 
clock in the steeple when it strikes five to free you from the slayery 
of money grubbing forthe day, “Every man arope.” sol turned 
tomy old love, the mainsheet, and under the cover of darkness 
coiled it away against the sun in‘’a tangled mass with the leadline. 

The active man, of course, had the riding light, rezular Fresnel lense, 

triced up to the forestay, burning like a miniature sun, shedding 
friendly beams oyer the forward part of the vessel, enabling me to 
suspect the grandest effort of the cook's life was being consunmated 
in the forepeak below. Once more the good little ship was quietly 
riding to her chain in wonted fashion. We lay a cable’s length from 
shore pretty well protected, with the best of prospects for peaceful 
slumber, Off our starboard quarter a sickly flickering denoted the 
whereabouts of a sloop, smack or freighter, as the only company 

close aboard. Other lights some distance off on our beam told of a 
batch of schooners and coasters waiting for purposes I could not di- 
vine, How they all make a living is to me a mystery, seemg the com- 
petition of endléss miles of railroads ashore, and the numerous steam- 
ship lines afloat. But there will always be coarse freights, such as 
brick, coal, lumber and hay to collect from out of the way ports, for 

low freight rates, the loads all being poured into the vast maw of 
metropolitan consumption, never to be appeased, but éver expanding 
toward the colossal. The night was extremely fine, the edge was 

taken off the cold with the lull m the wind. The barometer had slowly 
and steadily been on the rise and fine weather was prognosticated for 

some days to come, 

But what am I doing shiyering on deck? The skipper had found 
his way below. Warm and homelike the eabin lamp shone forth 
through the glass of the skylight, and delicious odors rose from the 
companion. Hight bells had just gone. I was leaning back up to 
the boom in a reverie upon the romance of yachting, ever and anon 
glancing aloft into the gloom, seeking to follow the dim outline of 
the cutter’s jaunty rig as it faded away in the darkness overhead. 
From the bottom of my heart pity went out for those benizghted 
heathens on shore, to whom this noble, manly, hearty, life-renewing 
sport, with its roving and devil-may-care, its whole-souled Bohemian 
attributes and benign, broadening influences is a sealed book, into the 
leaves of which they will not peer, shuffling off this mortal coil with- 
ouf as much as a dip into the paradise. at the gates of which they all 
stand clamoring for that which is at their command within. Did I 
owe the fraternity of mortar and pestle a grudge and sought the 
anihilation of their fees; did I wish to starve them out of their living. 
T would spread broadcast o'er the land this new dispensation from 
the fount of life, Get afloat, get afloat, and don’t be long in 
doing it! Away with you from the nuxious smells, contaminated 
food, poverty-stricken atmosphere, petty cares and nervous 
worries of the hissing, poisoned swirl of city life. Turn upen 
your prison pens, fimg aside the load which is luring 
to an early age and grave, and makes life one harrassing 
burden beneath which all but the most rugged sink and few succeed, 
Once more join bright glowing nature in her virgin purity, and wealth 
of powers toreceive in turn from the one great Mother of All life 
which shall be life, and not its counterfeit, strength of body and 
force of mind, with the faculties for though! and action rescued from 
the dwarfish crippling of the baneful artifice imposed through the 
relentless race for wealth and vain display. Get afloatas fasa as you 
can in a box, a scow, on a raft, in a yacht, anythin you wish, so you 
meet Dame Nature to draw from her iimitless cee © fresh draughts 
from fresh sea breezes, freighted to the gunwale with balmy, rich 
ozone. One cruise breaks in the novice, the second sees ail his fears 
and aversions Overcome, the third he starts upon with expectation, 
the fourth has wrought an enthusiast from the moss dismal begin- 
ning, and the fifth finds him laughing Medicus out of house and 
home, for he will no more know the stupid, dizzy topheaviness aris- 
ing from a torpid liver, nor the dull pains of indigestion, nor listliss- 
ness and pallid hue of countenance, hor nerves unstrung, nor wake- 
ful nights, nor any of the evilsto which flesh succumbs in the econ- 
tamination with that which is vile. 


“On deck there; better come down if you want an rub,’ was 
shouted from the cabin, and with one saan Imade for the hatch, 
tumbled down below, landed in my place, and went for scouse and 
eras ee sane pronounce duit, it’s the nautical forit—in a way which 
would have thrown aback that unknown seribe who ventured the 
opinion, m an evening paper, that you could neither recuperate brains 
nor kody aboard of a cutter. I won't say anything about the brains, 
Perhaps thereis no reom tor more, but as tor recuperating the body, 

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is FOREST AND STREAM. (Jan. Bi, 1884 


beso; but the State’s authority to regulate the seasons in which 
game may be killed is unquestioned. This is one of the police pow- 
ers of the State, like the power to forbid the sale of “bob” veal and — 
skimmed milk. This power extends over all the wild game on private 
properties, See our issues of Aug. 9, Aug. 16 (particularly), Aug. 30 
and Sept. 6, 1883, where the subect is discussed at length. 


W. A. I., Liberty, Neb,—You can use buckshot in your new ham- 
merless chokebore with perfect safety, if you will take the precau- 
tion to chamber the buckshot according to the choke. Push arod in 
from the muzzle to the point of most constricted boring, put the 
buckshot in on it, and see how many will fit sungina layer. Then 
when loading your shells make your layers correspond to this. 


W. H. DuB., Pennsylvania.—Works relating to large game and 
the modes of hunting them are: Hallock’s “‘Gazetteer’’ (which is per- 
haps best adapted to your purpose), price $3; Murphy’s ‘‘Sporting 
Adventures in the Far West (unreliable and second-hand) and Van 
Dyke’s “Still-Hunter” (yery good for deer), $2. Caton’s ‘“tAntelope 
and Deer of America” is the most exhaustive and reliable work on 
that subject. 


C, P,, St. Louis, Mo.—The Savannah, Florida and Western Railway 
(Savannah, Ga.) publish gratis a pamphlet descriptive of the parts of 
Florida reached by their lines. D. Appleton & Co, publish a book en- 
titled “Florida for Tourists, Invalids and Settlers,’’ by Geo. M. Bar- 
bour, price $1.50 or $2. C.K. Munroe (140 Nassau street, New York), 
publishes ‘‘The Florida Annual,” which will probably best answer 
your purpose. Price 50 cents. 


WESTERLY, R. I.—What is the use of a click on a fishing reel? I 
can see the advantage of astop and drag but not @ click, as I don’t 
know whatitisfor. Ans. A click is usually a drag or brake, made to 
give a sound by which the angler can gauge the speed with which the 
line runs out. Most anglers love the singing of the reel, but there are 
those who prefer a silent drag. A click reel is too freerunning when 
the click is broken, but when in order needs no other drag. 


N., Germantown,—Could you tell me of some good place to go this 
summer for shooting, either to camp out or to board? I would lke to 
zo to some place where it is healthy (as Colorado), where there is a 
yariety of good shooting within tramping distance, as deer, ruffed er 
pinnated frouse, quail, ducks and geese. I only have July, August 
and September for sport, and would like to spend most of that time 
shooting. Ans. See article entitled ““Where to Camp Next Summer,”’ 
page 476, Jan. 10. It will be difficult for you to find a place where all 
the game named can be found within tramping distance. 


W. G. M., Brooklyn, N. Y.—What would be a good State to live in 
for a person with weuk lungs? I want to find a place where the 
climate is not changeable, but healthy, and where there is little orno 
cold weather, I also wish to get where there is good hunting and 
fishing, if possible. How would Southern California do? Ans. We 
advise you to consult a competent physician, or to write to some of 
the journals that give advice of this kind: for instance, Dio Lewis's 
Monthly, Bible House, New York. Southern California is very highly 
recommended; but we prefer not to take the responsibility of giving 
advice in a matter of this kind, It can be done intelligently only by 
some one who is familiar with the person and the place. Some doc- 
tors who cannot cure their patients send them off to a distant State 
as the easiest way to get rid of them. 


Brownine Gun Barrets.—For the benefit of half a dozen inquirers 
we reprint the following receipt for browning gun barrels, premising 
it with the advice that the gun be sent to a gunsmith, who will do it 
better than an amateur can: ‘‘Tinct. of muriat of iron, one ounce; 
nitric ether, one ounce: sulphate of copper, four scruples; rain — 
water, ore pint. First, securely plug up both ends of barrels, leay- 
ing one plug in each end of sufficient length to be used as handles, 
then thoroughly clean with soap and water, after which cover with 
a thick coat of lime, slacked in water, and when that has become 
dry remove it with an iron wire scratch brush; this is to remove all 
dirt and grease from the barrels. Then apply a coat of the fiuid 
with a rag, and let it stand for twenty-four hours, when a slight rust 


just ask the cook! It was a caution how the grub was stowed below. | Flobert rifles has all the good points of an air gun, and is much more 
Popping off with eaffé noir, fire was started on pipes and weeds, and | effective. Go into some of the Boston gum stores and examine the 
mich eal ee an UBS rently aceree ee Tey to ie ie Ree ah guns for yourself. 
ion throug: e skylight overhead, as the cook cleared the wreck J. A. P., Norfolk, Va.—Do the deer of this ; * 

: Been oe i gly ey , Va. section of the countr 
for the evening’s entertainment. shed their horns every year, ornot? Ans. They do, ob 

The leaves of the swing table were collapsed and the four passen- H. L. B.. Valdosta. G fypeieys 
gers coiled away in the four cosy corners of the cosy little cabin, .L. B., Valdosta, Ga.—The note by ‘‘A Veteran Killer” in regard 

arns then flowed upon yarns, and reminiscences took trick and to an outlawed gun should be taken with 95 parts humor and 5 parts 
trick with current topics until the clock warned all hands and a gen- | ‘ 54!t. 
eral move was made to berth for the nicht after the skipperbad| LL. K. M., Hastings, Iowa,—We have printed several communica- 
given a practical illustration in the delicate art of concocting egg- | tions from those who have used the gun named, and like it very 
Hoee. By ca = vues ruling of things or some ape COUR ACY, much, = 

© strongest potion of the aromatic composition fell to my share, E. 8. R., Hast Corinth, Vt.—You will probably find the deired infor- 
and fora while after stretching the length of my berth in the after | mation about Newfoundland in the Boeke recon ds published by Rev 
iota er bee Seauge peaaiss in is head, due to ae cess: | M. Harvey, of St. John’s. We can supply it, Price, $3 ; 

ould not haye g i ed down be- : < aoe : ~ 
Ron PONSA Tter Ene MEAe WAS oO J. H. McH., Ohio.—We reprint for your benefit and that of several 


fore I fell a willing victim to the seductions of Murphy, cradled to a ' = i S 4 
mellitinous lullaby played on the gamut of the aoenischonwd pro- other inquirers diagram of the decimal target. The diameters of the 


boscis of the active man of the party and the swist of the wavelets 
close to my off ear. And now, if after this dose the gentle reader 
fails to drop into cast-iron slumber, he will not fare as well as did the 
erew who made this dash sometime last Noyember. GA Pi aK. 


KELPIE.—Mr, Winslow is having the centerboard ripped out of 
the Kelpie, Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., and an 18in. keel substi- 
tuted. One more keel and one less board makes a difference of two 
in the footing. Jf the work is properly done, Kelpie will be much 
easier on her helnt and need not loose any speed. 


DAUNTLESS. —This schooner arrived at Fayal from Madeira in a 
leaky cendition on Jan. 22. There is no dock or slipway in Fayal, or 
there was neither when we were there last, so the Dauntless will 
have to depend upon her own means for effecting repairs. She 
probably opened her seams in a rough sea, 


BIGGEST KEEL EVER CAST.- Fay, of Northam, is building an 
85-ton racing cutter for Mr. Jameson, of the Samcena. She wili be 
84ft. loadline and 15ft. beam, with 75 tons of lead in one solid chunk 
on ne keel, This has been successfully cast, and is the largest on 
record. 


SHARPIE RUDDERS.—Mr. Clapham writes that the balanced rud- 
der was adopted because a skag was found to make sharpies slow in 
slays. Mr. Pike added a skag to his schooner Ellie with beneficial 
effect, and on the lakes a skag is universally*used. 

YACHTING NEAR PARIS.—The Cercle de la Voile now has 254 
members, with 176 yachts. of which 82 are steamers. Total tonnage 
3,862. Income $7,000 and expenses $5,600. Races sailed 39, for which 
$1,750 in prizes was given. 

CUTTERS IN BOSTON.—The 28ft. cutter at Lawley’s yard is 
planked up. Another cutter for Messrs. Taylor & Smith is nearly 
finished, The keel has heen got out for Dr, Whitney’s 30ft. cutter. 

SOLENT WATERS.—There are twenty different sailing organiza- 
tions on a coast line of twenty-five miles devoted to the mterests of 
small yachts in.waters adjacent to the Isle of Wight, England. 


A POPULAR BOOK.—The third edition of Dixon Kemp's ‘‘Yacht 


black rings are 3}4in., 534in., and 8in. respectively; of the other rings 
and Boat Sailing” has been exhausted, and the fourth is now in | 2S noted in the diagram, The distances shot at Walnut Hill are 500, 


preparation, of which further notice will appear. 800, 900 and 1,000yds. 


BIG FLEET.—The Royal Southampton Y. C., of England, has 450 H. H. M., Hazelton, Ilowa.—Does chokeboring a gun improve its 


< z : shooting of coarse shot. Ans. It improves its shooting with all sizes 
Pare ee. FeCRIs FOCHnS up 19,000 tons, and $5,000 it does not | oF shot, so far as close pattern and penetration are concerned. 


F : = : S. R. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.—1. For names of standard repeating rifles 
KNICKERBOCKER Y. C,—Second lecture will take place Feb. 6 } Paar ; Pi : 

y ays . " * 1 | see our advertising columns. 2. Train your dog by the directions re- 

evince and 183d street, Harlem. All yachtsmen are | jating to retrieving in Hammond’s “Traming ys. Breaking,” which we 


NEW YORK Y. C.—Will rent tk mises k che Weenie were ee is ig 

peta d Sa ae it Bent the premises known as the Munici-| JH. D., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—To settle a question, please state 
pal Building, Madison avenue, and occupy the whole house. what is the color of the barred owl’s eyes. A. Hee fae are blue; 
THE FOUR-BEAM CUTTER.—The new yacht illustrated last week | B. says yellow, the same as the horned and mostif not quite all other 


was designed by A. Cary Smith, of this city. owls. Ans. Both wrong. They are brown. pat have ppt i fees take Dee abs gatcceee te tips teow h 
THETIS.—This is the name chosen for Mr. Henry Bryant’s 70ft.| NrwspzaLmr.—There are a number of anti-fouling paints in the | CO0t@aining boiling hot water, after which scratch them well wi 6 
centerboard compromise cutter. market, to be had of ship chandlers in seaport or ace ne Tarr & | Sctateh brush. Repeat this until the color suits, which will be after 


three or four applications. When completed let the barrels remain | 
in lime water a short time to neutralize any acid which may haye © 
penetrated. Take great care not to handle the barrels during the — 
operation, for the least particle of grease will make bad spots.” 


H. G., Milwaukee.—Hallock’s “Gazetteer” gives the following as » 
the method of Indian-tanning skins. The skin is stretched either on | 
the ground or on poles, and all fat or flesh removed, When welldried | 
itis washed in soap and water to cleanse the fur; the brains of any 
animal are then taken and mashed into a paste with hot water, and | 
this paste is thoroughly rubbed into the flesh side, and the skin hung 
out to dry. When dry it is scraped, and exposed to the dew tor one - 
night, and next morning rubbed and pulled until soft. Buekskinsare - 
made by rubbing off the hair with a horse-rib, while theskin is fresh, | 
or, after soaking in a weak lye; then dressing with brains, and stain-. 


Wonson’s anti-fouling paint is much used. A composition of yerdigris 
for boats’ bottoms can be had of paint dealers. 


é pe Re Porat Os Ro Uehara le a dog uses his Bo and He 

y ‘ rail of a bird; he follows the trail and points on sight of bird. \ 

answ ers ta Car. resp ondents. claims that a dog finds and points the bird by scent; as regards his 
pointing on sight itis quite accidental. Ans. B. is right. 

Denr’s Horns.—Two or three correspondents are informed that 


deer do shed their horns every year. Thisis the rule, to which there 
ke" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. may be now and then a very rare exception. See the very tull and 


licit description of the growth of deer’s h rinted i r 
W.E.H., Fairview, W. Va.—Address Estes & Lauriat, Boston, ea of Oct. oF 1883, Vol. XX1., ANB ii ping aie a 


Mass. i 5 
c ‘ CoBwesB, Boston, Mass.—What is the present status of the N. A. K, 
C. 8. Y., Orange County, N. Y.—For fur dealers see our advertis- | G, Stud Book, Vol. II.? Ans. This is an enigma that we cannot solve: 


Bue cojuoins, nor do we know whether, haying passed through the vicissitudes of | ine a reddish color in a decoction of Wasatchie bark. Alum andsalt | 
A. J._S.. Plumsteadville, Pa.—The firm is Schoyerling, Daly & | floed and field, it will ever see the light of day in time to be classed in } are very good, but alum is rather scarce in the chapparal, as also are | 
Gales, New York City. any other category than that of ancient history. doors ana boards. Some pee tet eee ahs te. ercend Canons ; 
R. P. A., Boston.—See Forest anp Stream for Nov. 8, 1883, for W. K.N., Marissa, Il.—A friend says he can kill the game on his | be taken, by the way, not to use too much salt, as it causes the s : 
waterproofing receipts. i } own farm in or out of season, and take the case to the Supreme | afterward to absorb moisture too readily. Smoking askin is done by { 


first dressing with brains, sewing it up into a funnel-shape, and sus-_ 
pending over a slow fire of buffalo chips, or dry prickly pear, builtin # 
a hole im the ground, The tips of the funnel being pinned down close | 
around the hole; a clear, calm day, is selected, and the smoking re- 
quires about two hours. It gives a velvet-like finish, and the skin | 
never shrinks or gets stiff from wetting. but washes like cloth. ~ 


J. M. F., Middletown.—Consult Stoddard’s “Guide to the Adiron- | Courtand gain the trial._Is the game law constitutional i tind 
dacks,.”’ Price, 50 cents. has ever been carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, but 
C. H. 8.. Dorchester, Mass.—If you want a gun for game shooting | it has been decided by the Supreme Courts of some of the States. 
do not invest in an air gun, it will not give you sufficient penetration, | Some game laws may contain certain provisions which are uncon- 
The arm is fairly accurate at very short range, but one of the cheap | stitutional; we believe the discriminations against non-residents to 


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in by the Saturday previous to issue in which they are to be inserted. 


Transient advertisements must invariably be accompanied by the’ 


money or they will not be inserted. 
. Address all communications, 
Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 


Nos. 39 ann 40 Park Row. - New Yorke Cry. 


CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. THE KENNEL. 
Yellowstone Park Bill, The Beagle Club. 


The Camp-Fire Vote. 
Our Ganoe Columns. 
Collapse of Length Measure- 
ment Abroad. 
Tur Sportsman TOURIST. 


Cleveland Dog Show. 
On the Scent. 

Prince Phoebus. 

The Clumber Spaniel. 
Kennel Notes. 


How Do They Live? RIFLE AND TRAE SHOOTING. 
My Camp-Fire. Rifles in the Field, 
Between the Lakes,--11. Range and Gallery. 
Life Among the Blackfeet.—x1. The Trap, 

' Natura. History. CANOEING, 


Wildcats. 
The Least Bittern. 
Camp-FIRE FLICKHRINGS. 
Game BAG AND Gun, 
Only a Brace. 
With the Dueks on Delta Bar. 
Southern Shooting Grounds. 
A Visit to Chatham County. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
Washington Territory Game 
Law. 
SEA AND RIveR FISHING. 
The Stricken Trout. 
Materials for Fly-rods. 
The Best Color for Leaders. 
Trouting on the Bigosh. 
Taking Trout Through the Ice, 
Fishing in Michigan. : 
FISHCULTURE. 
The Menhaden Question. 
Stocking Streams with Trout. 


Trrawaddi C, ©. 

The Winter Camp-Fire. 
Fourth Meeting. 
Pittsburgh CG, C, 

The Galley Fire 
An Irish Stew. 

The Log Book. 

y.—Down the Mississippi. 

Cases or Sneakbox, 

Large vs. cues Canoes. 

New York C. 

YACHTING. 

The Boom in Cutters. 

The Cost of Yachts. 

Some Reminiscences. 

Conclusions of the Y. R. A. 
Measurement. 

Give it Support. 

Amateur Logic. 

The Life-Saving Service. 

Small Boats. 

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


on 


THE OAMP-FIRE VOTH. 


N our issue of Dec. 20 we reprinted all the ‘‘Camp-Fire 
+t Flickerings,” aud asked for a vote on their respective 
merits. The interest manifested in the voting has exceeded 
our anticipations. It was not thought that more than one 
thousand yotes would come in. That number has been 
more than doubled. We have received two thousand and one 
hundred and twelve (2112) lists. They have come from a very 
wide extent of the Forest AND STREAM’s territory, All 
the States have been represented and most of the Territorics. 
From Canada and British North America, from England, 
from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Bermuda, Cuba, Mexico, 
the mails have brought them; and one from the Sandwich 
Islands. ; 

No conditions were made as to the character of stories to 
be selected. Hach voter was asked to choose the ten which 
he thonght ‘‘the best” and to write them in their order of 
merit. This was giving very wide latitude, and, as was to 
be-expected, the ballots have shown very diverse opinions 
respecting what are ‘‘the best” of the ninety-six. Many of 
the voters have explained why they voted as they did® One 
puts a certain story at the head of his list “because it’s a 
whopper.” Another selects his ten ‘“‘because they are all 
true ones, and the lies ought not to be counted.” Of the 

” seven winning stories, the first five are told as having actually 
occurred, and the last two are what the writer of the card 
just alluded to meant when he said whoppers. 
winning stories shows this diversity: ‘The first five of the 
‘seven are told as true; of the last two one is a Southwestern 
version of a Munchausen yarn, and the other a combination 
of “fish” and “‘snake” stories. 

Probably few of those who voted thought of the vast 
possibility of change opened in the simple demand, that out 
of the ninety-six stories offered each voter should pick ten 
‘stories, arranging. them in what appeared the order of merit. 
There was not only the wide ranve of selection for the 

choice of different numbers, but there was an arrangement 


The list of | 


of them as well, and this might differ. Thus in the latter 
case of arrangement the possibility runs up to 3,628,800. 
That is, for instance, ten persons might sit down to dinner 
for that number of consecutive days (if they should live long 
enough) and on no two days would the persons be placed 
in the same relative position. The same, of course, applied 
to the placing of the ballots on the list of ten. 

The case in the ‘‘Flickerings” vote was, however, a differ- 
ent one, it was with a certain number of different things 
being given, how many changes canbe made out of them, 
by taking any given number of quantities at a time. The rule 
in this case is a simple one, and in the problem immediately 
before us requires the multiplication of the numbers 96x95x 
94x93x99x91x90x89x88x87, and the result is found to be 
42,294, 851,716,696,972,800, which is the total possible num- 
ber of different ballots which the editor and the Herald expert 
might have had brought before them; but luckily, owing to 
a lack of voting humanity, that task was not set. 

The method of determining the winning stories was 
announced as follows: 

When a ballot is received, each story named on it will be credited 
with a certain number of units, determined by its position in the 
list, The story named first will be given the highest number, 10; the 
next one 9, the third 8, and so on to the tenth or last, which will re- 
ceivel. Then each of these credits will be transferred to the ac- 
counts of the respective stories, and the story receiving the greatest 
aggregate of credits will be adjudged the winning story, and to its 
author will be given the first prize. The story receiying the next 
highest aggregate will take the second prize, and so with the others 
until the total credit of each of the stories has been ascertained, and 
the seyen prizes for stories awarded. : 

This has been done. For example: The story No. 36 was 
named in the first place on 130 lists, for each of which it 
received a credit of 10 units; it was named in the second 
place on 105 cards, for each of which it received a credit of 
9 units, and so on through the other places on all the 868 
cards on which the story was named. Its total seore of 
credits was thus determined to be as follows: 


SCORE oF No, 36. 


Virst Place...... (value 10), on 180 cards.................. 18010=1,300 


Second Place...(value 9), on 105 cards.........,...-..... 105x 9= 945 
Third Place ....(value 8), on 110 cards........... ...... 110x 8= 8380 
Fourth Place...(value 7), on 96 cards.........0 ........ 96x T= 672 
Fifth Place.... (value 6),on 97 cards..................- 97x B= 582 
Sixth Place..... (value. 5),on G69°cards.... 6.0... 6 es ee 69x 5= 845 
Seventh Place..(value 4), on 78 cards..... atin os) ead 7X 4= 312 
Eighth Place...(value 3),on 8cards................... %3x% 8= 219 
Ninth Place ....(value 2),on 48 cards................... 48x 2= 96 
Tenth Place....(value 1),on 62 cards....... ........... Spe a Nel 

GUAT OgbOtal: OfGRENTES sy nice ise lest ane eal ere ae ong ls sot, : 5,423 


By like calculations the scores of the seyen winning stories 
were found to be: 
LIST OF WINNING STORIES. 
First Prize...... No. $6, The Parker Gun Story............ Total, 5,432 


Second Prize...No. 58, The Commercial Traveler........ Total, 4,735 
Third Prize..... No. 31, Gus and the Cow............ ..... Total, 4,480 


Fourth Prize...No. 45, The Saw-Horse..................; Total, 4,346 
Fifth Prize..... No. 37, ‘‘Let’s Put Both Gaffs In,”....... Total, 4,105 
Sixth Prize ....No. 93, The Peach Tree..........0.......: Total, 4,017 
Seventh Prize..No, 42, The Snake-bitten Wagon.......... Total, 3,301 


For purpose of comparison we also give below the detailed 
scores of the first fifteen stories. The table shows their order, 
the number of times each one was written in each place on 
the cards, the total number of votes it received, and the tetal 
value of credits obtained in the way explained: 


SCORES OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN. 
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NUMBER eee eel aPlazlaPlezlotio tM Molze 
So), 9) 8 Bir si, Bi: Bi: al: et S|: oles 
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IRA AAS No. 36../180 |105 |110 | 96 | 97 | 69 | % 73 | 48 | 62 | 868 |5423 
IL.....No. 58..|100 | 82 | 95 | 83 | 92 | 79 | 74 | 70.| 70 | 63 | 08 lavas 
TIT .... No. 81../114 |103 | 91 | 67 | 67 | 50 | 60 | 58 | 55 | 40 | 705 |4480 
IV.....No. 45..| 83 | 82 | 79 | 938 | 72 | 79 |. 69 | "6 | 58 | 48 | 739 \4B4Gq 
V......No, 87../103 | 86 | 76 | 68 | 62 | 64 | 62 | 51 | 42 | 40 | 654 14105 
Wile n: No. 93../145 | 82 | 58 | 46 | 48 | 56 | 44 | 42 | 50 | 78 | B54 l4017 
VII....No, 42..| 51 | 73 | 58 | 838 | 52 | 74 | 52 | 89 |-4d4 | 34 | 555 [8801 
VIIT...No. 10..) 50 | 71 | 68 | 58 | 42 | 37 | 2) 5 47 | 39 | 518 |8029 
Jeti No. 88..| 68 | 68 | 43 | 67 | 47 | 41 | 46 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 475 |2998 
Bets Pha No. 20,.] 7 55 | 57 | 87 | 47 | 49 | 42 | 84 | 87 | u7 | 474 |¢908 
0c ee No. 7..| 71 | 66 | 60 | 86 | 49 | 27 | BB | 40 | 87 | 87 | 451 |2831 
XMIT....No. 62..) 66 | 49 | 43 | 54 | 55 | 43 | 40 | 87 | 89 | 4% | 473 lo764 
XIIL...No. 48..| 41 | 42 ) 50 3 | 52 | 53 | 51 | 48 | 47 | 88 | 470 |2601 
XIV...No. 38..) 40 | 89°} 42 | G1 | 63 | 44 | 41 | 49 | dd | 47 | 470 [2558 
XV....No.91..| 58 | 45 | 48 | 38 | 44 | 89 | 42 | 58 | 51 | 56 | 469 |2509 


No. 1, 1,494; No. 8, 1,317; No. 8. 1,257; No. 9, 1,401; No. 18, 1,62@; No, 
14, 2,067; No. 15, 1,278; No. 16, 1,188; No, 17, 2,412: No, 18, 1,824; No. 28, 
1,588; No. 28, 2157, No. 27, 1,862; No. 29, 2;485; No. $4, 1,272; No. 35, 
1,659; No. 47, 1,099; No, 48, 1,886; No. 56, 1,581; No, 63, 2,850; No. 72, 
1,438; No. 76, 1,927; No. 86, 1,816; No, 88, 1,098; No, 92, 1,152; No. 94, 
2,151. 

The winning voters will be announced in our next issue. 

Will the writer of the winning story, No, 86, please send 
name and address to this office, 


o- ” 


OREST AND STREAM. 


A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. 


{ VOL. XX1I.—No, 2. 
Nos, 89 & 40 Park Row, New York. 


YELLOWSTONH PARK BILL. 


HE Senate committee on the Yellowstone Park have 

completed their bill, which will now be reported for 
amendments. As it stands at present, the bill provides that 
the Park shall be enlarged thirty miles on the east and ten 
on the south, while from its borders on the north and west 
a strip two miles in width is cut off. The extension on the 
east carries the Park very nearly if not quite over to Cedar 
Mountain, and thus takes in the headwaters of the Stinking 
Water, including the wonderful Clark’s Fork Cafion so 
graphically described in these columns last winter by our 
correspondent ‘“‘P.” The strip of ten miles added on the 
south extends the bounds of the Park down to the neighbor- 
hood of Two Ocean Spring, but of course does not include 
Jackson’s Lake or the Tetons, which we should haye been 
glad to see within the reservation, The bill further brings 
the Park within the jurisdiction of Gallatin county, Mon- 
tana, and provides for the use of troops to capture and expel 
law-breakers, It provides for the appointment of a superin- 
tendent and fifteen assistants. 

The bill is thus an improvement on the previous law in 
relution to the Park. The increase in size of the reservation 
was demanded by public opinion, It should be made stil 
larger, but then, after all, half a loaf is a good deal better 
than no bread at all. The increase in the rumber of assist~ 
ants isa good provision, but we hope that they will be care 
fully chosen and thoroughly well equipped, for if they are 
faithful and painstaking, their labors will notbe light. The 
provision authorizing the employment of troops to assist in 
protecting the Park is very well, but the Honorable Secre- 
tary of the Interior had this authority granted him by last 
year’s Sundry Civil Bill, and, although the violations of the 
law last summer were flagrant and open, we never heard 
that any troops were sent into the Park for the purpose of 
protecting its wonders, its game, or its forests. 

The fact of the matter is that the care of the Park depends 
wholly, or almost wholly, on its superintendent. If an ener- 
getic and faithful man fills the place, he can do a vast 
amount of good. If he is slow and lazy, the law-breakers 
will have things all their own way. . 

The provisions of the bill in regard to game and fish are, 
we are glad to say, very stringent. The killing of either is 
absolutely prohibited under a penalty of not Jess than $20 
nor more than $100 fine, or imprisonment for ninety days 

As regards leases, the billis generally like the old law: 
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for not 
exceeding ten years small portions of ground in the Park, 
not exceeding ten acres in extent for each tract, on which 
may be erected hotels and the necessary outbuildings; bu 
such leases shall not include any of the geysers or other ob- 
jects of curiosity or interest, or exclude the public from the 
free and convenient approach thereto, or include any ground 
within one-quarter of a mile of any of the geysers or the 
Yellowstone Falls. Only one tract shall be leased to any 
one person, association, or corporation, All contracts, agree- 
ments, or exclusive privileges heretofore made or given in 
regard to the Park, or any part of it, which are inconsistent 


with this act, are declared to be invalid, 


And while we are talking about the Park, a word or two 
about the great-hearted Improvement Company, which tried 
so hard last year to acquire the whole reseryation for its 
yery own. ‘This estimable association appears, from the re- 
ports which are flying over the wires, to be in trouble. In 
the first place, it is stated that Rufus Hatch, whose name 
was so prominently connected with the incorporation of this 
company, has been sued by it for failure to take up the 
$500,000 of stock te which he pledged himself to subscribe. 
Then we learn from the West that the property of the Im- 
provement Company has been attached by a Jivingston 


| (Montana) trader, who supplied the Hotel Company with 
supplies and who is now unable to collect his little bill. 


The Company and its principal organizers being in difficul- 
ties, they may perhaps have less time to devote to lobbying in 
Washington this winter, and so the friends of the Park may 
have less trouble in securing the legislation which is so 
essential to its protection. There is an old saw relating to 
the condition of things when honest men get their dues, 
which obtrudes itself upon us; but let that pass. 

Our readers will watch with interest the efforts which will 
be made by the land grabbers and for the Park during the 
remainder of this session of Congress, Public opinion in- 
sists. so strongly, however, on adequate legislation on this 
subject, that we cannot doubt that it will be had. The 
people demand that their Park shall be kept for them, and 
that it shall be carefully guarded from injury. Its geysers, 
its forests, its game, must be preserved for its owners. 


22 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


(Fes. 7, 1884. 


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' OUR CANOE COLUMNS, 


HERE is no special necessity of calling attention to our 
canoeing department. Itspeaksforitself. 1t isnewsy, 
helpful, practical. Weare doing now, and mean te do in 
the future, for the canoe just what we have so long been 
doing, are now doing, and will keep on doing, for the gun, 
dog, rod, rifle, trap and yacht. The readers of the canoe- 
ing columns ought not to be confined to canoeists. Canoe- 
ing, and angling, and shooting, and camping, and the study 
and investigation of wild life are all connected. The sub- 
jects are blend. Anglers will find hints in the canoeing 
columns, and canoemen may profitably read the angling 
columns. 

In fact, our advice is to read the whole paper, Even the 
yachting man, once in a while, says something that lands- 
men may find amusing if not instructive. 

But what we started out to say is this, that the sport of 
canoeing is in the ascendant. It is no transient ‘‘boom.” 

The canoe has found its way into popularity. It has come 
to stay. We propose to make the canoeing department of 
the ForREsT aND STREAM so complete that it will be regarded 
by those who read it as a worthy exponent of the subject. 
Communications on canoeing are welcome. When you 
write up your Jog book send itin. Tell us of your outfit, 
culinary triumphs, news notes about routes, hints and help 
about fittings, handling, and the care of the boats. In short, 
put in your paddle and add to the momentum,, 


COLLAPSE OF LENGTH MEASUREMENT ABROAD. 


A RSE recent investigations of a select’ committee of the 
General Council of the British Y. R. A. has made the 
clear and positive declaration that length entirely fails to 
fairly compare boats of different types. It sets ferth that 
the largest boat on a given length has inherently the greater 
possibility for speed, and that differences in size are prop- 
erly subject te taxation, inasmuch as. they enable larger sail 
spreads to be carried and contribute to greater ability in 
performance. 

In other words, the highest authority in Great Britain 
once for all officially subscribes to a fundamental proposi- 
tion long known to every intelligent person, that increased 
length not accompanied by corresponding increase of big- 
ness is not a true gauge upon which speed can be compared. 
The committee simply reiterates the old, old story that a 
forty-foot canoe is not a match for aforty-foot yacht several 
times as big, and that to tax a fifty-foot canoe for the extra 
fen feet is to tax her for presumed possibilities for speed 
which the canoe does not possess, because lacking the bulk 
enabling her to display the superiority hitherto wrongfully 
attributed to the extra ten feet of length. Hence, between 
the two, or between the small chittywee and the big Itchen 
boats of like loadline, the length rule “entirely fails” to 


equitably match boats which differ so much in size. There |, 


is nothing new or startling about such an enunciation. We 
have sought to make that clear all along. Simple as such a 
proposition may seem and self-evident as it is from examples in 
practice, it is strange and almost inconceivable that in this 
age any one cap still maintain the equity of racing a small 
boat against a large one without an allowance, should they 
happen to coincide in the one special feature of length. Yet 
it is upon the crass and glaringly false assumption that like 
lengths afford like chances for speed, whatever the bulks 
may be, that the length rules of the day are founded. ‘‘All 
other things being equal,” the committee says further, “‘the 
speed of yachts will vary as the square root of their lengths.” 
But asin no two yachts are ‘‘all other things equal,” no 
rule can be built upon an assumption which does not apply 
among yessels of a length but varying in ‘‘all other things,” 
said other things drawing their existeace from the varying 


bulks found on the same length. Very properly, then, the’ 


committee has concluded that the errors of comparison by 
length must be corrected by the introduction of some expres- 
sion equivalent to the difference in bigness of the boats en- 
tered for competition. It is true the committee does not 
recommend measurement of bulk in so many words, but 
beats the devil round the bush in advising the measurement 
of sail in connection with length. As sail area, broadly con- 
sidered, will vary with beam and depth, the sum total of 
the operation is nothing less than a rough equivalent to the 
multiplication of the three chief dimensions of a vessel, in 
plain words, a gauge of her bigness or bulk. 

There are, of course, instances in which, through differing 
mechanical provisions for ballasting, the sail area rule will 
fail to compare correctly the bulks of two vessels, and to that 
extent the rule will exhibit faulty application in practice. 
Upon the assumption that every man attends to the best 
mechanical provisions for racing, and that a match should 
be truly a test of model, the new rule will work with 
approximate equity. Where, however, inferior ballasting or 
rig is brought to the line, the rule offers an allowance for 
such shortcomings, as the.area of sail will be correspondingly 
less, and it may be supposed the vessel also crippled to the 
extent of the allowance she receives. As long as the time 
granted is not so great as to put a posilive preminm upon the 
butchering of rigs, the neglect of proper ballasting or the 
shrinkage of bulk, as in a sharpie for example, there need be 
no fear but that the sail area and length rule will be found 
to permit the classification of yachts of all kinds, and for 
that reason free play to every man’s preferences as to the 


form most suitable to his objects apart from racing only, 


| To the degree that the sail area and length rule approximates 
a measurement of bulk, it will work with equity. To the 
degree it fails so to do, it will be open to further modifica- 
tion in the future. Asa final quietus to “simple Jength” 
and piloting a truer course to the ultimate haven, the con- 
clusions of the British Y, R. A. haye our approval, and 
those conclusions cannot be without immediate beneficial 
effect in our own waters, : 


OnE SATIsrFaction.—One source of greatest satisfaction 
in the work of conducting the Forrest AND STREAM is the 
promptness with which its patrons meet their pecunjary obli- 
gations, Subscriptions are always paid promptly, we have 
no list of ‘“‘poor pay” readers, whom it is necessary to ¢oerce 
by editorial threats into paying up. We conduct our busi- 
ness ou business principles. The rule is that subscriptions 
must be paid for in advance. The practical working of the 
rule is that they are paid in advance. Indeed, very many 
(in a continually increasing ratio) have taken advantage of 
our “long term’ rates and forwarded $10 for a three years’ 
subscription in advance. Perhaps the reason why sub-. 
scribers to the Forest AND STREAM pay so promptly isthat 
the paper is worth the money. ‘‘Nothing very occult about 
that, you see.” 


IMpRovED SMALL ARMs.—The reports from Switzerland, 
given in eur rifle columns, show that the little republic is 
struggling with the small arms question. In Europe it is a 
problem of immediate and pressing importance and none of 
the nations there can afford to fall behind in this department. 
It may safely be said that compared with the small arms 
here, there is a general aspect of antiquity about the arming 
of Huropean armies. The metallic central fire cartridge is 
not in common use and unsatisfactory substitutes of paper 
are employed. The inventors and improvers are, in most 
cases, military men with very set and circumscribed opin- 
ions, and a disposition to reject, even without examination, 
anything coming from outside sources. In no. department 
¢f human invention is there more necessity of full informa- 
tion on foreign progress than in this of military weapons, 
and no class seems less disposed to give and take than mili- 
tary-bred critics, A trip through American armories would 
be, no doubt, fruitful of good results to our Swiss experi- 
‘menters. : 


Booxs FoR Our READERS.—Our notification some weeks 
since that we would send any book published on receipt of 
the publisher’s price, has evidently been appreeiated by our 
readers. We knew that to do this would be a convenience 
to a great many, but the number of those who have taken 
advantage of it has surprised us. So many of those who 
read the paper live in places so far from the bookstores that 
it is a real blessing to them to be able to write out tlie titles 
of the book required and send it to us to be forwarded to 
them. Moreover, in ordering a list of books it is a great 
saving of time and postage to have to write but one letter in- 
stead of half a dozen. Although the filling of these book 
orders consumes no little time and trouble, we will furnish 
any of the books published in the list in our advertising 
columns, or any other book published, on receipt of the 
publisher’s price. We will also send any magazine or peri- 
odical on the same terms. The name of the publication de- 
sired should be written plainly and the order must invari 
ably be accompanied by the money. 


Tun Brooktyn Water Worxs Scup~me.—aA. bill has 
been introduced at Albany which gives the Department of 
Public Works of Brooklyn power to enter upon any lands or 
waters in Suffolk county, and by paying a certain appraised 
amount, occupy the samein perpetuity for the erection of 
pumping works; reseryoirs, conduits and such other appur- 
tenances as may be deemed necessary. As Queens county 
lies between the city of Brooklyn and Suffolk county, it is 
to be presumed that the waters there are either insufiicient, 
or not to be obtained. Suffolk county comprises the eastern 
half of Long Island, and has long been noted for its trout 
streams, which now are threatened with confiscation by the 
city. The bill specifies no particular streams, but allows the 
tapping of every spring and stream in the county. Added 
to this is a clause exempting all the works and improvements 
made in robbing the county, from taxation. Thestreams of 
Suffolk county contribute the greater part of the fresh waters 
to Great South Bay, the home of the ‘‘blue point” oyster, 
and to the influences of these streams is due the exeellences 
of this famed mojlusk. The trout streams of both sides of 
the island so dilute the salt water of the harbors that they 
make suitable spawning grounds for many species of coast 
fishes, and with the streams taken frem them the bays would 
goon become as salt as the ocean. We hope that the oyster- 
men, fishermen, owners of trout streams, and all who are 
interestedin preserving both our inland and marine fisheries, 
will protest against this bill being passed in its present shape. 
The streams of Suffolk county add greatly to the value of 
property there, and if they are all liable to confiscation every 
time the Department of Public Works of Brooklyn may 
issue a decree, then owners of streams will fee] insecure in 
their possession, The Supervisors of towns should at least 
have 2 yoice in this matter. 


Aw IntTERESTING SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS is described 
in our angling columns. 


Che Sportsman Comist. 


HOW DO THEY LIVE? 


ve ce that is the question. How do they live—these 

| 44 bright-eyed wood-folk, that the human biped pursues 
and persecutes with dog and gun, not only in season, but with 
snares, traps, and all villainous devices known of men, out 
of season. And when at last the human persecutor lets up, 
nature comes in with a heavy fall of snow, topped with a 
sharp crust. The ground is inaccessible. The trees are 
covered with ice. The beechnut and thorn-plum are thesize 
of marbles. Seeds and buds become balls of ice. How do 
they, how can they live? 

Truth to say, alarge percentage don’t live at all. They 
die. Notably, the quail, whois the first of gallinaceous 
birds to succumb, ‘The wild turkey holds out longer, but is 
beaten at last. And the beautiful, gamy, hardy ruffed 
grouse is the last to givein. But a winter like the present 
tries even his powers of endurauce. How does he live? 

_ Well, so long as there is no ice-glaze ou the trees, he will 
live like a fighting cock. Four feet of snow with a crust on 
top does not beat him, So long as_becchnuts, thorn-plums, 
and buds are not embedded in a thick coating of ice, he will 
keep in condition. But there are seasons (I have seen three 
of them), when nature chooses to envelope all her food re- 
sources in an ice-armor that no bird can break through. In 
such a season the ruffed grouse does not live; he simply dies. 
And he is a bird that you cannot help. You cannot feed kim. 
Once gone, he is gone forever. 

But you may, and can, feed the quail. Next to the grouse, 
he is our finest game bird. Feed him when and where you 
can, Ina heavy ice-glaze at the north, he perishes by the 
thousand. But he thrives and multiplies on grounds where 
you would never look for ruffed grouse, and is first favorite 
with those who affect wing-shooting. 

If the wild turkey were sufliciently prevalent to make him 
a common objeet of pursuit to the spertsman, I would accord 
him first place, as the most magnificent game bird on the 
list. Jar ahead of the n’embu, the cassowary, or the caper- 
cailzie, the latter being the grandest game bird of Europe, 
but nearly extinct. But the turkey is fast becoming remote, 
and is soon destined to become phenomenal. 
a pretty hard winter; but an ice-glaze beats him. Once, in 
Southern Michigan, thirty-six years ago, I saw a drove of 
thirteen turkeys making their way to the southward. They 
halted in the barnyard, skirmished around for a few minutes 
in the vain hope of grain, took the lane that led to the main 
road, crossed the road, crept through the fence on the other 
side, crossed an open meadow and disappeared in the forest 
beyond, As they clambered over the single bar that divided 
the lane from the main road more than halt of them tumbled 
over through sheer weakness. But they gathered up and 
went ou. The snow was three feet deep, with a crust, and 
the thermometer 24° below zero. How did they live? 
Probably not ene of them lived a week. Heaven be my 
judge, that I would have given my rifle for a bushel of corn 
that I could have fed them. But it was impossible. They 
went away to starve—after the manner of wild turkeys. 
During the same winter, quail, in beyies of fifteen to thirty, 
were found frozen en masse, packed snugly together, as 
they had huddled for warmth. Even the omnipresent and 
pestilent squirrel failed to raid the cornfields the next season. 
Grouse and quail were very scarce for years thereafter. How 
did they live? Well, the few that managed to pull through 
had exceptional feeding grounds, if birds; and, if squirrels, 
a supply of nuts stowed in a hollow tree. 

Fifty-three years ago the 20th of last November there 
came a snow storm that lasted without intermission for 
nearly four days. This was in New England. When the 
storm passed away the snow laid thirty-six inches deep on 
the level. The weather changed and there came a rain, fol- 
lowed by zero weather. On the first of Febrnary roads 
were of no use. The farmer hauled wood across lots, over 
fences and through woods on a hard snow crust that made 
the best of sleighing. This lasted until the 20th of March 
without a kt-up. It was a fine winter for business, but it 
nearly exterminated grouse, quail and squirrels in Eastern 
Massachusetts. During the previous October they had all 
been very plenty; one could scarcely cross an open field 
without flushing a bevy of quail. ‘There were grouse in 
every thicket, and the average country boy could make a 
decent bag of gray squirrels with a club and a cur dog. 
During the following summer and autumn I was in the 
fields and woods a large part of the time, and did not see or 
hear a single quail, and only two gray squirrels. The rem- 


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nant of the grouse family was represented by a few hard- — 


billed, strong-winged old cocks, who had managed to make 
the riffle by burrowing under the snow and raiding the 
nearest orchards for fruit buds. ButIdo not recollect that 
a single clutch of young grouse were seen the following 
season. 

Ina winter like the present, with only three feet of snow, 
with two crusts, but no ice on the trees, the ruffed grouse is 
at home every day. You will not find him in the low-lying 
thickets and hemlock swamps. If you look for him where 
you found him last October you will be apt to think he has 
emigrated for good. } 

Follow me for a little and I will tell you just how he lives— 
and lives well, in a winter like the present. Two years ago it 
would have taken several hours of cold mountain travel to 
reach the little lumbering hamlet of Ansonia from Wells- 
boro. Now, we take a comfortable seat in a passenger car 
of theP. C. & J. S. Railroad, and make the trip.in thirty-five 
minutes. The road has not been in operation long enough to 
destroy the wiid features of the region; and, as we glide 
down the romantic valley of Marsh Creck we havea steep 
mountain slope on the left, covered to the summit by a dense 
growth of hemlock, the trees near the foot of the slope and 
on the narrow flat more or less weighted with large patches 
of snow. Itis in these trees, under the snug shelter of these 
snow tents, that the grouse loves to hide, spending the 
greater part of his time in keeping himself safe and comfort- 
able. Ag we are traveling westward, the high slope on the 


right, with a southern exposure, shows a different growth - 


of timber entirely. There are few pines or hemlocks, but 
large thickets of scrub oak, birch and poplar, and here is 
where the grouse makes his living. So long as the buds of 
the poplar and birch are not enyeloped in a thick coating of 
ice, he will keep in good condition, though every species of 
ground food be covered with four feet of snow and a crust 
on that. ’ 
Twenty years ago, on this very slope, I was following a 
doe’s track just at night in bitter winter weather, and her cute 
ladyship chose to foil me by keeping along the side hill and 
in the thickest growth of small timber. There was a track- 


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——— 


eorel 
Fas. 7, 1884.) _ 

ing snow of eight inches which concealed all treacherous, 
slippery sticks, and I fell frequently—always with head up 
hill. At length I got an extra noisy tumble, and three grouse 
darted out of a low poplar, scaled down the mountain on 
level wings, like hawks, and disappeared in the dense hem- 
locks below. On looking around | became aware that there 
was a rather large gathering of the birds in plain sight, and, 
despairing of a shot at the doe, I clipped the head off the 
nearest cock. He made a deal of unnecessary fuss about his 
head, flapping, drumming and turning back somersaults 
down hill, making the snow fly as he went. This started a 
few of the nearest; and, as [ got in another and last shot, the 
stampede became general, It was interesting, almost ex- 
citing, to see the yame, beautiful things, a dozen at a time, 
glide like arrows down the steep slope without moving a 
Wing, and, as they neared their favorite trees, turn sharply 
upward, put on the brakes with a thunderous clatter, and 
disappear in the dense, dark foliage above. I am net going 
to say how many | think there were on the feed at that time 
and place. At least one hundred. Perhaps thrice as many. 

I have had the same experience on the mountain side two 
miles below Ansonia, on the head of Asaph Run, or Long 
Run, and on the side hills along the Canisteo, in Steuben 
county, N. Y, 

l only give these jottings as illustrative of how they live 
in the long, hard, close season. The sportsman puts away 
his shooting gear at the close of the open season, and it is 
only the woodsman and naturalist who takes to the forest in 
January and February to find out the winter ways of the 
elfin woodfolk. 

Not of game birds and game quadrupeds alone, for these 
are few in number, and it is our selfishness that leads us to 
give precedence and importance to them at the expense of 
other woods dwellers quite as sagacious and interesting. 
The wildcat, the ow], the fox, each and all have hard work 
to pick up a respectable living when there is a deep light 
snow on the ground. The two first named often perish with 
cold and starvation. lam not sure that the fox ever does, 
though he becomes fearfully emaeiated. The mink and 
weasel manage very well. The former is a skillful fisher- 
man and the latter a capital mouser. Both are modcl 
poachers and pot-hunters, They kill as long as anything is 
left to kill, with no reference to present needs. They de- 
serve neither mercy nor sympathy, 

Then there are fortunate individuals among the forest pop- 
ulation who, on a sudden contraction of woodland currency, 
can go into winter quarters and sleep comfortably until the 
advent of better times. These are notably the bear, the 
skunk, woodchuck and coon, They remind one of Calver- 
ly’s lines; 

“ Friend, there be those to whom mishap 
Or never, or so rarely comes, 
That at the very thought they snap 
Derisiye thumbs.” 


And there are some few quadrupeds and birds that thrive 
in the roughest winters, Ido not think the deer—when un- 
molested by enemies, is ever beaten by hard weather alone. 
While the hare, the rabbit and the red squirrel can afford to 
“snap derisive thumbs’ at Siberian weather with a heavy 
ice crust thrown in, 

I would like to say something about the muskrat, the most 
intelligent animal of his size with which I am acquainted. 
No matter whether he elects to pass his winter on a rattling 
trout stream, a river or a lake, his industry and forethought 
always pull him through in condition. He has one foolish 
attribute that militates against his general intelligence: he 
will continue to stick his fool feet into naked steel traps 
until he loses his last foot, I have caught an old rat by his 
fourth and last foot, the others having been left in traps. 
And once—it may be a hard yarn, but it is true—l shot an 
old male tat swimming near the shore without any feet at 
all. They had all been left in traps; and he was swimming 
very well on the stubs. 

When I remember that I haye murdered more than 5,000 
of these bright-eyed innocents and stretched their skins for 
an average of twerty cents each, I am quite prepared for 
the gospel of evolution, 

I shouldn't be surprised to know that a few thousand years 
back my ancestors wore hair instead of cassimere, and lived 


mostly in trees, NEssMUK, 
WELLSEORO. Pa. 


MY CAMP-FIRE. 


C was such a fire as an old campaigner loves. Heaped 

high with lusty logs, it blazed merrily into the dark 
blue sky of the autumn night, and sparkled and flashed 
through the linden leayes which overhung my couch, And 
the more welcome, because unexpected. 

I had taken the Kelpie, rather late in the afternoon, in- 
tending to row quietly down Central Lake to Bellaire, re- 
main there over night, continue my journey down the 
Intermediate River, through Grass and Clam lakes, and 
take the steamer Queen, at the mouth of Clam River, for 
Elk Rapids, where { fad business which required attention. 

Lrowed leisurely on, taking little note of time, until, as I 
rounded the point known as Buzzard’s Roost, I perceived 
that the evening twilight rested on the lake, and that I had 
allowed the beauty of the scenery to interfere with the 
plans of the expedition. Then I reflected. If I should 
attempt to run the Intermediate Rapids by moonlight. I 
could not disguise from myself the fact that, however seduc- 
tive the performance might appear when viewed from a 
distance, there was a strong possibility that, just when I 
should come to the liveliest part of the entertainment, I 
might chance to find myself caught in one of the log-drives 
of Messrs. Richardi and Bechtold; ‘‘in which case,” said { 
to myself, “‘I shall, in the language of our late lamented 
friend, Mr. William J. Snelling, haye ‘cooked up a pretty 
kettle of fish, and brought my calf’s head to a fine markety 
and, to quote another early acquaintance nanied R. Crusoe, 
there would then undoubtedly he ‘the devil to pay, and no 
pitch hot.” These be «he facts. Shall I, like the Danish 
rover, lie on my own proud deck, before the sea and sky? 
No, the deck is too short. Shall T risk the rapid? No. By 
St. Bryde of Bothwell, I will camp!” 

Tt was the eleventh of October, the night was fine, and 
though my camp equipage was scanty, it yet comprised an 
overcoat, a tea kettle, and an axe, and provident hands had 
stowed the mess chest, or more accurately, the bucket, which 
usually accompanies the boat. 

_I scanned the serried lines of cedars along the shores, and 
the dark hues of the evergreens blended with those of the 
upland maples in one sombre tint. Turning my course, I 


rowed for the western shore, and after a time, shot silently 
into a shallow cove, backed by tall cedars; a fringe of reeds 
advancing to the waves. 


Seated in the stern of my light, 


a i 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


narrow craft, I laid my hand upon a projecting branch, and 
strove to force the boat further into the reeds, when a start- 
ling rush 6f wings burst from the tangled thicket, and I 
loosed my hold on tree and paddle, and grasped my gun as 
a dark object whizzed close past my head, Twisting myself 
in the narrow boat, somewhat after the manner of Davy 
Crockeit’s owl, my gun swung into line, and the moonbeams 
glimmered for a second’s space on the brown Damascus har- 
rels, as they ranged upon the fast disappearing shadow. A 
stream of fire lighted lake and forest, and showed the out- 
lines of the distant shores, and a silvery fountain sparkled 
up, some forty yards astern, ‘‘Itis a duck, sure enough. I 
thought it was a grouse,” was my thought; as I paddled 
alongside the floating object, and lifted it into the boat. 

When at last I stepped ashore I found that, with one ex- 
ception, I had made a good selection of a site for a camping 
eround, but this one was decidedly condemnatory. The 
Icaves were soaked with the recent rains, and the density of 
the foliage had prevented the sun from taking any active 
measures toward preparing them for the couch of a lone 
wayfarer like myself. Now, wood and wave are to me as 
home, and this being the case, I am accustomed in the pres- 
ence of Mother Nature to do much as I would if under the 
shelter of my own roof-tree, namely, to make myself as 
comfortable’ as the nature of the circumstances will permit. 
Lhave found much comfort in a bed of wet moss on Echo 
Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, and also in sleeping on a 
flat rock, in the Indian ‘‘Nation;’ but at this time I had 
the whole night in which to seek a couch, and all Michigan 
to find if in, and 1 tarned my course toward the nameless 
island—most northerly of the three which ad®rn the lower 
portion of Central Lake. I had passed this islet scores of 
times, but never landed there. J reasoned, however, that if 
1 should find as much solid land as the son of Godwin pro- 
posed to give Hardrada, the afternoon sunbeams should by 
this time have fitly prepared it for my reception. 

The Kelpie grounded on a little beach of hard, smooth 
sanéd, and I stepped into the bushes and paused under a jolly 
old clump of basswood trees, with wealth of drift scattered 
along the shore, ‘‘Behold,” quoth I, ‘‘this isthe very place 
I have been hunting. Here will I camp, there build my fire, 
‘and the low shiver of the linden tree may bring to mea 
joy.’” Then rang the strokes of the hunting axe, and up 
against the spangled night there streamed a mighty blaze. 

Now, thought.I, as, half an hour after, I sat at meat, with a 
mug of tea in one hand, and the gambrel joint of the luck- 
Jess bird before mentioned, in the other; this is something 
like. Talk about the banquets of the gods—nectar and 
ambrosia, or the heer and bacon of Walhalla, The highest 
hall in Gladsheim wouldn’t touch the roof of my camp, and 
I would not give the hind leg of this mallard for the whole 
outfit of Olympus. LI only wish that the professor, or the 
eashier, or the barrister, were here, or that ‘‘Nessmuk” sat 
fornent me, just over against the teakettle, with his beard 
wagging Over my commissary department, and the fragrance 
of the Formosa floating up to his nostrils. Did you «ask if 
that gentleman and myself had ever met? Not that I know 
of, but let him come paddling in the Sairy up to my camp, 
and before many minutes we should, likely, be as old ac- 
quaintances. Aye, and we'd have a night of it. We would 
gang up the glen with *‘Bonny Kilmeny,” and we'd have the 
‘Witch of Fife,” and, mayhap, all the rest of the ‘‘Queen’s 
Wake,” and a shy at ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer,” if he liked, 
with, maybe a dab at the Talmud, anda dig at the Targum 
of Bere Ozicl, and perhaps a scréed or so from the ‘‘Deyil 
on Two Sticks.” Any other literary morceaux which our 
repertoires might furnish, would of course be in order. 
There is the ballad—the very mournful ballad of ‘‘Peter 
Gray,”’ who— 

“Went trading to the West, 
For furs and other skins, 

And he was caught and killed, a-a-and drest, 
By the bloody In-ji-ins.”’ 


Do my ears deceive me? or did I hear from some wnappre- 
ciative person the word “nonsense?” Yes, I was right. My 
dear sir, before you pass over in disgust the remainder of 
this paper, oblige me by remembering that the Kelpie and 
myseif are at present in unquestioned possession of this 
island, the uttermost coasts of which may from this point 
be swept at any moment with grape and canister; and fur- 
ther, that our camp-fire was not built for your exclusive ben- 
efit. J readily admit, however, that as the elder Weller 
might say, the eyening’s discourse ‘‘werges” on the nonsen- 
sical, Thoreau said that going into camp was with him a 
solemn affair, and I believe that I appreciate his meaning, 
but Lam happy to say that in this close communion with 
nature solemnity does not always come to the front, or even 
make itself unpleasantly conspicuous. Those who are 
‘forced to drudge for the dregs of men,” and all the rest of 
it, often manage during business hours to get enough sense 
drummed into therm to last over an infrequent evening by a 
camp-tire. Were you, O man of the long and rueful visage, 
to be wrecked at this moment upon the shores of the islet 
where at present I hold supreme authority, you should be 
welcome. I would seat you in the place of honor by my 
camp-fire; would share with you my duck and dhudeen, and 
would sit silent and attentive to the wealth of wisdom which 
your lips let fall. Under certain limitations you should dis- 
course of what might seem to you most instructive —Mo- 
schus or Marcus Antoninus, Bion, Bacon, or Brillat-Savarin. 
T bar the ever-increasing list of German metaphysicians 
from them, for this night at least. My camp-fire is sacred. 
Do you remember the old Scotchman’s definition of meta- 
physics? ‘‘Weel, sawney, fin the mon wha hears disna ken 
what the mon says wha speaks, and fin the mon wha speaks 
disna ken what he says himsel’, that’s metafeesies.” 

Are you a scientific don? I would gladly learn from you. 
We would discuss the relative density of a half-baked, three 
years eld army hard tack and a piece of porphyritic granite, 
and tell each other how the ptermiognastis builds its nest, 
Are you a speculator, or a man of commerce? I would sell 
you a town lot, or talk of the late extraordinary fluctuations 
in the price of putty. If you should—bad luck on it—preve 
to be alobbyist or a ward politician, bent upon obscuring 
the light from my fire with the murky cloud which muddles 
the brains of your particular following, I would reach for my 
gun, and, first haying seen that the charges were ina trust- 
worthy condition, would look in the direction of your boat; 
and, while carelessly playing with the locks, would relate an 
@pisode in the life of the late Captain Simon Suggs, of the 
Tallapoosa Volunteers, which, in the language of that dis- 
tinguished warrior, ran much as follows: 

“He kep’ up a most a dingnation growlin’, t’well I rolled 
up my sleeves, which if was a tollable warm day, and m 
coat was off, and says 1: ‘You see that hos yender?’ ‘I do,’ 
says he. ‘He’s yourn, aint he?’ saysI. ‘He is,’ says he. 


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‘Then,’ says J, ‘if you don’t want to be most boddaciously 
eet up, you'd better get atop of him, and make tracks,’ ” 

The tea things having been cleared away, and the cloth 
removed, I knocked the ashes out of my pipe, and uplifted 
my voice in song. (I sometimes commit these indiscretions 
where there is no danger of being arrested for disturbing the 
peace and dignity of the realm.) 

I was just in the midst of a Northland saga when my 
dulcet strains reused grave remonstrance from a flock of 
geese just passing overhead. Truly, thought I, even though 
“my voice has been tuned to the notes of the gun,” there 
seems no good reason why I should scare the lives out of 
these unoffending birds. All hail, ye cleavers of the wind! 
Your ancestors on the Grand Prairie could have told you that 
the crack of my old muzzleloader, ‘‘Dora Dean,” or a hail 
from the iron throat of its companion, ‘‘Punkinslinger,” 
was even more dangerous, though perhaps less irritating to 
your sensitive natures, than the roar of the Aristophanic 
anapests you heard but now. 

Those who may have chanced to read such papers as L 
have contributed to the columns of the FoREsT AND STREAM 
will perhaps have observed that there is little bloodshed in 
them, and it is true that I have in a great measure outgrown 
any taste I may formerly have had for, mowing swathes 
through swarms of birds, or for pumping a Winchester rifle 
while a band of retreating antelopes should remain in sight. 

My experiences in shooting and in fishing belong, for the 
most part, to the days when breechloaders were infrequent, 
not to say unknown, and were by most sportsmen regarded 
as a nuisance. We loaded quickly, however, in those times, 
and even now. My preference for a breechloader arises not 
from the rapidity with which it can be discharged, but from 
the readiness with which its charges can be changed or re- 
moved without firing. Ihave been a persistent angler, and 
have burned much powder in my time; and a man does not 
acquire skill ip the use of firearms against game without 
some waste of innoeéent blood. 

I may some day tell how “‘the deer was hung up before the 
camp,” or of the grouse in countless hundreds which could 
formerly have been seen on any bright winter’s day, sitting 
in peaceful enjoyment of the furmer’s corn in the great flelds 
of Central Illinois. 

In my time, I have made some shots which, in one way or 
another, 1 thought remarkable, I think so still, but—have 
no fears. All sportsmen have done the same, and who be- 
lieves the tales? While ‘‘Major Verity” lives I sliall not 
publish mine. I should as soon think of telling you how 
with my redright hand I calmly choked to death a grinning 
bear, while the iron hilt of the bowie in my left, clashed 
against the cuspids and incisors of its wailing mate, and 
the keen blade caused such serious abrasions of the internal 
lissues, that the poor animal ceased its wailings and calmly 
gave up the ghost. 

Almost any one can tell you how he caught his fish, or 
killed his game, and the story shall Jose nothing in the nar- 
ation. I am, nowadays, seldom disappointed, if I return 
with a brace only of birds from a shooting excursion, and it 
is a pleasure to remember that sifice mere boyhood I have 
not wantonly wasted life. He who goes forth amid the 
sights and sounds of nature, doth sadly miss his opportuni- 
ties, if slaughter is his only mission. It is a case of “‘eyes 
and no eyes.” 

I toss more wood vpon the fire, and merrily doth it blaze. 
The lines of light stream southward, and m the distance 
Lewis’sIsland looms. That is the place, as I suppose, where 
one should seek the sad and wandering ghost of the ‘‘rude, 
but comfortable camp,” immortalized by the gentleman (I 
had written “‘the magnificent pestle-head,” but erased the 
words), who makes, or made a certain guide-book devoted 
to a description of this portion of Michigan. -Had I em- 
ployed the term ‘‘pestle-head,” it would have been advisedly, 
for, as the autocrat says of ‘‘boodle,” it is a ‘‘diabolish good 
word.” Nevertheless, hadlin campe ‘‘Thesunrus of Eng- 
lish words,” I might, perhaps, select another more fully ex- 
pressive of my feelings. : 

Every copy of the aforesaid suide-book which has chanced 
to come tinder my notice states (I quote from memory) that 
at Central Lake will be founda ‘‘rude, but comfortable 
camp,” and this is about the extent of the information con- 
cerning the lake and its surroundings, youchsafed by the 
editor of this interesting periodical, 

I believe that Frank Lewis did, six or eight years ago, 
build some sort of a shanty on his island; but it had gone 
down the stream of time before I saw its site. [N. B.— 
Nothing contained in the foregoing remarks is so to be con- 
strued as to convey the slightest intention on my part of giv- 
ing offense to the editor of the guide-book to which I have 
made allusion, I like editors—they are harmless beings— 
and their knowledge is as the knowledge of Allah. I haye 
seen several, and gazed upon them from a distance with won- 
der and admiration. There was §., of the Chicago Allkiance— 
bless his little heart—who, because of the fact that during 
the season when the woodland leek appears above the ground; 
the butter, in localities favored with the presence of this 
plant, is often tainted by its odor; gravely, through the 
columns of his paper, informed the ‘tmoss-back” farmers 
that “‘salt, duly administered to the kine,” weuld prevent 
them from eating this weed, He also voluntecred the in- 
formation that the air of Torch Lake was more healthful 
than that of the Intermediate Chain, for the principal reason 
that the first named sheet of water is so much higher, and 
therefore feels the Mackinaw breezes. Dear, dear. If I 
only could see that noble specimen of manhood carrying a 
surveyor’s chain up the Intermediate Rapids, with a pound 
of leeky butter under his nose! I had been under the im- 
pression that Central Lake discharged its water into Torch, 
through some thirteen miles of river, lake and rapid, and was 
therefore the higher of the two. But we live and learn. ] 

The fire burns low—more wood—more wood; and up the 
sparkles fly; and I spread the sheepskin rug which I use as 
a cushion in the boat, and draw over my head the hood of 
my nor’west capote. The lindens whisper overhead, and 
the soft waves stir the reeds, 

The mists hung lightly over the lake as I rose in the early 
morning light, shook myself clear from my heavy coat, and 
after mending my fire and setting the inevitable tea kettle 
about its business, prepared for my morning toilet. Looking 
through a low clump of brushwood, I saw upon the surface 
of the water that which attracted my attention. Stepping 
backward I reached my gun (haying in my haste slightly 
disarranged my camp outfit), and moved forward, just as a 
couple of mallard ducks flashed up on sudden wing and 
sped away. No, they are too far; and without shooting at 
too long a range, I returned to the fire and at once perceived 
that all was not precisely as it should have been. Whew! 
Omne tulit punetum qui miscutt utile dulei. Just so—the 
useful with the agreeable; though why I should seek to 


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parade my slender stock of Latin 'm sure1 cannot tell; but 
do you suppose that that old heathen ever camped out and 
managed to kick his sugar into his cartridges? __ 

Breakfast is finished; 2un, axe, overcoat and bucket euch 
in its appropriate place, and hey for the swift, strong river. 
The Kelpie floats once more, held only by the tip of the old 
rock-maple paddle, which has guided me well in the long- 
gone years, amid the lonely beauty of the lordly hills, on 
the flashing foam of the Pemigewasset, and over the treach- 
erous quicksands and the turbid current of the pestiferous 
Arkansas. Now, then, the old Canadian paddle song: 


“Les pommes, les poires, l'arahe, les choux; 
Les feines, y on a 14 bas partout.” 


KELPIB. 
CENTRAL LAKE, Michigan. 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Third Paper. 
INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE. 


We carried with us during our travels a light hunting 
Y boat, the Wa Wa, which served us many a good turn. 
Our Indian boatman, Jim Kishkatog, and his companion, 
Dan Sky, carrie it across to Beaver Lake the first afternoon 
we reached our camp-ground, and that night they killed a 
deer and left with us the saddle, and as long as that lasted 
the Judge nor the Greek Professor made any special effort to 
kill another. Indeed, according to the rule of law as laid 
down by the Jucge one evening while sitting around our 
camp-tre, if would have been inexcusable, to use no harsher 
term, to kill another deer so long as a supply of steaks was 
in the cache we had made in the cool sand at the foot of a 
neighboring pine. ‘Some writers on sporting craft main- 
tain that there are two laws,” said the Judge, oracularly, 
as he puffed a cloud of smoke from between his lips and 
looked upward to the waving tops of the Norways, ‘‘two 
laws, the law of the land and the law of the woods. But 
these writers are guilty of 2 solecism. There is but one 
law—the law of the land. The mistake these writers make 
is in confounding an exception to a law with the law itself. 
The law is, that no deer shall be killed in the Upper Penino- 
sula before the 18th of August,” This is the ‘law of the 
woods’ as well as the ‘law of the land.’ And so it is thelaw 
that. one man shall] not kill another. But suppose a 
man is attacked by his neighbor? He may then kill 
that neighbor, if it be necessary to do so, in order 
that he may escape with his life, or even to save 
himself from great bodily harm. The books all lay 
this down as the rule. Suppose an enraged buck should 
attack aman and put his life in jeopardy. Might he not 
knl] it and not violate the Jaw in so domg? Certainly. 
Every jurist and moralist in the land would so decide; and 
they would predicate their decision on the necessity of the 
ease. Necessity, then, we may conclude, rises superior to 
the law, or, to state the casein the language of an old and 
approyed maxim, ‘Necessity knows no law.’ What state 
of circumstances or condition of things will amount to 
necessity may not be so easy to decide in every case. No 
Legislature by enactment nor any judge by decision has ever 
undertaken to define this necessity that rises superior 10 the 
law. It is like fraud in this respect. Judges and text-book 
writers scrupulously abstain from defining fraud, lest some 
raseal will invent a form of fraud that will be outside the 
scope of the definition. Every individual case must be 
tested by its own surroundings. What would amount to an 
overruling necessity in one place, might not im another. 
Thus, in the setiled parts of the country, a man would not 
be justified in killing a deer in the close season for its meat, 
because beef, pork or mutton could be obtained. In the 
woods, however, it is different. Take our own case for 
example. Weare nineteen miles from the nearest accessible 
habitation—Munising—and even there the pork is extremely 
fat and the beef tainted. Surely the necessity of the case 
would justify us in killing adeer for its meat. Ido not 
remember of ever seeing a case reported in the books decid- 
ing this point, nor of a discussion of ihe question in any of 
the text books; but any jury of woodsmen would acquit us 
on the plea of necessity, | am very sure.” 

As soon as the Judge had concluded, the Greck Professor 
rubbed bis hands in a pleased manner, and nodding his 
assent, said that he was ‘“‘thoroughly convinced” that the 
argument was sound. “Indeed,” said he, ‘‘l remember to 
have read something similar to it in ‘Calvin’s Institutes’ or 
‘Edwards on the Will,” he had forgotten which. This 
cordial approval and reference to those great theologians 
and controversalists pleased the Judge mightily, and he not 
only lit a second cigar, but generously extended one to the 
Greek Professor, though he knew that gentleman to pe un- 
alterably opposed to smoking. ] 

As for myself, I said nothing, but it occurred to me that 
while our venison steaks were yet in plenty, both Judge and 
Greek Professor had each been poking around with gun on 
shoulder, ready to kill the first deer that showed itself. 
But our steaks were not only out now, but brook trout had 
become a little tiresome, and it was decided by the Judge 
and the Greek Professor that a clear case of necessity ex- 
isted, and that we must haye a deer at all hazards, and se 
we went one night ‘‘shiving’” forone. The Judge greatly 
deprecated this method of hunting. He said it was ‘‘undig- 
nified and unsportsmanlike.” But it was insisted by the 
Greek Professor that if this were so, yet, aS venison was a 
necessity, we could not be over-particular as to the method 
adopted for taking it. 

T shall never forget that first and only nighi’s bunt. As 
we coasted along the shallow shore, monster pikes and bass, 
blinded by the light, floundered in the shallow water and 
rushed terror-stricken to’ the deeper. From out the dark 
forest came at intervals, strange, weird sounds of beast or 
bird, that in spite of me sent the blood flush to my heart. 
The Judge held the paddle and the Greek Professor the shot- 
gun, while lsat between, with nothing to do but obey my 
masters for the night and keep still, But I never had such 
a task imposed upon me before. 
wanted to cough; my back itched and I wanted to rub it; my 
body .was cramped and I wanted to sbift it. I wanted to 
sneeze, to clear my throat, to rest my legs, and although I 
made no noise whatsoever, ever and anon there came from 
my two masters in shrill whispers: *‘Do—keep—still!” 

aoa safe retreats along shore, unseen deer were heard to 
stamp defianily a snort in terror, but none were seen fill a 
Jate hour. We had passed the narrow strait connecting 
Beaver Lake with its west and unnamed neighbor, and were 
coasting around a mud-bottomed bay covered ‘with pond 
lilies. T had been studying the heavens in an effort to 
keep awake. I remember that I counted the stars in 
the Northern Crown and traced the outlines of the 


My throat tickled and I 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Great Serpent, and looked in vain for the 
fiery Scorpio. Then memory left me, #nd the next 1 
knew, we were coasting around a little brushy point, and 
there, close into the shore, stood an astonished deer—cream- 
colored it seemed tome and bright-eyed by the lantein’s 
light. Ifelt the boat leap forward under me, as the Judge 
gave a strong stroke with his oar, and I held my breath in 
expectation of seeing a flash and hearing theroar of the death- 
dealing gun. But I heard nor saw neither. Another stroke, 
more powerful than the former, shot the boat well up to the 
bewildered animal. Now, Greek Professor, blaze away! 
But no, the Judge jabs his oar into the soft mud and gives 
one more strong push and at the same time he screams 
“‘§-b-u-t-e!” The deer gives one or two terror-stricken leaps 
and disappears in the brush, while the Greek Professor, 
sweeping the horizon with the muzzle of his gun, fires a 
tremendous charge toward Arcturus. 

‘Darn it!” exclaimed the Judge, as the last echo,returned in 
a whisper from the distant hills. 

: ‘Don’t swear, Judge,” said the Greek Professor, ina tender 
voice. : 

And then the two hunters held a brief consultation, during 
which the faintest color of recrimination blushed to the sur- 
face; but it faded away at once, and in the, best of humor 
we returned to camp. 3 

It was midnight when we got there, and we were aston- 
ished to hear yoices from the beach. Advancing to the 
crest of the hill, through the darkness we could see the out- 


line of a boat and figures moving on the beach. I went 


down itge hill with the lantern and discovered that our vis- 
itors were Indians. Five men were busy transterring bed- 
ding from the boat to the beach, and seven muffled women 
sat squat on the sand in solemn silence. After the bed 
makers had spread their reed mats on the sand and their 
blankets on the mats, I returned to ourtent. Next morning 
three of the men came up the hill to our camp and we held 
an interesting pow-wow with them. We learned from them 
that they were from the Waiska Bay Mission, in the vicinity 
of the Sault Ste. Marie Rapids, and were on their way to at- 
tend a camp-meeting then in progress near Munising. Seven 
days before they had set sail, but calms and contrary winds 
had detained them. The day following the meeting was to 
close. but they hoped to get there in time for the final ex- 
ercises. 

One of these men, the Rey. Gerrit Smith, a Presbyterian 
minister, we found quite inteMigent. Ata former time he 
had carried the mail along this south shore of Superior and 
knew the trails as but few, if any, white men knew them. 

Among other things, our visitors told us of a trout stream 
that entered the lake about three miles, they surmised, east 
of our camp. ‘'We ate supper there last evening, and my 
father said there were trouts there,” said the Rev. Smith. 
We had noticed on the map that a stream entered the lake 
below our camp and had talked some of making it a visit; 
and now, when we were told that it was a trout stream, we 
determined to go the first convenient day, and that day hap- 
pened to be the Fourth of July. Early that morning we 
were awakened by a faraway boom, and we said, ‘‘That’s 
thunder: it’s going to rain.” Boom followed boom, and 
although a dense fog enveloped the lake, we soon saw from 
the regularity with which the sounds came that gunpowder 
and not electricity was the -cause. The Munisingers were, 
as we afterward learned, giving vent to their patriotism by 
anvil firing. Providing ourselves with a’good Junch, at an 
early hour we set forth on our journey. Our path was the 
wet sand along the beach, and we found it very slavish 
walking. The Greek Professor, a spry, short-legged, am- 
bitious man, put the Judge and meou our mettle that day. 
The former, with bis 220 pounds, plunged along like a porpoise 
in a rolling sea, and every tew rods he took off his hat and 
mopped his forehead. His spectacles gave him great 
trouble, for the fog covered them with a mist, and he was 
compelled to frequently stop and cleanse them of it. I yet 
remember the quavering feeling in my rather slender legs 
as I footed it along in the yielding sand, in the wake of my 
rolling, puffing legal friend, and in sight of the ghostly- 
locking outline of the sturdy little Greek Professor. 

Many articles we passed on the beach that morning remind- 
ing us of the dangerous navigation sometimes experienced 
on these shores. The wreck of a yawl some one had propped 
up against the bank. An oyster can, unbroken and con- 
taining its origina] contents, lay at the water’s edge. A 
broken mast was half bmied in the sand, and countless 
broken bits of boats’ furniture told of past wreck and ruin, 
As the day advanced, the anvil firing at Munising ceased, 
but the fog increased. It rolled landward in great clouds. 
Twenty yards off my companions resembled specters, and 
seemingly from near at hand, bul out of sight, came in quick 
succession shrill whistling from a steamer uncertain of her 
way. Once we stopped to inspect a hedge hog that we came 
across ghawing at a castaway pork barrel. The Greek Pro- 
tessor upended the barrel with the beast in it, and then 
quoted a strophe froma Greek poem at him, after which 


-the Judge, not to be outdone, pelted him with some law 


Latin and, turning the barrel down again, he left the ugly 
creature to suck salt and comfort out of his barrel as best he 
could. . 

At the end of an hour we sat down on a _ log to rest and, 
after a few momenis spent guessing how far we had come 
and how far to go, we resumed our journey. At the end of 
a twenty-five minutes’ brisk walk the Greek Professor sud- 
denly asked, “‘Where’s the lunch bucket?” 

Then the look that overspread the Judge’s face was worth 
seeing. He had assumed the care of that indispensable part 
of our impedimenta, and had left it at the log where we had 
rested. ‘Darn it!” said he, and dropping his gun and his 
rod, he went back for the truant lunch. The Greek Pro- 
fessor and I went on and soon came te the creek, where we 
sat down and listened to the whistle of the befogged steamer. 
The Judge presently came rolling up with the unlucky lunch, 
and after a brief resting spell, we left the lake shore and 
ascended the creek, fishing as we went. A few hundred 
yards up we found the winding stream abounding in beauti- 
Tul woodland views. Its sparkling und cool waters flowed 
between not overly high, but well-rounded wooded hills, 
that in places came close to the creek’s margin. Plots of 
blue violets grew in sunlit spots, and clusters of delicate 
ferns waved in the little damp nooks sct in the hollow sides 
of the hills. Moccasin flowers grew here and there upon the 
hillsides, and under the hemlocks on the hilltops, the Indian 
pipe, that beautiful waxen looking flower, was seen. The 
sun came out while we were on the stream, and its rays 
struggling through the thick foliage above, dappled 
the pools and illuminated the beaded ripples. Golden robins 
from the leafy coyerts vied with each other in piping their 
most musical lays, and a cock grouse, alarmed at our too 
near approach, on swift and thunderous wing disappeared in 


a 


the green woods. Seldom have I seen forest and stream pre- 
sent so much of wild beauty. And then, under the shelving 
rocks and logs and in the deep pouls, trout of good size and 
rich in their coloring and gamy to the last, took the hook 
freely. But alas! This wilderness, the true home of water 
nymphs and dryads, was likewise the home of myriads of 
Mosquitoes and *“no-see-’ems,” and their persistent and savage 
onslaughts drove us back tothe lake shore, where we soon 
forgot the rippling waters and flower-covered hillsides and 


leafy woods and forest sprites, over a birch bark platter of ~ 


freshly broiled trout. 

The fog lifting in the afternoon, we saw a few miles down 
the lake, a steamer apparently anchored near the shore, 
which we subsequently learned was the same one that 
sounded the alarm whistle all morning, and thatit had ended 
its career that same morning by blindly ronning upon a 
ledge of rocks and breaking intwo. We also learned that 
the creek visited was known as ‘“‘Seven Mile Creek,” so 
called because it was seven miles from the Ahmeek-we-se-pe. 

We had walked that day not less than sixteen miles (the 
Judge more than that), and for a man who a few weeks be- 
fore had been doctoring for a ‘‘lump in his throat” and for 
one whi, as the old weak-minded mendicant in the ‘Hoosier 
School Master” was wont tosay of himself, had ‘‘tater head,” 
the walk was a prelty good one. But a good many far more 
laborious than that we took while between the lakes, and 
we found ourselves daily growing stronger for the exercise. 
The Greek Professor and I were agreeably surprised to find 
the atmosphere of the region so invigorating and healthful. 
It was bracing at all times and in all places. The Upper 
Peninsula lies wholly between the forty-sixth and forty- 
seventh degrees, the same latitude as at Quebec, but owing 
to its lake surroundings the average of temperature during 
the summer months—June, July and August—is 57° to 68° 
at Quebec, 11° difference. With Lake Superior, 460 miles 
long, and nearly or quite 150 miles between its north and 
south shores opposite two-thirds of the western part of the 
Peninsula, with its waters deeper by a hundred feet than any 
other of the great lakes, and could as spring water the sum- 
mer through, and with the prevalent winds of the Peninsula 
blowing from off this great cold water sea, it 1s easy to un- 
derstand whence comes the delightfully cool, pleasant and 
invigorating summer climate. 

All the south shore of the lake, from Kewena Point down 
well on to Whitefish Point, three hundred miles or more, 
presents almost a contirsious succession of healthful sites for 
summer resorts. In accordance with the fashion of to-day, 
thousands of summer tourists visit the northern parts of the 
Lower Peninsula, a region possessing a climate so delightful 
and healthful as compared with the climate of the great corn 
regions in the Mississippi Valley, that the denizens of that 
valley who go there think they have breathed tie most salu- 
brious air in the world. But the Upper Peninsula, when it 
comes to be known as well as the Lower, which it will when 
it gets a little more out of the woods and bas its comfortable 
hotels, will present attractions so superior to the Lower, that 
1 venture to guess that it will draw the great majority of 
Western summer travelers to it. 

In the meantime we 


‘* # who love the haunts of nature, 
Love the sunshine in the meadows, 
Love the shadows in the forests, 
Love the wiad among the branches,” 


will set our tents by the ‘pleasant water courses” of this new 
land, where we will ‘‘get the odors of the forest,” breathe 
its unpolluted air, and beguile with hackle or gentle its un- 
sophisticated trout. D. D. BANTA. 


LIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET. 
BY J. WILLARD SCHULTZ. 
Eleventh Paper—Folk-Lore. 
THE OLD MAN MEETS A WONDERFUL BIRD. 


S the Old Man was walkingin the woods one day he 

_X% saw something very queer. <A bird was sitting on the 
limb of a tree making a peculiar noise, aud every time it 
made this noise its eyes would go out of its head and fasten 
on the tree, then it would make another hind of a noise and 
its eyes would go back to their place. - 

‘Little Brother,” cried the Old Man, ‘“‘teach me how to 
do that.” 

“If I show you how to do thai,” replied the bird, “‘you 
must ncyer Jet your eyes go out more than three times @ 
day, for if you do, you will be very sorry.” 

When the bird had taught the Old Man the trick he was 
very glad, and did it three times, then he stopped. ‘That 


bird has no sense,” he said, ‘‘what did he tell me to do it | 


only three times for? I'll do it again, anyhow.” So he 
made lis eyes go out a fourth time, but alas! he could not 


call them back again. Then he cried to the bird: ‘Oh, 
Little Brother!” come help meget back my eyes.” But the 
little bird did not answer him It had flown away. The 


Old Man felt all over the trees with his hands but he couldn’t 
get his eyes, and he wandered all over crying and calling 
the animals to help him. A wolf had much fun with him, 
The wolf had found a dead buffalo, and taking a piece of 
the meat which smelled, he would hold it close to the Old 
Man’s nose, then the Old Man would say, ut smell something 
dead,” and he would grope all around in hopes to find it. 
Once when the wolf was doing thistthe Old Man caught 
him, and plucking out one of its eyes putit in his own head, 
then he was able to find his own eyes, but he could do the 
trick the little bird taught him no more. 
Moral: Doas you are told. 
THE OLD MAN RUNS A RACE. 


One day the Old Man killed a jack rabbit and quickly 
built a firé to roast it on. Far off a coyote smelled the cook- 
ing, and coming up limping very badly, holding up one of 
his paws, he said: ‘‘Old Map! Old Man! Give me a little. 
I am very hungry.” 

Then the Old Man said to him: “Go away! If youare too 
lazy to catch your eating I will not feed you. *! y 

“My leg is broken,” said the coyote. ‘‘I can’t run. Tam 
very hungry.” 5 ‘ " 

“Go away,” said the Old Man; “I will not feed you. 

Then the coyote limped away. Pretty soon he came back 
again and asked for only one leg of the rabbit. ‘ 

‘‘Here,” said the Old Man **do yousee that butte way over 
there? Let’s run a race to that butte, and whoever gets there 
first will have the rabbit.” 

“Allright,” said the coyote. So they started. The Old 
Man ran very fast, and the coyote limped along after him. 
Bul when they bad got close to the butte the. sovine turned 
round and ran back very fast, forhe was not lame at all, 


i V7 


‘He had been fooling the Old Man. The Old Man ran back 
as fast as he could ANS the coyote, and when he got to the 
fire the coyote was sitting upon a little hill eating the rabbit, 
“Oh, my little brother,” cried the Old Man, “‘give mea 
ace of it.” 
“Come and get it,” said the coyote, as he swallowed the 
st piece of it, and trotted off on the prairie, ] 
Moral: Feed the hungry. Things are not always as they 


look to be. 
THE OLD MAN PUNISHES A THIBF. ‘ 
One night the Old Man sat by the fire roasting a piece of 
meat. If wasa very large piece of meat, and he went to 
‘sleep hefore it was cooked. A lynx, which had been watch- 
ing him, now crept up and began to eat the meat. The Old 
Man woke up, and seeing whas was going ou grabbed the 
lynx saying, ‘‘Oh, you thief,” and he pulled off his tail, all 
- but a short piece, and pounded him on the head, making his 
nose very short. ‘There,” said he, throwing him out into 
the brush, ‘‘that’s the way you lynxes will look after this. 
To this day the lynxes have short tails and noses. , 
| Note.—Many of the best legends which explain the differ- 
ent phenomena of nature are related with the doings of the 
Old Man, but unfortunately they are so indecent that they 
cannot be translated and printed.—J. W. 8. | 


dlatnyal History. 


WILDCATS. 


HE name of ‘‘wildeat” is very generally applied to the 
two species of Lynx (L, canadensis and L. rufus), which 
occur more or less abundantly throughout the Dominion of 
Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The French-Can- 
 adians call the smaller of the two (Z. rufus) ‘‘chat-cervier,” 
and the larger (Z. canadensis) “‘loup-cervier,” which latter 
name in the modified form of ‘‘loocervee” is used in the 
- Maritime provinces to distinguish the larger from the smaller 

_ wildcat. 

__ Neither of these animals can be properly called ‘‘cats,” 
for although they are classed with the Felide and have 
numerous feline characteristics, they differ from the typical 
cats who are represented in the American forests by the 
panther, ocelot, etc., distinguished from the lynxes in ex- 
ternal form by their more cat-like appearance, their short, 
glossy fur and long, tapering tails, the absence of long, black 
pencil tips to the ears, and the high forelegs—in lynx the 
hind legs are much the longer. 

The correct vernacular name of Lyn canadensis, instead 
of ‘‘loup-cervier” or ‘‘wildcat,” is Canada lynx, and the 
smaller of the two (Lyna rufus) is properly bay lynx, called 
so from the bay or rufous color the fur assumes during the 
summer, though the Canada lynx also wears a tinge of rufous 
in the warmer weather. 

Among those interested in the subject there has been con- 
siderable discussion as to the validity of the species canaden- 
sts, some claiming that the differentiations were due to the 
differing conditions of environment. Even so close a student 
as Dr. Garnier has stated: ‘‘I have long been of opinion 
that these two yvarieties—species if you will—are one and 
the same; that Lynx canadensis is merely a more northern 
form of Lyn rufus, the variety being produced by climate 
and food.” 

There is a very good opportunity for studying these lynxes 
in New Brunswick, as both species are common here, and 
the result of my observations leads me to take friendly issue 
with the Jearned authority, just quoted, and+ to agree with 
those who ecousider canadensis a valid species. 

Between the two there is certainly a very close superficial 
resemblance. They have much the same general form and 
coloration; the same high hind legs, rather long body, ears 
with long black pencils of hair, and short stubby tails tipped 
with black. 

The two species can, however, be readily separated by a 
differential diagnosis. The Canada lynx—the loocervee of 
these Proyivees—is much the larger of the two, and has 
longer fur, which, while not so fine in texture, nor so com- 
pact, as is that of the bay lynx, has a prettier appearance 
and feels more silky. The inner fur or ‘‘wool” of the bay 

lynx is yellowish at the base and the remainder is of light 
brown, while the inner wool of the Canada lynx is of a dull 
leaden gray for the basal half, terminating with rufous. In 
the Canada lynx the feet are very much the larger, both by 
measure and comparison, and are so thickly covered under- 
neath with short close fur that the pads are almost entirely 
concealed, while in the bay lynx the pads are naked. In 
fhe Canada lynx the tail is dull gray, tipped with black, the 
black terminal patch entirely covering the end; in the bay 
lynx the tail is gray above and white bencath, the tip being 
about equally divided, black and white. The bay lynx has 
several black half-rings on the tail, aboye, and dark bands 
on the inner sides of the legs, both of which are wanting in 
the Canada lynx. 

When met with in the woods the bold, fierce nature of 
the Canada lynx stands out in yery marked contrast with 
that of the bay lynx, the latter lacking the courage as well 
as the determined energy and self-relianee of its cogener, 

The apparent dauntlessness sometimes displayed by the 
loocervee has been the cause of much controversy on the 
question, ‘Will a wildcat attack a man?” 

Judging from my own observations, I should say that the 
bay lynx will get out of a man’s way if possible, and when 
cornered will act strictly on the defensive. Usually they 

 skulk off at one’s approach as timidly as ahare. I once 
followed one that was trying to carry off a lamb which was 
a trifle over-heavy for it, and whenever I came in sight the 
lynx would utter a short growl, pick up his load, and move 
on. At length, becoming over-fatigued it dropped the car- 
cass, that it might more readily get out of my way, mutter- 
ing some dissatisfaction as it trotted off. 

As to whether or nct a Canada lynx will attack a man, un- 
Jess under aygravating circumstances, Ido not feel justified 
in offering any positive opinion, although my own experience 
With the brutes would lead me to distrust them. 

On one occasion I was walking on a logging road talking 
with a teamster when his horses, hauling a load a few 
yards in advance, abruptly stopped, giving a snort of alarm, 
Upon moying tothe front we discovered a loocervee lying 
in the middle of the road some thirty paces beyond, his 
head turned toward us.- While slipping a couple uf heavy 
cartridges into my gun we moved about ten paces nearer 
and shouted several times to try the effect, but the loocervee 

paid no more attention to us than raising his head slightly 
and cocking its ears. A charge of buckshot put an end to 
any further trial of its courage. 


; — 6 = ee 


At another time I was collecting specimens of small birds 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


and had followed one, that I was anxious to secure, into A 
grove of heavy timber which was strewn with ‘‘wind-falls. 
i had just climbed over a rough pile of upturned frees, reach- 
ing about as high as my head, when a hare ran across my 
path, and about cight or ten yards off, paused to look at me; 
a faial pause, for before it got under way again a lynx had 
sprung from an adjacent tree and pinned it to the earth, 
The loocervee, for such I saw it was, keeping one paw on 
the hare, at ence raised his head and gave me a most unat- 
tractive look. The ears were thrown back, close to the 
head; the eyes were dilated, and flashed with fierce anger; 
the mouth was open, disclosing two long rows of large 
glistening teeth, while tongue and throat gave form toa 
rapid succession of spits and growls, which were not at all 
reassuring. 

I have never had reason for considering myself more cow- 
ardly than the ayerage man, but at that particular moment 
there came into my mind a strong desire that the lynx would 
go away and leaye me alone. I found that standing face to 
face with an enraged brute, as large as a setter dog and 
more powerful, who seemed bent upon asserting by force 
his right to hunt undisturbed where and when the chances 
of the chase might lead him—to face such an one was not 
quite as interesting as I had heard it proclaimed. 1 would 
gladly have retreuted, but the wall of dead trees behind me 
could not be mounted without turning my eyes from the 
lynx, and that 1 considered too dangerous an experiment. to 
attempt. while piles of dead roots and brush on either side 
shut off all hope for a successful flank movement, leaving 
me no chance of escape from the brute without passing close 
to him—and I was quite as close, where I stood, as 1 had 
any desire to be. 

Jt soon became evident that the lynx had no intention of 
retreating, and there remained no alternative for me but to 
fight. But what shouJd I fight with? I had no knife; and 
although I had a gun, my only ammunition was “‘dust” shot, 
which is ubout half the size of No. 12. At that moment I 
remembered that in the left barrel wasa cartridge loaded 
expressly for extremely long shots, containing a full ounce 
of ‘‘dust,” backed by three drams of strong powder, and 1 
resolved to try the effect of it. Without any definite idea of 
the probable result of the discharge, and in something of a 
drowning man’s straw-clutching mood, I swung back my 
foot for a brace and raised my gun. As I glanced along the 
barrels I saw that the lynx had taken my movements for a 
challenge, and had crouched for a spring, so rapidly aiming 
for the space between his eyes I pressed the trigger. Simul- 
taneously with the report I heard a short, fierce scream, and 
through the smoke saw the lynx bound into the air toward 
me, but ere he reached the ground he was dead. 

My friend, James Straton, Esq., tells me of being one of 
a party who were followed fora mile or more by a lynx 
while they were walking ona wood road one night in the 
vicinity of Andover. The lynx sprang from tree to tree 
above them, growling continucusly. Among other instances 
of their fearlessness of men which have reached me, I re- 
member hearing some years ago of Colonel Wetmore, of 
St. George, having been attacked by two or three while he 
wus out deer hunting, and though a keen knife and a strong 
arm saved his life, he was severely lacerated. 

The food of both species consists of hares, grouse, mice, 
squirrels, ete., and such odd plunder as they can carry off 
from the barnyard. There is an idea current that they hunt 
in couples, separated some hundred yards or sa, to drive the 
game toward each other, but the more experienced and re- 
liable trappers with whom I have talked about the matter, 
think that this is an error. It may have arisen from the 
habit of the bay lynx of following on the trail of its more 


| enterprising relative, and gleaning the scraps left from its 


feast; many a good square meal they find, for it is not an 
uncommon thing for the loocervee to kill simply to gratify 
its love of slaughter, and after sucking a little of te blood 
of its victim, to leave the entire carcass, 

A few years ago a farmer residing near St. John had two 
or three sheep killed in a pasture quite close to his house on 
each night for several-in succession. The carcasses were 
found with a few scratches on the quarters and a ragged 
tear across the throat, but almost undisturbed. 

Many a graphic story of the wildcat’s assault upon its 
prey is written on the snow. A dainty tracing, made by a 
wee mouse as it ran along, or the sharply defined foot-prints 
of a grouse, end abruptly just where the marks of four broad 
paws:.are deeply impressed; afew small patches of bright 
red color, and, perhaps, a feather or two complete the tale. 

I once witnessed a fight between two male lynxes that was 
rather exciting. Sleeping under a ‘‘lean-to” I was awakened 
about sunrise by a prolonged scream of most unearthly tone 
—more wild and fierce than anything which had reached ny 
ear before. ‘*Whatisit?” I asked under my breath of the 
Indian who had slept at my side, and who was also aroused: 
he whispered back ‘‘Ahpeek-wuseekun,”’ the Malisect name 
for the loocervee, at the same time pointing in the direction 
from which he thought the sound came, for after the open- 
ing scream there had ensued a continuous growling, which 
I thought came from all around the camp, and the Indian 
had divined my thought. 

However indolent the red man may be when the occasion 
will permit, when his hunting blood is up he is no laggard, 
and my friend Lola was not an exception, for so soon as he 
had determined for certain the direction of the sound he 
started on the war path. . 

I was soon ready to follow, for one’s morning toilet, when 
“roughing it,” is never a very serious matter, and on tieing 
my moccassin strings and buckling my cartridge belt I was 
prepared for any emergency. We crept forward under 
cover of a clump of young firs which stood some thirty 
paces off from where he had slept; and in an open space be- 
yond, not ten paces away from us, we discovered twe large 
loocervees facing each other and some two feet apart, evi- 
dently bent upon settling an affair of honor, after the rules 
of their code; on a hummock a few paces beyond lay a 
female, presumably the cause of said ‘‘affair,” stretched at 
full length on her side and watching the contest with an air 
of playful indifference as to the result, 

Both combatants seemed in earnest and neither displayed 
the slightest sign of trepidation. They were occupied in a 
preliminary fencing when we came up, and their actions 
were closely modelled after those of a pair of domestic tom- 
cats under similar circumstances. The arched backs and 
bristling hair; the right paws, with uncovered claws, raised 
to strike; the lowered ears and fierce glaring eyes, the spits 
and growls were all very much like those we may see and 


hear any summer night in the backyard; but when the 


loocervees closed they gaye a scream peculiar to themselves. 
Over and over they rolled, biting and scratching, being 
particularly active with their hind feet, and all the while 


growling or screaming. They fought in roands, and during | 


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one of these breathing spells, having seen as much fur fly 
and blood ranas I had any stomach for, we let our guns 
haye a say in the matter, when the combatants employed 
their remaining energies in kicking the dried leaves under 
their feet, and the female started in search of some other 
mate, MoNTAGUE CHAMBERLAIN. 
Sr, Jonny, N, B, - 


THE LEAST BITTERN. 


AM not surprised that your Hast Onondaga correspondent 

has “‘more trouble’ over your statement that the Ardetia 
exilis is not yery uncommon, and yet you are right. The sly 
and retiring habits of the least bittern, from which, no 
doubt, it takes its ‘‘last name,” eriiés, are well calculated to 
keep even a Keen observer inignorance. I bave hada casual 
acquaintance with the bird for twenty-five years, but my 
earlier interviews were limited to a brief glimpse of a vellow- 
brown bunch of feathers awkwardly flitting from an alder 
clump, at the head of some pond, in the spring. For ten 
years I was satisfied to be told by my companions in pike 
fishing that the queer bird whieh thus changed its lurking 
place on the near approach of our boat, was ‘‘a rail,” ‘‘a mud 
hen,” ‘‘a poke,” or ‘ta quak.” Then 1 was favored with 
more light, In company with a friend, Mr. Henry Wain- 
right, now the genial host of the Union House at Manas- 
quan, N. J., 1 was one day tramping the salt meadows 
around Squan Inlet. It was in the spring, and although I 
am not certain now, | think as early as April. We were 
gunning without dogs, and probably with no definite game 
in view. Pretty soon, from the sedge at the border of a 
salt pond, there rose before me a bird. Its flight was not 
slow, but deliberate and tempting, a peculiarity of the whole 
bittern tribe. Anyone who has started on the Absecon 
meadows the larger species, called by the natives ‘‘butter- 
box,” ‘‘dunkadoo” and ‘“‘hunchapunchy,” will remember 
the expectant look that the bird always has when flushed 
from the grass, as if to say, ‘‘Are you never going to pull 
that trigger?” Well, I was tempted, and the bird fell. An- 
other rose, and Henry yielded. We found that the meadows 
were literally full of them. 

The apparent size of the bird and our ignorance of the 
proportion of feathers and flesh made us exultant, as one 
after another came to our pockets. We thought of the won- 
derful roast-down, or mammoth pot-pie that our birds would 
make, for we had long known, what many who read this 
have gone hungry by not believing, that the flesh of all the 
Ardeike frequenting our coasts is palatable when the bird 
has had abundant feed, and the cook knows her business. 
Ts it too much of a digressien to say that after the ‘‘full of 
the moon’ I would not turn away from a dinner of well 
browned “‘quaks” or eyen ‘‘pokes” for a common beef steak 
ora store chicken, But never mind. When we reached 
home and picked our game, we found that there was no 
need to call the neighborsin, The fifty birds that had _ af- 
forded us so much sport on the meadows looked ayful slim 
in the pan, and we were sorry that we killed them. Ihave 
never sought for them again on the meadows at thut season, 
or seen them anywheres in such numbers. In fact, when I 
think of that day’s work I imagine I feel a liftle as the ‘‘sports- 
man” does after a day’s shooting of piceons from a trap. 

So I first made the acquaintance of the least bittern, and 
since that time I haye met him every year, and learned that 
in all our fresh-water ponds, at the time the alder leaves are 
beginning to show color, a pair or two of them are likely to 
be found. How long they stay I cannot say, as I only seek 
their retreats during the time for spring pickerel fishing, but 
T suppose they breed here, as 1 Know the green heron (Buto- 
rides virescens) does. A little caution exercised, and you can 
approach very near to them, near enough to see that they 
are a most beautiful bird. The plumage of the male is es- 
pecially rich in the bronze-green lustre of its breast tints, and 
a pair of them mounted by Sauter. the taxidermist, made the 
handsomest panel group I have ever seen, EB. LAS. 

Hieutstown, N. J. 


Picomwes Arcricus In New ENeLAND.— Editor Forest and 
Sireain: Your issue for Jan. 10, 1884, contains a note by 
Mr. W. A. Stearns, recording the capture of the black-backed 
three-toed woodpecker in Massachusetts. After giving the 
details, Mr. Stearns says: ‘‘Several instances of its capture 
in New England, and especially in this State [Massachusetts] 
are on record.” Although right in the main, this statement 
is misleading, inasmuch as it does not go far enough. Dr. 
T. M. Brewer states (North American Birds, Vol. IL, p. 581) 
that ‘Audubon says it occurs in Northern Massachusetts 
and in all portions of Maine that are covered by forests of 
tall trees, where it constantly resides;’ and continuing, that 
‘*Professor Verrill says the bird is very common in Western 
Maine, in the spring, fall and winter, or from the middle of 
October to the middle or end of March.” Messrs. Brewer, 
Dean, and others have placed on record from time io time 
captures in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England, 
In the final volume of the Budletin of the Nutall Ornitholog- 
ical Club, Mr. Brewster has given us au extremely interest- 
ing note, from which I extract the following: ‘‘An 
unusual influx of the three-toed woodpeckers into Eastern 
Massachusetts.—I am indebted to Mr. George O. Welch for 
the following interesting notes: Somé time in the summer 
of 1860 a fire swept through a piece of heavy white pine 
timber in Lynn, killing most of the trees. In the natural 
course of events the charred tranks became infested with 
wood-borers, and during the following winter (1860-61) the 
place was a favorite resort of various kinds of woodpeckers, 
In what manner the news of the feast was advertised in the 
remote forests of the North is not explained, but certain it 
is that with the first cold weather both species of Picoides 
appeared on the scene. Of P. ainericanus only three speci- 
mens were actually taken,a female by Mr. Welch, anda 
fine pair by Mr. N. Vickary. /-. areticus, hewever, was 
actually abundant, and remained through the entire winter. 
Mr. Welch often saw as many as six or eight during a single 
visit to these woods, and numerous specimens were killed 
and preserved. Most of the individuals seen were females, 
the yellow-crowned males being comparatively rare. Since 
1861 only two three-toed woodpeckers (both P. arctieus) are 
known to have been taken in Lynn.” Although I have by 
no means exhausted the testimony, Ithink that I have given 
sufficient to show that the statement was misleading and 
that more than ‘‘several instances of its capture in New En- 

land are on record.”—Louis A, Zeruea (New York City). 
To our mind the most interesting fact in Mr, Stearns’s note 
was the date of eapture—August. As our correspondent 
states and the records show, it hus been taken a number of 
times in New England, and this is known to every one who 
keeps abreast of our ornithological literature, The summer 
capture of this northern bird in Massachusetts is, however, 
certainly an extremely interesting note. 


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THe Grouxp Hog Came Ovr.—As a sequel to the prose 
epic in our last issue, ‘‘The Court of Arctomys Monax,” this 
report in the Baltimore Sun of Feb. 4 is in order : Saturday 
was Candlemas Day, and the ground hog, in accordance 
With time-honored tradition, came out of his winter quar- 
ters to inspect the weather and see if he should retire again 
for six weeks to avoid the rigors of winter or stay out and 
enjoy the salubrious air and gentle breezes of a moderated 
season. There is a universal superstition throughout Chris- 
tendom that good weather on this day indicates a long con- 
tinuance of winter and a bad crop, and that its being foul 
is, on the contrary, a good omen. The ground hog has been 
credited since pagan times with the abilityto discern by an 
observasion on Candlemas Day the quality of the weather 
for the balance of the winter, If when he comes out to 
make his meteorological examination he sees his shadow he 
returns to his hole for six weeks. If he does not sce his 
shadow he stays out, thus proclaiming to all men that the 
winter is broken. Saturday he saw his shadow and hastily 
retreated, thus demonstrating to many people the continu- 
ance of winter weather for six more weeks, The ground, 
hog at Druid Hill Park was an object of great interest 
Saturday. The story published in the Sw last fall of the 
rough joke to be played on him was remembered by many 
who went out to watch his movements on Saturday. An 
area of ground near the zoological building in the park was 
walled in so the ground hog could not get out by burrowing. 
Over this was placed an elevated roof, so the weather 
prophet could not have the benefit of sunshine and shadow 
when he came out to ascertain the weather arrangements 
for the future, The ground hog came very near falling a 
victim to this joke, Mr. Henry Christler, keeper of 
Druid Hill Park Zov, while discoursing on the sub- 
ject to a representative of the Sun, said: ‘1 looked 
for him to come oul at sunrise, and had always heard he 
came out on Candlemas Day at that time. I watched 
patiently all the morning, and at 11:30 sharp he came slowly 
crawling out of one of his regular holes. He had not been 
out since be went into winter quarters, Oct. 20, He looked 
as fat and saucy as when he went in. He had an inquiring, 
intelligent air, and in the absence of his shadow seemed un- 
daunted by the bright sunlight which did not shine on him. 
On Friday I threw some corn in the inciosure to tempt him 
out, but it then had no effect. After looking round fora 
little while he went to this corn and commenced eating. He 
sat up while eating like a squirrel, only more erect. A beam 
of sunlight fell slantingly through the inclosure, and in 
moving about for the corn the ground hog crossed it. He 
saw for an instant the shadow of his tail and a part of his 
body. This settled it, and he flew to his hole. He was out 
altogether about fifteen minutes. Iam working round his 
premises and intend to watch his future movements closely, 
He has six weeks to stay in the ground on account of seeing 
his shadow, and his time will be up March 21. Until that 
time I will watch him every day from sunrise to sunset. He 
is the only one in the Zoo. We have had several, but they 
all escaped by burrowing. I shall not believe in the matter 
until the six weeks are out. If he does not come out before 
that time I shall believe in the ground hog, J have never 
watched one before; have heard of them, but nevér saw one 
until 1 came to the park. A great many persons were here 
watching for him to come out, and about a dozen ladies 
and gentlémen were on the look out when he appeared. 
They were much pleased, but the ground hog paid no atten- 
tion to their exclamations. Some of the workmen at the 
mansion say that in the mountains, when the ground hog 
comes out and is satisfied about the weather, he barks.” 


AwnorHer Foc Rainpow.—l need scarcely say I was ex- 
ceedingly interested in an article in the issue of ForEsT AND 
Srrvam of Jan. 17, written by “J. H. D.,” of Poughkeepsie. 
Now, of course Lam willing to add an item from my own 
experience, which I was scarcely willing to make very pub- 
lic (I had, however, noticed it in our local paper) for fear 
that | might be thought as imposing on the credulity of your 
readers. It was my good fortune in my vacation last sum- 
mer to take a canoe trip with Dr. G., of Brooklyn, on the 
lovely waters of the Madawasca, in Canada, taking a trip 
down stream of about 180 miles, with excellent fishing all 
the way. We had encamped at Cold Brook, at the foot of 
Squattuck (or Squa-toox) peak. This brook runs into 
Squattuck Lake No. 38. It was a foggy morning ‘In August, 
and as the mist was lifting from the lake 1 looked im the di- 
rection of the outlet and there saw a phenomenon I had 
never seen or heard of before, and called the doctor and 
suide to witness it. As the rays of the sun came through 
the mist a mile away there could be seen at or near the 
surface of the water all the tints of the rainbow in their 
order—red, orange, yellow, green, blue-indigo, viole:— 
stretching a distance of about twenty rods in width, It was 
indeed singular to see these colurs horizontally displayed, 
especially as neither of us had ever heard of the like before. 
T have thought it worth while to drop you a hne concerning 
it, corroborative of the assertion that such things do exist, 
although some are very incredulous concerning it. But my 
eyesare A No. 1, and, like “‘J. H. D.’s,” were not *‘glazed” or 
““pefogged” by stimulants. My fog was at a distance; his was 
near at band, it seems. There was no arch in mine, simply 
a band of colors like the continuous spectrum, lying horizon- 
tal, Will some scientist rise to explain?—C. Jacobus (Mata- 
wan, N. J,). 


Q@np HunpReD DoLtusrs ror A HuGE GREEN SNAKE.— 
United States National Museum, Washington, Feb. 1, 1884, 
—Ailiter Forest and Stream: The inclosed slip was cut from 
the National Republican newspaper of this city: ‘*As a cou- 
ple of gentlemen were riding down the Roanoke Valley, Vir- 
ginia, recently, they saw a huge green-colored snake writh- 
ing and twisting at the root of a beech tree. Going closer 
they discovered it to be one of the horned species of the hoop 
snake. It had formed itself into a hoop by taking its tail in 
its mouth and rolled down the hill in pursuit of a rabbit ov 
other small game. So great had become its velocity that it 
couldn't guide itself, and it had struck the tree with such 
force as to drive its horn into the solid weod to the depth of 
an inch or more, holding it tight and fast. There are a great 
many trees in the vicinity that have been struck in the same 
way, and they invariably die. So deadly is the poison that 
the leaves on young oaks have been known to wither within 
au hour after being struck.” You will perceive there is still 
room for good missionary work in the benighted region from 
which the ‘huge green snake” comes. If any inhabitant of 
the locality would furnish to the undersigned at the National 
Museum a specimen of huge grecn snake from Western Vir- 
ginia, possessing a veritable horn, alarge amount will be 
promptly paid for it, in fact a dozen specimens will be pur- 


Auk, Prof. A. ©. Merriam, in apaper entitled ‘The Coues 
Lexicon of North American Birds,” criticizes with some 
sharpness this work, The review is written wholly from the 
standpoint of a philologist, and is entirely devoted to criti- 
cisms of the derivations assizsned by Dr. Coues to certain 
ornithological terms. 
very slightest variation from his standard of correctness in 
the etymology of any term, furnishes him with a text on 
which he preaches at length. Being purely a philologist, he 
does not appreeiate the value of the work which he is re- 
viewing, but devotes his whole paper to finding fault. 
is hypercritical in his own special department, and has not 
a word to say about the vast good that has been and will 
be accomplished by the ‘Check List.” 
sary to say that in any matter where the penis the tool to 
be employed, Dr. Coues is abundantly able to take care of 
himself. 
cape work he prints a reply to the criticism under the 
title 
bristles with valid and sharp points, which Prof. Mer- 
riam will have much difficulty in answering. At the same 
time, it is written in such good natured and happy style, 
and is so full of humer, that notwithstanding the appal- 
ling character of its tille, it is very amusing reading. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


chased at $100 each. It is of course understood that we do 
not wish any of the small green snakes found in Virginia 
which are perfectly harmless and have no horn,—H. C. 
Yarrow (Cur, Dept. Rept. Nat. Museum), 


BirDs AND ELEcTRIC Liguts.—Cleveland, 0., Jan. 15.— 


tiditor Forest and Stream: \ send you a list of birds picked 
MAE the electric light masts, which have come to my 
nolice. 
tims, but these I name I haye seen and handled. With one 
or two exceptions they were all secured between Sept, 15 and 
Oct. 15 of last year: Wood thrush, catbird, red-bellied nut- 
hatch, titlark, black and white creeping warbler, blue yel- 
low-backed warbler, Nashville warbler, Tennessee warbler, 
black-throated green warbler, black-throated blue warbler, 
blue warbler, yellow-rump warbler; Blackburnian warbler, 
blackpoll warbler, 
warbler, black and yellow warbler, Cape May warbler, yel- 
low redpoli warbler, golden-crowned thrush, Connecticut 
warbler (19 specimens in three mornings), scarlet tanager, 
red-eyed yireo, warbling vireo, blue-headed vireo, savanna 
sparrow, Lincoln’s finch, whitethroated sparrow, * white- 
crowued sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak, pewee flycatcher, 
acadian flycatcher, sanderling. 
be of any interest to your readers, insert it, please.—H. B. 
CHUBB. 


Undoubtedly many other species have fallen vic- 


bay-breasted warbler, chestnut-sided 


if you think this list would 


ORNITHOPHILOLOGICALITIHS,—In the first number of the 


Prof, Merriam is a purist, and the 


He 
It is scarcely neces- 


In the same number which contains the review 


‘*Ornithophilologicalities.” This rejoinder fairly 


Camp Lire Hlickeyings. 


“That reminds me.” 


. 100. 


Nilesat aememnnee years ago the present winter the first 

little band of pioneers had gathered in Colorado at and 
near the spot now known as Denyer. They were in the 
heart of the wilderness, six hundred miles from other civil- 
zation; cut off in the winter from all intercourse and com- 
merce with the States and almost as completely isolated as 
if upon an island in mid-ocean. Supplies were scarce, and 
they had to “rustle” for grub. This was largely supplied by 
hunting, and fortunately game was plentiful. 

Among the settlers was one Andy Slane, a rough, illiterate 
man of about thirty years, much given to profanity. Upon 
one occasion he and several others went to the foothills near 
Platte Cation for a hunt. Scattering out cach went his way 
and Andy soon ‘‘jumped” a mountain lion with a couple of 
half-crown kittens. They were within speaking distance, 
but Andy courageously attempted a shot, when his gun 
snapped, leaving him helpless. The old.cougar appeared to 
understand the situation and accepted the challenge. She 
moved leisurely upon Andy’s works showing her teeth, and 
Andy’s hair began to lift his hat. Meantime he was finger- 
ing at his gun trying to get a new cap onthe nipple. But 
‘haste makes waste,” and time was growing precious when 
Andy thought a compromise might be best, and he sang 
out: “Look here you cussed old varmint, if you'll let me 
alone I’) let you.alone.” 

Just at that moment one of Andy’s companions happened 
to come over the ridge behind him—of course, out of his 
sight but in plain view of the cougar, which stopped, as 
Andy thought, in response to his proposition, looked steadily 
at Andy for a moment, then at the reinforcement beyond, 
turned around and slunk away looking back over her 
shoulder. ‘ 

About that time Andy got. his gun in order, or thought 
he did, and his courage rose accordingly. He made a mo- 
tion to bring ‘his weapon to an aim but recalled it, and, 
shaking his fist toward the retreating animal, he yelled out, 
“So that’s your game, is it, you old she cat, now that I’m 
fixed for you; l’d give you a dose yet if 1 hadn’t promised 
you that I wouldn't.” 

The other fellow told the last part of the story, and then 
Andy had to give the beginning. Andy has since become 
vich on eattle. W. N. B. 

Denver, Jan. 6, 1884, 


101. 

One of the most interesting essays I ever read was Max 
Miiller’s “Migration of a Fable,” in which he relates how 
different version™oft the story of the Milkmaid (who, indulg- 
ing 2, 2ul dog dream, spilled her milk) has been told 
in all co. ~ndinalllaneuages. A bit of my own experience 
may enteh.. _ouas illustrating how in every clime we sports- 
men play the Same old tricks on ourselves, One, moonlight 
evening last year, I found myself among a number of marshes 
and small ponds near the sea shore, on a small island in the 
Pacific. It was about 10 o’clock. I had visited every pond in 
the neighborhood, and had succeeded in getting only one shot 
so far; but I did not like the idea of going home with only 
one duck, so 1 went back toa pond I had visited about 
three hours before. The pond was surrounded by a low 
bank, covered in some places with bushes. I crept up and 
looked over; and to my great delight saw two ducks. They 
kept so still that J thought they must either be asleep or 
dead; but anyhow Iraised my gun to my shoulder and fired. 
‘‘Confound you,” yelled a voice the other side of the pond, 


EE = 


[Fen 7, 1884. 


‘what are you shooting my decoys for?” Isaw that I had 
been fooled and felt so mad that [ gave the only duck I had 
shot to the owner of the decoys and made tracks for home. 


Facr. 
Hownowvuyv, Sandwich Islands. 


THE CRITICS’ 
Editor Forest and Stream; 

Thave been looking over the ‘‘Flickerings” with great amusementa 
the many pleasant tales told therein. To meitseems that in the phras 
of nowadays, “Shadow” must “take the cake,’ but while he take 
that, let me take him to task for his ruthless murder of the New Eng 
lish, the dialect of Yankee land, Being a Yankee of the sixth gener 
ation of Yankees born to the manners, customs and speech thereof, 
I can say that I never heard a native of any eorner, border, or mifl 
dle of New England call a raccoon a ‘“tkeun,*’ and am sure tha 
“Shadow” never heard such a barbarous twist of the name of tha 
animal from any buta stage Yankee. We tall of ‘‘kyows’’ naow alll 
then, perhaps tew often, but never of keuns. No; rather than rol 
the robber of our cornfields of one 0, we would rather give him mor 
than he owes us, and roll him out two or three extra o's, calling himé 
ecoooon, Neither did “Shadow” eyerhear a genuine Yankee talk o 
our canine friends, except in fun, as “dorgs’’ or “‘purps.”’ To 
Yankeest Yankee that ever whittled stick or chawed gum, they ar 
dawgs and pawps, or may be in severe cases paw-ups, Make all the 
fun you please of our dialect, but give it as it is spoken, dea} 
“Shadow,” and may you never be less nor more infreauent in the 
“Cainp-Fire Wlickerings,”' is the wish of your friend, 

AprronpDA, Dec, 28,1883. Mays. J. Veatry, U. 8. A. Mo 

[‘‘Shadow” explains that ‘‘kewn” is betterthan ‘‘keun.”? ‘‘Kewn,™ 
he insists, is good Yankee in ihe “parts” where he ‘was raised.” 
Ep.] 


CORNER. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Iam fond of a good story, and like to read one, but it always a 
noys me to haye the point of astory shown me. I wantto bel@ 
alone and laugh when I get ready. For example, when I read oyé 
the ‘‘Camp-Fire Flickerings” and got piy pencil ready to mark ni 
ten, I found it rather hard to discriminate and mark the best. If yal 
will look them over, you will find that in many, after the rub is giv 
and when the reader should haye been allowed to laugh, he is com 
pelled to read three or four lines descriptive of how much somebod 
else langhed or swore, or took his hat and left, or threw something & 
some one. The result is. like an interrupted sneeze—the good of iff 
all gone when it comes. Ibeg of your correspondents when the 
have told their story, then stop, let the reader laugh if he sees th@ 
point, if he does not let him sit in silence. J. A. Bag 
JEFFERSON, O. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 4 
Your remarks on ‘Angling Slang’ in this week's number of you 
paper are worthy of extension to other departments of sport. iP 
sportsman should rank as a gentleman in the full meaning of th 
word until he ceases to use the pkrases that partake of vulgarity 
There are, however, Many expressions used in the language 6 
sportsmen that do not exactly come under the classification of slam 
pbrases, but that are very objectionable to those that desire correg} 
and refined speech. [ have sometimes thought to make a list 
words and phrases that sportsmen should avoid. Such a list migHl 
include the following: At the head of the list and the most to 
avoided of all is the phrase ‘‘speckled beauties” or ‘spotted bea 
ties’? for trout. | 

Then next I would place those expressions that give the name ¢ 
the maker of a sportsman’s weapon for the weaponitself. For 1) 
stance: ‘My Parker’' for my gun; “my Leonard” for my rod; “m 
split bamboo” for my rod, and all that genus. 

The author of the ‘\Bread Winners” speaks in his book of the hep 
throwing away his “Reina Victoria.” This style of setting forth thy 
fine quality of one’s guns or cigars is unpardonable. | 

Trecommend that you make up a list of such phrases and keep 
at the head of your columns as a warning, and means of instruction) 

LiInDLeY Murray 
New YORE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your “Angling Slang” in the issue before me fills a ‘‘long felt wants 
so far us I am concerned. I dont think I ever wrote “speckle ! 
beauties’’ before this moment, for I have always hated that am 
kindred words and especially the slang of the fraternity. I did wri 
in my paper “speckled trout,”’ hesitatingly, but the Indians never sa) 
anything else. What I want to suggest is, give the hunters a stirrig| 
wp, especially those fellows who “‘pump lead.” Thatis abominable 
and for merecy’s sake do suppress it. D, D. Banta 
INDIANA, . 
[Next!—Eb.] 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Why do younothavean Index Expurgatorius? Ttiaa good de | 
#f an institution im its way. As you know, thé Zvening Post has ont 
or at least did have it in William Cullen Bryaut’s time, and I maken 
question it was a benefit to the editors, reperters and readers of 
Post. There are about eighty words and expressions naw in somé 
what common use amoug sportsmen, which ought to be dispens@ 
with. The phrase by whose ‘‘damnable iteration” Tam most wearie 
is “true sportsman.’”? Why not ‘‘sportsman?” What does *true 
mean? We need simplicity in speech and writing. Expurgate 
superiluities. Senex SEPTIMUS 


THE WOOING O’T. 


LAWYER once, unlike most of his class 

A ‘A modest man, fell dead in love.. A lass - 
He worshiped quite, but still his seeret kept 

Till up the scale his cautious courage crept, 

And, well assured no one his purpose knew, 

He started out with this sole aim in view— 

To wit, to woo. 


His way led through a wood, the shadows fell, 
His waning courage shadowy grew as well, 
- Until he asked himself, disheartened quite, 
‘Why am Lhere at this time of the night?’ 
An answer from a treetop loud and clear, 
In legal language couched, fell on his ear— 
“To wit! to woo!"? 


He fled in fear, although he no onesaw; 
For fear, like many a lawyer, knows no law, 
The bird of wisdom perching overhead \ 
Slow flapped his wings, winked warily, and said; 
“Why should this be? Such haste l never knew, 
He sure an unwise purpose had ia yiew— 

To wit! to woo!” 


ENVOY. 


Take well to heart this text drawn from the wood; 

Your modest wooer never comes to good, 

Though all the world your seeret clearly knows, 

And through unheard-of shades your pathway goes, 

Let not NEE courage fail whate’er you do; i 

Your wit keep always clearest when you woo. h L | 
—William Howard Carpenter, in the Century. 


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Game Bag and Gun. 


. ONLY A BRACE, 


NULY a brace, but"as I strayed homeward in the late 
AS afternoon of that glorious October day, with the mottled 
eauties sleeping side by side in the net work of my game 
bag, I was happy, supremely happy. I had been out since 
morning, tramping across the crisp stubble and along the 

s of the likeliest grouse covers. My dog, a small field 
Satel, was now content to trot soberly at my heels, tired 
th his long day’s work. He had done splendidly, and 1 
eould not forbear every now and then steoping to put his head 
and speak a word of well-earned praise. We had found the 
birds scarce—very scarce—and yet @ jolly day we had had, 
Oruso and I. We felt as though we had made the best of 
our Opportunities, and if the bag had been ten times as heavy 
it Couldn’t have given us more pleasure than we had in se- 

ing that handsome brace, that filled the netting so nicely, 
We had seen—let me see—five birds; sven, mind you, not 
shot at; iwo of them were quite out of range, The first was 
in 8 little narrow swale, that Jay in half-moon shape, in the 
senter of a field between two larger pieces of cover, The 
swale was thickly grown with young poplars and blackberry 
buskes, and I knew in my bones, as | drew near, that there 
must be a grouse lurking there. Steady, Craso! There, now 
you may go. Hide cock! I raised the hammers of my gun, 
and stood near the inner curve of the swale, alert, with 
acrves a-lingle, while my spaniel worked the cover, I could 
hear his feet pattering in the leaves. He passed me, then 
suddenly caught scent, Through a little opening I could 
see him nosing the cool ground, his tail vibrating at a furious 
rate, Now—now be ready! Quit, quit, quit—whirr! The 
Noble grouse rose within six rods of where 1 stood, and 
Washed out of the cever at whirlwind speed, bound for the 
patco of woods to the east. Bang! a miss, by all that’s exe- 
erable! Bang! She swerved a little, but it was too far away 
for that second shot to take effect, 1 gaess. Wonder if I hit 
mer atall? Steady, Cruso—down! It was too bad, old fel- 
ow, wasn'tit? But you must remember I haven’t got my 
Hand in yet. It's been more than six months since I drew 
igger on the hurtling grouse.. There, now; we'll cross 
ver and see if we can’t put up that bird again. Steady! 

I dropped a couple of shells into my gun, and Cruso and 
hastened across the field to the opposite cover. Now, old 
oy, be sure you work around her and drive her this way. 
Cruso’s eye sparkled with a gleam of intelligence and away 
he went. J have never seen but one dog who knew how to 
literally circumvent a grouse, and that dogis Cruso, He 
will do it three times out of four, and drive it out just where 
you wuntit, This time he ran for about twenty rods down 
the edge of the cover and then plunged in. J knew he 
owould work back my way and stood in readiness. He had 
not been in the cover a minute when I heard the palpitating 
whirr of wings—coming, sure as you liye—coming right 
toward me. See! a gray gleam among the Jeayes, and in 
another instant the bird breaks cover close to me, I can see 
the frightened and yet saucy gleam of its eye, and the ruff 
of feathers angrily raised around the neck. Oh, my pretty 
lady, you are vexed at our persistent attentions, aren’t 
you? Now to retrieve ourfortune. Steady, nerves! steady, 
eye! The brown barrels spring to a level with the shoulder; 
a quick glance along the rib, with both eyes fastened on the 
pert head of the rapidly flying bird. Now is the auspicious 
moment. Intuition flashes along the nerves and gives the 
eleciric signal. Bang! The bird turns in air, hurtles down 
upon the stubble and bounds twice from the ground with 
the strong momentum of its flight. A little cloud of feathers 
ficats behind to mark where the fatal shot took effect. Cruso 
comes leaping out of the cover, his long ears flying about 
his lead and his eyes shining with excitement. Yes, old 
fellow, you shall taste feathers. Dead bird—fetch. Isn’t 
that a pretty picture; now? The little brown spaniel, with 
his head raised in air, stepping so daintily and proudly with 
the glorious grouse dangling from his mouth. 1 would give 
something to have a magic frame about that picture which 
would keep it soforeyer. Drop, Cruso! that was nicely 
done. There, now, steady! The bird is bagged and we 
will turn our attention to the pleasure in store; 

Nor more birds in the larger cover. It’s a fine place, but 

they haye been scattered by boys, and we will have to keep 
on to fresh fields and pastures new. 
We crossed the old abandoned railroad track, and skirted 
a thick pine and hemlock cover for some distance; but, 
although the spaniel worked every rod of ground, we did not 
find a bird. lt was too early for them to have sought the 
thick woods. Further on lay a sort of tamarack and alder 
Sswamp—a capital place in times past—and calling the dog to 
heel, | made my way to it across the fields. It was now 
approaching high noon, and as I knew of a nice cool brook 
near the other edge of the swaip, I determined to work 
around first on the lower side of the cover, and then stop for 
Tunch when I reached the brook. When out with my 
spaniel ITmake it a point never to enter a cover unless I am 
obliged to, as the dog is trained to work the brush for me 
and bring the birds within shot. This I believe to be the 
only proper and legitimate way of using spaniels for grouse, 
They should be used as flushers, never as treers. 

IT had hardly reached the edge of the cover when Cruso 
scented game. I stood in readiness to shoot, expecting every 
Tmoment to see a grouse swiftly dashing over the alders, and 
so intent was I listening for the whirr of the vapid wings, 

hat J suffered a fine plump woodcock to get up and twitter 

out of sight in the deep. thicket without pulling on him. 

Just as he disappeared I recovered from my surprise suffi- 
Giently to fire, but as Cruso did not make game where I saw 

him Jast, I concluded that I had missed, and called the dog 
to heel, A few rods further on I sent him into the cover 
again and waited. Whirr—whirr—whirr-r-r. I declare! a 
whole flock of young birds—four of them. Not a very large 
iock, to be sure, but fully as large as are the majority of* 
them, a month after the opdming of the season, in this vicin- 
ity. Two of them were within easy range; the other two 
flew deeper into the swamp, Why didn’t [ shoot? inquired 
Cruso, as plainly as eyes could speak, as he*came dashing 
‘out in the wake of the two birds he had driven toward me, 

and mounted the low fence to see where they had gone to, 

Tes, why didn’t I shoot, old boy?—that’s the question, 

Guess it was because you surprised me so by driving two 
birds at once out of that cover, a thing that doesn’t happen 
very often in this part of the country. However, we’ll look 
them up; come along. 

_ But it was more of a job to find those birds than I had 
expected. I saw them dive back into the swamp, and sent 
he dog in near the place where I thonght they must be 


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lying, but no grouse could be found, Then I ventured in 
myself and looked the ground over carefully, but they were 
still missing, Final] came to the conclusion that they 
must have joined their companions in the deeper part of the 
swamp, where there was a thick clump of young evergreens, 
and in some of these young trees | was confident they must 
be hiding. I resolved to keep on to the brook, eat my 
luncheon, take a little rest, and then look for them again. 
Perhaps they would be back on the ground by that time. 

After lunch I went into the heart of the swamp and looked 
around for a long while—nearly two hours—but not a bird 
could I find. This was discouraging, besides being a kind 
of work te which I was not used, and did not like. Sol 
called Cruso out, and we took another rest by the brook. 
The sun was beginning to slide down the last curving slope 
of blue sky, and my watch informed me that it was high 
time to start for home, Still, l was unwilling to go without 
at least one more sight at those modest and retiring birds. 

I went back to the edge of the swamp where I had first 
started them, and sent the dog in, Ha! he has one of the 
recreants up! See! It dips down in that little clump of pines 
in the very neck of the swamp, just outof runge, I called 
the dog to heel, and slowly crept into the swamp. There 
wis a little open space between me and the clump of pines, 
and when I reached this I stood still, and gave the word to 
Cruso. He understoood me, and, making a wide detour, 
entered the cover from the opposite side, There was a sup- 
pressed bark of excitement, a-whirring of wings, and the 
grouse came sailing out into the open space. When she saw 
me she made a quick turn to the right, but 1 caught her 
flight in a moment, and holding well on, pulled trigger. 
The smoke hid the bird from me, but immediately afterward 
I heard a thump in the grass, aud then the rapid throbbing 
of wings which announces a fatal shot, Cruso comes bound- 
ing through the grass, and claims his usual privilege of re- 
trieving the warm bird. Thanks, old fellow! I should never 
have got her if it hadn’t been for your help. Now we will 
consid¢r our day's sport finished, and start for home, The 
bag isnot heavy, but it is worth its weight in gold. We 
have earned what we have fairly, and that, after all, is the 
sum of a true sportsman’s delight. PAUL PASTNOR. 


WITH THE DUCKS ON DELTA BAR. 


4 ene the ducking season through, it is doubtful if there 

is a place anywhere that the sportsman is more uni- 
formly snd generously rewarded than right here in the 
harbor of Vicksburg. Since 1876, when theriver cut through 
the tongue of Louisiana that projected, a narrow peninsula, 
in front of the city and away to the north of it, the lake left 
by this action has been gradually filling up with mud till, 
immediately in front of the former landing, in the dry sea- 
son, there is no water whatever, and pedestrians can cross 
the original bed of the river on foot dry shod. Just atthe 
foot of the little island left by this cut off the willows, in 
some places, have already grown to the height of twenty 
feet, and it will be but a short time before the entire old 
channel, next to the city, will be simply an almost impene- 
trable willow thicket. During the past summer quite a sum 
of movey was expended by authority of the Government in 
dredging with a view to opening up a canal from the city 
front to a point where the main river now strikes the shore, 
a distance of about a mile,’ It was found some time after 
the work had been in progress that the sediment which had 
been deposited to the depth of over eighty feet in less than 
seyen years, was not much thicker, if any, than molasses in 
winter time, and that it ran in and assumed a level as fast as 
the dredging machine took it out. So this experiment was 
discontinued. 

In the upper mouth of the lake the deposit has not been 
so great, so that even when the lower mouth is dry the 
larger boats can still enter the lake and steam around to the 
old city landing. m the fall, however, the river is gener- 
ally so low that no boats come in at all, the wharfboat hay- 
ing been moored at the new landing below. Within the 
last four years the point on the Louisiana shore has been 
sheathed with maittrasses, which have stopped the caving, 
and thus prevented the current on the Mississippi side strik- 
ing the shore further from the city. AJ] around the lake are 
bars and mud flats and coves running up into the willows, 
and during the season of low water, in summer, these be- 
come covered with a rank grass, prolific in seed, which seems 
to tickle the pulate of the ducks, and especially the gamy 
little teal, Ordinarily about the time the ducks begin to 
come down from the North the river begins to rise and the 
water to cover these grass plats and to float the seeds that, 
in some places, nearly cover the ground. The ducks at once 
fiock to those localities in great numbers and furnish excel- 
lent sport to the hunter. My brother and I, who have been 
shooting here in the harbor for the last five years, have made 
it a rule to keep an accurate record of the stages of water 
when it reaches the various places meationed, and by that 
means, by keeping our eyes on the gauge, we can always 
know when to pull out for any particular point with our de- 
coys and other paraphernalia, The ducks seem to learn 
when and where to go for food by intuition, for almost the 
very moment the water pushes upon a new territory covered 
by grass seeds, they put in an appearance at that point, 
although but a short while before not a single one could be 
geen in that vicinity. It isa knowledge of these facts, and 
by acting upon it, that have brought to my brother and my- 
self what our friends here are pleased to term good luck, 
Our scores this winter have been exceptionally fine. 

During the holidays and for the first ten days in January, 
the ducks were unusually abundant just in front of the city 
and within rifle shot of the elevatorat the landing. They 
were mostly teal, with an occasional sprigtail and, at rare 
intervals, a mallard, One day my nephew and I picked up 
a pair of canvas-backs. It was a common thing for a couple 
of fair shots to bag trom 40 to 50 ducks in half a day. On 
the day after Christmas this nephew and I bagged 75 by 11 
o'clock, The next afternoon Mr, E. H. Raworth and 1 
picked up 65 from the same blind. Other parties did nearly 
as well. This constant hammering did not seem to drive the 
ducks away. When a volley was fired at them they would 
whisk briskly away to dab down among or sail in the vicin- 
ity of another batch of decoys. But finally the river rose, 
pushed out into the fields and the swamps, covering new and 
prolific territory, and the disturbed fowls hicd themselves 
thither and for a time at least were comparatively secure. 
But then came the severe cold wave early in the month, and 
freezing up the ponds and lakes and all still water inland, 
drove the ducks to open waiter, and sent millions further 
south, This state of affairs lasted so long that the larger 
ducks especially found it a difficult matter to secure their 
accustomed food. They evidently became demoralized, for 
they alighted in the oddest of places, in open and barren 


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fields, on the public highways, along the most insignificant 
branches and on the ground in the woods, Of course, dur- 
ing this period, they became an easy prey to the most clumsy 
darky with his old timaeleloader, andthe market was autted 
with them and the price of them nearly reached zero. When, 

) however, the weather moderated, the thaw came and theice 
disappeared, the river having kept on rising, the ducks 
soughf the heart of the swamps to quack and quack and 
stuff themselves with acorns to their heart’s content without 
much danger of molestation. 

On the 8th day of January, one of the coldest of the sea- 
son, when a stift wind blew from the north andthe earth 
was hard frozen, and the,trees were groaning from their 
solid coating of ice resulting from the big sleet of the day 
before, my brother ‘‘boned” me to go a-ducking with him 
down on Delta Bar, This bar is the point of Louisiana 
southwest of the city, and to reach it one has to row out of 
the lake and then across the broad, swift current of the 
river, Then to reach the ducking ground at the stage of 
the river then existing it was necessary to row down around 
the bar to the old main shore and pull up through the switch 
willows back toward the city, where open water could be 
found near taller willows in which to run the skiff as a par- 
tial blind. The entire distance is something over five miles, 
When the proposition was made to me to take a hunt under 
such circumstances, I declined it in a very peremptory man- 
ner, whereupon I was twitted with being a ‘parlor hunter,” 
and had fun poked at me because, being a Nebraska man, I 
could not brave a Mississippi day. My brother, after hunt- 
ing among our sportsmen for some one to accompany him, 
and finding all of them of my way of thinking, declared he 
would ¢o alone. I had never let him do this and would not 
Jet him do it on this occasion, 

So we came out home and put on our hunting gear, <As 
we walked down the street on our way to the fish dock, 
where we keep our skiff, the decoys and other things, the 
few people whom we met stared at us as though we were a 
pair of escaped lunatics. The idea that two sane men would 
venture out in such cold and stormy weather for sport 
seemed to stagger them. But for all that we got to the dock, 
cleaned the ice out the skiff, thawed out the 1ow-locks with 
hot water, loaded up and strick out about noon, the only 
difficulty we had being at the start in keeping our hands 
warm, Later we did not even experience this trouble. 

As we passed down around the edge of the bar, where the 
water had reached the little willows, we frightened up great 
flocks of ducks, and we could see them in the air all over 
the territory just being submerged. When we came to tie 
lower end of the bar and started up toward the upper part 
of it we discovered that it was entirely covered by mush ice, 
through which it was very difficult to propel our skiff. So 
stiff and unyielding was this ice that as the willows were 
bent aside by the passing boat they remained in that position 
to plainly mark our path. About half a mile from the open 
river we Came upon an open spot, a sort of nook surrounded 
by larger willows. Here we put out our four dozen mallard 
and teal decoys, by setting them in the slush ice, It was a 
very tedious and laborious taslk to turn or move the skiff 
about, and we avoided doing this as much as possible by set- 
ting a decoy on the blade of a long oar and then placing it 
as far from us as we could reach, In this way we were en- 
abled to make a pretty fair display without much moving of 
the skiif. 

After the decoys were all placed we worked the skiff a few 
yards into a point of willows near by, which was a hard and 
disagreeable job, The ice had to be broken wherever we 
moved, and the willows being coated thickly with sleet from 
bottom to tup were not a pleasant thing to tackle, We were 
poorly concealed if, indeed, it could be said we were con- 
cealed at all, and the willows, standing between us and the 
decoys, made the shooting quite difficult and uncertain. But 
for all that the ducks decoyed reasonably well; for we soon 
had some twenty or thirty lying about on the ice, Thenthey 
began to flare up out of range as they came in. On viewing 
the field we came to the conclusion that the dead ducks lying 
on their backs and the many bloody pools where their car- 
casses lay, frightened the others and kept thent from coming 
within ranges So we determined to go out and retrieve 
those we had already killed. This proved hard work, and 
we broke one oar working our way through theice, While 
we were out some hunters got up clouds of ducks around 
the outside of the bar, all of which were lost to us, of course, 
as our exposed position prevented their coming near us. 
There were some of our ducks that had fallen on ice too 
thick for us to work through, and others so far away that 
we did not think it would pay to go after them. Soafter 
picking up between twenty and thirty, we went back into 
the willows, having been out about an hour. 

This time we shot till the stars came out. It had been 
very cold all the afternoon, and we became aware thatas the 
day advanced it was growing colder still, and at the eleventh 
hour we began to fear we might be frozen in so tightly as 
not to be able to get out to op€n water at all. We found on 
leaving our position and going out that the ice had become 
much more compact and that even where the skiff had made 
ils way when we first retrieved it had frozen tight again and 
had to be broken as before. We succeeded in picking up all 
the decoys and the larger number of dead ducks, after work- 
ing till the perspiration ran down our faces, when we started 
to work our way to the river. My brother sat at the oars 
while I kneeled on the bow of the boat and broke a road in 
front of us, 

At the end of an hour, just as we were nearing the end of 
our labors iw the ice, I broke another oar smack in two, and 
my brother split nearly half the blade off one of his, thus 
leaving us with but one oar and a piece with which to make 
our Jong journey home, But after getting through the 
willows and into the open river we did not find the breaking 
of these oars as great a calamity as we at first Imagined. I 
uscd the sound oar on one side at the forward rowlock, and 
my brother, who is much the stronger man, used the crippled 
one on the other side aft, In this way we worked our way 
around the bar, then up the bar toward the Delta light, so 
as to be well up the river before attempting a crossing, then 
across the main channel and finally up the lake to the ele- 
vator, where our fish dock was moored. 

Tt was after 9 o’clock and we were nearly exliausted. My 
coat, upon which I had kneeled while breaking ice, and 
which had gotten very wet from the splashing, was frozen 
so stiff it hadto be thawed out before I could put it on. 
Everything else was coated with ice, though we were as 
warmas aday in midsummer. Our ducks counted out 
sixty-four, all teal, except a tew old shovelers and one or 
two sprigs. These were left at the dock to be sent for next 
morning, and we trudged out home in as. light gear as pos- 
sible, reaching there a few moments before 10 o'clock to find 
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ing at the thermometer we found the temperature to be fif- | a day in the fields, Along the line to Atlanta, the fields are 
teen degrees below the freezing point, For once I gaye my ; new and very inviting, as they have not been investigated 
gun the promise of attention on the morrow, and roiled in | much by any one except local shots and amateurs, All of 
bed as soon as practicable, about as weary a man as you | these, however, are well to do planters and merchants, who 
ever saw or heard ob , believe that it is a very gentlemanly sport and occupation to 

My brother and I think we left between ten and_fifteen | take exercise with gun and shoot over an intelligent dog in 
dead ducks lying en the ice which were not included in our | the fields. 
count. And there was an ‘‘if” in the case, in the bargain. In Atlanta and any of the towns and stations in the 
if we could have made a reasonably good blind, I think it | vicinity, there are sportsmen who keep in the advance of all 
would have been an easy matter to have bagged at least one | the pretty and good things connected with life afield. With 
hundred ducks. Bcrr H. Pork. | these, any one who has a mind that way, will find a vast deal 

VicksBuRG, Miss., Jan. 23. of enjoyment and as much sport as can possibly beattended to, 

— as birds are plentiful and within easy reach by any of the 

numerous lines that spread out like the radiants from that 
yast spider-looking town called the Gate City. 

From there to Macon the trains glide over a track that 
makes one feel as if he was making the transif on a greased 
streak of lightning, 1am told, too, that in the barrens 
and plantations there are vast numbers of those small and 
hard to shoot quail that abound in this region. In dear, 
old Macon, where live the loveliest, most charming and 
dearest people if has ever been nay fate to know, there are 
men who know how to shoof, gunsthat are worth a fortune, 
amd dogs that are far better bred and more intciligent than 
some college students with whom we haye come in contact 
within the past fortnight. 

With these Maconians you will find_as much pleasure and 
game in a day as can be gathered in a month elsewhere, 
There is a delicious hospitality and charm of entertainment 
native to this class of men, and al! that is necessary is for 
one of them to vouch for you to receive attention and cour- 
tesy such as pertains to a royal visitor. 

From Macon to Jessup, and thence via Way Cross to Jack- 
sonyille, there are many haunts where birds, turkey, deer, 
bear, ducks, foxes, wolves, fish and all kinds of game are 
found in abundance, ard one cannot go amiss by stopping 
anywhere fora day’s sport. Dr. 1. BE. Nacrn. 

HLoripa House, St. Augustine, Fla. 


SOUTHERN SHOOTING GROUNDS, 
Editor Forest and Streain: 

When J left Washington, my object was to take a route 
that is comparatively new, and which promised more inter- 
esting details and inducements to sportsmen and tourists 
than any old line that was familiarto me, Hence, after 
leaving Warm Springs, I took a route to this place that 
proved a source of remarkably pleasing interest and delight, 
and I think very inviting to those who come with dog and 
gun. ’ 

As there are numerous well-known game fields on the line, 
and a vast yaricty in the character of the grounds, I will 
give those who are interested some of the details. Taking 
Knoxville, Tenn., as the initial point, perhaps the first_best 
thirg to do is to visit the superintendent’s office of the E. T. 
Y. & Geo. R. R., and get all the information vou desire and 
periissicn to stop off by your ticket at any place or places 

-ihat may be decided on as inviting shooting grounds. This 
gentleman, Jas. F. O’Brien, General Superintendent, has a 
very warm heart toward hunters, and a splendid appetite for 
game, and that argues that his subordinates will treat men, 
guns and dogs in a royally proper manuer, If you wish to 
remain a few days in that charming and singularly interest- 
ing city, you will find a very spirited and eager set of young 
sportsmen, who are thoroughbred gentlemen and remarka- 
bly hospitable. The fields within easy reach are found very 
attractiveand of every character that sportsmen may want 
fo test. There are bills and dales, dry fields with clean, 
closely laid grasses, and just enough grain lying about the 
roots to seduce birds from covert places in the brier-filled or 
sedge-laden corners of worm fences. So that when birds 
are started, they furnish the prettiest and clearest shooting 
one may desire, and let me tell the oldest and best among 
you who shoof, it will require sharp eyes and the quickest of 
touch to drop your birds anywhere in those well farmed 
fields in the grand and lovely regions of the Clinch and 
Holstein riversin Kast Tennessee. 

In the hillside coverts and brier patches, with innumer- 
able rills and springs and streams babbling along their stone- 
iuned courses, black haw and other delicious berries induce 
birds to harbor and Jinger until their flesh acquires a deli- 
cacy that is delicious as were the golden grain fed ortoljans 
that made the feasts of Lucullus the standard of all gusta- 
tory comparisons in all ages since that luxurious period. 
Gn the mountain sides there are pheasants, the rich flavor 
and rare excellence of which will repay one for the labor 
and skill required to bag them. They are in elegant condi- 
tion from feeding on wild berries and farm grains, all of 
which gives their flesh a most delicate flavor, ‘The skill re- 
quired to bring this kind of game to earth is gue of the best 
tests that 9 sportsman can wish for. Inthe edgesof thickets 
that lie along fields with numerous clumps of grass and 
brown caps of low bushes the wary birds often lie close, 
until the hunter and dog come within a few feet. Then 
with a sudden fintter, that takes away the head often of the 
coolest and steadiest of snooters, the brown masg goes 
straight through the leafless branches, and w:th a laughing 
whirr asks the man with the gun to answer its call of deii- 
ance. To shoot one of them under such demoralizing and 
tantalizing circumstances is a feat that entitles the sac- 
net a sportsman to all of the credit he can proudly de- 
mand. 

in the fields dogs find splendid and fine coursing, and 
retrievers have easy work, But in the heath and thickets 
on wild mountain sides, the brambles, laurel, rhododen- 
drons, rugged footing and rough surface generally, present 
many formidable obstacles to finely bred, thin-skinned 
and delicate dogs. The well-trained animals that abound 
in that section, and are’ familiarly seen in nearly every farm- 
yard throughout East Tennessee, are equal to an immense 
amount of work, and seem to be as hardy and enduring as 
are the mountain ponies that never die in that section. ‘The 
sinewy legs and powerful arms of those mountain-bred dogs 
make an excellent sort of graft on good blood of other 
sorts. 

4i you wish to try your barrels.over a stretch of water at 
those butter-balls which are found at every turn and in every 
eddy of the river, you can have as much fun and work as 
can be wished for, There is uo need of decoys in any of 
the duck-laden harbors of the Pigeon, Holstein or Tennes- 
see rivers, Even the innumerable army of sable pot-hunters 
who shoot with miniature mountain howitzers, and fish for 
them with nets and traps, are unable to lessen the supply to 
an appreciable extent. Bluewing teal, black and_butter- 
balls are in abundance, aud will continue to offer inviting 
inducements to shooters for a month or two. 

Leaving Knoxville you take an E. T. VY. &G. R. R. ticket 
for Jacksonville, Fla., with stop-over privileges. Then you 
can drop off at any point that you fancy, and it does not 
matter at what place you want to try gun and dog, you will 
find a good field for sport. In every community or village 
or station along the entire Jine there is ene or more persons 
who have a fancy for shooting, and hence you will find 
splendidly trained dogs everywhere, and the best of breech- 
loaders, as well as men who know how to use them effec- 
tively and successfully. Such persons, too, are remarkably 
hospitable wherever you find themin all sections of the 
South, and the only letter of introduction or passport neces- 
sary to make them kind and welcome you is an expression 
of that kinship that makes sportsmen fond of such fellow- 
ship the world over. {Ihave met with it in the Mississippi 
swamps, foreign jungles, the swamps around New Orieans, 
and marshes of New Jersey, the fastnesses of the Rockies 
and grain fields of Pennsylvania and Obio, and the prairies 
of the West, in the log cabins and palaces of the South, and 
the reserves of Europe. And I find that the polished gun 
barrel and password of shells and charges opens the warm- 
est hearts ot the fraternity of shooters and hunters every- 
where throughout the world. 

At Dalton, Georgia, there are some charming fellows with 
dog and gun, In Rone and vicinity, some more Nimrods of 
most excellent character and name are always ready to take 


A VISIT TO CHATHAM COUNTY. 


fy OE Ee by my friends, Teceel, Duffrey, Mud 
x and LeG,, it was my good fortune to have visited that 
part of Chatham county, called the Hickory Mountain dur- 
ing the early part of the month of December. With our 
dogs Nip, Bob, Pelham and Argo, and an ample supply of 
loaded shells, we took the train at midnight on Monday, the 
(0th, for Hamlet, a railroad junction six miles southeast of 
ourtown. At that point we got on the cars of the Raleigh 
and Augusta Air Line road, and at 6 the following morning 
were cosily sitting around a good fire in the reception room 
of Page’s Hotel at Sandford. At this place the Yudkin Val- 
ley Railroad, which, at present, is finished to within twenty 
miles of Greensboro, crosses the Raleigh and Augusta Air 
Line, and ‘np this road to a place known as Matthews’s 1n the 
western part of Chatham, it was our purpose io go, and 
thence by road-wagon to our stopping place, a distance across 
the country of eight miles. But the schedule did not suit. 
Tf we waited at Sandford forthe train we would have been 
obliged to remain there all day, 

Not being disposed to do this, we made arrangements with 
Mr. Page, the hotel keeper, to place our luggage on the cars, 
and we took the track, intending to hunt the old Mclyer 
plantation and board the train at Egypt, seven miles off, 
when it should arrive, and go on it to Ore Hill, the terminal 
point to which the muils are carried, We had been told that 
we would find plenty of game in the plantation mentioned, as 
well as in the fields on Deep River, lying in the vicinity of 
Egypt. After 4 fatiguing tramp of about four miles on the 
cross ties, rendered more fatiguing from the fact that we hud 
had no sleep during the preceding night, Teceel with bis 
setter Nip, and I with a little pointer named Argo—not atter 
celebrated vessel “‘which took the fleecéto the Thessalian 
city’—went on the right side of the track, while Jim LeG, 
with Pelham, and Mud asa supernumerary—for Mud has no 
deg, and does not want oné, so long*as uny one else will 
allow him the use of his—took the ‘left. Duffrey with his 
dog Bob‘had left us a half mile back, and was doing’his best 
to fill his bagDefore the others commenced hunting. To 


to the Gulf. 
Egypt. 


line of the railroad, 
killed but thirty-Lhree birds, 


the train. It came, with our baggage on board, about 5 
o'clock, and in lessthan an hour we were at Ore Hill, 
There is at present no hotel here, and all of our party except 
your correspondent had to sleep in the coach, 
uge, as it was said, he was kindly invited by Capt. Roger 
P. Atkinson, civil engineer, im charge of the work of con- 
struction, to share what was really a luxurious couch in an 
old building, once used in connection with some iron works 
at this place. Next morning he gave us ail a substantial 
breakfast, and placing our luggage, dog@and selves on the 
construction train we were off tor Matthews, Arriving, we 
were put off in a field, and the train departed for the scene 
of tracklaying. It was not long before we saw Jo Duffrey’s 
wagon, driven by his kind-hearted and pleasant son Tommy, 
driving up. Some of our party had in the meantime got up 
two coveys of Bob White within fifty yards of the track, 
and managed to get about a half dozen of them, I got but 
one shot, which had no other effect than to knock off the 
feathers. ' 

Putting our effects upon the wagon we started off to our 
place of destination. On the way a fine covey was flushed, 


his only shot. Another was started onthe route, and we got 
three or four of them. When tear Duffrey’s, Jim LeG., not 
having the fear of the law—and he is a lawyer—trespassed 
upon forbidden territory, and killed’ two birds. In a short 
while we were at the house of our host, who gave us a 
kindly welcome—it was kindly upon the part of the wife 
and children, for they are an excellent family—shown to our 
quaiters, and bidéen to make ourselves ‘‘at home.” Soon 
we heard the welcome announcement that dinner wasready, 
and toa table laden with substantial Viands, and presided 
over by 4 genial hostess, we went, and all ggwe ample testi- 


our great disappointment we found but féw birds, and when 
we reached Hgypt at 1 o'clock we had not more than a 
dozen. Teccel and I concluded to walk on, and crossing the 
railroad bridge, determined that we would hunt up the river 
The other patty we ‘left shooting south of 
The distance between these two stations is but three 
miles by rail, but by the course of the river it is not Jess than 


eas 

We found but few birds, and the most of these availed 
themselves of the proximity of the river to seek a covert 
into which we could not follow. When we got near the 
Gulf we heard the others shooting, they having taken the 
Upon counting up the spoils, we had 
Aftera hearty supper, upon 
chicken, sausages, etc., we patiently awaited the arrival of 


Owing to his 


and pursuing it, Teceel got five, Mud two and Wells one— 


i 


mony that the food suited our tastes. Mud, in particular, 
showed his ample capacity to make a generous landlady’s 
heart,rejoice, and thus, if for no other reason, ingratiated 
himself into the good graces of that very important person- 
age—a position which he held during oursentire slay under 
the hospitable roof. Indeed, he rarely fails to render him- 
self agreeable to the fair sex; and despite all Lis blunders, 
his follies and his peculiarities, possesses always the sympa- 
thy of matron and maiden, 

In the afternoon we took a little jaunt into the fields, which 
lyad been hunted oyer by other parties, and were not entirely 
unsuccessful, At night all were tired and sleepy, aud ‘bed 
time” came at an early hour, With me, on a hunt, it always 
comes early, and as a general thing I seek the downy pillow 
while the others sit up and talk, often reguling them, as 
they tell me, with sounds which do not remind them, except 
by contrast, of the sweet cadences of the mocking bird, 
“the lascivious pleasing of a lute,” or the melodies of Miss 
— ; well, | have forgotten her name, but she sings *'Baby 
Mine” and the ‘‘Maid of Dundee” to perfection. Candor 
compels me to say that, if human testimony can be believed, 
I have theunfortunate habit of snoring. The evidence of 
one who ought to know, because of abundant opportunitics, 
I cannot gainsay. Besides this, l have heard it myself, 
When bed room is ample, this practice of mine depriyes mu 
of a bedfellow and a room-mate, but wlien il is not, ny com- 
panions usually assign Mud to nie, because of his philoso- 
phic good nature and his incapacity to distinguish sound. 
On this occasion, however, the sad lot fell to Jim LeG., wha 
let no occasion pass in which he did not complain that I dis- 
turbed his repose. Lam sorry that 1 so truuble my friends, 
but Lcannot help it. That is all, 

Next morning, after slumber, which the preceding two 
days’ labor had made jnexpressibly sweet, and a capital 
breakfast, to which ample justice was done, we got ready 
for our pleasant recreation. 

Teceel and Jim, with Nip aud Pelham, were to take the 
fields on both sides of the Pittsboro road, Mud and Ii, with 
Argo, were to go down a little creek, while Duffrey and his 
brother Jo, with Bob, went to some fields lying to the north. 
It may be as well that I say, Teccel shot a 16 bore 28-inch 
Scott, Jim LeG. a12-bore Webley, Mud aié Scott, La i6 
Tolly, Duffrey a 14 Scott, and JoD.alGé Webley. When 
night came, and the weary sportsmen counted the trophies of 
the day, Teceel had 31, Jim LeG. 26, Wells 18, Mud 17, 
Duffrey 18, and Jo D. 3. Thetwo last had combined business 
with pleasure and did not hunt assiduously. Besides, Joisnot 
a sportsman. Mud and I did some good shooting, and some 
that was no good, IiI had bagged all the birds | shot down 
and wounded, and ought to have killed, 1 should have had 
over thirty, and so would Mud. But 108 birds in one day 
ought to satisfy reasonable men. We hud more than enough 
for ourselves, and gave some to neighboring farmers, as we 
passed along. 

I know J will be excused if I suggest that sportsmen can 
easily avoid some of the troubles to which they are seme- 
times subjected, by the use of a courtesy which costs bat 
little and is always vratifying to landed proprietors, When- 
ever it is practicable, the gunner should always ask the 
consent of the owner to unt over bis premises, LHe should 
not shoot near the dwelling, nor When there is danger of 
frightening horses. If he meets the proprietor he should 
show his good breeding and good sense by speaking to. him 
and engaging in a little friendly conversation, as well as 
tendering a part of the contents of his bag. Wyen if he 
does not know who the landlord is, he should give every 
map whom he meets a decent salutation. In the country 
every man expects it, and itis the universal custom. Gen- 
tlemen from the cities should always recollect that. In 
densely populated towns it is not practiced and is not ex- 
pected. But city habits must be left off when men go to 
‘the rural districts’ and want sportupon the lands 6f cthers. 
Let them observe what I have said und they will not le the 
losers. But if an upstart, who bas on a solar hat, a cordu- 
roy s#it, leggings, hunting shoes, a gun and a dog, goes into 
the country, ‘*tveads down the grass and herbage” of another, 
passes him unnoticed, shoots around his house, his 10-bore 
gun, with five drums of powder, pockets and carries off all 
the game which be may chance to kill, without as much 
as a nod of recognition to the owner in fee of the lands or 
the tenant in possession, he is sure to be an unwelcome 
visitor, if he is not peremptorily ordered off the premises. 
Such feliows as these do much harm to gentlemen who 
observe the proprieties and decencies of life, 

I do not mean to trespass so largely upon the columus of 
the Forres’ AND STREAM or the patience of those who may 
honor me by a perusal of my effusions, as to give the inci- 
dents and resulis of each day’s trampmg. We got in about 
threé whole days of hunting, and the game totalized some- 
thing over 300 birds, besides an occasional ‘‘molly cotton 
tail,” whose flight offered too great a temptation to Mud 
and Jim, who rarely let one pass without a salute, notwith- 
standing the bad effect it has upon the dogs. Our trip was 
an agreeable one, entirely free from accident, The heartfelt 
kindness of bur host and hestess, and their children, all of 
whom strove to make our stay pleasant, added much to our 
enjoyment; and when we left the farewell was as cordial and » 
unaffected as was the invitation to come again and partake 
of their hospitalities. We got safely back to our own friends, 
found all well and glad to see us, and eyen full of thankiul- 
ness, I think, for all the blessings and mercies which had 
been vouchsafed, f 

Before taking Icave of my ‘gentle readers,” I cannot 
forego the opportunity of saying afew words to such of 
them as are possessed of ample means to gratify their fond- 
ness for health-giving field sports. Among the patrons and 
lovers of the ForEST AND STREAM are quite a number of 
gentlemen of easy fortune. These can, without harmfully 
diminishing their estates, easily provide for an opportun- 
ity of much enjoyment for themselves and their chosen 
few. Along the line of the Yudkin Valley Railroad, 
anti within easy reach of it, there are many tracts of 
land which can be purchased on reasonable terms, These 
tracts consist of from two hundred to five hundred acres, 
and on all of them birds abound. One of them the wealthy 
sportsman can buy, lease it toa good teaant who will pay a 
remunerating rent, and this estate would give the owner tull 
access to the lands of the neighboring proprietors, especially 


if he showed by his intercourse that he was worthy of their 
confidence. This would be far better and Jess expensive 


than the purchase of shooting points at high figures and 
correspondinyly heavy incidental charges, in other localities, 
He could build a small but neat and comfortable house, for 
his own occupancy during his visits; the wife of the fenant 
would prepare his meals, make his beds and air bis linen, 
anda horse and wagon could be had on moderateterms. In 
addition to all this he could sport on his own Jand and the 


— _. 7 eee 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


29 


Jands of his neighbors, and be able to take himself away 
from the cares of business, freed from all “‘rumors of op- 
pression and deceif, successful and unsuccessful war,” and 
when the hunt was over, feel an invigoration in mind and 
body, which no frequented spot could give, 
A Happy New Year to all. 
Dee, 31, 1883, 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Strean: 

In spite of my resolution to the contrary, I find myself 
asking once more to be heard upon this subject, since 1 see 
that Iam not clearly understood by all. ith the opinion 
of My, Duane ia your last issue, that the question Is one of 
improvement of ammunition rather than of existing arms, 
I fully accord. ; 

My theory as regards the effect of certain charges upon 
game has already been incompletely set forth ut some length. 
My desire now is to more fully explain myself with reference 
to this division of the subject. . 

My experience, I need not repeat, has demonstrated sufti- 
ciently, to me at least, that upon heavy game a light bullet is 
not effective. Especially if it be hollow-fronted or the lead 
be soft, the tendency is too great to flatten out and to fly to 
pieces upon striking game, when a high degree of velocity 
has beem imparted to the bullet. I also have found, theory 
to the contrary notwithstanding, that ‘‘shock” without pen- 
etration counts for very little on large game. Consequently, 
though with a large charge of powder and a light bullet we 
get one very desirable thing—flat trajectory—we are very 
apt to lose another and more desirable thing—good penetra- 
tion and killing power. 

But cannot we compromise? For it seems to me that by 
mutual concession we may still be able to get results which 
will happily combine the two, and which wil give us suffi- 
cient penetration with the flattest trajectory possible when 
using a bullet heavy enough for the former purpose. 

Bearing this in mind, cannot some one suggest a charge, a 
proportion of powder to lead whereby the best possible re- 
sulis shall be obtained? I need hardly add that he will 
thereby ineur the lasting gratitude of all who love and use 
the “hunting” rifle, As to the chief principle involved in 
the effect of different charges upon game, it may be said 
that its best illustration is had when we speak of it as being 
the converse of that principle by which a tallow candle is 
driven through a board. Give this a Jow degree of velocity 
and it will be found to be mashed and demolished by the re- 
sistance of the board. 

Give it a high degree of velocity and it is driven cleanly 
through the board, the resistance having been overcome. 
Now. the converse ef this isour case. (Let me say that itis 
better demonstrated with a hollow-fronted or very soft 
bullet than with a hard, solid one.) 

Conversely, then, since in this case we are driving the 
hard substance against the soft one, if we give the bullet a 
very low degree of velocity it will scarcely penetrate the 
skin. ‘ 

Increase the degree of velocity and better and better pene- 
tration is had until a limit is tached, which we will call the 
maximum of penetration with this particular weight and 
character of bullet. This ‘‘limit” may be and in many 
cases no doubt is more than sufficient for game shooting. 

Now, after this point has been passed, additional velocity 
will continue to give less aud less penetration, until theo- 
retically and sometimes almost practically we come back to 
the point from which we started, no penetration at all. 

Thatis, in my humble unscientific opinion, after this limit 
has been reached, the skin and flesh offer more and more 
resistance as the bullet is driven with greater rapidity, which 
amounts to the same as saying that a bullet impelled with 
infinite velocity will not penetrate at all since it would meet 
with an infinite resistance. Wlesh would become adamant 
as opposed to it. 

The immense force of the powder remaining after the 
bullet arrives at its destination is thus reflective in its effect, 
and is expended upon flattening and mashing up the bullict, 
So thus it is seen that there is such a thing as too great a 
charge of powder. 

Now we can probably better understand how it 1s when 
usin’ light and hollow-pointed bullets (the latter feature of 
course greatly retarding the bulletin its course through flesh 
if it holds together, since it causes it to spread aud present a 
greater surface), while we get flat trajectory and certain 
force, we do not get penetration and killing effect. Of 
ccurse I do not care in what shape the bullet in its entirety 
reaches the “other” skin, the more battered and irregular in 
shape the better. But the prime requisite is that 1t should 
never fail to penetrate the vitals, the “hollow,” andto break 
whatever bones it encounters from whatever point it enters, 

For example, if I shoot an animal standing quartering 
away from me, and hit him in the left ham, I want to find 
that the bullet has broken the right fore shoulder. Let it 

_never fail to go from end to end. Of course, further pene- 
tration than that is unnecessary. Get this effect first, and a 
certain weight of lead is indispensable thereto, then do what 
you can with regard to flat trajectory. 1 regard the order of 
merits of a hunting rifle to be: 

First—Satcty. 

Second—Strength, durability and ease of manipulation. 

Third—Sufficient accuracy. 

Fourth—Killing power and penetration, 

Fifth—Flat trajectory. 

Sixth—Portability, to be determined, of course, by the in- 
dividual strength of him who expects to use it. 

Seventh—Freedom from recoil. 

Eighth—Finish and ornamentation, which, while it counts 
for something and gives rise to a pardonable spirit of pride 
in the possession of the arm, yet detracts somewhat from the 
pleasure of a rough trip, since so much care is required to 
keep it bright and in good condition, i 

Now ihen, for all deer, sheep, antelope and like smaller 
game, and even elk, and presumably moose and caribou, 300 
grains of lead is quite suflicient, and for game of this kind 
1 would consider the .45-85-295 or preferably the .40-95-300 
of Bullard manufacture, referred to by Mr. Farrow, just the 
thing, I need not say that lam delighted with the intro 

duction of these rifles, But for large bear, and for buffalo, 

or for game in India, Iwonld desire more lead at the ex- 
pense of fiat trajectory since we cannot have both, and 
greater killmg power and penetration is needed; say about 
400 to 500 grains. 

A hard bullet of 450 grains, ;{; tin, with a very small hole 
extending one-third or at (he most one-half its length, would 
be, as Lat present, without having tested it, suppose, very 
eifective upon such large game. 

T quite understand “Bengal Sepoy’s” answer to my objec: 


a 


WELLS. 


tion to English express rifles, There is something unques- 
tionably in the hollow-fronted bullet theory. But these are 
at present made to my mind incorrectly, ¢. é., the hollow or 
hole is much too large and too deep; so also do I think that 
in the anxiety to get flat trajectory, the charge of powder 


| employed is too great and good penetration and killing power 


are sacrificed in Consequence since it acts reflectively, as is 
above shown, upon the bullet. Thus will be understood my 
present preference for a solid bullet. 

Now could not this Bullard .40-90 repeater use two kinds 
of ammunition so that we might vary this, as suggested by 
“©. D.,” according to the game we are likely to shoot: at or 
according to the distance. 

T should think that by careful loading with a tube the 
same .40-caliber shell which is now loaded with 90 to 95 
grains powder and 800 grains lead, could also beloaded with 
at least 80 to 85 grains powder and 425 to 450 grains lead, 
hollow-fronted bullet or not, as desired, and yet maintain the 
same length of cartridge. The liability to get them confused 
could be readily avoided by putting one charge in a dark 
colored copper shell, the other in a bright brass one. That 
one size of shell could in this way use two charges does not 
seem at all unreasonable to me. 

Thus equipped and with a good, reliable rifle one could 
saunter forth with the positive assurance that if any animal 
gets away from or with him it will be in no wise the fault of 
his “iron,” a most comforting thought indeed. To be as- 
sured that no one else has a better, more serviceable or more 
effective rifle than yourself is a source of a great deal of self- 
congratulation. And it is equally true that to Feel that some 
one in the party has a rifle better than yours gives rise to a 


proportionate amount of bitter reflection and sélf-condemna-. 


tion of your poor judgment in its selection. 

I haye been extremely gratified at the interest taken in this 
discussion, and am glad to get the views of so many who 
use the hunting rifle. 

I may say that [ heartily agree with some of the partici- 
pants, and have no doubt that some of the rifles, or nore 
especially the charges advocated by them, are extremely 
satisfactory. 

In concluding, allow me to express the hope that manu- 
facturers have not turned a deaf car to these suggestions of 
your correspondents, which are founded upon ‘practical 
experience and obseryatvon,” but have followed the discus- 
sion closely. If this be the case, I feel certain that it will 
be frnitful in good results, and that in consequence we will 
soon be able to note many improvements both in rifles and 
ammunition. D.M.B 

PHILADELPHIA. 


Editor Horest and Stream: 
[Continued from page 9.] 

The first objection to the proposed repeater, .40-90-500, is 
that the ball will have a low initial velocity, and cannot have 
anything else. Its long-ranye power and penetration will 
be sufficient to satisfy anyone. But to accomplish that, a 
great sacritice of short-range efficiency must be made. 

It seems absurd at this day to ask, why should a ball 
crawl out of a rifle at the rate of one thousand feet per 
second, when it can fly out at two? And yet there are 
thousands of hunters, and good ones too, who see no differ- 
ence and even think of no difference. If the ball will shoot 
iengthwise through a deer, and will make the dust fly close 
to a stuinp at half a mile, they think it perfection and never 
dream oi the high curve the ball must make to fall into the 
mark at 200 yards, and which causes so many unavoidable 
misses by even the best shots, the best adjusters of sights, 
and the best judges of distance. 

I believe 1 was about the first one to attack the low velocity 
of Amenican rifles. The position 1 then took in the old Rop 
AND GwN, has since been thoroughly sustained by the best 
hunters and writers; even by those who dissent trom me 
upon some points, such as your correspondent ‘‘P.,” Major 
Merrill and others being most emphatic upon this question. 
So great has been the weight of intelligent opinion upon this 
side, that the question has become quite one-sided, and flat 
trajectory at 150 or 200 yards is now considered by all 
thoughtful riflemen the second requisite of a good hunting 
rifle—accuracy being, of course, the first. In fact, it is in- 
comprehensibie to me, how any really good shot, who knows 
where he holds his sights when he pulls the trigger, could 
hunt much without finding out the great defect of the long 
bullet and light powder charge, and finding out the supreme 
importance of flattening the 150 or 200 yard trajectory every 
inch that is possible. 

The yeiocity attainable by a 500-grain ball in a ,40-caliber 
with 90 grains of powder, would be about the same as that 
of the long-range rifle—.44-100-550. The trajectory of this 
up to 200 yards is so high that it is a perfect nuisance for 
shooting at unknown distances; a mistake of only twenty- 
five yards being sufficient to miss or ouly slightly cripple a 
deer. And this velocity cannot be increased to any practi- 
cal extent by bottling the shell, or by any method of rifling 
or otherwise. 

Suppose a rod of lead of the same weight as the gun 
taken as the projectile und fired with afew grains of powder, 
both gun and projectile being suspended by strings. At the 
discharge they would move in opposite directions at equal 
rates of speed. Suppose, now, that the rod be cut off at 
each discharge until it becomes a mere wad of lead. The 
speed of the rod would constantly increase; that of the gun 
constantly diminish. But a far more important effect than 
this may be noticed, viz., that the shorter the projectile— 
the rod of lead—the greater the amount of powder that can 
be used in the gun with safety, and the greater the effect of 
every increase of powder in raising the velocity of the pro- 
jectile. You maysee the same in a shotgun. Take a No. 
12 gun and put in two ounces of shot. You will find that 
the difference between three drams of powder and four 
drams is perceptible mainly upon your shoulder and but 
slightly upon the game, especially if the latter be something 
tough, like a duck, But cut down your shot to one ounce, 
and the difference is at once changed from the rear to the 
front. Now, put in an ounce of shot and you get still more 
penetration—though of course more scattermg—from the 
same amount of powder, and get it, too, with still less re- 
coil. And you can now increase the amount of powder 
with safety and comfort, and also with more effect. in in- 
creasing penetration, 

Now if a gun were made long enough to burn all the 
powder and allow the inertia of the shot to be fully over- 
come, heavy enough to prevent loss of force by recoil while 
the shot is getting under full headway, and also strong 
enough to stand the strain while the shot is getting its full 
headway, a very high velocity could be given three ounces 
of shot in a 12-bore gun—high enough to shoot a duck 
through and through, But such a gun could not be held to 


* 


the shoulder by any ordinary man. Precisely the same 
principle applies to the rifle, though in a less marked de- 
gree, And I do not hesitate to say that no rifle that is light 

enough and short encugh for use in the field can ever give a 
respectable initial velocity to a projectile having five times 
the weight of the round ball of the same caliber. And it 
follows unavoidably that whatever velocity you may giveby 
increase of powder to the ball five times the weight of a 
round ball will be greatly excelled hy the one four times the 
weight of the round one, that one by the one three times the 
weight, and soon down. And when you can make me be 
lieve that as much penetration can be given two ounces of 
shot as can be given to one ounce with the same powder 
you can make me believe that a 350 ball and 110 grains of 
powder from a .45-caliber is perfection for 200 yards. Cut 
off 100 grains of lead and add 40 more of powder, you get 
no more recoil, you get a sreat increase of velocity and con- 
sequently a flatter trajectory. 

The question then arises will this have sufficient long- 
range power and penetration? It would retain its accuracy 
to at least 400 yards, and lose but little up to 500. It might 
not haye quite enough penetration for bear and buffalo, and 
certainly would not if the ball were made expansive with a 
large hole in it. But it would shoot the solid ball length- 
wise through the largest deer, and shoot through two deer 
placed side by side. It is quite certain that good, long-range 
power and good short-range efficiency cannot be combined 
in any rifle light enough and short enough to use in hunting 
without change of bullets and, in most cases, change of 
sights. The sooner this fact is recognized the better. And 
L believe it to be equally impossible to combine a good grizzly 
bear and buffalo rifle with a good deer and antelope rifle 
without making the same change or increasing the caliber 
and the weight of the gun. The sooner this fact is recog- 
nized the better. 

I believe the most general understanding of the term “best 
hunting rifle” to be about as follows: The rifle that in the 
course of a year or more will hit the greatest amount of 
game and give its owner the least bother during that time. 
My private preference is for one that will kill within sight 
the largest amount of game actually struck. There are 
many who side with me in this view, though they may 
differ as to the manner of attaining the proposed end. But 
I believe the prevailing view to be the one that will hit the 
most, no matter when or where the game dies, Such a rifle 
must be: 

First—A repeater, and of the quickest action possible. 

Second—It must have the flattest possible trajectory for 
200 yards. 

Third—It musi retain sufficient accuracy at 400 yards. 

To have the flattest curve for 200 yards two things are in- 
dispensable, 

First—High initial velocity; 2,000 feet a second if pos- 
sible, 

Second—Suflicient actual weight in the ball to sustain 
that velocity as fur as possible against the resistance of the 
air. 

. The round ball starts quicker than any other, but has no 
staying power, ‘The long-range ball has the staying power, 
but starts too slowly so make the 200 yards in time. The 
one is a quarter horse, the other a four-mile racer. Hach 
one is untit for the other’s task, yet each excelsin his own 
sphere. A compromise must be made between the two 
powers, Where shall the line be drawn? The question is 
not difficult to decide. One and one-half timés the weight 
of the round ball gives to arifle of .50-caliber nearly all the 
staying power that is needed for 200 yards; so does one and 
three-quarters to a .45-caliber, and twice the weight of round 
ball to a .40-caliber. Any increase beyond these quantities 
will, by decreasing the starting speed, destroy the effect of 
the additional staying power, and increase the curve of the 
path of the ball. Some increase may, however, be necessary 
for accuracy at 400 yards. 

The shape of the head of the ball also makes a great dif- 
ference in its staying powers. Such bullets as the Winches- 
ter .73 are too flat-headed for their weight. I believe, upon 
the whole, that the following weights will be found sufficient 
for accuracy at 400 yards, and it is certain that the 200-yard 
trajectory will be straighter than can possibly be siven by 
any heavier ball: For .50-caliher, 300 grains; for .45-caliber, 
250 grains; for .40-caliber, 200 grains. 

To insure the accuracy at 400 yards, twenty-five grains 
might be added to each which would be sufficient except in 
heayy winds where anything buta long-range ball is too 
light, 

Whether the penetration of these would be sufficient for 
grizzly bears or buffalo I cannot say. But I know, that by 
hardening the ball and shsrpening its head, [ can shoot any 
of them lengthwise through the largest deer (unless heavy 
bones be struck), In all cases let the powder be the very 
best and the quickest that accuracy will allow. 

In the case of a repeater the amount of powder may be 
limited by the action, as is probably the case with the Win- 
chester repeaters. But the shorter the bullet the more the 
sheli may be bottle-shaped without danger, It is difficult to 
see why the barrel cannot be made thicker al the breech and 
tapered toward the muzzle. Or perhaps the breech might 
be reinforced with steel] shrunk overit, Ninety srains of 
powder would do very well in a .40 caliber, but 120 would 
be so much better. 

There seems to bea foolish fear of a decent charge of 
powder. Many a man will stand and shoot off-hand fifty 
shots at a target with 70 grains of powder and 450 grains of 
lead from a .45 rifie without a murmur, who would faint at 
the idea of shooting a cartridge in which the powder was 
doubled and the lead reduced one-half or more. Yet for 
solid comfort and safety Iwould rather shoot one hundred 
of the latter then fifty of the former. Against this objection 
to a decent powder charge it is useless to argue, 

It is said by others that a rifle will not burn so much pow- 
der, Though a less proportionate amount may be burnt at 
each increase of the charge a greater actual amount will be, 

A .40-caliber rifle will, with a round ball, sbow the effect 
of every half inch of powder upto nearly fiveinches. With 
fine strong powder [have seen the difference plainly, even after 
the weight of the powder exceeded the weight of the ball. 
By firing through screens and taking the line of the first two 
bullet holes this may by easily tested. ; 

By some it is said “too much powder drives the ball wild.” 
This is an old idea, and is doubtless true for some rifles. 
But rifling can easily be madethat will hold any ball to its 
place, I know rifles fifty years old that are accurate under 
any amount of powder. When I used a muzzleloader I used 
as high as five fingers of powder, and never less than four, 
and never had any trouble with its accuracy. Increased 
powder may require a change of sights, and in that sense 
may drive the ball wild from any rifle, But it the rifling be 


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made right, and especially if the ball be hardened, five 
inches of powder may be shot behind short bullets without 
danger, discomfort or want of accuracy. 

_ Not only may so much he shot, but for light bullets there 
1S Mere necessity for much powder than there is with heavy 
ones. With a ,40-caliber round hall the difference between 
AQ grains and 100 grains of powder, as indicated by the fall 
of the bullet at 100 yards, is enormous. One great cause of 
this is that the effect of the air’s resistance in stopping 
velocity is increased. As a round ball offers more resistance 
than a ball of any other form, and as it has less weight to 
force its way against the aiv’s resistance, it must bestarted at 
tip top speed in order to make a good flight for any distance 
beyond 60 or 70 yards, Now if a heavy charge is needed to 
give good trajectory to around ball, it follows that the nearer 
a ball approaches the weight of the round one the greater the 
necessity of a heayy powder charge to maintain as far as 
possible the starting speed of the ball. 

It is said by some that if the heavier ball remains longer 
in the barrel more powder must be burned, etc., and there- 
fore more force obtained, etc. More force, undoubtedly, 
because the weight of the ball is the most important factor 
in momentum or force; but always less velocity. Other- 
wise it would be like weighting down a racer so as to make 
him strain his muscles more, 

Short bullets and excessive powder charges I consider in- 
dispensable to a good hunting rifle. 
a repeater that can be worked as rapidly as the Winchester 
and I can see nothing more to be desired that is at all at- 
tainable. T. 5. Van Dyn. - 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 
Fiditor Forest and Stream: 

I think that your correspondent, “Backwoods,” has started 
a very fruitful theme in his communication on ‘The Per- 
formance of Shotguns,” in your issue of the 24th ult. My 
experience has been that for duck and fox shooting and all 
long range, heavy work, the muzzleloading shotgun goes 
far ahead of the breechloader in respect to penetration and 
pattern, An experienced duck shooter, who shoots for the 
Boston market in this vicinity every season, owns an arma- 
ment of four double muzzleloading guns, ranging from eight 
to seventeen pounds weight, and he will not use a breech- 
loader because ineffective at his ranges. I have heard others 
make the same criticisia of the breechloader. Is it true? 
Let us hear from those who have had experience with both 
muzzle and breechloading shotguns. PAUL PAstNoR. 

BURLINGTON, Vt. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of Jan, 24, ‘‘Backwoods” has asked for just 
what I want to know; what ashotgun will do. There are no 
doubt a great many readers of Forest AND STREAM who 
have fired thousands of shots with breechloading guns, both 
at game and the target, let them give us their experience. 

T have been greatly interested in reading ‘“‘The Choice of 
Hunting Rifles,” and hope that all letters about shotguns 
may be as plain and instructive as the letters regarding rifles 
have been, I haye sold my muzzleloading shotgun and want 
a breechloader, I thought I would like a 12-gauge best, but 
several of my friends who have owned and shot both 10 and 
12-gauge, advise me to get a ten, and as I can not afford two 
guns I would like to know which would be best for all pur- 
poses for quail, squirrels, ducks, and othcr small game, and 
if I ever should be lucky enough to go deer hunting I would 
want to use it to shoot buckshot. 

What I would like to know most is how much further will 
a 10-cauge killits game than a 12, both guns of same grade 
and bored on same principle. For example, if a 12 will kill 
at 40 yards, how much further would the ten kill the same 
game? BUCKEYE. 

Summir Srarion, Ohio, 


WASHINGTON TERRITORY GAME LAW. 
Fiditor Forest and Stream: 

I send you copy of the new Washington Territory game 
law, passed at the fall session of the Legislature in 1888. 
In many respects it is admirable. The provisions conccrn- 
ingnight shgoting and sink*boxes were mainly introduced for 
the sake of the Columbia River shooting, in which Port- 
landers are as much interested as though the river was 
wholly in Oregon. No sink-boxes or swivel-boxes have ever 
yet been used on the Columbia (that is not to any extent), 
but no one wants to haye them even tried, and fearing some 
Eastern speculators might introduce them, they have been 
anticipated. But night shooting is quite common and yery 
pernicious. The law ought to have included swan, as the 
night shooting is chiefly while in pursuit. of them. I hope 
the Oregon Legislature (this fall) will adopt all the better 
suggestions in the Washington law, and set as good an ex- 
ample by inserting some additional features. The ‘‘pheas- 
ant” referred to in the law will no doubt include the Mon- 
golian pheasants, which haye become quite numerous on 
some of the islands in Fuca Straits, The canvas-back pair 
here in the spring, and hence the necessity of protecting 
them after April 1, which if anything is too late. March 
15 for all would be better. K. W. B. 

PorrLanp, Oregon, 1884. 

Following is the full text of the law: 


Section 1. Beit enacted by the legislative Assembly of the 
Territory of AYES tons That every person who shall,within 
the Territory of Washington, between the first day of January 
and the fifteenth day of August, from and after the passage 
of this act, pursue, hunt, take, kill or destroy any deer or 
fawn, shall be deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor. Hvery “paren 
who, after the passage of this act, shall take, kill or destroy 
any deer at any time unless the carcass of such animal is used 
or preserved by the person slaying it, or is sold for food, is 
guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who after the passage 
of this act, shall hurt or pursue deer with dog or dogs, 
in the counties of Thurston, Cowlitz, Whatcom, Island or 
Lewis, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 2. Every person who buys, sells, or has in possession 
any deer or fawn within the time the taking or killing thereof 
is prohibited, except such as are tamed or kept for show or 
curiosity, is guilty of a misdemeanor, 

Sec. 2. Every person who shall, in the Territory of Wash- 
ington, between the first day of January and the fifteenth 
day of August of each year, hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy 
any elk, moose or mountain sheep, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor. Every person who takes, kills, injures or destroys, 
or pursues with intent to take, kill, injure or destroy any elk, 
moose or mountain sheep, at any time for the sole purpose of 
obtaining the skin, hide, hams or antlers of any such animal, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 

Sec. 4. Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, between the first day of April and the fifteenth 
day of August of each year, take, kill, injure or destroy, or 


Combine these two in- 


have in possession, sell or offer for sale any wild swan, mal- 
lard duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, butter-ball, Spoonbill, 
gray, black Bprigtall or canyas-back duck, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor. rovided, that any person may kill on hisown 
premises ducks or deer to protect his growing crops. 

Sec. 5. Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, between the first day of January and the fifteenth 
day of August of each year, for any purpose take, Icill, injure 
or destroy, or have in possession, sell or offer for sale, any 
prairie chicken or sage hen, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 6. Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, between the first day of January and the 
first day of August, of each year, kill, injure or destroy, 
or haye in possession, sell, or offer for sale, any grouse, pheas- 
ant, quail or partridge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

Sec. 7. Hvery person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, during the months of Noyember, December, 
January, February and March of any year, catch, kill, or 
have in possession, sell or offer for sale, any mountain or 
brook trout, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person 
who shall, within the Territory of Washington, take, or 
attempt to take, or catch with any seine, net, wier, or other 
device than hook and line, any mountain, brook or bull trout, 
at any time after the passage of this act, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, 

Sec. 8, Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, at any time after the passage of this act, trap, 
net or ensnare, or attempt to trap, net or ensnare any variety 
of quail, prairie chicken, grouse or pheasant, except for the 
purpose of propagating the same, or who shall in any county 
east of the Cascade range of mountains prior to year eighteen 
hundred and eighty-seven, kill any variety of quail, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 9. Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, at any time after the passage of this act, destroy 
or remove from the nest of any mallard duck, widgeon, wood 
duck, teal, butter-ball, spoonbill, gray, biack, sprigtail or can- 
vas-back duck, prairie chicken or sage hen, grouse, pheasant, 
quail, partridge or other wildfowl any egg or eggs, or wil- 
fully destroy the nest of any such fowls or birds, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor. 

Sec, 10. Hvery person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, have any male deer or buck, or any female 
deer or doe, or spotted fawn, elk, moose or mountain sheep, 
swan, mallard duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, butter-ball, 
spopapin gray, black, sprigtail or canvas-back duck, prairie 
chicken or sage hen, grouse, pheasant, quail, Bob White or 
partridge, mountain or brook trout, at any time when it is 
unlawful to take or kill the same as provided in this act, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and proof of the possession of any 
of the aforesaid animals, fowls, birds or fish, at any time when 
it is unlawful to take or kill the same in the county where the 
same game is found shall be prima f acie evidence in any pro- 
secution for a violation of this act, that the person or persons 
in whose possession the same is found, took, killed or destroyed 
the same in the county wherein the same is found, during the 
period when it was unlawful to take, kill or destroy the same, 

Sec. 11. Every person who shall, within the Territory of 
Washington, take, kill, shoot at, maim or destroy any mallard 
duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, butter-ball, spoonbill, gray, 
black, sprigtail or canvas-back duck, at any time between the 
hours of 8 P. M. and 5 A. M. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 12. Livery poreen who shalluse any sink-box on any 
lake or river or other waters in Washington Territory, for the 
purpose of shooting ducks or other waterfowl therefrom, or 
who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot gun on boats, 
canoes, rafts or other deyice at any time for the purpose of 
killmg any waterfowl within the limits of Washington Terri- 
tory, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 13. Hvery person convicted of the violation of any of 
the provisions of this act shail be punished by a fine of not less 
than ten dollars and not more than three hundred dollars, or 
imprisonment in: the county jail of the county where the 
offense was committed for not less than five days nor more 
than three months, or both imprisonment and fine. One-half 
of all money collected for fines for violation of the provisions 
of this act shall be paid to informers, and one-half to the 
prosecuting attorney in the district in which the case is 
prosecuted. ; 

Sec. 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed, 


SAGADAHOC CounTY ASSOCEATION.—Bath, Me., Feb, 1. 
—The annual meeting of the Sagadahoc Association for the 
Protection of Fish and Game, was held in this city on the 
evening of the 29th ult., and the following officers were 
elected: Dr. Chas. A. Packard, President; A, Q, Gond 
and James H. Millay, Vice-Presidents. Executive Com- 
mittee—S. W, Carr, A. Q. Gond, Geo. H. Nichols, Dr. E. 
W. Johnson and A. 8. Alexander. Geo. E. Newman, 
Secretary and Treasurer. A special committee was chosen 
to take such measures as they might deem proper to prose- 
cute violators of our fish and game laws. ‘The public senti- 
ment in regard to the necessity of a rigid enforcement of 
the fish and game laws is growing every day in this vicinity, 
and wetrust ere long the destruction of our game during 
the close season will come to an end. 


Sea and River Hishing. 


TH E STRICKEN TROUT. 
ENEATH a time-scarr’d oak, whose leafy boughs 
Still in its age, when summer’s sun beats down 

In heat of day, throw grateful shade above 
A grassy mound that slopes down to the brook, 
Just where a little rill, with gurgling sound, 
Creeps through the tangled grass, on further side, 
To reach a deep, dark pool, an angler stands 
In cautious silence, and with bated breath, 
With rod, and reel, and line of braided silk, 
Bnd-tip’d with gut and trimm’d with cl.osen flies, 
In hand uplifted for a skillful east. 
With circling glance his eye takes in the field 
Of pastures fresh, where feed the luscious trout, 
Who dine not always at the stroke of twelve: 
But rising from their pebbly beds they seize 
The luckless insects floating down the stream, 
And straightway turn to hiding-place again. 
The cast is made, and swiftly through the air, 
With whistling sound, the feather’d hooks disport 
Their gaudy wings, in life-like flutt‘ring play, 
Upon the glist’ning surface of the pool, 
Above the place where, half embosom‘d lies 
A mossy log, low stretched across the way, 
And deep below the darken’d waters glide, 
With noiseless murm/’ring, o’er their oozy bed. 
Scarce settled they upon the liquid board, 
When swirling water, and a silv’ry gleam, 
Sure indicates the game at hand; but haste 
To seize the lure thus temptingly displayed, 
Made failure, and invites another cast. 
The line recovered, now sweeps back and forth, 
And glitt’ring wings flit gaily through the air, 


As almost motionless the angler stands, 

With steady nerve, and eye fixed on the spot 

Where he again would spread the fatal cloth 

To tempt this monster trout; or, if perchance, 

Through gallantry, should he permit his mate 

To choose the gaudiest fly, ere he should taste 

What seems provision for their midday meal, 

Alas forher! A splash, the water boils, 

And centric circles, lapping on each shore 

As tiny wavelets, break upon the sand, 

And leave no trace of that which went before, 

With magic thrill the angler feels his rod 

Bend gently through the tight’ning line, that cleaves 

With hissing sound the water’s darken'd depth, 

And strains the lancewood tip, as 1f *twould break 

The slender thing in twain; the reel, meantime, 

Yields up its silken cord, as now the trout 

Turns to his lair, and seeks a safe retreat. 

Where he may gorge the dainty morsel caught, 

Aud plume his speckl’d sides on slimy stone, 

With gentle strike the fish is fairly hooked, 

And feels the sting that fastens in his mouth 

The strange device, that seemed a living thing, 

Born but for a day of life’s fitful dream, 

Whose dawn is sunshine, but whose eve is death. 

Alas! the fatal strike; *tis now revealed, 

That barbed steel was hid beneath the fold 

Of wings, by man so cunningly devised; 

And what seemed fair to eat at once, now shows 

That joys delusive may be robed in gold, 

Which glitters but to tantalize with pain. 

In wild affright, the fish around tbe pool 

Darts furiously, and, finding no relief, 

Leaps high into the air, as if to spew 

From out his mouth the tinseled, cheating bait, 

That to his hungry eyes has proved deceit, 

Now sulks he low, to nurse awhile his wrath, 

Which waxes fiercer as the fight goes on; 

Then, like an arrow from the bended bow, 

He shoots achwart the stream to yonder rock, 

Beneath whose shelt’ring ledge he fain would find 

Some friendly hand to loose from out his jaw 

The cruel hook, that tears his quiv’ring flesh, 

Or snap the gut that joins it to the line, 

Despairing now, in agony he flies 

From out the pool, and seeks yet to escape 

Adown the rapid’s rough and rocky way, 

Which leads into a deep and dang’rous hole, 

Where logs and roots oft hid the lurking trout, 

And fain would shelter one in saddest plight, 

Who, stricken with the angler’s fatal lure, 

Now strives with all his might to reach alive, 

In spite of rod and reel and silk to boot. 

But fate yet lingers in the captor’s hand, 

Whose rapid footsteps, though they often sink 

Deep into miry holes along the bank, 

Keep with him apace, as, o’er brush and brake, 

Deftly he bears the bending rod and keeps 

Taut line on flying captive, lest the hock, 

From loosened hold, should backward empty fly, 

To his disgust, and let the fish go free. 

The angler’s quick-discerning eye detects 

His victim’s last resort, and how to check 

This downward, mad’ning flight, and saye the game, 

Takes but a moment's thought. On further side, 

Below a little spur of bank, he sees 

The current eddying flow, where neither rock 

Nor Jog can shield the tront, or rend in twain 

The thread-like line that quivers in the air, 

And, plunging In the stream, he wades adown 

The rapid’s fitful rush, while tip of rod, 

In graceful modesty, stoops low to kiss 

Its master’s hand. The weary, stricken trout 

Accepts the cunning ruse as for his good, e 

A resting place at last to find, where he 

May strength by time regain, while quickly now 

he angler, reeling up his line, seeks yet 

To turn the fish’s head up stream, that he 

May still another chance for life try on, 

And in the further struggle spend his strength, 

So much exhausted. Gaining now the bank 

At point below, he gently leads the trout 

From out beneath the shelving bank, where be 

With panting breath in moody silence lay, 

Tn hopes that he may take the rapids back 

To pool above. The strategy succeeds; 

‘And Click of reel and swift out-paying line 

Bus lengthens out to him life’s anxious span 

One short moment longer. Oh, precious time} 

How sweet to him, who fain would linger yet 

Upon the shore of that dark, flowing tide 

That bears the soul into eternity, 

With nerve and muscle strained to utmost pitch, 

The victim leaps amid the stream, and cleaves 

The surging waters with his angry tail, 

In one more desperate lunge for liberty. 

But, no}; the slack’ning line foretells the close 

Of this unequal strife. The angler now 

Plies rapidly his reel, through whose recoil 

The fish and fisher come to closer terms, 

And gleaming in the sun, on ripples’ crest, 

The stricken beauty yields te greater odds, 

And ere he is aware, the treach’rous net. 

A captive lands him gasping on the sand. 
CANANDAIGUA, N. Y, C. T. Mires, M, D, 


MATERIALS FOR FLY-RODS. 


i the hope that your readers may give their experiments, 
Isend the following as a beginning, simply suggesting to 
those who can to give also the breaking strain, Two sticks 
ef the same length, four feet, were used, one Jancewood 
and the other bethabara wond, One end was held in a vise 
and the other fastened to a spring scale. They were drawn 
six inches from the natural line and so held five minutes, 
after releasing the curvature from the natural line was 
taken, 


Size. Weight. Power required. Curvature. 
Lancewood,...... t4square, 11b.1 oz, 8 lbs. % inch. 
Bethabara........ 18-16 square, 1 Ib, 4 oz. 9 lbs. 14 oz. 4g inch. 


Judging from the above, and allowing the breaking strain 
to be equal, I should prefer a rod of bethabara wood. The 
extra weight would be equalized by its greater life, and so 
may be made smaller. R. H. Drxon, 


_ all positions and angles looked like a streak of silver. 


ee 
as. 7, 1884] — 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


“THE BEST COLOR FOR LEADERS. 
S0ME EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE IT. _ 


which it would seem ought not only to settle this question 
definitely, but afford practical information as to the visi- 
bility to trout of objeets situated above the water. But this 
must be used in the open air, so longer days and a tempera- 
ture above freezing must be awaited, 

In the mean time, if those who dye leaders would be kind 
enough to forward to the Forrsr anp Srream office 
samples of any color they wish tested, they will confer a 
favor, ‘These should be about three feet long, and as near 
as possible No, 27 or 28 Stubbs wire gauge in thickness, so 
that difference in diameter need not be taken into account 
in the comparisons. It will be readily apparent that when 
two samples differ not only in color, but in thickness, it 
would be difficult to apportion 1o the thicker a just allow- 
ance for the difference. 

The moral deduced for my own guidance from the above, 
is offered to others for what itis worth, 

In the first place, neither anglers nor trout are anything 
like as smart as is generally supposed. The wiles of the 
former are by no means so well concealed, nor are the senses 
of the latter so very acute to perceive them. Use an azure 
or mist-colored leader, uf considerable depth of color, but 
above all things let it be fine in diameter. The strain of the 
largest trout is trifling. The best of those that swim in the 
Rangeley Lakes cannot pull one pound on a flexible rod. 
(This artiele is not intended for ‘“‘derrickers.”) Upon trial 
last June, with a ten-foot rod drawing on a spring balance 
with one hand, butt away from body, the strongest among a 
half dozen anglers, and he a man of muscle, could with his 
utmost elfort—such an effort that the rod fairly quivered— 
scarcely raise a strain of 11 pounds. The experiment ‘was 
tried at, my instance to convince a sceptic, and I myself took 
a pull and pulled ‘‘my level best.” The very next morning 
I took a trout of five pounds and two ounces after a twenty- 
minutes’ fight, and Iam confident that at no time did his 
pull at the outside exceed half a pound. 

The thickness of leader habitually used in the Rangeley 
region ef Maine—and there if anywhere a large leader is 
excusable since the trout are there larger than elsewhere— 
is simply preposterous, Of course one should be prepared 
for the largest trout in the swim, If he is five pounds, a 
leader that will stand 34 pounds strain with a spring balance 
is ample to withstand the roughest treatment that a flexible 
rod can inflict. If after a 10-pounder, a 5-pound test will 
meet every emergency, This can be had with very thin gut 
—No. 27 or 28 Stubbs wire gauge. With thinner gut than 
this, last September a friend fastened a trout of 44 pouuds 
(weighed to the ounce, not guessed at) in a dangerous place, 
and not only held him without giving an inch of line, but 
hung to him until his guide took the boat into clear water 
and towed the fish after—water slack and small salmon 


P\VERY angler has heard, or taken part in discussing the 
_ best color for leaders, and, if it be permissible to judge 
f the experience of others by one’s own, then such discus- 
ions invariably amount to the expression by one of a doubt 
yhether the color makes much difference, and a more or 
Tess ready assent to this on the part of the others, Never 
has the writer met any definite opinion on this subject based 
upon anything stronger than a guess. , 

This is not as it should be. Why cannot anglers discuss 
the mysteries of their craft with the fervor that ‘‘The Choice 
of Hunting Rifles” excites in those who seek their recreation 
in that direction. 

As in past years, so every evening last September, a band 
of anglers, from many distant cities and States, gathered 
around the camp-fire at Parmacheene Lake in Maine, many 
of them artists in the use of the fly-rod, and true sportsmen 
all. And when the subject of this article had again and 
again been brought up, again and again with the same nega- 
five result, the writer determined that before the next sea- 
son he would try to devise some method, if not to determine, 
at least to throw some light on this question. 

His experiments have been tried for the information of 
himself and friends. The results are published in the hope 
that others may be induced to investigate the matter, and 
tbat lively discussion and an ultimate solution of this ques- 
tion may follow. 

If seemed necessary to view the leader from the same 
direction as the trout. Soa water-tight box was made 28 
inches long, 6 inches wide, 4 inches iu the remaining direc- 
‘tion, all inside measurements, and painted mud color inside, 
‘One end was left open, and the other closed with a thick 

plate of glass. A frame was provided in which the box 
would swing like a cannon on its trunnions, and so arranged, 
that though the normal position of the box was perpendicu- 
lar with the glass below and the open end above, yet it could 
Ss inclined and the upper end directed to any part of the 
sky. 
For the purpose of experiment, uncolored, coffee-colored, 
and mist-colored leaders of three shades wereprocured. Also 
three samples of No, 4 enamelled water-proof line, yellowish, 
greenish and brownish in color. 
The box was filled with water, the samples moved about 
upon and beneath the surface, while the writer with his head 
and the glass end of the box wrapped ina dark cloth, @ la 
photographer, directed the apparatus toward the sky, and 
noted the result. : 
From viewing the under surface of a body of water con- 
tained in an aquarium through the lower portion of its glass 
sides, it was expected that the under surface of the water in 
- the box or tube might look like a mirror, and vision of any- 

thing above the surface be cut off. Such was not the case. 
| Objects above the surface could be seen distinctly as through 
a glass window. 

The variously colored leaders were all alike conspicuous to 
& surprising degree, so much so as to cause wonder that a 
fish should ever rise 10 anything connected with them, and 
this whether above, on, or below the surface of the water. 
di seemed as though the coffee-colored leader was the most 
visible; but otherwise one could not be told from the other, 
all diference of color seeming lost. Then some drawn mist- 
colored Jeader was tried, quite dark in tint and as fine as a 
hair, Though about as plain to sight asa pencil mark on 
white paper, yet it was apparent that its small diameter 
made a great difference in its favor. 

During all this, the idea was gradually gathering force 
that these experiments only tended to show how the object 
appeared when viewed by a fish lying directly beneath it. 
And upon trying some flies, and finding that only with diffi- 
culty could the gaudy be distinguished from those sober in 
color, the box was dropped and light sought in another 
direction, 

A bath tub of considerable size, its length facing a window 
and the sky, was filled with water to the depth of fourteen 
inches, Two mirrors were submerged in the water, one at 
each end of the tub, and so inclined that by looking down 
upon them the reflected image of anything in or upon the 
water could be readily seen, A joint from arod was used 
to manipulate a short line and the leader to be experimented 
with; and, by movivg it to and fro in the water, it could be 
viewed at almost any degree of obliquity. 

Here, again, the results were a surprise. Though I haye 
always used a colored leader, still J had supposed color was 
of questionable utility. Such seemed not to be the case. 
The coitee color was still the most conspicuous, but it was but 
little more so than the natural colored gut, which latter in 

The 
mist-colored leaders in some positions had the same appear- 
ance, but always it seemed in a less degree; while at times, 
and at certain angles and directions of motion with refer- 
ence to the light, they seemed to more or less disappear, 
The darkest tinted, a decided azure, gave the best result, I 
was.unable to determine with satisfactory certainty in what 
positions in reference to light, etc., this partial or total dis- 
appearance took place. It certainly did seem that when the 
leader was moved toward the light it shone the most, and by 
the refraction of transmitted light, and I attributed the 
better result given by the darker leader to its greater opacity 
to such light, A piece of iron binding wire, black in color 
and, of course, totally opaque and of about the same diam- 
eter as the leaders, was, however, plainly visible in all posi- 
tions, though not more so than uncolored gut. Indeed, I 
incline to think that at all times the least conspicuous leader 
that can be made may be plainly seen from some directions, 
while at the same time invisible from others. 

Here, again, I was impressed by the great difference in 
result caused by varying the diameter. This dimension ap- 
pears in the water to be much enlarged, and my experiments 
are emphatic as, tothe utility of fine tackle. This was de- 
monstrated beyond question by the drawn gut; @.¢., gut 
drawn through a plate, which, as before stated, was quite 
dark in color and hair fine. . 

The various samples of line were all equally visible— 
‘plain as a pike staff’—and not the slightest difference in 
favor of one over the other could be detected. 

It is to be understood that the appearances described 
are those shewn by reflection in the mirror; also that all 
gut used in experiments as to color was of the same 
diameter. ee A 

Quite a number of interesting phenomena presented them- 
selves during this investigation, but it seems better to pass 
them by at present, until by repetition and variety of experi- 
ment mistaken deductions may be avoided. Indeed, while 
_ writing the foregoing, an apparatus has suggested itself 


Last June with such a leader a trout of 14 pounds was har- 
nessed 4 inches in front of the tail at the head of heayy 
rapids, with what the lumbermen call ‘‘a driving pitch” on. 
Down current he went, taking nearly 45 yards of line. Then 
he was stopped, and derricked up against the current with- 
out a pause, unhooked, weighed, and returned to the water, 
larger fish only being at that time desired. 

If any reader unfamiliar with this wire gauge, should 
wish to know the thickness referred to, it can be had by 
calling for wire of that number at any hardware store, but 
ask for Stubbs Gauge, as there are others, and like numbers 
do not represent like sizes in all such measuring instruments, 

But, and every letter of this ‘‘but” should be in three-inch 
capitals, such a leader, after it has been coiled up, whether 
perfectly fresh or after use, should never be attached to the 
line without first testing it with a spring balance. I[ think 
this equally true as to every leader of whatever caliber, but 
light leaders only are now under consideration. In these 
days when sprizg balances which are accurate—at any rate 
mine has been proved so—and which will weigh every two 
ounces up to ten pounds, gan be bought for 5@ cents, an 
angler should as soon think of being without one when on 
the war-path as without a pocket-knite. 

Soften two leaders in cold or tepid water, not hot water, 
since it dissolves the gluten and imipairs the strength of the 
gut. While a friend holds one loop of the leader on a match 
or similar slip of soft wood without sharp edges, hook your 
spring balance into the loop at the other end. Let each grasp 
the leader between his thumb and finger as far toward the 
middle as he can comfortably reach, so that if it breaks you 
may not have to hunt up the ends, and then put on the 
strain. Jt breaks at halfa pound? Well, sometimes it has 
accidentally received a sharp bend when dry, and the gut 
has been partially cracked into, Tieitup, and try again. 
It stands tour and a half pounds? That is enough for any- 
thing to be taken on a trout-rod. Put one leader to your 
line, the other wind round your hat, so that if you foula 
snag and are obliged to break the first, you will have the 
other in reserve. 

A friend last September was about to cast his first fly in 
Maine waters. Besides leaders fit to hold a shark, he had 
half a dozen nice ones that he had bought for Adirondack 
fishing. He was recommended to test, and if strong enough, 
to use the latter, Not one on the first test stood over half a 
peund. Some broke three times, but not one failed at last 
to come up to 44 pounds with less than 9 inches loss of 
length. Gentlemen who have been in the habit of using 
heavy leaders, try it, and you will have no cause for regret. 
I have made four trips to the Rangeley region and beyond, on 
this theory and practice, two of five and two of three weeks 
actual daily fishing, and I have not lost a single fish during 
that time by the breaking of my leader, 

There; Lhaye said my say, and have given about all T 
now know of the matter. 

Is there no other willing to ventilate his views on this, or any 
other kindred subject dear to the angler? There are a hun- 
dred things the fraternity thirsts for knowledge on, Take 
the subject of dyeing or coloring gut. Some black inks give 
the right color, but I find a loss of from 15 to 30 per cent, in 
strength from any method of coloring I have yet discovered. 

Why cannot some one try this and give us the results. 
Soak his gut soft, tie in a loop at each end, pull it with 
spring balance till it breaks, knot it together and color, 
break it again in same way, compare its strength before and 
after, and he will soon hit on something that will be a boon 
to all, except possibly, the dealers in such articles. 

What is the use of the customary dowel-pin in joining 
trout rods? For fourteen years I have been making rods as 
an amateur, and as yet I have discovered nothing in its 
fayor. Who is the apostle of the dowel-pin? Subjects 
bristle on every side, a discussion of which would be profit- 
able. Remember the dealers rely largely on the fishermen 
to suggest improvements. There is no one who has had any 
extended experience in the field who does not know some- 
thing worth telling, and to tell it-is a duty he owes to the 


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craft, And now is the time todo this, when we can only 
angle in our dreams, and everything relating to it is relished 
as is the spring by him who wanders in the desert. 


Haney P, WELLS, 
Nuw York Crry. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 
A NIGHT IN CAMP, 


AS JACK and i reached camp Uncle Ben had supper 

ready, and the Doctor and the Colonel were just row- 
ingin, A peep into the boat showed that they had not 
fished in vain, for there lay three lake trout of about four 
pounds each and some fish of other kinds, which they were 
disputing about, but the Colonel was too hungry lo want 
them identified, or even talked about until he had an inter- 
view with the bean soup, broiled trout and potatoes roasted 
in the ashes. The account that the Doctor gives of the 
Volonel’s appetite on. this occasion appears to be so much 
exaggerated that I will not record it, believing, as I do, that 
it was prompted by a disappointment iu the disposition of 
the last trout and baked potato. Besides, I hold firmly to 
the opinion that for a man who has gone to the woods to re- 
gain appetite and health, one quart of bean soup, half of a 
three-pound trout, eleyen baked potatoes, a loaf and a half 
of bread and four cups of coffee ought to make a fair supper 
during Jis first week out, or until he has fairly come into 
his appetite. The Doctor certainly should understand this 
question better than J, and never should have allowed him- 
self to reach for the last potato at the same time the Colonel 
did, and, when he missed it, to ask Uncie Ben what time he 
intended to have breakfast, 

The stars were ou duty by the time the pipes were lit, and 
the light evening breeze lapped and rippled under the boat, 
while froin the opposite shore a deep-throated bullfrog sent 
echoes which reverberated from shore to shore. Wesmoked 
in silence, taking in the beauty of the moon-rise which, re- 
flected on the rippling water, seeiaed a stream of molten sil- 
ver. A bat wheeled round and across the moon and a musk- 
rat plunged sullenly from the bank into the water, startling 
a youthful frog, which squeaked with fear as it skipped over 
the surface and disappeared. The low, liquid note of some 
small night bird came through the trees like a lost note from 
some elfin flute, and the fiendish laugh of an owl on a dead 
pine floated across the water, suggesting a demon strayed 
into paradise. 

The Doctor refilled his pipe and puffed in silence, ab- 
sorbed in contemplation of the beauty of the scene. Even 
the unpoetical Colonel seemed wrapped in delight, and all 
were taking in the pleasures of the summer night that ap- 
pealed to both eye and ear, when from the cove at the east- 
ernend of the lake there arose a cry af onec so weird, un- 
earthly, and startling, that the Colonel dropped his pipe and 
asked in a low tone, ‘‘What is that?” 

No one answered, for all knew the sound except the 
Colonel and Jack, and we enjoyer his surprise. <A few 
moments of silence and the sound eame again, louder and 
longer, ‘‘What in the world is it?” again asked the Colonel. 

“‘Tt’s one o’ them air loons,” answered Uncle Ben; ‘‘he’s 
Jost his mate. Keep still and you'll hear her answer him 
soon,” 

Once more the call sounded, louder and clearer, and a low 
gutteral answer came from the other side of the point, and 
all was still again for a moment. <A. fleecy cloud drifted 
across the moon, and when it had passed and the full rays 
again silvered the treetops and the Jake, the frog rolled out 
its basso-profundo, the wood thrush trilled a iow and sweet 
tremolo, and the lonesome owl express¢d his contempt for 
their music by a scornful laugh. But the loon remained 
silent. It had found its mate, and was satisfied. 

The Doctor knocked the ashes, which had long been cold, 
from his pipe and started for bed, All followed, each tco 
full of his own thoughts to say much, except Uncle Ben, 
who deemed it his duty to break the silence by saying: “By 
gosh, this is a beautiful night.” Some one said ‘‘yes,”’ and 
then Jack asked; ‘“‘How about the strange fish? Will you 
look at them ‘before going to bed?” 

“No, Jack, not to-night.” And we slept to the rippling 
music of the water on the beach and its rhythmical lapping 
under the boat. FRED MATHER. 


TAKING SMELTS THROUGH THE ICE. 


N Monday afternoon a Journal representative took a 
tramp up the river among the smelt fishers. There are 
twenty-three cosy temts on the ice, fifteen of which are ina 
cluster, or rather in a row, close together off Kaler’s mill. 
Four tents are off Beaver’s Tail and the others are scattered 
along the western shore. The fishermen all said: ‘This is 
the best season for fish we ever knew, or at least for many 
years.” As soon as the ice was of sufficient strength the 
fishermen placed their tents thereon. The smelis were there 
in plenty and took the hook readily. In fact, before the 
river was frozen Mr, Fred Cottrell caught large quantities 
from the shore with a line attached to a pole. Entering the 
tent of Mr. Joseph H. Trussell, one of the successful fish- 
ermen, he politely gave us his chair, and with a board across 
the head of a small keg he improvised a seat for himself. 
His tent is a frame about five feet square and six feet high, 
ati the ridge pole covered with drilling. The covering is 
painted to better protect the fishermen from the wind. 
small coal stove is at one side, the pipe leading out through 
the roof. The fire not only keeps the tent warm but heats 
the fisherman’s dinner, The floor is boarded, with the ex- 
ception of a square space with a corresponding hole in. the 
ice. Through this opening and made fast to a rack above 
four lines are suspended, each having a single hook. The 
lines used in outdoor fishing have each two hooks, The 
lines are kept down by a lead sinker, to the lower end of 
which the snell and hook are attached. The hooks are 
baited with clam worms dug from the flats. Seated ona 
chair the fisherman thumbs his lines with as much comfort 
as though by the fireside in his own house. 

Some of thetents are double and contain two fishermen 
with a double set of gear, The single ones are considered 
the best,as two persons will make more or less noise. The 
fish bite better on the ebb tide when they are moving down 
the river. This cannot always be relied upon, however, for 
some .days they take the hook readily and at other times 
sparingly. It has been observed that the smelt bite better on 
cold, stormy days. Last Saturday as many as sixty pounds 
per man were caught. Atsuch times the fisherman has 
brisk work with his four lines. Mr. Trussell thinks there 
are two different varieties of smelts—one he classes as the 
school smelt and the other asthe permanent smeit—those 
that are always to be found in the river. The school smelt, 
he thinks, moves about from place to place and take the 


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hook most readily. This smelt has'a very light-colored back 
while the other has a dark-colored back. The fishermen all 
thought that smelts would be more plentiful in our waters if 
the milldams were provided with fishways. Goose River, 
the Wilson stream and Gurney’s are dammed so that the fish 
are unable to ascend to deposit their spawn, and are obliged 
to spawn along the rocks, where they are mostly destroyed. 

A correspoudent of the New York Times recently wrote 
an article on smelt fishing in Maine and gave the credit of 
first fishing in the covered tent to one Jou Secor, of Boston, 
The correspondent says that Joe troze his earsand fect while 
fishing out of doors on one of our Maine rivers and gave it 
up. “But he didn’t go home. He went to Belfast and had 
a heavy wooden frame, ten feetsquare, made by a carpenter. 
He procured some sail canvas, and covered the frame with 
it, leaying an opening for a door, The frame was on run- 
ners. When the ‘house’ was finished he had it drawn upon 
the ice and placed over the holes le intended to fish through. 
Then it ccurred to Lim that he might add still further to 
his comfort, snd he bought a small box stove, ran a pipe 
from out of the house, started a roaring pine wood fire in it, 
and seated on abench, fished as comfortably as if he were 
in his room at the hotel watching a stope-pipe hole in the 
floor. The house was secured to the ice by grappling irons, 
If smelt ceased biting in one spot he simply loosened his 
erapples, shoved his house along on the runners, and 
‘squatted’ in more favorable quarters.” . 

We inquired of the fishermen if they ever knew or heard 
of Joe Secor, but without avail. So far as Belfast is con- 
cerned Joe isa myth. John Richards is the pioneer tent 
fisherman of Belfast. He was the first to use the eanvas- 
covered tent, which was seven or eight years ago. We 
found him on Monday seated in a comfortable tent with a 
fair catch of fish by his side. When the fish do not bite the 
men amuse themselves by singing, story telling and by ehaft- 
ing with the teamsters who drive along the banks of the 
tiver. Occasionally one of the fishermen will fall intoa 
fishing hole that has been covered over by the fallen snow. 
Ai such times the unlucky fisherman is pulled out in a sorry 
plight amid the shouts of his companions. The fishermen 
are a jolly set and make their avocation a pleasant one, 
Fair wages are made ata time when little else can be done, 
While in the tent Mr. Trussell gave the Jowniel local two 
lines. Wow a fishing line is no new thing tous, as we have 
often handled it for both pleasure and profit, The fish did 
not bite very briskly, but after an hour’s angling the news- 
paper man had the satisfaction of Deating the proprietor, 
The fish are mostly sold to Sleeper & Field, in this city, who 
ship them frozen to the Boston, New York and Philadelphia 
markets, The fish are nicely packed in a box, back down, 
and will keep for a long time.— Belfast (Me,) Journal, 


tleman who was an expert fly-caster, in this way: ‘They all 
saw that he was master of the art, and he certainly slings a 
nasty fly.” if, as I suppose, the writer thought it a clever 
saying, it is doubtful if the gentleman who was intended to 
be complimented thought so, I think that ‘‘rodster,” for 
angler or fisherman, is of English origin, but, ‘bug chuck- 
ing” is of native growth, I rejoice to see you attack this 
evil practice.—@. 


THe Leap oF tHE GRAYLING.—It is now in order to dis- 
cuss the leaping powers of the grayling, The subject has 
been brought up by the following extract from a note written 
by Mr, D. H. Fitzhugh, Jr., to Mr. Fred Mather aneni the lat- 
ter’s article in ‘Fishing With the Fly. Mr. Fitzbugh writes: 

“T have just been reading your article on grayling fishing in 
‘Fishing With the Fly,’ You have made a very grave error, 
which should be corrected in some manner. Youassert boidly 
that the grayling never leaps from the water in taking the 
fly. As you were with me on all the fishing trips for grayling 
which you eyer had, and on these occasions we were after 
the fishin the spawning season for the purpose of getting 
eges for propagation, and ib was particularly the depth of 
winter, Youarerightasfar as your experience goes; they 
do take thefly just as you say, at or below the surface. But 
take the grayling at the proper season, and it is as ‘leapin’’? a 
fish as a trout. On several occasions I haye lost the tail-fly or 
stretcher, and with nothing on the line but the hand-fly, have 
trailed it some inches aboye the water, , hen the fish were 
rising, to see then: leap and take it, and have caught many in 
that way, hooked six,inches in mid air. Moreover] haye 
never seen. a trout leave the water in his struggles after being 
hooked, over two or three times, while 1 have seen the gray- 
ling leap six times for all he was worth. I hope to haye you 
with me on the old streams.” 


SHisheulture, 


THE MENHADEN QUESTION, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The communication from Mr. Daniel F, Church, in your 
issue of Jan. 24, on the menhaden, and the great quantity of 
fish existing at the present time, stirs the antagonistic element 
of my constitution into making a few remarks: 

Mr, Church claims that fish are as plenty as formerly, and 
cites dates and years to sustain his assertion. To rebut his 
mistaken statement we refer to all the hook and line fishermen 
in Newport, R. 1., or of Narraganset Bay, or extending south 
to Sandy Hook, or east to Cape Cod, to sustain us in the asser- 
tion that he is as far from correct as the sun is distant from 
the earth. We also refer to Caleb Haley & Co., H. N. Rogers 
and Moon & Lamphere, all of Fulton Market. New York, all 
of whom will testify to the constant diminution of fish on 
our coast since the introduction of pounds, or heart seines, 
and steamer fishing, as carried on to the enormous extent it is 
at the present date. 

To eite one instance that comes under our own personal 
notice, Mr. Wm. M. Kogers, of South Portsmouth, R. I., who 
was engaged in the fish business from 1850 to 1860, and is a 
member of the firm of M. Rogers’ & Co., of Fulton Market, 
N. Y. In 1854 he bought of the trap and seine fishermen of 
the Seaconet River, 1,200 barrels of largegreen head sea bass, 
scup, and other edible fish, delivered on the shore, for sixteen 
cents per barrel to spread on his farm for manure. He fur- 
ther informs us that at or about this time he bought for the 
market sea bass by the sugar boxfor $1.50 per box. Now we 
ask for an instance in the past few years, when these fish 
could have been bought for any such prices, or anything ap- 
proaching them? A greater part of the time they have been 
nearer sixteen cents per pound than sixteen cents per 
barrel. When has there been such a quantity of tish 
caught by hook and line as there was prior to the in- 
troduction of the pounds and steamer fishing? Since the 
wholesale slaughter by these agents began, there has been 
a, constant diminution in all kinds of fish, until the hook and 
the net fishermen do not find enough fish to meet their ex- 
penses, in many instances. Again we refer to the wholesale 
dealers of New York and Philadelphia for proof of the limited 
quantity of late years compared with what there wasin the 
year mentioned. 

Iclaim, as well as every other fisherman who has not got 
his capitalin steamers, seines and pounds, that there is, has 
been, and furthermore will be, a gradual decline in all kinds 
of fish, which can be traced directly from the above causes. 
viz., steumers, semnes and pounds. Unless a law be passed by 
the United States Government, to prohibit these destructive 
agents from plying their vocation within three miles of the 
shore, thus giving the migratory fish a chance to follow the 
old-time habit of leading the shore, this depletion will con- 
tinue. 

To explain somewhat one of my theories, [ will make use of 
a simple illustration; If we were accustomed to walk each 
morning ina beautiful park without molestation, and upon 
goilig Some morning, should find at the entrance two men, each 
armed with a club, a third man just back of these two, and the 
three were bound to have aclipatus as we entered and returned, 
we would soon shun that place as we would the plague. Justso 
with the fish, The two men are represented by the pounds 
on each side of our rivers, the third man is the steamer, wait- 
ing for the fish in the spring, when they arrive, and they not 
oul ‘get one or two clips, but they pound and Harass them, 
from the time of arrival to their departure in the fall. Isit a 
wonder they grow scarce? No! The only worder, to my mind, 
is that there areso many left, after being constantly caught 
and drivenoff. ~ . 

Mr. Church says the stiiped bass might teed on the men- 
haden. They would, undoubtedly, if they found them on the 
grounds they were accustomed to feed. But they have been 
driven from these grounds. In 1883 you could not get a men- 
haden for loye or money, in this locality, fresh enough to use 
for bait. What was the consequence? Less striped bass were 
caught than any time in the recollection of fishermen for the 
past thirty years. He speaks of bass not being caught in 
purse seines. Why? Because they require depth of water to 
make their seis. Itis a well-known habit of the bass to fol- 
low, or lead, the shores; and if purse net fishermen could set 
their seines, or had cause to, in shoal water, they would catch 
bass; for they are destroyed by the barrel by the pounds, and 
are first caught in them on their appearance in the spring, and 
well up Narraganset Bay at that. We know of two being 
caught the past season that weighed over fifty pounds each, 
and they were caught three miles up the bay. These are facts 
which will disturb the statement that they are located out- 
side of the bay. 
more or less for the past seventeen years, aud for the past 
three years as a business. And have caught and cleaned bass 
that haye had parts and whole menbaden in them, full-grown 
fish. Onein particular of fifty-six pounds weight, had no 
less than parts of nine full-grown menhaden, and 1 contend 
that they do and will feed on them when they can. Mr, Church 
speaks of a slut, and, dealers refusing, or saying “Snip as few 
fish as possible.” The cause of this glut was ivom the reason 
of sudden catches of large schools of fish in pounds and seines, 
and all shipped in one day, and that without ice, the fish then 
slutting the market ina decaying state caused’ by lack of 
knowledge in packing them, : : > 

{ could eite cause and instance after instance in this connec- 
tion, but will not try your patience or weary your readers 
further than to say that it is time that more attention is glyen 
to the diminution of fish by steam fishing gangs, pounds and 


FISHING IN MICHIGAN. 


HE past season here has been good for fishing, and has been 
thoroughly enjoyed by ye local fisherman and by some 
from outside, one party coming from Kentucky and stopping 
at Bear Lake Village, on the shore of Bear Lake, one of the 
most beautiful Jakes 1 ever saw, being alive with game fish. 
Five miles from there is the head waters of Bear Oreek, and 
it iseleven miles to the Betsy River; the latter has grayling 
and the river trout. Bear Lake is eighteen miles north ofhere; 
two daily lines of boats leave here and connect at Pierport 
with the narrow-gauge Bear Lake & Hastern Railroad to 
Bear Lake, five miles. We also have «daily linu of boats 
from Chicago. Southern and Eastern routesare via I, & 
P.M. &. and C. W. M. R. R. Finer fishing cannot be 
found in any State or county. Au Sable Lake, thirteen 
miles south of here, is the largest one we have of the chain; 
tt is twelve roiles long, with au average width of one and a 
hali miles. Partage Lake, eleven miles north; boats” stop 
here daily af the Anickema Mineral Springs. 

Messrs. Jolin Higgins, Bidleman, Cox and Caraton caught 
in Pattage Lake in three hours twenty-eight black bass, 
weighing 183 pounds. All were taken with flies on June 25, 
1882. Jolm Higgins, by the way, is .a thorough sportsman 
and a gentleman that many are indebted to for favors shown 
heing*"always teady and willing to help and assist others. He 
hastished all of the streams and lakes in this country. 
Should any of the readers of Forest AND SrRHAM Come this 
way, | willassure them of cordial treatment if they are 
lucky enough to fall into genial John’s hands, I wish to 
say to my readers that this is no scheme to advertise any 
hotel (and we have good ones), railvoad or corporation. 
Trout hogs and counters are not wanted, but gentlemen 
will find friends and well-wishers. Any information I can 
wive to your readers will be cheerfully furnished, 

8. EK. B. 

Manisrix, Mich, Jan. 12: 


LAw Brearers ty MArwe.—Oxtord, Me., Jan. 27.—iditer 
Forest and Streain: There have been many eomplaints from 
ihis State concerning the persistent breaking of the game 
laws, but Ido not think there have been many instances 
wliere these laws have been broken so boldly and defiantly 
ay is being done now on Thompson's Pond, in Oxford. Since 
abeutthe 26th of October our trout and tegue with which these 
waters teem have known no peace. The torchlights of a 
dozen boats engaged in spearing these fish could be plainty 
seeu [rom the streets of the village, any still night last fall, 
Oue boat brought in sixty-five trout, weighing from two to 
three pounds cach, one night last fall, from off the spawning 
beds, and how many more were destroyed by killing these 
fish Iwill Jeave to the public to decide. Over 800 trout 
have been caught through the ice since it first froze, The 
fishermen boldly declare that, they will catch what they want 
for their own usé and the surplus they will sell, These trout 
are being sold at Norway and McFalls, and strings of them 
ure being carried in plain sight daily through the streets of 
Oxford. Now for my part I can’t see where the harm comes 
in catching the trout through the ice, but if one can’t do it 
stop all. lam strongly against spearing and think that a 
stop had ouglit to be put to it at any cost in this paradise for 
thé angler. Our local papers have an account nearly every 
week of some one making an wnusyal catch, 80 you see how 
badly these laws are broken.—Josu JEEMS. 


AneitaG Suanc.—New York, Feb, 4.—Hditor Horest und 
Stream: The editorial note on ‘Angling Slang,” in your last 
issue, struck hard at the us¢ of certain low phrases which 
pass for wit amoug a certain class, who either do not write 
for Forms’ AND Srrpam, or, if they do, their obnoxious pet 
words are stricken out. Some lime ago Tl read in a paper 
(casually picked up at a country hotel) an article containing 
all the vile words mentioned hy you, as ‘‘rodster,” ‘‘chuck- 
ing 4 bug,” etc., and which wound up by speaking of agen- 


seines, I heartily wish there could be interest enough aroused 
among the disciples of the hook to imaugurate a movement 
that would in time suppress the above causes of wholesale de- 
struction of our fish. If no such move is made it will soon he 
a thing of the past to catch with the hoot one of those noblest 
of game fish, the striped bass. We shall not only be deprived 
of out sport, but what is far more important, we shall be de- 
prived of all kinds of salt water fish as a staple food, and ina 
short time they will only be found on our tables as an article 
of luxury. To close this humble effort to express the ideas of 
afisherman against the monopoly by capital, we would say 
that we fully agree with your correspondent, ‘‘Fisherman,” in 


We have followed bass fishing for pleasure 


his points advanced in your issue of Jan, 10, and would alsa 
say if we cannot arouse interest enough to secure a law to 
protect the fishing interest, letus have the appropriation he 
speaks of. : 

_We also respectfully ask the United States Nish Commis- 
sion (o inyestigate this matter fully, not from our standpoint 
alone, but let them take both sides of the question, and they 
will soon discover that there is urgent need of the protection, 


as well as the propagation of our salt water tish. W. M, H. 
Soura Porismourn, R. I., Jan, 31, 1884. 


STOCKING STREAMS WITH TROUT. 


HE following on this subject is taken from the last report 
_ of the Fish Commission of Connecticut, and shows the 
working of stocking private waters by the State: 

Very great interest has been manifested in the efforts of 
your Commissioners to stock the depleted brooks and streams 
of the State withirout. Though the supply was greater than in 
any preceding year, the demand last year was so great, that 
only 3,000 could be allotted to each applicant. All those who 
applied preyious to March 1 received their quota. Itis very 
gratifying to receive such favorable reports from the streams 
stocked during the two previous years, The young trout are 
thriving, and in maby cases reports come to your Commis- 
sioners of their reappearance in streams where none had been 
seen for several years. The prospect seems good for a return 
of their former abundance, especially as the farmers are mak- 
ing efforts to protect them during their infancy. Occasionally 
some one complains that he is not allowed to capture the fin- 
gerlings as usual. As a specimen, a clipping trom a Hartford 
letter to the Springfield Republican is here given: 

“They go out for trout, and the number of large catches of 
trout reported this year is well above the average. The ex- 
planation is simple. Many people have taken advantage of 
the offer of recent years of the ish Commissioners to pive 
5,000 young trout to whoever would come and pet them, 
With these they have stocked wild brooks and then they have 
hired from the land-owning farmers the soleright to fish in the 
streams. In other words, we are developing alot of preserves. 
It is impossible to see the harm of it. Fish are bigger and 
plentier, farmers get a little something for what they used to 
get nothing for; their fences are safer and crops less disturbed, 
And yet it is said that the effect of these preserves, with the 
warning notice against fishing, hag been to create a hostile 
feeling against the Fish Commissioners, People will go to 
fish in a brook and find it preserved, say it is all due to the 
Fish Commissioners, and get mad accordingly. But these 
same people do not think of going to the farmer's barn-yard 
for chickens and then condemning the Legislature at the 
thought that they can’t carry off the broilers without being 
punished.” 

‘he facts, so far as reported, are that the farmers, finding 
that certain persons were in the habit of visiting the recently 
stocked brooks, and catching the young trout deposited only 
the previous year, haye posted their lands for the purpose of 
giving the young trout a chance to grow to a sufficient size to 
propagate their species. In this way aione can the experitnent. 
receive a fair trial, for there is inevery State a class of per- 
sons, generally known as poachers or pot-hunters. whose only 
idea is to capture the last bird or the last fish possible, pro- 
vided only it serves to supply by its sale, their craving for 
whiskey. The March woodcock, the July partridge, and the 
yearling trout are all equally welcome, if they can be sold, 
and it is well known that even in Hartford woodeock have 
been served at dinner parties in May and partridgesin Angust, 
and trout can be bought at any season, The young trout for the 
year’s distribution were provided by Mr, Henry J. Fenton of 
Poquonoék, at a cost to the State of three dollars per thousand. 
Mr. Fenten’s system of delivery has been so perfect that no 
complaints have yet reached your Commissioners from any 
quarter. 

Tn their report of Jast year your Commissioners recom- 
mended that an Act should be passed forbidding the exposure 
for sale of any trout less than six inches in length. <A bill for 
the purpose was presented to the General Assembly, referred 
to the Committee on Fisheries, acted upon without the know- 
ledge of the Commissioners, reported adversely, and promptly 
defeated. As complaints are frequently made to your Com- 
missioners about the sale of fngerling trout in the markets, 
the subject is suggested tor a reconsideration, 


THR MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION,—Mr, Hdward H. 
Lathrop has been appointed a Commissioner of Fisheries in 
the place of Mr. Asa Wrench, resigned. Mr, Lathrop has been 
jong and favorably known as a, sportsman, and one interested 
in fishculture. His address is 419 Main strect, Springfield. ‘The 
appointment by the Governor was confirmed by the Couvneil on 
Wednesday, Jan. 30, and is for the term of five years from 
February 1, 


here died recently at Fort Wiliam, Invernessshire, 
William Mackenzie, one of the most noted deerstalkers of his 
day, Mackenzie, or as he was more commonly called in his 
lutter days ‘Old Gaick,” was bornin the Braces of Lochaber 
in 1800, and he was thus in his eighty-fourth year, When 
quite a young man he entered the service of the Ballindalloch 
family, and soon became their head man in the forest of Gaick, 
in Badenoch. This situation he occupied for about thirty 
years. Whoever might be tenant to the forest, William 
Mackenzie was always head-keeper; and there he became 
widely Known in the sporting world as one of the best deer- 
stalkers of his day, His powers for running and walking 
were marvellous, and eyen when in his eighty-third or fourth 
year he thought nothing of walking twenty or thirty miles in 
aday. Among the sportsmen who were tenants of Gaick in 
his time were Sir Joseph Radcliffe, amd the Earl of Selkirk. 
After being thirty years in Gaick he quitted the service of the 
Ballindalloch family; and at that time Sir Joseph HKadclitfe 
in recogmtion of his excellent seryices while he was tenant of 
Gaick, conferred on the deerstalker-bard a pension for life, 
Sir Joseph is long since dead, but Mackenzie’s annuity con- 
tinued to be paid irom the estate, During the last twenty- 
five years he lived here and there among members of his 
family in different parts of the country. He was hterally a 
mine of Highland tradition and Gaelic song, 

Lawvor, the poet, says in oue of his sweet little sonnets: “We are 
what suns, and winds, and waters make us;” but unfortunately suns 
will scoreh, winds will roughen, and waters will not remove the in- 
juvious effects of the other two apon the lovely complexion of the 
fairer sex. For ages chemists have tried to distil from herbs and 
minerals an elixir of beauty, but they have failed, and it was lefi to 
moder Limes to find a cosmetic which should remove every speck 
and blemish, and leave a soft and peerless loveliness upon the rough- 
estskin. Gouraud’s Oriental Cream does this, aud while so perfectly 
lisriniess that spring water is not more so, ib has a magic imiivence 
upon the complexion which cannot be over estimated or belipyed 
until realized. ‘lo our lady readers we simply say, would you be as 
lovely as kindly Nature iitended? ‘Then use the Orieulal Cream, 
Also’ from the noted star uctress: ‘'Philadelphia, Noy. 22, (£8, 1 
cordially recommend Dr, T. Felix Gouraud’s ‘Oriental Cream Magical 
Beautifier,’ as it is nerfectly harmless, Sincerely, Litt Uryron,'— 
Adv, <i 


Pen, 7, 1984) 


a The Fennel. 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS, 


March 4, 5, 6 and 7.—Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. Hn- 
tries close Feb. 25, Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. it- 
tredge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 

March 12,13 and 14—New Haven Kennel Club‘s Birst Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory, Edward 8, Porter, Secretary, Box 
tii7 New Hayen, Conn. Entries close March 1. _ 

March 26, 27 anc 28—The Dominion Kennel Club's Seeond Annual 
Beuck Show, Horticultural Gardens. CG. Greville Marston, Secretary, 
Toronto. Canada, 1 
_ April 3,4 and 5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, C, M. Munhall, 5ec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. ak 

May 6, 7.8 and 9,—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Highth Annual 
Benth Show, Madison Square Garden, Entries close April 2i, Chas. 
Lincoln, Superintendent. R, C. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


A. K. R, 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL RWGISTOR, for the registration of 
pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pnb 
lished every month, Bntrjes close on the ist, Should be in early, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope, 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry, No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription fi. Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2882, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 869, Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1,650, » 


THE BEAGLE CLUB. 


AS the request of the committee of the American-English 
Beagle Club, we have taken charge of the ballot for offi- 
cers of the club, who have been chosen as follows: 
For President, 
Mr. W. H. Asnpurner, Philadelphia, Pa, 
For Secretary and Treasurer, 
Mr. A. C, Kruneur, Wrightsville, Pa. 
For Executive Committee, 

Gen. F, A. Bonn, Jessup, Md. 

Mr. J. N. Donen, Detroit, Mich. 

Dr, J. W, Downy, New Market, Md. 


CLEVELAND DOG 
Editor Forest and Strean.: 

If the number of letters that Iam receiving every day from 
all parts of the country, asking for premium lists, is indicative 
ot the number of entries we will have, our second bench show 
will be one of the largest exhibitions eyer held west of New 
York. The premium list is now in the hands of the printer: 
sdon as issued they will be well distributed among sportsmer . 
We shall hold our show Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 
5, and 5, at Roller Rink, Euclid avenue, same building that 
we had for our first exhibition. It is,well suited for the pur- 
pose. We decided to try the three-days plan at the request 
of many exhibitors, who claim that four days is too long to 
confine the dogs. The Maicolm standard will be used for 
judging the black and tan setter. C. M. Mcenwann, Sec’y. 

» CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1834. 


SHOW. 


OW THE SCENT. 


ATURDAY morning, the 26th of January, dawned clear 
and cold, and there being a good tracking snow, it gave 
me the feyerforafox hunt, Having no hound of my own, I 
hied me io a neighbor's and borrowed his dog, and off I 
started, Climbing a hill off tothe southwest of my homes 
work along on its topfor quite a distance without finding a 
sign of atrack. I saw quite aJlarge flock of crows, though, 
that had evidently been focled by the weather ‘‘prognostic¢a- 
tors” prophesying an open winter, and had stayed around, 
and are seemingly having a pretty hard time to get a living. 
Going to the trees where they had been, I found the snow 
plentifully besprinkled with beechnut burrs, which they had 
shook off in some way, and then had thoroughly examined, to 
get what few nuts remained in them. 

liinally gayveup trying to find a fox on that hill, and struck 
across on to a hillin the direction of home. Here Rangesoon 
found a track, but it was pretty cold, and he would not 
“open” on it. Hefollowed it, however, across on to another 
hill, around its various crooks and turns, most of the time in 
sight, till he worked it up a a rocky point wien I lost sight of 
him for a moement, but the next imstant my blood was sent 
dancing through my veins by his giving tonguein such a stream 
of joyous yelps that toid me atonce he had bounced Mr. Fox. 
And then outin sight they came, thefox only a short distance 
ahead, He knew his fleetness of foot, however. and only ran 
asTast as it was necessary. He ran on the-walis most of the 
time, once going entirely around a lot of about four acres on 
the wall, with the exception of cutting off the corners a short. 
distance, as he evidently knew the dog would cut across and 

" See cousiderably on him if he followed the fence clear around. 
As he had no trouble to keep out of the way, I soon saw that 
he would not cross to the hill where I was, so concluded that 
I better get over there as soon as possible and have a hand in 
the fun myself. So away I went, going into the snow up to 
my Imees occasionally, but with that “music” Jending its im- 
pulse to ‘vet there.’ 

Lso0on reached a wall where I could command a view of 
the situation. Soon the music began to comenearer, and then 
I saw that the fox was going to run on a wall to the right of 
me; so, bending over so as motto be seen, I gain the stand, 
and with gun at “‘ready,” wait till he gets as near as I care 
anything about having him, and at once open fire. At the 
first discharge he goes off from the walloutotf sight; but I don’t 
know as he is ‘‘done for,” so run down Gloss to the wall, and 
there he was going like ared streak, but lat once give him 
the other barrel, which sent him headlong into the snow, 
where he scrabbled aronnd fora moment and then jumped 
up and away be went up the hill, I promptly tucked a shell 
into one barrel and spoke to himagain; but he didn’t mind if, 
and no wonder, for when I went to see where the shot struck 

could not find any marksin the snow, Now, either that 
shell didn’t have any shot in it, or else I tried to be sure and 
head him off, and so sent them clear to the top of the hill. 
My second shot made him bleed pretitv freely, Ppedot for a 
while. He had fooled around there as long as he proposed 

~to, however, and so led way o. to ‘‘hills and valleys new”-— 
tome. I followed on after, hoping that he would turn and 
come back, but as there seemed to be no prospect of it, I 
finally started for home to load wp some more shells—and my 
stomach. The dog did not come home till the next after- 
noon, The snow was nineteen inches deep that day in the 
woods, where it had not drifted any. O, Fay. 

Faanguw. N. Y,, Jan. 30, 1884. 


PHOTOGRAPHS,—We have ueceived from Mi. G. Mills, of 
Hudson, N. Y., two photographs of the red Ivish setter dogs, 
Guess and Snap Ra brothers), bed by him, and the winners 
of nine prizes betore they were two years old in New York, 
Washington and Cleveland, The pictures are excellent photo- 
graphs; and do credit to both dogs and artist, . 

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MR. THOS. G. DAVEY’S BLACK AND WHITE ENGLISH SETTER DOG “PRINCE PH@BUS.” 
Winner of yery high com. reserve, Londen, Ont., 1883. 


PRINCE PHCEBUS. 


V E give this week a cut of the black and white English 

setter dog Prince Phoebus, owned by Mr. T. G. Davey, 
London, Ont. Prince Phoebus was whelped April 2, 1880. He 
is by Tam o’ Shanter (H.1K.C.S.B. 6,118) and out of Prue 
(E.K.C.8,B. 5,774). He was imported by Mr. Davey last Sep- 
tember from the kennel of Mr. T, R. H. Dalrymple. Stranraer, 
Bing, He was exhibited 4 month later at the London show, 
where he won very highly commended reserve, in the open 
class for Enetlish setter dogs, and the special for the best Hne- 
lish setter dog owned inLendon. He is quite a good looking 
dog with an evenly marked bead, good chest, body, loin and 
quarters. His stifles are well bent and he has the appearance 
of being a speedy, useful animal. 


THE CLUMBER SPANIEL. 


But if the shady woods my cares employ, 

In quest of feathered game my spaniels beat, 
Puzzling the entangled copse, end from the brake 
Push forth the whirring pheasant. 


HE Climber spaniel is a thorough gentleman’s dog, a regu- 
lar aristocrat, and ought, to be seen in perfectien, to be 
worked in a large team, and such as only a rich man can 
aftord to keep; and well bred and broken, and shot to in 
covert suitable to such dogs, itis certainly a great treat to a 
sportsman, , 

A Clumber or two, from their slow gait and large size, ave 
of httle use in an ordinary way, and for general work are not 
much to be recommended. “At the same time, there is no 
doubt it is the scarcest, the choicest, and the most valuable 
breed of spaniels we have. 

The first menticn Ican tind of thena by the name of Clum- 
her isin an article in the old Sporting Magazine, which also 
gives an engraving by a well-known man of his day, Bartol- 
ozzi, of a team of dogs belonging to his Grace, the Duke of 
Neweastle, and their keeper, Mansell, with a woodecock in his 
hands, They were said to have been imported from France, 
and were given te the Duke by the Duke de Noailles (it does 
not appear at all clear when these dogs were iniported from 
France, butif, as is supposed, this breed of dogs all sprung 
from the Duke’s kennel, they must have been there fora num- 
ber.of years, as it will appear presently that Loral Westmore- 
land had them a century and a half ago); and it is from their 
having been, as is belieyed, first bred at Clumber Park, the 
Duke of Neweastle’s seat in Nottinghamshire, and have ever 
since been largely bred until the last few years, and carefully 
treasured and preserved there, that they tale their name. 
For a great many years the Duke of Neweastle was very 
chary of the breed, and consequently they got into very few 
hanus; but I believe at a sale some years azo they were nearly 
allsold. The family of Mansell have been keepers to the suc- 
cessive dukes for a great many years, and paid great atten- 
tion to this breed of spaniels. 

Although I cannot prove it, I have a very great idea that 
this, aiter all, isan original English breed, and that they were 
expoited from England, it may becenturies ago. In one ofthe 
very earliest books written on this dog J find it stated in these 
words: “The Wrench dogs are derived or propagated of the 
dogs of Great Britain.” And in another place, ‘‘The Spanish 
dogs whom the French call Hspagneuls have long ears, but 
not like branches (meaning hounds), and by their noses hunt 
both hares and con’es. They are not rough, but smooth-coat- 
ed.” J takeit that by smooth coats the author did not mean 
to imply that they were smoooth-coated like a pointer’, or, as 
is now the fashion with our beautiful but useless black span- 
iéls, but flat-coated like a well bred setter. 

Im another old book the author says: ‘‘You must be pro- 
vided with a good spaniel that will range about well, and 
when he hath perched the pheasant, to bay soundly, which 
wili cause them to keep the perch the better; then, hearing 
whereabouts he is, make up to him as privately as possible, 
and having espied him (being at a reasonable distance), make 
your shot; and for your dog’s encouragemend, let. him bring 
him to you and make much of him.” ‘This I should think, did 
not mean the Clumber spaniel; for one great characteristic of 
that breed is thatitis perfectly mute when on game, One 
can hardly help smiling at the author’s quaint way of writing, 
it puts one in mind of an American dog “‘treeing a coon.” 

The following is an extract from an article in the old Sport- 
ing Magazine; although the writer does not say so, I have no 
doubt whatever that the spaniels he refers to were Ciumbers: 
“Tord Westmorland used to have a first-rate breed of spaniels 
fifty years ago, and they had been in the family for upwards 
of a century, and they were extremely choice of the blood 
and each under-keeper had six or- seven brace under his par- 
ticular care, as well as some particular wood or portion of the 
forest, which contained 20,000 acres, of which 8,000 were wood. 
A gentleman whe shot over themin 1835, says; ‘Renshaw’s’ 
are allowed to be the crack spaniels of the establishment, and 


fine fellows they looked as they met my eye thatmorning. I 
fancy myself to bea judge of a spaniel, and these appeared 
what spaniels should be; all of a color, lemon and white, short- 
legged, thick-backed, and ears not too Jong or curly, which 
may suit the parlor, but agrees very ill with briars or burrs. 
I never saw dogsin better working condition, nor spaniels 
nnder finer command when we went to work with them. 
Practice had indeed made them perfect; they had just enough 
chase about them to drivea hare or rabbit across the line of 
guns; but, at the same time, they kept so well within range, 
and packed so admirably. that I scarcely saw a pheasant 
spring out of shot during the day.’ This is one of the charms 
of shooting to Clumbers; when once well broken they are per- 
feetly steady and give no troubie, Although a busy and a 
steady worker. he seems to consider that when he has put up 
the game his duty is accomplished, and ke has no wish to run 
open-mouthed after his game like we see in all old paiutings 
and engravines of spaniels at work: thev are all represented 
in close proximity to the. game, apparently all anxiety to 
catch it.” 

¥he late Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hail, Notts, had at 
ohe time a first-rate breed of spaniels, which he brought to 
the highest perfection, ‘Nimyrod,” in an article on pheasant 
shooting, mentions these, and also some belonging to Mr, Gif 
fard, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire. which he says were 
the only ones he ever saw fit to be taken out with highly 
broken pointers; when in cover the spaniels found the game 
and the pointers came to heel, in thé open the pointers ranged 
and the spaniels came to heel with one crack of the whip; 
one of the spaniels would back the poimters it allowed to do 
so, which must be considered a very rare accomplishment in- 
deed, and one not very easily acquired. These spaniels I be- 
lieve to have been Cluimbers; I don’t know whether ‘“Nimrod” 
knew as much about shooting as he did of hunting, but he 
was a thorough sportsman, and no doubt understood what he 
was writing about, 

Morland, the celebrated animal painter, has Inany paintings 
and sketches of spaniels, always in a quiet, steady attitude, 
and nearly all of them are, if not reaihy Chambers, at_ail 
events very much of that character, and I do not think that 
for many years the breed was so exclusively confined to the 
Duke of Neweastle’s kennels as many people suppose; the 
Duke, no doubt, jealously kept his own stvain from getting 
common, but I have strong grounds for believing the Clumber 
to have been originally sent from this country to France and 
re-imported there. The Dute’s strain, which was given to him 
by the Duke de Noailles, was in all probability derived from 
Wyetish stock. 

I tirmly believe the Clumber spaniel to be one of our early 
and original breeds of dogs, frequent mention being made by 
old writers of orange or lemon and white spaniels. 

Lord Westmorland’s dogs, therefore, as well as several 
others, may not have been related to the Duke of Newcastle’s 
strain at all, and will account for the great diiference in head 
and other points in the severa! breeds at this time, notably in 
the late Prince Consort's and the Harl of Arundel’s kennels at 
Wardour Castle. 

In the early days of dog shows Myr. R. Boaler shewed some 
very fine dogs; but to my thinking they were hardly heavy 
enough, had a little tco much daylight under them, and, 
though not wanting in true Clumber character, were not equal 
to the Duke of Neweastle or My. Holford’s strains. 

Nevertheless, as [have said, they were yery fine dogs; he 
had bred them ¢arefully for many vears, and { knowthem to 
have been good dogsin the Geld. Mr, Boaler was, I believe, 
keeper to the Duke of Portland, and if so, probably they were 
really his dogs. ‘Ihe next to show Clumbers was Mr, R. Stay- 
ner Holford, M, P,, of Westor Birt, who carried all betore him 
when he consented to exhibit them. A team of his spaniels 
was exhibited on one occasion at Islington, and created a sreat 
sensation, They were justly and greatly admired, and were 
at one time, if not so now, thelargest and best kennel of Clum- 
ber spaniels in the kingdom. Mr, Holford won all six prizes 
at. Birmingham in 1862, with, as “Stonehenge” says, “such a 
team as in all probability were never put together before,” I 
have never seen better Climbers anywhere than Mr. Hol- 
ford’s, and his dogs, Kimbush, Rover and Brush, and bitches, 
Truce, Venus and Silk, have neyer been, in my opiiion, 
equalled, not to say excelled, as a team. 

{have seen as many as fifty couples in his kennel at one 
time, every one worth a Jew’s eye. Mr. Holford spared no 
expense or trouble in obtaining the best blood, and he was 
ably seconded by Garland, his head keeper, than whom no 
manin England understood better whata Clumber spaniel 
really is. Garland went every year on a visit to the best ken- 
nels, to see if he could pick wp anything to improve his own; 
and it he found it, no price stood inthe way. Ihave shot to 
over twenty couples at once on several occasions, and thew 
work was certainly as near perfection as regards covert-shoot- 
ing to spaniels as it is possible to attain. They were usually 
hunted by the head keeper with a queer-looking fellow called 


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‘George,” who, however, knew his duties as whipper-in 

Eyery dog worked within about twenty-five to thirty yards of 
the gun, every one dropped to shot, was tree from chase and 
quite mute; a “whimper” would have been followed by the 
immediate order for execution. It certainly was a treat to a 
sportsman, not to be met with every day. The way they 
spread out like a fan, with their noses on the ground, and the 
busy, merry working of their sterns, their fine brilliant coats 
flashing among the bushes, working to the keeper’s hand, be- 
ing certainly very beautiful. Nothing could escape them; 
every bush that could hold anything as big asa linnet was 
searched, and every dock leaf or bunch of nettles closely ex- 
amined by their noses; nothing could be better than the whole 
turn-out—it was perfectly unique. 

_ Garland particularly fancied the strains of Mr. Foljambe, 
Lord Spencer, and the Duke of Newcastle. Itis some years 
since I saw this kennel, and I do not know whether or not itis 
now kept up to its old strength and form; but I fancy, since 
the death of old Garland, Mr. Holford has lost the hand and 
head most effective in keeping the team up to its proper 
standard, 

The Duke of Portland has a grand team of Clumbers, and 
has won many prizes with them, and I believe they are quite 
A lin the field, and at this time probably the finest kennel in 
the kingdom. They are not often exhibited, but when they 
are they are tolerably sure to be at the top of the list. 

The Duke of Hamilton has also a very beautiful strain of 
Clumbers, which are held in deservedly high estimation and 
which are pretty sure to be im the prize list whenever shown. 

His Royal Highness the late Prince Consort had a team of 
Clumbers, but from what I have seen of his blood, though I 
never saw them in kennel, I don’t think he had quite the right 
sort, that is to say, of the type I have been discussing, but that 
they were of pure blood, I do not doubt; they were too pointed 
and long in the head, and not heayy enough in_ bone; beauti- 
fully feathered and with good coats, but in some specimens 
which I have met with there was decidedly something which 
wasnot, according to general notions, aye correct. 

The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh had also a breed of Clumbers, 
and a story is told that after Prince Albert’s death a present 
of a brace of spippies which the Prince had promised him from 
av beautiful litter were forwarded to him by command of 
Her Majesty the Queen, as appears by a paragraph in 
memoriam of the Prince which appeared in the Sporting 
Magazine of that date: 

‘fhe Prince participated in our gracious sovereign’s fond- 
ness for dogs, and the following anecdote of a circumstance 
which has only within the last few days occurred will, we are 
sure, be most acceptable and pleasing to our readers. Shortly 
since Prince Albert promised the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh 
that he would present him with a couple of puppies from the 
litter of a beautiful Clumber spaniel. The Prince’s lamented 
death briefly followed. To the surprise and great gratification 
of the Maharajah, he has received a letter, written to him by 
command of Her Majesty, informing him that the Prince's gift 
awaits his Highness—the puppies promised by the Consort are 
ready for him. Canany comment from our pen requisite on 
such an incident! Plans, promises and wishes—eyen to the 
yery thoughts of the departed—all, aye, every one stored and 
ready for application.” 

[TO BE CONCLUDED. |] 


NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW.—The entries for the New 
Haven bench show close March 1. As the winners will be 
eligible to compete in the champion classes at the show of the 
Westminster Kennel Clubin May, there will undoubtedly be 
many fine dogs present. 


THE CRYSTAL PALACE DOG SHOW.—The report of 
the Crystal Paiace show from our regular correspondent ar- 
rived too late for this issue, It will appear next week. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To iusure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2, Breed. buyer or seller, 
3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 
4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 
5, Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. ‘ 10. Qwner of dam. ; 


Alinames must be plainly written, Communication on one side o 
raper only, and signed with writer's name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


=> See instructions at head of this column. 


Lady Leicester. By Mr. John A. Doolittle, New Haven, Ct., for 
orauge and white English setter hitch. whelped Nov. 8, 1883, by Blue 
Blood (Leicester—Doll), out of Coin (France—Fanny). : 

Rye. By Mr. Geo. Laick, North Tarrytown, N. Y., for white, black 
and tau mottled beagle bitch, whelped Sept. 17, 1888, by Ringwood out 
of Roxy. 

Mcucte By Mr, John W. Trautum, Middletown, Ct., for red Irish 
setter bitch, whelped July 21, 1883, by champion Elcho out of Meg 
(Elecho—Rose). q ‘ 

Miss Ranger. By Mr. W. F. Gould, Menomonee, Wis., for liver and 
white pointer bitch, whelped Nov. 3, 1883 (Dilley’s Ranger—White 
Lilly). 

ice Ranger, Dime Ranger and Lass o° Ranger. By Mr. &. B. 
Dilley, Rosendale, Wis., for pointers, two dogs and one bitch,whelped 
Novy, 3, 1883. by his Ranger out of his White Lilly, , j 

Mona, By Mr. F. Pendergast, Boston, Mass., for red Trish setter 
bitch, by Dr. Wm. Jarvis's champion Elcho out of Meg. 

Essex and Bernardo. By the Essex Kennel, Andover, Mass., for 
tawny, brindle and white smooth-coated St. Bernard dogs, whelped 
Jan. 30, 1884, by Alp Il. (A.K.R. 705) ont of Daphne II. (A.K.R. 489). 

Avis, Alpina, Lotta and Quenn. By the Essex Kennel, Andover, 
Mass,, for white, with orange tawny markings, smooth-coated St. 
Bernard bitches, whelped Jan, 30, 1884, by Alp If. (A.K,R. 705) out of 
Daphne II. (A.K.R. 489), ; 

‘ose Marie and Red Kate. By Capt. F. G. Bixby, Boston, Mass., 
for red Irish setter bitches, whelped June 17, 1883, by his Ruby (Elcho 
—Rose) out of Red Maggie (Chief—Gussie). 

Dush Boy and Duck, By Capt. F.G. Bixby, Boston, Mass., for black, 
white and ticked Euglish setters, dog and bitch, whelped Oct. 19, 1883, 
by Dash IIT. out of Rhaebe (Rook—Dora). : A 

Black Bess I. By Mr. Louis Melchor, Battle Creek, Mich., for black 
coeker spaniel bitch, wiles ug. 28, 1883. by imported Tippo out of 
Woodstock Queen (Beau—Black Bess), 

Blue ti By Mr. Louis Melchor, Battle Creek, Mich., for blue 
belton Eunglish setter bitch, whelped Aug. 28, 1883, by Count Noble out 
of Rosalind (Leicester—Sanborn’s Nellie). 

Jolly Nell, By Mr. H.W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., for white, black and 
tan English setter bitch, by Mr. J. H. Goodsell’s Prince out of Jolly 


ee 

‘ally June. By Mr. H. W. Durgin. Bangor, Me., for black and 
white fnglish poder bitch. by Mr. Jas. H, Goodsell’s Prince out of 
Jolly May . : 

Marvel. By Mr. J. W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo., for liver and white 

pointer bitch, whelped Feb. 22, 1882, by Croxteth out of Trinket (Tory 
aunty). 
Tae yf. By Mr, J.W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo., for liver and white 
pointer dog, whelped June, 1683, by Oroxteth out of Spinaway (Gar- 
et—Keswick). 

Pe Mack M. and Majesty. By Mr. J.W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo , for 
liver and white and ae and white pointer dogs, whelped October, 
83, aust out of Musette. . ¥ 
ips ete a By Mr. J. W. Munson, St. Louis, Me., for black, white 
and tan English setter bitch, whelped December, 1881, by Fritz (Rod- 

érick—Norna) out of Duff (Carlowitz—Rose). ; 

Dimple Baker. By Mr, J. W. Munson, $t. Louis, Mo., for black, 
white and tau English setter bitch, whelped April, 1880, by Sanborn'’s 
Dan out of Sanborn’s Koxey-. : 

Jule, By Mr. James L, Semon, New York, for lemon and mate 
English setter bitch, whelped April 10, 1883, by Dr, 5. Fleet Speir’s St. 
Elmo IV. (champion St. Elmo—Clio) outof Diamond Duchess (Bailey’s 
Victor—Blne Nellie). . ‘ 

Beaumont. By Mr.W.W. Nixon, Leesburg, Va., for liver and white 


by Beaufort (A.K.R. 694) 
annie Turner (Sensation--Queen Tr.), . 


NAMES CHANGED. 
=> See instructions at head of this column. 


: 


Black Silk to Hornell Silk. Black cocker BS eae dog, whelped 
Aug. 7, 1882 (Obo—Chloe TI.), owned by the Hernefl Spaniel Club, 
Hornelisyille, N. Y. BRED 


=~ See instructions at head of this column. 

Bess—Glencho. Mr, ¥, Waterman’s (Hudson, N. Y.) red Irish setter 
bitch Bess (Chief—Tilly) to Mr. W-. H. Pierce’s Glencho, Noy. 22. 

Fuust Fan—Ranger Croxteth. Mr. 8. B. Dilley’s (Rosendale. Wis.) 
pointer bitch Faust Fan (Faust—Minnetonka) to his Ranger Croxteth 
(Croxteth—Royal Fan), Jan. 27. 

Critic—Obo II. Mr. Winchester Johnson’s (Boston, Mass.) black 
cocker pee! biteh Critic (A.K.R. 303) to Mr. J. P. Willey’s Obo IL. 
(A.K.R. 432), Jan. 1. 

Nellie—Dash TI, Mr. Taylor’s (Woburn, Mass.) English setter bitch 
Nellie to Mr. A. M. Tucker’s Dash JIL, Dec. 7. 

Motchless—Dash OT. Mr. ¥. Thurls’s (Newburyport, Mass.) English 
setter bitch Matchless to Dash III., Dec. 12. 

Model Blue—Dash TTT, Mr. A. §. Garland’s English setter bitch 
Model Blue (Druid—Gussie) to Dash III., Dec. 29. 

Maida—Dash II], Messrs. Mason & Monse’s (Providence, R. I.) 
English setter bitch Maida (Blue Dan—Clip) to Dash IIL, Jan. 24. 

—Dash I], Mr. Elmer A. Hight’s (yon. Mass.) English set- 
ter bitch to Mr. A. M, Tucker's Dash III, Jan, 31. 

Nellie—Count Best, Mr, J. F. Lawrence’s (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Nellie to the Detroit Kennel Club’s Count Best (Dick 
Laverack—Kelp), Jan. 21, 

Hornell Ruby—Obo TI. The Hornell Spaniel Club's (Hornellsville, 
N. Y.) coeker spaniel bitch Hornell Ruby (A.K.R. 67) to Mr, J, P. 
Willey’s Obo IT. (A.K.R, 432), Dec. 4. 

Skip—Belton IT, . J. R. Henricks’s ( Sy eluete Pa.) English 
setter bitch Skip (Dog Whip—Daisy Dean) to Belton IIT. 

Barly Daun—Count Best. The Detroit Kennel Club’s English set- 
ter bitch Early Dawn (Nixey—Princess) to their Count Best (Dick 
Laverack—Kelp). 

Reign—Leaxington, The Detroit Kennel] Club’s English setter bitch 
Reign (A.K.R. 178) to their Lexington (Nixey—Princess Louise), 


Dec. 25, 
Mr. ©. A. Johnston’s pointer bitch Phoebe to Mr. 


ticked pan oie dog, whelped June 19, 1853 
out of 


Phabe—Bow. 
Edward Odell’s Bow. 

Clio—Lord Sefton. Mr. J.8. Brown’s (Montelair, N. J.) pointer bitch 
Clio (Sensation— ) to Mr, A. EB. Godeffroy’s Lord Sefton (Crox- 
teth—Vinnie), Dec. 18. 

Countess—Belton I, Mr. J. R. Henricks’s (Pittsburgh, Pa.) English 
setter bitch Countess (Leicester—Pocahontas) to Belton ITt. 

Molly Druid—Royal Gladstone. Mr. J. R. Henricks’s (Pittsburgh, 
Pa.) English setter bitch Molly Druid (Druid—Jolly May) to» Royal 
Gladstone (Gladstone—Mersey). 

Crook—Emperor Fred. Dr. H. F. Aten’s (Brooklyn, N. Y.) English 
setter bitch Crook (A.K.R. 281) to Mr. E. A, Herzberg’s Emperor Fred 
(A.K.R. 33), Jan, 31. 

Daisy Starlight—Dashing Dan, Mr, H. W. Durgin’s (Bangor. Me.) 
English setter bitch Daisy Starlight (Lelaps—Starlight) to Mr. F. T. 
Hall’s Dashing Dan (Lofty—Maud. Muller), Oct. 29, 

Spinaway—Bang. Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) liver and 
white pomter bitch Spinaway (Garnet—Keswick) to Poyneer’s Bang 
(Bang—Luna), Noy. 9. Tee 

WHELPS. 


=" See instructions at head of this columa. 

Belgrave Bess. Mr, H. P, McKean, Jr.’s (Philadelphia, Pa.) imported 
fox-terrier bitch Belgrave Bess (Akely Joe—Hebe). Jan.8, three dogs. 
by Tom (champion Monitor—Faney), , 

Rita Crozteth. Mr. Geo. 8. Tucker’s (Peterborough, N. H.) pointer 
bitch Rita Croxteth (A.K.R. 163), Dec, 22, six (three dogs), by his Bar- 
onet (A.K.R, 264), 

Bess. Mr, F. Waterman’s (Hudson, N.Y.) red Irish setter bitch 
Be:s (Chief—Hill’s Tilley), Jan, 21, ten, all bitches, by Mr. Wm. H. 
Pierce’s Glencho (Kleho— Noreen). 

Nina. Mr. Arthur Brookhouse’s (Wellington, Mass.) Bnglish setter 
bitch Nina (Lelaps—Belle), Nov. 8, nine (seven dogs), by Mr. A. M. 
Tucker’s Dash Il. 

Kelp. The Detroit. Kennel Club’s (Detroit, Mich.) Buglish setter 
ae ee ea 110), Dec. 29, eleven (seven dogs), by their Nixey 

A,K.LR, ). : 

Chess. The Detroit Kennel Club’s pointer bitch Chess (A.K.R. 77), 
spe twelve (six dogs), by their King Bow (A.K.R, 83). Seven since 

ead. 

Ruby. Dr. S. H. Green’s (Newmarket, N. H.) liver spaniel bitch 
Ruby, Dec, 19, ten (six dogs), by Mr. J. P. Willey’s Obo IT. (A.K.R. 
432). Hight black and two liver. 

Betty. Mr, Wm, B. Mershon’s (East Saginaw, Mich.) Gordon setter 
bitch Betty, Dec. 17, seventeen (eleven dogs) by Dick (Rupert— i 
Beity threw thirteen last spring and her owner was very much elated 
thereat. 

Madge. Capt. F. G. Bixby’s (Boston, Mass.) red Irish setter bitch 
Made (Berkley—Ruby), Jan. 21, eight (four dogs), by his Ruby (Elcho 
—Rose). 

Trix, Glencho Kennel’s (Peekskill, N.Y.) red Irish setter bitch Trix 
(A.K.R. 187), Jan. 27, eleven (six dogs), by their Glencho (Elecho— 
Noreen). None for sale. 

Ace of Spades. Mr. George H. Gilbert’s (Boston, Mass.) black 
spaniel bitch Ace of Spades, Jan. 28, eight (five dogs), by Obo IL 
(A.K.R. 482), 

SALES, 


Le See instructions at head of this column, 


Miter. English terrier dog, whelped Sept, 7, 1883 (Dandy—Fanny), 
by Miss Ida F. Warren, Leicester, Mass., to Dr. Geo. O. Warner, same” 
ace. 
i Wycliffe. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Aug. 25, 1883 (Ruby—Lyda 


Belle), by Dr. J. Frank Perry, 
Leicester, Mass. j 

Lucretia. Liver,with white on breast, cocker spaniel bitch, whelped 
May 1, 1883, by Suipe (Captain—Nellie) eut of Cute (Sam—Flora), by 
Mr. Forest W. Forbes, Westboro, Mass., to Mr, Geo. M. Hour, same 

lace. 
“i Primer. Black and white ing hsh setter dog, age not given (Dash- 
ing Dan—Daisy Starlight), by .C, N, Wade, Hackettstown, N. J., 
to Mr. Geo. Shaw, Minshell, N. J. j 

Lady Leicester. Orange and white English setter bitch, whelped 
Nov. 10, 1843, by Blue Blood (Leicester—Dolly out of Coin (France— 
Fanny), by Mr. W. E. Miller, Meriden, Ct., to Mr. John A, Doolittle, 
New Haven, Ct. ; 

Chief—Biddy whelp. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Feb, 2, 1883, by 
Mr. Geo. Laick, North Tarrytown, N, Y., tu Mr. Chas, P, Williams, 
New York. 

Donna. Red Irish setter biteh,whelped Feb. 2, 1883 (Chief—Biddy), 
by Mr. Geer re Lei. North Tarrytown, N. Y,, to Mr. Frederick Com- 

wee 


oston, Mass,, to Miss Ida F. Warren, 


fort, Catskil 

Vlora, Liver, with white on breast and feet, cocker spaniel bitch, 
whelped Oct. 20, 1882 (Joe—Beauty), by Mr. Jas. W. Rushforth, Yon- 
kers, N.Y., to Mr. A.D. Wilbur, Catskill, N,Y. 

Spry. Lemon and white pointer dog, wiheined July 16, 1882, by 
Quest (Sensalion—May) ont of Topsy (Ned—Flora), by Mr, J, H. Mc- 
Cann, Colebrook River, Ct., to Mr, J. W. Trantum, Middletown, Ct. 

Miss Ranger. Liver and white pointer bitch, whelped Nov. 3, 1583 
(Ranger—White Lilly), by Mr. 8. B, Dilley, Rosendale, Wis., to Mr, W, 
F, Gould, Menomonee, Wis. 

Black Pearl. Black cocker spaniel bitch (A.K.R, 647), by Mr. Geo. 
5. ces Peterborough, N. H,, to Mr. J. P. Willey, Salmon Falls, 
N 


King Bow—Bow Queen whelp. Pointer bitch.whelped Nov. 14, 1883 
by the Detroit Kennel Club, Detroit, Mich., to Mr. Geo. Hoover,Canal 


Fulton, O. 

Crook. Blue belton English setter bitch (A.K.R. 271), by Major G. 
R. Watkins, Brooklyn, N.Y., to Dr. H. F. Aten, same place. 

Flash. Black and white cocker- spaniel dog (A.K.R. 652), by Mr. 
Forest W. Forbes, Westboro, Mass., to Mr. George M. Hour, same 

lace. ad 
iy Port Wine. Pointer dog, 3 years old (Shot—Taylor), by Mr. J. §, 
Brown, Montclair, N. J., to Mr, Isaac Eckert, Reading, Pa. 

Beaut—Bell Mahone whelps. Black, white and tan English setters, 
whelped November, 1863, by Mr. J. O. Watts, Lineville, Ia., one to 
Mr. J.§. Brown, Montclair, N, J., and one to Mr. J. R. Beny, Jr., 
same place. J 

Flora. Fawn, with white toes and tip of tail, rough-coated St. Ber- 
nard bitch, whelped Oct. 18, 1883 (Carliste—Moya), by Mr. James Mc- 
Namee, Stapleton, 8. L., N. Y., to Mr. Henry Muller, Clifton, 8. L., 


its Xs 
Jolly Nell and 1c June. Blue belton English setter bitches, 
whel June 25, 1883 (Goodsell’s Prince—Jolly May) by Mr. H. G. 
MeMillan, Rock Rapids, la.. to Mr. H. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me. 

Jolly June. Blue belton English setter bitch, whelped June 25, 1883 
(Goodsell’s Prince—Jolly May), by Mr. H. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., to 
Mr. CG. F, Danforth, same place. 


PRESENTATIONS, 
[== See instructions at head of this column. 
Ponto. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Dec, 25, 1882 (Bow 
—Julia), by Mr. Edward Odell, New Orleans, La., to Mr. P. Muspero, 


same city. 
Sir Fup. Orange and white English setter dog (A.K.R, 288) by 


Vesey G. R. Watkins, Brooklyn, N. Y.. to Commander James E, 

triar Tuck, Orange and white English setter dog (A.K.R_ 228), by 
Major G. R. Watkins, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. F.D. Watkins. 

Ruby S. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 514), by Dr. C. E. Nichols, 
Troy, N. Y., to Mr. Chas. R, Squire, same place. 

Elcho—Ruby S. whelp. Red Trish setter bitch, whelped Dec. 2, 
1883, by Dr. C. E. Nichols, Troy, N.¥., to Mr. Charles R, Squire, same 


place. 
DEATHS, 


[== See instructions at head of this celumn. 

Beile. Black and tan Gordon setter Belle, 10 years old (Ruby— 
Juno), owned by Mr. Wm. H, Moller, New York, from paralysis. . 

Kate. Black and tan terrier bitch (A.K.R. 192), owned by Mr, 
Henry Muss, Champaign, Tl 


Hifle and Crap Sheating. 


FIXT URES. 


First International Ae Rae oo Tournament, at_ Chicago, Ill., May 
26 to 31._ Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. 0. Box 1292, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. 


RIFLES IN THE FIELD. 


f (cee English rifla makers and shooters are indulgiug in flooding the 
hewspapers with letters upon the re-arming of the infantry of 
the regular forces. One of the more recent and interesting of the 
series of letters is from J. D. Dougall, the well-known gunmaker, of 
Bennett street, London, who in the Times says: 

“‘For many years references haye been made in the public press to 
the inaccurate shooting of our soldiers on the battlefield. In former 
times this was attributed to the smoothbore musket, the familiar 
‘Brown Bess’ of our foreimtbers, and it was a favorite estimate that 
at the battle of Waterloo there war only one casualty for every hun- 
dredweight or so of lead expended in bullets. The rifle system was 
to remedy all this; but the question now is, has there Ween such im- 

rovement as expected? and I believe that it is a yery common opin- 
ion that there has not. This disbelief has been greatly strengthened 
by the result of the affair of some of our best infantry with the Boers 
in South Africa some year or two ago, when our cent trained and 
disciplined men had no chance, although armed with the most seien- 
tific Weapons, against those rough Africanders, all sportsmen from 
boyhood. In short, our men were picked off one by one, and could 
deliver no effective fire in return, Why wasthis? Let megivean 
auswer to this question, not dogmatically, but for the due consider- 
ation of all concerned. If my words may appear somewhat dog- 
matic, it is because they are founded on knowledge and experience, 

“It may appear a bold assertion, but I hold all high ‘vernier’ sights 
on military rifles, for use in actual battle, to be a mistake. Let them 
be applid to long-range and target rifles if you will; but target prac- 
tice will never make a man a good shot in the field, whether he be a 
soldier or a sportsman—nay, I go further, and say. with all the confi- 
dence that is founded on experience, that it will make a bad shot of 
either. To explain. All good shooting is founded on keeping both 
eyes open in the act of aiming and firing. It is by this that, uncon- 
sciously, we have a sense of distance, and that we also command the 
ability to aim correctly at objects parly concealed (as the Boers were) 
orin motion. Soldiers are not taught this, and 1 have read some- 
where that they are eyen enforced, under strict orders, to close the 
left eye in taking aim. To use one eye only, however effective it may 
appear at target shooting, is to throw away our natural endowment 
ot binocular vision, and all the fine ‘rifle sights’ m the world will not 
restore the loss. This is now being recognized by sportsmen, and 
hardly a man among them is now to be found who closes his left eye 
in game shooting. Yet when I first began to ventilate the subject 
(but by no means claiming that I had invented the ‘two-eye’ system) 
in the London press, about the years 1855-56, I was received with a 
shout of derision. But the derision has passed away, and all the best 
shots whom I have had the opportunity of consulting tell me that 
they now never think of closing one eye. This is not done in driving 
a nail, in playing at cricket or billiards, and why is it done im rifle 
shooting? Because we have got into a wrong groove and think it is 
the proper thing to do, not knowing that,as the cookery books say, 
there 1s ‘another way,’ and a better one. 

“The eulege is too serious to be briefly discussed, and I fear to in- 
trude unduly upon your space. To enter upon the whole question is 
not beyond my ability; but Ishould prefer, before doing so, tharsome 
experienced military men would give this short letter their consider- 
ation. In the first place, I would suggest that military rifles be fitted 
with plain folding ‘leaf sights,’ say, for 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards. and 
without complications. Beyond 400yds, I fearlessly assert that much 
more deadly fire would be delivered upon a moving or shifting enemy 
by the judgment and common sense of the soldier, trained to keep 
both his eyes open and to exercise his faculties, than by the use of 
fine mechanical adjustments, which (he being taught to depend on 
them) can only puzzle and bewilder him when there comes the real 
tug of war. ‘Our grandsires drew a good bow aft Hastings,’ but I 
neyer heard of any bowman, from Robin Hood down to the still ex- 
isting and highly expert Royal Scots Archers, voluntarily depriving 
themselves of one-half of the ocular powers granted them by nature, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON, Feb. 2.—The regular matches were continued at the range 
at Walnut Hill to-day. The attendance was large, including several 
visitors, among whom were Mr. W. D. Palmer of the Merrimac Club, 
and members of the Press Association. During the morning the 
weather conditions were excellent, a light south wind prevailing; in 
the afternoon it increased, but not enough to make good shooting 


difficult. The results of the different matches are appended: 
Combination Match.—Decimal Target. 
POM Tibial Pa yee tes Se etic 7 8&8 910 6101010 9-87 
BAAN SMEIIs Wwe oq pe os becae ess 2 910 7 & 8 41010 B 8—381 
CB ld warts 8s 56 62) 5 pone een 10610 6555 9 7 9—72 
SA Writ ee GaSe a os Nee ects ve 85 4 49377 9 6 B68 
BIA Map PET we eece te untae ae ees aed (77549 9 4 5 259 
Combination Match—Creedmoor Target. 
BR Daviess en loowse tee hed eee whan ae 555445 4 5 4 546 
BoA AmBpdem),. ease of bs SU AL aos ane 4545465 5 5 5 4—46§ 
BALA DE eaves ot Loom ce Silas ie 445445 5 4 4 444 
Victory Match. 
Riis uislt ec eeht Pye eee ewes peers | 7 5 710 6 710 710 9—8 
HOC TE ular ay Sclad bens an fees 98 68 7 9 7-98 5-16 
OAT ON tet pie ee eve Se es aha 94710 6 9 8 6 5 5-69 
Creedmoor Practice Mateh. 
GE Berry.+....+--:- 544554455445 H A Lewis oat Sree 354354545441 
BB Bdawards...,....4545554454 45 J R Carmichael, ....3135554443—40 
W D Palmer........- 545445554445 G Welsh.......... 434444544339 
H D Hubbard....... 454445504444 5S Burns (mil) dddd ddd 339 
IBA CANT Sh ieee oo 544545544444 J Payson (mil)...... 44445,42353—36 
¥ Chauncy (mil)... .4444445444-41 J E Kemp.......,... 554242493436 
‘A Keachi>...:.....) 54454434444 
Creedmoor Prize Match, 

H-Cushing.......... 454445545545 J B Thomas (mil), . 4454445445—43 
H Withington....... 544455454545 C J ACobb,,..,..... 4555435444—43 
J P Bates........--.-. 445554454545 JALOook...... .. dasdo4d44—4g" 
AO OABD. pastes ane 4554444545—44 A Darling (mil)..... 444445444441 
B A Lappen......... 544454544544 CH Best............ 449554 4543—41 
F Chauncy (mil). ...4444545554—44 LA Barr.....,- -.-- B444444544—40 

Capt. John C, Mallory, of the Civil Engineer Corps, United States 


steur Club of New York. 


Ata meeting of the directors of the Massachusetts Ritie Associa- 
tion, held at the office of the secretary, the following committees 
were chosen for the ensuing year; Executive committee, Messrs, 
Rockwell, Baker, Fellows, J. A. Frye, Gerrish; membership, Leach, 
Rockwell, Russell; range, Fellows, Bullard and Hinman; glass ball, 
Sawyer, Frye, Leach; team, Rabbeth, Russell, Perkins; long range, 
Hinman, Gerrish, Washburn, 

SWISS GUN TRIALS.—The St. James Gazette reports progress on 
the series of trials now going on in Switzerland between the new and 
old systems of military arms. The trials arenotyet concluded. But 
enough has been done in 1883 to demonstrate pretty clearly the su- 

eriority of the Rubin system over thatnow employed for arming 

he troops. A report by Colonel Feiss, presented to a military society 
at Berne, declares that the new arm is superior both in accuracy of 
aim, power of penetration, and flatness of th hae aia to the older 
weapon patented by Vetterli. Mr. Rubin, who is director of the 
Federal Laboratory at Thun, reduces the caliber of the barrel by one- 
tenth of an inch, or even more; that is to say, from 10,4 millimetres 
to8.0 and 7.5. The cartridge he uses hasa metallic case, and contains 
# little bullet nearly 144 inches in length, inclosed ina coyerigg of 
galvanized copper, requiring no grease. In orderto keep the length 
of the whole cartridge within reasonable bounds, compressed powder 
is used, and it is exploded by central-fire action. The initial yelo 

of the ballis found to be 640 metres for the rifle of #.0 bore, and 
for that of 7.5 bore, whereas the Vetterli system gives a velocity of 
only 403. Thej penetrative force of the projectsi carries it at 10 


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metres through a plate of zinc more thai: inch thick; and at 300 
metres it nae still a velocity of 305 against 292 ofthe old bullet. Its 

curacy of aim is said to be 33 percent. greater than the Vetterli, 
aud it makes 2 pattern on the target up to 2,000 metres. whereas the 
other cannot be depended upon to do so over 1,600 metres, In the 
matter of trajectory the Rubin weapon is equally superior. With the 
Vetterli rife the ground covered by its range, and called the “‘dan- 
gferous space,” is about 860 yards; with the Rubin 8.0 bore it is in- 
creased to 460 yards. and with the 7.5 bore tonearly 500 yards. The 
new rifie has four shallow grooves, equal in width to the space sep~ 
arating them, and thesehave a twist more than twice as rapid asthat 
of the Vetterli grooves. The next experiments are to be conducted 
with a view to establishing the relative merits of the Rubin system 
and that of M. Heller, a professor of Zurich, who has also invented a 
new smaill-bore rifle. 

JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Feb, 4, 1884.—Club medal shoot of yesterday 
afternoon, 200yds., Greedmoor target, 10 rounds; wind at 8 o'clock, 
medium, light, bright. 


SN Avres, Stevens .38-cal_..... 45 Geo Shattuck, muzzleloader. ..42 
O Hf Lilly YY hi EY a 44 RH Burns. Bal, .38-cal......... 42 
A-F Warner, ‘ ee 44 F R Dowler, muzzleloader... .. 41 
HV Perry, muzzleloader....... a4 E Perry, Bal. .48-cal...........- 89 
N J Fenner, a _.....44 WN Goky, Win. .44-cal.......-. 38 
J R Moore, Bal. 44-cal..:.... 43 A FP Ward, muzzleloader.... _-38 
W H Sprague, Rem, .38-cal..... 43 R, H. B, 
BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB.—Thursday, Jan. 31.—Twelve-ring tar- 
geb; possible 120. 
G Zimmermann................ Wek SEC Weber............... .-- A0e 
Me Ouro. Met Ent kee ee one I litwie Eb hae IPA TGs agers stetd- amtete diye <8 103 
opiate lk iT) aad CURRAN el, pas as The SeMehtBaehee. fy 05.5.5 ot ee ee 108 
Beeroleoianrn. . eek eS): At GD Johnson... As eee chess 100 
MMO HED ss tel.” ae whiner eet) Campbelivicne ts Ds. 96 
A Flacliniang:. ... ohtenss 2S ¥ee 118 G Wendelken................:. o6 
(OSPOINUAGHS. ue. .seeeasgs) jas, 108 HD A. Wasmuth...2<.2..-......- 95 
GF Schroeder... ..-.......... 106 H. Loner, Secretary. 


SARATOGA SPRINGS, Feb. 2, 1884.—The following are the high 
est scores shot by each member during the week: 


TACEFAE LTR Se ie ee ee Sey pee ae 10 12 10 12 10 12 12 12 10 12—112 
JURE? Ss, a lg es a 10 12 11 11 10 12 1211 11 11—111 
SSW YATES So Dye A RT SE ey oe 1211 11 1210 9 10 11 10 11—107 

‘ache, Ce Ee eee ey ee 10 10 10 11 11 12 10 10 12 0—105 
BVehiM GOO S2 0) hone Se eiem dat ene 411i 911111011 9 9 8—100 
A a VVAIDIS ft tinued ee eactnntoe Pinas ecto h ter pabiok 10 8 812101012 911 9- 99 
VELEN GEIS bere ea eared me ¢ as RU fh ae 9 8 81210 81011 8 11— 93 


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NATIONAL GUARDSMEN,—A piey ine 1 1 
Association of the United States will be held at Cincinnati, O. on 
Wednesday and Thursday, March 26 and 27. The association held 
its first meeting in New York, its second in St. Louis, and the last in 
Philadelphia. The association aims to promote military efficiency 
throughout the active militia of the United States, and to secure 
united representation before Congress for such legislation as it may 
deem necessary for this purpose. The Secretary of War will be 
requested to honar the arpposed meeting at Cincinnati with such 
a representation from the United States Army as he maydeem ex- 
peurears Information @s to all subjects which it is proposed to bring 

efore this meeting should be sent to the secretary of the association. 
—W. L. AnmExaNnpDER, Des Moines, Iowa. 


NEWARK, N. J.. Jan. 30,—The annual meeting of the Newark Rifle 
Association was held this evening, at the Frelinghuysen range, 189 
Market street. The Secretary’s report Shows an increase in member- 
ship over last year. The Treasurer's report showed a balance on 
hand of $25.12. Tee following officers were elected for the ensuing 
year: President, Alfred Hust; Vice President. J. K. Walsh; Secre- 
tary, A, C; Neumann; Treasurer, C. F. Jackson; Association Scorer, 
J. EB. Pollard; Financial Committee, President, Secretary, Treasurer, 
J. Huegel and J, Velsor, 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on oné side of the paper only, 


FALL RIVER, Mass.—The Fall River Gun Club held an all day 
tournament Jan. 11, which was well attended by shooters from Provi- 
dence, Hast Providence, Pawtueket, Brockton and other places, It 
was expected that Mr, W.S. Perry, of Worcester, woud! shoot a 
match with Mr. J. A. Negus, of Fall River, for the Massachusetts 
champion clay-pigeon badge, but owing to sickness Mr, Perry did not 
appear and the match was postponed. The day was.spentin sweep- 
stake shooting with the following results: 

First match, 7 glass balls—Wilbur of Brockton and Valentine of 
Providence divided first, Nezus of Fall River and Palmer of Provi- 
dence second. Braley and Hall of Fall River third. 

Second match, 7 clay-pigeons—Sheldon and Bourne of Providence 
divided first, Luther and Paine of East Providence divided second, 
Wilbur and Braley third. 

Third match, 7 glass balls—Hall first, Wilbur and Valentine second. 
Palmer third. 

Fourth match, 7 clay-pigeons—Paine first, Bradley second, Tinker 


third. 
Fifth match, 7 glass balls—Braley and Palmer first, Wilbur and 
Luther second, Tinker third. 
Sixth match, 7 clay-pigeons—Wilbur first, Luther and Tinker 
second, Sheldon third. 
Seventh match, 5 clay-pigeons—Wilbur and Valentine first, Sheldon 
and Luther second, Braley third. 
en mateh, 6 clay-pigeons—Sheldon and Luther first, Braley 
second. 
Ninth match, 5 clay-pigeons—Braley first, Sheldon second. ’ 
The Fall River Gun Club held a shoot on the 30th, Mr. W.S. Perry. 
of Worcester, and Mr, J. A. Negus. of Fall River, contesting for the 
Massachusetts Champion Clay-Pigeon Badge at 50 clay-pigeons each, 
Mr. Perry winning by a:core of 43 against Mr. Negus’s 36. A num- 
ber of sweepstakes were then shot, with the following results: 
Badge Match—50 Clay-Pigeons Each. 
1111001110111111011111111 
¢ 12111111191111101111101110—43 
{ 1110111161101110101101110 
Vat a ea ee srereeneees £ Q101110011011011111111101—36 
First match, 7 glass balls—Wilbur and Negus first, Hall and Pal- 
mer second, White third. 
Second match, 7 clay-pigeons—Wilbur and While first, Hall second, 
R. Perry third. 
Third match, 7 glass balls—Hall and Wood "first, R. Perry second, 
White third. 
Fourth match, 7 Clayenipsons= Wr S. Perry and Shepard first, R. 
Perry and White second, Palmer third. 
Fitth match, 7 glass balls—W. §. Perry first, Wilbur and White 
second, Palmer third. 
Sixth match, 7 clay-pigeons—W. §. Perry and G. Barney first, Wil- 
bur and White second, Palmer third. 
jon match, 3 glass balis—H. C, Braley first, Hall second, White 


ird. 

Eighth match, 7 
Wilbur third, 

Minth match, 7 glass balls—Wilbur first, Palmer second, Rounse- 
velle third. 
Tenth match, 7 ciay-pigeons—Wilbur first, H. C. Braley second.— 


. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB.—Jan. 30,—A large number of trap-shooters 
occupied the range at Walnut Hill to-day to enjoy their favorite 
sport. Fourteen events were shot, with the following result: 

First event, 5 clay birds.—Severence first, Curtis and Barnard sec- 
ond, De Rochemont third, Eddy fourth. 

Second event, 5 glass balls,—Lewis and Sawyer first, De Rochemont, 
Paw ae Curtis second, Eddy and Nichels third, Saunders and Field 

ourth, 

Third event, 5 clay_birds.—De Rochemont and Field first, Curtis 
aud Dickey second, Law third, Adams fourth. 

Fourth event, 3 peas _giass balls.—Tinker and Law first, Nichols 
second, Curtis third, Lewis and Eddy fourth. 

Fifth event. 5 clay birds.—Tinker first, De Rochemont, Draper and 
Law second, Curtis and Adams third, Shumway fourth. 

Sixth event. 5 glass balls,—Decker first, De HKochmont second, 
Tinker third, Eddy fourth. : 

Seventh event, 3 pains clay birds.—Law first, Barnard and Sawyer 
second, Draper and Decker third, Eddy fourth. , 

oe event, 5 giass balls.—Lewis and De Rochemont first, Nichols 
and Sawyer second, Sampson third, Short fourth. 

Ninth event. 5 clay birds.—De Rochemont, Curtis, Short and Eddy 
first, Sawyer and Barnard second, Decker and Field third, Saunders 
and Goyefourth, _ 

Tenth eyent, 3 pairs glass balls.—Decker first, Law second, Tinker 
and Curtis third, De Rochemont fourth. 

Eleventh event, 5 glass balls.—De Rochemont first, Decker second, 


Barnard third. 
and Sampson first, 


‘clay-pigeons—Hall first, H. O. Braley second. 


Twelfth event, 7 clay birds.—Field, Sawyer 
Decker and Draper second, Barnard third, Law and Eddy fourth, 
_ Thirteenth event, 5 clay birds.—Law, Field and Decker first, Gove 
_ -and Draperseecond, De Rochemont third, Hddy fourth. 
Fourteenth event, 5 clay birds.—Law and Sainpson first, De Roche- 
mont and Decker second, Gove third, Sawyer fourth, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


TORONTO. Ontario, Jan. 31.—To-day C, Cockburn, of this city, and 
George Grant, of Woodstock, shot a match of 25 birds each, 2lyds. 
Sor $300 a side, at Oulcott’s Hotel, Yonge street. There was 4 


George Grant... . : 

A second match will be shot at Woodstock during the coming 
week, also under the Dominion rules. ‘ : 

Subsequently, James Douglas, of this city, and John Forhes, of 
Woodstock, shot five birds each at $1 a bird. The result was as 
follows: 

James Douglas 111115 
John Forbes..............- 1111 0-4 


LOADING FOR CLAY-PIGEONS—Phelps, New York, Feb. 4,— 
Editor Forest and Stream: I use a Lefever hammerless gun, 10- 
bore, full choked. weight 9talbs. I always use paper shells. For 
glass balls I use 484dr. of FF Hazard or No, 3 ducking powder, two 
No. 9 pink edge wads over powder, 14402. No, 9 chilled shot, card wad 
over shot. For clay-pigeons I use 5dr. No. 3 ducking powder, two 
poe wads, 11402. No. 5 chilled shot, card wad over shot. If “Clay- 

igeon’’ will foad in the above manner and hold his gun right when 
the hammer falls he will have good results. If he tries it would be 
pleased to hear from him.—H. B. W. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Tuesday, Feb, 19,8 P. M., No. 23 Hast Fourteenth 
street, aoom 16. Subject—Tents and Camp Outfit.” 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Formsr Anp 
Stream their addresses, with name, mémbership, siguals, etc., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Formst AND STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


IRRAWADDI 
|B eee lowa.—Organized April 27, 1883. M. C. Smith, Com- 


CANOE CLUB. 


modore; St. Clair Putnam, Secretary. Eight active members. 


Signal, blue gronnd with white letters. 


NEW YORK C. C. 


EVERAL of the members have been afloat this week. On Wed- 
nesday last one of the members in company with a friend visited 
the club house, and on entering discovered two young men packing 
up the clothing of the canoeists inrubber bags. Hach seized a man, 
butafter a strugele ene escaped.-The other was taken before Justice 
Carey and committed for examination. The second man was after- 
ward arrested by officer Hall and identified. The house had been en- 
tered through a rear window which was broken open. 

Mr. Coudert is haying a 14x30 cruising canoe built by Stephens of 
West Brighton. She will be lug rigged, with light iron board. The 
Red Rover has been sold to Mr. Wm. Chiids, who will fit her with his 
new centerboard and make a practical test of itonacanoe. It has 
already been tried successfully on an oyster skiff. The board has 
been much spt ena during this winter. 

Marmalade Lodge, Staten Island.—On Feb. 3, wind southwest, 
light, sun shining brightly, McMurray and Cooke, of N.Y. C.C., 
launched Jersey Blue, and started for a tandem paddle. The heavy 
ice had gone out with the ebb tide, and the paddlers encountered noth- 
ing worse than an occasional floating cake anda thin coating, newly 
formed, which was easily broken. The trip, though uneventful, 
proved eminently satisfactory to the participants, judging at least 
from their later actions. 


LARGE vs. SMALL CANOES. 


I HAVE just seen for the first time Outing, for last October. From 
the article on the canoe meet at Stony Lake, written by Kirk 
Munroe, I extract the following: ? 

“Tn striking contrast to these airy skiffs, floating like egg shells on 
the very surface of the water, were the big Pearl canoes, exhibited 
by the members of another Canadian club, the Toronto. They are 
the largest and heaviest canoes built, and are best fitted for use in the 
rough waters of the British Isles, where they originated. They carry 
animmense spread of canvas, have iron centerboards, are heavily 
bullasted, and partake more of the nature of small yachts than 
canoes.” 

The “airy skiffs’ he refers to are the open Peterboro canoes. Mr, 
Munroe then goes on to state that the American crusing canoes offer 
a happy mean between these two extrenies. 

From the foregomg, canoeists may infer that Canadian sailing 
canoes are all Pearls, or small yachts, and that the canoeists in the 
States would not use such heayy craft. In a late number of your 
paper a canoeist signing himself ‘‘Widgeon’’ also makes an attack 
on large canoes, I desire to reply to Mr. Munroe and ‘‘Widgéon.”’ 

Mr. Munroe has been a member of the New York Uanoe Club for 
some years. Is he aware that the first Pearl built in North Am- 
erica was for Dr. Bronson of the sameclub? Mr. Oudin, owner of 
the Pearl Tramp, and Mr. Whitlock, of the No.3 Pearl Ripple (since 
destroyed) are also members of that club. The latter craft carried 
more ballast and had a larger mast and sail area than was ever used 
on either of the Torento Pearls. As a striking commentary on Mr. 
Munroe’s remarks,I give a report of a raceof the N.Y. C. C. on 
Sept, 29, just about the time Mr. Munroe must have written his article 
for Outing. 


_ Ballast carried 
Sail area, including board. 
Canoe feet. pounds, 
DOA Solel slap pares ee ep De eee wena eee 95 75 
eres aisiy vada voces Ota Kad tee hare 105 110 
SUPE Gs BANE soa eee Of Sh Ss ae 73 125 
CRAM soa Ca hs gigs aS OUUEE eR ot oe ase as 1385 150 
Memeraltia cs yy cis eek aka stun. om . 85 60 


Won by the Dot. 

The Tramp is a Pearl, and the Freak as large as any Pearl. At 
least she is in class B, as a 16x30 should. 

The Pearl and Nautilus models are English, but there are other 
models used in that country. Ido not think I am mistaken in assert- 
ing that seventy-five per cent. ofthe thousands of canoes in use in 
Great Britain are Rob Roys and similar craft, while Pearls and other 
heavy ballasted canoes are not five per cent. of the whole. 

Ido not believe that Mr. Munroe meant to say anything against the 
Toronto Club, but I suppose he thought that in writing an article for 
the general public it was not necessary to be very particular, I feel 
all the more inclined to pardon him, for apparently he has seen the 
error of his ways and is going in for something larger than Pearls, 
and which is even outside of the liberal A. C, A. definition of a canoe. 
E SED his Alligator will weigh more than a Pearl, heavy board 
included. 

The Cincinnati club use large eraft. Dr. Heighway and I think 
also Commotiore Longworth use the Princess model, 15x31 at bottom 
of top streak, Rushton advertises three sizes of that model—14x31, 
16x81 and 15x36; Stephens advertises, and has built, more Pearls 
than any other builder in America; the Racine Co, advertise double 
canoes 16x38 and 18x40, weighing 150 and 170 pounds respectively; 
Joyner, of Glens Falls, 16x36, and soon. And yet with all this I do 
BO ie that all future canoes will belarge and heavy with iron 

ards, ; 

““Widgeon” need not fear that all canoeists will wish to be racers, 
they never number more than a small percentage of the whole. 
In all regattas there are always more races for the medium than for 


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the extremes in either paddling or sailing. At Stony Lake a medium 
canoe, the Snake, entered for five races, and won four. Inmy Boreas 
ITcould only enter in one sailing race. In paddling canoes it is the 


~same; the 28 or 30in. craft has a far better chance for prizes than the 


Qin, The A. C. A. regatta rules will—no doubt justly—always favor 
the all-round canoe. F 

“Widgeon” mentions the Stella Maris as a compromise type. Surely 
the Jersey Blue. the Ellard or the Lansingburgh models like Mr. W. 
Wackerhagen’s Henrietta, are much more of a compromise than the 
Stella Maris. The Stella Marisis a Rob Roy with a little sheer, and is 
nearer the extreme in the way of small size than a compromise. 

At the risk of being considered egotistical I give some particulars 
about my Pearl Boreas as a cruising craft. she is 1432; board 
weighs 45lbs.; only one carried; carry no ballast; sails balance lug, 
mainsail Jess than 60ft.; dandy, a Racine lateen of 10ft; lines on deck 
oue halliard, one reef line and the two sheets; can reef mainsail to 
36ft. in any wind or in any position, running, reaching or closehauled, 
in five seconds; can shake reef out in one second; the hull weighs 
100lbs; centerboard is removable at pleasure. I only weigh 120lbs. 
and am not as strong as a team of horses, yet I can take the Boreas 
out and in boathouse without assistance even when board isin. 

Let ‘*Widgeon’’ once use a balance lug amply rigged and I think he 
will admit it is the safest sail he ever tried. aye used all kinds— 
leg of mubtons, standing lugs, lateens and balance lugs—and 1 swear 
by the latter. p : 

““Widgeon’’is unfortunate in his reference to the eruise of the Maria 
Theresa. Mr, Bishop used oars on the greater portion of that trip, 
and when he afterwards made the journey in comparatively smooth 
water down the Mississippi he used a sneakbox with oars, Let 
““Widgeon’’ read Mr. Bishop’s reasons for making the change before 
he condemns all large canoes. 

And now to close, will ‘‘Widgeon”’ come to Grindstone Island next 
August, and some day when a strong southwester is blowing and a 
good sea is being kicked up, I shall be happy to try a race with him, 
three or four miles dead to windward and return, he to paddle and I 
to sail. Hues Netuson (Canoe Boreas). 


CANOE OR SNEAKBOX. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I met a drummer on the Lake Shore train a day or two ago who was 
loudly arguing with his neighbor in the next seat on the question of 
the sailing qualities and general cruising efficiency of a sneakbox 
as oapEced tothe modern canoe. The drummer maintained that 
upon large rivers and open waters, where portages are unnecessary, 
the canoe has no right to exist; that the sneakbox, when fitted with 
centerboard and balance lug sail, is a perfect little yacht, possessing 
ample cabin accommodations for crew, large stowage space and bal- 
last enough to go to windward in a stiff breeze and sea. 

Being interested in boats in pages and canoes in particular, I took 
a seat nearer the pair, and under cover of a newspaper took it all in. 
The longer the cruise, continued the commercial man, the more 
marked the superiority of the sneakbox; take your proposed Florida 
trip via Ohio and Mississippi rivers, for instance. No canoe can be 
slept in many nights in succession without becoming strained, and 
consequently leaky, and before you reach Cairo you and the bailing 
ean will be well acquainted. ‘Dunkirk,’ yelled the brakeman, and 
as I made my way tothe door I caught the words, ‘Heavy, clumsy 
canal boat’’—‘'Oars, too”’—evidently from the other fellow. 

Now, Mr. Editor, up to last Saturday 1 had intended to buy a canoe 
and cruise up the lake to. Long Point this coming summer, but at 
present writing am somewhat undecided as to the proper craft, and 
would like to ask you in all confidence your opinion on the two ques- 
tions following: First. Willa canve compare favorably in sailing 
qualities with a sneakbox, each having centerboard and balance lug 
sail? Second. Isa canoe liable to become leaky after a fortnight’s 
cruise, the crew (150 lbs.) sleeping on board every night? 

Mr. Bishop, in his ‘Four Monthsin a Sneakbox,’’ seems to agree 
with the drummer when he says: “Light indeed must be the weight 
and slender and elastic the form of the man who can sleep many 
nights comfortably in a 70-lb. canoe without injuring it. Cedar ca- 
noes, after being subjected to such use for some time, generally be- 
come leaky; so to avoid this disaster the canoeist, when threatened 
with wet weather, is forced to the disagreeable task of troubling 
some private householder for a shelter, or run the risk of injuring his 
boat by packing himself away in its narrow, coffin-like quarters and 
dreaming that he is a sardine, while his restless weight is every mo- 
ment straining his delicate canoe and visions of future leaks arise to 
disturb his tranquillity.” 

My ideal canoe is a Racine Shadow, 33in, beam instead of 28in., built - 
with more crown to deck and a trifle less freeboard, and provided 
with the pointed cockpit combing now in fashion. 

By answering the above questions you will greatly oblige a ‘‘pros- 
pective canoeist.” H, A. 

[The canoe is superior to the sneakbox for general cruising on open 
waters, as it is fully equal to the latter in sailing and sea-going quali- 
ties; itis much more comfortably propelled, weighs much less, and 
can be much more easily handled on shore by oné man and trans- 
ported, as is necessary on almostall waters at times. It can beslept 
In comfortably and without any more danger of leakage than with 
the sneakbox, if reasonable care is used in placing the boat ona 
smooth surface and blocking the bilges. Mr. Bishop’s remarks, writ- 
ten some years since, certainly do not apply to the canoes in use now, 
as many of them have records of thousands of miles as cruisers and 
are still dry. We would advise A. H. A. totry a canoe of 14530 or 
15x8114in.,and shall shortly publish the designs of such a cruiser,] 


THE LOG BOOK. 


V.—DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. 
[Continued from Oct. 25, 1883.] 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I believe that I promised you from Vieksburg a complete narrative 
of our trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans when it sheuld be 
accomplished. I gave the account of the trip from Chicago to St. 
Louis, so the present one will consist entirely of our experiences 
canoeing on the Mississippi. We left St. Louis Wednesday, Oct. 17, 
with a strong head wind, and enjoyed(}) our first altempt at beating 
to windward, 

It was, to say the least, not pleasant, for the wind blowing directly 
against the strong current, raised waves which for ugliness are uu- 
surpassed. They are short, high rollers, just like the stern wash of a 
“stern-wheeler,” and a boat has no timeto recover after diving into 
one before the following one has washed the deck. Added to this, 
the river is filled with ‘‘eddies’’ which sometimes fairly threw the 
boat at right angles to our course; and to have one of these catch us 
and “‘head us off,” when a strong pnff necessitated “heading up,” 
we found not conducive to any very great confidence in our own 
ability to remain “right side up.” We had no mishap, however, 
although a capsize was narrowly escaped in several instances, and 
camped opposite Kimswick, where we remained over the next day, 
and gave the boat a much needed coat of paint. We found that, not- 
withstanding her hard treatment on the Illinois, her injuries were 
confined to a few scratches and ‘digs,’ none of which amounted to 
anything. She also was perfectly dry, in fact, she didn’t leak a drop 
all the way down the river. 

Friday morning we centinued our journey, making about twenty 
miles, a very good run, considering that we didn’t get away from 
camp until about noon. Being noyices in Mississippi trayeling, we 
were for a long time under the impression that our camping places 
must be situated upon the banks, although their steepness made them 
far from pleasant. They average about thirty feet high, and hare 
become terraced from the different stages of water, se that carrying 
our ‘“‘camp truck”’ up these rude steps was quife a tiresome occupa- 
tion. Even after reaching the top the ground was not as inviting as 
it seemed from the river, being usually ‘hardened mueck,’’ so that 
one night, being forced to_take to a sand bar on account of the inac- 
cessibility of the banks, we found it so handy, clean and comfortable 
that we resolved to make the bars our camping places in the future 
ae wath but one on two SRecn Hons we did. , 

course every bar would not serve as a fit campin round, some 
of them being entirely destitute of fire wood, but us herd isa bar for 
every bend, and also for every island, not counting the ones that are 
“just bars’’ on their own hook, there are plenty of chances to pick 
out one with a drift pile on it. To the man who has done his canoe- 
ing on open water or small streams these drift piles are indeed a 
revelation. The river banks from St. Louis to Vicksburg we found 
to be fairly covered with logs, fence rails, slabs, tree trunks and gen- 
eral debris, in some places piled so high as to render futile any 
attempt to get back into the woods; and as most of the stuff was 
thoroughly seasoned, it was like having a woodpile in your back 
yard, Aiter passing Vicksburg we found the wood not so plentiful, 
as the banks were more thickly pas and the ‘“niggers’’ burnt 
it up, but enough can always be found to make a fire for a regiment, 

But to return to oursubject. We had fair winds the next few days, 
with the exception of one or two when it was dead calm, and reached 
Cairo Oct. 26, The distance from St. Lonis to Cairo is 215 miles, and 
was made in ten days; but our record will show up better when 
allowance is made for three full days used up in painting and trying 
to keep oub.of the rain. An evil spirit seemed to pursue us in this 
form, for we were treated torain storms about three times a week, 
and finally ‘‘knocked out’’ entirely by it. The night before reaching 
Cairo we camped about nine miles above it, and the nemt morning 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


started out about 10:3) with the expectation of reaching the city by 
12 o'clock at the furthest. 

However, as we approached the city, itseamed to recede, and in- 
stead of finding it on the Mississippi as we supposed, we were surprised 
to find on arvivyinge at the mouth of the Ohio that 4 twoanile pull 
upainst the cuirent at that stream was necessary before reaehing 
thetown. ‘Uhe Mississippi was rising and set back into the Ohio, 
SO ont row was not as hard as it might have been. About 4 o'clock, 
just as we had finished siocking up with provisions, we were fay 
bred with our customary rain storm, and things soon began to as- 
sume a (lecidedly moist appearance, 

Tor some time we were undecided whether to “sitit ont’! all night 
on the wharf beat undera sort of projecting roof, or make for a 
camp. We finally determined to row down to the mouth of the Ohio, 
where we had seen a stranded barge, and see if we could find shelter 
inher. Onresehing the bar, we commenced to unload our truck 
after haying pitched the tent, and were soon visited by a man who 
told us ne lived in the shanty on the barge, and mvited us to come up 
and get dry by his stove, Weaccep-ed the inyitation, and proposed 
that he join us in our vepast which I proceeded to prepare, He joined 
Us, or perhaps I Should say we joined lim, for the way he did stow 
erih was a caution. Meat, potatoes, bread, coffee, all disappeared 
with lightning rapidity, ~ 

After eating until the visible supply was exhausted, he informed 
1s that it was the best supper he fad eaten for months, and Iwas 
almost imelined to think the ouly one. He tlen went on to tell us 
about his affaire—how he had been laid up with fever and arue all 
the Summer, and was. just beginning to be around—and got us so 
miuich interested that we resolyed to fill him up tight in the morning, 
and Tgness we did, but there was a very perceptible hole made in 
our supplies. We left him and his barge that morning about 11 o'clock 
with a sift northwest wind, and had good sailing all day. We passed 
a place in the river near Wolf Island, below Colunibus. Ky., where 
the river runs like a mill rate, 

Ir was by all odds the wililést water in the whole length of the river, 
The eddies became veritable whirlpools, strong enough to have ren- 
dered sailing in a head wind quite dangerous. We now began to 
meet any quantity of ducks and geese, and spent a good part of the 
time anathematizinge the hard luck that caused up to neglect to bring 
guns. We thought we had seen some game on the Dlinois, but we 
quickly came to the conclusion thatwe had been mistaken. For 
every dnek on the Tlinoiswe saw fifty on the Mississippi, and the 
eeese of course were extra, Ducks were as Plentiful as blackbirds, 
and the gecse went in flodks of from ten to one hundred. On one oc- 
casion I saw a bar fairly covered with them, and think that there must 
have been fnlly one thousand. This may seem an exaggeration, but 
when the fact is considered that the bar was abont two miles Jong, 
and that the geese were stretched out in Jine over its full length like 
a regiment in teview, 1 don’t think my figures will look so large. The 
birds were very wary, however, ant ould be bagged with nothing 
but. a rifle. ? 

We got in revolver range several times, but the unstexdiness of the 
boat destroyed our chances. A man with a good rifle zomg down 
the rivet'as we did could not only have lots of sport but could also 
pay his expenses. as each wild goose brought to a landing is worth 
fiom $1 to $1.50, and T thine we could have got ten a day at least. 
The landing stores are filled with canned goods of all sorts, so that 
the geese would act the part of a wellfilled purse. This would not 
be pot-hunting, I think, and so could not be objected to as being un- 
sportsnmianiike, , 

We reached Memphis Nov. 3. fhe distance from Cairo being 250 
miles in round numbers. We were laid up about three days by rain 
and head winds on the way, but made a fair average notwithstand- 
ing, The viyer between Uairo and Memphis hus a great many 
“@hultes,’? which may be described as one of the passages around an 
island, an@ so called to cistinguish ib from the other passage called 
the channel. f believe that by taking the chutes between Cairo and 
Memphis ve saved about twenty-five miles, and even more between 
Memphis and Arkansas City. ; 

Below Arkansas City, which is abeut 130 miles above Vicksburg, 
there are few short cuts, aluhough the river is full of bends. It is 
very encouraging, | assure you, to come upon a streteh of ten or fif- 
teen miles aud then see away off to the right, abreast of you, the 
smoke of some steainer and realize the painful fact that you will 
have fo go twenty or twenty-five miles by river when a straight line 
would probably bring you to the same point in abeut eight. 

The current, howeéyer, is always on hand, and one is not very long 
taking twenty-five miles. [think the average current was about 
four miles an hour, and this, together with a pair of oars, would send 
us along aboutsvyen or eight milesan hour steadily, At first we 
were disposed to take short cuts, hugging the points, skirting the 
hars, etc., instead of taking the full curye: but we soon learned that 
the longest way round was in fact the shorest; for the swiftest cur- 
rent takes the jongest sweep. and morethan males up for the dis- 
tance gained in the ‘cut.’ The “chutes” for this reason are to be 
avoided below Arkansas City, but aboye the current is about as 
strong in the “chute” asin the chammel. In going around Island 35, 
web is just below Randolph. Tenn., we had a smashing breeze over 
the stavbonrd quarter and took the ‘“climte,’' which saved four miles, 
The current Yan like a mill-race full six miles an hour, and this 
together with the wind. sent us along faster than Thad ever gone 
before ina small boat, We just “buzzed” by the snags, and I estimate 
our speed to have been nt less than twelve miles an hour. 

J. W. Kroes, 


THE WINTER CAMP-FIRE,. 


FOURTH MEETING. 


MONG. the inventions that have been perfected to a point of prac- 
tical utility within the lash ten years, three stand oub promi- 
nently ftom all the others, namely, the telephone, the electric hgh 
and dry-plate photography, - The Jast of these. while perhaps the 
least valuable to mankind in general. is of the greatest importance to 
the trayéler. the explorer, and, above all, to the canoéist, as while in 
his case it may be carried without the least extra trouble, itis a com- 
panion for his leisure moments, it records faithfully his cruises, and 
enriches and verifies his loz book. : 

Phe last Winter Camp-Fire,” held on Jan. 29, at 238 Hast Fourteenth 
street. was devoved eutirely to this subject, and proved by far the 
most interesting meeting yet held. The Kit Kat club room was orna- 
mented with canoe pictures of all kinds, On the walls were a large 
number of very fine photographs by Mr. L. W. Seavey, mostly taken 
@n cimoe eruises, while on the easels were several fine oil and water- 
color pictures of Scotch canoes and scenery, ab w ell as large photos 
of the Mersey and Clyde canoe clubs, loaned by Mr. Ising. 

Among the pictures sent in were two very wice ones, a trophy of 
fish, rods, ete,, and a show scene, bringing home a deer, by Mr. J.G. 
Walton, of Sherbrooke. Can.; some small views taken on cruises, by 
Mr. Van Deusen, of Rondout, and ino pictures sent by Mr. Shedd, of 
the Sprinpfield C. C. The latter, taken by Mr. Lazelle, a photographer 
of Springfield, are very fiue pictures, and were greatly admired. 

Mr. L. W, Seavey, an artist who uses both thé canoe and camera to 
assist him in his work, the painting of photegraphic backgrounds, in- 
troduced the subject, comparing the work of the painter when out- 
floors, as in summer, requiring time and inore or less bulky materials 
hesides much skill, wilh that of the photographer, with a compact 
camera avd packages of plates, requiring but little time, and giving 
very valuable results. Touching on the discoveries of Daguerre and 
Talbot, Mr. Seavey deseriped briefly the old process, and then passed 
to the modern one. Iirst comes the question, ‘What to photograph 
ou a cruise,’ The speaker suzgested first aview of the canoe, its sails, 
gear, etr., and also the crew, then when ouce started. the camp each 
day, natural scenery, characters, and on the return, ¢rew and boat 
again, making, with brief notes, a full and accurate record of the 
epuise. “ f 

As an example of the value of photography, Mr, Seavey exhibited 
a sketch and photograph of the same object, one the worlc of an hour 
or so, the other, more accurate in every Way, the work of A moment, 
After deseribin in detail the pictures of his cruises, Mr. Seavey ex- 
hibited and explained the necessary apparatus, first showing several 
holders for containing the prepared plate, and keeping it perfectly 
dari, also the manner of keeping a record of exposures on each 
holder. : : 

‘An 8x10 camera was then shown, aud the yarious parts explained, 
This camera was arranged with one large lense and two small ones 
for stereoscopic work, on one front, either the single one or the pair 
sliding into position at will, The drop shutter was also shown and 
explained. Another camera, a Pearsall, Hi4x8le, Was arranged very 
conipactly, dispensing with an outside carrying box, Two novelties 
m this apparatus were a small roller curtain of tracing cloth ta re- 
eeive the image in focusing, instead of the ground glass commonly 
need, ani a second bellows hinged to the back, aiso used in focusing 
in place of the focusing cioth. 

One of the latest novelties in camerasis the gun camera, a box for 
4x6 plates, fitted with an instantaneous shutter, worked by a trigger, 
the whole being carried o & Common gun stock. <A sifht is used on 
top of the box, htill another similar instrument is known as the 
“petective Camera,” an oblong box about 4xtixtin,, the lense and 
shutter being inone end. On top isa brass handle, aud on one side 
isa small lense and a focusing glass about im, square, on which is 
shown, to & reduced scale, the image on the plate. ‘Phe box 1s held m 
oue hand, the position of the image on the plate ohse ry- 


s aljusted by 
ing the imagé thrown by thie supp. ementanry Jense, and the drop op er- 


ated by the other hand. A number of very fine pictures taken with 
this camera by ap amateur were shown with it. 

Mr, Barnard exhibited a small but very coupact camera mounted 
on a tripod called the ‘‘Reporier’s Camera,” as well as some views 
taken with it, after which Mr. Seavey explained the process of de- 
veloping the plate. illustrating his remarks by developing hyo 5x8 
plates exposed during the day, The subject for the néxt meeting, on 
Heb. 19, at the Same place, is “Tentsand Camp Outfits.” The meet- 
ing adjourned at 10:30 P.M. 

PITTSBURGH GANOE OLUB. 
BKditor Forest and Stream: 

The fitst social meeting of the P. C, C, for 1884—a dinner given 
by our newly married Lieutenant on the &th— was promptly followed 
up, and eight members—ail who are now in the city—zathered around 
the festive board of the commander of the Lotos «lower at an early 
hour on the evening of the 25th, The good things thereon were only 
equaled by the feast of reasou and flow, elc., and, starting with many 
a reminiscences of the ever memorable progress down the Allegheny 
last season of “eight canoes and a grut boat,” the conversation 
quickly ~pread to all things pertaining to our noble pastime, 

At length, the table bemg cleared, and eight pairs of legs extended 
thereunder with great sense of personal comfort to their owners, 
amid the fast thickening but wholly peaceful smoke, the idea was 
advanced that our “‘camp-fire” must surely he as pleasant as any 
held this wintertin your city of New York. *' ‘amp-tire,’ quotha! as 
well call it an oil stove.” The suggestion was received with the 
approval it so well merited, and for all time to come the archives of 
the P. C, C. hear record that at the second Oil Stove of January, 1884, 
such and such important business was transacted. 

Among the quesrious discussed was that of the proposed changein 
our burgee, already noted in Wormst AND STREAM, and a committee 
was intrusted with the task of ascertaining whether a device suf- 
ficiently like an oak leat to be recognizable cin be produced in gold 
upon a blue field. the proposed A. C. A, badge was heartily ap- 
proved, and most present seemed to prefer the A. C. A. burgee, the 
colors of which ean doubtless be sufficiently represented by ye cun- 
ninge artificer in ye preciouse nicialls. 

After this the conftict raged between the advocates of veneer and 
clinker build, all manners of steering gear held up tor admiration 
and ruthlessly torn to pipeee and the fact developed that our small 
assembly embraced all classes; from the admirer of ‘‘sinplicity” as 
exemplified by the lateen to one who, not satisfied with jib, fore 
and mamsails on a St, Paul, is now designing a topsail, 

The oil stove burned brightly until the smal! hours, and then we 
wended our way homeward through an atmosphere thick with hoar 
frost, As we crossed the suspension bridge over the Allegheny we 
looked down shudderingly at the icy waters beneath, and, when the 
end was reached, cleared the chunks of ice trom our moustache to 
hail the toll collector as tu the state of his thermometer, The laconic 
answer came back’ ‘Two below.” . KATRINA, 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


AN IRISH STEW. 


JUT a few splinters of wood in bottom of pot, on them place about 

one-quarter pound pork, sliced, and about one quart of water; 

let it boil ten minutes, ahd add two parsnips, pared and sliced, boil 

ten minutes longer, skim if necessary and season with pepper and 

salt; then place in half a dozen potatoes and boil twenty minutes 

longer or until the potatoes are done. This makes a hearty and 
savory mess. t 


CANOE PHOTOGRAPHS.—We have received from Mr. C. M. Shedd 
of Springfield, two very handsome photogrephs of the §. C. C. and 
their fieet of canoes, the work of Mr. E. J. Lazelle. The picture is 
taken with a “revolving camera,” tne only one used in the United 
States. The camera is first pointed directly across the river, and then 
revolyed toward the north, giving the appearance of great width to 
theriver. The results are very fine, especially when itis considered 
that the boats were in a swift current, and the house, as well as the 
raft on which tha camera was placed, were both in motion. 


HARTFORD C. C.—The H. ©. C. have adopted as a sailing signal a 
red crescent one inch in length for each foot of length of canoe, with 
ared five-pointed star nextthe upper corner. 


AMATHUR CANOH BUILDING.—This subject will be continued 


next week. 
Bachting. 


THE BOOM IN CUTTERS. 


TEVER before were somany cutters on thestocks at such an early 
date as this season. We have already given particulars of four 
new cutters building by Lawley & Son, of South Boston; one by 
Williams & Stevens, of Lowell, Mass.; two on the stoeks in Driscoll’s 
yard at Greenpoint, and onein the shop of Stephens, on Staten 
Island, which, with the Daisy to be imported, makes a total of nine. 
We now add number ten, the keel for which is to be laid by Poil- 
lon, of Brooklyn. She is 51ft. loadlme, from designs by her owner, a 
member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, and will be simi- 
lar to the Oriva. Number eleven is to be the biggest yeb attempted 
in this country, for the owner of a well-known schooner, The design 
is now being struck in by A. Cary Smith, She isto measure (ptt. 
foadline, with four and three-quarters to five beams. We also know 
of many other cutters contemplated, and count on twenty or more of 
the kind fornext season. The readiness with which we are taking to 
the utter is the best proof of the prowing fondness for real yachting 
in contradistinction to insipid dawaline. 


COST OF YACHTS. 


4 7R. HARVEY states that to build a large schooner he has designed 
iN in America will cost fully one-third more than in England. The 
prospective owner has determined to build in Hngland. AstHe yacht 
svill cost avout $80,000, it was thought a little too high to pay $20,000 
for the privilege of an American register. As the move for tree 
tradein ships is now gathering force, the new schooner may after all 
be entitled to the flag of the country by the time she appears in an 
American port. Itis eyen now found cheaper to buy yachts as goou 
as new abroad and pay duty than to ‘build in our yards. This can 
only be done with yachts under twenty tons which can be imported 
upon avoniinal yaluation as ‘wood manufactures.” The Mase was 
assessed at $1,500 and the duty paid was $500, Her original cost with 
outfit was under $4,500. She could not be duplicated here for less 
than $6,000. Itis likely more yachts will be imported as the number 
of good vessels at reasonable fizures to be had abread is legion, with 
the advantage of all sizes, kinds and rigs to pick from. ’he ten-ton 
cutter Florence, for example, with a record as # racer, can be had 
for $2,500, or less than half the money a new yacht of the kaind could 
be built for here, She isabout of the Madge’s proportisas. ‘The impor- 
tation of foreign yachts is something which has only just begun and 
is likely to assume great proportions before long. It is wellto warn 
builders in time of what the near future will disclose, so they can 
shape their policy accordingly. ¥ 
Greater business tact and more enterprise are needecl if the compe- 

tition from abroad is to be staved off, An Hnglish yacht, three to 
fiye years old, from the hands of a crack builder, which has been well 
taken care of all the year around, 1s not only cheaper, but a stronger, 
better and more stylish job than.a brand new yacht trom any of our 
yards, as she is built to much more thorough specifications in the first 
place, and will outlive home-built craft two years to one, to say noth- 
ing of the outfit which comes along. There are those silly enough to 
confound throwing dust in people’s eyes with “patriotism,” They are 
the worst enemies of all yachting imterests in America. Unless 
our builders wake up on all tacks. they will find their avocation slip- 

ingfrom under, free ships or no free ships. We know, as an illus- 

ration, that the cutter Daisy, only two years old, fully as food as 
new, and of vast deal better build and fittings than boats ‘of her size 
of American origin, can be imported, duty paid, for little. more than 
half the eost of a new yacht, inferior on all points, built in New York 
or Boston. We know that she will cost afloat in these watersless than 
the figures at which four-year old sloops were offered, with their 
poverty-stricken rigs and forlorn equipment. Seven years hence 
those sloops Will be worthless for aught but firewood, Seven years 
hence the Daisy, fairly well looked after, will still fetch half the_ 
money laid out, Can any one blame her owner for his good sense in 
looking after his interests and buying abroad when such advantages 
are held forth? And isitnotlikelya great many will follow his ex- 
ample? . Suge, : 

ill our builders take warning while there is still time, or will they, 
wait till crippled or swept away altogether by the coming deluge of 
jmportations? This is certain, “patriotisui’’ must be hove overboard 
at once. Instead of blowing upon achievements in the past, the 
stern present must be,looked inthe face. Our yachts are wotully 
wanting in equipment, style and finish, whatevér may be thought 
about model and method of huild, People who travel are learning to 
appreciate the truth of all this, Once let importation obtain nll 
sway and neither progress nor real merit of our home productions 


oralong while to come. There is no desire on 
our part to ery ‘wolf.’ We are posted on the drift of publi¢ opinion, 
and know that many have in mind purchasing abroad, because they 
fet more and better for their money. Pot bellies and stub-tail sterns, 
cheap and hemely rigs, paiit bedaubed decks and graceless super- 
structures, clumsy Benn iinS and stingy fastening, erude taste, oftend- 
ing want of symmetry and corelation in all paris and belongings, 
gaWwkiness aloft, uncouth pose, and the provincial vapidity all over, 
one and all, and a great many other teehnical laches must give way 
to 4 more discriminating and exacting taste, a higher degree of 
intrinsic worth and superior mechanical compieteness. 


can stay the influ 


SOME REMINISCENECES. 


A GENTLEMAN of life-long experience in yachting writes us that 

hetakes great interest in the development of seaworthy boats, 
and that his own observations lead up to conelusions identi¢al with 
our own, As far back 2s 1846, when the Northern Lieht was built by 
ihe late Col. Winchester, he made several runs in her from Bostun to 
Newport and the westward. She drew l0tt. of water with ballast 
monided as low asit Gould he got She was a@ keel boat, and nobody 
ever asked how the weatber was going to be, for she was always got 
underway at the hour determined and took it fair or foul and rough 
or smooth, as it happened tocome. In 1640 he built the Gypsy, 29ft. 
loadline, 12ft, beam and Sft.6in. hold, with 7ft. draft and a keel, as all 
good boats were built in times gone by. She was run four years 
about the coast, gunning aud fishing. When it blew she was reefed 
down, and when it came out too heavy to look to windward, she was 
ailowed to lie to, In 1845 he built the Pet. 62fl. loadline, 16f. beam, 
6ft, hold and $left, draft, with 25tons moulded to the floors. She, 
too, was a keel, andno one objected on the seore of her draft, 
Yuchtsmen were sailors then and knew how to appreciate a zood 
boat. She was sold to Savannah pilots after a successful career as a 
racer in all kinds of weather, She left boston in company with a 
ship bound the same way, aud a purse was made up for 4 mateh into 
port. Pet captured the money, half the yoyage under tworeefs ina 
gale of wind, 

In 1646 he constructed and fitted the Coquette for Jas. D, Perkins. 
She was 66ft, long, 19ft, beam, and 10ft. 6iu. draft with keel, This 
was the memorable boat which took the starch out of Stephen’s big 
smooth-water machine Maria, ina match twenty-five miles to lee- 
ward and return off Sandy Hook, Oct. 10, 1846, in blowy weather and 
ajump. Time, six hours and fifty-six seconds. Maria was ouch the 
larger of the two, but depth and draft were tuenas how, niore than a 
match for board and tlat bottom. The same gentleman now has a 
deep catrig yacht 2314ft. long, which lords it over Buzzard’s Bay in a 
reeting breeze. Two things, he writes. his experience has demon- 
slated necessary ina good boat. You must have depth with draft 
and weight for the most satisfactory performance. Beam may be 
left an open question, as it will adapt itself to the rest, or else the 
boat wl be indifferent undersail when beam is carried to excess, He 
sailed the sloop Una, a deep boat with four beams to length. She 
was a trump in a breeze and sea. In the good old days yachtsmen 
were on the right track. All the more strange we should ever have 
swerved so far from the lessons of experience, and all the more 
reason why we should sheer broad off from the flat bottom river 
traps, and once more return to honest construction with the depth, 
draft and weight a good boat ougit Lo have. 


HOW NOW? 


ie the report of the British Y. R. A. committee on measurement 
for small yachts occurs the following passage: 

“The fact cannot be overlook:2d thata rating by length would fail 
entirely to class boats unless they were all of one particular type. 
For instance, during the past two seasons the Chittywee and Mas- 
coite. two yachts of three tons, built to compete under the tonnage 
rule, sailed against the most recent specimens of 30-footers with he 
result that they (Chittywee and Mascotte) were beaten over a seyen- 
teen nile course by about 13min, This result was due mainly to the 
fact that the broad 30-1 boats are able to carry a much larger sail 
spread than tie narrow 3 tonmers, in consequence of their greater 
weight and beam.” ‘ 

That is to say, the experience gained by sailing small, narrow 
cutters against larger, heavier, bulkier boats in Southampton waters: 
has plainly demonstrated that bulk on a given length, when proper! 
shaped, isan element of speed! Thatit cannot befair to sail sm. 
and large boats of like length without an allowance to the smaller 
pe for the greater possibilities for speed possessed by the larger 

oat. 

The committee therefore proposed to roughly measure such differ- 
ences in size by taking the larger sail area of the larger boat. Bull 
or bigness which finds its expression in sail area ip yachts of normal 
shape and like construction is then, according to tbe Y. R.A. com- 
mittee’s conclusion, really the just basis for allowance between boats 
of Jike length, A stronger anii more obvious indorsement of the 
equity of bullkemeasurement from better authority could not be 
forthcoming. The recommendation amounts to this: You are to be 
liniited for classification purposes toa certain leagth and pay for 
differences of bulk on that length as expressed in the sailarea. As 
there is no especial reason whatever for limiting a designer m the 
choice of one dimension more than in the retaining two. the next 
step in common logic will be to permit the free selection of length 
just as wellas beam or depth, with a penalty attached only to “big- 

ess’? regardless of the form it assumes, Then, and not until then, 
will the measurement question conie to 4 rest, 

The committee likewise indorse the position of ForrsT AND STREAM 
concerning the extravazant formsand great expense to which the 
Jength rule Jeads.direetly. The biggest boat, biggest. displacement 
andrig. The greatest outlay of money and the exclusion of all mod- 
erate forms and rigs of the same length, In place of a long boat of 
economic:] proportions, the length rule induces a shrinkage of useful 
length and eschews economy, prokibiting in its taxation of length, 
all boats which are not the clumsiest, most expensive and unhandy 
in connection with the least practically available accommodations, 

The committee’s decision is a death stroke ta length measurement 
abroad and will not be withont its influenee in bringing about 4 
clearer understanding on this side of the Atlantic of the prejudice 
and evil tendencies of measuring by “simple length,” 


GIVE IT SUPPORT. 


Ww publish herewith an appeal to all hands of more than ordinary 

importance, and hopu that at leash the proposal to bud up 
general yachting headquarters will at once receive enough support 
to justify*taking further steps, Whatever may be thought about the 
practicability of forming a racing association for the government of 
clubs, the schenié to institute a great central rendezyous with accom- 
modations and facilities of use and benefit to eyery owner and friend 
in sympathy with yachting ought not to be allowed to fall through 
for lack of encouragement to the coramittee haying the matter im 
charge. In unity there is strength, and shou'd whe New En; d 
organizations all contribute to the establishment of a congressy- 
ing tangible existence, the move wonld bea step ahead of anything 
yet undertaken, and would redound to the credit of the prime movers 
and the whole of New England, as it would likewise be of inestimable 
benefit to the progress and popularization of the sport. Centraliza- 
tion andaction as a united body would quickly supplant influences 
only spasmodic and local with wide-reaching sway and prestige m- 
stead. It is above all else the oné thing mosh needed for the growbh 
and prosperity. of yachting. There are a bundred persons who might 
and ought to own yachts Lo every oue actually flying his burgee alort, 
and nothing would contribute so much to fresh accessions to the feet 
as a common heart to reflect the pulsations of yachting life. Itis to 
the activity of New England and the ripe development of its yachting 
we look for the birth of ideas aud practives in time to become the 
standard along the whole coast, and we hope the expectations raised 
in the subjoined proposition will nofbe doomed to disappointment 
throngh individual lethargy or fatal delay. All hands shoud clap on 
without any-hesitation. Aid and abet the scheme now while aid from 
every man is needed: 

NEW ENGLAND YACHTING ASSOCIATION. 


YACHTING CONGRESS, 


Among the yachtsmen of New Hngland, especially those residing 
near Boston and belonging to many of the chibs, there has long been 
felt a desire for a 2reater uiformity in measurement, time allowance, 
and all the details of yacht racing rules and regulations, 

Tn order to effect this, and establish a permanent congress for the 
consideration of these points, and also the best method of promoting 
their adoption, itis proposed thac, annually, each club appoint one 
pr more delegates, who shall meétas often as may be necessary. 

This also suggested that such acougress would afford a proper au- 
thority for the settlement of any important questions arising during 
the racing Season. 

YACHTING HEADQUARTERS, 

As important and desirable as the foregoing, is the establishment of 
headquarters forall yachismen belonging to any recopmized yacht 
elub, to be supported by its individual members, 

The advantage of such a headquarters is manifest fo all yachtsmen, 
lt would afford & rendezvous for the meeting of those heartily mter- 
ested in yachting, there to diseuss the eyents of interest in seasons 

one by, and to arrange and plan for the future, The best types of 

ull, and tha best rigs, spars, Had sails could be thoroughly discussed_ 


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Fun, 7, 1884] 


All yachting magazines, both foreign and American, and such 
yachting publications us may be desirable, could there be found, 

A bullet for news, exchanges, sales of yachts, etc., could be es- 
Yablished. It would afford a repository for all new inventions con- 
nected with yacht building and fitting, and numerous other advan- 
azes would inevitably arise from the establishment of such an 

organization, which, it is believed, could be started and maintained 
ata moderate yearly due. - 

It should be distinctly understood that while the yachting congress 
before mentioned, though being under the same head of the New 
England Yachting Association, is entirely separate and distinct in its 
workings. It would be entitled, of course, to the free enjoyment of 
all the privileges of the headquarters. j { 

In order to approximate the support this enterprise wi'l receive at 


its inauguration, the committee appointed to select rooms for the 


headquarters and to ascertain the probable expense of the project 
have concluded to send with this cireular to each member-of the 
different yacht clubs of New England w postal, with a request that 
all who will aid in the start and support of the association will return 
the same with favorable answer. The next general meeting of dele- 
gates, committee and club members interested in this enterprise will 
be held at the Parker House, Boston, Thursday, Ieb. 7, at 7:30 P. M. 

Committee.—C. A. Perkins, Chairman; Fred. Pope, W. L. Jeffries, 
L. M. Clark, Henry Bryant. n 


SMALL BOATS. 


Pace cause of small cruising yachts islooking up. Inquiries for 
models, cost of building, ete., pour in upen us, and builders, nota- 
bly from towns along the Chesapeake Bay and on the lakes, and 
many exhibit a preference for the yawl rig. One inquirer wishes to 
know how to steer with a tiller inasquare stern yawl, the mizzen- 
mast interfering. The tiller should he made of iron. with an elbow 
or bend in wake of the mizzen, so that it can be put hard over with- 
out striking the mast. Or the tiller may be split open, the mast pass- 
ing down through the hole, which should be elliptical with the major 
axis athwartships, and long enough to permit the required play to 
the tiller from side to side. Such a tiller could not be unshipped. Ap- 
plication of alittle mechanical genius could easily overcome this 
drawback. A number of single-hand yachts are already under way 
for owners in this city and in Boston, of which particulars have been 
given. No form of yachting becomes more intensely absorbing than 
single-hand sailing when rightly pursued. The factof being captain, 
crew and cook, with no divided responsibility, completely unfettered, 
at liberty to commit all the blunders you like, unanswerable to any- 


_ one but yourself for the consequences, with the sense of perfect free- 


dom, and the consciousness that all depends upon action and judg- 
ment of your own, contribute to surround single-hand sailing with an 
amount of irresistible fascination and a fullness of realization which 
never pall upon the taste but incite the appetite for more, which no 
end of cruising nor advancing age can appease. To the youngster, to 
the man, and to the veteran at the helm, sailing single-handed is sport 
unequaled, And this is within the reach of the millions, as soon as 
they learn of what a good boat consists. The San Francisco Breeder 
and Sportsman has the following on the subject: 

‘Learning to sail in small vessels makes a sailor of a man, for the 
reason that everything that is necessary to be done must be done by 
himself or one of his companions, not by paid seamen, Whena 
gentleman without any previous experience builds a large yacht 
and attempts to sail her himself, it 1s about a parallel case of teach- 
ing an apprentice of any trade by putting him at once on the most 
difficult work to be found, After a long time he may succeed in 
doing the difficult work, after a fashion; but how much better does 
the apprentice who has worked his way up to thissame work. Again, 
when the gentleman finds that sailing a yacht is not such a simple 
thing as he fondly imagines, he becomes disgusted and also sells out, 
almost always at a terrible sacrifice, and not only retires himself, 
but deters others from his experience from interesting themselves in 
Seanee: We ean recollect when the Lively, yawl Ariel, and other 

oats of that build and size, had special prizes otfered for their build 
and class, and they used to go over the course in the heaviest kind of 
weather, and have as much interest taken in their movements as in 
those of the large yachts. This was as it should be, and this built up 
a hardy race of yachtsmen, many of whom are still withus. En- 
courage the small yacht owners, give them place in your discussions, 
endeavor to get more people to build small yachts, and then, after a 
season or two of such a system, you will see and admit the truth of 
the foregoing remarks.” 

Additions have lately been made to the fleet of small yachts incon- 
siderable number. There was not long ago an impression that small 
butdeep keel boats could not be made to sailor show speed and that 
in spite of their solid adyantages in respect to room, safety. and gen- 
eral cruising adaptability, they would-not become popular because 
lacking in speed. This wasthe theory of the old skimming dish 
school, and was clung to tenaciously by many who have since learnt 
otherwise. For example, sundry members of the Larchmont Y, C., 
had been indulging in the usual idle gossip and fantastical exaggera- 
tions about the speed of the centerboard sloop Gleam, belonging to 
Mr, Lawton, the little unpretending keel cruiser Aneto being at the 
Same time cited as a style of boat unable ‘to get out of her own 
way,” ete., ete. This kind of silly gossip reached its height on acer- 
tain day last fall. Next morning there was a nice sailing breeze blow- 
thg, which brought the extravagantly sparred machine Gleam down 
toacouple of reefs. The Aneto, with a snug yawl rig, which every 
one knows to be less effective than sloop or cutter, happened to gét 
under way at the same time, and an impromptu match was arranged 
with the result that the despised “old hulk” gave the Gleam such an 
out and out tanning on all points, that the day has since become 
memorable for the conversions effected, 

The conclusion fell like a bombshell in the camp and blew to atoms 
many cherished theories and groundless prejudices. Needless to 


_ Say, that Aneto and her class are spoken of since then with profound 


respect instead of derision. It is not always safe to judge of a yacht 
by ruling customs or standards of beauty. <A high side and short 
counter may not be attributes of beauty mn the eyes of those educated 
to a sandbagger’s proportions, but freeboard and low weight with 
good lines below in the Aneto were discovered to clothe qualities of 
greater intrinsic value than the assumed beauty of outline with 
which Gleam’s friends invested the sloop, and upon which they too 
hastily decided beforehand the relative speed of the two yachts. 


- We believe Aneto is to have her overhang spun out this sprivg, and 


that she will also receive a racing rig. In that event, she may sur- 
prise her detractors in light weather as completely as‘she already 
has doneina blow. Meanwhile, the building of small cutters has 
taken a fresh start, and accessions to the fleet of small yachts are 
promised for the coming season, The time is not far distant when.a 
club will be formed in New York especially devoted to the interests 
of yachts under 380ft. loadline. If this move be started by the proper 
persons animated with the right spirit, a future is certain which will 
eclipse in point of membership and activity any organization in these 
waters. There is field enough to draw upon for a thousand members 
and five hundred yachts, with club house and anchorage second to 
noehe of the existing institutions. 

We publish herewith the lines of a new cutter, now planked up in 
the shops of W. P. Stephens, of Staten Island. She isa very taking 
boat, out of which the maximum of service can be got at merely 
nominal expenditure for keep. For ernising and fishing and tor gen- 
eral yachting life afloat, as well as for racing, boats of this class 
appeal to the masses who wish to indulge in tational sport upon a 


- small outlay of money. Such boats are not mere outlines of regular 
yachts like the sandbaggers and open boats, nor mere harbor-drift- 


ers, like other makeshifts, but fit for allthe work and service to 
which a large and costly vessel can be put, differing from their big 
sisters only in tonnage and the distances they can cover in a given 
period of time. This new boatis building for Mr. Willoughby, who 
has ‘tired of keeping sailors’ boarding-houses,’’ and now proposes 
to do some sailing himself. The rig will be either yaw} or cutter, 
Small cockpit and sail hatch aft and hatch over cabin. 


ene imovetalle wc, ee eens Wl, Sole. 
Length on loadline 
JSyerWoabye> dh ev Oly Sees vowel Py aoe a a a 
Depth of hold....,........ 
Dratt extreme. 
DAT ROMEO Bales 
Least freeboard : : 
IDISPIACOMICMG se geet mets irlsiasie. «tte Sere AP 
Displacement in tons, 2,000lbs.................... 3.75 tons. 
Coefficient of fineness....................c.000 05 x 0,824- 
SLLOULOTI NCCI erat Are Pettus ee eel tet tusk: 1,5001bs, 
TRON ETS OM ae, men nnn URE Fe REE & 2,0001bs, 
Ratio of ballast to displacement.... ....... .... 0.5 
ATCANGAALNE PIANC Sa. 5. fee es. Sen) eden es 69 sq. ft 
Areaamidship SECON. yo... se Dee eve oven 1.2sq. fb 
Area longitudinal section, no rudder 65.6sq. ft 
Area wet surface, no rudder..................... 173 sq. ft, 
Area of rudder, both sides.............. .... 1i.6sq. ft. 
M.S. abaft center of L.W.L.... Jee DBI 
Genter of buoyancy. ditto. p00 eee coe ue 72£t 
Center of lateral resistance ditto, with rudder... 1.48ft 
Center of buoyancy below L.W.L..............- 1,16ft, 
Meta center above center aaa 5 Ake Wes sis ee 1.32ft. 
Center buoyancy forward of M.S........... Soeenn OeroL te 
Center lateral resistance ditto................... 0,07ft. 
Avea lower cruising sails..............-2.0005 ..--450,09sq. fb, 
Sail per square foot wet surface........... reeee 2.068q. ft, 
Total wet surface per ton displacement......... 49.2 sq. ft, 


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THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. 


HE service embraced at the close of the last fiscal year 194 sta- 
tions, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific, 
and 1 atthe falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. 

The number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of 
station operations during the fear was 300. There were 8,792 persons 
on board these vessels, of whom 3,777 were saved and only 15 lost. 
The number of the shipwrecked who received succor at the stations 
was 651, and to these 1,879 days’ relief were afforded. The estimated 
value of the vessels involved in these disasters was $5,100,925, and 
that of their cargoes $2,075,515, making the total yalue of property 
imperilied $7,176,540. Of this amount $5,611,800 was saved, and 
$1,564,740 lost. The number cf yessels totally lost, was 68. In addi- 
tion to the foregoing there have been 116 disasters to smaller craft. 
such as sailboats, rowboats, ete., on which were 244 persons, 240 0: 
whom were saved and 4 lost. The property involved in the latter 
disasters was $66,180, of which $59,900 was saved and $6,280 lost, 

In addition to those saved from vessels there were twenty-two 
persons rescued who had fallen from wharves, piers, ete, Of nine- 
teen persons lost nine were drowned by the sudden capsizing of 
yessels before ussistance could reach them; seven were lost in 
endeayoring to get ashore by their own efforts, one perishe. from 
being thrown overboard and one died as soon as landed, 

The number of disasters last year exceeds by seventy-one the num- 
ber of disasters of the year preceding, which was considerably nae 
than that of any previous year in the history of the service. The 
amount of property inyolved was $2,476,493 preater than in the pre- 
ceding year, but the amount lost $88,750 less than that of the preced- 
ing year. 

The assistance rendered during last year in saving vessels and 
cargoes has been much larger than in any previous year, 337 vessels 
having been worked off when stranded, repaired when damaged, 
piloted out of dangerous places, or assisted by the station crews. 
There were besides 125 instances where vessels running into danger 
of stranding were warned off by the night signals of the patrols. 

Since the last report seven additional stations have been completed 
—one at Hunniwell’s Beach, Me,: one at Muskeget Island and one at 
Coskata. Nantucket, Mass.; one at Brigantine Beach, N. J.; one at 
New Inlet, one at Cape Hatteras, and oneat Ocracoke, coast of North 
Carolina. Four other stations are in process of construction and ap- 
proaching compietion—one at Lewes, Del-; one at North Beach, Md.; 
one at Waillop’s Beach, and one at Parramore’s Beach, Wa. 

There have been nine sites selected for new stations which it is 

proposed to erect soon—one at Brenton’s Point, L. I.; one at Grand 
Marais, Lake Superior: one at Frankfort, one at Pentwater, one at 
White River, one at Holland, and one at South Haven, Mich.; one at 
Michigan City, Ind,,and one at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis. 
N° long ago Mr. N. D, Lawton undertook to enlighten the public 
a in the matter of measurement through the columns of the 
Herald. Mr, Lawton ayerred that experience had shown the narrow 
five and three ton cutters unable to compete with the beamier Itchen 
boats of same length. 

If a broad boat is faster than a narrow one of same length, it must 
be evident that a length rule places a premium upon the coustruction 
of beamy boats, and exhibits in its Trenkines a prejudice in favor of 
oe style at the expense of another, which no equitable rule ought 

0 do. ; 

Again, if the broader boat is the faster-of the two, by virtue of her 
enjoyment of beam, then how can a comparison by length alone be 
logical or fair with another which does not enjoy like possibilities for 
the production of speed? 

By Mr. Lawton’s own argument the fallacy and deleterious work- 
ing of ‘simple length”’ are shown up in all their nakedness. 

Length rules are well enough as long as boats are all of one type. 
But in that case the diameter of the galley stove pipe will serve just 
as well. Itisin the competition between different types that the 
prejudices of ‘‘simple length” are quickly discerned. As deep boats 
of great beam are the most expensive to build and sail and dip to 
the greatest draft of water without returning in proportion anything 
worth having, unless if be accommodation for a party of picknickers 
in a cockpit, the simple iength rule will never receive the indorsement 
of persons who appreciate the economics of design and cruising. 
Moreover, any rule which frowns down free choice of forms but art- 
ficially stereotypes particular proportions, brings progress to a 
standstill. If Mr. Lawton is correct in his statement that the greater 
beam of the Itchen boats has been shown to give them greater possi- 
bilities for speed, it follows that beams should pay upon exactly the 
same ground which is advanced for the taxation of length. This is 
in the main accomplished by the sailarea and length rule, as, broadly 
considered, every addition to beam as well as to depth inereases 
stability and the canvas carried in consequence. While we are un- 
able to concede any sound theoretic basis or accurate application to 
that rule, inasmuch as it supplies in most cases a crude comparison 
of the actual sizes of boats, it is certainly far preferable to. that 
simple length, the equity of which Mr, Lawton has so effectively if 
nuwittingly impeached in citing the supposed performance of narrow 
cutters in comparison with beamier boats. But Mr. Lawton ownsa 
nice little round bowl as broad as she is long, and being no great sailer 
except in light weather through the aid of an extravagant area of 
sail, the key to prejudice is easy to find. Eyery man for his own 
boat and te the devil with equity. 


AMATEUR LOGIC. 


CONCLUSIONS OF Y. R. A. ON MEASUREMENT. 


pas committee appointed by the Council of the British Y. R. A. to 
report on the lengths which should be recommended for adoption 
in the length classes met on Monday last. The members of the com- 
inittee were Mr. Frank Willan (chairman), Col. Dugmore, Mr, W. 
Baden-Powell, Mr. Henry Crawford, and Mr. G. B. Thompson. 

The committee haying heard various letters read from different 
clubs which had been asked to express their views, unanimously 
decided to recommend that the classes should be 21ft., 25ft., and zOft , 
and that boats exceeding a class length must go into the class next 
aboye if raced, 

The committee also decided to recommend that for time allowance 
in the different classes the sail area rule of the Y. R. A. should be 
used with the Y. R. A. time scale by tons. The rule is as fcllows: 
sail area x length 
Tons=—___ g000 es 

The committee came to this decision because the types of boats 
around the-coast vary to a large extent, and, even in any particular 
locality, theré is considerable variation of type. A simple length rule 
would not therefore enable these boats to compete together in asatis- 
factory manner, and, moreover, the old boats which have been out- 
elassed owing to the greater weight of lead keels and larger sailareas 
of the newer boats required to be considered, and it is hoped that 
they will be able to compete with some chance of success under the 
sail area rule. Beyond this the cost of producing boats in the length 
classes year by year increases just asit has in the tonnage classes, 
and the committee thought that this growth of the expense should 
be controlled if possible, as it tended to limit the sport to « few.— 
London Field, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. _ 


in full the conclusion of the British Y. R. A, committee that hoats of 
varying type cannot fairly be classed by simple length, and that such 
@ system of comparison leads to the largest and most expensive 
boats on the length, driving all moderate sizes with moderate rigs out 
of existence through the failure to measure size sufficiently near the 
truth. While the sail area and length rule does not accomplish this 
in all cases, it comes so much nearer to a relative estimate of size in 
the majority of mstances and extends proper consideration to rea- 
sonable forms and rigs that it is to be preferred to siniple length. 
After a reasonable size has been reached on a given length, a further 
increase, whether in the depth and displacement of cutters or in the 
beam and above water bulk of a sloop, adds nothing in the economics 
of a yacht worth having, but increases the expense of build and 
commission. The additional size, however, supplies further power 
and ability to the boat and, escaping taxation under a length rule, 
compels building up to an undesirable extreme in cutter as well as in 
sloop whether you like it ornot. When taxed through the sail rule, 
the compensation granted to smaller boats permits the choice of a 
moderate form and equity inracing against larger and more power- 
ful yachts of the same length, which is as it should be in justice to 
all and with regard to latitude of model, allowing every one to settle 
upon size and rig he prefers without prejudice to any style. The log- 
ical derivation of sail area and length is open to question, but in tis 
practical workings it is much more rationai and less proscriptive than 
comparison by simple length, - 


THE NEWPORT MATCH LAST YEAR. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Iam not surprised that Fortuna should be the favorite of Forzst 
AND STREAM Over schooners of the American idea. Sound Fortuna’s 
trumpet all you please. but don’t make assertions about other boats 
that you cannot proye. You state that in the Newport race last 
summer Montauk, ‘on edge and battened down,” barely beat For- 
tuna fiye minutes, when the fact is, there was not a hatch or skylight 
closed on Montauk in the race, and so far trom being “on edge," 
there was no time during the race when she was down to her scup- 
pers. At the finish Fortuna just weathered the lower end of line, 
while Montauk had to bear away to cross. Fortuna could not have 
reached the windward position in which Montauk crossed in fifteen 
minutes. The apparent better time of Fortuna down the wind was 
simply the result of adyantages and by Fortuna holding on to her 
kites longer than Montauk. The fact that Montauk beat Fortuna 
easily down the wind when the squadron left Newport proves the 
boasted superiority of Fortuna down the wind ig pure fiction. Mon- 
tauk stands upon her merits, and, though losing two drift races, she 
has never yet been fairly. beaten, GuEsT, 

[Concerning hatches being battened down and sailing on edge, our 
information was derived from several sources. As but little of the 
Match could be seen, we, of course, accept the correction made by a 
“Guest”? on board the Montank during the race. We have likewise 
reports from different sources that Fortuna was found the better of 
the two whenever sheets were lifted. As to Montauk’s finishing 
higher up than Fortuna, it was due to making a hitch to sea after the 
turn and the subsequent veering of the wind favoring the weather- 
most yachts and forcing the others to pinch. This also accounts for 
the difference at the finish. We do not ‘‘fayor’’ Fortuna in particu- 
lar, but simply desire to see a just record to both sides. As the 
‘patriotic’? division of critics took care of Montauk’s case, we 
seught to arrive at conclusions upon the technical issues of the day, 
and they are not weakened by our correspondent’s letter. That it 
is not a difficult thing to press Montauk to a capsizing point was 
made very clear early last spring.] 


NUMBER TWELVE. 


(ES twelfth eutter underway for next season is a very handsome 
boat building by Lennox, of South Brooklyn, for Mr. Ripley. She 
will be 30ft. over all, 25ft. water line, $ft. beam, and 5)4ft. draft, with 
two tons lead on the keel. The wood keel is 8xhinches. Single 
steam-bent frames all through, flush deck, and full cutter rig. This 
new yacht will make a splendid match for the Daisy, to be imperted. 
The backbone and frame is all out, and the work is now being put 
together. This cutter is from designs by her owner. 


PRESENTATION.—‘‘Old Wul Fife,” the famous builder of a long 
string of crack vessels hailing from Fairlie, Scotland. was recently 
presented with a lifelike portrait of himself by a host of admirers. 
Mr. Fife is not only one of the most successful builders of modern 
times, but also a highly respected citizen of the town of Fairlie, in 
which he holds many responsible positions. Among his famous 
racers with their biggest winnings we may name; Fiona, 78 tons, 
Mr. Boutcher, who won $3,800 in 1870. Neva, 60. tons, Mr, R. K. Holms 
Kerr, $6,700 in 1877. Annasona, 40 tons, Mr. Hedderwick, $7,800 in 
1882. Ulidia, the smartest 10-tonner afloat, Mr, Corry, 31,100 im 1883, 
and Camelia, 5 tons, Mr. Lawson, who won $1,000 in 1877, or nearly 
half her first cost. “Mr, Fife has a promising son, who designed An- 
nasona, Ulidia and others and upon whom the talent of the father 
has descended. ‘Young Fife” is now superintendent of the Culzean 
Launch and Yacht Werks, of which the Marquis of Ailsa is owner. 
He has now in hand some new racers for this season which will no 
doubt show a long string of flags at the close of the match sailing 
next fall. 

NEW SCHOONER.—The Palmers of Noank are putting up a large 
schooner of their customary style and build for Mr. H. D, Burnham 
of Boston. Length over all, 115ft.; beam, 23ft.; hold, 16ft. A keel 
boat with a back bone 36x12in.; stem and post, 10xi4in.; frame of 
oak; locust stanchions; 8-in. oak plank; pine ceiling; 234m, square 
white pine decks; rail cap of oak 9x3in.; copper and galvanized 
fastenings; maimmast, 87tt.; foremast, 85ft. bin.; maimboom, TOft. ; 
gaff, 38ft.; foreboom, 30ft.; gaff, 29ft.; topmast, 41 and d0ft.; bow- 
sprit knightheads to cap, 24{t.; Jibboom, 25ft. beyond cap; spinna- 
ker boom, 7aft.; sails by Sawyer. 

COMPROMISE SLOOP.—the little sloop, already mentioned in our 
issue for Jan. 10, building for Mx, Forbes’ sons, is of the compromise 
type, haying good depth of body anda small board, which could be 
done away with by the addition of 8in. keel. She will have 4.0U0Ibs. 
lead outside and 744sq.ft. of sail with housing topmast, mast deck to 
hounds 30ft. with 314ft. masthead. Topmast, 15ft.; boom, 26ft.; lon 
gaff of 17ft. and bowsprit 12ft. outboard. She is 28ft. loadline, wit 
5ft. cutter overhang, and 8ft. 9in. draft without board. 

BUNKER HILL Y.C.—Membership is now 51, owning 4 schooners, 
13 sloops and 6 eats. Present rooms of the club are on Wellington's 
Whart, East Boston. Officers elected for the year: Commodore, P. 
M. Bond: Vice-Commodore, D.C. Musgrave; Fleet Captain, W. H. 
Hodgkinson; Secretary and Treasurer, B. F. Underhill, Jr. ; Financial 
Secretary, George W. Abbott; Trustees, William H. Tolman, George 
T. D. Williams, T. B. Rich; Measurer, Harry L. Johnson. 

NEW SCHOONER.—Mr, A. Cary Smith is at work on a new four 
beam keel schooner of 65ft, loadline and 9ft. water, for San Francisco 
owners. Moderate beam and good draft is carrying the day all the 
ceuntry over. 

ABANDONED.—The collapse of length measurement in England is 
noticed on the editorial page. 


ee nee SE SS eee 


[Fre 7, 1884. 


A COMPLIMENT DESERVED.—Marine Engineer Saefkew, of the 
Imperial German Navy, has been elected an honorary member of the 
Rhe Y.C, of Stettin, in consideration of the yaluable aid and ime 
pulse he has given to yachting on the Baltic. This election has b 
conveyed through an elegantly illuminated diploma composed 
yachting and nautical subjects grouped in a water-color painting with 
appropriate resolutions attached. 

THETIS.—According to the Boston Herald, April 28 has beet 
selected for the launching of Mr. Henry RBryant’s new yacht from 
W. B. Smith’s yard at South Boston. She is now about planked up 
and laying the decks has commenced. Her tender will be of the 
whaleboat pattern, 18ft. by 4446ft., built of cedar and mahogany, 

CORRESPONDENCE,—We answer nearly all inquiries by letter. It 
is necessary that proper address should be given in all cases. § 
cifie data where alterations are contemplated are required to form al 
Opinion. 

GOOD-BYE STUB-TAIL STERNS.—The sloop Thistle, originally oF © 
Boston, now the property of Mr. Wm, Ziegler, is to bs spun out aft by 
the addition of a cutter’s fantail. ; 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


BE. C.F,, Cornwall, Pa.—The owner of Dash III. is Mr. A. M, Tucker 
85 Main street, Charlestown, Mass. 


H. D,, Baltimore, Md.—The dam of Snapis Hill's Tillery. She 
was by Scout (Plunket—Carrie) and out of Beauty (Plunket—Nell)_ 


AMATEUR, Augusta, Ga.—The rules of the Eastern Field Trialé 
Club require that the sire and dam of entries be given, The Na 
tional rules do not. 

RAMBLER, Waynesburg, Pa.—Rose and Noreen are owned by Diy 
Ww. Jarvis, Clairmont, N. H,; Lady Clare by Mr. J. 8, McIntosh 
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Trix by the Glencho Kennels, Peelsslill, N. ¥ 
Allare first-class animals, 


A FEROCIOUS BUCK.—An Adirondack guide, whet 
arrested and brought to trial for killing a deer out of season 
pleaded not guilty, and axplained that he was afraid the d 
was going to bite him, If that man reads the New York Sum 
he has doubtless seen this bit of correspondence from Rolland= 
ville, Pa., Jan. 29: The game law of Pennsylyania prohibits ¢hi 
killing of deer after Jan. 1, and consequently something of 
sensation was created in this village when Jordan Mapes ang 
Frank Grover, two well-known citizens, drove in on Saturday 
with the body of a large buck in their sleigh. They drew up 
in front of Crane’s store, and the entire village soon surround 
the sleigh, and questions poured in thick and fast on Mapes 
and Grover, Such a bold and open violation of the law had) 
not been known in years. John Rollands, a well-to-do citizen, 
took the men to task, and declared he would have them 
arrested. They told him that he had better not haye them 
arrested until he had heard how they came by the deer, and 
Grover made the following statement, which Mapes corrobor 
ated; ‘‘We were driving through the piece of woods heyond 
Fairland’s mill,” said he, ‘‘when suddenly the buck jumped 
out into the road and attacked our horse. It tried to strike 
the horse with its fore feet. We whipped up and yelled at the 
deer to frighten it away, butit then turned on us and tried % 
jump into the sleigh. Frank foughtit with an axe helve 
happened to have with us, while | plied the whip on the horsey 
But the more Frank battered it over the head the madder Thy 
got, and it finally ran off to the edge of the woods, and, giving) 
one leap, landed plump in the sleigh right across ourfeet. Wé 
both jumped out and made for the woods. ‘he horse went 
on, with the buck lying clear across the sleigh, its hind leggy 
hanging over on one side and its fore legs on the other, 
took the deer quite a while to get out of the sleigh, and them, 
it came tearing back after us. e were seared half to deathy 
Frank succeeded in getting up a tree out of reach, but 7 
couldn’t climb, and, seeing I wasin for a fight, 1 grabbed a) 
rail from a lot that happened to be cut and piled there, amd 
when the buck came rushing at me I let him have it squary 
in the forehead, and downed him, Before he could get up 
hammered the life out of him. Frank then got down out ¢ 
the tree and ran down the road after the horse, He found 
by the side of the road all right, a mile away. He brough 
the sleigh back, and we loaded the buck in and brougat | 
home. We couldn’t see any particular point in leaving it m# 
the woods for wildeats to feed on. The deer must have b 
driven by dogs until it was crazy, and didn’t know what 
was doing. if you take us up, Mr. Rollands, I don’t beli 
you will be able to make us out guilty.” Justice Wilson, wht 
was present, was positive that there was nothing in the law 
forbidding peaceful citizens to defend themselves against 
attacks of wild beasts known to be so fierce and bloodthirsty 
as deer. Mr. Rollands concluded, under the circumstancesy 
not to make an arrest. Mapes and Grover offered to raffle the 
deer off for $25, and to give $10 of the proceeds to the poom 
fund. The offer was accepted, and twenty-five chances, at a8 
a chance, were soon disposed of. Justice Wilson took ty 
chances, John Rollands took two chances. Justice Wi ilsoy 
wonthe deer. It was lifted out of the sleigh and placed @ 
the stone stoop. Inthe afternoon the ’Squire drove down ang 
loaded it in his sleigh. On his way home he was stopped hy 
Constable Winans. ‘“Squire,” said the constable, ‘I’ve got @ 

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“What for.” ‘To rest ye fur havin’ ven’son in yer p’sessiox 
'ginst the law.” ‘The constable served his warrant. It hag 
been sworn out by John Rollands before Justice Clark 
Squire Wilson was taken before Justice Clark, where Ti 
waived examination and gave $100 bail to appear and answel 
the charge at the next term of court. : 


Three boys in Moultonborough, N. H., have this season sht 
285 partridges, for which they obtained forty cents each, te 
foxes, besides several mink and other game. 


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CONTENTS, 
EDIrortaL, THE KENNEL. 
The Ohio Floods, Cocker Spaniel Produce Stakes. 
A Pig in a Poke. Crystal Palase Dog Show. 
Loading at the Score. Kennel Notes. 


The Flickerings Ballot, 
THESPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Between the Lakes.--tv. 


RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery. 
A Close Target. 


Reminiscences of the Northwest | The Trap. 
Major Joseph Verity.—v1. The Olay-Pigeon Tournament. 
Winter Fireside Thoughts, CANOEING. 
NATURAL. HISTORY. Amateur Canoe Ruilding.—v1. 
The Egret. Double vs, Single. 
-The Corn Crake in New York. Fulton C, ©, 
Antelope and Deer of America, The Galley Fire 


Game BAG AnD Gun. 

The Choice of Hunting Rifles, 
The Birds in West Virginia. 
Another Cat Tale. 

Mucilage Hdge Wads. 

The Performance of Shotguns. 

Camp-Firr FLICKERINGS. 

SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 
Trouting on the Bigosh. 
Gaffing a Sturgeon. 
Land-Locked Salmon. 

The Best Color for Leaders. 
Pennsylvania Anglers’ Associ- 
ation. 

FISHCULTURE. 

The Edible Qualities of Carp. 

Propesed Adirondack Hatchery 
THE KENNEL. 

Bang Bang. 

Toronto Dog Show. 

The Cincinnati Dog Show. 

The Beagle Club. 


Camp Outfits. 
Practical Cookery — Griddle 


Cakes. 
The Chart Locker. 
Inland Waters of Maine. 
The Log Book. 
Down the Mississippi. 
Canoeing on the West Coast 
of Florida. . 
A Canoeist’s Wiater Sport. 
Canoe and Sneakbox, 
YACHTING. 
The Corinthian. Club, 
Chesapeake Craft. 
Patriotism with a Patent to the 
Rescue. 
Number Twelve. 
The Measurement Conundrum. 
Concerning Sails. 
Steam Yachts. 
Notes from the Delaware. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


With its compact type and i its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of jirst-elass matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all other 
American publications put together. 


LOADING AT THE SCORE, 


A’ several recent shooting contests we have noticed a 
. careless disregard of the rule which requires that guns 
should be loaded only after the shooter has stepped to the 
score and is ready to take his chances at the trap. The 
marksmen instead put in the cartridge and then stand about 
with their weapons over the shoulders, or tucked away 
under their arms, or perhaps standing butt on the ground as 
the contestant sits waiting Tor his turn at the trap. 

No habit can be more reprehensible than this. There is 
absolutely no excuse for it. The saving in time is insignifi- 
cant, if there is any at all, while the chance of a mishap is 
so great that no one but the most reckless marksman would 
take it. There issome reason for carrying a loaded gun 
in the field where a snap shot may be called for at any 
moment, but even then the charge should always be with- 
drawn when there is a long tramp to be taken, a boat ride, 
or a wagon trip. The man who is careless of these minor 
points of safety on the trap grounds is generally a tyro. He 
is.the greenhorn who thinksit clever to take risks, imagines 
it isa mark of experience when he puts himself above the 
rules of safety, and resents as an imputation on. his ability 
to take care of himself any warning which may be offered 

In rifle shooting the same difficulty presents itseli—marks- 
men will parade about under arms. They seem to imagine 
themselves on the picket line in active warfare, or on the 
skirmish line with the enemy in view, and really careful 
shooters are put to no small nervous strain in watching the 
eomings and goings of these dangerous fools. Often in 
shifting from range to range and from one firing point to 


another, the nonsensical freak of keeping a ball cartridge in 
the weapon is indulged in and frequently passes unrebuked. 

There is but one way to meet this difficulty. It deserves 
asevere penalty and should receive it. It will not do to 
have a rule on the printed card and expect careless fellows 
to take the hint. They won’t doit. They need instructions 
by object lessons, and the most effective one is to have a 
heavy fine imposed, or better still to havea clear and marked 
case of this fault drummed off the range for his act. The 
rule should carry with it its own warning. There should be 
no second or third trials for such an offense. The first act 
of omission should bring an emphatic rebuke from which 
there should be no appeal. : 


THE OHIO FLOODS. 


{RASS winter and spring we hear the same news from 
+4 the Western rivers. The Ohio and the Mississippi, 
with their tributaries, are swollen by the melting snow within 
their watersheds, overflow their banks and cause the destruc- 
tion of millions of property and scores of liyes. The floods 
come with regularity, and appear to;be each year a little more 
destructive than they were the year before. The people who 
live upon the river banks, undergo their usual drowning, 
or washing out, as the case may be, and then after the floods 
have subsided, go about their vocations as usual. Subacrip- 
tions are taken up for the relief of the sufferers, the general 
government makes appropriations for their relief and spends 
money in building damsand dykes, which shall restrain the 
mighty streams and keep them within their banks. The 
annual lesson seems to teach nothing, however, to the peo- 
ple of the United States. These people are not usually re- 
garded as fools, but how slow they are in appreciating the 
palpable facts that these damaging floods are a direct result 
of their destruction of our forest lands. 

The snow falls now upon the land as of old, and the hills 
and fields lie beneath the pure white mantle for months. 
Then comes a warm rain. All at once the snow melts. 
Hach trickling spring becomes a roaring brook, each brook 
a torrent, and the entire precipitation of a month ar two is 
thrown, almost in a day, into the stream. This is large 
enough to carry off the water had it been gradually supplied, 
but when it comes all at once, the task is beyond its capacity, 
and the choked up waters rise, carrrying devastation and 
death to the surrounding country. 

When the forests covered our land, it was different. The 
snow came then and lay among the great forest trees, beneath 
the spreading pine and hemlcck, and the naked branches of 
oak and hickory. When the warm rain came the snow 
melted, but much more gradually. The freed drops did 
not then as now hurry down the hillside as if they hoped by 
a single impetuous bound to reach the sea. They trickled 
here and there by devious ways, and stopped among the 
mosses, and dived down into the crevices of the rock, 
loitered among the grass roots and soaked into the ground, 
for there were not then a million of their fellows behind 
them pushing them on with an impatience that knows no 
curbing. : Then they could take their time, and they did so. 

‘This week it is stated that Congress has reported a bill 
providing the appropriation of $800,000 for the aid of the 
sufferers by the Ohio floods. This is well. \lt is right to 
pay for damage done. But Congress ought not to stop 
here. Annual appropriations of hundreds of thousands of 
dollars for cure, and not a penny for prevention, is the 
height of improvident folly. How much wiser and more 
economical it would be to enact some intelligent legislation 
to provide the United States with a competent forestry com- 
mission, and then to give it money enough to carry on 
its work intelligently, wisely and liberally. Should we 
alone of civilized nations be-behind hand in a matter which 
so deeply concerns the material prosperity of our country? 

The fact that our country is a comparatively new one, and 
that until recently its forests have appeared to the short- 
sighted and superficial eyes of our lumbermen inexhaustible, 
seems to be the only excuse for the criminal laxity of legis- 
lators, State and Federal, in this important matter. It is 
time this supimeness ceased. Itis time that measures be 
taken to protect our citizens against Josses such as are now 
occurring in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and such as will 
a little later take place in those States which lie along the 
Mississippi River. The press and the people should take 
the matter in hand, and urge upon their representatives the 
needs of the country in this respect. We have preached the 
sermon so often and from so many points of view that it 
seems needless to urge it further. 

Just at this time, however, we should think that the need 
of forest preservation would have presented itself very forci- 


bly to those who have suffered in Pennsylvania, West Vir- 
ginia, Ohio and Kextucky. Surely there ought to be some 
converts made from those States. Surely the representatives 
at Washington of these unfortunate people ought to be able 
to tella moving tale, and to urge, from their own experi- 
ence, the needs for forest preservation of at least one section 
of our country. 

More important than the hardship which will result 
from the absence of timber for commercial purposes, and 
prior to it in time, comes the danger from floods, We 
are just beginning to experience this danger, and before 
the need for action is fully appreciated, no doubt we 
shall have to pass through a severe school of suffering. 
The dwellers in the fertile Ohio and Mississippi valleys 
will be the first to sustain loss, they should be the first to 
ery for forest preservation everywhere throughout the land. 


A Bru Intrropeccep into the New York Legislature this 
week, and-passed by the Senate, deserves the support of all 
sportsmen. Its provisions forbid the use of batteries in the 
pursuit of wildfowl on any waters within the State. Here- 
tefore it has been lawful, in certain Long Island waters, to 
shoot from batteries, a practice which we now hope to see 
stopped. Really, itseems at lasta if the legislators in cer- 
tain States were beginning to have some appreciation of the 
necessity fer game protection. The passage by the Penn- 
sylvania Legislature of a law forbidding fowl! shooting after 
Jan, 1, is certainly a movement which is as encouraging 
as it was unexpected. And, now that Pennsylvania has set 
the example, we may hope that New Jersey, New York, 
Delaware and the New England States will sooner or later, 
for very shame, follow the good example set them. The 
abolition of spring shooting is the first step toward the 
preservation of our wildfowl and shore birds, and when the 
importance of this change in the law has made itself felt, a 
long step will have been taken in the right direction. Let 
every sportsman do what he can to agitate this subject, and 
impress its importance upon his neighbors. 


SkarES AND Rirites.—The latest thing in target shosting 
is the skating rifle match, <A target is set up on the edge of 
the pontl or*stream. Two lines are drawn on the ice, one 
ten yards above the target, the other ten yards below. The 
contestants, at given distances, skate across the ice, and 
when between the two lines, while skating at full speed, aim 
and fire at the target. This novelty has excited great inter- 
est in certain ice-bound districts. It is hardly necessary to 
call attention to the extreme caution which should be ex- 
ercised in setting up a target of this kind. Firing is apt to 
be wild, and when a bullet has once left the muzzle there 
is no deviee yet discovered by which it may be recalled, 
even though speeding straight for a farm-house. 


Tur AVERAGE MAN takes the average dog into the field, 
talks to it ina way which presupposes on the canine’s part 
a perfect comprehension of the English language. Asa 
matter ef fact, the dog knows very little English. Then 
when the average man discovers that the average dog. does 
not understand all that is said, he straightway looks about 
for a club with which to beat his commands into the canine’s 
neddle. The average man may with profit to himself and 
his dog read a communication on this subject in our Kennel 
columns. 


Tun ‘‘Orr-SEASON” may be very profitably employed. If 
an angler, one may practice fly-casting. The ice is a capital 
place for this, That is where some of the most successful 
tournament fly-casters found their training. If a gunner, 
this is a good time to experiment for determining the best 
way of loading, ete, Trap-shooters in many sections of the 
country have had ample opportunity for keeping their 
hands in. 


Dearu or D. C. SANBORN.—Just as we go to press we 
receive intelligence of the death of Mr. D. C. Sanborn, of 
Dowling, Mich. He died last week at Alamo, Tenn. This 
announcement will be received with sorrow by the very 
many friends of Mr. Sanborn. Few men were so widely 
known among sportsmen; no one was more highly respected. 


New Game Laws.— We again repeat the request that our 
readers in different States send in the new game laws that 
are enacted this year. 


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A PIG IN A POKE. 

| RR ere appears a letter relating to remarks offered 

' in these columns anent the anxiety of a certain Captain 
Lundborg to sell out a revolution in naval architecture to 
the United States, exact price not mentioned. We cannot 
understand why such a letter should have been addressed to 
us for publication. It contains nothing at all bearing upon 
the matter, and is weak in argument and logic. As a cer- 
tificate of Captain Lundborg’s good character it is sxper- 
fluous, and as a technical indorsement of the proposed revolu- 
tion, it is without weight because of its non-professional ori- 
gin. If merely an attempt to advertise a customer, it calls 
for no further attention than to justify its appearance in 
these columns, lest the charge be laid at our door of refusing 
others access to the public. The communication in no way 
Vitiates what we have said. Aecompanying the same is the 
address of the “‘inyentor” to Congress. This memorial is an 
unfortunate affair, being composed of loose generalities and 
stump oratory, appealing desperately to the ‘“‘patriotism” of 
Congress to give the revolution a lift, and set it agoing with 
might and main. A discussion of the merits or demerits of 
Captain Lundborg’s scheme is not pertinent at present. It 
would lead away from the principal question, nor can we 
concede to the scheme sufficient importance or prospect of 
success to call for further consideration. The point we 
make isa simple ene. This is not a paternal government, 
engaged in helping along needy inventors upon the strength 
of a circular in which Washington, Jefferson, Madison and 
other eminent persons are made to figure as canvassers for a 
dubious revolution existing so far only on paper. There is. 
ample opening for the use of all the capital of the country, 
and more besides in the development of the Great West at 
more remunerative rates than can be expected from its invest. 
ment in floating property in competition with the cheaper 
garriers of older nations. - 

There is, therefore, no reason whatever why Oongress) 
should hear the appeal of a vendor of nautical revolutions 
on “patriotic” grounds any more than similar appeals from 
the inventors of reapers, sewing machines or quartz cerashers,| 
any one of which has far greater and more immediate and! 
tangible application to the country’s needs, than theoretical, 
improvement in the models-of ships. If the memorial of 
Captain Lundborg should influence a graut of money direct 
or through the medium of experiments carried out by the 
Navy Department, an onslaught upon the Treasury might 
be expected fpom the lightning rod man engaged in the 
laudabie and patriotic profession of protecting the valuable 
lives of American citizens in their homes; and the sewing 
machine agent would not be slow in setting forth his claims 
in behalf of the oppressed class of poor girls, whose capital 
in needles and thread would buy up our nautical interests 
several times over. ‘The memorial of Captain Lundborg to} 
Congress is nothing less than the entering wedge of a vicious 
system seeking the advancement of personal interests at the 
risk and expense of the community. The commercial marine 
of a nation is not to be restored by listening to the clamor of 
a few subsidy beggers nor by the purchase of a pig ip a poke. 
When Captain Lundborg hints in his address that prosperity 
awaits our nautical interests in proportion to the action Con-- 
gress takes upon his “‘invention,” his address descends to 
positive burlesque. As we said before, this appeal to Con-, 
gress is preposterous and should be promptly resented by 
a large negative vote should the supplication ever reach the 
dignity of a proposition before that body. 

Let Captain Lundborg and his revolution float or sink in 
the world according to their worth. If his plans have half’ 
the merits claimed, private enterprise is quite equal to the 
task of testing and launching the innovation and is ready to 
eagerly grab an invention promising a monopoly to a great 
extent, 


THE FLICKERINGS BALLOTS. 

At aunibers are disproportionate. Twenty-one hundred 

and twelve ballots, and only seven prizes. The prize 
winners are to the others asi to 300. We can, however, 
hardly suspect of sordid motives every one of those who have 
thus cordially co-operated to make the Flickerings discus- 
siou so success{ul; nor do we believe that each of the 2,105 
who receive no prize can be classed among those familiar 
and disagreeable personages we all know so well, the ‘‘dis- 
appointed exhibitors.” There is one consolation—every 
vote helped to make the result what it was. And if any 
carper be found who neither voted nor acquiescesin the re- 
sult, he has no one but himself to thank. 

From numerous expressions, we have reason to think that 
‘the yoting competition has afforded pleasure to our readers, 
Indeed, the “‘scheme” has been so much more cordially re- 
ceived and acted upon than we had anticipated, that we 
have almost determined to repeat it another year. If that 
be done, there willbe certain modifications of the plan. 
These will be stated hereafter; perhaps next week. 

Herewith is presented the final report on the vote, ast 
week we announced the winning stories. To-day we give 
the names of the winning voters and their ballots. 

It was explained in our original announcement of the eon- 
ditions of the competition that the winning ballots would be 
those which showed the highest aggregate of story credits. 
This is only another way of saying that those ballots would 
win which should come nearest to the choice of all the voters, 

The relative meits of the ballots have been determined by 
an addition of the credit units belonging to the several 


| stories on each list. The highest possible total of credits 
would be reached by a card containing (witheut regard to 
order) the ten stories which received the highest scores of 
credits; that is, Nos. 36, 53, 31, 45, 98, 27, 42, 10, 33 and 20. 
(See table of first fifteen in last issue.) This highest possible 
is found tovbe 39,272. The winning ballot, as will be seen 
below, has all of the winning soven stories, and sums up the 
remarkably high score of 87,814. 
We give the detailed scores of the first ten ballots, 
these the first seven are the prize winners. 


List, Credits. Total, 

HIRST Mra J Are sp, . sects on oprecanete rae 93 4.017 
(Address, Jefferson, Ohio. Card mailed 36 5,423 
Jan. 19. Mr. Crisp writes: “‘Heregoes 33 2,928 
for first prize.’*) 31 4,480 
37 4,105 
42 3,301 
45 4,246 
58 4,735 
14 2,067 

. i7 2.41237, 814 
SECOND—Mr, H. W. Gilbert: ...4..2..220se0c0s-- 37 4105 
(Address, Produce Exchange, New York 93 4.017 
city. Card nailed Jan. 5.) 31 4,480 
43 2,601 
20 2,908 
33 2,928 
53 4.735 
36 5,428 
45 4,346 

76 1,927— 37,470 
TumrD—Me. William J, Smith,...............-. 37 4,105 
(Address, No. 118 Dartmouth street, Bos- 48 1,886 
ton, Mass. Card mailed Jan. 3.) vi 2,412 
31 4,480 
7 2,821 
42 3,301 
45 4,346 
36 5,423 
53 4,735 

20 2,908—36,417 
Feurta—Mr. Josiah T. Middleton............ . 93 4,017 
(Address, 121 Hast Fifty-first street, New 31 4,480 
York. Card mailed Jan. 10.) 35 5,428 
37 4,105 
38 2,558 
42 3,301 
45 4,346 
44 404 
43 2,601 

53 4,735—35,970 
Firta—Lieut, W. E. Hofman .................. 17 2,412 
(Address, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming 31 4.480 
Territory. Card mailed Jan 8.) 36- 5,423 
53 4,785 
20 2,908 
38 2.508 
42 3,301 
93 4,017 
76 1,927 

; 37 4,105—35,866 
SrxrH—Mr, ©. EH. Seger........... 220.20 eee eee 94 2,151 
(Address, No. 16 North Fourth street, 38 2,558 
Quifiey, Il. Card mailed Jan. 3.) 93 4,017 
53 4,735 
45 4,346 
43 2,601 
42 3,301 
36 5,423 
31 4,480 

23 2,157—35,769 
Sreventa—Mr. E.S. Cranston. ......., ..... 31 480 
(Address, Willimantic, Conn. Card 92 1,152 
mailed Jan, 8.) 53 4,735 
45 4,346 
37 4,105 
36 5,423 
20 2,908 
33 2,928 
10 3,029 

38 2,558—35,664 
HieutH—Mr. E. D. McConnell................. 20 2,908 
(Address, P. O. Box 180, Madison, N. J. 42 3,301 
Card mailed Jan. 30.) 33 2,928 
45 4,346 
53 4,735 
93 4,017 
23 2,157 
27 1,362 
31 4,450 

86 5,423—35,657 
Ninta—Mr, M. Britton... 5... as eae 93 4,017 
(Address, Wauseon, Ohio. Card mailed 62 2,764 
Jan. 25,) 53 4,785 
45 4,346 
36 5,423 
37 4,105 
29 2,485 
31 4,480 
17 2,412 

25 844—85,611 
TENTtTH—Mr, M. P. McKoon..................... 36 5,423 
(Address, Franklin, N.Y. Card mailed 33 2,928 
Lec, 27.) 31 4,480 
62 2,764 
91 2.529 
29 2,485 
53 4,735 
7 4,105 
18 1824 

93 4,017—85,290 


By reference to the list of winning stories in our last ntm- 
ber, it will be seen that the writer of the first prize ballot 
named all of the seven prize stories; the second wmter 
named six; the third, six; the fourth, seven; the fifth; six; 
the sixth, six, and’the seventh, five. 

, That each voter may count his or her own ballot, we sub- 
join a complete list of the credits given to each story of the 


ninety-six: 
COMPLETE TABLE OF STORY CREDITS. 

1...1494 17.. .2412 83... 2928 49... 175 65... 686 81... 480 
2... 888 18, . 1824 34, . 1272 60... 25 66... 218 £2... 614 
8...1817 19... 417 85 ..1659 51... 259 67... 282 " 83... 817 
4... 230 20., 2908 36 ..5428t . 52... 290 68... 74 &4... 711 
5 .. 660 Lee 87...4105 53 ..4735 69... 385 85... 184 
6... 336 22, ..1583 38... 2558 64... 150 70... 173 86...1816 
7...2821* 23., .2157 39... 291 Hb. BY 7 aes 87.. 406 
8. ..1257 24... 893 40... 483 56. ..1581 72. ..1433 88... 1089 
9 ,.1401 25.. 844 41... 761 5¢... 197 73... 142 89... 757 
10, ..3029 26... 350 42...3301 58... 194 74... 88 90... 264 
11... 244 27. ..1862 48. . 2601 59... 667 75... 558 91.. .2529 
12... 164 98... 88 44... 404 60... 681 76 .,1927 92...1152 
13. ..1626 29. ..2485 45. . 4346 61... 988 Jit Ps) 93...4017 
14. , 2067 30... 121 46 .. 893 62... .2764 78... 844 94,. 2151 
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16. ..1183 82... B82 48. . 1886 64... 472 80... 198 96... 195 


*No. 7. By transposition of the 6 credits and the 7 credits in the 
table last week there wasan apparent increase in the score of No. 7. 
The total is 2,821, ; 

+No. 36. By the omission of a 10 creditin our table last week, No. 
36 was credited in the first line with 1,300, when it shoud have been 
1,310. The total 5,423 was correct. 


THE WRITER oF No. 36.—By mistake in our address book, 
we assigned the authorship of the story No. 36, tothewrong 
man. Last week we asked the writer to send us his name 
and address. We now repeat the request. The writer of 
story No. 36 will please make himself known, that he may 
receive the prize book now awaiting his order, 


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Che Sportsman Tourist. 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Fourth Paper. 


HUNTING AND FISHING. 


who sits down to write a history of events engaging 
his fancy, is apt to find himself lingering in the by- 
ways of his story longer than was his original purpose. He 
is like one meeting for an evening, after years of separation, 
an old and dear friend of his youth. There is so much to 
talk about, so much to tell and hear, and so short a time for 
it all, Here am I, charged with the task of recording the 
history of the summer rambling of the Judge, the Greek Pro- 
fessor and myself, and there is so much that I could write 
and so little room for it all that I hardly know where to 
begin or where to leave off. Why, a sood-sized book would 
not suffice for it. This is the fourth paper of the series, and 
yet I have scarcely begun the story of the pleasant camp life 
we led on the Ahmeek-we-se-pe. 

Ah! how sweet the recollection of these forest and stream 
experiences are! Here I sit by my fire with my feet on the 
fender and the wintry winds without moan atthe gables and 
roar in the chimney throats, and the snow whirls around the 
corners and drifts into heaps, while I, scarcely conscious of 
it all, dream of soughing winds in pine trees, of blazing 
camp-fires, of leafy woods, of wimpling streams, of leaping 
trout. Howl, ye boreal winds, and pile up, ye drifting snows 
I go a-fishing this very night. ‘ 

Where am I? Yes, the Judge killed a deer and he came 
into camp with it on his back, looking for all the world like 
the pictures of the hunters familiar in my boyhood days, 
only the Judge did not weara’coon skin cap and his gun 
did look as lonz as did the old hunters’ guns in the pictures. 
This exploit of the Judge occurred some days after our trip 
to the Seven Mile Creek, and as our venison had been out a 
good while, and trout were not so easily taken as at the first, 
it came when most needed. Our two hunters had been hunt- 
ing industriously for several days. The Greek Professor 
had made a salt lick on the plan suggested to him by \Cap- 
tain Jim, and while he watched his lick, the Judge took to 
the small Jakes, and finally success rewarded his efforts. Flis 
deer was a small one, and for a near-sighted man, the shot 
was a gcod one. He put the ball through its heart, but we 
never could quite make out the distance he was from it. The 
Greek Professor quizzed him as closely as he would a con- 
ceited boy with a bad lesson, but about all he could learn 
was, that the Judge had abandoned his boat and was in am- 
bush on the shore. He was very particular in his descrip- 
tion of its manner of running after it was shot, and the exact 
spot where he found the first blood, but as to his distance 
from it when he fired, not a hint would he give. The Greek 
Professor pointed out tome a blemish in the color of the 
hair surrounding the bullet hole and suggested that it 
might be powder burnt, but we finally decided that the 
blemish arose from some other cause and gave up further 
inquiry. 

Seon after establishing our camp, tracks had been dis- 
covered in the vicinity which occasioned some controversy. 
I think it was the Judge who saw them first, and he reported 
them as being a dog’s tracks, but the Greek Professor scouted 
the idea and said they must be wolf’s tracks. Not long 
afterward the Greek Professor himself saw them, and in 
turn he reported that they were dog’s tracks, and it was 
now the Judge’s turn to scout the idea, and he was not slow 
in doing it either. ‘‘Why, it is preposterous,” said the 
Judge, ‘‘to suppose them to be a dog’s tracks. We are nine- 
teen miles from civilization and no dog would ever wander 
this far. No, they are wolf tracks!” 

Not long after the question was settled by seeing the 
animal that made the tracks. We were returning from 
Beaver Lake, and as we emerged from the thicket into the 
belt of Norway pines that crowned the bluff on which was 
our encampment, the Judge exclaimed, ‘‘We haye visitors! 
See that dog!” Sure enough, there wasa white and brindle 
spotted, medium-sized dog, busy picking up such scraps as 
he could find around the camp. Before we had gooe many 
steps nearer he heard us, and giving us one quick, sur- 
prised look, he ran swiftly to cover wnder some brush, 
and we never saw him more, nor were dog tracks seen any 
more. 

No visitors had come, and it was quite evident that the 
dog was out on his own account. The number of times we 
had seen his tracks indicated that what he considered his 
home was in that neighborhood, and as four dogs were re- 
ported to be running wild in the Jeromeville region, twenty- 
one miles straight across the country, we came to the con- 
clusion that prosably our dog belonged to that pack, 

The Indians told us that south of Beaver Lake a couple of 
miles, trout of large size and in great abundance could be 
taken, and to verify their statement we made an exploration 
of that region. Part of the way we traveled eyer pictur- 
esque hills and hollows covered with a magnificent growth 
of hardwood timber. Then we came to a cedar swamp 
through which ran a spring brook, in which were a few 
smal] and exceedingly dark-colored brook trout. After 
crossiug the swamp a leyel regién bearing mostly pine tim- 
ber ensued, and then we came to the stream which in a 
former paper I have ventured to christen the Pau-Puk- 
Keewis, for reasons there set forth. Wedid not find ihe 
large trout the Indians said were there, but we did find 
smal] ones, and they were quite plentiful. Iam inclined to 
think, however, that we omitted in our explorations the most 
important part of the stream, Had we followed 1t downioa 
point nearer the lake we might have found the Indians’ big 
trout. Be that as it may, the Judge and the Greek Protes- 
sor set out fora visit to the Pau-Puk-Keewis one day, and 
there occurred an event of such importance as 10 require a 
careful narration. While I was not with the -two men on 
that occasion, yet I heard the story from the lips of each 
of them so often, and told with such a degree of minuteness, 
that I think I ean enter more into the spirit of the affair than 
if 1 had been an eye-witness to it myself. 

At rather an early hour the two set forth on their journey. 
Their purpose was to cross Beaver Lake and tie up their 
boat on the south shore, and cross over to the headwaters of 
the Pau-Puk-Keewis and fish down that stream. For some 
rea:on, however, they did not row straight across, but 
turned up the Jake toward the southeast, and when they 
reached the shaliow water they went to fishing. Not meet- 
ing with any success, they set their prow westward and 
moved slowly down the south shore. The Judge is quite 
skillfulin the use of the steering pole, haying learned that 
art in river navigation. He was standing in the stern of the 


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sat pushing Iazily along while the Greek Professor, seated 
n the bow, was casting ahead, zealous to catch something, 
he cared not what, Finding himself unable to throw out as 
far as he wished, while seated jn the boat, he rose to his 
‘feet and began casting. This rendered the boat difticult to 
danage, and the Judge thereupon said as much to the Greek 
rofessor, who kept on his casting but taking nothing, Two 

yr three times the Judge hinted the difficulty, but the Greek 
Bev ctessor gave no attention to the hint. Then the Judge’s ire 
arose, und he resolyed to throw the Greek Professor over- 
oad. He had given two or three little side movements In 
order to test the force required to make successful the ex- 
eriment, and had planted his pole and hraced himself for 

e final quick and strong side push, when his right eye 
caught a glimpse of a deer stepping down into the water. I 
say right eye, because he is so very near-sighted in_ his left 
eye, that he does not pretend to see with it any such dis- 
tance. At once the Judge resolved not to throw the Greek 
Professor into the lake just then. “I see deer ahead, and 
if you will sit down amidship, I'll push this boat within gun- 
shot of it.” It required nothing more to get the Greek Pio- 
fessor down as indicated, and with the shotgun across his 
knees. And then the Judge bent to the pushing pole, and 
the Wawa shot through the water as straight and as noisc- 
less as a pike. 

“Where is it?” asked the Greek Professor. 

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‘‘No.” said the Judge. “‘Some people never can see game, 
Tt has moved behind some brush, but will come out ina 
moment.” ' 

And the Wawa fairly leaped along in silence, leaving a 
long and widening trail behind her. 

“There, now!” said the Judgein a lowtone. “‘It has 
stepped out, as T said it would. See, it looks all around— 
don’t move a finger.” And he stood as motionless as a 
stump, and the Greek Professor sat likewise. 
deer lowered its head and again the Wawa shot forward, and 
by this time the Greek Professor had his gun to his 
shoulder. 

‘Don’t shoot yet,” said the Judge, ‘“you are too far!” 

‘No, Dll not!” 

And nearer and nearer the little boat drew. 

“Must I shoot?” whispered the Greek Professor. 

“No, not till it looks up again,” was whispered back to 
him, 

And the setting pole was lifted from the water without 
noise and a new foothold taken and the Wawa sent still 
nearer the unsuspecting victim. It turns its side to them 
and lifts its head, 

‘*Now!* is whispered. 

Bang! 

And the deer drops ir its tracks. 

““A center shot! Where did you aim?” asks the Judge. 

“Right at the fore shoulder,” answers the Greek Professor 
proudly. 

“My conscience!” exclaims the Judge in well simulated 
surprise, 

“What is it?” asks the Greek Professor in evident concern 
as the Wawa moves up to the prostrate deer. 

“Think of the consequence had you aimed at its hind 
shoulder!” 

“Oh, fudge!” 

The deer was lying in shallow water, holding its nose out. 
Both the men leaped out, and, giving the boat a push, it was 
run ashore, 

“Lay hold of it,” said the Judge, ‘‘and cut its throat.” 

“T can’t do it,” said the Greek Professor, whose savage- 
ism had gone out with the shot he had fired and whose 
tender-heartedness had returned. ‘‘No,I can’t do it; you 
must do it.” 3 

“Well, then you must step shooting at deer.” 

And the Judge laid hold of it, and, dragging it to the white 
sand, he thrust a knife into its throat, and as the warm blood 
spurted from the gaping wound and a film came over its 
eyes, and its under jaw relaxed and it gave a dying strugele, 
the Greek Professor said, “‘Poor thing! Poor thing! I wish 
I had missed!” : . 

“T can believe you,” replied the Judge, ‘I don’t think JT 
ever killed one in my life that I saw die but I was real sorry 
that I bad hit it. I remember that 1 once shot at a deer 
and broke its back while it was standing on the river bank, 
and it fell in and swam around, using its forelegs. A friend 
was with me—a capital good fellow he was, and as tender- 

‘hearted as a woman, and he cried like one, too, while I was 
killing that wounded deer; and I am not right sure but I 
cried myself. And I felt real mean and sneaking all day 
after. ‘he truth is, 1 couldn’t eat the venison and we gaye 
it away.” 

‘Well, then, what makes you kill them?” asked the Greek 
Professor. 

‘What made you kill this one?” replied the Judge. “Yeu 
have been crazy to kill one ever since you have been in the 
woods, You feel just now asif you would never kill another, 
and I don’t think you would go very far out of your way to 
kill another one to-day. But to-morrow, or the day after, 
you will have forgotten all about this poor, pitiable thing 
lying dead here, and will be more anxious than ever before 

to kill another. Why do we kill them? Well, a very few 
hundred years ago our ancestors got their living mainly by 
hunting, and I guess we have inherited a good deal from 
them, There is where I fancy I got my love of deer shoot- 
ing. But let us see where your shot struck.” 

And they turned the carcass Over expecting to find the 
region of the heart riddled with shot, but not a wound could 
they find there. Then they examined other parts of the 
body and finally they found that one shot had struck it 
plump in the top of the head. 

The deer was a small one—a yearling doe, but its flesh was 
all the sweeter and tenderer, and although the Greek Pro- 

fessor was heard to say, “If it only had been a big buck!” in 
4 lamenting tone, yet after he had slept over it he was as 
proud of his achievement as if it had been the biggest buck 
in all the woods. 

Notwithstanding the luck of the morning the Wawa was 
hauled ashore and the trip continued to the Pau-Puk-Keewis, 
and the remainder of the day spent wandering up and down 
that stream, the seat of an ancient beaver empire made 
famous by ‘‘The Song of Hiawatha.” _ 

On their return to camp, tired and hungry, but in high 
spirits, toward night, they were unexpectedly met by Ed, 
Cox and Ira Weller, who had come to the Ahmeek-we-se-pe 

for a two days’ fishing, and who had brought letters from 
~home—the first we had—and also a further supply of sugar, 
flour and baking powder, Their experience as woodsmen 
gud campers-out led them to conclude that ‘‘about this time 
we were beginning to run short of these substantials,” and 
their conclusion was correct. ; D, D. Banra. 


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And then the. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


REMINISCENCES OF THE NORTHWEST. 


MY FIRST BEAR. 


AAviss decided upon a few years of border life, the 
time of departure drew near, and many bright antici- 
pations of hunting and fishing exploits ran riot in my brain 
during my contemplation of the coming change, 1 remem- 
ber during a short stay in,New York, just before taking the 
express for the West, #jiw many well-wishers there were 
who joined me in pailMing the bright hope-picture of the 
mighty West—what lots of lunting, and what countless 
numbers of trout of any imaginable size were destined to 
become my prey. 

Had Ila good gun? Wasita Greener? Or what had I 
considered best for such a hunting prospect? Whatever 
make, it could hardly be good enough. But alight gun 
would hardly do; Imust certainly have a rifle, for it seemed 
the slaying of buffale, deer and grizzlies would unquestion- 
ably form a large part of my future occupation; and among 
the many brilliant suggestions advanced with a view to 
meeting this emergency, that of an ‘‘express rifle” calculated 
to express something like a quarter of a pound of lead was 
not wanting. All this resulted in the purchase of a Ballard 
rifle before leaving, with the ostensible object of slaying the 
antelope and buffalo of the plains,.as the trains of the 
Union Pacifie flew past their numerous herds, With notions 
like these I started for the frontier, and it is barely necessary 
to add that the Ballard was disposed of to the first purchaser 
after reaching my destination, with, of course, the unfailing 
recommendation that it was really a new gun and had never 
been fired. 

I think it was something over a year after my arrival in 
the West that I had occasion to use a rifle, and by that time 
Thad learned that one of Uncle Samuel’s Springfield car- 
bines was about the best thing for all uses there was to be 
had in that line. After a great deal of wing-shooting and 
deer hunting of various sorts, a trip into the mountains was 
under contemplation which gave unusual promise of bring- 
ing some of us at least within range of a genuine live Rocky 
Mountain grizzly; the climax of the hunter’s joy. 

But, alas! for the vanity of human hope, day after day, 
and week after week took its place in the ranks of the past 
and the bruin of our dreams still remained a ‘‘vapory con- 
jecture,” a ‘‘mere figment of the intellect.” 

At first I always carried a rifle when going far from camp 
alone, until day after day proclaimed in stronger terms the 
unwelcome truth that there was really no immediate danger 
of being devoured, and this weighty ccnsideration added to 


the fact that all kinds of small game were plenty—particu- 


larly grouse and birds of every sort as well as small deer that 
could be killed with buckshot from a shotgun—resulted after 
a short time in my going abroad customarily armed with a 
very ordinary eight-pound fowling piece, the shells charged 
with sixes and eights; two or three reserve cartridges being 
loaded with buckshot for an occasional deer. So passed the 
days with birds and venison in profusion for the entire com- 
mand, 

A short march, making camp by three in the afternoon, 
was generally the order of the day, and this left several hours 
for hunting before dark, while an early rise in the morning 
gave ample time for a few casts in the brook before break- 
fast and boots and saddles, After weeks like this, anything 
more than a small black bear was reckoned among the possi- 
bilities but hardly among the probabilities of the future of 
eur trip. Bear tracks were not uncommon on the trail, but 
they seemed tobe out of the way in the day time, though 
now and then a small black bear would be seen early in the 
morning, which at sight of us would take to the hills or the 
timber, avoiding our approach. 

The object of our tip had been accomplished, we lad 
joined another command scouting in the same section, and 
we had already turned our course homeward. Great had 
been my eagerness to ascertain on joining the new command 
if Lieutenant P, while separated trom us had sueceeded in 
vetting a bear, and equally great was my gratification in 
learning that my luck was not exceptional, and that he had 
been no more fortunate than I. 

We were within a few days of our return, when a pleasant, 
‘afternoon found us encamped on the banks of a mountain 
stream at a point where, leaving tke hilly cafion it found its 
way through a pleasant meadow. We bad had about hunt- 
ing enough; Lieutenant. P. was still sanguine, but in our 
conversation on the subject while sifting about camp await- 
ing the call to supper, I remember having strongly depre- 
cated the hunting resources of the Territory. I did not be- 
lieve there were any more bear in the Rocky Mountainsthan 
there were in the Adirondacks, while the former range 
covered vastly more ground, as a result of whichI contended 
in the strongest terms that there were more bear to the square 
foot of land in the East than there were in the West, and 
that there was much nonsense, if not actual fraud, in the 
reputation the West enjoyed for hunting facilities. I did not 
expegt to meet any bear at all events, and if I did, [had that 
confidence in my, shotgun that I'should simply shoot him 
with one barrel in one eye and then with the other barrel in 
the other eye, after whiclr I should proceed to fall upon him 
and whittle him up with my jack-knife while indulging ina 
wrestling match just as I had frequently seen it done upon 
the stage. This sort of talk was interrupted by Johnny the 
scout, who had just reached camp, and came to inform the 
Loot’nant that he had discovered a deer lick a short distance 
from camp with fresh signs about it, and that a deer could 
probably be taken with little trouble by going to the spot 
about sunset, as they customarily came down to the licks at 
that time for water. 

After supper We lit our pipes and at the suggestion of Col. 
B., who said our larder was getting low, I expressed my 
willingness to take the deer whose visit at the salt spring 
was contemplated. Lieutenant P., from disinclination or 
other cause, did not care to go along, but in his habitually 
gentle manner ventured afew predictions adverse to the re- 
sults, I had somehow acquired, with him atleast, the repu- 
tation of being a rather desultory hunter. I didn’t propose 
to get more than one deer anyhow, so I picked up the first 
carbine that came to hand, and taking three cartridges from 
the nearest belt of the many that lay scattered about the 
ground, I shoved them somewhat carelessly into one of the 
pockets of my hunting coat and left the camp, pipe in mouth 
and gun in hand, thinking my smoke might as well be 
finished at the deer lick as about the camp-fire, with the 
additional prospect of a fresh steak for breakfast. 

It was owly a few hundred yards to the lick, a beautiful 
spot to while away an hourand watch the setting sun. A 
half hour soon passed, my pipe was out, and with it my 
reflections took aturn, Lieutenant P. might yet be right, 
the prosyect that I should return empty-handed was certainly 
better thanit had been and was visibly improving every minute, 


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No rustling inthe leaves, no sign of game beyond the 
canon, whose dark gorge was fast fading into the gloom of 
twilight, Certainly this would not do, if the deer was com- 
ing down I might hasten matters somewhat by meeting him 
half way; besides I would feel better for the walk and might 
possibly save my reputation as a hunter. 

There was little of interest on the cafion trail. I drifted 
along over one little rise after another, and now and then 
climbing over some large pine trees that had fallen across 
the trail. Ihad gone some little distanee without interrup- 
tion, the triil became rarrow, winding along the side hill 
some fifty or sixty feet above the white waters of the nmoun- 
tain stream; to the right and left the steep declivity of slide 
rock precluded the possibility of climbing. As I sauntered 
along gun in hand my gaze had been directed to the ground 
for some minutes, when suddenly without apparent. cause, I 
looked up along the trail. Heavens! Could it be true, or 
did 1 dream? The largest, fiercest, ugliest creature I had 
ever seen; stood—no, |] wish he had—was leisurely walking 
straight down the trail toward where I stood leaning against 
a tree-trying to collect myself and realize the immediate and 
terrible necessities of the situation. His ponderous paws came 
down with monotonous pat, pat, pat, that seemed to fairly 
shake the ground, fur he wasn’t more than forty yards away- 

I shall never live to forget the sick fecling that first 
glimpse produced. His heavy plodding carriage seemed to 
say with the swiftness of thought: ‘If you are standing 
there when I arrive I shall walk right threugh you. I'll eat 
you up, and I'll use your miserable old pop gun for.a tooth- 
pick, and it wont bother me any more than breathing so 
much air,” This was about all I felt in addition to the sense 
of ultra fierceness that grizzly’s whole appearance seemed to 
wear, his little small eyes, seareely visible, his ponderous 
feet and a sense of massive weight as he came plungigg down 
the hill, all combined to produce that sense of utter goneness 
which is only known to those who have been once thoroughly 
and awfully scared. Here, then, was what I had been 
looking after for weeks. This was what I thought the coun- 
try needed in order to meet the expectations of its friends; 
here was the grizzly bear that I wanted to shoot, blind with 
pepper shot and cut up with a penknife, 

While all this was passing through my mind I was fum- 
bling about in my pocket for one of those miserable three 
cartridges I had so carelessly tucked away, aud I hadn’t 
much heart in what I was doing, either. I-didn’t know for 
certain whether or not ‘twas best to ruffle his temper with 
foolish and trifling demonstrations of courage. 1 would 
have liked to swap my carbine for a Gatling gun or 
a mitrailleuse, in fact anything seemed preferable to the 
situation I wasin. All this time the bear was coming right 
along; it seemed es though I was unconsciously counting 
his steps while tumbling about for that cartrid@e and getting 
it into the carbine. At last it was there, the hammer cocked, 
and, with steady rest against that little pine tree, I pulled 
the trigger on grizzly bruin. The smoke passed away, and 
“oh, horror!” he wasn't dead at all! He was coming at a 
run, and only had thirty yards to run if I stood where [ was. 
It was too much for human fortitude. If there had been 
anybody round to Jaugh at you it would have been different, 
but there wasn’t. What I thought I don’t quite know. ‘The 
next recollection I have I wus running down that hill about 
as fast_as my legs had ever curried me, and calling loudly 
for ‘‘Johnny,” the scout, who 1 suddenly recollected had 
told me on leaving campthat he should come upto the 
sping after finishing his supper, 

As will appear later I had unfortunately made myself 
heard before 1 could collect my senses sufficiently to realize 
that I was actually running from a challenged enemy, and 
what might Col. B, and Lieut. P. say could they see mein 
this predicament. I think it was this sense of humiliation 
that overcame the effects of the fright with which that 
bear’s sudden appearance had inspired me; at all events I 
managed to get one of my two remaining cartridges into the 
gun, stubbornly faced about and not caring a cent whether 
bruin made a square meal off me or not, I coolly drew an- 
other bead on that bear and fired. It was evidently the work 
of despair; the smoke cleared away again and it would be 
hard to describe my gratification at seeing my grizzly rolling 
heavily down the hill like a barrel of pork, bounding from 
one stone to another until he took a final plunge into the 
mountain stream that rushed along the gorge below. 

Another shout to ‘‘Johnny,” this time a call of triumph, 
and the next instant J was scrambling over the slide rock 
down to where bruin lay. The complete reversion of feel- 
ing produced by seeing my formidable victim rolling appar- 
ently inanimate down the hill was too much for my sanguine 
nature; it never occurred to me that he might not be dead, 
and that the gorge was not a very nice place after dark even 
when no, bears were about. My eagerness knew no bounds; 
one careless step after another, and half way down the hill, 
I found my motion uncontrollable; the slide rock had got 
started and it would not stop. I must go withit. Another 
seeond and splash! up to my waist in a cold mountain 
stream full of rocks and boulders; but what was infinitely 
worse, a glance up the stream brought back all the horror 
of my first sight of bruin.. There, not more than ten feet 
up the stream from where I stood, was bruin, wounded and 
plunging about in the rocks and water, whose swift current 
continually disturbed his footing and urged him a few feet 
nearer me, Though wounded he was apparently as well as 
ever, and evidently intent on reaching me, in which he was 
greatly favored by circumstances. 

I think the cold water of the mountain stream brought me 
to my senses somewhat. At all events it didn’t take me 
long to find my third and last cartridge, my forlorn aud only 
hope; should it fail, there remained nothing to do but to 
take to the stream and chance it with the rocks to the mouth 
of the cafion. By the time I had got it into the gun bruin 
was about two yards off, In the coolness of despair I 
pointed the muzzle to his breast and pulled the trigger. 
Bruin fell from his erect position against the bank into the 
water and floated to my feet, His head was. under the water, 
and by the time he reached me hehad breathed his last. 

Johnny had beard my call, and the discharge of my Jast 
shot had indicated my whereabouts to the amazed by- 
standers on the hills above. “Hooray! Hooray! Bully 
for the loot’nant! Golly, it’s a big one!” “Sling him a 
rope!” and many similar expressions, told how lustily 1 had 
hollered some minutes before. 

Ropes were procured, and Mr. Grizzly, the first and only 
bear of the season, a_fine five-hundred-pounder, was floated 
down the stream and hauled into camp with the honors of 
war, a 

We had another supper that night and after it a long talk, 
in which the bear was killed a half dozen times over, and 
after it all Lieutenant P. was hearty in his sincere, though 
Somewhat unanticipated, congratulations, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


(Fes. 14, 1884, 


WINTER FIRESIDE THOUGHTS. 


ee boyhood J havealways loved to sit before the fire and 

let my thoughts stray at will, and the habit has so 
strengthened with years,that to-night finds me in theold place, 
indulging in fireside fancies with as much enjoyment as ever, 
Tt has been a very dull day; there was something in the 
air that seemed to depress one, the still atmosphere indicat- 
ing snow, Even my little friends the snowbirds were not 
in their usual sood spirits, but twittered in a chill, comfort- 
less tone, as they rummaged about among the spruce and 
arbor vites, and the scrunch, scrunch, of the gravel under 
their feet, seemed to voice the general depression reigning in 
the outside world, But bere we are at last before the grate, 
the lights turned out, doors shut, curtains drawn, and only 
the dull red glare of the coals lo keep company with our 
thoughts, How complete is the satistaction to sit here in 
the silence thi stormy night, and listen to the swirling gusts 
outside as they dash the little snow fairies in a mad race 
through the air, One can imagine he hears the beat of their 
tiny feet against the window panes, and their complaint as 
they drive off again in the darkness. 

The heavy curtains seem instinct with life, and now and 
again sway forward, as some furious blast forces a little of 
its wild nature between thesashes. The wind rose gradually; 
a long drawn sigh which swept up the chimney gave the 
first intima.ion thatthe wild uproar now raging without 
was about to begin, The fire is burning slowly down, and 
now and then settles with a husky little murmur, while little 
spurts of pale blue flame run about over it in response to the 
intermittent draughts as the gale roars around the house. 
The lights and shadows play through the room, and touch 


here and there upon the forms of many of my specimens, each 


one bringing to mind the scene and incidents of its capture. 
There on the- bookcase sits an immense snowy owl, the 
pride of my collection. His wings are extended, and his 
great yellow eyes gleam in the five light as he bends slightly 
forward as though about to dash at me. He met his death 
one bright Octuber afternoon in this wise: It had been too 
warm and calm for shooting, and about two o’clock I voted 
to lake up the decoys and return to the shanty. While 
quietly poling along in my punty, I espied his lordship on 
the marsh some distance ahead,and made up my mind to stalk 
him if possible, so carefully shoving into the sedge, I crawled 


ashore. Finding concealment was out of the question, the 


meadow grass being toa short, I rose and walked slowly 
toward hin, He was sitting witb his back to me, but with 
that quick twist which only an owl can give and not dis- 
locate its neck, he turned his head and looked back at me 
directly oyer his shoulders, those fierce eyes of his glaring at 
me (I must confess with more expression than now), trom 
out their circle of snow white feathers. His bill was snapping 


. like a pair of castanets as I approached until nearly within 


gun shot, when he spread his great white wings and with 
his head still turned toward me, seemed to be awaiting my 
next move. Pausing a moment I enjoyed the picture, only 
tor a moment, however, for with a bound he started at once 
into the air. I turned loose both barrels almost on the 
instant, although with but slight hopes of grassing him at 
such a distance. As luck would have it, a single pellet cut 
the tendons of his right wing close in to the body, causing it 
to double back, and down he came with a rush, Without 
stopping to reload my gun J ran toward him, but to my sur- 
prise (I cannot say delight), he advanced to meet me with a 
series of gigamtic flops which soon closed the litlle space 


between us, and before I could strike him he had me, driy- 


ing his long black talons through my overalls and deep into 
the heayy wading boots underneath, After a short but care- 
ful skirmish | managed to get hold of the tips of his wings, 
and soon secured the old fellow under the hatch of the punty, 
where he vented his rage in shredding the strip of oiled 
canvas rent from my overails in his first onslaught, and 
wickedly clutched in the struggle that followed. 

But are thuse eyes bent onme? As I follow the direction 
of their glances, I see the form of a greea-winged teal cower- 
ing ¢losé in the dancing shadows. Pretty little fellow, he 
was stopped on his way south one autumn, h* was such a 
little jewel of a duck, and those sturdy little wings of his 
slipped him along so fast that he had nearly escaped me. 

The dusky form of a coot (crew duck, blue peter or what- 
ever you wil], gentlemen) stalks close beside the big owl. 
Not because I especially admire this specimen did I preser ze 
him, but his fornt reminds me of how often 1 have lost 
patience with {hese same blue peters, as they rafted by 
thousands just out of shot, luring the fowl from my decoys. 

Across the room, almost indistinguishably in the gloom 
which surrounds him, stands a huge black-backed gull. I 
killed him in a driving snowstorm, and well I remember 
what a prize he was. He undertook a short cut across the 
point on his way down one eveniug, and the rest of his 
story was told by the happy lad who with numbed fin- 
gers gathered lim in. Other teathercd beauties there are 
around me, some of them bringing up thoughts of the fra- 
grant woods, and again in imagination sweet notes ring out 
from their graceful throats. 

But time has flown with our reverie, and the little people 
who live in the soot on the back of the fireplace have 
lighted their lanterns as the fire dies, and we see them travel- 
ing back and fourth in the dark, und now, the last one havy- 


ing put out bis light, let us take the hint so prettily given 


and ourselves retire. WiILMorT, 


MAJOR JOSEPH VERITY. 
SOME OF TIS SPORTING ADVENTURES, AS 
FORTH BY HIS OWN HAND. 

Chapter VI. 


J F any who has been interested in the plain unvarnished 
i accounts of my experience has wondered that 1 have 
net continued fhem, I can only say that I have suffered the 


common lot of all earthly things; in short, have grown old. 


1 find it difficult to remember with sufficient distinctness the 
events of my past life to record them with that accuracy of 


detail and strict adherence to truth which above all things 
I prize, Particularly in this respect do | find myself em- 
barrassed concerning those things which have oceurred since 
Lhave approached and passed the period where it was or- 
dained that the days of man should end. Of them I write 
with hesitation, though what I saw and was a part of in my 
' prime is as vividly impressed upon my mind as-these words 
upon the page before me; and furthermore, concerning such 
matters of the long past, I feel that I have net fallen into 


the common error of age, which is to exaggerate the exploits. 


of youth, and magnify the wonders of bygone times. If of 
late affairs I seem to the readers at times to verge on the 
improbable, though neyer I trust on the impossible, I can 
only beg of him to remember and bear with the infirmities 


‘but off Split Rock in Lake Champlain. 


greatly abounded there at that time. 


MODESTLY SET 


for work for several days. 


of anold man’smind. That better part of us must fail with 
its fleshy tenement till it shall leave that poor abode and 
enter a new one, not of flesh or earth. When _I look upon 
the hand which pens these lines, a withered member over 
whose bones and nerveless sinews the dull bloed runs in its 
ridged purple course, I can hardly believe it the same that 
forty years ago could crush the sap from a maple limb, till 
I see the scars that a panther throttled by it made in his 
death struggles. ee 

Speaking of panthers reminds me,°! a singular incident 
of which | was a witness, It was on the borders of a wild 
lake in Adironda, where, with a companion, I was hunting 
and trapping one fall. I had left our camp carly one morn- 
ing to go down to the lake to hear the fishes sing, as in that 
water a certain kind that 1 have never seen elsewhere are 
wont todo. At daybreak or thereabout they would thrust 
their toses above the surface und begin in concert to trill 


forth the most melodious*song that I ever heard, and con- 


tinue it for half an hour, and sometimes longer. The sweet 
strains seemed to attract insects from all the surrounding 
forest, and as they hovered close to the surface, apparently 
entranced, the fish would devour them in incredible num- 
bers, some of the fish all the time keeping up the spell- 
binding melody. Such singing of fishes I have read of as 
occurring in the depths of the sea, as might naturally enough 
be where mermaids inhabit, but I never heard of nor heard 
them in, fresh water except in this one lake. My companion 
held that these were frogs, which, as all know, do sing after 
their fashion, but when I caught one of the singers with a 
fly, and a song in his throat, some of which leaked out after 
its landing, he was convinced. As I neared the shore on 
this particular morning I heard an unusual rustling of the 
fallen leaves close by me, and stopping behind a great tree, 
I presently saw a young panther busily chasing its own tail, 
just as we see our domestic kittens often doing. I was 
much interested in the pranks of this little pup of the woods, 
and kept quietly out of sight, watching him pursue the ap- 
pendage which seems to have been given to the cat kind 
merely for ornament and the plaything of their youth. I 
questioned myself, What do little lynxes and wildcats do, 
who have no tails worth following? Surely nature has not 


been so kind to them as to their larger cousins. But presently I 


was inclined to think differently, for my little performer be- 


ing somewhat rough in the handling of his tuy, gave it a 


prick with his claws, which enraged him, and getting the 
tip of his tail between his jaws, he gave it a savage bite, and 
then his fury increasing he bit and swallowed the whole of 
it quite to its roots and even inflicted some ugly wounds 
upon his hains, and he continued his attempts to swallow 
himself till he was actually strangled by his own tail. 
ing assured that his mother was not far off, | quietly witb- 
drew to camp and got my rifle. 
found her trying fo unravel her unfortunate offspring. <A 


well directed shot put an end to her grief and her life, and I 


dragged the two panthers to camp, the hooped kitten just as 
he had died, to show my companion and convince him that 
it had come to its end on both its ends in the manner related, 
For my friend was a doubting Thomas, and sometimes in- 
clined to question the accuracy of my statements, and yet he 
told tales of his own adventures, which were borrowed. One 


Lremember, of his hunting on this same lake, when he lost, 


his powder horn overbourd, and his comrade, who was an 
expert diver, offered to g0 down and get it, and after some re- 
monstrance did so. He was goneso long that my friend became 
alarmed and went down in quest of him, when what was 
his disgust to find his unfaithtul companion sitting upon a 
rock on the bottom, pouring the powder ‘from the Jost horn 
into his own, Now this is an ungqestionable fact, but it 
happened to another man than this companion of mine, 
namely, to my friend John Burt of Essex, of the county of 
that ilk in the State of New York, and not in this little lake, 
I have lately seen 
this story going the rounds of the papers as having happened 
somewhere out West, which appears to be the home ot big 
stories as well as of other big things. 

Our trapping in this little lake of the singing fish was very 
successful, especially in the taking of otters, animals which 
Our method of captur- 
ing them was devised by us, and it was done by settinga 
yery Sharp one-tined spear in the deep water at the foot of 
their slides exactly ina line with their course down them. 
Speeding down the slide one after another with prodigious 
velocity, it was not uncommon for as many as four otters to 
be impaled upon a spear, ene on top of another. 1 never 


knew the name of this lake, but it lies not very far from the 
fountain of condensed water of which L bave told, and which 


I trust the thorough survey of the region now beins prose- 
cuted may bring to light, as well as the tunnel through the 
world up which the monkeys come. I have written to Mr. 


Colvin, giving him all the information I can which may 
guide Lim in his search for them, and hopeit may be his for- 


tune and that of many another to see what I have seen. 
ApIRONDA, January, 1884, 


Mr. Nionoson’s Buck Ripr.—A recent account, in the 
reckless style of the newspapers of the *Rockies” whose 
yarns are usually in accord with the size of their mountains, 
relates how an old hunter was inyoluntarily treated to an 
elk ride, ‘‘forty miles, if it was one,” which forsooth was a 
most invigorating shake up for the old chap—if true. How- 
ever that may be, the incident of Nichoson’s buck ride, a 
strictly true occurrence, is herewith presented. Mr. Nicho- 
son was residing in Naples, Ontario county, N. Y., some 
forty odd yeurs ago—a period in which there was yet exist- 
ing in Western New York a large extent of forest and a cor- 
responding fair share of wild game. One winter day while 
engaged in drawing wood a large buck, pursued by hounds 
oyer hard erusted snow, was run down by them in the road 
only a short distance from Nichoson, who hastened to secure 
the creature, and straddled its neck with intent to cut his 
throat. While reaching down to get out his knife the buck 
suddenly arose, leaving Nichoson’s legs firmly secured under 
his antlers—then with his hoofs he clawed into shreds the 
back part of his rider’s pants and split down his boot legs. 
The buck, finding he could not get rid of his rider, then 
treated him to a vigorous good-sized buck trot of nearly a 
quarter of a mile, and, perhaps like the famous cork leg of 
Mynheer Von Waldegg, would be running yet, had not Rob 
managed to stop the wild career of the antlered steed by 
cutting his jugular with a knife. The effects of the “hoof 
raking” and this rough ride was a lameness uofitting him 
Mr. Nichoson has long been 
famed throughout this region as the yeteran fox hunter, 
and, aJthough a cosmopolite of leisure and well along in 


years, 1s yet an inveterate sportsman, pursuing the glorious 
pastime with rifle and hound at frequently occurring inter- 
vals, —PrP 


ER. 


* 


Feel- 


Returning to the spot I 


atiwyal History. 


THE EGRET: 


ysis inditing my note of last weelx about the bittern 

my mind reverted to an acquaintance I once formed 
with 2 distant relative of that family, I was spending the 
summer as usual on the banks of the Manasquan (New 
Jersey) and one day found myself lying ou the beach sand 
watching the natives who were engaged in the sport of 
“‘squidding” for bluefish. I had pulled one or two across 
the sands, but found the exercise too violent for my feelings. 
Happening to cast my eye inland I saw across the meadows, 
a mile away, a flock of some white birds circling in the air. 
1 called the attention of some of the fishermen to the-matter 
and was told that it was a flock of white tame geese owned 
by one of the cottages, The explanation did not satisfy 
me, and in a few minutes I had the sail of my atteau up 
and was wending my way through the creeks to the spot 
where I had seen the birds go down, Taking a circuit I 
reached a clump of woods that at that point skirts the edge 
of ihe meadow, and crawling through the brambles and 
Indian grass I found myself in easy range of a flock of the 
most beautiful and graceful game that I had ever seen. 
There stood, feeding in the meadow grass from which the 
tide was just falling, sixteen small white herons, grouped 
and posed in a way that would excite envy inthe breast of a 
decorator of Japanese screens. I say “small” but I must 
confess that from my point of view and in the excited state 
of my imagination, they looked tu be as large as cranes. One 
with each barrel was the result, 

Oh, if I had only then known what a Parker was, but 
noticing that the flock did not seem inclined to leave the 
vicinity | hurriedly propped the dead birds on the stalks of 
a hollyhock and, yetiring to my blind, soon had them again 
in range with a similar result. Another wail gave me an- 
other pair, and then 1 was content to see the balance of the 
flock sail away, The birds were the egret, I think the Ardea 
garzetta, and while lam about it] may as well say that 
their flesh was nearly as white as their feathers, and was 
pronounced by all who had the privilege of tasting it to be 
tender, juicy and finely flavored. Their plumage was as near 
pure white as could be, excepting a dove-colored tint beneath 
the tip of the longest wing feathers. I need not say that 
these wings were eagerly sought for and appreciated by the 
ladies at the hotel, and their gratitude for the additions to 
their millinery possibilities probably increased my ardor in 
the further pursuit of the game. 

I am no pot-hunter nor bonnet-shooter, and I was then 
younger {han Lam now, but I haye no apology to make for 
the statement that for two wecks that coustantly diminish- 
ing bunch of birds gave me daily sport. The range of their 
flight was for miles, and, like the famous Kidd, ‘‘I sailed, 
and I sailed, and I sailed,”” Sometimes a long pull against 
the tide proved that I had been duped by bunches of sea- 
foam or a stake on the meadow; but Lalways found them 
again. In fact 1 secured the Jast bird of the sixteen four 
miles from the inlet, after pushing my boat nearly a mile up 
Sawmill Creek, 

This was probably ten years ago, and | do not remember 
that I have ever seen a live specimen of the egret in Jersey 
since, unless I was right in believing that a group of them 
were on the Barnegat meadows one day when I was fishing 
there. Atleast they were too far off to be identified, and I 
never expect to haye another fortnight with the ‘“‘white 
geese.” HLS iy. 

NEw JERSEY. 


THE CORN CRAKE IN NEW YORK, 


N Noy. 6, 1883, a corn crake (Crex pratensis) was 
brought to me by Mr. William Dommer, who stated 
that he found it the day before running about rapidly in a 
cabbage field on Green Island, opposite Troy, N. Y., and 
shot it as it flew when flushed by his dog. ‘The bird was 
1n nice plumage and good fleshy condition, weighed six and 
one-fourth ounces, and had in its stomach remains of a very 
large grasshopper and a seed of great bitter weed (Amdrasiv, 
trifida). \t was an adult female, and Ihave it mounted in 
my collection. 

Tam not aware that the corn crake has ever been brought 
alive from Kurope and set free in this country. Some books 
on North American birds state that it appeurs to be a com- 
mon summer visitor to Greenland, from whence stragglers 
probably reach the eastern coast of the United States, where 
it has been found on several ogcasions. The only specific 
record known to me of the capture of the bird in this coun- 
try is that of one shot near Salem, N, J., as no¥din ‘*Pro- 
ceedings of the Academy of Natural Scienecs,” Philadel- 
phio, 1855, Vol. VIJ., page 265. Probably some readers of 
FoREST AND STREAM can give further information of the 
corn crake in America, Awsitn. F Park, 

Troy, N. Y, 


Tun Rovucu-Leaenp HAws.—The note on the rough- 
legged hawk in Forest and Stream of Jan, 31, does 
rot allude to the position Which this species shauuld oceupy 
in the minds ofsportsmen and farmers. 1 haye sct up these 
birds till weary of so doing. Iiaye three in my cabinet, 
black enough for all practical purposes, and haye had them 
of every shade trom that of the redtail hawk to the crow. 
On ithe broad meadows of the Connecticut in migrations 
they outnumber all other hawks together. They are hardly 
driven south by snow in November and December, and re- 
turn with the first bare ground in March. My friend 
Damon, of Northampton, an ardent ornithologist, has shot 
them from his buggy well up among the hundreds, taking 
advantage of their clumsy and slugeish ‘habits to drive with- 
in easy gunshot “most every time.” But that is not all, To 
the owners of the meadows they are of great benefit. Of all 
the hawks the most harmless, never to my knowledge taking 
a chicken or bird, but harvesting mice hy the thousands, and 
saving tons of grass and grain by so doing. J have counted 
a dozen in sight at once, sitting stupidly on trees in a motn- 
ing, and nof a mousé could eat his breikfast above ground, 
without at the same time making one. The unparalleled 
change of color has caused some amusement to mature 
heads, The Smithsonian, when young and ambitious, made 
three hawks out of the one, but hastily withdrew two varie- 
ties when confronted by Dr, Wood’s platoon of specimens, I 
shall, us I have done for years, plead with sportsmen to 
spare these birds. They have no feet for holding large game 
like other hawks, and their being always loaded with fat, 
shows their success and usefulness as mousers and conse- 
quent friends to the agriculturist.—B. Horsrorp. 


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“ANTELOPE AND DEER OF AMERICA.” 


N O study is more delightful than that of the habits of our 
large game, and yet the lack of knowledge about these 
animals, even among the most intelligent of sportsmen, is re- 
markable. Although the sources of information at their 
hands are considerable, there are but few men who are at all 
well acquainted with the habits of these large species. This 
is the more deplorable because this large game is so rapidly 
passing out of existence, that it will soon be only a memory, 
except to the most ardent of hunters, and because, owing to 
the rapid settling up of the country, the conditions of the 
life, and so the habits of these animals are continually chang- 
ing. It is true that in many sections of the United States 
the Virginia deer clings to its haunts with surprising tenacity, 
but it is equally true that most of our other large game ani- 
mals are becoming extinct with a rapidity that is most sad- | 
dening to those who for years have taken pleasure in , 
living with them in regions where they were at home, — 
and in observing their habits. How swiftly and surely 
this extermination is taking place is realized by but few 
people. | 
To many men the memories of the days, weeks and | 
months spent in the forests, on the prairies, or among the | 
mountains, in the companionship of God’s wild creatures, are 
the most satisfying and pleasing of their lives, and these | 
recollections come back more vividly in the after years and 
give rise to more delight than do the thoughts of their tri- 
umphs of pen, of oratory, or of statesmanship. And yet , 
there are hundreds of men who, in one way or another, have | 
hunted Jarge game, haye spent months in its pursuit in a_ 


Male Cowumbtan biackiail Dee-, 


country where it was perhaps abundant, and who know but 
little about it. They have had guides who were hunters, 
and they have depended wholly.cn them. These guides 
have taken theia about over the country, have found the 
game, have brought them up within shuoting distance, and 
have told them when and where to shoot. The employers— 
the ‘‘gentlemen,” as they are called in some regions—simply 
held the gun and pulled the trigger. : , 
Men who thus depend entirely on others, travel with their 
eyesshut They have no idea of finding their way about with- 
out a guide. Take them over the first hills behind camp, 
and turn them around once or twice, and they are lost. 
They take no note of the habits of game, and even after a 
long expericnce in hunting, do not know where to look for 
it. They cannot tell a deer’s track from an antelope’s or a 
sheep’s. Their powers of observation have not been trained; 
they do not see what goes on about them. 
Happily all men are nof so, There are others who, from 
a week’s hunt, will bring back a note book full of interesting 
facts and incidents concerning the game which they have 
been in search of. Within a day or two they will have 
learned so much of the country that they can hunt through it 
alone. They observe the salient features of the landscape, and 
mountains, streams and trees become to them so many plainly 
marked guide boards, by which their steps are directed through 
a country hitherto perfectly unknown, With men such 
as these, if is a pleasure to converse after their return from a 
hunt, for their conversation fairly bristles with facts. On the 
_ other hand, one hears constantly from people of the former 
_ class, who have had abundant opportunities for observation, 


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maNnz-cHl 


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statements which are so wide of the truth, and which betray 
such groping ignorance of the commonest facts in the nat- 
ural history of all wild animals, that we are constantly sur- 
prised at the want of information concerning them, And 
yet there is no bunter—no one, we should perhaps say, who 
imagines himself a hunter—who would not be glad to know 
all about this game if he knew how and where such knowl- 
edge was to be obtained. Although it is very true that about 
some species of our large game the literature is scanty, 
fragmentary and widely dispersed, there are others about 
which a great dea] has been written, and the most familiar 


Young Woodland Caribou, 


group, that which includes our deer, has been quite fully 
treated by a most competent authority. 

When Judge J. D. Caton’s valuable work on ‘‘The Ante- 
lope and Deer of America” first appeared, we called attention 
to it as the most important work on the subject which had 
yet appeared, and this pre-eminent position it stil] occupies. 
The wide dissemination of this most excellent volume would 


do much to diminish the prevailing ignorance on this subject. — 


The opportunities which Judge Caton has enjoyed for observ- 


ing the habits of the antelope and most of the species of North | 


American deer, have been remarkably good, and to this study 
he has devoted years, His work is not tie unconsidered pro: 
duction of an individual seeking fame, but the careful and 
painstaking work ofa conscientious naturalist, And yet it 
is written with the enthusiasm of a man who is devoted to 
his subject, and who has omitted no detail, however slight, 
which might throw: light upon the habits of physical charac- 
teristics of the animals which he was studying. ‘| 

On all points which concern the mode of life of our more 
familiar species of deer, Judge Caton is the highest living au- 
thority. For many years he has kept in confinement large 
numbers of elk and deer of various species, and has thus been 
able to ebserve them closely at all seasons of the year, while 
they were to all intents and purposes in a state of nature. 
Having them thus constantly before his eyes, being keenly 
alive to the importance of observing them, and of recording 
his observations, he has accumulated, and given to the world 
in a very attractive form, a vast mass of facts of the very 
highest value. 

In all, Judge Caton has had over one hundred elk in con- 
finement in his park at Ottawa, Illinois, and he has had no 
less than fifty-four living individuals there at onetime. Of 
other temperate zone species he has had the Virginia, Aca- 
puleo, mule, and Columbian blacktail deer, and the 
pronghorn antelope. 

Nine species are treated of in his work: The antelope, 
moose, barren ground and woodland caribou, elk, mule, 
Columbian, Virginia and Acapulco deer, To each of these 
separately considerable space is devoted. The synonomy, de- 
scriptior, geographical range and habits are treated of in the 
articles devoted to each species, and after all have been thus 
discussed, we come to chapters on the Cervide taken together, 
The titles of these chapters are Comparisons, Groupings, 
Habit and Domestication, Hybridity, Aliment, Congeners, 
Diseases of the Deer, The Chase, The Skins, with an Appen- 
dix treating of the glands and the tubes in the feet of the 
Cervida. Perhaps there is no better way of illustrating the 
breadth of the field which the book covers, than by showing, 
as above, what it contains. Its 425 pages are full of infor- 
mation of just the kind that is desired hy the hunter who is 
something more than a mere killer of meat. 

One of the most interesting subjects connected with the 
group, and one to which the author has given great atten- 
tion, is the antlers of the deer, a topic about which few men 


. 


Female Woodland Caribou, 


have any intelligent knowledge. 
pages are devoted. 

A very interesting point relative to these osseous out- 
erowths is the curious relation which exists between them. 
and the reproductive organs of the deer. On this point 
Judge Caton bas made many interesting observations, the 
great number of individuals at his command enabling bim 
to experiment very fully, and he has tho:oughly established 
the fact of an intimate connection between these organs and 
the antlers. ' 

Judge Oaton’s work is profusely illustrated, figures of all 
the species described, and of several exotic forms, being 
given. Besides these there area vast number of illustra- 
tions of antlers, feet, glands, etc., from each of which some- 
thing may be Jearned. One of the most instructive of all 
the figures is that of the tails of the different species, and it 
would be well worth the while of the yery large number of 
individuals, who, from the confusion arising from the mis- 
leading name of one of the commonest species of our west- 
ern Ceroide, are in doubt as to what the true blacktail deer 
is, to study this very interesting woodcut. 

There are some points on which we do not altogether 
agree wilh Juége Cation. Thus we cannot subscribe to his 
system of nomenclature, nor do we regard the woodland as 
a species distinct from fhe barren ground caribou, nor, as 
we have elsewhere written, do we believe that the vision 


To this subject over sixty 


Mule Deer, 


of several species of our deer is ‘‘defcctive.’ But on all 
that is essential—on all matters of fact—we may unhesi- 
tatingly accept Judge Caton’s views as sourd and wholly 
free from prejudice, 


SQUIRRELS IN CoNFINEMEN'T.—Lockport, N. Y., Jan. 30. 
—Probably the largest private collection of squirrels in con- 
finement in the State is kept by Mr. Charles Shaler, of this 
cily. Thad the pleasure of paying them a visit to day, and 
was surprised at the number, To the question put to Mr, 
5., ‘‘How many are there of them?” he answered, ‘‘I will 
give you $50 to count them correctly.” I did not undertake 
the task. Mr, §. finally said there were about forty of all 
kinds—black, red and fox squirrels, I think there were 
four of the latter. He has nine of the gray at present. Mr, 
5. said he commenced keeping them about fifteen years ago, 
and that they breed. every year, commencing in February. 
To the question, ‘‘Do they ever breed in the fall?” he said 
that they had done so in one or twoinstances. Mr. S. claims 
that the young do not see until they are forty days old. He 
keeps them in a room built out cn the east side of his house, 
inclosed with coarse wire netting, Here there isa labyrinth 
of dead trees and branches for them to run among; also 
wheels for them to turn. Attached to one of the latter he 
has a miniature train of cars, which is kept in motion a 
good share of the time; and I noticed that the festive little 
red did a good share of the work, although this species is in 


the minority in number as well as in size. Mr. 8. promised 
to let me know when there were some young squirrels, and 
to convince me that they do not see until they are forty days 
old.—J. L. D. 


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Birp MicRration,—In the number of Forest AND STREAM 
for Jan, 24 was printed the general circular on migration of 
the committee of the American Ornithological Union, As 
superintendent of the ‘‘Mississippi Valley District” I wish 
to supplement it by a special appeal to the sportsmen of that 
portion of the United States. Exact reports on the migra- 
tions of ihe water birds in the Mississippi Valley are yet to 
be written. We have plenty of notes on ‘“‘Ducks and Geese,” 
“Snipe and Plover,” but for the accurate study of migra- 
tion, such notes are, to say the least, unsatisfactory, because 
the several species are not separated, The observers are not 
to blame for this; they have done the best they could, Like 
the most of mankind, they cannot distinguish the different 
kinds at a distance, What we want, in addition to the gen- 
eral reports on all birds, which we are glad to get from any- 
body, is special reports from those who from profession or 
by practice have learned to recognize the various species of 
water and shore birds, both in the band and on the wing, The 
Mississippi Valley contains many who are eminently fitted 
to aid in this wok, There is hardly a lake in that broad 
territory where some onc is not now anxiously awaiting the 
disappearance of its ice and the appearance of the water 
fowl; hardly a marsh that some one will not later be watch- 
ing for the first signs of the birds that are to give him sueh 
glorious sport. These are the persons whose help we want. 
But the professional hunter is the man par excellence whom 
we areatter, He is the one who is at home with the birds, 
whose business it is to watch and note accurately their com- 
ings and goings, and if he will contribute his observations, 
the spring of 1584 will see for the first time an extended 
series of exact observations on the migration of our water 
buds, Let all, then, who are willing to give us the benefit 
of their notes send in their names and I will furnish a fuller 
pata of plans and wishes.—W. W. Cooxn (Caddo, Ind. 

er.) 


ScREECH OWLs IN 4 CuImney.—Lockport, N. Y., Jan. 
29.—The inclosed was taken from the Lockport Journal of 
yesterday: ‘‘About two weeks ago 4 stove was put up in a 
room in the residence of J. H. H. Clark, on Chestnut street. 
which had not been occupied for some time, and every night 
a rattling and scratching noise would be-heard in the previ- 
opsly unused chimney. Occupants of the room endeavored 
to get the uneasy visitors out of their quarters, but without 
success until Jast night, when the fire became too hot and 
two full fledged screech owls, who had lodged in the chim- 
hey, came tumbling down into the fire place, overcome by 
heat. It is very seldom that screech owls make their homés 
in chimneys.” The birds were brought tomy son to be 
stuffed and mounted, and were male and female, and I think 
last season’s birds; they were in good shape, but yery poor, 
and I think they could have had but little to eat during the 
two nights they have ocewpied the chimney. My son has 
stuffed a number within the past month, and with this ex- 
ception they have all been very fat.—J. L. D, 


TAME Qvar.—Monroe, La.—A lady friend of niine, Miss 
Slaughter, has a tame quail of our small variety, which 
domesticated itself. Miss 8. lives on the bank of the 
Ouachita, near Monroe, the premises being surrounded by 
corn and cotton fields. The bird, a female, came volun- 
tarily into the yard and associated itself with the domestic 
fowls. It has been in the poultry yard about a year, and 
rarely Jeaves its domestic companions. 1t takes an active 
interest in matters at feeding time, and by its extraordinary 
pugnacity secures for itself a fair chare of the food thrown to 
the chickens. Miss Lou says it will ruffle up its feathers 
and boldly attack a hen of erdinary size. A very curious 
feature about this case is that the bird built a nest in the 
garden last spring and laid some dozen of eggs, having no 
contact with any other member of its tribe. Part of the 
ees were placed under a sctting hen, and IJ believe the bird 
itself sat on the others, but none of them were hatched, 
owing, 1 suppose to want of impregnation.—OvAcuiTa. 


ANoTHER Tame Crow.—Referring to Mr. Sprague’s tame 
crow, I am reminded of one formerly owned by a family in 
a village one and a half miles from my residence, This 
family ran a hack several times a day to the railroad station, 
one mile distant. For several weeks this young crow at- 
tempted to accompany the hack to the station but was in- 
variably attacked at the outskirts of the village by some 
kingbirds who quickly drove him back to the house in 
which he at once took refuge. This crow became such an 
inveterate thief that the family gave him away to a young 
Iawyer in the-neighborhood. He kept him confined in his 
office till he became attached to his new home, when he al- 
lowed him to fly about the, neighborhood. Although this 
young lawyer was fairly itching for business he soon had 
more “petty larceny” cases than he could attend to and was 
compelled to dispose of his crow, which soon went where all 
bad crows go.—M. P. P. 


Harty Micration or Woopcocxk.—On Thursday morn-. 


ing, Feb. 7, while out with my beagles, I flushed a wood- 
cock. The bird was evidently a fresh arrival, as he seemed 
tired and loath to rise, being sprung several times, and al- 
ways taking short flights, The weather had been mild for 
several days, and the morning in question was murky with 
drizzling rain. He was found ina low piece of woodland 
on the very verge of West Philadelphia, a spot that thirty 
years ago was a favorite haunt of these birds, but the steady 
growth of the city westward has trenched on this territory 
until now the houses are built up in solid blocks to within 
one hundred yards of whcre this bird was found. In along 
experience J never reinember to have seen woodcock so early 
in the season, and the case is especially remarkable, as up to 
within a week the weather has been very cold and the ground 
covered with snow and slect.—Rustricus (Philadelphia, Pa.), 


REcgENT ARRIVALS AT THE PHILADELPHIA ZoOLoGicAL GARDEN.—One 
grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis), two raccoons (Procyon lotor), twogray 
squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), one opossum (Didelphys virginiana), 
one great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), one herring guil (Larus 
argentatus), one broad-winged hawk (Buteo pennsylvanicum), two 
yollowsseasted woodpeckers (Colaptes auratus), one Ambherst’s 
pheasant (Thawmalea amherstiw), two muscovy ducks, one diamond 
rattlesnake(Crotalus adamantews), five alligators (Alligator missis- 
adppiensis.) 


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N. B.—In our notiee of pictures received from Mr. G. Hill, 
Hudson, N. Y. (page 33), that gentleman's name was inadver- 
tently printed Mills. Find in angwer to ‘‘N. D.” (same issue), 
dam of Snop should read Hill’s Tilley. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
[Continued from page 30.) 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

The man who asserts that he can remedy the defect of too 
much curve in the trajectory, either by high sighting, by 
taking “‘coarse Jead’”on the front sight, by holding over or 
high upon the game, or by elevating sights, or by any other 
plan, simply asserts that he is a quick and accurate judge 
of distance under the ever-changing conditions of ground 
and light; and that, too, in the yery face of game that is 
generally ready to leave on the instant, and is often in 
motion. Eyery method of remedying this defect in the 
field involves the calculation of distance. There is posi- 
tively no escape from it. With any man who makes such 
an assertion I have nothing to argue. Our experience is 
antipodal; there is no common ground upon which we can 
meet; no premises that we can use as a common starting 
point. 

The man who asserts that a .40-caliber solid ball is largie 
enough for deer, antelope, etc., simply asserts one of these 
three propositions: 

First—That he can hit his game just where he chooses; or, 

Second—That a ball is just as effective in one part of an 
animal as in any other part; or, 

‘Third—That the crippling and torturing of game is a 
matter of no consequence, 

I challenge the world to point out any way of escape from 
impalement upon the point of one or the other of these 
propositions. 

With such a man also I have nothing to argue, There is 
no commen ground between us, He is a being from a loftier 
sphere from that in which I live and for which I write. For 
years I have known that genius of the field who is never 
troubled with the eccentricities of lead. I have seen him 
perform, Fora mere ‘'duffer,”’ a blockhead who has not 
sense enough to place every ball in the heart of a bounding 
deer to offer advice to such a demigod, requires more cour- 
age than this ‘‘duffer” happens to possess just at present. 

There are, however, many clods of commen clay who, like 
myself, feel compelled to how to the vagaries of lead. 
Especially so when it is traveling upon a high curve, and 
the game is traveling upon a still higher curye. And we 
are weak enough to prefer a bullet that may take effect when 
accidently planted at .87.906 of an inch from the precise 
point where our aforesaid friend would plant it, And 
so weak are we in this respeet, that we are hopelessly 
blind to the loss of an extra square inch of ‘*pelt,” and can 
even endure with composure the loss of fifteen and a half 
ounces of meat irretrievably ‘“‘mussed” and ruined by an 
expansive bullet. : 

Such persons now prefer a bullet made expansive, and 
some prefer it even larger than .40. By some it is objected 
that expansive bullets are not sufficiently killing for want of 
penetration. 

The effect of expansive balls has been immensely over- 
trated, A large amouut of twaddle has been written about 
“‘express shock,” etc , tigers wilting Jike wet rags under a 
single bullet, and grizzlies’ heads pulverized like puff balls, 
etc., etc. One who has never tried one of these balls but 
had only read of them, could conceive nothing less than a 
bottled up thunderbolt suddenly let loose in an animal’s 
bedy. Thereis nothing to be done but to make the contact. 
The instantaneous paralyzation of every nerve and muscle in 
the victim resultsas a matter of course. Stop now, my friend, 
you need not give mearecord of so many tigers or bears 
killed with a single shot each. J can find you a single muz- 
zleloader of .45-caliber in this county that has killed fifteen 
grizzlies in just fifteen shots, all solid balls, 1 know. too, 
how it was done. By following the bear hunter’s rule, viz., 
“Jet a bear alone unless you can get a dead sure shot.” Any 
good hunter with any kind of a rifle that is accurate, will 
make runs of six, or seven, or eight deer killed in succession 
with the single ball, and all falling within sight. And it is 
probable that more deer have been killed at a single shot 
from small-bored muzzleloaders with round ball than have 
ever been killed or ever will be killed with all other ritles 
put together. 

Allsuch things prove exactly nothing exdept that the ani- 
mal happened to be hit in theright place. Give me the 
formula for reaching the right spot and I want nothing bet- 
ter than a .388 or .40 solid ball. On what are known as the 
vital points of deer and antelope the difference between the 
most destructive express balls and the small solid ball 
amounts to little. For dangerous game it may be different, 
and even very little of course amounts to something. But I 
believe that even there the effect is immensely exaggerated. 
I bave often seen deer, struckat the point of the shoulder, 
run fifty or sixty yards with 400 grains of leaden ‘‘splash” 
driven almost to the skin on the opposite side and tearing 
lungs and heart completely into shreds. The majority so 
struck wil] run some distance precisely as when struck with 
a solid ball; and the latter will bring many down in their 
tracks as quickly as the expansive one wall. Nor can I dis- 
cover any material advantage (in this respect) from increase 
of powder. And the principles of so much ‘‘force ex- 
pended in an animal’s body,” ‘‘express shock,” etc., I can 
tind little or nothing in—so far as the vital spots are con- 
cerned. And I doubt if any one living shvuots as large a 
powder proportien as I do, or has cut the hole of expansion 
bullets into more varied sizes. 

But when we come to shots not on the vitals, the differ- 
ence between the solid and the expansive ball becomes im- 
rmense. And the place where common mortality is liable to 
plant a bulletin an animal running, or onea little too far off, 
or in bad light, or in brush, ete., ete., and which are not 
immediately vital, comprise almost two-thirds of the body. 

While few ornone will dispute this last statement, there 
are still many who claim that the solid ball, defective as it 
is, is still better than the expansive one, because of its better 
penetration, + pay 

There is some truth in this, Seven years ago I said in 
these columns that. in the long run penetration was about as 
essential as expansion. Ever since then I have been using 
expansive balls of various sizesgand shapes, and ain fully, 
satisfied that for 100 shots taken as they yvenerally run a 
solid ball is better than an expansive ball that opens toc 
quickly or that goes into splash upon flesh. I said then that 
the expansive hole in the bullet should be smal] and tapering 
to a point at the bottom, The more I use them the smaller 
I make the hole, and the more I am conyinced of the ne@zs- 
sity of making it small, _ ' 

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give it sufficient penetration for those shots in which ‘pene- 
tration is needed, It simply makes a wider flesh wound but 
withont sufficient increase of depth to be of practical use, 
For such shots as a little too far back of the shoulder, or in 
the brisket, it will still be far better than the solid ball, but 
it will be inferior for nearly all the raking or quartering: 
shois, where a ham must be shot through before the ball can 
enter the body. The expansive ball uust in any event have 
a very heavy powder charge behind it, as even slight expan- 
sion checks if, immensely, and no 8M0he Mf powder will 
quire for good penetration 88 the, on {hole to open 
slowly. - Aan ha 

1 think all the objections aged 4 of expansive 
balls are caused either— rid all 

First—By too much expansion; or, 

Seeond—By too little powder. 

Both of these are combined in the Winchester express, 
The ball goes to pieces n flesh alone without touching bone; 
and though far superior for shots on the stomach, too high 
or too low in the shoulder, etc., of a deer, it is not equal in 
efficiency on some raking shots from behind to the .45-60 
of the same company. The copper tube adds little or no 
strength to the ball; it is needless for accuracy or any other 
purpose whatever, except to catch gulls who think it has 
some marvelous virtue. If the hole were made narrower, 
shallower and tapering to the bottom, it would .be far more 
effective, in the long run, though for some shots it would be 
less quickly fatal than as at present made. It also needs 
more powder, fully fifteen graius being necded to balance 
the increase caliber over the .44, the larger tube requiring 
always a little more powder for the same weight of lead. 
The ballis heayy enough, and if made to simply expand to 
about four-fifths of an inch, and backed by 120 or 130 grains 
of the very best powder, the gun ought to be the most effec- 
tive of all rifles tbat can be held to the shoulder, its repeat- 
ing power overbalaneing all else, 

The expansion of a ball can be tested only upon flesh. 
Soft clay may possibly do, but tests made upon wood, ete., 
are worthless. I bave seen bullets with copper tubes hold 
together on wood and make good penetration, while the same 
bullet would invariably go to flinders upon flesh. If the 
makers of repeaters or rather express rifles will listen a mo- 
ment 1 can give them some good advice that will tend to 
reconcile and unite all the conflicting opinions upon this 

oint. 
fi First—Make the ball light enough and the rifle heayy 
enough to prevent much recoil, so that a difference of twenty- 
five grains in the weight of the ball will not require any 
change of sights at ordinary range. 

Second—In every box of cartridges Jet one-half the balls 
be solid ones, so that those who do not like expansive balls 
or want some solid ones can be accommodated. 

Third—Make in the point of the rest a hole only half the 
length of the ball, tapering to the bottom and not over one- 
tenth of an inch wide at the top, and leave it open. 

Fourth—Upon the box cover inform the purchaser that 
the latter balls can in a moment be made expansive to any 
extent desired with a gimlet, reamer or point of a penknife. 
Also that if he thinks the hole will affect the balPs accuracy 
that he may close it with wax or tallow, but that there is no 
need of anything. | 

Fifth—The last and best. Throw the copper tube to the 
dogs, stiffen the ball with tin and put behind it the last 
grain of powder that the repeater action will bear. 

Quite an effective rifle may be made of a .40-caliber, with 
100 grains of powder and 200 of lead, And [ see no reason 
why such a rifle gould n6t be made to take a cartridge of 120 
of powder and 250 of lead. If the latter could not be 
worked through the magazine, it might be inserted in the 
barrel by hand when the carrier block is down and there is 
no haste in loading. 

I think, however, if any one can only overcome the un- 
manly fears of a little recoili—entirely unfounded—and en- 
dure the sacrifice of a few ounces of meat, he will find no 
trouble with the .50-caliber of the Winchester, remedied as 
above suggested. For all-around work, for penetration, 
expansion and retention of velecity, a ball must_have actual 
weight. Without weight, momentum or force is impossible, 
and without solid walls around the hole in a bullet slow ex- 
pansion is impossible. Make the hole too small in a narrow 
ball and it does net expand enough. Make it large enough 
and it may goto pieces too quickly. Put weight enough is 
a .40-caliber ball to force its expanding front very far 
through flesh and you must make it too long to have good 
initial velocity. 

How, then, shall we strike a compromise between the three 
conflicting elements of high velocity, weight, and sufficient 
striking surface? There is but one possible way to give a 
ball weight without cutting down its velocity. And that is 
by wideningit. Of course it will need more powder, but 
give it that and you may get as high a velocity from the 
larger caliber as from anything. The late rifle trials in Hng- 
land show 1,946 feet a second velocity for a .50-caliber; 
powder 188, lead 342; while the .40, with the same propor- 
tion, 82-209, gave 1,873, and the .45, with 110-322, gave 
1,776 feet. From the smaller caliber-you may get the higher 
velocity from the same amount of powder, the tube being 
smaller, But it is only in the larger bore that you can unite 
comparative lightness of the bullet with sufficient actual 
weight for good penetration and crushing power. 

5. T. Van Dyxe. 


CALIFORNIA. 


Exditor Forest and Stream: ‘ 

So long as there are different patterned rifles and men of 
different patterned ideas to handle them, and each handling 
atteuded by different circumstances, into which the merits 
of tne handler enter as largely as the merits of the weapon 
handled, so long will different ideas be entertained relative 
to the efficiency of the various makes, each advocate in- 
variably standing by the bridge that carried him safely 
Over. 

In the discussion now carried on in the Forest anpD 
STREAM on the “choice in hunting rifles,” I joi in favor of 
Sharps army carbine, for frontier use, against all comers. 
I, for reasons strong as life, believe them unexcelled and 
far superior to any magazine rifle that has yet come into 
notice. For close and rapid shooting the magazine rifle 
may be without a peer, but sucha happening comes but 
once in a hundred times, and when it does come the man ~ 
that handles it must be its master, or nine shots out of ten 
go wide of the mark, Few men there are that can hold 
such a rifle to their shoulders and manipulate it effectually 
on objects distant fifty to one hundred yards. 

Looking back oyera long and varied experience in the 
use of rifles against both man and beast, I have yet to see 
it done. At long or short range, the carbine referred to is 3 


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hard and deadly hitter. Its simple mechanism is always in 
order and ihey are as readily loaded as any rifle nota 
magazine-made, nor will I except the magazine variety if the 
user must needs take it from his shoulder to cast and replace 
the empty shell, for in that case a practiced hand will, with 
a Sharps fully hold his own. The latter, moreover, 18 ex- 
eéedingly short and light, a matter of no small consideration, 
where constant use is required, The short, light barrel will, 
I know, be pooh-poohed by target ring hunters, but to the 
man that can hold them down they are kings. ’ 

Some time during the early part of the seventies I, with 
several others, was prospecting for placer ground on the 
headwaters of the Sauta Domingo River, in Sonora, At that 
time the Apache Indians left the San Carlos Reservation, in 
Arizona, and raided as far south as Uies, The main body 
of them passed us on the west, as we afterward learned, but 
a party of probably 1 dozen happened our way, and the 
trouble began by the Indians ambushing myself and a com- 
panion as we were riding through one of the most beautiful 
oak parks it has ever been my good fortune to see, At the 
first fire they put us both on foot, but fortunately without 
bodily injury to outselves. My animal, a full-blooded bronco 
mare, was also uninjured, but the surprise was so sudden to 
both that she had me off in a jiffy. Although somewhat 
dazed, we up and treed instanter, and then the fun com- 
menced, My mare, for a minute or so, galloped wildly 
about her struggling companion, and then made a bee line 
back the way we had come. The Indians in the meantime 
yelling their best, but not till we broke cover did they dare 
attempt to close in, and only then by individual spurts from 
treé to tree, as we made like moves, each one covering the 
other’s retreat in turn, Finally, by a hard run we reached 
a deep arroya that cut across the bottom at right angles and 
made us masters of the situation, and gave us comparatively 
smooth sailing into camp, which we found thoroughly 
alarmed by the mare which had preceded us, and prepared 
for the worst. 

We were at this time five strong—three Americans and 
two Mexicans (an old man and a boy). Our arms consisted 
of one Winchester rifle, {wo Sharps carbines and two old 
army muskets, with the barrels sawed short. The old man 
gave good counsel, and under his directions we hastily pre- 
pared for the attack that we kuew was suretocome. AI- 
though the site of our camp was well chosen and watch con- 
stantly Kept, those off guard slept but little that night. 

Shortly after sun-up next morning, when we were con- 
gratulating ourselyes on our security, a rifle cracked as a 
bullet piuged across our camp and broke ground a short dis- 
tance beyond, ‘To our surprise it came froma direction un- 
expected, but hugging the zround closely we rolled our 
blankets into temporary breastworks, and with ready rifles 
waited the issue, which we purposed should not be one- 
sided, Not Knowing from which way the next shot would 
come we facedin the most probable direction. Presently a 
second shot, followed closely by a third fromthe same direc- 


' tion as the first, told us that our foe was reaching for us 


from one side only, We therefore gave it our united atten- 
tion. A wreath of smoke hanging to the top of the grass 
localized ourman. ‘The only Winchester in camp was fired 
at him repeatedly without effect, other than to bring back 
answering bullets, one of which took the side out of a can- 
teen that was standing by a stone previously used as @ seat. 

With us bullets were bullets, as none could be bought 
nearer than Tueson, distant nearly three hundred miles, and 
as each cartridge fired by the Winchester was one more 
wasted, it was decided to try him with a Sharps,.and the duty 
assigned to the writer of this, who, hastily rising to a half 
knechne position, fired two shotsin rapid succession. A 
conyulsive jump told us that something had gone wrong in 
the Apache camp. Fearing a ruse, we awaited further 
developments, but as none came, we investigated, and found 
the gentleman doubled up with a bullet hole through him 
from his left shoulder inside of right hip. 

He had gained his vantage point by climbing up the side 
of an almost perpendicular box canyon, and then crawled 
fully three buadred yards on his belly before firing a shot. 
He was armed with a needle gun, old army pattern, They 
undoubtedly shoot #s hard and carry as far as a Sharps, but 
because of their weight and length, are too cumbersome for 
a prospector to carry, We had, previous to this little inci- 
dent, an exalted opinion of the magazine rifle, but after that 
we stood by the Sharps, and subsequent events justified our 
faith. I could give many illustrations in point, and may, 
perhaps, later on, if this is found worthy of publication. 
Now, however, I give but cne which came under my notice 
when prospecting in the Sun Simon range with W. E. Cook 
of, I believe, Rochester, New York. 

We were following up.a dry path leading our horges, when 
we struck a bear trail that crossed the path we were in, to 
the opposite hank. As near as we could determine it had 
been made by not less than five animals. We mounted and 
followed the trail till it broke up, and was lost on the hard 
mesa. but off in the distance we noticed what appeared to 
be a cow and calf. Surprised that they should have strayed. 
so far from any settlement, we rode carelessly toward them 
with a view of examining the ‘brand if any they had. 
Greater, however, was our astonishment, when up~-with a 
snort raised an enormous shé grizzly andl a gnod sized cub. 
We had with usa crop-eared Mexican cur vog that stood 
probably about eighteen inches high at the shoulders. We 
had always regarded him as a good watch dog and a keen 
firhter, but at the sight of the bear he developed qualities 
that made him dear to us afterward, for with a vicious 
bound he sprang at. bruin’s throat, but being instantly 
knocked down we thought bim killed, The next moment, 
however, he had her by the hams, and so quick was he that 
she could neither bite nor strike him, Several times she 
essayed a dash at us, who, on foot, were vainly endeavoring 
to lead our terrified horses closer up, but each time she gave 
us her attentions the dog gave her his. : 

As oxr horses refused to approach, it was decided that I 
held them while Cook advanecd with his Winchester to 
shoot her, He aia distance of not more than twenty steps 
tired at her four or five times. As each bullet struck her 
she would lie dowa, roll over and cry, then jump up and 
rush toward him, but as she did so the dog invariably bit 
her on the hams, and that annoyed her worse than the Win- 
chester. In Ccok’s haste to ‘cast an empty shell it fouled in 
the extractor, and he could neither get his lever up nor 
down. Throwing downhis gun he ran to get my Sharps; 
but as Thad too long stood a quiet spectator to one of the 
most exciting scenes | had ever witnessed, I left the horses 
with him, ran up, shot her through the brains, and the 
battle was over. She was thin % flesh, but her hide was 
equal in size to that of alarge ox, The cub was very fat, 


and when dressed weighed about thirty or forty pounds, | 


Before killing it we fought it with the dog, but as the latter 
-_ / i‘ 
a) a 


was jaded in his fight with the old one, the cub on a square 
tussle was more than his match; but every time 1t got loose 
from the dog it would climb on the dead body of its mother 
and cry piteously. 

The fouling of the shell, as stated, created with me a dis- 
trust in all magazine rifles of like make. Although I must 
confess that 1 afterward sent to San Francisco for one, and, 
through the excellent judgment of a friend, secured a very 
good one, but the caliber being too small for my use, I 
traded it off and fell back on my true but time-worn car- 
bine. Later on it was stolen from me by a Mexican, and as 
he hied himself to the land of tortillas and beans, 1 never 
saw it afterward. A friend, knowing my admiration for the 
gun, presented me with a new one of the same make, It 
shoots as wicked as its predecessor, 

In conclusion, I can safely assert that, if properly han- 
dled, there is no animal in the Southwest that can stand 
against them. J once shot a cinnamon hear that was walk- 
ing on the side of a hill above and from me. The bullet 
struck and shattered the left ham bone, passed through the 
ham and ran under the skin along the entire length of the 
animal and effected a lodgment at the base of the upper jaw. 
Again, I shot at a bear that stood quartering tome. I saw 
the bullet strike the ground beyond him, and as he turned 
and headed down the canyon I believed that I had overshot 
him. Suddenly he stopped as if considering what was best 
to do, then staggered forward and fell dead. The bullet 
had gone entirely through him. In one winter alone, in the 
Santa Ritas, I killed fifty-four deer, and with but one excep- 
tion, 1 never found a bullet in any of their carcasses, 

ADIOS. 

Tucson, A. T., Jan. 28. 


THE BIRDS IN WEST VIRGINIA. 


SITTING by a large open fire, with my two dogs on the 
s floor near me, for | have not as yet a better balf, and 
having just finished overlooking gun and fishing tackle, I 
have picked up several of your last issues, and the first thing 
I see is your call to ‘‘feed the birds.” Thinking you would 
like to hear from this part of the country, I send you this. 

We had better partridge shooting in this county last fall 
than we have had for years, though the best that was done 
was thirty-eight to two guns. Our birds are wild, very 
strong, and feed close to woods and thickets, into which 
they go when first gotten up. We think thirty-eight good, 
very good, the rough country and all things considered. 
The gentleman shooting with me, Mr. 8. W. M. P., of Phil- 
adelphia, is a much better shot than I am, and _ should this 
meet the eye of any of his Philadelphia Gun Club friends 
they will know what he killed and what fell to my share. 
Take him all in all, [think him the best all-around field 
shot I know. 

lam taking care of and feeding at my own place about 
fifty birds, and have induced some six or eight of my farmer 
friends to feed any birds that may come about their barns 
and outbuildings. I furnish the feed; they do the feeding, 
and I have just returned from a “‘round trip.” I find they 
have upward of 200 partridges feeding, and hope to get, 
them safely over this hard, cold winter. I hear of others tak- 
ing care of a covey or so, and knowing the country here as I 
do, I feel assured many birds will take care of themselves. 
The farmers last fall left much corn outstanding, and it has 
proved of great advantage to our game, 

Jn the proper season, when our black bass fishing begirs, 
I shall be glad to give any information I can to any of your 
many readers who may wish it. J use the fly entirely and 
know the Potomac and Cacapon rivers for miles as thor- 
oughly as I do the road over which I drive t get to them. 

rch Oak Fas 


BERKELEY Sprines,’ W, Va., Feb. 1, 1884. 


ANOTHER CAT TALE. 


667 > EIGNOLDS’S” catreminds me of a tough specimen 

that I had some experience with some thirty-five or 
more years ago. [was boarding ata large farmhouse, where 
they kept a fine flock of poultry. Late in the spring theege- 
gathering members of the family found fresh-laid shells 
emptied of their contents. The mischief was charged upon 
skunks, but one day a large semi-wild, yellow and white cat 
of the Thomas persuasion was caught in the act. This cat 
had recently taken up his abode at the large barns upon the 
place and was remarked a fine specimen, but this egg-suck- 
ing development caused an immediate proclamation of out- 
lawry from the household department. At that time I 
kept an excellent hunting rifle and practiced with it almost 
daily. - 

One afternoon alittle girl of the household who had been out 
gathering eggs, came running in flushed with excitement, hold 
ing a broken egg, saying she had just driven the ole yellow cat 
from the nest and he was then out back of the further barn. 
Hastily loading my rifle, Iran across the road where I 
could look down back of the long line of barns. Just as I 
reached the corner of the nearest barn, I met the cat, which 
instantly beat a rapid retreat and the intervening fence pre- 
vented a snap shot on the run. The cat passed the barns 
and turned under the long shed beyond, stepping behind a 
large, flat stone, upon which one of the shed posts rested, and 
looked back. I could just see his left eye by the edge of the 
post and over the stone. The distanee was about thirty-five 
yards, and in those days I rarely missed the size of a dime 
at that distance when firing at.a rest, as I deliberately did in 
this instance, of course drawing a fine bead upon the Cat’s eye. 
The first thought was to set the rifle in the barn and get a 
shovel to bury the cat, but-these animals perform ground 
and lofty tumbling when shot through the head with a bul- 
let, and as 1 could see no demonstrations of the kind, I omitted 
the shoyel. Repairing to the shed-post, I found no cat, but 
did find a surprising quantity of yellow hair and some clots 
of gore, showing that the bullet done someexecution. Noth- 
ing more was hexrd from the cat and po more empty egg shells 
werefound. The family were certain they smelled the dead 
cat under the barn, 

About the middle of the following January we had a fall 
of some twelve or fifteen inches of snow in one night, which 
had not yet drifted. Thé next morning was all that.could 
be desired for fox hunting, the locality being in the Green 
Mountains, I had an excellent old foxhound, and started 
early for a large pasture about a mile away, between two 
large swamps, a famous crossway for foxes, As I was get- 
ting well between the swamps the sagacious eld hound was 
ranging well ahead, when he suddenly tured from his course 
and the wag of his tail showed that he was on atrack which, 
of course, must be fresh. It lead in the direction of the 
nearest swamp, and «a few yards further on the hound disap- 
peared down in a gulley and commenced his peculiar stand- 
ing bark, showing that he had game at bay. I knew there 


was no hiding place in the vivinity, and as the hound never 
hesitated clinching any game found in that region, I was 
puzzled and hastened forward. Coming suddenly upon the 
hound not fifteen feet distant, I found him confronted by an 
enormous yellow and white cat. I had never known him to 


, take the least notice of a cat before, and the peculiar alter- 


nation of glances first to me and then to the cat, was clearly 
an inquiry for orders. I gave the word, ‘Take him,” and 
in about three seconds the air for some feet around was filled 
with a mixture of snow and hair, and the hound was utter- 
ing muffled yells of pain, which, however, soon ceased, to be 
supplanted by a long-drawn ‘‘yaul” from the cat, who a few 
seconds later lay limp and dead on the hair-carpeted snow. 
As he lay with his left side up, I diseovered that his left eye 
was gone. An examination disclosed an unhealed wound 
nearly in the center of the back of the head. It was the old 
egg-sucker that I had omitted to bury eight months before. 
Moral: Always plant cats as soon as you shoot them. 

Right here 1 wish to add that this particular style of cats 
destroy more small same and insectivorous birds than all the 
gunners in the land, including pot-hunters, iDEA ee 


MUCILAGE-EDGE WADS. 


Hditur Forest und Stream: 

Itisto your columns that sportsmen must look for in- 
formation concerning anything new which pertains to sport- 
ing matters, and for that reason I beg a short space to herald 
a new and, I think, important device for loading shells, All 
the present methods of securing wads over the shot are ug- 
satisfactory. Crimping is not only a great nuisance, but 
fails to meet the desired end. Ona recent shooting trip L 
was shown something new in this line, the invention of Mr. 
M, 8. Alexander, of Moorefield, W. Ya. The powder and 
shet are put in the shell in the ordinary way. After the shot 
are put in, a loader, into which a narrow circle of sponge 
projects from the outside, is set over the shell, A wad hay- 
ing small strips of muslin, covered with mucilage, is now 
dropped into the loader and pushed home in the usual way. 
As it passes through the sponge the mucilage is moistened, 
and the wad held securely in place by the strips sticking Fast 
to the sides of the shell. Crimping is entirely done away 
with, and the shells remain almost perfect after being fired. 
Shells can be loaded more rapidly than by the ordinary 
method. These wads work splendidly in brass shells, and 
are far ahead of the patent mucilage-edge wads. I have car- 
ried shells Joaded in this way for days without the wads 
starting. This new device, if ever brought on the market, 
will prove a boon to upland sportsmen, SYCAMORE, 

BALTIMORE. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I see many things from the fertile imaginations of sports- 
men on practical matters that are not, governed by human 
agency. Marvelonsly long shots, clean kills at unreasonable 
distances, and wonderful scores, in one instance forty-eight 
out of fifty grouse (perhaps it was only thirty-eight out of 
forty). Now, the natura] and uncontrollable inclination of 
shot is to scatter. This deflection commences the moment 
the charge leaves the gun. At a certain distance the spaces 
between pellets are larger than the object aimed at, This 
marks the killing range of any gun. Forty yards is taken 
as a standard limit, and most guns are targeted at this dis- 
tance. Where one gun shows a killing circle at this range, 
twenty will fail to make a pattern that would be sure to 
stop the bird if held ‘‘straight on.” Sometimes a very long 
hit is made, as occasionally the foolish bird, instead of keep- 
ing straight for the woods, tries some fancy flying and comes 
to grief. Often I have made what I thought a splendid long 
shot, fifty yards at least. 

“T say, Bill, where did you stand?” 

“Right there by that patch of briers,”’ 

‘Where did the bird fall?” 

“OQ, way down the fence, fifty or sixty yards.” 

| don’t see if nor any feathers near here.” 

“Well, he fell right about where you stand. Look a little 
further down.” ” 

“Can't find him. 

“Well, come this way a little. 
dead.” 

‘How are 
twenty-five.” 

‘Well, [ killed him anyhow, and he looked as if he were 
a hundred yards,” : 

This little scene is quite familiar to us all. Iam in favor 
of some margin. But when we get out of bounds, it don’t 
count. ‘‘Dead out of bounds,” you see. ; a 

Manton, Ind. THIRTY-EIGHT Lone, 


i Rhow ft killed: time 


you ‘fifty yards!’ Here’s the bird, not over 


A New Soyue or ‘‘Turney SHoor.”—Marcellus, N. Y., 
Jan. 80.—Hditer Forest and Stream: In your last issue you 
refer to the decadence of the old-fashioned ‘'turkey shoot.” 
We have had several matches in this vicinity this winter, 
conducted on principles in harmony with those of the 8. F. 
P. OC. A. Ten or twelve shooters paid for a turkey and de- 
cided who should have it by shooting at a small paper tar- 
get, the shooter winning who drove a pellet nearest the cen- 
ter. While there was much chance in the game, yet a good 
shooting gun would win in the majority of cases. The dis- 
tance was 35 yards, 14 ounce, No. 8; target, 54x6 inches. One 
gun was fired five times, with an average of fifteen pellets in 
the paper. Three other guns fired four shots in all and made 
an average of seventeen. At another match, same condi- 
tions, distance 85 yards, target 5x6 inches, four guns 
were fired twenty-four times with an average of 302 pellets 
in the target. One gun an equal number of times, averaged 
26;t. All conditions were as favorable as could be made; 
rest, cleaning between shots.—MARCELLUS. 


SoutHwest Frorripa,—Myakka River, Fla., Jan. 25.— 
Thinking that some of the readers of your valuable journal 
would like to know of some locality on the southwest coash 
of Florida where good hunting could be found, I can safely 
say this isthe best game country I have seen along this coast 
as yet. The country I speak of is along the banks of this 
river, Which extends from Charlotte Harbor into the main- 
land about thirty or forty miles, Along this river deer are 
very abundant, also turkeys and wild hogs. Although I 
have seen but one covey of quail, I think thev are more 
plentiful up the river. Wildcats and panthers are quite 
cemmon around here, and if one has dogs a bear can be 
found in a short time. One party of eight men, that went 
up the river «a short time ago, killed in a day and a half 
eight deer and seven turkeys, using dogs. This river could 
be reached by taking passage on a schooner at Cedar Keys 
that runs to Hickory Blaff. At the last-named place a sail- 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


—— in 


[Frs. 14, 1984. 


boat could be purchased at the store there, also provisions, 
ete. The river is only ten miles from the Bluff, and with 
fair wind a person could run up the river for ten or fifteen 
miles, or, if desired, a man could be engaged at the store 
for pilot,—CHEstTErR, 


InpiIaANA QvuAtb.—Fairland, Ind., Jan. 18.—Reports so 
far, notwithstanding the heavy fall of snow, are favorable 
for quail and ‘'ground game” in this part of the State. An 
unusual number of large bevies are reported left over, and 
are now in good condition.—O. H. W. 


PAPER SHELLS.—The problem of making a paper shell 
which should possess in many respects the staple qualities 
of a metal shell, has engaged much of the attention of the 
cartridge companies, aud the claim has frequently been 
made that success was achieved; but experience developed 
objections to the new patents, The U. §. Cartridge Com- 
pany has put out a shell which, it is claimed, is superior to 
anything of former make. The paper is subjected to a 
process that renders it water-proof, reliable, and capable of 
withstanding large charges of powder and repeated reload- 
ing. Its smooth, stiff shape—inside and out—is retained 
after recrimping and firing, and it is not easily bent out of 
‘shape by rough usage, They are primed with the new No. 
2 Lowell primér, and with s good lock are not liable to 
miss. 


ang Sire Hlickerings. 
PB Mite & jung 


“That reminds me,” 
The writer of story No. 386 will please send name and address 
to thes office. 


162. 

HE “Spoon Hili” gang were sleepily lolling about the 
waning camp-fire. Talk b&drun low for some time 
when all of a sudden some one asked, *‘Dad, did you ever 
shoot a deer by the light of a jack lamp?” (“Dad” Is the 
dyspeptic, asthmatic member, and when the fit is on is 
as gloomy and cross as two sticks.) ‘“‘Never but once; and 
I have always regretted it.’ “Why so?’ yelled several at 
once. ‘‘Because it was the means of prolonging this miser- 
able existence,” “Out with it, old man, tell us ali about it,” 
screamed the entire crowd, asyawns gave way to glaring 

eyes and anxious faces, 

“It happened several years ago. A small party were 
camped on the bank of Crooked Lake, away up in Clare 
county, more for fishing and idleness than anything else. 
This was previous to the building of the F. & P. M, road 
and deer were quite plenty at that time. The question 
whether a deer could be captured by jacking or not had been 
hotly discussed, soit was decided to try the experiment, 
and I was successful in shooting the finest buck that ever 
felltomy gun, It was something irregular in regard to 
season; but the meat was very aceeptable in camp, as we 
were getting tired of fish and salt pork.” 

“Oh yes, that may all be, but how in the name of ail the 
saints did the shooting of that deer, ‘prolong that miserable 
existence’ you just mentioned?” 

“Steady now, youngster; don’t pull in your fish until you 
have him hooked. The day before, | had accidentally dis- 
coyered asmall stream in one of my rambles, which L was 
anxious to fish alone and unbeknown to any one in camp. 
The day after shooting the deer, while the rest were enjoy- 
ing their after dinner nap, I sneaked up alone, and whipp.d 
the stream with tolerable success, when a gathering of the 
clouds warned me to either:g@ quickly to camp or to take 
thorough Wetting. You all. know that water agrces with me 
inwardly, but when applied outwardly it is a promoter of 
culds, asthma and rheumutism; therefore, I reluctantly 
started for camp, but the shower was too quick for me, and 
the pattering rain drops plaiuly indicated that nnless 1 soon 
fouxd shelter, 4 downright drenching was in store for me. 
On looking about I found a fallen tree, the butt of which 
was hollow; into this I crawled as quickly as possible. ‘The 
rain came down in torrents, the lightning flashed, the 
thunder rattled, the wind howled and tore around fearfully, 
but there I Jay dry and comfortable, as snug as a bug in a 
tug. Blow, blow, ye winds; rain rivers, cataracts, aye, 
whole lakes if it pleases you; what care lin this dry, cozy 
shelter? I kicked up my heels, whistled with the wind, 
laughed at the rain and bellowed with the thuader. 1 eyen 
began to sing— 


i 


* “When the humid shadows hover 
Over atl the starry spheres, 
And the melancholy dai kness 
Gently weepsin rainy tears.’ 

when there came a furious blast of wind teariag through 
the forest, uprooting and dashing to the ground nearly every 
tree in its pathway. One fell directly across the end of my 
cosy retreat, smashing and closing up my entrance in the 
most effectual manner. Vainly | kicked against this sum- 
mary proceeding. Yelling was useless, as I soon concluded. 
Isaw that the only way out was to cut for it, and at it I 
went. Thad a good knife; the upper part of the log was 
‘badly damaged; and Isoon had daylight shining through. 
‘Bah!’ said I, ‘sicker children have been cured; and I worked 
away witha wiil;aud presently had a hole large enough to 
thrust my arm through, and I was glad to straighten it out, 
as working in such narrow and restricw:d quarters had be- 
numbed and almost paralized it, In drawing back my arm 
my hand was badly scratched on the ragged edge of the log, 
my fingers loosened their hold on the knife; it fell and slid 
down on the outside! 

“No, it could not be reached. I tried until nearly ex- 
hausted. My clothing was as wet from perspiration us 
though I had stayed out in the shower. A storm of kick- 
ing, twisting and screaming followed. All vain and useless. 
Then a calm; and I arrived at the conclusion that my earthly 
troubles were nearly over, and that my relulives would be 
denied the privilege of paying the undertaker for an ex- 
travagant and useless show. lL began to look away back to 
my earliest recollection and thought over my entire past life; 
and as each sin of omission and commission passed before 
my eyes [ humbly begved for mercy and asked forgivencss 
from that Supreme Being into whose august presence I soon 
expected to be ushered. Tranquilly, thoughtfully and kope- 
fully I traveled over my entire existence down to the hour £ 
shot that deer, when presto! change, I collapsed, dwindled 
_ and shrunk into such utter littleness as without any difficulty 

to crawl through the small hole | had made in the log; and 
securing my knife [made my way 10 camp, arriving in time 
to gorge myself at the evening meal with lhe broiled Hesh- of 
the deer, which had been the means of prolooging this mis- 
erable existence.” 

Granp Rapips, Mich. 


cf 


- Sea and River Fishing. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 


SCALY SUBJECTS. 

N the morning Jack brought the fish, over which the 
Colonel and the Doctor had disputed as to their identity, 

into camp with the remark, ‘‘Here they are; father says 
they are all suckers, while the Doctor claims that only one is 
a sucker ard the other two are some kind of perch,” 
‘There is more than one kind of sucker,” said the Colonel, 
“and when 1 called them suckers 1 did not mean that they 
were all of one kind; any one can see that they are different. 
This one I eall a black sucker, while the others are silver 
suckers. There is another kind, I believe, isn’t there?” 
“Forty, at least,” I answered, ‘‘not counting many closely 
related forms as the buffelo fish of Western waters, and 
others. This fish, which the Colomel calls the ‘black 
sucker,’ is the only one of the three which belongs tothe 
family of suckers; and it isa common species. I will tell 
you something of it after we get through with the fish which 
the Doctor thinks are ‘some kind of perch,’ ” 
“Give us some double-jointed, nickle-plated, waterproof, 
cable-laid and hard-twisted Greek and Latin names,” sug- 
gested Jack, ‘it makes the fish tast: better when it is 
cooked, to know that it has two names with seyen syllables 
in cach, and, as the showman says of the zebra’s stripes, 
‘nary two alike.’ ” 
“‘Jack’s theory that scientific names are used merely to 
amuse or confound those who_may not be familiar with 
them,” I replied, “‘is not confined to him alone, but is one 
that I have often heard in different ways before. As a rule, 
Jack, the names are not hard when you know them, and 
many fishes have no other names. For instance, take the 
name ‘pickerel; out of a family of fishes which has five 
sharply defined and plainly marked species in America, one 
of the five is called by anglers ‘mascalonge,’ and the other 
four are all called pickere| in some parts, and pike in others. 
As i1wo of these four grow to a size to be angled for, it is a 
matter of wonder that our anglers, who are observant and 
more inclined to make distinctions where no structural dif- 
ferences exist than to overlook them, should confound the 
large lake pike, soa luctus, with the smaller species, #, re- 
ticulatus. The fishes not only differ in structure, but in 
color as well, and the angler takes more note of color and 
atlaches more importance to it than the naturalist does. 
The first of these fishes is marked by oval white spots on a 
dark ground, and the latter by a black network more or 
less plain on a ground varying from green to greenish-yel- 
low. There is actually no other way to make it plain which 
fish is meant than by using the scientific name, There are 
atew anglers who, while knowing the scientific names of 
the fishes they take, hesitate fo use them for fear of being 
thought pedantic. They never hesitate tospeak of a rhin- 
oceros or a hippopotamus, both of which are the Greek 
numes of animals as used in zodlogy, nor in speaking of 
planis do they fear to mention the heliotrope, clirysan- 
themum, coleus, ailanthus, verbena and other systematic 
names, for the reason that they are more commonly used, 
and because the names were introduced with the things to 
which they belonged, and they have become familiar.” 
“Jack,” said the Doctor, ‘while 1 know nothing of ichthy- 
ology, L recognize the fact that the language of all sciences 
must bein what are called the dead languaves, because they 
never change, and are therefore employed as a common no- 
menclature for all scientific purposes by all civilized nations, 
or rather by all those which have derived portions of their 
languages Trom these older ones, for I deny that the Japan- 
ese and Chinese are not to be classed as ‘civilized.’ In anat- 
omy und medicine we have the dead languages as a common 
medium in both structure, diseases and remedies. Jack 
only needs to be reminded that when he speaks of an asphalt 
road, cellar, or other surface, he is using one of those horrid 
latin words which, when he goes to cullege, as his father in- 
tends he shall in a couple of years, he will learn is the pons 
asinorum of the angler,” 
“Tl tell you how Jack is,” said his father, ‘‘he thinks 
thal what he understands everybody else should know. A 
few days before we left home he was tryiag to explain to a 
maiden aunt of his, who never went further in mathématies 
than the multiplication table, how, by triangulation, the 
distance’ to the sun was made out. He stated 1t at ninety- 
two million miles, but-«as he knew thal the astronomers dit- 
fered to the extent of two millions of miles more, he did nut 
care to go into astronomival science further, and yet this is 
oue ol the most exact of sciences. Certainly,ichthyology 
cannot claim to be an exact science, for it is well ean 
that it is not as far advanced toward a solid foundation as 
some other departments in zod_gy.” 
“No,” answered I, for the Colonel looked toward my side 
of the shauty for a reply, ‘there are several authorities at 
present and they do not agree im all things, but while they 
differ, their works usually give as synonyms fhe nomen- 
clature of other writers. 1t is only within a few years that 
auglers have taken much notice of classification, because the 
means of information were not at their hands and the older 
angling writers made a muddle of describing fishes. My 
first attempt to determine fishes by aid of a book wus made 
with a pike and Frank Forester’s **Fish and Fishing.” 1 
looked at bis plates of that fish and mascalonge and thought 
the fault was miné infailing to determine which fish was 
before me, It neyer occurred to me that the author did not 
know the difference, as I believe now. These two fishes now 
before us, which the Doctor calls ‘some kind of perch,’ are 
very far from that family, All fish which may properly be 
called perch or bass have hard rays in the dorsal fin and one 
or more in the anal, and they are stiff and sharp and will 
wound the hand, These, on the contrary, have no spinous 
rays at ywhere, the first ray of the dorsal being hard but not 
sharp, and having a single dorsal fin and no teeth on the 
jaws, are members of the great family of Cyprinids, 
to which belong most of our so-called ‘minnows’. 
This family in Europe contains many species large enough 
to atiract the angler, while in America only two o1 its mem- 
bers grow to any size, and these are before us. ‘The smaller 
of the two, with the black spot at the base of the do.sal fin 
and the horny tubercles on its head, which are shed in sum- 
mer, is variuusly called chub and horned dace, and is the 
Semotilus corporalis, It is, as you see, nearly a foot long, 
and is a greedy fish and fair fighter, In many countries It 
would be esteemed as an angler’s fish, but in America only 
three ur four fishes are deemed woithy of our steel, and the 
rest are left to the boys. This is a splendid specimen, and 
about as large as it ever grows. ‘The larger one is also called 
chub and also fallfish (Semotdlus bullaris). Itlacks the dorsal 


: 


spot, and has larger scales than the other. This fish is fully 
thirteen inches long, and I think it grows to be sixteen. I 
have taken it with the fly in Virginia and found it fine sport. 
There are other differences than those mentioned, but it is 
not necessary to go into them here, This last fish carries 
stones to make its nest, and piles up quile a mound of 
them,””* 

“Well, how about the sucker?” asked Jack, ‘give us a 
lecture on him.” 

“This sucker is the most common of all its famiiy, and 
there is not much to say of it. 1t is called ‘common sucker,’ 
‘white sucker,’ etc., and is Catostomus teres, How did you 
take these fish?” 
“The chubs were taken on one of the Doctor's small 
hooks,” said the Colonol, ‘‘baited with a small minnow, 
while the sucker took in the tail of one of those crawfish 
which you brought in yesterday. There must be other fish 
in this Jake, and some day I intend to try that bunch of lily- 
pads, near the north shore, for perch or pickerel. So far 
we have only fished in deep water for luke trout.” 

“Did you find your place by the ranges given?” 

Yes; no trouble about it. I wonder now how 1 was so 
stupid as to doubt it; but it was a new thing that never 
occurred to me before.” 

“Tell us about the stream,” said the Doctor; ‘I want to 
learn if there is a chance to wade and fish, for I am tired of 
boat fishing.” 

“Doctor,” said I, “the stream is wadeable, as far as we 
saw it, and I may try it with you some day just for a 
change, but when you get to be as old and as lazy as I you 
may think as I do, that boat fishing is the best of all fishing. 
1 can sit in a boat and cast my fly, and when tired can stand ~ 
up and cast, but while always ready to work with my arms 
I can say that I hate walking of any kind, in water or out. 
This may be owing to my build, which is better adapted to 
sitting down than to fovt-racing, but I can truly say that 
it never hurts my feet to sit down.” 

“And I,” said the Doctor, ‘can as truly say that 1 would 
rather walk twenty miles than to row five, as I have seen 
you do. It is my legs that are industrious, but my arms too 
lazy for all exercise except fly-casting, and when I begin it 
in the spring my bicevs gets dreadfully sore. However, we * 
will try it some day.” 

‘All right, gentlemen,” chirped the Colonel; ‘*you may 
wade if you like, but none of it for me. Iam quite an 
enthusiast on the subject of fishing, but to enjoy anything, 
whether it be fishing, the opera, or a dinner, I must be eom- 
fortable both in mind and body; and to have my {vet in icy 
water and the sun broiling down on my head at the same 
time would be like listening to a prima donna when, like 
Tago, 1 had & ‘raging tooth.’ ” 

“agree with you, Colonel,” said I, ‘and the only alter- 
native is to use wading boots, which may be the lesser of 
two evilsif one only thinks so, Whether ittis best to cut 
slits in the toes of our shoes to let the water out, or to wear 
rubber boots which come to the hip and retain the perspira- 
tion, isa question. In one case it means rheumatism and 
in the other a train of minor ills that, like Byron’s shaving, 
balances the account.” Prep Marup. 


*S3eo PormsT AND STRUAM, VOl. XVI.. p. 410; XVIL., p. 412. 


GAFFING A STURGEON. 
“Acti labores jueundi,’—Latin proverb. i 
‘Labor done is pleasure won.’’—New Translation. 
UR two small yachts, out for a couple of weeks’ cruise, 
were stormbound, haying found w lee in one of the 
many bays of Long Point which are sheltered from the lake 
(Brie) by either a bar or marsh. Going on shore for a con- 
stitutional in the evening, we happened to find a fishing 
shanty during our walk. We found that its occupant in- 
tended going out to his sturgeon lines as soon as the sea went 
down. The gale had blown for twenty hours right on shore, 
and raised a nasty sea, which prevented any one visiting the 
lines during that period. We at once voluntered to man his 
yawlboat and take the fisherman out, but, although very de- 
sirous of going, he declared it almost impossible to gaff any 
large fish with so much seaon. 1, half jokingly, yet half in 
earnest, volunteered to gaff all the sturgeon on his line it he 
would take my oar. I fancy the man anticipated some fun, 
and thus acquiesced. 
After a thorough drenching in the surf, which, however, 
had gone down considerably by this, we launched the boat, 
took our places in her, got clear of the breakers, were into 
the swell and riding easy. I felt quite important as 1 stood 
in the bow, knowing that so much deperded upon my skill, 
nerve, and strength (although 1 did not realize the quantity 
of cach required), in capturing something I had never at- 
tempted or seen done before. I believe | quailed a little, 
just when a larger wave than ustal threw our bark almost 
out of the water and myself almost into it, because I thought 
wiih philosophic truth that if such a thing should happen 
while { was leaning over the side with about a hundred 
poundsof extra inducement beckoning me to come vut, I 
should have to obey. However, while I was grazing my 
shins against the forethwart, in my descent to the bottom of 
the sippery boat, I noticed a few smiles from as many half- 
turned faces, and from that moment determined to make a 
fool of myself no more. 
The leemost fishline buoy is reached. I grabbed it and 
followed the line hand over hand. Yery +oon it began to 
come heavy and rise perpendicular. I thought at firsi I had 
ot bold of the anchor end, but was assured by our ‘‘wiser 
head” that twas a fish. Pulling very slowly und cautiously, 
as if afraid of frightening the poor thing, but not so much 
so as not to disturb him, tor he commenced to act like a 
small Georgia mule, which started me thinking and wonder- 
ing, ‘lf this is what he can doin twenty feet of water what 
will he accomplish when I get him at aim’s length.” I 
allowed no intimation of my thoughts to escupe me, so none 
knew how tukeu aback I was on sccing this whale hove to 
right under my nose. When within easy reach I seized the 
gaif hook and began picking at it, without any effect, for the 
hovk just slid over him, ‘Hit him hard,” sung out the 
fisherman, I did so, but at that moment my antagonist had 
placed two or three feet of water between us, and so my en- 
deavor was merely sufficient to prick him, as a spur woulda 
mustang, and cause him to move round rather lively for 4 
while. Chagrin is a powerful incentive, and caused my ire 
and muscle to rise, so that when my friend showed his face 
again on the surface, Llet drive. It would have been all 
right that time, only the hook was the wrong way, and I 
fear the poor fish had a termble sore eye and nose after it. 
This was sufficient to stun most things, but not him; it was 
merely the signature to a new lease of life, and he nade the 


most of it, 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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The next time I was successful, and buried the hook well 
into his waist, just a little abaft of midships, and held on. I 
pulled and so did he, and I found we were well matched, I 
did not know how this novel ‘‘tug of war’ was going to 
end, nor when exactly. In about ten minutes I felt sure he 
would turn the scales at a ton, and I was about to ask the 
erew to clap on a watch tackle, or make some other absurd 
request, when I came to my senses. My position is worthy 
of notice. My knees were braced against the planking till L 
thought {should start them. My back got such a kink in 
itasto bea tit, subject for carrying ina sling, my arms 
were fearfully strained by reason of pulling with that out- 
ward tendency so much harder to endure than a straight up 
and down haul. My eyes, being so intent on watching my 
captive, had necessarily at the same time to watch the com- 
ing and going, the rising and lowering of every wave, which 
began to act like a pump in my nausea box, and would for- 

“ever lower nie in the estimation of the crew, ; 

Lam proud to say I neither gaye in nor let on, I just let 
the perspiration run, the fingers cramp, the back gripe, the 
knees grind, and attended to the solid avoirdupois outside. 
I succeeded at last; he came in, although he had his revenge 
in doing so, for as he slid into the bottom of the boat he 
made a skating rink of it, with material more slippery than 
greased ice, down which I went as if determined to follow 
bim to the bitter end. 

This was my first as well as my worst, I gafied ten 
more that evening, but L hooked the others nearer the bows 
of the fish than the stern; and if ever you have occasion to 
educate greenhorns who wish to go sturgeon fishing in a 
heavy sea, lay down, as a first principle, the rule “gaff as 
previous as you can behind the head,” : 

Lihink I was deserving of the congratulations I received, 
for 1 did not make a miss with eleven fish, which totaled 
more than as muny hundred pounds in weight. VERAX. 

Port Rowan, Ont,, Feb. 5, 


LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 
[From Report of the Maine Fish Commission. ] 
E have exjeuded more of our slender means for tbe 
last two or three years, in trying to protect this magnifi- 

cent fish of Sebago Lake from the organized gang of poachers 
that destroy them ou their spawning beds on Crooked River 
and other tributaries, than we couid well afford. Were these 
fish better known, this lake would be more visited than even 
Dominion waters, and with the same outlay of time and less 
money, with as great success. Scbago Lake is worthy a 
special appropriation from the city of Portland or the rail- 
roads running into it for its protection from the vandals that 
line its shores, as 2n investment that would repay a hundred 
fold in attracting travel. The habits of the fish have not 
been carefully studied by the local anglers. Weédo not deem 
them niore shy than are salmon always in dead waters, even 
on the best salmon river, We do not believe they have been 
fairly and persistently tried withthefly. We ourselves have 
never had iime to devote to it of more than one indivelual 
day. On the best salmon rivers we have known of successive 
blank days, without a rise to the most tempting flies the 
angler’s book would aiford, Experienced anglers would at- 
tribute the inertness of the fish to climatic causes, the pre- 
monition of approaching storm and in most cases with cor- 
rectness. Sebago Lake is worthy the persevering study of 
any good angler, and we think wilh surety of reward. Troll- 
ing, always in 4 light wind to ripple the water; trolling by 
ticht should also be tried; casting the fly by night; deep 
fishing with fine tackle and live bait. 1t1s worthy of a sea- 
son’s study and trial. Beautiful as Lake Como fora cottage 
home. 

Some very large land-locked salmon huve been taken in 
the spring at the mouth of Songo River. A poacher was last 
year arrested and convicted for spearing a salmon of twenty- 
four pounds weight on Crooked River. An account comes 
to us to-day of a salmon found stranded on the banks of 
Roger’s Brook, which measures thirty-seven inches in length 
and weighed tweuty-two and one-half pounds; as it was 
somewhat shrunken from long exposure, it was estimated 
that when first oul of water it would have weighed thirty 
pounds, ‘The Granc Lake or Schoodic salmon is very much 
snialler than that of Sebago Lake, four and one-half pounds 
being deemed a monster fish, while the average would not 
exeecd one and one-half pounds, Both the Schoodic salmon 
and the Sebago salmon have tree access to the ocean, and in 
both Jakes have Salmo salar, or sea salmon fry been freely 
introduced for some six years past. In this connection we 
here publish a copy of an old document for which we are in- 
debied to J. F. Pratt, M.D.,of Chelsea. 

To Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of’ the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court as- 
sembied : 

The petition of the subscribers inhabiting near Crooked 
River humbly showeth that in said river isa kind of trouts of 
an uncommon size, weighing from three to fourteen pounds. 
Some have been caught which weighed seventeen pounds, 
hese fish run up the river in ths months of September and 
October, but are scarce at all other times of the vear. They 
have been, and might continue to be, very beneficial to all 
who inhabit near said river, which runs from a pond,in Ox- 
ford, near Bethel southerly line; from thence it runs through 
said Oxtord and through Waterford, a part of Nor- 
way and of Philip’s Gore, Otisfield, and a part 
of Raymondtown into a gore between Raymondtown and 
Flintston, where it falls into Songo River, and with it intothe 
Great Sebago pond, These fish have for several years been 
prevented from passing up said river by wares built wholly 
across the water by the inhabitants near the mouth thereof, 
and as there is no law to prevent them, they not only boast of 
haying ayailed themselves of all the benefit of the fishin years 
past, but declare they are determined to do it in future, tothe 
preat injury of the other inhabitants above them, who nave 
(or ought to have) equai right to the benefit of the fish. We 
therefore humbly request your honors to take the case into 
your consideration, and to make a law tor preventing the ob- 
struction of these fish in said river and its connections in the 
months of September and October, and asin duty bound will 
ever pray. (1800), : 

Both at Grand Lake stream and#ebago these fish have 

been always called trout, indeed at the latter are known by 

no other name, black spot and red spot indicating land- 

locked salmon and brook trout. These fish have proved a 

great success in Moosehead Lake and in Rangeley waters. In 

the former they are taken more or less every season; one of 
four and one-half pounds and some of smaller size have 
been taken the present year. As in Moosehead none but 


Schoodic fish have been planted, four and one-half pounds, 

if correctly reported, would indicate increase of size }rom 

the present stock, In Rangeley, salmon of four and cne- 

half pounds have been taken, and on the spawning grounds | 

in 1882 a number of very large fish were observed that were 

estimated at much greater weight, Here we are in doubt as 
ea as 


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to the increase of weight from present stock, as some fry from 
Sebago were planted in Rangeley waters several years since, 

How to class these fish, amid all this conflicting matter, we 
are still in doubt, but as none but Schoodie fry have been 
introduced into Moosehead Lake, we must look there for 
evidence as to increase of weight in new waters. We shall 
continue to introduce these fish into both Moosehead and 
Rangeley in as large numbers as our restricted means will 
allow, until we have established a sufficiently strong breed- 
ing stock to afford the yearly supply of young fish fo con- 
stitute their future breeding home. The rule then should be 
rigid enforcement of the laws, for the most skillful and per- 
sistent angling with baited hook er flies, will never exhaust 
the fish of any waters. Rigid laws enforced, will always 
preserve a sufficient stoek. ‘The cunning of fishes is coeval 
with fhe angler, and the education of experience will 
preserve its ratio with each. A strict observance of 
close time, and fair honest angling, is only requisite. 
We planted this year 225,000 fry in the follow- 
ing waters; At Moosehead Lake, 100,000, hatched at 
the excellent hatchery of O. A. Dennen, near the 
Kineo House, in charge of Capt. Brown. At Rangeley, 
100,000 at the Oquossac hatchery, in charge of T. C. Hewey. 
At Entield, 25,000, in charge of A. J. Darling, These last 
were divided between Island Pond, Molunkus Pond and Cold 
Stream Pond. It is a subject of common observation, that 
these beautiful fish do not now frequent in accustomed num- 
bers certain favorite localities on Grand Lake stream, where 
they formerly abounded, This has led tothe hasty conclusion 
that they are lessening in numbers, and the cause attributed 
to artificial spawn taking. The region of Grand Lake, so 
near the boundary of two distinct governments, would 
naturally make its wild recesses of forest the favorite resort 
of questionable, or rather unquestionable, characters from all 
sources. The poachers of every possible grade exist in 
numbers only equaled by black flies, and as deserving of 
extermination, Again, angling is now a mania, a fashion, 
and five hundred fish where formerly but one cast his fly. 
Fish have their pastures, their feeding grounds, the same as 
our domestic stock. Destroy the feed of a pasture and its 
stock will abandon it and go elsewhcre or starve. 
flies are bred on ihe. bottoms of rivers amid the gravel and 
earth. Cover this bottom with 1an-bark or shingle waste or 
sawdust and the bottom of the river no longer produces 
food for fishes; the fly bred from the egg or worm that the 
bottom of the river supplied with the congenial element no 
longer rises there; the fly that hovered over its surface to 
deposit its eggs that begat the worm and in turn the fly, no 
longer tempts the fish. Streams that formerly bred shud by 
millions, cannot now feed one, even if millions were there 
planted, for the riyer, now bottomed by poisonous sawdust, 
produces no food for the baby shad to support if on its way 
down to the ocean. A faetory on the river’s source hay 
make a tertune for its owner, even if not allowed to destroy 
allthe fish in the water that runs below his mill. He may 
not make it at so little trouble, but has he a right to do it if 
he deprive a family even of one meal of food a week? 

In response to many letters from Aroostook and other 
sources, asking relief and redress,, which we are unable to 
afford, we will propound to our legislators the question, 
“Tf a stream running through a section of coantry supplies 
both food and recreation to the inhabitants, has any one a 
right, by establishing a factory upon its sources or its shores, 
to so poison its waters as to destroy the fish and thus de- 
prive others of the value of the food destroyed?” Is not 
even the beauty of a stream running through one’s land’a 
consideration of price aud value? Has as any one a right, 
by establishing a factory above one’s property, to destroy 
its beauty by throwmg waste into it, or its fish by empty- 
ing the washings of a starch or other factory into it? Indus- 
try and ingenuity haye a-right to their reward, but not at the 
price of the food, or the value of the beauty of the hum- 
blest homestead. 


THE BEST COLOR FOR LEADERS. 


Hiitor Forest and Stream: 

T have been greatly interested in Mr. Wells’s able article 
ou the color of leaders. His suggestions appeal to all anglers, 
and I feel confident that there are very many among your 
readers who could, ‘‘an’ if they would,” give other bits of 
experience, which would be extremely useful to them. 

I notice that in your Game Bag and Gun and your Canoe- 
ing columns, especially, your correspondents are constantly 
yolunteering hints and advice to others, while in the angling 
column I see nothing of the kind. Can it be that anglers 
are less generous than other sportsmen, and are unwilling to 
aid their brethren by their own experience and experiments? 
Jt looks a little like this, and I cannot believe that this is true, 
Yet, my purpose in sending you this note is to inquire of 
Mr. Wells, whether his experiments were conducted quite 
in the way to acquire the best knowledge as to how dif- 
ferently colored leaders appear to the trout in the water. 
What I mean is this, The fish and the leader are both in 
the water, and only this medium intervenes between them. 
The former sees the gut through only the water. In 
Mr. Wellss experiments, however, he saw the leaders 
in the first case through air, glass and water, and in the 
other through air and water. Might not these different 
media through which the visual rays passed, make a differ- 
ence in the color appearance of the gut? I put forward this 
opinion rather timidly, for I feel that I do not know enough 
about the subject to discuss it intelligently, but 1 have 
vague recollections of college text books, which spoke about 
these matters. The rays from the eye would pass directly 
toward the object through the air, but when they impinged 
upon the water, would be deflected so that the object would 
appear to occupy a position which itdid not have. Whether 
or no the fact that the eye looked into the water from the 
outside air would make any difference in the apparent color 
of the gut, 1 do not know, but would it not be worth while 
to look at it merely through the water, that is with the eye 
immersed ? . 

In order to acquire tlie best possible notion of how the 
leader looks to the trout or salmon, we. should, it appears 
to me, try to make all the conditions under which we look 
at it, as neatly as possible, like those to which the fish is 
subjected. 

I should be glad to see this subject further discussed by 
Mr. Wells, and others as able as he. If this be done, 
anglers everywhere will be benefited. 

The points I have mentioned are no more than suggestions, 
and as such, I submit them to those who are wiser than I, 

New York, Feb. 7. CourPrLEes. 

1, OnE ty S8ven of those insured under the Accident Policies of 


The Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., in 1883, was killed or injured by 
accident, and receiVéd cash benefits — 4d, 


Certain | 


TE Sagactous Carrisn of Wasnon.—The catfish of 
Washoe Lake having all buried themselves in the nud atthe 
bottom, therein holding themselves in a semi-dormant state, 
refusing to heed the beguilements of the angler, some miners 
the other day coneluded to play them a trick. The men, at 
the suggestion of one of their number, who said that in win- 
ter catfish always remained buried in the mud until they 
heard the first thunder in the spring, exploded a siant-pow- 
der cartridge on the shore. Sure enough, the fish thought 
they had heard if thunder, and swarmed to the surface. The 
men were delighted with the success of their experiment, 
and were about preparing their hooks and lines when a new 
movement among the fish attracted their attention. As 
though some signal had been given or word passed, every 
catfish, great and small, turned toward the Sierras, stuck his 
head out of the water an inch or two, took along look, then 
disappeared beneath the waters of the lake—went down into 
the mud agaiu. The miners now fired half a dozen ecartrid- 
ges—all they had with them—at various points around the 
lake, but not a fish showed itself. They had all taken a good 
square look at the Sierra Nevada range, and had seen that it 
was still white with snow, — Virginia (Nev,) Baterprise. 


Fish AND GAME in VYrrernta.—Norfoll, Feb. 5.—During 
the last week of spring-like weather, the rockfish (Raccus 
lineatus and not ¢hrysops) have begun to run up the Hliza- 
beth River, and a few are caught daily m purse nets, all in 
excellent condition, hard and fat. The runis of much 
larger fish than those of last fall and early winter, when 
they were abundant, but seldom heavier than two pounds, 
the great majority falling far short of one pound. We are 
getting them now up to nine pounds weight, a female of 
seven and a half pounds having roe developed about as largce 
as a man’s finger, Nosalt-water fish in the market; of fresh- 
water kinds none but inferior sorts, viz., perch, brown, 
speckled and yellow, black bass, called chub here, and smail 
pond pickerel, «These fish are all caught in ponds, and are 
very inferior to the same fish of the North. Of game, the 
market is well supplied during this warm weather with can- 
vas- backs, mallard, widgeon and black ducks, none, how- 
ever, in very good condition. With thermometer down to 
freezing, all of the best ducks go to New York. A few rab- 
bits and squirrels make up the Jist.—Pysnco. 


Bass INJURED BY ’REsHETsS.—Mechanicsburg, Pa., Feb, 
9.—Owing to the high water in the Connoduguinet Creek, 
and the consequent breaking of the ice, quite a number of 
large bass have been washed ashore, the majority of them 
being more or less injured. Some of our fishermen have 
taken advantage of this opportunity to secure said injured 
fish, and it is a question with our game protection sportsmen 
whether the gentlemen are legally allowed, under existing 
Pennsylvania State laws, so to do. I await your answer.— 
R. 8. [As the laws of Pennsylvania forbid the taking of 
bass at this season and only aliows them to be taken with 
hook and line at any time, we think their capture in the 
manner stated is illegal. Atthe same time, it seems to mifi- 
gate the offense if the fish are injured so badly as to be 
strewn on the shore. 


A Fisamyg Docg.—Oxford, Feb. 2,—Hiiter Forest and 
Stream: This is too good a story to keep. While Fish 
Warden Pettingill was at Oxford, investigating the recent 
violation of the fish laws, he wished to buy a foxhound of 
Louis Edwards, a well-known fox hunter of this place, The 
hound was Jet loose from his kennel for inspection. He 
immediately got over the fence and returned with a good- 
sized trout, which he laid at the fish warden’s feet. You 
can imagine the feclings of his owner, especially as he is ot 
a fisherman, nor has he been fishing this winter. The fox 
hunter has not been near the village since.—Josn Jemus. 


F1iy-Rops Lone vs. Suort.—In ten years’ bass fishing I 
have found that a rod of 16 feet would catch more fish than 
one of 11 or 12 feet; it has proved so wilh both rods in the 
same boat, the long rod in stern, casting on same side o! the 
boat, aud consequently fishing over water partly worked, 
also in following boats using short rods. Therefore T am in 
favor of long rods, and would be pleased if your readers 
having two-handed rods would give weight, dimensions and 
timber, dimensions at ferules and also between joints,—R. 
H. Drxown. 


GRAYLING AND TRour Eeas.—At a recent meeting of 
the London Piscatorial Society, Dr. Brunton read a paper, 
which tended to prove that if the grayling fed on the eggs 
of the trout at all, it was to a very small extent. He had on 
the previous Saturday taken several grayling from immedi- 
ately below the scours on which trout were spawning, and 
had carefully dissected them immediately after capture, 
without finding any trout eg s. 


Saumon Fiseine WantTEeD.—‘* West Chester’ asks: Can 
any of your readers inform me where a noyice can find gnod 
salmon fishing for ten days or two weeks at not too great 
cost, and what will be the Jicense fee, the route, approximate 
expense of the trip and the time necessary, allowing two 
weeks on the stream? 


PENNSYLVANIA ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION. 


|An address read before the Anglers’ Association of Eastern Penn- 
sylvania at its annual meeting by A. M. Spangler, President. ] 

N accordance with the request of the Association at its last 

meeting, [have prepared some remarks in regard to the 
operations and obligations of the Anglers’ Association during 
its single year’s existence, though I have not attempted any- 
thing like a detailed statement. That duty properly belongs 
to the Executive Committee, whose first annual report will be 
submitted to-night, and which will contain full information 
on those points. 

My special object in the preparation of this paper has been 
to present for your consideration a few plain suggestions in 
regard to the course, which, in my judgment, the Association 
should pursue in order to more effectually secure its primary 
purposes, uamely, “The preservation, protection and increase 
of edible fish, and the enforcement of the laws concerning the 
same.” 

If these suggestions, or others of equal or greater value, are 
adopted, salutary results must inevitably follow, and a great 
public good be achieved. 

Ttis only a few years sinee the importance of fishculture 
and fish protection first began to be thoroughly impressed 
upon the public mind of this country. European nations had 
long before recognized and. appreciated their tiue value, and ° 
with commendable prudence made adequate wholesome pro- 
vision for.checking the improyicdence that bad so nearly de- 
pleted their waters. This was accomplished by the only two 
seemingly possible methods—the enactment and enforcement 
of stringent protective laws and liberal appropriations for 

rapagating purposes,  Ineed not state that those nations are 

-day reaping a rich return for their investments. 

Jt was not untilthe veteran Seth Green and a few others, 


BO . FOREST AND STREAM. 


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by vigorous writing and repeated successful practical experi 
ments, satisfactmily demonstrated the entire feasibility of 
artificial fish propagation, the restocking of exhausted streanis, 
and the imperative necessity for such legislation as had been 
found needful and wholesomein Europe, that the generally 
prevalent apathy on these important subjects gave way to a 
marked feeling of interest. Up to thatperiod the whole coun- 
try appeared to have imbibed the idea that either our edible 
fish supply was inexhaustible or that fish propagation and 
fish protection were matters too trivialin importance to 
merit public attention—subjects fitted only to interest and 
amuse the few earnest and sanguine men who had been giving 
them so large a share of their time and attention. 

But such indifference could not last forever. In the very 
nature of things, it was certain, sooner or later to find its 
limit, unless the peaple and their legislative representatives 
were willfully determined to bind themselves tothe cogent 
facts which were sa persistently forcing themselves into con- 
spicuoeus notice, and thelogic of which was almost irresistible, 

sradually, but surely, the conviction that something must be 
done and that speedily, asserted itself. It needed no argument 
to convince those disposed to give the subject thoughtful con- 
sideration, that almost without exception, the waters within 
the limits of the then settled portions of the country, had 
been improyidently drained of their finny inhabitants, and 
that unless prompt and decisive measures were adopted, the 
day was not distant when our indigenous edible fishes, once 
so abundant and so nutritious, would, from fheir scarcity, 
become yeritable curiosities. 

Hminently successiul experiments in artificial progagation 
and the clearly demonstrated fact that the streams exhausted 
of theirtish could readily be re-stocked, and at a compara- 
tively trifling outlay of money, gave additional healthful im- 
petus to this conviction. Social economists became earnest 
advocates, and the need for prompt action almost imperative. 
Demands for the appointment of fish commissions, the arti- 
ficial propagation of edible fish, and the stocking of streams 
with such as would afiord, in proper season, remunerative 
employment to the professional fisherman, sport to the angler 
and wholesome food for the table, came up from every sec- 
tion, These were supplemented by others for the enactment 
ot laws that would give protection to the ereati interests 
which were about to be re-established. 

The responses to these demands were in the highest degree 
encouraging. Beginning in 1806 with Massachusetts and Con- 
necticut, closely followed by Vermont, New Hampshire and 
Maine; these in turn by Rhode Island, California, New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania, and finally by allthe States except Ala- 
bama, Tennessee and Oregon, with nearly the whole of the 
Territories, fishculture appeared to enjoy almost universal 
popular fayor. a 

Pennsylyania’s first commissioners were appointed April 
15, 1866, and the first appropriation for general purposes 
amounting to $18,080, made in 1575. Appropriations in vary- 
ing amounts, were continued from that time up to 1582, when 
the sum of only $7,500 was granted. Theaggregate was $114,000; 
but in addition, several special appropriations for fishways, 
amounting to 430,000, were granted; but only $20,000 was ex- 
pended, as some of the later appropriations depended upon the 
nuqualified success of the fishways that had heen previously 
constructed. The belief in the entire success of these passage- 
ways fot shad, is not entirely unanimous, though those 
erected under the direction of our State Fish Commissioners, 
haye as nearly met expectation as any constructed elsewhere, 
either in this country or abrpad. Adding these fishway ex- 
penditures tp those for general purposes, and we have an 
aggregate of about $154,000, placing the Keystone second on 
the list of States,in the matter of encouragement to fish 
propagation and protection, New York being entitled to the 
first, her appropriations for like purposes amounting to $240,- 
000. The sum total of the various State and Territorial appro- 
priations from 1866 to 1882, inclusive, was $1,110,096, 

In 1873 the United States Fishery Commission was estab- 
lished by Consress. The sum set apart for its use in the be- 
ginning was ridiculously small, amounting to ouly $8,500, but 
it was annually increased thereafter, until in 1882-83. it 
amounted to $229,000: the aggregate for the ten years being 
$1,190,955.45, This sum represents investments in the form of 
hatching houses, apparatus, ponds, salaries, etc., together 
with the purchase of three steamers for the special use of the 
Commission, and préparations for the national exhibit at the 
Loudon Exhibition in 1583. 

The sum total appropriated by the National, State and Ter- 
ritorial governments, during the period named, was $2,292,- 
051.45. When this large amount—an exceedingly small portion 
of which was expended in salaries—is considered, and in 
connection with it the restrictive and protective enactments 
of Congress and the seyeral States and Territories, a natural 
inference would be, that the country was in a fair way to 
have its stréams and lakes literally teeming with the choicest 
of food fishes. It needs not the telling that such is not the 
case, or, that with a few exceptions, the United States are not 
sreatly better off, as far as the supply of food fishes is con- 
cerned, than in L866. 

These facts, thus concisely presented, bring us fairly face to 
face with the question; With such ample facilities, why have 
we such meager results? As has been stown, millions have 
been appropriated and expended for fish propagation within 
the past ten years, and we should have valuable results, 
i0 some unmistakably tangible form. We have results. but 
they are not commensurate with these large outlays of money 
and labor. ; 

Fish have been artificially propagated by hundreds of mill- 
ions, and protective laws of the most stringent character en- 
acted, but the waters yieldno adequate return. Why not? 
Simyly because the protective laws have not been enforced. 
There are several reasons for this non-enforcement. Officials 
sworn to support those statutes, have not only foresworn 
themselves by neglecting that duty, but worse, in many well- 
athested instances, have been proven comparceners with those 
engaged in open violation of them. The fishery laws, save in 
some exceptional cases, have therefore been mere nullities, 
They are practically So to-day. - ‘ 

Private vitizens are not willing to play the ungracious and 
unpopular part of informers upon their lawless neighbors, 
and many county officials wink at proceedings which 
may appropriately be designated as great public wrongs. 
The fault is not in the laws, but with the people and the 
officials. ‘ 

The aversion to becoming informers appears to be insuper- 
able. Men who haye volunteered to give evidence in cases of 
poaching, have been boycotted or threatened with personal 
injury, and in consequence, few are found willing to mecur 
such penalties for the mere sake of having laws in which they 
are no more interested than their neighbors, respected. How 
then are these difficulties to be surmounted! I officials are 
faithless te duty, and private citizens refuse to interfere, then 
ofganized associations must assume the task, or the admission 
be made that fish protection, through the intervention of law, 
is ab impossibility. 

{was in view of such « conclusion that ‘The Anglers’ Asso- 
ciation of Hastern Pennsylvania” was formed, A dozen gen- 
tlemen imet a twelve-month ago, organized, and adopted a 
constitution and by-laws. The purpose of the association is 
clearly defined in the first article of the constitution, which 
declares that ‘the primary objectshall be the protection and 
jnereasge of edible fish in the waters of Pennsylvania, and the 
enforcement of the laws concerning the same.” 

Wecessarily, the operations of the association have been 
limited. Starting with a mere handful of members, and with 
we treasury as empty of money as the streams of fish, it was 
not to be expected that much would be accomplished until the 
organization had “lengthened its cords and strengthened its 
stakes,” But notwithstanding this primitive weakness, the 


members have pressed the good work with untiring zeal and 
energy, and it aifords me great pleasure to state, with pros- 
pects of eminent success. 

The membership during the year has increased to more than 
two hundred, and is still growing, comfortable headquarters 
have been secured and nicely furnished, and as the report of 
the Executive Committee shows, a number of streams iu the 
vicinity of the city, and in some of the northern counties, haye 
been stocked with trout; detectives have been employed to 
secure the capture and conviction of persons edo in illegal 
fishing, and rewards offered for such information as will lead 
to the exposure and arrest of offenders of all kinds against the 
fishing laws. Although none of the lawless parties have yet 
been brought to justice, the effect of these measures has been 
very salutary. In anunvber of sections of the State, where 
fishing with seines, fyke-mnets, fish baskets, weirs and other 
unlawinl devices, as well as with hook and line during the 
close season, was openly practiced; the posting of the Asso¢ia- 
tion’s placard, and the suspected presence of detectives 
haye had the effect’ of intimidating the wrong doers, an 
greatly lessening the amount of illicib fishing, This is 
encouraging. 

_ But much yet remains tobe done. We have only made a 
fair beginning, but with reasonable prospects of ultimate suc- 
cess, if we diligently persevere. If violators of the fishing 
laqys are taught to understand, by practical demonstration, 
that the association isin live earnest, and that it means to 
press the good work in which it is engaged until the authority 
of the Statelaws is fully acknowledged by a respectful ob- 
servance of them, the men who haye hitherto been setting 
them at defiance will pause and refiect upon the possible con- 
sequences before indulging in further infractions. That will 
be a greati naan gained, for the association, through its corre- 
spondents, has reliable information to the effect that in the 
upper waters of the Delaware, throughout the almost entire 
length of the Susquehanna, in the Schuylall, Perkiomen, Le- 
high, Brandywine, Juniata, and in fact in nearly all the bass 
and trout streams of the State, the fishing Jaws are defiantly 
violated. It has directed official and general public attention 
to such pregnant truths, and has energetically labored, with 
the limited means at its command, to counteract these most 
reprehensible practices. : 

“Rome was not built in a day,” nor can we reasonably hope 
to accomplish the reforms at which we are aiming in a twelve- 
month. They amount almost to a revolution, for attempt to 
disguise it as we may, there is no such thing as getting away 
from the fact that publie opinion in the rural districts has 
undergone a marked change for the worse, in regard to the 
fishing interests of the State. 

When the subject of fish propagation was first introduced, it 
was received with general favor. The successful practical ex- 
periments of Seth Green and his coadjutors, had satisfied even 
those who had been most incredulous, that the artificial 
breeding of food fishes was feasible. Public expectation was 
therefore largely excitod. When hundreds of thousands of 
small fry were placed in the streams of the State, the coni- 
dent expectation and belief was, that in the course of four or 
five years, the re-stocked waters would teem with edible fish, 
and that all who so desired, could haye them in abundance, 
atthe mere cost of catching. So they would, had the wise 
provisions of the fishery laws been observed. But they were 
not, and are not. In most instances, they are as completely 
disregarded 2s though they had never been enacted. Worse 
than that, as already stated, in a number of well authenti- 
cated cases, county officers who atterapted the destruction of 
dams and other illegal devices for capturing and killing fish, 
were openly resisted and their lives threatened. This warfare 
upon, and overturning of the work done by the Fish Comumis- 
sioners, began as soon as the young fish had attamed finger- 
ling size, and this discreditable spirit is asserting itself as 
boldly to-day as at any former period since the re-stocking of 
the streams of the State was begun. 

Is it surprising, then, that there should be a revolution in 
public sentiment, that tax payers disheartened by this decade 
of virtually fruitless experiment and waiting, haye become 
weary and disgusted, and that there is sturdy opposition to 
further appropriations? And yet thereis no real cause for 
despondency. True, the anticipations of the great mass of 
the people have been disappointed; but the fact remains, that 
although the increase of edible fish has not met expectation, 
there has heen a practical re-stocking of all the waters of 
the State, and, that it it be possible, either by enforcing exist- 
ing protective laws, or by procuring such additional legisla- 
tion as will make tish-poaching a misdemeanor, punishable 
with imprisonment as well as fine, the desired result will ulti- 
mately be attained, Ten years of freedem to the fish now in 
the streams of the State to multiply without let or hindrance, 
is all that is needed to fill those waters with the finest edible 
fish in the world. If all the fish dams or baskets now in the 
headwaters of the Delaware were destroyed, and unrestricted 
freedom given to the shad to spawn, and to the young shad to 
migrate to the south in their season, the supply would be 
equal to almost any conceivable demand that would be made 
uponit. Instead of being compelled to pay, as the people of 
Philadelphia haye been doing for many years, from forty to 
sixty cents for a fair-sized shad, it is hazarding nothing to 
assert, that fish of equal size and quality would be profitably 
sold for less than haif the price named. . 

The question for the thoughtful consideration of the Associ- 
ation, 1s, what remedy, if any, haye we at command? A 
specific is provided in existing laws. could they be rendered 
practically operative. When it was pronpast to the rats in 
council assembled, to put a bell on their mortal enemy, the 
eat, the proposition was received with tumultuous joy, but the 
old aaa revived when a venerable member of the assembly 
gravely inquired, ‘Pray, who is to bell the cat?” That is the 

roblem, we, in common with all the friends of the fishing 
interests of the State, are now called upon to solve. If, as 
past experience has.so clearly demonstrated, private citizens 
will not become informers, and officials will not perform their 
sworn duties in regard to violations of the law, we must seek 
for other aid, : 

The education of public sentiment is one of the remedies I 
would suggest, Not many years ago, insectivorous birds were 
generally regarded, either as nuisances, or at best, worthless, 
except for food. Instead of protecting them, farmers, In many 
cases, encouraged their destruction—irequently by lending 2 
helping hand, But when theirgraincrops were devastated by 
vermin, their fruits destroyed, and their incomes, in conse- 
quence, seriously lessened, they began to look around for the 
cause and itsremedy. Science assisted in the search, and very 
soon demonstrated that the immense multiplication of erop- 


was the result? Laws for the protection of the badly used little 
friends were enacted, and as farmers had learned, by costly eX- 
perience, that they had a direct pecuniary interest in having 
those laws observed, their own guns were laid aside; the pot- 
hunters who traversed the country, invading private property 
and slaughtering birds of every description, were driven away; 
respect for the close seasons was every where manifested, and 
they are receiving their reward in the form of improved crops 
and the preseace and songs of the unselfish feathered friends, 
who, only a little while before, they were endeavoring to de- 
stroy. It wasthe argumentum ad crumenam, the potency 
of the mighty dollar, that wrought the change. 

Now, to my mind, the money value of the fish interests of 
the State is as readily susceptible of convincing demonstra- 
tion, Fish food, instead of being a staple article of daily con- 
sumption, is little less than a luxury to those of hurnble 
fieans, The workingman cannot afford to place it on his 
table except at occasional intervals. It is more costly than 
beet, and in addition, were the demand very materially in- 
creased, the supply would be inadequate, for itis a rave Thing 
that fresh fish are 80 abundant in the Philadelphia market or 


enemies was due to the wanton destruction of thehirds. What 


Seen, us to cause a glut, or even any marked decline in 
rices. 

Though without positive data, I do not hesitate to assert as 
my confident belief, that ifthe edible fish now in the waters 
of the State, were allowed to propagate unmolested for ten 
years, or even five, and that, if thereafter, the protective 
laws were enforced as they should be, the annual gain m the 
form of wholesome and nutritious food would exceed a million 
of dollars. Jfmy conjecture is even approximately correct, 
has not every citizen a direct pecuniary interest in the matter 
of fish protection? and if this were clearly demonstrated, as 
it so readily can he; would not each one instinctively teel that 
he had an indisputable right to a share in the products of the 
State’s waters, and that those who iniringed the protective 
laws were defrauding him of a portion or perhaps the whole 
of his rightful dividend? Therefore, one of the first and most 
important steps to be taken is the education of public senti- 
ment in the direction indicated. Letit be shown that this 
immense annual addition to our animal food supply, can he 
had almost without cost, The investment has already been 
made, The stream are sufficiently stocked now. Give the 
fish fair play. Let them alone fora few years, and the increase 
wil come as certainly as that day follows night. Impress 
upox the popular mind another simple truth, namely, that in 
order to maintain this abundance, the only requisite will be 
the adoption of the course so successfully and profitably prac- 
ticed towards the birds—protect them, 

But where shall this educational process begin? With the 
printing press of course—with the newspaper, the magazine, = 
and statistical facts in form of printed documents liberally 
distributed. The people must be taught that the ‘‘the gods 
help those who strive to help themselves,” that if they would 
have fresh fish in abundance they must unitedly assist in pro- 
tecting them against both open and secret enemies, They must 
be taught to regard every man who kills edible fish out of 
season, or by illicit means at any time, as a public enemy. 
They must be confronted with such startling truths, as that a 
single fish-basket in the spawning waters of the Upper Dela- 
ware, causes the destruction of a great number of young shad 
than are taken full grownin an entire season, by one-half of 
all the fishermen on the Delaware River. It may sound im- 
probable, but I give it on no Jess authority than that of one 
of the State Fishery Commissioners, that drowned shad, of a 
finger’siength, have been hauled away from such traps by the 
wagon load, to be converted into manure by farmers in the 
vicinity. 

Lhave personal knowledge of the fact that nearly every 
paper, daily er weekly, published in Philadelphia, has pledged 
the full weight of its influence in behalf of this valuable in- 
terest. I doubt whether there is asingle one that is not ready 
and willing to co-operate heartily in the work proposed to be 
done by the Anglers’ Association. With such powerful aux- 
iliaries, the educational process will be beguu wnder the 
most favorable auspices. hat has been said of the readiness 
of the city press to assist, willas fully and properly’ apply to 
the newspapers of the State. Let us begin with them all and 
begm now. 

Again, public sentiment must be educated up to the point 
of believing that our association was not organized for mere 
sporting purposes. Sport is one of its cardinal features, but 
it has others of still higher importance; for, if we would have 
angling sport, we must have fish and. can haye fish only by 
protecting them, as the law proyides. It should therefore be 
oyr earnest endeayor to conyince every one, that while we are 
striving to enlarge the means of fishing recreation, we are at 
the same time laboring to build up a most valuable State in- 
terest. There are few men in Philadelphia or the State, who, 
if made thoroughly acquainted with the character and object 
of the association, will not cheerfully become members, eyen 
though they never caught a fish orexpect to doso. They will 
recognize and appreciate the fact that the organization is 
purely unselfish, and thatif successful, a great boon will be 
conferred upen the whole people. Some of these will be in- 
fluenced by the voicings of the press, but the most effectual 
method is the personal presentation of the association’s 
claims, by the members themselves, All business men know 
that such an organization cannot be ellective in its operations 
without funds, and all who are possessed of the right kind of 
public spirit, will regard it as a privilege, or at least a duty, 
to join our ranks. If they find that there are those ready and 
willing to give time and effort to the good work indicated, 
and without other remuneration, either present or prospec- 
tive, than the consciousness of being in the discharge of a pub- 
lie duty, I shall be greatly disappointed if hundreds who now 
stand aloof because they have had no proper conception of the 
real objects of the Anglers’ Association, do not rally to its 
support. , : ; 

‘As already stated, the membership has increased greatly in 
numbers and influence. It is composed of gentlemen of 
wealth and respectability, and I am pleased to note the watch- 
ful care exercised in regard to the admission of membvrs, 1m 
order to prevent the introduction of any mischievous element, 
We want more of this influential material, and we shall fail 
in duty if we neglect to make the eifort necessary tosecure it. 

There ares special reasons why the organization should 
number its membership by thousands instead of hundreds. 
First. the funds that would accrue from such acoessious are 
needed: second, necessary and important legislation will 
have to be applied for. If such ape aeven is backed up by a 
thousand or two of the best namesin Philadelphia and vicinity, 
the granting of it will be at once almost assured. For these 
and other reasons that could readily be advanced, we need a 
great many more members; we should and can haye thein, it 
fhose uow connected with the Association will act promptly 
and energetically. , 

Tt isan axiom asold as humanity that if we would haye 
others respect us we must respect ourselves. If we preach 
fish protection and practice fish destruction. our false preten- 
sions will naturally and rightfully earn for us distrust and 
contempt. It therefore behooves every anzler to frawn upon 

sractices of every kind that tend to the wanton killing of fish. 

o some who wield the rod and reel it may seem something 
noteworthy to be able to boast the taking of a hundred trout, 
but how conutemptiblethe boast,whenp, if the entire catch were 
put in the seales, it would not draw five pounds. There are 
such pot-hunters—unfortunately too many of them—who 
would have the world believe them sportsmen. They haye 
not a vestige of claim to the title. No true angler can possibly 
entertain for them any other than q feeling of profound con- 
tempt, and I am ES a in being ableto say that the Anglers’ 
Agsociation of Pennsylvania is free from all such trayesties 
upon sportsmanship. : e 

The Governor must be urced to make pointed allusion to the 
importance of the subject in his next message, and itis not 
hazarding anything to say that the request will be cheerfully 
complied with ; 

The forroation of auxiliary societies throughout the State,, 
orat least ta the vicinity of large streams, should be en- 
couraged. E ; 

The names of sherfifs and other public officers, who either 
neglect or refuse to perform their sworn duty in regard to the. 
Fishing laws, should be reported to the proper authorities. 

Regular correspondence should be kept up with kindred 
associations in other States. ’ 

There should be a library composed of all procurable publi- 
cations bearing upon the commercial and sporting fishery 
of our pec gh wod of the world, Measures looking to such a 
result have already been taken, und can hardly fail of success. 

But our efforts at fish protection must not be confined to the — 
waters of our own State. Those of New Jersey, especially the 
sea coast, have strong claims upon the attention of the - 
ciation, The Legislature of that State being peep its well- 
meant endeavors to abolish illicit fishing along its coast, : 
because of lack of jurisdiction, the important aubjeet was im- 


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mediately and energetically taken up by the State’s repre- 
sentatives in Congress, aud Senator Sewell has been untiring 
4m bis endeavors to have this alarming evil corrected, and with 
every reasonable prospect of success. The hands of these sud: 


] yoeates of fish protection should be held up and strengthened’ 


lay whatever influence thé Anglers’ Association of Eastern 


Pennsylvania can bring to bear upon the subject. 

Tt is not necessary to recite the reasons that should prompt 
to such action, They are patent to all who have given the 
subject even dasual consideration. To permit the further 
wholesale destruction of the menhaden fish on the coast, is 
simply an invitation to those py in such wrong to com- 

letely destroy the supply of salt water food fishes which has 

itherto found its way to our markets. How seriously that 
supply has been diminished since menhaden fishing has been. 
tolerated, need not be told. What will be its ultimate effect, 
unless it is speedily abolished by law, may readily be inferred 
from what has already been realized. I feel that I cannot too 
strongly impress this matter upon the attention of the 
Association. Action should be prompt, enegetic and decisive. 
Our protest should be made now, and in Janguage that will 
admit of no misconstruction. 

If it be urged that we are transcending our sphere of duty, 
the answer is that the wrong is not limited by State law or 
State boundaries. It is national in character, and hence pro- 
tests by this Association are not only admissible but should 
be made by citizens of every State, ‘ : 

Raving thus, in a desultory way, complied with the request 
of the Association, allow mein my conclusion to tender my 
congratulations to the members for the encouragement they 
have thus far received. That the most sanguine anticipations 
of the founders of the Association have been more than 
realized, need not be said. ‘he future holds out still stronger 
inducements than the past, for the reason that we are gradually 
becoming more familiar with the proper methods of dealing 
with those who have hitherto displayed such total want of 
respect for statute law, Perseverance works wonders, and if 
the energy and determination that have thus far characterized 
the proceedings of the Association are maintained, there are 
some of us at least, who’ may live to see the day when the 
streams, not only of our State, but of the whole country, will 
yield their harvests of food fishes as abundantly as they did 
years ago, before the spirit of extermination, now so rife, had 
attained formidabie proportions. This hope is strengthened, 

_ as far as Pennsylvania is concerned, by the fact that we are 
assured that in the future, asin the past, we shall have the 
hearty co-operation of our own Fish Commissioners, to whom 
we have been indebted for many courtesies and whose labors 
in behalf of fishculture and protection have been so damag- 
ingly interfered with by the parties to whom frequent and 
special allusion has been made in these pages. A communica- 
tion from their Secretary, Mr. McCullough, informs me that 
they are constantly in receipt of encouraging communications 
from every part of the State, and that notwithstanding the 
marked disregard of the fishing laws there is a steady and 
sure increase. 


Hisheuliure. 


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PROPOSED ADIRONDACK HATCHERY. 


Hi foliowing bill has been drafted, and will soon be intro- 
duced into the Legislature of New York, by Mr, O'Neil, 
of Franklin Co. There are many good sites for a hatehery in 
the Adirondacks, and the eggs of native fishes could there be 
hatehed and distributed without much trouble or expense. 
The following is the proposed bill: 
An Act to establish a fish hatchery in the Adirondack forest: 
Section 1, ‘The Treasurer shall pay upon the warrant of the 
Comptroller to the Commissioners of Fisheries out of any 
money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand 
dollars for the purpose of establishing a fish hatchery at some 
convenient pols in the Adirondack forest, for the purpose of 
restocking the lakes and streams of said forest with trout 
_ and other fish natural to that locality. 
Sec. 2, This act shall take effect immediately. 


THE EDIBLE QUALITIES OF CARP. 


WN his forthcoming book entitled ‘Carp in American Waters” 

the treatment of the above mooted question is probably 

foreshadowed by Capt. Peirce, in the following communication 
to this paper: 

The question is indeed a much mooted one. I have given 
it all practicable investigation. However divergent the views 
of fisheulturists upon other points, all agree to the unequalled 
edible qualities of the brook trout when taken from its native 
habitat. Most fisheulturists now also agree to its marked 
deterioration in flavor when artificially cultivated and fed (as 
is practically compulsory) on slaughter house refuse. 

I was in Boston a few days before last Thanksgiving, which 
is the “national New England holiday,” and was noticing the 
accumulations of poultry. Of course, the national bird of 
New Bagiland is the turkey, and, it will be remembered by 
the way, that Franklin maintained it should have been the 
national bird of the country; however, a more gamy one was 
selected. Well, asI said : J was noticing the poultry. The 
turkey had all the ‘‘posts” of honor, though a large number 
“wore put to the rack,” but the Jersey chicken was next. I 
was repeatedly informed that New Jersey poultry commanded 
from three to five cents per pound more than any other in 
Boston markets. Now, Mr. Editor, [have been spending a large 
portion of the time since the war, in the leading poultry-raising 
section of New Jersey. Although the matchless climate of 
that region may have some effect upon the poultry, its chief 
superiority is attained by the intelligent culture which obtams 
there (I do not refer to ‘‘culchah” but to the treatment of 
poultry). The Jersey women have entire charge of the 
poultry, and “what they don’t know about the business, is not 
worth knowing.” The secret of the superior flavor is no 
secret there. lt simply consists in confining the poultry in 
coops, with slatted floors, raised a foot or two above the 
earth so that no filth can accumulate. This is done two or 
three weeks before marketing, and in the meantime they are 
given only pure, clean food and drink. This changes the 
entire flayor of the fowl. Of course the dressing of the fowl 
has also some effect upon the flavor, but the principal factor 
is its treatment a few weeks previous to marketing. 

Now asto carp. Some of my editorial friends seem to think 
me an enthusiastic old crank, because I maintain that good, 
edible fish can be raised in warm and even filthy waters. 
have told you how poultry, raised even in the filthiest barn 
pads, is, In & comparatively short time, transformed into 

ealthy and exquisitly flayored food. The same poultr 
fattened in barn yards and at once killed is not only ill- 
flavored but positively unhealthy, sometimes fatally so, the 
same as the ruffed grouse is known to be when it has been 
feeding upon poisonous birds or berries in winter. Now I pro- 
hae to apply the same system to carp that the Jersey women 

oto poultry, even to their slaughter. The Jersey women 
would not have their poultry slanghtered by drowning or 
otherwise smothering them, nor would I take fish from the 
water and allow them to smother and die as is generally done 
with the fish we eatin this country. But, for obvious reasons 
I must tell part of the story in my forthcoming book. 
Mitrow P, PriRce, 
PRILADELPHIA, Pay 


“‘PHE AMERICAN CARPCULTURAL ASSOCIATION — 


An organization with the above title was formed in Philadel- 


“he 
- is ‘ 


a UMUC 


_ phia,on Feb. 5, The following officers were elected: Presi- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


dent, William Parry, Parry P. O., Burlington, N. J.; Vice- 
President, Henry P. DeGraaf, Bowery National Bank, New 
York city; Treasurer, Samuel Wilkins, 829 Market street, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary, Milton P. Peirce, 623 Walnut 
street, Philadelphia, Pa. Directors—Dr, 8. T. Davis, Laneas- 


ter county, Pa.; J ee eye. West Grove, Chester county, 
les 


Pa.; George Hamel, eldon, Montgomery county, Pa. ; 
Jeremiah Comfort, Wm. Penn, Maentgomery county, Pa.; 
Bdwin Tomlinson, Byberry, Philad@lphia, Pa.; William A. 
Wood, Pittsgrove, Salem county, N. J,; Amos Ebert, Kirk- 
wood, Camden county, N. J.: Rev. J. H. Brakeley, Borden- 
town, Burlington county, N, J .; BE. G. Shortlidge. M. D., Wil- 
mington, Del.; Bees W. Hill, Clayton, Del. The office of the 
Association is 323 Walnutstreet. It aims to embrace directly 
and indirectly within its organization every carpculturist in 
the country, and desires States and local branches organized 
throughout the country. Its principal object is the dissemin- 
ation of useful and reliable information among its members. 
It will cheerfully co-operate with fish commissions, boards 
of agriculture, agricultural societies, granges, etc. Wishing 
to respond, as far. as is practicable, to the wauts or desires of 
all engaging in carpeulture, it mvites all interested to corre- 
spond freely. 


TIME OF HATCHING CARP EGGS.—In the Bulletin of the 
United States Fish Commission the following extract from a 
letter written by Dr. H. H. Cary, Superintendent of Fisheries 
of Georgia, to Professor Baird, appears: “I have been taking 
some pains for the past two years to ascertain the period of 
incubation of the eggs of German carp. <A statement in your 
report for 1875-76 that they hatched in from twelve to sixteen 
days was doubtless based on a lower teinperature of water 
than prevails in this latitude during the hatching season. Last 
year, with the temperature of the water at about 69 deg., the 
eges hatched in about five to six days. The present year, with 
a higher temperature of water, amore carefully conducted 
experiment has demonstrated that the eggs will hatch in from 
forty-eight to seventy-two hours. The eggs hatch finely in 
water at a temperature of 90 deg,” 


IN THE ADIRONDACKS.—The hatchery of tie Bisby Club 
is in complete running order. It has troughs for land-locked 
salmon, lake trout and brook trout, and has the McDonald 
jars for the frostfish, The eggs have done remarkably well 
so far, and notwithstanding the seyere cold in that region 
the spring water has not frozen up, although the air has been 
30 deg. below zero on two or more occasions, and the water 
in the troughs has been steadily at 33 deg. above. The 
hatching has progressed slowly, with little or no loss after the 
early pickings, and the fry are expected to be unusually 
healthy and yigorous. 


The diennel. 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


Mareh 4, 5, 6 and 7,—Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. En- 
tries close Feb. 25. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. Kit- 
tredge & Co,, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

March 12, 13 and 14.—New Haven Kennel Club’s First Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward 8. Porter, Secretary, Box 
65 New Hayen, Conn. Entries close March 1, 

March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 
dent, (. Greville Harston, Secretary, Toronto, Canada. 

April 8, 4and5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association’s Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, -C, M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. 

May 6, 7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Highth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas. 
ringed pune rintendent. R. ©. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


A. K. R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist, Should be inearly. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed enyelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No eniries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
‘American Kennel Register,’ P.O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries-already printed 869, Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50, 


EXPERIENCE WITH DOGS. 


pas intelligence of a dog is identical in quality with that of 
a human being, Were the quantity of intelligence present 
in the heads of our canine friends, and vocal organs supplied 
to assist intelligence, we could take our pets into the field and 
discuss the events of the chase with the same satisfaction we 
can now with our human brother. 

IT have made a companion of a dog for the past twelve years, 
and my experience teaches me that the same influences which 
make a child good or bad, dull or bright, also control a dog. 
My first dog was an English setter, the scrub of a litter, and 
he turned out to be the handsomest and most intelligent of 
thelot. My next was a pointer, selected for his color from a 
litter of twelve, and he proved to be the prize dog of the 
family. My next friend was an Irish setter, Gyp, the last 
choice of a litter of eight, and she grew up the brightest of the 
octet. My next was a spaniel of uncertain parentage. selected 
from a litter because he hada distinguishing mark which 
would plainly describe him in case he strayed away, and he 
teok advantage of his bringing up and _ grew to be a beauty 
and the envy of my fellow-sportsmen,. My next is my present 
companion, a cross between a spaniel from Burgess’s stock 
and a half-bred Irish setter bitch, and he, now two years old, 
surpasses all of his brothers and sisters in beauty and cour- 
age. Sucha uniform experience compels me to conclude that 
my dogs have been,developed, and that my experience will 
be the experience of others, using the same or similar methods 
in raising and educating them. 

All the dogs I have owned I secured when they were very 
young. While they were growing I gave them all they could 
eat, offering them food several times a day. Milk, vegetables, 
meat, bread, oat and corn bread, and porridge. I never kept 
them on the chain, but let them romp te their hearts’ content. 
Plenty of food and plenty of exercise gave them form and 
strength, good constitutions and brave hearts. Their educa- 
tion commenced when they were two or three months old and 
continued until they: came to dog’s estate. First they were 
faueut to charge. Next to retrieve (under the whip), then to 
find. Next to toho, ete. 

The great avenue to success in teaching a dog well, is to 
teach one thing at atime. And assoon as the dog is known 
to understand an order, to always insist upon obedience at 
whatever cost of time and patience to the teacher, When 
my dogs have comprehended the idea I have intended to con- 
vey to them,! have accustomed them to listen for my com- 
mands by giving them in an ordinary tone of voice, until at 
length I could carry on quite au extended conversation with 
them, I giving the signs, yocal or otherwise, aud they inter- 
preting by obeying me. *Constant intercourse of this nature 
with one who is kind to his pupil, who encourages prompt 
obedience and chides delay or carelessness, will change a cur 
to a humanized companion, a dolt to a being of intelligence. 

To raise a fine dog, then—feed him often and: abuudautly, 


, 51 


Never put him on the chain, but allow himto romp at will, 
Teach him early and often, and make a Jesuit of him to the 
extent that he may know that his first duty under all cir- 
cumstances is obedience. The result will be beauty, courage, 
intelligence, affection and a perfect dog, 

Tam aware that very few have the time or inclination to 
raise their dogs in this way, and the result is long pedigrees, 
and a Cap pesn inant for every degree the dog has departed 
from the routine | have deseribed. 

Three years ago I took a mangy looking pup—a blue-blooded 
but insignificant looking scion of Bolus’s Belton—with me into 
the country to train for a friend. Hehad been reared ona, 
chain and fed by servants, until he was a coward in spirit and 
appearance. I kept him with me for two months, permitting 
him to run wild until he had acquired some courage, and then 
commenced his education. When he was ten months old his 
master hunted over him and proenounced him a wonder; and he 
was. He outran tour old dogs, and the third day out was the 
only dog out of the six we had on the first day that would 
hunt at all, He worked like a major but was slow, because 
foot-sore. The year following he was as worthless a dog as 
ever hustled about among a covey of birds, and on several 
occasions his cutraged owner was tempted to bestow upon 
him the epitaph, ‘No earthly good.” He had hung upon a 
chain since his experience of the year before. He had for- 
gotten the lesson of all good dogs, obedience, and he was out 
for a frolic. ’ 

Last fall l again took him into the country as an experi- 
ment. IJ wanted to explode the idea, if I could, that a dog 
once spoiled was afterward forever worthless. I knew I had 
good material to work on. I took my pupil back to first prin- 
ciples, and taught him to charge when I pave the word under 
any and all circumstances, I then took him into the field and 
made him drop when any bird rose so near that I judged he 
sawit rise. When he dropped to wing nicely I started him in 
on birds, keeping him close. When he showed he had the 
faintest trace of birds I made him stop, and held him there for 
a few minutes to impress upon him that he was hunting for 
me, and then [ would walk up with him until the birds were 
fiushed, dropping him invariably to wing. Two weeks of this 
work without the gun and he was as steady as a clock, 
When I tummed him over to his owner he wasas hard asa 
nut and as staunch asan oak. He would instantly turn to 
the whistle an eighth of a mile away; in fact, he was a good 
dog again, and like good Indians, good dogs are very infre- 

uent, 

‘ To the sportsman who loves a good dog but only has the 
time to use one a few days in the year, I say secure a pointer; 
they are slower and steadier than setters and will stand the 
chain, and*yet do fair hnnting. To such a man setters are of 
no earthly account. They may be perfect when purchased, 
but one year upon the chain will ruin them, When taken 
into the field for the first few hours they will chase the wind 
and such birds as they may fiush in their mad race and then 
become exhausted, and their hunting fever gone. A setter 
needs lots of work and constant experience in the field ta keep 
them steady. When hard worked and handled by an experi- 
enced sportsman, they are far superior to pointers in endur- 
ance, style, and speed, and it is the very qualities which 
makes them so valuable when properly handled that makes 
them worthless when out of form. Hunt. 

Sr. PauL, Minn. 

(‘Experience with dogs” is just what we want to hear about, 
and we hope that those who haye read ‘‘Hunt’s” instructive 
communication, and have anything of their own to offer on 
this topic will fayor us with it. Experience need not have 
been successful to make its relation useful, The mistakes 
made in dog training may be quite as instructive as the more 
successful efforts. Whoever has had an experience with dogs, 
which may be of seryice as a guide or warning to other ama- 
teur trainers, may benefit his fellow men by relating it.] 


THE ROYAL SPORT OF COURSING. 


GREYHOUND, as he appears in the crowded streets of a 

city, is by no means, to the average observer, a thing of 
beauty or grace. There is a lack of animation in his eyes; his 
-drooping ears impart to his long, slender head an iname ex- 
pression; while his canter, or lope, conveys to one who has 
never seen him in the field the idea that his speed is legendary 
or mythical. In fact, his whole make up and appearance, as 
he perhaps quietly trots along the paved street, with head on 
a line with his body and ears folded close, is extremely disap- 
pointing to one who has heard of, .but never has seen, his 
animated appearance when in quest of ‘‘puss.” Come with 
me, my disgusted friend; let us see this stupid creature im an- 
other light. 

Picture, if possible, that same slender greyhound, with head 
tossed high, delicate ears erected, muscles and cords dis- 
tended, eyes flashing fire, and you will then appreciate the 
wonderful beauty, grace and strength of the grevhound in the 
field. When I first saw the sight, I at once likened his ex- 
pression to that of a noble eagle or hawk on the lookout for 

rey. 
# If the reader be a sportsman, a single day with greyhounds, 
in a country where large California hare are to be found, will 
fill him with enthusiasm and love for the beautiful, remorse- 
less flyers. 

Lhardly know a sport that so quickly entrances a suscepti- 
ble person as does the exciting sport of coursing. No wonder 
that in ages pass it was, with falconry, the chosen sport of 
kings and princes and ladies of high degree. 

Suppose we follow an old custom of nine years agone in 
California, and two or three of us spend a few hours upon the 
plains with oursixorseyen dogs. By the way, let me state 
that the California hare differs from the jack rabbits of Texas 
and countries east of the Sierra Nevadas, the California hare 
being both larger and faster. 

Well, we make our arrangements for to-morrow’s ‘battle 
royal,” and, having fed our hounds, turn in early to bed, 
for legs will be weary indeed ere this time twenty-four hours. 
In the morning you can do as you prefer, eat a hearty 
breakfast or not; as for myself, a cracker or two is enough, 
for I found by experience some time since that I could walk 
further and better and with less fatigue by not overloading 
beforehand. At length we are off, with the greyhounds runnin 
around us. A brisk walk of a mile or two along the leve 
California roads brings us to some fields or country where 
puss is to be found, so we separate some fifty paces apart, and 
walk ahead, with eyes on the lookout for the first start. Our 
dogs ave all fine fellows—well experienced; see them as they, 
with eager, cruel eyes, impatiently await the sight of their 
devoted prey. We have taken but a few steps when we 
simultaneously bos with excitement,for up jumps a brown, 
long-eared creature that leaps away with bewildering speed, 
Look! the black and the blue dogs have seen it; the others, 
jumping at our eries, also catch the sight and away they go— 
the hare with astart of full one hundred and fifty yards, Ah, 
that’s the sight you never had before! Look at the race 
between the black andthe blue. How they pound the earth 
with theirflying feet! Ha! ha! see the brindle come up with 
the leaders; and the othersare also putting in some fast work. 
The chase. is now amile away, perhaps further, when we 
shout with glee as we see the black dog crowding puss so hard 
that she suddenly darts off at a right angle to her previous 
course, and we give ths credit for the first “turn” to the noble 
black, whose momentum carries him fifty feet beyond the 
sharp corner made by puss. Now the blue takes up the work. 
Another arn, and the brindle does bis share; and whoop! old 
black again is leading. Poor puss, your time is short; those 
cruel hounds keep coming, coming, coming; you turn and 
turn again, and now, perhaps, have doubled back, and are 
not forty rods from us, The eager hounds are crowding the 
quarry hard; the turns are quicker and quicker, one after an- 


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[Fes. 14, 1984, 


other—a mix of dogs and hare, and hare and dogs, when, see! 
the white hound darts in, after the latest double, sinks its 
fangs into exhausted puss, and the course is finished. 

Calling off the dogs, we reckon up the amount of work each 
one has done; the greater number of points proves to be in 
favor of the old black. Itis no new thing to give him credit 
for a well-run course, 

And now, my friend, who “always wondered what there 
was in greyhounds to admire,” what think you? One look at 
your excited. glowing face is enough. Henceforth you are a 
devotee to the kingly sport of coursing, 

Again, after a few moments’ rest, we push ahead. Again we 
yellas puss jumps up and scurries off. Again the hounds 
catch sight of their prey, and on wings of the wind fiy after. 
Ditches and slotighs, if in the course, are gaily taken with 
amazingease. Some of the dogs perhaps will not leap the 
fences, but crawl through them where the others sail over, 
At each leap of the ‘‘fencers” in their mad course our yoices 
Ting out with exultant approbation. ‘‘Well dons, Spring!” 
“Good boy, Poor Pat, that was a corking jump,” as the latter 
clears a five-foot fence with no apparent exertion. Soon the 
chase is lost to sight, hidden, perhaps, by intervening brush or 
rolling ground. We wait a while, then walk in the direction 
taken by our dogs. Anon we see them coming slowly back, 
and when they reach us an examination shows a few hairs 
clinging to the corners of their mouths; these tell the fate of 
puss. But one of the hounds, Poor Pat, ismissing. Look! 
half a mile away comes the game old boy, carrying in his 
mouth the heayy hare, killed perhaps a mile and a half 
further on. We never saw his equal for *‘packing in” his 
hare; and when the old hero reaches us and is relieved of his 
heavy burden, we caress him lovingly, ‘‘Good hoy, Pat, the 
old countryman of yours who gave you to us shall have this 
hare upon his board to-night.” 

And so it goss; perhaps the next hare we start takes to the 
earth after a sharp run; and although we could easily reach 
to lift her out, wedo not, She has earned her life this time; 
let her have it. ‘ 

After two or three more runs we look at our watches, 
which tel us 5 P. M. Our appetites corroborate the 
watches, so we turn homeward, carrying five or six hares, the 
results of our sport. These we leave with certain Hibernian 
and Hnglish friends, who like the flesh, which we do not. 
Upon reaching home, having fed our footsore, tired hounds, we 
eat our “breakfast” with keenest relish, meanwhile recounting 
the various exciting incidents of the day. And we enjoy a 
quiet laugh or two at our enthusiastic convert, who extrava- 
gantly plans for future spoit, and who, I fear, will fallaready 
victim to the wily dog seller for some time to cqme. He also 
now decries the man who ‘‘murderously” shoots poor puss, 
forgetting that lessthanaday ago to hima hare was but a 
hare, and if any one preterred shooting it to coursing it, why, 
what difference? 

Such quiet modes of coursing I personally prefer to regular 
meetings, in which the cracks are matched agamst one 
another, and are loosed from the slips, to insure an even start. 
Not but that such matches are intensely exciting, for indeed 
they are; in fact, therein lies my objection to them, for, no 
matter how correctly a judge renders his decision Tn a closely 
contested course, dissatisfaction atthe defeat of a beloved 
dog is very apt to arise. 
mateh is as truly athankless one asitisina bench show or 
fieldtrial. So, all in all, give me the “battle royal,” or, for a 
change, a bit of quiet sport among a few friends where the 
dogs are slipped in couples, no prizesnor money bemg depend- 
ent upon the results. : 

Greyhounds are wonderful leapers. Were it not that I fear 
being discredited, I would state the distance leaped by Mr. 
Wright's Quicksilver, at Modesto, in 1872 or 775. Should this 
meet the eye of some Californian, who remembers that mar- 
velous jump, will he not state the distance in FormstT AND 
Stream? 1 refer to the time when the here swam a slough, 
and Quicksilver, who, by the way, was a grandson of the 
English winner, Master McGrath, coming up with a grand 
rush, cleaved the slough, to the amazement of the spectators, 
He was a noble greyhound. A 

I love the graceful, quiet creatures. Often have I sat reading 
for hours at a time, with three or four of the silken-coated 
blue bloods standing or sitting around me, their slender heads 
lying on my knees or in my lap, while their great lustrous 
eyes locked calmly into mine. They would remain there like 
statues until I moved. 

And how game they are! {think it is Charles Lever who 
records it as a fact that two greyhounds were slipped after a 
hare, and the three went out of sight, They did not return, 
and the next day, some twenty miles away, the hare was 
found, dead, twenty yards ahead of the lifeless body of one 
hound, while the other hound lay dead, fifty yardsin the rear. 
All three had rus to the death. 

Tam sorry for sportsmen who haye never enjoyedthe ex- 
eitement of coursing. Youcannot appreciate the glorious 
sport as yet unknown to you. The only trouble is that it is 
apt to prove too fascinating, too exciting. Great is the man 
who, being an owner of greyhounds, can attend the meet, 
wherein they contest, without losing his self-possession and 
rood nature. lLhave seen twosuch men. Some time since I 
read that several Eastern gentlemen would introduce cours- 
ing into the Atlantic States. Itrust they will succeed in 
their attempt. While the country is not so well adapted to the 
sport as California (where the chase can be seen on the level 
plains for miles), still, once started inthe East, its future 
there would be assured. 

J should like to visit the Pacific slope next month and do a 
bit of coursing on the old grounds. And to find that same 
nervous horse, who oft enjoyed the sport as much as hisrider, 
to earry me through a glorious ‘‘battle royal.” Imagine, if 
you can, the thnilling contests between the fiying hounds. 
witnessed from the back of a noble horse, and you will agrea 
with me that coursing is royal sport indeed, DELTA. 


Detroit, Mich. 


COCKER SPANIEL PRODUCE STAKES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The progeny of the following bitches have been entered for 
the American Cocker Spaniel Club Produce Stakes to be de- 
cided at Westminster Kennel Club show, New York, May 5, 
6,7 and 8, 1584: 

Toronto Jet (Nigzer—Belle), J. F, Kirk, Toronto, Can. 

Queen Vie (Witch—Madge), J. 8. Cattanach, V.S., New 
York. 

Princess Royal (Dandy—Queen Vic), J. 8. Cattanach, V. 8., 
New York. 

Hornell Dinah (Prince—Sister to Beau), Hornell Spaniel 
Chib, Hornellsyille, N. Y- 

Hornell fuby (Bob III.—Lady Bath), Hornell Spaniel Club, 
Hornellsville, N. Y- : 

Hornell Baroness (Baron—Queen), Hornell Spaniel Club, 
Hornellsville, N. Y. 

Blackie (Rolf—Belle), F. F. Pitcher. Claremont, N. H. 

Gracie (Snip—Juliette), F. F. Pitcher, Claremont, N. H. 

popsy (Drake—Victoria), Hornell Spaniel Club, Hornells- 
ville, N. Y¥. 


Prin (Witch—Princess), Hornell Spaniel Club, Hornellsville, 
N.Y. 


Nellie (formerly Lawson’s), Dr. J, 8, Niven, London, Ont. 
Dolly (Jack—Bobtail). Dr. J. 5. Niven, London, Ont. 
Luna (Jack—Jessie), Geo. Schofield, Toronto, Can. 
Bonny Kate (Don—Lady), J, F, Kirk, Toronto, Can. 
Hornell Ruby (Bob IIl.—Lady Bath), Hornell Spaniel Club, 
Hornellsville, N. Y. J. F. Krrx, 
Hon, Sec, American Cocker Spaniel Club. 
Tor Into, Feb, 6, 1834. 


The position of judge in a coursing | 


CRYSTAL PALACE DOG SHOW. 
[From our Regular Correspondent. 


Wes Kennel Cluh’s twenty-second exhibition of sporting 
and other dogs was held in the gallery of the Crystal 
Palace on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of January, the total 
entries amounting to 1,507, 29 of which were double entries 
and 353 puppies. Byt in acknowledging the Keniuel Club 
exhibition of January, 1884, as the most successful and grand- 
est exhibition eyer held, it olight to be remembered that it 
really represented a number of special clubs; such as the 
Mastiff, St. Bernard, Great Dane, Colle, Dachshund, Bulldog, 
Fox-terrier, Bedlington, Dandie Dinmont, Irish Terrier, and 
other clubs, who offered numerous valuable prizes for private 
competition among their members. The benching and feed- 
of the exhibits, as usual, was intrusted to Spratt’s Patent, 
which, under the able management of Mr, Charles Croft, was 
& gnarantee that all possible care was taken of them. 

n bloodhounds Nestor had an easy win in the champion 
class; in the open dog clazs, Mr. Nichols’s Triumph, who was 
placed first, is a young dog, rather dark in color, but sure to 
improye in that respect ashe gets older, Otherwise he is 
about the grandest young dog we ever saw; he is very good 
in ear, The second prize winner. Maltravers, also bred by Mr. 
Nichols, is another good specimen, The bitches were a very 
good class and the winners well placed. 

In mastiffs, Crown Prince came once more to the front in 
the champion class, the briudled Cardinal not being entered 
for competition. In champion bitches, Rosalind won quite 
easy, She is a grand bitch, but would be improved with 
having more wrinkle. In the open dog class, Orlando, who 
wou first, isa remarkably massivemmade dog vf good type; 
nevertheless, he is so much out at elbows and low at shoulder, 
that we think he was very lucky to win. Boatswain, who wou 
second, is another good-headed dog, but is not straight on his 
legs. Prince, who was placed third, has much better legs and 
feet than those placed over him, and has a really good head. 
Moses, who won fourth, is a fairly good young dog, but seems 
a nasty-bempered animal. The bitches were the best class we 
have ever seen, first and second being really grand animals; 
the third was also good. Bal Gal, vhe. reserve, we consider 
very fortunate, as there were several much better behind her. 
The dog puppies were only moderate. The bitch puppies were 
a good class, the three best being full sisters, and we con- 
sidered the winner rather the worst of the three, being large 
of ear and smaller of skull. 

There were four entries in the St. Bernard champion class, 
one, Save, not for competion. Pedro was absent, so the fight 
was between Bayard and Cadwallader, the former taking the 
honors this time, though not quite up to his best form, Inthe 
bitch class, Madam had an easy win over Amy, the only other 
entry. In the open dog class thirty-one faced the judge, and 
it was one of the best classes we have seen. Leonard won firrt. 
He is improved since we saw him last. He was closely fol- 
lowed by S, W. Smith’s new dog, Duke of Leeds, who has a 
grand skull, good, straight coat, and is a beautitul color, with 
whit+ markings. Third went to Glacier, a good, big dog,with 
afair head, He hasa rich orange color, With nice black face 
markings, Heisrather proud of his tail. Next came Boni- 
face for fourth, but we prefer the vhe. Faust. Sailor, a dog 
we always liked, was rightly plaGed reserve number. Sultan 
IU. is a very large dog. He is too sharp:in muzzle and small 
inskull, Storm King is too small, Courage IT. is plain in 
face. The bitches were a good class of twenty-three, includ- 
ing several of the best on the bench. Hlfreda followed up her 
Bristol form by taking first, Cloister, in nice condition, com- 
ing second. Third went to a fair bitch named Bernardine 
She is light of bone, butis nicely marked. Bertha came in 
fourth, but had Theis been better shown she would have 
beaten Bertha. 

It was a walk-over for Beauchief m the smooth dog 
class. Don II. is light in bone for so large a dog, although 
he has a good head and ears, and deserved the second. Bera, 
late Copenhagen, is now showing age. In the biteh class, 
Leila, the Hundred Guinea Cup winner atthe St. Bernard Club 
show, had it all her own way for first, second going to 
Chinaleta. Ida U., looking her best, came in for reserve, 
There were several very good young ones in the puppy 
@lasses. In smooth-coated puppies, Mr. Thornton won with a 
most promising youngster. 

The black Newfoundlands, as usual, were small classes, Nel- 
son I. winning in the champion class. Gumnvyille, first in dogs, 
isa very good specimen. The bitches were, as a rule, small in 
size, and the winner was out of coat. Newfoundlands other 
than black were well represcnted, and the decisions seemed to 
give general satisfaction. 

Great Danes came out in good force, and the quality was 
better than we have ever seen in Hneland beiore. 

In deerhounds Chieftain won in the champion class. We 
consider his light color his worst fault. First and second in 
the open dog class were good specimens, one of which changed 
hands, we understand. . 

The greyhound classes were sinall, but the quality was very 
good, Messrs. H. P. and J. P. Charles winning all before theni. 
We fancied the black and white Bonnie Lass to be the winner 
in the bitch class. 

In pointers Mr. Norrish once more won in the champion 
class with his liver and white Graphic. In large-sized dogs 
the winner is rather fat and appears throaty. Ths second 
prize, Duke 1V.,is a little faulty in muzzle and refused to 
show wellin the ring. The large-sized bitches were a good 
class, and any of those noticed are fit to win, and the same re- 
marks apply to the small-sized dogs and bitches. 

Tn the English setter champion classthere were no entries 
for competition. In the open class first went to a lemon and 
white dog, Sting, who was first at Bristol two weeks ago, he 
has a good head and good coat. Tycoon, the second prize, is a 
blue belton, rather shorter in head than the winner, but avery 

good dog. First in bitches went to Wild Rose, rather out of 
coat, with more bone than the second prize, Pearl, who isa 
very nice bitch with a good shaped head. Flimsy, the third 
prize, is a strong, well-made bitch but not possessing the 
qualities of the winner. In puppies, Ramble, a liver ticked 
dog, was placed eqnal first with Mr. Cockerton’s Bella, of 
Ravensbarrow, a blue belton. Mr. Lowe being vhe. with a 
very nice yeung dog, Blue Rocket. 

In black and tan setters, Dan II. won first, being closely 
pressed by Heather Ranger, who was very good in tan, but 
being only ten months old, was not so well furnished as the 
winner, Wild Grouse, he., isa very good’ coated dog, rather 
deficient in color, Norwich Bloom, first in bitches, was in 
good form and an casy winner over Alice, wha is not so good 
in feet. Kate XI. was a very fair ppv ae Kate TY. rather 
out of coat. The winning puppy, Heather Gem, was rather 
more forward than the second prize, Fan VO, 

-In the Irish setter champion class Geraldine won first, beat- 
ing Nellie, who isa trifle fine in muzzle. Roy, first in open 
doe class, is a handsome little doz rather fine of muzzle and 
out of condition at present. Tyrone is a very good dog but is 
a little strong in head. King billieis another good one and 
the vhe., Chief, is another typical dog but small. The bitches 
were a very good class, We thought Lady Palmerston II, 
ought to have been further up. 

n sheep dogs Rutland, who was first in the champion class, 
is a very handsome black and tan; he was looking better than 
we ever saw him before, Peggy, winning first in the 
bitch class, was closely pressed by Lorma Doon. The open 
class for rough sheep dogs was avery large one and con- 
tained a great many very fine specimens, First went to 
Young Cockie, a very good black ‘and white, who seemed to 
cane mi tail rather high, Tramp Il. was looking very well. 
Romulus, who won third, is a sable; he is rather short of coat 
and frill and large of ear. We fancied the sable dog High- 
land Chief eq 


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another nice dark sable dog. The fourth prize went to a coarse 
black and white. In bitches first went to a very fine dark 
sable bitch a littte short of frill. The puppy classes contained 
some very promising youngones, In the bitch puppies we 
fancied the third prize one yery much, being more heavily 
coated than the winner, with a smaller ear. She was quickly 
claimed at £50. 

The basset hounds were avery good collection, Mr, C, R, 
cea having a very large entry and winning most of the 

Tizes. 

In Dalmatians, the winner, Treasure, 
of the rest. 

In Pomeranians the first is a very handsome little black, 
The seeond is Mr. Fawdry’s well-known white dog Charlie, 

Tn poodles the prizes all went to well-known winners. 

Monarch, who won in the champion bulldog class, also won 
the challenge cup, Britomartis scoring the same in the bitch 
class. In the open class for dogs over G(lbs. and bitches over 
50lbs,, first went to President Gartield, a brindle, with a very 
good skull. In the next class, first went to Black Prince, a 
dark brindle, witha good skull. Heisa trifle long in back. 
In the corresponding bitch class, first went to a very showy 
red and white bitch, with a small nose and roundskull. The 
winners in the other classes were fair specimens, but nothing 
above the average. 

Trish water spaniels were a failure; only two were in the 
show—Lady and Young Hilda—the former winning, being 
best in coat, but in every other respect we prefer the latter. 

in the Olumber spaniel champion class John o’? Gaunt won 
eres his kennel companion, Tower, winning in the open 
lass. 

The Sussex spaniels were a small class. 

Mm champion field spaniels, first went to Solus, who was 
looking his best and was really a show of himself. There was 
nothing against him but Miss Obo, We consider her a much 
overrated cocker, being too flat in skull to suit our ideas. 
Roysterer is a very good, long, low and well-bodied dog, just 
a little plainin head. We think the secondand third prize 
dogs ought to have exchanged places. In cocker bitches, the 
first prize, Little Smutty, is a very handsome little cocker 
and of the correct type, but would be improved if a little 
stronger before the eyes, 

In fox-terriers, Spice won in champion dogs and Bedlamite 
in the bitch class. We thought Diana ought to have won, but 
at present she is rather out of condition. and being a small 
bitch she looked more of a toy than usual, In the open dog 
class, first went toa lemon marked dog, not as good in his 
quarters as he might be. The second is rather large in ear 
and coarse inhead. He was claimed at £50. In bitches, the 
first is rather lightin bone. The secondis a very good one, 
she has a good head, good feet and legs, with pletity of terrier 
expression. 

There was only one entry in champion bull-terriers. In 
large sized bull-terriers the competition was good, and the 
awards were pretty generally indorsed. In small sized bull- 
terriers there were very few good spacimens, we might say 
very few moderately good specimens. 

The Airedale terriers were a fairly good class, and Bedling- 
tons were also good, Many of the he. and c. dogs are fit to 
win at any ordinary show. 

Trish terriers were very good in quality, with a very fair 
entry of thirty-six. 

Champion pugs had only one entry im tiie doz and two in 
the bitch class, Jenny haying an easy win from Buttereup. 
The first in the open class for dogs is of good size and style, 
but is very smutty in color, The second and third are better 
in color but rather larger. 

In Yorkshires, Bradford Hero scored another win for Mr. 
Foster. 

Lady Gifford had the whole maltese classta herself, and 
certainly her exhivits are really worth going a good distance 
to see. . 

The Blenheim spaniels seemed more numerous than we haye 
seen them for sonic time, and the quality throughout was very 
fair. 

In King Charles, the first prize dog, Bend-Or, is the best 
we have seen for a long while, we think he will make a better 
dog than his companion, Alexander the Great. e 

Ttalian greyhounds and toy terriers were as usual, good but 
nothing to callfor special comment. Following is a list of 
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AWARDS. 
BLOODHOUNDS.—Cuyampions: Prize, M. Beaufoy (Nestor),—Opren 
—Dogs- 1st, E. Nichols (Triumph); 2d, L. G, Morrell (Maltravers); 3d, 
E.R. Ray (Nobleman) Bitches: lst, L. G, Morrell (Malvina); 2U and 


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3d, E, Nichols (Patti and Phryne), 


MASTIFFS.—CHampions—Dogs: Prize and cup, Dr L. Forbes- 
Winslow (Crown Prince). Bitches; Prize and cup, Dr. Lb. Forbes- 
Winslow (Rosalind).—Orprn—Dogs: Ist, J. 8. Turner (Orlando); 2d. 
M. Beautoy (Boatswain); 3d, J. Royle (The Prince); 4th, J. Byans 
(Moses). Bitches: Ist, BH. G. Woolmore (Cambrian Princess); 2d, H. 
Oldham (The Lady Ella); 3d, F, J. Campell (Lily IL.).—Puppres— Dogs! 
ist, R. Cook (Ilford Caution); 2d, G,Renton (Guelph IL). Bitches: (st, 
J. S. Turner (Guinevere); 2d, J. Evans ( Vivian). 


$1. BERNARDS.—CHamPions—Doys; 1st, J. C. Macdona, (Bayard). 
Bitches; Prize, H. I. Betterton (champion Madam},—Opsy, RocgH- 
coATED—Doys: 1st and cup, J. F, Smith (Leonard); 2d,$, W. Smith 
(Duke of Leeds, late Good Bayard); 3d, B. Hodgson (Glacier); 4th. 
J.C. Maecdona (Boniface!. Bitches: ist, H. C. Joplin (Eltrida): 2d, 
W. G. Marshall (Cloister); 31, G. S. Ball (Bernardine); 4th, W. Wells 
(Bertha).—Smoora-coAtep—Dogs: 1st, W. Wells (Beauchief); 2d, J. 
C) Davies Don Ii.). Bitchess lst and cup, R Thornton (Leila); 2d, 
C. Joplin (Chisalette).—Roves Puprres—Dogs; ist. K. Vhorntou 
(Amelot); 2d, H. I. Betterton (Correze); 5d, J. H. Bilis (Valentine). 
Bitches: 1st, H. G. Sweet (Romola); 2d, Rev. W.S. Barthropp (Meta); 
3d, £. Snelling (Rhona)—Smootp—Puppies; Prize, R. VYhornton 
(Hyio). . 

NEWFOUNDLANDS.—CxHamprons: Prize and cup, E. Nichols (cham- 
pion Nelson J,). Buack—Doys; Prize, H. R. Farquharson (GQunville 
and Courtier). Bitches; ist, E. Nichols (Sybil); 2d, A. ©, MeMinn 
(Dagzmar),—OTHER THAN BuAcKk—Ist and 2d, H. R, Farquharson (Tro- 
jan and Seanian). ’ 

BOARHOUNDS.—Caamprons: Prize. C. Petrgywalski (Sultan I). 
Open—=Dogs; 1st, R. Bryan (Samson); 2d, Mrs. M Haglerigg (Prince 
Charlie); 3d, S. E. Shirley (Thunder). Bitches; 1st and extra cup, C. 
Petrzywalski (Mirza); 2d. 5, E. Shirley (Nox); 8d, J, Angell (Diana). 
Puppies: ist, G. Bolton (Luther); 2d, A. A. Grosvenor (Mark Antony); 
3d, A. Moore (Athlete). 

BERHOUNDS.—Cuampions: Prize, H. C. Joplin (champion Chief 
en OpeN—Dogs: 1st, G. W. Hickman (Lord of the Isles); 2d, Miss 
BH, d2 la Pole (Glengariff); 3, Misses A. Maxwell and FE. Cassel (Victor) 
Bitches: 1st. Miss de Ja Pole (Belle); 2d, A. Maxwell aud Vi. Casse 
(Miuna); 8d, G. W. Share (Stora), 

GREY HOUNDS,—Pogs; 1st and 2d, H, P. and P. J. Charles (cham- 
pion Memnon and Whiskedale IL); 3d, H. C. Hodson (Emperor), 
Bitches: Prize, G, 8. Ball (Lancashire Witch), 


POINTERS.—Onampions; Prize, E. C. Norrish (champion Graphic), 
—OPEN—5SSLBS. 2ND UPWARD—Dogs; Ist, G. Pilkington (Lake); 2d, F, 
A. Manning (Duke IV,): 8d, B.Field (Young Dick),—50LBS.anD UPWARD: 
—Bitches: 1st, §. Price (Sell of Bow); 2d, C, H. Beek (Nan); 3u, W. 
Arkwright (Lady Wlive) —Unpber 53.Bs.—Doge: Ist, Sir 'T.B. Lennard, 
Bart. (Belhus Hector); 2d, Prince Albert Solms (Naso Kipping): dd, 7. 
Burra (Duke of Glenmarkie).—Unper 50bBs.—Silches; Ist, 5. Price 
(Meally); 2d, R. J. L. Price (Bellona); 3d, J. L. Butled (Bell or the Ball). 
—SINGLE Entries, nov Lirrmrs—Puppies: 180, 8. Palmer(Deyon Duke); 
2d, J. Whitley (Sir Garnet). 


INGLISH SETTERS,—Dogs- 1st and 2U, H. Platt (Sting and Ty- 
coon BA Mr. H, F, Grant (J See Carlton). Bitches: Ist, i. Platt (Wild 
See 2d, B, Field (Péarl); 3d, J. H. Platt (Flimsy). Puppies: Equal 
lstand 2d, Major H, Platt (Ramble) aud J. B. Cockerton (Bella of 
Ravensbarrow).—BLACE AND ees ist, J. Williams (Dan I1.); 2d, 
KR, Chapman (Heather Ranger): 3d, GC. J. Fauntleroy (Dasher), 
Bitevess 1st, W. Long (Norwich Bloom); 2d and 3d, F. A, Mannin 
(Alice and Juno V.). Puppies! ist, R. Chapman (Heather Jeni); 2d, 
W. Eglinton (Fan VIT.). . 

TRISH SETTERS.—CHampions; Prize, Rev. R, O'Callaghan (cham- 

ion Geraldine)._Opex—Pogs: ist, B, R..Woodd (Roy); 21, Rey. BR. 
HCallaghan (Tyrone): 3d, B. F. Welch (King Billy). Bitches: ist, 
4, P. Nattall (Leo VIL); 2d, Ly F, Perrin (Wee ate , 3d, Rev. B. ] 


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O’Callaghan (Vintry), Puppies: 
dad, H. F. Smith (Lanwath Pat). 


RETRIEVERS.—Wavy: Prize, 8. HE. Shirley (Moonstone).—Curty- 
coaTED: Equal ist, G. Culley (Jet I1.).and the Duke of Hamilton 
{champion Baron),—OPpnn, Wavy—Dogs: ist, 8S. B. Shirley (Tractor); 
2d, Cok H. Ewart (Wing); 3d, G. Poster (Yoppery). @ttches-: 1st, S. E, 
Shirley (Tacit); equal 20.5. E. Shirley (Pact) and Lieut.-Col. H. C. 
Lech (Breeze), Puppies: 1st,8. 8. Shirley (Tacit); 2d. Lieut.-Col. H- 
C. Legh (Bob Il.)—Curty coarnp—Dogs; ist, R. Chapman (King ef 
the Koffees); 2d, G. Culiey (Crown Prince): 3d, H, Lingwood (Sam- 
my), itches; ist. Duke of Hamilton (Lady Nes); 2d, Dr. W. A. 
G. James (Luna), 31; Mr. C. Taylor (Miss Gyp).—Ornir THAN BLACK: 
ist, H. Skipworth (Venture); 2d, R, Chapnian (Alistake). 


SHEEPDOGS.—OCuaAmMrPions, RovsH-coatep—Doqgs: ist, 3S. Bodding- 
ton (Rutland); 2d, M. C. Ashwin (Denald). Bitenes! Prize, Rey. H. ¥. 
Hamilton (Peggie Il.)_CHampion. SMoorH-coaTep: Prize, D, P. Thomas 
(Beryl).—Open—Dogs: ist, J. J. Steward (Young Cockie); 2d, R. 
Chapman (Tramp If.); 2d, J. Osborne (Romulus); 4th, Dr. G. C. Ed- 
wardes Ker (Augus Cray). Bitches: Ist. W. Buckiey (Morwyn); 2d, 
J, J. itewart (Patience); 3d, Rev. H. ¥. Hamilton (Sooty); 4th, D. P. 
Thomas (Welsh Lass). Smoora coatrep: Ist. W. A G. James (Lady 
Help); 2d, M. C, Ashwin (Lady Hicho); 31, A. Hastie (Dark Jennie).— 
Puppiss— Doys;: 1st, J. J. Stewart (Young Cockiec); 2d,7T. Haston (Red 
Gauntlet); 3d, W. A. G. James (Clover), Bitches: 1st, EH, Collings 

my Robsarn); 20,5. Boddington (Miss Charlemagne); 3d, J. Beach 
(Myva Ill ).—Boxp Tarus: ist, D P, Thomas (Sir Guy); 2d, R. J, Lloyd 
‘Price (Beileof Ranelagh).—Couuis Grup Dery: ist, J. J. Steward 
(Young Cocicie); 2d, Dr. W. A.G. James (Clover); 3d, H. Ralph (The 
Bedouin), 

BASSET HOUNDS.—CuAmpions.—Prize, G. R. Krehi (Jupiter).— 
Oren—Dogs: ist, G. R. Kreh! (Fino); 2d, R. Temperiey (Rouflot). 
Puppies; ist, HW. V. Gibson-Lraig (Carillon); 2d. GR. Krehl (Ori 
flamme). 

BULLDOGS.—CHaAmpPions—Dogs: Prize and challenge cup, H. Lay- 
tou (Monarch). Bitches: Prize oud challenge cup, A- Benjamin cham- 

ion Britomartis).—Over 60LBs,, Dogs: Over 50LBS., Bitcnes; Ist, J. 
Wy. Gurney (President Garfield); 2d, A. 'f, Horeman (Big Ben).—OvERr 
45LBS. AND NOT EXCEEDING 60LBS.—Dogs: 1st, C, R. C. Kiag (The Black 
Prince); 20,8. B. Shirley (Cervantes); 3d, J. W. Gurney (Royal George). 
—OvVsR 35LB, AND NOT BXCDEDING 5ULBS.—Biiches; ist, J. W. Gurney 
(Wheel of ortune}; 2:1, 3.8. P. Sellon (Dona Sol); 3d. T. A. Skeate 
(Chandos Demon).—Noer ExXcEEDING 45LBs.—Dogs; Ist, W. Donkin 
(Castor); 2d, A. . Smith (Bacchus 11.); 8d, A. Benjamin (Kimmel 
Billy). —Not EXCHEDING $:LBS.—Bitches; ist, A. J. L. Price (Empress 
V_.); 2d. H. Layton (Jenny Howlett Il.); 3d, J. S. P. Selion (Bel- 
ladonna). Puppies: Prize, A. Benjamin (Kimmel Billy). 


IRISH WATER SPANIELS.—Dogs; Prize withheld. 
G.S. Hockey (Lady). — 


SPANIELS,—CiumBrrs—CHaAmpions: Prize, H. H. Holmes (cham- 
ion John o’ Gaunt),—_OPEN—Dogs. Ist, H. H. Holmes (Tower); 2d, G, 
3. Clark (Ramble): 3d, EK. Maliing (Duke O.). Bitches: Ist, H. Bishop 
(Foxley Beagty); 2d, R. W. 8. Lowndes, Jr. (Lulu).—Sussex anp 
LiverR-COLORED, OVER 25LEs —Dogs; 1st and 2d, Hooley Brothurs 
(Horatio and Baryta). BSifches: ist,<J. Partridge (Brida IL.); 2d, J. R. 
Whittle (Voisine). 
FIELD SPANIELS.—CuHampions: Prize, J. Royle (Sohis).—Buack, 
OVER 2oLBS.—Dogs; Ist, H. B. Spurgin (Roysterer); 2d, W. Riddlesdell 
Bramble); 3d, A. H. Easten (Easten’s Bracken). itches: 1st, J. 

oyle (Salus I1.\: 2d, J, C. Phillips (Seatrice); 8d, A. Fasten (Kasten’s 
Busy). —CockERS, ANY COLOR, NOT EXCEEDING 20LBs.—Pogs: Prize, G. 
W, Carter (Jingo), Bitches: ist, A. H, Hussey (Little Smutty); 2d, A. 
FP. Nash (Lilac),_OTHmr THAN LIVER OR BLACK, EXCEEDING ¥YSLBS.— 
Dogs: 1st, H-B. Spurgin (Counsellor); 2d. A. H. Hasten (Wasten’s 
Bruce). Bitches: 1st, H. B. Sourgin (Fanciful); 2d, J. Royle (Zuess), 


FOX-TERRIMRS —Smoorty Batrep.—_CHampion—Dogs: ist, L. Turs 
ner (Spice ; 2d and 3il, Rev. UC. Vv, Fisher (Richmond Jack and Darkie). 
Bitches: ist, Rev. C. T. Fisher (Bediamite, late Joyous); 2d, L. & W. 
Rutherfurd (Diana); 38d, F. Readsnond (Viadem),—Opmn—Dogs: 1st, 
Rev. C.T. Fisher (Tue Belgravian); 2d, J, J. Pim (Brokenhurst Jim) 
3d. A. R. Wosd (Splinter); 4th, F, Redmond (Dandy Dick, late Silver 
Dick); 5th, A.and C. braser(Rookwood). Bitejies: ist, J. J. Pim (Just); 
2d, Hill and Ashton (Meersbrook Model); 8d,R. H. Barlow (Nadine); 
4th. C. 2. Longmore (Duicie): 5th, A, and C. Fraser (J oyiul).—Puppias 
—Dogs; ist, A, Hargreaves \Hogmaston Revel): 2d, Hil and Ashton 
(Meersbrook Ross); #d, A. E. Knight (Citron). Bitches: 1si, Hill and 
Ashton (Meersbrook Model); 2d, H. S. Whipp (Douglas Netiie); 3d, 
'T. Errington (Haton Trip),—W1IkE-HAIRED—CHAMPION—Jogs: ist and 

2d, Harl of Loosvale (Briggs aud Sam Weller). Bitches; 1st aud 2d, 

Eari of Lonsdale (Miss Miges and Vora). Cppn—Dogs: Ist and 2d, W. 

Carrick, jua. (Master Tiger and Turk IL.);8d, H. G. Bennett (Derwent); 

64th, M. Hazlerige (Trophy). Bitches: 1st, W. Carrick, jun, (Carlisle 

Venom); 2d, W. W. Becku (Black Wateh); 8d, M, Hazlerige (Tinder); 

4th, Farl of Lonsdale (Grace droom), —Puppres—Dogs: ist, A, Max: 
- well and E, Cassel( Jack Frost); 2d, W. Carrick, jun, (Tinser,; 3d, 

R, Bird (St, Swethin). Sétches: Ist, W. Carrick, Jun. (Lill Foiler); 

al Reid and W. Carrick, jun. (ly Pickle and Carlisle 
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Bitches: Prize, W. A. Benson (Rosa). Opun Ciass—Dogs: HNqual 
ist. M. Wootten (Zeyn) and W. J. Lake (Faust HI.); 2d and 3d, Mrs. 


P, Merrik-Hoare (Varlowitg and Dracher). Bilciies: ist, G. R. As k- 
with (Shotover); 2d, EH. W. Hazlewood (Swipes): 3d, J. Knight Bruce 
(Lady). Puprras—Dogs; 1st, L. Daniell (Redman): 2d, Mrs. P. Merrik- 
Hoare (Drachen); 3d, A. W. Byron (Roller). Bitches: ist and 2d, E. 
M. Southwell (Schone and Sechenke);3d. J. S. Pearson ‘Zibeline). 
PRODUCE STaxkEs.—lst and 2d, E. M. Southwell (Schone ane Schenke); 
3d, Mrs. P. Merrik-Hoare (Drachen); 4th, T. S. Daniel (Redman), 


BULL-TERRIERS.—CHAMPions; Prize, Alfred George (Mistress of 
the Robes)—OPEN CLASS—OVER 25LBs.—Dogs: 1st, J. R. Pratt( Baron); 
2d, T. H. Hewitt (Murder II.); 3d, Alfred George (Bendigo). Bitches; 
1st and 2d, Alfred George (Vendetta and Luci); 3d, John Richardson 
(Maggie May {1.) Nov over 25nBs.—Dogs and Bitches: ist, Alfred 
J. Hudson (Guess): 2d, Robert Beulley (Young Joe);3d, Arthur Henry 
Taylor (Jonn Bull). 


AIREDALE TERRIERS.—Dogs and Bitches: ist, Thomas Carr 
(Kisghley Crack); 2d and 8d, Edward Constantine (Tcss and Jock). 


BEDLINGTON TERRIBRS.—Cuamprons—Prize. J. §. Watson 
(Senator)._OPEN CLASS—BLUE OR BLUE AND Tan—Dogs: ist and 3d, 
Joim A, Batz (The Bishop and Lord Stowel); 2d, A, N. Dedds (Hair- 
dresser), Bitches: 1st, H. Burnett Watson (Topsy); 2d. John A. Baty 
(Durham Lass): 3d, John Sherwood, Jr. (Blue Stocking), ANY OTHER 
CoLtor—Dogs and Bitches; ist, H. Burnett Watson (Choker); 2d, 
Jobn A. Batg (Pincher). Puppies: 1st, Andrew N. Dodds (Mark Tap- 
ley); 2d, J. Dawson (Randolph): H. Burneti Watson (Crocodile). 


TRISH TERRIERS.—CHamprons—Prize and medal, Charles M. 
Nicholson (Poppy).—Opmn Cuass—Dogs: ist, William Graham (Garry- 
ford); 2d, and ist club, R. B.& T.5. Carey (Mogue); 31, H. S. Snow 
(Garrick). Bitches; ist, William Graham (Gaily); Herbert A, Graves 
(Pretty Lass); 8d, Charles H. Backhouse (Buzz).—UncroPprmp— Dogs 
and Bitches: ist and 2d elub, J. N. Annand (Fury I1.}; 2d, R. W. 
Palmer (Thady II.). Puppies; 1st, R. B. & T. 8. Carey (Noggin); 2d, 
Charles sackhouse (Bundle). 


SMOOTH-HAIRED THRRIERS.—Ist, C. F. Copeman (Leading Star): 
2d, Alfred George (Zazel). 


BLACK AND TAN TERRIFRS—Over 16ues—Dogs und Bitches: 
ist, J. & R, B. Troughear (Prinee Arthur); 2d, Joseph Royle (Burke); 
3d, J. W. Tucker (Duchess of Edinburg).—Nov Over 16LBs.—lst, Web- 
ster Adams (Streamlet); 2d, Frederick M. Hurdle (Sunbeam); 3d, 
George Lodge (Laura), Puppies: ist, C. C. Lawrence (Russian 
Prince); 2d, T. L. Puttock (Peter Piper). 


SKYE TERRIERS—CuHamprons: Prize, James Pratt (Heatherbloom), 
Opmn CLAss—Drop-fArnp—Dogs: ist, Mrs. Jacobson (Cathullin) 2d, 
John Renderson (Pibroch); 3d, John B. Wilkes(Bob I1.). Bitches: 
Prize, Mrs. Jacobson (Maggie Maecdonald).—Prick-EARED—Dogs: ist, 
Rev. Tho as Nolan (Kingston Ray); 2d, James Pratt (Sandy Grant). 
Bitches: Prize, J. R. Kaye (Claret), 


HARD-HAIRED SCOTCH TERRIHRS.—ist and 2d, Capt. W. W. 
Mackie (Dunolly and Dunora); 3d, Ludlow & Bloomfield (Worry). 


DANDIE DINMONT TERRIERS.—CuHamprons—Dogs: Prize, John 
Sherwood, Jr. (Terquil). Bitches: Prize, A. Steel (Linnet).—Open 
CLAass—Dogs:? Equalist, W. A. F. Coupland (Border Prince) and J. C. 
Carrick (Pasha); 2d, J. C. Carrick (Fergus). Bitches: 1st, George 8. 
Ball (Jennie Deans): 2d, Major H,. Ashton (Duchess 1I.); 8d, William 
Carrick (Alma), Puppies: Equal 1st, J. Flinn (Perey) and W. Car- 
rick, Jr. (Carlisle Venus); Equal 2d, Rev. G. S$, 'Tiddeman (Mint) and 
J. Cunningham (Gilnockie). 


PUGS.—CHAMPIons—Dogs: Prize, Lady Brassey (Challenger), 
Bitches; Prize, Mrs. M. A. Poster (Jenny). Opmn CuAss—Not Oven 
20LBs.— Dogs. ist. W. L. Sheffield (‘Stingo Snitiles); 2d and 8d, Mrs. M. 
A. Foster (Bradford Ruby and Diamond). Bitches; 1st, J. Drew 
(Dasey); 2d, Lady Brassey (Chiefess); 8d, Mrs. M. a, Foster (Maggie), 
Puppies: 1st, Miss Barlow (Tum Sing); 2d, Lady Brassey (Said). 


ee ae TERREIERS.— Prize, Mrs. M. A. Foster (Bradford 
ero). 
Sina ESE.—ist, 2d and 8d, Lady Gifford (Hugh, Rob Roy and Lord 
yde). 
BLENHEIM SPANIELS.—CHampions—Prize, Mrs. L. BE. Jenkins 
(Flossy 11.) Oppn Cuass—ist, H. E. Jenkins (Trixy); 2d, Mrs. H. 
Arnold (Prince V.); 3d, George Coram (Bunchy). 


KING CHARLES SPANIELS.—CHAmpions,—Prize, Mrs. J. A. 
Briggs (Alexander the Great).—Oprny CLass—Iist, Mrs. J. A. Briggs 
(Bend Or); 2d, Mrs. Eiiza Forder (Jumbo I1.), 


TOY SPANIELS.—Equal ist, Mis. B. M. Monek (Chang I. and Ken- 
nedy’s Duke of Anthony), 

ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS.—Prize, Mrs. BH, Bruce (Bankside 
Beauty). 

TOY TERRIBERS.—Smoore-HAirED, Nor Over 7LEs.—Ist, R. War- 
ren Vernon (Winnie IT.); 2d and 3d, Mrs. M. A. Foster (Dibah and 
Dolly)._O?THER THAN SMOOTH-HAIRED,—ist, Mrs. M. A. Troughear 
Conqueror); 2d, Mrs. EB, M. Monck (Dolly); 3d, Mrs. M. A. Foster 
Prince Arthur). ; 


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BANG BANG. 


UR. iliustration this week is of the orange and white 
pointer doe Bang Eang, owned by the Westminster 
Kennel Club, who imported him last summer from the kennel 
of Mr, F. C. Lowe, England. Bang Bang was three years old 
last month, he was sired by Price’s champion Bang and is out 
of Princess Kate. He is of medium size, about 55lbs, weight, 
and & very stylish, handsome animal, he has a very good head 
and neck with shoulders that we have rarely if ever seen equaled 
His chest, loin and quarters are excellent, and his legs and 
feet are of the best. He is powerfully muscled and has lots of 
quality. Judging from his breeding and performances, both 
in the field and on the bench, we believe him to be a most 
valuable acquisition to the club as well as to breeders through- 
out the country. Bang Bang’s first appearance in public was 
at the National Wield Trials, Shrewsbury, England, 1882, 
where he wen the pointer puppy stakes and the champion ~ 
puppy cup. At the Kennel Club Trials, Blandford, Bnglanc, . 
the same year, he won the cup for the best pointer in the 
Derby, and at the St. Hubert Field Trials, Belgium, also the 
same year, he won third in the puppy stake aud first in the 
All-Aged Stake. He has never been shown byt once on the 
bench, winning first at the Crystal Palace Show, January, 
1885. Heran unplaced at the Hastern Field Trials Club last 
November, but considering that he was entirely unacquainted 
with American game and ground until a short time previous 
to the Trials his performance was very crecitable. He beat 
Don Juan, Scout, and Lalla Rookh, and was only beaten for 
the pointer cup by Vandeyort’s Don. Should he come to the 
post at his best next fall he will undoubtedly make a good 
race with the best of them. The cutis from a sketch by Mr. 
J. M. Tracy. 


THE CiNCINNATI DOG SHOW. 


A NUMBER of valuable special prizes have been offered 
Ck for the Cincinnati dog show, which commences March 
4. Atl dogs entered in the regular classes will be eligible to 
compete for the specials without further entry. 

The Indepencent Shooting Club of G@incinnati will sive a 
three days’ shoot during the bench.show, on their elub 
grounds. The shoot will commence on March 5, and will end 
onthe evening of the 7th, Clay-pigeons will be used, and 
small sweepstake matches will be indulged in, so that parties 
visiting the bench show will have a chance to test their skill 
against the Cincinnati marksmen. 


THE BEAGLE CLUB. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I wish to say to the members of the American English 
Beagle Club who take your paper, that I thank them for the 
honor conferred upon me, and { will doallin my power for the 
success of the club and its object. Ihave appointed the fol- 
lowing on the committee to draft a standard: Dr. L. H. 
Twaddell, chairman, N. Elmore, Gen, R. Rowett.« The execu- 
tive committee are at work on framing a constitution and by- 
laws, and hope to report soon. 

W. H. ASHBURNER, President. 


TORONTO DOG SHOW. 


HE Dominion of Canada Kennel Club will hold their 
second annual beneh show at Toronto, Ont., on the 
26th, 2ith and 28th ot March. We have received a copy of 
the premium list, whichis avery liberal one. Over $1,300 
will be given in prizes, besides $1,U00 in specials. The Marquis 
of Lansdowne has consented to appear as patron, and is ex- 
pected to open the show in person. The Pavilion of the Hor- 
ticultural tardens has been secured, which assures abundant 


| space. Mr. Chas. Lincoln will superintend, and no pains will 


be spared to make the show first-class in every respect. 
Owners of fine animais in the States should improve this op- 
portunity to compare the merits of their fayorites with those 
of the cracks across the border, who will undoubtedly turn 
out in goodly numbers. Major J. M. Taylor, Mr. James Wat- 
son and Mr, W. Hendric, have consented to actas judges. Fol- 
lowing is the prize list: 

Champion English setter dogs $20, bitches the same}; open 
dogs $20, $10 and $6, bitches the same, puppies, dogs $10, $5 
and $8, bitches the same. Irish setter classes the same as the 


54 


$7 and $5. Clumber spaniels $10, $7 and $5. Champion field 
spaniels $15, open $15, 37 and $5. Black field spaniels, dogs 
$15, $7 and $5, bitehes the same. Champion cocker spaniels 
$15; open, black. dogs $10, $7 and $5, bitches the same; other 
than black, dogs same as the black, bitches the same, 
puppies $10, black the same. Foxhounds $10, $7 
and $0, puppies $7. Harriers $10 and $5. Beagles 
same as Foxhounds. Deerhounds $10 and $5. Champion grey- 
hounds $10, open $10 and $5. Champion fox-terrier dogs $15, 
bitches the same; open, dogs $15, $7 and $5, bitches the same, 
puppies $10 and 55. Mastiffs $10 and $5, Champion St. Bern- 
ards 510; open, dogs $10 and $5, bitches the same. Newfound- 
lands $10 and $5. Champion collies $15; open, dogs $15, 87 
and $5, bitches the same, puppies $5. Bulldogs $10, $7 and $5, 
bull-terriers, Scotch terriers, Dandy Dinmont terriers, Skye 
terriers, Bedlington terriers, Irish terriers, black and tan ter- 
riers, broken-haired terriers, the same. Yorkshire terriers 
$10 and $5, pugs, smooth toys, rough toys, toy spaniels, foreign 
dogs, miscellaneous, the same. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICH TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To 1usure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUSP GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each unimal: ’ 


1. Color, 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Ave. or 8. Owner of sire. 

5. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her-sire and dam. 


of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED. 

=" See instructions at head of this column. 

Young Obo. By Mr. Andrew Laidlaw. Woodstoek, Ont., for black 
cocker spaniel doz, whelped Oct. 9, 1883, by Obo II. (A.K.R. 4382) out 
of Darkie (A. K.R. 250), 

See See. By Mr. W. A. Wheatly, Memphis, Tenn., for black and tan 
Gordon setter bitch, age not given (Malcolm—Dream TYV,). 

Sensation’s Lad. By Mr. A. P. Vredenburgh, Bergen Point, N. J., 
for Jemon and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1883, by champion 
Sensation (A. K.R, 217) out of Lass (Sleaford—Dawn). 

Schuyler Licingstone. By Mr. H. W. Smith, Worcester, Mass., for 
black and white greyhound dog, whelped June 28, 1883 (Quickstep— 
Molly). 

Guido. By Miss Ida F. Warren, Leicester, Mass,, for Itahan grey- 
hound dog, whelped Nov. 12, 1883, by Dr. Mudge’s Don out of 
Beauty. 

‘Wellse R. By Mr. J. W. Rushforth, Yonker, N. Y., for black, with 
white on breast, cocker spaniel bitch, whelped June 17, 1883, by 
Brahmin (Bob—Clew) out of Pansy B, (Captain—Diamond). 

Grace, By Mr, James BE, Bennett, Poughkeepsie, N, Y., for white, 
black and tan licked beagle bitch, whelped Aug, 16, 1883 (Ringwood— 
Thorn). 

joret By Mr. John H. Davis, Hast Chester, N. Y., for lemon and 
white English setter dog, whelped Oct. 29, 1888. by Lyons's Jesse 
\Chips—Jessie) out of owner’s Bessie (Shot—Princess Tarlow). 

Bessie. By Mr. John H. Davis, East Chester, N. Y , for liver and 
white English setter bitch, whelped Oct. 29, 1883, by Lyons’s Jesse 
(Chips—Jessie) ont of owner’s Bessie (Shot—Princess Tarlow), 

Prion Cuarim.—Newport, R . Feb. 9, 1884.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In the last (Feb. 7) of Forest awp StrREAmM Mr. L. Melchor 
claims name Black Bess II. for black cocker bitch AsIclaimed that 
name for one of my bitches in your issue of Jan. 10, and, having reg- 
istered her in American Kennel Register (843), think IT have the best 
right to the name. tarry G HamMMeErt, 

NAMES CHANGED. 


(=> See instructions at head of this column, 

Faust Fan to Fannie Faust. Liver and white pointer bitch, 
whelped October, 1880 (Faust—Minnetonka), owned by Mr. §, B. 
Dilley, Rosendale, Wis. ; 

BRED. 


(=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Lady Bong—Knickerbocker. The Knickerbocker Kennel Club’s 
(Jersey City, N. J.) orange and white pointer bitch Lady Bang (A.K.R. 
698), to their champion Knickerbocker (A.K,R. 19), Feb, 9. 

Margery Daw—Beaufort. The Surrey Kennel’s (Ellicott City, Mo.) 
orange and white pointer bitch Margery Daw (Sensation—Clymont) to 
Beaufort (A.K.R. 694), Feb. 6, ; 

Belle—Bang Bang. The Westminster Kennel Club’s lemon and 
white Seed bitch Belle (Flake—Lilly) to their Bang Bang (A.K.R. 
394), Feb. 9, 

Flirt “Sensation. Mr, W. §. Thurston’s lemon and white pointer 
bitch Flirt (Glenmark—Girl) to the Westminster Kennel Clith’s cham- 
pion Sensation (A.K.R. 217), Feb. 9. ’ ; 

Rhue—Arlington. Mr. Thomas Adcock's (Providence, R, I.) red 
Trish setter bitch Rhue (Elecho—Juno) to Mr. ©, I’'red, Crawford’s Ar- 
hnugton (DanRuby), Feb. 6. 

Cleo—Nimrod. Mr. John Carver's (Boston, Mass.) red Irish setter 
biteh Cleo (Eleho—Flourish) to Ashmont Kennel’s champion Nimrod 
(A.K.R, 631), Feb. 4. ’ r 

Juno—Comet. Mr. Andrew Laidlaw’s (Woodstock, Ont.) red Ivish 
setter bitch Juno to Messrs. Durward’s Comet, Jan. 29. 

Pride of Missouri—Hannibat. Mr. J. D. Blood’s (Hannibal, Mo.) 
red Irish setter bitch Pride of Missouri (A.K.R. 635) to his Hannibal 
(A.K.R. 616), Nov. 18. , 

Volande—Colonel Stubbs. Mr. W. H. Tuck’s (Wilkesbarre. Pa.) 
spaniel bitch Yolande (A.K-R. 523) to Colonel Stubbs (A.R.R. 302), 
Jan. 29. 

Shetla—Pluck. Mr. Lawrence Timpson’s (Red Hook, N. Y.) Irish 
terrier Sheila (A.K.R. 187) to his Pluck (A.K.R. 197), Jan. 25. 

Lady Alice—Buckellew II, Mr. J, D. Blood’s (Hannibal, Mo,) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Lady Alice (Rough—Lady Beaconsfield) to bis Buck- 
ellew IT. (A.K.R.3v). Jan. 18. | i 

Bridget P. Hatterick—Hannibal. Mr, J. D, Blood’s (Hannibal,Mo,) 
red Irish setter bitch Bridget P. Hatterick (A.K.R. 612) to his Hanni- 
bal (A.K.R. 616), Jan. 25. ‘ ' 

Moud.B.—Bogardus. Myr. J. D. Blood’s (Hannibal, Mo.), red Trish 
setter bitch Mand RB. (Rover B.—Red Topsey) to his Bogardus (Hanni- 
bal—Pride of Missouri), Jan. 10. 

“Bounce—Bonivard. Mr. A. K. Johuston’s (Stapleton, 8. I.) St. 
Bernard bite: Bounce (A.K.R. 784) to Bonivard (A,K.R. 361), Dec. 31. 

Theon—Cesur. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) St. 
Bernard bitch Theon (a.K.R. 94) to their Czesar (A.K.R. 22), Jan. 18. 

Jersey Gyp—Primer. Mr. W. EB, Rea’s (Hackettstown, N. J.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Jersey Gyp (A.K.R. 107) to Mr. C. N. Wade’s Primer 
(A.K.R. 227), Jan. 3. , x ’ 

Toronto Jet—Bub. Mr. Andrew Laidlaw’s (Woodstock, Ont.) black 
spaniel bitch Toronto Jet ‘Nigzer—Belle) to Bub (A.K.R. 131), Jan. 12, 

Lark—Kelpie. Mz. Geo. H. Whitehead’s (Trenton, N. J.) collie 
bitch Lark (A.K.R. 7) to his Kelpie (A.K.R, 6), Jan, 26. 

Daisy—Young Toby. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) 
imported pug bitch Daisy (A.K.K. 468) to their imported Young Toby 
(A.K.R. 475), Jan, 5. 

WHELBPS. 


Le" Seainstructions at head of this column. | : 

Pride of Missourt. Mr. J. D. Blood’s (Hannibal, Mo ) red {risk 
setter bitch Pride of Missouri (A.K.R, 645), Jan. 20, eight (three dogs), 
by his Hanzibal (A.K.R. 16). : bees : 

Sally. Mr. J. P. Swain’s (Bronxville, N.Y.) Dandie Dinmont terrier 
bitch Sally (A.K.K. 866), Nov. 8, seven (three dogs), by his Joe(A.K.R. 


Dandy Abbess. Mr. Fred. W. Rothera’s (Simcoe, Ont.) rough-coated 
St Bernard bitch Lady Abbess (A.K.R, 482), Feb.7, twelve (seven dogs), 
by his Priam (A.K.R. 485). 


Fanny. Mr. G. Sanderson's (Moncton, N. B.) imported Skye terrier 
Fanny, Feb, 6, three (two dogs), by his imported Watty. The bitch 
since dead. 


Ruby I. Mr.G. G. Hammond’s (New London, Ct.) Chesapeake Bay 
biteh Ruby I1., Jan. 15, ten (seven dogs), by Curtis’s Foam (Albert— 
Rose), 

Geshe II. The Essex Kennel’s St. Bernard bitch Daphne II, 
(A.K.K, 489), Jan. 80, seyen (three dogs), by Alp Il. (A,K.R. 705). 


SALES, 

(@=" See instructions at head of this column, ! 

Nellie R. Black,with white on breast, cocker spaniel bitch,whelped 
June 17, 1883 (Brahmin—Pansy.B.), by Mr. Jas. Middlemist, Delhi, N. 
Y., to Mr. J. W. Rushforth, Yonkers, N. Y. j 

Young Obo, Black cocker spaniel dog, whelped Oct. 9, 1883, by Obo 
TI, (A.K.R. 432) out of Darkie (A.K.R. 250), by Mr. John Daly, Salmon 
Falls. N. H., to Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Woodscoek, Ont, 

Black Prince. Wlack greyhound dog (A.K.R. 752), by Mr. H. W. 
Huntington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. W. H. Herrigk, Montpelier, Vt. _ 

Bonivard. Rough-coated St. Bernard doy (A.K.R. gy by Mr, Rod- 
ney Benson, New Yerk, to Mr. B. R. Hearn, Passaic, N. J. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Regie. Rough-coated St, Bernard bitch (A.K.R. 25), by Mr. Rodney 
Benson, New York. to Mr, J. W. Burgess, Hast Orange, N. J. 

April Fool. English setter dog, age not given (Jester—Modjeska), 
by Mr. E. W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr. R. M. Brown, Jr., Am- 
herst Court House, Va. 

Good Princess. English setter bitch, whelped Oct. 28, 1883 (Prince 
—Dasbing Belle), by Mr. E. W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr, Wm. 
H. Childs, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Jester, Jr. English setter dog, age not given (J ester—Modjeska), by 
ay a W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr. Louis B. Wright, New 

ork, 

Modesta. English setter biich, age not given (Jester —Modjeska), 
by Mr. E. W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr. A. M. Wright, New 


York. 

Othello, Black greyhound dog (A.K.R. 756). by Mr. H. W. Hunting- 
ton, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. C. S$. Wixon, Ithaca, N, Y. 

Princess Fedora. Black greyhound bitch, whelped Sept. 17, 1883, 
by Doubleshot (A.K.R 73) out of Dorothée (A.K.R. 72), by Mr. H. W. 
Huntington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. J. C. Sinclair. New York. 

Queen Bess. Fawn greyhound. bitch (A.K.R. 757), by Mr. H. W. 
Huntington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. W. H. Herrick, Montpelier, Vt. 

Prince Jester. English setter dog, whelped Oct, 28, 1883 (Prince— 
Dashing Belle). by Mr. E. W. Jester, St, George's, Del., to Mr. A. M, 
Wright, New York. y 

Prince Castle. English setter _dog, whelped Oct. 28, 1883 (Prince— 
Dashing Belle), by Mr. E. W. Jester, St. George's, Del., to Mr. M. 
Richardson, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Daisy. Black and tan Gordon setter bitch (A.K.R. 829), by the 
pe etal) Kennel, Dorchester, Mass., to Mr. F. Chesley, New Market, 
aN. . 

Ridgefield, Red Irish setter dog (A.K.R. 687), by Mr, Charles R. 
ORPUE Ridgefield Park, N.J., to Mr. H. M. Drake, Morristown, 
IN, Jd. 

Sherwood. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 641), by Mr, Charles R. 
Thorburn, Ridgefield Park, N. J., to Mr. W. W. Sharpe, New York. 

Benedict, Black spaniel dog (A.K.R. 61), by Mr. Chas, H. Mason, 
New York, te Mr. H. W. Huntingten, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Count Louie, Black greyhound dog, whelped Sept. 17, 1883, by 
Doubleshot (A.K.R. 73) out of Dorothée (A.K.R. 72), by Mr. H. W. 
Huntington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. J. C. Sinclair, New York. 

_ La Belle. Black greyhound bitch (A.K.R. 754), by Mr. H. W. Hunt- 
ington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. A. D. Swan, Lawrence, Mass. 

Le Beau. Black greyhound dog (A.K.R. 755), by Mr. H. W. Hunt- 
ington, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mr. A. D. Swan, Lawrence, Mass. 

Schuyler Livingstone. Black and white greyhound dog, whelped 
June 28, 1883 (Quickstep—Molly), by Mr. H.W. Smith, Worcester, Mass., 
to Mr. F. D. B. Stott, Stottville, N. Y. 

Guido. Dawn, with white points, Italian greyhound dog, whelped 
Nov. 12, 18838 (Don—Beauty), by Mrs. C, A. Derby, Salem, Mass., to 
Miss Ida F. Warren, Leicester, Mass. 

Flora. Liver, with white on breast and feet, cocker spaniel bitch, 
age not given (Joe—Jenny), by Mr.J.W, Rushforth, Yonkers, N. Y., 
to Mr. A. D. Wilbur, Catskill. N. Y. 

Rexford—Sylvia whelps. Red, Irish setters, whelped Dec. 20, 1883, 
by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N.Y., a dog to Mr. C. T. Pierce, 
Brooklyn, N.Y.; a bitch to Mr.W. R. Roeolfson, Jersey City, N. J.,and 
a bitch to Mr. I. N, Haney, Albany. N.Y. 

Pat O’ More—Pearl whelp, Red trish setters, whelped Dec. 6, 1883, 
by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N. Y., a dog to Mr. M. H. Bren- 
singer, Harrisburg, Pa.; a b*tch to Mr. C. T. Pierce, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
and a bitch to Mr, W. K. Trimble, Princeton, Ill. 

Doncaster. Liver and white pointer dog (A.K.R, 563), by Ma. H. B, 
Dwyer, New York, to Mr, Mortimer Mills, Jersey City, N. J. 

Rose Gleam. "Lemon and white pointer bitch (A.K.R. 565), by Mr. 
H. B. Dwyer, New York, to Mr. Geo. L. Wilms, Jersey City, N. J. 

See See, Black and tan Gordon setter bitch, age not given (Malcolm 
—Dream IV.), by Mr. H. Malcolm, Baltimore, Md., to Mr. W. A. 
Wheatly, Memphis, Tenn. 

Jet W. Black spaniel bitch (A.K.R. 851), by Mr. John Daly, Salmen 
Falls, N. H., to Mr. J. P. Willey, same place. 

Chief—Doe whelps. Red Irish setter dogs,whelped December, 1883, 
by Chief (A.K.R. 231) out of Doe (Buck—Floss), by Mr. Max Wenzel, 
Hoboken, N. J., one to Mr, H. Thomas, same place; one to Dr. Mana- 
tor, same place; one to Mr. C. H. Miller, Hudson, N. Y., and one to 
Mr. F. M. Bennett, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Sensation—Lasswhelp. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped 
Sept. 11, 1883, by the Westminster Kennel Club, Babylon, L. I., to Mr. 
Louis B. Wright. New York. 

Rory O’ More—Gay whelp. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Oct, 12, 
1883, by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N.Y., to Mr. C, C. Kirk- 
patrick. Springfield, O. 

Plantagenet—Bluebelle whelp. Blue belton English setter dog, 
whetped July 10, 1883, by Mr. Walter H. Beebe, New York, te Mr.Wm. 


Dallas, Westfield, N. J. 
PRESENTATIONS. 

(=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Cona. Blue belton English setter dog, 5 years old (Rhoderick Dhu 
—Mina), by Mr. Walter H. Beebe, New York, to Mr, Clifford M.Gates, 
Galveston, Tex. 

Sensation's Lad. \uemon and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 11, 
1883, by champion Sensation (A.K.R. 217) out of Seitner’s Lass (Slea- 
ford—Dawn), by Mr. Louis B. Wright, New York, to Mr, A. P. Vre- 
denburgh, Bergen Point, N. J. 

DEATHS. 

(28> See instructions at head of this column. 

Washington. Liver and white pointer dog, 24 years old (champion 
vara —Gip), owned by Mr, H. Hedeman, Brooklyn, N, Y., Feb, 5,from 

aundice. 
; Lady Black. Black spaniel bitch (A,K.R. 731), owned by Mr. Andrew 
Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ont., Feb, 7; cause unknown. 


Aifle and Gray Sheasting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at Chicago, Il., May 
26 to 81, Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O. Box 1292, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. ah eee 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


A CLOSE TARGET. 


HE following target .of fifteen consecutive shots was made at 
Brattleborough, Vt., by A. E. Knight, in presence of H. C. 
French, ©, L. Cobb and H. M. Wood as witnesses. The distance was 


0yds., with muzzle rest, globe and_peep sights. The rifie was a 
32-cal. rifle, chambered for Farrow’s 32-cal. express shell. The target 
is yery fine for fifteen shots, fourteen of which are inside a 3in, circle; 


os 


the most remarkable feature is that thirteen of the bullets are inside 
an inch and one-half for “‘up and down,” from 2109. When we con- 
sider that this clusteris hard to beat with an ordinary 32-cal. at 
5Oyds., the advantages of the express shell is readily seen, and proves 
the fact that .82-cal. is large enough for 200yds., 0 pe a ee 


: [Fms. 14, 1884, « 
——— ee rr 
English. Champion black and tan setters $20, open dogs 
same as the English, bitches the same, puppies 310. Champion 


pointers $20, open dogs same as setters, bitches the same, pup- 
pies $10 and $5. Champion Irish water spaniels $15, open $15, 


GARDNER, Mass., Feb, 5,—There was a contest last week between 
the Brattleborough Rifle Club, of Brattleborough. Vt., shotat their — 
range and the Gardner Rifle Club at Hackmatack Range in this town. 
The shots were exchanged by telegraph, The old Massachusetts | 
target was used, with a sible score of 120 per man, The detail | 
score has since been receivad, and is as follows: 
sty HoeaD a as a 

1 


obama eee a 12 «11 72 11 12 «#9 10—108 

G B Read SS EE, Wt at 10° 1d ii «10> 12: 10. ti—t0¢ 

AE Knight.,.... .: 12 10 12 10 9 11 10 8 11 10—103 
HiNewWoons)., Mo. 10°40 39: S18 12710. Jo 12" BF 102 
CH Howe...) 0k 9 10 11 10 10 14 12 «9 «10 «9101 4 
CECobbi. 2.02: eo dL 10) AOA 1G? Se a B00 

Wye H. Tati as) a eee 10° °9) A A 9) a as Ata 

AW _Nichols,.......... 7 10 10 10 9 11 10 10 10 10— 97 j 
AMPS Wichols) oye a) SE ea eS ea ett i 

TIME TOT See lee es sen 10 610 6 8 9 9 Li 1 9=— 89—DoD 

; Gardner Team 

GF Ellsworth......... ete LO dg) It ait 4a) oh=f05 

S B Hildreth... .9.0.).... Bett 0. We: AP alo as si ee — ee 

GC Goodale.... speed ae dO 10) (addi a “10a ies : 
Ohes\Hindsi: 12228. ..20 10 10 11 10 12 11 9 10 10 i0—1C8 

A Mathews.../,.....4! be 3) er des Mis Ys CO es C9) eC es (08) 

CS Walker ... Boe tht oy i Ee rei ih eter 9 ere Si 

H C Knowlton......... lt 8 10 10 10 10 10 11 8 10— 98 
WoDodee: ere ay ee In ae 69) M9 a2 o° 12 a ie OF : 
F H Knowlion......... TG AO M2) 10S Bo ES, Ede “ba 9e 

W C Loveland......... 10 6 10 9 9 10 10 0 85—987 


BOSTON, Feb. 10.—When the 11 o’clock train from Boston reached 
Walnut Hill to-day, with a few shooters on board, they found the 
weather condition anything but conducive to comfort. A light — 
drizzling ram was falling, but there was no wind to trouble the 
shooters, and some good scores were the result. Later in the day the 
rain ceased, and the light improved wonderfully. The feature of the 
day was the achievement of Mr. Charles, who, in the combination 
match, Creedmoor target, made nine consecutive bulls, finishing — 
withad, Onasecond score he madead and finished with nine 
bulls, making two scores of 49. The other scores are as follows: 

Creedmoor Practice Mateh, 


D Kirkwood...... ,..95944545 15-46 H Cushing.......... 444454444447} 
J eee (mil) 445444554448 C Pierce (mil) ...... 3243444538537 
AL Brackett....... 444455345442 § J Burns (mil)..... 5483425343 —34 
P Creedmoor Prize Match. 
H Cushing.......... 455454445545 A LBrackett........ 4545554443 —43 
J PBates Bee el 4454555544 45 LB Atkins........_, 4454445444 49 
RAD EVIS ore oe ane 545445554445 BA Lappen....... 4444444454 4d 
J ACobb..., ... . 4555445444 44 A J Look........... 4435444444 40) 
AC Cash. 2. p55. eb ole 545445554344 CH Best..........., 5444344444 40) 
Rest Match. 
PeSsverence, Disrcs ¢ xi be oases 9 91010161010 9 10 10—97 
W_ Charles, i, .+......... ah es ee 1010 910 9 91010 9 10—96 
Dawson nah eke he fs 10 9 5101010 § 9 9 10—94 
AN CsA dani Wi con~ t,o. cris ae eee 101010 98 99 8 9 891 
COASGIARS, ASA, intnaetans oe aoe inee aces § 810 8 9101010 9 9—91 
Beas pen Any, 4. ate ee 8 910 7 9101010 9 8—90 


ABSWLUSOT. Gets se sos eer eer ete er eee eee eee a 43 43 44 46-176 
RE Bellows. ........4;- epee nr pre vay eee cen tet ae 43 43 43 44 173 
AO BOETIR ra tra ed eee eee re eee eee 42 43 43 45-173 
SRT OT US tall eee eee eee Tete cog oe ta ree eee AZ 42 43 45—172 
SONGGED lela ohsbecg~ aA fatew pees 2 Caw eka ne pe wis ANS, gS 40 40 42 44166 
RWIS LEESON GRY uk Ne atte ttl ome te mt ence Senin a 40 41 42 483166 
Pelee Een Rens SUNS AGUNG dose A ee Natt Saag ae 40 40 41 44165 
CABSORARIMIGHVER a Safes ae tae ase eicat ea ne On re ne 40 40 41 43—164 
sD PEL SIO R TLS IO eoeice ie ie hee helen, Ry pene oe ene er ee See 40 41 41 41—163 
Pets a Ces if g A te a i Mg fae hae a4 40 40 46 41—161 


WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 7.—Members of the Worcester Rifle As- 
sociation went out to Pine Grove Range to-day. There was shooting 
for the record match and also for practice, Ths distance was 
20yds., off-hand, with a possible 100, on the American decimal tar- 


get. The following is the score of each: 

Record Match. . 
Ae CO White= > eeen rater ciacee ees 9 710 8 51010 9 § ~79 
Re-ENLye ley wey eae pas Ree ree 8 6 8 810 91010 6 8—83 
A Willig tig atee tee rrereen etnt Brant 9969 9 9 410 6 B—T7 
Re-SDtLyk SI yer ee eee ee 9 4 8 6 6 0 6 4 9 10-62 
WMoOSeS Garter) tacos fave esos cap tee 6 0 8 810 610 5 2 5—fd 
[Fiscal Ng Zee peer pee pee Sees 93 709 49 8 4 9-62 
ARICA se. Fee et octet eee 995656268 56 5 2-57 
FREON ESY, 5 ee as tees oe ee nae Stee ote 8 914810 4 7 5 88 

Practice Match. 
IAS Ch WIIG: oh prev t eae en ems 910 9 9 4 91010 8 10—8§ 
‘A Williams, 2.302.025 Pooh esi tas 04779 9 6 6 8 466 
IRB -OTLN es Slava! Udo cyeen eer merce TRO? P47 F 6 9 
MANSON Ger sesh 1 sete ee fe tea #6 810 309 6 7 9—65 
Rp enh tor coe tap oon lsalie Ree oe 9 5 810 5 9 410 7 4-71 


SARATOGA RIFLE CLUB.—Saturday, Feb. 9.—The following age 
the highest scores of each member for the past week: 


Davis: 4. Fos chy eee ee sar cede -11 12 12 11 10 11 1212 12 17—114 
AL Wc VT en rg Me Pee Pe TAA 11 11 11 12 12 12 10 10 12 10—111 
Ar Oe Fre Nanci ni eo eens eat acta ce 11 12111112 910 11 10 12—109 
ETE CHOIU SS ie: ca forercda ore ee fae Dice 9 11 10 11 16 11 12 11 11 11—107 
WP DSWiHeeler i topes cae ctetoan 1211 912 8 8 11 12 12 10—105 
Gibbs .,.....- Seg fhe ade nate hae te 121112111111 711 8 10—104 
White...... Bi > ARR epson 34454 11 810 911 10 11 11 10 10-101 
igh rah 025 RRR erie bk = feces 9 9101012101012 8 5 9B 


, A. G. Hun, Adjutant. 

NEWARK, WN. J.—At a meeting of the Newark Shooting Society on 
Tuesday, Feb. 5, it was decided to hold their annual Spring Shooting 
Festival in June. It will commence on Monday, the 16th, and last 
four days. Moxey amounting to over $1,500 will be distributed in 
addition to other valuable prizes. 


BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB.—322 Third avenue.—Twelve-ring tar- 
get; possible 120. 


G Zimmermann............--+. HG Ee ackmann. 3.7400 oes 109 
Raita ree Wty t-sys 115 S Mebrbach,...0.2......22122. 
Hi UDornler sayy ce ne wees + ee -..-114 J F Campbell 
A NLODEr ly cee eMac rete 118) DD Holland: 27ers 
Jelehneiders 262s tesa tees dd SILOrdan is. shay tos ps 
GE: JOWNBOD pe. cori ets to se 110 H A Wasmuth 

THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with cheb scores aréarticularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


THE CLAY-PIGEON TOURNAMENT. 


E are in receipt of the official programmeof the First Inter 
; ations Clay-Pigeon Tournament, to be held at Chicago, May 
27 to 31. 
First Day.—International Championship Match, t@.A. M. to 2. P. M. 
Match No. 2: The Chicago sweepstakes, 2P, M.; entrance $7; 
5 single birds, 15yds. rise; fourth notch. : 
Match No.3: Entrance $7, including cost of birds 8 live pigeons, 
26yds. rise; use of one barrel; Illinois State Rules to govern. 
atch No. 4: The “miss and out’? sweepstake; entrance $3; fourth 
notch; 18yds. rise; single bird, : 
Second ‘Day.—International Championship Match, 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. 
Match No. 5: The Ligowsky sweepstake; entrance $5; double 
birds; fourth notch. Five traps screened, to be placed at irregular 
oints in front of the score, which must be placed ds, from 
rthest trap. The trap judge will prepare thirteen fo slips of 


paper containing each a number from 8 to 15 respectively ‘om 
which the abobtee will draw one slip, which the judge will vately 
examine. and allow the puller only tosee. The shooter is ta walk in 


a general right line, from the score toward the traps, upon receiving 
the reply “tyes” from the puller to his query, ‘‘are you ready?’ 
When the sh: oter is under way the number of steps indicated on the 
draw slip, the puller will pull any two traps, one after the o : 
Match Ne. 6: The miss and out sweepstake; entrance $3; fourth 
notch; double birds, 15yds. rise. J 
Sweepstakes.—In order to make the tournament attractive for all 
sportsmen, whether members of teams or not, the International 
Championship Match will, until finished, be commenced daily at 10 
A. M., and continued wntil2 P. M., after which there will be a dail 
programme of sweepstakes with 5 traps, as indicated. The executive 
committee reserve the right of adding to, omitting or chaz ig any 
of the sweepstakes. All sweepstake (excepting the miss and 
be divided into three, 50, 80and 20 percent. Pri 


urses 8 
Bird clay-pigeon ree cents each. The Ligowsky To’ 
Rules e Ae eereas as the executive committ 
: — _ 
_ _— ia — a: — mi 


¥ 


‘[Fs. 14, 1884. 
—- * Sa 


}. 
akes open to all excepting professionals and such 
by the executive committee. 


bee 10; 
irds (clay-pigeons), 2lyds. rise; fourth notch: 2d 
e. Seventy-five per cent. of the gate money for the day, 
puarantee hereby given by the Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Com- 
my that the same shall not be less than $250, will be added to the 
ance purses, to be divided into three prizes—50, 30 and 20 per 


ent. 
faich No. 8: Entrance $7, including birds; live pigeons, 2 double 
as poe risé; four moneys—40, 30, 20 and 10 per eent.; Illinois 
rules. a 
ourth Day,—International Championship Match, 10 A. M. to® 


_ Match No.9: The ‘twins’ sweepstake team shoot. Any two per- 
Gan form a team; entrance $6 per team; 5 single birds, 18yds. rise; 
urth notch, 

Match No, 10: Miss and out" sweepstake, same as Match No, 4, 
Fifth Day.—International Rion satD Match, 10 A, M, to2P, M. 
Match No. 11; Entrance $10, mclading birds; live pigeons; 6 single. 
poy as rise, and 2 double rises, 18yds. rise; four moneys; Illinois State 
tules, 


d 


_ Match No. 12: “Home sweet home’? sweepstake; entrance $7; 7 
single birds, 18yds. rise; fourth notch; 8 traps. 10yds. apart, 
_ INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH, : 

Conditions —Club team shooting (5 to a team); 10 single birds, 
18yds. rise; 5 double birds, i5yds. rise; Ligowsky tournament rules to 
Pe SE CeDRNE. as herein modified, and such minor changes as the 

ecutive Committee may announce. Ten-bore and 12-bore guns 
allowed, Charge of powder unlimited; charge of shot, 444drs. Five 
traps, screened 8yds. apart. Ties between teams to be shot at 5 

gles, 2lyds. rise, and 2 doubles, 18yds. rise, Special prize donated 
by the Ligowsky Cla: -Pigeon Company: To the winning team, $750 

anteed; te the best individual score, $250 diamond badge, cost 
uaranteed. The said badge shail be the absolute property of the 
Winner, bubit shall be optional with the latter to present same at the 
ensuing international tournament, when it shall be redeemed for $250 
eash, to be deducted from the entrance fees, etc., in a match similar 
to this, to be again contested for in said match, and awarded to the 
best indiyidual score. If said badge be not presented for redemption 
the Executive Committee will set aside’the $250 cash as a purse for 
hid best individual score in a similar championship team match. 
The Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Company desires it to be distinctly un- 
derstood that they donate $1,000 over and above all receipts, out of 
their private treasury, for the above prizes. 

Entrance fees $25 per team. Entrance fees and gate money, with 
the exception indicated in Mateh No. 7, (ess cost of birds, grounds 
and advertising, not exceeding 25 per cent. of same), to be distrib- 
uted as second, third, fourth and fifth team prizes—40, 30, 20 and 10 
per cent. In other words, should said cost exceed the 25 per cent. of 
said monies, the Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Company will pay the same. 
‘Should less than 50 clubs enter this match, then a club may enter as 
‘many teams of 5 as in may see fit. - 

Clubs entering mustbe known as regularly organized gun clubs at, 
jeast two months previous to this tournament; members of entered 
teams must bein good standing the same length of time, indorsed by 
the president and secretary of the respective clubs. Contestants 
belonging to two or more clubs must shoot with their home clubs. 
Contestants can shoot with one team only, and must be residents of 
the county from which the team is entered. If any attempt to evade 
this rule be discovered during tournament, entrance money will be 
beet if discovered after, offenders will be prosecuted accord- 
ing to law. ; 

Clubs should enter at once, by remitting $1 (balance of entrance 
money payable at Chicago, on or before first day of shoot), to the 
eneral manager and representative of the Ligewsiy Clay Pigeon 
ompany, care P. O. Box 1,292, Cincinnati, O. Copies of the rules 
an be obtained by applying to the latter, to whom all communica- 
tions on the subject should be addressed. 

_ The club teams will be called to the score in the order designated 
bythe executive committee; said order willbe determined by the 
dates of original entry, teams being allowed to choose accordingly; 
each team will remain at the score until it has finished; the mem- 
bers of the teams will be called to the score in the order designated 
by their respective captains, each member shooting at ten single 
birds in succession, and then (when the entire team has finished 
shooting at single birds) the members will, in similar manner, finish 
their scores at the double birds. Arrangements will be made for 
reduced railread rates; this will be easily effected, as the National 
Republican Conyention meets in Chicago June 3, with reduced rail- 
road rates from all parts of the country. : 


’ 


BARRIER, Ontario,—The tournament at this place on the 5th and 
6th inst. brought a large collection of marksmen together. Tke 
contestants shotat 12birds each, 2lyds. rise, for $200, divided into 
‘Six prizes, Toronto Gun Club rules, miss two and go out: 


» First Squad, 
J B Forbes, Woodstock,,.......-..+s02+-000 talib thadei tt) Ths O3l sbi 
POPES OATICON. 0 lls. ys cetwhew loa pele neces ob Tals bob obrpabal (pat shee She 
Pasco, Woodstock................... vena. 1101111111111 
€ Pickering Toronto..............-... otis lalate dete 1s 1a 0-10) 
Hardwood, Woodstock.......... 11111111101 0-10 
J Douglass, Toronto........... pilose) Sb Glen tnt) = 
J Wilson, Newmarket. 1111100 =A 
GH Briggs, Toronto... 0011101 yt 
G Grant, Woodstock. ....... 2.02... ¢.02- ese ee dead: —1 
econd Squad 
VANDEL, Cuello otc es <kencoe bes ewan eeiele Lib Tete — nt 
Walker, Woodstock. 2.0.05 )22o0e.. ieee, ete Per Ode 010) 
BEV TISON, LOLOL eg he ee kek eh ers Peat test tO coats 
Moseley, Newmarket. ....-...- 2... eee eee etal Let =e 
Westbrook, Brantford.....................4. 0110 =i: 
Wiblarris, Carlton...) eee ees he 0110 = 2 
Co Mya gabe! Wav ice ah 5 8) Sa a see 1100 —2 
mebvismertia, Porontoy Oost i... ck eca celia 00 -—0 
. Third Squad. 
EB Read, Toronto............ yan A a GE 5G Orb os hes as Soa OP St 
Cockburn, TOPOnto,. 20.0... ccs ee eee pig eel le letnl Ie Osiet— ti 
Be Townson, Toronto. =... (6.6... see ee eee e ee UN EL ey ett —6 
Sackler, Brantlord.: 0) 2-2.) ye- essen nen 0110 =~ 
BRP OTONtG sles tects! ~ ius pane a ,010 = 
SACS. WV OUGRDOCK,: sa)c.ctiee Cot retn assy ewe 100 —1 
serice, MeAford,... 0... 202. ........ ote SANE 11 = 
Fourth Squad, 
TEES Br fd 275) 17 eri a ge oe PST ER Thiet lt a 12) 
a aty: Les SH (Tg 4AM) ee Sel Se eee oar geese oc Walon aoibal ial ssa 
BPM MANIA CV APE AITIG. -. nce ames tne esa + Tpg se sU al bake! Fiera 
Wilson, Maritham,. +. .3,....0.0. 2.00... .003. Oeil et wien teiaety 
DOMAELZOL, DOrOMlO.. cua testcedler veereceds; POS tel te let tet 17. 
Rafts ete tessni rye avese treet TO el Te T a TN —7 
EY cena Ce bit pee ee all SU St ah atety ah Git} —i7 
he HOTT wes spb hs Gre tie 0110 30. 
1 cere eae 1100 =) 
aah ia Wek 1086 —il 
Oy ee Ba A ak wt one 00 0) 


the clay 
“possible 


_ Second—Webster first, Pies second, Arkerson and Parker third. 

_ Third—George first, WeBster and Parker second, Randall and 

Evans third. : 

_Fourth—George and Randall first, Webster and Eyans second, 

Parker third. 

_ Fifth—Eyans and Randall first, Webster second. George third. 
Sixth—Webster and George first, Randall and Evans second, Parker 


third. 
, pewenin eandall first, Webster and Evans second, Hardy and 
Geo : ; 

ighth-—Randall first, Hardy second, George third. 

; GLASS BALL SWEEPS, 


F Beare W ety first, George and Lander second, Randall and Parker 


‘ j Second—Parker first, Webster and Randall second, George and 
| Arkerson third, 
Third—Lander first, Webster and George second, Randall and 


ourth—Webster first, Hyans and Lander 

RP aricok thier # é nd Lander second, Randall, George 
tt the tenth shoot, Feb. 1, Eyans won the 
e, The next shoot will be Feb, 15, 


elay-pigeon cup for the 


———— se er Tl 


-FOREST AND STREAM. 


PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 81—The following is the score of to-day’s 
shoot for the TeRON REY State Badge, held on the grounds of the Nar- 


ragansett Gun Club: 

GOB Payne... sccsee cee verses eeeye rey ee ee ALDLIIVIIIIIIII 11101 1111—24 
LIAO TE 0 RA nr ee 1111111104119111111111111— 24 
GERBER NSS tes Pee g 4s Ted eR il ee ated 1411111111111011111101111—28 
MEL wit Te Olies seit Milne ees boc be etbidoircs fleets 1111141941111111101111101—23 
NUTEIVIRTICL CUNT A Ltt’. Sect char bten-sreew tad wats 1111110101111911111111110—22 
WG va, seers Jeers 1 he ON eae ees 1011100110100001000111000—11 

Ties on 24. 

GB PAVIG sy Se Be aCe bya oh Blase ealh ft eb sens Seale 14111111110111111111—19 
Th Wolniairere the oe Acero Rites Ae rats 141111111111110111 w—15 


Feb, 7,—In spite of the Floomy threatening weather, quite a dele- 
gation of shooters faced the five traps to-day at the grounds of the 
Narragansett Gun Club, and some very fair scores were made. though 
it was painfully evident that we need more practice in our double 
bird shooting, it being comparatively a new thing with the majority 
of the members. The first match was a postponed shoot forthe State 


Ligowsky Badge. Following is the score: 

Ligowsky State Badge. 
WS Guther:....2<.0.% «nde 5450 Pe a dae. ohare 1101111100111111111111111—22 
KW Tinker...... manta VAT AEA of ol gh AY . «+ 1011091119111011141111110—21 
EMT PANMED. vivedcsvis bore i crecery litres 0110701119111101111111111—21 


See 11111101111 11110101111110—21 
--1010111111111101101101111—20 
GW Cary... dn'ntel . .1101001111111111001111111—20 
AS Tea igarns Ie ee en ge ef 11411011110711000111111001—18 
GEE Shieldowssy. alee eon Oe ee tee ee ec 1110111101101101111101100—18 
E. 5. Luther wins badge second time. 
Same day, double bird shoot, 10 pains for club badge: 
OTF WY Xd aN Ba OA abet hE RS CONG saeeee ee 11101110101101100011—13 
HW tinkere:: Sc dk ty WT is. > sey he ..---10101010111010101110—12 
There were fiye more contestants for this badge who withdrew be- 
fore completing their scores. 
Same day, mateh tor eee. State badge, 25 clay-birds, 5 traps 


GAP Barney. ei te 
CH Perkins. . Ae 


5yds. apart, 18yds. rise, 4th notch: 

LORS a NS AS sls Salk gee te aa Ona 1444110111111111111111101—23 
Gry Ad Tce te Cree EL ote, oe 001111011111111111111011i—21 
CRBSPGERKIDS aqui oddtany edd. Gloucs deled 1111110011100110011111111—19 
PERIL uta retell sine hn yt el ee edie, 1010111011111110111010111—19 
EL CLORNAVEr re PUP L nun onuonn Ue Clete 1101001110111014111111110--19 
CRMESHEIGI epee trol bel beck ecit hunter in 1111001011110101011111110—18 
Cane NUH y ae era tlt) lsgaddencdelsal [eats 0101011101111011101110111—18 
Eat here eller uml lowe 01111100110310100001w 
HeliPalmeremnmt@eres fos. sp terien chet 011.11111010101110100w 


G. W. Cary won badge for the sixth time.—W. H. SHEenpon. 


WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 7._There was a contest here to-day for 
the individual championship badye for glass-ball shooting. It was 
at Coal Mine Brook Range of the Worcester Spertsmen’s Club. 
Among those present were Messrs. Bradford Moses, 8. 8. Ford, 8.H. 
Barrett, Aaron Bragg and 8. H. Moyott, of Springfield, ano J. Cole 
and George 8S. Tidsbury, of Askland. The judges were Ford, of 
ep mecelds Tidsbury, otf Ashland, and John Goodale, of this city. 
mn af match was for a possible 50, and were shotin strings of five as 

ollows: 
Mosehay. sai kt go: VYLLL1L1011101099 1191101111111 11011111111111146 
141101111111111017101101110199111191111111 1111111145 


WELLINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Malden Gun Club held its regular 
weekly shoot at Wellington this afternoon, when a sufficient number 
of gunners were present to make the sport interesting. In the match 
for the gold medal prize, F. Loring won the first with a score of 20, 
while Fielding and Buffum followéd with scores of 17 and 15, respee- 
tively, out of a possible 20. E. J. Brown won the second medal, with 
a score of 12, and FP. J. Scott the third, with a score of 12 out of a pos- 
sible 20. E. J, Brown was the winner in the matches for a keg of 
powder and a box of wads, the score in each instance bemg 8 out of 
10. T.C. Fielding was the winner in the match for a bag of shot. 
The club will hold a tournament on Washington’s Birthday. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Tuesday, Feb. 19, 8 P. M., No, 23 East Fourteenth 
street, Room 16. Subject—Tents and Camp Outfit.” 


Secretaries ef canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest Anp 
STREAM their addresses, w&h name, membership, signals, ete., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forest AND STREAM their addresses, with 
legs of cruises, maps and informatien concerning their local waters 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 


to the sport. 


| 


FULTON C. C. 


ULTON, New York. Organized December, 1883. Commander, V. 
W.Poole; Lieutenant-Commander, Dr, H. L, Lake;Secretary and 
Treasurer, F,S. Van Wagnen, Jr. Hight active members. 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Sixth Paper. 
METHODS OF BUTLDING—CONTINUED. 


Bese and canoes are sometimes built of tin, copper or 

galvanized iron, soldered and riveted together, a 
method usually confined to ships’ boats and lifeboats) Two 
tin canoes were present at the first meet in 1880, and seemed 
strong, light and serviceable, though of poor shape. No 
doubt an excellent canoe could be built of sheet copper, that 
would not leak, and would be indestructible; but the cost 


| and weight would be considerable, 


-In order to obtain a smooth skin with the advantage of the 
lapstreak, the planks are sometimes rabbetted on their ad- 
joining edges, half the thickness being taken from each 
plank, leaving smooth surfaces, inside and out, but thicker 
plank must be used than in the lapstreak, and the working. 
is more difficult. In anothermode the planking is in narrow 
strips, perhaps 1xgin. One of these-is laid in place and 
nailed through from edge to edge, into the keel, then another 
is laid alongside of it and nailed to it, and so in succession 
until the boat is completed. A few frames are needed to 
stiffen the boat near the masts. 

In the boats made by the Ontario Boat Company these 
strips are tongued and grooved, then steamed and forced 
together, the strips In some boats running fore and aft, and 
in others running around the boat, from gunwale to gun- 
wale. In shell boats, where a very fine surface is of much 
greater importance than in canoes, the skin is made of Span- 
ish cedar, about 4in. thick, laid in four or six pieces, join- 
ing on the keel, and once or twice in the length of the boat, 
making one longitudinal seam and one or two transverse 
ones; but this method is not strony enough for canoes. 

Paper has been used for the past thirteen years as a ma- 
terial for canoes, but although the boats are strong, tight, 
and but little heavier than the lapstreak, they have not 
become popular, and are but little used. The process of 
censtruction is patented, and requires both to@ls and expe 


a a a. —. 


55 


rience beyond the reach of the amateur. Canocs haye been 
built during the last five years ona similar system, using 
thin veneer in three thicknesses instead of paper, but, besides 
their great weight, no glue or cement can be depended on 
when long immersed in water; and they are open to the 
same objections as all double-skinned bouts, it is only a 
matter of time before leakage begins, after which they are 
practically ruined. 

One of the oldest modes cf boat building was to make a 
frame of wickerwork or similar material, covering tt with 
leather, a method still followed, except that canvas is sub- 
stituted for the leather. This mode of building is perhaps 
the easiest of all for the amateur, and we shall devote a chap- 
ter specially to it further on. 

MATERIALS USED IN BOAT BUILDING. 

In smal] boats, where lightness and strength are of first 
importance, it is necessary that the material should be very 
carefully selected, both as to quality and as to the fitness of 
each kind for the required purpose. Beginning with the 
keel, the best wood is white oak, with a clear, straight grain. 
In planing it will be found that the grain of the wood in 
one direction splinters and roughs up, while in the other it 
lies smooth, and the keel should be so placed in the boat 
that the splinters or rough ends point aft, otherwise it will 
be torn in dragging over rocks and rough ground. In looking 
at the end of the wood, a series of concentric layers will 
be noticed. The piece should, if possible, be placed in such 
a position that the nails in it will pass iirough the layers, 
and not between two of them, for instance, in a keel the 
nails will be mostly vertical, so the layers of the wood should 
lie horizontally, and the same is true of the ribs, the nails 
through them being at right angles to the length of the 
boat, and the layers in each rib running fore and aft, thus 
avoiding any liability to split. Next to oak, either ash or 
yellow pine will make a good keel, but hickory should never 
be used in a boat, as it deenys rapidly. 

For the stem and stern, which are usually curved, the 
best material by far is hackmatack, or as it is sometimes 
called, tamarack, which may be had in knees.of almost any 
curvature, from three to teninchesthick, orlarger. For canoes 
a three-inch knee is the best, as if of full thickness, it may be 
sawn into three slabs, each of which will make a stem and 


stern. Oak knees are also used, and are very good, but 
heavier. If knees cannot be had, the stem and stern may be 


cut out of straight plank. * 

For the sides of a centerboard trunk, elear, dry white pine 
is good, but mahogany is better, though much more costly. 
The timbers or ribs are usually of oak, though elm is excel- 
lent for this purpose. The wood must be clear and of the 
best quality in order to bend easily. The best oak for this 
purpose is found in the shape of stave timber used by coopers 
for the stayes of barrels. These pieces ure from three to 
five feet long, and about two by five inches square, one 
being sufficient for an ordinary lapstreak boat. 

For planking, the very best material is white cedar, varie- 
ties of which are found along the entire length of the Atlantic 
seaboard. It is usually sold im boards 2,1 and 1iin. thick for 
boat work, and from 12 to 20 feet long. For small boats it 
should be clear from sap and knots, but for larger work 
that is painted, the latter, if hard and sonnd, do not matter 
much, in fact, the knotty cedar is considered teugher and 
stronger than the ciear. 

Where cedar cannot be had, white pine can be used to 
advantage; in fact, the amateur will often find it much easier 
to buy pine of jin. already planed than to work up the 
thick cedar himself, while pine is not so apt to change its 
shape in working, a source of much trouble with cedar. 
Where neither of these can be had spruce may be used, but 
it isinferior. Mahogany and Spanish cedar make excellent 
planking, but they are no better than white cedar and cost 
much more. Most of the English books on canoeing recom- 
mene oak for planking, but it is never used here, being too 

eavy. 

For the bulkheads, floor beards and inside work white 
pine is the best; for decks, rudder and upper streak uf plank- 
ing, mahogany, and for deek beams and Carlings, spruce. 
The gunwale may be of spruce or pine, or, if outside, as 
will be shown, of mahogany, oak or yellew pine, the 
coamings of the cockpit being of oak. Paddles and spars 
are made either of white pine or spruce, the latter being 
stiffer and stronger, but a little heavier. i + 

The other necessary materials—nails, screws, metal work, 
etc,—will be mentioned in detail as are required. 


DOUBLE vs, SINGLE. 


667 OREAS” hasan article in your issue of Jan. 24, concerni 
E . 24, nin, 
B single ys. double paddles. It is well written, and his aomnin 
are well taken. Wherefore, I get on my old rheumatic pins for an 
Papi aAeON. ark ‘ : 

“Boreas” refers to my canoe race against a guide, with a sin 
paddle in a double-ended Long-laker, a race which came off in me 
1880, There was fun in that race. I did not paddle a ‘10 or 12Ib. 
canoe,’’ but the original ‘‘“Nessmuk canoe,” 17lbs. 18340z. She was at 
that time, so far as [ know, the lightest clinker built cedar canoe that 
was in use anywhere. I had paddled her against a four-oared skiff 
and came out ahead. I had used thé double blade years before I 
ever heard of Mr, McGregor and his Rob Roy. Ino more believed 
that a lee-making, one-sided single blade could beat the double than 
I believed that a catboat could beat a Cunarder in an ocean race I 
spoke as I thought, and I backed my opinion—to a modest extent— 
with coin of the realm, 

There is a general disposition among the guides of the North Woods 
to sit down heayily on any man who presumes to invade their domain 
anb cheat the fraternity eut of $3 per day by guiding himself. There 
were thirteen guides at the old Forge House on the mornmg of the 
race; I was alone, so to speak. Jim Barrett, the landlord,was friendly 
and sympathetic. Also Sam Dunakin, who held the stakes and was 
umpire, My opponent was Fred Hess, a muscular young guide of 
i7Ulbs., and a fine paddler. But as he paddled a canoe-built. Long- 
laker, six feet longer than mine, and as 1 had 30 years the ad vantage 
of him in age with only 105lbs. of weight to carry, why, I was safe to 
win, 

The course was from the Forge House landing to Bull Head Rock, 
two hundred rods. Bull Head Rockis crowned with a nail keg filled 
with stones to mark it in high water. It is always a land mark for 
the frequenters of the Fulton Chain, Jim Barrett gaye the wofd “Go” 
and we went. I cut straight across the lily pads with an eye single to 
ee sie keg. Fred in the Nellie took the open. but more circuitous 
channel. 

About seventy rods frem the landing the open channel cuts the 
pee of the lily-pads, and at this point Fred eye fifty yards ahead. 

herace was virtually lost tome. Ail the same, paddled right 
along. <A race is not lost untilit is won. He might split or break a 
paddle, he might tumble overboard, or run on a snag—but he didn’t. 

He turned the nail keg thirty rods ahead. It was a bad beat, and 
sort o’ reversed my notions of the paddle. Half a dozen guides with 
their boats had come out to see the fun. After getting my wind—for 
T was blown—I joined the sad (?) procession back to the Forge House, 
where it was youchsafed me to hear something like the follo wing con- 
versation—not for my benefit—oh no: 

First guide, with grim humor and sarcasm: “Well, Fred, you 
rather got away with ourloog-haired friend. Gay’ him back his money 
oF Cobre ony 

Second guide: ‘Why Fred! I never expected to sea you wina - 
dling race. Of course you won't keep fae old fellow's mc ney pe 

Third guide (my friend Dunakin): ‘Well Fred, you ain , uch of a 
Dag alers Ican beat you left-handed. But you've come out ahead for 

“Shall I give the old gent his money back?’ 

What! You unregenerate heathen! Are you going to tule money 


36 


5 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


a 


(Fe, 14, 1884: 


from an old orphan, 92 years ola, father and mother both dead, and 
500 miles from home?" ete , eve. 

Yes; it was witty. funny, humorous. 
blade that had beaten me, all on one side. 

irecovered my wind. I enjoyed the fun aswellas the rest, for 
wit is scarce; and a good hearty laugh is beyond the price of 
rubies. Iwas glad to see the guides enjoyit. In less than twenty- 
four hours the acconnt of thistrifiing spurt had reached Bhie Moua- 
tain Lake, it went all through the North Woods, Whenever I met the 
Nellie—and I met her often—some one would sing out ‘Hello, 
Dnele Nessmuk, do you know this boat?” AndI always answered 
with a cheery Alleghany do-whoop, and said: **Yes,I know her, for 
stamps.*' Then they would lauzh and row on. 

All the same T held to my faith in the double blade. I had been 
beaten out of sight: it was time, But the little cano+ was too short 
for racing; and, while I ve! uld fan her over the water at a three-knot 
faitas liebtly as cork,it required a disproportionate amount of 
muscle to ger another knot out of her. If Tf waned five knots—well, 
I couldn*t get there. And when I tried a racing gait she squatted 
down. wallowed, ‘‘snaked,*' and uttery refused to keep up with the 
procession. Notwithstanding, I believed then, [ believe now, that 
had the motive power, rhe mus-le, been the same in each boat, the 
result would have been very different I was beaten about fifteen 
per cent. But my opponent had at least fifty per cent, the adyantage 
in wind and muscle. ; 

Twent tomy room with a sort of rubbed-down-against-the-grain 
feeling, and wrote to ny builder (Rushton), giying a brief account of 
the race, and ordering another canoe at once—a racer, She was to 
12 to 13ff. long, 16in. beam, vith an inch heme tumbe, snarp and 
plumb at sterns, 8in. rise at center, and to weizh about twenty pounds. 
With such a canoe, I thought an “old orphan’ could matage to 
seiile along with the single biades. Not that I desired to set up asa 
racing expert, butin that style of circus it seems more sociable to 
keep in line wilh the band-wayon. 

Mr. Rushton rather discouraged me, “We woull build the canoe, 
and she would bo speedy, but crank and unpl:a-ant as a ecrniser. 1 
did wrong to race with a long laker. Did I know that the single 
blade was faster than the double? Ye-; there was a Ganuck side at 
the meet of the A. (. A. on Lake George who, with his single binde, 
could heat the best double on the lake one mile 1m four, etc., etc.”’ 

I came down. I was hardly conyinced, but I always drop to sups- 
rior skill and experience; so I changed the order from racer to 
eruiser, and the resiilt was the Susan Nipper, tiat some readers of 
Forrst AND StREAM will remember. She weighed 1tlbs., was 1016ft. 
long. 27in. beam, 9in, rise at center, and was and is the most comtort- 
able cruising canoe I haye ever owned. 

Tn the summer of 81 she was cruised in the Adirondacks. She has 
been ratiled on buckboards and in baggage cars without cover or 
protection, and she is hanging peacefully outon the porch, as stauncn 
as the day she met me at Boonville. In carrying capacity she is com- 
petent for a canoeiSt of 170 pounds: but fora man of that weight it 
would be advisable to add three or four pounds of good tough timber 
to her upper works in the way of stiffer gunwales and thicker skins. 
In everything else exceptsize sheis the counterpart of the Sairy 
Gamp. Hach of them is light, pleasant, steady and comfortable, 
with all the speed that is necessary in a eruiser. 

Tam inclined te thank ‘‘Boreas” for areyiyal of faith in my old 
fayorite, the dowble blade, and to doubt very much if the single ean 
fore-reach on it under equal conditions. NESSMUE. 

WELLSBORO, Pa, 


Butit was like the single 


A CANOEIST’S WINTER SPORT. 


N a cold day of the late fall several canoeists had repaired to the 
water front at Springfield, Mass., one of them, Commodore L. 

@ Jones, of the Harttord C, C., to get ready for a down stream trip 
home, the others to see their visitor depart. This had not been Mr, 
J.°s first visit to his Springfield friends; on the contrary, se frequent 
had been his calls during the season that, on this belated occasion, 


some fun was poked at him; the prospect of an early formation of. 


ice was making itself felt in the keen air, and this was mentioned to 
him as a providentis! circumstance, Nevertheless, he averred that 
he would come 10 Springfie'd, under sail, once more thatseason, “I 
think that you reckon without the host,.’remarked one of the enter- 
taizers, *:And I’li come under sail, if 1] have to comeon runners,” was 
Mr. Js reply. as he glided out of ear shot, 

. Afew days after this incident the Connecticut was rolling its waters 
under a cover of smooth ice, and the skaters had gfreat sport of it, 
Ganoeists. of course, were suppcsed to have laid away craft and 
tackie on the shelf. The &pringneld gentlemen had also had oppor- 
tunity to test the fine quality and solidity of the ice, and were bow 
seated together in their place of business talking of their Hartford 
friend’s inability to }wifill his promise of siill another call, and dis- 
cussing a plan of presenting him with anice-saw,. with directions for 
se, av anew cance fitting, when, to their astonishment and -merrvi- 
tment, in walked Mr, J., a sail in one hand, his sxates in the other; he 
had been true to his word and come to Springfield under sail and on 
runners. 

This incident may serve to remind Canoeists that at least a portion 
of their tackle may be made use of for sporting purposes in the 
winter season. It is not related for the novelty of the thing, for sails 
haye probably been employed heretofore by American skaters, A 
few years ago one of our monthly journals gave a description of a 
fine sail plan for skaters, together with illustratiens. Some of the 
people of Northern Europe have used sails on skates for a long time 
past, the Norwegians employing an unusually powerful rig, a large 
portion of which is a topsai, with nece sary tackle, that can he 

oisted and lowered by motions of the skater’s head, This rig is said 
to develop an astonishing velocity. 

Mr. J. made the mentioned trip, of about thirty miles, in virtually 
less than two hours, for being on the road three hours he lost more 
than one hour in walking around the rapids near Terry's Island on a 
very difficult path, Lhis is excellent time, considering that he used 
a more moderate rig than the one spoken of, His sailis of triangular 
shape, similar to a flying jib, and is rigged wp in the Cape St. Vincent 
style. Itis made of light and strong cotton, Pride of the West, sewed 
torether in narrow strips to give iv strength, The upper, longer edze 
of the triangle is formed by a 9-ft, baniboo yard, tapermg at the 
ends, so 48 to nave some epring. The bolt lines of the two lower 
edges form a loop ab the lower corner, between which and a loop at 
the middle of the yard a spreader, 5ft. long, is fastened in the fashion 
of an arrow on acirawn bow. The skaier passes the lee arm between 
spreacer and sail and grasps the yard with hishand. The whole sail 
weighs about three pounds,:nd can be comfortably stowed and 
carried. the yard being jointed for that purpose. ARSENIEGS, 

Hartrorp, Conn., Jan, 31. 


CANOE AND SNEAKBOX, 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

Serry [ can’t agree with you as to the merits of the canoe and the 
sneakbox for cruising in open waters. The latter is probably the 
homeliest boat that ever Hoated, and I know by experience, that the 
denizens of the shores one visits in her will gibe the cruiser with all 
sorts of sareastic femarks and allusions to “coffins,” ‘“‘punkinseed,” 
ete., but wien it comes to real service in wide waters, this ugly non- 
descript surpasses the handsome, saucy canoe in ali points, She will 
liye in a gale of wind that the heaviest ballasted Pearl would notdare 
face, and is almost uncapsizable: properly rigged, she will outpoint 
the canoe as a sailor; her stowage capacity is far greater; she draws 
less water than any sailing canoe: isu’tso easily injured by bumps, 
and affords much larger und far more comfortable sleeping quarters 
than the canoe, She is hard to pull against a wind and sea, but there 
is rarely an oceasion where this is necessary in bays or on large rivers 
or lakes, for the sneakbox will beat up wind as readily as a catboat. 
The peculiar shape of her bottom makes her easy to draw up on 
shol'e and push off again, and there is no necessify for carrying 
“shores? to ‘block the bilges,"* because a little working back and 
forth will settle her firnily enough in the sand to insure her stability 
as a Sleeping apartment, and a canoe large enough and with sufficient 
weight of ballast to sail on open waters, will certainly be as difficult 
to handle ashore as the sneakbox. I never had any fear of leaks 
when sleeping in a canoe made fer cruising in small rivers and 
streams, but I confess that sleeping in a ballasted canoe would give 
me “visions of future leaks,” as the ballast, live cargo and plunder 
weighing heavily against the sides, even if she were blocked, would, 
in my opidion, be enough to=nring the best made canoe. Of course, 
the sneakbox would be the clunstest kind of a boat to use on small 
water courses or where there are pertages, but for waters like the 
Potomac below Washington, the Hudson ard the different hays, 
lakes, sounds and large rivers, I would by all means prefer hertoany 
other boat for single-handed eruismg. Her cost, which 18 half that 
of a fully-rigged sailing canoe, is another and an important, point in 
her favor. SENEGA, 

WasHineton, D. U., Peb, 9, 1884. 


PRINGELBLD CG. 0.—Three new meinbers have lately jomed the 
oie &.+ Messrs. B. HW. and George Barney and Mr. George Pratt, of 
Springfield, Mr. Shedd has sold his Stella Maris canoe to Mr. W. A. 
Minick, of Pittsburgh, and will have a new model, 14x80, from Rush- 
ton. The new club house was flooded a short time since, owing to 
the water rising over the ice, the latter holding the house down, but 
it has been raised and dried out, ‘Ihe annual meeting of the club 
takes place this week. 


N. ¥. C. C.—The two persons captured while rubbing the club house 
at New Brighton bave been held to appear before the Grand Jury. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


YV.—INLAND WATERS OF MATNE, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

i should like some information in regard to cruising in inland 
Maine, which T think you or some of your correspoudénts might 
give me. 

First—I should like to know if there is any way to get from Moose- 
head to Megantie Lake, the latter,I believe, is the source of the 
Chaudiere. Thin if one should get there, could they go down that 
river to the St. Lawrence in a light Srella Maris canoe, drawing not 
over 314 inches? 

Second—How long is the portage between the Kennebec and Dead 
Rivers? The time 1 should take would be July, and woul there be 
enough water then? Also would there bé enough water in that month 
A pass through Chesoucook and Chatnberlain lakes to the St. 

ohn’s? 

Third—Can one pass \hrough the Telos Canal and into the east 
branch of the Pen bscol? If so, how long is Indian carry? Conuid 
one get trom there into the Aloostook? or would they have to go by 
Spider and Mansungun Lakes? 

Any information would be gladly accepted, especially in rega’ d to 
the depth of the waterin July, aud in rezard to the passability of 
the Chaudiere. Xx. 


W. S. offers to give information about Ostvego, Oneida and 
Cayuga Tivers. 


THE LOG BOOK. 


V.—LOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, 
[Continued from page 35.) 


We left Memphis Nov. 4, with a white-ash breeze and made about 
VV 35 miles, Horthe .ext two ol three days we were fayored (?) 
with head winds. against which we found it inipossible to make pro- 
gress, as our boat, having n+ flareto the bow, nosed into the shurt 
rollers kicked up in the current, and the deck was washed from bow 
lo stern. Any canoeist who starts on a Missis-ippi cruise in a* smooth 
water” cauoe will tare very badly, to say the least. I regretted ex- 
ceedingly when poking into the head seas that I did not have the 
spray along, asl think that her flaring bow would have kept her per- 
ectly dry. 

Tn my opinion the Sandy Hookis the model for Mississippi work, 
as I have found from my experience on Lake Michigan that it is next 
to impusible to take a sew in over the bow, even while sailing in very 
choppy water, Of course I don’t consider those things that slap on 
the side and then deposit about a bucketful of water m your lap, for 
no power on ¢arth can keep them out, The sharp boat, depending 
entirely upon sheér for dryness, will make yery poor work of it, for 
though the waler may not be able to get on deck right over: the stern 
post, it will sneak over a toot further back, and once on deck, it don’t 
stop shortof the cockpit. Our coaming was 2léin. above deck and 
was very little protection in beating. 

We reacned Vieksburg Nov. 17, two weeks out fram Memphis; the 
distance being 400 miles. The three days preceding our arrival at 
Vicksburg we had north winds which, although favorable, were colder 
than was comfortable. We used toretire with all the clothin? on 
that we could scrape up, and besides I Lad a pair of woolen blankets 
and a cotlon comforter, while B. had two pair of; blankets; but not- 
withstanding all our endeavors we couldn't keep warm. Water left 
m the Spider over night was frozen solid, and the deck of the boat 
would be white with frost. I don’t want any more sleeping in a tent 
in that kind of weather. 

Vicksburg is not what you would call exactly om the river, that is 
the same as Memphis or New Orleans, The river has changed since 
the war,and where was once the channel, isnow an island and a 
slough filled with willows and wild ducks. The boats land about a 
miJe below the center of the town, bu: they are able also to go up the 
“eld river’? and around the island in front of the tow in good stages 
of water. In high water they go right over the top of everything. I 
would like to be able to explain the change which the river has made, 
but it would need a map to make it clear. : 

All along the trip we heard of ‘told rivers” and ‘“‘cut offs," and the 
changes which have been made fll one with wonder. Island No. 10is 
gone, and nothing remains but a sand point, for the chute has filled 
up and it is no longer even an island, The mouth of the Arkansas 
River is stopped up with a sandbar as high as the bank, and to enter 
the river one must go up into Waite River about six miles and then 
through a “2ut off into the Arkansas. You don’t see the mouth of 
Red River at all, for if comes in behind an island, into an “old river,” 
and thence into the Mississippi. 

We left Vicksburg Nov. 18 in a dead ealm, which lasted during the 
next three days, and reached Natchez Wednesday, the 21st; distance, 
120 miles, Weszowed all the way, and averaged about torty miles per 
day. We had had perfect surimer weather since leaying Vicksburg, 
but had been threatened with ram, which finally came. We lefr 
Natchez about 4P. M , and rowed down the river, looking out for a 
bar, but we wenc on for twenty miles without striking one. 

Atnightfall we thought wesaw a good place on the bank, but we 
found itso uneven that we couldn't useit. A darky who was hunt- 
ing up driftwood, told us that there was a bar just down in ihe bend, 
about two miles furtheron. So westarted out for it and finally 
struck it, that is ‘bow on; and we were about two hours getting 
around the shallow water to where the current struck the bay. Of 
course it was piteh dark, so We were unable to see where we were 
going, our only guiding peints being two lighthouses on the bank, 
which showed the channel, 

Once we thought we had finally ‘got there,” and rowed up to the 
bar which was lived with drift, 1ran the boat up, but she grounded 
about six feet off, and B. made preparations to jump ashore and 
lighten her, and also if possibie find a better place to land. He got 
out on the bow and, as the logs looked slippery, concluded to jump 
clear oyer on to the sand, édidn’t jump atall, for a “‘glisten” on 
the sand changed his mind, as by jumping over the logs he would 
have plunged down into siximches of water, 

That rather disgusted us, and we eoncluded to quit the “skirt” 
pusiness and make for the current, and then sbrike for the bar about 
half a mile further down, which we did, and bad no difficulty in land- 
ing. We pitched camp and got supper, and then drew up the boat 
and tied her to a stake drivenin thesand. The bar here was about 
one foot above the water, but ascended ereeuay until 100 yards 
back it was fifteen feet, We retired early, but were very soon awak- 
ened by the rain which came down ii sheets, accompanied by a 
strong wind. However, the tent was perfectly dry,so we turned 
over and went to sleep again, 

About 7 o’elock I was aroused by B.'s *‘Wake up! The boat has 
gone and the water is around the tent’’—a very effective eye-opener, 
Tean assure you. The heavy rain had washed out the stake and the 
sand from uuderneath the boat, and the wind had blown her out inte 
the current and soon down stream. We dragged the tent about 
fifty Feet further back on the bar—getting thoroughly soaked during 
the operation, for the rain still continued—and started out to see 
Where we were. het 

An inspection of our surroundings did not raise our spirits any; for, 
after making the entire circuit of the bar and tindmg only water, we 
came to the conclusion, reluctantly, though very naturallyy that we 
were on anisland, Recognizing the fact that we were ‘‘in for it,” and 
that there was no use trying to do anythiag until therain should stop 
‘and thefog lit, we betook ourselves to the tent, changed our wet 
clothing for dry, and started the oil stove in order to keep out as much 
dampness as possible. 

The tent was wet and everything was clammy. and we felt very 
“blue? as we sat there waiting for the rain to let up, which it finally 
did about 5 P.M. There was a little “pocket” setting back into the 
bar, about fifty feet from the tent, and it was alive with teal, which 

uacked away and splashed around at a great rate, and the painful 
act that we were withouta gun mae the cerulean aspect of things 
assume a@ still deeper hue, ¥ 

A steamer passed down shortly after dark, and I nearly split my 
throat trying to make them hear me; bup she was half a mile out to 
the channel, and although my first hail was answered, wouldn't stop. 
Tgaveit asm) opinion that the river would continue to rise on ac- 
count ofthe rain, and that we had better move the tent still further 
back on the bar, but B. thought differently, so we let it stand and went 
to sleep. - 

ane 2 o'clock in the morning we found ourselves flooded out 
worse than on the first night, and had the pleasure of moving all our 
truck at that ynseasonable hour. We had to fish for our dishes,which 
had been left just to one side of the tent, and sueceeded in getting 
everything except two plates. In the morning we found six inches of 
water where the tent had been, J. W, Keocu. 


CANOEING ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA, 


Editor Forest and Strean: ' 
Tbegtoreport the safe arrival at this 
Morris, of Cincinnati. in his canoe Nellie 
puilt by Rushton. 15ft.x386in, ; . 
Mr. Morris reports: “Left Cedar Keys Dec, 25, ab 12 M., under sail. 
Wind S. B. Gulf very rough. Had made a bargain with a hoatman 
to pilot me to St, Martin’s Reef, I was to follow bis sailboat, butabout 
5 P. M. my pilot was out of sight, Weather thick. Sea heayy and 


lace, of Mr. Charles N- 
orris, a Princess model, 


ee 


was getling worse. I began to bea little uncertain about my canoé 
living through it, ran for land, came to some ugly reefs which fright 
ened me more than the sea had dane. pi 

“Battered round among the reefs nntil 9 P. M., when Tsawtwo lights, 
tonk in sail and made for the lights ynder paddle, Finally lost the 
lights. and soon became lost myself in a complete maze of reefs and 
mangrove islands. After trying in vain to find a landing I com- 
Tmencer yelling’ at the top of my yoice, and very soon [ say a lisht, 
made for it with all my remaining strength (wilich was not much for 
I was nearly worn out), reaching the lisht at 12 P. M, [t proved to 
be the light of Dr. Hodges, Hickory Island. I turned in in Florida 
style and was thankful, 

“Left Hickory Island on the 26th,ran to Orystal River where TI 
camped. On 27th got underway and found St. Martin's Reef, but I 
lost myself; for four weary days and nivhts I was trying to get out 
of the tangle of reef, shoals, marsh islands, ete. On the morning of 
my fifth day in the reefs, [sizhted 4 small sailboat, and after setting 
signal of distress. and shouting and signaling I managed to attract 
their atlention; they hove down, and piloted me safe into Bayport, 
where I recnperated thoroughly before I ventured on anotier start.” 

Mr. Morris tells me that he wt tends to crujston the Floiia coast 
three nionths yet, so you will doubtless hear more from him. He ex- 
presses himself greatly deligh ed with canoeing with the exception 
ofgetiing ost in the wilderness of St. Martin's Reef TARPON, 

TARPON SPRinas. Fla , Jan. 27. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


GAMP OUTFITS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

_ Among te many sensiile, practical communicvions published 
in our old “stand-by,” WormstT ann StrReAM. few, in their way, have 
been so worthy of recognition and adoption as the letter of §. D. 
Kendall, in your issue of Jim. 17, headed “Camp Kits and Cookery.” 

This letter, with its multuin in parvo style. coutains precep:s whose 

example shoul be followe | by the thousands who, a3 the hot sum- 
mer months make them elves forcibly m mife t, throw off (?) every 
care and betake themselyes to the mountain wills, ostensibly to en- 
joy themselvs; yet do they really enjoy them-elves? Tb is true they 
drop their fly into the erystal mountain stream and extract its living 
treasnr-s in countless ntimbers; they seour the forests and their 
splendid breee! loader, and perfectly trained hunting dog, will bring 
to bag all the furand feather within range: still thire is a barrier, 
though not an insurmountable one—it is the presence of a surplus 
amount of troublesome luggage which pleasure-seekers imagine to 
be so highly essential 19 comfort, ? 
_ I donot wish to boast in the least of whatI have or have not done 
in connection with camp life in the wilderness. Suffice it to say that 
I haye spent the greater portion of every summer camping out 
since I was ten years old, and I have yet to see the first time when I 
shall take a cot, oil stove or any of those articles which properly 
belong in the city mansion and nof in the mountsin cabin. 

In the eating line the same mistake is ovyious at once to an or- 
dinary observer. Onr packs broken down city dyvspeptie decides to | 
mend, if possible, his ill health, What course does he pursue? He 
packs up three or four immense boxes of the richest and most indi- 
resUble food, and lugs them off to some lovality where, as he says, 
he “can enjoy the pleasures of camping out.’ How little does this 
poor mortal even suspect that he voluntarily anil deliberately robbed 
himself of the very object In camping out. Not content with sub- 
sistence on the products of forest and stream, humble yet unap- 
proachable as they ave, he returns home tyondering why ibis that he 
A feeling worse than when he left his home to stek a cure he did not 

nd, 

True enjoyment in the woods, the sojourner must remember, is 
obtainable only by reducing his paraphernalia to a minimum; léarn- 
ing to hunt for his own food, how to cook it, and lastly, to adapt 
himself to the humility of his immediate surroundings. 

Tf he learns these few things, he initiates himself into the secrets 
of pleasure and happiness in the wilderness, C2 A. R. 


PRACTICAL COOKERY—GRIDDLE CAKHS, 


Mention has often been made of griddle eakes by correspondents 
of ForEST AND Stream, but no-hint is ever given of the mode of 
preparation, Perhaps it is unnecessary; but as there may be rome 
uninitiated. here is our method. It willtake the place of bread any 
time, and as it can he made in a very few moments, is fresh and light 
and generally more agreeable. Sel-raising flour may be used or 
common flour and baking powder. If the Jatter is used take four 
half-pint cups fiour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, and one 
small teaspoonful salt; mix these thoroughly togetherdry. Then 
add shortening, one tablespoonful lard or butter, and work through 
with the hands; next water or sweet milk. or half and half, about 
three gills, and mix into dough; the less mixing the betfer. Have 
spider hot and greased with lard, a little larger than a walnut; place 
cake (which should be flat, round, and the diameter of pan) in spider 
and coyer as soon as mixed. The quality of cake depenes ina great 
measure upon the cooking, The pan must be hot to make cake rise, 
but not so hot as to bnyn crust before the jnside is cooked, When 
nicely browned remove cover and turn. One attempo will suffice to 
teach anyone. Cooking is like everything else; go at it boldly and 
confidently and you have wou more than half the battle. Timidity 
in the amateur has ruined many a good dinner, 

Wheat Cakes,—One quart milk, three eggs, and enough flour (with 
baking powder and a little salt added) to make a thin batter. Cook 
on spider over brisk fire The proportion of baking powder to Hour 
is always about one and one-half teaspoonfuls to one pint, Q. 


© Dachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 24—Boston Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 20—kKnickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches, 


$1.—Boston Y.C., First Watch,Connor and Commarore’s cups. 
10,—Atlantie Y, C., Annual Mateh, 

12.—New York ¥. €., Annual Matches, 

J4.— Hull ¥. C,. Club Meet. 

28.—Boston ¥.C,, Ladies’ Day. 


May 

June 
June 
June 
June 


July 12,—Hull ¥. C., Clad Meet. 

July 12.—Bos:on Y. C., Second Club Match. 
Aug, 9.—HullY. G., Clib Meet. 

Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all chibs. 
Aug. 23.—Boston Y. C.. Third Club Match, 


18 —Huli Y. C., Club Meet. 


Sept. ] : 
13.—voston Y, C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


Sepe. 


NUMBER TWELVE. 


Aes eutter building at the yard of Lennox, South Brooklyn, will be 
named Merlin. She is froma desig by Mr. Geo. H. Kipley for 
some Brooklyn gentlemen. Length on loadlne is 25ft,, heam 7ft., and 
draft 5ft, Sheis being built by Danjel Bernard, and is so far the best 
job turned outin these parts. Por fairness, first class material and 
workmanship, this cutter is an example along way auead of ordinary 
practice. The frames are single. sttym bent fore and att, with metal 
floors, and all the plank, deck stuff, clamps, ete., will be iu onelength 
from stem to stern, There is 3,750 pounds of leatl on the tx8 oak keel, 
secured with 34in. conmposition bolls spuced 12in. apart. Lowersails 
contain 750 sq. ft., the mast beine 10ft. trom stem, aod bowsprit 13fb. 
outboard. The motel is extremely handsome. Midship section is 
powerful and roomy, an average becween a pex top and a U frame in 
shape. The timbers gradually straighten up iu the forebody, and in 
the after half the floors are lifted by degrees to give « clear run with 
quite sharp water lines, the ar24 of the loadline being well pre- 
served nevertheless. The boat has no lunip in the middle, but a good 
long body without any straight. The argps of cross sections have 
been carefully apportioned, according to Collin Archer's formule, 
and a good balance is preserved between the ends when heeled, the 
inclined water lines showing no humps orbaunches. Fore foot is well 
clipped away and post has moderate rae. ihe leash possible wet 
suriace has been secured with sufficiently fine lines and the largest 
internal room with just the right amount of bullc and displacement. 
As a well digested and highly finished design in allits parts with no 
feature carried to excess, and yet nothing neglected, with a body 
which has the plumpness of a Hebe and the grace of a Venus in one, + 
this new cutier promises to be a most taking and useful craftin every 
respect, and ought to proye a good onetor racing in all kindsof 
weather, She will havea Mush deck according to modern ideas, with 
a small cockpit for the convenience of ladies. Below there wiil be a 
big lot of room with the cosy and delightfully ¢ool cabins for which 
cutters have become known, The forecastle will be long, with a 
birth for one hand. The cabin is to contain two long sofas, with 
pantries, closets and general stowage and a swing table. At the after 
end are two lockers reaching from floor to deck, with the companion 
ladder leading down between. The doors of these lockers can be, 
swung ce phere pars forward of the iadder so as to act as a partition 
bulkhead to the cabin, by which privaey van be secured should it be 


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red; Abaft the ladderisasmall space of floor witha sleeping 
erth on one side, the end dovetailing alongside the cockpit, the 
opposite side being devoted to sail room. Ice chest and water 
below the coekpit floor, On deck there willbe a hatch tothe fore- 
eastle, cabin skylight, and the main companion with a quadrant 
slide. With all the beam necessary to make a very stiff and suoyant 
oat, With a high side to keep her dry, good draft and outside weight 


d on deck than in sloops of much greater size, the Merlin is cer- 
ain to be a popular boat among all classes, and a worthy represen- 
tative of the cutter for length measurement racing, 


ha herdown to business in rough water, and more room below 


STEAM YACHTS. 


Oke yes, explanations. Awfully small world this. Can't put your 
b Toot down without walking on somebody’s Sunday bunion. 
dont mind the owners of steam yachts who have been buzzing round 
my ears since I wrote a few words about them two weeks ago. I 
Meant whatIsaid. Lhaye no more regard fro i a pecking stand- 
point for those forgottenlooking individuals on the back area of a 
steamer who allow themselves to be screwed around by alot of 
hired servants and take no more interest in the whole busmess than 
to growl atthe bills. [say back area, because it would be a shght to 
a proper quarterdeck to apply such a smart appellation to the after 
end of the shoal traps housed in with tenements to supply deficiency in 
freeboard which New Yorkers think the piak of perfection inthat class. 
Gut when the builders of steam yachts arise in ire and want to know 
what Imeant by deridivg small screws, then I jump up to explain. 
They atleast can tell the difference between a trap and a yacht. 
Now,1] said nothing at all against steam yachts. On the conirary, 
Tlike them and easily understand thei use from a spo ting point of 
view. There is just as much and perhap; more skillin steaming a 
vessel than in suiling. It was not the yachts against which I inveighed 
but the langiid superficial methods in which owners pursued the 
business and their want of discernment in building. To follow and 
perhaps master the management of boiler and engine is particularily 
instructive and entertaining and of great practical benefit. he stu- 
dious and ob-erving owner of steam: yachts has opportunities of 
conferring inestimable profit to the science and practice of steam 
engineering, even though he declines to roll up his sleeves, but sim- 
ply directs and delegates the work to others. : 
- Reinarmone, tolake charge of a steamer’s deck 1s no child’s play. 
but calls for quick perception, good judgment aud executive ability, 
in the display of which your geuuine steam yacbtsman delights, 
Nothing couid be more attrac ive or intensely absorbing than ex peri- 
mentation upon the numerous vital questions before the engineering 
world to-day, aid the man with money starts out with a long lead in 
the race for contributing to the world’s stock of knowledge and en- 
hancing his own reputation and that of his yacht. Now, how much 
has any one owning a steamer in America earned the regard of the 
community 1s a man with brains besides money? Such experiments 
and innovations as have been undertaken have brought about noth- 
ing, unless they have made some yacht owners a butt of ridicule more 
‘than anything else. Crude departures, forbidden by tried and ac- 
cepted laws, repetitionsin directions long ago found out to be impos- 
sible with the inevitable failures, a reverence for the antiquated, and 
' persistent disregard for the lesson taught elsewhere in the world, 
these represent the “progress: for which we have to thank the 
Wealthy people who are ridden round by engineer and master. 

Why should Itake kindly to the sprawlin>. low-waisted Omises, 
Entures, Ulies, Urlines, Ajahs and like contrivances which, though 
100ft long, darenotfollow a match round the Sandy Hook lightshih 
in moderate weather? Or to the clumsy Stranglers, Horsehuirs and 
Appleantas, which differ from coasters and carriers chiefiy in gilding 

and paint? Oh, no; Llike a steam yacht, but not the awful ghosis 
We see in these waters. I might mention one building concern who 
mapage to get a flush deck and good seagoimg qualities on a light 
drattior Florida waters, and highspeed on small consumption with 
light weight of machinery occupying small space. And I might 
mention a sting of good serviceable flush-deckers abroad, no longer 
than 50ft., all of which challenge respect in their modelling and fit- 
tings, as well as in engine efficiency. And I might mention good 
little latmches at home and abroad combining safety, simplicity, and 
even high speed. And aslong as I can do this, I propose to be ex- 
cused “from chanting praise to hybrids half awash, loaded with 
boilers and tug engines wh.ch are failures as high speeds, and cari- 
atures as cruisers. I can appreciate the steam yachtsman, but 
tum up my nose at the lazy steam dawdler, who is a cipher in the 
Sporting and intellectual world as much as the feeble drifter in the 
cockpit, of a craft prepelled by sails, For the amateur tar on deck 
and the amateur mechanic in the engine room I have sympathy to 
the extent of admiration. The best tools for their purposes is what L 
amafier. It is not steam yachting I condemn, but the shams of sane 


a 


real article, whether in men or in the boats they own. 


THE MEASUREMENT CONUNDRUM. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
_ Many like myself—my remarks are purely local—have been forced 
into the ungainly ‘‘spread-outs’* because symmetrical forms were 
not protected. We have been groping about under a length measure- 
ment cloud all our lives. Is it strange, then, that we haye run into 
excess of beam, even to the extent of two-thirds the length in width? 
Builders and owners alike are tired of the strain. Reduction of sail 
1s conducive to easy forms, and leads upto better models and rig, 
And yet if you tax sail area, do you not tax shape as well? Icannot 
sce thy way out of the fog. When two boats are of the same size 
(equity), and one by her superior shape is enabled to carry more sail 
than the other, is she not in all fairness entitled to it?’ Otherwise 
you put a veto on progress, Most of out yachts have been built under 
aprotest. The unfortunate designer had no alternative under the 
old regime but to line out his boat with as little resistance as possible 
with the greatest bulkand keep out of gaol. The smooth-water erafts 
have had their day even with us onthe Delaware. Big hulls, heavy 
Spars and badly shaped sails towering skyward, will no longer 
tyrannize over the modest, honest little craft which fearlessly fights 
a way in bad weather in our bay or along the coast, where expensive 
racing machines twice as large dare not yenture. Small seagoing 
boats are coming into favor, and the new boats. regardless ot the 
Pesce rule, are being built with an eye to safety as well as speed, 
our Quaker City Yacht Club still persists in measuring by length, 
then these boats will form a class of their own and sail under their 
ownrules. Asa member of the club I hope something definite will 
be done this season to emancipate intelligent builuers trom the 
thralldom of coercion. The London Times has been pleased to ad- 
- mit that **thiladelphians can build boats.” So they can, and did, 
6ven as remote as 1776, andin later days produced a Vixen, That? 
Dr. Valette, the prospective commodore of the Q, C.¥, C., inthis 
_ judgment saw fit to ihrow his Hsculapian eye eastward for a 70-ft, 
AS 1, 1SnO guarantee that the flagship will be better than a home- 


uilt vessel. The club will elect officers this month for the present 
year. R.G. W. 
PHILADELPHIA. 


[tue objection to sail area rule raised by our correspondent is 
a perfectly proper one, [tis the weak spot in the equity of the rule, 
To a certain extent and in certain cases it isa direct lax upon form 
which canyuot be equitable. But between two evils choose the lesser. 
The length rule prescribes all but the most extravagant forms and 
sizes. ‘The sail area rule bears hard on extravagant forms and sizes 
and encourages a more moderate average. A fair rule ought not to 
weigh upon any style more than another. A bulk rule bears upon 
Size ind not upon tiie form that size assumes, hence it is the only 
rule ever devised which can apply to every form under the sun with- 
out prejuuice to any particular shape. A tax upon ten tons or a 
hundred cubic feet leaves the builder absolutely free to mould such 
yolumes as he pleases in all directions. Neither the length nor the 
sail area rule can be defended upon logical or equitable grounds. 
Both are purely empyrical standards. As the sail area rule avoids 
extremes. as tar asits workings are at present nderstood, it seems to 
“us a preferable standard of comparison than simple length, as a 
makeshift, however. until the public is read y to grapple with the 
question more thoroughly than at present. Objections have been 
miatle to the sail rule on the score of complexity. But such persons 
are in need of fresh schooling and have no business to assume leader- 
ship in anything. The man who cannot read off # tapeline, then per- 
form a simple sum in arithmetic, should wear a dunce’s cap instead 
of putting in his oar on the question.] 


NOTES FROM THE DELAWARE. 
| Editor Forest and Stream: 
The yavht Nohma, formerly the O7Donnell, has been sold to Mr. 
 Perty and others of Trenton, N. J., and is now at the builders’ yard 
undergoing the ne essary alterations for a cabin, etc. She is 28ft. 
Jong, of large displacenient; 2.800lbs. of ron will be placed on keel, 
eenterboard trunk will be eut down one-half, she will have two iron 
boards, one working within the other with independent pivots. When 
completed she will be non-capsizable and fit for sea, 1b wil be seen 
the ‘'renton panic reads Pores? AND StReAM, and don’t forget what 
they read. he O*Donnell last year entered in two races, winning 
‘third prize in her class in the Q. G. Y. 0. regatta, and first prize in 
Klutz regatta in which the @. (. Y. C. participated. She on this occa- 
'si0n beat the fleet big aud ttle, and is one of Mr, Collins’s best pro- 
Becious: Mr, Ferry was not asleep when he bought hier, and is now 
Wide awake to the improvements now being made. He and the 
der are in perfect accord, believing a safe boat is not necessarily 
low, which they hope to prove. x. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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CHESAPEAKE 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mention has been madé several times recently of the Chesapeake 
Bug-eye. The etymology of the term makes it *‘Buck-eye.”’ These 
boats are an exaggeration of the*‘dugout’’ canoe, and were developed 
gradually by the bay shore people, as the necessity for larger boats 
became apparent. It was easy te get almost any desired length ina 
single log, but not so as to beam and depth, Very natural it was to 
add to beam and depth by building up and ont with logs bolted to the 
sides of the long, narrow and shallow dugout. This was done, and 
masts and sails added to+uit the inereased size. A large boat re- 
quired anchors and cables instead of beittg dragged up on the heach, 
a8 with the small canoe. The primitive builder bored two holes, one 
on each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. 
These were simply two round holes, bored with a large augur. and 
when the boat was coming head on, resembled, to the faney of the 
negroes, the eyes of a buck. The illusion was somewhat increased 
by the addition of a bowsprit and its attendant gear. The leg-of- 
mutton sail—the primitive sail of all nations—was adopted, with two 
masts; the bowsprit and jib being a later avcession. This is yet the 
favorite rig of canoes of thirty feet in length and under. 

As before observed, length being the dimension most easily attain- 
able, the Buck-eye was built long and narrow, and being heayy in 
body but easily driven through the water, with a low center of effort 
forits sails, it proved a fast and stiff boat. [i was sharp at each end; 
the greatest beam was about one-third the distance from stem to 
stern, thence sloping by easy lines tore and aft, giving a clear en- 
tranceand good clearance. Asto deadrise, it was a matter of choice 
or conveniehce. Generally the deadrise was slight. Its entire con- 
struction depended on convenience and economy. ft had no oyer- 
hang, because it was easier and cheaper not tohaveany. It had no 
stays to the masts, because it was cheaper not to have any, and 
besides a “‘springiness’’ to the masts was considered desirable, be- 
cause sudden flaws were not so likely to knock down, The center- 
board was always inserted, because the Buckeye was intended for 
the shallow waters of creeks and inlets as well as for the waters of 
the bay. One peculiarity was the manner of stepping the masts. 
The foremast was longer than the mainmast and did not rake so 
much, To the mainmast was given arake aff, The negroes say it 
miInakes them sail fasier on the wind. In small canoes the mainmast 
is shifted, so as to stand upright when sailing before the wind. The 
accompanying sketch indicates the rig and position of the masts. 
Of late years imitations of the old-fashioned Buck-eye haye been 
regularly built, timbered and planked, and the beam has been in- 
creased. This has necessitated an area of sail. and the schooner rig 
has been used. Sometimes only the foresail has a gaff. The genuine 
Bucl-eye rarely has less than five beams to the length. The modem 
imitations sometimes haye less than four. ‘This puts them on a par 
with other broad, shallow boats. 

The Buckeye has a well-deserved reputation for speed and sea- 
worthiness. It pounds somewhat in a heavy sea, but its weight 
forces in through, if not over, {he combers. This makes it a rather 
wet boat, but the exhilarating sensation produced by great speed, 
and a sense of security at the same time, makes amends for the in- 
convenience of flying spray and a wet jacket, Last summer I cruised 
in company with a Buck-eye. 42ft. long, mauned by two gentlemen of 
Baltimore city. She drew tweaty inches without the board. In 
sudden and heavy flaws she was rarely luffed. She would lie over 
and appear to spill the wind out of her tall sharp sails, and then right 
again, Her crew took pleasure in tackling every sailing craft for a 
race; nothing under 70ft. in length ever beat her. She steered minder 
any two of her three sails. On one occasion this craft, on her way from 
Cape May to Cape Charles, was driven out to sea before a heavy 
northwest blow, Her crew, the aforesaid gentlemen, worn out by 
fatigue, hove her to and went tosleep. She broke her tiller lashing 
during the night, and when they awoke, she was pefging away on a 
southeast course under her jib. They put her about, and in twenty 
hours were inside Cape Henry, pretty well tired out. Buck-eyes fre 
quently run from Norfolk to New York with fruit. For shallow 
waters, I am satisfied there is no better craft atloat. 
with a loaded keel, they would rival the English cutter in 
ness and speed. 

We haye another style of boat in the Chesapeake, the American 
rival of the English deep boats. It 1s here styled a pungey. The 
pungey is rezularly built. that is, timbered and planked and is narrow 
and deep, with no waist to obstruct the seas that may sweep over 
her. This is & remarkably fast and able sea boat, much used for 
0) ster dredging’ in winter. It is a saying here that ‘when 2 pungey 
reefs, a steamship had better make harbor,'’ I beg leave to com- 
mend our Buck-eye to shallow-water sailors and our pungey to deep- 
water sailors, suspecting that either would be an improvement on 
some of the fancy yachts of our Northern brothers. Buck-Hve. 

BALTmore, Feb. 8, 1884, 

[The *‘pungies’’ of the Chesapeake are smart, handsome craft with 
many of the elements of a good vessel, The best of then) have 
moderate beam, considerable depth and great deadrise with a V bot- 
tom. Also keel with mucn drag, well rounded wp forward and great 
rake to sternpost. With the necessary refinement of lines, outside 
weight and corresponding increase of rig, they would rank high in 
all respects. They can be classed about half way between the New 
York pilof boat and the racing cutter. | 


CRAFT, 


Built deep, 
sea worthi- 


CONCERNING SAILS. 
Rditoy Forest dnd Stream; 

Let me say through your paper a few words concerning sails for 
yachis. Most owners insist upon too light duck. This is a mistake, 
and a great pointinfavor of small Mnglish yachts. which nse duel 
almost double the weight we are accustomed to. Where T have my 
own way | always advise heavy duck. 1t is betler for light winds, at 
least in the lower sails. They sit flatter and can be kept in better 
shape, Ballooners should of course be light, The speed of cutters 
in light airs Iascribe to some extent to the weight of their lower 
sails and large topsails, and jibs for catching the fitful breaths. I 
ean see no olject to a.loose foot, however, when a laced sail is prop- 
erly ‘cut to sit fat. MAKER, 


[There is much about sails difficult to explain in words. We pre- 
sails, in light winds according to English 


experience. We offer this reason, Light sails not only bag, but 
give locally to the puffs. The force of the wind isexpended in creat- 
ing the bag or pucker im aspot, and nothing remains to slide along 
the surface of the sail, and transmit its energy to driving the boat. 
The local pucker imprisons and kills the light breath. Butin «a heay- 
ier sail, after striking, no local cul-de-sac or give cushions the hreeze 
out of its strength, but the sail has enough stiffness to resist without 
being deyoid of enough elasticity or spring as a whole. The wind 
caroms along and escapes around the leech, the time and means 
being st pplied for transferriug its impulse tothe boat. A loose foot 
aids in the same way. The sail gives as a whole, as one surface to 
the puffs. When laced. the puff is more likely to be bagged in the 
middle. A loose foot allows the sail to adapt its surface more readily 
to the impulses ef the wind, while a laced sail is sigid along the fuot. 
Further, the vertical bagging of a sail is reduced by allowing play to 
the foot, and there is less back sail atthe clew. The surface is niore 
effective. In hard boats of the beamy style, so much sail ean be car- 
ried that the smalladvantage of a loose foot need not be considered. 
In sensitive boots, whose sail poweris limited. and which must be 
utilized to the utmost, experience seems to point to positive advan- 
tage in the loose foot. Laeed sails were tried in English waters after 
the advent of America, but have again been discarded. Apart from 
all this there are solid reasons for a loose foot from the sailorizing 
standpoint. You are ajways able to control the sit of the sail by a 
pull or slacking on the outhaul. Im light winds a sail should not sit 
too (lat, and a cutter mainsail gives you the choice. Wor a hasty reef 
to meet asquall the tack can be triced up and foresail lowered, re- 
ducing canvas to one-halfim an instant. Por knocking about, for 
half speed when trolling or fishing and for making a erowded road- 
stead, tricing up the tackis a useful and handy arrangement. For 
sea work ma small boat, it prevents a weight of water lodging in the 
sail when boarded or sailing wide. For racing in beamy boats, a 
loose foot may be of no special benefit, though thatis a’ question 
subject to more thorough experiment. but for general purposes the 
loose footisa useful and convenient arrangement for any boat 
Heavy lower sails have, been tried on many yachts in recent years 
with acknowledged benefit to speed in light winds, and the practice 
will no doubt become general. This is one of the many minor im- 
provements for which we haye to thank the “cutter agitation.”] 


PATRIOTISM WITH A PATENT TO THE RES- 


CUE, 
ditoy Forest and Stream: 
. I have read the FoREST AND STREAM with pleasure and profit almost 
from its first issue, and I bave long ago learned to respect its opin- 
ions upon its specialty, the rod and gun. 

In your issue of Jan, 31 appears an article entitled ‘No Money for 
Revolutions,”’ upon which I am sorry to join issue with you. It con- 
tains so much error and ignorance that I am constrained to violate an 
almost inflexible rule of my life in an attempt to set youright. This 
effort, however, may be consi¢ered a work of supererogation, in view 
of the fact that the adverse opinions of a journal devoted to the dis- 
semination of knowledge on fishing and gunning will not have much 
weight among sensible men, when compared with the favorable 
opinions which have been expressed by such standard technical 
authorities as the London Angineer and Scientific American, You 
evidently know nothing about scientific naval architecture, and, 
therefore, you are wholly disqualified to write upon the subject of 
the important invention of Captain Lundborg for improvements in 
steamships, which are based entirely upon such principles. 

I have known Captain Lundborg intimately tor nearly two years, 
Heis aman of the highest attainments in his profession as a scien- 
tific naval architect. His inventions are the result of many years of 
scientific research, aided by long experience in practical Seamanship 
and by innumerable rank See Teas upon the system of the late 
Professor Froude. I have submitted the drawings, designs, models 
and mathematical calculations of the Lundborg ship to the ablest 
shipbuilders and scientific naval architects of this country for their 
examination and criticism, allof whomconcur in the opinion that the 
invention is important and of great public utility; and that a ship 
constructed upon his model will insure greater speed, greater safety, 
greater carrying capacity and greater comfort to passengers than 
has hitherto been given to the traveling ;,ublic. 

[have confidence in the judgment of those persons who haye ex- 
amined and approved of the invention, for the reason that they are 
competent to judge of its merits and their judgment is unprejudiced, 
Captain Lundborg courts and challenges the most searching inyesti- 
gation, aud he invites intelligent criticism from all persons who are 
qualified and competent to treat upon the subject. 1 realize the diffi- 
culty in making innovations upon an old order of things. All the old 
fogies in creation claim the right to ery out against inventors, not- 
withstanding the fact that by their genius and energy they have revolu- 
tionized the industries of the world. I recollect yery distinctly when 
Captam Ericsson came to this country with his invention for war 
ships, and attempted toinduce our government to utilize it for the 
publie good in preserving the union, all the fools and eranks in Ghns- 
tendom decried and ridiculed the pro: osition much after the tone and 
spirit of your article on Captain Lundborg, and after repeated failures 
to induce the government to adopt his invention, some patriotic citi- 
zens of Boston aided and encouraged him in the #onstruction of the 
Monitor. which saved the nation and revolutionized the navies et the 
world—a fact recently acknowledged and testified to in terms of 
eulogium by an honorable Senator upon the floor of the American 
Senate. Captain Lundborg isa countryman of Briesson’s, educated 
in the same scientific schools in Europe, a man of genius and ability, 
and Tam impressed with the belief that your criticism pon his inven- 
tion is as unwise and unjust as were the foolish and crazy strietures 
upon Captain Ericsson and his invention. when he first attempted to 
introduce it in this country. Ibelicye thatthe Lundborg invention 
will effect a greater revolution in the merchant marine than did Cap- 
tain Kricsson’s in the navies of the world, and if if can be utilized 
toward the restoration of the Amevican flag upon the ocean, for re- 
gaining to American citizens their share ef the ocean carr rine trade, 
and to giveto them an equal chance in the proceeds of a business 
amounting to over $200,000,000 a year, which is now wholly monopo- 
lized by aliens, I think itis worthy of a fair trial, even at the public 
expense, and upon that issue, assuming that you are a true American, 
your encouragement and support will not be wanting. 

This letter is runing to much greater length than 1 had intended, 


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58 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Fie, 14, 1884. 


and in conelusion permit me to make a few corrections of the meny 
Misstatemants contained in your article. 

Captain Lundborg is not ‘tattached to the Swedish Legation.”’ He 
§ a revired officer of the Swedish navy. 

He is not “a petiticner for national alms,** as you assert, which his 
memorial, herewith inclosed, will prove. 

He has never offered his invention 10 any parties, much less 

“hawked it about for several years.”’ And he now simply invites the 
attention of the American people to the importance of his discoveries 
ee tell ei in the hope that they may he utilized for the public 
gZood, 
_ Captain Lundberg is not “an alien,” as you allege, he is a natural- 
ized American citizen, filled with patriotic motive, and impressed 
With the conviction that among the pressing needs of his adopted 
country are um eflicientnayy, and an adequate merchant marine, to 
secure which, he is ready and willing to labor to the best of his ability. 
Are you good enough an American to help in this noble work? 

WASHINGTON D, C J. H. SYPHER. 


[Mr Sypher has not keptthe run of events or he would hardly 
Aestipn the *‘good authority” of this journalon matters of naval 
esizn. His adverse estimate we pass over as not worth notice, 
because incapable of offering am opinion on affairs he knows nothing 
of. We suspect his letter is an effort to adyertise a yenture in 
which heis interested as a lobbyist. another canal scheme from 
the Mississippi to the Gulf, with a liberal profit to the promoters, 
Itis very kind that any one should wish to reyiye the skeleton of 
our commercial marine by a patent. But we do not care to haye the 
government funds diverted to assisting half-hatched patent specifi- 
cations. We trust ourremarks will aid in closing the doers of the 
Treasury tight to any raid in the interests of private persons. The 
notion that the Lumborg ship can have any influence upon the destiny 
of our merchant marine is silly. The notion that it will build up an 
efficient navy which is purely a question of congressional appropria- 
fions, is even more ridiculous. We credit Captain Lundborg with 
much better sense. Our maritime interests should be revived upon 
common sense business principles and not by spread-eagle declama- 
tion or governmental pap. Itisnotadifficultproblemtosolve. Itisa 
simiple piéce of arithmetic. Buy ships where you #an get them cheap- 
est, sail them with no greater restrictions than foreigners; and that is 
all there istoit. If we have to pay higher wages to officers and créw, 
the difference will be offset by the well-known tact, energy and adap- 
tability of the American. Wipe outat one stroke the cormorants 
and hordes of officials with their fees, fines and dues, exorbitant and 
jntricate charges, and half the reform is accomplished. Buy your 
implement of trade in the cheapest market; and the other half is 
achieved, If capitalis too dear, if it finds more lucrative employ- 
ment on shore, nothing under the sim can help us. We must be con- 
tent to twirl our thumbs till a day when the economic conditions on 
on this side of the Atlantic will be favorable enough to give tis a 
chance in the race, Why Captain Lundborg’s appeal to Congress is 
out of order is noted elsewhere.] 


THE CORINTHIAN CLUB. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


Tt was not exactly the time of year that any one would havo 
thought of organizing a yacht club, for the snow lay thick and white 
outside the greenhouse windows, and the wild Channel wayes rushed 
up and spattered over cosvy little Sea Cliff, at Bangor, Belfast Lough, 
Ireland. The den was pretty full for all that. Arthur, secretary of 
the Royal Ulster Y. C., one of the mighty men who go down to the 
sea in ships, was doubled up in a wicker chair, while her ladyship, 
one of the hest who eyer held tiller and made a boat do just what she 
could, was perched on an old chair which had descended from her 
freat grandparents. John, most practical of all architects, was hid- 
den behind a cloud of smoke, and Ally, just back from America, did 
his best to help out harmony with a long cigar. The boats were all 
laid up in winter quarters; but they were present on the wall in pho- 
tographs, in spar drafts and in models, while along the bookcase was 
a long lime of gracefully-draped winning flags, fourteen in number, 
which marked the prowess of the yawl Glide. We had had a pleasant 
season's sailing, though in those waters the summer starts late and is 
soon over, and this winter eyening all were gathered around. chat- 
ting about the past. Then somebody suggested we should institute a 
practical Corinthian clib, and we did. -The club has lasted, taking im 
new members and doing its work thoroughly and well, year after 
year, until it commands almost as much interest as its chartered 
brother, the Royal Ulster. on : 

Every one knows what a ‘‘Corinthian” club is, but even in such or- 
ganizations as the Seawanhaka of New York, there is a good deal of 
work done for and not by the amateur, while the chief feature of the 
Bangor (lub is that its members shall do all their sailing work, and 
at any rate. know how to attend when required to therigging., Kvery- 
6nue who joins (ladies are eligible for membership as well as the 
sterner sex) is bailoted in, and thereby entitled to the hotorable posi- 
tion of “boy.” Boys may second candidates, vote at general or 
special meetings, form partof acrew, but may not own or steera 
poatinaclub race. The “‘boy’’ remains such until he has learned 
enough practical seamanship to answer correetly every one of the 
following questions: 

1. Make a sheet bend. - 

®, Make an anchor bend. 

3. Make a rolling hitch. 

4, Make a blackwall hitch. 

5. Makea timber hitch. 

6, Make a clove hitch. tn ’ 

7. Make two half hitches on a belaying pin. 
8. Make areef knot. 

9, Make a bowline, 

. Make a cat's paw, 

, Make a short and long splice. 

. Make an eye splice. 

. Put a whipping on the eud of a rope. 
Belay a sheet on a half pin. 

15. Sheepshank a rope. F a 

16. Namethe standing and running rigging in a sloop, cutter and 

hooner. 
ae This exainination must be passed practically, the work being done 
with ropesends in presence of the examiner. The “boy’’ then takes 
rapk as ‘ordinary seaman.” : , ; 

In the early days of the club, Sea Cliff was fairly populated with 
boys and girls educating one another how to splice and go through 
the seaman’s manual. F 7 

An “ordinary seaman"’ receives a plain paper certificate to that 
effect. and is entitled to steer a boat but cannot own one. When he 
has passed for A. B., haying fulfilled the following questions, he can 
propose a member, own a boat, and is eligible for election as a com- 
mitteenan, He must haye conquered the questions 1 to 16, and also 
the following; ; 

17. Make a studdingsail bend, 

. Make a running bowline. 
. Make a bowline on a bight. 
. Make a grummet. 
91, Make a 'Turk’s head- : 
2. Make a double wall and double crown, 
. Herringbone a split sail. 
. Name the points of the compass. 
. State the rule of the road. 
. What are the different fog signals? 
. What lights are carried by vessels? 
38. Describe the method of restoring apparently drowned persons. 
“9, How would you note the position of an anchor or moorings in 
vase you had to slip? : 
30. Sow can oil he used in broken water to save the sea breaking 
aboard of a boat? ; ‘ear, 

Next in ofder comes the star to the certificate, which is given when 
the yachtsman has further satisfied the examiner on the following, 
this examination being had in a boat under way: 

Si. Set sails and get under way from moorings. 

32. Gybe. 

38, Reef. ; ‘ 

34, What would be done in case of a sudden squall, the direction 
being stated by the examiner? 

35, Make a floating or sea anchor. , ; ‘ 

36, Bend a rapeto an anchorso that you can clear it should it 
cateh in rocks. » 

The examiner should also test applicant as to what he would do if 
halliards or fear carry away. P 

An “A, B,” witha star is entitled to a parchment certificate, and 
may present himself for further examination for mate's papers, 
after whieh he is eligible for election as a flag officer of the club, Dur- 
ing last year the club raced nearly every Saturday afternoon, and as 
many as twelve boats were entered at one time, there seldom being 
less than five. The boats were measured asfollows: Multiply the 
sail area by the length of loadline, and divide by4,000, the quotient to 
be “gail tonnage,’ one-fifth of overhang to be added # length of load- 
line. The scale for time allowance was the ordmary Y. R, A. table. 
Tn the case of peculiarly constructed boats the carpenter was author- 
ized to report to the committee, who had power toaward special cer- 
tificates of measurement, Hyery boat and her gear were necessarily 
the property of members of the club. Every boat in a race was 
obliged to carry a life-buoy. Five minutes before the start the blue 
Peter was hoisted and gun fired, after which the boats were consid- 
ered under the rujes, At the expiration of Hve minutes the blue 
Peter was kavled down and the starting gun fired. Any boat across 


the line before that gun was sent back by showing her number from 
the battery. The following are the rules of the road: 

“A boat which is running free shall keep out of the way of a boat 
which is close-hauled, 

“A hoat which is close-hauled on the port tack shall keep out of the 
way of a boat which is close-hauled on the starboard tack, 

“When both are running free with the wind on different sides, the 
boat which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of 
the other, ~ 

““When both are running free with the wind on the same side, the 
boat which is to windward shall keep out. of the way of the boat 
which is to leeward, 

“A boat which has the wind aft shall keep out of the way of boats 
on the wind.” 

Hach boat to go fairly round the course and not to touch any flag- 
boat. A question arose in one race where a boat put her nose over 
the winning line, and having done so fouled the flag-boat. She 
claimed the race and, after consultation with the yachting authori- 
ties of Great Britain, it was decided that the instant the end of her 
bowsprit_ crossed the line she must be held to have completed her 
course: that the race was over, and that no subsequent fouling, on 
her part, could deprive her of the prize, After this decision provision 
will. probably, be made to prevent a recurrence of such an incident. 
Only sailing is allowed. A boat might anchor durmga race, but 
must weigh anchor and not Slip. In ease of an accident or assistance 
rendered by a racing boat, if the committees deem that such a boat 
was prevented from winning a race, they have power to erder a 
resail between the boats so prevented and the actual winner, Pro- 
tests had to be filed within an hour after the arrival at the finish. 

Such are some of the leading rules and regulations of the Bangor 
Corinthian Sailing Club. They are the result of considerable study 
by competent authorities, and ought to be useful as precedents. par- 
ticularly at this time when Corinthian yacht elubs are becoming so 
popular both on the sea coast and the lakes of America, 

BANGORIAN. 

[Practical seamanship and competitive interest among the owners 
and sailers of small boats would be greatly benefiled by the estab- 
lishment of similar clubsin American waters. Pride and emulation 
in the race for the highest certificate would lead to study and pro- 
ficiency in practice. To be an A. B., or eligible to a flag officer's 
berth in a club, founded upon an aristocracy of learning and experi- 
ence, would not fail to receive proper recognition, The public weuld 
quickly bestow its approval and support to a clubin which brains 
rank ahead of wealth, no matter how small the tonnage of the boats, 
To sport a flag which is a trade mark of capacity in yachting attain- 
ments has a meaning and dignity which commands respect for merit 
from all sides, and though flown from a two-tonner only, outranks 
the empty emblem ofa ‘society leader” aboard a huge white ele- 
phant, or a picnicking dawdler afraid of an occasional wet jacket.] 


THE PROPOSED ASSOCIATION.—Commenting upgn the proposi- 
tion to form a national association in America, Le Yacht, of Paris. 
remarks: ‘‘Gertainly the programme of ForEsT AnD STREAM is an 
excellent one, the realization of which would be of wide utility; un- 
fortunately, we think it will for a long time remain in the realm of 
Utopia in the United States, no matter how great progress yachting 
may have made in that country, First, there is a material obstacle 
whick will interpose against the establishment of a central society, 
This is the distance between the clubs, extending along the immense 
length of the coasts of America. Besides the local conditions which 
influence the form and nature of construction will hinder the adop- 
tion of a commonrule of measurement. In England, where yachting 
has prospered more than half a century, where the race courses are 
found over a relatively confined coast compared to that of the United 
States, the Y. R. A. has been able to establish, after a fashion, almost 
general uniformity of its rules, because the conditions surrounding 
construction are almost the same everywhere. But we cannot hope 
to see this uniformity in the United States, where so much difference 
exists in the boats, and where every club claims its own rules the 
best. For example, in the single city of New York the two largest 
clubs, the New York ¥.C, and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., can- 
not agree on the application of a system of measurement by length 
and sail area cémbined, although they both accept the same prin- 
ciples in their rules. Nevertheless the proposition of Forrst anp 
STREAM will recommend itself to all sincere friends of yachting, who 
can draw from it great profit. The questions which it puts merit and 
challenge attention, and for that reason we have thought its proposi- 
tion worth discussing.” 


A VARIED EXPERIENCE.—Marine Architect Saefkow, of the 
Imperal German Navy, writes us that in the past ten years he has 
designed and built for his own use fourteen yachts of all kinds, from 
the widest centerboard to the narrowest of cutters. One of his last 
designs was the cutter Rhe, 30ft, loadline, 9ft. beam and 5ft. draft, 
with 8,000 pounds en the keel. She sailed from the city of Kiel to 
Konigsberg on the Baltic, a distance of 400 miles, passing through a 
severe gale in comfort and safety, Sheis notably fast in light winds, 
being more than a match for the best centerboards of local renown. 
The five-beam cutter Anna, we are informed, is the driest boat of all 
Lieut. Saefkow ever sailed, and as ‘‘quiet asa girl’ in a sea, no one 
being seasick on board in heavy weather, as was always the case with 
the wide boats he owned. The Anna isa great success, and will 
appear inthe English races next summer. Lieut. Saeskow has _con- 
structed the curve of stability for a sandbagger like the New York 


Parole, and found she attained her maximum at twenty-seven 


degrees, and her vanishing point at sixty. 


THE JANUARY NUMBER.—The London Nautical Magaz ne for 
January has reached us, ‘freighted as usual with mstiuction and in- 
terest to sea-polne people. The contents for this month include 
“The Stability of Merchant Ships,” ‘‘Insubordination of Seamen,”) 
and ‘The Panama Canal,” a timely article for all Americans to read. 
While we are iuly dreaming of cutting across Nicaragua and indulg- 
ingin threatening bluster about our rights and prestige in the case, 
foreigners have goue to work with energy and capital, and in spite of 
all difficulties, the Panama canal will become an accomplished fact 
before we finish blowing off laudable but futile patriotic steam. The 
magazine also contains the usual notes on navigation, correspondence 
from ship masters and similar matter, which is the only literature 
the handful of American seamen can reach in the total absence of 
any nautical periodical of our own. 


REAL YACHTING.—A gentleman writes from Liverpool, Eng- 
land, that he has bought a regular ‘‘nailer’’ in Southampton, and 
expects to sail her round to her new hailing port in February. Sheis 
31ft. bin. over all, 26ft. bin. loadline, and 6ft. bin, beam, with 65ft. Gin, 
draft, and tiush deck. WForecastle with cot for one hand, main cabin 
with sofas, and .after cabin with two standing berths. washstand, 
ete. Polished pine cabins and teak deck fittings. This cutter is 
nearly same loadline as the little Yolande lying in Seawanbaka 
Basin, Staten Island, with fin, less beam. The voyage round the 
Land’s End to Liverpool is six hundred miles. Englishmen think 
nothing of such ventures, but here a man’s soundness of mind is stall 
questioned in many quarters if he moots going to sea in a bi 
schooner, or has ambitions which take him beyoudethe confines of 
one day’s run in the Sound, 


CRUISE OF THE FALCON.—Sampson, Low & Co,, of London, 
have published a new yachting yolume in which is detailed the cruise 
of the little yaw] Falcon, from Southampton to the coast of Brazil 
and the South Atlantic, made by the owner, Mr, Knight, and two 
friends as the amateur crew. The Falcon is only 42ft. long, yet the 
extensive yoyage was accomplished in safety and comfort and hugely 
enjoyed. The volume is full of instruction, useful to the mercantile 
service, as any unchartered ports and islands were visited and notes 
made upon their hydrography, best approaches, ete. The owner 
left the yacht at Barbadoes, intending soon to return and continue 
the voyage through the West Indies and home. We may recur to 
this volume at greater length when chance offers. Itiseommended to 
those in search ef real yachting without the expense attached to 
‘Juxuriant’’ palaces afloat, 


*S FLEET,.—The sloop yacht Petrel, built in July, 1883, at 
Sena brought through the reat lakes to Detroit, has been 
urchased at the latter place by Messrs, Aug. Marshausen, Jr., W. FP. 
Baisch, H. Kees and George Boehnlein, for the sum of $800, She is a 
cabin yachtof fine lines, being 8/ft. over all; and haying a beam of 
10ft, 3in., deep draft, and carries five sails, viz., main, top, and storm 
staysails, jib and flying jib. Although she is not rigged for racing, 
having been used for cruising only, her owners intend entering her 
in all regattasand private races which may take place on the lakes. 
Yachting has been very quietin and around Detroit, but th rough the 
efforts of these and other gentlemen there wil! be quite a boom in if 
this seoson, 


BIG CUTTERS.—The prospect for some live racing in the 80-ton 
class in English waters is exceedingly good. Way & Co., of South- 
ampton, are building two new flyers of about 85 tons, from lines by” 
Mr. Joseph M. Soper, the superintendent of the fica They arealso 
overhauling the Erycina of 90 tons, in view of the coming contest. 
Mr. Soper is the designer of many fine vessels. The Daisy, soon to 
be in our waters, is from hishands. The same builders have under- 
way somenew cutters to sailim the length and sail area classes in 
southampton waters, One of these will be much like the Daisy, 
Q5x8x6)sib. and 85ft, over all, with a Butbercup stem, ' 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. C.—Officers for the years: Commadore, 
Geo. R. Hobby; Vice-Com., W. T. Onderdonk; Secretary. William R. 
Morse; Treasurer, Chas, Lamb; Measurer, John Hyslop. Spring 
match fixed for May 80, op2n to five classes. Sixtytive yachts in the 
fleet, and 180 members. The lectures delivered before the cllib by 
Mr. Hyslop have been well att-niled and appreciated. They have so 
far covered the methods ef designing boats, and others are promised 
detailing the planning of rigs and Mr. Hyslop’s original wave area 
ex pebiaeuts which antedate the investigations of Collin Archer in 

urope. 


NEW YORK Y. C.—Annual matches fixed for June 12, Mr, Ogden 
Goelet, Norseman schooner, has offered two cups, vale $1.000 and 
$500, for schooners and sloops and cutters to be sailed for off Newport 
next season. Officers of the club for the year: Commodore, James 
Gordon Bennett, Namounasteamer; Vice-Commodore, W, P, Doulas, 
Arrow cutter and Aida steamer: Rear-Commodore, Samuel R. Platt, 
Montaulr schooner; Secretary, Chas, A. Minton: Treasurer, Jas. O. 
Proudfit; Measurer, John M, Wilson; Raciie Committee, J. Fred. 
Tams, Chas, H. Stebbins and Jules A, Montant, 


RIGHT MOVE,—Itis buta very short time since that any one 
counselling outside cruising and racing was considered more or less 
demented. People have learned better by this time. Bxtended 
cruises are the order of the day, and a yacht not fit for such work no 
longer ranks high in esteem, The New Maven Yacht Club, though 
starting in life as a local Sound organization, are up to the enterprise 
of the day and propose an ocean match from cltib-honse around 
Block Island and home, The Sound is fast loosing its mesmeric hold 
iipon progressive men. . 


THE LOWELL CUTTER.—A entter yacht which Williams & 
Stevens, of Lowell, are biilding is about half planked. Wer bilge dis 
straight from rabbel to bilze of garboard, and the dimensions are as 
follows: Length over all, 25ft. Gin.; Inadline, 20ft. Gin : 6ft. moulded 
beam: depth of middle section, 5ft, 8in.; draft, 4ft.1lin. Theréisa 
small coekpit on deck, ard a wash board on the outside, The cabin 
has two berths and room for a hammock, and there are lockers, 
wales fee, ete, The cutter will readily find an owner.—Foston 

Cratd, 


A GOOD BXAMPLE.—Mr. Wm. Gardner has left for Wagland to 
enter the Royal School of Naval Architecture and pass through a 
regular course of study, with the object of mastering the theory and 
practice of shipbuilding, Mr. Gardner has already been under - 
the tnition of Mr. Harvey in this city, and has spent some time in the 
yard of John Roach & Sonat Chester. Hehas voluntarily entered 
upon his self-education from, enthusiasm for the science, a wérthy 
example for others of independent means. to follow. 


BOSTON Y. C.—The following fixtures have heen settled upon: 
Regular club cruise every Saturday, returning Sunday, during the 
summer months, Also, May 24, reyiew and cruise, commodore in 
charge, May 31--First club match. Connor and commodore's chal 
lenge cups and regular prizes. June 28—Ladies’ day. July 12— 
Second club match for reg@jar prizes. Aug, 9—Upen match; entries 
from all clubs. Aug. 282—Third club match: regular prizes. Sept. 
18—Second ladies’ day. 


“HUNT'S MAGAZINE,’’—This London publication for January 
contains a number of readable yachting cruises, the lines of a small 
3-ton cutter, and general yachting notes. Published by Hunt & Co., 
119 Church street, London. Subdseription $44 year. 


ORUISING.—Schooner Gitana, W. F. Weld, Jr., arrived off Gibral- 
tar Rock, Feb. 4, and the Dauntless, C. H. Colt, was heard trem about 
the same time at St. Michael, Azore Islands. 1t is expected they will 
race in the great-Nice International. 


PHOTOS.—We have received from a gentleman in Hoagland, some 
handsome photos of the crack schooner Miranda, the cutter Silver 
Star, and the tiny three-ton Chittywee, all under way in live breezes. 


IMPORTED FROM THE HAST.—Several gentlemen of Brooklyn 
have houghta cutter 32ft. loadline from Mr. Decator, of Portsmouth. 
This boat will appear in New York waters early m spring. 


SAIL AREA,—In the table of elements of small cruiser last week, 
the area of sail per sq. ft. of wet surface should read 2.45sq. ft., 
including surface of rudder, or 2.60sq. ft. without it, 


NEW ENGLAND YACHTING ASSOCIATION—Has been organized 
and will hold next meeting Feb. 20, Parker House,Boston. Report 
of proceedings next week. 


ENGLISH AND AMERICAN YACHTS,—The introductory to an 
article under this head by Dixon Kemp. appears in the London Ship- 
ping World for January, 

ILEEN,—We are able to state that so far as the Ileen is concerned 
there is uo foundation for the rumors of a proposed race with the 
Hildegard. 


HULL Y. C.—Will ho!ld meetings each second Saturday in June, 
July, August and September. 


FORTUNA—Left St. Thomas Feb, 3. bound fer St. Croix. 


guswers to Correspondents. 


(= No Notice Taken of Alionymous Correspondents, 


A. J. H., Pontiac, Mich.—Try Glover's mange cure. 
R.M , Youngstown, O.—Write to Gen, F, A, Bond, Jessiyp, Md. 
F. G. B., Boston, Mass.—We know of no well-bred retriever for sale. 


Hupson, Hudson, N, ¥Y.—Write to Dr. M. H. Cryer, 1,111 Girard 
street, Philadelphia, Pa. 


Accomao,—A mixture for whitening sails was givenin Tors, AND 
Srream Sept. 13, 1888. No preparation will prevent mildew, unless 
the sail is well cared for, 


Snow SHors, Dunbarton. N. H.—Por snow shoes writs to John 
Henderson & (o., Montreal, or to Renfrew & Co., Quebee. Describe 
to them the style you want, 


FT. M. L., Summit Station, Ohio.—l. The rifle will be ready abont 
Mareh 1, 2. For descriptions of the other arms named send for eata - 
logue to the manufacturers of them, who advertise in our columns. 


CG, B. T.—Are split-bamboo rods worth the price asked for them 
as compared with the best wooden rods? Ans. Split-bambow rods 
are, like wooden ones, of all degrees of excellence. Phe bast wooden 
rods are nearly as expensive as the bamboo. We think thar a good 
rod of split bamboo is well worth the price usually asked. 


St. Paul's School, Concord, §, H,—Will you have the 
kindness to tell me where I can get a pair of live grouse of any kind, 
ruffed especially desired? Ans. Wethink ib very doubttnlif you can 
obtain them. Once in a while Reiche Bros.,of Chatham siraet. New 
York.have them. Possibly some of our corresp2adents may be able 
to help you. 


NicHtr Hawk 


J. W. L., Gildersleeve, Conn.—Will you tellus about the habits of 
the great Northern hare? 1. Do they frequent hilly or swampy 
localities? 2. What kind of woods do they preter tolivein? 3. How 
fast do they breed young, andhow many ata litter? Ans. 1. Are 
usually found in dense swamps, thongh sometimes atnong the thi¢k 

ine woods on the hills. 2, Cedar, hemlock and pine, 3. Probably 
Breeds twice a year, having from four to six young at a litter. 


HB Glasco, N. Y.—Several days az0, a boy brought to me, for 
mounting, an owl which I haye uever seen before. In size itis be- 
tween the screech ow! and barred owl. Wimes long and pointed, 
breast and stomach buff, with dark browt or black markings, feathers 
on legs and feet buff, claws black. ander purface of wings nearl 
white, except the points which are black; back, wigs, and tail dark 
buff, with dark brown or black bars, beak black, eyes yellow, pupil 
blue black. What is it? Ans. Very likely a skort-eared owl (sto 
accipitrinus), i 


B. H., Norman Co,, Minn.—i, What baits are best for pisksrel, 
pike, rock bass, sun bags, redhorse. whitefish and catfish? 2 Cas 
any of these betaken with the artificial fly, and if so, what kinds? 
There are no angle worms inthis part. Ans. 1. Small fish are best 
for all the fish named except whitefish and redborse. The whitefish 
does not often take bait, and the redhorse is one of the sucker 
family and ean be taken with small strips of tough beafeut in the 
shape of worms, Pickerel and pike can be taken with pe ges 
spoons, 2, Bass can be taken with the fiy, Write to any of our ad- 
ea for an assortment of good bass flies, 


Fer, 14, 1884.) 


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(44 pages), also Idustrated Catalogue PREE. 
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fcine Co., 109 Fulton Street, New York, . 


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59 


TO FLORIDA ANCLERS. 


Trout, Etc., Ete. 


mended by expert Florida anglers: 


Keeping fully abreast with the times, we have the last few seasons given particular attention to the manufac- 
ture and introduction of a large variety of tackle specially adapted to the needs of Florida anglers. The difficulty 
of obtaining natural bait at some of the best fishing grounds renders it very desirable for anglers to provide them- 
selves with proper artificial baits. We have an unusually fine assortment of the following goods, used and recom- 


Pearl Florida Spinners, Mottled Pearl Spoons, Pearl Squids, Pearl Mullet, Fiorida 
Bass Flies, Tackle for Channel Bass, Red Snappers, Sheepshead, Salt Water 
Also a New and Special Hook for Tarpum. 


ABBEY ,& IMBRIE, 


48 and 50 Maiden Lane, New York City. 


JAS. F. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Fine Fishing Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
186ft., $1.50; Dunte., S175: 300ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600ft., $2.50, Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts. extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra, Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts, extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts, per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. Peg: put up one-half dozen in a 


pacer 


Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.} 


ds., 10 cts.; 8yds., 15 cts. Double 


wisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length,10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz, Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft, long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft long, $1.50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishing. 
Samples of hooks, leaders, etc., sent by mail on receipt of price in money or stamp. Send stamp for 


eatalogue, 


Established 20 years. Open Evenings. Je F. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 


mY NOCED’S 
Patent “Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 
KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 


Winehester or Wesson No. 2 primers. 
only about half as much. 


Can he reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, 
Weight less than paper shells. 


Cost 
They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 


of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 


same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. 


Or can be effectually 


crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 


acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. 


Sample 


shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the'trade 
only. Fer sale in any gnantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers 


not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 108 Duane Street, New York. 


CHEAP TRAP SHOOTING. 


——)o (—— 


bBelicher’s Pat. Paper KBird. 


Attached to a suitable wire ball, thrown from any 
glass ball trap in the same way as glass balls, is the 
cheapest and most satisfactory trap shooting. These 
birds may be re-used after marking the shot perfor- 
ations with pencil. No disputes whether a bird is 
hit or missed; no broken glass or clay to injure 
grounds. Balls everlasting. Fifty birds and one 
ball sent by mail on receipt of $1. Additional birds 
$1 per hundred Additional balls 50 cents each. 

Address, 


Buy or use no Clay Pigeons or Clay Pigeon Traps excepting those 
made or licensed by - 


The Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Co., Cincinnati, 0. 


This company owns the original patents on ‘Clay Pigeons” 


and “Clay Pigeon*® Traps. Others are 


manufacturing in infringement of these patents; and all who use or sell such infringing Clay Pigeons 
or Clay Pigeon Traps will be prosecuted. The Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Go. furnishes traps at $7.00, with 
all the latest improvements and guaranteed against any liability for infringement. 

Send fer circulars of the 5-days programme of the First International Clay Pigeon Tournament, 


Chicago, May 26 to 31, 


Over $5,000 in prizes and sweepstakes. 


READY NEXT MONDAY. 


Antelope and Deer of America. 


—BY— 


Hon. J. D. CATON. 


A New Edition of this important work will be published 
February 18th. 


This volume is one which should be in the hands of every deer hunter. Itgives the complete 
natural history of the antelope and all the species of North American deer, with full mstruetions as io 
how to hunt them. Its value to the practical hunter and to the beginner cannot be overestimated, 


425 pages and many illustrations, Price $2.50. 


& 


orest and Stream Publishina Co., 39 Park Row, N. Y. 


SILK WORM GUT. 


FF. LATASA, 85 Broadway, N. Y., 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 
Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heayy Salmon 


Gut to Extra Fine. 
For price list address 


Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to Hine, $5.00, 


F. LATASA, 35 Broadway, New York. 


Sportsman's Librarv. 


Esaist of Sportsman’s Books 


We will forward any of these Books by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. 


No books sent unless money accompanies: the order. 
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Adirondacks, Map of, Stoddard .. ........... 
Adirondack Wilderness, In the................ 
Amateur Trap or papers DOCATNDOS Ue. bclcace 
American Angler's Book, Norris............... 
American Bird Fancier..............¢00. eee. 00 
American Boy’s;Own Book, Sports and Games 
American Roadsters and Trotting Horses..... 
American Wild Fowl Shooting, J. W. Long.... 
American Kennel, Burges...........-,.-- ss 
American Grape Growing and Wine Making. . 
Angling Talks, Dawson..........2. c.eassesees 
Angling, a Book on, Francis.............-.0025 
Angling Literature in England................ 
Animal Plagues, Fleming ... ... ............- 
ARCHECERNLOM GEM ay wed. sean assets sen epee 
Archery, Witchery of, Mautice Thompson.... 
Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam..... 
Athletic Sports for Boys, bds. 75c.; cloth....... 
Baird’s Birds of North America.... ..........- 
Boucher’s Method of poreemanehip ae 
Bechstein’s Chamber and Cage Birds 
Bird Notes...... Ana bt Hricladth be oe. 4 det 
Bits and Bearing Reins,..................2.005 
Black Bass Fishing, Henshall.................. 
Black Hills of Dakota, Ludlow, quarto, cloth, 
Government Report.............. .....2. .. 
Books for Sportsmen: Angling, 50c.; Shooting, 
50c.; Common Objects of the Seashore, 50c. ; 
Cage and Singing Birds, 50c.; Degs, 75c.; 
Birds’ Eggs and Nests, 50c.; Fresh and Salt 
Water Aquarium, 50¢; Native Song Birds... 
Boy’s Treasury of Sports and Pastimes, etc.. 
Bruce’s Stud Book, 3 vols....................0 
British Angling ilies... 0. oe iste tien ace ene 
Boat Racing, Brickwood ... .. Oe fees sdb A a 
Breech Loader, Modern, Greener.............. 
Butler on the Dog............1. Reta. cwarern ere 
Cage and Singing Birds, Adams............... 
Canoeing in Kanuckia. ...............c..cse0s 
Canoe and Camerain jc ..s 00 see c ene sins apecnnces 
Canoe Traveling, Powell................e.s-.0- 
Canoe, Voyage of the Paper. Bishop’s......... 
Canns@uTburene nas Wada sn teeter ages ee ees 
Complete Amerigan Trapper, Gibson......... 
Coues’ Birds of the Northwest................ 
Coues’ Fur-Bearing Animals...,.............. 
Gnnol: SHOtE Reali ys Uy se Sins teed oe Cee 
Dadd’s American Reformed Horse Book, 8va. 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor, 12mo 


Dog Breaking, by Holabird............... 
Dog Breaking, Hutchinson................ 
Dog, the DS Mayhew and Hutchinson 
Dog, the Hill 
Dogs of Great Britain, America and other 
COUnities ee hies pon eee feast ao pe ee OLE 
Dogs, Management of, Mayhew, 16mo........ 
Dogs, Points for Judging...................... 
Dogs, Richardson, pa. 30,; cloth............... 
DOPHATCMTia eeee eatee ee ener ee Ele 


PRETADS Guide to Richardson and Rangeley 
CIE LA ay boa ehs te AGne nae Ol nn pai ably 
Farrar’s Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake .... 
Farrar’s Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region 


Sa are ae ae eared 


Fishing with the Fly, Orvis ................... 
Fly Fishing in Maine Lakes.......... ta 
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing ... ee 

Frank Forester’s Fishing with Hook and Line 
Frank Foresters Manual for Young Sportsmen 
Frank Forester’s Life and Writings, 2 vols., 


Be ee we wee tem mei ee we eetstessaseese 


Herbert's Hints to Horse Keepers.,........... 
Hints to Riflemen. Cleveland ................. 
Holden's Book of Birds, pa. 25¢.; cloth. ...... 
Horseback Riding, Durant........ Ty, Vi 
Horse Breaking, Moreton.......... ee ob noel 
Horses and Hounds. ........... /alele FEaet ae IN ee 
Horses, Famous American Race............... 


How to Camp Out, Gould............... near 


2 00 
5 00 


1 50 


How to Hunt and Trap, Batty’s .............- 1 50 
Hand Books on Out-Door Amusements:— 
(J VMIASELCS ES... chm atl tA ent toss pais al ciemte 20 
(CEICK CLS etn hated tant stra hin, Keene ee hs Aes 25 
Rowingiand Saline. . oo ecceeesoensceeecdioe 20 
RIC MAC OTEVIN Ss 2 teehee sans cae 20 
MankysNReLcises ss teh as eet ebay ee 20 
ETUNUGE s erceae ey es at ere thie eee anne sas 20 
Ishin pew, s Vadaisl ve ge diate eee 2 Pe ee 25 
MOIS and Bowls, 22 Ja alfa 25 
RIEU LET Oe oe Co trenait pects eeiaty 2 penn 2 SE 25 
How to Buy and Sella Horse... .... ........ 1 00 
How I Became a Crack Shot, Farrow......... 1 00 
How I Became a Sportsman............ ....., 2 40 
Humorous Sketches, Seymour................. 6 00 


Maylrew’s Horse Doctor............0..00ee-0e5 

Mayhew’s Horse Management................. 3 00 
Minot's Land and Game Birds. ............... 8 00 
Mountain, Lake and River................,...- 8 75 
Naturalists’ Guide, Maynard................... 2 00 
Natural History of Birds...................... 3 00 


Stonehenge on the Horse, American edition, 
LAWNOP AS hwsnohs t ob oem cet cae nett aden 2 00 


OUCH oaks SERRE 9 a ees ee Ue 2 een 2 00 
Taxidermist’s. Manual... 0.00.0 bp scaesceecs cue 1 00 
The Book of the Rabbit........................ 5 00 
The Game Fish of the Northern States and 

British Provineces...... .... LEARY Sad oA ee 2 00 
The Taxidermists' Manual, Brown............ 1 00 
Bie Sa DR aOR. ele WN. so wee eae ec uae eee a0 
he Sadcdevtorsecrss set eee een 1 60 
The Horse Owner’s Safeguard................. 2 00 
The Cream of Leicestershire......... ........ 3 50 
The Northwest Coast of America. ......,..... 20 00 
hes ear Ot BAnG Dey men seas, johny ee 3 75 
The Botanical Atlas, 2-vols..................... § 00 
The Zoological Atlas, 2 vols.................... 10 CO 
LLCET SS Ae A Go 50 
Veterinary Dictionary, Going ................. 2 00 
Wallace’s American Stud Book..... .. ...... 10 00 
Wallace’s American Trotting Register, 2 vols, 20 00 
Wilson’s American Ornithology, 3 vols....._.. 18 00 
Wild Flowers of Switzerland .... . .....,..,. 15 00 
Wood’s Natural History of Birds.............. 6 00 
Woods and Lakes of Maine,...............,... 310 
Woodruft’s Trotting Horses of America...,.. 2 50 
Wrinkles, by Old Shekarry.................... 40 
Yellowstone Park, Ludlow. quarto, cloth, Goy- 

CrnNleny HEPOLiG. =e yeeiee okt > eek ee 2 50 
Youatt and Spooner on the Horse.... ......., 1 50 
Nistiatt on Gaede, 35 ve, Sate ae ie 2 50 
Youatt on Sheep,..... Se epee ree ee he re 1 00 


60 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


(Fae, 14, 1884. 


A Skin of Beauty is a joy Forever, 
DR T. FELIX GOURAUD’S 


Oriental Cream, or Magical Beautifier 


Removes Tan, 
Pimples, Freck- 
les,Moth Patches 
and every blem- 
ish om beauty, 
and defies detec- 
} tion. It has stood 
the test of thirty 
years, and it is 
so harmless we 
taste it to be sure 
the preparation 
is properly 
made. Accept 
no counterfeit of 
similar name. 
The ne 

. ‘ ed Dr. L.A. Sayre 
A ; said to a lady of 
the haut ton (a patient):—‘‘As you ladies will use 
them, Trecommend ‘Gouraud’s Cream’ as the least 
harmful of all the skin preparations.” One bottle 
will last six nvonths, using it every day. Also Pou- 
dre Subtile removes superfinous hair withoutinjury 
to the skin, 
Muu. M. B. T. GOURAUD, Sole Proprietor, 
48 Bond street, N. Y. 

For sale by aJl Druggists and Fancy “oods deal- 
ers throughout the U.§., Canadas and Europe. Also 
found in N.Y. City, at R. H. Macy’s, Stern’s, 
Ehrich’s, Kidley’s, and other Fancy Goods Dealers. 
("Beware of base-imitations. $1,000 reward for 
arrest and proof of any one selling the same, 


Fine Fishing Rods. 


Snakewood, Lancewood, Greenheart, Bethabara, 
ete. The finest rods for the least money. Send 
stamp for circular. KE M. EDWARDS, Hancock, 
Del. Co., N. Y. 


PURIFIES 
Beautifies the 
Skin 


amisor’s Celebrated. Fish Hook 


Harrison's Ce 


Registered. 


MS 
Trade & 


Whereas, It having come to our netice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
approach ours, which are to be obtamed trom 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 

Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison's Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. (December, 1882.) 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 

description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


Scehwatka’s Search. 


Sledging in the Arctic in quest of the 
FRANKLIN RECORDS, 


WILLIAM H. GUILDER 


Second in Command. 
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Price, 3.00. 
For sale by the Forest and Stream Pub. Co, 


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weather without ice 


Remember the negatives may all be developed on 
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The lightest, most complete and practical of 
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Send for eatalogue, Book of instructions free. 
Forty years established in this line of business, 


t The Hunting Sight. 


4;  LYMAN’S PATENT COMBINATION 
i GUN 


SIGHT, 
Makes a Sporting Rifle Perfect. 
J Send for Circular containing full de- 
scription. Address, 


WILLIAM LYMAN, 
Middlefield, Conn. 


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at time of discharge renders 


These rifles are made .44 cal. 40 gr., and .45 cal, 60 gr., using 


DAVENPORT’S 


SINGLE OR DOUBLE 


GP HVOLVING CLAY PIGEON TRAP. 


This Trap gives as many different angles of flight 


(except toward sheoter) of birds as 
any five-trap system. 


The price is reduced to $10.00. 


The double bird attachment works as well as the single. 
Can throw the bird any distance apart desired. 


THE TRAPS ARE WARRANTED. 


Upon trial if not found as represented or satisfactory can 


be returned at my expense. 
Send for card of rules and circulars to 


A. F. MARTINS, Manufacturer, 


DAVENPORT, N. Y. 


NEW PATENT BREEAH-LCADING 


Yacht Cannon, 
Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length, 


MANUFACTURED BY 


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TI. Range and Migrations; 
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OF THE ATLANTIC COAST AND THE LAKES 
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payee 
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STODDARD’S 


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Bailey's Split Shot Trout Sinkers. 


Warranted best in the market. Trade supplied. 
Send for price list. G. L. BAILEY, Portland, Me, 


a NEW BOW-FACING OARS. READY 
ay 1. 


Wanted, 


Sov Sale. 


ANGLERS, ATTENTION. 


Kilbourne's frame Fishes of America 


(20 Plates), . 

With a Letter Press by Prof.G. Browne Goode, 
A new copy of this superb work for sale. 
Price, #40.00. 

Address Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 

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FEW WILD HARES FOR SALE (Lepus 
americanus) to stock game preserves. Please 
address J. G. RICH, Bethel, Me. jan10,2mo 


> 


O EXCHANGE.—10-OUNCE BAMBOO FLY- 

rod; nickel mounted, extra tip, prrfect order, 
for cocker spaniel puppy. F. W. KITCHEL, Perth ~ 
Amboy, N. J febl41t 


YOR SALE._SEALSKIN VEST, FINE QUALITY, 
} new; 38in. chest; $18, or will exchange for 
ine rifle. Address 

feb14,1t 


OR SALE.—A LOT OF BROOK TROUT FRY 

at $3 per 1000. Also 1, 2and 3-year old tiout 
for sale ast te es Trout Pond, Cote 
County, N. ¥. M.V.MOSHIER, Prop.  febl4,bt 


ILL EXCHANGE.—DEXTER SCROLL SAW 
for ponte ae over 4 mos. old. W. MACKAY, 
Englewood, N. J. feb14,1t 


OR SALE.—8-BORE, 11-LBS. DOUBLE GUN 
(Scott’s make); cost new $225; is in fine con- 
dition and a grand gun for heavy shooting; full sety 
of loading tools and fifty brass shells. Price very 
low. Also Sharps .56-cal. rifle; splendid fo: 
deer, Lock Box 237 Suspension, Bridge, N. Y. 
feb14,1t 


— 


Parker gun, 10-bore, 10lbs., top action, pistol erip 
Damascus barrels, rubber butt plate, ete. All im 
provements; made to orcer: warranted. In perke 
order. Cost $95; will sell for $55. Address B 
823, Newton Centre, Mass. jan3i,2 


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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 
The Dog Tax and the Game Laws 
Beagles for Fox Hunting. 
The Clumber Spaniel, 
The Cincinnati Bench Show. 
The Pointing Instinct 
Fox Hunting on Cape Cod in 1884 
The Beagle Club, 
Cleveland Dog Show. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes, 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 


UDYPORTAL, 
Dog Tax and Game Law. 
The Fight in New England. 
International Match Conditions. 
Uniform Game Laws. 
| Death of Reuben Wood. 
HE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
~The Land of the Gou-Gou. 
Between the Lakes.—-y. 
_ Down the Youkon ona Raft.—y1, 
| Life Among the Blackfeet,—xm, 
Adirondack Forest Waste. 


Waturan History. Some Rifle Queries, 
] eee ot the Female Caribou. Range ty allery. 
Ophidiana, or Snake Gossip. The Tra 


The English Sparrow, 
Game BAG AND Gun. 
The Choice of Aina gthoet Rifles, 


The Clay: -Pigeon Tournament. 
CANOEING. 
t eee Canoe Building.—vyi. 


| Law Against Spring Shooting, Club Notes. 
Uniform New England Laws. The Log Book. 
The Performance of Shotguns, Down the Caer. 


Canoe or Sneakbox. 
Large or Small Canoes. 


Camp-FIRE F'LIGKERINGS, 
HA AND River FISHING. 


Trouting on the Bigosh. | YACHTING. 
Luck with the Longnoses. Fixtures, 
mbgling for Charity, The Daisy, 


Small Yachts. * 
New England Yachting Associ- 
ation. 
Sharpie Rudders. 
Around Lake Ontario in the 
Katie Gray. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


The Dowel Pin in F'ly-rods 

The Chronicle of the “Compleat 
Angler.” 

FISHCULTUR i 

The Menhaden Question. 


NNE. 
Almost a, Double, 


With tts compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, and kindred subjects, than is centained in all other 
American publications put together, 


UNIFORM GAMH LAWS. 


HIS is a very old topic. Possibly it may be comsidered 
hackneyed. To suggest anything new in relation to 
it is quite impossible. We are assured, however, that the 
subject is not one to be put aside and lost sight of. It has 
been often discussed. It ought to be discussed more. We 
are making progress in the field of game legislation. The 
country is too large for a uniform game law applying to its 
entire extent. To talk of a national law, prescribing the 
same season for Maine and Florida, is folly. But it is highly 
desirable, and we have faith to believe that it may some time 
be entirely practicable, to secure uniform laws for contigu- 
ous States which lie in the same isothermal bells. Such 
‘laws would be based en the soundest common sense, 

The one obstacle in the way of securing such a system is 
the wide and almost hopelessly irreconcilable difterenges of 
opinion prevailing among sportsmen respecting the proper 
seasons for killing and not killing game. In each individual 
‘State this diversity of sentiment is strongly marked, and so 
aggressive that it stands in the way of enacting laws that 
would secure the greatest good to the greatest nunaber. 

There is one point, however, upon which all might agree: 
That is the season for marketing game. If the sportsmen ef 
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania cannot agree upon 
an uniform open season for game killing they might agree 
upon the date when game selling should be stopped by law. 
This agreement might extend further than this. Why 
should not Massachusetts and New York and Pennsylvania 
regulate their game-selling seasons by an uniform law, which 
should have contol of the game of these three States and the 

game of the West as well? Why should not the game 


A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE Rop aND Gun. 


NEW YOnkK, breonUARY 21, 1884. 


market regulations of Mlinois be identical with those of 
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota? 

The right way to secure such laws is to unite for action, A 
national association for such a purpose has been tried. It 
was too big. It fell to pieces. If another one be organized 
that too will fall to pieces. What is needed is the associa- 
tion together of a restricted number of States. Such a 
meeting was held in Boston the other day, The New Eng- 
land States were represented. The interests of the several 
sections were identical.. A law was drafted, which will be 
presented to the legislatures of the several States. A uni- 
form law for New England will be a great step in advance. 


FOOLISHNESS IN THE WOODS. 


OREST lands. The lumbermoii’s axe. One tree cut 
for lumber. Twenty others destroyed in getting the 
one out, The ground littered up with brush, Fire. Deso- 
lation, Thatis the way our forests in this country have 
gone and are going. And that is the way they will go unless 
some wise and sufficient action be taken to call a halt in the 
work of destruction. The New York Legislature is asked 
to provide a remedy for the vandalism of Adirondack forest 
destroyers. The welfare of the whole nation is directly 
concerned in thisissue. The members of the Senate and 
Assembly at Albany cannot afford to shirk the responsibility 
of providing some measure to avert the calamities which will 
most surely follow if the present system of forest waste is 
persisted in. 


THE FIGHT IN NAW E INGLAND, 


A SPECIAL meeting of the Boston Produce Exchange 
L was called on Monday, and resolutions were passed 
protesting against the proposed alterations in the game laws 
of Massachusetts. A committee of five was appointed to 
take measures to protect the interests of the marketmen as 
against the ideas of those who would so adjust the present 
statutes as to prevent the possession and exposure for sale of 
game and game birds when out of seasen in this and other 
States. The present law permits the sale of frozen quail, 
prairie chickens and deer after the close time in that and 
the other New England States, as well as the West. What 
has been the result? Simply that the Boston market has 
become noted as the dumping ground of game out of season. 
It is the shutting off in this traffic which the Boston market- 
men fear, and it is here that the fight will begin, for ‘‘there 
is going to be a fight.” The marketmen resolved to oppose 
‘any change in the luw by all proper means,” which means 
to rsise thousands of doliars and employ able counsel to 
fivht their case before the Legislature now in session. 

The marketmen say that it is a fight between kid-¢loved 
sportsmen and business men; that a great business interest 
will be sacrificed, if the proposed game law passes, to the 
whims of an association of dandy sportsmen—meaning the 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association—‘‘a 
crowd of swell-front and swallow-tail wine guzzlers, who 
want all the game protected by law for their own private 
shooting.” Such is about the size the Boston marketmen 
give the question of uniform game laws throughout New 
England, as proposed by the late convention of Fish and 
Game Commissioners from six New. England States lately 
held in that city. 

But these marketmen have counted without their host 
this time. They suppose that they are crossing swords with 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association only, as on 
former occasions, when, in fact, they have got to fight a 
stropgly-planted, fast-growing public sentiment, engrafted 
all over New England, for the better protection of the little 
there is left of fish and game. Perhaps they do not know, or 
at least would like to hide the fact, that their miserable traffic 
in game out of season has caused. the true laborers for game 
protection more trouble than anything under the sun. Maine 
has been obliged to frame a non-exportation law to keep her 
fish and game out of the Boston market, even in close time. 
More than 1,500 deer went from that State last year to the 
Boston market—this year hardly fifty. But there are chances 
that the non-exportation law may be lost at the next session 
of its biennial Legislature in 1885, because of its non-popu- 
larity With market-hunters. This general law of close time 
and shutting of the Boston market to fish and game after 
close time will shut the doors to market-hunting just as 
firmly. The Boston marketmen see it. They see the end of 
grouse from Maine, purchased at 20 cents a piece and sold 
in close time at $2 per pair; the end of deer bought at 5 cents 
per pound and sold out after close time in saddles at 200 per 
cent. profit. This is ‘‘kid glove” against ‘‘business man.” 


Js VOL. XX1T.—No. 4 
1 Nos. 89 & 40 Park Row, New YORE. 


No matter how long the game lasts; there is more money 
in it for the marketman unprotected than protected. 

“Kid gloves,” Mr. Marketman, cover up too many claws 
for youthis time. You have had your share. You have 
flaunted frozen quail, prairie chickens and deer in the face 
of honest game protection till all New England ie awakened 
and each State proposes to put a universal game law upon 
her statute books; and no back tracks will be taken to 
please fifty game dealers in Boston. ‘‘Kid gloves,” as you 
call them, include some of the best business and professional 
men in Massachusetts, and such men as Augustus Hem- 
mingway, Datius Forbes, Governor Robinson and Senator 
Bruce are backing up honest and earnest tish and game pro- 
tection with their money and their influence, Such protec- 
tion is the belief and nearest the hearts of the prime movers 
for the suppression of an open market for game in Boston, 
out of season everywhere else. 


) eS ee er ee. 


DHATH OF REUBEN WOOD. 


‘ee very sudden death of Mr. Reuben Wood on Saturday 
last was a shock to bis many friends. He dropped dead 
of heart disease. 

Widely Known and as widely respected for his sterling 
honesty and simplicity, he was always the center of a party 
of anglers at the tournaments at which he had taken more 
prizes for his beautiful fly-casting than any other man. Mr. 
Wood was born in Greenbush, Rensselear county, N. Y., in 
1822, and was therefore sixty-two years old. Atan early age 
he moved to Syracuse, where he has since lived and been in 
business, He was a trustee of the First Baptist Church. He 
was president of the Onondaga Fishing Association, and a 
member of the’ Sumner Corps. He leaves a wife, and the 
children who survive him are Mrs. C. C. Francis, of Pitts- 
field, Mass.; George B. Wood, of Syracuse; Charles W. 
Wood, who is attending Williams College, and Miss Mabel 
L. Wood. 

We have personally known Mr. Wood for over forty-five 
years, and both as schoolboy and man he bore the same open 
hearted, sympathetic disposition which has made him 
respected wherever he was known. Always enthusiastic on 
angling, he was particularly fond of trips to the Adirondacks, 
where he could enjoy wilderness life, and a short time ago he 
told us of his intended trip to Meacham Lake next May. Last 
year Mr. Wood was one of the staff of the American Com- 
mission to the International Fisheries Exhibition at London, 
in charge of the display of angling implements, and made 
many friends on the other side, His singularly open char- 
acter and cheerfulness brought him friends everywhere, and 
“Uncle Reub.,” as he was familiarly known, was very 
popular among all classes. Many willimiss his kindly face 
at the tournaments and on the streams, 


THH DOWEL QUESTION. 


tie utility of dowels on the ferrules of fishing rods forms 

the subject ofa very able article in another column, by 
Mr. Henry P. Wells. This is one of the live questions which 
should be fully and fairly discussed from both sides, That 
there is another side may be inferred.from the fact that 
most rod makers use the dowels; and we would he glad to 
have those who believe in their utility give reasons for the 
faith thatis in them. Mr. Wells insists that the dowel must 
go; that it is a relict of an old method of making jointed rods 
which once had a reason for existence, but that its day of 
usefulness is past and that it is now not only useless, but in- 
jurious to the strength of a rod. Wecommend the article 
by Mr. Wells to the careful consideration of both anglers and 
rod makers. 


DOG TAX AND GAME LAW, 


| ie another column will be found a communication in 

which the writer proposes that the income derived from 
the tax on dogs should be devoted to the exeeution of the 
game laws. This is a very sensible suggestion. The plan 
includes the rigid enforcement of the dog law, and the col- 
lection of the dog tax. That means the weeding out (or 
drowning out) of the worthless curs; that, in tur, means 
that the sheep killers will be decimated. The sheep will not 
suffer; the sheep owner will have no claim for damages. 
The dog tax fund can then be utilized for game protection. 
Why should it not be? 


No. 36.—The authorship of No. 36 has been determined. 
The several claimants who are busy writing postal cards and 
requesting that we forward the prize without delay, may 
therefore cease from their labors, 


sooo eaenaelneleneeeemeeeeee eed — 


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INTERNATIONAL MATCH CONDITIONS. | 


ig is-pretty certain now that there will be uo international | 
rifle match during the present season. The old feud 
between the Amateur Rifle Club of this city and the small- 
bore men of Ireland seems te have died away. The Palma 
emblem of tie small-bore long-range championship rests rust- 
ingly in the rooms of the Military Service Institution at 
Governor’s Island, and with the defeat in July last of an 
American team at Wimbledon ended the series of two 
matches whieh the British Association had so cleverly az- 
ranged to catch the Americans on their weak point of long- 
range military shooting, There is, therefore, no match now 
on the slate, and there are no notes of preparation on either 
side the Atlantic. Thus far not a single official letter has 
passed on the subject of a match in 1884. 

During the visit of Col, Howard to England last year there 
Was some talk of a match in the following season, The 
American team captain had, however, no authority 1o make 
any arrangements for a contest beyond the one which he was 
sent over to conduct, and this fact was known generally. 
The English riflemen, elated by their success in downing the 
Americans, talked much of following up their victory by 
giving the Americans another lesson, and we believe that a 
sum of money toward the expenses of the team was either 
collected or guaranteed. The British Council, in whom alone 
the power exists to bind the Association, did nothing, nor 
did the American Directors take any step in the matter. 

The seeming apathy of the Americans was in part due to 
the fact that there was a change of directors by the election 
of January, when the annual meeting of the Association was 
held, and the outgving directors did not care to do anything 
which might bind the incoming board or leave them a legacy 
of work in the shape of a match, The new directors have 
not thus far thought it wise to take any steps toward start- 
ing a competition, and so the matter lies quiescent at a time 
when a brisk pushing of preparation would be the rule if 
there is to be a meeting of the British and American teams 
in 1884. 

There is much diversity of opinion as to the expediency of 
having a match in any such frequency as to require the 
crossing of the Atlantic by a team each year, Some of the 
younger and more enthusiastic spirits are in favor of a fight 
with each recurring seasen, but the older heads among the 
managers ate shaken cautiously, and the question asked 
why it is necessary to make the international match an 
annual occurrence. Euch match entails a great deal of 
work and responsibility upon a few, and it is not always 
easy to raise the considerable sums of money needed cqually, 
whether the competition is held on our own or foreign soil. 
There is no liberal fund from which to draw, no Govern- 
ment appropriation to be depended upon, and those who can 
shoot well, and whom it is proper to send to the front as 
representative marksmen, are not always able to pay their 
own way iu addition to the loss of time which must be al- 
lowed in each individual case. 

Apart from the financial aspect, it is doubtful whether 
there is much gain in the way of increased knowledge of 
firearms by having annual meetings. A defeat to be profit- 
able needs to be studied. If the arms used were found in- 
ferior it would seem to be a sensible thing to take an off-year 
for the purpose of private practice and improvement, and 
even for the men it may be found necessary to devote a 
season to careful drill] and record-making on the home 
tanges before a formal match is entered upon. There is no 
sepsivle reason why a match should not be made a biennial 
or even a triennial matter, There is no time lost, the 
science of small arms shooting goes on advancing just the 
same, and then a renewed zest is given the competitions 
when they do come off. Rifle manufacturers and those in- 
terested in the gate money which comes in connection with 
the matches, may seek to bring about annual gatherings and 
stir up the popular interest which comes with each interna- 
tional contest, but even these individuals may find that they 
have killed the goose which laid the golden egg if they push 
matters too far or too rapidly, 

Just at present America may, with a good grace, seek to 

- introduce the idea of matches at longer intervals. We have 
been defeated and naturally feel anxious for sueh return 
matches as shall enable us to demonstrate the fact that our 
present make of long-range military arms are fully equal to 
those of English make. That is the general conviction here, 
and with anything short of that execrable and super English 
weather which met the American team at Wimbledon in 
July, we think that the chances ate more than cven for a 
yictory to our team, Under these circumstances our man- 
agers may very properly make such advances and suggest 
such steps to our English friends as shall give us 4 match of | 
importance under certain definite conditivns and occurring 
not more often than once in two years, and which shall then 
be regarded as the championship match in the style of 
shooting covered by the rules of the competition, Sucha 
match we should be glad to see inaugurated, but against 
this aunual infliction of spasmodic contests we wish a relief. 


CunaP QuaAii.—Quail is » favorite dish on New York 
bills of fare. Landladies of boarding houses serve quail for 
dinner because itis cheap. Dishunestly sold contraband 
quail is not so expensive as honestly bred barn yard capon. 
The game protector in this city is not smart enough to stop 
this unlawful game trafic. 


formations. 
places the common cables of the fishermen are unable to 
reach bottom close under the shore, and backed by high 
mountains; in other parts low with long sandy points run- 
ning out into the sea, and with outlying banks of sand, 
affording breeding grounds for the cod, haddock and hake 
which love the clear cold waters and the abundant food of 


a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 
Che Sportsman Courist. 


‘THE LAND OF THE GOU-GOU. 
A TRUE TALE, 
*‘And frem out the heavy fog gradually appeared the figure of a 


woman of beautiful form and majestic appearance, with long, flow_ 
ing drapery extending indefinitely back into the dense sea mist. 
From her girdle hung a bag, and, stretching out her arms, she seized 
the rapacious fishermen, ard, depositing them therein, slowly faded 
from view. And they told us it was the Gou-gou who frequented 
those coasts.’’—Legend of the Micmacs, 


se shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence offer a great 


variety of scenery and many interesting geological 
In parts bold, so bold in fact that in many 


this region. 
Centuries ago, ages before the hardy and adventurous 


fishermen from the channel islands had found their way to 


these waters, off oneof the outermost points of the main- 


land, old ocean, under the influence of the wintry winds 
from the east, began throwing up a sandbank, which by 


slow accretions rose above the surface. Here a sparse vege- 
tation sprang up, probably of the coarser beach grasses, and 


this, im the course of years, by growth and decay, formed a 


soil capable of nourishing some of the hardier scrubs sown 
by the winds from the mainland or deposited by the birds 
in their southern flights from the bleak barrens of Labrador. 
These again by their death furnished new life to still other 
plants, till finally the bare sandbank became covered with a 
vegetation, not luxuriant to be sure, but sufficient to change 
the yellow mat of sand into a green carpet; and eventually, by 
some of the many mysterious ways which nature adopts for 
such processes, trees sprang up in some places and covered 
large tracts with « forest of white and yellow birch, spruce 
and fir. In other parts, and those more directly exposed to 
the fierce gales of those latitudes, any extended growth of 
trees was impossible, and the annual deposits of each year 
only served to raise the island higher by a layer of peat, and 
the best efforts of nature only succeeded in planting here 


the ocean blasts, were unable to attain more than a stunted 
and gnarled growth. The intervening spaces were, how- 
ever, filled with abundance of scrubs and moss, whortle- 
berry, blackberry, and afew other varieties of low bushes; 
the black bankberries, bake apples, upland cranberries; the 
dry, crisp gray moss so common in the haunts of the caribou, 
and which, more than any other one thing, is characteristic 
of the so-called caribou barrens of the Eastern States and 
Provinces; and finally the wet, green moss, such a favorite 
with the trout fisherman for filling his creel and thus keep- 
ing his fish fresh, 
As the height of the island increased, a natural system of 
drainage was established, the loftier portions of the peat 
sunk under the weight of snow and rain, and toward these 
low spots the drainage of the surrounding plain naturally 
gravitated till the water rose above the suriace of vegetation 
with the result of destroying it, and thus increasing the depth 
of the pool, while at the same time the recurring seasons 
raised the general surface higher and higher, and increased 
the amount of refuse water, and the soft spot of peat at first 
converted into a bog-hole, became slowly a pond of consider- 
able depth. Many of these ponds thus cormed over the bar- 
rens at slightly variable heights by the laws of gravitation, 
sought communication with each other, and the trickling 
water wearmg away the soil, established brooks or rather 
ditches, often through three or four ponds before the water 
finally reached its level. Some of these ponds, from their 
proximity to the sea, started their drainage in that direction 
with the result of forming brooks of perpetual fowing water. 
Again, in some of the larger ponds, a new factor appeared, 
for, exposed as they were to the winds from every direction, 
and with low banks affording no shelter, the action of their 
waves was sufficient often to tear away or at least undermine 
the banks, thus enlarging the water surface, and each in- 
crease in size still further favored the process of growth till 
in several places large lakes were formed. 
The dry moss and the resinous scrubs furnished favorable 
tinder for a conflagration, and after man appeared upon the 
scene, fire began to play a not unimportant part in the devel- 
opment of eur island, filling the peat with a layer of ashes 
which increased its solidity and enriched its soil, and to this 
agent, probably, more than anything else, 1s due the rich 
growth of berries of all kinds. Pa 
But while old gray-bearded Neptune was diligently shovel- 
ing the sand into a heap to get it out of water, even his long 
arms were insuflicient to land each tridentful directly on top 
of the previous one, or it may be Boreas was loafing about 
and chafting him, for, toward the sea, certain irregularities 
in the deposit existed, and when some of the fresh-water 
lakes began to drain toward the sea the water accumulated in 
some of the depressions just within the outer beach, forming 
again lakes of considerable size till their water's, rising more 
and more, found a path over the ridge and kissed the ocean. 
A short time now sufficed to wash away the soft sea sand 
and establish a brook, and at the next full moon the spring 
tide tuok up the work of excavation in the opposite direction, 
and the large fresh-water pond became brackish and began 
to rise and jall with the outer tides. A new soil thus intro- 
duced brought anew and different vegetation, and the brack- 
ish bay became filled with the succulent eel-grass in many 
places, while the action of the waves outside sent in with 
each high tide an abundance of sand which, being pre- 
cipitated in the still water of the bay, formed in places low 
and bare sandbars and kept the depth of the whole bay 
shallow, : 7 . 
Imugine then an island composed of six to eight feet of 
peat resting ona sandbank with sloping sandy shores, the 
highest point not more than fifteen ievt above high water. 
Several square miles of this covered with a dense forest com- 
posed largely of evergreens (Addes and Laraa), bat with a fair 
splinkling of birches, the remainder of the island covered 
with a growth of low scrubs and vines and moss, and dotted 
with ponds of from six inches to as many feet in depth im 
every direction, the size of the ponds varying froma couple: 
of rods to a mile in diameter; they number nearly two hun- 
dred, Their surfaces oftea covered with the leaves of the 
pond lily, the#r banks usually lined:with the rich green moss 
raised but a few inches above the level of the water, and 


and there a few junipers which, exposed to the full force of. 


almopt all of them having one or twosmall clumps of dwarf 
hackmatacks only a few feet high, and twisted by the winds 
into every conceivable shape, Add to this, miles upon 
tniles of blueberries, whortleberries, bankberries, balee- 
apples, cranberries, and occasionally, blackberries. Remem- 
ber the shallow bays of brackish water one to two miles in 
diameter filled with young short eel grass, the sandbars 
barely covered at high tide, the isolated situation, and is 
there any doubt what you wii] find there? What better place 
can the dusky duck find to rear her brood than the thick 
cluster of bushes on the edge of that little pond, whence as 
the wandering instinct is developed, they may find easy 
access to the next and larger pond through the connecting 
brook. As September approaches, can you not hear the 
cooing of that flock of dough-birds among the blueberries, 
and their whistle as they rise from sheer exuberance of 
spirits to cirele about and again alight? Do you not notice 
the louder whistle of the jacks occasionally with the others? 
Would you not expect that the golden plover in leading its 
young from the northern wilderness would find such a spot 
a congenial halting place? As you approach that pond with 
the mossy banks, can you not see a flock of teal preening 
themselves in the bright sun, and while you are gazing at 
them are you startled or not wy the Joud ongehk trom the 
old goose at the head of her clutch who, recognizing while 
still in mid-air, all the elements of an anserian puradise, 
young eel-crass, fresh water and convenient sandbars, 
announces her determination, not, however, without consid- 
able discussion on the part of the youngsters, of staying till 
cold weather? 

Here formerly the caribou in large numbers ranged freely 
over the whole#island, cutting the moss inte deep, narrow 
and meandering paths as they followed each other in single 
file from one pond to another, and many of the paths over 
the barrens, now used by the few inhabitants, are asserted 
to be the original caribou trails. The animals themselves 
disappeared trom the island, from eighty to one hundred 
years ago, On the sandy shores of the island in former 
days the walrus was accustomed to land, and must have 
afforded noble and successful sport to the hunters of those 
times, for large heaps of their bones were still in existence, 
and seen some sixty years ago, rapidly being ‘buried by the 
accumnlating soil. At the present time these evidences of a 
fauna long since extinct are lost to view, and their place of 
burial even is unknown; tradition merely asserting that it 
was somewhere in the dense forest. On the open and quak- 
ing bogs the Canada geese formerly built their nests and 
reared their young, content with this bleak and desolate 
plain without pursuing their further journey toward the 
Arctic circle, and there they were annually slaughtered in 
large numbers by the Micmaes with simple clubs during 
their moulting season till, after one raid, more determined 
than usual, goose patience became cxhausted and the whole 
colony migrated, and has never returned for breeding pur- 
poses, although the Indians have long since given up fre- 
quenting the island, and the knowledge of its topography is 
rapidly becoming a mere tradition of the tribe. Here, some 
two centuries or more ago, Charles, afterward the Sainted, 


honorably connected with the early history of Canada, is 
known to haye established a mission, which implies a con- 
siderable number of inhabitants, but all traces of them and 
their works have so completely disappeared that no tradition 
even exists of the seat of their settlement. Early im the 
present century afew families of Scotch and French settled 
in some of the less exposed situations, and their descendunts 
still remain, combining the occupation of farming, fishing, 
shooting and, as opportunity occurred, honest wrecking; a 
hardy, hospitable race, many of them with the intelligence’ 
which is begotten of intimate association with the wild 
aspects of nature, and especially with the ocean, and all of 
them with what we are given to calling thriftlessness, an 
outward expression'of the inward despair produced by the 
continual contention with the elements. 

Here for many years a friend and niyself have found a 

resting place when on our annual pilgrimage from the heat 
and worry and rush of the city, till we have got to love the 
bleak barrens, the roaring sea and the howling winds. 
Every nook and corner is known to us; there is scarcely a 
pond at which we have not shot ducks or geese, a sandbar 
upon which we have not grounded our canoe, a gully or 
brook which we have not explored, On the banks of one 
of the salt-water bays stands a group of about a dozen hack- 
matacks which have attained the unusttl height of twenty 
feet, a veritable oasis in a desert of whortleberry bushes and 
moss. Among the treesrunsasmall brook of clear, fresh 
water, taking its head from a couple of small ponds a few 
rods back in the moss, having worked for itself a channel 
into the peat some five feet deep. Beneath these evergreens: 
we haye for many years pitched our tents as the summer 
approaches its end, ourselves and our faithful French canoe- 
men, who have piloted us up and down many a noble stream 
in other portions of the Provinces when we were casting the. 
fly for salmon and trout. 
Our youthful enthusiasm is somewhat abated; the cold, 
gray dawn has lost much of its early charm, and séveral 
hours in the bushes wet with dew before breakfast has 
ceased to have their oldfascination. Ifear we should becalled 
but lazy sportsmen. 


‘Porty times o’er leb Michaelmag pass, 
Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; 
Then you know a boy is an ass, 

Then you know the worth of a lass, 
Once you have come-to forty year.” 


A bright day, with the ever changing light and shade on 
the barrens, the views on the mountains twenty miles away 
over the sea, the ripple or the surf of the ocean, the wonder 
ful cloud effects, these, with a very moderate amount of 
sport, constitute our true enjoyment, and we could justly say 
with the Duke in ‘’As you Like it:” 


“Who would ambition shun 

And loves to live i’ the sun, 

Seeking the bread heeats, 

Content with what he gets, 

Come hither, come hither, come hither, 
Here shall he find no enemy 

But winter and rough weather.” 


The pursuit of the game possesses all the elements of true 
sport, in intimate knowledge of the habits of the birds, a 
study of the wind, weather and tides, familiarity with the- 
country, the use of dogs for retrieving, a quick eye, a steady, 
hand and a hard shot, 

The dusky ducks breed upon the island in large numbers; 
all other game visits it only in the course of migrations north 
and south, One of the earliest to arrive in the latter part of 


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Brn, 21, 1984] 


August is the dough-bird, soon followed by the jack curlew, 
and by a large variety of the different sorts of shore birds, 
lover and sandpipers. The first northerly winds after the 
Poth of September bring afew geese, often in clutches of 
from tivo to ten, but occasionally in flocks of from thirty to 
fifiy, and as the weather becomes colder they arrive in larger 
numbers and remain till driven away by ice. With the geese 
fresh ducks come, dusky ducks, gadwalls, blue and green- 
winged teal, scaup, and the non-edible and therefore not 
me birds, cormorants, loons, shelldrakes and grebes. Large 
ocks of golden plover are early mixed with the curlews, al- 
though they always seem to be a little later inarriving. With 
the first real cold of October the brant appear, and by this 
time the curlew and plover have mostly departed south. 

Come and visit us for a few days’ sport, but, as you Jand 
from your boat be a little careful in entering the precincts of 
our oasis, for the two Chesapeake Bays, stretched in the sun 
in front of our tent, have quick ears and sharp eyes, and, al- 
though perfectly sood-natured at home, when they get away 
into the wilderness seem to~ think it their duty to guard us 
against all intrusion. Down Ripple! Down Rogue! Now 
come in and go throngh the canine introduction of being 
smelt, and you are all right, only do not touch anything. It 
is a bright sunny day, with a moderate breeze from the west- 
ward. Atsunrise we saw several hundred ducks come down 
from the ponds into the next bay, where they are still feed- 
ing on the seeds of the eel-grass, but in a couple of hours the 
tide will begin fo make there, and when the water becomes 
too deep for comfortable feeding they will go up to drink 
and preen themselves at the same pond from which they 
came inthe morning. Meantime John will get us an early 
dimer. The walking is very heavy; at every step the foot 
sinks several inches, but fortunately our destination to-day 
enables us to use boats. We row about a mile, then cross on 
foot from the bay to the shores of a large lake, and launch- 
ing a birch canoe which was hidden in the bushes, paddle to 
the opposite shore. As we g@ you see at a glance the whole 
geology of the island; the banks, almost perpendicular, show 
each successive layer of peat, and the traces of fire are dis- 
tinctly visible in many of them. Having crossed the lake, 
about a mile, we walk some forty rods and come to the sus- 
pected pond. An examination of ifs shores proves that we 
were righi; the wet moss on the edges shows many little 
oval depressions where the ducks have rested, and the edges 
of the water are covered with dry feathers, the refuse of the 
toilets of many birds which slept here the night before. In 
those two clusters of dwarfed junipers we conceal ourselves, 
and soon see a host of birds arise from the bay two miles 
awiy, but after circling once or twice they all pitch again; 
no, not all either, for a half dozen separate and start straight 
for their drinking place. As they get over the Big Lake 
they leave and are lost to view, but suddenly appear over 
the bank and pitch into our pound, where, just as they are 
touching the water, we drop two and wound athird, The 
two dead are readily retrieved, but the wounded one disap- 
pears beneath the surface and does not again show himself. 

With the dog we begin the circuit of the pond, he is still 
a puppy and has not Iearned to do it himself, when suddenly 
with a single ‘‘quack” the duck springs from the bushes on 
the bank into the wafer and immediately dives, but the dog 
saw him, and springing with his whole strength on to the spot 
where the last bubbles appear, he vanishes for an instant 
as completely as the Guck had done, and emerges with the 
bird in his mouth. Tor the next two hours the ducks are 
continually leaving the bay, some come our way, some go to 
olher ponds, By the time it is high tide in the bays all will 
have lett their feeding grounds and have settled in fresh 
water. We shoot with variable success; some are easy shots, 
many are difficult, for the birds may appear on the right, 
left or directly overhead, and the misses are frequent enough 
to take all the conceit out of us. As the sun is sinking be- 
hind the forest we start for camp. Our bag is not large, a 
dozen black ducks’only, whieh would make a Long Pointer 
or Chesapeake Bay gunner smile with contempt, but it will 
feed the camp for two or three days, and as we set the sail 
of our canoe and dance across the lake with a fair wind we 
think we have had our fill of enjoyment in the scenery, the 
air, the dogs and the game. 

To-morrow with favorable weather we will try for a 
goose. They are in fair numbers, have not yet been dis- 
turbed and have got into their regular courses, feeding at 
night in the small bays on the roots of the young eel-grass, 
aud as the tides rise in the morning, they go to the Great Lake 
to drink, thence to the large outside bays for the forenoon 
low tide, and as the next flood comes return te the lake to 
drink and then again 10 the small bays for the night. A 
strong head wind is necessary to bring them down within 
gunshot, the stronger the better, up to half a gale. If it is 
trom the westward we will try to meet them as they enter 
the lake in the morning; if from the eastward we must meet 
them on their return in the afternoon. The pocket aneroid 
shows a fall of thirty-hundredths since noon and a small 
bank of clouds is visible on the sea horizon, but considerable 
changes of the barometer often occur here without much 
meaning, and the glorious, clear sunset looks like fair 
weather. The geese also do not believe there is to be a 
change. for although feeding in hundreds, not a quarter of 
a mile from*camp, there is a general conversation among 
ae but only an occasional slight quarrel between two young 
ganders. 

John’s axe wakes us the next morning, and untying the 
flap of the tent we look out. It is adead calm; the bay in 
front of the camp and the ocean beyond are absolutely 
without a ripple, and the fiery rays of the rising sun are 
shooting far up toward the zenith from behind the bank of 
clouds which has not risen perceptibly since last night. On 
the further side of the bay the geese and ducks seem twice 
their natural size through the almost imperceptible mist over 
the water, There isno need of hurry this morning; the 
birds will not move till forced by the tide, and when they do 
they will fly sky high. A luxurious bath in an excavation 
of the brook with just a suspicion of smudge from a couple 
of brands from the camp-fire to keep off the mosquitoes, 
and a leisurely breakfast of boiled teal, ‘‘whack,” eggs, 
coffee and toast fill up two hours without giving any im- 
provement in the weather. But the off-shore wind of yester- 
day and the calm this morning have given the striped bass 
a chance to cross the bars and get at the sand eels, smelt and 
other sinall fish which abound among the eel-grass of the 
bays; the water in the bays is just right, turbid enough 
from the intermixture of sand to prevent the fish seeing us 
even though thesun is bright, and yet not so roily as to 
prevent their seeing the bait, 

Taking our rods and light guns we walk across the neck 
to the next bay where we have another canoe, and in twenty 
minutes are at the gully, picking up a few redbreasts and 
sanderlings from the flats on each side of the channel as we 


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go. The fish here, with this slightly turbid water, are not 
fastidious; a single shrimp on a five-gut snell, even if the 
shrimp could be obtained, would get you but small fish. We 
rig our two hundred yards of braided linen line with a 
double gut leader, and a large hook with deuble snell, so as 
to use a sliver of fresh herring three inches long. If the 
water is sluggish a small sinker and float are advisable, but 
as the current increases with the tide, the float can be dis- 
pensed with. We take a few fish at the gully, bnt succes- 
sive swirls up the channel above us show that the fish ure 
rapidly passing, and we hasten to get to the forks of the 
channel half a mile above, where every fish must pass within 
sight of our bait. Anchored here, we have our hands busy 
for the last two hours of flood tide, each rod with a fish on 
almost all the time, and sometimes eighty yards of line out 
on each side of the canoe at once. Twenty-four fish to two 
rods is a fair morning’s work; the largest is sixteen pounds, 
the smallest three. HKxceptional states of weather and tide, 
however, only give such full scores. On our way home we 


get acrack ata flock of golden plover, and of the four | 


brought to bag three are young birds as shown by the plum- 
age, about fhe same preportion which we have generally 
found here, 

Meantime a southeast wind has sprung up, the bank of 
clouds to the eastward bas risen so as'to obscure the noonday 
sun, the barometer is down another half inch, and we are 
evidently in for a storm. Rain keeps upin camp the rest of 
the day, and by night we have a southeast gale and aperfect 
flood of rain, but our tents are absolutely waterproof from a 
soaking with parafine wax, und our only risk is from the 
wind, in some of its sudden gusts, ‘blowing everything out 
of the gaskets,” However, we make a fair night of it, and 
look out the next morning on leaden skies filled with low- 
flying scud, heayy rain and no abatement of the gale; the 
outer shore lined with foaming breakers, and the air filled 
with their roar. Nota bird is to be seen, but we know they 
are gathered under the lee of the high banks and will not stir 
in such weather, the whole ocean becomes a fresh-water pond 
in such rain, and if we could get near enough we should see 
the geese twisting their long necks till they could seize the 
feathers between the shoulders in their bills and then run- 
ning their bills along the whole back scoop the fresh water 
off the feathers by the mouthful, while others, more dainty, 
take their drink by skimming the fresh water from the sur- 
face of the bay as the housewife skims off cream from the 
milk, After noon the seud begins to fly higher, the clouds 
are to be seen through it, the rain ceases, the wind hauls 
into the east and becomes only a stiff breeze, Toward sun- 
set the clouds partially break up, and a streak of sunshine 
appears, but beneath the clear sky in the west is a dense, 
leaden cloud, and the baremeter sticks at 29.30. Having 
finished supper and congratulated ourselves on the stars 
which are appearing through the clouds, we look again at 
the aneroid to find 29.20; facilis est descensus Averni, in ten 
minutes more we have 29.12. We call all hands, and, not- 
withstanding the loudly expressed willingness of John to 
take the aneroid for his share of breakfast if the storm is not 
over, we settle the tent pins and posts more firmly, and 
stretch every rope taut. Not a useless precaution, for in half 
an hour, as suddenly as though discharged from some im- 
mense cannon, a gale from the north is upon us, in compari- 
son with which that of the previous night seems a zephyr, 
We turn in, but you might as welliry to sleep in Bedlam; 
the creaking of the trees, the hissing of the wind through the 


branches, and the flapping of the fiy and back of the tent 


render it impossible, but thanks to thorough workmanship 
and new ropes, everything holds, and as the gale abates 
toward morning we get a nap. 

The rising sun gives us clear skies, and 29.90 on the 
aneroid insures us a heavy northwest wind. Tt is such a 
perfect gonse day we will take all the chances and, sending 
canoes into each bay, we turn out every goose there, know- 
ing they will go outside and return to the lake at the next 
flood tide with ihe wind in their teeth, The wind has raised 
such a swell on the lake that we must walk to-day, and the 
three miles we have to cover is equal to ten of ordinary 
travel so far as fatigue is concerned, for the footing is very 
soft. We make the circuit of the Great Lake and take our 
stands onasand beach of the lake toward which a little 
“sag” in the plain leads, with a bank five feet high in front 
of us. The beach is in a little bay which projects a few rods 
toward, the spot at which the geese are feeding two miles 
away, but lies a considerable distance to leeward of their 
direct course to the lake. Your goose, or at least our geese, 
when pressed by head wind, and flying low, prefer the lowest 
land and make for the nearest bit of water, recognizing that 
their enemies are all terrestrial, One old gunner who has 
studied them for fifty years, is confident we are within forty 
rods of the place where every goose will pass into the lake 
if the wind only holds steady, and by crouching under the 
bank we can shift our pesition by ten rods in cither direc- 
tion. This ought to give us some good chances. 

Peeping over the bank we see the first flock rise and head 
far up-wind, but as they approach nearer they fall off, then 
again head up; thus bya sort of tacking they get near, and 
as they recognize the vicinity of the lake, lower till they are 
not more than ten feet above the plain, and head directly for 
us. Wait till they are abreast of you, aim about the end of 
the beak, and a little above if they are to windward, a little 
below if they are to leeward, old W, says, for they will 
swerve when you put up the gun. We try it and one drops; 
[make a clean miss at the leader, not having calculated the 
swerve properly, but as he is rising almost perpendicularly. 
the second barrel, thrown fully three feet above him, brings 
him into the lake with « splash, and Rogue with a yelp of 
enthusiasm carries him into the long grass. No command 
or coaxing will make him bring the bird in; it is the puppy's 
first goose, and, laying it dowu, with long-drawn breatii he 
revels in the (to him) delicious aroma, and mouths and noses 
it. till the feathers stand out in every shape, and I, dreading 
what I shall find, hasten to get it from him; but the skin is 
not eyen broken. Soon another fiock rises in the distance, 
then another and another till a dozen or more are headed 
forus. The first of these is a little high, and W. whispers 
to us to let them pass, for just behind are two or three flncks 
which are lowering every minute. They pass over our heads, 
and getting above the lake set their wings and begin tum- 
bling, using their ontstretched pinions as a parachute. The 
nexttwo flocks give us some good shots, but those behind 
see the smoke and rise beyond our range. Once over the 
lake, however, they tumble like the others with a sense of 
perfect security. 

Ripple is off in the stormy lake after a wounded poose a 
quarter of a mile out, which she secures; Rogue is sent for 
another in the calm water under the bank; it is good prac- 
tice for him, as the goose is only wing-tipped and will prob- 
ably dive, but as he approaches the true goose nuture is 


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seen, for instead of disappearing, she contents herself with 
stretching her head and neck along the surface of the water, 
and keeps still till he seizes her by the rump and tows her 
ashore, where he lays her downto shake himself. But if 
goose stupidity was shown before, we now see goose slyness, 
for as soon asthe dog’s eye is off -her she slides into the 
water and disappears with the dog after her, who in an 
instant has her again on the bank, and a pin inserted at the 
base of the skull severs the cerebellum and ends the ‘‘cir- 
cus, 

The next flock passes to windward about two hundred 
yards, and it is evident the wind is falling. We shift our 
places also to windward and get two or three more shots. 
Then as the wind dies out the birds fly high, and their 
course cannot be calculated; we give it up, and sending a 
man for the canoe, ferry ourselves and bag across the lake, 
thus saving two-thirds of the walk back, no inconsiderable 
saving with a load of eight geese. Two wounded geese in 
the lake will undoubtedly climb the bank, be caught and 
devoured by foxes before morning. With the canoe we 
might even now find them, but with an eye to the future, 
we prefer not to disturb the hundreds of geese yet in the 
lake. Jet us hope the foxes are grateful. 

Such are afew samples of our days; the bags are never 
large; our best day yet is thirfy ducks, bul the variety of 
the game and the uncertainty of what is coming next, makes 
the sport interesting, and nature iu her milder and in some 
of her sternest moods is seen here to great advantage. 

ToOoToogusE. 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Fifth Paper. 
THE ROTURN TO CIVILIZATION, 

Eee morning following our arrival of our young friends, 

Cox and Weller, it was proposed by them to go in 
search of a trouf stream, of which they had ‘heard from the 
lips of an old land-looker, who had gone through the country 
some time before, in the interest of some one of the numer- 
ous Jumber companies that operate in the pine woods. The 
Greek Professor declined to go, as he purposed jerking a 
part of his deer killed the day before, in order that he might 
carry it home and show to his friends and especially to the 
president and faculty of his college that he had killed a deer. 
And, I may add in this connection, that he not only took 
the jerked meat home with him, but the skin of the deer 
also; and [have it on good authority, that his ‘‘Liddell and 
Scott,” the very one he uses in his recitation room, is 
covered with that identical skin; and it is further reported, 
that whenever a rascally student slips up on a particularly 
difficult rendering of a passage in Homer or Xenophon, and 
the patience of the preceptor is put to the strain in con- 
sequence, that student adroitly manages in some way to in- 
troduce the lexicon cover, when the professional frowns are 
removed and the delinquency is overlooked. 

I do not youch for this, howeyer. 

The particular place we set out for that morning was a 
widening in a stream constituting a small lake in the woods 
about three miles from our camp, and I was much impressed 
with the skill in-wooderaft displayed by our friends. We 
went in the Wawa to the east end of Beaver Lake, where, 
after inspecting the map, young Weller went ahead with 
compass in hand for the new trouting grounds. 1 do not 
think Lever had quite so ugly a tramp as that morning’s. 
The compass bearer started on a line, and the success of his 
leadership depending on keeping that line, he swerved from 
his course for nothing. No matter what the obstacle, it 
must he surmounted. Nor did he dally 6n his way. He 
had been connected with the lumbering interests from his 
youth up, and locating pine lands was a familiar business to 
him, and he had been trained to celerity of movement. 
Down tree tops were climbed over or crawled under; 
swampy places were waded; brush thickets were squeezed 
through. The Judge, who went in advance of me, found 
his 220 pounds a greater inconvenience than ever before, 
and he went crashing his way through tree top and brush 
thicket, and floundering oyer logs and swampy places like 
a wounded buck. <A half a mile of cedar swamp brought 
us to a high hill, the ancient Jake shore, which we climbed, 
and our guide, after taking his bearings, next led us through 
a comparatively level brushy.woodland, and finally brought 
us out as nearly the center of a little lake—the result no 
doubt of an ancient beaver dam on a small creek—as we 
possibly could have come. The correctness of judgment in 
locating the lake, which neither one of the young men had 
ever visited, and the accurecy with which they had held to 
the right ine through swamp and woods, was a marvel 
fo me, 

The first thing we took notice of on emerging from the 
thicket, was a large buck with wide-branching antlers, 
standing on the further shore of the lake. He was no doubt 
an old inhabitant of these woods, and had visited this lake 
hundreds of times before, and for the first time he saw men 
on its shore, He was greatly amazed at the sight, and as he 
lifted his head aloft, at not to exceed seventy-five yards dis- 
tance, and gazed wonderingly at us, I thought he was one 
of the most beautiful animals I ever saw. Although we 
carried two rifles, not a shot was fired. We had venison in 
camp, and so when the lordly fellow threw his great wide- 
spreading tail over his saddle and disappeared in the thicket, 
our riflemen were glad he was gone. 

The little lake was found to be about an eighth of a mile 
in length by about seventy-five yards in width, and it was 
literally swarming with brook trout. Fishermen who have. 
never seen the trout save in swiftly running streams, will 
reluctantly give credit to my story when I say they went in 
schools of hundreds like minnows. At the low end of the 
little lake, under some old logs, we took them, running from 
eight ounces to a pound; elsewhere they were from five 
to ten ounces, a few running to fourteen ounces. After 
three or four hours’ fishing we returned to camp, taking 
with us 305 trouts, and getting there in time to witness the 
most gorgeous sunset I think I ever saw. : 

The sun at that season went dewn in the northwest, over 
the broad lake, and on this evening the waters were as 
smooth as glass, A bank of purple clouds lay in the track 
of the descending luminary of sufficient density to destroy its 
dazzling brightness. For twenty minutes before it disap- 
peared it shone like a great rose-colored ball of fire, and a 
luminous track, equal to the sun’s apparent diameter, ran 
from the shore at our feet, out and up to the sun itself. As 
the sun neared the Jake’s surface it assumed an clongated 
appearance, due to atmospheric effect. In its neighborhood 
the heayens were aflame, and the waters beneath reflected 
back like roseate hues, Presently it touched the wave and 
slowly passed out of sight. When half gone it resembled a 
crimson crown set far out in the bosom of the still waters, 


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[Frs. 21, 1884, 


and maintained its beauty thus till it finally disappeared, 
And now the lake claimed our attention. The roseate hues 
that veiled the waters gave way to, bands of soft purple and 
gold alternating, running parallel with the shore and extend- 
ing negrly out to the line of vision, where a luminous veil- 
like band interposed, more beautiful if possible in its sheeny 
softness than anything that had gone before. From our 
lofty outlook we sat in our camp chairs, and in silence drank 
in the beauties. of the scene. The sunsets from our camp 
here were always beautiful, buf this one was pretminently 
so. The day done, the camp-fire was mended, and the Jong 
twilight enjoyed. 'To the dweller in the lower latitudes, one 
of the most interesting features of this region is the long 
twilights. The transcendantly beautiful lake sunsets may 
occasionally be seen, but the long twilights are of nightly 
occurrence, and the summer wanderer never forgets to ad- 
mire them., To the sportsman everywhere the camp-fire 
brings comfort and happiness, but to the sportsman in the 
Lake Superior latitude the camp-fire and the long and glori- 
ously beautiful twilight, and the murmuring lake breeze iu 
the pine boughs, gives a witchery to the summer evenings 
nowhere else to be found. 

The succeeding day, in company with our young friends, 
we went back tothe scene of our trouting the day before. 
The Greek Professor, on having sufficiently cured his jerk, 
accompanied us. The same buck (we guessed him to be), 
that had been so much surprised at our appearance the day 
before, returned to the lake while we were there, and wallk- 
ing out of the brush to the water’s edge, he was once more 
astonished to see men on the opposite shore, and he again 
scrutinized us closely, his scrutiny resulting as it did the 
day before, he again spread his broad tail and disappeared in 
the brush. 

Our catch this day was about the same as the day before. 
The Judge took but few saying that he was tired of that kind 
of sport, but the Greek Professor, zealous to outnumber his 
eatch of the day before, held on till he wasone ahead, when 
he too ceased. In the two days, 754 trout were taken, which 
our young friends put on ice and sent up to Marquette, to be 
distributed among their friends. 

And now, if any one wishes to rise in his place and de- 
nounce “‘trout hogs,” about this timeisas goodasany. I 
have no defense to make, but will have something myself to 
say in the prosecution before I close. 

Before leaving, rain began falling, and we had a wretch- 
edly bad trip home. Our guides lost their way, and led us 
through thickets and swampy places, until it began to look 
as if we were destined to lie out over night: In their wan- 
derings they came to the little lake lying northeast of Beaver 
Lake, and which is a part of the system to which that lake 
belongs, and they re-discovered it and named it Rainy Lake. 
Finding our way out of the woods, however, we reached 
camp barely in time to escape a soaking rain. That night 
we prepared and ate our suppers under great difficulty. 
About dark, a violent thunder storm passed over the lake, 
from the west to the east, and after some time it (or another) 
returned, and went back to whence it came. The elements 
over the lake seemed to be in great commotion, and notwith- 
standing our greatly wearied condition, we sat in the door 
of our tent and watched the play of the lightning and Jis- 
tened to the bursting thunder till a late hour. The flashing 
lightning gaye momentary illumination to the black, boiling 
waters, and far out we could see the outline of a steamer, 
and the long trail of smoke hanging low over the inky waters 
behind her. Ata late hour we went to bed, and allthrough 
the night, wheneyer awake, I could hear the rain beat upon 
our tent and the waves pounding on the shore. 

For two days the weather was catchy, but on the evening 
of the second our two friends left us and returned to Munis- 
ing. Our time being up, we commissioned Mr. Cox to send 
2 boat for us as soon as he returned, and on the following 
Saturday morning he himself came after us. The Indians 
were all gone on @ ‘“‘packing” expedition for a company of 
land-lookers to Minnesota, and so hecame in lieu of one of 
them. 

There was quite a breeze blowing that morning, with a 
prospect of a gale toward the middle of the day. But the 
lishing tug which made Munising, its headquarters, was off 
the Grand Portal two or three miles, and if we could manage 
to gct to that place in time, we were sure of being picked 
up by that steamer on its return. Ina very short time we 
‘pulled up stakes” (see the origin of the phrase) and went 
aboard the Sand Piper. “Now don’t get scared!” said Skip- 
per Cox assuringly, as his vessel swung round till the wind 
filled thezsails. And then away she went over the waves like 


a courser. Now it was that the Judge’s 220 pounds became 
useful. Seated amidsbips, it became his duty to ‘‘eut ship” 


by sliding to the right or left, according to the force with 
which the wind blew. Unfortunately for our comfort, it 
came in cat squalls, and in spite of the nimbleness which 
fear lent to the ponderous Judge, it did seem that we would 
capsize. At any other time and place I think the shuttle- 
like swiftness with which his heavy keel slipped hack and 
forth on the cross board would have produced boisterous 
merriment, but with the danger of capsizing at any moment 
staring us iu the face, we watched the ponderous shuttle- 
like movement in solemn silence, with a feeling that as long 
as it was kept agoing the chances were with us. 

At length we reached the leeward side of the Grand 
Portal, where we lay in a little haven tillthe tug came along, 
when our boat was made fast to it and we were taken on 
board, By this time the wind had inercased to quite a gale 
from the west, and the little steamer found it no holiday 
affair to plough her way through the rising waves. 

In a large tank aft the little cabin, a hundred fish or so, 
whitefish, lake trout, and perhaps some others, represented 
ihe morning’s catch. The lake fishing all the season has 
been poor, so poor that the catch had not defrayed the ex- 
penses; and in two weeks thereafter the tug was taken off 
that part of the lake. The fishermen with whom I talked, 
spoke freely of the annual decrease in. the numbers of fish 
talken in the lake—a decrease which, if it continues but a 
few years longer, will see the end of the fishing industry on 
the lakes. 

Shortly after we went aboard and the little steamer was 
on her way, one of the men, who, with others, had just 
completed the work of cleaning the fish, seized a handful of 
the offal and threw the bloody mass overboard. A flock of 
gulls had been following and screaming in the wake of our 
vessel, and as soon as the mass struck the water they pounced 
down upon it and guiped such bits down as they managed 
to pet hold of. ‘‘Feeding the gulls” was an every-day oc- 
currence with these fishermen, and the birds had learned not 
only to follow the vessel but to look for their choice food, 
at the motion of ahand. A bit not too large was gulped 
down in a trice, but if it were too large to swallow readily, 
the finder would either drop it after an ineffectual effort 


taken. 
cartridge and pouring meited lead into it, make a grappling 


Frequently two, three or more would get hold of 


And such a streaming 


were swallowed or else lost in the waters. 

About 3 P, M. we reached Munising, and the seat of the 
Judge’s trousers being greatly worsted by the morning’s work 
balancing the Sand Piper, we went into quarters to give him 
a chance for repuirs. 

Our camp we made on the bay shore under the shadow 
of a cluster of maples, and within thirty yards of the tent, 


ina dimple in the bay’s bottom, we caught with the fly 
speckled trout of fair size and of gamy quality, The only differ- 


ence we could discover between them and their cousins of the 


streams was in their color, The markings were the same, but 
their bright colors had faded out. 


At the dock we were told, 
trout from two to three pounds in weight were frequently 
The natives insert hooks in an empty metallic rifle 


hook that never fails to do its work when once in a trout’s 
mouth. This cluster of hooks they bob up and down and 
the large trout, attracted by the polished shell, lay hold and 
are yanked to the dock. 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT. 
BY LIEUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, U. 8. ARMY, 
Sixth Paper. 


S we floated out of Lake Marsh it was known that some- 
where ahead there would be found the largest rapids on 
upper river, and by some form of improper interpretation the 
from our Indians, or in some way we had the idea that they 
would occur very soon, within three or four miles, so to 
speak, and [ undertook the hereulean task of walking on 
ahead on the beach and finding them to signal the raft so 
that it would have ample time to reach the bank, for the 
river was now 500 to 600 yards wide in places, It turned 
out afterward that the rapids were more than fifty miles 
further on, I had walked more than three miles when I 
came to a peculiar kind of creek distinctive of this district 
of the river, that is, not very wide, but altogether too wide 


to jump, with slippery slopes of clay, and so deep that the 


bottom could not be seen or reached with a pole. These 
streams have a current like a glacier, and the one that 
stopped me—and I suppose all he rest—had the same un- 


varying width for over a half a milefrom itsmouth, beyond 


which J dare not go for fear the raft passing me, when I 
returned and fought mosquitoes, and waited for it to come 
along, when I would have the canoe pick me up. 

The first traveler along the river was one of our old 
Tahk-heesh friends, who came down paddling his cotton- 
wood canoe with his family, a squaw and three children, 
wedged in the bottom, He comprehended my situation and 
I tried to make him understand that I wanted simply to 
cross the canal-like creek, while he, remembering a few 
trifles he had received at a few camps back, thought he 
would extend his services and take me a short way down 
the river, to which I did not object, still believing that the 
rapids were but a short distance abead. The rain was fall- 
ing in a persistent drizzle, which, coupled with my cramped 
position in the rickety canoe made me feel anything but 
confortable. My Indian patron was evidently fecling 
worried about not meeting other Indians (for he had previ- 
ously promised me that he would have a number at the 
rapids Lo portage my effecis around if my raft went to pieces 
in shooting them, as they were all confident it would) and he 
was stopping his not unmusical gurgling strokes of his 
paddle every minute or two to scan the river banks or to 
listen if he could hear anything ofthem. Tinally he became 
discouraged at the prospect, aiter he had descended about 
three or four miles, and diving down into a mass of dirty 
rags and Indian bric-a brac of all sort he fished out one of 
the brass mounted Hudson Bay flint lock horse pistols I haye 
already described in a former article as 2 of their possible 
possessions, and I was horrified at the sight for I felt sure he 
was going to useitasasignal, He took out the bullet and held 
it in his teeth, and 1 felt the least little bit better but still 
terrified beyond measure, and it was not until he pointed it 
directly at me in the other end of the canoe that I felt at all 
safe, and as [heaved adcep sigh of relief, he fired, and 1 
could not help but thrill with the liveliest gratitude for his 
consideration fer me, and the warmest admiration for his 
indomitable courage as he stood unflinchingly at the butt 
of it and pulled the trigger, For fear that he might ask me 
to fire the next one, however, { told him in the sign lan- 
guage that_I would swim ashore and run around in the 
woods and back country and look them up, if that didn’t 
bring them to a response. It awakened no reply, from which 
J interred that none of the others had mule pistols, at least 
within a radius of 500 miles of liere, or probably did not fire 
them off, and as it was getting well along in the evening my 
“Stick” friend pointed his canoe for an old camping place 
on the east bank of the river (although the canoe was so 
warped and its nose so broken that you could have conscien- 
tiously said it pointed in any direction), and with a lew 
strokes of his paddle he was soon at the shore and I went 
into the simplesi camp I ever did in all my life, for all that 
was done was to pullan old piece of canvas over a pole and 
crawl under it and imagine it kept out the rain, which itdid 
about as effectually as if it had been a crochet tidy. 1 cer- 
tainly think that if he had covered me with his horse-pistol 
again it would at least have been warmer. 

There was one good thing about 2 rain storm in Alaska, 
however, and that is the philosophical repulsion that exists 
between a moying two-grain rain-drop and a stationary 
grain of mosquito when they come in contact. All along 
this bank the dense willow growth crawled up and leaned 
over the water, and I was afraid there was no camping 
place to be found, until I saw a place where a little spur of 
spruce-clad hillocks infringed on the shore, and here I halted 
the raft and we made an uncomfortable camp. Everywhere 
we could see muskrat wakes as they went swimming back- 
ward and forward across the river, but we secured none. 
Fish of some sort kept jumping in the river, but the most 
seductive ‘‘flies” were unrewarded with a bite, although 
the weather was not of the kind to tempt one to hunt or fish 
simply for sport. 

The next day, tue 30th of June, was but little better, and 
we got away late from our camp, our Tahk-heesh friend 
accompanying us in his canoe for the purpose of telling us 
just where we should find the rapids, and of course, disap- 


io | peuring abead so as to keep us feeling more anxious about 


the richest young man could have his daughter. 


swallow, or else be robbed of it by some of his greedy com- | it. At one time, about eight o’clock in the evening, we 
panions. 

the same morsel, and sometimes a straggler, who could not 
find a beak-hold in the picce itself, would seize a neighbor 
by the wing and swallow at that. 
and flapping of wings would ensue, until perhaps the flock 
would fall to the water, where the screaming and flapping 
might go on for some moments longer until indeed the morsel 


heard roaring ahead as we swung round a high clay bluff, 
and were conscious of the fact that we were shooting for- 
ward at a more rapid gait, and the raff was swung on shore 
and a prospecting party sent out, which revealed that there 
were rapids extending a distance out into the river, but of 
no consequence tous, In fact, they were directly in front 
of our position on the shore, and so swiftly was the current, 
that we could not get out into the stream fast evough to 
avoid sticking on the rough bar of gravel and boulders, and 
shortly after the crew had jumped in and were preparing to 
pry the rafi round into the stream, the most violent splushing 
was heard on the outer side of the craft, and it was soon 
found that a goodly-sized grayling had hooked himself into 
a line that some one had allowed to trail over the logs in 
their hurry and excitement of attending to more important 
duties connected with the supposed rapids. Ile was 
divorced from the hook and when thrown oyer auother 
one repeated the operation, and it soon became evident that 
we were getting into the very best of fishing waters, After 
the raft swung clear of the outer boulders of the reef, several 
lines and flies were gotten out and if was quite amusing and 
entertaining to see the long ‘‘casts” or rather attempts at 
them as we rushed by distant ripples near the bends of the 
banks, more than one of which were successful in landing 
a fine grayling. 

That evening we camped late (about 10 P, M.), near where 
a couple of ripples were formed by gravel bars running ont 
into the stream, and some fifty or sixty grayline rewarded 
the three lines that were kept going until about 11, or till it 
was too dark to fish with any comfort. The grayling 
caught that eyening seemed to be of two distinct sizes, the 
larger averaging about a pound in weight, the smaller about 
one-fourth as much. 

On the morning of July i, we approached the great 
rapids of the Yukon River, our adventures around which 
shall form the main part of the next article. 

[v0 BE CONTINUED, |. 


LIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET. 
BY J. WILLARD SCHULTZ. 
Twelfth Paper—Folk-Lore. 
THE ADVENTURES OF KUT-O-YIS. 


ONG ago there lived on the Maria’s River a yery rich 

old man, and he had a wife and three beautiful daugh- 

ters. Ail the young men looked at these young women and 

wanted to marry them, but their fathersaid no, Noone but 

Rrom a 

far off camp came a young man, very rich, and he married 
the three sisters. 

After a time this young man began to treat his old father- 
in-law very badly. Ie took all his dogs away from him and 
his weapons, and gave him very little to eat. Not far from 
where they lived was a large cave, where this son-imlaw, 
whose name was Many Feathers, kept a herd of buffalo, and 
every time he wanted meat he would let one out and kill it. 
One day, when he let one out, he only wounded it, and it 
ran out on the prairie. He gave his father-in-law a bow and 
arrows and sent him after it., Thesold man chased the 
buffalo a long way, but could not catch it. As he was gomg 
along the trail he picked up a large clot of blood which had 
dropped from the animal’s wound and hid it in the folds of 
his robe. When he returned home Many Weathers was very 
angry, and he said: “Why did you not kill that cow?” 
Because I couldn’t catch it,” replied fhe olé minn, “What 
did you pick up out there on the prairie?” ‘*Nothing,” said 
the old man. ‘‘I ran 4 prickly pear in my foot and stooped 
to pick it out.” 

Then the old man went to his lodge and gaid fo his wife, 
“Go quickly, old woman, and get some water, | havea 
clot of blood which we will boil and eat.” When tie water 
was hot they threw the clot of blood in it, and pretty secon 
they heard a ery like that of a child, but they looked in ihe 
kettle and could see nothing. Three times they heard this 
ery, and when they looked in the kettle the third time they 
saw a beautiful baby boy, and they took bim ont and osmed 
him Kfit-d-yY¥s: Clot of Blood, In one day the boy grew to 
be a man, and he said to the old man, “Wather, why have 
you nothing to eat in your ledge?’ Then the old man told 
him how his son-in-law had taken all his dogs and weapons 
away from him, and that they would have st-rved to death 
had it not been for their youngest danghter, who stole 
little meat for them whenever she could. * Never mind, 
father,” said Ktit-0-yis, ‘‘let us make a bow and arrows and 
a knife and we will go hunting.” When they had made the 
weapons they went out on the prairie and Kut-6-yis lalled a 
fat cow, 1 

When they were skinning it the old man saw Many Fea- 
thers coming toward them, and he was afraid; Dut Kaot-d-yis 
lay down behind the buffalo and’said: *‘Lefi him come, I will 
kill him.” When Many Feathers came up close le said, 
‘Who killed that cow?” “I did,” replied the old man. 
“Well, lam going to kill you,” said Many Feathers, and he 
commenced to string his bow, but Kiit-0-yis jumped up and 
shot an arrow through his heart. Then they went home aud 
Kiit-d-yis killed the old man’s oldest daughters, for they had 
not pitied him, and he took the youngest one for his wife. | 

Now, way out in the Sweet Grass Hills, there lived a big 
wolf, so big that a man was only a mouthful for him. 
Kfit-d-yis went tu kill this wolf. When he came to where 
the wolf was, he let it swallow him, and when he gct in ts 
belly he found many people there, some dead and some yet 
alive. And Kfit-d-yis said to the living, ‘'Get up and dance,” 
and they all danced. Kfit-d-yis held a knife firmly on the 
top of his head and every time he danced the knife cut iuto 
the wolt’s heart, and pretty soon they felt the animal sway 
and fall over dead. Then they cut a hole in its side and 
crawled out, and Kiit-d-yis took off the scalp and gave it to 
the sun. 

Kit-d-yis killed all the bad animals. There weie two 
great man-eating snakes which he killed, and he let only one 
little one live. ‘‘The peoplo will not be afraid of little 
snakes,” he said, ‘‘so you can live and make little ones.” 


New Grascow Rop anp Gun Crve.—At the annual 
meeting of the New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) Rod and Guu 
Club, held Jan. 31, the following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year; President, H, T, Sutherland; Vice-Presi- 
dent, John K. Fraser; Secretary-Treasurer, J. Howard 
Cavanagh; Executive Committee, W-. B. Moore, KR. A, 
Walker, Jas. §. Fraser, The clu is in 2 prosperous condi- 
tion, owns a club-house, boats, decoys, and a trap-shooling 
outfit, and the members expect to do some tal) shooting this 


| season. ; : 


: 


Fen, 21, 1884,] 


ADIRONDACK FOREST WASTE. 


Kiditor Forest and Stream: 
* the people, 


by the city papers is not the only strong side to the question. 


be in the preservation of the forest. 


aye 
in all directions, 
destroy a large tree, valuable for lumber or shade. 


particular about the timber taken from their lands. Their 
only aim has been to get all that would make lumber at that 
cutting, for in Most cases fires follow the choppers within 


goes back to the State for non-payment of taxes. 


fing of spruce for clapboards. 


uld make good lumber, but as they are not wanted, 
ey are left to rot on the ground with all the other 
Cuttings in making roads and clearing away from 
the stump by the chopper, the whole forming a nice 
Mace to start a fire, Within ten miles of here there are 
qundreds of acres which have been cut over and have gone 
f0 the State 1 this way. The cutting of the hemlock for its 
Park is also very destructive to the forest in this season. It 
Joes not pay to draw the logs to mill for lumber, In the 
elling of each tree for its bark and in the cutting of roads 
here are at least twenty other trees broken or cut down. 
Most of the pine cut in this township in the last fifteen years 
1as been cut to make shaved shingles, and as not one pine in 
ive thai are cut down will make shingles, there are hundreds 
large pines on the ground rotting away, 
A few weeks since I wasin Malone and Potsdam. Each 
‘illage is the center of quite a lumber interest, I met many 
ersons who, knowing I lived in the woods, wished to talk 
bout the proposed park, and I was greatly surprised to tind 
6 few persons who knew anything about the woods; but 
y seemed astonished that any one should think them of 
poltance enough to need legislation for their preservation, 
ong others, | met seyeral members of both branches of 
Legislature. They, too, wished to talk about the woods, 
were glad to hear the other side of the story. ‘The real 
iterest of Hvanklin county is the preservation of every bit 
rest, but J fear the controlling influence will be the 
limber interest, which means the cutting of everything pos- 
ie to be made use of, either as lumber, firewood, or bark. 
much of the land will go to the State, as it is worth 
hing for agriculture. 

e one great complaint of the residents in the proposed 
dirk has been that ie State holds its land butpaysno taxes, 
disy are right when they complain of this, As in my own 
ase, Lam the only resident in this road district, which is 
eyen mules long; and nearly all the land has gone to the 
piate- ifthe State pays no highway taxes 1 must do all 
he work on this seven miles of road. 

Of the proposed bills Senator Lansine’s is the least objec- 
Ohable to the inhabitants of this section, and if it should 
bass, if would have to be changed in many ways to beof any 
rile. A very strict enforcement of the law against all of- 
nders must be made in every ease or the law would be 
verse than no law. A great majority of those who frequent 
he woods Jook upon State lands as open to plunder for all 
Wirposes without a chance for punishment, They call it 
God's land—free to all.” A, R, FULLER. 
BACHAM Ak, Adirondack. 


Slalnyal History, 


HORNS OF THE FEMALE CARIBOU. 
r Forest and Strewm: 
lote with pleasure that you are bringing out a new 
n of Judge Caton’s admirable work on the antelope and 
rof Americu. The yolume is one which should be in the 
ids of every still-hunter who desires to really know about 
Pe game which he pursues. This announcement and the 
al of your notice of the book leads me to think that 
isa fitting time to ask a question of your readers in 
on to one species of our deer. 
donot know thatthe fact that the female caribou is 
ya or nearly always provided with horns bas ever heen 
actorily explained. This is the only species of our deer 
ich that sex bears horns, though there are on record a 
y iew cases in which the female Virginia deer has been 
to have one or a pair of simple spike horns. Tt is not 
@ supposed that in the caribou these horns haye been 
ed in the female without some reasou. What is it? 
Nintimaic knowledge of the life history of the caribou 
Wd no doubt furnish a clue to the anomaly, but unfortu- 
y very little is known of the habits of thespecies. Dur- 
Yecent visit to the home of the woodland caribou I 
ed some information which perhaps gives a hint as to 
sc of the antlers to the female Rungijer. [tis well known 
he caribou, during the greater part of the winter, sub- 
Imost wholly upon the reindeer moss which they obtain 
ping away the snow with their fore feet, When the 
Ow covers the ground to any considerable depth, the pits 
1 they dig to reach the food below, are excavated with 
erable labor, and each deer has to work hard for its liy- 
@ At this season—in the case of the woodland caribou, at 
Ht—the males and females collect tomether in herds which 
y humber from ten to one hundred individuals. At this 
the stronger deer drive the weaker ones away from those 
where tie food is best, or most easily accessible, and 
mall deer has sepaped away the snow from a good 
ig place some larger and stronger animal is very likely 
ek and chase it fiom the spot, and take advantage of 
ork done by the other. It will readily be seen that this 
Sitiou of things might operate very disastrously for the 
and female deer, if they were no better provided 
eapons of defense than the larger and stronger ones. 
le the older males lose their horns about the last of 


You are keeping the Adirondack Park question before 
1 am very glad to see the interest in it mani- 
fested by so many of the newspapers. But the side taken 


m, as an individual, as much interested as any one can 
My whole property in- 
terest is in the proposed park, and aside from this, I have 
piven the subject of forest protection much thought, and 
“have looked on with much anxiety at the destruction going 
each year about me. "There seems to be a general feeling 
fhat as soon as one is in the woods he is to have full liberty 
: If he wants a bit of wood ever so small 
fe takes it from any tree within reach, no matter if it does 


fethe lumbermen, at least in this section, have never been 


she or two years, and after the fire, in most cases, the land 


The most destructive interest at work in this section is the 
Very few trees are either 
#e enough, or free from knots, to make clapboards. They 
st roun(! wp at the small end of the log fifteen inches at 
st, and where one log is taken twelve feet Jong, fit for 
boards, there will be from two to three other logs which 


FOREST AND STREAM. 65 


Constrictors proper, are for the most part the largest and 
most powerful snakes, boas, ete., though several smaller 
families are truly constrictors, such as the American racers; 
and the little Hiapies of the castern continent. And it. is 
remarkable that some small snakes, though not true ¢on- 
strictors, that is, with an especial organization to enable 
them to constriet, make use of their coils to control unman- 
ageable prey. This I have seen on several occasions while 
watching snakes feeding, In the small Brazilian [eteraden. 
@orbignii, which feeds on frogs, I once noticed the snake 
trying to swallow an inconveniently large frog, when Heter- 
odon brought its coils to its assistance, to—as it were—help 
hold down its prey while it got a more convenient hold. 
Xenodon also does this, and so does the English common 
snake, It never occurs to them to kill the prey by con- 
striction, their organization and instincts not dictating such 
a process, but being sufficient in case of need to help them 
out of a difficulty. Indeed the more we watch a snake and 
study its habits, the more we find in it to excite our wonder 
—it may even be our admiration—considering how the lack 
of limbs is compensated by the extraordinary powers it pos- 
sesses to enable it to exist at all. Many readers of Fornst 
AND STREAM enjoy such opportunities for observation on 
their Own farms and fields, others on visiting zoological 
gardens can witness and study snakes, and should they hap- 
pen to be feeding at such a time, the observer can not fail 
to be interested and amazed at an organization so wonder- 
fully adapted to their needs. 

Before taking leave of the Heterodons, 1 may mention a 
case of the death-feigning, for which these curious little 
snakes are celebrated, and lately came to my knowledge. 
A lady in Florida was silting reading on the piazza of her 
dwelling, when her son brought home and laid down near 
her a ‘‘spreading adder.” The ladies of the family objecting 
to such company, he gave the snake a kick and sent it 
several yards on to a gravel path. ‘The lady, as she sat read- 
ing, glanced occasionally at the snake, which for a long 
while lay on its back so motionless that she thought it was 
dead, But by and by the reptile almost imperceptibly—so 
cautious and gradual were its movements—got itseif round 
to its natural position, and then by very slow and almost 
invisible degrees, crawled away till it reached a fence, when, 
like a shot, it was through and away out ofsight. The lady 
thinks nearly two hours passed while the Héterodon was 
thus stealthily creeping off. The actions had certainly the 
suspicion of trickery; but, then it.is possible that the snake 
was stunned and was thus slowly recovering from the 
injury. These Heterodons are worth studying, 


November, the young males retain theirs much longer, and 
the females do not drop their antlers until the spring. The 
possession of these weapons ata period when they may be 
so useful in aiding their possessors to obtain a fair share of 
the food, which can only be secured with some exertion, 
enables the younger and weaker members of the herd to 
stand on a more nearly equal footing with the stronger than 
they would have if they were without horns. ‘This struggle 
for food continues during the whole winter, for ia the region 
inhabited by the caribou the snow often covers the ground 
until May or June, and during all or the greater portion of 
this time food must be obtained by digging. During the 
winter the females are carrying their young, and therefore 
require more nourishment than do the males, young or old, 
and this may account for the fact that the horns are retained 
until the time when the young are about to be brought forth. 
This explanation of the existence of horns inthe female of 
Ttanyifer greniandicus tarandus and its southern race seems 
on the whole not unreasonable. 

I should like to ask your many Canadian readers whether 
any of them can suggest an explanation which is more sat- 
isfactory than the one I have mentioned, or can add any- 
thing to this. I should be much gratified to learn through 
your columns or otherwise what views are held on this sub- 
jeet by those who live nearest to the home of the caribou. 

Guo, BrRD GRINNDLL, 

NEw York, Feb. 18, 1884. 


OPHIDIANA, OR SNAKE GOSSIP. 


C. HOPLEY, AUTHOR OF “CURIOSITIES OF 
SNAKE LIFE.” 


VY OOKING over a file of Formsr AnD Sram for the last 

six months, a few notes on the subject of the Ophidia 
seem to invite a little discussion. ‘‘Ouachita,” of Monroe, 
La, (Oct. 11), in allusion to my paper (Sept. 20) onthe ‘‘spread- 
ing adder’ or “puffing viper” (Zeerodon), writes: “If my 
memory is not faulty { have found fangs in their mouths.” 
To this, in the issue Oct. 18, “5S.” replies that he has “‘killed 
scores, but never found any fangs:” Now, like the men of 
Cowper's poem on the chameleon’s color, both correspond- 
ents, “Ouachita” and “‘S."" may be correct. ‘'S.,” perhaps, 
sought Heterodon’s so-called fangs in the usual place, viz., 
the front of the upper jaw. ‘‘Ouachita,” perhaps, found 
them in the unusual place, at the back of the jaw; or, when 
he sought them they might haye been erect and conspicuous, 
and when *‘S.” examined the snake’s mouth the fangs might 
have been depressed and inconspicuous. For, anong the 
many seeming anomalies of serpent organization these harm- 
less Heterodons have not only a pair of long, fang-like teeth, 
but they are mobile, 7. ¢., can be erected or depressed and 
put to use at the will of their owner, like true viperine fangs. 
Only they are solid teeth after all, not perforated and 
grooved, or connected with a venom gland. The family is 
for this reason called Heterv-don, which word, divided into 
two parts, easily suggests its meaning. As hetero-dox is 
something contrary to a usual saying or belief, and hetero- 
geneous is a deviation from ordinary rules, so Hetero-don is 
an unusual or abnormal condition of teeth, supposing the 
normal rule to be a set of a regular and equal size, asin most 
harmless snakes; one of the latter group being called 
by some herpetologists 7Zso-dons, or even-toothed. Then, 
again, there is a family of Lycodons, which might he 
mistaken for venomous serpents, as they have along, wolf- 
like tooth or harmless fang in front of the jaw, And there 
are the Oligedons or jaw-toothed snakes; the Anodons or 
toothless family; and the Xenodons or strange-toothed family, 
of which Heierodon is a member. The Xenodons, natives of 
Brazil, bear just as bad a character there.as do the poor little 
harmless Helerodons of the north; they also haye a movable 
back tocth, looking like a fang, but that does no injury. I 
believe I may claim to be the first who has deseribea, if not 
the first who has observed this mobility in Xenodon’s tang- 
like teeth. I also saw and described /eterodon’s fang which 
f saw moving while the snake was feeding, the latter fact 
being confirmed by Prof. E.., Cope, who himself had seen 
the same, though not committing his observations to print. 
Long back teeth in several families of snakes have been 
well known to herpetologists; but none of them, so far as 
my researches have gone, have mentioned the mobility of 
those in the Xenodons; not eyen Dumeril, our first and ‘best 
authority, Having heard of these ‘strange teeth’ in the 
Brazilian Xenodons, and that the snakes were looked upon as 
venomous, I became very desirous to see a living example‘ 
and ere long I was able to examine the jaws of one, and then 
witnessed the working of this strange back tooth, and felt 
it, too, on pressing the jaw with my finger, as described in 
chapter XXII. of my work on snakes. These lone teeth 
are, no doubt, useful inretaining the prey, which, for the 
most part, consists of toads and frogs swallowed alive and 
actively strugeling. ‘This singular dentition is only another 
example of those remarkable features in which snakes of 
such distinctly opposite families appear to be allied. Thus 
the innocent Heteredons have a broad head and a viperish 
aspect, even a movable fang, and in spreading themselves 
when molested they remind us of the cobra. : 

The child mentioned by ‘‘S.”’ as having been ill after the 
bite of one of these “spreading adders,” was probably timid 
and delicate, and might have suffered similarly from the 
claws of a cat, orthe bite of any harmless animai, Terror 
alone would aggravate the danger. In the case of a cat, not 
the claws themselves, but the foreign and noxious particles 
which cling tothe claws may injure the blood.’ The ill 
effects, therefore, in ‘*8.’s” little girl were not a prootef a 
venomous snake, though eyen the contmon saliva of a non- 
venomous one may be acrid or injurious in the poor blood of 
a feeble person. 

Though snakes may be broadly divided into the venomous 
and non-venomous, the teeth are largely concerned in classi- 
fication, and as regards dentition, only the true viperine 
shakes (among which the whole rattlesnake family is in- 
cluded), possess the solitary pair of moveable fangs, ‘‘soli- 
tary” implying the absence of simple teeth in the upper jaw. 
Jn replying to “Ouachita,” Sept. 20, last, I madvertently 
said, “it he found four ois of upper teeth, he might be sure 
the snake was harmless.” I ought to have added, ‘‘except 
in the Avaps,” the character of the Hlapidw being a fixed fang 
anda yew simple teeth behind the fang. Of this group are 
the Indian cobras. North America has no true vipers, South 
America only two, as yet known; all the most dangerous of 
the western serpents belong to the rattlesnake tribe, Crotalide. 

“Ouachita” suggested that ‘constrictors and venomous 
‘snakes” might distinguish the two great classes; but avery 
large number of the smaller harmless snakes seize their prey 
and swallow it quickly, never once loosening their hol of 
it, and therefore have no need to kill it by constriction, 


BY CATHERINE 


A Buack Prin iw a Hawx’s Maw.—Dr. A. K, Fisher, 
of Sing Sing, N. Y., one of the superintendents of bird mi- 
gration, made a strange discovery last week. A fine speci- 
men of the red-shouldered hawk (Buieo lineatus) was brought 
him by a friend. When he proceeded to skin the bird he 
was much surprised to find it in such good condition, and 
from this led to examine quite minutely the contents of its 
maw, Here he found portions of a foz, a salamander, a 
shrew, some feathers of a bird, and a bird’s head entire. 
But what was the Doctor’s astonishment to find a black pin, 
such a pin as ladies use in pinning their dresses. ‘This was 
something new in a unaturalist’s experience, though had it 
been found in the crop of a domestic fowl the thing would 
not have seemed so sirange. But now had the creature 
devoured a lady and found it hard to digest some of her 
pins? Here, however, the Doctor’s mind was soon set at 
rest. His friend told him that in baiting the trap to catch 
the hawk a dead snowbird had been used. “Aud that to 
make the bait look natural a black pin had been thrust 
down through the back of the head and through the neck 
into the body to make the bait hold its head up.” This pin 
the hawk, in his voracity, had swallowed. But perhaps a 
more singular thing is, that after the hawk had been caught 
by one claw in the trap, he should still have persisted in cat- 
ing the bird, and swallowed the head whole.—A. H, G, 
(Scarborough, N. Y.). 


BREEDING oF SQuirRELs.—<Adilor Forest and Stream: 
I seein the last two Formsr ann Srrmams statements of 
squirrels breeding in wutumn as il it were something unusual. 
When I was a boy I shot gray squirrels with an old Ken- 
tucky rifle full-stocked (what was left of it), loose in the 
lock, loose all over, and ran ninety 10 the pound. But it 
would put its bullet where you aimed it every time, and 
many a squirrel have I dropped with a hole through its 
head. That was in Ohio, and the point is, that we expected 
to find young squirrels in September about as much as in 
June; and many a young squirrel haye I shot in the hazy 
days of the delightful Indian summer, when the hickories 
were loaded with nuts, and the sound of the dropping hulls 
and shells told too plainly where the nimble rodents were 
enjoying their breakfasts. It was an accepted fact that 
gray squirrels breed twice a year, and I was surprised when 
I saw that it was new to some of your correspondents.—8, 


ADIRONDACK WintHR Norns.—Thus far our winter has 
been favorable to the game. Deer are still roaming as they 
please. Partridges can get good feed, and as every thing in- 
dicates an early spring, I think the prospects good for the 
season of 1884. 1 have seen no signs of the larger animals 
called wild; only one lynx crossed the clearing two weeks 
ago. No signs of beat nor cat, and no signs of wolyes for 
the last five seasons. We have great numbers of the winter 
birds about the buildings; crossbills, snow buntings, finches, 
bluejays, and a little bird of the size and plumaye of the 
goldiinch, who also has his note. 1 have not thought best 
to kill one to decide who he is, as Lam too glad to see him 
about the door. Have heard only one owl during the 
winter; one of the small ones who came out before our last 
thaw. —A. R, Fu~iErR (Meacham Lake, Adirondacks, Fein- 
ary, 1884), 


Burennr’s Worn.—St, Albans, Vt., Feb. 11.—Some 
weeks ago, I found in a thicket what appeared to be the re- 
mains of a finch. The bird was suspended by the neck in a 
crotch, and the back of its head and its brain were wanting. 
I thought it might possibly be the work of the great northern 
shrike. At any rate, the bird was hung up in avery buicher- 
like manner. I have known several instances of the shrike’s 
breeding in this vicinity.—J. [No doubt the work of a shrike. | 


QUAIL IN ConFINEMENT.—Mr. J. B. Battelle, of Toledo. 
OQ., has received from Tennessee a number of quail. He will 
domesticate them and, we understand, try to breed the birds 
in confinement, 


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THE ENGLISH SPARROW. 


HE following circular concerning the proposed investi- 
gation of the English sparrow explains itself: 


The American Ornithologists’ Union, an organization resembling 
the British association of similar name, and including in its active 
membership the most prominent ornithologists of the United States 
and Canada, purposes, among other objects ulready engaging its at- 
tention, to determine as nearly as possible the true status in America 
of the Huropean house-sparrow (Passer donesticus), commonly 
known as the English sparrow, in so far as the relations of this bird 
tomankind are concerned, The Union hopes to secure through the 
solicited testimony of others, as well as the personal observations of 
its members, the facts necessary to settle the question of the eligi- 
Hee be or ineligibility of this sparrow as a naturalized resident of this 
country. 

The question of the Buropean house-sparrow in America is regarded 
as one of great economic consequence, to be determined primarily by 
ascertaining whether this bird be, upon the whole, directly or indi- 
rectly, injurious or beneficial to agriculture and horticulture, Its 
economic relations depend directly and mainly upon the nature of 
its food; indirectly upox the effect. if any, which its presence may 
haye on useful native birds and beneficial insects. 

The accompanying formula of questions is respectfully submitted 
to the attention of those who may beable and willing to record state- 
ments of positive fact and value derived from their own experience. 
Concise and unquestionable answers returned to the undersigned on 
inclosed blank, or otherwise, or communicated to any member of 
the committee will be appreciated and prove of high value among the 
data, upon which it is hoped that this vexed question may be set at 
rest. The evidence thus obtained will be carefully considered by the 
committee in preparing its reportto the council of the Union, and a 
digest of the same, with recommendations, if any, will be submitted 
by the council to the mature judgment of the Union at its next annual 
meeting. 

The following named active members of the Union were at the 
first congress appointed a committee to investigate and report wpon 
this subject: 

Dr. J, B. Holder, of New York, Chairman; Mr. Eugene B. Bicknell, 
of New York; Mr, H, A. Purdie, of Boston, Mass.; Mr, Nathan Clifford 
Brown, of Portland, Me.; Mr. Montague Chamberlain, of St. John, 
New Brunswick; the committee having the power of increasing its 
membership atits discretion. Dr. J. B. Honper, CHATRMAN, 

(American Museum of Natural Histcry, Central Park, N. Y, City.) 

New York, February 2, 1884. 


The appended list of questions show very clearly the 
character of the information desired: 

1, Is the Ruropean house sparrow (Passer domesticus) known in 
your neighborhood. and if so, about when did it appear? ° 

2. Is your neighborhood cily, suburbs or country? 

. Is this sparrow abundant? 

. fs if increasing in numbers? 

. How many broods and young, yearly, to a palr? 

. Is this sparrow protected by law? 

. Is it artificially fed and housed? 

a Does it molest, drive away or diminish the uumbers of native 
irds ? 

9. If so, what species? 

10. Does this sparrow injure shade, fruit or ornamental trees? 

11. Does it attack or injure garden fruits and vegetables? 

12, Does it injure grain erops? 

13. Is it an insect eater or a seed eater? 

. What insects, if any, are chiefly eaten by this sparr>w? 

. What is the principal food it carries to its young’? 

. What insects, if any, are carrietl by it to its young? 

. Does the food of the old bird vary with the seasons, and if so, 
n what way? 

18. Does the food of its young vary, and if so, how? 

19, If any insects are eaten, are they beneficial or injurious species? 

20. Does this sparrow eat the larvee of the vapourer moth (Orzyia 
leucostigma) ? 

21. Does it eat ichneumon flies? 

22. Do you determine the nature of this bird’s food and that fur- 
nished by it to its young by inference, direct observation or dissec- 
tion? 

23. Have any injurious insects been exterminated or materially 
lessened in numbers by this sparrow? 

24. Have any injurious insects increased in numbers, or appeared 
where unknown before, in consequeuce of the destruction of other 
insects by this sparrow? 

25. faye these sparrows in your neighborhood been destroyed 
systematically or otherwise, and if so, by what means? 

26. What bounty, if any, bas been offered tor their destruction? 

27. What is the general sentiment or balance of public opinion re- 
specting the European house sparrow in your locality? 

28. On the whole, in your judgment, is this sparrow an eligible or 
ineligible species in this country? 


Co-lo ore oo 


FUR QUOTATIONS, 


i bie = following prices, for prime skins only, according to size, color 

and quality, as realized by the New York commission mer- 
chants, have been furnished by Messrs. Wm. Macnaughtan’s Sons, 
commission merchants, No. 8 Howard street, New York: 


Antelope—North America, raw, # Ib...... .-...-----0e ee $ 80@ 25 
Dressed, as to. quality, # Th.................. Nie aii oh 1 00@ 1 25 
Deer—Plorida,wWawy i Wc. ee ke Pb i nade bes 30G@ 40 
Rocky Mountain, raw, 92 To... . 22... ee eee eee cee eee es B0@ 35 
PAC CORSON TN, HAUI. samen ctea sets. cccouenbe? ance 25@ 380 
Blk—Pacific Coast hides, #2 Th ............-. een eee 20@ 380 
VIGEROPI SIGNS. Gaeilge tetestab ly ms ulglajaleieigiee 4) aidatemres $75 25@ 30 

uw Dressed, as to quality, 92 Tb ...... 2.2.22 kee eee ts B0@, 1 00 
‘ Mountain Deer—Western, 42 Th ..... 22.0.0. eee eee eee nes 20G 2% 
Reindeer—American, raw, P WD... 0... ce eee es 80@ 35 
Dressed, as to quality ............. Baas Wek, rete shen 80@ 1 00 
Beaver—Labrador, large...............200202 cess eee e ee 8 00@10 00 
Lake Superior and Canada, large.... ... .-...6. coer eee 6 010@ 8 00 
Upper MIss Oni Taree, Cos os ltl) cha tee Ota wals ener 5 W@ 7 60 
Soutpern TAPCO. SOs Gd. Parco be mele ae ¥ obs ieis,e nolan 3 00@ 5 00 
Badger—American, large and full furred, each ..,...,.... S0@ 1 00 
Bear—Hudson’s Bay, black, large; Qa) i355... sa: searceies 15 00@30 00 
United States, brown, large, encb....  -.....-. 2. eee eee 7 0010 00 
Southern U.8., black, large, 6ach...............5---+.-++ 7 00@10 00 

Cubs from 14 to 44 of the above. 

Baralovobesd Willen. Seo eerie. eed ee eer eke 8 00@10 00 
Buckskin—Western, @ 10 ..--....-..2.--ce cece eee gesseaseen 1 00@ 1 25 
POLE CAS ie te Oia: pment ries nin'any velo w/etamtale’s ipvela warRe Visions ems 1 25@ 1 75 
late WViltls BACON iwienn simnnn fm< enrages ani mnie cco hin sws aes 40@ 60 
PAGUSE<-COGIL os kale. not etade tery mur hae Cette ts waar 10@ 30 
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AY oe Spe Shy | es ed en 7 00@10 00 
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JEIPOSS SOCAN LICT 5 (cn ur ho et Stiefel tds /eatpeda a eee 3 00@ 6 OD 
Gray, United States 2.2.2... iu eee tee ee eee ees terse 1 00@ 1 10 
Teal oeel y liber 0 (Cf eee a 5 ADR AS Aas Se ara tae — 50@ 60 
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AV ETCH CUE Wn ae VEY UE FOS Bt AR toe cere es 2 00@ 38 00 
Bia OA Pew nh Me SEE Eee LAE RI, Lee ict cae Pas et eT Lag os 1 25@ 1 75 
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Pale, Western United States -.................+ssss.seaee 5O@ 70 
Darks; MANNGROTH ces gece Fee ee teense ee ees a eee bute 75@ 1 00 
Dark, New England ..........-:-. aan aoe PA es a 1 00@ 1 25 
Dark, Quebec and Halifax, 0.20... . ee cee pone een tee oes 1 25@ 1 76 
Musquash—Spring, Canada and Eastern........--+--s+++. 20@ 22 
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Spring, Southern United States..-......... .-..+.s+-s+5- 10@ «12 
Fall, Canada and Hastern. .....-+-ccpeeee cece eeeenes ths 16@ 18 
Fall, Western United States .........-e rere cece eee ees . 10m 14 
Fall, Southern United States. ...-....:..ck sees eens ee 8@ 10 
Opossum—Cased, Ohi0.........5--- ee eee ee eee eters tees 380@ 40 
Southern United States and common,.......... ... .... 10@ = =15 
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Worthéern United States: .o- sis .5 lees sae maeeiieniasins 00@10 00 
Western United States . 00@ 7 00 
Southern United States 2 00@ 5 00 
Raccoon—Michigan .... 90@ 1 10 
Western United States ... 90 
Southern United States.............- 60 
Rabbit—Raw, AMerICa. ... 2... eeeeeerereereee: 2@ 3 
Skunk—Black cased, America 1 20@ 1 30 
Short Stripes; AMGLICH 5. ee etn cee tees seep teen ett est T0@ 80 
Long stripe, AMeViCa . «1+... ..- 2+ eee eee tena nee sees a ees 80@ 40 
White, America, ...6 60s ceeeee reer esse e teen erence es 10@ 20 
Territory, long SbPIPG:.< 2.6 se eeyeess cess eres: nec eae 80@ 40 
Wolf—Large, Cheb .. 22.00 s esse eter eeen yes B cine kT ee Ra 8 00@ 5 00 
Mim ber sistas sch aon er RAS a dh RAs 1 50@ 2 00 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


THE LAW AGAINST SPRING SHOOTING. 
Haitor Forest and Stream: 

The long period of murky weather we have lately had 
started the woodcock and snipe to migrate from the south, 
and T have heard of quite a numher having dropped in about 
Philadelphia and the near counties of New Jersey. ‘The 
cold snap coming on us at the present time, although not 
severe, will cause our early visitors to seek springy spots as 
the ground has hardened again, and in ordinary places can- 
not. be punctured by the bill of either woodcock or snipe. 

Friends who were near Absecom, N. J., fitting up a new 
club house, last week, told me they started a few Wilson’s 
snipe on the fresh meadows berdering the salt. marshes near 
that place, and I have every reason to believe their report. 
Of course the bulk of birds will delay their coming until the 
weather is fairly settled and the frost is entirely out of the 
ground, but I think we will have poor snipe shooting this 
spring with us, for the reason that the birds will not in any 
great numbers migrate our way, but be attracted west of us. 
The vast extent of country inundated by the late overflow 
of western rivers will create most excellent feeding grounds 
when the waters have subsided to their normal condition, 
and the snipe will most surely seek them, and the migrations 
of the great body of birds will he to the west of the Alle- 
gheny Mountains on their way north. These inundated and, 
as it were, irrigated regions, will produce during the coming 
summer arank and heavy growth of vegetation, and cause 
the grounds to be unfavorable for snipe, and we no doubt 
will be benefited by the birds returning to the south more 
directly passing our way on the Atlantic coast, thusallowing 
us the better to make their acquaintance. 

Sprigtail ducks are plentiful in our bay and river. Mr, 
Milburn has returned from a trip to-day with an excellent 
showing. On both the New Jersey and Delaware State 
shores of the Delaware, the flats and marshes at low water 
are thronged with marsh ducks of all the varieties. The 
snow geese still remain in their favorite locality below Bom- 
bay Hook, and use the marshes there regularly. A few 
have been seen as high up as Port Penn, and a pair killed 
there. An albino mallard, or black duck—it is difficult to 
decide which—was shot near Chester, Pa., by a local gun- 
ner, who has brought it to John ‘Krider, Philadelphia, for 
mounting. 

Weare all hoping the States of New York, New Jersey 
and Delaware will pass a similar law relative to the web- 
footed game as our State did at the last session of its Legis- 
lature, and that we will soon have throughout the entire 
land the protection of all game inthe spring. As yet the 
law applying to duck shooting in our State does not go into 
effect on the Delawnre, but applies only to inland waters, 
owing to the fact that our neighboring State across the river 
has pot adopted a similar one. As soon as New Jersey 
passes such an act there will be perfect protection for fowl 
in the spring; or, I should say, there will be a law providing 
for the protection of wildfowl, if it is ever carried into 
effect, We have, however, enough faith in the West Jersey 
Game Protective Association to believe it will see to the en- 
forcement of all laws which come under its jurisdiction. 

Spring appears to be near upon us, already shad fishermen 
are overhauling their gilling nets, and from talks with the 
weatherwise ones among them we are expected to have an 


early opening; but ‘‘one swallow does not make a summer.” 


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16. Homo. 


— 


UNIFORM NEW ENGLAND LAWS. 


E give below the draft of the proposed uniform game 
law, which was adopted at Boston by a convention 
of representatives from the New England States. The move- 
ment is due to the efforts of the Massachusetts Fish and 
Game Protective Association, and at the meeting the follow- 
ing Commissiohers were present: Maine—Hon. KE. M. Still- 
well, Henry O. Stanley, J. H. Kimball; New Hampshire— 
BP, B. Hodges, Edward Spaulding, Luther Hayes; Vermont— 
Hiram Cutting, Herbert Brainerd; Massachusetts—E. A. 
Brackett, Hon. E. A. Lathrop, Prof. H. W. Putnam; Rhode 
TIsland—Alfred A. Reed, John H. Borden, Newton Dexter; 
Connecticut—Dr. W. M. Hudson, Robert G. Pike, George 
N. Woodruff. Among the invited guests were His Excel- 
lency Gov. Robinson, Hon. George A. Bruce, president of 
the Senate; Charles V. Whitten, chairman of the Board of 
Aldermen; Rev. E. A. Horton, Hon. Chas. Levi Woodbury, 
Augustus Whittemore, president Boston Merchants’ Asso- 
ciation, and Wallace F. Robinson, president Produce Ex- 
change, : 

The provisions ndopted were as follows: 

Section1. It shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kill 
any woodcock, or ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, 
or any quail, between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15 following, within 
the limits of this commonwealth, 

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to buy, sell, offer for sale or 
have in possession any woodcock, or any ruffed grouse, 
commonly called partridge, or any quail, between Jan. 1 


and Sept. 15 following, wherever or whenever the birds 


aforesaid may have been taken or killed. 

Sec, 8. It shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kill any 
wood or summer duck, black-duck or teal between April 1 
and Sept. 1 following. 

Sec. 4, It shall be unlawful to take or kill any plover, 
snipe, sandpiper, rail or any of the so-called marsh, beach or 
shoxe birds, except Wilson snipe, between April 1 and July 
1 following. 

Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to wilfully take er killany pin- 
nated grouse, commonly called prairie chicken or heath hen, 
between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15 following. 

Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kill any 
wild or passenger pigeon, Carolina or turtle dove, herring 
gull, tern, sea swallow, or mackerel gull, between April 1 
and Sept. 1. +4 

Sec. 7. Any person violating any of the provisions of 
the preceding sections of this chapter shall be punished by a 
fine of $20 tor every bird taken, killed, bought, sold, had in 
possession or offered for sale in violation of the provisions 
of this act, ' 

Sec. 8. Whoever takes or kills any domesticated bird 
not named in the preceding sections, except birds of prey, 
crows, crow blackbirds, English sparrows, jays, wild geese, 
herons, bitterns, and such fresh water and sea fowl as are 
not named in the preceding sections, or wilfully destroys, 
disturbs, or takes a nest of eggs of any undomesticated birds, 
except birds of prey, crows, crow blackbirds, English spar- 
rows and jays, shall be punished by a fine of $10 for every 


[Frs. 21, 18 


such offense; provided any person above the age of sixte 
years having a certificate from the board of commissioners 
Inland fisheries and game, to the effect that said person 
engaged in the scientific study of ornithology, may take 4 
nest or eggs of, or at any season of the year may take o 

any undomesticated birds, except those named in section } 

Sec. 9. Whoever hunts, chases or kills a deer within 
counties of Plymouth or Barnstable between Dec. 1 am 
Noy, 1 following, shall he punished by a fine of $100 f 
every such offense; and whoever in said counties at @ 
times hunts or chases a deer with a hound or with any d 
weighing more than 25 pounds, or hunts or kills a deer in a 
pond or river or within’ 100 yards thereof, shall be punish 
by a fine of #100 for every such offense. 

See, 10. Whoever takes or kills a gray squirrel, hare 
rabbit between March t and Sept. 15 following, shall } 
punished ene fine of $10 for every such offense. 

Sec. 11. Whoever at any season of the year takes, kills 
destroys a game bird, hare or rabbit by means of a tra 
snare, net or springs, or by the use of a ferret, or whoey 
for the purpose of taking or killing a game bird, hare 6 
rabbit, constructs or sets any trap, snare, net or springs, 4 
uses a ferret, or whoever shoots at or kills any wild fowl 
any of the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds, with or }} 
the use of a battery, swivel or pivot gun, or by the use of 
torch, jack or artificial light, shall be punished by a fine 4 
20 for every such offense. 

Sec. 12. The possession of any deer, or of any of the bird 
or animals mentioned as protected in sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 
and 10 of this chapter, during the time in which the killi 
or taking of the same is forbidden, shall be prima fag 
evidence of the unlawful killing of the same. 

Sec. 18. The commissioners of inland fisheries shall ha 
authority to act as game commissioners also and ft 
authority shall extend to the protection and preservation | 
game birds and animals in like manner as to fishes. 

Sec, 14. It shall be the duty of every officer qualified | 
serve criminal processes to arrest without warrant any pe 
son whom they shall find violating any of the provisions ¢ 
this act. and bring such offender before 2 magistrate. 
officer neglecting or refusing diligently to enforce the pi 
visions of this act, upon proper information and complail 
shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. 

Sec. 15. Any justice or magistrate on receiving proof, 
having reasonable cause for believing in the concealment 
any game mentioned in this act during the time the poss 
sion of such game is prohibited, shall issuc his search we 
rant, and cause search to be made in any market, store 
other building, except dwelling houses, or in any boat, ¢ 
or vehicle of any description whatever; and for that end m 
cause any apartment, chest, locker, bex, crate, basket 
package of whatever nature to be broken open and the co 
tents examined. 

Sec. 16. All fines accruing under this act shall be pa 
one-half to the complainant and one-half to the city or town 
wherein the offense is committed. 

Sec. 17. Chap. 92 of the Public Statutes, chap. 199 of 1 
acts of 1882, chap, 169 of the acts of 1883, and all acts # 
parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed, 

Secs. 4, 7, 9 and 138 were recommitied to the Massachusel 
Fish and Game Association for amendment; the rest we 
adopted for presenting to the Legislatures of the New Hr 
land States as early as possible. 

The matter of fish laws was taken up, and if was voted 
that the closed time for lobsters should be from Aug, 15% 
Sept. 15, and no lobster less than twelve inches should 
sold. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS 


Liditor Forest and Stream: ‘he, 
L notice, in your issue of Jan, 24, an article on the “Pe 
formance of Shotguns,” signed **Backwoods,” and wha 
says in relation to the effectiveness of the “‘muzzleloadt 
over the new fangled “breechloader,” corresponds witht 
experience exactly. 
I own a muzzleloader that was bought in New York é 
in 1849, for the sum of $60, and a better shooter no m 
ever carried, 1 have killed a single dove seventy yards Wi 
No. 7 shot, and many squirrels in the tops of the tall 
cypress trees in our swamps, have fallen victims of its® 
failing power. The gentleman from whom my father boug 
it (in 1855) told me that he had killed a buck with it 
yards, using common buckshot for his load, The chamgy 
was one dram of powder and thirteen buckshot. Nowy 
where is the breechloader that can make such a record 
this? 
The barrels are worn as thin as a knife-blade at” 
muzzle, and within the past year it has, for the first tim 
shown signs of failing. [tis a 18-bore, 32-inch, weighs 
pounds, Can you suggest a plan whereby I can thoroug) 
clean and resmooth the barrels? If this could be done 
think it will shoot as good as ever. 
What I want, is a gun that I can kill a quail or dove w 
No. 8 shot, sixty yards, or seventy if need be, and a bree 
loader, chokebored or not, will not do it. At least 1h 
never seen one that would, although my experience 
limited. OGERCHEB 
Wanuey, Ga. 


Editor Forest and Strewm: a. 

I notice in your issue of Jan, 24 an inquiry as to the 
spective shooting qualities of the muzzle and breechload 
gun. 1 thought that question had been unanimously, s0- 
as shotguns were conccrned, settled in favor of the bree 
loader, but I see that away down in Virginia there is y 
“doubting Thomas” on this subject. In answer to hiss 

uiry as to the proper performance of a good breechload 
i would say that at forty yards, with 1} ounces of Ne 
shot (Tatham’s 400 to the ounce) and 6 drams of powdé 
good 10-gauge gun should put from 875 to 440 pellets: 
30-inch circle, with penetration equal, if not superior, 
any muzzleloader it has ever been my fortune to experim 
with. I donot believe that there ever was a muzzleloal 
made, no matter how carefully bored, that would give | 
same pattern and penetration as a chokebored breechloac 
I do believe, however, that a greater quantity of pow 
must be used in the breechloader to get equal results in 
etration with a muzzleloader, in guns of equal bore and 
same weight of shot, Oo 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have made some tests and trials that have been bott 
isfactory and beneficiul to myself. Last fall, before 
opening of the season, I purchased an entire new outfit 
gun was the latest improved arm of one of our most p 
nent American makers; a .12-30-74 modified choke. 
The pattern of this gun, as it came from the maker, 


Pian, 21, 1884, } 


ary good, but did not quite suit me, sol set me about to 
Nprove it, As eyery one knows, the only means of securing 
90d pattern is by repeated trials at target, at different dis- 
mees, different amounts and kinds of ammunition and difter- 
if manners of Ioading shells, Never having seen a target 

‘such practice I made my own. In the center of a large 
ect of paper, I drew a two-inch circle and colored it, then 
‘cle after circle, an inch between, until the diameter of the 
ide circle reached 24 inches. The distances shot at the 
above target were 45, 50 and 60 yards. P ‘ 
After repeated trials, I found the proper charge to be 34 
trams Orange ducking powder to 14 ounces of No. 8 Le Roy 
ot, with two best pink-edge wads resting firmly on powder, 
and a light cardboard wad on shat. i= 

With the aboye charge, my best patterns at 45 yards/strict 

measurement) were 163, 165 and 167 pellets within the 24- 
inch circle, placing 2. 3 and 4 pellets within the 2-inch center, 

My experiments with greater charges at same target, but 
‘at preater distances, were equally as good. _ 

Talso find that this gun will shoot B, 8B and buckshot 

B sufficiently well for any purpose. I should he pleased to hear 
he result of such trials as others may have made. 
Pennsylvania; FARMDR. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: ‘ 
- Tn Fornar AnD S1ReAM of Feb, 7, a correspondent from 
Vermont says, that in lis experience the muzzleloader makes 
etter pattern and penetration at long range than the breech- 
loader, My experience is just the opposite, and decidedly 
in favor of the breecbloader, Ihave not owned one of the 
former for a number of years, but of the latter, L have had 
nd tried at targets as many, probably, as any one in this 
ate, and in every instance I haye beaten the muzzZle- 
puders. 
There is a heavy muzzleloader of 6-gauge and 12 pounds 
Weight owned near here; this gun was said to be a wonder- 
Tal shooter. One day I shot a 94 pounds, 10-gauge Daly 
hreechloader against it, each gun being loaded with 14 ounces 
‘shiot, The big gun was so badly beaten at the first trial that 
ils owner refused to continue shooting, sayjng that his gun 
had fallen off very much ip its shooting qualities, although 
before the trial he was very confident of success. 
_ Nearly all the guns in this vicinity are muzzleloaders, and 
if the statements ef the owners can be relied upon, they 
(like the wonderful Zulu gun advertised in some of the 
ounlry papers, and sold for the high price of 0.00) will 
Kill at any distance from 5 to 150 yards. The shooters about 
fere, wilh few exceptions, use very large shot for all kinds 
of game, and occasionally kill a hawk or crow at 80 or 90 
yards, and without measuring the distance, they alterward 
clare that their guns are good for twenty-five rods every 
/ time. I saw the owner of one of these guns shoota squirrel 
not over forty yards distant, and he afterward insisted that 
he killed it-at fifteen rods, 
Your correspondent speaks of shooting foxes. I think I 
kill as many of them as any one, considering the number of 
hots, so far this winter, using a 10-gauge 9-pound 10-ounce 
| Scott premier hammerless. 1 haye killed nine foxes—every 
| one I have shot at—and in only one instance liave used the 
| second barrel. The distances have been from twenty-five to 
| seventy yards. This gun, however, is the best shooting 
breechloader, for pattern and penetration, that I have ever 
owned. Af forty yards, with 44 drams powder and 12 
ounces Tatham’s- No. 3 chilled shot, it puts from sixty-five 
_ to seventy-two pellcts in a 12-inch square. 

If your correspondent ever indulges in trap-shooting, and 
will attend one of the shooting matches of the Boston Gun 
Club, on their grounds at Welliugton, Mass,, I will meet 
im there and shoot my hammerless Scott breechloader 
against the best muzzleloader he can find in the Green 
ountam State, at any veasonuble number of straight away 

tlay-pigeons, at distances from twenty to forty yards rise, 
| for fun or money, each gun to be limited to 14 ounces shot. 
Should be not wish to shoot himself, this is open to any 
. Yesident of his or this State, barring professionals. 

i O. M. Srarx. 


Dounsanrton, N. H., Feb. 11, 1884, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tam glad to see in your last issue, of the 7th inst., that 
several of your correspondents are as anxious as myself to 
know practically what our modern breechloading shotguns 
will do. 

Now, Lam well aware that there are published tables of 
records of some guns of particular manufacture, and am 
equally aware of like tables published by some former 
“writers on such subjects, “Frank Forester” for instance. 
Yet of all the guns | have handled (and they have been no 
dnconsiderable number) I have shot very few indeed that 
came up to this theoretical scratch, so to speak, and of 
breechloaders, in uy experience, not one in twenty will do it. 

Like your correspondent, ‘Buckeye,’ I have been much 
interested in the discussion of hunting rifles (I do not claim 
jo be arifieman, yet I haye used them just enough, as ‘‘the 
boys” say, ‘‘to keep my hand in”). My favorite weapon 
from my boyhood up has been the shotgun. I may here re- 
mark that the rapid extermination of all the larger carn-vora 
and dangerous avimals, except in the remotest 1écalities, 
renders the pursuit of field sports one confined almost ex- 
clusiyely to that commonly pursued with the shoteun. 

Now, while we are all striving to attain the same end— 
the obtaining of the best and most suitable arm for a given 
purpose—let us by all means have the record and testimony 
‘of practical performance. 
lcan add my mite and affirmation to the truth of a re- 
mark made in that admirable work, ‘The Sportsmen’s 
Gazetteer” by Mr. Hallock, ‘‘that, after a most crucial test, 
the advocates of the chokebore are not satisfied as to re- 
sults.” No, gentlemen; many of the acquaintances of your 
correspondent are not satisfied. It may he advocated as an 
advancement to trade and the demands of fashion, and, 1 
may add, that unexplainable feature in human character 
that is constantly demanding something new; but many of 
us demand also a mixture of practical utility with the new, 
at least in the Backwoops, 

BEVERLY, West Virginia, 

[The comparison of the muzzleloader and the breech- 
loader is a dead issue, The muzzléloader is the gun of the 

ast; the breechloader the arm of the present and future. 

ore to the point than a discussion of muzzle vs. breech 
would be relations of experiments and tests in loading to se- 
cure pattern and penetration, There is no question of the 
preechloader’s good qualities. Ineifectual vesults very 
robably follow from incorrect loading, We think that 
some hints ou this point would prove of real seryice toa 
Vast number ef sportsmen, and shall be glad to have com- 
nunications on the subject. | 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


0 8 Sr a a 


New Yore Assocratron.—The parlor at Pinard's was 
occupied last Monday evening by the members of the New 
York Association for the Protection of Game. There wasja 
large attendance, among others Vice-President B, T, Lud- 
ington, Fayette 8. Giles, Wisner H. Townsend, Wakeman 
Holberton, J. Harson Rhoades, Henry T, Carey, Thomas N. 
Cuthbert and Henry N. Munn. Messrs. David W. Judd, 
W. W. tleaton and W. B. Dickerman were elected to mem- 
bership and the resignation of Bugene Schieflelin was 
accepted. A letter from Seth Green instructed the mem- 
bers of the association to distinguish the sex of brook trout, 
Mr. Fayette 8. Giles was directed, by vote of the association, 
lo attend the meeting at Delmorico’s on the subject of pro- 
tecting the Adirondack forests. Mr. J. H. Goodwin, Jr., 
the official game protector for this city, reported upon his 
doings in repressing the violations of the game laws. One 
member said that to his knowledge quail and part- 
ridge liad been served at the Manhattan Club within 
the past few days. Another member said he had seen 
quail served at a Fulton street restaurant recently and 
within the close season. <A third member said that on the 
previous evening lhe had seen over fifty quail served at a 
regular lable @hote dinner, The counsel of the board was 
instructed to make an example of some prominent club or 
restaurant instead of contining his efforts to street hucksters 
and minor dealers. Myr, Godwin said that his mair. trouble 
now was with striped bass, which were sent to the market 
from a distance, and with lobsters which were brought to 
market while entirely under weight. Mr. Munn spoke 
earnestly in favor of so amending the game laws as to pro- 
hibit the shipping through the State of any game when out 
of season, lt was not enough to make it unlawful to kill 
birds in this State. Something should be done to prevent 
this city and Boston from being open markets for the dis- 
position of the out-of-season game, Mr. Munn also called 
attention to the trapping of game, especially on Long Island, 
where the brakemen and others on the railroads bought the 
birds and sold them in the city, A resolution was passed 
asking the railroad authorities to check the practice. 


WILpDFowL ON THE Paco CodAsr.—East Portland, 
Oregon, Feb. 10.—What has become of the canyvas-back this 
season? J have been living in Oregon twenty-seven years, 
and always found plenty of them on the Columbia bottoms 
from November to April. Have killed from fifty to eighty 
several times in one hunt. They are also very scarce in 
California this season. The climate is dryer than I ever 
knew it at this time of the year. There seems to be the 
usual flight of mallard, widgeon and other ducks, but no 
canyas 10 amount to anything. What few come, leaveina 
few days. Thelakes are thick with what the Indians call 
Wwappatoo, about like small potatoes, which are very sweet 
and have always been favorite food for canvas-back ducks, 
I can not account for it, unless they have taken this season 
some other direction for their feeding ground. The geese 
this season, which always are so plentiful during November, 
took soiae other direction in their flight from the north last 
fall. I wish some of your subscribers will please state 
through your columns if there is the same scareity of birds 
in their favorite Jocalities.—T. H. P. 


Fisnmr’s Isuanp,—A consignment of 130 quail has-been 
received hy the secretary of Fishex’s Island Cluh, to be put 
out on their island as soon as the weather allows it. More 
birds are on the way and the club has contracted for six 
hundred birds in all, intending to turn loose about this same 
number every spring. These quail are western *birds, large 
and healthy, and can be inspected at the residence of Max 
WeNzeEL, 89 Fourth street, Hoboken, N. J. A Herald re- 
porter announces that the Fisher’s Island fresh-water ponds 
“are to be stocked with fish, partly to afford angling to the 
club men, but mainly to attract waterfowl.” Wherein the 
said reporter is manifestly muddled. 


Mspina Gun Crus.—Medina, N. Y.—The Medina Gun 
Club has been organized by the election of the following 
officers: President, C7 F, Hurd; Vice-President, Fred Mead; 
Secretary, Harvey L. James, M. D.; Treasurer, A, F. 
Ellicott; Directors, Aaron Shisler, Frank Barker, A. A. 
Smith. The objett of the association is the enforcement of 
the laws regarding illegal killing of game out of season and 
for the mutual benefit and pleasure derived from the meet- 
ings of the members. Bi-weekly meetings will be held and 
glass ball shoots indulged in. The membership now num- 
bers seventeen, which, it is anticipated, will be increased to 
twenty-five or thirty. 


Wisconsin AND Mrentean.—Mr. H. F. Whitcomb, of 
Milwaukee, general passenger agent of the M. L. S. & W. 
R. R., will shortly publish 4 guide and map of Northern 
Michigan and Wisconsin, The map will be of such detail that 
it willvery materially aid sportsmen to find their ways to the 
lakes and streams of that charming country. 


GHoRGrIA.—Macon, Ga., Feb. 11.—The recent two weeks 
of April-like weather has affected our shooting, small bags 
being the result. Both man and dog suffer in walking and 
make failures as to numbers. I was out on Saturday with 
iwo others and we killed only twenty-one Bob Whites.—J, 
H, Af ; 


KAnsas.—Morantown, Kan,, Feb, 4.—The ground hog 
saw his shadow on the 2d inst. Robins, crows, ducks, an 
large numbers of geese have arrived here from Texas. The 
grass has started in the low grounds, and all nature seems to 
be rejoicing. Lots of quail and pinnated grouse leit over. 


BRINDEAY, the famous sporting fop, had a costume for 
every kind of game that he had shot at, One day, invited 
to the Duke of Orleans’s shooting party, the Duke drew his 
attention to a hare, suggesting he should fire. ‘I cannot, 
monseigneur; I am in my partridge toilet,” he replied. 


Monricuns Bay.—State Game Protector George W. Whit- 
aker, of Southampton, Long Island, offers fifty dollars re- 
ward for such information as will lead to the conviction of 
ally person or persons pursuing wild duck, geese or brant 
after sunset, or with light or lanier in Moriches Bay. 


A man by the name of peylor, who has a ranch six miles 
west of the head of Cattle Creek, in Colorado, is building an 
enclosure, which will cantain over 3,000 acres, for the purpose 
ot raising deer and elk for the Hastern market, as curiosities 
for parks, etc. The fence is to be sixteen feet high, He ex- 
pects to complste the park by next fall,in time to catch the deer 
and elk as they come from the mountains. He will leave gates 
over the trails and is confident he can catch all he wants, Mr, 
i hal Says young elk or deer will sell readily in the East for 


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THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


Alas! that every one cannot be pleased! Alas! that im rifles, as in 
everything else, we cannot have in one arm all the elements desir- 
ablein a hunting gun, and alas! again, that target rifles, gallery 
tiles, long-vange, short-range, light-ball, heavy-ball, express, non- 


j express, SUL a rifles, tiger guns, elephant rites, magazive rifles 


and singleloaders cannot all be ‘‘assimilated,” and one rifle evolved 
which will suit for all and for everything. from the smallest to the 
biggest game, for the house-gallery practice so maty like, and the 
long-range target shooting so many are fondof. Truly, so long as 
man lives, tastes will differ, and gun-makers, as well as others, will 
have their hands full trying to suit each individual taste, so many 
not being satisfied with acompromise, _ 

The .40-90-800 magazine rifle, first proposed by me to the manufaec- 
turers, and mentioned in my letter published by you Sept, 13, 1888, 
and from which all this discussion has sprung, was proposed as a 
“compromise gun,” to contain as many of the elements desirable in 
a hunting gun asmight be possible in one gun, andto answer the 
strictures on ‘‘breechloaders” contained in the numerous letters of 
Major Merrill, who, by the way, has not answered the above-men- 
tioned letter, It was not pr: posed to construct a ‘‘bone-brealer™ or 
a “smasher,” as there are already enough of such guns now on the 
market, but to try to constructa gun that would throw a naked 
bulletin as fat a trajectory as possible, and unite with this quality 
great killing power, accuracy of shooting, ease of mabipulation, 
rapidity of fire, and safety to the shooter, together with as sreat a 
range of game that might be killed by it as might be possible. 

The .40-caliber was selected as a “compromise” between heavy and 
light caliber. Met like to shoot small caliberrifles at target in pref- 
erence to heavy calibers, while there are, doubtles, many whose only 

ame is that which requires light caliber. For many of these dowbt- 
ess the .40-caliber is too heavy, as the ball might tear chickens or 


‘squirrels too much unless skillfully killed, but to go lower than .40- 


caliber would be to impair its usefulness at the other end and make 
il too little effective on the middle class of game. On the other hand 
it was not thought of as a gun to hunt grizzlies or other dangerous or 
ferocious game, the hunter who desires such sport being able gen- 
erally to own more than one rifle or to provide himself with the 
heavy “bone-breaker” and “‘paralyzer" necessary for safety to hint 
self in hunting such game. At the same time a gun was sought that 
would not be wholly non-effective even-if by ehance one had, for his 
own safety, to “tackle a grizzly,” but that would have the power and 
number of shots to take care of a cool man in a tight place. 

As the original proposer of this gun Tam, of course, interested in 
its success, and all the discussion pro and con. that your paper has 
contained has been read with much interest. Now that the gum “‘has 
been born,’’ and has been tested by so high an authority as Mr. Far- 
row with such favorable results, let us see what we have: 

First—We have a gun whose range of game is greater than that of 
any .45-caliber rifle, its caliber and ball being small enough for small 
game and yet its killing power being great enough for elks or hfiffalo, 
as witness the favor of tne .40-90 Sharps with a great many Western 
hunters on heavy game, and also witness the success of the .40-cali- 
ber military rifle now being experimented with by the British army, 
whore bio is heayier in foot pounds than the blow of similar rifles 
of .45-caliber, 

Second—we have a gun whose trajectory is as Hat as any rifle not 
especially made as an express—if not fully as flat as those—and one 
that will obviate the necessity for such close estimation of dis- 
tances within hunting ranges up to 200 yards. There beme but three 
inches drop at the 200-yard target, when fired with the 109-yard 
(point blank) sight (Farrow’s letter in January 17 number), any game 
within 200 yards would probably be hit in a deadly spot with the use 
only of one and that the point blank sight. Or, in other words, we 
have a rifle whose “dangerous space’ has been much prolonged 
an the same space for the general run of .45 or .50 caliber 
rifles. 

Third—We have a gun whose accuracy of fire is as great, if not 
greater, than that of amy other breechloader, one that will 
shoot where you hold it, and closé to the same spot every time with- 
out cleaning and with a naked ball, Patched bullets may be used if 
desiredin the same gun for accurate and close target shooting or for 
special shots in the field. Itis true that I have not shot this eun as 
yet myself, and I therefore am not stating my own experience: but I 
for one am willing to take Farrow’s shooting in preference to my 
own as a specimen of what the gun can do in the shooting line. 

Fourth—We have a magazine gun, which, in spite of the experience 
of many, is undoubtedly the gun for hunting, and one that contains 
sufficient ammunition for almost any emergency, and from which 
shots ean be thrown with almost incredible rapidity. when necessary. 
Understand that I—no more than the advocates of the singleloader— 
do not believe in rapidity of fire as’ a necessity for the successful 
hunting and bagging of game. Cool and deliberate shooting from 
the singleloader will get away with rapid and wild shooting from the 
magazine gun every time; but times may come, and have come, in 
the experience of many, when the magazine rifie was a necessity 
to save one’s life, or to bag game badly wounded, but not killed by 
the first shot, or to assist in the rapid but cool shooting necessary when 
one wishes to secure meat from a startled herd of elk, when perhaps 
meat and not fine sport was the question for a hungry crowd depend- 
ing upon the success of the shooting, ‘ 

In proper hands the magazine ritle no more conduces to rapid or 
wild shooting than the singleloader. With skillful hunting one or 
two shots would probably bag the unsuspicions game, and then the 
magazine would be at once filled again, to have the full amount in 
reserve for any emergeney, virtually using the gun under such cir- 
cumstances as a singleloader. In properhands again no ‘dead lock 
ing” of cartridges in the magazine would ever result; such accidents 
only showing carelessness and inattention, if not downright stu pidity, 
onthe part of those permitting them, the first care of any sports- 
man, hunter, ranger or soldier being to keep his gun in thoroughly 
serviceable condition for any and all emergencies, ‘ 

Fifth—We have a gun whose safety cannot be greatly doubted. I¢ 
is true that accidents to magazines have happened, but the lability 
to such accidents has been reduced toa minimum. In this gun the 
bullet is fattened on the point, not enough to destroy its fine-shoot- 
ing, but enough to keep the point of the bullet from restine on the 
primer of the cartridge in front of itin the magazine, and t is, with 
the tight hold of the feeding spring, keeps the shock of. the recoil 
from having any very great liability of producing an explosion in 
the magazine, Apartfrem the magazine we havea gun whose breech 
mechanism is more than amply strong to stand the force of the ex- 
plosion of the cartridge. Its bolt is held in place by a heavy strut in 
rear which must break before the bolt can be driven back by any 
force in the cartridge, and this strut is amply strong to stand any 
shock to which it may be subjeeted. 

T have the diagram of this mechanism before me. and from it I see 
that this strutis pivoted on the same screw as that upon which the 
hammer reyolves, [tis short and thick and, when the gun is closed, 
stands leaning slightly from the yertical, and in the right direction 
to stand the strain—under the rear of the heavy breech block that 
closes up in rear of the plunger or bolt containing the firing pin. In 
this this gun differs materially fron. the Winchester, for example: 
In the Winchester the whole strain is taken upon a pair of links upon 
each side of the gun (1 haye the Winchester diagrams also before me), 
whick links are notin a straight line when the gun is closed, but de- 
pend for their stiffness upon their hold upon the pin in the head of 
the lever: they are held upon this pin by the position of the side 
plates of the breech frame, these side plates being held in place by 
screws passing through and through—and should these screws 
“strip” their threads, or become worn and loose—then the side plates 
and Jinks may, as they already have done, blow out from the links, 
slipping off the pin in the lever head and exert side pressure enough 
to tear off the side plates and then allow the bolt to fy back. , 

Sixth—We have a gun whose wéight and length are not excessive, 
but with sufficient weizht to make the recoil of the 90 grains powder 
not unpleasant, and with the right length for a “handy” gun, either 
on foot or horseback, and still have sufficient length for-eod shoot- 
ing for the distance required. ae be 

Seyenth—We have a gun whose ammunition is not bully or heavy 
or unreasonably long. Its powder and lead are about as 1 to 3; its 
bullet is.24% ealibers long, is naked, and has sufficient cannélures to 
hold lubricant and take the grooves of the ritle properly, and the 
300 grains lead has sufficient ‘‘staying power” and ‘remaining 
velocity” to give a good account of itself at the distanees for which 
itis iene Being mtended for only short or hunting distances 
proper—say up to 200 or 250 yards—its route, flight, etc., at longer 
ranges can only be determined after experiment. 

Ibistrue we have a ‘“bettle-necked” shell, and this maybe Uhjec- 
tionable to some; but on the other hand we could not yery well )iive 
the straight shell of .40-caliber without inereasing its lengih hey wd 
reason, andit also seems to bea fact that the bottle-necked shell 
gives more force, weight for weight of powder, than the straight 
shell, while it can be as readily extracted from a clean gun (by 
which] mean one free from rust or grit, and not one that has not 
heen ped) as the “straight shell,’ which is not straight at all, but 
conical, 

, eee mentioned some of the things we haye, let us see what -we 
ave Not. 

First—We have not a light gallery rifle, or one intended for the 
lightest of game, butibis believed that evemthis gun could ‘bark a 
squirrel’ in skillful hands. 

cond—We have nota “Jong-range*’ target or hunting rifle, but 
ene intended purposely not to be long range, withthe 90 powder and 


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390 lead, but also one perhaps that may be successfully used as such 
by the adaptation of less powder and more lead, as has already been 
proposed by mein former letters. 

Third—We haya not a rifle intended expressly for heayy zame 
shooting, nor as a ‘‘hone-braker,”’ “paralyzer,” ov for grizzlies, tigers 
or elephants, but a rifie that probably would be able to give a good 
account of itself eyen against heavy game, when any emergency 
arose to make it necessary for the hunter to defend his Tire. 

And generally we have not a pun that is expected to fill all the 
requirements for a hunting gun against all kinds-of game, but a 
“con promise” that fills the bill for as much as may be for the gen- 
eral hunter or target shot, leaving the specialists either on large or 
small game, and the long range target or hunting shots to select for 
themselves from the guns already on the market, or to ‘tevolve™ 
S06 TlEW fun more suited to their requirements than either this gun 


or those to be now had elsewhere, And may success attend such 
“evolation.” - : C, D, 


Rditor Forest and Stream; 

_The great length of the shell of course hinders its effective use in 
tifles like the Winchester or Kennedy, but could not the Spencer be 
used for that length of cartridge withoutusing too much of t eweight 
and losing f60 much of the strength, that it would in the Win- 
ehester. The only objection to the Spencer is its unhandy manner 
of loading by withdrawing the spring; now if that could be obviated 
by merely using anopening like the Winchester, it would, I think, 
maleit the best of actions for the desired .40-90. HAWKEYES. 

Norra GRANVILLE, N. Y. 


Editor Forest and. Streanv 

_ i September jast I glo myself with a Hotchkiss (45-70), sent 
it to the factory, had the triggers eased to 3814 pounds pull and put in 
clean condition generally. and on the 19th of the month started for 
Southwestern Colorado, I arrived at niy son’s cattle ranch about 
the Ish of October. Here I found two friends of the young men who 
had anticipated my coming and had come over to engage with us in 
the hunt. They were well skilled. One sported a .40-70 Marlin maga- 
zine, and the other a .40-90 (J think a Ballard single breechloader). 
Of course, I was a ‘‘tenderfoot.’' The glare of the sun so affected 
my eyes and the high altitude (7,000 feet) my breathing that for a few 
days Iwas not of much account. Soon, however, I began to get used 
to the situation and concluded to venture out. but from long want of 
experience with a rifle hardly dared then to trust my chances to that 
weapon. Game, especially deer, was very plenty, [had a good 
10-bore, 10144-pound Parker, and cartridges loaded 444 drams powder 
and 12 buckshot, § to the ounce, 

The boys fixed me upon a gentle old mare (which was wonderfully 
corpwent with grass, and was nursing. a four-months colt), the first 
time I had been astride of a horse in nineteen years. Two of the 
boys, also mounted, started off at the same time at right angles to 
my line of hunt, and left me to climb a mountain to a plateau about 
ainile away. Onreaching the plateau I hunted around among the 
scrub oaks for some time without success, and finally concluded I 
would turn Lack. Thad not proceeded on the back track far when, 
like a cotton-tai), up jumped a deer not forty yards, running straight 
away. I leveled the gun, got sight just below the flag and-blazed 
away. ‘The old mare may have dodged a little, but the first thing] 
knew I was wallowing in the brush, heels up, and a confusion of 
horse’s feet and stirrup straps was disappearing amoug the scrub 
oaks. The fact was the old mare had taken in her dimensions to that 
degree that the ciuchos were all slack, and bearing a little harder on 
the off stirrup thesaddle turned with me. On getting up, adjusting 
my torn corduroys, and getting my gun in shape, I attempted to trail 
the mare, but soon lost track. My only course appeared to beto go 
back and report. [ could see nothing but the destruction of the mare 
and saddle, On reaching the foot of the mountain I met my son and 
the man who had started with him at the time I did. We returned. 
IT mounted on my son's horse, and in five minutes after getting the 
ivack the mare was found quietly picking the grass, without ascratech 
and nothing broken but one stirrup strap. Of course the saddle, 
lariats, ete,, hung suspended from the emaciated belly of the beast, 
The deer was also as easily found dead not over fifty yards from 
wherel last sawit. This was the only deer I killed with the shot- 
fun. 

Isaw so many deer out of range of shotI concluded to go into 
practice with my Hotchkiss. The first shot I fired from ibwas at a 
hawk sitting on atail pe 180 yards away. Standing on one knee 
and resting my elbow onthe other, I let loose, andthe hawk came 
ee bling down through the branches dead. The shot was a dead 
center. 

The next day, going out with my .40-70 friend, he pointed out to me 
a large buck lying on an opposite hillside a distance of 80 yards. He 
fave me the shot, The ball siruck in the throat at the point of the 
jaw. and passed up through the opposite side. of the head, tearing 
out the eye. The next day I concluded to try it. as the fellow went 
to get married, ‘‘afoot and alone,’ On hunting around a while, I 
struck fresh tracks in the mud, and on ascending a slight rise, I 
looked up and before me saw the head of a deer, with ears erect and 
eyes bulged out, trying to solve the situation. [ stopped a little, ran 
to. the top of the rise and saw an old doe taking rather a wide circuit 
80 yards off, while the tails of two well-grown fawns could be seen 
bobbing up closer under the hill. I opened fire and gave the old doe 
two shots, running to the right, when she tacked about and I got in 
three shots, running tothe left when she dropped. I had hit her 
every time, and each shot was a fatal one. From this time my exhi- 
bition of nerve was not so good, scoring many misses, and I mustsay 
many good hits considering my long years of inexperience. Five of 
us in eight days hung up 36 deer, 1 grizzly (silver tip), 1 cinnamon, 2 
turkeys and 4 number of sedge hens, prairie chickens, grouse, jack 
rabbits, etc,, with little hunting, the deer sometimes running within 
twovods of the cabin door. 

Let me pow introduce our friend of the .40-90 R. B., who proved 
the angel of Leadville in the winter of 18/8. Thatyear the rush was 
preat to that plave, and winter setting in early, found the 6,000 or 
8,000 inhabitants with little meat. In their distress R. B. descended 
on the town with a burro train of thirty asses at a Lime, loaded with 
elk. During the winter, he assured me, he killed with his own Sharps 
Tifie 161 elk and many deer, and marketed them in Leadville, He in- 
formed me that in his eight years’ experience as a Rocky Mountain 
hunter, he had owned several good guns, but his .40-90 was the 
strongest shooting gun he had ever seen; and it required the. least 
adjusting of sights. He almost always made his own bullets and re- 
loaded his shells. He assure me that lead alone would upset to 
about the form cf an ordinary haystack and generally turn over, but 
that with 1-14 tin and well swaged, the balls would go as straight as 
a gimlet, and the trajectory was very sinall up to300 yards, while wilh 
his habit of eyeing his sights his point blank was about 125 yards. He 
vot his 40-90 in ibt2; and that fall he killed the first seventeen deer he 
shot at without shooting a second shot at any one of them. While 
with us, he letusdo the most ot the shooting, and busied himself 
about the ranch, During my stay of five weeks he only shot six 
deer, but they were scored ab consecutive shots, and the nearest he 
came to w#miss was when he broke the back of one at 150 yards 
after sunset. 

He thought we were killing too many deer and would not hunt, and 
soon we all thought so too. When left, there were about fitty deer 
hung up toecure, The hams were cut out, then the shoulders, next 
the rump was severed, the tenderloins vaken out and the careass 
split. These were rubbed with salt and Mexican chilly, Our friend of 
the 40-70 killed both the bear:, the grizzly giving him a pretty lively 
racket with a ball through its lungs, notwithstanding he rode a smart 
horse; puta ball through the bead just forward of the ears settled the 
brute, This bear weighed fully 700 pounds. IT have the skin. 

This region of which | write isa hunters’ paradise. We saw fully 
100 deer cross the flat in front of the cabin in one day in small bands, 
and there were but two shots fired atthem, Just before the storms 
of fall come on, these deer come down from the high table lands 
where they have been bred, into the lower pine hills for shelter, and 
on those o¢casions the woads will be alive with them, : ; 

Tt was R. B.’s opinion that a strong magazine gun, taking six or 
eight shells, 40-90, would excel any gun now made for hear,elk and 
deer, and the Marlin or Winchester action he regarded the best. My 
opinion is that the missile which presents the largest surface to con- 
tact of equal weight, conveys ‘the greatest shock and consequently 
lolls the deadliest, consequently a iruncate kills deader than a pointed. 
missile, ind a .45 caliber than a 40, provided the missile is driven with 
force enough to go through, M, R 

Newakk, N. J. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

in yourissue of Jan, 24 the articles by J. W. Shurter and J, Duane 
are very near my ideas on the subject indorsed by my past experi- 
ence, Mr, Shurter nas made a bullseye,’ There is ahappy medium 
in all things, but in this world we poor mortals seem inclined to rush 
to one extreme or the other, .It 1s within the memory of all prob- 
ably who tuke any interest in these matters that originally the ma- 
jority of breechloading rifles were of very large caliber, 50 and more, 
Now the fashion seems to be to rush to the other extreme, and niany 
advocate 40 and .88 and even .82 caliber. Are we not going too fast? 
My experience has been that a .44 or .45 ball is superior to a .40-eali- 
ber with the same amount of powder. Yet 1 would not argue that 
the .50-caliber with enough powder to carry it would not be more de- 
structive; but then there is increased weight, recoil, cost of ammu- 
Hition, etc., to be cousid@ed, without any great gain, for if we can 
obtain all that is needed in power with an engine of certain horse 
power, why have a larger one? Therefore, why a large bore rifle if 


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one smaller willdo? MethinksT hear some advocate of small hores 

} exclaim, ‘'There, now, we've goi him! Why he admits the small 
bore is best, and why a 44or.45? Why nota 407” Softly, my good 
friend, ‘too much of a good thing,” ete., and too small a bore in a 
rifle likewise. I think this matter easily adjusted, and am bigoted 
enough to believe fhat others will think so, too, when they Jook at it 
in the right light. 

We can sim up the requirements of those who shoot a rifle for 
game into two classes—those who want a rifié for grouse, squirrels. 
turkeys and the like, and those who, though they may not “tackle™ 
anything larger than a deer, want to be prepared for anything they 
might **run on to.’’ The majority of sportsmen, while they might 
not be eager to open hostilities with “Old Ephraim,’ would no donbt 
feel more contented if the arm they carried were capable of caping 
successfully with “Eph,” if a good opportunity offered. Now, 
while T do not want to say that the .40-caliber is not the thing, I will 
ask its advocates if, for the purposes named aboye, would not 4 .38 
or even a.82-caliber do just as well and cover all required points 
as regards lightness, slight recoil, handiness (as regards size and 
weight), ammunition and small cost of same? If sneh is the case, 
does not the .44 or .45-caliber more nearly fill the other requirements 
of a poweriul missile than the smaller 40? If these two points are 
admitted, why the need of the intermediate caliber for all practical 
purposes? The point has been advanced that the length of the 
cartridge of the 40-90-2500 is against it, I think it well taken, as, 
aside trom the increased length of the action of the rifle, too long a 
cartridge would be unhandy. By increasing caliber we get increased 

powder capacity with less length of shell. Then, again, the ball, A 
500-grain .40-caliber ball is too long for practical purposes, or at least 
some of your correspondentsso proye; and there is no question but 
that.a ball weighing from 850 to 405 grains (the f¢oyernment, ball) 
would do as good work as the .40-caliber long pall, for what would 
be gained by length (unless we expect ball to strike sideways) in 
killing power and for hunting distances, will not the other ball be 
long enough to have a steady flight. 

Let us have a .45-caliber repeater, with 90 to 120 grains.of powder, 
and ball from 350 to 405 grains, straight shell. Then at a “pinch” 
the government shell could be used as a singleloatler. And as most 
of our heavy game is shot in the West, thisfact will cause the ritle 
to be popular in that section. With such an arm, with an action that 
will sfand the “racket” and always work, the ne plus ultra of an all- 
round sporting rifle will be reached for the present, What the future 
has in store for us, judging by the improvements in the past, “We 
dinna ken,” F PRAtgIEe Dog. 

DerrRoir, Mich. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The men of leisure and means want to have the inside track all the 
time. They are not satisfied with any reasonable battery, uor will- 
ing to take chances with the hunter who can only afford one gun. 
The cry is fora costlier and deadlier weapon that will kill every 
thing before it. The big-duck guns were seized and broken up, be- 
cause forsooth they killed more ducks than the fine-haired city swell 
could with his Greener, sinkboats, decoys and all. Game protection 
is right and shouid have been thought of long ago; yet it should be 
in spirit what it pretends to be in form—for the preservation of the 

' ny for the benefit of the masses, and not forthe favored few. 
here seems to be an envious under-current in this matter of game 
protection. Sportsmen who only haye a yearly yacation are, of 
course, anxious to kill all the game possible in a certain limited 
time, They are to some extent jealous of the gentleman sportsman 
of means and leisure alike unlimited; and he inturn of the back- 
woods hunter, who, with the faithful old muzzleloader, ills more. 
than both ofthem. Thisis all wrong. The game is not confined by 
meets and bounds but falls to the man who can stand the toil of 
tramping day after day, or stand shivering on a runway for hours 
in the hope of one chance at a fleeing deer. The present hunting 
rifle is good enough, far too good for vur supply of big game. Give 
the game a little show. Only a little while and game shooting will 
be a thing of the past. Manufacturers of guns are killing the ‘‘goose 
that lays the golden ege.*? What would you think of a man carry- 
ing a4-bore, 10-drams powder, 3-ounce shoton quail? Explosive 
bullet, hollow express balls that cut adeer in two, extreme long- 
range rifies with ‘‘greatsmashing powers.”’ Though carried on large 
game, should be classed in the same category as No, 4on quail—mur 
derous. We won't need guns much longer, 88-Lona. 


Editor Forest and Strean- 

Whether there is sufficient demand for a .40-90 repeater to justify 
its manufacture is a question yet tobe determined. I, for one rifle- 
man, doubt it. 

T have mentioned before the advantages of using in our .45-caliper 
rittes more powder and Jess lead. In your issue of Jan. 17, your cor- 
respondents W. Milton Farrow and ‘‘C, D.** mention this. 

Mr. Farrow speaks of putting bis shots thirty-two inches higher 
with a .45-85-295 shell than with a .45-’0-405 shell from the same rifle. 

The government shell can be loaced with 85 to 90 grains powder 
and a 300-grain ball, and will give about the same result, and for 
hunting purposes, deer especially, is much more satisfactory, It 
will catch a deer’s back along midrange that the regular ammuni- 
tion would overshoot, Most of the reloading tools for the government 
shell will seat a 300-zrain ball justas perfectly as the regular ball. I 
know that the tool formerly manufactured by the Providence Tool 
Company will. Sportsmen who use the .45-75 bottled shell in their 
repeaters should by all means try a 300-grain naked hall with all the 
powder the shell will hold. 

This ammunition is so much superior to the 75-350 load, that I be- 
lieve no deer hunter will return to the latter. Make the balls toler- 
ably hard and they will follow the grooves. By using a 24-inch load- 
ing tube, at least 90 grains of Hazard FG powder can be pul in 
this shell, and you will find the balls do go down the rangein a burry. 
The recoil is but slight, and the blow- out-behind theory is all bosh, 
Would the shell hold it, I would not hesitate to use 150 grains in my 
repeater (the new Whitney Kennedy), and believe it would stand 
much more. — 

Talso find the trajectory of this rifle a little Hatter than others in 
which I have used the same ammunition, I prefer the solid ball, and 
believe 300 grains heavy enough for all game but buffalo and grizzly. 
Of the first we have no more, and but few hunters comparatively look 
after rrizzly. way / ‘ 

Then again, this ammunition is used in a 9 te 944 pound gun, which 
is about as heavy as a man wants to carry allday. I would sight the 
rifle with the Van Dyke sight (described im his *still-Hunter”), for 
100 yards. 

These sights are certainly worth a trial, and any one can make and 
put them on, Big Lyary, 

Daevuana, Inu, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 7 : 

Tread with pleasure the article by “Drociddep,’ in your issue of 
Jan, 17. Ivan heartily agree with him in thinking that a .25-caliber 
would be popular among those who hunt small game. I haye heen 
using a .82-caliber Remington, for some time back, bul: I have long 
thought that a smaller bullet would answer my purpose just as well, 
if not better. Tthink that a .22is too smailand that a .82 is larger 
than is necessary in hunting small game, I, J, BR 

Haminton, N, Y. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ( 

Asit now seems to be in order for sportsmen to express thei 
preferences for sporting rifles 1 wish to suggest stil] another pattern 
which, in my opinion, would become a great favorite among that class 
of sportsmen who haye given some attention to glass-hall aud wilg- 
shooting with the rifle. [ama believerin the capabilities of many 
sportsnien to kill birds on the wing with a vifle, and for those who 
hunt for sport, recreation, and health, and not for ‘‘meat,”’ one bird 
killed in that manner must certainly alford more satisfaction than ° 
dozen killed with a shotgun. Of course considerable practice is re- 
quired to hit rapidly moying objects with arifie, but it has been done 
by hundreds, and can be by thousands more, Where game is plenty 
sufficient practice can be had with little inconvenience after one has 
acquired some proficiency at old Fae cans, glass balls, and the like, 

The rifle best adapted to this style of shooting, or ‘‘siap’’ shooting 
as it is called, is the .22-caliber, Now the rifle | want to suggest is a 
.22-caliber magazine gun with underneath lever action similar to the 
Winchester or Marlin and shooting the rim fire cartridge, either the 
short or long will do, 

The object is to get two or more shots at single or double balls, or 
as many as possible at fiying or running game without remoying the 
gun from the shoulder, , 

The .22-caliber rifle is pre-eminently the one for practice and for 
eae kinds of work in the field, and for the following reasons pret- 
erable'to the larger calibers: Wirst, ibis sufficiently accurate for all 
practical purposes; second, makes little or no report to frighten 
Zame; third, no smoke to obscure the vision when a secon or third 
shot is necessary; fourth, does not tear the game into strings; fifth, 
can be used without danger or without disturbing any one near town, 
or eyen ina large city, for target shooting or snap shooting at sta- 
tionary objects. Only a plank four or six inches thick and a foot 
square is necessary for a butt and a back yard is sufficient range. 

Perhaps the most potent recommendation is the trivial cost of the 
ammuuition, a thousand rounds of the short costing only about m2, 
the long about $3, while the .22 and .38 caliber center fire cost in the 
neighborhood of $12 and $15 per thousand respectively. Fora person 
using one or two hundred a day this margin is an important item, 
unless his bank account is yery plethoric, To become expertrequires 


|Frs. 21, 1884. 


lots of practice, and a person practicing should neyer be launte 
with the feeling that he cannot afford the expense. 


lam very desirous of seeing such a ritle from some of our reliabia 
makers placed on the market, whieb fact must he niy apolozy in 
this intrusion on your own and readers’ patience. Prore. 

Fort BIpwsext, Cal. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

About five years ago I purchased a Sharps mid-range rifle .40 cal 
ber, using the 2l4-inchs traight shell (65-280) mainly for use on the 
range, and having no other hunting 1ifie concluded to try this with 
the ordinary ammunition. [had no trouble hitting my game at the 
ordinary hunting distances, but did have about ag mueh difficulty 
finding my game after being shot as IL did to look it up im the firs 
place. About this time the express system began ta attract atte: 
tion, Ttdid not take me long to make up ny mind to try the express 
bullet, and the first one was a 278 grains, which I used 4 season with 
good success, only the bullet aes in cold weather when Jouding= 
after two or three shots and sometimes I could not get it into the 
chamber without tearing off the patch. The trouble was that it was 
too much of a cylinder, and resolved to haye & new mould made, 
with the bullet fapering more, and of lighter weight. ‘Nhe first was 
280 grains, which { afterward reduced to 240 grains, 1o take the small 
sized copper tube made by the U. M. @. Go., and I think it the best 
.40-caliber express bullet made. 1 use 70 grains powder ang lubriea- 
ting wad, would use 80 or 9) grains if the shélls would hold it, With 
this ammmunition I can get axcellent targets at 200 yards, and the 
trajectory is comparatively flat; for asingleshot deer huuting rifle 
I don’t think this can be beat much. 

For some years back I have been wishing for a, double express rife, 
but on account of the heavy import duties kept putting it off till 4 
more convenient season (when the duties would be lower). IT hap- 
pened to be in New York during the International Military Match of 
1881 and became acquainted with some members of the british team, 
among others Mr. MeVittie, with whom I‘had a talk about double ~ 
express rifles and their makers. On account of his experience with 
sporting arms, [ of course plied him with all manner of questions, per- 
taining to those arms, which he kindly answered. Aimongy the dif- 
ferent makers of repute, he recommended the Messrs. D, & J, fraser, 
of Edinburgh, Scotland, very highly as makers of ‘express rifles, and 
said they were using an improved kind of rifling that very much re- 
duced recoil and fouling, and gave a very flat trajectory. I placed 
an order with them for a double express .45-caliber, using 110 grains 
C. & H. powder and 280-grain bullet, which in due time eame to 
hand. They call ij,a double grip, un er lever, with extension rib, 
Damascus steel barrels, back action, rebounding locks. The barrels 
are twenty-eight inches, the whole gun weighing a liftle less than 
eight pounds, and when compared with our ten anc eleven pound 
gunsitisa seeming toy, The sighting is perfection, if such a thing 
can be, It seems just as easy to use it in the thickest hemlock woods 
as in the nicest gray light, and I haye yet to see a sportsman who 
has handled it that was not at once captivated with the sights, and 
in factthe whole gun. I didnot get the gun until late in October, 
and have not had a full season with it yet, and_ cannot report fully, 
but from the few deer I got this fall withit, I am satislied it will 
prove a very superior weapon, 

Now in regard to the choice of a hunting rifle, I am willing to 
admit there are some kinds of game where a solid bullet is better 
than an express, at leastI judge so from the tone of many letters 
from Western correspondents, but for all-round hunting | consider 
the express system as far in advance ofthe solid bullet as the breech 
loaderis ahead of the muzzleloader. I haye used the solid hullet 
about ten years and the express about five, and am well convinced 
that the express system has ouly to be better understood to be more 
generally used. D. McG, 

HARRISVILLE, Mich, 


Camp Hire Hlickeyings. 


“That reminds me.” 


104, 

| Eee of us went into camp in the fidian Territory, and 

we drew lots to see who should begin to cook. Dr. B. 
drew the black bean and cooked a very decent supper ab 
hour after we located camp. Sitting around the tire before = 
bedtime arranging plans for the coming tlirce weeks of camp 
life, and swapping such glorious shooting and fishing lies as 
only honest sportsmen know how, the happy thought strnelk 
me (what would our lives be without the dear old “happy 
thought?”) that one man should cook till some other fellow 
found fault, and then the faultfinder should cook till he in 
turn was found fault with. When I proposed it everybody 
consented, none more cheerfully than Dr. B., who knew 
too well what an abominable cook he was and felt sure of 
being relieved soon. Day after day passed and no word of 
complaint came from any of us, though the Doctor seemed 
to take a fiendish delight in servmg up such fearful mixtures 
as made us leave camp serrowing. Finally, getting des- 
perate at the prospect of spending the rest of his days over 
the pots and kettles, and believing we had secretly banded 
together to keep him there till camp life ended, he dumped 
a quart of salt into the dough for the breakfast bread one 
morning, and when it came on the table smoking hot he sat 
back to watch the effect, with a diabolical gleam in his eye, 
Judge M. was the first man to help himself, and as he swal- 
lowed a piece of Dr. B.'s bait he heaved two or Uirce times, 
and yelled out, “Je-ru-satem crickets! that bread is salt; 
but, Doctor, its good, don’t you forget it.” J. W. M. 

Sr. Lovrs, Mo, 


CRITICS* 


Editor Horest and Stream: 

Now that we have a crities’ corner andlevery one is dome a little 
growhng and giving hints, | would Jike to do my share with the rest. 
Add to tie Index Hxpwrgutorius “yanked,” or “taken iu out of the 
wet,’ LaJso put ina plea for angler instead of fisherman, Though 
I know of no exact authority for this, yet we all vecoguize that 4 
fisherman is one who gains his living by fishing and an angier one 
who fishes for sport. Who ever heard of the “Marblehead cod 
anglers,”? And TI think we haveall fired of suci stereotyped expres 
sions as ‘feathery lure’ for fly, the “pliant tod” and others too 
numerous ta mention, but which every reader of angling literamyre 
will recognize, Letus strive to attain a simpler, more condensed 
Style and give more facts and less fancy. 

Tf anglers in writing accounts of their trips would give accurate 
information, as to where they went (unless they wish lo keep this a 
secret), how they got there, where they put np, what sort of accom- 
modations and access tothe water they had, what time of year, aud 
what kind of weather it was, what sort of bait or fies they used, the 
condition, depth, etc., of the water, how many fish thay took, and the 
approximate average weight, the kind of fish aud any particular 
incidents or other details they can give, and necessary expenses, their 
accounts of theiv journey would not only be as interesting bub very 
yaluable and we would soon xecumiulate an invaluable mass of inform- 
ation on angling matters, which we now, to a great degree, Jack. 

PRRCYVAL, 


CORNER. 


Professor Skeat notes in the London Academy that in Hoyt 
and Ward’s “Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations” there is at. 
least one which has found its way, wilh comical effect, imto 
strange company. The words of Pistol in “Henry V.” IV.. 1 
—‘'Trail’st thou the puissant pike”*—are given under the head 
of “Angling.” 


Fop, 21, 1884.) 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


69 


Sea and River Sishing. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 


WADING THE STRHAM. 


; oe Colonel drew me fo one side and said, *‘You do not 

intend to eo with the Doctor and wade to-day, do you? 
I know that you care nothing for wading, more than I do, 
and Lam surprised that you talked of doing it.” 

“Wading,” said T, “is not real enjoyment for me, and 
perhaps 1 can do some bank fishing; you know that I agree 
with you that the height of pleasurable fishing for trout is 
on # luke or giream, where one can sit on a hard seat until 
his backbone gets kinked in five or nine different places, 
and the lower end of it blooms like a cavalryman’s, and then 
to throw the fly near shore in the early season, or into the 
epting holes later. Yet a change may be a good thing in 
making one return to his first love. Some one has said that 
life would be endurable if it were not for its pleasures, and 
his remark is true in many cases, A coal miner would be 
happier if le never came out and took a sniff of fresh air, 
suw the blue sky, and heard the robins pipe, then he would 
think the mine was his natural place, and would know no 
better, ‘The sailor after months of hard labor looks to port 
for a week’s earouse as the summit of all human happiness, 
but must go to sea awain.” 

“Then,” interrupted the Colonel, ‘I may assert that you 
would be better off in the regular yearly round of your 
labors than to have a vacation and spend it in fishing with 
“we three,’ ” 

“Yes, There are men who claim that a vacation is not 
only enjoyed but that they return to the treadmill with a 
zest forit, but with me] confess to a feeling of regret at 
resuming the harness after a vacation, which passes quickly 
when in my opinion it should last forever. Therefore there 
is truth in the saying, Now wading a stream is not so dis- 
agrecable, it is a form of pleasure not quite up to boat fish- 
ing, but far preferable to no fishing, or to being shut up 1 
20 office, or a coal mine, besides our friend, the Doctor, wishes 
me to go, as you will not, and it would be selfish to deny 
hin a day on the stream because J prefer the lake or the 
tiver, I have waded many streams in my younger days, and 
enjoyed it, my taste has changed in this, but J ean still get 
some pleasure from it, Besides this, the Doctor is an accom- 
plished stream fisher and I can learn from him; heis coming, 
draw him out and get him to talk on his favorite subject.” 

‘There is no use in whipping a stream unless we can get 
off in the morning or be on it toward evening,” said the 
Doctor, as he came into camp wilh his low wading shoes, 
ready for the fray, “the trout do not vsually rise well at 
mid-day, and it is nearly five now, and will be an hour later 
before we wet our flies in the stream.” 

“Do you preter to wade up or down stream?” asked the 
Colonel, 

‘Ii depends so much on the stream,” answered the Doctor, 
as he sat upon the log upon which the Colonel was resting 
one foot as he smoked, ‘‘that it is impossible to give an in- 
telligent answer in afew words, No doubt it is the most 
successful and scientific mode to fish up stream, butit is usu- 
ally most pleasant to ish down. In up-stream fishing a short 
line only can be used, and as it continually comes back to 
you it necessitates constant casting, In this case the fish, 
which always lie with their heads up stream, do not see you 
so readily, nor are they alarmed by any stirring of the bot- 
tom by your boots, This is a question on which anglersare 
divided. For my part, I prefer to fish with the wind, let it 
be wp or down, because it is discouraging to have a breeze 
strike you as you turn a bend and bring your line about your 
ears. In down-strcam fishing the current carries your flies 
where you want them by governing their course with the 
rod, and there is less exertion, A longer line must be used 
hecause the fish can see you better, especially in shallow 
Water, and are conscious of 4 disturbance in the water by 
the particles of sediment sent down as you wade. Of course 
Trefer to fly-fishing. If I uscd a worm I would always fish 
down stream, Ifa stream has weedy margins and is swilt 
in the middle, I always fish up stream.” 

“Why this invariable rule for a weedy stream?” 

Because the trout lic above the weed beds, and as you 
are effectually hiddea from their sight and cast above them, 
they rise more readily. When hooked keep a taut line on 
him and keep him clear of the weeds, get the fish below you, 
into clear water, if possible, and fight it out there.” 

“Doctor,” Il interrupted, ‘it has seemed to me that when 
T have hooked a fish above me, and it starts down stream, 
it is a dificult matterto keep a taut line on the fish. With 
twenty feet of line at least, and thes fish rushing down 
stream, past your legs, and possibly with branches overhead 
to entangle your tip, I haye found this easier to tallx about 
than to do,” 

“Exactly,” acknowlezed the Doctor, ‘1 meant te keep the 

line as taut as you can. When the fish gets past you into a 
pool or into wider water below, bring the strain on it as 
soon as possible without tearing the hook from its mouth, 
A struggling fish in a weedy or snag@y place can often be 
led into safer water by slacking the strain so as to give him 
his head and follow, and gently direct his course, so that he 
thinks he has it all his own way for a\while, The fish, when 
played up stream, plays much lighter and strains the tackle 
Jess, and it is most desirable to keep it above you when lish- 
ing up stream if you can, Itis impossible to lay down in- 
Bexible rules for stream fishing, which is the most artistic of 
all fishing, and requires more knowledge of the habits of fish 
and changes of tactics to meet the varying moods of the 
weather. We never find exactly the same conditions on the 
same stream, and any one desiring to become a successful 
stream angler must fish at all proper seasons andin all 
weathers, n0 mutter how disagreeable, for on the worst of 
days we have good sport. I prefer a clear, lively stream 
with occasional pools, as there can be found a variety of 
fishing, such as dapping the flies in the rapids and cast- 
ing in the pools, but this stream which we propose to 
visit to-day, and which Jack has already christened the 
‘Little Bigosh,’ promises from all accounts to be dark, 
sluggish, and overhung with bushes. Cedar logs will no 
doubt be plenty, and there are usually pools under them 
which are claimed by large trout which prefer solitude to 
the company of their own species, which they drive off. 1n 
such places a back-handed east is often necessary in order to 
reach under the overhanging bushes.” 

“1 should think,” said the Colonel, ‘‘that it would be diffi- 
cull to cast in the exact spot where a trout has risen when 
the water is moying rapidly and the bushes are low.” 

“The bushes are always to be watched, but the cast must, 
be made a yard or more above the swirl of the trout,” 


— 


answered the Doctor, ‘‘for a fish is not so apt fo rise to a fly 
that is behind it, he prefers to mect it. In coming to a deep 
pool I prefer to east from the most favorable side to the 
lower edge at first, and so avoid disturbing the fish lying in 
the swift water above until I have picked up the stragglers.” 

During this conversation I had stood all ready for the 
start, and tried several times to stop the flow of information 
which the Doctor was pouring out; not that I differed with 
him, but because at school I had information pumped into 
me against my will when [ would prefer to be fishing, and 1 
have imbibed a dislike for all information, * 

The Colonel started in with another question, which, no 
doubt, would have been followed by a dozen more, had T not 
pointed to the rising sun just showing above the eastern 
hills, and called his attention to if by quoting: 


es * tis morn, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.” 

The Doetor saw the necessity of action and we started, 
leaving Jack untangling his line and the Colonel musing on 
the charms of wading as compared with Jake fishing. 

Frep MATHER, 


* In vhis truthful narrative I haye tried to restrain the Doctor 
from pouring out his knowledge which, in his case, is the acquire: 
ment of a life-time. but when he gets wound up he goes it until run 
down, I have cut down this chapter lest [ be suspected of trying to 
Smugele in a dissertation on fishing in the guise of a chronicle of a 
fishing trip. T hope the reader will not suspect me of trying to slip 
z gilded pill down his gullet, that is peculiarly the province of the 

Joctor. 


LUCK WITH THE LONGNOSES. 


Ni fine day last September the Doctor and the writer 

drew up in front of the barn belonging to the owner 

of the picnic grounds on the beautiful lake in M. It was 1 

o’clock and the horse stood heaving after along drive. We 

quickly tumbled out, horse under shelter, traps overhauled, 
and in five minutes were making our way to the lake. 

Arrived at the shore under the shade of a huge old hem- 
lock, we took dinner, such a dinner as only hungry men can 
enjoy, and washed down with draughts of cold spring water, 
to take the dusts of the road away. 

After dinner, while we discussed a glass of grog and our 
cigars, we laid ont our plans. It was a beautiful day in early 
autumn. Jt was warm and fine after some cold rains and a 
light mist clouded the air, through which the sunshone with 
a soft light, A gentle breeze rippled the surface of the water, 
I prophesied luck. Looking at the lake the Doctor said: 

“Up through this cove and across that point we used to 
take some fine bass with the fly in years gone by, when they 
were first put in.” 

“Well, we've got the tackle here now, and we will try it 
again,” said I. 

All being ready we got aboard our boat, and while the 
Doctor rowed, I made a number of casts with a whip made 
up of approved patterns. We also trolled them genily over 
some fine bass grounds, but never a leap did we see. At 
length the Doctor grew tired. ; 

“Let us anchor in by that rocky bank and try still-tish- 
ing,’ said be. 

By this time the breeze had freshened, and little dancing 
waves were plashing against the sides of our boat with a 
musical murmur, It required both anchors down to hold 
her. We now tried grasshoppers and crickets, and the 
Doctor amused himself by using a handline also, baited with 
a worm, in hopes of taking some perch. All was calm and 
still. The lake looked lonely and deserted; not a boat but 
our own, nor a human being but ourselves, to be seen, On 
the opposite side, a quarter of a mile away, where the lake 
narrowed, the mountains came down steeply to the shore. 
They were covered with a young growth of timber, whose 
leaves, mellowed by the heats of summer and touched by 
the first frost, showed the tints of autumn. Among them 
the purple red of the ash was conspicuous. Now and then 
the sweet wild bell-note of the bluejay floated across the 
lake through the soft mild air. Not another suund to be 
heard save that and the murmur of the water. 

Soothed by the calm beauty of the scene I was fast falling 
into a drowsy, careless state, when I was roused by the voice 
of the Doctor, “This will never do. Wemust not go home 
without some fish, or we shall be laughed at as unsuccessful 
anglers.” - 

“Then let us change our place once more. I have had ore 
bite and you none. There are no hungry bass here that is 
certain,” said I. 

‘We will cross over and anchor just inside that point 
where the rocks jut out. We will see if there are any bass 
or perch there. If we have no luck there we will try the 
pickerel at the upper end of the lake.” ; 

While the Doctor was speaking we had lifted our anchors 
aud our little craft was skimming along. The Doctor had 
the oars and I was artistically trolling a grasshopper of 
mammoth size astern at,the end of about seventy-five feet of 
line, more to kill time than in hopes of catching anything. 
Just as we stopped at the proposed place a fish took the 
grasshopper and struck out for deep water. ‘‘If he is a bass 
he is not yery large,” said the Doctor, who was putting 
down the anchor, My rod bent to the strain, but the run 
was short and I thought the same. I put on a vigorous 
strain, and ina moment he came alongside and was lifted in, 
a perch of about a pound’s weight, and a very fair size for a 
perch, too, inthat lake. ‘‘Well, we are after bigger game 
than perch, butif we don’t catch anything more here, we 
have at least got the wherewithal to seduce the pickerel,” 
said I. 

An occasional perch came to hand, but an hour wore away 
and no bass. So we lifted anchor and rowed up the lake. 
We noticed as we went up that the lake had been much 
lowered by drawing off water for the mills, some ten miles 
away, to which this lake acted as reseryoir. The further up 
we went the more apparent did this become, until at last we 
rounded a point, and the end of , the lake and also a curious 
seene lay before us. The whole end of the lake which 
usually covered many acres and was of a shallow, weedy 
character, lay bare from the lowering of the water, save 
where a deep channel ran between the shore and the island. 
This channel opened up into many little shallow bays in 
which many gaunt stumps which had before been sub- 
merged, lifted their withered arms in the air, The whole 
extent of the old pickerel grounds had been contracted to a 
small body of water. The Doctor and I gazed at the scene 
in astonishment, It had never been solow before. — _ 

“Well, let us try it here for a moment, and see if there 
are any fish left,” said the Doctor, dropping the anchor into 
one of the little bays. My rod was not well adapted to this 
sort of work, and Lwas afraid I would strain the tip, but 
nevertheless, I cut a thin strip of white belly from one. of 
our perch and twined it around a light gang of hooks. 


Drawing out about thirty feet of line I cast the bait inshore, 
and in a minute the white lure slowly cut the waves, At 
the second cast a. large pickerel took it savagely, making the 
water boil as he seized it. I struck, and in a moment he was 
alongside and trying to get under the boat. Before he could 
cut up any tricks he was jumping on the bottom of the boat. 
Meanwhile, the Doctor had a stick and was getting his cap- 
tive alongside. I fixed my bait and cast again, and ina 
moment had another savage strike. Having snap tackle I 
struck him immediately, and the next moment ke was in the 
airshaking his head wickedly, and then made a straight 
bolt for the boat, Iwent to lift him in, when he calmly 
opened his mouth and I only lifted the hoeks out, while my 
friend swam off, looking over his shoulder, and no doubt 
feeling happy. And here I would like to say that I think 
an angler loses a larger number of pickerel for a given 
number of bites than any other fisb. I consider a pickerel 
one of the wiliest fish that swims in the matter of getting off 
from ahook, He never wastes his time in hard pulling, try- 
ing to tear it ouf by main strength like a bass or trout, but 
calmly bids his time till he is alongside and you have hold of 
ashort line when, with a sudden and desperate wrench and 
jump, away he goes. How in the world is it that so many 
pickerel which have been securely hooked manage to get 
off? I think it is their very calmness and ‘‘loginess,” as 
many writers call it, that deceive you; one thinks that; 
they are all exhausted and played out, and that they are 
coming tamely to hand, when in reality they are only wait- 
ing to get an opportunity to bolt’ There is nothing more 
exciting In angling than the sudden, savage dash with which 
a large pickerel takes your minnow, and if to this and his 
craftiness he only added the steady, stubborn fight of the 
trae game fish, he would be called a splendid game fish, and 
this in spite of his ugly looks and ignoble haunts and assoaci- 
ates, 

Well, we tried the bay a few moments and then rowed up 
and drifted down the channel, just far enough distant from 
the island to make a good cast inshore. The island used to 
be quite a curiosity. It was not over an acre in extent and 
made of driftwood, bushes, grasses, cte,, held together by a 
rank growth ef aquatic vegetation and used to drift up and 
down the Jake under the influence of the wind. In the last 
few years it seems to have taken root at the upper end of the 
lake in the shallow water, Its sides, composed of the roots 
of bushes, afforded some fine lurking places for pickerel, 
As we passed along it they bit like mad. At every cast the 
water boiled with afres®strike, My light 8-ounce fly-rod was 
being severely tested. Once as 1 made a cast an old veteran 
took the bait with a splash that made the Doctor jump. I 
struck with nervous energy and the next instant I saw his 
head and body coming out till he looked as long as my arm. 
Then with a vicious shake of his head he sent hooks and 
bait flying. We used up a numberof gangs; their sharp 
teeth cut the lashings through and through till in a short 
time the gang was useless. We lost a great number, far 
more than we brought to creel. It seemed impossible 
to look them securely. They seemed to “blow out” 
the bait, as Francis expresses it. It was very irritating, and 
one fish, a small one, aggravated his crime till 1 lost all pa- 
tience and took summary vengeance in a way that made the 
Doctor shriek with laughter. I made a cast and this little 
wretch took the bait and allowed me to bring him along- 
side, when he calmly let go and swam off slowly. The bait 
was not injured, so J cast it over him as he went. 
He took it, turning quickly, and the same result followed, 
I grew acaens cast again, and again he took it 
and escaped. I threw after him once more, and | could dis- 
tinctly see him take the bait about fifteen feet away. This 
time I laid plans for revenge, if he escaped being hooked. 
J Jet him have the bait to gorge for awhile, and in the mean- 
time I got a stretcher from the bottom of the boat. Then I. 
struck him again and led him gently alongside and attempted 
to lift him quickly in with my left hand. As usual, the 
hooks and bait came but not the fish. But this time I was 
ready, and as soon as he let them come out of his mouth I 
hit him a most tremendous thwack with the stretcher in my 
right. No doubt he carried a sore spot for some time, and [ 
hope it taught him not to fool with anglers who mean _ busi- 
ness. Meanwhile, the Doctor was taking it in with screams 
of delighted laughter. 

Moral; Never forget your Janding net when you go fish- 

ing or you'll be sorry for it, 
. But now the sinking sun threw long shadows of the neigh- 
boring hills upon the water and warned us our time was up 
and that we should be homeward going. Fain would we 
have staid for they bit as hard as ever, and we regretted the 
time we had wasted in the afternoon still-fishing. It seemed 
as if all the fish in the lake had gathered in that one narrow 
channel. Though we had been there but an hour, as I 
rowed homeward the Doctor strung sixteen goodly fish upon 
a stout cord, besides many we had used as bail and numbers 
of little ones thrown back as they came to hand. 

There is nothing that makes an angler ‘‘wend his way 
homeward’ with such self-complacency as a fair string of 
fish taken in a brief, exciting hour after a lony day of un- 
successful fishing. r 

Rapidly we drove through the gathering dusk, and as the 
home lights shone out in the valley below us we felt we had 
ended our luck with the longnoses. PERCYVAL, 


ANGLING FOR CHARITY. 


Editor Forest and Stream: a. 

My atlention has been drawn to a communication from 
Chicago in ,your issuc of Jan. 3, entitled ‘Probable Trout 
Hogeishness,” calling your attention to an extract from a 
Scottish paper, anent a Mr. George Wilson, M, A. I am 
sorry that your correspondent should use “bad words” 
against a gentleman who is an utter strangertohim. My 
long-time worthy friend, Mr. Wilson, now well on to seventy 
years of age, isa retired school teacher, who, after thirty 
years of active service in various parts of the world, finally 
settled in his native country and county, intending to follow 
his profession there; and with that intent studied and took 
out a certificate under the new school laws of Great Britain. 
Unfortunately for Mr. Wilson’s active habits he-has never 
been able to get a school, owing to the strong competition of 
younger men; and to prevent himself from being eaten up 
with ennui he feli back on his old pastime of angling. To 
show you what he does with the fish when caught I will 
just give an extract or two from one of his letters of Janu- 
ary, 1880: “I undertook to supply eleven families with 
trout, Nine of these families I supplied once a week, the 
other two I supplied daily, reserving only as many as fur- 
nished my own supper.” ‘‘I never made any charge for the 
fish which I freely gave away, even when I had not a sufli- 
cient supply to meet the demands of my own supper.” “‘On 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Fun. 21, 1884, 


several occasions, whentthere}was a deficiency, I had to con- 
tent myself with bare potatoes.” ‘‘Among the families there 
were seven old people, four males and three females, the 
oldest ninety, the youngest seventy-six,” This giving away 
has been Mr, Wilson’s constant practice since ever | became 
acquainted with him, I never knew him to sell a fish. Your 
correspondent seems to have a suspicion that he was wreng- 
ing my friend when he prefixes the word ‘“‘probable”’ to the 
offensive term, and I regret that it has found an entrance 
into your genial journal. 1, Ps DD. 
CARGILL, Ontario, 


THE DOWEL PIN 


Hiiter Forest and Stream: 

Mr. ‘‘Couples” has my thanks for his suggestions in ref- 
erence to the article on ‘‘Leaders” in your issue of the 7th. 
Ii is hoped soon to give the results of further experiments in 
that direction, when his suggestions will be considered, 

But now missionary labor is mn hand. 

A short time since a well-known rod maker, while admit- 
ting that the use of dowels on the joints of fly-rods, and the 
excessive length of ferrule necessitated thereby, was a dis- 
advantage, declared that the fault lay not with the makers, 
but in the prejudice of the buyers, who would not purchase 
a rod otherwise made, 

To combat this prejudice, if it exists, and to proyoke that 
discussion which is the life of progress, are the purposes of 
this article. 

Since the value of an opinion bears some relation to the 
experience and competency of him who gives it expression, 
it may not be out of place to say, that for the last twelve 
years I have made every article 1 use in fly-fishing, excepting 
lines and hooks, and including ferrules and rods of almost 
every attainable material, including 6-strip split bamboos. 
That I have also made ten quite protracted trips, armed with 
rods and ferrules so made, to the Rangeley region of Maine 
and beyond, and haye handled therewith many vigorous 
trout from 7 pounds 2 ounces down. 

First—It would seem an ¢lementary principle of fishing 
lore, that a one-piece rod without any joints whatever, would 
be the most uniform in action and effisient in use. But 
convenience of transportation, since itis given to but few 
fo cast the fly except at a distance from home, precludes 
such arod. Nevertheless it is the idgal rod, and the nearer 
it is approached the better will be the result. So far there 
will be little difference of opinion. 

Certainly the chief feature to which the merit of such a 
rod is due, is the absence of stiff and inelastic places therein, 
Its bend is uniform from one end to the other. This can be 
approached in a jointed rod only by reducing the inelastic 
portions to a minimum; or, in other words, by shortening 
the ferrules to the utmost extent consistent with safety. If 
this is so, it is conclusive that the dowelled ferrule is, in this, 
inferior to one without dowels, since not only must the ferrule 
itself be longer, but it must be capped at the junction of the 
ferrule and joint as well, thusfurther prolonging the unbend- 
able portions of the rod. 

Second—Thouch little complaint can now be made of the 
prices asked for good rods, considering the really elegant 
workmansbip displayed and the great difficulty and expense 
of obtaining fit material—a difficulty and outlay not justly 
appreciated by the uninitiated—still the purchaser might 
with propriety wish the benefit of any diminution of cost, 
which neither impaired the value of the rod nor lessened the 
already reasonable profit of the maker. 

The dowelled ferrule and its mate practically consist of 
two ferrules, one cap for female ferrule, metal dowel fitted 
to eud of joint, wooden dowel within, and on which the 
metal dowel is fitted, boring out recess to receive dowel, and 
lining same with metal. ’ 

The simple ferrule and its mate are two pieces of plain 
tubing, one fitted to enter the other. As the male ferrule in 
either case may or may not be capped, such cap is not in- 
cluded in the above enumeration. ~ 

Therefore it is clear that as far as cheapness of production 
is concerned, the dowelled ferrule is at a disadvantage. 

Third—It will not be questioned that a large majority of 
breakages take place at the ferrules. Nor will facility of 
repair“be lightly valued by anyone, who has once met with 
this accident when distant from the repairer, and after a con- 
siderable journey to his favorite stream. 

To repair on the ground, in camp, or at such lodgings as 
trouting regions usually afford, presents these difficulties, 
If the break is above the male ferrule, it becomes necessary 
to shorten the rod by the length of both dowel and ferrule, 
to say nothing of extracting the broken wood from the metal 
paris, and the nice fitting required to make even a temporary 
success of the job. If the ferrule is secured by that abomi- 
nation, a pin, the difficulty is increased, It must be borne 
in mind that not only must the wooden spike, upon which 
the metal dowel is io be placed, be made central and in line 
with the axis of the rod, but it must fill the metal nearly or 
quite its whole length and also fit tight therein. Otherwise, 
in the first case, the rod will not come together so as to be 
safe against that most disgusting mishap of throwing apart; 
while in the second case, when the rod is unjointed, the 
metal dowel will remain behind in its socket. 

Again, shortening a favorite rod between the butt and 
second joints by two inches or more, will so change the 
action as to make its owner fairly sick at heart. 

On the other hand, if the rod breaks below the ferrule, he 
is even more helpless; for aside from ridding the ferrule and 
cap trom the broken portion, how is the tapered hole to be 
bored to receive the dowel? ‘Yet unless this is done some- 
how, the dowel will strike against the end of the joint within 
the ferrule, and the male ferrule, if it enter at all, will not 
do so sufficiently to permit the rod to be used, 

Again and again have I known the accident to occur, and 
never knew it te be remedied short of some kind of a shop; 
while, except in a few rare cases and with common rods of 
little value, it has been a case of immediate quarantine and 
subsequent hospital treatment by a professional rod doctor. 

But if a rod provided with the simple ferrule is so broken, 
a few matches softens the cement which retains the ferrule 
in position, the broken piece is pushed out and the ferrule 
replaced with the very minimum loss in length, and that by 
the merest tyro in repairs, And in fifteen or twenty minutes 
he goes on his way, if not rejoicing, still not a fit candidate 
for 1 madhouse. Here surely the advantage is not with the 
dowelled ferrule. 

Fourth—But it strengthens the rod: , 

A sane man would hardly anchor a 16-foot catboat with a 
frigate’s best bower anchor, though that would undoubtedly 
strengthen that boat's hold on the bottom. And so, if with- 
out the dowel and its complications the requisite strength 


IN FLY-RODS. 


can be obtained, it would scarcely seem common sense to 
retain it for that reason alone. : 

Through ten trips in Maine I baye used the plain ferrules. 
‘That on the end of the butt-joint is scant two and one-half 
inches long, and made from metal of the thickness of an ordin- 
arily heavy visiting card, considerably thinner than any other 
make of ferrule that I have ever noticed ona flyrod. Yet I 
am unsparing in my demands upon a rod, When the Sep- 
tember sun is just about to vanish behind the hills of West- 
ern Maine, there comes a time when all that: gambling spirit 
which actuates enterprise in man, takes possession of that 
angler sofortunate as to be on the ground. He wants no 
third or fourth prize in the lottery. His casts are for the 
first, or at least a good second—five pounds, no less, will 
pass; while if beneath the water there is any sense whatever 
of the fitness of things, it is the plain duty of an eight or ten 
pounder to offer. 

At such an appointed time, and it is brief at best, minutes 
are precious, and a two and a half or three pounder—any- 
thing which it is humanly possible to derrick with the tackle 
in use—is reeled in and got rid of without the slightest. cere- 
mony, and wilh the reverse of thanks for his attentions. I 
have done my share of this with ferrules, as described, and 
never yet has one bent or given way, It is to be borne in 
mind that before a tube will bend it must collapse, and if 
the 10d is so put torether that the ends of the joints within 
the metal are close together (say one-eighth to one-sixteenth 
of an inch, which is quite ample to allow for wear), it is 
plain tha. to bend the ferrule will require a power almost 
equal to the tensile strength of the metal itself, a strain to 
which, in use, no fly-rod is ever even approximately subject. 
It weuld, therefore, appear that in this particular the simple 
ferme, properly corsiructed and applied, is practically 
quite the equal of ‘its dowelled rival. 

Fifth—It strengthens the rod! And this is the only asser- 
tion in its fayer 1 have ever been able to elicit. 

But is this assertion true? 

J believe that it is not only false, but that the direct con- 
trary is the truth. A ferrule may be able to endure any 
possible strain with impunity, while the rod to which it is 
applied may be as brittle as a pipestem. Of course the 
weakest point in the rod measures the strength of the rod. 

This is just the case in point. 

A dowelled ferrule in itself is undoubtedly stronger than 
a simple ferrule, but the rod to which it is applied is weak- 
ened thereby, and is not as strong asit would be were a 
simple ferrule of proper construction substituted in its place. 
The strain brought on the unyielding metal is localized and 
concentrated at its extremities. The ferrule and its mate 
act as one single lever, in which the power is applied at one 
end, while the fulcrum is at the other. Jt iselementary and 
axiomatic that the longer the lever the greater will be its 
power. If the weight to which the lever transmits its effort 
(the timber beyond the ferrule), and that effort exceed the 
strength of the fulcrum, the latter will surely be crushed, 
7. €,; the rod will break at the ferrule. 

This simple principle of natural philosophy seems to de- 
monstrate that, other things being equal, the introduction of 
any ferrule weakens a rod, and that a longer ferrule weak- 
ens a rod more than a shorter; since with equal pull at the 
tip, more strain is concentrated at the end of a long ferrule 
(or lever) than at the end of a short ferrule (or lever). 

It is a corollary to this that in all jointed rods the points 
where the ferrules terminate are subject to a degree of strain 
considerably in excess of the proportion due to their location 
—or in other words, in excess of the strain imposed at the 
same point under like conditions upon a like single-piece un- 
jointed rod. 

Therefore fracture at those points should be more com- 
mon than at others; and that such is the fact every one 
knows, one theory tells us such should be the result—our ex- 
experience shows such 7s the result. Therefore it would 
seem the theory hasstood the regulation verification by ex- 
periment, and that it may be safely accepted as sound. 

A dowelled ferrule must of necessity belong. A simp.e 
ferrule may and should be short. Wherefore it again ap- 
pears the verdict must be against the dowel. How it first 
came into use I think I can understand. At the compari- 
tively recent period, when the American rod maker ceased 
to be athere imitator of the English, and allewed his indi- 
vidual ingenuity and brains fair play, each makcr, of neces- 
sity, made his own ferrules, bending the plate metai over a 
mandrel; and soldering the seam himself. Then placing the 
tube so formed upon a tapered mandrel and the latter in his 
lathe, he forced a steel roller againsi the nascent ferrule 
while it revolved, and thus rolled it into shape and condensed 
and stiffened the metal at one operation. To accomplish 
this result it was requisite the ferrule should adhere to the 
mandrel‘and revolve withit. This necessitated the use of a 
tapered mandrel, so that the ferrule as it stretched and 
shaped itself under the pressure, should always fit snugly 
upon and receive its motion from the mandrel. A tapered 
ferrule was the result, one which, while it fitted its mate at 
the mouth, was too large within. Something therefore was 
required to steady the inner end of the inserted joint, and 
to accomplish this the dowel-pin was employed. 

This was all very well in the then state of the art. But 
why it should still survive, when in any city tubing of any 
required size can be procured drawn inside and out; and 
that, if ordered in quantity, cheaper than it can be made by 
one not in the business, [ am at a loss to conceive. 

If any one knows of any advantage the dowelled ferrule 
possesses, I should be pleased to be tmstructed, for 1 can 
imagine none. 

In conclusion I would suggest three points to the favor- 
able consideration of those whose ideas and habits are not as 
yet formed beyond change—all tried in many a contest, and 
believed to be of value. 

Use a handle with a ferrule immediately aboye it—or, 
better still, sunk into it—to receive the butt joint, the whole 
so arranged that while the handle remains still the butt joint 
can be turned readily so as to present the rings beneath or 
on top of the rod. One handle will thus do for all single- 
handed fly-rods, heavy or light. You can cast with the 
rings underneath or above, while the reel always remains In 
its normal and only convenient position—that below the 
hand and under the handle—and you can change from one 
to the other as your fancy dictates. You can play your fish 
in the same way, changing the direction of the strain in an 
instant and a dozen times on the same fish if you wish. 
Thus in ordering a new rod you will not only save the ex- 
pense of a new handle and its furniture, but ayoid the temp- 
tation to use strong language when you find your old reels 
will aot fit. Again, your rod, even if of inferior material, 
will always remain straight and uniform in action. 

Next to discarding the dowel pin, I believe this to be the 
most yaluableimproyement which can be applied to the fly- 


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rod as at present made. 1 am aware this construction is not 
altogether new; but it is uncommon, while its great merit 
should make it universal. And even when employed, itis 
not unfreqtently regarded either as a mere ornament or asa 
device to make possible a cheaper or lighter handle, while 
its most important function (the ability frequently to reverse 
the direction in which the strain is brought upon the rod) is 
altogether ignored, Let any gentleman haye one of his reds 
(especially if it has already taken a set) cut immediately 
above the handle, and a short, well-fitted, simple ferrule in- 
serted to reunite the divided portions, and then try it for one 
campaign. 

Of course, to bring the rmgs above, but half a revolution 
of the butt jaunt in the handle-ferrule will be required, and 
the line will then wrap ina long spiral half way round the 
rod. Now if, in reversing the rings to underneath the rod, the 
precaution be taken always to reverse the motion as well (so 
that the line will lead straight to the rings and not wrap all 
the way around the rad), it—the line—will be found to 
render equally well in either position of the rings. 

And, unless the teachings of tenyears' practical experience 
are delusive, the more particular he who tries it is in reward 
to his tackle, the more certain he is to adhere to it ever after. 

Second—Be Jiberal in the use of rings. If you seize ¢ 
piece of wood of uniform strength by the ends and break it, 
it docs not give way where it is grasped, but at some inter- 
mediate point. And thus with a fly-rod, By being liberal 
in the matter of rings you diffuse the strain, so that though 
its aggregate he great, yet at ne place will it reach the break- 
ing point, 

Third—Place a ring close to each ferrule and its mate; 
t.é., 80 that when the rod is jointed a ring will be both aboye 
and below the unyielding metul, for thus, for reasons before 
stated or implied, you lessen the danger of accident at those 
points, 

1 will throw in one more point for geod measure and for 
the benefit of those who don’t already know and use it: 
Always tallow or oil your ferrules and then wipe them as 
dry as you can before jointing yeurrod. You will then 
never be plagued by haying the joints stick and refuse tu 
separate. This is of especial importance when the handle 
hereinbefore recommended is used. 

The truth is, Mr. Editor, us anglers have fallen, or are 
falling, into a rut, and are three-quarters asleep besides. 
Occasionally some book on our favorite pastime appears, 
aud the fraternity is momentarily galvanized; but a speedy 
relapse follows. We cannot fairly expect aid from the pro- 
fessional class to wake us up; if for no other reason,, be- 
cause if they tried it the effort would probably be misunder- 
stood, Nor haye they, as * gencral thing, time for that 
actual practical experience which teaches the defects of the 
old and discovers the new. We business and professional 
men, amateurs, whuse only purpose is to share with others 
the benefit und pleasure we ourselves receive and enjoy, can 
do this.- It is, and must be, a labor of inve. 

In amoment of impulse, perhaps of folly, I have thrown 
my feather-weight into the scale. So far the result has not 
been very encouraging, but hope is not yet quite dead, 

Ts it possible that the great fraternity of fly-fishermen are 
dumb, or are they ignorant, or isit hecause they show at 
the writing table a degree of indolence and selfishness they 
would blush to exhibit in the field? 


A comparison of the cotrespondence in your paper in ref- 


erence to the art and implements of the angler with that in 

reference to other sports is a standing shame and reproach 

to every man who handlesarod. Let us hope for a better 

future. Henry P. WELLS. 
New York Cry. 


THE CHRONICLE GF THE “COMPLEAT 
ANGLER.’* 


ss scholarly fisherman is under many obligations to Mr. 
Satchell for the complete and beautiful manner in 


which he has reproduced the Library of Old Fishing Books, 


The volume before us is a chatty discourse on the many edi- 
tions of Walton and Colton’s famous book, and is evidently 
prepared by one who loves his task. The book is handsomely 
printed, bound in half leather, Roxburghe style, and is one 
that reading anglers will’ appreciate. In closing, it says: 
“Fishers have increased and fishing books have multiplied, 
but where is the fisher blest with such a ‘heavenly wwemory’ 
as our Izaak, and where is the fishing book so rich in honor 
and renown as his’ On royal and noble shelves—the brown 
overcoat unscorned by the purple and splendor of courtiers 
and dramatists and pocts—there do we find you, O little book 
‘of eighteen pence price.’ Shakespeare looks kindly on you; 
Bacon eyes you witha kindly smile; Sir Philip Sidney and 
you are paired, in the*pairing of pastorals; Hlizabetiiian wis- 
dom and Blizabethian quaimtness and pathos own you for an 
equal.” : 


*The chronicle of the “Compleat Angler’ of Izaak Walton and 
Charles Colton, Being a Biblisgraphical Record of its various edi- 
tions and mutations, By Thomas Westwood. A new edition, with 
some notes and additious, by Thomas Satchell. London: W.Satchell, 
19 Tavistock street, Covent Garden, 1883. (Price, 10s. 6d.) 


ENGLIsH GRAYLING FOR THE St, LAwRence.—Mr. 8. 
Maltby, of Montreal, writes to the Star, favoring the intro- 
duction of English grayling into the St. Lawrence River. 
We do not know wherein this fish is superior to the 
Michivan grayling, it is not as handsome, The letfer says: 
“1 attended the late meeting of the Montreal Fish and Game 
Protection Club, but my time being rather limited I did not 
have the opportunity of bringing betore the meeting the im- 
portance of introducing the English grayling into our noble 
St. Lawrence, If this were done, it would be a great hoon 
to thousands of our fishermen who have not the opportunity 
of spending a season in the Lower Provinces. The Old 
Country grayling is not to be equaled for pluck; it will rise 
at the fly after being pricked with the hook, not once but 
several times. In fact it may be considered a perfect bull- 
dog, as it will hang on to the last, until it eventually succumbs 
to the net. The St. Lawreuce is about the same temperature 
as the River Trent in England, with ibe exception what it is 
considerably colder in winter, but this would he no dis- 
advantage, as the grayling generally selects the coldest 
streams and thrives better in them. Once mtroduced into 
the St. Lawrence, no fish would equal it as a delicacy of the 
table, unless we except salmon. ‘Lront in the Old Country 
bring twenty-five cents per pound, the grayling thirty cents. 
The grayling season commerces at the close of tke season 
for trout, and we have in Canada three months of beautiful 
fall, and in the winter season even the grayling comes in 
within afew yards of the shore, (hus affording the angler or 
fiy-fisher a delight seldom excelled. The fish will Tise at 
the fly when the ice is eoming down the river, The grayling 


Fen, 21, 1984.] : 


7s out of season in the latter part of April, when the noble 
bass comes in for its share of glory. Pressure of business 
prevents our fiy-fishers from following up this sport exeept 
on Saturdays, when most of our business houses close at one 
Glock, and | can say with certainty that the halt holiday 
would be token advantage of by hundreds of our young 

pirants in fly-fishing, 1 hope the society will-take note of 
this and endeayor to introduce the grayling into the St. 
Lawrence.” 


Hisheulture. 


THE MENHABDEN QUESTION. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your correspondent ‘“W. M. H.” takes exceptions to my 
statements as published in your issue of Jan. Y4, and refers 
me to the hook and line fishermen between Cape Cod and 
Sandy Hook, and also to some of the fresh fish dealers of 
Pulton Fish Market, New York City. In my opinion three- 
quarters of the hook and line fishermen on the coast he names 
would subseribe onder oath to am opinion exactly opposite 
to his, and as to the Fulton Market fish dealers I should not 
want any better evidence than their books afford, that there 
is no scarcity of fish on our coast and never hasbeen, He says 
hie has been bass fishing for seventeen years, if so where has 
he fished, up the river among schools of menhaden or off the 
rocks in the surf of the open sea? If it was, ashe and others 
State, that bass depended on menhaden for their daily food, 
they would be found in their company, but we know to the 
contrary, and have men with over forty years experience to 

_proyeit, Ihave yet to learn that a striped bass was ever 
caught in the Narragansett Bay in apurse seine, and ashe does 
not seem to be posted as to their manner of working, I will 
state for his benefit that river purse seines are seventy-five 
feet deep, nine hundred feet long, and are as effective to take 

fish in six feet of water as in six fathoms. As to the parts of 
nine full grown menhaden he found in one bass, it only proves 
that they were thrown into the water as bait, for bass never 
masticate their food. Our menhaden hoats always have the 
best of lookouts aloft, and it comes within their observation to 

' know what feeds on menhaden, and they report that no fish 
known to ow markets are ever seen feeding on them except 
bluefish and bonitas, and they not often, but sharks and 
whales and fish of like species are constantly.preying upon 
them hy wholesale, and it often happens that we can’t save 
menbadeu after we catch them, for the reason that sharks 
tear the seines and let them out, and if we inclose whales, 
which we occasionally do, a seine isno obstruction when they 
Conclude to swim away. We estimated that our boats landed 
in one day during the season of 1885, over one hundred tons 
of sharks at our Rhode Island factory, and their average cize 
was larger than a kerosene barrel, and there were over two 
hundred mezhaden in the stomach of each shariz, 

His statement that no menhaden could be procured in this 

' vicinity forlove or money during 1858 fresh enough for bait, 
is not barne out by the facts, for there were plenty of men- 
haden in Narragansett Bay during the whole season, Capt. 
Charles Winslow, with a sail gear, took over 10,000 barvels, 
and John Brownell with a steamer took over 23,000 barrels, 
and it has been reported to me, although I know nothing of 
the truth of the report, that excellent bass fishing has pre- 
vailed at West Island during the season of 1883. It is my 
opinion, after twenty years or nore experience as a hook and 
line, trap, pound and purse seine fisherman, and from what I 
have learned of others and read, that there are periods of 
fiood and drought constantly occurring with salt-water fish, and 
Man is no more responsible for the droughts than he is for the 
fioods, and as an argument to prove my opinion I submit the 
following: 

First—During the winter of 1856 and 1857 most of the tai- 
tog between Barnegac, N, J., and Plymouth, Mass., were de- 
Stroyed by frost, and on that account that fishery was 
abandoned during the fishing season of 1857; but in four years 
they were as plenty asever, The same disaster happened to 
the same fish during the winter of 1874 and 1875, and the fish- 
ery amounted to almost nothing during season of 1875, but 
during season of 1878 they wee as plenty as ever before 
known, 

Second—Squeteague were plentiful in the waters of Nar- 
ragansett Bay fifty years or more ago, but they left before 
the days of traps, pounds, or purse seines, aud were gone for 
many years. During 1870 a flood of that fish prevailed, and 
before 1878 we had a drought, and since the last date mentioned 
another flooc_Lhas prevailed, 

Third—Porgies, or scup, were unknown to our waters 
before the year 1800, and were called at first Jefferson fish, fer 
the reason they made their appearance the year he was elected 
President of the United States. They remained in our waters 
uotil 1867, From this time to 1870 there was a drought, but 
during the last mentioned year there came on a flood, and 
whileit prevailed there were days together that the traps 
were not lifted, although they were overflowing with fish. 
The reason of their not being lifted was, no market for the 
fish, Idon’t know as Mr, Rogers could have bought sixteen 
hundred barrels for sixteen cents per barrel, but I had ten 
times that amount offered me at twenty cents per barrel and 
did not buy them, The same state of things existed during 
the spring of 1582, although the heavy fishing was brought to 
a sudden close, for a heavy storm with a high sea tore up the 
traps and pounds, and stopped ail fishing for several days, 

-After it was over, 1t was found the scup had left the coast. 

Fourth—Sheepshead used to be plenty in this vicinity many 
years ago, but left and have never come back, and in my ex- 
perience | have never seen one east of Sandy Hook. 

Fitth—There used to be on the coast of New England an 
abundance of Spanish mackerel, a different fish from cur pres- 

ent Spanish mackerel, but not one of that species of fish has 
been seen in our waters for the last thirty years. 

Sixth—During the mackerel flood of 1851, 385,559 barrels of 
mackerel were inspected in Massachusetts. During the 
drought of 1841 only 50,992 barrels were iuspected in the same 
State. During the mackerel drought of 187 about 100,000 
barrels of mackerel were inspected in Massachusetts, and the 
ery went up that mackerel were gone forever, and a stringent 
law was called for to prevent their being taken with purse 
Seines, for their scarcity was charged to them; but the 
mackerel flood of 1882 wiped out that delusion, for there were 
during that year 260,000 barrels inspected in Massachusetts, 
Se the sum total for the three States of Massachusetts, 

ew Hampshire and Maine was 378,592 barrels. 

Sevyenth—During the year 1840 a fiood of shad made their 
appearance on the coast of Cape Cod, extending west to Nar- 
ragansett Bay. ‘They disappeared during the fishing season of 

1842, and have never been back. 

Wighth—“Zacheus Macy in his history says: Bluefish left 
the coast of Kew England during the year 1765, and we have 
no record of one being seen for seventy years. They made 

_ their appearance again during the year 1532. 

Ninth—A flood of codfish prevailed between 1875 and 1878, 
and the wholesale price ruled as low as one cent per pound 
delivered in New Ycrk, Boston and Philadelphia. Since then 
there has been a drought, but at present there is another flood 

and the wholesale price in Boston is 117 cents per pound. 
Tenth—Twenty-four years ago there was a flood of sea bass 
and they were caught in such abundance that they could nob 
be sold in market for enourh to pay the expense of handling 
and transportation, and as a result thousands of barrels were 
dformanure. ‘his flood lasted for several years, and then 

4 drought came on which lasted until two years ago, wher 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


all at once a flood of this fish made its appearance from Cape 
Malabar to Virginia. Said flood is now in existence, and from 
appearances there will be a surplus of sea bass for several 
years to come, 

Bleventh—About forty years ago there was a drought of 
menhaden which we know extelided from Sandy Hook to 
Cape Cod, and the tishery was abandoned by a large number 
of the fishermen, and it was almost the unanimous verdict 
that overtishing was the cause of the trouble, as a few sail 
pangs had been added to the menhaden fleet the year before. 
The old croakers figured up the millions of fish that had been 
destroyed, and their conclusion was that no fish could stand 
such wholesale destruction. Afterward they made their ap- 
pearance, and the fishery has been prosecuted with varying 
success ever since. The most noticeable drought ever experi- 
enced has prevailed since 1875 on the best menhaden grounds 
ever known, situated between Cane Cod and Eastport, Me. 

During 1882 there was a dearth of menhaden from Cape Cod 
to Sandy Hook, and it was the cutrent opinion of those that 
believe that manis responsible for the absence of fish that 
overfishing had caused them to disappear north of Cape Cod, 
and that the same influence had driven them from the waters 
between Cape Cod and Sandy Hook, amd if the depletion went 
on menhaden would disappear from our coast. The catch fell 
off nearly one-half, and fourteen steamers and seventy-six 
sail gangs were withdrawn from the business, But the results 
of the menhaden fishery for 1888 have confounded all the 
croakers, for itis conceded fact that more menhaden were 
present on our coast during 1883 than were ever before ob- 
seryed, the catch, notwithstanding the large reduction in the 
menhaden fleet, being over $50,000 barrels larger than in 1582. 

In conclusion, we will say that we have the most skillful 
fishermen, and, asit was proyed at the London Fishery Exhi- 
bition last year, the most perfect fishing apparatus on earth, 
which bespeaks their pluck, energy and ability, They furnish 
to our farmers guano at alow price, equal in value to Peruvian; 
theyare educating and disciplining young men to the knowledge 
and hardships of practical seamanship, who can, if necessity 
ealls, fight on the ocean the battles of their country, or com- 
pete, when a chance is given them, for our part of the carry- 
ing trade of the world. Their calling at best, through the un- 
certainties of fish, dangers of storms, and perils of nayigation, 
is hazardous and uncertain, and should be encouraged and 
fostered, Most every other businessin the country is pro- 
tected, but the Government of the United States affords none 
to its fisheries, but allows the importation of oils and fish 
duty free to our markets, Daninu T. CHURCH. 


Tiverton, R. I, 


GARP IN SOUTH CAROLINA.—The following note on 
making fish ponds in rice fields would suggest that the fish 
are more profitable than rice: ‘Columbia, Jan, 15.—The 
State Fish Commissioner expects to establish, about Feb. 1, a 
earp hatchery at Donaldsen’s plantation, on Winyah Bay, 
opposite Georgetown, the place recently so favorably reported 
cn by Superintendent Huske. Twelve and a half acres of 
tice field will be flooded and converted iuto fish ponds, and it 
is expected that the ponds so formed will be admirably 
adapted to the breeding of carp. The ponds will be stocked 
with 150 four-year old and 400 two-year-old carp. The Com- 
missioner expects to supply the young carp for the next sea- 
son’s distribution from these ponds. After the first year of 
carp culture in this State the number of fish distributed 
yearly has doubled annually until this year, when 15,000 carp 
were sent out, making a distribution four times as great as 
last year. tiisexpected that these Georgetown ponds will 
yield, at the lowest estimate, 10,000 young carp annually per 
acre, and if the anticipations of the Commissioner are ful- 
filled there will be 125,000 young carp ready for distribution 
next winter, When it is considered that a thousand ponds in 
the State were this winter stocked with carp, it will be seen 
that the raising of this fish must become a large industry in 
South Carolina.” 


AMBERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION, —The date 
of the next annual meeting has been fixed for May 13, 14 and 
15,in Washington. It is expected that there will be a good 
attendance and many valuable papers. 


i: Cite Biennel, 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


March 4, 5, 6 and 7.—Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. En 
triés close Feb, 25. Charies Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. Kit- 
tredge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

March 12, 13 and 14.—New Haven Kennel Club’s First Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward 8. Porter, Secretary, Box 
657 New Haven, Coun. Entries close March 1. 

Mareh 26, 27 and 28.—_The Duminion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles,Lineoln, Superinten- 
dent. (, Greville Harston, Secretary. Toronto. Canada, 

April 3, 4and 5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Sbow. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. C. M, Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. 

May 6, 7. 8 and §.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Highth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden, Entries close April 21. Chas. 
Lincoln, Spe brand ene: R. C, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York, 


A. K. R, 

HH AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the reyistration of 
pedizrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“A meriean Kennel Register,’ P.O, Box 2632, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 869. Volume T., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50. 


ALMOST A DOUBLE. 
Editor Forest and Stream: > 

A sentence inthe letter of your West Virginia correspon- 
dent, in Jan. 17 issue, recalls a little incident in my own 
eepercy ce that, if not unusual, at least serves to point a 
moral. 

“\ don’t like to hear a sportsman say that he shot-a quail 
and partridge at one rise,” and yet I came very near accom- 
plishing that feat some years ago, and only failed through a 
severe attack of the quail ‘‘ague,” 

My old slow setter and I (heis mentioned first because he 
had more hunting sense than I shall eyer be able to acquire) 
had been hunting for an hour or two in the afternoon, 
anxiously looking for quail and partridge, with fairly good 
success on his part, and the usual indifferent results on mine, 
when we came upon a small clump of trees and undergrowth, 
in the middle of a large salt meadow, which we had never 
explored, and as.a forlorn hope I whistled to ‘old high head” 
and waved him toward it. Hardly had we stepped inside the 
fringe of shrubbery surrounding it, when the old dog “froze” 
with his head well twisted to the right, but as IT neared him, 
his tail trembled a little and he very cautiously turned his 
head equally as far around to the left, and solidified again, re- 
maining so for perhaps a quarter of a minute, he as carefully 
returned his head to its first position, and remained steadfast, 
true to his first love. 

As po amount -of coaxing or force could ever make the 


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staunch old fellow go on, I stepped a few yards ahead of his 
nose, and up boomed an old cock partridge, which I surprised 
myself and the dog by stopping with the first barrel, and at 
the first boom of his wings away went a big bevy of quail at 
my left, startling me so that 1 shot the remaining barrel at 
the bunch aud killed —— the usual number. 

Perhaps many sportsmen can recall just such jnstances, but 
I pen this simply to call attention to what my old (dog) friend 
said to me at that time as plain as doz could speak: ‘'T was 
broken on partridge and learned to love them when [ was a 
little fellow, and although a bie buneh of quail smell very 
nice to me J still like my oldest friends the best.” 

We atterward worked the place thoroughly, and got ten or 
eleven of the quails, so the bunch in the meadow proved quite 
a corral. F 

Moral; First. stick fast to your old friends; second, always 
break your dog on the game you most desire to hunt, as ‘Old 
Tom Buekley,” once a noted duck and woodeock shooter of 
this city, used to say; “You gitde woodeock snuff in his nose 
de fust bird he smells, and he'll neber forgit it if he lives a 
hundred years.” Stow Doe. 

New fiAven, Conn. 


THE DOG TAX AND THE GAME LAWS, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

[have long observed that while thousands of sportsmen are 
calling aloud for efficient game laws, and equitable dog laws, 
none seem to advance any practical plan for their execution 
were they enacted. Eyen the laws we have would do pretty 
well if enforced. I beg leave to submit a plan tor the enforce- 
ment of such laws in the hope that a discussion may be 
aroused and the sportsmen led to fix on some one good plan 
and work together to carry it out. 

The only way to get laws enforced is to pay somebody for 
doing it. Now, where is the money to come from? I say from 
ourselves mainly. Let the taxation of sportsmen pay for their 
protection. Let all money obtained from the taxation of dogs 
be devoted to the execution of dog and game laws. Dog laws 
should provide for the taxation ofall dogs over six months old, 
ata given sum per head, Itis improper to tax the bitches at 
a higher rate, because it is not right to legislate against dog 
breeding. Counties should be divided into districts of con- 
venient, size and in each district a dog constable appointed who 
should also be game and fish warden. This constable should 
agsess and collect the dog tax, and destroy all dogs for which 
no tax is paid, or in case such dogs are valuable, he might be 
permitted to sell them, in a manner to be prescribed by law, 
and turn in the proceeds to the dog tax fund. in case persons 
harbor dogs of which they deny the ownership, the constable 
should be required to procure from the justice of the peace or 
other judicial authority, a warrant empowering him to enter 
the premises of such person for the purpose of securing’ any 
untaxed dogs. The constable would, inthe execution of the 
dog law, be enabled to have an eye on all persons who would 
be probable violators of the game law and thus be all the more 
efficient as a game warden. 

The money arising from the rigid collection of the dog tax 
would be ample for the purpose in view. At present | do not 
believe that one-fifth of the possible yield of the dog tax is 
collected. Iam aware that the claim of sheep-owners to pay- 
ment from this fund for sheep destroyed by-dogs isa difficulty 
to be overcome. But, in my opinion, the sportsmen will do 
best to admit that claim as the first to be paid from the fund, 
and avoid arousing opposition in that quarter, In the practi- 
eal working of my plan it would be found that the horde of 
ill-bred curs owned by irresponsible parties, and who do more 
than nine-tenths of the sheep killing, would be exterminated, 
and dog owners paying taxes would be more careful to look 
after them. Again, the constable, in the course of his duties, 
would come to know which dogs were addicted to sheep kill- 
ing, and would generally be able to fix the damages on their 
owners. : 

On the whole, we may conclude that the sheep damages 
would make but a slight inroad on thefund, I believe such a 
law could be ‘passed in any State if sportsmen were to press it 
earnestly, and if passed it would put a different complexion 
on their interests. I hope my seheme will be carefully con- 
sidered and amended in every desirable way. That my fun- 
damental idea is the right one I do not believe can be denied. 

In urging the passage of such laws we always meet the 
objection of the uninterested. ‘‘Why,” say they, ‘‘should the 
class of sportsmen be allowed to burden us with Jaws for 
their benefit.” Never have I seen or heard a satisfactory an- 
swer to this question, but I shall endeavor to give one. ‘*With- 
out game there would be no sportsmen, and sportsmen are 
absolutely necessary to the national defense. The introduc- 
tion of breechloading and repeating long-range rifles has 
changed the art of war. The lines of battle and the massive 
columns, and the field artillery of afew years ago are no 
longer tobe used. The rapid fire and long range of the rifle 
forbids it. Dynamite torpedoes with electric batteries are 
coming in to augment the difficulty of maneuvering soldiers 
in any sort of approach to a close formation when in the 
vicinity of the enemy. It will become well nigh impossible to 
maneuver a large forceatall. As Skobeleff said: ‘Batteries 
must now be fought by skirmish lines, and the reserves must 
be a tremendous distance to the rear to avoid destruction, by 
reason of the target they present.” Now the skiymish line is 
nearly impessible to control, as the men are so far apart; 
therefore, men of intelligence, nerve and skill enofigh to act a 
good deal for themselves are necessary for this work, 

What isthe difference in efficiency between a thorougly 
skillful and courageous man, and an average man, both armed 
with repeating rifles? The Histor, of the James boys, ‘‘Wild 
Bill,” ‘Billy the Kid,” Rande, and a good many similar char- 
acters, is most instructive on this point, as also the yarious 
recent Indian wars. It appears thata man who is a crack 
shot and is versed in field craft, 7. e., can find his way any- 
where, and take advantage of the natureof the ground he is 
passing over, if courageous and well supplied with ammuni- 
tion, can defy almost any number of ordinary men similarly 
armed. Itis not for nothing that the hardy people of our 
frontier towns often submit to the rule of a mere handful of 
desperadoes, The power of a Sladeor “Billy the Kid,” or 
other such worthy is as real as any that ever was, and people 
stbmit because they must. The disparity between the power 
of the desperado to kill and that of the citizen, isas great as 
was that between the mail-clad knight of the Middle Ages and 
the burghers he was wont to plunder. We have got back to 
something very like the conditions that existed in the days of 
Hector and Achilles. Battles will be dt cided by the sldll and 
courage of individual soldiers, Weshall see armies of ten to 
thirty thousand men instead of hundreds of thousands. _ 

A small army of intelligent, highly skilied men, to whom 
handsome salaries will be paid, and whose social position will 
be so good as to make the service an object of ambition, such 
is what we will see in the future. 

To-day, by reason of the prevalent interests in field sports, 
the United States could raise such ai atiny more easily than 
any other nation. 

But twenty years hence, when the game shal] have been 
exterminated, we shall be at the mercy of any nation wise 
enough to preserve its game and encourage field sports. Our 
isolated position will not save us, for with the small armies 
required and steam navigation the transportation of troops 
will be a bagatelle. Let nobody imagine that military drill 
of any kind can educate men to the proper degree, Shooting 
quail and woodcock, still-hunting deer, etc., give one an alert- 
ness, the power to take advantage of the unexpected, and the 
great art of finding one’s way and a close habit of observa- 
tion, aliof which ave to the full as necessary as marksman- 
ship tor the soldier of the future, and these can only be ob- 
tained by field sports, Again, were it even possible for this to 


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be effeeted by military drill, is it not better to get it done with- 
out cost to government? 

I hope none of the readers of Formst AND STREAM are so 
foolish as to think war is seon to be abolished, or that the 
habit of nations conquering others whenever they are able 
has fallen into the least disuse. We have but to look at the 
changes in the map ot the world wrought within the last 
twenty years to show us that the only way to get or keep 
liberty is by force of arms, r 

Oh! But some one will say, ‘This is oniy an artist, a 
dreamer.” True enough, but the artist has heard the whistle 
and felt the sting of bullets, and the vision is inspired by the 
haunting memory of battlefields where, with his own eyes, he 
has secn the breechloader do its awful work, 

J. M. TRACY. 


FOX HUNTING ON CAPE COD 


Editor lorest and Stream: 

Titake the liberty of sending to you herewith an account of 
a fox hunt which took place at the close of last month within 
the limits of the old Bay State. 

Of course [ would not compare our sport here with the more 
delightful method of enjoying this pastime in ‘‘merrie” Eng- 
land. Iam too familiar with the music of the Warwickshire 
and North Warwickshire hounds, and with the top and width 
respectively, of the hedges and ditches which skirt the hunting 
grounds about Leamington to draw the comparison, albeit 
ten years have passed since I joined with the members of the 
hunt there in the run ‘cross country. 

Now the scene is changed, and the beautiful pasture lands 
of Warwick give place to the sandy pine-growing hills of Cape 
Cod, with acres of scrub oak, dotted with ponds and inter- 
sected by little streams. Here asporisman could not follow 
on horseback, and we who love to hear our foxhounds “sing 
the news” must enjoy the sport on foot. 

It happened that ona day peculiarly adapted to fox hunting a 
party consisting of Mr, C, H. Nye, the agreeable superintendent 
of the Cape Cod diyison of the Old Colony Railroad, Mr. James 
Taylor, an old fox hunter of West Barnstable, Mz. G. L. Bas- 
set, of Hyannis, and others, together with Mr, Wim. D. King, 
ot Newport, R. L. (who took with him to the cape Mr. George 
A. Strange, of Berkley, Mass.) assembled for a New England 
fox hunt. So motionless was every tree and shrub, that but 
for the hunt, nothing would have broken the stillnes of nature, 
save the shrill whistle of the passing locomotive. the noise of 
the wood-carts, the song of the woodman or the sound of his 
laboring axe. A thin sheet of snow which covered the 
eround made the scent of the fox most favorable for the 
sagacious dogs. 

After driving two miles to the scene of our sport, we hastily 
tied our horses in woody Janes, and took our stands at points 
properly distant from one another, leaving our dogs to do their 
work. Nor did they betray this trust. In afew moments we 
heard them, and their first occasional notes were very soon 
followed by that thrilling burst, which always greets our ears 
when reynard is up and away, Probably each one of the party, 
when, in the early morning hour, he heard the dogs give out 
their measured and unbroken tongue, mentally ejaculated, 
‘that is a start,” for soit proyed. In the language of our fox 
hunters, reynard ‘played well,” and we listened for two 
hours to the entrancing sounds which came from the lips of 
each of our ‘‘fayorites.” happy when they were far away, 
carrying the responsibility of the shot elsewhere, still and 
almost breathless when they were near, lest a chance move- 
ment of ours should turn the quarry, and forfeit the brush. 
At about half past 9 o’clock the fox crossed within thirty yards 
of Mr. King’s view, when a shot from his Parker gun ended 
the run, and for a short time silenced the music in the air. 

It was the work of but a few moments to place fox No. 1 in 
& wagon, divide into two parties within good hearing distance 
of one another, and attempt another ‘‘start.” Mr. Bassett 
soon discovered the track of an old “settler,” and at once 
placed his splendid animal Alto upon the trail. Ina few 
moments she drove the veteran upon his feet, and away she 
went alone aid unattended to wait upon this fox which had 
so long baffled the hunters of the locality, One of the party 
now sought the railroad near by, having learned that it was 
the custom of this particular fox to go and run the rail, thus 
throwing the dogs off the scent. Though he failed to place 
himself in a pos,tion to get ashot, Mr. Bumpus, however, saw 
the fox come upon the track, witnessed the running of the 
iron for some distance, and watched the anitmal as he slipped 
oft the rail and hopped up the hill, pausing there for a moment 
to losk behind. Soon along came Alto, in full cry until she 
reached the iron rail, there allscent was lost, of course, and 
so running over, and back and forth, the intelligent beast, un- 
able to rectify the fault, submitted to the callof Mr. Bumpus, 
who placed her where the fox had left the iron, when away 
she flew carrying her beautiful head well in the air and utter- 
ing the lancuage, ‘this time you are mine,” clothed with all 
the melody of a fox hound’stongue, At noonday Mr. Strange 
succeeded iu crippling, at long range, the sly old fox, which 
Alto finally brought to bay, and then it was that a charge 
from Mr. Taylor’s 10-bore relieved the dog of any further duty 
in that direction, and stretched a handsome twelye-pound fox 
at his feet. 

About the time that Alto had started the second fox, and 
but a short distance away, Mr. Nye’s beautiful spotted dog 
aroused another from his morning nap, and began a run which 
lasted nearly the remainder of the day, through a partially 
burned district, the scene of our hunt. She was at once 
joined by Mr. Taylor’s pet (the hero of many a day’s sport) 
and by Mr. King’s white dog Dick (celebrated im Sullivan 
county, N. H., especially in the vicinity of Newport, and who 
to-day was hunting away from his native hills for the first 
time). The second fox having been dispatched, Alto entered 
with the others upon the race forthe third, and now came 
the grandest chorus of the day. 

Brother fox hunters, old and young, who love the woad- 
lands and the ery of hounds, listen, with your ears of memory 
and experience, to the music of those hours which were pass- 
ing, alas all too quickly, by; 

Until late in the afternoon the dulcet tones of Alto, mingling 
in glorious harmony with the clarion voice of Dick (ever in 
the van of the chase),were echoed baci by the combined mel- 
ody of the slower but none the less true four-footed followers 
belonging to Mr. Nyeand Mr. Taylor. Once I caughta glimpse 
of them. and again [saw them them as they crossed the lane 
in the distance; firstthe flash of yellow fur, then, with superb 
dash and ringing chorus, Alto with the white dog, followed 
by the rest, and all pointing to the fleeing fox with the accu- 
racy of the needle to the pole. ; 

This was rapture itself, and could the English bard have 
been in the midst of us perhans hemight have qualified his verse: 


IN 1884. 


‘Tn thee alone, fair land of liberty, ~ 
Ts bred the perfect hound, in scent and speed 
As yeb unrivalled; while in other climes 
‘Their virtues fail a weak degenerate race.” 


With the declining day, the crack of Mr. King’s breech- 
loader secured to him a second brush, and ended the Bone, 
notes which had so long marked the devious path over whic 
the fox had been leading. The fatal shots alone had inter- 
rupted the incessant cry of the hounds from morning until 
nightfall. 

On our way to the wagons the indefatigable Alto, familiar 
as she wag with every part of the hunting ground, stole away 
from us and started another fox, which we were reluctantly 
obliged toleaye. Thus we had secured three foxes, in runs 
occupying nearly the entire day, and had started a fourth fox, 
and these were full grown foxes and uot early cubs. 

By the participants in this fox hunt the 30th of January, 


columns, their views on the points referred to? 


beyond our most sanguine expectations. 
growing from day to day, and I hope, at no distant day, to be 
enabled to report a membership of five hundred, as you, dear 
editor, think we ought to have. 


1884, will be counted asa red-letter day in the annals of their 

fox hunting, and such, I think, ib will be considered by your 

readers, who may be interested in this kind of sport. K. 
Brrkiiy, Mass., Web. 11, 1884. 


CINCINNATI BENCH SHOW. 
Editar Forest and Stream: 

Numerous have been the inquiries as to whether the flood 
here would stop the holding of the bench show. Iam glad to 
be able to state that tie river is receding fast, so that by next 
week the railroads will be all right and the show will be given 
as advertised, 4th, 5th, fith and 7th of March. The entries 


close Feb. 25, CHAS, LincoLN, Supt. 
Cincinnant, Feb. 16. 


BEAGLES FOR FOX HUNTING. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

_ Tam a New England man, and fond of fox hunting. To me 
itseems that the foxhound of to-day isa degenerated dog, 
Am T right, or isit only that] am growing old, and the notes 
of the old-time dogs came to me more mellow and musical 


in memory than they really were? Whatever be the true 


cause of my discontent, one thing is certain, 1 am looking 
about for a suecessor worthy of the hound I knew whea a 
couple of decades younger than I am now. 

our columns haye recently had much about the beagle. Is 


he the coming dog? And how would the beagle do for fox 
hunting? Is he too slow? 


Will some of your readers who are 
conversant with the qualities of the beagle give, through your 
BUGLE, 
VERMONT, 


THE BEAGLE CLUB. 


Pp RESS of business has prevented me from expressing sooner 


my thanks for the honors conferred upon me and the 


confidence shown in me, by members of this club, to most of 
whom I am a stranger. 
its interests, and do allin my power to make it a successful 
and strong organization. 


I shall faithfully serve the club and 


The present condition of our club is flattering indeed, and 
Its membership is 


Let me once more call upon all, not only breeders and owners 


of beagles, but all those who take an interest in the beautiful 
and useful little hounds, to enroll themselves with us, in 
this, our mutual cause, and send in their name at an early 
date. 


A. C, KrurGeEr, Sec’y and Treas. 
WRIGHTSVILLE; Pa. 


THE POINTING INSTINCT. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 


Tam the possessor of a dachshund puppy now some four 


months old, the mother of which was imported last summer 
from the celebrated kennel of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, in 
Germany, said to be the finest strain of black and tan dachs- 
hunde in that country, she giving birth soon after her arrival 
here to four puppies, all of which, except one, have since died, 
Iam told in olden times they were used for birds as well as 
rabbits, badgers, foxes, etc. 
across a bevy of quail and stood them as staunch as any old 
setter or pointer. 
is a perfect beauty and house pet, and quick as lightning and 
very intelligent. 


The mother this last fall came 
Ts it in the blood or an exception? My dog 


YORICE. 
[It is not uncommon for individuals of many of the different 


breeds of sporting dogs to imitate the point of the setter and 
pointer. 
pointed it as staunchly as a setter. 
bred rough-haired terrier frequently point sparrows in the 
street, remaining perfectly rigid until the bird few. ] 


We haye shot a ruffed grouse over a foxhound, who 
We have also seen a half- 


THE CLUMBER SPANIEL. 
[Cancluded from page 34,] 


HB Earl of Arundel, at Wardour Castle, has or had some 
ten years ago a nice strain of the breed; but those [I have 


seen haye been rather on the small side, and resembled very 
much in appearance Prince Albert’s strain, I have seen sey- 
eral of thém at work, and nothing certainly could be better; 
and although the Clumber pity, should be large and heavy, 
I think, if this strain is pure ; 

whatever to doubt, though, as I have stated before, of a dif- 
ferent character to the Duke of Neweastle’s, his lordship’s 
keeper, Adams, who took great pains in breeding them, erred 
on the right side, as far as a sporting spaniel is concerned, in 
encouraging the stamp of dog which I have seen there and at 
Mr. Bevyan’s, at Weston Grove, Southampton, who was par- 


y bred, which there is no reason 


ticularly partial to them; and he is no mean judge of what is 


required in the field, whether it besetter, spaniel, or retriever. 


The Harl Spencer has long cultivated the genuine breed of 
Clumber spaniels at Apethorpe, Northamptonshire; and so 


thorough a sportsman is likely to have the best, though Ihave 
never had the d 


leasure of seeing his kennel. Mr, Foljambe’s 
breed was long held in high and just repute, but whether it is 
still kept up I do not know; his blood is justly prized in most 
of the best: Clumber kennels of the day. 

“Stonehenge” says the Clumber is invariably long, low, and 
heavy; but I have, I believe, shown that this is not so, and 
that a slight divergence from this rule in the Prince Consort's 
and Lord Arundel’s breed seems to point very strongly to the 
theory which I have propounded that there may have becnan 
oviginal breed of Clumbersin this country beforethatimported 
by the Duke of Neweastle from France. The weight of the 
Clumber varies, but he averages about 40 Ibs, or 45 1bs,, though 
many dogs will weigh from 60 Ibs. to 68Ibs. I think the prize 
dog, Duke, which I sold to Mr, Sam Lang, of Baldwin street, 
Bristol, for fifty guineas, was over 56 lbs. ; he was a fine dog, and 
had beautiful feather, coat, and color, buthe was too shortin 
the back, and carried his stern high, two yery bad faults in a 
Clumber, and when I took him to Mr. Holford’s kennel and 
compared him with his team these faults were very manifest. 
The Clumber spaniel must be white and lemon; for many 
yearsthe judges wavered about orange markings, which are 
decidealy wrong, and the less color about him the better. He 
should have great bone and very shortlegs, and they should be 
straight; he should be well feathered, and his coat should be 
prory straight and silky in texture, and it can hardly be 
too thick. The eyes should not be large, and should be deeply 
set in the head, and in mature dogs the haw is often shown as 
in the bloodhound; a cherry-colored nose is, in my opinion, 
fatal to any chance of being considered of pure blood. The 
ears should not be lobe-shaped or long, and t ih should have 
little fringe to them and lie close to the head. The loin shonld 
not be arched, but the back must be straight; above all the 
stern must be set and carried low when in work, though he 

enerally carries it gaily when he is not, and should not he 
docked too short, and be well covered with hair, having a good 
flag. Jock, the dog whose dimensions were piven in ‘Dogs of 
the British Islands,” and which were taken by myself, was 
perhaps the best Clumber spamiel ever seen, and he was con- 
sidered so by Garland, who sent him to Birmingham Show in 
my Dame as an experiment. I told him he would be beaten 

by Duke, who was then in my possession; and so he yas, 
though Duke was not to be mentioned in the same twelve- 
month with Jock. 

The worst fault a Clumber can have is to give tongue, and 
no one who values his keanel would keep one who did. There 
are very few really good Clumbers now being exhibited, and 


(Fes. 21, 1884, 


the champion, Looby, is, in my opinion, not worthy of his 
position; he is too leggy, his eye is wrong, and he has not a 
Clumber head, The dog Bruce, which is the dog given to 
illustrate the breed in “Dogs of the British Islands,” was 
not a Clumber spaniel; he was admittedly cross-bred; he was 
avery fine dog, and had, perhaps, the best feather eyer seen. 

I measured it on his forelegs at over eight inches, but his 
head was far too long and pointed, his forelegs yery crooked, 
his color too deep, and his eye large and full. How so astute 
a judge as Stonehenge could haye selected him to illustrate 
such an important work, I am ata loss to conceive; he was, 
moreover, pig-mouthed; that is to say, his under jaw was 
very short, and receded from the upper. Bruce was largely 
bred from at the time, and, in my opinion, did more harm to 
the breed of Clumber spaniels than any other dog I haye ever 
known, 

As I have before said, the Clumberspaniel is an aristocratic 
dog, and requires to be treated as such; he is a difficult dog to 
rear to begin with; but, when once reared, he is very hardy, 
and will stand a good deal of work, and when once broken is 
avery valuable dog; but, although he is hardy, and will last 
for many years, I do not think he is the dog to stand the sen- 
eral wear and tear we require of a spanicl. He is not tit for 
every kind of coyert; and when you haye to work all day in a 
rough, wild country, thinly stocked with game, the Clumber 
spaniel is not the dog; the kind of ground he should be worked 
over is that, where game is tolerably plentiful, and not too 
rough, and he should be always worked ina team. ‘ake, for 
example, hedgerow shooting where you expect to meet with 
a few brace of pheasants, a hare or two, and plenty of rab- 
bits. He is decidedly not cut out for that kind of thing. He 
is too big for the rough woodcock shooting in the large, strag- 
gling coverts of Wales and Deyon. He ig not at home there, 
as amore active and quicker working dogisrequired, In a 
recent book on the dog I was rather amused in the article on 
this dog by its being laid down that ateam of Clumbers 
should consist ofnine. I donot knuw what magic there is in 
this number, or why it should be neither more norless. At 
all events, a couple of Clumbers is of very little tise tor ordin- 
ary shooting, They are too heavy, and cannot force them- 
selves into places where a sinaller and more active dog can, 
though they are by no means deficientin pluck, as I have 
seen a team of Clumbers come out after working a thicic piece 
of gorse with their eyes all torn and their ears covered with 
blood. Nobody ever thinks of shootin to spaniels of any kind 
in covert now where game is heavily preserved, as the pheas- 
ants and hares are all reserved for a grand day or two near 
Christmas; but I prefer a team of good, well-broken Clumbers, 
and a brush through the coyerts half a dozen times in the 
season for sport before all the battuesin the world. I know 
well that this is impossible where a large head of game is to 
be kept up; I onlysay whatIlike best; but it is only in 
outside coverts or where game is not yery thick that the 
Clumber is made useof. In commenting on the Islington 
dog show of 1862. the writer of the article called ‘‘The . 
Omnibus” in the new Sporting Magazine of that date 
says: “The eyes and general style of Harl Spencer's 
Clumbers place them quite beyond Mr, Holford’s, 
and in both classes Western Birt bowed to Althorp.” Just 
before this he says: ‘‘The sweet dish heads of the [rish setters 
attracted many a visitor.” Now, with all due deference to 
such an authority, if in nothing'else, this was a point in which 
Mr. Holford’s dogs were certainly a long way superior to Lord 
Spencer’s. L[remember examining all the dogs thoroughly, 
and have no hesitation in declaring the award a mistake. Mr. 
Holford’s dogs had the correct eye, whereas those of Lord 
Spencer’s were too full. Mr.A.W.Langdale, who has bred and 
shown many Clumber spaniels, thinks the weight of dogs 
should be from 60lbs. to 70lbs, I cannot help thinking this 
latter weight excessive, and do not recollect seeing more than 
one or two dogs of the latter weight, though have not known 
many over 60lbs. Mrs. Smale’s dog Wynn, of Lyonsdown, 
New Barnet, weighs 601bs. or over, I have not seen him, bui 
Leatherhead spoke highly of him when he won first over John 
o’ Gaunt, Tower and other good ones at Alexandra Palace last 
year. Mr. Langdale’s bitch Libnah, weighed 50Ibs. I neyer 
remember seeing this bitch, but she must haye been a large 
one, I never saw a Clumber bitch whoreached that weight; 
they are generally much lighter than the dogs. 

The champion Psycho, belonging to Mr. Charles Fruen, is a 
very good stamp of Chimber, but much too dark in color, and 
I should not care to breed from him. 

Mr. Homes’s John 0’ Gaunt is a good doy, showing many 
good points of the Clumber in perfection; but unfortunately 
his pedigree is unknown. Notwithstanding this I should not 
fear to breed from him, as I feel convinced that he is a really 
well bred one. : 

Mr, Herbert Moser’s Bachelor is a fine dog, but bad in his 
hind quarters, His young dog Baronet I liked touch, and I 
think must have grown into a fine dog when he finished. The 
same gentleman’s bitches, Lance and Loll, have heen frequent 
winners at most of the leading shows. haye not had an 
opportunity of attending any show for over a year, but I 
believe there are several good candidates for fame. 

The breed of Clumbers is still kept at Clumber Park, where 
they have some remarkably good bitches; and the kennel 
would have been much strengthened and improved Jast season 
if they had succeeded in breeding from them, but uufortun- 
ately they, strange to say, all failed to produce whelps. I do 
not know what dog was used, but i should say most decidedly 
that the fault was on the side of the sire. ~ 

The Karl of Cawdor has a strong kennel of Clumbers, and 
shoots a great deal to them. He has a good deal of Mr. Fol- 
jamb’s and Sir Vineent Corbett’s blood in the kennel, His 
bitches perhaps are rather lighter in the head than is exactly 
in accordance with the accepted form of the Clumber, but 
are a rare working sort, with capital coats and good legs and ~ 
fect. I do not think they are ever exhibited. His lordship's 
keeper told me that, contrary to what is uswally the case, he 
finds no difficulty in rearing the puppies, rarely losing one 
from distemper, The Climber when once raved is not at all 
a delicate dog, and will last and keep fresh for many years. 
This is perhaps to be occounted for by the slowness of his 
pace. This spaniel does notshow to fulladvantage when tied up 
ou the show bench, and they should always be shown as a 
team, which is certainly an attractive sight at a show to 
sportsmen, and the dogs haying more room and liberty show 
iheiAselyres off to the best advantage, The well-Enown spanie 
breeder, Mr. P. Bullock, exhibited a _yery good ‘limber, 
Nabob, for many year's. He was by Foljambe’s Beau, and 
was own brother to his Duke by Bang, out of Lord Foley's 
Van. I think this dog must have been a bad stock-getter, as 1 
have no recollection of seeing any of his progeny, though he 
was at the stud for years. . 

Lord Foley was at one time celebrated for his kennel of 
Clumbers, and his blood was much sought; but Iam not aware 
whether the kennel is still kept up or not, Clumbers always 
have and always will command a good price, as they are com- 
paratively scarce, and likely to remain so. 

T came across, the other day, an original engraving from the 

icture of the Duke of Newcastle and his spaniels, which 1 
Fe before referred to. A part of this picture appeared in 

an engraving in the old Sporting Magazine many years azo, 
but this contained the keeper and the spaniels only. This ~ 
original engraving represents the Duke of Neweastle aud a 
friend returning from shooting, both on horseback; and Man- 
sell, the keeper is examining a woodcock, several others with 
pheasants and other gamé are lying about, and three spaniels 
are surrounding him, If this is a correct representation of 
the duke’s spaniels; I think we haye improved them; the char- 
acter of the head is slightly different, being short, hut not so 
square as the modern dictum requires; they do nob appear 
40 beso large as the modern dog, in fact I should say they are 
about 35 to 40-pound dogs; they are not quite so low on the 


ad 


————— 


Fes. 21, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


73 


eg, or so long in the body, and, although their coats are flat, 

there is more cul in the feather, particularly on the stern, 
than is now BEY eu of. ‘The dogs altogether resemble very 
much the breeds 1 haye referred to as belonging to Prince 
Albert, the Harl of Arundel and Mr, Beyan; but they look like 
workmen all over, 

One great characteristic of the Climber spaniel when pure 
is his fondness for tle scent of feather in preference to fur; in 
fact, he seems fo despise the latter, and takes very little notice 
of hares and rabbits when winged game is prosont. Thisis a 
faculty to be cultivated in all spaniels, as most of them take 
to fur fast enough when allowed: and Ihave, I believe, before 
advocated entering young spaniels to winged game, instead, 
as is generally the case, of their being tirst entered to rabbits. 
—An Old Judge of Spaniels in Land and Water, 


CLEVELAND DOG SHOW. 


OLLOWING- is the premium list of the bench show to be 
held at Cleveland, O., April2?,4and 5; Champion Eng- 

lish setter dogs $20, bitches the same; open, dogs 320, $10 and 
silver medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs #7 and $3, 
bitches the same. Champion Trish setter dogs 520), bitches the 
same; open, dogs $20 and $10, bitches the same; puppies 87 
and $3. Black and tan setters, same as Irish setters, Chaim- 
pion pointer dogs, over d5lbs., 420, bitches, over 50lbs. the 
Same; open, dogs $20 and $10, small pointers the same; 
puppies, Jogs, #7 and $3, bitches the same. Champion Irish 
water spaniels $10, open $10 and $5. Champion field spaniels 
(amy color) $10; open, $10 and #4. Champion cocker spaniels 
(any color) $10; open (other than black) 510 and $5, black the 
same; puppies (any color) $5 and silver medal, ( hampion 
toxhounds, silver medal; open, dogs 810 and #5, Champion 
beagles, silver medal; open, dogs $10) and $5, bitches the same; 
puppies, silver medal, Dachshunde $11) and ‘silver medal. 
Champion fox-terriers, dogs silver medal, bitches the same; 


open, dogs 510 and 5, bitches the same; puppies 47 
and $5. Greyhounds $10 and $5, Deerhounds, $10. 
Champion mastiis, dogs champion medal, bitches the 


sanie; open, dogs $14 and $5. bitches the same: puppies 
t> and silver medal. Champion vough-coated St. 
Bernards, dogs, champion medal, bitches the same; open, dogs 
$15 and $5, bitehes the same: smooth-coated St, Bernards the 
same. Newfoundlands, $10 and silver medal. Champion 
coliie dogs,chanipion inedal, bitchesthe same; open, dogs $15 
and 45, bitches the same; puppies, dogs silyer medal, bitches 
the same, Champion bull, champion medal; open, dogs $10 
and $5, bitches the same, Chanrpion bull-terriers over 25lbs., 
champion medal; open $10 and $5; under 25lbs., the same, 
Wire-haired or Scotch terriers $10 and silver medal; black and 
tan terriers oyer 7ibs,, Dandy Dinmont and Irish terriers the 
same; champion Skye terriers (drop-eared) champion medal, 
open $10 and 45; prick-cared the same. Champion pug degs, 
champion medal; bitches the same; open, dogs $10 and $5, 
bitches the same, puppies silyer medal. Champion Yorkshire 
terriers, silver medal, open (over 5lbs,) $10 and $5; under 5lbs. 
the same. Tov terriers under dlbs., $10 and silver medal; 
Kine Charles or Blenheim spaniels, Japanese spaniels and 
Italian greyhounds the same. Poodles $10 and $5. Miscel- 
laneous 510,55 and silver medal. In addition to the above 
there will be a lavee number of specials given which will be 
duly announced, 

Major J. M. Taylor will judge the setters, Mv. J. M. Munson 
the pointers, and Mr, J, ¥, Kirk the remaining classes, 


KENNEL NOTES. 
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennej notes are inserted in this column free of charge. ‘To lusure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
iculars or each aninel: 


1. Color. G, Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3, Sex. 7, Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Age, or 3. Owner of sire. 


5. Dale of hi th, o breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and‘Gam, 
of death. 10, Owner of dam. 

Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
japer only, and sigved with writer’s nante. 

NAMES CLAIMED, 

(es— See instructions at head of this column. : 

Bang. By Mr. J. R. Oughton. Dwight, Tll., for bhie belton English 
setier dog whelped November, 1883, by Dashing Lion (Dash I17,—Leda) 
out of Queen Anna (Zanzibar—Lady Higin). 

Chiefiey. By Mr. BH. C. Miller, Hudson, N. Y.. forved Irish setter 
doz, whelped Nov. 13, 1883, by Chief (A 1. R. 231) out of Doe, 

Adom and Eve. By Mr. H, C, Miller, Hudson, N. ¥..for black and 
white pointers, dog and bitch. whelped Sept. 26, 1853, by St. John 
(Snapshoi— Belle) out of Wolly (Rock—S&leaford'’s Pan). 

Carter, Dan, Pint, nish Dan, Irish Dick, Mike Carter, Nelly Carter 
and Kannie Carter. By Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., for red Trish 
setters, whelped Jan, 1, 1884, by his Trim (Ned Wicho—Ruby) out of 
his Roxie (Ned Wlcho—Bridget O‘More). 

Countess Ringwood and Duchess Ringwood, By Mr, . 8. Hawks, 
Ashfield, Mass., for black, white and tan beagle hitches, whelped 
Nov. 21, 1883, by imported Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) out of Music 
Til, (Flute—Vittress), 

_ Burt, Seott, Crisp, Bro nie, Dun, Aberdeen, Lassie and Jennie. 

By Major Loyejoy, Bethel, Me., for Trish water spaniels, six dogsand 

two bitches, whelped Jan. 11, by Irish Bob ont of his Irish Bess. 
NAMES CHANGED, 

ES" See instructions at head of this column. 

Peg to Peg Peg. Liver pointer bitch, whelped Sept, 12, 1882 (Snipe 
—Ruby), owned by Mr. H. C, Miller, Hudson, N, Y. 


BRED, 


=~ See instructions at head ef this column. 

Jolly Daisy—Buckellew. Mr, W. A, Coster’s (Flatbush, L. I.) Eng- 
jish setter bitch Jolly Daisy (Gruid—Jolly May) to his Buckellew 
(ALK. R. 30), Jam, 6, 

Jolie—Buckellew. My. Theo, A. Gill's (West Park, N. ¥.) English 
Setter bitch Jolie (Lathrop’s Dick—Gen, Bly’s Sylph) te Mr. W. A 
Coster’s Buckellew (A.K.R. 30), Feb. 3, 

Dinah I.—Masier Wade. Wor. W. Wade's (Pittsburgh, Pa.) mastift 
bitch Dinah TY. (A... R.18) to Mr, W. L. Jones's Master Wade (A.K.R: 
757), Feb. 5. ; 

Fey Peg—kKnickerhocker, Mar, A. C. Miiler’s (Hudson, N. ¥.) liver 
poinier bitch Pez Peg (anipe—Ruby) to the Knickerbocker Kennel 
Club’s Knickerbocker (A.K.R, 19), Feb. 18. ‘ 

Sai—Bob. Mr. G. W. Awory’s (Boston, Mass.) imported pointer 
bitch Sal to his mperted Bob (Price’s Bang—Princess Kate), Jan. 2, 

Shao fiyj—Hector, Mr. Dan Storrs’s (Lebanon, N. 4.) beagle bitch 
Shoo Fly (Victeor—Bess) to Heetor (Victor— Beauty). 

Syren TL—4rlingion. Mr. A. S. Guild's (Lowell, Mass.) red Irish 
setter bitch Syren IT. (Hicho Til.—Mag) to Wir. C. Fred. Crawford's 
Arlington (Sam—Ruby), Feb. 14. 

Red Lassie—Clencho. Mv, Thos. D. Husted's (Peekskill, N.Y.) im- 
ported red Trish setter bitch Red Lassie (Rory O’More—Queen Eliie) 
to Glercho (Hlchu—Norcen), Feb. 13. 

Hranselle—Hritz, Wir. Samuel Seranton’s (Olney ville, R. I.) dachs- 
hund bitch Franzelle to Major Lovejoy’s Fritz, Dec, 20, 1883. 

Bridget O' More—WNed. Hlcho. Major Lovejoy's (Bethel, Me.) red 
Trish setter bitch Bridget O’More (Rory O?More—Lotta) to his Ned 
Elcho (Elcho—Stella), Jan. 1. 

Loria Poone—Prinee. Dr. Spencer M. Nash’s (New York) English 
setter bitch Lorna Doone (A.K.R, 39) to Mr, J. Hi, Goodsell’s Prince 
(Pride of the Border—Petirel), Jan, 29, - 


WHELPS. 


ES" See instructions wt head of this column. 

Gipsy Queen. Myr. Hi. P, Dorteh’s (Goldsboro, N. (.) Hnelish setter 
bitch Gipsy Queen (Gladstone—Clip). Feb. 11, fourteen (nine dogs), 
by Mr. J. C. Higgins’s Dashing Monarch; eight dogs livine. 

Hornell Ruby, The Hornell Spaniel Club's (Hornelisville, N. ¥.) 
cocker Spa bitch Hornell Ruby (A.K.R. 67), Feb. 4, eight, by Obo 
TL, (A.B. 482), 

trish Bess, Major Loyejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) imported Trish water 
spaniel Irish Bess, Jan, 11, eight (six dogs), by Irish Bob. 

Roxie, Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel. Me.) red Irish setter bitch Roxie, 
Jan. 1, eight (six dogs), Ly his Trim (Ned Eleho—Ruby). 

» kitty Mac. Mr, Jas. Lindsay's (Jersey City, N. J.) collie bitch Icitty 
Mac (A.K.R. 539), Jan. 2, seven (six dogs), by his Rex (A.IK.R, 149). 
Josephine, Mr. John B, Thayer's (Lancaster, Mass.) bull-biteh 


arrival, 


dpeebiiine (AI, R, 888), Feb, ¥, six (three dogs), by his Tippoo (A.K.R. 


Bellissima, Mr, John B, Thayer's (Lancaster, Mass.) imported 
bull-hitch Bellissima (H.K.C.S.B. 11,9381), Feb, 4, two dogs, by Slen- 
derman (H,1,078.B. 6,553), 


SALES, 


tas" See instructions at head of this column. 

Dashing Lion—Jessie Turner whelps. English setters, whelped 
November, 1883, by Mr, G. W. Ballantine, Washingtonville, O., a black 
and whife dog to Mr. T. C. Eldridge, Knoxville, Tenn.; a black and 
white dog to Mr, J. W. Slocum, Knoxville, Tenn.; ablack, white and 
tan dog to Mr. J. H, Campbell, Knoxville, Tenn,: a black and white 
dog to Mr. A, W, Burche, Washington, D. C.; a black and white biteh 
to My. R. B, Johnston, Bellefontame, O., and an orange and white 
bitch to Mr. Russell West, Washington, D. GC. 

Dashing Lion—Queen Anna whelps, English setters, whelped No- 
yember, 1888, by Mx, G. W. Ballantine, Washingtonville, O., a black 
and white dog to Mr. J. R. Oughton, Dwight, Iil.; a black, white and 
tan bitch to Mr, GC. Valentine, Edinburg, Ind.; a black, white and tan 
bitch to Mr. J. 8. Vannatta, Shelbyville, Ind., and an orange and white 
bitch to Mr. B. i. Jones, Akron, O. 

Maud Muller, Black and white English setter bitch (Rob Roy— 
Pocahontas), by Mr. G. W. Ballantine, Washingtonville, 0., to Mr, 
Hugh Hill, New York. 

Duke. Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct, 22, 1883, by 
Dinks (Nat—-Bess) out of Flirt (Cap—Gipsy), by Mr. J. F. Hartwell, 
Providence, R. I., to Mr. G. H. Dean, Jr,, same place. 

Doan, Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct. 22, 1883, by 
Dinks (Nat—Bess) out of Wirt (Cap—Gipsy), by Mr. Geo. A. Ayers, 
Pawtucket, R. I., to Mr. H, B, Whitman, Providence, R. T. 

Rad, Black and tan Gordon setter dog,whelped Oct, 22, 1683 (Dinks 
—Flirt), by Mr. Geo. A. Ayers, Pawtucket, R.1., to Mr. Wm. Ayers, 
Proyidenee, R, I. : 

Guess. Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct. 22, 1883 
(Dinks—Fiirt), by Mr, Geo. A. Ayers, Pawtucket, R. i., to Mr C. N, 
Radborn, Bloomington, Il. 

Jennie, Black and tan Gordon setter bitch, whelped Oct. 22, 1883 
(Dinks—Flirt), by Mr. Geo, A, Ayers, Pawtucket, R. I., to Mr. ¥.Quin- 
tard, New Hayen, Cb. 

Jessie, Black and tan Gordon setter bitch, whelped Oct, 22, 1883 
(Dinks—Flirt), by Mr. Geo, A. Ayers, Pawtucket, R. I., to Mr. H. L. 
Hartwell, Providence, R, I. 

Trim, Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct. 22, 1883 
(Dinks—Flirt), by Mr. Geo. A, Ayers, Pawtucket, R. I., to Mr, KE. H. 
Simmons, Hiie, Pa, 

Dexter. Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct. 22, 1888 
(Dinks—Flirt), by Mr. Geo. A, Ayers, Pawtucket, R, L, to Mr. J. Me- 
Gee, Worcester, Mass. 

Dash. Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped Oct. 22, 1688 
(Dinks—Flirt), by Mr. Geo. A, Ayers, Pawtucket, Rk. 1, to Mr. M. J. 
Wlaherty, Boston, Mass. 

Welancd Dick. Red Itish setter dog, whelped March 29, 1888 (Ned 
Hicho—Bridget O’More), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr, Clas. 
&. Lancaster, Boston, Mass. 

Jack. Imported liver and white field ‘spaniel dog, 244 years old, by 
Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. Ehner Brady, New York, 

Diek. imported liver field spaniel dog, 38-years old, by Major Love- 
joy, Bethel Me., to Mv. Chas, Wing, Philadelphia, Pa. ~ 

Nick. Brown setter dog, age and pedigree not given, by Major 
Lovejoy, Bethel, Me,, to Mr, Chas. Thomas, Brooklyn. N. Y. 

Jim, English setter dog, age and pedigree not given, by Major 
Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. W. White, St. Louis, Mo. 

Ringwood—Musie II, whelps, Black, white and tan beagies, 
whelped Noy, 21, 1883, by Mr. EK. 8. Hawks, Ashfield, Mass., a dog to 
Mr. Joseph Brady, Fall River, Mass.; a dog to Mr. L. 5. Farrer, Bath, 
Me.; a dog and bitch to Max. N. Elmore, Granby, Ct.; a bitch to Mr. 
Haven Doe, Salmon Falls, N, H., and a bitch to Mr. C, P. Ferguson, 
Springvale, Me. : 

Skipper. Liver spaniel dog, 2 years old (Dash—Bess), by Major 
Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. Geo. Blanchard, Waterville, Me. 

Wycelije. Red Irish setter dog (A. K.R. 724), by Miss Ida I’. Warren, 
Leicester, Mass., to Mr. Hwin Brown, Worcester, Mass. 

Rleho—Meg whelp. Red Irish setter bitch, whelped July 21, 1283, 
by Hicho (A. K.R. 22) out of Meg (A.K.K. 425), by Mr. Benj. F. Clark, 
Manchester, N. H., to Mr. Frank Prendergast, Boston, Mass. 

Wiyyer Tom. Black greyhound dog,whelped Aug. 5, 1883 (Charcoal 
—Queen Bess), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. H. Savage, 
Brocton, Mass. ; 

Joe. Yawn English pug dog,4 years old (Jumbo—Topsy), by Mr. 
Jas. Mortimer, New York, to Mr. Geo. H, Hill, Cincinnati, O. 

Hecho. Red Trish setter dog, age not given (Eicho—Stella), by Mr. 
H. D. Ogden, Chatham, N, J., to Mr. Wm. DeLand, Fairport, N.Y. 

Wallace. Red Irish setter dog, whelped June 5, 1883 (Kit—Bixby’'s 
Ruby), by Mr. J. H. Grimes, Somerville, Mass., to Miss Ida F. Warren, 


Leicester, Mass. 
PRESENTATIONS. 


be See instructions at head of this colum. 

Annie Laurie. Black, fan and white collie bitch, whelped Aug, 28, 
1852 (champion Marcus—isle), by Mr. J. C. Faxon, Boston, Mass., to 
Mr. Wm. A. f#axon, same place. 

DHATHS. 

(eS > See instructions at head of this column. 

Chipps. Liver pointer dog,7 years old (Casar—Moll), owned by 
Mr, Geo. Goodhue, Danville, Canada, Jan. 15. 

Blackie. imported black spaniel biteh, whelped Oct. 1, 1877 
(H.K.C.8.B, 9,288), owned by Mr. F. F. Pitcher, Claremont, N. H., Feb. 
15, n parturition, 


NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW.—A large number of special 
prizes have already been offered for the New Haven dog show, 
and more are promised. Many of them are cash prizes vary- 
ingin amount from $5 to $15, and inelude nearly allof the dif- 
ferent breeds. There will undoubtedly be a large entry, and 
we would suggest to the management that many of the classes 
in which no distinction as to sex is now made, be diyided into 
dog and bitch classes, or at least that they announce'that this 
will be done in all cases where the number of entries will 
warrant, 


ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW.—It is rumored that there will be a 
bench show at St. Louis this spring. 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 


=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 
C. R. H., Manchester.—Select the one with the most courage. 


G. M. S., Bethel, Conn.—From your description we should say that 
the ball willdono harm, Show him to your family physician, he 
will probably be able to inform you. 


C.F. EL, Clarksville, Mich. —Your dog has canker of the ear. Care- 
fully wash out the ears and fill with the following mixture, gently 
kneading the base of the ear fora short time: Bromo chloralum and 
laudanum, equal parts, dilated with six times their bulk of water,- Tf 
the case is not of too long standing one or two applications of this 
will effect a cure. Weshould not advise the use of kerosene. 


Tuirey Cents A WEEK, al age 25, buys a life policy for $1,000 in the 
Travelers, of Hartford, Conn. Cheapest first class goods in the 


market! Apply to any agent, or the home office at Hartford.—4dv, 
MONTHLY LIST OF PATENTS. 
For Inventions Relating to Sporting Interests, Bearing Date 


Jan, 22, 1884. Reported expressly for this paper by Louis 
Bagger & Co., Mechanical Experts and Solicitors 
of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

291,533. Manufacture of Boats from Celluloid, ete.—C. P. Pitman, of 
Freehold, and H. Allaire, Allaire, N. J 

291,048, Ball Trap,—J. C, Parmalee, Sedalia, Mo. 

291,891, Metallic Pateh for Bullets.—G. V. Fosbery and Ienry Pieper, 
Liege, Belgium, 

291,128, Live-box for Pish,—Richard A. Lindsay, Baitimore, Md. 


PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


Farnaam’s Automatic TRoMBONE WHISTLE isa handy little knick- 
knack which is growing in favor among sportsmen. 

Bertor late than never geta box of Usterbrook’s superior and 
standard steel pens. Ave furnished in all the popular styles. Station- 
ers have them.—ddv, 


The ostriches of the Anaheim farm in California laid 505 
eggs during the season from the Ist of May last until the 1st 
of October. The birds haye been plucked twice since their 
The first clip in May last yielded $500. The clip in 
December yielded 2,500 quills of all kinds from eighteen birds, 
and is valued ab $1,000, } 


Aifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pizeon Tournament, at Chicago, Il., May 
26 to 31. Managers, Ligowsly Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O. Box 1292, Cin- 
einnati, Ohio, 


SOME RIFLE QUERIES. 


Eqitor Forest and Stream: 

With your consent, I would propound a few questions for the con- 
sideration ot the many amateurs and professionals, who eagerly scan 
all intelligent discussions in your columns of whatever relates to nice 
points of rifle manufacture and shooting. My object is to d!aw forth 
opinions and explanations, all the more stimulating to further inves- 
tization if they should be conflicting. 

J. Who of your readers will furnish the most lucid and convincing 
answer to the question which may be putin thisform, Shooting at 
200yds., if the moving of ‘the wind-gauge sight one-one-hundreth of 
an ineh will vary the striking of the bullet in the target two and one- 
half inches, how much elevation or depression of the bullet will be 
caused by the raising or lowering of the peep-sight an equal distance? 
If the variation in shorts, under the supposed conditions, would not 
be the same, up, down or lateral, levib be explained why. No off- 
hand, random speculation will solve this enigmatical problem, The 
rear sizht is believed, from some cause, change of trajectory or other, 
to be the most sensitive in actual practice. 

2, What reason for a positive opinion can be furnished, that the 
pushing of a bullet ahead of a cartridge, say one-eighth of an inch, 
will increase or lessen its upset when fired? Or, in other words, what 
effect on the expansion of a bullet into the grooyes in the rifle, and its 
course after it leaves the barrel, may be attributed to a small air- 
space between the powder charge and the bullet? 

3. Can the maximum and most uniform power of a 50-grain cart- 
ridge be obtained from the use of a No.1 Winchester primer, or 
others of like size and force? Is not more fulminate required to pene- 
trate and fully ignite the charge? 

Using a paper-patched bullet, what condition of the barrel is 
more uniform and favorable to close shooting than that it be clean 
anddry? Is not lubrieution unnecessary and objectionable because 
extremely liable to be variable, with however much painstaking? 

5. Why are short and mid-range target rifles better or more easily 
manipulated with the wind-gauge sight at the muzzle rather than at 
the breech? 

6. On the supposition that a paper-patched bullet should fit the 
rifling so thatit can be pushed through with a geniie pressure, and 
not be deformed by the upsetting, how can it be placed beyond 
the shoulder of the chamber so its axis shall be exactly the same as 
that of the bore of the rifle? Or will the Gordian knot be cut hy the 
authoritative assertion that the position of the builet does not call 
as any such nice adjustment, but will right itself on the discharge of 
the gun? “ 
ee Of the two,is notthe sure and instantaneous shedding of a 
paper patch when a ritleis firad of more consequence than the exact 
proportion of tin to lead in the composition of bullets, never varying 
much from a medium standard? Patched bullets, I think, are 
largely cf home manufacture, for economical considerations, if no 
other. But the saying will not be justified unless a process is fol- 
lowed which will insure accurate shooting. Stripping, and adhesion 
of paper beyond the muzzle, itis of the first importance to avoid. 
But by what precautions? When the bulletisin direct contact with 
the powder, no wad being used, is it not morecertam to be discharged 
from the confining twist of the patch atits base? 

8. Change of light being regarded as the most deceptive adverse 
condition with which the marksman has to contend, what concise 
practical directions can be given for mastering it? Careful obser- 
vation would be safe general advice; but who that has profited by 
long and sharp watching will volunteer to part with any precious 
secret he has discovered, and lay down some simple rules for 
novices? 

9, Is there no dissent in the high court of experts from what gen- 
eral use shows to be the prevailing opinion, that for short and mid- 
range target-shootimg, with rifles of .28-caliber or upward. the most 
desirable powder is of the grade of Hazard’s or Oriental FG, or 
Laflin & Rand’s Cregdmoor No. 5, these being of suitable grain, slow- 
burning, sufficiently strong, and of moderate cost? Leaving the cost 
out of the question, and balancing remaining advantages and disad- 
vantages, is there no valid plea to be urged forthe use of higher 
grades of powder for increased accuracy in rifle pract:ce, such, for 
instance, as Hazard’s No. 3, duck shooting? It may lhe that the final 
word has not been said on this matter, and that time will change the 
popular choice. 

There are readers of the Forest AnD STREAM who are competent 
to handle the foregoing topics with skillful familiarity. and let it be 
hoped that they will respond to this call to elucidate what is too 
dimly apprehended by the great body of the rifle-shooting fraternity. 
If the oracles should be found to disagree, the fact may justify this 
communication as not haying been dictated by stupidity. Something 
is reserved for a later day, wheu the result of this venture will have 
been disclosed. TD des 


Worcustrier, Mass., February, 1884, 


Hditor Forest and Strean: ° 

From all these discussions does it not seem that the choice of a 
hunting rifle cannot be limited to one style of arm? To build a rifle 
for all round work is like building a yacht on alike plan. You can’t 
do it for all conditions and uses. So let us have as great a variety as 
mInay be, and then every one can take his choice and blame himself if 
not satisfied. 

But willsome expert tell us which is best in loading a cartridge, to 
compress the powder or to leave it loose as possible? 

Another thing, and more important it seeins to me, is this: Place 
a sheet of paper close to the muzzle of a gun and fire through it, and 
the paper will show the marks +f powder grains unburnt before they 
leavethe gun, Light as wellas heavy charges of powder will show 
this, Or, if fired in the dark the flame bursting in sight is a sign of 
powder burning outside the gun. What causes this? The powder is 
ignited at the bottom of the shell and, before all is burned, the ex- 
pansion of part of it has forced the ball and some unburned powder 
out of the gun. Power is lost, you may get more power by putting 
in more powder, because mure proportionately will be burned; but 
you wonky get all the power of the powder. Is there any remedy for 
his? " 

Suppose you could ignite the powder just at the base of the ball, 
on the top of the cartridge, what would bethe effect? G. F. W. - 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


THE ZETTLER RIFLE CLUB held its regular shoot on Feb. 12, 12- 
ring target, possible 120; P. Wenning 116, 0. G. Zettier 116, V, Stein- 
back 115, A. Lober1i4, M. Dorrler 118, M. B. Mngel, 112, D. Miller 111, 
C. Judson 111, A. Holges 110, B. Zettler 109, R. Zimmerman 108, T. C, 
Noone 103, H. Schutt 102, H. Puckhaber 98, J. Adrian 92, Feb. 5., 12- 
ving target: M. B, Wngel 115, J. WH. Brown 115, M. Dorvier 113, T, Fila 
106, H. Holges 115, B. Zettler 107, C. Judson 115, A, Lober 112, C. G, 
Zettler 111, T. C. Noone 104, R,. Zimmerman 110, H, Schutt 100, J. Ad- 
rian 104.—A. D. Warp, Sec. 

NEWARK.—The match between the Zettler Rifle Club, of New 
York city, and the Frelinghuysen Club, of Newark, will take place 
on Monday evening, Feb. 25, at the range of the former. The condi- 
tions are: Ballard rifle, ,22-caliber, 3lbs. pull, 10 men per team, 10 
shots to a man, distance S5ft., Massachusetts ring target, possible 120 
points, The return match will be shot on the Frelinghuysen range. 

The fourth match of the Newark Rifle Association commenced on 
Monday evening, Feb. 11, at the Domestic range, Thenext match fo 
be shot will be decided at the meeting of the N, R. A., the Warren 
and Plymouth Clubs having tied on score—420. Thescores made last 
weelc were as follows: , . 

Cajluloid-—W. A. Vreeland 42, C, H, Coe 42, H. Babbit 44,5. T. Sim- 
monds 43, Wilzey 44, Brant 44, A. Hrhard 47, Jackson 43, Puder 41, 
W, Coe 43—483, 

Frelinghuysen—G. Williams 49, William McLeod 49, A. C. Neumann 
49,5. Shackelford 48, R. Westerman 45, G, Zimmer 47, FP. W. Lynn 47, 
G. Weigman 47, H. O. Chase 44, J. LL. Tobin 483—468, 

Warren—G, L. Freche 48, Theo. Miller 44, Wm. Nunley 48, Charles 
Waag 42, J. Sehacifer 38, Wm. Alexander 44, J. Wolf 44, L. Meyer 39, 
P. Keenan 38. Ed. Burns 45—420, 

Domestic—J. E. Velsor 45, 1, Porter 43, F. A, Valentine 41, J. Long 
48, Wadams 43, Reynolds 44, Dainty 48, Wm. Connell 42, Jeifreys 43, 
Leitz 46—446. 

Plymouth—J. L. Sommers 44, A. A. Baldwin 45, J. A. Wosters 38, H. 
L. Letbe 68, P. L. Sommers 44, C. A. Townsend 47, H. Grewe 42, G. M. 
Townsend 4), H, Pollard 44, J. B. MeCullum 88—420, 

The National Shooting Hestival will be held in this city from June 
§ to June 12 of this year, 

BOSTON, Feb. 16,—There was tlie best attendance of shooters at 
Walnut Ell tor along time past, and the shooting was fine. In the 
early part of the day the fags hung motionless and limp, but about 


| noon a light air sprung up from the east, bub not enough of it to spo 


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[Fex. 21, 1884. 


the shooting. All that was necessary to get a bull was to hold on 
and the white dise was sure to be shown. On Friday next, Feb. 22, 
there will be shooting all day, and if the conditions are ab all favor- 
able there is sure to be a good crowd. Allthe eurrent matches will 
be on, and as there are so many all can be sura of being satisfied. 
The following are to-day’s scores: 


- Creedmoor Practice Match. 


D Kirkwood,........ 555554644547 J Payson (mil)...... 5445444544 —43 
GOP BEY Ryn. Ness ess. R455445545—46 CO Reed.........-.) 444454354442 
K A Davidson....... §445555544—46 G Welch..........-.. 45444543 1441 
CA Ailen 445554545445 Dr Langmaid ...,...5448445452—40 
J A Carr 5554544545 45 A J Louk (mil). ..... 4444434444 —39 
CE IGLE Pts. ses §445544454—44 BI Barnum (mil). . 5448353344—35 
i SE EG lee pe Se 454455454444 § F Burns {mil)..,. .3124333444—34 
CB Edwards........ 4545444445—43 
Creedmoor Prize Match. 
LB Thomas....,.... abodbdh455—4ay Oo Tarr........: 4594584455—44 
Re-entry............. 544455558446 A J Look.../.,..., .445444445—43 
H Withington ...... 451545455445 B A Lappen 454544444442 
H Cnshing.......... 5545645444—45 EF Chauncey (mil,). .d444454444—41 
K A Davidson .. ...5545544444 44 
Combination Match—Creedmoor Target. 

W Gardner....... ..5554454545—46 OB Berry.......... 5455444545—45 
© B Edwards........ 4455455544—45 

d Combination Match—Decimal Target, 

eB RESETS ig Ft Bekisies ese eee ensicors 56 91010 510 4 6 9 9-77 
aE WE O Ss he ek OR aon sd 8-6 8.9 39 8 7 9 4—71 
ub Bahes: <= Fhe cess ee oe dce cases e 7 8 8-510 4 7 6 9 5-64 
“EEA T Ch aa ee a ae 56 564148 810 9 7-61 
SETAE Os AE VN ie tnt Raed rife earetaek tee 4 8 8 510 5 4 4 6 5—5S 

Vietory Medal. 

al ES MOH OWS te oes HE did dvds s 8466 ee tbad 10 9 710 610 9 5 6 10—82 
GRAORANG el ale. sbatess 710 510 6 8 G6 6 10—%5 
Arg SGI © 5. Sch teehee 9 910 7 7 6 4 7 8—T5 
J A Hattield 7 9 5101010 6 6 3-75 


BRATTLEBORO, Feb. 17,—Following are the record scores made 


first ten shots, 200yds., off- 


BUCH OMS ios cece Pean eet eve eee seme ren: 12:10 12 12 912 9 10 11 11—109 
1130101211 91111 9 12—i06 

10 101112 9 9 11 12 12 10—106 

1211101211 11 122 910 8—106 

101210 $11 8 11 J1 11 10—103 

, 10 1111 1011 12 912 9 8—108 

LSCOVF ELE trie 2 Canyon te St ye 910121111 81011 10 y—101 
[Fisitl) oat ee eee eee teeta ee 1010 8111010 8 9 10 11— 97 
Pentland ../.....-. Seewteancvayec. 2 DLO Oe Oey tld pales ob oF 
POwWreilee,f.uo wien. ptise prey WW 910 9 8 910 10 11 10— 96 


TYPOS AT THE SCORE—Jamestown, N. Y., Feb. 16.- Last even- 
ing, at Burns’s gallery, occurred the third annual Printers’ Rifle 
Match. Three offices were represented by three men from each 
office, the ouher three offices having failed to comply with the terms 
of the match. ~ 
Jamestown Journal. Jamestown Standard. 
PM Dean.,.44445-.21 EA Brooks. ..54545—28 
CO B Potter,.45444—21 M B Thomas, .44454—21 
J Clary.,,.,54444—21 OF Dean..... 53044—16 C White...... 04344 —15 

63 60 55 

SPLITTING CARDS turned edgewise to the shooter is considered 
one of the most difficult feats in pistol shooting, The mark presented 
is a hair line, and if the card is placed perfectly true the bullet cuts 
it into two pieces as cleanly as if the shears had been used. In some 
instances when the bullet just grazes the card, its path is marked by 
a lead line. At Conlin’s Rifle, Pistol and Record Gallery. Broadway 
and Thirty-first street, this city, a playing card is exhibited in the 
record room, which has been grazed by two consecutive shots, show- 
ing the leaden lines in bota cases running entirely across the card. 
This isa good illustration of the accuracy requisite for cutting the 
card. The bullet must not deviate either to the right orto the left 
the thickness of the playing card—but a ‘“‘line’’ shot has more 
boundary, as a hit at any point counts equally well, The follewing 
area few of the records kept at Conlin’s gallery: Splitting cards, 
with rite—E. HK, Tiffany, 7 in 10 shots; George Bird, 7 in 10; Frederick 
Sands, 4in 10; Geo. E. Rogers,5in 10; Maynard Bixby,5in7; J. B. 
Blydenburgh, 6 in 10; H. H. Bishop, 4in7; W. B. Young, 2in 3. With 
pistol—H. W,. Wickham, 5 in, 6 shots; W, M. Chase, 4 in 5; E. ¥. T. 
Marsh, 7in 10; J. B. Miller,5in10;H, W. Wickham, 3 in 5 shots at 
the word; Col, J. J. Dunne, 3in 5; A. L. Caldwel, 2 in 4; Dr. E, T. T. 
Marsh, one card on second shotatrifie range. Dr, Marsh, 2 cards in 
4 shots vith ducking pistol; Mr. Wickham, 2in5. Dr. Marsk and 
Mr. Wickham both split 3 cards in 5shots with .32-cal., Smith & 
Wesson revolver. 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 16—Score of C. 5. A. medal match, 
Creedmoor target, 200yds., possible 50; wind Jight at 7 o’clock; light, 
very bright.. §. N. Ayres 45, N, J. Fonner 43, A. F. Ward 43, W. H. 
Sprague 43, A. F. Warner 42. J. Haycook 41, R. H. Burns 41, J. R. 
Moore 40, O. H. Lilly 40, E. Mayhew 35, C. Salisbury w.—R. H. B. 

A BIG PRIZE—Carlisle, Pa.—The Cumberland Valley Rifle Asso- 
ciation of this place have decided on a contest in which they will 
offer as first prize a Steinway piano, H style 1, 714 octave, price $700. 
Seven additional prizes will be offered amounting to $150, The 
shooting is to be at 100yds., the date in the near future not yet de- 
termined. The match be open to all,—W. E. M. 


Morning Dispatch. 
FJ Budget. ..45444—21 
5S Burnham. .34354—1¢ 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to :ertte on one side of the paper only. 


THE CLAY-PIGEON TOURNAMENT. 


Hditor Forest and. Stream: 

Any changes in or excepvions to the prograimme as printed and 
rules indicated thereon can hereafter only be made by the Executive 
Committee when they meetin Chicago. In answer to a few specific 
qugstions we desire'now to explain existing rules as follows: 

irst--The traps must all be loaded after each shot. 

Sevond—To determine which trap shall be pulled the trap judge or 
assistant will use #he ordinary pool balls and bottle, drawing one 
ball for single and two balls for doubles, which he will show to the 
puller only, era patent automatic pulling apparatus will be.used. In 
double-bird shooting. therefore, any two of the five traps may be 
sprung, 

YPhird—The direction (horizontal angle) of each trap shall be 
changea whenever it is reloaded, 

Fourth— Ties between teams to be shot at 5 singles, 2lyds, rise, and 
2 doubles. i8yds. rise, allfrom 5 traps. j , 

Fifth—A sportsman residing in a county in which there is no club, 
and desiring to shoot in the championship match witha club from 
some other county of which he is a member, can apply to the Exe- 
cutive Committee through us for authority to do so. 

Sixth—Note this error in programme: Charge of shot ‘414 drams” 
should be *'114 ounces ™ » ‘ THE Licowsky C. P. Co. 


PROPOSED NEW ENGLAND ASSOCTIATION.—Provicence, Heb.1, 
—Editor Forest and Stream: At a meeting of the Narraganset Gun 
Club it was voted to issue a challenge to any or all gun clubs in New 
England, to shoot a friendly match at clay-pigeons, our object being 
to create a friendly rivalry between the shooters of the different 
States, and if possible to result in the forming of a New England 
‘Association. We should be pleased to join with other clubs in procur- 
ing a medal or trophy emblematic of the New England championship, 
aud would prefer to shoot for some such prize. The conditions of 
the present match to be a team shoot, five or tem men on a side, at 
twenty clay-pigeons each man, the birds to be sprung from five traps, 
placed five yards apart, traps set on fourth notch, and the rise to be 
either 15 or 18yds., use of one barrel only. We would be pleased to 
have the first match take place on our grounds, when we shall hold 
ourselves in readiness to shoot a return match, if desired, at as early 
a date as possible, I hope some of the many clubs in New England 
will accept the above challenge in the spirit in which it is given, that 
of increasing the interest of trap-shooting in the New England States, 
an‘] if we are defeated we shall have accomplished this, equally as 
well aS if victorious. We are now enlarging our club house by raising 
it another story, making two comfortable rooms 24x12 with a balcony 
6ft. wide extending the length of the building, so we shall not lack for 
accommodations for our visitors. Our grounds are very pleasantly 
‘lor ted on Broard street, and the horse cars pass the building every 
jwour \nalf hourly in the summer) it being about a half lour’s ride 
from the center of the city. All challenges or acceptances may be 
addressed to C. ¥,. Baldwin, Secretary Narraganset Gun Club, No. 2 
College -treet, Providence, R. 1., or to that best of all mediums for 
sportsmen, the ForEsT AND Srkram.—W. H. SHELDON. 


A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. J, E, Bloomrecently said to 4 
reporter of the Evansville (Ind.) Argus, speaking of the diversity of 
trap-shooting rules; “This is a subject that has given us great 
annoyance and labor, We hayeno national association in"this coun- 
try, to whose standard we might have reference, To-day Illinois 
shoots under one set of rules, New York another, Massachusetts a 
third, and so on, ‘It has been our endeavor to establish a set of rules 


which would please all; rather, a majority—for there are always a 
series of chronic grumblers whom it would be impossible to satisfy 
under any circumstances. We announced this tournament last Aug- 
ust, since which time we have been receiving suggestions from num- 
erous clubs and individuals, many of which have been adopted. It 
will be our endeaver during the tournament to ore a national 
sportstnen’s association, whose main functions shall be the framing 
of national sporting rules for each species of shooting. and the or- 
ganizing of future annual tournaments. The rule ‘that members of 
a, team entered for the principal champion contest must be residents 
of the county from which the team is entered,’ was adopted at the 
suggestion of a Cleveland sportsman, and is intended to prevent the 
combination of the best shots of a State or section, in one team (which 
must be composed of five members of at least two montbs’ good 
standing as such), Take the State of Illinois for example; it would 
be an easy matter to pick out five of her best shots from all parts of 
the State, and form a team which would be practically 
invincible, this would deter dozens of teams from coun- 

try towns or local clubs from participating in the tournament. 

The rule is adopted to ayoid this contingency. We organized this 

tournament not for the benefit of the few best shots of the several 

States, hut for the delectation of hundreds of local amateurs through- 
out the country. We do not wish this to be a tournament for a dozen 

clubs—but rather for a hundred, Iam confident that with this rule 

there will be over one hundred teams entered for this match. Weal- 

ready have entries from Florida, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Wis- 
consin, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, ete. Let the 

‘kickers’ organize a club in their respective counties. How much 

more pleasure will result to all sportsmen, if local gun clubs were 

started in every county in the Union. There is a certain bon comrade- 

ship between devotees of the gun which only needs a feature of this 

kind. joined to a national orgamization to fully develop same, and 
which would result in establishing a ‘body of men’ scattered through- 

out the country, with whom thousands would take pride in ce oper- 

ating for any worthy purpose or emergency which might arise. A 
number of parties have endeavored to infringe upon our patents, 

but thus far unsuccessfully, By means of our patent process we are 
selling clay-pigeons cheaper at retail, than ordinary potters could 
manufacture them at wholesale. ‘rue, we sank $20,000 in devising 
this process and we have the same amount on hand with which to 
fight any parties who might try to infringe our patents. Moreover, 

we have the good wiilof the sportsmen of the country who now 
realize that while working for ourselves we at the same time cater to 
their sport—that we are doing more to foster tournaments than any 
set_of men have ever done—or would do, were our patents over- 
thrown.”’ . 

FOUNTAIN GUN CL°)B.—Vhere was a fair atsendanceat the Pros- 
pect Park Fair Grounds, Brooklyn, at the monthly club contest. The 
birds were the strongest fiers we have had for a year, and it was 
quick work to stop them. The weather was fine and the shooting, 
with a few exceptions, remarkably good. Appended is the score: 

Regular Monthly Badge, 7 birds. 5 traps, both barrels. 


Class. _ 
B—John Rathgen, 25yds, 2.5 esc. ccs secs ccee cies FE SE ge Dey 
A—W. McLaughlin, 27yds -........... Pie ome terters 1 Ad ee 
B—O, RoWeeds 26yd8.0 26-5 sie ses4 chee sores 1ii11* 1 1-8 
‘B—ChWieher, 26y ds) ees et Se i ds ca eta by tarts fd 1 tat s0—6 
BW. Cherry 26708. 02s p52 koe 5 2 et ers 111101 146 
A—H, Hoermans, 27yds..,--...-.2..2.: 20s seer eee Of ft ACW 130-5 
B—T. Livington, 26yd8., 2.0. cc. sceeecee esse nese ee O el) ef a0) I —5 
AS A Oy BOY Osea cristata treatin eles seers =e pie ak Ree Ss; 
OOo Sarory; Zayas fuentes samt Peel ooo see Ti Lee ap, 
Bo), Duryea, -26yd8.2-.— 22 -ecrase,+-ceenerec wes 010111 1-4 
A—W. Hughes, 30yds.........,.. ee a 10211 * Lt 0-4 
C—E., Domrtell ys, 21.08, cites vets ye eed es O #0 1°01 I—s3 
C—O PA ILen YANG) Bea VES jets etwas b-ofare cota neme eles pie ee Ge es Me | cs 
Oa eriede 217 dss 32h ehh han te Peel OO On ae: 
Winners: Class A, Mr. McLaughlin. 7; E, Mr. J. Rathgen, 7; C, Mr, 


O, Sarony, 5, 


*Dead out of bounds. 
Sweepstakes, 25yds. rise, 3 birds 


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ot Ra thee Se ae oe haemo eh alates ele are ate site gee Some) SU aety 
SAR Tegel eh ee ey Ad PANO Opi, aaa or Sos tTidzido 16 
TOTHHALSO A eeicn san tate dee ote ee he ek lew rae We Gite cl Th UR Ser 
TACO a EN reine: silent sre-k cote or reer eae ee Tsai he  thy AU) —3 
WOH E ET ts ber see Bet tas ae Sere BT A. ae mater tert Cte be at —3 
DO Ag Oe  eeeane ae Pee eegar Une canciy ya ot 0 —2 
Beer mans soos ne ete os Hee coe Ae ie rier a aa 12 80) 7 
10 —2 
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B. McVaughlin, ©, Fisher and H. Altenbrand missed first, 
Weed and John Rathgen divided; Mr. Ditifson won 3d mee 
AMBLER. 


BLACK VS. WHITE,—I must record a great event in the sporting 
annals of 1884, being no less than a match for the championship of 
Flatbush and a sister burg—Flatlands Neck. The former was rep- 
resented py four white gentlemen, and the latter by four colored 
gentlemen, the arrangements being to shoot with four men on a side, 
20 glass balls apiece, 18yds. rise, Bogardus trap, one colored and one 
white judge, disto scorers. Stakes—Championship and a keg of 


lager. Below I give the detailed summary: 
Flatlands Neck Team. 

IT" Powers; Sibi cuyg tecsateee asses 101001001010101101010011109101—15 
John Powells e il San 1110100010011011111111011 11101—21 

My lack sop yi, it oe et oe 10101011011000080 1110010110101 —15 

S Anderson, ML.. .............- 011000110011011001010011111100—16—67 

Flatbush Team, 

Skidmore, We oo oo-5 prea 6111000000 0111011011111000110—15 

121K 6 oye) feel SU a Ae Ae 5 01110010011111011011011 1110010—20 
DRRapiph. Niele ee en ements 0001110001111 01011010101001100—15 
Bagamany Mae iiscgsecens pee 001001 010111010101110100011010—15—65 


anearly day. Will report. -SHAWANHAKA. 

KNOXVILLE GUN OLUB, Feb. 15.—The first regular match for 
the Ligowsky Champion Mudalthis season, resulted as follows. There 
was 2 strong wind and the birds flew with unusual velocmy from the 
fourth notch at 18yus. rise: 

C Hebbard.. ...11010111111110i—12 A E Mead...... 011000101001110— 7 
T Armstrong... 111110190111010—10 ... 001100011000111— -7 
J W Slocum. ..001100111100001— 7 


J C Duncan. ....611101111101010- 16 J 7 

T © Bldridge....111111001101010—10 C Deaderick. ..101111000000001— 6 
8 B Dow-:..... 011111010101001— 9 C Woodbury. ..000000100010101— 4 
W Jenkins...... 110111110100010— 9 M McClung... .110000100000000— 3 


H Worsham... ._010100001111110— § 


BEAST PROVIDENCH, R. I.. Feb. 12.—There was a very large at- 
tendence at the meeting of the Watchemoket Gun Club, many being 
present from Providence, Pawtucket and other places. The follow- 
ing was the score for the clay-pigeon cup, Lest out of a possible 20, 
from five traps: 


ES Luther. -.......-..-.-. wreck tes 1110011101 10 «10 «10 11 O01—18 
Wy Rinker. oe ae eee teen 141111111 10 11 11 10 11—18 
Tt ele ara Ce ye 2 A a ae eR PA rye ine 1111111470 «11 10 11 10 00—15 
George Bamey.......-....-----..---- 1101111000 10 10 00 00 11—16 
Mr Sia iigbnbyeee seer ore ecol ter ias 1101110100 10 10 10 10 10—11 
Isaiah Barney... 02222222. ses Set 0111110001 :10 O01 T1 11 10—18 
PT VWilhenner, curiae ne seeed ne®s cheese 1001000100 withdrawn. 


The cup goesto Mr. Tinker fer the first time. 

This cup has been won by Mr. Luther four times in succession, and 
as it is almost impossible tor any one member to win it five times in 
succession, it is thought advisable at the next regular meeting of 
the club to have it shot for in the same manner as the Ligowsky 
State badge, now held by the Narragansett Gun Club of Providence. 

For the glass-bail cup the following was the score, best out of a 


possible 20: » 

HW Silubhet 4. euevkeeee ed Ot tO PhO eer OI 10 

Georee Barney... ...-.....-. 11101011011211110T 0 1—15 

Isaiah Barney, wos sess: ss-s4 0011110101011100011 0-11 

TW Penney 4.2.2 .asrer a BLO Ui Las aK Og tes Us bs is Pa og Ua fr a E053 

HAWeRinker en ce heee soos 01111 withdrawn. 

CVPayne 22. 9s dtp toe 11011 withdrawn. ' 
This being for resident members only, it was awarded to George 


favorable for the practice.—O. J. R. 
YONKERS, N. Y.—Following ave the officers of the Terrace City 


Sportsmnau’s Club: John E, Rockwell, President; Jul Hien, Vice- 


President; John L. O’Brien, Secretary; Simon Deitzel, Treasurer. 


Executive Committee—John Dearman, Wilham Gormley, James 


Thompson, 


SHOT FOR CLAY-PIGEONS,—Buifalo, O., Jan. 26.—In this week's 
your readers to send their opinions as to the best 
size shot to use in clay-pigeon shooting, I haveshot at them con- 
L results can be obtained by 
using either 6s, 7s, or 8s. Itdepends something as to when they are 
shot at, teo, The shooter who catches them quick can safely shoct 


issue you imvite 


siderably, and I should say that gd 


smaller shot than he whp lets them get further off before shooting. 


My experience with my gun (an &4 chokebore) is that with 4drams 
e betterscores than 


good powder and au ousce of No, 6 shot, T 


when loaded any other way. In our opinions here the clay-pigeons 
make the best trap-shooting, far surpassing glass or puff balls, 
and fully as hard to hit as live pigeons, without being open to the 
objections against live pigeon shooting.—F. S. 


THE NARRAGANSETT GUN CLUB, of Providence, R. L, will 
raise their club house one story, making a spacious dining hall above, 
while the lower part of the house will be used as before for the ac- 
commodation of the shooters. The club intends holding a series of 
tournaments as soon as itis Conpiemas The treasurer's report shows © 
a flourishing condition of the club as we are out of all debt, besides 
having quite a handsome balance in the treasury. There is also 
Tauch enthusiasm among the members, and the season of 1884 prom- 
ises to be the liveliest we have had here fora long number of years. 
The club will be pleased to arrange a friendly match with any New 
ae ead elub, five or ten men on a side, to shoot clay-pigeons.—W- 


Hachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 24.—Boston Y, C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30.—Knieckerbocker Y. GC., Spring Matches. 
May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups. 
June 10.—Atlantie Y. C., Annuai Match. 

June 12,—New York Y, C., Annual Matches, 
June 14.—Hull Y.., Club Meet. ; 
June 28.—Boston Y. C., Ladies’ Day, 

July 12,—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

July 12.—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. 
Aug. 9.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs. 
Aug. 23.—Bosten Y. C., Third Club Match. 

Sept. 18 —Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

Sept. 18.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


SHARPIE RUDDERS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

It seems to me plain why sharpies carry their peculiar rudders. A 
shoal boat, not being able to have its rudder go deep down in the 
water, in order to get a grip, must haveit reach out aft. Now any 
one who has handled a shoalskiff boat, with a big wide rudder, and 
has afterward handled the tiller to a balance rudder, can testify to 
the ease with which the latter worlrs in comparison. The strain on 
the rudder stock and tiller head is also less, and consequently allows 
a smaller and neater rudder stock, Many also claim that a boat 
works quicker with a balance rudder; in giving a cantto a boat which 
has sternway on it is very effective. and it also will almost instantl 
stop a boat when shooting up to a wharf or buoy, with toomuch head- 
way on, On one boat at least, that 1 know of, the dropping the rudder 
down lower, as allowed by pins through the stock, helps greatly ina 
light breeze. I think these qualities explain why “‘sharpies have 
always’ used them. It is not the abseuce of a skag, for I know ° 
three sharpies which have skags and stili use the balance rudder 
hecause of its good points, and with a skag there is no hittin 
bettom, catching snags, etc, L, 


NEW ENGLAND YACHTING ASSOCIATION. 


A T apreliminary general meeting, Feb. 7, Parker House, Boston, 
tX&X organization was effected as follows: Clubs represented—Bunker 
Hill, Beverly, Boston. Dorchester, Eastern, Jeffries, Hull, Lynn, 
Portland, Salem Bay, South Boston und West Lynn. Mr. Charles F. 
Loring, Boston Y, C., was elected. chairman and Mr. Peleg Aborn, Hull 
Y. C.. secretary. The committee on plans reported as under: First. The 
name shall be the New England Yachting Association, Second. 
That the association be governed by suitable by-laws providing for 
its permanent officers and their election. Third. That asystem of 
uniform measureinents and time allowances for yachts belonging to 
the several clubs represented in the association shall be adopted, 
such rules to apply only to union regattas. Fourth. Recommending 
a uniform code of signals for the use of the yachts of the clubs be- 
longmg tothe association. fifth. Providing for the continued mem- 
bership of clubs in the association and the admission of new clubs to 
membership therein. 

Officers were selected for the present as follows: President, Chas, 
F. Loring, Boston, Y, C.; Vice;Presideut, J. P, Phinney, Boston Y. C.; 
Treasurer, B. W. Rowell. West Lynn ¥. C. A committee to draw up 
by-laws was appointed, comprising the following gentlemen: W. 
Lloyd Jeffries, Bey. Y. C.;_C. A. Perkins, H. Y. C.; L M. Clark, D. Y. 
C.; Parkman Dexter, D. Y. C., and Dr, John Bryant, E. Y. C., to 
which the’ chairman, OC. F. Loring, B. Y. C., was added ex-officio. 
Another committee to recommend sailing rules and time allowance 
was selected by the chairman, to report at next meeting, Feb. 21, at 
same place, This committee is composed of: D. H. Rice, S. B, Y. C.; 
P. M. Bond, B. H. ¥. C.; Sidney Burgess, E., Y. C.; Thomas Dean 
B. Y.C,; E. C. Neal, L. ¥. C.; C. ¥. Loring, B. Y. C., ex-officio. 


SMALL YACHTS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

J read with great interest your advice to single-handéd yacbtsmen- 
and will give you the figures of a 28ft. catboat 1 now sail, and which 
has proved in three years* actual experience to be what I consider 
the kind of a craft needed for comfort and orate She is 3£6. in. 
deep and draws 3ft. 3in. without centerboard, will work well in a 
heayy sea without board. 1 use it only in racing. The box makes e 
the table, leaves to turn up when used assuch. Cabin is &ft. long, 
6ft. wide, 4ft. in. high. Transoms 7X2ft.; lockers for stores and 
dunnage; cockpit, 6xoft., tight and with seuppers. Doors to cabin 
made to shut watertight. House is 14in, high and 6ft. wide, leaving 
2ft. gaugway each side. One thousand pounds lead are fitted to the 
skin and 2,000 trim on top, all being well below water line. Spars for 
eruising are mast 22ft. deck to hounds, 15ft. gaff and 26ft. boom. 
Head of sail peaks to an angle of 75 degrees, For reefing the tack 
earing reeves through a sheaye on the goose neck of the boom and 
leads to a cleat. The clue pennant reeves throurh the cringle on 
leach and down again through cheek sheave on boom, so that the 
sail can be hauled down to first or second reef while the boat is in 
stays. Her floor is quite sharp, which makes her easy in a seaway. 
At anchor an awning is stretched over the boom and stopped tent 
fashion to sides of cockpit, making a space for berthing twe in mod- 
erate weather. She is much the same style of boat I commenced my 
yachting with some fifty years ago, and although | have built many 
large yachts during that time I am now more than ever satisfied that 
there is more pleasure and sport in being actual master of a small 
boat than being under the guardianship of a professional skipper 
and steward. I would recommend all young persons who wish to en- 
joy a week’s cruise on their own hook to build a staunch, deep-draft 
and well-ballasted boat with snug rig and take comfort. The danger 
of driving your boom under water in a cat can be obviated by mak- 
ing the topping lift fast to the outer end of boom, reeving it through 
a block at masthead and leading it through a sheave on deck te cock- 
pit. You then can set taut without trouble and lift the boon as de- 
sired. BALLAST. 


Editor Forest and Stream: J 

My idea of a single-hand yacht is a cabin large nough to eat, sleep, 
eook and dress in comfortably, in a hull which combine the 
greatest possible speed and safety. The question is, What is the best 
form of hull? Is thissmali yacht of the future to be a cutter ora 
catamaran, or what moilification of these extreme types? SERANG. 

[We kuow of no boat which meets the wants of the single hand for 
best average work and regular yachting purposes better than the 
small cutter or yaw] of 18, 20 or 22ft. loadline, with about uft. beam. 
with nearly all the ballast on the keel, Such boats combine the most 
room, safety and greatest ability on a small draft from 4to5ft. At- 
tempts are seoueny, made to save some of the draft and displace- | 
ment. All such attempts only rob the boat of just what you seek, 
and it is not good policy to saye afew dollars at the spiggot and lose | 
at the bung what is most worth having in a small boat, power and 
ability with permanent habitation on board. We have published a 
number of suitable designs, not to be followed strictly, but to afford 
a cue to the chieé points which should be given promiucnce in such 
boats. Catamarans on a small scale are of no account, being thrown 
out of trim and lacking in power, as well as without accommodation). 


Bo eS Se es 
ANNA.—This Baltie cutter, hailing from Kiel, designed by Con- 
structor Saefkow, of the German navy, has already been noticed in 
this journal. Her lines appear in the London Field for Feb. 5. She 
is a handsome, fair yacht all through. and although but 7.48fb. beara 
on 4ift, loadline, is described as a specially stiff, able and dry boat 
of superb seagoing qualities. Displacement 18.7 tons, of which 0.620 
is represented by 11.5 tens of lead “ballast, 10 tons thereof being on 
the keel. Draft 8.2ft. Lower sail area 1,530ft., which is considered 
rather snug. Center of gravity of boat and equipment 1,76ft, below 
centér of buoyancy, and meta-center 1.1 above O:B. Statical stability 
at 35 degrees is. 208 foot-tons. Maximum stability at 10) degrees, 
Ballast on kee} A 18in. thick, 28in. deep and 1dfv. long, or say one 
third fo is concentration aecounts for her extreme dry- 


ness inasea, Least freeboard to planksheer is 2ft, 9in, ey 


a SS Eee a a a EEE EE ee ee eee 


78 


THE DAISY. 


40 HE lines of this English-built yacht, soon to show her number on 

this side of the Atlantic, will prove of great interest in com- 
parison with the keel sloops which have of late come into such gen- 
eral favor in our own waters. The Daisy wis built to sail under the 
loadline rule temporarily enforced in Southampton waters and im- 
mediate. neighborhood. The influence which that rule has upon 
modelling is at once detected in the close resemblance existing be- 
tween the cutter Daisy and the most approved keel sloops of the 
East. Considerable beam and depth, ‘with a deep keel and great dis- 
placement to act as a counterpoise to the beam and a large rig to 
correspond, are the principal features of all such boats, The Daisy 
has, howeyer, much the advantage in point of style, as appears from 
her graceful sheer, straightish topsides and long fantail. With her 
rocker keel, flush deck, free from encumbering house and full eutter 
rig, she isa much smarter and more ship-shape craft than the round- 
ish sloops of the Kast, which are all of a heap and stubby, as wellas 
cheap in rig and equipment. ie, 

The fact that small boats ona given length are at a disadvantage 
with large boats in respect to power and general ability, quickly 
forced itself upon the conviction of builders abroad, and they were 
not slow to take advantage of the weak spot in the rule by adding 
to the size, weight, draft and rig of boats in suceession until the 
maximum bulk on the length was attained by experiment. Up to 
this maximum every racer must be built and in face of the prejuaige 
for bulky boats shown by the length rule, all forms of more moder- 
ate proportions are driven out of existence. To meet the peculiar 
exigencies of the length rule the Daisy was designed by Mr. Joseph 
M. Soper, whose artistic eye and practical proficiency materially 
promote the good fortunes of the famous yard of John G, Fay & 
Co., of Southampton, where scores of handseme yachts have risen 
in frame to Rive excellent accounts of themselves in later days, 

Daisy was built in 1882, and in the Solent matches won fer herself 
an enviable recerd. She is certain to receive popular indorsement on 
this side of the pond,for she has all any one can ask on 25it. loadline. 
It is possible she will be raced now and then in the Seawanhaka Cor- 
inthian matches and we also hope to see her voyage Hast and try on 
some of her own breed of American origin. Her principal occupation, 
however, will be knocking about the coastanywhere between Halifax 
and the West Indies. The spars of the Daisy are necessarily of the 
most liberal proportion, so that to mitigate their influencein pitching, 
the mast has been stepped well amidships. As we propose to publish 
cabin plans, building section and rig, it will he enough here to add 
the chief dimensions and elements, : 


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Displacement, lone tons .2. 2... 6... cece eee eeceee 
Coefficientfineness to rabbet...........2..-200:-, 
Ballasnom keel, leads ae b.-sh- sau es eee delete x 
Ballasteinside; lead co: Sab ee ey oe eel . 
Ratio of ballast to displacement.,.. ..... 
Area loadline plane 20. ..2s.c.scstecenensce : 
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Area wet surface, withrudder................... 5 
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Center of lateral resistance ditto, ........... ve. ft, 5in, 
Lower sail per sq. ft. wet surface............... 2.69sq. ft, 
Wet surface per long ton displacement......... 40.7sq. ft. 


AROUND LAKE ONTARIO IN THE KATIE GRAY. 


pas first celd winds of fall bring to the yachtsman’s mind the 
many pleasing memories of summer’s visit, and hasten him to 
his pen, that in the savage blows of winter and in the seasons to 
come the cruise may lose none of its happy recolleetions. Cruises in 
all kinds of yachts are composed of incidents and day to day life. 
similar one to the other, but as we think we had about the jolliest 
erew afloat, harmonious in all things, and the famous record of our 
sloop for speed, our trip around Lake Ontario and down the St. Law 
rence River may interest some of our salt-water brother yachtsmen 
as well. 

A four days’ blow, commencing on the night of the 2d of 
August, drove us back pell mell from about eight miles up the lake, 
G. D. and the Major, strong fellows constitutionally, “went over the 
side of the ship and heaved their lives away.” 

For three days our only communication with the shore was by 
signal code. At daylight, Aug. 7, we were off, and -with a heavy sea 
and wind dead ahead, we made Fair Haven, fifteen miles, in one 
stretch. We could have fetched ten miles further, but we were 
hungry, so we ran in and cooked a square dinner. At daylight next 
morning we were still working to windward, having thrashed fifty- 
one miles, All night we were just able to keep a tow abreast of us, 
which we found in the morning to consist of the tug C, P. Morey, 
Capt. Fred. Papa, drawing three coal barges. The wheelman on the 
last barge caught our towline, and at7 A. M, we were in Charlotte, 
seven miles from where we lowered our canvas. 

Aug. 8.—A hasty change from our heavy clothing into our yachting 
uniforms, a rush for the train, and with the first mate missing, 
Rochester was soon reached. Dined at the Powers Hotel. » The 
evening paper mailed tous at Toronto read, The Rochester Post- 
Express contained the following: ‘‘The yacht Katie Gray, of the 
Oswego Y. C., arrived at Charlotte this morning at 7 o’clock from 
Oswego. Thecaptain of the Katie Gray is Vice-Com. W. B. Phelps, 
Jr., and the crew is composed of G, D. Hart, J.D. Henderson, R. G. 
Majorossy, and J. P. Phelps. They are passing the day in Rochester, 
calling on their friends and making hosts of new acquaintances, 
Their yachtis a very fine and handsome craft, and manned by genial, 
pleasant gentlemen.’ At3 P.M, we were standing out into the lake; 
dropped Capt. John Parsons af the lighthouse. Wind fell when a 
few miles out. Becalmed all night, not a breath of air. Our little 
clock rang the bells through four watches before our bow cut the 
water, 

Ave. 9.—A more beautiful day or favorable breeze could not be 
wished. As the dishes were being cleared away a N. E. breeze set in, 
and steadily increased to a lively air, and held its own all day. We 
were heading W.by S.; spinnaker did good service. Passed Oak 
Orchard 9 A. M.; Thirty Mile Point 11:45 A. M.:; Olcott 1:35 P, M.: 
Wilson 2:25; Niagara River at 4, After passing Niagara the wind 
gradually fell until it reached a calm, leaving us unmanageable half 
a mile from Port Dalhousie, This was quite a disappoimtment, as 
we had “slicked up’”’ and blacked our boots, ete., and it looked as 
though the night was to be spent afloat. In the course of an hour all 
hands gave a slue to their trousers, and the Major skipped a tralaloo 
on the cabin top as a light air swept us into the piers at 7:30, Two 
hours Jater the schooner Preston came in. We beat her eight hours 
inthe 140 miles. Chartered an old springless democrat and drove 
three miles to St. Catherine’s. The firemen were having a big cele- 
bration. Companies from both sides were in the long torehlight pro- 
cession. The “ohs” of the country folk and the ‘tahs” of the city 
fry were intermingled with howling brass bands as the rockets 
bursted in air, and flaming Niagara spread her yolume of colored 
fire. Wewere taken for firemen by the uninitiated,and had the 
freedom of the grounds. As we drove back, the colored lights on the 
bridges and banks of the new Welland Canal presented a very strik 
ing picture. 

Aue. 10.—Under way at eight bells; wind S.W. We could just 
squeeze on our course. Breaktast was scarcely partaken of when 
the breeze hauled a little more southerly, so that our jibtepsail 
pulled nicely. Met steamer Hastings with large party aboard. The 
day was warm and the wind very fickle, leaving us entirely when a 
few miles from Burlington Piers. The skipper pulled away a mile 
ahead in the dingey. The Major slept. J.D. took the polish and 
scoured the brass work: It was 5 o’clock as the great railroad bridge 
swung to let us through, and 6 as Capt. Monck, of the yacht Coquette, 
rowed out and boarded us and piloted us into moorings. Our snug 
uniforms were speedily rifled out of onr satchels, the yacht was put 
in complete order,and under the wings of Capt. Monck and Mr, 
Charles Goodeve the Hotel Royal dining room was taken possession 
of, and right royally we enjoyed our meal. At this hotel we found 
everybody obliging and alive to the wants of the visiting strangers. 
A merry time we had ashore, and we feel under obligations to Messrs. 
Monek and Goodeve for their kind attention. 

Aue. 11,—Market day. If you have been up early in the morning in 
a Canadian city, and witnessed the uncoyering and locating of the 
thousand and one articles, you haveseen something that will enhance 
the flavor of your morning coffee. Itis Fulton and Washington Mar- 
ket on wheels. The plump little cackling chickens, the big fresh 
eggs, the rosy complexions of the pretty farmers’ daughters proved 
such an interesting scene that cold breakfasts awaited twe of our 
crew. Our skipper had a narrow shave from total annihilation. He 
was presented to Hamilton's fairest belle, and for many miles at sea 
he could be discovered gazing into Ontario’s blue depths, silent and 
sad. After dinner atthe hotel, we took the streetcar to the vacht, 
bade our friends good bye, and with a head wind, 6 o’clock found us 
going through the draw at Buon Beach. In the evening we gave 
a display of fireworks in front of the hotel. Midnight we let go with 
three Hamilton gentlemen aboard, who were to join usin the run to 
Toronto. A light air carried us about six miles and there dropped us 
for the night, a repetition of our previous experience off Charlotte. 

Aug, 12.—At eight bells a light breeze sprang up from the eastward 


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dead ahead, and held allday. <A flat-sitting gafftopsail was spread, 
and we began to knock the miles off between Toronto and Iamilton, 
As we sighted Oakyille a fleet of nine sails was coming out. We soon 
found ourselyes working through the Toronto Y, C, squadron bound 
for Hamilton. The leacing yacht was asmall one, and appeared to 
be doing more miles than the large ones. A salute was exchanged, 
and after signaling the Guinevere with our code signals to heave to 
aud dine with us, we received signals in return stating that time was 
pressing and position inthe Hneenviable. Ourattention was directed 
to two large yachts to weather of us six or seven miles, the Verye 
and Alarm. We hauled sheets a bil flatter and went forthem. Dur- 
iug the next four or five hours they were hidden from our sight by a 
misty atmosphere. We gaye them along chase, and in the after- 
noon when we made them out they were well to leeward of us, The 
American shore was sighted as the air cleared. We came about and 
had an attack of calm, but drifted into Toronto Bay, and made fast 
to the Queen’s wharf for the night, 

Av. 13,—Atdaybreak the mainsail was hoisted, and we shot Sioa 
the city front until opposite the Union Station, where we droppe 
anchor, Registered at the Queen’s Hotel and inspected our mail. 
‘It was quickly noised about among our friends that the Katie Gray 
was ingso we were soon in food and hospitable hands. Hanlan’s 
Tsland was visited among many other points of interest. We meta 
great many members of the Royal Canadian and Toronto yacht 
Glubs. All were very hearty in their greeting. 

Aue, 14,—At 3:30 P. M., after sailing the yacht clear of the fairway 
tor passing steamers into which she had dragged, we put everything 
in seagoing order and shaped 4 course for Coburg, 64 miles distant; 
wind W,. One of our crew was too much taken up with Toronto to 
sail with us. He remained behind, with the understanding that the 
night train would overtake us at Whitby or Coburg. Ait dusk the 
wind came around 8, EH. by N., making close work for us to hold our 
ad ae moon was outin a ciear sky, the night was perfect, and 
aty A, M. 

Ava, 15.—We were abreast of Port Hope. The wind hauled E, and 
in ashort timeaheavy chopsea drove the Major from the stove, 
where he was using three different languages to induce the cofftee- 
pot to remain onthe fire. As we shot into Coburg piers our lost 
messmate was discovered astride of a lumber pile. He said we looked 
yery pretty as we tossed the caps off the waves, rushing along under 
reefed canyas. By the way, our sails were brand new bent the day 
before we lefthome, They were made by Sawyer, of New York, and 
were remarked in every port as being the best sitting sails seen on 
thelake. Coburg is advancing to the dignified title of a summer 
resort. Many Americans, mostly Southermers, were at the hotels. 
The Arlington is a good hotelin theWistance. At the Dunham House 
the genial **William”’ provided everything in a satisfactory manner. 
A dog-cart was procured, and a drive of seven miles, in which we all 
went to sleep, took us to Port Hope. The ‘Sons of England” were 
celebrating some anniversary on the fairgrounds, where we pro- 
ceeded. Oneotthe crew stole the dog-cart and, with two of Port 
Hope's fairest daughters, drove into town. The skipper was dis- 
covered emerging from St. Lawrence Hall, and was soon under full 
sail behind the steppers. One train after another bore the crew to 
Coburg leaving G. D. and ihe skipper in full possession of dog-cart 
and young ladies. In the somber hour of midnight two youths might 
have been seen leisurely walking their horses down the smooth 
country road which they supposed was leading them into Coburg 
town. Alas, it measured many a crooked mile ere the lizhts of the 
town were discerned. The yacht Cygnet had arrived in port from a 
eruise io the St. Lawrence. : 

Aue. 16,—In the morning Mr. Hugh ©, Dennis, of the Cygnet, called 
on board and invited our party to dine at Strathmore, the beautiful 
country seat of his father-in-law, Judge Clark. After a pleasant 
drive of a mile along the shores of the lake, we were presented to the 
captain’s family, and as agreeable an afternoon isnot often logged. In 
the early eyening a large party assembled on the lawn of the rector’s 
residence with music and brilliant ilumination, At 2 o'clock we 
boarded the yacht and found the wind, which had been ahead all 
day, had hauled to the westward, and although the sky looked dark 
and threatening, we prepared to get underway. 

Ave. 17.—Daylight we were under full sail rapidly skimming along 
down ihe Canadian shore. Sighted Scotch Bonnet at four bells. The 
wind veered to the southward and freshened to a blow. Two reefs 
in mainsail put us in shape to stand it, Vor half an hour it was a 
question whether we would weather the Bonnet or run_for Presque 
Isle, G. D., who was in the watch below was awakened by a green 
sea crashing in through the forward deadiight upon his slumbering 
form. It was a hard struggle to hold up to weather the Bonnet. but 
we did it, and starting our sheets, with the heavy sea after us and the 
wind §,W.. we knew we were booked fora fastrun. Passed Salmon 
Point at 9:30.. Point Peter at 10:10. Passed close to a 
schooner ashore. Passed South Bay point at 12:30 noon. 
Such a sail as we were enjoying would not be met 
with once in years, the wind and sea seemed to haye a 
perfect understanding, for in spite of the heayy rollers 
and two-reef breeze there was no yawing, no sliding down a 
sea and fetching up, except on the partof the Major, Kingston. at 
the mouth of the $i Lawrence, was reached at4in the afternoon 
watch, After astop of half an hourfor ice and mail we headed 
down the river. The wind had now let up considerable, gaiftopsail 
and balloon jib were set. A mile aboye Wolf Island light we met the 
Gracie, Mr. Roy, bound for Belleville, We hauled up and the skipper 
took the dingy and madeashort call aboard the Gracie. Both 
yachis were in a hurry to reach their destinations before dark, At 
eizlit bells we were slowly drifting by Clayton. At 9 o’clock we fired 
a rocket oyer the Hub House, having traveled 120 miles since day- 
light, Took part ma hop in the hotel dining-room. 

‘Au@. i8\—Made sail for Alexander Bay at10A,M, As we rounded 
to 1mder the Crossmon House, a gun from the decks of the steam 
yacht Sport echoed among fhe islands and announced our arrival. 
The Sportis a handsome side-wheeler, and although she was beaten 
in # match racefor $1,000 by the Ranger of Ogdensburg, she is a 
very fast steamer, The Thousand Island House did not seem as 
homelike as im former years, as our accommodating landlord, 
Staples, had gone from the scene of six years’ triumph to preside 
over the destiny of Willard’s. At midnight a steamer came alongside 
aud towed us to the Hub House, seven miles, against the swift cur- 
rent. Wespoke the watch on the revenue cutter Bibb as we swept 
along under the Wellesley caravansery.. ‘ 

Aue. 19,—Sail was made in the morning, and boarding the reyenue 
cutter a pleasant hour was spent with her officers. After dinner the 
guests of the Hub House were invited by the proprietor to board the 
steam yacht Van Horne for a trip among the islands, The steamer 
proved too small to accommodate all, so we yolunteered the seryices 
of our yacht. A large number of ladies and gentlemen were com- 
fortably and cosily stowed. We pareed through the narrows and 
steamed down the Lost Channel, Our hoist of bunting, our white 
sails snugly furled, the pretty and gaily dressed ladies under the 
shade of the awnings produced a yachting picture which brought 
smole from the puns of the camps and steam from the whistles of 
passing yessels. Turned the foot of Wells’s Island, touched at Alex- 
ander Bay for a half hour and then reached the Hub in time for sup- 
per. The evening was a grand one on the old 5b. Lawrence—full 
moon and perfectly calm. , 

Aug. 20,—At 9 o'clock a number of our friends came on board, and 

in'tow of the Van Horne, we reached Clayton in a few minutes. A 
rain set in and for the Bret time on the cruise our Cape Auns were 
domed. Msde fast at the railroud dock long enough to ice up and 
hoist our canvas. The wind dead ahead, At 10:30, when opposite 
Clayton, the wind increased, compelling a single reef all round, and 
fifleen minutes later a second. The rain ceased, the wind blew strong 
and puity W. by $8. We were soon down to solid sailing and took the 
north side of Carleton Island. Arrived {at Cape Vincent at 3 P. M. 
Too vouch sea for us to wuidertake to cross Ontario that night. Bar- 
ometer falling. told us thatthe morrow would be a continuation of 
the blow. ook the steamer Maud and visited Carleton Island, where 
the Salyation Army of Kingston, Ont., were picnicing. The steamer 
island Belle ran alongside of the island on her down trip. J. B.D. 
and the skipper shouted to their friends that they would he up on the 
first boat in the morning, and steamed back tothe Hub, 
i Ava, 21,—On rewurn to the cape, the skipper found his first mate 
saying good-bye, an important law sult requiring him to leave at 
ones. A pleasant hotel we found the Rathbun; its guests were mostly 
New Yorkers. 

AuG. 22.—Harly in the morning we made sail and beat out into the 
rough waters of Ontario, where we found the wind $. W. Lunched 
on deck as we cleared the head of Grenadier Island amd steod for the 
Ducks. The wind was a little more westerly, and knocked ns off to 
Yorkshire. We were inaking good lime aud getting the best of a 
schooner which was making for the False Dicks. At one bell in the 
afternoon watch, while asleep forward, lwas awakened by the yacht's 
sudden righting up from sailing on her side. Looking about, found 
we were passing through the passage between the Ducks and Vork- 
shire. The narrow channel, the deep clear water, and the inviting 
shores almost induced us to come to, but as we were short of time 
weslipped along past, and stood on forthe south shore. The wind 
hauled to its customary evening berth from the southward. As the 
Galloo beacon was lighted, we were abouttive miles due south, on the 
starboard tack, Put about soon alter and stool tothe westward. A 
faint Colormg on the horizon now and then told us that a storm was 
eoming our way. The breeze freshened, the moon threw a light 
which engbled us to sve to set watftopsail and soon after jibtopsail, as 
wesaw it was tobearace for the north shore. Byery point was 
strained to work oul from under the clouds as we tlew along 8. W. by 
S. The lightning danced into and out of the water, but not a halyard 


phere which preludes a coming burst, caused rattling of sheaves 


a square inch of cloth was shown to the elements sive the head of 


stéam, it passed to the northward of us and swept toward the St. 
Lawrence. The suction caused the wind to Janguidly follow. All 


own buoy opposite the club house, haying spent sixteen days on the 
cruise and viewing the country around the shores of Lake Ontario 
and down the St. Lawrence River. Air line about 500 miles. Qur 
crew separated, after the photographie man had taken an impression 
of our weatherbeaten countenances, with many regrets, and so termi- 
nated a successful cruise that will live in memory long after our 
yachting days are over. K, G. 


NUMBER THIRTEEN.—The thirteenth entter building this season 
has been turned out by Wallin & Gorman for Dr, B. G Loring of this 
city. The model was furnished by Keating, of Marblehead, and is an 
improved Carmita, being somewhat narrower and deeper. The 
builders have made a splendid job ail through, and we expect many. 
similar boats will be the consequence. She is what we would eall a 

‘sensible boat” in her elements, being safe, roomy and smart, fit for 
any kind of work. We will soon publish complete plans and specifi- 
cations. This cutteris 25ft. 10in. over all, 20ft. 10in, water line, 7ft. 
9in. beam, draft 4ft., least freeboard 20in, Ballast on keel 1,500Ibs., 
ballast cast to fit floors inside 2.000lbs. Rigged as a cutter, sails of 
100z, double bighted duck. Two shrouds aside and housing top- 
mast Mainsail 18ft. 6in. on foot, 14ft. laff. 12ft. head and 25ft. 6in. 
leech. Masti SEEDS 8ft. Gin. from stem, large foresail 18ft. luff, 11ft. 
foot, 18ft. leech, lugging 8ft, abaft the mast. Large jib 22ft. 6in, luff, 
I2ft. foot, 16ft. leech. Bowsprit 10ft. outhoard, mast 19ft,, deck to 
hounds, topmast 10ft, above cap. Cabin Sit, long, with 4ft, Sin. head- 
room under a 12in, house, cockpit 6x8ft. Steers with tiller; plamb 
stem and boweprit parallel to water line. 


QUAKER CITY Y. C.—Hditor Forest and Stream: The following 
officers were elected forthe year 1884, at the annual meeting of the 
Quaker City Y. C., of Philadelphia, held Wednesday eyening, Feb. 
13, at the club house, foot of Market street, Camden, N. J.: Commo- 
dore, William Ii; Vallette; Vice-Commodore. J. Aimer Dittrich; Rear- 
Commodore, John Hanigan; President, William J, Thorman; Treas- 
urer, Samuel P. Wright; Secretary, Samuel B.S. Barth ; Assistant 
Secretary, William 8. Hoffman; Measurer, Rufus G. Wilkins; Board 
of Trustees—Samuel A. Wood, David GC. Walker, A. F. Bancroft, 
Charles W. Lyon, Regatta Committee—A. F. Bancroft, Lawrence 
Coleman, Dayid C. Walker, Benjamin ¥. Murphy, Charles W. Lyon, 
The thirty-three yachts, comprising the fleet, are classified as follows: 
First class, cabin sloops oyer 38ft. Second class, cabin sloops be- 
tween 82ft. and 38ft. Third class, cabin sloops between ?27ft. and 
82ft. Fourth class, open yachts between 24ft. and 7ft. Fifth elass, 
open yachts between 20ft. and 24ft. All measurements ave on the 
waterline,—_MARLIN. 


_ BUILDING IN BOSTON.—Wood Bros., of Hast Boston, have fin- 
ished two steam launches for high speed—one 50ft., the other S55ft, 
long—for Boston owners, Steam launching is becoming pepuler im 
the East, and is being pursued on the English plan by gentlemen 
living along the coast during the summer months. Same builders 
have also completed a yacht on the Caprice’s lines for a. New York 
owner, She has, however, more weight on the keel—1,228 pounds in 
all. Keel, stem and post of oak, hackmatack knees, and oak floors 
for frame, planked with lin. ceday; deck of bright white pine; ccelk- 
pit aud companion in mahogany. Steers with a wheel. The cuddy 
forward is 6£t. long with a berth on each side, and air tanks under 
coelpit to preyent sinking. The lines of the Caprice were published 
in our issue for Oct, 4. This new boat will be quite a revelation to 
New Yorkers, and ought fu. squanderlocal craft ina blow and in 
light airs. 

FOOLISH COURSH.—When the Herald questions the truth of a 
serub trial last fall, of which there were many witnesses, it is simply 
allowing itself to be used asa catspaw to persons Interested im cover- 
ing up the facts, We will take care that the truth is not obscured 
by the one-sided ‘‘inspived’* denials of the Herald, Itis a matter of 
cainmon report that Aneto thrashed the Gleam out of Larchmont 
harbor in animpromptu trial on a breezy day last fall. If this be 
denied over any responsible name, witnesses enough will be forth 
coming. The Heruld should not permit the wool tv be pulled over 
its eyes in such fashion. 

NEW YARD,—Henry Piepgrasshas added to his yard a complete 
plant for building iron and steel vessels. This includes a 25 H. P. 
engine and boiler, planers, sheers, punches, and bending fuimaces for 
sheets and angles, all under good shedding. Work on some new con- 
tracts is likely soon to begin. He*has been getting out complete 
lots of iron fittings for new yachts in his biacksmith shop from the 
best brands of iron, all worked up under personai superyision, 80 
that he will be prepared for anything that may come along. Figures 
have been given for a number of large cutters, but sofar no papers 
have been signed. 

BHARLY SPRING,—Don‘t wait till spring is upon us and then wish 
you kad fitted out sooner. Now is the time to overhaul. Alllive 
New York yachtsmen ought to fly colors by April 1 for an early jurn 
outside, and perhaps a spring “dash” to the warmer latitudes of 
Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake. Who will make his number 
first off the Hygeia? 

ATLANTIC Y, C.—Makesa good showing this year with 199 meni- 
bers and 92 yachts, thus putting the club third on the list among 
New York organizations. Annual match set for June 10, Second 
and third prizes are to be offered. 

NEW DESIGNS.—Mr. G. L. Watson, of Glasgow, has furnished a 
design for a 20-ton racing cutter to Senator McPherson, cf New 
Jersey, and a 7-ton cutter for others of this city. 

NAMOUNA.—TPhis steamer, now flagship of the N.Y. ¥. C., is re- 
ceiving new decks at Day, Summers & Co., Southampton, 

GITANA.—Mr, Weld’s schooner arrived off Gibraltar Jan, 19, eight 
days from Madeira, and sailed Jan. 24 for Malaga, 

OUTSIDE WHIGHT.—Dr. Henry Griswold will put about 1,00ULbs. 
outside ballast on his little 20ft. sloop this spring. 


Auswers ta Correspandenis, 


(= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents: 


H., Pittsburgh, Pa,—Turk is by Rajah and ont of Brenda, 

A, H. P., Wilkesbarre, Pa.—lor cricket goods apply to Peck & 
Snyder, Nassau street, New Yori. 

Mmreus, Hast Wareham, Mass.—The bird you descriie was un- 
doubtedly a pine grosbeak (Pinicolu. enucleatoy). See answer to H, 
L. P. 

, BH, A.—Send your name to Dr, C, A, Neidé, Secretary A. C. A., 
Schuylerville, N. Y., with $1 initiation fee and $1 for dues for this 
year, 1884, 

J. R,. H., Watsontown, Pa,—Red Rival was by imported Ranger 
(Barton’s Larry—Lill 1.) and out of Rese (Rufus—Duchess) Diechess 
was a Gordon. 

Rraper.—The French yachting journal Le Vacht is published 
weekly at 50 Saint Lazare. Paris, $5 post-paid. Send post-oilice order 
or get through International News Co., Beekman street, New York. 

§. B., Circleville, O.—Ior worm and fly-fishing get Scati’s “Wishing 
in American Waters ” price $3. Wecantfurnish if. Wor answer to 
other question see Keinel department, For mslruchions in canoe 
building read the series of papers which we are now publishing in out 
canoe columns, 

J. F, D., Seville, O.—The Tribune account of the bear and eub was 
a canard, and was wholly without foundation in fact. We cannotsay 
from personal knowledge that the half-grown cub remains with the 
mother bear through the winter. Tie books say that it is Jeft no look 
out for itself at the age of six months or thereabouts. 

W. L. C..Boston, Mass.—The ferret) muzzle was described on page 
992 of Volume XVII. The directions there given are; ‘Take a piece 
of coarse waxed-end, about two feetlong, Pass it through the mouth 
eee back of the fangs. Pass tt dowi under the lower jaw, and 
tie wit 


was slacked, We awaited a peal of thunder before preparations 
were to commence for a squall. The scene was grand and appall- 
ing, the lalo smooth, and to the eastward sparkling in the 
moonlight. The westward was shrouded in inky dar.ness, except 
as flash upon flash, with scarce a second interyening. darted in every 
direction. Iy seemed as thongh the engines of the Nautilus (Jules 
Verne) were al work. The water showed no ripple from the breeze 
which was sending us along seven or eight knots. There was no 
sleep in the hour as they passed by. Galloo light was dropped, and 
once, ina quick glance between the flashes of lightning, we thought 
we caught Oswego light. When about twelve miles from the Ameri- 
van shore we suddenly ran into a ¢lose and stifling atmosphere, The 
breeze died without a last breath, and that deadness in the atmos- 


and double gaskets around canvas. Hyerything was made snug; not 
the staysail to pay her off before it, Oilskins were tightly buttoned, 


pipes filled, and we stood ready and eager for the fray. The roar of 
the water told us it was close, With a distinct sound like escaping 


sail was spread once more and at6A M., Aug. 28, we swung to ovr 


a close knot, Now carry it back up through the mouth and | 


‘cross; then up over the upper jaw in form of figure 8, and tie firmly. 
varry the twoends up the forehead back of the ears and tic Beats 
Next cary the ends down the tiwwo sides of the neck and tie again 
firmly. poe beees 1snow complete, There is no cumbersome 
ne Berner ee ene a Pa te animal is leb loose, if 
shes roperly, he will go to w jth a yi yhen ft. 
hunt is over remove the muzzle amit Ateteor are | Meare 

EL. O. A.—As near as we Inovw, the sustained specd with to) 

pressure of steam yacht Yosemite is 1214 rte Nemoine aay 
knots, Atalanta and Stranger 12 to 1244 Rhada 18. On a spurt 
they may have done 1 to 16 knots more. “Higher specds are doubt- 
ful and due to tide and wind. Wor land miles multiply by 6,000 and 
divide by 5,280. The Herreshoff lannch No. 100 was capable of 


on a spurt and 14 for a long pull. 


EH. L. P,, Stocklridge, Mass.—A sniall flock of birds (a sample I 
send by mail With this letter) appears in onr village almost every 
winter, ‘There appear to be various opinions of the kind. The 
male birds are beautiful, marked’ with crimson neck or dark red 
color. Will you inform me of their species? Ans, The bird is the 
pine grosbeak (Pinicala enuclentor), Anorthern species which occurs 
x CURR A Tees N ee in severe winter weather. Worvery 
é S$ Ol this bird, see PoRESsT AND StREAM Vol, .. pp. . 
284, 223, and elsewhere. fi palin Ria 
INFORMATION WANTED. 
Brasseur Liaxr, Me.—A correspondent wishes to know about the 
fishing and hotel accommodations at Brasseur Lake, ‘2 Maine. 
J. M, M., Philadelphia, wishes to know of game locality in Georeia 
or Tennessee where he ean selitle, raise fruit and shoot paittist is 


Wanoeing- 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Wednesday, March 13, 8 P. M., No, 28 Hast Four 
teenth street, Room 16. 


_ecretaries of canoe clubs ave requested to send to Forms7 ANp 
Stream their addresses, with name, membership, Signals, efv., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of méectings aod races, and 
reports of the same, Canoeisls aud all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forms anp Srrmam their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information eoneerning their local waters 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


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ST. LAWLENCE CANOE CLUB. 


Os St, Lawrence County, N. Y,—Organized December, 1883. 

Commodore, J. H. Rushton; Vice Commodore, M, D. Packard: 
Secretary and Treasurer, L. P, Hale; Measurer, J. W- Rushtou. 
Eleven active members. 


LARGE OR SMALL CANOES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been reading Mr. Neilson’s letfer on “Large ys, Small 
Canoes,’ and partial reply to mine, Tani plad to hear the opinions 
of different canoeists regarding their partieular craft, and as I he- 
lieve Ma. Neilson has had a good deal of experience and hails frum a 
vity where large canoes ara m vogue, he is as fit as any to speak of 
thei merits, 

Now, in my last letter, you pitched into me roundly. Iam glad of 
it, and hope all who wish to will do the same, for, perhaps, a discus- 
sion will bring out the respective merits of the ditterent types, and 
Will throw some light upon the methods couformed to by men who 
use ditverent craft, J think bota you and Mr, N. misjudged my letter, 
Perhaps some of it might he obyiated by a more careful reading. 
You say that “the fears of our correspondent that racing machines 
will displace the craft pow in use aré entirely groundless.’? I have 
no fears that they will displace the craft now in use. I saidT thought 
they would burt canoeing, and Ido, for many men who used to have 
small canoes aud cruise ii them scem now to pay more attention to 
beating their neighbors, and many points which were quite importatt 
to general cruising were piven over because they were detrimentul 
to high speed. 

Now, by general cruising 1 mean cruising on rivers, lakes and 
rapids as well.as on the ope ocean and bays, and where one may lie 
so placed that he willhave to ride outa heavy sea or, perhaps, a 
storm; and, again, where he may find some insurmountable obstacle 
around whith he will have to carry his canoe alone; such things 
oiten happen in veal geneval cruising. Again you say, “there is 
hardly any limit to what can be done in 2 27in. canoe, but thay it is 
safe and dry in rough water, or suitable for coast workis yet fo be 
proyen.*? [have proven it perfectly satisfactorily to myself, snd T 
have tried to be as broad and unbigoted in my canoeing opicens as 
possible. 

You also say thatthe shiall canoes were not intended lar open 
water; perhaps they were uot otiginally, but T had mine built mamly 
for that kind of cruising, and it has risen in my estimation zhove my 
Inost sanguine expectations. I cainnojeomparée it with the Princess 
and Pearls asa rough water boat, for haye oever seen either of 
those types at sea, Perhaps they are faster ander sail, so is a large 
yacht faster than a small one, Mr, Neilson sayslimentioned the 
Stella Maris as a compromise type;Id!d nop mean to, I said that TI 
believed in a compromise type, and then cited what I had done in my 
little Stella Maris, only 27in. beam, meaning that it was under the 
compromisé, which I think is about 14x30. 

Mr. N. also says that I am unfortunate in my reference to the 
cruise of the Maria Theresa, as Mr. Bishop used oars most of the 
time. I do not exactly understand what he means by that, for 1 
never said anything about pasdling: and in repurd to those long 
eruises. 1 said mostof our long eriuises bad been made m smaller 
boats, and cited that of the Maria Theresa. I have also read both ot 
Mr, Bishop's books, though some time ago, and know perfectly well 
why he made his change. Mr. N. says he can get his canoe 10 anil 
outof the boat house alone. But getting a canoe in and outof a 
boat house is a very ditterenh thing from landing on a rocky shore. 
T should litre to ask Mr. N. if he has done much cruising in the Boreas 
on tide water, andif be knows how hard it js to land a canoes on sea- 
weed-covered rocks at low tide, with a heavy sea running? Tn eruis- 
ing anywhere from Labrador to Cape Cod, one is Hable to have to 
land in bad places, or else lay to overnight in perhaps a leavy fog 
or storm. J have come nearer getting drowned that way than any 
other, when it would haye taken but a little more weight to have 
pulled me off as my boat slid back on the receding wave, 

Tsay these things as Mr. Neilson did, at the risk of being thought 
egotistical, but, nevertheless, shall put them as they. are. Nowin mj 
last letter some may have thought me sarcastical in vesard to my 
q ‘estions concerning rigging, but thay were asked in all sincevily. 
with the pure object of being enlightened. never have used » lug 
so Lcannoatitell niuch aboutit. Idid not write to defend the loteen, 
but the small vanoe, Lam perfectly willing to show the faulls in my 
canoe and rig as well as the merits, the only fault I can find with thre 
boat is its low vertical coaming, over which every swash wall breal. 
The faulig in the sails are more, the worst ‘one is that the mainsail 
cannot be lowered when running free, yet they are so simple snd 
handy to stow that cannot help liking uhem: I think I shall take Mr, 
Nos adyice and haye a lug mainsail made of about 45 or 50ft, ares, 

The plans of all T have sean have scemed to be rather complicated, 
but that of the Goreas seems quite simple by description. — 

Lshall try to beat the meet next sumimer, buf 1 don’t think his 
proposition is exactly fair for 1 am quite swe I can beat him with the 
couditions reversed, and any boat witha heavy wind and sea under 
sail ought to beat one under paddle going te windwardand returning, 
However, TI thane him for the invitation. __ WIDGEON. 

[Many cdnoeists who haye sed dem ditter fram “Widgeon™ in his 
assertion that a eanoe of 27a. with the proportion usually gives 
them, ure cither dry, safe or comfortable in rough water, added to 
which, they will not carey the Weight of stores, ete,, needed in open- 
water cruises, That many long cruises haye been made in small 


Steaming faster than any of the foregoing yachts. Probably 16 knots 


) 


built, were 


Fas. 21, 1884.] 


eanoes is due to the fact that all ofthe early canoes, from the pub- 
lished descriptions of which the first canoes in this country were 

oF 26 to27in. beam. Since the introduction of the 14x80 
noes, they have largely displaced the smaller ones for cruising, as 


is shown by Dr, Neidé*s Aurora, 15x31, Captain Kendall’s Solid Com- 


for’, 16x36, Mr, Gardner’s canoe, 14x81, Mr. Eckman’s, 14x30, all of 
which have lately been down the Mississippi, and many other cruis- 
mg boats. The idéa that one boat can do well all varieties of work 


has been long since rejected by canoeists, and it is admitted that 


Several varieties are desirable, broadly speaking, a 14x27 canoe for 
river work, a 14xe0 for general cruising, and the Pearl type for open 
waters. If “Widgeon” will describe a boat that can paddle easily 
against a head wind and heavy sea, can be portaged or carried on the 
back by a man of ordinary strength, and will goto windward under 
sail in a heavy sea, he will solve the question that has so long 
vexed eanoeists. The assertion that “many points which were quite 


- important to general cruising were given over because they were det- 


rimental to speed” is very indefinite, Will ‘Widgeon”’ mention some 
of those which have been sacrificed in the leading boats of the last 
three sensons?] 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Seventh Paper. 
TOOLS AND APPARATUS, 


HE excellence of amateur work depends not, as many im- 

agine, on the number of tools at hand, but ov the care 

and perseverance deyoted to it. The best work may be done 

with yery few tools; but, on the other side, if can be done 
much more quickly with a larger number. 

Ifthe amateur desires to build but one boat, at as small an 

outlay for tools as possible, he will find the following suffi- 

cient: 


Panel saw. 16in., 8 teeth to the inch.__., _...,....... $1 00 
Rip saw, 28in., 5 teeth to the inch. ....... ......... . 200 
I OMUPASS SAW RITE Is joel joe seus and fae el oor lod ee 40 
JACRAUANS VOOUDIG MON, 2. .  locc act asb ave den sua wwdtolece 1 00 
Smoothing plane, double iron,,...... .............005 85 
BL Da ava logpaARTery. yee. oe, le. Fcuun NCD ek pbs 25 
RU Ruane UEC se eee ste wn ee RE a ol TS 
Pe ULTRES stod oeeeeee et ner eM oor 40 


Three gimlets, 1-16, 14, 1gin 
Three brad awls 


RpGlnphenye seme esos Woy. ete Mee SN 
GSO ePIC cae ge eee Cee ee noe en aL ey 
OHISO Sagres lira ee | ek ee 
(IN phe? spa tosis alt (Coes ie gl ng pa See ot sect aen 
Gauges, 4-lin.. inside bevel.... 0. ......2.22 2k. ee 50 
ROWS a2 a Ae yr sano Le deatths 1s, PIMs 2 VS 1 00 
OMI PASKES DENY ras. Linn, PEAR an wpe recess 40 
Wotiiron-clartips; dina ee we eee, ge 2 00 
Chalis line and serateh awl. oo... eccceee secs e sense 25 
$15 25 


The above are about the prices of the best quality tools, 
cheap ones not being worth buying, and with themany kind 
of smell boat can be built, but the addition of the following 
tools will save some time and trouble: 


Tiwenty-six-inch hand saw \ 


Instead of sixteen- 
inch panel saw......... 


These will be all that are needed, except a few files, and 
two or three drills to fit the brace, for the brasswork, such 


as the stemband, but there are some others that are very use- 


ful, though by no means indispensable, as follows: 

Two-foot steel square. 

Bench axe: 

Expansion bit, seyen-eighths to three-inch. 

Level. 

Convex spokeshaye, for oars and paddles, 

Mortise gauge. 

Adze, for larger boats. 

Small hand-drill stoek with drills. 

‘Pwo or three round sole planes for spars. 

Besides these tools there will be needed a small block of 
iron called a “‘set,” used to hold against the head of 2 nail 
in riveting, a “burr starter,” which is a piece of iron or brass 
rod 2in. in diameter and Sin. long, with a small hole in one 
| end, used to drive the burrs on to the nails, and some wooden 
Clamps, shown in Fig. 7, The solid ones are sawed out of 


———— 


Fre. 7, 


, 6 to Sin, long and fin. thick, strengthened by a rivet 
ough them. The others are of the same size, but in two 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


a% 


Fra. 9, 


ed 


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Fre. 10, 


pieces, joined by a bolt or rivet. In use a wedge is driven 
in the back, closing the other ends of the jaws. 

A work bench of some kind must be had, the simplest 
form being a plank 2in. thick, 10in. wide, and, if possible, 
several feet longer than the intended boat, so as to allow 
room for a vise on one end, as well as space to plane up long 
boards. This plank should be securely fastened along a 
wall, 2ft, 8in. above the floor and with its outer edge 20in. 
from the wall, the space at the back being filled in with lin. 
boards, making a bench 20in, wide, the top being level and 
smooth, as the-material to be planed on it will be very thin. 
A vise of some kind must be placed near the left hand end, 
an iron one being the best, but the common wooden one will 
answer, and is much cheaper. 

Fig. 8 shows a permanent bench fastened to the wall, The 
top is 8in. thick, of oak, and should be 24in. wide, and at 
least 10ft. long, a piece of 2in. plank being fastened at the 
right hand end by way of an extension for planing long 
stuff, A series of Zin. holes about 8in. apart are bored in 
each leg, a peg being inserted in one of them to support long 
boards, in planing the edges. A bench hook (a) is placed 
near the vise; the bracket (5) is cut out of 2in. stuff and is 
bolted to the bench, being used to support spars, paddles 
and similar pieces, one end being held in the vise, and the 
other resting on the bracket. 

Drawers are provided under the bench for tools, nails, 
screws, ete, At the back of the bench an upright board 12in. 
wide, carries a rack for the chisels, gouges; gimlets and 
small tools, above it, on the wall, the saws, draw-knife, 
spokeshave, brace, etc., are hung, a rack for the small 
planes, and another for sandpaper is fastened, also small 
Bp Fuge such nai's and screws as are most frequently re- 
quired, 

Two saw horses or benches are also necessary, the tops 
being sin, thick, 6in. wide and 3ft. long, and the legs 
eft. long. Two ping of hard wood lin. in diameter are 
driven tightly into holes about 1din. apart in one of the 
benches. When not in use they are driven down Hush with 
the top, but in slitting long boards, they are driven up 
and the board wedged between them. 

Another useful piece of furniture isa stool about 1ft.x 
18in. on top and 18in. high, one-half of the top being a seat 
and the other half, the right hand side, making a tray to hold 
nails, screws, hammer, pliers, and other small tools used in 
fastening the plank, thus avoiding the necessity of stooping 
over the work, and also keeping the tools off the floor. 

A framework of some description is always necessary to 
support the boat or vessel in building, If a ship or yacht, 
the keel is laid on blocks a short distance apart, put in boat 
work, the “‘stocks,” as they are called, are usually a plank 
Set on edge, at such a height above the floor as will bring 
the boat in a convenient position (Fig. 9). The piece (a) is 
a common pine or spruce board, Lin, thick, 8 or 10in. wide 
and 18ft. long, the upper edge being cut to the rocker of the 
keel, as taken from the drawing. This* board is supported 
on three legs and securely braced.in all directions, the top 
being 20in. from the floor, so as to give room to work on the 
garboards, 

Another siyle of stocks is shown in Fig. 10, a table being 
built about 13ft. long and 30in. wide, somewhat like a canoe 
in breadth; the top, which is 20in. from the floor, is per- 
fectly level. A line is drawn down the center, while across 
the board, battens, lin. wide and 14in. deep, are nailed, 2¢t. 
apart, to each of which a mould is screwed, the boat, of 
course, being built keel upward. 

This method of building (similar to that employed for shell 
boats) is the easiest and best, but involves more labor in the 
construction of the tabie or stocks; however, if several boats 
are to be built, it will pay to make a strong level table, as 
when once a set of moulds are made and cach fitted to the 
screw-holes in its respective crosspiece, they may be set in 
place in a few minutes with every certainty that they are 
correctly placed, and that they must remain so, while the 
table makes a convenient place to lay tools. 

Finally a steam box of some kind is necessary, its size de- 
pending on the work to be done. Usually all the steaming 
required for a canoe is the timbers, perhaps { or sin. thick, 
which may be done with care in a trough of builing water, 
but if anything larger is to be bent, akettle, holding a couple 
of pails of water, should be arranged over a stove, or roughly 
bricked in if out of doors, a top of 2in. plank being fitted 
closely to it with a pipe leading from the top to the steam- 
box, which is of 14 or even lin, boards, and may be 8x6in. 
inside and 7ft. long, supported on trestles or legs near the 
kettle, and fitted on one end with a hinged door to close 
tightly, or the end may be closed with a bundle of rags. 


pe Si Ee SE eT eS 

AMSTERDAM C, C.—Kditor Forest and Stream: The ice has gone 
out of the Mohawk River, and a view of open water once more has 
revived the Amsterdam C, C., and they wish to claim a club flag. A 
pointed burgee, 10x 15in., white ground with a blue maltese cross, 
he club trusts to have their members at the Newburgh meet.—O, H. 
WARRING (Canoe La Polka), 


THE, LOG BOOK. 


V.—DOWN THE MISSISS PPI. 
[Continued from page 56,] 

BOUT 10 o’clock the fog disappeared, and we started out to see 
what the chances were for getting off, and finding the chute 
about 200yds. wide, with, quite a current, and no skiff in sight, we 
concluded thatit was ‘‘ratt’? or swim. We didn’t exactly like the 
idea of swimming in that cold water and carrying our clotles besides, 
so after calling to some negroes who happened 10 come along on the 
bank, and learning from them that there were no skiffs on that side 
of the river nearer than two and a half miles, we decided that we 

needed a raft in our business, and started about making it. 

There were quite a number of trees and saplings which bad been 
left on the bar in high water, and we picked out a log about 1ft. in 
diameter and 20ft. long, and two willow saplings 9in, in diameter, 
besides some smailer stuff for braces, and carried them down to the 
water. ‘he big log was partially rotten, but ithad to go. We put 
the big log in the middle, the willow saplings on either side, and the 
smaller saplings inside of them, and bound them all togethir with 
willow poles spiked down laterally and obliq ely. She worked first 
rate, being quite buoyant; but you had to straddle the whole business, 
and throw all your weight on the two large seplings, for if you 
stepped on the rotton log it would let you through into the drink, as 
we didn’t have nails enough to make it fast. 

I mounted the old craft and started her off, and after afew min- 
utes’ paddling lafided her on the opposite side of the river. It was a 
great satisfaction to be able to get 10 “dry land’ once more, and I 
stepped out for the nearest landing on the ‘‘double quick.” We had 
spent nearly all our money at Vicksburg, but had a sufficient amount 
of provisions to last us to Baton Rouge, where a supply of funds 
awaited us. I had therefore to make a bargain with the negroes 
whereby we were to pay them in camp truck for taking us and our 
tent, etc., down the river to Hllis’s Cliff, about five miles from our 
bar. 

They borrowed a skiff from the storekeeper. and we started for 
the bar, which was soon reached, and after loading our goods we 
set out for the “Cliffs,” landing at nighttaii. On the way down we 
were very much amused by the talk and actions of the two speci- 
mens of ‘‘nieger’’ which constituted the crew. Their rowing in par- 
ticular was most ludicrous, and reminded me very forcibly of the 
little mechanical rowers which we see in the tey shops. We camped 
at the landing that night, and the next day learned that-the steamer 
Hd. Richardson would be along about 2 A. M. Sunday. 

In the afternoon we learned that our boat had been picked up 
about ten miles down the river, and carried back into the country 
about one-fourth of a mile, so B. started out to walk down and look 
forit. As he could not get back in time to eaten the steamer I got 
allour things together and put them in shape for shipping, and 
bunked that nightin the hut of an old negro fisherman, and got 
aboard the steamer all right. Being absolutely ‘dead broke’ I had 
to make arrangements for our transportation to New COrleaus, 
“standing them off’ until we could reach our funds, B. came aboard 
when we reached his landing, and reported ‘‘no boat,” sol guess that 
she’s ‘Sup a hollow stump.” 

We had a very pleasant time on board the Hd. Richardson. andI 
must confess that it was very agreeable to think thal one was not de- 
pendent upon his own exertions for either meals or lodging, Captain 
Campbell, who, by the way, commanded the R. EH. Lee in her famous 
race with the Natchez, took a great deal of interest in our ernise, and 
expressed himself as being very sorry that we had been unable io 
finish it; but whenever I sat down to the table and filled up with a 
square meal, stowing away such quantities of grub that the waiters 
seemed to wonder where it went to, I wasn’t so very sorry, you know, 
as [ wanted folks to think. Wereached New Orleans Monday after- 
noon at 1:30, haying had to lay up Sunday morning from the time I 
got on until about ¥ o’clock, and allSunday night on account of dense 
tog. From about Baton Rouge to New Orleans, 180 miles, the whole 
river is navigable, and steamers can make a landing any where. The 
canoeist will therefore be compelled tojtake the bank for his eanip: 
ing ground, and trust to nek for dry wood. 

The country along here presents the appearance of one large yil- 
lage, as it is built up the whole distance to New Orleans, the houses 


} being at no time perhaps more than a quarter of a mile apart, and 


most of the time about 100 yards. Itis called the Sugar Coast, and is 
quite a surprise to any one coming from the upper river, as we did, 
We stayed in New Orleans a week, taking in most of the town, and 
arrived in Chicago Dec. 2, just eleven weeks from the day of Starting 
on the cruise. 1 had intended to come back by steamer to St. Louis, 
reviewing the old scenes, but my brother was ill, and the family tele- 
graphed me to return at once, so J was unable to carry out my inten- 
tions. At Cairo, however, I saw that the point where we had camped 
had eight feet of water on it, and the old secow was gone, as was aiso 
our ancient friend. 

Prem my experience on this trip ] don’t think that I want to take 
as long a one again nnder similar circumstances. A cruise of A month 
or six weeks is as long as the thing continues to be thoroughly enjoy- 
able, especially when you have camp to pitch, grub to cook, ete. 
Above all, a person wants company. ‘Two persons in one boat cease 
very soon to be entertaining to each other, and such a cruise should 
be made by at least three, and they ought each to have a boat. Even 
two persons in separate canoes could have a good time, as the races 
which they could have would enliyen proceedings and chase away 
the “blues”; lsut no more ‘‘one boat for two” forme, There was au 
articie in the Canoeist last spring to the same effect, and that article 
recurred to my mind several times on our cruise. J. W. Knoeu, 


CANOE OR SNEAKBOX., 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

In reply to “A. H. A.’s” question as to whether heshould precurea 
“canoe or sneakbox,” I would say, let him get a canoe tirst, and then, 
if he is nob satisfied with it he can readily exchange it for the heavy, 
unwieldy, hard-rowing and slow to windward sneakbox, 

As to the durability of the canoe, both as to hard knocks and as a 
sleeping apartment, letme say that, on my recent cruise from Lake 
George, N. Y., to Peusacola, Fla., I believe my canoe had the roughest 
king of usage. Heavily laden, she was portaged for 70 miles by rail, 
and many more in a springless wagon over rough reads; was jumped 
over dams. tracked over the stony bed of the Alleghany River, 
banged against snags on the Mississippi, and dashed on the hard sand 
beaches of the Gulf of Mexico by the powerful force of the surf, 

T used her as a sleeping apartment for more than five months, sim- 
ply pulling her out on the shore, using a little care to see that she 
rested on an even keel, blocked her bilges with a stick or two of drift 
wood and with her forward and after compartments filled with stores 
and duffel, her decks loaded with the contents of the cockpit, I 
stretched myself at full length and took the usual ‘roll over” during 


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the night. Yet this canoe, Rushton-built, Princess model, 15ft. by 31 
inches, built of white and red cedar, never leaked a drop during the 
entire voyage of nearly 4,000 miles, exeept through a small hole, 
which had been punched through the centerboard case by a too strong 
yank on the lever in raising the board. 

As to whether she ““warped and got outof shape,” may be judged 
from the fact that. a couple of weeks ago,she was stripped of her 
deck in order to make some changes in it, and to putin a new plank 
which had been split when she was thrown on a rock in Lake Cham- 
plain last September. 

Critically measured, She was found to have retained her original 
shape. notwithstanding the fact that contact with rocks had pulied 
many nails out of her bilges when running rapids. T do not wriie this 
to “blow the horn of the builder,’ but to give “A. H. A.’ a little 
praetical information. Cuas. A, NerpE (Canee Aurora ) 


PITTSBURGH OC. C.—Kditor Forest and Stream: Ihave to report 
that at the annual meeting of the Pittsburgh C. «., held Febr sary 11, 
officers were elected as follows: Captain, Mr, Geo. Harton Singer; 
Lieutenant, Mr. George A. Howe, and Purser, Mr. Reade W. Bailey. 
The duties of the lieutenant were made to include the providing of 
transportation and supplies when on cruises (it is the practice of our 
club to take an annual cruise in a body). The club burgee was 


changed to the following: A pointed burgee, 1213in., blue ground‘ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


~ & 


gold border. lin, wide all around, and an oak leaf in gold in center. 
The club is in a prosperous condition and expects to receive several 
new members and canoes before the opening of the season. The 
undersigned was out on the flood in the Monongahela on the 6th, 
being, I beli-ve, the first canoe of this club in the water this year, and 
paddled through some novel places for any water craft,— KATRINA, 


POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 


A picture by one of the old Chinese masters, now on ex- 
hibition at Tokio, establishes the fact that reels were used by 
Chinese anglers more than 800 years ago, 


An honest old Pennsylvania farmer had a tree on his 
premises he wanted cut down, but being weak im his back, 
and having a dull ax, he hit upon the following plan. Know- 
ing the passion among his neighbors for’coon hunting, he 
made a ’coon’s foot out of a potato, and proceeded to imprint 
numerous tracks in the snow to and up the tree. When all 
ready he informed his neighbors that the tree must be filled 
with ’coons, pointing to the external evidence made with his 


[Frs. 21, 1884. 


*coon’s foot. The bait took, and in a short time half a dozen 
fellows with sharp axes, were chopping at the base of the 
tree, each taking their regularturn. The party also brought 
dogs and shotguns, and were in ecstacies over the anticipated 
haul of fat’coons. The tree finally fell, but nary ‘coon was | 
seen to *‘drap,”—Germantown Telegraph. | 


A Missouri farmer found that a flock of wild turkeys were — 
in the habit of visiting his corn, stored in an old building in a 
field, So he fixed a long string to the door and left it open. 
Stationing himself in a hidden position some distance away, 
he waited patiently forthe evening call, Soon they came 
along and entered the house; the door was pulled shut, and 
thirteen fine turkeys rewarded his vigil. 


Several proprietors are anxious to introduce grouse intothe | 
Shetland Islands, and are devising means to render such a 
step practicabie. The chief barrier in the way is the 
enormotis number of ravens and such birds, and until some- 
thing has been done to check their growth it will be useless | 
to attempt to make Shetland a field for sport. The engage- 
ment of a number of trappers to help to kill off the existing 
scourges is proposed, . 


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2. 
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4. Diarrhea of Children or Adults...... 25 
5. Dysentary, Griping. Billious Colie,.. .25 
6, Cholera Morbus, Vomiting,...... Ty" 
¥. Coughs, Cold, Bronchitis,............. 20 
S. Neuralgia, Toothache, Faceache,.... .25 
9. Headaches, Sick Headaches, Vertigo 25 
10. Dyspepsia, Billious Stomach,.. .... .25 
11. Suppressed or Painful Perieds,.... .25 
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241. General Debility, Physical Weakness.50 
27. Kidney Diserce......... ce. cece cee ee 50 
23. Nervous Debility,..... mew Pence ase see 1.00 
* 30. Urinary Weakness, Wetting the bed .50 
32. Disease ofthe Heart, Palpiiation. 1.00 


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Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 

Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 

Gut to Extra Fine, Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to line, $5.00. 
For price list address 


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35 Broadway, New York. 
The Fishing Kit 
And collection of BOOKS AND MAPS helonging 
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Having been the pioneers in the manufacture and introduction of Section Bamboo Rods, we have always | 
taken great pride in securing and perfecting every improvement in order to maintain our position as the makers of 
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“Best” round section rods. Our prices for these round rods average only about 40 per cent, more than the prices 
asked by any other makers, while the rods are widely known to be incomparably superior. While no hexagonal or 
any angular) rod can be perfect, we long believed that with proper work :.anship and material a really good angular 
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Manufacturers of every description of 


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These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No.2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 
Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
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crimped with tool and sivaighten out to original shape when discharged, The crimping tool also 
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shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
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CONTENTS. 
THE KENNEL, 


Experience with Dogs, 
Lice on Dogs. 


@pITORTAL. 
Food for Quail in Confinement. 
Regular Army Rifle Improve- 


ment, A Washington’s Birthday Run, 
Foolish Dog Talk, The Kennel Hospital. 
The Wolf Cry in Maine, Working the Dogs on Woodcock 
"THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Kennel Notes. 
In the Land of the Pharaohs. RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
“Like the Bear that Treed| Army Practice in 1g8¢4. 


Jimmy O’Brien.”’ 
WaturaL History. 
Protect the Small Birds. 
Winter Bird Notes, 
Forests and Floods. 
‘Game BAG anp Gun. 
Woodcock Covéug.Near New 
York. 
Massachusetts Notes. 
Wild Turkey Stories. 
‘Squirrels and Rifle Shooting. 
‘The Performance of Shotguns. 
A Hint on Etiquette. 
‘Game in Idaho. 
_ ‘The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
‘SEA AND River FISHING. 
Private Ponds out of Season. 
A Pennsylvania Case. 
‘The Best Color for Leaders. 
The State in Schuylkill. 
FISHCULTURE, 
How to Cook Carp. 
What Fisheulture has First to 
Accomplish. 
U.S. Commission in Michigan, 
"THE KENNEL. 
Beagles for Fox Hunting. 


Dominion Rifle Association. 
History of the Worcester Club, 
The Clay-Pigeon Tournament. 
A National Association, 
CANOEING. 
Amsterdam C.C, 
The Winter Camp-Fire, 
Amateur Canoe Building.—yut. 
The Galley Fire. 
A Few Hints on Camping. 
Smoke ’em Out. 
The Chart Locker. 

Inland Waters of Maine, 
Canoe versus Sneakbox. 
Springfield C. C. 

Hartford C, ©. 
YACHTING. 
The Endless Topic. 
Ho, for the Hygeia! 
Racing in England. 
An Hasy One. 
Pua Yachts in the Chicago 


The Lake Yachting Association, 
Concerning Sails. 
The Daisy. 

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


FOOD FOR QUAIL IN CONFINEMENT. 
At this time of the year, when many of our readers 
are, no doubt, purchasing live quail for turning out in 
‘spring, the question of their treatment comes up. Usually 
the most important point to be considered is that of their 
food. Often the poor little things have made a long journey 
without eating or drinking, and when they reach their desti- 
nation are in a deplorable condition of starvation and weak- 
ness. At such a time they should not be too liberally fed, 
and only enough grain should be given them to take the 
edge off their appetite. 
The best food for quail in confinement of which we have 
any knowledge is what is commonly known at the feed 
stores as “‘screenings.” This consists of the light weight 
grains of wheat or rye with other smaller grains, and the 
seeds of the plants which muy have grown in the field with 
the crop. The chief recommendation of this food is that 
there is a great deal of variety to it, and that it is composed 
of the seeds which the quail eat in a state of nature. A diet 
wholly of wheat or cracked corn, eyen though the birds may 
for a time appear to thrive upon it, is not so good for them 
as one in which there is more change. A man would soon 
cease to enjoy his meals if they always consisted of beef or 
mutton, and in like manner the quail need change of diet. 
An essential to the well-being of these or any other galli- 
naceous or grain-feeding birds is plenty of gravel with which 
‘to triturate what they eat. Unless they have this, the 
food is very imperfectly digested, the birds ill-nourished 
‘and unable to withstand the diseases whick are sure to 
follow the failure to assimilate what passes into the 
gizzard. It is not enough to supply them with earth. This 
is good for them in one way, for they will roll and bathe in 
it, and it keeps them free from the attack of insects, but it 
_ will not take the place of coarse sand or gravel. This they 
must have. Common building sand, if a little fine gravel be 
‘mingled with it, is yery good; but the ordinary white sand 


of the sea beach, such as is used for scouring, is too fine for 


the purpose. 


As might be supposed, the birds will do best when they 
A few heads of lettuce or 
some leaves of spinach thrown to them, twice a week during 


have a constant change of food. 


the winter, will do much to keep them in good condition, 


and to make them well and strong at the time for turning 
them loose from their prisons in spring. If they are confined 
ina warm room, a handful of canary seed sowed in some 
moist carth, and protected until it has had time to sprout 
and send up shoots an inch high, will be eagerly eaten by 


them, and the exercise of scratching among the dirt will 
prove very beneficial. 


We have sometimes fed the birds a little finely chopped 
beef, which they devoured with relish, but this is perhaps 


pampering them a little too highly. 


It is well worth the while of any one who is keeping 
quails over the winter to devote a little time and thought to 
the question of his birds’ appetites, for on this may turn the 
whole success or failure of his attempt at stocking his 


grounds. 
= ee © 
REGULAR ARMY RIFLE IMPROVEMENT, 


Y General Orders No. 21 from the headquarters of the 
army, Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan makes known the results 
The re 
turns are instructive and encouraging, and with the start 
already made and the records made it is pretty certain that 
drill in ball firing has been placed on a substantial basis in 
the regular army. The progress made may perhaps be more 
readily appreciated by the comparison of the numbet of 


of the army rifle practice for the season of 1883. 


marksmen qualified in each of the recent shooting seasons, 


during which period there has been little change in the ag- 
gregate army roll. In 1880, 122 marksmen were qualified; 
in 1881, 612; in 1882, 1,787, and in 1888 the number on final 
classification ran up to 4,884, or nearly 25 per cent. of the 
Of this last number 3,888 are in the in- 
fantry arm of the service, 898 in the cavalry, 479 in the 


total firing force. 


artillery, and the remainder in the engineer battalion and 


on the general staff. In the several departments, Daketa 
leads with 1,655 of these tested experts; also leads in per- 


centage to the strength of the command, rising to thirty- 
five in the hundred. The other department returns showed: 
Missouri 909, Platte 654, Hast 466, California 304, Texas 
285, Columbia 258 and Arizona 221. Among the army 
posts Fort Sisseton holds’the front place with a figure merit 
reaching 95.70, followed by Fort Bennett with 91.80 and 
Fort Sill with 91.55. 

The figure of merit of the several organizations has been 
made up, but in many cases the regiments are so scattered 
among the various forts tlfat the figure of merit suffers 
through the inability of all the members to take proper range 
practice, 
merit of 79.52; the 11th Infantry is second, with 72.40; the 
18th Tafantry is third, with 61.48; the 3d Infantry next, with 
61,04; the 17th Infantry next, with 57.72; the 1st Artillery is 
sixth on the list with 56,62. 


In individual scores the showing is a very fine one, and 


among the leaders there is a close crowding up to the highest 
possible. There were nine members in the army who, in 


the course of the season, made 94 or upward in qualifying 


for the marksman’s badge. Their names and scores are: 


‘ 200 300 600 Av, 

Name and Rank. yds. yds. yds. opr. ct, 
1. Private Eskete, A, 8d Art.............. 94 92 100 95.33 
2. Lieut. Partello, B, bth Inf ...,......... 96 90 100 95.33 
3. Sergt. Dougherty. M, 1st Cay.......... 96 92 98 95.33 
4, ist Sergt. Hickey, D, 2ist Inf... ..... 96 96 94 95.33 
5, Ist Sergt. Murphy, I, lst Cay........... 94 92. 98 94,67 
6. Lieut, Brant, K, 1st Inf................. 92 92 98 94.00 
%. Capt. Blunt, Ord. Dept................. 92 94 96 94,01 
8) Capt) ' Carr; Fo dst' Caves. 8). cats 96 90 96 94 00 
9. Lieut. Anderson, M, 4th Art,.......... 96 92 94 94.00 


Riries As Mortrars.—J. H. Brown, maker of the Brown 
standard rifle, has been busying himself in the invention 
of a rear sight which converts the ordinary army rifle into 
a mortar, so that by its use a shower of bullets may be sent 
over a hill, wood or other intervening obstruction, directly 
upon the heads of an advancing foe, or from an outlying 
position within a fortification where the enemy may be 
massed, Such a fire, itis well known, is of a most demor- 
alizing sort, and if it can be brought within controllable 
limits, will be a most valuable mode of attack. 


A Narronat Assoctartion,—It is proposed to form a 
national trap-shooting association, which shall exercise con- 
trol over tournaments, adopt shooting rules, provide cham- 
pionship medals, act as a board of arbitration, and in general 
serve the trap-shooting interests of the country. There isno 
doubt that such an union would be advantageous. 


The 24th Infantry ranks No. 1, with a figure of 


FOOLISH DOG TALK. 
fXAE anti-dog talk indulged in by some of the agricultural 
papers, and often by newspapers, in the columns de- 
voted to agriculture, must disgust a majority of readers; for 
mankind, to its credit be it said, loves dogs and dislikes such 
abuse of its friends. 

The silliness of a deal of this talk is immense. Take for 
instance this which the New York 7ribune quotes, with the 
commendation of being ‘‘sensible” from its Chicago name- 
sake. ‘‘One important charge made against them [the dogs] 
would be that they help men, who should be in better busi- 
ness, to kill birds which if permitted to live would keep 
down the number of insects injurious to food crops. It may 
be no fault of the dog that he is thus brought into the busi- 
ness of increasing the cost of living, but it certainly is the 
fault of the industrious and honest workers, who are eyer 
called upon to pay the cost of the necessities and the pleas- 
ures of the idle and the vicious.” Asif trapping and netting 
were not more destructive of game birds than the legitimate 
shooting of them over setters and spaniels; and as if all who 
take pleasure with dog and gun were cither idle or yicious 
or both. The farmer who so recreates himself amid his 
many days of toil with now and then a happy one in woods 
and fields will not relish being placed therefor in these 
classes more than will the hard-worked professional man 
whose only play spell in all the year is in the few days when 
he takes the field. 

Further on it is said, ‘‘observant flock owners 
declare that the shepherd dog, that embodiment of canine 
intelligence, is not a profitable investment on the farm even 
in caring for sheep. * * * An average boy of ten can do 
all that the shepherd dog can do, and much more.” That 
is, we suppose, he can keep all day on foot, without food 
from morning till night, herding a large fiock of sheep, can 
bunch them in an open field, drive in all stragglers, catch 
any sheep pointed out to him, aud so on to the last of the 
things which a well-trained shepherd dog is expected to do, 
and ‘much more.” Now, if it is true that ‘“‘an average boy 
of ten” can perform all these duties, to say nothing of what 
may be included in the ‘‘much more,” there are very few 
people aware of the vast amount of unused valuable material 
lying idle in the country. But itis not true, as ‘‘observant 
flock owners” know, and this dog-hater knew when he wrote 
this “‘sensible talk about the dog nuisance,”’ And besides 
being untrue, it is sheer nonsense, as is almost all that. is 
written and said by those who are urging a war of exter- 
mination against the dog. It is as senseless to demand the 
killing of all dogs because some dogs are bad or worthless, as 
it would be to ask that all men should suffer death or im- 
prisonment because many of them are knaves and good-for- 
nothings. 

But we need not be greatly alarmed for the dogs, for 
though this writer declares that ‘‘when the whole subject has 
been thoroughly sifted, there is to be found in favor of the 
dogs little more than a misdirected and mawkish sentiment, 
which leads otherwise sensible people into. the filthy habit 
of fondling flea-bitten and carrion-loving beasts.” This 
“mawkish sentiment” is so deep-rooted and so active, that 
the time is farin the future when the preachers of the dog 
crusade will get much of a following. 

More truth and sense than is contained in what we have 
quoted, is the saying of a more appreciative writer, that ‘‘the 
best part of a man is the dog thatis in him.” Therefore, be- 
ware of him who hates dogs. 


s & x 


FisHcuLTURE.—A very able article on fishculture is con- 
tributed to our columns by Mr. Charles W. Smiley, of the 
United States Fish Commission. It presents the case of 
fishculture in the best and fairest light that we have yet seen, 
The infant industry has suffered from enthusiastic friends 
who have claimed that an acre of water will produce more 
than an acre of land, etc., and who have raised hopes of tons 
of food fish from the planting of a few fry in some stream. 
They have proved their position by figures, such as can be 
found in the older fishcultural books. and have not taken — 
into consideration the many other forces operating against 
the fishculturist. Mr, Smiley has covered the whole ground 
in an exceedingly short space, and condensed as much in- 
formation in his article assome men put ina yolume, 

“Wooperart.” This is the title of a book on camping 
out and kindred topics. The author is ‘‘Nessmuk,” Who is 
better fitted to write such a book? It will be published in 
March, and will bear the imprint of the Forrsv anp STREAM 
publishers. Unless we err greatly, ‘‘Woodcraft” will add to 
the well-deserved fame of its author as a writer on woods 
themes, 


82 


THH WOLF CRY IN MAINE. 

TPXHE Maine Fish and Game Commissioners haye hand- 

somely checkmated the cty of wolves in that State. 
Some fifty years ago’ these animals were numerous and ter- 
ribly ravenous in the many sparsely settled districts of New 
Hngland, and the farmers found it impossible to raise sheep, 
and even calves and pigs were frequently destroyed. In- 
stances were humerous where strong men were attacked and 
overpowered by the packs of wolves. A war of extermina- 
tion was waged against them by the farmers and settlers. 
The State paid a heavy bounty for their destruction, and the 
wolves have been among the departed for thirty-five years at 
least. 

Curiously enough there are old settlers in Maine who retain 
the theory that wolves follow deer. They claim that There 
were no deer at the time of the wolves—‘‘the wolves killed 
them all off’—but that since the extermination of the wolves 
the deer have gone on increasing. The poachers and crust 
hunters have taken up the cry, ‘‘Protect the deer and the 
wolves will follow,” they said last winter when further legis- 
lation was proposed. Now they have actually started story 
after story of wolves seen and heard. ‘'They have followed 
down from the Canadian forests after your protected deer,” 
they say. ‘‘Now the poor farmers’ sheep will all be killed.” 
This is all yery well, to create a sentiment among the farmers 
in the back towns against the protection of the deer by law. 
But the cry is the sheerest nonsense in the world, and has 
not a particle of foundation in fact. 

The poachers and crust hunters forget that the deer never 
were so numerous in Maine as some twenty years ago, when 
their hides used to be brought into Bangor in hayrack loads 
—an actual fact, a hayrack on a sled, loaded with deer 
skins, drove into Bangor—all killed by crusting and driving 
the poor creatures into their yards, where, confined by the 
deep snow, the deer could not escape, They forget that the 
wolves did not follow aplenty of deer then. Indeed the 
State about that time reduced the bounty, or tool it off al- 
together, because there were no wolves to kill. 

But the answer to the wolf cry by the Fish and Game Com- 
missioners of that State is excellent. They have offered an 
extra bounty of $5 for every wolf scalp, in addition to that 
which would be allowed by the town in which the creature 
was killed, They might safely make it $25, for there are 
no wolves in Maine, <A single howl], louder than that of 
the poachers themselves, would raise an army of hunters 
who would scour the woods till the wolf was destroyed. It 
can clearly be established that there is nota shadow of 
danger to the farmers’ sheep from wolves, and if it could be 
as clearly shown that a few wolves would follow an increase 
of deer, there would be fun ahead for the boys in hunting 


them. 
Che Sportsman Courist. 


IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS. 


{ AM not about to write an essay upon Egypt, or a descrip- 
tion of the old cities of the Land of the Pharaohs, for we 
want to hear about the shooting, about the game on the 
shores of old Nile, and those of us who want to learn all 
about Egypt, will find plenty of descriptions, good, bad and 
indifferent, in thousands of books, all the way between 
Mark Twain's and ‘Thackeray’s, tothe illustrious companions 
of all travelers, Murray’s or Baedeker’s handbooks. 

Cairo was behind us, the Pyramids had been passed, and 
three of us had hired one of the dahabeahs or boats, which 
carry travelers up to the second cataracts. Fancy along, 
shallow boat, with two short masts, carrying an enormous 
triangular sail, with benches in front for the rowers, swarthy 
fellows, twelve in number, the laziest hard-working men I 
have ever seen. We were racing against another boat, and 
the proud Stars and Stripes we were flying at our stern were 
forging ahead of a Union Jack'that was doing its very best 
to win. Our rowers were working in their peculiar way, 
which they use when they want to make good time, first 
crouching forward and bringing well back the blades of 
their huge oars, then dipping in the water, then a pull, as 
they rose erect in the boat, and at the end of the stroke they 
would thump down on their benches, to renew once more 
that laborious procedure, 

The broad river stretched far away before us, the land- 
scape bright and clear, the setting sun streamed golden and 
crimson rays upon the mid-day water, that sparkled into a 
broad sheet of fire and diamonds, to reach like a road paved 
with jewels the horizon where the fiery orb was going down. 
Away on both sides the shores were to be seen, green reeds 
and water plants near the edge, stately palms and date tr 
on the land which was coyered with rice fields. A feilah wz 
driving an extraordinary team composed of a forty-inch 
donkey and an eight-foot camel; a couple of women standing 
in the water and filling their water jars were looking at us. 
Far away some indistinct ruins were boldly standing against 
the horizon. The stately columns that had seen the Phara- 
obs were still rising, challenging proudly the efforts of old 
Time to lower their heads. Now, indeed, were we in Egypt, 
now we felt far away from home, as the light was disappear- 
ing from the heavens, soon to make room for the silver cres- 
cent of the waning moon. and for the bright stars that 
glistened from on high. As it was getting dark, we neared 
shore and made fast for the night, and after discussing our 
pipes and our Bass's ale we went to sleep, and I, for one, 
began dreaming about Rhamses the Great, and the great 
river, the Father of Crocodiles and Hippopotami, and about 
being arrested for shooting a sacred cat, or led to execution 
for desiring a steak from the holy old ox, Apis. . 

I had just finished an extraordinary vision, in which, re- 
gardless of chronical accuracy, Amenophis the Third, the 
ever-truthful, was quafting Bass’s ale with King Cheops, the 
mighty slayer of nations; in which Sethos the First was 
_ playing cards with Herodotus, and in which a band of Hyksos 
were dancing with a bevy of beautiful Almehs, when I awoke, 
for the Reis, or Captain, was thumping at my cabin door, 


ee 


FOREST AND STREAM. - 


saying: ‘Yes, ves, breakfast,’ and a lot of Arab besides, 
totally incomprehensible; howeyer, I understood that morn- 
ing rations were to be served out, and soon I was up and 
doing justice to grub. 

We had passed Toora, we had stopped one night at Bed- 
reshayn, from which place we had visited Sakkarah; we 
had sailed, we had been rowed, we had been towed along 
from the shore. Shells had been loaded, the guns (dear old 
companions) had tenderly been nursed and greased; a few 
pigeons had been killed on shore, the little 73 Winchester 
had cracked on the river and had succeeded in very thor- 
oughly frightening sundry ducks and sedate old pelicans, 
but no real game had been shot, and we were neyer so green 
as to think we could find crocodiles to order; in fact, they 
are hardly ever seen below the first cataract. On the way to 
Benisooet and Minieh, as we were sitting on deck one day, 
we saw, far off, adozen or so of old pelicans flying down 
the river toward us; a scamper in the cabin for the guns! out 
again! and they near us. When within about sixty yards of 
us, my old friend Mr. B. blazes away—a miss, though he 
swears he hit him hard; ‘*—— hard, I tell you, sir,” says he. 
Whang! and my old pin-fire rings and one bird goes down; 
another shot, but they are too far away. One of the,crew 
took the little boat and made for the bird, but pelican is only 
winged, and by and by we all laugh to see the man try and 
catch the big bird, while the pelican turns around and vici- 
ously strikes with his long bill. ‘The rest of the crew join 
in the general laugh, but by dint of striking at the bird with 
an oar the man gets him at last and brings him back in tri- 
umph. Our dragoman informed us that he could show us 
some good places for sand grouse, and {many times the little 
boat would take us ashore, and the ring of chilled shot once 
again would whizz through the air and many a pretty shot 
and a ludicrous miss would remind us of happy hunting 
grounds near home. 

Many fine bags.of the plump birds did we bring back to 
the dahabeah, and our cook would serye us delicate dishes 
and make us think that life was perhaps better worth living 
up the old Nile than anywhere else. 

Mary beautiful birds we shot on our way up—the snow- 
white paddy birds, a good many ducks, pigeons, abundance 
of all kinds; and one of our party had been so astonished by 
having a fox rise at his feet that he forgot he held his old 
trusty gure Death, and let him go unharmed. 

By this time we reached Golosaneh, where we were visited 
by a holy Sheykh, who blessed the whole boat and all that 
therein was—for a very moderate consideration. 

When arrived at Minieh we put in a tot of new provisions, 
at least the drdgoman did, and we went about, and after we 
had seen ail the squalor, and dirt, and misery, and disease 
that was good for us, we went on board again, and pretty 
soon we were on our way once more, bound for Siout. 

On the way our Reis, who had watched with great inter- 
est whenever the Winchester was fired, and who had ad- 
mired the way in which the little .44 bullet skipped on the 
water, hundreds and hundreds of yards away, but who had 
seemed to despise the way in which the ducks [ fired at 
never seemed to mind it much, was made more respectful 
by a little fancy shooting of a very mild description. Hitting 
tin cans ou the wing (tin cans grow in all countries, dear 
readers) L. frequently managed to do, and when, after a 
little more practice, [ managed generally to break beer 
bottles previously thrown overboard and fifty or sixty yards 
off, his fancy was visibly tickled, and the writer, proud of 
having somebody to admire his prowess, bestowed upon him 
a present of good tobacco. It is a pity, however, that this 
story of sport should degenerate into tin-can shooting, so let 
us on with our journey. 

Our boat was forging abead, poling and rowing, and sail- 
ing and being tugged, and shooting was to be had to our 
hearts’s content. One morning a-good shot from the rifle 
would get usa fine cormorant, another day the 10-bore of the 
party bagged two big wild geese, one or two heron skins we 
had preserved, The sand grouse were plenty; the fellahs 
had noe objection to our killing their pigeons. One day a 
fine old sacred hawk was bagged by Mr, B,, and many 
lovely skins were in our collection, beautiful, fast-flying, 
blue and green bee-eaters, while paddy birds, water wagtails, 
the black and white kingfisher, the queer looking, gravely 
strutting hoepoe, ducks, a few snipe and 1many more that 
I forget, were brought to bags never killing just for killing’s 
sake, but enough for the table, and to get pretty skins. 

Beautiful ruins without number are passed on the way; 
many are our excursions on shore, and a fine time 1s always 
the order of the day.  * 

We passed under the great cliffs, and by the winding turn 
in the river, at Gebel Aboofayda, we saw the tombs cut in 
the stone, the openings into the cliffs, all those works rather 
of giants than of men, and in time, after stranding on sand- 
banks a few times and haying our.crew hop out in the water 
and all getting their backs under the side of the dahabeah 
and shoving us off, we reached Siout; where we stopped to 
make bread for the sailors. I could tell you lots about the 
place, and many other places, but I am trying to make a 
long story short, and as I only traveled as a young sportsman, 
more interested in ducks than in ruins, and as my descrip- 
tion would be sunk into insignificance by the side of so many 
entertaining and ably-written volumes, I must just go on 
with the journey and interlard a little shooting where 1 can, 

Well, at Girgeh we stopped a while, and old Mr. B. was 
struck with a bright idea. “Let's have a pigeon shoot,” 
said he. We hurrahed and went to work, Pigeons were 
only a few pence apiece, and with two old segar boxes and 
two strings we made traps, the sailors were enthusiastic 
trappers and excellent retrievers, and the writer must say 
that, although the youngest of the party, he did not pay for 
the sheep which the loser had to buy for the crew, a way of 
putting if fully in accordance with his reputation for mod- 
esty. 

We passed the sugar factories at Farshoot, we saw the 
holy old chap, Sheykh Something or-other, who had sat on 
his haunches for fifty years, depending upon charity to feed 
him, as he never, during that time, has raised his hands to 
his mouth. I would not speak disrespectfully of that saint, 
for he deserves richly one emineut title, the proud name of 
‘champion dirty man of the world.” 45k 

The day after we saw a crocodile, at least we thought it 
was an old log, but the Reis and dragoman swore it was a 
crocodile, and of course it was our duty to believe them; but 
as the wind was blowing well we could not stop to give him 
ahunt. Well, at last we got to Denderah. Many fine ruins 
we saw there, the wonderful temple and hosts of others, and 
here two fine running shots, in the evening, as we were walk- 
ing toward the river, put two Winchester bullets thro h our 
first jackals. From here we went on to Karnak and Long- 
sor, and after inspecting the grand ruins there, we proceeded 
to Esneh, where we baked once more for the sailors. We 


[Fup. 28, 1884. 


did some shooting here for a short while, and sailed off agairt 
for Assouan, which we reached in due time, 

Now the cataracts—the first—were reached, and Nubia 
was extending far away, Egypt lay behind us. Arran 
ments were made with the Sheykh of the Cataract, and after 
sharp bargaining we had it all arranged that for £12 we 
were to be hauled up next day. Well, | suppose everybody 
has read about going up the cataract; how the dahabeahs 
are hauled up with ropes, hundreds of men hauling up one 
rapid into one pool, and from this pool over another rapid, 
and so on, tugging like mad, shouting and yelling until you 
are at the top, and you think that they haye earned their 
money. We soon got to Philw; here we tarried a short 
while, and we would go for walks along the shore, and at 
the crack of the breechloaders fine birds would be brought 
to bag, and great was our amusement when some of the 
Nubians, seeing us shoot and open the guns to withdraw 
the shells, would exclaim regretfully that the ‘“Englees” had 
broken his gun, and wonder eyer after at its being mended 
so easily again. The country beyond Phile becomes wilder 
than ever; waterfowl] abound; here and there a few buffaloes 
wallow in the mud; at night the jackal howls and dogs bark. 
Go alittle further, and late in the evening a wonderful 
silence reigns supreme, interrupted by the cry of some water 
bird, or some dog away off, or some one of the unexplained 
noises heard in all solitudes, 

Next day, as we were going up the river, Mr. B., who was 
watching for crocodiles, saw one on the saad, Quickly we 
got in the small boat, rowed carefully and silently around a 
sand-point, At last we reached fairly near the monster; a 
sharp ping! “Oh, good shot, Mr. B.”; it isa hundred and 
fifty yards at least. I take the rifle, pump in another cart- 
ridge, and another bullet hits the brute, struggling to reach 
the water, and after considerable slashing about of his tail 
the crocodile dies. Who says that a rifle ball will glance off 
a crocodile? Iam persuaded it will not. ‘This one was thir- 
teen feet long. 

After this we went on our journey, bound for Aboo-Sim- 
bel. On the way we had another shot at a crocodile, but he 
was missed, and soon he wriggled into the muddy water in 
safety. Here we founda good many ducks, hoepoes and 
other birds, plenty of material for good sport and good eat~ 
ing, and one day, as I killed a sand grouse with one barrel, 
a fine fox jumped out from the recds near a little irrigating’ 
stream, and my second barrel of No. 4 shot crippled old rey- 
nard, whom I captured after a little run. 

-When Aboo-Simbel was reached, we stayed a short while, 
for must we not see the great temple, and the remains of the 
glorious reign of King Sesostris, but I often would let ruin 
hunting alone, for were not the shores teeming with quail, 
beautiful little game birds, half the size of our Bob White, 
but strong flyers, often in large bevies, and no mean addition 
to the table, crede experto. felt sorry [had no dog, for, 
although I could kill all the game I wanted, how much hap- 
pier L would have felt in blending the pleasure of shooting 
with that of watching a steady pointer, or a good well: 
trained setter, at work. 

When we had enough of Sesostris the Great, we sailed 
on to Wady Halfeh, and soon we saw the cataract. This 
was our turning point. Many another fine day’s sport did 
we enjoy on our way back to Cairo, and many times, since 
we returned home once more, have I thought of the snug 
little cabins on the dahabeah, and the many good shots we 
fired in the Land of the Pharaohs. G. V. 8: 

New YorRE. 


‘ LIKE THE BEAR THAT TREED JIMMY 
O’BRIEN.” 

Scenzr— Rear office of Briggs’s drug store. Time—i0 P. M. Cold 
winter’s night, PResENT—Briggs, Professor Adams, Goodwin, 
Dr. King, H. P. U., et al. Briggs has just finished telling one of 
his hunting adventures. 

H. P. U. doquitur)—"“That grouse of yours was like the bear that 
treed Jimny O’Brien.” 

Goodwin—'By the way, I've heard you use that expression several 
times. What does it mean?” 

H, P. U.—'‘ Why, it’s a by-word among the ‘boys’ out in the San 

Juan.” 

Briggs—''Yes, but what's the story?” 
H. P, U.—*Didn’‘t I ever tell it to you®" 
Owner—"No! Let’s have it!” 

H. P, U.—*All right; here foes.” 


(8 day, when we were up at the cabin in Arastra 

Gulch, Jimmy O’Brien stopped a few moments with 
us, on hisway over to Elk Park, whither he was going to 
work out an assessment on a mine belonging to him. He 
was on foot, driving before him his favorite burro (Mexican 
jackass) Mike, laden with tents, blankets, “grub,” cooking’ 
outfit, pick, shovel, and other impedimenta. Jimmy and Mike 
were well known in that country, for they were inseparable. 
Tt would have been hard to tell which thought the most of 
the other. Mike would follow Jimmy about like a dog, 
while Jimmy never passed his four-footed friend without 
stopping to scratch his rough head, and give him a bit of 
old biscuit or some such seats “The Irish Twins,” “The 
Two Dromios,” ‘Damon and Pythias,” ‘‘Romeo and Juliet,” 
‘Beauty and the Beast,” ‘“Pyramus and Thisbe,” ‘<A Pait 
of Jacks,” ‘‘Both Bowers’—these were some of the nick- 
names the couple had received. But neither biped nor quad- 
ruped cared—their strange friendship only grew the stronger. 
The former, singular as it may appear from his name, was 
an Irishman, : 

“Long, lank and brown as the ribbed sea-sand,” i 
with a merry twinkle in his eye, and a shrewd, quizzica 
smile that betokened ‘“‘Jashins of fun” in his make-up. In 
the golden days of “49 he had deserted from an American 
man-of-war at San Francisco, and had passed. the last thirty 
years of his life in gold diggmg in California, bear hunting 
with old ‘‘Grizzly” Adams in the Sierras, silver mining In 


Nevada, and in leading a wild and adventurous life generally 


from the Columbia to the Gila, and from the Golden Gate to 
the headwaters of the Mississippi. Not knowing what fear 
was, he had sense enough to know when “‘discretion was the 
better part. of valor.” He was now about sixty, tough and 
weather-beaten, but still strong and active, one of the jolliest 
companions possible to find, and one who, to use the expres- 
sive Western phrase, ‘*would do to tie to” in times of trouble 
or danger. net 

He stayed with us that day only long enough to ‘corral a 
hunk of grub,” and then pushed on over the dividing ridge 
into Elk Park. 

Next day, after having wasted the better part of the morn- 
ing in a vain attempt to find a band of mountain sheep, 
which ‘‘used” on the peaks at the head of the gulch, I 


found myself, about noon, looking down on piece Mak a 
. os } 


the Park below. As it was but little out of | 


homeward, I decided that 1 
the cabin, work 
tunnel, some five hundred yards up the mountain side, but, 


much to my surprise, when I pulled aside the tent-flap I saw 
him inside, rolled up in his blanket, fast asleep. Fearing he 
might be sick—for a nap in daylight was a rare occurrence 
with him—I shook him, and asked him if anything was the 


matter. The first reply was a grunt, the next a growl, then 


a request ‘‘not to bother,” till, finally, when I had shaken 


him fully awake (for [had begun to be seriously afraid that 


his unwonted somnolency was the stupor of severe illness) I 


drew out of him the fact that he was well enough, but 


“mizherable shlapy.”_ Why he should be so sleepy in the 
middle of the day puzzled me, till he intimated that he'd been 


up all the night before. The explanation surprised me as 
much as the fact, and, suspecting from his curt speech and 
evasive replies some mystery, I plied him with questions, till, 
finally, sitting up and filling his pipe, he satisfied my curi- 
osity. 

He had arrived there safely the evening before, selected 
his camp ground, pitched his tent, and turned Mike out to 
graze. Then, hearing some spruce grouse calling, he had 
started out to secure a few for supper and breakfast. Leay- 
ing his rifle behind, as he did not expect to sec any large 
game, he took only his long-barreled .38-caliber Smith & 
Wesson reyolyer, with which he could pick off a grouse’s 
head in the top of the tallest spruce. Having shot four or 
five, he started for camp, it having, by this time, become 
quite dusk, for darkness comes, here in these hills, almost as 
suddenly as in the tropics. On turning the corner of some 
fallen rocks, at the lower end of the little glade in whose 
upper point his tent was pitched, he came suddenly upon a 
huge grizzly, busy, as well ashe could see in the gathering 
darkness, in digging up wild parsnip roots for his supper. 
Before he had time to dodge back under cover of the rocks, 
the bear had seen and started for him. 1 will let him tell 
the rest of the story in his own words, 

“Divil a little time had 1 to be thinkin’, for it wan’t twinty 
yarruds he wor frum me whin I first see him, but I knew 
‘twor no use thryin’ to run, an’ as fur fightin’, me .88 wadn’t 
be a flay-bite to the likesav him. As luck wad have it, 
right forninst me was a majium-sized shpruce, an’ oop that 
I wint like a wayzel, hopin’ that av I didn’t shtop to discuss 
the matter wid ‘im, he’d be afther re-cog-nizing me civility, 
an’ pass on, an’ lave me. Not he! Oop he cooms to the fut 
of the three, shnuffs around it, roobs the dirthy head av ’im 
agin it, luks up at mesilf, perched jist beyant Lis rache, goes 

off, cooms back, goes through the same manayvyers, an’ 
-afther a while, findin’ he eudn’t deludher me into anny kind 
-of adishcushin wid ‘im, falls to faydin’ agin. “Twas go 
-darruk, I cud only jist sce the big black carcass av ‘im, 
wandherin’ around like a naygur’s shpook in a cimmytairy, 
but *twasn’t mesilf that wor crayin’ anny nayrer insupection 
-ay im. [wor aizy enough wher I wor for the prisint, bar- 
rin’ that a six-inch limb ain’t quite so comfortable a sate asa 
pile of blankets, and that ’twud have bin more gratifyin’ like 
> to me shtummuck, ay ’'d had « could pratie or two alang wid 
me. ‘Howiver,’ thinks I to mesilf, ‘whin he’s through atin’, 
he'll go aff quiet an’ dacint like, an’ the ould man’ll git back 
to camp in time to git a good shquare male for himsilf yit.’ 
But, diyil claw the oogly hide av ‘im, phwat does he do, 
~when he'd got hiz own dirthy shtummuck full, but coom 
_back to the three, walk round it wanst or twicet, and thin 
lie down about tin yarruds from the fut av it. 
** “Ah ha!’ sez I, ‘’tis that ye’re up to, is it? Goin’ to 
-shtarve me out, are ye? Will, will, av I kape whisht, may- 
| be ye'll be taking a gintale afther-dinzer nap, afther a while, 
an’ thin Ill deludher ye, an’ slip down off the three onbe- 
. knownst to ye, an’ av I can git back to camp an’ git hould of 
ould Betsey, I'll be afther poompin the could lead into the 
 ongrateful carcass of ye, till yez are as ded as Paddy Burns’s 
pig, and then yez'll haye rayson to regrit that ye caused a 
- dacint man to make a shpecfacéle av himself, shquattin’ oop 
_ a three in this style, like a haythin moonkey on a limb.’ So 
afther a bit, whin | thought the fine shupper he’d been atin 
- had put him to shlape, I begins to lit mesilf down aizy, but 
_ afore I’d shlipped down a fut, oop gits the murtherin” blag- 
ard, an’ shtarts towards me. "T'was wonderful how quick 
I changed me mind, an’ concluded ’twasn’t so very uncom- 
fortable in the three afther all. *Twas only playin’ possum 
he waz, or maybe I'd been too precipitous like, so, whin he 
lay down agin, I made up me mind [’d give ’im plenty of 
_, time this time, afore I thryed ‘im agin. So I waited an’ 
waited, till my whole back was that sore wid the limbs a 
cuttin’ into it, that I cudn’t shtand it no longer, so I re- 
payted the exshperiment, but ‘twas not the laste use in the 
-worruld, he was at the fut ay the three agin, afore I’d shlid 
;down a yarrud. So lmakes up me mind to ‘accipt the in- 
ivitayble,’ as l hear ye say wanst, an’ so I reshoomed me 
‘original position, trustin’ that, when daylight came, and 
ihe saw how lane an’ tough I waz, he’d abandon the 
sayge an’ Jayve me in payce. So there I sits asthraddle 
av that limb all that blissid night, till the ligs ay me was so 
cramped they had no faylins lift, an’ the teeth av me was 
broke, be raison ay me jaws chatterin’ so wid the could, an’ 
I was that shtiff wid the frosht I was afraid I’d shnap in two 
like an ishickle, an’ I was gittin’ so hungry I could almost 
ate me boots; an’ was thinkin’ sayriously of takin’ an early 
breakfast on could grouse. Will, whin 1 was almosht ready 
to dhrop aff me perch wid fatigue, an’ hunger, an’ could, it 
began to lighten a little in the ayste, an pretty soon ’twas 
light enough for me to see the forrum of me oogler jailer, 
plainly, lyin’ close to the fut av the three.” Here he paused, 
Te-lit his pipe, which had gone out in the heat of his narra- 
tion, and puffed away quietly with the air of one who has 
just finished a good story. 

“Well, how did you get away?’ 

“On me liga, ay coorse.” 

“Did the hear leave you, when day came?” 

“Not a bit av it.” 

“You don’t mean to say you came down the tree and 
wilked off. while the bear stood and looked at you?” 

‘Ay coorse not.” 

“You certainly didn’t kill him?” 

“Wida.38? Har-rdly!” 

“Well, how did you do it?” 


 _ “Will yez shware, by the blissid bones of the howly 


St. Pathrick, that yez'll nivir till, av I disclose to you the 

 saycret av me escape?” L 

_* What secret: can there bé about it?” 
_ __ “Nivir you moind; not anither worrud do yez get from 
_ Jimmy O’Brien, till ye promise yez'll niver say a worrud to 
the byes, concarnin’ the houl thransaction.” 
‘Well, well, all right; drive on.” 
— Will thin, tw; ; 

of a burro, Micky ti, 


might as well drop in on the old 
man and get a cold biscuit to stay my bunger till I reached 
I took it for granted he would be at work in the 


| woodcock. 


ey ___ | usual thing for them to doin these parts. 
no bear afall, at all, but that divil’s 


FOREST AND STREAM. 
Alatiyal History. 


PROTECT THE SMALL BIRDS. 


fiditor Forest and Stream: 

For several years I haye watched the decrease in numbers 
of our singing birds, and haye wondered what our energetic 
collectors will find to prey upon a hundred years hence. 

An interesting account of a day’s birds’ nesting in your 
issue of Jan. 31, has attracted my attention, and I think 
illustrates the mania now raging among ornithologists for the 
possession of immense series of birds’ eggs and skins. I 
quote a few sentences from the above mentioned article: 
“We have already taken six eggs from this nest (that of 
Ardea virescens) four on the 7th day of May, two more on 
May 25, and to-day, June 4, we find three more. The nest 
we carefully leave, expecting to get a dozen more eggs from 
it at least, and then add both nest and bird to our collec- 
tion.” Again, ‘We take the first, containing four as pretty 
egos as ever eladdened the eye of an odlogist, and then an- 
other and another, until our arms are full, Riding ashore 
we deposit our treasures, and wading in, we collect more, 
until want of carrying space cries hold! enough!’ It seems 
to me that such wholesale collecting cannot but eventually 
seriously diminish the number ot our birds. 

T see no necessity for killing the birds during nesting time, 
save for the purpose of absolute identification, for if killed 
during migration or before nesting time, it allows time for 
the mate to remate and rear a brood before the season is too 


far advanced. It seems to me that the protection of our, 


insect-eating friends is a serious necessity, and a line should 
be drawn somewhere 'to limit the inroads made upon them. 
Of course the number of birds sacrificed for scientific pur- 
poses is small compared with the slaughter for millinery 
purposes, which is assuming vast proportions, The beauti- 
ful cedar bird (Ampelis cedrorum), formerly abundant in 
the vicinity of Boston, has become comparatively rare. The 
Baltimore oriole (/eterus galbula), whose gorgeous plumage 
contrasts so beautifully with the rich green of the elms in 
our suburbs, has of late visibly decreased in numbers. No 
mansion now is considered fashionably furnished if not 
possessed of several owls usually mounted in horrible atti- 
tudes upon a half moon or with wings painfully distended 
high over the back. This robs the farmer of his best 
mouser. 

While visiting the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, at 
Cambridge, one afternoon, I heard a young lady remark 
while examining the birds, ‘“What a horrid shame it is to 
kill these poor little dears,” Glancing at her dainty hat I 
beheld thereto attached a bird most wonderfully constructed 
and composed of portions of at least two or three lovely 
denizens of the tropics. 1 thought at the time that there was 
a chance for missionary work among the fair sex. If the 
Jadies could be induced to take interest in the matter and re- 
fuse to wear birds or feathers it would be an immense step 
in the right direction, 

The State of Maine has made vigorous movements toward 
the protection of insectivorous birds. In Massachuseits it is 
proposed to put into the hands of the fish and game protec- 
tive associations the matter of licenses and to impose a bond 
so heavy as to confine the permit to responsible parties. That 
this plan may succeed is the devout prayer of MERrin. 


WINTER BIRD NOTES. 


Te signs of the birds seem to point to an early spring; 

and now that this season is at hand we hope that col- 
lectors and observers all over the country will give us the 
benefit of their notes, and will tell us of the arrival of the 
birds. If this were done systematically the amount of valu- 
able information accumulated would be very great. We 
shall hope to hear from many of our readers, and shall pub- 
lish from week to week the observations which are sent in, 


Hornellsville, N. Y., Feb. 3—Kinefishers, blackbirds and 
meadow larks have been here all the winter. Cannot well 
understand how they ean live, as it has been a severe winter. 
Ice sixteen inches thick in the river, snow two feet deep on 
the level, good sleighing since Dec. 18, and the temperature 
often 20° below zero. Bluejays, many of them are seen 
around the farmhouses. I saw two large owls trying to 
catch English sparrows one evening last week, right in the 
outskirts of the city. On Saturday, Jan. 26, L saw about a 
dozen robins, which we all think here is a very strange cir- 
cumstance, as Friday night at 11 o’clock it was 28° below, 
On Saturday and Sunday it was quite cold, but the robins 
were singing. Haye seen none since the 28th. Heavy rains 
and thawing to-day.—J. Oris Fenitows. 


Washington, Litchfield County, Conn., Feb. 4.—A. robin 
was noticed at this place on the morning of the 8d inst. Is 
it not rather early for them in New England, even in this 
a locality? Pine grosbeaks are abundant here.— 


Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 5.—On the 2d of February a man, 
living near a spring brook, saw a bird on the bank, which 
he thought was a woodcock. He killed it, and it proved to 
be an English snipe. When he fired only one bird was in 
sight, but at the report of his gun eleven more rose and flew. 
Most of them have been killed since. I also saw the same 
evening arobin. Wehave had an unusually severe winter. 
The ground has been covered with snow from six to ten 
inches deep, since the 25th of December, and cold all the time, 
which makes the accurrence something unusual.—W. H. W. 
[The occurrence of snipe near Ithaca at this season is quite 
unusual, though not without precedent. As we have fre- 
quently remarked, the cold does not appear to be always the 
moying cause of the southward joumeying of snipe and 
So long as the feeding grounds of these birds 
remain open a few of them will remain with us and brave 
even the severest weather. ] 


Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. 15.—St. Valentine’s Day was 
signalized here by a thunder shower, during which a tree 
toad chirruped merrily. And when it was over,.a bluebird, 
on the top of the old pear tree, gave us a snatch of a spring 
song, while the mercury touched 62°. To-day it indicated 
but 27°, and the toad and bluebird—where are they? Two 
immense flocks of bluebirds were also seen, flying south- 
west. Could they have foreseen the cold wave?—J. L. K. 

Ferrisburgh, Vt,, Feb, 14.—We are just at the tail end 
of a big thaw which has nearly spoiled the sleighing and set 
the brooks a-roaring. A few crows have been hanging about 
here all winter in spite of deep snow and severe cold, an un- 
I think I told you 
of the grosbeaks beimg here,—R. E. R, 


Irvington, N. J,—While walking in the woods on Jan, 20 


| Arkansas or the Red River, though not as lon 


‘ 8&3 


I was surprised to hear what sounded like a robin, and while 
looking for it another one flew into a tree near by. I have 
seen them here in New Jersey in the latter part cf February, 
but never in midwinter. The thermomefer registered 15°, 
and the earth was covered with six inches of snow, yet tle 
bird was in no way affected by it. J have known them to be 
so benumbed with the same degree of cold as to be casily 
caughf in the hand, Like the late breeding of squirrels, it’s 
another sign of a mild winter.—F. H. B. 

New York, Jan. 18.—While out the other day in New 
Jersey on @ snow-shoe tramp for the purpose of féeding 
quail, we came across a flock of a dozen wild pigeons, It is 
very unusual to see them at this time of the year, and dur- 
ing so severe a storm.—W. HoLBERTON. 


Manton, R. L., Jan. 21.—A friend and myself went out 
without guns the other day and found the remains of two 
covevs of quail within a half-mile, seven birds in one and 
five in the other. They seemed strong and in good feed 
ground. On our trip L saw quite a large flock of robins and 
about a dozen pine grosbeaks and some gray linnets, Tak- 
ing the weather as we haye had it so far this winter, I 
thought it strange to see so many robins; they all looked 
fat and strong. They have been seen a number of times 
this winter in cedar trees near my house. We haye a good 
lot of partridges (ruffed grouse) left over, but gunners are 
hunting them every day that the weather will allow them to 
get out, and they go some very bad days at that. The law 
is wrong to allow them to kill partridge up to the first of 
February.—T. M, Atpricu. 

Barrie, Ont., Feb. 7.—In your last number for January 
I read an article on late snipe, 1 Wilson snipe that was shot 
on Dec, 23, 1883, at Cleveland, O. Allow me to tell you 
about a Wilson snipe shot here on Jan. 23, 1884, by a Mr. 
Vair on his stream, Barrie, Ontario, and where we have three 
feet of snow and the thermometer 36 degrees below zero. A. 
more perfect bird I never saw; it was in good plumage and 
as fat as butter. I may still say it was in such good condi- 
tion thet we have decided to have it put up by our taxider. 
mist, Mr. Wright.—S. D,. Brarry, 


FORESTS AND FLOODS. 


ok many years thereafter the flood in the Ohio River of 
1882 was called by the settlers along its banks the “‘ereat 
flood.” Its like was unknown to the oldest inhabitant. It 
was fifteen years till another comparable with it occurred, 
and the flood of 1847 was not as high as that of 1882. But 
within the last three years there have been two surpassing 
that of fifty-two years ago—the one now on being the most 
destructive of all, And yet the news gives no reason to 
believe that the water discharged from the clouds this year 
equals the discharges of 1832 and 1847, In 1832 the rains 
continued in torrents for seyeral weeks; this year for not 
more than half or a third of that time. There is an apparent 
mystery in this which will set millions of people to thinking, 
more especially those who inhabit the banks and rich 
‘‘bottoms” of that most beautiful river, and whose property 
is in peril of periodical destruction from these rapidly 
increasing occurrences. 

The Ohio in its length—1,000 miles—is a river of the third 
class for America, and of the second class compared with 
Kuropean rivers. After the Missouri it is the chief tributary 
of the Mississippi, discharging more water than either the 
as either of 
these. It is formed by the Alleghany and Monongahela, 
both rising in the Alleghany Mountains, and fed by snows 
till as late as the middle of May. Below the junction of 
these two mountain streams, which is at Pittsburgh, the prin- 
cipal affluents of the Ohio are the Scioto, Kanawha, Big and 
Little Miami, Kentucky, Wabash, Cumberland, and Tennes- 
see. These affluents drain three-fourths of the State of Ohio, 
more than half of Indiana and Kentucky, nearly all of Ten- 
nessee and West Virginia, and, including the Alleghany and 
Monongahela, half of Pennsylvania and a considerable part 
of Virginia. The area of drainage into the Ohio can hardly 
be less than 100,000 square miles, and of this at least six- 
sevenths, probably nine-tenths, was sixty years ago covered 
by dense forest. The original prairie lands of the Ohio 
were insignificant. Forest was the prevailing quality of the 
land along the Scioto, the two Miamis, all through Ken- 
tucky, Tennessee, Western Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and 
Indiana from the old National Road southward was covered 
by beech, walnut, poplar, and oak, with but here and there 
asmall “clearing.” The rain that fell wpon these forests 
sunk into a thick stratum of leaves, the deposit of ages, and 
was there retained for weeks aiter it fell, finding its way 
slowly into creeks and rivers, which accordingly rose slowly, 
Within the present generation the whole region from the 
Little Miami to far west of Indianapolis and thence south to 
the Ohio was comparatively a swamp from the beginning of 
the spring rains till as late as the middle of June, The rule, 
with some modification, extended to the whole area drained 
by the Ohio. Now allis changed, It is safe to say that 
four-fifths of the primeval forests that covered the Ohio val- 
as far back as 1820 have been cut away—for railway ties, 
fences, fuel, lumber, and timber for houses and barns—con- 
verted, so to speak, into railways, farms, villages and towns. 
These are, to be sure, not inconsiderable compensations for 
the losses by floods, but they are the cause of them all the same, 
We search in vain for any other cause. The Ohio is not 
filled up in its bed, asare the Sacramento and San Joaquin, 
by detritus, It is navigable now from its head to its mouth 
by boats of as deep a draft as plied upon it thirty years ago, 
Its banks are as high as ever and as far apart. It is as 
capable of carrying as much water now as when the Indians 
hunted in its woods, The difference is that it is now called 
on to discharge in a week the same quantity of water that it 
formerly received in a month or six weeks. The leafy forest 
reservoirs are cut away. When an eight or ten inch rain 
fell half a century ago, more than half of it was held back 
from the rivulets and rivers by these reservoirs. Now all 
goes at once, and if the rivers cannot contain the influx, of 
course their banks are overflowed, and farms, villages, and 
towns swept away. : 

This is the common-sense explanation of the mystery. 
The compensation of the flood calamities is found im the 
exchange of the primitive unproductive forests for farms, 
orchards, meadows, flocks, and herds, and the other con- 
comitants of the thing we name “progress.” The partial 
remedy against these wholesale destructions by flood lies in 
the restoration of the denuded ferests as far as is consistent 
with that cultivation of the soil which the increasing popu: 
lation of the country demands. It isaremedy which might 
be more practically and profitably enforced m the valleys 
of the Sacramento and San Joaq@¥in than in the States 
drained by the Ohio. Tree culture in ow valleys, while 


contributing toward the prevention of sudden overflows of 
the rivers, would not curtail the area of prolitable sgricul- 
tural production, for an acre of well-shaded Jand is worth 

“more for pasture than for grain, and we are shorter of beef, 
if the butchers may be believed, than we are eyer Jikely to 
he of bread.—San Francisco Chronicle, 


Game Bag and Gun. 


WOODCOCK COVERS NEAR NEW YORK. 


HIRTY years ago last summer, within one hundred 
yards of where I am now writing, I killed my first 


9 
<woodcock. Although but a short time had elapsed since I 
had been allowed to carry a gun, I had already created sad 
havoe among the various birds with which the salt marshes 
in this vicinity at that time abounded. But the killing of 
this first woodcock started a new era in my shooting carcer; 
and though two yearsat least elapsed before 1 was able to 
Rill more than an occasiunal bird, the most of my spare 
time while they were in season was spent in their pursuit; 
and the quantity of fine shot I scattered about the swamps 
and springholes was simpiy incredible. Welldo I remember 
the disgust with which a city cousin follow:.d me on ont 
of these probationary huts, through mud and brush the 
greater portion of the duy, returning at night with empty 
powder flask and shot ponch, and one solitary woodcock. 
This one, however, bad fallun to my gun, and I at least wus 
satisfied, 

This constant practice, backed by a love for the snort that 
no amount of poor juck or hard work could dampen, began 
at length to have its effect, and I would oceasionally bring in 
quite a respectable haz, When one summer afternoon after 
a hunt with Tilman Holly, the acknowledged crack shot of 
the fime in this section, when I had killed my full share of 
the birds, my reputation as a fair shot was firmly established, 

* for to hold one’s own in the brush with Holly at that time, 
was a feat few cared to try; and mostof those who did try 
failed to perform. 

Holly, though growing old, is stilla sood shot; and only 
three years ago lust November [ met him very carly one 
frosty morning in what is locally Known as Bussing’s Sprouts, 
a large tract of splendid fall woodcock ground, about ore 
mile cast of Woodlawn Station, He informed me that birds 
were plenty, and that he had already killed seven. Hunting 
together we killed eleven more, making a bag of cightven 
woodecock in a forenoon, and that too within one mile of the 
northern boundary of New York city. 

When I first began to shoot, probably not more than eight 
or ten hunted over setters or pointers within a baif dozen 
miles of this place. The first whom ! remember to haye 
seen following the dogs in the field was Joseph Thwaites, 
then kceper of a hotel known asthe Sportsman’s Inn. Asa 
boy L never passed this place without stopping to admire the 
sivn, on which were painted two dogs ona point and a 
sportsman inthe act of shooting. Thwaites hada habit, 
and a very good one, of cocking his gun as it went up to 
his shoulder, and was the only sportsman L have ever met 
who did.it. He died afew ycars since, when he was past 
seventy, and only afew menths before I met him in the 
Sprouts mentioned above, working his dogs with as much 
aruor aud zest as a lad upon his first bunt 

Another of the old-time shooters was Malachi Briggs, now 
living near Williamsbridge. Though showing unmistakable 
signs of advancing age, he is still hale and hearty, and may 
he often seen during the shouting season, with hisold pointer, 
searching all ihe best spots (and no sportsman knows them 
better) for any stray woodcock that the Wards, Weeks, 
Peter Brivgs, and the host of other shooters who dwell in 
that vicinity muy have happened to leave.. 

About half way between the town of East Chester and 
Thwaite’s, which was near the town of West Farms, on the 
road leading to New York city, was the Drovers’ Inn, long 
since burned down. This was a favoritu resort of woodcock 
shooters from the city; and these were almost invariably un- 
der the guidance of Solomon Husdra; a barber doing busi- 
Hess in Spring street. ‘‘Sol,” as he was almost always 
called, was an inyeterate hunter, a good shot, and a great 
lover of the dow; and my first lesson in dog lore came from 
him, In Jater days he foliowed bis vocation in the village 
of Mount Vernon in this town. Every Monday morning 
during the shooting season the shop was lef in eare of an 
apprentice. and sith Shot, his setter, following at his heels, 
Sol. would wend his way toiheswamps. On more thin one 
of these occasions I have enjoy.d a bunt with bim, and 

_ many a valuable hint in regard to my favorite sport has he 
givenme. Like Thwaite, he hunted almost up to the time 
of bis death, Many of the city readers of Fornst anp 
StREaM will remember Sol. and his quaint, genial way. 

Taking the village of Hast Chester as a center, there was 
probably more good woodcock cover within a circle of five 
miles at the time of which I am writing than could be found 
within the same area anywhere within thirty miles of New 
York city. About eighteen years ago most of the covers in 

_ the towns of East Chester, West Chester, and Pelliam were 
cleared off and the grounds exposed for sale, as a regular 
mania for land speculation arose about that time. Some of 
the covers were drained and destroyed forever; but some of 
the best of them, especially in the town of West Chester, are 
fast growiny up; and it left alone will soon furnish good 
sportsgain, Last season I killed afew birds on this ground, 
where the growth had been the quickest. In the town of 
Pelham, the village of Pelham Minor oceupies a tract of 
land thata few years ago furnished splendid shooting, A. 
small portion of cover is still left along the railroad on each 
side of the station; and I kilicd eight woodcock there one 
morning last November. — 

By fur the best piece of ground that remains intact in this 
section lies west of the New York. New Hayenand Hartford 
Railroad between New Rochelle aud Larchmont. Here, one 
year ago last August, I made the best bag I have ever made, 
killing sixteen birds. This is a larger number of birds than 
any ong man should shoot in a day wnere cover is scarce and 
shooters plenty; aud | have blamed myself many times for 

itsince, I have held, of late years, that a bag of three or 
four brace should satisfy any sportsman or pair of sports- 
men; and 1 would huila law to that elfect for this county 
with pleasure. Last season my largest bag was nine, though 
T killed a large number in the course of the season, I have 
perhaps been dry and tedious in giving details and deserib- 
tng localities, but one olject in wiiting this was to show to 
sportsmen in the city whoso often write to Forms and 
Steam for information in regard to shooting grounds within 


one hundred miles gf the city, that afair day’s sport can | yery great 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


often be had much nearer than that by those who know 
where to g0 and how to shoot after they get there. 
given a slight sketch of such of the old time sportsmen I was 


much space, but they are thickly scattered all over the coup- 


second. 


easy bird to bring to bag. 


I haye 


most intimately acquainted with. ‘The younger ones I will 
not athempt to name individually, as it would take too 


try, and setters and pointers are as plenty as false points and 
flushes at x field trial, 

Tam well aware that I have departed from the usual style 
in writing upon the subject of summer shooting and I have 
often been amused at the way so many writers of the day 
have in dea‘ing with the subject, the birds called callow 
fledgelings and their inability to fly and take care of them- 
selves conclusively shown on paper. I should be sorry to 
see the season open in July, but candor compels me to say 
that during the many years 1 hunted them when it did open 
atthat time, 1 never but once saw a bird unable to fly, and 
that was undoubtedly the offspring of a bird whose first nest 
had been broken up, By the first of August the birds are 
well scattered and hard to find. Even in the days when 
there was plenty of cover, it was a rare thing to get a large 
bag of birds in August, During the twenty-seven years that 
I suppose I may, without egotism, claim to have been a fair 
shot, the most birds [ ever killed straight in the summer was 
seven, While I did the same thing on fall birds twice last 
season alone. But when I speak of killing consecutive birds 
I mean shooting at cvery bird pointed, walking in to the 
right or lcft of your dog and flushing if yourself, and when 
it rises, the little open spot you had your eye on and was 
quite sure it would fly through will probably be in an 
entirely different direction from the one it will really take as 
it whistles up under your feet. You will turn to see a buff 
and brown streak disappear amid a cluster of shaking alder 
leaves. When you can on the instant throw up yeur gun 
clo-e enough to those quivering leaves to kill the bird flying 
behind them twice out of five times, you will be doing better 
shcoting, in my opinion than to bring down four out of five 
as they rise over the tops of the lafiess sprouts in the fall, 
That J am not alone of this opinion, | know, as Ihave never 
met a first-class snap shot who questioned the justice of it. 
Two years ago it was my good fortune tomuke the acquaint- 
ance of a No, 1 shot, fit to hold his own ia any company; 
one of those so seldom met who seem to be to the “‘manner 
born,” he, too, had imbibed the idea that an August wood- 
cock was very easy killed, but a few outings in the dense 
covers of this section convinced Lim of his mistake. I have 
another splendid shot in my mind, a young lawyer from the 
city, who for seven years has never tailed but once to be on 
hand the firs; day of August, and then he came on the 
I fancy | can see his quiet incredulous smile should 
any one suggest to him that an August woodcock was an 
HP oD: 


Hast CHESTER, N. Y. 


My observations of the woodcock are perhaps new 
to some of your many readers. I live near New 


York, and all my shooting is in a circle of twenty 


miles around the city, and I get as much pleasure 
out of one single woudcock as many sportsmen (who live in 
more favorable country grounds) get out of adozen. I look 
for them on the hillsides, in swamps and oak brush, in 
briers, biackberry bushes, cedars and ledges along streams. 
1 have found them in open woods, cornfiefds, meadows and 
erass lots, and in fact every place where the soil is soft, no 
matter whether wet or dry: The common notion of sports- 
men is that the woodcock get their food only by boring, but 
they will turn over fallen leaves and pick up from the 
ground, as well as bore. I have killed a woodecock with a 
grcen caterpillar in his bili, two and a half inches long, which 
he must bave picked up from the surface. When | go to 
my favorite places, which are generally thick and difficult 
to shoot in, the dog will crawl right up to within a few fect 
of the birds, and leave his point when 1 command him, 
Woodcock will stay in one place all summer and fall, as 
lcng -as there is anything to eat; and will shift ground as 
soon as the place gets too dry or otherwise unfavorable for 
food, but will return after rain, and they will not leave until 
driven away by very hard frost or snow. The fight of 
northern birds may be on or not, the birds which are bred 
here will stay until they can feed no longer. Some of these 
birds I killed on Thanksgiving Day, and am positive they 
were the same birds [ had seen during the summer, because 
one bad a crippled Jeg which he had hanging down, and the 
other wasin a very small secluded spot not more than thirty 
yards square, where I had seen him very often before. 
Traveling woodcock, if disturbed in daytime, will leave 
the place in the evening, and not return even if the condi- 
tion for food is favorable, I killed last season about forty 
woodcock, a few every week, which I think was very good 


for being so close to the eity. Domnustic. 
BROOKLYN. ‘e 
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES. 


Shae season of sport in field and bush closed in our State 
on Jan. 1, with the exception of fur and wildfow1, 
who must court shy of the gun until a later date. 

The season as a whole has nct been very satisfactory to 
most of our sportsmen, From early in the summer a very 
severe drought prevailed until about the middle of autumn, 
much to the disgust and perplexity of many of us, who, dur- 
ing August, turned our steps toward favorite grounds 
hoping to bag a few woodcock, Such outings, as a rule, 
were made with discomfort, fuces streaming with perspira- 
iion, the ground dry and parched from drought, and few or 
no birds to reward us. Some of the old veterans, whose 
heads are sprinkled with the silvery threads of many winters, 
wended their way to moist corners of cornfields, shady old 
orchards beneath whose leafy retreats il was always moisi and 
cool, or to some partially exposed overflow near pond or 
stream, In such places these old wiseacres often obtaiud 
good sport, to my knowledge making some splendid bags, 
and exciting the envy of many amupg their fellow sports- 
men, i 

The flight shooting im antumn was of the poorest, very 
few birds stopping ateall, and the bags very light and un- 
satisiactory; but, however, the boys managed to secure a 
few woodcock to sandwich in with the very good bags of 
ruifed giouse obtained by most of them throughout the 
searon. 

The opening of last spring bolstered up our drooping 
spirits with promises of good ruffed grouse shooting in the 
full. The birds hatched out early and broods of goouly 
numbers were located in every direction, and when the sea- 
son opened on Sept. 1 they were found, in nimbers sufiiciaat 


to satisfy, in nearly every swamp and alder run known for | quail, or you might! 
miles around us. But during the month last referred tono man who required you 
bags were secured in this vicinity, while during ! plana 


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the latter part of the season, when autumn’s golden garb of 
sunset hues had scttled over the forest, this grandest bird of 
them all, steeped to his eyes in woodcraff, rises from hehind 
us, and with rapidly beating pinions shapes his course to 
some distant covert, while the pathway of his arrowy fight 
is marked by falling needles from the pines. When his 
course 1s marked, we follow to his hidden retreat among the 
scrub on the hillside or into the depths of some almost imac 
cessible swamp. He rises from beneath our very feet, and 
with roar of wing makes a break for liberty. Then, when 
fortunate enough to cut him down in his flight, what pleas- 
ure steals over our delighted senses ss we hear the telltale 
thud upon the ground and are guided to the fallen patriarch 
by the quickened wings beating out his death roll. 1t is with 
love mingled with sorrow that we raise him from amoug the 
leaves and stroke his glossy plumes, Scores of from fifty 


down to smaller figures have been made by our sportsmen — 


for the entire season. Quail have been quite plentiful, and 
goodly bags of these gamy little birds have fallen to the 
guns of this locality. There were many birds left over at 
the close of the season, and if given a chance to care for 
themselves without any assistance from the netter, all looks 
very favorable for goou shooting next October. ' 

We have here in Lowell two large and powerful gun elubs, 
who, with the assistance of some other gintlemen, act as a 
pewerful influence to promote the protection of fish and 
game, The methods pursued by them will compare fayor- 
ablv with those of other organizations throughout our State. 
On pleasant days, when it is suitable fo. a tall hat to be out, 
you will find them at their club grounds one day each week, 
earnestly at work shootiag at g'ass balls and clay saucers. 
When not thus occupied, 1 presume they are earnestly wrestl- 
ing with some other means of game protection. There are — 
here with us @ number of men whoare (he owners of forests, 
and it is well known that they use them, too. 

Some prominent glass-ball smashers were deteeted durin 
July, a month before the close season expires, hunting ana 
killi.g woodeock. Gentlemen well known for years as lead- 
ing citizens of this place were detected hunting woodcock 
out of season. When discovered and appreached by others, 
they with morethan ordimary celerity concealed their guns — 
im the bushes behind a Jarge tree, and were very busy giving 
the dogs a little harmless exercise. One other sporisman ( ) 
has the worst case of all to answer for. He was out killing 
woodcock one day, and, when returning heme for the night, 
confessed (to parties whom he chanced.to mect) that he had 
five ruffed grouse Killed hy him that diy in his bag along 
with his woodcock, and this early in the wonth of August, 
a whole moath befure the open season on ruffed grouse. 

DE. A. 


Lowett, Mass. 


WILD TURKEY STORIES. 
T. 


ie happened in old Kentucky, before the late family 
troubles. Jt was midwinter. The La Belle Riviere, 
which ran past the front gate of Longview, my beautirul 
home, was bound in plates of ice: the winter had been lone 
and cold—excessively cold for that latitude. The snow had 
been falling for two days, and the ground was wrayped in a 
mantle of white over one toot in thickness, 

Sunday morning broke clear, sharp and fresty.. The 
household had settled down to a peacetul day’s reading. I 
was Ceeply interested in one of “Graham's Magazines” when 
Allen, the colored man who had charve of the horses, came 
into the room, hat in hand, almost out of breath, with the 
astounding revelation that ‘‘thare’sa big gang of turkey 
back of the barn.” Down went my book, en went my boots, 
and I was in the hall picking outa gun from haifa dozen 
that stood in the corner. Among the rest was an cxtlra fine 
double gun, 16-gauge, 74 pounds, furnished with a sling, 
the property of a guest, Captain Thursby, who bud crossetl 
the plains several times to California and back; and this gun 
had been specially made to shoot ball and buck, and had 
cost him over three hundred dollars. The captain told me 
to take his gun, which was then loaded for deer or turkey. 
So, picking it up, | hurried out to the barn, where { saw ihe 
gang in full fight for the woods, ha:f.aagnile distant, The 
sight warmed me up, and I burried after them. Reaching 
the beech woods I saw them quiclly scratching among the 
trees, some two hundred yards distant. in iy cudcayors to. 
steal upto them they saw me and took wing, flew buta 
short distance and alighted. I followed, they ranning’ 
through the snow, I slowly gaining on them. 

About one mile back from the river aud running parallel 
With it wasa narrow, deep slough, some two miles long; 
the water in winter ten or twelve feet deep, the banks close 
enough tor a lurge tree to’ span the water, and the darkies 
had thrown large trees across for fool logs, to serve as 
bridges in their ’coon hunts. One large poplar tree thus 
used was fully ten feet above the water. 

The turkeys were making for the hills and crossed the 
slouzh not far from this tree. I tried the ice; if would not 
bear my weight, 1 hurried for the poplur tree, mounted ap 
on it; and, stoopmeg, started across, keeping my eyes on the 
flock close by on the further bank, he footing was slip- — 
pery, but I never gave it a thought. When half way across 
one of the gang came right dor the trectop, not having no- 
ticed me on my high perch, I raised my gun, took aim, — 
fired; and the next moment my head struck the ice ten teet . 
below where I stood, and I went to the bottom head first, — 
gun and all. How I got out from that ice-bound water is a 
mystery to this day. Alli do know is that I got home as 
they were sitting down to supper, completely -xhausted, my — 
clothing frozen hard as a board. Did | kill the turkey? 
Yes; and next day the boys fished up the gun and brought 
home the turkey. This was my first and last Sunday bunt, — 
Care Rock. 


CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, 


I. 


J have been shooting and fishing for a great many years, 
my first jaunt being before 1 donned knickerbockirs, but T 
never knew what shooting was until in the fall of 71 I joined 
my regiment then serving in Northern Texas, that hupter’s 
paradise, where at that time was to be found almost every kind 
ot game, both bird and animal. How I lok back now from 
ihe cold bleak country about Boston and think of the days 
past at Fort Richardson, then on the extreme frontier, and 
sigh for the flesh pots that at that time I did not know how 
to appreciate, Jtseemed to me that every abe aet ing 
wus to be had, and no one was able to tell what it woul 
the next moment. You might be ‘‘loaded for bar” and 

‘be loaded for quail and meet a no 
your pie the latter ge 
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pened to meet a “‘red,’” although once in a very badly pre- 
pared state I met an enormous panther that scared me nearly 
a8 much as would an Indian, I was hunting for gray squir- 
rels and came across bis majesty very unexpectedly, He 
was as badly seared as 1, so by mutual agreement we each 
went off in opposite directions. He was a magnificent 
animal, and I thought then he was about the size of a 
full-etown Norman horse. He may have been a shade 
smaller, 

The finest sport to my mind was hunting the wild turkey. 
I don’t mean going into the roost at night and killing the 
poor birds without giving them a chance; that kind of 
turkey shooting is mere slaughter, eutirely unworthy the 
name of sport. I bave shot in the roost, but only when I 
wanted meat. In the fall of ’72, the General commanding 
the Department was coming to Fort Richardson ona tour of 
inspection; and Gen. Mackenzie wished to give him a game 
dinner. To that end he suggested to Col. Buel (now dead) 
that he had better take a hunt and see if he could get some 
turkeys and game. It was arranged that Buel and myself 
should take such a trip. I picked out about a dozen soldiers 
who were good hunters. We drove about eighteen miles, 
went into camp, and as soon as we had a little lunch and a 
cup of coffee, all hauds except the camp guard started out, 

‘and that night we had quite a nice showing of turkeys, all 
hands making their suppers upon turkey livers. 

Sunrise the next morving found all up and ready for 
work. I proposéd to give my attention to ducksand did not 
feel that it was incumbent upon me to start quite so early. 
This may sound paradoxical to duck shooters who turn ouc 
before the night is half over and sit in a cold blind two or 
three weary hours waiting for the ducks to begin flying. 
The shooting there was different. The stream was small 
and full of ducks and our method was to slip up to the bank 
above the stream, flush the ducks und then give them both 
barrels, pick up the dead, drop back from the river and re- 
peat a little lower down or higher up. The time of day had 
no influence upon the shooting. However, 1 did not go for 
ducks, | went for bear and killed the largest white-tailed 
deer I ever saw, and this not two hundred and fifty yards 
from our camp. IJtook him to camp and then, too much 
elated to hunt for ducks, I started for turkeys. Inthe mean- 
time one of the soldiers had killed another deer. 

The second night our stock of game was much increased, 
It wus determined then that at 11 the next morning we would 
break camp and go in tothe post. Early in the morning 
every one was out to get just one more shot, At 11 all hands 
Were in; camp was broken, and as happy alot of menas 
you ever saw took the road for the post. When we left on 
Monday morning General Mackenzie had said to us that he 
would want eyery bit of game we brought in, aud that we 
should send itall to his quarters. Knowing there had been 
no frost, and that we would be unable to shoot in the roost, 
he thought we would not succeed in getting more than eight 
or ten turkeys; and other game he did not count upon at all, 
Being goo soldiers, always obeying orders, we sent the 
Wagons to the General’s quarters and unloaded upon his front 
poreh the two deer, a number of ducks and prairie chickens 
and one hundred and seventy-four wild turkeys. He did 
not keep all the game, Every man, woman and child in 
that post had a turkey dinner next day, 

We did not keep any record of the game other than the 
turkeys, we killed between 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon 
and 11 o’clock Wednesday morning one hundred and eighty- 
one wild turkeys, and not one was killed in the roost, they 
were all killed on the ground, and then only after the 
hardest work. BAXET. 


SQUIRRELS AND RIFLE SHOOTING. 


Rditer Forest and Stream: 

Noticing the communications in your recent issucs relative 
to the breeding of squirrels, etc., I am constrained to send a 
few ‘‘egotisticul” notes, My boyhood days were mostly 
spent in Northern Ohio, on the ‘‘Reserve,” which down to 
30 or 35 years ago was a wonderful region for smali game. as 
many of your gray-hvaded re.ders cun testify. And some 
of the game was not so very small either, 1 remember dur- 
ing the winter of 1852-3 shooting two very fine deer one day 
within fifteen miles of Cleveland, and within a mile of the 
0, C. & C, R. BR, (with a plain hunting rifle, 90 to the pound, 
round bullet), both deer being on a ‘‘deed jun” when shot, 
From the time I was large enough to load a rifle my entire 
pastime was this fascinating practice. I have killed thirty 
squirrels (black and gray)in half aday. I supposed all old 
squirrel hunters were aware that these rodents bred twice 
each year. I haye shot numbers of young ones—not fully 
grown—in September. 

J occasionally receive letters from young men, even yet in 
their ‘teens (whose parents, grandparents or other old friends 
I knew while I was yet young), inquiring for rifle shooting 
points, hunting, ete. It affords me much pleasure to reply 
to these young men, although sometimes done at the expense 
of time, which I ean ill afford, but I honer them for choos- 
ing « pastime so inexpeusive and healthful, instead of loung- 
ing around villages and drinking or smoking resorts, though 
Iiear some of them bave acquired the filthy tobacco habit. 
In this connection I wish to write them a brief, secular 
homily. . 

Whenever the opportunity has presented itself I have al- 
ways tried titles with the best marksmen I have met, and 
have never been beaten in ‘‘string” shooting, the only accur- 
ate test of marksmanship. The most proficient competitor 
I ever met was « Methodist Episcopal clergyman of the Troy 
(N. Y.) Conference, the late. Chaplain Barber of the Berdan 
Sharpshooters. I well remember one warm winter day 
while our army wasin winter quarters in front of Fred- 
ericksburg, our regiment being in camp near Stoneman’s 
Switch, that the chaplain and myself practiced continuously 
the entire day, stopping only for dinner. We tried five and 
ten shot strings, mostly the latter, During ihe forenoon I 
steadily beat him about two inches on a ten-shot string. Just 
before dinner he desired to try a five-shot string with my 
rifle. The resulishowed that my string measured but five- 
eighth of an inch less than his. After dinner he expressed a 
desire to use my rifle for the afternoon, which I cheerfully 
granted. Leaving his own rifle at quarters we fired alternate 
shots with my own till darkness prevented, Our strings all 
van less than an inch apart,and the last one was but three- 
eighths of an inch, I having beaten bim but that much in 
ten shots. As we were returning to quarters he remarked: 
“Oaptain, I think you have the best riflein the country, 
and with such a rifie a man who has never used intoxicating 
drinks or tobacco in any form is not readily beaten in a day 
ef steady practice.” 

In conclusion, I wish to say to young men that with my 
nervous, sanguine temperament I could never have attained 


the proficiency in steady marksmanship which I did but for 

my abstemious habits, #0 
When I commenced this article J intended giving the 

boys some points on squirrel Dee with a rifle, but my 

article is already so long that I will defer those “‘points’ 

until another time. Mizton P. Prince. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 


NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 


Hdtior Forest and Stream: 


Some one asked in Fonmst anp STRrAM that we have a 
report (for publication) from the game protectors, that the 


tax payers can see what has been accomplished in the way 
of enforcing the law and for the protection of game, 1 fre- 
quently shoot ducks on the Hudson River, Last fall (1883) 


1 noticed that the law was violated every day (or evening) 


by persons shooting after sunset, and while the ducks were 
on their feeding grounds for the night. I wrote to a geutle- 
man in Hudson who is intercsted in the protection of game, 
and he said that he had already called the game protector’s 
attention to this fact. 1 have never heard of any arrests, 
and know that the shooting continued, and if I am credibly 
informed, the report of the guns of violutors could be plainly 
heard at the residence of the game protector, I noticed in a 
Hudson paper that he had arrested a poor old man at New- 
burgh for catching a bass of less than one-half pound weight, 
and that he was away from home when wanted at Green- 
wood Lake (and by the way the Greenwood Lake business is 
a puzzle to me as well as many others). Now what has our 
game protector accomplished; I say our game protector, as 
he is the man we look to here. Tax PAYER. 
Anpany, N. Y, 


From the current report of the Commissioners we take 
the following extracts bearing on this subject: 

“By the act, Chapter 317, Laws of 1883, an’ increase in 
the number of State game and fish protectors was provided, 
and the force were, for the purpose of securing official ac- 
countability, placed under the ‘supervision and direction’ of 
the Commissioners of Fisheries, As provided by law, the 
Commissioners proceeded in July last to divide the territory 
of the State into thirteen protection districts, that beitig the 
number of protectors the Governor had decided to appoint. 
The appointments were made July 40, and as soon as the 
protectors had become legally qualified, the Commissioners 
issucd to them a general order, stating that they had been 
‘placed under the supervision and direction of the Commis- 
sioners, and would be required, at the close of each calen- 
dar month, tv report in detail their proceedings to them,’ ” 
Accompanying this order was a code of instructions, 

As the Commissioners reside auch distances apart as to 
forbid, without great expense and inconvenience, stated or 
frequent board meetings, and as their business with the pro- 
tectors is of such a nature as generally to require prompt ac- 
tion, it wus deemed necessary to place the management of 
the details of this department under one active head. The 
duty has been acco:dingly iutrusted to Commissioner Sher- 
man, secretary of the board, whose central location was most 
favorable to the purpose. He receives the reports of the pro- 
tectors, and has charge of the general correspondence and 
records, Eig ‘Commissioner, however, is given the full 
authority of the board to issue such special directions to any 
protector as the exigencies may call for. The system has 
been fouud to work smoothly and efficiently. The protectors 
responded with alacrity to their instructions, and have been 
without exception active and efficient in the discharge of 
their duties, They have all, as directed, made reconnois- 
sanees of the territory in their respec'ive charge, and estab- 
lished working relations with the district attorneys, sheriffs, 
and other officers, with whom they are to act in the execu- 
tion of the laws, and with the game protective societies and 
individuals in their districts interested in the observance of 
the game laws. The monthly reports of the protectors, 
which have been made in all cases with commend- 
able prompftitude, show an amount of practical 
work done, which fully meets the  expectution 
of the Commissioners. The practice they have fol- 
lowed, of making frequent visits to suspected 
places, has done much to stop illegal acts, and their prompt 
uction in seizing and destroyiny contraband devices, and 
bringing to justice habitual offenders, has exerted a whole- 
sonie influence in places hitherto noted for defiance of law, 
The Commissioners feel justified in saying that under the 
present system more has been accomplished in the last three 
months In securing the observance of the game Jaws than 
has ever been done in the State before, and they have faith 
to believe that the continuance of the same vigilance will in a 
year’s time secure for the game laws an observance as general 
as it was formerly an exception. As an example of the 
work done, it may be stated that the reports of the protectors 
show that upward of an hundred nets and other unlawful 
contrivances for the capture of fish, of the value of more 
than five thousand dollars, have been removed and destroyed 
within the last three months, and that many waters in which 
for a generation netting had been habitual, are now free 
from all wholesale fish-destroying influence. More than 
twenty incictments have heen found for hunting deer out of 
season, and a farge number of suits have been brought to a 
successful issue for minor offenses. These cxamples 
will have the tendency to keep old offenders in whole- 
some fear, and to check the spirit of disregard that 
has grown up, by long tolerance, of the game law, That 
provision of the law which authorizes the Commissioners 
tu detail our protectors, in special cases, to duty outside their 
assigned districts, has proved of great usefulness. It has en- 
ubled the Commissioners to fortify weak places by rendering 
to local protectors necessary aid and support at points where 
defiance and resistance were to be apprehended. It has been 
found useful, too, in a class of detective work which could 
not be well performed by a protector whose person was well 
known in his district. Some inconvenience has occurred 
from the inadequate allowance made by law, for the travel- 
ing expenses of the protectors. This is at the rate of twenty 
dollars and a fraction per month, and no payment in excess 
of this sum is made by the Comptroller in any monthly ac- 
count of disbursements, unless there should be a ¢orresjond- 
ing underdraft the previous mouth. This allowance may 
be exhausted in a single trip which the protector may be 
culled on to make intu a distant portion of his district, or, 
as may happen on the order of a Cummissioner, into some 
other district; and thus the officer would be crippled in his 
ability to make other important trips of duty. The protectors 
can iJ afford to pay expenses of travel out of their salaries, 
andin some cases itis a hardship to them to advance the 
means for such purposes, even when certain of reiuiburse- 
ment, There should be a larger allowance for travel in the 


line of duty; or, what perhaps would be as well, there might 
be a sum appropriated for use, in the diseretion of the Com. 
missioners, In cases where the standing alluwance was in- 
sufficient. 

DEFECTS OF THE LAW, 

The Commisstoners deem this a suitable necasion fo call 
the attention of the Legislature to the defects in the present 
code of game laws. On this subject, they reiterate the sen- 
timents expressed in a communication to the Governor Dee, 
15, 1-80. These laws have been so amended, supplemented 
and, as it were, polished up, that they haye become confused, 
vague, contradictory and puzzling even to minds accu: tomed 
to legal interpretation. Special and lucal provisions and ex- 
ceptions have been so interwoven in the text, that close and 
analytical study is necessary to elucidate that which should 
have been expressed in terms plain to all, The last material re- 
vision of these Jaws was made in 1879, To illustrate some of 
the absurdities that have crept in, the following instance is 
given: Ina clause respecting brook trout, the former term 
“caught or taken” was changed to ‘‘killed.” This change 
has rendered nugatory one of the most important provisions. 
The pretext for the amendment was that in a law dealing 
with game, terms used by ‘“‘sportsmen” should be applied. 
In their parlance, a trout “taken” is a trout ‘‘killed,” 
though he may be at that time flopping in the basket. *‘*Pot- 
hunters” catch fish; '‘sportsmen” kill them, But when 
suits have been brought against persons, for taking 
trout out of season, from public waters to stock private 
ponds, the defense has been successfully set up that the trout 
were not “killed,” but taken alive. The poacher here gets 
the benefit of the literal construction of the word, whilt the 
law is defeated by the use of technical terms. This shows 
the absurdity of using artificial terms where natural ones 
would serve a better purpose. In the making of laws which 
everybody is expected to obey, such terms only shou!d be 
used as plainly express the intent. Jt is unfortunate that the 
efforts made in the Legislature the last twu years to improve 
the law by recodification and the correction of unwise pro- 
visions, failed, through the inability of those professedly 
working to the same end to agree in some minor points. The 
bill of the lust session, known as the ‘Townsend bill,” is, in 
the judgment of the Commissioners, the best considered in 
its provisions of any lately presented, It embodies the 
views of experienced and conservative sportsmen and fisher- 
men, and its provisions would not be difficult to enforce. 
The “Grady bill,” socalled, was good in form, but had some 
ohjectionable provisions. lf the good points of the two bills 
could be combined in one, following the general arrange- 
ment of the Grady bill, a law might be pcrfected which 
would be just in its provisions, easy of interpretation and 
certain in execution, 

HOUNDING DEER. 

The stoppage, through legal prohibition, of the old practice 
of ‘‘crusting”’ as it is culled—that is of hunting deer on the 
snow crust when escape is impossible and a club is as potent 
a weapon as the best firearm—has resulted in a large incresse 
of deer in the country known as the ‘Northern Wilderness.” 
Much has been done by public ofticeré, and by the efforts of 
societies and individuals the last few years, to prevent the 
unlawful killing of deer by this and other destructive modes, 
but there are still infraetions which the game protectors and 
a}l others interested must use their utmost energy to prevent, 
But the danger now which threatens the deer is uot so much 
from unlawful as from lawful practices. Tbe pursuit of deer 
by hounds is now permitted from the 15th of Augw t tv the 1st 
of November, a period of two and a half months, During 
this time in the present year, the Commissioners estimute 
from the best data they have been able to obtain, three 
thousand deer were slain in the wilderness region. Never 
before did the woods 80 resound with the baying of dogs and 
the report of firearms. Every accessible position had its 
party of hunters, with their guides and dogs, and the un- 
tortunute deer were driven from ridge to water and 
trom swamp to hill to escape to-day a fute that was sure 
to come in-morrow. The number of hunters has become 
legion, and if the increase is to go on as it has done since the 
deer again begun to appear in plenty, it will not Le many 
years before the race is exterminated in this State. 
The object of the protection of deer in certain 
seasons aud from destructive modes of hunting, is, or should 
be, that they may be hunted to the extent that they may be 
profitably used for food by those who go to the wild: iness 
for health or relaxation; and that they may be of similar use 
to those whose occupations confine ther tu woods life, or 
whose homes are on the frontier where are no otLer means 
of obtaining fresh animal food. It never could have been 
contemplated by any wise law maker that they were to be 
spared in the winter that their slaughter in mere wanton- 
ess or to supply distant markets might be the more cer- 
tainly effected at other seasons. One case has come to the 
knowledge of the Commissioners, which is doubtless the 
type of many, where a person, calling himself a ‘‘sports- 
man” from New York, cumped on a stream much frequented 
by deer, with four guides and a pack of hounds, and in ten 
days time the party had killed upward of tweuty dver. The 
forequariers were fed to the dogs or left to not on the river's 
bank. Of the saddles, one-half were given to the guides as 
part compensation for their services, and the remainder were 
shipped to the distant city. From every avenue out of the 
forest, east, west, north and south, came streaming out of 
the forest in October saddles and carcasses of decr, so that 
at many points the market was fairly glutled, All this, 
itis to be remembered, wis done within the letter of the 
law. lt there is no other way by which this wanton and 
inexcusable waste can be stopped, then should hunting 
with hounds be prohibited altogether. Those who still 
defend the hounding system admit that the abuses are great 
and alarming, They suggest that a shortening of the sea- 
son, or the limitation by Jaw of the number that one hunter 
or a party may kill, will serve to abate the evil. Others 
think that a limitation of the season or of the shipmeuts to 
market will supply the remedy; but those who have looked 
at the subject in all its bearings, and in the light of inypur- 
tial judgment hold that the only cure is to apply the axe at 
the root and prohibit houndimg altogether, Next to hound- 
ing, the practice of floating is most destructive to the deer, 
The #oating season is practically in the summer mouths, 
when the deer resort to the water to escape the flies and to 
crop the succulent food which grows there at that season. 
Floating drives them from these resorts, and as the deer are 
at this time suckling their young, the mischicf done by the 
disturbance is only exceeded by that of the killing, Flout- 
ing is the mode usually preferred by the tyros in hunting; 
and it is the only ome which gives promise of sucecss to the 
unskilled. The number of deer fatally wounded by it, and 
which escape from the hunter only tu become food for the 
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any other mode. It is believed by the most conservative 
hunters that if no other mode of. hunting were permitted 
than stalking, or stili-hunting as it is called, the deer would 
lose that wildness which it is contended makes the aid of 
dogs necessary in their pursuit; and that their capture for 
all reasonable purposes would not be as difficult as at present 
to the patient hunter, while for consumption the flesh would 
be much more wholesome. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

lam again tempted to ‘‘put in my oar,” merely to reiter- 
ate my former inquiries upon the subject of the practical 
performance of our modern breechloading shotgun. 

One gentleman from Texas gives us an entertaining sketch 
of how, after the trial of numerous guns that proved unsat- 
isfactory, he finally selected an 8-gauge, 14 pounds weight, 
etc. And then tells us, somewhat with an air of triumph, 
how he could cut down a single duck, going down wind, at 
a distance of 90 yards, which, ef course, his comrades, to 
their great chagrin and mortification, could not do, using 
lighter guns. LHastern sportsman are not entirely unac- 
quainted with big-guns, had some experience with them my- 
self in my younger days, during a tour on the Chesapeake 
waters, with the duck shooters of Havre de Grace and others 
of that ilk. Ihave seen single duck guns used there of 4- 
gauge, carrying 5 ounces of shot or upward, to say nothing 
of that unlawful terror, the swivel or punt gun, which had, 
of course, to be staunchly attached to a swivel and block in 
the bow of their gunning skiffs. I have not been there for 
some years, but 1 believe some of the market shooters still 
sneak out with these unlawful weapons. Of course, these 
larger guns have their usesin lake, bay, coast and river 
shooting; they tclla murderous tale on the vast flocks of 
waterfowl that congregate there. The necessarily larger 
circle covered by the shot, the larger and increased propor- 
tion of the number of pellets within the given space, give 
them that advantage over the gun of smaller caliber. Laying 
aside this advantage, the fowling piece or gun of ordinary 
caliber will kill its single duck or bird at quite as long range 
as its big brother, for, be it remembered, all things else being 
equal, we are shooting pellets of shot at our game, that indi- 
vidually are of the same size and weight in both guns, the 
large gun, however, having the advantage of shooting so 
vastly many more of them. 

I do not believe any shotgun, no matter what its caliber, 
could or would kill its single birds statedly at 90 yards range. 
Not even a fen-inch columbiad, loaded with a barrel of shot, 
would do it. 

Now, if it be true, as suggested by a Boston  correspond- 
ent, that an eminent wildfow] shooter of that locality refuses 
to use breechloaders, for the reason asserted that they pos- 
sess less range and shooting power than muzzleloaders; then 
we ure driveninto a still greater dilemma. I know not whether 
this suggestion be true. It was one of the subjects of my 
first inquiries through your columns. 

I may have something to say in the future with respect to 
estimation of distances in the field. 

Many sportsmen can give the result of their experiences 
touching the above, and thus enlighten more than one in the 


BACKWooDs, 
‘WEST VIRGINIA. 


Hiitor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of the 7th inst., ‘“Buckeye” wishes informa- 
tion in regard to 10 and 12-bore shotguns, If he lived in a 
game country like this he would be able to make choice be- 
tween the two bores. Experience would demonstrate that 
for small game, quail, squirrels, ducks, etc., and occasionally 
deer, the 12-bore would suit him best, as it will throw small 
shot closer, and with much less powder than the 10-bore, and 
at the same time ae to (and will, if it is a well made gun) 
do good work with buckshot that chamber well at the 
muzzle. Most of our hunters here kill deer with 12-bore 
guns, but the 10-bore is better for exclusive use among deer, 
turkey and ducks, because it will burn more powder and kill 
at longer ranges. Rep Wine. 

GLENCOE, Fla. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have shot a pair of teal at 80 yards, measured distance. 
One had a wing broken, the other had two shot through the 
body, the shot going through to the shin on the opposite 
side. Charge 34 drams Hazard FG powder, 178 ounces 
soft No. 5 shot. My gun isa 12-rauge, choked to 14 at the 
muzzle, 80-inch barrels, 8} pounds. GREEN WING. 

FREESTONE, California. 


Mr. H. E. White writes to the Sacramento (Cal.) Bee: 

“‘We are really pleased to observe that there is a growing 
tendency among American sportsmen to discard the great, 
lumbering guns that have been and still are so generally in 
use, tor lighter weights and smaller gauges, Those who are 
well fixed financially can of course afford to keep two or 
more guns—say a 10-gauge for wildfowl] shooting exclu- 
sively, and a 12, 16 or 20 gauge forsmali game. But men 
of moderate means, who can afford to keep but one gun, and 
who have to use that one for all kinds of shooting, from 
‘doves, quail and snipe to ducks and geese, will find a good 
12-gauge large enough. The writer has never owned, but 
has used, guns larger than 12-gauge, and has found the latter 
abundantly able to hold its own alongside of its bigger 
brother at all kinds of gamc; and when it comes to an all- 
day tramp over the hills in quest of quail, or a heavy tramp 
through the soft mud of a snipe marsh, these big guns 
become intolerable burdens. They require heavier charges 
to do the equal execution with the 12-gauges, and thus in a 
year’s shooting the owner is out considerably on ammuni- 
tion. For many years past the 12-gauge has been the largest 
in general use among English sportsmen, the greater num- 
ber using even smaller and lighter weapons. Nearly all the 
big guns made in England are shipped to America, where, 
up to the present time, they have been in demand. We 
know that many persons have bought and used heavy, large- 
gauge guns simply because they have regarded them as the 
more effective weapons fortrap-shooting. But the day of gen- 
eral pigeon shooting is passing away, as the supply of birds 
for that purposeis yearly diminishing. Theyoung find such 
ready sale in the markets that breeders and trappers find it to 
their advantage to sell the squabs, and old birds are becoming 
too high-priced to allow most shooters to indulge in the 
sport of trap-shooting, Therefore, the keeping of a heavy 
gun merely for the purpose of pigeon shooting, is going to 
be a losing business in the future. In the accounts published 
of a recent pigeon match at Chicago, we noticed that 12 and 
16-gauge guns were used by several persons, and some of the 


ning through your last three numbers, contains much with 
which I can heartily concur, especially his advocacy of a 
decent powder charge, and his contempt for ‘‘the unmanly 
fear of a little recoil.” 


I think, is certainly calculated to mislead the superficial 
reader. ] 
ball weight without cutting down the velocity and that is by 
widening it.” 


velocity, and only incidentally on a high initial velocity, 


ability of the projectile to overcome the atmospheric resist- 


best scores made last season about San Francisco were cred- 
ited to even 20-gauge guns. The late George Gilbert, of this 
city—than whom few more thorough sportsmen ever lived— 
always used a little Pape gun weighing but six pounds, and 
the writer has seen him cut down snipe at full fifty yards 
with charges of 24 drams of powder and less than one ounce 
of shot. That little gun could, in Gilbert’s hands, be relied 
upon to bring down a duck at from fifty to sixty yards, and 
this is as much as the average 10-gauge will do. We learn 


tells half the story, however, _ 
Let me tell it all and I think I can do so most clearly by 
the use of another table showing the performance of each 


gun at 150 yards. In this table the Jeffries gun is the one to 
which he refers. - 


TABLE TI. 


_Trajectories calculated for the London Field by Maj. McClintock for 
150 yards range, to which I have added trajectories for 200 yards. 


that several Eastern clubs have barred theuse of any gun 150 YARDS. 
larger than the 12-bore in their matches, and we believe that SS == : 
several Chicago clubs haye done, or are thinking of doing, > i tx 
the same thing. There is already one club in California that $ae\3 B 2) s8 eo soe 

< . | Se B is B cach 
does not permit the use of anything larger than a 12-gauge— Quy. SEE lee |o8| Be; o8 caus 
that at Folsom, in this county. Some of the Awerican gun- Gr Be) at) io | SB S| eee 
makers, noting the tendency toward smaller and lighter guns, SS) Oe]: B 3% De | ao 
are preparing to meet the demand for the latter, and one - Ss oe | resp pale 7 & | +S Ee 
company, the Parker, especially, is encouraging that ten- Fay | \ jc 
dency by turning out guns adapted to the new order of | Holland .50-4138-444....| 29.00 | 1939 1784 | 1342 | 0.287 | 3.977 
things. The change from heavy to light guns must neces- , ‘ | | 
sarily be gradual, as those who have the former cannot afford | J@#tes .60-188-842. .... 41.24 | 1400 | 1946") 1402%,| 0.278 | 3.611 
to sacrifice them; but we apprehend that most of the new ——. 
guns purchased in the future will be of the lighter kind.” eee 

ELMAN Ga. . adel da] eee 1577 | 1784 | 1265 | 0.402 7.530 

THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES: Mois Tee eel) be eee 1178 | 1946 | 1245 | 0.390 | 7,422 
iditor Forest and Stream: 


The article by Mr. T. 8. Van Dyke, which has been run- | + make this only 1367. s., this would alter the fable slightly to the 
disadvantage of the Jeffries gun. 

A comparison of these results will show that Jeffries sacri- 
fices everything to a flat trajectory, with the result that he 
But T must take exception to his closing paragraph, which, mya SDAGIY HeAie nS 6 Es Wes est ance De 
less than the diameter of the bullet. 

Tf the range were much increased, the flight of the light 
bullet would be so wild as to be utterly valueless (if, indeed, . 
it is not so already), while the 444-erain bullet should do 
fair work up to 400 yards, 

These results emphasize my previous statement: that the 
most successful gun is not the one that will sive the highest 
initial velocity, or even the flattest trajectory. 

I see that I omitted to state in my last letter that if the 
.45-caliber gun is properly chambered for the 2.6-inch shell, 
the short cartridge can still be used with perfect success. 

JAMES DUANE. 


He says: ‘‘There is but one possible way to give a 


Now, if he had said “‘initial velocity,” thiswould have 
been all right. But as I have before pointed out, that grand 
desideratum, a flat trajectory, depends on a high mean 


which of itself is very apt to be delusive, asa high mean |- 
velocity is by no means certain to result froma high initial 
velocity. 

The mean velocity is in a great measure dependent on the 
Fun, 16, 1884, 
ance. Now the atmospheric resistance due to the form of 
the projectile may be represented by the expression d? in 

w 
which d is the diameter of the projectile and w in its weight. 

As Mr. Van Dyke proposes to increase the weight by 
increasing the diameter, it will be seen that nothing is gained, 
as one increases in the same ratio as the other. 

The atmospheric resistance can only be diminished in one 
of two ways: Hither by decreasing the caliber, the weight re- 
maining constant; or by increasing the weight, the caliber 
remaining unchanged. Thatis by increasing tke length in 
either case. 7 

This increase of length is attended with a decrease of 
initial velocity, but up to a certain point with an increase of 
mean velocity, while the steadiness of flight and penetration 
are alwaysimproved. The longer the range the,heavier will 
be the bullet that will give the flattest trajectory, and this is 
more marked at extreme ranges than at moderate ones. 

Thus in the instructive long-range experiments made by 
Capt. Greer at Sandy Hook in 1879, a 500-grain “bullet 
with an initial velocity of 1,220 f. s. was thrown 2,500 yards 
with a mean velocity of 663 f. s., while the service 405-grain 
bullet with an initial velocity of 1,326 f.s. gave a mean 
velocity of but 423f.s. The 500-grain bullet was thrown 
3,650 yards, while the extreme range obtainable from the 
service bullet was 2,950 yards. 

I know that this long-range work has no direct bearing 
on the hunting rifle, but I wish to show that a bullet that 
will give the flattest curve at one range will give a higher 
gurve than a heavier bullet at a longer range. 

Having fixed the range at which we wish to obtain the 
flattest trajectory, it is simply a matter of calculation as to 
what weight of bullet will give the best results with a fixed 
caliber. 

To illustrate—As I shall have occasion to refer to this gun 
further on, let us suppose that we have fixed on a .50-caliber 
rifle with a powder charge of five drams or 188 grains. On 
this assumption I have calculated the weights and other data 
of the bullets giving the flattest trajectory at the respective 
ranges, 

The results are shown in the following table in which the 
weights of the bullets are given to the nearest 10 grains. It 
may be well to add that if we increase the powder charge, 
the weight of the bullet corresponding to the flattest curye 
will also be increased, but not in the same ratio, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Some little time ago I suggested to Mr. Duane—who has 
devoted considerable time to experimenting with rifles to 
test the flatness of their trajectory—that difference in fric- 
tion of the bullet might be ihe cause of a certain bullet mak- 
ing an extra flat curve. He answered with the theory that 
inereased friction would give a bullet higher speed, as it 
would move slower through the barrel and give the powder 
more time for thorough combustion, thus giving greater 
force tothe bullet. That greater force would be evolved 
from a certain charge of powder by increasing the friction 
ou the bullet, there is little doubt, but it would take more 
force to drive the tighter bullet from the rifle at the same 
speed as the one with less friction would go, thus giving no 
advantage from the tight bullet, even granting that extra 
force enough would be gained to give the same speed. I 
contend that an inerease of thirty pounds of friction on a 
bullet (and I have seen cases where it was nearer i 
pounds) will lessen the speed of the bullet as much as 10 
grains of lead added to its weight, and to get the best results 
one needs to be as careful of the fit of the bullet as he would 
of the powder charge. Rifles of the same caliber vary con- 
siderably in the size of bore and depth of rifling, and 
patched bullets are made with thin, medium, and thick 
patches, thus you can get the same weight of bullet of three 
different sizes. 1 have found them to vary about .002 of an 
inch in diameter from each other, the thin patched bullet 
you can easily push through the barrel with a wiping rod, 
medium takes considerable force, and with the thick patch 
you cannot push it through without using other means than 
a wiping rod in your hands. 

My experience teaches me to give more elevation when 
using thicker patched bullets than I find sufficient for reach- 
ing the target when shootiny a bullet that will just take the 
rifling. The proper thickness of patch to use is one that 
will make your bullet fill the bore of the rifle, and the 
powder will expand the bullet sufficient to fill the grooves. 
I am speaking altogether of the hollow-butt, paper-patched 
bullet for breechloaders. 

Had | the opportunity, should take pleasure in testing the 
threc different patches in a rifle of proper size bore to use 
the thin patched bullet and report the results; by using the 
screens a very satisfactory test could be given them. 

The proper hunting bullet, tomy mind, is one equal.toabout 


to nearly fill the grooves without depending on the effect of 
explosion of the powder to expand it. This bullet would, I 
think, give greater satisfaction for hunting purposes than 
any to be found in the market to-day of as small caliber. 
With a 1-16 of an inch hole in the tip it would become an 
expanding bullet. A. B, Dopae. 


The last column is added to show what the remaining 
velocity would be in each case, if the flight were continued 
up to 400 yards, and is only given for the sake of compari- 
son, 

By common consent 200 yards seems to be the range fixed 
upon for which the flattest trajectory is required. 

Therefore, if the flattest trajectory were the only object to 
he gained we would accept the 350-grain bullet as being the 
most, effective. j 

But there are other conditions to be fulfilled eyen more im- 
portant than a flat curve, These are; 

First—Accuracy. 

Second—Energy. . : 

Both of these conditions are obtained by the same means 
i. ¢., by increasing the weight of the projectile. Thus we 
are obliged to sacrifice trajectory to a certain extent depend- 
ent on the use to which the rifle is to be put, the extremes 
being the hunting rifle shooting the round ball, and the 
long-range rifle shooting an elongated projectile of from 3 to 
4 valibers in length, 

_ The conflicting claims of aceuracy and energy on the one 
hand and a flat trajectory on the other are well shown in the 
London Field trials of express rifles, from which the statistics 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been much interested in the .40-90 hunting rifle’ 
articles which haye appeared in the Forust aND STREAM. 
T think .40-90 will do, but leave that 500-grain bullet out for’ 


much lead in the hunting rifle. Use a heavy charge of’ smart 
powder, and harden the bullet to suit the powder. Bullets: 
of the same hardness will not suit all kinds of powder 
charges, both slow and quick, light and heavy. Have some 
standard charge and grade of powder and bullet, and don’t- 
vary from it. If it works well te-day, it will to-morrow, 
and so on. Mark your siglits for the different distances 
plain; don’t scratch it on with a pin; you never can find it im 
ahurry. Hayea system for every part, then follow it, and 
you will be rewarded. ‘ap é 

What is a rifie good forif it has not power, a 
amount of it? Who wants the bow and arrow to hunt w 
in these days of electricity? Give us-a short, light 

_ ii Pa a 


= 


at the close of Mr. Van Dyke’s letter are drawn. | He only 


da large 


energy—while the gain in flatness of curve was considerably - — 


21 round bullets of same caliber, say for a .40-caliber a bul- — 


sail let 2 ofan inch long, with the forward end the same shape 

: a as a round ball, same caliber; this would give about 225 

Remaining velocity. | grains, varying according to shape of the butt, and the 

Weight of GAL a amount of tin used, this bullet would be plenty heavy enough 

Range, pn let one oe yeloelty, Tans a | At4o0yas. | for all hunting distances to give accuracy; the shape of for- 
ei St ae ieee a2 : ward end would give greatest shock possible for its caliber, — 

= | and almost any pevetration desired could be obtaimed by 

100 320, 0.171 1989 1562 ee hardening the bullet and using plenty of powder. Of course 

ci ann fa ae a4 | nae if the bullet was hardened much more than 1 part tin to 19) 

400 430 0.947 1803 981 981 lead, the bullet would need to be enough larger at the butt 


me; that belongs with the long-range rifle. Do not use too- 


made of the best metal, of good proportions and well bal- 
anced; one that you can put up-to yourshoulder and feel that 
it belongs there. A double .40 of 74 pounds’ weight, with a 

owder charge of 90 grains of smart powder, makes quite a 
convenient plaything on fair-sized game, with but little 
weight to carry. Whycarry eight or ten pounds of metal to 
shoot a .82-bullet and a few grains of powder? 

Keep this hunting-rifle pot boiling till it gets simmered 
down to a light, powerful rifle, and don’t forget to harden 
the bullet to suit your powder charge, bearing in mind that 
along, beavy bullet upsets more with the same charge of 
powder than a short, Jight bullet, and the long, heavy bullet 
should be made of harder metal than the short, ae seks 


WorcrstTrr, Mass. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

' I see in your paper of Jan. 3 that Peabody-Martini shows 
up the old style of rim and center fire cartridges with the 
ball smaller at butt to go into the shell, and then close the 
shell on tothe ball, He is right in saying they are an abom- 
ination. Now, won’t the manufacturers of breechloading 
rifles get out a new class of cartridges of .22, .25, .28, .32, 
.30 and .38, strong and long enough to hold twice the pow- 
der with a ball longer and straight so as to fit in shell with- 
out closing in at all? This would secure greater accuracy, 
longer range and flatter trajectory, which Is quite necessary 
for a hunting or sporting rifle. Now, I hope every one in- 
terested in small-bore rifles will lend a hand and see if this 
thing cannot be brought about, and place the hunting rifle 
far alead of where it is now. B. 

BELiows Fans, Vt. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In my own experience with a hunting rifie, ninety-nine 
one-hundreths of all of the misses have been occasioned by 
lack of flatness of trajectory. Almost any one of the guns 
in the market shoot with sufficient accuracy, provided only 
your judgment of distances is correct, and the necessity for 
making a calculation every time you shoot is to my mind 
the chief objection to all of the repeaters in the market, ex- 
cept, perhaps, the Winchester express. It is difficult to see 
how a ,40-90-500 cartridge will improve the matter in that 
respect. Itis true you will get with such a cartridge excel- 
lent penetration, but that does not necessarily mean a pro- 
portionately large amount of killing power, for after a ball 
has passed through the vitals of an animal its subsequent 
career is of very little importance to anybody. A large hole 
there is of much more value than a small one through the 
skin on the opposite side. For that reason a.45 government 
shell loaded as suggested by “‘Big Ingin,” has always seemed 
to me lo give most satisfactory results. 

The 85 grains of powder and 300 grains of lead give a 
fairly flat trajectory and a penetration sufficient if placed 
anywhere except in the haunches, to reach the seat of life 
in any animal that the bulk of your readers will ever see. 
The gun out of which to shoot it is almost as hard to select 
as to reach a decision upon the cartridge and caliber. Re- 
peaters are not without objections, and many meu will not 
use them under any circumstances, On the other hand, in 
a tight corner, with a wounded bear within a few feet of 
you, the time which you have at your disposal to fish out a 
ca: ridge from your pocket or belt and stick it into your 
ere seems wonderfuily short. 

ersonally, I compromised between the two systems by 
obtaining a Baker three-barrel, and so far have never had 
any reason to repent of the choice. The rifle is as accurate 
as any ordinary hunting arm, while the two 10-bore shot 
barrels loaded with a solid ball furnish an amount of offen- 
sive and defensive material at short range, very reassuring 
to the holder of it. Mine is somewhat heavily choked so 
that a i2-bore ball is as large as it is safe to use, but this, 
with five drams of powder back: of it, strikes anywhere 
inside of the danger range with tremendous force. The 
accuracy of this round ball beyond fifty or sixty yards is 
nothing to be proud of, but inside of that distance it is good 
enough tv answer every purpose, and you are in very little 
danger personally from any animal until he gets at least as 
near as that. For the more extended ranges you have the 
rifle barrel ready at your hands, and as efficient as any 
other. The gun will weigh inside of ten pounds, is well 
balanced and has no more chance of getting out of order 
_ and failing you when most wanted than an ordinary shotgun. 
Probably the gun now made is not as good as the one some 
enterprising genius will eventually put on the market, but it 
seems to me that something constructed upon similar prin- 
ciples will be the coming gun, Any one who has seen no 

tougher an animal than a deer run half a mile with a .40- 

caliber ball clear through his body must realize that no ball 

ot small bore can fill the bill unless it chances to reach exactly 
the right spot. J had the makers construct for me, to special 

order, 28-inch barrel, 10 or 12-bore for the shot and .45- 

caliber government shell. THREE-BARREL. 


Fidittor Forest and Stream: 

Has your correspondent, Mr. W. J. Dixon, ever given the 
yeman patent rear sight a fair trial? If he has, and has one 
‘for sale cheap,” he can dispose of it readily by writing to 
me. Ifhehas not, then before tying io plain open sights, 

- let him try one, e 

lcannot think that any hunter, unless prejudiced against 

all ‘new-fangled”’ things, would fail to appreciate the Ly- 
- man, if once tried. 


yi Fe > olan. 
La ¢ 


‘some kind of wadding, or a tube of wood or other material 


ae. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


A HINT ON ETIQUETTE. 


Fiditor Forest and. Stream: 

Although January was a cold month, taken altogether, 
yet there were not over two or three bitter cold days in any 
one week; and after every heavy snow there would be a 

; warm rain which would wash off several inches of the snow, 
and in that way the a (Ortyx virginianus) were not 
deprived of food to any damaging extent; and none of 
the cold snaps lasted long cnough to freeze any of the game. 

Partridges were more abundant last fallin Virginia than 
for several seasons previously, but I apprehend none of the 
young shots will ever see them in such numbers as they used 
to be before the war, or as they were from ’65 to ’72. Hares 
(not rabbits) were very plentiful lust fall. Turkeys have 
been raising in our mountains for several years, and now and 
then I hear of the shooting of one or two. If ever a hunts- 
man kills one, the fact is sure to be announced in the local 
papers. 

A majority of the land-holders, who are not buntsmen 
themselves, look upon a huntsman as a.nuisance; anid so 
very few of them care anything for the protection of game, 
And sometimes Northern gentlemen will come to Virginia 
and partake of a gentleman’s hospitality for a week or fort- 
night, and send evcry bird they kill to the North by express, 
We think it is the correct thine for a gentleman to offer to 
the lady of the house as many birds as she may pick out 
during his stay under her roof. OLD HARE. 

ALBEMARLE County, Virginia, February, 1884. 


theory a brass rod will not injure them, but in practice one 

can. 

A rod of wood (lancewood) is best, can be so jointed as to 

bring no metallic surface in contact with the barre], and is 

easy enough to carry in the pocket. Max, 
HOoPEDALE, Mags. 


I would like very much to ask through the ForEst AND 
StrEAM if any one has tried a Colt’s .45-caliber 260-grain 
ball in the government cartridge in any rifle? Would not 
the Colt’s 260 and the Smith & Wesson .41 revolver ball give 
in the government cartridge a proportion of 1 to 8? 

CLARENCE J, Norton. 


Morantown, Kan, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Why is the breech mechanism of rifles not made in the 
same way as that of shotguns. Shotguns are certainly more 
convenient to manipulate, and with few exceptions, there is 
very little difference in the-manner of connecting the bar- 
rels, The latest development of the shotgun would perhaps 
be very desirable in a rifle. : He eae 

New JERSEY. 

[Rifles require greater strength at the breech than could be 

secured by shotgun breech mechanism. | 


Héitor Forest and Stream: 4 

Without discussing the advantages of a breechloader, I 
don’t believe any system of rifles has equalled the one-ounce 
round ball of the muzzleloader either for accuracy or bone- 
crushing power. It has frequently happened that the 
hunter’s life depended on planting his ball in an exact cen- 
ter. As he would raise the rifle to his face, his mental 
comment was: ‘God bless the old gun, she has never failed 
me heretofore, and will not now.” Forty-NINER. 


FoorisH AND DAneERous.—The Springfield Republican 
reports: ‘‘An event of considerable interest occurred in the 
chemical department of Amherst College Saturday. Once 
in three years the experiment is made of condensing carbonic 
dioxide. §o difficult and dangerous is the undertaking by 
this process that it is forbidden by law in all countries except 
the United States, and probably Amherst is the only college 
where if is undertaken. Two iron cylinders are used, one 
the generator, the other the receiver. They resemble 
howitzers, fitted with strong iron bands and peculiar yalves. 
Bicarbonate of soda and sulphuric acid are placed in the 
generator in such a way as not to mingle until the cylinder 
is securely closed. The union of the substances generates 
carbonic acid gas with terrific pressure (being about a ton 
to every four square inches), and this passes into the receiver, 
which is packed in iee and salt. The process is repeated 
twelve times, until the gas in the receiver is forced hy pres- 
sure and cold into liquid form. When this is allowed to flow 
out it evaporates so rapidly that it forms a solid, snow-like 
mass, having the surprising temperature of 140 degrees below 
zero. Mercury poured upon it freezes instantly, and the 
effect of touching it is about the same as handling a red hot 
coal, The great danger in the experiment arises from the 
tremendous pressure—and thus the liability of a bursting 
cylinder. The experiment Saturday, which was in charge 
of Instructor Pond and the senior chemistry division, was of 
great interest to the entire college. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Should not the variety of game to which a rifle may be 
readily adapted largely constitute its merits for sporting 
purposes? Whether repeating or single, my own choice 
would he the gun with which [ could kill anything, from a 
grizzly down to a squirrel, and with which 1 could use the 
amount of powder and lead desirable for each purpose. 
Such a combination seems quite possible to me. Cannot 
the .40-90 be made to use, with accuracy, not only a 500- 
grain bullet, were it ever desirable, but one of 300 grains, 
or less, giving the necessary lew trajectory of the express, 
and also a ball—I mean a round bullet—with either large or 
small charge of powder, the light charge to be used in 
shooting off the heads of such small game as it is often yery 
desirable to have in camp? Of course accuracy in all cases 
may be regarded as indispensable, but particularly with the 
light charge should it be such that missing thc head of a 
squirrel or grouse could not be attributed to the gun. In 
using the smaller amount of powder, would it do to push 
the round bullet down the shell to the powder, or should 
the space above the powder be filled, in @ measure, with 


be placed in the bottom of the shell? The sights for such a 
cun would need to be readily adjustable to suit the various 
charges; but after all it might be found that the sight re- 
quired for the 300-grain bullet would answer also for the 
round bullet with reduced charge of powder; in which case 
not more than one variation of the sight would be necessary. 
As the sights of a hunting rifle are an important item, it 
would be interesting in connection with other considerations 
to have them discussed and definitely described. Ji the 
above requirements for a rifle are attainable, and with them 
is combined a construction affording the greatest facility for 
changing from one cartridge to another, a construction which 
issafe, simple, symmetrical and handy, isit not very nearly 
the hunter’s ideal? J. G. D. 


REVOLVERS ror GAME SHoormeG.—My experience with 
revolvers has been very much like *‘W. F. C.’s,” but I am of 
the opinion that the remedy lies nof in making them with 
different sights, but in placing enough metalin them. I be- 
lieve that good shooting could be done with a .22-caliber re- 
volver of the same size, shape and weight of the .32-caliber 
8. & W. as now made, and it could be sighted full on the 
object fired at. T have owned many revolvers of most ap- 
proved makes, but never yet saw the rabbit that had any 
just cause to be *‘skeered’”’ of meas long as he could keep 
fifteen paces from, mé,— Max. 

A correspondent, “EH. B. B.,” writing from Vail, Iowa, 
says: My experience in pistol] shooting is very similar to 
that of *“W. F.C.” I found one make of pistols among 
the dozens I have tried that shot accurately without 
resighting. It is # small single-shot, .22-caliber, called 
Remington's vest pocket pistol, Ihave made some remark- 
able shots with them. I remember on one occasion when two 
of the boys were shooting at a postal card with a navy re- 
volver. The card was pinned ona wide board, distance 
seventy yards; they were missing the board when I came up; 
so thinking I could do no less, 1 took a shot with my Rem- 
ington, striking the card very close to the center. I was 
invited to shoot again, bur declined, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

As far as the rifle is concerned a man must be very hard 
to satisfy who cannot be suited with one of the many excel- 
lent guns now in the market. It is simply a matter of taste, 
they are every one good, whether single shot or magazine. I 
have had a good deal of experience with both kinds, and I 
have no further need for a magazine gun. That is only my 
idea, many’ others of my acquaintance think just the oppo- 
site. Still, this discussion is not upon the guns but upon the 
ammunition. More powder is called for, 1 agree with every 
man who has expressed his views. I shoot a .40-60-270 car- 
tridge now with great satisfaction, but I am going to have 
my gua bored for a .40-100-270 cartridge. I think .40-cali- 
ber as near right as it can be fixed for all game with the one 
exception of the grizzly bear; when you hunt him you want 
a Gatling machine gun, or what is better—don’t hunt him. 
A 270-grain bullet is efficient, and will give sufficient shock 
if properly placed for all practical purposes. SAXE?. 


Winter Notes FROM TENNESSEE.—Grand View, Tenn., 
Feb. 8.—The Sunny South for once has experienced a cold 
wave. January has been unusually cold andi raw. Snow 
fell about six inches deep, and remained some ten days, 
which made it a little rough on quail; but I believe they 
came through all right. I have a small spring branch 
bordering one side of my wood fot, which is close to the 
house, and along this branch is a thicket of small brush, 
also a rank growth of weeds, many of which are seed-bear- 
ing. Into this the quail} gathered in‘ quite large numbers, 
where they were completely protected from the storm, My 
wood lot covers about ten acres, and in it are hatched some 
half dozen or more broods every summer, The weather is 
warm and springlike now, and at this present writing I can 
see a flock of more than twenty quail among the hens, 
within six rods of my door, Our house cat would no more 
catch a quail than it would one of our chickens, neither 
would it disturb the small birds which my wife fed durin 
the snow-storm last month. However, I would not yout 
for the honesty of any house cat if it was far from home, or 
short of food. The bluebirds and robins are plenty now; the 
former remains here through the year, but the latter is 
seldom seen here during the summer.—ANTLER. 


GAME IN IDAHO. 


Editor Forestand Stream: 

Noticing that you receive very few communications from 
Idaho, I take the liberty to send you a few notes from letters 
received from a friend located in that Territory near Rocky 
Bar. He writes: ‘‘You hint that you may take a ‘hunt 
that is a hunt’ in the near future. Can’t you come out into 
these mountains? I willfurnish you with camp outtit, etc., 
and guarantee you great sport. Deer and grouse never were 
as plenty inthese parts. Caused no doubt by the stampede 
into the Wood River country, driving the game into the 
mountains east of us. There are no mines in a section of 
the country about thirty miles square to the eastward, and 
the game is very thick. Hight miles from here several two- 

ear-old cattle have been killed by a bear. This ‘old cuss’ 
1s known as a bald-faced grizzly, and tracks are found ten 
by sixteen inches. Is that the kind of game you want? 

“Two of the boys went from camp on a little hunt before 
Christmas, as we needed some fresh meat. They killed nine 
deer, and got them within sixteen miles of camp, They 
were unable to pack them im and had to leave the deer, 
sledge, etc., On account of the snow being so deep (four 
feet). Isent word tothe ranchmen on Boise River to help 
themselves, so the game will not be wasted. One party on 
Big Camas killed seventy-five deer. The boys say they were 
in droves of one hundred or more. Since the Indian hos- 
tilities they have increased rapidly; but I think the railroad 
‘passing down on the sage plains will have a tendency to 
check their assembling.’ " 

«J only wish you could be here in October or November 
and have some sport—it would beat your fishing trips to 
Northern Michigan, If you wanted fish, however, we could 
accommodate you. Two to three pound trout are very 


A. Bear Hontroxea Devicn,—HIlk Rapids, Mich.—Aditor 
Forest and. Stream: Mr. J. B, Squibob, a veteran bear 
slayer of Elk Rapids, Mich., has recently devised (in con- 
junetion with Dr. E. C. C. Kelloge) a combination-gun- 
laihie Aceh aticline plaster for capturing bears dead or alive. 
The gun, a double-barreled breech-and-muzzle-loader, is 
baited, set and hung upin a tree. Then the trunk of the 
tree is greased with the slippery mixture and the sticky stuff 
is spread around on the ground. If the bear succeeds in 
climbing the tree the gun is discharged and bruin drops 
dead, It he slips down the trunk, he must stick fast in the 
patent sticking, Mr, Squibob claims to have known Major 
Verity, of Adironda, who sometimes writes to you. The 
bear device will, it is hoped, be put on the market next 
season.—Moss Back. : 


Oswseo, N. Y.—A large number of whistlers are winter- 
ing in the Oswego River, near Battle Island. Some of the 
members of the Leatherstocking Club have been paying con- 


plenty in the streams below us. Come and get some.” siderable attention to them; O. 8. Osterhout, the presidént, 
" RAIRIB Dog. | bagged fifteen one afternoon recently.—Dan, 
, . 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Fen. 98, 1884, 


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THE HamMeriess is Demanp.—Zditor Forest and 
Stream: A year ago, if any one had told me that at this time 
I would want a hammerless shotenn J should have smilingly 
eapuneled “T guess not,” At that time I considered a gun 
without external hammers a good deal like a cow without 
horns; somewhat of a freak. But opinions change, and 
after having hammers slip from cold thumbs while cocking 
in the field, spoiling one or two canvas cases by the chafing 
of hammers, barking oue’s knuckles on hammers, getting 
whistle cord and watch chain snarled up with the same, and 
last but not least, sceing a mankilled by slipping the butt of 
his cun off froma door step and striking the hammers, 
thereby discharging the piece into his breast, I have come 
to the conclusion that the best place for the hammers is inside 
of the gun.—DorkIn. 


Maine InpictMENTs.—Indictments were found by the 
Grand Jury, February term, against Jeremiah Lynch, having 

artridges in his possession in close time; George Trafton, 

rank Gould and John Spearing, attempting to kill salmon 
by dynamite; George Trafton, Fiank Gould, John Spearing, 
Clarence Peavey and Frank Cram, of Sherman, fishing with 
net in waters not tide waters; J. T. Richards, having trout 
in his possession in close time; James Dunn, killing deer; 
Joseph Gillespie and Lovell Weymouth, hunting deer with 
dogs; Benjamin York, killing caribou; Charles Spearing, 
hunting deer with dogs, 


Carawissa, Pa., Feb. 16 —A number of our sportsmen 
here have been yery active during the past severe winter in 
caring for the quail in this vicinity. They have also suc- 
ceeded in getting some of our farmcrs to take an interest in 
the welfare of the birds. They have now about one hundred 
quail which they have brought through safely by giving 
them protection from the deep snows, and providing feed 
for them. These gentlemen certainly deserve great credit 
for what they have done.—E. 


FRANKFORD GuN CiuB.—A new club has been organized 
in Frankford, Philadelphia, to be known as the ‘‘Frankford 
Gun Club.” Object: Improvement in wing-shooting. The 
officers are: Prevident, Henry Winnemore; Vice-President, 
Henry Longhead; Secretary, R. H. Mellor; Field Captain, 
Alenzo Tolbert, Seeretary’s address, R. H. Menuor, 309 
BE, Octhodox street, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. 


Goop Grounp.—Long Island, Feb. 23.—There are plenty 
of ducks in Sbinneeock Bay; it is estimated to be one hun- 
dred thousand by natives. All redheads and broadbills, and 
still coming by the thousands daily.—Wuinit1am N. Lanr. 


Micuiegan.—Escanaba —A few deer are wintering about 
here, but there are as many wolves asdeer. No one kills 
the wolves, as there is no bounty on them, This, J think, is 
a great mistake,—A. F. Y. 


Quaiz iy lowa.—YVail, Feb. 18.—We are having very 
little snow in this vicinity so far this winter, and the quail 
are doing nicely —E. B. B. 


Sea and River Fishing. 


PRIVATE PONDS OUT OF SEASON. 


N New Hampshire the question has been set at rest 
whether sn owner of a private pond, not communi- 
cating with public waters, may take fish from it out of sea- 
son. Inthat State he may. Jn the suit of the State against 
Roberts the indictment was set aside. 

The Court said; ‘'The right to have migratory fish pass in 
their accustomed course up and down rivers and streams is a 
public right, which may he regulated and protected by the 
Legis’ature, and so far as the waters of this State are com- 
mon passage ways for fish, they are of a public character 
and subject to legislitive control. The tikiog and killing 
of certain kinds of fish and game at certain seasons of the 
yeer tend to the destruction of the privilege by the destruc- 
tion consequent upon the unrestrained exercise of the right. 
This is reyarded as injurious to the community, and there- 
fore it is within the authority of the Legislature to impose 
restrictions and limitations upon the time and mauner of 
taking fish and game considered valuable as articles of food 
or merchandise. For this purpose fish and game laws 
are enacted, The power to enact such Jaws was 
exercised previous to the adoption of the constitution, 
and it has been so long used, and so beneficially for the 
public, that it ought not nuw to be called in question, But 
while the Legislature has power to regulate and limit the 
time and manner of taking fish in waters which are public 
breeding places or passage ways for fish, it bas not assumed 
to interfere with the privileges of the owners of priv- 
ate ponds having no communication through which fish 
are accustomed to pass to other waters. Such ponds, 
whether natural or artificial, are regarded as private 
property, and the owners muy take fish therefrom 
whene,er they choose withuut restraint from any 
legi-lutive enactment, since the exercise of this right in 
no way interferes with the rights of others. The Legisla- 
ture protects the owners of such ponds in the enjoyment of 
their privileges, and they are expressly excepted from the 
statutory restrictions by the third section of the act upon 
which the indictment in this case is founded, The dcfend- 
ant is in possession, claiming the ownership of North Pond, 
There is no sugge-tion that the public have any rights in its 
waiters other than as a breeding-place for the supply of fish 
tu other streams, or a channel for their passage, If, as the 
defendant claims, the trout are within his control, and there 
is no communication through which they can pass froia the 
pond to other waters, the indictment cannit be maintained, 
Lf, as is claimed in behalf of the State, there is free com- 
munication through which trout pass from the pond to the 
streams |vading into it and to the Ammonoosuc River, the 
indictment cau be maintuined upon proof of those facts.” 

J am not aware that this poiat has been settled in tke State 
ot New York. Query: If the owner of a pond, the 
source of stream, Keep wire across the outlet so no fish can 
pass out, has he the control and possession spoken of in the 
jovegoing decision, which will allow him to catch fish out of 
sexsun? I .think I know one thing that will result from 
such a wire dum, and that is that, af a trout stream and trout 
pond, the fish not being able to run up from the stream into 
tue pond to spawn, the fish in the latter will frst grow very 
large from over-fceding, aud will then steadily diminish in 


numbers from not being reinforced annually in the natural 
, way from the stream. J 
“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is 
it withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to pov- 
erty. 
A very nice point has been suggested by Mr. Roe. of Roe 
& Macklin, of this city, whether the placing of fish from a 
public hatchery in any part of astream would not give a 
public right of fishery in all parts of that stream, no matter 
if a long p*ece of it were privately owned and preserved, be- 
cause the fish would spread from the part where they are 
put in; and that New Hampshire decision would seem indi- 
rectly to sustain this view. For myself, I do not think the 
right of the distant owner could be so affected without his 
knowledge and consent. Mr, Roe is a famous lawyer, how- 
ever, and a good disciple, who annually makcs a pilgrimage 
to the Neyersink. GEO, W. VAN SICLEN. 
New York, Feb, 11, 1884. 


A PENNSYLVANIA CASE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In a letter to your journal from this city, under date of 
Jan, 21, the writer refers to large bunches of quail, grouse 
and rabbits as being exposed for sale in our market, which he 
says were evidently killed alter: Jan. 1, in which caseit would 
be a violation of the law. The letter also refers to the 
Lycoming Sporitsmen’s Association, and asks whether the 
city has any game wardens. The organization still exists, 
and its object is (or was) for the more rigid enforcement of 
the game and fish laws in this locality. It is in a healthy 
condition and numbers upward of one hundred members. 
An executive committee is elected each year, and it is the 
duty of each member of this committee to report any viola- 
tion of the law that they may see, or that may be reported 
to them, and prosecute the offenders if the case is strong 
enough to warrant it. Each member of this committee may 
properly be called a game warden. Until within the past 
year our club has manifested considerable interest in the 
enforcement of the game and fish laws and the protection of 
game and fish. The cases prosecuted by us were from an 
honest standpoint, and the spirit is still in us to continue the 
work; but in the last undertaking we were so decidedly “‘sat 

‘down upon” that our members have become -discouraged, 
and at present are not as active as they otherwise would 
have been, ‘The case in question will define our pcsition. 

We arrested parties for seining, which we thought was 
contrary to the act of Assembly, which reads: ‘No person 
shall draw a drag net or seine in any of the waters of this 
commonwealth.” The waters in which the seine was drawn 
was a mill-pond which is fed by a canal, and the canal by 
the Susquehanna River, and the fish have free accvss to all 
the waters named, The dcfense was, that the mill-pond 
was private property, and the defendants had permissi n 
from a part owner to seine. Our view of the ca-e was that 
the pond was not owned in its entirety by the party granting 
the permission, and the fact of the fish not being confined 
made them common property, and the law had therefore 
been violated. The case was heard by an alderman, both 
sides being represented by counsel, and a judgment given 
in our fayor, the alderman basing his decision on a decision 
of the Supreme Court in a purallel case, which is as follows: 

Pennsylvania State Reports (12 Norris, p. 458, ete.)—“It 
the waters of a pond cover a Jarge surface of land, and one 
whose lands are covered by a part only of the water, places 
fish therein for the purpose of propagation, it does not thereby 
became a private pond. To bring 1t within the act of 1876, the 
whole pond must heso far private property as to confine therein 
the fish with which it is stocked; the ownership of a part only 
of the land covered by the water is not sufficient to give to the 
whole water the distinctive character of private, the pond 
must be treated asan entirety, either the whole or none is 
private.” 

The case was appealed. At the term of court in which 
it was to be tried, the judge, in his charge to the Grand 
Jury, alluded to it, and his remarks were in substance about 
as follows: ‘‘The defendants had just as much right to 
seine and take fish from that pond under the circumstances 
as a farmer would have to take his cattle from the pasture 
field.” Upon the strength of these remarks, we presume, 
the Grand Jury ignored the bill of indictment, ana the costs, 
amounting to some $75, were put upomthe prosecutors. We 
were somewhat surprised to find our labor disposed of in 
this manner, for we took the precaution to consult several 
of our most prominent attorneys before commencing the 
action, and they all said our case was a very plain one. When 
this seining was done quite a number of black bass were 
caught, and we could have brought another action under 
the same law, but our protection not being assured, we con- 
cluded to give the matter the go by. 

The quail, grouse and rabbits referred to were exposed for 
sale right in front of the entrance to our club room, and 
many of our members spoke about the Jaw in the matter, 
but none seemed to have any inclinativn to make an investi- 
gation for the reason of our failure in what appeared to be 
a plain case. I very much doubt whether a single piece of 
the game was killed in this locality, or in this State, but 
rather think it was the production of other States, and in 
that case I do not believe the luws of Pennsylvania would 
be affected. 

A MEMBER oF THE LycominG SPORTSMEN’S CLUB. 

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Feb, 13, 1884. 


THE BEST COLOR FOR LEADERS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Nothing has appeared of late in the Forest anp STREAM 
which 1 appreciated more highly than Mr. Wells’s article on 
the ‘Best Color for Leaders.” And now, in furtherance of 
the idea of ‘looking at the leader from beneath the water,” 
I have an idea which I can’t better illustrate than by giving 
a bit of experience. Near us we have a stream in which 
the fish—trout—are scarce and wild. They are exceedingly 
suspicious of any kind of tackle. Is not such water the very 
place to test my tackle? I had repeatedly cast the most 
tempting flies, with a mist-colored l.ader, without effect. A 
soliloquy followed: **That Icader is not natural to the water 
net to the every-day life of the fish.” 1 adjourned toa ucigh- 
boring meadow and cut three or four long, leafy timothy 
stalks, which I very loosely whipped on my leader. There 
was no casting, but simply letting the line float with the 
current over the most likely places. Complete success was 
my reward. 

r, Wells’s article bothers me in one particular. “The 
best trout, etc., can’t pull one pound on a flexible rod,” and 
the big, muscular man, only 1}pounds. According to that, 
if we were to hook a “‘real live Sete he would on) 
strain the tackle to the extent of about 9.006 pounds. Is 


SE tC 


there a strain of only a pound, or a little more, on the line 
when a salmon Jeads a skiff all over a little Jake? There 
may be a clear explanation, but I am fearfully in the fog. 
Forty-NINER. 


The communication of ““Forty-Niner” having been referred 
to Mr. Wells, that gentleman has favored us with the fol- 
lowing comments upon it; 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

The communication of ‘‘Forty-Niner” has been received, 
and read as requested. 

In regard to the first paragraph, it is to be wished that all 
anglers would follow this most excellent example and print 
any unusual experience. You have provided a column for 
that. express purpose, and it is a great pity it is not more 
used. After a while some enthusiast would collate, com- 
pare and publish these scattered facts, and a decided ad- 
vance in the art would regnlt. 

To we this paragraph is second in interest to no angling 
intelligence I have met foraione time. It tends strongly 
to confirm an idea forced on me by my own investigations, 
but in regard 10 which, from dislike to hasty conclusions 
drawn from insufficient data, 1 had decided to say nothing 
until the weather permitted the test of further experiment. 

I am inclined to believe that more impeelant than fishing 
up or down stream, more important than wearing brilliant 
or sober-tinted clothing, more important than wading rather 
than fishing from the bank, more important than a dry ora 
wet flv, more important than being yourself visible or con- 
cealed, more important, indeed, than any of the dozen dif- 
ferent cautions of the books, is it to have your leader abso- 
lutely invisible, or, if that is impossible, then at least that it 
prisent to the trout no unusual or unfamiliar appearance. : 

That, in or on smooth water, the leaders in present use fill 
neither of these conditions, unless my experiments deceive 
me, L cannot doubt. Whether it is possible to make a leader 
which will always comply with either of them is another 
ouestion, Certainly the first step toward supplying a want 
is to recognize its existence. ‘Forty-Niner’s” leader, pre- 
pared as described, did comply with one of these conditions, 
and the “complete success” which attended its use is yery in- 
structive ‘‘to all who are willing to be admonished.” 

The statement that “the best trout, etc., can’t pul) one 
pound on a flexible rod” seems to stagger Mr, “‘Forty-Niner.” 
It would not be difficult to answer, on theoretical grounds, 
the objections he so considerately suggests, rather than 
asserts. But no theory has the convincing power of direct 
experiment, Let him try it for himself. 

If he will take a sinvle-handed fiexible rod, run the line 
through the rings and about three feet beyond the tip, tie a 
loop ia the end of the line, hook a spring balance into that 
loop, get afriend to hold the spring balance down close to the 
floor and follow up with it the natural bend the rod will as- 
sume and the direction of the line,always holding the bal- 
ance close to the floor; and if he will at the same time take 
the rod in one hand, with the butt clear of the body, and pul 
on all the strain he possibly can, when his friend reads off 
the indications of the spring balance, he will then be in posi- 
tion to compare the strain he has exerted with the severest 
pull a trout bas ever imposed on him; and then he can and 
will draw his own conclusions as to the truth or falsily of 
that statement. Henry P, WELLS. 

New York Ciry, Feb. 25. 

|Page 70, fourth paragraph from end of Mr, Wells’s 
article, for ‘‘us’’ read we. | 


THE STATE IN SCHUYLKILL., 


N his ‘‘Chronicle of the Compleat Angler,” Mr. Thomas 
Satchell writes as follows of the famous Philadelphia 
Angling Club: 

He was preceded, in L830, by an anonymous author, whose 
work has bicomea rarity, evenin its birthplace, while only 
on or two copies have found their way to our shores, It is 
entitled ‘‘An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill 
Fishing Company, of the State of Schuylkill, from its es- 
tablishmert«-n that romantic stream, near Philadelphia, in the 
year 1782 to the present time. By a Member,’* We lay 
no claim to literary value iu relatien to this tract, but as it 
has the signal merit of giving us an insight into what 
angling life m America was'a century and a half ago, it 
cannot fail to be of intcrest to all Waltonians. We have, 
therefore, not to excuse a brief digression on its behalf. 

In that year of grace, 1732, Philadelphia was the center of 
an infant colony,a colony struggling up, indeed, into strength 
and stability, but with a world of work on all hands, still 
left to be achieved, ere the rough, primitive forms of the 
settlement could be mellowed into order and harmony, Toil 
and turmoil must, therefore, have been the order of the day, 
aud leisure and recreation mere remote contingencies, From 
this point of view, itis nothing short of a marvel that, at 
the date jst cited, certain contemplative citizens of the new 
capital did actually establish this tishing club, or company, 
and set it going, with a governor at its head, five assembly men, 
a treasurer, sheriff, eighteen associates and the lugubrious 
appendage of a ‘*coroncr.” Several of the projectors of the 
ciuo had come over with Penn fiom England, and bad been 
fellow workers with Lim in bis colonial scheme; and it is but 
reasonable to suppose that an affvctionate memory of the 
old land they lad left forever, and of happy youthful 
days spent, angle in hand, beside its lakes and water- 
courses, lay at the root of theirproceeding. If so, they must 
have been met by many points of divergence. Instead of 
wenting to their sport through the grassy English meadows 
of “auld Jang syne,” their path lay through the uncleared 
wilderness, which, at the period in question, overshadowed 
the very walls of the town, and from that center stretched 
out west, north and south, in limitless expansion. Instead 
of speckled trout cud silver gruyling, they had to fill their 
ereek with lumbering ‘‘catfish,” or at best. with ‘‘white 
perch,” And instead of partaking, when their sport was 
over, ef smoking sirloin, or venison pastry, flanked with 
creamy ale, or sack-posset, they were regaled on ‘“‘rock and 
gray squirrel,” with a thin accompaniment of lemonade. 
‘Punch and pipes,” and occasionally a “barbacued pig, 
are the only English-sounding adjuncts of their repasts, It 
is but fair to add, however, thatthe club grew proud of their 
white perch in the course of time, and that some American 
anglers of the present day Jand it above the trout.t+ , 

Having obtained the grant of about an acre of land ona 


*+An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Com- 
pany of tue Slate in Schuylkill. srom its establishment on that ro- 


mauticsiream, near Philudelphia, in the year 1732 to the present, 
time. By a Member [Willia, Milver, Junr.|. 

Si you lo kto its antiquity, itis most ancient,— 

If to its dignity, most boncurable,— ~ 


_«sTf to its jurisdiction. itis most exvensive. 
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson. 1830.” 
lation : 


sis Hee anbh white bass, or Lebraw pallidus of De Ray. 


_ at = 
ise above the stre am, they took possession of it, 
aniguilo ee y “The State in Schuylkill,” and 


ive gatherings. Here they are 


certainly not on him who, a century after its foundatinn, 
compiled tiie memoir in question. For we are compelled to 
avow of this “member,” that though parcel facetious, parcel 
flowery, parcel bacchanalian, he is pdss/m illiterate and 
feeble, His orthography halts, his syntax has a frequent 
analogy with that of “Shrewsbury Barker,” cork and pisca- 
tor, who he refers to as *‘T. Barker, Asquive.” 'Vhis is a 
‘disappointine fact; for, in skillful hands, the theme might 
em woven into a very charming chronicle, rich in 
quaint glimpses of early coloniai life, and presenting the 
angier's sport 10 us in startliag and unfamiliar aspects. 
— When the War of Independence broke out, several of the 
Schuylkill fishermen took up arms in the good cause, with 
honor to themselves and their association, but returned (such 
as Were spared), when the strife was at an end, to their pen- 
sive pasiime and their beloved white perch with undimin- 
ished ardor, There must have been grand talks under the 
castle walnut trces, in the long summer twilights, when these 
glorious absentees came back to their haunts, and unusual 
dust have been the demand for “punch and pipes,” while 
they “fought their battles o'er again,” for the benefit of their 
less fuvored gossips, One need not be Fine-car to catch, even 
now, the rattle of the assault, the thunder of the climax, and 
Schuylkill murmuring in the pauses, among its rocks and 
In the ninetieth year of its existence our company had to 
- dravy its stakes and move further afield. A dam, built across 
the stream in their immediate neighborhood, frustrated the 
Sport by keepmeg the fish from their fveding grounds, 

Another site haying been selected, the castle was pulled to 
pieces, packed in a boat, and conveyed, with all the com- 
_ pany’s heirlooms and household gods, its ‘‘mammoth punch 
bowl,” its ‘‘Mandarin hats,” its “great pewter plates,” 
“Governor Morris’s frying pan,” and ‘the banner of the 
Stripes and Stars,” to its new destination. ‘There founda- 
ious of stone were laid for it, and the ‘‘Hall of Congress” 
oon reared its head once more with renovated splendor, 
We say this from the Schuy!killian point of view, for a 
sketch of the building, ficuring as a frontispiece, we took at 
rst, we confess, to bea ‘Tittle Bethe!.” A description, 
1owever, underneath set us right, The carpenter who exe- 
uted this wooden exedus received, we are told, a vote of 
Thauks and the liberty of the State for a year. 
Tt was in their new location in 1825 that one of the most 
ue citing incidents of their history occurred, in the shape of 
a visit irom the famous General Ja Fayette, thea on a tour 
_ through the provinces of Amejica; while, in 1787, the com- 

pany had received the still greater honor of a visit from 

General Washington, bot no record of that interesting cere- 
“mony has been preserved. 
_ It will have been seen from the foregoing that sport in the 
Sehuylkill possessed but little variety; catfish and white 
erch seem, indeed, fo have formed the staple of it, though 
shad, sturgeon and drumfish were sometimes taken, The 
tter (Pogonias eromis) having been recommended as a sub- 
stitute for rockfish, was exprrimented on by the company; 
af, though ‘richly dressed in the lobster style,” it turned 
ut “as tough as a drumbead,” and was eschewed thence- 
forth. On a soli‘ary occasion-a trout was captured (‘‘on a 
lay-out line, by Mr. Benjamin Scull”) that measured fifteen 
‘inches, Mr. Scull was dubbed ‘the prince of fishermen” 
in consequence, and the event was marked with a while 
stone, but found no paraliel. 

Here our retrospection of this curious book may termin- 

ate. A. hundred and fifty-one years, as we have said, have 
elapsed since the Association was founded; modern improve- 
* ments have greatly altered the character of the river, blasted 

‘its rocks, changed its levels, and converted it from a brawl- 
ing impetuous torrent, into a purling and peaceable stream, 
at still the Schuylkill Company lives and prospers (Dr. 
Bethune is our sponsor for this assertion), and still above the 
ords rises the glitvering vane of iis Hall of Congress. Re- 
emberme, then, that this American Angling Association 
8 the oldest in the world—that the Walton and Cutton Club 
infantine compared with it—that, as itsimotto declares— 

“If we look to its antiquity, it is most ancient; 
Tf to its dignity, itis most honorable; 

emay well doff our hats to it, ina passing but reverent 
rreeting, Silve, Magister! 


5S 


I cently printed in the Century Magazine.) . 


__ Bie Sturczron.—! have several times read of sturgcon 
weighing one hundred pounds and called big. ‘‘Verax,” in 
a recent issue of FoRrsr AnD Stream, tells us abont boaat- 
ing eleven sturgeon ina yawlboat. We (on the Delaware; 
call a five huodred-pound sturgeon a biy one. *‘‘Verax” 
landed his fish over the bow. We boat ours over the stern. 
We catch them with a net and raise the net where the fish 
- We raise it in the same way you would a crab line, and 
soon as his head comes up, book him back of the fin or 
oul three inches back of the eye. After being hovked, 


the net is taken off of hishead and another hook is diiven 


ofaguffhook? I ask this for information, never having 
D 
Vv 
‘th 


ment (the ‘‘Castle”) for their 


[An illustrated sketch of ‘The Statein Schuylkill” was. 


iuto bim in the same way, his head is raised on the stern, | 


_ A Krxerisser Lost Hrs Dryner.—Chatham, N, Y.— 
[had been fishing down stream (casting my files with quite 
oon results for me, having twelve or fifteen nice trout in my 
asket) when a look at the sun warned me to retrace my 
steps in order to have the twilight fishing in a few favorite 
places. I thought I would make just one more cast in a 
little pool, shaded hy a low willow, a few rods below the 
bridge on which I was standing. As [cleared the fence L 
heard the shrill screech of the kingfisher, and a moment later 
he darted like an arrow from a limb of the willow into the 
pool. Fora few seconds it seemed asif he had gone to stay 
(and I wish he had and taken the rest of bis tribe with him, 
especially those who infest our trout streams). He soon, 
however, came to the: surface, and for a little time it was 
hard to tell which would have the best of it, the bird or the 
trout. The bird, however, soon cleared his wings from the 
water and rose from the brook with nearly a four-ounce 
trout in bis murderous beak. My tir-t impulse was to get 
square with the kingfisher for spoiling my cast in that pool, 
and for spearing the trout which I anticipated taking in an 
honorable and legitimate way a few moments later on my 
red hackle. $0, waiting till he was clear of the brook, then 
throwing up my arms gave a yell which, in order to answer, 
the bird was obliged to open his beak, and out dropped the 
trout on the bank, which I leisurely proceeded to place with 
the others, which had been procured with more labor, but 
with the enjoyment which can only be felt by the angler 
with an eight or ten-ounce rod in hand and a good-sized t:out 
tugging away atthe end of thirty-five or forty feet of line.— 
Dei, 


SMALL F'rres.—Roslyn, L. I., Feb. 18.—When only a boy, 
I passed some months of iny life among the hills of Craven, 
Yorkshire, England. lt was then and there that 1 was 
taught fly-fishing for trout by my grandfather, and my pres- 
ent reason for dropping you this linc is that. last evening 
while examining my fishing tackle I chanced upon one of 
the English flies, and material for leaders such as I then 
used. inelosed herewith you will find them, and will see 
that the leader is of a single fine horse hair, while the fly is 
no more than one-third the size of those used by most of my 
trouting friends here. The specimens I send bave been in 
my possession some thirly years, and are still equal to cap- 
turing a good-sized fish. Ihave used both flies and leaders 
precisely like those inclosed on my trout poud here, and find 
that the fish will rise to such fine tackle on a Dright summer 
day when they will pay no attenton to the coarse American 
trouting outfits. Our American rods and reels cannot be ex- 
celled in delicacy, why then do we tisk with clothesliucs? Of 
course it needs a gentle hand to take a thrve-pound trout on 
asingle horse hair, but then ‘tis true sport, and I, for one, 
think that cod fishing should be confined to the smack and 
her crew.—Tuomas CnapHam. [We will try the lilile 
midge this spring. Thanks, | 


SmuLv Prsaing.—sSaco, Me., Heb, 18.—There are eighteen 
smelt shanties on the ice near this city, larger than the tents 
at Belfast, with boarded roof and sides, and furnished with 
stove, lamps and bunks, so the fisherman can sleep when the 
emelts do not bite. The fishing is done wholly at night. It 
is not apaying business, as there are weeks at a time when 
but very few are taken, and, when biting the best, five or six 
dozen is considered a large catch for one night. Last Tues- 
day night J. W. McCorrison caught a sturgeon on his smelt 
line that measured 8 feet 8inches. lt was hooked close to 
and just in front of the mouth, and drawn to the surface 
with the line, then by the use of a. gaff 1f was landed on the 
shanty floor. The next night McUorrison caught on the 
same line a sucker, measuring 19 inches, and it is claimed 
here that it is the first fish of the kind ever taken through 
the ice.—W. F. CUMMINGS. 


Hisheuliure. 


HOW TO COOK CARP. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of Dec. 6 I notice some remarks as to the 
qualities and how to cook carp. Below please find a few re- 
ceipts translated from a German cook-book. As a general rule 
the pond carp is not considered good to eat during the summer 
months, May, June, July, August (during and after spayyn- 
ing), but at all other times it is 2, most excellent table fisn. 

Receipt No. 1. 


Clean a carpof about five pounds well, and split and cut it 
into convenient pieces. gke three tablespcontuls salt, ha:t a 
dozen kernels black pepper, same of allspice and cloves, a 
few cardamones, tour laurel leaves, a medium-sized onion, 
some celery and a sliced carrot, and a quart of water (or 
enough to cover the carp); let these boil together fifteen min- 
utes, putin the carp, scale side down, head pieces first, middle 
pieces next, tail pieces on top, and let boil fifteen minutes 
longer; add one-haif pound butter in small pieces and a gill of 
red wine, or in place of wine pour one-half gill warm vinegar 
over the pieces of carp before putting them into the pot, and 
add it to the boiling Boil fifteen minutes longer; take ont 
the pieces and serve with browne.l butter and slices of lemon, 

Receipt No. 2. 

Clean and split a five-pound carp and rub two tablespoons- 
ful salt well into both sides and let stand two hours ina 
covered dish. Take some spices and herbs asin No. 1, and 
boil thoroughly with one pint water, one pint 1ed wine, one- 
half pint beer, cne-half pint vinegar, some lemon peel, bread 
erust, and one ounce sugar, After this has well boiled, cut 
the carpin convenient pieces, put into the pot and boil till 
only about half the sauce is left, serve as before. 

Receipt No. 3. 

Clean ‘a good sized carp carefully by opening it as little as 
possible, cut off fins and tail; make a number of crosscuts on 
one side, rub the fish well with two tablespoonsiul salt, let it 
stand covered for some hours, then dry it with a towel. Make 
a filling of four ounces tallow or fresh fat pork, four yolks of 
eggs, some wheat bread slightly softened with water, three 
sardelles, some capers, mace, salt, pepper; lemon peel, onion, 
and the liver of the carp (but besure that the gall is tirst 
carefully removed) all chopped very fine, fill the carp and sew 
up the opening. Putit into a bak ng dish with the cut side 
up with one pint wine, one-half pint vmegar, one-quarter 
pound. butter, spices and herbs as in No. 1, and a few stices of 
jemon, bake quickly for three-quarter hours and baste tre- 
quently. Don’t ture the fish while baking. 


Receipt No. 4. 
Take carp of one to two pounds, scale and clean well, rub 
inside and ont with plenty of salt, let stand an hour or two 
wipe dry with a towel, roll in well-beaten eggs and bread 


Shes or meal and bake in plenty of butter till nicely 


— Reteipt No, 5. 


SS eas oe : *: p- 1 ace the pi 
Bihar eet Ag ne 


e 


+ 


ces in @ bowl with a few 
ol - 


89. 


slices of lemon, add to the sauce one-half pint vinezar and boil 
same till only enowzh left to cover the carp in thebowl. Pour 
the sauce over the carp through a sieve and let it cool 
thorouzhly. 


I tried receipt No. 1 on bass and found them excellent, 


* . 


Wrastar, Mass., Dac. 10, 1882. 


WHAT FISHCULTURE HAS FIRST TO ACCOM- 
PLISH, 
BY CHAS. W. SMILEY. 


GHNERAL impression prevails that fishculture proposes 

to immediately fll our streams with fish, to such an ex- 

tent that the supply will be practically inexhaustible. In 

order to show that thisisa very extravagant expectation, 
attention is called to the following facts: 

Any tract of country needs to be but sparsely populated in 
order that its inhabitants may soon exhaust it of desirable 
food fishes, The native powers of the fish for reproduction 
and srowth are not sufficient to withstand theinroads of man, 
when added. to any considerable extent, to the natural 
enenties with which they are surrounded. Very early in the 
history of the United States, its leading rivers were mostly 
depopulated of the best fish. A hundred years ego nearly all 
the streams of New York which emptied into the Great Lakes 
were visited annually by salmon in such enormous quantities 
that ther numbers seem to us ineredible. There are most 
authentic accounts which point tothe water being fairly alive 
with them in maby places, when seeking the upper waters of 
these streams for the purpose of spawning. It is well known 
also that the Connecticut, 2udson and Susquehanna rivers 
were at that early time visited by vast schools of shad, 
and the former, at least, by considerable quantities of salmon. 
Such a population as the Atlantic States contained seventy 
years ago was sufficient to exhaust these rivers of the more 
valuable focd fishes, and before artific‘al tshculture was 
undertaken many streams had remained in this exhausted 
condition for a considerable length of time. 

The fir-t and great task of fisheulfi e, therefore, is not so 
much to increase the nrmber of edible fishes in any given 
stream as to withstand the enormous forces which are at 
work to produce their entire annihilation, As illustrative of 
this, the presence of shad in the Potomac River may be cited. 
For some years prior to the war of 1361-65, the shad_ fisheries 
of the Potomac had been practicslly exhau=ted. They had 
reached so low a limit that it was very unprofitable to fish 
the stccam, and its barrenness hetped to deter men trom fish- 
ing; but the occupation of fhe banks of the river by hostile 
forces for the petiod of nearly four years made fshing practi- 
cally impossible, and gave nature an opportunity to 1estore 
the fisheries. As a consequence, at the elose of the war it 
was found that the river had peen restocked to such an extent 
that the yield fora few years was very large indeed. The 
presence of large numbers of tish, however, called out the 
lishermen, and there was a steady decline, annually, dv the 
yield, and, had it not been-for artificial. propagation, there 
would not be shad enough remaining in the river at present to 
warrant any fisherman in using a hundred-fathom seine. 
Fisheuture. however, was brought in as a restorative. Bach 
year since 1873 the United States Fish Commission has hatched 
and deposited from one miilion to ten millions, the numbers 
inereasing annually. The principal result, however, has been 
fo prevent anihilation rather than to cause considerable in- 
créase in the fisheries. The number of shad received at the 
Washington market annually for the past five years were as 
follows: 


TW ce. etc ado ceh tos see te eee a 311,585 
SoU hs Sag ba At PER oh Ay alee eee or 320,799 
DRO nc dere SUPT ame at ech ae en 850.202 


WGA Ass ade ot oeetl folie bs Peace recstopesh-cserathe tare cee ad ... 261,474 

In spite of the best efforts possible during these years the 
catch has declined. That for 1885 is smaller than might rea- 
sonably have beea expected, because the temperatures of the 
river happened to be unusually low during the spawning sea- 
son, and there is good reason to believe that many fish were 
diverted to other tributaries of the Chesapeake which would 
legitimately have come into the Potomae as a fruit of fishcul- 
ture on that river. 

The fish of our rivers have not only to contend with enemies 
within their water, suchas a sreat variety of carnivorous fishes: 
the destruction of their esgs by numerous forms of aquatic 
animals; the injuries of abnormal temperature ars! sudden 
| changes thereof, and the damage produced by sawdust, sew- 
| age, acd other filth introduced into the rivers; but the agres- 
sive character of our citizens hes told against the food fishes 
in increasing ratioannually. ‘The inerease of population pro- 
duces a corresponding ine: ease in the demand for these fishes, 
bat the nuimerous facilites which moderu inventions have 
brouzht to the aid of the fisherman in the way ef wholesale 
appliances tor capturing this kind of food complicate the ques- 
tion exceedinely. If fishine with rude appliances a hundred 
years aro was sufficient to exhaust a river of shad, what may 
be said of the ingenious traps and the miles of netting operated 
by horse power with which fish are met to-day? To success- 
fwly run the zauntlet of a series of nets, but afew rods or 
miles apiurt.upsi a coasiler.dl> portioa of tha leazth of the 
river, and to elude the fisherman even on a flood-tide at mid- 
night, has becone practically impossible. Fishculture thus 
has all the natural disadvantages of a hundred years ago to 
contend with, and has the accumulated insenuity of nineteen 
eenturies to circumvent, in ordereyen to maintain a decent 
supply of food fishes, 

A striking example of the taskof fishculture may be found 
at the Great Lakes. He would indeed he rash who would call 
upon the hali-developed scicnce of fishculture under existing 

circumstances to materially increase the supply of food fishes 
in the Great Lakes. Its mission is rather to try and keep the 
supply up to three-fourths, two-thirds, or even one-half of 
what these lakes formerly yielded, -In 1871 there were 281 
pound-nets being used’ in Lake Michigan, and 481 gill-nets, 
These appliances were sufficient to cause a continual decrease 
inthe number of fish contained inthese enormous bodies of 
water, and, fishculture aside, were sufficientto practically ex- 
terminate the fish in foity years. But in 1879 the 281 pound- 
nets had been replaced by 476 pounds-nets, an! the 450 gill- 
nets by 24,599 gill-nets, Steam tugs devoted to fishing, scarcely 
used.in 1871, pumibered thirty in that lake in 1879, Wuither- 
more, the larger fish of the lake having been caught, it be- 
came necessary to decrease the size of mesh of the nets, and 
to lengthen the nets, so that without doubt there have been 
for several years nets enough in use on Lake Michigan to reach 
entirely around thelake. Fishculture aside, and without any 
additional efficieney inapparatus, it isonly a question of some 
ten years when.the whitefish and trout fisheries will be en- 
tirely exhausted. » 

Fishculture is practically a science of the past fifteen years. 
it has not yet reached a stage of efficiency which can cope 
with any such state of affairs as present themselves on thesa 
Great Lakes. HWven if five mijlions of dollars and fility men are. 
placed at the service of the State Wish Co. missioners in the 
interest of tshculture, what are these in the contest with 
50,000,000 of peap:e demanding food, and millions upon mil- 
lions of capital naturally drawn upon to supply their need. 
The fruits of fislentture, like bread thrown upon the water, 
mnust return alter many days. It must wait the coming of 
the young fish to maturity before results are apparent. The 
lishermen, however, rea}: the {i uit of their Jabors on the same 
day, if at all, and thus know the degree of success they are at- 
taining at any hour. With them it is largely a question of 
musels; they put down theia nets and hau! up their fish. Wi 
fishoulture it is a serious question of scientitio knowledge, It 


—— 


a 
90 


has not professed to yet know many of the needed facts with 
reference to the embryonic life of fishes, suitable temperatures 
of water, how to secure proper forms and kinds of food, ete, 
These are questions which must be solved by careful and con- 
tinued study, and, while the past ten years have been all spent 
in this respect, there yet remains an enormous deal to be 
learned. It is as if all agricultural implements, all knowl- 
edge of seeds, soils, climate, and treatment of vegetables were 
blotted out of existence, and we had in ten or fifteen years to 
bring the science of agriculture from nothingness up to where 
it could supply the wants of 50,000,000, while but fifty or a 
hundred people were engaged in the effort and all the re- 
imainder of the 50,000,000 were arraigned practically in hostility 
to their efforts. 

That, however, this citation of some of the difficulties of 
fishculture may not discourage any one from the enormous 
undertaking, I will close with citing one of the most remark- 
able of the successes thus far attained. The salmon canneries 
of the Sacramento River annually increased in number until 
by 1870 the entire run of salmon was being caught and util- 
ized. The greatest natural capacity of the river under these 
circumstances may be considered to have been reached in 
1875 when the yield to the canneries was 5,096,781 pounds, 
The first possible fruits of fishculture were in 1876, when the 

oung of 1873 may be supposed to have returned. Phe United 
States hatchery was established in the latter year at Baird, 
Shasta county, Cal,, anda half amillion young released in 
1873 and again in 1874, «In 1875 the number was increased to 


PRU ea tieed 4 bd och 8 8 ot cet we bed ares 10,857,000 pounds. 
1881...... Pe ble pis eick Leh ane 9,600,000 ‘* 
BON einige Celera aye; pomy Tuer ee pet aes 9,605,000 ** 
BSN ON ole phe m2 1s ine ab eee ea cass 9,586,000 * 


x 
4,500,000 pounds, it will be seen that there is a very large per 
cent. of profit in artificial fishculture, when conducted under 
circumstances as favorable as these. 

Asulustrative of what present apparatus worked by skilled 
fishermen at the instance of very thickly settled regions will 
do, I will cite the Farmington River in Connecticut. Artificial 
hatching was carried on there for several years previous to 


1879. That year it was discontinued. The catch was affected 
as follows: 

ASSL scatoh of shaders 2.56082 48 ay jds cea ee 11,505 

1882, Gatch Of SHAM... cies ceevee es eseee esas OSOU0 

1885, catch of shad..........,.. pone See ae 1,155 


Bearing in mind that three years are required, the effect 
will be observable. In 1579 the Connecticut Commissioners 
prophesied just what has occurred there. In 1881 hatching 
was resumed, and a consequent increase in catch for 1884 is 
predicted, 


Unitep STATES. FisH Commission, Feb. 20, 1884. 


THE U. S. COMMISSION IN MICHIGAN. 


As the Northville and Alpena stations of the United States 
4 Fish Commission in Michigan there was laid in a round hun- 


dred millions of whitefish eggs last fall. Of these there have 


been shipped twelve millions to different States and foreign 
countries, it is expected that from 70,000,000 to 75,000,000 
will be hatched and the fry planted in the great lakes. 

Brook trout have yielded over 250,000 eggs during the last 
three months of the past yearfrom the Northville ponds. 
These have all been disposed of—200,000 to the different 
States and 25,000 to Germany. 

Lake trout, from Lake Huron, furnished nearly 300,000 eggs 
during November and December; 100,000 of these were sent to 
Germany and 25,000 to the central station at Washington. 
The remainder will be hatched and distributed from North- 

e, : 

Rainbow trout reared at Northville haye developed into 
spawmners, and it is probable that ina few years they will 
spawn at the same season as the brook trout. This lastseason 
they began spawning on Dec, 19, several days before the last 
brook trout eggs were taken, and the rest will finish before 
the first of March. Upto Feb. 1, 50,000 eggs were taken, 

At Alpena the McDonald jars work better for whitefish 
than at Northville, because there is a greater head of water 
and five jarscan be operated in a series, The ponds at North- 
ville contain from 230 to 300 young whitefish from five to 
eight inches in length. They were hatched there last year, 
and have been fed on chopped liver, the same as young trout. 

From @ small consignment of eggs of the German trout re- 
ceived last spring from Mr. Fred Mather there are now some 
800 fish in one pend. The loss since hatching has been slight, 
but they are smaller than either the brook or the rainbow 
trout of the same age, 


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Camping in the Alleghanies, A new edition of Dr, Thad §. Up de 
Grati’s book familiarly known as “Bodines.”” Itis avery pleasantly 
written relation of the actual experience of the author and a friend in 
their annual June camps on the Lycoming Creek in Pennsylvania, 
The purpose of the chapters is to show what can be done in the way 
of camping out in localities which are easily accessible. We commend 
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of fiction, Itisan admirable story, well told. (J. R, Osgood & Co.). 
Erring, Yet Noble, Mr, Isaac G, Reed, Jr.’s novel or romance, or 
harum-scarum Whar youn, which bears the foregoing title, is trash. 
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Cookery. By Susanna W. Dodds, M.D, Dr. Dodds has written a very 
sensible book considering the ed nie A man or woman who sets 
out to referm the dietetic principles and customs of a nation is apt 
to display more or less crankiness; Dr. Dodds is jin this respect ne 
better nor worse than nine out of every ten food writers. (Fowler 
& Wells). Garden and Farm Topics, by Peter Henderson, is in- 
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of subjects indicated by the title page, Whatever Mr. Henderson 
writes on plant life is certain to be sensible, and helpful to those who 
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fortune by their sales of dream books, and if may be that there is 
some demand for such bs ar pede nonsense as this book on hand- 
reading. (George Routledge & Sons), 


Frye To Ten Dounars A Yesn for all ordinary SpEemens secures 
$1,000 insurance with $5 weekly indemnity in the Trayelers, of Hart- 
ford, Conn, Paid accident policy holders $864,000 in 1883.—Adv. 


@ A young couple in Oconee county lately married devoted 
their honeymoon week to sport and killed 120 rabbits. They 
have salted'down the meat and will save buying bacon next 
summer. This sort of beginning is bound to win ina long 
run,—Atlanta (Ga,) Constitution, Feb. 15, ; 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


The Fennel 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 


March 4, 5, 6 and 7.—Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. En- 
tries close Feb. 25. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. Kit- 
tredge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

March 12, 18 and 14.—New Haven Kennel Club's First Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward §, Porter, Secretary, Box 
657 New Hayen, Conn. Entries close March 1. 

_ March 18 to 21.—Washington Bench Show, Masonic Hall, Wash- 
ington, D. C, Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. 

March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 
dent. C. Greyille Harston, Secretary, Toronto, Canada. 

April 3, 4and 5.—The Cleyeland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superiatendent. C, M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland. Ohio. ¥ 

May 6, 7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennei Olub‘s Highth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden, Entries close April2i, Chas. 
yaueddns puperintendeliy. R. C. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 

ew York. 


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HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
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BEAGLES FOR FOX HUNTING. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your last issue, ‘‘Bugle,” in his article on the above sub- 
ject, puts the query: ‘‘And hew would the beagle do for fox 

unting? ifs he too slow?’ 

In answer, I would say that the beagle will hunt any kind 
of game thatthe larger hounds will follow, and with equal 
zest and staunchness; but hare and rabbits are his legitimate 
quarry, and for this pursuit he has been bred and perfected. 

lam a believer in the symmetry of sport, if I may use the 
expression, and think the dog should be matched in size to the 
game, and although a foxhound will run rabbits well and 
true, it is about as appropriate to use him for that purpose as 
it would be to pit a mastiff to killrats. © 

The beagle would be tco slow to hunt foxes where the 
hunters ride to hounds, but judging from the locality your 
correspondent hails from, the foxes are shot on runways before 
the dogs, and for this style of hunting the beagle is fully up to 
the requiremeuts. I would suggest the English beagle of 14 
or 15 inches as about the most useful size, 

To show that beagles take kindly to fox hunting, I willstate 
a case that came under my observation several years ago, in 
Cecil county, Maryland. Ona bright, crisp October morn- 
ing, while out partridge shooting, a fox was roused in a briery 
thicket in which the setters were working; running out into 
an adjoining clearing, he sprang on a stump and sat gazing at 
the dogs. 

Sheltered behind a worm fence about seven yards distant, 
the mark was so tempting that I could not resist, so gave him 
both barrels, the shells being charged with No. 8 of course no 
damage was done other than a wild fright. While I stood 
watching him flying down the yalley and across an “old field,” 
the farm boys who were.out rabbit hunting joined me with 
their four beagles. We laid them on the trail which they hit off 
at once, running breast high, and going at a clinking pace in 
full ery. While yet in sight a blue mottled puppy ten months 
old, who had never hunted or seen a fox in his life, forged 
ahead, took the trail, and made the running, and with the pup 
on the lead they passed out of sight heading for the Bohemia 
River, about a mile away. 

The boys followed and in about three hours came back with 
the game little pack. For over two hours the little hounds 
had harried reynard up and down the river bank among rushes, 
and cattails, briers and brambles, with never a check, af 
fording numerous chances for a killing shot, but as vulpecide 
is a heinous crime in the eyes of a Southern fox hunter, the 
boys with commendable fortitude restrained the impulse, and 
whipping off the dogs, returned to hunt the ‘old har” through 
the deyious mazes of a Maryland branch. RUSTICUS. 


PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 


EXPERIENCE WITH DOGS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The first dog I ever owned was four weeks old when 
“Training vs. Breaking” appeared in your paper. When five 
weeks old I had taught him to-ho, and when eleven months 
old he surprised many who “‘poohed” at therules as laid down 
by ‘‘Shadow.” 

I have treated this dog as I would a child; have talked to 
him, and he understands the English language as well as any 
animal can; and that is not a little. 

I have many newspaper clippings about the intelligence of 
this dog, and Ido not claim to have any better dog than many, 
but have used him differently. When the city clock strikes 12 
o’clock he will be found beside me with one of my overshoes 
in his mouth, and on my taking it he -will, without any- 
thing being said. get the other. He has been trained for field 
work by myself, solely from the reading of the ten chapters 
of ‘“‘Traming vs. Breaking,” and he does some thirty to forty 
tricks which are not laid downin any book. No whip nor 
check cord haye been used; I never owned either and never 
shall. In teaching a child would it benecessary to use a whip 
toteach them their A BC? Neither is it a necessity to have 
the butt of a dog-whip extending out of your pocket while 
training your dog pupil, ; f 

I cannot agree with ‘“Hunt” about teaching a dog to retrieve 
under the whip. A friend of mine baving a valuable setter, 
placed him in a trainer’s hands to be taught toretrieve, In the 
course of a few weeks my friend was informed that this pup 
would never he a retriever, as the trainer said he had tried 
force and the whip. My friend went and got his pup, and a 
more disgusted being you would notlike to see, Itold him that 
I could teach the pupae retrieve in one week, and a faint 
smile flitted across his face,and he told me to go ahead. 
Well, here was a nice pickle. When you would throw any- 
thing the pup would run away assoon as he could, andin the 
house he would get into a corner about as quickly as any do 
could. When he brought up he would be on his back wit 
his feet pawing air. This was some of the whip retrieving. 

The first two days were used up in trying to gain the con- 
fidence of this timid creature. began by rolling a small 
towel into a ball and putting carefully in his mouth. He 
would spit it out as fast as 1 would let him. At the end of the 
third day he would hold it a very short time, then gomg 
ahead of him a few feet and saying “fetch,” he would bring 


it, 

Now for throwing it. Here goes; and away goes the youth- 
fw canine in another direction. After getting him back, not 
using any harshness, he began to think he was not going to be 
thrashe 


The fifth day he was not fed. I chained him to my desk, 
and the towel was where he could reach it; his food was 
not, but he could see it. He would reach for it with his paws 
and try to gather it in. Before this, after he had held the 
towel in his mouth and not spit it out I always gave him some- 
thing to eat. hw i 

to think that some of the food, which was so 


He began 


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near, yet so far, was needful. I wouldsay “fetch,” and at 
last the word did not strike terror to his-young mind. About 
3 P, M. on this day, on looking around, { saw he had the towel 
in his moth, and on saying “fetch,” it was brought. Then he 
was unchained and a little food was given him. Onthrowih 
out the usual article, he scampered and brought it ih ote, 
form. Morefood. It was thrown thirty times and brought 
allright, I had one more day to fill my contract. On show- 
ing hima quailmore of the funny retrieving takes place; but on 
further investigation he found no whipping, and before night 
he would bring the quail all right, and to-day he is as good a 
retriever as there is in town. i 

Use common sense more and the whip less. I think if you 
were to take your children for a ride or to some friend’s house 
you would not ornament yourself with the rod: neither isit 
any more sensible to go forth with a dog whip. A child which 
will mind in the house will out doors, and just so with a dog 
that has been treated as a dogshould be. 

_ Many persons will scout the idea of a hunting dog doing 
tricks (some do too many), but I claim that the more you 
educate your dog the more pleasure you can have with him. 
It certainly does no harm for a man to know something out- 
side of his ee the better informed he is the better re- 
sults from his labors. Just so with a dog, As for honesty 

they are far ahead of some of the human family. I can shit 
my dog in a room with a good roast and tell him that it is not 
for him, and if he touches it I will give to any charitable in- 
stitution a barrel of clay-pigeons, 

“Shadow” has done more good toward elevating the dog's 
culture than any other writer living, He advocates firmness, 
usual tone of voice, no kicks, no clubs, no whips, no yelling, 
Speed ‘Training vs. Breaking” for the benefit of this now 
much-abused animal, : 

How much more pleasant it is to see your dog wagging his 
tail every time you look at him than to see that usefal mém- 
ber bent under his body, and hein the shape of a half moon 
through fear, : FLICK FLICK, 

Hartrorp, Coiin., Feb. 18, 


‘LICE ON DOGS, 


\ " | E have recently received several communications request- 
ing information as to a sure method for ridding dogs of 
lice. Almost all of the various remedies that are recom- 


'| mended for their extermination will have the desired effect 


provided they are properly applied. None of them will ac- 
complish the purpose unless so applied. We have repeatedly 
stated that “‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty from 
fleas.” This axiom is especially SRDECRp IE when seeking to 
circumyent the bloodthirsty Jus. The main difficulty in getting 
rid of these troublesome pests is owing to a want of care in 
applying the remedy, The louse is very prolific and matures 
ata very early age, and as none of the various remedies will 
destroy the vitality of the egg, no matter how thorough has 
been the war of extermination, a day or two will see their 
ranks again full. Itis necessary, therefore, in order to make 
a sure job of it, that the work be thoroughly done in the first 
place and thoroughly repeated at least once a week until “the 
last aimed for expires.” Persian inseet powder, when rightly 
used, answers the purpose very well andis perhaps the most 
cleanly and least troublesome method in cold weather, but asthe 
powder only supose and does not kill the insect, it is necessary 
to follow its application with the fine comb, of course destroying 
by fire every captive. To apply the powder, placethe animal 
upon a large sheet of strong paper,and with an insect gun 
or’ common pepper box thoroughly dust the powder into 
every portion of his coat, following this with a vigorous 
shampooing until every insect receives its share, Most of 


them will at once vacate the premises and fall upon the — 


paper. Those that remain must be found with the comb and 
all thrown in the fire. This should be repeated every three 
or four days, until the parasites all disappear. A decoction 
from quassia wood will also destroy lice. Take two or three 
ounces of the chips and tiethem up ina muslin bag. Suspend 
them in a pail of water, stirring occasionally. After two 
hours the decoction is ready for use. Apply it freely, with 
plenty of soap, and rinse off with clear water. Strong to- 
bacco water, applied in the same manner, may be-used with 
good results, although it is apt to make the animal 
sick. Whale oil, freely used, is also sure death to lice. This 
should be thoroughly washed out of the coat within a few 


minutes after using on account of cleanliness. There are 
many other remedies that will accomplish the purpose, but 
those mentioned will be found amply sufficient. ercurial 


preparations of all kinds are never to be used for this purpose, 
as bad results are almost sure to follow. Neither can kero- 
sene be recommended, for the same reason, It is absolutely 
necessary that the kennel and bedding be attended to or all 
of your labor will bein vain. <A good coat of whitewash put 
on hot, taking care to fill all the cracks, will render your ken- 
nel almost insect proof. The bedding should be changed often. 
Cedar shavings make the best bed, although those of pine 
will do very well. The bedding of dogs who sleep in the house 
should be frequently scalded out in strong soap suds, and after 
rinsing in clean water, hungin the sun until perfectly dry. 
By closely observing the above rules any one can scon rid his 
kennel otf both fleas and lice. 


A WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY RUN. ~ 


INCE the Rose Tree Hunt was organized, no better or more 
S exciting run has ever taken place than the oné enjoyed by 
this organization and its friends on Washington’s Birthday. 
Fully fifty huntsmen were present atthemeet, mcluding those 
from other clubs, and the number of hounds collected amounted 
to over two score, This was to be the opening and the great 
hunt of the season, and it will certainly proye to be such. 
Reynard was plucky, although bagged, and made a good run 
of over fifteen miles, and at onetime almost outwitted his four- 
footed pursuers. F 

At 7 o'clock on the 22d, the hunters were astir, and the red 
coats of the Rose Tree Club could be observed mingled with 
the more sombre blue of the West Chester Hunt. ‘orninent 
among the number could be seen the veterans H. E. Danbrier 
and G. W. Eachus, eager for the start. Carroll Smyth on 
Rosinante, was all expectation. Edward Beale, astride of 
Firefly, was easily recognized. Old Pandora, as anxious asher 
rider, carried Dr. Huidekoper, Miss Morns rode Minnie, and 
Ringgold Lardner handled Orderly, Little Nddy Carpenter 
crossed his pony Dandy, and Walter Biddle hoped for much 
from his hunter. W. EK, Corliss was master for the day’s 
hunt, f 

Chester, Media and Shila, members of the Rose Tree Hunt, 
were also at the meet, started, and Free well up; of these could 
be seen R. S. Sturgis, H. Hatfield, Geo. E. Darlington, W. 
Wayne, W. Sharpliss, J. Darlington, 8, L. Levy, L. K. Lodge, 
G. M. Lewis, J, E. Carpenter, Dr. Biddle and C. B, Wright, 

Good mounts represented the West Chester Club, 4 
Skaner, the noted master of an.excellent pack from that place, 
was present, also H. C. Meredith, Dr, Eyerhardt, Mr. Mercer, 
Jos, James, G. A, Mercer, T, Hoopes, Jesse 5. Hinton, Pass- 
more Hoopes, B. D. Evans, J. H. Mercer, Davis Taylor, John 
Gheen, C. W. Lee, f. Wallerton, B. Gatchell, R. Eby, Sheriff 
W. Baker, W. C. James and John Hannum. 4 

Mortonville was represented by Charles Yedder, B. Se 
J. Ortlip and G. Faddius. The Phoenixville Fox Hunter's Cli 
was to have furnished several participants, but only one pre- 
sented himself, John Yeager, a host in himself, a good and 


fearless rider. at ae f 
Worth, James Slayford and G.S. Leiper came fro 
Chena Pee the fatter havin with him tw ve of his noted 
houn ee ae set ee rarmer; Ellw« 

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and down tlie declivity all hurried, eager to be as near as pos- 
sible to the fun. ; 
_Westwaad down the shores of Crare Creek sped reynard, 
the pack sticking Glose and pressing him hard, Behind came 
the riders in full sight, “his craftiness” showing no disposition 
to select aniother path but that of the creek valley until the 
Bodine farm Was passed dnd the West Chester pike near 
amb Tavern was reached. Here it was seen the pack was at 
fault, and it was alittle time before the scent was caught 
again, Thé fox had crossed the creek, seeking thus to baffie 
his pursuers, and not until the hounds had themselves swam 
the stream was the trail taken up. Corliss, of the field, com- 
ing up, cleared the creek first, followed by Miss Morris, 
Eachus, Beale and Smith. On the eastern side of the creek 
the riding became very rough, and a half mile of rocky boul- 
ders impeding the pack had to be overcome, followed by a 
high fence which extended to the water's edge. Over it went 
Rosinante without effort, Eachus following on his gallant 
_ steed, then Miss Morris and Minnie. Taylor, of West Chester, 
_ essayed the leap, but failed, and falling heavily, bruised him- 
self on the rocky bottom. Up again before many of his fol- 
lowers had come up with him he was mounted and with the 
field once more. At Justie’s farm, reynard, pushed to des- 
peration, made for the barn up on the hill and tried to hole 
in the hay, but the pack caught up with him and he gave up 
the shést. Mr. Hachiss, closely following, dismotinted in time 
to save the briish, and proclaimed himself first at the death. 
Next came Miss Morris and Carrol Smyth abreast, then Ed. 
Beale and Ringgold Lardner, hard pressed by Walter Biddle. 
The balance of the field followed sfraggling. After a ride of 
four or five miles the Rose Tree was reached. and all, de- 
lighted with the day’s sport, sat down to a Sue tailg att 
oMO. 
PHILADELPHIA, 


THE KENNEL’ HOSPITAL. 
VI,—INFLAMMATION, 


fy Figs frequent occurrence of inflammation as an accompani- 
ment of disease 6r injury renders any rational considera- 
tion of its appearance and effects in different parts of the body 
impossible until We have first attempted to explain what itis. 
Unfortunately, this entails perhaps a dryer and more tech- 
nical chapter than ordinary readers will care for, but I cannot 
see my Way to omitit without fostering the notion that doctor- 
ing dogs requires less knowledge than doctoring other animals. 
“Tnflammation,” says Barlow, “in its various forms and 
localities is the most frequent condition of disease and the 
most common catise of death among domestic animals. Asa 
term, it is one with which we become early familar, and cer- 
tain sensations and appearances denoting its existence are 
well known to us all. Itis a process with which for ages past 
theory has taken the utmost freedom.” Erroneons theories 
have given rise to irrational medical surgical practice, and 
Eyen how in canine practice itis too commonly believed that 
the only appropriate remedies are those which reduce the vital 
owers. 
. Inflammation has now been demonstrated to be a process of 

erverted nutrition, not a mere burning or consuming, as the 
tort (inflamme, to burn) would imply, nor merely an increased 
determination of blood to a part, attended by heat, pain, red- 
ness and swelling. 

Tn order to understand this process of perverted nutrition, 
we must shortly say how healthy nutrition is performed, 
The mass of the animal body consists of substances known as 
fiesh, bones, nerves, skin, etc., which we call tissues. In con- 
sequence of waste sustained in the performance of their 
functions, they are in need of continuous repair, In health 
blood is always cireulating through minute vessels in the 
smallest interstices of the tissues. Through the coats of these 
vessels fluids can Meee to and fro. Thus nutritive material 
for the repair of the tissues is supplied at the same time that 
the waste, resulting from their action, isremoved. It is this 
*process by which the circulating blood preserves the balance 
oft waste and repair in the tissues that constitutes nutrition. 
These are three factors in the process—the tissue, the blood 
vessel, and the circulating blood. All three must be healthy, 

* and each must perform its proper part or healthy nutrition is 
impossible. 
lood is propelled by the heart through large vessels 
(arteries), which divide and subdivide until they appear as 
tubes of most minute or hair-like fineness, called capillaries. 
From capillaries alone all nutrition takes place. Their walls 
consist of a thin transparent membrane so delicate as to per- 
mit exudation through it of the nutritive fluids from the blood. 
Seen under a microscope blood is not a uniform red fiuid, but 
is shown to consist of a colorless fluid (liquor sanguinis) in which 
fioat solid particles (corpuseles or globules), some white, but 
most red. Seen flowing through the capillaries the liquor 
sanguinis passes along in contact with the walls of the vessel, 
while the corpuscles keep in the center of the stream. The 
flow is constant and steady, the corpuscles never becoming 
crowded or passing through the coats of the vessel, and the 
liquor sanguinis only trausuding ina degree suitable to the 
exact requirements of the nutrition of the part. 
Under a microscope the circulation in the wing of a bat, or 
better still, the web of a frog’s foot can be seen distinctly. By 
irritating the part we can induce the process of inflammation, 
and watch its various stages. Onthe application of an irritant, 
the capillary vessel contracts so that its caliber is lessened and 
the motion of the blood within increased in rapidity. This 
condition soon gives ae to another, in which the vessel is 
seen distended, and the flow of blood within is retarded; the 
‘inflammatory process has commenced, and the stage reached 
is active congestion, The distended capillary loses its con- 
tractile power; the blood globules become crowded together, 
and forced against the walls of the vessel, while the current 
of blood is almost arrested, and the quantity of fluid 
transuded is increased. This is passive congestion. A stage 
further the distension of the vessel increases; the blood within 
if becomes stagnant; exudation of liquor sanguinis through 
the coats takes place in abnormal quantities; the blood globules 
escape, and the coats of the vessel giye way, allowing blood to 
sere pei the surrounding tissues. This is acute inflamma- 

on. 


vessels of the transparent web of a frog’s foot, occur in ev 
inflamed part, Not one capillary, but many are implicated, 
and the circulation is disturbed all around the effected part. 
Tt must be noticed that inflammation is nota definite, limited 
condition, but a process passing through certain stages, each 
of which differs somewhat in kind; all of which, however 
xist together in and around an infiamed part, and none of 
which are compatible with healthy nutrition, In a small 
_ pimple we have a good illustration of a simple circumscribed 
inflammation. In its center there is stagnation of blood and 
exudation of liquor sanguinis, outside of this an area in which 
atation of the capillaries, and a retarded current through 

em is the great feature; i 


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These same changes that we can see going on in the ae 


re; beyond this another area of dilated |. 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


nearly all inflammations. We find swelling, redness, heat and 
pain—changes which, from the most remote times, haye been 
recognized as the symptoms of inflammation. Some interpre- 


ae. of their cause and natiire may be conveniently offered 
ere: _. 

Swelling.—The amount of swelling in an inflamed 
depends upon the quantity of Iiquor sanguinis exuded trom 
fhe vesepls. Swelling is greatest in inflammations of soft and 
elastic organs. Itis not of itself correct criterion of the 
gravity of the condition, being hardly perceptible in some 
serious inflammations, and yery great in some comparatively 
trivial cases. Swelling often exists without infiammation, as 
in cases of dropsy, and in those not nncommon cases of swell- 
ing of the dog’s foot from an improperly applied bandage round 
the tipper part of the limb. Asa rule, the swelling of inflam- 
mation is resilient, as, if pressed by the finger, it yields, but 
immediately the pressure is removed resumes its original form. 
The swelling caused by non-inflammatory exudations behaves 
differently, it pits on pressure with the finger like dough—the 
impression of the finger remaining for some time after pressure 
isremoved. Swelling when it accompanies inflammation of 
ah external organ is seldom dangerous; but when it effects the 
tongue, nose, or throat, it may cause serious mischief, or eyen 
death, by blocking up the passages for air or food, 

Redness,—The increased redness of an inflamed part is due 
to the enlargement of the blood vessels, and consequently the 
amount of redness depends upon the number of vessels in a 
part. The changesin color of diseased portions of a dog’s 
body are not very apparent, especially those covered by a 
dark coat. In all animals, however, it may be noticed on the 
membranes of the nose, month, and eyes. In light-colored 
dogs the redness af an inflamed skin is very evident, but it 
must not be thought that all redness is due to infiammation. 
What is called “red mange,” and that more common redness 
of white-haired dogs, which is simply due to excessive use of 
strong alkaline soaps, depends upon an enlargement of blood 
vessels, but not a real inflammatory condition. The vessels 
are enlarged, but only to the stage we described as active 
congestion. . 

Heat.—That the temperature of an inflamed part is raised 
there is no doubt, but the sensation of heat felt by the patient 
is quite out of proportion to what really exists. Theextra heat 
is simply due to the extra amount of blood in the part. The 
blood of an inflamed part is not hotter than that at the heart 
or inthe center of the body. The extremities of an animal 
being furthest from the center of circulation are always colder 
than other parts of the body, consequently when inflamed they 
show a‘relatively greater amount of increased heat. An in- 
flamed foot or ear gives an impression of increased heat to 
the touch much greater than a similar inflammation of the 
trunk. ; 

Poin.—The pain of inflammation depends greatly upon the 
tension or pressure upon the nerves of the part by swelling. 
Tn soft or elastic organs, where the inflammatory swelling is 
not confined, pain is comparatively slight, as in diseases of the 
liver, or iN some injuries to muscle. In parts where little soft 
tissue exists, and where bone and ligaments surround it, great 
pain accompanies even limited inflammatory actions. Examples 
of this are seen in inflammation of the claws, the ear, and the 
teeth, Inflammation may exist without pain—e. g., as the 
result of injury to a paralyzed limb. Pain may exist without 
inflammation, as in some nervous affections, and in spasm or 
eramp, 

The importance of an inflammation depends upon its extent 
and degree, but still more upon the kind of structure in which 
it occurs, IJtis at all times, and in all places. a destructive 
process, interfering with the nutrition of the affected tissues, 
which are only repaired on its cessation. Itis not a process 
of excited action in a part, but of perverted action. Its evils 
are most apparent in organs endowed with special functions, 
such functions being always checked, perverted or eyen en> 
tirely arrested. Inflammation of the nose, eye, or ear is 
accompanied by more or less impairment of the senses of 
smelling, seeing, or hearing. When the inflammatory process 
takes place in any of these organs most immediately con- 
cerned in the maintenance of life, such as the brain, lungs, or 
héart, it is always dangerous, owing to the effect upon their 
Tunctions., 

Although the pathologist tells us that the essential conditions 
of inflammation are always the same—viz., perverted nutrition 
ina part, the practical surgeon takes cognizance of many 
variations, if not varieties, of the process, dependent upon the 
seat of the disease, the stage to which itrises, and the probable 
pees and complications.—William Hunting in Land and 

Veter, 


WORKING THE DOGS ON WOODCOCK. 
I HAVE spent two pleasant days hunting woodcock with 

one of your correspondents, whose non de plume is 
“Vitus,” and we have made remarkable bags for this section. 
One or two of your correspondents in their replies to ‘‘Vitus” 
stated that if he had had experience in the field and did not 
refer so much to books, he would know more of the Gordon 
and their good qualities. I will say this much for the benefit 
ot those correspondents, that if either one of them could travel 
over our woodcock grounds with him for one day, he would 
feel perfectly satisfied with his walking and shooting, and with 
the good actions of his dogs, if not with his opinions on the 
Gordon. As for his walking, he can tire a mule; he is a good 
shot, and his dog Echo isthe best in this section for snipe, 
woodcock or partridge. But back to the point. At half past 
5 A. M. we started for the swamp, ‘*Vitus” with Echo, and I 
with my dropper Spot. Reaching the swamp both dogs were 
east off, Echo to the left, Spot to the right. Soon I heard 
‘Vitus’s” gun. He had flushed a cock and made a clean miss. 
The bird lit close to me, I flushed, and scored a splendid miss 
also. The laugh which I had over ‘‘Vitus” was now turned. 
Ithen passed to the left of V. and Spot made a good point, 
but before I could call up V., up jumped twe birds; I made a 
right and left, and brought both birds to bag, which were re- 
trieved by Echo. 

We then took down a bunch of canes, V, on the right and I 
on the left. Echo drops on pointand V. calls me to come up; 
I took a good position and told him to flush, which he did. He 
scored amiss with his right barrel, but brought the bird to 
bag with the left. We then passed on for the space of about 
fifty yards when both dogs dropped on point; this was a 
beautiful sight, Echo a little behind Spot, the two making a 
perfect picture. V, told me tofiush. I didso, and up jumped 
four birds; I bagged two and V. one and passed on. Down 
came Echo, VY. flushed and I brought the bird to bag. About 
ere yards further; and down again came Echo. YV. 
flushed and I bagged again. This gave me six to his two, 
which looked as if] were going to have the best of the old 
man. 

We then started for the next run in theswamp, On arrivin 
Spot began to draw; the bird flushed, I fired and missed, an 
VY. bagged. Down came Echo. V. called, but being some 
distance from him I did not hear him; he came after me, and 
when we got back to where the dog was on point, we found 
him at a down charge with his head to one side on the bird; 
he had stood so long that he had got tired, and had dropped 
to charge. YV. flushed and brought the bird to bag. We 
passed on and Spot dropped to point,.and as the place was 
open I started to flush without aa V., when up jumped a 
covey of partridges, of which I bagged one; we did not follow 
them up, however, as we were bent on woodeock. On swept 
the dogs; down dropped Spot. I jumped and bagged a cock, 
and passed on to the next run, ese runs are springy 
sloughs which run from the high land down to the swamp, 

the best points for woodcock. Echo dropped 

hed, Fai up feraped another covey of part- 

Echo. apbes again; V. flushed and I 
ho.drops; V. flushes and I bag. 


91 


At the next run we found the birds very wild. There were 
several parties in the swamp, and though they killed but few, 
they chased the others so much that they would flush at the 
approach of a dog, which made it hard work for both man 
and dog. Still, however, we kept up courage and banged 
away, determined to make the best bag of the season, which 
we finally did. I thought at first that I would leave the old 
man behind, but at the close of the day when we counted our 
game he had bird for bird, in all twenty-eight woodcock and 
six partridges. This is considered an extraordinary bag for 
this section for two guns, ten or twelve being considered ex- 
cellent. 

The second day we started for the same swamp, and, like 
the first day, I got the better of ‘‘Vitus” af the start, but he: 
soon caught up, and inthe end wasinthe lead. This time we 
bagged twenty-three woodcock, two partridges and a snipe. 
making in the two daysin all fifty-seven woodcock flushed 
and fifty-one bagged. 

The first day two were killed by V. which could not be: 
found, and which must have been caught in the bruslt, as it 
was very thick. It seems to me that this was pretty fair 
shooting, fifty-three out of fifty-seven, especially since 
‘*Vitus’ has so little experience in the field.” Your corre- 
spondents and lovers of the Gordon would have us believe: 
that he shoots the most of his birds out of books, but I think 
he will do in the field. BALDIA- 

Savanna, Ga. 


FOREST AND STREAM DOG PICTURES.—We have: 
issued 4uew series of eas of winning dogs at field trials,- 
The ready sale which these pictures have had show that. 
sportsmen very generally are anxious to learn something 
about how these winning dogs look. We cannot all of us visit - 
the trials held at points far distant from our homes, and if we 
could do this, we should still be unable by looking a few times 
at a dog to carry away with us a complete and permanent 
mental picture of the best animals. Any one who has ever 
tried to form an idea of the appearance of some breed of dog 
that he has never seen, from a written description, Knows that 
this is something that cannot be done. The books imagine a 
standard and then describe it, but » man who had neyer seen 
the strain spoken of could learn nothing from the descrip- 
tion, A oe is first needed, The engravings which we 
haye published include twenty-six of the most celebrated 
pointers and setters of the day, and they cannot fail to be of 
value to all interested in these dogs, They are the work of 
several of our best artists, and they are striking and life-like. 
In our advertising columns will be found a list of the animals 
portrayed. 


WASHINGTON SHOW.—Cincinnati, O., Feb. 23,—Editor 
Forest and Stream: I am glad to say to you, that the Masonic 
Hall, in Washington, has been secured for the second annual 
bench show, to be given on the 18th,19th,20th and 21st of March 
next. Entries close on March 10. The prize lists will be sent 
out as early as possible, and a number of them mailed to you, 
so that parties desirous of obtaining them can get them at 
your office, or by addressing me at Washington, D.C. The 
show will undoubtedly be a good one, judging from the - 
numerous inquiries I have received, wanting to know if a 
bench show would be given this year, and as you know every 
one wants to go to the capital city of the nation, so the bench 
show will afford the sportsmen and loyers of dogs a good 
opportunity. The judges so far appointed are Hon. John, S. 

Vise and Major Taylor, for English setters and pointers: Mr. 
James Mortimer, for non-sporting dogs; for Gordon and Irish 
setters, not decided on; for spaniels, beagles and foxhounds, 
not decided on,—CuHaAs, LINCOLN, Superintendent. 


SHALL ST. LOUIS HAVE A SHOW?—St. Louis, Mo., 
Feb, 24.—Editor Forest and Stream: I want to find out, as 
far as possible, what the '‘dog men” think of having us give @ 
grand bench show in St. Louis, in April. say the 15th. The St. 
Louis Gun Club will give it if sufficiently encouraged by doz 
owners, to look fora good number of entries’ May ask 
them, through the medium of this notice, to write to me what 
they think of it, and what number of entries they will be 
likely to make if we offer an attractive prize list in cash and 
specials, and J will announce at once if the show will be given. 
The shows already announced are Cincinnati, March 4; New 
Haven, March 12; Washington, March 18; Toronto, March 25; 
Cleveland, April 4; New York, May 6. I see no reason why 
we can’t slip in with ours between Cleveland and New York, 
and catch the best dogs in the country, as they are then sup- 
posed to be in show form. Gentlemen, let me hear from you at 
onee.—JoHN W. Munson (517 Chestnut street). 


NEW ENGLAND KENNEL.—There is a movement on foot 
in this city to organize a New England Kennel Club for the 
importation and breeding of thoroughbred dogs fur sporting 
and domestic purposes. Several well known gentlemcu of this 
city and vicinity with this purpose in view met at the Parker 
House on Friday, and after discussing the subject appointed 
a committee to take the matter under consideration, wih in- 
structions to report at a meeting to be announced for some 
day during the present week at the same hotel. The programme 
proposed embraces the establishment of a large kennel, some- 
thing after that of the old Harvard kennel of Cambridge. It 
appears that during the past few years many of the best strains 
of breeding dogs have been removed from this section of the 
country, among them the celebrated Dash and mate, which 
ae gone to the Nesbeth Kennels in lowa.—Boston Herald, 

eb. 24, 


NEW HAVEN SHOW.—Zditor Forest and Stream; The 
first thing I noticed on receiving the New Haven Kennel Club’s 
schedule for their first annual, to be held the 12th, 13th and 
14th of next March, was the total absence of cash prizes. 
That is a grave mistake. Medals, with the majority of exhib- 
itors, especially those from afar, do not give the satisfaction 
that is obtained by giving cash prizes. This system of awards 
keep away a good many people who otherwise would exhibit. 
People do not feel like paying $2 to enter their dogs, and, if 
lucky enough to win first prize, receive nothing but a silver 
medal. lsee that the bull-terriers are well provided for, but 
the bulldogs do not fareso well; the sexes are not even divided, 
I am astonished at this, as there have been so many good 
bulldogs imported this fall.—BuLLpoc. 


CINCINNATI SHOW.—Cincinnati, O., Feb. 23.—2Rditor 
Forest and Stream; Messrs. W. B. Shattuc and A. A. Bennett 
have consented to act as board of arbitration for this show, 
in case any protests should be made from the-judges’ de- 
cisions. Iam requested to state that the judges will be in- 
structed to make due allowance for want of coat and feather, 
from any cause they may think justifiable.—CnHas. Lrycotn, 
Superintendent. ; 


TORONTO DOG SHOW.—It is possible that a trial of col- 
les may be held in connection with the Toronto Bench Show, 
if suitable grounds can be obtained for it. A large number of 
special prizes will be given in the different classes, among them 
the Dominion Club offers a $75 cup for best six dogs of any 
breed, owned and breed in the Dominion; and there will be a 
$25 cup for best setter in show, 


NEW HAVEN BENCH SHOW.—New Haven, Conn.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: Will yow be kind enough to 
announce in this week’s issue that classes will be formed for 
greyhounds and collies, for dogs, bitches, champions and 
puppies, and also for other breeds where the division is neces- 
ae S jihere will be many specials.—E. 8. PorTER, Secretary, 


SANTA CRUZ, Cal., boasts a litter of eight Gordon setter 


pups with no ears. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


NEWARK DOG THIEVES.—Dog thieves are on the ram- 
page in Newark, as usual. The last case reported is that of a 
pure liver-colored setter dog, Sam. white spot on chest, white 
toe on left fore and right hind legs, also white nails on other 
feet, not noticeable except when dog’s feet are washed. He- 
ward for information leading to recovery. All communica- 
tions will be considered strictly private, by F. Sartzr- 
THW ArH (2 West Park street, Newark, N, J.). 


POINTERS AND SETTHRS.—Attention is called to the 
advertisement of pointers and setters for sale by Mr. FP. Sat- 
terthwaite, published in another column, Mr, Satterthwaite 
knows what a good dog is, and we presume those he adver- 
tikes are Worth inspecting. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICH TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To mesure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
hiculars of each animal: 


i. olor. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
v. Breed. buyer or seller. 
3. Bex. 7, Sire, with his sire and dam. 
4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 
a. Date of bi th, 0° breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10, Owner of dam, 


All names must be plainly written, Communication on one side of 

Taper only, and signed with writer’s name. 
NAMES CLAIMED, 
i= ~ See instructions at head of this column. 

Sam, Jr. Wy Mr. E.G, Babcock, New Britain, Ct., for dark liver, 
white markings, cocker spaniel, whelped Dec. 6, 1883, by Cul, Stubbs 
out of Diamond, 

Hancy. By Mr, E, G. Babcock, New Britain. Ct., for dark liver, 
white breast, cocker spaniel ‘hitch, whelpet Ang. 10, 1883, by Quand 
out of Piper. 

Modesty, By Mr. John W, Munson, St. Louis, Mo., for liver and 
White pointer bitch, 2 years old, by Croxteth out of Trinket. 

Brimstone, Madstone. Touchstune, Luckystone and Clingstone, 
-By the Westminster Kennel Ciub, for liverand white pointers, one 
Gog and four bitches, whelped Aug. 24, 1883, by ‘Tory out of Moon- 
stone. Inrported in utero. 

Queen Dido, Ky Dr. 8. H, Greene, Newmarket. N. H., for black 
spaniel bitch, whelped Dec. 15, 1888, by Obo IT, (A.JS.R. 432) out of 
Rubie (A.K.R 734). 

Floss Ii, By Mr. &. C. Andrus, Malone, N, Y., for liver and white 
cocker spaniel bitch. whelped July 20, 1883, by Handy (Racer—Ruth) 
out of Nellie Cohern (Sport—Curiey), 2 

Vixen. By Mr. F. L. Stebbins, Geneya, N. Y¥., for liver and 
white cocker spaniel bitch, whelped April 20, 1883, by Dick (Ringola— 
Dot) out of Little Flirt (Snip— Frolic). 

NAMES CHANGED. 

RE— See instructions at fread of this colunrn. 

Jessie to Lady Bub, Black cocker spaniel bitch, whelped March 
12, 1880, by imported Bub(A.K_R. 131‘ out of imported Jennie, owned 
by Mr. Herman FP. Schellhass, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BRED. 

PS" see instructions at head of this column, 

Modesty—Bang. Mr, John W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) liver and 
white pointer bitch Modesty to imported Bang (champion Bang— 
Luna), Jan. 1% and 14. 

Polly—Bang Bang. Mr. W. Tallman’s bitch Polly (Beaufort— 
)to the Westminster Kennel Clib’s pointer Bang Bang, Feb. 15. 

Rue—Bang Bang. Mr, Bayard Thayer’s bitch Rue (Snapshot— 
Ruby) to the Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer Bang Bang, Peb. 18. 

Lotia—Sensation, Mr. A, B Conger’s bitch Lotta (Faust—Clarg) 
to the Westminster Kennel Club's pointer Sensation. 

Fiy—Croxteth, Mr. Fullerton’s pointer bitch Fly to Mr. A. 
Godeffroy’s Croxteth, Jan, 15. 

Fally—Crorteth, Mr Walker's pointer bitch Folly to Mr. A. B, 
Godeffroy’s Croxteth, Feb, 14. 

Daisy—Glencho. Mr. G. Hills’s (Hudson, N-Y.) red Trish setter bitch 
Daisy (Chief—Tilley) to Glencho (Elcho—Noreen), Jan. 31. 

Lady Bub—Benedict’s Boy, Mr. Herman YF. Schellhass’s (Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.) black cocker spaniel bitch Lady Bub (A.K.R. —) to his 

enedict’s Boy (A.IS.R, 180), Feb. 10, 

WHELPS. 

fee" See instructions at head of thay column. 

Lofty. Mr. J, P-Willey’s (Salmon Falls, N, H.) cocker spaniel bitch 
Lofty (A.K.K, 431), Feb. 18, four (one dog), by Obo IT. (A, K.R. 432); 


all black. 
SALES, 

(=~ See instructions at head of thts column. 

Beduchief. Collie dog,whelped April 25, 1883 (Gyp—Buttercup), 
by Mr, Arthur L. Kelley, Lawrence, Mass., to Miss Ida F, Warren, 
Leicester, Mass. 

Blcho—Meg whelp, Red Trish setter bitch, whelped July 21, 1883, 
by Elcho (Charlie—Nell) ont of Meg (Elcho—Rose), by Mr. Benj. F. 
Olark, Manchester, N. H., to Mr. Frank Prendergast, Boston, Mass, 

Don Juan. White, black and ticked English setter dog, whetped 
April 16, 1883 (champion Dash III.—Katydid), by Mr. B. A. Fisher, 
Jt., New Bedford, Mass.. to Mr, F. C. Snow, Dover, N. H. 

Ceesur. Mulberry fawn mastiff deg (A.K,K. 12), by Mr. Wm. Wade, 
Pittsburg, Pa.. to Mr. C. F. Wilson, Palmyra, O, ; 

Jessie, Black cocker spaniel bitch, whelped March 12, 1880, by im- 

orted Bub (A.K.R. 131) out of imported Jennie (champion Brush, 
BC.8.B. 7,871—champion Rhea, B.K.C.S.B, 2,228:, by Mr. D.C, 
rank, Tremont, N. Y., to Mr. Herman PF. Schellhass, Brooklyn, 
NL ¥ 


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aN. . 

Rose. Red Irish setter biteh,whelped Aug. 22, 1583, by Glencho out 
of Colleen Bawn (A.K.R, 507), by Mr. Chas. R. Squire, Troy, N. ¥., to 
Mr. John H. Nesbitt, W st Troy. N. Y. ; 

Drouse. Liver and white aud liver ticked Euelish pointer dog’, 
whelped Oct. 30, 1883, by Beacher out of Vinnie IT. (A.K R, 466), by 
Mr. Mr. Charles R. Squire, Troy, N. Y., to Mv. John H. Nesb.tt, West 
Troy, N.Y. 

Modesty. Red Trish setter bitch, whelped Sept. 10, 1882, by Scout 
(Plunket —Carrie) out of Grace (Hill—Denna), by Mr. A, W. Pearson, 
Huntington, N. Y., to Mr. P. Mahony, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Wellia, Blick aad tan foxhound bites, by Mr. D.C. Paulding, 
White Plains, N. ¥., to Mr. C. H, Kent, Monricello, N. Y- 

Barvnet—Rita Croxteth whelps, Pointers, whelped Dec. 22, 1888 
(champion Baronet—champion rita Croxteth), hy Mr, Geo, 8.Tucker, 
Peterborough, N. H., a liver and white bitch aud lemon and white 
dog to Mr. Geo, L. V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass. 

PRESENTATIONS. 

(P=— See instructions at head. of this colunin. i 

Bessie Case. Bl’ ck, white and tan setter bitch, by Fr tz (Roderick 
—Norna) out of Duff (Cariowitz—Kose), by Mr. John W. Munson, St, 
Louis. Mo., to Mr. Geo. A. Castleman, same place. 


Answers to Correspondents, 


{== No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


V, M, L.. Summit Station, O.—1. About March 1. 
manufac.urers. 

R. W. M., Alexandria, Va.-We know nothing o! the new English 
rifle referred to, } 

- B,, Toledo, 0.—¥For some hints on care cf quail in confinement see 

editorial columns, : aa 

New Susscorisex, New Hampshire.—A 12-bore will do for your 
shooting, See page 86 of this issue. 

L. B., Jr , Bos!on.—For government charts, apply to I. Thaxter & 
Sun, No. 125 State street, in your city. 

W. D. D., Ottawa.—For information respecting English hurdle rae- 
ing, consulesome of the horse papers. 

J. M, H., Brooklyn.—You can get areca nutof druggists, or send 
to the firms which advertice it in our columns. 

8B, H.—¥for instructions in trapping consult Gibson’s “Complete 
American Trapper,” price $1, Wecan supply it, 


®. Write to the 


Longs AnecLer,—J. The index to Vol. XXI. will probably be printed | 


next week, 2 The vod is worth the price asked for it. 

W. ., New York.—Aderess of Secretary New Jersey Fish and 
Gamie Protective Society is Wm. L. Force, Plainfield, N. J, 

BRoogLYNITE.—1. The .20 long will carry further than the .22 short. 
9, Clean the gunstock thoroughly, apply sweep oil aad rub it briskly. 

Hentinc Hory.—Haye lost your address or would send the issue 
containing directions Low to make a hunting horn. It was the paper 
of April 19, 1883. ee 

L. L. B.. Washingtun Ter.—Cones's “Fur-Bearing Animals” relates 
to those of this country; Van Dyke’s Rui antee gives directions 


for deer hunting in America. Mr, Van Paks lives in California, 


Dealers in wild animals are Chas. Reiche Bro., Chatham street, 
New York. 


C. A. R., Pittsburgh, Pa.—The best material for a canoe deck is 
mahogany or Spanish cedar 14in, thick, as it will stand both sun and 
water without checking, 

G. C. B., North Granville, N.¥.—How far will a 
using long cartridges, shoot with accuracy? 
tmay be relied on af 100 yards. 


W, R., Philadelphia.—The charges you name are not excessive. As 
to diff, rence of reco, that is something that would be determined 
only by actual comparative test. 


_W_F. K,, Tioga County, N. Y.—We can send you the digest of New 
York game laws compiled under direction of the Commissioners of 
Fisheries. Price twenty-five cents, 

W.G.V., Bailardvale, Mass._1. You can shoot squirrels, rabbits 
and quail with your 16-bore gun, 2, Dr. Carver isthe champion wing- 
shot of the world, so far as there is any such championship, 


_N. W,, Hudson Centre, N. H.—1, Would parties trapping be respon- 
sible for damage done to dogs caught in traps? 2. Is there any dif- 
nce ag ua Srp panig: qualities of Damascus, or laminated Steel? 
4ns5. 1. No. 2. No. 


W.H M., Massachusetis.—1. We have refused the advertisement 
of the gun dealers named, because we do not consider them re- 
liable. 2. Minks and muskrats are found on salt marshes as well as 
on fresh water streams, 


W. F., Greece, N. Y.—We have never been able to learn anything 
thing more about the “‘anti-bow’ machine than was printed in our 
issue of Orb. 4, 1883. Perhaps that item should have gone among the 
“Camp-Fire Plickerings.”’ . 

J. B, D., North Granville, N. Y.—Give me dimensions of 4 regulation 

Creedmoor target reduced fora gallery. Ans. Write to Dennison & 
Co, New York, orto J. 8. Conlin, Broadway and Thirty-first sureet, 
New York, for sample targets. 
_ 8. C., Troy, New York.—For the articles on left-eyed shooting see 
issues of Sept. 29 and Oct, 6, 1881, As 10 the use of one eye or two 
eyes in shooting, there is a wide diversity of opinion. Some of the 
crack spots shut one eye, others keep both open. 


G. H.H,., Maine.—There is little difference between the shooting 
of a 28-inch barrel and that of a 30-inch barrel, The latter will burn 
a little more powder than the former; and some say that the extra 
length is of service in aiming, though we have not found it so, 


W. #. C.. Menlo, lowa.—There is no special hunter’s map of Michi- 
gan that we know of. Any standard map will probably answer your 
purpose. You might find what you want in the numerous railroad 
guide book maps that are published by the Michigan railroads. 

T. L., Philadelphia.—Guns are usually targeted at 30in. circle, 
40yds. These targets are easily prepared, or you may obtain them 
already psinted at the gun stores. A modified chokebore will prob- 
ably give you the best satisfaction on the game and clay-pigeons. 


W. N. L., Good Ground, Long Island.—They are netting ducks by 
the hundreds here. Is there no way to stopit? Ans, Netting ducks 
is against the law. You may stop it by informing tie game protector 
of ) our district, Geo. A. Whittaker, Southampton, and calling on him 
to prosecute the guilty parties. 


J. J. T., Mansfield, Ohio.—I€ you cut the gun off back of the 
“pocket’’ it will not shoot so closely as it does now; but you do not 
state length of barrel, so we cannot advise you, Try varying pro- 
portions of powder and shot charges. You may inthis way-alter the 
shooting to a satisfactory result. 


Buoreys, Ohio.—What is the difference between the muzzle diame- 
ter of a 10-zauge full choke and a 12-gauge cylinder bore? Ans, It 
depends upon the degree and style of choke. If both were cylinder 
bores. the difference would be that between .775in. for the 10-cauge 
and .729in. for the 12-gauge, or .04tin. 


W.A.R., New Haven, Conn,—The Wish Commissioners of Massa- 
chusetts are: EB. A. Brackett, Winchester; EH. H. Lathrop, Springfield, 
and F. W. Putnam, Cambridge. New Hampshire: G. W. Riddle, 
Manchester; Luther Hayes, South Milton; #. B. Hodge, Plymouth. 
Maine: E. M. Stilwell, Gangor; H. O. Stanley, Dixfield. Connecticut: 
br. W. M. Hudson, Hartford; R. G. Pike, Middletown. 

Nep, Allegany, N. ¥.—1. Whatis the regular price for mounting 
deer heads upon black walnut shields? 2. Who publishes a relinble 
hardware trade journal in New York, Ans. i. Theré is no regular 
price, Much depends on the jength of neck and otkermatters. Hight 
dollars for a short-necked head and twelve for a long is about the 
figure, 2. Try uhe tron Age, David Williams, publisher, Chambers 
street, New York. . 

J, H., Guilford, Me.—Dr. Coues’s book on the “Fur-Bearing Ani- 
mals’ treats of the natural history of the subject, Gibson’s book 
(mentioned elsewhere in this column) tells how to trap. We know of 
no book treating specially of fur buying. If you want to keep posted, 
in fur prices Communicate with the commission firms, as Wm. Mac- 
naughtan’s] Sons, New York, who, we believe, are successors of the 
great fur millionaire, John Jacob Astor. 

Sport, Brooklyn.—1, Bird lime ismadeas follows: Boil down lin- 
seed oil of the best quality until it becomes thick and glutinous. 
Boil in earthen pot, in open air, fortwo or three hours, and be sure 
that the cover of the poi fits tightly, sothat the oil will not catch fire. 
When boiled, set away in tin vessels with tight fitting covers. Touse 
it; Setectsmall, dry sticks, as thick as a straw and eight inches long. 
Sharpen the edges, smear them with the lime. and fasten the sticks 
into grooves cul in astake stuck into the ground. Placea “call bird” 
as alure. When the birds alight upon the sticks they pull them out 
from the main stake, and when flyimg the wings; coming in contact 
with ike lime, are pinioned to the sides. 2. We willreceiye two-cent 
stamps for the dog pictures, 

H. &.S., Brooklyn.—For trapping book see answer to B. H. Wor 
huntisg rifle and its use you cannot do better than to look through 
the files of the Forrest AND Stream; for hints on target shooting 
especially, see review of Farrow’s book in our issue of March 22, 1883, 
or buy the bookitself ($1), There are a number of good books on the 
shotgun, adapted to your purpose, among them Bogardus’s “Wield, 
Cover and Trap Shooting” ($2). ‘‘Wing-Shooting,” by “Chipmunk” 
(50 cents). Fora book on cumping out weadvise you to wait until 
the publication ot ‘‘Woodcratt,” by our wellknown contributor 
“Nessmuk,’’ lt willbe ready inabouta month, Perhaps the work 
best adapted to meet your needs is Hallock's “Sportsman’s Gazet- 
teer’’ ($3), which treats of game, guns, rifles, ete. 

W. H. A.. Canada.—The maximum weights of different members of 
the deer family are given by Judge Caton as follows: Monse, more 
than 1,209lbs. Elk, or wapiti deer, exceeding 1 000Ibs. Woodland 
caribou, 4001 bs. (probably more, though record of none heavier known 
to author), Mule deer, 250ibs.; average much lower. Columbia 
black-tailed deer (rare sprcimens), 15tlbs : average much lower. 
Comum.on deer (Cervus virginianus), largest of which author has au- 
thentic record, killed in \iichigan, weighed before dressing 246lbs,; 
“ayerage weight may be set down as not more than one hundred 

ounds. The guesses of hunters often give much larger weights.” 

enerally larger on Northern than Southern ranges. Mexican deer 
(which author says is but a yariety of CG. virginianis) 1s much 
smnaller than his Northern brother. Barren ground caribou, or Arc- 
tie remdeer, 150lbs. (average much lower). Acapulco deer (speci- 
mens in possession of author), 80 to 40Ibs. . 

TanneR.—For tanning, Mr.Gibson in his ‘‘Complete American Trap- 
per” recommends the following: *‘For tanning with the hair on, 
the skin shwuld first be cleaned, every particle of loose fat or flesb 
being removed, and the useless parts cut away. When this is done, it 
should be soaked for an hour or two in warm water. The following 
mixture should then be prepared: Take equal parts of borax, salt- 
pétre and sulphate of soda, and with them mix water sufficient to 
produce the consistency of thin batter. This preparation should be 
painted thickly on the flesh side of the skin, after which these sides 
shonld be doubled together and the pelt left in an airy place, A sec- 
ond mixture should next be prepared. This should consist of two 
parts sal soda, three parts borax, four parts castile or other hard 
soap, all to be melted together over a slow fire. At the end of twenty - 
four bours after the application of the first mixture, the second should 
be applied in a similar manuer, and the fur again left for the same 
length of fime. Next make a mixture equal parts of salt and alum, 
dissolved in warm water and thickened with coarse flour to the con- 
sistency of thin paste. Spread this thickly over the skin and allow 
it to dry, after which it should be scraped off with the bowl of a 
spoon. The skin should be eubly. stretched during the operation, in 
order to prevent too great shrinkage. A single application of the 
last named dressing is generally sufficient for small skins; bub a sec- 
ond or third treatment may be resorted to if required, tomake theskin 
soft and pliable, after which it should be finished off with sand-paper 
and pumice stone. A skin may be thus dressed as soft as velvet, and 
the alum and salt willl set the hair securely.” 


INFORMATION WANTED. 


F. M. P. (of New York) wants to know of desirable quail locality in 
Virginia, in season. , ; 

_H.R. (of Boston) and five companions wish to go fishing in a 
yacht in Ju Ys two weeks, expenses not to exceed $50 for the entire 
party; and they want to know where oy shall go 

“Lone ANGLER’' wishes to know of a place to Spe d the spring and 
summer in the western part of Maine or in New Hampshire, away 
from the'railroads, where the woods are well preserved, with good fly- 
fishing and fair accommodations, a: ee =. 


.22-raliber rifle, 
Ans. Excellent work 


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Rifle and rap Shaat 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pigeon Tou rnament, at Chicago, 


26 to 31. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pi ' 
GEE ert gers, Lig y Clay-Pigeon Go., P, 0, Box 


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Tll., May 
1292, Cin- 


ARMY PRACTICE IN 1884, 


IEUTENANT-GENBRAL SHERIDAN is determined that the 
: modern idea of long-range military practice shall be introduced 
into the regular army, and besides hé has given the whole subject of 
army practice an overhauling, in preparation for the worl: @ 1884. He 
directs in a recent order that wherever necessary ranges can be ob- 
tained, marksmen will be adyanced in regular target practice to dis- 
tances of 800,900 and 1,000yds., using service Tifles and service 
ammunition. 

_The grade of sharp shooter is established. To enter this class the 
following percentages will be hak dred: 88 per cent. at 200, 200 and 
600yds. each, and 76 per cent, ar 800, 900 and 1.000yds, each, Division 
and department cominay ders in their discretion willextend to sharp- 
shooters such privileges as interests of the service will permit. 

In view of the greater amount of ammunition now authorized. and 
the increased skill attained under systematic training in rifle firing, 
requirements heretofore adonted are raised. Hereafter the hest 
three scores made (each having the required percentage) will deter- 
mine annual classifications, In calculating the figure of merit all 
company ofticers and regimental statf will bé included; sharpshoot- 
ers will each be given a multiplier of 200. Besides those now excluded 
from consideration, all who desert or are transferred or discharged 
during the first month, and all who are prevented by sickness from 
firme during the whole practice season, will also be disregarded . 
Medical certificates will be required to accompany exceptions 
claimed on account of siékmess. 
_ When supplied, the following insignia will be worn fo indicate skill 
in markmeuship. Marksmen qualifying during the current year vill 
always wear one pair of marksman’s buitons. Those qualifying for 
the second time may wear two pairs. After qualifyine three times 
(not necessarily in consecutive years), a marksman’s pin will be 
worn on the left breast. These wearing marksinan's pins will not 
wear more than the smpele pair of marksman’s buttons. indicating 
renewed qualification during the year. A sharpshooter will be imdi- 
cated by # small bronze cross worn below the opening of the coat 
ccllar while he continues to qnalify annually in that class, The 
cross and the pin will be the property of the winners, and they ma 
be worn upon the breast after ceasing to qualify in the corresponud- 
ing classes. They will be issued aud sold according to present reeu- 
lations concerning marksmen’s buttons. ' 

When, through no fault of his own (either through detached Ser- 
yice or sickness through the shooting season), a marksman or a 
sharpshooter has no opportunity to quality the next succeeding year, 
he may continue to wear the insignia of his class for another year. 
Certificates for marksmen and sharpshooters will be supplied by the 
Adjutant-General of the army, and will be issued from departinent 
headquarters, with qualifying scores entered upon them, te those 
entitled to receive them. 

Hereafter, all duly qualified marksmenin the army will be con- 
sidered eligible for selection to attend annual department corpeti- 
tions; but whenever any marksman has been three times member of 
adepartmentteam or has won any three of the authorized prize 
medals, he willbe announeed m general orders from these head- 
quarters as belonging to a distingiished class no longer eligible to 
compete for these honors without special permission from the com- 
manding general of the army. 

Post commanders willsend only enlisted men to represent com- 
panies at contests for places upon department teams, but department 
commanders may select (upon recommendations by post command- 
ers) two commissioned officers from each regiment in the commands, 
focompete. Staff cfficers may be allowed to enter department com- 
petitions in the discretion of department commanders, 

At all annual competitions for prizes and places upon teams, 
distances will reniain as heretofore, but the total of the two days’ 
score of the three fired will determine compositian of teams, Pre- 
liminary practice will not exceed five days for department contests 
or three days for division and army competitions. Individual 
skirmish matches will always be held at these meetings, and scores 
will be carefully recorded and announced. This very important kind 
of target practice will nut be neglected, A medal will be awarded to 
the skirmisher making the best individual score at each of the 
annual competitions for department, division and army prizes, 


DOMINION RIFLE ASSOCIATION. 


Oe Feb. 13—The aunual meeting of the Dominion 

Rifle Association was held this morning in the Railway 
Committee room of the House of Commons. There was 
a large attendance. The annual report of the association was sub- 
mitted in printed form and accepted as read. This report speaks of 
the sending to England of the Wimbledon team last year under 
Lientenant-Colonel Otter. The Kolapore Cup was lost by the team 
by eighteen points, the competition having been with tne Martini- 
Henri rifle, to the use of which Canadians were not accustomed. 
One hundred Martini-Henri rifles has been secured on loan from the 
Home Government through intervention of Lieutenant Colonel Otter, 
and would be given out to the Provincial Associations to be used by 
the members. OnE the prizes offered at the last meeting of the 
association was **The British Challenge Shield,” which was presented 
through the Marquis of Lorne by the ‘auxiliary fortes of Great 
Britain. The changesin the ownership of pirt of the prounds on 
which the rauges at Ottawa are make it necessary, in the opinion of 
the Council, to throw the butt back 100 yards, so that allfiring points 
may be brought within ground leased by the Government, 

Toe question of funds was touched upon, the Council reporting that 
there there was no certainty of Income, and therefore no basis on 
which can be determined the amount that may be prudently offered 
in the prize list. The costof working the annual’ meeting is about 
38,500. The balance of the Govornment grant over the expenses of 
the Wimble'on team 1s only $2,250, and this isall that can be de- 
prnded upon with any degree of certainty. ' 

Tn view of these facts the Council feel much anxiety as to the gen- 
eral future of the association, but trust that the Government may be 
induced to r-stere the grant to its original sum of $10,000, and thus 
render possible the continuance of tle work in which they are en- 
gaged, asthey believe,with no slight benefit to the militia force of the 
country. ‘ ‘ ‘ 

Lord Lansdowne, responding to a vote of welcome, said; My, 
President and gentlemen—It isa source of the greatest satisfaction 
to me to know that your mem@ers were anxious that I should suc- 
ceed to the place in this association which was occupied by my pre- 
decessor, Lord Lorne. Iregarditasarecognition of the fact that 
this association is doing a work not only of gveat material interrst 
from the pomt of view of the Dominion, but of great imperial im- 
portance as well, IwishI could say that [felt that 1 could bring to 
the performance of these duties somethimg of Lord Lorne’s ability to 
perform ti:em, Lord Lorne was vot only a generous and vousistent 
supporter of the association, he was not only a strenuous adyocate 
olics claims upon all occasions. but he was 4 practiced and ex- 
peienced rifleman, thoroughly conversant with all matters of busi- 
ness with which you are concerned, and able to bring to your council 
a great deal of Mee. thoughtfulness and sagacily. My own 
acquaintance with rifle shooting goes back to, lam afraid, a rather 
distant date. I was one of the school boys who shut in the first Hion 
eleven at Wimbledon the first year that the prize was given there; 
andIlam ashamed to say that after that my military ardor some- 
what evaporated, and will require a good deal of te- 
suscitation n.w. Iam very glad to see, sir, from the report 
which lies upon the table that I am called to the office of 
patron at a moment when, upon the whole, the position and pros- 
pects of the association are such as to give us cause for cougratula- 
lation. I believe it is taking more and more hold upon the people of 
the Dominion, and I have uo fear that during my connestion with it 
it will contmue to hold its own. but there isone respect, and J think 
one only, in which, perhaps. the position of the association is not 
copes satisfactory as we all of us desire, and that is the paragraph 

je report which touches upon the delicate and important ques- 
tion of finances. Now, as to that, we know, of course, that the in- 
come of the association is derived partly from private sources and 
rtly from the support which the Dominion Governinent has 
frought fib to extend to it. As to those private sources ot income, 
it seems to me that our efforts shuuld he directed mainly to this, to 
secure for the association from as many quarters as possible nut so 
much avery large measure of support as a constant source of in- 
come. (Applause). If we could pu. éwailupou our friends to give us 
nol a very Magnificent subvention upon one or two occasions, but 
to promise us fora term of years such av amount of assistance as 
will give us something like anassured income. | think we should 
stand upon a figaucial basis more solid than that which we,occupy 
at the Een With regard to the other source of mcome, 
namely, that which ! 
crime observe that SECEDE Sa roaes the highest hope tha 
sul bi 


in may be somewhat increased. I can only say this, that 
the fame ee ng one in which I observe gheve 14 in the vaire 
.f | at > 


we derivefrom the kind assistance of ce aes r 


pal of - tion of what is spoken of as “better terms,” if the asso- 

ation is not, very extravagantin ils proposals under that head we 
should be very much gratified if it should be wilhin the power of the 
government to meet those very moderate requireme its, (Applause). 
- The new president, Hon. Mr Kirkpatrick, made the pleasing an- 
nounvement that his Bxeellency. the Governor-General, had coutrib- 
uted #500 to the funds of the association, The announcement was 
reecrived with applause. 

The following gentlemen were elected vice-presidents; ; 

For Ottawa. Lieut.-Col. Allen Gilmour, Ottawa;/or Quebec. Livut.- 
Gol. Onuimet. Montreal: New Brunswick, Lient.-C:\ 1. Hoi, A, ©. Bots- 
ford, Sackville; for Nova Scotia, Lieut,-Col. A. K. Mackinlay, Halifax; 
for Manitoba, Hon. M. A. Girard, Winnipeg; for British Columbia, 
Hon, W. J, Macdonald, Victoria; for Prince Edward Island; Hon. R. 
H. Haythorne, Charlottete wn, : 
wus) lection of some members of the council brought the meeting 
oa close, 3 

The new council met this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the following 
members of the staff wers appointed; Chairman of the Council, 
T.ieut,-Gol. Hon. M.R. Masson. of Terrebonne. Executive Committ: e 
of Council: Major Tilton, Liert.-Cols. Panet,Ross Bacon and White, Ot- 
tawa:D, P, Fraser. Montreal; Lient Macnaechtan, Cobourg ; Lieut -Col. 
Macdonald, Ottawa; Capt. Mason, Hamilton; Major Blaicklock, Mon- 
treal; Lient.-Col, Worsley, Kingston; Lient -Col. Gihson. Hamilton. 
Qapt, Perley, Secretary; Capt. Costin, Ottawa, Treasurer. Finance 
Dommittee: Major Tilton, Lieut. @ul. Ross, Ottawa; Capt. Perley. 

The council is composed as follows: : 

Ontario—Col. Gzowski, Major Mason. Lieut.-Col, Macdonald. Lieut, 
Macnachtan, Lieut.-Col. Otter, Lieut. Gourdeau, Lieut. Col. White, 
Lieut,-Gol, Panet, Lieut.-Col, Williams, Lieut.-Col. Bacon, Lieut.-Col, 
Pace Graveley, Lieut.-Col. Gibson, Capt. Casey, and Major Mac- 

erson. 

. Quebec—Major Blaikloek, Lieut.-Col. D, T. Wraser, Capt, Prevost, 
Capt. Hood, Capt. Baifour, Lieut.-Col. Masson, Lieut.-Col. Me- 
Pachern. Major E. Bond, Mr. Hall, M, P., and Lieut.-Col, Worsiey, 

New Brunswick—Major ‘Tilton, Capt. Perley, Lieut.-Gol, Beer, Capt. 
Toller, Hon. John Boyd, and Josiah Wood, M, P._ 

Nova Scotia—M.j.-Gen. Laurie, Mr, Stairs. M. P., D. B. Wood- 
worth, M. P:, Lieut.-Ool. Bradley, Lieut.-Col. Bremner, and W, Mac- 
donald, M, P, 

Manitoba—t ieut.-Col. Scott, Hon, Mr, Royal, Lieut,-Col. Macdonald, 
and A. W. Ross, M. P. 

British Columbia—Hon. My. Nelson, D. E. C. Baker, M, P., Hon. Dr, 
Metnnis, and Lieut. Col. Ross. 

_ Priuce Edward Island—Major Dogherty, Capt. D. Stewvrt, Capt. 
Brecten, M, P., and Surgeon Malloch, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON. Feb, 22.—Walnut Hill Rite Range was crowded to-day 
by deyotees of the rific, all anxious to improve the beautiful weather. 
W hile the conditions were partioiarly pleasant for outdoor sports 
generally, the riflemen compléined of alroublesome wind. A feature 
of the slioot was the presence of many gentlemen shooting military 
rifles, and rolling up excellent scores therewith. The best records of 
the day are appended; 

Creedmoor Prize Match, 


G F Elisworth,...-... 55555455448 W iirkwood....... 646443 1 i5—42 
A Matthews, __...-.5465554555—de W .! Meadows (mil) 44554493154 42 
Bdtram. __...-_, 445455545546 © Partridge..... ._. 043544343435 
WB EROMaS. -.; 2:52 5454655454 46 I R Blake (mil),.. ..23348844dd —34 
JL Brackett, .....-- 494155051 45 IS Hall (mil) -..... 3844422343—382 
W Gardner... ...4544454551-44 EP Dow (mil).. -... 4435242408—29 
JL Fowle (mil). -.. 544455444448 
jreedmoor Practice Match. 
D Wirkwood.. ......4555555555—49 A W Webb... ..--.. 4545535444444 
JeBi Wellows..... --- 454655545446 WoL Coon.... ......4444444543—40 
CB Edwards,...-.-. 4445545545—45 JW Darmoddy (mil).4443845344—39 
H Mor‘imer...._...- 45odhddd5d 45 OW EE Morton .. ...- S5ssd44431—39 
F Wallace. ......- _. 64554454 —45 F OC Shepard (mil). 444344444339 
A Gushing....,....,4554555453—45 F W Mowle (mil)....4844454343— 38 
Samuel Meryill.,....4545544545—44 RS Winsby (wil)... 344244449357 
Rest Mateh. 
FEWSERGCUL Tey naps aoc oe yee oe te enn 10 9 01010 9 81010 994 
T Everett 91070 910101019 7 9~54 
W (Gardner S$ yihet bebe AB oes WW 9 Bi) 8 B 71015 10—90 
R Davis?) sy. 10 8 9 910 610 8 10 x—s8s 
A Law % 7 910 810 9 ¥ 910—86 
ADP Sy tb i he G8 eee ees re See 5 810 9 910 910 9 6—86 
Combination Match—Decimal Target. 
GUBAB eyo were cess eee es 9) 960797, 89) 10" 8" “8: (6) b= 76 
TEPER Us ha\o te oy ee Oe Mie ar AE ee a 5 9.8 6 6 7 8 8 & 772 
AJ Look ....- S35 See eam Lien 4 Depa Copa Ot bebe 
Combination Match—Creedmoor Target. 
© I Berry...-.- ; oh 495 4 5 684 5 56 4 546 
FR DBAS) pis pare =- 1545 5 45 5 4 4 5-36 
AJ Look..... A eb be b> S544 
Victory Medal Match, 

FOORICS EDI Sree ee eee one cee on ee ace nee 3049 5 9 8 610 9 6-88 
| CBT Da) Fy 20) ee 200 799705 O04 8 67s 
Wed) Chguat eis REE 295544585 4ds SRA! 9 6 8 3 46 910 9 877 
ited Bic] Se A555 oe Paes Gh fei aku) Ey ve sre al greats 


former oceasions, The prize winners and their scores were as follows: 
The first event was the Creedmoor match, each mrn had five scores 
of seven shots with a possible 175. 


UCR tee er ener AE AAMERED Ani Wun 82 82 33 34 81 162 
S edman Olark..........--......-...--..d1 82 82 21 32—158+3—161 
Viet POKCOtan aes Scene aca) Solaray «h 31 8) 29 88 38216513158 
PMT icone tS Nien crys Prawn 31 3) 30 30—152+6—156 
JN Freemon.,... 30 80 81 30—152+-6—158 
OSA AGNI yi gee, «ce a 29 30 31 29—i14813—151 


29 
The next was the American Decimal Match with 5 scores, 9 shots, 
and a possible 350. 


SUOUWOIPET ewer cy rose kds ladajsssens re) gos 8G SOL. Ga— 297 
Pe ACANGM 27.5. .58 58 54 64 56—285-+10—295 
MEN TOyee: ~.- ..<- i 09 57 48 50 S4—268-10—278 
M Ferguson... Je ae abn bsee BEE ee 43 41 42 36 S4—216+-15 -201 


Thethird event was the American Decimal Rest Match, with 5 scores, 
7 shots, and a possible 850. 
Aide rnthspeneioe ps eee we aOR re bbe Mobb ROC ESD orm 5s G1 57 61 G4—208 
Ju nday 52 60 63 65—295 
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 22.—in a 200yds, rifle match to-day, 
besween teams of the New Bedford City Guards. Company B, 1st 
Regiment, and the Cunningham Rifles, cf Brockton. Company |, 1st 
Regiment, tue former won by four points. The score stood,in a 
possiole 10): * 
New Bedford City Guards, 


es eet 


Cunningham Rifles. 


Segt Greene.......-.......-.., ; OS SerginBabtlés 72 ee aye 
Serget Howland........ Pere erryane wed ae 5 
Bene vsle Opin aes eslen 7 yes eylobe ETivare al Um. :en.el. dee 70 
Rory Aniieeveleye== aoe esd) SRMINAUGT EPID ys a. vieweleh so se 53 
Private Barnum ..-..,......... 2 Fiivate Packard. ......3......% ue 
raya bes einen. faces sede: 61 Private Winslow,...-....-... 5S 
Private Jennings....,.0-..---.. bb’ Ghrivate Potler.c2s...2 @é2.. 68 


404 400 
NORRISIOWN, Pa.—Match shot on Washington’s Birthday, 
weather coniitions favorable, although a moderate Ureeze was blow- 
ing ac oss the range almost at right angle~, anc’ making it very dif 
ficult for some of the iwarksmen tu keep o» the target. The distance 
was 100yds. The majority of the ma:ksmen shot lying on their 
backs, no artificial rest. being allowed, A.B. Parker was very un 
fortunate, his rifie breaking in tue first match, EH. A. Leopold won 
first prizein every mutch, as the following summary will show. 
Hath marksnien fired five shutsin each match, and each shot was 
measured froin the center of the bullet hole to the center of the 
bullseye. The total distance of the five shots being the shooters’ 
string. and the shortest string to wit: 
First Mateh,—E, A. Leopold 7.01 inches, J. 8S. Pennypacker 11,04 
inches, Mr, Johnson 23.91 inches. 
- Second Mutch.—E. A. Leopold 3.69 inches, J. 5. Pennypacker 11,41 
inches, “r. Johnson 18.51 inches. / 
4 Se Match.—B. A. Leupold 4.48 inches, J. 5, Pennypacker, 10,06 
jnches, ; 
_ Fourth Match.—B, A, Leopold 5.06 inches, J. 5, Pennypacker, 6,41 


es. 
Mr. Leopold used a Maynard Creedmoer ritie, and put 15 out of 20 
Shots in a four-inch bullseye. Mr. Pennyp cker used a Winchester 
Tepraving rifle 45-60, wilh peep and globe sights and spirit level, and 
was given an allowance of hulf an ineth per shot in the second 
match, and one inch per shot in the third. Mr. Johnson used a 
muzzleloader with perp and globe sights and hair trigger, and re- 
ceived an allowan¢e of one ivch per thot in the second ma ch, and 
one andl one-half inches per shot inthe third match. The shooting 
_of the winner iu the secend and third matches is said to be the best 
nu record for this style or shooting in this section of the State. 
i _SEBINGRISLD ibe Spiineteld Rod and Gun Rifle Club went 
down to Slits ei ee is Aetna ke shoot the first of a series of 
team matehes with the Canton tub, 
of 495 to 480. The sisied 


and came off victors by a score 


. The teams co of five men each, and the con- 
itions of uhe uate FS tee: each on the Maseacnudotta target 
= ’ ’ tna - 


- 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


with 3. possible record o£120. The Canton Club are said to have been 


een ahh pilted agi inst them, not knowmeg that that remarkable 
shot had taken up his home in this city. The boys were treated very 
handsomely by the Collinsville people, being met at the depot by a 
committee and escorted to the Valley House, where a first-rate din- 
ner was provided forboth clubs. Thenext match will be shot about 


Fast Day, The secod.e: 
The Springfield Club, 


INVES oe. aa aeebe Mee boleaiica--y's2s 710 912 91010 9 9 10— 9 


HP USS GOOCY-. taveaeyta= toes cee yee, 20 12 101010 T1 9 9 It B—100 
PARNCIIGOTiactetrstiae: ol atuasewiesaectio 00. k0) be “Gd “8100 tf=—95 
AW USMC S es, es csie ts ts at aeetide ee 12111010 9 512 8 17 10— 98 
W M Farrow.. a ceesnee waeeceld 11 10° 9 12°12°12°10 10 10—107 
The Canton Club. 
AEB ellaahaeeedesti hie sie kas cea kas 7 912 810 9101010 9— 94 
d Lauberstein,......,..4 ra dewastecces 10910 Bil1i1il1 9 9 B— 96 
by Oey Gite ene WSS SSEE LS Sa S25. 05 ~ S12 8 91012 7 911 10—96 
OD) AN OTE Wate eee eset ee ny . 9 91010 9121211 9 8— 959 
GMB HOT En Wee core CARGAEORGl tLe ys .n WW 7 91110 91010 9 9— 95 


Mr. Farrow shot one of the new Bullard repeating rifles, They 
were very bountilully entertained with a substantial lunch, and a very 
fme dinnér.—Mrs. W. Minton Farrow. 


ZB\TLER'S GALLERY.—Ten shots per man, possible 120, Capt. 
Titz’s Side—T. Fitz, 116; A. Lober, 116; D. Miller, 112; H. Oehl, 114; C, 
Judson. i117; H. Holges, 116; T. C. Noone, 111; total,»s02. Capt. Zet- 
tler’s Side—B. Zettler, 114; M. Dorrler, 117; CG. Zettler, 114: J, T, Norris, 
18; J. Levy, 114; J. H. Brown, 116; V. Steinbach, 116; total, 799, 

Regular shoot, Feb.19, 12 ring target. 10 snots per man, pussible 
120: A. Lober, 116: C, Judson. 115; D. Miller, 110; T. C. Noone, 105; M, 
Dorrler, 117; M. B. Hngler, 118; P, Feoning, 114; H. Holges, 118; V. 
Steinbach, 166; GC G. Zettier, 118; B. Zettler, 109; H. Oehl, 114. N, D, 
Ward, 108; H. Puekhaber, 99,—N, D, Warp, Secretary. 


GARDNER, Mass , Feb. 20.—The Brattleboro Rifle Club of Brattle- 
boro, Vti.. are expected here soon, when a match will be shot with 
the Gardner Club at Hackmatack Range. Atthe last meet at the 
range the attendance was light. The American decimal target was 
used; distance, 200yds.; shooting off hand. Out of a possible 10) the 
following is the svore; 

GY B)lsworth,...,..........., 9 8 910 9 i 


MN Dou pGiasssesessy sas loa see+aad 9 910 710 9 610 9 7—86 
Géoree Pordyce. |. .-ssz-2s011- 226-2 , 910 9 9 9 4 9 D FB 
D TONGWMAN ee fee rte sate ,910 ¢ 6 T 7 9 9 9 10—B83 
SB Hildreth. .::......: bee ava saves o.699 9 8 7 9 6 6 OSI 
WoRGWIS 5.22: -7442s2282 (it cee essrHe 9 6 8 710 410 8 6 5-7 


BROOKLYN, Feb. 20.—The followmg gentlemen were elected 
officers of the Brooklyn Amateur Rifle Club for the year 1s84: 
President, 0, E. Tayntor; Vice-President, M, B. Hull; Secretary, J. 5. 
Case; Captain, G. Joiner.—J 5. CAsn, Secretary, 

BULL’S HEAD RIFLE GLUB.—Thursday, Web. 14.—12-ring target, 
possivie 120; M. Dorrler, 117; A. Lober, 117: G. Zimmermann, 113; O, 
Rein, 118; H. Gunther, 118; H. Kruger, 112; V. Steimbach, 111; H. 
Haeclamann, 106; EH. Zubiller, 102; 8, Mehrbach, 100; J, F. Campbell, 
99; G, Brueck, 93, 

Thursday, Web. 21, 12 ring target, possible 120: C, Rein 118, A. Lober 
117, 5. Mehrbach 115, G. Zimmermann 115, M, Dorrler 116, J, I. 
Schroeder 112, J. F. Campbell 111, J, Schneider 111,G. D Johnson 105, 
L, Walters 94, 

A QUBRY AND SOME FACTS.—Milford, Mass., Peb. 11.—! have 
a Sharps long-range rite in perfect order and condilion and an extra, 
fine shovter, but huve no time nor range for practice, and wouid like 
to know from some readers of ForEST AND STREAM what effect it will 
have to take four inches off the end of the barrel. It is now 34 inches 
long, and I would like it better for general shooting if it was only 30, 
but dislike to run the risk of spoiling its shooting by cutting it off. 
Have any readers ever done this with this kind of rifle, and what was 
the result? While I am writing of rifles let me say a word about bul- 
lets. In moulding some .32-ealiber Winchester bullets a short time 
smee, [ was troubled to get perfect ones, and as an experiment, IT 
melted with the lead a silver ten cent piece in enough lead to make 
about two hundred balls, and a handsomer lot of bullets 1 neversaw, 
except nicely swaged ones, aud upon testing them for weight I took 
some twenty five from the low hap hazard, and the extreme yariation 
was ouly one grain by very careful testing, 1 kept the moulas clean 
and very hou. Let some one else try this and report. I believe tuese 
balls will shoot as accurate as Swaged ones. At sixty yards, using 
4 Maynird 24inch barrel, open sights, Winchester .32 caliber shell, 
20 ¢rains Latin & Rand No 6 powder and this bullet, I fired five shots, 
and four of them broke into the same holes, much to my surprise, as 
Thad little expected it from moulded bullets.—C,. A. 5. 


. THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
guested to write on one side of the paper only. 


HISTORY OF THE WORCESTER CLUB, 


EN years ago the present month afew of the more prominent 
and enthusiastic sportsmen of this city began to agitate the 
formation of a sportsmen’s club. The project met with fayor from 
the very outset, and after being discussed informally for a lew days 
as one and another of the inteuded parties happened to meet, a pre- 
liminary meeting was called at the office of oue of our business men, 
wiose whole soul was in the scheme, ‘he meeting was largely at- 
tended, and was composed of our prominent business men. The 
yeteran sportsman and honored citizen, John Buyden, Esq., was 
called to the chair, and well do [remember his characteristic speech 
on tbat ovcasion. 

He had been in delicate health for a longtime, and it was probably 
the first evening he had spent away from his home in many months. 
His whole soul se md fired anew on meeting the large company of 
his fellow citizens who had come together to tall of the subject that 
had béex the ruling passion of his life. The formation of a club and 
w atshoult be its principal objects was fully discussed, a commictee 
on constitution and by-laws was chosen, and a Jiberal amount sub- 
sciibed by those present to defray the expense of printing, etc, 
Success was assured from the beginning, and when on the first Wed- 
nésd«y evening of the following month we met and chose officers and 
adopted our constitution and by-laws. we were able to presenta. 
meinbership roll of genilemen that no one ueed feel ashamed to be 
identified with. We have, and have always had, a large number of 
members who never shoot a gun either at the trap or in the field. 
They are promi.en? business men who feel a local pride in the or- 
ganization, and who are quite willing to pay their annual dues for 
lhe social privileges which the clubaffords, 

As soon as the club was faitly organized we opened the commodi- 
ous elnb room, over the First National Bank. It was a well-furnished 
aud attractive room, supplied with all the sportsmen's papers besides 
other reading matter, was always comtortable and neatly kept, and 
open day and evening for the use of the members. But somehow it 
neyer seemed to take yery well, and it proved a very expensive lux 
ury. After keeping it open three or four years it was decided that 
the money expt nded coud be better enjoyed in some other way, and 
the room was given up and the furnitur sold atanction, Since then 
the club has held quart rly meetings at the Bay State House, 

Ours has always been aiive club, While we have neyer-been un- 
thindful of the all] important matter of game protection, we have also 
provided plenty of amusement for the members. When our club 
was searcely a month old we held our first field day, using the old 
gyro pigeon. Wepurehased seyeral traps and a large stock of the 
tin birds, but after using them a few tines the members grew tired 
of them. and we were glad to sell our stock ata large discount to a 
youu clubin a neighboring town. Wehad not secured permanent 
shooling grounds when we made arrangements for our first pigeon- 
thooting tournament, which was held at Barber’s Grossing. This 
shoot was a grand success and was followed by another, which was 
held on the Full Moon Trotting Pail, and this closed our first year’s 
out-of-doar festivities. 

As =pring opened and we commenced our second year we secured 

ermanent shochne Boyan onthe Harringtoa place near Jordan 
ond, and erected thereon a club house and pigeon coops at an ex- 
pense of over three hundred dollars. Here we enjoyed many a 
pleasant field day till finally compelled by Staite legislataon to cease 
izeon shooting. ; 

Next we gave our attention to glass balls. using the old Bogardus 
ball and swaight.away trap, Then came the Card rotary which had 
along run, but after a whileit was considered too easy, and one of 
our members, Mr. C B. Holden, invented a trap which came into 
general use in New England and which J think hee never been ex- 
celled for glass ball shooting. The members of our club have shot 
agreat many team matches, a large majority of which they have 
wou, ‘The first of these matches was a series of three with the Marl- 
boro Club, ‘The first PACE was In Marlboro, and when the Wor- 
ecesters walked to the seore they had never before seen a ball thrown 
froma rotary trap. We lost this race but won the next two. After- 
ward we generally met the Marlboros in a friendly contest once a 

ear as long as that club exist-d. We challenged the New Haven 
aan Club aud met them in that city, the match resultingina tie. The 
return match was shot in Springfield and won by the Worcesters. 


When the State Glass Ball Association was formed ours was oue of the 


first clubs to move in the matter. Previous to the last annualtourua- 
ment the State Association has each year offered two champion 
badges for glass ball shooting, one for teams of five men, the other 


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for the individual championship, these badges ta be held by the 
surprised to find Assistant Manager arrow ot the Bullard Arnis | d 


winners through the year previded they were able to detend them 
successfully, cach being subject to challenge once a month, The 
Worcester Clnb furned in both these badges last year. 

The Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Company forwarded a beautiful badge 
for the individual championship to be contested for at the last annual 
tournament, and the assoviation provided a yery handsome team 
badge for the clay-pigeon championship, The Worcesters won the 
team clay-pigeon badge, and the Ligows<y badge was won by H. W, 
Bager, of Marlboro, whois a member of the Worcester Club, and 
who defended his trophy on our grounds. Me met fiye contestants, 
and finally Jost it to Mr, Negus, of Fall River. Our yice-president, 
Mr. W.5. Perry, went after it recently and brought Tt. home. 

Both the team and individnal glass-ball badges had heen gathered 
in, and Mr. Perry's victory made the list compl+te, and fora few days 
the whole four adorned the show-case of Comrade Shepard, the local 
dealer in sportsmen’s supplies. Last Thursday Mr. Holden lo-t the 
individual glass-ball badge to B. Moses, of Springfield, with the close 
score of 45 to 46 in a fitty-ball race. Mr. Perry is to make an effort to 
reclaim it on Saturday, March 1, butit would be rather renarkable 
if the whole four should again be held by one club. Mr, Perry has 
shot many notable matches for money, both at live birds and glass 
balls. Among those most worthy of mention are the matehes he 
shot with Mr. W.H. Sheldon, of Providence, R, I. The first was for 
$100 a side, 100 birds per man, and was shot in Providence in a pour- 
ing rain storm, and won by Sheldon, Mr. Perry felt his defeat keenly, 
and offered to make another match for $25) a side, to be shot on 
neutral grounds, His proposition was accepted, aid the mateh was 
shot on the grounds of the Tremont Club at Readville, A large and 
interested audience was present, among whom Were Captain Bogar- 
dus and Ira Paine. It proved to bea great race and created much 
comment in sho oting circles, Perry won the mateb with the wonder- 
ful score of 95, tieing Captain Bogardus for the best record under 
sameruwes. Sheldoa also shot a splendid race, scoring &7 birds. Tt 
was claimed by Sheld n’s friends that Perry had out-shot himself. 
and had no licence to beat Shelden, and announced themselves ready 
to back their man for another racefor the same amount. The propo- 
sition was accepted and the third match was shot in Providence and 
won by Perry by one bird. 

About five years azo we were compelled to look for new shooting 
grounds We secured a beautiful spot near Coal Mine Brook, on the 
shores of Lake Quinsigamond, Our old club house was moved to the 
new grounds, and for a time did good service, but the club began to 
fee] the need of better quarters, andthe past season a large two- 
story house has been erected, with dining hall and all the appoinb- 
ments necessary for comfort, I think itis safe to say we now have 
a food accommodations for trap-shooting as any club in New Eng- 
and. 

Our next annual meeting, whichis also our tenth anniversary, 


‘occurs on the first Wednesday in March. Just what the club will do 


to celebrate the event has not been decided. That the uninterrupted 
harmony and ood feeling which has prevailed throughomt these en- 
tire ten years may be oursin the years to come is the sincere wish 
of , E, SPRAGUE KNOWLES- 

Worcester, Mass., Feb, 14, 1484, 

[The above sketch of the Worcester Club is pa 
ing. Weshould be pleased to publish like skete 
other clubs], 


A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 


Editor Forest and. Stream: 

A national association, such as it is proposed to organize at Chicago 
next May. might establish a uniform code cf rules to govern all con- 
tests of shooting throughout the country, and it might institute a, 
series of annual tournaments. 

IT heartily approve of the formation of such an association, and 
deem it advisable and necessary, not only for the objects above 
named, but for many others which will naturally come before it. 
Certainly the yearly fixing of the date and place of the annual tourna- 
ment, and thé care of all arrangements for the same, would be a part 
of its duties. 

Also, I should wish thatit be endowed with a great prerogative, to 
wit, that it be constituted a board of appeal and final arbitration con- 
cerning all matters of dispute between clubs (who sign its articles), 
as also between such clubs and any member thereof who may deem 
himself to have suffered wrong by any decision of said club. 

It would also be within the provines of such an assamation to pro- 
yide a badge for the Plight Championship of America, and make repu- 
lations for the winning and holding of the same, thereby giving us a 
thampionship with a paternity. 

All these things would properly come before the meetings of such 
a body, and I feel safe in promising that our little club from Exeter, 
N. H., will be represented there, and will .cheerfully sign and abide 
by all rules and regulations which the wisdom of the convention 
shall declare just and equal. 

J. Wriurams (of Exeter Sportsman‘s Club), 

Exeter, New Hampshire. 


entertaining read 
és of the history of 


THE CLAY-PIGEON TOURNAMENT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 
The following clubs have thus far remitted $1.00 initial entrance fee, 
Championship match, First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, 
May 20, 1884, The numbers indicate the respective order of choice as 
to time in being called to the score; the list will be published period- 
ically as additional entries are made; 
1. Aug, 17, 1888, Tallahassee Gun Club, Tallahassee, Fla, 
2. Seps. 4, 1883, Ciacinaati Indepandent Shooting Olub, Cincinnati, 
3. Oct. 19, 1883, Vicksburg Gun Clnb, Vicksburg, Miss, 

4. Nov. 3, 1483, Exeter Sportsmen’s Club, Exeter, N. H- 

5. Dee, 15, 1683, LincoJnSportsmen’s Club. Lincoln, Neb, 

6, Dec. 26, 1883, Niazara Gun Club, Niagara Falls,N, Y. 

7. Dec. 26, 1883, Narragansett Gun Olub, Providence, R. L 

8. Jan. 13, 1:84, Oshkosh Shooting Club, Oshkosh, W1s, 

9. Jan, 14, 1884, Medfield Sportsmen's Club, Medfield, Mass. 

. Jan, 30, 1884, Cleyeland Gun Club, Cleveland, O. 

. Feb, 1, 1884, Worcester Sportsmen's Club, Worcester, Mass. 

. Feb. 18, 1884, Capiial City Gun Club, Washington, D, C 

18. Feb, 15, 1884, Peoria Shootmg Club, Peoria, Ill, 

CincoInnatt, O., Feb, 23, Ligowsky C.P. Co, 


SIZE OF SHOT FOR CLAY-PIGEONS.—Waterloo, lowa.—Editor 
Forest and Stream: In a recent issue, you requested seme of your 
readers to give their experience with clay-pigeons, with a view of 
determining the size of shot most suitable forthe demolition of those 
targets. I had used No.9 soft shot in shooting glass balls with ex- 
cellent results; and when I was invited to attend my first clay- 
pig+on match lastspring. having neyer seen a clay and supposing 
them no harder to break than a ball, I loaded my shells with No.9. 
T found the bird much easier to coyer than I expected, but the “tail- 
ers’? and anumber that went quartering away failed to respond; 
and atlastI went out and picked up several and invariably found 
shot marks on them, I was using a tull choke 12-bore gun, 4 drams 
power, and 14g ouncesshot. I immediately made up my toind that 
No, 9 shot was not the thing, and at the next match used No. 8 soft, 
and although I was more successful than in the previous match, I 
picked up several missed birds with lead on them, I next tried No, 

ehilled shot, and it ‘‘simply paralyzed’ them, Ihave used that 
size since, snd consider it the proper one, but if a man’s gun makes 
a better pattern with No. 6, I would advise him to use that size. I 
have seen clays with the marks of as high as seven pellets on 
them, No. 8 shot, that were not even chipped. A clay-pigeen looks 
like a good-sized target, butthe flat surface presen!ed is very small, 
and when itis skimming through the air, swittly rotating. unless the 
pellet hits it squarely, it is very apt to glance off, and glancing 
pellets won't do the business. I don’t believe any better substitute 
for the live bird exists than the clay pigeon, and practice with them 
better fits the sportsman for t.e field.—J. C. H. 

NEWTON. Mass.—On the grounds of the Newton Rifle Asscciation 
at Newtonville Friday, there was a clay-pigeon match between beams 
of three from the Newton and Wellesley clubs, which was won by the 
former by one bird. There was also a freeé-to-all match, three prizes 


being offered, in which the following scores were made: 

W © Edmands....... ..-.. feaeeae W01—6 111—b6 1111111—7—i5 
MiGs Pratt. 0 soy eases eee, ah 1W0i1—6 WiOMI- 6 1011111—6—18 
BEY B Downey) cs cg ess swe 1O1111—6 =—-1111100—5 =0110111—5 16 
GeowWinder i.) cela Se eee ee 11110116 1161101—5 (¢101111—5—16 
OE Bil S06 3 ne were ere igs 1100100—3 101100i—4 11111i1—7—14 
Dwight Boyden,...--.. is retest 01101014 111000i—4__ O10ln1y -5—13 
DS Sbort,,-. .- . 1001110—4  10101G1—4 0101101 —-4 12 
GL Bullens,..,. , 0011100—8 0100101—3 0110011—4—10 


EB Hitchcock.. ......., -..,,..0010110—8 1110110—S 0L01100—2—10 
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb 22.—The New Bedford Gun Club shot 
to-day for the bierce medal, 10 balls and 10 pigeons each. The score; 


‘Andrew Butts 16. Herbeit P. Bryant 16, Philip D. Slocum 15, John B. 


Hussey 18, George K. Stetson 8 Butts has won six times in the last 
seven couvtests for the mi dal, which is to be given to the member of 
the club winning it the most times in ome year. 


WORCESTER, Mass., Feb, 21.—To-day was the regular field day of 
the Wolcester Sportsmen's Cliib, at Coal Mine Biook range. Among 
those present were D, A. Dickey, J. Nichols and J. O, Field, of Beston; 
G. G. Tidsbury, J, H. Cole and J. Pluff, of Athiand; C. H. DeRoch- 
mont, of New mry ports B, Gardner, of Albany, N. Y., and John E. 
Leng, Detroit, Mich, The fret event wes a challenge niatch at clay 
pigeons, for the individual badge of the Massachusetts Association, 


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held by W.S, Perry, of this city, his opponent was D. A. Dickey, of 
Boston, The judges were C, D, DeRochmont, of Boston, and Major 
L. G. White, of Worcester, with G. G. Tidsbury, of Ashland, as 
referee, Each man shot at 50 pigeons, by the rules of the Massachu- 
setts Association, in strings of five each. The following is the score: 
BERIT eye sata tes 01011414411 191119 111099.1090111111111111111101111411 45 
Dickey 11110100010011111111101011000001011111101101011001—31 

After alunch there was shooting by members and visitors, but no 
records were given, although there were ten events, shooting for 
sweepstakes. 

MICHIGAN GUN CLUB.—Detroit, Feb. 23.—The recently organ- 
ized Michigan Gun Club and Game Protective Society had their first 
regular trap shoot upon Washington's Birthday—Ieb. 22. The 
Weather was most disagreeable. A snowstorm raced during the 
afternoon, and the wind blew fiercely. Notwithstanding the unfor- 
tunate weather a large number participated in the shoot, and it 
would seem that trap-shooting in Detroit will soon. as of yore, be- 
come popular, The scores would haye been, under a different con- 
dition of the elements, far better: 


Thomas Wood's Side, 
Glass Clay- Glass Double 
Balls. Pigeons. Balls. Clay-Pig’ps. 
Thos Wood..... 020138 17110114 001102 11 00 ti=4 
W Schweikart..1011i4 1113200-3 10111—4 0000 00—0 
CAUD RWIS assy. O01111—4 102114 01111-4 O01 0010-2 
HS Woreester..01011-8 111014 00101-2 01 11 104 
Liman Blakely.1 0000-1 01010-2 01010-2 1000 11-3 
AOS Havens..010102 10100-—2 01000-—1 11 17 02-6 
Geo Larkins....001117-8 01000—1 11110—4 4101 10-4 
LHGAilsendegen0 0000-0 001012 10011-8 1010 01-3 
D Robinet,...... 0127200-2 001113 11000-2 0001 11-3 
J Jardine,....... Oo0010—4 00100—-1 111117-5 11 19-7 
23 26 29 a6 
W. H. Chudleigh’s Side, 
W H Chudleighi i110—4 107114 01010-2 1011 00-4 
Jas Winters....10101—8 110114 11100-8 i100 10-3 
LA Wilcox. ...00010-1 00000-—0 000 90—0 00 00 10-1 
J BE Patterson...11001-—8 0171018 O0001-1 i Of 11-5 
DrDGStuart...101701—-3 11111-5 O1111-4 0011-3 
CM Havens....00011-2 00001—1 00000-0 O01 0011-3 
John Wansch...11000—2 01001-—2 11001-—8 00 01 11-3 
TA Reaume ....1 101 0 000011 000112 O1 11 01-4 
G Hilsendegen..00100—1 00111—-8 01100-2 11 OL 10-4 
WC Donaldson.t 1111-5 01110-8 111411-5 00711 10-8 
QF 26 2k 35 
DELTA, 


Aare Woe) |. press care ons 0 tO) Sel el OF he = 15 
Ha MSR ye. Soto ace reece 10D Gill tO) eid eG) tie iG 
Ty Wav Lee) ree eenlte AP Saha) Sah Pee ae oak bt =ahsy 
US Palmer. u.. sees. Ahh (ith wl olde sbl vinh aul Soi Shh smal 
GSNAE Ser ee een eeesss-- wis 10 11 «10 OO 00 1 O01 1 10 10—10 
WY Giamapbelle ys. ies. oe 10 01 10 210 11 «+11 #00 OO 10 O1—10 
iS) Antbony.......-..2-:5-2-. 00 10 10 11 10 10 OL 10 10 10—10 
Ay etki.) | a eee 01 00 11 O01 OO 10 OL 80 OO OI-—7 
TOES ES A Oe Sek ee 01 00 00 00 10 00 10 00 M5 


State badge match, 25 singles, 15yds, rise; five traps, 5yds. apart, 
fourth notch. 
Ji VyQUE THES ASE Os SABES echoes Sone RDEDE Omer 1201411111111111111111110—23 
oe WS CEE ee SSS ele OS RS ACEC 1111191111111111111111100—28 
H i Palmer, -....- 555" GOB ES ABO SACRED (909109111971111111111111122 
TESST LTP GO shee ee EE Cees 5 Ree 1011011111011111111110111—21 
Wone SHeldOn eer. owen enna e eens - -1100111110149111311101110—29 
DISBALONIE ee caren ott eee onic 10110111114110111100101 1118 


RETR WSR OCI EL Vo a Surat a ser 3h -) mot) oon . -107911191111.01010111101100—18 
NUSRAT i Ee Ba Geen) fal ieted os oboaodols Were] ca} s}oba) ofc 1000113110141100101111111—18 
W Gampbell..... Seat eisai sist « = ns clel nel aisieve lel -oriare 0111101110111110711101010—18 
TSP RCL OI ee hess eee ee 1141101110011091011110017 417 
(Bay TEE ee Meth AA DEB BORON Bonar 0101100111001110111111011 17 
3 BP GROreee sc. nny awe em gale ee ie ewe 0011110100100110101001100—12 
"lo SL 26) REL ree as Me ares A nO I vg 140010010101 1101100001000—11 
LTR AR ee 6 Rae ee A ee te 1000010111000010010000101— 9 


Tie, Tinker 11111, Cary 11101, Mr. Tinker wins. 

St. Valentine’s Day was observed in a fitting manner at the grounds 
of the Narragansett Gun Club, there being three events—first, the 
elub badge match at pairs of doubles (clay-pigeons); second, a post- 

oned match for the Ligowsky State badge, and the third. the regn- 
ary weekly shoot for the last named badge, the two last shoots being 
at twenty-five single clay-pigeons from five traps. The weather was 
cloudy and dark, with a heavy wind, and the scores as a consequence 
rather below the average. The following is the score: 

Club Badge Match. 


FOV SHREICO St ce ag gos teektes aa wes 11 00 11 10 10 01 10 01 01 11—12 
UWA atte lela: ao etre Se | semi —ae 1 00 10 00 10 10 00 00 GO 01 O1— 5 
OME OC a staat taorcd pee sets es ees = ose 10 OF 11 10 00 10 11 11 Vi 11—14 
AGATE ROO ED 2 ee eg geaii-e eerste = ped 01 41 10 10 01 11 11 01 10 10—18 
CRAG AE DEL w4\ e's siete oes oe ee eee ee 00 00 10 00 11 11 10 10 10 10-8 
BE BATHED es kos vies csee neg sees er veers 10 11 10 01 10 1 10 00 01 11—11 


5S 
L. M. Hddy won badge first time. 
Ligowsky State Badge. 


BW Tinker _-.,.1001011111010011111111111.—19 
i ipilt BYSIife) Hake MO ERE ee D 46001111000101111111 w 
CUTEETE:E A}5) een ON aD gS ts canara 0011101011101010111111001—16 
BS Luther_......-- ys cv sev seve see ys + +»-10010111101100001101 w 
WPHROESEN Sida coe cert. APSR ond dvewwese 001100101101110011010110114 
GEREN ce oy oe ler tho dtad ade ik des 100110000010011 


H, W. Tinker won State badge. 
Ligowsky State Badge (postponed match.) 
G T Anthony.....-.-,.-- KR sean eee 141111111101 1111110100011—20 


Met NETL O Tea «co bite bites tical hr ewe ~.-.1111011110011111111111111—22 
pile JERTSS Te Eta ile ee en eo er | 11111110001; 

1h) WEN fale he eo EPO rent ore 1001101131111100101111110—18 
SR EOUDAI Ua: Sta tos feeb eee Eto + saat 0 4010110111001111111011111—19 
MS uther. 2. cies eee rec EADS &: 10111 101111011 11111111111 22 
MONTES ee niece sorts seeptceee 0001010000010100109000111— 8 
Mathewson,... -- SS eee _-.0101011101110010100111111—16 


Tie—Tinker. 10100; Luther, 10000. HB. W, Tinker wins badge for 
fourth time,—W, H. 58. 

EAST PROVIDENCE, R. L, Feb. 19,—On Tuesday there was quite 
a company at the grounds of the Watchemoket Gun Club, Riverside 
being well represented, and quite a delegation being also present 
from the Narragansett Gun Club, The day, though cloudy, was 
quilé favorable for shooting. For the elay-pigeon silver cnp the fol- 
Jowing was the score, best out of twenty; ten single rises and five 
doubles; singles, 15yds. rise; Less i2yds.: 


BP vaslitMcelon wet ecto KH Rilke 101111111141 11 10 10 0116 
Tsaiah Barney.,.- ~----.....--..- 111011001110 11 00 11 10—13 
Riess GIST ern rat bere es eee ne leleen s Pat 9 119779 41001 10-49 11—17 
LS Winchester,-....-........-.. 0011100011 withdrawn. 
(oka et ea) ) pres al: fy aes eee 1011111111 withdrawn. 
A teboye O(c OP Deere SS SAD AGED 0001 1 withdrawn. 

The temporary possession of the cup was awarded to EH. 8, 


h 
Luther. For the glass balleup the following was the score, best out 
n 

1 


of twenty; 18yds, rise, from a Holden rotary trap: 

Geeree Barnny = See 10011111111111101111—17 
ES Luther....,,,.--------..-.0. 1 withdrawn. 

TSAIAUBAIMC Ys 22. 5 ee ae ny 00721000011010111010i1—10 
LS Winchester...-~,.~-.---- 100111101 0 withdrawn. 
SmitipSnawe. seeks ~..1 0101100 0 0 withdrawn. 

hatin Gites: SSAA ee SA 01001 withdrawn. 


The cup was awarded to George Barney for the second time. 


MALDEN GUN CLUB SHOOT.—On Feb, 28 several members met 
at Wellington to contest for the first and second class so1d gold 
medals for the fourth time. Therain storm during the shoot was 
very heavy, but nothing daunted, the clay-pigeon annibilators pep- 
pered the featherless birds as well as they were able in so inclement 


weather: 
; First Class. { , 
TC Field. - Paths pul onic d tenes kes 11101101911011110111—T6 
SSR aetI TT Wiate cats vette watet eas Bhs Pees Lae 11110101000010010110—18 
Fe SEL Malan enn re ale ever eee tein 10110111110010010110—12 
eee 01111071011011111001—14 
TULA EID Ents taylalp wp | aay hene eats Seay creates Seer cutl — 
4 Nickels Sui Pn rad id, bt tsa 01111001111101001710—13 
[O77 GER pe ne 01111001010101011010—10 


@Mhere are twelve contests for the Club's medals, which begun in 
January and endin June. Theregular badge days are the second 
and fourth Saturdays of each month, showing than four contests have 
already taken place and will run through the ensuing months in 
seriatim. until the fourth Saturday in June, when the fortunate 
Nimrods who are then declared winners the greatest number of times 
can proudly wear them as their own ad captandui. 

Those who have already won in the contests for the first-class 
medal are: T. C, Field 2, J. Buffum 1, F. Loring 1, Second class: A. 
F, Adams 38, . J. Brown J. After the contests, and in the pouring 
rain, the shooters began to merrily bang away atthe motherless 
birds, as they were gracefully propelled trom Ligowsky’s admirable 
trap, like a beautiful and festive quail ds she swiftly cleaves the’ air, 
and 


hen suddenly drops on terra firma to hide from the gunner's 
luckless aim, crying out to her mates ‘more wet] more wet!” Arter 


:o-? 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


a comparatively enjoyable time in wet clothes the sportsmen took 
train for home, to meet again on Malden Gun Club’s spacious grounds 
the next tournament day, March 1, when it is expected that a goodly 
number of clay-pigeon slayers will be present to enjoy the interesting 
programme of evénts.—T. CG. F. 


LEATHERSTOCKING CLUB,—Oswego, N. ¥.—At a recent glass 
ball shoot on the fort ground, the boys had a pleasant time. Some 
fine scores were made. Mr, Hid. Plank walked to the front in good 
shape, and accomplished the difficult feat of smashing 28 balls 
straight (thrown from a Card revolving trap) with his new 12-cauge 
gun. The members of our Leatherstocking Club are wide awake this 
season, and the prospects are that they will make it interesting for 
zhe glass balls and pigeons,—Davn. 

ERIDGEPORT, Feb. 14.—Scores of second shoot for champion 
clay-pigeon badge of Connecticut, shot at Bridgeport, Feb, 13, ina 
heavy fog. Someoft the time we could not seethe trapper. Next 
shoot takes place at Wallingford, March 12, as they won this time: 


; ‘ Bridgeport. 
DENI ISaitha. wo geese. ces oe ie goa 1110110101010110100110011—i6 
TESST 14 4 Pas Sat eee dt Cee eae 11141111 10100011101101101—18 
RIE ROU CE ius fora 4 erase] eas Ree 1001011119111110111911011—20 
EE NIGholgses. obo awe th ek 1101110101110011111101111—_19—73 
Wallingford. 
SP BEBrGRUen eae at. h Synaral neo ae 411114101111011110 101101—19 
Ave GOGUrICHH ak eeunetafemsticin Gs 0144111014117110111110111—27 
UAE CD Date niute. glen chee thmacda ae 110011 111.0011101117110110—18 
PAGIVER ete whe atic heat is oe eek 0111000111111101111010111—18—76 
Meriden, 
GOBARS EPO Bt beter tenes ree Hee 1010011001100111101110011—14 
Liem ai PU ns ae rr ee 01111411011100010111111111—19 
ES BIP GBC yi kek ace cess bicolor 1201001110110110101110100-—15 
TP EEVLVES yO Pal g tak bien ese seek. Soa . . -1411011101101111100110010 —17—65 
New Haven. 
sPAROISOD). 2. see ten seneee eda 4111111011111111111111111—24 
VSR Set Gi eat eae Pe ae Rl eit al 2h 1010001000110111011100100—12 
CNT SISGEDS SS Byte avast as segs tee iE Rid . .04111011111011110000001111—16 
OCATTICRATIMLEHE bles oe eodtesu nae ete 04110011101010110110111110—16—68 
Winsted. 
Vi AS BIAKGSIOOs. cn eetees tute spie saan 1111100110111100011111111—49 
DW ereSONs ES yet ss kt pee hen eee 1100101111101110101111111—19 
Hacks She eet teeta eee . .0111011101110100111011000—415 
AGRONEIES: © ste eae ee ae, . ---1111110100011101100010101—15—68 


BOSTON GUN CLUB—Third Tournament at Clay Pigeons, Feb. 
20.—Weather conditions of the most unfavorable kind, and prevented 
the meeting being so well attended as previous tournaments. The 
third tournament at Wellington, under the auspices of the Bos- 
ton Gun Club, was held yesterday. Representatives were present 
from the Brockton, Exeter, Newburyport, Massachusetts, Middlesex, 
Worcester and Long Island gun clubs, and the shooting, considering 
the weather conditions, was good. The following are the results: 

First sweep (7 clay pigeons, 1$yds. rise)—D. Kirkwood won first, 
C. Henry second, G. W. Crouchand C, H. Gerrish, even, third. 

Seeond sweep—D. Kirkwood and C, Henry first, Gerrish and 
Crouch sécond, Allen third. 

Third sweep—Henry and Kirkwood first, Crouch second. 

Fourth sweep—Henry and Gerrish first, Kirkwood second. 

Fifth sweep—(only straight scores counting)—Gerish took the pot. 
Ae sweep—Gerrish and Henry first, Kirkwood second, Allen 
third. 

Seventh sweep—Henry and Kirkwood first, Gerrish and Emerson 
second, Sampson third, 

Highth sweep—Crouch first, Gerrish second, Kirkwood third, 

Ninth sweep (three pair double birds, 15yds. rise)—Henry first, 
Gerrish and Emerson second, Allen third. 

Tenth sweep (same conditions)—Henry first, Gerrish and Allen see- 
ond, Hmerson third. 

Eleventh sweep (5 single birds, 18yds. rise)—Henry and Sampson 
first, Kirkwood second, Gerrish third. 

Twelfth sweep—Sampson and Emerson first, Kirkwood second, 
Gerrish and Henry third. 

Thirteenth sweep—L. E. Johnson first, Gerrish and Emerson see- 
ond, Kirkwood third. 

Fourteenth sweep—Henry, Gerrish and Kirkweod first, Sampson 
and Emerson second, Johnson and Crouch third. 

Hifteenth sweep (5 single birds, 5 traps, 1§yds. rise)—Gerrish and 
Johnson first, Emerson second, Henry third. 

Sixteenth sweep—Gertish first, Sampson and Johnson second, 
Henry and Crouch third. 

Seventeenth sweep (5 single birds, same rise)—Emerson and Ger- 
rish first, Chambers second, Henry third, 

Highteenth sweep—Gerrish. Kirkwood and Henry first, Sampson 
and Hyans second, Nichols and Wmerson third. 

Nineteenth sweep—Emerson and Henry first, Gerrish and Sampson 
second, Nichols and Evans third. 

Twentivth sweep—Kirkwood first, Sampson and Henry second, 
Nichols third. 

Twenty-first sweep (miss and out, 21 yards vise)—Gerrish and Bmer- 
son divided, 

Twenty second sweep (same)—Sampson won, 


KNOXVILLE GUN CLUB.—For club medal at 15 clay-pigeons, 


18yds, rise, fourth notch; " 
C GC Hebbard.. .110111111111110—138 Mead... ...... 010000110011110— 7 


A H Hebbard..110101111111101—12 Russ.......,... 000101016011110— 7 
Armstrong..... 111111101000111—11 Slocum ....... 191001010010j300— 7 
DOWsy- oer iveree 110001111110010— 9 Wood.......... 100030100111000— 6 
Eldridge ...,,,.110100011011110— 9 Kohihase..,,.. 00000011101110— 6 
Jenkins ....,... 111100110101010— 9 Misser ....... 101010000000000— 3 
Worsham ,.....110011101001000— 7 


Blection of officers—President, M. G. McCfing; Vice-President, 8. 
B. Dow; Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. C. ebbard. Executive 
Committee: J, C. Duncan, 5, B, Dow, F. W. Armstrong. 


achting. 


FIXTURES. 
May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 24.—Boston Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 30,—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 
May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Malch,Connor and Commodore's cups, 
June 10.—Atlantic Y. O,, Annual Match. 
June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 
Juné 14.—Hull ¥.C., Club Meet. 
June 16.—Hast River Y. C., Annual Matches. 
June 28.—Boston Y. C,, Ladies’ Day. 
July 12.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 
July 12.—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. 
Aug, 9.—Hull ¥. C., Club Meet, 
Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs. 
Aug. 23.—Boston Y. C., Third Club Match, 
Sept. 18 —Hull Y, C., Club Meet. 
~ Sept, 18.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


‘THE ENDLESS TOPIC. 


Editor Forest and Stream; ; ; 

T notice in your last edition a letterfrom ‘‘Guest” in relation to the 
eoutroyersy upon ihe merits of Fortuna ys. Montauk, Iwasalso a 
guest aboard Montauk in the Goelet cup race, and I wish also to cor- 
recta remark of yours which follows ‘*'Guest’s’’ com munication, 
You say that the wind shilted during the run in, thus Reon the 
windward boats, and ge aa those to leeward to ‘pinch.’ That 
isa mistake. The wind shifted but once during the entire race and 
that was within fifteen minutes after the start, from that time ir 
blew strong and steady throughout the day, néver varying even half a 
point. The Montauk’s superior position at the finish was due, in a 
Measure, to the stretch she made to windward afterrounding the 
Sow and Pigs Lightship, but it was equally due to the fact that she 
held on to proper sails only and did not attempt to carry, as Fortuna 
did, a ial maintopmast slaysail; it was also due to her superior 
pointing ability, which is easily seen when it is remembered that 
about midway, she passed to leeward of the Tidal Wave, and after- 
ward widely winded her, although the Tidal Wave had been fully a 
mile further up in leaving the vicinity of the outer mark, Tosum iw 
that race on the facts, he Montauk beat the fortuna on even suil- 
ing 13 minutes and 30 seconds on the thrash to windward, and had 
they been compelled to tack, would haye beaten her more. 

In regard to sailing ‘on edge,”’ I wish also to say that the Montauk 
made, in my opinion, much the best weather of the two; that For- 
tuna inclined fully two degrees the most and pitched heavily many 
times, while Montauk was dry as a bone from the foremast aft, the 
entire day. This can be proven by five well-known yachtsmen,whom 
I will name if you desire it. ; ey sent 

Again, you speak of Montauk’s getting “near the capsizing point 
yaguely. Idon’t know when she ever put her seuppers under, and I 
sailed on her, orin company all last season,, The day that Grayling 
capsized Montauk let sheets fly, simply as a precautionary measure, 
not from any necessity, as her deck was not wet at any time. 

- While Iam on the subject, I should like to say something on the 
question of keels vs. boards. Since the first appearance of cutters in 
fhis country, the above question has been discussed in every paper, 
the opinions of a large number of prominent yachtsmen quoted, and 


yet no satisfactory solution of the problem has been reached even in 
heory. This latter fact seems to be accountable to the very marked 
prejudices which have biassed the minds quoted, All haye been either 
pronounced cutter or slaop men, and consequently entirely unable to 
see anything but the most apparent demerits of the antagonistic 
craft, and the very obvious merits of their own. Tama marine 
artist, and in my profession have had to do about equally with both 
types. J have studied both with equal closeness. I have painted the 
Bedouin for Commodore Ro: ers, the Madge for Mr. Loew, and 
others too numerous to mention here. My interests lie with both 
classes. I have witnessed all the races sailed in these waters during 
the past fourteen years, and haye narrowly noted the results. I have 
no bias, no prejudices, andam disposed to speak impartially. 
_ The question as to which is the superior type involves many other 
issues, and cannot be answered in a breath, Outter men haye spent 
large sums on their boats, and fitted them With every requisite. In 
all their races the cutters have shown immense superiority in equip- 
ment, Bedouin for instance has two forestaysails, two or three Jibs, 
and at least four jibtopsails, No sloop has more than one of the two 
first named and never more than two of the last; at least that is the 
Tule, and exceptions are yery rare. Bedouin, in addition to her work- 
ing gafftopsail has a small and a large BeriLepets the former can 
be used over the working topsail to advantage on the wind. No sloop 
has anything of the sort. Ina light breeze to windward the uutters 
can therefore set nearly one-third more sail than the sloops, and 
every inch of it can_be trimmed flat. and made to draw. Their bal- 
loon forestaysails, No. 1 jibtopsails, and smaller sprittopsails are an 
immense advantage at such atime, The unwieldy club topsails or 
bulky jibtopsails of the sloops are almost back sails in comparison; 
hence the defeat of Gracie last fall in two races out of three. The 
sloops must be made to realize all this, and realizing, remedy it by 
equal expenditure and equipment. Again, the cutters that we have 
seen here have been about the best that could be built of that type; 
not so their opponents. We really have but three or four first-class 
sloops, and they are so in size only. 4 

The Gracie’s model is full of faults. Her bows Hare so that a heayy 
swell sets her to leeward every time it hits; her sheer is so great and 
her stern so low thatshe carries tons of water on deckin a twelve knot 
breeze, retarding her progress materially. Fanny is so shallow and 
so immensely oversparred that a cap full of wind knocks her down 
to her scuppers. Mischief, ditto, and yet the cutters haye not won 
the greater number of races; but they certainly will, if sloop 
mendo not bestir themselves and build something in which the 
above noted obvious. faults are remedied; and herelies the con- 
clusion of the whole matter to the best of my judgment; A sloop 
80ft. long by 20ft. beam, drawing not less than Sft, of water without 
her board; having no flaring bows, and very little sheer; with streng 
bilge below and full equipment of sail aloft, would successfully over- 
throw every objection raised by cutter men, and fill every want 
known to their opponents. She would bedeep enough and broad 
enough to carry a heavy racing rig in any kind of weather, and yeti 
could anchor within a reasonable distance off shore in any of our 
yacht-frequented harbors. She could sail without any other pilot 
than a competent sailing master. The item of expense in ballasting 
would be no greater than the average sloop, She would require no 
awkward cabin house, but like the cutters, be flush-decked and much 
moreroomy. Easy in heavy weather, owing to the depth and beam, 
fast in light airs owing to lack of weight, she would whi any cutter 
or sloop. now afloat, over either of the New York Yacht Club’s 
courses, nine times out of ten. I’, Bassrorp, 

No. 55 Concord STREET, Brooklyn. 


[Mv, Bassford is very sanguine. He is very much in error in com- 
mending light weight tor light airs. Experience has settled beyond 
any disputing the superior value of weight in light winds, providing 
the weight isput in proper form and notinatub. Beyond this Mr, 
Bassford’s conclusions are correct enough. They strike us in this 
way. To make a sloop a good sloop she should be turned into a cut- 
ter. She should haye only four beams like the great majority of cut- 
ters, She should have the depth and rig and sheer and straight side 
of a cutter. But in place of a beneficial keel with low weight, Mr_ 
Bassford would adhere to a small centerboard. It would s eedily be 
discovered that low weights on the keel would make an abler boat, 
whereupon the board would disappear and an out and out cutter of 
tolerable beam would be the end of the story.~ To that we are now 
fast driving in practice. Still further on it would be found that alittle 
more weight, that is displacement, is still a little better in light airs 
and in @ seaway, and to add that weight without making a tub, the 
four beams would be cut down to four and a half, and the increase in 
displacement put in depth. In other words, Mr. Bassford would land 
right aboard another Bedouin, and it seems as though this might be: 
done at once as go through all the steps over again which other people 
have already been through and which have culminated in the modern 
cutter. As it is, our correspondent proposes to go about nine-tenths. 
of the whole thing at a bound, and the other tenth may 
be left to take care of itself, as the subject has been 
thrashed too bare to enter upon further repetition of what 
has been so often and extensively discussed in these columns. Ibis. 
easy to find fault with the Gracie, now that she has been beaten by 
a cutter, anditis easy to build faster sloops on paper. But itisa. 
very different thing to doitin fact. The Gracie always has been, 
and for the present stillis, the quéen of the fieetin America, subject 
to the Bedouin’s permission. The latter holds the Bennett champion 
cup for single-stickers, won in fair fightin “‘our weather’ and “our 
waters.”’ No one can say whether she really is a geod cutter or not, 
For all Mr. Bassford knows she may be a very slow one compared to. 
regular racing cutters abroad. But we do know that Gratie tops 
the heap of the sloops. The cutters as a class inthis country labor 
under immense disadvantage as to numbers from which to choose 
the best as a representative. One hundred sloops offer a better 
ehance of a lucky hit than two or three cutters. Many of the latter 
are ‘‘compromises” of all sorts, some of them the first ever designed 
by their authors, others from amateur hands, and with three excep- 
tions, all sailed by persons new and green to such boats and their 
ways. Given one hundred Oriyas, and 1s it not morally certain one 
could be picked from the lot which would be agocd deal faster than 
the only representative in that class? Wor the one successful Vixen 
there are a hundred sloops which are comparative failures. Why 
should you expect so much more, even to the unnatural, the moment 
you touch upon cutters? Every kind of an abortion called a cutter 
must be capuble of flying, or else the whole type is at once condemned. 
The reasonable view of itis this: Certainfew cutters of unknown 
reputation have shown themselves about a match for the pick of our 
sloops. Given equal chances for selection and ibis certain that a good 
cutter can now be accepted as at least equal to the light drafts on the 
score of speed. Varialions upon beam and depth will offer stiffness 
with deck and cabin room iu excess of what can be had in Gracie’s or 
Fanny's. The cabins are also much cooler. Better performance in 
light weather is a certainty, and as for draft, it is much of a bugbear 
at best in large vessels, and in small boats it is too small to be of any 
account for regular yachting purposes, In point of cost ihe modern 
beamy sloop of large displacement is More expensive and has a 
greater dratt than the cutter. As for light displacement centerbeard 
sloops, their day is past and it is no use referring to them in this con- 
nection. This is all old ground, and oceans of ink have been spilt in 
setting forth both sides of the question. The public haslearntto dis- 
card light displacement and now the issue is practically reduced to a 
question of how much or how little beam. 6 take it thab weight, 
keels and cutter rigs must be deemed already generally adopted an 
that in the future all good yachts will have those features ine r- 
ated, whatever their width may be. As to beam, it can be allowed an 
open issue, if desireé, to be settled by further experience, though we 
are confident enough what the upshot of the experience will be. OF 
course we have no reference to makeshifts built to conform to ex- 
exceptional surroundings or particular objects of limited application 
as faras the general public is concerned. We may recur to the 
Montauk’s safety at sea later on, Tbe charge that Fortuna heeled 
two degrees more than Montauk will keep no one awake at night. 
We have been informed that she was perfectly dry. Itis also ex- 
ected thata narrow boat with dead rise will see-saw more than a 
flounder bottom. It is one of her good points to lift readily to every= 
thing. | 


THE LAKE YACHTING ASSOCIATION. 


W 7] learn with pleasure that the move for an association promises 
well, and permanent organization may soon be cted. The 
Toronto Y, C, have appointed Messrs, G. H. an, W. H, Parsons, 
G. G. Hyans and W. Dickson a committee to ¢ with other clubs 
in Canada and the United States, and a suitable call has been issued. 
In response the Oswego Y. C, has selected Commodore John T, Mott 
and Rite conamiations W. B. Phelps, Jr., to attend the convention. 
The Bay of Quinte Y.C. has also signified its adhesion to the moye, 
and Kingston and Cobourg are counted upon as well. Other clubs 
will soon bé heard from, The chief objects of the association are 
enumerated as follows: Ne . 

1. The confusion ab present arising from the many different sys- 
tems of yacht measurement and time allowance now existing would 
entirely oe obviated by the adoption of a uniform system, 

2. The dates of the regattas of the different clubs could be fixed by 
the executive body ot the association in such an order that a Paine 
would be enabled to attend all the events in succession in the courst 
of an ordinary summer cruise, _ , Bai 

3, The establishment of a uniform code of signals might also 


agreed fa fe 


7 : ‘ ' t 
ON Wiileoutse a fayor by bringing the matter before 
qT 


Club. 


early as possible, and forwarding the official result e secretary 
ot the Taronto Yacht Club. ei eRe 
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ae een THE DAISY. 
_ PYNEE rig of this cutter is of course large to keep pace with the bulk 
T to be driven, The disposition of the area, however, is such that 
the mainsail, especially the boom, is kept within the control of two 
hands. The weight of the mast is well aft, and topmast can quickly 
_ be got rid of by housing or striking altogether for a passage. In re- 
“spect to smartness the rig is so much ahead of the sloop thatno one 

_ with half an eye for beauty would hesitate in his choice. The cutter 
sis par excellence the rig of the world for speed and handiness com- 
bined, and it is only a question of time before it will displace the old 
Dutch river rig of the ‘‘shaluppe’’ altogether, Itis fast becoming 


‘popular, and the Daisy’s sail plan will give an idea of the ruling cut. 


pabroad as her sails are from the loft of Ratsey & Lapthorn. of West 
«Cowes. 


: SPARS. - 
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Mast from deck to hounds......................, 28f6 Gin. 
iy Masthead........ EN ekg carne stan Po esse sate PS ae 5ft. 6in. 
by hOpmMast Gaptorsmoulder!. ss. Sasha tose tee 14ft. 
‘ pee DOMSDTIGOUUD ONE Mme bres iy en. sas aie 15ft. 
IBOWSPHID NON SiN oy etree eee Rg inked «bone 5ft. 
Forestay boomkin outboard ..................... 2ft. 6in 
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Foresail on fo 


Roach to foot 


Mainsail on foot.... 


Foresail on Juff....... 


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RogchsrOlaose Gott. ae Panes eee ene 16in. 
CLigIRet. A TehanBe Mon Anne ahh Mee enn . 14ft. 
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HONE ALEONMIOAGCHE aan iee eee rere iia oie 20ft. 4in 
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BE eee ee Me ey «cut s eoM iy Sift. 9in 
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sped. Bridght pine cabin. 
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The cabin is very spacious considering the room taken up by the 

cockpit. The floor measures 3ft. 4in, between sofas, the latter nel 
6léett. long by 26in. wide, with sideboards aud pantry at forward end 
of 2ft. front. The cabin is entered from decors without a sliding 
companion, the space being oecupied instead by a hatch 314ft. by 
2ft. Headroom is 5ft. and 6ft. under hatch. Forecastle is bulk 
bulkheaded off from cabin and entered by acliding door. Has 2ft. 
din. floor, a berth on one side and w. ¢., sail rack, ete., on the other. 
A circular hatch 16in. diameter gives access from deck. The cockpit 
is 7ft. long and 2ft. 6in. deep. The yacht steers with a tiller of iron 
wrapped with hide. She is equipped in the very best and most com- 
plete manner. The chief articles being a Berthon folding dingy, a 
yawl boat of long flat floor, having great buoyancy and fine con- 
struction with considerable carrying capacity; water tank and brass- 
hooped deck breaker, box compass, floating compass with brass 
binnacle, barometer, clock, side lights, anchor and deck lights, flare- 
ups, red and green signal lamps, fog-horn, triangle to take place of 
bell, sea anchor, life belts, patent towing log, buffers for main sheet 
and anchor, fenders, mops, handlead, code signals in bag, brass 
rudder head cap, gratings for cockpit, also cushions, stove and be- 
longings, pump, anchors with chain, kedge and two hawsers, swing 
table in cabin and the usual supply of the pantry and small stores. 


RACING IN ENGLAND. 


ee London Field has an editorial on the decline of racing and 
the paucity of entries, which the Wield refers to some extent to 
the predominating type of racing cutter. In this we think the Field 
entirely mistaken. Lack of entries are due to the onesided measure- 
mentrule which handicaps beamy boats with a fictitious tonnage. 
Introduce a rule which treats such yachts as fair as the narrow 
racers of the day, and the entries will fill fast enough. The modern 
racing vase is not the cause of the decline, but simply the effect of 
the Y. R. A. rule. Abolish a faulty rule and install one which does 
not bear upon any style, and the modern racers will quickly disap- 
ear if they fail to show themselves as fast as otherforms. Tne ; 
ield attributes to modern racers the sins of the Y. R. A. tonnage 
rule, which is apt to mislead the hasty reader. The rule is to blame 


' for small entries, and not the yachts it fosters. 


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j HO, FOR THE HYGEIA! 
HO is going? Who will make up the fleet? Who will commis- 
sion the first and load up with stores for a long and stort hiteh 


down the coast in southeasterly weather for *'The Roads’' and Nor- 
folk town? A jollier cruise with three or four early birds for com- 
pany could not be proposed. It is a nice little 250 miles down the 
coast, with the Delaware Breakwater half way and sundry harbors 
for refuge between. A taste of the briny, with a green one aboard 
now and then, and thousands of miles of sweeptothesea. A boid 
dash for little shavers, and something to brag about drifting up the 
Sound in midsummer zephyrs later on: ‘*'Wlenwe were on the pass- 
age down to €ape May.” “As we squared away up the Roads and 
reunded-to off the Highjigger pier.** ‘*We took in the town, and a 
live, bustling port anda grand yachting harbor we found Norfolk to 
be.” Shades of Farragut, but that would be great sport, indeed! It 
would be yachting in earnest, yachting as itought tobe. Manly 
work, athletic in its kind. Work for the head as well in the arts of 
Seamanship and navigation. Work to be proud of. and no sickly in- 
fant’s play. The real article and notits tinsel imitation. And Nor- 
folk, with its gallant, hospitable society, growing shipping. its hmes 
of steamers, coastwise iil European, two live daily newspapers, its 
continental railroads, its ship yard, machine shops, compresses and 
big hotels, its clean, well-paved streets and blocks upon blocks of neat 
little villas, the Navy Yard, the U. 8. Hospital, the old fort, the rem- 
iniscences of a few unpleasant years happily dimming in the flight of 
time, and Newport News, close by, with its docks and great depots, 
and Hampton School and the sunny Hy¢geia, with its swarm of guests 
from all paris, a; d big Fort Monroe, the Rip Raps, the River James; 
yes, and the luscious oysters and suceulent clams, the early fruit and 
vegetable market, and all tee great expanse of thenolje and pic- 
turesque Chesapeake Sea stretching far away to the northward, in- 
viting, enticing in its depth, beautiful bays, reaches and broad 
rivers—ah! what a yachting paradise there is but a short run to the 
southward, did yachtsmen hereabouts but know it and, knowing it, 
had they the grit, the old Norse spirit, the veritable love for salt 
water for salt water’s sake we would fain do our best to inoculate 
into their lethargic and shrinking constitutions! 
io, for the Roads! Who will clear for an early spring passage? 


CONCERNING SAILS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

We notice an article on sails in last issue, giving a reason for put- 
ting heavy duck on yachts on accountof the advantage gained in 
light airs. We believe that many of our yachts have too light canvas 
in their lower sails. but we do not think it isa detriment in light 
breezes, especiaily in our. wide, light displacement, hard bilged 
yachts, which are so sensitive in a seaway that they slat the wind 
out of their lower sails, and nothing but the light sails aloft keep the 
lower ones steady. Without them the booms would swing in amid- 
ships with every roll to windward. 

Now inregard to the sailing of cutters, there is no doubt they do 
sail fast. in light or heavy weather. butitis chiefly in light weather 
in comparison with our boats that they will distance them most 
readily. There are many reasons forthis. One is that their sails 
stand at the proper angle, and simply because they obey the laws of 
gravity: it is impossivle for them tu swing in, if there be auy wind at 
all, as the cutter’s mast is plum», or stayed a little forward of plumb 
also for the reason that the cutter, being narrow, must be sensitive 
to careen a plank or two before she feels the immense leverage of her 
lead keel. The weight of boom. gaff and sailis enough to do this. 
There are of course many other things which might bé mentioned as 
contributing to speed outside of the sails. 

We will try to get at the reason for cutters having heavier lower 
sails than yachts of similar size of different shape und arrangements 
in this country. Mainsails of cutters are extended by a powerful 
purchase at the clew, and the material has to be strong enough to 
stand it, otherwise 1t would pull out of shape and give in the crnter, 
therefore a bag, and asa consequence form an imperfect plane to 
scale to windward with. Sails have to be extended on the spars as 
well as hoisted taut to be effective by the wind. This, we claim, is 
the chief advantage in a loose-footed sail. Youextend it as well as 
hoist it taut, therefore get a rigid surface 10 let the bre-ze slip by 
the leach, without hills and hollowsto retard it; but whether Tite 
or laced to boom, in orderto get the most good out of vour sail, it 
ought to be hauled out taut on boom and gaff before sailing, if you 
desire speed.to windward; and a sail should be made properly to ad- 
mit severe hauling on head and foot as well as hoisting to a taut luff. 
There is & pet theory among a great many sailinakers—and they have 
Infinenced a great many yachtsmen—to haul out sails ‘‘hand taut,” 
. but hoist it, sway on it. get it upon the throat and peak. But be 
careful not to haul taut on head or foot, as you will'spoil the shape of 
your sail, This is all very true if the sails are made so as to pull out 
ef shape when hanled out. But sails should be cut to stand a smart 
pull on Jiead and foot. and both should be come up with after sailing, 
especially in damp weuther. if you wish to preserve the correct 
shape. Otherwise you will have a ‘dog’s ear” at clew and earing in 
time and an unsightly sail. 

We would not have the r-aders of yeur brig! it paper infer that we 
believe in heavy balioon sails, used for light breezes and running be- 
fore the wind, and which have to be set and takenin quickly. But 
they should be made of light, close material. Wefavor light sails for 
light breezes, while heavy lower sails are an obvious necessity for all 
kinds of weather, heavy and light. 

itis a well-known fact that topsails and staysail, in light weather, 
witha bobble of aseaon,keept eheavierlower sails and also the craft 
under them steady. Too little regard is paid to getting a perfect sail; 
and agreat many yachtsmen don wt know howtotreatasail. They ap- 
preciate and know more about this on the other side of the pond, but, 
presumably, time will work wonders on this side, when yachtsmen 
will learn to take more than a superficial look at tunings. 

A good fit of canvas is of vital impcrtance for speed or working 1o 
windward, and ought to receive the consideration of yacht owners 
just as much as the bull. Joun H. McManus & Son. 

Boston. 


’ We might add that ballooners arenecessarily made light because 
set flying on light sticks with light staying, and that such sail. can be 
kept as flat as desired by a pull on tack ur sheet, whereas the lower 
sails once bent are more permanent in their sir, and not under such 
ready correction. Staying masts and topmasts with a pitc4 over tre 
bows likewise offers a chamce to cut sails with a broad head, As the 
head i: the driving part ofa sailin light winds, a broad flat+tretch 
for the airs to operate upon is more effective than the quick, sack- 
like belly of a narrow sail.] 


AN EASY ONE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ‘ . 

If it takes a schooner nearly 100ft. long on water line six weeks 
swinging at her moorings before venturing upon the tremendous un 
dertaking of a three days’ passage to Bermuda, how many days will 
she be cruising in one year? CuRIous. 

[Twenty-six days. | 


WHY?—Why wait until the stereotyped June 1 before going into 
commission? Some of the best sailing of the year is to be had in 
Apriland early May. Cold,isit? Perhaps, and then it may not be 
as cold in Aprilas wehave known ib in June. Suppose it is. Just what 

‘ou wantwith a lit'le exercise to keep comfortably warm. The 
dawdler whose conception of yachting amounts to sunning himcelf 
in the cockpit, fretting when ‘be shall get there,”* so as to go ashore 
to the hotel, does nor take kindly to work of any kind, and might 
freeze stiffin an April cruise, while the active man with a physique 
and some brains would be in high glee at the prospects, and add 

ears to his life, and mul iply evergies for the fizht of existence. It 
is time we took our customs from others than the old hens and dawd- 
lers of a past age, who have solong been a hampering weight wpon 
the development of American yachts and yachting. Who cares 
whetner this or that ancient hulk fits out his flounder-bottom 
schooner or dugout of a sieamez or nag Are all hands to be subject 
to his dictum that the season shall not open before June, and no one 
but a lunatic should yacht after the first of October? Bounce the 
lubbers over the side, and let us have a new dispensation better 
suited to the times. Commission from the time the 1ceis out of the 
river until the ice makes again in winter. That is, or ought to br, the 
season. Your old hen hugs a stove months after the yachtsman 
should be afloat, and the effeminate drifter shivers and shudders at 
the notion of anortherly blow a few degrees lower than the zephyrs 
of broiling midsummer. Nice lot to ordain the models and c.stoms 
of American yachting. 

A LITTLE WONDER.—It takes three dimensions to make space. 
If any one doubts it, let him visit the shop of Wallin & Gorman, foot 
of Fifty sixth street, South Brooklyn, and climb up the side of a bold 
little cutter they have nearly tinishea. Though only 20ft. 10in, load- 
line and but 7ft, 9in. beam extreme, she has more stowage than any 
flatiron 12 to 15ft. acro=s deck. Reason, 4ft. draft and 35 tons dis- 
placement. This cutter will make aspiendid cruiser and owing to 

eculiarities in her rig can be sailed by a single hand without trouble. 
Ene is intended for coast work. Of course tastes may differ as to her 
lines and this of that trifle, but taken as a whole, she is a century 
ahead of the New York hight displacement trap. We ought to have 
a thousand such yachts right herein these waters. For the Sound, 
the lower Bay, for cireumnavigating Long Island and for varying the 


‘Port Norris, and will build a club house this spring. 


* 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


monotony of smooth-water work with an occasional hold voyage to 
Block Island and the East by the outside route, for cruising, tor fish- 
ing, fur river or sea, and for permanent life on board throughout the 
Season, in short, for all leritimate yachting purposes such a yacht is 
pre-eminently adapted. Safe, roomy, handy, buoyant, yet able with 
a mind of her own in lumpy water. we commend this or similar boats 
to all in search ef sport upon small tonnage in a thoroughly efficient 
form. We find so much worthy of praise in this little cutter that we 
will give full illustrations next week. 


A STANDAKD SPECIMEN.—The handsomest, roomiest, best 
planned and finest job of the season is the cutter Merlin, now in 
frame at Lennox’s yard, foot of Thirty-flfth street, Sonth Brooklyn. 
She is being put up by Daniel Bernard and has figured in there col- 
umns as “number twelve," Take a look at her before plawked if 
you want to find out what an Ai vessel of her sizé should be like. 
Take another when fittings are up and decks laid if you care to know 
what can be accomplished on limited dimensions. In such craft we 
revel and delight. 


GOOD OUT OF EVI —In short, the long. narrow and deep-bodied 
yachts of the present day are immeasurably more capable sea boats 
than the shorter and broader yachts of thirty years ago, and it is 
often a matter of congratulation that the exigencies of the tonnage 
Tule forerd yacht builders into producmg such an excellent model. 
Indeed, it is pretty certain that the good qualities of the now fashion- 
able type of yacht would never have been discovered had it not been 
for yecht racing under the old tonnage rule.—Diron Kemp in Ship- 
ping World, 


THE LOWELL CUTTER.—the little cutter building by Williams 
& Stevens, of Lowell, Mass., is similar to the Fendeur illustrated in 
this paper, It is said that she looks very taking in frame. The top- 
sides are rounded home more, anu the lines filled a little in the ends. 
All who have seen her express surprise at the amount of room inside. 
The keel drops dia. below garboards. Floors of iron, timbers 6in. be- 
tween centers, moulded 13g heel, 144 at head, sided 14in. Heavy 
Bae Sia of No. 6, double bighted. Intended for work about the 
coast. 


NEW SCHOONER.—To avoid misapprehension we may say that 
the new schooner contemplated by Mr. Wm. F. Weld, to replace the 
Gitana, will, of course, be a keel vessel. Mr. Weld is well satisfied 
with the Gitana but desires a larger vessel for an extended cruise 
around the globe. Mr. Weld writes: ‘I considerthe Gitana asplendid 
yacht for tht North Atlantic ard West Indies, but not quite large 
enough for longer cruises. I prefer a deep draft.” 


VOLANTE.—This well-known cutter has been sold to Mr, C. K. 
Cobb, of Boston, through Messrs. Burgess. She is now at Port Jeffer- 
son. Volante was designed by Mr. Robert Center as a comfortable 
cruiser, and has shown fair speed, although that was not the main 
object of her existence. She has the honor of bemg one of the earliest 
representatives of the reform in American yachting, having been 
launched in 1877. 


WASHINGTON Y. C.—The club will ofen the season early with 
accessions to the roll. Inquiries have reached us for small cruisers 
of the Ganet type and several such addi.ions are m prospect. Wash- 
ington ought to have a fleet of small handy yachts of good depth and 
displacement for the Potomac and Chesapeake. Charles G. Godfrey 
has been elected commodore. 


AMERICAN Y. C.—The steam yacht club has acquired Charles 
Island, ot Milford, Conn., for club purposes. Area thirty acres. 
Three-story structure will be erected, with rooms for members and 
general accommodations. Milford Harbor is two hours by rail from 
seek pane and has excellent facilities for laying up and overhanling 
of yachts. 


THE DEATH OF MR. BARROWS.—We learn with regret the un- 
timely dec-ase of Mr. Barrows, of the firm of Hubbe & Bbrrows, 
yacht rae l ap Mr. Barrows died suddenly Wednesday, Feb, 21, after 
a short illness of three days. As anupright and earnest worser in 
his Brera he was justly esteemed by all with whom he came in 
contact. 


FIXED BALLAST CAT.—Schmidt & Pannic, Staten Island, have 
built a catboat for Mr. C. J. Peck, of Chicage. Counterstern, 23ft. 
deck, 21ft. 6in. water line, 9ft beam and 2ft. deep. Ballast 2,6001bs. 
lead, cast to fit. aud galvanized iron air tanks to fioat her in case of 
capsizing. Mast 34ft., boom 25{t., gaff 16ft., hoist 23ft. 


LEAD KEEL.—The new cutter building by Smith. at South Boston, 
for Mr, Weld, of the Hera sloop, has a heavy lead keel, and the frame 
is steam bent. Such facts denote the rapid progress we are making 
in construction. Ballast as low as it can be got, stout backbone, and 
light, but well fastened topsides. 


THE NEW RIG.—Mr. George Mathews, Jr.. Knickerbocker Y. C., 
is building a 36-ft. centerboard yacht to be rigged as a cuter, with 
standing jibstay. Mast #3ft., deck to head: topmast, 23ft.; boom, 
31ft.; long gaff of 22f{t.: bowsprit outboard, 15ft.; lower sail area, 
1,051 sq. ft. “ 


PAINT FOR TARPAULINS,—Gum amber i6oz., melt in boiling 
linseed oil, half a pint. add genuine asphaitum and rosin,20z Mix 
well over fire, remoye to open air, and slowly add one pint of oil of 
turpentine, slightly warm. Will nol crack and gives the canvas a 
black gloss. 


MONTAUK.—This schooner, after weeks of preparation and wait- 
ing, finally got away for Bermuda, Thursday morning last, Tiere 
are some people ready to start after her ina five ton cutter upon ten 
ae notice, time to fill up with bread andchese. Butthen tastes 
will differ. 


NEW RIGS.—The cutters Kelpie and Rondina will receive rigs 
from McManus & Son, on the English plan. Drags, or sea anchors, 
are also being supplied as an article of equipmentto many Eastern 
yachts. These anchors were illustrated in our issue for March 24, 
1881. 


FINE CUTTER.—The Boston Herald says: “Dr Whitmey’s new 
cutter at Lawley & Son’s yard, South Boston, is inframe, Her lines 
are graceful, and carry the conyiction that the boat will be fast and 
weatherly.”* ‘ 


GLEAM’S DEFEAT.—We have on file some letters detailing the 
defeat of the Gleam hy the little cruiser Aneto in a fresh breeze last 
fall, out of Larchmont harbor. These letters are open to inspection, 


-BOUND TO COME TO IT.—The old time Julia is once more being 
altered into a schooner at City Island. She will havea quarterdeck 
and no cockpit. Elushdeck seems to be the order of the day at last. 


HARLEM Y. C.—Has leased Oak Point, on the East River above 
Ninety-five 
members and thirty boats. 

ANSWERS.—A number of inquiries remain unanswered for lack of 
proper address. Our columns are too crowded toreply through the 
paper. 

ILEEN —This cutter sailed from Savannah, Feb. 20, bound for 
Havana with a roving commission, 


FORTUNA.—This echooner made Port Royal, Jamaica, Feb. 12, with 
Havana as her next destmation. 


RANGER.—This schooner arrived off St, Augustine, Fla., Feb. 16. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Wednesday, March 12,8 P. M., No. 28 Hast Four- 
teenth street, Kit Kat Ulub Room, Subjeet—Tents and Camp 
Outfits. 


Seeretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest AnD 
StreAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc., of 
their clubs, and also notices. in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canceisis and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrest anp Stream their addresses, with 
lozs of cruises, maps and information conce:ming their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


HARTFORD C. C. 


Editor Forest and Stream. 

The Hartford C. C. is yet alive, and it apprised Hartford of that 
fact most thoroughly last evening by an entertainment which did 
more |or canoeing here than has been done since the clu was or- 


ized. 5 
othe camp scene ‘brought down the house,” and Commodore Joves 
deserves the credit of making it the picture it was. Aiter the 


7 | 


entertainment 
pleasant way, 
had been a grand success. 

Itisour wish to attend the A. C. A. meet this 
although not aracing club buta club of cruisers, we hope to make 


many friends, and have th d ti ised by 
friends of the S.C. GC, rapa ee? 2 aa cet oo C 


HARTFORD, Conn., Feb, 19, 1884. 


4 a ¥ 
our commodore ertertainel the members in a v 


SPRINGFIELD C. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The annual meeting of the Springfield CG, C. was held Thursday 
evening, Feb. 14, and the following officers were elected: Frank D- 
Foot, Commodore; M B. L Bradford, Vice-Commodore; C. M. Sheda, 
Secretary and Treasurer. Executive Committe, F. D. Foot, Geo. C, 
Barney, W. F, Callender. We also elected four new members to the 
elnb. They are Mr, A, L. Spooner, Mr. Harry Chapin, Mr. A. L. Fen- 
hessey and Mr. Geo. Leonard, making twenty-six active members, 
The treasurer was instructed to buy two open canoes to be known as 
club canoes, The ice has gone out of our river, and last Friday when 
theice was gone on the east side of theriver. Commodore Nickersen 
paddled and sailed a mile or so and was very much surprised to see 
an iceboat coming down the riyer on the westside. We look for an 
early season here and know we shall have a lively canoeing summer. 

M. SHepD, Secretary 8.C.C. 


The canoe men have quieily, as fs their way, put on foot ascheme 
for enlarging the membership and usefulness of their organization. 
They voted at their recent annual meeting to have the constituiion of 
the club changed so as to admit associate members, and io buy at 
least two canoes for the common use of such members, Canocing 
has been steadily gr ;wing in faver in the city, and the club have 
taken this action in recogniion of the fact that several m:n, though 
not sufficiently fascinated by the pore ioinvestin a canoe for their 
solv use, are willing to pay $10 or $1) a year for the privilere of pad- 
dling in a “club canoe * ‘The club has new twenty-six active mem- 
bers, all of them canoe owners, and is a happy aud united organiza- 
tion, and does not by any means propose. even if associate members 
are taken in, to intrust its welfare to any but genuine canoemen, as 
the “associates” are not to be allowed a voice or yote in the business 
meetings. The club is well fixed financially, and has a model canoe 
house on a river having all the charms that a canoeist can ask for or 
find in this country, The canoe, like womankind, has many friends 
and admirers whe cannot see their way to personal proprietorship, 
and the club will do well to adopt and educate them, This matter 
will be decided finally at a meeting of the club shartly to be held,— 
Hxchange. 


Cc. 


CANOE VERSUS SNEAKBOX. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I must take excep ions to ‘‘Seneca's’’ opinion as to the seaworthi- 
ness of the canoe, when he says the sneakbox “will live in a gale of 
wind that the heaviest ballasted Pearl would not dare toface."’ I 
have been informed by pretty reliable authority that during the 
month of Angust, the Thousand Islands region, abont Clayton par- 
ticularly, is freqnently visited by very heavy northwesterly gales that 
kick up a raginz boiling sea. Now, if Seneca” will bring his sneak- 
box to thatregion in August next, I will meet him there, and when 
one of these gales ison the rampage I will sail him a race of five 
miles to windward and return, and will not use ‘ta heavily ballasted 
Pearl either.” CHas. A. N BIDE. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


A FEW HINTS ON CAMPING. 


CANOE BEDS AND LAMPS. 


Wee the skipper of the Boreas goes below at his usual hour for 
YY turning in, he finds the berth in his stat-room made up with an 
air bed, or rather cushion, and a pillow of the same nature; on these 
he sleeps the sleep of the good end tired canoerst. 

After two weeks’ use at Stony Lake, he considers such a bed simply 
perfection. Hair cushions are good ard soft, but when compared 
with the ease of air beds, are hard and unyielding, The skipper is 
~till on the sunny side of forty, but years of sleeping on hair mat- 
tresses and springs, haye iucapacitated him for reclining on the soft 
side of planks or a few thicknesses of blankets He requires some- 
thing to fit his rather sharp bones, and the air bed just fills the bill. 

The cushion is 24in. wide by 4¢in in length, the pillow is aboub 
10X15. To make up the berth at vight, the cushioned seat on which 
the captain sits while sailmg or paddling is put across the Boreas just 
touching the aft en'! of cemterbourd hox. On this is placed the 
pillow about halt infiated. The cushion is now inflaied to about the 
same extent and put close up against the pillow With the nezzle at 
top. When ling full length the valve can be unscrewed and air 
allowed to escape until everything is comfortable. I. is best when 
half full. It then adjusts itself to every moiion of the body. Noth- 
ing easier and more restful can be imagined. 

in the morning the bed is collapsed into a very small bundle, and 
the pillow is used as a life preserver during the day. ‘The cost cannot 
be given, as it was a present from atriend who had it made to order 
in England. Less than a minute wil inflate itfor use. The +kipper 
intenus having a cover of drill made and put on to protect it from 
wear and tear as much as pos-ible. 

I can thoroughly indorse Mr. Willoughby’s remarks as to the 
flamme foreé spiritlamp Ihave tried a number of different sty es, 
including a regular Rob Roy cuisine, but pref+r the above. I have 
ised it for three seasons and like it better everytime. Mineis agenu- 
in¢ French one. se 

Mr. Whitlock has one like mins, and at Stony Lake the Knicker- 
bockers had +eyeralot a larger tize madein New York. Two firms 
in Toronto now haye them for sale. 4 

Mr. Tyson brought out with him from England a smaller size of 
the flamme forcé, and another style which has two ordinary wicks. 
It gives a preat deal of heat but uses up spirit rapidly. The flamme 
foreé is very economical in tuis re-pecv. 

If one wishes 10 do much cooking, two lamps will be found conve- 
niet. Iexpectto receive from England shortly a lamp which is. I 
think, on the principle of the forcé, but the flame is adjustable, This 
should bea great improvement, as one often wishes to keep a dish 
warm withont allowing it to boil. When received and tested I shall 
give you the results. The name is, I believe, the “Cyprus.” . 

In my fir-t canoe cruise, I enoked. or rather warmed water, with 
an arrangement called a lamp kettle, devised by a Torcntonian. The 
fuel was kerosene. lt was useless f r anything but. heating water, 
and wasn’t .\ery good at that. The advai tages of cooking y ith spirit 
are many. Tne dishes used are always clean, and you can cook 
aHloat. 

Granite dishes are best, The extra weight is more than compen- 
sated for by ease of cleaning. BorEAs. 


SMOKE *EM OUT. 


MAX canoeists will next summer be troubled by mosquitoes and 
i other insect pests, I have neyir yet seen in print the only ¢er- 
tain preventive of their unwelcome attentions. hile in camp on 
the Toledi River 10 New Brunswick Jast summer, cur lives at night 
were made miserable by them. 

Nothing but “‘slitheroo,” as the author of “Birch and Paddle,” ete., 
called it, afforded any protection. (~litheroo isa savory concoction 
of tar, sweetoil, peunyroyal, etc., which when smeared over face, 
neck, hands etc.. makes one lvok as if he had tumbled head first into 
a molasses barrel. It has sundry other names, but the constituent 
and effect are generally the same). , , ; 

Finally Pete Solace, my Indian guide, said: ‘You think you like a 
smudge?’ 

“Think IT should,” said I, “if it will kill these pests." Pete said no 
more, but took up bis axe and strode off into the brush. I followed 
him. He finally came upon a fallen cedar, dry. but not rotten. 

From the under side of the log, at a place where it lay clear of the 
ground, be cub strips of bark abot six feet long, enough to make a 
bundle a little larger than 1 could span with my two hands. A little 
further on he struck his axe into the base ofa young green cedar, ¢ t 
the bark, raised it with the axe blade, and with a strong pull upward 
stripped it up ten feet or more. He then took the white inner bark, 
and | peeling 1 into long pliable strips, bound the dry bark at intervals 


slowly like a Ciga 
slighily acrid, . 


and when we broke up, the vote was that the yentur e 


year in force, and 


AMSTERDAM C. C. 


IGNAL, blue maltese cross on white ground. Amsterdam, N.Y. 
Established 1883, 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Eighth Paper. 
; BUILDING. 


ities drawing of the boat heing completed, the moulds 

made from it and the bench and stocks being ready as 
previously described, the first step in the actual work of 
building, is the shaping of the keel. If the boat has no 


-centerboard trunk, the kee] is made of the same siding or 
thickness «s the stem and siern, for its entire length, its 
depth below the rabbet being taken from the drawing and 
fin., the thickness of the plank, added. The keel may be 

- made idin. deep, the extra depth, if more is required, being 
~ made up by a false keel screwed to it, which may be re- 
In selecting 


moved for shoal water, as shown in Fig. 11. 


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the wood for the keel and keel batten, the layers should lie 
horizontally, as shown. 

If for a centerboard, either of the usual form, or one of the 
‘patented varieties requiring a trunk,-a flat keel must be used 
as shown in the plate, which represents the cross section of a 
flat keel and centerboard trunk. The width, for the length: 
of the trunk, will be Sdn. on top, tapering to the size of the 
stem and stern at its ends, the depth or thickness of the 

L keel being uniform, #in. to lin. throughout its length. 

With the edge keel, a kecl batten is necessary as shown in 
the cross section. This will be iin. thick, and lin. wider 
than the keel, to which itis nailed, thus overlapping the 
latter in. on each side, forming a rabbet for the garboards. 
lf the flat keel is used, the rabbét is cut directly on the keel. 

The stem is next sawed out from a hackmatack knee, and 

planed up { or lin. thick, for an ordinary canoe, and the 
fore edge, rabbet and hearding lines marked on it, using the 
“moulds made for each. 
The rabbet line of a boat, marked a in the drawing, is the 
_ line where the outer surface of the skin or planking joins the 
‘surface of the stem, stern, and keel; the inner or back rabbet, 
6, shown by the dotted line, is the line along which the inner 
‘side of the plank joins the lower edge or ends of the same, 
- and the bearding line, ¢, shown by a broken line, is where 
‘the irner surface of the skin joins fhe deadwoods, keel, stem 
and stern. The back rabbet is found by squaring in from 
7 pupae line, a distance equal fo the thickness of the 
iplank, d : 
_ After the 1abbet and bearding lines are laid off, the rabbet 
‘is cut, a piece of wood jin. thick and several inches long 
being used, applied to the rabbet as the cutting progresses 
sto test its depth and shape. The rabbet is not cut quite to 
‘its full depth at present. : 
_ The sternpost in most 
at the bow ( 


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13. 


sive, as is now seidom the case, and a better plan is to make 
the sternpost of a straight piece, as shown, the rabbet form- 
ing a right angle or a little more, at the junction of keel and 
post. This piece is planed up, the rabbet marked and cut, 
asin the stem, and fastened to the keel by a 2tin. screw 
passing up into it, as shown, and further secured bya chock 
of oak nailed or screwed in the angle. : 

To fasten stem and keel together, a scarf is cut of the shape 
shown in the drawing, abont 8in. long, copper nails being 
driven through the keel and ‘stem, and rivetted over burrs ou 
the top of the former. The keel batten is now nailed on top 
of keel, butting against the stem forward and the chock aft. 
The bearding line is drawn in where it has been omitted 
across the scarf forward and chock aft, and the rabbet 
trimmed at these*points and the frame laid on the large 
drawing, from which the water line is marked on stem and 
stern, and the positions of moulds, bulkheads, mast steps, 
trunk, ete., on both top and bottom of keel. 

If a centerboard trunk is required, it must be put in now; 
being constructed as shown by the sectional views. The 
head Jedges, forming the ends of the trunk, are of oak, iin. 
wide and as thick as the slot or opening, in. for a thin iron 
board, and $ to lin. for a heavy iron or a wooden one. The 
slot is first cut, 1din. longer at each end than the required 
opening, then a groove, Hin. wide and deep, is ploughed on 
each side of it for its entire length. 

The head ledges are now fitted in place, projecting over 
the keel din. fore and aft, to allow for caulking, and fast- 
ened by a copper rivet through the keel and lower end of 
each to Keep the keel from splitting. The sides cf the case, 
of dry pine, are Zin, thick on the lower edges, each of which 
has a tongue on it to fit the grooves in keel, and iin. on 
upper edges. A thread of cotton lamp wick is laid in the 
grooves, the inner surface of the sides, as well as their lower 
edges, the kecl and the head ledges are well painted, and 
they are put in place and driven into the grooves. Before 
the paint is hard the sides are rivetted to the head ledges 
with ‘in. copper nails, and brass screws 38Hin long, spaced 
Gin. apart, are put through the keel up into the sides, the 
holes for them being very carefully bored and countersunk 
into the keel. If the board is hung on a bolt, the hole for it 
must now be bored, as it cannot be done later. 

The moulds must now be fitted to their places, a small 
piece being cut out of each to admit that part of the keel and 
keelson inside of the bearding line, after which, if the 
bd&t is to be built with the keel down, the frame is placed 
in position on the stocks, secured by a few nails driven 
through the keel into the latter (which will be drawn and 
the holes plugged when the boat is ready to turn over), the 
stem and stern are plumbed with a plumb-line and fastened 
by shores from the floor or roof, the moulds put in position, 
adjusted by a centerline from stem to stern, and also shored 
firmly. 

lf the latter method of building is followed, the moulds 
are screwed tothe table, the frame laid on them, and all 
firmly shored from floor to ceiling. Now a ribband one-half 
inch square is nailed along on each side, at the height of the 
deck, being fastened to the stem, stern and the moulds, and 
the positions of the bulkheads and ribs are squared up or 
down on to them. 

To prevent any leakuge through the scarfs, stopwaters are 
next putin, These are small plugs of dry pine, the holes for 
which are bored where th? seam or joint crosses the rabbet. 
They should be bored between the inner and outer rabbet 


lines, Fig. 12, so as to be covered by the caulking, if ina 


Pie viz: 


large boat, or by the edge of theplank where the seam is not ' 
This should be done at all scarfs, | 


caulked, as in a canoe. 
or where water is liable to follow a seam. 

The rabbet is now completed by trimming it out witha | 
sharp chisel, using as a guide,a strip ixtin., and long 
enough to cross at least two moulds. This is held down 
across the moulds, one end being applied to the rabbet, and 
the wood cut away until the surface of the strip and the out- 
side of stem and stern coincide. =. 

The positions of the ribs are now laid off, as shown in Fig. 
13, which represents the fore end of a canoe, set up ona 
building table or hench, The distance apart of the ribs will 


' be 5in., with an intermediate rivet through each lap between 


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every pair of timbers. Beginnmg at station 7 the spaces of 
din. are laid off toward bow and stern to within a foot of 
each end, and marked on top and bottom of keel so as to be 
seen from inside or outside when the plank is on, and also 
squared down on the ribband. 

Perhaps the most difficult part of boat building, certainly 
the most difficult to make plain to a novice, is the planking. 
In order to obtain both strength and durability, each. piece 
must be put on in such a way that it will bring no strain on 
any one part, and will not itself be forced into an unnatural 
shape, to attain which ends, though it may be bent or 
twisted, it must not be ‘‘sprung”’ edgeways or in the direc- 
tion of its breadth, or it can never be made to fit properly. 
Although strakes are son:etimes ‘“‘sprung on” by experienced 
builders, the amateur should not attempt it, as the chances 
are that the framework will be pulled out of shape. 

Before commencing to plank, the beginner can obtain an 
idea of how the planks must lie by taking a piece of bnard 
as long as the boat, 4 or 5in, wide and Hin. thick, tacking the 
middle on moulds 6 and 8 at about the turn of the bilge, and 
then bending the plank until it lies on all the other moulds, 
but not forcing it edgeways to or from the keel. The ends 
of course willcome up higher on bow and stern than the 
middle, and if the piece be laid in a similar manner along 
the keel they will also be higher. The garboard streak, or 
that next the keel, will be 4 to din. wide in most canoes; 
then marking off the width desired, 43in., for instance, on 
moulds 6 and 8, the board mentioned above, having one 
straight edge, is laid over the moulds, its straight edge 4iin. 
from the keel and the ends bent down and tacked to each 
mould and the stem and stern, and a mark is made where 
the board crosses, showing the position of the upper edge of 
the garboard. By upper edge is meant the edge neurest the 


; gunwale, in all cases, whether the boat is built keel up or 


otherwise. With some models it will be better to vary 
somew hat from this lise, of which the builder must judge * 
for himself, according to the circumstances of the ease. 

Next, to lay off the upper streak, we will take a width of 
ddin. at amidships, 2in. al bow and Ifin. at stern, marking 
off these distances (Fig. 13) from the upper edge of the 
streak, already marked by a ribband, and putting a similar 
ribband through these three points, bending it fair and mark- 
ing where it crosses each mould. There should be six 
streaks on each side, so there remain still four to be laid off; 
to do whieh, the distance from the lower edge of the upper 
streak to the upper edge of the garboard on bow, stern and 
each mould is divided into four equal purts, making the 
planks all the same width on any given mould, though of 
course the widths on one mould differ from those on another, 
as the planks taper toward the ends, the girths at bow and 
stern being much less than amidships. 

The planks being laid off, the next operation is to get the 
shape of the garboard, to do whicha ‘‘staff” is necessary. 
This is a piece of board four or five inches wide, one-quarter 
inch thick, and as long as the boat, several having more or 
less curvature, being necessary for the different strakes, For 
accurate work, especially where there is no help at hand, it 
is best to have two short pieces, each about one foot longer 
than half the boat’s length, One of these piecsis cut roughly 
to the shape of the forward rabbet and fustened in place 
with a screw clamp, or a small piece of wood with a nail 
through it called a bhutchock (e) Fig. 13. It is then bent 
carefully over the moulds as far as it will reach, and tast- 
ened to each with a hutchock. The staff should be of uni- 
form thickness and quality so as to bend fairly, and is best 
cut so as to lie in the rabbet, though it need not fit closely. 
A similar piece is now fitted aft, lapping some two feet over 
the former, and the twoare nailed firmly together, so as to 
preserve their relative positions when removed from the 
moulds. As the fitting of the garboard depends mainly on 
the manner in which the spiling is taken, great care is 
needed to prevent the staff springing or buckling in applying 
it. 

When it is properly adjusted a series of marks are made 
with the rule and pencil on the rabbet line on the frame, and 
also across the staff, about two inches apart where the line 
is curved, as at the stem, and four inches where it is 
straighter along the keel. These marks are to insure the 
compasses being set at the same points in taking the spiling, 
and in transferring from the staff to the plank afterward, as 
will be understood later. 

Now, with the compasses set to any convenient distance, 
usually from two to three inches, a circle is first swept on the 
staff, to reset them by if accidentally changed; then one 
point is applied to a mark on the rabbet line, asat x, and, 
with the other, a prick mark is made on the same line, ata 


on the staff. The compasses are applied in succession to 


each of the other points on the rabbet line and marks made 
on the staff, one lire on the stem marked X (a m) being 
called a sirmark, by which the plank is finally adjusted. - 


THE WINTER CAMP-FIRE. 


O meeting was held on Feb. 19, owing to a misunderstanding in re- 
N° ‘tothe to-the date, so the sudject will be deferred until “i next 
wing, 


———— 


- take this oppertunity of informing the American 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


, V.—INLAND WATERS OF MAINE, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your correspondent ‘'X.,’’ under ‘‘The Chart Locker” head, will 
get a general idea of the trip between Moosehead and Megantic lakes 
by reference to my account of the trip, contained in ForEsT AND 
STREAM of Noy. 15last. I made the trip in a Stranahan canvas boat. 

Attean and Spencer rips and Holeb Falls would have to be passed 
by short portages. As the four miles between Long Pond and Little 
Brassua Lake is almost a continuation of rapids, with two or three 
bad pitches. I should prefer to carry the distance by an exeellent 
tote road, which follows the northerly bank of the Moose River. As 
this road, however, is generally near the river, it could be taken at 
any point if thought advisable, From this place to the head of canoe 
nayigation there is not much swift water, except at the rips and falls 
mentioned. 

In July a connection could be made with the construction train on 
the International Railway, at a point on the Moose River about 
twenty-five miles from Megantic Lake, where I launched my canoe 
last September. The railway is now built to withiu seven or eight 
miles of this point, which is a little below Lowell Falls. I presume 


that by carrying by these falls a canoe would have no difficulty in | 


getting to Gordon’s railway camp. In July there would be exeellent 
trout fishing anywhere along the river. 
@ The Chaudiere River is the outlet of Megantic Lake, and is crossed 


| 


at the outlet by the International Railway. This is the present ter- 
minus of the railway, the other end being at Sherbrooke, sixty-nine 


miles distant. The Chaudiere can be run to Quebec by exercising a 
little caution, The upper river is a succession of short stretches of 
sure water with short rapids or chutes between. As the river is 
full of granite boulders, one should let a canoe down these-with a 
pole, or use a line from the bank. 

By ruuning bow on in attempting to make the trip to Quebec a few 
years ago I came to grief, and had to findmy way through the woods 
to the head of Lake St. Francis. After getting some fifty or sixty 
miles down the river the country is settled all the way to Quebec, 
The Quebec Central Railway from Sherbrooke to Quebec crosses the 
river at St. Joseph, Beauce, and the Grand Trunk Railway from 
Montreal te Quebee at the Chaudiere Falls, near Quebec. 

_As there are some bad placesin both the Moose and Chaudiere 
rivers, 1 should want a companion on sucha trip. After leaving 
Moose Beach supplies ean be had at Moose River Village, Pat Mc- 
Kenney’s, at the head of Weod Pond, Gordon’s Camp and Megantic, 

D. THOMAS. 


RUSHTON’S CANOES.—We were locking back over some old 
numbers of the Formst AND STREAM the other day, and we found that 
Mr, J. H. Rushton’s canoe advertisement has been in this journal for 
nine years, every issue. The growth of the Canton business has 
been commensurate with the progress of canoeing in this country. 
Mr. Rushton, we believe, got into the business by chance. He wanted 


a canoe for himself, and built it. Then some one of his friends 
wanted a canoe like it, and Rushton built it for him. By and by the 
demand for Rushton canoes was so rreat that it took all his time, and 
he “set up shop.” Now his annual business runs up into the tens of 
thousands of dollars somewhere. The three points of his success, as 
we understand them, are: First—Charge a price for goods that 
will allow of first-class work. Second—Put only good material inte 
the goods and do not scrimp on the work, Third—Advertise in For- 
EST AND STREAM. _ We expect to adorn the second page of the cover 
with Mr, Rushton‘s advertisement for nine years longer. 
ee ee 


We Recerye Just Sucu Lerrers Every WreEeK.—Boston, Feb. 8.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: My adyertisement in your paper, expir- 
ing 14th inst., was putin with the intention of renewing, but I have 
received so many orders from all parts of the country—from west of 
the Mississippi to the Gulf of St. Lawrence—that I must make my de- 
liveries before I advertise any further. Ican recommend your paper 
to any one who has good dogs forsale. To be sure, I have wasted 
some postage stamps in replying to inquiries, but the majority of in- 
quiries have been from parties who mean business and who are 
prominent men, No doubt you have many such letters as this, but if 
itis of any service, use it, for you deserve it.—J. A, NICKERSON. 

Tue St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps. is 914 milesin length, The 


same distance could be measured by 334,900 of Bsterbrook’s Commer- 
cial Pens extended lengthways.—4dv. 


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SILK WORM GUT. 


&. GOATASA, 85 Broadway, N. ©Y., 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 
Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 
Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to tine, $5.00, 


Gut to Extra Fine. 


For price list address 
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Som : SS said to a lady of 
the haut ton (2 patient):—‘‘As you ladies will use 
them, ITrecommend ‘Gouraud’s Crean’ as the least 
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will last six ntonths, using itevery day. Also Pou- 
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to the skin. : 
Mme. M. B. T. GOURAUD, Sole Proprietor, 
48 Bond street, N. Y. 
For sale by all Druggists and Faney Goods deal- 
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STEEL 
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ity in writing. 


Leading Nos: 14, 048, 130, 333, 161. 
For Sale by all Stationers. . 
THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO., 
Works, Camden, N. J. 26 John St., New York, 


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Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hook. 


Registered. 


‘Whereas, It haying come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 


nd British public that such reports are utter] 

false. The Penis efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in coe way to 
approach ours, which are to be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 


igned, R. HARRISON BARTLEET & 49 
Se alticanurers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish ; 8 
Hooks, Redditch, Rugland. (December, 1882,) minute. Price $1, 


Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of eyery 
description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


<9 Opera, Field & Marine 


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Send for Price List. 
Our Goops ARE So~p By First-Crass DEALERS. 


Dirigo Split Shot Trout Sinkers. 


Warranted best in the market. Trade supplied. 
Send for price list. G. L, BAILEY, Portland, Me, 


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the system, They are 
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87 Waiter Street, N.Y. 


Chicago, May 26 to 31. 


ence more than numbers. 
sip 


This company owns the original patents on ‘‘Clay Pigeons” and ‘‘Clay Pigeon” Traps. 
manufacturing in infringement of these patents; and all who use or sell such infringing Clay 
or Clay Pigeon Traps will be prosecuted. The Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Co. furnishes traps at $7.00, with 
all the latest improvements and guaranteed against any liability for infringement. __ 

Send for circulars of the 5-days programme of the First International Clay Pigeon Tournament, - 
Over $5,000 in prizes and sweepstakes. 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES 
TEE WIiCrHoLsS 


Hexagonal Sp 


Were awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. 
This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods. 


Manufactured by B. F. NICHOLS, 153 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Laws. 


JAS. F. MARSTERS, 


85 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Eine EF"ishinge Tacixle. 


at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; B00ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; G00ft., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25.cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts,; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O’Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts. per dez.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cis. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
package. Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 ets. Double 
Twisted Leaders, 8 length, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. ‘Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
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Established 20 years. Open Evenings, J. KF. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 


mY NWOCEH'S 
Patent ~Perfect” Brass Shells,- 


MANUFACTURED BY 
& CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either’ 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells, L , 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. : 7 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also: 
acts as a reducer, an adyantage which will be appreeiated by all experienced sportsmen. 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers: 


Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 


They shoot stronger and closer, and admit- 
Or can be effectually 
Sample 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American Agents,, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


WA7 A Fem TIel G = 


, 


0¢ 


Buy or use no Clay Pigeons or Clay Pigeon Traps excepting those 


made or licensed by 


The Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Co., Cincinnati, 0. 


Others are” 
Pigeons: 


EXHIBITION 


lit Bamboo Fishing Rods' 


Noted for excel- 


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Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length. 

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NEW YORK, MARCH 6, 1884. 


| VOL, XXII,—No, 6, 
Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York, 


CORRESPONDENCE. 


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Communications upon the subjects to which its pages are devoted are 
respectfully invited. Anonymous communications will not be re- 
garded. No name will be published except with writer’s consent. 
The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 


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‘ 


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New York Cty. 


CONTENTS. 


EDITORTAL. 
TenES. Fees versus Cham- 


Shoteun Philanthropy. 
The Boston Game Market. 
Tue SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Between the Lakes. —vr. 
The Tenderfoot’s First Deer. 
NATURAL History. 
Woodland and Barren Ground 
Caribou. 
Some Arizona Quail, 
Color of the Sea. 
Bird Notes. 
CAMP-HIRE PLICKERINGS. 
Gamm Bae anp Gun. 
New Hngland Game Laws. 
= Our Detroit Letter. 
~ The Performance of Shotguns. 
Mucilage-Edged Wads. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
Tennessee Notes. 
The Squibob Bear Machine. 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 
Dowels and Ferrules. 
A Mascalonge. 
Hints and Wrinkles. 
Wishing and and Fishermen, 
A Domestic Trout Pond. 
Trouting on the Bigosh, 
FISHCULTURE, 
More German Trout Eggs. 
Eges Shipped Abroard. 
English Trout in America, 


THE KENNEL. 

Washington Dog Skow. 
New York Dog Show. 
Importation of Beagles. 
Beagles and _ Wildcats, 
Beagles for Foxes. 
Duke. 

Lice on Dogs, 

The National Stud Book. 
What Do gee Shall be Registered? 
Current Dog Stories. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Science of Rifle Shooting. 
Militia Shooting Hast and West. 
Range and Gallery. 

The Trap. 

CANOEING, 

Rochester (N. Y¥.) C. C 
Amateur Canoe Building. —Ix. 
Large versus Small Cances. 
The Galley Fire. 

Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
Canoe versus Snealcbox, 

YACHTING. 

The Rational View ae as 
The New England Y. 
A Fine Piece of Work 
Mignonette, Cutter, 
A General Topic. 
Small Yachts in the Chicago 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Withits compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 


of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all cther 
American publications put together. 


LAWYERS’ FEES VERSUS CHAMPAGNE. 


i hu IS an old story, repeated year after year. A game 
protective society is established; and enters with won- 
derful vim and zeal upon the momentous work of protecting 
the game. After a little while it gets tired and fizzles out. 
The active work is left for two or three uf the most enthusi- 
astic Inembers. The rest do the talking. And they doa 
great deal of it. Talk is cheap. We know men who will 
talk game protection by the hour, day or week, Then they 
go into the field or the woods and kill all they can. We 
could name individuals who talk game protection so earn- 
estly at home that they have completely exhausted their 
feeling on the subject by the time they get a chance at big 
game out of season. 

Game protection talk inyolves semi-oecasional meetings of 

the society. These in turn call fora copious flow of cham- 
pague of approved brands. The champagne is usually ac- 
companied by a flood of genuine eloquence. Denunciations 
of the work of market shooters and ‘‘trout hogs” are fol- 
lowed by suggestions of what some one else, other than the 
speaker, ought to do about it. Indignation and enthusiasm 
glow in the breasts of the orators and suffuse their counte- 
nances, The fire rages so furiously that by the next morning 
it will be found to have burned itself out, and the game pro- 
tector's ardor will then be as cold as the ashes of the cigars 
he smoked at the meeting, — 

It is a truth, susceptible of demonstration, that money 
devoted to paying lawyers’ fees for the prosecution of game 
law breakers will accomplish more for game protection than 
the same money expended for champagne dinners. A bill 


of fare is an excellent thing in. its Ways but there,are occa: 


sions when a lawyer’s brief would be more to the point; 
post-prandial heated oratory rounds off the dinner, but the 
cold, convincing logic of a lawyer before a jury of twelve 
men will do more to discourage the sale of snared game. 


SHOTGUN PHILANTHROPY, 
EF a flourishing city of Western New York dwells a physi- 
cian who, by means of a judicious use of printer's ink, 
is well known beyond the bounds of the Empire State. In 
addition to the arduous toils of a,dispenser (on a wholesale 
scale) of patent medicines and an author(also on a wholsale 
scale) of medical works, this gentleman has devoted lavish 
sums of money to secure the protection of game and to en- 
courage the art of wing-shooting, His ardor asa game pro- 
tector led him some years ago to present to the New York 
State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, of 
which he was at the time president, an $850 diamond badge, 
asa prize for the game protector who would under given 
conditions kill the most pigeons. That plan having doubt- 
less secured the desired result, and game in consequence being 
abundant, the benevolent physician has set now. out to pro- 
vide the populace with weapons to slay it. He appears in 
the guise of a cheap shotgun philanthropist. 
proposition (though we are obliged to omit the beautiful 
delineation of the renowned Zulu gun which embellishes the 
original), It reads: 
A GOOD BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN FOR $4.00, 
AND THE MEDICAL ADVISER THROWN IN AS A PRESENT. 
Price $5.50 without the Present. 

A Strona, DURABLE AND CLosE SHOOTER. 
12 Gauge, Uses either Metal or Paper Shells, 
Having made special arrangements with the manufacturers, we 
are enabied to sell these guns at the remarkable low figure of $4.00 
and give a copy of the Medical Adviser to each purchaser as a 
present. The gun willbe packed and delivered at the express office 
in Buffalo without charge. We will also furnish, if ordered with gun, 
100. good paper shells for 80 cents; and a set of re-loading imple- 
ments, consisting of rammer with cap-expelling pin and tool for 
recapping shells, for 50 cents. We guarantee the gun to be a strong 
and cloge shooting one.. We will-send the gun as a premium for a 
club order for 10 copies of the Medical Adviser, with the money, 


$15.00, giving also to each member of club a present of any $1.00 
article in this circular. Send in your club order, 


Here is the 


“Thus it may be seen that in the person of this energetic 
game protector and enthusiastic promoter of wing-shooting 
has arisen a dealer in cheap guns who has a conscience as 
well as a possible eye to the main chance. For the paltry 
sum of four dollars he will outfit you with a ‘‘good breech- 
loading shotgun,” and; man of kindly forethought that he is, 
a ‘‘Medical Adviser” to go with it. Whata ‘‘filling of a 
long-felt want” it is when one takes the field with such a 
weapon to have at one’s elbow a Medical Adviser with a 
supply of lint, bandages, and a full and suggestive kit of 
surgical tools ready for any accident, and who, if you should 
happen to go off with your gun, might carry to your friends 
an exact and scientific report of the cause and manner of 
your taking off. But better than all these, if he were a 
proper Medical Adviser, when he saw the game: start before 
you and you raising your four-dollar shotgun for the almost 
inevitable deadly shot, he would stop you with the. brief 
advice, or command perhaps, ‘‘Don’t shoot!” 

But let us read the advertisement over again, Ah, the 
Medical Adviser is only a book, after all. That is not so 
well, for though one might carry the volume under his arm, 
or in his pocket if of convenient size, to get it out and hunt 
up the chapter on gun-shot wounds after one had a finger or 
a hand blown off, would be awkward and apt to consume 
valuable time; and then the appliances to be used in such 
eases might not be at hand, and one might uot be able to 
treat himself by book, especially if he had lost his head, as 
sometimes happens to those who shoot four-dollar breech- 
loading shotguns, and even muzzleloading ones of that ex- 
travagant price. , 

And so, upon the whole, while we duly appreciate the 
benevolence of this advertiser, we cannot. advise our readers 
to buy his gun, even-with-the ‘‘Medical Adviser thrown in;” 
in fact we should feel easier in our mind to recommend as a 
safe investment the buying of the Medical Adviser. itself, 
with the four-dollar breechloading shotgun thrown out, 


Tue Brrps, the song birds, the bright-plumaged birds, the 
birds that chirp about the doorway, the birds that sing in 
the orchard, and twitter under the eaves of the old barn, the 
birds that circle in the meadow, the birds that cheer one’s 
spirit by their vivacity and melody—these are the birds that 
the New England farmers are now devising measures to pro- 
tect, The cause is a most excellent one, and the farmers 
are more interested in it than any one: else, . 


THE BOSTON GAME MARKEE. 
HE matter of a uniform code of game laws in New Eng- 
land, so far as Massachusetts is concerned, is now in the 
hands of the Committee on Agriculture, lis many friends 
believe that the committee will report a bill to the Legisla- 
ture indorsing the measure in the main, though the game 
dealers have ‘‘dined and wined” the members of the com- 
mittee, The hearing before the committee was exhaustive, 
occupying two days, and drew out facts showing that the 
Boston market is even a worse institution for the harboring 
of game out of season in other States than it has the name of 
being. Game dealers, who know whereof they speak, testi- 
fied that the business—all in the hands of twenty or thirty 
men—amounts to from $200,000 to $300,000 anraally. It 
also appeared that there are now actually in Bosten, in cold 
storage, at least 100,000 quail, 

It was proved beforethe committee that freshiy killed 
quail had been repeatedly seen in the market since Jan. 1, 
the legal close time for killing in this and many other States. 
Tt was also shown that the markeitman, being allowed to sell 
pinnated grouse, takes advantage and sells ruffed grouse 
illegally. In consequence of this laxity of law in permitting 
the selling of game out of season, it is next to impossible to 
prevent the sale of- illegaily killed birds... It was. clearly 
shown that the game of the West was fast being depleted 
by the enormous demand for it in Europe, and Boston is the 
center for its shipment, American deer, grouse and quail 
are cheaper in Liverpool to-day than in Boston or New York. 
The refrigerator business of Bosion has dug the graye of the 
game of the northwestern country, unless Massachusetts puts 
a stop to it. ° 

The chances that the waiform game bill will pass, if re- 
ported by the committee, arc net doubted by its friends, The 
enemies, the marketmen, haye been out in full force, but 
they could show at the hearing only that an extensive busi- 
ness would be stopped: They laid claims to class legislation. 
being proposed, and would have cther States look out for . 
their own game Without hep from Massachusetts. But the 
narrowness and selfishness of their ideas was so apparent ag 
to plainly show that class legislation was long ago granted to 
them when the law was made allowing them to have in pos- 
session and sell game when sportsmen and_ other people 
would be arrested for it. 


THe PENNSYLVANIA CASE reported in our last issue (page 
88) is worthy of notice. The Lycoming Sportsmen’s Club 
sought to secure the indictment of certain men who had 
drawn a seine in a millpond (public water). The judge, in 
charging the Grand Jury, is reported to have asserted that 
the seiners had the same right to take fish from the pond 
that a farmer would have to take his cattle from the pasture. 
Tf the circumstances were as our informant has given them 
in the communication referred to, this ruling of the judge 
was clearly wrong. We do not wonder that the members of 
the club were disceuraged by the adverse influence of the 
judge. There can be no question, we venture to opine, that 
the society was perfectly right in its position. If the prin- 
ciple stated by the judge in his charge to the jury holds good 
with regard to the Williamsport millpond, where shall the 
limit between public and private waters be drawn, and how 
may the fishin any of the waters of Pennsylvania be pro- 
tected from improyident netting? When a game protective 
society undertakes a case of this kind,‘the least it can ask is 
a proper and fair administration of the law. When men 
who ply their unlawfui fishing find judges and juries ready 
and willing to acquit them, in the face of the clearest laws, 
it-is indeed time for societies to organize for the protection 
of the public. We hope that, for the good of Pennsylvania 
fishing interests, the Lycoming Sportsmen’s Club will not 
let the case drop here. 


A Sports Derense AssocraTion.—Eneglishmen are or- 
ganizing a Sports Defense Association to combat the efforts 
of those who are attempting to secure a Jaw to forbid pigeon 
shooting. It is urged that the abolition of trap-shooting will 
mean the ultimate suppression of all pursuit of game and fish, 
and the pigeon shooters are calling on the anglers and the 
fox hunters to join their rally, The bill to suppress pigeon 
shooting, it is probable, will be urged again this year, 


*Woopcerarr.”’—A book on “Woodcraft” has been written 
by ‘‘Nessmuk.” It is designed to give practical help te 
amateurs. It will do more than this, it will open the eyes 
of the veterans. ‘‘Wooderaft” will differ from the average 
book on camping, for as we have said it is written by ’*Ness- 
muk.”’ The Forest and. Stream, Publishing Company will 
publish the book, in. April, 


Che Sportsman Tourist, 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Sixth Paper, 
WHERE TO GO A-FISHTNG, 
HE summer wanderer who finds himself in the Upper 

.. Peninsula, will hardly be willing to return to his home 
without first visiting the city of Marquette, the chief city of 
the region, between the lakes, Most persons will, doubtless, 
go a hundred miles by rail or steamer further up and take a 
look at the great copper mining interests on the Kewena 
Peninsula, and mayhap some will take a run along the coast 
up toward the Ontonagon Lighthouse and Union Bay, 
where there is, I am assured, little difficulty in striking first- 
class trout streams that have seldom or never been fished. I 
do not speak by the card, however, having never been there 
inyself; but ere another summer’s sun runs its annual course 
I hope to see and know something of that region, for I have 
faith in what I have heard of it. 

If the yisitor does not go up to the copper region, he will 
be quite sure to take a run out to the iron mines, an hour’s 
tide from Maiquette—mines that, in some respects, have not 
their equal in the world. 

At any rate, he will go to Marquette, This isa city of 
nearly five thousand inhabitants, beautifully situated on the 
igneous rocks that crop out along-the head of the Marquette 
Bay. The town is fast coming into notice as a summer re- 
sort. During the hot months it is so delightfully cool, and 
the lake views are so charming, and the fishing in the yicin- 
ity has been and is so good, that those who try the dog-days 
there once are sure to try them again, Marquette is the 
western terminus of the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette 
Railroad and the eastern of the Marquette, Negaunece & 
Houghton which taps the Northwestern leading to Chicago. 
Besides its railroad connections, lake steamers stop at its 
wharves at stated intervals, and so it is plain to be seen that 
ates uate is a town easy to go lo and easy to got uway 

rom. 

Idid not go a-fishing while stopping in Marquette. I 
spent my time looking at the houses of the iron aristocracy, 
some of which are rather tawdry-looking; I went through 
the sawmill where lumber retails for about the same it does 
after being shipped by water and rail five hundred miles 
southward, J saw long trains of hopper-built ore cars 
thundering out upon the stilted piers where they dumped 
their loads into barges and vessels anchored to receive them, 
T enjoyed the lake breezes and the clear, cool-looking waters; 
I mentally inventoried the contents in the show windows— 
the specimens of iron and copper ores, the toy bark canoes, 
and other supposed evidences of Indian handicraft—and I 
looked at the people as they tramped cheerfully and busily 
up and down their principal street—and so I did not go 
a-tishing, : 

Fifteen to thirty miles up the fike shore, i am told, there 
is good fishing. to be hadin the Garlic, Yellow Dog and 
Salmon Trout and other streams. Sportsmen row or sail up 
the shore, and not only visit the streams, but fish off the 
rocks, and capital times they occasionally have. 

- But one need not go so far, Two miles south of town the 
Carp River. enters the lake, and at favorable seasons the 
trout fisherman who knows the pools, the sunken logs and 
shelying rocks wherein and underneath which the trout love 
to lurk, may take them in such size'and numbers asin some 
reputed trout regions of our country would claim the ad- 
miration of all who saw them. 

. But a member of the Forest anp Srream family will 
hardly stop at the Carp. He will go further, and if he will 
follow me I will lead him to some places along the line of 
the D., M. & M, Railroad, where he will not fare worse, 

Going from Marquette the railroad track curves around 
the bay, and for thirty miles occasional views of bay and 
lake may be had, so near to the shore does the road run, 
The first trout stream after passing the Carp is the Choco- 
late, four miles from Marquette. Here is a station, but we 
will not stop, It is curious to note, however, that the Choco- 
Jate runs parallel with the lake shore for a distance of four 
miles, and the engineers took advantage of the sand ridge 
piled up’ between and laid their track upon it, and at no 
point within the four miles is the road over half a mile from 
the creek, or river, as all creeks discharging their waters into 
the lake are here called. 

Eleven miles further on and we come to Sand River, which 
we cross within a few rodsof the lake shore, Here is a sta- 
tion and here trout may be taken, but it would hardly be wise 
in us,to stop for them, and so we go on four miles further 
to Whitefish Station on the Sable River, as itis named on the 
map. As Sable means sand, aud we have so recently crossed 
a Sand River, we conclude that we must he in a sandy region, 
and so we.are.. Thus far we have been running over ridges 
of sand that have been piled up in some distant bygone age 
when the Lake Superior level stood at an altitude of from 
forty to sixty: feet higher than it does now, But we will 
pass the Sable River by, although trout may be caught in 
its waters, - 

Two miles further, which is twenty-one miies from Mar- 
quette, brings us to Onota, and a mile therefromis Deer Lake. 
Now, I never fished in that lake, but a Mr. Wardle, an Ohio 
man, and an intelligent Ohio man at that, and one who has 
evidently done a good deal of fishing during his time, visited 
us at our camp at Jeromeyille and he told us of two visits he 
had made to Deer Lake. On the first he and his brother 
sportsman met with marvelous success. Notwithstanding 
the boat they found on the lake was leaky and tnwieldy, 
they caught with a spoon more bass than they could con- 
yeniently handle, besides two or three mascalonge. These 
bass, Mr. W. said, rose to the fly, and one gallant fellow 
wrecked the gentleman’s trout rod badly. Shortly after 
that Mr. W. returned to Deer Lake, but not a fish did he 
take, 

Right here it may not be amiss to say that the sportsman 
who expects inland lake fishing in the Upper Peninsula had 
better provide himself with a boat. He may occasionally 
find boats kept for hire, as at Au Train, but generally he 
must either have his own boat, or put up with a vessel so old 
and worthless that it is not worth owning: 

But Jet us move along. Three miles east of Onota we 
come to Rock River, so named because of the numerous and 
immense rocks lying at its mouth in the lake, and which 
afford capital fishing in season, Here trout running from 
two to three pounds are taken. From the railroad crossing 
to the mouth of the river is almost one mile, and the lower 
half gives good stream fishing. The evening we went up to 
Marquette, a couple of eldérly gentlemen boarded the train at 
the Kock River station, who had been stream-fishing below,. 


and each had a nice basket of trout. The top ones weighed 
notless than three-quarters of a pound; the under ones I did 
not see, but it would have been in accord with an ancient 
angler’s custom to have had the little ones at the bottom, 

Au Train is the next place tobe mentioned, The railroad 
skirts the Au Train Bay for four miles, and at the end of 
three-quarters of the way, as we go eastward, the Au Train 
River discharges its waters. The railroad crosses this little 
river within a sling-stone’s throw of the bay, where there is 
astation. A littleover a mile from the river’s mouth, as the 
crow flies, is the Au Train Lake, a reservoir left, doubtless, 
by the receding waters of the great lake in the remote past; 
but by the river (which runs through the lake) the distance 
is all of four miles. The Au Train River, between the two 
lakes, makes # marvelously big bend, and from this eircum- 
stance the name Au Train springs, John Clark, an educated 
Indian, told me that the name was suggested by the long, 
sleigh-runner-like bend in the stream. It is French, - 

Be this as it may, Au Train enjoys quite a celehity asa 
camping, hunting and fishing post. A beautiful grove of 
pine saplings grows on a high level parcel of land a few rods 
from the station, in the edge of which an enterprising land- 
lord has erected a frame hotel. The wonder is that some 
vandal has not cut downevery sapling of the grove, and one’s 
respect for the place grows in consequence of this uncom- 
mon evidence’ of the existence of a little common sense. The 
grove actually seems to be cared for, and while campers are 
permitted to set their tents amid the saplings, chopping them 
is prohibited. 

Aw Train Lake is famed as a deer resort during the sum- 
mer months, and large numbers have been killed here regard- 
less of the Jaw. Ihave heard some marvelous stories told of 
deer shooting on this lake. ‘‘Tenderfeet,” who can’t kill 
deer elsewhere, come to Au Train, and by the aid of a light 
and a boatman, find it an easy job. | beard one man 
say that at certain seasons the air was so offensive along the 
lake shore from the carcasses of slaughtered deer that hunt- 
ers were often incommoded thereby. No doubt the state- 
ment was highly colored, but it was a significant one never- 
theless. The fact is, summer shooting on the Au Train has 
been extensively practiced. 

Beyond the lake, within a reasonable walking distance, is 
the Au Train Falls, which is said to be well worth a visit. 
Below the falls is good trout fishing. 

But let us leave Au Train. A run of fourteen miles, much 
of which is up grade, brings us to. Munising Station, 316 
feet above the level of the great lake, and forty miles from 
Marquette. Hereis where one leaves the cars to go and see 
the Pictured Rocks and get ataste of the lake and stream fish- 
ing in their neighborhood. A short distance -west of fhe 
station the railroad crosses a narrow, rapid, log-filled: stream 
with high banks, known as Anna River, and so named after 
the first white woman to settle in itsnear neighborhood. The 
Anna is no inconsiderable trout stream, but it is so easily 
reached by the Indians and other Munising people, that one 
would scarcely expect much success fishing in its waters, 
Still, if one should from any cause have to stop over at Mu- 
nising, it would be well to try it; and there are worse places 
in which to be left than in Munising. Alice lives there, and 
her cookery is famed the region over. Alice cannot be said 
to keep a hotel, for her establishment is the veriest shanty, 
80 I can’t be charged with writing this as a hotel puff; but if 
the angler, hunter, camper, traveler, be hungry for a first- 
class dinner, let him signify the same to Alice, and if she is 
well enough to undertake it, he will, when he reluctantly. 
turns from her shanty, go away. sounding her praise. He 
will no doubt see old Earley, Alice’s husband, hobbling 
around while there., Old Charley is an oily-looking old gray- 
beard, and if the guest’s wife or daughter is with him, she 
must not be shocked if old Charley swears alittle inher pres- 
ence; but the apology of Alice, should she hear him—and she 
generally does—will make all amends. ‘Il am surprised at 
you, Charley!” she will say, “to think that a gentleman of 
your excellent sense should swear in the presence of 2 lady! 
tt is unaccountable!’ And turning to the lady she will say, 
“Really! you must excuse him. He always would swear 
before ladies, but it is the only fault he has,” 

The Anna is the last stream flowing into Lake Superior 
that we cross. Munising is on the comb of the great sand- 
stone roof lying between the two great lakes. The Anna 
River flows north into Lake Superior, and south of the sta- 
tion less than a mile may be found the headwaters of the 
West Branch or Stuch’s Creek, a tributary of the Manistique, 
From Munising on, the streams run southward into Lake 
Michigan until we have passed beyond the Manistique 
slope. 

South and southwest.of Munising is an extensive area 
containing many small lakes, some of which are land- 
locked, but most are not. All as far as visited have heen 
found to be well stocked with bass, and some with pike and 
occasionally one with trout, and all are accessible to a deter- 
mined sportsman ‘with a guide. 

About six miles south of Munising a chain of small lakes 
is met with, leading out into the west branch of the Manis- 
tique, or Indian River. An old lumber road leads into the 
lakes, and boats can be lugged over the portages and the 
descent of the Indian River be made; but the trip would not 
be a holiday affair. I talked with one who made the trip as 
guide, and he told an extravagant story of the trout fishing 
enjoyed by the party on the way. Mr, William Gunton, a 
land-looker and lumberman, wlio has wet his line in nearly 
every trout stream of importance in that region, assured me 
that the trout ran Jarger in the Indian Jiver than in any 
other stream he had fished. Another year the writer hopes 
to make his way into the upper waters of the Indian River 
and settle for himself the question of its trout-bearing quali- 
ties, He will carry rod, shotgun and camera. As he de- 
scends he will expect the scenery to become quite rugged 
and picturesque, and around the shores of Indian Lake, a 
sheet of water coyering fifteen or twenty square miles, he 
will see hills and rocks that will give quite an assortment of 
photographic views. ' 

But we must goon. It is eight miles to Jeromeyille, and 
there we will go into camp. As we thunder along through 
a sylvan cafion, a hundred feet in width, with walls as high 
us the tall, compactly growing trees, the Judge suddenly 
thrusts his head out of a window, and yells at the top of his 
voice. His conduct seems so extraordinary that for a 
moment we think sometbing is wrong with him. Some of 
the passengers evidenty think so too. Listen at that fish- 
eyed chap who works his jaws languidly over an enormous 
‘quid of tobacco. ‘'I say,” says he tothe Greek Professor, 
“that ’ere feller’s seen a bear or else he has’em!” But the 
Greek Professor does not comprehend, He knows when a 
fish is biting at his hook as well as any man, but what is 
meant by the Judge ‘haying ’em” passeth his comprehension. 
He does not understand the language of slang. 


bons 


a HS TF II Ii III 


Seat. : 

Now, Oscar is one of the young men who was with the 
Judge last year in these yery woods, and this year Oscar had 
stopped in the Lower Peninsula. But not long since we got 
a letter from him, and he wanted to join us, and as he was 
« good fellow we wrote, “Meet us in Jeromeville.” Oscar 
must be trying to meet us. : 

_ Bad news! Bad news! On our arrival at Jeromeville, 
Louis, a young man belonging to the section boss’s family, 
tells us that ‘“‘two tileegrams had been sint down for the 
Jidge, one of which said how one of his factories was burnt 
up, so if, was, and the other how some one was sick.’’ 

But Mr. Oscar had taken them and was gone no one knew 
where, We know, however. He is off to meet us with the 
telegrams—to meet us at Munising. Lucky the Judge hap- 
pened to look out and make himself known to Osear, Oscar 
will seon come back. But in the meantime, how must the 
Judge feel? He has no factory to burn, but he has a home, 
and more than that—he has loved ones at home to grow 
sick, ‘This is my eleventh year,” says he, as he paces up 
and down the railroad in front of the Jeromevyille station, 
pene never did I receive a word of bad news from home 
vefore,”” 

At last Osear comes and produces the two messages, 
one states that a certain educational institution (not the 
Greck Professor’s) with which the Judge held some sort of 
oficial connection, had been destroyed by fire. This, then, 
was Louis’s “factory,” and but for the other message much 
laughter would Louis’s ‘factory’ have occasioned. But, 
alas! the other; ‘‘The doctor says that neither Lillie nor 
the baby can last long,” and the Judge must go. These be- 
long to his household—daughter-in-law and grandchild— 
and the next train he leayes for home, nearly six hundred 
miles southward, and I go, too, while the Greek Professor 
and Oscar stay behind, 

When we left we did not expect fo return, but we did 
nevertheless. Poor Lillie! After a valiant strugele for her 
life she had rapidly declined, and within a few days after 
ow arrival she succumbed to the inevitable, as must we all 
sooner or later; but the baby recovered and, the grand- 
mother being across the sea, he was put out to nurse. 
George and Mabel, worn out with watching and care and 
toil, could ill-endure the depressing heats of the Indiana doz 
days, and the doctor advised a change of climate, and so the 
Judge resolved to go back to his camp in the woods and 
take the tired ones with him, and I returned also, 

D. D, Banta. 


THE TENDERFOOT’S FIRST DEER. 


pee Tenderfoot had been with us just one week. It was 

quiet times at the ranch, for the round-ups were over, 
the winter's wood nad been hauled and split, the cattle had 
drifted with the early November storms toward the South 
and none remained on the range save here and there bunches 
of a dozen or more which were trying to rustle through the 
winter by loafing around the meadow fence or at the corrals 
and picking up stray morsels which were pitched from the 
stables, seldom going out on the flats where the feed was good 
except when they were driven there, 

The boys hugged the great box stove in the bunk-house, 
some busy day after day making quirls, others plaiting raw- 
hide reatas or making hackamores, varying their labors with 
an occasional game of California Jack or Blue Pete. 

Tenderfoot was, in relation to actual experience‘on a cow 
ranch, of the tenderfeet a superlative specimen, but he was 
endowed with a great deal of tact which covered a multitude 
of harmless errors, He was a man who had had a great deal 
of experience in both town and country, und had always 
managed to be at peace with eyery one, and yet he had the 
outward appearance of being aman who did not careto have 
his toes trampled upon without demanding satisfactory ex- 
planations. He only looked this as we ‘‘sized him up” when 
he first came among us. He was a modest looking fellow and 
pleasant spoken, and in the week he had been with us had 
easily glided into our ways, grown well acquainted and be- 
come thoroughly at home. He acknowledged his ignorance 
of everything connected with his new life, asked questions 
when he wanted any information igsuch a way that the 
boys were all glad to post him or help him, and in the week 
he was inaking good quirls and good friends, for the old 
hands always take kindly to the tenderfoot who gives him- 
self no airs. Nothing they hold in such utter contempt as 
pretense, 

The eighth day came pleasant, and Nervous, who was so 
nicknamed because he was neither nervous nor fidgety, who 
had been waiting for the right kind of day, prepared early 
in the morning for a deer hunt among the canyons below 
the ranch on the north side of the creek. It was a pleasant 
morning, though the snow was several inches deep, a twelve- 
mile breeze blowing from the northwest and the fhermom- 
eter at least 15° below zero. 

Neryous was about ready to start when Tenderfoot asked 
to accompany him, a request readily granted with the offer 
to loan him the only spare rifle on the ranch, an old goverm- 
ment needle gun, Nervous carried a repeating nfle. Down 
the creek and across the lower meadow, through the dense 
boxelder woods covering the flats through which ran the 
creek, they went, the crisp, frosty snow sounding beneath 
their tramping feet—well, sounding, eh—eh—well, sounding 
like the noise made by an awkwurd man eating hot soup. 
‘Rather too much noise forsuccessful deer hunting,” thought 
and said Nervous, ‘‘but as soon as we cross the creek and get 
into the canyons and commence climbing among the rocks 
and around the hillsides we will have to move more care- 
fully, but there is not so much snow there and we can get 
along quietly enough with a little extra care. This wind is 
a great belp to us hunting this direction,” 

Tenderfoot had never aropped a deer; in fact, had never. 
seen one running wild. He had heard of buck ague, but 
believed he was in no immediate danger of contracting the 
disease and, indeed, he looked like a man who could and 
would keep cool as an iceberg under any deer hunting con- 
ditions. He was, and no wonder, anxious to put his nerves 
to the test to decide which would display the most fear, 
he or some hlack-tailed buck. — 

In the canyons the force of the wind was not feltsomuch, ~ 
but above, on top of the ragged bluffs, it played its cool 
tricks on the loose snow. which it lifted and carried across 
country or packed away, in. every gulch and gully, and 
dropped onthe hunters’ heads in showers the frosty flakes. 
Not a sound but the whistling of the fierce, cold wind, which 
was eyidently trying to keep itself warm by spinning at a 
twelve-knot gait. lt wasa cool proceeding but very thin 
withal, With searching eyes and careful steps they slowly 
climbed among the hills, now crawling on hands and knees 


, 


——— ———— ° 

up almost perpendicular inclines, peering cautiously over 
them, and then descending feet first on the opposite sides 
among sage brush and grease wood, across washouts and 


over pitch-pine logs and wind-battered cedars, thathad given. 


up trying to eke out an uncertain living among the rocks, 
For a couple of miles of theroughest walking and climbing 
and walking imaginable went Nervons and his companion. 

Several jack rabbits had been disturbed from their slum- 
bers behind protecting sage brush, and kicking up little 
clouds of snow they scampered away with their lives, but 
bless ‘em, they were safe enough this morning. These storm- 
beaten old canyons are not going to ring with echoes from 
any rifles pointed at smaller game than blacktails. There 
was no time consumed for Tenderfoot to admire the scenery, 
and though he did not say it, he perhaps thought this road 
Was a near relative to Jordan’s hard road, but he ‘‘stayed 
with it” like a little man, until just as he had slid down six 
feet froraa rock he eamein sight of two bucks and a doe 
not above a hundred yards distant. The doe seemed as 
though she would like to say— 


“How happy could £ be with either 
Were t’other dear charmer away,” 


and both the “dear charmers” were so engrossed in their 
attentions that they had net seen our friend from the States. 
No doubt that love is blind. 

Quickly tarning to Nervous, he told him, and then clap- 
ping his rifle to lis shoulder, he fired, and one of the bucks 
dropped and rolled down into a gully, thirty feet below. The 
others, as mue¢h surprised as the mysterious wedding guest 
was by the Aucient Mariner, started back out of Tenderfoot's 
sight, but now in full view of Nervous, who made the moye- 
ments of “turning loose” his repeater, but it refused to 
’ ‘pump. ” 

“Can you see them, Tenderfoot?” 

“No, they are out of my sight.” 

“Well, ihey have stopped over there, not more than a hun- 
dred and fifty yards away. My rifle won't work. Hand 
me yours.” a 

Tenderfoot could not have got a shoi in five minutes, and 
there was no telling where they would be before he could 
again sight them; so lhe handed his rifle over the rock duwn 
which he had just slid, and Nervous fired. Down came the 
second buck, and the doe was just disap en ing over a high 
ridge opposite, when a third time spuxc me old-fashioned 
rifle and the last of the little bunch was one for, She carried 
the ball about twenty feet, then suddenly dropped it and 
went. with it. 

“Tender, l think that will do for a morning hunt, thanks 
fo you for helping me out. Ama little sorry I downed the 
doc. Now we'll bleed them and go back to the ranch for a 
team snd hang our ‘mutton’ up a tree,” 

By following the canyons further down they would have 


been able'to have killed more deer, but present necessities 


had been bountifully supplied and what was left will furnish 
work and sport for many another day. 

Nervous had placed his shots in the shoulders and Tender- 
foot had sent his crushing through the head, In the middle 
of the afternoon the three were hanging up between the 
fbunk-house and the kitchen. Tendeifoot was complimented 
on his skill as a rifle shot, buf with his usual modesty clis- 
claimed any credit for skill and insisted that he had aimed 
for the shoulders with a vague idea of hitting somewhere, 
and his winning shot was nothing but a scratch the likes of 
which he never expected to repeat. 

Could he have had a slight attack of the buck ague? Are 
not the yictims’ of that disease supposed to make clean 
misses? 

“At any rate,” said Nervous, refilling his pipe, ‘‘you must 
know, boys, there ain’t any tenderfeet on this ranch.” 

MILLARD. 

BEAR Crepk, Wyo. 


Blatuyal History. 


WOODLAND AND BARREN GROUND 
CARIBOU. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

j notice in the Formst anp StrmAm of February 14, that 
the editor does not agree with Judge Caton, author of ‘‘An- 
telope ahd Deer in America,” in regard to the woodland 
being 2 distinct species from the barren ground caribou. 

I have had no personal experience with the latter animal 


-(myinformation is obtained from those who have hunted 


i 


it, also From natural histories), but I-have always thought 
that they belonged to separate and distinct species. 

The barren ground caribouis one of the smallest of the 
deer family, and it is seldom that a buck is killed weighing 
over one hundred pounds. As its name implies, its habitat 
isthe barren grounds between latitude 62° and the Arctic 
Sea. In winter it seeks the shelter of wooded tracts on the 
southern boundary of its range. Its favorite food is the 

osses and lichens so abundant in that section. This animal 

of great value to the Indians and othersin the frozen 
north; they make some use of every part of the body. Large 
herds ot the barren ground caribou roam over the couutry, 
and are easily approached and killed, 

The woodland caribou, on the other hand, is a larger 
animal, the doe being equal in size to a barren ground buck, 
ilchough the horns are smaller and less branching. They 
frequent the wooued shores of Hudson’s Bay, and tracts 
further south where the. other are never seen. A most sin- 
vular difference in the habits of the two, And one that, with 
the difference of size, form, ete., surely entitles them to be 
tanked as separate species, is that the woodland migrates to 


-the southward every spring, while the barren ground cari- 
~ bou is at the same time on its way to the Arctic Sea. 


The 
flesh of the woodland caribou is inferior 1o that of the other. 
1 hope that the writer of the illustrated article on page 
45, issue of Feb. 14, will give his reason for believing that 
the two animals belong to one species, Rep Wine. 
(GLENcOn, Fila. 
4n most old works on natural history three distinct species 
‘of reindeer are mentioned, These are, the old world form, 
varivusly called Certws tarandus, Torandus rangifer and 
Rangifer tarandus; the American woodland form, Cervus 


 tarundus, yar. sylvestris, or Tarandus coger and the bar- 


ren ground torm, Cereus tarandus granlandicus, or Cervus 


_iarandus, yar. dretica. Sinee these works were written the 


views of naturalists have undergone a great change. It was 
formerly the fashion to make as many species as possible, 
and ften necessary to base specific charac- 

ers utions—on what would to-day be re- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


garded as nothing more than individual differences. An old 
world species found in America was often dignified with a 
new name, for no better reason than that it lived om the 
other side of the ocean from its already known relative. In 
those days the tendency was toward the multiplication of 
species. ‘To-day the current sets the other way, and natur- 
alists generally strive to reduce the number of species to the 
lowest point. , . ; 

At present the circumpolar reindeer, whether they inhabit 
Norway, Siberia, or British Ameriga, are regarded as one 
and the same form, Rangifer granlandicus, while the wood- 
land caribou is thought to be only a fairly well marked race 
of its more boreal refative. The only known physical char- 
acters by which the two forms may be separated are size and 
horns, and these are not sufficiently well marked to base 
specific differences on, Size may go for almost nothing. 
Judge Caton, in his inost excellent work on ‘The Antelope 
and Deer of North America,” acknewledges this, and says: 

“The difference in size, if this were the only distinction, 
would be entitled to but little weight in the consideration of 
this question, especially when we remember that we often 
find animals of the same species occupying high latitudes 
smaller in size than those of warmer countries, The reverse, 
however, we find generally the case with our Cervide. * * * 
I repeat, however, that I should not consider the difference 
in size, which is fully one-half, sufficient of itself to estab- 
lish a specific difference.” To the diversity m size of the 
horns Judge Caton attaches somewhat more weight, yet this 
character we cannot regard as sufficient to establish specific 
difference, Judge Caton's main reliance in separating the 
two forms of caribou is on their supposed differences in 
migratory habit, and on the supposition that the two forms 
do not interbreed or grade into one another. But as a mat- 
ier of fact we have very little evidence on these points, 
We know that in its home—the center of abundance—the 
barren ground form is small, with large horns, and 
that in Maine and Lower Canada the woodland 
form is large, with small horns; but as to the deer, 
which inhabit the intermediate country, little is known. It 
is, we think, probable that an extended series of specimens 
from the country, where the ranges of the two overlap, 
would furnish individuals of which the naturalist would he 
unable to say, “This is a barren ground,” or ‘‘This is a 
woodland caribou.” ‘To decide a question of this kind the 
acumen of a trained naturalist would be required, and he 
should have before bim a large series of specimens, if pos- 
sible freshly killed. We recently talked with some old cari- 
bou hunters im a region where the woodland form is the 
only one known, and yet they spoke of two kinds of cari- 
bou, which they believed existed there—‘‘the little green 
woods deer” and “the big hill deer.” Asa matter of fact. 
they merely referred in the one case to the young and small, 
and in the other to the old and large deer. 

The opinion of the best mammalogists to-day is that the 
woodland caribou is only a well marked race of the circum- 
polar reindeer, If any good specific characters can be shown 
to separate the two, this opinion will be modified, but at 
present the evidence to justify such a change of sentiment is 
wanting. 

A case somewhat analogous to the one under consideration 
existed a few years ago in regard to the common Virginia 
deer, of which several species were named from different 
sections of the country, but at present these supposed species 
have no standing, and several of them have none even as 
races or varieties. 

We may mention that our correspondent has the weight 
of the barren ground caribou much too low. Richardson 
says as full-crown buck, dressed, will weigh from 90 to 1380 
pounds, This would give a live weight of from 185 to 200 
pounds, There are some other inaccuracies in ‘“‘Red Wing’s” 
statements, as will be seen by reference to Judge Caton’s book. 

We cannot do better than to recommend our correspond- 
ent to look up this matter for himself, and when he has 
done so, we fancy that he will agree with us. As we stated 
in our review of the work, Judge Caton’s admirable volume 
contains a vast amount ef information on this and kindred 
subjects, and it is one that the naturalist and deer hunter 
ean ill afford to be without. THE REVIEWER. 


SOME ARIZONA QUAILS, 
Editon Forest and Stream: 

The ‘‘Oalifornia quail” mentioned by ‘“‘Nemo” in your 
issue of the 31st ulf. are in all probability Arizona quail 
(Lophortyx gambel/), inasmuch as they are abundant in South- 
western New Mexico and Arizona. The California quail 
(Lophoriyx californica) ave, on the other hand, I think, 
rarely or never seen in that or this part of the country. 

The Arizona quail is furthermore exceedingly susceptible 
of domestication. When first caught they are so violently 
wild as to be almost unapproachable, but by continued and 
careful attention they eventually become tame enough to 
handle without fear, 

A. G. Buttner, ex-Chief of Police of this city, has a 
peculiar penchant for pets. About two years since he pro- 
cured a pair of Arizona quail. ‘They not only became gentle 
but raised a brood of eleven young ones, Thirteen eges were 
laid, but eleven chicks only were hatched. When about 
half grown they were in part distributed among friends, 
One of them afterward escaped, and returned to its former 
home. I secureda pair of them myself and gave them the 
freedom of a corral in which alfalfa had been sown, ‘The 
throve finely, but became somewhat shy. When frightened, 
however, they invariably sought the house for protection. I 
had previously tried the same course with a pair of blue 
quail (Callipepla squamata), but attempts to domesticate 
them were in vain. I finally gave them the same freedom 
that I had given to their kindred, and lost them on the day 
subsequent. : 

During the months of September and October the Papogo 
Pima and Maricopa Indians snare quail by the thousands. 
They are brought to the market, dozens in a coop, <A fan- 
cier can, for a few bits, make a fine selection. About two 
and a half years since, E. L, Wetmore, a well-known resi- 
dent of this city, purchased a pair of the Arizona variety, 
and hung them In separate cages on either side of his office 
door. For the first few days they were frantic with alarm, 
then finally settled down to the quietness of a humdrum life. 
He afterward gaye them the frcedom of a large room and 
allowed his children to handle them. In due time they not 
only thoroughly domesticated, but the male became aggres- 
sive, and would fly and peck at the hand for food. On two 
different occasions, sittings of eggs were laid, but no attempt 
was made to hatch them. The feniale finally dying, another 
was procured, She appeared to tame rapidly, but escaped 
on the first opportunity; was away two days, then returned, 


and by repeated calls demanded admission to her mate, and 
never afterward cared to leave him. 

To domesticate them, but little care is required, inasmuch 
as they will eat almost anything that is placed before them. 
A pan of clean water, plenty of fresh eerth, a few sprigs of 
vegetables (of which there are plenty at all tires in this coun- 
try), a little bread, cracked wheat or seed, and the sum of 
their luxuries is made up. But, unlike those mentioned by 
“Nemo,” they are, during the warm weather, exceedingly 
fond of a bath, and when taking it splash the water in all 
directions, regardless of their surroundings, ‘Those kept by 
Mr. Buttner raised their little ones in a box not more than 
four feet square. They had the natural earth for a floer, the 
sides of the box had been taken off and replaced by wire 
screen, The nest, made of dry grass thrown in for that pur- 
pose, was built under a board that stood slanting from the 

oor to the end of the cage. If any one cares to try the ex- 
periment and will pay the expressage on a pair of Arizona 
quail which, in my belief, are the most handsome of their 
kind, I will, as soon as they become plentiful, send them a 
pair with pleasure. My address is with the FormsT AND 
STREAM. ADTOs. 
Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 10, 1884. 


COLOR OF THE SEA. 


PARAGRAPH has been going the rounds of the news- 

papers, stating that Dr. J. J. Wild, F. R. G. 8., claims 

that he has discovered the cause of the various colors of the 

sea, and that they are due to the greater or less proportion of: 
salt held in solution, 

How does Dr. Wild account for the fact that large and 
deep bodies of fresh water exhibit colors similar to those of 
the ocean? 

The waters of the great American lakes, Superior, Huron 
and Michigan, in their deepest parts, say from 500 to 1,000 
feet, are, under certain conditions of sky and atmosphere, of 
a deep blue color, like those of the Atlautic, Pacific or Indian 
oceans, the blue, however, is not so intense, the depth of 
water being much less in these inland seas than in the ocean, 
some of the deeper portions of which show color like that of 
a solution of indigo. 

In the shallower parts of both salt and fresh water, where 
the depth is from twenty to fifty feet, various shades of 
green occur, more or less opaque as the water is turbid or 
transparent, 

Tam inclined to believe that thé colors of both salt and 
fresh water depend on simiiar conditions, some of which 
are— 

1, Depth and transparency. 

2. The state of the sky and atmosphere, whether clear or 
clouded, 

3. The course of the wind, north and west winds produc- 
ing a clear and deep:*blue, and east or south winds light blue, 
blue green, or lead color. 

4, The point of view of the observer, whether from high 
Jand or low. 

5, In shallow water, the nature of the bottom, whether 
covered with rocks, sand, or alge. an OF Oa 


BIRD NOTES. 


It was “immense flocks of blackbirds,” not ‘“‘bluebirds"’ 
that were seen here flying southwest on the 14th of February 
(See Formst AND STRBHAM of Feb. 28). Crows have been 
about here all winter. Saw a bluejay yesterday. A few 
misguided ducks have appeared, but the Raritan River, which 
was open, is again frozen, and they will probably leave. Saw 
a robin flying south to-day. Sensible bird. Mereury, 7 
yesterday, 14 to-day, J. L. Ke 

Pertu Amboy, N. J,, March J, i884. ~" 


The unusually mild, but wet weather, which we have been 
having this month, has made some of our small birds think 
of spring. A song sparrow (Jf melodia) has stayed with us 
all winter. Two or three days ago, I caught him singing in 
our lilac hedge, and he seemed very cheerful, This morning 
the mercury stood at six degrees, and old Boreas had, during 
the night, taken up a position in the northwest, and was 
hurling his keenest javelins at daybreak. This very sudden 
change from bad to worse caused melodia to muke friends 
with his cousins, the field sparrow (S. pusilla), and slate- 
colored snowbird (Jwnco hyemalis). All three of them were 
busy near our porch picking up such crumbs and bits of 
grain as were exposed in the path which was cleared to the 
barn. The two last-named species are common winter resi- 
dents with us, but we do not recallect seeing a song sparrow 
in either January or February before. Three winters ago, 
in *s0-’81, we saw, ina severe snow storm in January, a 
single towhee bunting, who appeared lively and well. This 
was on Scroggy Neck, Sandwich, Mass. 

One bluebird, on Washington’s Birthday, gladdened us 
with his sweet but simple song. Hetlew from one fence 
post to ancther, and we watched to see what food he might 
take ; nothing offered to his taste, however, and we left him 
to his own happy thoughts of spring and sunshine. 


Marevs, 
Hast WAREBAM, Mass., Feb. 29, 1884. 


Where are the bids? was the question I asked myself 
many times yesterday, while taking a three hours’ wall on 
the outskirts of the city. I passed rows of evergreen trees 
more than a mile in length, and thousands of apple trees, but 
did not see a bird during the whole time. A year ago the 
same day, going over the same ground, I saw pine grosbeaks, 
redpoll linnets, snow-buntings, snowbirds, and one son 
sparrow that had concluded to try a Northern winter; an 
he seemed to be doing quite well in his home among the ever- 
greens, But yesterday | saw nothing to remind me of birds, 
unless if was the coarse, bulky nest of the purple grackle in 
one of the tall evergreen. trees. by the rvadside, and on the 
opposite side, near the top of a maple, swung the pensile nest 
of the oriole, and on a horizontal limb of the same tree was 
saddled the soft, compact nest of the goldfinch, Then, again, 
in the evergreens the saucer-shaped nest of the mourning 
dove, and on the framework of a disused lime kiln I saw the 
weil built moss nest of the pha:be, and on the opposite tim- 
ber, about twelve feet distant, was the hard, mud-lined nest 
of Turdus migraterius. Further on, in a large thorn tree, 
was the feather-lined nest of the kingbird, and last and least 
of all, in a low withewood bush, the thistle-down-made nest 
of the summer yellowbird; and from the unusual length of 
it I came to the conclusion that there was something treas- 
ured up in the lower department, and on examination I 
found the egg of the vagabond cow bunting. Ail these I 
saw, but not a sign of bird-life until I reached the main busi- 
ness street of the city, where I had a chance to feast my eyes 


104 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Maron 6, 1884. 


2 hundreds of the detestable, pugnacious little Passer domes- 
CUS. 

1 know of but one reason to account for the searcity of the 
winter birds in this vicinity. On the 9th and 10th of last 
September we had a very severe frost that destroyed most of 
the vegetables and the seed-bearing weeds in the fields, on 
which the snow-buntings, horned Jarks, snowbirds and tree 
sparrows feed during the winter. I have seen snow-bunt- 
ings but’ once this winter, Dec. 27, although I was in the 
fields probably three days in a week up to Jan. 5. Since 
then I have seen nothing, excepting one downy woodpecker, 
and he came to the apple tree at my door to show himself. 


BAUR by 
Locrrort, N, Y,, Feb. 11, 1884, 


Monday afternoon I counted seven robins in onc tree, and 
they seemed quite contented, although the air was chilly. 
Redwing blackbirds are around in considerable numbers. 
I saw four this morning in front of the house. Quail have 
wintered well so far, notwithstanding the many crusts we 
have had this winter. I saw a flock of ten black ducks last 
week heading north, but I guess they did not stay long. 
Our meadows will be in first-class condition this spring for 
the ducks, and I anticipate some fair sport. Iam in hopes 
the ducks will make their appearance soon, and I am sure 
they will if the weather keeps as warm as it is to-day, Blue- 
birds have been with us all winter,. 16-BoRE. 

Manison, N. J., Feb. 20, 


This is avery hard winter for the birds. The English 
sparrows have almost disappeared; not a dozen now where 
there were hundreds before. A number of birds have been 
found dead, and all the birds seen were in poor condition, 
except a shrike which I shot the other day; he had had an 
easy time feeding on the sparrows. There are a few chicka- 
dees, bluejays and pine grosbeaks, and that is about all 
around town. A number of Acadian or saw-whet owls have 
been killed, and I recently secured a Richardgou’s owl. 

W. A. M. 


Fort Covineton, N. Y., Feb. 18, 


The past cold winter does not seem to have much effect 
upon the migration of birds here. 

Feb. 16, bluebirds and robins first seen. Feb. 19, crows 
were seen fiying along the banks of Lake Erie in great num- 
bers. A great many are killed by Cleveland sportsmen as 
they fly over, They seem to be the main topic or conversa- 
tion in the gun stores, probably as the first game of the sea- 
son. Feb, 21, saw four wild geese (Bernicla canadensis) fly- 
ing north. Several flocks reported and a few ducks, 

Of the winter birds noted, which may be of interest to the 
reader, are Song sparrows and brown creeper (C. familiaris). 
A pine grosbeak was brought in by a boy who killed it. with 
astone. It is rare in this vicinity. A few Bohemian wax- 
Wings were herein January. [had the good fortune to take 
a rough-legged hawk (A. lagopus. sanctijohannis) in black 
plumage; color, uniform dark brown. Also a fine pigeon 
hawk (7. columbariws), which is quiterare here. Tufted tif- 
mouse (LZ. Sicolor) is unusually abundant this winter. 


A. Hatt, 
East ROCKPORT. 


The first robin appeared here on the 15th of this month, 
and the bluebirds arrived on the scene the next day, This 
is at least a month earlier than they generally come into this 
cold part of the State. N 

WATERVILLE, N. Y., February. 


Evyentxe GrospeaKs in Iows.—Saturday morning, Feb. 
8, Mr. J. Painlivn, of this place, discovered a flock of un- 
usual and very handsome birds feeding on the seeds of some 
hox-alder trees that grew near his house. His attention was 
drawn to them by the very musical twittering and chattering 
that they incessantly kept up, and approaching them care- 
fully be was surprised that they manifested no signs of 
alarm, even when he stood directly beneath the tree on which 
they were feeding. Some of the family had seen them there 
the day previous. ‘The following day (Sunday) the family 
were absent, but on Monday the birds were still there, and 
Mr. P. determined, if possible, to secure a specimen or two, 
but in order to do this he was obliged to drive them some 
little distance, as the law forbids any shooting within the corpo- 
ration limits. They flew very swiftly, and, alighting on some 
trees at sufficient distance, he fortunately secured three (one 
male and two females). ‘There were but six in the flock— 
two males and four females. Desiring to have them identi- 
fied, and knowing my interest in such matters, he brought 
them to me, and with the help of ‘‘Coues’ Birds of the 


Northwest” I found them to be the evening grosbeak. 1: 


have never before seen these birds here, and consider my- 
self very fortunate in being enabled to add them to my col- 
lection.—Viotnr $8. WiiitaMs, Coralville, Ia., Feb. 13. 


Tur Foe Rarnnow.—Codsumnes, Cal., Feb. 20.—Hditor 
Forest and Stream: Two of your correspondents have lately 
written of the fog rainbow as a very unusual experience. I 
myself never had seen one when I came to this State, and 
was disposed to doubt that there was such a thing. Here in 
the Sacramento Valley, however, in the winter or rainy 
season, we sometimes have fog for days togather, and I have 
quite a number of times seen the white bow, having no pris- 
matic colors, and on two occasions a bow having all the 
colors of the rainbow; never, however, making a complete 
‘cirele, as spoken of by one of your correspondents.—W. 
L. W. 


Do Burrano Mate Wirn Domestic CartLE?—Some ten 
years ago a gentleman living some miles west of here, while 
ou a hunting excursion in Kansas, purchased and brought 
here with him a buffalo calf. It has been on his premises 
ever since and is now a Jarge fine cow. It has never bred. 
No bull could be induced to mate with it. Is this character- 
istic of thesc animals or have hybrids been produced?—K. 
(Vinton, Iowa). [Hybrids have been produced between the 
buffalo and domestic. cattle. Audubon gives at length ex- 
periments conducted long ago in Kentucky, and we believe 
that there is now, near Winnipeg, a herd of crossbreeds. } 


CoNTRIBUTIONS 10 THE LITERATURE or SNAKES.—We 
have received from Mr. James Simson a pamphlet contain- 
ing a number of interesting letters contributed by him to 
Land and Water at a time when the question, ‘“‘Do snakes 
swallow their young?” was being hotly debated. This ques- 
tion has been decided in the affirmative, which was the side 
taken by Mr. Simson. The letters are charmingly written, 
and show careful study of the subject. 


Orntyx VrreriAnus my ARtzonA.—Mr. J. D. Andrews | 


brought in a pair of genuine Bob White quail, to-day, The 
bird is an extremely rare one in Arizona, The breast plum- 
age of the male is of a darker brown than that of the eastern 
variety, otherwise the general appearance of the bird is much 
the same, although if anything it is smaller in size. Those 
brought in were killed in the Barboquivari range, about 
sixty miles southwest of Tuscon. Onthe Gulf of California 
they are found in great numbers, but the mountains and 
mesas southwest of Tuscon are believed to be their north- 
eastern limit-—Tuscon Weekly Citizen. 


Syow Warre Opossums.—Mr. H. G, Dulog writes from 
the Hot Springs, Ark., concerning two white opossums— 
perfectly white all ever—yet not albinocs, for their eyes 
were not pink, but loekcd dark, even black. The negro 
owner told our correspondent that their eyes were blue, 
“same color as yo’ eyes.” 


TRANSACTIONS OF THE LaNNEAN Soctery.—The second 
volume of the Transactions is in press, and will probably 
appear in May next. : 


Camp Sire Hlickeyings. 


——— ee 


“That reminds me.** 
105. 


MONG the many good stories related in Forest AnD 
: STREAM I think the following deserves a place. It was 
told to me by Mr. George W. Leavitt, the well-known cocker 
spaniel man of Boston, who vouches for its trath: 

“About eight years ago I took a trip to Maine, partly for 
business partly for pleasure, taking with me an English 
setter that had been recommended as a great ruffed grouse 
dog. I was at my old home, Pembroke, and one day ou 
telling my uncle, Mr. Pomeroy, that I was going over to 
Machias on business, he suggested driving me over that I 
might have an opportunity to display the good qualities of 
my dog, and also to get some birds, so off we started with 
dog and guns, and after getting into the woods where the 
birds wére plenty, I turned the dog loose and away he 
bounded, At almost the first jump he routed a brood of 
birds, and dashed through them like a wild calf through a 
flock of turkeys, showing the speed of a lighting express as 
he bounded through the underbrush, and in an instant was 
lost to sight. We had waited five minutes, perhaps, though 
it seemed an hour, when my uncle, with a sly twinkle in his 
eye, said: ‘Nice dog, that, when do you expect him back?’ 

*<QOh, he is a trifle wild now, but will soon settle down to 
close work,’ 

‘We turned back toward the road, thinking the dog might 
swing round that way, and when we came in sight of the 
horse saw the famous setter lying under the wagon. There 
was nothing for me to say, so, maintaining a discreet silence, 
we drove on and soon met two boys, who had nine birds. 
One of them had an antiquated gun of about twenty pounds 
weight and ten feet inlength—the regular grandfather mus- 
ket type—but it was death to the birds, and that was all I 
cared for, as lalways have better luck’ gunning when the 
boys have been out a few hours ahead of me. 

*©*How much will you take for those birds? 

«««They are worth seven cents apiece over at Calais.’ 

‘**Give them the dog for a brace,’ suggested Mr. Pomeroy. 

«<«T will give you fifteen cents apiece for the lot.’ 

‘<All right, youmay have them, and there is another fellow 
ahead of us with some more that you can buy if you want 
to,’ said the boys. 

“We found the other boy, bought his birds, and went on 
our way rejoicing, with seventeen nice, plump partridges. 
We soon reached Macttias, and while I was out on business 
Mr. Pomeroy remained at the hotel. Inthe meantime Mr. 
Morgan, a would-be sportsman from our town, drove up. 
He had with him his two-hundred-dollar gun, explaining that 
he hoped to see some birds on his way over. Mr. Pomeroy, 
bent on mischief, went up to him and said, ‘Did you get any 
birds, Mr. Morgan?’ 

«<“No: Lsaw some, but could not get near enough to shoot 
them.’ 

« “Well, lam sorry,’ said my uncle, ‘but if you had had 
Leayitt’s dog you could have filled your wagon with birds. 
He beats al] the dogs in America. We only hada few min- 
utes on our. way over and got seventeen fine partridges. I 
wish I was a man of means, [ would never allow Leavitt to 
take that dog back to Boston.’ 

“Mr, Morgan sawsthe birds and dog, and was so delighted 
with both that he asked Mr. Pomeroy if he thought the dog 
could be bought at any price. 

‘«*T don’t know; perhaps, as Leavitt has several more, he 
migh be induced to sell this one for a hundred, reserving 
the right to breed to him, also to shoot over him when down 
this way. If you really want the dog I will try to influence 
Leavitt to sell, for I would like to keep the dog in this part 
of the country, he is such a rare one.’ ‘ 

**When I came back my uncle told me of the conversation 
with Morgan. I tried to discourage the scheme; but Mr. 
Pomeroy was bound Morgan should have the dog, so when 
Mr. Morgan came to me I sold the dog and got the money. 
Then came Mr. Pomeroy’s turn to explain the great necessity 
of knowing how to work the dog; he said, ‘You must drive 
slowly until the dog puts his nose in the air, and wags his 
tail, then get out, tie your horse, and you will be sure to 
find the birds somewhere. 

« When you get al] ready, just say charge to the dog and 
he will make a charge for the woods, then you must follow, 
that is one of the secrets of working him successfully, You 
must keep up.’ ” 

2 ‘Flow shail I know that he has a bird?’ asked Mr, Morgan. 

“ Don’t look at the dog but keep an eye on his tail, and 
when it becomes stiff you may be sure he has a bird charmed 
so thoroughly that you could knock it over withastick. No 
bird can move while that dog’s tail is stiff.’ 

“Mr. Morgan felt sure he could work the dog, so started 
early in order to get a few hours’ shooting before dark. Not 
long after we started for home and had driven about eight 
miles when, to our intense surprise, we saw the poor dog ly- 
ing dead by the roadside. We got out to examine him, and 
found he had been shot, so buried him and went our way. 
We soon met our boys of the morning, with a fine lot of 
birds, which we of coursebought. While I was paying ‘for 
them, the boys said, ‘We ought to ask you more for these, 
fer John Morgan offered us twenty cents a piece for thema 
little while ago, but we told him we had sold you seventeen 


in the morning ond shot these for you since, and would not 


go back on you anyhow.’ 
‘I began to tremble, but Mr. Pomeroy laughed and said, 
“What did Morgan say to you then?’ 

“He did not say a word, and I think he must be crazy, 
said one of the boys, for he jemped out of his wagon, tied 
his horse to a tree, grabbed his gun, and shot the dog dead; 
but when I told him it was mean to kill the dog, and I 
wished that Ihad taken him in the morning, when Mr. 
Pomeroy offered him to we for a couple of birds, he roared 
out something about State’s prison, and drove off.’ 

“When we got home, I tried in every way to make Mor- 
gan take his money back, but his grit was thoroughly 
aroused, and he refused to take a single cent. I then set 
things up for the crowd, and we had a jolly good time. 
Morgan at first refused to join us, but finally thought better 
of it, concluding no doubt that there is no loss without some 
small gain,” Mont CLARE. 

CLAREMONT, N, H. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


NEW ENGLAND GAME LAWS. 


OBS bill to amend the Massachusetts law is now with the 

Committee on Agriculture: , 

The question of putting the power 1o license taxidermists 
in Massachusetts into the hands of the game commissioners, 
has, by common consent, been attached to the question of 
uniform game laws, and the committee on agriculture are 
evidently pleased with the idea, The destruction of song 
and insectivorous birds for their skins has become a serious 
question in the minds of the more intelligent of the agricul 
tural community. It has been noticed with alarm that the 
annual return of certain of the best of New England song birds 
is beginning to be looked for in vain in many sections of Massa- 
chusetts, and the numerous taxidermists, with their boy fol- 
lowers, are likely to be held responsible for the loss of these 
charms of country life, 

At the hearing it appeared that the inhabitants of the deer 
section on Cape Cod desire no change in the deer law from 
that making a perpetual close time, asenacted two years ago. 
Concerning this matter the friends of a uniform code of game 
laws were not strenuous, and accordingly no change in re- 
gard to the deer law in that direction will be asked for. The 
decr in the State are all confined to a narrow strip on Cape 
Cod, and any part of an open season would, it is believed, 
at present result in their utter extermination. The dwellers 
on the Cape desire that the close time be retained absolute 
till such time as the deer shall have inercased sufficiently, 
when they will come to the Legislature and ask for an open 
season. - . 

Several riders are likely to be proposed along with the 
uniform game law bill. One came up before the Committee 
on Agriculture. It proposes that any owner of Jands or a 
park under twenty-five acres in extent, shall be protected 
by law in Massachusetts from the encroachment of gunners 
on such lands, provided he shall sufficiently post such Jand 
with notices forbidding such trespass. The friends of fish 
and game protection will not oppose such legislation, for 
they belicve in respecting the rights of land-holders, and 
that by such means the former can be more thoroughly 
linked with the protection of game. The right would thus 
be given him to protect the game on his own land. The old 
proposition to give the farmers’ boys the right to snare and 
sell partridges and quail out of season was, of course, in- 
troduced, and the attempt to tack it on as a rider will be 
made, but probably without success, M. 

Boston, Mass., March 3. 


OUR DETROIT LEDRTER, 


UST at present the recently organized Michigan Gun 
A} Club and Game Protective Society could accomplish a 
deal of good by stopping the illegal sale of quail by dealers, 
and the serving of the same in hotels and restaurants in 
Metroit, It is said that they are sold daily by a Woodward 
avenue dealer, while nearly every restaurant in town will 
serve them at a moment’s notice. 

Tt would surprise a certain surly, fault-finding chop-house 
keeper that | knuw of, very much indeed to be pulled up 
with around turn. Indeed, it makes me shudder to imagine 
his apoplectic wrath were he called to account. For, being 
an Englishmen ot that unhappy class who belittle this coun- 
trv and its inhabitants, albeit they depend on both for sub- 
sistence, he would surely nearly explode with rage if called 
to account for purchasing quail out of season, And several 
persons J know of would enjoy the scene. For our chop- 
house keeper denounces America and things American with 
the utmost impartiality, and only a few monthssince bitterly 
berated the sportsmen of this blasted country as a set of law- 
less, ruthless slaughterers of game, “hand werry much 
beneath hour Henglish gents who ’ave fine feelinks, hand 
hin hevery land carefully protect the game, hand respect 
the Jaws.” When he delivered that special tirade against 
his adopted land and people, a bystander ventured to sug- 
gest that pheasant shooting in England, as so often de- 
seribed, was not very pretty sport; and also called his at- 
tention to the wanton slaugater of game by Englishmen 
upon our Western prairies, whereupon our chop-house 
keeper became purpleand speechless with anger. 

By uo means let it be inferred that Tam unfriendly 10 our 
English cousins, for I am not. On the contrary, some En- 
glish and Irishégentlemen with whom I have shot, fished, 
and coursed, are among my warmest friends. And the 
country of Thackeray, ea Goldsmith, Ruskin, and other 
favorite writers is very dear to me. , 

But confound low ited person, be he Yankee, English 
man or Irishman, who, ina foreign country, continually 
berates and belittles the people upon whom he depends for 
ubsistence. - : .. 

i The gun club referred to above held their first regular 
shoot upon Washington’s Birthday. The weather was hor- 
rible, snow, rain, and wind each striving for the mastery, 
but as will be seen from the score, the attendance was large. 
The club will, from appearances, be a success as a gun club; 
it remains to be seen how it will devon as a game protect- 
ive society. leh as an association, 0 valuable service 
to the good ca ne for ae individuals dread making com- 
jlaints against Jaw-breakers. oe sz 
: A Weck. aide the ducks began dropping in the Detroit 
River, but the culd snap came, and now all is ice again. — 


Detroit sportsmen will be glad to learn that Mr, A. O. 8. 
| Havens Badeeuned the fine Bane No, 72 Woodard avenue, 


and will open it about March 1, with a. fine line of guns, 
and will open, etc, Mr, Havens has made himself very 
popular indeed during his residence in Detroit, and in his 
‘new location, which is a fine one, he will no doubt do a large 
business. Dera. 

Derrrorr, Feb, 23. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 

Tn an editorial note Feb. 21 you truly say that the com- 
parison of muzzicloaders and the breechloaders is @ dead 
issue, but a comparison of the shooting qualities of the two 
guns will certainly bring about just the discussion you sug- 
gest—‘the relation of experiments and tests in, loading to 
secure pattern and penetration.” } ; 

My experience in hunting, shooting and experimenting 
‘yuns back for thirty-five years. It has been with all kinds 
of guns, from*the old Continental flint-lock musket to the 
ibest breechloaders of the day. Inow own three breechload- 

_-ers made by myself for the especial purpose of experiment- 
ing, One is a single barrel 3-bore, weight 11 pounds, in 
“which I use one-inch Gatling-cun brass shells; no paper sheil 
large enough are made, One isa single 10-bore, 14 pounds, 
and the third a 20-bore, 11 pounds. 1 design conducting a 
series of experiments some time this spring and will give 
you the results. With all my practical experience I do not 
‘chim to be authority, but what I have to say aremy own 
‘convictions, based on the results of many practical tests, 
‘and simply give them as such. d 
The old sayirg ‘as straight as a gun barrel” certainly had 
no reference to very many of our modern double breech- 
Joaders, for not one in ten has straight barrels: I refer to the 
‘inside bore. This is especially true as to the cheaper grades, 
«and Lam sorry to say that many of the better grades have the 
same fault. Im erderto get the required strength for the 
breech action as well as to stand heavy charges, breechloading 
Ibarrels must be very heavy at the breech end. This necesst- 
itates considerable taper in the barrels, or the guns would be 
wery heavy, Nearly all the taper is in the first half of the 
ibarrels from the breech end. Yery much of the beauty of a 
un depends on the graceful sheer given to the taper. In 
joining at the factory the barrels are sprung together in the 
«center, in order to have tbe ribs fit properly, as well as to 
_ give the gun a’ graceful appearance, hence the bore of the 
barrels are not straight. 
of the muzzle ends are practically straight, and parallel with 
the line of sight. It often occurs in the cheaper grades that 
the barrels are sprung so much in the center that the muzzle 
ends diverge to the right and left. Insuch guns the right 
Darrel shoots to the right and the left one to the left. Guns 
with the barrels tapered down very thin at the muzzle, as a 
general rule, are better shooters than those with thick ones. 
A majority of chokebored guns are too heayy.at the muzzle, 
which accounts for their grouping the shot in bunches and 
jeaving many bare spots in the targets. In very thin guns 
there is a certain amount of expansion and elasticity, which 
has. the effect 10 overcome the tendency to group the shot, 
hence give quite an even distribution. 

It-can be put down as an axiom’ that guns haying the 
straightest barrels, other things being equal, will give the 
best results. : 

The next consideration that has much to do with the good 
and bad shooting is the quality and quantity of the ammu- 
nition. There can be no denying the fact that a good quality 
of ammunition is better than a poor quality; but as to quan- 
tity, opinions differ greatly, From some unaccountable 
cause, there appears to be a general opinion that breechload- 
ers require very much more powder than the old-styled 
muzzleloaders, when as a matter of fact guns properly 
chambered and properly charged require less. In well-con- 
structed breechloaders there are absolutely no escaping gases 
unless the plunger cuts through the primer. In muzzle- 
loaders it quite often occurs that sufficient gas escapes at the 
nipples to throw the hammers back to a full cock. In guns 

-of ordinary weight, 8 pounds to 84 pounds, I would not ad- 
yise 5 drams of powder to 14 ounces shot, nor would I think 
‘of 1 dram of powder to 18 buckshot. The proportion of 
powder to shot that gives the best general results will be 
found to be 3 drams of powder to 1 ounce of shot. On 
page 546 of “Haswell” will be found proportions of powder 
‘to shot for the following numbers of shot, as determined by 
experiment: =: ; 


Shot. | Powder, Shot, Le een . Shot, | Powder, 
No. OZ. drams, ||No.| oz, | drams, |No. Oz. udrams. 
ded | 25) | a les | wg || 6 | 1,25 238 
—~ 
3 1.75 | 1.625 5| 1.873 | 4 | 7) 1.125 25g 
vi | 


Nore,—2 ounces of No. 2 shot with 1.5 drams of powder produced 
the greatest effect. The increase of powder for the greater number 
a pellets is in consequence of the increased friction of their projec- 

With American engineers Haswell is good authority. How 
few men from actual knowledge could dispute the results as 
he has given them; I could not do it for 1 have: never experi- 
mented with 2 ounces of shot to 13 dramsof powder. Ogee- 
cher’s 1 dram of powder to 13 buck shot is about according 
to Haswell. Killing a buck at the distance of 120 yards with 
such a charge caps the climax. Put me down as a little 
skeptical. Whoever sticks to the proportion of 3 drams of 
powser to 1 ounce of shot will be satistied with the results. 

Now, in regard to wads. Nearly all guns, by actual 
measurement, are from one to two gauges smaller than they 
are called, Many chokebore 10s will gauge but 12 at the 
muzzle, As a general rule, for No. 10 brass shells No. 8 
wads are used; for a paper shell, a wud of the same nuiaber 
as the shell. There is also a general opinion that brass shells 
will give better results than paper shells; but all of my ex- 
periments have proyen the contrary. Pauper shells, Joaded 
with wads same number as shell, and not crimped, will give 
better results than brass shells loaded with wads two sizes 
larger than shell, Firm, elastic felt wads are best. The ad- 
vantage of two wads on the powder is so very little that I 
have never been able to discover it. 

More of the good or bad results of shooting depend on the 

qanner of loading than most shooters are willing to admit. 

The ordinary way of loading is to use for brass shells wads 
two or three sizes larger than the gun. The large wads are 
with some difficulty forced down on to the powder with a 
close-fitting loading plug, that has either a perfectly flat or a 
-coneaye’end. The inside of brass shells that have been used 
“are very rough, a kind of sandpaper surface. The friction 
inte arge V eat that the force of the discharge 


ete is so great 


“center of the weds forward, aud when the 
tie 


However, twelve to fifteen inches. 


-| 000 pellets. 


a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


wads reach the smaller or true caliber of the gun at the end 
‘of the chamber, they will bulge still more in the center— 
the worst possible condition for good results. The shot 
will be projected in a circle, and the center of the target will 
have few, if any, shot in it. The crimping of paper shells 
has the same effect, but in a much less degree, inasmuch as 


the wads are smaller. 


To remedy this defect in loading, use a loading plug witha 
convex or cone-shaped end, and for a No. 10 brass shell use a 
No. 9 or 10 wad on the powder. The wad should be firmly 
rammed on the powder and lightly on the shot. If two wads 
are used on powder they should be each rammed separately. 
The wads will be seated on the powder cup in the best possible 
shape for good results in shooting and will be less likely to 
start from the recoil or rough handling. 1 once made a very 
poor shooting muzzleloader a very good one by changing the 
shape of the butt end of the ramrod. The fault of the gun 
was that it distributed the shot in a ring. The center of the 
target fora foot in diameter would be almost entirely free from 
shot. The butt end of the ramrod was very much concaved,and 
at that time I used very large wads. I reversed the shape of 
the end of the rod, made it very much conyex or cone-shaped. 
By using this rod the gun was made an excellent shooter, in 
fact it acquired such a reputation that I sold it for more than 
first cost, after using it for six years. 

I have ove more experimentel way of loading, which I 
hope all glass-ball shooters, who think two wads are a neces- 
sity, will try. Load a few shells without any wad between 


the powder and shot. Use a flat-ended loading plug. Ram 
the naked powder quite hard; then putin the shot. On-the 


shot pul one good felt wad. Try this fon glass balls, from 
any kind of a trap at the regular distance. Now don’t say’ 
that charges loaded in this way will not break glass balls 
until you have tried them. In my experiments I used No. 9 
shot. 

Over-charges of powder are a detriment to the good shoot- 
ing of any gun, Shot discharged from the muzzle of a gun 
is very Similar to water discharged froma hose nozzle, A 
hose nozzle to throw a solid stream to any great distance 
must be chokebored, very similar to a chokebored gun. 
There is a limit to the distance that water can be projected 
by pressure through a nozzle, and an increased pressure at 
that limit will reduce the effective distance. There is cer- 
tainly a limit to the effective distance of the best shotguns; 
and over-charges of powder will reduce the effective distance 
from the same cause that an over-pressure will reduce the 
distance to which water can be thrown. 

Heavy or over-charges cause heavy recoil, which is not 
only unpleasant to the shooter, but detrimental to good 
shooting. The force of the recoil backward is at the ex- 
pense of the force of the discharge forward. This fact is 
very easily demonstrated. ‘Take a gun that weighs 8 to 8} 
pounds; have the shells loaded with 5 drams of powder and 
14 ounces shot. Let some small man, who weighs about 
140 pounds and who has more pluck than muscle, fire a few 
of the shells at a target 40 yards. Then have a large, mus- 
cular man, of 210 pounds weight, shoot the same gun with 
similar charge. The results will be found very different. 
The heavy, muscular man by his weight and muscle will 
hold the gun square to the work, and put all the force of the 
discharge on the projected shot. The small man, if quite 
active, will-keep on his feet, but when he examines his tar- 
set will find it just as much poorer as the gun kicked him 
harder than it did the’ heayy man. There can be a certain 
amount of recoil that is not unpleasant, but rather a satis- 
faction; charges just up to that point will be found very 
effective. Charges would vary according to the weight of 
the gun, as well as the weight and muscle of the shooter. 

I hope good may result by afull discussion of this ‘sub- 
ject. CALIFORNIA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

One is not a liftle surprised at the shooting of some guns, 
and yet when all things are taken into coasideration there is 
nothing wonderful about the targets presented for our in- 
spection; for all, or nearly ull, omit to state whether they 
are made with ‘‘standard” or ‘‘trap shot.” Then they say 
12 ounces, leaving the reader to guess how many shot 
that means. A Bridgeport measure gave 556 pellets by 
actual count, while a Jas. Dixon & Sons’ measure showed 
566 peliets of No. S standard shot, Tatham’s make; while by 
actual count, according to their table, there ought to be only 
Then again, the distances that are given must 
be guessed at and not measured. English gunmakers all 
adopt a uniform distance and a uniform target, while our 
American makers do not appear to have either. Some shoot 
at 45 yards, 24-mmch circle, and some at 40 yards, 30-inch 
circle. Not long since I wasin a testing gallery where a 
man was shooting guns, and I asked him the distance. 
“Well, we call it 87 yards, but it is just 380 yards, and we 
use a 24-inch circle.” At another time while in a testing 
gallery I noticed shot marks all along the side where the 
pellets had struck on their way toward the target; and any 
one can guess where the pellets had landed or boarded; viz., 
in thé target, and when I was shown a target with 466 
pellets I did not wonder so much as before I saw how and 
where these patterns were made. Only wondered they did 
not get more. 

Greener advertises that every one of his guns ale targeted 
with 14 ounces No, 6 English shot that are counted, and that 
the istance is 40 yards. Not long since I was shown a ‘‘shot 
counter,” devised by M. E. Curd, of Cazenovia, N. Y., that 
will actually count the exact number of pellets in a charge, 
and do it very nearly as quickly as they can be measured. 
When asked why this was not used, the answer was: ‘‘This 
is t¢co accurate for the ¢unmakers, they want to dip up a 
measureful, well knowing that it gives them a decided ad- 
vantage.” A few days ago I saw a letter from a man who 
wanted a gun sent him that would put in a 80-inch cirele, at 
40 yards, 477 out of an actual 499, all but 22 of the entire 
charge. J fear this man had been reading some of these 
wonderful targets which are only made in a paper. 

Why can’t we have a uniform distance and a uniform 
target, and as 40 yards and a 30-inch circle is used by all 
English and a good many American makers, let us adopt 
that. Measure the distance and count the shot, and as No. 
8 is the size generally used in America, adopt that, then one 
can tell exactly what his gun will do and can make a com- 
parison. 

Another thing, a man writes to you and wants to know 
the proper charge to use and what the result ought to be, 
and you write that it takesa good deal of experimenting to 
know what a gun will do. Now, right here, I claim that 
this is the gunmaker’s business to determine, and that he has 
no business (be he who he may) to allow a guu to go out of 

is shop until he knows exactly what the gun will do, and 


the exact charge to use in it; and if the distance, shot and 


target were uniform he could bore the gun soit would do 
what it should, and compare favorably with any other gun. 
Regularity as well as closeness is what is wanted, and if a 
thirty-inch cirele is adopted it gives a larger space and will 
compel the makers to bore their guns for regularity, as well 
as to secure a close pattern, and this is what every sportsman 
wants, A gun with a killing circle of thirty inches at forty 
yards is better for all kinds of shooting than one that only 
has a killing circle of twenty inches at same distance. 

Tell your correspondent Oct.” that if bis gun will aver- 
age 440 out of a counted charge of 500, I will give him five 
times as much as he paid for his gun, 

These long shots prove nothing—only show what a gun 
may do once ina while. I once owned a 10-bore, 8-pound 
12-onnce gun, 24-ineh barrels (breechloader) with which 1 
killed two woodcock, one at 60 and the other at 61 yards, 
with 3idrams powderand 14 No. 10 shot, by measure, I 
also killed a grouse with 3%drams powder and 14 No. 8 
standard shot at 65 yards. These distances were all meas- 
ured. How many times I failed, would not care to state. 

Muzzleloaders, they are, as you state, things of the past. 
A. man here owns one that will kill a dove at 20 rods every 
time, and yet I can never get him to shoot at a target with 
me; and not long ago he offered to sell this gun. I cannot 
imagine his reason for wishing to dispose of so valuable a 
gun, for if ever your humble strvant gets one that will shoot 
as this one is said to do, it will take quite a goodly sum to 
purchase it. HAMMERLESS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have a 12 gauge, of § pounds weight, that I use for all 
kinds of shooti.g except geese, The barrels are choked and 
are 30 Inches in length. I load with 4 drams powder and 
1 ouvece shot. I never vary from this quantity. Lhave ex- 
perimented a good deal and find this to give the best results, 
especially on ducks, which are the principal game of this 
region. [am pretty sure of ducks at 10 to 35 yards, and I 
often kill them at 40 yards. For geese it is tuo light, but 
for other kinds of game it suits me better than a 10-cauge, 
as it is lighter, und as I am not blessed with an extra amount 
of muscle I find the lighter gun preferable after a hard 
day’s tramp. I use metallic shells. I think them better, but 
not so handy as paper, which you can throw away after 
using. I carried this arm with me to the Pacific coast last 
winter and could always rely on it. I hope this question of 
shotguns will be as well ventilated as the articles on ‘‘The 
Choice of Hunting Rifles,” now appearing in your excellent 
paper. Ws tia He 

Iowa. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

I believe the simple but uncompromising principle called 
‘inertia’ is responsible for all the difference in straight bores. 
The fault is not in the gun, but tle shell and primer. All 
unprejudiced men will agree that could the breechloader be 
made to conform to the most approved muzzleloader as re- 
spects practically uniform gauge throughout, a conical base 
for the powder, and the slow ignition of the charge, begin- 
ning at the extreme rear, there should be no difference pro- 
vided the breechloader were strongly constructed and 
chambered to fit the shell snugly. 

I think if the manufacturers would make some of their 
brass shells with conical base, and put the least possible 
amount of fulmimate in the center of primers, the improve- 
ment in shooting would more than counterbalance the in- 
crease in weight of shells. I put conical bases in my brass 
shells several years since, and the improvement in shoot- 
ing and decrease in recoil are very evident. I can use 
5-drams electric powder with 13 ounces shot in my ¥-pound 
gunecontinually without discomfort. 

The flame of the primer is driven through the charge, 
igniting it instantxneously. Hence the increased recoil (to the 
serious detriment of the ‘‘vis imertia” of the gun) and the 
necessity for more and coarser powd:r and wider breeches, 
SEES is enough energy in a large Berdan primer to shoot a 
rifle. 

In muzzleloaders only a small portion of flame can be 
forced into the tube, the charge is ignited at extreme rear of 
the cone-shaped chamber and the shot sturted gradually, and 
urged on with constantly augmented force tu the muzzle. 
The Lyman-Haskell cannon on the multi-charge plan ilius- 
trates this. ; 

I have observed (in targeting cbokebore guns for custom- 
ers) that the excessive choke, by cuntraction in muzzle, 
adopted by many leading makers, unfits the gun for large 
shot by reason of jamming tiiem so that they fly ‘‘wild;” 
also that it increases the recoil, impairs the penetration, aad 
gathers powder, dirt and lead in the tapered portion. 


REFORM, 
Missouri. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

For a man who wants a general service gun, for field, 
cover and trap shooting, a orecchloading gun of 8 pounds to 
9 pounds weight, 30-inch barrels and 10-gauge, is the proper 
tool. It wiilanswer for snipe, grouse,-rabbits, foxes, ducks 
and deer if loaded with buckshot. However, a No. 12 “auge 
is serviceable enough, the odds against it being merely that 
it will not stand so heavy a charge asa 10-guuge; and of 
course will not bag the game shot at as often or as easily as 
the other for ducks and fox shooting. I use a 10-bore, 32- 
inch barrel, 94 pounds. 

Correct londing can only be acquired by careful observa- 
tion and practice. Some persons will say, and quite truly, 
that all guns of the same bore do not call for the same 
ammount of ammunition. There are exceptions to the gen- 
eral rule; load them to suit their peculiarities. Very light 
guns with large bores may not shoot pleasantly, because of 
too much recoil. Load them with a coarser-grained powder 
and you may find it to your advantage; if not, you will have 
to reduce your charge, but at the expense of loss in penetra- 
tion and wounded game. Very diverse results with good 
guns may be brought about by having the powder charge dis- 
propertionate to the shet, or by using very coarse and very fine 
powder; also, very coarse and very fine shot, by employing 
more or less wads, varying in diameter and thickness, and 
setting them home with different pressure or by ramming, 
or by mixing shot of different sizes, which is the worst of 
all if you wish for good pattern and penetration. If all these 
items control the shooting, does it not follow that to load a 
gun accurately for all purposes requires many experiments 
and good judgment ard great skill. 

I see by your issue of Jan. 24 that “Backwoods” considers 
chokebormg an abomination. 1 cannot agree with him on 
that point. There are hut few choice guns made in this 
country or abroad which may not be called chokebures, for 
the calibers of the barrels are smaller at the muzzle than at 
the breech, If any person doubts this statement let. him 


106 


apply the calipers to the Parker, Bonehill, Remington, Scott, 
reener and other guns. Iam inclined to think that many 
sportsmen, who have guns of recent make and good shooters, 
and who call their guns straight-bores, would find them to be 
on close inspection chokebores; and, in my opinion, the 
chokebore properly loaded for long-range is far superior to 
the straight-bore muzzle or breechloader. This is not only 
an opinion, but experience from severe tests. Keep the ball 
a-rolling, we are never too old to learn. L. H. H. 
MAINE, 


liditor Forest and Stream: 

I am the owner of two fine breechloaders, and believe 1 
know something abeut them. One of my guns is a 12-80-74 
English make. It answered every purpose while I was a 
resident of the South, but after coming to this country I 
found it too light for game here, which has to be struck a 
little harder, and the light weight of the gun would not ad- 
mit of heavy charges. { then ordered a gun of an American 
firm as follows: Length, 30; gauge, 12; weight, 9 pounds; 
full choke and chambered for three-inch shell. I was ad- 
vised by many, and especially by ashigh an authority as the 
FormsT AND STREAM, to get a 10-gauage if I wanted to shoot 
heavy. charges, but right there my inborn stubbornness made 
me stick tomy original idea. In due time the gun was re- 
ceived. It was athing of beauty. For swans, geese, snow 
geese and ducks, I use 5 ounces Laflin & Rand,No, 6 and 14 
ounces shot, and the game must be over sixty-five yards or I 
will bring itto bag three times out of five. For ruffed 
sharptail, bluc grouse and teal, I use 8 ounces powder and 
1 ounce shot, and can kill far enough to satisfy any one. It 
shoots as well with 2 as with 3-inch shell, but 1 have to use 
3-inch: shell for heavy charges. Recoil can scarcely be 
noticed, especially in wing-shooting, I have never targeted 
my gun, neither do I intend to. I know what it will doon 
game, and do not fancy firing ata board. I made a shot at 
a swan which fell dead without a flutter at sixty-five paces, 
and as it must have been 100 feet high when struck, the dis- 
tance can be easily calculated. I made this shot with 5 drams 
powder and 14 ounces No. 1 shot. One shot went through 
the head and four through the body, 

I once had the pleasure of shooting a Purdy gun which 
cost its owner over $600, and as far as shooting qualities are 
concerned I would not exchange with him. If ‘‘Buckeye” 
will address me as below I will tell him where to spend his 
meney, so that he will never regret it. 

BITTER Root Bru. 
Missouua, M. T.,’ Feb. 16, 1884. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

In regard to the performance of shotguns, perhaps my 
experience during past two years will explain why some 
breechloaders do not come up to the expectations of their 
owners. About two years ago I purchased a 12-84-30, modi- 
fied and full choke respectively. This gun worked admir- 
ably for pigeons at 30 yards rise, but for field work was very 
unsatisfactory. lt took a full season’s experience in the 
field with various combinations of shot and powder to con- 
vince me that for cover shooting close-choke would not do. 
Since then J have been using a 12-72-80, open and modified 
choke respectively, with much more satisfactory pssuliee 

ADS TCH 


PHILADELPHIA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

Not being a gunsmith, but having sufficient knowledge of 
the business to enable me to do my own repairing, I desire 
to add my testimony with regard to pattern at various dis- 
tances. My gun is a 30-inch, 12-gauge breechloader. With 
13 ounces of No. 8 shot, at a distance of 83 yards, 185 pel- 
lets were put into a 12-inch circle; with the same charge, at 
a distance of 40 yards, I put 280 pellets into a 20-inch circle. 
The distance was measured and shot weighed in each in- 
stance. Can this be excelled, and if so, in per St Ty) 

in Jelk ds 


RusHFORD, N. Y. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Have any of your readers experimented to determine the 
values of different lengths for gun barrels? What practical 
(not theoretical) advantage has a 82-inch barrel over a 28- 
inch barrel? And waat are the limits of length and brevity? 
I hope that this note, which I write because I am in need of 
the mformation, will meet the eye of some one who can 
help me. SENEX SEPTIMUS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

My friend Dr. R. has, for the past twenty-five years, used 
a No. J0 bore, double-barreled muzzleloader, which has 
been regarded by judges as a No. 1 shooter. When breech- 
loaders came into use he and J made a number of tests be- 
tween his old gun and various makes of the new pattern, 
and in every case the comparison was in favor of the muz- 
zleloader. The breechlouder, however, usually did closer 
shooting but Jacked force. This was particularly noticeable 
when a less than No, 10 gauge was used. 

Great improvement has been made in the shooting quality 
of the breechloader within the past few years, and we have 
made but one recent test and that was decidedly in favor of 
the breechloader. My friend was induced to exchange his 
old gun for a fine-looxing breechloader of the same bore, 
but after giving it a trial he longed for his old stand-by and 
went back and purchased it. He then tested the two guns 
duck shooting on the Potomac, and finally admitted that his 
new gun would shoot both stronger and closer. He objected 
to it, however, because of its kicking qualities, sold it to 
me, and is now looking for a good breechloader that ‘‘won’t 
kick.” My gun is No. 10 bore, 32-inch barrel, weighs 94 
pounds. Since T have been using it I have compared it with 
eight or ten muzzleloader guns at a target 40 yards distant, 
and I succeeded in putting twice as many shot within a de- 
scribed circle as any one of the muzzleloader pieces, For 
general shooting it is hard to beat, and I would advise 
“Buckeye” to precure a No. 10 gun, for I am quite sure it 
will give him greater satisfaction than No. 12. It has always 
seemed to me that the criticisms and condemnation of the 
breechloader were in a measure prompted by a degree of 
prejudice. Our old sportsmen have beceme attached to 
their tried and faithful fowling pieces, and no doubt this 
attachment does at times influence their opinions, 

Keystone. 
Wasninaton D, C. 


Massacnuserrs.— Danvers.—Quail and partridge wintered 
very good here, although it has been very cold for them. 
Foxes and rabbits have been very scarce around here this 
season.—J. F, D, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


MUCILAGE-EDGED WADS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


My attention has just been called to an article on muci- 
Jage-edged wads, which appeared in your last issue. The 
only paten ted adhesive wad known to me is one patented by 
myself, which I have subjected to severe tests for two sea- 
sons, and now, as improved, I believe it to be cheaper and 
far superior to any shot-retaining wad on the market; and 
ati au retain the charge quite as well ina brass as in a paper 
shell, ‘ 

1 herewith inclose a sample and asketch showing its ap- 
plication: First, a thin disc or wad, A.-is seated over the 


shot, The wad B, scored one-half its depth to allow for 
bending up, is now dropped into position, the scored surface 
downward, after first wetting it with the tongue or a sponge. 
You will observe now that if seated with an ordinary ram- 
mer the gum will adhere to the walls of the shell at the 
points desired, and the two halves act as a brace, holding 
the charge securely in place. The two cut out spaces act as 
very important factors, as without them the wad would not 
drop freely into the shell, consequently the gum would rub 
off, when it would be of no use; hence we use a thin disc 
first on which to seat, and this prevents the shot from falling 
through the spaces. The fault with the process named by 
your Baltimore correspondent is, it has too many “‘frills,” 
more, in fact, than crimping, while this of mine has none 
and cannot be excelled for, cheapness, simplicity and general 
excellence. FALCON. 


CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


Now that the ammunition question is being rapidly set- 
tled, will not some of your correspondents give us their ideas 
as to the best shape forthe butt-plate of a hunting rifle. My 
own preference is the one used on the Springfield army rifle, 


GREENHORN, 
New YorE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I noticed in your issue of Feb. 21 an article written by “G. 
F. W.” on a subject which I have been studying some time; 
that is, the manner of igniting gunpowder so as to burn the 
whole of it, thereby gaining the full force of the charge, 

I have a few shells of different sizes that I altered by in- 
serting a small tube inside so as to conduct the fire from 
primer to the forward end of powder, which I find answers 
the purpose exactly. I sent a diagram of it to the Winches- 
ter Arms Company, and they said it was an old invention 
and discarded long ago, J think if “G. F. W.” will try this 
he will be satisfied; in fact, I don’t sée why the shell makers 
have not tried it before, as it seems to be the only Neues way 
of igniting the charge. J. L. DeH, 

MASSACHUSETTS. 


TENNESSEE NOTES. 


ane shooting season of 1883-4 has proved almost a fail- 

ure here for lovers of what is termed by some ‘“‘legiti- 
mate sport.” The rains of November and December, and 
the heavy snows and floods of January, have kept the birds 
in the woods and thickets, where wing-shooting ceases to be 
a pleasure. During the snows large numbers of quail and 
hares were bagged by pot-hunters, and larger numbers of 
the former were trapped. Very few ducks have visited us 
this winter; in tact, this has been the case for two or three 
seasons. Geese have been plentiful, but few have been shot. 
No one here ever shoots over decoys or makes any system- 
atic pursuit of geese, such as are killed being from flocks 
that are accidentally approached by, or come near to, some 
party of duck hunters. At present the river is out of its 
banks, and al! the bottom fields and woodlands are over- 
flowed. This is the pot-hunter’s golden opportunity, as hun- 
dreds of hares and quail can be found upon the mounds and 
stumps in the back water, where they fall easy victims to 
the pot-metal shotgun or antiquated musket. The game law 
is not in force in this county, public sentiment here being 
almost unanimous in its opposition to legislative protection 
for game, 

A tew foxes and otters, several beavers, and multitudes of 
raccoons have been trapped here this winter. There are 
partics here who make good wages trapping, as minks and 
7coons are very abundant. There were a few snipe here this 
fall, and three were killed withio the town limits on the 5th 
of January. ; 

This is later (or earlier) for snipe in this latitude than I 
can recollect observing before. I think if the waters sub- 
side before the middle of March we may have good snipe 
shooting on the muddy flats left by the receding pai ait . 

Ih. 


SAVANNAH, Tenn., Feb, 11. 


THE SQUIBOB BEAR MACHINE. 
Fidiior Forest and Stream: 

I cannot tell you how glad I am to hear of my old friend, 
J. B. Squibob, through your correspondent, ‘‘Moss Back.” 
So he is about to bring out his bear-trapping device with 
which he was experimenting when I Jast saw him, long and 
long ago. , 1 

1 wonder if he would forgive my telling the result of one 
experiment. Jf you think he would not, pray keep if to 
yourself, and publish it not in Gotham nor tell it in the 
streets of Chicago. 

J. B, 8. had stuck up his ground and greased his tree, and 
had just set his bait when he ‘‘lost his holt” and came sliding 
down ‘‘on the run,” as we Horse Marines say, and that part 
of him which was best acquainted with a chair stuck fast in 
the lime of his own setting. It could not be said of him 
that he was ‘hoist with his own petard,” but rather, bad sat, 
down upon it, and it would rot hoist him, norcould he hoist 
himself. This, however, was but little compared with what 
followed. A bear scented the bait and came rushing to and 


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up the tree for it, Half way up his claws slipping, he 
came down plump on top of my friend J. B. S, with the 
ponderosity of one of Richard Grant White’s jokes, and the 
days of poor Squibob would have been then and there ended 
had I not been at hand to finish the bear with my hunting 
knife, and with it cut my friend loose, whe escaped with no 
greater loss than some wind squeezed out of him and the 
seat of his leathern breeks. 

Lam truly glad to know that he still lives and is as fertile 
of inventions as ever, whereof I was always barren. If any 
of these words come to his sight I hope to hear again from 
my old friend. Yours in the cause of truth, 


MaJor JosppH Verrry, U. 8. H. M. 
ADTRONDA, Feb, 30, 


Aw OLp Hunrur,—Riverhead, N. Y. Feb. 26.—The Lon 
Island Hunters’ Association gave a dinner in Terrace Ha 
this afternoon. More than 200 hunters of all ages were pres- 
ent from all parts of the island. Dozens of hunting dogs 
By about under the tables, and guns leaned in every corner. 
The old hunters told marvelous stories of the number of 
deer and foxes they had shot, and the younger ones wished 
that rugged experience had enabled them to tell such stories 
with equal grace and confidence, The Association was or- 
ganized fifty years ago for the purpose of protecting the 
Long Island deer, which were already fast disappearing. 
Twelve men got together, made a clearing in the midst of a 
thick.wood, and planted it with green truck of all kinds. 
This was done to attract the deer, It was also agreed never 
to shoot them in that vicinity. The deer at first accumulated 
rapidly in that section of the island, and their disappearance 
was delayed: This hunter’s garden has been planted regu- 
larly each spring ever since, and at haryest time what the 
deer have noteaten is cut down and plonghed under. The 
planting and harvesting of the crops is made an occasion of 
festivities among the hunters, who accompany their agricul-- 
tural pursuits with picnies and hunting parties twice a year. 
At the last meeting, in October, it was resolved by the Asso- 
ciation to present an appropriate silver medal to Mr. Wells 
Tuttle, the president and founder of the Association. Mr. 
Tuttle is now nearly 90 years old, and is the only survivor of 
the twelve deer apostles, us they were called, The object of 
yesterday’s meeting and banduet was the formal presentation 
of the medal. Mr. Tuttle, in spite of his years, told more 
remarkable fox stories than any one else, and indulged 
heartily in clam chowder and other good things provided. 
He sat in a large rocking chair on a raised platform, the 
background of which was decorated with old flint-lock rifles 
and stuffed specimens of Long Island birds and _ beasts. 
His eyes sparkled with pleasure, and he applauded many 
of the speakers. The presentation speech was made by 
Judge Thomas Young. The Judge was applauded with 
especial emphasis because it was known that he was utterm 
the sentiments of the aged president. ‘‘Al] that remains of 
the good old time,” said he, ‘is the dog. Nothing can spoil 
him. When I see a lot of dainty boys dressed up in white 
breeches and red coats,mounted on small horses and chasing 
an anise-seed bag across country, I can find no word in the 
English language small enough to express what I think of 
them, How I pity the able dogs that Le press into their 
service. What a pity such superior animals should have to 
keep such company.” Old Mr. Tuttle remarked that he 
could shoot better with his gun than he could with his 
mouth, and asked one of the young hunters to respond to: 
the address for him. Mr. R. M. Bayles, of Hastport, did so. 
The other speakers were Surrogate James H. Tuthill and 
Mr. George F. Stackpole.—Sun. ‘ 


Lone Istanp Duck Nerrrmse.—Good Ground, March 1,— 
Editor Forest and Stream: In your last issue in reply to my 
notice that ducks were being caught in nets, you advised me 
to notify the game protector. ‘Now, this thing has been 
going on for years, and I have been informed by reliable 
parties, who reside in the vicinity where the netting is done, 
that the same parties last fall caught in Shinnecock Bay 
over 7,000 ducks. As I said before, the bay is now full of 
ducks, and, of course, the netters being so successful last 
fall, this has brought more netters into the business, and thi 
are now catching from 1,000 to 1,500 ducks at a run, Tf 
the business goes on the birds will soon be all caught up and » 
driven away. Not only are they caught in nets, but they 
are shot nights on their feeding ground. I have notified 
Mr. Whittaker at two different times, and he has paid no 
attention to it; and the netting and night shooting goon. 1 
haye tried to stop it on my own marshes, and succeeded. 
We ought to havea game protector who understands the 
bay, and who is not afraid to go ahead and have the first 
man arrested who is canght. I could name aman who 
would take care of the game in the bay if he could be ap- 
pointed game protector, If this thing is allowed to goon 
eyery man living around the bay willin a short time be 
netting ducks. I think it would be a good thing to have a 
law passed prohibiting the setting of gill nets on the feeding 
grounds of ducks. There is no fish to catch at the time 
ducks are here. I am nearly done with trying to proteet the 
game aloné without the help of any one, not even the game 
protector, who is appointed expressly to take care of the 
game,—Wiriiiam N, LANE. 


Micuregan Depr Sxins.—Boston, Feb. 26, 1684.—Hditor 
Forest and Stream: J haye lately returned from a business 
trip West, and on my way pone during the early part of 
the present month at Detroit, Mich. Whilein the warehouse 
of a merchant there I commented on quite a large-sized pile 
of deer skins, and was informed by the owner that there ‘‘are 
over 3,000 in that pile,” and ‘‘we have already shipped 5,000, 
and shall handle fully 10,000 this season, every one of which 
was taken from deer killed in Michigan.” I suppose this 
wiil be no news to you, but to me it was simply Soe. 
This merchant is not the only one who deals in deer skins in 
Michigan and ships them out of the State, but is probably 
the largest.—A. P. 


Bounty on Foxns.—Waterville, N. Y., Feb, 18,—At a 
meeting of our local sportsmen’s club held last Friday even- 
ing, a resolution was introduced offering a bounty of one 
dollar for each old fox killed by residents of our two adjoin- 
ing towns. After some debate, as the idea was a new one to” 
many of our members, the motion was varried. ‘The plan 
seers to be a good one, as a few old foxes will create more 
havoc among our upland game than all the guns of our — 
sportsmen and market hunters combined, Were ae 
acted upon by all the clubs throughout the States, ik believ 
we should find a noticeable increase in the numb r of | 
game birds,—N. ’ es 


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Deer my Verwonr.—It 
ers that some years ago a party of the citizens of this and 
adjoining towns subscribed a sum of money for the purpose 
of placing a number of deer in the mountains with the view 
of trying to restock the woodlands of the State with these 
valuable and beautiful game animals. The deer at that time 
were protected by a law which expired by limitation in 1880. 


‘The Legislature of that year, however, re-enacted the law and 


_ extended its provisions, the expiration of the new law being” 


‘Nov. 1, 1886. The deer so placed have, it is believed, in- 
creased in such.a manner as to afford good ground for belief 
that the experiment will be successful. Rumors have been 
heard from time to time that deer had been unlawfully 
killed, butno direct evidence has been produced until yes- 
_terday, when a young lad living near Bald Mountain gave 
. J, C. Dunn, one of the gentleman who was most active 
in the enterprise, information which led to the discovery of 
a dead deer, which had evidently been shot by some mis- 
creant who luckily, however, failed to reap the fruit ef his 
infamous act. At the time the deer were turned out a re- 
ward of $50 was offered for information leading to the con- 
yiction of any person who should kill, take or pursue them, 
and this offer is still good and the money will be paid to any 
one who will furnish information upon which the person 
who killed this deer can be convited. Information may be 
given to Mr, J. C. Dunn, M. G. Everts, F. Chaffee, A. F. 
Davis, Geo, H. Cheney, H. W. Cheney, Dr. C. W. Brigham, 
Hon. D. W. Taylor, $. E. Burnham or Wm, Y. W. Ripley. 
The offer of the reward is yet in force, not only as far as it 
concerns this particular animal, but also others who may be 
kilied hereafter—in fact it is a standing offer. ‘Chat all may 
know just what the law is we publish the full text below: 
‘A person who prior to the first day of November, 1886, 
pursues, takes or kills, within this State, a wild deer, or has 
in his possession a wild deer or nny part thereot so taken or 
killed, shall be fined $50, and the possession of the meat or 
-hide, or any part of a wild deer, shall be presumptive 
evidence that the person haying it in his possession is guilty 
of a violation of this section. It shall be lawful to kill a dog 
found pursuing wild deer prior to November, 1886, if such 
dog is killed while in the actual pursuit of deer—Rutland 
(Vt) Herald, Feb. 29. 


More Car.—As cat stories seem to be in order just now, 
“that reminds me” of another cat that was not killed. Some 
years since a handsome maltese cat, having been sentenced 
to death for catching young chickens, 1 was requested to 
ofliciate as her executioner. The instrument of death selected 
was a new repeating rifle, to whose sights I had not become 
accustomed, and which had never yet drawn gore. ‘“To make 
assurance doubly sure,” I tied a rope around pussy’s neck, 
and fastened her to the garden fence; I drew a careful (7) 
bead on her head (distance five yards) and the way pussy 
backed away and stretched the rope, she anticipated her 
fearful doom. Bang!—I saw a blue streak disappearin 
“over the garden wall,” and found that like Alexander of ol 
I had ‘‘cutthe Gordian knot,” not with my trusty sword, but 
with 40 grains of powder and 200 grains of lead. Ina word, 
the rope was shot, the cat was free. To cap the climax, my 
neighbor, ‘‘Old Muzzle Loader,’ had witnessed the scene 
and remarked, ‘‘Didn’t I tell you the trajectory of your new- 
fangled repeater is too high?”—Boxno.inx, 


Rurrep Grovusk Carrurep ALive.—Orwell, Vt., March 
2.—Last week, while two men were chopping, they captured 
a partridge in the wood pile. Tying a string to its legs, they 
hitched it to the fence, where it died during the afternoon, 
haying pounded itself to death. Fox hunting has been good 
this winter, the ae number killed by one hunter being 
sixteen,—W. L, P. 


Connectieut.—The Senate Committee on Agriculture 
have reported adversely on all proposed game law changes. 


Sea and River Sishing. 


DOWELS AND FERRULES. 


Roe his blow at that ancient superstition, the dowel pin, 
Mr. Wells deserves all praise. If the subject had been 
thoroughly discussed, they would have disappeared before 
this. Pwenty years back, Thaddeus Norris—than whom a 
hetter American angler and rod-maker never lived—con- 
demned them unhesitatingly, and statrd that he never used 
them. But there are some points against both them and the 
present style of ferrules, that neither he nor Mr. Wells in his 
aritcle have touched upon. They are the cause of the pres- 
ent article. ; 
First—As Mr, Wells has shown, the greatest points of 
strain (¢.2., 1ransverse strain) are at the juncture of the wood 
with the lower end of the female andupper end of the male 
ferrules. For, as the rod begins bending at the tip, the 
transverse strain is thrown further and further down the rod, 
the strain becoming more longitudinal upon the bent part. 
But as the strain progresses down the rod, it strikes the fer- 
rules; but the ferrules cannot bend, therefore at their 
junction they act as a lever against the wood, and the longer 
they are the greater the strain. Every one can see this, and 
it is therefore plain that those parts of the rod should be 
especially strong. But you will ask, what bearing has this 
upon the dowel pin and tenon? Why, simply this: It is 
evident, to reduce the strain as much as possible, we must 
shorten the fer:ule, and if we shorten the ferrule and retain 
the hole for the dowel, we bore away the wood at the very 
place where we need the most. And there is sfill anothcr 
grave objection. Wood is porous, and by virtue of capillary 
attraction will suck up moisture. This moisture rots and 
weakens the fibers of cellulose tissue, of which the wood is 
composed; thevefore we varnish our rods to keep it out, 
Nuw, woods of all sorts exert their capillary force strongest 
in the line of the grain. That is, wood will drink up moist- 
ure faster when a cross section of the grain is wet than in 
any other way. The reason of this is plain, when we see 
that the interstices of the fibres are really minute capillary 
tubes, which draw the water up. Now, the dowel hole in 
almost all rods has no covering to prevent this; it is impos- 
sible to keep its side well varnished, and the dowel pin 
_ would soon wear it off if we could. So, whenever we get 
‘moisture into the hole, and it is almost impossible to avoid 
this, it acts asa little cup, to retain and draw moisture into 
the pores of the wood, weakening and rotting it at the point 
where we want it strongest.. To rods which have a water- 
proof cup for the dowel pin this objection does not apply, 
the former one does. So far as we know, however, mie 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 
are no wooden rods in the market which have this cup, and 
only one make of split bamboo, and this latter objection 1s 
doubly strong against the latter, because bamboo is not only 
more porous than other woods on its cross section, but there 
is also the glue to be spoiled by the capillary attraction. 
-Secoud—It strengthens the joint, is claimed for it. It 
does no such thing. The leverage in the ferrule itself 1s 
brass against brass, and as Mr. Wells has. shown, even thin 
brass is amply strong. How many ferrules split or collapse 
in comparison with the number of rods that break the wood 
at the junction with the ferrule? 
Third—It is claimed that it holds the joints together, This 
assertion is also false, Look at your own rod, and see which 
shows the most signs of friction, the wooden dowel or the 


brass ferrule. It is evidently the friction of the lip of the 
female ferrule upon the tapered male ferrule that holds 
the joints together. If it were the frictien of the tight- 
fitting dowel, wheh the brass became worn we should have 
to trim the whole thing down, whereas this, practically, 
never happens. The dowel hole is always made too large 
for any friction, to prevent the joints sticking from moisture. 

As the summing up of this article, l would like, with all 
due humility, to submit the following design, which will 
cover the above objections: 

The above figure represents the joint cut away to show a 
longitudinal section. It will be observed that at A and B 
the wood is full size, thus getting the greatest amount of 
fiber, to resist transverse strain. Some ferrules are already 
made this way, and they are the best in the market. I shows 
a round wad of hrass, cut to exactly fit the bore of the fer- 
rule. It is pushed down ahead cf the wood, to which it is 
fastened by shellac, till it comes to the shoulder. It prevents 
all moisture getting at the cross section of the wood and 
weakening it. The dotted lines show where rods usually 
break on this account, It will also be observed that the 
male ferrfle is also capped with brass, as shown at D, for a 
similar reason. This cap could more conveniently be made 
a solid part of the male ferrule, and I have so represented it. 

To prevent Se and the nuisance of throwing away 
a joint or two, 1 have shown at C a little brass cleat, fast 
ened to the rod by silk lashings. A similar one is put on at 
the lower end of the female ferrule, pointing in the opposite 
direction, and a few turns of silk, taken around these, pre- 
vent all accidents. Thisis an old device and a good one. 

The proportion of parts in the figure is exaggerated to 
show them more clearly. These ferrules could be made very 
short to lessen the Jeverage. 

I should be glad of any criticisms from other anglers, 
Everything to forward the angler’s art, should be the anglcr’s 
motto, and in this spirit [ have writen. PERCYVAL. 


A MASCALONGE. 


N ANY years ago when a boy my father and myself were 
devoted disciples of the rod and line. Few, if any, 
could equal the #ld gentleman either in handling a fish, or in 
the number in his basket at the end of a day’s fishing in the 
St. Lawrence, that most beautiful river. Where we fished, 
bass, pickerel, pike, and now and then a mascalonge were to 
be caught; but the story 1 wish to tell is of a mascalonge 
which my father and myself attempted to capture, and we 
tried it so often that we called him the ‘‘one-eyed perch.” 

On a ee day in June the pater suggested to the writer 
that a few hours spent on the river would be pleasant, and 
that he get the boat and fixings ready. Away scampers the 
boy for the river bank; the boat is waslied, the paddle and 
oars are soon in place, we step in, and away for the second 
island, round the head of it we go, and down the south side 
with a six-mile current helping us on, the big copper spoon 
towing behind us sixty yards away. Down around the 
island we go, pulling slowly but moving swiftly, when, as if 
struck by a streak of lightning, the flat-bottomed scow rises 
on a wave and we are in the middle of a riffle, well known 
to lovers of bass fishing, 

“Pull,” cries father, ‘‘amd we will make the foot of the 
island;” and -pull it was for some tea minutes with current 
setting us down the river, and the long line and spoon drag- 
ging behind. At Jast we eatch the eddy, and then the veteran 
in the stern says: ‘‘We will pull along that bank of rushes 
and I think we will find a fish near the end of the island.” 
So we move on slowly for a hundred yards or more, when 
“Make her meve”’ comes from the stern, and the boat moves 
along briskly, the oars just touching the rushes,«when as we 
near the point I hear the magic words, dear to every angler’s 
heart, ‘‘l’ve got him!” Then the boat stood still. ‘‘Pull, 
pul, boy!” eries the old man, and I labor at the oars for 
all I am worth, until nearly black in the face, when I see a 
shining object rise from the water some five feet or more 
distant, and with a splash it disappears, to rise again and 
again, Still itis “Pull, boy, pull!’ and away we go from 
the rushes and twist and turn in the eddy of the island till 
we think the fish is tired out, and father begins to haul in, 
when whiz goes the line through his fingers, which are cut to 
the bone. ‘“‘Stop,” he cried, and I rest my weary arms for 
a second or two, when I notice a look of pain, disgust and 
anger on the old man’s face as he says, ‘‘Bless him, he’s 
gone!” and sinks into his seat. Presently he hauls in the 
line and behold the hook, a good large one, is straightened 
out. That is enough fishing for one day, so we pull home, 
sadder if not wiser. 

The soldering irons are got out, and ere night closes in, 
we have a new and stronger hook fastened to the spoon, and 
are ready for the ‘‘one-eyed perch.” Some days elapsed he- 
fore we could get away again, but at last we are off, and go 
down on the north side of the island; we*round the point 
of rushes, and come with along, steady stroke past the hole 
where we hooked him before, but without getting a rise; so 
on to the southern end of the islandand back again. ‘‘Steady, 
boy, he ought to be here!” and here he is, as I feel the boat 
cease moving in spite of my efforts to keep her going. ‘‘Pull 
from the rushes!” and pull it is;slowly the boat moves, now 
the fish makes a rush toward us and the boat flies as fast as 
young muscles can make her, till we strike the two currents 
meeting at the northeast end of theisland. 'I'hen right about 
we go with the fisb, now in the water, now out, pulling like 
a devil possessed, now to the right, now to the lelt of the 
boat, and sometimes under it, but the line kept taut. At last, 
tired with his efforts, ke is brought alonyside, ‘Get the 
gaff,” but alas! the gaff was left behind, ‘Shoot him!” and 
I apring tor the old muzzleloader in the bow, when with a 
last desperate effort he phinges below the boat and is gone! 
Then the old man sat down and wept (swore) in French. 


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We tried tocatch this monster of the deep until we had 
hooked him seven times, the last of which wus but a repeti- 
tion of the two first attempts with only this difference; this 
time he took away with him thirty yards of line, and the 
foilowing morning he was caught some five miles lower down 
the river on a night line, with which he bad entang!ed him- 
sell, He was sold by the fishermen who caught him to the 
‘Lord of the Manor” and weighed thirty pounds. We re- 
covered the spoon andline, and had lots of spert with the 
spoon afterward. CANUOK, 

Victoria, B, C., Feb, 2, 1834. 


HINTS AND WRINKLES. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

I have just read with pleasure the article on dowel pins, 
by Mr. Wells, in your issue of the 21st. 

Three years ago a friend took up rod-making as a winter 
pastime and turned out three or four rods that were, and are 
yet, equal to anything short ofa split bambeo. The dowels 
bothered him, end thinking the matter over, neither he nor 
the friends whom he called into council could find any raison, 
detre for them. So the rods were finished without dowels, 
and we cannot see that anything has been lost in any way. 

Many thanks to Mr, Wells for the suggestion regarding 
rod handles. I for one will try it, and I have so much faith 
in if that I shall use it on my best rod. We anglers want 
more such points. Almost every one of us might do some- 
thing. We are, all of us, or a great many, at least, indebted 
to the Forest aD StRwAM for hints and wrinkles of which 
we haye made use, and yet 1 suppose not one in ten have 
ever acknowledged them or tried to give other points in 
return. 

Here is a little one that helped four of us on Spider Lake 
some years ago. We found a splendid place for bass one 
day and caught some Yeauties, but we had no landing net, 
so that the biggest one generally got away, until some one 
thought of making a gaff with a jake trout hook. Simplest; 
thing in the world! We just took a three-inch Limerick 
hook and lashed it to the end of a three-foot switch and lost 
no more bass for want of alanding net. Such a hook can 
be carried in the fly-book, and when you unexpectedly fall 
in with big fish (no joke) why there you are! 

And this leads to a question [ have wanted to ask for a 
long time. We have all read time and again of a bass when 
hooked leaping from ihe water and falling on the leader so 
as to break it. How does he doit? If both ends of the line 
were fast 1 could understand it, but they are practically 
loose. For experiment: Fasten the hook to the floor and let 
the rod be held so thet the line will be at about the same 
angle and tension as when a bass is about to leap. Now 
drop a ten-pound weight on the leadcr two or three'feet from 
the hook. The finest cut will stand the test. I know how 
they shake the hook from their mouths when they get a slack 
line and that the gut does sometimes break when they leap, 
but do they break it by falling on it, or by striking it with 
their tail? I don’t think so. J. @. W 

CANADA. 


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FISHING AND FISHERMEN. 


Bee been inspired on several of these warm and 

spring-like February days, my mind has been stirred 
from its alpha to its omega along the line of the past as 
touching the streams | have waded, with rod in hand, and the 
boats I have sat in on the rough or smooth rivers and lakes, 
as the case might have been, waiting with my attractive 
lure for a bite, 

Nong but a horn fisherman can enter into the sport. None 
but a follower of Izaak Walton can climb and wade from 
early morn till dewy eve over hills, through vales, and call 
it sport. 

He only can sit by theireside while the last snow of win-, 
ter is falling and extract the profoundest comfort out of the 
by-gones, as the fly-book is turned leaf by leaf and each 
crumpled, feathered hook is eagerly examined and the his- 
tory of them read, telling how a three-pound trout played 
havoe with the cowdung, the red ibis, or the king or queen 
of the water; how some great black bass, or tremendous 
salmon spoiled this or that fly in such a year, and wondering, 
as the light blue smoke of the companionable pipe rises in 
dainty cloudlets aboye our heads, if the like will ever occur 
again. Hope, in a whispered prayer, bubbles over the lips 
from the depths of the heart, and trusts that the all-wise 
Providence that created the beauties of the streams and the 
deep, who also established in our souls the desire to enjoy— 
as only we fishermen can—tbe greatest of pleasure, of a 
spring and summer time, with rod and creel, may not blast 
our hope, or leave our cravings for the beautiful unsatisfied. 

In the week that has just past, my mind has retraversed 
all the brooks, rivers and lakes, where joy came to my heart 
over the line and rod, as it only can be telegraphed to the 
sportsman who had it born and bred in bis bones. One un- 
pleasant reflection I called io mind wherein I got a severe 
flogging from my father for leaving my work to go fishing. 
He told usif it rained we might go. It sprinkled a little 
from a cloud not larger than a man’s hand, and away my 
brother and [ ran for the charming Susquehanna. Wewere 
checkmated on the banks of a brook by a switch that some- 
what resembled a modern trout rod, wielded by him who 
was not born as we were, with more love for angling than 
manwal labor, That whipping no doubt decided my future. 
I soon began the study of physic, and ere long I bade adieu 
to brush and stones, and the hardships of the old farm, and 
took up my abode near the beautiful Cayuga Lake, in the 
city that boasts of the college upon a hill, founded by the 
late lamented Cornell. After my departure, all my brothers 
but one followed, and to-day four of us are fishers for 
patients in the winter and muddy spring, but the desire which 
our father triedto cheek when we were young has, to all ap- 
pearances, intensified, and must yearly be gratified. 

There is no more beautiful Village than Ithaca, not a more 
beautiful body of water than Lake Cayuga. The several 
streams that empty into it and the grand falls, of Fall Creek 
and Taughannock, the cascades and rocky shores of Six Mile 
Creek add to the beauty and grandeur of this vicinity. The 
fish and game clubs here are alive to the stocking of streams 
and the protection of fish and game. We expect 60,000 
California mountain trout this summer for our streams in 
Tompkins county. Last season we took several California 
trout on bait and fly in Fall Creek and the Inlet Creek. Dr, 
Sharp caught a California salmon under the falls that 
weighed two pounds, This beautiful specimen showed 
much pluck and endurance in the fight against the line and 
rod, ‘The mountain trout were put in the stream One year 
ago lastsummer, and when taken by O. B, Brown measured 
seven inches in length, and acted quite as gamy as brook 
trout of the same weight. 


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Our lake abounds in small and big-mouthed black bass, 
wall-eyed pike, perch, pickerel, swamp pickerel, bullheads, 


tock bass, salmon trout, California salmon, eels, suckers and j 


herring. Black bass have been caught at the head of the 
lake weighing six pounds and a quarter by E. ©. Van Kirk 
anda Mr. Grayer with minnows, Dr, Fowler caught one 
bass on a fly, that weighed fonr and three-quarter pounds. 
The writer has frequently taken ona fly and with bait 
twenty to thirty pounds in a forenoon or a part of the after- 
noon, 

Several years ago I caught tive salmon trout before 10 
o'clock A. M. I with my oarsman got on the water about 
6G A. M., and before we had gone one hundred rods below 
McKinney's | hooked a beauty; going once oyer the water 
from this point to Bloom’s bar, and through Burdick’s Bay, 
the five beauties were secured. They all took a Canandaigua 
spoon, leaf shape. <A friend came from Bradford, Pa., 
and went out with me. 1 rowed the boat for him to fish, 
which I have no love for, and after an hour of faithful troll- 
ing he gave up in despair and handed the line t6 me. We 
had not proceeded far in Burdick’s Bay before I struck 
something so solid that I called to my friend to stop the 
boat, as I had fear of losing my line, thinking [ had caught 
aslab, As soon as the boat slacked I felt the object tugging 
at my hook. Iremarked that whatever had hold must be 
alive, as the moyements were really like a monster fish, I 
cautiously took up the line, keeping it taut, and after some 
anxiety and trepidation, saw fifty feet away in the clear 
water a sight that sent a thrill through every nerve. “A 
ten-pound trout,” I eried, ‘‘Ob, he’s a bouncer, Mr. Welles; 
hold the boat steady now; keep an eye on the fish when he 
comes near the boat and turn the stern away sufficiently to 
allow me to lift him in without touching the gunwale.” He 
did so in a masterly style, and to our great joy we secured a 
salmon treut that weighed eight and one-fourth pounds. 
After our knees had got over trembling, and our palpitating 
hearts steadied down a little. we went over the same waiter 
and took another that weighed five and three-fourths 
a We went home the happiest of men; envied by 
all. 

The late Dr. Bristol, of Syracuse, went with me on another 
occasion and we captured five salmon trout and one wall- 
eyed pike. Their weight we did not take, but such a fine 
basket of fish is seldom taken from any inland waters. The 
beautiful cottages that dot the shores of Cayuga in the sum- 
mer time are most charming to view from the decks of the 
passing steamers, steam and sailing yachts. If any one who 
reads this article wishes to spend a few of the hottest months 
in the year profitably and pleasantly, come. 

Onondaga Lake is a clear, deep body of water, near the city 
of Syracuse; is well stocked with small and big-mouthed 
black bass, glass-eyed pike, wall-eyed pike, pickerel, perch, 
bullheads, catfish, eels, and the finest whitefish in the State, 
The writer has canght many a fine creel of the fish of this 
lake with fly, bait and spoon. 

The most killing flies for Onondaga Lake are the R. W., 
John Munn (resembling the bee), Ferguson, Lottie, black, 
Montreal and a black body with white tip wiugs and tail— 
the name | have forgotten.* I have had good success now 
and then with a red wing and green bodied tly, gold tinsel— 
never knew the name.+ ‘The last pleasant time casting the 
fly on this Jake was in company with Reuben Weod, of 
Syracuse, who died a few days since. Mr. Wood was one 
ot the most accomplished fly-casters I ever saw handle a rod. 
He was, as the wide world knows, an expert. He needs no 
eulogy from me, for his name stands among the highest as a 
successful fisherman, and what is still grander than all, asa 
man; he excelled in gentleness, generosity and integrity. All 
who ever met him on the banks of a trout stream, or 
wherever a fish could be lured to afly, must have been im- 
pressed with his true manhood and genial disposition. 

Lake Oneida is one of the most natural waters for fishcul- 
ture in any State. The water is not so clear as thatin Onon- 
daga, Cayuga, or Senaca lakes. Thousands of acres of bot 
tom, covered with weeds, exist at bothendsof the lake, and 
along cither suore the water is but afew feet in depth in 
many places, and the grasses, or -watcr. weeds, are often 
above the surface. Where are several small bays in which 
the fishermen haye grand good luck in capturing big-mouthed 
bass, pike (glass-eyed), and pickcrel. 1 caught 75 pounds 
ot bass, pike aud pickerel, including a 12-pound catfish, in 
little more than half a day last summer, with trolling spoon. 
Charles Preston, of Syracuse,-and the writer, caught 63 
pounds of big-mouthed bass, pike and pickerel, over 30 
pounds of bass, there last summer, in a few hours. The bass 
would average over two pounds and one-half cach, The best 
lime to goto Ontida Luke for trolling isin the month of 
June and the early part of July. About the 15th of July 
tlie cel flies cover the water and the fishing is not good until 
past the middle of August. Small-mouthed bass can be 
taken with a fly in June at the eastern end of the lake, and 
at West Porte. : 

On the Susquehanna River, last summer in the early part 
of July, a party of gentlemen from Elmira and one from 
Ithaca and myself took passage in flat-bottom boats, leaving 
Himira at the early hour of 3 A. M.. With lamps and Jan- 
terns in our several crafts we passed down the crooked Che- 
mung, looking much like a fleet of Indian canoes bound for 
some Gistant point to make an attack upon some hated foe, 
The breezes that caused our lamps to sputter filled our sleepy 
eyes with pungent smoke, and when daylight appeared we 
ali might bave been taken for boys who had just returncd 
from a fishing tour instead of a uappy lot who were just 
leaying Lome for a grand time and a glorious summer vaca- 
tion The water was muddy, the river swollen and the 
current rapid, so we traveled at a great speed. 

As the sun rose bright and lovely over the castern hill- 
tops, a view grand in the extreme presented itself to us in 
one coutinuous panorama as we floated on. Like a kaleid- 
oscope the changing scenes came and went hour after hour, 
till we landed at Tioga Point, below Athens, where we met 
a party made up of gentlemen from Waverly and the neigh- 
boring towns, with a large, flatboat. We all pulled out 
together and floated and fished till we arrived at Towanda, 
Pa,, about 4 P. M. 

The islands in the Susquehanna, between Tioga Point and 
Towanda, presented a beautiful aspect, almost tropical in 
uppearance. The wide spreading branches, covered with 
vines and flowers, lent a perfect charm. ‘Oh, how beauti- 
full” was upon every one’s lips. Those who had been shut 
upin the dust and peculiar smell of the cities were trans- 
ported with ecstacy. Who has not been charmed as we 
Were, O00 many an occasion, with nature's beauty—the 
smell of new-mown bay; the eyes feasting upon the harvest, 


all nearly ripe for the reapers; the vine-clad rocks and | §' 


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“Magpie. Hooker. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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' blossoming islands; the songs of wild birds—all gloriously 

lighted with vertical sunbeams avd a cloudless sky? The 
eharm was as complete as complete could be. 

Arriving at the hotel in Towanda, we startled the denizens 
with the fine display of bass and wall-eyed pike on our 
string. I took one of the latter of seven and one-half pounds 
with a perfect revolving spoon, One eight and one-half pounds 
was killed by aman accidentally while crossing the river. 
He put down his pike pole and thrust it clean through the 
fish while pushing the boat. Pike, or yellow bass as they 
are termed in Bradford county, are very numerous in the 
Susquehanna. . 

The following day we sailed for Wyalusiag, where we 
ended our journey and stayed fora few days enjoying our- 
selves to the fullest extent. The hotel there has the best of 
accommodations, and boats and fishing tackle in abundance. 
For three miles above and below this place one can catch all 
the black bass he desires, From thirty to fifty a day is an 
average catch, with flies in June, and bait in July, August 
and September. 

There are numerous small trout streams near Wyalusing, 
and one can enjoy this kind of sport if he chooses to do so 
after a surfeit of bass fishing. 

The helgramite, clipper or dobson, a name given to a little 
black, many-legged worm that is found in the river under 
stones, is one of the killing baits used there. The best and 
surest, however, is the little minnow bullhead, also found 
under the stones in the bed of the stream. Boys keep 
these baits constantly on hand near the hotel. One visit to 
this locality will be sure to make a convert of you. 

Ihave done. If your readers take as much pleasure and 
profit reading this tale as I have in writing it, and dwelling 
upon the by-gones, some little good will have come to us 
through the element of our natures. begetting a love for the 
pastime upon the stream, and beside the rippling brook, 


M, M. Brown, M.D. 
TrHaca, N. Y., Feb. 26. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH, 
A DIGRESSION, 


WING to the temporary absence of the writer of these. 

articles, and the fact that he had not revised more of 

i his manuscript. we publish a few extracts from letters re- 

ceived, which show a variety of opinions on the different sub- 
jects treated of in the papers. 

A writer from Ohio says: ‘‘It is neither right nor fair to 
write of such good fishing grounds and not give their loca- 
tion. After getting interested in the narrative, I wanted to 
find out where the ‘Bigosh’ was situated, but, on looking 
back to the first chapter, I find that this point is carefully 
concealed. 1 protest that this is not fair.” [We advise our 
tine to wait, perhaps the secret may be told at some future 
time]. 

Another Ohio man writes: “‘I know where the ‘Bigosh’is, 
and have fished it long before Mr. Mather ever saw it. It is 
a good-sized stream and mill pond, about twenty-five miles 
north of Port Colborne, on the north shore of Lake Ontario. 
I met Mr. M. near there in 1870, as he was returning from a 
fishing trip. He has exaggerated the size of the trout found 
there, for I never took one above a pound weight.” [ Wrong, 
guess again]. 

Mr. N. R. Pierce is of the opinion that the river ‘‘is either 
Thunder Bay River or one of the streams flowibg into Che- 
boygan Lake in Michigan. The size of the trout is over- 
stated, but all indications point to this. ‘Uncle Ben’ isa 
num de plume to hide a well-known settler, who is now a 
guide, whose tayorite expletive has been used to conceal the 
identity of the locality.” |Also wrong, the fishing there is 
not as good as is represented on the ‘‘Bigosh,’’ the nurrative 
of adventures upon which has becn called by the writer of 
them a ‘‘truttaceous history”. 

Mr. R. B. Marston, of the London Fishing Gazette, says: 
‘TJ have been much interested and amused at the ‘Trouting 
on the Bigosh’ and the adventures and mishaps of ‘Uncle 
Ben.’ The catching of that ‘anker’ was, indeed, a surprise.” 

Mr. A. N. Cheney remarks: ‘“‘I hope the story will be 
continued; it is a most excellent plan for combining instruc- 
tion and amusement, and many will profit by it who would 
find plain directions very dry. The ‘Bigosh’ papers deserve 
to be gathered into a book when finished, and I hope they 
will be so published.” 

Dr. J. A. Henshall in a private letter to the writer of the 
articles in question says: ‘‘l wish to thank you personally 
for your ‘Bigosh papers,’ which have pleased me very inuch, 
They are mulium in per'vo, and will impart much valuable 
information tm a very pleasant way, to anglers generally and 
to the novice particularly.” 

“A Subscriber” writes: “Ifa man is going to write about 
good fishing why does he not tell where the place is? 1 want 
fo goto a good plage next summer, and I want to find one 
that is not overrun with tourists and anglers. It is very ex- 
asperating to read of such places and not know where they 
are, I would prefer not to read of them, for I don’t carea 
cent about the good times they had nor how they fished, how 
a fly should be cast or a stream waded. What I want is to 
know whiere to go and if the ‘Bigosh papers’ does not tell 
then I will soon lose interest inthem, If the writer of 
them declines to inform us where these happy fishing 
grounds lie, then it is the duty of Forest anp SrrpaM to do 
so.” [‘‘Subscriber” will have to wait the pleasure of the 
author of the papers. Forrest AND STREAM has not asked 
his secret and does not possess it, We have heard him say 
that some day in the nearfuture he would give this informa- 
tion to the pubjic, but how long or short a time may elapse 
before he does it we cannot say. | 

“Von W.” writes: ‘I have a point of difference to make 
with my old friend Mather, who I do not think does Frank 
Forester fair justice in regard to his distinction between the 
pike and muscalonge. I have not ‘Fish and Fishing” by 
me now, for] lent it some half dozen years since, and it 
has never come back again, but I remember very clearly the 
difference between the two heads in the book.” The pike 
toothed to the extreme point of the jaw, and the muscalonge 
with his great tusk about half way to the front, and a long 
bony projection forming the extremity of the jaw, together 
with the entirely reversed markings of the two fish, the 
muscalonge having dark reticulations on an olive ground; 
the pike hight oblong blotches, and think that Frank Forester 
noted and woderstood these differences, although he was-all 
at sea on tlievarieties of the genus Sa/mo, and that isnot much 
to be wondered at, as the researches of thirty years, since 
Herbert’s day, have notdefined them dearly as-yet. Although 
Salmo namaycush, amethystus, vonjinis, tonid, etc.; ete,, are 

everally dow relegated to one Species, while Prof. gordan 
1s gradually crystallizing the various species of the Rocky 
Mountain region and Pacific Slope.” 


2} 4 m 


[Marco . 


6, 1884. 


A DOMESTIC TROUT POND. 


I AM often asked by acquaintances, who are fond of trout 
and trout fishing, whether, under given circumstances,. 
an artificially made pond will pay in either a sporting or 
pecuniary sense; and how such can best be constructed with 
a due regard to economy and success? Not being an 
ichthyologist, nor at all skilled in pisciculture, I always an- 
swer such questions by simply relating my own experience 
in this matter; leaving the inquirer to make the application 
to his particular case as best he may. The subject is one of 
such great and general interest, and of so much real economic 
importance, that [am sure many hundreds of your readers 
will be glad to hear a short and plaia account of my experi- 
ment, andiis results. I will enter into details no further than 
is necessary to make myself understood, and fo enable the 
reader to judge how far my mode of procedure may be ap- 
plicable to his own locality and circumstances. 5 

On a certain part of a large farm, which I once owned and 
occupied, there was, and is, a beautiful and never failing 
spring, which, issuing from the base of a high range of hills, 
discharges its waters ufter a course of a few hundred yards, 
through a gravelly clay soil, into an adjacent trout brook, of 
which it is one of the numerous feeders. At the time I 
write of, there was never any perceptible difference between 
the winter and summer flow of this spring. Its trickling 
stream always furnished, I should think, about two bundred 
gallous per hour of the purest and most delicious water; 
which was of almost icy coldness on first emerging from its 
‘mysterious birthplace—the dark recesses of the hills. The 
ground which lay between the spring and the creek presented 
a gentle slope, being about five feet lower at the bank’s edge 
of the latter than it was at the spring’s outlet, the distance 
between the two being less than a quarter of amile. The 
bank which overlooked the brook, was here about thirty 
feet high, but had been cut into a.deep and jagged gully or 
ravine, by the overflow from the spring, which at first prob- 
ably had marked out a course, but al length, aided through 
successive ages by the drainage from the contiguous up- 
lands, had widened and deepened the ravine until the 
bottom at its mouth was on a level with the bed of the creek; 
while close to the spring it was not much larger than a 
ploughed furrow. 2 

Of course, as through process of time and constant erosion 
of the-running water this ravine had gradually become 
deeper, clay and gravel from its sides would fall into the 
abyss; the soluble parts being washed away, while the 
boulders and small stones remained in its bed. Thus, by 
the time it had reached hard pan it was some sixty feet wide 
at the surface of its lower part and thirty feet deep, and 
thence tapered off to almost nothing atits highest part near 
the spring. : 

One day a friend from England, who was an enthusiastic 
angler, had been fishing with me in the creck. The trout 
were becoming rather scarce, and those still remaining were 
of small size. Consequently our luck had not been very 
great, but we had taken a few tolerably good fish at the 
mouth of the ravine, which was their favorite resort, owing 
to the discharge of cold water from the spring, Upon seeing 
this great gully my friend said: ‘*Why in the world do you 
not make a trout pond here? The work is already done to 
your hand. All you have todo more isto builda dam.” 
Some further conversation followed, during which my yisi- 
tor gave me some facts and figures as to the productive ness 
and consequent value of a properly managed pond of this 
kind. The upshot was that | determined to try the experi- 
ment. It was now the beginning of June, our spring seed- 
ing was all done, and we could devote a few days to this 
work without damage to other interests. | will briefly state 
exactly what we did, how we did it, its estimated cost, and 
the result in the way of returns for time and labor expended. 
It must be borne in mind that the gulch which was to 
become the channel of our proposed pond was already exca- 
vated in the form of the letter V, being quite wide at the 
surface of the ground, aud almost sharp at the bottom, its 
width and depth, of course, increasiug from the upper to 
the lower end. 

We commenced our dam by procuring fifteen strong cedar 
posts varying in Jength from six to thirty-four feet, These 
were charred at one end and firmly set in a row «across the 
mouth of the ravine, at distances of four feet apart and to 
about the same depth in the ground, As each post was 
planted. it was thoroughly pudd]lid around with stiff clay, 
and the three center ones were strengthened by lone trans- 
verse braces notched into their tops and also into a hard bed 
of concrete on the lower side of the dam. where they were 
further secured by large boulders. Then we split a number 
of cedar logs into rough four-inch slabs, and spiked them to 
the up-stream face of the posts, the ends of the slabs being 
let into the clay banks on either side, anil well puddied. 
Now we took the green brush of the cedar tops and two or 
three loads of spruce and hemlock spray, and arranged all 
carefully at the bottom ef the gully agaist our wall of slabs, 
Then, with a pair of horses, a plough and a common road 
scraper, we turned up and drew in the heavy ca:th from the 
heights on each side, ramming it down firmly as we went 
along, until we had made a sloping embankment of perhaps 
fifty feet wide at the bottom of the ravine and ten feet at the 
top. This we covered over from end to end with course 
gravel and upon this a layer of as large boulders as we could 
handle; except just in the center, where we arranged a rade 
grated sluiceway which would allow the passage of super- 
fluous water and yet prevent the escape of tish. Our dam 
was now finished and was evidently water-tight, as quite a 
little pond had already formed at its base although we had 
only been two days engaged in its construction. 

Next, with a view of providing shade, shelter and hiding 
places for our trout, we placed cight very large cedar logs, 
at distances of twenty feet apart, across the ravine, and two 
feet from its bottom. The ends of these logs were let into 
the banks and weighted by boulders. At about one-third of 
the distance from the spring to the dam, where we judged 
the water would be when the pond was full, two or three 
feet deep, we stretched a screen of common fanving-mill 
wire netting, with half-inch meshes, This was to furnish a 
sate retreat for the small fry when pressed by their cannibal- 
istic relatives, and most admirably it answered its purpose. 
In twelve days-from the time the dam was finished the reser- 


Rop vs. Hanp Loye,—Last summer Mr. Charles F. Pan 
coast, of Germantown, trolled for bluefish with a twelve-ounce 
rod: and succeeded iu killing several weighing as Ligh as ten. 
pounds cach, and many of smaller size: Mr. P. represents 
the sport as beiig very fine and a decided improvement over 
the common method of taking bluefish with a hand line, a_ 
style ot fishing which requires no dexterity. 


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through the waste weir. We then planted along the edge of 
the water, on each hank, at intervals of ten feet, a number 
~ of stubby pieces of the branches of the common yellow 
willow, entirely denuded of twigs and leaves, Late as it 
wis in the season, all of these cuttings took root and grew. 
We now had a pond, of triangular shape, about four bun- 
_ dred yards long, twenty yards wide and nearly thirty feet 
deep at the dam, from whence it tapered off to nothing to- 
ward the spring, The superficial area of its surface would 
_ be something over three-fourths of an acre, The great de- 
sideratum was to stock it with trout. This we did in half a 
day by stretching a small-meshed net across the creek and 
driving the stream until we had obtained about two hundred 
and fifty troutlings, averaging five inches in length. These 
were turned, after every haul, directly out of the net into 
the pond, and all lived and throve. In the following Sep- 
tember we put in two hundred more, : 
Now for cost and results. We need not put any price 
upon the site, as it was waste land; in fact, we may cnter 
- something to the credit side of account on this score, ag 
this considerable body of water in the newly-formed pond 
greatly improved the surrounding pasturage toa distance of 
many yards on cither margin. The total cost to me was 
very trifling, as | had the team and men and all the material 
at hand, except spikes. and wire netting. But assuming 
that I had been obliged to hire and purchase everything for 
the occasion, the debit account would stand about thus: 


One pair of horses and two men, 3 days..........-. $15 00 
Cedar for posts and slabs, Say.......-..-..-se, esses 10 00 
Spikes, nails and wire netting, say.... ....--..-.... 5 00 


To this we may add a supposed sum of five dollars for 
netting minnows all through the first two summers (none 
were required after that) to supply the trout with food, and 
we have a grand total of $35. Nota fish was taken from 
the pond—except to be looked at and returned—for four 
years, by which time the willows on the banks had grown 
to thrifty trees, and every alternate one was then renioved. 
Those remaining not only furnished a grateful shade, but 
their pendant branches yielded a constant summer supply of 
fish food in the shape of falling eaterpillars and other larve 
and insects. During these four years we could see that the 
trout were increasing rapidly in size and numbers, and that 
the progeny of the sucker, chub and shiner minvows first 
put in were also plentiful enough to supply the choice fish 
with a square meal when desired. The fifth summer I took 
from this preserve with a barbless hook one hundred and 
sixtythree pounds of trout, returning to the water all 
individuals which I thought to be under eight ounces in 
weight. Reckon this one season’s catch at even twenty-five 
cents per pound, and you will see that I was already re- 
couped for my whole expenditure. In each of the sixth, 
seventh and eighth summers I took about two hundred 
pounds of beautiful fish, some specimens now weighing over 
two pounds. Then I sold the farm, getting at least $500 
more for it than I would have done if minus the pond, Any 
schoolboy can answer the question as to whether my experi- 
ment paid, 

It is now, or will be next June, just twenty-nine years 
since this pond was made. I have not scen it for twenty-one 
years, but was told, eighteen months ago, that the dam was 
then perfectly sound and tight; the fish thrifty and plentiful, 
and yielding to the owner of the farm a greater yearly net 
profit than any five acres of his best land. Now, it is true 
that every farmer has not upon his property a hillside spring, 

“hor a site for a trout pond already excavated; but a great 
many have both of those requisites, and a still larger number 

_ have the spring. If the water of this is of a quality suitable 
for trout it will always pay its fortunate possessor to make a 
pond for the culture of these valuable fish, even if he has to 
scoop it out of a level piece of ground on the most fertile 
portion of his estate. From no crop whatever, on the same 
Jimited area, can so large an amount of pleasure, profit and 
amusement be derived, always supposing that the enterprise 
is conducted with a correct idea of the nature of the fish und 
a due regard for their requirements. My pond, the reader 
will observe, furnished near its upper part a perfect spawn- 
ing and breeding ground. 

Has? Saginaw, February, 1384, 


SHowine tHe Bors How To Do Iv.—Grand Rapids, 
Mich.—The three boats of the ‘‘Hill Spoon Gang” returned 
to camp at noon and reported a ‘‘water haul,” when up 
spoke C., who had remained in camp: ‘‘Oh, you fellows are 
no good; you don’t know how to catch fish. Your best 
hold is to blow about what you have done or are a-going to 
do, while, with the best kind of fishing ground all around 
us, we are obliged to eat. salt pork or go hungry, all on ac- 
count of a set of ne’er do wells. But there is going to be a 
radical change in the fashion—a civil reform. Tl go with 
you this afternoon and just show you how to doit. It’s 
time you chaps had some instruction; so come along after 
dinner and you shall have it frée gratis for nothing.” ‘That 
afternoon all hands were out, and the three boats kept well 
together, in order that we might derive as much benefit as 
possible from our self-congtituted instructor. There Was 
- some haste, a little confusion and considerable chafting 

during the three minutes’ time spent in getting to the spot, 
and all were more or less excited in consequence. ©, had 
laid violent hands on the first .rod which came in his way 
that was rigged up, scrambled into the boat, hurriedly un- 
tied the snell which was on the line, drew from his pocket 
a fine, long leader, tied to this a new snell, and about 
eighteen inches up on the leader fastened a large brown 
hackle, and again above this ancther fly of the most 
gorgeous character. Then selecting and hooking a fine, 
large minnow, with a sort of «a superior “you'll see, I 
know” kind of a look, grasped his rod with one hand, 
leader with the other, and made a two-handed cast, 
The buit touched the water about six feet from the 
boat, and as the minnow slowly settled and leisurely wig- 
gled away, dragging after him two suells, two flies and a 
brand new leader, it was plainly to be seen that CG. had, in 
his hurry and confusion, tied his leader to the old snell in- 
steud of his line! There was a snort, a wild yell, some cou- 
siderable language used more emphatic. than polite, as the 
occupants of the boat with one accord arose and announced 
to the balance of the gang the result of their first lesson of 
“how to catch ’em.” There wére no fish caught that after- 
miles awsy.- lt will be some tite before C- hears the last of 
first, Jesson he guve us, otwithstanding op os da 
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voonu, as the jeering, screaming and laughing sent them 


the | he gave us, wdtwiths 

liberal in doing penance in thé way of cigars and othe 
ing.— We ee ara 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


if!A Harry Day.—Sullivan county, New York, is "dotted 
here and there with beautiful sheets.of water; one of these, 
situated on one of the peaks of the Shawangunk range, my 
companion and T selected for a day’s fishing, Pickerel was 
our game to-day, but we were not above the catfish and 
perch which also inhabit these waters, The morning, how- 
ever, was not favorable for pickerel, as the wind was high, 
and not a cloud was to be seen. The perch bit rapidly, 
though, and we soon had a fine string of these, aud also a 
few catfish. In the afternoon, much to our satisfaction, the 
wind began fo moderate, and sunset (which time, in my es- 
timation, is as good as any for pickerel)found us on our 
favorite grounds, ready for business. My line, touching 
water first, was tmmediately seized by a fine one, which, 
after a noble fight, proved to be ‘‘two-pounder.” My com- 
panion, not to be outdone, fastened to one that threatened 
to end his sport by carrying everything away; but being an 
adept in the art, he soon had the fish under control, and 
after a well-fought battle of some minutes, succeeded in 
landing him, amid great objections on the part of the fish. 
About this time we were visited by a shower of white mil- 
lers, a phenomenon that I have never witnessed since or be- 
fore. The pickerel now began to jump in rapid succession 
all around us after these insecis, and we discovered then, to 
our sorrow, that we had left our spoons at home. After 
the millers left, us the pickerel refused to bite, and as it was 
getting late, we prepared to go home, Our day’s catch 
summed up as follows: Fifteen pounds of perch, three cat- 
fish and eight pickerel, the largest, whose capture I de- 
scribed, weighing four pounds; total weight of pickerel, 
sixteen pounds. After a weary walk home and a hearty 
meal of pickerel, We retired to bed to live the day over in 
our dreams.—SULLIVAN. 


Muppy Fravor w Fisa,—Fillmore County, Minn,—In 
the valentine number of ForEsr anp Stream, Capt. M. 
P. Peirce writes of the edible qualities of carp, illustrating 
it by Jersey chickens raised on offal and then fed on pure 
food and clean water in a short time being fit for the table. 
I believe the same method workable with fish. The creeks 
in this part of Minnesota three years ago were teeming with 
brook trout in June, July and August, and I seldom, in a 
day’s fishing, failed to creel twenty-five pounds of average 
half-pounders, Now I am satisfied with half a dozen of the 
same average weight, and have put in a full day, wind and 
weather favorable, summing up three trout, weighing one 
and one-quarter pounds. Why the change? Reasons vari- 
ous. The first great cause was “‘breaking up” all land that 
could, be tilled for wheat, the wash from pldéwing filled our 
streams with mud, and no suitable places being left for 
spawning. I now come to the point I started out to make— 
a long way around, but a fisherman has to detour at times to 
make a cast—table quality of fish in turbid versus clear 
water. Trout caught in our streams when muddy lose all 
their flavor, while in five to eight days after the water be- 
comes clear, they are as fine flavored as before the flood. 
Last summer, from the middle of May to the last of June, 
with spoon I caught from one to five black bass nearly every 
day. When the water was muddy the fish were’ contam- 
inated, when clear they were free trom any taint of mud. 
Our grangers the past five years have paid more attention 
to stock raising, “‘seeded down” the valleys, hence the wash 
is small; plants are again growing in the running brooks, 


-affording cover for trout, and we hope-to obtain fry from 


the State to restock our streams the coming summer,—J. 
M..C. 


TENNESSEE.—Dyersbureg, Tenn:, Feb. 27.—A few ruffed 
grouse have been seen, and one was killed by Guy Douglass 
in the Obion hills, near this place, last week. As I have 
never seen nor heard of one before in West Tennessee, we 
ure anxious to know where they came from. I will give you 
a slight description, and ask if it has been correctly named. 
In color, nearly same as quail or woodcock, with ruffle 
around neck and crest on back of head, like the bluejay; also 
dark circle in tail, and in size nearly as large as a guinea 
hen. It was sitting on a log at time it was killed. Every- 
body in vicinity has been cautioned not to shoot or disturb 
the rest of flock, and they all express an anxiety to protect 
them and encourage them to remain, as there is no better 
place on earth than the hills that lie on Obion River for them 
to rear their young. Live quail have been offered here freely 
at one dollar per dozen, others atseventy-five cents per dozen. 
A few woodcock are occasionally brought in. John Tarrant 
was returning home afew days ago, with game bag well 
filled with quail, and met a negro with a lot of woodcock he 
had just killed. The negro proposed to swap ‘‘dem four 
brown snipe” for four quail, which was accepted and pre- 
sented to the writer,—T, L. W. 


GrowTH or Rarxsoyw, Trovur.—Waterville, N. ¥.—Two 
years ago about ten thousand California mountain trout were 
put into a pond in this Village. The next spring we found 
that the growth of these trout, compared to that of our 
native trout, was astounding. The following August one 
weighing three-quarters of a pound was caught by a small 
boy. JI would never have believed that their growth was 
so rapid had I not seen the fish weighed. The trout at the 
time this large one was caught were a little over a year old. 
Now, many of our fishermen are wild on the subject of Cal- 
ifornia trout, and we shall put twenty thousand more into 
the same pond again this summer. But for one I do not 
think that-they compare with our own brook trout in gami: 
ness, flavor or beauty. But our experiment wus a decided 
success. For the past three or tour years we have been 
stocking our streams with brook trout, and find the-fishing 
very much improved thereby. Unless something unforeseen 
occurs we shall continue to stock them every year.—N. 


Wauat 1s Done With SMALL Losstprs,—Newport, R. 
1, Feb. 29.—The Fish Commission of Massachusetts is try- 
ing to stop the sale of small lobsters in market by having the 
law amended so as to increase the length at which they can 
be sold. I would ask them if they think that all under the 
legal size ave put back. If they think so they are mistaken; 
they are put into cars and kept alive for bait for the tautog 
fishermen, when they are, ‘‘exposed” for sale at prices rang- 
ing from fifty cents to one dollar, per bushel. In thiy case 
the lobster catcher: has broken the law by offering them for 
sale, and the tautog fisher has violated it by having thefa in 
his possession, even thougl he throws them -into-the water 
after putting them on his:hook.. True, he is obeying the 


letter of the | rie Tebarang. ing them.to the water,” but. does 
he not: Blais its spirit? Yet ourlobster men complain that 


there are few large lobsters, CLams AND CRABS. 


‘by Emil W. Haeber, M. 


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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE oF Fisaing Tackiu.—We 
have received a finely illustrated catalogue and price list of 
fine fishing tackle, manufactured by Messrs. Abbey & Im- 
brie, The large, handsome plates vive a good idea of the. 
varied articles which go to make up an angler’s outfit, and 
the side-bends of the hooks are well shown by shadows, 
There are 92 full-page folio plates and over twenty pages of 
text, in which all that the angler requires, except boats and 
provisions, are catalogued. These articles are so numerous 
that the list is surprising, even to one familiar with such 
matters, The great merit of this catalocue is its accuracy, 
The different articles figured in it are drawn of the exact 
size of nature, and by referring to the price list, the intend- 
ing purchaser will learn all those particulars about the arti- 
cle he is interested in which cannot be told in an engraving. 
The price of the catalogue is fifty cents. 


ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION OF THE ST, LAWRENCE.—Utica, 
Feb. 27.—Hditor Forest and Stream: A special meeting of 
the Anglers’ Association of the St Lawrence River will be 
held in the parlors of the Butterfield House, Utica, on the 
afternoon and evening of March 11, commencing at 3 P. M, 
Matters of great importance regarding the work of the as- 
sociation during the coming spring and summér will be dis- 
cussed, and arrangements will be made for a strict enforce- 
ment of the laws governing fishing in the St. Lawrence 
River. In addition to the business of the association to 
come before the mecting, it is hoped that papers of interest 
in relation to the favorite fish of the St. Lawrence will be 
read and discussed. It will be a favor if all members who 
intend to be present will give notice to the secretary by card 
as early as convenient.—Onas. H. BAuiou, Recording Secre- 


tary. 
Hishculture. 


MORE GERMAN TROUT EGGS.—The steamer Donan, of 
the North German Lloyds, recently brought 70,000 eggs of 
Salmo fario to this country. Forty thousand of these were 
consigned to Mr, Fred Mather for the U.S. F. C., and,30,000 
to Mr. E. G, Blackford on account of New York. The eggs 
were of two kinds, large and small, and were sent to Cold 
Spring Harbor for distribution. They have been diyided be- 
tween Northville, Mich.: Central Station, Washington; 
Wytheville, Va.; Caledonia, N. Y., and Cold Spring Harbor. 
They came trom the ponds of Mr. C. Schuster, Freiburg, 
Baden, and were in good order. The North German Lloyds 
made no charge for transportation. i 


EGGS SHIPPED ABROAD.—On Saturday last Mr. James 
Annin, Jr., of Caledonia, N. Y., sent 10,000 eges of brook trout 
by steamer Iceland, directed to Herrn Fiskeri Inspektor Land- 
mark, Kristiani, Norway. On the 8th the New York Fish 
Commission will send 30,000 eggs of the rainbow trout to the 
Deutschen Fischerei Verein, Berlin, by the steamer Main. 
These shipments are made by Mr. E. G. Blackford, New 
York. Professor Baird has sent to Germany 1,000,000 white- 
fish eggs, 25,000 brook trout and 25,000 lake trout, and. on the 
8th will send 5,000 land-locked salmon to Sir James G, Mait- 
land, Scotland. 


ENGLISH TROUT IN AMERICA.—The steamer Adriatic, 
of the White Star Line, brought 10,000 eges of the Salme 
fario_asa present to the Cold Spring Harbor Station of the 

New York Fish Commission, presented by the Fishing Gazette, 
of London. They were in three lots, 5,000 marked ‘“best 
trout,” 5,000 from the Itchin and 2,000 from the Wey districts, 
They came in excellent order, and were carried free of charge 
by Messrs, Ismay, Imrie & Co., the London agents of the line. 


THE CONNECTICUT COMMISSION.—The Governor of 
Connecticut has appointed Mr. James A. Bill, of Lyme, to be a 
Commissioner of Fisheries for three years from August next, 
in place of Mr. G. N. Woodruff, whose term expires at that 
time. Mr, Bill has served. with credit in that capacity in 
former years, The Senate has confirmed his appointment. 


Blew Publications. 


Hints on Camping. Mr. Howard Henderson's ‘‘Practical Hints on 
Camping” contains a considerable amount of information, and will 
no doubt be useful to those who are contemplating their first camp- 
ing trip. And yet the author gives a deal of instruction which is 
wholly opposei to what many years of camp life have taught 
us. His list of articles required for a trip covers three octavo 
pages in small type, and unless the camper is supposed to be travel- 
alge a fleet of boats or a good-sized wagon train, we are at a loss 
to know just how all this materialisto be transported, We have 
always found that the less one carries with him into camp the more 
easily be can get along, and we believe that nothing so contributes 
to the annoyance and delay of the outdoor traveler as his burden- 
in himself with a great variety of articles that might just as well 
be left at home. It is wiser to travel light, and the more one 
lives in camp the lighter will be his outfit. On the other hand, if one 
is near a railroad or a steamboat landing, there isno reason why he 
should not have almost everything that he wouldif he were athome in 
his own house. It is a fact, however, that it is almost impossible for 
any one to giye instructions which will serve the tyro in his first 
efforts to live comfortably out of doors? The only teacher is experi- 
ence, but Mr. Henderson’s little book will be a help to some of this 
class. Some of his recipes for camp cookery are excellent, as are 
many of the directions in the chapter on accidents and ailments. 
We give a list of the chapters: I. Preparation; Il, Outfit; IT. Shel- 
ter; IV. General Directions; V. Knots and Ties; VI. Camp Cooking; 
Vil. Rodand Line: VIII. How to Make a Fish Net and Hammock; 
IX, The Horsehair Fish Line, X. The Gun; XI. Boats and Boating; 
MIT. Night Spearing; XIII. Accidents and Ailments; XTV, Camp 
Photography. (Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago, M1.). 


florida and the Gaye Water Birds,—In the year 1882 Messrs. 
Robert B. Roosevelt and Seth Green went to Florida in Mr. Roose- 
velt’s yacht, the Heartsease. The trip has been made famous by a 
widely distributed patent medicine advertisement, in which, under 
his portrait and over his signature, Mr. Green deposes that in Florida 
he contracted malaria. At this statement the souls of loyal Floridians 
are greatly vexed withindignation, Another and pleasanter fruit of 
the Heartsease expedition is a book by Mr. Roosevelt, in which he 
details the Florida experience of himself and companions. If 
Floridians resent Mr. Green’s malaria inuendoes, they haye abund- 
ant reason to be pleased with the book. Mr. Rooseyelt always writes 
ina delightful vein when the theme is field or water sport. In the 
present volume the author displays his usual felicity of style, and 
writes with enthusiasm. The log of the yachtis given in detail, and. 
the directions will be found invaluable to those who follow the course 
of the Heartsease from New York to Florida, via the inside passage. 
Mr. Roosevelt is loud in his praises of Florida as 3 winter cruising 
ground, Tothe account of the Florida trip has been added a re- 
vision of a former bookon tke game water birdsof the Atlantic 
coast and thelakes, and those who have long sought in vain for a 
copy of ihe first edition will weleome this reprint. In the several 
chapters Mr. Roosevelt kas stored upa rich fund of gunner’s wisdom, 
and we can heartily commend the work to the novice, who will tind 
here more than he will probably ever learn by experience. The 
hook, otherwise well printed, is disfigured by numerous aged and 
second-hand cuts, the eredit for inserting which, we presume, be- 
longs to thé publishers, (Orange Judd Co.). 

Corpulence and Its Trevtment is a small 
[ F , irom the German of 
(Brentano Bros., New YoRs). _ 


pamphlet, translated 
r. William Ebestein. 


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Fatiiné Powers iw Mrovir Ac® are best rovided against by an 
eudowment policy in the Travelers, of Hartford, @onn. At aga 30, 
an endowment for $1,000 maturing at 50 costs but $89.70 a year. 


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Che Fennel. 


FIXTURES. 


BRNCH SHOWS. 

March 4, 5, 6 and 7.—Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. En- 
tries close Feb. 25. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, vare of B. Kat- 
tredge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

March 12,13 and 14.—New Haven Kennel Chib’s First Annual Bench 


Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward 8. Porter, Secretary, Box 
687 New Haven, Cona. Entries close March 1. 
_ March isto 21.—Washington Bench Show, Masonic Hall, Wash- 
ington, D. ©, Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. 

arch 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 
dent. ©. Greville Harston, Secretary. Toronto. Canada. 

April 4, 4and 5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent.- C. M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio, ~ 

May 6, 7. 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Bighth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden, Entries close April 21. Chas, 
Linegln, pe orend ati. R, G. Cornell. Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. » 


; A. K, R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished-every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany éach entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
‘American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1010, Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50. 


WASHINGTON DOG SHOW. 


rece ene is the premium list for the bench show to be 
held at Washington, commencing March 18: 

Champion mastifis, dogs, champion medal, bitches the same, 
open, dogs, $10 and $5, bitches the same, Rough-coated St, 
Bernards and smooth-coated St. Bernards, same as mastiffs, 
Newfoundlands, $10 and silver medal. Champion greyhound, 
dogs, champion medal, bitches the same; open, dogs, $10 and 
silver medal, bitches the same; puppies, silver medal. Cham- 


pion deerhounds, champion medal; open, $10 and silver medal. 


Champion pointers, dogs and bitches over 55lbs., $15; open,’ 


dogs, $15-and #5; bitches over 50lbs., the same. Champion 
pointers, dogs and bitches under 55lbs., $15; open, dogs, $15 
and $5; bitches under 50lbs., the same}; puppies $7 and $3. 
Champion English setters, dogs, $15; bitches, the same; open, 
dogs, $15 and $5; bitches, the same; puppies, dogs, 87 and $3: 
bitches, the same, Champion black and tan setters, dog or 
bitch, $15; open, dogs, $15 and $5; bitches, the same; puppies, 
$7 and #5. Champion Irish setters, dogs, $15; bitches, the 
same; open, dogs, S15 and #5; bitches, the same; puppies, $7 
and 5. Chesapeake Bay dogs, $10 and silver medal. 
Champion Irish water spaniels, champion medal; open, 
510 and silver medal, Champion field spaniels, any 
color, over 28lbs., champion medal: open, $10 and $5. Cham- 
pion cocker spaniels (any color) under 25lbs., champion medal; 
open, $10 and $5. Champion foxhounds, champion medal; 
open, $10 and $5, Champion beagles, champion medal; open, 
dogs $10 and $5, bitches the same. Dachshunde, $10 and silver 
medal. Champion fox-terriers, champion medal; open, dogs 
$10 and #9, bitches the same; puppies silver medal. Champion 
collie dogs, champion medal, bitches the same; open, dogs 
$10 and 35, bitches the same; puppies silver medal. Ghesinion 
bulldogs, champion medal, bitches the same; open, dogs $10 
and $0, bitches the same. Champion bull-terriers, champion 
medal; open, $10 and $5. Rough-haired terriers $10 and silver 
medal; black and tan terriers, over ‘lbs., 5310 and silver 
medal; Dandy Dinmonits, $10 and silver medal; Irish terriers, 
$l and silver medal. Champion Skye terriers, champion 
medal; open, 510 and $5. Champion pug dogs, champion 
medal, bitches the same; open, dogs $10 and $5, bitches the 
same; puppies silver medal. Champion Yorkshire terriers, 
champion medal; open, $10 and $5. ‘Toy terriers under 7lbs., 
$10 and silver medal. King Charles spaniels, $10 and silver 
medal, Blenheim spaniels, $10 and silver medal. Japanese 
spaniels, $10 and silver medal. Italian greyhounds, $10 and 
silver medal. Miscellaneous, three prizes $5 each, 


NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


Ww have received the premium list of the eighth annual 
bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club, to be held 
at Madison Square Garden, May 6, 7,8 and 9. The list is the 
same as that of last year, except that a class is made for Basset 
hounds, champion and open classes for bull bitches, a class for 
Bedlington terriers, and a dog and bitch class for poodles, 
making 120 classes in all, as agaimst 114 last year, The 
premiums are as follows: Champion mastifis, dogs, champion 
medal, bitches the same; open, dogs $10, $5 and silver medal, 
bitches the same; puppies $9 and silver medal. Rough-coated 
St. Bernards the same as mastiff class, except that puppies 
get $10 and silver medal. Smooth-coated St. Bernards the 
same, Berghunde dogs #10 and silver medal, bitches the 
same. Newfoundlands, dogs or bitches $10 and silver 


medal, Champion greyhounds, dogs champion’ medal, 
bitches the same; open, dogs $10 and silver medal, 
bitches the same; puppies, dogs. or _ bitches, the 


same, Champion deerhounds, dogs or bitches, champion 
medal; open, dogs $10 and silver medal, bitches the same. 
Champion pointers (over 55lbs.) dogs $25, bitches (over 501bs.) 
the same; open, dogs $20, $10 and silver medal, bitches the 
same, small pointer class the same; puppies, dogs over 12 and 
under 18 months $10 and silver medal, b tches the same; under 
12 months, dogs or bitches the same. Champion English 
setber dogs $25, bitches the same; open, dogs $20, $10 and silver 
medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs over 12 and under 18 
months $10 and silver medal, bitches the same; under 12 
months; dogs or bitches, the same. Champion black and tan 
setter dogs $25, bitches the same; open, dogs $20, $10 and 
silyer medal, bitches the samme; puppies, dogs $10 and silver 
medal, bitches the same; Irish setters the same as the black 
and tan setters. Chesapeake Bay dogs, dogs or bitches, $10 
and silver ynedal. Champion Irish water spaniels, dogs or 
bitches, champion medal; open, $10 and silver medal. Champion 
field spaniels (any color) over 2lbs., dogs or bitches, champion 
medal; open, $10 and $5, Champion cocker spaniels (any color) 
under 2kibs., dogs or bitches, champion medal; open (liver and 
black) $10 and #5, any color other than liver or black the 
same; puppies, field or cocker, (any color) $5 and silver 
medal. Champion foxhounds, dogs or bitches, champion 
medal; open, #10, $5 and silver medal. Champion Demenee, 
dogs or bitches, champion medal; open, dogs, $10, $5 and sil- 
yer medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs or bitches, silver 
medal. 
Dachshunde, dogs or bitches, $10 and silver medal. Cham- 
pion fox-terriers, dogs, champion medal; bitches the same; 
open, dogs, $10, $5 and silver medal, bitches the same; pup- 
pies, dogs, silver medal, bitches the same. Wire-haired tox- 
terriers, dogs or bitches. $10 and $5. Champion collies, dogs, 
champion medal, bitches the same; open, dogs, $10, 35 
and silver medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs, silver medal, 
bitches the same. Champion bulls, dogs, champion medal, 
bitches (if of sufficient merit) the same; open, cogs, 
$10, $5 and- silver -medal, bitcics the same. Champion 
bull-terriers over 25]bs,, dogs or bivcties, champion medal; 


open, $10, $5 and silver medal; class under 25lbs. the same; 


puppies, silver medal. Black and tan terriers over 71bs., dogs 
or bitches, $10 and silver medal; rough-haired terriers the 


Basset hounds, dogs or bitches, $10 and silver medal. ~ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


same; Dandie Dinmont terriers the same; Irish terriers the 
same; Bedlington terriers the same. Champion Skye ter- 
riers, dogs or bitches, champion medal; open, $10, $5 amd sil- 
ver medal. Champion pugs, dogs, champion medal, bitches 
the same; open, dogs, #0: $5 and silver medal, bitches the 
same; puppies, silver medal. Champion Yorkshire terriers 
over 5lbs,, dags or bitches, champion medal; open, $10, $5 
and silyer medal; class under 5lbs, the same. Toy terriers 
other than Yorkshire under “lbs., $10 and silver medal; King 
Charles spaniels the same; Blenheim spaniels the same; Jap- 
anese spaniels the same; Italian greyhounds the same. 
Poodles, dogs, the same, bitches the same. Miscellaneous 
class: oyer 25lbs., $10, $5 and silver medal; class under 25lts. 
thesame. Inaddition to the above list it is expected that a 
large number of valuable specials will be offered. Entries 
close April 23. 


Editor Forest and Strean; 

The managers of the bench show have decided to give a 
champion medal for the best bull bitch in Class 87, provided 
there is a bitch worthy of it in the opinion of the judges. 

CHas. LINCOLN, Supt. 

New YorE. March 3, 1884, ’ 


IMPORTATION OF BEAGLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The steamship Pennsylvania, which arrived at this port Feb. 
27, brought three beagles consigned to Wm. H. Ashburner of 
this city, president of the beagle club. 

As this importation is of direct interest to the breeders of 
beagles, giving fo aeRO of fresh crosses with some of the 
most approved of the British strains, it is proper to give the 
following description of them: 

Minstrel, a black, white and tan dog hound, from a noted 
pack in Cornwall, a second season dog and two years old, of 
nice style and quality, good eyes, ears well carried and of good 
length, excellent body, legs and feet, altogether a desirable 
hound, This dog was selected by Louis Clement (‘Wild- 
fowler”), the well-known correspondent of the London Fie/d, 
and formerly its kennel editor, now eC nEnee and proprietor 
of the Kennel News, Lcndon, England. - 

“Wildfowler” was at particular trouble and care in procur- 
ing this beagle, and speaks in high terms of his blood and 
breeding. 

Owing to delay in the mails, the extended pedigree has not 
been yet received from abroad. 

Foreman, tan, lemon and white dog, four years old, ten 
inches at shoulder, has a well dumed skull, broad across the 
top, excellent ears, eyes of true beagle character, good coat of 
proper texture, body cobby_and compact, a grand little dog, 
and of the accepted type. Bred by Mr. J. Crane, Surry, Eng- 
and. 

PEDIGREE OF ENGLISH BEAGLE DOG FOREMAN, 
Foreman. 


Bravo. Honesty. 


oe 
Fashion. Butterfly. Hymen, Moorhen, 
Hymen, by Pilgrim (Pealer—Dewdrop) outof Harmony. Dewdrop, 
by Damper out of Precious. 


Deborah, black, white and tan bitvh, two years old, height 
ten (10) inches at the shoulder. This is a remarkably fine 
beagle: indeed, it is a question if her superior can be found in 
this country. In many of the points that go tomake up the 
first-class hound she cannot be excelled. In head, eyes, ears, 
muzzle, jaw and lips she is wonderfully fine, while her legs 
and feet are of the best, and her general appearance very at- 
tractive. 

PEDIGREE OF ENGLISH BEAGLE BITCH DEBORAH, 


Deborah. 


Rachel. 


Dewdrop, 
ae 


Damper. 


Miraculous. 


at ess 
Mushroom, Pleasant. Pealer. 


——— ———— ——S 
Pilgrim. Harmovy. Damper. Precious. Precious. 

The bitch Deborah is an inbred Damper, sire of Mr. Crane's 
famous 10-inch dog Giant, that is claimed to be the best beagle 
in England, Precious, to whom she is also clesely inbred, won 
first and cup at Crystal Palace, London, and first and cup at 
Portsmouth, the only times shown, 

Foreman and Deborah were bred by Mr. J. Crane, of South- 
over House, Surrey, England, The Crane strain of beagles 
are admitted to be the best in England. Stonehenge, in ‘Dogs 
of the British Islands,” makes special mention of them, and 
selected Giant and Ringlet, two of Mr. Crane’s breeding, to 
illustrate his article on the beagle. ' 

Foreman and Deborah were purchased of E, Carew-Gibson, 
Esq., of Sussex, England. 

Mr. Ashburner’s importation experienced a very rough pass- 
age out, but arrived in good condition. RUSTICUS. 


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 29. 


BEAGLES AND WILDCATS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: - 

My friend C. and I had agreed to have a chase as soon as the 
weather cleared. Jan, 18 opened as dark and dreary as some 
preceding days, but toward noon the clouds disappeared and 
the evening was calm, bright and pleasant, It was just the 
evening almost any one, be he sportsman or other, could enjoy 
in the open air after having been housed for a week. So, 
early in the afternoon, my son (who. for the occasion, acted as 
our whipper in) and I, mounted and equipped, were prepared 
for the promised hunt. Our hounds, it seems, had anticipated 
the eyent and had preceded us to the woods and at that 
moment were tunning quite lively not more than half a mile 
away. We were off for them in a twinkling, but before we 
overtook them the wildcat was up a tree. We had some 
beagle puppies with us, and, wishing to see how they would 
perform in a cat chase, we tried to jump the game out by 
throwing stones and sticks at it, but it did not secm disposed 
to come down. We drew a Colt’s .44, then it tumbled. 

On to meet C., whom we soon joined. His three hounds 
increased our pack, all told, to twelve dogs. This little dog is 
King Charlie, first at New York in May, 1884; but he gets his 
prizes at shows. This trim, blueticked and tan bitch is Flora, 
the dog without a registered pedigree, bub whose fame is at- 
tested by the bleaching skeletons of her many victims in the 
hills and vales of Southwest Texas, and this black and tan 
dog is Cap, The others are promising young hounds on the 
road to fame. 

We make a cast down the creek half a mile, finding noth- 
ing, and swing around to the hilison the right. Soon Cap 
gives tongue, and is quickly joined by the pack. They are 
getting settled down to their work about night, when a fine 
old buck shows up in front. Cap. Charlie and some of the 
others can’t resist the temptation, so after the antlers they go, 
Flora and one other holding steadily to first game. The whip 
goes after the truants and succeeds in bringing part of them 
back. C. andI follow thetwo. They carry they game cir- 
cling to our left. Their ery, once lost in the distance, is again 
heard as they come around, as if coming back to the place of 

ne. The whip having rejoined us, we hasten to meet 
them, but before we get to them they have overtaken the cat 
and are holding her at bay in thick live oak runners about as 
high as our horses. She fuakes frequent attempts to brea 
and save herself by flight again, but the hounds compel her to 
turn and fight for life. Once I saw her have poor old Flora 
down, but the yous bloods closed in and compelled her to at- 
tend to them, “At another time Isaw her make directly for 
C., and I expected she would attempt to mount up with him, 
but she only passed under his horse, On account of the brush 


and the fear of killing a dog, it was some time before we 
could get in a shot, but at last the opportunity came and a 
shot from C.’s .45 ended the fray. _ : 

On again we went, and when we had eee. but a short 
distance a fine blue doe passed just in front of us, butas we 
were not after deer we let her pass without a shot, and suc- 
ceeded in getting our dogs across the scent without any of 
them getting off after her. Another half mile Flora challenges 
to scent, and the young hounds were soon at work. A spirited 
little chase reminds the old gent that itis best to quit the 
ground, But we didnot have to apply our noses to the tree, 
as the captain of the ’coon hunters did, for he was in plain 
view. <A crack of my long whip persuaded the old scamp it 
was time tobe going. Down he came and imade good his 
escape to the brush. The dogs, however, after an exciting 
chase, having several times been thrown over the scent hy his 
doubling on them, brought him to bay, when again the bullet 
did the work for cat No, 3. 

_ The snort blown, we prepared for home, but Daisy! Where 
is the little beagle Daisy? The horns ring again and again. 
but she don’t appear. The whip is sent to hunt her, and soon 
returns with her in his arm, torn or cut and bleeding, and re- 
ports that where found the scent of the musk-hog was so rank 
that he felt uneasy when he dismounted to get the puppy: 
Our time was up,and as we were going home the dogs 
started another cat, but circumstances compelled us to leave 
some of them in the woods, Lame and tired they came home 
next day, J.8. H. 


RancH, Bee County, Texas, 


BEAGLES FOR FOXES. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

Replying to ‘‘Bugle,” Iwould say that beagles are not at- 
all suitable for fox hunting, although for fox shooting they are 
deadly enough. : 

An ayerage pack of beagles will carry a cold trail with 
abont the same speed and precision as an average pack of fox 
hotihds, while for heating cover late in the day beagles will be 
at a positive advantage, chiefly from their habits of working 
through elose briers and inspecting knolls and tussocks in 
swampy places, for the beagle hunts a good deal by sight un- 
til the game is a-foot, and foxes love to lie in such places as 
the hare chooses for her form. But when once the fox is 
started the beagle’s usefulness ends. A red fox will canter 
away from them, and they cannot force him to give olf a good 
body scent; while even a gray fox will piay before them all 
day long quite cool and self-possessed. 

But if the object is to exterminate foxes with the oun, then, 
most assuredly, the beagle should be the chosen agent, for he 
will show up the quarry much oftener than foxhounds do, 

I may add, that in this section of country foxes are never 
shot, and no man can think ot such a deed witnout a shudder. 
True, there is no statute on the subject, bub the omission is 
doubtless on the Spartan principle, that to imagine the possi- 
bility of a crime so base would be an insult to the common- 
weaJth. 

Wecanimagine Mare Antony pledgmg his dusky queen in 
all the pearls of the Orient, and some sympathizing soul, ob- 
livious of the waste, shouting, ‘‘Hurrah ior Antony!” We 
can see the midnight incendiary, caught torch in hand, wring- 
ing drops of pity from his captors’ eyes by raising his shriy- 
elled fingers and protesting they are cold. Wé canses the 
baffled Horse thief remounted on the favorite mare and dis- 
missed with a foaming stirrup-cup, on pleading thal bis less 
are tired. . 

For acts like these some palliating feature may well be 
found; but, alas! who can imagine any word of extenuation 
falling from the pallid lips of the man who has shot a fox} 

WAUZER, 

Guun VALLEY, Va,, March 1, 1854. 


\Mditor Forest and Stream: 

I don’t want any beagles for hunting foxes in this country, 
They cannot be heard far enough, and I don’t believe they 
can stand it} Now what Iuse and whatJI think is best for » 
hunting the fox is a short-legged dog, with heavy bones, large 
feet, and very slow. With this kind of dog I can kill my fox 
very nearly every time. I have shot nine and my partner 
five. We have three hounds—two very slow dogs and one 
very fast bitch. Weuse the slow dogs until Sin the after- 
noon; if the fox is not killed befure that then we take off the 
dogs and put on the bitch. She will catch or run them down 
in a very short time, and we hardly ever lose a fox. 

There are a good many rabbits, foxes, squirrels, pattiidges, 
ducks, ete., here. If any sportsman shouid pass this way let 
him make mea visit, and Iwill see that he is well taken 
care of. BR. G, B, 


Scort, Wisconsin. 


DUKE. 
SECOND BARK, 


UKE had been on his good behavior for two weeks, and 

it was generally believed that he had reformed when, 

early one morning, Mr. H. was startled by an exclamation 
from ‘Manuel, { 

‘Fo? goodness sake Mars H., look at dat bird!” ' 

Coming across the lawn was a curious looking fowl. with the 
head of aturkey gobbler and a body that resembled a Hub- 
bard squash that had been dipped in molasses and rolled in 
feathers. ; 

“What is it, *Manuel—it must be a wounded buzzard?” _ 

‘Spec it am; ant dars law ‘boutkillin’ dem buzzards, Some 
o’ dem Smif boys bin done it, 1 spec, Pil jis go——” 

“Manuel! You ’Manuel!” and Aunt Phyllis beckoned ex- 
citedly to her man, who started toward the kitchen, as Mr. H. 
walked toward the bird for a closer view. . 

“Tt’s too light for a buzzard, and yet—” A quick, sharp yelp 
from the neighborhood of the servants’ quarters, and Duke 
sped across the field closely: pursued by Aunt Phyllis and 
‘Mantel, armed with broom and cluthes prop. 

“Oh you inceitful, disrepentent hound! !llflam yer wuss 
dan dat ‘fi ketch you!" shouted Phyllis, asshe shook the broom 
and stopped to pant. J : ; 

‘How's dat tur a prize turkey?’ said “Manuel, bitterly, as 
he waved his arm iu the direction of the dilapidated fowl on 
thelawn. ‘Bin workin’ on dat gobbla six weeks, Mars H,, 
? git him fat an’slick fur de powltree show, ‘Spected fust 
prize, an?’ now look at him? Don't spec I could put desein 
agin,” as he picked up a handful of tail feathers that Aunt 
Phillis had found back of the smoke house and dropped again 
in her excitement. ‘ j é - ofl 

“No, ‘Manuel, his beauty is spoiled for this season, if not 
forever. If Dukecomes back before night, give him a whip- 


Mars H., is you gwine ter keep dat dog?” asked Aunt 


Phyllis, impressively. . 
“Well, ot Phyllis, I don’t see how 1 can part with the 
mischievous rascal,” ' 
“Den Tse gwine ter hunt a place termorrer!” and Aunt 


Phyllis strode majestically into the kitchen, 
“Well, *Man, I suppose you will go too?” ra. 
“Mars H. if you let dat dog pick all de turkeys on de taum 
faint none o’ my bizniz; an’ J’se “ticlat ‘posed t’ lettin’ a dog 
dribe me outen a good home. Phyllis kin go—I stays!” an 
he almost. broke into a broad grin as the sort'y-looking turkey 
obbler limped past the kitchen door in full sight uf Aunt 
hy lis, ; 


* #A]l right "Manuel, P'll get -you auother gobbler. Don’t op- 


ose Aunt Phyllis and she will not stay away long,” and Mr. 
Rr’ after examining and cape the proper treatment of the 
wounded fowl, departed for the ¢ : 


ty. 


“True ’ 
morning 


truthfully lay claim to ‘‘blue blood” from being 


‘one?’ 


aed 


to har award, Phyllis wes 


ready to depart early next 
“tsa you. ewine, ‘Manuel? Is you gwine ter let me go 


“oF you don't know when you’se well off, I does; and I’se 
swine *h stay well off, dat’s me!” and "Manuel turned to leave 


Or. ] 
“Pse jis fooled ‘nough wid dat dog, and I’se gwine.” 
“Good bye, Phyllis.” 
“Good bye, Man,” and they parted. Everett Von CuLin. 


LICE ON DOGS. 


Editor Forest and Strewm: f . 
The remedies supplied in your last issue in an article—‘‘Lice 
on Dogs”—are all good, especially when applied as you direct. 
In addition thereto, would add that a saturated solution of 
common salt in water with some saltpetre, the AS, of 
saltpetre at pleasure, applied warm, is equally good. Kills the 
eggs and parasites and all is over, wHless the animal is allowed 
to play with others infested. How many owners of dogs take 
esre of their animals, or know how to? Right here, I will add, 
that a mixture of equal parts of boracic acid, vaseline, oil of 
tar and Jac sulphur, will cure the worst case of mange with 


two applications, and, equal parts of vaseline and boracic 


acid, will cure canker of the ear with three per 
HOMAS Bor. 
| Urica, March 1, 1884. 


THE NATIONAL STUD BOOK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Nearly four years ago I paid to the Secretary of the National 
American Kennel Club the fees for the registration of one or 
two dogs. IL have, in common with many more, waited 
pecuily the appearance of their second volume of the Stud 
Book, 

In the only report that I have seen of the late business 
meeting of the N.A.K.C, not one word is said about the Stud 
Book. Willi Mr. Bryson kindly say whether the club has 
given the matter up as hopeless? I certainly think the many 
contributors of “quarters” are entitled to a report, if nothing 
more. tor their money. Respectfully, 

JAMES WATSON. 


New Yors. March 3, 1854. 


WHAT DOGS SHALL BE REGISTERED? 


OMB of the breeders are discussing in the American Ken- 
net Register the propriety of restricting registration in that 
book. We quote below the letter which has given rise to this 
discussion: 
Editor American Kennel Register: 2 
he writer is a subscriber to the American Kennel Register, 
is an owner of dogs registered therein, is an admirer of all 
dogs whose pedigrees are pure and whose deeds are untar- 
nished, and desires not only to see pure bred ioe recognized 
at their true yalue, but also desires to protect those who can 
placed upon 
an equality with dogs whose only recommendation is their 
owner's personal regard, and whose only prima facie evidence 
of respectab‘lity is the fact of their registration in the Amer- 
ican Kennel Register. 

The blanks, which are furnished to applicants who desire to 
register their canine pets, trace the pedigree back to the great 
grand sire and dam on the side of both sire and dam, 

When a dog is duly registered and assigned a number in the 
American Kennel Register she becomes known as Lassie 
(A.K.B. 199), or Lassie (A.K.R. 208), or Lassie (A,K_R. 445), or 
Lassie (A.K.R. 625), and I think the management of the 
American Kennel Register will agree with me that a regis- 
tration is, and ought to be, accepted as an evidence of freedom 
from bastardy, and as possessing qualities of blood or bench 
show or field t#ial records, desirable to breed from and to 
own. 

Lam an owner of pure bred dogs, and desire to protect not 
only myself, but also all ny brethren in the field of caninology, 
and J know that they will indorse whatIsay. It has been 
said that ‘Illustration is the picture of thought,” and being 
compelled to give examples of faulty registration, will use 
only the names of gentlemen who are known to be most ex- 
cellent connoisseurs of purity of blood, aud to possess whose 
friendship is both an honor and a pleasure. While in the cases 
of registration I shall quote, the names of the owners are in 
themselves a sufficient guarantee of truthfulness and respect- 
ability, yet others might enter their stock in exactly a similar 
manner, and both dogs and owners be, in the language of our 
friend Barnum, “a prince of humbugs.” 

To illustrate: ‘Fly (851), black and tan bitch, date of birth 
not known. Breeder, Capt. Graham, Londonderry, Ireland. 
Sire, Davidson's Firefiy. Dam, Graham’s Beauty.” 

“Tweed (835), black, white breast, dog, date of birth not 
stated, Breeder, Mr. W. B. Macbeth, Forfar, Scotland, Sire, 
Rob Roy. Dam, Helen McGregor.” 

“Tassie (199) * 7 * % * * 

Sire, Van Schaick’s Punch. Dam, Van Schaick’s Bess.” 

In the above cases I have transeribed from the pages of the 
American Kennel Register. Nothing else is needed than the 
names of the owners to insure respectability; but Smith and 
Jones can also send ina Tweed and Fly, and a Black or Brown 
can register a dog out of his Punch and Bess, and what rea- 
son haye we to think that they are any better than the waifs 
of fortune, or perhaps it would be better to say, of misfor- 
tune, that are continually happening into existence in eve 
back alley? What is it that makes ‘““Burke’s Peerage” a wor 
of influence, or “‘Wallace’s Horse Register” valuable to the 
breeder or owner? _ : 

What is the course of action which will make the pages of 
the American Kennel Register stand upon an equality with 
the above? It is to be obtained by excluding dogs who 
do nut produce proof of being valuable in other than the 
owner's eyes, The mere fact of Jack being imported from 
Treland, or Jill from Scotland, is no guarantee of purity of 
blood. They have as Many curs and mongrels over there as 
do we in this country. nd I could ere this have entered 
my “Boxer,” by my ‘‘Old Jack,” out of my “Nell,” only that, 
I ve considered that it would be lowering the standard of 
registration, and tend to make it a laughing stock and a by- 
word and reproach. Is it any evidence that my ‘‘Boxer” 
is any better than any other cur, because I happen to own 
his sire and dam? 

Tmust bee your pardon tor writing at such length; it is my 
purpose and desire always to condense my few ideas in as 
small a space as possible, and only desired in this brief squib 
to start the ball a rolling, and obtain the opinions of brother 
breeders upon this subject. In closing, I will with due bumility 
offer the following suggestions, to wit: 

Tirst—Every dog registeredin the American Kennel Register 
must have a complete authentic pedigree, as the registration 
blank provides: or, 

Second—The parent (of the dog registered), whose pedigree 
is unknown, must have been placed either in a field trial or 
at_a bench show, held under proper kennel club ruies; or, 

Third—The dog registered must have been placed in a field 
trial or taken a prize in a bench show, held under properly 
acknowledged kennel club rules, his pedigree according to 
rule first being incomplete, or the stipulation in rule second 
being unfulfilled. ~*~ a 

- I should be pleased to read the ideas wpon this subject 

! cally of such gentlemen as Dr. Jarvis, Dr. Downey, Mr. 
Me os Messrs. Rutherfurd, Mr, Wade, Messrs. Thayer & Bros., 
nud others, 


C. Van W, Fise. 


omienoe Lassie Rep 


ALE, eve ’ 
Bttrick Blepherd (A. K,R. 534). 


R. 893) “| 


CURRENT DOG STORIES. 
Ve 


Mr, N, ©, Chichester, superintendent of Arnold’s chair 
factory, tells a wonderful dog story. On Thursday he was 
looking’ out on the river from an upper window of the factory’ 
when he discovered a dog in the ferry track, struggling hard 
to get out, The dog would swim along the edge of the ice, 
then get both feet on it and raise himself partly out of the 
water and fall back. The animal did this once or twice, when 
another dog was seen hurrying to the spot, The latiter seized 
the half drowned dog by the neck and pulled and tugged 
away, vainly endeavoring to haul him out. He got himnearly 
out two or three times, but each time he fell back. Suddenly 
the would-be rescuer started like lightning for the shore, and 
the dog in the water kept up his struggles. In a minute or 
two the other dog was seen returning and there was a man 
with him, who was running, Dog and man reached the 
drowning dog in time to pull him out, and all started for the’ 
shore. When the two dogs reached the bridge which leads 
from the ice to the Brewery pier they laid down side by side, 
and made extraordinary manifestations of joy and delight, 
and their cries, not barks, were incessant. The dog that 
was saved is owned by Mr. Geo. Lumb, of Swart & Lumb 
Bros., and the dog that went to his rescue is a hunting dog 
belonging to isaav H. Wood, of the Exchange House. Taking 
everything into consideration it was a most wonderful oecur- 
ence,—Poughkeepsie (N.¥.) Eagle, Feb. 6, 1854. 

XXVI. 


General Cass’s position on the slave question while he was a 
candidate for the Presidency was 4 subject of much discussion 
and no little ridicule. Among other stories told was one by a 
Kentuckian, who would preface his remarks by drawing from 
one pocket a copy of the Cleveland Plaindealer, and froin the 
other a copy of the Nashville Union. He would then read 
from the Plaindealev the most strenuous assurances to the 
Democracy of the North that General Cass was a Wilmot pro- 
viso man, and from the Union assurances just as positive that 
General Cass was a pro slavery man. 

“Now, I am not good at speaking,” continued the Ken- 
tuckian, “but the Michigan man’s position puts me in mind of a 
little circumstance which happened in my neighborhood in 
Kentucky some time ago, which I must tell you. I had a 
neighbor by the name of Martin, who was an uncemmon 
clever physician and an importer of fine stock. One day the 
doctor stopped to get his horse shod at neighbor Burd’s, the 
blacksmith, who lived about two miles from the doctor’s 
house. The doctor commenced talking about his beautiful 
Berkshire pigs, and told the blacksmith, in a fit of liberality, 
that he would give him a pig out of the next litter ‘Su’ had, 

“Tn the course of two months or such a matter, the doctor 
called at the shop and told neighbor Bird that ‘Su’ had had a 
fine litter, and to send and get his pig, So Bird posts his man 
Bob off with his wife's large willow basket to get the pig, 
Between Bird’s and Martin’s Sam Smith, who was a great 
quiz, kept a little grocery, and seeing Bob coming post haste 
on his master’s horse old Tom, with the basket on his arm, 
he sang out, ‘Halleo Bob, where are you goiug in such a hurry 
this morning? ‘Tis gwine to Massa Doctor Martin’s to get 
Massa Tom’s Buckshur pig, what massa doctor promised Massa 
Tom the las’ time he shod his hoss,’ said the negro as he reined 
in his animal. ‘Well, Bob. you must stop as you come back 
and let me see the pig.’ ‘Dat I will, Massa Sam, that I will,’ 
and away he went ati the top of ‘old Tom's’ speed. 

“Tn less than au hour Bob returned with a genuine swine, 
and, alighting at the grocery, he lifted the cover of the basket, 
and to the astonished gaze of the grocery man, who imagined 
a Berkshire to be something more than a mere hog, exhibited 
a very beautiful specimen of a jet black pig. An idea struck 
Sam Smith to play a joke on Bob, and knowing his propensity 
to imbibe, told him to go in the grocery and get a dram. 
While Bob was gone, Sam Smith ran around the back of the 
house and got a little black per about the same heft, and took 
the pig out of the basket and put the pupin. When Bob came 
out and mounted his nag, Sam Smith handed him the basket 
and off he went. On arriving at home the blacksmith asked 
him if he had got the pig. ‘Yes, massa, and a werry fine pi 
he be, too,’ said Bob, lifting up the cover, ‘black as a coal, 
when, to the utter astonishment of Bob and Bird, there lay a 
little black curly puppy. ‘Is that a Berkshire pig? asked the 
blacksmith in amazement; ‘why, it is a pup, not a pig? 
‘Bless de Lord,’ said Bob, ‘he be pig when I put him in the 
basket, but he changed to pup!’ ‘Take him back, sir,’ said 
Bird, highly indignant, ‘and tell sDoctor Martin that I don’t 
want to be fooled with his puppies, andif he don’t want to 
give me a Berkshire pig, to say so.’ 

“Bob started back, and, naturally enough, hestopped at the 
grocer’s to relate his mishaps to Sam Smith, who heard him 
out with a countenance expressive of wonder, at the same 
time doing his best to control his increasing desire to burst 
into fits. ‘Well, get down, Bob,’ said the grocer, ‘and have 
another dram.’ Bob didn't require a second invite, aud while 
he was getting his ‘bald face,’ the grocer took the pup from 
the basket, and put back the PB: ‘Massa Sam,’ said Bob, 
coming out to mount his horse, ‘lam mighty obfusticated 
‘bout dis pig. First I think him pig, I know he is pig first, and 
den I know he is pup, too, Ain’t you sartin, Massa Sam, he 
was pig first? asked Bob, as he mounted his crittur. ‘Pll 
swear to it,’ replied Smith, and away rode Bob for the 
doctor's. 

“On arriving at the house, Bob delivered his message, but 
the doctor seeming somewhat incredulous as to the truth of 
the story, Bob with a flourish of insulted veracity opened the 
lid of the basket, when lo, there was the identical pig that he 
had started with. Bob stood transtixed, and with eyes protrud- 
ing and mouth open, remarked: ‘For God, taint no use, massa, 
he be pup or pig, just_as he pleases.’” The crowd became 
convulsed with laughter, and gave the Kentuckian three 
cheers.—Ben Perley Poore, in Bostow Budget. 


XXVIL 

A superior setter dog which probably had been in the woods 
a year or more and become wild, was lately run down by a 
pack of hounds and captured near Crawfordsyille,Ga, He was 
of large size and extremely thin, but soon became tame and 
manageable. He is supposed to have escaped from a passing’ 
train of cars.—Germantown Telegraph. 

‘XXVIII. 

A shabbly dressed man, who carried 4 bundle loosely 
wrapped in a newspaper, and was followed by a small white 
dog that barked playfully as it snapped at his heels, walked 
along the west track of the Harlem Railroad toward Williams- 
bridge at a few minutes before § o'clock yesterday morning, 
At the curve a few hundred feet south of the station the man 
stepped to the east track to avoid a south-bound train that he 
saw coming. The deg ran ahead of him, and barked at the 
traiv asit passed. ‘The noise of the train drowned the noise 
made by rapid transit train 24, north-bound on the east track, 
The e e struck the man and killed him, It also struck the 
dog and broke his leg. When the train was stopped the dog, 
with one of its fore paws hanging disabled, stood whining 
over the dead man. At first it flew savagely at those who 
tried to remove the body, but finally, appearing to understand 
that their intentions were friendly, caught the coal collar of 
the dead man and tried to move him. The body was litted on 


}a shutter and carried tothe Tremont station. The dog fol- 


lowed a short distance, and then disappeared. All who wit- 


‘messed the scene, and others who were told of it, were anxious 


to find the dog and care for its injured lee. A search was in- 
stituted for it by over 100 people, including policemen, and 


kept up last night, but without suecess.— Sun, 


A good story is told of the presence of mind of a New Hamp- 


| shire deacon, who was very fond of dogs. - He had one valu- 


_ 


able setter that he had trained himself, and that understood 
his every word and slightest gesture with an almost human 
intelligence, One evening at a prayer meeting the good man 
was oftering an earnest exhortation and the people sat with 
bowed heads, giving earnest attention. The audience faced 
the stand where sat the pastor; the doors opened on either 
side, All at once one of the doors, which had been left ajar, 
was pushed open and the handsome head of the deacon’s 
favorite setter was thrust in, The head was followed by the 
body, and the dog in toto had just started with a joyful bound 
toward its master. The deacon generally Imew what was 
oing on about him, whether he was praying or shooting, and 
the first moyement of the intruder attracted his attention 
Quick as a flash the deacon, raising bis hand with a warning 
gesture, exclaimed, ‘Thou hast given us our charge; help us 
to keepit.” At the emphasized word, so well known to his 
canine ear, the handsome brute stopped, asif shot, on the 
very threshold of the door, with his egret eye fixed on 
his master. In the same unmoved tone, with a slight wave of 
the extended hand, ‘‘We would not return back to Thee with 
our duty on earth unfulfilled.” Again the perfect training of 
the deacon’s pet was made evident, for without a whimper he 
turned as noiselessly as he had entered, and remained quietly 
outside until his master appeared.—Boston (Mass.) Globe, 


REMEDY FOR WORMS.—Sayannah, Ga.—Editor Forest 
und Stream: After trying many remedies and losing many 
valuable whelps from worms I find the best remedy for that 
complaint to qe twenty drops of Fahnestock’s vermifuge, 
given twice a day for three days to a puppy four weeks old, 
and in proportion according to the age. It was prescribed by 
my physician for my child. After trying santonin, areca nut, 
turpentine and oil on my pups I lost two, and the rest were 
greatly reduced, so much so that on leaying them at night L 
expected them to be dead in the morning. y wife suggested 
the vermifuge. I used it, and with wonderful result, each 
puppy passing worms enough to have filled a tea cup; and 
now they are well. It acted in about four hours after the first 
dose, continuing through the next day. I send you this, hoping 
it may be of as much benefit to your readers as it has been to 
me.—VITUS. 


A HOUND'S SINGULAR DEATH,.—Oxtford, Me., Feb, 25,— 
Last Saturday a fox driven by a hound took for the railroad. 
track. The fox was so loaded down with snow and rain as to 
be hardly able to drag one foot after the other, There it was 
met by an approaching train and barely cleared the track in 
time fo save its life. The pursuing hound was less fortunate, 
and was ground to pieces beneath the wheels of the locomo- 
tive. The hound was owned by Samuel Wardwell, of Oxford, 
Ae He refused an offer of $100 last fall for her.—JosH 

EEMS. 


A COLLAR FOR NO. 1000.—The Arerican Kennel Reg- 
ister numbers for March rise up into the four digits. The 
Medford Faney Goods Company, 101 Chambers street, have 
emphasized this progress of the Register by giving one of their 
handsome colars to the thousandth dog. As the Register is 
not out Pha we are not at liberty to givethe name of the for- 
tunate dog, but it will be announced next week. 


CINCINNATI DOG SHOW.—Special Dispatch to Forest 
and Stream: There were about 300 dogs present ab the open 
ing of the show, Many of the best dogs in the oountry are 
here. The attendance is very good for the first day.—M. 


MR. W. H. PIERCE,.of the Glencho Kennels, Peekskill, 
N. Y., has been spending the winter, with several of his dogs, 
shooting in Volusia and Hernando counties, Fla. He reports 
excellent quail, snipe and duck shooting. 


NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW.— Judging of sporting classes 
will be commenced by Mr. Watson at 11 A. M. instead of at 2 
P, M,.on March 12, 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge, To msures 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal; 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed., buyer or seller, 

3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire, 


5. Date of bi th, ef breeding or 9, Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 


paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 

ES See instructions at head of this column. 

Busy and Baneful. By Mr. T. G. Tucker, South Gaston, N. C,, for 
Byron foxhound bitches, whelped Feb. 25, by Epps (Brodnax’s Spot 
— ) out of Bett (Watchman—Hannah), 

Donald 1, By Mr. C, M. Munhall, Cleveland, 0., for liver and 
white ticked pointer dog, whelped August, 18#2, by champion Donald 
out of Devonshire Lass (Don—Lady). 

Blue Frisk. By Mr. J. M, Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., for blacik, 
white and tan English setter bitch, whelped Aug. 29, 1883 (Rush 
Gladstone—Clara), 

Brit. By Mr. Dan Storrs, Lebanon, N. H., for black, white and tan 
beagle dog, whelped Aug. 16, 1883, by Mr, N. Elmore’s imported Ring- 
wood out of Thorne. 

Jueen Bow. By Mr, George Hooyer, Canal Fulton, 0.. for lemon 
and white pointer bite, whelped Noy. 14, 183, by King Bow (A.K,R. 
83) out of Bow Queen (A.K.R. 558). 

Pert, By Mr. Eugene D. Chaplin, Bridgton, Me., for liver cocker 
spaniel bitch, whelped Aug, 10, 1888, by Piper (Col, Stubbs—Beauty) 
out of Quand (Captain—Fanny Fern). 

Pat Glencho, Mike Glencho, Dan Glencho, Dick Glencho, Mack 
Glencho and Ned Glencho. By Mr, Wm. K. Lente, Seville, Fla., for 
See eae dogs, whelped Jan, 27. by Glencho out of his Trix 

A.C. R, 187). 
¢ Hileen Trix, Bridget Trix, Kathleen Trix and Queen Trix. By 
Mr. Wm. K. Lente, Seville, Fla,, for red Ivish setter bitches, whelped 
Jan. 27, by Glencho out of his Trix (A.E.R, 187). 

Pippo. By Mr, Joseph D. Culver, New London, Conn., for red Irish 
setter dog, whelped July 21, 1888, by Elcho (A, KR. 295) ont of Meg 
(A.K,R. 425). 

Dushing Ruby. By My. L. ¥. Patterson, Bainbridge, Ga., tor liver 
pointer bitch, whelped July 24, 1883, by Nip (Rush—Tina) out of Josie 
(Bow—Topsy). 

Blister, Boaster and Bruntor. By Mr, T. G. Tucker, South Gas- 
ton, N. C,, for Byron foxhound dogs, whelped Feb. 25. by Epps (Brod- 
nax’'s Spot— ) ont of Bett (Watchman—Hannah), 

Tuck, By Mr. J. W, Gross, Harrisburg, Pa., for black, white and 
tan beagle bitch, whelped Nov, 26, 1888, by Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) 
out of Myrtle (Rattler—Luln). 

Nora via By Mr. John Wilkinson. Vermont, [ll,, for red Irish setter 
bitch, whelped July 9, 1883 (Rory O'’More—Nora O*More). 

Sport. By Mr. Arthur D. Martin. Hartford, Conn,, for English 
setter dog, whelped April, i8&3, by Echo (Fly—Queen) out of Pearl 
(Duke—Nell). 

Belle Ringwood, By Mr. A. C. Krueger, Wrightsville. Pa., for 
white, black and tan beagle bitch, whelped Noy, 18, 1883, by imported 
Ringwood out of Belle. | 

Bessy. By Mr. Haven Doe, Salmon Falls, N. H., for biack, white 
and tan beagle bitch. whelped Nov. 21, 1883, by inmported Ringwood 
out of Music Ii. 

BUNNY, BY Mr, Haven Doe, Salmon Falls, N.-H., for black, white 
and tan beagle dog, whelped Noy. 13, 1883, by imported Ringwood out 


of Belle. s 
By Mr. C. W. Littlejohn, Leesburg, Va.. for lemon and 


Ryitz. 
white ticked pointer dog, whelped June 7, 1881 (Beawlort—Spot). 

Pilot. By Mr. C. W. Littlejohn, Leesburg, Va., for lemon and white 
polnter (og, whelped June 23, 1880 (Scout—Spot). 

Nip. By Mr. J. W. Gross, Harrisburg, Pa., for black, white and tan 
beagle dog, whelped Noy, 12, 1283, by Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) 
out of Silver (Ihite—Bess), n ol 

RED, 


E> See instructions at head of this column, . 
Lassle—Grlevicho, - Mr. 'T, D,, Husted's (Peekskill, N.Y.) red Irish 

ae biteh Lassie to Mr. W, H. Pierce's Glencho (Richo—Noreeni, 
eb. 9, r 


a a EEE ES EE eee eee 


Claire—Glencho. Mr. James T. Walker's (Baltimore, Md.) red Irish 
setter bitch Claire (A.K.R. 283) to Mr. W. H. Pierce’s Glencho (Eluho 
—Noreen). Feb. 11. 

Bessigé—Don. Mr. Wm. H. Force’s (New York) pointer bitch Bessie 
pee a ae SBE) to Mr. R. T. Vandevort’s Don (A.K.R. 165), 

eb. 3. 

Beasey—Glencho, Mr. Charles J. Steward’s (New York) red Irish 
lai uey Beasey to Mr. W. H. Pierce’s Glenche (Hicho—Noreen), 

an, 23. 

Juno—Glencho. Mr, Geo, Langran’s (Yonkers, N. Y.) red Irish set- 
ter biteh Juno (Berkley—Tilley) to Mr. W.H. Pierce's Glencho (Hicho 
—Noreen), Jan. 30. 

Polly—Bang Bang. Mr. H. B. Talhnan’s (Providence, R. 1.) lemon 
and white pointer bitch Polly (Beauforit—Nymph) to Bang Bang 
(AVK.R. 394), Feb. 16. , 

Dessey—Lon. Mar, A, RK. Hayward’s (Roek Hill, S. C.) pointer hiteh 
Deer Oh Fowler—Vixen) to Mr. R. T. Vandevert’s Don (A.K.R. 
165), Jan, 19. 

Fuby—Scout. The Knickerbocker Kennel Club's liver and white 
pointer bitch Ruby (Dick—Fan) to Mr. D. G. Biliot’s Scout (A.K.R. 
216), 

Favnchon—Young Toby, Mr. F. H. Adams’s (Pawtucket, R. I.) pug 
hitch Fanchon (Echo—Victoria) to the Chequasset Kennels im- 
ported Young Toby (A.IX R. 478), Feb. 23. 

May—Rebel Windem. Mr. &. M. Brown, Jr.'s (Amherst ©, ., Va.) 
Enghsh setter biteh May (Lincoln—Daisy Dean) to Rebel Windem, 
Feb. 21. 

Pearl Blue—Gun. Mr. Chas. York's (Bangor, Me.) English setter 
bitch Pearl Blue(Royal Blue—Oryad) to his Gun (Gladstone—May B.), 


ov. 1. 

Surf—licicle, Mr. Chas. L, Lundy’s (Cincinnati, O.), orange and 
white pointer bitch Surf (Bow—King’s Maid) to Mr. Geo. W. Fisher’s 
Teicle (A.K.R. 8%), Feb. 21, 

Flora—Glen I. Mr. G. A. Coleman's (Charlestown, Mass.) Gordon 
bitch Flora (Tom —Chloe) to Mr, Geo. E. Brown’s Glen II, (Dr. Aten’s 
Glen—Border Lilly). ; 

Hornell Daisy—Hornell Silk, The Hornell Spaniel Club‘’s (Hornells- 
ville, N. ¥.) liver cocker spaniel bitch Hornell Daisy (Benedict—Flirt) 
to their Hornell Silk (Obo—Chloe I1.), Jan. 26. 

Hornell Belle I.—Hornell Silk. The Hornell Spaniel Club’s (Hor- 
neilsville, N. ¥.) black and tan cucker spaniel bitch Llornell Belle 
IL. (Horoell Dandy—Hornell Belle) to thei Hornell Silk (Obo—Chloe 
II.), Feb. 9. 

Princess Rose Il.—Rebel Windem. Mr, R. 8. Terry's English setter 
bitch Princess Rose Il. (Gladstone, Jr.—Princess Rose) to Rebel 
Windem, Feb, 23. . x 

Frost's Queen—Rebel Windem. Ma, A. S. Payne’s English setter 
bitch Frest’s Queen (Stout—lrost) to Rebel Windem, Feb, 15, : 

Ress—Rush Gladstone, Myr. J. B. Mask’s (Hickory Valley, Tenn.) 
black setter bitch Ress (Mark—Vic) to Mr. J. M. Avent’s Rush Glad- 
stone (Gladstone—Donna J.), Feb, 17. 

Countess A,—Cownt Noble. Mr. J. M. Avent’s (Hickory Valley, 
Tenn.) Hnglish setter bitch Countess A. (Dashing Lion—Armida) to 
Count Noble, Dec. 25, 1883. 

} WHELPS. 


B= See instructions at head of this column. 

Princess Bugenia, Mr. H. Sherman’s English setter bitch 
Princess Eugenia (Ranger I11.— ), Feb. 17, ten (eight dogs), by 
Mr. ha A. Coster’s Buckellew (A.K.R. 30): all orange and white 
ticked. 

Model Blue, Mr, A. P. Garland's (Ipswich, Mass.) English setter 
bitch Model Blue (Druid—Gussie), Feb, 18, nine (five dogs), by Mr. A. 
M. Tucker’s Dash 111, 

Mutchless. Mr. F, Thuris’s (Newburyport, Mass.) Hoglish setter 
bitch A ea Feb, 18, nine (four dogs), by Mr. A, M, Tucker's 
Dash IIT. 

Pearl Blue. Moy, Chas. York's (Bangor, Me.) English setter bitch 
Pearl Blue (Royal Blue—Oryad), Jan. 2, twelye (seven dogs), by his 
Gun (Gladstone—May B.). 

Bett. Mr. Thos. Goode Tucker's (South Gaston. N. C,) Byron fox- 
heund bitch Bett (Watchman—Hannah), Feb. 25, five (three dogs), 
by Epps (Brodnax’s Spot— ). E 

Fan. Mer. B.C. Alden’s (Dedham, Mass.) champion black pointer 
hitch Fan (Pete—Belle). Jan. 19, five (three dogs), by his champion 
Pete, Jr. (Pete—Nell). ; 

SALES. 


s— See instructions at head of this column. 

Countess Rake. Black, white and tan HEnglish setter bitch, 214 
years old (Rake—Phyllis). by Mr, Edward Odell, New Orleans, La., to 
Mr. J, B. C. Lucas. ; ‘ 

Antea I]. Pawn tmastiff bitch (4.K.R, 685), by the Riverside Kennel, 
Clinton, Mass., to Mr. W. H. Herrick, Montpelier, Vt. 

Ralph H. Red Irish setter dog, whelped June 9, 1883, hy Ronold 
(Hlecho—Rose) out of Nellie B. (Dash—Creena), by Dr, J. R. Housel, 
Watsoniown, Pa., to Mr. Geo. Snyder, Almota, W. T. 

Floss If. Liver and white cocker spaniel bitch, age not given 
(Handy—Nellie Coporn), by Mr. L, C, Andrus, Malone, N, Y,, to Dr. 
G, Il. Kidney, same place. 

Lute, White heaglesbitch, whelped June 23, 1882 (Ringwood— 
Norah), by Mr, T. T, Phlegar, Pearisburg, Va., to Mr. C, F. Kent, 
Monticello, N. Y. : 

Nashie. White, black and tan beagle bitch, whelped June 23, 1883 
(Ring wood—Norah), by Mr. T. T. Phlegar, Pearisburg, Va., to Mr. GC. 
F. Kent, Monticello, N.Y. , 

Elcho—Rose whelp. Red Irish setter bitch, whelped Aug, 4. 1883, 
by DP: ee Jarvis, Ularemont, N. H., to Mr. J. A. J. Sprague, Engle- 
wood, Il. 

Freund. Orange and white rough-coated St. Bernard dog, 
whelped Aug. 2, 1883 (champion Bonivard—Theon, A.K.R. 94), by 
the Chequasset Kennels, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr. Chas. Parsons, Jr., 


New York, 

Cwsar, Orange, with white markings, imported rough-coated St. 
Bernard dog, whelped July 5, 1879 (A.K_R. 22), by the Chequasset Ken- 
nels, Lancaster, Mass., to the Forest City Kennels, Portland, Me. 

Sdime. Fawn pug dog, wkelped Oct. 11, 1883 (Little Boffin—Santa), 
by Mr. F. B. Lucy, Boston, Mass., to Mr. C, H, Andrus, same place, 

Tokie. Black and white Japanese spaniel, 2 years old (Jini Willie— 
Tokio), by Mr. F. B. Lucy, Boston, Mass., to Mrs. Dr. Kimball, Lowell, 
Mass. 

Benglo. Black and white Japanese spaniel, 2? years old (Larley— 
See So), by Mr. F, B. Lucy. Boston, Mass., to Mr. M. Hodges, same 

lace. 

5 Game. English setter dog, whelped Dec. 31, 1883 (Dashing Dan— 
Daisy Starlight), by Mr, H. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me.,to Mr. F.§, 
Davenport. . Y 3 

Dashing Dan—Daisy Starlight whelps. Hngii®s setter dogs,whelped 
Dee. 31. 1423, by Mr. H. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., a2 lemon belton to 
Mr. R. L. Henry, Hamden, Conn., and a blue belton and tan to Mr. 
‘Twombley, Boston, Mass. : 

Worena. Red Irish setter bitch,whe!ped July 30,1888, by champion 
Eicho (A.K.R. 295) ont of champion Noreen (A.K.R, 297), by Dr. Wm. 
Jarvis, Claremont, N. H., to Dr. J, Frank Perry, Boston, Mass, 

Quad UT, Red Irish setter bitch, age not given (Red Gauntlet— 
Quail 11.) by the Rory O’More Kennel, Albany, N. Y., to Mr, A. P. 
Fope. Olean, N.Y- : ; 

Sontag. Imported black and tam cocker Spaniel dog, whelped 
Mareh 6, 1879 (Briar—Gypsy), by Mr. J, W. Rushforth, Yonkers, N.Y., 
to Dr. ©. T. Hubbard, Taunton, Mass. 

Gypsy O' More. Red Trish setter bitch, whelped July 6, 1843 (Rory 
O More—Quail IIL), by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N. Y., to 
Mr. Jas. A, Stimson, Cohoes, N. ¥ F 

Sylvia. Red Trish setter bitch, age not given ( NUE AP ast 
son's Nora), by the Rory O’More Kennels, Albany, N. Y¥., to Mt. Jas. 
A, Stimson, Cohoes, N. Y. ‘ i 

Dash f1T.—Katydid whelps. Black and white Buglish setters, dog 
and bitch, whelped Dee. 14, 1883, by Mr. EH. H, Fisher, New Bedford, 
Mass., to Drs. C. T. Hubbard and J. W. Hayward, Taunton, Mas. 

Kutydid, Black and white Hnglish setter bitch, whelped May 19, 
1881 (Guy Mannering—Whirlwind), by Mr. ©. H, Fisher, New Bed- 
“eres Mass., to Drs, GC. T. Hubbard and J. W. Hayward, Taunton, 

ass. 

Wallace. Red Irish setter dog, whelped June 4, 1883 (Ruby—Kif), 
by Miss Ida F, Warren, Leicester, Mass.. to Mr. Charles M. Sanford, 
Worcester, Mass. 

@race B, Black and white English setter biteh, 21 months old 
(Londen—Dawn), Mr, H. Bailey Harrison, Tilsonburg, Ont., to Mr. 
C, Fred. Crawford, Pawtucket, KR, 1 : 

Mack B. Lemon roan English setter dog, 16 montks old (Dick Lav- 
erack—Twilight), by Mr. H, Bailey Harrison, Tilsouburg, Ont., to Mr, 
U. Fred. Crawford, Pawtucket, R. I. ’ 

Gem. Lemon and white English setter bitch, 16 months old (Dick 
Laverack—Twilight), by Mr. H. Bailey Harrison, Tilsonburg, Ont,, to 
Mr. GC. Fred. Crawford, Pawtucket, R. I. . 

Belle IT, White, black and tan beagle biteb, whelped Oct. 23, 1881 
(King—Belle), by Mr. A. C. Krueger, Wrightsville, Pa,, to Mr. Charles 
i. Kent, Monticello, N. Y. , 

Judge. White, black and tan beagle dog, whelped Aug. 24, 1883 
‘Ratiler I7.—Rena), by Mr. A. C. Krueger, Wrightsville, Pa., to Mr. 

720. L. Barnes, Tyringham, Mass. ‘ 

Kitty. White, black and tan beagle bitch, whelped Aug, 24, 1883 
(Rattler IT—Rena), by . A.C. Krieger, Wrightsville, Pa., to Mr. 
J. H. Morgan, Baltimore, Md. 

DEATES. : 
£5 See instructions at head ef this coluny. 

Rainbow. iver and white Doigret gos Shem pich Bow—Rozie), 
owned by Mr, Edward Odell, New Orleans, La. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Minnie. Lemon and white pointer bitch, 7 years old (Sensation— 
eeu owned by Mr. Hiliot Smith, New York, Feb. 25, from par- 


ellie Horton, Black and tan Gordon setter bitch, 7 years old 
(Duke of Gordon—Tilley’s Dream), owned by Mr. George E. Brown, 
Dedham, Mass., Feb. 19, cause unknown. 

Rector, Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R. 700), owned by Mr. 
Forest W. Porbes,.Westhoro, Mass., Feb, 15. 

Bruce, Liver ae dog (A.E,R. 728). owned by Mr, J. W. Rush- 
forth, Yonkers, N.Y,, Feb. 14, from distemper. 

Dandy II. Black spaniel dog (A.K.R. 730), owned by Mr, J. W. 
Rushforth, Yonkers, N.Y., March 2, from distemper, 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
i=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


H. B., Holton, Kan.—A puppy two months old, if in good health 
should stand the journey eh ea of year, ; a : 


_ VERAX, Port Rowan, Ont.—Bathe the eyes twice daily with a wash 
composed of five grains borax and one ounce rosewater. 

A, K., East Sangus, Mass.—Give an accurate description of the 
wart and its exact location and we will advise as to its removal, 


F. W., Dunkirk, O,—Have a little patience. Wheu he recovers his 
strength he may come allright, Bathe with cold tea twice a day. 


O. F. R,, Washington, D, C.—i. We would not advise breeding so 
te RENE 2, We have no picture of Dash, 8. See Kennel de- 
artment, 


A.R., Cape Girardeau, Mo,—Your dog is probably ruined. and it 
would pay you better to get rid of him and get another that has not 
got his bad habits, 


L. &T., Sonth Royalton, Vt.—Keep the bandage on the foot wet 
with chloride of zine—three grains to the ounce of water, Give him 
an occasional small dose of Epsom salts. 


J. H, W., Philadelphia, Pa.—We doubt if she will show any after- 
effects of the accident as a breeder, and you will know nothing of it 
so far as her field qualities are coneerned. Dry her up as soon as 
possible and destroy the pups. 


C.F. W., Palmyra, O0.—Dress with sulphtir and lard ointment. Give 
five drops of Fowler’s solution of arsenic in her food twice a day 
and increase one drop every second day up to twelve drops, and 
keep tip the treatment until you see an improvement or she shows 
bloodshot eyes. 


8., Ogdensburg.—It is a failing with short-legzed spaniels to get 
crooked infront. Is the leg bone erooked, or is your pup loose: jointed 
and out atelbows? Your treatment of the bitch was correct: but 
you should give a change from the cornmeal and oatmeal diet. Give 
bread, meat and vegetables mixed. Tone the system up a little, and 
do not be afraid of meat until you see an improvement in her appear- 
ance. Dogs require meat, and youdo not seem to give your bitch 
any. Do notfeed more than twicea day under any circumstances, 
and the morning meal should be light. 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pizeon Tournament, at? Chicago, Ill., May 
26 to 31. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O. Box 1292. Gin- 
cinnati, Ohio, s 


SCIENCE OF RIFLE SHOOTING. 


Editor Forest and. Stream: 

I beg to submit the following answers to the queries of Messrs. *J. 
J.P.” and *“G. W. ¥.,*’ in your issue of Feb. 21, from the standpoint 
of a reader of FOREST AND STREAM interested in such subjects, with 
the view of starting the discussion requested: 

No. 1.—lf I understand the question, the answer may be: The 
forces are quite different; in the first case the effect of the wind is a 
rather complex one, dependent, for the most part, upon the strength 
and directioa of the breeze, and the velocity, shape, area presented 
by and weight of the bullet. In the second case, it is mainly gravity, 
An instance might occur where the effect of the two adjustments 
would be equal in amount, and—aiming toward the zenith—where 
wind disturbance of the trajectory and that caused by elevating the 
rear sight would be equal and opposite, but by no mechanical con- 
trivance could they be made to vary in the ratio of their respective 
forces, the cases of possible difference being so infinitely great in 
number. 

No. 2,—The maximum pressure depends in amount upon the density 
of the gaseous products of combustion at the instant the projectile 
starts (which is notsaying the projectile does not sometimes start 
before the maximum is reached) and the amount of upset depends 
upon this pressure. It is clear that air space will diminish this density 
and hence the pressure. 

The upsetting of a naked bullet should be merely sufficient to in- 
crease the diameter to such a poift as will effect a normal rotation, 
as anything more entails no end of evil features. among which may 
be mentioned, a loss of useful energy of the charge in excessive mole- 
cular distortion of the bullet, and hence in heat; in frietion on the 
walls of the bore, and finally in accuracy of the projectile once outside 
With too quick powder air space may be necessary to eliminate all 
these difficulties. With heavy or old powder it may be a positive dis- 
advantage. With the heavy charges used in large artillery its use is 
we Gaon as no gun metalis strong enough to stand the strains 
without. 

If not necessary, it entails a Joss in useful length of bore as the 
velocity depends, other features being equal, upon the number of 
times the charge is expanded from its original yolume, 

No. 3.—Winchester’s or any other, I think the blast from the primer 
should be just sufficient to ignite the point in the charge to which it 
is applied. Otherwise there is a possibility of burning the charge 
under greater pressure than it will itself furnish, not only through 
the undue accession of gas from the primer, but from pulverizing 
the powder grains and enhancing their rate of combustion. Valuable 
notes on this subject may be found in Berthelot’s latest lecture on 
explosives. ‘ 

No. 4.—lf the diameter of the patched portion of the bullet and 
the material of the patch are suited to the caliber and the rifling, 
and the weight of the bullet to the nature of the powder, that is to 
say all else being equal, lubrication is a source of gain im energy to 
the bullet, and I think it can be applied with suitable uniformity. It 
is quite possible to imagine conditions where a lubricanb wauld be 
disadvantageous, Having, in particular, powder, the qualities of. 
which are indefinite, this_can only be determined by experiment, 
Any tyro can make such experiments for himself if he be patient and 
weigh well all his results, : 

No. 5.—The question is just a little vague, but if I understand the 
querist correctly, I think it is because, for the same wind, a displace- 
ment of the gauge on a short piece is less than with a long one, and 
the habit of the eyein sighting with no gauge Is less deranged, en- 
abling the marksman to adjust himself with less change of position. 
It seems probable also that with either long or short guns there 
would be with most men less change from the habitual and natural 
position in aiming, the wind gauge being placed at the muzzle. 

No. 6.—The patching and bullet must be concentric, or, better. the 
center of gravity of the bullet must be in its axis, and the patehin 
of uniform thickness and flexibility, otherwise the bullet will no 
center itself, and the flight will be a spiral 

No. 7.—There isa certain lack of relation between the features re- 
ferred to in the beginning of the question, but the latter may be 
answered bya **Yes'’ if the weight of the bulletis not greatly changed 
by a lack of uniformity in its composition. It is quite clear that the 
release of the patch, as usually made, is of the first importance. 

Referring to toe latter part of the question.tit is nore certain to be 
separated from the bullet, if in contact with the charge, the pressure 
and heat being greater in this position. f 4 

No. §—lam not perhaps qualified to fully answer this question, 
not being a professional marksman, but think that much of the dis- 
adyanutage in the change of light may be eliminated by the use of a 
shade susceptible of being piyoted in thres directions, to be placed 
at will on either side of the piece abreast the rearsight. The diffi- 
culty is usually caused by the interference of rays of light reflected 
by the surfaees cf the different positions of the sight, in variable 
quantity aud quality with a change in the position of the sug, The 

{fects referred to may be -studied with a candle -placed in, different 
positions mee the rear sight and the benefits of the suggested shade 
illustrated. : : ~~ e 

No. 9,—A mostimportant question, not specially so in regard tothe 
selection of the powder maker, but of the powder. Hach weight and 
caliber of bullet should Haye its suitable.c! e in which the quality 
of the powder is quite as important a feature as the aes The 
WEEDS pr the pallet being na tbe lat ve BO ee ae e high- 
est velocity with accuracy, Wr the of safety an. tress Wn 
rece A Jong serizs of ge Cee wd alone establish the: me er 
charge best suited to et lass,in which -the nature of the powde 
as affected by its specific gravity, its size of grain and special features 


? 


on 6, 18 


of ingredients or manipulation in manufacture will be the task of the 
inves eatin It willbe answered. This is all done now, but I think 
H So to a sufficient extent, else there would be fewer queries. I 
ae nO Sanh many of the powder manufacturers can producé good 
pints and can vary the qualities of their product at will. Ido know 
Howreser that the scientific knowledge and experience brought to 
ero in their profession by the Messrs. Dupont are quite on a level 
w ct the importance of the question, In common with other readers 
ol Horus? AND STREAM I shalllook with interest for the disclosure 
promised by “J. J. P.” ata later day, 
_ Queries by “G. Fr. W ae First—It depends principally as remarked 
in response to “J, J. P.,". upon the nature of the powder. Each new 
ae you receive, expcriment a little to see if air spacing prove bene- 
cial. In no cage, however, compress the powder, it you allow 
ota peireen ree And charec, Digs the former simply and 
¢ orce, havin revi ; / 
Serenata eoleaen & previously tapped the charge down to 

‘Second—aAll the flaming particles seen at the muzzle ofa gun on 
discharge are not partially burned powder. This effect is usually 
caused by the solid products of combustion heated to incandescence, 
Powder, however, may be, and frequently is, blown out unburned, 
but (among fifty other possible causes) if is perhaps too dense, or the 
relation between the weights of the charge and rojectile and the 
length and caliber of the bore has not been correctly established. 

It has been found that ignition at the front end of the cartridge in- 
creased slightly the velocity of the projectile—probably because 
there is less vibration of the gaseous wave as the projectile trayels 
down the bore—thus giying a more uniform impulse to produce 
acceleration, W.M, FF, 

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 28. ; 


MILITIA SHOOTING EAST AND WEST. 


it eee Hartford Courant, speaking of the work of the State National 
Guard on the ranges, says: 

“The splendid results of the season’s work are deserving of more 
than a limited notice when itis considered how important this branch 
of the service is to the military service of the State. A military or- 
ganization with gaudy uniforms, marching with perfect alignments 
and steady step, is applauded as the perfection of military discipline, 
and so far as it goes it is well deserved, but one of the vital qualifica- 
tions of a soldier is his ability to use hisriae with effect. This can 
ouly be accomplished by systematic and persistent practice with the 
majority ofrecruits, The Yee system of target practice in the 
Connecticut National Guard requires that every man shall begin to 
shoot at 100yds. distance; if he sueceeds in making 13 points out 
of a possible 25, he is promoted to the next class, which is 200yds.: 
there are the same conditions 10 the second class, which is 300 and 
and400yds, All men who can make 50 per cent. of a possible score 
at the latter range are then in the first class and can shoot for the 
marksman’s badge. The distances are 200 and 500yds_, and five shots 
are allowed at each range. Two trials only can be made, and if 4 
guardsmen succeeds in making a 40 per cent. score he is a marksman 
and entitled to wear the State badge. If he makesan 80 per cent. 
score, or better, he receives a silver bar or badge with the word ‘sharp- 
shooter’ inscribed thereon. Each yeara man mi st demonstrate his 
ability to shoot by going back into the second class and advancing 
as hetore. So it will be seen that our citizen soldiers are put through 
apractical course of training inthe use of a weapon which is too 
often carrled by men who hayen't the slightest knowledge of its use. 
The value of this course of discipline cannot be overrated. Since 
target practice was first established for the GO. N. G. the First regi- 
ment has led the entire brigade in the number of marksmen, In 1879 
the entire brigade had 567 marksmen, of whieh the First had 306, In 
1880 the brigade had 546, of which the First regiment, with ten com- 
panies, had 316, In 1881, ont of 887 in the entire brigade, the regi- 
ment, with eight companies, had 267. In 1852 the total was 394, of 
which the First regiment had 160, It is generally known, of course, 
that there are four regiments and a battalion of three companies, 
besides a battery of artillery in the brigade. It will be easy to 
estimate that the First regiment has averaged as many marksmen 
as the entire rest of the brigade, and can appropriately be called the 
“shooting regiment.” In 1880, when the regiment qualified Bit 
marksmen, there were two more companiesin the regiment and uver 
two hundred more men on the rolls than at the presenttime. We 
give below the figures of each company, and itissafe to conclude 
that no other regiment in the country can equal it: 

sharp- 


Marks- 


P men, shooters. Total. 
Meld andiStafh. ress cast feed recn sia 5 Q 14 
Company Al tease ess . 50 2 52 
Company B. a5 fr 42 
COMPA VED A on) 15/20. tcc ate ears 14 1 15 
CORDA Vals letne eins settee ase se eae av 8 20 
RS OWL PATE Aly sere elie! Gelslenuiebteret aera ae Az 18 60 
ASOT PA IIY ACY vem) praarece asl bial det ieeo tet oieereoe 1é Bs] 16 
NCOTE PAT VEN oe cele eceschennss el neaeterces be toch oe 25 1b 44 
CORIPANYVaBins so: ae censitecest ee ba hone 4 19 63 


Company K qualitied every member of the company and Company 
F alJ but one.” . ; 

Tn the far away State of Minnesota there does not come such a 
fayerable report. OC. M, Skinner, of Co. B, Ist Regiment, says in a 
recent letter: “The result of battles is decided largely by the number 
of guns, large and small. their range, and above all, by the skill with 
which the gunners use them. 

Recognizing this fact, those in authority in all clvilized nations are 


‘taking great pains, and expend a large amount of money to perfect 


aa far as possible, the rank and file of their armies in the use of their 
Tifles as an implement to shoot with, and every inducement is held 
out in the way of prizes, badges of distinction, honor, etc., to bring 
outthe highest degreeof skill. This has been going on in all Wuro- 
pean countries for Arar years and upward and never have they 
heen more interested in it than at the present time. 

The War Department of our own country now authorize the expendi- 
ture of large amounts of ammunition for target practice, and an 
one who has witnessed the anoual department contests at Wort Suell- 
ing can but notice the earnestness with which the soldiers enter the 
contests, and be surprised at the great accuracy displayed up to 
600yds. In a@ government like ours, whose chief strength is the 
National Guards and yolunteers. allsee the importance of haying 
them as well skilled in the use of firearms as possible. 

In all Hastern States the militia have already attained an enviable 
degree of skijl as marksmen, 

But at the West, with the exception of the single State of Michigan, 
which last fall bore away the Hilton trophy from Creedmoor. there 
has been nothing done, except what a few companies have done at 
their own expense. In fact, it would seem that they have been dis- 
couraged by those in authority. 

L hold that no better looking, abler bodied, more courageous, better 
disciplined, better drilled in manual of arms and fleld movements 
exist in the country than our own Minnesota National Guards; but 
alas! 200 buffalo hunters who don’t know a ‘‘carry” from a ‘‘present” 
‘arms, or a “right wheel’ froma ‘‘parade rest,” in an open plaip 
would drive the National Guard of Minnesota from the field, The 
reason is obvious, but few of the gentlemen know what to do with 
their rifles at 200yds., and almost none at 400, 500 and 600yds. 

be stalf officers could create a good deal of interest with the com- 

any officers, and they with theirmen., A captain can lead bis men 

o the target, as well as to a bayonet charge, an exhibition drill, dress 
parade, orball. _ 

Target practice Is now a very prominent feature of the annual en- 
campments of al] Hastern troops,and the result is eagerly watched 
by staff and State officers, and thisisasif should be. Thus far Min- 
nesota has done nothing to encourage rifle pracice among her Na- 
tional Guard.. No State range has been laid out, and the militia are 
furnished the hberal supply of 1,000 cartridges per company, about 
15 or 18 perman, an amount that ought to be fired each month, but 
they have positive instructions to never use them, 

Several companies have done some 200yds. work at their own ex- 
pense, and some of the shooting has been very creditable. The great- 
est effort made by any company, perhaps, was by “B.’’ Company First 
Regiment, who entered a team of six men to contest forthe champion 
military badge at Fort Snelling last September, and as they haa no 
opposition bore it away in triumph, The W. R. A. hasdone more to 

Lup an interest in military shooting in thee West, among the militia, 
than all other agencies put together, Special matches have been 
made and liberal prizes offered for two years ab their tournament at 
Fort Snelling. The first year saw their pes the champion military 
badge, go to “C** Company, Seventh Infantry and carried away to 
Ft. Laramie. Last September, recognizing the fact that they must 
get the commissioned officers interested, they offered an elegant sil- 
ver cup yalued at $25 ina, commissioned officers’ match, especially 

‘otten up for commissioned officers of the National Guard, but on 
the day of the match but one commissioned officer was on fhe ground 
and he was from Illinois, although both match and prize were liber- 
ally advertised, , ~ rr 

‘The Association, doomed to cheep om tay at not getting any en- 
tries from the National Guards, they offered it to the United States 
Army commissioned officers and it was carried off by Lieut. Pmery. 
This apathy ou the part of the commissioned officersof the National 
Guards is casi explained, no obe was ln practice, no one wanted to 

i) 


be laughed at for their poor scores; or the awkward handling of their 
| guns. — 
Tf any 


here would inquire why the W.R. A. are so solicitous about 
the skill of the NG. T wenld- on is swer fast most cf its members and 
warmest supporters are ex-soldiers and know the neeu of having the © 


er 


“aniline well ekilled in she use of their rifles, and the W.R, A. was 


— 


—_ ~~ i>, oT 


organized, as one ofits sections reads, to encourape the att of rifle 
shooting, and especially that of the N.G. They have met with but 
little encouragement so far but are on a good footing and still hope- 
ful. Let the officers decide that target practice shall be made a part 
of each day's programme at the annual encampments, Targets can 
pe constructed atsmall expense, Select no camp ground where 
target Pe cannot he had. If weean’t get amunition from the 
State, let’s furnish our own and petition the Legislature when in 
session bo authorize the issue of 250 rounds per man per annum; have 
company, regimental and a State inspector of rifle practice. let the 
score be kept and areport made to the Adjutant-General,; annually 
of the result of the year’s practice, and the number of 3d, 2d and Ast 
class marksmen and sharpshooters there are in the State, Proyide 
Marksmen and sharpshcoters’ badges for those who win them. 
Finally, and of greatest importance, let all commissioned officers 
wake up to the ON At dba of skilling our National Guards in the art 
of rifle shoofing. Encourage the men by their presence on practice 
days, but better still, take a rifle and lead the score themselves, and 
We will soon overtake our Wastern brethren who at present are so far 
ahead of us in this respect.*’ 


RANGE AND GALLERY, 


BOSTON, Mareh 1,—There was but a small attendance to-day at 
Walnut Hill, and the scores made were not high, The suow which 
covered the ground made a bad light, which considerably troubled 
the riflemen, The highest records made are appended: 

Cresdmoor Practice Match. 


W Charles --..;--... 4555555554—48 OR Edwards...., ..4454444545—48 
W_ Gardner___-.,_., 554465545547 J Payson (mil),,-..4454444445—42 
GW Adams.__......4554645b54—46 A Keach....... ,... ABddddd 44d —4) 
G Warren.,.-.--..,.455554544445 JE Darmoddy...., aed 8444444-—39 
i Ogshingze. 2.5 454445454544 J R Carmichael... .3433344434—37 
Creedmoor Prize Match, 
WiGerdnen, By. .s..res wee vars vs ere B55 6 456 5 4 & boar 
Ge wViagren) Mile wee Sa Petes Sepcccrh 44545 54 6 6 446 
a eNO Se Biwes 5 2 poeta g eee eked 6b 444445 56 4 4-44 
; Rést Match, : 
MEE TLS 5 LEU Peinins Wie weW'eavs pay Wks nn » 9 9 910101010 10 9 9—55 
ECC ER geet OS Be sles oie sein tetcine wees 910 91010 910 9 8 8-29 
T Bverett, D..........- hh terials Oesoco 9 91010 9 7 91010 9—92 


ZETTLER Vs. FRELINGHU YSEN.—-Monday evening a well-con- 
tested match was shot between the Zettlers, of New York City, and 
the Prelinghnysen Club, of Newark, on the range of the tormer, No. 
207 Bowery. ‘The shooting ee at 8:15 and continued until 1;30 A. 
M., vesulting in favor of the Zettlers. As the above club has shot 
over‘one hundred matches, and haye been in all victorious, the vis- 
iling club may feel proud of their score, their opponents leading 
them only by five points. The return match will be shot on March 


19 at the Frelinghuysen range, No. 18 Market sireet, Newark, N, J. 
The following score was macle; 
Zettler Team. 


MEISE a) Be pe eT a 4 oy ety a 1 114 

M Dorrier.. _ 5 12 1 

MerBbinree oe Priel). 1 121% 

og ettler. sires) Pars ct els 1 10 42 

€ Judson 011 1 

PB Wennitie.,.222:522:. faseeeatat ees 12:12 11 10 11 11 10 11 12 10—110 

BZettler _.,..., papel te») eta ee tet 12121111 9 941 11 1012—108 

GAPING DOMo ya cose cfiiecesrssedacsrns zeestl 08 1d A121 -919"1070—108 

NER ros pereses t2esua scented 1217110 910101112 9 12—106 

TV ESTING ee rate) seas ttt eee Fy 11 11 11 56 1212 7 10 10 10— 99 

otal ee? teens A Pee eee 1,098 
Frelinghuysen Team. F 

AC Neumann 12°12 12 3211 12-17 12°10 141—115 

NOTE UREA GSISE, see yt ai sella eae 12 10 12 12-10 10 12 10 12 12 112 

GD Weigman. 10 8-12 12'17 10 12 12 12 12-4711 

EO Chaseé.... 12 10 12-10 12-9 12 117 11 13—170 

Wem eMicmeads st a een iene 12 1210 8 11 11 12 11 10 11—108 

ARP OUMIG See ote bites sere sane: 11 10 10 12 10 11 11 11 11 11—108 

DLeL Ae ROILONG EL odes seca ct eanc eens Ti 11:10 11 10 12 11 12 10 10—108 

IBS ULI Tilia ieecccie sce tines. ont 10 1010 12 10:12 11 11 +9 12—107 

TAA W UE as a A A @ 10 12 12 10 12 11 12 10 11—107 

FEOTTAUAIMINCL cee. se ecjedee vp 8 10 11 1111 1011 1011 9-102 

ODEN a tclud foe aoe ete te Oe een padeles sta cede a gel e ee L F 

totes! Rifle Club held its regular weekly shoot Feb. 26, 12-7ing 

target. , ; 

BTID PMC, Rav Watasa-st elo ne cre epee eros Miuliteecopacas,, 110 

@ Judson)... 1.4.7. B Zettler,......... 

M Dorrier,.... H Holges...... 

Penning ..-.-+--- V Stembach 

SV Ld Sl Ving eal Fa} py pe Sas Se SR AEG NGONG ewe sil nee enue 7 

(OR CASO nee eer arr HEP rekna here. sean tate tome 95 


s 

DENVER, Oel.. Feb, 22.—As early as 8 o’clock this morning the 
trains of the Cirele road were filled with members of the First Infan- 
try Regiment, on their way to the Jewell Park range to engagein the 
contests with the rifle which had been arranged to occur on Washing- 
ten’s Birthday. ] 

The first shoot was between the Routt Rifles and the Governor’s 
Guard for the State championship, which was won by the latter com- 
pany two years ago im a semes of contests with the Sherfey Light In- 
faniry, of Leadville, and has been held by it ever since. The judges 
ue Major Bedson and Mr. J, T. Bourke, and the referee was Mr. J, 

, Lower, 

The shooting commenced at 10 and continued for two hours. A very 
hizh wind prevailed during the entire day and caused the scores made 
to be very poor. J. N. Lower, of Company B, made the highestscore, 
thirty-eight, while on a fair day there are at least five men on each 
team who may be counted upon to make forty or over. The shoot- 
ing was off-hand, two hundred yards, ten shots per man, and the score 
is as follows; 

Goyernor’s Guard. 


Houtt Rifles. 


DVN) OWOR ori yt heer 38 

W A Rice. .... 

CC Compton y Boe 

Geo Henderson..-.;,.-... 24 

Leo Marix.......: 8S ott 33 

G Coryell [esse were j 

ANSEL] eee ey 1.34 Robert Collier............ e8 

HS Dayis....-.. Hi OTHE EE oe 22 AW? Peterson... .....0....5 Pye 

Lt H W Lehman ........... 28 Tt E Stones) wc) see nesses b1—281 
Gr PbOMeiten OUUee fo taeaciees 8 83—294 


Governor's Guards. Routt Rifles—vo_ HB. Company D. 
JN Lower...-...-.. 39- MeGuire ........-.. 89 Platfoot...........29 
VY RCS ef to pote ACC eS Sie aoe 29 McCartney ...... a4 
Compton. .,.44:-.488) Welly tl. .ae Bd Cappsine...s: 2 
Henderson......,- qall  aslelateni it) oF Sees SaaS 84 Eugene Gapps..28 
Dribsstehh ae ee Ba aU, ea ae tae 28 Falkner...,...- 10 
GOVE Gis ne + -os AS SE CAWOGPre vee. n noe Bt Moore .......... 31 
13, Ft) Shee eee ay “Collier. <---s 2-88) Kinesley casi 26 
RVI org t eres folky MUCSIC Vs toc eee 2 Mogilev. ce... 40 
Lehman . 2... 20; .- 30 <A Peferson.....-...387 Jénneson ........ 28 
GW Lower...<...°.82 T Stone,....,..--<; Brittling......... 4 
B22 828 268 


_A FINE SCORE.—The new model Springfield rifle which is to be 
chanced off by the Wheatley Cadets, Co. D, of Phoenixville, Pa., was 
sent to HE, A. Leopoid, of Norristown, Pa., a few days ago, with the 
request chat he test its accuracy at the target. Feb. 21, the weather 
being favorable, he took it to the Bridgeport range, and in five con- 
secutive shotsat i00yds., made the remarkable short string of 4,98 
inches. He also put seven consecutive shotsinafour-inch bullseye. 
The shooting was done lying down without artificial rest. 


very bright: . 
Gbhattuck........, 5adn455454—d6 RH Burns........- 4434434555 —41 
OWUilly....,. .... 455454445545 WH Sprague...... 335345544440 
SON AVre8i es 454455554445 W_N Gokey.......- 515433425439 

ayeock... ..... 555853445443 AP Ward. - ...... 8428354845—36 
AF Warner........ 4544385944442 Hf Briggs........... 3523358443—35 


onb aS San 
|Bellows.......44 42 42 43--170 
ges, Will ba pior amateurs. 

h inthe tournament, of ths New- 


| Comments on Mond ning, March 10, at 
e, clubs shooting 4a the following order: Ply- 


__ 


3 | very amusing. 


mouth, Domestic, Celluloid, Hssex, Warren, Frelinghuyseu. The cor- 
rected scores of lastinonthare: Frelinghuysen468, Hssex. 455, Domes- 
tic 438, Celluloid 432, Plymouth 420, Warren 420, The last match will 
be shot on the Warren range, this closing the season for inside shaot- 
ing, with the exception of private matches on hand. 

A meeting was held an Tuesday evening. Meb, 26, af Roseville 
Park, and arifie club was organized, to he known as the Roseville 
Rifle Association, for out-door shooting, They will have a 100yds. 
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FIVE-BULLSEYES RIFLE WANTED.—Mechanieshburg, Pa., March 
8.—Kditor Forest and Stream: Where can 1 get a rifle that will 
carry up the fifth shot 100yds. toa din. bullseye. I have tried the 
Reniington and made four successive bullseyes, but the fifth sank 
six inches, [ have also tried a muzzleloader and made three bulls in 
five shots, Where does Capt. Stubbs live? Tam open for a challenge 
for the championship.—Puitre Unurr. 

THE PISTOL NUISANCE.—Chieago is not free from the annoy- 
ance which follows the sale and nse of pocket pistols and revolvers. 
The Daily News of that city has been looking into the matter and 
adds the following testimong to that already piven against the free 
and easy trading in these wee guns of every description... It says: 
“The habit of carrying revolYers and pistols. frequently commented 
on and severely criticized by the newspapers, is a frowing one among 
the youthful and middle-aged population of Chicago. A well-known 
Madison street dealer in guns and firearnis told a reporter for the 
Daily News that the sale of the serviceable kind of pistol, that will 
‘ill a man every time,’ is continually increasing. The ‘bulldog’ 
reyolver, such as Garfield was shot with, is the most popular. . Just 
after Garfield’s assassination a Pittsburg dealer was obliged to send 
all his clerks and salesmen into the department, and even then he 
could not meet the demands of his enstomers. The American manu- 
facturers, moreover, were unable to supply the abuormal demand for 
these weapons, and the English sourees of production were soon ex- 
hausted. The awful destructiveness of the ‘bulldog’ was its chief 
recommendation to public favor at that time, Men wanted some 
weapon to practically protect themselves from such wild, deluced be- 
ings as Guiteam had proven himself, The danger from such a source 
was considerable, and a genuine, practical remedy was believed to 
he in this devastating instrument. Mm selling a revolver or pistol to 
any one the dealer is required to record the purchaser’s name, 
age, residence and the purpose for which the weapon is bought, 
No one under twenty-one years of age is allowed to buy any wea- 
pon of detence without a written permission from his parents or 
guardian of the purchaser, addressed to the dealer or ‘to whom it 
may concern.’ The average age of the purchasers of reyolvers is 
between twenty-three and twenty five years, These are mostly 
young men. Very few women in Chicago either purchase or use re- 
volvers, although many husbands declare that they wish the weap ns 
for their wives to practice with and learn to use with some degree of 
skill, Inease of burglars they hope that their ‘better halves’ may 
find if possible to protect themselves. The reasons which many 
people give the gunsmiths and dealers for investing in firearms are 
One man wants to ‘shoot a dog,’ another expects to 
‘take a pop’ at an army of feline marauders that make night hideous 
by their dismal howls beneath his latriced window, and the sandbarged 
individual (who wears one eye ina sling and has so lumpy a fore- 
head that no hat can conceal its lofty_ baldness), with a firm convie- 
tion that no sand-bagger will cross his path alive in the future. This 
man wants and inquires for something that will shoot a big ball, and 
he must haveit. The costly revolvers with carved pearl handles and 
silver-plated engraved barrels, are sold mostly to the theatrical 
profession and the cowboy class of humanity. The prices of this 
class of weupons run as high as $50, $60 and $100. It is a remarkable 
fact that they are usually worn by men who wear the broad sombrero 
of Buffalo Bili style of head, flannel shirts and cowhide boots. The 
high price is seldom objected to by these men, since the article is per- 
haps the most valued one in their wardrobes. An ordinance of the 
eity of Chicago provides thatno concealed firearms shall be carried 
by any Gitizen without a speeial permit from the city government. 
Itis probably the most grossly and persistently violated ordinance 
ofthe much abused statutes of the city.” 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


UNKNOWN GUN CLUB.—The regular monthly match at Dexter’s, 
Long Island, Feb. 28. Snowing hard in the forenoon; damp und a 
strong westerly wind blowing in the afternoon. Twenty-eight mem- 
bers shot for three regular and three extra prizes; 7 birds, handicap 
Vise. 80yds. boundary, one barrel, gun below the elbow near the hip, 
club rule and classified. Of the rezular prizes. Knebel and Pope 
divided first; Vorelsang, Van Staden. Schweimler and Plate second; 
Smith, Appel, Marlborough, Tomford, Midmer, Moller, Gref and Det- 
lefsen having tied for third prize, shot off under the rule, miss and 
out. It being near dark at the time, after one round the result was: 
Smith, Marlborough, Midmer and Detlefsen, having each killed a 
bird they divided third. prize. The birds weve a fine lot and very 
strong flyers. Some of the best shots found hard work to stop them. 
There will be two more shoots to decide who will be the lucky ones 
for the three extra prizes, the scores in the three regular monthly 
matches (Pebruary, March and April) to count best two scores out of 
three, with a_proviso that all those who kill 12, 13 or 14 birds in two 
out of three shoots are to shoot off or divide first prize; 9, 10 or 11 
birds second prize; 6, 7 or 8 birds third prize. This is a very liberal 
plan and givés the poor shots a ehance to come in for a prize. Two 
members having resigned, their places were filled on the grounds, 
keeping the club up to its limit, 50 in number, with a dozen applicants 
ready to come in at the first chance —H, Ic. 


CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICA.—Louisyille Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 20.—Editor Forest and Stream; At our 
annual tournament to be given aboul the Ist of June next, and to 
continue seven days, we propose to give a larger purse than was ever 
given in this country, We shall call the stake the ‘Louisville Sports- 
men’s Association cup, for the championship of America.’ Our prap- 
osition is to secure one hundred entries, before the first day of June 
at $50 each. All entities must be accompanied by a forfeit of $3. 
This match is to\be as follows: 50 live birds to each entry, 15 at 
26yds. plunge traps; 16 at 80yds, ground traps, English rules; 10 pair 
at 2lyds. plunge trap, ourrules. The entrance fee includes the cost 
of birds. As you will observe the purse will amount to $5,000, and to 
this the association willadd a cup referred to above, valued at $250, 
to be presented to the gentleman making the bestscore in this match, 
The net money in the match, $3,450 will be divided as follows: 25 per 
cent. to the first $812.50, 18 percent. to the second 585, 14 per cent, 
to the third $455, 12 per cent. to fourth $390, 10 per cent. to ftth $325, 
8 per vent. to sixth $200, 7 per cent, to seventh 4227.50, 6 per ent. to 
eighth $195. Should any entry be made and the party entering is un- 
able to attend, he may nominate some one to shoot in his stead. But 
no one person will be permitted to shoot two scores. A substitute 
must be named the day preyious to this match. Any person is priy- 
ileged to enter another to shoot for him.—J. M. Barsour, President. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB.—The Boston Gun Club opened its fourth 
grand tournament on its grounds at Wellington yesterday, to con- 
tinue on each alternate Wednesday as tollows: March 5 and 1, April 
2, 1b and 30, and May i4. The principal event of these days will be 
the New England clay-pigeon, three men team badge championship 
mateh, ‘The Boston Gun Club will give a solid gold medal of the 
value of $50 to the club pebting the best aggregate of twa scores out 
of the above shoots. Conditions—a team to consist of three men 
from aby organized clubin the New Wngland States, each club en- 
titled to send two teamis, svores io, consist of five singles from fiye 
separate and constantly souisequed traps, three pair doubles from two 
traps, and ten single birds froma constantly altered trap, eavh team’s 
score to be thus: Sixty-three birds, singles to be shot from eighteen 
yards rise. doubles fifteen yauds rise. ties each day to be shot at oue 
pair doubles and one single straightaway bird, meaning nine birds 
per team, IJfany tie exist on the total of two best scores the teams 
shall shoot cif at five straightaway birds and three pair doubles, or 
thirty-three birds per team. Entrance, $1 per man, the money on 
each day to be divided, 50, 35 and 15 per cent, to the clubs in usual 
roiation. One man can be changed if by sickness or inability to 
shoot on diiferent days, but uo change can be made by members 
from one team to another of same club, Notless than six teams to: 
coustitute eshgot.. yauidinion, to tines sweepstakes, alternating at 
fifty cents and $1, entries will be shot. - # 

. BROWN'S DRIVING PARK, L Island, Feb. 29—Twenty zgen- 
tlemen assembled to witness the Langley cop maich, which should 
have been shot off in 1883, but was permitted to hold over till Feb, 


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ruary, 1884, by Mr. Langley, who presented the cup to be “fought” 
for by Messrs. Murray, Nichols, Belmont and. vat esta Those 
interested have heretofore been imable to get the above named gen- 
tlemen together. The morning was extremely pleasant thouzh 
windy, the birds were strong, which called for hard hilting. 
Among those present was Lord Melton, a widely-kmnown Enelish 
sportsman. Capt. Stratton wasin ehargze of the traps, Mr. Bruce- 
Wallis was scorer, Mr. Meredith Cummings referee. Matthew Lyons 
furnished the pigeons, a wild lot, and his dog Sherry did the retriev- 
ing. Conditions; 25 birds each, 5 traps, 5yds. apart, handicap rise, 
R0yds, boundry, 144 ounces shot, American-Hurlingham roles. Mr. 
Adlan Nichots Mited 5, Mv, Voster Murray 23, Mr, Watren Aspinwall 
v8, and Mr, H. Belmont 22. In shooting off the tie Mr. Aspinwall 
lnlled seven birds straight, Mr. Murray missing bis seventh and tak- 
ing third place. . 

MALDEN GUN CLUB,—Some seventy-five lovers of the shotgun 
assembled at the cosy quarters of the Malden Gun Club in Welling- 
ton, Mareh 1, and participated in matehes, with the following result: 

First match—HHenry first, Stark second, Adams and Nichols third, 
Allen fourth. 

Second mateh—Henry first, Johnson and Allen second, Adanis and 
Field third, Nichols fourth. 

Third mateh—DbDe Rochmont and Stark first, Allen and Johnson 
second, Law third, Nichols fourth. 

Fourth matech—Stark first, Hager second, Henry third, Field 
fourth, 

Tifth match—Hager first, Johnson and Stark second, Henry and 
Field third, Nichols fourth. : . 

Sixth match—Jobnson and Law first, Henry and Starle second, 
Adams third, Allen and Wield fourth. 

Seventh match—haw first, Hager second, Henry and Stark third 
Dill fourth. 

Wi pan matech—Johnson first, Adams second, Stark third, Law 
fourth. 

Ninth match—De Rochmony first, Law second, Dill and Hopkins 
third, Cutting, Field and Adams fourth. 

Ténth matech—Stark and Law first, Johnson sevond, Hehry, Hop- 
lans and Purington third, Locke fourth, 

Hleventh mafeh—Law and Stark first, Dill and Hager second, Field 
third, Brown and Henry fourth. 

Twelfth match—Eager first, Dickey and Stark second, Johnson 
third, Loeke and Adams fourth, 

Thirteenth match—Dickey and Hager first, Henry second, Sawyer 
and Stark third, Puringlon fourth. 

Fourteenth match—De Rochmont and Hager first, Stark and Saw- 
yer second, Law and Cutting third, Diekey fourth. 

Fiith mateh—Miss and out, divided by Henry and Lavy, 

BETHEL, Me., March 2.—Wednesday evening, Feb. 27, the Bethel 
Shooting Club had arousing good meeting at Major Lovejoy’s, and 
the following officers were elected for the ensuing year; President, 
W. E, Shillings; Vice-President. C, M. Wormwell; Secretary, G, RB, 
Wiley; Treasurer, Fred Clark; Hxecutive Committee, Enoch Foster. 
ir., John Chapman, Seth Walker, Charley Jolinson, 8. F. Gibson. 
About thirty new members were taken in, and now as we haye two 
new cluy-pigeon traps and a good amount of cash in the treasury, it 
gives the boysa hearty feeling to begin work at once, so as to pre 
pare a team to enter for the valuable badge presented to the Williard 
Clubof Portland, which ts to be competed for by the several clubs 
throughout the State. By the way the boys scored the other day 
they will be hard to beat.—Masor LoyEsoy, 

THE CLAY TOURNAMENT.—Cincinnati, 0., Feb. %5.—Kditoy 
Forest and Stream: Permit us to inform your nhumerons readers 
that the main reason why clubs should enter now by retnitting us 
$100 initial entrance money for the championship match First Inter- 
national Clay-Pigeon Tournament, May 26-31, 1684, is this; That we 
expect shortly to make an application to the general passenger 
agents at Chicago for reduced railroad rates from all parts of the 
colntry, and it will materially assist us in effecting this if we can 
present a large list of clubs who expect to attend.—Tur Licowsky 


UC. P: Co; 

SPRINGFIELD SHOOTING CLUBG.—Programme, Mareh 1, 1864,— 
Individual State championship glass-ball match between W.'S. Perry, 
of Worcester, and *“B. Moses,” of Springfield, 

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Large attendance of spectators; good shooting; sweepstakes. 


Pachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 24.—Oswego Y, C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24,—Boston ¥.C., Opening Cruise. 

May 380.—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches, 

May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore’s vps. 
June 10.—Atlantie Y. C., Annual Match, 

June 12.—New York ¥. C., Annual Matches. 

June 14.—Hull Y.C., Club Meet. 

June 16.—East River Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 28.—Boston Y, C,, Ladies’ Day. 

July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12.—Hull ¥. C., Club Meet. 

July 12.—Boston Y, C., Second Club Match. 

July 26,—Beverly Y. C., Nahaut, Second Championship. 
Aug. 9.—HullY. C., Club Meet. 

Aug.- 9,—Boston ¥. O., Open Matches, all clubs. 

Aug. 1i,—Beverly ¥. C., Swampscott, Third Championship, 
Aug. 23.—Beverly Y. U., Marblehead, Open Matches. 

Aug. 23.—Boston Y. C., Third Club Match. 

Sept. 6.—Beverly Y, C., Marblehead, Special Matches, 
Sept. 13 —Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 


. 18.— Boston ¥. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


SMALL YACHTS IN THE CHICAGO Y. C. 


Oa live club is animated with a laudable desire to promote spor 

in all its phases, Corivthians being still scareé on the fresh 
water high seas, itis proposed to force their education by special 
encouragement of small safe boats,” No more conimendable course 
could be adyised. Small yachts, if more than open sailing traps, 
afford all the sport and solid henefits to be expected from larger 
vessels and at a fraction of the cost. The way to popularize yachtine 
is to invest small boats with the dignity of equal recognition, as there 


_are a hundred candidates thirsting for naut.cal fame who can afford 


the time and funds for crewless vessels to every one who can com- 
mission a big schooner, And to the hundreds every club ought to 
look for numerous accessions to the band of sailor yachtsmen. ‘Only 
a little boat” was once an expression of mild scorn, but it is becoming 
understood that a smart man with a smart boat is worth more to him- 
self and the commmuniiy than the most pretentious vessel m respect 
to tonnage. Any person’s money will buy a large yachi and hile the 
required crew, butit takes brains to conceive a well-planned little 
knock-about cruiser and spunk with manliness in mind and bady to 
skipper her with success. To start the fashion in Chicago, we should 
recommend a design similar to those which have appeared in this 
journal. Next week we hope to produce another very suitable craft. 

Perhaps the club might advance the funds for a couple of trial 
yachts. allowing members to hire them by the day with limitations, 

iying all hands a chance, Should any one develop fancy enough 

or such sailing, he could purchase the boat at cost, the club replac- 
ing her by another if advisable, This would lead off faster than 
wailing for individnal action. We can promise those in Chicago, 
that when the small yacht shall haye been once fairly tried, she will 
become a popular institution and belp along the good cause en the 
Lakes with rapid strides, Mr. Miles G. Nixon recently read an enter- 
taining paper before the club, with a good word for sail area meas- 
urement aud a start to one gin to increase the smartness and ‘imter- 
est in the races. Thesame gentleman also spoke in fayor of Classes 
without time allowance, a most excellent idea, Only the question 
at once arises, how are those classes tv be determined, by what sort 
of measurement? That brings us back to the necessity of tirst settling 
some just basis of comparison, without which no equitable division 
into classes can be suggested. 

One advantage in respect fo small yachts, is the facility of finding 
purchasel's for small tonnage, and the many new designs undertaken 
In consequence to supply the places of boats sold, The building of 
a dozen small yachts affords just twelve times as many chances for 
experiment and trial of variations and new ideas, as the btilding of a 
single large yacht, Life and progress with rapid evolution are the 
distingwishing traits of a club recognizing smal! yachts, while stag- 
nation of ideas and conservative sloth follow in the wake of large, 
unwieldy and long-time investments, affording less opportunity for 
change, The beau-ideal of a yacht clubis a Corinthian concern with 
a fleet of two hundred cutters from one to ten tons. If the Chicago 
¥, C, can bring about, by well directed fostering care, a. Hourishing 
squadron of the kind, it will not Laye lived im vain, though lar. 
yachts continue to receive a goodly share ef attention aud approprid- 
tions from the clubfunds. 

Realizing trom our own experience pretty much all over the yacht- 
ing world, that the zest. and spit of the sport lies in the furtherance 
of a laste for small boat sailing, we have made the Subject a matter 


of prominence in these columns, and none our contemporaries who 
look te us for their cue will lend what aid they canto putthe small 
decked eruiser with fixed ballast upon the plane of appreciation-she 
ought (6 occupy in America, as she already does abroad. No more 
suitable waters for small cutters exist than the chain of lakes on our 
nerthern border. The short jump which quickly makes and the 
heeessity of putting to sea for a cruise. are certain to demonstrate 
before long the special adaptability of decked boats of good weight 
i opposition to light drafis of nusteadly behavior, and devoid of 
ability in troubled waters. The Chicago Y. C. proposes regular 
Matches every two weeks, and will not be slow to. offer purses or 
pre to attract competition. A shipkeeper and suitable harbor 
will be Found, so that it only remains for some one to start the ball 
with a two or three ton culter, aboard of which live individuals can 
catch the sailing fever, which never releases its elutches in a life- 
time. 


THE RATIONAL VIEW OF IT. 


pe following we quote from an interview with Mr. A. Cary Smith 

recently published in the Herald. It is the most sensible view of 
affairs we have seen in print. and coiticides with the progressive spirit 
of the day inaugurated through these columns: 

“Many, or in fact all the improvementsin yacht building can be 
placed to the credit of the younger penpralion of yachtsmen. Vet- 
erans Of the sport, on the contrary, have frequently stood shoulder 
to shoulder against any departure from the time-honored methods of 
the olden times, and too often decried the universal right of judicious 
experiment, To my mind great improvemeuts in yachts will. he made 
in the next few years. Even now yacht designing is being recognized 
asa profession, The tendency of the day is toward specialties, and 
the result will be for the better. The desire for extended cruises is 
frowing every day, and an improved type of boat will, of necessity, be 
built. Hyery yachtsman cannot afford to build and sail a craft 100 
feet on the water line, so that smaller boats must be constructed able 
to cope with any kind of weather, Tt will not be long before our 


coastis made a cruising ground for yachts, even as is the coast of- 


England. The nation is fast growing wealthy, aud racbting will keen 
Rae with our prosperity. The size of a yacht in the near future will 

ave but little to do with the length of a cruise, Two years ago, 
while the fleet of the New York Club was at the eastward, the weather 
began to look dirty, and a signal was made to return to anchorage, 
One of the boats that kept on to the last was only 26ft. 6in. on the 
water line; but of course she was a deep craft, with weight on the 
keel—the only kind of boat that can he depended upon in bad weather.” 


THE NEW ENGLAND Y. A, 


pp aeEe isa general disposition to adopt loadline length as the 

standard for measurement in all classes in Eastern circles, So 
lel it be, Vhis must be understood. Iflength isafair eriterion of 
relative performance, the consequences must be accepted im all cases 
witbout reservation. Animated only by asense of justice to every 
craft. FoREsT AND STREAM has urged with all its force and logic the 
adoption of a bulk rule, to force large cutters on a length to pay as 
they ouzht to lighter and smaller sloops, sharpies, dugouts arfd the 
like. But in refusing to accord recognition to views based upon 
equity, as we have sought to explain, and in setting up a Jength rule, 
the yachting conimunity must be prepared to shoulder full responsi- 
bility for what may happen. When a@ big, powerful .cutter thrashes 
alight and smaller sloop in a breeze and a lop, when she twists 
away from herin light airs on account of her weight, there must be 
no backsliding. no childish, whimpering excuses, and no aad to 
shirk the decision of a race by pointing to the cutter’s hep diay Ace- 
ment and draft as an advantage not taxed. Either the length 
rule is equitable or it is not. f not it should not be set up as 
a standard of comparison. If set up and accepted, the big boat 
has a right to her bigness, and the little boat cannot complain 
under. any pretext. The ‘simplicity’? of the length rule is 
quite likely to lead ta its adoption. Having done eur full duty 
jn defending the small sloop against the encroachments of large 
cutters, we herewith wash our hands of the whole business and will 

emit affairs to take their own course. Let no one say Forest anp 

TREAM was ever untrue to justice to the sloop, for it was the sloop’s 
battle we have been fighting in seed the furtherance of the bulk 
rule. though little-bramed chatterers failed to grasp the trend and 
course of our arguments, When length for length the large vessel 
wins itis without the province of length measurement logic to ascribe 
the score to aught but equity. It wall be too late then to eet abeut in 
seareh of restrictions to save the light displacements from extinc- 
tion, All hands once agreed upon length, they must swallow their 
own medicine, sour as the dose will undoubtedly be. When the deep 
draft, with her low keel weights and wacking big rig lords it over her 
Emaller sisters and drives them out of existence under the length 
role, she does so upon her merits (in the light of that rule). It is well. 
Now for cutters with unheard-of displacement, greater draft than 
ever before, iremendous lead keels and swinging, sky-seraping rigs, 
and woe to the areas traps who may tackle the giants because they 
happen to be of likelength! The light of the small, handy, econom- 
ical boat has gone ont. Brute force is the cue to the model of the 
future. The biggest, the deepest, the most expensive on the length, 
and none other need apply. The star of the mammoth cutter has 
risen and the last faintray of hope for the light displacement has 
flickered out its life. Anditis very, veryrough on the sharpie and 
s50an Hoxes. 

Length let it be. All hail length measurement then. All hail to 
big displacement, Thrice hail to the modern cutter! 

The flounder-bottom sloop with her board and light displacement 
has been strangled. Choked by her own nurse, so short-sighted that 
poison has been administered while the weakling has been crying for 


ap. 
3 how for the biggest kind of cutters on the length, with the deepest 
kind of keels and the biggest lumps of lead hung in the lowest pos- 
sible way. ‘lhe good patriot’s slab with a board, skimming “over the 
water” is dead. The work of reform is uearing completion, We are 


happy. 


A GENBRAL TOPIC. 


diter Forest and Stream: 

in reply to your editorial comments upon my communication, pub- 
lished in your last issue, I will take up the matter in the order taken 
by you. As to weight in light airs, “experience has settled*’ that 
when the sea is heavier than the wind and s'oops “slat” it out of their 
sails, cutters have an advantage in their depth, which prevents them 
from rolling s0 much, and consequently they hold the wind better and 
keep their headway. Upon these terms they have beaten the sloo 
in ight winds; but given a day when the sea was quiet, and the result 
las always been to the credit of the lighter vessel, as all logic must 
admit, that the less resistance in weight or anything else must obtam 
superior speed You say ‘to make asloop a good sloop she must 
be turned into a cutter. Sheshould have only four beams, like the 
great majority of cutters. She should have the depth, and rig, and 
sheer, and straight side of a cutter.” To the best of my information 
the great majority of cutters average at least five beams, and racing 
eutters Gn the other side, that 1 have seen, have, very trequently, 
fully six beams. The Bedouin, which is one of the broadest here, has 
is beams, so I fail to find any warrant for your assertion of four 

ams. 

As to depth, I would advocate some, certainly, but by no means the 
extreme; rig for a sloop could incorporate someof the ecutter’s best 
points, as suggested betore, without having the doublings in the 
tmoiddle of the mast, or the mainsail loose on the foot, which are both 
objectionable for many reasons. As to sheer, the less of that the 
better for either class. irom this resumé I fail to see that I have 
advocated going “about nine-tenths of thesvhole thing at a hound.” 
That a sloop may have all that I suggest and still be a sloop, I must 
still maintain. No yacht of any class with ten or twelve feet of fixed 
dratt eould anchor within hailing distanee of shore in twenty yacht- 
frequented harbors that [can name, while eight feet of water can be 
obtained in the great majority of them. As to ‘finding fault with 
the Gracie’s model,”’ the evils T noted were known and remedied by 
Captaam Phil. Elsworth in all bis models long before cutters came 
here to instruct us in yachtdesigning. While admitting that the 
Gravis is the “queen of the fleet in América,” I still contend that she 
is 80 through superior size only; that avessel of the same dimensions, 
designed, builjand rigged as I suggested in my last, would give her 
time in any kind ef weather. That the Bennett champion cup was 
wou by Bedouin in ‘our weather and our waters’’ is quite true, but 
the result would certainly have beeu more satisfactory to every one 
if both competitors could have had some wind at jhe same time. — 

The chances of adding victories to the cutter’s side would certainly 
heincreased by a large fleet from which to select achampion, andthe 
absence of anumber to choose from is exactly the difieulty upon the 
sloop side, There really ign’ta first-clas3 sloop in the country. When 
Américans have felt like buduing §$0-foor yachts they have invariably 
built schooners. You say that in point of cost, the modern beamy 
sloop of large displacement is more expensive and hasia greater draft 
thant the enter.” ‘jie Bedouin cost nota cent less than $45,000, and 
J pave heard it-estimaten even at $50,000; the owner of the Gracie 
woud very cheerfully sell out for nalf that sum. and any builder in 
tis country would be gladto take acontract to build and fit out 
tompleté 4 sloopor schooner 100ft. long for $40,000, so that lI am 
ugain compelled to mpeRiAon your claim asregards cost, and as re- 
gards dratt. Ifail to comprehend how an American centerbuard 
e4n draw anywhere near as muGh asan Buglish keel. In concluding, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


yousay that, in reference to the Fortuna,"‘it is one of her good points 
“to lift readily to everything.” Now a yacht thatlifts to a ten or 
fifteen foot sea instead of jemming into it and checking ber head- 
way is certainly doing well, but that can hardly be said of Fortuna’s 
‘lifting™' in the Goelet cup race. when there was no sea over six feet 
in height, and when thatsame “lifting” evidently did more to defeat 
her than anything else. FRANELYN BASSFORD, 
55 VoncorD S7rREEtT, Brooklyn. 


[A review of this subject is erowded ont till next week.] 


MIGNONETTE, CUTTER. 


1 Gs placing before the public a series of designs for small yachts 
we have been animated with the desire to supply the genera 
reader with accurate information relating to the capabilities of such 


boats, and above all to disabuse his mind of the prevailing but mis-- 


taken notion that yachting and a long purse must needs go hand in 
hand, and that the sport to be got from small tonnage is necessarily 
more limited than is to be expected from vessels of considerable 
size. Two greater falacies could not exist. - A yery small outlay and 
a very small boat will realize to the beginner or adept everything 
contributing to the fullest participation in the enjoyments and bene- 
fits of yachting. Itis important that this should be thoroughly un-— 
derstood, as the small eraft is within the purchasing power and man- 
agement of hundreds who may never expect or care to make the 
investment of time and money entailed with the ownership of an 
unwieldy affair demanding a hired crew. In fact, unless able to de- 
vote one’s time to cruising all tke year round, size in # yacht acts as 
a damper upon quick and ready ardor, inasmuch as the attainment 
of the end desired is more distant and indefinite. A large yacht is 
always a sort of financial millstone about the neck, and represents 
such a big undertaking in all her doings that she is naturally put to 
service with hesitation at intervals only; the crew, however, never 
once ceasing their onslaught upon the grub locker, nor is there any 
let up to other expenses of commission while idly swinging to an 
anchor. Of course, the sailing of large yachts has charms and ad- 
vantages of its own in some respects, but so far as all the essentials 
of the sport are concerned we know they are at our command on 
two tons just as well as upon 4 humdred times two, while the little 
boat likewise has certain good points of her own as an offset to those 
of her big sister. The belief tothe contrary has a certain basis of 
justification. Ithasbeen almost a universal custom in America to 
model, rig and fit small boats as toys merely, no one cxacring from 
them more than sie a play, never suspecting the possibilities of 
whieh they were really capable, because hidden to first impresions. 
Our small yachts haye not heen built as yachts at al , but as 
makeshifts and machines, flourishing only in a sort of ephemeral 
afternoon butterfly existence. The possession of sturdy vested quali- 
ties characterizing big tonnage has not until recently heen contem- 
plated in their planiing, With the present development of 
the sailorizing side of the sport and the practical lessons inculcated 
through the instrumentality of ‘‘cutter ideas.’ a new field of utility 
has suddenly opened to the small boat which is being welcomed by 
the masses, for it offers them a chance to participate in that chapter 
ie yachting from which they have so long considered themselves 
shut out. 

To adapt a small boat to the same ends as a large oneand with equal 
success, it is only necessary to abandon prevailing impressions and to 
boldly branch out in the directions indicated by experience. 

The small boat engaged in active work makes heavy weather of it 
So much oftener than the large one that itis paramount to incorpor- 
ate in her scheme the greatest possible power and ability to face 
whatever may come along. She maist fer this reason possess the 
maximum weight on her length. As this cannot be engrafted upon 
a beamy form, it is a sequence that she should be deep and narrow 
in proportion, To further add to her ability the weights should be 
stowed as low as the structure will allow. The boat should possess a 
keel upon which to hang them. Both of these requisites carry with 
them the greatest accommodation and safety and moderation in rig. 
The first due to the absence of a centerboard trunk, good height un- 
derneath the beams, with ventilation and light; the second due toa 
low center of gravity, and the third to faeness of form, it being well 
established that large ciominge near on small beam can be more 
economically driven than less displacement on wide beam, These 
provisions will insure the three chief virtues a small craft should dis- 
eco practically available room, safety from capsizing. The 

ourth essential is speed. Success or failure in this respect will de- 
pend upon the proper distribution of the boat's bulk for ready pas- 
sage through the water and for sail-carrying to be derived trom a 
consideration of both form and the weights. Of secondary impor- 
tance, but none the less deserving of attention, are such matters as 
handiness of rig in connection with efficiency, the various 
requireraents of comfort and convenience, and the ar- 
rangement of details of oqURey Simplicity. through- 
out should of course be studied, but in no--case should sim- 

licity be allowed to overrule adaptability. Such @ sacrifice cannot 
De tolerated. Far better have asurplus of complex contrivances 
than be unprepared to execute just what ought to be executed under 
all circumstances likely to atise. Itisa grave and common mistake 
to seek simplicity at all hazards and to sacrifice far more important 
considerations in magnifying the yalue of simplicity beyond all rea- 
son. Simplicity is the easiest thing attaiable. A clothes pole, a 
night shirt, and that irresistible charm to ill-matured conceptions, the 
“single halliard,”’ are witbin the comprehension of eyery one, but of 
what avail is such a primitive affair, if success in plying to windward 
is at stake? And a clothes pole without proper staying is simplicity 
itself, bub where isthe man of experience who would expect the 
highest performance with masthead whipping about, and who would 
choose ta buck such poverty-stricken equipment into a steep sea? 
The green hand may fail to appreciate the issue, Those who “have 
béen there” cannot be inveigled by the claptrap of ‘‘simplicity” at the 
expense of other things worth having. . 

In the foregoing we have outlined the general principles which 
must be followed where the most in the way of performance is 
wanted outof the least in the way of boat. A neglect to acquiesce in 
these principles established through endless practice, is only to in- 
vite failure in proportion to the departure. Innumerable notions 
have risen to the surface, and every- now and then pop up again in 
some trifling disguise, whereby their promotersseek to eyadecommon 
laws of nature and the multiplication table. First, it is this or that 
fisherman’s old hulk, then sume dugout of a canoe, then a Block 
Island bouncer, then the sharpie, then some Fiji [sland importation, 
and so on, which are in turn held up to admiration as the personitica- 
tion ofall that is perfect in nayal design, Worshippers of the primi- 
tive are never found wanting to take up the cudgels for transparent 
accidents, which an expert can Cissect at cnce as radically Tans 
and faulty in some of the Principal elements imperative In asmal 
yacht. But the combined science and experience of the civilized 
professional world is not easily overthrown by the crudities of abv- 
Tiginals, with whom form and peculiarities in boat building are in- 
yariably the merest accident of the immediate surroundings, 
Limited in wealth, in material or in skill, their boats are makeshifts 
to cayer oneor a few special wants. To the well-planned yacht 
designed to meet a wider range of more exacting contingencies, all 
these makeshifts must bow in deference to the broader intelligence 
which calls the modern yacht into being. 

Letno one be deceived. Ibis impossible to juggle nature. You 
cannot circumvent her. You must accomplish your aims by callin 
nature to your aid, You must expectto pay for what you get, an 
asaving by curtailing the weight upon which you depend for mo- 
mentum, or the draft to hold you against surface agitation, or the 
equipment with which you areto do your pointing can only lead to 
disappointment. A gmall boat which is not able in lumpy water is 
worthless for aught but restricted harbor operations, and that is not 
the kind of boat with which to solve the proposition of “yaehting 
on small tonnage.” Cf . <_¥ 

When it comes toa matter of model and rig in specific detail, it 
should not be overlooked that success may be expected trom more 
than one Individual design. Indeed within reasonable limits there 
tust always be a variety to choose from, each excelling most in the 
direction her features are most salient. Thus the narrow and heayy 
oat will be the ablest driving to windward in rough water, She will 
heel rather more at the start, but show stiffness in strong breezes; 
ean be crowded more, but calls for smailer rig; will draw more 
water; have narrower deck, less wings, but more headroom and ends 
below; will be drier than a shoaler, wider boat; toss less spray; be 
easiér in her rolling, but pitch rather more ol account of fine ends 
and little foor: will be steadier on her Eelm, hold her way better, 
show more speed in trifling airs, and, in short, show the distinguish- 
ing attributes of a regular cutter on 4 larger scale, ; 

On the other hand, the broader and the lighter of two boate will be 
stiffer in ordinary winds, haye more deck room and wings below, re- 
quire the larger rig, draw less water, haveless headroom, bossrather 
more spray, be quicker in her rolling, slower in her pitching, harder 
on her helm, with less ability in a sea, lose way quicker, and, in 
short, partake of the flat bottom centerboard’s qualities to a greater 
degree than another boat having less beam, greater depth and 
elute all of which may be no cause for som eran if the departure 
from the trap model has been marked enou to correct her faults 
to such an extent that we can afford to overlook what remains as of 
no great consequence, 

A boat which appears in every way to answer as an Bxponeénb of 
the last-described class is the new cutter Mignonette, which is illus- 
trated with this article. Stated curtly, she is the product of ingraf t- 
ing beam pune upon the cutter t to realize the objects for which 


she is intended—for cruising abode the coast between this and Mount 


Desert, single-handed or with @ friend. as occasion demands, Her 
model is from Keating, of. Marblehead, a-further modification upon 
his well-known Carmita toward the cutter, inasmuch asthe beam has 
been clipped. depth and displacement increased, and a regular cutter 
rig accepted, with the jib set flying on its own luff. She embodies, 
as & whole and in detail, the well-digested ideas of Dr. E. G. Loring. 
her owner and projector. Long experience in small boat and 
yacht-sailing along the coast, and experiments with various 
styles and rigs have led up to the construction of the 
Mignonette, and there is little doubt thab she will suit 
his purposes famously and become the first of 4 large class soou 

to follow. She has been builtin excellent style by Wall & Gor- 
man, of South Brooklyn, to whom sheis a decided credit im ber 
smooth skin and tidy finish about decks. With a 1,500lbs, shoe hung 
low and a.small well the Mignonette is without question uneapsizable, 
and also ‘‘unfillable*! in the eyent of a serious knock dwwn. A, 
judicious apportionment of beam and depth permits 4ft, Sin. undera 
low house of 12in, height, with a floor of 30in. This with two berths 
of 24in. width (shown too low im the plans) by 7ft., lockers, shelving, 
racks. etc., give exceedingly liberal accommodations on the length 
of 20Ft. 10in. The cockpit is peculiar, . The floor of the well is 12in. 
below level of deck and 6 by 31¢ft. with I4in, of deck all round 
utilized for seats, the mahogany coaming beme set back from the 
well that distance. In this way the volume of water which could be 
sh:pped is reduced to a harmless amount, and the cabin doorsill is 
almost at deck height to prevent a sea finding its way below, The 
‘overhang supplies 2 good lead to maiusheet, and imcreases useful 
deck area. The rig is that of a full cntter, chosen after experiment 
with many other kinds, The ;division of sail puts the yacht within 
easy_control of one hand, who finds himself at all times prepared for 

anything that may come along. Indeed, the cutter represents a com- 
bination in speed and handiness which is not equalled by any other 
rig under the sun. Thatitisa fast and close-winded arrangement 


_all know from observation of the races in these and Boston waters. 


In speed the entteris second to norig, and it is probable that no 
other can really equal it. In handiness it is far superior 
to the sloop. The Mignonette, for exanple, strikes info strong 
wind. She lowers foresail in a jiffy, and has taken off nearly 
one-fourth the sail plan, equivalent to a double reef in mainsail at a 
tithe of the trouble and time. Should a squall overtake her, mainsail 
and pe can be let go by the run, and the boat can still ply to wind- 
ward under foresail alone. To enable her to do so to some good, the 
foresail is *‘Iugged” three feet abaft the mast. The owner states that 
by keeping foreside of mast clear of pms, and jointing the boom band 
by a bolt passing down flush through lugs, dovetailing hinge fashion, 
in place of setting up with screw and nut, he finds no trouble io licht- 
ing over the sheet when heaving about in stays, and that he finds the 
long foot foresaila fine pulling sail, a sort of continuation of the 
mainsai! forward the mast, sheets being led to trim very flat. Under 
all circumstances just the right balance can be preseryed through 
five successive modifications of ihe sail plan. Thus; All plain lower 
sail; mainsail and jib; reefed mainsail and small jib, or full foresail; 
close reefed mainsail and reefed foresail or small jib; and fifth, under 
foresail only. You’can always reefat leisure by keeping on your 
course with foresail, making mora sail as convenient, ou Gan work 
out of a harbor under foresail and set the rest when clear. The main- 
boom is but 19ft. long against some 23 or 24in assloop. The jib is 
small and easily trimmed. It is run out to bowsprit end on atraveler, 
and when not wanted is quickly got rid of by a pull on the inhaul and 
lowering away. In aseaitsaves laying out on alight spar to furl, 
and likewise takes the weightand bunt of the sail outof harm’s way. A 
little dexterity is required in handling the jiblestitget away from you 
during the operation, and this a little practice speedily teaches. This 
method also enables you to run jib out or in to a suitable distance to 
baJance the rest of the sail, That there is need for all these accom- 
modations no sailorman needs to be told, but we may say that Dr. 
Loring has often had occasion when single-handed to go through all 
these operations, notably in a coarse-weather beat of twenty-two 
miles on a passage in from the Isles ot Shoals, The safety of a 
shifting jib was vividly brought home to him one day when bis 
brother nearly lost his life trying to reef jib out om the bowsprit in a 
tumbling sea. On the other hand, no more lubherly and ineffectual 
way of shortening sail than ‘‘bobbing” the jib of a sloop can well be 
imagined. It involves the loss of control over head sheets, and this 
no good sailor will view with favor, however much the custom may 
pertain among green hands, or as 4 hasty and cheap makeshift amou 

small fishing smacks, engaged principally in smooth water. Io be 
sure the cutter earries with it one more halliard and sheet than the 
sloop, but as you are not obliged to attend all sails at once the *‘com- 
plexity”* in practice amounts to absolutely nothing whatever. You 
trim jib first, then flatten foresail in the next half minute. But 
should even this bother a beginner, he may drop foresail for short 
work in and out of a crowded anchorage. As belween the delusive 
value of simplicity so called-and the practical adaptability cf a rig. 
we advise adaptability without hesitation. : 

The principal specifications of the Miynonette aré as follows: 
Keel, 6x8: stem, sided, 344; post, 10in., moulded; all of oalr, inelud- 
ing deadwood. Frames, oak, 14x38 at heels and 146xi8q at head, 
double, riveted together, boxed into keel, with hackmatack floors 
bolted through keel. Clamps of oak, 1x3bs, full length of boat, as is 
also all other plank. Deck frame of oak, 116x244, riveted to clamps 
with knees to side. Top streaks ef oak, 1x314, with two wales o 
Georgia pine, rest of lin. cedar, Planksheer of oak, 1lgx3le, whole 
length; deck of white pine, bright, 144 square. Ceiling 14m, thick, 
narrow and beaded. ahoguny fittings. Four sideligits to house 
and two din. brass ports in forward end. All ironwork of best gal- 
vanized Norway iron; lignum vite deadeyés, iron strapped, two 
shrouds each side. Spars of spruce, three coats of varnish. Patent 
bouched iron strap, lignum vite blocks. Builder to furnish yacht 
complete with all rigging, gear, anchors, chain, hawser, sails of 1002. 
double-bighted cotton duex. Ballast, 2,3J01bs. inside and 1,500Lbs. on 
keel. 

The increase in displacement of the Mignonette over the Carmita, 
we have considered offset by the cabin nouse deeper threating to 
floors, and regular cruising outfit and stores to be carried, The bal- 
last and its ratio to displacement would vary of course with the out- 
fit. The manner of keying the locust bitts to the deck to do away 
with crowding the eyes below is shown in our sketch. A wood knee 
will in addition be worked on the forward side on deck to further 
stiffen them. oe 

The sections shown in the plans are not building frames, but the 
sections by which the boat was laid down. ‘The elements are as 


under: cr 

Mignonette. Carmita, 
Menetnion Gdthene. aiouy separ owe eas 2otb. 10in. 24fb, sin. 
DHength loadline.- oe sis 6 ss ee 20ft. 10in, 20ft. bin, 
Greatest beam moulded.................,-.. 7tb. in. 7£b, Lin, 
Beam on loadline...-... .....--.4. s--.2-- 2-88 7fb, din. ‘¢fo, Gin. 
Depth M. §, planksheer to rabbet........... 4it. 2in SFL, dJin, 
GreateptGlant cope eee ce ere hacia nians att. Lt. Vin. 
Least freeboard top planksheer........ . .. Ift, Din, 1ft. fin. 
Area immersed M.S. with keel...........-. 11,462q. ft 10 253q.ft. 
Area loadline plane..........- 2). Lense aes 105,858q. ft, = 101.2054, ft 
Ratio sq. root M.S. to L-W.L........-.::.-. > 3.3 3.20 
Area longitudinal section with rudder.-..,. J1,osq. tt. 62,0sq. ft, 
Ratio MS. tosame..... 0. cs.- sees e--e, HA 6,08 
Area, wetted surface with rudder........... 2033q. ft, 1848q, ft, 
Displacement...... Nigar = a= Srifesterterae 8, S001D8. 7,732 lbs, 
Displaeementin short tons...,.2.:...--:-... 4.4¢6tons, 3,867 tons. 
Same per inch at loadline...................  S&lbs, a40]bs. 
Wet surface per short ton displacement,... 46.2sq. ft. 47 6sq. Et. 
Ballastinside.....:;-----.--- 02. ees. senses S5ULDS. 2,6001bs. 
Hallant.on cls: sna suc use roest ue lesey ate 1,500Ihs 1,1501bs. 
Ratio ballast to displacement,.............. 46pr. ct. 48pr. ct. 
MS. from. end L,W,L........----.....-----+ 12ft. 4in. Iett. Gra. 
Center Jateral resistance from L.W.L...... 12ft. din. fv, din, 
Center effort of sails from L-W.L.. .... -. 11ft. Sin, 11ft, din. 
Center of buoyancy from L.W.L.......- oS = 11ft, fin. 
Area three lower sails........ --, «-------- 4b0sq. ft, 430sq. fb. 
Ratio to square of loadline.,.....,..--.-..- 1Dhipervent, 102 p. cent. 
Sail per sq. ft. wet surface ...-........- a-- 22bsq- Fb. 2.335q. fb. 
Sail per ton of displacement.-._........ ..,l.4sq. ft. 111.2sq. ft. 
ATGS MSIDSALL,. ys geese es ey ee ee eee ENS, Eh. 2OBsq. 10. 
Area lug foresail,..,........--.- --.-.----.-. Disq. fb. esq. ft, 
Area atge Jae. ere eres Sree- ys o> ay eeee D8sq. ft Tsq. 1b. 
Hoist of mainsail oo ee gon} poses oe sem OD lott. 
Foresail on foot, . iy 1ift. din. Sit. 
Jib on foot.......- «.-. 2h 10£t, Gin. 
Mast from end L,W.L...... t, fin 7ft. Gin, 
Mast from deck to hounds. Taft. 17ft. Gin, 
Boom over all..-.,....--.. -- THEE. 1st. 
Ga Overall, --. 2<y- yy) ou peeeeeee wees: Mees IGEt.. 
Bowsprit end L.W.L. to stay PP tae Set, Bin, ft. Sin. 


ARRIVED OUT.Schooner Montauk made Bermuda im satety 
Feb, 27, after a very long and bad passage, Distance 800miles. Time 
of passage over seven days. as coynpelled to heave to sixteen 
hours, and eleven hours unable to face the sea, The skipper watclies 
her closely to prevent a capsize, and will non buvk her at it in a steep 
sea, which should allay all fears for her safety. ' 


ORUISING.—Steamer Atalanta, Mr. Gould, sailed from Charles- 
tou, March 4, bound south. Schooner Fort, Mr. Hoysy, satled 
from Havana, March 4, bound for Bermuda, 


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A FINE PIECE OF WORK. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

T have noticed that in one or two of your published accounts of the 
tutter (No. Twelve) building at South Brooklyn, you have con- 
hécted Mr. Lennox's name with her. Mr, Lennox has nothing to do 
with Per building, and as she is the best yet turned out in this vicinity 
so far, I think the credit should be given to whom it belongs. She is 
being built by Daniel C. Bernard in his own shop and yard. and for 
first-class material and fine workmanship she is way ahead of the 
ordinary yacht building in these parts, F. B. 


[We can indorse the foregoing. The workmanship about the Merlin 
is almost carried to the pitch of a fine art. She is the best job turned 
out in these parts, and prontises likewise to bea brilliant success in 
respect to her planning and design.] 


A YACHT OF GREAT INTEREST.—Mr. EZ. G. Weld’s new yacht 
now building by Smith, of South Boston, will afford some very in- 
structive comparisons when sailed against the Hera, belonging to the 
same owner. The new yachtis of the same length about, but nar. 
rower. deeper, and of larger displacement. Hera is 35ft. loadline, 
13lsft. beam, and 7ft, 4in, draft. The new boat is 36ft. loadlise, 11ft. 
ilin. extreme beam and 8ft. draft, with no less than 7 tons lead on 
her keel, She will have a flush deck, and is built, we believe; mainly 
With a view to accurately testlarge displacement on less beam for 
racing under length measurement, The frame, according to the 
Boston Herald, is steam bent, moulded 314in. at heel, and 214 at head, 
spaced 15in., and sided 244. She will be through copper fastened with 
1M4in. planking. Incidentally. it may be remarked, that the draft of 
the new Hera on 8€ft. length is as great as that of the English cutter 
Maggie on 45ft. loadline, and 6in, greater than that of the Scotch eut- 
ter Madge of 88ft. loadlme. Inthe Hast, the bugbear of draft has 
been cissipated, and the length rule boats already draw more than 
and displace as much as cutters of same loadime, The displacement 
of the new Hera is about 14 tons on 36ft.. and that of the cutter Madge 
is 1615 tons on 38ft. 


STEERING VERY WIDE.—The Herald puta green hand at the 
bellows Jast Friday, and sent him on a cruise to Bay Ridge, that holy 
of holies, the last spot where the sloop still doth flourish, though even 
there ina modified form. Dr. Barron is graciously patted on the 
baek for his lynx-like discernment in building a centerboard, which, 
considering that Dr. Barron was within a few hundred dollars of buy- 
ing the cutter Wenonash, and that his new sloop is deseribed as Sft. 
neep in place of the 5l4ft. which was the regulation allowance of ye 
olden time trap, mvst be very amusing to Dr. Barron. Then we are 
told the Oriva is 51ft, instead of 50, to mislead the public in possible 
future races between the two boats, and to cap the Climax, the fine 
little cutter illustrated in our issue this week, is described as a center- 
board of Block Island model. with a long overhang! Somebody has 
been making a fearful guy of the Herald, but we suppose that sort of 
stuff is just the kind of stuff expected from such asource. Are we 
never going to have any one on the daily press who can tell one end 
of a boat from the other? 


SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C.—The club book to appear 
May 1 will show a fleet of over 100 vessels and a large increase of 
membership. The club has the finest fleet of cutters in America, 
From one or two straggling yachis of that sort they have increased 
aud multiplied into a squadron in less than four years, and more are 
being added rignt alons. Affairs were never in a more flourishing 
condition, and the §,C.Y.C. is now the most sporting organization in 
New York, a combination of the leading and most progressive 
spirits in the amateur sailing world, Itis said with truth that the 
elub contains more gentlemen capable of designing and building as 
well as sailing their yachts and deserving to rank as experts than 
any other club in America or abroad. Itis a yachtsmen’s club and 
not merely a collection of yacht owners. 


COUNTERFEITS.— When a person cannot command his own Eng 
lish, but steals whole sentences from others, he is at once convicted 
of being a plagiarist, having no brainsof bisown. Wedo not object 
to the trightful rubbish printed in an alleged newspaper over the 
grandiloguent signature of ‘‘America,”* The illogical stuff carries its 
Own answer. But we do dislike to see such an incapable pretender 
draw sustenance by appropriating our language. which has a 
strength of its own easily recognized in the worst hodge podge. But, 
we suppose, such is fame. You have to furmish the enemy with 

«powder to shoot, or there would be no enemy to knock over when 
oceasion arrives tor giving him the dignity of that much recogni- 
tion. 


»PLAY SOLDIERS.—We learn from (he Sun that the 8. S. Utowana 
belongs to Captain Connor and the § §, Promise to Captain Cordova. 
Do these gentlemen, guilelessly innocent of everything appertaining 
to a captain, dress up in tin swords, pasteboard chapeaux and paper 
eockades. that the Swn should confound a’stockbroker with a *‘cap- 
ting?” It is time the newspapers stopped such sickly slobber. Neither 
Mr. Connor nor Mr. Cordova are “‘captings.”” They are yacht 
owners. 

BEVERLY Y-. C.—The fixtures of the club will be found at the 


head of these columns. The club has adopted the one gun start for 
all but the open match in August, 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Wednesday, March 12,6 P. M., No. 26 East Four- 
teenth street, Kit Kat Club Room. Subject—Tents and Camp 
Outfits. ; 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to FormsT AND 
Srream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings. and laces, and 
reports of the same. Canceists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forest Anp Srrpam their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


CANOE ys. SNEAKBOX. 


ditor Horest and Stream: j 
a am decidedly of opinion that_a well-constructed sneakbox will 
drown out any canoe that ever floated. This is based on several 
years’ experience with both, The sneakbox possesses the further 
advantage of permitting you to take one or more friends with you. 
The handsomest-and lightest sneakboxesare probably made by Kush- 
jon, They are likewise the most expensive. Fora heayier, rougher 
built and much cheaper box of better model, communicate with J. F, 
Kilpatrick, Barnegat, N. J. Four vears ago he built one for me, 16x35, 
and the following year one for a friend 18x514. Both have given ex- 
cellent satisfaction. These boats ave wonderfully able, it being almost 
impossible to upset them unless the sheet fouls ina hard blow or 
squall, For speed my box will hold its own with the average cathoat 
of same length sailing on the wind. Before the wind the cathoat 
will beat it. I carry a fair amount of sail (balance lug) as seen in 
accompanying photos. Have never reefed but twice, and then 
because the crew were ladies. I usually spend three months each 
year ab the waterside, and would be pleased to have Mr. Neidé visit 
the Sound, Connecticut shore, with his Pearl durmg a stiff south- 
easter, The sneakbox is pre-eminently the boat for boys in which to 
gain their first experience. Good also for inland lakes where winds 
are flawy, and the balance lug the best rig. Bosum. 


Hditor Forest and Stream. 


The one objection I've always entertained to canoe meets in gen- 


eral1s that so much of their programme is devoted to racing. Iam 
a solitary cruising canoeist. and as such must stick to my prin- 


onl 
ciples and decline Dr. Neide's friendly challenge to match the sneak- 


box against a canoe. 1 stick to my opinion, however, that the sneak- 
box i far more seaworthy in wide waters than the canoe. If my de- 
clension to race looks like inability to prove whatI assert, so be it. 
I'm not on the a Aa Peed SENECA. 
Wassineton, March 3, ; 
[ine present. owner of *‘Bojum's’’ old canoe, after more than 2,000 


miles cruising in her, has this season taken to the sneak box for one. 


sons given by ‘‘Bojum,’’ that a large boat will hold more 
fran cnet One: but atter urorgueny testing the bex, he declares 
i noe as a cruisin oat, 
saad shouted earry nL ed sail faster and be stiffer than one of 
14x26ft,, but to compare the models, boats of about the same size 
should be taken. Itis but fair to the canoe in question to mention 
that her reputation for stability has greatly improved since the 
ch eof owners. If ‘Seneca’ will visit any of the canoe meets he 
will find that the racing is confined almost exclusively to well-known 
cruising canoeists, and to canoes that haye cruising’ records of hun- 
dreds of miles. Of course, the only test of the merits of the boats is 
py racing or cruising together, and a little wind and water will settle 
the question much more conclusively than ink and paper.] 


Of course, & boat of 18x546ft. is- 


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FOREST AND STREAM: 


ROCHESTER (N. Y.) CANOE CLUB. 


OCHESTER. N. Y.—Organized Sept. 22, 1882. George H. Harris, 

Commodore; F. W. Storms, Vice-Commodore. Matt Angle, 

Purser. Fifteen*members. Signal, pointed burgee, composed of four 
triangles: the two at base blue, center white, apex red. 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 


Ninth Paper. 
BUILDING—gCONTINUED. 


EFORE remoying the staff from the moulds, the position 
of cach mould must be marked on it, as the breadths 
will be laid off afterward at each mould. 

A board is now selected free from knots, sap or checks 
for the varboard. Tf it can be had planed to the thickness, 
din.. much trouble will be avoided, but where this is not 
possible, a board 8 or lin, thick is planed smooth on both 
sides, the staff is taken carefully from the moulds, laid on 
it and held by a few tacks, then with the compasses still set 
to the same distance, the measurements are reversed, placing 
a point of the compasses on the marks on the staff, and 
measuring out on the board. This operation, if accurately 
performed, will give the exact shape of the lower edge of 
the garboard. 

The sirmark is now transferred to the board, and also the 
position of the moulds, after which the staff is removed and 
a batten is run through the spots, the curves on the ends 
being drawn in with the rabbet moulds. To lay off the 
upper edge, the breadths on the stem, stern and each mould, 
as previously marked off, are taken and transferred to the 
respective points on the board, an extra width of 2in. being 
added for the lap, and a line drawn through them with a 
batten. 

Some woods, cedar and oak especially, will spring or 
change their shape when a strip is sawed off one edge, and 
if this happens, the shape may be so altered that it will be 
very difficult to make the plank fit. If a straight line is 
drawn down the center of the board before sawing, and 
then tested, after one edge is sawn to shape, it will show 
whether the plank has sprung at all, and if it has, a strip 
should be sawn off the other edge, leaving the board still a 
little wider than the finished strake will be, and then the 


-board should be laid off anew from the staff, as in the first 


instance, after which the edges may be planed up, with little 
danger of further springing. 

If the board is thick enough to make two strakes, gauge 
lines are now run around the edges tin. from each side, the 
piece is laid on the saw benches, one end wedged fast be- 
tween the two-upright pieces previously mentioned, and it is 
sawn through, using the rip saw held nearly vertical, a few 
inches being sawn from one edge, then the piece being turned 
over and sawn for a short distance from the other edge, this 
process being repeated until the sawing is finished, as the 
saw will certainly run if used entirely from one side. 

When the board is sawn in two, the pieces are each planed 
to thickness on the inside, after which the edges must be 
beveled to fit the rahbet. The best bevel for this purpose is 
made of two pieces of wood #in. wide and 1tin. Jong, one 
picce, tin. thick, having a saw cut in one end, in which the 
other piece, ;;in. thick, is slipped. The bevel is applied to 
different points of the rabbet about 6in. apart in succession, 
and the angles transferred to the respective points on the 
strake, after which the entire edge is planed to correspond to 
these spots: 

The second or broad strake will, of course, lap over the 
first, but at the ends the Japs must diminish until the surface 
of both planks is flush with the stem atthe rabbet. To 
secure this the adjoining surfaces of both are beveled off, 
beginning about 18in. from each end and increasing in depth 
until about half is taken from. each piece at the rabbet of 
stem and stern. This may be done with a rabbet plane or 
sharp chisel. The lower edge of the broad strake is left 
sin. thick, a rabbet being cut in the garboard to receive it, 
but the upper edge of the garboard is simply planed to a 
feather edge. Before cutting this rabbet the width of the 
lap, Sin., should be marked with a scratch gauge on the 
outside of the garboard as a guide for setting the next plank. 

All being ready, the garboard is now held in-place, with 
the help of an assistant, each part of it being tried in the 
rabbet, to test the accuracy of the bevels. 1n doing this, 
the plank is not put in place for its entire length at once, but 
one end is tried, then the middle, and finally the other end. 

The fitting being complete, the stop waters in, and the 
hole bored for the centerboard bolt, if any; the garboard is 
fitted in place on the fore end, adjusted by the sirmark, the 
after part being held well up by an assistant, and one or 
more clamps are put on to hold it, then holes are bored ard 
countersunk for the screws, which will be gin. No. 5 brass, 
and the garboard is screwed fast as far as it lies in place. _ 

In fastening such light plank, great care is needed to avoid 
splitting it; the pieces must be in contact before the screw 
or nail is put in, otherwise, if it is attempted to draw them 
together with the screws, the plank will usual] y split. Serews 
are only used at the.extreme ends, where nails cannot he 
driven through and riveted, but along the keel the latter are 
put in, After the fore end is fastened, the plank is laid in 
place along the middle of the boat and nailed, every other 
nail being omitted to be put in after the timbers are in place, 
after which the stern is screwed fast. 

If the operations described haye been carried out correctly, 


‘the garboard should fit exactly without any further cutting, 


and the greatest care should be taken to do so, as if the strake 
does not fit at first, it is yery difficult to make it do so by 
cutting itafterward. When both garboards are on, a spiling 
is taken for the broad strake; itis got out and put on ina 
similar manner, the staff, however, in this case being in oné 
length. After the strake is in place and screwed at the 
fore end, it is fastened with clamps, and the positions of the 
nails, omitting all that will pass through the timbers, are 


marked off, using a thin batten bent around the boat, from 


Pl 
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[Manon 6, ised. 


the marks on the keel to those on the ribband, to insure 
the rows of nails being straight. 

The nails for this work are of copper, # or lin. long. As 
the holes for them are bored, they may sometimes refuse to 
hold at first, in which case a block of soft wood, 11m, square, 
is held inside the seam and the nail driven into it, the block 
being removed before riveting. It may sometimes be neces- 
sary to drive a nail through the plank into a mould, using 
a hutchock to hold the plank down, but this should be 
sree if possible, as the hole will have to be plugged after- 
ward. 

To recapitulate, the process of preparing and placing a 
plank is as follows: First, to set the staff, mark it and take 
the spiling with the compasses, mark positions of moulds, 
plane both sides of board, remove staff, place it on board, 
nail it, spile off on the board, mark position of moulds on 
latter, remove staff, mark line of lower edge through the 
spots, lay off breadths at each mould on plank, leaying & 
extra for lap, line upper edge through these spots, saw out, 
plane up edges (if a thick plank, gauge edges, slit and plane 
insides), bevel edges, gauge upper edge on outside for lap, 
cut rabbets at each end for next plank (on the bilge it will be 
necessary to bevel the upper edge of plank on outside for its 
entire length), put in place, clamp, screw fore end in rabbet, 
nail along lap, and cut and screw after end. ; 

Where there is a quick turn to the bilge, it is best to use 
4in, stuff for each plank, hollowing the inside with a plane, 
and rounding the outside to fit the curve of the moulds. At 
the ends, where the laps are thinned down, tacks, 4+ and £in, 
me are used instead of nails. sia 

he planking being completed, the canoe, if built with 
the keel up, is turned over on the stocks and shored in posi- 
tion, the keel being blocked to the proper rocker, then the 
ribs or timbers are sawed out of .a piece of stave timber, 
&xtin., the upper corners are rounded off, and if not flexible 
enough to bend easily, they are put in the steam box or laid 
in boiling water. 

The holes for the nails are now marked off by means of a 
wide, thin batten, which is bent into the bottom of the hoat 
and adjusted to the mark on keel, and also so that it stands 
upright; then a mark is made where it crosses each lap, and 
a hole bored in the middle of the lap with a -j-in, German 
bit. When all the holes are bored, the ribs are taken one 
by one, bent over the knee and pressed down into the bot- 
tom of the boat; then the nails, which have previously been 
driven lightly into the holes, are driyen up through the tim- 
ber, using a set to hold on the top of latter alongside of the 
nail as it comes through. The lowest nail must always be 
Oe first, then the others in succession from keel to gun- 
wale. 

As many ribs as possible should be put in before the 
moulds are removed, those alongside of the bulkheads, howe 
ever, being omitted entirely. A nail must be put through 
the middle of the garboard and broad into each timber, 
After all are in, the boat is kept from spreading by means 
of cross spalls, pieces holding the gunwales together, and 
the moulds are removed; the blocks are then pulled off the 
ends of the nails, and the riveting up begins. ; 

A copper burr or washer is slipped over a nail and driven 
home with a burr starter, an attendant outside holding the 
set on the head of the nail. When the burr is on, the end 
of the nail is cut off close to it, and the projecting part 
(about +/gin.) is headed with a few blows from a light rivet- 
ing hammer, the tacks at the ends merely having their ends 
turned down, After the riveting is completed the gun- 
wales are put on. 

These were formerly put inside the boat, being jogged 
over the heads of the timbers, but a stronger and neater plan 
is to put them outside, making them of a hard wood, pretf- 
erably mahogany. The deck is screwed to them, and they 
serve also as chafing battens, protecting the sides. They 
should be about 1#in. witle at middle, 1} at fore and 14 af 
after ends, and #in. thick. A rivet is put through the stem 
and both fore ends, and another through the stern, thus 
strengthening what was formerly one of the weakest points 
of acanoe, Nails are also driven through them ancl the 
upper streak and the head of each timber ana riveted, 
muking a much stiffer side than the old method. After the 
gunwales are in, the cross spalls may be shifted if necessary 
until the curves of both sides of the boat are perfectly fair 
and symmetrical. 

The bulkhead timbers will be sawed from hackmatack 
knees $in. dees) and tin. wide. They must be fitted accur- 
ately to place in order to make a water-tight joint, to do 
which, a piece of thin board is cut to fit closely, the timbers 
being marked from it. After the timbers are fitted as tightly 
as possible by this means, a little dark paint is laid on where 
the timber will come, the latter is put in place and pressed 
down, with a slight fore and aft movement, and on remoy- 
ing it, the points where it touches will be marked with paint. 

These are cutaway slightly, the piece replaced, and the 
operation repeated until the paint shows on the entire sur- 
face of the timber; it is then painted with thick white lead, 
pressed into place, and fastened by .screws or nails through 
the planks at each lap and also in the middle of each strake, 
or if a wide strake, with two nails. 

The bulkheads will be of white pine, Sin. thick; they are 


‘placed on- that side of the timbers nearest the end of the 


boat, and are riveted to them. A door is sometimes cut 
in the bulkhead-to give access to the compartment in place of 
a deck hatch. These latter are to be avoided if possible, as 
they are never to be relied on as water-tight, and-being ex- 
posed to rain and waves, are apt to wetall below, while a 
door in the bulkhead, even if not light, is only exposed ta 
water in case of a complete capsize. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 


N° canoe trip can be thoroughly enjoyed unless the canoeist is 

able to cook a square meal. <A friend lately saidtome: “I 
like to paddle around the harbor of an afternoon after office hours, 
but how a sane man can make a cruise of a week or more and live 
on erackers and condensed milk, surpasses my understanding. I 
tried it once and lost five pounds in four days, then I quit.” 

“But, Aleck, why didn*t you cook up three good meals a day? 
Didn't you have your cooking outfit along?" 

“Yes; but, Seneca, I never learned how to cook even a pot of 
‘coffee. I hung around the kitchen before I started and asked Bridget 
so many questions that she gaye a week’s warning. Besides, a man 
ean’t carry a kitchen range along in a canoe.” J 

“Qertainty not; but a canoeist, if he has the eae outfit, cah 
bake, boil, fry, broil and stew without a range at all.” 

“Do you mean to say a man can bake without an oven?” 

“He can certainly bake with no more of an oven than he can make 
himself with a few minutes’ labor.” J 

“T should like to know how.” 

“Well, I will give you a few pointers from my own experience, and 
trust you will give them a trial on a long crnise next summer, First, 
suppose you've caught a three-pound bass and want to bake him. 
Don't scale him, but just’ remoye his ‘in’erds,’ and wipe bim dry 
inside, Then dig a hole inthe ground about eighteen inches deep 


_ Tom 
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big enough to contain the fis 
ae et Hee the hot ashe 


. Build a fire in itand letit burn to 
on the bottom, and upon these place a 


thick layer of green grass. Lay your bassatop of this on his side, 
and co mts him with another layer of grass, Now rake back your 
‘an the surface of 


skin will peel off and leaye the flesh clean, be baked bet- 


coals and loose earth, and build a small fire over allon 2.0 
we After three-quarters of an hour aig out your fish. His 
and he w 
ter than any fishyou ever tasted, because the juices are all retained, 


‘Now to bake bread—— / 
“Bread baked ina hole in the ground! Not much, Sene@a. No 
sand in my bread, please.”’ 
“Not an atom, Aleck, Yor bread you must have plenty of coals, so 


a brisk fire must be ee up inthe hole for five or six hours, Make 
what is called ‘biscuit dough.’ For one man take, say one quart of 
flour, and mix in it while dry a heaping teaspoonfulof yeast powder 
and a couple of pinches of salt. Then adda teaspopful of lard (if you 
use butter, don't putin much salt) and mix thoroughly. Add water, 
small quantities at a time, continuing the mixing till you have a good 
stiff dough. Now you want two basins, made each of one piece, 
without solder. Hammer the edges of these inte asort of rim, and 
put enough dough into one of them to fill it two-thirds full. Cover 
this with the other basin, take ont ail the coals except two or three 
inches in the hottom of the hole, setin your basins, andsurround and 
cover them with hot coals. Spread earth over all, and go fishing for 
half & day. Whenyou come back you'll have first-rate camp bread.” 
“But won't it burn?” = 
“No: it will rise, but not enough to reach fhe bottom of the upper 
basin, and the gases will escape where the basins come together.” 
“But it. takes a whole day to bake bread,.”’ ¢ 
“Yes, but a cruising canoeist has to stop for a day once in awhile 
to make repairs, and no canoeist is ever in a hurry, anyhow. That’s 
the whole essence of pleasurable canoeing, to be free from all anx- 
iety about reaching a certain point in a given time, to take it easy, 
and having his habitation with him, like a snail, to eat his supper 
and go to bed wherever night finds him, [ heard this winter of a 
method of baking bread in a short time, however, and I mean ta try 
it next summer.’ 
“What is the method?” . 
“Pd rather not tell you tilllI've tried it, for I haven’t much confi- 
dence in its success,” - ; 
“Never mind; tell it, and 7 promise I won't try it till you report 
your éxperience.”’ i 
* “Well, you make your dough and roll it to a thickness of half an 
inch. Grease a frying pan and sét it over hot embers till the grease 


begins to melt. Then put the dough into the pan set it on the fire,, 


shaking the pan frequently te prevent the dough from adhering, 
When the crust has formed on the bottom, take the bread out of the 
pan and prop it np on edge, close to the fire, turning it occasionally 
to insure its being baked through.’ 

“Tdrather you'd eat that bread than me, 
for a simple kind of fiap-jack.” ; 

“The simplest flap-jack I know of is made this way: Put a small 
quantity of salt and flour in water, beat it with a fork till foam rises, 
and then mix quickly with more tlour until you havea thin batter. 
Cook on a well-greased frying pan. This beating of salt and flour in 
water was used by old Injun Joe in camp instead of baking powder 
or yea for making bread, and his camp bread was the best I ever 
tasted.”* 

“Twas down the Chesapeake last falland got plenty of oysters, 
but nobody could cook them except in the old-fashioned WEY, and I 
soon grew tired of them. Don’t you know some good way of cooking 
them in cainp?”* 

*Yes, [do, Aleck, and it’s a dish fit for a star-route contractor. Get 
the largest oysters you ean find, cut fat bacon into very thin slices, 
wrap ap oysterin each slice, and skewer witha small stick. Heat a 
frying pan yery hot, putin your oysters, and cook long enough to 
just crisp the bacon—not over two minutes, taking care that they do 
not burn, Serve immediately on slices of toast without remoying the 
skewers.” 

“Yum, yum! You make me hungry to tell me that. Say, Seneca, 

why don’t you send some of your Indian recipes to Forms AND 
STREAM, for the benefit of canoeists and campers? They have started 
a ‘Galley Fire’ column, you know.” ; 

“Oh, all those old woodsmen and cruisers that take Forrest snp 
Srream know more about camp cookery than I can tell them.” 

‘But there must be, 1am sure, a lot of ‘#resh Alecks’ among them 
like me, who would be glad of elementary instruction,” 

“Well, they can refer to alady who teaches cooking schools, and 
who has written a book on ‘Camp Cookery,’ a book Lhavenever seen, 
but my boarding-house keeper was @ pupil of Miss Parloa’s, and her 
eonsommés are heavenly. However, I will try them with a few 
dishes I can recommend from experience, and if they take well, T’ll 
try to rake up the whole lot and send ‘em in.” SENECA. 


. . <= 
Seneca. Givgyne a recipe 


LARGE VERSUS SMALL CANOES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Ihave read ‘‘Widgeon's” letter with regard to the Stella Maris 
27m. canoe and, although I agree with him on some points in favor 
of-that type, | must say that after a cruise of 250 miles in one last 
simmer I donot considerherup to the mark as an all-around 
eruising canoe, Because, first, she was never dry and sometimes 
not over safe in rough water. Why? Because she was too low, and 
had not enough sheer, and when running before the wind would pore 
her nose under as if about to ‘‘dive.”” Secondly, she is so small as to 
be unable to hold enough camp kit, asI found by bitter experience 
on my cruise, when we had exceptionally cold weather, andshe would 
not carry enough blankets to keep me warm at night. Is that com- 
fort? Thirdly, **‘Widgeon” speaks about cruising in a Stella Maris 
from Labrador to Cape Cod; 1t might be done, but I should prefer to 
be excused. - 

Now, speaking of portages. and.when the avoirdupois of a canoe 


counts, | do not see why one cannot be built, of the same length as~ 


the Stella Maris, but somewhat broader and deeper, which would 
weigh pretty nearly the same,and be far more comfortable and 
_ safer. FRIDAY. 


_ CLUB SIGNALS.—We have to acknowledge the receipt of club 
signals from the Chicago, Rondout, Mohican of Albany, Alleghany of 
Pitisburgh, Keystone of Philadelphia, Rob Roy C. C. ot Indianapolis, 
Ind., with a number yetto hear from, Where are the Cleveland, 
Saneanatt, Newark, N. J., Whitehall, Bayonne and Philadelphia 
clubs? 


SPEED OF CANOES.-—“‘Stormy Petrel, writing to the London 
Field, claims to have made 1414 miles under sail in 2 hours 5 minutes; 
first 7 miles in slack water, last 7 with strong tide, the tide and distance 
being accurately noted. The canoe was 14fl,x27in., weighing less than 
50lbs. Thisis not equal to Mr. Alden’s trip of 60 miles in 7 hours on 
the Great South Bay last sammer, but is very fair considering the 
size of the canoe. 


LyMAn’s Sieuts willhelp a man to use his rifle effectively, A 
shooter can do best with the sights he has become used to, and it is 
well to accustom oneself to the best. We know of no hetter now on 
the market than Lyman’‘s. 


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) Answers ta Correspondents. 


[= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


Sv. Brrnarp, Boston, Mass.—Breed her to a St. Bernard, 
M. B. C., Oswego, N. ¥.—Write to J. I, Miller, Montvale, N. J. 


H. R., Boston, Mass,—Pilkington’s Dash was by Laverack’s old 
Blue Dash and out of Pilkington'’s Lill. 


“Five Constant READERS” ought to know by this time that we re- 
quire name and address of correspondents. 


C, W. E., Boston, Mass.—Probably you will find a satisfactory map 
of the New Brunswick region in Osgood’s ‘‘Guide to the Maritime 
Provinees,”’ 

W. 8B, P., New York.—Perfection (A.K.R. 826) is a pure Laverack. 
Beauty (A.K.R. 806) goes back to Fauntleroy’s Snake, and is not a 
pure Laverack. 


A. D., Providence, R. 1,.—We don’t know of an English greyhound 
named Leol, Trace back the pedigree of your dog through the 
man you bought him from, 


H. P. U.—What is the weight of the largest brook tront, 8. fontin- 
alis, on record? Ans. We know of none larger than the one in the 
National Museum, which weighed 1144lbs. 


Cc. 8. D,, Warren, R. I.—There are quite a number of Scotch deer- 
hounds in this country, Write to Hillside Kennel, Lancaster, Mass. 
The price will depend upon breeding and quality. 

H,, Syracuse, N. ¥.—1. Colburn’s Dash was by Putnam's Dan (Paul 
Mea.ci’s Dash—Putnam’s Nell), and out of Valentine’s Fanny (Taleott’s 
Sport—Taleott’s Nell). 2. Write to Dr. William Jarvis, Claremont, 


erie 

H. A. G., Portland, Me.—1. What is the best glue for split bamboo 
rods? 2, Whatis the best varnish for either bamboo or lancewood 
rods’ Ans, 1. Get best white glue, 2. Use shellac dissolved in 
alcohol. - 


0. F. C., Pawtucket, R. 1.—Dorothee is the dam of Othello (A.K.R. 
756), Queen Bess (A.K,R. 757) and Le Beau (A.K.R. 755), Clio is the 
dam. of La Belle(A.K.R. 754). Subscribe to the American Kennel 
Register, 

P. D., New York.—Can I lawfully shoot quailfrom a trap on my 
own grounds in Westchester county, the birds being brought from 
another State? Ans. No, ueither lawfully por decently. The proper 
time to shoot quail isin the open season, and the proper mode is with 
a dog in the field. 

Youne Srort.—Will you please tell me what part of the stream I 
will find trout in the months of March and April? Ans. Jt is unlaw- 
ful to take them in Mareh, In April you will find them all along the 
streams where the water is clear and good, especially in pools and 
under banks, and other hiding places, 


READER, Philadelphia.—Will you inform me where I can find good 
striped bass, or rock, fishing? 1 do not care about sea fishing. I pre- 
fer the bay or river fishing, where they run from one to five pounds, 
Ans. There is often good bass fishing down the Delaware River, and 
in the bay: also in the Chesapeake. ‘Whe fish move so that particu- 
lar points cannot now be named. 

B. H., Norman County, Minn.—There is a fish isthe Red River that 
closely resembles the whitefish in size, shapeand color, It has golden 
circles around its eyes, and it bites at grubs and meut readily in May, 
June, July and August. Some call it whitefish, while others call it 
“solden eyes.” What is the correct name of the fish and its habits? 
Ans. The description is not sufficient to decide upon the species, 


P. BE. H., West Liberty, O.—St. Bernard puppies sell from $50 to 
$200 each when ready"to leave the dam, so you will find them rather 
too expensive for your purpose, Mr. Rodney Benson, P.O. Box 1,957, 
New York; Mr. BE. R, Hearn, Passaic, N. J.; The Chequasset Kennels, 
Lancaster, Mass.; The Essex Kennel, Andover, Mass,, breed St, 
Bernards. Fora bulldog you may apply to Hillside Kennel, Laneas- 
ter, Mass. : 

S.R wr, Brooklyn.—1. Will you inform me whereI can buy a first- 
class book on dog diseases and their treatment? 2. If there is a 
rifle fastened to the stock as the U. 8. Springfield rifie? 3. Is not the 
repeater considered as good as any? I have Hammond's dog book, 
and like it very much. Ans. 1. “Management and Disease of the 
Dog,’ by J. Woodroffe Hill. Wecan supplyit for $2. 2. We do not 


understand what you mean. 38. Yes. 


W. N. MacA., Covington, N. Y.—Will you kinuly inform me in your 
columns—first, if the crested titmouse (Lopophanes bicolor) is ever 
found in this section, andits average size; second, if bluewing teal, 
which I have shot having cinnamon brown legs (dark) and others 
havin light yellow legs aud feet (apparently alike in all other re- 
spects), are of the same species. Ans. 1. Not commonly, we think, 
but it may oceur occasionally, 2. Thesame, Differencé due to age. 


A. R., Pawtucket, R. 1—1. Can you inform me as to the best book 
on the dog, if possible? I shoud like one very minute in detail; also 
treating on the diseases of the dog, and have colored illustrations. I 
have never seen & book with colored plates, and do not know whether 
ne exists. 2. At the same time please inform meif there is a book 
published exclusively on the mastiff. I have studied “Stonehenge,” 
buthe does not go into detail enough furme. Ans. 1. Vero Shaw’s 
“Book of the Dog.” We can supply it for $12.50, cloth; half morocco, 
$17.50, 2. No. 

T. M, E,, Washington, D. C.—I have a white wolfskin robe (uew) 
which “sheds hair’ so badly as to become a nuisance. Will the 
application of salt and alum, as stated in reply to ‘*Tanner,.** in issue 
of Feb, 25, prévent the further shedding? I don’t think the fur is 
moth-eaten, bul that the skin was badly cured,as I have seen sey- 
eral other new robes in the same condition, Ans. It is possible that 
a bath of strong “pickle,’’7. e,, a solution of one part alum to two 
parts salt in water might fasten the hair. but we think it doubtful. 
You might try it, however. 


S. W, A., Jr., New York.—Where will Ihe able to procure a print of 
one of the dogs, Dan by name, comprising one of the set by A. Pope, 
Jr.,and published by Armstrong & Co., of Boston? There were twenty 
or more altogether, and, haying most of the others}am very desirous 
of obtaining this particular one. The picture represents a liver and 
white pointer dog, Dan or Don, Iam not certain which is the correct 
name, facizg to the right, with head erect and holding a quail in his 
mouto. The mate to this picture is a dog called Bow, which I have. 
Ans. We cannot tell you where picture may be obtained. Have you 
written to the publishers? 


C. P., Yonkers, N. Y.—Will you inform me whether the publication 
ofthe Forrest AnD StrReAM Kennel Register has been discontinued, 
and whether the American Kennel Register covers the ground of the 
other. Also, whether a copy of the Forest AnD STREAM Kennel Regis- 
ter can be obtained? Ans. The FoREST AND STREAM’S register entries 
were some years ago turned over to the National American Kennel 
Club, upon the representation that they were about to publish an 
annual stud book, and it was thought best that there should be but 
one book of the kind. The club did publish one volume of the book 


REST AND STREAM, | 


-cupied as a powder-house by wholesale Omaha dealers. 


in 1879. Then after delaying a long time, they gave the entries for 
the second volume to a Western concern which has to all intents and 
purposes suppressed the whole thing, The American Kennel Register 
has taken the place of the former Formsr AND STREAM Register, and 
is. in fact, the only publisned record of the kind that is of contem- 
poraneous utility. 


Accomac, Va.—Will the Kynoch brass shell answer for any gun, or 
do the guus have to be fitted specially tothem? Are they as durableas 
the thick brass shells? Ans, The Kynoch shell being thinner than the 
ordinary brass shell, will not fit unless the chamber is bored specially 
forit, Butthe chamber may be reduced by the bushing process. 
For instance, the interior diameters of the barrel of a 12-gange gun 
and of a 12-cauge shell are, say, .729in, But the paper shell being, 
say, .030 in. in diameter, it is ae plain teat the chamber of the 
gun to receive this paper shell must have a diameter of .729 plus twice 
030, or .789. Now, were the Kynoch shell equal in interior diameter to 
the barrel of the gun, and only .007in. thick, the chamber should 
be only ‘729 plus twice .007 or .743in. It is evident, therefore, that 
the chamber bored to .769 for the paper shell, would, in that case, 
have to be reduced to .748 for the Kynoch .729 interior diameter- 
This could be accomplished by inserting in the chamber a steel! ming 
which is bored out to the desired diameter. As a matter of fact, how- 
ever, the Kynoch shells being made with exterior diameters to tit the 
present chambers of the seyeral gauges, it has been found that a 12- 
gauge gun may be bushed with bestadvantage for a 14-gauge Kynoch 
shell, the interior diameter of the shell being .744in. The process of 
bushing is made perfectly intelligible by the illustration given in our 
issue of July 5, 1583. 


THE ROCK CREEK RABBIT FEAST. 


A recent event, which caused much excitement in the 
yicinity of Rock Creek, Iowa, is recorded in verse by the local 
laureate, and printed in the lola (La,) Hegister: 


The farmers out on Rock Creek 
Took notice last July, 
That rabbits were in abundance, 
And would vastly multiply. 
They therefore promised the dogs and boys, 
if they’d stop the vast increase, 
That they should he rewarded 
In the way of a rabbit feast. 


So the farmers, te keep their orchards 
From being demoralized, 

And the ladies, to save their gardens, 
Said they'd help te organize— 

The boys, dogs and shotguns 
To kill off the trifling beast; 

And before the spring was over 
They would have a rabbit feast. 


So they organized two parties 
To have a grand old hunt, 
And save all game they captured, 
From the Jack to the prairie runt, 
Hach hunter had to save his scalps, 
And the gang who had the least 
Had to pay for all expenses 
O£ the Rock Creek rabbit feast. 


Last week they met and counted scalps 
To determi e which side beat, 
And make necessary arrangements 
For their great big rabbit eat. 
And they settled on last Tuesday night, 
When the rabbits they had fleeced, 
Should be served at the Rock Creek school house, — 
Where they'd have their rabbit feast, 


Rutledge’s gang wou all the laurels, 
As they had gained the day, 
They'd eat a supper rich and grand 
As Fisher's gang would pay. 
For Rutledge’s gang had killed the most, 
And Fisher's gang the least, 
pare hundred avid sixty-five against two hundred and sixty 
wo 
Pays for the rabbit feast. 


It was a dark and gloomy night, 
For that the boys don’t care, : 
And the farmers allturned out en masse. 
And every girl was there; f 
And the ladies had the table spread 
Good enough for any priest, 
Loaded down with cakes and pies 
For the glorious rabbit feast, 


The entertainment too, was grand, 

It was well worth your quarter; 
They'd everything that heart could wish, 
To the smile of a farmer's daughter. 

IT would not have missed that supper 
For a meal or two at least, 

I never had a better time 
Than I did at the rabbit feast. « 


And should I live a thousand years 
Tul think of the rabbit slaughter, 
And never forget the love I have 
For a Rock Creek farmer's daughter. 
So now I've told you alll dare, — 
But Pil send this message east, 
And wait for time to bring around 
Another such a feast. 


OmaHA, Neb., Feb. 27.—This afternoon four boys—Chris 
Madsen, aged 17; William Mallus, aged 12; John Stitt, aged 
10, and illiam Abney, age not known—went out hunting. 
They had two guns with them, and it is presumed they chased 
a rabbit under a brick building three miles from the town, oc- 

They 
either tried to smoke the rabbit out or fired at it. The pow- 
der-house exploded. It contained 500 kegs of powder, 375 of 
which were blasting powder. The four boys were blown to 
atoms, their flesh being scattered over a radius of 500 feet. 
All the trees in the vicinity were thrown down as if by a ey- 
clone, One tree, fifteen inches in diameter, wastorn out by 
the roots and blown a distance of 300 feet. A large hole marks 
the spot where the powder-house stood. The nearest house 
was half a mile distant, and every window in it was broken 
and every door split in pieces. Heavy fencing near the pow- 
der-house was carried like an arrow through the side of a barn 
near this house.—Times. i 


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states the length and quality of the leaders in it. 


illustrated catalogue. 


Being consumers of nearly three-fourths of the total amount of silk worm gut imported in this country, and 
having in Mureia, Spain, increased our facilities for the manufacture of silk worm gut, we are enabled to secure a 
selection of material for our leaders beyond what eyen we have ever had. The leader being one of the most im- 
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is composed, but also to the manner of making or tying it. All of our leaders have a place every three feet, made 
; quadruple by looping, so that the flies can be easily adjusted and will not wear the leader unnecessarily. "AU of 

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Manufacturers of every deseription of 


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Gut to Extra Fine. Sample thousand, 10 
For price list address 


the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assort 
; : nt of 
Gut in all grades, Papen extra long, and from Extra Rasy “Salon 
ifferent grades, from extra heavy to fine, $5.00. 


F. LATASA, 35 Broadway, New York. 


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similar name, 
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harmful of all the skin preparations.” One bottle 
will last six months, using it every day. Also Pou- 
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to the skin. 
Mme. M, B. T. GOURAUD, Sole Proprietor, 
48 Bond street, N. Y. 

For sale by all Druggists and Fancy Goods deal- 
ers throughout the U.S,, Canadas and Europe. Also 
found in N. Y. City, at R._H. Macy’s, Stern’s, 
Ehrich’s, Ridley’s, and other Fancy Goods Dealers. 
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Photographers, also for Camp Meetings. Vance 
Tents for families made to order. Awnings of a. 
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Boat Sails. Flabs and Banners of all kinds made 
to order, All work done in best manner and at 
very low figures. Send for illustrated circular. 
Address 8. HEMMENWAY, 69 South st., Opp. 
Wall st. Ferry House. Factory, 39 South 8t., 
Gor. Old Slip, N. Y. City, 


Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hook. 


Whereas, It having come toour notice thatsome 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportimity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
empleyed as heretefore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence | 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
approach ours, which are to be obtained 
the most respectable wholeSale houses in the trade. 

Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison's Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. (December, 1882.) 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 

description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


The Fishing Kit 


And collection of BOOKS AND MAPS helonging 
to the late 


LORENZO PROUTY, 


is now on exhibition and for sale by 


APPLETON & LTCHITELD, 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 


Importers and Dealers in . 


Fine Fishing Tackle 


AND CUTLERY. 


SPECIAL NOTICE! 


I haye prepared a large catalogue and manual 
for sportsmen, containing the largest amount of 
valuable information ever offered in same form in 
the United States. It has cost a great amount of 
labor and money, and has been prepared with 
much care, It will be ready for delivery April 1st, 
and will be sent in the order names are booked for 
it before that time. Price, 35 cents, to be sent in 
stamps or postal notes, 


HENRY C. SQUIRES, 


rom | (iF 


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Perfection Cartridge Loader 


SHELLS OF ANY GAUGE. 
LOADS FIVE SHELLS A MINUTE. 


Any one can use it on sight. Largely used by 


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Improved Metallic 


WEAHTER COTTAGE, 


The appearance of the little 
man foretells storms. The little 
woman predicts fair weather, 
They never make mistakes. A 
correct thermometer attached. 
Sent postpaid for $1.25. Address 


BK. GOLDBACHER, 
Optician, 98 Fulton Street, N.Y, 


ims proapway, ew vous. | Buy Allen's Brass-Shell Swage 


AGENT FOR 
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Send for second Ust of shetguns and rilles. 


You ean qeage a cael to its original size m one 
. No 


tininute. Price $1 more tight shells. No more 
rofanity. For sale by the trade, and by F. A. 
RLLEN. Monmouth, Il, 


JAS. F. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


E"ine Fishing Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240f6., $1.75; B300ft., $2.00; 450ft.. $2.25; 600ft., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00s 
nickel plate ., 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeecen, Sneak Bons, and all other hooks. 
Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in 4 
eee Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cis.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 

wisted Leaders, 3 length, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length,i0 ets. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft. long, $1,50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishing. 
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rs YY INOCE’sS 
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MANUFACTURED BY 
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a, These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the tradw 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpera 
not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER &.CO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


UP & MCS FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
AND THE 


HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


Of Waterprooted Duck, Dead Grass Color, Irish 
Fustian and Imported Corduroy. 
ASSORTED COLORS. 
Unequaled in Convenience, Style or Workmanship, 


Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 


Ve 
: THIS 
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. Can be worn over or under an ordinary coat. Has seven 


AND 
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dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfu: 
Valparaiso, Ind. 


day without losing a hair or feather. We will mail it to ‘ j 
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NEW PATENT BREEAH-LOADING 


Yacht Cannon, 


Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length. 
MANUFACTURED BY 
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Also Mfrs. of Shelton Auxiliary Rifle Barrels, Combination Sights 
and Gartridge Grooving Machines. 
Send for Catalogue and Price List. 


“FOREST AND STREAM” 


LIST. OF 


Open Seasons 
FOR FISH AND GAME. 


Revised to September, 1883, by the Editor of 
“Forest and Stream.” Published by the : 
Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 39 Park 
Row, New York. Price 10 Cents. 


PHOTOGRAPHY MADE EASY. 

MAY 1st, 1884. PR Sas, _ oy 

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nyoes 
: 2558 
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Newark, N: J., to the old stand, No. 1 Cortlandt st., | 35 8.3 
New York City (Benedict Building), near Broadway, gees Es 
with a good stock of Guns, Rifles, Fishing Tackle, | ¢ Sat 
Table and Pocket Cutlery, and Sporting Goods} o zg S53 
generally. r= BOOS 

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Remember the negatives may all be developed ou 
your return home. y 

The lightest, most complete and practical of 
Amateur eh Price $10 and upward, E 
& H. T, ANTHONY & OO., 591 Broadway, N. Y.. 
Send for catalogue. Book of instructions free. 
Forty years established in this line of business. 


CHOKE-SWAB! DIVING DECOY 
D <RochEsTERM 


Use Allen's New Metal Duck Calle 


. Now at 875 Broad street, Newark, N. J. 


Decoys 


H. A. STEVENS, Manufacturer, 
WEEDSPORT,-N. Y. 


SEND FOR PRICE LIST 
OF THE FINEST DECOY 
DUCKS IN THE WORLD. 


Pittsfield, Mass. Cuts Free 


Full-Length COT, in this case, ie PGUOEs 
$10, LOUNGE, in this case, $8.| Sold by the trade, or by F, 4. ALLEN, Mon- 
Sold everywhere by the Trade, . mouth, Hl, v * 

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{ VOL. XX1I.—No. 7, 
Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New Yore. 


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Nos. 39 anp 40 Park Row. ° New YorE City. 


CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. Tee Kennet. 
Yellowstone Fark Matters, Setters and Pointers at Cin- 
An Adirondack Bill. innati. 


TH SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Life among the Blackfeet.--xm1. 
Down the Yukon ona Raft,—vy1, 
Natura History. 
The Deer of the Ottawa Valley. 
Seals in the Upper St. Lawrence | 


N. A. K.C. Derby, 
Basket (or Foot) Beagles. 
The New Haven Show. 
Kennel Management, 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Rifle Points, 


Bird Notes. Range and Gallery. 
GaME Baa anpD Gun. | The Trap. 

The Yellowstone Park Bill. | Boston Gun Club. 

The Performance of Shotguns. | CANorrc. 

The Choice of Hunting Rifles. Chicago C. C. 


A Taxidermist’s View of It. 


Amateur Canoe Building.—x. 
Do Thou Likewise. 


American Canoe Association 


Philadelphia Notes. | — Dues. 
CAMP-FIRE FLICKERINGS. The Lake George C, C, 
SHA AND RIVER FISHING. New York C. C. 
The Best Color for Leaders. The Galley Fire, 
The Dowel Pim in Fly-Rods. Milk Toast—Cooking Fish. 
The Fish Question in Maine. A Few Hints on Camping. 
Fishing in Cardenas Bay. A Fungus Smudge, 
The Length of Fly-Rods. YACHTING. 
Sturgeon Fishing. The New Hera. 
FISHCULTURE, “The Buckeye.” 
Draining and the Flood, Some General Remarks. 
THE KENNEL. _ The Bugbear of Draft. 
Experience with Dogs. New England Yacht Racing 
Fox Hunting on Oil Creek. Association. 
The Dachshund. | Allin Due Time, 
Mange and Canker, Rt Tu, Brute! 


Cincinnati Dog Show. 


Hints to Local Committees. 
Mr. D. C. Sanborn. 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Se 
ee 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each weer a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all other 
American publications put together. 


YELLOWSTONE PARK MATTERS. 


w| ENATOR VEST’S bill for the protection of the National 

Park has passed the Senate: Just what the bill is may 

be seen by referring to its text, which is printed in another 
columu. ; 

An amendment offered by Senator McMillan, of Minne- 
sota, and agreed to, allhough opposed by Senators Vest and 
Harrison, provides that “‘possession, within the said Park, 
of the dead bodies or any part thereof, of any of the animals 
or birds hereinbefore mentioned, shall be prima facie evi- 
dence that the person or persons having the same are guilty 
of violating this act.” This amendment goes a long way 
toward nullifying the section forbidding the killing of wild 
animals, since men who may kill game within the Park, and 
can transport it beyond its borders before being detected, 
cannot then be interfered with. The change is thus an un- 
fortunate one. 

On the whole, the bill, as passed, is a vast improvement on 
the laws we have hitherto had in relation to the Park. 
While the area of the reservation is increased only two-fifths, 
instead of being more than doubled, as we had hoped would 
be the case, the enlargement is sufficient to greatly enhance its 
value to the people, and to include many natural features which 
properly belong to such a national reservation, Asidefrom 
the conservation of these natural beauties, which will attract 
the tourists of all countries, the fact that the Park is to be 
treated as a preserve for the indigenous wild animals of our 
_ western territory, must be a source of congratulation to all 
intelligent people, To naturalists of all nations this will be 
“welcome news, and it will equally rejoice all sportsmen. 


It is to be hoped that the Senate bill may be passed by the 
House. 

Assuming that the bill is to become a law, the question of 
its enforcement is the next one which will present itself to 
those who are interested in the Park. We have before 
alluded to the deplorable inefficiency of the attempts at pro- 
tection last summer, and to the fact that the Superintendent 
and his assistants, while they were autherized and ordered 
by the Secretary of the Interior to perform certain acts, were 
not furnished with the means for carrying out their instruc- 
tions. They were at first turned loose in the Park without 
horses, quarters or subsistence, and ordered—less than a 
dozen of them—to protect it, to arrest those who might 
break down the craters of the geysers, who might destroy 
the timber, or who might kill the game. They—a few inex- 
perienced Eastern men—were to pursue on foot, and to cap- 
ture, the mounted skin hunters. But, after they had per- 
formed this impossible task, what were they to do with 
those whom they had arrested? These matters have now 
been changed. -The men have quarters, horses and rations. 
Their year’s work in the Park cannot have failed to teach 
them something. Next summer, if they are the right kind 
of men, they will be of some use, Last year they were per- 
fectly raw and unaccustomed to Western life, and so could 
not have been expected to accomplish much. 

A careful study of Seeretary Teller’s response to the Senate 
resolution calling for copies of ull papers and correspondence 
relating to the Yellowstone National Park since the last 
session of Congress, indicates that public opinion has not 
been altogether just to the Superintendent of the Park. He 
has been accused of neglecting his duty, of failing to puta 
stop to several illegal practices within the Park, and even of 
permitting his subordinates to traffic in specimens. Some 
of these accusations appear to have been made hastily and 
on insufficient evidence, as well as on the assumption that 
Major Conger had the power to enforce the regulations laid 
down by the Secretary of the Interior. The report of the 
special agent of the Interior Department attacks the Super- 
intendent’s administration of the Park very savagely, and 
shows that hunting has gone on openly and in bold defiance 
of the regulations. We do not find that the Superintendent 
has reported such violations of the Jaw to the Department, 
sind this he certainly should have done, even if it were not 
in his power to puta stop to them. Instead of receiving 
any reports of violations of the regulations, the Secretary 
of the Interior has several times had occasion to call the 
attention of the Superintendent to failures to comply with 
the law within the Park, a state of things which, under the 
circumstances, seems sufficiently absurd. 

This neglect on the part of Major Conger finds some ex- 
cuse in the fact that he has been hampered throuchout by 
the knowiedge of his inability to enforce the regulations 
established for the government of the Park, by the willing- 
ness of a large proportion of those within its limits to vio- 
late the law, and by the continuous hostility of the Yellow- 
stone Park Improvement Company. This corporation, true 
to its traditions, has, during the past summer, seized in the 
most high-handed fashion everything belonging to the Gov- 
ernment on which it could lay its hands. The Superintend- 
ent writes under date of Nov. 6; 1883: 

“They help themselves indiscriminately to whatever they may 
waut inside or outside of the Government inclosures without refer- 
ence to any other interest than theirown. They have cutand manu- 
factured nearly all of the timber available for building purposes 
anywhere near this place [Mammoth Hot Springs] to build their 
great hotel and their numerous other buildings here. They have 
overrun the Park with their herds of horses and cattle; have wil- 
fully and purposely broken down and destroyed the fences around 
the Government pastures, which [haye taken great pains to repair 
and keep in order so as to enable us to keep the Government 
stock here without expense. Mr. Hobart has been heard to say 
that he would tear down the fences as often as I would put 
them up; that he would show me he had a right to do as he pleased 
here. The pastures, as a consequence, are eaten entirely bare of 
everything that an animal can subsist upon, and now I am compelled 
to take the stock all out of the Park to winter, or import feed for 
them here at heavy cost. They have several hundred head of eatile, 
besides a large number of horses; consequently they require and 
monopolize all the hay within twenty miles of here. And this is not 
all, Mr. Hobart has obstructed mein every way in his power ever 
since he has been here. He kept me from getting possession of Mc- 
Cartney’s cabin, where I wanted to quarter some of my assistants, 
for more than a month, by telling the man whom I had ordered to 
vacate not to mind me but to stay there and that he would see him 
through, as [ would not be here long anyway. Hobart has boasted 
inmy hearing of his influence with you, and that he had frequent 
letters from you; and he told one of my assistants that you had 
promised him that I should not visit Washington this winter, and he 
also said that the reason you would not write to me was that you was 
not going to have my letters paraded before Congress. Not only this, 
but he has lost no opportunity all the summer, at his hotel, openly, 


before the. thousands of people that have been there, and wherever 
he has been, to abuse and belittle me to every person that he could 


command the attention of, as [have been informed and believe. This 
company is now in financial disgraee all over the country. They have 
transferred their cattle and horses to Mrs. McGowan, notwithstand- 
ing which, creditors haye levied attachments on them, and this is 
the situation here to-day." 

From all this it is apparent that the Superintendent’s 
position has not been a very comfortable one during the 
past year. 

Special Agent Smith has touched oue of the roots of the 
evils that have been so apparent when he alludes to the fact 
that the assistants ought to be frontiersmen, and the Super- 
intendent, in making excuses for his assistants, rather naively 
and pathetically says of them: ‘‘I must beg you to remem- 
ber that they are all strangers to this section of the country, 
and that a number of them are quite young and inexpe- 
rienced; and I think some allowance should be made on that 
account, not only on their account, but mine as well.” Not 
a particle of allowance on that account, Mr. Conger. If 
you appoint men who are strangers to the country, who are 
young and inexperienced, the responsibility can rest on no 
other shoulders but your own, We warned you last year 
against doing just this thing. There were plenty of good 
men to be had in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho—men who 
would have been willing and able to do their duty faithfully 
and well by the Government that employed them. Such 
men should have been appointed, and if they had been, 
their efficiency would have spared you a great deal of trouble 
and annoyance, 

There are now before Congress at least two bills incor- 
porating railroads tg run through the National Park. If 
these bills, or any like them, are passed, and any railroads 
are laid into the Park, the good work that bas been accom- 
lished by Senator Vest and others will all be undone. Wecall 
attention to Mr, Hague’s letter, in another colamn, which gives 
some of the many good reasons why no such permission 
should be given. The subject is one that could be enlarged 
on indefinitely, but it is hoped that Congress may be trusted 
to act wisely in this matter, 


AN ADIRONDACK BILL, 


FoR the present year the prospects for preserving the 

Adirondack forests appear dark. The lumbermen, 
aided by the lobby, have won over to their side so large a 
number of the Assembly that the good bills have been put 
one side, and a cunningly devised and carefully worded sub- 
stitute, presented by Mr. Boynton, have taken their place. 
This bill, as originally framed, ofered but little hope of 
protection to the sources of our great river, but after its 
introduction, Mr. Boynton gravely rose and began to offer 
amendments to it. The way being thus opened, every other 
Assemblyman proceeded to offer his little amendment. 
Thus followed the old scene, which has so often been wit- 
nessed by those who have followed the course of the game 
laws in the various Legislatures of our States. Hach member 
desired to have his section exempted from the provisions of 
the bill. Some went further and intelligently (?) argued 
that this was a vile scheme of monopoly by which the suf- 
fering lumbermen of the northern counties were to be robbed 
for the benefit of the aristocrats of the southern portion 
of the State. The thampion speech, however, was made by 
an Assemblyman whose name we do not give because it 
does not seem possible that he can have been correctly 
reported.. The daily papers quote him as saying; “The 
Hudson River is an arm of the sea, subject to tides, and 
there will be plenty of water upon which to float the 
commerce of the State if not a drop of water flows into it 
from the Adirondack region.” He went further, and 
declared that the river would be far more navigable if all 
the upper streams emptying into the Hudson were dried up. 
These streams brought down vast amounts of refuse and 
dirt, rendering dredging necessary every year. He declared 
that the Chamber of Commerce bill was a grand scheme in 
the interest of individuals, and was backed by an eager and 
unscrupulous lobby, which invaded even the rooms of 
members of the Legislature, He denied that any additional 
legislation was needed. 

It seems inconceivable that any civilized man of the pres- 
ent day should make statements such as these. A boy 
ten years old would know better. The Assemblyman 
referred to may perhaps be acting up to his own ideas of 
what is right in opposing the preservation of the Adiron- 
dacks, but why he should be willing to publish his stupendous 
ignorance to the people of New York State, it is really*hard 
to see. My Littlejohn, of Oswego, shares with the gentleman 
quoted above the very questionable glory. of uttering about 
the Hudson River, ie veriest nonsense, knowing it to-be 
nonsense. But then, from what is known of Mr, Littlejohn’s 


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[Marce 18, 1884, 


record this was to have been expected of him. Besides, he 
is understood to be himself largely interested in lumbering, 
and so is very naturally found on the side of those who are 
wholly indifferent as to the general welfare, provided only 
their own profits are not interfered with. These two As- 
semblymen and Senator Ingalls, of Kansds, who gained 
such a cheerful notoriety by his liberally intelligent views on 
National Park matters, ought really to be taken about the 
country and exhibited as specimen sticks of the timber from 
which a considerable proportion of our American law makers 
are hewn. If this were done agreat work of political reform 
might be inaugurated. 

In agreeable contrast to the utterances above quoted are 
those of Mr. Roosevelt and a few other gentlemen, who in all 
matters pertaining to the public good, take liberal and ad- 
vanced views, It is satisfactory to see, now and then, in 
oyr legislative halls a man whom neither money, nor in- 
fluence, nor politics can induce to turn from what he believes 
to be tight, to what he knows to be wrong. 

“All that can be said of the bill is that it satisfies the lumber- 
men and the enormously powerful array of lobbyists, who 
have so well earned their pay at Albany, When this has been 
said it requires intelligence of no very high order to under- 
stand that it does not satisfy those who are looking after the 
best interests of the State. 

Tt is even doubtful whether any bill protecting these 
forests will pass at all this winter, 


‘Tar Tipe or TRAVEL, which during the winter has set so 
strongly southward to_the Southern States, is now on the 
turn. Almost every day we hear from returned travelers, 
accounts of pleasant winter days, when good bags were made 
and glorious sport had in the South, The residents of these 
States must remember that each year the number of sports- 
men who go South for the winter is increasing, and that all 
the destruction of the birds which is going on from year to 
year, cannot fail to seriously reduce their numbers. It will 
be wise then for these States to make an earnest effort to 
render the game laws something more than the mere dead 
letter which they are at present. In the absence of any 
other remedy, individual land owners can, by posting their 
land, keep off intruders, after the close on begins, 


‘The MAassacnuserts Law.—The matter of a uniformity 
of game laws in Massachusetts is still with the Committee 
on Agriculture, which is expected daily to report, 


The Sportsman Courist, 


LIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET. 
BY J. WILLARD S€HULTZ, 
Thirteenth Paper—Folk-Lore, 
SCAR-FACE, THE MAN WHO WENT TO THE SUN. 


sg ee was once a young man who had a great scar on 
his cheek. He was a very good young man, but because 
he had this deformity, the people made fun of him and called 
him Sear-face, There was a very beautiful girl in the camp, 
and one day Scar-face met her when she was going after 
water and asked herto be his wife. But the girl laughed 
and said: ‘Do you think I would marry such an ugly man 
as you are? When you get that great scar off your face 
‘then come and ask me. I don’t want to marry an ugly man,” 

Now, Scur-face loved this girl, and his heart cried because 
ghe had spoken so badly to him, and he went off alone and 
prayed to all the animals to help him. His secret helper said 
tohim, ‘Go to the Sun, he is good and will help you.” Then 
Scar-face arose and started on to the Sun. 

After the second day, he could travel only at night, tor it 
was very hot. In the day time he slept in big holes which 
he dug in the ground. When he had come close to. the Sun’s 
place, he found in the trail some one’s leaying. A war shirt 
was there and many weapons of strange and beautiful make. 
But he touched them not, for, hesaid, some god has left them 
there and will comeforthem. Now alittle way further on he 
met a young man, the most beautiful pergon he had ever seen, 
bis hair was very long and he wore a shirt and leggins and 
robe made of some strange animal’s fur, and, his moccasins 
were embroidered in strange colors. The young man said 
to him, “Did you see a war shirt and some weapons lying on 
the trail?” 

“Ves,” said Scar-face, ‘‘I saw them, 

“But didn’t you touch them?” asked the young man. 

“No,” replied Scar-face, ‘I thought some one had left 
them there, so I did not take them.” . 

“You are nota thief, What is your name?” said the 
young man. 

*“‘Scar-face,” 

«Where are you going?” asked the young man. 

**To the Sun,” replied Scar-face. : 

‘My name, said the young man ‘‘is E-pi-si-abts [early riser, 
the Morning Star], the Sun is my father. Come, I will lake 
you to our lodge. Now he is not sitting there, at night he 
will enter.” . 

They came to his lodge, very large it was, and very beauti- 
ful. Many unknown animals were painted on it in strange 
colors, and behind it, suspended on a tripod, were the war 
clothes of the Sun, made of large and beautiful feathers and 
the skins of great animals, Scar-face was ashamed to enter 
such a eat Inflee, for his clothes were of common cow skin 
and bis moccasins all torn with much .trayel'; but Morning 
Star said, ‘Enter, my new friend; and fear not; our hearts 

are like our faces, we conceal them not,” 

They entered. L 
white robes, and everything was strange. 
in the lodge and 
light), the 1 
she spoke to Scar-face kindly, 


a. 


One 


said, ys 
Then Scat-face told her about the beautiful girl who would 


All about were sitting-places covered with 
person sat 
that was the Moon (K6-k6-mik'--is: Night- 
Sun’s wife, and the niother of Morning Star, and 
and gave him something to 
eat, ‘Why have you come so far from your people?” she 


not marry him because of the ugly scar on his face, and that 
he had come to ask the Sun to remove the scar. Now when 
it was time for the Sun to return home, the Moon hid Scar- 
face under a pile of robes. But as soon as the Sun got to 
the door-way he stopped and said, ‘‘I smell 2 person.” 

“Yes, father,” said, Morning Star, ‘‘a good young man 
has come to see you, a very good young man. I know he is 
a good person, for he found my beautiful clothes in the trail 
and did not touch them,” 

“7 am. glad,” said the Sun, as he entered the lodge and 
took his accustomed seat, ‘that a good person enters my 
lodge. Be friends, my son,” said he to Morning Star, “‘with 
this newly arrived young man,” 

The next day the Moon called Scar-face away out of the 
lodge and said to him, ‘Go with Morning Star and hunt 
where you please, but neyer go near a large lake way out 
there, for by that lake live great birds with long sharp bills, 
which they use to pluck out: people’s hearts. I have had: 
many sons, but these birds have killed them all except 
Morning Star, Never let him go there.” va, 

Now, one day when the young men were out hunting, 
they came in sight of this lake and saw the great sharp-billed 
birds swimming in the water. ‘‘Come,” said Morning Star, 
‘Tet us go and kill the birds.” ‘No, no,” said Scar-face. 
“we must not go near them,” but Morning Star ran quickly 
to the lake, and so he followed, for thought he, “I may save 
him.” The birds, seeing the young men close, came and 
fought them, and with their spears the young men killed 
heme all, and they cut off their heads and carried them 

ome. 

Now, when the Sun came home that night, the Moon told 
him what a brave deed the boys had accomplished, and his 
heart was very glad. ‘‘My heart is glad,” he said, when he 
had sung a song, ‘‘for the sharp-billed birds which have killed 
my children are destroyed. Speak, my son Scar-face, what 
can I do to pay you?” 

Then Scar-face told the Sun about the beautiful girl he 
loved, and that she would not marry him because of the scar 
on his face. ‘‘Pity me,” he said; “‘take off this scar which 
makes my heart so sad,” 

Then the Sun made some powerful medicine, and put it on 
Scar-face, which made him handsome, and he took him and 
Morning Star to the Moon, and said, “‘Look, mother; which 
is your son?” and she recognized Morning Star. 

Then he took the boys away and rubbed some more of the 
medicine on Scar-face, and again he took them before 
the Moon and said, ‘“‘Now, mother, which is your son?” 
and she looked o long time, but could not tell which 
was Morning Star, for the Sun had made Scar-face beautiful, 
just like his own son, 

Then the Sun gave him some beautiful clothes and food 
and told him he could return home. ‘‘But, my son,” said 
he, ‘‘do not marry that girl, A woman who will not marry 
a good man merely because he has a scar on his face is surely 
not a good woman. Be glad that you did not get her. But 
punish her, that the people may know that a bad face is no 
sign that the heart is bad.” and he told him what to do, 

When Scar-face started to return home Morning Star hung 
on his neck and cried, saying: ‘‘How can I part from my 
friend, my brother?” and the Moon also cried, saying: ‘‘How 
= I let my new son go away?” and all their hearts were 
sad. ; 
Now, when Scar-face had come close to his home, he meta 
‘young man, and inquired if his father still lived in the camp; 
and learning which lodge his father owned, he entered and 
sat down, and no one knew him, and when he told his father 
and mother who he was and where he had been, for a long 
time they did not believe him. 

Toward evening he walked out in the camp, and all the 
people crowded around him to listen to his wonderful story, 
and the beautiful girl whom he had loved called him away 
to one side, and she said: “You are such a good-looking 
man that I will be glad to be your wife,” and Scar-face re- 
plied: ‘Allright, come into my lodge to-night,” and when 
she had come in and lain down beside him he smothered her 
to death with a robe, for so the Sun had told him to do, and 
he married good women and lived a long time, and when he 
died the Morning Star came and took him back to the Sun, 
where he lived forever. 

[vo BE CONTINUED. | 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT, 
BY LIEUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, U. 8, ARMY. 
Seventh Paper. _ 


HE Tahkhcesh Indian, who was ahead in a canoe, to 
show us when we were near the only canyon in the 
Yukon, would have let the raft go right on through as far 
ug any valuable information was concerned. Long before 
we reached the canyon and its appended rapids, the passage 
of which every Indian in the country had predicted impos- 
sible for such a vessel as a raft, it was becoming painfully 
evident that our Tahkheesh guide in the canoe would inform 
us of the canyon just in: time to be too late. Anticipating 
just such an emergency, and having ascertained that the 
proper eamp was on the right hand or eastern bank, we kept 
the Resolute into the bank as well as the current would allow, 
for it was now so swift that it kept shooting us from one side 
to the other, and we were glad to keep from ‘‘jamming” the 
raft end on the gravel ‘banks and haying ourselves torn to 
ieces. 

i" Already the perpendicular walls of the canyon were in 
sight, and the first break of the white water entering them 
showed like the white teeth of a tiger as we started to 
make the bank in the swift current, This current helped 
us for a few seconds until we had nearly reached the shore, 
when it started us out, and from there an almost straight 
line of water led to the narrow canyon but a couple of hun- 
dred yards away. The first line that hands could be laid 
upon was thrown ashore, and: our half-breed interpreter, 
Billy, jumped into the canoe and paddled ashore, and quicker 
than it takes to pen these lines one end was made fast to the 
strongest tree convenient and the other to a cross-log of the 
raft. There was no time for “‘snubbing” with so few to 
manage the line, and the raft was allowed a running gait of 
some twenty or thirty yards out into theswift water before it 
brought up with a twang that ought to have snapped an inch 
and a half rope, let alone the little quarter-inch flag halliard 
that was thrown out to do this duty of a giant. As the raft 
was brought up by the thread the current came rushing oyer 
the end of the logs and even over the cross-piece, and every 
one expected to see the halliards part, but they stood the 
strain, singing like a taut telegraph wire in a high wind 
until we struc 


ead be made of the obstacles ahead. 


the shore, and the raft was let down a few 
ards into a whirling eddy and tied up until an tmsapection 


This revealed a eanyon about three-quarters of a mile long, 
to which was appended a series of rapids and cascades ex- 
tending for another four miles. This canyon was not over 
thirty or forty yards wide and as many feet deep. Its 
banks were perpendicular columns of basalt, as remular as 
those of Fingal’s Cave, and looking more like the workman- 
ship of man than of nature. In this channel the water con- 
tracted to nearly one-tenth its ayerage width, fairly boiled 
as it rushed through, and it must have been very deep to 
have allowed the entire volume to pass through eyen at its 
rapid gait. Dangerous as it looked, with its frothy waves 
running three and fourfeet high, I doubt if it was at all as 
perilous for a raft as the four miles of rapids that succeeded 
it, running, in the former width of the river, over shoals and 
bars of boulders, and tangled and intricate masses of cap- 
tured driftwood, where it seemed impossible that a bulky 
craft. like ours could escape them al! as they appeared in 
echelon, Just at the tail end of these rapids came a cascade, 
where the river again narrowed into such small proportions 
that all the water could not get through, and it ran up oyer 
the ascending sides and poured down over these, making 4 
perfect crescent of water. Here, too, near and just before 
this cascade, were pretty and regular columns of basalt, but 
in no way so high as those in the canyon four miles aboye, 
The portage around the canyon, made by the Indians, was 
over quite a high ridge, and then descended abruptly with a 
dizzy incline into a valley, which, after continuing nearly 
down to the cascades again, ascended a sandy hill 


very hard to climb. ‘he hilly part around the 
canyon was pretty thoroughly covered with small 
pines and spruce, and all along the portage trail 


some miners that had preceded us had cut these down near 
the path and felled them across it, and then barked them on 
their upper sides, forming stationary skids along which they 
could drag their whip-sawed boats. Two large logs, on the, 
dizzy declivity, well trimmed of their limbs and bark, made 
inclines on which fhe boats could be lowered into the valley — 
below. Here they had floated their boats by tow-lines down 
to the cascades and had dragged them around this, It is not 
very hard to imagine that such a chapparal of felled brush 
and poles across the path did not improve the walking in the 
least. The day we walked over the trail on the eastern side 
of the canyon and rapids was one of the most insufferably - 
hot ones 1 ever experienced, and every time one sat down it 
wus only to have a regular ‘“‘Down-East fog” of mosquitoes 
come buzzing around, and the clawing in the air and the 
slapping of the face was an exercise equally as lusty as that 
of traveling. The only way was to walk along brandishing 
a handful of evergreens from shoulder to shouider, As one 
advanced they kept the same invariable distance ahead, as if 
they had not the remotest idea you were coming toward 
them. An occasional yicious reach forward through the 
mass with the evergreens would have about as much deadly 
effect as going through the same amount of fog, for [believe 
they could dodge a streak of lightning, Nothing was better 
than a good strong wind in one’s face, and as you emerged 
fromthe brush or timber, it was simply delicious to see them 
disappear. If you would look on your back, however, you 
would see it spotted with them, even then crawling along 
and testing every thread in one’s coat to see if they cannot 
find a thin hole where they can bore through. Once in the 
wind it is comical to turn around slowly and see their efforts 
to keep under the lee of a red shirt, as one by one they lose 
their hold and are wafted away in the wind, 

Returning to the raft, nearly all of the remainder of the 
day was occupied in the splendid grayling fishing that was 
so abundant in this part of the Yukon, andif ancient writers 
were right in recommending these fish as proper food for 
sick persons, then Miles’s Canyon (for so if was named im 
honor of the Department Commander who had ordered the 
expedition) would probably be one of the great health resorts 
of the world. They were delicious and fat, and as this fat 
the ancients also believed had the ‘‘property of obliterating 
the marks of small-pox, freckles, and other spots on the 
skin,” if certain natural histories can be believed, there 
might also be some curative power for the infinite variety of 
mosquito bites that were making the tops of our heads, as we 
sat in rows at meal times, look like half-bushel displays of 
assorted red apples. These grayling were the most persist- 
ent biters I ever saw rise to a fly, and more uncertain than 
those uncertain fish usually are in grasping for a bait, for 
there were times that I really. believed we got fifty or sixty 
rises from one fish hefore he was hooked or the contest would 
be given up. The same invariable two sizes, already alluded 
to in the previous article, were yet met, with here and there 
a slight deviation in grade, This grayling fishing was much 
diminished after we left the Miles’s Canyon and rapids, but 
never wholly ceased until the White River, nearly a hundred 
miles below Selkirk, pours in its swift, murky waters, of 
supersaturated glacier mud, when all batt and fly-fishing 
ceases, and with only fish hooks as articles of barter with the 
natives, one must go into bankruptcy. 

We did not leave this vicinity for two or three days after, 
and during our stay I believe that fully 400 or 500 were 
caught,and our Tahkheesh Indian allies, some ten in number, 
men, women and CHILDREN (graded according to type), lived 
almost solely off of our catchings. Whenever a little grayel 
bar tan out into the swift water and sent along string of 
diminishing whirlpools from its point, there any one could 
satiate his fishing appetite. The Doctor was the only one 
with a reel in the party, and it kept a constant opposition in 
buzzing with the swarms of mosquitoes. The Doctor thought 
that the fish might be caught in seines, but as he tumbled off 
of the slippery rock where he was stunding out in the water 
drawing them in, as he turned around to see the effect, no 
court martial was deemed necessary inthe case, During 
warm sunny days not a “rise” could be had even in the 
shady places, but in the cool evenings with a few clouds 
over the sun, two or three flies on aline might each be re- 
warded with a fish at a single cast. The eee of a Michi- 
gan grayling in “Sport with Gun and Rod” is a most accur- 
ate portrait of the gamy fellows we captured near this part 
of the Yukon River, andI doubt not they are identical 
varieties, or very closely allied. Whenever the strong south- 
ern winds that had done us so much good in sailing over the 
lakes would cease, alight, breeze from the north would follow 
with clearing weather and warm sunny days, and for a few 
days during this particular part of the year these zephyrs 
from the north would bring with them a perfect snowstorm 
of small brown moths or millers, not unlike the srass- 
hopper plague of years ago on the Western plains. A puit 
of wind or an eddying would tumble many of them in 
the water where the current would pack them down in 
strings of brown color faster than the fish could think of eat- 
ing them, and most curious of all it was during this very 
time that we caught our gamy grayling, and that, too, with 
brown flies, The millers caught by the water and drifted 


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into eddies would not be touched, and it was only when an 
isolated one came beating its wings and flutterimg on the 
waters’ top around the swiftest corners that a spring for it 
was at all certain. and a brown hackle dancing around in 
the same place would monopolize every rise within the 
radius of a game fish’s eyesight. They were not much in- 
clined to jump at any time in the vicinity of the canyon or 
its rapids, probably fearing that the mosquitoes would eat 
them up, as some one remarked, but on several other occa- 
sions and places, especially during quiet but lowering and 
rainy evenings, they could be heard seeking their suppers, 

being probably the gnats and mosquitoes the rain was beat» 
ing down; at least, let us all hope so and pray for rain and 
graylings ov grayling,* Our Tahkheesh friends were as 
much surprised at this peculiar kind of fishing as the gray- 
ling themselves, and expressed their astonishment in guttural 

runts. - 

: They ate all the spare ones we would give them, which 
was often nearly a dozen apiece. The largest grayling we 
weighed was two pounds and a quarter, 

Early on the morning of the 2d of duty a small rafting 
party of two or three persons was sent over the portage trail 
to get below the cascades and help the raft’s being brought 
ashore at that point, and were supplied with rope for that 
purpose. A little after 10 o’clock in the morning, Billy, 
our half-breed, entered the canyon with our canoe and disap- 
peared around the torner of the basaltic columns. At 11:25 
A.M. we loosened the raft from her moorings and, although 
it took fully five minntes to pole her out from the eddy 
where she had been moored, she at last got under headway 
and started out, The first accident was 2 smashing collision. 
with the basaltic columns of the canyon’s west side, that tore 
off the inner log in a twinkling and snapped off the outer 
one and shot it into the middle of the stream. It swung 
around the landing place with tremendous velocity and soon 
took up its original swiftness. Right about the center the 
canyon widens out into a circular basin of basalt where the 
water’s edge might possibly be reached on the western shore, 
and in this whirlpool and boiling cauldron it was thought 
that the raft might get left spinning around in the big 
eddies, but no such misfortune befel it, and it shot through 
the basin so that a person on the banks couldn’t have told it 
from a stern wheel steamer. It went grating over the rapids 
below, laboring like a ship in a heavy sea until nearly down 
to the sandhills by the cascades, when Billy and Indianne, 
a large burly Chilkat-Tahkheesh Indian, rowed out to meet it 
at the bend and, then gathering itself like a borse for a 
hurdle, it rushed at the cascades, first buried its nose in 
the flying frota, and then rising in the air shot through at 
an angle of twenty-five or thirty degrees in the air, sinking 
fo a level in the simmering suds beyond. The same ol 
halliards was gotten ashore that had stood us so well before, 
but it snapped like a thread as the raft reached its end, 


A second attempt, about 400 to 450 yards below the cascades, 
Was more successful, with a good, generous shaking up of 
the whole, Notfarfrom here was a litile grove of small 
pines, that had been well seasoned by some disasterous fire 
raging through them within the last two or three years, and 
as our present deck looked like the horizantal plan of a 
pound of fish hooks, we determined to take advantage of 
this little grove to redeck our boat, which was accordingly 
done. All of these groves and timber districts must be sub- 
ject to periodical devastation of fire, especially the conifers, 
the spruce, the pine and other resin-hearing trees, according 
to the appearances that were presented to us from time to 
fime along our route, and are no doubt set fire to by careless 
campers of nomadic Indians, or more probably by their set- 
ting fire to dense masses so as to throw up a thick smoke 
that can be seen for miles as signals. In most of the fired 
ranges the trees are quite large, and falling into decay after 
having heen killed by the fire, they soon form an entangle- 
ment of blackened limbs and trunks. This is anything but 
easy for a pedestrian to make any headway through, espe- 
cially when it is coupled, as usual, with a dense srowth of 
young trees, whose limbs extend to the ground. As I have 
worked my way through them at a rate of a mile in twenty- 
four hours, I could not help thinking of the chances of 
escape if a grizzly bear should be out taking the fresh air at 
the same time, and the two paths should intersect at an 
angle of 180°, and the bear was of that unreasonable nature 
that insisted on the whole path and that ‘‘mighty quick.” 
But as no bear in his right mind would have lived twenty- 
four hours among so many mosquitoes for all the un- 
washed explorers from ‘‘the land of the midnight sun” to 
“the Gark continent,” no such a collision occurred, and 
I was left alone to fight my mosquitoes in peace. And, by the 
way, there is some reason why the grizzly should dread the 
mosquito of Alaska, and that reason is, that they have been 
known to killthem during the short summer months. Absurd 
as this appears, and as first it appeared to me, I wasat last a 
convert to thetheory advanced by the Indians, that the large 
brown bear of Alaska, here inappropriately, I think, called 
the grizzly, has been known to succumb to mosquitoes in these 
parts. I first heard of this on the lower river, and although I 
was In a better frame of mind than the average reader of the 
ForEsT AND StrRHAm for believing the story, I did not, 
until an old trader in these paris who had no object in stuff- 
ing me, and whose every manner and conversation on every 
other subject was perfectly reliable, confirmed it. Should 
one of these big brown fellows, tempted by something un- 
usual, a3 a savory mess of defunct salmon, wander down into 
or across 4 swamp unusually full of these prickly pirates, 
and they make their attack upon him, the bear is likely to 
rear up on his hindquarters, bruin fashion, and fight them 
with his paws until he is nearly exhausted and his eyes be- 
come vulnerable to the incessant attacks of the insects, and 
in course of time they are swollen shut, and if in this condition 
the bear is not able to get away from the districts or should 
get deeper into the marsh, starvation finally ends his suffer- 
ings. rd as this is to believe I felt that the reasoning was 
not unreasonable and the outside facts in the case strongly 
corroborating it in all that was needed to make it appear 
possible and even probable. I think 1 have spoken in a 
former article of the widespread terror the brown bear pro- 
duces among all the Alaska natives within the limits of my 
travels. I found the animals or heard of them, by this means 
principally, along the whole length of the Yukon, and ex- 
tending back along all its estuaries whose Indian tribes visit 
the great river, ; 

[10 BE CONTINUED, | 


“Would you_say that graylings or grayling were caucht in large 
numbers on the Upper Yukon?” asked one writer of Sate of the 
party as they sat together in the evening balancing accounts for the 
flay. ‘It makes no difference whether you lie in the singular or plu- 
ralin Alaska,” was the unsatisfactory answer of the individual inter- 


rogated, who had supposed the questioner referred to the Yukon’ 


above this place as the “‘Upper.””- 


‘their fayorite haunts. 


| dlatuyal History. 


THE DEER OF THE OTTAWA VALLEY. 


BY WILLIAM PILTMAN LETT. 
[Read before the Field Naturalists’ Club of the City of Ottawa, On- 
tario, Canada, on the 13th day of Mareh, 1854. | 
“The antler'd monarch of the waste 
Sprang from his heathery couch in haste, 
But, ere his fleet career he took, 
The dewdrops from his flanks he shook; 
Like erested leader, proud and high, 
Toss'’d his beam'd trontlet to the sky: 
A moment gazed adown the dale, 
A moment snuffed the tainted gale, 
A moment listened to the cry 
That thicken’d as t lase drew nigh; 
Then, as the headm¢ es appear’d, 
With one brave bound the copse he clear’d, 
And, stretching forward, free and far, 
Sought the wild heaths of Uam-Var.” 
—Lady af the Lake, 
1 engaging, as briefly as possible, in the, to me, delightful 
task of dealing with the deer of the Ottawa Valley, I 
shall be obliged, for the sake of necessary conciseness, as 
far as may be, to steer clear of the rifle, the camp-fire and 
the runway, and confine myself to hard and, if possible, in- 
teresting facts connected with the history of the noble and 
beautiful race of animals of which I am to treat. 

First and foremost on the list, properly and correctly, L 
believe, I shail place the wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the 
great stag of Canada. I do so on account of his being not 
only the most noble specimen of the genus in America, but 


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Tndiana, 


by far the most beautiful and stately animal of the deer tribe 
in the world, No animal known to naturalists carries such 
a magestic and symmetrical set of horns as the wapiti. In this 
particular he far surpasses the great sambur of India and 
the ved stag of the British Islands. A large male of this 
species will weigh between eight hundred and a thousand 
pounds, the female, when full grown and fat, weighing up- 
wards of seven hundred pounds. The form of this noble 
animal is compact, strongly built and graceful, the only appa- 
rent drawback to its perfect beauty being the shortness of 
its tail. A large buck wapiti stands seventeen hands high, 
equal to the height of alarge horse, The colour is yellowish 
brown, verging towards a dark, glossy brown about the 
head and shoulders, belly brown, and a yellowish white 
patch on each hindquarter, The horns, however, constitute 
the greatest point of beauty in the wapiti. Antlers of the 
largest size have been frequently met with measuring up- 
wards of six feet from the burr, around the beam to the 
highest point, ornamented with four formidable brow ant- 
lers, two over each eye, each eighteen, and sometimes 
twenty-four inches long, curved upward, and clegantly 
taperine and sharp and smooth at the points, The other 
prongs or tinesrange from a foot to eighteen inches in length, 
and are nicely graduated to fine points, as if they had been 
artificially tapered and polished. The horns shoot upward 
with a graceful sweep, and are generally peculiar for the 
almost uniform regularity of their growth. The largest stag 
of the highlands of Scotland would appear but a mere fawn 


standing beside a full-grown, peerlessly-crowned stag of 
Canada. The monarch of the highland glens seldom reaches 
more than four hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight, | 
while his giant American congener turns the scale, when 
gralloched, at double that weight. 

The wapiti—long misnamed an elk—was formerly quite 
numerous in the Ottawa Valley. In contradistinction to the 
cariboo and the moose, lie was found more generally on the 
southern shore of the river. One hundred years ago these 
animals were still present in no inconsiderable numbers in 
the county of Carleton, the hardwood forests of which were 
The horns of the,wapiti are still 
quite frequently turned up by the plough in the yicinity of 
the city of Ottawa. Ihave frequently found them when a 
boy, in the woods around the village of Richmond, lying on 
the surface of ‘the ground in a pretty fair state of preserva- 
tion, a sure indication that not very long before those majes- 
tic animals must have been natives of our immediate neigh- 
borhood, The fragment of a wapiti horn, which:I show 
you now, was founda few years ago near Eastman’s Springs, 
and about eight years ago a much larger and more perfect 
specimen was found on the farm of Mr. R, J, Hinton, within 
two miles of the city limits. Many naturalists imagine that 
the presence of the wapitiin this neighborhood dates back 
to a period comparatively remote. This, however, can 
scarcely be the case, as facts more conclusive than even the 
finding of their horns can be adduced in proof of those ani- 
mals having been numerous here less than one hundred years 
ago. Mr. Rice Honzywell, of the township of Nepean, one 
of our earliest settlers in this region, positively affirms that 
within the last seventy years he has seen the wapiti both 
alive and dead within four miles of the city of Ottawa, on 
the old Thompson farm. Mr. Honeywell knows well the 
difference between a wapiti and a moose, many of the latter 
he was in the habit of seeing in the same locality. This 
brings the period of the existence of this grand animalin our 
midst much closer and less remote than is generally sup- 
posed, The wapifi is still hunted successfully, being much 
less vigilant and much more easily approached than any 
other Canadian deer, In the Northwest, the Indians ride in 
amongst a herd, keeping well down on the necks of their 
horses, and thus frequently succeed in killing a herd of 
nine or ten in a lew minutes, A wounded wapiti is a dan- 
gerous animal to approach unprepared, as many an unlucky 
hunter has found out to his cost, 

The progress of settlement, the cutting down of the forests 
and the resistless march of civilization has driven those 
noble animals out of their old haunts, The race in this 
neighborhood was by no means exterminated; for then there 
were but few hunters, and the appliances for slaughter were 
ofa much more primitive description than the arms of pre- 
cision of the present day. Riflesin Canada were unknown 
in the days of the wapiti; and the weapon of the Algonquin, 
the Iroquois and the Abenakis was the bow and arrow. Like 
the Indian, the wapiti has had to travel before the aggressive 
strokes of the axe toward the setting sun; and he is now 
only to be found in Canada at the North and Sonth forks of 
the Saskatchewan in any great numbers. Parker Gilmore, 
4 famous sportsman and a naturalist of no mean order, says: 
“IT donot think from the information 1 haye been able to 
obtain from searching old authorities who have written on 
the fauna of North America, that the range of the wapiti ever 
extended eastward to the Atlantic seaboard; but that their 
habitat commenced with the prairie country, say Tilinois or 


However, those States have long ceased to know 
them; for, like other large game, they have rapidly retired 
before the tide of emigration, The upper waters of the 
Missouri, the plains around the fork of the North and South 
Saskatchewan ave where, at present, this mammoth stag will 
be found most abundant.” 

The stag of Canada, like the cariboo, is essentially ere- 
garious, the herds frequently numbering hundreds. Those 
grand animals, year after year, are growing scarcer, The 
assassin skin-hunter and the repeating rifle. are doing their 
deadly work amongst them, and the time will shortly arrive, 
if legislatures in Canada and the United States do not forth- 
with undertake the needed work of protection with a strong 
and relentless hand, when this stately ornament of forest and 
prairie will leave his last shed antlers to tell the people of no 
(listant day of the folly and improvidence which deprived 
them of a woodland glory of which any country ought to be 
proud. The miserable, thoughtless Indian, and the atrocious 
skin- hunter, have nearly exterminated the bison, the 
mightiest of all American game animals. The boundless 
prairies where they were formerly to be found by hundreds 
of thousands, even in millions, are now wide wastes covered 
by the white bones of the butchered herds. The tramp 
which shook the prairie as the mighty cavalcades thundered 
along, is no longer heard; and small bands of ten or twenty 
hereand there, like heaps of ashes, indicating where fires had 
once been, alone tell the pitiful story of the present. 

Do not say that I speak from a sportsman’s selfishness, J 
never expect to kill a bison or a wapiti; but I love the beasts 
of the wilderness and the beautiful birds of the air. If I 
could, I would not exterminate even the skunk. Each beast 
of the field und each bird of the air has been allotted its 
proper place, and assigned its legitimate position of useful- 
ness or beauty; and I hold no feeling in common with the 
man who, through avarice or cruelty, wantonly destroys them. 

The wapiti has long been called an elk, while it hag al- 
ways been well known by naturalists that he has none of the 
distinguishing characteristics of the genus Alves, in either 
form, appearance, anatomy or shape of horns, but must be 
recognized as the head of the family of stags, the largest and 
the most stately of the whole tribe of the Cervide. To this 
family belong the red deer of the British Islands and the 
Indian and Asiatie stags. It is time that the misnomer ap- 
plied to the wapiti were transferred to the moose, the true elk 
and undoubted congener of the Scandinavian and great 
Trish elk, In this particular of misnaming, history, year 
after year, repeats itself, and, as it were, causes the world to 
listen again and again to gross misrepresentation, counte- 
nanced and tolerated by science, 

THE BARREN GROUND CARTBOO (Tarandus arcticus), 

As you are alldoubtless aware, there are two species of the 
reindeer of North America—the barren ground eariboo and 
the woodland cariboo (Twrandus rangifer)—resembling each 
other in almost every particular, excepting in size of body 
and shape of horns. The barren ground cariboo is found in 
every part of Arctic America, including the region from 
Hudson’s Bay to within the Arctic circle. It is somewhat 
smaller than our common deer (Cernus virginianua), the 
largest bucks seldom weighing more than 125 pounds when 
skinned and dressed, These animals, however, do not en- 
tirely confine themselves to the extreme north, but in the 
autumn migrate southward, and spend the winter in the 
woods, where they have been frequently killed by the In- 
dians. Both male and female of this species have horns, 
and, like all animals of the deer genus, shed them yearly, in 
the month of February, somewhat later in the season than 
the red deer of America, Like the wapiti, the cariboo of 
both species haye canine teeth in the upper jaw, but no in- 
cisors. The smaller species, not being now, nor has it been 
at any time common to the valley of the Ottawa, and being 
nearly identical in habits with the larger, I shall not go into 
any more minute particulars as to food, color, size or habits 
of the former, but proceed with a description of the larger 
species, which has always been, and is still, an inhabitant of 
certain parts of the Ottawa country. 

The woodland cariboo (Tarandus rangifer), as I have re- 
marked, is similar in appearance and habits to the Turandaus 
areticus, but double as large, with shorter and stouter horns 
in proportion to its size. It inhabits Labrador and Northern 
Canada, and thence may be found south to Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick, the northern part of the State of Maine 
and Lower Canada on both sides of the St. Lawrence, thence 
westerly in the country north of Quebec baci of Lake 
Superior. It never migrates towards the north, but makes 
its migration in a southerly direction. In this particular it 
acts directly opposite to the course pursued by the smaller 
Species in its migrations. The following is the description 
given by Audubon of this deer: 

“Larger and less graceful than the common American 
deer, body short and heavy, neck stout, hoofs thin and flat. 
tened, broad and spreading, excavated or concave beneath; 
accessory hoofs large and thin, legs short, no glandular open- 
ing and scarcely a perceptible tuft on the hind legs; nose 
somewhat like that of a cow, but fully covered with soft. 
hairs of a somewhat moderate length; no beard, but on the 
under side of the neck a line of hairs about four inches in 
length, which hang down in a longitudinal direction; ears 
small, blunt and oval, thickly covered with hair on both 
surfaces; horns one foot three and a half inches in height, 
slender, one with two and the other with one prong; prongs 
about five inches long, hair soft: and woolly underneath, the 
longer hairs, like those of the antelope, crimped or waved, 
and about one to one and a half inches long,” As to the 
color of the animal, this author states that, ‘‘at the roots 
the hairs are whitish, then become brownish gray, whiter on 
the neck than elsewhere; nose, ears and outer surface of 
legs and shoulders brownish, a slight shade of the same 
tinge behind the fore legs, hoofs black and throat dull 
white, a faint whitish patch on the side of the shoulders, 
forehead brownish white, belly white, tail white, with a 
slight shade of brown at the root and on the whole upper 
surface, outside of legs brown, a band of white around all 
the legs adjoining the hoofs and extending to the small 
secondary hoofs, horns yellowish brown, worn white in 
places. 

This description is all yery well, and in the main points 
generally correct, The rather arbitrary dimensions given of 
the horns is scarcely borne out or corroborated by the prac: 
tical naturalist Known as the hunter. The horns measured 
by Audubon for this description weve likely those of a female, 
Here before you are two sets of horns of the woodland cari- 
boo, both of which came from above the Desert River onthe 
Gatineau, seventy or eighty miles further north. They are 
singularly dissimilar in appearance, and I am of opinion 
that both were taken from the beads of male animals. I 
saw 4 pair of cariboo horns some years ago in the possession 
ot Mr, Hiram Robinson of this city, which were very much 


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larger, more massive aud wide-spreading, and had many 
more and longer prongs than either of these. The height of 
a full-grown aninial of this species is about four and a half 
feet, and the weight of its carcass about 350 pounds. Large 
bucks are occasionally met with nearly 400 pounds in weight. 
The food of the cariboo consists of mosses, lichens and creep- 
ing plants found in the swamps in summer, and in search of 
which it paws up the snow with its hoofs in winter. The 
flesh when fat is most delicious venison: when thin and 
meagre it isdry and insipid. The cariboo is the fleetest of 
American deer, In galloping it makes most extraordinary 
leaps; and as a trotter, the slow-going 2:15 horses attempt- 
ing to compete with him would be simply nowhere. Like 
his useful congener—some authors believe them to be of the 
same species—the reindecr of Northern Europe, the cariboo 
is possessed of great powers of endurance, frequently escap- 
ing from the Indian hunters after the fatigue and starvation 
inseparable from four or five days of a continuous following 
up hunt. When the hunted animal gets upon glare 
ice, over which he can glide at a rate that would double upon 
the fleetest skater, the hunter is obliged to give it up as a 
bad job. The cariboo is ashy and exceedingly wary ani- 
mal, and most difficult to still-hunt, neither can he be suc- 
cessfully hunted in deep snow, he being enabled to go over 
the surface of the snow like a hare, upon his broad flat hoofs, 
So far as IT have ever been able to learn, it is only time lost 
attempting to hunt them with dogs. The hounds might 
follow the scent, but they could scarcely ever be in at the 
death, and it is pretty well known that dogs cannot drive 
them to water. They are, however, successfully still-hunted 
by Indians, and also by white hunters skilled in the craft. 
Large numbers of them are also frequently slaughtered when 
discovered swimming across a river or lake in their migra- 
tions. The cariboo is still to be found in considerable abund- 
ance on the Riviere du Lievres as close as sixty or seventy miles 
from the Ottawa, on the Gatineau River above the Desert, 
and in more limited numbers above Pembroke, in the neigh- 
borhood of Black River, and along the shores of Lake Ni- 
pissing; they are still plentiful on both sides of the St. Law- 
rence, beyond Riviere du Loup below Quebec. They are 
also quite numerous on the northern shore of Lake Superior. 
Thave no recollection of cariboo being met with on the 
south shore of the Ottawa River, with the exception of an 
odd one occasionally many years ago; in each of such cases 
the animals had evidently strayed from the north side, which 
has always been their true and natural habitat. The skin 
of the caribeo, when tanned, is made into moccasins. and 
wind-proof garments, and in its raw state is used in the 
manufacture of snowshoes. It is fine, thin, tough and 
durable. Frank Forester has described hunting the wood- 
land earibou in the following terms: 

“As to his habits, while the Lapland or Siberian reindeer 
is the tamest and most docile of its genus, the American 
cariboo is the fiercest, fleetest, wildest, shyest and most un- 
tamcable. So much so, that they are rarely pursued by white 
hunters, or shot by them except through casual good for- 
tune; Indians alone having the patience and instinctive 
craft, which enables them to crawl unseen, unsmelt—for the 
nose of the cariboo can detect the smallest taint upon the 
air of anything human at least two miles up wind of him— 
and unsuspected, If he takes alarm and starts off on the run, 
no one dreams of pursuing. As well pursue the wind, of which 
noman knoweth whenceit cometh or whither it goeth. Snow- 
shoes against him alone ayail little, for propped upon the 
broad, natural snowshoes of his long, elastic pasterns and 
wide cleft clacking hoofs, he shoots over the crust of the 
deepest drifts unbroken; in which the lordly moose would 
soon flounder, shoulder deep, if hard pressed, and the grace- 
ful deer would fall despairing, and bleat in yain for mercy 
—tlut he, the ship of the winter wilderness, out-speeds the 
wind among his native pines and tamaracs—even as the 
desert ship, the dromedary, out-trots the red simoon on 
the terrible Sahara—and once started may be seen no 
more by human eyes, nor run down by fleetest feet of man, no, 
not if they pursue him from their nightly casual camps, un- 
wearied, following his trail by the day, by the week, by the 
month, till a fresh snow effuces his tracks, and leaves the 
hunter at the Jast, as he was at the first of the chase, less only 
the fatigue, the disappointment and the folly.” 

While we have no historical record of the woodland cari- 
boo ever having been found in any considerable numbers on 
the south shore of the Ottawa, 1 think there can be little 
doubt of its having been quite plentiful on the north side of 
the Oitawa within a few miles, sixty or seventy years ago, 
As mentioned before, stray members of the family have 
been, to my own knowledge, seen on the south side of the 
Ottawa, one having been killed at L’Orignal about twenty 
years ago. The cariboo migrates in herds of from ten to 
two, three and four hundred, and it isa notable fact that a 
concealed hunter, with the wind in his favor, if he has am. 
munition enough and does not show himself, can slaughter a 
whole herd, providing the man bebind the rifle is ‘the right 
man in the right place.” While under ordinary conditions 
the cariboo is the most difficult of approach of any known 
species of deer, when accidentally met with under cireum- 
stances such asl have mentioned, the animals seem to be 
completely panic-stricken, and nnable to make any attempt 
to escape. 

[TO BE CONCLUDED. | 


BIRD NOTES. 


HILE out on the 22d dey of February, to find out if 

all the quails had perished during the deep snows and 

severe cold of the past winter, my dogs found a nice little 

bevy of eight. This goes to prove that Boh White has lived 

through the inclement weather and will multiply the coming: 

season. My dogs also found on that day a woodcock in an 

alder thicket. Is not this early for Mr. Longbill to be in 

New England? Robins and bluebirds are plenty, and have 
been for the last three weeks, D. D. 

GLENVILLE, Conn,, March 4, 


Partridges, squirrels, rabbits and such game have wintered 
well. While in the woods lately I heard numbers of gray 
squirrels barking all around me, but did not tfy to get a shot, 
as l was out for pine grosbeaks and bluejays, which have 
been very plenty. 1 have secured several fine specimens of 
males but taking’ no more than I wish to mount. The Lap- 
land bunting and black snowhbird are very scarce, have 


mounted but one of each. A, GC, Miner. 
Brooxsriecp, N. Y., Feb, 10, 


I saw a blackbird this morning. It was snowing very 
hard at the time, and my advice to the voyager was to lay 
his course due south for at least twenty days, Never saw 
one s0 early in the season before. Parson O’GATH. 

Gore, O., Mareh 5. 


SEALS IN THE UPPER ST. LAWRENCE. 


BY 0. HART MERRIAM, M.D. 
eT are commonly supposed to confine themselves to 
the immediate vicinity of the sea; still they frequently: 
ascend Jarge rivers, and have been known to reach fresh- 
water lakes far inthe interior, At least two have been killed 
in Lake Champlain, and several have been recorded from Lake 
Ontario. The most extraordinary record that I have seen is 
that already published in your columns concerning the cap- 
ture of a seal in Onondaga Lake, in the interior of New York 
State. This animal was shot (April 28, 1882) by George F. 
Kennedy in the very suburbs of the city of Syracuse. (For- 
EST AND SrREAM, Vol. XVIII, No. 15, May 11, 1882, p. 
286). As stated hy your correspondent, it must haye as- 
cended the Oswego River from Lake Ontario. 

All of these examples belong to the species known as the 
harbor seal or dotard (Phoca vitulina), whichis at present 
abundant in the St. Lawrence, fifty miles below Quebec. In 
the Brockville Hoening ea Jan. 11, 1884, appeared 
the following: ‘‘Seals in the 8" Lawrence.—Several gentle- 
men crossing the river from Morristown this morning were 
considerably surprised to find in the open water near the first 
Sister Island an exceedingly lively seal, which was gamboling 
about in apparent glee, When first noticed it was making 
an abortive attempt to capture two winter ducks, failing in 
which it suddenly went under water and out of sight. Tr, 
William Griffiths, of Morristown, one of the gentlemen who 
witnessed the animal’s gambols, says it was about the size of 
an ordinary Newfoundland dog. Seals have been seen in 
the St. Lawrence on several occasions during the past few 
years, and two have been known to meet death at the hands 
of fishermen, one at Chippewa Bay and one at Wolfe Island.” 

Upon reading this notice I wrote to Captain Ward Plumb, 
of the steamer Armstong, for further information, and he 
has kindly favored me with the following facts: He first 
saw the seal at 9 A. M., Jan. 11, ult., a quarter of a mile 
from Morristown, and says, ‘‘We were then crossing over to 
Brockville. It kept ahead of us all the way across, occa- 
sionally coming up so we had a full view of it. I should 
judge its size was that of the end of a flour barrel. Its color 
wasa very dark brown. The last I saw of it was at 4 P. M. 
the same day, but have since learned of its presence about 
four miles above here, at a place called McDonald’s Point. 
Two years ago one was caught in a gill net at Chippewa Bay, 
twelve miles above Brockville, but was dead when found.” 
Chippewa Bay is about twenty five miles above Ogdensburg 
and fifty from Lake Ontario, Wolfe Island is at the point 
where Lake Ontario flows into the St. Lawrence, about 600 
miles above the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 


ORTYxX VIRGINIANUS NoT ry ARIzZONA.—The article in 
last week’s ForREsT AND STREAM (p. 104), copied from the 
Tucson Weeklyn Citizen, stating the capture of this.species 
in the Barboquivari range, probably refers to the Massena 
quail (Cyrtonyx massena), which occurs abundantly in many 
parts of Arizona. Orlyz virginianus has not been traced 
further west than Central Texas, where it is confined to the 
country east of Llano Estacado, or Staked Plains; and the 
birds occurring there are a light-colored, grayish race, dis- 
tinguished from O. virgintanus proper by the name O, vir- 
ginianus tevanus, or Texan quail. Cyrtonyx massenu presents 
somewhat of a superficial resemblance to O. virginianus, but 
upon comparison will be found exceedingly distinct, both 
in form and coloration. If not the Massena quail, the bird 
referred to must be one of the Mexican species of Ortyz 
(perhaps OQ, graysont), none of which, however, have been 
taken on our side of the boundary line. In order to settle 
the question, it is very desirable that a specimen be sent for 
examination; merely a wing, with a portion of the skin of 
the breast, with feathers attached, would be sufficient to in- 
sure identification,—Rosert Ripeway (Smithsonian Insti- 
tution). [We were assured by the writer of the article in 
the Tucson Citizen that the birds were Bob White. We will 
haye more definite information on the subject shortly. | 


Icz Atways Fuoats.—lf I am not mistaken I read an 
account in your paper some time ago in regard to ice sinking 
in some smalJ! lakes in the spring. I once lived near a small 
lake where the ice would disappear very suddenly, and I 
was told that it sunk. Will you please adyise me if you 
ever heard of such a thing?—W, D.5. (Smithport, Pa,). 
[Water expands in freezing, and ice always floats. Anchor 
ice, often seen on the bottom of streams, is formed there, 
and is held in its place by cohesion between it and the stones 
at the bottom. The impression that ice sinks arises, no 
doubt, from its sudden disappearance. It ise usually sup- 
posed to sink in spring when the waters of the lake are 
growing warmer constantly, and the ice is melting from 
below as well as above. If under such conditions the waters 
of the lake are agitated by a wind and the warmer lower 
strata are thus brought to the surface, the ice will often dis- 
appear in a few hours. | 


Many Ratrrnes—Mr. Grant, of our town, has recently 
returned from Florida, where his son has a plantation, bring- 
ing many things which, though common there, are looked 
upon as curiosities here. Among the collection was one 
thing which is really a curiosity—it being the rattles from a 
rattlesnake killed near the plantation, and the tail shows 
twenty-nine (29) rattles. Bluebirds and song sparrows were 
seen here Feb. 17.—S.. F. Dexter (Pawtucket, March 8), 


Concerntnc Rosrxs.—Hditor Forestand Stream: A few 
days since, while on a St. Augustine ferry boat, a native 
white man came aboard with a shotgun and a bag of forty 
robins, shot in the woods opposite Jacksonville, I inquired 
what he proposed todo with them, and he replied: ‘‘O, 
them’s mighty fine eating, and we shoot heapsof them every 
winter.”” 1 looked the thing square in the face and replied: 
‘Fortunate for you, sir, that you live in the South; if you 
were seen in the North with that bag of song birds in your 
possession you would be lynched, and your carcass given to 
the erows;” and turning on my heel, I moved to a less irritat- 
ing atmosphere. Is it lawful, Mr. Editor, to so slaughter 
the little songsters that sing so sweetly about our Northern 
homes? - Would it not be well for a few missionaries from 
the North to visit this section and Jabor with the law- 
makers? It seems to be an inviting field with plenty to do. 
—A.T.§$. [Robins are shot in the North as well as in the 
South, One country is not much behind the other in the 
wholesale methods of game killing. If our correspondent 
wants to do missionary work in this direction, he can prob- 
ably find a field athome, Butio give a man to understand 
that he is deserving of a halter is hardly the way to convert 
him to your way of thinking. Our correspondent neglects to 
tell us what the Floridian said, and this omission is to be 
deplored, for doubtless the remarks were interesting. | 


Game Bag and Gun. 


THE YELLOWSTONE PARK BILL. 


Ww print below the text of the bill passed March 6 by 

the Senate, providing for the enlargement and better 
protection of the National Park. It is an interesting docu- 
ment and will well repay study. 

The letter from Mr, Arnold Hague, of the Geological Sur. 
vey, will commend itself to our readers, The writer is 
thoroughly familiar with the Park, and his opinions are 
entitled to the greatest weight, 


A Bill to amend sections twenty-four hundred and seyenty-four 
and twenty-four hundred and seyenty-five of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States,setting apart a certain tract of land 
Pane near the head waters of the Yellowstone River as a public 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the hound- 
aries of the Yellowstone National Park, as now fixed by section num- 
bered twenty-four hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes, 
shall hereafter be as follows: Beginning at a point on the forty-fifth 
parallel of north latitude where said parallel is intersected by the 
meridian of oné hundred and eleyen degrees west longitude; thence 
due east to a point on said meridian within ten miles of the eastern 
boundary of the Park as now established; thence due south five miles: 
thence due east to the meridian of one hundred and nine degrees and 
thirty minutes west longitude; thence due south along said meridian 
to the forty-fourth paraliel of north latitude; thence due west along 
said parallel to its point of intersection with the meridian of one hun- 
dred and eleven degrees west longitude; thence due north along said 
meridian to the place of beginning; and it shall be the duty of the 
Secretary of the Interior to cause an accurate survey to be made of 
the boundary lines of said Park as established by this act, said survey 
to be recorded in the offices of the Surveyor-General and Commis- 
ee ef the General Land Office of the United States, as provided 

Vy law, 

sec. 2. That allof the territory embraced within the limits of the 
Park as herein established shall be reserved and withdrawn from 
settlement, occupancy or sale under the lawsof the United States, 
and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for 
the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States; and 
said territory so set apart shall be under the control of the Seecretary- 
of the Interior, and subject to all the provisions of sections numbered 
twenty-four hundred and seventy-four and twenty-four hundred and 
seventy-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, except as 
herein otherwise provided. 

Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish 
such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for 
the management and care of the Park, especially for the preservation 
from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural 
curiosities, or wonderful objects within said Park, and for the pro- 
tection of the game animals found in the Park, to prevent their cap- 
ture or destruction, He shall cause all Higtae trespassing upon the 
Park to be remoyed therefrom, and shall take all measures which he 
may think necessary to carry out the purposes of this act; and the 
Secretary of War is hereby directed to make such details of troops 
as the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the President, 
may require for the purpose of preventing trespassers or intruders 
from entering the Park with the object of destroying the zame there- 
A ae other illegal purposes, and for remoying such persons from the 

ark. 

Sec. 4, That the killing, wounding, or capturing, atany time, of any 
buffalo, bison, moose, elk, deer, mountain sheep, Rocky Mountain 
goat, antelope, beaver, olter, martin, fisher, grouse, prairie 
chicken, pheasant, fool-hen, partridge, quail, wild goose, duck, eagle, 
™m. ie, swan, heron, sparrow, robin, meadow lark, thrush, roldfinch, 
flicker or yellowhammer, blackbird, oriole, jay, snowbird, or any of 
the small birds commonly known as singing-birds, is prohibited 
within the limits of said Park; nor shall any fish be taken out of the 
waters of the Park by means of seinés, nets, traps, or by the use of 
drugs, or aay pote substances or compounds, or in any other 
way than by hook and line. Any person violating the proyisions of 
this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, pon con- 
viction, shall be fined for each offense not less than twenty nor more 
than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than 
three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Possession 
of the dead bodies, or any part thereof, of any of the animals or birds 
hereinbefore mentioned, shall be prima facie evidence that the person 
or persons having the same are guilty of violating this act, Any per- 
sob or persons, or stage, express, or railroad company, receiving for 
transportation any of the animals, birds, or fish uamed herem, know- 
ing or having reasonable cause to believe that such animals, birds, or 
fish were lolled or captured in violation of this act, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay for every such 
offense the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be recovered by 
a proceeding in the nature of an information before any Territorial 
or United states district court within whose jurisdiction such offense 
was committed; and it shall be the duty of the district attormey of 
the United States for such Territory or district to institute and prose- 
cute said proceeding in the name of the United States, the amount 
collected from the party offending to be paid into the treasury of che 
United States. 

Sec, 5. That the Secretary of the Interior may lease small portions 
of ground in the Park, not exceeding ten acres in extent for each 
tract, on which may be erected hotels and the necessary out-build- 
ings, and for a period not exceeding ten years; but such lease shall 
not include any of the geysers or other objects of curiosity or interest 
in said Park, or exclude the public from the free and convenient 
approach thereto, or include aur round within one quarter of a 
mule of any of the geysers or the Yellowstone Falls, nor shall there 
be leased more than one tract of not exceeding ten acres to any 
one person, association or corporation; nor shall any hotel or other 
buildings be erected within the Park until such lease shall be executed 
by the Secretary of the Interior; and ali contracts, agreements or 
exclusive privileges heretofore madé or given in regard to said Park, 
or any part thereof, inconsistent with this act, are hereby declared 
invalid; nor shall the Secretary of the Interior, in any lease which 
he may make and execute, grant any exclusiye privileges within said 
Park, except upon the ground leased. 

Sec. 6. That for the ee ot giving protection to life and property 
within said Park the laws of the Territory of Montana are hereby 
extended over the same, so far as said laws do not conflict with this 
act; and said Park is declared to be, for the purpose aforesaid, and 
the administration of justice generally therein, a part of the county 
of Gallatin, in said Territory, until Congress shall otherwise provide. 
All costs and expenses arising in cases under tnis act, and properly 
chargeable to the United States, shall be certified by the cours or 
justice trying said cases to the United States marshal for Montana, 

and shall be paid by him out of any public funds in his hands, and 
“ve reported by him to the Department of Justice, as in the case of 
other cases in the United States courts. The violation of any regula- 
tion made and published by the Secretary of the Interior in regard to 
the contro] and management of the Park, and the protection of the 
game and public property therein, is hereby declared to be a misde- 
meanor, and the party convicted shall be punished for each offense 
by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, 
or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment. : ; ; 

Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a superin- 
tendent of the Park, who shall be paid am annual salary of two thou- 
sand dollars, and fifteen assistants, who shall each be paid annually 
nine hundreddollars. And itshall be the duty of said superintendent 
and his assisstants to reside continuously in the Park, and to protect 
the game and public property, to prenve the peace, and prevent 
crime; aud for this purpose they shall have power to arrest all per- 
sons committing any crime or misdemeanor within the Park, and 
shall also haye all the powers and duties conferred by law upon the 
sheriffs and constables for the Territory of Montana, and their depn- 
ties: Provided, That the power hereby conferred shall be exercised 
only within the limits of said Park, and in conveying persons arrested 
to the nearest court or officer having jurisdiction of the crime or mis- 
demeanor with which the person or persons have been charged: And 
provided also, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as 
preventing the United States marshals from serving within the ter- 
ritory of the Park any writ or process issued by lawful authority: 
And provided also, That no timber in said Park shall be cut, either 
for building purposes or for firewood, except by the permission in 
writing of the superintendent of said Park, specifying the place at 
which said timber may be cut, and the quantity thereof. 

Sec. 8. That the Secretary of War shall detail an officer from the 
Corps of Engineers whose duty it sball be to survey and lay out suit- 
able roads in said Park. and select the proper location for bridges 
therein; and the Secretary of War shall, upon the report of said offi- 
cer, make annual estimates for the cost of such improvements, and 
communicate the same to Congress, with such other recommenda- 
tions in regard to the Park as he may deem proper; and all sums re- 
ceived by the Secretary of the Interior from rents in the Park, or 
arising from fines or forfeitures for vislations of the laws and regu—- 
lations made for the government of said Park. and protection of the 
game and public property therein, shall be applied to the imprave- 


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Marcn 13, 1884,] 


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inbefore mentioned; and the officer or officers collecting 
eet a2 forfeitures shall pay the same to the Superintendent 
af the Park, to be accounted for by him to the Secretary of the In- 
terior. A 
Sec. 9, That all leases, contracts, rules and regulations made or 
ieraad By une Secretary of the Interior as herein provided for shall 
be subject to the approval of the President. 


NEw Be) Des, Saas 

Hon. George G. Vest, United States Senator, Washington, D. ©.- 

Sis— During an interview, last summer, on the borders of the Yel- 
lowstone Lake, you asked me, on my returning Hast, to give you my 
views about the Park, and such suggestions as seemed to me Nip 
sary Tor its protection and preservation, Expecting to be in Was i 
ington in January, J deferred the matter, hoping fo see you then, en 
present a few suggestions more fully than I could by letter. No . 
ing, however, that you had brought the subject up m the Unite 
States Senate, I take the liberty of writing you in reat Zs cn or 
two points upon which, it seems to me, some action should be taken 


this winter, : . be Aes : 
ject to be gained in maintaining the national 
ie ed ted tebe eth: e forests which now cover the 


vation is the preservation of t r : : 
Er ee Of the Park plateau and neighboring mountain 5. The 
Park is situated along the continental watershed, in a region remark- 
ably well favored in its rain and snow fall, and abounding in such 
broad sheets of water as the Yellowstone, Shoshone, peas and Heart 
Jakes, These lakes are the sources and natural reservoirs of the Missis- 
sippi and Columbia riyers, and for the supply and storing up of the 
waters the forest is an absolute necessity. Without arguing the ques- 
tion at length, Ineed only call your attention to the discussion now 
going on in New York State in regard to the importance of presery- 
ing the Adirondack forest, by State legislation, m order to maintain 
a steady supply of water for’ the Hudson River, The difficulties and 
expenses of buying and controlling this forest region at this late date 
re found to be very great. , i 

a Nowuch reasons is to-day against forever protecting the forests 
in the neighborhood of the Park; while the reasons for so doing are 
equally urgent. Tu a country like the far West with its vast treeless 
areas rapidly being taken up by settlers, it is all the more important 
* that certain exceptionally situated timber penlons should be carefully 
protected by law, before seized upon by peop! e. 4 

For these reasons I wish to see the Park area considerably @x- 
tended to the south and east, and at the same time to slightly alter 
the boundaries onthe north and west. In the original bill setting 
aside the Park domain the boundaries are somewhat loosely stated, 
and should at all events be more clearly defined, _ 4. 

The present northern boundary is at the “junction of the Gardin- 
er’s River with the Yellowstone River,’ By making the 45th 
parallel the northern boundary it places the line about two miles 
south of the present one, and makes it the same as the boundary be- 
tween the Territories of Wyoming and Montana. In making this 
change but little would be lost in the way of timber laud or natural 
scenery needing protection. The Mammoth Hot Springs would still 
be two miles south of the boundary. Bens 

The western boundary is very poorly defined. the law reading ‘‘the 
meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Mad- 
ison Lake.”’ At that time Shoshone Lake was frequently designated as 
Madison Lake, and is so called in the bill setting aside the Park, as it 
Was supposed to be the headwaters of ihe Madison River. As you 
well know, however, the Shoshone is one of the sources of Snake 
River, the headwaters of the Madison rising in a small insignificant 
lake, By placing the western line along the one hundred and eley- 
enth meridian it would be made to coincide with the boundary be- 
tween Wyoming and Montana, and would at the same time only cut 
off a strip about two miles wide. It would place the Park wholly 
within Wyoming. : 

enone: to the present law, the eastern and southern boundaries 
of the Park run ten miles from the most eastern and most southern 

oints of the Yellowstone Lake, Now the southeastern end of Yel- 
owstone Lake is low marshy ground, and between high and low water 
there is a considerable difference in the position of the shore line, 
a difference which might easily at some future time give rise 
to questions as to the ownership of valuable timber. This is, how- 
ever, a trivial question compared with the importance of extending 
the area of the Park both south and east. In my opinion the forty- 
fourth parallel of latitude would be the most suitable southern line. 
By extending the Park as far south it would take in a rough 
mountainous country mainly made up of yoleanic lavas, but densely 
covered with forests and a resort for large game. On the other 
hand, by extending the line still further south, there would be 
some danger of including what might prove, upon exploration, to be 
valuable mineral lands, as well as lands fayorable for summer past- 
urage. This is the line, I believe, suggested two years ago by General 
sheridan. , < 
: To the east of the Yellowstone Lake lies a broad elevated region, 
singularly rough and wild, full of striking and grand scenery, and 
densely covered forests. These mountains are the resort of large an- 
imais, and are regarded by hunters as the best gameregion anywhere 
in this part of the country. As shooting within the Park limits is 
prohibited, these mountains are already frequented both for sports- 
men and those shooting to supply the demand of visitors in the Park 
for fresh meat. Ai 

IT would recommend making the eastern boundary the meridian of 
109° 80’. This would extend the area of the Park about thirty miles 
to the eastward of the present boundary, It would take in all the 
streams draining westward to the Yellowstone River and the head- 
waters of mostef the streams running eastward. besides addin: 
largely to the domain of timber and protected game area. General 
Sheridan advised carrying the line further east, to Cedar Hill. This, 
IT understand, would take land already occupied by ranchmen as 

grazing country, upon which a number of people have already 
setiled. It is also more lixely to embrace valuable mineral lAnd, and 
is moreover a far less definite point than a standard meridian line, 

Asa Park for the preseryation of game the present limits are by 
no means satisfactory, if it is intended, asit should be, to make the 
place one where large game will naturally roam, particularly when 
driven in from outside for protectien; the neighborhood of the hot 
springs andthe geyser basins is one which has never been used to 
any great extent by game as a permanent haunt, and the broad 
yolcanic plateau lying between the geyser basin and the Yellowstone 
Lake and canyon is nota fayorable grazing country. On the other 
hand, the mountains lying to the south, east and west abound in 
game, and present all the natural advantages sought for by deer and 
elk. Enlarge the Park and you make the whole area a game country. 

lt seems to meit should be the policy of the government, in the 
management of the Park, to protectabove everything else the timber 
and game. If this view is correct then the admission of railways 
within the Park should be prohibited. Nothing would tend more to 
destroy the timber by fire than the passage of trains through the for- 
est. Moreover, the locomotive whistle and the additional trattic 
eaused by railway transportation would conyert the place into a pub- 
lic highway and tend to destroy all aspects of a Park. It would most 
effectually drive ont alllarge game. The Park should be kept as a 
place of recreation and rest for those who can afford sufficient time 
to enjoy its benefits and reap the advantages of an out-door life. The 
country already offers a sufficient number of resorts for gripsark 
travelers who like to huddle together in large hotels and moye with 
the crowd. ; ‘ - 

It is also very essential that more efficient means be taken to pre- 
yentthe destruction of the deposits and incrustations around the 
springs and geysers. Probably no other place in the world bears any 
comparison to the Yellowstone Park in the display of the phenomena 
connected with thermal waters, and every precaution should betaken 
to preserye the place from destruction by tourists. 

During the past season the demolition of these natural curiosities 
has been yery great. I was surprised at the condition of the Mammoth 
Hot Springs upon my first visit early in August, but on returning to 
the springs in October I was amazed to seeto what extent the destruc- 
vont the deposits had been carried on in the short space of three 
months, 

Upon the general management of the Parl: I hayesome views which 
I would be glad to express to you, but preferred, in this already too 

lon etter to restrict myself to some of the more scientific questions, 
such as the all-important one of maintaining the forests, the protec- 
tion of large game, and the preservation of natural curiosities of a 
scientific interest, ’ ‘ 
; Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
/ ARNOLD HAGUE, 
Geologist, United States Geological Survey. 


BurstEp GuN BARRELs.—We presume that most men 
who know anything about guns are aware that it is injudi- 
cious to discharge a gun or rifle ;which has an obstruction in 
its barrel, for it is very likely that the barrel may be bursted. 
This familiar principle has lately been made the subject of 
a number of experiments by Mr. W. McK. Heath, of Phila- 
delphia, who has burst several guns and rifles by shooting 
them with stuck bullets, snow, wet sand or mud in the 
barrel at the muzzle. Mr. Heath publishes a photograph 
showing the condition of fourteen such barrels after his ex- 
periments. He is with J. OC, Grubb & Co., Philadelphia. 


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THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Exitor Forest and Stream : 

T was pleased with the paraphrased remarks you made in 
issue of Feb. 21, to the effect that a comparison, muzzle- 
loader versus breechloader, was a dead issue. Just so I con- 
sider it. No sportsman wants to go back to the muzzeloader. 
The advantages of the breechloading system are so well set- 
tled that it is quite proper to Jet all discussion on that point 
drop right here, saye only that suggested by my first in- 
quiries, the yital one of shooting qualities. 

It so happens that we have to charge the shells of our 
breechloader upon principles (as recommended by the best 
authorities) entirely different from the charging of our old 
muzzleloaders. These principles are not understood by 
numbers who are novices with these improved weapons, I 
am free to confess my ignorance. This difficulty is aggra- 
vated by the yarious and contradictory instructions pub- 
lished by the different manufacturers, One utterly eschews 
paper shells and advises the use of metal shells exclusively. 
Another, a proportionately larger charge of powder than of 
shot, One, to use a pink-edge fell wad two sizes larger than 
the gauge of the gun, Still another claims that this is 
wrong; use wadsof same gauge but two or three thicknesses 
of them between the powder and shot. Then, too, in the 
country, where breechloaders are rapidly being introduced, 
the foree of old habit is so strong, aside from the further 
difficulty of obtaining exactly what you want in that line, 
for you qgnnot pick it up at a country store, your econom- 
ical countryman loads his shells with an ordinary charge of 
common powder, a dossil of old paper for 4 wad, a charge 
of shot, and another dossil of old paper for a wad—the 
same as he managed his old muzzleloader—and so I might 
go on at much greater length, but this willsuffice. Hence 
arise a diversity of results, independent, probably, of the in- 
trinsic shooting qualities of the arm considered alone. Is it 
any wonder, then, that so many complain of failure? 

If my former views, or inquiries rather, have led any of 
your correspondents astray touching these pertinent matters, 
I beg to recali them to the points proper for discussion— 
range, closeness of distrihution, and penetration. How to attain 
these three desiderata. 

In making comparisons, L think it quite proper to compare 
guns of equal gauge or caliber, using charges of same quan- 
tity or quality, 

The result obtained by your correspondent ‘‘Oct,” p. 
66, Feb, 21, is certainly far ahead of anything in the way 
of pattern I have been able to accomplish, 

Tf such grand results are only attainable, as some corre- 
spondents seem to intimate, by an increase of caliber (heavy 
weight and large gauge), then your modern ‘‘Sampson” has 
the advantage, for, while he may rejoice in slamming a 
quarter of a pound of shot after a single bird, very few of us 
small folks could stand up to that sort of ‘‘racket,”’ nor 
would we, if we could, 

I would commend the attention of the ‘‘big gun” men to 
the article by N, E, White to the Sacramento (Cal.) Bee 
(published in your paper of Feb, 28), as well as tomy own in 
same issue, BAckKwoops. 

BEVERLY, W. Va. 


Editon Forest wad Stream: ® 

I haye owned half « dozen and experimented” with as 
many more, both 10 and 12 gauges of standard manufactur- 
ers. My trials have proved to me at least the fallacy of a 
great many assertions about the sure killing powers of guns 
loaded with from 3 to 4 drams powder and from 1 to 1} 
ounces of shot, I have yet to seethe gun, either of 10 or 12 
gauge, I don’t care how it is loaded (providing it is a field gun), 
that will kill every shot at 90, 80 or even 70 yards, measured 
distance. Of course a person will occasionally make an extra 
long shot, but to depend on it every time brings little but 
disappointment. A close, hard-shooting gun of either gauge 
loaded with the proper proportions will kill with No. 8, 9 or 
10 shot, quail, snipe, woodcock, etc., with reasonable 
certainty at from 45 to 50 yards, which is the limit of 
certainty for these sizes, The larger sizes of shot will kill 
further simply on account of maintaining a greater velocity 
during flight over same distance. But the larger the shot 
the larger the pattern, and the greater distance between pel- 
lets decreases the certainty of killing very rapidly. If, on 
trial, the gun loaded with No. 4 to 6 shot will give a pattern 
at 60 yards, so close and evenly distributed that a duck or 
same sized bird cannot escape being struck even by one shot, 
1 should not try to get a better one. ; 

As to the most effective gauge, opinions differ widely. I 
prefer a 12-gauge for general shooting, on account of using 
less ammunition per load, and haying less weight of ammu- 
nition to carry for given number of shots; and | think it has 
equal killing power. For general shooting, if loaded prop- 
erly, a 12-gauge 2g-Inch paper shell, loaded with 4 drams 
powder, 2 pink-edge wads and 14 ounces shot, sizes from 6 


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down, or | ounce shot, sizes 7, 8, 9 or 10, will give as good 


result with most guns as any one could wish for. Of course 
the load is forthe extreme distances; less powder and shot 
re fe TS ot 


answers very well for shooting in cover. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

There are three things in which I think many of us err. 
We use the small shot and too heavy charges, and are not 
careful enough in suiting the size of the grain of the powder 
to the length of the barrel of our guns. My field gun is 4 12- 
gauge Webley, barrels only 26 inches. For larger game, 
ducks, ete., IT use a 10-gauge, 30-inch barrels. In fhis gun I 
use 4 drams No. 8 Curtis & Harvey’s powder and 14 ounces 
of shot. In the 12-gauge, 3 drams a size finer, with 1 
ounce shot.. Some may ask, why this change in the quality 
of the powder? All will admit that in order to get the full 
power of the powder it must be burnt in the barrel. If I 
load my 26-inch gun with the coarser grade, I find some of 
it blown out without being burnt, adding nothing to the 
force of the charge. In my 30-inch barrels a much smaller 
portion ¢scapes, as it has longer time in the barrel to ignite 
and exert its force behind the shot, In regard to the relative 
charges of powder and shot, my experience teaches me that 
the proportions stated are not far out of the way. We want 
always all the speed put into our lead that we can get, even 
then it sometimes seems to mea frightened quail will keep 
ahead of the swiflest shot; so we must not plug up our guns 
with too much lead. AmtTright? I claim that no small 
proportion of the birds we hit are lost because they are not 
knocked right down, but fly out of sight before they drop. 
J admit that at the best, we cannot always make dead shots, 
but I do believe that the wounded birds we leave for the 
foxes would be less if we used heavier lead. For woodcock 
Luse number eight. They are a tender bird, and if hit with 
but three or four pellets, are pretty sure to stop, where the 


plucky ‘‘Bob Whites” sail away beyond your sight. For 
them and ruffed grouse I find number six is not too large, 
As to muzzle or breechloaders, I am sure your verdict isin 
accordance with the facts; the muzzleloaders are a “'Whing 
of the past.” Years ago [owned one, a far-shooting gun; 
with its left barrel I have killed a good many foxes over ten 
rods away, but my breechloader will do the same thing, und 
it is always ready for the next fellow. I hope that others 
will be induced to enter into this discussion. Take it for 
granted we all have good guns, now let us tell each other 
how to Joad them to fill our bags and let the foxes go hungry. 
SPICHEWOOD, 
CENTRALIA, Pa, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

We are very apt to place our poor holding on our gun. I 
remember tliat, for a year or two, | experimented largely 
endeavoring to secure a gun which would kill, and did rot 
learn to shoot well until I studied holding. 

In acertain city in Massachusetts there lives a retired man 
of business, who, for a hobby occupies his time dealing in 
guns and rifles ina small way, going hunting ovcasionally, 
and experimenting extensively. Indeed, though it may have 
happened, I never knew Mr, Sam Brown to go into the field 
loaded twice alike. 

One beautiful autumn morning (I remember it well from 
its perfection) together we started full of joy and hope for a 
day's sport. Sam had a habit of straying off by himself, the 
better I suppose to notice the result of some deeply matured 
experiment. Happening, as usual, to miss him, [ soon dis- 
covered him all doubled up, with every appearance of ex- 
treme caution in his manner, trying to creep up on a grouse 
which was viewing him with calm contemplation from its 
perch on a wall. Approaching within about forty yards, 
Sam slowly raised his gun and was about to fire, when to his 
astonishment the grouse asked, ‘‘Are you Sam Broyyn?” 
“Yes,” said Sam, after partly recoyering from his astonish- 
ment, ‘‘T am.” ‘*Well, then, Sam,” said the grouse, ‘‘blaze 
away, blaze away.” Riext AND LEFT, 

Hi.itssoro Gripen, N. H. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I was very slow to acknowledge the superior qualities of 
the breechloader, and the first one I owned proved to be a 
very inferior weapon, although I paid a high price for it; 
but I tried again, and this time obtained a piece which satis- 
fied me that a good breechloader would do good execution. 
I have owned five as good muzzleloaders as any one, and 
eight breechloaders of the best American and English make, 
and with the exception of the first breechloader they were 
all far superior to the muzzleloaders, both in pattern and 
penetration, 

I was greatly pleased with Mr. H. E. White's article from 
the Sacramento See in your issue of Feb. 28, as it expressed 
my own views of a gun for game-bird shooting, ; 

There are hundreds of sportsmen to-day who think that 
nothing short of a4or& bore of 16 or 25 pounds will kill 
wildfowl. Ihave used 6 and 8 bores, and found them ex- 
ceedingly unhandy in a light duck boat, beside requiring a 
yast amount of ammunition. 

Last fall I purchased a 10-bore, 104 pounds, and found I 
could kill more ducks with the same amount of powder and 
shot than I could with the heavy guns, that is, a pound of 
powder and five pounds of shot used in the 10-bore would 
bag more ducks than. if used in the 8-bore. 

iam well aware that more hayoc can be done to a flock 
of wildfow] at one discharge from a gun loaded with 7 
drams powdcr and 24 ounces shot than from one loaded with 
14 ounces, but where ducks are flying in singles or pairs the 
10-bore is the weapon I prefer, and if properly loaded will 
kill a single duck nearly, if not quite, as far as an 8-bore. 

I know there are large gun advocates who will differ with 
mne, but after having used 6 and 8 bores I am satisfied to use 
a 10-bore for all wildfow] in the future. 

[ have killed large numbers of ducks with my field gun, a 
i2-bore, 7? pounds, and when on the marsh rail shooting, 
have killed teal with 2} drams powder and # ounce 10-shot 
at 30 and 35 yards, 

T have three breechloaders now, and have tested them with 
the best muzzleloaders in this vicinity, and haye not found 
one yet to beat me, although some of the guos were much 
heavier than my own, Gro, F. ALDEN, 

FISHEILL-ON-THE-HupDsON, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
A good breechloader will beat a good muzzleloader in one 
way only, viz., distribution. As distribution means every- 
thing in a shotgun, it must be conceded a superior weapon. 
Powder will give the penetration far beyond the ‘“‘hitting’’ 
range of either, I speak of good guns, A good muzzle- 
loader will beat a poor breechloader and vice versa. A very 
heavy muzzle gun may be a better gun for long range than a 
lighter breechloader, but a really good 10-bore 10-pound 
breechloader will beat any muzzleloader same weight and 
bore, at allranges. This opinion is backed by jusé sucha 
gun and something to make it more interesting if desired, 
Some one asks about the relative shooting of 10s and 12s, 
I think the superiority of the 10 gun is mainly due to the 
extra weight and larger bore, chambering more shot and 
burning move powder; 4drams powder and 12 ounces shot is 
Just as effective ina 12 asa 10-bore. Bogardus used a 12- 
gauge in all matches shot in England, and made them all 
drop their dollars. In a pigeon match shot at our town some 
years ago, a 12-gauge muzzleloader ‘'grassed” more birds 
than any oue gunn the match. But for general shooting a 
10-bore is preferred, as it will take in more ‘territory.’ 
There is one very important factor in gunning that is quite 
often overlooked—‘'The man behind the gun.” Good hold- 
ing will make a poor gun appear to very good advantage. 
Good loading is very important; cheap powder is as good 
as any. but cheap wads are an abomination. My advice is 
to buy a 10-bore 10-pound gun from a reliable maker, 38, 
Marton, Ind. 


Kiditer Forest and Stream: 

I have been using shotguns ever since I could hold one al 
arm’s length, Ihave had several of different makes, both 
muzzleloaders and breechloaders, and after careful and 
thorough tests | must confess that the breechloader, properly 
loaded, will surpass the muzzleloader, both for paitern and 
penetration. The best test is game shooting. I have killed 
a good quantity of game in my hunting, and I neyer yet had 
a muzzleloader kill a deer, wild goose, duck or turkey over 
50 yards, while, on the other hand. I have killed with my 
breechloailer deer, turkey and wild geese from 80 yards to 
100 yards in several instances; and I killed one deer this 
winter at 120 yards, measured, hitting it with two shot in the 


|neck. Iam now using a 12-yauge, 36-inch Damascus barrel. 


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weighing 102 pounds. This gun when properly loaded is 
sure to kill at 100 yards, if held on the game. 

‘There is a great dealin good powder, shot to fit the muzzle 
of your gun and shells properly loaded. I use in deer hunt- 
ing, nickle-plated shells 22 inches long, 84 drams Orange 
Lightning powder, 2 pink-edge wads, hard down on powder, 

2 buckshot weighing 13 ounces, 1 pink-edge wad, well 
down on the shot. Then Irun wax from a wax candle all 
around the edge of the wad on shot—nearly equal to crimp- 
ing. 

Thave used this gun two years, it has never failed to do 
execution under 100 yards when held on the object shot at; 
it is as good as when first bought, and not for sale, I have 
never had a muzzleloading gun to shoot anything like the 
brecchloader, and I’ve owned some fine euns, both 10 and 
12-gauge, I prefer the 12-gauge to any other, believing they 
give more satisfaction. I owned a 10-gauge gun before I 
bought the one I now have and sold it, soon after J tested 
its shooling qualities. I have owned muzzleloaders, made by 
W.& C. Scott & Son, W. W. Greener, H. & J. W. King, and 
Bliss & Hutchinson; the last I still have and keep it for old 
associations’ sake. J] find a heavy gun does better and harder 
shooting than a light gun, and 1 prefer the close choke to 
any other. My gun shoots any size shot well, anda turkey. 
duck, or squirrel, with No..6 shot af, 50 yards, is in great 
danger of losing its life. I owned a 12-gauge, 32-inch, five 
years ago, and sold it, not liking the way it scattered large 
shot; since then I have found out it was my fault in loading, 
not the gun. Marx Ive, 

ALABAMA, 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 


I Jike small hores for seyeral reasons. Tley handle with 
a clean, prompt feeeling, which of itself is a pleasure. A 
6-pound gun weighs 12 pounds by night, especially if the bag 
is light and the tramp Jong. Large guns for flocks are cer- 
tainly effective weapons, but why carry a number of pounds 
of often high-priced wood and iron for the occasional big 
chance, ignoring the average shooting of the section within 
your reach, I commenced some twenty years ago with a 
16-bore, single muzzleloader. Getting ‘‘lony” I bought a 
14-bore, double gun, then a 12, then a 10, and back to a 14- 
bore. Losing some geese (A. canadensis) because their size 
made me think [ was near enough when-I wasn’t, I invested 
in an 8-bore, double, being determined to be prepared next 
time. I followed ‘float gunning” off and on‘all that winter. 
but my hig gun was generally quiet. An old 10-bore Lane 
& Read did most work. These I sold and bought my first 
breechloader. I had done good work with my old friends, 
but I have never regretted my change of system, and of 
course to-day argument is superfluous. That is, as a rule. 
I have owned two 12-bores, one 10 andai6. The 10-bore I 
used shooting hagdons, and such sea birds, on the banks of 
Newfoundland. It shot well and killed clean, but a 12-bore, 
then at home, has since done equally well. I shot two 
seasons from a float and on the marshes, using a 12-bore, 
and the birds I got werenumerous and varied. 

1 used a 12-bore while in the Arctic, and have fed the 
whole ship’s company repeatedly.* I shot seals, gulls, eider 
ducks, old squaws, brant geese, plover and ptarmigan. This 
gun was a pleasure to shoot. Alas, to-day I have it not. It 
was sold in far Northern Siberia, where I was with other 
survivors of the Jeannette. The articles gotten in exchange 
were sorely needed or else I should never haye parted with 
her, I called her “Betsy,” and now we “are out.” To-day 
J am using a 16-bore Parker, 6 pounds. Itis a strong shoot- 
ing gun. My first day out with itI got thirteen snipe 
(G. wilsoni), One I shot dead and picked up fifty-four 
paces away. I shot a curlew (WV. huwdsonicus) dead at seventy- 
six paces. The bird is stuffed and in my dining-room to-day, 
Charge, 22 powder, 1 ounce No. 8 shot. Sportsmen, I think, 
generally use pretty fair-sized guns for upland plover (7, 
bartramis). 1 find my little Parker has to be held close, 
but kills as clean as any gun J ever owned, 

While at Plum Island last fall | met a party from Glou- 
cester. They all had heavy guns, 10-bores and one 12-bore, 
weighing 10 to 11 pounds each. Sport ran quiet, so we shot 
at targets. All their guns and my own were shot from rest, 
same distance, Same man and same sized target. In charges 
they used 44 powder, 14 shot, No. 8and No. 4, I used 22 
of powder and 1 ounce of shot No. 8 and No. 4. Oneof them 
beat me only once. I beat it twice badly, another three 
times, and the third twice. These guns, Il presume, are in 
the hands of their respective owners, Mr. Frank Gaffney, 
Mr. Abbott Coffin, Mr. Marchant and Mr. Rowe. I think 
that to-day I should take a 16-bore were I going again to the 
Arctic. Raymonp Lap Newcoms. 

Sanem, Mass., March, 1884. 


Hdiier Forest and Stream: 


A common 10-gauge gun of Parker’s, which I targeted on 
Jan. 27 last, with following results: My targets were 24- 
inch. Distance 45 paces, as long as I could take (which is 
at Jeast 40°inches), and shot against a heavy wind blowing 
from over an immense marsh: No. 10 shot, right-hand, 276; 
left-hand, 265. No. 8 shot, right-hand, 165; left-hand, 119. 
No. 6 shot, right-hand, 91; left-hand, 85. Charge used, 44 
powder, 13 shot, 2 wads on powder, 1 on shot. G. H. W. 

Tonmpo, O. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

His shotgun—killed a buck with it 120 yards—the charge 
Was one dram of powder and thirteen buckshot. With 
“Ogeechee” to tellit for the muzzleloader the breechloader 
must stand back. Send ‘‘Ogeechee” first prize next time. 
The cold spell I fear has about used up the quail here. Our 
shooting was very poor last fall. A bill is before the Ohio 
Legislature to protect squirrels between January and June. 
May it pass. W. H. A. 

WaAUuUSEON, Ohio. 


Fiditer Forest and Stream: 

With me it is a settled question that a breechloader is the 
gnu; also, that for all kinds of game, large or small, a 
10-bore is the thing. I have never seen a 12-bore that could 
hold its own, everything considered, witha10-bore. If that 
is not so, why are the 10-bore barred, as Mr. “‘N. H. W.” 
writes? Let us hear from parties that have used both bores, 
10 and 12 gauge, and that bag game and learn which will 
kill the cleanest at long distance, hoth Jarge and small game. 
I use a 10-bore and have friends that have used and owned 
both, and they all say that a 10-bore will kill cleaner at a 
long distance. Let us hear from those that have used both, 
and that are not prejudiced. NEw SUBSCRIBER. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


SHOOTING IN MEXICO. 


ERHAPS a word from this “land of God and liberty,” 
of the Montezumas, of the Aztecs, and of Majianas, 
may not prove wholly uninteresting. This city, Monterey 
(or King Mountain), lies in a beautiful valley entirely sur- 
rounded by mountains, the principal of which, or rather the 
most widely known of which, is the Saddle Mountain, from 
its close resemblance in shape to a Mexican saddle. Distant 
from Laredo, Tex., about 165 miles on the Mexican National 
Railroad, It is the capital of the State of Nuevo Leon, and 
has a population of about 50,000. Some 500 Americans do 
business and reside here,’ principally German-Americans; 
climate perfectly delightful. _Game—quail, jack rabbits, 
cotton tails, ducks, deer, wild hogs, wildcats, Mexican 
tigers and cougars, all found within three learues of the 
plaza. A strange country this; you never see nor hear of a 
sportsman, seldom see a dead quail (you can buy live trapped 
ones in the market); occasionally a greaser rides in with.a 
deer, but about the only sign you see of the existence of this 
game is on Sunday morning. Then you sce a dozen different 
Mexicans hawking the hides of wild cats, wild hogs and 
deer, with occasionally a fine specimen skin of the tiger and 
cougar, or Mexican lion, asitis called. I have the pelt of 
a deer shot by me here ,two months since that measures 
exactly seven feet long. Is not that more than the average? 
All the deer here are the blacktail variety. 

Of late Lhave enjoyed (save for the want of a fellow 
sportsman) this fine shooting ground. I have a fine Irish 
red setter bitch, Vick, and at my rancho, adjoining*the city, 
can bag any day thirty to fifty quail with a couple of braces 
of rabbits. My grand old dog Pete (his like will never be 
seen in Mexico) died three weeks ago of throat disease. Shoot- 
ing here would bea paradise but for the warm weather. 
We rarely ever seeafrost. The undergrowth is rank, in- 
tensely so, and what with prickly pears, sand burrs, thorns, 
mesquite, ete., it is almost a “‘cruelfy to animals” to hunt a 
setter here. Above here, say ninety miles, at Saltillo in 
Coahuillo, itis much cooler, with more open land, a grain 
country, and lam told it is full of quail. Of this more anon. 

This week I have bagged in one day thirty-five quail, one 
teal, seven rabbits and thirteen doves. Not bad for Mexico, 
is it? Duck shooting is good here almost any cool day on 
the water courses. 

I have all the outfit a sportsman ever wants in any country, 
and would gladly welcome any sportsman from the United 
States and do my level best for him. 

Are you fond of mocking birds? Verily this is their 
Eden. Bird and cage for fifty cents, Mexican money, with 
18 per cent. discount thrown in. One five years old is sing- 
ing above my head so beautifully this moment, as if to say, 
Don’t forget me,” Don Carros. 

Monterey, Mexico. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Among other things I desire to call attention to a new 
cartridge, which, as 1am indirectly informed, is soon to be 
put upon the market, 

I do not think I am the only one who will favor its intro- 
duction, The cartridge referred to is of .45-caliber, and will 
be loaded with 115 to 120 grains of powder and 350 grains of 
lead, This, in my present opinion, would be greatly in ad- 
vance of anything yet made for hunting purposes. With 
reference to this cartridge I would invite the opinion of some 
of your correspondents who have already given us the benefit 
of their views upon other subjects pertinent to this discus- 
sion. 

“Greenhorn” early im the discussion, ‘‘Prairie Dog” and 
others have already demanded a cartridge somewhat similar, 
and I haye small doubt that it will meet with almost univer- 
sal approval, 

My predeliction for the .40-caliber is not so great that I 
cannot recognize the advantages claimed for other calibers, 
nor will it prevent me from adopting a larger caliber, if, 
upon good and sufficient reasoning, it can be shown me that 
it is better adapted to game shooting. After all, my prefer- 
ence for the ,40-caliber may be founded more upon individ- 
ual taste than upon any better reason. The results which 
would probably be obtained from the use of this .45-115-850 
T confess, 1 think, would be in advance of anything ob- 
tainable in a .40-caliber cartridge. This proportion—some- 
thing more than 3 to i—should give a very flat trajectory, 
and yet the bullet is of a weight which would, when im- 
pelled with « high degree of velocity, give penetration and 
bone-crushing effects sufficient to satisfy the most exacting, 
especially if a hard, solid bullet is used, or one with a very 
small hole, tapering to a point at the bottom, and extending 
one-half its length, as described by Mr. Van Dyke. His 
suggestion that in every box of cartridges, one-half be loaded 
with solid bullets and one-half with hollow-fronted bullets, 
is an excellent one. In this way not only could every one 
be suited, but all could have an opportunity of testing for 
themselves the efficacy of the hollow-pointed bullet. 

For every kind of game possessed of less vital power than 
grizzly bears, or buffalo and like large animals, this cartridge, 
in my present opinion, would be very near perfection; eyen 
for these it would be considered sufficient by many. ‘This is 
very nearly the charge used by ‘‘P.” when he made such 
havoe among the grizzlies, killmg upward of twenty in a 
single season; for, if I am rightly informed, he used at this 
time a .45-caliber rifle, with 100 to 110 grains of powder and 
344 of lead. . 

Now comes the question, shall this charge be putin a 
straight or in a ‘‘bottle-neck” shell. Personally I am in fayor 
of the straight shell as being simpler, stronger, less liable to 

burst and productive of less recoil. Were I accustomed to 
use single loading rifles I would strongly urge that‘it be put 
in a shell of this shape, But as I favor the use of a good re- 
peater as being less ‘‘cruelly wasteful of game,” all things 
considered, 1 am met with the objection that in this form 
the cartridge would he entirely too long, at leust 54 inches, 
for use in any repeating system using the lever underneath. 

Very regretfully do Lmake this assertion. The arc de- 
scribed by the lever would be so long that it would be im- 
possible to pump it with the gun atthe shoulder. A 25; 
inch cartridge is about the maximum length for comfortable 
use in a repeater of lever action, and this is rather too long. 
Now one of two things must be done, either invent some re- 
peating system which will not be open to this objection, and 
which can be as conyeniently and easily worked as those 
using the lever agion, or reduce the length of the shell. The 
only means of reducing it to the desired limit, and maintain 
the same charge of powder and lead is, of course, to make 
the shell ‘bottle-necked.” ~ 

Therefore, on behalf of all wedded to the use of repeaters, 
T hope that the aboye charge or one approximating it may 


| Marcr 13, 1884, 


be put in a shell of this description. But I would advise all 
to be careful to see that the shell fits closely and exactly the 
entire length, especially at the shoulder, at which place it is 
most liable to burst if there be an unoccupied space between 
the shell and the chamber, It, however, the rifle be prop- 
erly chambered, so that the shell fits snugly and evenly 
throughout, the danger of bursting or sticking may be readily 
avoided. 

Of course the recoil of this cartridge would be rather 
severe, especially if it be bottleneck. Fortunately there is a 
way of overcoming this objection. Should such a cartridge 
be made and a repeater adopted to its use, Iwould recom- 
mend the use of some good permanent (not adjustable) recoil 
pad. There are several of these, particularly the Silver pad 
and the elastic heel plate, invented by Piffard, recently de- 
scribed in these columns. These, though they do not abolish 
the amount of recoil, would reduce its contusiye force, or 
sensible effect, abont one-half, By the use of such a con- 
triyance I do not think the recoil of the proposed .45-115-350 
would be more disagreeable than that of the regular service 
ammunition .45-70-405, 

Tt is wrong to speak of the ‘‘unmanly fear of a little re- 
coil.” I think that the majority of men who do any amount 
of ‘still-hunting will be found of physique sufficiently tough 
to enable them to stand up against considerable recoil, when 
the rifle is held properly. But excessive recoil, while at- 
tended with no serious physical injury, is productive of a 
very serious mental one, which is this: In a short while, 
one who uses a rifle which recoils greatly, becomes in a cer- 
tain sense afraid of it, and involuntarily flinches when he 
pulls trigger, Bad shooting is the invariable consequence. 
{ have known men to swear that they did not flinch, yet dis- 
tinctly saw them do so, showing that it is wholly inyolun- 
tary and does not proceed from any actual fear of the recoil, 
Especially is this true of men of nervous temperament. 

So I have known men to make better shooting at game 
than they could possibly do at a target, wifh a rifle whose 
recoil was very heavy, for the reason that in their excite- 
ment the small item of recoil was entirely forgotten, 

The reason I at first demanded the use of the 500-grain 
bullet in a .40-caliber repeater, was that I might have a cart- 
ridge with weight of lead sufficient to use against the largest 
and toughest animals on the continent. For all smaller 
game, by cutting down the bullet, f could easily have used 
more powder and less Jead, as desired. J am convinced now 
that I was wrong, for the simple reason that this cartridge 
cannot be made short enough for use in a repeater of lever 
action, except possibly by those whose arms are of uunsual 
length. 

So also I see no reason why this proposed shell could not 
use a heavier bullet if desired, say one of 600 grains, In 
order that the cartridge maintain the same length as in using 
the 350 or 825 grain bullet, the former would necessarily ex- 
tend further into the shell and beyond the shoulder, displacing 
something like 15 to 20 grains of powder, Greater penetration 
and energy—terms here nearly synonymous with higher tra- 
jectory—would be the result. Would there be any objection to 
this because of a certain amount of powder surrounding that 
portion of the 500-grain bullet, which in this way would extend 
beyond theshoulder? Isbould think not, unless, perhaps, that 
the fact would be productive of additional recoil. So alsoless 
lead than 350 grains could be readily used by the substitution 
of a bullet. of the desired weight and character. The difficulty 
which might arise trom the confusion of these different 
kinds of ammunition might be avoided, as before pointed out, 
by employing ditferent colored shells or primers. 

If it be found that this cartridge will be too long in .45- 
caliber even when bottle-necked, for use in a repeater of 
lever action, then let a cartridge be made inits stead, which, 
while maintaining nearly the same proportion of powder to 
lead, will contain 105-110 grains powder and 325 grains of 
lead. Without doubt this can be brought within the limit 
of length. i 

Mr. Duane has anticipated me in calling attention to the 
fact that as we increase the diameter of the bullet it meets 
with proportional atmospheric resistance, a fact seemingly 
lost sight of when the broad statement was made by your 
correspondent, Mr. Van Dyke, that the only possible way to 
give a ball weight without cutting down its velocity is by 
“widening it.” 

High initial velocity is not so much what we want asa 
high degree of velocity combined with energy within hunt- 
ing ranges, say 200 yards. 

IT should much like to be told in some such tabular form as 
Mr. Duane has been kind enough to furnish us, the results 
following experiments with a certain charge, ¢. 7., 100 grains 
powder and 300 grains lead in the three calibers, ,40, .45 
and ,50, 

Tam inclined to think that with an even start in a 200 
yards race, while the .50-caliber bullet might start the 
quickest and lead at the first fifty or one hundred yards, the 
sialler .40-caliber bullet would win, and be less ‘‘winded,” 
7. e., have more energy Jeft to go much further, if necessary. 
What we all want is a rifle which, while convenient to 
handle, will accurately use ammunition which will give 
enough penetration and bone-crushing power to always 
reach the vitals, and break whatever bones it encounters and 
will in addition give a trajectory so flat that the bullet will 
not fall more than six inches in 200 yards, 

Though the proposed cartridge, .45-105 to 110-325, may fall 
somewhat short of this result, I feel sure that its imtroduc- 
tion will be considered a good long step in the right direc- 
tion. lam glad Mr. Duane has demonstuted so clearly the 
two important conditions of accuracy and energy which, the 
latter especially, seem to have been somewhat lost sight of 
in the anxiety to get flat trajectory. 1 cannot as yet agree 
that for all-round work a bullet of less than 300 grains has 
enough of this quality of energy. Individual instances may 
seem to prove the contrary, but in the long run 1 am quite 
certain that a 800-crain builet (I like one with 25 or 50 grains 
added to it even better) will prove more satisfactory than a 
much lighter one. Now pile on all the powder that therifle 
and the man shooting it can stand, and do accurate work. 

To illustrate: Although in the very large majority of in- 
stances, 250 yards is outside hunting range (it will be found 
to be somewhat Jess in the East), I have killed two bull elk, 
either of which was considerably over 500 yards distant, and 


upon ground considerably higher than that wpon which I 


stood or rather laid. I cannot think that some of the light 
express bullets which have been advocated, or even a round 
ball, would have been so effective, even if I had been able to 
hit the game with them, because much more of their energy 
would have been lost than was the case with the heavier solid 
bullet, their staying power would have been less; Don’t 
imagine that either of these elk was hit hy the first shot, or 
the second or the third, 


I confess to a considerable amount of surprise in reading 


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Mx. Van Dyke’s sweeping denunciation of the .40-caliber, 
and those who favor its use. Even admitting that the cal- 
iber is not sufficient fer all-round work, and that we are mis- 
taken in its adoption, I cannot think that it is so toan extert 
which merits this wholesale criticism, It would seem that when 
his pen, which has written many good things, and givenmuch 
valuable advice, wrote this, he was possessed of a certain 
amount of that saine illiberality which he so severely criti- 
cises in others. It is hardly possible that he has given it a 
fair trial upon game, and I cannot escape the conyiction 
that his objection is founded more upon theory than prac- 
tice. 

As I have before said, very possibly, nay, certainly, there 
may be better charges, better ammunition than we have at 
present, And moreover, I am perfectly willing to be shown 
that these will find best result (sufficient accuracy and_en- 
ergy with the flattest possible trajectory) in a larger caliber, 
and that, therefore, I am wrong in using and advocating a .40- 
caliber rifle, but not before I have said something in defense 
of that which is at present at least my favorite. Nor would 
I be a sportsman if I did not repell the insinuation that Land 
all who use a rifle of this caliber are so fond of spilling blood 
that the crippling and wounding of game is a matter of no 
consequence to us. Being thoroughly convinced from a 
somewhat extended experience that i am not that ‘‘demi-god” 
he properly refers to in such surcastic language, and being tol- 
erably well acquainted with many of the “eccentricities of 
lead,’ I feel that 1 am at liberty to take up the gauntlet 
flung down by him, and risk impalement upon the points of 
his propositions. Ie asserts that he who uses a .40-caliber 
solid bullet must necessarily be understood as saying that— 

“First, he can hit his game just where he chooses; or, 

“Second, that a ball is just as effective in one part of an 
animal as in apy other part; or, 

“Third, that the crippling and torturing of game is a mat- 
ter of no consequence.” 

As regards the matter of accuracy and being able to hit 
within **.87906 of an inch” of the precise spot where it is de- 
sired to plant the ball, or to place it in the *‘heart of a bound- 
ing deer,” let me say that, in my belief, the man who can, 
under all the varying circumstances likely to arise in hunting, 
hit within a foot of that particular spot when shooting at 
game standing over 100 yards distant, or within three feet of 
it when shvoting at running game at that distance, is a better 
shot than the large majority of men with whom I have 
been pegaent in contact, at least, who use any sort of a hunt- 
ing rifle. 

‘A man who is able to hit a fifty-cent piece six times out of 
ten at 50 yards, will often miss a decr standing broadside at 
75 or 100, and apparently there is little if amy, more excite- 
ment in the latter case than in the former. ‘‘The ever- 
changing conditions of ground and light,” the inability to 
tell just how the deer is standing, the fact of being “blown” 


from a hard climb or run, etc., etc., are factors which | 


cause misses which are often so bad that, hearing of them, 
many & ‘‘target’’ shot would laugh heartily, and assure him- 
self, if he did not declare it, that he could never score such 
amiss. But I have had the good luck to see them come 
sadly to grief when attempting shots even easier than that 
the possibility of which they ridiculed. Now, I have known 
many hunters, aye, good sportsmen, too, who prefer the little 

+ AQ-caliber to any other, as being best able to assist them in 
bringing their gam€ to bag. 

Will your correspondent answer me why it is that so many 
of the pelt and meat hunters of the West, whose opinion 
upon a subject like this is certainly entitled to great weight, 
favor this caliber?’ It is simply because they find that it 
enables them to ply the abominable profession with the best 
results, and that they make a better livelihood by its use. It 
would seem to me that a bullet of this description, which is 
so freat a favorite on the buffalo range with old hunters, 
would generally be found to be quite sufficient for animals 
so much smaller and possessed of so much less vitality as 
deer and antelope. 

I do not doubt, however, that better results follow the 
making the bullet expansive, as suggested by your cor 
respondent "D. McG.,” when the shooting is lo be confined 
to animals of this description. 

The second proposition is of course preposterous and un- 
worthy of consideration. 

As regards the third, Jet me ask your correspondent whick 
is the more cruel, to shoot an elk or a buftalo—tor this dis- 
cussion is not confined to deer alone, but extends to all 
large game on the continent—in the haunch with a light 
weight bullet of large caliber, or an express expansive bul- 


let which will flatten out (if it does nof go into splash), or 


to hit him inthe same place with a 370 or 500-grain solid 
ballet of ,40-caliber? 

Neither of the former will do more than reach and prob- 
ably fracture the bone in a majority of casts, making a 
larger surface wound, while the latter will rarely fail to have 
“energy”? enough not only to crush the bone of the hip, but 
also to find its way to the hollow. Unless the artery be cut, 
in which case does he suppose the animals would longest 
survive the injury? 

Let us supposea ‘Plains’ scene. Two men on foot, about 
equal in their ability to hit game. One armed with a .40-90 
Sharps, and the other with a .50-caliber Winchester, suddenly 
find themselves close upon two buffalo bulls. The buffalo 
turn and run; one takes the left buffalo, and the other the 
right. 

“When the firme has ceased and the smoke cleared away, 
let us look atthe result. One buffalo is down, the other, 
wounded in a number of places, making his lumbering way 
across the plain to furnish food for wolves after two or three 
davs of painful existence. Little need to ask by which rifle 
the bull on his side came to be there, 

I mention this case because I know that the result would 
be much the same in all such tests and, also, because the 
facts are very like a page out of my own experience. 

He, of the Winchester, having tested it upon this anda 
large number of other occasions and ‘‘found it wanting,” 
was very anxious to change it for the ,40-caliber. 

It is only fair to say that his cartridge was not loaded as 
Mr, Van Dyke recommends. I have no doubt that he gets 
excellent results from his method of loading in shooting 
deer; but, though they might have proved somewhat more 
satisfactory, I dc not think the results would have been 
materially different in shooting larger game, unless, perhaps, 
the bullets were made solid and very hard. 

It is proportionately, of course, more difficult to drive a 
light ball presenting a large surface into flesh than a heavy 
ball presenting a small surface. 

On the other hand I thoroughly appreciate the force of 
the remark made by ‘‘D. McG.,” that when using the .40- 
caliber solid ball it often took him longer to find his game 
after it was hit than it did to look it up in the first place. 


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This, of course, is the great objection, and great annoyance 
and vexation of spirit is apt to follow the shooting of an ant- 
mal ‘‘a little too far back.” I grant if is much more grati- 
fying to see plenty of red evidence of your work on thie 


trail, but am not yet willing to concede that the bullet 


which makes a great surface wound and does not penetrate, : 


is so surely and so quickly productive of death asthat which 
always makes two holes in the hide. Itis a sad thought to 
one who has any of the humane sentiment of the sportsman 
in his composition, fo know that he has shot an animal 
through the paunch, and that the afflicted beast will live for 
hours and sometimes days, suffering intensely. 

Give me a formula for driving the irregular flattened ex- 
press bullet clear through bone and tissue, and also show me 
the rifle of a large caliber which is as handy to use and as 
convenient to carry, and also teach me how to shoot it with 
as little discomfort to myself and as accurately as I now can 
do with the smaller caliber, and I will adopt it at once. 

Let me iustance un example where I went to the other ex- 
treme. Before going to the Rockies on a prolonged trip I 
had Lefevre make me a double-barreled 131-pound. rifle, 
chambered to shoot six or seven drams of powder and an 
ounce and a half of lead. 

I naturally expected great things of this rifle. In fact I 
was induced to purchase it from the fact that one of your 
correspondents had a similar rifle by the same maker, 
Probably the charge which IL used—generally 155 to 160 
grains (14 ounces) lead—was wrong, probably the sights 
were not so good as some others, probably it was not quite 
accurately or correctly made, since the balls seemed to pursue 
divergent courses or fly wild when the rifle got at all dirty, 
and it fouled very much after two or three shots. 

As to the results [am quite positive it kicked tremend- 
ously, seemed to weigh a ton after a hard day’s tramp in 
search of elk or sheep, and above all I was never able to do 
good shooting with it. I am quite willing to admit that when 
that solid ounce and ahalf ball struck anything, the paralyza- 
tion which followed was most satisfactory. But I missed 
very often when I am certain 1 could have killed with a .40- 
caliber, The result was so unsatisfactory from the use of the 
hollow-fronted ball that 1 soon gave it up. 

I was very sorry not to have had the opportunity to use 
this rifle with about 120 grains of powder and a round ball, 
The truth of the whole matter is that in loading our am- 
munition or selecting a rifle, we must be greatly influenced 
by the character and variety of game we arc likely to en- 
counter, and the probable range at which most of the shoot- 
ing is to be done. 

But I feel quite assured that a good repeater, and one 
which is not liable to get out of order, adapted to the use of 
this proposed ,45-115 to 120-850 cartridge, or if this prove 
too lone, the .45-105 to 110-325, will be the best rifle for ex- 
tended trips to those localities where we do not wish to be 
encumbered with more than one rifle, and want that one 
easy to handle and to carry, and whcre in a week we may 
possibly shoot at six or seven kinds of animals, including 
some of a dangerous character. 

I confess that | am dissatisfied with the rifles I have at 
present. What we want isa rifle which one will not soon 
wish to exchange for something better. If we are so for- 
tunate as to get this, let us use it exclusively and get to 
thoroughly to know its disposition, its capabilities and its 
faults. There will arise a confidence in it and a love for if 
which will not only give us additional pleasure in its posses- 
sion, but will very greatly assist our shooting. For that 
confidence in it, that feeling that “the gun will do its duty,” 
does as much as anything else to insure good shooting at 
game. In fact, it seems to render the eye truer and the arm 
more steady, and it certainly greatly enhances the sport of 
stalking, 

Then if one misses there is a half-ashamed feeling that he 
has not done his part. One cannot escape having a feel- 
ing of friendliness and affection for a gun that has served 
him well, and has never betrayed his reliance in it. Senti- 
ment aside, it is at least a source of great satisfaction to know 
that a bad shot cannot be charged to the fault of the gun, and 
that one must look elsewhere for the cause. 

Axter alll am compelled to think that correspondent who 


intimated his regret that the breechloader had ever been in- 


vented and that the muzzleloading rifle was a thing of the 
past, more nearly right than any of us, Were this the case, 
there would be plenty of game left within easy distances, 
and the sport would be in every way more satisfactory. For 
as we ull know the greater difficulties there are to surmount 
for him who has the courage and patience to persevere (the 
crucial test after all, and the rock upon which so many 
would-be sportsmen go to pieces), the harder he has to 
work for a shot the keener the enjoyment in bagging the 
game at last, So on the other hand it is very easy to become 
surfeited with too much killing. 

When the game is easily found and more easily killed, it 
is no longer sport, and the munly art of stalking becomes 
butchering, Oh that many who yearly visit the Rockies in 
quest of slaughter could see that in this way they are killing 
the goose that lays for them the golden egg, and be taught 
that there is really much more enjoyment in following a herd 
of elk or sheep all day to finally get a good shot at and kill 
an old bull or ram, than in banging away indiscriminately 
as soon as within range, piling up halfadozen cows and 
calves, or ewes and lambs, as the case may be. But no, it is 
blood they want, and blood they get, but nof all of them, 
thank heaven! A little while and there will be no game left 
where it used to be most abundant. Between these sports- 
men (7) and the nefarious hide hunter the slaughter will soon 
be complete. But this is an age of progress, and I suppose 
we must bow to the spirit of the age, 

While every true sportsman must admire the picture of our 
old friend ‘‘Nessmuk” clinging with fond tenacity to the use 
of the faithful old muzzleloader, which has served him so 
long and so well—and, as we all hope, will continue to do so 
for many years to come—I am of clay much too human not 
to coyet something better than that which I now have, when 
that something can readily be had; nor do I wish to feel that 
I am handicapped by the fact that my rifle is not so good nor 
so effective as my neighbor’s. I wish to be as fully and as 
well equipped as he. I would greatly like to soar above this, 
but I cannot. So, as in the good old days of the muzzle- 
loader we would have wished to have the best that could be 
made, I now, in the days of the improved breechloader, have 
the same desire to have the best; and, having obtained it, 
indulge the comforting reflection that I am not obliged to 
admit the fact that my companion is happy in the posses- 
sion of a rifle better than my own. 

I fully agree with your correspondent ‘‘Greenhorn”’ in his 
preference for a butt plate similar to that used on the 
Springfield army rifle. I have also used the shotgun stock 
on hunting rifles with great satisfaction. With a butt plate 


of the shape of either of these, a rifle can be readily and 
quickly brought to the shoulder and be firmly held in proper 
position, especially if it be provided with a rubber heel 
plate, since the rubber will not allow the stock to slip from 
the arm as readily as the iron plate, A stock with a butt 
plate resembling that of the old Kentucky rifle is a nuisance, 
fam surprised that there has not, been more discussion 
with regard to the effect of the various metheds of rifling 
upon accuracy and energy. cay D. M, B. 
PHILADELPHIA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Lam watching for the evolution of a perfect rifle out of 
all these ‘hunting rifle” articles In your paper. In 1872 I 
fired a Winchester vifle 1,250 times without cleaning it. Then 
the charge was only twenty-live grains of powder, but I 
found it heavy enough for moose, caribou and bear in 
Canada, and brought down several. Of course, a heavier 
load would be much better, but can’t we overcharge a rifle 
as well as a shotenn? MANHATTAN. 

New YorE. 


A TAXIDERMIST’S VIEW OF 
Bditor Forest and Stream: 

It is not without years of consideration to strengthen my 
convictions that I offer the following remove from public 
opinion, I would further ask the careful and unprejudiced 
consideration of my statements, and now, while the subject 
of bird laws is being agitated, seems to be a fitting oppor- 
tunity. 

The time to shoot birds is in the spring and not in the fall. 
It the birds were shot at this time (spring) only, they would 
be far more abundant than at present, Let us begin with the 
ruffed grouse er partridge, and see how this change will 
operate in his case. The law at present is taken off Sopt. 1, 
and the sportsman is not slow to begin hunting, The flocks 
of young grouse are inexperienced, and often but partially 
grown, and are cleaned up close with but little difficulty. 
Suppose these birds were left until January and then the law 
taken off until April 1, they would become as shy and diffi- 
cult of capture as their parents, and a few years would find 
them afar more abundant bird than at present. ‘he same 
would be the case with the quail, while for the woodcock a 
decided advantage would be gained. The woodcock arrives 
early, and couid be shot until April 1, when the birds arrive 
that will breed with us. The summer shooting is fast anni- 
hilating this species, and it is getting to be a scarce bird in 
thickly settled districts, And this is not to be wondered at, 
when a sportsman locates a pair of birds, and on the 4th of 
July cleans them up and their young also. 

But if we are to have any shore birds a few years hence, 
the summer and fall shooting must be prohibited. The 
former in particular is very disastrous to the species that 
return leisurely, and they are killed with but little difficulty 
almost as fast as they appear upon the marshes they fre- 
quent. In the spring it is different; the birds are then 
en route for their breeding grounds, and are much more shy 
and difficult to get at. They do not linger so Jong as in the 
summer or autumn, and although good bags are often made, 
yet the slaughter cannot compare with that made during 
these seasons. Besides all of this, there is more satisfaction 
in having a few spring birds than a quantity of fall ones, if 
one hag any eye for beauty. 

With cur small birds the case is not different, as those 
know who make collections of them. It is a wise provision 
also that of most of our bright-colored species the males 
arrive first, and the best plumaged in the yan, and are the 
individuals going the furthest north. The golden rule for 
all collecting is, take what birds are wanted while the migra- 
tion is in progress, but as soon as the individuals appear that 
breed with us let them alone. If this rule is adhered to, no 
section will be depopulated or any decrease noticed. But 
few if any birds should be killed from June 1 to Sept, 1. 

The decrease of small birds noticed in many localities is 
almost wholly on account of the shooting of resident birds. 
If, for instance, any of our common robins are wanted, let 
them be taken in March while passing by in flocks, but early 
in April those come which sojourn with us, and if these are 
not disturbed robins will not grow scarce from the shooting 
of them, The first to come are those which are to distribute 
themselves in our northern country, and a missing bird here 
and there will make no difference. But aman or boy can 
seriously impair the number of robins in a locality by shoot- 
ing them between Aprill and September 15. There are 
birds enough for all who wish if they will use and not waste, 
and temper this destruction with a regard for natural laws. 

The taking of birds’ eggs is considered by many worse 
than the killing of the birds; but this is not so.- I know of 
no birds which will not make at Jeast three or four attempts 
to rear their brood before giving it up. But I would severely 
denounce the killing of the parent birds from the nest unless 
in exceptional cases, or when absolutely necessary for posi- 
tive identification, If the places where birds are breeding in 
large numbers are not visited by the shotgun as well as the 
eggers, and the latter will confine themselves to the taking 
of the eggs twice only, and not trouble the third clutch, 
little if any harm will be done. 

The preceding remarks, if lived up to, are practical. The 
author loves the birds, and does not like to kill any for which 
he has no use, If birds were only killed for some purpose and 
not merely for the sake of seeing them drop dead, the Jaws 
would need but little enforcement. 

One more point, if gained, will do much to protect our 
beautiful birds. Our (protective) tariff on bird skins is 
directly antagonistic to our bird laws. Let us look at it. All 
ot the States have laws for the protection of small birds, and 
the killing of them is stopped in every possible way, if they 
are to be used for millinery, and at the same time a duty is 
imposed for the protection of the same industry here. Birds, 
and of bright colors, too, are collected extensively in foreign 
countries, and sent into Great Britain free of duty. If those 
birds were allowed to be brought to this country free also, 
they would be imported at prices that would defy our col- 
lectors, and if that was done would it not largely protect our 
small birds? # F. J. Tryeney. 

[This is only saying that instcad of killing our own birds 
we must kill those tliat are passing to States north of us. ] 


IT, 


VY. C._BArriLert, proprietor of the Sportsmen’s Home, 
Saranac Lakes, N. Y. (the oldest hotel im the Adirondacks), 
died at Reeseville, N, Y., on the evening of 27th of February. 
His hotel has long heen regarded with peculiar favor—was 
most home-like, and has always been for years liberally 
patronized by well known anglers and tourists. He will be 
greatly missed. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


{Marc 13, 1884. 


DO THOU LIKEWISE. 


We are having a very severe and protracted winter here, 
and I fear the few birds left over by the shooters are 
having a hard time of it. My shooting the past season has 
been more varied and over a larger extent of country than 
any heretofore, commencing at the foot of the Rocky 
Mountains on September 3, inthe Northwest territory, and 
ending on February 23, way down in Tennessee. My first 
bag of the season comsisted of sharptailed and ruffed grouse, 
duck and snipe. My last of quail, woodcock, snipe and 
rail, and of this I will give a short account. 

I had gone to this point a month previous with three of 
the greenest puppies in the field that could be imagined, 
neither ever having pointed a bird, and scarcely knowing 
their names when beside you, and when a short distance off 
not at all. I knew they would hunt and were brave, and 
going there to break them, cared for nothing further. The 
morning was lovely, with the sun out bright and warm, and 
the slight frost of the previous night had entirely disappeared 
when | started for a large field, two miles distant from my 
stopping place, which I knew contained birds from previous 
acquaintanceship with it and them. I.was accompanied by 
Knight, a setter, a grandson of Rob Roy, Druid and Doll, 
and greatgrandson to Carlowitz, and Shot, a pointer of ob- 
scure but worthy parentage. 

in entering the field the dogs were cast off to hunt out a 
large sedge patch on a hillside, facing the sun. Knight, to 
the right, went off with a dash, and wheeling quickly, with 
his head highin the wind, walked up a few steps and became 
rigid, Shot backing him firmly eff to the left. I knew the 
birds were moving from the action of the dog, and walking 
on in front of him, flushed the covey wild, bringing only one 
to bag, the balance dropping in a thicket a short distance off, 
After retrieving the dead bird, I turned to follow one I had 
marked down, and missed Knight. On whistling for him 
without response, I went back to look for him, and found 
him fast under the hill on another covey, near the place 
where he found the first. On flushing those, I got a brace, 
and marked a part of them settle by a fence on the course I 
meant to beat. I then returned to the location of the 
first which I had marked down in a brier thicket. 
Knight instantly pointed a bird. I crippled it only, 
and in searching for it, flushed a woodeock, which 
I got. Shot then pointed another, which I also got. 
I then Icft those birds and went to look after another covey, 
and of these 1 secured another brace. Their numbers were 
rather limited, owing to our former acquaintanceship. We 
then went on toward another likely looking field, a short 
distance ahead. I had scarcely entered the field, when 
Knight was again firm, and the pointer rigid behind him. 
On ijushing the birds I got two with my first, and another 
with my left, the balance of four pitching into a thicket 
close by. Herethe dogs fiushed two; one I got, and the 
other I did not get, and passed on to another field. Jn this 
the pointer accidentally flushed a covey, and marking them 
down, [got beautiful points from both dogs, getting two 
birds and missing, as my old mentor used to say, other two, 
most inexcusably. Knight then found, in an adjoining field, 
a beautiful specimen of the rail family which I secured, and 
Shot immediately after was firm on four quail, Knight 
backing him some distance off with his head turned back 
over his shoulder. I enjoyed this performance so much that 
the decimated covey were allowed to go free. 

In going down behind the fence dividing the next two 
fields to give the dogs the wind, Knight showed much 
aDxiety to get over, and when taken over at the lower end 
and cast off, made a break at full speed, with his head high 
wp, to a fine covey, and stood them in grand form, directly 
opposite where he wanted to get over the fence on his way 
down. I kilied one cnly, missing the second. The balance 
went down over a steep embankment and across a creek, 
where I did not choose to follow them, and haying as many 
as 1 cared about I started for home. 

On my way back the dogs made several more points on 
quai] and flushed a snipe, and 1 added to my bag enough to 
make a total of fourteen quail, two woodcock, one snipe 
and one rail; not a large bag certainly, buf enough for the 
space of time occupied in getting it, and for amusement. 

JOHN DAVIDSON. 

Mownog, Mich., March 7, 1884. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 

ES game stands of Philadelphia this week show that 

some one has been down the river and done execution 
among the snow geese, or that the Smyrna (Del.) market 
shooters have been more than usually successful, and shipped 
their fowl te this market, for at almost every poulterer’s stand 
more or less of these geese can be seen banging up for the 
first time this season. I took the trouble of making a trip to 
almost all the game cellars and shops on Saturday, but failed 
to find one man who called the bird by his proper name. 
Some (most of them) termed them brant, others bastard 
roose, and one gull goose. They did not sell at all well, and 
the pair your correspondent purchased were bought very 
cheap, and proved most excellent eating. Very few solid 
white fowl were among them, the majority being clad in the 
sooty white garb of the young bird. On inquiring where 
they came from, 1 was always answered, ‘‘Down the bay.” 
Since the late snow fell, trapping of crows for shooting 
matches has .,been extensively going on at Bristol, Pa., and 
the netters have been very successful. A number of crow 
matches were shot during the week. Any quantity of these 
sable birds may be bought now for ten cents apiece, but 
after being caught for three or four days they become weak 
aud do not fly well. In fact, at their best they are slow and 
make poor shooting from a trap, oftentimes haying to be 
thrown into the air before they will take wing. Much float- 
ing ice is in the Delaware River at this writing, but the 
ducks, which were so plentiful before the present cold 
change in the weather, have decreased in numbers, and ap- 
pear to have gone further down the river, 

The shooting at Hayre de Grace flats this spring thus far 
has been a total failure. Gentlemen I have talked to who own 
outtits there attribute it to the scarcity of feed, others to the 
bushwhackers. The truth is, however, that it is only a ques- 
tion of time when box or battery shooting will entirely destroy 
the duck shooting of a section where it is practiced, notwith- 
standing it may beallowed every other day only. In every 
instance in thissport the battery must be trom necessity an- 
chored directly on the feeding grounds where thé water is shal- 
low or of moderate depth, and the ducks become alarmed by 
the great number of “machines” laid out where they wish to 
alight Box shooting in the fall and winter is bad enongh in 
its destructiveness, but in the spring it is worse. I heard a 
very intelligent correspondent of ForEst AND STREAM state 
a few days ago, that in these breechloading times it would 


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be only a few seasons more when it would not pay to own a 
, battery outfit, so alarmed and timid were the fowl becoming. 
He is a part owner of a scow and double box, and takes every 
opportunity of using it, and is capable of knowing whereof 
he speaks, Homo, 


PENNSYLVANIA GAME,—Centralia, Pa., March 3.—When 
‘snow bound” and shut in from the woods I have been 
sreatly interested in the social chats in your ‘paper. I listen 
to the speakers as they speak up from the “Rockies,” from 
the great North Woods and from the orange groves. I won- 
der as I hear of bags filled without hardly a miss, and am 
pleased as I hear now and then one, as he tells his experience, 
admit that often the cunning grouse and quick-winged quail 
are too smart for his eye and his finger. I am pleased be- 
cause [am on the same bench. Up here among these moun- 
tains—spurs of the Blue Ridge—we have not much game, 
although on ihe “Little Mountain,” four miles north, there 
are several flocks of wild turkeys, and in the deep ravines 
lying among these hills a few deer hide away. In the Roar- 
ing Creek Valley, lying some ten miles away, during last 
autumn- I had several days of grand sport among the ‘Bob 
Whites.” I am afraid this cold winter and its deep snow 
has been too much for them, although many of the farmers 
I have prevailed upon to feed them. If they all winter 
through we shall have a great many birds the coming season, 
—SPICcEWoop. 


MicuigAn Nemps A Bounty on Wonves,—The Mar- 
quette Mining Journal reports: John Spicer made a visit to 
Mud Lake, recently, and reports finding the carcasses of five 
deer that had been killed by wolves, Only a very small per- 
tion of each had been eaten. He stated, however, that deer 
in large numbers were ‘“‘yarding”’ (staying together) near 
there, and that the wolves hang around, so that when they 
feel in need of something to eat they kill a fresh deer and 
take their meals warm. Something should be done to pro- 
tect deer from the ravages of wolves, and, as there is but one 
thing to do, and that is to kill the wolves, enough bounty 
should be placed on them to make the job of eliminating 
them a short one. Every year there are hundreds of deer 
driven over the Pictured Rocks by these hungry pests, and 
are, of course, destroyed, without satisfying the appetites 
they fled from. Mr. Spicer said that he found twelve dead 
deer very close together, two years ago, that had perished in 
this way. 


DE SSS SSS SSE 


FisHer’s Istanp Crup.—Hoboken, N. J., Feb. 22.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: The Fisher’s Island Club has re- 
ceived the second shipment of Western quail, about one 
hundred in number, in good condition. More birds are to 
arrive shortly and we hope the full number contracted for 
will be reached. We have heard from the farmers on the 
Island that there has been hardly any snow there this win- 
ter, and the weather much milder than on the mainland. 
We will liberate the birds within a month from now or as 
soon as the full number of birds has arrived. The New 
York Herald reporter was decidedly off when he claimed we 
would stock the lakes with fish as food for ducks, ete. Black 
bass would be an expensive diet for them.—Max WENZEL, 
Secretary. i 


HUNTING ON THE SaABBATH.—When so-called sportsmen 
from the North come to Florida, and our little country vil- 
lages, and spend the Sabbath day in ransacking a man’s land, 
with his guide and dogs, for game, it is about time that 
steps were taken to prevent it. Yesterday Northern men 
were banging away within less than two hundred yards of a 
mecting-house, where services were being held. It isa dis- 
grace for sportsmen to hunt on Sunday; if they care not for 
the laws of God and man, they ought to have respect enough 
for our residents to do their hunting on week days. True 
sportsmen will not take pleasurein disobeying Sabbath laws, 
unless while out on a camp hunt, away from settlements, 
and in need of food.—Rep Wine (Glencoe, Fla.). 


CAPTURED WuitE DrEr.—Johnsontown, N. Y,, March 
9.—An old guide from the Lake Pleasant country has reached 
here. He reports that three white deer have been captured 
alive in that section. Two of these, a large doe and fawn, 
were extricated from the deep snow, near Piseco Lake, by 
William Courtney, an old sportsman of the vicinity. The 
other animal, an adult specimen, was captured in the same 
manner on the following day by a brother of Courtney. The 
fawn has since died, but the other two are doing well. They 
are on exhibition and awaken considerable interest on the 
pavt of the guides and hunters, who claim they are the only 
white deer ever known in that country.— Morning Journal. 


DISTRIBUTION OF QUAIL IN NEw JuRsEY,—Mr, Chas, 
H. Bernard, secretary of the West Jersey Game Protective 
Association, states that between Jan. 14 and Feb. 8 he made 
five shipments of quail, amounting to 306 birds, to the At- 
lantic county director of the society at Smith’s Landing. 
We would like to hear from Mr. Bernard what proportion of 
birds purchased for putting out in the five lower counties of 
New Jersey have thus far lived. Of course the quail have 
not yet been put out, nor should they be liberated until 
spring is fairly settled, but it would be interesting to the 
readers of Forest AND STREAM to learn what percentage of 
birds have died and from what State they came.—Homo, 


Game ox Miynuesota,—Dodge Centre, Minn., Feb, 28.—I 
should be very glad if some one would give some hints on 
duck and goose shooting, as they will be plenty here ina 
few weeks on their way to the north, Pinnated grouse, or 
prairie chickens, are wintering quite well, as we have had 
no severe storms this winter. Ruffed grouse and quail are 
scarce. Wolves are plenty, with $7 bounty on them; they 
live largely on grouse and rabbits, and are hunted but very 
little,—A, E, B. 


Migratory Quam.—New York, March 4.—Will you 
kindly say that any one desirous of importing live migratory 
quail this spring from Messina, Sicily, can receive informa- 
tion and all particulars as to price, etc., by addressing me.— 
Cart F. Braun (P. O, Box 2,487). 


WuHeRE Game 1s ScARCE.—A Pennsylvania man sends 
for a specimen copy and explains; ‘‘Game is getting scarce 
here, and think it will be easier to buy a few hunting stories 
than Lo try the real thing. However, I hunt.” 


ArxKansas,—Evyening Shade, Feb. 26.—We lost no quail 
by the cold this winter. Deer and turkey are plentiful and 
in fine condition.—J. G. 8. 


WE HAVE received from L. C. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y., 
an illustrated catalogue of the Baker guns made by him, 


Camp Sire Hlicherings. 
“That reminds me.” 


106. 
[8 D. B. has gone to his rest. He was the mentor of 
my boyhood in all that pertained to the use of the gun 
and the love and pursuit of the sports of the field. He was 
an excellent wing-shot in the days when wing-shots were 
few in number. 

One day when he wished to go quail shooting his own gun 
was away, undergoing repairs. He borrowed a singlebar- 
rel gun of aneighbor. This guu had been a flint lock a cen- 
tury ago, but was at the time altered to a percussion. It 
had the wealth of barrel that is now only seen in the guns 
made long since by the Arabs. My dear old mentor shoul- 
dered this gun, was gone for some time, and returned with- 
out any birds, an unusual occurrence. ‘‘What!” I exclaimed, 
“no birds?” 

“No,” in a solemn voice, 

“Did you not find some?’ 

Ves.7 

“Well, why didn’t you bring them home then?” 

Tn the same solemn voice, and with a face equally solemn, 
he replied: 

“T put up one covey, but my gur was so long that the 
muzzle was far ahead of the birds; so I turned round und 
ran back some distance so as to get the muzzle belind the 
birds, and when I| thought that I had accomplished that end 
I faced about just in time to see the birds settle between me 
and the muzzle, so I gave it up and came home.” M. 


Sea and River Sishing. 


THE BEST COLOR FOR LEADERS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Recognizing the justice of the point made by your corres- 
pondent in your issue of the 14th ult., in rezard to the color 
of gut leaders, [ have undertaken to make a few trials, pro- 
ceeding as follows: , 

Selecting first a cloudy and dull day, then a bright, clear 
one, I next filled my bath tub with as much wateras it would 
hold, and having prepared a number of pieces of gut dyed a 
variety of hues, all more or less light, proceeded to Jook at 
them by placing my head under water about twelve inches, 
if not more, and passing the pieces hefore my eyes as near 
and as far as T could discern them. This was tried facing 
the light, then with my back to the window, but always tak- 
ing care the gut should not be in shadow. 

IT used Ridgewood water, which was clear, yet at a distance 
of twelve or fifteen inches only the very dark gut was dis- 
cernible, while such as were of « dye froma dark color 
(such as blue slate, drab, and coffee, but in only sufficient 
strong color to make the gut that particular shade) stood the 
test very well. Clear, bright colors, will not suit, as they do 
not diminish the brightness or shine of the gut. 

On a bright day, a much lighter shade of the same color 
must be used, while on a dull day darker shades will answer. 
I believe the principal object should be to use only such 
colors as dull the surface of the gut, as by so doing it also 
prevents the adhesion of thousands of very small air bubbles 
which attach to the gut and makes it very conspicuous. 

In any event, 1 doubt if the human eye can distinguish any 
gut . through two or three feet of water, while fish must see 
plainly ten times further, hence the angler, I think, will do 
well to see, first, the color of the water he intends to fish; 
next, the sky he will have for a background, and select his 
leaders accordingly. 

For my part, of all the shades used, J select first the coffee 
stain, which wakes the leader the color of slightly mudd 
water, next alight blue green drab, dulled, These two t 
shall try as soon as the season opens, and let the creel decide 
for me. Notwithstanding, | intend making further experi- 
ments in both sweet and salt water, assoon as weather per- 
mits,and J can secure a brother of the craft, equally interested, 
to assist me, 

LT hope others will continue this pe meantime I in- 
close samples which tested well, and four showing too 
much, so you can tell me what the colors are, after allowing 
a good margin for the color that washed off in the test. 

BROoKLYNITE, 

Commenting on the above, Mr. Wells writes: 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

It would decidedly seem the angling column is looking 
upward. The issue of to-day contains two well-considered 
and able communications on practical fly-fishing, both of 
value. 

And now further to encourage the hope that the fly-fisher- 
men are, at least some of them, neither so selfish as to wish 
to keep their ‘‘points” secret, nor so indolent as to shirk the 
plain duty of making them public, comes ‘‘Brooklynite’s” 
communication to hand. 

Before considering the latter, I would most heartily re- 
echo “J, G. W.’s” question; ‘‘We have all read time and 
time again of a bass when hooked leaping from the water 
and falling on the leader so as to break it. How does he do 
it?” 


I had always supposed the age of miracles was past, and - 
that falling bodies, whether alive or dead, were governed by 
the Jaws of nature. Again and again have I been staggered 
by this statement, madein evident good faith. I reiterate 
the question, ‘‘How does he do it?” 

And now as to ‘‘Brooklynite’s’” communication. 

It would most certainly seem, at the first blush, that to 
immerse the eye beneath the water and then to look upward, 
was the surest and most direct way to determine how a 
leader would appear to the trout; for thus the natural condi- 
tions would seem exactly to be reproduced. — 

But a moment's reflection shakes this opinion. 

We all know how sensitive is the human cye to any for- 
eign body, and how instantly the slightest irritation of the 
exterior affects the action of the muscles which contro] the 
focussing power of the lenses within, and whose office it is to 
form the image on the retina. : 

We also know that unless these muscles perform their ap- 
pointed duty, the eye is as powerless to convey to the brain — 
a truthful imagine as is a telescope, the different lenses of 
which haye not been relatively adjusted to distinct vision. 
We have all, either in frolic or from necessity, tried to see 
through a pair of spectacles totally unsuited to our eyes, and 
we all kuow the result; and this experiment well illustra 
the case in point. Je” 

Again, though the mechanism of the eye work perfeotly, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


129 


Marcr 13, 1884.] 


stances. 

A gentleman well known in angling circles, and an ac- 
knowledged authority, told me, when spoken to of the ex- 
periments on the color of leaders that I intended to try—an 
account of part of which appeared in your issue of Feb. 7— 
that it was all useless; that he had tried it when in swim- 
ming; that everything appeared black, and that I could see 
nothing. es. 

it is clear, therefore, that in the unusual conditions in 
which his eyes were then placed they refused to act alto- 
®ethet, And that the sattie was the case with ‘“Brooklyn- 
ite’s” eyes; thotigh in less degfee; and that the same will be 
tlie Gasé with every one’s eyes to a greater or less degree 
tinder siich unusual @onditions, I Ginnot dotibi. In this 
view 1am stistained by a high medical autiiority, whori f 
have consulted on the subject. 

From his experiments “Brooklynite” ‘‘doubts that the 
human eye can distinguish any gut, through two or three 
fect of water.” P 

If he will again fill his bath tub, immerse a mirror in the 
water, incline it at such an angle that it will reflect upward 
any image received by it—say at an angle approximating 45° 
—and then insert his leaders in the water and watch for 
their reflection in the mirror, he will have no difficulty in 
seeing them at twice two or three feet, if the length of his 
bath tub will permit them to be so far removed. 

It is absolutely certain that any image which will form in 
the mirror and be reflected by it, would be even more plainly 
seen by the human eye if it was located there and acted in 
its normal manner, And this, because the loss of light due 
to the reflection would be saved. Nothing can prevent the 
formation of en image in the mirror but the absorption of 
the light proceeding from the leader by the water, and noth- 
ing but this cause can prevent the human eye from perceiy- 
a object so situated. 

That the eye of the trout is different from ours, is a frequent 
remark. That it is different in size—different in color, is true, 
But that it is different in function, different in its relation to 
the reflection and refraction of light, is a mere supposition, 
resting, I believe, as at present advised, upon no foundation 
whatever. It may be more sensitive to light than ours, It 
may render objects visible to them through a stratum of 
Water, which would totally obscure them to us, But even 
this I know no reason to believe, notwithstanding the fact 
that will here occur to every one of the incessant rise of 
trout long after the shades of evening have fallen, aud after 
. we can no longer distinguish our fly upon the water. The 
difference of background toward which they look sufficiently 
accounts for this to my mind. 

It may be that some of the rays which compose the beam 
of light may be visible to them, which are incompetent to 
excite our retina, and of the presence of which we only 
become aware as they evidence their existence by heat, or 
chemical action. But if we are prepared to grant this, and 
I for one can see no teason so to do, it but prolongs the spec- 
trim in one or both directions. It is too improbable even for 
iiere surmise, in the absence of direct proof, that they can 
see both ends of the spectrum, while the middle is to them a 


blank. Their every action in reference to the color of flies 
negatives this, 
ight is light. And by its aid all animated beings see, 


and in its absence all alike are blind. The laws of nature 
operate equally and invariably both above and below the 
surface of the water; and, until it is demonstrated to be 
otherwise, I cannot think trout see in any different manner, 
or by any different means, than do we. There may bea 
difference in degree, but I cannot believe in kind. 

Tt is to be hoped that not only wil! “Brooklynite” continue 
his experiments, but that others will enter the field ag well. 
Such cannot but be productive of good. Let us relegate the 
era of guessing to a past age, where it properly belongs, and 
before the coming season is over know something definite in 
reference to this matter so important to our interests. 

New Yorr. | HENRY P. WELLS. 


THE DOWEL PIN 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr, Wells's article on the dowel pin in fly-rods is cer- 
tainly worthy of notice; and although it is not a new idea, 
ii is by no means 4 poor one. There are a good many rods 
made now without the dowel (or tenon) and from my own 
observations, they are every year gaining in fayor. 

T will not take room in your paper to write at length on 
the subject, but will ask for enough space to givein a few 
plain words my approval of this method of making fly-rods. 

For a long time I have been trying to convince my cus- 
tomers that the way to construct a light fly-rod to obtain the 
greatest amount of strength and uniform elasticity was with 
short ferrules and without dowels. 

When a rod is ordered from me Lalways suggest the idea 
-of making it without dowels; sometimes this is looked upon 
as being a good thing and the rod is so ordered, but others 
look at it as something new, and they don’t wish to try any- 

‘thing different from what they have always used. 

I-would as soon make a rod with dowels as without, and 
always try and satisfy any notion a fisherman may have 
regarding his rods, but for the last seven years | have made 
all rods for my own use without the dowel joint, and have 
found a more even sprivg and fewer fractures the result. 

By parties for whom I have made rods in this manner 1 
have heard them very highly spoken of, and have had many 
of their doweled rods brought to me for repairs, and at the 
same time been instructed to remove the tenons, which | do, 
then plug the socket with hard wood firmly glued and shorten 
the ferrule. A long ferrule reduces the spring of a light rod 
to a much greater extent than most fishermen imagine, and 
unless the female ferrule is long a dowel is of no use. 

I have had rods brought to my shop for repairs that had 
the socket for the dowel bored below the female ferrule, 
peice of course, completely destroyed the strength of the 
rod. 

Then again, as Mr. Wells says, to repair a rod that has 
been broken at or near a ferrule, if shortens and stiffens the 
rod 10 a degree that is very damaging, and in making repairs 
of this kind the rod often has to be worked down from butt 
to tip before it is a fit article for a fly-fisherman’s hand. 

As to the strength of a rod, if we take, for instance, a 
fly-rod of 6 ounces, or 7 ounces, and make it with dowels, 
the wood of the tip below the ferrule is worked down to re- 
ceive the tapering piece of metal until it is about the size of 
a knitting needle and tapered te almost a sharppoint. Now 
there is not strength enough in this piece of wood to in any 


IN FLY-RODS. 


way assist in preventing a breakage should the rod spring at 
the ferrule. 

Most red makers are now making the tenon solid with the 
niale ferfule, and although this is strouger it is heavier, and 
does tlot prevent the necessity of a long female ferrule, 
which, in a meastite; takes the long even bend from the 
wood, and having a greatet amount of purchase than a short 
ferrule is much more Hable to cause 4 fraeture than to pre- 
veut it. 

I haye made a good many bass rods, after the Dr. Hen- 
shall and other patterns, and with one exception they have 
been made without dowels, and I have neyer known of a 
ferrule having been bent on a rod broken at the ferrule, al- 
though some of them have had very rough usage among the 
Thousand Islands and Lake Champlain. 

I think Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie, of New York, make the 
Henshall rod in this manner, and Mr, C. F, Orvis makes 
his rods without dowels. 

There is another point in rod-making which should be 
éotisidered, and which I have practiced for a long tite, viz. : 
the fitting of ferrules without cutting away the wood the 
thickness of the metal, The ferrule should go ‘‘over” the 
joint of a wood rod, the sine as on the split bamboo. The 
enamel of the bambod is never eat fo ft the ferrule on 
(I speak of fine rods only), and it is almost as damaging to a 
wood rod to cut it around to fit & fertile as it is a bamboo. 

If we take a piece of hard wood, laincewood, fot instance, 
4 inch in diameter at the middle and tapering to } inch at 
either end, make a slight incision around the center of the 
rod, then fasten one end in a vise and spring the rod until 
it breaks, and nine times out of ten it will break at the in- 
cision, although it may not be more than a scratch around 
the wood. 

I taper the joints of my rods to the inside diameter of 
the ferrule, and let the ferrule go over the whole diameter 
of the joint, then with a neat wrapping of fine silk, or a ring 
which can be put at the female ferrule of the butt and 
second joint; it makes when varnished over fully as nice a 
finish as to cut the wood away, 

But I will not go into any more details, as I am afraid I 
have already taken too much room in your paper, 

Gxo, F, Aupmn, 


FISHING IN CARDENAS BAY. 


EING in Cardenas, and finding that a gentleman whom 
I wished to see would not be at home for several days, 
I thought I would make time pass quickly by taking a fish- 
ing excursion, so I went down to the wharf where the fish- 
ing smacks, or vveros come in and asked the captain of 
one of them what he would charge to take me with him on 
his trip, He said he would not charge me anything, but 
that I could bring something along to eat and that would be 
all that was necessary. We went to the Plaza, and for $13 
paper I bought a large basketful of vegetables, eggs, 
oranges’ and four or five pounds of fresh meat, for the kind 
of fresh fish the fishermen like best is carne de vaca (beef), I 
did not forget some cigars and cigarettes. 

At 10 P. M. we set sail to catch the first of the land 
breeze,’ that commences to-blow generally at that hour, in 
company with about eight or ten more vveros, so called 
from the fact that they have a tank on board where they 
keep the fish they catch, alive, there being many holes in 
the hottom of the same so that the sea water circulates con- 
tinually through. We went down the bay, which is about 
twenty miles long, outside of the lighthouse on Rock Key, 
to the open sea, and after fishing all day we would run in 
behind some Key or small island and anchor for the night. 
In the morning we would run out again, and so continue 
until the tank was filled. In our case this took four days. 
I have been on fishing excursions many times, as you well 
know, but I never saw so many fish caught in so short a 
time before. The lines we used were large and strong, with 
hooks about the size of bed spring wire. Still, many times 
the fish would get away with the tackle, so you can form 
some idea of their size. We used live fish about six to ten 
inches long for bait, hooking them through the back, and 
seldom would I throw out my line with a good, lively bait 
on the hook, without seeing it snapped up by a ten or twenty- 
pounder, and then would come a tussle. I tell you, they, 
fight hard, and it takes some tact to bring to the top of the 
water so as to get a net under him, a big fellow, three or 
four feet long, with teeth like a saw. In fact there is a kind 
of fish they call ser7a (saw). I found out one must keep a 
cool head and not get excited if he wishes to be successful 
at this sport. 

Many times, after a long struggle, I would get my fish to 
the side of the boat, and then, before we could get a landing 
net under him, away he would go and I would have to go 
through the same maneuvers again before getting him safe 
in the tank, My hands are sore and cut by the line running 
through them, and from handling big fish. I won’t say huw 
many fish I caught, but I will say that I fished until I was 
tired out witn the sport. 

One thing which contributes greatly to the sport is, that 
the water is so clear that one can see down to a great depth, 
and so can always see his fish when in the act of taking the 
bait, which is done like a flash, and away goes the line and 
the fight begins in earnest. One must have blood like water 
if it does not surge through his veins as a big fish drags the 
hissing line through the water, now here, now there; perhaps 
toward you, giviny you lots to do to pull in the slack to keep 
him in hand; then, again, off like a flash down deep in the 
water, until you begin to think he will neyer stop, but take 
all your line, and that you will have to let him go, but just 
before you reach the end you feel the fish getting weaker, 
You hold on a little, restraining him, and little by little begin 
to pull in. Perhaps you will get him to the top of the 
water, but it is much more likely that you will see him dart 
off again to renew the fight, and sometimes with a grand 
leap clear from the water, he will let you see what a mag- 
nificent prize you have hooked. Then after all is over, and 
he is swimming in the tank, you would say, as I did, that 
you neyer knew what it was to fish until you had played a 
big thirty-pounder, and after a half hour's fight brought him 
safe to hand, 

There are a lot of sharks after the boat, great, wicked-look- 
ing objects, who would make short work of one in no time. 
We would often throw over dead fish, which they would 
snap up ina flash, fighting among themselves for the prize, 
aud then 1 would give it to them with my revolver. There 
was one which I wounded three times in the head, and still 
he would keep on after the boat and look up with his wicked 
eyes, aS much as to say, ‘‘Oh! Iam here yet.” 

If I go again I intend to take a shark hook along for 
them. They would often take our bait, but of course we 
could do nothing but let them break our lines. The vivero 


on which I went was abont the size of the clam sloops which 
come up the Hudson, The captain wasa young Cuban only 
three months married, and as nice and kind a person as one 
would wish to see. He could not do too much to make my 
trip pleasant, bringing dishes and other conveniences from 
his house on purpose for me. I did not have a good appetite 
for some time before I went on this trip, and it has done me 
much good. Isee I have made quite a long letter of this, 
and as [ want to say a word or two on other subjects I will 
stop. C. H. GALLUP. 


THE LENGTH OF FLY-RODS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of Feb, 14, Mr. R. H. Dixon had a brief 
article upon ‘‘Fly-Rods, Long vs. Short.” I was glad to see 
it, because the superior success attending the use of long rods 
has been mentioned to me move than once. I confess thaf I 
am totally unable to see why a long rod should have any ad- 
vantage over a short one, provided the user of the short one 
can make jong casts, and I do see many reasons why a short 
rod is always a more convenient and manageable thing than 
a long one. Then, too, the constant tendency to shorten 
rods, for all uses except fly-fishing, which has been very 
manifest for some years past, and the repeated declaration of 
those who have used both kinds that the short rods are better, 
would seem to be decisive against the long rods. [can easily 
see that, if the angler can only cast a line twice as long as 
rod, he who uses the longest rod will have the most success, 
for it is a general rule that the longer the cast the greater the 
likelihood of taking fish; but the users of short rods are gen- 
erally expert casters and in no way limited by the length of 
their reds. Still, let us haye the experience of the users of 
both kinds of rods; let us have the matter discussed; good 
will come of it, Mr. Henry P. Wells, in his recent most ex- 
cellent article, said; ‘‘The anglers have fallen, or are fall- 
ing, into a rut, and are three-quarters asleep besides.” Let us 
wake up; let us get out of our rut. The way to do this is 
to discuss and compare our various practices. 

I have, in a brief way, championed the sbort rod, but I am 
willing, nay, anxious to learn the intent and value of a long 
one, or of any other appliance or practice in use by my 
brethren of the angle. I want to be taught anything that 
will enhance my enjoyment of my favorite recreation. 

Tn conclusion, let me call attention to the Jast paragraph 
of Mr. Wells’s letter, so that anglers may be roused to the 
use of the pen: ‘‘A comparison of the eorrespdndence in 
your paper in reference to the art and implements of the 
angler with that in reference to other sports, is a standing 
shame and reproach to every man who handles a rod.” ‘ 

M. 


STURGEON FISHING. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. Clayton Yon Culin desires me to explain. 
to do so, 

In my story entitled ‘Gaffing a Sturgeon,” which ap- 
peared in a recent number of ForEsT AND STREAM, I had 
no intention of descanting onthe size of the fish taken, 
knowing well that sturgeons reach enormous size and weight. 

As to the modus operandi, let me say that sturgeon lines 
proper, range from 100 to 1,000 yards in length. These are 
anchored securely at both ends, and buoyed at certain dlis- 
tances from the shore. This fish line proper, has suspended 
from it at regular distances of three feet or so, smaller lines 
of about two feet in length, each of which is hooked and 
baited with perch cut vp in small pieces. The position of 
the line proper is thus suspended from buoy to buoy, and so 
the hooks will be, some off the bottom at different distances, 
and those in the middle will lie on the bottom. 

The fisherman stands in the bow of his boat, because the 
stern of it would fill if presented to a heavy sea. A com- 
inencement is made at the leemost buoy, and the line proper 
is passed_along hand over hand—hooks whose baits are de- 
stroyed are rebaited, those having taken fish are removed 
from the line proper by jerking the slip knot that fastens the 
small line to the line proper as soon as the captive fish is 
safely gaffed. A fresh small line and baited hook then re- 
places the one just removed, and so on till the whole line 
proper has been overhauled. The boat then returns to shore, 
the fish are cared for by being cut up, smoked, etc., and the 
hooks then taken out of their mouths. 

Pound nets are also used, but not in the places where the 
aforesaid iines are the only means of sturgeon taking. 

The condition of the water as to roughness makes all the 
difference to the labor of gaffing, not only because it is more 
difficult to stand and work in the boat, but because there is 
nearly always a greater catch by reason of the fish both 
biting better and the time being longer since the lines were 


Permit me 


’ 


last gone to after a blow. VERAN. 
Port Rowan, Ont. 
THE FISH QUESTION IN MAINE. 


rWHE Norway, Me., Advertiser prints the following from 
an Oxford correspondent who signs himself ‘‘Mark 
Tapley :” 

There are many rumors afloat in regard to the little disturbances 
of last week caused by the visit of one of the State Commissioner’s 
emissaries to our villages. The truth as near as we can ascertain, 
seems to be that Leander Wardwell pleaded guilty to a charge of 
catching one spotted trout, for which crime he made satisfactory 
amends, The other-fish, a kind of mongrel, known as togue or Thom- 
son Pond trout, don’t come under any of the statutes. Mr.Wardwell 
is one of our most respectable and worthy citizens, and we have no 
idea he was couscious of violating any law at the time, Neither had 
the Advertiser's correspondent any evil intention in making the 
thing public, The law as it exists, is strongly disapproved by almost 
the entire community. Still as itis the law let us obey. We hope 
our next Legislature will be asked to modify this law so as to give 
our own people the privilege of catching a few fish now and then, and 
not give to a setof city grandees all the preference, who hang around 
our hotels at a time when the working people are so busy they can’t 
attend to it, 

The ‘‘togue” is the fish known in New York and elsewhere 
as lake trout, and is not a “mongrel,” nor a fish peculiar to 
any pond. Commenting on this one of our correspondents 
writes: 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

I inclose you a little slip, cut from Norway Advertiser. 
See how they go for our hotel guests. Iam trying to learn 
who wrote that article, but am unable. I was in hopes to 
see some of our Commissioners come out on this last week in 
answer to that article from Oxford ubout the trout, by which 
1 learn there is more truth than poetry in the charges. 
Nevertheless this poaching ought to be stopped at once. Ti 
isa shame to destroy the fish as they do. They say they 
don’t catch the speckled trout, only togue, or lake. trout. 
The law is the same in both cases, if I understand it cor- 
rectly. 


I talked with Wardwell the other day. He will give 


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them a hot pill if he can only get a chance. In regard to 
that part where “Mark Tapley” speaks of giving a privilege 
to our own people of catching, etc., and his slurs on the 
guests of our hotels (for I happen to be in the hotel line), it 
is a0 insult, and no person who has common sense would 
write such trash. 1 

Itis ashame that the State would not give those poor, 


overworked people a certificate, allowing them to fish the | 


whole year through with nets, snares, spears, ete. Our 
country stores would not be so crowded, perhaps; they do 
more work there than anywhere else, when, in fact, they 
go fishing at their pleasure, regardless of the law. But 
when one gets taken up and punished, why then they com- 
plain and go for the gentleman sport or true fisherman, who 
comes only when the law says he can. fishes in a sports- 
manlike manner, and winds up his tackle and goes home 
the moment it goes on again; comes here at large expense, 
paying for board at the be& hotel; gets the best guides, the 
best boats and, the best of all, never finds a word of fault 
with his bills; has had a good time, grown fat, and returns 
home a wiser man, with hopes to come again another year. 


Mason Lovevoy. 
BETHEL, Me., Feb. 20. 


A Syapprxe Tore.—Philadelphia, March 5.—When I 
was a boy of about fourteen I was accustomed to spend my 
summer vacation in the country with a farmer friend, where 
I devoted my time to the pursuit of pleasure in general. 
Principal among my enjoyments were the rod and line which 
1 plied with varying success in the “‘raging canawl,” which 
“raved” but a few fields distant from the house. One bright 
morning in August, after a refreshing rain during the night, 
Ihied me to my favorite nook, just across the lock, in a cor- 
ner of the dam formed by the overflow of the canal. It was 
a famous place for catfish, and I soon had a fine string. 
While waiting for another bite I soon saw my cork disappear 
slowly but surely, and something told me I had a big one, 
which I proceeded to land. To my astonishment, though 
the red bent and cracked, I found I could not move my fish, 
and then reluctantly concluded that my hook was fast on a 
log or brush; so I pulled and switched to right and left all 
to no purpose, and was on the point of breaking the line 
when I felt it begin to yield. Slowly, very slowly I pulled 
my fish to shore and then, fearing it might break away, L 
seized the line with my left hand and drawing my fish close 
to shore, slid my right hand carefully down the line to get a 
good hold near the fish. I had scarcely got my hand under 
water when—great Czesar! Christopher Columbus! Had 
lightning struck me, ora house fallen on me? Pain, as 
though pierced with ten million needles, shot through my 
arm, and, jerking my hand from the water, I brought with 
it, attached to my index finger, with his jaws set through 
the root of the nail, his eyes closed, his head drawn into his 
shell but hanging on with the tenacity of a bulldog, a snap- 
ping turtle about a foot long, but weighing fully a ton. The 
pain I suffered was simply agony, and thought IJ felt all 
the tortures of Fox’s martyrs boiled down. Perhaps, if 
there had been any one to hear me I would have yelled, but 
no one being near I ‘‘suffered in silence alone.” However, I 
severed the line (how, I don’t know) and supporting the 
Leia of my captive (?) with my left hand, dashed across 
the lockgates (before I had crossed Oh, how carefully) up 
the hill, over the fences (I don’t know how) and into the yard 
of good farmer H. As luck would have it he had just come 
in from the field and his shout of laughter as I danced 
around and implored lim to help me let go the snapper, 
brought all the girls from the kitchen, and for a while the 
chances of release seemed slim. However, sympathy pre- 
vailed and, after much punching and prodding with a piece 
of hickory, his snappership’s jaws were pried open and my 
finger released, and from that day I abandoned the rod and 
took up the gun as the less dangerous of the two. Morai— 
Take a bull by the horns, but never take a snapper by the 
jaws.—JUVENIS. 


A PeevLiaR Frsu.—Concord, N. H., March 5. An ex- 
ceedingly interesting question has arisen in Dublin, N. H., 
in relation to the subject of fish protection. It appears that 
of late persons have been catching a certain kind of trout 
from Dublin Pond and claiming that it is a peculiar species 
and is not protected by the Statelaw. The local wardens 
refrained from making arrests under the circumstances, but 
caught some of the fish and forwarded them to the State 
Commissioners, who are Col. George W. Riddle of Man- 
chester, Hon, Luther Hayes of Miiton, and Col. E. B. Hodge 
of Plymouth. These gentlemen sent the specimens to Har- 
vard University for examination, and an answer has been 
received from Prof. F. W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody 
Museum. Prof. Putnam, assisted by Prof. Gannon, head of 
the Zoological Museum, has made a preliminary inspection 
of the fish and sys the variety is one they do not yet make 
out. At present they are inclined to believe them a variety 
of the Salo fontinalis, or brook trout, but add that a fur- 
ther study may change their views. In the meantime the 
Commissioners have instructed the Dublin Wardens to pro- 
hibit the catching of the fish under discussion, and to prose- 
cute all persons found taking them, This action is based on 
the belief that they arc a variety of brook trout. They are 
small in size and fine eating, and their general appearance is 
such, that if a few of them were mixed with accepted brook 
trout it would require an effort to separate them, There is 
a rumor that Agassiz once stated that he discovered a rare 
variety of trout in Dublin Pond, such as was found nowhere 
else in the United States, excepting in asmall lake among 
the Rocky Mountains.— Boston Jowrnal, [We have seen the 
singular trout from Dublin Pond, and think it mercly a 
white form of the common brook trout. These silver fish, 
which are the rule there, occasionally occur in Caledonia 
Creek, N. Y.] 


FIncpRiuine Trour.—New York, Feb, 28.—Hditor Horest 
and Stream: 1 am glad to notice that now and then some in- 
dignant angler ‘‘stirs up” the trout hogs who slaughter 
fingerlings and call it trout fishing, when they ought to be 
imprisoned for infanticide. And I see that the Connecticut 
Fish Commissioners have been endeavoring to get a law passed 
limiting the size of trout, ‘‘exposed for sale,” to six inches. 
Can’t our Levislature give usa law fining any one in pos- 
session of a dead trout under six inches? If we don’t do 
something to stop this slaughter of trout babies, we'll soon 
have io mourn the loss of the whole species MANHATTAN, 


“SEBAGO,” OR ‘‘LAND-LOOKED” SALMon.—Cannoi we get 
a better name than that of ‘*‘land-locked salmon,” for that 
thoice fish? Why not come back to Salmo scbage? for 
he last report of the Maine Fishery Commissioners seems to 
show that they are again hecoming plentiful in that beauti- 


ful sheet of water, and that specimens of great size are being 
found there. Food and water seems to determine the size of 
the fish, for it is a fact that those which were hatched from 
eggs from Grand Lake stream and planted in Sunapee Lake, 
in New Hampshire, have been taken last. summer of over 6 
pounds in weight, in several instances.—Von W, 


Waar Fis 1s Tuts?—Cayuga Lake, N. Y., March i.—I 
wish that some of your readers would tell me what kind of 
a fish it is that has come into Cayuga Lake within the past 
two years, When small they look like trout, but when 
grown they can hardly be told from bullheads. My atten- 
tion was called to them by John Parker, the fisherman who 
showed me some of the little ones a year ago. Last fall he 
caught full-grown ones with bullheads, It is thought that it 
is some fish that has been planted here by some one who has 
been-fooled with a worthless fish.—W. 


SatMoyn AnGiinc.—Hditor Forest and Stream: Should 
any of your readers be in search of a real first-class salmon 
river, they can have their desire satisfied. I happen to know 
that the Moisic, on the north shore of the river St. Lawrence 
is just now vacant. It can acommodate four rods and the 
fish run very large,- looming up in the forties. Weekly 
steamer from Quebec and telegraph station. Early applica- 
wn to Mr. John Holliday, Quebec, will secure preference.— 


Hishculture, 


AGRICULTURAL DRAINING AND THE FLOOD. 


bE the days of national calamity, caused by a repeated flood, 
it becomes the duty ef every good citizen to assist in find- 
a remedy to prevent such disasters in the future. 

Agreeing entirely with the foresters, who see the root of the 
evllin the destruction of our forests, I go further yet and 
charge it in addition to the neglect of water farming. Tt is 
astonishing what an amount of labor and capital there is un- 
consciously expended in this country to decrease the value of 
our creeks and rivers by a condemnable rude method to rid 
farming lands of water, not to mention other surfaces. 

As 3000 as any way possible, the farmer drains all his land; 
many a dollar is spent in tile, culverts and other devices to 
secure a rapid and direct off-flow of the water. This is well 
enough if done with proper care. It is necessary to produce 
crops in some soils, but it can be and is overdone. 

It is quite plain that after heavy rains the already full-run- 
ning creeks will be overtaxed by additions of water from in- 
numerable drains, and in consequence they will be forced to 
overflow and wash. What is to be done then is to retain that 
part of the water which is under our control as long as possi- 
ble, tothe great relief of the creek. This can be done by con- 
structing ponds. : 

Prof. N. H. Eggleston shows how the leaf mould sucks up 
and retains the water for a long time, thus preventing both a 
sudden freshet and a sudden drought. These same faculties 
I claim for ponds. The remarks made hy farmers that it 
Goes not pay them to replant part of their land with forest 
may be correct, as I hardly think that small tracts of forest 
could withstand the effects of dry winds in the summer to 
such an extent that a suffiicently thick coat of mould would 
ever collect to act as a sponge. Yorests, therefore, to be of 
any service in that direction, would have to be planted in 
large tracts and kept up by companies or the State. 

Ponds, like leaf mould collected in a forest, retain vast 
amounts of water; the drains of cultivated land can be led 


| into them, and from there, after fish have had the benetits of 


the ingredients washed from the fields, it would gradually pass 
into the little run or rivulet. The latter would then be assisted 
during a ‘“‘run,”’ the water flow during summer better regu- 
lated, and the much-missed fish of our creeks would make 
their appearance again. 

Contrary to forests planted by individuals, ponds pay almost 
from the beginning. Tracts of land which have to be drained 
with much expense to be sited for agriculture, can some- 
times, with a trifing expense, be turned into good ponds, and 
made to pay far better than the best field. The desired 
“‘snonges” would thus be re-created by individuals to assist 
those formed by large forests under State control. The water 
before looked upon as waste and driven from the premises to 
bring devastation, would thus be made a seryant; which fact 
is very important, since the ola proverb truly says that “the 
water is a good servant, but a bad master.” 

: Huco MULERTT. 
« CINCINNATI, O. 


DEATH OF MR. JOHN E. REARDON.—We are informed 
ot the death of Mr. John HE. Reardon, president of the Fish 
Commission of Arkansas, on Dec. 4, 1883. Mr. Reardon was 
a well-Enown citizen of Litile Rock, and had been a Commis- 
sioner for a number of years. He was a warm friend of fish- 
culture and had long urged his State to take a more active 
interest in it- He was higbly respected by a large circle of 
friends in both public and private life. 


THE WYOMING COMMISSION. 


fase biennial report of the Fish Commissioners of Wyoming 
Territory, for the two years ending Dec. 31, 1885, is at 
hand. It opens with the fish laws of the Territory. 4 

The year 1882 was devoted almost entirely to the planting of 
native trout and other varicties. The practical results 
attained from all of the plants are very successful. 

Brook trout planted by the Commission have been taken 
irom the “alkaline” (4 streams of Laramie and Albany 
counties, which never before afforded them, Salmo fontinalis 
weighing as much as fourteen ounces have been sent this sea- 
son to the chairman of the Board, almost reaching the status 
of a three-year-old—which is sixteen ounces—placed under 
the most favorable conditions—a sufficient proof that streams 
flowing into the North Platte will support trout. 

Concerning this planting of troutin alkaline waters the 
Commissioners say: ‘In the beginning of our work we were 
often informed that it would be waste of money and loss of 
time to place trout in“an alkaline water, whose proverbially 
known constituents would destroy the plant. Disbelieving, 
however, this “‘well-known fact,” we have gone on, meeting 
with flattering success. Trout will live in such waters as are 
found heading in the Black Hills and Rocky Mountain base. 
We believe they never were there, until the Commission 
placed them in the streams.” . ; 

Carp have thriven wherever planted and promise to give 
good results. Directions for making ponds are given. 


NEW PUBLICATIONS. 


The Angler's Note Book and. Naturalists Record is again to be re 
sumed by the editors of the ‘Bibliotheca Piscatovia,” W. Satchell & 
Co., 19 Tavistoek street, Strand, London, W. C._ The Note Book is 
specially designed to promote the interests of writers, publishers and 
sellers of books on angling and other field sports. Bibliography will 
also receive a large share of attention. The ‘‘Green Series,”’ pub- 
lished some three years ago, was exceedingly interesting, and many 
regretted its suspension. The present series will covertwelve monthly 
numbers. 


Miniions oF DOLLARS WERE Lost by Men who were accidentally in 
ured in 1883, and uot insured iz the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn. 
he wise ones insured and drew $864,000 in cash benefits,—dd™. 


The Zennel. 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
_ March 12, 13 and 14—New Haven Kennel Club’s First Annual Bench 
Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward §S. Porter, Secretary, Box 
657 New Hayen, Conn. Entries close March 1, 
_ Mareh 18 to 21—Washington Bench Show, Masonic Hall, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. 

March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club's Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 
dent. W.§. Jackson, Hon. Secretary, Toronto. Canada. 

April 3, 4and 5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. GC. M. Munhall, See- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. Entries close March 24, 

Hay. 6, 7. 8 and 9,—The Westminster Kenne] Club’s Eighth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden, Entries close April 21. Chas. 
Lincoln, Superintendent. RK. C, Cornell, Secretary, 54 


illiam street, 
New York. (7 


A. K. Re 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries closé on the 1st. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on recipt of stamped and addressed enyelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,’ P, O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 19106, Volume L., beund in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50, 


EXPERIENCE WITH DOGS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


My experience with dogs covers a period of twenty-five 


years. 
I believe I am as free from epee bes regarding breeds 
as itis possible to be. My first dog was an imported Engtish 


setter, thoroughly broken, and a finer dog isseldom seen. I 
have since owned red Irish and Gordon setters, pointers, and 
Liewellins, and I candidly believe the difference between them 
is far more imaginary than real. Individual pointers and set- 
ters differ more widely than do the two classes. The per- 
formance of a single setter or pointer proves nothing but the 
merits of the individuals immediately concerned, I have 
worked pointers and setters side by side, day after day, and 
season after season, aud I would not give five dollars either 
way as a preference. 

T have never owned a pointerthat would refuse to go where 
a setter would. With the exception of the first dog men- 
tioned, I have broken all the dogs I owned myself, and I con- 
tend that a dog properly trained—pointer or setter—will 
remain so, as long as worked by his trainer or any one who 
understands the method by which he was trained, and that 
he will begin the season as steady as ne closed the preceding 
one. Herbert set the fashion in dogs in America forty years 
ago, and the ‘‘Forester bathos” continues to-day, so far as dogs 
are concerned. 

His opinion of peinters arose from a very limited knowledge 
of them, This is plainly shown in his works. Charging 
pointers with lack of affection, and hunting with a stranger 
as well and as readily as with their master, is not a character- 
istic of them by any means, I haye neyer owned a setter or 
pointer that would follow a gun or hunt with any one but my- 
self. ‘‘Hunt,” in an article on the subject. states that pointers 
are inferior to setters in speed and endurance, Thisisthe first 
charge of the kind I haye seen. The setter when at work has 
an industrious air about him that is apt to deceive. The 
pointer ranges more widely and goes with a bound that does 
not show up as well as the other, but he will cover as much 
ground and pass as few birds as the setter. I have a pointer 
nine and a half years old that worked last season on chickens 
day after day in company with a son of Gladstone and an 
Trish gyp. They were both good ones and much younger, 
but the noble old fellow more than held his own. If one in- 
elines to setters he should own them, if to pointers they are 
his dogs. If he has more than one Jet him get one of each. 
After using them for a wumber of years he will be of my way 
of thinking. A dog is just what youmake him. Give him 
proper care and affection and he will come nearer anticipating 
your wants than a human being can. Dick, 

BRAzIL, Ind. 


FOX HUNTING ON OIL CREEK. 


OME six weeks ago Doc P., of Petroleum Centre, presented. 


\-) the Rhodes Brothers, of Pioneer, with four of his famous 
foxhounds—Drive, Tickler, Center and Jo B, Thursday of 
last week, being the first fair day for hunting, the boys crossed 
Oil Creek, and at the mouth of Bull Run they jumped a big 
red fox, whose confidence in himself was signified by the 
pauses he made in listening tothe bay of the dogs as they 
made the first rush to getin. It was but a few minutes, until 
he understood that there was a different class of hounds‘in his 
wake from what he had been in the habit of dealing with, 
and with a good-bye switch of his tail he began his flight for 
Becker’s Heights, where for about thirty minutes they poured 
it to him so hot and fast that he made a break for Cherry 
Run, up and down the banks of which they drove it to him 
so fast and furious that he began to get frightened, thereby 
losing his confidence. Crossing at Morrison’s Corners the 
music of the dogs was glorious, double discounting any ““Duteh 
band” in the State. r : : 

The pace was now at its best, Drive and Tickler running to 
catch, while Jo B., Center and Wynder, one of their best 
home dogs, were well up. They were now making the pace 
still more terrific, and reynard was fast losing his head. He 
tried several short turns, but the scent was good, and the 
dogs were running with their heads up. His twists and short 
turns amounted to nothing. They were now giving it to him 
hot and heayy, part of the time in sight. He swept in toward 
McDonald’s Rocks, but they pushed him so hard that he took 
the big road back toward Gil Creek, Hokey, pokey, you 
ought to have heard them giving it to him now; how they 
cried for help, but the pace was toomuch for him. They were 
fast overhauling him, when he made a short turn into the 
meadow and tried to reach some thickets on Hutchinson’s 
Ridge, but Drive overhauled him nearly in the door-yard of 
the Burns Mansion, his jaws just closing on him as Tickler got 
there, followed closely by Jo B., Center and Wynder. Time 
of run, one hour and twenty minutes—well done on strange 

ound and with strangers. But thatis nothing when you 
fava the stock. Delighted we were with the hunt and our 

, but our glee was great yesterday and our cup 

right over the brim with fox-hunting fun. Harley 
them out of their kennel at, 
they winded a big red fox 


new do 
bubble ; 
feeding his dogs at noon, letti 

the time, ten minutes alter whic 


as he was crossing Western Run. hia jiffey they were giving ~ 


it to him up on Benninghoof’s Point, back across the run, up 
by the white school house, over the Stilwagon settlement. 
“The music now was soul-stirring, I know re nard was enjoy— 
ing it, for he made a bee line for the city of Titusville. so the 
hunters there could hear it too. The pace was now killing, 
the cry of the hounds was fast and furious, it was the anxious 
whining cry of dogs that were running to catch their game. 
At Boughton, just below Titusville, the pace was too greatfor 
reynard, he had to make a turn, taking the creek hills back; 
he tried ev way to shake himself ciear, but Drive aud 
Tickler would not be denied while Jo B., Wynder, and Center 
were bound to be there at the finish. The pace was a hoc one 
as they worked their way down the creck, the merdnsm 
delicious, knocking out all the Jenny Linds that ever 


Se 


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Marcu 13, 1884.] : 


the sea. At Grege’s Switch they made it so warm for him 
that he tried to get over the sedge. It was while climbing the 
suiimit that we got the first glimpse of his impudence, tongue 
otit, brush down, ears laid back, running zig-zag, aimless, head 
gone, picked up by Drive as he was crossing a clear patch, 
With Tickler so close that it was almost a doubt which nipped 
him first; Wynder, Jo B. and Center close up and getting in 
at the wooling mateh as they shook him up. Time, two hours 
and fifteen minutes. This is a team that you will hear from 
again, Howup-IT-T0-EM. 
TONEER, Pa. 


THE DACHSHUND. 


Editor forest and Stream: ; 

In the ‘last issue of your paper I saw an article about the 
dachshund and his poibting like a pointer or setter to a bird. 
Ihave never seen this done by any of them, I think it must 
be very uncommon. I always found that as soon as they get 
the scent of game they pitch in for it without stopping. 

T have had a good deal of experience with these smart and 
spirited little dogs in Germany, where they are very common 
hunting dogs. Indeed, every forester and almost every sports- 
man keeps one or two of them. Mostly they are used to drive 
foxes and badgers out of their holes in the ground, while the 
hunter waits behind some bush or tree to Jay them low as 
soon as they leave the dog in possession of their homes. Some- 
times a fox, especially when sick, will not leave, even when 
attacked by asharp dog. In one instance, I remember, the 
dog of a forester, a triend of mine, had got away from the 
chain and hunted on his own responsibility. When the dog 
did not return the third day after he left, his master inspected 
all the fox holes in the neighborhood, and in one of them he 
heard his dog bark and sometimes make attacks on his enemy. 
It was evident that the fox did not want to jump, so his warm 
home was laid open with shoyel and pickaxe. We could not 
see the fox through the opening we made, but_the dog came 
out panting and covered all over with sand. His master ca- 
ressed him and offered him a nicer-piece of meat out of his 
pocket than he had ever tasted in his life. But the dog did 
not even touch it, but turned and went down again to finish 
his fight first. When the fox was finally killed, we found that 


he was sick, and that wasthe reason he had not jumped. As 
soon as this was done the dog lost all his pluck, and showed so 
much exhaustion that his master carried him’ home. He did 


not refuse then the meat any more. 

Once I saw two puppies, which were about eight months old 
and out for the first time, attack an old fox which had been 
shot but not killed. Even after receiving several bites from 
the infuriated animal that made them how! they did not 
keep off, but killed him, and had such a hold of him that the 
gentleman with whom I hunted lifted fox and dogs up and 
swung them over his head, but they did not let go, 

T have seen old dogs of this kind with torn ears and scars 
all over their body. They get these mostly in fights with the 
badger. This animal is a worse foe even against the strongest 
dog than*a fox; these jump a great deal easier than the 
badger, which is generally too fat to feel like leaving his home 
in 4 hurry, but fights harder for it. 

We shot a great number of foxes with one of these dogs. 
He went into the thicket and was sure to drive the fox into 
shooting distance, and he finished him in good shape when not 
killed by the shot. It is astonishing to see how these little 
bow-legged animals will run, and what an amount of perse- 
yerance they possess. They have a splendid nose, and tied to 
a line make excellent retrievers for wounded deer. They are 
used a good deal for this when there are no bloodhounds. 

T always liked these bright little fellows with their beauti- 
ful heads. [remember with pleasure the days when I heard 
their high voices in the German woods, expecting the appear- 
anee of Mr. Fox every minute. 

There is only one drawback to them. Itis very hard to 
make them mind. If excited by the chase, you can yell at 
them eyer so much, they will go on like fury, RY ae 

OsHkosH, Wis,, March 1. 


MANGE AND CANKER. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

The desire of imparting to the world any useful knowledge 
that one may have acquired is amost laudable one, and I 
huye no doubt but what that was the motive which prompted 
the communication in your last issue, from Mr. Thomas But. 
But it is rather ageravating, for any one who thinks he knows 
something about the subject, and has had some experience in 
the matter, to see in print that a certain combination of in- 
gredients will cure the worst case of mange with two applica- 
tions, and, another one, canker of the ear with three. Being 
a medical practitioner, and also a lover and owner of dogs, 
Lhave naturally paid some attention to canine pathology and 
therapeutics, and, although I have come to the conclusion that 
with the exception of cathartics, tonies, etc., the less dosing a 
dog gets the better, from the fact of my practice being in a 
greas measurein the special branch of dermatology, I have 
taken a good deal of interest, and spent considerable time in 
investigating the lesionsof the skin onthe dog, The term 
mange, as used, is a most indefinite one, being popularly ap- 
plied to almost any cutaneous affection that has itching as a 
concomitant. In many cases washing and any cooling or 
soothing application is all that is needed, and not afew will 
disappear without any treatment at all. The severe con- 
tagious power of mange is due toa parasite, which is the 
same that causes certain skin diseases on the human race, @.e., 
ring worm, scald head and barber’s itch, according to the seat 
of its development. This parasite is a fungus, known as 
trichophyton, which, once planted in the skin, multiplies by 
rapid production of microscopic sporulss not very diffierent- 
from those of the yeast fungus. On the skin, i. e. ring worm, 
it is easily killed by any strong application, on the scalp and 
in the beard itis a much more difficult matter, as it attacks 
the hairs, and deyelopsin the hair follicles, where external 
applications cannot reach it, This is the case wlien a dog is 
affected with it. The prescription Mr. But gives is com- 
posed of yery excellent mgredients, but they are no more so 
than many other well known anti-parasitic applications, such 
as carbolic, phoenic or salicylic acids, and to say that that 
especial combination will cure every case of mange with two 
applications, is simply absurd. 

In the same way the term canker of the ear is applied to all 
cases where there isan irritation of the external auditory 
canal sufficient to produce a discharge, and to cause the dog 
to shake his héad and scratch his ear with his hind paw. This 
may be caused by many things, such as the presence of a for- 
eign body, an accumulation of wax, a little eczema (salt 
rheum) of the inner ear, or inflammation of the same, which 
may merely affect the superficial mucous membrane, or may 
extend deeper so as to cause disease of the bone, destruction of 
the drum of the ear, etc. Practically, such cases, even the 
comimencing ones, are very hard to handle. The only case 
that I have ever known of, where the disease had really existed 
for some time, that was cured, was in the case of adog belong- 
ing to a friend of mine, in whom a mutual friend, a scientific 
aurist, took interest enough to make frequent applications 
and cured him, The canal of a dog's ear is quite deep and 
crooked, and I doubt if any body but a specialist could suc- 
ceed in making applications tothe deeper parts, It is only 
fair to say thatin this case, I believeit was boracic acid that 
was used, but so far from three applications curing it, I doubt 
if, tad the dog been a patient, a hundred dollar bill would 
have settled his account. I have no wish to criticise Mr. 
But’s commmnication, as I have no doubt but that he has had 
excellent results with the two prescriptions he has published, 
but he claims too much for them, of which fact time will con- 
vince him, We have now several men inthe country who 


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have taken hold of veterinary medicine and suse ery with a] Music iI. second, and Major T, yhe. These are three good 


thorough and scientific education, and it is to be oped that 
their influence will be able to lift horse and dog doctoring 
above the use of empiric mixtures, 

However, when I remember how often, when on my annual 
trips for rest and sport, I have, when some native found out 
that I had aDr, before, or an M.D. after my name, been 
asked, “What will cure a headache?” or, ‘‘What is good for a 
eough?”’ I ought not to be surprised to see that a certain mix- 
ture would ctire mange, or canker of the ear. Mic, Mac. 

Boston, Mass,, March 6, 1884. 


CINCINNATI DOG SHOW. 


rJXHE bench show held this week at Cincinnati, O., has 

proved an immense success. There were in all 289 en- 
tries, exclusive of the specials. The attendance was very good, 
in fact, the hall could not at any time conveniently accommo- 
date the crowds which literally packed every corner, 

The sporting classes, especially the Irish setters and pointers, 
were well represented; also the non-sporting, in pug, York- 
shire terrier, and toy terrier classes. Mastiff, St. Bernard, 
and Newfoundland classes did not fill so well, but the grey- 
hounds were a fine collection. 

Major J. M. Taylor judged the setters and pointers. Mr. J. 
Mortimer all other classes, 

MASTIFFS. 

There were three entries in the mastiff class. Lion, a fine 
dog, with good legs, back and loin, won easily. Leo, who won 
second, is a fine dog, with a good mask, but his ring tail is 
against him. Gulnare, who was given an he., is only five 
months old, She may develop into a good one. 

ST. BERNARDS. 

The St. Bernards were a poor class. Rex, who won first, is 
a fair puppy. Finette, who won second, is too small, The 
others were a poor lot. 

NEWFOUNDLANDS, 

The first prize was rightly withheld for want of merit. Nig, 
who was given second, got full as much as he deserved: he is 
a large well shaped dog, but is too curly in coat. 


GREYHOUNDS, 

The greyhounds were much above the average. Parvin’s 
Major, who won first, is a very fine animal with lots of quality, 
he ‘will compare favorably with any that we have seen. 
Smith’s Major, whe won second, was shown in bad form; he 
has a racing-like look thatis very taking; he has excellent 
shoulders, legs and feet, Pedro, who won yhe., is short in 
neck and heavy in shoulders. Gypsy, he., is well formed, but 
was shown too fat; had she been in condition she would have 
beaten Pedro, 

SCOTCH DEERHOUNDS, 

The first prize winner, Ray, isa very fine animal; he has 
good head, ears and coat, he isa trifle weak in loin and 
quarters, whichis probably owing in part to lack of proper 
work. Dick, who won second;is also a fine specimen, of good 
form, but a little undersized, Queen, who won vhce., is a fair 
animal with a capital coat. 

SETTERS. 

In the champion English setter class, Lava Rock, the only 
entry, was absent. In the champion bitch class, Dido IL., 
owned by Gen. W. B, Shattuc, had a walk over, there being 
no other entries. She has wonderfully improved since we saw 
her at New York in 1883, having let down and lost the tucked 
up appearance which then characterized her. She is an ex- 
tremely handsome bitch and fairly earned her honors. 

Inthe open dog class, Dick Bee, a smart little dog, was first, 
and deservedly. Count Gladsome, with wonderfully good 
chest, legs and feet, came next, his weak point being his badly 
placed ears. Royal Lothair, vhe., is a very powerful dog, 
rather coarse in head, and with loaded shoulders. Maxwell, 
vhe., is rather a commonplace dog, he looks like a good mover. 
Rocket, he., ought haye changed places with Royal Sultan, c., 
who was all out of condition, being quite sick. In bitches, 
Nellie B. won first over Flora Bee, second, Joanof Arc, a very 
handsome bitch, but with a bad stern, was vhe. Lucy D.,hc., 
and Faustina Lava Rock, vhe., were all good ones. The 
puppies were a very fair class, Dan winning over Rex, a 
Count Gladsome puppy who inherits his father’s badly carried 
ears but is otherwise a very promising puppy. In champion 
black-tan or Gordon setters Rupert IJ, had a walk over, Mr. 
Thayer's entry being absent. In the open class, for dogs or 
bitches, Mr. John E. Long’s Hugo won an easy first, Mack, 
second, showing age. The others were scarcely worthy of 
special mention. There was but one entry in the puppy class. 

In champion Irish setter dogs, Biz was conspicuous by his 
absence. In champion Irish bitches, Lady Clare had a walk 
over. She was shown in wonderful good coat, but a bit fat 
and soft. 

In the open dog class, Norwood (Hlcho—Rose), the property 
of Mr. Overman, of this city, won easily. He is a magnificent 
specimen, and will compare very favorably with the best. 
Barney, second, we did not so much fancy, and thought Brag, 
vhe., might have exchanged places with him, This was a 
good class and well filled. In bitches, Clara Bell won 
well; Effie, second prize, being also a yery superior bitch, but 
showed cares of maternity. Clytie, vhe., Virginia Reel, 
he., all local bitches, made up a very good class. In puppies, 
Lotta (Norwood—Nellie) was first, another Norwood puppy 
being second. . 

POINTRRS. 

In. champion pointer dogs, Bravo easily disposed of King 
Tom and Knickerbocker. In champion bitches, Marguerite 
If. won over the W.K.C.3Lassie, Rhona being absent. 

In the open class for dogs, over 5d5lbs., Mr. Munson’s Meteor 
had an easy win. Joe, a dog without a pedigree, being second, 
he has a grand chest and loin, good legs and feet; but we can- 
not overlook his bull-terrier head, bad eye and illy carried 
ears and think Bang (commended only) should haye been sec- 
ond, Lamplighter, vhe., was a useful looking dog. Donald IL, 
vhe., is too stilty and straight at the shoulders. Icicle, he,, 
did not fulfil our expectations, we thought him well placed, 

In dogs under 55lbs, Pérry won the pride of place. The 
class was a very peor one. 

Tn bitches, any weight, Vanity was a good first, Lady Crox- 
teth second, Fiash and Spinaway vhe. The latter is a very 
good bitch, in fact the quality of this class was second to none 
in the sporting division. Trinket. the property of Mr. Stod- 
dard, vhe., and Moonstone, c., showed age. In puppies Rapp 
and Doncaster first and second, by Croxteth, are a very 
symmetrical pair. Glen and Dora, both vhe,, give promise of 
future excellence. This class was also well tilled, there being 
fourteen exhibited, and but few bad ones, This finished 
Major Taylor’s duties, when Mr. Mortimer commenced with 


SPANIELS. 

In field spaniels, Hornell Rattler, a very useful dog with 
good legs and feet, but rather short in body, and in poor coat, 
was first, the heavy Clumber-headed Success being second. 
This is a grand-bodied and coated dog, but his heavy head 
and forelegs will always prevent him getting in the front 
rank. ‘The others hardly deserve special mention. In coek- 
ers, Hornell Daisy, a good liver-colored bitch, won easily, 
Hornell Silk second, A workmanlike, merry little fellow, he 
is too high on his legs and too curly in coat. Black Bess, vle., 
had nothing but her profuse feathering to recommend her, as 
she was out of condition, and her coat was faded. Hornell 
Dinah, a useful bitch, was badly shown. The other entries 
were of a nondescript character. 


____ FOXHOUNDS,. 
In foxhounds, D, O’Shea’s Kingwood was much the“best 


of a poor class. 
% BEAGLES. 


Beagles saw four entries, three of which came to the ring, 
Mr, John Brass’s Rattler IT. being absent, Rattler was first, 
‘ 


ones, Major T. being short of leather and light-colored eye, 
but good in body, legs and feet. 
DACHSHUNDE. 


There were only two dachshunde, both fairly good ones, the 
young one a trifle the best in bone and crook, also color. 


FOX-TERRIERS. 


Lyra had a walk over in the champion class, In open dogs, 
Lancelot won over Flippant, who was shown badly. He has 
atimid manner in the show ring. In bitches, the Surrey Ken- 
nel’s Jill far out-classed the others, but a protest was lodged 
against her, a Aha dias eon called in, and she was dis- 
qualified for mange. This also was the case with her in the 
puppy classin which she competed. Clover Belle, a seven 
months old puppy, by Akely Joe—Guilty, taking first. Mr. 
Thayer's entry being absent. 

COLLIES., 

In champion collies, dogs, Robin Adair had a walk over, he 
wasin grand form, but is a trifle softin coat. In champion 
bitches, Effie won. Open dogs introduced a very nice young 
dog, Mac, eleven months old, who deservedly was first. Che- 
viot IL., a very strong, but rather heavy skulled black and tan 
being second. In the open bitch class, the prize was withheld. 


BULLDOGS, 


This class did not fill well. Mr. Thayer's entries in this 
class, as in all others, being absent. The winner, Mr. Living- 
stone’s Boz, wrongly entered as Boy in the catalogue, is avery 
good one and won easily, as did Sweet Briar in hitches. The 
others were a poor lot. 

TERRIERS. 


Young Bill, the ever green, won an easy first in bull-terriers, 
Me. Livingstone withdrawing his tine young dog Grand Duke, 
who had unfortunately broken out iu blotches all over. Of the 
others, Chip, vhe., and Fanny, he., were gamy-looking ani- 
mals, but scarcely up to bench show form., 

Black and tan terriers were poorly represented. Spring. 
first, is just an ordinary one. 

There were no entries in Bedlingtons, and only one Skye 
terrier of very moderate pretensions. 

In hard-haired Scotch terriers, Tam Glen was first. Heis a 
typical Jittle dog, but could do with a better head. Boxer was 
second, and Lady vhe. 

In Irish terriers, Erin beat Norah, second, in texture of coat. 
and color. 

Yorkshire terriers were well represented, the local pets be- 
ing far above the average. 

PUGS. 

In champion pugs, Joe, now the property of Mrs. Hill (Cincin- 
nati) won easily. Inthe openclass, which was a large and good 
one, Bo Peep, a nice little bitch with good mark and color,was 
first, Sambo second. Judy III,, who is immensely fat and re- 
fused to show herself in the ring, had to put up with a vhe. 

TOY TERRIERS 


were a numerous and good class in which Lotta, a diminutive 
black and tan, weighing 1'¢lbs., was adjudged the winner, 
Flora second, Charlie, a pretty white, black and tan toy span- 
iel, had a walk over. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 


The miscellaneous class as usual was a large collection of all 
sorts, from an immense Great Dane down to the tiny and ele- 
gant Italian greyhound, which latter breed was well repre- 
sented. There were three prizes in this class, which went to 
a Caniche poodle, a Dandie Dinmont, a good,one and an Italian 
greyhound, 

Following is a full list of the 

AWARDS. 

Class 1. Mastiffs.—ist, James H. Lynch’s Lion, fawn, 2yrs. dmos. 
Salisbury—tTigress I.; 2d, Geo. H. Ingall’s Gulnare. fawn, 5mos. 

Class 2. St. Bernards.—Harry D. Emerson’s Rex, orange and tawny, 
6mos., Suitan—Finette; Louis Cook’s Finette, orange and tawny, 
ilgyrs,, Fox——-. Very high com,, Louis Cook’s Barri, white and 
lemon, 1}4yrs., ——- —Finette, and W. H. Sutherland’s Bruno, white, 


dyrs. 

Class 3. Newfoundlands.—1st, withheld; 2d, Charles Jacquemin’s 
Nig, black, 15mos., Frank—Nell. { 

Class 4. Greyhounds.—ist, Geo. 8. Paryin’s Major, mouse, 14yrs., 
Prince—Gipsy ; 2d, William G. Smith’s Major, white and fawn, lléyrs,, 


—Lady. Very high com., William H. Campbell’s Pedro, black, 
2yrs. High com.. Edward Wooldridge’s Flora, black, llyrs., and M. 
Schrank’s Gipsy, fawn, 4yrs. Com., Bayard Taylor’s Cricket, liver, 


8mos., ———Fanny. 

Class 5. Scotch Deerhounds.—ist, Clover Nook Kennel’s Ray, brin 
dle, 2yrs., Paddy—Lassie; 2d, J. M. Taylor’s Dick, gray, 24éyrs, Very 
high com., Henry C. Spellman’s Queen, light brindle, 3yrs. 

Class 6. Champion English Setters, Dogs —Absent. 

Class 7. Champion English Setters, Bitches.—1st, Dido II., black, 
white and tan, 3yrs.. Druid—Star. 

Class 8. English Settevs, Do¢s.—tIst, J. Kline’s Dick Bee, white, black 
and tan, 2yrs., Paris Il.—Romp; 2d, John Oyerman’s Count Glad- 
some, white, black and tan, 2yrs., Gladstone—Leila, Very high com,. 
C. B. Phips’s Royal Lothair, black, white and tan, 3yrs., Racket— 
Kelp, and Thos, L. Martin's Maxwell, black, white and tan, 5yrs., 
Luke—Rene. High com., W. R. Traver’s Rocket, A.K.R. 118. Com., 
Hugh Hill’s Royal Sultan, blue belton, 3y1s., Racket—Kelp. A. G. 
Wetherby’s Dick, lemon and white, 16mos., Rex—Kate, and L. G, 
Hanna’s Don, black, white and tan, 244yrs.. Foe—Pach. 

Class 9, English Setters, Bitches.—1st, John E. Long’s Nettie B., 
black, white and tan, ?yrs.; 2d, Ontario Kennel Club’s Flora Bee, 
black, white and tan, 2yrs.. Paris Il.—Romp, Very high com., John 
Shrink, Jr.’s Joan of Arc, blue belton, 444yrs., Leicester—Pearl]. and 
Geo, W. Law’s Faustina Lava Rock, white and lemon, lyr., Lava 
Rock—Lady Beaconsfield. High com., Wm. C. Howard's Lucy D., 
blue belton, 5yrs., Paris—Coomassie, Com., W. 5. Mitchell’s Brownie, 
black, white and tan, gyrs., Dorman’s Racket—Rose, and Ontario 
Kennel Club’s Dinah, black and white, 18mos., Mark—Betsey. 

Class 10. English Setter Puppies.—ist, P. B. Spencer’s Dan, black 
and white, 10mos., Chief—Nanecy Lee; 2d, G, W. Schuller’s Rex, 
black, white and tan, Tmos., Count Gladstone—Melissa, Very high 
com., J, A. Oskamp’s Lady Nonpareil, black, white and tan, Gmos., 
Count Noble—Rosalind. Hizh com., H. L. Kyler’s Slip, black and 
white, 10mos., Royal Lothair—Nonie. 

Class 11. Champion Black-Tan or Gordon Setters,—ist, Franklin 
Kennel’s Rupert IL, 4yrs., Rupert—Queen, 

Class 12, Black-Tan or Gordon Setters,—ist, John E. Long’s Hugo, 
Syrs.; 2d, Alex Jeffrey’s Mack, 9yrs. High com., Geo. C, Miller’s 
Rube, 8yrs., Rip—Nell. 

Class13. Black-Tan or Gordon Setters, Puppies.—ist, Phil Trottner’s 
Frank, 8mos. 

Class 14. Champion Irish Setters, Dogs.—Absent. —- 

Class 15. Champion Trish Setters, Bitches.—ist, J. 8. MeIntosh’s 
Lady Clare, 5yrs., Eleho—Rose. 

Class 16. Irjsh Setters, Dogs.—ist, Henry Overman’s Norwood, 
dléyrs., Eleho—Rose; 2d, A. 8. Knoblaugh’s Barney, 3yrs. Very 
high com., John (©. Sherlock's Brag, 7yrs., Bob—Duck. igh com., 
W. P. Biddle’s Bob. Jr., 2yrs., Bob—Flash. Com., Geo. C. Walker’s 
Joe, 2yrs., Kent—Dance. 

Class 17. Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, E. F. Weiss’s Clara Belle, 
284yrs., Bob—Flash; 2d, J. A. Sullivan’s Kffie, 3béyrs., Tollstone— 
Ruby It. Very high com., Dr. Chas. I. Keely’s Olytie, fyrs., Eleho— 
me Fly. High com., J. Shelley Hudson’s Virginia Reel, 8yrs., Kent 
—Dance. 

Class 18. Trish Setters, Puppies.—Ist, H. C. Bradley’s Lotta, 9 mos., 
Norwood—Nellie; 2d, J. P. Heister’s Beauty Belle, 8 mos., Norwood 
—Clara Belle. 

Class 19. Champion Pointers, Dogs.—ist, Norbury Kennel’s Bravo, 
ALK.R, 559. 

Class 20. Champion Pointers, Bitches.—ist. H. W. Fawcett’s Mar- 
guerite IT., liver and white, 44éyrs., Faust—Devonshire Lass. 

_ Class 21, Pointers, Dogs (over 551bs.).—1st, John W. Munson’s Meteor, 
liver and white, 3yrs , Garnet—Jilt ;2d, Dalliba & Munhall’s Joe, liver 
aud white, 2smos., unknown. Very high com., Mrs. John Schrink, 
Jr.’s Lamplighter, liver and white, 5yrs., Ranger—Queen, and U, M. 
Munhall’s Donald, liver and white ticked, 18mos., Donald—Devonshire 
Lass. High com,, Geo, W. Fisher's Icicle, A.K.R. 82. and A. A. 
Bh totes Bolus, liver and white, 2yrs., Bodine—Dare. Com., John 

. Munson’s Bang, liver and white, 4yrs., Bang—Luna. 

Class 22, Pointers, Dogs (under 55lbs ).—1st and 2d, A, A, Thomas’s 
Perry and Riot, liver and white, 18mos., Lort—Lass. « 

Class 23. Pointers, Bitches.—1st, John W.Munson’s Vanity, liver 
and white, 2yrs., Bang—Pride; 2d, B. F. Sejtner’s Lady Croxteth, 
liver and white, 2yrs , Croxteth—Lass, Very high com., John W. 
Munson’s Flash TIL. liver and white, 2yrs., Bang. Pride;and Spin- 


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away, liver and white, 3yrs.. Garnet—Keswick: and E. F. Stoddard’s | 


Trinket, liver and white, 5yrs., Tory—Jaunty. High com., B, F. 
Seituer’s Lass, lemon and white, 3yrs.. Sensation—Rose. Com. John 
R. Daniel's Fan, lemon and white, 8yrs., Duke—Nell: Chas. Rule’s 
Margaux, liver and white, 18mos., Faust—Musette; and Westminster 
Kennel Club’s Moonstone, liver and white, 5yrs., Bang—Luna. 

Class 24, Pointers, Puppies.—1st and 2d, B. F. Seitmer’s Rapp and 
Doncaster, liver and white, 11Jmos., Croxteth—Lass. Very high com., 
Dalliba & Munhali’s Dora, liver snd white, 1iJmos., Sensation—Dey- 
onshire Lass, and @, F. Stoddard'’s Glen, white and liver, Smos., Bo- 
dine—Lady. High com,, Luck & Thornton’s Bob L., liver and white, 
fmos., Bodine—Bell. Com., J. A, Oskamp’s Grace, liver, 444mos,, 
Sport—Corley, and Luck & Thornton’s Bowlander, liver and white, 
Bodine—Bell, 

Class 25. Irish Water Spaniels.—No entries. 

Class 26. Field Spaniels (over 28lbs., any color).—ist and very high 
com., Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell Rattler, chestnut and tan, 
iimos., Dandy—Dinah, and Hornell Baroness, black and tan, 234yrs,, 
a 2d, Surrey Kennel’s Success, black, 334yrs., Bachelor 

Salus. 

Class 27. Cocker Spaniels (any color).—ist and 2d, Hornell Spaniel 
Olub’s Hornell Daisy, liver, 2yrs., Benedict—Flirt, and Hornell Silk, 
black, isyrs., Obo—Chloe I. Very high com., Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
Hornell Dinah, A.K.R. 66. and Dr. J.S. Niven’s Black Bess, A.K.R, 
a Com., Mrs. J. Frank Wilson’s Rose, brown, 9mos., Colonel— 

e, 

Class 28, Foxhounds.—!st; Dan O’Shea’s Ringwood, black, white 
and tan, 4yvs,, Forester—Lady; 2d, Louis Rinninsland’s Girl, black 
and tan, 2yrs, Very high com. and com., A. B. Whitloek’s Lot, white 
and lemon, 3yrs., Dick—Cloudy, and Clara, white and lemon, 2yrs., 
Diek—Patti. 

Class 29. Beagles.—i1st and #1, Dan O’Shea’s Rattler and Music 
I., black, white and tan, 1gyrs., Rover—Musie. Very high com., 
ae Alice N. Taylor's Major T., black, white and tan, 3yrs., Rattler— 

ora. 

Class 30. Dachshunde.—tst, B. F. Seitner's Prince, fallow red, lyr., 
Bergman—Gretchen; 2d, Harry L. Goodman’s Waldine IIT., red. 2yrs., 
Berginan—Gretchen, 

Class 81. Champion Yox-Terriers,—ist, Frank C. Wheeler's Lyra, 
white, black and tan, 14mos., Fennel—Fay. 

Class 82. Fox-Terriers, Degs.—ist, Chas. E. Wallack’s Lancelot, 
white, black and tan, 2yrs,, Tweezers 11—Olive; 2d, Surrey Kennel’s 
Flippant, 23ayrs., Roval—Tussle. : 

Class 33. F’ox-Terriers, Bitches.—lsb, Dan O’Shea‘s Tip, black, 
white and tan, 2yrs.} 2d, withheld. Com., H. F. Wuod’s Nancy, black, 
white and tan, ilgyrs., Trickster—Fauny. 

Class 34. Fex-Terriers, Puppies.—ist, Clover Nook Kennel’s Clover 
Belle, white, black and tan, 7mos., Akeley Joe—Guilty; 2d, withheld. 
High com., Herman T. Groesbek’s Judge, white, black and tan, 
mos, 

Olass 85, Champion Collies, Dogs.—ist, Thomas H. Terry’s Robin 
Adair, A.E.R. 892. 

Olass 3544. Champion Collies, Bitches,_Ist, Thomas H. Terry's 
Effie, red sable, 4yrs., Trefoil—Mande. 

Class 36. Cellies, Dogs.—ist, Edith M. Fasig’s Mac, black, white 
and tan,limos.; 2d, KR. Folsom’s Cheviot I1,, black and tan, iyr., 
‘Cheviot-- —. Very high com., Chas. Leggat’s Major, black aud 
tan, 8n0s., Collie—Fanny. 

Class 37. Collies, Bitches.—ist and 2d, withheld. Very high com., 
Chas. Legeat, Jr.’s Gypsie, black and tan, 8mos., Collue—Fanny. 

Class 38. Bulldogs.—ist, R. & W. Livingston’s Boz., A.K.R. 443: 2d, 
J.J. Walker’s Pungo, fawn and whtie, 4yrs., Cure—Mez. Very high 
ecom.. J. P. Barnard’s Hamlet, brindle, iimos., President Gariielid— 
Wheel of Fortune. 

Class 39. Bulls, Bitches.—ist, R, & W. Livingston’s Sweet Briar, 
A.E.R. 444; 2d, withheld. 

Class 40, Bull-Terriers.—ist, Frank C, Wheeler’s Young Bill, AJK.R. 
196; 2d, Geo. Keller’s Chip, white, 3yrs. High com. and com,, J. J. 
Walker's Beauty. white, 1lsyrs., Spring———, and Senator, white. 
dl4yrs., Jack—Daisy. ; 

Class 41, Black and Tan Terriers (over 7Ilbs)—ist. Mrs. A. Kiste- 
mann’s Spring, yrs ; 2d, withheld. 

Class 42. Bedlington Terriers.—No entries. 

Class 43. Skye Terriers.—ist. J, J. Walker's Creeper : 2d, withheld. 

Class 44, Hard-haired Scotch Terriers,—ist, John H. Naylor’s Tam 
Glen, dark gray, 18mos., Wallace—Flora; 2d and yery high com., 
Dan O’Shea's Boxer, wheaten, 2yrs, Major—Lady. and Lady, red, 
Aayrs. 

* Class 45, Irish Terriers.—ist, Dan O’Shea*s Erin, red, 2yrs, Rock— 
Norah; 2d, Dr. J. 8. Niven’s Norah, red, 4yrs, Sprinz—Nettle. 

Class 46. Yorkshire Terriers._ist and 2d, Mrs. A. Kistemann's 
Hero, 4yrs., and Sandy, 3yrs. Very higb com., Mrs. A. Kistemann's 
Lillie, 2yrs; Miss Maggie Burke’s Robert Bonner, 3y1s, Tom—Bess; 
and Miss J. A, Skinuer’s Sir Robert, 5yrs, Hizh cGom., Thos. Ax 
worthy’s Tiny, 2yrs, and Carrie Flock’s Tiny, lyr. CUom., J. Engle- 
hart’s Lena, 15mos., Bab—Minnie. 

Class 47, Champion Pugs.—ist, Mrs. Geo. H. Hill’s Joe, 4yrs., 
Comedy—Clrytie. 

Class 48.—Pugs.—Ist, J. Englehart’s Bo Peep, 2\éyrs, Fritz—Minnie 
May; 2d, Mrs. A. Kistemann’s Sambo, ii4yrs. Very hich com., Her- 
manu J. Groesbeck’s Lady Elmore, 1¢mos,, Andy—Lady Willoughby ; 
Mrs, A. Kistemann’s Punch, 2yrs., and Harry L. Goodman's Judy II1., 
syrs., Royal Dandy—Judy If. High com., Miss Ida Englehart’s 
Minneapolis Sooty, 344yrs., Sooty—Dinah; A. W. Whelpley’s Lady 
Digby, 10mos., Andy—Lady Willoughby, and Robert Wright's Polly, 
dmos., Andy—Cora. Com., R. C. Anderson’s Burnie B., lyr., Sooty 
IL.—Judy. ‘ ; 

Class 49. Toy Terriers (under 71bs.),—ist, Nick Mackley’s Lotta, black 
and tan, Uifyrs.; 2d, Mrs. A. Kistemann’s Wlora, tan, 2%yrs. Very 
high com., Mrs. G. Gandolfo’s Busy, black and tan, 1yr., and Miss 
Minnie Farrell’s Bunnie, blue and tan, 24¢yrs. High com., Frank 
Seifert’s Bill, black and tan, iigyrs. Com., J. Englehart’s Fanny, 
black and tan, ¥yrs., Zac—Fanny, and Mrs, J. Bugiehart’s Skye IL, 
blue aud tan, lyr., Tony—Skye. 

Class 50. Ming Charles, Blenheim and Japanese Spaniels.—ist, Mrs, 
A, Kistemann’s Charlie, black, white and tan, 2yrs. 

Class 51. Miscellaneous.—Equai Ist, J. Englehart’s Gyp, white and 
fawn Italian greyhound, ijsyrs.; Peter Schwein’s Hans, black 
Caniche poodle, 2yrs., and R. Neff’s Jack, blue and gray Dandie Din- 


mont terrier, Imos. 
SPECIAL PRIZES. 


Class A.—For the best setter or pointer, W. B. Shattuc’s Dido II. 
Olass B.—¥For the bes! English setter, W. 8. Shattuc’s Dido II. 
Glass C.—For the best matched brace of English setters, Ontaria 
Kennel Club’s Dinah and Pearl. 
Class D.—For the best Gordon setter, John E. Long’s Hugo. 
Class E.—For the best Gordon setter dog in open class, John BE. 
Long’s Hugo. a 
Class #'.—For the best Irish setter, Henry Overman’s Norwood. 
Olass G.—ior the best Irish setter puppy owned in the counties of 
Hamilton, O.,and Campbelland Kenton, Ky., H. C, Bradley’s Lotta. 
Olass H.—For the best pointer bitch puppy owned in Cincinnati, 
J. A, Oskamp’s Grace. 
Class I,—For the best pointer, John W. Munson's Meteor. 
Class J.—For the best pointer sired by Beaufort, Charles Rule's 
Sylph. 
Class K.—¥or the best kennel of five pointers, John W. Munson. 
Class L.—For the best brace of pointers, John W. Munson’s Meteor 
and Vanity. 
Class 31.—For the best pointer doz, owned by a lady in Cincinnati, 
Mrs. John Schrink’s Lamplighter. 
Class N.—for the best kennel of five field and cocker spaniels, 
Hornell Spaniel Clob. 
Class 0.—For the best cocker spaniel, dog or bitch, Hornell Spaniel 
Club’s Hornell Daisy. ; : 
Class P.—For the best cocker spaniel doz, Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
Hornell Silk. , 
(ae Q —f'or the best collie, dox or bitch, Thos, H, Terry's Robin 
Adair. — 
Class R.—For the best pug, owned by a lady in Cinciunati, Mrs. 
Geo. Hf. Hill’s Joe. : 
Ciass 8.—For the best small non-sporting dog, owned by a jady in 
Cincinnati, Miss Maggie Burke's Robert Bonner. : , 
Class T.—For the best non-sporting dog, owned by a lady in Cin- 
cinnati, Miss Maggie Burke’s Robert Bonner. j 
Classs U.—For the best black and tan terrier, Mrs, A, Kistemann’s 
Spring. . , 
Class V.—For the largest and best display of non-sporting dogs 
owned by a resident of Cincinnati, J. Englehart. ; 
Class W.—For the best pug owned by a lady in Cincinnati, Mrs. 
Geo. H. Hill's Joe. Wer 
Class X.—For the best Yorkshire terrier owned by a lady in Cincin- 
nati, Miss Maggie Burke’s Robert Bonner. ; F 
Class Y,—For the best Italian greyhound owned by a lady in Cin- 
cinnati, Mrs, S. B. Kelly’s Daisy, a. a4" 
Class Z.-For the best terrier owned by a lady in Cincinusati, Miss 
Maggie Burke’s Robert Bonner. 
Class AA.—For the best pugin the open class, J. Englehart’sqgo 
eep. 
Cjass BB.—Ffor the best fox-terrier, Nick Mackley's Lotta. ; 
Class CC.—For the best terrier, Frank C. Wheeler’s Young Bill. 
Class DD.—For the best decorated kennel, Geo. W. Pickard. ’ 
Class EE.—For the best pointer dog entered by a resident of Cin- 
cement Newport or Covington, Mrs. John Se , Jr.'s, Lamp- 
ighter. ‘ 
} Class FF.—For the best large pointer dog entered by a resident of 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


i eaae Newport or Coviugton, Mrs. John Schrink, Jr.’s, Lamp- 
ig : 

Class GG.—For the third best dog or bitch in the mastiffs, St. Berh- 
ard, pug, Yorkshire, toy and two in the miscellaneous classes, Geo.. H. 
Hil’s Gulnare, Louis Cook's Barri, Harry L. Goodman’s Judy UL., 
Miss Maggie Burke’s Robert Bonner, Mrs, Gandolfo's Busy, Geo. 
Ellis’s Charlie and J. Englehart’s Pedro. ; 

Class HH.—For the best pus thathas neyer been exhibited, owned 
by a lady in Cincinnati, Miss Ida Englehart'’sMinneapolis Sooty. 

Class 11,—*or the best small pointer dog, owned by @ lady in Cin- 
cinnati, Mrs, Thos. T. Gaff’s Fred. 


Olass JJ.—For the best large pointer, owned in Cinéiniiati, that has 
never wou a prize, J. A. Oskamp’s Sport. | _- os a 

Class KK.—For the best pointer, owned ih Cintinnati. J. A. Oskamp’‘s 
King Alphonso, 


SETTERS ANB POINTERS AT CINCINNATI. 


A Dee dog show opened on Tuesday morning, the 4th inst., 
-t with 289 entries. Melodeon Hall, where the show ls held, 
is in all probability the worst place in America for a dog show, 
but it was the only available hall to be had at thistime. It is 
a sort of concert hall or theater—on the third floor—and the 
approach to it is up two and a half flichts of stairs from a side 
street. The room is very small, and the kennels are so closeél y 
packed in it that two persons can hardly pass in the aisles. 
There is no yard or lot attached to it for ‘exercising the dogs, 
and such as are taken out, must be carried into the public 
street. I wonder how Mr. Lincoln has doiie as well as he has 
under the circumstances, Byerything moves dn with the 
good order which he alone could bring out of such a condition 
of things. The judging is done on a raised stage, where it is | 
so dark that gas is kept burning all the tine. When the 
crowd stands around the front of the stage the dogs have to 
be handed on and off the stage over the heads of the spectators, 
I noticed the hall was yery warm all during the ‘show, and I 
fear that many of the dogs will be made sick, Financially the 
show will be a success. On the first day there were over 
seventeen hundred paid admissions at the door, and a good 
crowd has been in daily attendance. 

Major Taylor and Mr, Mortimer judged a few of the classes 
on Tuesday, but most of the judging was done on Wednesday. 
The quality of the setters and pointers is far above the aver- 
age, and the classes filled well. I can’t say a word as to the 

uality of the other sporting and all the non-sporting classes, 

or I don’t know enough about any of them to dare to cora- 
poet My report must, therefore, cover setters and pointers 
only. ; 

Champion English Setter Dogs.—Lava Rock, the only entry, 
was absent. 

Champion English Setter Bitches,—Gen. Shattuc’s Dido II. 
was the only entry, and won the prize. It will be a very cold 
day when the little lady gets left if the General shows her. 

English Setter Dogs—Had sixteen entries. First went to 
Dick Bee, owned by the Mohawk Kennel of Chatham, Canada. 
He is a very taking black, white and tan, by Paris II., out of 
Romp, and well deserved the prize. Count Gladsome, owned 
by John Overman of Cincinnati, won second. He is white, 
black and tan also, by Gladstone out of Leila, and a very 
handsome dog. Royal Lothair, owned by C. B. Phipps of 
Winton Place, O., by Racket out of Kelp, and Maxwell, 
owned by T. L. Martin of Lexington, Ky., by Luke out of 
Rene, both good show dogs, won yhe. Rocket, owned by W. 
R. Trayer, Washington, D. C., another black, white and tan, 
by Wagoner out of Nell, got he. He is a fair dog. Royal 
Sultan, blue belton, by Racket out of Kelp; Dick, a lemon 
and white, by Rex out of Kate; and Mr. lL. G. Hanna’s 
(Cleveland) Don, a black, white and tan, by Joe out of Patch, 
each got c. Major Taylor seems io be fond of the black, white 
and tans, or may be I only thought so, because with two ex- 
ceptions the honors in this class went to dogs of that color, 
but I think they were all properly piaced. The fact is black, 
white and tan is the fashion among setter men now, and there 
are more of them to be shown than of other colors, 

English Setter Bitches,—In,this there were thirteen entries, 
and they were an excellent lot. Maj. Taylor had his 
little field trial champion Lit ‘for exhibition only” in this 
class, but he need not be ashamed to show her for compatition 
under any other judge, for she is a little beauty. First prize 
went to John EK. Long’s (Detroit) Nettie B,, a black, white and 
tan, no authentic pedigree. Mr, Long bought her froma 
butcher in Detroit and thinks he traces her pedigree to a dog 
over in Canada, but as there is an uncertainty about it, he de- 
clines to manufacture a pedigree for her. She is eyidently a 
blue blood, for sheis fullof quality and style. and deserved 
her first. The Ontario Kennel Club’s (Chatham) Flora Bee 
won second. Sheis asisterto Dick Bee, the dog that won 
first in the preceding class, and is by Paris II. out of Romp, 
Vhe. went to Joan of Arc, a blue belton, by Paris out of Pearl, 
and to Faustina Lava Rock, a lemon and white, by Lava 
Rock out of Lady Beaconsfield; both are good bitehes. He., 
was won by Lucy D, a blue belton, by Paris out of Coomassie, 
and c., by Brownie, black, white-and tan, by Racket out of 
Rose, and Dinah, black and white, by Mark out of Betsy, both 
fair. 

English Setter Puppies.—First to Dan, ,entered by P. B. 
Spencer (Newport, Ky.), a black and white, by Chief 
out of Nancy Lee. He is by far the best puppy in the class; 
second went to Rex, a black, white and tan, entered by G. W. 
Schuler (Hamilton, O.), by Count Gladstone out of Melissa. 
His head is poor, otherwise a good pup. Vhe., to Lady Non-4 
pareil, a black, white and tan, by Count Noble out of Rosa- 
lind. She is a poor-looking young one with no apparent sub- 
stance, and bad, sore eyes. Hc., to Slip, a black and white, 
by Royal Lothair out of Nonie. 

Champion Black and Tan Setters.—First to Rupert IL, 
entered by Franklin Kennel, O.,a dog I don’t faney, and 
certainly not a Malcolm standard dog. Argus, the only other 
entry, was absent. ; 

Black and Tan Setters.—Seven entries. No good ones, and 
no Malcolm standard dogs in the lot. First to John EB. Long’s 
Hugo, the best in the lot; second to Mack, an old ugly looking 
dog. Major Taylor wisely withheld other notices from the 
class except one he. to Rube, a poorog. 

Black and Tan Puppies.—Only one entry and a poor one, 
Frank, who won first. é 

Champion Irish Setter Dogs,—Only one entry, Biz, who was 
absent. 

Champion Irish Setter Bitches.—Only one entry, J. 8. Me- 
Intosh’s Lady Clare. : 

Trish Setter Dogs.—Fourteen entries and .a very fair class. 
First to Norwood, entered by H. Overman, Cincinnati, a very 
handsome dog, by Elcho out of Rose, fit to show in any com- 

any; second to Barney, by Dash out of Clee, entered by A. 5. 

oblaugh, Cincinnati, a fair dog. Vhe. to Brag, by Stod- 
dard’s Bob out of Duck, better to my mind than the winner 
of second. He, to Bob, Jr., by Stoddard’s Bob out of Flash. 
C, to Joe, by Kent out of Dance. Major Taylor failed to 
notice Ware, a very handsome big dog, by Snipe out of Fan, 
who should have had a place. { : 

Irish Setter Bitches.—Seven entries, Only a fair lot. First 
to Clara Bell, entered by B, F, Weiss (Cincinnati), by Stod- 
dard’s Bob out of his Flash. She was the best in the 
class. Second to a very good-looking bitch, Effie, by Tollstone 
out of Ruby. Vhe. to Clytie, by Elcho out of Fire Fly. I 
liked her for second, Hc. to Virginia Reel. Not a good bitch. 

Irish Setter Puppies—Four entries, and they did not 
amount to much. acs to H. C. Bradley’s (Cincinnati) Lotta, 
by Norwood out of Nellie. Second to Beauty Belle, by Nor- 
wood out of Clara Bell. I predict that Norwood will prove a 
good stud dog if allowed a fair lot of bitches. ' 

Champion Pointer Dogs—Had three entries, first going to 
the Baltimore dog Bravo, over John EK. Long’s King 
Tom and the Knickerbocker Kennel Club’s Knickerbocker. 
The award was correct, though neither dog is particularly 

ood, to my mind. Idon’tmean that they are bad, but that 
they are not good enough to win in the best company~ 


Champion Pointer Bitehes,—Had three entries a only 
two iptesent the Westminster Keniiel Clitb’s Lasse, abe 
Mr, H. W. Faweett’s Marguerite IL, by Faust cut of Devoi- 
shire Lass. The-latter took the prise deservedly, Laasie is 
not a good show bitch, and is not ndw iti show form, : 

Pointer Dogs (over 55 Potinds)—Had fourteen entries, and I 
heard Major Taylor say it Was one of the best classes he ever 

udgéd, _, With two or three exceptions, I thought the lot very 

uch above the average of large dogs. First went to im- 
ported Meteor, exhibited by me, and I don’t think | misstate 
it when I say Major Taylor selected him for first as soon as he 
looked him over. To my mind he is ahead of anything in the 
show. I have only had him ten days—from his winter quarters 
in Texas, where Col. Hughes has had him at wort daily— 
and he was not in good show shape, but he won his place with 
ease. The choice for second was a hard job for the Majar, arid 
took him a long time to decide, It finally went to Joe, a liver 
and white dog entered by Dalliba & Mumnhaill, of Cleveland. 
He is a dog that Was bought for $20, arid his no fedigrée: 
With the exception of his head; which lddks like a bull- 
terrier’s, he is a splendid locking dog. His thest is the ae es 
Lever saw on any poititer. He was sold after the award for 
$100, C. M. Mimbhall’s Dotald IL, aliver and white ticked 
dog, by Donald out of Devonshire Lass, ot vhe., which is as 
much as he deserved. He is too straight up and down in front 
to win in good company, butiwas shown in the pink of con- 
dition. thanks to ewis, his handler, Lamplighter, a liver 
and white dog, by Dilley’s Ranger out of Diliey’s Queen, got 
vhe. also, He is a good looking, big dog, but very coarse, as 
are the general run of Ranger dogs. The much-advertised 
Icicle got he., probably because Major Taylor did not, want to 
break his owner’s heart, but had I judged the dogs, he would 
not have been noticed. He is a big, ungainly looking dog, 
without a sign of quality to him. Bolus, a liver and white 
dog entered by A. A, Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio, got he., and 
Bang, by old champion Bang out of Salter’s Luna, entered by 
me, gotc, Bang’s breeding is all right, but he don’t 'tshow 
up” well. He is too stocky and thick, and lacks quality, 

Pointer Dogs (under 55 pounds)—Had four entries. First 
went to Perry, a liver and white dog, entered by A. A, 
Thomas of Dayton, by Lort out of Lass. He is good, except 
his chest, which is entirely too thin. It is deep enongh, but 
very thin. The owner of second, Riot, a brother of Perry and 
entered by same gentleman, with the exception of his nose, 
which is short, is to my mind the better of the two. 

Pointer Bitches (any weight)—Had ninetcen entries, and 
was a splendid class. First went to my imported Vanity, b 
old champion Bang out of Pride. Iam yain enough to think 
the selection was easily made, for I like her better than any 
bitch I ever saw. Second was taken by Lady Croxteth, 
entered by B. F, Seitmer, of Dayton. She isliyer and white, 
by Croxteth out of Lass. I preferred her dam, Lass, who got 
he. to her, though she is a showy, taking bitch, and handles 
well. Ithought Trinket, entered by E. F. Stoddard, of Day- 
ton, a better bitch; but she was shown in very bad ‘condition, 
and would not have deserved to beat her as she nowis. I also 
think my two bitches. Spinaway and Flash, third, better than 
Lady Croxteth—but I am very vain of my entries. They 
were given each a vhe, as well as Trinket. Seitner’s Lass, he., 
is a very handsome lemon and white bitch—better far than 
the average. Westminster Kennel Club’s Moonstone, by Bang 
out of Luna, got c., and I don’t think deservedly. Sheis not 
at all a show bitch, Their Polly failed of a place, though 1 
like her better than Moonstone. 

Pointer Puppies—Were a fair lot, only the winners of 
first and second, B. F’, Seitner’s Rapp and Doncastor, both by 
Croxteth out of Lass, deseryed their places, They are a pai 
of very fine pups. Dalliba & Munhall’s Dora, by Sensation 
out of Devonshire Lass, got vhe. She is also a handsome pup, 
liver and white. E. F. Stoddard got vhe. for his Glen, by 
Bodine out of Lady. The others were a fair lot. 

The special prizes were numerous if not valuable. Special 
A was the best of the lot. It was a massive silver dog collar, 
with solid gold lock and trimmings, donated by the Cincinnati 
Enquirer. It was for the best setter or pointer, dog or bitch 
in the show, and brought out Dido I1., Dick B., Nettie B. and 
Dan, all English setters, winners of first prize; Rupert IL, 
champion Gordon; Hugo, first prize Gordon; Norwood, Clara 
Bell and Lotta, first prize lvish setters,!and Brayo, champion 
pointer; Marguerite 1IL., Meteor, Perry, Vanity and Ra op, all 
first prize pointers. The choice narrowed down to Dido and 
Meteor, and I can say unselfishly that no man in the show was 
more glad to see the prize go to Dido than I, She deserved it, 
and it is worth a fortune to her big-hearted owner. 

Special B, for best English setter dog or bitch, a pair of 
leather leggings, donated by B. Kittridge & Co., went to Dido. 

Special C, a picture for best matched brace of English set- 
ters went to Dinah and Licey, the only entries. 

Special D, for best Gordon setter dog or bitch, a pair of leg- 

ings donated by Kittridge & Co., went to Hugo. Rupert and 

rank showed against him. 

Special E, for best Gordon dog, bronze tobacco case went to 
Hugo. 

Special F, for best Irish dog or bitch, a pair of leggings, went 
to Norwood, beating Lady Clare, Clara Bell and Lotta. 

Special G, for best Irish puppy, went to Lotta, the only 
entry. 

Special H, silver cup donated by Cincinnati News Journal, 
for best pointer puppy owned in Cincinnati, went to (Grace. 

Special I, pair leather leggings, donated by Kittridge & Co., 
for best pointer dog or bitch. went to Meteor, 

Special J, for best pointer puppy sired by Beaufort, went 
to Sylph. - : , 4 

Special K, for best kennel of pointers, Ligowsky clay pigeon 
trap and barrel of clay pigeons, went to my kennel composed 
of Meteor, Bang, Spinaway, Vanity and Flash, beating Lady 
Croxteth, Rapp, Doncaster, Perry and Lass, 

Special L, for best brace of pointers, went to Meteor and 
Vanity. ; 

Special M, for best pointer dog owned and entered by a lady 
of Cincinnati, went to aa cen a j 

Special HE, silver medal for best paras dog entered by a 
gentleman resident of Cincinnati, Newfort or Covington, as 
owner or agent, went to Lamplighter. _ ; 

“Special FF, same as preceding, a meerschaum pipe, went to 
Lamplighter. a " 

Special II, for best pointer dog under 4albs., owned by a lady 
of Cincinnati, went to Fred. an, j 

Special JJ, for best pointer dog owned in Cincinnati, and 
winner of no other prize, went to Sport, tow * 

Special KK, for best pointer dog puppy owned in Cincin- 
nati, winner of no other prize, went to King Alfonso. 

The show has drawn together a very nice lot of dogs for a 
beginning, and no doubt hereafter Cincinnati will have an 
annual show, and a good one. Quite a number of prominent 
owners and dog show patrons are here, too many to note in 
this letter. The judging seems to have given entire satisfac- 
tion, from all I can learn, The weather has been bad all dur- 
ing the show, but for which moré money would have been 
taken in, but it is a success nevertheless, 

Jno. W. Munson, 

CINCINNATI, March 6, 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS DERBY.—The annual Derby 
of 1884, of the Eastern Field Trials Club, open to all setters and 
pointers whelped on or after Jan, 1, 1885, promises to be the 
most important event of the kind that has yet taken place in 

this country. Nearly all of the prominent breeders through- 
out the country will send the pick of their kennels to com- 
pete for the honors of victory. The purse is $300, with $250 to 
first, $150 to second and $100to third. In addition to this, 
there will also be seyeral valuable specials offered. The 
entries will close May 1. For phe dal address Mr. 
Washington A. Coster, Box 30,.Platbush, Kings county, N. Y 


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Marcr 13, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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THE NEW HAVEN SHOW, 
[Special Dispatch to Forest and Streai. | 
Nuw Haven, Conn., March 12.—The dog show commenced 
to-day under yery fayorable auspices. There are 385 entries. 
The arrangements for benching the dogs will compare favor- 
ably with those of our best shows. The building is roomy, 
well lighted and ventilated, There are a large number of 
local entries that make a good showing. The attendance Is 
good for the first day, and there is no doubt that the show 
will be successful. 


, MR. D. C. SANBORN. 


Editor Forest and Stream; : 

Please publish the inclosed resolutions of sympathy from 
the party who have often spent a very enjoyable time on the 
prairie with ‘Uncle Dave:” 

Tt has pleased an all-wise Providence to take from among us 
our @ear friend and beloved brother sportsman, D., C. San- 
born, of Dowling, Mich., and while we bow in reverent sub- 
mission to the Divine will, we feel that_one has been called 
away whose place will be hard to fill. His sterling quatities 
endeared him to all who enjoyed his acquaintance. e was 
kind to a fault, just though 1t were to his hindrance, and full 
of that ready wit and humor whic® always made him a wel- 
come fuest, To the family of our friend in this, the day of 
their sorrow, we offer the most respectful homage of our sym- 


pathy. B. F. WItson, 
BEpWARD GREGG, HowakpD HARTLEY, 
J, W. ORTH, E. B. GopFREY, 


5. L. Boages, 


JOHN O. PHILLIPS, 
W. A. NicHoLson, 


O. F. WHARTON, 
PirrssurGcH, Pa,., Feb. 12. 


N. A. K. C, DERBY. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tinclose a list of entries received to date for the sixth an- 
nual Derby of the National American Kennel Club, Purse, 
$500—$250 to first, $150 to second, $100 to third, Entries close 
April 1, with $5 forfeit, I will mail entry blanks free to all 
applicants. Will furnish you list of entries as fast as I receive 
them, D, Bryson, Sec, N, A. K. Club. 

Mampars, Tenn., March 5. 

N, A. E. C, DERBY, 1884, 
ENTRIES. 


Daisy BeLton.—J. R. Henricks, Pittsburgh, Pa,, blue belton 
English setter bitch, Jan, 3 (Belton I/T.—Countess), 

RopEri¢o,—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, April 11 (Count Noble—Twin 
Mand). 


Hayvrr.—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., blue belton 
English setter dog, April 11 (Count Noble—Twin Maud). 

Cau Coou,—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, June 30 (Gath—Lit). 


Not Namep.—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan English setter bitch, July 20 (Gladstone— 
Carrie J.), 

Qturen Brss,—B, F. Price, Memphis, Tenn., black, white and 
tan HWnglish setter bitch, June 28 (Gladstone—Donna J.). 

Lintisn.—P,. H. & D. Bryson, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan Enelish setter bitch, Aug. 21 (Gladstone—Sue), 


Guapston®’s Boy.—Dr. G, G, Ware, Stanton, Tenn., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, Jan. 10 (G@ladstone—Sue), 


Binty Gatres.—Dr, A. F, McKinney, Forest Hill, Tenn., 
black and White English setter dog, Aug, 21 (Count Rapier— 
Kate B.). 

Surrey.—W, B. Mailory, teeth Tenn., black, white and 
tan English setter dog, June 10 (Gath—Juno IT.), 

Lapy Lrer.—W. B. Mallory, Memphis. Tenn., black, white 
aiid tan English setter bitch, June 10 (Gath—Juno I1.). 

LEXINGTON.—W, B, Mallory, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 
and tan English setter dog, June 10 (Gath—Juno IL), 


BASKET (OR FOOT) BEAGLES. 


HE beautiful little basket beagle, ranging from twelve 
down to nine inches in height, who has heretofore been 
exhibited at bench shows together with their larger brothers 
of thirteen to fifteen inches in height, in one class, will at last 
have a separate class provided for them at the coming New 
York show. if the number of entries will warrant the making 
of such a Glass. 

The necessity of two classes for beagles at our shows has 
been a want loug felt, and as a friend, one of our best judges 
of beagles, said to me in a letter of recent date: ‘The best 
judge was in a quandary when called upon to award a prize 
to one of two beagles, respectively ten and fourteen inches in 
heioth, and of equal iuerit. If he was prejudiced against the 
one, he felt that he was doing injustice to the other, or vica 
versa, ‘Two classes would abridge this difficulty, etc., etc,” 
IT quote trom memory. Having consulted the opinions of 
several of our most prominent beagle men, and finding them 
all coincide with my own convictions, I laid this matter before 
the managers of the Westminster Kennel Club Bench Show, 
and the following is the reply I received: 

New York, March 6, 1884.—A. C, Krueger, Hsq., Wrights- 
ville, Pa.: Replying to your favor of the 3d inst,, the managers 
of the W. K. C. Bench Show request me to inform you that 
if there are enough entries of beagles under twelve inches to 
warrant making a separate ciass, they will do so and will 
award to the best of that class an extra medal.—CuHas. Lin- 
COLN, Superintendent. 

Now all ye owners of this admirable breed, it lies in your 
own hands to bring about this new era in beagle history, and 
Isincerely hope that you will add your mite by entering your 
little pets at the coming New York show, and thereby make 
this class a permanent fixture at all future shows, If this is 
done I think we can, with certainty, look for a champion, 
two open ald a puppy class for beagles under twelve inches, 
in the near future. 

The Westminster Kennel Club have also consented to accept 
and hand to their judges the standard of the American 
English Beagle Club, which will be ready about April 1, when 
it will appear in FOREST AND STREAM. 

A, C. KRUEGER, 
See’y and Treas. American English Beagle Club, 
WRIGHTSVILLE, Pa., March 7, 1884, 


A CANINE TRANSFORMATION.—EKditor Forest and 
Stream: My family rejoices at present in the possession of 
two dogs; Nep, a Newfoundland, huge, black and curly; and 
Leo, likewise large and black, but straight-haired (both as to 
his coat and his treatment of his fellow creatures). Little two- 
year old Mabel and her mother were our guests the other 
morning at breakfast, and the child was much interested in 
Nep, who chanced to bein thehouse. After atime he departed, 
but to the astonishment of Mabel, the same dog, as she sup- 
posed soon walked in, with never a curlin his hair, “Why!” 
said the child, addressing Leo, “‘where’s all you turls,”—K. 
(Central Lake, Mich,) 


CHAMPION DIDO Il.—Special Dispatch to Forest and 
Stream: Cincinnati, O., March 10,—Please announce that 
Champion DidoTI. will not be entered for competition this 
year. ido this in the interest of brother sportsmen, as I wish 


them to enter in the champion class, which they appear not | 5 


willing to do while she is in competition.—W, B. Suarroc. 


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ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW.—Special Dispatch to Forest and 
Stream; St. Louis, March 11.—I[t has been decided to hold a 
bench show of dogs here about the middle of April, under the 
auspices of the St. Louis Gun Club. The cash and special 
prizes will be sufliciently liberal to attract prominent dogs 
from a distance. Competent judges will be secured and the 
show properly managed. Hvery inducement will be offered 
to exhibitors to bring their dogs, Will send full particulars by 
mail,---J. W. Munson. 


PHILADELPHIA DOG RACES.—Dog racing or running is 
coming to the front in Philadelphia. Dogs bred for this particu- 
lar purpose with a certain amount of greyhound blood in their 
veins are employed. Two or three runs take place weekly, 
but the owners of these fleet-footed canines as a rule are those 
who patronize the prize-fighting ring, rat-killing matches, 
and bull-terrier fights, and the amusement will hardly ever be 
upheld by the refined sportsmen owing to the general surround- 
ings.— Homo, 


CLEVELAND DOG SHOW.—Cleveland, O., March 8.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: We have extended the time for 
closing of entries till March 24. We do this on aceount of the 
Washington show, hoping that we may get many entries of 
the winners there.—C. M. MunHALL, Secretary. 


DOG LOST,.—Mr. E. L. Mead, of West Winsted, Conn., has 
lost his orange and white English setter dog Mac. He weighs 
about 45lbs., his head is evenly marked and he has dark eyes 
and nose, there is more orange on one side than the other. 
Any information as to his whereabouts will be thankfully re- 
ceived by his owner. 


CLUMBER SPANIELS.—Any gentleman owning a well 
bred Climber spaniel will confer a favor by sending his ad- 
dress with description and pedigree of dog to this office. 


SHOW ENTRY BLANKS.—Secretaries of bench shows 
should send premium lists and entry blanks to us as we fre- 
quently haye calls for them. 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 


(=— No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


CG. 8., Falmouth, Mass.—Feed your dog with mutton broth and well 
cooked rice, and give after each meal lacto-pepsin, 

F. P. C., Exeter, N. H—Dogs are often troubled with warts in the 
mouth. Cutoff the largest with scissors and touch with nitrate of 
silyer daily until they disappear. 

J.C. B., St. Catherine’s, Ont.—Your dog is probably troubled with 
worms. Giye on an enipty stomach a dose of finely powdered areca 
nut, two grains for each pound of his weight; follow in two hours 
with a dose of castcr oil. 

C. B. M., Madison, Ga.—Write us a description of the trouble, Your 
puppies may have the mange, but we are inclived to the belief that 
they are only afflicted with a breaking out thatis very common to 
puppies and that will disappear as they grow older, 

READER, Williamsport, Pa.—1. We presume that your puppy has 
dew claws. If so we should advise you to take them off. 2. Your 
biteh can be hunted up to within a week or ten days of the time she 
is due to whelp if used carefully. 3, There is no work that treats éx- 
clusively upon training hounds. 

W. W. C., Topeka, Kan.—Distemper assumes so many forms that 
it is impossible for any one to intelligently prescribe without an ex- 
amination. It is always safe, howeyer, to recommend careful nurs- 
ing, a warm kennel, where plenty of pure air can he had, and incase 
of debility, tonics may be given. 


Rifle and Gray Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 
First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at Chicago, [ll.. May 
26 to 31. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O. Box 1292, Cin- 
einnati, Ohio. 


RIFLE POINTS. 


Hditer Forest and Stream: 

I was much interested in the ‘Rifle Queries,” by “J. J. P.,” of Wor- 
cester, Mass., in your issue of Feb, 21, and somewhat disappointed in 
finding that no one had undertaken to answer any of them in the fol- 
lowing issue. I may not be able to answer any of them, but hoping 
to stimulate a discussion I will venture afew remarks. First, in re- 
gard to the comparative effect of moving the wind gauge one-hun- 
dredth of an inch, or raising or lowering the peep sight the same dis- 
tance, I believe there is no difference. The raising or lowering of the 
rear sight will make the same vertical variation on the target as the 
moving of the wind gauge will cause laterally. Theoretically itshould 
be so, and my experience has taught me that it is so. Any one doubt- 
ing it can easily test it by taking a rifle with sights 36in. apart, and 
atter getting it sighted for the center of the bulleye at 200yds., set the 
wind gauge two points (one-twentieth of an inch) to the right, and fire 
afew shots, and note where the shots strike. Then raise the eleva- 
tion five points (one-tweniieth of an inch) and fire again, and see if 
the bullets do not strike as much above the center of the bullseye as 
they did to the left of itin the first trial. Ifthe gun is held steady, 
and the wind does not change, the variation should be ten inches in 
either case. In practice Lalways set ny wind gauge two points, and 
my elevation five points for ten inches at 200yds. The scale on the 
wind gauge being in fortieths of an inch, and on the peep sight in 
hundredths, makes the variation the same in either case. 

Question Second —In regard to the air space, my experience is this: 
A’large air space will reduce the recoil, and cause the bullet to ‘‘up- 
set” fo such an extent as to bulge the barrel at the point the ball 
started from when struck by the exploded powder. I used a long- 
range rifle with 115 grains of powder, an air space of 9 inches and a 
520-grain bullet, firing off-hand at 200-yard target. The recoil was 
very light, and the bullet struck the gronnd 180 yards from where I 
stood. I presume that a small air space would have the same effect, 
only in a lesser degree. An air space of one-eighth of an inch would 
not damage the gun, and its disadvantages might be more than off- 
set by the advantage of having the bulletin front of the chamber 
when struck by the exploded powder, My theory is that the larger 
the air space up to a certain Jimit, the harder will be the blow on the 
base of the bullet, 

Fourth Question.—I think it is best to lubricate the barrel, as 1 be- 
lieve [van keep the barrel ina more uniform condition in match 
shooting in this way than in any other. If the barrel could be thor- 
oughly dried after cleaning every time, then it would probably be 
better to use no oil; but I believe this is impossible in match shoot- 
ing, especially in damp weather. In match shooting you are ex- 
pected to fire promptly when your turn comes, and you do not have 
much time to dry your gun barrel with a multitude of consecutive 
swabs. In cloudy weather your swabs become wetter and wetter as 
the match progresses. and finally there is a sudden halt. Some one 
has challenged a shot. The flags are stuck up, and the markers ap- 
pear on the embankmentin front of the target, apparently mere pig- 
inies at the distance of over halfa mile. Finally they all disappear 
as suddenly and mysteriously as they made their appearance a few 
minutes before. Down go the flags, and Farrow gets his bullseye as 
usual. Now itis your turn to shoot. Your gun has been drying out 
slowly but surely, Where will the next bullet strike? You do not 
know. You screw up your elevation one point and fire. Youtake a 
long look through your friend’s telescope, but no welcome signal 
greets your eye. The scorer calls outin aloud voice, ‘Miss for Mr. 
Blank.~ Youdo not pretend to hear him, oh, no, you are too busy 
cleaning your rife, Thisis nota fancy sketch, but an actual ex- 
perience at Creedmoor. 

How different would have been the result if you had been oiling 
your rifle, You may argue that in that case your rifie would haye 
contained oil and water, and the water would have dried out, So it 
would, But the oi! would haye Bieved there, no matter how long the 
delay, and it is a matter of small consequence whether the small 
quantity of water stays there or not. 

My plan is this: In damp weather I pass the wet brush through 
once};in hot, dry weather twice, Then follow with three len wipers, 
in the same order every time; then a woolen rag saturated with pure 
neat’s foot oil (not too much oil), then a woolen rag to wipe out the 
superfluous oil. As the mateh progresses, your oil rag becomes de- 
pleted gradually, but the last swab takes up a portion of the oil, and 
your barrel remains about the same throughout the match. 

Fifth question—If the wind gauge were on the grip or heel, in shaot- 
ing in strong cross wind the peep sight would beso much to one side 
as to necessifate an unnatural position of the head and spoil the 


hooting. ‘ 
Sixth,—If the bullet fits the gunit may be pushed in from fhe breech 


with a plunger, and must take its proper position, but ifit be a little 

too small to fit the bore snugly, I do not believe that accurate shoot- 
ing can be done with it by any possible style of loading, whether it 
be pushed in atthe breech, rammed down from the muzzle, or forced 
into a small mouthed shell, and shot in the form of fixed ammunition, 
[have experimented considerably with this style of bullet, and never 
obtained any satisfactory results fromit. A bullet that is a little too 
large to be an accurate fit may give good results, but a bullet that is 
a trifle too small is an abomination. : 

Seventh.—If you lubricate the bore, the patch is not liable to strip in 
loading from the muzzle or breech, if ordinary care is exercised. If 
the bore is wet, or dry, and not lubricated, the patch may strip par- 
tially, or entirely off the bullet, before its proper time, especially 
when loading at the muzzle. If no lubricating disc is used I think the 

atch will leave the bullet close to the muzzle of the gun, but I have 
hawt a lubricating disc and part of a patch to follow a bullet for a 
distance of 200yds. I believe that a thick pasteboard wad between 
the lnbricator and bullet will prevent this. ‘ 

Eighth,—I haye questioned several experts on this point, and never 
found two to agree. Neither have I ever succeeded in finding a man 
who seemed to be sure that he knew much aboutit, If any long- 
range expert knows anything about it, will he be kind enough to tell 
us what he knows? : 

Ninth.—I use the Hazard Kentucky rifle, sea shooting, FG powder, 
and have always been of the opinion that it gave uniform results, Al 
the powder taken from one keg would shoot the same place, but every 
time I gota new keg, I found it was stronger than the preceding 
keg, and I was compelled to make out a new list of elevations. This 
has been the case until recently, say the past two years, I have found 
no material change in the strength of the powder. The powder of 
to-day requires a much lighter eleyation at 200yds,, and a much lower 
elevation at 1,000yds., than the powder of five yeaas ago, although it 
is the same identical brand, Hazard FG. Iam quite positive on this 
point, as Iam using the same riffe and the same tiask, and a reference 
to my old score books must be considered positive evidence. I have 
no desire for a stronger powder thanthe Hazard FG of recent manu- 
facture. It gives a reasonably flat trajectory, and the recoil is quite 
sufficient to enable marksmeh to know for a certainty whether or not 
his gun has missed fire. I believe that a nents recoil is very damag- 
ing to close shooting, for the marksman will always involuntarily 
brace up to such an extent every time he is about to pull the trigger, 
that his rifle will be deflected from its proper position just at the 
critical moment when it is absolutely necessary that it should remain 
immovable as a rock. E. A, L. 


Norristown, Pa., March 7. 


RANGE AND GALLERY, 


SARATOGA RIFLE CLUB, March f.—Following please find the 
highest score of each member of the Saratoga Rifle Club, shot dur- 
ihg their regular Wednesday and Saturday shoots last week; Massa- 
chusetts target; off-hand; 200yds.: 
TERRACE AE ORS er Sener tnt Ace 11 11 10 10 11 10 10 12 12—108 


NV TEA RUT PLE OF efugal felcleiymieteee # anceutetels] ep ree fe 21110121011 9 9 11 11—106 
DSHDY Bs Elie ots Keds s pet pds pia os 10 1212 § 1210 10 10 11—105 
I Dayis......-. 11 11 91111101110 9—104 


10 8 10 11 11-11 10 10 11—104 
211 81210 81211 9 11—104 
9 11 10 12 10 12 10 10 11—108 


F A White..... 
H Wellington.... 


WEE GIDDRAL ar sehen: oe 8111011 10 9 8 11 10—100 
ras LOGAN ete wales Syed te ase 21112 810 § 710 9 Ji— 99 
WStAendige: bess. anes 20... ERD. 910 7 11 10 11 10 11 10— 98 
AY He MICHEL | ois ener ee es eee ee 91111 910 9 10 10 10— 90 
Misbarreta... Avs. F.5) o i ae 5 812 7% 7101010 S— 8 
SB. Gorey: Sate 6 soit aewk Gee 398 712 7 6 510-7 
A. G. H. 


FORT D, A. RUSSELL, Wyoming.—Record of lwo best scores made 
by members of Company E, 9th U.S. Infantry, in February, 1884, at 
gallery practice with the Springfield rifle, indoors, 31g grains powder, 
round bullet lubricated, distance 5(ft,, Creedmoor target reduced to 
8x12in,, 15-16in, bullseye cut out; toshow what some of the regulars 
are doing in the way of rifle firing indoors this winter: 


Best Scores. Pr, et 
Lieutenant Hofman............ 55 5 5 56—25 5555 5—25 100 
First Sergeant Louder......... 55 4 5 5—24 5 5 5 4 5—24 96 
Sergeant Meerholiz............ 5444 4—21 5444 4—21 S4 
Sergeant Wendlon.............. 45 4 4 5-22 d5d5 44-23 90 
Sergeant Griffin....... ....... 56 6 5 5—25 5545 4—23 eG 
Sergeant Roeshner........... 56554423 4555 5—24 94. 
Corporal Werner....... ...... 56 5 5 6—25 5 5 45 4-23 96 
Corporal Hodson.... .........554 5 5—24 545 5 5—24 96 
Corporal Johnson,.......... -. 445 4 56—22 453542 86 
Corporal Erfurth.............. 455 4 5-23 4445 4-2 88 
Musician Nolan................ 4454 3-20 4544 4-21 32 
Musician Ames........... _... 445 44-21 555 3 4—22 86 
Private Adams...... . ........ 4544421 5444 4-21 Bt 
Private Bendorf.............. 45 4 4 5—22 5 45 5 5—24 92 
Private, Borhem.......5...-.-.. 54 44 5—22 45 45 5-23 90 
Private Dooley..........-. .... 4 54 5 4-22 45 4 4 497 86. 
Private Dowity .............--. 445 5 5—28 5445 3-21 88 
Private Fuley..,...-.2..-.--..«. 555 4 5—24 5455 4-28 94 
Private Hagerman............. 4445 5—22 56445 5-23 GO 
Private Hannon......... . ...6455 56—24 55.5 5 o—25 93 
Private Hunter................ 5 5 44 5—23 55 445-23 92 
Private Keane..............-.. 3445 4-20 4534 4-20 80 
Private Kenney,.,............. 4445 2 456 5 5—24 90 
Private Koerting.............. 4544 5—22 454442] 86 
Private Lusk......:. .-. 0444 56-22 4555 423 90 
Private Marks... ..0 43 5 5-22 4445 5—22 85 
Private Massey.... 435 5 5-22 55 44 4—22 &8 
Private Morrow .............05 556 5 3-28 5 435 4 6—23 92 
Private Mount................. 4554 5—23 445 5 5-23 92 
Private Muir. s.....0...----.-.- 455 5 8—22 545 5 5—24 e2 
Private Owens..............-.. 553 3 521 3454 5-21 84 
Private Quackenbore.......-.. 54565 23 5544 4—22 90 
Private Rafferty........-...... 4455 5-3 5555 4-24 oe 
Private Robinson... .......... 45 44 5—22 5 44 4 5—22 88 
Private Schienbine. ......... 4535 5-24 555 4 5—24 96 
Private Seymoore..........-.. 55 4 45—25 4555 4—23 96 
Privates Staite yak ~see snes 5445 5—238 45 5 4 4—22 90 
Private Vatghn..............- 444 45—21 5455 4-2 88 
Private Zimmer........ ...-.- 5 45 4 422 455 5 4—23 90 


39 men firing: Company per cent. 90.2, 

THE N. R, A.—At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the 
National Rifle Association, held March 4, Colone! Jobn Ward was 
chosen as secretary and Colonel John G. Seott was elected an 
honoarry director for life. The following comniittee for the ensuing 
year were appointed: Finance. Colonel J. H. Cowperthwaite, Captain 
Ackerman and Major Fineke; On Ranges, Colonel J. G. Story, Gen- 
eral Charles 8, Robbins and Captain EH. Ly Zalinski. At the suggestion 
of Mr. J. H. Brown a resolution was passed that a committee be ap- 
pointed to draw up plans for five matches, to be known respectively 
as the President’s match, the Governors’ match, the Merchants’ 
match, the Bankers and Brokers’ match and the Manufacturers’ 
Inatch; that this committee be directed to appeal to the Governors 
of the different States, merchants, bankers, brokers and manufac- 
turers throughout the country asking them to interest themselves in 
the matches aud donate prizes therefor by way of suitable enconur- 
agement to the citizen seldiery ‘‘who are the great protectors of the 
general safety and property ;” that the committee be further directed 
to make arrangements forthe public presentation of the prizes and 
seek to induce the President of the United States and the Governors 
of as many States as possible to take part in the presentation, After 
it had been decided that the Executive Committee, in conjunction 
with Mr. J. H. Brown, the proposer of the resolution, should attend 
to this matter, the meeting adjourned. 


NEW YORK GALLERY SHOOTING.—The White Elephant Rifle 
Range, Broadway, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets, has be- 
come famous for remarkable rifle shooting, and the old-time si:ooters 
have been left far in the rear by the markmauship of some of the 
experts of to-day. This gallery has all the modern improvements, 
and is the most complete the veteran Conlin ever constructed, Tol. 
lowing are a few of the scores of many similar ones since the open- 
ing of the year: 

Off-hand, 200-yard target, 10 shots; possible 50.—Wm. Hayes 50, 
Fred Kuhnle 50, Chas. W. Minon 49, Wm. Blake 49, Dr, O. Adelberg 
49, F, T. Broun 48, Col. H. F. Clark 50, EB. EB. Tiffany 50, Foxhall R. 
Keene 49, M. J. MeGrath 49, John H. Gregg 48, C. S. Johnston 48, 

Off-hand, 200-yard-target, 7 shots; possible 35.—R. B. Coleman, M. 
D., 35, A. B. Smith 45, Fred. J. Allien 34, D. Piole 33, H. G. P. Mellage 
35, G. W. Grenzer 35, Win. S. Young, Jr., 34, D. G. Young 33. Lieut. 
F. P. Fremont 3J bulls in 35 shots, with 82 cal. rifle. 

200-yard target, 10 shots, rest.—G. N. Bliss, Chas. Matthews, T. E. 
Soule, J. 8. Tucker, R. Lockhart, C. A. Lummis, F. 8. D. Forest, full 
score each, 

200 yards, 7 shots, rest,—Thos, Doolittle, F. E. Moser. Chas. Lynch, 
Chas, 8. Cohens, C. A. Tucker, A. Robbius, Dr, L., McNamara, A. F, 
Wendt, C. H. Barnes, Dr, F.N, Boynton, Walter E. Livingston, FP, 
Rhinelander, W. C. Popper. H. Dunman, J. G. Robertson, W. Arnold, 
D.J. J. Robertson, W, G, Nesson, J. H. Mathews, full score each. 

At 50U-yard target, rest; possible 35.—F. A, Aramayo 35, Thos, 
Doolittle three full scores, W. J. Barker 33, W. J. Hughes 33, P. E, 
Merritt 35, A, Salvini 34, H, P. Gardner 38. E. BE, Tiffany 50, possille 


184 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Marcnr 138, 1884, 


COLLINSVILLE, Conn., March 5.—Canton Rod and Gun Club 
Riverside Range, 3lbs. pull, 10 shots, Mass, target, 


MARA WIs ie dh Vek ans Ah eke 21 OP TD oS. SO GG 
MOESPELID PEAS Feb kata on baton pa eeee 11 11 11 11 1012 910 8 11—108 
UUM WEN eta tak es leas anh wees 111010101012 910 7 9— 95 
SpPRATE WS Ac dlecss es ede seen eee 8 11 1011 101012 9 11 11—103 
Sa Rh ar i ae ae are iy asin eg SIP Sioa Sag “997 
BO Higley....... negaeet Ate he toy $30 7 10°78 9 8° 3° 7 9-81 
Te BR DESEO 45 yt 8 code sadeedte te 81110 910 9 %5 9 9— 87 
GBBT UOULE ies sist habe oop saci 8 111012121010 10 9 7— 99 
Sie ye Qi ee, ae pe ee ee Ss 10 9 9 911 6101012 B— 98 


Tie: O B Hull , 10 10 1282; J D Andrews, 9 9 12—30, 


AN INDOOR TOURNAMENT has been arranged by the Seppen- 
feldt Rifle Club, open to teains of five men from any organized rifle 
club or military organization inthe United States. Entrance fee, $1 
per man, Entrance fee to be made to W. Seppenfeldt, No. 15 Hast 
Houston street, New York, at any time prior to Monday, March 31. 
Two teams to shoot each evening, and the choice of evenings to be 
drawn by the captains. The team prizes to be a fine gold medal to 
the first, and amedal to the second team as extra prizes presented by 
the Seppenfeldt Rifle Club. Entrance fees will be divided with all the 
teams who enter, The money prizes will be arranged on the night of 
meetings of captains of teams. Hach captain will be notified of the 
night of meeting. Weapon, any .22-cal. rifle, 3lbs, pull; 10 shots per 
man, with the privilege of two sighting shots, at 10-ring target. Other 
conditions those of the N. R. A. The contest to be shot at Judson’s 
Rifle Gallery, 138714 Bleecker street, New York. In case of ties in the 
aggregate, the teams tying will shoot off. All disputes that may arise 
shall be decided by a referee appointed by the captains, whose de- 
cision shall be final. Distance, 100ft, 


A DOUBTING READER.—Springfield, Mass.—Edifor Forest and 
Stream; In yourissue of Jan. 31 I notice a e¢nmmunication from 
“H. H.” that is so smooth and mild, and yet so full of rifle tall, that 
I had to read it over and over again. It came from Florida, and its 
assertions seem to almost carry the fragrance of the orange with 
them. We must alltake off our hats to ‘‘thirty years ago.” Then 
the muzzleloader was in its prime. This is the assertion that forces 
my obeisance: ‘‘At 200yds., with areclining rest, [could put all my 
shots in a 2in. bullseye,”’ and this with round ball and linen patch in 
a .58-cal. muzzle-loading rifle. How Major Merrill would like to see 
that target and put his calipers on every bullet, rub his handsin glee 
and shout again, ‘‘Muzzleloaders to the front.** ButI have to notice 
a question in ‘‘H. H.’s” letter. It is this. ‘‘Has the increasing twist 
been applied to any of our breechloaders?’? This question throws a 
shadow of weakness over the communication that I much regret, for 
the uncharitable will say that**H. H.*\is not posted enough in rifie 
matters to make the assertion that he put all his bullets into a 2in. 
bull at 200yds.— Rest SHOOTER. 

ALBANY, Feb 28.—At the Rensselaerwyck range to-day the shoot- 
ing was on Massachusets target, 3 scores of 7 shots. The best scores 
were as follows; 


Wars bitch 1 .. + $23 Aya W112 9 42 40 Ji 11—%7 
li 10 i1 11 12 1 11-77 
11 12 10 11 «11 «12 #12—79—233 
CSU 5 C29 es Se a 10 10 10 10 11 411 12—74 
12 11 12 10 12 10 11—%8 
. . ii 10 11 11 12@i2 11—79—231 
March 6.—The first competition in the American decimal match 
200yds. was shot. We give the best scores: 
Oy ELE TEL ey i SP 6 a 9 9 910 91010 9 9 9-58 
rh SLC 2h 1 ACUTE «Gea ei i ce ge ae 8 9 8 910 9 9 9 9 9-8) 


BOSTON, March 8,—There are at the Mammoth gallery three solid 
silyer, hand made badges, valued at $25, to be shot for by amaseurs 
during the month of Mareh. Im three classes, rounds 10, the best 
five scores to win in each class or possible 250. Position off-hand, dis- 
Following are scores made in first 


tance 150ft,, Creedmoor targets. 

class the past week: 

ee 17g 1 Fe ay SE LOL 44 44 44 dd 45—221 
BERT crad WEP SS ou tena as ya viv cyeie ofaje Seca hel eae 44 44 44 -d4 45 —221 
TRPW ATONOre Le ae... Pose sce aoe aa ee 2.2148 45 43 43 Ad—317 


NEWTON RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—Newton, Mass.. March 1.—The 
regular annual meeting of the Newton Rifle Association was held 
Saturday, Marchi. The following officers were elected for the en- 
suing year; President, T. W- Stevens; Vice-President, Geo. Linder; 
Treasurer, J. E. Hills: Secretary. F. W. Stevens: Directors—J. G. 
Wildmsn, Geo. Strong, W. O. Edmonds, Jr., Dwight Boyden, Dr. E. 
Hitcheock, L. Edwm Chase, Geo. Linder, F. W. Stevens, J. E, Hills 
and M, ©, Laffie. The club is a live one, and. ready at all times for 
friendly contests with neighboring clubs, at either targets or clay- 
birds. Regularshoots will be held on club grounds every Saturday, 
at 2P.M. Correspondence on club matters solicited.—Tom ALLEY. 


BULL'S HEAD RIFLE CLUB.—Regular weekly shooting, Feh. 28: 
12-ring target; possible, 120: M. Dorrler 119, G. Zimmerman 117, C. 
Rein 116, H. Holamann 115, H. Hachmann 111, J. J. Schneider 110, A. 
Lober 109, A. Stolzenberger 107, J, F. Campbell 104, J. J. Jordan 103, 
S. Mehrbach 102, B. Walters 99, D, Holland 97, 8. ¥. C. Weber 96, H. 
Zubiller 87, D. Louinskie 81, H. A. Wasmuth 78.—A. Lope, Sec. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the poper only. 


THE BOSTON GUN CLUB. 


HE fourth tournament of the Boston Gun Club brought outa 
large array of shooters, representatives from the Brunswick 
Club, Maine; Manchester Sporting Club, Exeter; Sportsman Clubs, 
WNew Hampshire; the Worcesters Sportsman, Malden (Mass.) Rifle, 
Suffolk Sportsman, Clinton, Brockton, Maynard and Watertown Gun 
Clubs, Massachusetts, being presenttodo justice and prove their 
sill. The gold badge team match, of course, attracted the most at- 
tention, visitors and sportsmen crowding in and round the spacious 
platform to witness each shooter doing his best for the honor of their 
Tespective clubs, The wingless messengers of peace were incessantly 
peppered at, though the traps being worked to ther best made fine 
scores the exception. A southeast wind gave from the easterly trap 
stands very strong left-quartering birds, after the shoot, birds being 
recovered fully S0yds. from trap. Of course the right-hand birds 
were much shorter fight. The general distance beimg 45yds., 
shooters seemed agreed that no gun could be built to shoot too close, 
or powder thrown too strong for the birds thrown from these power- 
fultraps. The wind, though yarying little in strength, becamea 
little colder through the day, necessitating a frequent visitation to 
the steaming hot coffee provided in the club-house. The scores are 
as follows, singles being from i8yds. rise, doubles 15; ties shat at 
straightaway 2lyds, rise, miss and out; ties on doubles i8yds., one 
pair miss and out; 


First Eyent, 7 single birds. 


Peet 11011004 J Decker... ......,-..---.1111110—6 


WN IP ATTI RR gies .1111110—6 A Houghton, --.---0011710—4 
HW Eager......... ...0131111—6 CA Gerrish. eee -0111171—6 
AVANT. eden an 1111010—5 BF Johnson. -.1111010—5 
SW AE MHD oe 00111014 LG White... - -1100001—3 
OJ Jenkins............. 0010110—3- T C Field .-...- -.0101011—4 
(WDD chet: ee ae Oe 1110011—5 J Nichols ....----,.:..-.1000001—2 
CB Holden............. 0091100—2 H Severance... ....... 0010010—2 
G A Sampson...... . 01010114 AT Cooper........ .--. 0011100—3 
FPRAIt At ar peccadedodn. 0101010—3 D Kirkwood ......-...... 11301116 
EBSchaffer..........- -- 1111110—6 JS Sawyers..........-. 1111101—6 


Ties—Hager and Gerrish first, Allen, Evans and Johnson second, 
Sampson and Houghton third, Jenkins and Cooper fourth. 


Second event, 7 single birds. 


De Rochemont..-....... OT —G « AG tre ess nose hs 0011111—5 
LUD PS BA yee Sy A 0101010—8. WNichols:...-..-,-+--2--. 6011011—4 
Schaefer, .-...-......+.2 J1ji41—7 AA Henry... ......... 1110000—8 
SWIG So re ne ss vee 0101000—2 A Bampson.............. 0111100—4. 
Holden. - 11111016 Houghton.... ........ - 1110010—4 
Decker 01011014 Kirkwood ............. 1011111—5 
Bager....... SOI — 5) Wield. oe ea” ta 0011011—4. 
W Perry .-; “:. - 1011101—5_-~Severance..-.... ...... 0100101—3 
SORENESS; 5-2 ccs esse eee ees 0000 w—0 W Emerson............. 0101000—2 
JOUNSON.,...--..-.+-..-+ 1000101—8_ _G F Cutting. - . .0001011—3 
~ Cooper....<:-. «<........0111010—4 G Williams.... ...1101100—4 
WANE. 5. fe oe oe oe 1100000—2 Curtis. . .1001110—4 


Schaefer took first, Rochemont, Wager and Holden second, Perry and 
Hart third, Curtis fourth. 


olden. 2200500 .00o2 OO —F) Atieldio. see 270 eo: 01 O01 00—2 
PIVAMBs- Bon pte gece ae 01 10 01—2 Gerrish............... Ol ll 10—4 
Rochemont.....--..-.J1 10 00—3 Wiilliams............. 11 11 10-5 
Kirkwood........ -.. 11 11 0O-3 Schaefer ............ 11 11 10—5 
White...........- S109 ath ai—p eNichpols 23 cus. cseaney 11 10 10-4 
HEPOr 1d. est aU NY OLY tek dace ners 1 i 10-5 
ET Smith -.10° OL 10—38 Jenkins. .:...2. -2..., 00 11 11-4 
Houghton.... .......- 1 01 OO—4 W Lane........,--,.. 11 11 10—5 
Sampson.......-..-.+ OO, 10 “00—4. Sanwa io 6 coors ce at 10 11 10-4 
Jolinson Ji 11 10-5 RBPerry......------,-10 10 00—2 
Decker. v.11 10 10—4 Cubtting............,-10 10 11—4 
Hart.... 10 10 Ji—4 AH Perry..,..-+---- 11 10 00—4 
COUBETS yt. tin aaat, 6 rb Roe GAOE 


1—6 , 
Ties—Cooper took first, Schaefer and W. Perry second, Sawyer. 
Houghton and Nichols third, Hager fourth, 


Fourth event, 5 birds from five traps kept re-pigeoned. 


IALG A 3... eens eee Q0100—1 Decker........... ......- 01001—2 
BY: BECEy. A050 chan gees 11111—5 AH Perry.......... ... 10110—3 
SOMES Dia 1110i—4 Johnson.................. 10100—2 
Rochemoent ..7 2... 11010—3 Williams................. 01100—2 

pW a a RAS A RAR Sx, Bye 01010—2 Houghton ..:.. ......... 00110—2 
Sehbaator esses 2) ee UTitI—5- Coopers. ....usestuneunees 01001i—2 
VANS? | 0. eee ero LAI —} olden.) <2 ekseeoeeenee 11011—4 
SAREE IE Toy ok a toe 11000—2 Sampsen 52 \ 11141—5 
TOT b eo yc en net J0100—2' (Cortis. 2 9::ts Lis... 02) Td 
GETEIST IS Serene oe ee 11001—3  D Chambers..... Pa 10111—4 
Law....... Me Bia ow 4 00111—3 H GTaylor.............. 11000—2 
radeapid ie ueg See oe a beast 0103s SNIGHOIS 2) 45 Sesh ce O1111—4 


Ties—EByvans, Curtis and Schaefer first. Jenkins, Holden and Nichols 
pete De Rochemont and Law third, Williams and Houghton 
ourth,. 


Fifth event, 7 single birds. 


DeRochemont........... 1111100—5 Decker............. 2... 01101115 
MCHAGLEM ere sere sets COOPET ccs «melee le 1011110—5 
WHEE etme ce goods bat 1011160—4. arth .0111110—5 
GTR sea) ea Lvleae tdi 1111011—6 Johnson................. 11101116 
Houghton............ ,...0111010—4 WS Perry.............. 1110001—4 
Smiths ys es AS eee 1011011—5 Sampson............... .1011011—5 
Giertaplts 5A ree! 10011104 Emerson............... 1010111—5 

Sl. Sst ain’ ,1011000—8 AH Perry.....-........ 0110110—4 
TVS tiscsent data oe ad aed oe 11010115 Allen.... ............. ,-0111101—5 
WEP ELT o ratitecs-< peered 0011011—4. Howard.....  ......... 01601114 
Per Weis eutekeea ak eae 11110116 Sawyer................., 1000111—4 
IGHOME, & 5 farra Woe tigate -,11001U1—5 OF Steele............... 1010100—3 
RVI oS AP ie ere saleeee 10011115 GF Locke.............. 1110111—6 
VVEMIAMae hs 1 Shi yee 0000011I—2. _H Dutton....... ........ 1110100- 4 
TLO]AGHEE ache dec ee Je AF sev lor: ae yee tee 1111111—7 
WuTytinesss, Nn Prvase ss 10001013 HO Warren.... ........ 1101110—5 
D Chambers............. 100(101—8 


Schaefer and Taylor first, Jenkins second, DeRochemont, Curtis 
and Warren third, W Perry fourth. 

Sixth event—New England clay-pigeon, three men team badge, 
championship match. The Boston Gun Club giving a magnificently 
finished solid gold medal, of the value of $50. to the club getting the 
best aggregate of two scores out of six shoots. Conditions—A team 
to consist of three men from any organized clubin the New England 
States, each club entitled to send two teams’ scores, to consist of five 
singles from five separate and constantly re-pigeoned traps, three 
pair doubles from two traps, and ten single birds from a constantly 
altere | trap, each team’s score to be thus; 68 birds, singles to be shot 
from 18yds. rise: doubles. liyds. rise; ties each day to be shot at one 
pair doubles and one single straightaway bird, meaning nine birds 
per team. If any tie exist on the total of two best scores, the teams 
shall shoot off at five straightaway birds and three pair doubles, or 
33 birds per team. Entrance, $1 per man, the money on each day to 
be divided, 50, 35 and 15 per cent. to the clubs in usual rotation. One 
man can be changed if by sickness or inability to shoot on different 
days, but no change can be made by members from one team to an- 
other of same club. Not less than six teams te constitute a shoot. 


First Worcester Team. 


Five Traps. Doubles. Singles. 

IAP CL lee cldcr er cne te ccc oe 10101 40 11 IL 1010010111—14 

dali {e(Ss1 Fes SAAS SAS SP MEIER RS Fine 11110 10 10 1111111110—¥5 
Was JPeniy-b- cee pede nes 4 01011 10 11 00 1100001111—12—42 

First Massachusetts Rifle Team. 

De Roechemont.............. 01110 10 00 10 1101111011—13 

HHNETSO 1 Seg hs ee 01011 11 10 10 0100111011—13 
Sehaefer. Steet, 11119 01 ii 11 1011110111 —_16—42 

Second Massachusetts Rifie Team. 

Burtiss a: mao Genet eee 01101 00 11 01 1111011141—15 

Mickeyick, 2.54455) 05 eae ee 11100 1i 11 10 0111111101—16 
NIGHOS bree tesa Sree eat .. 00011 01 00 10 0010101110— 9—40 

Boston Gun Club Team, 

Kirkwood Eee 0 opus ce hn ee 10010 00 01 00 0111001011— 9 

SOWHSON Re tere cue: see. . .01110 1i 11 01 1101111011—16 
. 10 11 10 1101111011—15—40 

Exeter Club Team. e 

60 10 00 114411171112 

11 00 11 0110111101—13 
01 10 O1 1101001111439 

Second Worcester Team. 

SSI TUH Wes aide ney eee we eee 01000 00 00 11 1100001110— 8 

Pati pSGIeaad. eo ep ee aes 11111 10 10 00 1011111011—15 
EVO TIpS POT eee one se ocatess 10116 00 10 10 1101101111—13—36 

Wakefield Sportsman Team, 

Di ATGON padi: j<i<iae,-)13 eR 11011 10 10 10 1100111111 —-14 

IVTRT Se ee lacs a aus ee-crererp ere om 01110 10 10 00 1101001101—12 
Goodman.) ) nsrypes pte. eee tee 03000 00 00 00 1010101011— 6—32 


Ties for first were only decided on the fifth tie, when the Worces- 
ter first team took first money, Boston Gun Club and Massachusets 
Rifle divided second, the Exeter taking the third. A large number 
of yisitors were present during this match, and exciting the greatest 
interest. 

Seventh event, 5 single birds. 


Wwer s,s a beegs sna antes 11111—5 Chambers................ 01001—2 
Sehaefer _....-.-3.--..:--: 00011—2 Hmerson.................. 11111—5 
HAMPSON. Pole etdsetse sets TOS) SNICHOISES yest en es | O1111—4 
Jenks, cate es ceansy se see 11011—4 White... ...........2..... 11110—4 
SWAY Olas eno tne Pet eae S011 —4 > WS ‘Perryesy s,s eee 01110—38 
RB SYEV Ny wean acd ee soe kee O10 sOlrtin® , Si Seen 011013 
WVATB en. soe aes pees pee OtttI—4  Gooper..:.-4.5:........ 1. 0T11i—4 
ATE are cee aea ees 11110—4 De Rochemont. .......... 111115 
(in Gifs ey SE rare ees ,.11010—3 Decker........ ees 1101i—4 
Bteclan es 20s fees -sseee 00001—1 Cutting....... 2.22.22... 11000—2 
OHNSOM es ia ome su nee rot PATI —s “Gerrishys ; S52: 5..... ree 11001—3 


Eager, Johnson and Emerson first, Decker second, Sampson and 
Field third, Chambers, Cutting and Schaefer fourth, 


Eighth event, 5 birds, 


CHOI TANAS Aas ihe hase). ~.11000—2 


Decker and Eyans first, Hart second, Nichols and Emerson third, 
Ninth event, 5 birds. 
SATNUPSON Aes ae ome ges WIS Nichols 2,2... 2.7; nae, 11000—2 
TOMACS OMIM EL ses cea pas 1110i—4 Evans............. fore. 11111—5 
Hart. en. e ess for A OVID —3 TF Decker: \cticlace net ees 11111—5 
CGOPET 1. aibe delta eee 11000—2' (Sawyer) 2). 2 ey 10110—3 
S [cy Wier: eee ey ees eee O11 —45 Wiehe it Se eee? 00010—1 


Sampson and Decker first, Emerson and Jenkins second, Hart and 
Sawyer third, , 

During the progress of the latter matches a large number of miss 
and out matches were shot at double birds from five traps; these 
events concluded a splendid day’s sport, the evidences being that the 
next shoot on March 19 will, should weather indications be favorable, 
one of the largest events yet held by this club. r 


UNION GUN CLUB.—The first annual meeting of the Union Gun 
Club, of Pawtucket and Central Falls, was held Tuesday evening, 
March 4, and it was shown by the report of the Executive Committee 
that the club was in a good and prosperous condition. They have 
recently moved to new froumds, which are easy of access, being situ- 
ated aliout half way between Pawtucket and Providence, and within 
400yds. of the line of horse cars running between the two places. 
The opening shoot of the season was held on Feb. 22, and was 
a very enjoyable day, members from the Narragansett Gun Club, of 
Providence, and Watchemoket Gun Club, of East Providence, being 
present and taking an active part with us. We shall shoot this sea- 
son from five screened traps, placed five yards apart. and Friday of 
each week will be our regular field day. We are always pleased to 
gee members of other gun clubs, or those interested in shooting, at 
our grounds. ° : 

The following is thelistof officers elected for the ensuing year: 
President, Charles B. Payne; Treasurer, C, Fred Crawford; Assistant 
Treasurer, Thomas H. Haton; Secretary, Samuel F. Dexter; Execu- 
tive Committee, John Ramsbottom, W. F. Salisbury, C. M. Carpen- 
ter.—SAMUEL F’, DEXTER, Secretary. 


MAPLE GROVE GUN CLUB.—Lancaster, Pa, Mareh 4,—The 
sportsmen of Lancaster have organized the Maple Grove Gun Club. 
The officersare: President, Herbert H, Anderson; Treasurer, Charles 
Francisens; Secretary, John Snyder, 


KNOXVILLE GUN CLUB.—The officers of the Knoxville, Tenn., 
Gun Club for 1884 are: President, M.G, MeLang; Vice-President, §. 
B. Dow; Secretary and Treasurer, Chas, 0. Hebbard. 


WELLAND, Toronto, March 6.—To-day wa Ritter shot against 
Anderson and Seigelburst for $20 a. side, the Captain to break as 
many balls out of 30 as the others did out of 60—that is, 25 each. 
The Captain won, breaking his 30 straight. Anderson and Seigel- 
hurst also broke 30 out of 50. A match was made to-night between 
Capt. Ritter add George Rogers, the noted shot from St. Catharines. 
The terms are bwo matches, one at 21 pigeons each, and the other at 
40 glass balls each, for a side, on . 14th, to be shot here. 


Pachting, 


FIXTURES. 


July 9.—Beyerly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 
July 12.—Boston Y, C., Second Club Match. 
July 26.—Beverly Y. C., Nahaut, Second Championship. 
Aue: 9.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

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9.—Boston Y. CG., tase Matches, all clubs, 
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Aug. 16.—Beverly Y. C,, Swampscott, Third Championship. 
Aug. 23.—Beverly Y. C,, Marblehead, Open Matches. 

Aug. 23.—Boston Y¥. C., Third Club Match. 

Sept. 6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Matches, 


Sept. 18 —Hull Y, C., Club Meet. 
Sept. 13.—Boston Y. C., Se@ond Ladies’ Day. 


ET TU, BRUTE! 


We announee with pleasure that Mr, Lawton’s sloop Gleam is to 
)¥ be improved by the addition of 1,500lbs, lead on the keel, which 
willno doubt make the Gleam an abler craft than she now is in 
lumpy water. This is like a stab at the ai inthe back. The jig 
is nigh up when depth, keels and outside lead invade the classic re- 
gions of Bay Ridge, the last spot on the globe where the patriots have 
collected to resist the onslaughts of common sense by a frantic way- 
ing of the flag, drawing the while upon Danes and Swedes for 
thiir weapons in battle. And now even Bay Ridge gives lively signs 
of regeneration. Outside lead is the first step, the rest follows as a 
natural sequence. When-the truly good and great patriot can so 
far yaw from all that is holy in the hoary traditions of Ameri- 
can yachting as to plaster chunks of lead on the keel ‘‘allee samee 
cuttee,”’ the remainder is only a question of time. Probably Gleam 
with her outside lead will bé found rather hard in a sea, and demand 
an unwieldly rig. The boat which follows her will be given ‘‘just a 
little’’ less beam and ‘‘just a little’? more depth, by which ye sloop of 
old slowly evolves herself into the cutter now capturing the public's 
attention. 

So long! Gleam, old-time trap. All hail! Gleam regenerate, one 
more pénitent gathered into the fold. There is the difference between 
the naval] architect and the good patriot, The former throws over 
the ancient, and with the true American spirit of progression accepts 
the new at abound. The latter, good soul, fights into the last ditch, 
but bows to theinevitable, just sohe can delude himself fondly with 
the belief that he is inventing for himself and not swallowing bitter 
doses emanating from base, bad ‘‘foreign” sources. So the Gleam is 
to.‘lug” a chunk of outside lead. Whither are we drifting? 


HINTS TO LOCAL COMMITTEES. 


i Es regatta committees of the various local clubs existing in ports 

frequented by yachts on their summer cruise woul'l so arrange 
dates for open matches it would further a systematic making of 
“the rounds,’’ which would contribute immensely to the interest 
and ends of yacht racing in enabling records of broad meaning to be 
made. Cruising to the Eastward up the Sound and along the eastern 
coast asfar as Mount Desert is becoming quite general during the 
summer months, especially in July, August and September. But it 
is still done in a desultory manner. Now, if committees of clubs 
from Larchmont to Portland would arrange a series of fixtures for 
public matches open to ‘all comers, offering good cash purses, the 
cruisers would quickly learn to reduce their movements to some 
system,so they could put in an appearance from port to portin 
time to take in the races mentioned, and thereby add to the impor- 
tance of all contests and the meaning of their records. It would lift 
racing from local to national dignity, which is what we now most 
need. Thus the near-by ports should fix upon early datesin July, 
the Eastern coast upon August and early September, and the Sound 
and New York ports again for the latter part of September and Octo- 
ber. In this way a yacht, after starting in the local events, could 
weigh for the rounds along the coast in midsummer on the passage 
east, and likewise enter for the fall races during the passage home 
again, winding up the season with some October matches in New 
York waters. We commend such a scheme to the New Haven, 
Newport, New Bedford clubs, the various organizations in and about 
Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Portland, etc. A little correspondence 
among the secretaries of the clubs would settle upon suitable dates. 


ALL IN DUE TIME. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 


I have been a reader of the SACO Coane of your paper for a 
long time, and fully appreciate your efforts in disseminating ideas in 
the direction of increased draft and seaworthiness in our_yachts. 

Enough has been said on that subject to convince any one who de- 
sires or 1s willing to be convinced, and any further arguments will be 
both useless and superfluous. There will be enough cutters afloat 
here during the coming season to enable them to speak for them- 
selyes, and if their actual performance does not sustain their claims, 
arguments will be ofno avail. I would suggest that you give us the 
designs of other types as well, of which we certainly have a large 
and interesting variety on this side of the Atlantic. Why not give 
the lines of some of the Eastern yachts, some of which greatly re- 
semble the Daisy? Also those of some of our pilot boats, which haye 
a reputation for speed and staunchness. Such a series, together 
with reports of the performance of the craft shown. would be most 
useful in affording the general informationas to the different theories 
and practice in construction on which a thinking yachtsman could 
base a valuable opinion, and without which any statement of prefer- 
ence is not worthy consideration. ’ : ; 

I therefore submit the above suggestions in a desire for wider infor- 
formation on yachting subjects generally. > A 

[We cannot domore than possible. We have illvstrated and de- 
scribed keel sloops of Boston, centerboard sloops, compromises, 
beamy cutters and narrow cutters, besides sbarpies, canoes, buck- 
eyes, Steam launches and engines, yawl rigs and cutter rigs of all 
kinds. We havein preparation some schoovers, the Petrel as an ex- 
ample of a very fast yacht,a modern Boston sloop, iron work of 
schooners aud much other practical information. It is our claim 
that we have published a greater number and variety of designs than 
all other periodicals. But everything must wait its turn. More than 
that cannot be expected. We can fairly say that Formst AnD 
Srream has done more to further precise information and instruc- 
tion in the past years than all its contemporaries put together. The 
field is a very large one, and the future lies before us to cover what 
has not yet been reached, Our object is to supply the most pressing, 
practical and available material within the imposed limits of com- 
mercial success, which no periodical can afford to disregard, We 
have naturally neglected dead issues, and for that reason have given 
the old-fashioned light displacement centerboards httle attention. 
There is no object in giving publicity to boats of a style soen to be- 
come obsolete, nor to practices and customs which we condemn as 
fraught with harm to the best interests of the sport. We must have 
time to fill the whole bill. Having received several letters similar to 
the above, we hope this will explain the policy pursued. Itis easy 
to ask for this or that design, buta much more difficult matter to 
supply the want, Most yachtsmen and yacht builders cannot fur- 
nish accurate particulars, and many are still selfish enough to assert 
proprietary rights for fear of giving away for the benefit of others 
what they deem a good thing. Considering the difficulties to be 
contended with, the Bub is to be congratulated upon haying more 
pertinent material offered through Forest aNp STREAM than through 
all ether sources. | . 


ATLANTIC ¥. G.—Annual match fixed for June 10, Officers for 
the. year: Commodore. H. H. lon schooner Agnes; Vice-Commo- 
dore, George B. Moffat, cutter Enterprise; Rear Commodore, H. C. 
Wintringham, sloop Nomad; Recording Secretary, F, C, Swan; Cor- 
weaponanie Secretary, J. L. Marcellus; Treasurrr, Richard C. Field; 
Measurer, J. J. Pierrepont; Regatta Committee—George D. Mackay, 
C.'f, Pierce and George W. Chauucey. The club has 204 members 
and 103 boats, probably a larger proportion of boats to members than 
any other, as some of the yachts are owned by several persons, 
There are 16 schooners, 63 sloops, 12 cats and 8 steamers. 6 club 
does not owe a dollar of debt, and has a bright future, possessing 
the best inducements in its harbor and accessible club grounds. The 
prosperity of the club is the direct result of pursuing a well defined 
policy. If the mean length rule could only be modified so as not to 
exclude yachts with the long overhangs which taste and practical 
convenience demand in boats of modern style, accessions to the fleet 
would take a further bound ahead, ~ 


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[Marcr 13, 1884. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


185 


"BUCK EVE © 


“THE BUCKEYE.” 


a supply information to many inquirers the building lines of a 

Chesapeake buckeye are produced herewith. The plans in 
question are from an original model of the Cynthia, a boat famous 
as abler and faster than the general run of the family. She repre- 
sents the latest improvements, and it is not difficult to find good rea- 
son for her comparative success in the extra depth of one foot given 
her beyond the custom, the Cynthia drawing 2l4ft. or the depth of 5. 
She is distinguished likewise by more deadrise. an easier turn to the 
bilge, and rather longer and finer entrance. She is another illustra- 
tion of the fact that boats ‘‘grown” to a certain locality to meet cer- 
tain ends are after all only in the first stages of development reviewed 
from a purely critical standpoint, making no allowances for the 
special limited work the boat is intended to cover, nor for the restric- 
tions due to the lack of material, money or skill under which she is 
brought forth. For the moment the original buckeye took on a 
form one step nearer to the regular yacht, us in the case of the Cyn- 
thia, a marked improyement in performance resulted; and it is 
reasonable to suppose that still further approximations to the stand- 
ards observed in yacht modeling would contribute, step by step, to 
a corresponding development of qualities for the better until event- 
ually the pristine buckeye finds herself transformed into a veritable 
yacht, not deviating radically from a yacht in any respect. There 
is then good preinidl why any one seeking the qualities of a yacht 
can save himself trouble and certain disappointment in declining to 
be driven back to,primordials of any kind. The various’ stages of 
experiment and the gradual evolution from the extemporized acci- 
dents which have ‘*grown”’ to-certain localities, have already all been 
gone through extensively by others whose experiences and labors 
have led up to the modern yacht as the climax to the evolution. 
Going back to early forms for afresh start involves only a tedious 
and profitless repetition of what the world has already acquired. and 
it is much sounder policy to take the initial from the latest develop- 
ment and attempt to improve upon that. 

But there are casesin which areturn to first efforts is fully justified 
when a yacht is not wanted, but a contrivance to fulfil in the readiest 
and cheapest way that particular duty to which the existence of the 
“srown” or indigent boats owe their origin, though eyen then the 
structural and mechanical attributes will generally admit of con- 
siderable amelioration through the application of funds and greater 
skill than were at the command of the originators of the type. Thus 
we find that where the peculiarities of the buckeye are sought to be 
preserved, their build has undergone great change nevertheless. The 
Cynthia and her sisters are no longer the clumsy dugouts of yore, 
but are built with a frame and regularly planked. The crude creation 
hewn out of a log has been replaced by a more pretentious construc- 
tion, both in regard to perfection and refinement of form as well as 
in methods of manufacture. 

This stage of the evolution is fittingly represented by the buckeye. 
Sportsmen and others on the lookout fora boat which will carry 
them and a load at good speed on the conditions ef cheap first cost, 
light draft and small rig with fair behaviorin troubled waters, will 
find in the plans produced this week one more excel/ent addition to 
the collection of useful substitutes for full-fledged yachts. As the 
sharpie displaced the dugout on Long Island Sound with the scarcity 
of large logs and the advent of the sawmill, so has the framed buck- 
eye come to the fore in Chesapeake Bay and Southern waters as the 
substitute for the improvised canoe. 

That she is a swift boat, gauged by a rational comparison of size 
and not by the empyrical length standard set up out of hand by 
yachting cliques without reason or considerations of justice, few 
need to be told. With a long body, easy ends and fore and aft sec- 
tions, with deadrise and slow bilge and a fair allotment of ballast to 
the bulk, boats like the Cynthia ought to be capable of excellent be- 
havior and speedy on all points, falling short only in turning to 
windward in lumpy water. .This the sportsmen may be willing 
enough to forego for the sake of the economical inducements and 
light draft held forth. For his purposes the buckeye can certainly 
be favorably commended. He will find it quite possible to improve 
upon her present equipment, and thus exact a higher degree of 
etficienecy by attention to details of ballasting and rig. 

The Cynthia is 49ft. on deck between rabbets, the plans being to 
outside of moulds only. Her beam is 14ft. and draft 344ft., with keel 
in ordinary trim, or about 244 if fitted with board. Owing to her 
ballast she has good weight for working, some ability in a sea, and 
shows wellin climbing to windward, where lighter boats fail. She 
has a round stern, which is locally a matter of pride and style ob- 
tained at an extra cost of about $200. The buckeye is built in all the 
ports along the Chesapeake, and a fifty foot boat, hull and spars, is 
said to cost about $1,000, iron work, sails, gear and joinerwork in 
cabin being extra, which $500 may cover. The usual rig is similar to 
the sharpie, and was illustrated in this paper for Feb. 14. The 
schooner rig is, however, coming into vogue as more efficient. 


SOME GENERAL REMARKS. 


EFERRING to Mr. Frankiyn Bassford’s letter published last week, 
these remarks are made in reply and explanation: F 
Weight in itself without consideration of form is not productive of 
resistance, but form without regard to weight certainly is. Hence 
great weight on a good form of sufficiently narrow beam may be - 
driven as economically as less weight in a broader form. Though 
more water is moved, it is moved toa less distance, hence at a less 
speed and expenditure of power. Proof to be found in the fact that 
with like sail area, Bedouin drives 106 tons practically at the same 
speed the Gracie drives her 64tons. We referred to beam in propor- 
tion to loadline, as fantail overhangs cannot be included in the boat 
proper from a naval architect’s standpoint any more than a cutwater 
reaching half way out on the bowsprit. A look at Lloyd’s Register 
will show a vast majority of cutters under 4144 beams and a mere 
handful of 5 beams and over. For the rest it seems to be only a dis- 
pute as to what can be called a-sloop and what a cutter. No hard 
and fast line ean be drawn, for one type graduaily merges into the 
other, and if itis any consolation to call a sloop so modified as to 
possess in a greater or less degree the principles of a cutter by the 
term sloop, no one will seriously object. They may be called frigates 
with a fore and aft rig, or steamers without an engine, for all the dif- 
ference the name will make. Just so our yachts are built with enough 
depth and weight and shipshape equipment to earn respect from sea- 
men and professional people instead of being looked upon as childish 


‘| toys or silly machines. A centerboard will draw less water than a 


keel, though the difference in deep boats is reduced often to a nominal 
amount, and it remains for every one to determine for his own pur- 
pose whether the advantages of either overbalance the disadvantages. 
The cost of a yacht is regulated by the amount of material and 
labor used in construction and the completeness of equip- 
ment, and not by the empty name her type goes by. All this 
may be more in a sloop or in a cutter, according to their individual 
shape and outfit. With the exception of excess in ballast, there is 
nothing in a cutter which, quality for quality, cannot be as cheap 
and even cheaper than in the sloop. It is certain, however, that a 
cheap and nasty job will cost less than a good piece of work, regard- 
less of type, in the first place, though, taking depreciation into ac- 
count, the costly job will often be found the cheaper in the long run, 
Mentioning prices of yachts out of hand is no more a fair comparison 
than citing a Chatham street suit of hand-me-downs for $10 against a 
$50 suit from a reputable tailor. The notion thata boat and a boat 
ought to cost alike simply because they are two boats,tought_ to be 
overcome by this time. A tin watch and a gold watch are both 
watches, but there is a difference in price. The construction and 
outfit of the Bedouin and the Gracie differ in just the same manner, 
and long after the Gracie is broken up for firewood the Bedouin will 
have fair market value. The modern beamy Boston ‘sloops are not 
only as expensive but more expensive to build than cutters, for the 
simple reason that there is more of them on the length in the way of 
material, more rig and equal or more displacement and draft. The 
Gracie is an old-fashioned light draft. Such yachts are no longer 
built. Dr. Barron’s new sloop of 52ftt. loadline has more than the 
actual depth of the Gracie on 70ft., and within a few inches 
the same draft. We are. well aware that under length rules 
yery narrow beam cutters may not come into vogue, but the 
signs of the times all point to moderate beam at least, 
coupled with the depth, draft, low weights and equipment 
of the cutter, All-this may be only old experience. It may all 
have been tried long ago. In fact, the ancient Phoenicians knew all 
about cutters and outside lead long before the English developed the 
modern yacht. There is nothing new under the sun anyway. But 
the fact remains that in spite of previous experience we drifted off 
at a tangent here in Americainto the universal construction of flat, 
shoal, light displacement traps and declined to listen to anything 
else until the “cutter agitation” again opened the public’s eyes to 
the possibilities in directions for a long period refused the slighest 
recognition. That period is now closing. There will be no more 
schooners built like the Grayling and no more sloops like the Fannie 
or Gracie. How far we will proceed in the opposite path, how nearly 
we will approximate the extreme type of cutter is a question no 
newspaper controversy can settle. It can safely be left to future ex- 
perience. FoREST AND STREAM has labored for a full understanding 
of both sides and equal recognition to various systems, so that intel- 
ligent selection would result. It must be readily understood by 
every one that as long as ‘‘cutter principles” could not obtain a hear- 
ing in this country, as long as everything in the way of change or 
improvement was damned without trial or evidence, yacht designing 
was nothing but groping in the dark, a matter of stumbling on the 
right thing in place of intelligently appreciating the problems to be 
worked up to as nearly as limiting conditions would allow. No better 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Marce 13, 1884. 


proof of the utter absence of trustworthy knowledge among the 
classes accepting the responsibility of modeling our yachts can be 
asked than the capsizing of the Grayling, a schooner which had been 
proclaimed absolutely uncapsizable while on the stocks because the 
so-called ‘“practical’’ eye was mislead by her beam into a false as- 
sumption, the few who foresaw the probability of the disaster being 
laughed to scorn for their temerity in proclaiming the likelihood of 
that which subsequently happened. We have again fairly started on 
the right path with the practice of more depth and weight and better 
rigs, and for that only Forrest anp StrREaM, with its few coadjutors, 
must be thanked. Our course has been opposed at every step by 
every conceivable agency, but in spite of prejudice, false witnesses, 
and malice, the cutters steadily increase in numbers, and the whole 
of American yacht building has entered upon a revolution, circling 
about the cutter in a spiral qracunlly piloting up to the ultimate 
center of perfection. And in the knowledge thatno agency has con- 
tributed to this great change more than our pen lies our reward and 
satisfaction, be the upshot of it all ‘improved so-called sloops,” 
“American cutters,’ or exact copies of the foreign craft under our 
flag, We care not which.so the trap has been forever ousted and 
the dawdler transformed into a veritable amateur shellback, with 
irresistible salt water longings. The question of type has been so fully 
discussed in this journal, that we refer to our files rather than give 
more space to a reopening of generalities not specific enough to lead 
to a point. It is certain that the ball of innovation has been started 
rolling. It fs certain that it hasnot yet stopped rolling, for successive 
yachts represent fresh departures from their predecessors, The ball 
may now be allowed to roll out its course, then we will know upon 
whatit has brought up. We are entitled to thanks for having inau- 
gurated this new era in the overthrow of warped and narrow concep- 
tiens which monopolized attention before our advent upou the 
Scene. To that extent we have earned the favorable recognition even 
of those who still resist the inevitable evolution from the makeshift 
of American yachting in its infant days to the regular vessels of 
yachting. ripened into the dignified occupation of men, 


NEW ENGLAND YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION. 
BY-LAWS. 


eee ab meeting of delegates from New England yacht clubs, 
heid at Parker House, Boston, Feb. 20,1884. Compiled by W. 
Lloyd Jeffries, Beverly Y, C.; C. A. Perkins, Hull Y. C,; L. M. Clart, 
Dorchester Y. C.; John Bryant, Eastern Y. C.; Parkman Dexter, Dar- 
chester Y. C,; C, F, Loring, Boston Y. C., er-officio, committee. 
ARTICLE If. 
NAmz.—The name of this organization shail be The New England 
Yacht Racing Association. 
ARTICLE I, 
Opsects.—The objects of the Association shall be; To encourage 
yacht building and yacht racing; to establish and enforce uniform 
Tules for the government +f all races in which the yachts of two or 


more clubs compete, 
ARTICLE IT. 


Mensersuip.—the following yacht clubs may became members of 
this Association by accepting the by-laws: Beverly, Boston, Bunker 
Hill, Dorchester, Eastern, Hull, Jeffries, Lynn, Portland, Quincy, 
Salem Bay, South Boston, West Lynn and Yale, 

Any other yacht clubof New England in good standing, having 
fifty members, or {twenty-five yachts measuring more than ten feet 
in Jength on the water line, shall be eligible to membership, Appli- 
cations for membership must be made in writing to the secretary of 
the Associalion, must be signed by the commodore or secretary of 
the club applying for membership, and must contain a correct list of 
the members and yachts of the club. The executive committee shall 
act upon said application, and shall admitall clubs eligible under 
this article. The decision of the committee shall be final, 


ARTICLE IV. 
REPRESENTATION.—Each club shaJl be represented in the Associa- 
tion by one delegate. 
ARTICLE V. 


Orricers.—The officers of the’ Association shall be as follows: 
President, vice-president, secretary (who shall also be treasurer). 
and an executive committee consisting of five members, of which 
the president and vice-president shall be ew-officiis. These officers 
shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting, and shall 
hold office for one year or until their successors have been duly 
elected. Vacancies may be filled at any regular or special meeting. 
A majority of the votes of the members present shall be necessary to 


elect, 
ARTICLE VI. 

Duties or Orricers,—President. The president shall preside at all 
meetings and enforce all regulations of the Association. He may call 
a special meeting at his pleasure, and shall so do at the written re- 
gnest of any club of the Association. 

Vice-President. The vice-president shall assist the president in the 
discharge of his duties, and in his absence officiate in his stead. 

Secretary, The secretary shall keep a true record of the proceed- 
ings of all the meetings of the Association in a book provided for that 
purpose; shall keep a correct roll of all the clubs and delegates; shall 
notify each elub of its election to membership; and shall notify each 
delegate of every meeting and of the purpose for which it is called. 

Treasurer. The treasurer shall collect all money due the Association 
and pay all bills contracted by it, keeping a correct account of the 
same in a book provided for that purpcse. He shall make areport at 
each annual meeting cf all the receipts and expenditures, and of the 
amount of money remaining in his hand. 

Buecutive Committee. The executive committee shall act as a mem- 
bership committee, shall establish and enforce penalties for the in- 
fripgement of the racing rules of the Associatiou, and shall settle 
any dispute arising out of the construction of racing rules which 
shall be referred to the Association, 


ARTICLE VIL. 

Mrrerimves.—There shall be an annual meeting on the fourth Wed- 
nesday in April of each year, at which the reporis of the secretary 
and treasurer shall be read, and officers for the ensuing year shall be 
elected, Special meetings may be called by the president. Notice 
of each meeting shall be issued by the secretary at least ten days 
before the date thereof. Representatives from fiye clubs shall consti- 
tute 2 quorum. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed, but in case of 
the absence of any delegate, his place at that meeting may be filled 
in such manner as his club may have provided. 

ARTICLE VII. 

Assessments.—runds for defraying the current expenses of the 
Association shall be raised by an annual assessment on each club of 
ten dollars, which shall be due and payable in advance, and the 
financial year shall begin at the date of the annual meeting. No 
other assessment shall be levied except by a two-thirds vote of all the 
delegates present at a meeting called for that purpose. 


ARTICLE TX. j 
RESIGNATIONS AND ExpuLsions.—_The membership of any club in 
the Association shall be forfeited by voluntary withdrawal. or by a 
two-thirds yote of all the clubs of the Association at a meeting 
epecially called, at which said club shall have an opportunity of 
being heard in its own defense. 
ARTICLE X. i 
AmENDMENTS.—These by-laws may be amended by atwo-thirds vote 
at any meeting of the Association, proyided, however, that the notice 
of such meeting shall haye contained the proposed amendment in 
fuli. 4 
First meeting at Parker House, Boston, April 28, at 7 P. M, 
P. O. Box 1381, Boston, PELEG ABORN, Secretary. 


THE BUGBEAR 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tver since the cutter became an element in yachting, a great deal 
has been said avd written by sloop men about the cutter’s great dratt 
in relation to our shoal waters and harbors, Here isa listof the 
principal waters and barbors used by the yachts of this port. We find 
that with one or two exceptions, wherever vessels of the Gracie’s 
draft of water could be accommodated there would be water enough 
for the largest cutter, 

Horse Shoe, Sandy Hook Bay, 16ft. to 3fms, The channels from the 
ocean contain from 14ft. upward, Gravesend Bay, 12ft. close up to the 
beach. Upper Quarantine and Bay Ridge anchorages 4fms. and 6fms, 
respectively. Kill von Kull 344fms., lower Hudson dfms. From Goy- 
ernor’s Island to Whitestone, the Hast River is narrow, but deep. 
Whitestone anchorage 3!4fms. Along the north shore of Long Island 
we find the following anchorages: Cow Bay, 12ft. to 5fms.; Sand’s 
Point, 12ft to 16ft.; Glen Cove dock, 3}gtms. ; Oyster Bay, 10ft. to 
5fmos.; Cold Spring, 15ft.; Lloyd’s. Harbor, 10ft,; Northport Bay, 10ft. 
todfms. Port Jefferson harbor can only be entered by large vessels 
during certam conditions of wind and tide. A yacht that is bemg 
repaired at that portnow draws iff. Orient harbor, 15ft.; Green- 
port, 3igfms. close to dock, Through Shelter Island Sound and the 
greater parts of Little and Great Peconic Bays, a vesse] drawin 13ft. 
could be carried, Sag Harbor, 10ft.: Napeagne Harbor, 12ft. On the 
lower shore of the Sound comes first in order City Island Roads, 10ft. 
to 6fms,; Larchmont Harbor or Delancey’s Cove, bt. to 11ft.; Cap- 
tain’s Harbor, 344fms.; abreast of Morton House, Greenwich, ae 
Stamford Harbor, not much frequented, 9ft.; Black Rock, 10, 12 an 
15ff,; Charles Island Harbor, east of the island of the same name, 
recently purchased by the American Y. C., 10 to 16ft,; behind the 


OF DRAFT. 


breakwater in New Haven Harbor, we find 344fms.: Morris’ Cove, 10 
to 14ft.; 13ft. may be carried up to the city through a very narrogy 
channel; the rest of the upper harbor falls almost dry at low water. 
Thimble Island’s harbor, 15ft.; Connecticut River bar, 7i4ft. This 
would shut out our big cutters and sloops at low water, Inside the 
bar there is plenty of water as far as the chart gives soundings oppo- 
site Lynn Ferry. New London Harbor, 10ft. to 5fms.; Noank 13ft. ; 
Mystic Bridge, 11ff.; West Harbor, Fisher's Island, 10 and 14ft,; Ston- 
ington, 10 and 1#ft.; Hast of the Race we have Block Island Break- 
water, behind which we find 8 to 16ft.; Newport, 10ft. to 3t4fms.; 
Wickford, i4ft. Providence is approached by a very narrow dredged 
channel 20ft. deep; the rest of the harbor falls dry. Bristol, 16ft.; 
Fall River, 18 and 15ft.; New Bedford, 15ft. to 8fms.; Upper Harbor, 
9 to 14ft.; Cutty Hunk, 14ft. The other harbors in Buzzard’s Bay are 
little used by New York yachtsmen, but with the exception of those 
eionted in the extreme uorthern portion the chart shows anchorage 
in i: 

In Vineyard Sound, Tarpaulin Cove 15f., Wood's Hole i4ft., Vine- 
yard Haven 3fms., Edgartown 15ft. and over, Hyannis Port 13ft. to 
3fms., Stage Harbor, Chatham, i8ft., but there is only 3ft. on the bar 
at the harbor’s mouth; Nantucket Harbor 9ft. to 15ft,, but the bar 
shows only 5ft., and as the tide only rises 2ft. or so in this locality 
vessels of comparatively little dratt are shut out of the last two har- 
bors mentioned. These figures are all taken from the chart and in- 
dicate the depth at mean low water spring tides, Flanp LEAD. 

[The fear of draft is in practical yachting life a bugbear and 
nothing else. The same kind of aversion once existed in Hastern 
waters, but now nearly all yachts built Hast are keel boats of as 

reat and even greater draft thanregular cutters, New Yorkers are 
fast overcoming their aversion to draft. Those owning keel yachts 
invariably acknowledge that their draft does not bother them in the 


least. It is, of coursé, possible that by deliberate selection a spol 


here and there can be found too shoal fora deep draft. The same 
can be said of every coast in the world. Weare far better off for 
depth of water than our English cousins. many of the Engtish har- 
hors being artificial and drying out at low water, Our harbors and 
channels are also easier to navigate, and our system of buoyage and 
lighting superior and simpler than similar provisions abroad. There 
areisolated instances where a fiat trap will make shelter in some 
small cove to which a deep draft could not follow. But such cases 
are so few and far between that they cannot be taken into considera- 
tion as having any weight upon the choice of proper design. We 
deem the question of draft clap-trap pure and simple. ‘Our shoal 
waters” are much of a myth, and no longer influence any sensible 
people who know what they want a yacht for.] 


THE NEW HERA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

You stated in last week’s paper that the new Hera will displace 14 
tons on 86ft. loadline against the 1644 of Madge on 38ft. I think the 
Hera will run nearer 16 tons than 14, and in proportion to Jength will 
displace more than any cutter, fully justifying your position that the 
new length sloops will cost more than cutters, and be more expen- 
siveto keep in commission and more difficult to manage. We have 
not reached the limit yet, aud I think we will see Heras with 18 tons 
displacement, and 36ft. hoist to mainsail as the natural consequence 
to length measurement. My choice would be about 12 tons displace- 
ment with say three and a half beams, and about 25ft. hoist to load- 
line of 36ft,, asa good average for all purposes, but such a boat 
would start with a disadvantange for racing as you have often ex- 
plained, so there seems nothing to do but to build the largest boats in 
tke hope that the trouble will correct itself by bringing into promi- 
nence the evils of the length rule. It seems a pity to me that a better 
rule cannot be adopted at once without, so to speak, going through 
an experimental purgatory to cleanse the cobwebs from our under 
standing. SEML-CUTTER. 


FRIGHTFUL ANARCHY.—Our cousins abroad are at their wits’ 


ends on the measurement question, and we are not much better off / 


herein America. One thing the English are fast realizing, The Y. 
R. A. rule must go. It is killing yacht racing not because of the cost 
of the inodern narrow beams as often assumed, but because it out- 
classes all other styles in handicapping them so heavily witb a ficti- 
tious tonnage. Remove this unjust discrimination and the beamy 
yacht will come to the tore if she proyes the equal of narrow deep 
heelers in speed. If she cannot match the narrow flyers of the latest 
proportions on a fair rule, no rule can alter the present state of affairs 
unless in the nature of a penalty upon the narrow beams in turn, and 
that no fair rule should seek to accompliish, for no fair rule should 
dictate how we are to model and how not. That handicaps upon fast 
boats will never become popular stands to reason, because diametri- 
cally opposed to the very nature and objecis of allowing time. Last 
week's Land and Water says: ‘‘As handicapping is equivalent (or, 
at any rate, is intended so to be) to bringing the merest old tub and 
the smartest vessel to an equality, it seems asifno good results vould 
be derived from this curious style of racing, and as yacht racing was 
originated and is still supported with a view to the improvement of 
nayal architecture, it seems illogical and even ridiculous to encourage 
it. Were handicaps to become general, there would be no induce- 
ment to build fast vessels, and it is by no means improhable that the 
designing and construction of yachts for racing purposes would alto- 
gether cease. Fortunately, however, if we may judge from bygone 
experience, this kind of racing will never become common, and it is 
not likely that it will influence genuine sport one way or the other.” 


SUCCESSFUL SCHOONER.—Last winter a gentleman living on the 
Chesapeake built a schooner on the lines of the Penzance lugger, il- 
lustrated in Dixon Kemp’s popular book on ‘*Yachtand Boat Sailing,” 
but gave her one foot more depth. She has proven a Success, being 
quite fast, a good, comfortable and wentherly sea boat, with large 
accommodations. Loadline. 36ft.; beamon same, 10ft.; freeboard, 
3ft.; draft, 4ft. 9in. Inside iron ballast. Rigged as a pole schooner. 
with single jib and large yard lug foresail for light winds. Hoist of 
mainsail, 26ft.: bowsprit outboard, 10ft. Base of three lower sails, 
55ft. Headroom in cabin, 6ft. Floor, 244ft., and sofas 32m. wide. 
For general cruising the yacht has shown herself well adapted. She 
is already in commission on Chesapeake Bay. We will soon publish 
lines and details. 

PORTLAND Y, C.—Has 147 members. 6 schooners, 14 slsops, 5 cats. 
isteamer, and 1 catamaran—27 in all. During the past season 118 
“foreign”? yachts put in to Portland harbor, of which 11 were steam. 
ers, Challenge Cup race fixed for June. Officers for the year: 
Commodore, William Senter, Jr.; Vice-Commodore. 'se0. C. Owen; 
Fleet Captain, Edward Woodman; Secretary, George Doane Rand; 
Treasurer, Harry R. Virgin; Measurer, Joseph H. Dyer; Regatta 
Committee, Com. Wm. Senter, Jr., ex-officio, Frank L, Moseley, H. P. 
Larrabee, H. R. Virgin, W. H. Stevens. 

THE NICH INTERNATIONAL,_The great international races at 
Nice, April 15, 16 and 17, promise good sport this year. The famous 
cutter Annasona has shifted for yaw! rig, and will appear as such, 
the rules having been altered to allow mixed rigs to compete for 
same prize. The English schooner Gladys, 80x15.7x9.1, built in 1876 
by Harland & Wolff, of Belfast, has been entered, The American 
schooner Dauntless was at Algiers Feb. 14, bound for Nice, and the 
Gitaua. of Boston, may also appear at the start. 

ANNASONA,.—This cutter will, after all, sail under her regular rig 
at Nice, owing to late change in the rules. Her cutter spars will he 
sentout after her, The performance of this modern narrow beam on 
the passage will be full of interest. Judging by the recent cruise of 
the Ileen down our own coast, she ought to prove a fine, able sea 
boat, in spite of the misgivings of the old school. 


LAST NEWPORT RACES.—A gentleman writes that Captain Joe 
Flisworth, who sailed the Montauk for the Goelet Cup inthe matches 
of last August, acknowledged in person that Fortuna had the race in 
hand, and lost only by trying to carry unproper sail on the wind. 
This by way of reply to assertions of correspondents giving different 
explanations, 

RARITAN Y. C.—Editor Forest and Stream: The election of offi- 
cers of Raritan Y. C. resulted as follows: Commodore, N. D. White; 
Vice-Commodore, E. H. Hall; Secretary, F. W. Kitchel; Treasurer, 
F. A. Greenly; Measurer, C. PF. Hall. The treasury is ina flourishing 
condition, and a good time is anticipated the coming season.—P, 

K, 


JERSEY CIry Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, H. C. 
Roome: Vice-Commodore, F. C. Brower-Anchber; Secretary, George 
Hawes; Measurer. G. H. T. Doggett; Regatta Committee, Charles G. 
Gardner, F. E. Coles, and John Linegroye. 

HUNT’S MAGAZINE.—The February number contains a yery fair 
design for a four-beam yacht. 20ft. loadline and 6f. Gin, beam, with 
4.8 tons displacement and 4i¢ft. draft, Also a variety of cruises, some 
of which are quite interesting. 

THE MIGNONETTS.—The rig illustrated last week, and the calcu- 
lations are for sails unstretched as they eome from the sailmaker’s 
loft. Carmita’s rig is her cruising suit. Forracing she has a larger 
plan. 

THE SEASON.—The reader’s attention is directed to our adyer- 
tising columus, in which bargains in tonnage are often offered, and 
other announcements whieh will save many inquiries. 

THE NEW RULE ABROAD.—The London Field says the Royal 
Thames Y. C, proposes to substituse the sail area and ength rule in 
place of ¥. R, A. tonnage for trial. 


DAUNTLESS,—Mr. Colt’s schooner returned to Gibraltar with boat 
ee ae bulwarks smashed. Repaired and resumed yoyage to 


MERLIN.—The riz of this new cutler measures 5(ft. bowsprit 
hounds to mainsail clew, and 45ft, deck to topmast shoulder. 


PORTABLE BOAT.—Communication on this subject has been re- 
ceived, but no Dame jas attached 


© 


Ganceing. 


CHICAGO C. 


Cc. 


YOMMANDER, G. M. Munger; First Officer, J. W. Keogh; Secretary 
\ and Treasurer. F. R. Seelye. Thirty members, ‘he club burgee 
is A. C, A. regulation size, a red field with old gold ball five inches in 


diameter. Organized Jan. 11, 1884, 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Tenth Paper. 
BUILDING— CONCLUDED, 


[ is still customary in many canoes to place the floor 

boards directly on the timbers, giving a little more space 
below deck, but allowing the water to cover the floor if 
there is the least leakage ora wave is shipped. A better 
plan, shown in the accompanying plate, which is a working 
drawing of a ‘‘Jersey Blue’ canoe, is to raise the floor above 
the garboards from 1} to 2in., according to the depth of the 
boat, thus giving space below for ballast if desired, and also 
keeping crew and stores dry, even though there is consid- 
erable water on board. 

The floor is carried on ledges, 2 2, 1d4in. deep at the middle 
by #in. wide, fitted closely to the planking, and secured by 
screws through the laps. Small limberholes should be cut 
in each piece to permit the free passage of water. These 
pieces also serve to strengthen the bottom of the canoe 
materially, The floor boards, n 7, are in three widths, Sin. 
thick, of pine, the side pieces being screwed to the ledges, 
while the middle piece can be lifted out to stow ballast 
below. An oval hole in the latter piece, about under the 
knees of the crew, holdsasponge for bailing. The deck 
beams—of pine, spruce or hackmatack—are marked out 
from a beam mould, which is made from the large drawing. 
The amount of crown to be given to the deck must be 
decided on by the builder, From 3 to 3Hn, is not too 
much for a 30-in. boat, us the space below, for air and stow- 
age, is much greater than with a flat deck; the boat will free 
herself from a wave quicker, and there is nothing to be said 
against.it. Before putting in the deck beams the timbers 
must be cut off level with the gunwale, and the latter planed 
down until the sheer is perfectly fair from end to end, the 
beam mould being used at the same time as a guide by which 
to bevel the gunwales to suit the deck beams. The latter 
are spaced about as shown in the drawing, being fastened 
by a Qin. brass screw through gunwale and upper streak 
into each end, The beams will be lin. deep and +in, wide, 
except the partner beam that supports the mainmast, which 
will be 4in. wide, so as to take a 2din, hole for the mast 
tube, and the beams under the butts of the deck, which will 
be 14in, wide. 

Canoe decks are sometimes laid in but two pieces, with 
one seam only down the center, but while this makes a very 
handsome deck it is necessary to take off the entire half 
deck every time that repairs or alterations are to be made. 
Tt is often desirable to open one of the end compariments, 
and to do this quickly the decks are now yery often Jaid in 
six or*more pieces, one joint being over the forward bulk- 
head and one over the after one. At these points the beams 
are made 1tin. wide and*but gin. deep, cach piece of deck 
lapping in. on the beam. ‘After the beams are in, ridge 
pieces are fitted down the center of the deck fore and aft 
of the well, They are from 2 to din. wide, according to 
the size of the masts, and #in. thick, being halved down into 
the deck beams and bulkheads and nailed to them. The 
holes for the mast tubes are now bored, the steps of oak are 
fitted and securely screwed or riveted to the keel and the 
mast tubes putin place. These are of copper or brass, the 
ends soldered up so that they are perfectly watertight. The 
upper ends are slightly flanged over the ridge pieces, with a 
little lamp wick and paint under the flange to make a tight 
joint. Plugs are sometimes put in the bulkheads to drain 
off any leakage, and the holes for them should he bored 
now, as low down as possible, The frame work of the well 
consists of two fore and aft pieces of spruce, » %, $x1fin. 
sprung partly to the shape of the well, the ends nailed to 
the deck beams and bulkhead, and also of two curved 
chocks, 7 7, at the forward end, completing the pointed form 
of the cockpit. The side decks are also supported by four 
knees, 7 7/, on each side, sawn from oak #in. thick and 
serewed or riveted to the planking, a brass screw 14in, long 
passing through the gunwale into each, while the side 
pieces, 2 v, are screwed to the inner ends, ' E 

Before putting in the coaming, the decks, which will be 
of din. mahogany or Spanish cedar, should be cut and fitted 
roughly to the outline of the well, the final fitting being done 
after the coamings are in, These should be of clear tough 
white oak, tin. thick. Their slipe 1s taken by means of a 
thin staff sprung into the well, the upper and lower edges of 
the side pieces being marked on it. The pointed coamings 
now generally preferred are from 3 to 3iiD. high forward, 
sloping to Ijin, amidships and aft, the after end being either 
round or square. The coamings are riveted to the side picces 
and the after piece to the deck beam or bulkhead, a piece of 


4in, mahogany, g, being fitted in the angle forward, to 
strengthen it, and also to hold cleats and belaying pins. 


The other fittings, described in the following chapter, such 
as side flaps, footgear, tabernacle, ete.. are now put in, then 
the boat is turned over and the outside smoothed down, using 
fine sandpaper and a file on the nail heads; the stem band, of 
in, half-round brass, is drilled and put on, the rudder braces 


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are fitted and riveted fast, and sometimes bilge keels, which 
are strips of hard oak 8in. square and about 4ft. long, are 
screwed to the bottom about over the second lap, protecting 
the boat in hauling up. 

The outside of the boat and the inside of well Las now a 
coat of raw linseed oil, and the inside of the compartments, 
the bottom, under the floor, and the deck frame, is painted 
with white lead and oil, sufficient black being added to make 
alead color. Now, the bulkheads should be tested, to do 
which the boat is securely blocked up a short distance above 
the floor, and “each bulkhead in turn filled with water, the 
leaks, if any, being carefully noted and marked. After the 
ends are tested, the water may be bailed into the middle of 
the boat, and the leaks there marked also. When these have 
been made tight, the decks may be laid, the pieces being 
first fitted, and then the under side of them being painted, 
and the edges of .the gunwales, ridge pieces and bulkheads 
being also covered with thick paint or varnish. While this 
is fresh the pieces of deck are laid in place and fastened with 
gin. No. 5 brass screws, placed 3in. apart, along the gun- 
wales, ridge pieces, deck beams, bulkheads and side pieces 
of the well. In all the older canoes the screw heads were 
countersunk and puttied over, but it is customary now only 
to screw them flush with the wood, allowing the head to 
show. If puttied over it is difficult to remove them, and 
the decks will be more or less defaced in clearing out the 
hard putty in order to do so. 

After the deck is on, enough quarter-round heading of 
mahogany must be got out to go around the well, and also 
some half-round, to cover the seam down the center of the 
deck. These are nailed with haif-inch brass or copper nails. 
The decks are next oiled, the mast plates, cleats, screw-eyes, 
and other fittings screwed fast, the rudder, hatches, ete. 
completed, and all the outside of hull and inside of the well 
is varnished with some variety of wood filler, of which there 
are severalin the market. This first coat is merely to fill the 
grain of the wood, and has no polish of its own. After it is 
thoroughly dry, a coat of spar composition should be given, 
and allowed full time to dry before using the boat. 

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THE LAKE GEORGE C. C. 


ry} HE third annual meeting of the Lake Geore C. C. convened at the 
residence of Mr. 8. R. Stoddard, 22 Elm street, Glens Falls, N. 
Y., on the evening of Feb, 21, to elect officers for the ensuing year. 
Dr. Charles A. Neidé was re-elected captain of the club, Mr. James 
Knight was chosen mate, and Mr. F. F. Pruyn was elected purser, 
which last office covers the duties of a secretary and treasurer, The 
members of the club, who must be active canoeists and canoe owners, 
are known as skippers, this being the American title for the com- 
mander of a fore-and-aft schooner or coasting vessel. Messrs. W. F. 
Ranger and Charles Obienis were elected members of the club. 

Dr. Néide spoke of his desire to encourage local camps of canoeists 
throughout the country. as many A. C. A. members cannot attend the 
annual Association meetings. ‘hese local meets would do much to 
encourage local canoeing; and as there weré some old members of 
the A. C, A, and many new ones, who desired to visit the birthplace 
of the A. G. A , Lake George, he proposed that a committee, consist- 
ingof Messrs. E.W. West James Knight and W. F. Ranger, be ap- 
pointed to arrange for a local meet of canoeists, at the Canoe Islands, 
Lake George, to take place after that of the Newburgh-on-the-Hud- 


“| son and before the A, C. A, gathering on the river St. Lawrence in 


August, 1884. 

The above named gentlemen were appointed to draw up a eall to 
‘be issued, inviting canoeists to camp upon Lorna Island, Lake George. 
Skipper N. H. Bishop, in the name of the owners of the Canoe Islands 
(Messrs. Longworth and Wulsin, of the Cincinnati C. C.,and N. H. 
Bishop, of the L. G. C. C.) offered the free use, under sanitary con- 
ditions, of Lorna Island for the local meet. 

It was understood that the above meet was for the purposé of 
strengthening the ties of brotherhood among cruising canocists, and 
also for the encouragement of independent camping. At the late 
Canadian canoe meet the Lake George Caroe Club was credited with 
being the only party of canoeists present which did its own cooking 
and catering. The local meet to take place at Lake George isin 
tended to make canoeists independent of hotels, restaurants and 
other inappropriate aids to successful canoeing. 

itis hoped that all cruisers who gather at our ‘“‘Sacred Lake’ next 
summer will exert themselves to come as independent cruisers with 
means at hand to cruise and live as far as possible by their own ex- 
ertions. There will be no hotel racing at the lake the coming sum- 
mer under the auspices of any canoe organization. Canoeists, how- 
ever, can act independently and individually in this matter, accord- 
ing to their own wishes after the local meet at the Canoe Islands 
has ended. 

The committee may be addressed at Glens Falls, Warren county, 
N.Y. Its chairman will soon issue, through the usual organs, all in- 
formation that may be needed by those who expect to aid us in put- 
ting canoe-cruising upon a substantial and independent basis. Parties 
who are not canoeists, but desire to join the Brotherhood, are invited 
to come. 

When not canoe owners, but owners of cruising boats, they will be 
received as brothers of the cruising fraternity, and will be invited to 
connect themselves with the meet. McGreggor, Baden, Powell, and 
other English canoeists, were boatmen or yachtsmen; and from this 
large ciass of experienced watermen we hope to fillour A. C. A. regis- 
ter, which now numbers about 600 members. Three thousand canoes 
have been sold by the American builders to Americans. The A.C. A. 
membership should increase to 1,000 during the next yaar. Let each 
canoeist contribute his mite to attain this object. To do so, help the 
local meets and increase the local clubs. 

Atter the members of the Lake George C. ©. had completed the 
business of the meeting, tLe newly re-elected captain ordered the 
members present to cook a supper for those in attendance. It was a 
most encouraging sight to see five cooks at one time around the stove 
in Mr. Stoddard’s kitchen, working industriously, without confusion, 
in preparing their individual dishes. As one set of cooks retired from 

| the large stove, other took their places. In an hour’s time the meal 
was upon the long dining-room table, and the club sat down to feast 
upon their own cooking without fear of injury to stomach or temper. 
All this good menu was the result of a determination on the part of 
the members to fit themselves for the duties of cruising canoeists; 
and it is expected that every gentleman who hereafter connects him- 
self with the elub will learn to cook. e 

Cannot an educated man learn to accomplish what an ignorant 
Trish girl can do? LORNA. 


AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION DUES. 


R. NEIDE writes that he will have to drop many names from the 
roll before the publication of the Association book, which will 
be ready next month. Most of these men are active canoeists, and 
men to whom a dollar isno’great sum,but who neglect year by year to 
pay their dues. While they will be a loss in one sense to the Associa- 
tion, some means must be taken to put an end to the evil. 
anoeists, even at such a distance that they cannot attend the 
meets, should take a pride in the Association, and not only join it, 
but use every effort to extend its influence in their immediate locali- 
ties. There is no limit to the valuable work within the scope of the 
Association in the way of collecting information concerning our vast 
water courses, and this work must be done, not by a few officers, but 
by the mass of American canoeists. Each man, in return for such 
information as he can collect with little time and trouble, has at his 
disposal accurate data concerning almost any waters he may desire 
to cruise on, and in addition, if a member of A.C.A., he may obtain 
the addresses of fellow members ready to aid him on his cruise. 
Since the executive meeting in October, nearly thirty members 
have joined, and there is every prospect of a large increase of mem- 
bership as soon as the season opens. : 
Not only should the officersof a canoe club, above all others, be 


members, but it devolves on them te secure as many from their club 

as possible. The expense is but nominal, and nothing more is needed 

to become a member than to send $2.00 to Dr. C. A. Neidé, Schuyler- 

ville, N. Y., $1.00 for initiation fees and $1.00 for dues for current 

yen the further expense being but $1.00 per year, no assessments 
eing allowed, 


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THE GALLEY FIRE. 


MILK TOAST—COOKING FISH. 


re you have any stale bread in the locker, what is better for break- 
fast than coffee and milk toast? Allow asmall cup of milk, with 

a good pinch of salt added, to come to a boil. While heating, brown 

the bread nicely over the stove or hot coals. Pour some boiling 

water over the browned bread and drain. Butter the bread plenti- 

ae ys cover it with boiled milk, and you have a dish fit for a crowned 
ead. 

In frying fish have the pan hot and the fat boiling (with emphasis 
on the present participle) when the fish are first put in; afterward 
they require Jess heat to cook them completely through withont 
burning on the outside. That is the secret of nicely browned fish. 
The hot fat cooks the outside instantly. and prevents the soaking in 
of the fat. All fish should be rolled before cooking on a plate of 
flour or meal. 

To broil fish, split so that the backbone shall be in the center, 
sprinkle with salt and hold over a clear fire on greased broiler, open 
side down, until it begins to brown, then turn. When done, butter 
plentifully. 

Fish Chowder—Wash and dress fish. Cut up png uerer pound 
lean per into small pieces and fry brown in bottom of kettle. Pare 
and slice one-half dozen good-sized potatoes and two onions, Place 
a layer of potatoes and onion in kettle then a layer of fish; dredge 
in a little salt, pepper and flour. Put in alternate layers as described 
and cover with hor water. Cover tightly and boil thirty minutes. 
Add one pint milk and half dozen broken crackers dipped in cold 
water, Cook ten minutes longer. 

For a fish roasted in clay as before described in Forest AND STREAM 
a simple stuffing is made thusly: Take some bread and a couple of 
slices of fat pork, cut up finely and season with salt, pepper, sage 
and savory, moisten with warm water and fill fish. Q. 


NEW YORK C. C. 


- Editor Forest and Stream: 

The annual meeting of the N. Y. Y. C. for the election of officers 
for 1884 was held on Feb. 28, resulting in the unanimous election of 
Wi. Whitlock, Commodore; ©. K. Munroe, Vice-Commodore; J. F. 
Newman, Secretary and Treasurer; C. B. Vanx and H. O. Bailey, 
Executive Committee. The report of the secretary for 1888 showed 
an increase of ten regular and three associate members for the year, 
with the loss of three members by resignation and one name dropped 
for N. P. D. 

The treasurer reported the payment of all bills against the club, 
as also the payment of the building debt, together with a balance of 
cash in hand. The cliib accordingly begms the year free from debt, 
the owner of a commodious club house, with a membership of thirly 
active and six associate members, and a fleet of thirty-four canaes. 

it was unanimously resolved that, ‘tin the opinion of the members 
present, any change in the titles of officers of the New York GC. C. 
is inexpedient.”’ 

A vete of thanks was tendered to Mr. W. P. Stephens and friend 
for their successful efforts in securing the conviction and sentence of 
the parties arrested for attempting to rob the club house. Much in- 
terest is already evinced in preparations for the coming season. 
Several members are building new boats, and others are making im- 
provements suggested by experience upon old ones. We expect to 
send a good representation to the local meet at Newburgh, and also 
to the A, C. A. meetat the Thousand Islands, 

Altogether, we look forward to a very enjoyable and successful 
season. J. F. Newman, Secretary and Treasurer. 


TORONTO C. C.,—The annual meeting of the Toronto Canoe Club 


was held on Tuesday evening at the office of Mr, Hugh Neilson, The | 


following officers were elected for 1884-85:—-Commodore, Hugh Neil- 
son (his third term); Vice-Commodore, John T. R. Stinson; Librarian, 
Frank M. Nicholson; Secretary-Treasurer, Robt. Tyson. Messrs, 
John Hague, Charles Wesley Busk, and Erastus Wiman were elected 
honorary members. Mr. Stinson presented three new books to the 


library, and Mr. Neilson presented eight photographs of the Amer- 
ican Canoe Association meet, at Stony Lake. Tne Treasurer’s report 
shows a balance in hand of $11.75 when all liabilities are paid. The 
Secretary’s report detailed the proceedings of last year, stating that 
among the prizes given for sailing and paddling races were a $25 
camera, a $20 aneroid barometer. a $7.50 medal, and several other 
prizes of value. It was arranged that the sailing canoes of the club 
should in future carry a distinguishing signal on the peak of the 
mainsail, in the shape of a large, red ring, sixteen inchesin diameter, 
This can be seen at a great distance. Arrangements were also made 
which will enable the members to participate more generally in the 
sailing and combined races. The smaller canoes cannot go to wind- 
ward nearly as well as the larger ones with heavy centerboards, and 
this fact has enabled the two canoes of the latter class to monopolize 
the sailing class. It is now intended to give another cup exclusively 
for races in which there is to be no beating to windward or close- 
hauled sailing, with a time allowance for the smaller canoes if neces- 
sary, thereby giving a fair chance to every sailing canoe in the club. 
On the same principle the sailing portion of the combined paddling 
and sailing races will consist of one or two reaches across the wind 
under sail instead of the triangular course as before. A majority of 
the club will go to the meeting of the American Canoe Association at 
the Thousand I-lands next August. Following the examples of other 
clubs, the T. C, C. will this year goin a simple and serviceable unt- 
form, consisting of stockings, knickerbockers, and plain boating 
shirt, allofgray, Votes of thanks terminated a pleasant and cordial 
meeting.—Toronto Globe. 


CLUB NOTES.—The Rob Roy C. C., of Indianapolis, holds meetings 
every two weeks for the discussion of all pertaining to canoeing. 
The Whitehall C. C. has now 11 members and 9 canoes, besides one 
small cutter, one yawl, and a deep catboat.——A club has been formed 
at Warren, Pa. They expect to be represented at Grindstone Island. 
——Mr. R. W. Bailey, Pitsburgh C. C., has sold his Everson Shadow 
and will use a Lansingburg canoe. Mr. A. K. Nimick, of the same 
club, is having a 14x28 canoe built by Stephens, with patent center- 
board and Albany lateens. 


NEW YORK C. C,—The’two young men, John Burns and Edward 
Styles, who were caught robbing the New York GC. G,’s club house at 
New Brighton, were tried at Richmond on Feb. 25. Messrs. Stephens 
and McMurray, who made the capture, appearing as witnesses against 
them. Both pleading guilty to burglary in the third degree, they 
were sentenced to the Reformatory at Elmira. The prompt and ener- 
getic manner in which the club have followed up the matter, and the 
resulting conviction, will add to the security of allthe boat clubs in 
the vicinity. 

PERSONAL.—Mr. Orange Frazer has lately moved to Wilmington, 
Ohio. Mr, N. H. Bishop expects to be in New York about March 19. 


Answers ta Correspondents, 


ks" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


R. B.S., Afton, N. ¥Y.—See article on the Dachshund this week. 


T, R., South Bend, Ark.—We know of no bloodhound puppies for 
sale. 


S. W. A., New York.—Write to Victor Hesse, 154 Market street, 
Newark, N. J. 

H, R. §., Boston.—See note on the lamp in our issue of Dec. 20, 1883, 
canoeing column. 

G. A. 8., Marysville, Kas.—Write to Messrs. J. & W. Van Wyck, New 
Hamburg, Dutchess county, N. Y. 

G, H. B., Derby Line, Vt.—A. dispute has arisen among the sports- 
men of this place in regard to the rearing of the young opossum. Will 
you please to tell us if the young are raised on the teat in the pocket 
or are they born as other animals and the pocket used as a home 
until they are able torun about? Ans. The young are born in the 


usual way, but very slightly developed, and are transferred to the 
teat by the mother. They remain attached to this for a long time, 
and after letting go their hold continue to use the marsupium, or 
pouch, as a refuge, 


J. W. K,, Marietta, O.—We do not know where you can obtain the 
oil-tanned buckskin pants that you desire. 


F. W. G., Hartford, Conn.—We will communicate with our corres- 
pondent “Adios,” and advise you of his reply. 


W. A. A., Kansas City, Mo.—The pointer Donald is seven years old, 
by Bob out of Sappho, Le Guy is six years old, by Bang out of Juno. 


F. W. B., Lynn. Mass.—You can build a canvas canoe from the 
drawings, though the scaies are incorrect. She will be heavier than 
@ wooden canoe, 


C.F. C., Waupaca, Wis.—Please give me the address of the Auk 
and subscription price. Ans, Care Estes & Lauriat, Boston, Mass. 
Three dollars per annum, 


Bound VoLUMES of the Forest AND STREAM (six month's numbers) 
cost $3.50 each. The charges for binding volumes, subscribers fur- 
nishing the numbers, is $1.50, 

S. W. A., Jk.—We are informed by J. W. K., of Marietta, O.. that he 
has the picture of pointer Dan, by A. Pope, Jr., and that it is pub: 
lished by 8. E. Cassino of Boston, Mass. z 


SUBSCRIBER,—Can you give me receipt for cement used in fastening 
ferrules to the joints of arod? Ans. Have ferrules fit perfectly and 
heat shellac in the ferrule and push home, 


_C. W. W., Boston.—Will you kindly inform an old reader when the 
time expires for shooting quail in Virginia and North Carolina? Ans. 
Virginia, February 1; North Carolioa, January 1. 


W. P.U., Peabody, Mass.—It was a dog that took first prize at New 
York in the Siberian or Ulm class in 1879, instead of a bitch. Lilly, 
who took second prize, was enteged as pedigree unknown. 

L. H. W., Pavilion, N. Y., March 5.— Quail are nearly extinct in this 
part of Western New York, owing rather more to severe winters 
than to the number served on toast. Would afew dozen from Ten- 
nessee, if shipped this month, breed so to a:ford us shooting next 
fall? Ans, Probably. But if you put them out it would bea wiser 
plan to forego shooting next season. 


Rock anp Ryze, New York,—Fairly good trout fishing may be had 
along the line of the Erie Railroad. Narrowsburgh or Port Jervis, or 
Lackawaxen are among the places near streams that afford fair 
fishing. The Shohola often yields moderate sport, but the fish are 
not large. There are also fair treut streams in Sullivan and Ulster 
counties, N. Y. The Long Island streams are mostly preserved. 


Live QuaIL, St. Catharines, Ont.—Can you inform me whereI ean 
obtain some live quail upon reasonable terms and give me theaddress 
of a reliable shipper. These birds having been pretty well thinned 
out in this neighborhood, some gentlemen here have formed them- 
selves into an association for the importation and protection of them. 
Ans. Address Chas. Reiche & Bro,, Chatham street, New York. The 
market price fluctuates. 


Pisces, Brooklyn.—ts there not some simple way to preserve the 
head of fish? I have often captured fish whose heads 1 should like 
to have kept, but could not do so for lack of time. Cannot you or 
some of your readers furnish a way? Ans. Alcohol is used for pre- 
serving fishes. If you wish to mount them you can remove the brain 
and as much of the flesh as possible and dry them, with or without 
glass eyes. We often set heads with the opercles bent outward and 
nailed to shingles. This is a rude way, but is better than none. 


INFORMATION WANTED. 
J.W. wants to know of a wild place in Tennessee where he can 
camp out, and find plenty of game and fish. 
C. W. A. wants to know best locality for a summer camping and 
fishing trip in mountains of North Carolina. 


Wuar is poetical license may perhaps never be defined. The points 
of a perfect pen may. however, and Esterbrook’s fill the bill—Adv. 


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“THE WOLF CRY IN MAINE.” 


Wace the above caption a writer in your issue of Feb. 28 says 

“that wolves haye been a thing of the past for at least thirty- 
five years; that the cry is the sheerest nonsense in the world, and has 
not a particle of foundation in fact;’’ and again, ‘‘there are no wolves 
in Maine.*’ Having had considerable to do with the animals of Maine 
for the past forty years, I will state what I can prove to be facts, In 
1853 wolves were very plenty, and for the next five years were not 
searce, plenty could be found within sixteen miles of Bangor in 1857 
and 1858. They seemed to leave quite suddenly, the last I know of 
positively being taken was killed by Frank Fairbanks in 1860 at Mun- 
sengun, I know the wolves were notexterminated,as from the time they 
were quite plenty till the time they disappeared, very few skins were 
broughtin. They left of their own accord, just as the caribou left 
us. There were rumors of occasional wolves being seen from 1875 to 
*80, but the first real proof 1 can give is that in 1880 L, bought the 
skin of a freshly killed wolf, taken at Union River. The one who 
brought it, said it had a mate, and they had been heard at times for 
several years in that vicinity. The skin is in use as a mat now in 
Bangor. From that date occasional wolyes have been ‘heard from, 
till this year they seem to havg received new additions. Reliable 
parties report seeing them on St. Croix waters. In a recent 
trip to Chesuncoock I saw six different persons who had 
either seen wolves, or fresh tracks. ‘Two had seen the wolves. These 
people were at points ® far’ apart, and didnot know of what the others 
had told. On March 5 I saw the fresh tracks of a very large one, 
On my return, a man in every way reliable, told me of just seeing 
the tracks of three, and where they had just killed a deer near Cheno 
bog, within less than twenty miles of Bangor, While I consider 
wolves comparatively scarce, still I know they have lately gained in 
num bers faster than the natural increase. The Game Comuissioners 


| have done a good thing in increasing the bounty, Still wolves would 


CONTENTS. 
EDrrorrat. | FISHOULTURE. 
What is the Use? The Shellfish Commission of 
Fishing Through the Ice. Connecticut, 
The Wolf Cry in Maine. THE KENNEL. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Cleveland Dog Show. 


New York Dog Show. 

Mastern Field Trials Club. 

Mr. D. C, Sanborn. 

N, A. K. OC, Stud Book. 

Mastiff Temperament and Pecu- 
liarities. 


Between the Lakes.—vit. 
Roping the Black-Tails. 
Life among the Blackfeet.—x1yv. 
Major Joseph Verity. 

NATURAL History. 
The Deer of the Ottawa Valley. 


Bird Notes. The New Hayen Dog Show. 

Crows. . Kennel Management. 
Game BAG AnD Gun. | _ Kennel Notes. 

Protecting Song Birds, | RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 


The Performance of Shotguns, 


Rifles of To-day. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. | 


Range and Gallery. 


A Plea for Old-Time Crudites. | The Trap. 
Summer Woodcock Shooting. | CANOBING. 
Spring Shooting atSt.Clair Flats | Rondout C, C. 


Another Taxidermist Speaks. Amateur Canoe Building.—x1, 


A Hint to Flickerers. The Winter Camp-Fire. 
Proposed Massachusetts Law. The Everson Canoes. 
The Old Gun. The Chart Locker. 


Inland Waters of Maine. 

Canoe and Sneakbox. 

A Few Hints on Camping. 
YACHTING. 

A Very Fast Yacht. 

Belleville Notes. 

Cui Bono? 

Some Valuable Experiences, 
| ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


CaMe-FIRE FPLICKERINGS. 

Sea AnD River FisHie. 
Fishing Rods and Dowels. 
Where is the Bigosh? 

A Domestic Trout Pond. 
Trouting on the Bigosh, 

The Dowel Question. 

How the Leader is Broken, 
Black Bass in Massachusetts. 


PROTECTION OF PSEUDONYMS. 


MATTER which gives some of our readers and 

ourselves no little trouble ought to be settled now. 
Many of the contributors to Forrst AND STREAM prefer to 
append to their letters and sketches initials, or pseudonyms, 
rather than to sign their full names. The true names and 
addresses of such writers are known only to us, and cannot 
be disclosed by us, without the express permission of the 
writer, This is an unvarying rule not only of newspaper 
offices, but of common decency as well. The names having 
been given to us in confidence, we cannot reveal them. The 
matter is not one in which we have any option at all. Ifa 
writer signs his contribution with a pseudonym, the infer- 
ence is that he has a reason for not wishing to be known, 
and if he desires to conceal his identity in this way we must 
respect his wishes. 

Every week we receive a large number of letters asking 
for the full names and addresses of certain correspondents, 
and the answering of such letters takes up a great amount 
of time. We therefore wish to say publicly, what we have 
SO Many times written privately, and what we supposed was 
known to all our readers, that the names and adresses of 
such of our contributors as write over pseudonyms cannot 
be given them. If any one wishes to correspond with any 
contributor the best plan is to send a letter addressed to his 
assumed name to this office. This letter, if accompanied by 
the necessary postage stamps, will be forwarded by us to 
the person addressed. This having been done, it remains 
for the contributor to determine whether or not he desires to 
enter into correspondence with the person addressing him. 
We assume no responsibility in the matter. We merely 
perform the clerical act of addressing the envelope, and see 
that it goes to the post-office. 

If those who desire to communicate with our eatteanouel 


have to be plenty for any one to think of hunting them much fora 
bounty of $10; as that can be got for an otter, and nearly that for a 
beaver. The writer of the articlefrom which I have quoted says, 
Athe poachers and pot-hunters have taken up the ery of protect the 
deer, and the wolves will follow.” I believe he is entirely wrong 
there, as he is in about every other statementin his article. Of 
those who have reported about wolves to me, it so happens not one 
is, or ever has been, a deer hunter. There is no more propriety in 
saying thata cry about wolves has been started by the parties he 
names, than that the Irish have started a cry of Egyptian war to an- 
noy England, People far apart have simply told the facts of seeing 
wolves, and immediately this writer charges it upon pot-hunters and 


poachers. If, for a man to say he has seen a wolf, is good 
ground for calling him a  pot-hunter, (poacher,  crust- 
hunter, ete, I for oue think it is time that those words 


became obsolete, as has been proposed for ‘‘speckled beauties,** and 
other words. Why the man from another State, who pays no tax 
here, and comes in August and September and kills and wastes our 
game, is not as much a poacher, etc., as a man who kills a deer and 
eats it after the law expires, is a very hard thing for common people 
to see; yet some writers always see fit to call one a gentleman and 
the other a poacher, and are ready to charge all kinds of sins to the 
latter without a shadow of proof, as in the presentinstance. Now 
such a course as this does great harm. The greater part of our 
hunters are in favor of game laws, and are helping to sustain them, 
and when they are doing this, to have a thing charged to them which 
they never thought of, and be called hard names besides, is not 
plea sant, to say the least. Men not in the woods in winter haye no 
idea of the temptations to break the laws, and still less of how well 
they are kept. Ihave this month been in two camps belonging to 
one concern, numbering fifty men. They had moose within two 
miles, they had snowshoes and guns, and were hauling beef over bad 
tote roads more than seventy miles, and still had not killed a moose, 
Can any camp of city sportsmen show a like record? And yet one of 
these men had seenafresh wolf track, and so is included among 
those who have ‘‘startedethe cry.’* Ifthe gluttons who are so fond 
of using the words poacher and pot-hunter, etc., could change places 
with many of those whom they call by these names, they would take 
adifferent view of things. If you wish to help protect the game, do 
not call those who are trying to do the same hard names. 

BREWER, Maine, March 17. M. Harpy. 

We presume that our correspondent scarcely intended 
to give us credit for the statement that there were literally 
no wolves in Maine. We think that if he will take the 
trouble to reread our remarks carefully, he will see that 
what we intended to say was that there are practically none. 
To make the bald statement that there is not a single wolf 
in a State as large as Maine, which has a frontier of more 
than two hundred miles of forest bordering on Canada and 
New Brunswick, is something that we presume no man of 
average intelligence would do. 

A celebrated mineralogist once remarked in the office of a 
Boston assayer that “there is no gold in Massachusetts.” 
The assayer quickly raised the point that there was some in 
the banks and some in men’s pockets, though precious little 
in his. But the mineralogist answered—claiming that the 
assayer knew his meaning—no native gold in the soil of the 
State. The assayer again raised exceptions to his friend’s 
statement, and offered to get a few bushels of the soil of 
Boston even, and by close chemical analysis to obtain pure 
gold from it. Both were right. 

There are practically no wolves in Maine, notwithstand. 
ing the tracks seen by those who “‘know wolf tracks,” men- 
tioned by our correspondent. They were practically exter- 
minated years ago. Our correspondent has seen tracks that 
were tracks, and others have seen them, and yet the only 


ents will remember this and govern themselves accordingly, | actual wolf he brings to our attention is the one killed in the 


we shall be greatly obliged to them. 


spring of 1881, and heralded at the time in all the news- 


papers of the State, since which time they have made little 
note of wolves killed in that State. Our correspondent 
brings us no other practical wolf, only tracks, and until he 
sends us an authentic account of another wolf, killed in 
Maine, we shall take no back tracks in our position on the 
wolf question. 

Weare glad to learn, from what My. Hardy writes, that the 
sentiment in Maine is now against-killing deer, moose, and 
caribou out of season, and that the practice of crusting is be- 
coming obsolete. If this is so, it is a matter for congratula- 
tion to the inhabitants of Maine first, and afterward to all 
those who are interested in the protection of game. Men 
who kill game out of season are poachers, and we are anx- 
ious to see all violators of the law, not only in Maine but in 
all other States, punished; and we do not see how it can 
make a particle of difference whether these violators are 
natives of Maine, New York, Siberia, or New Guinea, A 
law-breaker should be punished, no matter what his State 
or county. The game must be protected in the close season 
from Maine men, Rhode Island men, South Africans, or 
Chinamen. 

This protection is what we are all working for, Mr. Hardy 
as well as others, and we presume that he will assent to our 
propositions. 


FISHING THROUGH THE ICE. 
BILL introduced into the Legislature of New Jersey 
forbiding fishing through the ice failed to pass, We 
think this a move in the right direction, and one that might 
be followed by several States. In the vicinity of the Great 
Lakes winter fishing is a legitimate mode of supplying the 
markets with many species of fish, and in Maine the smelt 
fisheries are so prosecuted. But in the small lakes of the 
Eastern States, where the fish are protected in order to fur- 

nish angling, all winter fishing should be stopped, 

In winter some fish take the bait, and fishing through the 
ice for pickerel is one mode of exterminating them, which 
vields a greater or Jess supply of fish, but nothing that can 
well be classed as sport. The fish do not fight vigorously, 
and are ienominiously lugged in by main strength on a short 
hand line, after hooking themselves ‘and raising a signal, 
warning the attendant, who often has from thirty to fifty 
lines set. When winter locks the waters the fish should 
have a rest, and it is only the commercial fisheries mentioned 
which should be prosecuted at that time. All waters which 
afford good fishing and are within easy distance of any city, 
now attract a class of anglers which leaves with the hotels 
and guides ten times the value of the fish caught, and there- 
fore such Jakes and streams are of more value than they 
were a generation ago, when a fish was thought to be worth 
more when dead than alive. 

We have fished through the ice in schoolboy days, and 
watched the ‘‘tip-ups,” while frigid feet and tingling fingers 
made it doubtful whether we were having much fun or not, 
but we would have no doubts on that question now. We 
hope the New Jersey bill will come up next year and pass, 


Rir.eEs oF To-pAy.—In our rifle columns we offer a 
series of articles in which the several rifles now upon the 
market will be illustrated and described. The intention is 
to give the readers of FoREST AND STREAM a Clear idea of 
what is now offered in the way of breechloading rifles. By 
means of cuts and cross sections of the breech mechanism, 
the characteristics of each arm may be easily studied. What 
the arms have done in the way of records; what is 
especially claimed for them; what they cost in the various 
models, and in general all the questions which a careful 
purchaser would put, will be auswered as far as may be, 
leaving it to those who read to make their own comparisons. 


* Migratory Quatn,—An item in the Rutland, Vt., Herald 
of March 10, says: ‘“‘A correspondent writes us from Man- 
chester as follows: ‘We have seen several flocks of Mr. Hy- 
erts’ quail, and they are looking finely.’” The introduction 
of this species has not been markedly successful, but if those 
turned out by Mr. Everts have done well, we are very glad 
to hear of it. Itis now seven or eight years since the first 
of these birds were imported, and for the last two or three 
but little has been heard of them. We understand, how- 
ever, that Mr. Braun has orders for some additional _impor- 
tations this spring, The birds can only be obtained in Sicily 
during the month of April. 


Loox ouT FOR THE SxtPx,—If this weather holds English 
snipe may be looked for in this latitude before very many 
days. They do not usually make thcir appearance in any 
numbers much before the first of April. We shall be glad 
to hear of the:first arrivals. 


142 FOREST AND STREAM. chee see 
¢ he Sp ortsm at GC. ourist, | fishing one day may not show a rise to a fly for a week after. | placently. The Quaker poet was not there. The Greek 


One day the Greck Professor went to the west branch of the | Professor was evidently in a warlik d. “Don’t you re- 
North branch, two and a half miles east of Jeromeville, and tas: a er Mp is 

BETWEEN THE LAKES. 

Seventh Paper, 


ODDS AND ENDS, 


Meee is a splendid illustration of the adage 
‘There is nothing ina name.” To one acquainted with 
the region it would suggest at least the beginning of a town 
with a primitive, cheap and dirty hotel, slab cabins, a nasty 
“doggery” and a strong smelling store. But Jeromeville ig 
not even that. lt contains but one house—a station house 
made of pine boards, in which a section boss and his family 
liye, and two or three section men are lodged. Theres a 
switch close at hand enabling the trains to pass each other, 
and a red flag belongs in the house with which certain trains 
may be flagged and stray fishermen, hunters or lumbermen 
be taken on board. A mile west of Jeromeville is a recently 
abandoned lumber camp, Carop No, 1, and a half mile east 
is auother—a remotely abandoned one. The time was, and 
that no longer ago than the past winter, when there was a 
great show of business at Camp No, 1, Probably sixty men 
—choppers, sawyers, “‘goad monkeys,” haulers, skidders, 
cooks, clerks and bosses—made that camp their headquarters 
while engaged in the work of forest destruction. And there 
were other destructionists there also, The deer hunters con- 
gregated there and at one time during the past winter a han- 
dred and fifty carcasses of deer were piled up in the camp 
warehouse, And the slaughter was kept up from early fall 
till late in the winter, and what was the grand total of butch- 
ered deer in that neighbothood? Iam sureI do not know. 
but probably not far from a thousand. 

Ai this rate how long will the game last? Jeromeville is 
in the midst of the woods. Hemlocks, maples, balsams, 
pines grow skyward all around save in the hundred-foot 
strip chopped out for the railroad track. Standing iu the 
center of that track in front of Jeromeville, and looking 
east, one has an unobstructed view of thirty-four miles, 
The railroad track lies upon the section line that distance as 
nearly as the engineer could fix it. This entire distance 
leads through the Manistique region—the Onominitik of the 
red men, which means bog iron ore. Much of this mineral, 
Jam told, can be found in this region. The Manistique, 
rising in springs from the great Potsdam sandstone ridge, in 
the north side of which the chaffing waters of Lake Superior 
have cut those stupendous cliffs known as the Pictured 
Rocks, flows southeasterly till it crosses the railroad ata 
point twenty-six miles east of Jeromeville, where it soon 
strikes the western flanks of the Niagara limestoue beds, of 
which the southeastern part of the Peninsula is built up, and 
thence it meanders southwesterly along the valley, between 
the limestone outcropping and the Potsdam sandstones, and 
finally enters Lake Michigan about seventy-five miles west of 
the Straits of Macinac. All its northern tributaries have 
their sources in the same great sandstone ridge, aud al! flow 
southeasterly or at right angles with the valley between the 

two rock systems through which the main river runs, and 
all are trout-bearing. The Manistique region lying north 
and west of the river contains in round numbers about one 
thousand square miles, most of which is quite level and 
much of it swampy. 

Vast forests of timber cover the greater part of the Man- 
istique slope, a great deal of which is valuable pine timber; 
but it is so interspersed with hard wood timber and swamps, 
that fires do not sweep through the woods, blackening 
and blasting the country, as is the case in the Lower 
Peninsula. 

From Jeromeville to the Manistique the railroad crosses 
ten tributaries to the Manistique, every one of which, so far 
as I have investigated, is found to be a trout stream. I know 
that two or three that meander through swampy plains west 
of Seney do not contain trout near the railroad, but these, as 
well as all the other tributaries, flow from the sandstone lying 
to the north, and I venture the assertion with the utmost 
confidence, that every stream rising in the Potsdam forma- 
tion, will be found at some point along its course, a trout- 
bearing stream. 

The eastern tributaries of the Manistigue running down 
from the limestone hills, are short and insignificant. Trout 
will not be found in them. But to Manistique Lakes— 
North Manistique, Manistique and South Manistique—are 
reputed to be excellent bass waters. North Manistique is 
about four miles from McMillan, on the railroad, from 
which a good wagon road leads to it, and the lakes are con- 
nected by small streams, so that the voyager may float from 
one to the other. Or the sportsman can descend the Fox 
from Seney to the outlet of the lakes, and row up that two 
miles-and enter the largest ohe of the three. 

it is unfortunate that the tributaries of the Manistique 
having their source in the highlands between the two lakes 
should all be designated on the maps as branches—the Hast 

’ branch, the North branch, the Northwest brauch, the West 

branch, and the like. Three of these, the Hast branch, the 
Northwest and the West, have local names. ‘The Hast, on 
which Seney is located, is known as Fox River. The Indian 
name was Neenah, and itisa pity that name has not been 
kept alive. The Northwest branch is locally known as 
Stuch’s Oreek, and the West branch is generally known as 
Indian River, from the fact that upon its banks and along 
the shores of the quite extensive island lake into which it 
widens, the Indians in former times had numerous wig 
wams. ’ ' 

From time immemorial the Ojibwas inhabited the Upper 
Peninsula, and a feeble remnant of that once powerful tribe 
havea foothold there yet, But for some reason they have 
signally failed to leave the record of their existence as the 
once lords of the land in the naines of its geographical 
features. The Tequamenon and Manistique rivers and 
Munising are about all the names that occur to me now of 
Indian origin. The only places named are along the shores 
of the great lakes and along the line of the railroad. Else- 
where there are no permanent residents, and names are un- 
known. For the present we must be content with the 
branches. ’ ‘ 

The Fox River abounds in the pike-perch or jack salmon, 
A revolving spoon is cast into the swift waters and proves to 
be a killing bait, The headwaters of the Fox and of the 
Manistique itself are capital trout streams, but of this here- 
after. Let us return to our camp at Jeromeville, 

- ‘The last was an uuprecedentedly wet summer in the woods, 

which not only aggravated the insect pests, but sadly inter- 

fered with trout fishing. By reason of the gradual descent 
of the Manistique slope, its streams remain swollen many 
days after a heavy rain, <A stream affording excellent trout 


a 


caught twenty-five trout—fine ones at that—in three hours 


Within a day or so a heayyrain fell, and returning soon after 
he could not get a rise, notwithstanding he painstakingly 


went over the entire ground. 


The summer before the Judge had tried the Southwest | 


branch, or Stuch’s Creek, at a point a little west of south 
from Jeromeville, with such success that he determined to 
try the same stream again, but at a different place. 
stream takes its rise a little south of Munising Station, as we 
have seen, and runs southeastwardly. From the map it 
appeared that a tramp two and a half miles due west from 
camp, the first mile of which was on the rail, would take 
one to the creek at a point where it turned its course south- 
ward. The Judge struck for that point, and after crossing 
a thick woods and then a tamarac swamp, he came to the 
stream he sought for. It meandered through an ancient 
beaver meadow, intersected by frequent beaver canals 
and covered by an almost impenetrable growth of black 
elders. 

The day was mild, with a soft. breeze from the southwest 
occasionally coming in gusty puffs and rippling the surface 
of the pools, while the sky was clear, save wisps of white 
clouds here and there, hanging apparently motionless in the 
blue ether. Tying a red handkerchief to the top of one of 
the tallest alders, to mark the place, the Judge deposited his 
gun and lunch at its roots, and jointing his rod und tying on 
a brown hackle—his favorite fly—he quietly parted the alders 
and dropped the Inre lightly on the stream, Floating swiftly 
down to a bunch’ of grass and dead twigs clinging to a 
depending alder branch, there came a splash and a tug, and 
presently a beautiful trout lay gasping on the bank. During 
the three ensuing hours the fisherman knew nothing— 
thought of nothing —save the trout that gave little rest to his 
hooks. No one had ever been there before him. Nota tuft 
of trodden grass save by deer koofs was to be seen, and not 
an alder had been broken by man. He was fishing on primi- 
tive ground, and in virgin waters, and so absorbed did he 
become as he slowly pursued his way up stream, casting 
here and casting there, and in quick succession lifting from 
the pools their gamy denizens, that, when a very red doe 
came from out the thicket to slake its thirst and crop the 
tender grass, the Judge was all unconscious of its presence, 
till he heard its repeated stamps of defiance less than twenty 
yards away. Less than three hundred yards he fished along 
the Stuch that day, and when he found his load was made 
up, he counted thirty-five trout, twenty-five of which weighed 
from eight to fifteen ounces each. When the afternon train 
passed Jeromeyille for Marquette, the red flag was hung over 
the track, and when the train was brought to a stand, the: 
twenty-five trout were consigned to the care of the conductor 
with instructions to hand them over to Mr, I'rank Milligan, 
an officer of the road, who never failed 10 show us a favor 
when opportunity presented. 

That nigut there came a tempest of rain, and a few days 
inereafter the Judge with his daughter set forth on a visit to 
Stuch’s Creek at still another point. Within the past year 
a wagon road had been cut through from the railroad at 
Camp No. 1, one mile west of Jeromeville, south to the town 
of Manistique, at the mouth of the river by that name, and 
five miles from the railroad it crossed Stuch’s Creek. Rumor 
said trout were to be taken there of large size; but when the 
two reached the long bridge crossing the stream and low 
ground on either side, they found the waters so swollen from 
the recent rain that it was with difficulty that the banks of 
the stream could be reached and never a trout raised to fly or 
took a bait, } 

Some distance below the bridge the land-lookers say there 
are some aucient beaver dams and much deep water, In this 
water, trout may be caught which kick the beam at two and 
a halt and three pounds, so the said land-lookers say, Noone 
has ever yoyaged down the Northwest branch however, that 
remains a thing for a couple of patient, plucky anglers to 
accomplish. ‘This the Judge expected to attempt when in 
the country the past summer, but the sickness at home de- 
ranged his plans and he had to abandon it. 

A branch of the West branch runs within a stone’s throw 
of Jeromeville, and a mile above the railroad it gives excellent 
fishing. We went up stream one day and found it open and 
comparatively free from brush, Below the bridge the fish- 
ing is not so good because of the brush, but even there 1 
caught a nice basket of trout one day. 

From the abandoned lumber camp half a mile east of 
Jeromeville an old ‘‘tote” road runs south half a mile, where 
it crosses the Jeromeville branch, and at that point there is 
said to be excellent trout fishing. A glance at the map dis- 
closed to us that if we would go half a mile east of Jerome- 
ville and, leaving the railroad, travel through the woods two 
and a half miles north, then go half a mile east again, we 
would strike the west branch of the North branch, where we 
had no doubt trout fishing would be found to be first-rate. 
‘The railroad crosses this west branch of the North branch 
two and 2 half miles east of Jeromeville, and we know from 
actual experiment that the stream here contains many and 
fine trout. Pounders are not infrequently taken. Half a 
mile further on the North branch is crossed, and here, too, 
the trout fisherman will find his pleasure. And s0, it is to 
be seen that Jeromeville is a trout center. ; 

Our camping days at this place passed all too swiftly by. 
With a littie hunting and a good deal of fishing, we soon 
found that the time of our stay in the woods was nearing its 
elose. Our tent stood in the edge of a grove of beeches and 
maples and hemlocks, whose drooping branches were coy- 
ered with a mantle of green. High overhead a gigantic 
white pine held out its short arms and whispered to us sweet 
lullabys in the night breezes. Near its base we built our 
camp-fire, and around that we loved to gather of evenings 
and watch the wavering flames and clouds of sparkles that 
soared into the green foliage and to recount the incidents of 
each day. : : 

But let us linger here no longer. The time has come for 
us to break camp and go home. The Greek Professor has 
forgotten that he ever had a “lump” in his throat, and my 
“dizziness” is a thing of the past. It is time we return to the 
busy work-a-day world. 


Since the Forms? AND STREAM began the publication of 
the ‘‘Between the Lakes” papers, I dropped in one evening to 
havea friendly chat with the Greck Professor. On the table 
before him was open paper. He had been reading of his 
exploits in the woods, and his brows were knit. In one cor- 
ner of his room stood a brand new breechloading rifle of ap- 
proyed pattern, Over his head, Bryant looked benignantly 
down, and from the further side Longfellow smiled com- 


+ * * + 


This 


member,” said he, ‘the day you stuck fast in the bog, and I 
had to fish you out?” R 

“Well,” said I, “I do have a slight recollection of some- 
thing happening at some time to somebody something like 
that,” and in turn J knitted my brows. 

“Well, why didn’t yeu tell that?” he asked me, 

“T forgot it,” I boldly said. 

“T have it, and what is more, I am going to write to the 
editor about it myself,” 

“Do!” said I; ‘‘and don’t forget to tell him about the ex- 
periment you and Oscar made with our half pint of whisky 
and the birch sap.” 

And then he rubbed his hands and laughed genially. 


_ But he is going to write to the editor, nevertheless. He 
is bound to have his say, and I am glad of it. 
D. D. Banra, 


ROPING THE BLACK-TAILS. 


66 W E’LL drive in all the horses we can find. on the range 

to-day, boys,” remarked Mr. French, or, as he is 
usually known, ‘‘Pete,” one of the most popular cattle men 
in Oregon. He whistled io the hounds, and, followed by us 
boys, headed towaid the long, gradual rise forming the north 
end of the Stein Mountain ranze. 

From the starting point on the flat to the summit is fifteen 
miles. or the first half of the distance the ground is coy- 
ered with low sage brush and bunch grass, and dotted with 
juniper trees. But the latter half, over which a few inches 
of snow lay, is without sage brush, while there are dense ~ 
thickets in every little hollow on the hillsides, here and there 
a patch of small quaking asps, and along the banks of the 
numerous creeks a scattering of cottonwoods. 

There are sufficient rocks and stones scattered about to 
render riding a little dangerous, and the sides of the cations 
are steep enough to assure one at a glance that, once fairly 
started down the incline, there was no chance of stopping 
till the bottom wassreached. No place I haye seen seems so 
natural a deer park, and, judging from the number to 
be seen at all times, the deer are evidently of the same 
opinion. 

We were all well mounted, each had his 7vedt# or lasso, and 


displayed the usual number of colors that a collection of 


cowboys or vaqueros, Spanish and American, always can 
boast of, which is every shade. The long wool Angora 
chaperos ov leggings, and the elaborately-stamped heavy 
Mexican saddles, the stirrups covered with leather tapaderos, 
long and pointed, almost touching the ground, increased our 
somewhat picturesque appearance. 

Two fine Scotch stags, three or four greyhounds, and as 
many more a cross between the two, scampered round us on 
all sides as we rode up a slight hollow. 

A sharp bark, followed by a one-line chorus, and Pete’ s 
“There he goes” was answered by a volley of ‘‘Carambas” 
and a free use of spurs, The deer was off to the right, out 
of view for the iitst few jumps, but a gentle rise soon 
brought in sight a splendid pair of antlers, and another 
shout burst from every one. He wavered an instant and 
turned toward the hollow we had just left, thus shortening 
by almost a half the little intervening distance, Four bounds 
into the hollow, and he was in view of all. Three hounds 
were together, almost within springing distance, and Pete, 
close on them, was swinging his rope and shouting “‘eaia,” 
followed by us. The yelps of the dogs as they got out of 
the way of the horses, which, all alive to the sport, needed 
no spurring to do their best; the whir-r of the rawhide 
lassoes which every man swung, all eager for an opportu- 
nity to throw them, altogether made up a scene to make the 
nist sober excited, and cause his biood to tingle for many 
a minute after, Two more springs and he would be among 
the sage brush and rocks. Thedogs seemed to know it, 
They sprang together, and as they brought him to the 
ground three loops dropped over his horns, and a loud 
hurrah rang through the clear frosty air. 

Tt was hardly ten minutes after we had swung our buck 
over a juniper limb, that a pair of long ears were outlined 
against the sky, then another, and another, not two hundred 
yards away, The dogs were soon in full cry, and away the 
deer started ata gentle trot, thirteen head followed by two 
fine bucks. ; 

It was a pretty stretch of level country for half a mile, and 
they were making straight across it toa cation. Scarcely a 
minute elapsed before the hounds were within a few yards 
of them, and we were following closely, Again the shouts 
of ‘“‘reata’” was echoed on all sides, as the boys formed and 
swung oper the loops of their trusty ropes. ; . 

‘We'll lose them if they reach the cafion,” said Pete, and 
he shot ahead of us, but only for afew seconds, as he stopped 
his horse with a jerk, and justin time. There was a Ree 
off” of quite a height, and down the deer all went, Bluey 
one of the crosses, fastening to the last, a yearling buck, wid 
together they rolled into a dense tangle of small brush, Half 
of us scrambled down, for ‘‘where adog can go a horse can,” 
is nearly true of the cow poniesof the West. Nota sign 
could we see, when not thirty feet from us, the two bucks. 
cleared a clump of willows, and crashed their way through 
the dead brush and rocks, down the cafion. Pursuit was. 
almost impossible, but away went the pups and a couple of 
Spaniards, ’ 

Pe There are more yet; surround that thicket and look 
sharp, boys. We'll have them yet,” said Pete excitedly. 
Hardly had he spoken when six jumped up, and over & 
rocky ledge left unguarded, and away, “‘Stay with them 
boys, more yet; I'll start them. Look out,” and he dashed 
into the brush. ‘‘Now, you have ’em, Govy’nor.” ‘Lass a-- 
lay” and ‘“‘reata” ve-echoed from the rim rocks, as if there 
were five score vices. I could see but a dozen yards up a 
small trail leading out of the brush, but heard barks close at 
nand. My reata was ready, when, like a streak of light, a 
fawn came in sight, sprang aside at seeing me, and rolled 
over with Bluey firmly attached again, while following came 
a boy so close as almost to take part in the tumble. It was a 
doe, and more frightened than hurt, so driving off the dogs 
and calling her ‘‘poor, little girl,” and other endearing terms, 
we cut au “under bit out of the left” (Pete’s well-known ear 
mark) and let her go, _ 

There were several other dashes ’cross country, and not 
after horses! We did come across two of the latter by acci- 
dent toward the end of the day, and drove them before us, 
the result of our horse hunt. 

“Strange we saw so few,” said Pete at supper. 
a few deer, though, sir,” remarked a yaquero, 
as nearly as I can judge fully three hundred.” 
not overstate the number, 

Sram Mountain, Oregon. 


Se eS 


“We saw 

“Yes, and 

And he did 
Gov’ NOR. 


LIFE AMONG THE BLACKFEET. 
BY J. WILLARD SCHULTZ. 
Fourteenth Paper—Folk-Lore. 
[ Concluded. | 


THE CAUSE OF SPOTS ON THE MOON, 


Loe ago there lived a man, who had a wife and son, 
and his wife was not faithful to him, She ran away 
with another man. But the woman loved her son, and 
would often disguise herself in men’s clothing and go and 
talk and play with him, Now one day, after the woman had 
visited her son, the little boy said to his father, “al think J 
know my mother. It is she who comes often, dressed in 
men’s clothes, and plays with me and tells me stories.” Then 
said his father, ‘‘'When she comes again ask her to make you 
some arrows and a bow.” ‘ ; 
Not long after she came again, and the little boy said, 
“Oh, my friend, please make me a bow and some arrows so 
I can shoot the little birds,” and his mother commenced to 
make them. When she had finished an arrow, the boy’s 
father came in and looked at the arrow and knew that no 
man made it, and he said to the woman, ‘‘You are my wife,” 
and she was afraid, and did not deny it. Then the man took 
his knife and cut her to pieces, and threw the pieces out of 
the lodge; but instead of falling to the ground they went 
way above and stuck on the moon. You can see them yet, 
the spots on the moon. 
THE WOLF-MAN. 


There was once a man who had two wives. They were 
unfaithful, Very bad were their hearts. So the man left the 
main camp and lived way out on the prairie with his bad 
wives. And one of his wives said to the other, ‘‘Let us kill 
our hushand.and go back to the main camp, where we may 
see our loyers.” Now, near where they were camped was a 
tall butte, and every night when he came home the man 
would #0 up on it and sit and Jook all over the prairie to see 
where the buffalo were feeding and to see if any enemies 
were coming. And on top of the butte was a buffalo bull's 
skull, upon which he would sit, 

One day, when he was out hunting, the women went up 
on the butte and dug adeep pit init. Then they covered 
the mouth of it with small sticks, earth and grass, and 
placed the buffalo skull on top. When the sun was almost 
down they saw their husband coming home, the dogs loaded 
down with the meat he had killed. ‘‘There he is, there he 
is,” they cried, ‘lef us hurry and get his supper.” And 
when he had finished eating he went up on the butte, and 
when he seated himself on the buffalo skull the slender 
sticks gaye way and he was thrown to the bottom of the pit. 
When his wives heard him ery, they looked, but could not 
see him, so they knew he was in the pit, and they quickly 
packed the lodge on the dog ¢ravois and moved into the 
main camp. ‘‘Where is your husband?” the people asked. 
“Three days ago he went out to hunt, and has not returned. 
We fear he is killed,” they replied. 

- Now when the man fell down into the pit he cried, anda 
wolf heard him. The wolf said, ‘I hear a person crying,” 
and looking about he soon discovered the man in the pit. 
‘Then the wolf howled, Ah-h-w-o-0-0-0-0-0, ah-h-w-0-0-0-0-0-0! 
Aud wher the other wolves heard him they came running to 
see what was the matter. There came also many coyotes, 
black wolves, red foxes, kit foxes, badgers and mice; the 
httle mice came too. * And when they were all come, the 
-wolf who had found the man said, ‘‘Here is my find. In 
this hole is a fallen-in-somehow-man; let us take pity on 
him and dig him out, and we will have him for a brother,” 
Then all the animals commenced to dig, and’ soon had a 
hole almost to the man. And when they had dug very close 
to him, the find-him wolf called out, ‘‘Hold on; I want to 
say something,” and when all the animals were listening he 
said, ‘“Now |] found thisman. We will all have him for our 
brother, but I claim that he ought to live with us big wolves, 
for 1found him.” All the animals agreeing to this, the big 
wolf went down in the hole, and tearing down the rest of the 
dirt dragged the almost dead man out. And when they had 
given him a kidney to eat, the big wolves took him to their 
holes; and they brought him to the hole of a big blind medi- 
cine wolf, and the medicine wolf made wolf paws and a 
wolf head on him. The rest of his body was like a man’s, 

Now, in these days the people caught buffalo in pYs-kans,* 
and all around these pis-kans they made openings and set 
nooses in them, so when the wolves came to steal meat they 
were caught by the neck. One night the wolves all went 
down to steal meat, and when they had come close to the 
pis-kan the man-wolt said; ‘‘Sit here all of you, and I will 
go first and fix the places so you will not get killed,” and he 
went first and sprung all the nooses. Then he went back 
and called all the wolves and the others, the coyotes, foxes 
and badgers, and they all went in the pis-kan and feasted, 
and took meat to carry home, 

In the morning, the people were surprised to find all their 
nooses drawn out, and they said, ‘‘Perhaps it was what?” 
Many nights were the nooses drawn out and their meat 
stolen by the wolves. One night when the wolves came they 
found only bad bull’s meat and the man-wolf was angry, 
and he howled out, “Ah-bad-you-give-us-o-0-0-0,” and the 
people heard and said, ‘It isa man-wolf who has done all 
this.” So they put dried meat, pemmican and tongues in 
the pis-Kan, and many people hid in there. 

The next night when the man-wolf came he saw the good 
food and ran to it, then the men all jumped up and caught 
him with ropes, and they took him to camp. When they 
took him into a lodge by the fire they knew him, and said, 
‘Tere is the man his wives said was killed,” and they 
brought his wives into the lodge, Then the man-wolf told 
what his wives had done, and they were immediately kilied. 


THE THUNDER BIRD. 


None of the people knew what the thurder was, and the 

eople often talked about it, and said, ‘‘Perhaps it is what?” 
Now, once the people moved toward the Sweetgrass hills 
after buffalo, and one day when they were traveling two 
boys found a queer bird on the prairie, and caught it and 
carried it to their father’s lodge, and many people came in to 
look at it, for no one had seen a bird like it, and while they 
were talking it suddenly arose and flew out the smoke-hole 
of the lodge, and a great thunder shook the lodge, and 
knocked the people down, and they knew then that it was 
the bird which made the thunder, — 


The rainbow is called Nip'-1-6-t6--kih-tchis, Old Man’s 
Jariat; or, more correctly, Old Man's catching instrument. 
When he wishes the rain to cease he throws out this lariat 
and catches itall, . 

_ The constellation Pleiades is termed the E-kit-sY'-kam, 
, even, and the legend is, that a woman once had seven bad 
J - 4 ~ 7 


. 


“FOREST AND STREAM. 


children, and that one day she threw them up in the sky, 
where they were changed into stars. 
Sun-dogs are said to be fires lighted by the sun to warn 


the people that danger is near. ‘‘When you see the signal 
fires, watch, for the enemy is coming.” 

The foregoing legends are all that the writer has Icarned 
thus far, which may with propriety be printed in a public 
journal. . 


The Blackfoot language is an exceedingly difficult one to 
master, and the writer has decided to omit any remarks upon 
it, for as yet he is not sufficiently versed in it to give any very 
valuable information regarding its peculiarities. Below is 
an interlinear translation of the story of the ‘‘Wind-maker, 
which will give some information regarding the structure of 
the language. 
O-meks’-Yks-ah 

They 
é-téh-wah'-kwo-e-au 
chased him they 
80-pw6-e e-tfin’-ik-0-p6-po-ki-yék-au 

wind blown off they 
6-m@’ O'-amitik-si-kim-Y e-tih-pfis’-kw6-e-au tt-si’d-miik--ytk 
That big water chased him toward under ran 
Yt-et-O-witit-sY¥o-L-yek-au Tt-stk'-s6-pw6-e 
saw himnomore they ceased wind 


Yt-sIn-6'-ye-au I’-sd-pom-stan I'sd-pdm-sian Kish-tsf-pek-se 


7-so-pom-stan 
wind-maker 


it-sIn-3'-yée-au 
saw they 


sam -l-au 
hunted 
e-tO-miit’-up- 
eommenced 
ah-wah-kw6-ye 
chased him 


e+tot'eks-sd-pw6 -e 
came very wind 


Kin'-yi-yi 


That's it 


saw him Wind maker Wind maker Spotted animal 
niit'-Ot-sY-nfim Yn-d-ye’ wthk-sd-vis Yn-d-y@ 6-t0-kists 
like color long his tail long his ears 
@t-sIn-tis -tse. 
down hang. 


Free translation: Some hunters once saw the wind-maker 
and chased him; there came a strong wind which blew them 
off, but, persisting, they chased the animal into the lake, and 
as soon as he disappeared under the water the wind ceased 
blowing. Then they knew that they had seen the Wind- 
maker. He was a spoited animal, and had a long tail, and 
long ears which hung down. 


*The following account of the Blackfeet pis-kan was given by Mr. 
Schulty in Forest anp SvrRmAm of June 1, 1882: 

Not so very long agol happened to be camped with a gens of the 
Pe-gun-ny, ata place called Willows Round, situated some fifteen 
miles above here, on the Marias River. Early in the evening I saw 
old Po-kah-yah-yi, in whose lodge I was stopping, ascend a steep 
bluff not far off, and, giving him time to reach thetop, L followed, 
and was soon seated by his side. Directly opposite us across the 
river were the remains of pis-kan, or, as the white men out here call 
it, a “buffalo pound.’’ Why so called I cannot say, the literal transla- 
tion of the word ‘pis-kan” being ‘‘falling-off place.”” “Now, my 
friend,” said I, after Thad regained my breath, ‘tell me all about that 
pis-kan. How did you make it; how many buffalo did you catch in 
one day; and-how many winters ago did you use it?’’ 

The old man’s story was as follows: 

“Tn those days we had no guns, but used to kill many buffalo with 
bows and arrows; and sometimes we used the pis-kan. When we 
made a pis-kan, we first found a little open glade by the river where 
the prairie came down andended in a cut bank as high asa man. 
From this cut bank we built a strong fence clear around the edge of 
the glade. We used big trees to make the fence—logs and sticks, and 
anything that would help to keep the butfalo from breaking ont, 
Then we built two lines of stone piles far out on the prairie, two lines 
that ever diverged from each other. Then the pis-kan was built, 

“The night before we intended to make a drive we always had a 
buffalo dance. All the people danced. The medicine men all wore 
buffalo robes, and sung the buffalo songs. 
secret helpers for good luck. Harly the next morning the people 
went out, and hid behind the stone piles on the prairie. The medicine 
man who was going to call the buffalo put on a buffalo robe, hair side 
ovt, and sitting down smoked one pipe to the sun. Then he spoke to 
his wives and-all the women of his lodge, saying, ‘You must not go 
outside untilT return. You must not look out of the doorway or any 
hote. Take this sweet grass,’ giving it to his head wife, ‘and every 
little while burn a small part of it so that the sun will be glad. Pray 
that we will have good luck.’ Then he mounted a dark colored horse 
and rode out on the prairie. When he came near a band of buffalo 
he began to ride quickly in circles and cried out to the buffalo, say- 
ing, ‘#-ne-uh! E-ne-uh!’ (meaning buffalo). The buffalo were first a 
little seared; then they began to follow him slowly, and soon ran 
after him as fastas they could. Then the medicine man rode into 
the shoot, and after the buffalo had also run in he jumped out to one 
side of the stone piles, and the herd passed by. ‘The people behind 
kent rising up and shouting, which made themrun all the faster. 
The buffalo in the head of the bund were afraid of the stone piles, 
and kept right on in the middle of the shoot; those in the rear were 
scared by the people continually rising behind them, and so pushed 
the leaders ahead. When the band had got close to the edye of the 
pis-kan, all the people closed in on them and with a great shout 
drove them over the cut bank into the inclosure. Then with their 
bows and arrows, the men killed all the buffalo; even the old bulls 
were killed. The fattest cows were then marked for the chiefs and 
medicine men by placing sticks on the tails, and the rest were 
divided up among the people,” 

The above narrative is true in every respect. As late as 1865 the 
Pe-gun-ny used these pis-kans on the Upper Marias. Mr. Jos. Mipp, 
the well-known Indian trader, tells me that in 1864 he saw the Pe- 
gunu-ny capture Over seventy-five head of buffalo in this manner. 
Sometimes three or four drives were made in oneday. About seven- 
ty-five buffalo were the average drive, though.sometimes more than 
a hundred were taken. 


trout brooks of the surrounding mountains discharging else- 
where, and it has no visible outlet—probably has none, . 

Three hundred years ago, as nearly as Indian tradition in- 
dicates, the basin that now holds the lake was a dry valley. 
Ona certain time a great horde of Adirondaes and Abena- 
kis on the one side and as great a one of all the nations of 
the Iroquois on the other, met here in a deadly conflict that 
lasted for several days. Heaps on heaps were slain of both 
wild armies, but neither was victorious, and both withdrew, 
leaving their dead upon the field. A month later all the 
women of the nations engaged repaired thither to weep over 
their slaughtered braves, and abode there, so doing, for many 
days, and at the end of a fortnight their tears had filled the 
little vale with salt water. And every year, for hundreds of 
years after, about the anniversary of the battle, the mourn- 
ing women came there and wept for nearly a month, thus 
keeping the lake full. Ishould be inclined to relegate this 
tale to the realm of fabulous tradition, if I had not myself 
seen hundreds of squaws sitting upon the shores and raining 
down showers of tears for their moldered ancestors, little 
salt rivulets trickling down from each group to the lake, 
through the white sand, composed almost entirely of the 
crumbled bones and flint arrows and spears of the long-slain 
warriors. Therefore I have no doubt the lake owes its origin 
to this source. Yet these later comers, not feeling the 
poignaney of grief which affected the earlier mourners, 
may have contributed something in a way which is given to 
those who are denied many tears. 

Some sea fish are found in its waters as well as oysters, 
clams and the like, the spawn of which was doubtless 
brought by the seafowl that frequently visit it. I thought 
once that Lhad discovered seaweed there, but found, wpon 
inquiry among my Indian acquaintances, both Troquois and 
Abenakis, that once upon a mourning time there outbroke 
a battle between the squaws as to which sorrowed most, 
when many ,scalps without skin were clawed off, after the 
fashion of civilized women, aud my seaweed was only the 
water-soaked trophies of that Amazonian conflict. As the 
mourners grow fewer with the rapid passing away of the In- 
dian race, the lake shrinks, bul becomes no less salt, except 
in seasons of exceeding wetness, and for those who would 
have the heart of the wooods in large and the seaside in min- 
iature in conjunction, I know of no more delightful resort 
than this sheet of water, which the lroquios call Kanyatare- 
Keaheya, the Lake of Death, and the Abenakis, Nebisit Wal- 
dam-Wogan, the Water of Sorrow, or Lake of Tears. 

If one would visit it from the East, let him leave Lake 
Champlain at Westport, Essex or Plattsburgh and go toward 
it till he comes to it, upon doing which he cannot mistake 
it for any other lake in Adironda, either by the tests of 
sight, taste or smell. If one would come to it from any 
other point I cannot give him better instructions for doing so. 

It freezes much Jater than other Jakes of that re- 
gion, JI have seen it open at the end of October, when as 
all know, winter reigns there supreme and undisputed, I 
have seen in November » polar bear traversing its frozen 
surface, and have killed more than one seal there, as well as 
the blue Arctic fox, Is it not strange that these animals of 
the far North should have been Jed to it so far from their 
wonted abode? By what light intangible ethereal thread 
were they drawn? Of this and things akin I hope to say 
something further on. Majsor JosePaH Verity, U.S.H.M. 


Hivery one prayed to their ; 


_ [Read before the Field Naturalists’ Club of the City of 


~MAJOR JOSEPH VERITY. 


SOME OF HIS SPORTING ADVENTURES, AS MODESTY sHr 
PORTH BY HIS OWN HAND. 


Chapter VII. 

DIRONDA, a vast tract of primeval forest in the midst 
of a country that has Jong been settled and ‘‘im- 
proved,” as itis the fashion to term those portions of the 
earth which have been spoiled by the hands of civilized man, 
is such a delightful resort for the tired dwellers in cities, for 
invalids and for those who desire to season their dull lives 
with a spice of mild adventure, that it is altogether desirable 
that it should be set apart asa State park, and henceforth 
saved from the destroying axe of the tree-murdering lumber- 
man. A more important consideration than these from the 
utilitarian point of view, is the dependence of the lives of 
great rivers on the preservation of this great tract of land- 
shading and water-staying woodland. If it were not for 
this danger to awaken the power that rules, the lovers of the 
grand old woods might prepare their garments of sackcloth 
and gather their ashes while there are yet ashes to be 

gathered, and be ready for the day of mourning. 

It was brought to my mind in speaking of the lake of the 
singing fishes, what countless beautiful and curious lakes lie 
in that region, many of which, I doubt not, have never yet 
mirrored the form of a white man, while there are many 
more that but few white men have beheld. One of these in 
particular [ remember, which I neyershaye heard mentioned 
nor seen one word written of till now. It is a small body of 
very salt water lying in a rock-rimmed bowl] of mountains in 
the very heart of Adironda, and is very beautiful; but its 
beauty is outdone by the singularity of its saline character, 
and its cause. It is not fed by salt springs on its shores nor 
in its bottom, in fact, it has no inlet of any sort; the small 


aatnyal History. 


THE DEER OF THE OTTAWA VALLEY. 


BY WILLIAM PITTMAN LETT. 


Ottawa, On- 
tario, Canada, on the 18th day of March, 1884. ] 
[Continued from Page 124.] 
THE MOOSE. 

HE moose deer (Alces wmerteana) or Alces malehis, accord- 
ing to Linnzus, is the largest of all deer now existing in 
the world, although much inferior in size to the ancient Trish 
elk, which must have been an animalof gigantic propor- 
tions, if we are to judge from the size and weight of the 
ponderous antlers found occasionally in the bogs of Ireland, 
Some of those great horns haye been discovered with a spread 
of twelve feet, which fact will give some idea of the magni- 
tude of the animal which carried in the old days of the 

powerful wolfdog such enormous horns, 

The American moose, according to the conclusions of 
all scientific naturalists, is a true elk, identical with the 
Scandinavian and Asiatic elks. A full-erown moose of 
the largest size, when fat and up to its heaviest weight, 
will weigh upwards of fifteen hundred pounds. <A_ bull 
moose of this description is as tall as the largest horse. 
The body and neck, for so tall an animal, are Short and 
stout—the neck unusually so—and is covered with a thick 
mass of strong, bristly hair rising into a stiff mane, which, 
when the animal is irritated, stands on end like the mane of 
a lion, and gives the infuriated beast a frightful and formi- 
dable aspect. The legs are long and bony; and although un- 
gainly in appearance, are as clean cut and as compact as the 
limbs of a racer. The head is enormously large, and alto- 
gether deficient in the points of grace and beauty peculiar to 
nearly all the other branches of the deer genus. The fleshy 
part of the upper jaw terminates with a long, flexible upper 
lip, with prehensile powers, used by the animal in seizing the 
twigs and branches of trees upon which it feeds. The nostrils 
are long and wide, and the eyes somewhat small in propor- 
tion to the size of the animal. The hoofs are large and 
shaped like those of the common deer. The colour of the 
hair in the summer coat is a dark brown, nearly black, par- 
ticularly about the head. At this season the coat is short 
and ,glossy. In winter the animal is covered with long, 
coarse hair, of a brittle nature, and the colour is lighter m 
hue, a sort of grayish brown tinge prevailing on the sides, 
with the belly of a somewhat lighter colour. <A. tuft of hair 
nearly one foot long hangs under the jaws in the young 
‘moose. Moose is an Indian name, derived from the Algon- 
quin word. movssee, the eater. 

I quote the following description from Billing’s ‘‘Canadian 
Naturalist and Geologist”: 

“The gigantic horns of the moose are well known in al- 
most every town in Hurope or America where there is a 
museum. It is difficult to believe that these enormous solid 
appendages are the growth of a single season, and yet the 
fact istoo well established to admit of adoubt. Only the 
males are provided with them, and no matter how large 
they may be, they grow to their full size in about twelve or 
fourteen weeks. On the young moose, one year old, they 
are merely short knobs; they increase in size after each 
annual shedding, and after the fourth year become palmated, 


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and may be termed full-grown about the fifth year. The 
palms are,on the widest part, on a moderate-sized mule, 
about eleven inches wide, The space between the roots, six 
or seven inches. A very large pair measures over five feet 
between the tips, and will weigh sixty or seventy pounds. 
They begin to sprout in April and fall off in February, It 
is said that their growth is complete in August, when the 
velvet peels off, and they are then white, but afterwards be- 
come brown or yellow. From one to three points or short 
prongs are added to the palms each year, so that the age of 
the animal is not indicated by the number of these prongs, 
as is generally supposed. 

“In fighting with each other they use both horns and 
feet, but in contending with dogs, only the latter, with 
which they strike tremendous blows. Their pace is a long 
swinging trot which they can keep up for several hours in 
succession.” 

A wounded moose is a very dangerous animal to approach, 
unprepared with the means of finishing him. From an eye 
witness, I was told of a case in point. A shantyman, I 
think on the Black River, at any rate at some place above 
Pembroke, ran out in sight of a number of his comrades 
close to the shanty, with a single-barreled muzzleloader and 
fired at and severely wounded a large bull moose. Seeing 
the animal wounded, he ranup to him with an empty gun, 
when the moose rushed at him, knocked him down with a 
blow of one of his fore feet; and before any of his friends 
could effectually interfere, the furious animal trampled and 
pounded the unfortunate man to death. .I have also heard 
instances where hunters have been treed by wounded moose; 
and ef one incident where a hunter escaped by dodging 
round a large tree until he was enabled to get a charge into 
his muzzleloader to administer the quietus. To shoot a 
moose in December, or in the iniddle of January, when he 
strides proudly along beneath the weight of his lordly 
crown, and when he is fat and heavy, is something that a 
sportsman may be proud of; but to slaughter the unfortunate 
animals in the latter end of February and March amid snow 
five feet deep, when the females are heayy with young, and 
the males are hornless and Jean, is a species of assassin work 
which ought to be put a stop to by thestrongarm of the law, 
if men are not ashamed of such improvident butchery. 

‘The moose, which at one time was found in abundance in 
all the Northeastern States of America. at the present time 
‘holds a precarious and short-leased existence,” says Parker 
Gilmore, ‘‘in the northern portions of Maine.” They are 
also, in decreasing numbers, however, still to be met with in 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Although diminishing 
every year, they are comparatively plentiful on the north 
side of the Ottawa River throughout its entire length, and 
in some localities far west, on its southern side. In the 
country lying to the south of Jame’s Bay and stretching west 
to Lake Winnipeg, ‘‘this giant deer cen be found in greater 
abundance than in any other portion of the American con- 
tinent.” Mouse are also found in considerable numbers in 
the country bordering on the 8t. Lawrence below Quebec, 
particularly in the Labrador region. 

Audubon says the moose grows to the height of twenty 
hands, Others who have made the subject a study, say 
that they grow even much larger than that. The moose of 
Labrador are smaller than those of the State of Maine or 
Canada, owing doubtless to the severe winter weather and 
the sparse vegetation of the former locality. 

The moose, when captured young, is easily domesticated, 
and grows ue tame and docile; but the confinement of 
civilization does not seem to agree with them, and after a 
few years’ confinement they pine away and die. With a 
park of sufficient size, well supplied with hardwood trees 
and swamp, and well watered, doubtless the animals would 
thrive. In a state of domestication the moose has been 
trained to harness, but he does not like it; but when he 
pleases to stretch out in a trot, the animal is exceedingly 
fleet. I have frequently seen the young bull moose owned 
by our late excellent Governor-General, the Marquis of 
Lorne, harnessed toa carriage; but, although he cuuld be 
made to go at a pretty decent trot with a little touching up 
with a whip, he did not take kindly to the slavery, and 
sometimes used to lie down fiat and stretch out his neck at 
full length, to show his repugnance to the idea of being 
turned into a horse, a transformation, however, scarcely 
possible in an animal so much resembling a gigantic ass. 
The male and female moose owned by Lord Lorne have 
been taken to the highlands of Scotland by him, and I have 
been sorry to hear that they are not doing well in their new 
home. 

No member of the deer genus produces finer venison than 
does the moose. The flesh, although somewhat coarse in 
grain, is juicy, and hasa fine gamy flavor; and the fat, 
which is abundant when the animal is in good’ condition, is 
beantifully ‘clear and white. A delicacy which only the 
moose hunter can enjoy, is the marrow from theshank bones 
cooked immediately after the animal has been killed. I 
shal] finish with the moose, with a quotation from Parker 
Gilmore, He says: ‘‘The Virginian deer, the fallow deer, 
the wapiti,and the red deer, are to me perfect in shape, 
graceful in their movements, and ornamental to the land- 
scape; but the moose, on the other hand, with his short, 
thick neck, asinine head, protruding eyes, heavy, broad 
ears, tremendous antlers, long, awkward, powerful legs, and 
disproportionate withers, looking even higher than they are 
from the mane that suarmounts them, can never be considered 
by an impartial judge, but an awkward and clumsy brute. 

“Of all the ruminants on the American continent, the 
moose is the tallest. I doubt not a stall-fed ox can be made 
to weigh as heavy. but not to attain the stature; and on this 
continent, as well as others, it is really a duty that the legis- 
latures of the various States and Provinces, of which he is 
an inhabitant, owe to the country at large, to pass and cp- 
force such laws as will preveut his ultimate anvihilation.” 

Before leaving the moose, I may mention that in any sec- 
tion of country in which the Virginian deer abound, moose 
are seldom found. It is said, and I believe truly, that the 
moose, large and powerful as he is, is unable to withstand 
the lithe and vigorous attack of the active and sharp-horned 
buck of the smaller species. In the fall of the year, under 
the natural impulses incidental to the season, desperate 
battles take place between the male moose. Such conflicts, 
however, rarely terminate so fatally as the struggles between 
the males of the lesser brecd; the broad, blunt horns of the 
great elk not being so well adapted to the purpose of inflict- 
ing dangerous and fatal wounds as are the sharp-pointed 
antlers of the former. In like manner toe red fox originally 
imported into the United States (then British colonies) by 
Sir Guy Carleton, exterminated the smaller native grey fox, 
The red squirrel, also, makes his hunting ground too hot for 
his larger and stronger congeneric brother of the black species. 

[TO BE CONCLUDED, | 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


BIRD NOTES. 


[ HAVE been over the same grounds not less that half a 

dozen times since the day reported, and with about ihe 
same success. Two days later, in the evergreens, I saw a 
flock of about a dozen pine linnets (Chrysomitris pins), the 
first I ever found here, and secured five specimens. 
week after observation reported I saw just one snowbird 
(Junco hyemalis), and near by I found a field mouse impaled 
on a limb of a pear tree, but did not see his executioner, the 
great northern shrike. I was told by a friend who is better 
posted on birds than I am that he had seen a shrike in his 
yard a few days before. Since then I have visited the ever- 
greens four times, and have not seen /Junco, and came to the 
conclusion that he had shared the fate of the field mouse, as 
the latter wus missing from the branch. To-day I went 
over the same route, passing through cornfields, potato 
patches and wheat fields, where I have always, until this 
winter, found snow buntings, horned larks and tree spar- 
rows, and examined the weeds on which they feed, and only 
in the corntield, where the weeds were best protected from 
the frost, did I find any seeds, and then but very little. 
When the weuther permits, I always make such an excur- 
sion every Sunday afternoon, and always examine birds’ 
nests in winter as well as summer. I reported only what I 
did and did not sce. Probably no man in Lockport does 
more tramping about the country than Ido. My business 
is such that I have many leisure hours, and I derive much 
pleasure in this way. I usually go alone and across lots. 
In a December number, I think, of the Forzsr anp STREAM 
I read the report of the American Union in regard to bird 
migration, and offered my poor services to Dr. CO. Hart 
Merriam to report observations from this vicinity, and they 
were cordially accepted. I have just made my report for 
February, and it was an exceedingly meagre one. I will 
gtulore a copy, and if you think it of interest you can pub- 
ish it. 

Feb. 22 being a holiday, I was out from daylight until 
dark, and probably traveled from ten to twelve miles, and 
you will notice the observations were few and only three of 
them winter visitants, 

The golden eagle reported was sent to my son to be 
mounted. J had never examined one before, and was 
very much surprised at the size of the body after being 
skinned, and I sent it to one of your correspondents to see if 
he could identify the bird. His reply was ‘that he could not 
be deceived by coloration—‘‘the bird is all of one color”’—“‘had 
no bird skeletons at hand for comparison and would give his 
opinion offhand’’—and say of the bird—‘‘h’its not an ’en, an 
"awk nor a h’ow], but a h’eagle,” It was an immature bird, 
and the body was no larger than a great horned ow] my son 
skinned to-day. The feet of the eagle were full of porcupine 
quills, which was probably the last animal he had dined off 
and about as hot a meal as he ever had. 

Birds seen at Lockport, N. Y., during February: 

PERMANENT RESIDENTS (P. R.) 

Feb. 22. Downy woodpecker—P. pubescens. 

Feb. 26. Great horned owl—Bubo virginzanus. 

WINTER YISITANTS (W. Y.) 

Feb. 19. Pine linnet—C. pinus. 

Feb, 22. Herring gull—Z. argentatus. 

Feb. 22. Black-capped chickadee—P. airicapillus. 

Feb. 22. 

Feb. 24. 


Tree sparrow—S. monticola. 
Snowbird—J. hyemalis. 
TRANSIENT VISITANTS (T, Y.) 
Feb. 20. Wild geese—Heard them in the evening. 
SUMMER RESIDENTS (8. R.) 

Feb. 16. Robin—Turdus migratorius. 

Feb. 22. Cedar waxing—A. cedrorum. 

Feb. 28. American goldfinch—(, tristis. 

Note.—The wild geese were reported to me from a com- 
petent party, a golden eagle (Aguila canadensis), was sent to 
my son to be mounted, from Plessis, Jefferson county, N. Y. 
Lockport, March 4. J. L. D. 


During. the past winter our most abundant bird, save 
always the black snowbird and tree sparrow, was the white- 
bellied nuthatch. Next to these were the cardinal grosbeaks 
and bluejays in about equal abundance. Numbers of the 
latter birds were trapped by the boys and sold in neighbor- 
ing towns at twenty-five and fifty cents each. The follow- 
ing species were also rather abundant throughout the 
winter: ‘The song sparrow, tufted titmouse, Carolina wren, 
American goldfinch, red-headed woodpecker, flicker and 
Carolina dove. Isaw the bluebirds and a crow or two in 
January with the mercury at zero. The first genera] appear- 
ance of the crows was Feb, 4; that of the robins Feb, 11, 
and of the bluebirds Feb. 12. 

Many of your correspondents have remarked about the 
unusual occurrence of certain birds, as the robin, blackbird, 
blucbird, meadow lark, snipe, etc., within their districts the 
past winter, and when the ground was covered with snow 
and the weather unusually severe. I believe it to be capable 
of explanation, and would assign as the indirect cause the 
very general and very extensive snowfalls in the month of 
January, almost without a parallel in our country. For 
nearly a week in that month, the ground was covered with 
from six 10 thirty inches of snow, from the Attlanic to the 
Mississippi, and from the Lakes to Georgia; and much the 
larger portion of all this vast territory was under spow dur- 
ing nearly the whole month of January. Now, it is well 
known that many of our birds, as those mentioned, are but 
partially migratory, and that the question of food supply is 
the chief factor in determining their winter habitation; 
hence it is the great bulk of them ordinarily are found win- 
tering in the ‘‘Carolina” districts, where their food supplies 
are rarely cut off by snows. But during the period spoken 
of above, these districts being almost universally under 
snow, the birds, in seeking suitable feeding grounds, were 


necessarily more widely and generally dispersed, which to. 


my mind sufficiently accounts for their appearance in certain 

more northern districts at the time, and under the cireum- 

stances, noted by yourcorrespondents, Ry. W. E. Hiv, 
Farrview, Hancock County, W. Va., March 3, 


Since the last cold snap and snowstorm our birds have 
again made themselves scarce, excepting the plucky blue- 
bird. Hawks have been unusually plentiful the past winter. 
In my last I wrote you I was expecting the ducks, but since 
then the cold put a stop to their coming, as everything is 
frozen, However, it will not be long before they will be 
here in full force. Quite a number of rabbits were left over 
from last fall’s shoot, and I noticed a great many tracks in 
the snow lately. 1t’s surprising bow rabbits keep up their 
numbers, since they are constantly hunted in season by men 
and boys, and in summer by hounds and curs, and I can readily 


believe the dogs kill more rabbits, when they are young, than. 


i 
: 


[Maron 20, 1864. 


hunters. To-day is warm and spring-like once more, al- 
though enough snow has fallen to insure good sleigh riding. 
No one in these parts feeds or shelters quail; perhaps the 
quail are so scarce they can't find them. Some years azo 
quail were here in goodly numbers, but of late years it’s 
pretty hard to find a bunch. Partridges are a bird of the 
past with us almost; one being found occasionally a few 
miles from here, 16-Born. 
Manptson, N. J. Ts 


Iherewijth send my mite of information concerning the 
appearancé of our spring birds. I saw robins and bluebirds 
for the first time on Feb. 13; saw several meadow larks in 
January, but that is nothing unusual here; saw the first 
red-shouldered blackbirds about the 15th of February; also 
saw a few pintail, mallard and dusky ducks. The robins 
are here yet and seem inclined to stay. The others men- 
tioned appear to come and go, according as the weather is 
warm or cold. I shot two specimens of what 1 called rusty 
grackle (Scolecophagus ferrugineus), but am not certain, 
Length, nine amches; color, head and neck of male black, 
shaded on tips of feathers with gray or russet, and traces of 
russet among the feathers on the shoulders; general color 
black changing to green, The female had a great deal more 
russet and gray on head, breast and shoulders; otherwise 
same as the male; iris light yellow; bill three-quarters of an 
inch inlength, I never shot any birds like theia before, 
and thought they were common blackbirds when I first saw 
them, Am [right in my conjectures or not, and is their 
appearance at this season of the year (February) anything 
unusual? ' 8. E. 

SEVILLE, Ohio, March 5. 

[The birds mentioned by *‘S. E.” were rusty grackles, as he 
supposed. | 


There is deep snow on the ground here everywhere, and 
yet one of our taxidermists shot a meadow lark out of a 
flock of eight orten March 5. Saw the bird and it was a 
beauty. The pine grosbeaks appear to have left for the 
most part. A flock of female and young purple finches 
have been here during the latter part of February. 

AMHERST, Mass., March 7, W. A. STEARNS. 


We have had a severe winter here. Snow covers the 
ground yet to the depth of several feet. Grouse and quail 
have about all disappeared within the last few years from 
these parts, owing to their wholesale destruction by pot- 
hunters and foxes. Pine grosbeaks have been quite numer- 
ous in the towns, feeding on the berries of the mountain 
ash. Rather an unusual number of crows have wintered 
here, considering the severity of the weather. A few shore 
larks and downy woodpeckers and a fewsolitary chickadees 
constitute our winter birds. CANUCK. 

OsHAwA, Ontario, Can., March 10, 1884. 


We have been visited since the Ist of February by a large 
number of pine grosbeaks, which enter our city without 
any fear, being very tame; indeed, a friend of mine caught 
one under his hat. The birds mostly are females and young 
birds. Ihave seen only one male in full plumage. Is not 
this queer? F. W. G. 

Hartrorp, Conn., March 7, 


CROWS. 


A GERMAN friend related the other day a novel method 
of capturing crows, that was practiced in the ‘‘Old 
Country,” when he wus a boy. They sewed some strong 
horse hairs to the grains of corn, and tied them securely in a 
place the crows were wont to frequent. The crows would 
come and eat the corn without observing the hairs attached 
toit, and thus would be held fast, much against their will. It 
would doubtless be ludicrous, and perhaps a little pathetic ~ 
to see some grave old sentinel give the warning signal, and 
endeavor to fly away as one approached, only to be held 
down in this ignoble manner, But it was very ludicrous 
and not at all pathetic to see our old friend (who ought to 
be sedate, as he has children grown) try to imitate them. 
He would jump, flop his arms, ca-wa-ik, ca-ca-rawk, ca-awk- 
aw, duck his head as though it were being held down by the 
bait, jamp and flop until his head was drawn quite beneath 
him; then exhausted he would lift a very red face, which 
would grow redder with laughing at the remembrance. He 
said that he, with his brothers and sisters, owned a tame: 
crow of which they were very fond; but one day while they 
were away, their mother saw it deliberately walk up and 
“spike” a gosling in the head, killing it instantly. This 
enraged the good “‘frau,” who ran out and picking upa 
small stick, flung it at bim; when, to her astonishment, the 
crow, with a faint caw, toppled over and expired. 

She had her punishment, however, when the childrew 
returned and filled the house with wailings and Jamentations,. 
and could not be comforted for the loss of their pet. Papa 
W. had some fancy poultry in which he took great interest; 
but he found that the young chickens kept disappearing in a 
very unaccountable manuer, until one day he discovered 
Corvus feugivorus flying away with one in his beak. A 
charge of shot put an end to his career, and after that there 
were no more missing chickens. | Vrotmr 8. WILLTAMs. 

CORALVILLE, Pa., March 4, 1834. 


BULLETIN oF THE NATURAL HisToRY OF THE STATE OF 
MassacuusEerts.—We have received from Mr. W. A. Stearns 
a circular setting forth that it is proposed to establish under 
the above title a monthly periodical devoted to the natural 
history of Massachusetts. The periodical is to he published 
at Amherst, Mass., isto contain from twelve to sixteen pages, 
6x9 inches, of brevier type. It will be conducted, we under- 
staud, by Mr. Stearns. Price isto be $1 per annum, 


Currous.—On March,6a specimen of the mottled owl 
(Scops asio) was brought to me that had been killed by the 
person throwing a club at it. Upon dissecting it I found 
the stomach contained wheat, buckwheat and seeds, nothing 
else. This is the first instance that I have ever found grain 
in the stomach of an owl,—C. F. Carr (Waupaca, Wis., 
March 12. 


Marow 20, 1884] 


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qwave isa mystery. Larks (Sturnella magna) robins (Merula 
migratorius) bluebirds (Stdlia sialis) have becn here;since the 
first of the present month. Partridge (Bonasa wmbelius) 
have wintered well, what few are left. Many were shot the 
past season, and reynard, who is an unmerciful pot-hunter, 
keeps up the slaughter the whole year through. I am glad 
to learn that some of the readers of the Forrst AND STREAM 
are awaking to the fact that a bounty on his head is the 


only way to save the birds from total extermination,— Bar. 


Locx (Virgil, N. Y., March 13). 


Se eet rk 
Game Bag and Gan. 


PROTECTING SONG BIRDS. 


BIRD never flutters unless itis hit. The taxidermists 
of Massachusetts have taken alarm at the proposed leg- 
islation giving the power to license them into the hands of 
the Fish and Game Commissioners, Heretofore any boy of 
sixteen years could obtain a certificate from the curator of 
the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy at Cambridge, the 
president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Am- 
Petit, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Worcester 
Lyceum and Natural History Society, the Peabody Academy 
of Science at Salem, or from any incorporated society of 
natural history or college in the State, and become a full- 
fledged ornithologist, with power to bunt and kill, and take 
the nests and eggs of as many birds as he could find. The 
effect of such a law has been disastrous to the birds of the 
State. Not only have the real taxidermists scoured wood- 
land and field, but boys more in love with killing something 
than with any sort of study, have been let loose with a cer- 
tificate in their pockets and a gun in their hands, till the 
song and insectivorous birds we loved so well in hoyhood 
have begun to disappear, , 

A lady of Taunton, Mass., writes the Fish and Game 
Protective Association a letter of congratulation that some- 
thing is at last to be done to stop the destruction of our na- 
tive birds under the name of science. She remarks the rapid 
decrease of the more common birds during the past three 
or four years in her immediate vicinity, and easily traces 
their skins into the taxidermist’s shop, and, worse than all, 
their eggs into the collections of pretended young students 
of ornithology. The lady is able to point out a number of 
such collections in her immediate Hees porogis Pepslclls 
enough to have made the birds scarce in any tract of coun- 
try from which they were taken. Ske very aptly illustrates 
the real state of the case when she shows howa boy thirty or 
forty years ago would have heen reproved by his mother 
with tears in her eyes for taking a single bird’s nest or egg, 
and have perhaps receiveda whipping trom his father. But 
to-day the boy’s collection of a few badly mounted bird 
skins and hundreds of eggshells is put into the mother’s best 
parlor, labelled ‘‘Ornithology,” often badly spelled and 
worse written, and the mother points out the collection with 
pride when visitors call, with a look which says, ‘‘See how 
much our boy knows.” Perhaps the young ornithologist, at 
the very moment, is behind the woodshed reading Indian 
stories in a dime novel. 

When we remember the earnest researches of Wilson and 
Audubon, the many days of patient study they devoted to 
live birds, and take into account what true and devoted bird 
study has already given us, really such pursuit of ornithology 
as the lady reader mentions looks tame and ridiculous. The 
institutions of learning which have granted thousands of 
certificates to boys to follow out so false a line of study have 
not done a work to be proud of. 

But the taxidermists of the trade have taken alarm, and 
the Legislature is being besieged with communications, and 
members are being interviewed and urged to vote down any 
bill which shall interfere with the study of bird science. A 
member of the Legislature made a good reply the other day 
to one of these lobbyists, : 

“Well,” said he, ‘‘you want the law to stand as ft is?’’s, 

“Yes; the law is good enough.” ’ 

“You want to kill birds and take their eggs, in order to 
study them, don’t you?” 

“Yes, sir; we are obliged to have collections of dead 


and 


mounted birds in our study of ornithology.’ 


“Well, perhaps you are right; but would you expect a 
traveler, sent out to a far country to study the habits of the 
people, to take a shotgun with him and kill and stuff the 
skins of all the people he could find? He would come back 
witha full knowledge of the habits and customs of the people, 
wouldn’t he?” 

The taxidermists retreated from the force of such reason- 
i X. 


ing. 
THE OLD GUN. 


()X* of my neighbors, a few years ago, showed me a big 

10-bore flint-lock gun, which, in the hands of his an- 
cestors, had done some tall duck shooting. They used to 
run their own shot in a mould with sixteen chambers, and 
used flax tow for wadding. To overcome the recoil they 
wore a pad on the shoulder, and fired heavy charges. It 
was used for a training gun in the old militia days. 

Finally, one day I told him if he would Jet me target it I 
would buy it. I don’t shoot flint locks since I fired one a 
number of year's ago at a flock of blackbirds up in the elms 
and singed my winkers by the pan powder; but I have a 
vise in my shop that holds them and a hot iron sends them 
off. After making a few trials that way I found that the 
old gun stood by its record, and the result wasa trade. I 
had a government percussion fixed on and the very first shot 
that I had at ducks I got four mallards. The paced distance 
was between nine and ten rods. I think the best target shot- 
I have made with it was when it had been loaded for a while 
and was somewhat rustyin the muzzle. At eight rods it 
put four center large shot inside of a two-inch ring, the rest 
a good pattern. Query—Did the slight rust act as choke? 
if so, what is the best choke for heavy shot? 

-Thave since taken off the heavy brass heel plate, crooked 
the stock, shortened stock under barrel, and cut off six 
inches of the barrel, and it makes a handy, reliable gun that 
we can turn round on an ordinary sized lot. The original 
length of barrel was 3 feet'6 inches. There are two crowns 
struck on the barrel near the breech, and Amsterdam is 
plainly lettered on the lock plate. 1 
_ Such is a brief history of the old gun that has brought 
many a duck and gray squirrel to hand since I bought it. 


> 


}some time how to crook a gun stock to make 


I will write some 
quideaienino ana hhave the stock strong. - 
Mes: _  - Country. 
| Guasrosgury, Conn. 4 i: 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest. and Stream: 

Like “Backwoods,” in your journal of Feb, 28, 1884, I 
am ‘‘tempted to put in my oar” on the ‘‘performance of shot- 

ns.” 

We will premise by saying that no sized bore, no length 
or weight of gun, no amount of powder, nor any charge of 
any sized shot can be made to attain a preater inilial velocity 
than about 2,000 feet per second; that with a given charge 
of powder, the velocity falls off as the weight of shot is in- 
creased; that as great an initial veloeity can be attained with 
a 20-gauge as with a 4, or 6, 8, 10 or 12-gauge gun; that a4, 6, 
or 8-gauge weighing 10 to 20 pounds can project shot of the 
sume size no further, or attain to any greater initial velocity 
than one of 12, 16, or 20-gauge weighing 7 to 8 or 9 pounds. 

If these assumptions be true, it only remains for us to find 
out the quantity of powder, quantity and size of shot, and 
that medium of weight and gauge of gun that will handle 
the easiest, and that will kill the game we are after the best. 

This will bring you to repeated trials to test the ‘‘perform- 
ance of shotguns.” 

In these “tests” something like the following may be found 
to be true, and aid in making choice of the gun we are look- 
ing for: 

TEST OF DIFFERENT CHARGES OF POWDER. 
12-Gauge Gun—40 Yards. 


Charge. 


Pattern, Force. | Recoil in Lbs, 
j 7 | 
Powder Shot | | | 
No. 1. No. 7. | R, | L. | R, | L. a L, 
I | | | 
Sdms, ilgoz. 126 | 170 | 18% 183g | 8&7 86 
3i4dms,| same, 147 | 170 i4ig | 1446 | 92 90 
ddms. same. i384 |, 170 15g | 16 96 95 
digdms,| same. | Wt | 1% 1534 | 1634 100 100 
{ rein) f 
10-Gauge Gun—40 Yards. 
Charge. Pattern. Force. Recoil. 
| i l 7. 
Powder | Shot | 
No. 1.* | No. 7. Fe | i = | u Re Ee 
iba | — = 
4dms. 1ljoz. 156 | 200 1444 | 15 | m4 95 
4i4dms.| same. 146 | 170 15 15% | «(98 109 
‘5dims. same. 157 191 16 1614 10444 | 103 
5lgdms.] same. 140 208 16 | 16 105 105 
* Oriental powder is numbered No. 1 fine to No. 4 coarse. 
THST OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF POW DER. 
12-Gauge Gun—40 Yards. 
Charge. Pattern. Foree Recoil. 
| | 
Powder, | Shot | | | | 
ddrs. | No, R. | L. 1c ieee | R. L. 
| 
| 
No. 1 ig0z 184 | i170 16% [pis | 96 | MK 
No.2 game. | 135 | ier | iat [Mia2g | 91 | 87 
No. 8 same. | 152 194 j4 18% | 90 | 8824 
1 | i 
10-Gauge—40 Yards. 
Charge. Pattern. Foree. | Recoil. 
| | 
Powder, Shot, | 
414 drs. | No. 7, R. | L. R. | L | R | L, 
No. 1. 11402. 146 170 15 1514 98 99 
No. 2. same. 139 181 14144 14 95 99 
No 3. same, 157 210 13 1214 91 9034 
TEST OF DIFFERENT CHARGES OF SHOT, 
12-Gauge Gun—40 Yards, 
Charge. Pattern, Force. Recoil 
| ei “| ia } 
Powder, Shot, | | 
No. 1, No. 7. R. | Tae pametus | L. R. | L. 
| : j " 
3igdms. | 1oz. 125 160 1524 | i¢ =| &4 85 
same 1l4oz 127 | 174 144g | 1444 8934 | 89 
10-Gauge Gun—40 Yards. 
Charge. Pattern. Force. Reeoil. 
| 
| lies 
Powder, Shot, | 
No: 1 No. 7. R ie fe AES |! Te pe BR | L. 
{ | 
4ygdms. | loz. | 149 154 174g | 18 5014 90 
same. | Igoz, | 183 149 161g | 168g | 9114 93 
same, goz, | 175 191 1514 | a 9934 100 
| i | 
6-Gauge Gun—40 Yards. 
Charge, | Pattern, Force. Recoil. 
| | 
| 
Powder, Shot, | 
0. No. 7. One Barrel. One Barrel. One Barrel. 
| 
5dims. Woz. | 287 14 1-6 117 
same, | 21402. | 551 1214 125 


Eech test given above is the ayerage of six shots with Oriental 
powder. 

Suppose an initial velocity of 2,000 feet per second can be 
attained, then No, 7 shot in any gun will be projected up 
206.71 yards, or 37,58 rods, in 84 seconds of time; No. 8 
shot, 176.20 yards, or 82 rods, in 8.27 seconds; No. 5 shot, 
234.45 yards, or 42.68 rods, in 3.85 seconds; No. 3 shot, 
268.10 yards, ar 48.75 rods, in 4.17 seconds. 

It is not claimed that all guns of the same gauge, loaded 
with the same charge, fired at the same distance, will pro- 
duce exactly the same pattern, but it will be found that the 
force or penetration will be substantially the same, because 


- the initial velocity will be substantially the same. 


_ The variation in the pattern and force of guns of the 


same gauge will arise from the quantity and size of the pow- 

er used in loading, the quantity and size of shot and, to 
some extent, the manner of loading when fired at the same 
distance, and the choke of the bore. For instance: A 
10-gauge gun charged with 5 drams of powder (No. 2 Ori- 
ental) and 1 ounce shot, the initial velocity will be very near 
1,817 feet per second; with 14 ounces shot, 1,716 feet per sec- 
ond; with 12 ounces shot, 1,628 feet per second; with 13 
ounces shot, 1,550 feet per second; with 14 ounces shot, 1,482 
feet per second. 

All the tests show that an increased quantity of shot will 
give a better pattern, al medium range, say 40 yards, but it 
will be at the sacrifice of force or penetration. 

The large gauges will carry more shof, be more likely to 
hit, while the force will be about the same as in smaller 
gauges, and at short range will be more liable to kill; as the 
impact of tev shot bitting a bird the size of a ruffed grouse 
would knock the life out of it without a single shot pene: 
trating a vital part, while one, two or three shot at much 
greater velocity might go through the bird, and yet it might 
not fall until it had flown out of sight. 

In the light of these facts which I have only touched upon 
without elaboration, if seems pretty clear to me that the 
days of heavy guns and big bores are about numbered. That 
in choosing a gun for ease in handling, for pattern and pene- 
tration, for economy in loading, and convenience in the field, 
a 80-inch, 8} to 84, 10-gauge breechloading double-barreled 
shotgun loaded with 44 drams No. 1 and 38 powder (mixed 
half and half) with two pink-edged wads over the powder, 
and 14 ounces shot, one wad over shot, will be found such a 
medium as to answer all reasonable purposes, and give daily 
and increasing satisfaction. Next to it a 12-gauge, 30-inch, 
7 to 84 pounds, double-barreled breechloader, especially for 
field shooting will be found adequate, and a great favorite 
where one can afford to keep two guns. Load, 3 to 3 drams 
powder No. i, and 1 ounce shot. 

As to the choice between the muzzle and the breechloader 
IT can only say ‘‘there is no accounting for tastes.” For 
thirty years | owned and shottwo muzzleloaders, which I 
then thought were good guns. When breeclioaders came 
and were thoroughly tested, I gave one of them away and 
had the other altered over into a breechloader, and have 
it yet. 

it is my opinion that there is but little difference in the 
force or penetration betweenthem. But in pattern and con- 
venience there is a wide difference, especially if the breech- 
loader be choked and metallic shells are used. With mes 
tallic shells wads over the powder can be used two sizes 
larger than the gauge of the gun. This enables you to get 
the same initial velocity, and consequently the same force 
or penetration that you can possibly get from the muzzle- 
loader, while the choke in the breechloader, which you can- 
not haye in the muzzleloader, will mogt certainly ojve nni- 
formly the best pattern. But suppose their penetration and 
pattern were equal, would not the muzzleloader have to 
yield to the greater convenience and rapidity of loading of 
the breechloader? DB, Wee 


CLEVELAND, O., March, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

My experience with, and opinion of breechloading shot- 
guns, is about as follows: I own a12-bore, 28-inch, 8}-pound 
chokebored Colt gun. The tag which came with the gun 


said, ‘8 drams Hazard powder, 14 ounces No. 8 shot, 2 pink 


edge wads over powder, 1 over shot, for paper shells same 
size s shell, and for brass shells 2 sizes larger;” whiie the 
patfern given was ‘298 right barrel, and 302 lef! barrel, 40 
yards, 80-inch circle, No. 8 shot.” Result of test. Made a 
seore of paper targets, 80-inch circle, loaded brass shells, 23 
inches long, as directed, and the best pattern was about 250. 
‘Then tried paper shells with about the same result, which 
was not satisfactory, as the gun was ‘‘warranted to make 
pattern on tag.” Had been using Winchester pink-edge 
wads, and slow-burning powder. Was told to get finer 
powder, and Eley’s pink-edge wads. Procured some FFG 
dead shot powder, and Eley’s wads, and paper shells 22 inches 
long—lenpth of chamber in barrel—and_ the result was a 
pattern of 324, with 3 drams of the fine powder, This result 
was quite pleasing, in fact very satisfactory; but I concluded 
to do a little better if possible. Procured cardboard wads 
to use over shot, with the brass star wad which banishes 
crimping and holds the cardboard wad securely, and tried 
again. Hureka! count up 424 in 80-inch circle, 86 in 6-inch 
circle, and 11 in 38-inch bullseye. Good enough. Try same 
charge, 8 drams, wood powéer, about 300; increase the 
charge to 4 drams, and oyer 400 again. At 100 measured 
yards with 4 drams of quick, strong powder, 14 ounces No. 
4 shot, can stick in a pine board from 1 to 5 shot in a 6-inch 
cirele every time. Cannot do it with wood powder, the shot 
will dent but will not stick. As to penetration, that must 
follow a good pattern, the two are inseparable. 

Conclusion of the whole matter: A 12-bore, chokebored, 
28-inch gun, loaded with a shell length of chamber, 3 drams 
strong, quick, black powder, 1; ounces No. 8 shot, 2 Eley’s 
pink-edge wads over powder, cardboard and star wad over 
shot, will put over 400 pellets in a 80-inch cirele at 40 
measured yards. Probably a 10-bore would do better still. 
This whole question hinges on one essential point—loading. 
The best chokebored gun now made, if improperly loaded. 
will give unsatisfactory results. NEXT. 

New Market, N, H. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of March 6, 1884, I notice a commnnication 
from ‘‘Hammerless,” in which be says: ‘‘Tell your corres- 
pondent ‘‘Octo” that if his gun will average 440 out of a 
counted charge of 500, I will give him five times as much 
as he paid for his gun.” 

I would not feel called upon to answer ‘‘Hammerless” 
concerning this extremely liberal offer on his part, except 
that in other parts of his interesting article he seems, and J 
believe with good reason, to condemn the want of uniformity 
in targeting guns; and I do not want to appear among those 
who ‘‘heap’ the measure and use ‘“‘trap shot’ also, or who 
shoot at a range of 85 yards and call it 87 or 40, or who have 
“onides” to direct the scattering pellets to the target. If 
*‘Hammerless” will examine the squib ‘‘I wrote in the issue 
of Feb. 21,” he will discover that it reads as follows: ‘In 
answer to his (Buckeye’s) inquiry as to the proper perform- 
ance of a good breechlnader, 1 would say that at 40 yards, 
with 14 ounces of No. 8 shot (Tatham’s 400 to the ounce) 
and tive drams of powder, @ good 10-gauge gun should put 
from 375 to 440 pellets in a 30-inch circle,” ete. The italics 
are minc. ‘‘Hammerless” will notice that I do not even 
claim to own a gun at all, nor dol claim that even a good 
gun will average 440 pellets with the charge and range 
given. Not wishing to arouse the ire of ‘‘Hammerlese” at 


146 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


: (Maron 20, 1884, 


all, nor to enter into any controversy with him, I merely 

write this to put myself right before your readers. I pro- 

pose, in a few days, to do some experimenting with different 

charges avd manner of loading shells, and if of sufficient 

interest, will send you an account of the same. Octo. 
JoHNSTOWN, Pa., Marck 7, 1884. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

I have owned nine different breechloading shotguns in the 
past ten years, made by yarious firms, and ranging from 7 
pounds to 11 pounds in weight, and from 14 to 10-gauge, 
with length of barrels from 28 inches to 32 inches. My 
present guns are 8 pounds hammerless, and 10 pounds cheaper 
erade of English gun. I think I am pretty well ‘‘fixed” now 
for guns. Both my guns are 10-bore, and I prefer to have 
them alike on account of ammunition. I haye spent a great 
deal of time and some money in testing these different guns 
with varying loads. By nailing on the side of a shed a pack- 
age of large wrapping paper, and at forty yards, firing at the 
paper, in this way I get distribution and penetration. 

It may surprise some of your readers when I tell them 
that a 14-bore, 30 inch length of barrel, Greener gun, has the 
best record for penetration of any gun I ever used, and I 
will surprise them further by saying that there is a muzzle- 
loading gun owned here which couid be bought for twenty 
dollars, I think, that, after what I saw it do in the way of game 
killing at long distance, 1 would no more think of shooting 
either of my guns against it than I would of loading one of 
them with ball and shooting it against a rifle. In my opinion, 
the gun makers will have to manufacture their breechloaders 
with a different kind of point at the breech from what is now 
used before they can make s of equal weight to carry 
shot with those loaded at the muzzle. SrraigHTr HAND. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

T have been much interested in the ‘‘Performance of Shot- 
guns.” I once tried the very experiment suggested by ‘‘Cal- 
ifornia.” iL had just received a . L., 12-gauge, 
84 pounds’ weight, of which I had dreamed and thought 
for some three months. In my haste to test the gun I 
forgot to take the powder charges from the store, and so 
loaded (with the advice of afriend [?]) by guess. I wondered 
the shells were made so short, as I had difficulty in squeezing 
the last wad in. However, I started out and fired at a mark. 
A government mule couldn’t have kicked harder than that 
gun. 1 fired again at a strawberry box at seventy paces, 
This time ‘‘the retreat partook of the nature of a panic,” but 
T hit the box. A friend happening along with a fiask having 
i charger on top, I unloaded and measured my charges. | 
had loaded with 6 drams of pewder and 14. ounces of shot, 
His measure was, perhaps, not accurate, buf was probably 
as much so as the general run of measures. I have since ex- 
perimented. a little, but never could obtain. the wonderful 
targets I haye scen made—on paper. T now use 3 drams 
of Coarse powder aud i vulce of Shot, and the gun performs 
perfectly satisfactorily. I believe with careful loading I can, 
by shooting 3 drams of powder and 1% ounces of shot, place 
240) pellets in a 30-inch circle at 40 yards. And, by the way, 
T would like to ask if ‘‘L. H. H.” is always as original as in 
his last communication. It seems tome] have read the same 
opinion, expressed in the identical words, in ‘‘Hallock’s 
Gazetteer.” It may be only a remarkable coincidence, 
though. SIALIA, 

BrabForD, Pa., March 7. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: ‘A --} 
I would be pleased if there were some one among your 


readers who will answer the following: I have a breech!oad-., 
ing gun ,12-30-72 that will put 175 No. 8 shot in a 24-ncly 


circle at 45 yards, using 14-ounces Le Roy shot. What ‘1 


wish to know is ihis: Is that a good shooting gun, and hew- 


does it compare with a ‘‘full choke?’ I have no troubleiu 
killing game with it, and have cut down aruffed grouse at 57 
yards, and a rabbit at 61 yards, yet persons have seen it 
shoot and do not call it a good one, still they won’t shoot 
their muzzleloaders against it. Also, 1 have seen on paper 
targets away ahead of mine so that I had begun to think my 
gun was only ordinary. 

We have plenty of ruffed grouse, and rabbitsor hares, and 
our fall shooting was very good. One party of fox hunters, 
Hearty Farrar and Will Dyer, have killed sixty-five foxes in 
front of their hounds, and did it with .12-30-8 breechloading 
guns, and they rarely had a fox get away. In this section 
the old muzzleloader is gradually giving place to the new 
breechloader, and the best makes have shown their ability 
to hold the place they have taken. 

“T), H. §.,” in your last issue, may rest assured his gun 
can’t be excelled, because, when a gun puts 53 more shot in 
the target than there isin the gun, I do not think it can be 
improved, and at 40 yards the gun puts 148 more shot in the 
target than there isin the gun, I used Tatham & Brother's 
table to find number of shot in an cunce, and of No, 8 shot 
it is 106. . 

Perhaps ‘‘D. H. S.” was mistaken, if so, will he explain. 

power Snip SNAP. 

VERMONT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of March 6, your correspondent SH Dl s Bos" 
inquires if his target as published can be excelled. Well L 
should say not; when agun loaded 1} ounces of shot that 
weighs 106 pellets to the ounce (No, 3) puts intoa target 280, 
why I don’t know of any way of bettering it, as according 
tomy figuring there would be but 183 pellets in the charge. 
Tt “D. H. 8.” has that kind of gun, 1 know a man that 
wants to buy it, A friend of mine inthe hardware business 
here who is an enthusiastic sportsman and has handled guns 
in his business for years, says tell that gentleman that he has 
a fine Colt gun, a red Irish setter and a small farm to trade 
for such a gun. If ‘D, H. 8.” had said No. 8 instead of 
No. 3 his target would have seemed a little nearer my idea 
of a first-class performance of a first-class gun. 

Now a word of information for “Backwoods.” In my 
opinion a 12-gauge, 30 inch, of from 7} to 9 pounds weight. is 
as good a style of gun as can be used for all general pur- 
poses, and a gun that will cut down a quail at forty yards 
every time if properly held will be found to be about as 
gocd a shooter as is necessary, Or as is likely to be found. 
‘All this talk about shooting game at extraordinary distances 
is all fudge. Of course any gun of good shooting qualities 
will kill occasionally at long ranges, but todemand that a 
gun shall perform miracles, is unjust to the maker, and 
will prebably result in disappointment to the shooter. If 
“Backwoods” wants a gun for general use on all kinds of 
game, think onesuch as I have described will suit him,and for 
my own part I should prefer one of American manufacture, 
as in case of accident broken parts can be more readily re- 


| felt wads on powder, and one (felt) on shot. 


‘| as we have down in old Maine I would not exchange for any 


placed. I have a licht gun that I can feel pretty certain. of 
doing a quail justice with at from 80 to 40 yards, if I hold 
on the bird, but should not expect to kill many at 60 or 
70 yards. It will shoot heavy shot hard enough at 80 yards 
to go through a duck, but the next thing is to hit said duck; 
possibly by shooting at a large flock, some might be killed, 
but I consider such ranges beyond the scope of a shotgun, 
and would not adyise any one to strain himseif or his gun 
in attempting impossible feats. CHIPPEWA. 
SEVILLE, O., March 10. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

Referring to “California” in issue of 6th inst., under the 
head of ‘‘The Performance of Shotguns,” if you want to 
ascertain the true inwardness of your barrels when clean, 
look through them, and if you-find the circles true, and that 
they fit each other like the joints of a telescope, 7. e., the 
lines equal distances from each other all round, your gun is 
‘as straight as a gun barrel” if otherwise you know some- 
thing is wrong. This wrinkle, perhaps, the makers may not 
thank me for. Take any of the cheap shop guns, -and de- 
pend on it you won’t find the circles as above in one among 
a thousand. Try it for yourself. 

Picton, Canada, March 9. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I think the idez in regard to properly loading shells, 
suggested by you, a good one, and if any one has a better 
way than mine I shall be very glad to know what it is 
1 am ready to try any plan that promises to. be any improve- 
ment. I use an 8%-pound gun 12-gauge, 30-inch barrels, 
modified choke, chambered to take 24-inch shells. [use two 


At He B. 


DopvGe CENTER, Minn. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Will youask ‘“‘D. H, 8.” what make of No. 3 shot contains 
185 pellets to the 14 ounce? Saying nothing of the ‘‘280” 
as mentioned by him in issue of March 6. 

Also please tell ‘‘Ogeechee,” Feb. 21, if he has a gun that 
with 1 dram powder and 13 buckshot kills bucks 120 yards, 
and wishes to know about having something done to the 
barrels, I should say—don’t. REVIEW. — 


”, 


Editor Forest and Stream: iat 


[ have agreed with some of the letters on ‘‘The Chiice-of 


Hunting Rifles’ which have appeared in Forest AND 
SrrEAM, and with some I have not, but I like to know every 
one’s opinion in regard to the matter, and therefore will 
givemine. It seems to me that with as many different rifles 
as are now being manufactured in the world, all ought to be 
suited. Just step into a gun store and there you can find 
everything in the shape of firearms’ What will suit one 
will not another, and you may take the best rifle ever made 
and somebody will find fault with it; but let us be content 
with what we can find in the rifles already made. 

But now comes the tug. Some like repeaters best aud 
some prefer the singleloader. 1 have used for the past 
twelve years a single breechloading rifle for all kinds of 
game, from a deer down to alittle red squirrel, the size being 
-44-caliber, 48 grains powder, 240 grains lead and 30-inch 
barrel, central fire. 1 can take the head off of a ruifed 
grouse every time, amd for all kinds of game shooting such 


repeater that 1 have yet seen. The .4440 and .45-60 rée- 
peater seems to be the leading rifle among sportsmen just 
now, but there are points about it that I do not like, not say- 
ing a word against its accuracy, for no doubt all repeaters 
will shoot as fine as any kind of breechloader. 

In the first place, I want a gun that after using I can pass 
a cleaning rod (I prefer one made of wood to all patent ones) 
through from the breech, and then have a good chance to 
look through the barrel and see when it is clean; and I don’t 
like so much machinery to keep watch of. It gets out of 
order and does not always work just right. This I have 
seen take place with the Winchester in trying to show ho 
guick an empty shell could be thrown out andes full cart-— 
ridge placed in the chamber ready to fire. I zogend to 
rapidity of fire, I think that any of the single breech oading 
rifles now in use are safer, and will do their work plenty 
quick enough to answer all general purposes. For a hunter 
that is easily excited I suppose the magazine rifle would be 
better, for when they see a deer they will not stop to-take a 
decent aim, but bang away three or four shots at him, and 
then when found, they will find only one bullet hole in the 
carcass. Every one for his fancy, but I do not- think we 
Down-Easters will need a-.40-90 repeater, as we are not 
troubled with the grizzly or any of the other large ferocious 
beasts of the West. SrycLe LOADER. 

Macuras, Me., Mareh 10. 


Hditor Forest.and Stream: 

In your issue of the 6th inst., I find a letter from fT. Aas 
DeH.,” who is traversing ground IJ attempted to explore some 
fifteen years ago, and on having a preliminary examination 
made at the Patent Office, 1 found that earlier inventions 
had been there and one Gen. Cochrane of New York had 
patented the same thing, only he had arranged it for rifle 
balls, where it was not so much needed, and my experiments 
were with the shotgun alone. 

In the experiments I made with various proportion of inner 
tube, I found a tube of 20 per cent. area of shell to give the 
best results, and the results were remarkable. Using in a 
12-gauge gun, 5 drams powder and 14 ounces of shot, I 
found the recoil lessened greatly, the report changed to 
nearly that of a rifle, the pattern doubled, and the penetra- 
tion increased 50 per cent. This was the mean of five 
charges from shells with inner tubes and five charges from 
plain shells, fired frem the same barrel. ‘ 

On finding my way stopped by a patent I tried to reach 
the game results in another way, but could not equal the 
results given by the shells with the tube in them, 

In the latter plan, I used No. 7 Laflin & Rand OL in the 
first half of the charge, and No. 3 Laflin & Rand OL for 
the last part, using stiff cardboard and one thick felt wad 
over powder, and as thin cardboard over the shot as I could 
work there. 1 have used this method for years for duck 
shooting and am satisfied that the increased velocity and 
pattern of shot pays for the trouble in using two grades of 
powder. Tye. 

Canton, Ohio. - 


Editor Forest and Stream: ' ' 
Thave been much instructed in the correspondence in the 
Fornst AND STREAM relating to the choice of hunting rifles. 


What is applicable for hunting rifles 1 presume will in a 
measure answer for target rifles. I cannot understand in 
all this correspondence why such a heavy charge of powder 
is required to do effective shooting at short range. I belong 
toaclubof amateur marksmen who meet occasionally for 
recreation, and while none of our number have had much 
experience on the range with a rifle, and are as yet poor rifle 
shots, we still sometimes manage to do very fair shooting 
with charges much less than stated by nearly all your 
writers. 

Tuse a 82-caliber rim-fire Remington rifle, and find since I 
have been using this make my scores have shown avery de- 
cided improvement, even with a smal! charge of powder. 
ue range is 200 yards, and we use the Union cartridge, .52 
ong. 

Some time ago I was at the range, and running out of the 
.82 long, I used the .82 short at the same elevation, and 
made four, with an occasional five, every shot, there being 
no apparent difference in the score. I have seen thousands 
of the Union cartridges used (we have discarded all others), 
ae have never had but one that did not explode at the first 
trial. 

To test the rifle and the cartridge, I measured off 166 
fect, and using the Union .82 short, rim fire, open sight, 
Remington rifle, cff-hand, 1 placed ten consecutive shots 
(without any sighting or preliminary shots) within a circle 
Jess than four inches in diameter. 

This might not be any “‘great shakes” for an experietted 
rifleman, but for an amateur like myself, I felt highly en- 
couraged at making a score of 45 out of a possible 60 with- 
out the use of any improved sighis, and with a charge of 
powder so much less than is generally used, PassyUNK. 

PuHILapELPHia, March 11. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Have carefully read communications as to ‘‘best hunting 
rifles,” ‘‘shotguns,” ‘‘express rifles,” etc., and of this last 
allow me to say there is not a genuine express rifle made in 
this country (my opinion). Joun Boypen. 

CHATHAM, Mass., March 9. 


A PLEA FOR OLD-TIME CRUDITIES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: _ 
The average reader of the hunting rifle discussion is ina 


_ {maze of perplexity; for what are these desolating arms 
THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. | wanted? Not for purposes of war, for the country is at 


‘peace, ‘and if she were not, with dynamite bombs exploding 


{the distance of five miles, and the hidden torpedo con- 
‘nected with clectric wires, small arms, shooting bullets, need 
no improvements—leaying out the humanity of the thing, 
for in these civilized days a foe placed hors de combat is as 
good as a dead man. 

Surely increased destructiveness is not wanted to kill game, 

for the only formidable animal in America is the grizzly bear; 
und from the interesting and instructive letters in the Formst 
AND STREAM from sportsmen who have traversed the frontiers 
of the far West, and the gorges and defiles of the Rockies iu 
search of big game, we draw the conclusion the grizziy is 
searce, and hiding in the thickest chapparals; so that it is a 
task of infinite trouble and patience to ever come across 
them. One of your correspondents wrote that for years he 
has hunted for the Ursus horribiles, and ridden thousands of 
miles in the wild West, and has never caught a glimpse of 
one yet. — 
. Lhazard the assertion that any sportsman who wants a 
more deadly weapon than the modern breechioading rifle to 
meet the grizzly bear or any other animal in a fair fight, is a 
timid sportsman, to say the least of it, I have had no ex- 
erience with dangerous game, my sole shooting being wild 
‘cattle, with a Winchester of 1876 model, but what | saw of 
the terrible results of the bullets showed me as plain as day, 
that a ball with a velocity of 1,500 feet a second striking any 
‘animal, crushes its way with such» instantaneous force that 
it paralyzes the brute for a second or two, which gives 
ample time for the shooter to pump in auother shell and fire. 
He who could not save himself from amy beast with his 
fifteen shots, well deserves to die the death, : 

A cool, brave man, with a modern repeating magazine 
Vifle, could fuce with safety any animal that ever walked the 
earth, The royal Benga) tiger, the African lion, the horned 
rhinoceros, the Indian elephant, nay the great mastodon 
itself would stand no earthly chance against a rain of balls 
that crushed through bone, muscle and flesh at every two 
or three seconds. 

Look at that king of sportsmen, Gordon Cummins, who 
confronted in their jungles the lordly lion, and the huge 
elephants, with nothmg in his hands but a double barreled 
rifle; and yet while he counted his trophies by the score, 
here are so-called sportsmen of the day, who, with firearms 
so improved, that science and art have reached their limit, 
are crying out for a more deadly weapon, something that 
will conduce to more destructive results. 

The truth of the case is, that the very perfection of fire- 
arms has been a curse to this country, The more destructive 
the sporting weapon becomes, the scarcer the game. Had 
human ingenuity stopped at the muzzleloading shotgun and 
rifle, the plains of the West would be filled with butfalo and 
deer to-day, and the Atlantic coast alive with wildfowl. 

The selfish race of to-day seem to desire to leave nothing 
for their posterity in the sporting line except the mounted 
antlers of the stag they killed, or the buffalo or deer robe 
that they were once so proud of. Fifty years from now— 
nay in twenty-five—there will be no shooting in this country 
except in favored localities held by private clubs, And the 
breechloader is the cause. 

There are some sybaritic sporfsmen—God save the 
mark—who love to witness the dying agonies of the gaine 
without the trouble or danger of hunting it. These men 
would shoot all day ina herd of buffalo, and joy in seeing 
the staggering form sink to earth. The more the merrier. 
Like the brutal populace of Spain, their pleasure is not in 
the final triumph of skill, patience and marksmanship, 
against brute cunning, instinct and wildness; but rather the 
delight of seeing the pouring red blood gush out fresh from 
the heart, crimsoning all around. 

These are the class who would have a grand battue if pos- 
sible, and kill, kill, kill, until not a beast of the field or bird 
of the air was left alive. 

I expect to live to see the period when some of these sports- 
men will have a battery of doublebarreled guns covermg 
the decoys. and they a mile off ina warmly heated room 
with an electric wire im their hands connected with the trig- 
gers and a spy glass to their eyes, will touch off the battery, 
and annihilate a flock at each discharge. . 
With breechloading shotguns, from No. 16 to No. 4, that 
ean be loaded and shot five hundred times an hour; with re-— 
peating rifles carrying explosive bullets that can be fired fifty- 

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two times a minute (see Greener, ‘The Gun”), there are 
yet men who crave something that will give still greater odds 
to the slayer and reduce the chance of any gameescaping 
with its life to a minimum, 

Personally, perforce, I keep up to the times and have two 
high-priced English breechloaders and a small armory of 
rifles, Yet with all my heart I wish we could go back a 
half a century. and return to the old muzzleloader that gave 
fur and feather a fair chance of life, and would not destroy 
everything that rans and flies in a few brief years, and force 
us forthe balance of our lives to hang up our guns and sigh 
for the sport of our youth. P Le 

Another correspondent, signing himself 'Dorkin,” says he 
don't like a gun with hammers, and gives the aie 
astounding reasons; That the hammers slip from col 
thumbs; they spoil canvas covers by the chafing; bark one’s 
knuckles on the hammers, and—oh, shades of Nimrod !— 
get the whistle cord and watch chain snarled up with the 
same. 

Many an old sportsman will grin on reading this, and 
picture in their mind’s eye ‘‘Dorkin,” gotten up regardless of 
expense, clad in new corduroy, with embroidered whistle 


painted white, with never a chilly thought. 


spring a number were reported of over one hundred redheads 
to a single gun per day. That is too many. I should not 
care to be able to boast of such a bag. 

One advantage of the season is that it is not necessary 
every little while to pick up the dead birds lest they float 
away. Again, as noontime comes, you can walk to the club 
bouse for a hot dinner. And who can appreciate a hot din- 
ner more than our duck-shooting brother? All other classes 
of sportsmen, I verily believe, must yield the palm to him. 

Toward night you pull in your decoys, all being fastened 
to one line, pick up the dead birds which have drifted to the 
edge of the ice, and, all told, there is a heavy load in the boat 
that you push back to the house. Then comes the jolly sup- 
per, the most enjoyable meal of the day to any sportsman, 
Then the after supper cigar or pipe, and the after supper 


which is formed of ice and snow, or, better yet, of boards 


As forthe shooting, I cannot describe it. If you area 
sood shot, virtue shall haye its own reward, If buta passable 
shot, you can burn lots of powder and bag a goodly number of 
birds, but you will be ashamed to tell the number of shots you 
fired. Large bags are made in the spring shooting. Last 


cord, to which is attached a ‘silver whistle, and a big watch 
chain hanging pendant on the outside of his coat. 

That puts me in mind of a dude sportsman | saw down at 
Cobb’s Island about ten years‘ago. All the girls gathered on 
the porch to se¢ him off. Hisvalet had to get a cart to carry 
his traps down to the Janding, where a boat lay, with Warren 
Cobb as commander, to carry him snipe shooting, 

Arriving at the blind just off Wreck Island, Warren set 
the decoys, and if the sportsman was not made comfortable, 
it was not the valet’s fault, 
within the blind, and then the valet held an umbrella over 
his master’s head to keep off the torrid rays of the August 
sun, and actually fanned him as the heat grew more intense. 
A big block of ice had been brought along, and with it a 
half a dozen bottles of champagne, a few of beer and a 
quantity of old rye, and then the fun commenced. A few 
young birds came up to the decoys, in spite of the strange 
appearance, and Warren Cobb swears that after the sports- 
man fired he would hand his gun to his Jeems Yellowplush 
to be reloaded; and, said Warren, ‘Bust my breeches if we 
didn’t ha¥e a drink around over every bird that he kilt. And 
when the water riz and come on the blind, he makes me take 


A Jarge camp chair was placed’ 


chin music follows, as a matter of course, 


for restful sleep. 
Not many eanvas-backs are shot at the Flats. 


head for the open water upon which the decoys are sitting. 


Any one who makes the trip across the ice from New Bal- 
He can- 
not count upon getting back to the mainland in the same 


timore, should not be limited to a few days’ time. 


nanner, Indeed, it is more than likely that the ice will 


break up suddenly, and he wiil be obliged to wait for the first 
Such unfore- 
seen (?) occurrences seem to be rather common to certain en- 
thusiastic sportsmen I know of, who run up there ‘‘for just 
two or three days, you know,” and who “‘couldn’t get back 


trip of the river boats before he can get home. 


for two or three weeks, you know.” 


i happen to remember, just at this moment, a pleasant 


episode in the experience of a popular hunter at the Flats. 


He is a representative Canadian Frenchman, noted for his 
knowledge of the haunts of the black bass and the wild 


duck. Owning a house near the Lake St. Clair Fishing and 


Shooting Club, our jolly Frenchman thought it would be a 


Then guns are 
cleaned, and then, perhaps, a game of cards, and then to bed 


They will 
not decoy readily, like readheads or bluebills, who quickly 


great scheme, some winters since, to move his building across 
the ice to Johnson’s Channel, a distance of good ten miles; 
and his friends and patrons in the club approved the plan 
and subscribed the necessary funds, for Johnson’s Channel, 
be it known, is both a favorite angling place for black bass 
as well as a fine duck sbooting locality, and many were glad 
that soon they could eat and sleep over there, where then 
there was no house. Our Frenchman was sure of much pat- 
ronage. He began to discount his future riches, and great 
was his talk. With the providence of his race, he tarried. 
The days went by. His friends urged him to move while he 
had nothing else to do, but still he tarried. 

At length he went to work; he cut his house in two parts, 
the whole being too heavy to move at once. With a couple 
of teams of horses drawing one half he finally started, four 
or five other Frenchmen aiding in the work, and each one 
of them bossed the job. In two days they got the first part 
safely to the selected site, and, leaving it there upon the ice, 
went back for the rest of the house. All were jubilant at 


him on my back and carry him to the boat, and then pack 
out for home.” 

The party must have had a high old time, for long after 
nightfall the trio got back, every one of them-three sheets in 
the wind;and the spoils were only ten snipe. 

The prospect for partridges in this State is, as far as I can 
learn, quite a good one, the birds standing the winter very 
well. The Virginia Legislature has passed several good laws 
relating to game protection, which, it is to be hoped, will 
have its effect. Still, no legislative enactments can keep the 
fame from steadily decreasing; and it is asad, yet a true 
fact, that every sportsman can bear witness to as regards the 
Old Dominion, CHASSEUR. 

VIRGINIA. 


SPRING SHOOTING AT ST. CLAIR FLATS. 


AST night a thunder storm swept over Detroit. To-day 
a southerly wind prevailed, and there are other signs 


that the long winter is finally approaching its end. Within 
aiew days the first fights of ducksfrom the south will reach 
Lake Erie, the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. Already a 
few pioneers have been seen passing up the river. And the 
duck hunters, who bave no scruples against spring shooting, 
are getting their traps together, loading shells, and making 
arraugements for a sojourn at their favorite ducking resorts. 
Several well:‘known shots start on the morrow to take ad- 
vantage of the first flights, and scores of other sportsmen 
will soon follow to the various club houses at St. Clair Flats 
and along Lake Erie. 

Did you ever do any spring shooting? No! Well you 
haye missed some raze sport. We won’t argue as to its being 
the correct thing as respects the preservation of game; but 
it is legal in this State, and is intensely exciting. 

Splendid duck shooting at this season of the year is to be 
had in the vicinity of the Lake St. Clair Fishing and Shoot- 
ing Clib’s house, at the Flats. It is better at that yoint in 
the spring than in the fall, For the house is accessible only 
by water, and as navigation will not open for several weeks, 
one must journey over the ice on Lake St. Clair from New 
Baltimore to the club house, a distance of at least ten miles. 
Not many sportsmen care to do this, so the number shooting 
there in the spring is insignificant when compared with the 
army of guns in the fall. 

lf the wvather be soft, the trip over the ice from New Bal- 
timore is oftimes fraught with danger, and a flat bottom buat 
shod with runners, so that it can be pushed over the ice, is 
necessary for safety. But once at the club house, any one 
will be amply repaid for his arduous journey, and especially 
if there in time to meet the first flights of the ducks. For, 
when they usually commence, the ice is strong and the air 
holes are sinall, so, if you select an air hole of the right size, 
there is no chance for the ducks to decoy or drop down just 
out of range. They come right over the hole; and often- 
times you cab shoot and kill them over the further edge of 
the open water from your blind. ; 

It niay be said that there are three flights of ducks. First 
and yery soon, we shall see the redheads, and with them 
will come the canvas-backs. Next, in a tew days after, the 
broadbills (or large bluebills) will come flocking In, and 
after that the little bluebills bring the pilgrimage to a close. 
Andas the Jatter swarm into lake and river, marsh and 
ereek, the hearts of the small boys with the Zulu guns, wax 
glad. The shooting lasts from now until about April 15, 
commencing with the redheads and canvas-backs, and wind- 
ing up with the little bluebills. So you see, by being on the 
spot ready to welcome the vanguard,-you not only get better 
shots but the better birds as well. 

Ti is pleasant sport. Putting your decoys, gun, ammuni- 
tion, etc., Into a duckboat shod with two low runners, you 
push or drag itover the solid ice to an air hole or bit of open 
water, perhaps some seventy yards across. Launching the 
boat, you put out the decoys in the water, which being ac- 
complished, you push the boat some distance off upon the 
ice. Then, if not already appareled, you don your suit of 
white, and the duck must be wary indeed who discovers you 
upon the snow-covered ice. Often the white suit consists of 
a night cap and night shirt drawn over your regular cloth- 
in and they answer the purpose well. Thus garbed in 
white, if you stand motionless upon the gleaming snow, the 
circling ducks will rarely see or fear you. The weather does 
not chill as in the fall 

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. the reason being, perhaps, that a long 


PROSE SOTO HDs ool Sha etums pope Uline 


their grand success. Each claimed the honor of engineer- 
ing the mighty work. Then they started with the second 
half of the house, and all went well for two or three 
miles; and then the south winds blew, and the warm rains 
came, and there were signs of an immediate breaking up, 
Then there was hurried running to and fro, and the air was 
blue with strange oaths peculiar to our Frenchmen, YVer- 
bose despair and excitement reigned supreme. Strange, un- 
known sounds similar to the Tower of Babel noise, were 
heard twenty miles away. Prayers were profusely uttered, 
but the ice melted still, and the south winds blew, while the 
vehement Frenchmen and the horses hastily pulled the sec- 
tion of the house back to the shore, The ice went out. 
Our Frenchman had a split residence— half on the old site 
and the other half at Johnson’s Channel. Peace to the rem- 
nants of the Johnson’s Channel half! It was shattered by 
the ice and the storms and the floods. 

Just now the owners of houses and those who have made 
costly improvements at the Flats are on the anxious seat; 
the inclosed clipping from the Detroit Fee Press explains 
the reason why. Many thousands of dollars have been ex- 
pended there in buildings, docks, dredging, etc., within the 
last few years. It was supposed that a squatter’s right would 
hold good for improvements made upon apparently worthless 
land, or rather water. Land there is none to speak of, ex- 
cept what has been dredged up at great expense. The houses 
are built upon piles as arule, and it will be a delicate question 
to decide who has a right to titles and also to properly 
describe the area named. It can hardly be called land, 
water, or marsh. However, as the Flats are daily becoming 
more valuable it is to be hoped that some decision will be 
promptly reached, settling the question—who do they belong 

9 - 7 


? DELTA. 
Derrorr, Mich., March 12, 1884. 


The article above referred to is as follows: 

WaAsuineton, March 12.—Mr. Maybury’s bill to give the 
title to Harsen’s Island and Dickinson’s Island to the respec- 
tive heirs and grantors of Harsen and Dickinson is found to 
cover claims to about al] the hunting and fishing grounds of 
the St. Clair Flats. Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, is one of 
the heirs. An outline of the bill was telegraphed Monday. 
It is learned to-day that the claimants urged the French cus- 
tom of granting title to the center of the channel, and set 
forth that the tracts in Question when passed over to British 
domination after the Wolfe and Montcalm campzign of 1754 
were reorganized by the treaty stipulations to follow the 
French custom. The boundariesas given in the two bills 
comprise the thousands of acres of alluvial land, submerged 
accretions and vast fields of bulrushes from the ship canal 
on the south to the mainland on the north and up the usual 
ship channel of the St. Clairto the head of the island at 
Algonac. It takes in all the elub houses, the Star Island 
Hotel, the summer villas, and hunting and fishing cabins on 
land or water. On the North, Middle, Eagle, or South Chan- 
nels, Anchor and Muscamoot Bays and Lake St. Clair out 
to deep water. <All the habitations of the Little Venice at 
the mouth of the river go with it. 

Members of the St. Clair Hunting and Fishing and North 
Channel Clubs now here express alarm at the all-compre- 
hending terms of the two bills. Years ago no claim was 
made to the lands, as they were supposed to be valueless, 
The general government never caused them to be surveyed, 


and the only records on file here are those of the lake survey | 


whivh simply show the shore line and give the depth of 
water. Now, however, since people from all over the world 
begin to resort to the St. Clair Flats to hunt and fish, or to 
seek recreation in the summer, speculators are beginning to 
look with eagerness on the tract. One of two results are 


‘likely to come of the agitation of the subject before Congress. 


The bills, if passed, will probably be amended so as to re- 
open the National Boundary Commission of 1822, which will 
be charged to see in whom the title lays. If not, the control 
of the whole submerged and bulrush-covered region will be 
assumed by Congress with a view to making the district a 
sort of national hunting and fishing ground, If the latter 
project, which is already formed, should be received with 
favor, the idea is to allow the right of location where im- 
proved by buildings, to lease upon nominal terms privileges 
for building, and allow freedom of hunting and fishing under 
such regulations as the laws of Michigan for the preservation 
of fish and game may direct, or such other regulations in the 
nature of co-operating with the Canadian game laws as may 
be thought best. 

There are scores of members of Congress who have visited 
the region—who pronounce it the greatest place on the con- 
tinent for fish and water fowl—who are in favor of taking it 
under national control for the purposes mentioned. 

Detroit people, who find their best recreation in asummer’s 
day visit to the Flats, should not be slow in asking their sena- 
tor and representative to take action in this matter. It is as 
much of a resort for the people as is their island park, 


ANOTHER TAXIDERMIST SPEAKS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Allow me to express my hearty appreciation of the views 
of your correspondent, F. J. Tingley, in your admirable 
issue of March 13, page 127. Having been an earnest student 
of zoology for morethan forty years, and humbly instru- 
mental, I hope, in doing away with the old-fashioned ‘‘fast 
day massacres” of all our small birds and mammals in New 
Evgland, I am constantly laboring to assist all lovers of 
natural history and earnest sportsmen. We believe that the 
comparatively few taxidermists and naturalists of our Eastern 
States should be unrestricted in their pursuits, save by the 
general conviction that breeding animals should always be 
spared except in cases of very great emergency. We have 
attempted in Massachusetts to protect by laws(which require 
annual tinkering, however) the birds and other animals 
which serve the farmer by destroying herbivorous insects, 
and are steadily laboring toward this end, but we licenseall 
avowed students of nature, and even those who make taxi- 
dermy a livelihood, at a mere nominal fee to procure at any 
time of the year such material as they may require. And we 
hope that this liberty in the pursuit of scientific knowledge 
will never be done away within any part of the United 
States. As you very justly say in your foot note, we are 
killing the birds in their migrations northward. That is to 
say, when they are unpaired, have no young to protect and 
care for, and are in their finest plumage for the use of the 
taxidermist. I suppose few of your innumerable readers 
have ever considered the very limited number of professional 
naturalists, taxidermists and other students of zoology or 
animal life that exist at present in proportion to the vast 
army of persons of other vocations. A glance at the figures 
of your various city directories show scarcely one in two 
thousand—at least—who is likely to assist in the extermina- 
tion of our beloved native birds and little mammals. 

WorcrsTER, Maes.. March 14. F. G. 8. 


SUMMER WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 


SU NSREA Pa are here in fair numbers, and as the season 

draws near, and the law allows them to be shot, per- 
haps it will be well to once more agitate the matter concern- 
ing summer woodcock shooting. 

Last July, in company with a friend, we started for a fine 
piece of summer ground, and, as we expected, soon had a 
staunch point from our dogs, and on flushing the bird we killed 
it—a nice female. Going on some distance my friend’s dog 
made a staunch point, and upon gcing up to her we thought 
it queer no bird could be found. All this time the bitch was 
holding her point nicely, but upon examining the ground in 
front of the dog’s nose we found three young woodcock about 
a week old, which goes to prove what slaughter it really is 
to shoot woodcock in July. 

A woodcock’s flight in summer is slow and awkward, so 
much so that a boy who can keep from shutting both eyes 
finds it no very great thing to bag his bird in quite thick cover. 

Fall birds, however. fly swifter, and it takes a fair shot to 
make a decent bag where underbrush is any way thick, and 
besides, just think of how much more you enjoy shooting a 
fall bird, with its slick overcoat on, than to dropa poor, weak 
summer bird, half undressed. 

If New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania would pass 
laws prohibiting the shooting of woodcock until Oct. 1, we 
would have splendid fall shooting; but as the law stands 
new, we see the woodcocks’ numbers fast growing less. 
The shooting of woodcock in the summer, too, has some- 
thing to do with the diminishing ranks of the partridge. I 
am sure all the sportsmen would be contented in peppering 
clay-pigeons during the summer months, instead of banging 
away at weak woodeock. Such, at least, is the opinion of 
Maptson, N. J., Maren 14. 16-BoRz, 


A HINT TO FLICKERERS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
I yoted on the ‘‘Flickerings” and, aside from the fact that 
my vote polled well up toward the winning list, I derived 
much pleasure from reading the ‘‘Flickerings” for their own 
sake. But also [fear you have killed the goose that laid the 
golden egg. Judging from the length of the stories pub- 
lished since the vote, very few will have the fortitude to go 
through ninety-six of them in case of a vote for next year. 
And further, I think a sportsman who would attempt yarns 
of like length beside a New Brunswick camp-fire, would 
have a lonesome time of it. LT appreciate the difficulty you 
are in. In view of the prospect of there being another vote 
next year, all sorts of mouldy old stories will be sent to you 
by all sorts of contributors, who, of course, will all feel sure 
ot first prize, and who will feel aggrieved if you exert the 
ordinary prerogative of an editor in choosing matter for the 
waste basket, My opinion only will go for what it is worth, 
but ean’t “Flickering” contributors boil down this matter 
more? And it also seems to me that to restore the patural- 
ness of the camp-fire column and take away the mercenary 
aspect, you will haye to abandon the prospect of a vote for 
the current year. eh ee on RR 
New BRUNSWICK, Canada, + 


148 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Mancm 20, 1884. 


THE PROPOSED MASSACHUSETTS LAW. : 


eae 1. Itshallbe unlawful to wilfully take or killany woodcock, 
orany ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, or any pinnated 
ouse, commonly called prairie chicken er heath hen, or ay. quail, 
etween the ist of January and the 12th day of September following. 

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to buy, seil, offer for sale, or have in 
possession any woodcock, or any ruffed grouse, commonly called 
partridge, or any pinnated grouse commonly called prairie chicken 
or heath hen, or any quail between the first day of January and ths 
ibth day of September following, whenever or wherever the birds 
aforesaid may have been taken or killed. Except that any person, 
firm or corporation, dealing in game, may buy, sell, or have in pos- 
session quail and pinnated grouse, also deer, hare or rabbit, in Janu- 
ary, February, March and April, if not taken or kiiled, bought or 
sold contrary to the provisions.and statutes of Massachusetts, or any 
other of the United States or territories from which said birds or 
animals are, or may haye been received. 

Sec. 3. Tt shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kiJl any wood or 
summer duces, black duck, or teal, between the first day of April and 
the 15th day of September following, or within said time to buy, sell, 
offer for sale or have in possession any of said birds. 

Sec. 4, It shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kill any plover, 
snipe, sandpiper, rail, or any of the so-called marsh, beach, or shore 
birds, between the first day of Apri] and the 15th day of July following, 
or within said time to buy, sell, offer for sale, or have in possession 
any of said birds. 

Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful to wilfully take or kill any wild pass- 
senger pigeon, or to take. kill, or have in possession, any crane or 
heron, bittern, herring gull, tern, sea swallow or mackerel gull, be- 
tween the first day of April and the 15th day of September foliowing. 

Sec. 6. Any person violating Secs. 1,2 and 8 of this chapter shall 
be punished oy a fine of $20 for every bird or animal taken, killed, 
bought, sold. had in possession, or offered for sale, mn violation of the 
provirions of this act, and any person violating Secs. 4 and 5 of this 
chapter shall be punished by a fine of $10 for every such offense. 

Sec. 7 Whoever takes or kills any undomesticated bird not named 
in the preceding sections, except birds of prey, crows, crow black- 
birds, English sparrows, jays, wild geese, and such fresh water and 
sea fowl as are not named in the preceding sections, or wilfully de- 
stroys or disturbs, or tukesa nest of eggs of any undomesticated 
birds, except birds of prey, crows, crow blackbirds, English spar- 
rows and jays, shall be punished by a fine of $10 for each such of- 
fense; provided that any person above the age of twenty one years 
having a certificate from a committee of not less than three persons 
who may be appointed for the purpose of granting such certificates 
by either the Boston Society of Natural History. the Worcester 
Lyceum and Natural History Association, the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, or Williams College, to the effect that said person is 
engaged in the scientific study of ornithology or collecting in the in- 
terest of a scientific institution, may take the nests and eggs of, or 
at any season of the year take or kill, any undomesticated birds, ex- 
eept woodcock, ruffed grouse (commonly called partridge) or quail 
in the close season, or their eggs; but in order to obtain such certifi- 
eate the applicant must give a bondinthesum of $200 to the com- 
mittee to whom he makes application for said certificate, said bond 
to be forfeited in the interest of the commonwealth pon conviction 
of having killed’birds, or taken their nests or eggs, for other than 
scientific purposes, and shall further present to the committee an in- 
dorsement from the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town 
where said applicant may reside, to the effect that he, or they, be- 
lieve him to be a person duly entitled to hold such a certificate. And 
it is further provided that the said certificate shall not be valid until 
indorsed by at least two of the Fish and Game Commissioners, and 
the said Commissioners may, in their own good judgment, exempt 
and prohibit the shooting of any one or more species of the birds of 
Massachusetts, 

Sec. 8. Whoever takesor kills a gray squirrel, hare or rabbit, be- 
tween the first day of March and the 15th day of sk heat ood following, 
shall be punished by a fine of $10 for every such offense. 

Sec. 9. Whoever at any season of the ge" takes, Ills or destroys a 
game bird, hare or rabbit, by means of a trap, net or spring, or by 
the use of a ferret; or whoever, for the purpose of taking or killing a 
game bird, hare or rabbit, constructs or sets any trap, snare, net or 
spring, or uses a ferret; or whoever shoots at or kills any wildfowl, 
or any ef the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds, with or by the 
use of battery, swivel or pivot gun, or by the use of a torch, jack or 
artificial light, shall be punished by a fine of $20 for every such of- 
fense; provided, the provisions of this act shall not apply to the trap- 
ping or snaring of ruifed grouse, commonly called partridge, or hare 
or rabbit, by owners of land ae their land, between the 15th day of 
September and the first day of January following. 

Sec. 10. Whoever, with or without a dog, hunts, chases or kills a 
deer, except his own tame deer kept on his own grounds, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of $100 for every such offense; and any person may 
killa dog found chasing or hunting deer, if the dog is used for that 
purpose with the knowledge or consent of his owner or keeper. 

Sec. 11. The bp icaeaa oe of any deer, or of any of the birds or ani- 
mals mentioned as protected in sections 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of this chapter 
during the time in which the taking, killing or selling of the same is 
forbidden, shall be prima facie evidence of the unlawful Killing of the 
same, 

Sec. 12 Whenever the owner of any jand shall conspicuously post 
on tke same notices that shooting or trapping thereon is prohibited, 
it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon such land tor the 
purpose of shooting or trapping without permission of the owner 
thereof; and the presence of any person not having such permission 
with the implements of shooting or trapping, shall be taken as prima 
facie and presumptive evidence of wilful entry within the meaning 
of this act. But nothing herein containep shall be construed as con- 
eye with the provisions of section 11, chapter 91, of the Public 

tatutes. 

Sec. 18. Game artificially propagated and maintained upon lands 
posted as above shall he the exclusive property of the person pro- 
pagating and maintaining the same, bub such person shall not sell 
such game for food at seasons when their capture is prohibited by 


law. 

Sec 14. All payments or compensation for gameor birds, sold 
in violation of law shall be held to have been received without con- 
sideration, and 5 ae law, equity and good conscience. No action 
of any kind shall be had or maintained in any court for the price of 
any game of either this or such otber State, for the purpose of being 
brought into this commonwealth to be here kept or sold in violation 
of such law, under such circumstances that the vendor would have 
Teasonable cause to believe that the purchaser entertained such 
iWegal purpose: and all bills of exchange, promissory notes and obber 
securities for, and evidence of, debt whatsoever, given in whole or in 
part for the price of game or birds sold in violation of this chapter, 
shall be void against all persons holding the same with notice of 
such legal consideration, either direct or implied by law. 

Sec. 15. Whoever offends against any of the foregoing sections of 
this act, to which a penalty is not applied, shall be punished by a 
fine of $20 for each offense. 

Sec. 16. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries shall be Game 
Commissioners also,and their authority, personally or by deputy, 
shall extend to the protection and preservation of birds and animals 
in like manner as to fishes. 

Sec.17. It shall be the duty of every officer qualified to rerve 
criminal processes to arrest without warrant any person whom he 
shall find yiolating any of the provisions of thisact, and bring such 
offenders before a cat ale a Any officer neglecting or refusin 
diligently to enforce the provisions of this act, upon information an 
couiplaint, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. 

Sec, 18. All fines accruing under this act shall be paid, one-half to 
the compiaitant and one-half to the cily or town wherein the offense 
is committed. - - 

Sec. 19. Chap. 92 of the Public Statutes, chap, 199 of the acts of 
1882, chaps..36 and 169 of the acts of- 1882, and all acts and parts of 
acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 20, This act shall take effect on and after May 1, 1884, 


The bill reported by the Committee on Agriculture of the 
Massachusetts Legislature is very satisfactory to those most 
deeply interested in fish and game protection, and the 

reservation of song and insectivorous birds in that State. 
The clause forbidding the buying and selling and having in 
possession game when unlawtully killed either in Massachu- 
setts or any of the States or Territories of the United States, 
is a good one. It is the strongest step yet taken toward 
helping other States in fish and game protection. The 
marketmen or others who have objected to this clause, say- 
ing, ‘it will kill our trade,” have simply convicted them- 
ves of having been doing, and desiring to continue in an 
unlawful business, beneficial to themselves only, but detri- 
mental to the whole country. 

That provision of the bill which requires those who would 
take birds and eggs under the name of scientific research to 
vive bonds in the sum of $200, is admirably designed to put 
the power to destroy song and insectiyorous birds out of the 
reach of irresponsible persons. The clause also further pro- 
yides that although permission may haye been granted by 


, Dot be valid till indorse 


an institution of learning to take birds and eggs, yet 1t shall 
I by the Fish and Game Commis- 
sioners. These Commissioners may also exempt altogether 

1 The clause 
compelling officers to arrest without warrant persons found 
violating the game Jaws, is what the Massachusetts Fish and 
Its 
members have always found great difficulty in procuring 
warrants in districts remote enough to be the home of game 
Section 12 of the proposed law empowers the owner 
of lands to protect the game on such land at all times by 


the killing of any of the birds of the State. 
Game Protective Association has long struggled for. 


birds. 


properly posting, This provision is believed to be equitable. 


It was asked for by the farmer, and not opposed by the 


friends of game protection. 

Aliogether the proposed law is a powerful one. 
believed to be very likely to become a part of the statutes 
of the commonwealth. SPECIAL, 


Harb WEATHER FOR THE Brrps,—We have just hada 
storm that will no doubt kill the grouse that escaped being 
shot or snared. A rainstorm which lasted several hours and 
froze as fast as itcame, left trees and bushes encased in ice 
three-fourths of an inch thick. No grouse, unless they had 
a bill manufactured to order, could pierce this mass of ice. 
Their food might as well be locked up and the combination 
forgotten. It is now an impossibility for these birds to get 
buds or leaves, It has cleared away cold, and_ the prospect 
is fair that the trees will be robed in ice for a day longer at 
least. What can these birds live on? The snow covers the 
ground, and now their only hope is completely destroyed. 
lt certainly seems strange that our finest game bird has so 
many enemies. Owls, hawks, skunks, foxes, weasels, 
squirrels, ticks, and last, but not Jeast, man with his deadly 
snare. Now, with aJl their other troubles, their food in a 
condition that is as impossible to get as it would be to get 
nourishment from a barbed wire fence. No wonder grouse 
are scarce; are there any birds that fly that have more 
enemies? If there are, they should have our sympathy with- 
out delay. Weshall at nodistant day use clay grouse, un- 
less something is done to protect this noble bird from being 
snared. The law now allows a man to snare on his own 
land, and privilege to snare is rented to the highest bidder. 
We have the greatest respect for: the farmer, and certainly 
do not think this law is just as it works now. The usual 
howl is, the ‘‘kid gloves” want all the birds. I do not 
believe that the average has been one grouse a day for any 
sportsman in this city during the last season. One man who 
owns a farm sublet the privilege to snare on his land, and 
received one pair of grouse each morning. Cannot some of 
your readers let us know how this ice storm left the grouse 
(dead or alive) in their section. Pine grosbeaks, bluebirds, 
snow buntings, song sparrows, tree sparrows, purple finches, 
ruby-crowned kinglets, robins, were here before this storm. 
Tt must be hard for cedar birds, purple finches and pine 
grosbeaks to get their feod now.—Fuick Frick (Hartford, 
Conn., March 8). 


GAME IN Mississrpp1.—AHditor Forest and Stream: Asit has 
been quite a while since you heard from ‘‘Davy Crockett,” I 
will let your army of readers know how hunting is down 
here. During the severe winter, which we hope has just 
passed, game, such as ducks, quail and rabbits, have been 
very plentiful, with now and then a wildcat or a wolf pitched 
in for a counter. A party of half a dozen went out a mile or 
two from here during one of the late snows, and bagged over 
300 rabbits. Jn a large yard in the heart: of the town—not 
more than one hundred yards from the court house—some 
boys killed seven rabbits in the snow; the yard has a large 
number of forest trees in it, besides many small evergreens 
and rose bushes. I talked with a gentleman from South 
Lake, twelve miles southwest of here, last week, He told 
me he did not shoot ducks by number, but by the acre, hav- 
ing killed all he could back the day before, at three shots. A 
gentleman living about three miles from town has killed 
three large wildcats this winter, and says he is just waiting 
for me to join him to catch the ‘‘boss cat” of the brake. He 
has some splendid dogs, and when they start a cat, all you 
have to do is wait until it makes a circle, and go near where 
it has once passed, sit down and be quiet and you can have a 
wildcat come sneaking along within ten feet of you. Three 
large wolves were seen crossing a public road not a mile 
from town, in the broad light of day, not more than three 
weeks ago, The small boys are shooting robins in the 
meadows around town now, especially after the birds have 
become intoxicated on china berries, as is the case when 
they eat too many.—Davy (Sardis, Miss,, March 8). 


SNARING ON Lone IsLAND.—I think Wm. N, Lane’s article 
in your issue of March 6 is about the ‘‘last straw.” If State 
Protector Whittaker takes no notice of such violations of 
the law, whom have we to apply to for the protection of 
game? I hope this article will so arouse the sportsmen and 
others who desire the law respected, as to compel the per- 
formance of his duties by our game protector. If he refuses, 
what is the proper remedy? ‘The writer of this hopes to see 
some one having authority to enforce the laws give Manor 
and adjoining stations his special attention. Jam credibly 
informed that over two thousand partridges were sent from 
the above station alonein about ten weeks, and all of them 
snared. Would like, if the bill now before the Liggisiatire, 
making the open season for partridges the same as for quail, 
so far as regards Suifolk county, meets your approbation, to 
have you lend it your powerfulsupport, and oblige all whom 
JT haye conversed with.—C. (Manorville, Suffolk county, 
March 10), [Our correspondent must remember that the 
game ene salaries are very small, and that they are 
allowed little or nothing for expenses. We should like to 
see this subject thoroughly agitated, } 


Wassinetron Norres,—Washington, D. C., March 15.—A 
dispatch from the local gunners at Havre de Grace to the 
Philadelphia owners of ducking outfits last Thursday, that 
a flight of canyas-backs and redheads had come on, started 
many of the sportsmen of the Quaker City to the flats. But 
the rain which visited the country interfered greatly with 
the comfort of shooting, although fowl were plentiful. I 
have learned while here at Washington that similar flights 
of ducks have come to the different grounds in this section, 
This will be doubtless the last arrival of ducks previous to 
the general spring migration, and we will no doubt have 
more open and springlike weather hereafter. Snipe have 
begun to show themselves in the meadows below Washing- 
ton, and bunches of five and six together were seen to-day, 
put the birds were wild and uncertain in their actions,— 

oMo, 


It is 


get it in court. 
uous, and this is especially true of game laws. 
legislative action are too often drafted or amended by 
lawyers for the express purpose of leaving loopholes for the. 


Tae Deapiy Mixx.—Cold Spring Harbor, N. ¥., March 
15.—One night this week a mink killed my entire flock of 
wood-ducks, fourteen in all, and carried them off, The 
next morning we found ten of them in a pile of refuse wood 
under the fish hatchery, with their necks torn, and in three_ 
cases the heads off. T'wo terriers started the mink from the 
pile, but it escaped in the loose stone foundation, but was 
captured alive in a trap at night, when the dogs shook 
some satisfaction out of it, in the absence of Mr, Bergh. 
The birds had paired and a fine flock was anticipated. 1 
had written to all the sportsmen and market gunners, whose 
address I could get, for green-winged teal and other beauti- 
ful wildfowl! for domestication, and have promise of some, 
which fortunately had not arrived. <A pair of Chinese man- 
darin ducks ordered from France would undoubtedly have 
gone also, as I have no doubt that the beast would have 
killed a hundred ducks had they been in the little 6x12 
house, Of course I have ‘‘covered the well since the calf 
was drowned,” and am sadly in want of more birds to breed 
from,—F RED MATHER. 


Tuey Stoprep Ir.—The Kent County Sportsmen’s Club, 
of Grand Rapids, Mich., secured the arrest of F’. J. Detten- 
thaler on the 26th of February, 1884, for selling and expos- 
ing for sale wild game out of season. Tis defense was that 
the birds were not killed in Michigan. They were bought 
in St, Louis and killed in Tennessee. But we gained 
our case and stopped the sale. Our law, as now worded, 


proved too much for the pettifogging efforts of both bar 
and bench. This shows again the importance of having 


all laws so worded that they cannot be misconstrued. 
If language is capable of misconstruction, it will always 
All laws are too wordy and ambig- 
Bills for 


defense and to encourage litigation. This can and should 


be avoided by wording them so that they can have but one 


construction.—Orkor (Grand Rapids, Mich., March 8). 


GAME in TExAs.—Our plover shooting opens soon, and 
depends largely upon the amount of rain falling between 
this and May, The pot-hunters here destroy more antelope, 
deer and turkeys than they are worth, in the teeth of our 
statute made to protect these animals fere nature.” Wagons 
loaded with turkeys killed on their roosts are hawked about 
the streets here, at the pitiful sum of 25 to 60 cents each. 
Every kind of duck can be found on the upland lakes here 
that are found on the prairies of Western Texas and on the 
Staked Plains. They give ourrunning streams a wide berth 
because of the alkaline waters,—P. (Colorado, Texas, March 


10). 


New Yorx.—Barre Center, March 18.—Weather yery 
cold and stormy. Was out in the woods yesterday and 
flushed a wovudeock. There are a great many partridges 
left over in the swamps south of here. J have not seen any 
snipe yet, for which, by the way, we have the best spring 
shooting in Western New York, We have fine duck shoot- 
ing in the spring, but none in the fall, as the marshes dry 
up, We are very much opposed to the passing of any 
spring law, for we get no fall shooting bere. The birds 
only stay a few days in the spring, and if tbey change the 
law we shall have to lay by our guns,—H. 


Monroe County SrortTsMAN’s CiuB.—Rochester, N. Y., 


March 7.—The following officers were elected for the ensu- 
ing year by the Monroe County Sportsman’s Club, at the an- 


nual meeting last night: President, M. M. Hollister; Vice- 


President, James H. Brown; Secretary and Treasurer, L. A. 
Pratt. 
H. B. Hooker, Edmond Redmond; Vigilance—G. W. Crouch, 


Committees were appointed as follows: Finance— 


Jr., Homer Jacobs, H. H. Fleischer; Bird—J. H. Brown, H. 
B. Hooker, Frank Chaffey. Treasurer Pratt’s sixteenth an- 
nual report shows $3877.05 on hand and no debts,—EpMonp 
REDMOND. 


Ducgss ar OnerpA Laxe.—Hon. Max B. Richardson and 
our President, O. 8. Osterhout, have just returned from a 
trip to the wild duck resort at Oneida Lake. They did not 
forget to take their breechloaders along. They report hay- 
ing a very pleasant time, although the ducks are not as 

lenty as they were a week or ten days ago.—DAN (Oswego, 
K Y., March 11). 


Wip TuRKEYs NEAR WASHINGTON.—A prominent sports- 
man oi the capital, on whom | can depend, tells me to-day 
that wild turkeys are yet quite numerous within ten miles of 
the city, Few are killed, however, owing to the difficulties 
the rocky and rugged nature of the ground place in the way 
of successful huntirg.—Homo. 


Wisconsry.—Rosendale, March 5.—Our winter has been 
a severe one, but the pinnated grouse have come through so 
far all right; ditto ruffed grouse; but what few quail there 
were have perished, as it was impossible to care for them in 
their scattered localities,—S. B. D. 


CoLorapo,—This is one of the finest game countries | was 
ever in. Deer, elk and antelope without numbers, many 
bear, and in spring and fall myriads of geese and ducks, I[ 
shall try and send you something yery soon about this re- 
gion.—F’. D. G. (Hayden, Routt county). 


Gray SquIRRELS PROTECTED In ConnecticuT.—Quly one 
game act has passed the Connecticut Legislature during the 
past winter. This was a bill to protect the gray squirrels, 
and permits them only to be killed between Oct. 1 and Jan. es 


Cororapo.—Denyer, Feb, 20.—Jack rabbit hunting is 
great sport here now, Geese and ducks have made their ap- 
pearance to-day. I have seen a large flock of geese flying 
very low,—l. H. 8. 

Mr, Hearu.—In speaking last week of Mr. Heath’s 
‘burst guns” photograph, we stated that he was “‘with J. C. 
Grubb & Co.” We should have said he can be addressed in 
care of that firm, 

To F. M. P., New Yorn.—If this correspondent will 
write to E. T. Sepe, Nottoway county, Va., he can probably 
obtain the information he desires. 


Micuigan.—Linden, March 1.—Quail seem to have stood 
the hard winter very well in this section.—W. H. J. 


Brrps Movive.—Heard the first flock of geese going north. 
—C. B. (Davenport, lowa, March 13). d - 


etheir families to the 


Men Have so Ricat to e risk of being — 


helt t it at small co 
thrown helpless on the world, when the oe ee he cost 


by taking a policy in the Travelers, of 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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Camp Sire Hlickerings. 


“That reminds me,”’ 
107. > 
A* early hour of a morning in the spring of 1876 found 
_ a clerical party of four, including the writer, on their 
Way Over u ten-mile drive to the L— Reservoir on a fishing 
excursion. The waters were safely reached, the weather 
wasall that could be desired, and our fishing sticcess and 
sport were most promising, until our boal struck a hidden 
log and there stuck. To dislodge the skiff was now the work 
before us. The writer had the oars, Bro. E. got a ‘‘pur- 
chase” with a third oar on the log, and the other brethren 
were to rock the boat. ‘‘Now, boys,” cried Bro. E.,, “‘all 
together!” 

Well, although the fishing of the good brother out of the 
water was but the work of a moment, nota hair of his 
feverend head came up dry. By the way, the brother was 
not of the Baptist persuasion, and he always regarded his in- 
voluntary immersion as a disaster. We now made use of 
him to lift the skiff from its accidental moorings, which he 
was enabled to do by standing 1 the water on the log. We 
then hastily landed him, and he at once stripped himself to 
the skin, and, donning a linen duster, loaned him by one of 
the party, proceeded to wring out his various articles of 
clothing. and spread them upon the grass and bushes to dry. 
This done, he wrapped around him a blanket that had served 
as 2 cushion to one of the wagon seats, seated himself with 
some newspapers, and endeavored to make himself comfort- 
able. In the meantime the rest of us had resumed our fish- 


ing. * 

ti the course of an hour or so we heard a yell, and then a 
series of excited cries, ‘‘Hoi, there!” Looking up, it re- 
quired but a glance to take in the whole situation. A six or 
éight weeks’ oid calf had got hold of the unfortunate man’s 
pants, and, in a playful way, was making off with them. 
Throwing off his blanket, and hastily stepping into his shoes 
he started in pursuit, but the faster ran the parson, the faster 
flew the calf; the former's buttonless duster—well, to say the 
least of it, it was a poor apology for a covering. But there 
was an end to the painful scene as both disappeared behind 
a distant thicket. 

I think it was the work of the devil, when, months after, 
while the aforesaid Bro. E. was occupying the pulpit of the 
writer, there flashed before the mind of the latter the spec- 
tacle of a nude, fiving preacher, racing after a skipping, 
bawling ealf, with a pair of breeches flying from its mouth 
like a streamer, The recollection threatened, for an instant, 
to produce some sort of atmospheric explosion which, what- 
ever might have been the effect upon the congregation, would 
doubtless have blown up their pastor. He escaped the im- 
minent peril, but the inward sufferings of that moment, and 
the outward chills and cold sweats. were his reward for 
letting the devil get that momentary advantage of him. if 
the reader can but catch the moral here, the writer will not 
rue giving this truthful sketch tothe readers of ForEsT AND 
STREAM, HEWILL. 


Sea and River Hishing. 


FISHING RODS AND DOWELS. 


{ AGREE with Mr. H. P. Wells, whose letter appeared 

Feb, 21, on one point, that is, that a rod is best in one 
piece, but this is impracticable, owing to the difficulties of 
transportation. To remedy this, get a two or three-joint rod 
spliced, and abolish the dowels and ferrules. With a little 
practice it can be put together almost as quickly as a ferruled 
rod, and even if it does take a minute or two longer; why 
trout do not require breechloading rods to catch them with 
before they move off. If the splice is inclined to slacken, 
dip it into the water and it will get tight enough, but a rod 
properly spliced will not come apart. 1 haye used one and 
would not want a better, and never had it separate while 
fishing. 

The best fiy-fishing in Canada is in my vicinity, and the 
rods most used are three-joint with butt of ash; joint and tip 
of lance wood with only the tip splieed. A good butt will 
not break at the ferrule, unless subjected to extremely rough 
usage, A good serviceable rod twelve or thirteen feet long in 
three pieces as above, will take a half inch counter ferrule 
three and one-quarter inches long on the butt, with a dowel 
one inch long, and will weigh about twelve ounces. With 
this rod a good fisherman need not fear a smash-up with a 
‘seven pound two-ounce fish, or a twenfy-pound salmon, 
‘Tarpons are of course excepted. The style of rods used’ 
south of the line 45° seems to tend to extreme lightness and 
fancy get-up, all very pretty, but unserviceable. A man 
who cannot fish all day with a sixteen-ounce rod must be 
weak indeed. These light rods had a run here, but now 
fishermen are returning to those I described above. 

The ferrule Mr. Wells mentions as only holding at the top 
must be one too much tapered. A rod with properly tapered 
ferrules and well-fitted dowels feels more like a rod in one 
piece, and much stronger than his with the very short coun- 
ter ferrules without dowels. This short ferrule will work 
loose, and burst open with a sudden strain coming onit. A 
rodmaker, whois a practical fisherman, told me that he has 
repaired rods innumerable, and never came across a doweled 
ferrule broken. And no cemented ferrule or metal dowel 
end is secure; they must be pinned to give satisfaction. Mr. 
Wells’s experience of smashes must have been frequent and 
terrible, perhaps owing to cheap material, and he does not 
seem to possess much genius for emergent repairs. No good 
fisherman will lose his fishing by breaking his rod, unless 
perhaps it has been made into match wood by a cart wheel 
passing over it, or some such accident. Even then he would 
cut a rod in the bush, and catch as many fine trout as our 
friend who has not been so unfortunate. 

If the joint breaks below the ferrule, and there is nothin 
at hand to bore a hoke for the dowel, cut off said dowel an 
get a new piece on returning to civilization. If Mr. Wells’s 
joint breaks above the counter, the counter would be too 
large to move further up on the piece, that is, if the rod has 
been properly made and the ferrules and counters not sunk 
into the wood. 

Gel a rod made of the best of wood and fittings, pay a 
reasonable price for it, and your expeditions will be enjoy- 
able. A cheap fishing rod is like a cheap gun, most un- 
satisfactory, and often the dearest in the end. 

P, Q., March 6, 1884. MonTMORENCI, 


Weieit not that the inclosed communication formulates 
the current objection to the short dowelless ferrule, it would 


call forth no reply from me. 


It is the standing and only objection of those who still 
favor the doweled ferrule, and if answerable, it should be met. 

This objection has one weak point aboutit. Jt is abso- 
lutely devoid of truth. What man who forms his judgment 
on the merits, and not from prejudice—and it is only to such 
that it is worth while to appeal—will for a moment think of 
taking a poorly fitted dowelless ferrule of inferier material 
(when perfect fitting and good material are easily to be had), 
asa standard from whieh to form a true opinion of its merits. 
Would the writer of the above think it fair play should a 
visitor to his country judge its inhabitants from the most de- 
based of the population; and declare that all were of that 
Stripe, and that the people of Canada were the scum of the 
éarth? Ithink not. And, as he would justly protest against 
such an expression as an outrage, so do I protest against his 
conclusions and for the same reason. 

Besides quite a number that I still retain, there are some 
dozen or more of rods of my own make in use, presents to 
friends. The ferrules of all these are short and without 
dowels, and all made from German silver tubing drawn in- 
side and out. Never in twelve years or more of my own ex- 
perience, nor believe in that of those using my rods, has 
either a ferrule split or a jomt thrown apart. And yet I am 
but an amateur maker, a professional man without mechani- 
cal training, resorting to rod making merely as an amuse- 
ment. It stands to reason that a trained mechanic could do 
better work. Therefore we have not here the best possible 
either of work, or material, as a criterion of the merits of the 
simple ferrule. 

These rods haye not been used solely against the small fish 
of the ordinary mountain brook, but much more largely in 
those waters of Maine where, I believe, it is admitted that 
the American species of brook trout attain a size not else- 
where found, or, at any rate, only in the Nepigon River of 
Lake Superior. : 

In an article in reference to the best color for leaders, 
which appeared in your issue of Feb. 7,1 said: ‘With 
thinner gut than this, last September, a friend fastened a 
trout of 44 pounds (weighed to the ounce, and not gucssed 
at) In a dangerous place, and not only held him without giy- 
ing an inch of line, but hung to him until his guide took the 
boat into clear water and towed the fish after.” 

The rod used on that occasion was a greenheart, with split 
bamboo tip, 9 feet 8 inches long, and united by simple fer- 
rules made by me and in the manner described. The rod and 
its ferrules, as far as the eye and constant subsequent use 
could determine, were as good as new. 

It will be admitted, I think, that this was a pretty fair 
test. But it by no means stands alone in my remembrance. 
I could instance dozens of other occasions where these fer- 
rules haye withstood the severest and most sudden strains, 
and always without damage. 

Shouid [ assert thatif a man fell from-a window he would 
not reach the ground, but fly off into space and foreyer after 
gyrate in an orbit around the moon, vou would unhesi- 
tatingly assert that it was not true. You haye seen bodies 
fall before, and are familiar with the course they will take. 
For the same reasons, I assert emphatically that 7 7s not true. 
that the simple ferrule, if properly made (and this is a much 
easier matter than to make a good dowelled ferrule) will 
either throw apart or split when subjected to any possible 
practical strain. A ferrule of lecden material, and the fit- 
ting of which isa botch, will give a like result, whether 
dowelled or simple in construction. 

There are men who prefer the muzzleloader to the breech- 
loader, or the heavy plain ash to the light spruce spoon oar, 
and your correspondent may prefer a pound single-handed 
fly-rod to one of half that weight. It is a matter of taste, 
concerning which it is useless to dispute. 

The experience of ‘‘frequent and terrible smashes” to 
which he alludes, have not occurred to my own rods, or to 
rods handled by me, but to the rods of others using dow- 
eled ferrules broken at a distance from home and brought 
to me in the hope that I could repair the damage so thatits 
owner could continue his sport, But if a rod so broken is a 
fine aud expensive one, it seems one might well hesitate be- 
fore resorting to so radical a remedy as cutting off the 
dowel, or endeavoring to bore the hole to receive it with the 
crude appliances generaily at hand on such occasions. My 
remedy (if the broken rod has been of such character) has 
been to supply the temporary want from my own outfit. 

No angler of experience will question your correspondent’s 
assertion that aspliced rod is better in use than if it were 
joined with ferrules. Butat the same time the liability of the 
thin ends of the splices to accident, from the many con- 
tingencies which will occur in the course of years, and the 
care neccessary to their protection, must not be Jost sight of. 

His remarks as to the greater proneness of cemented fer- 
rules to become loose is just. But this occurs only in the 
winter time, and if the angler will take the trouble to exam- 
ine his rods, before inaugurating a new season (as most do), 
he can remedy this defect, if found, in less than ten 
minutes. 

This life here below is made up from a judicious selection 
between unavoidable evils, and of these our constant en- 
deavor is to choose the least. 

In the exercise of this discretion, I reject ihe splice and 
the fastening pin. 

The idea that a simple ferrule will not fit when reset above 
its former location, is also a delusion. To give that perfect 
curve, which indicates to the initiated that the strain is 
equally distributed over a fly-rod, the material should not be 
evenly tapered from ferrule; but must, for a few inches, be 
cylindrica] and of the same diameter as within the ferrule. 

Penny P. WELLS. 


WHERE 18S THE BIGOSH? 


OUR correspondents have becn telling you where the 

“Bigosh” is located. Of course they are all wrong; 

it exists only in the imagination of Mr. Mather, and he has 

used this pleasant fiction to give your readers a most charm- 

ing series of sketches, and to convey a deal of information 

upon the art of fishing. I trust he will continue his delight- 
ful papers indefinitely. 

Iffam wrong, and the ‘‘Bigosh” has an objective exist- 
ence, let me beg Mr. Mather to keep its lccation a secret. If 
he tells it, depend upon it the place will be overrun, so that 
he and his friends will no longer find any enjoyment in visiting 
it, it will be rendered worthless to them and to all others. It 
is his secret, let him keep it. May the original party long 
enjoy its pleasant places. 

*Percyyal” deserves thanks for his article on ‘‘Ferrules.” 
As he invites criticisms, I venture to make two suggestions: 
First. Ifthe plate or wad of brass, 1, were soldered in its 

ace the protection against water would be perfect, 

Second. If the ferrules are of sufficient length and care- 


fully made, there is no possible need of the ‘“‘little brass 
cleat, C.” Three of my own rods are made with ferrules that 
have no dowels and no cleats. J haye never had any trouble 
with them from “throwing away a joint or two.” I have 
seen this accident oceur, but always and only when the fer- 
Tules were much worn and ought to haye been replaced by 
new ones. The cleat requires time to whip and unwhip, and 
is apt to catch, besides it mars the good leoks of a handsome 
rod, M. 
PENNSYLVANIA 


A DOMESTIC TROUT POND. 


NOTICH in Forest AND STREAM of March 6, an ac- 
count of a successful trout pond (by ‘‘W. T.,” East Sagi- 
naw). It is the first instance of the kind that I ever heard 
of, and I have visited a good mary similar ponds and haye 
actually received hundreds of communications from parties 
who have tried trout culture in this crude manner, and I do 
not recall a single instance which has resulted successfully. 

Now, Mr. Editor, I will not be so rude as to question the 
word of any one in relation to fish matters, but I notice that 
some thirty years have elapsed since ‘‘W. T.” constructed 
this $30 fish pond, and it is possible he has grown old some 
in that time and perhaps his memory may be slightly at 
fault, though he tells us almost to a pound how many trout 
he took out of that pond in the four seasons; seven hundred 
and sixty-three pounds! And this from an original stock of 
two hundred and fifty young fry! And nowright here, ‘‘this 
reminds me,” that thirty years ago and thereabouts, I some- 
times visited Michigan, not to fish, but on gunning expedi- 
tions. I heard them tell how they weighed their hogs be- 
fore Fairbanks’s scales became fairly abtindant there. They 
laid some poles across a log’ placed the hog across one end 
of the poles and piled stones on the other end (ill they just 
balanced the hog, then they guessed at the weight of the 
stones! I remember on one trip killing a deer and a turkey, 
the ground being covered deeply with snow they could not 
get at the stones and so guessed directly at the weight of my 
game. They laid the deer at 200 pounds, and the turkey at 
30 pounds. When J got them down to Cleveland the deer 
weighed 165 pounds and the turkey 21 pounds. Did ‘‘W. 
T.” weigh his trout by Michigan methods? 

I will now skip the brush work, which if properly done 
for such a surface would cost about $25, and’ pass to the em- 
bankment, taking ‘“‘W. T.’s” figures and making allowatce 
for such contours as would admit of the work described 
(team and scraper); there was not less than one thousand 
cubic yards of earth moved and placed in this embankment. 
Now, estimating at the usual cost of such work and at one- 
third less for man and team than ‘‘W. T.” allows, it would 
cost $125 to construct the embankment alone. It will be 
noticed that this work was firmly rammed, and finally the 
entire surface was heavily coated with coarse gravel and 
over this again covered with a layer of as large boulders as 
they could handle. Now, here is a class of work fully under- 
stood by farmers throughout New England, New York, 
upper New Jersey, all over Pennsylvania and other rocky 
regions. Would any farmer take the contract for gravel 
and boulder work alone for $50? Not since I can remember. 
Well, my main items now foot up $400, and there are extras 
for spikes, nails, wire netting, planting of willows, etc., 
which includes a network partition of wire across the pond, 
one-third the way from the head to the foot; eight large 
cedar logs stretched across the ravine and weighted with 
more large boulders (this cedar is not counted), all of these 
incidentals of which would cost another $50 easily. 

Now, Mr. Editor, ask any experienced hydraulic or civil 
engineer in the country to review my figures, and see if lam 
not within the practical limits. 

I have for several years, at suitable seasons of the year, 
been quite busily engaged in constructing carp ponds, and 
am frequently supermtending this work in two or three 
States at the same time, rapidly passing back and forth from 
point to point and constantly coming in contact with ever- 
varying locations, on all of which I make hydraulic (instru- 
mental) surveys with mathematicai exactness. It is probabie 
that I do more of this work than any ten other men in this 
country, and it should be conceded that I ought to know 
with a tolerable degree of certainty what such work costs, 
even though done in the comparatively crude manner stated 
by ‘“‘W. T.” He has gone into details and given sufficient 
figures to enable an engineer to make an approximate esti- 
mate. In the first place, 1 find that his cedar bulkhead must 
have contained:at Jeast 1,000 square feet of surface. Multi- 
plied by four, the thickness im inches of the split plank, 
would make 4,000 feet of cedar, independent of the fifteen 
posts, varying from 6 to 34 feet in length, which, if of a size 
to hold an embankment thirty or more feet in height, it is 
safe to say contained another thousand feet, making 5.000 
feet, independent of the braces. I have handled considerable 
lumber during the past forty-five years; have been for two or 
three terms official mecasurer, and I have never seen the time 
or place that cedar was not worth at least $20 per thousand 
feet, more often $30. It will be observed that the erib- 
work was thoroughly puddled, concreted, and further se- 
cured with large boulders. No two men living could get 
out the stuff and put up such a crib-work bulkhead, with 
foundations as stated, for $100. 

It will, doubtless, amuse practical trout culturists to think 
how admirably that screen must have worked with two-year- 
old trout on each side of Yt, as must have been the case, be- 
cause the fry introduced could readily pass thrvugh it, and 
they were left undisturbed for two years. 

There are a number of other interesting points which I 
could give in connection with this matter had I the time 
and youtheroom, I begin to surmise that ‘“W. T.” is an 
unconscionable, practical joker. He reminds me of one of 
our leading Philadelphia physiciaus. A few years ago, 
when we were having considerable excitement here about. 
our bogus medical colleges, unqualified pharmacists, etc., 
the physician referred to one evening called at a drug®ist’s 
and left a prescription, saying he would call later in the 
evening for it. He called perhaps two hours later, and as 
the druggist handed him the prescription he inquired if he 
intended to administer it according to directions, ‘‘a dose 
every two hours.” The doctor replied in the affirmative. 
The druggist then remarked that one dose would be sufficient, 
as any human being taking it would be dead within two 
hours. By this time the doctor had removed the wrapper 
and found the prescription prominently labeled ‘*Poison,”’ 


‘The doctor then remarked that he had been riding among 


drug stores the entire evening leaving this identical prescrip- 

tion, that this was the fifteenth one collected and he the tirst 

druggist to notify him that the four simple ingredients 

formed when combined a deadly poison. Readers can make 

their own application. Mitton P. Prrecr, 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, 


. 


150 


-TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 
FISHERMAN’S LUCK.] 


7 ae Doctor’s preference for fishing up-stream has been 

stated, and as we laboriously forced our way over logs 
and through thickets along the shores of the lake, it was de- 
cided that he should strike in at the mouth of the brook, 
while I would keep on up the valley as far as was found 
practicable or convenient. and then fish down until we met. 
It may be remembered that he chose to wade in low shoes, 
the best of all things for a man who does not object to hay- 
ing his feet in cold water while the sun broils down upon 
his head, while I had elected to wear wading pants with 
hoot attachment as a precaution against possible rheumatic 
twinges in the near future. These appliances for wading 
dry-shod were slung on my back. for it would have been im- 
possible to have climbed over logs with them on, and, in fact, 
they are cumbrous even in water. If the little grasshopper 
becomes a burden, how much more does a stiff pair of 
trousers, which hamper the knee action and, ending in a 
heavy pair of boots, handicap a man who is more than 
knee-deep in water and on the unsteady footing of mossy 
stones? So on we trudged over logs and around tree tops, 
and such other obstructions as are well known to those who 
love to frequent forests which haye never known the axe, 
and are in reality the pathluss woods whose pleasures have 
been poetically mentioned. 

Arriving at the upper end of the lake, I showed the Doc- 
tor where Jack and I struck in and found the stream, not 
over two hundred yards from the edge of the swamp where 
we stood, and wishing him luck kept along the edge of the 
hill for dry walking, and foreed my way up the yalley, in- 
tending to strike the stream as high up as an hour’s walk 
might bring me. 


“The green trees whispered low and mild; 
it was a sound of joy! 
They were my playmates when a child, 
And rocked me in their arms so wild! 
Still they looked at me and smiled, 
As if I were a boy. 


“‘And ever whispered. mild and low, 
‘Come, be a child once more!’ 
And waved their long arms to and fro, 
And beckoned solemnly and slow: 
O, I could not choose but go 
Into the woodland’s hoar.” 


And so, mentally repeating Longfellow’s lines, I pushed 
on. 
, “Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds; 
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds,”’ 


until my watch, which I had often consulted, to see if my 
hour were not up, and the mile covered, which we reckoned 
would take that time, said that full sixty minutes had passed 
since the Doctor was left near the junction of stream and 
lake. I was on the south side of an east and west ravine, but 
the trees were so thick that I could not see how far it was 
-to the other side, or form any idea how far it might be to the 
ereek. It occurred to me that there might be a valley com- 
ing into this one from the north, and thatthe stream might 
come down that, in which case there would be no fishing for 
me thatday. This horrible suspicion must be set at rest, 
and, climbing the hill, 1 looked about for an opening from 
which I could see across the hollow. Nosuch place was 
found, and then a tree which could be easily climbed was 
sought and found; and from half its height a yiew above the 
tree tops of the valley was obtained, which showed it 10 be 
about half a mile wide, and gave the cheering assurance that 
no valley came in from the north between the lake and the 
point opposite. Descending the tree, I started down the hill 
due north into the bottom of the valley, in order to strike 
the stream. 

Tt was hard work to push through tke tangled grasses, cat 
briers, and undergrowth in the swampy bottom, and the 
stream seemed a long way off. My watch showed that 
three-fourths of an hour had been consumed in crossing the 
half mile of yalley, and the severe labor in the close atmos- 
phere was the cause of a suspicion that while wading a stream 
for trout might be sport, there was less pleasure in wading a 
swamp in search of astream. The ground began to rise! 
Where was the brook? I had expected to find a rapid stream 
which changed into the deeper and more sluggish one below, 
but there was nothing of the kind. I satdown and did two 
things at once, and did them well. Some one has said that 
two things cannot be done at once and done well. Like 
most ‘old sayings” there is little truth in it, for 1 rested and 
lunched in the most thorough manner, at the same time. 
After this | essayed to do three things at once and accom- 
plished it as casily as the two; I rested, smoked and thought. 
Carefully reviewing the field it seemed certain that the ‘Little 
Bigosh” must rise between where I lay and the lake. The 
ravine had no branch to the north and I had not crossed a 
stream on the south side of it. The result of the thinking, 
which was arrived at just as the pipe was finished was, that 
if I traveled back east for half an hour and then crossed the 
ravine there would be a chance of finding the stream. 

Shouldering the boots I started, and when the watch 
showed that I had labored for full thirty minutes, I changed 
the course to due south, again to cross the valley. The 
growth here was denser, and the footing was worse, as the 
grouud was ‘more springy and soft, often quite marshy, 
Twice the boots and I sat down on a log to rest, and at last 
the spripgy nature of ihe ground made it necessary to put on 
the boots in order to keep dry. This was not a thing to be 
done without cause, for, if it was as much as a man could 
do to get through the undergrowth without the encumbrance 
of wading boots, it promised to be more than he could per- 
form to travel with them. They were put on and the wet 
shoes slung to the creel strap, and another start made. Each 
step seemed to be made on softer ground, and the heavy 
wading boots pulled harder and harder, until it was a ques- 
tion whether it would not be best to turn back, While con- 
sidering this I stepped on a stick and broke it, and a few 
steps further in I heard the Doctor say in a low tone, ‘You 
appear to be traveling, sir!” 

“QO, no,” said I, ‘‘the day is pleasant and 1 am merely 
walking for exercise. It is the height of pleasure for me to 
pull wading boots out of a swamp, and I haye enjoyed it at 
the rate of half a mile an hour for about three hours. There 
is nothing like exercise for getting rid of superfluous flesh, 
and if, like Falstaff, I have ‘larded the lean earth’ as I 
marched, and it is pleasant to know that the alders and the 
skunk-cabbage will be enriched thereby. Any grub left in 
your creel? J devoured mine two hours ago,” 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


‘No, I took a lunch about half an hour ago,” replied the 
Doctor, “‘and afterward stepped on a log that was under 
water aud the bark peeled off, and I decided to sitdown, and 
I not only wet my luncheon but my tobacco and matches. 
That is a trifle, however, for | have had rare sport on a vir- 
gin stream, See here!” and he lifted the cover of his creel 
and showed a glowing mass of ruby-fiecked trout, that under 
different circumstances would have made an angler’s heart 
throb five beats to the minute more than usual, but when his 
heart has been doing double duty in pulling wading boots out 
of the muck for several hours, it is hard to stimulate 
his aorta to extra duty by glimpses of fish, unless they are 
fried. TI had tobacco and matches, and we sat on a log and 
smoked. 

After the ashes were knocked from the briarwoods the 
Doctor said, ““You have had a hard time and are entitled to 
some fishing; take the stream down and J will foliow the 
swamp around and meet you at the lake where we parted.” 

“Doctor,” said I, “‘you mean well, but if you love me let 
me get into camp as soon as possible, I have climbed logs, 
crawled under tree-tops, been mired, climbed trees and 
worked like a stevedore, in the hope of striking a stream ot 
which I knew nothing when I started, only to learn now that 
its head is not halfa mile from its mouth, I don’t want 1o 
fish, I only want to get in camp and stretch out on the hem- 
lock boughs and have fun.’’* 

““Pshaw,” exclaimed the Doctor, ‘‘the head of the brook is 
just there beyond that big cedar, it rises from a big spring, 
and you must take a trout or two before we go back, and it 
can be done from the spring. Then we will return to camp 
and you ean lie on the hemlocks and ‘have fun.’ ” 

I yielded, and took his rod and line, which he had not un- 
jointed, and said I would try for a trout or two, and ap- 
proached the pool, which was the head of the stream, with 
great caution, in order not to disturb the trout by jarring the 
bog, which shook with a heavy tread. After a few casts of 
thirty feet, as long as the bushes would allow, I stepped into 
the pool and waded down a short distance. There was a 
“likely place” under the roots of a sycamore, and a cast there 
was rewarded with arise. I had him, I fought him accord- 
‘ing to rule, and against it, for all J know now, and as I put 
the landing net under him a slippery root sent my boots up 
and even my ears obtained a free bath. The trout was still 
in the net, and the Doctor remarked, as he unscrewed the top 
of his life preserver and handed it to me, ‘‘We might as well 
go back to camp, but I’m glad you have oue trout, and a big 
one.” 

I emptied the water from the big boots, and shouldering 
them, we went homeward. It was late in the atternoon 
when two tired, wet and hungry fishermen tramped in and 
devoured everything eatable in the camp, which appeared to 
be deserted. By the time that the last bone was polished, 
the boat, with the Colonel, Jack and Uncle Ben, drew up on 
the beach, and they crowded around to see the results. The 
Dactor’s cree! showed up well, but when the Colonel heard 
the story of the day’s tramp and my misfortune, he repeated 
a couplet containing some allusion to ‘‘fisherman’s luck” and 
his being wet and hungry, which I have forgotten. 

FRED MATHER. 


«This has long been a fayorite expression of mine for sleeping, but 
as it is not generally understood, I explain. With Sancho Panza I 
can say, ‘Blessed be the man who invented sleep; it covereth one all 
over like a blanket.’’ My idea of jolly, hilarious fun is asleep of in- 
sensibility. I know that I will enjoy that last sleep that knows no 
waking, no printer howling for copy, and no boots to pull out of the 
mud. If the fishing in the Styx is all done from a boat,1I know I 
won’t care to get out on the other side. There is no fun like that 
which one enjoys. 


HOW THE LEADER IS BRCKEN. 


EAs already re-echoed “J. G. W.’s” question in 

your issue of March 6, I am now tempted to answer it 
myself, and, as human nature is weak, I yield to the tempta- 
tion. 

He says, ‘‘We have all read time and time again of a bass 
when hooked leaping from the water, and falling on the 
leader so as to break it. How does he do it?” 

We have all read it again and again. But for a bass to so 
break a leader, is as impossible as it is for a man to lift him- 
self by the straps of his boots. . ; 

Perkaps the following explanation may not be quite so 
severe a draft on our credulity. 

That the leader is in peril under such circumstances, is 
undoubted. Why? . 

The bass leaps from the water, throwing into the movement 
every ounce of his immense muscular strength. His mo- 
mentum then cquals his weight multiplied by his velocity. 
But the weight which here enters into the problem is not his 
weight in water (which is less than nothing since a dead 
bass will float), but his weight in air—we will say four good 
solid American avordupois pounds. When, therefore, the 
angler seeks voluntarily or involuntarily to check or control 
this gyration witha tight leader, he subjects it to a strain 
that no fish of four times the weight could begin to impose if 
beneath the surface, and it not unnaturally parts. What 
the angler then does I will not say. Henry P. WeLLs. 


New YORE. 


i 


Bur is it Trum?—Boston, Mareh i3.—1 clipped from 
Saturday night’s Transeript the following: ‘‘Hon, Hannibal 
Hamlin and party have returned from Moosehead Lake with 
a fine catch of trout.” It speaks for itself. Ifa poor devil 
was camping out at any of the many desirable places in the 
State of Maine, and tried to yary his bill of fare or eke out 
his provisions by shpoting a solitary deer or caribou before 
Oct. 1., the Great American Game Warden was pretty sure to 
find it out and to ‘‘sock” it to him accordingly. But the honor- 
able geatleman makes his annual trip, and comes home with 
a ‘fine catch of trout,” caught, as | understand it, through 
the ice, against the law of the State. Where was the Great 
American Game Warden, of whose zeal in enforcing the law 
(principally against non-residents) we have read so much in 
Forest AND STREAM lately? Where was he?—C. G. G. 


Tur Trout Opentye.—Mr. E. G. Blackford has issued 
his annual inyitation to inspect the many varieties of wild 
and cultivated trout. It isa beautiful card with an original 
picture of a trout rising at a fly, by the well-known artist, 
W. Holberton. Mr. Blackford’s display will comprise fish 
from many of the States and also from Europe, and Fulton 
Market will be crowded, as usual, by lovers of the beautiful 


fish. 


STRIPED Bass mn ConnecticoT.—On the 12th inst. John 
Wilber caught 800 pounds of striped bass in the Thames, at: 
Norwich, Conn., the largest catch in many seasons, 


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([Marce 20, 1884. 


SMELT Fisnine my Marye.—I read in your issue of Feb. 
20 an account of smelt fishing in Saco, and 1 think an 
account of the same in another town in Maine may be of 
interest. I left Waldorough, Me., seven weeks ago, There 
were then about sixty shanties on the river. They are neat 
little houses of $-inch stuff, and vary from 4x6 feet to 6x10. 
A cousin and myself fished in a shanty 6x10, and we used 
twelve lines. From Dec. 26 to Jan. 20 we took from fifteen 
to forty pounds every day, usually averaging iu size about 
nine to the pound. We fished about four hours each day, 
just before and after low water. I left for home Jan. 22, 
but T have learned that there has been not more than a week 
since when the smelts did not bite. We use a great variety 
of bait, but nothing attracts them like marine worms or 
clam worms.—Grorecr W. SINGER. 


Hisheulture. 


THE SHELLFISH COMMISSION OF CONNEC- 
TICUT. 


WE have the third report of the Shellfish Commissioners of 

the State of Connecticut, to the General Assembly, 
January session, 1884. Before the passage of the act of 1881 
placing the State groundsin charge of the Commissioners, all 
designations were made by town committees. With few ex- 
ceptions these committees were more familiar with the water 
and its industries than with law, and their work was defective 
and incomplete. The boundaries of grounds were not well 
defined. This has complicated the work of mapping old 
grounds and made changes necessary. These have been ac-" 
complished to the general satisfaction of the oystermen. 

During the three years of their service the Commissioners 
haye sold 38,548 acres, which netted to the State the sum of 
$42,403.79. Besides this 12,539 acres more haye been allowed, 
and deeds ordered therefor, which will net the further sum of 
$13,793.78. Rejected applications have generally been owing 
to the fact that the grounds applied for were on natural beds, 
or had already been designated to others. Taxes were laid 
upon the oyster grounds within State jurisdiction for the bene- 
fit of the State for the first time during the past year; $3,651.47 
was collected without resort to legal measures. By law all 
owners are required to file with the Commissioners a state- 
ment under oath, wherein they shall not only give the number 
of acres owned by them, but also the value thereof per acre. 

The report is very interesting and gives much information 
about starfish, natural beds and the laws relating to the shell- 
fisheries, It is time that New York did something in the way 
of systematizing the leasing of oyster beds and placing the 
whole matter in the hands of the State and ending the conflict 
between the towns and counties of Long Island, which has 
been in progress for a century or more. The Connecticut Com- 
missioners are R. G. Pike, chairman, Middletown; Dr. W. M. 
Hudson, Hartford, and G. N. Woodruff, Shermax. 


DO GERMAN CARP HIBERNATE IN CENTRAL NEW 
JERSEY ?—Authorities on carp culture inform us that this 
fish passes the winter in a semi-dormant state; that a number 
of them assemble together, thrust their heads m the mud with 
their tails upward and outward, thus forming whats called a 
kettle of fish. That they do not pass the entire winter in this 
way in the latitude of Central New Jersey bas been clearly 
proven during the winter just closed, as shown by the follow- 
ing statement: Having accustomed my fish to a certain por- 
tion of the pond by throwing them small bits of bread for 
which they showed great fondness, and after which the 
come to the surface of the water, they continued to make their 
appearance there on pleasant days till the Sth of December 
last. The pond then becoming frozen over, I saw nothing of 
them again till the mild weather in February. On the tenth, 
and again on the twenty-seventh of this month they made 
their appearance. Besides the fragments of the submerged 
leaves of the yellow pond lily (Nuphar advena) which the 
winter does not kill, floating about and partly eaten, gave un- 
mistakable evidence that they had been feeding. As they 
continue active all winter in Southern waters, may they not 
do the same also in this latitude?—J. H. B. ; 


PENNSYLVANIA STATE HATCHHERY.—It is reported 
that the property of H. J. Schantz, near Allentown. has been 
rented by the Pennsylvania State Fish Commission - for a 
period of ten years. New buildings will be erected this spring, 
and the State fishery will shortly be removed from Donegal, 
its present location, to the new site. 


CALIFORNIA TROUT FOR TENNHESSHE.—The United 
States Fish Commission car from Wytheville (Va.) hatchery, 
arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn., on March 14 with 4,000 Cali- 
fornia trout. The fish are to be distributed in the streams of 
East Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and itis said this lot of 
fish is the most valuable ever sent South. 


Che Zennel, 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


Maren 18 to 21.—Washington Bench Show, Masemic Hall, Wash- 
ington, D. U. Chas, Lincoln, Superintendent. 

March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club’s Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 
dent. W.S. Jackson, Hon. Secretary, Toronto. Canada, — 

April 8, 4and 5.—The Cleveland: Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superistendent. C. M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. Entries close March 24. Poly 

May 6, 7.8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Eighth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas, 
Lincoln, Superintendent. R. C, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


A. K,. R: 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be ip early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2852, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1010. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50. 


CLEVELAND DOG SHOW. 


itor Forest and Stream: Core. 
ag tie +he number of entries already received the indications 
are that our second bench show will be a tsuccess, The 
citizens of Cleveland are taking a great interest in the ex- 
hibition, and are donating a number of special prizes, which 
will be announced in due time. Count Noble and Dido IT. wiil 
be here for exhibition. They will be a great attraction for 
sportsmen, and we hope to see many of them here from all 
parts of the country. We can assure them a hearty welcome, 


GTM, MUNHALL 
CLEVELAND, March 15, i ghn PINE AME: 


: NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW. 
A het first annual bench show of the New Haven Kennel 
_ Club, held at New Haven, Conn., last week, wasa decided 
success, There were three hundred and eight-five entries, and 
Ree ctiist a dozen of them were absent. There were quite a 
numberof puppies shown, which brought the total above four 
hundred. There was.a very good showing of local dogs, fully 
one-half of the entries being from New Haven and immediate 
vicinity. The dtc 3 is very well adapted for holding a 
show, being large, wel Artes and ventilated. The benching 
ofthe dogs was admirable; the large dogs were in roomy 
stalls which extended clear around the sides of the hall, mak- 
ing a very attractive appearance. There were three double 
rows of benches extending nearly the length of the room, 
with wide alleys between. giving plenty of room. Many of 
the stalls were tastefully draped and decorated, adding not a 
little to the attractiveness of the show. The managers are 
entitled to a great deal of credit for the very excellent manner 
in- which they conducted the show. _ No labor or expense was 
spared to make the exhibition satisfactory to all, and we 
heartily indorse the many encomiums that we heard bestowed 
‘upon the managers for the excellence of the arrangements. 


2 attendance, notwithstanding the bad weather, was very 


good indeed, andit gives us pleasure to announce that the 


ance wason the right side of the books. 


the cordial support they deserve t 
The judging was generally satisfactory, although a few mis- 

takes were made. Mr. James Watson judged the pointers, 

setters, s 


we have indulged in no spirit of tault ie § 
deavored to point out their faults for the berefit 


necessary to form a correct opinion, 
MASTIFFS. 


Champion mastiffs had only one entry, Mr. Mason's Neyison. 
He was sip alee much better than we had ever seen him. 
and barring t 


has filled out wonderfully. 


In the open class for dogs, Mr, Burgess’s Hero had virtually 
a walk over, as there was nothing in the class that could get 
near him. He hasa very good skull, ears well carried, and a 
square muzzle, good color and mask. His faults are a slightly 
tucked up appearance, and he falls away a little under the 
eyes and has a greyhound tail, but, taken altogether, he is a 


very fine animal. 


lain head and rather a light eye. 


Romeo, ¢c., possesses some good 
and was in poor shape. 
ment, 


points. 


In mastiff bitches, Dutchess, first, is a_ good roomy bitch, 
Juno, second, has a 
very good skull and muzzle, and is of good type but is under- 
sized and out at elbow. Queen, vhe., isa fair bitch and will 


rather light in bone and has a bad eye. 


improve, we think, with age. 
The only entry in puppy class was absent. 
ST. BERNARDS. 


Tn ehampion rough-coated St. Bernards, Bonivard, the only 
entry, was shown in the pink of condition. He iis a very typi- 
eal dog, good in coatand color, He has that benign expres- 
sion of countenance which should characterize this noble 
breed of dogs. Bonivard also won the special prize for the 


best non-sporting dog in the show, 


In the open class (dogs) the Chequasset Kennel’s Hermit beat 
nnel’s Samson in head, bone and coat. His 

worst faults are his light body and rather badly-carried tail, 
he is also rather ste behind. Samson, second, has a 
is a trifle too curly in coat; he, also, 

has aring tail Heis, however,a five young dog. Felix Men- 
dlessohn (vhc.) has good coat and bone, but a rather weak 
head and bad ears. Wuke (hc.) and Guy (c,) were very bad 
in head properties, and looked more like immense collies pee 
n 
. Hearn’s Gertie, a very well made, roomy bitch, 
of good color, won eastly, all other &wards being withheld. 
In rough-coated puppies Schoonhoyen, a seven-months old 
uppy of good bone and size, coat and color, was an easy 


the Clovernook Ke 


weak, bitchy head, an 


anythi else. 


They should not have been noticed. 
bitches, 


first, the other entry only getting a c. 


There were no entries in the champion smooth-coated St. 


Bernard class. 


In the open class (dogs) Alexander, a fair dog, with no es- 
pecint merits, was the only entry. He was awarded first. In 
itches, Juno, an undersized bitch, was awarded second pave 
illy, 

a rather piain puppy, but with good coat and immense bone, 


the first being withheld for want of merit. In puppies, 


won over Eckhardt, who was given second. 
BERGHUNDE. 


There was but one entry in the berghund class, a fair New- 
foundland in looks; in fact he was better than any in the 


Newfoundland class. The award was properly withheld. 


NEWFOUNDLANDS. 


_ First and second prizes were withheld. Jack, who was vhe., 
is of good size, which is abouts all that can be said in his favor. 


The others we did not consider worthy of mention. 
BLOODHOUNDS. 


As there was nothing in the class that had any pretention 
to the name, all prizes were withheld. There was a very good 
Ulmer in this class—Dink. The nearest approach in looks to 
a bloodhound was Trump, a cross between the mastiff and 


foxhound, ; 
GREYHOUNDS. 


‘The managers were very liberal with the greyhounds, 
dividing the class into two champion and two open classes. 
There were eight entries, six of them receivin 


ality of the exhibit, which was notof a high order of ment, 


iday Night had a walk over in the champion dog class. He 
staked himself afew weeks ago and was in very bad condi- 
t also had a walk over in the bitch class. She was 
in elegant condition, and except thatshe is a bit too small, is 


tion. Pan 


about as good as we have. In the open dog class Doubleshot, 


who was given first, was in good condition. He has not suf- 


ficient greyhound character to win in a good class. Dell, who 
was second, should have been first. Heis a good specimen 
with a good and well balanced head, a magniticent coat and 
shapely body. He is a trifle weak and straight behind, and 
has a bit too much hair in his tail. Dorothée, who won first 
in the bitch class, has a good head and a deep chest, and was 
in good condition. She is a trifle too wide in front, and might 
be better behind. Luta, wrongly entered as Lupa, was given 
second; she should have been content with I¢ss. She lacks 
quality, and is light with very straight stifles. 

, DEERHOUNDS. 

The deerhoun ds were very good all through, Lance, who 
was the only one in the ese class, isa very good speci- 
men with no weak points. shoulders and feet are capital. 
Roy, who won first in the open Class for dogs, is a fair animal 
ra ey ous of condition. Fleet, who won second, we liked full 


The club intend to 
hold a show each year, and without doubt they will receive 


niels, greyhounds, deerhounds, foxhounds, beagles 
and dachshunde, and Mr, James Mortimer the remaining 
classes, except the trick and retrieying dogs, which were 
judged by Mr. J. R. Pierson. In commenting upon the dogs 

ut have en- 
and instruc- 
tion of those of our readers who haye not had the experience 


é rather unsightly protuberance on his nasal 
bone and his babit of knuckling over, he is a very fine dog; he 


Agrippa, second, is a well shaped but small dog, with a 
Surrey, he, is a large 
og, a little smutty in color, rather leggy and short in body. 

He shows age 
The others call for no special com- 


prizes, Four 
firsts and two seconds were awarded which should certainly 
satisfy the owners, especially when we take into account the 


neither did the puppy class; 
as possible, 


He was rather a usefyl-looki : 
and the prize was properly withheld, Benedict was alone in 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


second; she is yery near the winner. Thora, unnoticed, also 
shows lots of quality, but shows mange and want of condition. 


POINTERS, 
Weexpected to see a good showing of pointers, as there are 


‘many owned in this portion of the State, but they failed to 


put in an appearance in sufficient humbers to fill the classes 
as they should have been filled, and the showing was rather 
ordinary, although there were some good ones present. In 
the champion class, Peter Black, Knickerbocker, and Lussie 
were theonly ones to compete, Rhona being absent. The 
Westminster Hessel Club, who,own Lassie, declined the offer 
of aseparate class for her, preferring cefeat rather thun to win 
without competition., and the three were judged in one class, 
and the pride of place was given to Lassie, Some one raised 
the point that the class was understood to have_been divided, 
and the two dogs were then compared, and Knickerbocker 
was alsoawarded a champion medal. Lassie was shown in 
fair condition, Sheis quite a good bitch with a fair head, 
capital fore legs and feet, good back, quarters and stern, She 
is a little weak And straight iti stifles, and a trifle throaty. She 
is also growingold. Knickerbocker was not in first-rate con- 
dition. He has a fair head, good chest and plenty of bone; he 
is a bit wide in front and might have a better back and stifles. 
Peter Black is a fair dog with good legs and feet, he was looking 
well, but was soft, In the open class for dogs over 50 pounds 
first went to Beaufort, who was decidedly the best in the 
class. He was not in nearly so good condition as when at 
Washington last year, having but recently recovered from an 
attack of inflammation of the bowels. Although his coat was 
in good condition, his eyes were not bright, and he did not 
earry himself in the faultless style he affects when at his best. 
Zeb, who won second, is rather a taking dog at first glance. 
He stands straight on a good set of legsand moves very well, 
he has rather a plain head, 4nd might be better in shoulders, 
loins and tail; his coat; looks well, but is rather long. Bravo, 
vhe., was very well shown, he has plenty of bone, and good 
legs and feet. Heisa bit heayy in head, throaty, and out 
at elbows... Bud, he., is a fair dog, with good legs and feet, 
he has a fine head, except that his ears are set on too high, 
he is also a trifle weak in stifles. Jimmie, also he., we 
liked as well as any in the class, except Beaufort. He has 
afair head, a good coat and tail, and the best of legs and 
feet; he is a trifle wide in front, and has a light eye, 
which detracts somewhat from his good looks. We also 
liked Fritz, unnoticed, for the two letters, he has a fair 
head with good shoulders, legs and fect, he is a bit 
snipy, and might be better in tail and hindquarters. 
In the small dog class there were but. two entries, both very 
bad ones. The first prize was withheld, and the second should 
have been also, There were three entries in the large biteh 
class; none of them were first rate. Lady Gleam, who was 

laced first, is light in bone, wide in chest and coarse in tail. 

ill, who won second, we liked better for first. She shows 
considerable quality, and has capital legs and feet and a good 
loin. She is also wide in front, a bit snipy, and has a coarse 
tail. She was well shown. Mab he.) is a fair specimen only, 
with weak hindquarters. Inthe smali bitch class first) was 
given to Lady Bang. She has a good body, legs and feet. She 
is a little too round in skull and carries her ears badly. She 
is also throaty, and might be better in tail. Moonstone, who 
won second, was not in good condition. There was not much 
to choose between her and Polly (vhe.), who has a good head, 
legs and feet, She is a trifle wide in front, and might be 
better in shoulders. She did not show at all well. Bertie 
(he,) is a fair looking bitch, with no very good or bad points. 
In the puppy class, Lady Nixon, who won first, is quite a 
pretty bitch, with a good body, shoulders, legs and feet. She 
isa bit snipy, and might be better in tail. Lennox, who was 
second, is a big fellow, a bit lathyand coarse. He has plenty 
of bone, and may improve with age. 


SETTERS, 


Lava Rock, the only entry in the English setter champion 
class, was absent. In the open dog class, Yale Belton, who 
won first, is quite a nice dog; his head is fairly good, he has 
plenty of bone with good legs and feet, and good quarters. 

is tail is also good; he was in good condition, except that his 
coat was rather short. He is a bit wide in front, and does not 


move quite so free aad easy as we like to see. Jester, who 


won second, is a very goos-looking dog, with good shoulders, - 


legs and feet and tail; his head is fair, but a trifle heavy; he is 
badly undershot, and was in very bad condition. Pride of 
the West, who was vhe., we tancied for first place. He has 
the best head in the class; his shoulders are fair, and he has a 
good chest and quarters, with the best of legs and feet; he has 
a nice coat, and was in fair condition. He carries his tail tao 
high, which is about the worstfault. Royal Sultan, also vhe., 
got all that he deserved. He was not in good condition. 
Frank, who was he., is a useful-looking dog, with plenty of 
bone and capital legs andfeet. Heisrather plain in head and 
heavy in shoulder. Tom Il., who was c.; deserved another 
letter. He hasa good head, plenty, of bone, with good legs 
and feet. He might be better in hindquarters, There were 
anumber ef useful-looking dogsin the class that we have 
no doubt are capital workers, but they are not quite 
up to bench show form. In the bitch class, Blue Belle won 
first. She was in her usual good form, and, as usual, was 
shown:a trifle too fat. She has capital shoulders, plenty of 
bone, with good legs and feet. Tf her head were as good as 
the rest of her, she would be hard to beat. Alice Dale, who 
won second, is very close to the winner. She has a very sweet 
head and is good all over except that her elbows set too far 
under her, and her feet turn out a little. The remainder of 
the class we did not fancy, although, as in the dog class, many 
of them looked like workers. The puppies were a fairlot and 
well placed except that we should have given Bess, in the 
bitch class, another ietter. She is a very nice little thing, and 
we shall expect, if she goes right, tosee her beat the winner 
next year. 

Champion black and tan setters brought out three good ones. 
Turk, who won the first prize, was looking better than we ever 
saw him, Argus was also looking well. He is but a trifle 
behind the winner. Trump is also a capital dog, but he begins 
to show his years and was not in good condition. In the open 
dog class, Glen, who won first, is a big upstanding doy of good 
form. He moves very well and was entitled tothe place. Gem, 
second, and Chris, vhe., are both fairspecimens with not much 
to choose between them. ‘The bitch class was poor. The first 
was withheld, and second given to Clip, who is only a moder- 
ate specimen; none of the others were worthy of mention, In 
the puppy class there was a litter only twelve weeks old that 
look promising, but they were too young to be shown, the 
only other entry was given the prize. He.was only fair. 
There were no entries in the champion Irish setter class. In 
the open dog class, Dash, who won first, is rather a taking dog 
to look at. He has a fair body with good legs and feet. He is 
very dark in color and has a Gordon head, and carries his tail 
too high. Second went to Dick, who is a fair dog with good 
body, legs and feet. His head is not first-class, and his ears 
are set on toohigh. Rory O’More, Jr., who was given vhce., 
was the most typical Irish dog in the class, and should have 
been first. He has a good head, is fairly well formed, of good 
size and color, and has good legs and feet. He was not shown 
at his best. Red and Roe, both he., were only moderate. 
Many of the others were quite fair animals, but more of the 
English than Irish type, and not deserving mention in an Trish 
class. The bitch class contained nothing remarkably good, 

we thought them as well plneed 


SPANIELS. 


There was only one entry in the Irish water spaniel class, 
dog of no particulat breed, 


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the champion class for field spaniels. He was not in his usual 
z00d form, Inthe open class, first, second and_he. went to 
hree fair Clumbers; Punch, who was first, beat John Halifax 
in bone, otherwise they were nearly equal. Vesta, he., is a 
very promising puppy. C. went to Beauty, a liver and white 
with rather a pleasing head. She has a_curly coat and is a 
bit leggy. The others were a poor lot. There were no entries 
in the champion cocker spaniel class, In the open dog class 
first went to Obo I., a first-class little dog. He was shown «@ 
bit too fat and was a little off in coat, Sport, who .won 
second, is a liver with white on his breast. He is also 
quite a cocker with a capital coat. He was timid 
in the ring, and did not show well. The others 
were not worthy of mention. Fido, who was entered in this 
class, isa fair Irish water spaniel, and would undoubtly have 
secured notice had he been in his proper class. In the bitch 
¢lass, Blackie TIT. had an easy win. She is a very well-formed 
bitch, with a splendid coat. She hasa light eye, and stands 
just a bit high on her legs. Queen, who was second, looks as 
though she might be a very fair animal when in condition. 
She was nursing a pretty litter. Suwanee, he.. is very pretty, 
with a good head. She is very light built and was short of 
coat. The puppies were a grand lot. Helen, who won first, 
bids fair to turn out anice one. She is of Beud shape, with 
capital legs and feet and lots of quality. er coat is a little 
curly, but she may outgrow this.. Sambo, who was second, 
except that he is a trifle crooked in front, is very good. Heis 
rather large for his age, and will probably outgrow his class. 
Darkie IT,, who was vhe., is well formed, and has a fair coat. 
She is a trifle too high on her legs. Dandy Zulu, he., is also 
well formed, but was badly shown. 


' FOXHOUNDS. 

The foxhounds that were noticed were a workmanlike look- 
ing lot, but not quite up tothe form called for by the standard. 
Jerry I,, who won first, is about the stamp of dog that New 
England fox hunters secure when they can, and keep when 
they get them. There were no entries in the puppy class. 


BEAGLES. 

There were only two beagles shown. Both were fair ani- 

mals. They were properly placed. 
DACHSHUNDE. 

There were three entries in this class, only one of which 
was a dachshund. He was quite a fairspecimen and entitled 
to his prize. The others were properly unnoticed. 

FOX-THRRIERS. 

The fox-terrier classes did not fill well. Richmond Olive 
was absent and Vixen had a walk over in the champion class, 
This is an honor that she is not entitled to, and how so good a 
judge as Mr. Mortimer could bestow a champion prize upon so 
worthless a specimen, we cannot understand. Sheis very thick 
in skull, wide in chest, out at elbows, very poor in coat, and 
has bad open feet. In the open dog class, Lancelot, who won 
first, is a very showy dog. Heis just a littletoo high on his 
legs and was not in goood coat, Nip, who won second, has a 
food coat and fair legs and feet, eis a trifle thick in skull, 
wide in chest, and his ears are set badly. In the bitch class, 
Jaunty, a very moderate specimen, was given second, first be- 
ing withheld, In the puppy class, Clover Belle won first, She 
is a fair specinen with good coat, shoulders and feet. Rascal, 
who won second, we donot like. He is coarse and out at 
elbows and will be too large when matured. We liked Boxer, 
vhe., better for the place, although he is nothing to brag of, 
being leggy and with a poor coat. The others were not 
worthy of mention. 

COLLIES. 

The show of collies was yery fine. . Robin Adair had a walk 
over in the champion dog class. He was very well shown, 
except that he was short of top coat back of his shoulders. 
Zulu Princess, the only entry in the bitch class, was absent, 
In the open dog class tirst went to Bruce, anice dog with a 
good head, body and coat. Hiram, who was second, has a 
profuse coat which is of good texture. He has a fair head 
with rather heavy ears. e was much too fat, Brack, who 
was vhe., isa well-made dog, except that he is a trifie too 
close coupled. He has a good head and well-earried ears. 
Rokeby, he., is a nicely coloredsable with a good head and coat. 
Heis a little sway-backed and might be better in shoulders. 
Donald, he., and Sandy, ¢., are quite fair little dogs, rather 
light in coat: Both have the domed skull that we often sea 
in the progeny of Marcus. In the bitch class, Iona won first. 
She has a nice head and is well formed, but she was in very 
bad condition, and should have given place to Jean, who was 
second, or to Fairy, who was vhe. Between these two there 
was not much to choose, both are nice bitches. We also liked 
Winnie, who washe, She has the best head of the lot. She 
has but just arrived from England, and was all out of con- 
dition, and with no coat. Sheis a little light inbone, but 
when at her best the others must be in good form to beat her: 
The puppies were more than an average lot, even the un- 
noticed ones were fairly good. We thought them well placed. 


BULLDOGS. ¢ 

Tippoo, the only entry in the champion class, is a very good 
specimen. He has a good skull, ear, stop and chop. He is just 
a bit pinched in face and a trifle long in body, and wasshowm 
too thin. It will take a very good one indeed to beat him when 
he is at his best. In the open dog class, Boz, a very good one,, 
captured first. There was not much to choosé between Ham- 
let second, and Viscount and Moses, both vhe., all were fairly 
good. Jn the bitch class, Sweet Briar had a walk over. She 
isa good bitch, with rather a plain face and is a little short. 
of lip. She also won the special for the best bull, dog or bitch, 
Boz being absent on account of sickness. 


TERRIERS. 

There were no entries in the champion bull-terrier class., 
There were ten in the open dog class, four in the bitches and 
two in the puppy class, with only three bull-terrieis in the: 
lot. Grand Duke, first in the dog class, is a very fair dog ex- 
cept that heis faulty instern. Little Maggie is also a very 
pretty one, with rather a full eye. Fan C. is only fair, the, 
others were a wretched lot of ill-looking, scarred brutes. most. 
of them, judging from their appearance, are well acquainted, — 
with the mysteries of the pit. Im rough-haired terriers Patsy,, 
a varmint looking customer, deserved his first, the only other 
entry receiving ac. The black and tan terriers, with the ex- 
ception of Minnie Warren, were a bad lot. Minnie, who was: 
only a fair specimen, was given vhe., the ovher awards being 
withheld. Jrish terriers had but one represéntative, a poor 
one, and the prize was properly withheld. There were several 
pretty little silky-haired toys in the Skye terrier class, but not 
a Skye among them, and no awards were made. 

Ppuas, 

The pugs were also very poor, with not a really good one 
among them. There were no entries in the champion class. 
In the open dog class the best one was given a.c., which was 
enough. In the bitch class Beauty won first. She is a nicely- 
formed little bitch, but smutty in color, None of the others 
were more than middling. 

YORKSHIRE TERRIERS, 
There was but one in this class. He was only a moderate 
specimen. 
TOY TERRIERS. 
The toy terriers were fair only, and properly placed. 
KING CHARLES SPANIELS. 

Virst prize was withheld. Jack, who was given second, is 

too large and was in bad condition. 
ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS. 

First should haye been withheld in this class also, as the 

winner, Top, is coarse, although he has rather a nice head, 
MISCELLANEOUS CLASS. 

Tn the miscellaneous class, under 25lbs., first went to Mee 

Too, a very good specimen of the Mexican hairless dog. Moses 


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avery fair Scotch terrier, winning vhe. Pete, a diminutive 
hard-haired terrier, said to be as game as a pebble, was siven 
he., which he well deserved. Inthe large class a fair wavy- 
coated retriever was given first. Prince, who won vhe., should 
have been first; he is a better Dalmatian than we often see. 
Aside from these there was nothing in the class worthy of 
notice. 
SPECIAL PRIZHS, 

There were just one hundred special prizes offered, Thirty- 
tour of them were cash prizes ranging in value from $4 to $15, 
Many of the others were very valuable, and nearly every class 
received one or more, Unless otherwise specified all of the 
Specials were forthe open classes, and their disposition was 
decided in the regular judging, On account of the prizes 
offered for the sporting dogs, the management transferred 
some of the classes assigned to Mr. Mortimer to Mr. Watson. 
The prize for trick dogs brought out three. Fritz, the winner, 
is & fair looking pointer owned by Mr. A, C. Collins, Hartford, 
Conn, Fritz was trained by his owner according to the rules 
laid down in “Training ys. Breaking,” and the very cheerful 
and intelligent manner in which he went through his per- 
formances reflects no little credit upon his trainer, and 
shows that he has imbibed the true spirit of the 
system, which we have recommended and so long followed. 
Prince, a very good Dalmatian, who was entered in the mis- 
cellaneous class, was very highly commended for the very 
creditable manner in which he performed his tricks. There 
were four entries for the two prizes for the best retrieving 
dogs, First was fairly won by Dan, a liver pointer owned by 
Mr. R. H. Meachem, New Haven. Dan did his work ina 
cheerful manner, and appeared to have a good mouth. Tom 
iL., who was second, is owned by Mr. J. C. Schuyler, Lehigh- 
ton, Pa, He also performed very well, but did not do his 
work in socheerfula manner as Dan, The performances of 
the trick and retrieving dogs were greatly enjoyed by the spec- 
tators, The medals given by the club are yery nicely gotten 
up, and cost more than the money prizes offered at many 
shows. Following is a full list of the 

AWARDS. 

Qass1. Champion Mastiffs, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Charles H. 
Mason’s Nevison, fawn, 4yrs,, Gurftt—Juno. 

Class 2. Mastiifs, Dogs.—ist, J.W. Burgess’s Hero IT7., A.K.R. 545; 2d, 
Shaw & Bates’s Agrippa, A,K_R. 449, High com.. William North’s 
Surry, fawn, 15mos,, imported. Com., Munson & Pierpont’s Romeo 
Tl,, fawn, 5yrs,, imported, Romeo—Juliet. 

Class 8, Mastiffs, Bitches.—1st, Shaw & Bates’s Dutchess, A.K,R. 
260; 2d, Richard W. Meigs's Juno, fawn, 17mos, Tureo—Queen. Very 
hich com.. D. D. Mangam’s Queen, fawn, black muzzle, 16mos., 
Herald—Dido. Com. EH, A. Pierpont’s Juno, tyr. 

Ciass 4. Mastiff Puppies.—Absent. 

Class 5. Champion Kough-Coated St. Bernards, Dogs or Bitches.— 
1st, E. R. Hearn’s Bonivard, A.K.R. 361. 

Class 6, St. Bernards, Dogs.—ist., Chequasset Kennel’s. Hermit, 
AER. 23; 2d, Clovernook Kennel’s Samson, 14mos., Mink IT.—Sheila. 
Very high com., E. B. Condon's Felix Mendelssohn, 4yrs., Pliny— 
Jessica. High com., James §. Thompson's Duke, tawny and white, 
3yr's., Bruno—Minka, Com., Arthur B. Wright’s Guy, tawny, 3yrs,, 
Bruno—Minka. 

Class 7. Rough-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—ist, E. R, Hearn’s 
Gertie, orange and tawny, 2i4yrs., Nero—Clio; 2d, withheld. 

Olass 8. Rough-Goated St. Bernards, Puppies.—ist, Schoonhoven 
Kennel’s Schoonhoven, A.K.R, 795. Com.; Henry Muller’s Flahli, 
AER. 476.‘ 

Glass 9. Champion Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Dogs or Bitches, — 
No entries. 

Class 10. Smooth-Coated St, Bernards, Dogs,—ist, Carlos French’s 
Alexander, tawny, 2iéyrs.. Philip—Juno. 

Class 11, Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—ist, withheld; 2d, 
Carlos French's Juno, tawny, 44yrs.. Chamoninx—Alpe. 

Class 12, Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Puppies.—Carlos French's 
Billy, tawny, 7mos., Philip—Juno; 2d, Millbrook Kennel’s Eckhardt, 
AVE R. 418, 

Class 13. Berghunds, Dog or Bitch—Prize withheld, 

Glass 14. Newfoundlands, Dogs or Bitches.—ist and 2d prizes with- 
held. Very high com.,G. J. Bassett’s Jack, black, 2yrs. Com., A. 
G. Lightbourn’s Hector, black, 7mos., imported; F. A. Gilbert’s Watch, 
black. 2yrs. 7, ; ; 

Class 15. Bloodhounds, Dogs or Bitches,—Prizes withheld, 

Class 16. Champion Greyhounds, Dogs.—ist, H. W. Smith's cham- 
pion Friday Night, A.K.R. 753. : : 

Class 1bA. Champion Greyhounds, Bitches,—ist, Joseph H. Pier- 
son’s champion Fan, A.K.R. 10. ; 

Class 166. Greyhounds, Dogs.—ist, H. W. Huntington‘s Donble- 
shot, A,K.R. 73; 2d, Mrs. Henry Allen’s Dell, fawn, 18mos,, Don— 
Dam imported, f 

Class 16C. Greyhounds, Bitches.—Ist, H, W. Huntington’s Doro- 
thee, A-K.R. 72; 2d, H. W. Smith’s Lufa, fawn, 5yrs., Merret—Little 
Bess. 

Class 17, Champion Deerhounds.—Ist, John E. Thayer, Usq., Lance, 
fawn, 4yTs. bs 

Olass 17A. Deerhounds, Dogs,—ist, Clovernook Kennel’s Roy, 
®yrsi, Paddy—Lassie; 2d, Theodore A. Blake's Hleet, blue, 7yrs., Kirk 
—Fanny. High com., W, H. Carmalt’s Roderick Dhu, fawn, 4yrs., 
Lupur —Mona, ‘ 

Class 17B, Deerhounds, Bitches.—1st, Theodore A. Blake’s Lorna 
Il.. blue. 1jmos., Oscar—Lorna I.; 2d. John E. Thayer, Lorna II,, 
brindle, 8yrs., Bruce—Lorna. ’ 

Glass 18. Champion Pointers, Dogs.—ist, Knickerbocker Kennel 
Club’s Knickerbocker, A.I.R. 19. } 

Class 1£4. Champion Pointers, Bitches.—1st, Westminster Kennel 
@lub’s Lassie, A.K.R. 208. ~ 

Class 19. Pointers Over 50lbs., Dogs.—ist, Charles H. Mason’s Beau- 
fort, A K-R. 694; 2d, Robert Wilson's Zeb, liver and white, 4yrs., 
shot—Jess. Very high com., 5. M, Bryan’s Bravo, lemon and white, 
4yrs., Rake 11.—Miranda Ill. High com., EB. W. Buell’s Bub, liverand 
white, Syrs., pedigree unknown; Walter E. Miller’s Jimmie, liver, 
19m0s., Start—Mand. . 

Class 20. Pointers, Dogs under 50)bs.— First withheld; 2d, Knicker- 
bocker Kennel Club’s Rushton, A.K.R. 215. _ } 

Glass 21. Pointers, Bitches over 50lbs.—ist, Knickerbocker Kennel 
Club's Lady Gleam, A.K,R. 207; 2d, Luke W. White’s Lill, liver and 
white ticked, 5yrs., champion Sensation—champion Grace. High 
com., Mrs. Doctor Martin’s Mab, black, 3yrs., Storm's Black Pete— 
Mab, 

Olass 22. Pointers, Bitches under 50lbs.—Ist, Knickerbocker Kennel 
Club's Lady Bang, A.K.R. 698; 2d, Westminster Kennel Club’s Moon- 
stone, liver and white, 5yrs., champion Bang—Dayvis Luna. Very 
high com.. Westmmster Kennel Club's Polly, A.K.R.212. High com., 
J, A. Schuyler’s Bertie, lemon belton, 26mos., Rab—Bellona, 

lass 28. Pomter Puppies,—ist, Dr. A. McCollom’s Lady Nixon, 
A.K.R. 699; 2d, Geo. L, Wilms’s Lennox, lemon and white, 1imos., 
Glenmarlk—Girl. ; ; 

Olass 24. Chanypion English Setter, Doz or Biteh.—Absenbt. 

Glass 25. Englisn Setters, Dogs.—Ist, F. A. Cannon’s Yale Belton, 
black, white and tan, 4yrs., Belton—Blonde; 2d, Louis B, Wright’s 
Jester, blacttan? white ticked, 2yrs, 8mos., Dashing Monarch—Blue 
Belle. Very high com., Hugh Hul’s Royal Sultan, A.K.R. 119; Geo, 
B. Nichoils’s Pride of the West, black, white and tan, 1émos., Count 
Noser—Lola. High com., Edward A. Todd’s Prank, black, white and 
fan, 3yrs., Yale Belton—Lill. Com, Edward A. Todd’s Dash, black 
and white. 2yrs., Yale Belton—Mollie; Comfort J. Treat’s Ranger, 
orange and white, 8yrs.. Nutmeg—Lil; J. C. Schuyler’s Tom IL, 
orange and white, 3yrs. 6mos., Tom 1,—Dell; Trank L, Wilkinson's 
Don, black and white, dyrs., Ned—Flora. 

Class 26. English Setter, Bitches.—ist, Chas. H, Mason’s Blue 
Belle, 5yrs,, Roderick Dhu—Mina; 2d, Wm. A. Bueckingham’s Alice 
Dale, orange and white, 2yrs., Grouse—Daisy Dale, Very high com., 
R. L. Henry’s Blue Victress. black and white, 14mos., Lava Rock— 
Lady Beaconsfield. High com., R. B, Penn’s Lill, orange and white, 
4yrs,, Ranger I1.—Coin. Com., H. L. Vowell’s Molly, lemon and 
white, 4yrs., Ranger I1.—Coin; David Calahan’s Psyche, orange and 
white, 4yrs., Ranger 1I,—Coin. Chas, M, Carlton’s Beauty, mottled 
black aud white and tan, 8yrs.. Ely’s Drake—Hly’s SyJph, 

Glass 27, English Setter Puppies, Dogs.—tist, F. A. Caunon’s Hast- 
ern Lan, black and white ticked. 8mos,, Sis—Bessie. Very highcom., 
Dr. Paul G, Skiff’s Duke, black and white. 7mos., Prince—¥fairy II., 
High com,, Dr. Paul 0. Skiff's Don, blue mottled, 5mos., Don Juan— 
Petrel T, High com., Chas. M. Carlton’s Tip, black, white and tan, 
i0mos,, Bran’s Cook—Beauty._ High com., John H, Linsley's Dan, 

tack and white, 11mos., Blue Blood—Coin, 

Class 27 A. Enylish Setter Puppies, Bitches.—ist, F’, A, Cannon's 
Bessie 1,, black and white, 8mios., Sig—bessie. High com., G, Kdw. 
Osborn’s Bess, black and white, 8mos., Blue Blood—Coin. Com, W. 
R. Nichols’s . black and white, 7mos.. Dash—Lady Mannering. 

@lass 28, Champion Black and Tan Setter, Dog or Bitch.—ist, H. 
por Glover’s Turk, black and tan, Syrs., Colburn’s Dash—Pryor'’s 

le. 

Class 20. Black and Tan Setters, Dogs.—ist, Clayton H. Redfield’s 
Glen, black and tan, 6yrs., Dr. Aten’s Glen—Dr. Aten's Belle; 2d, 
Charles R, Taylor’s Gem, black and tan, Dexler—Belle, Very high 


Sa , St 4 Smith’s Chris, black and tan, 4yrs., Redfield’s Glen—Red- 
s Jet. 

Class 80. Black and Tan Setters, Bitches.—ist, withheld: 2d, J. W. 
Meacham 8 Clip, black and tan, 7yrs., Ben—Belle. High com., Wal- 
i noes 8 Jennie, black and tan, 4yrs., Dr. Aten’s Glen—Francis 

irt. 

Class 31. Black and Tan Setters, Puppies.—ist, J. W. Meacham’s 
Ben, black and tan, 10mos., Don—Clip. 

Class 82. Champion Trish Setters, Dope or Bitches.—No entries, 

Class 88. Irish Setters, Dogs.—ist, C. Berry Peet’s Dash, red and 
white, 4yrs., Berkley—Luluj; 2d, W. F. Maguire’s Dick, red, lyr., 
Echo—Pearl. Very high com,, Charles R,. Thorburn’s Rory O’More, 
Jr., red, 3yrs., Rory O’More—Norah O’More, High com., 0. 8. Kelsey’s 
Red I., red, 2yrs., Dirk—Peggy; C. P. Phelp’s Roe. dark red, 5yrs., 
Dash—OCreena, 

Class 84, Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, Jean Grosyenor’s Zelda, A.K.R. 

240, 2d, Charles R. Thorburn’s Lady Biddy, A.K.R. 622. High com.,, 
A. 5, MeClean’s Meg Merrilies, 8yrs,, Elcho I1—Peg Woftington. 
Com., J. Clarence Lester’s Maud II., red, dyrs,, Champion Berkley— 
Champion Lalu. 
a Class 35, Irish Setters, Puppies._C. B. Demarest’s Wanda, red, 
‘mos., Dan—Moy. High com., Merrimac Kennel Club’s Rufe, dark 
red, 7mos., Shamrock—Kate; Jean Grosyenor’s Primrose, dark red, 
6mos., Champion Echo— Zelda, 

Class 36. Irish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—Prizes withheld, 

Class 37, Champion Field Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, H. W. 
Huntington’s Champion Benedict, A.K.R. 61, 

Class 37 A. Field Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Maxwell Evarts’s 
Punch, lemon and white, 15mos., imported Judy; 2d, William P. 'Trow- 
bridge, Jr.’s, John Halifax, Gentleman, lemon and white, imported 
sire—Kagan’s Judy. High com., Edward S, Porter’s Vesta, lemon 
and white, 9mos,, Eagan’s Lorne—Hagan's Judy. Com., W. H. 
Beers’s Beauty, liver and white, 6yrs. 

Class 88. Champion Cocker Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—No entries. 

Class 39. Cocker Spaniels, Dogs.—ist, J, P. Willey’s Obo IL., black, 
i8mos., Obo—Chloe IT; 2d, B. & G. Sheffield's Sport, liver, white 
breast, 2iéyrs. High com., James A. Howarth’s Don, liver and white, 
dyrs., Dart—Floss. Com., 5. R. Hemingway’s Duke of Argyle, liver 
aud white, 3yrs.. Champion Charlie—Zulette. 

Class 40. Cocker Spaniels, Bitches.—ist, J. B. Willey’s Blackie ILL, 
A.K.R. 428; 2d, Frederick Smith’s Queen, liver and white, 18mos., 
Shey eo Nners High com,, A. C. Wilmerding’s Suwanee, A.K.R. 


Class 41. Cocker Spaniels, Puppies.—_ist, W. O. Partridge’s Helen, 
black, 6mos., Obo Il, A-K.R. 482—Oritie, A.K.R, 803; 2d, John Daly's 
Sambo, black, 5mos., Obo Il.—Darkie. Very high com., Joseph Hill’s 
Darkie II., black, 5mos.. Obo Il,—Darkie. High com.,, Irying M. 
Dewey’s Dandy Zulu, A.K.R, 382. 

Class 42. Foxhounds, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, R. H. Meacham’s 
Jerry II., black, tan and white, 4yrs., Jerry—Vick; 2d, F. A. Wilton's 
Sam, black and white, 8yrs, High com., William Ht. Lee's Major, 
black and tan, 24yrs. Com., Dr. Benjamin M. Page’s Stephen, black, 
tan and white, 8mos, 

Class 48. Foxhounds, Puppies.—No entries. 

Class 44. Beagles, Dogs and Bitches.—ist, Geo, B. Inches's Dell, 
A,K.R, 319; 2d, Joseph A. Blake’s Diana, black, white and tan ticked, 
i4rnos., Ringwood—Queen, 

Class 45. Dachshunde, Dogs or Bitches.—lst, Wm. Lee Howard's 
Scamp, tan, lyr. 4mos., Kaiser—Waldina; 2d, withheld. 

Class 46. Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—ist. Samuel T. 
Peters’s Vixen, 7iéyrs., imported, 

Class 47. Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—Ist, Chas, E, Wallack’s Lancelot, 
white, black and tan markings, 2yrs., Tweezers I.—champion Olive; 
2d, H. L, Doggett’s Nip, white and black markings, 4yrs., Brokenhurst 
Joe—Lady Teazle. 

Class 48. Fox-Terriers, Bitches —Ist, John EH. Thayer’s Jaunty, tan 
and white, 2yrs., Joker—Torment; 2d, withheld. Com., F. D, Thomp- 
son’s Lulu, black and white, 1/mos,, imported Nimrod—imported Nan. 

Class 49. Fox-Terriers, Puppies,—ist, Clovernook Kennel’s Clover 
Belle, 7mos., Joker—Guilty; 2d, John E. Thayer’s Rascal, white, 
with black, 10mos., Nailer—Diana. Very high com., Fred Hill’s Boxer, 
limos., Corinthian—Cosey. High com., Beatrice Paulding’s Boots, 
white, black and tan, 10mos., Harold—Lady Gay Spanker. 

Class 50. Se Collies, Dogs.—ist, Thos. H, Terry’s champion 
Robin Adair, A K.R. 892, 

Class 504A. Champion Collies, Bitches.—Absent. 

Class 50B. Collies, Dogs.—ist, Kilmarnock Cullie Kennel’s Bruce, 
20mos., A.K.R. 325; 2d, James Lindsay’s Hiram, sable and white, 
fmos., Rex—Kitty Mac. Very high com., Martin Dennis’s Brack, 
A.K.R, 88. High com.. J. W. Burgess’s Donald, A.K.R. 532; J.D. 
Shotwell’s pS Sa sable. dyrs., Marcus—Isie. Com., J.O, May’s 
Fritz, black with tan points, 2yrs; J. W. Burgess’s Sandy, A.K R. 540. 

Olass 50C. OCollits, Bitehes.—1st, Kilmarnock Collie Hoanalls Tona, 
black, white and tan, Ayre. Champion Nero—Lassie; 2d, J W. Bur- 
gess’s Jean, A.K.R. 688. Very high com., James Lindsar’s Fairy, 
sable and white, 9mos., Rex—Kitty Mac. High com., Kilmarnoerx 
Collie Kennel’s Winnie, sable and white, 2yrs., Gairlock—Laurie. 

Class 51, Collies, Puppies.—ist, Kenyon Gorham’s Sam, fawn and 
white, Darnley—Ohvia; 2d, James Lindsay’s Nannie O., black, white 
and tan, 9mos., Rex—Kitty Mac. Very high com., J. D. Shotwell’s 
Lennox, sable, 7mos., Rokeby—Fanny; J. D. Shonwell’s Shepard Boy, 
sable, 7ios., Rokeby—Fanny; Stepney Scotch Collie Kennel Club’s 
Montrose, A.K.R. 891. High com,, A. Warren's Lark, black and 
tan, 9mos., Blucher—Jennie. Com., Stepney Scotch Collie Kennel 
Clnb’s Lady Glyde, A.K.R, 883; Stepney Scotch Collie Kennel Club’s 
Fanny II., A.K.R. 881; A. Warren's Rob Roy, black and tan, 9mos., 
imported Sweep—Purt Gart. . 

Class 52. Champion Bulldogs, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, John E. Thay- 
er’s Tippoo, AVK.R. 390, - 

Class 53. Bulldogs.—ist, R. & W. Livingston’s Boz, A.K.R. 448; 2d, 
John P. Barnard Jr.’s Hamlet, dark brindle, i6mos., President Gar- 
field—Wheéel O’ Fortune. Very high com., John E. Thayer's Moses, 
A-K.R. 323; A. O. Waite’s Viscount, black and white, imported. 

Class 58A. Bulls, Bitches.—ist, R. & W. Livingston’s Sweet Briar, 
A.K,R. 444. 

Class 54. Champion Bull-Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—No entries, 

Class 55. Bull-Terriers, Dogs.—ist, R. & W. Livingston’s Grand 
Duke, A-K.R. 524; 2d, withheld. 

Olass 56. Bull-Yerriers, Bitches.—lst, R,& W. Livingston's Little 
Maggie. A.K.R. 525; 2d, withheld. Com,, James Mountford’s Fan, 
white, i7mos., Bily—Parker’s Fan. 4 

Olass 57%. Bull-Terriers, Puppies.—Prizes withheld. = 

Class 58. Rough-Haired Terriers, Dogs and Bitches —Ist, Allerton 
& Moses’s Patsey, blue black, 6mos.; 2d, withheld. Com., Allerton & 
Moses’s Spider, yellow, i4mos. _ ; 

Class 59, Black and ‘fan Terriers, Dogs and Bitches.—Ist and 2d, 
witbheld. Very high com., P. McKiernan’s Minnie Warren, black and 
tan, 2Y4vTs. : . ~ * = . 

Class 60. Dandie Dinmont Terriers, Dogs or Bitches,—Prizes with- 
held. Com., Thos. H. Beil’s Peel. A.KR. 488, ; 

Class 61, Irish Terriers, Dogs and Bitches,—Prizes withheld. 

Class 62. Skye Terriers. Dogs, or Biiches,—Prizes withheld. 

Class 63, Champion Pugs, Dogs or Bitches.—No entries. 

Class 64, Pug Dogs.—Prizes withheld, Com,, C,H, Crosby’s Jimmy, 
15mos. 

Class 65. Pugs, Bitches.—lst, Walter D. Peck's Beauty, 2yrs,, Heck 
—Daisy; 2d, Allerton & Moses’s Lucy, 6yrs. Very high com., Che- 
quasset Kennel’s Trantrums, A.K.R. 220, Com,, Charles R. Taylor’s 
Betty, 2yrs., Morrison’s Strain; Walter D. Peck’s Daisy, fawn, lyr., 
Major—Beauty. a 

Class 66. Pugs, BROT Revise Chequasset Kennel’s Treasure, A.K.R, 
472; 2d, Allerton & Moses’s Dandy, 8mos. High com,, Walter D. 
Peck's Major, 8mos., Pug—Beauty; Philip O. Schwaab’s Pegyy, fawn 
with black, 3mos., Heck—Vixen, Com., Allerton & Moses’s Lady, 


8mos. 

Class 67. Yorkshire Terriers, Dogs or Bitches,—ist, Geo. E. Vaughn’s 
Joe, blue and tan, dyrs.; only entry. 

Class 68. Toy Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, John O’Brien’s Topsy, 
silver, 2yrs., Dixey—Molly; 2d, Fred_Bullen’s Baby, silver terrier, 
2yrs., Yorkshire Dan—Silver Bess. Very high com,, J, H, Tyler’s 

aggie, tan, 4yTs. ; : 

Class 69, King Charles Spaniels.—ist, withheld; 2d, Fred Bullen’s 
Jack, black and tan, 5yrs. ; ; 

Class 70, Japanese Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—No entries. 

Class 71, Italian Greyhounds, Dogs or Bitches,—ist, R. G. Bacon’s 
Top, ‘yrs. ‘ 

Glass 72, Miscellaneous, Under 25lbs.—ist, Nellie Thomas's Mee 
Too, mouse color, 2yrs., Fiji dog. Very high com., 8.8, Thomp- 
gon’s Moses, blue and tan,4yrs. High com., H. L. Bradley’s Pete, 
blonde, 10yrs. Com., A. D. Pogg’s Shoo Fly, brown, 10yrs., pedigree 
unknown, . 

Qlass 73. Miscellaneous, Dogs or Bitches Over 25lbs.—ist, Henry 
Pearsall’s Bob, black, 5mos,, imported, curly-haired English 
retriever. Very high com., L.G. Dickinson’s Prince, black and 
white, 2yrs. Com., Robert O. DuBois’s Captain, black, 5yrs., full 
pedigree, curly-haired English retriever. 


SPECIAL PRIZES, 


For best mastilf bit¢h—Shaw & Bates’s Duchess. 

For best mastiif doz or biteh—J. W. Burgess’s Hero, 

For best mastiff puppy—Absent. i 

For best mastiff in the show—Charles H. Mason’s Nevison. 

For best champion rough-coated Sb. Bernard—. RK. Hearn’s Boni- 
yard. 

For second best rough-coated St. Bernard dog—Cloyernook 
Kennel's Samson, 


—————— 


a ue ae rough-coated St, Bernard bitch (two prizes)—©. R. Hearn's 


For best rough-coated St. B uppy— n Ki , 
eta de ete ernard puppy—Schoonhoven Kennel's 


For best smooth-coated St. Be 10 's Bi 
Won hest surdothocated rnard puppy—Carlos French's Billy, 


St. Ber y 7 13. +h" 
‘Alesestn leit ernard (two prizes)—Carlos French's 


Yor best Newfoundland (two prize: rik , 
For best bloodhound (four Pa eR Pea 
For best gieyhound bitech—H. W. Huntington's Dorothée. 
Wor best greyhound dog—H. W. Huntington's Doubleshot, 
For best deerhound bitch—theo. A. Blake's Lorna IL. 
For best deerhound dog.—Clovernook Kennel’s Roy. 
on beer champion pointer dog.—Knickerbocker Kennel’s Knicker- 
5 For best champion pointer bitch—Westminster Kennel Club's 
assie. 
for second best pointer dog over 50lbs,— Robert Wilson’s Zeb, 
For best pointer dog or hitch in the show—Charles H, Mason's 
Beaufort. 
= For best poiuter bitch under 50ibs.— Knickerbocker Kennel's Lady 
ang. 
For second hest 
Club’s Moonstone. 
For best pointer doz over 40ibs,—Charles H. Mason’s Beaufort. 
: For best pomter dog under 50ibs—Knickerbocker Kennel’s: Rush- 
on. 
ee best pointer bitch over 50lts,—Knickerbocker Kennel's Lady 
eam. 
For best pointer bitch puppy sired by Beaufort—Dr. A. McCollom’s 
Lady Nixon, 
ee best pointer puppy sired by Beaufort—Dr, A. McColiom’s Lady 
ixon, 
For best English setter dog—F, A, Cannon’s Yale Belton, 
For second best English setter dog—Louis B. Wright's Jester, 
For best Hnglish setter bitch—W. FA, Bebee’s Blue Beil, 
For second best English setter bitch—William A. Buekingham's 
Alice Dale. ; 
For best champion black and tan setter—H. Clay Glover's Turk. 
For best black and tan setter dog—Clayton H. Redfield’s Glen, 
For best champion English setter—Absent, } 
Yor best brace of English setters owned in New Havyen—Edward A, 
Todd's Frank and Dash. 
For best brace of pure Laverack setters—Dr. Paul G, Skiff’s Duke 
and Don, 
For best Engilsh setter pnppy—F. A. Cannon's Hastern Dan, 
For best English setter, dog or bitch—F. A. Uannon's Yale Belton, 
For best black and white English setter, owned In New Hayen—F. 
A. Cannon's Eastern Dan. ‘ 
For best English setter puppy under 6mos.—G, Edward Osborn’s 


pointer bitch under 650lbs.—Westminster Kennel 


Bess. 

For best black and tan setter puppy—J. W, Meachain’s Ben. 

For best black and tan setter bitech—J. W. Meacham's Clip. 

For best red native setter bitch—Jean Grosvenor’s Zelda, 

¥or best red native setter puppy—C, B, Demarest’s Wanda. 

For best red Irish setter, dog or bitech—C. Berry Peet's Dash, 

For best collectiun of red native setters of same pedigree—Not 
awarded. . 

For best red native setter oyer one and under two years old—W, F. 
Maguire's Dick. 

For best native red setter owned in Connecticut—W, F, Maguire's 
Dick. 

For best red and white Irish setter dozg—W. P, Bigelow’s Tom. 

For best brace of setters—F. A. Cannon's Yale Belton and Hastern 
Dan. 

For best native setter, doz or bitch—Wm, A. Buckingham’s Alice 
Dale. 

For best native setter owned in Connecticut—W. A. Buckinghanvs 
Alice Dale. 

For best native setter of New Haven, Conn.—Not decided, 

Yor best setter bitch with litter of puppies—Not decided. 

For best field spaniel—Maxwell Eyarts’s P. neh. 

For best Clumber spaniel—Maxwell Eyarts’s Punch. 

For best cocker spaniel puppy—W. O. RES Helen. 

For best liver and white cocker spaniel dog—J, A. Howarth'’s Don, 

For best cocker spaniel, dog or bitch-—J, P. Willey’s Obo II. 

For best cocker spaniel biteh—J. P. Willey’s Blacixie IIT. . 

For best foxhound deog—R. H,. Meacham’s Jerry II. 

For best foxhound, dog or biteh—R. H. Meacham’s Jerry IT. 

For best beagle, dog or biteh—George 6B, Inches’s Dell. 

For best dachshund dog—Wm, Lee Roward’s Scamp. 

¥or best dachshund bitch not awarded. 

For best champion fox-tertier, dog or bitch—Samuel T. Peters*s 
Vixen. 

For best fox-terrier puppy—Cloyernook Kennel’s Clover Belle. 

For best fox-terrier, dog or biteh—Chas, E. Wallack’s Lancelot, 

For best collie dog-Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s Bruce, 

Yor second best collie dog—James Lindsay’s Hiram, 

Por best collie biteh—Kilmarnock Collie Kennel's Tona. 

For second best collie bitech—J. W. Burgess’s Jean. 

For best collection of collies—Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s Bruce, 
Yona and Winnie. 

For best collie dog puppy—Kenyon Gorham’s Sam, 

For best collie biteh pnppy—James Lindsay's Nannie 0, 

For best collie in the show—Thos. H. Terry’s Robin Adair. 

For best bull, dog or bitch—R. & W, Livingston's Sweet Briar. 

For best bull-terrier other than while, dog or bitch—W. C. Dole’s 
Brandy. 

For Dest bull-terrier, dog or bitch—R. & W. Livingston's Grand Duke. 

For best black and tan terrier—P. McKiernan's Minnie Warren. 

For best Skye terrier, Not awarded. 

Yor best pug, dog or bitch—Walter D. Peck’s Beauty. 

Yor best puz puppy—Chequasset Kennel’s Treasure. 

For best collection of pugs—Walter D, Peck’s Beauty, Daisy and 
Major. 

ior best Yorkshire terrier—Geo. E. Vaughn's Joe. 

For best toy terrier—John-O’Brien’s Topsy, J 

For best dog or bitch in miscellaneous class under 95lbs,—S, S, 
Thompson’s Moses. ; d 

For best non-sporting dog in the show—E, R, Hearn’s Bonivard, 

For best trick fatenry C. Collins's Fritz. 

For best sporting dog in the show—Chas. H. Mason's Beaufort, 

Yor best retrieving dog—R. H. Meacham’s Dan, 

Yor second best retrieving dog—J. C. Schuyler’s Tom Ll, 

For the best coach dog—L. G. Dickinson’s Prince, 

For best dog or bitch in miscellaneous class over 25lbs.—Henry 
Pearsali’s Eob, 


NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The managers of W. K. C. Bench Show have decided to 
ofter a medal for the best Clumber spaniel. Entries for same 
should be made in class 60) or 61. 

ANNOUNCEMENT OF JUDGES. 

Mr, John C. Higgins—Hnglish setters. 

Mr. Paul Dana—Mastitfs and pugs, 

Mr. James Mortimer—Fox-terriers, bulldogs, bull-terriers, 
and collies, . ’ 

Mr. J. R. Pierson—Greyhounds, Italian greyhounds, and 
deerhounds, 

Judges of other classes will be duly announced. 

Cuas. LIncoLy, Superintendent. 


MASTIFF TEMPERAMENT AND PECULIARITIES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: L ae 

Although I have not so far succeeded in eliciting comiments 
from our mastiff fanciers on what I had to say on mastiff tem- 
perament in ForEsT AND STREAM of Jan, 24, lam pleased to 
send you the following, from Richard Cook, Esq., honorable 
secretary of the old English Mastiff Club, England. 

W. WADE. 
PiTTsBuRGH, March 6, 1884. 


One of my bitches, one morning early, allowed some paint- 
ers to bring their ladder into ny grounds, ready for work, 
and they then went away to breakfast. Returning, they 
were about to raise the ladder, when pis said no, and 
would not allow them to touch it until my man came. 
Again. Twenty years ago l owned a dog, Warwick. I lived 
in a house adjoining another. The occupant of the next house 
had tree access to my suenad, there being a gate between 
them, Mrs. Bell, my adjoiming neighbor, frequently fed the 
dog, and he was as fond of her as possible. For all 1 knew he 
considered her as one of the family. One Sunday my wife 
and I went to take a walk, and as all the seryants were ab- 
sent, I locked the front door, left the back one open, and left 
Warwick loose. In half an hour Mrs. Bell thought she would 
take a look over my place to see that all was right, but on 
coming to the gate between herown and my grounds, War- 


wick met her, growling at her fiercely, and would not allow 
her to comein. I believe that he had been in the house, found 
it empty, and I know would have guarded it to the death. 

left this house when Warwick was ten years old, and left him 
with my successor. He pined over it very much, and when I 
ealled there three weeks after the poor dog wasso delighted 
that in his demonstrations of joy he fell down ina fit, and 
died three days aiter. My present dog, Cromwell, is another 
of similar temperament. RICHARD COOK. 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 


Riditoy Forest and Stream: ; A 

A. committee hasbeen appointed by the governors of H.F.T.C. 
to revise and alter the running rules to avoid any repetition 
of last year’s errors, and any person receiving Derby blanks 
without the running rules, will, by application, have the 
same sent as soon as they are printed, which will beat the 

earliest date possible, / 

Quail haye wintered well at High Point, and the prospects, 
if the spring is favorable, are that the birds will be more 
abundant than last fall,insuring ashort and most successful 
meeting, WasHinatrn A. Costmr, Sec. 

. Fuatpuss, N, Y. 


MR. D. 


AT a meeting of the Eastern Field Trials Club at Del- 

mou_co’s on Tuesday evening, March 11, the following 
resolutions were unanimously adopted; My 

Resolved, That the Eastern Field Trials Club has learned 
with pain of the decease of our esteemed friend, Mr. D. C. 
Sanborn; that the genial, open, kindly and generous qualities 
of Mr. Sanborn, united withthe influence of his sterling hon- 
esty and lofty views of the duties of sportsmen toward the 
development of field trials, have had a greater influence toward 
the elevation of the objects for which this and similar clubs 
were organized than that of any other individual since the 
establishment of the Association, and that we, in common 
with the entire community of American sportsmen, have sus- 
tained in his decease an irreparable loss. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes, 
and that a copy thereof be transmitted to the family of the 
mecenenes with our respeetful sympathy in their great afilic- 

ion. 


Cc. SANBORN. 


N. A. K. ©. STUD BOOK. 


Fiditer Forest and Stream: 

Tn reply to Mr, James Watson’s inquiry in your last issue 
about the N. A. K, C. Stud Book, I will say that the elub 
entered into a contract with Dr, N. Rowe on Dec. 10, 1881, 
turning over to him all entries and other material pertaining 
to said book, he agreeing to publish it for aterm of ten years, 
annually, if necessary, or every two years. This matter was 
freely discussed at the meeting of the club at Grand Junction 
last December. Why this part of the proceedings of the meet- 
ing was omitted and everything else published, is more than I 
can tell In the absenee of Dr. Rowe, Mr. Whitford stated 
that the book was in the printer’s hands and would be out 
early in January. The matter was referred to the executive 
committee with instructions to see that Dr. Rowe fulfilled his 
contract without any further delay. [cannot say why the 
book was not published in January, as I can get no response 
from Dr. Rowe to any letters on this subject. I trust Dr. Rowe 
wil soon haye this much needed book out of the printer’s 
hands, D. Bryson (Secretary N. A. K. C.). 


AMERICAN ENGLISH BEAGLE CLUB. 


HE following cireular has been sent to the members of the 
American Hnglish Beagle Club: 


Gentlemen—Your Executive Committee, to whom was as-| 


signed the drafting of a constitution and by-laws for the Club’s 
management, having given the work before them careful con- 
sideration, wish to submit for your approyal their report as 
follows: Yours respectiully, 
Dr. J. W. Downey, J. N. Dopen, 
Gun’L F, A. Bonn, A. C. KRUEGER, 
W, H. AsSHBURNER, Chairman. 


CONSTITUTION. 
ARTICLE I. 


NamE,.—The Association shall be known as and called ‘‘The Ameri- 
ean English Beagle Club,” 
ARTICLE II. 


Oxssncr.—The object of the Club shall be to promote the improve- 
ment of the English Beagle Hound in America, by haying a proper 
standard to breed to, and of having our Bench Show Managers adopt 
the same for guidance in judging, also having proper judges selecteu 
at our bench shows, and the following classes assigned to the Beagle 
Champion; Dog and Bitch. and Puppy open, also a class for Basket 
or Foot Beagles under twelve inches. 


ARTICLE IIT. 


Mrmprrs.—A person to bea member must be recorded in a book 
provided for the purpose by the Secretary, The date of his becoming 
a member, also the time of his ceasing to be such shall be recorded. 
Any member can resign from the Club by sending his resignation to 
the President or Secretary, in writing, and upon the acceptance of 
such, all his interest in the property of the Club ceases from the date 
of such resignation. A member whose dues shall remain unpaid for 
six months after the same have become due shall cease to be a member 
and forfeit to the Club all claims and benefits to which he would have 
heen entitled as a member, provided that the Executive Committee 
may consider his case, and upon sufficient cause shown reinstate him to 
membership on payment of his dues. Any member acting contrary 
to the provisions of the Constitution or in violation of the By-Laws or 
Rules of the Club, or im any way which may tend to the injury or de- 
sivuction of the Club, or neglectmg his duty as an officer or a mem- 
her or being convicted of crime in a court of justice, may be expelled 
and shall forfeit to the Chib all dues paid, all property claims and 
benefits to which he would haye been entitled as a member of the 
Club, A member can be expelled only by a vote in favor of his ex- 
pulsion of two-thirds of the members after thirty days notice has been 
given to him personally of the charges against him, when action will 
be taken thereon by a vote. 

ARTICLE Ty. 


Orricurs.—The officers shall consist of a President, a Secretary 
and Treasurer and an Wxecutive Committee, said committee to con- 
taittee to consist of three active members, whose duty shill be as 
the by-laws prescribe. Any vacancies occurring in the said commit- 
tee shall be filled by appointment of the President. Should the office 
of President or Secretary and Treasurer be vacant, the same shall be 
filled by appointment of the Executive Committee. All appoint- 
ments so made as above to hold good only until the yearly eaten 
next following such. 

ARTICLE VY. 


HLEctions,— An election of officers of the Club to serve one year 
shall take placé annually in January, and a majority of the yotes 
cast for a candidate shall elect him. 


ARTICLE VI. 
METINGS.—As it is not practical to have meetings, as the members 
are situated so far apart, they will be informed from time to time by 


circulars of the working of the club. or by writing to the Secretar 
or any member of the Executive Committee. v 


ARTICLE VI. 
COMPENSATION FOR SERvicEs.—The President, the Secretary and 


Treasurer and the Executive Committee, also Special Committees, 
shall receive no salary from the club for his or their services. 
ARTICLE VIII. 

AMBNDMENTS.—The Constitution and By-Laws may be amended or 
altered by a yote in favor thereof of two-thirds of the members after 
notice thereof with a copy of the proposed amendment ox alteration 
has heen sent to every member ten days before voting thereon. 

— BY-LAWS. 

1, PRusipENT.—It shall be the duty of the President to assume gen- 
eral supervision of the affairs of the Club andreportfrom time to time 
to enforce the observance of the By-Laws and he may vote on 
amendments to the Constitutions or alterations of the By-Laws, also 
‘onthe expulsion of a member, but on all other matters shall vote 


y in the case of a tie, and then give the casting vote, : 
#, SEORETARY AND TREASURER,—It shall be the duty of the Secretary 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


and Treasurer to haye charge of all official correspondence to keep 
copies of all letters sent by him, and file such as he may receive, to 
correspond at the request of the President or Hxecutive Committee 
on allmatters appertaining to the objectof the Club. To keep a 
record of the members, their admissions and discoutinuances, To 
collect and reéeive all money and dues to the Club, and keep a 
correct account of the same. He shall pay all vrders drawn on him 
by the Executive Committee out of the funds of the Clubin his hands 
when countersigned by the President and to present a report of the 
condition of affairs in his department every Six months to the Club, 

3. DxEcurive Commirran shall have charge of the Pree and 
effects of the Club, keeping a correct inventory thereof. They shall 
receive and take charge of all gifts of books, pictures or works of 
art, specimens of natural history, ete. They shall make all purchases 
ordered by the Club, audit the accounts of the Treasurer and report 
the same at thetime of the Annual Hlection in January, and trans- 
act all business not otherwise herein ordered. They shall provide 
a book in which shall be kept the proceedings and orders of the Com- 
mittee, They shall have power to Ge Sub Committees for any 
special object, end to delezate to such Sub Committees the powers 
and functions of the Committee relating thereto. The President 
shall be the Chairman of the Executive Committee. 

Finances.— The Finances of the Club shall be under the care 
and management of the Executive Committee, 

5, AnnuAL Dugs.—The Annual Dues shall be two dollars, due and 
payable at the time of a member joining the Club, and shall be paid 
from the date of his joining yearly. 

You will please notify the Secretary not later than March 
21, if you vote for accepting the above for the management of 
the Club or not, A. 0, Krunmenr, Secretary and Treasurer, 

WRicHTSyILLE, York County, Pa. 


THIRTY YEARS AGO,—Philadelphia, Pa.—Mditor Forest 
and Stream; I notice in your last issue an item from Oxford, 
Me., concerning a hound being killed by a locomotive while 
crossing the traci, close behind a fox. A parallel] case oc- 
curred over thirty years ago on the Boston & Albany Rail- 
road, near Chester, Mass. The train was ascending a grade, 
and somewhat slowly, when the engineer saw a large fox 
eross the track a few yards ahead, closely followed by a 
hound. The fox disappeared ina thick growth of bushes, 
soon doubling and coming out directly abreast of the locomo- 
tive, and ran alongside of it till the hound was nearly upon 
him, when he suddenly forged ahead and crossed close in front 
of the coweatcher, which struck and killed the hound as he 
attempted to follow.—MiLTon P. PEIRCE. 


GORDON JUDGING AT NEW YORK,—The Westminster 
Kennel Club have written to Mr. H, Malcolm, of Baltimore, 
Md., the following letter: ‘‘New York, March 1, 1884.—H. 
Malcolm, Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir—The managers of the W. 
K, C, show have resolyed upon striking out the clause in the 
rules which announces that the judges will be requested to 
make their decisions in conformity with “Stonehenge,” ete. 
As they have always declined to pass upon a decision which 
did not seem to be in accordance with that request, the rule 
has been practically a dead letter. They will, however, be 
glad to hand to the judges the standard adopted by your soci- 
ety, and no doubt the judges will be influenced thereby.— 
(Signed) Rosr, C. Cornreny (Sec. W. EK. C.). 


WASHINGTON SHOW.—The Washington bench show bids 
fair to be as fine an exhibition as that held here last year. 
Attorney-General Brewster and other prominent gentlemen 
will enter some fine dogs. I understand the entries number 
somewhat over 300. There will bea good display of deer- 
pee The number of foxhounds and beagles will be small. 
—Homo. 


TORONTO DOG SHOW.—The bench show to be held at 
Toronto, Ont., next week, will undoubtedly be first-class in 
every respect. In addition to the very liberal prize list, more 
than fifty special prizes have already been offered to the 
different classes; many of them are valuable, and the list is 
not yet complete, as several more have been promised. 


THE WTERLOO CUP.—The Waterloo coursing meeting 
was held at Altcar, near Liverpool, Eng., Feb. 20, 21, 22, the 
final heats resulting asfollows: Waterloo Cup—Mineral Water 
first, Greentick second; Plate—Cocklaw Dean frst, Cyril 
second; Purse —Escape and Gladys divided. 


BLUB CARP.—The North German Lloyd steamer Werra, 
arrived on Saturday last, and brought forty blue carp for the 
United States Fish Commission, They are said to be an im- 
proved kind. 


KENNEL NOTES. 
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To imsure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 


5. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10, Oyner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Oommunication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name, 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


pee See instructions at head of this column. 

Drake. By Mr. Chas T. Corbin. New Britain, Ct., for red and white 
setter dog,whelped July 7, 1888, by Dan IT, (Mike—Susie) out of Topsy 
(Dan—Beauty). 

Bella Rita. By Mr. Geo. L. V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass., for liver 
and white pointer bitch, whelped_ Dec. 22, 1883, by Baronet (A.K.R. 
264) out of Rita Croxteth (A.K.R, 168). ; 

Zero. By Mr. Geo. L. V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass., for lemon and 
white pointer dog: whelped Dec. 22, 1883, by Baronet (A. K.R. 264) out 
of Rita Croxteth (A.K.R. 168). 

Glenwood. By Mr. J. Purrington, Bath, Me., for white, black and 
tan beagle dog, whelped Novy. 21,1883, by Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) 
out of Music ITI. (Mlute—Victress). 

Rex, Castelar, San Juan, Joaquin, Lopez, Rajah, Lady Ashmont, 
Moza and Rita. By the Ashmont Kennel, Dorchester, Mass., for mas- 
tiffs, six dogs and three bitches, whelped Jan. 26, by their Diayolo 
(A.K.R. 548) out of their Madge (A.K R. 548). 

Merle. By the Ashmont Kennel, Dorchester, Mass., for black and 
tan setter dog, whelped Jan, 19, by Leavitt’s Moses out of their Ash- 
mont Nell. 

Spider. By Mr. Geo. B. Drew, Rochester, N. H., for black, white 
and tan beagle, whelped Noy. 13, 1888, by Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty) 
out of champion Belle (Davison—Millie). : 

Captain Fred, By Mr, OC. H. Lounsberry, Providence, R. I., for 
black and white ticked English setter dog, whelped Oct. 6, 1888, by 
Emperor Fred (A,K.R, 33) out of Polka (A.K.R, 115). 

Roland and Jessie. By Mr.1.H. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for red 
Irish setters, dog and bitch, whelped July 30, 1888, by champion Elcho 
(A.K.R, 295) out of champion Noreen (A.K.R. 297). 

Little Nell. By My. f. H. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for red Irish 
setter bitch, whelped Aug. 4, 1883, by champion H)cho (A.K.R. 295) 
out of Rose (A. K.R, 295). 

Hazel Kirke and Hebe. By Mr. 1. H. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for 
red Irish setter bitches, whelped June 9, 1883, by Chief (A, K.R. 231) 
out of Hazlenut (A.K.R, 57). 

Bryan Borru. By Myr. I. H. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for red 
Trish setter dog, whelped Jime 9, 1883, by Chief (A.K.R. 281) out of 
Hazlenut (A.K.R. 67). 

Leon. By Mr. lL. H. Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for red Irish 
etter Oe whelped June 12, 1883, by Bruce (A,K.R. 54) out of Luray 

-K.R. 59). 

Duke. By Mr. H. B. Young, Brooklyn. N. ¥., for orange and 
eet English setter dog, 20mos. old, by Mercilliot's Willoutof Hale’s 

uliet. a 

Ashmont Kennels, By Dr. J. ¥. Perry, Boston, Mass,, for his ken- 


| nel of red Irish setters and mastiffs. 


NAMES CHANGED. 
Ee See instructions at head of this column. 
Jumbo to Jerry. Orange and white setter drg, age and pedigree 
not given, owned by Mr. Warren Lowe, Tenafly, N, J. 
BRED, 


(=~ See instructions at head of this column. 
Ge m—Obo Il Myr, Geo, L.Y.Tyler’s (West Newton, Mass.) liver and 


SS 


white ticked cocker spaniel bitch Gem (Snipe—Feather) to Mr. J. P. 
Willey’s Obo II. (A.K.R. 432), Feb. 22. ; 

Smut—Obo IT, Mr. H.C. Bronsden’s (Boston. Mass.) cocker spaniel 
aes ocr (A.K.R. 858) to Mr. J. P, Willey’s Obo I, (A.ICR, 432), 
Feb. 26. 

Ruby—Druid. Mr. H. EB, Hamilton's (New_York) English setter 
eee (Rake—Fanny) to Mr. A. Burges’s Druid (Prince—Dora), 

arch 6. 

Phebe—Bow. Mr. CG. A. Johnston's (Columbus, Miss.) liver and 
white pointer bitch Phoebe (Yaust—Jaunty) to Mr. Bdward Odell’s 
champion Bow, _ L : : 

Queen—Bow,. Mr, C. A. Johnston's (Columbus, Miss.) pointer bitch 
Queen to Mr. Edward Odell’s chaanpion Bow. , ; 

Milicent—Foreman, Dr. L. H. Twaddell’s (West Philadelphia, Pa.y 
18in. imported beagle bitch Milicent to Mr. W. H. Ashburner’s iin. 
imported Foreman, March 8, 

Annie Laurie—Rattler, Mr. W. A. Faxon’s (Boston, Mass.) collie 
bitch Anme Laurie (Mareus—Isle) to the Kilmarnock Vollie Kennel’s 
Rattler (Tweed—Lassie), March 7. , ~ 

Novice—Priam.—Mr. Fred. W. Rothera’s (Simcoe, Ont.) St. Bernard 
bitch Novice to his Priam (A.K,R. 485), Feb, 21, 

Lassite—Lorne. Mi. Fred. W. Rothera’s (Simcoe, Ont.) Seotch 
collie bitch Lassie (A.K.R. 445) to his Lorne (A,K,R. 446), March %, 

Katydid T.—Muck B.—Mr, Eugene A. Austin’s (Providence, R, I.) 
English setter bitch Katydid IT. (Dash Ill,—Katydid) to Mr. C, Pred. 
Crawford's Mack B. (Dick Layverack—T wilight), March 13. f 

Muggie O'More—Arlington. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) red Irish 
setter biteh Maggie O'More (A.K.R. 981) to Mr. C. Fred. Crawford's 
Arlington, March 13. 4 

Lady Elmore— Ringwood. Mr. Chas. F. Kent's Monticello. N. Y.) 
white. black and tan English beagle bitch Lady Elmore (Ringwood— 

Jueen) to Mr. N. Elmore’s imported Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty), 

an. 16, 

Queen—F lute. 
English beagle 
True), Jan. 20. 

Thorn—Flute. Mr, N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) Exglish beagle 
bitch Thorn (Victor—Lucy) to his Mute (Rattler—Beauty), Jan. 22. 

Chase—flute.. Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) white, tblackand tan 
ticked English beagle bitch Chase (Ringwood—Belle) to his Flute 
(Rattler—True), Jan, 27. ‘ 

Collette—Ringwood. Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) white, black 
and tan FPnglish beagle bitch Collette (Chanter—Beauty) to his Ring- 
wood (Ranter—Beanty), Jan, 28, ; 

Beauty—Flute. Mr. Henry Cowdry’s (Hartland, Ct.) foxhound 
bitch Beauty to Mr. N. Elmore’s beagle Flute (Rattler—True), 
Jan. 3. 

Silver—Ringtwood. 


Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) white, black and tan 
bitch Queen (Victor—Lucy) to his Fhite (Rattler— 


Mr. N, Elniore’s (Granby, Ct.) English beagle 


biteh Silver (Flute—Bess) to his Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty), 
March 1. 
Gay—Flute. Mr. Hopkinson’s (North Granby, Ct.) English heagle 


bitch Gay (Ringwood—Bunnie) to Mr. N. Elmore’s Flute (Rattler— 
True), March 9, 

Flick—Dinks. Mr, Frank Huckins’s (Hast Boston, Mass.) Gordon 
selter biteh Flick (A.K.R. 293) to Mr. J. Il’. Hartwell's Dinks (Natt— 
Bess), March 1, 

Kate—Bang. Mr. T. W. Sterling's (New York) liver and white 
pointer bitch Kate (Croxteth—Trinket) to Mr. J. W. Munson’s im- 
ported Bang (champion Bang—Luna), Feb, 19. 

Dent—Meteor. Mr. J, W. Blythe's (Burlington, 1a.) liver and white 
pointer bitch Dent (Faust—lLassie) to Mr. J. W. Munson’s imported, 
Metéor (Garnet—Jilt), Feb. 28. ; 

Dell—Meteor. Mr. Geo. A. Castleman’s (St. Louis, Mo.) liver and 
white pointer bitch Dell (Croxteth—Trinket) to Mr, J, W. Munson’s 
imported Meteor (Garnet—Jilt), March 3. 

Marvel—Meteor. Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) liver and 
white pointer bitch Marvel (Croxteth—Trinket) to his imported 
Meteor (Garnet—Jilt), March 13. soar 

Bertie—Sensation, Mr. J, A, Schuyler’s (Lehighton, Pa.) pointer 
bitch Bertie (Rab—Bellona) to champion Sensation (A.K.R. 817), 


si a WHELPS 


E> See instructions at head of this column. 

Carlina. The Dominion of Canada Kennel Clib’s English setter 
bitch Carlina (Carlowitz—Princess Nellie), March 4, six (four dogs), 
by their Count (Bandit—Royal Jess). 

Princess Belle, Dr, G. A. Scaman’s (Marysville, Kan.) Wnglish 
setter bitch Princess Belle, Jan, 2, five (one dog), by his Colonel 
Thunder. . 

Glenjinlass. Mr. T. G, Davey’s (London, Ont) English setter 
biteh Glenfinlass (A.K.R. 588), March 7, eight, by his Prince Phoebus 
(A. K.R. 597). ‘ 

Clio, Mr. J. 8. Brown’s (Montclair, N. J.) liver and white pointer 
bitch Clio (Sensation— ), Feb. 28, eleven (four dogs) by Mr. A. 
Ss Godefiroy’s Lord Sefton (Croxteth—Vinnie); three bitches since 
dead, 

Countess Mollie. Mr, Peter Moeller’s (Nyack, N. Y,) English setter 
bitch Countess Mollie (Count Noble—Spark), Feb, 27, nine (eight dogs), 
by the late Mr. D, C. Sanborn’s Gus Bondhu, 

Beauty. Mr. Henry Sturtevant’s (Medina, N. Y.) imported English 
setter bitch Beauty (A.K.R, 806), Feb, 16, seven (four dogs), by his 
Perfection (A.K.R, 826). . 

Viola. The Surrey Kennel’s (Hilicott City, Md.) pointer hitch Viola 
(A.K.R. 703), March 4, six (five dogs), by Mr, C. H. Mason’s Beaufort 
(A. K.R. 694). 4 é 

Bridget O’More. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) red Irish setter 
bitch Bridget O’More (A.K.R. #64), March 14, eight (five dogs), by his 
Ned Eleno (A.K.R. 984). 

Daisy. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) imported pug 
bitch Daisy (A.K.R. 468), March 3, six (four dogs), by their imported 
Young Toby (A.K.R, 475); two dogs since dead. 

Music. Mr. N. Eimore’s (Granby, Ct.) imported beagle bilch Music 
(Rockwood—Faithtul), Feb. 9, four (one dog), by his King; all white, 
black and tan. 4 ‘ 

Gyp. Mr. W. W. Hurd’s (Colebrook River, Ct,) black and tan 
eanoune bitch Gyp, March 18, thirteen (nine dogs), by Griswold’s 

solonel. 

Modesty. Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) liver and white 
pointer bitch Modesty (Croxteth—Trinket), March 13, seven (three 
dogs), by his imported Bang (champion Bang—Luna): all liver and 


white. 
SALES. 


[&S> See instructions at head. of this column. 

Joe. Fawn pug (A.K.R, 925), by Mr, Jas, Mortimer, New York, to 
Mr, Geo, H. Hil), Cincinnati, O. 

Trim. Gordon setter dog,whelped Oct. 22, 1883, pedigree not given, 
by Mr. Geo, A. Ayers, Pawtucket, R, I., to Mr. F.T. Seward, McKean, 


Pa, 

Kate Claxton. Liver and white iinglish setter bitch, age not given 
(Guy Mannering—Flash), by Dr. Robt, I. Hampton, Athens, Ga., to 
Mr. A. J. Croyatt, same place. 

Felle Rita, Liver and white pointer bitch,whelped Dee. 22, 1883, by 
Baronet (A,K,R. 264) out of Rita Croxteth (A.K.R. 168), by Mr. 
George L. V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass., to Mr. N, P. Warren, New- 
tonyille. Mass, 

Lee. Black, white and tan beagle dog, whelped 1677 (Warrior— 
Rosey), by Mr. R. M, Lindsay, Scranton, Pa., to Mr. Pottinger Dorsey, 
New Market, Md. 

Fannie. Black, white and tan imported foxhound bitch Fannie. 
Se = R, Houghton, Boston, Mass,, to Mr. W. C. Crandall, Spring- 
ville, N.Y. 

Dick Laverack. Blue belton English setter doz, 4gyrs. old (Thun- 
der—Peeress), by Mr. H. Bailey Marrison, Tilsonburg, Ont., to Mr, T. 
G. Davey, London, Ont. 

Belle’s Pride. blue belton Enelish setter bitch, 44¢yrs. old (Paris— 
Belle), by Mr. H, Bailey Harrison,Tilsonburg, Ont.,to Mr.T. G. Davey, 
London, Ont. : 

Genevieve. Blue belton Mngiish setter bitch, 22mos, old (London— 
Dawn), by Mr. H, Bailey Harrison, Tilsonburg, Ont,, to Mx.T.G. Davey, 
London, Ont. : ‘ ’ 

Peek-a-Boo. English setter bitch (A.K.R. 822), by Mr. Henry 
Saath Medina, N. Y,, to Mr. Ricardo B. Smith, Washington 

eights. 

Rush P. White pointer dog, whelped July 29, 1883 (Nip—Josie), 
by Mr. L. F. Patterson, Bainbridge, Ga., to Mr. G@. W. Mroczkowski, 
same place. , ; 

Dick. Setter dog, by Joe (Check II,—Pinkk) out of Nellie (Frank— 
neater by Mr. J. W. Trantum, Middletown, Ct., to Major Lovejoy, 

ethel, Me, : 

David O’More. Red Ivish setter dog, whelped March 29, 1883, by 
Ned Elcho (4,K,R. 984), out of Bridger O’ More (A.K.R, 964), by Major 
Lovejoy. Bethel, Ma., to Mr. J. W, Trantum, Middletown, Ct. 

Hornell Obo. Imported black cocker spaniel dog, age not given 
(Obo—Nellie), by Mr. G, W. Leavitt, Boston, Mass., to Mr, J. P. Willey, 
Salmon Falls, N, H. Price, $450. 

fun. Fawn pug bitch (A,1K.R. 469), by the Worest City Kennel, 
Poruand, Me., to the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass. 

Don, Fawn pug dog (A.K.R, 704), by the Forest City Kennel, Port- 
land, Me., to the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass. 

Fun. Fawn pug biteh (A.K.R, 469), by the Chequasset Kennel, 
Lancaster, Mass,, to Mr, Francis Lynch, Newburgh, N.Y. 

Chum, Smooth-ceated St, Bernard dog, whelped June 17, 1882 (Rex 
—Brunhild, A.K.R, 24), by the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., 
to Mr. ¥. Louis Mahler, Raleigh, N.C. 

Ringwood—Silver whelps. Beagles, whelped Noy. 12, 1888, by Mr. 
N. Elmore, Granby, Ct,,a dog to Mr, 1,1. Lanty, Mole Hill, W, Ya.; 


154 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


a dog to Mr. Chas. F. Beard, Boston, Mass.; a dog to Mr. Joseph 
ae saat Harrisburg, Pa., and a bitch to Mr. Frank Lynch, Newburg, 
DD 


King—Mary whelp. Beagle hitch, whe!ped Noy. 11, 1883, by Mr. N. 
Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr. I. L. Lanty, Mole Hill, W. Va.- 

Ringwood—Belle whelp. Beagles. whelped Novy. 13, 1883, by Mr. N. 
Elmore, Granby, Ct.,a dog to Mr. Geo. E. Drew, Rochester, N. H.; a 
dog to Mr. Haven Doe, Salmon Falls, N. H., and a bitch to Mr. W. 
Hamersley, St. Leonard, Can. . 

Ringwood—Bush whelp. Beagle gdog,whelped, Nov. 28. 1883, by Mr. 
N. Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr. Frank Lynch, Newburg, N.Y. 

kingwood—Musie If. whelp. Beagle dog, whelped Nov. 21, 1883, 
by Mr. N. Elmore, Granby. Ct.. to Mr. J, Lingsham, Plantsville, Vt. 

Bang—Spinaway whelps, Pointers, whelped Jan. 9, by Mr. J. W. 
Munson, St. Louis, Mo.,a lemen and white pointer dog to Mr. B. P. 
Halliday, Prairie, Miss.; a liver and white bitch to Vaiden & Hous- 
ton, Uniontown, Ala.; a liver and white bitch to Mr. J. W. Blythe, 
Burlington, Ta.; a liver and white bitch to Mr. C. B.Whitford,Chicago, 
Iil.; a liver and white and a lemon and white bitch to M7. W. S. Titus, 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Ringwood—Myrtle whelp. Beagle bitch. whelped Noy. 26, 1883, by 
Mr. N. Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr. Jos. W. Gross, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Dan, Orange and white pointer dog, age and pedigree not given, 
by a; Thomas M. Smith, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr. Peter Kelley, New 

ork, 

Croxteth—Spinaway awhelp, Liver and white pointer bitch. age 
not given. by Mr. J. W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo.. to Dr. N. B. Carson, 


same place. 
PRESENTATIONS, 


= See instructions at head of this column. 

Zero. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Dec. 23, 1883, by 
Baronet (A,K R. 264) out of Rita Croxteth (A.K.R. 168), by Mr, Geo. 
e V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass., to Mr. Forest W. Forbes, Westboro, 

ass. 

Roscoe. Lemon and white setterdog, age and pedigree not given, 
by Mr. Edward Odell, New Orleans, La., to Mr. J. T. Haidie, same 
place. 

May. Pointer bitch (A.K.R. 211), by the Surrey Kennel, Ellicott 
City, Md., to Mr. N. Dorsey, same place. 

DEATHS. 


B= See instructions at head of this column. 

Finnie IT, Liver and white pointer bitch (A.K.R. 466), owned by 
Mr. C. R. Squire. Troy, N.Y., March 9, from poison. © 

Kathleen Mavourneen, jied Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 617), owned 
by Mr. C. R. Squire, Troy, N.Y., March 1, from distemper, 

Smoke Morrissey. Red Trish setter dog (A.K,R. 642), owned by Mr. 
C. R. Squire, Troy, N.Y., March 3, from acute pneumonia, 

Lady Elcho. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 978), owned by Mr. C, R. 
Squire, Troy, N.Y.. March 5, from distemper, 

Daisy. Toported pug bitch (A.K.R. 465), owned by the Chequasset 
Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., March 4. 

Bang—Spinaway whelps. Two pointers, whelped Jan. 9, owned by 
Mr. J. W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo., Marecb 9, from worms. 

Stunner. Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R. 218), owned by the 
Westminster Kennel! Club, New York. 

Brimstone. Liver and white pointer dog, whelped Aug. 24, 1883 
ee to ee owned by the Westminster Kennel Club, New 

fork. 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
£=- No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


W.F. T., Altoona, Pa.—We could not intelligently prescribe for your 
dog witHout a full description of symptoms. He may have received 
an injury to his spine, or his trouble may be a sequence to distemper. 
Write. giving all particulars, 

E. H., Ottawa, Can.—Your dog probably has an attack of distemper. 
Keep him in a dry and well-ventilated place, and uurse him carefully. 
Write a full description of symptoms should he not improve. 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at_ Chicago, Il., May 
26 to 81. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O. Box 1292, Cin- 
cinmati, Ohio. 


RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 
THE BULLARD REPEATING ARM. 
| ae Bullard is one of the latest models added to the coilection of 


rifles now in nse, and as yet can hardly be said to have entered 
very largely intothe arena of competition, Very flattering words 
have been said of it; afew good scores have been made, and it has 
many warm friends, Whatitisand what it looks like the accom- 
panying cuts will show. 

It is the invention of Mr. J. H. Bullard, and the story of its birth is 
avery briefone. Mr. Bullard had for several years held the position 
of master mechanic at Smith & Wesson’s pistol factory in Spring- 
field. Mass. In 1879the works were visited by a prominent Chinese 
official, and a conversetion upon pistols and rifies took place between 
the American mechanic and the visiting Mongolian, The latter put 
the question, ‘‘Why the repeating rifles of the day were so weak in 
their mechanism, and if one could not be invented which would shoot 
the heaviest charges with perfect safety.’ Mr. Bullard said he knew 
of no mechanical difficulty, aud at ouce set to work thinking and 
wodelmaking. Atest rifle was made embodying the parts, which, 
in the opinion of Mr. Bullard, met the Chinaman’s question. It was 
subjected to tbe severest tests and criticisms, and came out of the 
trial with no signs of weakness and with the most flattering opinions 
of the experts and critics who had been invited by the inventor to 
witness the experiments. 

The patents covering the invention were issued on Aug. 16, 1881, 
and the Bullard repeater of to-day is almost precisely like the first 
model as designed in 1879. A joint stock company, known as the 
“Bnilard Repeating Arms Company,’’ has been formed, in which Mr. 
J. H. Bullard, H. H. Bigelow and a third and silent partner are said 
to hold ninety-five per cent. of the stock. Land has been secured at 
Springfield, Mass., and a brick factory structure 16967 feet in area 
and practically four stories in height, has just been completed. 
There are three machine rooms, each 49125 feeb, the woodworkers’ 
department being in the attic story. There is a very complete outfit 
of the accurate machinery needed in the making of such a fine bit 
mechanism as a repeating arm, and besides there is a complete set 
of special fixtures ad tools designed and invented by Mr. Bullard. 

The general app2arance of the Bullard rifie is already familiar to 
yeaders of the ForEST AND STREAM through the illustrations in the ad- 
vertising columns. Fig. 1 shows the complete rifle. It is one of the 
elass of rifles having a tube magazine arranged below the barrel. 
There isa bolt action m opening the breech and io bringing up the 
next cartridge from the magazine, but there is a peculiarity of con- 
struction in locking the breech and bringing the striking pm into 
range, which can be easily studied through Figs. 2and 3, showing 
respectively the action closed and open. In Fig. 2, A, the breech 
block. is held firmly im place lky brace C, which is pivoted and cradled 
on hammer pin and lock frame; C is brought into place and firmly 
held by links B, which are on either side, only one being shown in 
section, and which are connected by strong pins to guard lever D. It 
will be seen that it is impossible to get the hammer to reach the firing 
pin until the brace C is inits proper place and the line of recoil car- 
ried hack to the hammer pin andin that way distributed to the lock- 
frame and stock, A claim madein this connectionis that there are 
no sliding surfaces as all the parts are pinned and hinged together. 
The action is a positive one, not dependent upon springs. Care has 
been taken to have the material used the very besbbhroughout, no 
jrou or malleable iron being used, all being of forged steel except the 
carrier, which is composition or gun metal, 5 

The magazine is chuwged from thé under side, and it can be done 
with equal facility by a right or left-handed person. And as there 
are no boles or spring covers on the site, it is not likely to become 
clogzed by passing tirough brush or laying it on the ground or in 
trenches, ete. Itis also easy to load ou horseback with the magazine 
opening below thearm. It can be loaded asa single-loader either 
jon or bottom, leaving the magazine full at all times for an emer- 

eucy. J 
cht ee possible,” says Mr. Bullard, ‘to fire the Bullard rifle with 
greater rapidity than any other repeating rifle, from the fact that it 
works easier and smoother by reason of its more direct leverage on 
the work to be done, the heaviest work being done with the best 
leverage, as in extracting the cartridge, which is started when the 
lever is in position to exert the greatest strain, Coeking the hammer 
is also done by direct leverage inside the receiver or frame instead of 
a sliding motion of bolt or firing-pin on antl over the 1p of hammer, 
which is yery often liable to grind, and always makes the arm work 
hard and unpleasantly..” The Bullard bas been fired in tests as 
rapidly as twelve shots in five seconds, " 

The Bullard, itis claimed. ix the ouly Jever repeater that will suc- 
cessfully use the regular Lnited Siotes capper cartridge (.45-caliber 
70 graiws powder), owing Lo its absolute certainly toextract the shell, 


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which being made of copper and with a folded head, does not con- 
tract after firing (as is the case of brass shells) but often sticks in the 
chamber, a difficulty more frequently mentioned in reports of trials 
of breechloading firearms by government experts, than any other. 
Another advantage in using the U. 8. cartridge is, that it is the 
standard ammunition and can be obtained anywhere ingpe country. 
This point will be appreciated by frontiersmen. 

In loading the arm, it is only necessary to carry the lever forward 
as far asit will go and then insert the cartridge in the magazine 
through the opening under the carrier. To use the arm as a single- 
loader, carry the lever as far forward as is necessary to extract the 
spent shell, remove the shell and insert another cartridge in the cham- 
ber of the gun, or carry the guard lever as far forward as it will go, 
and insert another cartridge in the magazine through the opening 
under the carrier. 

The arm is not a difficult one to dismount, if that be found neces- 
sary. To do so the following directions should be observed: 1, Take out 
tang screw; 2, half cock hammer and take out lock-frame and ham- 
mer screws; 3, pull out lock-frame, down and backward; 4, discon- 
nect links from brace; 5, take out side plate screws and remove side 
plate: 6, remove carrier lever spring; 7, take out breech-bolt; 8, take 
out breech-block; 9, take out extractor pin and remove extractor, 
push back pin before removing bolt; 10, take out guard lever bolt; 
11, draw out guard lever and its connections; 12, draw out carrier 
lever; 13, take out carrier. To assemble reverse these operations. 

To remove the barrel, take out magazine plug screw and the two 
tip screws, pull out the magazine tube and take off the fore-arm. If 
the bolt has not been previously removed, pull it back so as to pre- 
vent the breaking of the extractor while unscrewing the barrel. 

The record of the Bullard is at present nota very extensive one, and 
but few trials of it haye been made at the target in formal matches. 
Three riflemen have made scores up to 111 and 113 points in the peaae 
ble 120 at 200 yards on the Massachusetts target, with open military 
sights. At Creedmoor the arm is comparatively unknown. 

The number of models made by the Bullard Company is quite 
large. Among the .50-caliber models there are three different sizes, 
carrying respectively charges of 95,105 and 115 grains of powder, 
each having a bullet of 300 grains weight. The .50-115-800 cartridge 
is shown in Fig. 4: ; 


Fig. 3, 


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115 gr. Bullard Express. 


Fie. 4. 

The .45-ealiber group of Bullard rifles also include three different 
sizes, one using the government cartridge, with 70 grains of powder 
and 500 of lead, another with the same powder charge and 405 grains 
of lead. The former to be used in single loading and the latter in the 
magazine. The remaining .45-caliber is one of 45 grains of powder 
and 285 grains of lead. This proportion gives a very low trajectory, 
and experiments at the Bullard armory show a rise itis claimed of 
but 9 inches in 200 yards, . 

The .40-caliber rifles include one of a 60-grain powder charge, an- 
other w’ ) 7>rrain charge behind 225 of lead (see Fig. 5), and an- 


5 gr. powder, 725 lead. 
Pre. 5. 
other of 90 grains of powder and 300 of lead (see Fig. 6). This last- 


40-90.— Bullard. 
Fre. 6. z - 7 


duction of the atmospheric resistance in a greater proporticn, giving _ 
this bullet great penetrative power. as wellas greaterrange. The 
weight of these rifles, including the .50-caliber express, is 9441bs. to 
12lbs. The .38-calibers will be ready by May 1, and will comprise two 
cartridges of 40 and 60 grains of powder ineach, Thirty-two-caliber 
rifles will probably come at about the same time, and include ,32- 
cartridge of 20 grains and Farrow’s express shell of 45 or 50 grains. 

Our object in giving full information for the benefit of our readers 
would stop short if the rates of charges upon these several arms 
were not given. The .45-70, .45-75, .45-60 and .40-60, round barrel, 28in., 
carrying 11 shots, with plain stock, open sights, graduated for 
1,200yds., cost $33; half octagon and full octagon barrels running $2 
higher. The 50-95 express, 27in., round barrel, with full or short 
magazine, costs $40, and with half octagon barrel, $47; 105 and 115- 
frain express, same style and finish, $5 extra. The 38-caliber. 24in. 
round barrel, with 16-shot magazine, costs $27, and with half octagon 
barrel, $29. The .38 caliber special .28-50-200, costs, with 26in. round 
barrel, 11-shot magazine, $30, either short or full magazine. 

In connection with their armsand underinstructions to purchasers 
Mr. Bullard gives some plain directions in reference to some import- 
ant points of reloading, which it were well for all who act as their 
own cartridge makers should mind. He says that all shells, as soon 
as possible after being fired, should be cleaned and washed out care- 
fully with strong soap suds or soda water and thoroughly dried, 
otherwise the deposit of nitric acid left on them after firing causes 
them to oxidize rapidly, and they become worthless. The primer 
should always be pressed down so that it is sure to be Jower than the 
head of the cartridge shell. Use American Powder Company’s Dead 
Shot, FG; or, Hazard Powder Company's Sea Shooting, FG; or, 
Orange Rifle (Laflin & Rand Powder Company) PG. 

Use for bullets one part tin to sixteen of lead, and keep the molds 
very hot and the handles of the molds tight together. It often hap- 

ens that the handles become too hot for comfort and are not held 

gether properly. The resultis a bullet that is not round and one 
that will not fit the shell. See that the grooves of the bullets are 
filled with beef tallow or Japan wax, wipe off all surplus greese be- 
fore loading. When pressing the bullef into the shell, see that if is 
forced into the chamber of the reloading toolas far as it willgo. He 
recommends, however, that all sportsmen buy their bullets of cart- 
ridge manufac:urers, as they are all swaged by powerful machinery 
and are far more perfect than it is possible to cast them. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON, March 15.—There was a fair attendance of riflemen at 
the Walnut Hill range to-day, those present shooting under difficult 
weather conditions. The scores were: 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


J B Fellows. .......5454545555—47 JH Sears........... 4455444441442 
HESS on Serteaae 554545445445 J Payson (mil)...... 4444454444 —41 
CB Kdwards....... 545451454445 T C Williard........ 435045445340 
TO Field. ...........5543445555—45 W H Morton....-.-. 4445444444 39 
CAStump.... 5054444534—48 H M Wilkes... --- 4445424444 — 39 
AT Richardson. 544444454542 _J P Webber (mil).. .5544444254 39 
FW Fowle (mil)... 444454444542 
Creedmoor?Prize Match. chee 

CE Berry, B........ 5555445555 48 TI Barnes, B.......5544554544—45 
J P Bates, H.....0..4 556444445545 H Whitington, E.. ..4844444455—44 
J B Thomas, B...... 5pb4oddddt_45 A H Whitney, E... 454445444543 

Sa Maes 9 7 910 810 6 6-79 
WeChanleg, Leto taas sess seraesetess sss ; E = 
W Gardner, Hi... . 22's e sree seen ere? 10-8. 6) 75S. (Beta Re ere 
APO VANES het. Gace te Hones nays 810 6 410 79 6 7 4—%7. 
Avi Whitey, te: e ee. cele tee pet 66 P10 eo B24 766 
AE GTE itr le ae See ee ee me A 8108 45% 5 tf 6 5-4 
Site BAGG. Hewett os shu) eo 3 dole ee 9 8 4 910 5 3 2 4 3-57 
Hiwathingtion, By ant 3. 2... ester ness 45 46444 97 @ W=bl 


SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.. March 10.—Following is the highest 
score made by each member in attendance at the Saratoga ifle 
Club range during the regular days (Wednesday and Saturday) of last 
week, becciee quia ol freaks 200yds. off-hand, Weather favorable 

cd rk on both days: 
a Pers poiaghet: n eae 2 a, Se F 12 a f us a a a ri Were 
i Seer ly S57) “ns SS 10 12 10 I — 
tb: Na Oy ee ee 9 11 12 10 11 11 11 1 10 10—106 
ere ia eis 5 91011 12121112 910 9—1065 
2111010 7 9 10—104 
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ae: x“ 

UB OF NEW YORK—Th Lele” 

tLUB OF NEW YO e annual elec 

oe aa Seanad March 12 at the club’s 

The following gentlemen were elected: 

eopold Maisch, Vice President; Fr. Wm. 
', Jenner, Treasurer. 


——— 


‘grounds of the $. 1. G.C. The meeting was a large and enthusiastic 
Bie, and from the expressions of interest in the club and the number 
of private matches arranged during the evening, the elub’s prospects 
would seem never 10 have been brighter,—GoyERNOR. 


NARRAGANSETT GUN CLUB.—Providence R. I., March 6—The 
weather was beautiful to-day, the first and only spring day we have 
had thus far, and as a consequence the boys turned out iu force. 
The Watchemoket, Union and Mashapaug Gun Clubs being repre- 
sented. The next shootwill probably take place at Pawtucket, when 
we shall try to bring the badge home again. 


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wae es : 
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abu, resi ent; 
- ‘ZETTLER CLUB.—Regular weekly shoot March 11, gallery dis- 
ince: OL Dorae: 6, OG. Zettler iN A, Lober 114, D. Miller 110, 
aes Engel 115, P. Fenning 115, B. Zettler 118, J. Adrien 106, H. Hor- 
ges 109, € Schurmann 95, W. Vond-rleinden 111, N. D. Ward 102, T. 

3. Noone 97, V. Stevibock 109, H. Oehl 114, C. Joison 118. 


NEW YORK.— lar weekly shooting of the Bullshead ed oy PBUH EE I. State badge, 25 clay-pigeons, l5yds., 5 fraps, one barrel 
Third ayenue, March 6. 12-ring, possible 120; C.' Re » H- | only. b aS 

: Bolum 115, ‘A. Lober 115, G. inhi cienna 114, H. Hackmann 113, | C B Payne, Union G, C., of Pawtucket, wlth Abate jefe sk deg tin pe 2 
H. Gunther 112, B. Walters 109, §. Mehrbach 109, D. Holland 104, D. | EW Tinker. Narragansett G, C., of Providence...... Theo meats ds 2 
‘Loumskie 82. LM Eady, Narragansett G. C., of Providence..... .........-. 22 


ALBANY, N. Y., Mareh 13.—The second competition in the Ameri- ES Luther, Watchemoket G. C., of Hast Providence........... 


: s wer heldon, Narragansett G. C., of Providence .. ....... ........21 

can decimal match was shot at Rensselaerwyek to-day, Scores were C U Gray, Nar ansett G. C.. of Providence... o.u.c liiin 21 
rr 2 = F O Wehoskey, Narragansett G, C,, of Providener ...........6+.... 4 

pee Ae Roget" Se eek! gf eae : 4 0 ; a i a BY ; hey Mr. Mathewson, Narragansett G, C., of Providence, .........2.-166. 20 

Ch BIE, Ate ss seth teres > 4910 9140 7 910 9 9—88 | CH Perkins, Jr., Narragansett G. C., of Providence,............... 19 
an Gaugs.-- 810 7 7% 710 9 810 S—S4| CB Potter, Narragansett G. C., of Providence... .....-.....6.-..0+ 5 
3 E pre Gaertn sb oe 000 910 5 7 6 8 9—63| James Payne, Union G. O., of Pawtucket. ........... 2605 cee seen 

ROLY 1S as 05 pias 2 SRS aE: 2s : ‘A Salisbury, Union G. C.. of Pawtucket........0.....0.6e00deee eee 15 


J B® Bourne, Watchemoket G. C.. of East Providence,... ........... 13 


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THE TRAP. ee oy esas, G. CAOf Oran shone sai od ive tees eens ate eye 
HW Tinker. 000. Fie. ee 11 00 10 10 11 11 00 11 11 10-18 
Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- | @ Perkins, Jt....-------.--. 41 10 10 11 10 0 10 Of 10 11—12 
quested fo write on one side of the paper only. Potter aeeiperernr cn te Le ee a ‘i ee 
; : i : r OBsRayne ieee ee... |. DLO) ett 10s 10) 01—12 
CONNECTICUT STATE SHOOT.—Wallingford, Conn., March 12.— | G ypsheldon 0000000000000. 00 00 10 11 10 11 Of 11 10 10-11 
The scores made atthe State Badge shoot, held here to-day. gave a} po Wehoskey.....--..--- «- 00 O01 10 10 O1 11 10 4 00 11—11 
yictory for the home Heri fine fea follow: TM HIER PME ae ate 10 00 10 10 10 i 1 Qo 19 it 10—10 
; OS OEE RELY bes geen Ocenia! thee 10 1 11 09 0 — 
Goodrich......... Pane bee eee . ~~» 1111101110010101111111101—19 Mr Coie, ig, ee en ee 00 10 00 00 00 11 00 11 10 O1— 7 
BYOPGOH.. 2... scat cee ey eis RE aac 4001111110011010011110011—16 J : , Sy 
ie ae 4100111010111110111111111—20 TORONTO, Ont., March 8.—The clay-pigeon shoot on the bay to 
eee tan A lla i eS Ta 1101110114111100100110001_16—71 | day was attended by about 200 interested spectators, ‘Twenty-one 
Pt SAI eis eb New Haven Club shot in the contest. This was the third shoot for a gold medal, which 
lsoni..... 001100111010111111110110117 is to be won three times by the same shooter. Mr. Worden was first 
ASU St de RS RAR 0101100000100.10011011010—11 winner, Mr. Crothers second, and Mr. Cockburn took it to-day, each 
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Louisville Sportsman’s Association, writes as follows to the Ligowsky 
Company, touching the Chicago gathering of May. Under date of 
Mareh 12,Mr. Barbour says: “Your circulars of March 15 received, 
and T note some good changes made, I reter particularly to county 
team rules. My idea is that any member in good standing in a club 
atthe time you offered this match to the different clubs of the 
country, should be allowed to shoot with his club team no matter 
where he is living, whether in the same country or not, but I do not 
think any member joining a club since you offered this match should 
be allowed to shoot in their club team, This would shut out clubs 
from electing members for the special purpose of making team, and 
if left to your executive committee, I think they will so decide. Don’t 
understand me as wanting to meddle in this matter, I only make these 
suggestions in the interest of the success of this great match. There 
is another point I think you have made a mistake im, that is in allow- 
ing the first entry the very great advantage of naming the time they 
shall be called to the score, that should be determined by lot, and 
would give more satisfaction. I will do all in my power to make 
your touriiament.a success, and I think that is already assured. I 
am receiving entries every day for our champion cup match. I think 
cvery State in the Union will be represented in thismatch, The 
Southern boys are comingin force. [I will endeavor to get them to 
come up in time to go with me upto Uhicagoto your shoot. Our 
club will be represented in the meeting called in the interest of form- 
ing 4 national association.”.—J. M. BArBour, President L.S.A. 


WORCESTER, Mass., March 4;—This afternoon there was a meet 
at the South End Range cf members of the South End and Wood- 
lawn Gun Clubs. The occasion was the first of a series of team 
matches. There were some fifty spectators present. The judges 
were W. S. Perry for the South End Club, and BE. 8. Knowles for the 
Woodlawn Club, O. A. Benoit referee. There were five ona side. 
Twenty glass balls were thrown for each man, in strings of five each. 
The following is the result: 

- South End Club. 


WELLAND, Ontario, March 14.—In the shooting match here to-day 
between George Rogers, of St. Catharines, and Capt. Ritter, each 
broxe 80 glass balls straight, and they continued shooting until Rogers 
missed, Ritter winning. In the pigeon match of 15 birds each be- 
tween the saame-men, Rogers shot 13 and Ritter 12. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Sixth meeting, Wednesday. April 2,8 P. M., No. 
23 East Fourteenth street. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forrest anp 
STREAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete., of 
their clubs, and also notices In advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canneists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested ,to forward to FoREST AND STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


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Eleventh Paper. 
CANOE FITTINGS. 


WHILE the first requisite in a canoe is a properly-de- 
signed and constructed hull, there are a number of 


Hach club has now won one match. The closing one will be shot 
on Thursday next on the grounds of the Sportsman’s Club. 

EAST PROVIDENCE. R.1., March 11.—The weather to-day was 
most favorable for the shoot of the Watchemoket Gun Club. For 
the clay-pigeon cup the following was the score, best out of a pos- 
sible twenty clay-pigeons, ten singles and five pais of be 

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age progenitors, as, excepting the kayak, savage canoes are 
undecked, and its shape and condition are important consid- 
erations. As a general rule, the smaller the well, the better; 
as less water can get below, there is more covered stowage 
room, and the boat is much stronger; but, on the other hand, 
there must be an opening long enough to permit sleeping, 
storing long spars below, giving access to hatches below 
deck, and, 6n occasion, taking a companion. The wells of 
the early Rob Roys were elliptical, 20in. wide and 82 to 
86in. long, requiring no hatch, the coaming, lin. high 
above deck, being bent in one piece, as in the drawing, 
This smal] well, resembling that of the kayak, was almost 
a necessity, as the boat was so low and wet in rough 
water. 

A step in advance was the old Nautilus well, which was 
from 4ft. 8in, to 5ft. 8in. long, and 20in. wide, a length of 
16*n. being shut off by a movable bulkhead just abaft the 
crew’s back; this portion being covered by a movable hatch, 
with a similar hatch at the forward end, leaving an opening 
of 2it. or a little more for the crew. This well, with its 
ugly octagonal form, while a decided improvement in many 
ways, more than any other feature earned for the canoe the 
dismal epithet of coffin, once so frequently applied to it; 
besides which, owing to the number of pieces (eight) it gave 


__ The cn» was awarded to Isaiah Barney for the first time. George 
Barney ..on the glass-ball cup, having won itfor the fifth time, the 
other contestants on this occasion withdrawing after shooting at ten 
balls each. On this occasion he made 18 out of a possible 20, and he 
has broken in the five contests 89 out of 100, 


COLLEGE MARKSMEN.—The Harvard Shooting Club had a meet 

ati Watertown, Mass., on the afiernoon of March 14, and shot seven 
matches under the direction of Mr. W. H. Slocum, *86; scoring by Mr. 

£. C. Jones. The following is a summary of the events: 

Match 1, 5 glass balls—First, W. L. Allen, 85, Palmer, *87, E. J, Sar- 
telle. *85, and W. H. Slocum, ‘86; second, W. Austin. ’87, Frye, °86. 

Match 2, 15 glass balls, Walnut Hill cup matech—First, W. H. Slo- 
cum, "86, 13 balls; second, E. J. Sartelle, *85, 12 balls. 

Match 3, 5clay-birds—First, F. Austin °86, W. Austin, Frye, Palmer; 
second, Foster, 8.5. Payne, 84, Sartelle, Slocum. 
_ Match 4, 5 clay-birds—First, Payne; second, Batten, °85, F. Austin, 
W. Austin, Frye, Palmer, Sartelle and Slocum. 
_ Match 5—First, W. Austin, Sartelle, Slocum, Foster, Frye. 

Match 6—First, Frye; second, T, Austin, Slocum, 


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no strength tothe deck, and the jointssoon opened and leaked, 
while the almost square end forward did not throw tne water 
from the deck, but sent spray back over the crew, 
Tn 1878 the Shadow canoe came out with an elliptical well 
20in, by 5ft., covered by four hatches, so arranged as to close 
the well entirely in shipping the canoe; or by removing one 
or two hatches, making room for the crew when afloat. The 
first point was a decided advantage, but it was found in 
cruising that on a warm day the canoe became very hot 
below with hatches fitting closely around the canoeist, and 
when they were remoyed there was no room for them unless 
piled three high forward, and liable to be lost, overboard. — 
At the same time the first Jersey Blue canoe appeared with 
a rectangular well 18in. by dft., Ift. being abaft the crew, 
the coaming at sides of well extending over the forward deck 
and forming slides for a sliding hatch, which could be 
quickly pulled aft, covering as much of the well as desired, 


rh while a Pubber apron, kept rolled up on top of the hatch, 


anne Okie 


completed the eovering. This arrangement answered the 
purpose of protection, but the square corners and sliding 
hatch were clumsy and heavy in appearance. 

At the same time a canoe was built in Harlem having a- 
pointed coaming forward, with a slight flare, the first of its 
kind, in America at least, and in 1880 the Sandy Hook and 
Jersey Blue canoes were fitted with pointed coamings, but 
not flaring, the first of the style now so common being put 
in the Dot in place of the Shadow well in 1881. 

This form of well, shown in the Forest AND STREAM ot 
March 13, is in outline similar to a Gothie arch, and in 
addition the sides flare outward, throwing off all spray at 
the sides. The after end is made either round or square, the 
latter giving more room when two are carried, A chock of 
mahogany (g) in the drawing, is fitted in the angle, belaying 
pins or cleats being sometimes put on it. This form of 
coaming is well fitted to hold an apron, the fore end of 
which, being fitted to the point of the coaming, cannot wash 
off, and no spray can beat in under it. The well may be 
partly or entirely covered by hatches, as desired. 

Another important feature ina wellis its width, which 
must be regulated by the size and intended use of the canoe. 
In anarrow andshoal boat, such as the Rob Roy, a width of 
18in. will be enough, as the side decks will be wider and less 
water will come over the side, while the crew can still lean 
out to windward, but in a wider and deeper boat there is less 
danger of water over the side, and the coaming being higher 
above the floor will interfere with the crew leaning over, and 
therefore should be made wider, the usual width being 20in. 

American practice in canoe sailing, especially in racing, 
differs materially from the English; the crew, in America, 
almost invariably being seated on the weather deck, in sail- 
ing to windward, the fect braced under the lee deck, the body 
leaning well to windward, and the steering being done by 
means of a tiller on the after deck, but in England the crew 
is seated low down in the canoe, a portion of the deck abreast 
the body being cut away and the opening closed at will by a 
hinged flap, the weather one being closed and the lee one 
opened at the end of each tack, only the head and shoulders 
being above deck, offering but little surface to the wiud, 
With this arrangement.a narrow well is allowable. 

That canoeists may judge foy themselves as to the yalue of 
this feature for their work, we quote from the London Feld 
the opinions of Messrs, Baden-Powell and Tredwen concern- 
ing them. The former gentleman says; ‘‘In describing the 
canoe fittings of the present day, the side deck flaps must not 
be omitted. In a sailing canoe it is all important, but 1 do 
not admit its great utility in a travelmeg canoe, at least, not for 
general work. Where the chief work isto be lake sailing, side 
flaps will be very useful; but where much hauling ont and 
jumping in and out is to be the order of the day, side flaps 
are utterly out of place. The side flap was first introdaced 
in the Rob Roy in 1868, but did not appear in the next edi- 
tion of that name, It has, however, now become a general 
favorite, and it is to be found in every sailing canoe. If 
fitted to the traveling canoe, the after end of the flap should 
be just forward of the backboard beam, and it should be 
strongly hinged at the outer edge; andyin short, strongly 
fitted in every way, as it is just about the place that one’s 
hands lay hold of to raise the body in case of a sudden jump 
up or out, A broken, and perhaps lost overboard, flap would 
be a dangerous mishap to a canoe, if caught at the time in a 

breeze at a mile or two from land.” 

Mr. Tredwen, after describing some of the canoes that he 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Manon 90, 1884. 


has designed and built during the past fifteen years, con- 
tinues: ‘‘It has already been obseryed that the flap side decks 
haye not been fitted to all the Pearl canoes, and that where a 
eanoe has been built with them, they have been subsequently 
discarded, and that the next canoe built without them has 
subsequently been altered by the addition of this contri- 


vance. The result of this varied experience is_ to establish 
them as a very yaluable adjunct to a cruising canoe if prop- 
erly applied and fitted, otherwise they are better omitted. 
There are two essentials besides the flaps themselves, consist- 
ing of two sets of coamings around the openings cut in the 
deck, The first coamings are parallel and close to the cuts 
across the deck, and consequently at right angles with the 
ordinary well coamings, and are screwed sceurely to the 
deck, and their inboard ends butt on to the well coamings, 
They entirely prevent any leakage along the deck from for- 
ward or aft, into the openings of the flap side deck, 

“The second set of coamingsare placed transversely, hinged 
to the deck, and when raised their inboard ends fit closely 
against the beading or coaming of the hatch cover; and they 
are not intended to exclude leakage along the deck, but they 
serve as catches around which the mackintosh coat fits. to 
prevent any sea breaking into the well. The inboard ends 
must therefore project about half an inch above the hatch 
cover when they are raised. Many canoes have had these 
hinged coamings fitted without the fixed coamings, and with- 
out sufficient width to project above the hatch cover, and as 
they neither exclude water running back along the deck, nor 
provide a holdfast for the mackintosh, the whole contri 
yance bas been condemned.” 

In this country the first step in this direction was in the 
Elfin, a New York canoe, which in 1878 had her coamings 
cut and hinged; the first real side flaps being putin the 
Sandy Hook in 188i, since which they have been tried in 
various canoes, but lave not come into general use. Their 
construction is shown in the drawings. 

In the Pearl canoe, the well, which is almost rectangular, 
is covered by a forward hatch in two parts, the alter portion 
extending to the body heing hinged to the forward part, so 
as to lie fat on it, when opened, On its after end is a bead- 
ing, over which the skirt of the canoe jacket is drawn, this 
skirt also being held, by a rubber band run around its lower 
edge, to asimilar beading on the after hatch, and to the 
hinged coamings described; the deck flaps opening inside tlie 
wide skirt, so that there is no entrance for water. below. 
Where itis desired to close the canoe entirely, the well is 
covered by three or four hatches, fitting closely together, as 
shown in the drawingof the Shadow. These are held down 
by a bar running over them fore and aft, one end ot which 
is inserted in an eyebolt at fore end of well, the other pad- 
locking to a similar bolt aft. 


THE EVERSON CANOES. 


HEN the New York C.C. was first organized some fourteen years 

ago, one of their earliest acts was tolook for a boat builder 

who would undertake to build the heretofore unknown craft. As the 
result of their search, they settled on Mr. James Everson, of Williams- 
burgh, N. Y., already well-known as a builder of Whitehall boats, 
and to him entrusted the drawings of the early Nautilus, sent to them 
by Mr. Baden-Powell, and since thattime many well-known boats 
haye started their first voyage from this shop, the Violetta, Walrus, 
Rosalie, Kaloolah, Shadow and Dot, besides others less widely known. 

A visit to Mr. Eiverson’s shop will well repay any one interested in 

eanoes, The first boat noticed on entering the door is a very hand- 
some cruising and racing canoe that will soon fly the N. Y. C. C. bur- 
fee, her lines being designed for a member of that club by Mr. John 
Hyslop. The leading dimensions are 15x81, with 13in. depth amid- 
-ships; a handsome sheer, straight keel, sternpost straight and raking 
about 3in, aft. The bow is worthy of special notice. and the stent, 
well cut away below water but nearly plumb above, is handsomer 
and more yachtlike than the curyed form so common here. With 2in. 
crown to the deck, there will be ample room inside. The well will be 
pointed and flaring. coaming 314in. high forward, The keel is flat, 
to admit of Child’s patent centerboard, which will be of brass, weigh- 
ing nearly 50 pounds, and housing inside the canoe, If fitted with a 
suitable rig, there should be nothing in the N. Y. OC. C. fleet that ean 
approach her, and she will doubtless make a record at the meets this 
season. 

Besides several new canoes of the well known Shadow model, there 
are tvo designed by Mr. Charles Farnham especially for cruising 
work that are ahead of most boats of similar dimensions. They are 
14ft. 4in.x30in.. without the tumble-home so noticeable in the Shadow 
—an improvement in looks at least. The keels are flat, and well 
rounded up at the stern as well as forward, the sternnost being 
straight from the water line up. Both are fitted with keels to be 
screwed on, if required, and also with airtanks of Morse’s non-cor- 
roding metal, the deck hatches being dispensed with. The sliding 
bulkhead consists of a frame, over which leather straps are passed, 
making a yoke on which the canoe may be carried, 

Besides the new boats mentioned, there is a curiosity in the shape 
of the Violetia, built for ex-Commodore Alden some twelve years 
since. All the canoes built by Mr. Everson are lapstreak, and their 
record, after the rough usage of cruising and hard racing, proves not 
ouly the excellence of his workmanship, but also of this method of 
construction. 


CANOE AND SNEAKBOX, 


Editoy Forest and Stream, : 
Wonders will néyer cease. Who ever thought that a canoeist would 
be bold enough to fling out a challenge to sail against the sneakbox. 
I have had some years’ experience in the sneakbox, it being of Jersey 
origin; and gunving from it in my younger days, I think I am pretty 
well conversant as to what it can do. : 
T have never sailed in a canoe, but being a close observer of their 
struggles in their endeavors to stand up to it, and with their knock 
downs, shakes and luffs,I think that the sneakbox would havea 
walk over, And as for cruising by all-water routes, and for comfort, 
commend me to the sneakbox. j 
Staunehness. Well, I always considered myself at home in any 
weather. Isentasneakbox to Maryland this winter, of the Kilpatric 
make, and the way she skipped across the mouth of Rumney Creek 
caused my friend William, who uever sailed in one of these craft, to 
remark: ‘*Well, who ever thought these things could sail the way we 
are going!’ Six yards canvas (wimter rag), a fearful blow, and 320 
ounds to windward. Size of boat, 12.63.10, Wul Dr, Neidé please 
inform me the kind of race, and where to take place, he would like 
awainst a sneakbox? “Seneca,” ingheissue of Forrest 4ND STREAM of 
March 6, declines. The Doctor will please speak out. Who knows 
we may have a race yet. Gro. H. Winn. 
Rep Bang, N. J. i 4 
{Uhere will be a fine opportunity for a race at the Newburgh camp 
ou Mav 29 and 30 of this year, as Dr. Neidé will be there, and many 
other canoeists, and the friends of the sneakbox will receive a hearty 
welcome. A correspondent in the South, who has been cruising in a 
14x30 canoe, with 150 pounds of ballast and 178 pounds crew, in com- 
pany with a 14x4ft. Zin. sneakbox, writes that the canoe is move than 
a match for the latter on every point, blow high, blow low-] 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


V._INLAND WATERS OF MAINE, 


ditor Forest and Stream; 
me reply to ‘*X.”’ who asks for information in regard to the route to 
Megantic Lake aud the Chaudiere via the Kennebeck and Dead 
rivers, Lean say from personal observation that he would find it an 
extremely difficult operation (1 donbt if it is possible) to make the 
ascend of the Kennebeck and Dead rivers in a Stella Maris or any 
other decked canoe that is not susceptible of being poled. 

My friend, Mr. ¥'. Stanton Hubbard, and myself, made the trip last 
June in an open English (Peterboro) canoe 18ft.x#0in., launching at 
Gardiner, Me, ‘*X.” would find no searcity of water in the Kenne- 
beck between Gardiner and Norridgewock, but beyond there the 
wateris shallow and very rapid—so say the natives, 1 have no know- 
ledge of it from personal observation. : 

We left the river at Bombazee Rips, 4 miles above Norridgewock 
and portazed to Sam Parson’s on the Dead River via North Anson, 


distance about thirty miles, oyer a very excellentroad, The portages 
on the Kennebeck between Gardiner and the point at which we left it 
are, first, dam at Augusta, carry about 14 mile on left bank; second. 
between Waterville and Kendall's Mills there are several dams around 
which a carry must be made with a team, distance 8 miles; third, 
carry arouad Skowhegan Falls and Dams, distance about 2 miles. 
There are also many booms and afew rips over which canoe must 
be hauled. 

From Parsons to Flagstaff, distance 12 miles, the rtver is very 
crooked and current quite rapid; there are two or three short rips, 
up which canoe must be hauled or toted around. Between Flag- 
staff and Eustice, distance 18 miles, the river is very crooked, 
Carry around Arnold’s Falls on right bank—distance about 14 mile. 
There are several yicious little rips on this stretch, which must be 
either poled up or carried around. 

At Hustice there is a dam, carry short; on left bank, one mile 
above. carry around Ledge Falls, distance short. Next another 
Arnold’s Falls, carry on left bank, distance 100yds.; then big and 
little Serampus Falls, few rods between, varry on right bank, 
distance about 150yds, Chain Pond Dam, six of one and half dozen 
of the other, which side carry is made—short in either case. Pass 
through Round Pond in Long Pend, at head of which liyes Peter Le 
Royer, Indian hunter. Peters word can be relied on for directions 
as to reaching Merantic Lake. 

From Long Pond into Horseshoe Pond, narrow, switt stream, to 
Atkinson’s Dain, distance not less than 4 miles; some hard work 
must be done in the way of poling. tracking and lugging over ledges 
and fallen frees. Haul over Atkinson’s Dam, cross small pond and 
carry one-quarter mile into Mud Pond. cross this and then carry one- 
half mile into Moosehorn or Arnold Pond, 

From Arnold Pond to river of same name, carry six miles over 
a bad trail. Attime we were there last year the Arnold River was 
so full of logs that we were forced to carry six miles to head of Me- 
gantic Lake. For information in regard to the Chaudiere River, see 
“Chaudiere by Paddle and Portage.’ by Chas. E. Chase,in Frank 
Leslie's Monthly, August, 1881. Cuas. A. NEIDE. 


BAditor Porest and Stream: 

In response to your request for parties able to give information in 
regard to canoeable waters in this vicinity to send their address to 
you, send my own. If any canoe*sts coming this way will call upon 
me, I shall be most bappy to show them about here; and if they can 
manage to strike here Saturday night, I will take them to one of the 
prettiest lakes in New England where they will meet a number of 
canoeists, although no organized club. ESM, JAmms, 

44 MANCHESTER STREET, Manchester, N. H. 


THE WINTER CAMP-FIRE. 


hE attendance at the fifth camp-fire last week was smaller than 

usual, there being about a dozen members present. Mr. King, 
who had offered to speak on the subject of canoe tents, was absent, 
being confined to the house by sickness, and no formal meeting was 
held; but those present enjoyed a very pleasant evening in the dis- 
eussion of announced subject, and in comparing experiences of 
eruises in various places, The date of the next meeting has been 
changed, as will be noticed above, to Wednesday, April 2. 


RONDOUT C. C.—This club gave their first reception on Friday 
evening, March 7, at their new club house. The invitations, specially 
designed by a member of the club. summoned the guests at ‘'8 bells” 
to the club house, which was decorated with flags, burgees, paddles, 
boxing gloves, snowshoes, models, pictures and canoe gear of all 
kinds, the canoeists themselves being in boating rig. ‘‘Mess’ was 
served at 2 bells by the members, and dancing followed at 4 bells. 

CLUB NOTES.—A canoe club is now being organized in St. Paul, 
Minn. The Vesper Boat Club, of Lowell, Mass., has nowa fleet of 
twenty-five canoes, and proposes to organize a canoe division, Mr. 
Frank H. Pullen has returned to Lowell from Chicago. Dr. Neidé 
writes that there have been thirty-five applications for membership 
since the last meeting. 


Bachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Boston Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30,—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 

May 30.—Atlantic Y, C., Opening Cruise. .- 

May 30.—Newark Y, C., Spring Match. 

May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups. 
June 4,—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 

June 10.—Atlantic Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 14.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Matches. 
June 16.—East River ¥. C., Annual Matches. 

June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 

June 28.—Boston Y. C., Ladies’ Day. 

June 30,—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. . 

July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12,—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 


July 12.—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. ; 
July 26.--Beverly Y. C., Nahaut, Second Championship, 
Aug. 9,—Hull Y. 0., Club Meet. 

Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs, 

Aug. 16.—Beverly Y. C., Swampscott, Third Championship. 


23.—Beyerly Y. C., Marblehead, Open Matches. 

23.—Boston Y. C.. Third Club Match. — 
6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Matches, 

18 —Hull ¥, ©., Club Meet. 

13.—bBoston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


Aug. 
Aug, 
Sept. 
Sept. 
Sept. 


SOME VALUABLE EXPERIENCES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

About six years ago Iwas skipper of a little yaw! hailing from 
Quebec. She was 18ft. keel, 8ft. beam and 3)4ft. draft, She carried 
us through almost any weather in safety and moderate comfort, 
thanks to plenty of ballast and moderate deadrise, but had too little 
keel to go to windward very well. and was too short and chubby to 
run fast, especially when jumping about in the short seas which the 
Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf can get up when wind is against tide. 
Later I took a cruise in a grand boat of the same type, but 7 or Bft. 
longer on the same beam and depth, and with the addition of a 10in, 
deep oak keel; ballast, pig iron, and allinside. Long floor, with mod- 
erate deadrise: bows fairl y fine on water-line, with lots of flare. Two 
of us ran her day and night and through any weather, anda magnifi- 
cent run we had. : 

I will not forget in a hurry our return to the grand old city of 
Quebec. Flying up the river before the remains of an easterly gale, 
on the top of the flood tide, after a tying night of darkness and 
storm and rain, duriag which we ran ninety miles with ouly a trian- 
gular corner of the mainsail set, the peak peng dropped. That was 
the last of my salt-water cruising sofar. I hope it will not be the 
finish altogether. Then followed a long series of years on inland 
rivers, where I was obliged to content myself with skiffs and center- 
boards and factory cotton, and used to balance myself on the 
weather gunwale and keep a sharp lookout for pute Lake Superior 
was a magnificent changé for the better. _ First I tried a fishing skiff 
about 25ft. keel, flat as a pancake on the bottom, A few rocks for 
ballast and one mast mght in her nose and another in her center, 
with two spritsails, the most unscientific rig I believe that was ever 
invented, She wasa centerboard, of course, : ' 

I pounded around Thunder Bay in this thing untill was sick, and 
had nearly broken the boat’s back, and sprue both masts, and was 
glad to sell ont for twenty-five dollars. Next I tried a catamaran 
aud the first puff pulled up the backstays and the deck with them, 
and the least little sea threatened to dislocate the whole contrivance. 
Then followed a good honest boat, yaw! again, of seven tons, with 
standing keel and lots of ballast, which a friend and self built to suit 
ourselves. She was 25ft. keel, $fit. beam, and 444 draft. And she 
is to this day the most comfortable cruiser and the ablest boat on the 
bay. My friend was a busy man and not often able to cruise, and the 
boat too large for me to handle myself, so I sold out and built myself 
a rough and ready little yawl of 20ft. keel, 5ft. beam, and 4ft. Yin. 
draft with some ballast hitched on to the kee! and any amountinside. 
More as an experimeab than anything else, and consequently just 
thrown together in any shape so long as it was cheap. 

This little hooker, with her bottom foul ull the time, she was merely 
paid over with coal tar. and bolt heads.and rivets sticking out all 
over, ballast of blacksmith’s scrap and sand, berthed three of us on a 
two weeks’ crnise of 500 milesin ber tiny cabin under a flush deck, 
and behaved in an astonishing way in a stiff breeze and rough water. 
Latterly she was lightened up alittle and rigzed as a cutter, and is 
said to sail muecnu better, Lage fall, in a southeasterly gale, beat out 
six miles to windward with a couple of ladies on board, made her 
port and came back, when a 8vft. fishing boat of the centerboard per- 
suasion making for the same point, turned and fied, Her faults were 


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that she was too short and ‘jumped short,'' as the fish 
and her accommodations were tather meager, ie pi a 
For the last two summers [have been knocking about the eoast, 
and incidentally have done a lot, of boat traveling. Have made long 
trips in every month, from early in May to late in January, and have 
had a nerve-trying time in these wretched flat-bottomed, climker-built 
boats, hammerme at head Seas with a disheartening amount of lee- 
way, and the hoat threatening to stave in her bows or break her back 
at any moment. Was obliged lo bear away, and run before a furi- 
ous squall on ohe occasion simply because all the centerboard we 
could give her would not hold her waste hulk above water and light 
weight, and enable her te wor< up under short canyas, Another 
time we were literally blown away from our anchor and hove on the 
beach in fairly smooth water, and nearly starved and frozen to death 
before we got afloat and reached camp again, All this, and the pros- 
pect of more traveling next summer, has moved me.to design the 
Preda, anarrow yawl or ketch-rigged yacht of 29ft. waterline, and 6ft. 
4in. beam, with 5,000 lbs. on the keel. H. K, W. 
Port Arraur, Lake Superior. 


A VERY FAST YACHT. 


HE Petrel, the property of Mr. John Hyslop, of New York, is 
pretty well known to local cireles as a yacht of more than ordi- 
nary speed, and, above all, as a yacht which excels on all points in 
allsorus of weather. But with her form under water few are ac 
quainted, The Petrel carries valuable lessons on many of the prin- 
cipal topics continually cropping out in elub gossip, and also demon- 
strates what can be done by earnest study and the application of 
science. She is a production cf great interest to all, and isto becon- 
sidered a prominent beacon, marking the turn around which publie 
opinion has swept during recent years. Built in 1876, the honor of 
leading off in the reform must be conceded this handsome little 
vessel, True, the cutter Vindex had preceded the Petrel by several 
years, but the Vindex did not represent in the elements of her de- 
sign a very radical departure from the proportions of a deep sloop, 
though in point of outline and rig she properly enough laid claims to 
recognition as a cutter, The Petrel, on the contrary, borgowed none 
of the sloop’s elements, but was a complete departure and bold 
“revolution** upon. all the cherished traditional aogmas of. the old 
slocp school, according to whose creed sbe should haye been 4 de- 
pressing failure in eyery respect. Had the owner sought promi- 
nence for his boat through working up a racing record, the 
advent of the Madge and her yictories would have possessed 
nothing novel or instructive, as we should have Jearned 
through the Petrel’s performance what the Madge drove 
into our heads at a much later period. Indeed, the few 
who fo'lowed the Petrel with intelligenve, and who were free 
from preconceived notions, did privately reach those very conclu- 
sions which escaped the public at large, until the fame of the Madge’s 
victories hai been spread broadcast over the land. What we may 
for short call ‘cutter principles” received the most successful and 
complete vindication through the sailing of the Petrel, Most promi- 
nent is of course the fact that she isa keel boat, and the equal, or 
rather more than the equal, of any centerboard of her loadline sail- 
ing with fixed ballast, She exploded most thoroughly that ludicrous 
old fancy, that in practice the board is a whit faster than the keel, and 
for that alone, if nothing else, the Petrel deserves ta rank among the 
most influential achievements in the yachting world. The old school 
was much giyen to theorizing and the construction of rickety samples 
of logic. The new takes its departure on the basis of facts and ac- 
curate observation. Now, in theory the board is a faster contrivance 
than the keel, for the reason that its area is more effective, and con- 
sequently a smaller amount exposed to skin friction supplies the same 
weatherliness as a larger amount of keel which, owing to its lengtk, 
is not as effective. But in practice all this is again wiped out, because 
the keel offers the chance to kang ballast so much lower, equivalent 
to an increase of sail area, which overcomes, and often more than 
overcomes the extra amount of friction. And furthermore, the keel 
so steadies a boat on her helm, and holds her down to busiuess in 
choppy water, that the actual advantages in practice at least balanee 
the theoretical inferiority. The Petrel is en most posi- 
tive of the foregoing. For, cut the keel from beneath 
and supply a board instead, and a single glance at the accompanying 
plans will convince any yachtsman that the Petrel, as a centerboard, 
would have been a complete failure. She could not have carried her 
present sail plan by a good deal, nor could she have been pressed. 
She would have been exceedingly tender, without a will of her own, 
and in no way the good vessel she reallyis. Itis often the custom to 
point to some of the old-fashioned, flat-floored boats, with a plank 
spiked underneath, as evidence against the keel, or to the many an- 
cient keel tubs sailing in competition with the fastest modern 
boards of the day, But their comparatively poor display is to be, in 
justice, attributed to form and poor design, as well as inferior ballast- 
ing. Whatever such keel boats may do, the Petrelis always indis- 
putable proof that a keel boat can be made to equal any board yet 
produced, if the design, as a whole, is made to conform to the re- 
qurements of a keel, just as experience has clearly marked out cer- 
tain attributes as necessary to a successful vessel supplied with a 
board. The Petrel, the Bedouin, the Oriya, would all be fearful fail- 
ures were they to change to the board, and similarly it is rational to 
suppose that the keel must failunless the vessel, as a while, 1s of 
suitable planning. Where this is overlooked, the keel, asa matter of 
course, turns out more or Jess of a failure, and as all our builders 
were brought up to the trade of scheming upon boards, the new de- 
parture in favor of keels finds them laboring under the disadvantage 
of old associations, from which they cannot as yet quite free their 
minds while exploring an unaccustomed field. But give them the 
time to wunlearn and learn afresh, and the brilliant suc- 
eess of such yachts as the Petrel ought to be convincing 
enough as to what is possible with the keel. More especially so, 
when we mention that owing to the exigencies of personal business 
affairs, Mr, Hyslop has never been able to bestow more than casual 
atrention to the equipment of the Petrel, and nowadays no experi- 
enced man needs to be told that want of perfect preparation in this 
respectis a very heavy handicap with which to come to the line asa 
fighting vessel. The official record of the Petrel, though an excellent 
one, is dimmed somewhat by the unavoidable drawback as ex- 
lained, Butitisto her cruising reputation, her many off-hand 
rushes with other well-known yachts of herclass, that we must 
look for a true interpretation of her capacities. It has been our good 
fortune to ship aboard the Petrel upon many an occasion, and our 
own verdict as well as that of those intimately acquainted with the 
yacht, stamps the Petrel as a cutter of phenomenal speed. Should 
she ever be taken in hand in earnest and skippered for what there 
really is in her, we do not hesitate to predict for her a racing career 
which will put herin the van of public estimation as the fastest 
yacht of her loadline yet launched trom any port on this side of the 
Atlantic. 

Her lines and elements are therefore deserving of the closest study 
and we deem their production in these pages for the benefit of the 
public one of the great services rendered to yachting through this 
journal, 

: The Petrelis a craft entitled to a niche inthe temple of fame for 
reasons other than herspeed. Sheis a ‘scientific’ design in the 
fullest meaning of the word. She was not whittled ont asa happy’ 
go-lucky venture, but was deliberately planned for a purpose. Mr. 
Hyslop had given Scott Russell’s wave line theory full investigation, 
and backed by numerous well executed experiments arrived at the 
conclusion that wave lines only opened the door to an enlarged system 
of construction of far more importance and more immediate PuEnce s 
bility than mere cycloidal waterlines could possibly cover. ng 
before the Petrel was struck out on paper, Mr. Hyslop had formu- 
lated the system of ‘‘waye-line areas,” In which the cross sections 
are made to correspond in the relation of their areas to the ordinates 
of the wave curve mooted hy Scott Russell, instead of piving such 
shape to waterlines, only regardless of their areas. Thus the theory 
which Scott Russell applied to the contour of lines only, Mr. Hyslop 
impressed upon the actual volume of the boat passing through the 
eee This same system was later on composed by Mr. Colin 
Archer, a Norwegian shipbuilder, and by him published in the Lon- 
don Field some years ago. and by his name the system now gener- 
ally goes, Itis right, however, that Mr, Hyslop should share in the 
credit of the production of a method which, in some of its details, 
he has carried to a degree of refinement beyond the proposition of 
Colin Archer. Of course we are not prepared to reason from the 
single success of the Petrelthat the system is the Jong-sought 
philosopher's stone, and that equally favorable results can be 
counted upon with certainty by smuply mechanically revolving the 
crank of some set formula, butthe Petrelis aball events strong 
prima facle evidence that a close adherence to the formula is com 
patible, if not directly conducive to the highest results, while as a 
general standard of comparison for estimating the elements and date 
of boats, the system admits of no question. There seems good rea- 
son to invest it with promising import, as Mr, Hyslop has brought 
the fornuula into requisition upon other occasions with favorable re 
sults. The new cutter Merlin was designed by Mr. Ripley on the. 
same principles, and will be watched closely in pursuit o further 
testimony for or against. It is likewise noteworthy that all fast 
yachts of which data are at hand correspond in their cross areas — 
very closely to the wave line ordinates, including; hose owing their 
success to “intuition,” that is whittling with an eye to whittle by. It 
should be added that Petrel’s waterlines are also in themselves 


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raking post, the lowest position to weights, with a high center of 
Srayenerit Rareante ioe modaraln “ay (agen a thereby insur- 
ing enough sail with the choice of driving the boat upon an easy side. 

_proper balance between immersed and emersed wedges preserving 
- te Sar ie trim. as when at a plumb and the ease on her helm which 


follows. Healthy draftin proportion to displacement. For a boat 
of her depth the Petrel is distinguished by the wonderful ease of her 
cna ines aft sections and her djagonals, as inspection of the plans 
will elucidate. She has just enough flare to her bow frames to lift 
dry and clear, just enough tumble home to topsides for a long easy 
_ body to drive when heeled under pressure of wind, and her quarters 
are drawn in just enough for perfect delivery and at the same time 
ease in her motions. She lifts to everything because free from 
haunches aft to prevent the depression of her stern. In regard to 
rig she is a cutter in point of principle, though in some of the 
mechanical features corresponding to the sloop. Hersail plan will 
be produced next week. ; d 

In actual sailing the Petrelis perfection. She is the easiest boat 
imaginable, and though her lee gangway is awash by the time she 
is fairly down to her bearings and at her best in a smart breeze, she 
is remarkably dry to windward, She throws no spray in the hardest 
drives, and rides to her chain like a rocking chair without tug or 
snub of the slightest appreciation. She is able in a chop, and with 
two cringles down puts in licks to windward, screwing out higher 
than she points in astonishing style Sheis at all times and in all 
weather very fast, jammed high or romping with sheets lifted. From 
actual experience through several seasons we know her draft never 
gives anyone the slightest perturbation, Which can easily enough be 
understood when we remember that five feet is scarce neck-high, 
and no call exists for sailing in shoaler water when there are thou- 
sands of square miles where more than five feet can be carried to 
every one-acre puddle with less. There is no difficulty in beaching 
for a scrub, as a leg is got out abreast the chain plates at high water, 
and the throat and peak carried broad off to steady as the water 
falls away. Her rig caer no complications in practice whatever. 
The foresail has a light boom to the foot, the boom working on the 
sheet as a traveler, so that foresheet need not be touched in beating 
up. One might sail in her all day and never be aware of her cutter 
rig. No one who has cruised in her ever as much as mentions or 
notices her doubie bead sail, which is answer enough to the bugbear 
about “complications.” 

On the other hand, the rig is found extremely convenient, as it does 
away with all reefing and bobbing of jib and also gives greater choice 
of arrangement of sail. Tke area is quite moderate for the boat's 
length, far less than in a beamy hard-bilged sloop, and spars corres- 
pone snug and light with beneficial effect in ahead sea. The 

etrel heels quickly to her bearings as can be imagined, and until it 
blows strong is Over on her side considerably more than a sloop, but 
neyer enough to interfere with perfect control and the management 
of her gear, or ‘‘comfort,” in spite of the impressions her heeliag 
may produce upon the inexperienced seeing her under way. And 
when heeled she goes along about her business in holiday fashion 
without towing her helm over the weather quarter, and without any 
gymnastics to keep heron her course. And her speed in a breeze is 
enough to contradict that ludicrous vagary that the wind ‘‘just blows 
over her sails’? without doing any good. And her speed and keen 
pointing at all times is likewise enough in opposition to the equally 
absurd notion that one big bag of a jib drives better than two well 
trimmed flat surfaces, the inner sail operating to better purpose ona 
forestay at much less obtuse angle than the lifting, and therefore less 
efiective lead of a single jibstay to bowsprit end. 

Practically, the Petrel opened the title chapter of the new era in 
‘New York waters, and that the first attempt to depart radically in 
all essentials from the cast-iron dogmas of snarled tradition in Amer- 
ican yacht building should haye been accompanied by such unequiv- 

_acal success is the reward of her originator for his independence of 
thought and clear analysis of the principles of design. As the 'pio- 
neer of the new era, as the first ‘American cutter,” as the exnonent 
of intelligent process, as a flyer of first rank. the Petrel will always 
live a bright and shining example in the history of the transitory 
period through which American yachting is now passing. 

hea eparonmence ll ty: ne el) Poul. ide ta ae 32. 


OD risrtipinn Veta eter Wa CODD, Cin tence cele es 28ft. 
Bear extreme on Uh Werlw.. oles lc cee eee cose 8ft. 
Depth, planksheer to garboard on M.S........... 4ft. Tin, 
Least freeboard............. Esterase TAPE ecce eee Lge 1644in. 
CG Abas igen rel ins Sd GUE eat cei tA eee .. 4ft. 10%4in 
Displacement....-.......... et tee es Sie 744 tons. 
Rey TEheUy CESS 5 Sia, Rica te mp eee Bee 4.0u0ibs. 
SAU SSTONSCGClE © lone ny ada: oo dele etc faa bet eh 2,526lbs. 
Avea lower sail...) Ee Bie nets ore 800sq. ft. 
Hoist of mainsail.........0...0.0.08 Lee --.. 20ft. 
Ratio of sail to square L.W.L........... 102 per cent. 


Attention is called to the small sail area required to drive the Pet- 
rel. Itis about the same as that of the sloop Gleam of only 23ft. 
loadline, and the hoist of Petrel’s mainsail is much less, being 18ft. 
against Gleam’s 23ft. The great econ my in driving power and man- 
agement of the cutter is very apparent. The Petrel on 28ft. drives 71g 
tons displacement with practically the same sail the Gleam requires 
for only 5 tons on 23ft. There is little difference in the cost of the two 
boats, but the cutter is much the larger, abler, and would leave the 
Gleam out of sight in a match, all of which is obtained by departing 
from the tradition of great beam and centerboard, and building upon 
an intelligent and well considered scheme. The difference in ballast 
between the two is about two tons, or say $50 for inside iron, a purely 
nominal sum, considering the far greater return received from the 
Petrel’s design than from that of the Gleam. : 


% CUI BONO? 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

Believing as I do that under equal conditions the cutter Aneto did 
not nor can outsail the Gleam, I will match the Gleam against the 
Aneto for three races for $100 cup each race; Atlantic Y. C. course 
and rules. JoHN G. PRAGUE, A, Y. C. 

47 Brste House. . ; 

[The proposition is hardly likely to lead to a race, as no grounds 
for arace exist, Aneto is a little cruiser, 2ix7ft., with a lower sail 
area of 405 sq. ft. Gleam isa racing sloop, 23x9, with an area of 7x8 

_ sq.ft. Hoist of Aneto’s mainsail is 14ft.; that of Gleam is 28ft. The 
difference in size and character of the two boats is much too great 
to permit their maeine to any logical purpose. The Aneto is also 
yawlLrigged, which of itself is enough to prevent a match upon even 
terms, as the Atlantic Y.C. rules impose. Nor do we suppose that 
any sensible person, least of ailthe owner of the Aneto, claims her 
capable of beating Gleam in ordinary weather. About the only 
chance for the Aneto isin a drift pure and simple, which would be 
without satisfaction to either party, orelse in a nose-ender with a 
jump when Gleam is at her worst, owing to excessive beam and over- 
Sparring, conditions under which Aneto came out best in a brush be- 
tween the two last fall out of Larchmont harbor. Such conditions 
could not be insured ia Mr. Prague’s offer, and without them no one 

retends the snug little cruiser Aneto a match for a boat one-third 
arger, with nearly twice the sail area]. 


BELLEVILLE NOTES. 


Ghee rojected Lake Yacht Racing Association will soon. in all 
probability. be an accomplished fact, as nearly all the clubs con- 
cerned haye signified their approval, and appointed delegates to a 
eonyention which will be held two weeks hence in Toronto for the 
purpose of organization. The knotty points will be the limits for 
* second class. shifting of ballast in second class, and rule of measure- 
ment. I have no doubt that the length and sail area rule of meas- 
urement will carry, and that standing ballast will be decreed, but the 
classification will be troublesome, as several yachts were built to the 
extreme verge of the old limit, which ought to be conformed to as 
F ole a8 possible in justice to all concerned. 

Mr. R. J. Bell’s Norah is on the Marine Railway at Deseronto, where 
she will get a thorough overhauling before entering on another sea- 
-son’s work. 

_ Treasurer Pike’s cutter Sylvia is to get a heavier keel, which she is 
in great need of. 
new steam yacht may be added to the fleet this year. 

No new crait in hand here, and no repairs or fitting out yet. 

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MODEL YACHT.—Mr, Daniel T, Hendrickson, of No. 22 Bast Me- 
chanic street, has just completed a miniature model of a modern 
racing cutter from the lines laid down in Forrsr anp Stream last 
‘summer in islustrating the Neva, of Boston. li is extremely doubt- 
ful if a similar model has ever been made with such failhful at- 
tention to detail and skillful handling of the numerous small parts. 
The hull is built of whitevood in two pieces, each half being 
steamed and bent into perfect conformity with the framework of 
ribs. The rail and trimmings are of mahogany and white holly, 
the hull is black to the waterline and gilt below. The deck is laid 
off in seams conforming to the lines of the vessel, and a grating 
of mahogany occupies the bow. where also is a small working cap- 
stan of brass. A geared steering wheel moves the rudder, and little 
blocks with sheaves of brass are allin their proper places. and will 
do their required work. The cockpit is upholstered with velvet 
seats and surrounded with a coaming of white holly and mahogany, 
each strip of which is about one-quarter inch wide and an inch 
long, and is worked with a delicate bead. From the cockpit four 
Imahogany steps lead dewn into tlie cabin, which is housed over 
and lighted with brass-rimmed ports. The cabin is carpeted, and 
contains completely furnished bunks and lockers and a dining-fable, 
everything made exactly as though intended for the use of a 
liliputian crew. The whole model is not more than 414ft. in length, 
the hull measuring 32in. itis rigged with mainsail, topsail and jibs. 
—Newark Sunday Call. 


LARCHMONT Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, Augustin 
Monroe, sloop Schemer; Vice-Commodore, A. Bryan Alley, sloop 
Cruiser; Rear-Commodore, Harold A, Sanderson, open boat Zoe: 
Corresponding Secretary, William Porter Jenkins; Recording Secre- 
tary, Frank L. Anthony; Treasurer, Thomas B. Brown; Measurer, 
Frank E. Towle. 


HAVERHILL Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, W. M. 
Dresser; Vice-Commodore, G. A. Toxboy; Fleet Captain, N. G. 
Knowles; Secretary and Treasurer, C. H. Stacy; Measurer, Lewis 
Willett. Trustees—E. P. Tenny, L. H. Spauldmg, C. H. Stacy. Re- 
gatta Committee—E, F. Brown, F. G. Knowles, J. B. Collins. 

NEW HAVEN Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, Charles 
W. Scranton, sloop Acme; Vice-Commodore, Frank Wheeler, sloop 
Wild Pigeon; Fleet Captain, Alexander Lutz, sloop Wild Duck; 
Secretary, Henry D. Bristol; Treasurer, James Gallagher, Jr.: 
Measurer, Frank H. Andrews. 

MANHATTAN Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, George 
E. Brighton, sloop Susie B.; Vice-Commodore, Henry Andrus, cutter 
Sasqua: HKear-Commodore, N. D. Lawton, sloop Gleam; Secretary, 
James R. Thomas; Treasurer, William H. Simonson. The annual 
cruise is fixed for June 39. 


15IS.—The new cutter building at Poillon’s will be named the Isis. 
She is 62ft. Sin. over all, 51ft. 5in. waterline, 13ft. beam, 8ft. hold. and 
Sft- water, Built from designs of the owner, Mr. Cass Canfield. 


FORTUNA.—Through a member of Mr. Hovey’s family, we learn 
that he is very much pleased with the performance of his schooner 
ab sea. 


GITANA.—Mr. Weld’s schooner arrived at Villefranche March 13. 
MONTAUK~—Arrived at St. Kitts, Feb. 14; all well. 


‘sider the best for trout fiy-rods, viz: 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Long ANGLER.—There is a letter for you at this office. 


Max, Hopedale, Mass.— A communication for youis at this office. 
Please send addiess. It has been mislaid. 


E. G. B., Hartford, Conn.—We have never used the wads about 
sti you ask, but are told that they will notdo what is claimed for 
them. 


J. H., Elizabethtown, Pa.—Where is the Bullard Repeating Arms 
Company located? And is Mr. Farrow superintending the making of 
the new rifle? Ans. Springfield, Mass. He is in their employ. 


C. A. R., Pittsburgh, Pa.—1. Received the signal, ete. 2..We know 
of nosuch map. 3. Waters Bros., Troy, N. Y. 4. None of this size 
have been built, All such boats must be carefully kept and housed. 


F. W., Paterson, N. J—Which of the following woods do you con- 
Bethabara, greenhart, lance- 
wood, or snakeroot? Ans. These woods all have their advocates and 
their faults. Lancewood if properly made, so as notto be too heavy, 
is as good as any. 


E. J. B., Charlottetown, P. H. 1.—Are the thread-wound cartridges 
for long ranges advertised in ForEST AND STREAM really of any use? 
A friend of mine here tried some of them and assures me that the 
area fraud. Ans, We have never used them, but have heard them 
well spoken of by those who have. 


J. H. R., Scranton. Pa.—Can you inform me where I can find a good 
assortment of huvting pictures—quail and partridge shooting, ete,— 
as I wish to purchase a pair of such pictures; size, not over 12x14 
inches. Ans. Write to J.M. Tracy for catalogue of his pictures. 
We do not know of many good pictures. 


S. M. N., New York.—Havye the State Fish and Game Commission- 
érs made a report of the year’s doings, or is there any way of finding 
out what the sectional protectors haye done during the past year? 
Ans, The report of the Fish Commissioners of New York is now in 
the hands of the State Printer and will soon’be issued. 


J. B., Brooklyn, N. Y.—Is the species known as Andubon’s warbler 
extinct (Dendr@ca auduboni)? If not, isit only occasionally seen 
and what is its habitat? Ans, A very common bird from the Rocky 
Mountains to the Pacific. Further East, accidental. The wing you 
send belongs to the American goldfinch or yellow bird. (Astragalinus 
tristis. 

C. B,, Taunton, Mass.—What is the best way to raise goldfish? Can 
their eggs be taken and hatched in trays? Ans. Get medium-sized 
bright fish and put in a pond where there are water plants and where 
the water gets warm. They willspawn in May or June and hatch 
without care. The young are brown the first year, and im some 
waters longer. Their spawn is glutinous and cannot be handled on 
trays as some other eggs are. 


RAMBLER'S CLUB, Chelsea,Mass,—1. Which is the best place in Massa- 
chusetts, both as regards gunning and fishing, for a party to go 
camping? 2. Which is the best place in Maine for a party to spend a 
few weeks gunning and fishing? 3. Where is the best camping ground 
in New Hampshire? Ans. You give no idea as to the season of the 
year at which you wish to go, and it is therefore impossible to answer 


intelligently your Pee Tn Massachusetts there is fair gunning 
for shore birds on Cape Cod. Grouse and quail near Plymouth. For 
information about Maine resorts write to Kennedy Smith, Eustis, 
Maine. New Hampshire shores of Lake Winnepissaukee or among 
the Green Mountains; almost anywhere, 


SUBSCRIBER, Brunswick, Ga.—l. Please let me know where I can 
purchase froin 100 to 200 live quail for stocking Pieraha 2. What 
is the largest squid on record? 3. How often does a bitch get in 
heat? 4, How jong from time should she be locked up? Ans. 
1, Write to Chas. Reiche & Bro., Chatham street, New York. 2. The 
largest entire squid that we know of was in the New York Aquarium. 
It was forty feet long. It may now be in Coup’s Museum and 
Theatre, Chicago. 3. Generally twice a year. 4. About three weeks. 


G. E.S8., Fredericton, N, B.—i. There is a certain lake not far from 
this; itis about half a mile long and a quarter long, very pure good 
water, entirely fed by springs, no inlet and not much outlet except 
for about three months in the year when the water seems to rise a 
bit. In about one-third of the lake a line 160 feet long cannot find 
bottom, the rest of the lake is from six to twelve feet deep. There 
are in it now some black bass and trout. What would be good fish to 
stock it with, both in a sporting and ‘‘money” sense of the word? 
The lake, I believe, has a inuddy bottom. 2. As Iam thinking of go- 
ing on a trip on horseback in a short time, please send me any in- 
formation upon bridle, saddle or camping out which might be of use. 
Ans. 1. We presume that the fish already in the lake will do better 
than any other kind. Should think that trout especially ought to do 
well there. 2. Would recommend a heayy leather hvadstall with 
rings and snaps at the sides, so that the bit could be taken off without 
removing the headstall. There should be a ring beneath the jaw to 
which a rope could be attached. Use a Californian or Mexican sad- 
dle, but get one that comes somewhere near fitting you. There are 
many works on camping. See list of books we publish. We have 
not the space here for an essay on the subject. ~ 


Designer, New York.—1. Is the rock bass mentioned in your paper 
the striped bass? 2. Are the parties right who say they are caught 
with the fy? I remember one day last April catching a fine striped 
bass upon a hook which had a piece of scarlet worsted, frayed out, 
tied to the shank, and was baited with clam. The day was cold and 
gray and the water wild, with wind blowing off shore, tide flood. 
Writing about bass reminds me of some which I caught last fall, the 
gills of which contained a hard bony bug, which, when put upon the 
finger would take a firm hold upon the flesh and were hard to remove. 
3. What are they? 4. Where can menhaden be obtained in this city? 
5. The planting of salmon in the Hudson, mentioned in one of last 
year’s papers, was it done, and will they appear in the Hudson in 
1885, or will they seek the native stream of the parent fish as the ex- 
Commissioner of the Canadian Fishculture asserts, and be seen in the 
Hudson no more? Would they be seen breaking waterin the lower 
Hudson as well as upper part? Ans.1. No. The rock bass is a fresh- 
water fish, seldom reaching a pound in weight. As the striped bass 
of the North is called rock, and rockfish in the South, the two are 
often confounded. 2. The rock bass, Ambloplites, takes the fly. 3. 
A crustacean parasite often found on fresh-water fishes. 4, Of E.G. 
Blackford, Fulton Market. 5. The salmon were planted and may 
return. There is no probabilty of their seeking the Penobscot. from 
which they came. They would be apt to show in the lower Hudson if 
they return, 


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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 

Disqualification of Jill at Cin- 
cinnati, 

Eastern Field Trials Club. 
Champiou Knickerbocker. 
Robins Island Club, 
Fox Shooting and Fox Hunting. 
N. A. K. C. Derby. 
St. Louis Dog Show. 
The Washington Dog Show. 
Clover Belle, 
New York Dog Show. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 

RIFLE AND TRAF SHOOTING. 
Non-Cleaning Scores. 


Eprroriat. : 
In a Receiver’s Hands. 
Opening of the Trout Seasons. 
Unheeded Lessons. 
Amateur Photography. 

THe SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Between the Lakes.—vint. 
In the Woods, and Out. 

NATURAL Hisrory. 
The Deer of the Ottawa Valley. 
The Muskrat as a Fish-Bater. 
Bird Notes, 

Game Baa anp Gun. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
Coming of the Birds. 


Two Mornings’ Work. Range and Gallery. 

South Carolina Days. The Trap. 

The First Snipe. Boston Gun Club Tournament. 
Philadelphia Notes. CANOEING. 


Long Island Poaching. 
Roeky Mountain Ram and 
Grizzly. 

The American Deer Family. 
SrA anD Riveg FISHING. 

Long or Short Rods. 

The Pollution of Rivers. 

The Dowel Question. 


Rob Roy C. C. of Indianapolis. 
Knickerbocker C. C. 

English and American Canoeing 
Canoe vs. Sneakbox, 

A Pro pt Acceptance. 

Large vs, Small Canoes. 

The All-Around Canoe. 

Local Canoe Meets, 


The Rainbo v Darter. Boating Trips on New England 

Big Bass Lake. Rivers. 

Vermont Fish Laws. YACHTING. 

The Bisby Club. The Petrel. 

Itis Probably True. The Gleam and Aneto. 

A Peeuliar Fish. The Cost of Yachts. 
FISHCULTURE. Isis. 

Non-Hibernating Carp. The 8. 8. Norma, 
THE EL Some Final General Remarks. 


New England Kennel Club. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


IN A RECEIVER'S HANDS. 


is ieee Yellowstone Park Improvement Company is in the 

hands of a receiver. It is stated that the motion for a 
receiver was made at the instigation of Rufus Hatch, whois 
believed to be the largest creditor of the concern. Justwhat 
the exact factsof the case are, cannot now be known, but, as 
reported, it stands something like this: The application for a 
receiver was made in Trenton, N. J., before Judge Nixon, 
of the United States Court, by Charles E. Quincy, a stock- 
holder and creditor. Mr. A. L. Love, cashier of the Steb- 
bins Bank, of Livingston, Montana, which is a creditor of 
the company fo the extent of $18,000 or $14,000, was ap- 
pointed receiver, and will for the present manage the affairs 
of the company for the benefit of the stockholders, 

The liabilities of the concern are stated at $210,000, against 
which they have the hotel and furniture, which cost $150,- 
000, some few horses and cattle, and some sawmills built on 
Government land and used to saw for themselves timber be- 
longing to the United States. Rufus Hatch claims to have 
advanced $112,000 out of the $130,000 expended upon the 
project, and instigates these proceedings for the protection 
of this claim. 

The readers of Forrst AnD STREAM are pretty well ac- 
quainted with the history of this company, but we may 
give some additional inside facts about it. Among the in- 


corporators were a number of prominent men, but they were 


only figureheads, and the real parties in interest were Rufus 


Hatch, John Douglass, C. T. Hobart and Henry Douglass. 


John Douglass is the brother-in-law of Senator Windom, 


who made such a strong fight to have the Park given up to 
the exclusive use of this company. It appears now that. 


these partners have fallen out, and John Dougiass tells the 
story of the final rupture as follows. After stating that 
negotiations had been in progress to pull the concern out of 


its difficulties, and that Hatch had promised to await the 
issue of the pending arrangements, he continued: 


“The question of the settlement of the affairs of the company de- 
pended largely upon the temper and intentions of the creditors. If 
they were disposed to wait and be aecommodating, there were two 
parties, one living West on the Northern Pacific and the other in New 
York, who were ready to put up the $30,000 Mr. Hatch demanded as 
a condition precedent for his retirement from the company. These 
two gentlemen were absent en an extended trip and were delayed 
thereon. I telegraphed Mr. Hatch, and received a reply from him 
dated New York, March 6. Hereitis. Read it for yourseN. You 
see it says, ‘Will wait len days for a proposition from you,’ The ten 
days did not expire until last Sunday, and I now discover that Mr. 
Loye was appointed receiver ten days ago. Arrangements to secure 
such appointment must have been pending when Mr. Hatch tele- 
graphed that he would wait. The Stebbins Bank, with which Re- 
ceiver Love is connected, is a creditor to the amount of $18,000, not 
all of it debts due the bank directly, but on paper they have cashed 
or bought. I further learn that Mr. Stebbins proposes to foreclose on 
the property and assume control of the affairs of the company, leay- 
jug us out in the cold, but he will discover that he cunnot do this 
easily, as we will fight for our rights.” 

“Who are ‘we?’ ” 

‘Well, there are a number of figureheads, of course, but Henry FP. 
Douglass, my son, C. T. Hobart, and myself, with Rufus Hatch, con- 
stitute the ‘we.’ By the terms of a private contract entered into be” 
tween Henry Douglass and Mr. Hobart on the one hand and Rufus 
Hatch on the other, the latter was to receive 35 per cent. of the inter- 
est in the Improvement Company, leaving 65 per cent. for the rest of 
us, and this private contract, which will haye to be made publie soon, 
is all we have to show for our right, title and interest in the company. 
By the terms of that contract the three parties named bound them- 
selves solemnly to stand together and protect their mutuality of in- 
terest. No important measure to be carried into effect without the 
consent of two out of the three.” 

The Livingston, Mont., Enterprise says, regarding the sit- 
uation-at the Park: 

C. F, Hobart, agent of the Park Improvement Company, at Mam- 
moth Hot Springs, is securing the claims of a few of the creditors, 
by giving mortgages upon the company’s chattels. To one a lien 
upon the stock of liquors has been issued, and to another security 
upon the piano at the hotel, and so on, The carpenters who are 
holding the hotel wish to be secured in the same way, but Mr. Hobart 
told them he thought they had a good enough thing if they could 
maintain it without any mortgages. 

It was supposed, at first, that this application for a 


Receiver might have been made for the purpose of arousing 


sympathy for the broken down company, and thus in-. 


fluencing legislation at Washington in their favor. This 
does not appear to be the case, however, and. since it is seen 
that the only sufferers are the speculators who went into the 
scheme with their eyes open, we presume that very few tears 
will be shed on their account. I? all that is said is true, the 
only heavy loser is Hatch. 

It is to be hoped, however, that whoever manages it in the 
future will have a little more regard for the rights of the 
Government and the people than has been manifested by 
Hobart and Hatch; certainly whoever he may be he cannot 
have less than they did. 


UNHEEDED LESSONS. 

HAT is the lesson which the floods of the winter teach 
us? A few weeks since, the sympathies of the country 
were stirred by tales of the suffering along the Ohio River. 
Now we learn that the valley of the lower Mississippi isa vast 
inland sea, that farmsare many feet under water, that stock 
is drowned, that men, women and children are living on 
rafts and in the lofts of gin houses; that, unless Government 
aid is extended to these poor people, they must starve, This 

aid should be sent them. It cannot be done too quickly. 
The tale is a pitiful one. It is alsoan oft repeated one. 
But no remedy, except the ancient one of building dirt walls, 
which are washed away as soon as the water reaches them, is 
suggested. Occasionally a seeker for a fat contract at Wash- 
ington proposes to wall in the river frem source to mouth. 
Still the destruction of the forests. goes on, and will continue 
until the burdens of the unhappy people who dwell on the 
banks of the Ohio ahd the Mississippi become too great to be 
longer borne. When the annual floods have depopulated 
this great and once fertile and prosperous region, then our 
sluggish legislators may be induced to take some action. In 


| the mean time, God help the poor people in the. Southwest, 


whose possessions are annually destroyed by the floods. 

Our law givers are slow to learn. They follow public 
opinion, never lead it. And until the public sentiment shall 
demand in unmistakable tones that our fields and hills be 
reforested, the law makers may be trusted to do nothing. 
From the valleys of the Ohio and the Mississippi, where the 
terrible effects of our criminal waste of the woodlands are 
fast making themselves felt, will come the cry for protection 
from floods which are annually more dreadful, and this cry 
will be taken up soener or later all over the country. 

This protection must be on a scale commensurate with the 


forces to be resisted. As well attempt to bind the ocean in 


feiters of brass, as to confine with levees the Mississippi, 
when, swollen by the precipitation of half a continent, it 
hurries toward the Gulf. We may curb the waters when 
they are raindrops, or tiny rills, or springs, with some pros- 
pects of success, but to restrain the Father of Waters when 
once he has burst his banks, is impossible. 

The case is a plain one and demands attention from those 
in power. Even if it were taken in hand to-day it would be 
years before the full effects of the reforesting would be felt. 
If some measures are not at once adopted by the Legislatures 
of the different States and by the general Government to- 
ward the establishment of forestry commissions, and an intel- 
ligent and universal tree planting, the losses from floods will 
each year become more severe, and portions of our territory, 
once reckoned most fertile and valuable, will be deserted by 
their inhabitants, and become mere waste land, 

The people are slow to learn, but it seems as if the lessons 
of the present year must haye taught something to those 
most nearly affected, if not to the country at large. Will 
this lesson pass unheeded? Will another more severe be 
required? 


OPENING OF THE TROUT SEASON. 
EFORE we go to press again, the trout season will be 
opened in the State of New York. That is, it will be 
legally opened all over the State, although in fact few 
waters, besides those of Long Island, will be actually fished. 
There are enthusiastic anglers who would fish on the coldest 
day in mid-winter, if the season was lawfully opened on that 
day, and who will fish Long Island waters on the Ist of 
April, no matter how much the east wind may whistle about 
their ears. Others, more sensible, will await the coming of 
weather fit for angling, when they can cast their lines with- 
out suffering, and we will wait with tham. 

The fishing-tackle dealers are busy in filling orders, and in 
showing the noyelties in tackle that have been put on the 
market since last year. In this line there is nothing particu- 
larly worthy of note outside of reels. Several new reels are 
out, and they seem to combine all that an angler can wish 
for. We think there has been a great improyement in reels 
within the year, and it would seem asif perfection had at 
last been reached. ‘I'he curbstone dealer in walking-cane 
rods has not yet made his appearance, By the time the 
angle worms get to the surface, and begin to bask in the 
moon’s cool rays, he will be out with his traps to sell to 
boys with more pennies than judgment, and who will show 
their companions their ‘“‘genuine Japanese fishing-rod which 
shuts up into a bully cane.” 

The trout exhibition at Blackford’s, in Fulton Market, 
‘will be up to the usual standard, and will repay lovers of 
trout to inspect. Trout of all sizes, ages and colors will be 
present from all parts of trout-bearing America, as well as 
from some parts of Europe. Truly the 1st of April in New 
York City is the anglers’ holiday. 


Stocking PRESERVES. — We understand that Messrs. 
Reiche & Bro. have furnished, during the past winter, oyer 
two thousand live quail to parties who desired to turn these 
birds out for the purpose of stocking their grounds. Of 
these, it is said that more than one-half have died in 
captivity, through the ignorance or neglect of those who had 
them in charge. In many cases the birds were not supplied 
with gravel, and in others no greens were given them, and 
they soon succumbed to disease. The hints published in 
these columns a few weeks ago should have been more 
carefully observed. For Mr. Lorillard’s preserve in New 
Jersey a number of English pheasants have been imported, 
as well as a lot of English partridges, and arrangements are 
being made for a large shipment of prairie chickens from 
the West. All these movesare in the right direction and 
it is to be hoped that they will be crowned with success. 


Woopcock IN THE Crty.—Last week a dead woodeock, 
which had flown against the telegraph wires, was picked up 
by a hackman in the Bowling Green in this city. Another, 
killed in the same way, was found in a gutter in Canal 
street. Both were large birds and in good order, In New- 
ark, N.J,, one was found dead on the roof of a piazza, having 
evidently flown against the house during the night and 
dropped down on to the roof, where it was found the next 
morning, The last of the birds are moving along now. Many 
have been here for nearly a month, 


‘‘WoopcraF?” is in an advanced state of preparation, and 
will probably be ready for delivery in less than two weeks’ 
time. Judging from the enthusiastic letters which we re- 
ceive about it, old ‘““Nessmuk’s” hook is going to have a boom, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Maron 27, 1884. 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


| to hold a watch, you should learn to count by seconds. With 


\ ANY of the readers of Forest AND STREAM will no | a little practice you can learn to count accurately. Not one 


doubt take with them on their summer tour or vaca- 
tion a camera, Those who expect to do so should purchase 
it now, and devote some time to practice, before going, into 
the field to take views. The experience gained in this way 
will be of great value to them, saving many failures, and 
enabling them to bring home a good set of views, instead of 
a lot of plates, which, through the lack of knowledge of the 
operator, may, when developed, produce results altogether 
unsatistactory. 

There are plenty of books devoted to the subject of Ama- 
teur Photography, and the beginner will, of course, study 
them for information on the subject. The following re- 
marks are intended merely to give certain hints, which are 
not found inthe books, The trouble with such volumes 
usually is, that they are written by professional photograph- 
ers. to whom the business is an old story, and who, because 
they know all about it, take too much for granted, and 
assume that the minute details of the work are known to 
every one. They are not simple enough. The writer is an 
amateur, self-taught, and hopes, by mentioning some of the 
difficulties which he has encountered, to help the readers to 
avoid or conquerthem. Ashe is writing entirely for be- 
ginners, some definition of the terms used may be given. 
The 

Lens is the disc of glass at the back of the tuhe, through 
which thedight reaches the glass plate, which receives the 
picture. The 

Tube is the metal cylinder, through which the light comes 
to the lens, its purpose being to keep out all side lights, and 
to admit only those from directly in front of the lens. The 
_ Cap is the covering for the open end of the tube, by the 
application of which all light is excluded from the camera. 
The 

Drop is a cap, perforated with a small hole in its center, and 
closing with a spring. The 

Ground -glass is a plate of this material in a frame at the 
back of the camera box. It receives the image of the picture 
through the lens, and the operator, by looking at this reflec- 
tion, is enabled to decide whether his ins{rument is properly 
focussed or not. The 

Camera is the box with bellows and slide, and when ready 
for use has the lens in position in front and the ground glass 
at the back. The 

Tripod is the frame of three jointed legs, on top of which 
the camera rests and revolves. The 

Plate holder is a light-tight frame, into which the plates are 
put for the purpose of exposing. The 

Shields are slides, usually of pasteboard or thin wood, which 
cover the plates when in the holder. ’ 

Since the lens forms the basis of all good pictures it is of 
the utmost importance to get a good one. It is much better 
to spend money on this, rather than in procuring a showy 
outfit. With a cheap, camera but a good lens, you can get 
excellent results, and the lens can be used for a camera of 
different size, if you should wish at any time to 
take larger views. When you have obtained your instru- 
ment, and know how to put it together and take it to 
pieces, it will be well to go out of doors and learn to set up 
and take down your camera, so as to be able to set it up ou a 
level, or square. The base line of the picture should be 
parallel to the lower margin of the plate. Practice looking 
through the instrument at the landscape, and be careful to 
get a good proportion of sky, fore and back ground. Face 
the instrument to the view you wish to take, put the ground 
glass in position at the back of the camera, and then look 
through it, covering the head and back of the instrument 
with a dark cloth, so as to exclude all light except that which 
enters through the tube. Looking toward the light before 
you, you will see on the ground glass the picture that you 
wish to take. If you should see nothing, slide the back of 
camera—and so the ground glass—backward or forward 
until “you do see the image. Then adjust the camera by a 
serew in the position in which the image appears most dis- 
tinct. This is called focussing, and is the same operation 
which you go through when you use an opera glass, In 
focussing, always select some definite, distinct object, and 
be sure that this object is sharply defined on the ground 
glass. Now move the camera on the. tripod to right or left, 
still looking through the ground glass with the head and in- 
strument covered with a dark cloth, so as to exclude all 
light except that which enters through the tube. Observe 
the effect of the shadows and the light, and you will very 
likely find that by taking in some additional object or 
through the changes of light you will have a much better 
picture than in the first position. The light often strikes 
the angles of a house im such a way as to make the shadows 
very dark, and to spcil what would be a very good picture 
if taken in a different position. Never face your camera so 
that the sun will shine into the tube, for this will throw the 
shadows in the wrong direction. Deep shadows and bright 
‘objects do not time well together in the same view. The 
exposere will be too short for one, and too long for the other. 

In taking off the cap, do it quickly, but without jarring the 
instrument, and carry the hand down and toward the tripod, 
not out in front, In returning it, catch the tube on the lower 
side first. When the drop is used, no ciserction as to time 
van be exercised, but as the drop can be used only in a strong 
light, you often have to work with the cap, It is necessary, 
then, to time the exposure, and as it is not always convenient 


in fifty can do so without practice. The time for exposure 
depends on the strength of the light, the rapidity of the 
plates, the time of day and the time of the year, From 9 
o'clock to 4, in the bright days of summer, the light is 
stronger than at the same hours in winter. The reflection.on 
the ground glass will enable you to judge of the strength of 
the light. If the objects come out strong and clear, the light 
is better than when the objects are dim. If the plate is ex- 
posed for a sufficient time, say twenty to thirty seconds, a 
picture can be taken, even though the reflection on the glass 
is scarcely to be seen; but when the colors and objects are 
bright, a flash of light through the lens is all that is required 
with the instantaneous plates. It requires judgment and 
practice, therefore, te time the exposure. 

_To test this, place a plate in the camera. Remove the 
shield next to the lens, cap and uncap as quickly as possible. 
Now push the shield about one-third of the way into the 
holder, and expose the plate, according to your judgment, 
and cap; push the shield in a little further, making two- 
thirds of the way in, and expose say one second and cap. 
Now push the shield into position, and you have a plate ex- 
posed to three different spaces of time, the longest time being 
at the small end of holder. Develop until the picture begins 
to sink, and, after fixing, you can then judge which part 
was timed correctly. The instantaneous plates are the best 
for general use, as they can be used with either the drop or 
cap. When you have become accustomed to timing them, 
do not change the kind of plate that you have been using, as 
al! your experience will be lost and will avail you nothing 
with a slow plate—that is, as'to time required for exposure. 

Mark your shields ‘‘exposed,” and when you put the plates 
into the holder, have that side of shield next to the plate. 
After exposing the plate, turn the shield and put it into the 
holder with the word outside. By this plan, you will not 
forget that the plate has been exposed, and will not take, or 
attempt to tike, two pictures on the same plate, when they 
are only made for one. 

When away from your base, or in camp, it is not neces- 
sary to haye aruby light, unless you want to develop your 
plates. Try thisylan. In the daytime or with any light, 
place your shields in the holders with the word ‘‘exposed” in- 
side. Cut the paper that confines the cover on your box of 
plates, then put the box and holders on some board, or on 
your bed, where youcan work. When itis dark, take out the 
shields to holder, by feeling, then remove a plate from the 
box with the right hand, not touching the face of the plate, 
but holding the edges between the thumb and fingers. 
Then, with the thumb of the left hand, scratch the corner of 
the plate. If that is the film side, it wiH chip; if the glass 
side, the nail will slip. 'Take the slide in the left hand and 
put the plate into it with the film side out. Keep the box 
and the mats, and return the plates to the box with mats 
between thera after exposing. Wrap the box in paper, and 
develop at your leisure. Never remoye an undeveloped 
plate except in the dark—not even in the moonlight—or in a 
ruby light. 

- Plates can be put in or taken out of holders ina dark 
closet in daytime, if no light is allowed to touch them. 

Owing to the suction of the water and the smooth surface 


brought us to the south shore of the lake. 
along this shore is seen distinctly through the clear water, 
and at times is almost pure yellowish white sand ioingled 
with coarser gravel; at other times the gravel changes to 
boulders and large stones, and next we glide over an inter- 


Che Sportsman Courist. 


BETWEEN THE LAKES. 
Eighth Paper. . 
BY THE GREEK PROFESSOR. 


iG was a beautiful morning when the Judge and the Pro- 
. _fersor came out from their tent, yawning and rubbing 
their eyes, and with an indescribable sense of rest in every 
bone and muscle, such as comes to him who breathes the 
pure air ot Superior, Beautiful! Would that I could de- 
scribe the scene that met our eyes as we stood at the door 
of our tent that still July morning. In front of us stretched 
the calm blue waters of Superior, broken only by that swell 
whose outline is beauty, and by that hushed roll and sob on 
the beach that is music to the ear, The air never was 
clearer, and the blue of the lake and the blue of the sky 
seemed bluer because of that perfect sea of transparency 
that lay between them. a " 

Five miles to our left, projecting into a long curve of the 
lake, was the Grand Portal, the most magnificent of the 
Pictured Rocks. The sun shone with marvelous splendor 
on the eastern side of this great portal, opening to our view 


the huge cavern in its depths, although we were miles away. 
I gazed with astonishment, for the unseen hands of that 
strangely clear morning seemed to have lifted, and borne 
toward us, the massive rock, till it appeared scarcely a mile 
away. In the distance gleamed the white speck of a sail- 
boat. Perhaps some of our friends from Munising were 
coming on a fraternal visit and fish. 
impatient and the boat at least an hour away. Our excur- 
sion had been planned for days, and we would not delay on 
an uncertainty. The Judge drew his goid spectacles astride 
his nose, frowned ominously, and wrote ona pine board 
this legend, ‘Gone two milessouth of Beaver Lake, trouting,” 
and placed it on the table—the first place the strangers would 
seek. 


But the Judge was 


With jerked venison and biscuit in our wallets, and shot- 


gun, rods and hatchet in our hands, we wended our way to 
the bluff on the south side of Beaver Lake. 
placid lay the little lake in the virgin bosom of that forest 
green. 
till the far-away hilltop seemed kissed by the blue of the 
sky. 
aTravine seemed to wind its way, trending gently toward 
the south and west, and in this ravine we doubted not the 
waters of the creeks we were 
way into Beaver Lake. 


How calm and 
To the south the unbroken swell of the green rose 


In the midst of this rismg mass of unbroken forest 
going to explore found their 


A quarter of an hour’s brisk exercise with the paddle 
The bottom 


yal as smooth and solid as a marble floor, for here the smooth 


sandstone is washed clear of all débris. Fora goodly dis- 
tance the bank along this shore is about a yard in height 
above the level of the water. 
very water's brink are thickly set with white cedar trees, 
some standing erect and others leaning far over the bosom 
of the sparkling waters. 
viewed from the distance of a few hundred yards, look as 
if,a solid wall of rock had beeu raised a yard high by the 
masterly skill of the mason, but, on nearer approach, you 
find it a wall ef boulders as large as a man’s head, laid with 
great regularity and evenness by the hand of those great 
storms from the northwest which so frequently heave the 
bosom of this little inland lake. 
mation came from the Judge: 


Portions of this bank to the 


Other portions of the bank, when - 


But all af once an excla- 


‘A deer!” 
‘‘Where?” said the Professor. . ‘ 
“To the west of us, just around the point and the dipping 


cedars,’’ was the calm reply of the Judge. 


‘Get your gun ready and I will bring you near enough 


to get a shot,” and his pole grated on the sand and the boat 
shot forward steadily, and the Professor held his gun in a 
firm grasp. But the story has been told, and with only such 
embellishments as the Judge’s long experience in the intri- 
cate windings and technicalities of Jaw would logically ne- 
cessitate. Suffice it to say that with the deer in the boat, 
and the boat upon the bank among the cedars, and compass 
in hand the Judge and the Professor were soon moving due 
south. 

A quarter of a mile of dense white cedar being passed 
with great difficulty and toil, we found ourselves at the foot 
of the bluff and the beginning of the hard-wood timber. 
As we climbed the hills, now following the windings of 
yavines as often as they bore in the direction whither we 
were going, and now following the narrow but well-trodden 


of the bottom of tin developing trays, plates often stick, and 
are difficult to remove from tray, This can be avoided by 
making two or three slight dents, made from the under 
side, in the bottom. You will then be able to get the 
finger under the plate and remove it easily. Always keep 
your lens well protected from the dust, and be careful not to 
seratch it. Dust it off with a fine brush or by blowing on 
it; never rub with cloth or paper. 
The following is one of the latest and best formulas for 
developing: 
A~—Pure carbonate of potash (free from chloride) . 90 parts, 
Water H 200 tes 


J Tet ee ean. ER Sek wz runway of the deer, we often paused to admire the beauty 
s Si biiee it Vi. RE PRO 3) 8 mm of this virgin forest, and to stand in amazement beneath the 
fees Rds ee Ce okt RMI ane m% * high-reaching branches of some hoary denizen of the woods, 
presi ode ede, Schick, iim SROs reel 100 ss How beautiful and smooth and shapely were the becches, 


and how the birches reached upward toward the light. And 
maples! such maples. In my boyhood in Indiana I thought 
I had seen the prince of sugar trees, but never have I looked 
up into such towering and wide-spreading sugar tree tops as 
J did that morning. The memory of tke yision of those 
large maples haunts me to-night in my study. ‘There were 
but few of the exceeding large ones, many of the beautiful 
smaller ones. After, perhaps, a half mile of rolling Jand, 
the Judge in front struck one of the wildest and thickest 
swamps we ever saw. The undergrowth was small, but as 
thick as the quills on the back of that porcupine which the 
Judge did not kill in the midnight watches. Rod by rod the 


To develop a 5x8 or smaller plate, to three ounces of 
water add sixty drops each of A and B. If a stronger con- 
trast, deeper shadows, are required, drop a few drops of B 
into your graduated glass and pour the developer in your tray 
into glass and return to tray. Never add a strong chemical 
to that in the tray, as it does not get well mixed. When you 
use the developer for the second plate, if you find you have 
too much of B, add say half the quantity of -water to tray. 
You can get good results up to six ounces of water. 


Unlike the ammonia formulas, this is not unpleasant to 
use in a confined room, and will not fog the plate. The 
chemicals can be bad dry, and the water added when re- 
quired, 


“THE ANTELOPE AND DEER OF AMERICA,”—The eager- 
ness with which sportsmen are calling for Judge Caton’s 
work on the North American deer, shows very clearly how 
large a proportion of those who enjoy the noble sport of big- 
game hunting desire to pursue this sport intelligently. It is 
‘an axiom thatthe man who is most successful as a hunter or 
angler will be he who is most familiar with the habits of the 
game or fish which he pursues. Most of our readers appre- 


ciate this, and since our reduction ef the price of this book 
has brought it within the reach of all, we are not surprised 
to find the demand for it very large and constantly in- 


creasing. 


Judge hewed his way into the midst of the tangle, throwing 
the half severed saplings to the right and the left until, almost 


before we were aware of it, we were on the banks of the 
first branch of the creek we sought. : 
| said upon the creek, for it was scarcely more than eighteen 
inches wide, and about as deep, an 


It might almost be 


frequently, for a few 
feet, would vanish under the roots and moss of the swamp. 
The water was clear, cold and sweet, and fishing it for a few 
rods some yery prettily marked, though small, trout were 
taken. Leaving this creek, and still pressing toward the 
south, the Judge, still puffing snd panting, emerged from 
the swamp and rejoiced to move on more easily over the 
relling hard wood timber land. Mingled with the hard- 
wood here were some giant white pines, lifting their skel ton 
arms high above the surrounding forest, for they were dead, 
I could but pause beneath them and look up and wonder 
what vicissitudes of human life they could tell of if they 
bad speech. Others again were green in a vigorous old age; 
and here and there were eras abies hemlock, the largest 
trees in the neighborhood excepting the pines, ~~ 


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1683 


_ All at once the Judge paused and, with a comforting tone 
in his voice, asked: aha) 

‘What do you most desire?’ 

“Light,” promptly responded the Professor. 

“With the assistance of your legs 1 will soon bring you to 
it,” was the laughing reply of the Judge. 

“Took forward yonder and to the left and you will see the 
opening.” The last words of the Judge were fairly drowned 
by his impetuous charge through the bushes, and the joyful 
Professor followed close in the rear, A few moments later 
we stood in the opening, and beneath the glaring sunshine, 
gazing at the beautiful green of the beaver grass and the 
scattered clumps of alders. 

“There are trout there!” shouted the Judge, as he pressed 
forward into the meadow. 

“Slosh, clug, plug, ugh!’ from the Judge, as he floundered 
in the meadow half knee-deep in the water, for the banks of 
the little creek were in many places on a level with the water, 
and the roots of the grass were covered as in a freshet, The 
joints of our rods were soon together, and we were on the 
soft springy margin of the creek casting for trout, and taking 
them too. : 

The creek here is from two to four feet wide, and about 
the same depth, occasionally spreading out into a shallow 
pond. From the narrow and deep channels under the edge 

~ of the sod, we lifted some very pretty though small trout. 
Following the stream downward you soon pass from the 
beaver meadow into the cedars, and thence out again into 
tangled thickets of black alder, and almost every rod of the 
creek contains trout, small, but increasing in size as you 
journey toward the lake. The adventurous trapper has been 
here after the beaver, whose haunt we discover in the decay- 
ing dams over the creek, and cut logs along its bank. e 
found the trapper’s little hut, and in a reverent attitude—for 
the door was so low he had to enter on his hands and knees 
—the Judge explored the interior, finding beaver teeth and 
hoops for stretching the skins. 

This main branch of the creek was fished by the now 
wearied Judge and Professor for perhaps a mile from the 
first beaver meadow where they struck it, with constantly 
increasing numbers and size of fish. But the sun is gliding 
rapidly into the west, and our legs are weary with riding the 
black alder. The Judge callsa halt. There is at least a 
mile more of creek between us and the lake, and extremely 
slavish walking on its banks. The Judge takes his bearings, 
decides about where the boat ought to be, and boldly plunges 
through the grass, black alder and swamp, to the rolling 
ground a hundred yards away. The Professor soon follows, 
and as the Judge disappears over 2 hill he shouts: 

“Hold on, Judge, you have certainly madea mistake. You 
are bearing too far to the west.” 

The Professor's legs were tired and he wanted to halt the 
Judge till he could catch up. The Judge pulled his specta- 
cles down, sighted through one glass at the sun, swept the 
woods to the north with a quick glance, looked into the com- 
pass and only said, ‘‘I am right,” and rolled on. The Pro- 
fessor smiled sadly, but with confidence in the Judge, pressed 
on, On, on, up hill, down hill, through the ground hem- 
lock, which now and then clutches your feet like a vise, the 

-unwearied Judge strides. The Professor is in despair, and 

on the point of calling a halt to rest, when the Judge pauses 
at the*foot of a hill and calmly wipes his steaming brow, un- 
til the Professor comes up, or rather down, into the ravine. 
That was a beautiful little ravine in which they halted, 
stretching backward and upward into the hills, apparently 
losing itself in the deeper shadows beyond. It was somewhat 
open where they stood, and a few rods below we could hear 
the gurgle of the brook which they had left a half mile back. 
It had doubled on them. Down through the middle of this 
ravine there came a little tiny brook of clear, sweet, spring 
water, Just below were a few lily-pads, and just above an 
old limb of a tree Jay on the seemingly innocent soil. 

“Well, Iam going to cross above there,” said the Judge. 

“Tam going to-cross right here,” said the Professor. ‘‘A 
straight line is the shortest distance between two points.” 

The Judge moved off. The Professor lingered a moment 
to make up his mind and then started, One, two, three 
steps, and the Professor found himself in the yielding mud 
up to one knee and with a grunt of disgust backed out. Just 
at that moment there came a voice from above. 

“Ho! Professor, come here, I am in a tight place.” 

“Jt seems rather loose around where you are, Judge, what 
is the matter?” innocently asked the Professor, for the Judge 
had not seen him back out, nor heard his expletive. 

“Well,” said the Judge with more emphasis than the occa- 
sion would seem to warrant, ‘‘I am here, and can neither 
advance nor retreat. In front the bottom has entirely dropped 
out, and the old timb in the rear is so small and smooth that 
Iam afraid to attempt to turn back.” _ ~ 

“Well, what are you going to do about it?” said the Profes- 
sor with a chuckle, for he always enjoyed seeing the Judge 
in * GUERIN “Are you going to camp there for the 
nig t ” 

The Judge’s only reply was, ‘‘Cut me a pole and throw it 
to me and I will bridge the rest of the way across.” With 
these words the Judge flung the hatchet with a spiteful 
force, not at the Professor, but at the solid earth behind him. 

Very leisurely the Professor picked up the hatchet, and 
more leisurely began to select a suitable grub; for was he not 

tired, and was nof the Judge calmly awaiting his actions? 
Did not the Professor know that the Judge would not get 
away from him? 

“Hurry,” said the Judge, ‘‘it is getting late, and Tam tired 
of standing here.” 

The Professor hurried a little, but he knew the Judge would 
not leave in a hurry, and so he kept trimming the pole. In 
order that it might more safely support the Judge’s weight, 
ae Professor had left here and there a projecting limb a foot 

ong. 

“It is ready, Judge,” said the Professor. 

“Reach me the end easy,” said the Judge, ‘‘easy, or you 
will push me off.” 

There was no malice in the Professor's heart, and he did 
reach the end easy to the Judge, and in doing so slipped off 
the end of the limb with one foot and was half knee deep in 
the mud. He was just opening his mouth to letescape some 
of the emotion swelling within, when there was a desperate 

plunge, a grunt of anger and disgust, a splash, a groan, and 
then—perfect quiet. One of the projecting limbs had caught 
the Judge's leg when he threw the pole forward, and obe- 
dient to the impulse he followed. The-Professor looked for- 
ward, and in amazement broke out: 

“What on earth are you doing there?” | 

“Doing nothing. _ It’s already done,” said the irate Judge 
The Professor took in the situation, saw it was impossible 

for him to go any deeper without bisecting himself, fer 
he had caught on his pole with one leg. Then the Professor 


was too full to hold in longer; the woods rang with his 
hearty laugh. Then he forgave the Judge his exaggerated 
story about the squirrel rifle and the ‘buck ague,” forgave 
his omissions, that he wounded the huge buck, that he did 
put powder behind every ball—all these things the Professor 
forgave, and remembered them against the Judge no more. 
The Professor Jaughed till he was s0 weak he could hardly 
stand, and the tears came into his eyes. Finally he gasped 
out: 

‘‘Why don’t you get out?” 

“T want to bring my shoe with me,” was the panting an- 
swer of the Judge. He pulled and panted, and grunted and 
groaned, but with no appreciable effect. The Professor was 
in the background applauding, encouraging, laughing till his 
sides ached. 

“T am coming, I am coming,” shouted the Judge after a 
second attempt. ‘I am coming with my shoe on, too,” and 
something of the Judge’s hearty good humor began to beam 
on his face. A long and steady pull and he stood with both 
feet on the pole, dripping with mud and water, and sweating 
at every pore. A moment more and he stands safely on the 
other shore, and the Professor, laughing at his sorry plight 
and murmuring to himself, ‘The wicked stand in slippery 
places,” cautiously follows the Judge’s path without his mis- 
fortune. 

A brisk walk of half an hour brings us to the brow of a 
hill, and away across the tops of the cedars gleams the water 
of Beaver Lake. But such a half mile of swamp as lies be- 
tween us and the boat! The Judge plunges boldly in and 
the Professor follows close behind. The cedars stand so close 
together that the Judge can with difficulty press his 220 
pounds through, and the tough dead limbs come so near. to 
the ground that he cannot crawl under. Now, the Profes- 
sor forges ahead, and part of the time squeezing between the 
cedars and part of the time on hands and knees, he worms 
his way along. The Judge groans and then he gives a sigh 
of relief, for here two or three cedars have fallen down and 
knocked others with them, dnd the Judge mounts their trunks 
and walks with comparative ease, The Professor has wormed 
his way on hands and knees ahead, and then another lament 
from the Judge salutes his ear. i 

‘‘T don’t believe I can get through,” says the Judge with a 
comical smile, bordering on the pathetic. 

The Professor looked up, and there, fifteen feet in the air, 
was the Judge, swaying to and fro on the last partially fallen 
cedar and looking in despair at the Professor on his stomach, 
crawling through the seemingly thicker cedars, and satisfied 
with his 125 pounds of avoirdupois. He was in too close a 
place to speak. He gave an encouraging smile to the Judge 


and then crawled on, for he had caught a glimpse of the }- 
‘water just beyond. Hot, exhausted by his toil, hounded by 


the demoniac mosquito, he sank on the mossy margin of the 
lake and waited for the Judge.. He soon came, but had mis- 
calculated as to the location of our boat. It was at least a 
quarter of a mile to the west of us. What was to be done? 
The Professor sat still in quiet contentment, for that was 
the Judge’s problem. He quickly began its solution. 

“Shades of my fathers,” said the Professor, when he 
turned his head a few moments afterward to look at the 
Judge, “‘is it possible that this is the learned Judge, the elo- 
quent advocate, the cultured and genial gentleman whom I 
so frequently meet on the streets of our city and at our col- 
lege commencements? It cannot be.” 

Such were, or ought to have been, the communings of the 
Professor as he gazed on the Judge. There he stood in the 
margin of the lake. His woolen shirt, bound at the throat 
and thrown back, exposed a breadth of breast inviting to the 
mosquito, His face was damp with sweat and red with the 
toil of his journey. His shoes lay on the moss, and his jean 
pants were rolled high above his knees. He reminded the 
Professor of a Greek gymnast ready for the race. Hesoon 
disappeared around the curve of drooping cedars to the west 
of us, his legal heels grinding the loose pebbles of the shallow 
waters into the yielding sands, The time slips rapidly away, 
and the Professor looks longingly across the lake to the 
northern shore, beyond which lies the camp. <A quarter of 


steak, which was curling on the griddle—‘‘but for a liberal 
Presbyterian who takes his drop at atime, that lake was a 
little too deep for comfort, and—” here the Professor 
coughed, and the Judge looked up, and with an innocent 
simplicity the Professor asked, 

‘Isn't supper about ready?” 

“Yes, itis ready,” said the Judge, with rosy cheeks; and 
he placed the fragrant steaks on the table. 

It was a custom of the Judge and the Professor, after the 
day’s toils were over, to light the candles. and retire to their 
couch, and haye some of the delights of conversation and 
literature. The evening of this busy day was no exception 
to the rule. For, perhaps, an hour they read with only au 
occasional remark, The Professor saw the Judge giving 
now and then a vicious slap at some imaginary fly under his 
part of the coverings; but without much success. He finally 
became impatient, and began to turn down the covers as if 
he were going to annihilate some stubborn juryman, He 
gave an earnest look through his glasses and, with a yell 
that would have made a Comanche Indian blush with shame, 
he bounded—literally bounded—from the bed, striking the 
sloping side of the tent, 

‘‘A snake! a snake!” he cried, and with an energy born of 
natural disposition and close confinement, he attacked it 
With a loose tent pin, and in a moment a harmless little gar- 
ter snake was wriggling its last on the sands of our tent 
floor. The delights of literature were over for that evening. 
The Professor laughed till his strength was exhausted; 
laughed himself to sleep. But the Judge had a troubled 
sleep, and moaned, and in the silent hours of the night gave 
the clothes a most vigorous kick, muttering as he did so, 
*‘Darn the snake!” 


IN THE WOODS, AND OUT. 


7 HY it seems but yesterday that passing down this 
path I heard the tuneful wings of busy bees circling 
along the misty morn to forage on the blossoming fields. 

The woods were vocal with songs. The air was ladened 
with perfume from theflower-crowned hills. 

Far, far below, the fog hung in the valley like a lake. 
Cool, shady groves were on the distant shores, and now and 
then glad echoes ferried the robin’s simple song across the 
silent deep to me. This, thought I, as [ looked away toward 
the blue hills, around me, is nature’s walled city. Builded 
like unto the city with its twelve great gates, that lies away 
out eternityward. 

And yet I know that to these courts autumn would come 
and demand the scepter of summer. 

Well do I remember on a September evening, when the 
crimson banners of sunset were streaming from the western 
sky, how I watched great flocks of birds drifting through 
the defiles out to the south to join a sorrowing queen that 
had deserted the halls of day; deserted because the heralds 
of autumn were telling of the barbarians coming. And oh! ~ 
what changes were wrought! The landscapes were decked 
in brown and gray; the forest was despoiled of its dress; 
flowers were buried in unmarked graves, and when the un- 
leashed whirlwinds of the equinox rolled all that was beauti- 
ful into drifts of mouldering ruin, nothing but a specter of 
the vernal scene was left to me. 

But then I soon fell into ne with autumn and became as 
one of the family. I heard the rattling nuts among the 
limbs; I saw the gray squirrel srow sleek and fat; I watched 
the wild goose sailing out of the north, and by and by it 
dawned upon me, what would one do without the music of 
fall? 

Had I not twenty years ago shouldered my three-dollar 
shotgun and enlisted in the cause? And have I not every 
season since tramped hill sed plain, through meadow and 
brake, through sunshine and storm, now shooting over a 
staid old dog in the stubble, now wasting lots of powder 
practicing on grouse in the thickets, and again cheering on 
the noisy chase among the hills? Well, eome to think about 
it, the fall is the musical season of the year. But the autumn 
is gone, and lam looking on the winter’s trail. The cold 


an hour passes, and the Judge in the little Wawa glides} north wind is roaring along the bare ridges and bleak downs. 


around the little curve of cedars and into the shore, where 
sits the wearied Professor. 

He entered the bow of the boat, stepping across the body 
of the much-slandered deer—for one of the balls had hit just 
where the Professor aimed—and taking the paddle, joined 
his to the Judge’s lusty stroke. The boat shot forward 
toward the distant shore, and ina few moments we were 
out of the calm and into the ruffled waters. It then became 
apparent to the Judge and the Professor that the waves were 
much higher than they supposed. An uneasy look swept 
over the face of the Judge, and a thought of home, of wife, 
of children came gliding into the mind of the Professor. It 
was cold, quite cold, down in those deep blue waters, for a 
crest of an angry wave spit its foam on the hand of the Pro- 
fessor as he bent to his oar. 

‘Judge, can you swim?” at last said the Professor, coolly, 

‘Not a stroke,” said the Judge, with an unusually kind 
tone in his voice. 

“Can you?” was the next question from the Judge, 

‘Like a fish,” was the laconic reply of the Professor as he 
bent to his stroke. 

‘Suppose my oar should break,” said the Judge, gently; 
‘we would beina bad fix then. But I believe,” with a 
more hopeful tone in his voice, ‘‘I could make it with the 
pole for a paddle.” ; 

The Professor made no reply, but looked ahead to the 
rising waves and to the bluff beyond them. 

“Ugh!” said the Judge, asa vicious wave casta pint of 
water into his lap over the boat’s side. Now, the Judgeis a 
Presbyterian, and as their custom is, does not take kindly to 
water, especially to large bodies; but the Professor is a genu- 
ine Baptist, and prefers even a lake toa bowl. These facts 
may account for the pensive mood of the usually jubilant 
Judge, but the reader must decide that. 

After a perilous half hour’s struggle the yellow of the 
sands gleamed through the boiling waves, and the Judge 
was his genial self again, and I am not sure that he did not 
fling a quotation from Blackstone and some law Latin at the 
angry waves. 

n afew moments the Judge, Professor and deer were in 
camp, and the greetings to our friends from Munising, who 
had arrived in our absence, Mr, E. C. Cox und Ira Weller, 
being over, the Judge proceeds to broil the steak. Now, it 
is one of the idiosyncrasies of the Judge to talk to the pots 
and pans when he is cooking by himself. The Professor had 
left the camp-fire afew moments before, but unexpectedly re- 
turned. The Judge was talking to himself eyen more warmly 
than usual, and the Professor thinks that these were about 
the words: ‘*That may be all right for a Baptist Professor— 
be still, won’t you”—this last with a vicious punch at the 


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Lhear the allied tempests marshalling along the scragey 
cliffs, and roaring through the rocky gorge, dance lightly 
over the waters of the lake, and driving through the wood- 
land with sober pace, awake the genie of the place to chant 
old winter’s symphony, And nowagain, I hear them mask- 
ing all their forces on the border of the thicket, and now the 
whirlwind charges up the dizzy heights beyond the little 
chapel, and eddying through the guttered fields goes coast- 
ing down the gentle slopes toward the southern horizon. 

What a vast brotherhood these wintry winds are! I hear 
their rustling wings on every hand. How they torture the 
clouds; how they stir the-very depths of the laboring sky! 
Hush! I hear them here and there—and see them neyer. 

Hark! I hear the woodman’s axe in the valley. One, two, 
three, and now a thousand echos take up the measure of the 
master stroke, and labor’s melody swells into a grand chorus 
to cheer the toiler to the end of day. For sixty years the 
bright axes of this craft have spangled {hese slopes; for sixty 
years the woodman’s axe and husbandmuan’s plow have been 
devastating the primal beauties of these hills and vales; and 
I now see away in the vista guttered fields and vast tracts of 
brush, that hear no more the moan of laboring axe, but are 
simply the home of the wild fox. and Industry’s offering at 
the altar of Folly. The master stroke has an echo away on 
the borders of civilization, and unless there is a cessation of 
the music, a century’s reparation will be but asa drop in the 
sea from the sum of our losses. 

Save the forests while yet we may. 

Down in the fastness of his thicket home I hear the grouse 
beat a tattoo. How vain is he when he spreads his dapple 
wing before the chary flock, and yet, with all his vanity, 
the music of his wing adds a charm to the solitude, nor mars 
one item of the woods’ solemnity. Who has the heart to slip 
among the shadows and shoot this bird upon the ground or 
tree, and give not even one chance to his nervous wing to 
stretch away in flight before the vengeful gun? 

Hush! I hear a quail piping a note of warning to his 
mates. And now I see them racing through the dead grass 
of the pasturage. I mark one down. There will he lay, and 
count with fluttering pulse the snail-paced flight of danger’s 
hour, and will only feel from danger free when, in the twi- 
light hour, the wary cock calls to the scattered covey and 
leads it to the sheltered bivouac. 

Ah, Bob! I wasted many a pound of shot before I became 
very successful in cutting you down. But I never cut you 
when you were down. You know it was a square heel and 
toe race, and you know that for several years you won, be- 
cause I insisted on shooting with both eyes shut. 

My footstep startles the rabbit from his nest among the 
greenbriers, and he drifts away as noiseless as the light of 


\ all 


day. Whatis there in the sounds down the hollow of the 
forest gloom that tells of danger? What instinct leads him 
among the shadows by the brook, through the clearing, 
down the path to the sugar camp, and siays his feet from 
circling flight just where I entered the thicket? See how he 
tracks the danger past his nest, and circling once again to 
spy the ambush, if one there be, creeps back among the 
briers to dream away the day. Oh, unseen Hand, thou 
great Creator, how perfect the workings of Thy laws! 

On up the steep path I am climbing. I hear the red fox 
barking among the rocks above me; | hear the brotherhood 
of winds tuning their harps amid the swaying, shivering 
trees, but not a bird cheers me ou my way with a note of 
welcome. Across the valley Isee the crow climbing the 
blast with lazy wing, and perching upon the topmost branch 
of the highest oak, laughs at the storm. Ominous bird! 

Time’s corroding touch may scar the beauty of the highest 
art, time may strew the hills with mouldering monarchs of 
a royal forest, time may shepherd the deeds of great men 
upon the highlands of the past, yet time seems never to dim 
the fire in the eye of this robber drifting upon the tide of 
idle years, yea, shiitiess years; he does no deeds that call for 
praise; he forms no tender ties to stay his flight, when fancy 
leads to some adventure far beyond the confines of the day. 
He haunts the woods, the cliffs, the highest hills, the valleys 
low and damp, and loves to linger near the cabin home of 
the pioneer, not, however, to admire the laborer who is stud- 
ding the crown of poverty with gems of righteous deeds, and 
who, with toiiing hands is sealing within the tomb of day, 
just acts, that shall he golden recompense in vast eternity, 
but to steal anything that may be found loose. 

Far from the stately city he plumes his ebon wing and 
patrols all the country side with Saracenic vigilance. No 
scene too sacred, no borderland to stay the passage of his un- 
tamed wine. 

Swinging from the elm near the church, he has watched 
the funeral pall pass tothe grave, and when the rattling 
clods were awakening hollow echoes to read the closing 
chapter in the book of life, then was his cry the loudest. 

Woe to the nestling when his wing shades the nest. 
Brothers, an ounce and a half of No, 6 shot is always taken 
at par by the crow family. 

Darker and darker grows the day. Great, lumbering old 
blasts come groaning and complaining over the western 
hills. The archers of the storm king are feathering the red 
roof of yon distant barn with arrows of snow. The loud- 
voiced farmer calls his flock home from the broken hills. 
Through the drifting storm I hear their tardy feet hastening 
down the stony path to battened stalls and manger fat with 
salted hay, The house-wife stands with shining pail in 
hand awriting the coming herd. Hissing geese crowd 
around the corn-crib door and watch the golden stores with 
hungry eyes; turkeys peep and gobble in the distant orchard; 
complaining chickens crowd the garden fence, while on the 
oak, that stands way down the lawn, the peafowl has a 
perch, and from this airy post will sound the charge for 
every circling squadron of the storm throughout the night. 
A bright wood fire snaps and cracks on the kitchen hearth. 
I would love to sit an hour by the cheerful blaze. I would 
love to linger longer on this sea, open to winter gales, but a 
safe harborage from the whirlwinds of passion and ambition 
that are laying the wrecks of humun expectation thick along 
the shores of time. 

But past the farmhouse and the sheltering fold 1ay path 
leads over the dark fields. Night is scaling the walls of the 
horizon, and the brotherhood has an old hurricane headed 
through the portals of the west. 

There by that mass of broken stone and scattered moulder- 
ing logs, was once the home of the first. settler in this ‘‘dis- 
trict.” There young hands first took up their tasks of 
life; their necessity ruled and exiled pleasure’s cause was 
never plead. And ofthe fruits of that forgotten seeding 
time, we have this desolate rvin, which is the chaff the 
marching years have left upon the thrashing floor of time. 
Poor Ben Johnson! They say he loved the woods too well; 
his gun was his constant companion, and the music of the 
forest the destroyer of his earthly prospects. His keen eye 
interpreted the unwritten language of nature, and his sou] 
was jubilant as he heard the Creator’s praise syllabled in the 
song service of the birds. The sturdy arm that blazed a 
trail up into this Eden wielded a scepter that preserved it for 
sixty years. But when at last he was Jaid to rest, the venge- 
ful axe swept away his treasures; and, ere Tong, some sacti- 
legious hand erected this legend above his neglected and 
brier-covered graye, “‘No Hunting Allowed Upon These 
Premises!” 

Who enjoys more fully, who can comprehend more 
clearly, the divine wonders of this world than the sports- 
man wandering through field and wood? Follow him with 
gun afield, or with clicking reel by the quick waters, and 
you will find his actions tempered with reason and his eye 
keenly observant of all that is beautiful around him. Could 
we have watched Ben Johnson awake to his first sunrise 
among ihe blue bills of eternity, is it not possible we would 
haye heard him exclaim, ‘‘] thank You, oh, God! that it is 
Thy pleasure that I enjoy forever in Thy kingdom what 
was allowed me in life; communion at Thy altar and among 
Thy subjects!” 

Can the human heart conceive grander or more magnifi- 
cent scenes than the sportsman finds in his travels? 

Pardon me for getting into the woods, but I am out, 

Parson O’GATH. 


Witprowt 1s New Bronswick.—kditor Forest and 
Stream: Those who read the first paper on the ‘‘Cruise of 
the Alice May,” in the February Century, have thereby been 
introduced by Mr. Benjamin to. one of the best sea-fow] 
shooting groundsin Canada. On both shores of the North- 
umberland Straits, and along the north shore of New Bruns- 
wick, from this date to the middle of May the wild geese, 
brant and black ducks alight on the shore flats to feed and 
rest on their way north to their hatching grounds in Labra- 
dor. They are hunted and shot from boats about ten feet 
long, rigzed up with side paddle wheels like a miniature 
steamer. Hach boat only acccmmodates one man, who pro- 
pels himself with cranks which act directly on the paddle 
wheels. When he gets near enough to the birds, which he 
can do readily enough among the huge blocks of floating ice, 
he seizes his gun and blazes away. From one hundred to 
one hundred and fifty birds are often bagged ina day in 
this way by the more experienced gunneis, who can stand 
the wear and tear of that means of propulsion. A few 
pioneer flocks of the geese have been seen within the last 
few days. It will yet require several steady south winds 
and warmer weather to make the shooting season regularly 
open.—B, (New Brunswick, March 19), 


dlatuyal History. 


THE DEER OF THE OTTAWA VALLEY. 


BY WILLIAM PITTMAN LETT. 


{Read before the Field Naturalists’ Club of the City of Ottawa, On- 
o, Canada, on the 18th day of March, 1884.] 
[Concluded from Page 144.| 
r ie common deer, Cervus virginianus, :0 named on ac- 
count of the species having been first discovered by 
Europeans in Virginia, 


This idea was in the mind of Rob- 
ert Burns when he gaid: 


“Lord, I’se hae sporting bye an ‘bye, 
For my gowd guinea, 

Tho’ I should herd the buckskin kye 
For’t in Virginia.” 


The Virginian deer is one of the most graceful and beauti- 
ful types of the deer genus, and is so well known that it is 
almost superfluous to deseribe it, Generally speaking, the 
male only of this animal has horns. I have’ seen, however, 
within the last three years, twa does brought to Ottawa mar- 
ket, each of which had small horns, somewhat resembling 
the antlers of a “‘spike-horned” deer; and, although the time 
was late in the season, the velvet still remained on the horns, 
These are the only instances in which I haye noticed horns 
on the female of this species. 

The Virginian deer in form is the most élegant of all the 
North American deer. The following description is from 
“Billing’s Naturalist and Geologist”: ‘It has a long taper- 
ing, pointed head and large, lustrous, bluish-black eyes, The 
legs are slender but well formed, and in proportion to their 
size, possessed of prodigious muscular strength, while the 
body is moderately stout and flexible. The horns are not 
large, but they are well armed with strong and sharp spikes, 
They are near their base bent backward, and in the upper 
half turned forward. They are usually cylindrical; but 
they are also sometimes met with a good deal palmated, 
They vary very much in size and shape upon diiferent in- 
dividuals. The prongs are round, conical, sharp, and di- 
rected upward. Situated partly on the inside of each horn, 
near the base, there is a short brow antler on most of the 
specimens. A large pair of horns weigh about six pounds, 
but there are few over four or five pounds in weight. 

“The color of this animal varies with the season; in the 
autumn and winter it is bluish grey, in the spring reddish, 
becoming bluish in the fall. Beneath the chin, throat, belly, 
inner side of legs and under side of tail white. The fawns 
are at first red and spotted with white along the sides. In 
the autumn of the lirst season they lose the white spots, and 
thereafter are the color of the old ones. The hair is flat- 
tened and angular, that upon the under side of the tail long 
and white, 

“The average length of this species is from the nose to the 
root of the tail five feet four inches; length of tail without 
the hairs, six or seven inches; with the hairs a little more 
than one foot. The females bring forth in May or June, 
one, or two, rarely three at a birth.” 

Occasionally specimens of this deer are found of a pure 
white color, with the pink-colored eyes, denoting an albino. 
I have. seen two or three marked with irregular patches of 
white on various parts of the body. On one occasion a few 
years ago, at Hemlock Lake, in the Prevince of Quebec, I 
shot a fine buck, in the skin of which the white hairs pre- 
dominated so much, that the animal had quite a white ap- 
pearance. A large doe was killed by another of the party 
about an hour afterwards with precisely the same peculiarity 
of appearance. Afew years ago Mr. Neil Morrison of this city, 
had a magnificent white buck, carrying afine pair of horns. As 
alusus nature inthe animal creation of extraordinary ele- 
gance and beauty this lovely specimen was unrivalled. The 
pure and uniform whiteness of the skin of this fine buck 
was almost beyond belief. This rare and valuable specimen 
was caught in deep snow when about three years old, about 
thirty miles up the Gatineau River. It afterwards came into 
the possession of the Hon. R. W. Scott, who kept it with a 
number of others in a park, where it ultimately died. Ifa 
deer be killed in the water during the period of the red coat, 
say from June until the middle of August, the carcass will 
sink to the bottom, At all other seasons the dead body will 
float. From recent accounts given by sportsmen in Forest 
AND STREAM—and intelligent sportsmen are frequently very 
reliable naturalists—the largest male animal of the Virginian 
species has been found to weigh something over three hun- 
dred pounds gross weight, while it is stated by Mr. Cyrus 
Butler, of Anna, Il, that ‘‘the Virginia deer of the Pacific 
States are smaller than those of the same latitude in the 
Central and Eastern States; and I do not think that the deer 
of Texas will ayerage more than one-half of the weight of 
the deer of Wisconsin and Michigan. From all I can learn 
on the subject, it seems that the Virginia deer of the Western 
States-are smaller than those of the same latitude in the 
Central and Eastern States, and it is certainly true that the 
further South we go, the smaller we find the deer.” 

A beautifully formed deviation in the Cervus virginianus, 
is called the ‘‘spike-horn.” This animal, although identical 
in color and habits with the branching horned variety, or 
rather generic type of this species, is rounder and thicker in 
body, shorter in legs, and has a more elegantly shaped head 
than the other. The true spike-horned deer has straight, 
sharp antlers, of from six inches to nine inches in length, 
setting backward, like the horns ofthe African oryx, which 
renders him a formidable and generally victorious antagonist, 
in the periodical combats which take place. between the 
male knights errant of the deer tribes, Those conflicts are 
often desperate and protracted. 1 have seen a piece of bush 
fully a quarter of an acre in size, after alight snow, in No- 
vember, all tramped over, the soil torn up, and small trees— 
it was in a bru/é—uprooted in all directions, as the evidences 
of one of these battles. I was told by a still-hunter on the 
Madawaska River, who killed 170 deer in one season (how is 
that compared with the mild and less sanguinary dog hunt- 
ing?) that the same year—1 think 1879—he came upon two 
fine bucks fighting and, aga a within thirty yards, killed 
them both; rifle, small Ballard. In such conflicts the 
animals frequently get their horns locked beyeue. the power 
of extrication, and both die of starvation. once saw two 
heads locked so tightly facing each other, that a slrong man 
could not separate them. 

I am indebted to our friend Mr, James Fletcher, the ac- 
complished botanist of the Field Naturalists’ Club, for a 
copy of the London Field, containing a photograph of the 
most extraordinary head of abnormally shaped horns which 
[have ever seen. The same paper contains another photo- 
graph of two heads locked together, side by side, while 


[Marcn 27, 1884. 


fighting, in such a manner that nothing but the shedding of 
the horns could have freed them. When found the deer 
were alive and in good condition. In both cases the animals 
were of the Virginian species, This beautiful deer is found 
in all parts of the valley of the Ottawa, and between the 
Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, in such places as the hard- 
woods and swamps are large enough to shelter them. They 
roam through the hardwood and hemlock ridges in summer, 
and make their yards, if possible, in a tamarac swamp in 
winter, I have seen, about twenty years ago, a deer yard 
stretching from Bear Brook away beyond the Castor 
River, which must have been at least nearly four 
miles square, This yard was completely intersected 
by paths branching off in all directions and beaten hard 
enough to bear a horse. Deer yards are found in the same 
section of country still; but, like the red-skinned herds of 
woodland beauties which then made the wilderness glorious, 
they have been growing smaller and smaller; and a well- 
beaten yard often acres in extent within twelve miles of 
Ottawa, is now no mean representative of the wide trodden 
haunts of the Virginian deer in the near past. The 
multiplication of hunters, superinduced by arms of precision 
and volunteer companies, but above all the lawless assassin 
who slaughters them, male and female, old and young, upon” 
the crust, during deep snow, have tended, in a measure, 
legally and illegally to more than decimate the magnificent 
denizens of the forests surrounding the city of Ottawa, 
The clearing away for agricultural purposes, and the 
destruction by bush fires of the-forest in many places, 
has driven the deer back to more distant haunts, The 
wolf, too, although not more sanguinary in his instincts 
than the lawless crust-hunter, has done his part in 
thinning the deer in the yalley of the Ottawa. Still, 
it is almost astonishing to know that there are large 
numbers of them on hoth sides of the Ottawa River, 
and in the forests bordering upon its many large tributaries. . 
In summer the Virginian deer delights to hang around 
clearances-for the purpose of feeding on grass, clover, tur- 
nips and potatoes. In former times many were killed from 
scaffolds in the nights by watchers in the turnip and potato 
fields. I lave not time, nor do I wish if I had, to give a 
description of the yarions modes of deer hunting in fashion 
among sportsmen. Asa sportsman I would scorn to refer 
in a descriptive manner to fire-hunting or crust-hunting. 
Of the two legitimate methods, still-hunting and hound- 
hunting, I prefer the latter, on the runway system, as less 
destructive and more lively and full of real sport than the 
former. To me with the glorious music of the dogs ringing 
and re-echoing through the woods, there is more sport in 
striking a buck on “‘the full jump” with # single bullet, than 
doing the same thing in any other style. 
THE HORNS OF DEER. 


No hunter to whom I have spoken, nor any book which 
I have read, has given me a satisfactory account of what 
becomes of all the cast-off horns of our common deer, Jam 
aware of their being gnawed and eaten up by mice and other 
rodents; but during the period when the horns are fulling, 
from the first to ihe sixth or seventh of January, it is a very 
rare occurrence even with little or no snow on the ground, 
to find the horn of a deer, and much more unusual to find 
both borns together. Some of the knowing ones say that 
the deer buries his horns; others say that he drops them in 
the water; but no proof has been adduced that either con- 
jecture is correct. Although it is a common thing to find 
the shed antlers of the wapiti on the prairies, and around 
the borders of wooded slopes and along the banks of creeks, 
the whereabouts of the cast-off horns of the Cervus virginianus 
has uot yet been discovered. This is a point in natural his- 
tory upon which we stiJl want light, It is a strange and 
mysterious provision in the economy of nature, that the 
periodical growth of a deer’s horns—even the ponderous 
antlers of the moose or wapiti—should inyolve only an 
extraordinary forcing process of little more than four months, 
Shortly after the dropping of the horns, the new ones begin 
to appear. The growth is slow until the setting in of the 
warm spring weather, after which it is exceedingly rapid. * 
The new horns make their first appcarance in a round 
knobby, pulpy state. About the middle of August they are 
fnll grown, when they are covered with a soft, velvety skin, 
which the animal gets rid of by rubbing them against small 
trees. About the first of October, sometimes earlier in the 
season, the velvet has disappeared and the new antlers may 
be seen in all their hardness and beauty. The animal may 
be said to be then in his finest condition and at his heaviest 
weight. A buck of the Cerous virginianus is seldom seen on 
the first day of January with his horns on, and never that I 
am aware of after the fifth of the same month. Itisa well 
known fact, however, that the moose does not lose his 
horns until later in the season. I have seen the head of a 
moose killed in January of the present year with the horns 
still on, and without any appearance indicating that they 
were about to fall off. 

Here, I imagine, is the proper place to refer to some _ 
of the peculiarities and diversities in the horns of our com- 
mon deer, It is difficult to account for the abnormal growth 
so frequently visible in the horns of those animals. Some 
naturalists seem tothink that such irregularities of growth 
in the horns of deer have been occasioned by injuries 
received by the horn when in its soft and pulpy state. If 
such were the case, would it not be natural to conclude that 
after the deformed member had been shed, the new horn of 
the following year would resume its normal shape? This 
cannot be said to be the case. This head which I now show 
you, as you may observe, is one ef most singular formation; 
and from personal observation I know that the splendid 
animal that carried this strangely abnormal pair of horns, 
wore his crown in its present shape year after year. I had 
a fair open view of this deer the year before he was killed, 
at or near the spot where he was shot, and | particularly 
remarked the strange-looking horn growing out of the right 
side of his head. Here are also two fine heads each with 
backward lateral prongs of a style which is rarely seen. 
Both have been taken from old and heavy deer. Abnormal 
shaped horns are seldom, perhaps never seen, except in deer 
of great sizeand age. I have frequently seen very old bucks 
of the red species with an immense long curved beam on 
each side, and others of similar size with only rudimentary 
protuberances, indicating, as it were, the places where in 
the horns of former years the prongs had been accustomed 
to grow. It is not always the largest buck that carries the 
largest horns. The largest deer | ever saw, and one that I 
gave the finishing touch to myself, had the most miserable 
set of attenuated antlers I have ever found on the head of a 
Salary os is ee hand, ane. the heaviest 
pairs of antlers which haye yet come under my notice—. 
haye them at home—were taken from the head ‘of Reet Le 

ri e oo a Y 


- marshes along the Hudson. 


about one hundred and fifty pounds in weight. Here is 
another set of red deer horns, perhaps the largest and most 
eautiful that any one present has ever seen. The animal 
an which they were taken was shot on the Castor, or 
Beaver River, fourteen miles from Ottawa. They belong to 
Mr. Harry Baldwin of this city, They are singularly regu- 
Jar in beauty of shape, and at the same time strangely 
irregular and unlike ordinary antlers of the Cervus virginia ius. 
To acertaim extent they are palmated and evidently grew 
upon the head of a very old deer, Perhaps some gentleman 
present may be able to enlighten us upon this question of 
abnormal horns. 
ie telling you what I have learned about the deer of the 

Ottawa Valley, I have aimed at the simply popular without 
aspiring at the purely scientific, as the mode more likely to 
interest the greater number. J have endeavored to avoid 
abstruse technicalities. Above all I have unwillingly 
been compelled to curb my inclination to tell the thrilling 
story of many a glorious run, and rehearse the tale of 
many a night of happiness around the camp-tire, where bat- 
tles were fonght over again, and memory brings around us 
the branching antlers of many a woodland monarch, whose 
trophied heads can be found to-day in more than one home 
of the dearly loved companions with whom I have so often 
pitched. the tent in the wilderness, If I have succeeded in 
any measure in either instructing or interesting My audience 
this eveniug, I shall proudly feel that I have not roamed the 
woods, stood upon the runway, heard the deep and match- 
less music of the hounds, or drawn the rifle trigger in vain, 

And now, my pleasant task is done, 

The fruits of many @ glorious run! 

Still springing ‘mii the lambent haze 

Which circles round the camp-fire's blaze; 

Revealing to fond memory’s eye 

The dear unrivalled joys gone by, 

When limbs were lithe, and arnis were strong, 

Ana life one gladsome burst of song! 

Revealing ‘mid unfading sheen, 

> The runway in the forest green— 

The antler’d monarch’s springing bound— 

The matchless musie of the hound! 

As headlong on the steaming scent 

With instinct true as steel, he went! 

The gaze into the spreading track— 

The breaking twig, the rifle’s crack, 

The quivering limb, the closing eye— 

The forest’s dying majesty. 


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THE MUSKRAT AS A FISH-EATER. 


BY C. HART MBRRIAM, M.D. 


HAT the muskrat is not commonly considered a fish- 
eater is evident from the absence of reference to such 
habit in the pu'slished accounts of the animal. Robert Ken- 
nicott is, sofaras Lhave been able to ascertain, the only 
author who mentions this trait. He says: ‘“‘Exceptin eating 
mollusks, and occasionally a dead fish, I am not aware that 
this species departs from a vegetable diet.” (“‘Quadrupeds 
of Illinois Injurious and Beneficial to the Farmer,” 1857, p. 


Ata meeting of the Biological Society of Washington, 
held in the National Museum, Dec, 14, 1883, Mr. Henry W. 
Elliott spoke of the ‘‘Appetite of the Muskrat.” He stated 
that in certain parts of Ohio the muskrat did great injury to 
carp ponds, not only by perforating the banks and dams and 
thus letting off the water, but also by actually capturing and 
devouring the carp, which is a sluggish fish, often remaining 
motionless, half buried in the mud, In the discussion that 
followed, Dr. Mason Graham EHilzey said that from boyhood 
he had been familiar with the fact that the muskrat some- 
times ate fish. In fact, he had seen muskrats in the act of 
deyouring fisb that had recently been caught and left upon 
the bank. The President, Dr. Charles A. White, narrated a 
similar experience. : 

On the 7th of February, 1884, I brought this subject to 
the notice of the Linnzan Socicty of New York, and asked 
if any of the members knew the muskrat to be a fish-eater, 
Dr. Edgar A. Mearns said that he had long been familiar 
with the lact, and that it was no uncommon thing to see a 
muskrat munching a dead fish upon the borders of the salt 
He nas shot them while so en- 

gaged. He further stated that the muskrat is very destruc- 
tive to nets, destroying the fishermen’s fykes by scores by en- 
tering them in quest of fish and then tearing the nets in order 
to escape. 

Dr, A. K. Fisher said that at Sing Sing; N. Y., he had 
offen known muskrats to enter fykes, sometimes drowning, 
but oftener escaping by gnawing the meshes, thus doing con- 
siderable injury to the nets. He supposed they entered the 
nets because placed in their line of travel. He further stated 
that he knew that fykes made of fine wire were used with 
success in capturing these animals. 

My. Wm. H. Dall, the well-known Alaskan explorer, now 
of the Coast Survey, kindly favors me with the following: 
“Tn 1863 I visited Kankakee, Il., on a collecting tour for 
river mollusks, in July. You kuow how muskrats throw up 
mounds of the shells they dig out. I examined many of 
these for Unies, etc. On several I saw the skeletons of fish 
(chiefly suckers, 1 believe), partly or wholly denuded of their 
flesh, and showing the marks of muskrat (or, at least, rodent) 

* teeth. I also saw the shell of a common mud turtle, so 
gnawed and in thesame situation. I did not see the animal 
in the act of feasting, which, I believe, is chiefly done at 
night, but I have no doubt that the fish and turtle were eaten 
by the muskrat, as well as the mollusks associated with them 
in the same pile.” 

-_ Under date of March 5, 1884, I have received from Dr. 

Fisher the most yalnable record yet obtained concerning the 

habit in question. Dr. Fisher writes: ‘‘A few days since 

two young men were fishing through the ice for pickerel, 

with live bait, at Croton Laké, Westchester county, N. Y. 

Several times they were troubled by having one of the lines 


pulled violently off the bush and run out to its full length. 


Finaily they saw the line start again, and_ by pulling it up 
quickly they landed a large muskrat on the ice.” Here is 
an authentic instance, not of a muskrat eating a dead fish on 
the bank, but of actually capiuring «a live fish in the water 
under the ice. Fortunately the fish was attached to a hook 


and line, and the muskrat was caught and killed. 
_ Cannot some of the readers of Forest AND STREAM throw 
_ more light on this interesting subject? 


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Rodentia being essentially an herbivorous order, with 
adapted to awing, it is always very interesting to 
any marked appetite for flesh among any of the species 
order, Many exceptions have been found to exist i 


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regard to this general Jaw, it haying been long known to be 
a fact that rats will eat flesh as quickly as vegetables; that 
the capybara will eat flesh when no other food can be found, 
and that squirrels will at times eat animal tissues. In fact, 
it seems probable that all of the species of rodents may, 
under favorable circumstances, be caused to eat flesh. Now 
it has long been known to the writer, and it is probably well 
known to other observers, that the muskrat (Hider 2i5ethi- 
cus) will and does, at least in certain localities and under cer- 
tain conditions, resort to a carnivcrous diet. The piles of 
Unios heaped up ov a muskrat’s mound and the muskrat in 
the act of eating this mollusk have both been seen many 
times. Knowing this so well ourselves, and supposing it to 
be a well-known scientific fact, we never took the trouble to 
look it up, and hence were much surprised to hear it said in 
the Biological Society at Washington that it had never been 
published in any scientific monograph of the animal. At 
this meeting, Dec. 12, 1883, Mr. Henry W. Elliott, of the 
National Museum, read a paper upon the ‘‘Appetite of the 
Muskrat,” in which he claimed to be the first to record the 
carnivorous habits of the muskrat before a scientific body, 
asserting that no published record ceuld be found, in which 
statement he was sustained by the curator of mammals. 
The particular kind of eating which Mr. Elliott proved the 
muskrat to be guilty of never having been observed by the 
writer, and being of great importance and interest, are given 
below. 

While Mr. Elliott was at his home in the West, several of 
his neighbors complained that they could get no carp from 
their ponds, and in his own ponds carp were seldom obtained, 
No reason could be given for their disappearance, as there 
should have been great numbers in the ponds. Hawks were 
not abundant, in fact the lecality was rather too thickly 
settled for hawks to carry on their depredations, In several 
of the ponds obstructions were placed to prevent people from 
seining the carp, and through no possibility could they 
escape from the pond. But still they disappeared, and their 
disappearance still remained a mystery. At last he had the 
water drawn off and noticed two muskrat holes in the bank, 
but did not even then suspect the miscreants, until a neigh- 
bor came alone and suggested that the muskrats were the 
depredators. Upon examining the holes few bones were 
found, « fact which could be explained by their cartilagin- 
ous structure rendering them digestible. The probabilities 
are then, and Mr. Elliott believes, that the carp were eaten 
by the muskrats, and unless some mode of exterminating the 
pests is found, he predicts that great damage will result to 
American carp culture. Being a sluggish fish the carp is 
easily caught, and furthermore, it has the stupid habit of 
sticking its nose into,the mud and hibernating. So just in 
the season when the natural food of the muskrat is very hard 
to obtain, he has a luxurious fish, lying still in the water and 
easily captured. It is then easily understood how it would 
change its diet for apart of the year at least. Beinga 
clumsy animal the muskrat could not obtain the quicker 
motioned fish. In the interesting discussion which followed 
the reading many new points were obtained, and it seemed 
to be a well-known fact that the muskrat would eat flesh, 
notwithstanding the fact that no published account of such 
habits could be found. One man said he had seen muskrats 
take bait from his line and eat fish caught by hooks. The 
way this‘animal ects the mollusks from the Unio shells with- 
out breaking the shells is not known, unless that they are 
allowed to die, and then picked out after the shell has gaped 
open. As to exterminating the muskrat, many suggestions 
were made. It being rather difficult to shoot them, it was 
suggested that steel traps be used. A gentleman said that he 
had frequently killed them by putting strychnine in an apple 
and placing the apple upon a stone. it is asserted by hunters 
that they cannot be killed with poison, but this person says 
that this is a mere prejudice, Certainly if it be a fact that 
the muskrat does eat carp he is a dangerous enemy, and 
should be vigorously persecuted by any and all means. 

WasHiInerox, D.C. TRS Me 


BIRD NOTES. 


ol eee spring flight of ducks to the north has commenced. 
I saw six wild geese yesterday, the first this season. 
Black ducks, shelldrakes, whistlers, oldweys, broadbills and 
coots are about the only species that are found around here. 
They ere coming on in quite large numbers. I very seldom 
see wild geese flying this way to the southin the fall, but 
generally see them in large numbers in the spring in their 
flight to the north, which generally commences about the 
last of March, with them and ducks, and lasts until about 
the first of May, when they disappear altogether. I was out 
shooting to-day and killed an uncommon large sea gull called 
gannet, a species yery seldom seen around here unless it is 
a very cold winter, like this winter.. The feathers on the 
breast and neck are pure white, while those on the back and 
wings are jet black. I. C. 
NoRWALE IsuaAnp LIGHTHOUSE, March 14, 


Within the last week numbers of bluebirds and robins 
have made their appearance; and yesterday I saw a flock of 
Canada geese flying northwest. If the weather continues as 
mild and pleasant as it is now, [expect to note many more 


artivals, Nemo (of Texas). 
FRANELIN, Mass., March 19, : 


The following may be of interest to ornithologists: Mr, 
C, M. Carpenter, of Providence, reports seeing white-breasted 
swallows flying March 12, and March 19 redwing and crow 
blackbirds, This is a very early date for the arrival of 
swallows with us. SAMUEL F, Duxter. 

PAWTUCKET, R. I., March 22. 

SE 

THe PLUMAGE OF QuAIL.—Hditor Forest and Stream: In 
January [ had from Southern Tennessee a dozen live quail 
bred in that country, and recently I have obtained a few 
live birds which are native to Northern Ohio. The plumage 
ot the former seems to me (without haying the two speci- 
mens side by side) to be much brighter, and the markin gs 
much more distinct than those of the Ohio birds. Does the 
difference exist only in my imagination; is it because all 
birds of the family are in finer feather in Jauuary than in 
March; or is there an actual difference of plumage in the 
different latitudes? Will some expert give the fucts?—B. 
(Toledo, Ohio, March 20). [The Southern quail have the 
plumage somewhat brighter and the markings more sharply 
defined. In the Southwest (Texas), on the other band, the 
plumage is grayer and the colors blend more. The dark 
Cuban race of Orty«x virgintanus and the Texan form are the 
two extremes, It is hardly probable, however, that. you 
would find any very strongly marked differences between 
birds from the localities which you mention. ] 


—_—a 


Game Bag and Gan. 

THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tn looking over the long list of rifles now in the market to 
see what one would choose as a hunting rifle, one is forced 
to admit that, although there are many rifles of various pat- 
terns, there are but few that fill the bill as one would like to 
have it. Let us begin at the beginning and examine some of 
the best, or those that are recognized as such, leaving the 
confessedly inferior guns out of the account. 

In singleloaders we have first of small caliber the .22 Bal- 
lard and Stroms, differing but little from each other in 
shooting qnalitics, and the difference in mechanism bein 
mainly a question of taste, as both are strong enough an 
safe enough for the light cartridgesin use. But when we 
examine the proportions of powder and lead of the cartridge 
we find for the .22 short 3 grains powder and 80 grains lead, 
or 1 to 10; for the .22 long 5 grains powder and 30 grains 
lead, or 1 to 6, and the .22 extra long 7 grains powder and 
40 grains lead, or 1 to 5,7, a proportion that in all cases 
Seems to me to be enormous, as more powder (with increased 
velocity and dangerous space) could just as well be used as 
not, provided the bullets were made hard enough to stand 
the heavier blow of the powder, so as not to be too much 
upset in the barrel. 

Doubtless for gallery or target practice the cartridges are 
heavy enough, as generally the gallery is of but short length, 
and the distance shot at invariable;,so that the gun onee 
sighted, good slfooting follows. But cannot this gun be im- 
proved and its usefulness extended by increasing the weight 
of powder? Are there not many who could and would use 
this rifle as a ‘‘squirrel gun,” provided it held its flight long 
enough, und had a flat enough trajectory to be depended 
upon for shooting at variable distances? Although from ex- 
perience I know it shoots hard enough to kill at say 75 to 
100 yards on small game, still the curve of the trajectory is 
considerable, and could be lessened by the use of more 
powder, and a more effective gun be the result. There is 
nothing in the mechanism of either rifle to preclude the use 
of a long cartridge, as in both the chamber is open at the 
rear when the gun is opened, and any length can be inserted 
or extracted. : 

The form of the bullets of this caliber could also be im- 
proved, and the manner of their insertion into the shell made 
the same as for heavier cartridges, and improved shooting 
be the result; the bullet being made full .22-caliber for the 
entire length of its cylindrical part, and the contraction 
where they enter the shell being done away with. This 
would give a bearing surface for the ball of the full length 
of the cylindrical part, as well as abolishing the ‘“‘neck” at 
the rear of the bullet that may have a tendency to derange 
its flight. 

Passing to the next higher calibers we have Ballard, 
Stroms, and Remington ,32-caliber singleloaders, Winchester 
.2-caliber repeater, and Smith & Wesson’s .32-caliber 
revolving rifle; the Ballard and Stroms using .3% short or 
long cartridges, either rim or central fire, the Remington 
possibly the same, and the Winchester and Stroms center fire 
cartridges. 

In the rim fire .82-cartridges we have powder 6, lead 55 for 
the extra short; powder 9, lead 82 for the short; powder 13, 
lead 90 for the long; powder 20, lead 90 for the extra long; 
and in the center fire cartridges powder 9, lead 85 for the 
.32 8. & W.; powder 12, lead 90 for the .32 Colt’s; powder 
9, lead 82 for .382 short; powder 13, lead 90 for the long; 
powder 20, lead 105 for the extra Jong, and pewder 20, lead 
115 for the .382 Winchester. 

An examination of this list shows a proportion of powder 
to lead of from 1 to 9§ to 1 to 44 for the rim fire, and 1 to 9 
to 1 to 54 for the center fire, a proportion altogether too 
small for the powder in my opinion, and easily remedied for 
the Ballard, Stroms or Remington, as they all can take a 
longer cartridge without alteration, whereas the Winchester, 
and Smith & Wesson’s would probably need alteration to 
accommodate the longer shells. 

In the .88-calibers, also found in the Ballard, Stroms and 
Remington for singleloaders, and in the Winchester and 
Ballard for magazine guns, we still have eitherrim or center 
fire cartridges for the singleloaders, and center fire for the 
magazine guns, and a proportion of lead to powder of from 
7 to 1 to 4 to 1, approximately for the singleloaders 44 to 1 
for the Winchester or Bullard, and 6. to 1 for the Bullard 
special, and it is only when we come to the .40-calibers that 
we begin to reach heavy charges of powder as compared to 
the lead, as well as guns in which new cartridges haye been 
adapted, preserving their length invariably so as always to 
place the bullet up close to the grooves, but yet varying the 
proportions of powder and lead. ‘ 

In the .40-caliber we have the Ballard, Sharps, and Rem- 
ington as singleloaders, with the Bullard and Marlin as re- 
peaters. ‘The singleloaders using central fire ammunition, 
have a proportion of powder to lead of from 1 to 5;4; to 1 to 4h, 
the .40-90 Sharps using the heaviest cartridge, 90 powder, 870 
lead, while the Marlin uses the 60-260 cartridge, leaving the 
Bullard as the only magazine rifle that uses variable cart- 
ridges or that excels the old Sharps with its 90-370 charge. 

In the Bullard .40-caliber we find two guns, one using 
the straight shell with 60 grains powder and 260 lead, or 
their special cartridge with 75 grains powder and 226 grains 
lead, a proportion of 1 to 3, or another gun using at present 
90 to 95 grains powder and 300 lead, so that in either gun a 
more powerful magazine gun than any yet introduced will 
be found; and one has only to pay their money and take 
their choice between either the .40-60 or .40-75 straight- 
shelled gun, or the .40-90 using the bottle-necked ghell. 

Passing by all the .44 calibers as ‘among the things that 
were” (for what is the use of a .44-caliber when the .45 comes 
so near to it, and all later guns are of this caliber), and_par- 
ticularly as all the magazine guns of this type have too little 
powder to their lead, we come to the .45 caliber, and here 
we still find the Ballard, Sharps and Remington, the Pea- 
body and Springfield also appearing, for singleloaders, and 
the Bullard, Winchester, Marlin, Kennedy-Burgess, Hotch- 
kiss, Lee, and a host of others for magazine guns, and 
nearly all of the latter with a disproportion of lead to pow- 
der, they having mainly been, in caliber, copied from and 
adapted to use the same cartridge as the Springfield, a mili- 
tary and not a bunting rifle, 

y this mean that the government having adopted .45 
as the caliber for its rifle, manufacturers followed in adopt- 
ing the same caliber, and adapted the government cartridge 
for their guns in competing with the Springfield before 
ordnance boards; and having adopted this caliber and carts 
ridge, and laid down the ‘‘plant” to make them, still adhere 


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to this standard for their rifles, although they do not come 
properly under the head of hunting rifles. 

It is true that there are singleloaders and one magazine 
gun that do not come under the above head; but still from 
the ammunition the singleloaders use they are all properly 
long-range rifles, and not properly short-range hunting guns. 
The one magazive rifle, although adapted to the government 
cartridge, has still another special one, and with this in use 
comes under the proper class of hunting rifles. 

Understand that I do not mean to say but that these rifles 
may all be used as hunting rifles, and game killed with 
them; but I do mean to say that the hunter using them has 
got to be not only a good hunter but a good judge of dis- 
tance, or he will miss more shots than he hits from shooting 
over or under from the high curve of the trajectory at short 
Trange—a faulf not to be overcome ina rifle intended for 
Jong ranges except by the adoption of some special ammu- 
nition, with more powder and less Jead for the short ranges. 

Such being the case, the introduction of the 86-285 cart- 
ridge by the Bullard Arms Company is to be welcomed by 
all who have .45-caliber rifles chambered for the .45-70-405 
cartridge, for it gives them a hunting rifle as well’as one of 
long range, and one that has power to kill at all reasonable 
distances with the light ball, as well as one for long shots 
with its regular cartridge. And on the frontier, where .45- 
70-405 is the standard cartridge, from the very fact of its 
being the government standard, ammunition can always be 
had, even when the special ammunition gives out, as it may 
on a long march, scout or expedition, and the rifle still be 
efiective. 

A recent change in the government standard to .45-70-500 
is fast running out the .45-70-405 cartridge at military 
posts, and therefore still more should the .45-85-285 cart- 
ridge be welcome, as the new government cartridge is 
still more emphatically a long-range cartridge than the old 
one, and the special cartridge therefore more needed. A 
very mistaken impression seems to prevail that the Winches- 
ter .49-caliber can be used with the government shell, or use 
the .45-70-405 cartridge, and in fact, if I remember aright, 1 
have seen itso advertised by dealers, but not by the Win- 
chester Arms Company, to do the latter justice; the Win- 
chester .45 does not use the government cartridge of any 
Kind, but uses either the .45-60-300 cartridge with straight 
shell or the .45-75-850 grain cartridge with bottle-necked 
shell, so this makes two guns of the.4% class of their make. 

I have tried to adopt the .45-70-405 cartridge to the Win- 
chester, but found it impossible, as the length of the ‘‘carrier 
block” is not enough to take in the length of this cartridge. 
Neither will it take the .45-55-405 government carbine cart- 
ridge, as this is the same length as the .45-70-405, the space 
in F shell not filled by powder being filled with pasteboard 
wads, 

The Marlin .45 uses the government cartridge .45-70-405, 
the Kennedy uses the .45-60-300 cartridge, the Burgess did 
use the .45-70-405 cartridge, but appears to Lave passed either 
out of date or under another name, the Hotchkiss aud Lee 
both use the .45-70-405 cartridge, and are of the bolt type of 
repeater, working with the knob on the side, and not with 
the lever. 

Passing to the .50-caliber, we still have singleloaders, but 
all using a proportion of lead to powder of 1 to 8 to 1 to 5, 
and then for all properly long-range rifles, and in magazine 
rifles we have the Bullard and Winchester express—both 
using the same cartridge.—50-95-300—and both good guns, the 
only .50-caliber magazine rifles I know of; the old-fashioned 
Spencer being .56-caliber and about obsolete. 

From an examination of this list of rifles it cannot but be 
seen that, with the exceptions noted, allare undercharged with 
powder and have a high trajectory; the ball starting with a 
slow velocity; the trajectory must have a high curve to get 
the ball to the distance desired, and the ball having consider- 
able weight, and therefore the remaining velocities not dimin- 
ishing very rapidly, the ranges will be long, a thing good in 
itself for some purposes, but not what is wanted in a hunt- 
ing gun. 

In considering this list of guns, no account has been taken 
of any special home made ammunition, but only of the 
factory or staudard and special ammunition made by the 
manufacturers for the trade; doubtless there are many who 
have already altered the proportions of their powder and lead 
improvement of the shooting of their rifles. 

No mention has been of special guns such as can be had 
by paying for them; but I have confined myself to those 
guus found advertised as made for the trade, that any one 
ean find by looking for them. That there are such special 
guns [am well aware, and can only congratulate those that 
are able to possess them. . 

As said by me in a previous letter, itis a pity that more 
‘qualifications cannot be combined in one gun; but, as that 
is an impossibility, one has to ‘‘pay their money and take 
their choice” from what are to be had, unless able to have a 
special gun built. 

In the singleloaders I would choose a gun whose mechan- 
ism was such that I could see through the barrel from the rear 
end, whose breech block was at right angles to, or locked 
itself firmly against the breech, and then I would have a gun 
Icould vary to suit myself, provided I couldfind a mechanic 
with skill enough to chamber it as | wanted for longer car- 
tridges; but in magazine guns one cannot do this, there are 
other elements that enter the problem, and the breech frame 
being a fixture, longer cartridges cannot be fed into it from 
the magazine than the breech frame and carrier were built 
for; now the gun should be chambered to receive them; with 
such chambering done the gun could be used asa single- 
loader with such special long cartridges, provided there was 
room enough to extract the shells, and as a magazine gun 
with its regular ammunition, the shooting qualities with the 
regular ammunition being somewhat impaired, however, 
from the chamber being deepened. 

For magazine guns, therefore, the only hope of perfect re- 
sults is to be found in an appeal to the makers either of the 
guns or the cartridges; to the gunmakers, if the size of the 
parts have to be altered to suit Jonger cartridges, and to the 
cartridge makers if more powder and less lead can be ob- 
tained in the same length cartridges, so as not to have to 
alter the dimensions of the gun. 

That such appeals are not in vain, the production of the 
.40-90 and the .45-85-285 cartridge will show; the .40-90 
being an alteration of these makers’ .40-60 to take this 
special cartridge, and the .45-85-285 being a new cartridge 
adapted by them to their .45-70-405 rifle, Doubtless other 
appeals to other makers would be followed by more powder 
and less lead in their rifles, an eud so much to be desired, 
in my opinion, as I have tried to set forth. 

But we now have three powerful guns before us, or I may 
yay four—the Bullard with its .40-75-225 cartridge, the same 
with the .40-90-300, the .45-85-285, which will also use the 


| had these faults remedi 


.45-70-405, and the .50-95-300 express of either Bullard or 
Winchester make, and unless one wants a special gun, it 
seems to me there is not much more to be wished for. 

A great deal has been said about the killing power of the 
AQ bullet as against the .45, and all against the .40 on 
account of its smaller area, That it will have less killing 
power on account of its diminished area is conceded, but 
not to the extent that is claimed by some. The areas being 
proportioned to the square of the diameters, these areas will 
be in the proportion of .200? to .225”, or 40,000 to 50,625, 
or the area of the .40-caliber bullet will be a little less than 
four-fifths of the .45-caliber, 

But other factors enter into the ‘killing power” besides 
area of striking surface. The ‘‘living force” of the bullet, 
depending upon the mass and the square of the velocity, 
comes in also; and, as the velocity has the element of the 
resistance of the air to contend with, more velocity can be 
given to the .40 than to the .45-caliber bullet with an ex- 
penditure of equal force, and the .40-caliber bullet will there- 
fore have more “‘living force’ provided its mass is the same 
as that of the .46-caliber, ; 

Take the .40-90 as compared with the .50-95, both Bullard; 
both bullets weigh 300 grains, and the extra amount of pow- 
der behind the .50-caliber, will not much more than over- 
come the increased atmospheric resisfance that it has to over- 
come from its increased area of cross section; so that, leaving 
the express principle out of account, the .40-90 would proba- 
bly have the greater living force, and the greater penetration 
also, as the penetration would be inversely as the striking 
surface, other things being equal. 

Whether more powder behind a .50-caliber,bullet is to be 
desired I leave for some one else to solve. Joubtless for 
heavy game such would be very desirable, but then we would 
have a special gun only fit for the large classes of game and 
one that would be useless on the smaller kinds. 

Though arguing that one all-around gun is as impossible 
as one all-around boat, or as impracticable as the general 
run of ‘‘general utility tools,” still I claim for the .40-90-300 
magazine gun a greater range of usefulness than for any gun 
that has yet been made; next to it probably comes the .40- 
75-224; next the .40-60-260, for all those guns can be used on 
a wide range of game, while the .45-85-285 and the .50-95- 
300 are more to be considered as special guns, useful and 
powerful in their place, but not to be chosen for general 
work. C. D 


Fort McKisney, Wyoming, March 1, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Siream: 

It is, as most sportsmen are aware, possible to combine the 
advantages of a long range and express rifle in one weapon. 
This is very successfully done in a rifle which is made here 
principally for South Africa, by Messrs. Henry, Turner, 
Tolly, and others. Itisa .45-caliber, with 28-inch barrel, 
and of about 8 or 9 pounds weight, taking the usual musket 
shell and 80 to 90 grains of powder, and has a spiral of one 
turn in 22 inches, the usual military rifle twist. It shoots 
both express 270-grain hollow and 480-grain solid bullets 
well, and the same cartridge can be used with either bullet 
as occasion requires. If the shells are loaded with powder 
and wad only, either kind of bullet can be inserted as re- 
quired, The sights are the usual standard and one or two 


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Het or barrel. 
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leaves for 150, 200 and 250 yards for the express bullet, and 
a long leaf with slide graduated from 200 to 800 or 900 yards 
for the long-range bullet. Hither sight can be used independ- 
ently of the other, and they do not interfere with each 
other; the standard sight of course is used for short ranges 
with the heayy bullet. The express sights are placed in rear 
of the long-range one, and as the latter lies flush with the 
rib or barrel of the rifle when not in use, it is not in the way, 
For Indian shooting, rifles are hardly ever sighted to over 
250 yards, as it is generally considered unsportsmanlike to 
try long shots, and they are rarely attempted except by novi- 
ces, or on very special occasions. The rough sketch will 
give an idea of the sight. BENGAL SEPOY. 
Lonpon, Eng. - 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

May I rise to explain? I will. In your issue of March 
13, “D. M. B.” alludes to me; and although the allusion is 
complimentary, flattering even, it will be apt to give a wrong 
impression of at least one old swamp loafer of the seventh 
distillation. 

He says: “Every true sportsman must admire the picture 
of our old friend ‘Nessmuk,’ clinging with fond tenacity to 
the use of the old muzzleloader that has served him so long 
and well.” 

It is true. In my declining years I have gone back to my 
first love—the single-barreled, hair-triggered, muzzleloader. 
and it has served me ‘‘long and well.” But do not infer that 
I have clung with blind prejudice to any such weapon 
throughout my best days in the woods. Very far from it. 
On the contrary, I was among the first to take up and test 
the breechloader from its first advent. 1 started in with a 
Sharps carbine. I got it in Rochester, and I thought it about 
as sportsmanlike a weapon as an ordinary spade. ‘There was 
no hang, handle or nicety about it. They talked about 
“balance.” A crowbar will balance—if you take it at the 
middle. Estimating the graded sights, I concluded the 
makers had allowed for 100 feet drop in 100 rods, which 
turned out to be the case, Only, it wouldn’t drop two suc- 
cessive bullets within ten feet of each other. With my 
muzzleloading Billinghurst I could hit a 30-inch ring all day 
ai that distance. ' 

I traded the Sharps to a fellow who was going to Kansas, 
and my uext venture was a Maynard, This was more like 
atifie, but there were insuperable objections to it. The 
barrel was too short, the sights too near each other, the back 
sight “blurred” in dark woods, and it n ‘ 
a short-tug harness to pullit off. I took it to a gun shop, 


ceded a donkey with. 
asfar as possible, loaned my faith- | 


ful old double barrel to a friend, and adopted the Maynard 
for the season, The first two days I hunted with it I lost 
three deer that I would have heen dead sure of with the 
double barrel. At the end of the season, on a fair estimate, 
1 had lost one-half of the deer I ought to haye scored. I did 
not care for the loss. They were welcome to go. It was the 
vexation and disappointment, I sent the Maynard out West, 
and tried a Ballard, then a Spencer, and eventually a busi- 
ness Sharps and a Winchester; alsoa Remington. Now, I 
will admit that the iast three named are wicked, murderous 
weapons. For the plainsman and the mountain hunter, the 
business Sharps is sufficiently destructive, while for black 
bear and deer in a wooded country, the improyed Winches- 
ter ought to satisfy the most greedy maker of “‘bags” and 
“scores.” But it doesn’t. Not a number of ForEsT AND 
STREAM comes to hand in whichI do not find well-written 
articles ou the best, 7. ¢,, the:most destructive, hunting rifle. 
The diverse notions advanced are a trifle amusing. One 
wants a .40-90-500 repeater; “D. M. B.” wants a .45-115 to 
120-350 cartridge, while “Manhattan” finds 25 grains of 
powder in the Winchester ‘‘heavy enough for moose, caribou 
and bear.” The fun of it is, toa simple backwoodsman, 
that these articles are written by the very sportsmen who are 
most eager for efficient game Jaws and the enforcement 
thereof—the men who most bitterly deplore the rapidity with 
which our best game is being slaughtered. 

Gentlemen, you are right. Demand creates supply. Keep 
up the demand for a *‘perfect hunting rifle’—one that, while 
not too big for a squirrel, will stop a 1,200-pound grizzly in 
his rabid charge, and with a “trajectory” so flat that it will 
not be at all necessary to make any allowance on sights from 
forty yards to four hundred. The rapid increase of panthers, 
grizzlies and other ‘‘dangerous” animals demand that the 
coming rifle shall possess the ultimate possibilities of slaugh- 
ter. Let us have the verfect rifle by all means. 


~ NessMuUk.- 
WELLSBORO, Pa., March 17. 


The rifle columns of your journal have for some weeks 
past contained a series of most interesting papers relative to 
the choice of a hunting rifle, and while the majority advance 
the merits of existing calibers, but a few haye adyocated a 
change in proportions of powder to lead, and only one an 
innovation, a .28-caliber. This correspondent, ‘‘Peabody 
Martini,” after a series of experiments, has determined that 
for all small game the .28 is superior to the .32 or .88, This 
is indeed a long step in advance, and present calibers with 
ammunition as now furnished must yield to the coming rifle 
for all game smaller than deer. In behalf of the large num- 
ber of rifle enthusiasts, whose leisure is too limited to permit 
a lengthy trip, and who, in the suburbs of cities, can enjoy 
afew hours sport with small calibers, allow me to appeal 
to manufacturers concerning the popular .22-caliber. The 
ammunition as now supplied is most unsatisfactory, if very 
cheap, and a great deal more pleasure could be had if the 
powder charge was increased, the ball hardened, and made. 
to fit a central fire, bottle sheJl containing fifteen grains pow- 
der or more, the balls swaged. The long .22 now contains 
but 7 grains, and the shorter ones from 3 to 5 grains. With 
present ammunition the gallery ranges are from 30 to 50 feet, 
and even thena full score is the exception because of the 
faulty method of making the balls of a less diameter that 
part of their length which is sealed in the shells. Werethey 
seated as they should be and hardened, and an increased 
powder charge in a larger shell, bottle-shaped, the accuracy 
would be much improved, and the interest in that sport much 
greater. In my opinion the English sparrow is the Icgiti- 
mate target for this caliber where game is unknown, if they 
are half as much a nuisance elsewhere as in New Orleans. 

G. H., M.D. 

New ORLEANS, March 20, 1884. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have read with interest the various opinions by different 
writers in your journal on the subject of guns, I will give 
you mine for what it is worth. I commenced to shoot long 
before breechloading shotguns were known, and was very 
well content with the old muzzleloader, haying owned two 
excellent ones before the war, and came into possession of a 
very superior one justafter the war. I shall never forget the 
contempt with which I viewed the first breechloader 1 saw— 
about fifteen years ago. The next time I saw one was an 
altered Greener, of which I will speak hereafter. From 
year to year | became more familiar with them, and finally 
bought one of an American manufacture, and still shoot it 
at birds. After careful experiment and obseryation in the 
field, I became satisfied that, for bird shooting, they were 
quite as good as the muzzleloaders, while the superior con- 
venience and safety of them was too apparent to question. 
I for a long time doubted, however, their capacity to cope — 
with the muzzleloader in buckshot shooting; but am now 
satisfied on that point. My first experience with them in 
buckshot caused me to condemn them, utterly. I had 
hunted deer for many years—killed a good many—and had 
never missed a single deer up to the time of the tria] I made 
with the breechloader. The first three deer I shot at with 
my breechloader I missed, and they were all within easy 
range. *I laid it aside and went back to the muzzleloader— 
a 10-pound, 10-bore Greener—and every one I shot at I killed 
until the fourth. This one I made a clean miss on, and so 
with the fifth. The next time I went deer hunting I took 
the Greener before mentioned that had been altered 
from a muzzle to a breechloader, I killed four deer 
straight with it, all at good fair distances. 1 then began 
to think that there was more in the man than in the gun. 
So I took my discarded breechloader and tried it with both 
the muzzleloading and breechloading Greeners—both of 
which I knew to be good buck guns—and found that it made 
as good a target as either of them. I have not tried it on deer 
since the target practice, but last fall I went with a party of 
gentlemen, most of whom had breechloaders, some muzzle- 


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We made an extra fine hunt, and the number of 


slightest appreciable difference in that. I fee 
trouble arose in my case—and, no doubt, 


matter in other cases—from overloading the b 


abe 
much powder. Twelve buckshot, that a No. 12 paper shell 
aii eanains toile of, only weigh an ounce, and hardly that 
unless they fit too tight. So that why should one put a great 
load of powder (4 to 5 drams) behind an ounce of buckshot, 
 ando ly 3 to 84 drams behind i} and 1} ounces of bird shot? 
~ WHACK. 
7 -SrAunton, Va., March 18. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of Feb. 7, ‘‘Buckeye” asks: ‘“‘How much 
further will a 10-gauge kill its game than a 12, both guns of 
- game grade, and bored on same principle?” F 
- Under ordinary circumstances, 1 say, not an inch, The 
greater number of shots are at single birds; and a 12 choke- 
bore charged with 3 drams of good powder and 14 ounces of 
chilled shot, No. 4,.5, 6, 7 or 8, will kill a single bird, sitting 
or flying, duck, quail, prairie chicken, snipe or woodcock, or 
with No. 1 or BB a goose, just as far as a No. 10 will, 
charged with 5 drams of powder and 14 ounces of shot. For 
close, strong, hard shooting, and long range, the 12 gun need 
not be more than 28 inches long, not heavier than 74 pounds, 
while the 10 would require to be 80, 82 or 34 inches long, 
and 9 or 10} pounds in weight, necessitating a waste of 
strength to carry it about, and an unnecessary waste of am- 
- munition—a nuisance to carry—in its use. I have given the 
weight and length of my own full-choke hammerless Greener 
above, the shooting and killing qualities of which are at 
least equal to the better class of choked guns. At from 20 
yards up to 80 yards, 1 find my gun, when carefully and 
properly loaded, always equal to the occasion, and its execu- 
tion singularly free from accidental or wild shots, Speaking 
from my own experience, I would just as soon think of firing 
a field piece loaded with grape or canister at a wild turkey, 
as to discharge 44 or 5 drams of powder aud 64 ounces of 
shot ata single bird of any of the varieties enumerated 
above, excepting, perhaps, the wild goose. If I want to 
shoot at a flock of ducks at 100 yards, I can always manage 
to reach them effectively with No. 1 or No. 8 shot. Further 
still, if you tie the 10-bore down to 3 drams of powder and 
14 ounces of shot, in competition with the 12 at long range, 
the former will be simply nowhere. Lightness, combined 
with necessary solidity and safety, and « minimum of charge, 
sufficient to lessen expense, and moderate recoil, yet com- 
pfttely effective, are among the chief characteristics of a 
good sun. All these desiderata can be found in a first-class 
No. 12 of at the outside 8 pounds in weight. Too much of 
a good thing is sometimes objectionable. For the informa- 
tion of our friend ‘‘Buckeye.” who, perhaps, may not have 
taken the trouble to experiment backward, I wish to say 
that I have done some capital shooting with my gun with 2 
drams of powder and half an ounce of Tatham’s American 
chilled No, 6 shot, up to 45 and 50 yards; but, as a matter 
of course, at birds on the wing, the calculation and precision 
would gue to be drawn to an extreme nicety. For flying 
shooting | cannot recommend such small charges. ‘‘In the 
multitude of counsellors there is safety.” I need scarcely 
say that I am in favor of the hammerless gun, in my opinion 
the ne pilus uléra of breechloaders. ALGONQUIN. 
' Orrawa, Canada, March 10, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have used shotguns ever since I was big enough to be 
trusted with one, and have owned several, but when I got 
- my first double barrel, the climax was reached in my esti- 

mation. This was a 14-gauge 34-inch barrels, and was really 
a good shooting gun, ‘To prove this, I was once barred in a 
shooting match in company with a friend whose gun was 
same size bore as mine, with 32-inch barrel. After each of 
us had got a chicken, we were not allowed toshoot any more. 
The conditions were to put two shot in a 6-inch circle at 80 
yards. Two years ago I got the fever for a breechloader, 
and so sold my old favorite, the muzzleloader, and purchased 
a breechloader with all improvements, a W. Richards .12-28- 
8. Limmediately commenced to experiment with my new 
gun, and in a short time I found that my old gun was no- 
where, as the breechloader would discount it in distance, 
penetration and distribution. I once shot against two 10- 
gauge guns, breechloaders, distance respectively 60, 80 and 
100 yards, two shots each at each distance, and my score 
was the best every time, which proves conclusively, to my 
mind, that the 12-gauge is superior to the 10 for all ordinary 
shooting, Iuse the Winchester brass shell, and for wood: 
cock, partridge, etc., I use 3 drams American Dead Shot 
owder, one wad on same (Winchester pink edge) 14 ounces 
atham’s chilled, No. 8 shot, with thin black-edge wad on 
same. For squirrel shooting the same quantities, only No. 
6 shot. . 
_I have experimented a great deal in loading, and I find 
that the above method gives the best results. If any one will 
use the same quantity of shot that they do of powder (in 
bulk) for brush shooting, I think that they will agree with 
me. I know that a great many use two wads on the powder 
and claim better results, but [claim that one good thick wad 
that will not blow to pieces in the barrel is better than more. 
Tf two wads are better than one, why would not three be 
better than two, and so on. I would like to hear the: ex- 
perience of others on this point, especially those who have 
experimented the most, and if two wads are better than one, 
please give the reason why, WESTLEY. 
New Market, N. H., March 17. 


Fiditor Forest and. Stream: 

I have an 8-pound Parker gun, 12-gauge, 28-inch barrels. 
I loaded four metal shells for tages practice on Saturday, 
15th, as foliows: 3} drams of Hazard’s No. 5 ducking 
powder, and 14 ounces of shot. I placed two No. 1 pink- 
edge wads with a Barclay loader firmly on powder, and one 
of the same thickness on the shot. Ata target 40 yards dis- 
tant and 30-inch circle I obtained the following result with 
very even distribution; First shot I placed inside of the 
eircle 200, second 219, third 225, fourth 227. AMATEUR. 
- COLLINSVILLE, Conn., March 17. . 


some one 


the ¢ aes 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


shooting without raising the back sight; have killed squirrels, 

ducks and geese at 40, 50 and 70 yards without raising the 

back sight, but over that distance cannot do anything with 

the gun with or without raising the sight. TINKER. 
Decatur, Ala., March 18. 


[Nore.—The communication of “D. H. 5.,” in our issue 
of March 6, in which it was stated that his gun put No. 3 
shot in an inch circle, has been criticised by a number of 
correspondents, It is due to “D. H. 8.” to state that he 
wrote ‘‘No. 8 shot,” and not ‘‘No. 3's printed, and that 
the blunder was made by the printer, the writer of the note 
being in no way responsible for it. } 


COMING OF THE BIRDS. 


HE wildfow] are back with us again, at least their van- 
guard has been sighted. I saw a pretty pair of green- 
winged teal and a black duck in the market a few days ago; 
they had been shot in Greece by James Burns, one of the 
numerous farmers living in the town who are good shots 
and shoot a great many ducks every season. 

This morning I was aroused from slumber by a sound 
that seemed familiar, although I had not heard it before for 
several months. It came from overhead, and on looking out 
of the window my conjecture was confirmed, for there, in 
full view, a few hundred yards above, was a flock of about 
thirty Canada geese, beating the air with slow pinions and 
gobbling in their usual noisy fashion—noisy, 1 said, but it 
was more musical to my ear than sounds I have often paid 
to hear. Crown Wap. 


Rocuester, N. ¥., March 22. 


Ducks and geese commenced coming in from the south on 
the 26th. The main spring flight is not here yet. Ice is all 
out. Sportsmen who want to hunt on the line of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. for ducks or geese, are ad- 
vised to stop off between Nickerson and Larned, Further 
west is no good, for we raise but little grain west of Larned 
and there are twenty ducks east of there to one Sac a 


Cimarron, Kansas, Feb. 28. 


Woodcock and snipe haye arrived. There was a wood- 
cock killed about ten days ago, and one last night at the Re- 
lay House, by flying against the telegraph wires; attracted 
by the electric light, I think. The one this morning was fat, 

H. B, YONDERSMITH. 

LANCASTER, Pa., March 22. 


TWO MORNINGS’ WORK. 


NE evening in January, 1884, asI stepped from the 
ferryboat at Sullivan’s Isle, a little girl met me with, 
“‘O! Mr. G., you ought to have been here to-day. Mr. Hud- 
son shot twenty-two ducks and Mr. Edwards twenty-five.” 
A minute later, as I stepped into the door of my house, my 
wife saluted me with, “O! John, you don’t know how many 
ducks have been shot to-day! Mr, Hudson killed twenty- 
two and Mr. Edwards twenty-five. They have been shoot- 
ing all day. Clarence went out, but he only got eight.” 
By and by in came Clarence, a young friend without much 
experience in shooting. He told me that the cold storm 
had driven the ducksin the cove. ‘‘But why did you not 
kill more than eight if there were so many?” ‘‘Well, you 
see, John, the canoe rolled so that sometimes I shot within 
four feet of the boat, and then I did not know they were 
there until Hudson came back.” ‘‘Didn’t you hear them 
shoot?” ‘You see, I was busy, and did not pay any atten- 
tion to it.” ‘‘Shot fifty cartridges and got eight ducks!” 
“Yes, but I crippled about twenty, and they were wild after 
being shot at so much.” 

I determined to see if I could bag a few of them the next 
morning. First, my decoys were packed nicely in a basket. 
The canoe is moored at the steps; the 10-bore looked at, and 
found in good condition. Next come the cartridges, which 
are carefully emptied on the floor. Not very carefully you 
think? Well, no; but you see if you empty them on the table, 
they will roll on the floor; and then I enjoy sitting on the 
floor and counting them. At length forty-five shells, mostly 
loaded with No. 5 shot, are all I can find. These are care- 
fully put in the boat-box; next my clothes are placed where 
Ican find them; the alarm clock set for 5 o’clock, and I sleep 
to dream of ducks. Once in the night I awoke and was sorry 
to hear it was raining. At 5 o’clock still raining and the 
wind blowing a gale. However, I started for the wharf, but, 
just as I reached the shed, down comes the rain in torrents, 
and the wind blew so that it shook the shed like a leaf. The 
weather is really too bad, so I go back to wait until the wind 
goes down. Although it is only seventy-five yards away, as 
Tam coming back I am caught in a shower and drenched up 
to my knees. : 

But whatis that? Yes, a duck flew around the wharf and 
lit not thirty yards away. Two cartridges are quickly 
slipped into old Pieper, and I sight across the barrel, but I 
can’t see the duck. There he is, but the rain comes fast and 
it is not quite light. I see him at last and give him the open 
barrel, and there he is with his heels up. In another minute 
I have him—a little fellow, but plump. I now finish bailing 
out the canoe, get everything aboard, and start across the 
cove. Several flocks of ducks go up wild, and.as I near the 
marsh a black duck gets up, but out of shot. I now put out 
the decoys, pull the little boat in the marsh out of sight, and 
wait and watch, but not a duck willcomenear, Itis gettin 
very cold. This won’t do. I will row across the cove an 
see what is over there. As I round a point three little fel- 
lows rise. I stop two with the first barrel, and the other 
with the next; but two of them are only crippled and have to 
be shot over. A little further on I see a large flock, just 
around a point of marsh, and asI get within a hundred and 
fifty yards of them down comes a colored brother with an 
old, musket, and as I hear it thunder away go the ducks. 
He did not kill one. Just as I am in the act of thinking 
what a jewel he is, the ducks circle and come right past me. 
They are a long way off, but I give them both barrels for 
luck, and nine fall, but several have to be shot over. I now 
get to windward of the birds and the little eggshell goes 
down on them like a flash, and it is now blowing a stiff 
breeze, the little fellows have to rise to the windward. I 
empty both barrels among them, 

So I followed them up. Every few minutes there would 
come a shower, and several fimes I had to stop and bail out 
the canoe, My rubber coat I had long since thrown into the 
bottom of the boat to kneel on. And what would I have 
done without my boat box? It kept my cartridges dry as a 
chip. After a little more of this I am tired, hungry and wet 
through and through, sol start for home. “ A few strokes 
bring’ me to’ the wharf. - 1 hayenot been a half a mile from 


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home all the morning. The ducks are soon counted and 
number thirty-one, After donning dry clothing comes a 

ood breakfast, and who relishes his meals like the hunter? 
‘The gun is cleaned up nicely, and I take 12 o’clock boat for 
town. In the evening I bring seventy-five cartridges loaded 
with No, 7 shot. The next morning, wind blowing half a 
gale and very cold. By keeping well in the lee of the shore 
and up the creeks, although ice made in the boat, the spray 
wet me up some, After three hours’ hard work I brought in 
thirty ducks. As I came in I had killed a beautiful drake 
that I thought I would have set up. A crowd from the 
saloon met me with “‘What luck?” Not one of them went 
out; too cold that morning, I had my gun in one hand, the 
drake in the other. I Jaid it on the sidewalk, and with a 
tired look, which was not very hard for me to assume, for I 
was very tired, I pointed to the Jone duck. ‘‘One duck,” 
said one. ‘‘Hard luck,” said another, ‘‘After all that hard 
rowing,” put in the third. Then they commenced to brag 
and tell how many they had killed the first day, and I told 
them I had twenty-nine more in the boat. ‘Twenty-nine 
in allthis wind? Well, that’s good luck.” 

Sixty-one in two mornings, and so ended my ducking. 
The next morning it was bright and clear, and not a duck 
could be seen. JoHN Frx, 

CHARLESTON, &. C. 


THE FIRST SNIPE. 


eee English snipe were killed on the meadows this 
week, one on Thursday and two on Saturday, and no 
others have been seen, I have not been fortunate enough to 
get a shot thus far. Will go over the grounds daily, and 
hope to bag a few birds next week. Quail have wintered 
well, and large bevies are frequently seen near the village. 
With a good breeding season we may look for excellent 
shooting next fall. Ruffed grouse are very scarce, and that 
noble, game bird will soon be a thing of the past in our 
woods, Woodcock have appeared in fair numbers, and fine 
shooting may be looked for in July. The best grounds in 
this vicinity are reserved, and those who are not privilezed 
to shoot on such grounds can make but a poor bag at best. 
Robins, meadow larks and bluebirds have been with us 
nearly all winter, and blackbirds have appeared in large 
numbers. Goon ENoueH. 
FARMINGDALE, Monmouth County, N. J.. March 22, 


There was aloud crash as the door of a Newark saloon 
burst open last evening and a man, who looked not unlike 
the statue of Gen. Phil Kearny in the park, plumped into a 
party of sportsmen. 

“Say, now! Look a’ear, look a ’ear, now, say! I’ve got 
im!” he shouted excitedly. “‘V’ve got/im! Ive been tryen’ 
fur fiv’teen year tu git’im, an’I got ‘im at last. I can prove 
it.” 

He waved his hands exultingly. 

“See the blood!” he gasped, as he continued to poke his 
fists under the noses of the hunters. He then teetered wildly 
out into the night. 

‘In the name of all that’s good,” exclaimed an old gentle- 
naan, a stranger, who, while waiting for the train, was hay- 
ing a quiet beer at the bar, “‘what has he got? What has he 
done?” 

“Got? Yes, it looks as if he’s got ’im,” replied a middle- 
aged, man in an old greasy corduroy shooting coat. ‘‘It’s 
trué what he sez, he’s been tryin’ for fiv’teen year to get in 
his claim. He’s gallyed us now, by thunder. He’s killed 
him at last. Yer don’t understand, don’t yer? Well, he’s 
shot the fust English snipe of the season, he has.”—#. Sat- 
terthuaite in N. ¥. Herald. 


The first English snipe was seen on our meadow March 
21. Quail have stood the winter well in this section. §. 

Norra Truro, Mass., March 24. 

Two English snipe were killed at Bergen Point, N. J., 
March 24, by P. Lumbreyer. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES, 


A LMOST all of our sportsmen who have started out for 
he the first snipe of the season have either brought in a 
showing of one or a couple, or have seen birds on the mea- 
dows, which are in avery wet condition in our section. There 
is a superabundance of overflowed and ‘‘navigable ground” 
near our river shores which will make bad tramping, and so 
much of it that such snipe that come our way in theirnorth- 
ern flight, will be scattered about everywhere. The flight 
of ducks which I mentioned had reached the Maryland 
shores last week, instead of making good shooting on the 
flats from boxes, appear to have settled down in the Gun- 
powder and Bush River regions. Iwas informed by both 
Messrs. McComis and Bancroft, of Baltimore, who are about 
as well posted on the doings of wildfowl as any gentlemen 
I know, that the great body of fow] that came are now in 
sections where box-shooting is not allowed, Perhaps I am 
a chronic growler on the subject of battery or box-shooting, 
but it is a fact noticeable to Havre de Grace duckers, that 
canvas-backs, redheads and blackheads seem to know the 
difference between a bunch of decoys and a flock of their 
own kind as soon as they arrive. This is especially notice- 
able in the spring, no doubt from the recollection of the re- 
ception they received on their first coming in the autumn, 
young, green and fresh from the nesting grounds, and when 
it is known that on shooting days there are often as many as 
ae! or forty boxes anchored on the flats near the mouth of 
the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace, is it any wonder the 
ducks become educated, and the instinct to avoid such warm 
receptions on their natural feeding grounds—the battery 
must be anchored in shallow water—is transmitted to the 
young, and in time we have an entire change in the habits 
and actions of the fowl! 

To me, point and blind shooting at ducks, as they trade 
from place to place, is the most legitimate sport of the two, 
certainly the less destructive. Many geese have begun to go 
north. The snow geese that were in the Delaware haye 
started to their breeding grounds, and we may look for open 
weather, I think. Speaking of geese reminds me of a very 
curious specimen of the breast bone of Anse canadensis 
Mr. McComis, of Baltimore, showed me last week. The 
breast bone of all water fowl, when devoid of flesh, it is 
known, has much the resemblance of an old-fashioned skate, 
an upper bone taking the place of the plate and the sternum 
the part of-the blade or runner. One of Mr, McComis’s 
friends, on cleaning the breast bone of a large goose he shot, 
found lying on the upper part of the bone three large shot, 
twoencysted and the other detached. No fracture of the 
bone appeared, and. no evidence was found how’ the shot had 


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entered. How they got there has puzzled many, but it would 
seem to me that when the goose was first shot he must have 
been going away from the shooter and the shot entered in 
under ‘‘the apron,” and when their force was spent rested at 
the place they were found. On comparing the shot with am- 
munition in his store, Mr. MeComis found them to be such 


as are in Hley’s 8. T. wire cartridges. Homo, 
MAncH 22. 
LONG ISLAND POACHING, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of March 6, Mr. Lane, after informing you 
that ducks were being caught in nets by the thousand in 
Shinnecock Bay, goes on to say that he has notified me at two 
different times and that I had paid no attention. Before 
Mr, Lane notified me I had been-giving my attention to this 
matier. I wrote to him in reply to his first letter, asking 
him to collect me evidence, and that I would at once see to 
it. He wrote in return that he was tired of trying to have 
the game law enforced, and that he expected that he could 
rely on me, etc, I have taken every pussible means at my 
own expense to stop this violation of the law, but it is im- 
possible for me to succeed unsupported, and all the inhabi- 
tants of the locality are all more or less engaged in the busi- 
ness, and act as spies on my proceedings. Mr, Lane prob- 
ably knows by this time some of the difficulties which lie in 
the way of an enforcement of the law, 

In your issue of March 20 there is a letter from Manor- 
ville with reference to the trapping of partridges. I am 
aware that from Riverhead to Babylon, and also on the 
noith side, the woods are lined with partridge hedges. I 
made a great effort to catch the parties, and many of the 
hedges were destroyed, but none of the offenders could be 
trapped. If gentlemen who are credibly informed of the 
trapping of birds or other violations of the Jaw, will give me 
the names of witnesses I will see that the offenders are at- 
tendedto, They should recollect that I have a coast of 400 
miles and about 2.000 square miles of territory, and I can- 
not, nor can any man, act personally in all cases, 

Perhaps if persons buying wild ducks knew that a duck 
netted and drowned turns black, they;would not be so easily 
sold, and if there were no sale of course there would be no 
catching, 

GEORGE W. WHITAKER, State Game Protector. 

BouTHAmpton, L. I., March 24. 


SOUTH CAROLINA DAYS. 


os hot, dry summer of 1888, while very disastrous to 

field crops in this section, was very favorable for birds, 
and, per consequence, the long sedge cover on the hillsides 
overlooking the beautiful Catawaba is literally swarming 
with the brown beauties. In almost every piece of sedge, 
in every rough, uncultivated patch of any size, you are sure, 
with a good dog, to find game, and a three hours’ tramp 
from my house on a good day will be rewarded with a sight 
of from eight to twelve coveys. It is true they are pretty 
wild and strong and swift of wing, and as I have good rea- 
son to know are exceedingly hard to bit. Still the sport is 
magnificent. Many along tramp, and many a glorious daf*s 
shooting have I had this past season, in company with my 
genial friend, that clever sportsman and truly typical Eng- 
lish gentleman, Capt. McMurdo, of Charlotteville, Va. 

With the exception of one short spell, we have had a very 
mild winter. This month (February) has been about as 
warm as the average April, bright and beautiful, the very 
ideal weather for outdoor sports. Just such days as induce 
the partridge to go far afield in the early mornings and late 
evenings in search of food, and to lie cozily and lazily be- 
neath pines in the warmer mid-day; so close and still that 
nothing short of a first-rate dog can then fiad them; so close 
and still that after your dog has made game, and is standing 
sliff as bronze on a ‘‘dead point,” you peer curiously and 
anxiously into the short cover, see nothing but the short 
grass and dead brown leaves, and are almost persuaded the 
point isa false one. The dog is gently urged forward as you 
pass him, but stubbornly refuses to move, indicating by the 
slightest turn of the head the direction of the birds, On, on 
a few yards further and then, just under your feet, with a 
thrilling whirr, around, behind, before, and on either side. 
away go the birds; and too often, in spite of the best formed 
resolutions, off go the guns also before the game is properly 
covered, and af least half the shots fail fo count. By the 
way, how rarely, except in the written accounts, do we ever 
see a really effective right and left on quail in February or 
Marchi. 

As there is no rose without its thorn, so there is nu covey 
without its pine tree or trees, and long practice in eluding 
hawks has taught the cunning Bob Whites exactly how to 
take advantage of their friendly cover, and many a charge 
of shot, like the dagger of Roderick Dhu, finds ‘bloodless 
sheath,” not in the earth, but the soft brown bark of the 
dwarf pines, while the intended vietim, with the speed of the 
wind, secks further safety in some neighboring reed brake, 
or amid the warning leaves of a convenient hillside, 

A day’s shooting behind Strother’s Doctor Duer (Glad- 
stone—Frost) and Perkins’s imported pointer Mainspring, 
among as many birds as we have had this season, is a thing 
to be remembered with pleasure, when gray locks and un- 
certain legs shall have rendered all such joys a thing of the 
past, and when these two splendid representatives of their 
rival breeds are remembered only by the excellence of their 
offspring. j i 

Allow me to predict that with continued good health and 
a fair amount of practice before the next field trials, Main- 
spring is going to make things lively for the best, not only of 
his own race, but the very best and fastest of the setters also. 
I have yet to see the setter that has the heels of him: no dog 
can have a better nose, and none be more sagaclous or more 
easily controlled, Iam perfectly satisfied that he is the very 
best pointer | have ever seen in the field, andis going to 
make a flutter in sporting circles when brought to the test, 

Doctor Duer has about graduated, and is good enough 
for anybody. Keen, well-broken, handsome, and with brains 
enough to represent the Seventh South Carolina district in 
Congress. Doctor Strother will have to try a good many 
times before he gets a better or even as good a dog. 

Dexter’s Dirk and Del, pointer pups, Heald’s Snowdon 
and McMurdo’s Gloster, setters, are still in their nonage; all 
coming on well, and at least two of them will be heard of in 
the next Derby. 

After a long day’s tramp, a dinner and a smoke, I usually 
have two hours more of pleasure before me, passed in a game 
of backgammon and chatting with Oapt. McMurdo, who, 
-with all bis modesty and reserve, has had mauy adventures 
“by flood and field,” and it is indeed a privilege to a back- 
woods member of the *' Stay at Home Club’ like myself, to 


listen for hours to the conversation of an intelligent and en- 
thusiastic sportsman, who has shot peacocks, ibex, pheasants 
and migratory quail in India, cinnamon bears and leopards in 
Cashmere, snipe and woodcock in Turkey and Asia Minor, 
black game in the Highlands, red grouse in England and 
Wales, woodcock and water fowls in New Brunswick, 
ruffed grouse on the Blue Ridge, and prairie chickens in the 
far West, to say nothing of that gamest and most difficult of 
all game birds, the wary, beautiful little Bob White, along 
the banks of the Catawba. W. RD. 


Lanpssoro, Chester County, 8S. C., Feb. 28, 


ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAM AND GRIZZLY. 


Ae thirty years ago a man named John Dunson, 
i then a resident of Western Canada, went to the Rocky 
Mountains for the benefit of his health. And here it may 
not be amiss to say that, although then suffering from the 
effeets of a pulmonary complaint, after a few years’ resi- 
dence on the slopes of the backbone of America he grew 
strong and robust, and completely recovered his health. 
One day, while digging for gold, near Pike’s Peak. in a 
ravine, he heard a noise above him, and on looking up saw a 
bighorn of the largest size, a regular giant—old Cimma- 
ron of the hills—with an immense pair of horns, standing 
in a narrow pass winding up the side of the mountain. The 
great horned sheep appeared to be intently watching some 
object other than the miner, which soon became manifest, 
as a large male and female grizzly and two well-grown cubs 
made their appearance, ascending the path upon which the 
bighorn was standing. When the great Ursus horribilis 
arrived within about fifteen feet of the sheep the latter low- 
ered his head and descended upon his foe with the rush of a 
batteriug ram, The sudden and heavy stunning shock over- 
turned the bear; but, before the assailant could recover from 
the momentum, the she bear caught him in her grasp and 
dragged him down, when her stunned partner, haying re- 
covered, the fierce animals made a feast upon the carcass of 
the fearless bighorn, It is a well-known fact that the big- 
horn of the Rocky Mountains is more than a match for the 
bull bison; but ibis is the first instance that I have heard or 
read of that a Rocky Mountain sheep has dared to face the 
fierce and formidable tyrant of the bill and the cation, [ 
have given the story as related by the witness, and have not 
the slightest reason to doubt its correctness. We Pa, 
OrTawa, Canada, 


THE AMERICAN DEER FAMILY. 


THE ANTELOPE AND DEER OF AMERICA. By John Dean Caton. New 
York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 


N this volume, asecond edition, may be found important alterations 
and additions, the result of Judge Caton’s further studies in a 
most interesting branch of natural history. Perhaps no one in this 
country has devoted more attention to this subject than the author, 
for not only 1s he master of the scientific data, but has bad the good 
fortune to note the characteristics of the American Cervide in loco, 
aud for the purpose of comparison has been a keen observer of deer 
in other countries. 

Beginning with the prong buck, or, as it is generally known, the 
American antelope (Antilocapra americana), the specifie differences 
between it and the true deer, the moose (Cervus alces), wapiti deer, 
American elk (Cervus canadensis), woodland caribou, reindeer 
(Cervus tarandus), mule deer (Cervus macrotis), Columbia black- 
tailed deer (Cervus columbianus), common or Virginia deer (Cervus 
virginianus), the barren ground caribou (Cervus tarandus arctica). 
and the Acapulco deer (Cervus acapulcensis), are explained. The 
main peculiarity of the American antelope, which distinguishes it 
from its kindred ruminants, is to be found in the manner of growth 
ofthe horns. Audubon and Bachman doubted the statement of Lhe 
early hunters, that no person had ever shot or killed an antelope 
without horns; but the hunters, says Judge Caton, were right and 
the scientific men wrong, In 1848 Dr. C. A. Canfield, of Monterey, 
first made the statement that the antelope had a hollow hora 
like the ox, and that this horn was cast off and renewed 
annually. This statement seemed to be so contradictory to all 
established zoological laws that it was hardly credited until 
some eight years afterward, when the Superintendent of the London 
Zoolegical Gardens published the factsin the proceedings of the 
society. In 1863 Judge Caton, unacquainted with the prior studies of 
Canfield and Bartlett, in a paper read before the Ottawa Academy of 
Natural Sciences, affirmed the same fact. ‘‘The antelope has a de- 
ciduous hollowfhorn, which enyelons a persistent core, which is a 
process of the skull, like the core of the persistent horns of the 
ruminants * * * only thelower part of the horn is hollow, the 
core extending up scarcely half its length.*’ The vore is persistent, 
but when full development comes in October, this envelope of horn 1s 
cast off, to be renewed again, When the old horn is cast off the new 
one shows considerable growth above the core. Prof. Curtis, of 
Chicago, studying with the microscope the various stages of growth 
in the antelope horn, has rendered this curious subject quite clear. 
One peculiarity of the Antilocapra americana is the system of 
cutaneous glands. ‘The activity of these glands is not confined to the 
rutting season, but the odor may be observed in all seasons, nor is tb 
confined to the male, though the presence of these glands in no wa. 
affects the flavor of the flesh. The antelope is the fleetest ofa 
animals, but, curiously enough, though it can leap over fiat surfaces, 
itseems to be wanting when a perpendicular object arrests its 
flight. Caught in an inclosure, J ueee Caton found that an antelope 
would not jump a fence three feet high. The prong buck is easily 
tamed» ‘soon loses all fear of man, seeks society, and enjoys his 
company.” . : ; 

After giving a description of each of the species of deer, with their 
characteristics, the author enters imto more particular details, so 
that, by comparison, an excelent conception can be had of the simi- 
jitudes and differences of the species. Commencing with size, the 
moose is the largest known living representative of the Cervide. An 
extinct deer, the bones of which came from Ireland, however, ex- 
ceeded it in bulk. The maximum weight of the moose is 1,200 pounds, 
and its height, anteriorly, 644ft. The elk will measure 16 bands in 
height, and will weigh, in a fine specimen, 1,000 pounds. Judge Caton 
killed a 5-year-old elk which weighed 900 pounds, Between the elk 
and the caribou the difference in weight is quite marked, 400 pounds 
being & good average, and it is less in size than the Lapland animal. 
Mule deer will weigh 250 pounds; Columbia black-tailed deer not 
much more than smaller kinds of common deer, say, 150 pounds, 
though the Cervus virginianus has been killed which would tip the 
scales at 248 pounds. Perhapsin certain seasons the Michigan deer 
are the heaviest. The smallest of the race is the Acapulco deer. and 
a very large one will weigh 50 pounds, but 40 isa fair average. Judge 
Caton has paid marked attention to the coat and color of deer 
studying the spots which ornament the fawns of the Virginia and 
other deer, as traces of these spots were observable in some of the 
adult species, “I believe,’? writes Judge Caton, ‘these spots on the 
adult Virginia deer have been entirely overlooked by naburalists till T 
mentioned them to Mr. Darwin, when he noticed them in the ‘Descent 
of Man.’’ The theory which naturally takes consistency from this is 
tnatatsome prior period the Cervus virginianus was spotted like the 
fallow deer, and that in time ib may dissappear on the fawns 4s it has 
‘nearly disappeared on the young of the moose and caribou, and 
has even now much faded onthe elk and caribou.” “ 

We think, from Judge Caton’s observations, carried over a long 

eriod, that the danger of keeping males of the American Cervidze 
in public parks, the Virginia deer not excepted, is pretly clearly 
proved. All these animals, in certain seasons, are likely to attack 
man. When in captivity the male deer loses that dread of man 
which is his natural condition when wild, and from familiarity there 
comes contempt. The elks in Judge Caton’s North Park have more 
fhan once occupied their own ground and bid defiance to human in- 
truders. Under such circumstances, when their anger is excited, 
elks roust be quite formidable antagonists. Judge Caton writes: 

“Three men, who thought they kuew best and were not afraid of 
anybody’s ell, scaled the fenceand quietly walked along till they met 
the herd of eli, when the leader started after them with a dignified 
walk. They thought they had seen enough, aud commenced an 
orderly retreat, The elk increased his pace, and soon treed two of 
the party and killed the other. One of them, a young, active, ath- 
letic man, left his tree far past tee from tree to tree, fuel 
escaped, gave the alarm, and ra 

izeD-for. on they were as ly. 

wee resolu C ‘men. thy 
tiey could ufSeiently break 118, 


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the virtue of sharp hay forks. He did not charge on thenr with 5 
rush, in the ordinary way of joining battle Daeten by all the deer, 


but 1 owered his h i i i 
prodne ead so as to bring his face nearly parallel with the 


When the elk gave way it was a slow and sullen retreat, not & 
Bient. When his keeper came the elk tried to Kill him, and the man 
only saved his life by his courage. Next day it was determined to 
castrate the elk, and Judge Caton, with two other persons, had a 
severe tussle with him, for he was still undaunted. After the oper- 
tion was performeu he got wicked again, but soon all vicions sylnp- 
toms left, and in a week he was as docile as a lamb. Judge Caton 
believes that such viciousness is rather exceptional. When buck elk 
fight, a common occurrence, they give voice which resembles sume- 
thing like the soundof a steam whistle, which can be heard half a 
mile, Somet*mes in their battles they killone another. The wapiti 
is more readily domesticated. A curious trait of the elk fawn is that 
when captured it will feign death, If you pick them up they are as 
limp as a wet rag. the head and limbs hanging down, without the 
least muscular action, the brighteye fairly sparkling all the time, 

Efforts to domesticate the mule and the Columbia deer have been 
failures. In captivity not one of the Cervide seems to repoduce their 
kind as rapidly as whex in the wild state. Jadge Caton’s chapter on 
the hybridity of the Cervidee shows how thoroughly he understands 
this curious subject. He has succeeded in only four cases. He, 
crossed a male Columbia with a female mule deer, a Ceylon with an 
Acapulco doe, a Virginia with a Céylon doe, and a Virginia with an 
Acapulco doe. The cross between the Ceylon and Virginia varieties 
Seemed to do the best. Although a cross was attempted between an 
elk and a Durham heifer naturally no progeny came from it. Prince 
Pless, in Silesia, has succeeded in crossing the wapiti and the com- 
mon red deer. Judge Caton is certainly right in noticing this crass. 
Heis of the opinion that itis not a case of hybridity, as undoubtedly 
the wapiti and the European stag have descended from the same 
progenitors. In his chapter on the chase are presented many pleas- 
ing incidents. 

For the naturalist and the sportsman Judge Caton’s book is of 
great value, Itis notadry compilation of concrete facts, made up 
in the study, but contains the exact experinces of a gentleman who 
has a direct interest and a practical acquaintance with the subject 
he exhaustively treats.—New York Times. March 17. 


A PLEA FOR THE Brrps.—Huditer Forest and Stream: The 
discussion of the ‘destruction of our seng birds by amateur 
ornithologists” is one of intcrest. I venture to say that fully 
one-half of the bright little lives so taken ure of no benefit 
whatever to the collector. Rare specimens I grant may be 
secured for study, but surely it is nothing but wantonnéss 
that prompts the destruction of our many varieties of famil- 
iar birds. And here let me say, if you wish to study, build 
a ‘bird tank” and take your study frem life. Do not take 
the life from your study! If an unusnal visitor shows him- 
self, identify him; but in mercy think twice before killing 
This ‘‘bird tank” may be a hobby with me, but if only 25 
per cent. of your many readers will try it, many hundre@s, 
yes and thousands, of little victims will be spared to gladden 
the woods with their songs. Buy an opera glass, build a 
bird tank and fhen let us hear from you.—Wuinmor (New 
York, March 21). 


A Bounty on Foxrs.—Maine needs a bounty on foxes, 
They are very destructive to our game, and not only to game, 
but the poultry yards suffer from their depredations. Grouse 
seem to suffer more from them than other game for this rea- 
son. In cold weather the birds burrow in the snow through 
the night, and the keen scented fox soon finds them, and they 
fall an easy prey to reynird. Foxes never were so plenty as 
they are now in Maine, and unless something is done to de- 
stroy them, our noble game bird, the grouse, will soon be 
counted among things of the past. One can hardly go into 
the woods without finding the remains of a grouse or rabbit 
where reynard has dined. Now, brother sportsmen of Maine, 
let us push this question, as it is of great interest to us all, 
Let us wage war on the fox, and every farmer will hail with 
joy the sportsman that destroys his worst enemy. Let us 
hear from others of your readers here in Maine.—L. H, I. 
(Gardiner, Maine, March 17). 


Braps — Great Soury Bay.—The geese, brant and duck 
are becoming quite Bumerous in our bay, and someof the 
sportsmen are haying good shooting. ‘lo have good sport 
it is best to be on the bay when there isa good southerly or 
easterly wind blowing, which keeps the birds in the bay. A 
northwest wind is very unfavorable, as it generally drives 
the birds to the ocean. There are some batteries used here, 
but the shooting is done mainly from points with a boat and 
decoys. There being quite a number of islands in the bay 
it makes the point-shooting more convenient and desirable. 
—GeEo. Kintan (South Oyster Bay, L. I., March 25). 


Virernia.—Staunton, March 17.—The birds wintered well 
here, and the prospect for'good quail and grouse shooting next 
fall are as good as I ever knew them to be. The frequent 
4nd deep snows in the mountaizs west of us promise good 
results to the trout streams, by keeping upa good tide all 
summer, The headwaters of Greenbrier, in Povahontas, are 
full of these fish, and from the middle of June to 1st of BSep- 
tember there is no such fishing that is as accessible to fishermen 
from the Northern and Eastern cities as these streams, and 
none that yields so generous a return to the angler.—W Hack. 


Massacuusertrs Brrps.— While walking in the woods to- 
day with a friend and his dog, tosee how the quail got over 
the winter, we flushed a nice covey of partridges, ten in 
number, and a pair of woodcoek, but saw no quail, Thisi 
rather early for the longbill around here, as I found none ti 
the first of ‘April, last year. Snow is from four to five 
inches deep in the woods yet. Robins and bluebirds and 
song sparrows, and the red-shouldered blackbird are a week 
behind last year.—J. F. D. (Danvers. Mass,, March 22). 


Honicon SHootmng CLUB. The Horicon Shooting Club 
was organized at Fond du Lac, Wis., last week. The fo}- 
lowing officers were elected: President, T. 8. Weeks; Vice- 
President, §. B. Amory; Secretary, C. 5. Mattison; Treas- 
urer, W. 8. Russell. The club holds the lease of about 
10,000 acres of Horicon marsh (which is considered the best 
duckipg ground in the State), and are proceeding to erect a 
suitable club house thereon.—Horicon (Oakfield, Wis,, 
March 17). 


Nor Yer.—Was out Tuesday to try the ducks, but failed 
to get a shot. I only saw two flocks of ducks all day. I 
saw quite a number of ducks flying this morning; also heard 
ot afew English snipe being seen near the Great Swamp. 
Will try the meadows for snipe on Saturday, The meadows 
will be in first-class condition for snipe this spring, and [ 
hope I will be able to report some good bags.—16-BorE 
(Madison, N. J., March 20). . 


New Gun Wap.—We have received from the Merino 
Elastic Felt Gun Wad Company, of Baltimore, specimens of 
the new wad which they.are about to introduce. It is 
claimed for these that they combine the advantages of other 
felt wads with greater cheapness. Messrs, Clark & Sueider 
are said to have tested them with good results. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


169 


Sea and Liver Sishing. 


LONG OR SHORT RODS. 


Editor Foreat and Stream: 
In common with many other fly-fishermen, I have been 
much interested of late in reading the discussion in your 
excellent journal of the relatiye merits of long and short fly- 
rods. Syracuse possesses a large number of expert tly-cast- 
ers, as the recoids of the Siate tournament show, a fact 
largely due to the exertions and enthusiasm of the lamented 
Reuben Wood, and all of them take a warm interest in every- 
thing pertaining to the manly sport. Now, in considering 
this question of short against long rods, it seems to me the 
only points to be regarded are, the relative merits of the rods 
for actual fishing purposes. 

T have long regarded the annual contests at the State tour- 

-nament as very imperfect tests of the merits of either rods or 
anglers. 

Distance seems to be the most important element, and 
delicacy and accuracy of casting secondary, In actual prac- 
tice, I think every experienced fly-caster will agree with me, 
that these elements should be reversed, and a man’s skill be 

_deteimined by: 

First, delicacy; second, accuracy; third, distance. 

With these points in view it becomes very important what 
kind of arod to use. To secure the best possible results a 
rod should be made to combine in the highest degree, deli- 
eacy of action, strength, and lightness and ease in handling. 

me rod may be lightand strong and yet so heavy in its ac- 
jion as to require much muscular exertion of the wrist, and 
so make the sport of fishing very fatiguing, while another 
rod equally strong and light may work so softly and with so 
little expenditure of strength that a long day’s fishing will 
not weary the fisherman. Now, all short rods, so far as my 
experience goes, are stiffer in their action than long rods. 
Their best work can only be done at long distances, and only 
then by the exertiox of a good deal of muscle. Even then, 
except in the hands of experts, the flies are apt to drop with 
a splash. In brook and stream fishing, long casts are seldom 
necessary, and often impossible, on account of obstructions 
preventing a recovery of the line. With long rods, on the 
contrary, say of eleven to twelve feet, gradually tapered, the 
spring is more soft and delicate and evenly distributed, than 
in the short rods. 

A very slight exertion of the wrist will putsufficient spring 
into the rod to carry the flies to the full limit of the strength 
of the rod, accurately, softly, and without ‘“‘swishing the 
flies, and they will drop ut the end of a taut line, without a 
tipple. Such avod as 1 have described, and have the de- 
light of possessing and using, works equally well at either 
short or long distances. ‘The muscular exertion is so slight 
1 ae the angler can cast all day withcut fatigue, with either 

and, 

Mr. Wood sometimes used short, stiff rods in casting at, 
the State tournament, but invariably used long rodsin actual 
fishing. Indeed, for the past two years he used a long sal- 
mon rod, of sixteen or eighteen feet for bass tishing. 

Ononpaca II. 


~~ 


Syracuse, N. Y. 


THE POLLUTION OF RIVERS. 


! Pee fact that our rivers are used as sewers by all persons 
who may have refuse, which they can get rid of by 
dumping them into the water with less expense to themselves, 


is one that needs to be constantly presented to our legisla-- 


tors. It is bad enough for a man to put a dam across a stream 
and deprive the people above him of their fish, in order that 
he may make money, but when he.adds to the injury by pol- 
luting the waters below him, it is time that he was made 
aware that he is a nuisance which should be-abated, Saw- 
mills and tanneries are among the principal offenders in this 
line, and their refuse can be found for miles below them, 
rotting and spreading not only death to fishes and their de- 
posits of eggs, but malaria to the unfortunate people who 
live about or frequent the stream. That sawdust is fast fill- 
ing the Upper Hudson is well shown in the following com- 
munication in the New York Herald: 

“The newspapers have informed the public of the neces- 
sity of insuring the water supply of the Upper Hudson, but 
they neyer have been told of a flagrant practice licensed by 
years of indulgence, a practice burdensome to the taxpayers 
of this State, ruinous to the Upper Hudson and poisonous to 
its valley—namely, the annual dumping of several thousand 
tons of sawdust, edgings, sticks, chips, etc., from fourteen 
sawmills into the Upper Hudson. The sawdust dumped is 
burdensome to the taxpayers of this State, because large 
quantities of it carried away by high water help to form bars 
in the river near Albany, the removal of which costs. the 
State $50,000 a year. In 1867 the State paid $525,000 for 
the dredging of bars near Albany, no small part of which 
was sawdust, The dumping of sawmill refuse is ruinous to 
the Uppet Hudson, because at many points below Glens 
Fails Feeder Dam it has clogged, choked and filled the chan- 
nel, so that in summer a person can walk across it without 
wetting his feet. At Fort Edward an accurate survey has 
shown that sawmill refuse to a depth of eight feet, more or 
less, covers eight acres of the river’s bed within the cor- 
poration limits of that village. It is ruinous, because 
for miles below Fort Edward in summer, when the 
water of the Upper Hudson has fallen, little remains to 
marl the river’s course, save great bars of sawmill refuse, so 
completely has its channel been filied in. I saw Jast sum- 
mer below Fort Edward immense bars in places in the chan- 
nel, where fifty years ago J fished where the water was from 
thirty to forty feet deep. I remember when the channel of 
the Upper Hudson was clear and well defined. That was 
before the dumping of sawmill refuse was so great. Now- 
adays bars of sawmill refuse are formed with great rapidity, 
because the yolume of the Upper Hudson is ycarly growin 
smaller, its channel—what remains of it—narrower an 
shallower, and the dumping of sawmill refuse greater, 
Years ago canal boats were floated up the river to Fort 
Edward. Now there are times when not even a rowboat can 
be floated to that place on what is called the Hudson. 

“The dumping of sawmill refuse is poisonous to the valley 
of the Upper Hudson, because the rotten accumulation of 
acres and acres of refuse lodged in its channel breeds dis- 
eases which fifty years ago, whem the channel was clear, 
were unknown to the inhabitants of that valley. Alas! I 
have lived to see the river that once was a full, clear, active, 
unobstructed, uninterrupted ae transformed to a 


rs ee ake o orgs y. 
| -would make-a gorgeous fis 
e/ Weneht Bast ver this purps: 


Upper Hudson may be sacrificed to the conyenience and 
profit of afew sawmill owners? Must the people stand 
silently by and sce an important part of the Hudson River 
filled up with waste and refuse without lifting one hand to 
stopit? Must health be destroyed and life taken to Satisfy 
the avarice of a few sawmill owners of Northern New York? 
If so there is asad scarcity of men among us—and espe- 
cially among our so-called lawmakers,” 


THE DOWEL QUESTION. 


Editor Forest.and Stream: 

1 have read with considerable interest the several discus- 
sions in your paper concerning the dowel pins in fly-rods. 
I think Mr. H. P. Wells is right in every point, aithough I 
have never used a rod made without dowel pins, for the 
reason that there are no ferrules in the market suitable on 
account of being made tapering. I have used rods with the 
lap joints (no ferrules) with good success, except just the 
point that Mr. Wells condemns them on; the liability of the 
thin ends of splices to accident is just where the failure 
comes in. I have made rods for the trade for a good many 
years and used rods many more, and [ certainly can sce no 
use for the dowel pin, when we can get straight ferrules or 
tubing as Mr, Wells recommends. Will not Mr. Wells in- 
form me either by mail or through your valuable paper 
where such tubing or ferrules may be had, for which 1 will 
be under obligations to him and the ForEsT AND ee 


Hancock, N. Y., March 21. 

The above letter has been submitted to Mr, Wells, who re- 
plies as follows: 

Editor Forest and Stream: : 

The ferrules, the complete success of which in actual and 
severe use inspired me to agitate the subject of dowel pins, 
were made from German silver tubing drawn for me by Mr. 
John H, Knapp, manufacturer of gold and silver pen and 
pencil cases, No. 17 John street, New York city. 

Mr. Knapp drew these tubes from time to time as a favor, 
it being a small matter, and aside from the usual business of 
his factory. Being somewhat doubtful whether he would 
care to do this for others, I called on him to ascertain. He 
will fill such orders as he may receive for brass or German sil- 
ver tubing, drawn inside and out, at the following rates: Brass, 
from 10 to 15 cents a foot; German silver, from 15 to 25 
cents.a foot.* The length of the tubes will be from 3 to 5 fect, as 
desired, but the whole tube ordered must be taken, since of 
course fragments are useless to him. 

The tubing for the male ferrules, as supplied me in the 
past by Mr. Knapp, has been just a shade too large to enter 
the female ferrule, so as to permit nice fitting. This tubing 
was beautifully drawn inside and out, and of good ‘‘temper.” 
Mr. Knapp prefers samples should be sent with orders. He 
can supply any size which does not exceed half an inch in 
diameter. Henry P. WELLS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Iam very glad that the dowel question for fishing rods is 
being ventilated in your columns, I have fished for the last 
twenty-four yearsfor black bass, and have made during that 
time about twenty rods, none over ten ounces in weight. I 
have never used the dowel with the exception of a piece of 
one-eighth inch brass wire of about one inch in length let in 
to the butttend of the second joint and proportional boring 
in the small end of the butt. This I find steadies the joint at 
that place and does not detract from the strength, as the hole 
in the butt is sosmall. I have never yet had the joints pull 
apart, and have fished about all known ways for bass, and 
am satisfied for my part that the dowel is not actually re- 
quired. It is only an additional labor to fit them, I use the 
swelled ferrule, thereby getting the full size of the wood. 

It may not be amiss to inform those of your readers who 
are, like myself, amateur rodmakers, how the wire is fitted. 
I cut a fine thread on the part that is to go in the middle, or 
second joint, for about half an inch, leaving three-quarters 
uncut which is to enter the butt. Then take a small piece 


A, the Morse drill, 4g inch. B, the wood fitted to the inside of butt 
ferrule. C, bit stock. 
of wood, fit it to the female ferrule of the butt, bore a hole 
with an one-eighth inch Morse drill, leaving three-quarters 
of an inch protruding through this piece of wood. Bore the 
hole in the butt, the piece of wood that you have fitted is a 
. true guide. W. K, 


“THE RAINBOW DARTER. 


Edtior Forest and Stream: 

Inclosed you will find a small fish which I send you fora 
name. It was caught in a small stream in this locality this 
winter, when getting minnows for bait. It is something out 
of the knowledge of any one in this section. Please give it 
a name and general description, and if they are common, 


W. H. Jounson. 
LINDEN, Mich,, March 6. 


[The fish is one of a large family called ‘‘darters,” Htheos- 
tomatide, which seldom grow to over a finger’s length. They 
usually inhabit swift brooks, and lie in the sand or on the 
stones and dart by a movement of the pectoral fins. Most of 
them are plainly colored. There are about thirty species ar- 
ranged ina dozen genera. The specimen sent is brilliant 
with blue and orange even in death. We take the following 
description from Jordan’s Manual of the Vertebrates: ‘‘Rain- 
bow darter, blue darter, Riatidige ceruleus (Storer), 
Agassiz. Rainbow fish, blue Johnny, Olivaceous, tessallated 
above, the spots running together into blotches; back without 
black lengthwise stripes; sides with about twelve indigo 
blue bars runving obliquely downward, most distinct be- 
hind, separated by rich orange interspaces; caudal deep 
orange, edged with bright blue; anal, orange with deep blue 
in front and behind; soft dorsal chiefly orange, blue at base 
and tip; spinous dorsal crimson at base, then orange with 
blue edgings; ventrals bluish, often deep indigo blue; throat 
and breast orange, these two shades very constant; female 
much duller, with but little or no blue or orange, the ver- 
tical fins barred or checked; colors fade in alcohol; body 
short. and stout; head large; D, X—12; A. II, 7; lateral line 
45 scales; length two to three. inches. Mississippi Valley, 


eplored of all davters.” This 
fdr adn aquariim, and should be 


BIG BASS LAKE. 


ERE we are on the ice, The thermometer is at 14° be- 
low zero, and is undecided whether to slide still lower 
or stop short. We have been fishing for the past week, 
with grand good luck, and now we have but one more da 
and then home. We have averaged thirty-five lines eac 
day, and our lines haye been busy, as you may judge when 
six hours each day was our actual fishing time. A week 
ago we packed up a bundle of ‘‘tip-uns,”’ packed our satchel, 
filled our grub bag and started for Big Bass Lake. It was 
cold when we left home; it was colder when we struck the 
lake, and by the time the ice was crossed and we had reached 
our camping place it was solid cold. 

Last summer we had fished here and built a log hut, and 
now we find it still intact. Ouraxe cuts boughs from the 
nearest hemlock for our bed, and that tall spruce gives us a 
load of its branches with which to cover the hut. Over 
these we pile snow, and pack it down hard. Now we have 
as snug a den as we could wish, Our camp-stoye burns in 
one corner, our bed is in the other, 

Supper over, to bed, The next morning I am the first 
awake, and so I get breakfast ready, and then for the ice, 
I won't tell you about the trials of cutting the fishing holes. 
You who have fished through 24-inch ice can appreciate it. 
I have never seen fish bite as quick as here, They seemed 
to have been starved, and we could hardly attend to the 
lines, The lake trout were the largest fish caught, and 
seemed to bite the least sharply. Our bait was first-rate, as 
lively as crickets, and a great many were the popular ‘‘red 
fins,” and though in summer in the same waters we had no 
luck using ‘‘red fins,” in winter they were the best bait. 

We give a table of our catches of the six days at the lake, 
and think it will compare favorably with the same number 
of traps, etc. 


First day, 70 fish, weighed,...........- eReCencee 250lbs. oz, 
Second day, 100 fish, weighed. ................. 4011bs, I40z. 
Third day, 91 fish. weighed..........-....-...-5 320lbs. Yow. 
Fourth day, 66 fish, weighed........... ....-4. 200lbs. loz, 
Fifth day, 79 fish, weighed ............. ..-...: 215lbs. 
Sixth day, 82 fish, weighed........... ....,....d02Ibs, doz, 
In six days 488 fish, weighed............ 1,689]bs. 100z, 


SIZE OF FISH. 


First day, smallest fish.....2lbs. doz , largest....10Ibs. 
Second day, smallest fish. .3lbs. loz., largest ...17 9-16lbs. 


Third day, smallest fish....2lbs, largest _.. 5 1-16lbs. 
Fourth day, smallest fish. ,2lbs. 50z , largest ...141¢lbs. 
Fifth day, smallest fish ....2lbs. 1oz., largest.... Ti4lbs. 


Sixth day, smallest fish,...3lbs.4oz., largest. ,..i115-16lbs. 


The smallest fish was a pickerel of two pounds, the largest 
a whale of a Jake trout. The fish ran very even, as a 
general rule, but now and then a whopper got on to the line 
and made it. sing. 

Now, many of your readers may be curious to know where 
the lake lies that we fished in. We are sorry that we cannot 
publish it, We have fished this lake in summer and winter, 
and the fishing is grand. In the summer the bass fishing is 
unsurpassed, 

The expense of the trip we have just taken, exclusive of 
personal conveniences, was— 


Baits 500 Pat St peril (Ol fess lpn, eewen den Sawn a ses $6 00 
Wane PAUP Oad oe 8 aie cease a oe Ec poe eee Saar et 2 OL OU 
Food and drink and other expenseé...................-.- 8 00 

$22 00 


Making $11 for one person for a trip of a week. We don’t 
give this as a criterion to go by, as on one occasion in the 
early winter our expense was $20 apiece, and again at 
Christmas time only $9 for a week; still it is a fair average. 
Two BRoTHERs. 


VERMONT FISH LAWS. 


fe is no State in the Union; and probably no coun- 
try among civilized nations, where the laws for the 
preservation of fish are so set at naught, and so openly vio- 
lated, as in Northwestern Vermont. In Franklin county, 
within the immediate vicinity of one of our two Fish Com- 
missioners, there are dozens of seines, pound and fyke nets, 
fully manned and constantly at work during the close sea- 
son, sweeping the fish out of Lake Champlain’s waters. 
Some of the nets are owned by parties from New York 
State, who, during the fall of 1882, came into this vicinity 
and, within fifteen miles of our wide awake Commissioner, 
built a large ice-house, where they have stored tons of fish 
caught illegally. It has been estimated by those who are 
posted that during the close season of 1883 from fifty to 
seventy-five tons of fish were caught in these waters and 
shipped to New York and Boston markets, Several writs 
were issued and served against some of these fishermen, but 
so far we have yet to hear of a single conviction. The 
Governor of the State appoints our Fish Commissioners, 
and it is tobe regretted that for this locality he did not 
appoint aman who not only understands the duties of his 
office, but has moral firmness enough to put the laws into 
force. At the next State election a strong effort will be 
made, irrespective of party politics, to elect representatives 
who will do their utmost to remedy these evils by making 
provision to have competent men appointed as fish wardens. 
About a year ago an officer visited this locality and was 
driven over the ice within afew yards of holes cut in the 
ice, where trap nets were set and barrels of fish taken out 
daily, but he did not know what those holes were cut for 
and passed them by without examination. With a short 
pole with hook on it he could have fished something out of 
the water there that would have astonished him—trap nets 
of the most destructive kinds. I have no doubt but what 
the intentions of this officer were good, and that he intended 
to do his duty faithfully, and had he been ‘‘posted” or en- 
gaged a trustworthy guide, that he would have succeeded in 
capturing quite a number of large trap nets, and temporarily 
put a stop to this work. STANSTEAD. | 
HicHeate, Vt., March 13, 1884. 


Sma Bass my CAnapDsA.—An unusual devolopment in bass 
fishing was made this winter in the Tidnish River, which 
forms the north shore boundary between New Brunswick 
and Nova Scotia. Last spring when the heavy ice left the 
river, an old farmer found some dead bass on the flats where 
they had evidently been crushed by the tide letting the ice 
down on them at low water. This winter, about a month 
ago, he cut a hole in the ice, and found the river so full of 
sea bass that he resolved to use a scoop net instead of hooks 
and lines, With the sceop nets, five tons weight of the fish 
were caught in one night, and since that two or three thou- 
sand dollars worth have been shipped to the Boston market. 
It was néver before suspected that bass came there in winter 
—B. (New Brunswick, March 20). 


P) 


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FOREST AND STREAM. Aimee 9p Toa 


THE BISBY CLUB. 


A VERY interesting report of the Bisby Club for the 
years 1888-84, gives an idea of the work and pleasures 
of this association, which has ifs groundson the Adirondack 
lake which gives the club its name. In speaking of the 
accommodations of the club being taxed to their utmost dur- 
ing certain months, and the Jack of visitors at other times, 
the report says: ‘‘Fhere is every year a period when our 
accommodations go, as it were, ‘a begging.’ This is in the 
delightful month of July when the sun shines brightest, and 
the cooling shades of the woods would seem most welcome, 
and when the fish in the lakes are active in search of food in 
the deep water, and are consequently readily taken at the 
buoys. But this is the time our guests are fewest in num- 
bers. Probably the bugbear of flies is what keeps people 
away. The flies in July are but little more than a bugbear. 
The winged fiend of the woods is the black fly, but his season 
rarely lasts through the month of June. When he leaves, 
the mosquitoes have the field to themselves, but the mosquito 
of our northern wilderness is not the venomous monster that 
haunts the seaside watering places, and the lagoons of the 
open country. His song is more nervously exciting than 
his bite, though the latter is to be avoided rather than per- 
mitted; but after all, the pleasures of life in the woods in the 
dog days far outweigh the discomforts of the insects. We 
recommend the month of July to all who would see the 
woods at their best, and receive the benefit of the purest and 
most exhilarating air.” 

The fishing last year was the best within the experience 
of the club. In Woodhull Lake many fine land-locked 
salmon were taken, and the run continued till late in June. 
The stock of fish in the Bisbys was replenished from the 
State hatchery at Caledonia by 18,000 brook trout, 6,000 
lake trout, while in Woodhull 5,000‘ rainbow trout were 
planted, and 15,000 more were ‘placed in Moose River. A 
hatchery has since been built, and there are now in the 
troughs 50,000 lake trout eggs, 40,000 hybrids, and 10,000 
brook trout. 

The better observance of the game laws for the last four 
Feats has resulted in the increase of deer, and the shooting 
was better last year than ever before in the history of the 
club. A larger per centage of the deer were young than 
formerly, of the deer killed, there being more bucks than of 
any other kind. During the visit of the Governor of the 
State, Hon. Grover Cleveland, the report says: ‘‘A fine buck 
passed within a few feet of the Governor’s stand, but a ledge 
ef rocks intervened, which prevented a shot, The same deer 
passed within club shot of the guide, Frank Hall, but as he 
had neither gun nor clab, the deer escaped.” This, we take 
it, is not seriously meant, yet it is so written that persons not 
familiar with the personnel of the party might construe it into 
a regret that fhe deer was not killed, even with a club. The 
Bisby Club is doing good work in enforcing the laws in its 
own grounds and contiguous territory afid in stocking the 
waters, as well as in preserving the timber. It has twenty- 
five members. Gen. R, U. Sherman is the President, and 
Mr. Henry H. Thompson the Secretary. If all the clubs in 
the Adirendacks were as vigorous as the Bisby, there would 
be a better enforcement of the laws and consequently more 
fish and game in that region, which is only fitted to produce 
these forms of life together with a limited amount of timber 
and a great deal of water. The greed of the lumberman and 
the bark stripper, however, are to be combatted, or the whole 
region will soon be a barren waste, from which the rapidly 
melting snows will produce such freshets as the eities of 
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati have lately seen, while in mid- 
summer our canals and rivers will be dry. 


IT IS PROBABLY TRUE, 


A CORRESPONDENT clips from the Boston Transcript, 

of March 18, the item telling that the Hon, Hannibal 
Hamlin has just rsturned from Moosehead Lake, Maine, with 
a fine catch of trout. Then the correspondent heaves a groan 
and utters that, if a poor devil were camping out in Maine 
and tried to vary his bill of fare by shooting a deer or cari- 
bou before Oct. 1, the game warden is pretty sure to find it 
out and ‘‘sock it to him” accordingly. But the honorable 
gentleman makes his annual trip and comes home “‘with a 
fine catch of trout,” caught through the ice, against the law 
of the State. 

Now, Mr. ‘‘C. G. G.’s” mind will be entirely set at rest. by 
reading carefully a proviso to Section 48 of the fish laws of 
that State: ‘Provided, however, that during February, 
March and April citizens of the State may fish for and take 
land-locked salmon, trout and togue, and convey the same to 
tlieir own homes, and not otherwise.” But ‘‘C. G. G.” must 
read this proviso and then turn to Section1 of Special 
Laws of 1881; ‘No person shall take, catch, fish for or de- 
stroy any trout or land-locked salmon in the Kennebago, 
Rangeley, Cupsuptic, Mooselucmagunticv, Mollychunkamunk 
and Welokennebacook lakes, or in the streams Mowing into 
or connecting said lakes, during the months of February, 
March and April of each year,” 

Now, the Hon, Hannibal Hamlin did not fish in either of 
the above lakes, but in Moosehead, where he had a legal 
right to, in February, March or a Me being a citizen of the 
State, and doubtless taking the fish to his own home, It is 
weil known of the Maine Fish and Game Commissioners in 
their work that they have been unrelenting to honorable as 
well as dishonorable—breakers of the game law are gener- 
ally dishonorable, Even ex-Governor Connor could not 
transport a deer, killed honorably in open season, from 
Bangor to Augusta last fall, Commissioner Stillwell, when 
applied to, said: “Governor, I can do nothing for you under 
the law.” Governor Connor yielded willingly, like the true 
gentleman he is, and took his deer to Augusta by private 
conveyance. This was under the first enforcement of the 
new transportation law in that State, which few at that time 
understood. Even Senator George F. Hoar came near hay- 
ing to pay the fine for killing a moose in that State a year or 
more ago, since he happened to be in the party which did 
ki! one, but he was able to show that he was not present at 
the time. One of the Maine Commissioners remarked last 
summer that even President Arthur would be punished 
~ were such a thing possible that he be caught poaching in 
Maine. Itisa mistake. Fayor has not been shown to 
either honorable or dishonorable in the enforcement of the 
game laws in Maine. SPECIAL. 

Boston, Mass., March 24. . 


Editor Forest and Stream: - 

The complaint of ‘‘C. G. G.,” in your last issue, deserves a 
word. We like our laws, and the respect being shown for 
them by our own citizens is evidenced every er during close 
time, and our pei une ee in particular—have not 
been so plenty for years. Not only this, but if “C. G. G.” 


‘trout; one very light-colored, slim and silvery, the other, to 


comes into Maine for recreation, he must respect and obey 
them just the same. 

There is one point, however, in which our own citizens 
have precedence, and if your correspondent had taken pains 
to inform himself he would not accuse Hon. H. Hamlin with 
breaking our laws. As he gays, “It speaks for itself.” I 
have such confidence in the gentleman he contemptuously 
names the “‘Great American Game Warden,” that if ‘‘C, G. 
G,” will apply for a copy of our game laws, I am sure that it 
will be forwarded to him, At the end of Section 48, it reads; 
“Provided, however, that during February, Mareh and 
April, citizens of the State may fish for and take land-locked 
salmon, trout and togue, and convey the same to their own 
homes, but not otherwise,” 

Once in a while we meet just such croakers as “0. G. G.” 
One in particular I haye now in mind. He lives in one of 
the best localities for small game, and he and his boys have 
until within a few years. had free scope to kill water fowl 
at any and all seasons. Finding game was diminishing in 
the beautiful bay in front of the homestead, he began to be 
very ardent in advocating law. Well, the laws have been 
made, and still he croaks. The Protective Association in 
his vicinity wished to make him warden, .True, he would 
do great things if he was warden; but he could not be pre- 
vailed upon to accept the position, The truth to-day is just 
this: Make a law that shall forbid everybody else but him- 
self and bis boys firing a gun within a dozen miles of his 
favorite bay, and he'll go for it every time. 

Give these gentlemen the unlimited run of our State, let 
them murder our moose, deer and caribou, trout and salmon, 
in season and out of season; send cheap guns into the State 
to give to the boys who will shoot ruffed grouse for Boston 
market, while budding in winter, and while the game lasts 
they will be suited, and not till then. N. 

Baru, Me., March 24. 


A PECULIAR FISH. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I see in your issue of March 18 a piece headed ‘‘A Peculiar 
Fish,” and, as there has been much discussion as regards it, 
I want to add my mite. I have for years lived near and 
fished these waters, and think the description of the fish far 
from right. Last fall I obtained permission from the State 
Commissioners to take fifty of these fish fer the purpose of 
stocking Stone Pond, I caught two distinct varieties of 


RIPaRian Riewts 1x CANADA.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. 8. G. W. Benjamin, in “The Cruise of the Alice May,” 
in the March Century, states that the Canadian government 
controls and leases our trout streams, even to the exclusion 
of the owners of the adjoining banks, Holders under Icases 
of the streams from the government did try to establish that 
view of the law, but it has since been decided by our high- 
est courts that the government have no such power over the 
rights of riparian owners, and consequently those rights are 
now universally respected. Many sportsmen find it cheaper 
4 ay . lot oF land on the shore and fish as a riparian owner, 

an to lease from the government.—B. (New Br i 
March 20, 1884), F ; ree 


Sishculture. 


NON-HIBERNATING CARP. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I notice in your issue of yesterday the communication of a 
gentleman whose initials and location indicate that he is a 
prominent member of the American Carp Cultural Associa- 
tion, who is engaging in carp culture systematically, and who 
closely watches for new developments, Several other mem- 
bers have written or informed me orally of similar develop- 
ments in their ponds, The first carp which I obtained from 
the Government (scale-covered) were placed in asmall pond of 
clear water where I could observe their habits, As soon as 
the water approached the freezing point, early in December, 
they collected in the ieee point and commenced burrowing, 
head downward, As there was a heayy-admixture of sand 
inthe mud, it was three days before they entirely disap- 
perce The third day nothing but their tails were in sight. 

hese were in constant and active motion as long as visible. 
They made their appearance again early in May, In the 
winter of 1882-3 they did not hibernate af all, for I could see 
them swimming near the bottom, even under four inches of 
ice. 

The fact is, that the American carp is becoming a materiall 
different fish from the European fish, Tt is not Bite losing ifs 
hibernating instincts, but it attains double the growth here in 
a given time, and is in other ways improying when intelligently 
bred, It appears to be quite certain that we have but one 
variety of pure food carpin this country, the progeny of which 
retains the true characteristics noted by reliable ichthyolo- 
gists. I refer to the parti-scale type, termed by the Germans 
“leather,” “mirror,” “‘bluebacks,” and probably other fancy 
and whimsical names yet to be heard Fabs Our scale carp 
are notoriously improved, their progeny developing well-known 
types of hybridity’ The earp culturists of this region are 
killing off their scale stock. ost of my own stock is of this 
type, and knowing of its impurity, I refuse to sell any of it 
alive. Iam making all practical efforts to breed an entirely 
scaleless type, Mitton P. Parrce 

Secretary American C., C, Association. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, March 21, 1884. 


all appearances, was a common brook trout, being dark, with 
very bright spots, and much the heavier in propertion to 
length, the same length of the latter weighing one-third more 
than the former. There is no stream, however small, flowing 
into this lake, as it is entirely fed by springs. Only the com- 
mon brook trout are found in the outlet of this lake, The 
right to fish this lake is claimed on the ground that it is a 
jake. and the ‘‘strange fish” is a lake trout for this reason, 
It is called in the Dublin history Monadnock Lake, and also 
Monadnock Lake on the county maps. It is called by man 
here Dublin Pond. The question is, is it a lake or a pond, 
and what is the difference between a lake and a pond? Last 
fall both kinds of trout spawned on the same bed, but what 
J term brook trout were about fourteen days later than the 
others, and did not come until the others had left., s 
Fis WARDEN, 


FISHCULTURE AND FISHWAYS IN NOVA SCOTIA.— 
In the Canadian Parliament the Hon. L, G, Power, Senator 
from Noya Scotia, made a speech on the fisheries, etc., on’ 
Feb, 22. In general terms, he indorsed the letter of Hon. W. 
F. Whitcher to Forrest AND STREAM, which made so much 
stir when that gentleman, during his official term as Commis- 
sioner of Fisheries, claimed that the results of fishculture in 
the Dominion had been very small. He referred to the de- 
scriptions of the McDonald fishway in FoREST AND STREAM of 
Jan. 3.and 10, and suggested that an inquiry be made regard- 
ing it, and, if the results are satisfactory, recommends that 
some of them be constructed. He thinks if this is done the 
fecundity of fish isso great that they would probably replenish 
its rivers in a very short time. The Hon. Mr. Kaulbach 
agreed with Mr, Power, and thought the hatcheries were not 
placed far enaugh above tidal water. If this is the case it 
seems to us that it would pay to transport the fry to the upper 
streams. It must be that there is something in the methcds 
which are faulty, as fishculture is successful in most places 
outside of Canada, 


Maruporo, N. H,, March 17. 


[The differences mentioned are not of themselves sufficient 
to establish two species. Shapeand color amount to little or 
nothing in the salmon family. The fact of a trout inhabit- 
ing a lake does not make it a ‘‘lake trout.” By lake trout is 
understood the fish called in different places togue, lunge, 
salmon trout, Mackinaw trout, etc. We cannot say that the 
fish in question is not a distinct species, but evidence from an 
ichthyologist is first needed to proveit. Theordinary angler 
is seldom competent to decide on species. Send specimen to 
the Smithsonian Institution and let us know their decision, 


A lake is a large pond and a pond is a small lake, | THE PROPOSED FISHWAY AT DUNDEE DAM.—The 


New Jersey Legislature has a: propeiated $500 for a fish ladder 
at Dundee Dam. The one sunfish left in the Passaic River by 
the polluters and the fishers out of season, who are not in the 
State prison, is expected to climb the ladder early in the sea- 
son.—F. SATTERTHWAITE, 


Che Zennel. 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


March 26, 27 and 28.—The Dominion Kennel Club's Second Annual 
Bench Show, Horticultural Gardens, Charles Lineoln, Superinten- 
dent, W.§8. Jackson, Hon. Secretary, Toronto, Canada. 

April 3, 4and 5.—The Cleveland Bench Show Association’s Second 
Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superiatendent. C. M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. Entries close March 24. 

April 22.—The St. Louis Gun Club’s Bench Show, St. Louis, Mo, 
Entries close April 14. J. M. Munson, Secretary. 

May 6,7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Eighth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas. 
Lincoln, Renn Ian R. ©, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


New Jrersny Notrs.—A bill has passed the Assembly 
appropriating $500 for fishways over the Dundee dam on the 
Passaic. Shad and striped bass formerly ascended the river 
above the site of the present dam, and a fishway there would 
give the anglers of Paterson a chance to fish near home. The 
Paterson Press says: ‘Just at present fish are being mur- 
dered by wholesale, and itis a disgrace to the county that 
the present laws are not enforced. Nets are being drawn 
regularly above the falls and also between Paterson and 
Dundee dam in direct violation of the law. The offenders 
could be brought to justice without the slightest trouble if 
somebody would only take hold of the matter. Another 
illegal method of capturing fish is extensively resorted to at 
present. If a person will take a walk along the banks of the 
river during any night he will see hundreds of lanterns burn- 
ing along the shores and men in boats moving about from 
place to place. All these men are violating the law and run- 
ping the risk of being sent to prison. Pickerel and bass are 
spawning at present. They seek the shallow places along 
the shores, where they lie frequently in a semi-dormant con 
dition, Men with spears take hundreds of these fish every 
night in the most unsportsmanlike manner, and in direct 
violation of the law, and that under the very eyes of the 
authorities. A sportsman’s club is badly needed in this 
county. There is an organization calling itself the Paterson 
Rod und Gun Club, but it has been little heard from in the 
way of protecting of fish and game. If the illegal catching 
of fish at this time of the year could be stopped, and there is 
no reason why it should not, there is no reason why there 
should not be good fishing in the Passaic near Paterson 
throughout the open season.” 


A, K. R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be in early. 
Eniry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry, No entries 
inserted unless paid in advanee. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P.O, Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1010. Volume I., bound in‘cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50. : ; 


DISQUALIFICATION OF JILL AT CINCINNATI. 


Trout is New Jersey.—During the past week three of 
our Philadelphia anglers, having the fever upon them, went 
to New Jersey, within fourteen miles of Philadelphia, and 
caught sixty trout. They were mostly fingerlings, four 
inches long; the largest certainly did not exceed six inches. 
Worm was the bait. New Jersey allows trout fishing in 
March. At the corner of Seventh and Sansom streets, Phila- 
delphia, black bass, fresh caught, are displayed on a stand 
fronting a restaurant. This is a violation of the law surely, 
—Homo. 


THE STRANGE Fish ry Cayuea Laxr,—In answer to ‘‘what 
fish is this?” from Cayuga Lake, I believe they are what is 
called ‘‘dog fish;’ when grown they do not look like pbull- 
heads exactly, but when small look like trout. I could not 
tell the difference, In talking with different ones while 
fishing in that lake last summer they all expressed 4 belief 
that the fish had been put in the lake for trout.—E. FP. K. 
(Auburn, N. Y., March 16). “ 


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award first to a disqualified dog. As a matter of fact, Jill has 
no mange at all. She was confined to keep her clean and got 
too high in blood, which caused skin irritation, and a scar 
over her eye and one on her hip, wonin a late battle, doubtless 
added to the examiner’s impression of mange. The class was 
not rejudged that I have heard of, and I submit that, as far as 
the record goes, the judge’s awards were final and our bitch 
is entitled to the place she won. Evenif she had mange, it 
would not detract from her merits, and to shut her out the 
protest should have been lodged before, and not after, the 
judge's award. This is not my individual opinion, but that of 
a dozen breeders in this section, and if we are wroug we would 
like to know how and why. If right, we want the correction 
made in your published list of awards. SURREY. 
Euicorr Crry, Md., March 18. 


(The disqualification of Jill places her exactly where she was 
before she was judged, so far as the prize or honor is con- 
cerned, and the question of merit does not, therefore, enter 
into the case at all.] 


NEW ENGLAND KENNEL CLUB. 


MEETING was held March 19, at the Parker House in 
Boston, for the purpose of founding a new kennel club. 
The history of the movement is somewhat as follows: Dishon- 
est dog dealers have imposed on breeders to a certain extent, 
by putting upon the public many dogs of impure blood, thereby 
injuring honest breeders; attempts have been also made to 
pass laws against the keeping of dogs, and believing that much 
good could be done toward remedying these and other evils, 
a number of gentlemen came together on the 22d of February 
at the Parker House, to consider the subject of forming the 
new club. After much discussion of matters relating to the 
breeding, showing, sale and pedigrees of dogs, it was unani- 
mously voted to form a club, having for its objects the inter- 
est of all honest breeders and lovers of dogs, to make breed- 
ing ona par with any other business or calling, so that any 
flonan ae with dignity acknowledge himself a breeder. 
ith these ideas in view, a committee was chosen to draw up 
a constitution, and at the meeting on the 19th inst., the “New 
England Kennel Club” was organized, and the constitution 
adopted, The objects of this club as provided for in its con- 
stitution are: To encourage the breeding and importation of 
thoroughbred dogs, to hold bench shows; also, to hold meet- 
ings for scientific and theoretic discussions, and the reading of 
essays on the subjects of breeding, to use every means within 
its power to protect breeders of stock having authentic pedi- 
gree, to influence the passage of just laws relative to and gen- 
erally protective of dogs. 
The officers of this club are: President, Arthur W. Pope, of 
Boston; Vice-President, Charles E. Shaw, of River Side Ken- 
nel, Clinton, Mass.; Secretary and Treasurer, J. A. Nickerson, 
-of Boston. There isan Executive Committee of five, consist- 
ing of the President, Secretary and Treasurer and three mem- 
bers of the club, whose names are Dr. Frank 8. Billings, V.5.; 
Jean Grosvenor, Shamrock Kennel, Boston, and J. Dobson, 
of Hyde Park, Mass. Thereis also a Finance Committee of 
_ three—Dr. J. Frank Perry, Ashmont Kennels, Dorchester, 
Mass.; C. H. Baker and Edward S. Payson, of Bostcn. The 
membership is unlimited as to numbers, and unrestricted as 
to residence of members. There are two classes of members— 
an active and an associate class. Both have the same privileges, 
except that none but active members will vote, or have any 
voice in the business of the club. The annual fees are, for 
active members, $10, and for associate members, $5, payable 
inadvance. Blank applications for membership will be fur- 
nished by the grape on application. The annual meeting 
of the club.will be held on the first Saturday of March in each 
year, but probably monthly meetings will be held also. The 
next meeting of the club svi il be held April 16, when all mat- 
ters of interest to the public will be published in Forest AnD 
SrreAM. Persons desiring to communicate with the club 
may address P. O, Box 2,574, Boston, Mass. Seal” 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Stisham 
THE KNICKERBOCKER KENNEL CLUB'S LIVER AND WHITE TICKED POINTER DOG “KNICKERBOCKER.” 


Winner of Champion Prize at New Haven and Washington, 1884. 


This is the gist of it: It is un-English to shoot foxes, there- 
fore it is unsportsmanlike. It is humiliating to think that 
any American, North or South, should care a snap of his 
fingers now for British opinion of anything concerning us. 
Are we not old enough and strong enough to have ways of our 
own and sports of our own, without regard to what others 
think of them? The nature of our country and the temper of 
our farmers alike forbid the hunting of foxes here in English 
or Southern fashion, and the Newport style of hunting is not 
likely to come into general favor yet throughout New Eng- 
land. Let us continue to hunt our foxes in our own way, and 
if beagles are ‘‘deadly” and staunch and musical, let us have 
them by all means. 

My lips are not pallid when I say that [ had good sport in 
shooting half a dozen foxes last fall, and that I hope to have 
many another day of such goodly sport in the brown, 
autumnal woods of my beloved New England. AWAHSOOSE. 
| FERRISBURGH, March 12. 


CHAMPION KNICKERBOCKER, 


W give this week a cut of the large pointer Knicker- 

bocker, winner of first, Boston, 1882; champion at 
Ottawa, Ont., and champion at both New Haven and Wash- 
ington, 1884, He is by Glenmark (Rush—Romp) and out of 
Girl (Maryland—Til). ; 


ROBINS ISLAND CLUB. 


a he annual meeting of the Robins Island Club, March 17. 
i The following list of officers were elected for the ensuing 
year: 


PRESIDENT. 
Dr. 8. Fleet Speir. 
VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Mr. W. B. Dickerman. 
SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 
Mr. A. F. Plummer. 
A BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
Dr, 8. Fleet Speir, W. B. Dickerman, 
A. T. Plummer, W. B. Kendall, 
Henry J. rips H. D. Polhemus, 


N: A: K. C. DERBY. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In inclose additional list of entries for the Fifth Annual 
Derby, National American Kennel Club, received up to date. 
I have received a great many applications for entry blanks, 
and think the entry will be large. P. Bryson, Sec. 

Mempuis, Tenn., March 21. 


. 8S. Swan. 

By unanimous vote of thecluba vote of thanks was tendered 
to the retiring president, Mr. Wm. B. Kendall, for the very 
able and satisfactory mannerin which he has administered 
the affairs of the club during the past year. The clubis in a 
very prosperous condition, the treasurer’s report showing a 
handsome balance on hand. $1,000 was appropriated for im- 
provements the coming year. Much interest was manifest in 
the annual field trials of the club to be run next fall, and no 
effort will be spared to make them first class in every respect. 
~ 


FOX SHOOTING AND FOX HUNTING. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tt is probably hardly worth while to “‘let fall any word of 
extenuation from the pallid lips of the man who has shot a fox;” 
it would avail nothing with the man who thinks the only 
proper way to kill a fox is to worry the poor outlaw to death 
with a pack of hounds that give him not more than the ghost 
of a chance for his life. But then, we are all wedded to our 
idols and each tothe sport he loves, and we all have little 
enough charity for the worship or the sport of others. 

There is an element of cruelty, a strong leaven of the-old 
savage Adam in all field sports, so much of it that every one 
who recreates himself with rod or gun or hound, must ery out 
at ¢ertain times when his heart is tender and the fire of the 
chags not burning within him, ‘‘God be more merciful to me 
than I have been to His creatures that He has set before me!” 
There is only one feature in field sports to redeem them from 
the charge of wanton cruelty, and that is fair play. Now, 
wherein does the shooting of foxes before one or two hounds 
lack this quality more than running them down with a dozen 
or more hounds followed by men on horseback? A man may 
get his neck broken, or a horse his knees, but that does not 
help poor reynard’s case at all, for the hounds go bellowing 
after him just as if nothing had happened. 

Wherein is there less of fair play to shoot a fox before 
hounds than to shoot a hare or a deer in like manner? And as 
for the skill required in each case, either as marksman or 
woodsman, any one who has tried the three knows which calls 
for most. If one will stand still long enough almost anywhere 
in the woods when dogs are running a hare, he may get a 
shot, and if long enough on a runway a shot at a deer, no 
matter how little he knows of the habits of the game. But 
he who hunts foxes on foot successfully must have much more 
of woodcraft and some knowledge of the manners and cus- 
toms of the wiliest animal that ranges the woods, and he must 
be as much a man physically as he who goes a hunting on a 
horse’s legs instead of his own, for he must endure long and 
hard tramps. : 

As for riding to the hounds, it is a very fine and noble thing 
to do, and Ihave read that the young men at Newport do it 
rene well in the exciting chase of the anise-seed bag or the 
hobbled fox, and would doubtless die supremely happy if they 
broke their necks in the sport, if by so dying they .ceuld ape 
‘Englishmen as closely as they-do in dress and speech and 
other matters of living. — 


ENTRIES, 


Jim BuEDSOE.—Major J. W. Renfroe, Atlanta, Ga., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, Dec. 3 (Baden Baden—Daisy 
Royal). 

Pau JonES.—Major J. W. Renfroe, Atlanta, Ga., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, Dec. 3 (Baden Baden—Daisy 
Royal). 

Grem.—Dr. J. N. Maclin, Keeting, Tenn., lemon and white 
English setter bitch, April 16 (Gladstone—Gazelle). 

Nasor.—b. F. Stoddard, Dayton, O., liver and white pointer 
dog, Feb, 17 (Croxteth—Trinket). 

Danpy Bos.—E. F, Stoddard, Dayton, Ohio, liver and white 
pointer dog, Feb. 17 (Croxteth—Trinket), 

Dayton.—E. F. Stoddard, Dayton, Ohio, liver and white 
pointer bitch, Feb. 17 (Croxteth—Trinket. 

FRANK 8.—F. I. Stone, Chattanooga, Tenn., blue belton 
English setter dog, May 81 (Gladstone—Zell), 

GLAD §.—F. I. Stone, Chattanooga, Tenn., blue belton Eng- 
lish setter dog, May 31 (Gladstone—Zell. 

TANGIPAHOE.—H. Fontaine, Magnolia, Miss., black, white 
and tan English setter bitch, April 21 (Gladstone—Flossy). 

Jo Jo GLADSTONEH.—E. 8. Bond, Chicago, Il, black, white 
and tan English setter bitch, July 10 (Gladstone—Lavyalette). 
CountsEss SpEED.—J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., lemon 
and white English setter bitch, April 16 (Gladstone—Gazelle). 
Masie.—J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., black and white 
English setter bitch, May 18 (Dash ITJ.—Jessie). 

ALFRED.—J. Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., black and white 
English setter dog, May 18 (Dash I1T.—Jessie). ! 

Basy Mine.—J, Hayward, Jr., St. Joseph, Mo., lemon and 
white English setter bitch, July 18 (Rake—Madam Lilewellin). 

GLapDRoY.—Whyte Bedford, Horn Lake, Miss., black, white 
and tan English setter dog, June 28 (Gladstone—Donna J.). 

Lorra —W. B. Gates, Memphis. Tenn., black, white and 
tan English setter bitch, Ang, 19 (Count Rapier—Juno). 
PEGMATITE.—Dr. N. Rowe, Chicago, Ill., black, white and 
tan English setter dog, April 11 (Cambridge—Marchioness Peg), 

PrGoMANCY.—Dr. N. Rowe, Chicago, Ill., black, white and 
iran setter bitch, April 11 (Cambridge—Marchioness 

ea)to ; 
GiLpIm.—W. W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., lemon and 
white Hnglish setter bitch, July 25 (Count Rake—Minnie), ~ 

CanRiz H,—W. W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., blue belton 
English setter bitch, June g (Roy—Gretchen), © als hes 
_Jamestown,—W, W. Titus, Cherry Creek, Miss., black, 
white and tan English setter dog, May 7 (Count Noser—Lola). 


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NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


N answer to inquiries the managers of the Westminster 
Kennel Club desire to state that dogs will be classified 

according to their record on date of entry. A first prize win- 
ner in an open class at Mleveland or Toronto, therefore, may 
compete in open class at New York. provided he was entered 
at New York prior to receiving the award at Cleveland or 
Toronto. Should entry be made after the award at the last 
named shows, he must be entered in the champion class, 

Winners at Cincinnati are barred from open classes at New 
York. There have already been a large number of valuable 
special prizes offered which we will notice more at length 
next week, Theclub have made a new departure in the in- 
auguration of a sweepstake for English setters, Irish setters, 
large pointers and small pointers, The entrance will be $10. 
The winner in each of the four classes to receive all of the 
entrance money and a piece of plate, added by the club. The 
winner to be known as the champion dog of America. The 
elub to be permitted to compete. Entries in each of the 
laa to be made onor before the 21st day of April 
next. 

Tn addition to the list of judges already published, Mr. E. C. 
Sterling, of St. Louis, Mo., will judge the pointers, 


THE WASHINGTON DOG SHOW. 


HE second international bench show, under the superin- 
tendency of Mr. Chas, Lincoln, was held at Washington, 
on the 18th, 19th, 20th and 2ist inst. Owing to the uncertainty 
of securing a suitable building, only a short notice was given 
to exhibitors, but they at once rallied to the front, anda really 
zood show was held. The attendance was very good, and in- 
cluded the President and many members of his cabinet, Sec- 
retaries Folger and Lincoln, Senators Bayard, Beck, Palmer, 
McKenna, and Hon. H. H. Riddleberger. The ladies also 
showed the lively interest they took in our faithful dumb 
companions, and forced us to the conclusion that Washington 
tyas pre-eminently the place for a successful benchshow. The 
judges selected were as follows, yiz.: For English setters and 
ointers, Hon. Jno, §. Wise, Richmond, Va., and Major J. M. 
aylcr, Lexington, Ky.; for Irish and Gordon setters, Major 
J. M, Taylor; for mastiffs, St. Bernards, spaniels, deerhounds 
and greyhounds, and all other non-sporting classes, Mr. Jas. 
Mortimer, N. Y. There were few complaints, and the judg- 
ing, with afew exceptions, gave general satisfaction. 

The entries in the big dog classes did not fill so well as 

might have been expected, ~ 
MASTIFFS. 

There was only one mastiff, Dido, a tolerably well put to- 
gether bitch, but altogether too small. She was awarded 
second prize. 

ST, BERNARDS. 

Only one St. Bernard faced the judge, a moderate, but fair 

coated bitch, with badly shaped skull. She was awarded the 
Tize. 
+ NEWFOUNDLANDS 

Brought out three entries, of which Major was first, Lion he. 

and Didoc. Neither of these deserve especial mention. 


DEERHOUNDS. 

Mr. Thayer's entries were all absentees, as was also the 
Clovernook Kennel’s Roy, but the magnificent entries of Mrs. 
S. F. Emmons more than made up for their non-appearance. 
Three finer specimens we have never seen. They were well 
placed, Robin first, Brian second, Bruce vhe. 


GREYHOUNDS. 

The Cincinnati winner, Major, was an easy first; Snyder 
second, is good on head and body, but inclined to be coarse 
and rather strong in tail; Dorothée vhe., is beginning to show 
age; Buff c., a seven months’ old puppy, is coarse. 

SETTERS. 

In champion English setters, dogs, Plantagenet, looking in 
good shape.and condition, beat Cossack, who has lost the coat 
and feather he was so beautifully supplied with last year. Mm 
the bitch class, Dashing Belle easily won over Fairy Il, who 
shows age, The open dog class, except pure Layeracks, was 
a large class, made up mostly of local dogs, and not up to the 
standard. All prizes were withheld, Rocket getting vhe. re- 
serve, and Goodsell Kennel’s Racket vhe., and Dukec. Inthe 
bitch class, Dashing Jessie was awarded first prize, Victoria 
second, Ophelia vhe., Bluebell he. We liked Bluebell for sec- 
ond place, as she is a good mover, and with the exception of 
standing a trifle high behind, there is but little fault to be 
found with her, , 

In English setters, dogs of pure Laverack pedigree, Good- 
sell Kennel’s Prince easily beat Bob White, who was shown 
yery much too low in condition, In the bitch class, Petrel 
Ili. beat her kennel companions, Queen Petrel, second prize, 
and Daisy Laverack vhe. The dog puppies lacked quality, 
and all awards were withheld. Hilarity, a nicely-shaped 
puppy by Cossack—Ophelia getting an he. The others were 
unnoticed, although we liked Alert, a litter brother to Hilarity. 
There were only two entries in the bitch class, of which 
Countess took first prize and Cassandra second, We could 
scarcely see the consistency of the judges in giving first and 
second prizes in the bitch and withholding all awards in the 
dog class, as the quality certainly was no better in this than 
the preceding class. 

In champion Gordon setters Lady Gordon had a walk over. 
The open class for dogs was a very poor class, Ned getting first 
and Gem second. There were no other awards, although we 
thought Luke, in this company, might have got a mention. 
The bitches were a wretched lot, Fannie, he., was the only 
ene worthy of acard. Inthe puppy class first was awarded 
to Don, the only entry. ; ; 

In champion Irish setter dogs, Glencho, in magnificent 
shape, had things all to himself. He seareely needs descrip- 
tion, so well known is he, and but for being a trifle weak be- 
hind, we think bim simply perfection. Trix easily beat Clara 
Belle in the bitch class, being very superior in head and in 
that high bred appearance which distinguishes the Irish setter. 

In the open dog class Glenmar, a six months old puppy, by 
champion Glencho, easily disposed of his rivals, He is a 
wonderfully well made and developed puppy and with good 
luck we predict a successful future for this gamy-looking 
youngster. Keys was awarded second prize; he is of good 
eolor with a nice coat but a coarse skull.’ Rob, vhe., Pilot c. 
We thought Elcho IV. as good as Rob and better than Pilot, 
but he failed to catch the judge’seye. In the bitch class Reeta, 
a very fair bitch with a nice head, good shoulders and coat, 
beat Ada, second, we a good all Fapud biel, but is too 
small. Liffey, he., an arney, ¢., are moderate specimens. 
In the aire class Glenmar had things to himself. Kate 
Mackey, a very promising bitch, second; Walter, vhe. 


POINTERS. 

In champion pointers over 5ilbs,, the Knickerbocker 
Kennel Club’s Knickerbocker was the only entry and was 
awarded the blue ribbon, The under 55lbs. class was 
divided into dogs and bitches. Bravo, looking very well, was 
first in dogs, and Dutchess beat Lassie in bitches. The open 
dog class over 55lbs., introduced some of the best looking 
large dogs we have seen for a long time. Guy, a well made 
lemon and white-ticked, of fine size. but a little coarse in head, 
anda trifle throaty, beat-Fritz, a litter brother, who was 
placed second. Pilot, vhe,., Cary, he., and Tim, he., were all 
very mueh above the average. We thought Fritz almost the 
best in the class, for though smaller than Guy, he shows more 

uality; Pilot has very few faults, but is rather weak in loin. 
bf the others, we liked Tim, he., better than Cary, he., who 
is heavy in 1 with not ig Rest ot dupeye witoh class, 
however, was an exceptionally good ope. tn the bi class, 
Fanny was awarded second prize, aul other awards and - 


c ti t = 
Tat Le ae an ey S5lbs., Tom Peter beat Match. There’ 


_ 


legs and feet, back and loin, beat Gainer, who excelled in 


; 


; ve, to Toily. 


was not much between them. The winner is a light-bedied,| Same clas 
leggy dog, but with good style, while Match is handicapped | Mexican Le dementia 
by Lis bad eyes. In the bitch class Lyde, a nearly black bitch, | Following is a list of the 


with rather a poor head but good shoulders, chest, legs and 
feet, was first. Polly, who was second, has a good head and 
body, but is somewhat out at elbow and wide-chested. She 
refused to show herself in the ring. Lena, he., is a leggy, 
light-boned bitch, with good head. Moonstone was absent. 
This was not a good class. In the puppy class Lon, awarded 
first prize, shows a good deal of quality, but is light in bone 
and has none the best of feet. Daisy Bravo we liked quite as 
well as the winner, and Lady Mae, vhe., we thought better than 
ener put pees is arte plate feet, iene Eppes and her ears 
er high. an rayo is also a very pr i 1h 
but is a. bit coarse in head. Ta. alte 
Chesapeake Bay dogs brought two entries, one of which, 
Jeff, got loose and was not again captured. The other, Ches, 
consequently had a walk over, 


SPANIELS. 

Im champion field spaniels, over 28lbs., Black Prince, the 
only entry, was absent. The Hornell Spaniel Club were the 
only entries in all the classes except one, in which Mr. Pierce 
exhibited a very nice little white and black bitch; she was 
awarded second prize, Rattler taking first, beating her in head 
and bone. 

FOXHOUNDS 
brought out two good ones. St. Burnes having the best set of 


head properties, but was weak in loin. 


BEAGLES 
were a poor class, and placed Bessie, first; Bonnie Lass, 
second; Maggie, c. 
DACHSHUNDE. 
There was only one dachshund, Waldmann K,, a nice black 
and tan, he was awarded the prize. 


‘- -@ FOR-TERRIERS. 

In champion fox-terrier dogs, Lancelot,in poor coat, was 
alone. He has good bone, nicely marked, but rather thick 
head, and stands a trifle high, In the bitch class, Lyra, the 
only entry, was absent. In the open dog class, Surrey Ken- 
nel’s Flippant, shown in bad condition, was first. He hasa 
fair coat and good bone. He is rather coarse in head, but is a 
useful sort, Tasman, second, has a thick skull, and is long- 
backed, wide in front, and has open feet. In the bitch class, 
Mr, Thayer’s Jaunty, the only entry, was absent. In the 
puppy class, Belvoir Jack was the only candidate, and he had 
to put up with barren honors, receiying a vhe. He is a useful- 
looking puppy, but has a bad head, and is too high on his legs, 


COLLIS. 

Inthe champion class Robin Adair quite outclassed Rex, 
who was shown, ‘‘as were all Mr. Lindsay’s entries,” hog-fat. 
He is alsoin bad coat. In the bitch class Zulu Princess won 
over Jersey Lass, a plain looking bitch, but good-coated. 
Effie and Meg were both absent. Hiram was first in the open 
dog class, he is a large dog with good coat. He beat Tweed IV., 
a dog with a good deal of character, but inclined to be curly 
and soft in coat. Bruno, vhe,, had nothing much to recommend 
him, being too thick in skull. He is, however, a very nicely 
marked black and tan, and isin fair coat. In the bitches 
class Fairy, a nice-moying bitch with good coat, but rather 
bad ears, beat Lilac, who is better on head and ears, but lacks 
coat, Doty, vhe., isa nice bitch, good in coat and color; but a 
trifle undersized. The puppy class brought out three good 
ones, with but little to choose between them. Nannie O., the 
best in color and ¢dat, was placed first; Sandy, a nasty color, 
but profuse in coat, was second; and Donald vhe, 

BULLDOGS. 

The entries in the champion dog class were all absent, In 
the bitch class, R. & W. Livingston’s Sweet Briar was the 
only entry. She isa good bitch, and was awarded the prize. 
There was only one entry in the open dog class, Major, who 
had to be content with second prize. He is small and narrow 
in skull, and long and pinched in face. 

BULL-TERRIERS. . 

Grand Duke, a fine large dog, beat his kennel companion 
Little Maggie, a very nice little bitch, rather coarse in tailand 
with a large eye. 

BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS. 

Brilliant first, beat Vortigern, second, who shows age and is 
very wide in front, too light in tan, deficient in markings, and 
has lost his teeth. Daisy, he., would have done better in the 
toy class. 


Class 16. 


ter—Belle. 


Class 25. 


leen. 


Beula 


DANDIE DINMONTS, 
Dan was the only Dandie Dinmont in the class for these use- 
ful terriers. He is a good one. 
TRISH TERRIERS. 
Jessie, the only entry, is thick-headed and lacks coat. 


CHAMPION SKYE TERRIERS 
Brought out Mr. W. P, Sanderson’s strong team, Jim and 
Suter Johnny; these are both extraordinarily g00d specimens. 
Jim beating Suter Johnny in color of coat, head and bone. 
In the open class Mr. Sanderson was again successful, with 
Robert Burns, a very nice young dog with good length of body 
and close to the ground, with the right coat. Mary Corning, 
second, is a good bitch. Marquis, vhe., has a badly-carried 
tail, and is rather high on legs. He isa good, dog but shows 
age. Wallace, he., is weak-jawed and snipy, and soft in 
coat. 
ANY OTHER VARIETY OF TERRIER 

Brought out an Airedale, showing almost too much otter nound 
and too little of the terrier. He was placed first; Buster, a 
Bedlington terrier, was second, and Remus and Marcus each 
yhe. 

YORKSHIRE TERRIERS. D 
Puck, in grand coat, beat Eddie in coat and color. 


ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS 
Had only one entry, which was awarded the prize. 


PUGS, 

Champion pugs brought out Mrs. Pue’s champion George, 
who was on exhibition only. Joe therefore had a walk over 
These are both very choice specimens, Joe being about the 
right size, In the open class for dogs Mrs. Chas, Wheatleigh’s 
handsome little dog Tu Tu was first. He has a very good 
skull and good wrinkle, but isa little tucked up in body, 
rather weak in hindquarters, and has a large ear. Puggie, 


Bellmaid. 


second, is a good-shaped dog, but is very smutty in color, | —Hiora. 

Don Juan, vhe., we were disappointed with. Hewon second Class 48. Fox 
at this show last year, butseems to have grown plain. Punch,| Class 49. Fox 
vhe., is a well-made dog, with a good head, but is too large. | Surrey Ken 


Joe is a puppy, too close to the ground, and rather crooked in 
front. Inthe bitch class, Chloe,a very nice bitch, good in 
head, was placed first. Judy, an overted little daughter of 
champion George, was second. Victoria, yhe., a beautifull 
colored little bitch, we thought should have been second. 
Witchie, c., has grown gray in muzzle and ears, and is alto- 
gether too fat. 
TOY TERRIERS 
Under 7lbs. were a nice collection. Bijou, the winner, is a 
very pretty black and tan, Dot, the nicest of the lot, was 
overweight and, therefore, disqualified. The others were all 
good specimens. 
KING CHARLES OR BLENHEIMS, 

Mrs. Senator T. W. Palmer exhibited two very handsome 
Blenheims, which, we understood, had been successful at 
bench shows in England. Duke, placed first, had the best 


white 


Class 54. 


R.R. W: 


skull and shortest face; while Duchess, second, was in better | Sweet Briar, A.K.R. 44. ee 
coat and had the spot in forehead so desirable in this breed. | Class 55. Bulls, Dozs.—tst, withheld; 
They are certainly the best looking pair we have seen. _ ee 2yrs., Sancho bmi a Ey 


 *MISCELLANEOQYS OF FOREIGN CLASS OVER YOLBS. 
_ See a aad MBB EOE Ca, ve. 


and orange 


Class 1B.—ist 
Classes 3 and 4,-No entri 
Class 5.—Absent. 
pe a 6A, Se ne} ie entries, 
S85 7. Smooth-coated St. Ber i i 
Abra, brindle and white ee aa 
Class 9.—Absent. 


Prince—Gyp 
com., H. W, 
PGlaes 12, Oh 
ass 12. Champion English Setters, Dogs,—ist, Goodsell ‘ 
Plantagenet, lemon belton, 3}4yrs., Dashing ionarch Peon to < 
Class 18. Champion English Setters, Bitches.—1st, E. W. Jester’s 
Dashing Belle, blue belton, 2yrs., Dashing Monarch—Blue Belle, 
ogs (except pure Laverack),—ist and 
, W.R. Trayer’s Rocket, A.K.R. 
lack, white and tan, Slayrs., Rat- 
Duke, orange and w 


sie, blue belton, 2yrs., 
panes NictOres blag and pate: 4yrs,. 
igh com., J. omas Barry’s Ophelia, black, white and ¢ 
Pontiac—Mollie Bawn. High com., L. Mills’s Bluebell, blue. 
lyr. limos., Dashing Lion—Armida, Com,, F 
2yrs., Cossack—Sue. 


a 


Lancelot, white, : 1 
Class 46. Champion Fox-Terriers, Bitche ‘ 
Glass 47. Fox Terriers; Dogs,—1st, Surrey Kennel’s Flippant. A.K.R, 

528: 2d, Albert Miller’s Tasman, white, black and tan, U<syrs., Curate 


Class 50. 
Adair, A.K.R. 892 

Class 51. Cham 
Princess. A.K.R. 


2d, Thos. B, Norris 
UI,—Floss. Ve 
and tan, 4yrs. 
tawny and white, 2 
Class 53. Collies, Bi 
§mos., Rex—Kitr 
oe bleh com., J. D. 
ince—Nora. 
Collies, Puppies. —1st, James Linds 
itty Mac; 2d,H.B. Me 
rshire Laddie—Jersey Lass, 
er’s Donald, fawn and tan, dmos., Poxey—Nancy Lee. 
Glass 644A. Champion Bulls, Dogs.—Absent. 
Class 54B. Champion Bulls, 


EB 


1s, Bi 
» and 


- Ci Br 8, and 
“lass 58, B and Tan 
« ' - 


Class 14. English Setters, 
2d withheld. Very h 
118, and Goodsell Kennel’s Racket, b 
tler—Leda. Gom,, Russell West's 
Cossack—Nellie, 

Class 15. English Setters, Bitches.—Ist, EB. W. Jester's Dashing Jeg: | 

Dashing Monarch—Blue Belle; 90, A. 


i6mos. Benedict—Prin. J 
Class 40, Sporting Spaniel Puppies. 
Hornell Rattler, chestnut and tan, 1imos., Hornell Dandy—Hornell 


inah. 

Class 40A,—No entries. ‘ 
Class 41. Foxhounds.—ist, J. W. Hoskin’s St. Burnew, fawn 
Killbuck—Belle; 2d, Dr. Darling’s Gainer, tan, 4yrs., Kill 


white and tan, Rex—Kitty 
and gue 


AWARDS, 
Classes 1 and 1A.—No entries 
, withheld: 24, 

es, 


igh com, reserve 


ine. 


nel’s Belvoir Jack, A.K.R. 527. 
Champion Collies, Dogs.—ist, Thos. A. Terry’s Robin 


ion Collies, Bitches.—ist, Thos. H. Terry’s Zulu 


Class 52. Collies, Dogs.—ist, James Lindsay’s Hiram, A.K.R, 8 
‘s Tweed IV,, black, white and tan, 2yrs., Twee 
high com., Hon. Wm, Dorsheimer’s Bruno 
gh com,, Misses ¥.L. & H. T, Rogers's 
Ritches,—tst, James Lindsay's Fairy, sable and 

Mac; 2d: Tnos. H: Terry’s Liiac, A.K.R. 885. 
arden’s Doty, black, tan and white, 15mos., 


s Nannie O., black, 
ght's Sandy, fawn 
~ Very high com., 


Td 
and 
a 


1 


a 


key. 
Wiidman’s Guy, 


H. T. Janney, gray, 5yrs., Jack—Dido. 


1 dst, 8. J. Martinet’ 
, 4yrs,, Miter—Brunhild. Only mae i 


Class 10. NewfoundJands,—lst,Chas Dismer’ 
High eom., D, W, Oyster's Lion, black, 3mos. eee 
Dido, black, 8mos, 

Class: 11, Deerhounds.—ist, 2d and very hi 
Emm’s Robin, tawny, 2yrs.. Bruece—M Oy ere ae 
Bruce, tawny, 5y1s., Torrum—Leda. 

Class 1144. Greyhounds.—1st, Geo, S. Parvin’s Ma 
, W. M, Raines’s Snyder, black, 
ngton's Dorothée, A.K,R.72, Coni., J. S, 


ajor. black, il4yrs. 
Com,, G. M. Gyeter'a 


aida; Brian, tawny, 3yrs., and 


Warwick—Belle. 


. A, Simon’s Belle, white 


nglish Setters, Dogs of Layerack Pedigree.—tst, Good- 
sell Kennel’s Prince, black and white, 5yrs,, Pride of the Border— 
Petrel; 2 withheld, 7 spetpatet 

Class 17. English Setters, Bitches of Laverack Pedigree.—ist, 2d 
and very high com., Goodsell Kennel’s Petrel IIT., lemon belton 
4yrs., Carlowitz—Petrel: Queen Petrel, lemon and white, 2yrs.. 
Thunder—Petrel, and Daisy Layerack, lemon and white, dyrs., Thun- 
*“blass 18, English Setter Pt D 

ass 18, English Setter Puppies, Dogs.—1st and 2d withheld. Hig 

com., Q. M. Ball’s Hilarity, blue belton, 6mos., Cossack—O aa ‘eh 

Class 19. English Setter Puppies, Bitches,—ist, Dr. J. 
Countess, orange and white, 10mos., Neptune—Ruby; 2d, Miss Jenne 
Hitchcock’s Cassandra, white and tan, 6mos., Cossack—Ophelia, 

Class 20. Champion Gordon Setters.—ist, Garrett Roach’ 
ees vias pyc seepant o a 
| Class 21. Gordon Setters, Dogs.—ist, Augustine de Iturhide’s Ned, 
1¥yrs., Elcho IV.—Nannie; 2d, Chas, R. Taylor’s Gem, 144yrs., Dee 


Class 22. Gordon Setters, Bitches.—ist, 2d, and very high com,, 
withheld; High com., W. H. French’s Fannie, Max—Jet. , 
Class 23, Gordon Setter Puppies.—isf, Mrs. C, F. Key’s Don, 7mos., 
Sam—Jet, only entry, 
Class 24. Champion Irish Setters, Dogs.—ist, Wm. H, Pierce's 
Glencho, BIAYES:» pA 
Yhampion Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, Wm. 
Lente’s Trix, A.K.RB. 187. ; pee 
Class 26. Irish Setters, Dogs—ist, W, H.*Pierce’s Glenmar, 51¢mos., 
Glencho—Mavourneen; 2d. J. P. Barnard, Jr.’s Key, 3yrs., Berkley— 
Kate. Very high com., Commander R. P. Leary’s, Rob, 3yrs., Derz— 
Kate. Com,,S. W. Norris’s Pilot,red and white, dyrs., Derg—Kath- 


Class 27. Irish Setters, Bitches.—1st, HE, J. Martin's Reeta. 3yrs. 
10mos.. Elcho—Fire Fly; 2d, F. A. Holbrook’s Ada, 22mos., Hela— 
Rosanna. High com., W. A. Morsell’s Liffey, 1/mos,, Derg—Belle, 
Com., Commander R. P, Leary’s Blarney, i5mos., Bounce—Nell. 

Class 28. Irish Setters, Puppies.—ist, W. FE 
51gmos., Glencho—Mavourneen, 2d, W. W. White’s Kate Mackay, 
7mos.. Glencho—Reeta. Very high com., W. H. Pierce’s Walter, 
11 weeks, Glencho—Vic, _ 
’ Class 29. Champion Pointers over 55lbs.—lst, Knickerbocker Ken- 
nel Club’s Knickerbocker, A.K.R, 19. 

Class 30. Champion Pointers, Dogs, under 55lbs.—_ist, Norbury 
Kennel’s Bravo, A.K.R. 559. 

Class 3034. Champion Pointers, Bitches,—ist. Garrett Roach’'s 
Duchess, lemon and white. 5l¢yrs., Sensation—W his 

Class 31. Pointers, Dogs, under 55lbs.—ist, C. B. 
lemon and white, 2yrs.. Beaufort—Spot; 2d, C. W. Littlejohn’s Fritz, 
lemon and white, 2yrs., Beaufort—Spot. Very high com., C. W. 
Lit tlejohn’s Pilot, lemon and white, 3yrs., Scent—Spot. High com., 
T. W. Edwards’s Cary, liver and white, 2yrs., Beaufort—Spot, and 
Hon. H. H, Riddleberger’s Tim, lemon and white, 2yrs., Tim— 


H. Pierce’s Glenmar, 


eulah. 

Class 32. Pointers, Bitches over 35lbs.—ist, withheld; 2d, Chas. W 
Butler's Fanny, liver and white, tyrs.. Beaufort—Bruce, 

Class 382A. Pointers. Dogs under 55lbs.—ist, John L. Grubbs's Tom 
Peter, lemon and white, Tom—Beulzh, 2d. R. C. Cornell's Match, 

Class 32B. Pointers, Bitches under 55lbs.—1st, John Weustall’s 
Lyde, liver and while, léyrs., Maddux’s dog—Lyde; 2d, Westminster 
Kennel Club’s Polly. A.K.R. 212. High com., 5. J. Martenet, Jr.'s 
Lena. lemon and white. 2i4yrs., Rome—Rose, 

Class 83. Pointers, Puppies.—ist, Garrett Beach’s Lon, lemon and 
white, 10mos., Beanfort—Duchess; 2d. Norbury Kennel's Daisy 
Bravo, lemon and white, 7mos., Bravo—Lilly 
Geo. H. Nixon’s Lady Me, liver and white, 10mos., Faust—Gertrude, 
High com,#Garrett Roach’s Jule, liver and white, 10mos 
Duchess. Com., Norbury Kennel's Nellie D,, liver and w 
Don—Daisy B 

Class 833A. Chesapeake Bay Dogs.—ist, L. €. Clark's Ches, 3yrs, 
Sport—Rose. . 4 ; 

Class 86. Field Spaniels.—1st_and_2d, Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hor- 
nell Maggie, black, 8yrs., Bob IlI.—Jessie, and Burdette Bob, black, 
8yrs., Bob—Venus. 

Class 37. Champion C 
Hornell Dinah, A.K.R. 66 

Class 33. Cocker Spani 


Il, Very high com,, 


ocker Spaniels.—ist, Hornell Spaniel Club’s 


els other than Black.—Hr rnell Svaniel Club’s 
Hornell Rattler, chestnut and tan, 1/mos., Hornell Dandy—Hornell 
Dinah; 20, W. H. Pierce’s Cassie, black and tan, 2imos., Bean—Fancy. 

Class 39. Black Cocker Spaniels.—1st and 2d, Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
Hornell Silk, black, 4yrs., Obo—Chloe Il., and Hornell 101, black, 


—ist, Hornell Spaniel Chib‘s 


Belle. 
‘Class 42. Beagles.—Ist and com., Nelson Brumagin’s Bessie and 
Maggie, tan, 1éyrs.; 2d, Wm. L. Bradbury’s Bonnie Lass, Finderout— 


Class 44. Dachshunde.—l1st, Carl Klocke’s Waldmann K., 
tan, 4yrs., Waldmann—Waldine. 

Class 45. Champion Fox-Terriers, Dog 
lack and tan, 2yrs., Tweezers II.—Olive. 
s.—Absent. 


s.—Ist, Carles E. Wallack’s 


-Terriers, Biteches.— Only entr absent, 
Terriers, Puppies —ist withheld. Very high com., 


Bg W, Livingston's Grand 


wer ibs. —18t. Jobs Whitaker's 
: ee 


mouse, 1hgyrs., 
yrs. 


bs,—First and second to Mex and Nellie, 


d 


black 


Bitches.—ist, R. & Wm. Livingston's. 
2d, John P, Baruard’s Major,. 


5 
ies 


° 


— _ ATS yl vel . < 3 A 

Brilliant, i¢yrs., Vortigern—Lilly IT; 2d, Edward Lever’s Vortigern, 

Fan vn ato aere is High chan? a H. Dobbin's Daisy, 2yrs. 9mos. 
Class 59. Dandie Dinmont Terriers—1st, Robert Hume's Dan, pep- 

per, 9mos., deer i.—Needle, 

* Glass 6), Irish Terriers,—Prize withheld. we 

. Glass €0A. Champion Skye Terriers.—ist, Wm, P. Sanderson’s Jim, 
_K.R. 138. 

js tia 61. Skye Terriers.—lst_ and 2d, Wm, P. Sanderson’s Robert 

Burns, iyr., and Mary, 5yrs. Very high com.. Mrs, M. Adams’s Mar- 

quis. High com., John Owne’s Wallace, 8yrs., Macgregor—Luey 

Ellen. ye 

© Class 62. Terriers (any other variety).—1st, Edward Lever's Sir Gar- 

net (Airedale), gray and tan, 2yrs., Crack—Gipsey_Queen: 2d, W. H 


Liltler’s Buster (Bedlington), liver, lyr., Stmg—Wasp. Very high 
com., Miss Emma ©, Pond’s Marcus, lyr., Mar Sie ae hil and Miss 
Belle Davidson’s Remus, fawn and blue, lyr., Marquis— udy. High 


eom,, W. BK. Denny’s Lassie, blue and silver, 2yrs. ‘ 
Class 63. ‘YorkshireTerricrs.—1st, Miss B. B. Wilson’s Puck, 3!4yrs.; 
2d, E. Jordan’s Eddie, 10mos. # 
Class 64,—Italian Greyhounds.—Ist, B, W. Jester’s Pearl, A.K.R. 
“Glass 65. Champion Pugs, Dogs.—Mrs. Geo, H. Hill's Joe, A.K.R. 
925. 


- Glass 66. Pugs, Dogs—ist, Mrs.. Charles Wheatleigh’s Tu-Tu, 

S., Youn, P Petar Zoe: 2d, Miss Gr se B, Adams’s Puggie, 
iémos,, Pug—Pet. Very high com., W. R. Knight's Don Juan, 2yrs. 
8mos., Comedy—Chloe, and Mrs. W. H. Bayne’s Punch, Alfonso— 
Judy. High com., R. C. Flinder’s Joe, 8mos. 

Glass 67. Pugs, Bitches.—ist, W. R. Knight’s Chloe. 4¥syrs., Chung 
—Darkie; 2d, BH. J. Dallas’s Judy, 15mos.,George—Witche. Very 
high com., Mrs, Charles Wheatleigh’s Victoria, 14mos., Atlas—Vic. 
Com., Mrs. H. N. Barlow’s Witchie, 3yrs., Punch—Dimah. . % 
> Class 68. Toy Terriers.—ist, Mrs. Senator T. W. Palmer’s Bijou, 
black and tan, 2yrs.; 2d, Mrs. Flora B. Cabell’s Fanny, black and 
tan, 73yrs. Very high com., W. R. Traver’s Dixey, black and tan, 
Byrs., Sam—Flora. and B. B. Greenwood's Jeff, black aud tan, )mos., 
Diek—Rose. High com., B. B.Greenwood’s Nell, black and tan, 2yrs., 
Dick—Nell. = 

Class 69. King Charles, Blenheim, or Japanese Spaniels.—ist and 
2d, Mrs. Senator T. B. Palmer’s Duke (Blenheim), liver and white, 
5yrs.. and Duchess (Blenheim), liver and white, lyr. 

Class 70. Miscellaneous Class, over 25lbs.—ist and %d, G, M. Saeg- 
muller’s Minka and Ceasar, 18mos., Cesar—Minka. Very high com., 
A, Santler’s Jack, 4yrs. 

Class 71. Miscellaneous Class, under 25lbs.—ist, Mrs. W. J. Rhees’s 
Mex (Mexican terrier), yellow, 15mos.; 2d, J. F. Hilis’s Nettie (Mexican 
terrier), yellow, i8mos. Very high com., R. J. W. Brewster’s Tony 
(Mexican terrier), yellow, 14mos. 


SPECIAL PRIZES. 
. A,—For best pug, Mrs. Geo. H. Hill’s Joe. 

B.—For handsomest brace of pointers that have never won at a 
bench show, GC. W. Littlejohn’s Fritz and Pilot. 

. €.—For best $t. Bernard, Simon J, Martenet’s Abra. 

D.—¥or the best collie owned by®a lady in Washington, Misses F. L. 
and H. T. Rodgers’s Harry. i we 
. E,—For best pug owned by a lady in Washington, Miss Grace B. 
Adams's Puggie. 

F.—For best Irish setter owned in Washington, W. A. Morrell’s 
Liffey 
G.—For 
Guy. t 7 

H.—For best setter owned in Washington, Miss M. L. Roessle’s 
Cossack, English setter, white and orange, dys. 10mos., Don—Fairy. 

1,.—For best pointersired by Beaufcrt, C. B. Wildman’s Guy. 


best pointer got by Faust or Beaufort, C. B. Wildman’s 


ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


The St. Louis bench show will be held April 15, 16 and 17. | 


Exhibitors at Cleveland will have ten days’ rest for their 
dogs, and ample time before going to New York. The pre- 
mium list isin the printer’s hands, and will be mailed as soon 
as finished. A supply will be sent to you for those who may 
apply to you for them. ; 
Champion pointers and setters, dogs and bitches, get $25 
each. Open classes, the same, get first, second and third 
prizes—$20, $10 and $5. All other classes in the show, except 
champions, get first, second and third prizes. The specials, as 
usual in St. Louis, will be very handsome and worth winning. 
Three prizes will be given to Chesapeake dogs, and as a very 
marked demand for these dogs has arisen here lately the 
show will prove a fine market for them, and should attract 
some good entries from the East. Spotted coach dogs are to 


have a class, in order to interest local owners. This city is | 


full ofthem. The cockers are to be divided into the Inter- 
national Club standard and the American Club standard, and 
three prizes given to each. Dr. Franklin, the secretary of the 
International Club, promises a handsome special for dogs of 
his elub’s standard, and a meeting of his club will be called 
here during the show. The judges willbe announced at the 
earliest possible moment. J. W. Munson. 
Sr. Louris, March 17, 7 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

From unavoidable causes the dog show has been postponed 
till April 22, Entries close April 14. Prize lists and entry 
blanks are now ready. ‘The superintendent’s address is, care 
of Albright’s gun store, 8313 North Third street. I send you a 
package of premium lists and entry blanks by express to-day, 
which you can distribute to such persons as may apply to you 
forthem. Major Taylor will judge setters and pointers. The 
judge for the other classes has not been secured yet. 

The Natatorium building on Nineteenth and Pine streets, 
where the show is to be held, is one of the best for the purpose 
in America. It will hold a thousand dogs easily. It is steam- 
heated and electric-lighted. The judging will be done in an 
inclosed square in the center of the hall. Several large open 
Jots surround the building, where dogs can. be exercised. 

Large tanks and tubs, with hot and cold water are in the 
building, for washing dogs. Dog biscuits and cooked food will 
besupplied, There are first, second and third prizes in nearly 
all the classes, which itis expected will induce a number of 
entries from owners ‘who don’t think their dogs can win first. 

The list of specials will be sent you from time to time as 
they are secured, A committee of the club will start out at 
ones to getthem, : 

The champion classes for setters and pointers include the 
winners of a first prize at any bench show in America. 


J. W. Munson. 
Sr, Lours, Mo., March 22. - , 


CLOVER BELLE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Allow mé to correct through the medium of your paper an 
unintentional deceit on my partin entering the pedigree of 
my fox-terrier pupny Clover Belle at both Cincinnati and New 
Haven as being A®ely Joe—Guilty, whereas she is a puppy I 
bought at the late Rutherford sale, and is pedigreed Joker— 
Warren Daisy, or Bessie, I have been as yet unable to ascer- 
tain which-of these latter. 
_ The mistake came about thuswise: 
: rhe Puppy on being bought was at once sent out of town to 
‘my kennels at Scarsdale, Westchester, N. Y., together with a 
sister bought at the same time. A week later there were con- 
‘signed to me from England two fox-terrier puppies, a dog and 
a bitch, which had been purchased by me from Mr. G. Raper. 
'The former was by his champion Raby Tyrant out of cham- 
‘pion Richmond Olive, now the property of Messrs. Thayer & 
ro. The latter, by Akely Joe out of Guilty, she by Corin- 
thian, J had the misfortune éo lose the dog on the voyage. My 
kennel man met the steamer on her arrival and brought the 


“remaining puppy to me forinspection, I looked her over and 
found her to all appearances a promising one. She was then 


sent to the kennels. : 
_ When the Cincinnati show was announced, I made entry of 
her inthe puppy class, and the day TI left for Cincinnati en- 
~tered her for New Haven. She took first prize at both shows. 
from the country 

Haven, and then it 

ordered to 20 to 


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Janet. Black, tan and white Scotch colli 
aera eS Nichols, Deda Ma: 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Thave entered the same puppy at Washington, but under 
her proper pedigree. ; . ; 

Hoping that this note will rectify any erroneous informa- 
tion current concerning her and wishing “honor to whom 
honor is due,” [ remain, EpwarpD KELLY. 


CLoveRnook Kennex, 185 Fifth avenue, N. Y. City. 


CHAMPION VIXEN.—We have learnedthat Mr, Mortimer, 
in awarding champion honors to the fox-terrier Vixen, did so 
at the request of the managers of the show. We are pleased 
to set the matter straight and placethe blame where it belongs 
and sincerely hope that weshallnot be called upon to record 
another instance of the kind. Bench show honors, especially 
champion honors, should only be conferred upon animals that 
are worthy, else the sole object for which bench shows were 
instituted is perverted, No fear of incurring the displeas- 
ure of the disappointed exhibitor should induce judge or com- 
mittee to depart from this rule. 


STRAY DOG.—Aditor Forest and Stream: A dog has been 
offered to me by a person who found it in the water off Port 
Morris, N. Y., as nearly as I can find out about two years ago. 
He said he thought it had jumped off of some Sound steam- 
boat, As I would like to see the dog restored to its owner, he 
may communicate through FOREST AND STREAM, should he 
happen to see this, giving a minute description of the dog. It 
is said that some time after the dog was found a gentleman 
made inquiries at Port Morris.—Sracun,. 


PEDIGREE OF GLEN IL.—Brooklyn, March 20, 1884.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: Twould like to correct the pedi- 
gree of Clayton H. Redfield’s Glen I., winner of first at New 
Haven. It reads Dr. Aten’s Glen and Dr. Aten’s Bille. It 
should read Dr, Aten’s Glen and Dr. Aten’s Madge.—H. F. 
ATEN. 


CLEVELAND DOG SHOW.—Special Dispatch to Forest 
and Stream.—Cleveland, Ohio, March 24,—Please announce 
that all railroads will carry dogs free to and from the show 
when accompanied by owner or handler,.—C. M. MunHALL, 
Secretary. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To insure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal; 


1, Color 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed buyer or seller, 

3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 


5. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


=" See instructions at head of this colunin. 

Lady Bess. By Mr. E. B. Nichols, Dedham, Mass., for black, tan 
and white collie bitch, wheiped Aug. 11, 1880 (Shep—Hornpipe). 

Rob Rog and Meg Merrillies. By Mr. E. B. Nichols, Dedham, Mass., 
for light sable collie dog and dark sable bitch, whelped Dec. 7, 1882, 
by Prince out of Lady Bess (Shep—Hornpipe). 

Will, By Mr. Raymond Rudd, Glenville, Ct., for black and white 
English setter dog, whelped Jan. 18, by Robin Hood (Carlowitz—True) 
out of Countess H. (Warwick—Belle), 

Lit Laverack. By Mr. Thos. F, Connelly, Flatbush. L, I., for black, 
white and tan English setter bitch, whelped Dec. 28, 1883. by Tempest 
(Pontiac—Fairy II.) out of Lilly (Carlowitz-— Queen Bess), 


NAMES CHANGED. 


{25> See instructions at head of this column. 
Mab to Lady Mab. Black pointer, 3yrs. old (Pete—Mab), owned 
by Mr. Wm. Hepsley, Jersey City, N. J 
: BRED. 


(=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Princess Royal—Gath, Mr. John Drees’s (Little Rock, Ark.) black 
and white English setter bitch Princess Royal (Royal Biue— 
a gHne) to Mr. W. G. Crawford's champion Gath (Count Noble—Peep 
a’ Day). 

Rhona—Don. Mr. J. E. Thayer’s (Lancaster, Mass.) pointer bitch 
On (A.K.R. 399) to Mr, R. T. Vandevort’s Don (A.K.R. 165), 

eb. 25, 

Arrow— Don. Mr. R. T. Vandevort’s (Pittsburgh, Pa.) pointer bitch 
Arrow (Bow—Sleaford Maid) to his Don (A.K,R. 165), March 6, 

Becky—Chief. Mr. F. Raab’sred and white Irish setter bitch Becky 
to Mr. Max Wenzel’s Chief (A.K.R, 231), March 19. 

Alma—Prince. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) smooth- 
coated St. Bernard bitch Alma (A.K.R. 27) to Col. A. J. Parker, Jr.’s, 
Prince (Fido—Topsy), March 1. 

Grace B.—Foreman. Myr. C, Fred. Crawford's (Pawtucket, R. 1.) 
English setter bitch Grace B, (London—Dawn) to his Foreman (Dash- 
ing Monarch—PFairy II.), March 3. 

Maggie O’More—Arlington. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) red 
Trish setter Maggie O’More (A.K.R. 981) to Mr. C. Fred. Crawford's 
Arlington (Dan—Ruby), March 13. 

Flora—Lee, Mr. Pottinger Dorsey’s (New Market, Md.) white, black 
and tan ticked English beagle bitch Flora (Ring wood—Juliet) to his 
Lee (Warrior—Rosey), Feb. 27. 


WHELPS. 


("> See instructions at head of this column. 

Lady Bess, Mr, B®. B, Nichols’s (Dedham, Mass.) Scotch collie bitch 
Lady Bess (Shep—Horupipe), Feb. 9, eight, by Mr. B. F. White's 
Prince; two sable and six black, white and tan. 

Vie. Myr. Archibald Gordon’s spaniel bitch Vic (Bragg—Princess), 
eee eight (two dogs), by Mr, A, E. Godeffroy’s Teddy Ban (Cap- 

ain—Flirt). 

Nun. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) rough-coated 
St. Bernard bitch Nun (A.K.R. 24), March 6, twelvé (four dogs), by the 
Forest City Kennel’s Cassar (A.K.R. 22). 

Brunhild. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) smooth- 
coated St. Bernard bitch Brunhild (A.K_R. 28), March 18, seven (four 
dogs), by the Forest City Kennel’s Ceesar (A.K.R. 22), 

Jersey Gyp. Mr. W.B. Rea’s (Hackettstown, N. J.) English setter 
bitch Jersey Gyp (A.K.R. 107), March 3, five (four dogs). by Mr. C. N. 
Wade’s Primer (A. K.R, 227). } 

Flora. Mr, A, D. Wilbur's (Catskill, N. Y.) cocker spaniel bitch 
Flora, March 17, seven (four dogs), by Mr. J. W. Rushforth’s Chance; 
one dog since dead. 

SALES. 


ES See instructions at head of this column. 

Jock. Black, white and tan collie dog, whelped November, 1883 
(Talisman—Iona), by the Kilmarnock Kennel, Mattapan, Mass., to Mr. 
Geo. A. Munroe, Somerville, Mass, 

Avis. St. Bernard bitch (A.K.R, 929), by the Essex Kennel, Andover, 
Mass., to the Forest City Kennel, Portland, Me. 

Lotta. St. Bernard bitch (A.K.R, 933) by the Essex Kennel, Andover, 
Mass., to the Forest City Kennel, Portland, Me. 

Jule, Liver and white pointer bitch, whelped Sept. 26, 1883 (St. John 
—Folly), by Mr, J. H, Phelan, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr. George H. 
Piercey, same place. 

Deacon. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Feb. 19, 1882 (Ned Elcho— 
Bridget O'More), by Mr. C. W. Feickert, New York, to Mr. Walter L. 
Hunter, same place, 

Nellie. RedIrish setter bitch, age and pedigree not given, by Mr. 
C. W. Feickert, New York, to Mr. Walter L, Hunter, same place. 

Craft. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Oct. 21, 1881 (Bang 
—Jean), by Mr. W. R. Stone, Atalissa, Ia., to Mr. Mortimer Mills, 
Ji SFeOY City, N. J. : 

Mab, Black pointer bitch, 3yrs. (Pete—Mab), 
Bridgeport, Ct., fo Mr. Wm, Hepsley. Jersey City 

Stocking—Mab whelps. Black pointers, one deg and three bitches, 
roa ogy by aS: Dr: Martin, Bridgeport, Ct., to Mr. Wm. Hepsley, 

ersey City, N. J. 

Zantippe. Lemon belton English setter bitch, whelped Jan. 29, 
1880 (Lofty--Maud Muller). by Mr, Henry Sturtevant, Medina, N. Y., 
to Mr. Thos. F, Connelly, Flatbush, L. I. 

Lit Laverack, Black, white and tan English setter bitch, whelped 
Dec. 28, 1888 (Tempest—Lilly), by Mr, A. J, Ward, Boston. Mass., to 

Folko, Roug 


Mr. Thos. F, Gonnelly, Flatbush, L. I. 
0 h-coated St. Bernard dog (A.K.R, 477), by Mr. A. 
A. Whittemore, New York, to the Chequasset Kennel. Lancaster, 


Ma: 
teh, whe Feb, 9 
pat Macey tor. ©. 


‘collie dog, whelped Feb. 9 (Princs—Lady 


by Mrs. Dr. Martin, 
NJ. 


bbe, 


Sir 


Bess), by Mr, E, B, Nichols, Dedham, Mass., to Mr. J. H. Gilman 
Cambridge, Mass. Ao : 
Jean. Sable Scotch collie bitch, whelped Feb, 9 (Prince—Lady 
Bess), by Mr. E. B. Nichols, Dedham, Mass., to Mr, T. 8. Beaumont, 
Fall River, Mass. ‘ “* 
Guenn. St, Bernard bitch (A.K.R, 932), by the Fssex Kennel, An- 
dover, Mass., to the Horest City Kennel, Portland, Me, 


DEATHS. 


e> See instructions at head of this cohimn. 

Black Venus. Black spaniel bitch (A.K.R. 300), owned by Mr, A. CO. 
Wilmerding, New York, March 18, in parturition, E 

Gypsey Queen. Liver.and white pointer biteh, age not siven 
(champion Faust—Munson's Queen), owned by Mr. Edward Odell, 
New Orleans, La, 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
£=S—- No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


G, H., Canal Fulton, Ohio.—Try Glover’s Mange cure. 
Au, Gravenhurst, Ont.—See answer to 'F. P. C,,’? March 13. 


L. E. lt., Essexville, Mich.—It is impos-ible to say what caused the 
death of your dog. You describe no symptoms that throw any light 
upon the subject, 


AmatruR, Wortendyke, N. J.—1. Bathe the sore with one part 
sulphurous acid to three parts water, 2. Twice a day is often enough 
tofeedhim, 38. Yes. 

C. B. M., Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Give a little lime water in milk with 
each meal, and a teaspoonful of eod liver oil three times daily. Give 
plenty of exercise, but not until after his food has had time to digest, 

Nieutr Hawk, Concerd, N. H.—The dog has canker in the ear. Take 
bromo chloralum and laudanum, equal parts, and dilute with six 
times their bulk of water; fill the ear and rently knead the base for a 
short time, One or two applications should etfect a cure. 


Rifle and Crap Shaoting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at_Chicago, Ill., May 
26 to 81. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O, Bax 1292, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, 


NON-CLEANING SCORES. 


Editor Forest and Strean: 

In reply to the communication of Philip Uhler, of Mechaniesburg, 
Pa.,in a recent issue, permit me to say that I experience no dink. 
eulty in regard 10 the bullets dropping after firing a few shots with- 
out cleaning. Neither do I consider it absolutely necessary to use a 
lubricating disc hetween the powder and bullet. I inclose a diagram 
of a target I made on the ninth of March, 1888. It is forty consecu- 


tive shots in ad-inech bullseye, using fixed ammunition and naked 
bullets, and the rifle was not cleaned during the shooting. The dis- 
tance was 100yds., weather clear and dry, and the shooting was done 
in the back position, no rest being used. After the shooting was 
over I took the rifle home, and after blowing my breath through the 
barrel two or three times, I passed a dry swab, compesed of a cotton 
rag, once through the barrel, and it was as bright as a silver dollar 
from breech to muzzle. This is not an exceptional circumstance, as 
it is only once out of seyeral dozen times that IT took the same gun 
out and shot it at 100yds. during last spring and summer, never 
firing less than twenty shots at a time. and never taking a cleaning 
rod to the range, excepting on one occasion, and on that occasion I 
made my worst record for the season, making an average of about 
an inch aud three-quarters per shot. I do not attribute the bad 
shooting on this occasion to cleaning the gun, but to other circum- 
stances which need not be mentioned here. 

I consider forty. shots without cleaning a severe test of any breech- 
loading rifle, and as my experience in regard to accuracy has been 
so very different from that of Mr. Uhler, 1 will tell him how I manage 
my gun, Iuse a Maynard .40-cal., 32in. rifle, weighing 9lbs. I load 
the shells with 60grs. of Hazard FG powder, and a bullet known as 
No.2 cylindrica]. The bullet weighs a little less than 300grs T make 
them myself with moulds furnished by the manufacturers of the 
gun, and use one part tin and twenty of lead. I lubricate the bullets 
with tallow, three parts, beeswax, one part; seat the bullets in the 
shells with the loader, and then eh the bullets into the melted lubri- 
eator just upto the end of the shell, then wipe off the point with a 
rag, and set We cartridge up on its base to cool off and allow the 
lubricant to harden. After firing a shot blow through the harrel to 
moisten the powder crust. In damp weather three or four full 
breaths will be sufficient; but in hot dry weather from seven to ten 
may be required. Always look through the barrel after blowing 
through, and you will soon become so expert that you can tell exactly 
whether your barrel is too dry or not. Never fire a shot through a 
dry barrel. You must have your barrel lubricated for the first shot, 
and after that dampened with the brea h. But, says some one, this 
is impossible in hot, dry weather. No, itis not. Burnt powder has 
a great affinity for water, I have fired my twenty shots without 
cleaning m the hottest summer weather, when the gun barrel was so 
hot I could searcely hold it, but never failed to get it damp inside 
before I loaded for the next shot. If the gun is very hot, hold your 
hand over the muzzle in such position that you ean blow down be- 


3 


tween the thumb and first finger. The lips wil] not stand ihe same 
amount of heat as the palm of the hand. If there is shade in the 
vicinity of the firing point, stand in the shade until your turn fo fire. 
If there is no shade, stand with your back to the sun and hold your 


_rjfle in front of you in such position that the Tays of the sun cannot 


strikes the barrel, this way you can always keep your rifle in such 

sano Fat wil shoot Tae ag 
dnclose another target which I shot | ‘ s ten com, 

sec “Shots at 100pds. witheut cleaning, no ertacal rest bei 


174 FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Mancr 27, 884, 


used, and the rifle was loaded as deseribed above. It will be noted 


é 1 FIRE LOW.—The sorrespondent at Tonquin have been investigat- 
cast a three cent piece will cut over six of the bullet holes and the 
c 


ing the tendency of the Chinese troops to fire low in action as the 
many leg wounds among the French troops showed was the habit, 
and one wno is well qualified to judge says: ‘The reason why the 
Black Flags and their allies fire low is due to the fact that the bulk of 
the Chinese had no idea of the use of the sights on the rifles, and it 
was almost useless to attempt to teach them the yalue of such con- 
trivances. Thus, a Chinese soldier, armed with a modern rifle, 
would never think of raising the sight of his weapon when he was 
called upon to use it, especially in the face of on enemy. He would 
fire at an object 600 yards off with the sight down, the consequence 
being that, the muzzle of the rifle not receiving the necessary eleva- 
tion to carry the bullet over a long distance, the ball would strike or 
descend very close to the ground before it reached its destination. 
It was also asserted that some of the Chinese soldiers actually 
knocked the sights off their rifles as being useless.” 


ter of the bullseye. This is not a ‘“‘dude target,”’ according to 
j. Merrill’s definition. The center of the bullseye 1s not an indefi- 
nite point, but was plainly marked with across before the shooting 
began. The string is as follows: .21, .24, ,28, .80, .39, 48, .56, .98, 1.02, 
1.09=514 inches, 1am aware that this target is not as fine as the 
Gove target published by Maj. Merrill some time since, but it must 
be taken into consideration that it was shot with a light eun, without 
cleaning, and no artificial rest was used. By shooting from a dead 
rest a closer target could be made. 

The breechloader is eminently fit to do the finest work at target, as 
the inside of the barrel is open to inspection at all times, E. A. L. 

NoRRISTOWN, Pa. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


THE ZETTLERS DEFEATED.—The hitherto invincible team of 
he Zettler Rifle Club of New York, met with their first defeat on 
Weduesday evening, March 19, at the hands of the Frelinghuysen 
Rifle Club, of Newark, N. J., at the range of the latter club. The 
match was for ten men, ten shots each, on the Massachusetts rin 
target, highest possible score 120, distance &5ft, The men of eac 
team shot alternately in the following order, and with the appended 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT.—The convenient grounds 
at Wellington, on ,the 19th, found assembled representatives from 


scores: F ‘ U a 
Zettler Rifle Club. Frelinghuysen Rifle Club, nearly all the important shooting clubs in the New England States 
Morrie 2... eck 112 Wm. Hayes... .......+:- 110 to contest the different events Which had previously been advertised 
J H Brown.... wera SH Shackleford 412 to take place. Fine weather opened up the day’s shooting, buta 
G Joiner ..... 108 GD Weigman 113 threatening shower gradually interfered with‘fine scores. Notwith- 
PFenning.,.,.....-.. --. 114 LG OL GE as ey Pee eee 105 standing this, however, a large number of Mother Harth’s chickens 
TSE ere HACE go 409 W P McLeod 113 returned to roost, quite satisfied, doubtless, that tournament days are 
PANT ZT ae = let 8 ae 102 J L Tobin 113 bad days to be out. A very large number of visitors were present, 
BN TAR rae oy ame oe 112 J K Walsh....... 114 particularly during the medal shoot. The medal itself is considered 
eee eg a ee 115 R Westerman 108 a fine piece of workmanship, being simply a gold clay-pigeon pendant 
C@ Judson...... ae ia 2 114 WW Esprits! Meeks Ls 110 from an ornamental bar, while below is another bar of beautiful 
Mastiset fe fe so. 108—i1105 AC@Newman..........-.. 1111109 | ornamental design. 


A collation was served by the Newarkers, and the visitors expressed | _ First match, 7 single birds, 18yds, 


themselves as well pleased with their visit and entertainment not- | E W Law.......----..-.-----.-+- 7 CF Stark... -.. 2. eee eesee eee, 4 
withstanding their defeat, Shots ma Sea OE ht A 3 e 4 vecen fe Ns 4h a sk : 

BOSTON, March 22.—The delightful spring weather of to-day was | 4 Host von She TV, ee 5 GTidsbury.... .... a ain ane. 5 
perfect for outdoor sports, and many riflemen who have failed to | yj Gitman..........-.--.-- ------- 5 yOWitherall’ nom ewe eee 4 
visit their Favorite range, Walnut Hill, during the recent miserable | B Ryans.......... Aig ee 4 TS Hall ah aba ssasnsemera 
weather, were out in force, crowding the shooting cottage and keep- | p Schaefer. BCA Sampson GER Re OIG: 4 
ing the targets busy from early morn till sundown. Perfect as was | 4 Cooper. y. GU TET yc erp Ear na: 4 
the weather overhead, it was also grand for shooting purposes, both | 7, G w hee , PC Guia ES i «Meet ee mere 5 
wind and light being very satisfactory, the former easy to control] 4 A Perry....... ..-.----+es+ e+: 5 ISSawyer......... ...... 


and the latter giving a soft, pleasant color to the paper and iron tar- 
gets. The leading scores were all at 20uyds. 
Creedmoor Practice Match. 


: Tice Say and Hart first, Cooper second, Tidsbury third, White 
ourth. 
Second Match, 5 birds, 18yds. 


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W H Morton.... ... 444545444442 1, Herbert (mil).....5444444244—39 | Guim SO eaeitnn a cae eee : 
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BER ASS 444 4 RAd4544544 4 Smith and Houghton first, Wilbar second, Tidsbury, Law and L, E. 
Sagar ee BS Seek ve De S27 tags 54 3 | Johnson third, BF. Johnson and Eagen fourth, E 
W Gardner..........2...2. .0-.-- pe 8 9 61010 8 8 6 6 7% Third shoot, 7 single birds. 18yds, rise. 
AD Brackett.c.... 1s. pen os 8 8 310 810 710 8 6-78| DSchaefer..........-..- -. »---.5 pple BSS 
BL Loring....... .-.. ....----- ee Cas BB oe I 9 8—61 Smolin, Fe stb sy ee dees a te i Re Of sein SN A ona 
H Withington. .:......--. 2-+-225eu see 65 7 4 8 $8 8 5 860] Hager.....-.- + : sare 
WW Grant......-...-.. eft is : 5 8 6 5 8 5 7 3 6 9—57| De Rochemont.... -- ee La 
Combination (Creedmoor) Match. Houghton...... Uae ete. wees 5 pre ey. es 
ih idiracketh te ee. ae hee 2 Meh oe 44555 5 4 5 5 A47| Wilbur...,...+..-..5 +. e esses 2 Se i 
Ty De e- 0) gis etee ry On eee ag aa 45445 5 5 4 4 5—45| Buffington.........---..---++++-++ , ae 
SSeS res aie asta eeteetn oo ek ee 455454 5 4 4 5—45| Hvans.....:-...-.02.---csesrseese 5 W H Sheldo 
Fld AGH bs. 28 23 5222 2)p i ans - Serie taen 45444544 44 pemeen CP Re ee tee a bir artok Pate en 
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— 95 Pe] its) ig. ec JULTULS 2 0 -— ce te cr mtrewe wee see e as 
Rall ray eS Sa aa Rs 5 19 10 3 9 10 10 10 10 *Rige Winners—Stark first, Hager and Cary second, Schaefer, Cooper 
ED Tay tt Tite, ie ea a 10 9 9 910 9 910 9 9—93 | and Allen third, Se TRee ee and Gea qure 
BOSTON GALLERY SHOOTING.—The third week for the regular | _ Fourth sheot, 3 pair double birds, 5 traps, toyds. rise... 
monthly prize shoot at the Mammoth Gallery has shown some very Schaefer......--.++-+-+ ti vt a Sa ea a SES eee 4 oS 
ood shooting for amateurs, the best for any one week this season. Jenkins... «..-.++.+--+ lees ea: vee SEA boeing tos 4 : 3 
Nir, ‘A. B. Loring and R. Ford beads the list for first prize, and Mr. H. | B F Johnson..... +-. Ranioriaes ae De dielneeveiele tee: fe a fe ce 
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AB Lorin ie ene 45 45 46 46 45227 | Cary.....2...c.sceeeeees 00 00 00—4 AH Perry.............. 10 10 11-4 
R Ford tT a liek Nis is nL ae 45 45 46 45 46—227 | DeRochemont.......... TOS0}11 4) Mazer tee eee 10 10 10—3 
ML Pratt 2 UM hig ve a ae A Te 45 45 45 46 45—926] Houghton.............- TEA MIRp -Sndithy S96 Me Te 11 00 11—4 
IEE ns. nate oe ee ee Ss ae Se 3 45 43 43 43—217 | Buffington... eR TATOO 4" \CLIPnt ee een 101 Dist 
Stenson, saa.62.- Pen a Nea et = a al eee nan. 10 10 10-3 
H M Drew ** 49 43 43 42 44-215] Winners: Houghton first, Curtis and Buffington second, B. F. John- 
BA Peres IEEE 4 44 40 41 41—206 | son, Sampson and Law third, Cooper fourth; 
WOUNDS LO CCHS Sot coh. waa peg S87 pe Rew S ee nee ens 39 39 389 39 40—196 Fifth shoot, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise. Cooper first, B. F. Johnson 
AWARE He. tie iale, Wield tos niet Poe gs ah solay sen 42 41 85 39 89-196] and Wilbar second, Sampsor and Stark third, Nichols fourth, 


SARATOGA RIFLE CLUB.—The following are the best scores for 


Sixth Shoot—Three-men Team Badge Championship match; 3 men 
each man for Wednesday and Saturday, Marcli 12 and 15, 200yds. 


teams, 5 single birds from 5 traps, 3 pair double birds and 10 single 
birds from single trap. ‘ 1 
Massachusetts Rifle Association. 


Apiictyasts. oe wena ene oe Stee ..10 10 11 12 11 12 11 11 10 10—108 O1111 11 41 11 110111111119 
UE chig bie Spr ey sap pea ee a Sa Cs 11 11 11 11 11 1012 10 11 9—107 .. AML 01 O01 it 111011111118 
GE Sh ERE 9 910 2 it A i i q pale 00111 1i 10 10 1111141111—1754 
SASH MEEGHOI Sos 22 tN «ve niecy ees oolemeoe 9121110 91 11 19— 1s Club—_Fi i 
H Wellington.............000ses0ueess 911 911 811 11 10 10 11101 YORC ESD SE Be estat A ae ee tate 
foes F SOs thndg Sha spec sleet i111 111001110117 
GTI Ste AS sleoe ea aacccne tele amin 9 91210 911101111 7 99 1 10 00 OL sind 
& F PER eon sereeeetees 1111 111110111116 
DN ELSA iiaccs orc obs Sele p eles 2 slew se a2 seu loleleln 12 810 9 8111010 6 10— 94 Holden 01110 11 01 00 1114111100—i4— 47 
Sou eee he eee Sa SE A B10 tO C00 ADT Ayal ae er ate EA aes meee . 2 Nees 
PUSTE Cheese fy5..5 Pies Anca te eceereeerr 77888 7 911 7 8—80 Exeter Sportsmen’s Clu 4 oF eer er, N. H, 
MaCoray te ees eyes BCR eRe eS 141i 9410 8 91009 9- 79 1 10 01 4 1111111110—-17 


00 11 11 111011111117 
00 11 11 1061100911—12—46 


Olub, there was a fine attendance of members. The American deci- lub—Second Team. 


mal target was used, The meet was at Hackmatack Range, distance 


i i ; i Liireyi BR Ge mesos 555 34 Sc 00 Ce AG 1111111010—15 
oe Bae ea of a possible 100, shooting off-hand, the following totals teem Te 11010 se Wih E NOiDTITIAQ Ge 
ANMMAEMG WIS. 2 =k Ghosts S.c0ns4 srs goes 1010 9 9 8 510 9 8 8-86 | Smith.......-. cee--e eee 00110 00 01 11 1111111101—14—43 
WR ADRETEOM 0 oo se eye ts ae tee ents eae 79 9 91010 9 7 8 8—86 Narragansett Gun Club of Providence, R. I. 

GP Ellsworth... 2.2. 22-2 eee pwc sise 910 910 7 7 9 7 8 8-8 01111 Tub Gao) aa 1001011111—17 

JIN Dodge. ... ...:2-- 22 - essen eerste eens 8 8 810 8 zs 4 10 10—83 o1 10 O1 111111111115 

SUMSNEOE LOL Shh Nise ohooh ale hve oe 610 8 9 9 810 8—83 00 O01 00 0110110011—10—42 

GG Goodale... ica se. tse. ee ee ee ORO 2° SB 9 810 9—T5 Lynn Central Shooting Club. 

wc AGOWELALIY Ao nares obec naess © AE witht Ua n fiat: 8 1—74 : 1 1 10 00 10 1011111111—16 
JAMESTOWN, N. Y., March 14.—In the regular club medal match Cidesrarss ae Ri mnans es 01001 40 10 10 101101110112 

to-day the following scores were made, 200yds. off-hand, Creedmoor Woo bury Tehthae «saan: 00000 i0 01 10 0111101010 9—37 

target, 10 shots i wind medium, from 9 o’clock to 3 o’clock changing | "'~ ~~" """ " Boston Gun Club 

HL a peas PAR BA 4 4b Ad Ab cop be seer eeee ek 01011 10 10 00 011110111113 

GW Shattuck. ......0lc.sclsessessesseseeeeeene4 45445444 5-48 | BE Jobnson,...-.+- epee O11 10 10 11 «040011101043 

RHA Borns........ I ee te Pee Ste corr 44454545 4 4-48 | Field.... ...-.--s-re++ ++ 10100 10 00 00 1111100111—11—87 

W HSpragie.... ---------.s0-eeeeee cee 1.485444454441 Fall River Gun Club. 

Cw Say bill ANNs) oe eee Ltr ee eerie gee ryt 43344444 45-89 | Buffington... ..-..5--:eereree eee ra at ag es 
ZETTLER RIFLE CLUB.—New York, March 18,—Weekly_ shoot Braley .....---+:¢++ serseetesr peers 

12-ring target, possible 120: P. Fenning 119, M. Dorrler 118, H. Oeh] | Hall ....-....--s00sseseer ster eeetetttess 10 00 00 0110011011—-w.. 


117, G. Joiner 114, C. Judson 113, M. B. gel 118, H. Holges 105, A. 
Lober 111, D. Miller 105, P. Steinbach 105, Capt. N. D. Ward 110, C. 
G. Zettler 112, B. Zettler 108, T. C. Noone 108, J, Adrian 103, H Hib- 
erin 102, H. Von Derlinden 100, Wm. Wiegandt 105. 


BULL'S HEAD RIFLE CLUB,—At the regular weekly meet on 
March 13, the scores stood, 12-ring target, possible 120, gallery dis- 
tance: A. Lober 119, M. Dorrler 118, C. Rein 116, V. Steinbach 115, G. 
Zimmermann 115, G. D. Johnston 114, J. Schrarder 113, A. Stolzenber- 

er 106. J. Schneider 106, D. Holland 104, G. Wendelken, 103, 5. Mehr - 

ach 103, J. F.-Campbell. 102, H. A. Wasmuth 101,.8. F. CG. Weber 100, 


A GOOD RECORD.—Company H, Third Infantry, of the regular 
army, includes in its muster roll two of the eighteen best marksmen 
in the United States Army, as shown by scores made in the year 1883. 
These are First Lieutenant Philip Reade and Second Lieutenant FF. 
P. Fremont. No other company in the service has two representa- 
tives in the team. ‘ 

NEWARE, March 22,The fifth tournament of the Newark Rifle 
Association ended on Monday evening last, with the Frelinghuysen 
to the butt: G. D. We1zman, 50; BH. O. Chase, 47; Wm. P. MeLeod, 
50; A. C. Newman, 47; 8. Shackelford 45; F. W. Lynn, 45; George 
Zimmer, 44; G. Williams, 46; J. K. Walsh, 45; R. Westerman, 46. 
Total, 465. The Frelinghuysen lead in the five tournaments 18 points. 
The last match will be shot on the Warren Range. 

LOADING CARTRIDGES.—I notice that ‘‘W. M. F.,” in answer to 
“GF. W.,” in relation to loading rifle cartridges, says: “Tn no case 
compress the powder.” Can any one inform me why? 1 have been 
crowding 45grs, of powder into a .44-cal. Winchester shell de- 
signed for 40grs., and find it'increases the penetration, at least with 
Virdanty- loaded shell, which was the object aimed at. Is it danger- 
ous to compress powder, and can compressed poyease always be de 
pended upon to give the same result ap every S ot?—H. C.5. Mey 

ANEW GUN CLUB.—A gun club has been recently organized at 
Perth Aluboy, N. J., for glass ball and clay-pigeon practice. 


Shoot No. 7—Five single birds, 18yds. rise. De Rochmont, Stark and 
Cary first, Curtis and Nichols second, Law and Tinker third, Hager 
th. 
toe out No. 8 Seven hirds,5 traps, 18yds, rise —Hart.and Stark 
first, Decker and Law second, Palmer third, Field and Cary fourth. 


HARVARD GLUB,—At the meet of the Harvard Shooting Club, 
last week, Mr. Slocum acted as executive officer and Mr. C. A, Brown 
as scorer. The result of the match was as follows: 

Match 1, five balls—First, W. L. Allen, Slocum, second, Abbot, F. 
Austin, W. Austin, Palmer. 

Match 2, Walnut Hil! cup, 15 balls—First, C. C, Foster, ¥F.S. Palmer: 
second, F. Austin, Abbot, Poster and Palmer tied on 11 balls, but on 
shooting off the tie, miss-and-out, Foster won. 

Match 3, five clay-pigeons—First, Palme#; second, Allen. 

Match 4, five clay-pigeons—First, F. Austin, Edmands, Slocum; 
second, Palmer. 

Match 5, five balls—First, Foster; second, Slocum. | 

Match 7, five balls—First, Slocum; second, F, Austin, Allen, Foster. 

Match 8; five balls—First, Edmands, Palmer, Slocum; second, F. 

tin, Goodwin. \ 4 
Atte ea A was windy, and the snow which fell made it difficult 
to see the balls and birds. J 


FAIR HILL, Md., March 15,—Regular practice shoot, 2lyds., glass 

ing trap. ; 

pa toradne’ ON ea 100101001111011 =f) 
OM Welt he aire eee OP Son cic PME ESSE 0110011111010111111111111 —20 
¥B Garrett............ eye ecckeeeoceee 4101114144111111111011111111—25 


J..N. Arbuckle, 


Youmans. Beard of Directors—Willlam ‘Millard, G, E. Maxwell and 


WORCESTER, Mass., March 20,—The series of matches between 
the South End and the Woodland Gun clubs ended ,to-day by a vic- 


tory for the Woodlands. There were five men to each sida, 


Each 


man had a, Uae before him. The glass balls were thrown in 


strings of 


veeach, The result wasa victory for the Woodlands, 


as the clubs had each won a game, although the totals of each club 


at the close of to-da 
300 points. The folle 


’s Shooting were the same, 200 out of a possible 
owing is the details of to-day’s work: 


South End Chib. 
Webber . 3.40505 Seb rh tt ee 01101 iii 10001 11101—14 


--Adii1 = 11110 O10 O17 ~~ 
---00001 1110 01401 Ss O110—11 
-..11100 00010 11010  o0010— 8 
«11110 11111 = 1003S 01111-1666 


Woodland Gun Club 


...11140 10101 10110 »~=—- 0101-18 


TT ANS = A Oe ee Se aes OO111 = =O11it = 11001 2S O11. L155 


MNase SA ol aan Sel | a er 


--11101 O1111 11011 0101-14 
..00001 10011 10111 1110i—12 
11111 9001100 = 10001_:~Ss 111111466 


The first meet of this series was at the South End Range, the second 
at Woodland Range, and the last at Coal Mine Range, the home of 
the Worcester Sportsmen's Club. The total for the three meets is as 


follows: . 
South End Club, Woodland Gun Club. 
Ist. 2d. 3d. ist. 2d. ad 

Webber ......... if d4 14— 4h Fuller. :: 22.2.5... 11 18 18— 2 
Whittaker....... 16 #12 i7—45 Mascroft........ 9 15 14— 38 
Whittier ........ 15 Oe i 8d) RNCoss : A ese 13 14 1-—R 
Jewett. .....--.. 12 #18 =%8— 388 Gilman.......... 11 16 12— 39 
Davisys sit ae .11 15 16—42 Tongas..,.....11 i4 i14— 39 

Totals... ail 963 66-200) “Rotelgaceeee 55 77 63 200 


KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 14.—At the regular monthly shoot to- 
day of the Knoxville Gun Club, for the Ligowsky medal, at 15 clay- 
pigeons, 18yds. rise, from fourth notch, the following scores Were 


made; 


WWE RT. at oo fs nalts hae dele 
GC Hebbsrdnt sce teers ae 
Nicholsonsssche ns eee ee 


STATEN ISLAND GUN CLUB,—The shoot 
came off on March 15; 10 birds each, handica 
5 ground traps, 734lb. guns; ties, miss and ou 


Raymond, 25yds 
Howard, ie ae Be 
Boughton, 27y 


Stelfoxe 2% yOestso oases cee 


Grant 2tVass 2 teseese sce ee 
Redmond, 27yds.............. 
Thompson, 28yds..........-+- 
Lee, 25yds......+.---++ eee onte 
TBHOMAS eV OSes s verge ace ee 


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SH OPH OR RRR HOS ORE HH 
SCCHH OOOH HE SCOHMOHHEHE SH 
SOCoCSCH OSH SCHR HHH 
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THE LIGOWSKY TOURNAMENT.—In reply to inquiries it is 
stated that the rule 1440z. shot should read 1}4oz. per Dixon’s mea- 


sure, 1106 or 1107. 
Sportsmen attending this 


tournament will probably have the op- 


portunity of taking in a gengral shooting circuit. The hicago sports- 
men are organizing a live bifd shoot to precede the tournament, the 
Louisville shooters have already issued an altractive programme to 
follow same, and now the Cincinnati shooters are talking of a fourth 
tournament immediately after that at Louisville. 

Henry Miller, Esq., of Chicago, Tll., member of the executive com- 
mittee, writes as follows: The Illinois Central R, R. grant a 14% fare 
to sportsmen attending the tournament; the sportsman pays full fare 
to Chicago, and upon presentation of a certificate from our executive 
committee, is furnished a ticket home at }44 regular rate. I expectto 
getthe same concession from all the roads at their next meeting 
about April 15. All clubs contemplating attendimg the tournament 
should not fail to enter by said date, as it will materially assist mein 
obtaining a like reduction from all other roads. aan 

MALDEN GUN GCLUB.—March 22.—The springlike day called 
together some thirty; sportsmen at the fgrounds of the Malden Gun 
Clab. The first part of the afternoon a cross wind prevailed, which 
kept down the scores, even below the average, The contests resulted 


as follows: 


First event—badge contest: 


J Hopkins. ist medal,........ 
E J Brown, 2d medal........- 
Smith, 8d medal...........- 


Bate ee 0110110010—5 = 1011111111—9—14 
S3y- sane 0011110110—6 + © 0010011101—5—11 
Be Aer | 0110110000—4 = 1000111011—-6—10 


Second fevent, five birds—Dutton first, Field and Brown second, 


Dill third. 


Third event, five birds—Adams and Hopkins first, Field and Els- 
worth second, Dill third, Taft fourth. 

Fourth event, five traps, Chicago rules.—Brown first, Purington 
second, Field third, Adams and Scott fourth. od 1 

Fifth event. five birds—Ellsworth and Dutton first, Purington 
second, Field third, Hopkinsfourth. ; , 

Sixth event, five birds—Dutton and Nichols first, Purington second, 
Adams and Scott third, Dill and Field fourth. . - 
* Seventh event, miss aud out—Divided by Adams and Field, 


WELLAND, Ont., March 14.—The meeting to-day of Geo, Rodgera 
af St. Catharines and Capt. Ritter drew several hundred interested 
spectators. The match grew out of a performance of Capt. Ritter in 
which firing at 30 bails he tied two good marksmen firing at 25. Mr, 
Geo. Rodgers, of St. Catharines, considered the best shot in Western 
Canada, immediately challenged the Captain. Two matches wera 
arranged, one to be at glass ba Is and theother at live pigeons. The 
stakes to be $100 a side on each match. Ata consultation of the 
friends of the parties, it was decided that the new ball made by tha 
Niagara Target Ball Co., of Niagara Falls, N. ¥., would give a fairer 


and more just test. 


© 

the shoot being called, Mr. George Barker, of Niagara Falls, 
we sat: chosen Aataeterees Mr. John Carlisle, of St. Catharines: 
judge for Mr. Rodgers: Mr. EB. A. Smith, of La Salle, judge for Capt, 


tter 


First Match—Thirty Niagara target balls. 


Capt. Ritter....-..------ natea 


Adie 101101111101111011104171101111—24 


Mr. Rodgers....-..-----++eesseeree ree 010211191111111101110111010111—24 
First Tie. ae 
Capt Ritter. .....-.--+eienees tees e et cee rsec tec tene snes nnes eres — 
. Rodgers... ....-- a ap ea ie Sateen eeie oo oot d ae .10101—4 
a . Second Tie. 
Ca: ee Fe Sutin cates feo ghana eee iets a COC ieee Tac ime, 
 RODPCTS. soc0ce ene tea tee, dp hes hs lec cg gence Per Aaetasye yess \— 
= = Third Tie. 
Capt. Ritter. ........06.6- erent eee e eee ene e ee Atte 6 11001—3 
Mr, Rodgers. sae ay is *r | ube ; i gerG ee eee teen ne 11000—2 i 
h—Fifteen i 
Cast Ritter. cia SEL hae F Poctee aor geeee ee s+ =~. 010111111101011—11 
Mr. Rodgers... ..--. 20+ -s seen as estate Be SA bat 011114111100111—12 


TORONTO, March 18.—A 


Forbes...:...-+---- + : 


Plank and O. 
Wright on the other, 


of year, 
Lyman 4 


A 4 


to, and John Forbes, of 
ae John *Ouleott’s, Bglington, this afternoon, The arrangements 
that Forbes was to shoo ‘ 
rales to govern; 2lyds. rise, B0yds. boundary. The betting was 10 to 
% and 10 to 8 on Cockburn. The weather was fine and the-attendance 
large. J. Wilson acted as referee. Following was the score: j 


\e old-fas ioned wide.awake fig 
embers 1 


Fach having won a match leaves the matter ust as it was before. 
Their trenda ane trying to make arrangements for a match to decide 
it by a shoot at 100 Niagara target balls for $100 a side. 


pigeon match between ©, Cockburn, of 
Woodstock, for $100 a side, took place 


{at 33 birds to Cockburn’s 30; Dominion 


...- 011101000111011101101000000110000—15 


thus won the match by three birds. The birds were 
ioe man pus wind anything but favorable to shooting. . 


ins sping. Das, 


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[Marcu 27, 1884. 


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Pachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 18.—Eclipse Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Boston Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30,—Knickerbocker Y. C.,, Spring Matches, 
May 30.—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30,—Newark Y. C,, Spring Match. 

May 30.—South Boston Y. C., Spring Match. 


May 381.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore’s cups. . 


June 9.—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 

June 10.—Atlantie Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 14.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Matches. 
June 16.—Hast River Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 

June 28.—Boston Y.C., Ladies’ Day. 

June 30.—Manhattan Y. ©., Annual Cruise. 

June 30.—Eclipse Y¥. C.. Spring Match. 

July 4.—Larchmont Y. C., Annual Open Matches. ? 
July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet, 

July 12,—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. 
July 26.—Beverly Y. C., Nahaut, Second Championship. 
Aug. 9.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

_ Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs. 

- Aug. 16.—Beverly Y. C., Swampscott, Third Championship. 
Aug. 23.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Open Matches. 
Aug. 23.—Beston Y. C., Third Club Match. ‘ 

Sept. 6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Matches, 
Sept. 18. —Hull Y. C., Club Meet. - 
Sept. 18.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


THE GLEAM AND ANETO. 


_ Editor Forest and Stream: 


For reasons anticipated in your comments on the offer of Mr. 
Prague, I unhesitatingly decline the suggested contest. 

During the approaching season I will, sacrificing time allowance, 
give my friend Mr. Lawtonjevery opportunity to redeem his defeat 


~~ . in the chance trial last fall, but the conditions of weather must, be 


the same, such as will bring the Gleam to two reefs. 
“4 srecespubdouek stipulate. in the event of such a trial, the loser 
shall, to place the result on record, donate $50 to a charitable institu- 
to be Sete Wiens ap ea : 
N RE, March oh 25, 1884. Tar OWNER OF THE YAW. ANETO, 


THE PETREL. 


N unfortunate transposition of the types in the table last week 
needs correction before proceeding. The ballast on Petrel’s 

keel is 5,474lbs., and the amount inside 2,526, which will make the 
comparison with Gleam more intelligible.. The hoist of mainsail .s 
20ft. against 23ft. of the Gleam, or increasing the latter boat to the 
length of Petrel, the comparison between hoists would be 20 to 28, 
and between the areas 600 to 1,106, showing great economy in favor 
of the narrower boat, The same is expressed by the percentage of 
sail area to square of loadline, Petrel having 102 per cent. against 
the 149 per cent. of Gleam. The sail plan of the latter is the largest 
aE proportion to length of any fixed ballast boat of which data are 

own, 

The present mast of Petrel is built of two halves, slightly cored out, 
glued, doweled and pinned together, with but little taper to mast- 
head. The object was to combine lightness with the stiffness of large 
diameter, as the ancient vagary about give and elasticity to spars 
has about disappeared from the category of fairy tales worshipped 
among the “‘intuitive” classes. Spars as rigid as they can be stayed 
with due regard to lightness are now accepted as equally as necessary 
to smart performance as flat sitting and broad-headed canvas. The 
Petrel’s experiment seems to have been a perfect success, as her 
mast never buckles, nor does the masthead twist with exposure to 
the weather, and the stick never ‘‘complains.’’ The building of masts 
may be considered an improvement, but it should be borne 
in mind that unless accurate and faithful workmanship can be 
counted upon to a certainty, a built mast is a treacherous and dan- 
gerous affair not deserving to be trusted. Much weight will not be 
saved, but weight for weight, greater strength and stiffness can be 
secured by a competent mechanic familiar with spar making. Petrel’s 
topmast is fidded to house and the bowsprit reefs in over the wood 
boomkin. She has two shrouds and backstays each side, and the jib 
martingale nips under an iron dolphin striker. The boomkin is 
steadied by an iron rod jumper or bobstay. _ 

The cabin has 24in: berths each side, 13ft. long and 32in. of floor 
between. The house overhead is’ 12ft. long and only 10in. high at 
after end, being kept low for convenience on deck. A square hatch 
16x20in. gives access to the forecastle in which the stove, pantry and 
cooking gear is located: 


FAT CAIOWOUISALIN woudetde alata lds wp s bo alslelcfetyied deeds 800 sq, ft 
Ratio to sq uareelig electri sos cieciners sees cen enens 102 pr. ct 
Area mainsail........ Pee mec Nar, MA Naa) afase sg oman pe 522 sq. ft 
SACO ONCS ETO eietal sy yarn afaiatsa pe) eeradaldias. s)ajaskgn ojo 182 sq. ft 
POSE NOS omeoh: Oe Ae BEBO eee 146 sq. fb. 
Mast GeckstGrHoOundss cs. so osc. cep esse ep ele nee «t 25ft. 
Masthead.......... oth VA OP RASA OP BEBE ea 4ft. 6in 
Topmast, cap to shoulder ............--.....- <5 12ft, 3in 
LAK COUN A Gre AE eee CADIS) tiem lye sic y= + eae 1 in 21 
Main boom over all,.......,... ERAN AGARE. Soca beeen 28ft. 6in 
Gatovernall nei nts. leu oy aelieae nis 17Et. 
Bowsprit, end L.W.L to cap ........-.. --+++-s .. 5ft. 
JIDHGOM, CABO StAY Lo. ie ke eee ee btn oft. 
Mangas onpliiiic. tent... adele) ue ney sins oe 348 ae 


LEE Nb aT Ae C010 PA A ee mere eave ont eh Hoe 
Mainsail on leech ra 
HOKSSAT OMT exes de tes Fes a Soho Pe, San ard pomesese eee 


Foresail on foot . Gin. 
Foresail on leech..... Rint ie nce tls + nist inhieb euttoeres 21ft. 
ATOM vere ce ye Se eahet ste rede sine ces Cae 29ft. 
LOO DEE OOM al we rial cots Reis attie.< arvieietay here's Mele settee tee eess 15ft. 
JIMONWIECE ia ik Sort sine coor suas tes a3 ae nie dstestna 20ft. bin. 


ISIS. 


HIS new cutter is 62ft. Gin. over ail, 51ft. loadline, 13ff. beam and 
9ft. draft, with a steadier of 16 tons on the keel. She is now be- 
ing planked up at Poillon’s yard, in Brooklyn. The best part of this 
eechn is her design. Her construction is something enormous. The 
eel is a balk fit for a seventy-four, the frames are doubleall through 
and within an inch and a half as heayy as those of the big schooner 
Fortuna, The deck frame is a stunner. Beams have been tumbled 
in at every framehead in profusion, and of a strength and weight 
astonishing. With such material, corresponding fastenings ought to 
be expected, to secure the benefit of the extravagant weight; but, 
strange to say, these beams are merely pee to the shelf, with no 
other fastening whatever! Can this possibly be the intention? What 
is the use of massive material without sufficient connection? Unless 
some further provision be adopted for tieing the sides, such as thor- 
ough kneeing, the first time this cutter gets it rough and tumble she 
will wring out of shape, open and leak like a basket, for the rig to 
drive her bulk and beam will be of respectable dimensions. 
The quarters and transom are one solid mass of woad, be- 
yond anything of the kind put into a similar yessel. Yellow 
pine filling, into which the forward frames box, is a poor 
substitute for oak. lf the cutter is completed as she has been begun 
three tons of weight will have been wasted on her structure, anc 
most of that high up. It should have been in lead low down, for a 
boat of her beam and displacement requires adeal to correct her 
‘““wobbly”’ tendencies, As to her form, it is excellent and very fair 
upon her dimensions, but we cannot but think she would haye been 
all the better with 9in. off each side. Deck room would have remained 
ample and the accommodations below need not have been interfered 
with at all, It would have given a kinder form to drive and a better 
shape looking to windward. As it is the forte of Isis will be reaching 
and sailing in light weather. When it comes to crowding she will 
choke, because of her exuberance in beam, While her form, and 
especially her notable fairness, promise general satisfaction, the 
wasteful disposition of her scantling is certain to detract from her 
prospects asafiyer. For cruising Isis has scarce an equal. The 
vacancy down below will give the largest accommodations on record 
in these waters. Indeed, in the way of room she can compete with 
the ark, In yiew of her small hatches there is like- 
wise gangway and passage on her deck, such as New 
Yorkers have never before seen on the length, She will prove 
enormously stiff and presumably it will be impossible to carry her 
rail under. For all of these reasons, it seems as though a more 
favorable ayerage might have been struck with 11ft. bin, instead of 
18ft. beam, But as an experiment in the way of wide cutters, no one 


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(Mance 27, 1884. 


will withhold full recognition of the owner's enterprise, as he de- 
signed the yacht himself. As a wide cutter, we are prepared to say 
her form is exceedingly pleasing, with the bulk distributed in almost 
faultless proportion, taough for climbing to windward, we might 
have preferred just a little shorter entrance so far as inspection of 
the frame served us as & guide by whichto pronounce judgment, She 
is a Credit to the yard as a thoroughly fair job. and but for the excep- 
tions before noted, might have been the most sensible vessel yet set 
upinthe establishment. Now that the modern yacht has invaded 
@yen this historic old ground, we have no doubt some of the contem- 
plated new cuiters will rise in their glory at thesame yard. The 
worthy Mr. Townsend, who proses: knows “how it is himself” after 
having come across the clipper Ileen atsea, and prejudice is fast 
wearing away. For the restthe yard can turn out the best of work 
with some one to direct the innovations upon old customs in detail 

ee Townsen(] can be relied upon to sée them lived up to in full 
ath. 


THE COST OF YACHTS. 


Gea eed business principles ought to apply in comparing the 

cost of yachts asin anything else. There is no reason in hold- 
ing up the first cost of two vessels in comparison without allowing 
for difference in quality of construction, equipment and cabin fittings 
and without regard to longevity. Itis quite certain that a well-built 
vessel, thoroughly and completely supplied in every respect with ex- 
pensive and artistic interior, will callfora greater first outlay than 
an inferior affair in every respect. But when the lifetime of a well- 
built and a cheap job are taken into consideration the balance sheet 
will show in favor of the best boat. Thus, the schooner Columbia 
was built in 1870 at a cost, as near as is known, of $385,000. She was 
put to very light service during her career, but in 1884 was found so 
thoroughly rotten and used up generally that her recent purchaser 
has heen obliged to rebuild entirely. He paid $10,000 for a name and 
proceeded to build a new boat around the name at a fresh expense of 
about $30,000, The fitst owner paid $35,000. The second about 
$20,000, Loss $15,000, The third owner paid $10,000, Additional 
loss $10,000, and he has now to éxpend $30,000in rebuilding from keel 
up, Total amount sunk iu the Columbia in fourteen years, $55,000! On 
the other hand, bad the Columbia been built originally to class highest 
in Lloyd's instead of being soft wood thrown together with spikes, the 
first cost might have been $15,000 more than was paid for her, say 
$50,000, She would after fourteen years have brought at least half 
her cost. or $25,000, so that the amount sunk would have been only 
$25,000. To this add $5.000 for an overhaul, and the saving upto 
date would have been $25,000. That is to say. the Columbia, well 
built and fitted in the first place, would have cost $25,000 less to date 
than the Columbia built as the slop job she actually was. 

Further, the cost of the Bedoum, without the extra expense of 
artistic carvings and decorations, upon which no limitcan be set in 
any yacht, was $34,000, The cost of a cheap sloop of same size with 
only half the regular equipment will be $24,000. In twelve years from 
time of Jaunching Bedouin wall sell for $24,000, assuming reasonable 
care in her Eeep, and the cheap sloop would bring but 2 nominal sum 
of say $10,000, and require another $10,000 to put her into equal con- 
dition withthe Bedoum. Loss in twelve years on the Bedouin $10,- 
000; loss on the cheap sloop $24,000. 

Finally, the type ot a boat, the mere shape of the volume enclosed, 
hag nothing whatever to do with the cost of build in the first place, as 
common sense ought to demonstrate to every one without explana- 
tion. The costis due to amount of material ani labor used in the 
production. Ina cutter the material and labor need not exceed the 
reguirements of asloop. Both call for like expenditures for equally 
good and complete equipment and wealth of cabin fittings. The 
larger displacement of the cutter necessitates from twenty-five to 
forty per ceut. more ballast over the sloop of modern proportions, 
an extra charge which is offset by a smaller sail plain and the easier 
conversion of lighter material usedin framing and finishing an easier 
form of body. And in small yachts even this difference of ballast 
disappears, since small sloops of recent construction displace as much 
and in some cases more than cutters of same length. Such boats, 
possessing in their great beam also a greater stock of ma- 
teria!, more labor and a larger rig, must cost quality for quality 
more than a cutter of same length. We have in recent num- 
bers given many actual examples, showing cutters to be as 
cheap, and in soine instances cheaper, than sloops, and if builders 
still bid wild on contracts for cutters, or insist upon making a fortune 
out of one such job, by “milking” rich and inexperienced or finan- 
cially generous men, the competition of the future will bring about a 
tree balance between the cost and the article rendered therefor, 

The cry agamst cutters on account of their supposed greater cost 
than other modern types approaching the cutter in performance is a 
nonsensical bugbear, and is put forward only by illogical persons 
who know nothing about the matter beyond what they gather and 
magnify ftom greenhorns chatting in clubrooms, That this or that 
specific cutter can be pointed outas haying cost more than a poverty- 
stricken sloop is true evough. But others can also be found which, 
with superior build and equipment, have cost jess, Whatever the 
facts in specific cases may be. comimon sense is enough to prove that 
thereis no ground why, quality for quaJity, there should be more 
than normal difference in first cost of cutter or sloop. and that differ- 
ence is as often likely to be on one side as onthe other. The most 
expensive yacht is, as a matter of course, the largest on the iength, 
whether the bigness be due to great depth or to great beam. 
Naturally. boats having both great beam and depth, such as the 
Ttchen cutters or Boston keel sloops, will represent the largest ex- 
penditure of material and labor, all upon the assumption that the 
comparison is between boats of equal strength and grade of material, 
equally complete in equipment and the luxuries of the cabin, 


THE S. S. NORMA. 


HE new steamer Norma is now being planked and is aboutready to 
4 reeeivye her decks at the yard of C, &. R. Poillonin Brooklyn. We 
confess to disappointment in the vessel, It had been expected that 
emanating from the drawing board of a mechanical engineer, this 
latest addition to the steam fieet would have had some style and 
merit in model and build. The very opposite unfortunately proves 
to be the case, and one more commonplace piece of mediocrity is 
all the world is to wilmess in her Jaunching, The vessel is of course 
whittled away toa knife-like entrance, which seems tobe the sum- 
mum bonum of the ambition of all our designers and modelers of 
Etegim yachts, the has a long entrance of the usual overdone kind, 
and from midships aft is a veritable trough with a tiresome flat to 
the side. ending in a characterless stern of the ancient watermelon 
pattern borrowed trom our gunboats of twenty-five yearsago. The 
only commendable point in her design is good deadrise, and this, we 
believe, was incorporated at the instigalion of Captain Towns, who is 
now looking after the development of his future charge. The sheer 
af the boatis most unhappy; a straight amidships, a sudden turn, 
another straight and a short quick scoop skyward as the yellow pine 
plankshire butts into stem head. Another sudden bend on the quarter 
an! a slowersweep thence to the elliptical finish aft. If the swegpis un- 
fair in and out, the sheer is likewise vertically broken, Hasart and eye 
been so completely Jost in shipbuilding practice that no one ventured 
to eorrect as the frames went up, or was it merely a knot im the bat- 
tens? In point of design the Norma expresses no ruling idea, no 
pribeiple, much less ordinary unity throughout. She is devoid of 
character, much asif built by the mile and sawed off to order, or 
brought to a close when talent dried up untimely. In point of con- 
struction the whole job is of the rough and ready class. at which the 
nose of a Lloyd’s man would turn up involuntarily. The exceptional 
feature is a fairly good connection between beam ends and the top 
side as a thwartship tie procured by working two thickstrakes inside 
the shelf and bolting through all, but this is an antique method also 
horrowed from old gunboat specifications. The plank is none too 
thiek in the rough, and with one to three eighths dubbed and planed 
away to smooth up, would not receive a high rating at Lloyd’s in 
view of the material used. The yacht has white pine beams in wake 
of the cabin, and though tolerably strong throughout for limited 


rung along the coast, she is far from exhibiting the class of fine 
workmanship, material or fastenings to be expected in so large and 
costly aetructure. Wor this the builders may not be to blame. They 


build for a price, and no doubt have given fair return and fully lived 
up to their contract. f f 
hose who have seen the exquisite cabinet work put into the frame 
and fitting of Ileen, Bedouin and their sisters, will contemplate with 
regret the comparatively Taw methods pursued in this new steamer, 
But when puttied up and painted with gorgeous Linsel and layish dis- 
lay in the cabin and plenty of brass about decss, the Norma will be 
hailed at her launch by admiring crowds as “another m =ificent 
addition ta the yacht Heet of the metropolis. Concerning the power 
we cannot speak ftom personal observation, but as it is to come 
from Sullivan's bands it is pretty good guarantee that the engines 
will be fine specimens of the machinist’s art. The boiler is to be of 
steel, 915i, of fhe pattern known as the ‘Scotch’ boiler. The 
ines are compound, with 18in. stroke and cylinders 22 and 36, the 
low pressure being on top, both piston heads attached to the same 
rod. it will ba compact, occupying only 5ft, space fore and aft, and 
the upper cylinder top will scarce reach into the hatch, Itis to 
drive a wheel 8ft.in diameter, The yachtis to have an open network 
rail, and unless the hatco coamings are kept of extra height there 
wil! be considerable danger of flooding out below, though the vessel 
is likely to prove a tair performer in a sea on account of her length, 
desdrise and easy bilge. It She is uo better than others of her class 
she is probably no worse. But there is a great deal of room left for 


material improvement in every respect, She shows the novice at the 
business all over, and the sad want of supervision by 4 real expert in 
yacht design and construction, But almost anything appears to 
be good enough as yet, and until some standard sample 
of well-conceived planning and exacting eonstruction in detail ap- 
pears in our waters, few will appreciate the difference in the prevail- 
ing opinion that ‘a boat is a boat,” and that the only difference be- 
tween rough, common. short-lived “boat work’* and finished ship- 
wrighting is a margin of costin favor of one and against the other. 
We trust the wily skipper, who is to be, will keep an eye on the 
pilot-house and its bracing, and haye the well-hole, above which it is 
to be built, caulked tight from the rest of the ship for reason obvious 
enough to a sailorman of his experience. Length over all, 150ft.; 
water line, 180ft.; beam, 19ft.; hold, 12ft.: draft, 9ft.; freeboard amid- 
ships, §ft, Schooner rig. Masts, 64 and Gft., with 29ft. topmasts: 
bowsprit, 18ft. beyond stem, pe alls to brail up, having 20 and 24ft. 
gaits; keel, 10in. square, with 2in. shoe; stem and post i0in., sided; 
post, 16in. at shaft. Frames. oak and hackmatack, sided 5in, and 
moulded 8in. at heel and din. at head, double: space 27in. centers, 
and bolted with 5g iron, Clamps, yellow pine, 4 and 3in. thick, 12in. 
deep each, Plank, yellow pine, averaging aan. Tapstrakes of oak, 
Square fastened with gin. locust treenails below water line, and with 
iron spikes above, Coamings of mahogany, 4x6in., bolted down with 
$4in. iron. Accommodations include cabin, 19ft.; owner’s room, 12x 
lift., with bath and toilet and two staterooms, all aft of machinery. 
Officers and crew forward. Pilot house 7x6ft., with smoking room, 
10x8ft., attached, will be on deck forward, 


SOME FINAL GENERAL REMARKS. 
Hditor Forest and Stream: 


I quote from your reply tomy last: ‘Weight in itself, without 
consideration of form,is not productive of resistance. but form, 
Withont regard to weight, certainly is.’ According to that, no 
amount of weight will offer resistance, and a square Gan be driyen 
through the water by the same propelling force, at thu same speed, 
as @ triangle, I cannot assent to such a phere ition. Departing 
from theories, I will say in support of my claim that superior weight 
must offerthe most resistance; that upon a certain afternoon in 
August last, when the wind, though steady, was extremely light, the 
sloop Lizzie L. met the cutter Oriva off Owl’s Head, and in beating 
down the bay from that place, though never out-pointing her, did 
out-foot and wind her, and retain the lead threnghout the entire 
afternoon; that the very next afternoon Mr. Lee again brushed with 
her, and, the wind being much stronger, succeeded in regaining his 
lust laurels, which, if your theories were correct, he should never 
have surrendered, particularly when the immense disparity in size 
between the two vessels is remembered, the Oriya being 50fb. and 
some inches on loadline. against 42ft, and odd for the Lizzie L. 

_ Again. that the same sloop met the Madge both in afternoon sail- 
ing and during herraces, and invariably beat her, notably on the oc- 
casion of the first Madge-Wave contest. when the Lizzie L., carryiug 
only working topsails ran away from the cutter, which had set at 
the time the most tremendous club topsail that [have ever seen on 
a sloop of any size or design; that this superiority was so well ap- 
preciated that although the Lizzie L. four separate times offered to 
match her for any amount, she was invariably refused, on the plea 
that they were not open to any more challenges, having all They 
could attend to, although the facts were that she did afterward 
accept the challenges of the little Mistral and, I believe, the Paloma. 
The above events were all in light airs, and I am convinced were 
exhibits of the superiority of lightness, in good form, over weight, 
ditto, in summer zephyrs. 

_ That a well-formed boat, whether weighted or not, will beat a tub, 
is a foregone conclusion. Where lightness was in good form, I have 
never yet seen it defeated under the above conditions. The whole 
issue between us, then, resolves itself into the simple question as to 
what is or is not ‘good form."’ I contend that it may be secured 
without going to either extreme depth or narrowness; that a vessel 
with four beams and one-tenth her length in drafiis best suited to 
our weather and waters. Quoting the knowledge of the ancients and 
stating that there is “nothing new under the sun,** is begging the 
issue. I claim that the more sensible of our yachtsmen (who were in 
the minority, of course, as common sense never was “common” on 
any topic) were fully aware, many years before Anglo-mania-crazed 
Americans, ¢ither in yachts or manners, that a ‘skimming dish’? with 
sandbags was not practical sailing; that there were a number of sloops 
in New York Bay of 50ft. and under, prior to "79, with as much draft 
as I now recommend; that you cannot rightfully claim ‘‘double-head 
Tig” az an exclusively ‘‘cutter principle; that double-head rig was in 
use by sloops before cutters were known, and that cutters themselves 
are simply variations of a type known as sloops, which had a previous 
existence and from which they were evolved. You say inregard to 
this that “‘no hard and fast line can be drawn,” but at the same time 
leave your reader to infer that, after all, these so-called sloops now 
building are really cutters in disguise, which the advent of cutters has 
created and which would never have existed but for that advent. I 
admit that the cutters did much to accentuate the revulution; but, at 
the same time, I claim that it was simply the accentuation of a move- 
ment already started, and 1 prove my proposition by pointing to the 
lists of the New York and Atlantic Yacht C ubs, published in January, 
Bey ue show quite a respectable fleet of sloops with plenty of 

aft. 

“Wxtremes are dangerous,’’ is an old and well tried proverb very 
generally known, and as long as yachtsmen can face the same 
weather with moderate draft as they can with extreme draft, and at 
a much less expense for the pleasure, they will surely continue to do 
so. Yousay that ‘mentioning prices of yachts out of hands is not a 
fair comparison,” and that ‘‘long after the Gracie is broken up for 
firewood the Bedouin will haye fair markeb yalue.’’ I contend that 
prices are the only comparison possible if we wish to get at the item 
of expense which is certainly ‘‘a consummation devotedly to be 
wished.”’ I contend that a first-class sloop, which shall be complete 
in every detail, of the very best construction, of the same loadline 
length as the Bedouin, can be built, ballasted and rigged for one-half 
of the Bedouin’s cost. That when so built she will be equal to the 
same exigencies, and remain so for as many years. That the Bedouin 
may still be good when the Gracie is broken up, is quite possible; the 
fact that the Gracie was already a very old boat when the Bedouin’s 
keel was laid, making the proposition all the more probable. You 
statethat the Grayling was proclaimed as ‘‘uncapsizable while on the 
stocks." I never heard any one make such a claim, and I witnessed 
her construction, discussed her model with her owner, designer and 
a whole host of other yachtsmen. Mr. Fish asked for a light draft 
boat, and knew that it could be capsized when he askedfor it. He 
has since admitted to me that he capsized her through over-confidence 
im her ability to take the flaw of wind, the strength of which he did 
not foresee, and I firmly believe that the Bedouin even, struck by the 
same flaw and handled in the same way, would either have capsized 
or carried away her mast, Ido not believe in the uncapsizahility of 
any kind of craft. A cutter, in Wngland, foundered abt her moorings in 
a gale of wind last spring without a rag of sail on her; and there are 
conditions under which a man-of-war can be turned over, vide the 
Royal George, which capsized at anchor with a puff from off the 
hills. 

I notice in your last issue a statement that Captain Joe Ellsworth 
admitted that the Fortuna had the Ggelet cup race in hand, and only 
lost it through carrying “improper” sail. Iam inclined to think that 
Captain Joe Ellsworth may have admutted that improper sail had 
something to do with Fortuna's defeat, but Iam positive that he 
never considered that the sole cause for it, for before Fortuna set 
the maintopmast staysail, at the very <instant that, in rounding 
the Sow and Pigs Lightship, he learned she had but 12 minutes lead 
he expressed his confidence in the Montauk’s ability to win, and could 
not have founded that confidence on anything but his belief in the 
superiority of his vessel, which was duly verified, 

also notice from ''Hand Lead,’ some quotations as to depths of 
frequented harbors, That such depths exist Ihaye no reason to 
doubt, but that they only exist, in the majority of instances, in the 
narrowest channels, which 2 yacht ‘ton the wind"? could not keepin, 
is also true, and I still claim that there are twenty yacht-fre- 
quented harbors between here and Marblehead, that vessels of 10ft, 
craft find the greatest difficulty in entering, and even aiter entrance, 
are compelled to lay too far off shore for any convenience in hailing, 
ete. Yachts cannot be sailed within their own widths like steamboats, 
and unless a channel is 100yds. wide, itis of very little practical use 
to them, and if a yacht must ‘‘come to’* beyond hail of the shove she 
might as well remain outside of the harbor altogether as far as con- 
yerence is concerned. _ FRANKLYN BaAgsFORD.— 

[Mr. Bassford’s mention of square and triangle is unfortunate, his 
parallel being directly opposed to the meaning our language con- 
veyed. We slggest a stuoy of naval architecture, which would give 
a clearer conception on many heads and prevent such absurd guess- 
ing as to the possibility of the Bedouin’s capsizing, and the citation 
of the Royal George, who, with her topsides and Lhree fiers of guns, 
all run across to leeward for listing the vessel to_clean bottom, pre- 
sents the yery antithesis toa cutter’s stability, Itappears that Mr. 
Bassford has known it all right along, has always been familiar with 
and appreciated the principles of a cutter and herrig, and that ib 
was quite impossible for him to learn anything new by recent agita- 
tion. This is all highly complimentary to Mr, Bassford, only he musf 
not confound himself with the public. Tt has taken Pormsr AND 
SrrEAM fiye long years of the hardest kind of fighting to force from 
the public de facto recognition of cutter princi les, old as Mr, Bass- 
ford: properly claims their origin to be. No one has Eee re 


the “discoverer” of enttérs or the principles they are 


eer 


the early birds uff f 


since they are based on the laws of nature, which mankind 


has been learning to master piecemeal through a ab 
many centuries. hat we have done, however, is to hasten if not 
actually compel, recognition of those laws in practice, for which the 


complete change in yachting architecture in America stauds witness, _ 


and we only regret that in that hard battle we should have been 
obliged to work without the aid of a gentleman of Mr. Bassford’sripa 
and far reaching knowledge which comes hefore the public w little 
late inthe season. We also regret to find Mr. Bassford giving vent, 
unintentionally no doubt, to an exceedingly stupid burst of buncombe 
borrowed from the yulgar, in his reference to “erazy Anglo-manii.” 
The national origin of the cutter ought to be a matter o perfect in- 
difference to so astute a philosopher as Mr, Bassford, for he must 
feel that the sciences and arts are international in their scope. Does 
Mr. Bassford repudiate the multiplication table because such for- 
saken wretches as the English subseribe to itsintricacies? And in 
deigning to accept wicked English precedence in that respect, is he 
not as guilty of "crazy Anglo-mania™’ as others to whom the experi- 
ences and settled results of the first and oldestand most thorough 
yachting nation appeal more enticingly than the blind, initiatory 
foundering of the raw material in America? with whom the 
“pairiotism” of a fresh and green lubber is still deemed 4 
full equivalent, offsetting the mature insight of specialists 
and experts? That large displacement can be driven as 
fastas light weight and with no greater sail has been proven by 
innumerable matches here and in Boston, and this the irrelevant 
case of the Lizzie L. and Oriva, with the evidence from one side 
only cannot in the least ee Theory offers a sound explanation, 
and itis so simple that such a trifle ought not to haye escaped a close 
and comprekensive student like our correspondent. With large 
weight you can afford toclip beam and still carry sail. Clipping 
beam decreases resistance of form, as the form of least resistance is 
manifestly a plane having no thickness or beam at all. But licht 
weight demands beam to carry sufficient sail, and clumsier propor- 
tions hayeto beforeed through. Hence, with equal talent in the 
shaping of a pay and light boat, one will gain where the other 
loses and vice versa, sa that, within bounds, both present like possi- 
bilities for speed with important special reservations in favor of 
weight. First, in light airs, the greater momentum of the heavy 
boat maintains speed through flaws and let-ups. Witness the man- 
ner in which a loaded boat holds her way and the sudden checking 
of alight catamaran the moment they pass under a lee. Seeond, 
the heavy boat can be laid higher and edged up with more notice- 
able benefit, Third, she can be luffed out on the jight boat's a uarter 
and take her wind without fail, as the light boat losés way firso. 
Fourth, the heavy boat is always more certain in stays. Fifth, 
she will headreach in short work, Sixth, in a sea and light 
wind she is steadier and gains in speed; as witness last tall 
matches outside the Hook. Seyenth, in a heavy sea her weight 
rams her along when a light boat will “break up’ and pound or 
spank. Highth, you can press and carry on with heavy weight on 
proper form to good purpose, which you cannot with light weight 
and the required beam, without crowding andchoking up. Mr. Bass- 
ford's example of Lizzie L. and Oriya is not good comparison. The 
Lizzie, being much the smaller of the two, simply found the wind 
stronger in proportion to. her size than Oriva. Had the test been 
made between two boats ot about like size, but differing in displace- 
ment, asin many of the official races, his inferences would have 
been sounder. Did Mr. Basstord see Oriva tan the famous Vixen out 
of sight in the light wind of the second Seawanhaka Corinthian 
match last year? That is an offset at once to his own particular 
observation; and how does Mr, Bassford know what were the inten- 
tions of those aboard the Oriva when he met ber in the Lizzie? His 
conclusions are much too hast), made upon trivial evidence, and in 
contradiction to the mutch broader fiela for deduction the past ses- 
sons as a whole have afforded. Beyond this we do not care to refer 
to our correspondent’s letter. For all the other points he briugs up 
answers can be found by the ream throughout our files for fire years, 
The subject has been thrashed so bare that we cannot publish any 
further reiterations of the issue. It must be as consoling to Mr. 
Bassford to know that his ideas of more depth and many other cutter 
attributes, to which he has so long been favorably inclined, are now 
being generally followed, as it is to us to see our whole fleet approach- 
ing step by step to the highest ideal of naval architecture, the well- 
planned, well-proportioned, well-built and well-equipped cutter, | 


‘ 


THETIS.—The Boston Courier has the following concerning this 
new compromise between cutter and sloop: “The yacht Thetis, now 
building by Smith, of City Point, for Mr. Harry Bryant, will spread 
about 3,000 yards of canyas. Her mast will be 61ft. fram deck to top- 
mast, and topmast willbe 45ft. Main boom 60ft., gaff 36ft,, leech of 
mainsail 72ft., jibstay 72ft., and forestay 58ff. Her topsail will have 
a 45ft, pole for racing, and 80ft, Gin. for working sail. Jib 40ft.; S(t. 
from mast to end of bowsprit, with 28ft. outboard. All told she will 
have mainsail, jib, 2 jbtopsails, 2 gafitopsails, fore staysail wihh a, 
spinnaker, with 109ft. on outer leech, 97ft. on inner leech with 72fp. 
pole, 520yds, of canvas. The dimensions of the Thetis are: 7O0ft. 
over all. 64ft, water line, beam 19ft., draft without board &ft.. with 
board 18ft.; displacement 66 tons, 15 tons lead on keel. Im model she 
is similar to the Shadow, owned by Mr. Bryant’s brother, but has less 
beam and greater depth. Her frame is of oak, din. sided and moulded, 
fin. at keeland 4in.at head. Plate timbers in one length, l5ft, long 
by Sin,; floors of wrought iron 54$x134in,, with arms 4fy. long. She is 
a compromise, narrower than any other sloop; weizht on keel creater 
than on any yacht of same Jength,and draft greater perhaps than 
any keel boat of American design,” 

SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN ¥. C.—There is a vhance of set- 
tling upon four or more dates for special races among the fourth 
class cabin yachts of the club, course to be triangular in New York 
harbor. A steam yacht has been tendered by the commodore as 
committee boat, This plan ismost commendable, and we hope be- 
fore long to see such matches fixed for every month from May to 
November. The expense would be nominal only, and the big est 
score for the season could be rewarded with a championship emblem 
or pennant. 

MEASUREMENT.—A gentleman writes he is sorry we bave given 
up bulk measurement. e haye not given it up, but recognize that 
with the prevailing want of knowledge, it is no use trying to push 
what people are not yet able to contemplate from a philosophical 
point, and that the best way to have a bad law repealed is to eniorce 
it. By the way, what has become of measiirement and the America 
Cup since Forest AND STREAM dropped them? Our contemporaries 
dried up wonderfully quick, 

THE FISHING FLEET, TOO.—The move for greater depth and 
less beam to the Gloucester fishing fleet appears to be patheting 
force. That some change ought to be made to prevent the trequent 
disasters by capsizing, all hands aréagreed. Inspiteof the adulation 
bestowed upon the fishing fleet, there is vast room fogimproyvement 
to their models and rig in the light of modern knowledge of naval 
architecture. 

SALEM BAY Y. C,—Officers for the year: Commodore, Willard 
Winslow; Vice-Commodore, G. W. Mansfield; Rear Commodore, 
Gordon Dexter; Secretary, Robin Damon. Regatta Committes— 
John Newcomb, W. Winslow, H. A. Brooks, A. M. Liebseh, G. W. 
Mansfield. The club has voted to join the New England Yacht Rac- 
ing Association, and has appointed G. W. Mansfield as its delegate. 


THE HELEN,—This is the name of the new schoonet’ built by 
Alonzo Smith, of Islip. for Mr. Middfetou, of Philadelphia, She is 
Toft, over all, 62ft, water line, 21ft. beam, and 5ft. Gin, dratt, without 
board, Mainmast, 63ft.;foremast, 61ft.; méinboom, 44ft,; gaff, 2oft.; 
foreboom, 2Ift.: gaff, 20ft.: topmasts, 30 and 29ft.; bowsprit outboard, 
20£t,; jibboom beyond cap, 16rt. 

SLOWLY WAKING UP.—The influemce of ForEsT anD STREAM 
upon its minor contemporaries is great. Tt has moved one of its Jilile 
friends to boldly declare for racing at sea, though the same little 
bantling hitherto fought the idea tooth and nau, so far as bantlnes 
can fight, They will get to cruising outside by-and-by, as last as a 
new fies ean percolate castiron. 

THE PROSPECTIVE MATCH,—Series of races between Ileen and 
Hildegarde have been arranged subject ta acceptance of Mr. Padel- 
ford. Mr. Wm. #. Islin backs Ileen for $1,000. Seawanhaka Corin- 
thian Y. C. rules. The match will cause great interest, as upon the 
result hinges the construction of some new cutters like Ieen. 

REAL YACHTING.—The Meta, 3714ft, long, is hound on a eruise to 
Norfolk the latter part of April, with her owner, Mr. Suydain, and 
Mr. Franklyn Bassford, the marine artist, The Meta will receive 
double head rig, and with companion made watertight, ought fo 
prove equal to the occasion wilh her 5ft, of draft. 

2 NA—This clipper has topped her boom for the Mediter- 
Mreue yi: sailed pet Qowes Yeh, 27, bound for the big bag ot 
ducats waiting lo be scooped iu the Nice international. It will he a 
very funny day if Annasona does nov land the riches. 

FORTUNA.—Mr. A. Cary Sinith is authorized te deny the nntrnths 
cireulated concerning Fortuna’s beheavior at sea, She did vor strain 
or leak, and proved 4 grandsea boat under cireuimastances whish @ 
eentearboard would scarcely have outlived. ~ 


NAMOUNA—was expected at 

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R —Thi has become the property of Mr. Henry E. | would prefer 15ft,x8tin., or even larger. Tf compelled toadopt ont 
pIRITQN. this seh ae eae Yo Beoperty. of et size for ull men, all places and all purposes, there ys no question bu- 


that the 14ft.x30in. or 3lin, would be the best all-around canoe. Hap 
pily, however, the canoeist may suit himself from: among the many 
sizes, models and builders. 

T may say in conclusion that I build more canoes either 14ft.<27in., 
or pnder, than all others, Probably because there are so many more 
miles of inland waters than seaboard, RusHTon, 


SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y, C.—Annual club dinner at Del- 
monico’s to-night at 7 P, M. 

DAUNTLESS—Left Marseilles for Villefranche Feb. 29, and was 
expected at Nice March 3. 


_ MONTAUK.—This schooner arrived at St. Pierre, Martinique, March 
19, from St. Kitts. 


LAKE Y. R. A.—Meeting has been called for March 29 at Toronto. | BOATING TRIPS ON NEW ENGLAND RIVERS. 


MNHE canoeist who reads Mr. Fellows’ interesting little book will 
wonder why he did not choose a canoe for such work, and wil 
feel a desire to convert him from the oar tothe paddle. The trips 
described were made on the Nashua, Housatonie, Sudbury, Concord 
and Merrimac rivers, and were of that sort most enjoyable to the 
true canoeist, the lazy loitering on narrow streams, vrei in quiet 
nooks, continual surprises, obstacles to overcome in the shape of 
dams and shallows, excursions on shore to visit points of interest, 
and with sufficient work in rapids to give occasional excitement, in 
fact the cruising described by MacSregor, and for which no boat is 
so well suited as his Rob Roy. Mr. Fellows seems to have been un- 
fortunate in his craft, owing to the leakage, and his experiences with 
railways and express companies wi | awaken the sympathies of many 
ecanoeists who have suffered similarly. Without falling into a mere 
list of stopping places and obstructions, or impairing its interest, 
minute details are given concerning the waters traversed, and it will 
prove an accurate pilot to all following the same course, as maps are 
given of all the rivers mentioned. We hope that when Mr. Feilows 
next goes afloat it may be in a canoe, and that we can welcome him 
some day mnder the A. C. A. flag, forin spite of the heterodox oars 
on the cover, his book is worthy of a place in every canoeist’s library. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


Winter Camp-fire.—Sixth meeting, Wednesday, April 2,8 P, M., No. 
28 East Fourteenth street, 


ROB ROY C. C. OF INDIANAPOLIS. 


RGANIZED June, 1883, with twenty memhers. J. B. Morrison, 
Commodore; lL. M. Vance, Vice-Commodore; Frank Vater, 
Keeper of the Log and Treasurer; Signal, a pomted burgee 10in.x 
1bin., cardinal red field with the words, “Rob Roy Q, C,,"’ in letters of 


ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CANOEING. 


[T might indeed be possible to fix to a date when the first canoe 

club was started in America, and also to record the names of 
those who took part in the organizing of clubs._ Boating in various 
degrees dates back many years; for instance, to Noah, who built his 
ark to yery correct nautical proportions. But the birth of canoeing in 
these times dates back to the day when McGregor first stepped into 
his Rob Roy. 

Yet there are many who “‘canoed”’ long before the Rob Roy was 
thought of; who paddled around in birchbarks, presumably for hunt- 
ing purposes first, and occasionally for the pure love of being on the 
water. These old stagers no doubt took up the idea when it came 
over, and possibly such an old hand as ‘‘Nessmuk’’ may haye been the 
first to have a canoe built and covered in with a wooden deck, It is 
easy to see that a sail would soon follow. Two or three companions 
become interested, and after, say. one season’s desultory drifting 
around a club is formed, and clubs beget clubs. 4 

Let us take a trip across to the old couniry for a few hours and vislt 
some of the clubs there. The Royal C. C, has a membership of over 
(00. Now, one would imagine that there must be at least 50 per cent, 
of that 600 sufficiently enthusiastic to turn outfor the challenge cup 
race; but, with its members scattered over a large area, and no cen- 
tral club house, is it any wonder that there are not more than, say, 
one dozen who turn out for the cup? The cup course at Hendon. too, 
is like—what it really is—a fish pond in very confined limits, Yet, to 
wake all allowances, where could the Royal C, C, find a more suitable 

ace? 
si Some of the R. C, C. branches are more happily situated for a large 
entry at races. The Cambridge branch had eleven entries for a 
quarter mile race in ‘67, and on no occasion is there any record 
of ge one-half per cent, of the membership entering for the 
cup. y? 

Since we are in Fngland Ist us yisit other clubs. The eastern 
braneh of the R. C. OC. at Hull has a fairish cruising ground, though 
awkwardly hampered by mud and sand banks. It has a few 
active and enthusiastic members and a fair membership, but its per- 
centage is similar to the parent club. The northern branch, or now 
the Mersey C. C., is still better situated, and evidently more enthu- 
siastic as to eutries for races, Go further north a couple of hundred 
miles and visit the Clyde and Forth C.C. The Forth C. G. is con- 
veniently situated, but rather exposed to south and southerly winds. 
It has a fair membership. and an extra ayerage of interested mem- 
bers. 

Go ’eross country and visit the Clyde. This club has the finest, 
loveliest and most romantic situation anywhere. Ils elub house is 
only a few yards from the sea even at low water, Jt has a most 
sheltered launching slip, a pretty fair membership, and a very high 
percentage of active members, With a roll of about thirty-five, itis 
not uncommon for 10 or 12 to go off on a cruise together or enter for 
arace, Records are in existence of an attempt to get up an inter- 
national canoe club cruise, at which not more than eight took part 
in. Now let us return to the States. 

There is aman in America by name «f Bishop who took a leading 
part in getting up an international canoe club cruise, and «mark the 
result—_twenty-three canoeists meet at Lake George and organize in 
1880, At the last meet of this Association there were something like 
forty prizes raced for, with as many entries as ten fora single race 
from an attendance of 300 canoeists. English canoeists seem afraid 
to take their canoes, say 50 or 100 miles, to attend a meet, while here 
an average American canoeist thinks no more of going, canoe and 
all, 600 miles or more for a ‘meet’ of three days’ duration, But, 
hold, we forgot. 

There is one English canoeist, to wit, C. W Bush, of the Royal 
C, O, and the Mersey C. C., who took his canoe to Canada with him. 
Three cheers for Bush—a man among men, [ff is doubtful if he 
would haye done so had he not been a Mersey man; but where would 
a Mersey man not g0? 

Now what is the result of the institution of the A. C, A.? A healthy 
growth of canoe clubs all over the States, from Cape Cod to the 
Golden Horn, from Key West to the St. Lawrence, including of course 
our good friends the Canadians. 

To be amember of a canoe club is no mean attainment. Their 
doors are not open to everybody, and a would-be member requires 
certain attributes to recommend him to membership. Then again, 
there is the club house; and how different from clubs usually called 
‘the elub.*? You cannot buy a drink or a smoke in any of our clubs. 
You don’t find any signs of intoxication, unless it be the effects of 
exhilaration on the water. There is no dawdling around the club 
room, but a sprightly hurry to get afloat and away, ora very pos- 
sible and probable dissertation and explanation on anew kink ina 
rope or a wrinkle in a sail. You ask did Isay healthy? Of course it 
is, and for proof look at the boys; speak to them, walk or paddle 
with them, eat with them, and then hear them snore! 

Then agam, apart from clubs, there are the new winter cruises 
now becoming popular (like an epidemic) all over the country. The 


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eold thereon. The club is governed by six standing committees of 
three members each, appointed by the commodore at the annual 
meeting of the club. The committees are: Financial Committee, 
Inspection Committee, Entertainment Committee, Regatta and Race 
Committee, Cruising Committee, Membership Committee. A series 
of meetings is now being held once every two weeks, for the purpose 
of discussing matters relating to canoeing.- 


LOCAL CANOE MEETS. 


je willbe seen, by a notice in another column, that the Whitehall 

C. G. have already taken action to arrange for a local Meet next 
summer at Lake George, in connection with the Lake George C. C.; 
canoeists about* New York and the Hudson are ready for a meet at 
Newburgh on May 30, and the Hartford and Springfield clubs will 
unile with other neighboring canoeists at some point on the Connec- 
ticut on the same date, and several Hastern canoeists have proposed 
a meet in June on the Merrimack River, 

While there are a number of eanoeistsin New England, they are 
not united, there are but few clubs, and some such movement as this 
is necessary to awaken them and draw them together, The Vesper 
Boat Club, of Lowell, bas a number of canoeists among its members, 
and some of these are ready to stait the movement, Itis proposed 
to hold a camp between Lowell and Lawrence, where there are many 
beautiful sites. Canoeists can center at the former place, paddling 
down to the camp, continuing laterto Lawrence, Haverhill 18 miles. or 
Newburyport, 86 miles. The Boston & Lowell and Boston & Maine 
railroads can be taken from Lowell and Lawrence to ail parts of 
New England. The expenses of such a meet would be very 
small, rates could probably be agranged with the railroads, 
4 iew tents could could be hired for those who were unprovided, and 
the canoeists would need about threedays’ rations each while yin 
camp. Canoeists throughout New England who favor the scheme 
are requested to write to FoREST AND STREAM, Making any suggestions 
that may occur to them. Tor the first year racing may well be 
omitted, the main object bemg to promote unity and sociability 
among canoeicts. 

With these four meets the Hast is well provided for, but there are 
many canoeists west of Pittsburgh who cannot attend the A, ©, A, 
or local meets, and it is highly desirable that they also sLould unite 
in some central spot, and we shall be glad to hear also from their 
representatives, With them itis more important than in the Hast, as 
canoeists there will attend the A, C. A. meet, while they cannot do so 
on account of distance. 

Canada also remains to be heard from. Do not all who were pres- 
ent last year wish to go to Stony Lake again on Dominion Day’ 

Such meetings all over the country can accomplish work that the 
A. C, A. cannot do in arousing local int-rest, making converts among 
boating men and campers out, and increasing the spread of canoeing 
generally. 


THE ALL-AROUND CANOE. 


HAT is the best all-around canoe? Is it the canoe that will just 
suit everybody tor everywhere and everything? If so, it will 
never be built. 

Tam yery much interested in the canoe articles published in Yorust 
AND STREAM. 

First—because I am an old woodsman, having taken my first les- 
sons in canoeing in a heavy, cranky dug-out, or the still more tick- 
lish spruce bark canoe, where it was necessary to be constantly on 
guard in fisuing and in shooting, lest, when a big one bit and you 
siruck him hard, or when perhaps your chum had put a couple of 
drams too much powder in the old inuzzleloader just to see it kick 
you, some careless moyement should spill you out into four feet of 
water and ten more of soft mud, 1 can therefore appreciate the light, 
steady, beautiful cratt of to-day. 

Second—Because f am a builder of these modern canoes. Itisasa 
builder that I have studied the points and obtained the information 
which enables me to speak understandingly on this subject, My 
correspondence numbers about five thousand letters per year; of 
this number several hundred go into details, describing “the canoe I 
want” or “the boats usedin this locality.*”” Some contain absurdities, 
some theories, and some sound information and practical advice. 
Thus it will be seen that the professional builder has not only his own 
ideas and experience, but those of hundreds of others, and he is con- 
Sheth trying experiments either on his own account or in building 

o order, ’ 

He builds a 10ft, 6in.x2Gin. canoe weighing 15 to 20 pounds for a 
“Nessmuk,”’ and is told that itis the perfect canoe. He builds an i8ft, 
xiléft. sneakbos for ‘‘Sojum,” and that is the thing. He builds a 
Stetla Maris for the river cruiser, and a 15x31 Princess or larger Pearl 
for the seaboard, and both suit. 
+» “Nessmuk” isa heht-weight veteran well versed in ‘‘woodcraft.’” 
aSmany of the readers of the Forest AND STREAM well know, and 
ean canoe is ample for him, while a 10-pound one will do yery 
well. 


tive way of investing the fly about dollar that could be instituted. 
But who else is benefited? Why, canoe builders, who, were it not 
for canoeing, would have possibly not been so well known. ‘There’s 
Rushton, Smith, James, Waters, Herald, Rogers, and a host of well- 
known names, who lend, or rather give, their help to the eyergrow- 
ing cause, and who could tell an interesting tale about “Show they 
commenced to build,” were they only to take the trouble. But they 
have not time. You boys all keep them too busy building, WreEn. 


CANOE VS. SNEAKBOX. 


Editor Forest and. Stream: 

The owner of ‘‘Bojum’s” old canoe is quite right in declaring for 
the canoe as a ecruisme boat. Nobody claims the sneaacbox to be 
better as an all-round boat. Werelto cruise from the headwaters 
of the Potomac to Point Lookout, ou Chesapealse Bay, | should use a 
canoe, for it could be easily carried around the falls of the upper 
river, would be pleasanter to paddle along the stretches of smooth 
water above Washington, and carefully handled, could be sailea with 
safety where the Potomac is from five to ten miles in width, although 
it would perhaps be a little wet when a heavy sea was on. 

But if 1 were to cruise from this city down the Potomac and ex- 
plore the length and breadth of the Chesapeake as well, I should use 
the sneakbox. When you say that ‘‘a boat of 18x5left. is larger and 
should carry more, sail faster and be stiffer than one of 142}sft.,"* 
you state the very reason why the box is superior for wide waters. 

‘Boats of the same size * cannot be considered in the sneakbox-canoe 
question, for when you decrease the box’s beam to that of the canoe 
the former is no longer a sneakbox. There used to bea 12!4tt. sneak- 
box somewhere around New York owved by ‘“‘Snark,** and if he has 
it yet [presume he would accommodate Dr. Neidé with a race from 
Throge’s Neck or Flushing to New Hayen, or perhaps even to Mon- 
tauk; but the editor surely wouldn’t expect ‘Snark’s” 4fb. of beam 
to be reduced to the dimensions of thatof the doctor's canoe. I 
admit that the merits of the two boats could be thoroughly tested by 
cruising together, but not that racing together would be a fair test, 
unless several races were had under various conditions of wind and 
water, current, tide, etc., and “a little wind and water’? won't settle 
the question either, Mr, Editor, for on the wide waters where we put 
our trust in the sneakbox there is always a good deal of wind. as 
br, Neidé ever made a practical test of the sneakbox on wide waters 
like Ontario or any of the great Jakes, Long Island Sound, South, 
Barnegat, Delaware or Chesapeake Bays? SENECA. 

Wasaineron, March 10, * 

[For a fair comparison of model it is necessary to consider boats of 
the same size, and if, for instance, the 18x5%4 sneakbox be compared 


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winter camp-fires are certainly the most enjoyable and remunera- } 


with an 18x3!4 canoe (the same proportions as a 14x30 canoe) there is 
no doubt as to the superiority of the latter on every point, except 
draft, This comparison would not be unfair, as the depth of one 
would offset the extra beam of the other, and similarly the Snark, 
1244x4, would be well matched against a 16x31 cance. Perhaps 
“Snark” can tell, from previous races, what chances the box would 
haye in such a race. The following letter offers an opportunity to 
settle the question as far as it can be done by asinglerace. If the 
time and place mentioned are not convenient to Mr, Wild, no doubt a 
race could be arranged nearer home, say in New York Bay.] 


A PROMPT ACCEPTANCE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

In reply to your correspondent, Geo, H, Wild, of Red Bank, iu to- 
day’s issue, I hereby offer to sail the canoe Guenn, 15ft.x3lin., N.Y. 
OC. C., at the Newburgh meet on Decoration Day against his 12,6x3,10 
sneakbox. Racéto be singichanded. No shifting ballast—triangular 
course at least three miles. Sailing regulations of New York C. C. to 
govern match for a mug; or colers as may be preferred, Other 
entries permitted at $1 entrance fee. 

Nnw York, March 20. yu. WHrITLock, Com. N.Y.C.C. 


Editor Forest and Stream. A 
As to the sneakbox vs. canoe I pm decidedly of the opinion, as 
“Bojum’” says, that a sneakbox will drown out any other boat of her 
inches. 1 haye seen them cross our bay to windward when a 20f6. 
catboat dare not show her nose out of harbor. The bay is five miles 
wide, and with a norwester there is considerable sea. E.. BP. 
Toms River, N. J. 


KNICKERBOCKER C. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

The Knickerbocker C, C. intend removing from their present loca- 
tion at the foot of Eighty-sixth street on or about the 1st of May next. 
Their house has long been inconveniently small in proportion to their 
number, and for nearly twelve months they haye been considering 
the advisability of securing enlarged quarters. They have finally 
sueceeded in obtaining the house belonging to the late Resolute Boat 
Club, at the foot of 152d street on the Hudson River. The building is 
large and commodious, capable of accommodating fifty canoes, with 
a large upper meeting room, and is well supplied with racks, lockers, 
closets aud other conveniences. The original cost of the erection was 
in the neighborhood of $2.200. : 

By private subscription among the members the purchase money 
has been raised, and we shall be enabled to enter it in May without 
one cent remaining due and withall the preliminary expenses of 
painting, fitting up, ete,, paid for in full. Itis situated in a sheltered 
nook on one of the broadest and most beautiful parts of the Hudson, 
In the neighborhood are many points of interest to the lover of the 
picturesque and the commanding site of the spot renders it peculiarly 
adapted to clib meets and regattas. ¢ ¥ 

The Knickerbocker C, C.isin a most prosperous and promising 
condition. Jt numbers twenty-seven active members, with thirty-six 
canoes. Many new boats are being built, and the universal] activity 
and interest displayed in regard to better models, new centerboards, 
improved sailing rigs, unheard of camping kits, and phenomenal 
water-tights promises 4 vigorous and enthusiastic summer campaign. 
We hope to send a fair representation toour coming local meet, and 
believe the blue diamond on its red field will foat from many 4 mast- 
head this autumn at the Thousand Island. The elub has lately been 
duly incorporated under the State Laws of New York, the board of 
trustees for the present year being the lately elected officers: Messrs. 
Brentano, Greenleaf, Martin, Sullivan and Fowler. 

We expect a large accession of new members as the season opens, 
many haying expressed their desire to join us. We xare one of the 
four oldest clubs in the United States, the second in size, and the 
second as a corporate body, but we trust to be second to none in 
the interest we feel in canoeing, and I may add, second to none in the 
hearty welcome we shal] extend to brother canoeists and members of 
sister clubs who may visit us in our new home. 

. E, Power, Sec’y K. C. C, 


Cc. 


LARGE VS. SMALL CANOES. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

A. correspondent asks why the Stella Maris could not be built a little 
broader and deeper and remain about the same weight,» Certainly. 
Kvery one knows that it is only the material that weighs, and it takes 
no more to build a house 3040 two stories high than another 2ux*4d() 
and one'story high, A fat man will weigh no more than a lean one 
if their height be equal. 

Seriously, however, if you add to the capacity of a canoe by add- 
ing to either length, depth or beam, you must increase thegveight. 

BUILDER, 


VESPER BOAT CLUB.—The annual meeting of the Vesper Boat 
Club was held atthe American House Mareh 12, with a good attend- 
ance of members and Vice-President Harry A. Brown m tne chair. 
Report of lastmeeting read and accepted. Tie treasurer's report 
followed, and showed the clubio be ina highly satisfactory finan- 
cial condition, Receipts for the yearswere $1,731.88: expenditures, 
$1,708.41, leaving a balance of $238.47. Canoeing is becomiug a promi- 
nent feature of the club work, and with about twenty-five canoes in 
the boat house, it may be advisable to form a canoe division and 
open communication with the American Canoe Association. Officers 
were then elected, as follows: President, Paul Butler; Vice-Presi- 
dents, Harry A. Brown and Fred P. Marble; Secretary, Walter U. 
Lawson; Treasurer, Kalph F. Brazer; Directors, C. P. Nichols, A. G, 
Swapp and C. &. Edwards. Austin K. Chadwick and R. F. Hemen- 
way were appointed a committee to draft resolutions of thanks ta 
Mr. Knapp for his valuable gift. E,S. Sherman and W. P. Kennard 
were elected auditors. Adjourned.—Lowell Courier. 


THE WARREN ©. C. is now fully organized and ready for ex- 
ercise and recreation. Jt members are; William Sehnur, Captain; 
W.C. Warner, Mate; Willis Cowan, Purser; J.P. Jefferson, W. H. 
Johnson, J. A. Cadwallader, C. H. Noyes, Fred Morck, W. A. Greaves, 
B. Kittinger, W. A. Talbott, Ed. Wetmore. The club will be repre- 
sented at the annual ‘‘meet’? of the American Association at tae 
Thousand Islands next August, and expects to increase its member- 
ship this summer.— Warren (Pa.)-Mail. 


WHITEHALL C, C.—At a special meeting of the Whitehall Canoe 
Club a committee, consisting of f, 0, Cooke, W. W. Cooke, Jr., and 
K. A, Greenough, was appointed to make arrangements for a local 
meet on Lake George next summer, They will actin connection 
with the committee of the Lake George Canoe Club appointed for the 
same purpose.—HAWEKEYH. 


Answers ta Correspondents. 


ES No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


W. M., Roslindale, Mass.—Fer full particulars address W. A. 
Stearns, Amherst, Mass. 


R. C. H., Philadelphia, Pa.—Watch him and correct him eyery time 
that he commits the fault. 


H. G., Rathrun, I. T.—What is the best work pubilshed on breaking 
adog? Ans, ‘“fraining vs, Breaking,** price $1. We can furnish it, 

0. G.L., Comstock, Mich.—Would like the latest Michigan laws 
yeu can give. Ans. You will have to write to the Secretary of State 
for copies of bills. 

J. B. W., Harrisburg, Pa—We know of no maker of tubed shells, 
and presume that you would be obliged to have them specially manu- 
fachired for yourself. 


S. H, F.—Do not think marine glue can be obtained in this country. 
Try the layge paint and varnish dealers, Pierce or Raynor. Filton 
street, or along South street. 


J. §., Brooklyn.—Please let me know the address of some one that 
has game chickens for sale, also common pigeons, Aus. Write to 
J. &. W. Van Wyck, New Hamburg, Dutchess county, N. Y. 


_ FR, B., Collingville, Conn.—What is the eustomasy way of choos- 
ing referees in gun clubs? Isit usual tc choose them for the season 
or at each practice? Ans. Generally chosen for each match, 


M.S. #.—Cost of single-hand yacht of 2ift. loadline, from $700 to 
$1,000, according to build and equipment. Pairly good boat ot mod- 
ere: type can be built for less if content with small outfit and plain 

nish. 


Constant READERS, Old Subscribers, True Sportsmen, and others, 
who forget to sign their names to their questions and communica- 


tions are respectfully referred to the notice af the head of this 
column. 


F. K., Holyoke, Mass.—In loading buckshot, is it right to place a 
wad befween-each layer of shot, or only one wad, the same as in or- 
Gar OR Det Ans, Hither way wili do, The first is said to be 
very good, 


Buack AnD Tan, Dedham, Mass,—1. Farrar’s Pan was by Dick and 


out of Thomas's Fan. %, Grouse (E.K.C.8.B.) was by Rock and out 
of Floss. 3, There are ten volumes of the English Stud Book, The 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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second volume is out of print, you can procure the others and also 
pet Gazette of the secretary, 6 Cleveland row, St. James, London, 


columns. 


J.C, F., Brooklyn.— Will you oblige several readers by telling what 
kind of fish, if any, are contained in Lake Ronconcoma, L.1.; what 
Season is best, and what bait or fly to use? Ans. Black bass are the 
cial fish, the best season is June to October, and the baits and 

les are the usual ones for that fish, There are other native fish in 
the lake, but not of much account. 


_ 5uB., Geneva, N. Y.—1. Ina glass ball shoot say that A at 2lyds. 
ties with Band Cat i8yds. Do not they shoot off the tie at those 
_ distanees? 2. Do not others in same contest, tiemg for second and 

third prizes at 18yds., shoot off their ties at 2lyds.? 1, The general 
practice is to fall back three yards in shooting off ties, but the han- 
dicap must be preserved. 2. Yes. 


Fox, Corning, N. Y.—Can a cheap breechloading shotgun, having 
& side snap and single butt, be regarded as perfectly safe when using 
heavy charges? I have sucha gun, stamped W. Richards, and, al- 
Hough itis sound and tight, lam afraid of the action. Ans. We 
should not be at all afraid to useat. But after all you do not tell us 
tmauch about the gun. We presume it is sate. 


that there are nine dogs to run. 


barrel would 


account? 


3. About 100 yards, 4, $35. 


_ Coon Skin, Sharon, Conn.—I have a very- fine raccoon, lately caught 
in a steel trap. She is a very dark color, and I wish to tame her if I 
can, what shall T feed her and how shall I proceed to get her tame? 
Ans, A coon will eat anything—bread, meat, vegetables, etc. It will 
also steal all your eggs if it gets loose. Wedo not know how to go 
nen De to tame it, though perhaps by patience it might be accom- 
plished. 


are, 


3, What kind of a fish do 


H. C. C,. Westerly, R. I.—Please inform me if there is a Fish Gom- 
missioner in Rhode Island, if not hcw could I get afew thousand 
trout fry gratis, for stocking the brooks in my neighborhood? Ans. 
The Fish Commissioners of Rhode Island are: John H. Bardwell. 


Massachusetts Bay? 


Rockland; Henry T. Root, Providence; Col. Amos Sherman, Woon- 
socket.. If they cannot furnish you trout consult our advertising 


W. A, W., Bridgeport, Cali. The word “charge,” as used by 
Sportsmenn, means to drop or lie down. 
connection with field trials, signifies that the dog to which 
plied wins his heat without running for it, For ‘instance, supposing 

Their names are drawn in i 
and the last name drawn, having no competitor, is entitled to 
heat just the same as though there had been ten dogs and he had 
beaten the one drawn against him; or in other words, a ‘‘bye.”’ 


IpLEWILD, New Oastle, Del.—1. 
pounds rifle, a good one for squirrel shooting? 
ou advise me to get, 26,28 or 30? 8. About what 
distance will they kill? 4, What price photographic outfit was it you 
used from the windows of your office some time ago, of which you 
mentioned in your editorial columns? 5. Are the $10 autfits of any 

6. How long does it take to complete a picture? 
Yes. 2, It is a matter of individual fancy: we should choose 28in. 
5. Yes, but not a fine lens. 
develop and print about two hours, 


A, C.; Marblehead, Mass.—My best sport is fishing, but the only 
kind of fish T ever catch are mackerel, cod, 
they call them. Please inform me what t 
I mean what you would call them. 
ought Ito catch? There is one man that catches one bass or two a 
summer, but heis the only one ever knew who ever caught any. 

i you call trout? Are they salt-water fish? 
4, What kind of fish do you catch with those kind of hooks that you 
don’t have to bait? 5. What time of year do bluefish get here in 
Ans. 1. The fishes are named correctly, and 
we would call them as youdo. The cunner is called ‘bergall” in 
and about New York, but cunner is just as correct, 


other fish as are in yes vicinity or go to other places. 3. The trout 
is a fresh-water fish of the salmon family, inhabiting cold spring 
streams. 4, Trout, black bass and perch. Asa rule salt-water fish 
do age re tothe fly, 5. Latter part of June and July. They leave 
in October, : 


_A. B. D., New HWampshire.—Is there any solution of the following 

lines from ‘‘Secrets o Angling,’ 1613: 
“Take gum of life, fine beat and laid in soak 
In oyle well drawn from that which kills the oak’?? 

Also, can you give me directions for making the paste bait used iu 
catching perch? Ans, We have not the slightest idea what drug was 
meant by ‘‘guim of life” in 1613; “that which kills the oalc*’ Inay mean 
ivy. The meaning is evidently hidden in the form of an enigma te 
stimulate guessing. Perhaps some of our readers may know the 
meaning. alton says, Chap. VIII.: 
“Dissolve gum of ivy in oil of spike, 
And therewith annoint your dead bait for a pike.” ~ 
Again, speaking of scents for baits, Chap. XI.,he says: “Did I know 
any such secret { would not use it myselt, and, therefore, would not 
teach it you. Though I will not deny to you that,in my younger 
days, I have made a trial of oil of osprey, oil of ivy, camphor, assa- 
foetida, juice of nettles, and several other devices that I was ene 
by several anglers I met with, but could never find any advantage by 
them.”’ See also Chap. XVII. These things are not in use now, and 
we only know of them by reading, Pastes are in the same category. 
There are no better baits for perch than minnows and worms. 


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2. The term “‘bye,’’ used in 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORTAL, FIsSHCULTURE. 
In April. Trout in Wisconsin, 
What is the Use? THE KENNEL, 


Pointers at Cineinnati, 
Champion Beagles, 
The New York Dog Show. 
Eastern Field Trials Club. 
I. C. 8. Association. 
St. Louis Dog Show. 
English Kennel Notes. 
Toronto Dog Show. 
A New American Kennel Club. 
Non-Sporting Dog Show.” 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes, 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Rifles of To-Day. 


Proposed Zoological Garden. 
The Lake Yacht Racing Associ- 
ation. . 
“Wooderaft.” 
Tue SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Major Joseph Verity.—yitr. 
Down the Yukon on a Raft.--vuL 
NaturAL History. 
Preservation of Song Birds. 
Stearns’s Natural History of 
Labrador. 
An Interesting Relic. 
Bird Notes. 
A Proposed Zoological Garden. 


t 


The Deadly Mink. Powder Ignition. 
Game Bag anp Gun. Range and Gallery, 

The Choice of Hunting Rifles. The Trap. 

The Performance of Shotguns. | CANoEINa. 


Utah Fish and Game Law. Keystone C. ©. 


Mucilaged Wads. The Chart Locker, 

Camp Cookery. Winnipeseegee and Merrimae 
Philadelphia Notes. Rivers, 

An Explanation. Canoe vs. Sneakbox. 

Cruising in Florida. The Galley Fire. 


Sma AND River FIsHina. 


D Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
‘Opening the Trout Season. 


Amateur Canoe Building.—xn. 


Trouting on the Bigosh. YACHTING. 

The Dowel Question. Weight for Light Airs. 

Comparative Weigatof Fly-Rod| Petrel on a Cruise. 
Material, Gleam. 

Good Work in Massachusetts. Business. 

Michigan Lakes. Draft. 


Aneto and Gleam. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


FISHCULTURE, 
Progress in Fishculture. 


IN APRIL, 


fi eee Ram makes way for the Bull; March goes out and 

April comes in with sunshine and showers, smiles and 
tears. The sportsman has his gun in hand again with deadly 
purpose, as the angler his rod and tackle with another in- 
tention than mere overhauling and putting to rights, The 
smiles of April are forthem. _ 

The geese come wedging their way northward; the ducks 
awaken the silent marshes with the whistle of their pinions; 
the snipe come in pairs and whisps to the thawing bogs—all 
on their way to breeding grounds and summer homes, The 
tears of April are for them, for wherever they stop for a 
day’s or an hour’s rest, and a little food to strengthen and 
hearten them for their long journey, the deadly, frightful 
gun awaits to kill, maim or terrify, more merciless than all 
the ills that nature inflicts in her unkindest moods. 

Year after year men go on making laws and crying for 
more, to protect these fowl in summer, but in spring, when 
as much as ever they need protection, the hand of man ig 
ruthlessly against them. 

When you made that splendid shot last night in the latest 
gloaming that would show you the sight of your gun, and 
cut down that ancient goose, tougher than the leather of 
your gun-case, and almost as edible, of how many well- 
grown young geese of next November did you cheat your- 
self, or some one else of the brotherhood? 

When from the puddle, where they were bathing their 
tired wings, sipping the nectar of muddy water and nibbling 
the budding leaves of water weeds, you started that pair of 
ducks yesterday, and were so proud of tumbling them down 
right and left, you killed many more than you saw then; 
many that you might have seen next fall, 

_ When the sun was shining down so warm upon the steam- 
ing earth that the robims‘and bluebirds sang May songs, those 
were very good shots you made, killing ten snipe straight and 


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clean, and—they were very bad shots. For in November 
the ten might have been four times ten fat and lusty, lazy 
fellows, boring the oozy margins of these same pools where 
the frogs are croaking and the toads are singing to-day. 

‘Well, it’s a long time to wait from November till the 
earth ripens and browns toautumn again, Lite is short and 
shooting days aré few at most. Let us shoot our goose 
while we may, though she would Jay a golden egg by and 
by.” 

Farmers do not kill their breeding ewes in March, nor 
butcher cows that are to calve in a month; it does not pay. 
Why should sportsmen be less provident of the stock they 
prize so dearly; stock that has so few care-takers, so many 
enemies? Certainly; it does not pay in the long run. 


PROPOSED ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, 


i eee suggestion that a zoological garden be established in 
the Yellowstone National Park is one which deserves 
careful consideration. Practically, if the law is enforced, 
the Park is already a great zoological garden, a place where 
the observer can go and study wild animals in a state of 
nature. But, if we understand it, Mr. Talbot’s plan looks 
toward the capture and keeping under close surveillance the 
species which he mentions, This is something that can be 
readily done, but it is perhaps open to question whether it is 
at present desirable to doit. » 

The people now feel that they have got hold of their Park, 
haying wrested it from the grasp of a lot of greedy specula- 
tors, and the first thing that they desire is to see that it is 
properly protected and cared for. That it will be subse- 
quently improved, we do not doubt, though we hope this 
improvement will never take the shape of anything like 
landscape gardening, The project suggested by Mr. Talbot 
will bear discussion, and we shall be glad to have our read- 
ers’ views on it. 

In the list of species of animals stated to be found in the 
Park the caribou is given, and we should be glad to learn if 
any of our readers have any knowledge of that species oc- 
curring in this region. That it is found a little further west 
and north is well known, but has it ever been killed in ,the 
Park? The moose is fairly common there. 


A Punasant Lerrer.—such epistles as the one printed 
bélow are very grateful to the editorial heart, for it is no 
small thing after all to feel that by our efforts we help to give 
pleasure, such as that mentioned by our kindly correspond- 


ent. 

Marcon 29, 1884.—Editor Forest and Stream: Your favor of the 27th 
is received, and I wish to assure you that anything I send for the 
paper can take its turn either into the columns of ForzsrT AND Stream 
or into the waste basket, and in your own good time. Of course we 
all like to appear in the paper, but all correspondents should have 
sense enough to know that they cannot all be first. The paper is 
most excellent, and improves all the time, and its arrival in my 
family from week to week, is looked upon as an important event. All 
of us read it, 'and my sons, the daughter and their mother scan its 
columns with ever increasing interest. My own life is one of study, 
care and labor, and that paper has afforded me more genwine relaxa- 
tion than-all other publications that reach me put together, and I 
am greatly indebted. I have made the rifle a sort of hobby for many 
years, and haye acquired most valuable information from the pages 
of Formst AND StREAM all along. This afternoon I have been out 
practicing at 200 yards, and came in very muchelated; as Imade six 
successive shots at that distance from a sitting position—using a 
coarse hunting sight on the muzzle and Lyman rear sight—and put 
them all into a three-inch ring. This with a 50-cal. Maynard, 24-inch 
barrel. I used a new cartridge of my own make, and have something 
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Fisa AND GAME PROTECTION seems to be rapidly gaining 
in popular favor in Boston, if not all over Massachusetts. 
The new game bill reported to the Legislature is received 
with more favor than its warmesl friends dared to hope, and 
appears to be sure"of a passage without essential modifica- 
tions from the draft already reported in these columns, un- 
less some unforeseen difficulty arises. There isa change of 
sentiment even among marketmen—the best of them.’ One 
of them, a gentleman of integrity, remarked to the president 
of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association 
the othér day, that if the~ 7 game bill passed it would ruin 
his business. The bill was fully explained to him in all its 
bearings. He heard it through, owned squarely that he had 
been mistaken, and wound up with desiring to be proposed 
as a member of the Fish and Game Protective Association. 
He will be received gladly, and christened as another friend 
of the good work. Boston is going to get rid of the name 
which has been put upon her of being the ‘dumping ground” 
of all the illegal fish and game of the country, 


WHAT IS THH USK? 


HAT is the use in legislatures enacting laws for the 
protection of fish and game if those laws are not cn- 
forced? What is the use in the appointment of game con- 
stables, who are laggards in the performance of their duties 
and perhaps wink at violations of the laws, which it is their 
special office to enforce? What is the use in the formation 
of fish and game protective associations, which are not pro- 
tectors of fish and game, and whose only business is eating 
and drinking ard shooting glass balls and pigeons of flesh 
or clay? What is the use in two or three earnest men be- 
stirring themselves to organize a club which starts with the 
honest intention of enforcing protection, when none of the 
twenty or thirty or fifty members besides themselves will do 
aught but sit still and grumble at what is done by them, and 
tell what should be done, what they would do! Well may 
these faithful few ask this question; when their associates, 
after the first warmth of the club’s new life has vapored it- 
self away, grow cold and stand aloof, never helping, but ever 
finding fault, and perkaps are known to break the laws 
which simply as good citizens they are bound to abide by, 
and have also given their word of honor to uphold. 

Laws unenforced are worse than no laws, and worse than 
useless; so are unfaithful officers, and so are societies living 
only in name, and so are cold or only Jukewarm members of 
societies, from which the living spirit has not entirely de- 
parted, and pretenders and hypocrites ten times worse. But 
it is always of use to urge the enforcement of good laws, the 
appointment of faithful officers to back them with aid and 
sympathy, to believe that laws were made for our observance 
as well as that of others, to endeavor to arouse the apathetic 
and instruct the ignorant, always of use to preach earnestly, 
and above all to practice as faithfully as we preach earnestly, 

Preach to {all men, practice, practice, PRACTICE! whether 
the eyes of men be upon you or not. 


A Sumuer TRAMP IN THE ADIRONDACKS.—The annual 
“summer tramp” of Professor Jordan and party will be in 
the Adirondacks this year, instead of in Europe. ‘These 
“tramps” are organized to combine pleasure with the study 
of natural history, and have been successfully conducted for 
the past three years. The circular says: ‘‘The total dis- 
tance traversed on foot will be about 300 miles, the itinerary 
depending somewhat on the desires of the party and on tke 
condition of the weather. The number of members of the 
party will be limited to about fifteen. The total expenses 
(from Fort Ticonderoga) will not vary far from $65. This 
includes a director’s fee of $15. This tour is designed es- 
pecially for those who enjoy walking and find pleasure in 
woods and rocks, and who are willing in some degree to 
‘rough it’for the sake of being brought close to nature. 
Those who prefer hotel-parlors to mossy logs should not joim 
us.” The director is David 8, Jordan, Profesoor of Biology 
in the Indian University, Bloomington, Ind., and his assist- 
ant is Cornelia M. Clapp, teacher of zoology at the Mount 
Holyoke Seminary. The party will meet at Fort Ticonder- 
oga, June 28. Spending the Sabbath there, they will pro- 
ceed on foot to Crown Point, Bulwagga Mountain, Moriah, 
Crowfoot Pond, Deadwater, Euba Mills, Bouquet River, 
Hunter’s Pass, Chapel Pond, Roaring Brook, Noonmark 
Mountain, Keene Flats, Au Sable Ponds, Mount Marcy. 
Avalanche Lake, Calamity Pond, the Deserted Village, In- 
dian Pass, Clear Pond, North Elba, John Brown's Grave, 
Lake Placid, Old White Face, Aw Sable Chasm, Port Kent, 
and across Lake Champlain to Mount Mansfield and Camel’s 
Hump; leaving the mountains July 28. 


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Hewry BAtNBRIDGE, the senior partner of one of the most 
prominent wholesale stationery firms of this city, died at his 
residence, No. 76 Lefferts place, Brooklyn, Saturday, March 
29. Mr. Bainbridge was a genial hearted and social man, 
and was held in high esteem by his extensive circle of busi- 
ness associates and friends. One of his most marked char- 
acteristics was a genuine love of truth for its own sake—a 
keen sense of honor. He was an enthusiastic sportsman, and 
much of his leisure was devoted to his dogs and his guns. 
He was one of the earliest subscribers to ForrEstT AND 
STREAM, and even during his last illness looked forward to 
its weekly coming, as one of his friends says, ‘‘with singular 
eagerness.” Mr. Bainbridge was a diffident and sensitive 
man, but greatly beloved by those who knew him inti- 
mately. He leaves a widow and two daughters, one of 
whom is the wife of Col. I. M. Faville. His funeral was 
very largely attended, from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 
Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, on, Tuesday last, April 1, 


: 


THE LAKE YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION. 


f ihe formation of an association by the yacht clubs on the 

chain of fresh-water lakes, is now an accomplished 
fact. At a spirited meeting held in Toronto, Saturday last, 
representatives from the principal clubs, both on the Canadian 
and American shores, drew up a constitution for the proper 
government of the new union. With the customs and laws 
of racing assimilated, a new era has opened for the prosperity 
of the sport.. Through the adoption of the length and sail 
area rule of measurement, competition between the represen- 
tatives of different types can now be undertaken with some- 
thing like rational interpretation to the results. Individuals 
will not be forced into the construction of the largest sail 
carriers for the only purpose of racing, but can suit their 
preferences in al] respects, and build to meet other require- 
ments besides: The custorn of making the rounds, whichis 
the very life of match sailing, will now take a fresh hold 
upon lake yachtsmen, and the voyages and passages such 
undertaking entails, is certain to bring to the fore that boat 
best suited for the fresh-water seas. The constitution we 
will print in full next week with some further material bear- 
ing upon the subject. 


“WOODCRAFT.”’ 
\ y= are pleased, but, we confess, not. very much sur- 
prised, at the interest manifested by the general pub- 
lic in the little volume which we shall soon issue, Those 
who read it will find that it is very different from any book 
of the kind that they have ever seen. The striking feature 


of the hook is that there is no waste about it, no writing to- 


fill up, no padding. If the author had anything to say 
which did not teach some lesson he just left it out. Those 
who are familiar with ‘“Nessmuk’s” writings will understand 
that the style of the book is very attractive. Those who 
know that it is the outcome of fifty years’ experience will 
understand that the book is replete with information. To 
give some notion of what may be found within its covers, let 
us quote irom a letter received some time ago from the 
author. He says: 


And let me say that I have not tried to emulate Carlyle or Emerson 
in style. My purpose has been to make the book plain, simple and 
concise. Never to use three words or syllables where two will serve. 

To give such directions as will enable the average outer— 

To make his outing a pleasure instead of a misery, a comfort in- 
stead of a calamity; 

To sleep on a fragrant, elastic bed and pillow at night, instead of 
abrading his esthetic vertebree with roots and stubs:] 

* To go light; 

To keep warm and dry: 

To cook plain, wholesome meals; 

To eceme out of the woods refreshed and comforted; 

To get a dollar's worth of recreation and rest for every doMar spent; 

To learn Nature in her secret ways. 

To teach something of all this, ‘‘ Woodcraft’ is written, 

Let the great army of outers decide whether the book is worth 
taking into the woods, NESSMUEK. 


As he says, it is for the public to° decide whether the 
author has accomplished his purpose. That we believe that 
he has done so goes without saying. ‘‘Wooderaft” will prob- 
ably be issued in a week or ten days. The reader is referred 
t our advertising columns for further information. 


Che Sportsman Courist. 


- MAJOR JOSEPH VERITY. 


SOME OF HIS SPORTING ADVENTURES, AS MODESTY SET 


FORTH BY HIS OWN HAND, 
; Chapter VIII. 

OMETHING which I hinted at in my last chapter I may 
b as well enlarge somewhat upon now as at another time, 
and that is of the manner in which things, animate as well 
as inanimate, are drawn to.one another. By some invisible 
impulse the polar bear and seal are drawn to frozen salt 
water, and seafowl to salt water unfrozen, just as strongly 
and surely as the needle to the pole, smoke'to the sky, sparks 
toward their kindred, the stars, and water ever downward 
by some unseen power. Thus, aiso, according to my belief, 
by some intangible, ethereal attraction, and not, as commonly 
supposed, by a base, sanguinary desire, the hound is led 
toward the hare, the fox and the deer; the pointer, setterand 
spaniel drawn to game birds, For when each has come to 
his so-called prey, he is satisfied with merely mouthing it or 
smelling it, when each body becomes equally changed and 
the attraction ceases. This power of attraction acts on the 
dead dog, or part thereof, in proof of which fact I call to 
witness the undisputed account of a famous German baron 
concerning his jacket made of the skin of a celebrated 
pointer, which, when he wore it, always led him to game. 
For this reason, I have heard it whispered, the dogskin 
jackets are now in such favor with sportsmen, though the 
dealers in this article hesitate in this skeptical age to set forth 
this virtue in their advertisements. And, furthermore, if 
fhe fact became well known it might lead to the suppression of 

the sale of them. { 
Now this influence, whatever it is, is not. only exercised 
by such bodies on such objects, but also by inert and inani- 
nate articles of food on the animal when dead, and even on 
parts of it. For instance, I have seen a raccoon skin cap 
irresistably drawn to an ear of boiled green corn, and a dish 
of frog’s legs, altbough there was so ponderous a body as a 
man’s head inside the cap. And when the corn and the 
frog's legs had drawn the man’s mouth over them. and had 
then fallen into his stomach, the cap was so strongly pulled 
downward by the force of their attraction, that it Tequired 
all the strength of his arms to push it off hishead, Thereis 
also an antagonistic fluid, principle or whatever it may be 
called, contained in some bodies. I have seen cat skins 
hanging against a wall swell up their tails and strive to 
climb higher when a dog came into the room, and any one 
may see by waving the wing of a hawk or a large owl over 


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grouse, duck or woodcock feathers, or any such, how they 
will flutter away and disperse in all directions. Sometimes, 
when I have myself pointed a gun, no matter with how little 
care, the lead has gone so directly to the mark that I have 
thought some such subtle fluence draws shot and ball to 
game, but when I haye seen some others shoot, Lhave thought 
differently, and that possibly there was a repellant power 
existing in and perhaps exercised at will by the object, which 
made the missiles diverge or broke their force so that they 
were made harmless, May it-not be that the lead becomes 
charged with a positive or negative force by being in con- 
tact with the person of the shooter, wherein the one or the 
other is engendered? 

But such matters I would better leave to be settled by 
minds more schooled in philosophy than mine, for Iam in 
no wise fitted to discourse concerning them, being only a 
plain old hunter with little knowledge got of books, and as 
all may see, of but few words. With my hunting mates I 
could never more than half hold my own in story telling and 
argument, with anglers not even this much, though they are 
ever modest and truthful men who exaggerate nothing to 
their own belittling or their craft’s. Just and honest men 
they are too, for they cheat no fish of their own catching of 
their full weight, nor the count thereof of the highest mum- 
ber. I have never known an angler worthy of the name who 
would not honor a fish of his own taking with twice the 
weight another man would award it, and who, if he lost a 
fish, would not be so generous as to give the eseaper credit 
for the wiles of aserpent, and the strength, if not the bulk, of 
a whale. I love, honor and admire the angler. I love him 
for his patience, never losing his temper whatever hefalls, 
and for his gentleness, as shown, for instance, in his tender 
and compassionate treatment of live bait. I honor him that 
he never tells a lie to glorify another, nor owns that he has 
told one to glorify himself, and 1 admire, him for his skill in 
invention, not only of rods, flies, hooks and so on, but in 
other matters pertaining to his pastime, and for the even 
balance of his brain, whereof he is himself so well assured 
that he scorns all brazen and steel contrivances for determin- 
ing the weight of fishes, showing therein a triumph of mind 
over matter. 

I would that I might count ‘myself a true angler, but 
though | have caught many fish in my day, I never had a 
right to claim that name, for reasons which my readers may 
guess. But doubtless the craft has reason to be thankful 
that I am not of it, for if | had turned my attention fo the 
beguiling of simple fishes, it is possible that there might be 
prayers for more fish and one the less angler. 

Once in my life I thought I had achieved glory enough in 
the capture of one trout to make my name foreyer famous 
in the annals of angling. And I think now that if this fish 
had been caught by an approved and acknowledged member 
of the fraternity, and the story told by him, the feat would 
have been considered remarkable. But in the unembellished 
narration of facts which I must give, I fear the reader will 
find nothing unusual, nor hardly worth the reading. 

In my wanderings in Adironda I discovered a kind of very 
large worms feeding upon the leaves of a species of wild 
mulberry which grows there, the fruit of which, resembling 
in shape that of the common wild mulberry, is as big as a 
saucer. This worm is as large as a man’s wrist and a foot 
in length, and has been named by scientists Vermzs giganteus 
veritit, whatever that outlandish tithe may mean. Noticing 
that they resembled silk worms, I conceived, the idea‘of 
drawing gut from them, and so tying one end of a worm to 
a tree with a strong cord, I made fast another longer cord to 
the other end, and seyered the skin all about-his middle with 
my hunting knife. Then putting this long cord over my 
shoulder, I went forward at a steady pace with an 
even pull, the worm shrieking and groaning so pite- 
ously when his bowels first started asunder that I 
was near abandoning my experiment out of weak tender- 
heartedness. But the worm presently gave up the 
ghost with a great moan, and I held on my course fora half 
mile or so, when I came to the shores of asmall lake,-and the 
gut, so called, being drawn out to nearly the desired fineness _ 
and very even and well-looking withal, I fastened the end to 
a tree and Jet it dry. The pond or little lake which I had 
never before examined much, seemed to be alive with what 
I took to be very large trout, and here I thought was a very 
convenient and proper place for a trial of my new gut, where 
there were none but myself and the fishes, and herons and’ 
kingfishers to witness the failure of my experiment, if so it 
should turn out. So I cut a straight dry cedar about fifteen 
feet in length for a. rod, and taking a fair-sized hook from 
my pocket I tied upon ita fly made then and there of some 
duck feathers drifted ashore, and abit of red flannel from 
the lining of my coat, and when finished was well caiculated 
to excite the curiosity and wonder of any fish that ever swam. 
My worm gut being now as dry as my own intestines, I hay- 
ing been some hours from camp, I cut off twenty feet of it 
and made an end of it fast to the rod, and fixing the hook to 
the’other, began to cast. At the first cast there was a boiling 
of the water as if the infernal fires had set it seething, and 
directly I became aware that Iwas fastto avery yoodly 
fish, and one that with my poor rod without a reel, I was in 
great danger of losing. Looking about for a beach where I 
might strand him and kill him with my knife, [saw an inlet of 
the pond acouple of yards wide at its mouth, and it occurred to 
me to lead him thither, and I succeeded in doing so. Hav- 
ing got him headed up it a rod or so, he could not turn 
about on account of his length being twice the width of 
the stream, I wound the gut upon the end of the 
rod by turning itin my hands, and shoving the point of it 
before me I waded to my hips into the stream behind him 
and guided him up the current before me, hoping fo find it 
presently so narrow that he would be wedged between the 
banks. 'Afrer some tedious labor, and being all the while in 
danger of haying my shins broken by the blows of his caudal 
fin, his dorsal fin splitting the swift surface and his belly 
grinding and grating along the pebbles of the bottom, I suc- 
ceeded in accomplishing thisand had him jammed fast 
between the steep banks. Then I walked along~his side till 
Ieame to his head, which I mauled with a great rock till 
the kick was all taken out of him. I was well pleased with 
the behavior of my new gut, which had borne such a strain, 
and I was somewhat proud of having killed such a fish, and. 
was admiring him, and perhaps myself, when a splashing 
of the water aboye meattracted my attention. Then wading 
down with rod and creel appeared the Rey. Doctor Rodster, 
whom I had heard was fishing in the region. ‘Why, 
Major,” he cried, ‘is this you? Iwas not aware that you. 
were an angler.” I assured him that it was no one else, an 
showed him with some exultation my catch, Coming up 
alongside of the fish, and standing about midway between 
the head and tail, he viewed it for a moment with an ill- 
concealed expression of contempt on his countenance, an 


‘said, “Surely, Major Verity, you do not think of killiug this 


d | it ought to 


d|out of a thick poplar grove, clear across the river, 


a 


poor little fellow; but will return him to the lake!” 

When I told him, with some shamefacedness, that the fish 
was already dead, he went away exceedingly wroth, mutter- 
ing something about. ‘‘trout hogs.” 

Since then I have fished only for my stomach’s need, and - 
never for sport. . MAJor Josnra Verity, U.8.H.M: 

ADIRONDA., = 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT. 
BY LIEUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, U. §. ARMY. 


Eighth Paper. 
he last article left us drifting down stream as fast as 
the current would pack us, and the grayel and sand 
bars would permit, while a big buck moose was drifting up - 
the valley of a tributary as fast as his legs would pack him, 
and the underbrush and fallen timber would permit. 

This was not far from a bold, high bluff of yellow sand 
and clay that the Indians use as a conspicuous landmark in 
their wanderings up and down the river, and to which they 
give the name of Hoot’-che-koo. The river from here on for 
quite a ways is very picturesque, and looks like the views on 
the Lower Juniata,“Pennsylyania’s pretty stream, until one 
steps ashore in the soft, marshy moss of the tundra land that 
exudes an ooze and mosquitoes, that makes him think that 
he has one foot in New Jersey and the other in the Dismal 
Swamp of Virginia. I believe one miner traveling through 
here had expressed an opinion that settlers might raise wheat 
in the bottom lands, I think I would agree with the com- 
ments of another on the opinion of the first that wheat could 
possibly be raised—to five dollars a bushel if there were 
enough miners to want it. Traveling on during the dis- 
agreeable, rainy afternoon, we sighted an Indian house of 
logs, about 8 in the evening, and with the usual hard pulling - 
we soon found ourselves alongside the place. A rapid in- 
spection showed it to bedeserted, and from my Indian guides 
and workmen I ascertained that it was chiefly used in the 
winter by a sort of mixed population of Ayan and Tahk- 
heesh Indians, both of which tribes are called the ‘‘Sticks,” I 
believe. 

We had passed through the land of the Tahkheesh from 
the time we left the Chilkoct country to about this point, for 
savage tribes seldom have any very definite boundary unless 


determined by high mountain chains or prominent water- ~ 


ways. From here down the river for two hundred miles the 
Ayuns, or lyans, held the river and its valley, and extended 
quite a way up the Pelly, the local Indian of which is, I 
believe, the Ayan River. The particular local name of this 
village (if one house can be called a village) is Kit’l-ah’-gon, 
which I believe means a house or village in a cafion, or be- 
tween two cations, or some way relating to its picturesque 
situation, and in this respect Kit'l-ah’-gon is not inappro- 


priately named. The main basis of its title asa villageis | 


the large number of small brush houses that are scattered 
around near the tolerably well constructed log house, and 
which from their dried upand dilapidated looking character, 
we took at first for smoke houses in which they would prob- 
ably dry their salmon and other fish when caught, until our 
Indians enlightened us. The log house was quite airy and 
ventilated for a winter residence in sub-Aretic America, and 
it seemed to be better adapted for a summer abode in Ari- 
zona or Florida, but it was a palace compared with the brush 
houses that clustered around it, and shows how degraded 
and lazy these Indians are, with plenty of timber for log 
houses, and a peat-like moss for chinking, that with a very 
little labor would have rendered them perfectly comfortable, 
they neglect to build them. Over these brush piles of strong 
poles are thrown a number of thick caribou or. moose skins, 
and when the snow falls in the autumn it gives them an ad- 
ditional coyering of four or five inches, and they live a sort 
of a life that is a cross between that of an Esquimau and a 
gypsy. The house itself was about fifteen by thirty feet in 
plan, and with the one on the bank of the short river con- 
necting lakes Tahko with Marsh, makes up the sum total of 
all the permanent houses in the Tahkheesh country, along the 
Yukon River, for a distance of about five hundred miles. 
Inside the house, through a low door—although some persons 
of less pretentious proportions than the writer might haye 
crept in between some of the logs—the only floor was that 
made by nature and beaten down by the constant tramping 
of feet, while around a portion of the sides was a shelf-like 
structure, which may have done duty at one time as a bunk 
place, but in its present broken up nature would have puzzled 
a civilized chicken to have found a sleeping place on it. It 
may have once extended clear around, but the last persons 
that slept there found it warmer as fuel than as a bedstead. 
Overhead the house was covered in with three or four clap- 
boards and a couple of clouds—except in fine weather.~ 

We did not try the experiment of sleeping in the house, 
but put up our tents at a good respectable distance therefrom 
and snoozed comfortably through the night, for the rain kept 
the mosquitoes down. There was an insignificant looking 
stream coming in alongside of the village, and curiously 
enough the valley it drained was a very conspicuous one, 
much more prominent than the Pelly valley some twenty 
miles further on, although the two streams themselves would 
be like comparing Niagara with a mountain brook. This 
was one of those canal-like streams, that 1 described ina pre- 
vious article, as common in this country, just too wide to 
jump and deep enough to drown a flagstaff, and slower than 
mid-winter molasses. There may have been a Jarger stream 
coming in through the valley, and this have been only one of 
its delta mouths, for the grass was too high and thick, and 
the rain too recent to make furtier hydrographic explora- — 
tions interesting. Photographs were gotten looking up and 
down the:river, and also of the Indian house. From our Tn-. 
dians we learned that next day we should reach the site of 
old Fort Selkirk, and that the chimneys were still standing, 
and further, that its proper place was on the western bank 
of the Yukon proper, opposite the mouth of the Pelly, al- 
though several maps in our possession had ferried if across, 
and put it between them at the panchon of the two streams. 
It looked so “kinder” natural to put it there, that we 
were a little bit inclined to think that the Indians, who 
had been there did not know, and that the map-makers 
who had not, really did; and with such thoughts 
in our mind, we were forced to acknowledge that if we had 
not traveled over the country itsclf, we probably would have 
made no better maps than those in our bal a ie and prob- 
ably not as good, if we had interviewed the wrong Indians. 
in another part of the country. But Selkirk was not where 
ye been, but where the unlearned savages sald 
it was, 08 eas day as we pelted down thrangh a great net- 
work of islands, that in a perplexing way us edging 6 
to the right, we suddenly saw the hare chimneys loom 


off 
na 


! 


7 


fore we could navigate across we were nearly half a mile be- 
low them, but in a much better soe for a camp after all. 
Tt almost seemed as if we had landed in New York city, so 


welcome did it appear to be on land where explorers had pre- 


ed us, for now we knew the ‘‘coast was clear,” clear to 
he coast, and it was a mere matter of drifting with the cur 
ent to our destination and completing our work while ex 


rove. . 

_ The history of old Fort Selkirk has been slightly outlined 
in previous articles, so important a spot was it with regard to 
our expedilion as a point of reference. Here we ceased to 
be explorers, and became only surveyors to old Fort Yukon, 
some 500 miles beyond, and from there the river had been 
very well surveyed to its mouth, another 1,000 miles in dis- 
tance. In 1851 a party of Chilkats and Chilkoots that had 
erossed the Kotusk Mountains to trade with the Tahkheesh, 
exasperated by finding so few of the latter on the old trading 
grounds, and-rightly conjecturing from the reports of these 
few that this falling off of their commerce was due to an op- 
position that had been started at the junction of the Pelly 
and Yukon some few years before, and was slowly making 
inroads upon their business, trading had at last reached the 
point where it was no longer remunerative to bring a hun- 
dred pounds of trading material on their backs over the snow 
and ice of the mountain passes for nearly as many miles. So 
these Indians made a sudden resolution characteristic of 
Indian action, and exchanging their goods for canoes instead 
of furs, and well armed, they made a descent on the unpro- 
tected fort, if it could be called such, surprised it early one 
morning in the summer just after the annual supply of goods 
had been brought in. Finding but three or four white men 
in attendance they were securely bound, the siore was pillaged 


of all its contents and then burned to the ground. The white 


men were then released and allowed to return to Fort Pelly 
Banks, an older trading station on the herd of the Pelly, and 
from which Fort Sclkirk had been thrown out as an advance 
post. Much of the plunder was given to the local tribes or 
traded to them at a profil they had never dreamed of, and a 
thirst was planted in them for such easy methods of collect- 
ing necessaries from civilized traders, which finally culmin- 
ated in the destruction of the fort at Pelly Banks, and thus 
the ‘‘coast” was completely cleared. 

The adventures of these old Hudson Bay posts and their 
daring traders would be an intensely interesting volume 
eould it ever be collected and written. Many a hunting and 
fishing adventure could be teld that. would absorb the atten- 
tion of the readers of Forrest AND STREAM as they read of 
thes¢ adventurers shoving their merchandise through the 
great unknown Northwest territory to the Arctic Ocean 
itself, Every one is familiar with the Canadian voyageurs, or 
French ha'f breeds that formed the great bulk of the Hudson 
Bay Company, under the direction of hardy Highlanders, 
who, in their turn, lorded it over the Indian workmen under 
them, Along the great broad streams like the Athabasca, 
the Peace River, the Mackenzie and many others their work 
was simple enough, and strongly resembled the guod old 
boatmen’s days on the Missouri and Mississippi, yet pre- 
served in many a tale and story, but as the heads of these 
sub-Arctic rivers were reached in the hills and mountains 
and rapids and cascades commenced, they found obstacles to 
surmount that were not easy, Such was the road that led 
from Pelly Banks to Selkirk. Everything was carried in 
bundles of a hundred pounds, called a ‘‘pack.” 

I met an old Hudson Bay trader on the Lower Yukon, who 
told me a laughable incident connected with his first 
initiation into the duties of the company, some thirty or forty 
years before. Having determined to join it and, in the ex- 
uberanece of youth, to work his way to the. most northern 
posts where the adyenture which he sought was most likely 
to be found, he presented himself at a station on the Red 
River, and being a strapping young fellow, he was at once 
enrolled. He Knew a little about the company, having 
“knocked around” in its neighborhood from a boy, and had 
seen many a “pack” handled, and thought himself perfectly 
presentable for a situation when he could do the same. and 
not until that time did he solicit employment. Everything 
was arranged, and he had been booked as a “‘voyageur” at 
$35 a month, | think, and everything went on swimmingly 
for a week or two when the first portage was reached. This 
extended around aseries of boiling rapids some five or six 
miles long, and his heart sank within him at the thought of 
carrying a number of the huge ‘‘packs”’ this long distance. A 
number of boats had gotten in ahead of the one to which he be- 

longed, and as their loads were taken out he saw their crews 
of yoyageurs without any delay prepare to carry across, for 
the army-like discipline of the company allowed no loitering. 
His surprise may be imagined when he saw one, two, three, 
and even a half a dozen of the men put two of the 100 
pound packs on their backs; but uo pen can portray his con- 
sternation as he saw them one after the other take up a good 
steady run over the hills and far away, and before he was 
really ready with his first ‘“‘pack” be back for another load, 
He struggled with the new developments manfully, how- 
ever, but before he had gotten half way across, amid the 
jeers and taunts of his fellow packers, he had to give it up, 
and depositing his 200 pounds against a stone, he walked 
back to the trader in charge and after a short preliminary 
conversation staling the case, said he was willing to pay $35 
instead of receiving it, if he could only be counted as a pas- 
senger thereby. A proposal which was accepted, and the 
chief trader pocketed the money. 

In the burning of old Selkirk in 1851, the Chilkats knew 
that they had the sympathy of the Russian traders at Sitka 
and other posts on the Pacific, who were. rivals to the Hud- 
‘son Bay Company, but to say, as has been done, thai these 
traders instigated and concocted the plan is carrying state- 
ments further than the evidence will warrant. Much has 


a a 
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the fur trader, as evinced by their conduct and con- 
yersation after abandoning or retiring from the business, 
Incase of possible hostilities with a tribe, or even 
an individual member of it that stands well among 
his savage brethren, he is the most cringing creature on 
face of earth, and when actual hostilities are inevitable, 
howeyer brave he may be personally—and all the elements 
of “bravery are needed in their peculiar craft—their actions 
must be governed by the monetary object in view, and the 
most cowardly surrender of the field often takes place. - The 
trader knows that, if no blvod is shed, sudden and transitory 
outbursts of Indian wrath soon pass away, and he can then 
return to his money getting. Should an Indian be killed, 
however, it may take decades to settle the matter with the 
tribe, while as a family feud it never would be settled by less 
than an equivalent life, and this is too much to spare, when 
but, two or three often make up the sum total of post or sta- 
tion, Much as the trader hates the Indians, he hates civiliza- 
tion much more, One simply interferes with them now and 
then, while the other complet obliterates his employment, 
and itis with zealous eye he keeps all his disagreements 
with the former from the ears of the latter. It is no wonder 
then that the relations between the trader and his Indians 
are so little known that they are held up as a model to those 
who know still less, when, if the truth were known, these 
relations are in many respects abominable. Such has been 
the history of the Hudson Bay Company to a greater or less 
extent, and such has been the history of all fur-trading com- 
panies, and such were the musings brought forth by a 
revery in the shadows of the blackened chimneys of old 
Fort. Selkirk, and over which the poplars waved their tops, 
so long had they battled with the elements, 

Not far from here was another sign of death, in the shape 
of an Indian grave peculiar to this part of the country. 
Knowing a little something of the mode of burial of white 
men from ancient intercourse with them, they had made 
some yery rude and rough attempts at imitating it in the 
shape of an inclosure not unlike our own, but made of 
rough-hewn boards. It was impossible to completely rid 
themselves of savage ideas, and from poles near by, so close 
that-any one would know they were a superstitious part of 
the grave, flaunted red and white rags, while on the top of 
one was an image of a bear or a fish or a goose, I have for- 
gotten which. Approaching to see if there was anything 
else ‘on the rough board fence or elsewhere expressive of 
savage rites and ritual, » combination of hieroglyphics met 
my eye on one of the upright planks that looked as if it 
night haye been done by a lead pencil, or in the absence of 
such articles of civilization in this vast wilderness, the untu- 


tored savage might have used a piece of graphite from some 


mineral source near by. A sketch of the inscription is given 
as near as I could draw it. Running from left to right like 
English writing it ran; 


ee ee ee i ee i ea 


And in fact had some resemblance to ancient English in a 
few words. Looking across the river at the islands there 
could be seen more than enough driftwaod on their upper 


ends to make a good dam, but it was a very poor place for 


adam site, as farasI had been taught in hydraulic engi- 
neering, if this was what the inscription referred to; and in 
general the whole effect was so intangible that one could 
not pin it down to that exactness of meaning that is de- 
manded by modern science, and it was passed by. For- 
merly, so my Indians informed me, these same natives 
buried in scaffolds in the trees, not unlike the Indians on 
the great Western plains, and inscriptions were rare. 

It is at about this point on the river that birch-bark canoes 
commence, and were first seen among the Ayans, a band al- 
ready alluded to, and whose principal village was some 
twelye miles below, and it might also be said that where they 
are first encountered, They are decidedly the neatest, the 
trimmest, the smallest, and the best in workmanship and 
construction, and from here down the streain all of these 
qualities slowky become less noticeable, although it would 


hardly be proper to say at any time that the majority of! 


canoes among any tribe on the river are not of a substantial 
build. The sewing is done with long withes so fine and pli- 
able that the work looks as if it had been done with sinew, 
arid even this characteristic degenerates as we'descend the 
river, ‘These withes are made from the roots, I think, of 
some trailing plant, and are minutely sub-divided before 
being used. These pretty canoes, as light and graceful 
as a bird on the water, were a wondrous change from the 
heavy, cumbersome, water-logged canoes of wood that we 
had been used to up to this point. As with his cottonwood 
brother, so is the birch-bark canoe patched with spruce gum, 
but it does not seem to be done on such a wholesale scale, 
and it is worked down and polished off until it looks like a 
patching of glass when completed. 

The river down which we had drifted so far on the raft, 
and which I have constantly mentioned as the Yukon, was 
called by the old Hudson Bay traders the Lewis River, they 
knowing it in and around old Fort Selkirk, and it was sup- 
posed to join the Pelly and form the Yukon. In fact, in the 
very oldest accounts the Lewis River ran into the Pelly, a 
smaller stream, and it was called Pelly to its junction with 
the Porcupine, at old Fort Yukon, and from there was called 
the Yukon. The comparative sizes and volumes of water of 
the Lewis being unknown, J had decided to make the most 
thorough investigations, should they be necessary, to deter- 
mine which was really the Yukon proper. In sight of the 
two rivers, at their junction, it was quite evident that the 
Lewis was the larger; but Mr, Homan, being sent across to 
make measurements of the other, and ascending the Pelly a 
short distance, even gave up that part, so evident was it that 
this Pelly was the smaller of thetwo. Of course I was glad 
enough to get such news, for the Pelly was an unsurveyed 
stream, and had it been the greater 1 would have had to con- 
tent myself with exploring one of its tributaries and only a 
part of its course, whereas 1.now had, and would have, all 
the data for a survey of the whole Yukon from source to 
mouth, 

Trout lines put out over night caught a sort of nasty look- 
ing eel pout, each hook baited with meat having one, that 
were so uninviting in appearance that one would have to 
border on starvation before taking them by any of the usual 
methods ‘of cooking. Grayling were still to be had in 
limited numbers, and one big i trout gave the Doctor a 
scientific struggle lasting nearly half an hour before he could 
be induced to ‘‘come in out of the wet.” Fresh moose tracks 
were to be seen but no one seemed inclined toward moose 
meat with mosquito accompaniment. Astronomical obser- 
vations were taken to determine the point and everything 
was prepared fer another movement forward on the morrow. 
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datuyal History. 


PRESERVATION OF SONG BIRDS. 


Editor Forest dnd Stream: 

Having read with considerable interest the article over the 
signature of ‘'X.,” I must say that I indorse the whole. Let 
us have a law to prevent the shooting, by men as well as 
boys, of the insect-eating and song birds of our land, That 
ornithology consists in filling the skins of sluin birds is the 
merest nonsense. Let, as your. correspondent remarks, men 
as well as boys, go into the fields andwoods without gun, but 
with note book and pencil, study the habits of the birds, and 
they would gain more information in a week’s time well 
spent than from a whole life spent in stuffing skins, How 
many persons who fill the skins of birds with cotton, towand 
straw, could draw the forms of the same? There was one 
English artist who excelled in drawing the human form; that 
could, and did, draw the human skeleton in one colored ink 
and clothed it with muscles in another colored ink. Such 
perfection is rarély attained, Still, young men, and older 
ones also, might do a little to rob their killing propensities 
of its sting. The dialogue of ‘“X.” is a complete answer to 
all quibbles. Let boys and men learn. X. Z. 

Utica, N. Y. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

“4 bird never flutters unless it is hit.” As I wish to flut- 
ter, I will begin by considering myself hit, although as I am 
not a taxidermist nor milliner’s collector, and am somewhat 
past the age of sweet sixteen, where the average ‘‘boy with 
a gun’ is supposed to do his worst, it is evident that it is 
only by a stray pellet and not by the center of the charge, 
which ‘'X” in your issue of March 20, and which others in 
previous ones, have fired promiscuousiy among all who desire 
to make even a limited collection of skins, or eggs, or both. 
Why is it that all unite against youth? Is youth a crime to 
be laid at the door of its possessor? Were Wilson, Audubon, 
Baird, Coues and others, never young? Did they not begin 
their studies as young inexperienced boys? There must be a 
beginning, There must have been a first awakening of that 
love of nature, of that irresistible desire to know more of her 
feathered subjects, which has caused our most distinguished 
naturalists to turn away from the masses who strive only for 
the ‘‘almighty dollar,” and to take to themselves want, dis- 
comforts, bodily peril, and sneers and the rebuffs of their 
more practical money-making fellow-men. 

hen we remember the earnest researches of Wilson and 
Audubon, the many days of patient study they deyoted to 
live birds, let us also remember that one of them at least 
was a nest-rubbing boy, without any show of scientific pro- 
pensities, for we read of his ‘strings’ of birds’ eggs. To 
read some of the articles which appear from time to time, 
one would suppose that every one who shot a bird or took a 
set of eggs did it either from a wanton desire to destroy, or 
for money, Itis this sweeping condemnation which [ re- 
sent as unjust to somé of our young collectors, who, I think, 
are actuated by as sincere motives as ever moved Wilson, 
Audubon, or any of their successors. I believe that among 
the rising generation may be found some of our most obsery- 
ing ornithologists. Many have already been mentioned in 
yarious publications as haying made important discoveries, 
The subject of the migrations of birds, which is now receiy- 
ing inore than ever before, the attentions of naturalists, both 
in Europe and America, depends largely on the observations 
of collectors in different parts of the country. The Forresr 
AND STREAM has a natural history department of constantly 
increasing interest. How many of the notes contained. 
therein are contributed by the younger members of the: fra- 
ternity? There are those now, who are no doubt working 
faithfully, though unknown to fame, who will yet win their’ 
laurels, but who are young and so inexperienced that they 
deserve the censure administered about a year ago by ‘‘Homo,” 
when he complained that they were shooting birds whose 
sex they were unable to decide. 

I do not believe the bond proposed in the Massachusetts 
law will have the desired effect any more than the plan sug- 
gested by some of your correspondents of taxing the gun to 
prevent market hunting. The professional market hunter 
would pay the tax, the sportsman, who could use his yun at 
most but a few times each year, would not pay it. Result— 
market hunter gets all the more birds, the limited sportsman 
gets none. The professional ‘‘hat bird” collector will find 
some means of eyading the consequences and will shoat all 
the more during any opportunity that presents itself, while 
the student, who desires specimens for the specimens them- 
selves, will be the sufferer. 

And now, speaking of hat birds, do the ladies themselves 
really care for the birds? Are they sincere? Let any one 
walking our streets notice the ladies’ hats and he will have 
strong reasons for doubting the sincerity of the fair sex. 

I haye no doubt that if, it could be positively known how 
many birds were killed for privute collections and study, 
and how many were killed for ornament, that it would ap- 
pear that the latter far exceeded the former. I know I am 
taking sides against public opinion, but I don’t blame pub- 
lic opinion; I blame those unscrupulous persons who, to put 
a penny in their pockets, will destroy anything: who while 
pretending to be interested in the study of the birds are in- 
terested only in the dollars and cents their stuffed skins wil 
bring to them, aud IJ sincerely believe that it is this whole- 
sale shooting for the purpose of supplying milliners and 
other similar purposes that has caused a decrease in the 
number of our song birds. It is the old ‘‘trott hog” in a 
new form, the pot-hunter bringing disgrace on the sports- 
man. 

Suppress, if possible, the barter in skins, in hat birds, and 
other similar “gewgaws,” but don’t shut out the earnest, 
diligent student, who, if he occasionally shoots a bird or 
takes a set of eggs, does so with a higher purpose than that 
for the love of money. The birds have nogbetter friends 
than are those who study their habits, and I doubt if any 
class would more deeply deplore the loss of the birds than 
the yery class so often unjustly assailed, young and inex- 
perienced though they may be. STALIA, 

[We are sure that a large majority of the writers on this 
subject are animated by a sincere desire to protect our in- 
sectivorous birds from wanton slaughter. The honest, faith- 
ful student should undoubtedly be permitted to collect bird 
skins, but how is it to be determined that any supposed 
student is honest? How do we know that he is not collect- 
ing merely for the hat men? Since our correspondents are 
working for the same end, itis not worth their while to 


waste their ammunition on each other. | 


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FOREST AND STREAM. [Arrm 3, 1884, 


THE DEADLY MINK, 


NOTE with regret, the loss of Mr. Fred Mather, of Cold 
Spring Harbor, N. Y., of his flock of beautiful wood 
ducks. Too bad! 

A few years ago, I had some fifty of these birds, collected 
and caged for stocking other localities. One night about 
midnight, I heard a rushing and roaring of the birds in their 
room; within three minutes of the first‘alarm I was at the 
pen, with light, and a heavy two-foot knife. I let down the 
door, and put light, knife, head and shouldersinside. Around 
to me came the birds; behind, and driving them was a large 
mink, which came near enough, and I split his head with 
the knife, and left him heels-up, kicking. I could see that 
the floor was about covered with ducks, heels up, and kick- 
ing too, In the morning we found over. thirty birds killed by 
the ‘‘varmint,” or so badly wounded that we thought best 
to kill them, as they would die of their wounds. The fiend 
had cut the throats of most of them, and some were bitten 
in the head, None seemed to be dead when I first got out, 
but he might have killed some before they gave the alarm, 
but I believe not. The mink did not notice me or the light, 
except when I struck him, then he stuck up his bloody teeth 
at me, for a fight, apparently. 

I[haye handled these birds since, sometimes, for breeding 
and domestication, but like Mr, Mather, I ‘‘covered the well 
since the calf was drowned,” and at night confined the birds 
in aroom thet is mink, weasel and rat tight, the only safe 
way in this wild-woods country. At Cold Spring Harbor, I 
expected a better civilization. Louris A, Lenann, 

Micaiean, March 26. 


STEARNS’S NATURAL HISTORY OF 
LABRADOR. 


N the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the United States 

National Museum, there is a paper of twenty-seven pages, 

entitled ‘“Notes on the Natural History of Labrador,” by W. 
A. Stearns. 

Mr. Stearns made a summer excursion to Labradorin 1875, 
and spent nearly a year there in 1880-1881. He also visited 
the coast again duting the summer of 1882. His examina- 
tions were confined to the vicinity of the seaboard. The re- 
sults of these investigations are contained in this paper; and 
are presented in the form of briefly annotated lists of mam- 
mals, birds, ‘‘reptiles’” and batrachians, fishes, and plants. 
In his introductory remarks, Mr, Stearns states that the 
spring catch of the Newfoundland and other sealing vessels 
is from thirteen to sixteen thousand young seals. As a mat- 
ter of fact, a single vessel sometimes procures double 
this number. The anwual catch of the Newfoundland seal- 
ing fleet rarely falls below two hundred thousand, and com- 
monly ranges between three and four hundred thousand. 
Twelve times during the present century it has exceeded 
five hundred thousand; four times it passed six hundred 
thousand; and once it reached the extraordinary number of 
seven hundred and forty-six thousand! 

Tn the list of mammals, the silver and black foxes are ac- 
corded varictal distinction, 

The ringed seal or floe rat (Phoca fotida) is given as ‘‘not 
uncomwmen in harbors in spring and fall. Distinguished from 
last species [P. vitulina] only on close examination.” In view 
of the fact that this seal does not rank among the migratory 
species, is.it not possible that a still closer examination would 

emonstrate its identity with P. vitulina? If Mr. Stearns 
brought back so much as a single skull of the animal in ques- 
tion, and will submit it to either Mr. Allen or myself for ex- 
amination, the matter ean at once be settled, 

The absence of the large gray seal (Halicherus grypus) from 
the list is surprising. I know from personal observation that 
it is common at some of the localities mentioned, 

Our author says: ‘‘Regarding the deer of Labrador some 
confusion exists. Two species, about equally common, are 
found throughout the peninsula in small, or less frequently 
in large (800 or 400) herds. They are probably the following; 
Torandus rangifer, Brookes, var. Caribou, woodland cari- 
pou; and Jurandus rangifer, Brookes, yar. Gralandicus, 
barren ground caribou; Alces malchis(Linne) gray, the moose, 
and Cervus canadensis, Erxleben, the American elk, have 
both been reported as found on the southwest portion of 
Labrador, abott north from Anticosti, but they are doubt- 
less very rare and occasional.” 

LT regret that Icannot agree with Mr. Stearns in consider- 
ing it probable that both the woodland and barren ground 
caribou are found in Labrador; and his remarks concerning 
the moose and eJk are most unfortunate. I have seen no 
evidence to indicate that the elk ever inhabited the area 
under consideration; and the moose is known to be restricted 
in its eastern range (along the north shoré of the St. Law- 
rence) by the Saguenay. 

We are informed that the white whale (‘‘Delphinapterus”’ 
Bae is ‘‘common in the §t, Lawrence River, at least as 
far as Anticosti.” It is equally common at certain seasons 
off the entire Labrador coast, and great numbers of them 
annually pass through the Strait of Belle Isle. 

“Gray squirrels are said to occur here also, but I did not 
see any,” writes our author. The failure to inspect the gray 
squirre] on the far-off rocky coast, should not be attributed 
to negligence or bad eyesight; for Labrador is not only far 
north of itsknown range, but the physiographical conditions 
that obtain there are such as would preclude its occupancy 
by this animal, even if the area were not latitudinally ex- 
clnded from its habitat. 

The concluding mammal ‘is the little brown bat ( Vesper- 
tilio subulatus), and the record would be more acceptable 
were it accompanied by the name of the person who identi- 
fied the specimen. ; 

The list of birds contains one hundred and eleven species, 
and some startling statements. 

The record of the wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) has 
already been queried by Mr, Ridgway, and I will only add 
that I have found both the hermit and the olive-backed 
thrush breeding along the north shore of the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, 

The pine proebenk (Pinicola enucleator) is given as “com- 
mon in fall and winter.” It unquestionably breeds through- 
out Labrador, and I have myself found it breeding near Point 
de Monts. i 

The common Junco is said to be “not rare in spring and 
fall.’ Of course it breeds. The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus 
rupestris) is stated to be ‘not rare. Generally common in 
winter.” : : 

When the author, in referring to the discovery of the nest 
of the king eider (Somaterta speetabilis) on an island off Min- 
gan, says that he believes this to be *‘the first record of this 
rare nest found on the Atlantic,” he must employ the term 
Atlantic in a somewhat restricted sense, for the species is 


known to breed abundantly in Hudson’s Bay and Davis 
Strait, and probably along Northern Labrador as well. 

Mr. Stearns makes the extraordinary announcement that 
the Pacific eider (Somateria v-nigra) is “abundant in large 
flocks in spring.” If this statement can be authenticated, it 
is certainly a most interesting and valuable contribution to 
ornithological science, 

The Arctic tern (Sterna macrura)is given as “an abundant 
spring and fall migrant in the Gulf.” Large numbers breed 
af certain places along the coast. 

Under the head of ‘Reptiles and Batrachians,” our author 
tells us that he heard frogs “‘in the marshes about the mouth 
of Pinway River,” and enumerates Rana septentrionalis and 
Plethedon glutonosa as having been found by Dr. Packard, 
Without mentioning a single reptile he goes on tosay, “The 
reptilian fauna will probably be enlarged, but not toany great 
extent,” and passes directly to the consideratiom of fishes, 

Turning to the list of plants, we find 157 species enumer- 
ated, twenty-eight of which are glumaceous and eryptoga- 
mous, Hence, omitting the grasses and sedges, we have 
but 129 flowering plants, more than fifty of which are in- 
cluded on the authority of the Rev. 8. R. Butler, whose list 
was published in the Canadian Naturalist, in 1870. This 
leaves less than eighty species as the result of our author's 
botanical investigations during one entire year and two 
summers. That this is not wholly attributable to the meagre 
flora of Labrador is evident from the fact that I have myself 
found, in an hour’s time, nearly this number of species grow- 
ing ina single locality not remote from the seat of our 


author’s labors. C, Harr Merriam, M.D. 
Locust Grove, N. Y¥., March 12, 1884. 


was leaying the last piece of cover up went a wondcock, I 

think a male bird. A number of flocks of black ducks (4. 

obscura) were seen yesterday, March is going out like a lion 

this year. 5 Seg fee's 
SALEM, Mass. ‘ 


Here at St. Cloud, Minn., I have seen the following birds: 
Jan. 9, raven; Feb. 1, crows; March 14, one flock of seyen- 
teen ducks flying south; March 17, one duck flying west; 
March 23, one flock of geese, lit in farmer’s field; March 24, 
one flock of geese (wanted to light in Lake George at St. 
Cloud) and one meadow lark; March 25, killdeer plover, 
robins and blackbirds. That first flock of wild geese were 
reported to me by the farmer himself; he shot at-them but 
missed. We are having very nice weather here now. 

St. Croup, Minn:, March 26, Lang. 


Robins appeared here to-day, Crows were first heard on 
March 17. 
CENTRAL LAKE, Mich., March 25. 


. 


A rapid tour through Prospect Park this afternoon gave 
promise of the early arrival of the birds, Robins were quite 
plentiful, and I saw a yellow-shafted flicker. Rather early 
for him, is it not? Song sparrows sing cheerfully their 
quaint little song, and early in the morning the gray squirrel 
scampers about in play. JOHN BARRED?. 

Brooxtyn, N. ¥., March 22. 


A PROPOSED ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 


{HE following letter has been sent to several Congress- 
men at Washington, and sufficiently explains itself: 


Hon, W. B. Allison, 1,124 Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C: 
Dear Srr—Permit me to offer you the following suggestion 
respecting an amendment to the bill now before Congress 
relative to the National Park. During the past summer while 
I was viewing the National Park scenery, I conceived the idea 
of how valuable this Park would be to scientists, and conse- 
quently the world at large, provided that a part of it was set 
apart for a grand zoological garden. And that, since there 
seems to be some guarantee that the birds and animals—the 
latter such as are without claws—are to be preserved, at least 
so far as it is possible without strict confinement of these birds 
and animals, [ think that for the present only such a garden 
should be established as would keep within its bounds the fol- 
lowing described animals, mainly: The grizzly bear (Ursus 
horribilis), black bear (U. americanus), cinnamon bear (U. 
A, var. cinnamoneus). ~ And of the deer family the following: 
Moose (Cervus alees), wapiti or American elk (C. canadensis), 
woodland caribou or reindeer (C. tarandus), mule deer, (C. 
macrotis), black-tailed deer (C. coluwmbianus), common or 
Virginia deer (C. virginianus), barren ground caribou (0, tar- 
andus), All of these and many other animals could be con 
fined in a park or garden within the boundarjes of the National 
Park, Sane placing some one—an honest, competent observer 
—in charge, great benefit would be derived from the notes he 
would make, and which could then be published in like man- 
ner asthe reports of the Smithsonian Institute. ‘ 
At present but little is known respecting the hibernating ot 
yarious animals, and particularly of the several species of 
bears. In the zoological gardens in this country and Europe 
these animals are so closely confined that but little oppor- 
tunity is given the animal to present his natura] inclinations, 
or that which might be considered his instinctive qualitica- 
tions. Again, I can find no record that a bear bas ever giyen 
birth toa cub while in confinement. Lions are not so disposed 
and more readily adapt themselves to the conditions of life 
into which they are placed, and often give birth to young 
while in confinement. A very interesting study is that of tor- 
‘pidity of animals, and one which in the near future will be of 
great service in-working out many vexatious problems con- 
nected with the study of Nature. The location of the National 
Park is of very great value for this particular study; not that 
animals (and perhaps birds) do not hibernate In warmer 
climates as well asin that latitude and altitude, but that the 
periods of hibernation-would be much longer and thereby give 
‘reater length of time for study; and further, that for study 
uring the summer (or breeding months) there could be no 
better place found. It is well known that just such sur- 
roundings as are found inthe Park—the caves, dreary and 
lonely places amid rocks and underbrush, plenty of clear, cold 
mountain water, and with the ever cool atmosphere of the 
high altitude there found—is Nature’s breeding place for the 
largest of the animals we call ‘‘game.” And while this is the 
fact respecting the advantages there found for the preserva- 
tion of the family of bears, itis equally as serviceable for the 
propagation of the various deer of America. With the ex- 
ception of that very valuable report upon the study of “The 
Antelope and Deer of America,” by Judge Caton, of Illinois, 
we have but little knowledge respecting the habits of the an- 
telope or deer of America; and this work isnone else than 
Judge Caton’s report of his study of the animals in question 
while in his private park in Ilinois, Outside of this mono- 
graph we have absolutely nothing describing accurately these 
animals, and were it not for the energy and studious nature 
ot Judge Caton, this interesting family of animals would have 
been but very little known. f 
But a few years longer can we expect, with the grand 
waves of immigration now moying from East to West and 
West to East, that bears, deer and many other interesting 
animals can be found in the wild state; and shall we let them 
meet the ill-fated hand of destruction, and to be known then 
in history only as the ‘extinct animals?” I earnestly hope 
some action can be taken that will preserve at least a few of 
these noble representatives of the fauna of this country, and 
that, too, in connection with our park, which, like our Ursus 
horribilis, is without equal. All the animals aboye named 
can be raised in the National Park, and I might add the 
“mountain buffalo” is found on Specimen Mountain, and it is 
claimed cannot be found in any other pare of the world. Other 
animals I might mention which that climate would be suitable 
for raising in, and would alike prove of great service to the 
scientific world, are antelope (Antilocapra americana), moun- 
tain sheep (Ovis montana), mountain goat acer mon- 
tanus), buffalo (Bos americanus). The last 1 think would 
prove of very great value by crossing with our native cattle 
for the purpose of producing a hardier breed of cattle. _ 
Merely as asuggestion I submit the above, and if consistent, 
desire that an amendment be added to the bill now betore 
Congress, embracing the substance of the above suggestion, 
or as may be improved upon by a more worthy hand. 
Iam, very tealy. D, H. TALBOT. 
‘Stoux Crry, lowa, March 6, 1884, 


[The establishment of such a garden we believe to be per- 
fectly feasible, and there can be no doubt that in proper 
hands it would be of great benefit to science, Undertaken 
at first for the purpose of preserving our native mammals, 
it might afterward come to have a much wider scope], 


AN INTERESTING RELIC. 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

T regard the facts in the case L am about to report as suffi- 
ciently interesting to be worthy of publication in your 
columns, believing they will be re- 
ceived with appreciation by the gen- 
eral subscribers to your issue, and 
afford material for speculation to 
those who may regard the matter 
from an ethnological or ornitholog- 
ical point of view. 

About a fortnight since, while on 
a gunning expedition to one of the 
small islands in Chesapéake Bay, 
Mr. James Frick, of this city, cap- 
tured a specimen of the wild swan. 
Though I did not havé an opportu- 
nity of examining the fresh speci- 
men, when brought down, I am in- 
formed that it was of ayerage size. 
There were no observations made to 
determine the sex or probable age. 
The curious feature of the case was 
disclosed, however, after the bird 
was prepared for the table, and sub- 
jected to the carving knife, when 
‘an iron arrow or spear head was dis- 
covered beneath the pectoral mus- 
cles, and lying against the breast- 
bone. The sharp end was buried in 
the bone to the depth of a quarter of 
an inch, and when extracted showed 
a slight bend near the tip. The whole 
instrument was covered by a mem- 
branous sheath, uo sign remaining 
in the region of the original wound 
by which the probable time of its 
infliction could be approximated. 

The accompanying sketch I have 
made in exact aceordance with the 
shape and dimensions of the orig- 
inal, trusting that it may be given 
in accompaniment with the relative 
statements. The iron is - of an 
inch in thickness. 

Since the range of territory fre- 
quented by the swan during the 
breeding and migratory seasons is 
very extensive, if becomes an inter- 
esting problem to assign the origin 
of this bit of iron, unless these facts 
come under the observation of one 
familiar with the implements characteristic of Indian, 
Esquimaux or other savages. P, Bryson Woop, M.D. 

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BIRD NOTES, 


W GODCOCK are here, so are robins, «bluebirds, song 
sparrows and fox sparrows, red-winged blackbirds 

and golden-winged woodpeckers. 1 have also seen lesser 

redpoll linnets, and quite a number of yellowrumped warb- 

ters (D. coronata). A good deal of ice in our ponds, but the 

snow is fast disappearing. X. Y, Z. 
Sanmm, Mass,, March 22, 1884. 


Wild ducks were shot here on the 17th insl.; two out of a 
flock of six. They were black ducks, DELL WELLS, 
M-ANTORVILLE, Minn., March 22, 


Saw first wild geese Monday, March 17, bluebirds, rob- 
ins, blackbirds, March 19, black duck, mallard, whistlers 
and bluebills March 23; there is a good flight of ducks here 
now. W. M. & 

Woopyitun, N, Y;, March 23. 


Geese and ducks put in an appearance on the 20th; 21st 
robins and blackbirds, and the familiar “‘scaipe’’ of the snipe 
was heard. This morning blue and other birds, and the air 
is fullof song. Crows remained with us all winter. 

RoOsSENDALE, Wis., March 22. ; 5. B. D. 


Though snow is still on the ground, some of our songsters 
have arrived, viz,, robins, blackbirds, and what is known 
here as the Canadian nightingale. The quail that were im- 
ported and turned loose at Lachine about three years ago 
have all gone. TuQquE BLEUE. 


Monrrmat, Canada, March 28, Frew AGarnst THE Winpow.—Yesterday, April 2, two 


yellow-bellied woodpeckers (Sphyrapieus varius), still warm, 
were brought into this office. A few moments before, the 
pirds, one pursuing the other, had flown against the plate- 
glass windows of the Z7%mes office and been killed. It was 
rather an odd place for this to happen, in the heart of ‘the | 
city. They must have been resting in the City Hall Park, — 
and, chasing each other either in sport or rage, have so met 
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Up toa week ago the season was backward, but since 
then it has been much more forward, and woodeock have 
been frequently seen; but last night very suddenly the 
weather changed, and people upon getting out of bed this 
morning found a raging snow storm with drifts two to four 
feet. deep, all done in a night. Curious tosee if I could tind 
any woodcock, I took a walk this afternoon, and just as I 


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Goy. Crinton on THH Muskrat as A DesTROYER OF 
Frsu.— Since writing the article published in your last issue 
upon the muskrat asa fish eater, | have discovered important 
additional testimony. In the year 1820 there appeared in a 
New York newspaper (7/ie Statesman) a series of articles of 
no ordinary interest, They were entitled ‘Letters on the 
Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New 
York, by Hibernicus.” They attracted so much attention, 
and the demand for them was so great, that they were re- 
printed in book form in 1822. Their real author was Gov. 
DeWitt Clinton, a man of letfers, eminent as ® statesman, 
distinguished as a scientist, and justly celebrated as a phil- 
osopher, In the ninth letter he speaks of the muskrat as the 
most formidable foe of the canal, stating that it perforates 
the banks and thus lets off the water. Respecting this ani- 
mal as a fish eater, he says: “In winter, when the water 1s 
frozen, muskrats go under the ice and prey on the fish. They 
are very destructive to trout, which is already in the canal, 
—G, Harv Mernram, M.D. (Locust Grove, N. Y., March 
29, 1884). 


Avnrtno Ronr.—A robin, with white wings and tail, was 


observed in 2 flock of robins here on Wednesday, March 19,* 


I regret that we were unable to secure it, although we did 
succeed in getting one long shot at it.—H. W. C. (Rye, 
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Gume Bag and Gan. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

T have read with keen interest the discussion in your col- 
umns on the ‘Choice of Hunting Rifles.” Having been ab- 
sent in Canada since Jast November, whither Forrest anp 
Stream does not follow me, being too readily appreciated 
toreach me in a transient wrapper, | have read the whole 
series almost at a single sitting. Ihave found a great deal to 
instruct, some things to amuse, and one thing which astounds 
me; and this last is the statement that twenty-six repeating 
rifles were every one rendered perfectly useless by a four 
days’ march. The first repeating rifle lever owned was a 
Henry, which had ‘seen four years’ service and something 
like eighty engagements in the Ist Maine Calvary, and wasin 
perfect working when I got it, although I was obliged to get 
anew magazine spring shortly afterward, the old one being 
worn out by its friction against some slight dents in the side 
of the tube. Repeating rifles hang on the saddles of vaque- 
tos for weeks and months, and are always ready for use, 
unless filled with sand, which will disable any breechloading 

un. 

Of all the articles written, the first two of Mr. Van Dyke’s 
came the nearest to my views on this subject; but I utterly 
dissent from his deductions contained in thethird. I firmly 
believe that a .40-caliber bullet propelled by the same amount 
of powder will strike with greater force than a .45, or any 
larger caliber. We are taught that the striking force of a 
projectile is the square of its velocity multiplied by its 
weight, and the resistance of the atmosphere as the square of 
its diameter, without regard to length, unless there may be 
a slight increase of friction in very long bodies, but probably 
not to be estimated in bulleis. If these premises be granted, 
then it follows that the proper mode to get the greatest 
amount of force from a given weight of powder and lead is 
to put the latter in the form of a long projectile of small, 
rather than a short one of large, diameter. And now, as I 
believe in one’s haying the courage to state one’s convictions, 
however startling, [am going to say that I do not believe 
in the ‘‘shock” theory; and by that I mean that no ordinary 
rifle bal will “paralyze” a deer, if not placed in a vital spot, 
or to make my meaning clearer, I do not believe that a deer 
will stop any quicker or die any sooner with a .60-caliber 
bullet through it than it will with a .40-caliber, provided 
both go exactly in the same place; and when I speak of parts 
‘not vital” I do not mean the hips, as that is one of the 
deadliest of places to strike a deer, moose, or caribou when 
standing broadside to. 

The first wounded deer I ever followed was an old doe in 
October,shot through and through by a young fellow armed 
with an old U, S, army musket, called in those daysa ‘‘hoop 
gun,” carrying a ball of about 14 ounces, She bled freely from 
both sides, seemingly but little back of the shoulders, but 
after tracking her a mile the blood almost ceased to flow, and 
we finally lost her after spending half a day scouring the 
woods in every direction. My experience and belief in the 
superior killing power ot the smull-bore rifie over that of the 
large, owing to the greater velocity at which the former can 
be propelled, was acquired thirty years ago hy mere accident, 
ae as practice is always better than theory, I will give the 

acts. 

* At that time [ owned a beautiful ‘‘double-shootef” muz- 
zieloading rifle, made to order for me by H. L. Leonard, the 
well-known maker of fishing rods. Probably many of the 
older readers of FoRmEst AND SrrEAM will remember those 


rifles, ‘They were invented in Pennsylvania by a brother of 
Leonard's. Two charges were loaded in a single barrel, the 


bullet of the back charge serving as a breech pin for the for- 
ward one. A second tube and cylinder was inserted at this 
point, connecting with the hammers by a slide, which was 
thrown up by loosening a catch when shooting the back 
charge. All the advantages of a single barrel were retained 
by these rifles, but-great care was necessary in loading the 
back charge to prevent a double explosion, often resultiny in 
blown out cylinders and a recoil that would knock down an 
Ox, 
At the beginning of the hunting season of 1854, while 
hastily loading this rifle, with a big buck standing in full 
view, the ferrule came off the end of my starter, and stuck 
firmly around the end of the pointed bullet, Instead of 
going home and removing the obstruction by taking out the 
breech-pin, [ did what I fancy most hunters would do under 
the circumstances—rammed the whole thing down and fired. 
The bullet was forced through the ferrule about midway the 
length of the barrel, bulging it to such an extent as to be 
casily seen on the outside, and the bore, on looking through 
it, looked exactly as if a piece three inches long had fallen 
oul all around it. I couldn't hit a flour barrel hatf the time 
at 100 yards. I was obliged to carry the gun to Bangor at 
once to have anew barrel fitted, The only one 1 could get 
ic fitted the stock wasa beautiful east steel Remington 

barrel, carrying 86 bullets to the “pound (avoirdupois) by 
actual weight. This,I take it, is about .38-caliber. On 
loading this new barrel I found that the same charge of pow- 
der that I used in the former barrel not only filled the small 
bore up so far as to bring the bullet opposite the forward 


eylinder, thus rendering double-shooting impossible, but 
also blew unburned powder ont on the snow. 

To remedy this defect, I had a hole the size of the bore 
drilled back, an inch and a quarter, in the breech pin. This 
brought thé fire nearly into the middle of the powder, and 
the result was so surprising and unlooked for, that it com- 
pletely revolutionized all my ideas on the subject of rifle 
bores, On testing it [found that more powder would burn 
than I cared to stand up against, although the rifle weighed 
ten pounds, J sighted it to a point-blank at 50 yards, with 
a pointed bullet of extra length (14-inch) using about 4 drams 
best F dead shot powder. At 52 rods, holding the same asat 
50 yards, the drop was just nine inches. 1 used this gun for 
nine years, and its killing power exceed that of any gun I 
ever saw. I fired at sixteen moose with it during that time, 
every one of which I killed; using the second shot on only 
three. Can any bore show a better record? Many a time I 
have put my fist tbrough fhe hole made in a deer’s “‘lights” 
by this bullet. Twice I killed two deer at one shot with it, 
the bullet passing through both deer in each instance, and it 
would crash straight through the shonlders of the largest 
bull moose, and out on the further side, I parted with it on 
going into the seryice, and have never yet seen its equal. 
At present Tam using a .40-60-260 repeater, and its per- 
formance is very satisfactory. I killed ten deer with it last 
season at thirteen shots, one of which was a miss; and five 
this season at six shots, the sixth being an unecessary one 
at an old buck, already pierced within two inches of his 
heart by the first bullet. My ideal repeater is .40-caliber, 
80 grains powder, 240 grdins lead. 

In my opinion, the greatest desideratum next to accuracy 
is a flat trajectory, and in the above rifle you obtain it, with 
sufficient force for any game short of grizzlies, and deadly 
enough for them if a man has the nerve tostand their charge 
coolly, and none others ought to hunt grizzlies. I have no 
belief that a rifle can be made that will kill large game im- 
mediutely when not hit in a vital spot, and only ask for one 
that will send direct to the spot aimed at, with the least pos- 
sible drop or variation, with sufficient force to go straight 
through the game. Muny hunters lay great stress on a large 
bullet letting out the blood, Any bullet is large enough to 
sever the arteries, and the blood flows the same, whether in- 
side or out; and the most fatal wounds rarely bleed much out- 
side. 

I hope that some of our repeating-rifle makers will make a 
rifle of the above proportions, if only for experiment, to try 
the range, trajectory and penetration, and let. us know the 
result, PENOBSCOT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been greatly interested in the discussion that has 
been going on in Forust anp STRHAM in regard to the 
hunting rifle, and although the subject has been almost ex- 
haustively treated by several of your able correspondents, one 
idea seems to have escaped their attention. 

For target shooting no one has need of a repeater, and for 
ordinary hunting, such as we haye this side of the Rocky 
Mountains, I cannot see why the better-proportioned single- 
loading breechloader does not answer every purpose. ‘Those 
who favor the repeater for dangerous game are in a fair way 
to obtain just what they want, for the discussion has made 
it apparent that one that takes from 90 to 120 grains of pow- 
der, and a bullet of from 300 to 500 grains, of from .40 to 
.50 and even larger caliber, is what is wauted, and the prob- 
ability is that the manufacturers will supply it. 

For dangerous game it does not seem to me that any rifle 
with but one lock is quite safe, for a gun lock is liable to fail 
at any moment, A hammer may break, or the firing-pin or 
some spring may give out, or a shell stick, and it is just at 
such a critical moment that the second barrel is needed. It 
is clearly evident to my mind that a double express rifle, all 
things considered, of large bore, is the arm for the sportsman 
to depend on while hunting large game. ‘This rifle, if well 
made, will shoot with great accuracy at all hunting dis- 
tances, but the troubleis, an imported arm costs so much 
that none but well-to-do sportsmen can afford them. 

If some of our manufacturers would place on the market, 
or make to order a double express for about $150, the barrels 
of which should be so set that both would shoot alike at 
hunting distances, a good sale for them would be certain. 

There is an art in setting the barrels so they will shoot as 
accurately as the high-priced English guns of course, but in- 
genuity can overcome all the difficulties so that a good rifle 
at even less than the price named, can be manufactured. 
Those_who desire may have interchangeable barrels—one set 
of large caliber and the other of small, or a pair of shot bar- 
rels may fit the same stock. 

I have always preferred the Maynard, on account of this 
feature of the arm, as the barrels may be changed in a 
moment. I have one barrel of .50-caliber with a slow twist 
—one turn in 60 inches—for round or light conical bullets, 
and at all hunting distanses the round bullets are perfectly 
accurate. The shell is loaded full (70 grains, or 100 if so 
chambered) with powder, anda thick leather wad, and the 
balls are inserted in the barrel at the breech, which when 
closed seats them firmly in the grooves forward of the 
chamber, 

The .32-caliber barrel has been rechambered for Farrow’s 
new cartridge, which, for the 115-grain bullet, gives a very 
flat trajectory, and is just the thing for target and squirrel 
shooting. He has brought out a new bullet of .32-caliber, 
about 24 diameters long, that flies with remarkable precision 
at allranges up to 600 yards, but it would be better if the 
cartridge would take 50erains powder, instead of 35, for that, 
150-grain naked and grooved bullet, and 1 hope to see such a 
cartridge ere long, 

I have used all sorts of sights on’ my rifles, but have 
adopted the Lyman adjustable rear sight, and a hard rubber 
fixed sight in front of breech, made as described in Van 
Dyke’s book —‘‘The Still Hunter’—‘‘plain and flat on top,” 
with the addition of the platinum line down the middle of it, 
but not reaching the top within a twentieth of an inch, after 
the English method. Block tin is just as good, and will keep 
bright, and costs nothing. These and an ivory sight on the 
muzzle, or an iron or steel one faced with platinum, or block 
tin, complete the set. A person who is at all near-sighted 
and wears glasses, must have the middle sight set well for- 
ward or it will not be clear. For hunting, the muzzle sight 
should not rise more than three-sixteenths or a quarter of un 
inch, and the middle sight be so set that the point-blank will 
be fifty yards. Then when 100 or 150 yards intervene, throw 
up the Lyman sight, If longer distances are required, make 
the point-blank 1€0 yards, and set the reur sight for 150 or 
200. There is nothing new in all this, but many who read 
the FoREST AND STREAM, have not had experience enough 
to have proved the utility of this simple arrangement of 


| sights, so some of these matters bear repeating. 


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Some one has adyocated .25-caliber, and when one is pro- 
duced, I hope the cartridge will be made long enough to give 
fi powder and bullet proportion of at least-one to three, and 
one to two and a half or even two, would be better still, as 
the resultant trajectory would be very flat. A bullet well 
hardened would give excellent results, and a pop-gun would 
be secured for small game that would be first-class. I tried 
in vain to get good shooting from my .82-caliber rifle with 
the bullet that was furnished me, that had a nick at the base, 
and not until I altered the molds at that point, and enlarged 
the front of the bullet so if would seat firmly in the rifling, 
was it secured, This is referred to, that whoever puts a new 
bullet on the market, may not make a mistake in its form. 

TUNXIS. 
RryerTon, Conn., March 17. 


Editor Forest und Stream: 

Let us have a little discussion upon the subject of hunting 
rifle cartridges. They do not contain suflicient powder. 
proper charge of powder for rifles, from .22 to .40-caliber, will 
fill the bore a distance of five times its diameter, and the lead 
should be sufficient to fill the bore for the space of two 
diameters. The gun ought to weigh one quarter as many 
pounds as the caliber is hundredths of an inch. These pro- 
portions in cartridge and gun will give better average results 
than any others I have tried, 

Nearly all the cartridges offered by manufacturers of less 
than .40-caliber, do not have a reasonable amount of powder 
to give the gun a possible chance of doing decent execution 
at 1 greater distance than fifty yards. If we are using a .44 
gun, they are willing to doup our powder in liberal packages, 
100 grains or more, bu! when we take out our .32 rifle, we 
are compelled to use squibs, or load from the muzzle, 

None of these calibers are large enough for deer or heayier 
game. A .50-bore, with about one anda half calibers of 
lead, and all the powder the shooter can endure, will kill 
more large game than any smaller gun, However, wirn the 
caliber is enlarged beyond .40, either the gun, or cartridge, 
or man, is not in good proportion, and if you give the ball a 
low trajectory for two hundred yards, the inevitable result 
will be a high initial velocity of the man and vice versa. 

Give the .32 rifle 50 grains of powder and 150 of lead and 
then test its shooting from one hundred to three ane 

L. 0. C. 


ards. 
Sr, Pau, Minn. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Doubtless most of the different ‘‘shotgun” reports that have 
appeared in the Formst ap STREAM of late, are from ac- 
tual tests, and therefore valuable, 9s showing the opinions of 
the differest shooters, as well as the performance of the dif- 
ferent guns, But when ‘“‘Ogeechee” and ‘‘Mark Ivel’’ re- 
port killing deer, geese and ducks at 100 to 120 yards, one 
cannot help thinking they are writing for the first prize in 
the next *‘Camp Fire Flickerings,” where facts are at a dis- 
count. 
held on at 100 yards—ought never to be fired at game till the 
100 yards are passed, in order to give it at least a small 
chance for its life. 

My experience coyers over fifty years of shooting, and em- 
braces all gauges, from 6 to 16, both inclusive, flint locks, 
muzzle and breechloaders, and my yote is for breechloader 
first and at all times; both for safety and convenience. But 
as to gauge, that depends entirely on the purpose of the 
shooter. If he shoots for the market or slaughter, he will be 
satisfied with nothing smaller than an 8 or 10-yauge. Butif 
for sport and recreation, he needs nothing larger than 12 to 
16-gauge. What sportsman would not rather bag a dozen 
birds with fifteen to twenty shells—which will be a full 
average, on ducks, at least—with a small gauge, rather than 
get the same, or twice the number, from one or two shots 
into a flock, with a small cannon? 1 say nothing of the 
cripples that are sure to be made in flock shooting. 

At present lown butasingle gun, whichisa W. & C. 
Scott & Co. 12-gauge 30-inch. : 

My charge for ducks is 34 drams powder, 14 ounces No. 6 
shot, and I am able to report a success that ought to satisfy 
any reasonable sportsman. J. H. D, 

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 


Editor Forest and Stream. 

Guns have very aptly been divided into classes, and it 
might not be inappropriate to divide sportsmen, or rather, 
the owners of guns, into classes. Your practical sportsman, 
he who loves the invigorating and healthful exercise of true 
sport, that delichts in ranging field, forest and stream in 
quest of whatsoever game may fall to his lot or share, is the 
type of one class, To the other belongs the man who is con- 
tent with the evanescent glory of being called a sportsman. 
Such are the men who have owned boats they could notsail; 
if by any chance, cast upon their own resources, on their 
own craft, struck with a capful of wind, they would know 
not what to do; owners of fly-rods and fishing tackle they 
could not manage; of blooded race horses they could neither 
ride nor drive, and last but not least, of guns they could not 
shoot, or if perchance they did, it would solely be for the 
purpose of making a noise and displaying ‘‘a thing of beauty,” 
but alas! not always ‘‘a joy forever,” 

To the latter class it is a matter of indifference, whether 
in point of practical performance the gun isa good one, 
choked or unchoked, or what not; so thatit has what is 
rather erroneously termed a reputation, particularly if its 
praises be extensively sounded as endowed with all sorts of 
qualities which it may not possess, and moreover, if it be 
“fair to look upon,” that is enough. Your drawing-room 
sportsman is ready on any and cyery occasion to rise and 
maintain the pretentions of the thing, however preposterous 
they may be in point of fact, 

I think it may be fairly assumed that your true sportsman 
is, as a general rule, intensely practical; he delights in ex- 
amining into the why and wherefore of things; the chief 
happiness and enjoymentin his pursuits depends in a great 
measure upon this very faculty, upon it hangs all success, 
His working tools must be up to the highest standard pos- 
sible to attain, if they fall short in any particular. he casts 
about to know why, and to remedy the evil if possible. 
Theory to him is bosh, if the idea involved cin neither be 
carried into practice by himself nor any of his co-workers. 

It is not proper to dub such men old fogies, stubborn, 
prejudiced, ignorant, and all that, Ignorant we are of many 
things, if we Knew it all we would cease asking questions 
or trying to learn. If the worthy expertsin the art knew 
it.all, the many faults and errors that have from time to 
time obtained a footing, would have been entirely done away 
with long ago. ; 

In making coniparisons asp to performance between dit- 


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ferent guns, the only fair and equitable basis upon which we 
can act, in order to obtain any definite result, is to fire the 
#uus respectively under the same conditions identically as to 
distance, size of target, weight and caliber of gun, quantity 
and quality of charge, and method of loading, Range, dis- 
tribution and penetration can then be all or severally com- 
pared upon a basis of equality. To alter the conditions, for 
instance, to shoot a 4-gauge duck gun, against a light 12- 
gauge fowling piece, even should all other conditions be 
equal, would necessitate an allowance in favor of the lighter 
gun hy reason of the enormous extra weight, caliber and 
charge of the larger gun. 

This, | maintain, is the only way in which a just com- 
parison can be made. The testimony of those who have at 
one time or other made what they consider an extraordinary 
shot, or who own some wonder of a gun, is irrelevant; it 
affords no basis for a comparison; under these latter circum- 
stances you can scarcely compare successive shots with the 
same gun with any certainty; probably not a man who has 
handled a gun but has made some such shots; I could relate 
several I have made; they are abnormal, out of the usual 
order of things; the man may fire in mere wantonness, the 
excitement of the moment, or probably despairing of obtain- 
ing any other or better chance, for instance, at a flock of 
wild geese at a great distance, he fortunately bags one, paces 
oif the distance perhaps, finds he has killed it at 100 paces or 
more, in ecstacy at his totally unexpected success he sets his 
gun down as a 100-yard gun, and good for that all the time, 

he probability is that same gun, charged in the same way 
and well held on the game, might be fired 100 rounds at the 
same distance and not bag another bird. 

There is a limit, an average killing distance, at which we 
may expect certain results; make comparisons at that range, 
if the gun performs well at that, all well; you then have 
just as good chance for making an extraordinary long or 
good shot as any man with any gun whatsoever, I take it 
as an indisputable fact, proved -by the long experience of 
eyery Iman who shoots a shotgun, of whatsoever style or 
make, that if the gun performs well and is a good stron 
shooter at the average range or distance, it will prove a goo 
performer at eyen greater or less distances, with charges 
altered to suit the designs to be accomplished, provided you 
do no material violence to the proper proportions suitable 
therefor. Our best shots and most successful sportsmen 
_ frequently are wen of one gun. 

I cannot altogether agree with the views expressed by 
many that slight inaccuracies or deficiencies in loading are 
responsible for failure in performance. That such errors 
will and do affect the shooting to a limited extent I admit, 
but thev will not produce a complete failure at both target 
and game. ‘ 

Let us call up the old muzzleloader again at the risk of 
being charged with prejudice, I merely do so to institute a 
comparison, For several years I used a muzzleloader, 10- 
gauge, 30-inch laminated barrels, weight about 82 pounds. 
I have used if on the Delaware marshes shooting rail and 
reéd birds, charging with barely an ounce of No.8 or 9 shot, 
same measure or bulk (not weight) of Dupont’s No. 2 duck 
powder, Did you run out of cut wads, utilize the old 
newspaper that chanced to bé in your pocket. Under such 
circumstances I never could discover any. very materia) det- 
riment to the shooting. I shot away and bagged my game 
as usual. I used the same gun for upland shooting of all 
kinds; in wild duck shooting on the Sassafras and Elk rivers, 
loading it on such occasions to its full powers, with 14 ounces 
No, 4 sbot and 4drams powder. If using a wire cartridge 
for long shots, I put in eyery grain of powder the gun would 
comfortably bear. I used the same gun in West Virginia 
deer hunting, using a wire cartride charged with buckshot, 
backed with a heavy charge of powder as above, and have 
killed over forty deer with it, With such a charge I always 
considered myself sure of venison, with anything like a fair 
shot at 60 yards or under, and I have made a few chance 
shots at greater distances. I never had the least cause to 
complain of its performance under any of the various cir- 
cumstances and conditions. J was ‘‘right there” all the time, 
and it was just such a gun as one could tie to. 

Now, I firmly believe, and am satisfied that a good breech- 
loader will not do as well, but much better, by reason of its 
many decided advantages. But, as the complaint comes up 
on all sides of wretched failures as to shooting qualifications, 
there must evidently be a deeper seated cause than a mere 
error in loading. My own observations and tests lead me to 
believe that excessive choke-boring cannot be enumerated as 
one of the advantages of the breechloader. It %& a positive 
disadvantage when carried to the excess of what is termed a 
full choke—an abomination. Ihave tested some guns that 
would gauge 10 at the forward end of the chamber, and 
scarcely 14 at the muzzle, a difference in diametcr or gauge 
of strong four sizes, with all of that choke at the muzzle, or 
within from a half to three-quarters of an inch of the muzzle 
and drawn down or rounded off quite short. This is what 
I presume is called a full choke. [am not equal to the task 
nor shall 1 make any attempt to use technical terms, nor to 
describe other systems of choke, etc. Most manufacturers 
of prominence have their own ideas and systems, and we can 
afford to take their word for whatever they represent their 
guns to be; but the system I haye here briefly and crudely 
described is what will be found in the common run of guns 
tliat are called full choke. Guns bored upon this system will, 
nine times out of ten, prove to be greatly lacking both in 
force and closeness (the very essentials they are reputed to 
possess) and no possible method of loading them will remedy 
this defect where it exists, 

There is a notion prevalent with many that chokeboring 
is a new idea, introduced and contemporary with the recent 
general introduction of the breechloader; this is an error, it 
is simply an old idea in a new dress. In some of its various 
modified forms it was tested and used years ago. It frequently 
happened that the muzzleloader shot wildly or scattered its 
charge too much to be effective; an examination of the bore 
would sometimes disclose it to be contracted at the breech, not 
a true cylinder throughout; the boring out of this contracted 
purt, or probably as sometimes done, enlarging it the least ap- 
preciable degree at the breech, and drawing toward the muz- 
zle would generally remedy thedefect. If the job were over- 
done, however, the contrary effect was apt lo result, an ag- 
grayation of the defect, This was termed by some gun- 
smiths drawboring, by others jugboring, and others may 
have had other terms expressive of the same idea. 

In tooking oyer an old volume of United States Patent 
Office reports, some thirty years back, my attention was 
attracted to specifications of a patent issued to an American 
gunsmith for a system of boring shotgun barrels in a series 
of sections of their length, alternately large, then smaller in 
gauge (a succession of chokes and open cylinders as ib were), 
claiming the effect to be, greatly increased force and close- 


ness of distribution. T don’t suppose his idea ever reached. 
much beyond the pages of that dusty record, I suppose 
practically the verdict was, ‘weighed in the balance and 
found wanting.” So it will be with the full choke, time and 
a few more practical tests will decide it. 

, Upon the recent general introduction of the breechloader, 
in some inexplicable way. chokéboring systems put on new 
garments and took front rank; having long before been de- 
monstrated that in some cases a small degrec of choke im- 
proved and increased the effectiveness of the gun, the deduc- 
tion therefrom was easy and natural; a little being some- 
times good, more would be better. We at once had full 
choke on us, assuming the features of a popular furore. The 
whole thing was comparatively new tothe masses. Full 
choke was heralded as the cardinal virtue of the new breech- 
loader; if the sportsman had an old cylinder bore that shot 
ever so well, he must procure a gun of similar size full 
choked, and the shooting would be doubled in range, force 
and closeness in every point that goes to make up effective- 
ness; that seemed to be the popular and almost universal 
opinion immediately. A seneral demand sprang up for it at 
once, many stopping neither to test nor consider. As a con- 
sequence, many got just a little too much of it. Manufac- 
turers are not to be growled at for the failures; the public 
made the demand; they got just what they wanted for their 
money. Time enough has elapsed for the ardor manifested 
in favor of this chimerical notion to have cooled off. 

_ Lhave extended this article to much greater Jength than I 
intended, and have merely to gay, in conclusion, that from 
the experiments some of my friends and myself have been 
conducting, my advice to all who have guns that are heavily 
choked that fail to come upto even a mediocre performance, 
have your gunsmith take out at least a portion of that choke, 
and you will be astonished at the improvement in the shoot- 


ing. BACKWoopDs. 
Brverzty, W. Va. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The discussion on the performance of shotguns in the 
columns of Formsr AND SfREAM will do much toward edu- 
cating young sportsmen up to the necessity of exercising care 
and judgment in the selection of agun. There is everything 
in the ‘‘individual’ gun, and more in choosing a gun adapted 
to the individual, Every sportsman knows what he wants 
for a gun, and his want is based on his personal experience, 
and there are very few who have had precisely the same 
experience. In the last five years I haye experimented 
with at least ten guns of different make, weight and gauge, 
and as a resull have settled down on two guns, The first 
for wing shooting is a Buckley hammerless, 10-gauge, 30- 
inch barrels, weighs 94 pounds, light at the muzzle, broad 
and heavy at the breech, and though a large gun, handles 
very light and easy. I load with 4 drams powder, 1} ounces 
shot, and use 3 Ely’s p. e. wads on powder. I think I can 
show as good results with 4 drams of powder and three 
wads, as with 5 drams powder and two wads, and I find no 
wads equal to Ely’s. With above load, using No. 9 shot, 
this gun patterns with right barrel 487 pellets, and with left 
barrel 549 pellets in 80-inch circle at 40 yards, very evenly 
distributed, I have frequently broken glass balls on a stick 
at 60 yards. I can fire 100 shots without the least inconyeni- 
ence from recoil. This fills my idea of a gun, 

My experience with a 12-gauge gun was very unsatis- 
factory. The sun made a very good pattern, but 1 had no 
confidence in it, and therefore no success with it. it was not 
suitable to my size and weight (6 feet, 170 pounds), and 
length and strength of arm, there wasn’t gun enough for the 
man. Ihavea friend who is a short, light weight, who 
does excellent work with a 7-pound 12-gauge, which indi- 
cates that the @un and gunner must be suited to each other 
in order to obtain satisfactory results. 

My second gun for all-round shooting is a Baker, three 
barrel, 10-gauge, 30-inch barrels, and weighs 10 pounds. 
The rifle takes a .44-40-200 cartridge, is very accurate, has 
put three bullets in succession in a 6-inch ring at 275 yards, 
and has killed rabbits at 100 yards; 10 foxes have fallen to 
the shotgun this winter, one at 75 and one at 80 yards, 
measured. For buckshot it excels. I load with 5 drams of 
powder and 21 No. 3 buekshot, and can put 13 into the fore- 
quarter of a deer at 40 yards, or 5 into an 8-inch ring at 50 
yards. Would like the opinion of some old hunters on how 
to Joad a buckshot gun for deer. W. J~. 

Boston; Mass. 


Editor Forest and Stream. 
‘‘California’’ says that he has not been able to discover the 
difference between one wad and two over powder. There 
isa vast difference with my gun, but it isin favor of one 
wad. Ican do much better shooting with one wad over 
powder than two. | tried one shot withont any wad between 
the powder and shot. I shot it in a board 18 inches square, 
distance 40 yards, 33 drams powder, 1} ounces No. 6 shot. 
There were only 5 shot struck the board, and they only 
stuck. I would not be afraid to let ‘‘California” shoot at 
me at 50 yards with that kind of a load, I have been trying 
to get up a bet with some of the boys around here that I can 
kill two chickens (one year old roosters) out of three, at 70 
yards, to be shot ut separately, with a charge of 3% drams 
powder and 1} ounces No. 5 shot, but I cannot get any one 
to take me up, because they know what my gun will do, If 
have shot at a sugar barrel head at 80 yards, and put 10 No. 
5 shot init. Four of the shot penetrated the wood (sugar 
pine) + of an inch, all of them were driven in more than the 
depth of the shot. My gun is .12-380-84; there are no shell 
chambers in it. Ido not think that the chambers are any 
benefit to any gun; I will shoot my gun against any 12-gauge 
gun for penetration, “Ogeechee” excepted, I hope this discus- 
sion may Jead to good results. GREEN WING. 
FREESTONE, Cal. 3 


Etitor Forest and Stream: [ 

Oue thing I would insist on in this discussion, and that is 
accuracy, not mere supposition or guess work, will do when 
facts are wanted, There are many who give a gun a record 
because they have been successful with it afield. It you 
think one gun is much superior to another, the pattern paper 
and penetration pad will settle it, I have always thought 
the shell chamber or conduit from it to the barrel or bore 
proper was in great measure to blame for much had shoot- 
ing. My attention was first called to this in a Roper four- 
shot shotgun, 14-bore, in which a continuous surface (prac- 
tically) was presented to the load from the time of starting 
until it arrived at the termina! choke. This gun astonished 
several fine muzzleloaders while I was hunting squirrels. I 
also tested it at the penetration pads and pattern paper, with 
flattering results, only using 2idrams powder, 1 ounce shot. 
Another, a Parker gun with good weight of barrels, had 
been so badly neglected that rust beds had formed to great 


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depth. 1 undertook to bore them out. After hard work 
and long boring I had nothing but a shoulder thickness of 
metal Shell left of former taper from ehamber. I could put 
in 30-inch circle, 40 yards, No. 8 drop shot (Tatham’s), 406 
pellets, and penetrate five pads of hookbinders’ board with 
34 drams powder and 1} ounces shot, and to-day the owner 
of this gun would not part with it for three times its first 
cost to him, 

Now, if we could get some of our gunsmiths to tall, it 
would he very entertaining, but they fear some other fellow 
would know just how they do this or that particular part 
and they let us do the talking, knowing full well we exnnot 
hurt any one. Loading has much to do with good shooting, 
Ihave never targeted a Colt’s or Parker that I did not im- 
prove upon target record that came with gun. I would like 
very much to hear from the Pieper ‘‘rifled choke,” and glad 
to hear of L. O, Smith’s improyement in shotguns. We 
want a hammierless at $75.00, well made, good material, 
safe, and know it will be made before long. Vox. 

Mr, Steruine, Ky. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 


_Good pattern and penetration seem to be the desideratum 
aimed at in selecting shotguns. J have used a great many 
pounds of ammunition experimenting within the last thirty 
years, and now for the first time to record the results, 

Ihave owned guns with light muzzles, and my experience 
with them is this: The moment you commence to use any- 
thing more than a small or medium charge of powder, such 
guns will not make good patterns, and will sometimes swell 
or become larger at the muzzle, and thus become useless, A 
prominent American gunmaker, when asked why he did not 
make guns with heavier muzzles, said it was because he 
could not sell them, ‘‘the trade calls for light muzzles,?” At 
another time, when a gun was being examined with a view 
to purchase, the question was asked, “Can you choke that 
gun so as to make it a close shooter?” The answer was, ‘‘No, 
because there is nof strength enough in the muzzle,” 

At the present time I own a chokebored 12-vauge, 28-inch 
breechloading shotgun, weighing 8} pounds, with heavy 
muzzle, which will make a much better pattern with 4drams of 
powder than it will with 3 or 3} drams. I also owna12-cauge, 
36-inch, chokebored, 10-pound, breechloading shotgun, with 
heavy muzzle, which will make a better pattern with 5% 
drams of powder, than it will with asmaller charge. I have 
the best success with paper shells, and for 4 drams of powder 
or less I use one pink-edged, No. 11, wad on the powder, and 
when the charge is increased much above 4 drams, two pink- 
edged wads; because heavy charges ot powder will tear one 
wad in pieces, and the pattern will be anything but good. 

When guns group their shot and leaye bare places on the 
target, 1 have always found that the shot used were of ex- 
actly uniform size, and fit the bore of the gun in sucha 
manner as to have the shot in each Jayer in the charge fit in. 
the interstices of the layer beneath it. The difficulty can be 
easily remedied by mixing two or more sizes of shot. 


Pop-GuUN, 
TyNGSBOROUGH, Mass. 


UTAH FISH AND GAME LAW. 


hse following bill was passed March 8, 1884, by the 
Legislature of Utah Territory: 


Suotion 1. Beit enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly 
of the Territory of Utah, thal every person who, between the fifteenth 
day of March and the fifteenth day of August, in each year, wilfully 
takes, kills, destroys, or offers for sale quail, pariridees: or grouse: 
or who between the fifteenth day of April und the fifteenth day of 
September, in each year, wilfully takes, kills, destroys, or offers for 
sale any kind of wild ducks, or who shall at any time rob the nest of 
the above mentioned birds; or who shall hillany wild duck between 
one hour after sunset and one howr before sunrise; or who shall kilt 
any quail or any imported game birds or their progeny for three 
years next ensuing the passage of this act, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 

Sxro, 2. Every person who, between the first day of December of 
each year and the first day of the September following. takes, kills, 
or destroys any elk, deer, mountain sheep or antelope; or who shall 
at any time kill any of the above animals for their skins, is guilty of 
amisdemeanor: Provided, that persons camping in the mountaims 
my, during the months of July @d August, kill sufficient of the 
males of the above animals to furnish themselves jood while se 
cumpiig. 

Sec, 8. Every person who buys, sells, or has in his possession any 
of the game enumerated in the two preceding sections, taken or killed 


| within the time during which the taking or killing thereof is pro- 


hibited, except such as are tamed or kept for show or curiosity; and 
avery person who buys, sells, or offers forsale the skin of any animal, 
the killing of which is herein prohibited, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Suc. 4. Every person who at any time takes or kills any fish, except 
with hook and line, or with seine, as hereinafter provided, or who 
shall catch or kill any trout in any way between the fifteenth day of 
March and the fifteenth day of June of each year, is guilty of a niis- 
demeanor, Provided, that séines not more than 200 yards long and 
twelve teet wide, with meshes not lessthan one and a half inches 
square for fifty yards in the center, and meshes not Jess than zwo 
inches square in the wings or_ends thereof. may be used in Green 
River, and Bear and Utah Lakes only, between the first day of 
October of each year and the jirst day of June following. Provided 
further, that nothing in this act shall beso construed as to prevent 
any person fron. taking fish from the public waters of the Territory 
for the purpose of stocking private fish ponds, or to prohibit any 
person from managing and controlling his privale pond or taking 
Jish therefrom. 

Suc. 5. Every person who at any time catches or kills any fish with 
set line or lines is guilty of a misdemeanor, 4 

Szc. 6. Every person who puts tuto the waters of this Territory any 

oisonous or explosive substance or anything that is injurious to 
Esh, or that renders the water unfit for household purposes, is Zuilty 
of a misdemeanor. t j 

Sec. 7. Every person who at any time takes any fish From any 
private fish pond or strewm, without the consent of the ouiner, is 
guilty of @ misdemeanor. y “ae , 

Sno. 8, Every person, cerporation or association who shall con- 
struct or continue to keep any dam across any of the streams of this 
Territory in which fish migrate in such a mantier as to hinder or 
obstruct the migration of fish toor from their spawning grounds 
without providing a fishway and keeping it in repair, as provided in 
the following section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sno. 9, The fishway for the passage of fish in large streams of 
water, mentioned in the preceding section, must be made in the form 
of a box, open at each end, not less than four feet wide and three 
feet high, and of plank not less than two inches thick; and it must 
be fastened in the water at the top of the dam, and the lower end 
must extend to and be fastened in the pool below the dam atany 
angle not exceeding 35°. Inside this box, fastened at the bottom and 
at one end to the side of the box, there must be pieces of plank four 
feet apart, placed transversely so as to Cause & riffle not less than ten 
inches high, These pieces of plank must be thirty inches long. and 
so fastened as to be abright angles with the sides of the box, alter- 
nately fastened, one at one side the other at the other side of the hoz. 
Whenever the stream is small, the County Court of the county in 
which the dam is, or is to be constructed, may permit the box to be 
of less dimensions. d lk 

Sno. 10, That any person, corporation or association who has taken 
or may hereafter take out the waters of any stream or lakes in this 
Territory that contains fish, sball be required to place across the 
head of such canal or ditch a grating of horizontal bars not more 
than one inch apart, sufficiently secured on the sides, to prevent fish 
from escaping into said canalor ditch, Failing to comp with the 
provisions of this section is a misdemeanor. i an 

SEC. 11. The provisions of this act apply to Indians who kill deer 

‘or their skins. ; ; ; ' 
a Sec, 12. Al former laws for the protection of fish and pois ore 
hereby repealed. as - 


The alterations and addinons sre printed in italic. , 
4 i 


FISH 
i ie Fisher Island Club has, up to date, received about 
_ five hundred and fifty quail, from Tennessee mostly. 
We have had them sent in four shipments, and our birds 
have arrived in good condition in the majority of cases, and 
were a fine lot. 

The sexes were well matched, leaving a few hens without 
mates. There is quite a difference noticeable in the size of 
birds, showing plainly that some are of a very late hatching, 
while there seems to be none or very little difference in the 
size of the old birds from those killed here in our State, 

The mortality I consider very light for so long a confine- 
ment, the birds being in cages two months and over. Never- 
theless, we have not lost more than about one hundred, while 
I know that dealers and clubs have, for several seasons in 
succession, not been able to save one hundred quail out of 
four or five hundred. I know of one party who has lost 
every bird he had Jast season. ; " 4 

We have taken the best of care of our birds in every par- 
ticular; have kept them as clean as possible, fed them early 
in the morning with wheat screening, buckwheat, and now 
and then some chopped beef; then watered them about 10 or 
{1oclock, and fed in the affernon some greens, sprouts, 
apples, field salad, etc, The water dishes were remoyed. 
before the green stuff was given, and the birds had never any 
filthy water in the coops and cages. eit: 

Ttound that the birds have a habit of standing in the 
water dishes at night and were soiling them badly, so I 
came to the conelusion this was the cause of a great deal of 
disease among birds that were allowed this habit, and 1 know 
of some that had died with howel diseases. Next in im- 
portance to clean water is plenty of sand and gravel, which 
they enjoy very much. 

Most of our dead birds showed injuries about the head, or 
had broken legs, and were trampled to a pulp almost, in a 
short time, J also believe there is a good deal of fierce fight- 
ing among the birds, with fatal results, conditions over 
which we have no control and for which there is no remedy. 
Too much dry feeding kills many birds also, and green feed 
is enjoyed very much by them and is no doubt a better 
bowel regulator than bad water, We have over 400 birds 
yet, ready to liberate in a few days. 

MAx WENZAL, Secretary. . 

Hosoxsn, N. J., March 26. 


MUCILAGED WADS. 


WO articles have recently appeared in your columns 
under the head of “‘Mucilage-Edge Wads.” Being the 
inventor of the wad referred to by ‘‘Syeamore,” I naturally 
felt an interest in the subject. I have been careful to sub- 
mit my wad to the examination of many experienced sports- 
men, and in.every case the verdict has been favorable. 

Last fall I loaded forty shells with my wads, put them 
loosely into a leather pouch, threw it across my shoulder, 
mounted my horse, and galloped four miles into the country, 
allowing the pouch to bob freely alithe while. A practiced 
runner joined me, and we spent several hours in wing-shoot- 
ing. About one-half of the shells were fired. On my return 
the wads in the loaded shells were as firmly seated as ever. 
Those shells which had been discharged, although second 
quality, and not such as the manufacturers claim can be 
reloaded after haying been crimped, were apparently in as 
good condition as when first put into the pouch. 

My invention consists of an ordinary pasteboard wad upon 
which is glued a round piece of cambric (thin, strong paper 
will do) about three-fourths of an inch greater in diameter 
than that of the disc, leaving a margin all around of about 
three-eighths of an inch, From four to eight equi-distant 
triangular pieces of the margin are cut out, preferably the 
latter number. The projecting portions of cambric or paper 
(“‘fulls” ‘‘Faleon” calls them) between these kerfs are thin 
coated with mucilage, The wad is inserted in the shell 
cambric down, and when discharged the parts holding the 
wiucilage are reversed, so that the gum does not come in 
contact with the barrel of the gun. This is of vital import- 
ance, as otherwise the moisture engendered by the explo- 
sion would cause the gum to adhere to the barrels and 
quickly foul them. Thaf would be a fatal objection to 
‘‘mucilave-edge” wads; but miue is not properly a ‘‘muci- 
lage-edge” wad. The wad proper holds no mucilage upon 
the edge. 

I have also taken ott a patent on a loader which moistens 
the wad automatically, facilitates loading, and will be found 
desirable by the fastidious sportsman who dislikes the lick- 
ing business. Being a combined implement, it may also be 
uséd in loading both shot and powder. 

M. 5. ALEXANDER, 

MoorREFrELD, W. Va. 


CAMP COOKERY. 


Editor Porest and Stream: 

As the fishing and camping season is approaching I thought 
a few hints on camp cookery would not be out of plage at 
this season. One never looks for home comforts in camp, 
but there are many little details, which, if attended to, 
render camp life more enjoyable. Cooking is one of the 
most importanf of these in my opinion. To make vood 
coffee, 1 put the ground coifee into the coffee pot with cold 
water and set on the fire, as soon as it has boiled take it off, 
pour in a little cold water to settle it and it is done. Coffee 
made in this way pours clear and loses none of its aroma, 
Coffee boiled too Jong loses its delicate aroma. It is bit- 
ter and black, and in my opinion is unfit to drink, and I 
think bad for digestion. I have found it so. Two ounces 
or more of ground coffee to a quart of waterismyrule, Try 
this, ye campers, and report to Forest AND STREAM. 

Few are prepared to make bread in camp, so I will dis- 
pense with directions for making same, though I can make 
good bread and biscuit. 

Trish potatoes should be peeled and the large ones cut to 
conferm to the size of the small ones, that is, all should be 
as near of a size as possible, to insure their cooking done at 
the same time, They should be put into the water while it 
is boiling, a handful of salt should be added to the water 
when the potatoes are put in, this will render ordinary 
watery potatoes quite mealy and palatable, Sweet potatoes 
should be cooked in the same way. 

Birds, such as quail, snipe, plover and all such, I think, 
are best broiled. They should be dressed by picking the 
feathers off and drawing, then split up-the back; the blood, 
etc., should-he wiped off with a clean cloth. It improves 
the flavor of the bird to he dressed in this way; if washed 
the water is detrimental to a good broil. They should be 

turned frequently, until done to taste, when they should be 


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buttered and seasoned with pepper and salt. 


Some people 
season while cooking, but if such persons will try the above 
way Iam confident that they will always follow it. Teal 
duck done as aboye are the best thing in the line of duck 
that I have ever eaten. A bright bed of hickory coals is the 
best for broiling. , 

If desirable in my next will be pleased to give recipes for 
cooking mallard duck, making Irish stew and a few camp 
luxuries, K, 9. 

LITTLE Rock, Ark. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


Qs IPH have arrived in considerable numbers in the Dela- 
}) ware, Maryland and New Jersey meadows, and on the 
grounds about our city a few have been killed, The 
meadows are very wet and the birds are scattered. Many 
geese flew over Philadelphia last week during the night. 
Some flocks were very low, judging from the gabble they 
made, which woke the writer from his sleep. 

A letter from a sportsman friend residing in the Lehigh 
Valley states that the snow is still plainly showing itself on 
the northern sides of the mountains about him, and the win- 
ter has been a very severe one. Over one hundred quail 
trapped by their club have been kept over and will soon be 
liberated. Nine prairie chickens have been put out in lower 
Maryland, very near the same section where Dr. Purs- 
sel’s birds were planted and bred. These birds will be pro- 
tected by the farmers themselves, the whole neigliborhood 
having been interested, It is unfortunate so few prairie 
hens were secured, and that at least fifty pairs were not libe- 
rated. The wildfowl in our river appear to have already 
paired off, as the flocks seen at rest on the water are broken 
up into couples, and indicate that before many days they 
will be on their northward flight. We haye every indica- 
tion of an early and mild spring. In the New Jersey 
swamps nesting woodcock haye been found within a week. 
Baymen at Barnegat and Tuckerton state that the spring 
and autumn flights of redheads appear to be growing gieater 
each year in their section. This spring the flight was enor- 
mous. The fowl, however, did not stop long, and were evi- 
dently travelers. Box or battery shooting on their regular 
feeding grounds may have occasioned this notable change 
of habit or movement. Homo, 

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 28. 


AN EXPLANATION. 


HE article under my signature in your issue of March 13, 

headed ‘‘A Taxidermist’s View of It,” was not intended 

as an opinion to favor any class. It was unfortunate that it 

appeared under that title. It, however, carried with it a 

meaning likely to be misconstrued by some, and thus at the 

outset placed the writerin the light of ‘‘a man with an axe to 
grind.” 

Ido think that all law-abiding sportsmen, ornithologists 
and taxidermists, should have the benefit of laws that will 
favor their pastimes or occupations, if such laws are made 
as will not he detrimental to the general good. 

I cannot quite agree with my unknown friend from Wor- 
cester, in Forms AND STREAM of March 20. who would al- 
low a naturalist or taxidermist to be unlimited as to the time 
for procuring his specimens. For I do believe in shutting 
off everybody from shooting between June 1 and Sept. 1, 
and it would be still better it this latter date could be made 
October, or even November. Exceptions to the summer 
shooting of all birds should only be allowed to the very few 
who are making a study of their food for the benefit of the 
general public. While I believe what I wrote March 18 re- 
garding the time for the open season, yet I hope it has not 
yet come to that pass that the season must be cut so short. 
But it is evident, as the shooting of guusis improved and the 
number of gunners increase, that the time for shooting mast 
be more limited. 

The proposed Massachusetts law makes no improvement 
for the protection of that class of birds which most need it, 
the shore birds, Consider the narrow belt they have to tra- 
verse and tie destruction wrought upon them as they pass 
leisurely by in the summez and early fall, in contrast with 
the quickness with which they go by in the spring. Also, 
how unsuspecting in summer, and how wild in spring. On 
every hand we learn of their rapid decrease. What shall be 
done? The protection of this class of birds is most urgent. 
Who will not do what he can to. make laws that shall protect 
them? We all know that the summer shooting is thinning 
their ranks yearly. Will not the change of open season to 
spring help their increase? Let the shore shooters who read 
this paper give their opinions about it. 

The laws should be kept on all of our game birds until 
such time as they may all be shot, for if taken off one earlier 
tban another it permits of the shooting of everything under 
guise of that one. The later the law goes off in the fall the 
more protection it is to our small birds also, for in general 
when it goes off of partridges in September it gives the op- 
portunity to every boy to kill anything he wishes to. The 
majority of our small birds pass south in September, and 
few are left after October. 

Another bird demands protection at once, and that is our 
wild pigeon. Formerly very abundant, it is now a scarce 


‘bird except in a yery few places. Probably the largest roosts 


left are in Pennsylvania and Michigan. When the birds be- 
gin to breed their nesting places are entered, and the birds 
killed in every possible way, their tails pulled out, and they 
are packed in barrels, Jarge numbers of which are sent to 
New York and Chicago. Numerous eggs ready to be laid 
are taken from these birds. : 

What will Florida scenery be with the beautiful herons 
and other tropical birds exterminated? And yet the breed- 
ing places are entered and the beautiful birds slain by hun- 
dreds and thousands for the few plume feathers growing 
upon their backs, and also by the visitors there just for sport. 
The writer was informed, and has no cause to doubt it 
either, that an Englishman visited Pelican Island, in Indian 
River, with some 2,000 cartridges, nearly all of which were 
used on the pelicans, and he left the ground strewn with 
the dead. No words seem adequate in condemning such an 
actas this. But so it is in many other places also. 

The same dates that apply to one locality will rot exactly 
fit another. The author takes for a standpoint the Middie 
States and New England, between the fortieth and forty- 
third parallels. ‘the North or South will require later or 
earlier dates, . 

The only object the writer has in placing himself antagon- 
istic to public opinion is te try to assist in the better pro- 
tection of our birds, and in the making of laws that shall be 
just to all of the gunning fraternity. F..J, Trrenmy,- ~ 


TINKERING THE WOODCOCK LAW. 


Kidilor Horest and Stream: 

I notice here a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator 
Otis, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Game Laws, 
relating to Suffolk and Queens counties, limiting the part- 
ridge season to November and December, but allowing July 
woodeock shooting. 

Allow me toask through your columns if you know any- | 
thing of the history or object of this bill? 

It looks at this distance like a trick or scheme by some 
hotel interest to draw New York patronage thither to dine 
on wookcock “chicks” on the ‘‘half shell” out of season, or 
a pretext under which pot-hunters and law-breakers may 
operate over the surrounding country to supply that par- 
ticular market at enhanced prices. 

The subject is worth consideration, since schemes of this 
kind are constantly pouring in from that vicinity, fo the 
prejudice and demoralization of the best efforts for pro- 
tection. 

Do the better portion of the sportsmen of these counties 
really desire such a law? Is it justified by any sound reason 
or condition of things? 

If L understand the history of woodcock, they frequently 
hatch a second brood in July. If such be true in that sec- 
tion, it is a good reason against the bill, impatience of indi- 
viduals to shoot before the season opens to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 

The original game law opened the season July 4. It was 
changed by common consent of sportsmen as being in every 
way bad practice, The bill being a local one, is of doubtful, 
constitutionality. I think the people of these counties will 
soon want it repealed, because there will be nothing left 
when August comes, and September will probably be bar- 
ren of sport, Perhaps that is the very object of the law. I 
wait to see whether or not Senator Otis is lending his name 
and position to a mere scheme of this sort to gobble up my 
chicks, MorHer Woopcocn. 

ALBANY, N. Y., March 20. 


CRUISING IN FLORIDA. 


RR here last night after a very pleasant trip by 
way of Clear Water Harbor, Tampa Bay and Char- 
lotte Harbor. Found abundance of geme on the way, 
Plover, snipe (Wilson’s), curlew, humility, ete., etc., for 
birds; deer, *coon and bob cats on the river. Have sur- 
feited on wild turkey since leaving Fort Myers. ’ 

The Caloosahatchee is a beautiful river. I think it far 
superior to the St. Johns, Game is plenty; fish few and far 
between. Scenerywdelightful. Mosquitoes are somewhat 
troublesome, but nothing to what I have seen in New Jersey. 

Our party consists of two gentlemen from the Hub and 
myself. We left Tarpon Springs, Fla., on the 20th of 
February bound for Kissimme; leave here to-day by way of 
the canal for Okechobee. Haye had glorious sport, and ex- 
pect more of it. The weather is all that could be desired; 
southerly winds, days clear and pleasant, nights cool and 
sleepful Healths all are Al. Appetites good, provisions ad lib. 

Any of your readers who wish a pleasant cruise and 
“heaps 0’ fun,” should try Charlotte Harbor and the Caloosa- 
hatchee, 

You will probably hear from me again when I reach Kis- 
simme, when possibly I may have more to say. Till then 
addio. TARPON. 

HEADWATERS CALOOSAHATCHEE River, Fla., March 14. 


Lone IsnAnp Novres.—I took a stroll on the meadows the 
other day with my old setter to interview that mythical 
snipe, but he scaiped ; I did not see any markings, nor borings. 
We have very few snipe around tbis locality, and ten guns 
for each bird. Crows are abundant and many carcasses lie 
on the meadows. There area few hawks, redwing black 
bird, bluebirds, robins and otherbirds. Meadow larks stay 
all winter. I have not seen any woodcock; in fact don’t 
look for tham. I hope that the sportsmen of Pennsylvania, 
New York, New Jersey, and Conneticut will unite and 
abolish spring and summer shooting. October 1 is early 
enough. I wish that all clubs would offer bounties for owls, 
hawks, skunks, foxes, weasels and snakes. This would 
help increase game mightily.—F'riAr Tuck (Flatbush, L. L, 
March 21.) 


I fail to agree with your correspondent, signed ‘‘16-Bore,” 
in yonr last issue, who writesof summer woodcock shooting. 
I have always been in favor of July shooting. And as far as 
my experience goes, have found the birds well grown, and 
frequently able to fly well by May 1, and if we miss the July 
shooting we miss all, as we never get any fall shooting. He 
speaks of the partridges being diminished by summer wood- 
cock shooting’; it may be so in some localities, but not here. 
We might have some of the best partridge shooting in the 
State of New York if snaring could be prohibited. I have 
known between two and three hundred partridges per week 
shipped from this depot to the New York market, and be- 
tween two and three thousand during the months of Septem- 
ber and October, and sc long as the season continues to open 
September 1, the snaring will continue, and I know of no 
reason why the law should not be amended for the season fo 
open November 1, or atthe same time of quail shooting, as 
then the partridges would be preserved, and not snared un- 
der cover of killing to escape the penalty of the law, This 
is applicable to Queens and Suffolk counties.—G. W.R. (Man- 
orville, L, I.). [We have seen yery good woodcock shooting 
on Long Island in October and November. There is no 
doubt that, were spring and summer shooting abolished, 
birds of all kinds would sensibly increase. | 


He AcrREES witH ‘‘CHASsEUR.’—Allow me to applaud 
“‘Ohasseur” in his utterances anent the improved breech- 
loading rifle. .44-90-500-60-496-3934 craze. What in the 
name of common sense is anything more effective than we 
now have, or as much s@, needed for? Simply to add to 
already plethoric bags and to utterly annihilate game. This 
it is, pure and simple. Better far were it, for keen enjoy- 
ment and satisfaction, that there were no repeating rifles. 
If it were absolutely necessary for the glory and renown of 
Me Lud, or anybody else, to penetrate the fastnesses of the 
mountains in search of the cougar and grizzly, let him take 
his life and. singleshot in his hands and fight it out on that 
line. it is entirely probable that some dudes would turn up 
missing, but that wouldn't hurt. It is a characteristic Ameri- 
can idea to get all that is to be had in the shortest space of 
time, whether in domain of sport or business. It is un: 
healthy, The candle burns toofast. Call a halt.—§, 


Ducks mn Iowa.—Marshalltown, Ia., March 27.—Ducks 
are Leginning to come in in goodly quantities, but so large a 
cao a covered by water thal one cannot get near them, 
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_NortTHmrN Minnesota Nores.—As may be imagined, 
bird life in this bores] clime is not very abundant, it being 
nof uncommon for the thermometer to be 80 and 40 decrees 
below zero, and once this winter it has registered 52 degrecs 
below. Prairie chickens, or pinnated prouse, and sharp- 
tails, stand the cold well here and are abundant. They roost 
in the snow, and also remain there during a blizzard, The 
bluejay can be heard uttering his chatterings on most fine 
days, that is, with the thermometer about zero in the shade. 
The chickadee endures the severest. cold bravely, and is as 
pert and merry as though it were forty degrees above, The 
red-h eaded woodpecker is found tapping the trees, in the bush 
which borders on the rivers. during the severest storms. 
Snow buntings are to be seen here every day now, they are 
becoming rather mottled in color, A month or six weeks 
ago, the markings were confined to a very slight blotch on 
the nape of the neck and shoulders, and some were so slightly 
marked that they appeared to be pure white. These birds 
before a storm are particularly active, and flock around the 
homesteads, uttering a sharp, twittering note. Only last 
December a hear of the red nose species was killed, eight miles 
east of here, It was found in its winter den, weight 300 pounds; 
exactly the same appearance as the common black except 
fwo or threeinches of the muzzle, which was a rich chest- 
nut brown color, They are said not to be uncommon, but 
are more tierce than the common blacks. Perhaps some of 
the readers of FormEst AND StREAM can tell me whether 
this is a distinct species or merely a variety of the common 
black; if the latter, what originally produced the variation? 
Question for Darwinian devotees. At least twelye species 
of birds, and possibly more birds winter here, but I cannot 
positively identify more than I mentioned in these notes till 

get ““Coues’s Birds of Northwest.”_—BorEo Mrneso. 
(Hallock, Kittson county, Minn., March 1%), [The ‘‘red 
nosed” bear is the common black bear. Almost all black 
bears have tan or chestnut muzzles. Those without these 
markings are the exception to the rule,] 


A Kentucky Game Brou.—By a yote of 42 to 32 the 
Kentucky Legislature has passed a game bill, of which the 
following is a synopsis: It provides a penalty for hunting 
or having in possession any fawn or deer between March 
and September; turkeys between February and September; 
ducks. geese and teal between May and August; woodeock 
between February and July; quail, pheasants, etc., between 
Feb, i and Oct. 15; doves between February and August. 
Hunting song or insectivorous birds is prohibited, except 
where they are destructive of fruit or grain crops. Rabbits 
and squirrels are protected, excent when they are destroy- 
ing crops. An amendment forbidding the selling of game 
from other States during the close time was passed, as were 
other amendments excepting certain mountain counties from 
the provisions of the act. Itis stated that this game Dill 
was prepared after careful consideration by the Louisville 
Sportsman’s Club, the Newport Club, the Daviess County 
Hunting Club and the Shelbyville Gun Club, and embraces 
the best provisions of similar bills in other States. 


SPRING IN Kentvucky.—I have inquired carefully of the 
farmers concerning the partridges (Ortya virginianus), and 
have not received a single bad report. They have wintered 
well and many fine coveys exist throughout this country, 
although we have had one of the severest winters known In 
this latitude for_over thirty years. Ducks have passed, with 
good shooting on water courses. Snipe (S. wilsonii), in fair 
numbers; two of our club bagged, in half a day, thirty-two 
last week, and two others did not bag so many is the writer's 
recollection. Our legislators have passed a good game bill. 
Tnclosed is synopsis. I hope they may make a fair appro- 
priation for our fish work, Spring is here, grass green, and 
a certain something in the air that causes a careful inspec- 
lion of fishing tackle and inquiring after the stage of water 
in adjacent streams, and all the small boys of a Saturday 
and little niggers every day are sneaking to some pond or 
stream with poie and string. To follow soon is the intention 
oi— Vox (Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, March 24), : 


“SPRING SHootrinc m JeRseY,—I was out for snipe 
Tuesday, and considered myself Incky; 1 bagged three En- 
plish stipe and one gray duck. Snipe were quite plentiful, 
but the meadows were overrun with poor shots and still 
poorer dogs, flushing everything in the neighborhood. In 
_ the evening I thought 1 would try. for ducks, supposing I 
_ would be the only one on the meadows, but, bless you, there 
_ were three hunters for every duck I saw, and still worse, they 


would shoot at ducks three miles up, frightening them so, 


that I don’t suppose they returned, at least I did not see 


them, Coming from the meadows after dark, I flushed two. 


English snipe, but I could not see to shoot. Heard a few 
woodcock “squeaking” last night,—16-BorRe (Madison, N. 
J., March 27). 


Lone IsuAnp Prorecrion.—I am heartily glad to find 
in your issue of March 10 another letter bearing’ upon game 
and game protection, and being one of the many who enjoy 
afew weeks of full shooting, and who are opposed to the de- 
struction of our birds, am very happy to hear from our friends 
Messrs. Lane and ‘'C.” (Manorville). In the issue of March 
27, I see that Mr. Whitaker attempts an explanation why 
the offenders are not brought to justice. I would suggest to 
that gentleman that inasmuch as his jurisdiction is so large 
that he cannot attend tothe vast amount of miles at one 
time, let him, while there is no land shooting, attend to our 
bays.—Dick (Brooklyn, March 29, 1884). 


FuLoripa SHoorme.—The fishing in Lake Monroe is very 
fine. Mr. Benson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., caught seventy- 
eight bass inthe lake several days ago. Hunting is also 
good; deer are found in the scrubs, which are three miles 
from here. Ducks are not as plenty now as they were in 
December, but enough can be found for a day’s shoot. A 
flock of over seventy geese passed over the lake Wednesday 
on their way north. Any person wishing good duck shoot- 
ing should come here in October.—G. G. J. (Enterprise, 
Fla., March 24). 


Minnesora,.—The ducks have already arrived, Though 
there are but few just yet. in three .or four days we will 
have them down on us by thousands if the weather continues 
warm, as the river is just breaking up.—A. W. §. (Long 
Prairie, Minn., March 28),, > 9... 


They are more plentiful this-year thau for several years, 

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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Sea and River Sishing. 


OPENING THE TROUT SEASON. 


HE opening of the season for trout on Tuesday last sent 
many anglers from the city to Long Island, but does 
not seem to have disturbed the even flow of events in other 
parts of the State. The evening before the, opening we 
stood in the station of the Long Island Railroad at Hunter's 
Point, which the yoad has tried to deodorize by calling 
“Long Island City,” and at 4:30, when the trains were about 
to depart for the South Side, the North Shore, Port Jeffer- 
son branch and the main line, we counted seyenty-eight rods 
passing the wicket-keeper, Besides this, we nodded to a 
score or more of anglers without rods, who were going 
down to the clubs, where their tools were kept. How many 
went by the way of the Brooklyn station, or by earlier or 
later trains, we do not know, 

On Wednesday morning, we came in on the Port Jeffer- 
son branch, and examined several fine baskets of trout, taken 
along the North Shore. We saw a fine specimen of twoand 
ahalf ponnds, which was taken by Mr. Henry Smith from 
the ponds at Glen Cove. Mr. John Cashow had a good ereel 
taken from Shoe Swamp brook, one of which weighed one 
and a quarter pounds. The day was cold and blustery, and 
not at all a desirable one for trouting, The South Side Club 
was well represented on the road the evening previous, and 
the waters gave up some exceedingly five specimens. 

In the city the display ia Fulton Market brought a crowd 
of visitors, as usual. Among those we recognized at Black- 
ford’s were: Henry Ward Beecher, Heury Irving and Miss 
Terry, Prof. Bickmore, of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History; Prof. Rice, of the Fulton Market Laboratory ; 
Monroe A. Green, of the State hatchery at Caledonia, 
Hubert O. Thompson, Prof. A. M. Mayer, Dr. Kingsbury, 
Francis Endicott, John Oakey, William Mitchell, Hrastus 
Corning, Jr., John J. Bloomfield, James Vallotton, George 
Shepard Page, Thomas Jones, and many others. 

Mr. Blackford’s slabs and tanks were given up entirely to 
trout, and the display, while not so great perhaps in point of 
numbers of trout, exceeded that of any previous year in 
the yariety of species. The decorations were very tasteful. 
Over the door hung a great floral bass, with a body of red roses, 
fins of white daisies, and astripe of yellow buttercups. All the 
woodwork and railirgs of the various stalls were twined with 
smilax, and between the loops hung dainty little Japanese 
glass acquariums in which tiny minnows wriggled merrily 
about, The larger glass boxes were banked in ferns. The 
white axolotls were quite lively, and were always the center 
of a curious crowd. If the two alleged white elephants now 
in the country are *‘sacred,’ then certainly these animals, 
which are really white, are entitled to some consideration. 
One of them stood on his tail in a corner of the tank all the 
morning, with his hand folded over his breast and an ex- 
pression of sanctified grief upon his countenance, which ex- 
cited much pity and sympathy from the ladies. 

Among the fish the post of honor was awarded to some 
Trish trout from Lough Neagh, sent by Mr. T. J. Moore, of 
the Liverpool Museum, one of which weighed eight pounds. 
A fine salmon from the same place was alsoshown. The Cold 
Spring hetchery of the N. Y. F. C,, F. Mather, Superin- 
tendent, sent live German trout one year old, which were 
greatly admired, and also fry of the same ten days old, 
rainbow trout of one year, and salmon fry. The Caledonia 
hatchery of the N. Y. F. C., 8. Green, Superintendent, sent 
dead brook trout, rainbow trout and hybrids, all fine speci- 
mens, of two to four years old. 

The best display was made by James Annin, Jr., of Cale- 
donia, N. Y., who exhibited silver trout, brook trout, lake 
trout and rainbow trout, all alive, and of large size, as well 
as trout eggs in a package to show the mode of transporta- 
tion. The United States Fish Commission exhibited live 
Rangeley trout and rainbows. Otherexhibitors were: G. H. 
Dickerman, New Hampton, N. H.; Myron Green, U, §. 
F. C., Baird, Cal,; E. B. Sutton, Babylon, L. I.; South Side 
Club, L. I., and J. B. Hewlett, Hewlett’s Station, L. I. 
Wild Canada trout were on hand, and could easily be told 
by their dark color. They had evidently been frozen. 

Mr. Blackford sent duplicates of everything to Prof. 
Baird, who made an exhibition of troutin the National 
Museum at Washington, on Wednesday, Specimens of each 
kind were also-sent to Lauber’s-restaurant in Philadelphia, 
where a display was also made. Taking all things in con- 
sideration, we regard the trout show of this year as equal to, 
if nof superior, to any former one. 


MICHIGAN LAKES. 


Gee Michigan fish law says: “From now until June 15 

next it is unlawful to catch any black, green, silver, 
rock, or white bass, pickerel, pile, salmon, grass bass, sun- 
fish, perch, or any food fish. Parties fishing through holes 
in the ice please take notice, as the State Fish Com mission- 
ers are determined to prosecute any one so doing.” 

How well the law is enforced I will not say; of the open 
and flagrant violations I can speak from personal knowledge. 
The labors of the Fish Commission are bearing fruit. 
Scarcely a day last summer that the crew of the United 


States Life Saving Station did not haul shore seines of one: 


and ahalf and two inch meshes that caught hundreds of 
small whitefish from one-half to one pound weight, herring, 
perch and any and all that came into the net. Swedes, 
Polacks and other foreigners likewise are seiners. 

Ausauble Lake, twelye miles long, and one of the largest 
inland lakes in the States, is alive with fish, which will soon 
be cleaned out, A lumber company some years since dammed 
the outlet, and no fish that comes out of Lake Michigan can 
get aboye the dam, Last spring the outlet was literally 
jammed with fish trying to get up to spawn. They were 
speared, clubbed and netted by the wagon load. The past 
winter the lake has been covered with the shanties of the 
spearing and netting gangs. Gill and trap nets are all over 
the lake. The daily catch averages two tons of fish, which 
are shipped to Chicago, Detroit, etc. Very few are sold to 
local marketmen. 

Birch Lake is now being raided by the advance corps of 
the Detroit fish monopoly. This lake is the one alluded to 
by the Detroit dailies as being the recent discovery of a Buf- 
falo firm, which had given the Detroit fish firm the agency 


eters’ fet i ay. AS -] of handling the enormous catch of fish the lake was said-to 
MARYLAND.—F sit Hill.—First “stipe here March 26.. 


‘contain, Weare of the opinion that the Buttalo firm isa 
myth, and as for the lake being- away in the Northwest,-1 
think that Kd. Gillman, of Detroit, will say that Birch Lake 
is ia Michigan. I may be mistaken in regard to Mr. Gill- 
man’s knowledge, but am inclined to think he has fished 
those same waters. Perhaps ‘Delta’ could throw some 


oe 


[Aprin 3, 1884. 


light upon the location of the lake. To satisfy the insatiable 
maws of fish dealers one by one, all of our Northern lakes 
are cleaned out by persons either directly or indirect] y con- 
nected with some firm of fish dealers. One of our Commis- 
sioners, Mr. Kellog, resides in Detroit, perhaps he could en- 
lighten the readers of Forrsr ayy StREAM why this slaugh- 
ter from year to year goes on without an effort being made 
to stop it. Not till the sale of fish is stopped during the 
close season for Michigan fish will the end come. A few 
prosecutions aimed at the heads of the fish dealers will check 
the slaughter. A} 
MANISTEE, Mich. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH. 
THE DOCTOR'S SrORY- 


ees Doctor and I had exchanged our wet clothing for 

more comfortable garments, while listening to the Col- 
onel’s chaff, and were snuffing the odors of our trout which 
Jack had dressed, while Uncle Ben was making the bread 
and coffee, which were sending sayory odors from the frying 
pan, making hungry fishers impatient of not only minutes, 
but seconds, The Doctorsententiously remarked that eating 
was a duty that we owed to our grosser natures, and that he 
was ready to meet his liabilities in this line at.the earliest 
possible moment, and he had no sooner declared his readi- 
ness than Uncle Ben gave him the opportunity. How many 
trout and hot biscuits were eaten 1 will not say, because I 
did not keep count, The Colonel, next morning, pretended 
that he had kept tally, and produced a stick notched on two 
sides; one side of which he declared was the Doctor’s record, 
while mine was on the other, If he ever publishes this record 
Task that judgment be suspended until mitigating circum- 
stances on our side can be shown, and besides it will not do 
to tie too fast to the Colonel’s statements, or his stick. 

After supper we siretched ourselves on the hemlock 
boughs and smoked, one of the party declaring himself ‘‘too 
full for utterance.” The sun had gone down, and the strange 
call of the whippoorwill on the hillside seemed to rejoice at 
its disappearance. 

“Doctor,” said Jack, ‘‘tell us how you fish a stream.” 

“My son, beware,” exclaimed the Colonel, ‘‘you donot 
know what an infliction you may bring on us. If the 
Doctor gets started on that subject, there is no telling when 
he will stop.” 

“That’s so,” said I, ‘there is no end to the Doctor’s stock 
of fishing lore. He is chock full of information now, and 
you can make it flow by tapping him with a question, but 
the trouble is that you cannot turn the stream off as easily as 
you turn it on, [ think we will have to let it How and 
listen to it, or hoop him to keep him from bursting.” 

“Gentlemen,” calmly answered the Doctor, “my young’ 
friend has asked me a question about stream fishing, My 
answer may be of use to the boy, if not to any confirmed 
boat-fishers and grovelling bait-fishers who might be near. 
He is young in angling and should be allowed to learn that 
the highest form of angling to wade a stream.” 

The Colonel repeated, ‘*boat-fisher,” and poimted at me; 
“orovelling bait-fisher,” and said: ‘“Thatyvubs us both hard, 
doesn’t it? But, Doctor, spare us, please, all the hackneyed 
mush about the ‘indescribable turn cf the wrist which can- 
not be explained, but which the born anzler instinctively 
knows,’ and we will listen and try to profit by your talk to 
Jack.” 

The Doctor looked up in surprise, and asked; ‘‘Do you 
deny that a turn of the wrist will hook a fish?” 

“No,” replied the old soldier, ‘I don’t deny anything you 
may state about fishing, only that striking a fish by an up- 
ward and backward tuin of the wrist has been magnified 
into an art that only few can attain, if not born with it, and 
against that nonsense I wish to enter a demurrer, The facts 
are, as 1 believe, that nine fish out of ten hook themselves, and 
the tenth one gets away, The mysterious ‘turn of the wrist’ 
is easy enough to explain, or to perform, but the stroke is 
too late to be of service; a fish seen to break water has the 
hook in his jaw or has cast it out before the motion of the 
wrist has obeyed the command of the eye and has com- 
municated its action to rod, slack line and hook.” 

‘We differ so radically on this poimt,” said the Doctor, 
“that there is no use in arguing it by the camp-fire. Come 
with me on the stream to-morrow and we will try it there,” 

‘No strcam-fishing for me, with my rheumatic leg,” re- 
plied the man of war, *‘but don’t let"me interrupt your talk 
with Jack, his mind is a blank on stream-fishing, and you 
can give him-page after page of whatever you wish to print 
on it, and he will never be as critical as his parent.” 

“Well, Jack!” began the Noctor, ‘these two companions 
of ours are wedded to their idols and it would be time wasted 
to try to convert them. To you, however, I will say that 
fishing for lake trout is about us much sport as dredging for 
oysters, and boat-fishing tor brook trout is merely a refine- 
ment of sitting on the corner of the dock and bobbing for 
eels. In wading a stream all the muscles are called into 
play and the mind is strung so tightly with anticipation of a 
tise, new views and surprises, care where the feet are planted, 
and watchfulness that the bushes do not capture the fies, 
that there is a sense of generalship in steering clear of all 
dangers and in capturing your game. Perhaps the best way 
to illustrate this is to tell you how I fished the stream to-day, 
from its mouth to its head, where I met our friend, the boat- 
fisher, who, unfortunately, thought the stream longer, and 
had aimed to strike it higher up and missed it. ; 

“To begin with, the day was favorable; the light night 
before had kept the fish quiet by the bright moonshine, and 
the cloudiness of the day raised their courage to seek for food. 
I started in from the mouth of the stream and took a few fish 
in the first pool without much trouble from trees, as the 
pool was deep and wide, but taking the bank around this. 
pool, I came to asmaller, shallow pool overhung with bushes. 
Here I could not cast over twenty feet, andas my rod was 
nearly half that in length, it was done in this way: 1 took 
my fly, for I used but one in such a thicket, inmy left hand, 
and holding my line with the forefinger of the right hand, I 
held the rod paraliel with the surface of the water, and draw- 
ing back the fly until the arch of the rod would throw the 
fly by its springing to the natural position, Llet go, Several 
casts of this sort brought a trout out of this poo]. Passing 
on up stream a cedar log was found with one end in the 
water and the other end on the bank, A bend in the brook 
threw the current under the end that Jay in the water, and 
consequently a hole must be washed out under it; taking the 
oppesite bank I stepped ashore, and advancing cautiously so 
that no jar-sbould alarm the fish, the fly was dropped above 
the log and played on the stirfave, and two fish captured by 
u taut line and not allowing them to get under the 
third fish succeeded in reachiig the timber and 
escaped with the fly and half of the leader. 


~Apnr 8, 1884.) FOREST AND STREAM. 


<<What fly had you been using all this time?” inquired | COMPARATIV Pare ase OF FLY-ROD 


ee ey NG that to some of your readers exact informa- 
tion in reference to the comparative weights of the 
more commonly used fly-rod materials, would be of interest, 
the following specific gravities were computed with the kind 
assistance of Mr. E. 8. Hopkins and Mr, W. G. Levison, of 
the Cooper Institute Laboratory. ‘ 

Distilled water was the standard, The determinations 
were made with great care, and are believed to be reliable, 
for the specimens tested, to within at least the third decimal 
place. Diiferent samples of the same species differ some- 
what from one another in weight. The woods which were 
the subject of this experiment, were carefully selected for 
the express purpose of fly-rod making, and were, as-far as 
was possible, the very best of their ‘kind. Tt is, therefore, 
believed that the following determinations more correctly 
represent the comparative weights of such material as is 
used for this purpose, than would any samples selected at 
random in tlie wood market, or any table computed there- 
fiom. ' 

The split bamboo was of excellent quality, of my own 
preparation, The six-strip hexagonal piece was taken from 
an old and well-tried middle joint. The angles of this were 
slightly rounded. The four-strip piece was put together 
with the rind inside for the purpose of comparison. 

The cedar was taken from a- very choice piece -from 
Florida, 

The different materials are arranged in the table in the 
order of their weights, the heaviest first. To facilitate com- 
parison on the part of such as may be unfamiliar with the 
use of specific gravities, the weight of a cubic foot of cach 
is also given, in pounds and hundredths of a ponnd. 


kk. 
male yellow drake, for the day was dull, and the overhang- 
ing bushes deepened the shade, and in such | cases a light fly 
is usually the most killing. After losing this fly I put on an 
oak fly, a small fly with a yellow body and a brown wipg, 
although I had more of the kind Jost; I cannot say why the 
change was made, unless to try the merits of the two, and I 
cannot say which proved the most killing on this day. There 
‘are no doubt certain flies which are adapted to different days, 
although there is much nonsense in the rules laid down by 
different persons, and these rules vary as much as the 
‘persons. The idea that each month has its own killing flies 
is sheer nonsense, a fly that is good on a bright day in the 
spring is good on any bright day, although it must be 
admitted that trout are fickle in their tastes, 

Here the Colonel snored so loudly that I was aroused from 
what I considered merely a lethargic state, but what both 
Jack and the Doctor declared was sound sleep. Our heated 
debate over this question roused the Colonel, who said: “Go 
ou with your stery, Doctor, I’m listening,” and was indig- 
nant when the party Isughed at him and accused him of 
sleeping. ; : é 

*T haven't slept a wink,” said he, ‘T know what you 
were talking about. You were telling Jack that a light night 
followed by a dark day made the fish feed. “as 

“That was an hour ago, wasn’t it, Doctor?” said Jack. 

“Well, it’s all the same, 1 heard it; but for goodness sake 
let up on that dry, masty old lecture, and sing us a song. 
What do yousay?” (This question to me.) 

“A gong by all means, We can hear all the lectures,we 
want at home, curtain and other, but a camp-fire is no place 
to bore a man with ‘turns of the wrist,’ und how the big one 


would have been caught if it hadn’t been for the turn he Weight of one 
gave the leader around the root, ’ Material Specific Gravity.  Cubie Foot. 
And so it came to pass that the Doctor’s lecture was cut pus semua Waren e teense bene ne gears ee ey aA 
off and he was made to sing, for both the Colonel and Greenheart,-..,)..1s..cceccceseessee 1.0908 68.18 
myself vowed that we would not be bored any longer, TAMCeM COU Sent enmeryoneste os .. 1.0885 64.59 
Ttold him that we—for I knew ihat I had the Colonel to Split Paras 6-strip, hexagonal, rind sae ae 
back me—liked to catch trout, real live trout, or to see him Split bamboo, 4strip, rind inside. |''0.9678 60.49 
take them, but to sit and heara man catch post-mortem Ironwood (hornbeam)......... 0.8184 51.15 
trout, which no one but himself enjoyed, was more than we Hiekory Sienna toy Fe tbiete nie le Est arian 
could stand, in camp at least. He took the hint and. be- Maho. 000.0000) LUE eesor 41.29 
hayed as decently as any of us during the remainder of the BPR GBtiaTy htt Sela Che IN), Ga 0.6396 39.98 


evening, Frep MAtrHer. 


, GOOD WORK IN MASSACHUSETTS. 


! fHE Committee on Fisheries of the Massachusetts Legis- 
lature, has reported a bill making the close time for 
trout and land-locked salmon begin September first, instcad 
bt October first, as under the existing law. This will make 
the season for catching these fish begin April first and end 
asabove. The bill is altogether likely to become a law, as 
if will meet with but little opposition. The marketmen will 
not oppose it, since they have not been in the habit of doing 
anything in September trout. It has been generally agreed 
among the friends of the trout that so scarce have these fish 
become in Massachusetts, that another month should be put 

_ on for their profection. 
A hearing was had on Tuesday, before the Committee on 
Agriculture, in regard to the lobster question, A close time 
_ is earnestly desired by those who see that the lobster is dis: 
appearing before continuous fishing, but such a provision is 
opposed by fishermen and dealers, There is little prospect 
of getting a close time at present, though other sea-board 
States have one. But those who would save the lobster hope 
to have the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries made to have 
charge of the lobster also, The present lobster laws of the 
_ State are easily evaded, tor the reason that there are no offi- 
cers vested with authority to look afiterthem. With the 
_ Fish Commissioners in charge, it is believed that much of 
the illegal catching and selling can be stopped. The exist- 
ing laws of ihe Commonwealth forbid the retaining of any 
femule lobster bearing eggs, caught when fishing in the 
month of July. But the fishermen evade the law by: brush- 
ing away the eggs with a corn brush, alihough the law pro- 
vides that such lobsters must be immediately returned to the 
water aliye, under penalty of not less than $10 nor more 
than $100, or by imprisonment in the house of correction for 
‘not less than one nor more than three months. The law 
prohibiting the saie of lobsters less than ten and a half inches 
in Jength is constantiy broken for the want of proper officials 
to enforee it. Indeed, its enforcement has been for some 
time spasmodic, being done by the earnest friends of the 
‘protection of the fish, during intervals of business and mo- 
ments snatched from business, when reports of glaring 
breaches of the law come to their ears, At such times the 
eae have generally succeeded in hustling the small lob- 

sters out of sight, and escaping the punishment, 


Will some of your 
readers be kind enough to supply me with a piece of first- 
class ironwood (hornbeam) for this purpose? It should be 
from three to four feet long, and so as to admit of being 
planed to a true square of three-eighths of an inch, Similar 
pieces of the smooth and shag-bark varieties. of hickory 
would also be thanktully received, But to be of any value 
for this purpose the wood must be well seasoned, and fairly 
represent the merits of the species to which it belongs. 


Hnyry P, WELLS. 
Naw York, March 29, 1884. 


In was Lecau.—The paragraph in your last issue, from 
one ‘‘C. G. G.,” is entitled to a reply from its embodying a 
slander upon a gentleman, Mr, Hannibal Hamlin. Mr. Ham- 
lin did not go to Moosehead Lake, but to the West Branch 
Ponds, some few miles from Katahdin Iron Works. He 
brought home a few dozen small trout, which, as a citizen 
of Maine, he had a right to take under the following law: 
“Provided, however, that during February, March and 
April, citizens of the State may fish for land-locked salmon, 
trout, and togue, and convey the same to their own homes, 
but not otherwise.”—E, M, 8. (Bangor, Me., March 23), 


PHILADELPHIA Norms.—The big shad seine at Glouces- 
ter, N. J., fishing shore has been overhauled and tarred, and 
wise ones expect a much better season than last year. An 
exhaustive lecture on ‘‘The Fishes of'the United States” was 
given several eyenings since before the biological aud 
microscopical section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
by Mr. Lockingion.. The lecturer used preserved fishes to 
the number of one hundred and more to illustrate his lec- 
ture, and it is hoped he will be induced to continue these 
discourses.—Homo. J “a 


Goud Mmpau Av. Cancurra.—We learn that Messrs, S. 
Allcock & Co., of Redditch, England, have received at the 
Calcutta, International Exhibition for fish hooks, fishing rods, 
and fishing tackle, a gold medal and first class certificate, 
this being the highest award, 


Hishenlture, 


PROGRESS IN FISHCULTURE, 


HE Century Magazine for April contains an article entitled 
“Progress in Fishculture,” with twenty-three illustra- 
tions, by Mr, Fred Mather. It shows what has been done in 
the last ten years, both in Hurope and America, in the way 
of implements to simplify the work, and notes the important 
steps in bringing new fishes to yield theirsecrets of propagation 
to the fishculturist. No attempt is made to give statistics of 
the numbers of fish hatched in any land, as the different re- 
ports of governments and States furnish these. The article is 
written more to show the general reader what has been done 
than-to enlighteen the expert, and this is all that can be ex- 
pected in a popular magazine article, 

The limits of the article forbid more than the briefest men- 
tion of the many noteworthy things which have been done 
and discovered within the last ten years, and the only thing 
of importance which seems omitted is the introduction of 
the trout of Europe, Salmo fario, into America, from both 
Germany and England, and which promises to be of great 
value. Possibly the article was in type before the arrival of 
these fish. . : 

- There are so many things of interest to the fishculturist in 
the article that we cannot select any for quotation, those in- 
terested will readit, In closing it says that fisheulture “has 
not cheapened fish food to any extent, owing to the growth of 
Bopula Hy, but it has increased the supply in American waters, 
which were becoming exhausted in both the older and some 
of the newer States, and promised to become entirely barren, 
Tt restored the salmon to the Connecticut River, where they 
were taken and sent to market for three years, until the rapa- 
city of the fishermen exhausted the supply by cutting off the 
fish from thei spawning grounds, It has placed shad in San 
Francisco markets, where they were before unknown, and has 
materially added to the supply of our Jake and river fishes, 
and now promises to increase those of the sea coast.” 

_ The ilhistrations pad ere Show most of the important 

Pee each ea lly, Dist cis veo Teel Fae ene pastare OF the Now esse Bumeliatovng av Ooi 
these rémarks in reply to your correspondent, as likely jawas dade just’ before the ee perce Re ne 

: Wrethducancieess Bee poate donia, was made ju ore the néw building was put up, 
rother anglers, ANGLER. | therefore the latter is not shown. _ Jageing salmon,” and 
es, 


“stripping shad,” are good character sketc 
, ' ‘ ‘ . 


: 


SPECIAL. 


Boston, March 31, 


THE DOWEL QUESTION. 


‘Bhitor Forest and Stream: 
N I notice in your issue of Feb, 21 a letter from My, H, P. 
Wells, of New York, deprecating the use of the dowel pin 
in fly-rods, as having atendency to weaken the joints, and also 
1 account of the difficulty experienced by an amateur in 
airing a breakage when angling at a distance from a pro- 
fessional rod maker. 1 will not attempt to follow your cor- 
fespondent in all the imperfections and difficulties he refers 
§ to, but may say thatI have a rod which is so constructed 
to obviate all the difficulties referred to. It is fitted with 
new waterproof lock joint, patented by Mr. E. Perk, and 
purchased from a local firm, in which is now vested the sole 
Heht to manufacture. ‘es 
The patent lock joint referred to possesses all ‘the adyan- 
es of the “‘Irish screw ferrule” without its disadvantages, 
stead of fhe screw, a stud is placed on the inner or male 
errule, which fits into a groove in the outer or female fer- 
, thus making it a perfect lock and waterproof joint 
jhout weakening the rod; it is moreover readily adjusted 
vithout the tediousness of screwing asin the Irish ferrule, 
if is impossible for it to get out of order, 
The ferrules are tapered as in the case of ordinary fer- 
ules, the ‘‘dowel,” which is the great source of weakness in 
rdinary rods, is superseded by a small stud at the end of the 
er ferrule, which only requires a bore of one-third of an 
ch instead of one anda half, and sometimes two inches, 
id thus adds considerably to the strength without interfering 


a 


he pliability so necessary in a good fly-rod. 


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SALMON AND TROUT FOR WESTERN NEW YORKE.— 
On the 25th of March the transportation car of the U. S. Fish 
Commission left the hatchery at Wytheville with, salmon for 
the tributaries of the Oswego River. Onthe way 250 rainbow 
trout, 50 Rangeley and 50 common tront, all one year old, 
were planted in a tributary of the Shenandoah, in Clark 
county, Va. Thestream was a limestone brook which is well 
preserved, and Col. McDonald thinks that these yearlings will 
prove of as much value for stocking purposes as one hundred 
times the number of fry. The car then went by way of Har- 
risburg and Williamsport to Oswego, N. Y., where it was met 
by Mr. Lester Wright of the Leather-Stocking Club, and 500 
yearling rainbow trout were placed in Lewis Creek, a stream 
controlled by the club, Three miles above Fulton 70,000 Pen- 
obscot salmon were placed mm Eleyen-Mile Reach, near the 
mouth of Ox Creek. 


TROUT IN WISCONSIN.—The State Fish Commissioners 
deposited 40,000 young trout in the streams in this vicinity 
yesterday, Maren 25. Waupaca has some tine streams in a 
radius of eight miles that are suitable for trout, and we antici- 
pate fine fishing in afew years,if the fish do well, and we 
wi every reason to think they will.—C. F. C. (Waupaca, 

is.). 


THH PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION.—The Fish Com- 
mission of Pennsylvania has nearly finished the work of re- 
moving the fish from their abandoned station at Marietta to 
the new hatchery near Allentown, They have begun the dis- 
tribution of trout from their western hatchery at Corry. 


Che Zennel, 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 


April 8,4 and 5,—The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 
Bench Sbow. Charles Lincoln, Superistendent. ©. M. Munhall, Sec- 
retary, Cleveland, Ohio. Entries close March 24. 

April 22.—The St. Louis Gun Club’s Bench Show, St. Louis, Mo, 
Entries close April 14. J. M. Munson, Secretary. 

May 6,7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club's Highth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas, 
ere Bipermalenueure R. C, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 

ew York, 


A. K. R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry, No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
‘American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1Q10, Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50. 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The quarterly meeting of the E. FP. T. C., for social inter- 
course, exchange of views and experiences, and to promote 
friendly discussions on general shooting topics, has been post- 
poned until May, and will be held some evening during the 
holding of the New York show, at Madison Square Garden, 
and notice will be given through the mail one week previous 
to every member. This postponement was effected ta zive 
many of our non-resident members, who will probably attend 
the show, the opportunity of meeting the club members while 
in New York. Wasuineton A, Costmr, Sec’y and Treas, 

FLATBUSH, March 29, 


i. C. S. ASSOCIATION, 


Heitor Forest and Stream: 

Please publish the following notice to the members of the 
International Cocker Spaniel Association; - 

In accordance with the provisions of the constitution and 
by-laws of the abeve association there will be an annual 
meeting of the I. C_S. Association at Natatorium Hall, in the 
city of St. Louis, on the 22d of April next, during the bench 
show to be held in that city. The executive committee of said 
association will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday even- 
ing, April 23 at thesame place. As business of importance 
will be presented it is hoped that every member of the com- 
mittee will be present. The judiciary staff, as provided for by 
the constitution, should be elected at this meeting. : 

H.-C... FRANKLIN, Sec. and Treas. 

Sr, Louis, March 25. ; : 


CHAMPION BEAGLES. 
Heitor Forest and Stream; 

Being an admirer and owner of beagles I should like to ask 
for an expression of opinion, from those interested, upon the 
following subject, and that is asking our bench show managers 
to adopt a different rule—to apply only to beagles—than the 
one already adopted, which is as follows: ‘‘A doe to compete 
in a champion class must have won a first prize at * ‘ 
and a dog haying won a prize at any of the above named 
shows cannot compete in an open class when there is a cham- 
pion class for its kind, but must compete in such champion 
class,” For the following reasons I think under the rule 
paotey it cheapens the honor champion, for, as is very often 
the case, a dog is entered in the open class with perhaps only 
one or two (sometimes none) competitors, and being the best 
of the class (at times a poor one), is awarded first prize. When 
the dog is entered again for competition it must enter in the 
champion class, when the same thing might be repeated, and 
it win in that class, then itis proclaimed a champion beagle. 
I think it will be to the interest of the admirers of the beagle 
to adopt a rule haying a dog win two or three times (two at 
least) in an open class before competing in a champion. I, as 
an exhibitor, would willingly agree to such a rule, and would 
then look upon them with pride, and value a dog who won 
champion as one who was entitled to the honor. Ii is for the 
breed [ am writing and not any personal glory (for Lhave won 
twice in the open classes with Bush and Myrile), and under 
such a. rule dogs would find their proper Riaeee 

. H, ASHBURNER, 


~ POINTERS AT CINCINNATI. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of the 15th inst., under the caption of ‘Setters 
and Pointers at Cincinnati,” Mr. Munson says of Lamplighter, 
who gota vhe. (a Ranger ex Queen), ‘He isa good looking, 
big dog, but coarse, as the paueral run of Ranger dogs.” 
While he has an undoubted right to give an honest opinion of 
dogs that he has seen, and those exhibited more particularly, 
I do object fo an erroneous impression being given of what 
has not been seen—‘‘ths general run of Ranger dogs.” (Your 
report of Lamplighter says “he was avery useful looking 
dog.”) The Ranger dogs are too well known pyre sh ata 
sportsmen who use them afield to not appreciate that quality 
Mr, Munson terms “very coarse.”” The many first prize win- 
nings at beuch shows held at Chicago, New York, St. Louis, 
Boston, Baltimore, Syracuse, St. Panland San Francisco, with 
the field trial winnings at the Pacific coast of Beautiful Queen 
(a Ranger ex Queen) second in free for all, his grand rogeny 
atirst: and second there too, stamp Ranger one of the most 
successful stud pointers of America. The breeding and selec- 
“Ranger dogs”) has been especially for 


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field work, and they have filled the bill for shooting, during 


the hottest of weather and in all its variety, on the game birds 
of the Northwest and other latitudes where they are owned. 
My experience with them has not been limited. Season after 
season the many years past, in the best of company. they 
have held their own, and when ail good quality coupled with 
endurance were the test, they have not been found wanting, 
but always in the lead. And for that finer (?) quality, their 
bench show record speaks for itself, being judged by English 
as well as the many American judges competent to render an 
opinion. Si monumentwh queries cireumspice. 
8, B. Drouery, 
ROsSPNDALD, Wis., March 1’. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


i he will be my endeavor in these fortnightly notes to keep 
my readers au courant with all that is going on in the 
English kennel world. 

Tn order to start fair 1 think it will be advisable to com- 
mence with a retrospect. The year 1883, which seems to have 
come to an end so little time ago that [ have not yet got into 
the habit of writing 1884, was the biggest show year we have 
had, and the owners of large exhibition kennels must posi- 
tively dread the approach of the 1884 show season. 

Apart from the usual shows, those at the Palace and Bir- 
mingham, the greatest successes of 1883 were scored by War- 
wick, York and Sheffield. The first; named rejoiced in the 
patronage of a Prince, and that in the land that gave birth to 
the author of ‘‘The Book of Snobs” means gate money- 

Warwick, from its midland position, was sure to draw a big 
entry, and then, besides the presence of our ‘‘fiddling” Prince, 
they were clever enough to secure the catch-penny attraction 
of Lady Florence Dixie’s heroic St. Bernard, who from his 
bench held quite a levée, and received with conscious dignity 
the homage of the credulous. 

Encouraged by success the Warwick committee have this 
year erected their own building and issued the most liberal 
schedule that I have yet seen. Even Japanese and trufile 
dogs have separate classes. Where the truffle dog entries are 
to come from, gourmets only know. Added to its other ad- 
yantages, Warwick is first inthe field, and I am confident 
that their liberality and enterprise will be rewarded with a 
bumper entry. The collie classes are sure to bea leading 
feature. 

I notice that the York committee have been patting their 
secretary and one another on the back. It is always pleasant 
to be able to shake hands with one’s self, They may repeat 
their yenture, though they will lack the auxiliary aid of the 
royal show and the royal presence. 

Last year H. R, H. the Prince of Wales, and one of the “six 
hundred” heroes, Sir ‘“Garge” Wombwell, walked through 
the benches, and I don’t think the committee have recovered 
their breath yet, 

Sheffield was a good show and cleverly timed; it just cut in 
for the York entries; I fear it would not do so well if renewed 
on independent lines. 

How -shows may fall off was manifested in a marked man- 
ner by Hertford Jast year. The year before it was covered 
with compliments, last year they were unfortunate in the 
choice of their officials, and dire offense was given to exhibi- 
ters, at least so I gather trom the kennel press, in which I read 
that their committee were brought before the Kennel Club. 

The great trouble with most local shows is that the local 
personages, the tinker, tailor, and candlestick maker, are all 
anxious to do their little ‘‘strut,” and the result is they over- 
act their parts, and give offense to those whose lives and tastes 
are not cast in provincial places. Hertford has wisely decided 
not to solicit the support of the “doggy” world this year. 

Birmingham made a plucky stand against toe increasing 
arrogance of the Kennel Club, and on the point of entries got 
beaten from over-confidence. We owe a very great deal to 
the Kennel Club, many reforms, many beneficial innovations, 
and I shall always be ready to concede my praise when it is 
becomingly deserved. 

Birmingham was so hard hit this year, and a little below 
the belt, if the truth be admitted, that Iam.prepared to take 
the shortest odds, she will next year set her house in order 
and be ready to receive her many supporters whose hearts 
are true to Brum. 4 

So much for the show-world. Now for the positions of the 
breeds. The demand for good sporting dogs continues, and 
particularly from abroad. Germany dés not buy so many as 
she used'to. Prince Solms’s magnificent kennel, at Brauentfels, 
seems equal to supplying the home wants. = 

France is England’s best continental client, la weille noblesse 
are still ready to pay their francs in thousands for Gordon 
setters.and Laveracks, though the first named are first favor- 
ites. he fancy has just struck them for black spaniels, but 
they have got on the wrong track somehow, and require black 
and tam “‘spaniels de la race cocker.” 

Among the gommeua, the all too pschutt who affect bug- 
gies, le high life and le sport, the bool dogue a I’ Anglaise is the 
ne plus ultra of Parisian dudery. 

ox-terriers continue to add to their numbers, and it is a 
curious faet that the more common a breed becomes the more 
money is a really good specimen worth, After all, this admits 
of a very simple explanation, as the more bitches there are 
the more money will a decent stud dog earn.” 

Fox-terrier men must feel bad over the disclosures in the 
Briggs case. There must lurk a moral somewhere around, 
when a dog that is purchased froma coal miner for five shillings, 
and makes a sensation in the fancy, becomes invincible, and is 
claimed by a noble lord for £200, ay 

Of course a pedigree was hatched, How trueit is, indeed, of 
dogs as of men, that the pedigree is worth more than the dog, 

But what a satire it is upon all our scientitic breeding direc- 
tions that this gutter pup should beat our best. The Caucasian 
is played out. Shut up the brood kennels. Where is the use 
of breeding champions when witha bit of liver and some 
anise seed we can go out into the highways and “catch ’em?” 

You still continue to absorb our black spaniels, but we will 
meet the demand. ‘‘Where the voice of the dollar calls, etc.” 
If you should weary of your present hobby try Clumbers, 

he Duke of Portland showed a beautiful team of those 
handsome dogs at the Palace. Added to the beauty of the 
head and the silvery glint of the white hair set off by the 
lemon markings, there is an indescribable atmosphere in their 
coats that has been realistically reproduced on canvass by one 
artist only, Hayward Handy. — 

This breed was for generations 
Newcastle family, and a tale is told 
they took in keeping this breed to themselves. 

The Duke had a house party and, after luncheon, strolled 
with his guests ty see the eyry, On arriving there a groom 
met him with a basket containing a litter of Clumber puppies, 
with which his Grace, in a naturally nonchalant manner, be- 
gan to feed the eaglets. As he was passing the third puppy 
through the bars one of his guests begged its life and said 
how pleased he should be to rearit. ‘‘Which of my estates 
would you like?’ asked the Duke, smilingly. : 

Bven the large sums that prize dogs are continually chang- 
ing hands for have not prepared one for the amazement I felt 
on reading that the American actor Emmet had given £850 for 
the St, Bernard Rector. ! ' ‘ 

As I presume, he has bought for private enjoyment, that 
must be considered an exceptional as well asa fancy price. It 
could only be termed a fair price if breeders in the States axe 
prepared to pay twenty guineas stud fee for him. . 

Rector'’s career has been a curious one. I first saw him as 
an enormous puppy at the Kennel Club Show. I observed that 
he was all height and bad temper. He tasted one or two peo- 


le, 2 
. He was claimed by Colman, the nmistard man, who, favored 
a ae — = 


jealously guarded by the 


ati illustrates the pride |, 


ae 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[APRiL 3, 1884, 


———— re 
—————— 


by fortune and blasé palates, needs must seek the highest. Mr. 
Colman was already famous for his luscious large prapes, the 
Gros Colman, he had won the Queen’s prize with his beautiful 
heifer, atthe Agricultural Hall, and new he purchased for 
£100 the biggest dog in the world, 

He soonreturned to the possession of his vendor, Mr. Gould, 
who, it may be presumed, got him back for much less than he 
sold him, Jt is said that the first time Mr. Colman wished to 
show Rector to his friends, he ‘‘went for” them, chased the 
gardeners out of the grounds, followed his owner and friends 
into the house, and that they had to save themselyes by drop- 
ping out of the windows. 

Rector next appears hawked about the streets of London 
for saleo—a perfect wreck. He was paraded in the busy haunts 


ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


The dog show prospects are ve yg i 
B Shi ; ry flattering. More entries 
a already in than was expected at this tiie: One hundred 
ollars has been donated by a gentleman here to be given in 
specials for Canadian dogs.” We hope this will induce a good 
nitmber of entries from Canada, Special rates have been 
secured on all the railroads and express companies entering 
St. Louis. The special prizes, from present indications, will 
reach fully $2,000, The Globe-Democrat donates $140 ‘for a 
special premium, but it has not been assigned to a class yet 
nor hasit been decided what will be purchased with the 
money. Bunt very phe it willgo fora solid silver and 


7 


of the cily and on the railway platforms; £60 they would take | $0!4 collar. Mermod Jaccard Jewelry Company donate a 
for him, but th bli wee Gl) : 7) prize in silverware. The collie classes will have a number _ 
fancy “knew” nie ie don’t give £6! for a dog, and the | o¢ special prizes worth coming a long way to win. None of 


the dogs will be forgotten. A thousand prize lists have been 
sent out already, and inquiries are coming in daily. Carpent- ‘ 
ers begin work at the show building next week. The office of — 


the dog show is at 313 North Third street, J, W. Munson. 
Sr. Lovis, March 29. - 


_ At last Little Smith, of Leeds (as be is called to distinguish 
him from Big Smith, of Sheffield), had the audacious courage 
to buy him, Some months after I remember standing at the 
entrance wicket of the Sheffield show talking to a well-known 
St. Bernard man; we were criticising the arrivals. ‘‘Hullo,” 
cried my friend, and looking round I saw the object of his 
surprise. Little Smith leadino a magnificent dog. “Who is 
it?” we both asked, ‘‘Rector,” replied the smaller end of the 
chain, beaming behind his spectacles. We were thunderstruck. 
Rector was fat, his coat had a bright gloss, and he appeared 
as meek as # lamb, 

‘How did you manage it?” gasped my friend, “Oh, I cured 
his temper by punching him, and got bim into condition on 
bread and gravy.” 

There you are, 8t. Bernard men, I put you into possession of 
the seeret of success. St. Bernards are notoriously a mangy 
breed, but the bread and gravy diet can’t be heating, and I 
imagine Mr. Smith forgot to mention arsenic as an-important 
part of the treatment. 

With regard to fist versus stick, Thad long made the same 
discovery. Itis always an awkward affair to tackle a big dog, 
If you hit him loose he runs off with a growl, if you take him 
by the collar and hide him you must be physically capable of 
the performance; but rolla coat around your right arm and 
let him have a few from your left, and let your blows fall just 
above his nose, the novelty of the attack and the sharp pain 
will cow the largest dog so Jong as you keep your own herve. 

Since deciding upon a signature for these notes, I haye heard 
that one of the handsomest entries for this year’s Derby is my 
namesake, i suppose it was the Nnglishman’s innate betting 
instinct that set me off at once to back the coincidence at the 
modest price of 50-1, and now I can assure his noble vuwner 
that nobody would more sincerely rejoice in his victory than 

' LILLIBULLERO. 


THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW, 


ee entries for the eighth annual bench show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club are coming in rapidly, and the indi- 
cations are thatthe show will be the most brilliant that the 
club has yet held. in addition to the liberal prize list there 
haye already been offered a large number of valuablespecials, 
and many more are promised. We have received the list of - 
them to date, but too late for this jssue. They will appear — 
next week. Any one wishing to offer a special prize is re- { 
quested to do so before April 12, in order that it may appear 
in the catalogue. The list of judges is now complete, and the 
club may congratulate themselves upon securing the services 
of gentlemen so well and favorably known. Followingis the — 


st: 

See Newfoundlands and pugs, Mr, Paul Dana, New 
ork ‘ 
St. Bernards, berghunde, spaniels, beagles, basset hounds, 

Gachshunde, fox-terriers, collies, bulldogs, bull-terriers, and all — 

other terrier classes, Mr, James Mortimer, New York. 
Greyhounds, deerhounds and Italian greyhounds, Mr, Jos, 

R. Pierson, Buckingham, Pa. 

Pointers, Mr. E, C, Sterling, St. Louis, Mo. ‘ 
English setters, Mr. John C. Higgins, Delaware City, Del. 
tack and tan setters, Irish setters and foxhounds, Hone 

John 8. Wise, Richmond, Va, - 
Chesapeake Bay dogs, Mr. Isaac Townsend, New York, 
Caniche poodles, Mr. John G. Heckscher, New York, 4 


TORONTO DOG SHOW. 


HE second annual show given under the auspices of the 
Dominion of Canada Kennel Club was held in Toronte on 

March 26 and two following days, and proved to be a great 
success, as well in the number anc quality ot the entries as 
financially. The building selected for the exhibiton was the 
Concert Hall in the Horticultural Gardens, one admirably 
adapted for the purpese, owing to the excellent light and ven- 
tilation. It proved to be rather too small, however, for ths 
number of dogs, and some of these were necessarily benched 
in a dark passage way. It had been arranged that Mr, Lincoln 
should come on and superintend the show, but he failed the 
committee at the last moment, and they had to trust to their 
ownresources, Mr, Jas. Spooner took Mr. iincoln’s place 
and left little to be desired after the dogs were benched, Mr 
W.S. Jackson, the secretary, and Messrs. Cassells, Boyle, Mal- 
loch, Postlethwaite, Tinning, Kirk and others lent valuable 
assistance, and the only thing really to find fault with wa 
the acceptance of late entries after the catalogue had been 
made up. This caused trouble in the judging ring now and 
again to find out what certain animals were that came in 
minus number or any clew to their identity, and in the 
case of Mr. Lindsay's collies, the man who brought them on 
knew nothing about them and the owner suffered in conse- 
uence. The committee of the Kennel Club can now see that — 
there is no need to accept late entries, to make a show a 
i aha success, and should be governed accordingly in 
uture. 

Rain fell heavily on the first day, but cleared off before 
night, and from then until the close on Friday night the” 
weather and the attendance were exeellent, On Thursda; 
nearly 5,008 paying visitors passed through the gates, 
when we left on Friday afternoon it looked as if there wo 
be as many present again ere the show came to a close at I 
o'clock. The judges announced to officiate were Messrs. J. 
M. Taylor, William Hendrie and Jamés Watson, but he 
former had to ask the committee torelieve him, and Mr. John ~ 
Davidson, of Monroe, waz asked to fill the yacancy, and 
once accepted. It was a pleasure to see him again in 


Lonpon, Eng., March 11, 


A NEW AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB. 


Hditor Forestand Stream: 

A letter which appeared in the March issue of the American 
Kennel Register from Mr. Van Schaick, touching the desira- 
bility of inaugurating an American Kennel Club, appear tome 
to be worthy of consideration, I expect I willbe drawing 
down on myself the indignation of the N. A, K. C, for advyo- 
cating such a move, nevertheless, I do so, andI think I will 
be supported by a very large number of the breeders of dogs 
on this continent. thy 

Pointers and setters are not the only class of dogs that need 
encouragement and protection. Take the catalogue of the 
New York Bench Show, of 1882; out of 1041 entries there were 
568 evtries of dogs other than pointers and setters, which 
shows that even two years ago there were more than one-half 
of the entries bel onging to other breeds of dogs. 

The N,A.K.C. have, for the last four or five years, devoted 
their entire energies and resources to the development of field 
trials, certainly a most laudable object, but at the same time 
they have lost sight of one of the first objects for which it 
was formed, the‘issuing of a Kennel Register and the further- 
ing of bench shows. 

The American Kennel Register is doing a good work, and 
richly deserves the thanks and support of all breeders, but at 
the same time it is a private undertaking, and consequently it 
cannot deal with many matters which are of vital interest to 
dog owners as a whole. 1 

We want a kennel club which shall take up the interest of 
all breeds of dogs, which will interest itself in the development 
of dogs, bench shows, collie trials, retrieving trials, cours- 
ing, and be a guide to the proper registering of pedigrees, and 
to see that no frauds are perpetrated on the public, so far as 1b 
is in its power to prevent. This club can be established with- 
out in anv way interfering with the interests of the N.A.K.C., 
as it need not interfere with the arrangements of field trials 
for pointers and setters, and I think it ought to have the 
hearty support of the members of that club. : ) 

When the N. ‘A: K. ©, was formed, pointers and setters were 
the most valuable dogs, and the owners of them, the ones who 
took the most interest in canine affairs. Since then a very 
great change has taken place in this country among the breed- 
ers, owners and’ fanciers of dogs, which anyone who ma; 
attend any of the large bench shows of to-day may see, and if 
I dare make an estimate of the value of the non-sporting dogs 
which may be exhibited at the next New York show, ! think 
it would equal the yalue of the sporting division, and'perhaps 
go much beyond. I would suggest through your widely cir- 


Mr. Watson went through the remainder of the long catalozue 
To Toronto belongs the credit of bringing together the larges 
display of field and cocker spaniels ever secn in this country, 
the prize list haying provided liberally for the breed, ten classes 
being on thecatalogue. The followinzsummary of the entries 
will be of interest: } 


culated journal the advisability of having a meeting of owners Setters.,...-...+-+-.-+ 78 Newfoundlands fete 13 
and breeders at the coming bench show at New York in May Pointers ......-.++-++5 23 COMiCS «severe verse rere #9 
next, when steps could be taken for the formation of an Am- Spaniels ,-...-..-+.++- 7 Bulldogs ... ar eae aes 4 
erican Kennel Club, if such an Oreo was considered ounds....... tenet eee nu Terriers and Toys...;.80 
necessary. In the meantime, would it not be beneficialif the Fox-terriers ....-.-+-. 2 Miscellaneous and ‘8 
numerous fanciers would give their ideas on the subject Mastifs............+.. LC 20) Cee 
through the medium of Formst anp STREAM? J.8. Niven. St. Bernards........... 10 


Lonpor, Ont.. March 21. 


NON-SPORTING DOG SHOW. 
Editor Forest and Stream; 

At an informal meeting of afew gentlemen, owners and 
breeders of non-sporting dogs, held last Thursday, the follow- 
ing preamble and resolution was offered by a gentleman pres- 
ent, well-known as an enthusiast on doggy matters: 

Whereas, Heretofore the bench shows throughout the coun- 
try haye been given by kennel clubs, whose object is the breed- 
ing and perfecting of the various sporting dogs, and d 

hereas, Infurtherance of that object, the classes and prizes 
for sporting dogs have been made a feature to the detriment 
of the non-sporting classes, and, { , , 

Whereas, By such encouragement their object has been at- 
tained, and the American field dogs stand second to none; 

Resolved, That a determined and well organized effort be 
made, and the assistance of all owners, breeders and admirers 
of non-sporting degs be invited to co-operate in bringing about 
ashow in October next, in the city of New York, for non- 
sporting dogs only. Moa one 

All persons desiring to respond to the above invitation may 
do so by addressing, THE CLOVERNOSK KENNEL. 


185 Fiera Avenve, New York City. 


rare wor i 
was not in 


inc 


Grouse want 


he puppies were very moderate. 
IRISH SETTERS, > = 

Chief, shown in superb condition, was alone in chs 
pion dogs. We have never seen him looking better. Th 
were no champion bitches. Chiet I!, was an easy frst) 
open dogs, and atter mentioning Belle as an equally saft 
in her class, the others may be dismissed as of mode 
tensions, sadly deficient in fhe style and finish seen in 


setters seen at shows this side of the ne on whicl 


: _, BLA TAN SERIERS 
In the Gordon or hinck aud ti class the exhibits wave 


CONDITION FOR BENCH SHOWS.—Mr, Lacy, whose 
announcement will be found in our advertising department, 
is represented to us by those in whom we have confidence, to 
be thoroughly competent to take charge of dogs and put them 
in condition for show purposes. This will answer the man 


any: chr ae 
inquiries that we have received in relation to the matter and | Elcho stamp of fashion is set. 
) Si have no doubt that he will have as many animals ashe can Ta 


attend to. - - - 


Arr. 8 1884.) 


superior to the Irish, Argus was the only one in the cham- 
pion class. Pride of Canada, good in color and head, and well 
‘shown, was well ahead of Brant. Major is a strong, upstand- 
‘ing dog, but his coat lacked lustre. Grouse is weak in head 
fora Gordon, In the bitch class, Lottie was superior to June 
in condition, both being very good in color. Jason is a prom- 
ising puppy and a credit to his sire, Argus, 
POINTERS, 

King Bow was in anything but, good shape, and was re- 
moyed from his bench, leaying Knickerbocker and Dick to 
contend for the Peppa ae The former veuy properly re- 
ceived the award. Meteor, entered by Col. W. E, Hughes, 
was decidedly the best in the open class. He wants square- 
ness in muzzle, and we thought he inight be improved in 
body. His legs and feet are of the best. Ranger we liked 
yery much, and it was a close thing between him and Bang 
for second place. Duffer, unnoticed, is aptly named, and 
Rex, though plain in head, is otherwise a very fair specimen, 
Shot was not on his bench when our notes were taken, The 
bitches were decidedly inferior to the dogs, and we were not 
yery much impressed with Mr. Munson’s brace, though they 
rightly enough took first and second prizes, Snipe was the 
best of the puppies. 

SPANIELS. ; é 

Tn Trish water spaniels, Driver was better in head and_size 
than Rocky, and third prize might have been withheld. Jack 
was a very poor Clumber, and BinOUaL the only one shown, 
all he was entitled to is third prize. Benedict had not arrived 
when champion field spaniels were judged, and first went to 
Bob, Jr., over Toronto Beau, who is not right in coat, First 
was withheld in the large size class for other than black or 
liver, and second was given a strong, leggy dog of the type 
generally styled Norfolk. Black Mack is short and thick in 
head but of good length, has a flat coat, and was well shown, 
Kiug Beau is too high on the leg, and his coat was rather 
faded. Beau is so tent on his forelegs that he can never get 
high on the prize list. Burdette Bob is yery Dad _in coat, and 
the scarred condition of his face suggested the dog pit more 
than the field as his strong suit. In the black and liver bitches, 
Flora, a black and tan, was in the wrong class, and Midnight 
was underweight, so that Maggie had a walk over. She is 
good in coat and feather, but her head wants length, Bene, 
though she has not fulfilled the pees of her youthtul days, 
is much more of a cocker than Brahmin, whose proper place 
is among the field spaniels. He was well shown, a remark 
that applies to all the exhibits from the Woodland Kennels, 
Raven was overweight, and was therefore put ont of the 
small black class. Hornell Silk took first. @ wants more 
character in head, but is otherwise a good dog, having straight 
legs, good body and flat eoat. Hornell Sam has a short, 
wedey head, and is light of bone. His best point 
is leupth of body and straight coat, Young Obo has a 
dome skull and wedgy muzzle, but is otherwise a most prom- 
ising youngster, standing on short, straight legs, and his coat 
is of the best. Jack is full in the eye, and has rather too much 
white on his breast.and feet for a black spaniel. Dick and Gar- 
net, two of the unnoticed division, looked more like stunted 
Gordon setters, and were in the wrong class anyway on ac- 
ecqunt of their color. Woodstock, the winning black cocker, 
was heayy with whelp, but for all that had no trouble in get- 
ting the place. Hornell 101 is poor in head and light-boned, 
but has good length and coat. Nelly, like a good many of 
Rollo’s progeny, has a faint showing of tan through the black 
which does not improye her appearance. Woodstock Flirt is 
too high on the leg, and her coat is inclined to curl. She 
has time to improve, and if she grows on will be better in the 
large class. Cocker dogs, any other color, were a mixed lot, 
Sport,a black and white, is deficient in character. Speed was 
not well shown, and there was little to choose between these. 
With the exception of Hornell Rattler, the other entries were 
half bred water spaniels. Rattler we did not like; his head is 
coarse, and is not improved by his bloodhound eye; legs good, 
with plenty of bone, and he is also fairly wellin length of body, 
but he fails to impress one with the idea of his being a spaniel. 
Bitches, other than black, brought Daisy, the Montreal win- 
ner, to the front. She bas not improved since then, and besides 
being a trifle legey for the present style, is deficient in coat 
and feather fora bitch of her age. Woodstock Nellie is a 
promising youngster, and if she does not get too large, will 

rove troublesome in this class in future, Lunais coarse in 

ead and has a terrier body. Busy is.too full in the eye, and 
they are placed too wide apart, which makes her appear mon- 
key-taced. Her coat is none of the best, but she isa fair speci- 
men ofia cocker. The leaders of the puppy classhave already 
been referred to in connection with the open classes, 
FOXHOUNDS. 


This-was the first class Mr. Hendrie-had to handle, and it is 
a pity he did not feel more at home in the ring, for he had a 
difficult lot to deal with; indeed, an old stager would have had 
to put_on his considering cap before arriving at a conclusion. 
The handlers crowded inso that it was really impossible to 
get a good lookat the dogs, but from what we saw of them we 
preferred Macklem’s Sam and O’Shea’s Forester II. Both were 
assed_over, and first went to Tanner, good in front but weak 
ehind, Ringwood has very open feet, and Clarebank does 
not stand on his hind legs as a good ‘hound should. Driver 
getting a vhe. was certainly a mistake, as he could not com- 
pare in any way with thesameowner’sSam. Thetwo puppies 
‘shown were only three months old, and an opinion upon their 
merits is hardly necessary. 


HARRIERS AND BEAGLES. 

There was much diversity of type in harriers, and Mr, Hen- 
drie picked out the best shaped ones. Rattler again beat 
Music in beagles, and Dell did not show so well as we have 
Bee him; the journey from New York haying left him in poor 

ape. 

DEERHOUNDS. ; 

Lance, now well known, headed the list, and next to him 
came a grand puppy shown by Mr, Dundas. Both Wyvis 
and Lorna II. lacked coat. 

GREYHOUNDS, 
- The sexes were divided in the champion class, so Friday 
Night and Dorothee had each a walk over, In the open class 
we preferred the unnoticed Robert the Devil to any of the 
goliere, and there seemed to be some mistake in withholding 


second while three dogs were very highly commended, 


- FOX-THERRIDRS, 

Fennel had no oppesition for his ela Sepa ee and both 
-Jaunty and Tip were wrongly entered in the champion bitch 
elass in which Thistle beat Lyra. There were some extra zood 
ones in the open classes. Mixture has the best legs and feet 
we ever saw on a terrier, and looks all over a workman. Va- 
keel is out at elbows, and his feet are open; in these points 
Belvoir Jim beats him, but the former is the more talking dog 
ofthe two. Brokenhurst Bob is coarse in head, but is a good 
terrier nevertheless. Richmond Olive was not to bedenied in 
the bitch elass; this is a. grand bitch, but we wotld like her 
better ifshe had more bone, It was very hard on Village 
Belle meeting such an opponent, for in ordinary company she 
is a,sure winner, Nellie is also a very good one, indeed it, was 
a grand class so far as the noticed division were concerned. 
The puppies were not much to boast of, 


MASTIFFS. 
- Although entered without 
breeding and deseryes his 


him, Mr, Watson stuck to the type 
th 


PEED aes yi. iis, ued 
withdrawn, left; Priam.to walk oyer for 


. e 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


eee — SS OO nS 


the championship. Hermit beat Noble in the open class in 
head and size, but they are neither of them first-class. The 
others were an odd lot of berghunde, ' 


NEWFOUNDLANDS, 

This was one of the strongest classes in the show, and ten 
out of the thirteen led into thering received cards, First was 
piven to Mr. Kirk's Jim, « fair-sized dog with a grand head 
and coat, and shownin perfect condition. Leo is larger than 
Jim, but does not show his quality, nor had as much attention 
been paid to his appearance. Third went to Juno, a bitch of 
great substance and heavy in whelp to Carlo, also a good dog, 
though showing his age a little, Bruceis a youngster that 
promises to make a fine dog, and the others that received 
commendations were deserving of their honors, 

GOLLIES. 

Quality was sadly lacking in the collie classes, there being a 
lot of indifferent specimens shown. Rex beat Lorne for the 
champion honors, Chieftain being put out on the score of 
lameness. The winner was looking well, but carried a gay 
fiag inthe ring, Herdman's Laddie, though coarse in ear, 1s 
a taking dog, and was decidedly the best in the open dog 
class. Sly is plain in face, heayy-eared, and Rough and Help 
are faulty in the same way. Miss Timmins was by long odds 
the most typical collie shown, having perfect ears, well 
carried, and the right kind for head, but she had no upper 
ebat, and could not obtain the place and honors she would 
otherwise have been entitled to. Fairy, the winning bitch, is 
good in shape and coat, but lacks character in head, and her 
ears are not right. Lassie is one of the plain, sensible-looking 
sort, and her owner said she was the best for use he had ever 
seen, Miss Timmins won in the puppy Class, and of the two 
very highly commended, Leila promises to grow on into the 
better dog if he is not undersized, 

BULLDOGS AND BULI-TERRIERS. 

Bellisima, shown for the first time in this country, was 
piiced in front of Tippoo and Romulus. She is a grand bitch, 

ut her maternal duties had pulled her down very much, and 
it will take all the time between now and New York to get 


her in proper shape.” Young Bill was the only good bull- 
terrier shown. Spring is a weedy fellow, and Billy showed 
too much of the bulldog about the head and chest. 

TERRIERS, ; 

The best classes in terriers were the Bedlingtons, which 
have been taken to by the Toronto fanciers. In the dog class 
lint won by condition, though it is our opinion that Blucher, 
shown right, is the best of the lot, but he was put back to 
third, behind Mr. Scholes’s other dog, Jerry. Both in the dog 
and bitch classes there were some nice puppies out of Tyne- 
sider IL, but the dam had not got sufficient coat on her to 
dispose of Stonehouse Lass. ‘he Torontonians will learn be- 
fore long that they kave taken to one of the most difficult 
breeds to show right, and that to win they must devote the 
greatest attention to the condition of their dogs. There were 
several nice Skyes shown and one good Dandie, but Mr, Hen- 
drie did not consider him entitled to a prize, Norah was 
placed over the weedy Erin in Irish terriers, and Teaser, of 
course, won in black and tans. Montreal fanciers carried off 
the honors in Yorkshires, the best of the lot being little Fritz, 
who, as usual, was short of coat. The pugs and toys were 
poor, but there was a grand-headed King Charles to the front 
in the spaniel class. We take a great fancy to the black Thi- 
betian sheep dog with his black tongue and mouth, and he 
was given first ijn the foreign class, and there was also a good 
large-size Russian poodle in the miscellaneous class, Follow- 
ing are the 

AWARDS. 

lass 1. Champion English Setters, Dogs,—ist, T. G. Dayey's Dick 
Laverack, bine belton, 44éyrs., Thunder—Peeress, 

Class 2. Champion Pnglish Setters, Bitches.—1st, Henry Pape’s Lady 
May, blue belton. 

Class.8. English Setters, Dogs.—1st, Montague Smith's Cambridge, 
bine belton. dyrs., Gladstone—Clip; 2d, F. G. Hughes’s Paris III , 
white, black and ticked, 2yrs,, Paris Il.—Lady Princess; 4d, Wm. B. 
Wells’s Kink. lemon and white, fyrs., Druid—Star. Very high com. 
and reserve, R. W. Boyle’s Dashing Storm, while, black and ticked, 
15mos,, Royal Sultan—Reign; T. G. Davey’s Prince Phosbus, black 


and white, dyrs., Tam 6’ Shanter—Prue; A. Wyness, Jr.’s Cambridge 
I, black, white and tan, 14inos., Cambridge I.—Smith’s Belle. High 
com., Thomas Hutchinson’s Paris TU., black, white and tan, Zyrs., 
Faris 11,—Belle; H. H. Curtis's Grouse. Com, Fred A. Sullivan's 
Doctor, liver and white. 7yrs., Billy—BelL and Colonel, liver and 
white, 4yrs., Doctor—Nellie. r 

Class 4. English Setters, Bitches.—Ist and very high com. reserve, 
Montague Smith’s Belle, blue belton, 8yrs., Dime—Princess Blanche, 
and Abbie, blue belton, 4yrs., Gladstone—Mersey; 2d, T. G. Davey’s 
Genevieve, blue. helton, 22mos., London—Dawn,; 3d, ©. «A. Stone's 
Forest Dora, A.K.R. 500. Very high com., Jos. Kime’s Lucy Bee, 
black, white and tan, 2yrs., Paris 11—Romp. High com., T. G. 
Davey’s Canadian Queen, black, white and tan, 17mos , Lava Rock— 
Liddersdale; D. O’Shea’s Lilly, lemon and white, 2yrs., Dick Laver- 
ack—Louie. [ 

Class 5. Enezlish Setter Puppies, Dogs.—ist, C. A. Stone’s Forest 
Blue, blue belton, 10mos., Prince Royal—Forest Fly; 2d, J. F. Kirk’s 
Royal. liyerand white, 8mos., Royal Sultan—Woodstock Belle. Third 
prize withheld. 

Class 6, English Setter Puppies, Bitches.—ist, J. F. Kirk's Carrie 
Roy, blue belton, €mos., Royal Sultan—Woodstock Belle; 2d, Lalor 
& Wells’s Queen; 3d, H. H. Curtis’s Blavk Bess. High com., F. E. 
Curtis’s Flo. 444mos., Jef—Plo. 

Qlass 7. Champion Irish Setters, Dogs.—l1st, M. Wenzel’s Chief, 
A.K.R, 231, 

Class 8 Champion Irish Setters, Bitches.— No entries. 

Class 9. Irish Setters, Dogs.—ist, Max Wenzel’s Chief IT., A.K.R. 
232; 2d, 5am Stanelani’s Sam. red, 8yrs,, Bang—Spot; 8d, William 
Raper’s Bruce, red, 2yrs,, pedigree unknown. Very high com., 
Henry Watson’s Jerry, red. 1fmos., Shot—Belle. High com., John 
©. Forbes's Diek, red, 3yrs., Lord Dufferin’s Dog—O’Connor’s Bitch. 

Class 10. Trish Setters, Bitches,—Ist, J. Algernon Temple’s Belle, 
red. 4yrs., Heward’s Belle—Heward's Bob; 2d, Henry Watson’s Belle, 
red, 9yrs., Bang—Dugean’s Flos; 8d and very high com., Jas Ken- 
nedy’s Alice, red, 5yrs., imported, Rock—Belle, and Kate, red, U4yrs., 
imported, Diek—Alice. 

lass 11. Irish Setters, Puppies.—Ist, D, O’Shea’s Mattie, 8mos., 
Rory O’More—Trix; 2d. A. Purse’s Grouse, 8mos., Forbes’s Dick— 
Pele: Very high com., H. Watson’s Bang, 8mos.. Forbes’s Dick— 

elle. 

Olass 12, Champion Black and Tan Setters.—Ist, John BE, Thayer's 
Argus, 5yrs., Blossom—Moll TTT. 

QOlass 13. Black and Tan Setters, Dogs.—ist, H. H. Curtis’s Pride of 
Canada; 2d, E. Tinsley’s Brant, 2yrs., Blossom—Mollie; 8d, J. N. 
Hickey’s Major, 5yrs,, Jerome Marble’s Grouse—Queen Bess. Very 
high com., W. B. Wells’s Grousé, 5yrs., pedigree unknown. 

Nass 14, Black and Tan Setters, Bitches.—ist, F. W, J. Ball's Lottie, 
20mos., Bran—Charmer; 2d, J. D. Thompson’s June, 4yrs.. Cock- 
hurn’s Sam—Thoinson’s May; 3d and yery high com., reserve, P. H. 
Hart's Diana, 2yrs., Jack—Gyp, aud Gyp, 2yrs., Jack—Gyp. Very 
high com., W. ©. Niblett’s Medea, 3$¢yrs., Chang—Venus. 

Class 15, Black and Tan Setters, Puppies.—_1st, Roy V. Somerville’s 
Jason, Imos., Argus—Medea. Very hizh com.,, R. J. McKie’s Medea 
IL.. Smos., Arzus—Mydea. 

Class 16, Champion Pointers.—ist, Knickerbocker Kennel Club’s 
Knilekerbocker, A,K.R. 19. 

Class 17. Pomters, Dogs.—ist, Gol W. E. Hughes's Meteor, liver 
and white, 3yrs., Garnet—Jilt; 2d, J. W. Munson’s Bang, liver and 
white, Bang—Luna; 2d, John Hall's Ranger, lemon and white, 244yrs,, 
Revell’s Dash—Hall’s Vie. Very high com, reserve, Thomas Wi1- 
field’s Shot, liver and Withee Oesne imported Shot—imported Belle; 
James Purse’s Shot, liyer and white, 3yrs,. out of imported Nellie; 
Joseph Winter, Jrs, Rap. 8yrs., Jim—Louisa High com., George 
Gouinlock’s Rex, liyer and while, 5yrs., pedigree unknown. 

_ Class 18. Pointers, Bitches.—ist and 2d, John W. Munson's Vanity, 
liver and white, ayrs., champion Bang—Pride, and Spinaway, liver 
and. white, 3yrs.. Garnet—Keswick; 3d, Chas. G. Ritchie’s Duck, 
white and liver, 3yvs,, no pedigree. Very high com., John Hendry’s 
Nellie, liver and white, 2Gmos., Hudleston’s Spot— Juno. 

Olass 19. Pointer Puppies,—ist, R. 8. Cassels’s Snipe, liverand white, 
10mos., Sport—imported bitch; 2d, 0. A. Stone’s Beauty, lemon and 
white, 10mos,, Bob—Beauty. Very high com.and high com., C. R. 
Smith’s Tiger, lemon and white, 10mos., Bob—Beauty, and Jack, 
brother to Tiger. 

Class 20, ph ampion Trish Water Spaniels.—No entries. 

Glass 21. Trish Water Spaniels—Ist, John Seager’s Driver, liver, 
#yrs., Drake—Duck; 2d, H, H. Kersteman’s Rocky, brown, 4syrs., 
pedigree not known 3d, W. F. Dyson's Duck, - 

_ Class 22. Olumber Spaniels.—ist and 2d, withheld; 3d, Geo, Chillas’s 

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Glass 28, Champion Field Spaniels.—ist, J. Luckwell’s Bob, Jr, 
2yrs. 10mos,, Bob II,—Black Bess, 

Class 24. Field Spaniels (other than Clumbers, blaek of livet).—tst, 
withheld; 2d, Owner's Spot, liver and white. 

Class 25, Black or Liver Wield Spaniels. Dogs.—ist, R, J. MeKiee" 
Black Mack, black, 2yrs., Bob, Jr.—Mand; @d and hipzh com,. 1. 
Kirk’s King Beau, golden liver, 18mos, Toronfo Beau—Neeress I, 
and Beau, black, bléyrs., Bob—Nell, High com., Hornell Spaniv 
Olub’s Burdette Bob, A.K.R, 132. , 

Class 26. Blaek or Liver Field Spaniels, Bitclres.—tst, Ilornel 
Spaniel Club’s Maggie. black, 2yrs., Bob I1f —Fannic, ‘ 

Class 27. Champion Cocker Spaniels (any color),—Ist, J. 8, Niven’ 
Bene, black, 2)4yrs., Bob 117.—B'ack Bess, 

Glass 28, Black Cocker Spaniels, Dogs.—1st and 2d, Hornell spanie 
Club’s Fornell Silk, black, 19mos.. champion Obo—Chloe I1.. an 
Hornell Sam, black, 1&nios., Bonanza—Pansy: @d, Andvew Laidlaw’ 
Young Obo. A.K.R, 861, High com., Geo. P. Reid's Jacl, black 
J§mos., pedigree unknown. 

Class 20. Black Cocker Spaniels, Bitches.—Ist. James Luckwell’s 
Woodstock Queen, black, lyr. 8mos,, Beau— Black Bess; 21, Hornell 
Spaniel Club's Hornell 101, black, 16mos., Benediet—Prin; ad, (loys - 
land V. Hall’s Nelly, blacx, 3yrs., Rollo—Roxie, High coni,. Andrew 
Laidlaw’s Woodstock Flirt, A.K.R, 651; David Durward’s Oxie, black 
i7mos,, Kellie’s imported dog— Laidlaw’s Beanty. Com., F, A. Camp 
bell’s Dido, black, 3yrs., Rollo—Bessy, 

Class 80, Cocker Spaniel’s Other than Black. Dogs,—Ist, fF, 2, Cur 
tis’s Sport, black and white, J8mos., Jet—Daisy: 2d, Geo. McBride’ 
Speed, liver, i6mos., Kellie’s Tippoo—Laidlaw's Beatty; 3d, wibh- 
held, High com., Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell Rattler, chastiut 
and tan, limos., Hornell Dandy—Dinah. ‘ 

Class 31 Cocker Spaniels Other than Black, Bitches. 1st, Geo. 
Payne's Daisy, liver and white, 4yrs.; 2d, J. W. Kelly’s Woodstock 
Nellie, liver, 7mos., Toronto Beau—Toronto Jet. Tigh com., Geo. 
Schofielda’s Luna, black and white, 3yrs., Jack—Jessis; Wm. Warrai’s 
Busy, liver and tan, 5yrs., Dash—Daisy. | 

Glass 82, Field and Cocker Spaniels, Puppies.—ist, Andrew Laid- 
law’s Midnight, A.K,R, 656. Very high com., John W. Kelly’s Weod- 
stocl: Nellie, liver, 7mos., Toronto Bean—Toronto Jet; Andrew 
Laidlaw’s Young Obo, A.K.R. 861. High com,, BW. A, M. Gibson's 
Ruby, liver, 9mos., Macbeth’s Doctor—Niven’s Dollie; R. Tinning’s 
Strathayen, black, 4mos,. Kirk’s Beau—Creole; Dan O'Shea's Rosey, 
black, 9mos., Doctor—Niven's Dolly; Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell 
Rattler, chestnut and tan, 1i1mos., Hornell Dandy—Dinah. Com., J. 
Scanlan’s Arthur, black and white, 4mos., Jet—Floss; J, MelKays 
Flirt, liver and white, 6mos., S8am—Ruby. 

Class 38. Foxhounds.—lst, John Hammon’s Tanner, black, white 
and tan, 8yrs., Dan—Beauty; 2d, D, O’Shea's Ringwood, blacix, white 
and tan, 8yrs., Forrester—Lady; 3d, John Halligan's Clarebank, 
white aud biack, 3yrs., Vampire—Captinus. Very high com., A. V. 
Macklem’s Priver, white and black, 4yrs., pedigree unknown, 

Class 34. Foxhounds, Puppies.—lst, D. O’Shea's Ringwood I1., 
white, black and tan, 3mos., Ringwood—Gyp. 

Class 35. Harriers.—ist, Alex. Stiver’s Leader, spotted, 8yrs; 2d, D. 
O'Shea’s Frank, white, black and tan, 2y1s., Tomboy—Gypsey. High 
com,, Wm, H. Hall’s Ranter, black, tan and white, 3yrs., Ranter— 
Gypsey- 

Class 36, Beagles.—ist and 2d, D. O’Shea’s Rattler, white, blackand 
tan, 2yrs., Rover—Music, and Music, while, black and tan. 2yrs., 
Rover—Music; 44, W E. Livingstone’s Dell, A.K.R. 319. Com,, A, 
Harris's Lu, black, white and tan, 1Jmos., Flute—Ringwood Lucy. 

Class 37. Beagles, Puppies.—ist, A. Harris’s No Name, black, white 
and tan. 8mos., Fluie—Queen. Very high com., D. O’Shea’s Kino, 
white, black and tan, 10mos., Rattler—Vixen. 

Class 38, Deerhounds,—Ist and very high com., Jno. ©. Thayer's 
Lance, fawn, 4yrs., and Lorna II., brindle, dyrs., Brucs—Lorna,; Bd 
and very high com., Thos, G. Dundas’s Bian, light brindle. 7mos.. 
champion Bruce—Wyvis, and Wyvis, brindle, 4y1s., Torrum—Lufra, 

Olass 39. Champion Greyhounds, Dogs.—lst, H, W. Smith’s Priday 
Night, A.K.R. 752. 

Nass 890A. Champion Greyhounds, Bitches,—H, W, Huntington's 
Dorothée, A.IK.R. 72. 

Class 40. Greyhounds.—ist, H. Howard’s Misterton. fawn, 16mos., 
Erin—Fly; 2d, not awarded. Very high com.,"W. 4. Hall’s Neptune, 
fawn, 2yrs., Rmgwood—Jessie; M. J. Graham's Ringwood, fawn, 
fyrs., Ringwood—Nellie; Alexander Ford’s Arabi Bey, fawn, i2mos.. 
Pilot—Speed. 

Class 41. Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—ist. Richard Gibson’ 
Fennel, white and tan, 2yrs., champion Spice—champion Bloom. 

Class 42. Champion Fox-Terriers, Bitches.—ist, Richard Gibson's 
asus black and white, 3yrs., champion Rattler Il.—¢hampion 

ipsey. 

Class 43. Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—lst, John H, Thayer’s Mixture, black, 
tan and white, dyrs., by champion Spice; equal 2d, John T. Cabel's 
Vakeel. E.K.C.S.B. 12,352, white. black and tan, 2iéyrs., champion 
Volo—chamipion Spiteful, and Richard Gibson’s Belvoir Jim, white, 
black and tan, lyr., Spigot—Lily. Very high com,, A. Z. Palmers 
Brockenhurst Bob, E.K.C.S.B. 8,901, white, black and tan head, 5yrs., 
Brockenburst Joe—Gamesome. High com., Goodwin Gibson’s Bowler. 
A.K R. 666. Com., W. M. Mills’s Puneb, white, black and tan, 2yTs., 
Rattler—Daisv; J. Massey’s Chico, white, black and tan. 4 

Class 44, Fox-Terriers, Bitches.—ist, J. E. Thayer's Richmond 
Olive, white, black and tan, 2iéyrs., Olive Tart—Jess; 2d, Jno. 'T. 
Cable's Village Belle, white, black and tan, 2yrs. 9mo<., champion 
Volo—champion Beauty; 3d, D. Bouth’s Nellie, white and black, 
3yrs., Trap—Nettle. Very high ccm., G. May’s Nellie, black and 
white, 2yrs,, pedigree not stated; John T. Cable’s Busy. A.K.R. 455. 
High com., A, Z. Palmer's Ruby, white, black and tan, Brockenhurst 
Bob—Ruby. Com., Arthur Beulton’s Mab, white, Gibson’s Pateh— 
Patteson’s Sting: 

Class 45. Fox-Terriers, Puppies.—ist, John T. Cable’s Spy. white 
and tan, 10mos.,; Silver—Busy, A.K.R. 485. High eom.. John EB, 
Thayer’s Rascal, black, white and tan, 10mos., Nailer—Diana; Rich 
ard Gibson’s Kose, white, black and tan, 10mos., Pennel—Thistle; A, 
R, Palmer's Ruby, white, black and tau, 10mos., Brokenhursh Bob— 


Ruby. - 

Class 46. Mastiffs.—Hugh Scott’s Nelson, fawn, fyrs., nedigree not 
given; 2d, Shaw & Bates’s, Agrippa, A.K.R. 469; 3d, Wm. Mellis’s 
Jumbo, fawn, 3i4yrs .sire and dam imported by Lord Duiferin. Very 
high com., Jas. H. Lynch’s Lion, fawn, R44 YTS. Salisbury (E. 9,3385)— 
es II. (B. 10,596), High com., Shaw & Bates’s Duchess, AIK. 
260. Com., J. Ross's Barney, fawn, 4yrs. 

Class 47, Champion ft. Bernards.—ist, F. W. Rothera’s Priam, 
A.K.R, 485, 

Class 48, St. Bernards, Dogs.—ist, Chequasset Kennel’s. Hermif, 
A.KR. 23; 2d, J. F. Hanrahan’s Noble, 234) rs., Rigi—Bertha. 

Class 49. St. Bernards, Bitches.—1st, withheld; 2d. W. A. Damer’s 
St. Bernard. 

Class 50. Newfoundlands.—J. ¥. Kirk's Jim, black, Syrs,, Bruce— 
Kate; 2d, W.J. L. Milligan’s Leo, black, 5yrs., Simon, imported—Nell: 
3d and yery high com., W. D. Forbes’s Juno, black, fyrs., and Carlo, 
black, llyrs. Very high com,, G. W. Verral’s Bruce, black, Gmas. 
High com., J, Harris’s Victor, Syrs.; F. W. Wilding’s Oscar, black. 
8yrs., Major—Fan; James Luckwell’s Jack, black, 2yrs., Jim—Prin- 
cess, Com., Thomas Tivey’s Jacob, biack, 2yrs. imo., Gaptain—Lass? 
Henry Brock’s Carlo, black, 7yrs., pedigree unknown. 

Class 51. Champion Collies.—ist, J. Lindsay’s Rex, A. K.R. 149, 

Class 52. Collies, Dogs.—ist, W. M. Adams's Herdman’s Laddip, 
imported, black, tan and white, 15mos., no pedigree; 2d, Donald Mae- 
kenzie’s Sly, imported, black and white. 3yrs.; 3d, 2. Morris’s Rough, 
black and tan, lyr. High com., Thos. G. Dundas’s Help, black and 
tan, aged, pedigree unknown. Com., J. G. Williamson's Ken, black, 
white and tan, 2yrs. 

Class 53, Collies, Bitches.—ist, J. Lindsay’s Fairy, sable and white, 
9mos., Rex—Kitty Mac; 2d, T. G. Dundas’s Lassie, black and tan, 
18mos., pedigree unknown; 3d, Ontario Collie Club’s Miss Timmins, 
sable and white, 10mos., Cockie—Fan. High com., L. V. Percival’s 
Lassie, black and tan, jimos., Bob—Luna, and Thos. Jackson's Fan, 
blaek and white, 5yrs., Welsh Collie—Fan. 

Class 54, Collies, Puppies.—Ist, Ontario Collie Club's Miss Timmins, 
sable and white, 10mos,., Gockie—lan, Yery high com., Richard Gib- 
son’s Laddie, black and tan, 1imos., Bob—Luna; Fred. W. Rothera's 
Leila, white. black and tan, Gmos., Lorne—Lassie. High von . 
Arthur G, C. Bates’s Jock, black and tan, 10mos., Major Linyd's Lari 
se Il. Com., Robert MeEwan’s Nettie, black and tan, §mos,, Bob 
—Pegeie. 

Class 55, Bulldogs —1st, 2d and very high com., J. H. Thayer's Bel- 
lissima, Tippoo, A.K.R. 390—Romulus, A.K.R, 389. 

Class 56. Bull-Terriers._Ist, Frank ©. Wheeler's Young Bill; 2d, 
Archie Nrertess Spring, white, 3yrs.;3d, A. Scholes's Billy, white, lyr, 
Juggler—Kitty. Very high com., Glover Harrison’s Grip, brindle, 

rs. 

Class 67, Hard-haired Seotch Terriers.—ist and 20, D, O'Shea’s 
Boxer, red, 18imos,, peg Lat Y and Lady, red, Syrs. 

Class 58. Dandie Dinmonts.—Prize withheld. 

Class 59, Skye Terriers. —ist, A. 'T. Ogelvie’s Ugie, blue, 
J, M. Rogerson’s Shagg, blue, 5yrs. 
Punch, blue, 18mos, , Pepper—W hiskey. 
_Class 6), Bedlington Terriers, Dogs.—ist, L. H. trying’s Tint, bine 
Newcastle Lad—Tweezers: 2d and 8d, J. F. Scholes’s Jerry. linty 
8yrs., Sting—Wasp. and Blucher, liver, 2l¢yrs., Peachem—Batty * 
Jess, Very high com., W- 8. Jackson’s Elswick Lad If, dark bln ¢ 
6mos., Hlswick Lad—Tynesider If. High com., J. Massey’s Sea Do 5 
dark blue, 6mos., Hiswick Lad—Tynesider LI. : 

Class 61. Bedlington Terriers, Bitches.—ist, 2d and 4d, W. S, Jack 
son's Stonehouse Lass, ight blue, 3yrs., Tamar Lad—Blue Belle 
Tynesider. T., dark blue, 246yrs,, champion’ Piper—Topsey; an 
Elswick Belle, dark blue, Gmos., Wlswick sadd—Ty nesider 17, 


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Class 62, Irish Terriers.—ist, J. S. Niven’s Norah, red, dyrs., Sting 
—Netitie; 2d, D. O’Shea's Hrin, red, 2yrs., Rock—Norah. 

Class 63, Black and Tan Terriers.—ist, J. T. Heasley’s Teaser, 
A.K.R. 665; 2d, Mrs. Scholes’s Bessy, 20mos., Nep—Top. 

Class 64. Yorkshire Terriers, Blue and Tan.—ist, Mrs. B. .J, Hol- 
hrooke's Fritz, 3yrs,, by Diamond; 2a, W. H. Doel’s Tom. 2yrs., im- 
norted Dog—Mageie, Very high com., Mrs. B. J. Holbrooke's Tatters. 
High com., W. H. Doel’s Una, 4yrs., imported Dog—Belle; H. G. 
Jackson's Toby, 5yrs.. Charley—Ruby, 

Class 644A, Yorkshire Terricrs, Silver and Gray,—ist, Mrs, B. J. 
Holhrooke’s UObarley, 4¥oyrs.; 2d, T. Kelley's Juliet. High com., 
Mrs. B. J. Holbrooke’s Nellie, dyrs. Com., T. Kelley's Teutonia. 

Olass 65, Rough Terriers. oyer 8lhbs.1st, J. F. Scholes’s Sandy, 
5yrs., Jack—Fan; 2d, Mrs. B.A. Downey’s Pat; 3d, G. MeDermott’s 
Prince. Wigh com., G. Cjarke’s Tiny, 4yrs; BE. Bond's Needle, 3yrs., 
Sandy—Princess.. 

Class 66. Pugs.—ist, J. I. Scholes’s Echo, 3yrs.; 2d, D. O’Shee,’s 
Judy. 3yrs. very high com., Chequasset Kennel’s Treasure, A.K.R, 
47%. Migh com., &. O'Keefe’s Tip. 

Class 67. Smooth-Coated_ Toy Terriers.—ist, Mrs, J. H. Mead's 
Tizzy. Syrs.; 2d, J. FP. Scholes’s Tiney, 2yrs., Ted—Daisy. Very hich 
com., hrs. R. W. Boyle’s Major. 5yrs,, Bob—EKttie. High com., Miss 
Mary Stacks Topsy, lyr., Bob—lttie. Com., Mrs. H. Kennedy's 
Bob. 4yrs., Bob—Bttie; C. Seymour's Tiney, lyr.; Mrs. §. G. Wood's 
Shivers. 

Mass 68. Rough-Coated Toy Terriers.—ist, Mrs. B. J. Holbrooke's 
Nellie, tyrs.; 2d, J. F. Scholes’s Floss, l6mos., by Spink. Very high 
com., J. Kelley’s Jessie. High com., G. McDermott's Minnie, 2yrs., 
Prince—Monkey. Com., J, I’. Scholes’s Jack, 5yrs, 

Class U9. Toy Spaniels —Ist, Mrs. Maclean’s Charlie, back and tan; 
2d. J. Guerson's Toby, black and tan. 844yrs. 

Glass 70. Foreign Bred Dogs.—ist, Owner’s Sambo, Thibetean sheep 
dog, black, 8yrs; 2d, G. May's Zulu, dachshund, black and tan. Very 
high com,, M. Bushnell’s Jerry and Tommy, white poodles. High 
coin., J. OC, Carlarey's Flo. 

Class Ti. Miscellaneous Class.—Hiqual 1st, J, F. Scholes’s Hornet II., 
English white terrier; M. McCanon’s Sam, black poodle; D. O’Shea’s 
Foreigner. English bloodhound, High com., Miss M. Scott’s Robin, 


Spitz. 
SPECIAL PRIZES. 


A.—The Dominion of Canada Kennel Club, cup for the bestsix dogs 
ot and breed, not awarded. 

B.—Mr. Roger Lambe, silver eup, yalue $25, for the best setter of 
any breed owned in the Dominion; won by Dick Laverack, T. G. 
Davey. 

C.—For the best matched pair of English setters, Messrs, Woltz 
Bros. & Co., jewellers, Toronto, a bronze electro statuette, subject, 
“The Hunter; value $20; won by Cambridge and Belle, Montague 
Smith. 

D.—For the best matched pair of Irish setters, Messrs. Godard & 
Elgie, Toronto, a gentleman’s easy chair, value $20; won by Jerry 
and Belle, Henry Watson. "rs 

®.—For the best matched pair of black and tan setters, Messrs. 
Jewell & Clow, pair of Parian marble figures, value $15; won by Gyp 
and Diana, P, D. Hart. . 

¥.—¥or the best foxhound, dog or bitch, the Davies Brewing and 
Mailtine Company. silver cup, value $15; won by Tanner, John 
Hammon. aw 

G —For the best cocker spaniel in the open classes, Mr. A. H. Sims, 
Toronto, silver cup, value $15; won by Woodstoek Queen, J. Luck- 
well. 

H.—_For the best St. Bernard, Mr. C. H. Gooderham, Meadowvale, 
$10 cash; won by Herniit, Ohequasset Kennels. 

I—Wor the best collection of collies, not less than three, Mr. T, 
Mellroy, Jr.. of the Gutta Pereba and Rubber Manufacturing Com- 
pany, a rubber coat, value $10; won by J. Lindsay. 

J.—For the best King Charles spaniel, Messrs. Fraser & Sons, pho- 
tozraphers, Toronto, a photograph of the winner, value $10; won by 
Charlie, Mrs. Maclean. : 

K.—For the best fox-terrier in the open classes, Taylor & Wilson, 
cigar manufacturers, $5 cash; won by Richmond Olive, J. BE. Thayer, 

L,—for the best terrier, any breed, owned and entered by a lady, 
Mr. James H. Samo. a lady's easy chair, yalue $10; won by Bessy, 
Mrs. Scholes, : . . 

M.—For the best collie puppy. the Mail Printing Company, one 
year’s subscription to the daily Mail, won by Miss Timmins. 

N—TYor the best rough-coated toy terrier, Mr. John ¥. Scholes, 
Toronto. a medal, value $10; won by Dolly, Mrs. Holbrooke. 

0.—¥or the besi white Pomeranion puppy, owned and entered by 
a lady resident of Toronto, Ald. H. L, Piper, a silver cup; no award. 

P.—for the best fox-terrier dog, Mr, H, King Dodds, one year’s sub- 
seription to the Canadian Sportsman; won by Mixture, J. H. Thayer, 

Q.—For the best fox-terrier bitch, Mr. E. King Dodds, one year's 
subscription to the Canadian Sportsman; won by Richmond Olive, J. 
E, Thayer. ‘ Pu 

R.—or the best Clumber spaniel, Messrs. Williamson & Co., book- 
sellers. Toronto, a copy of “Toronto of Old’; won by Jack, George 

illas. 

§.—For the best Newfoundland dog, Messrs, Jewell & Clow, Toronto, 
box imported cigars; won by Jim, J. F. Kirk, 

T.—¥or the best Irish water spaniel, Messrs. Taylor & Wilson, a box 
of cigars; wou by Driver, John Seager, / 

U.—The Ontario Kennel Ciub, for the best Hnglish setter in the 
show, $20 cash: won by Dick Laverack, T. G. Davey. _ 

V.—¥or the largest dozin the show, the Grip Printing and Pub- 
lishing Company, first two yvolumes'of Grip cartoons; Leo, W. J. L. 
Mulligan. : 

Wo For the best Dachshund, Mr. C, Blackett Robinson, publisher, 
Rural Canadian for one year; Zulu, Geo. May. - 

X.—For the sporting dog or bitch shown in the best condition, Mr. 
J. F. Kirk, a handsome collar; won We Chief, Max Wenzel, 

—For the best Skye Terrier, Mr. E. Buchan, $5 cash; won by 
Usgie, A. T. Ogilvie. 

Z.—For the best Scotch deerhound, Mr, Robert Cochran, $5 cash; 
won by Lance, J. E. Thayer. ; ? 

AA.—The Toronto Gun Club, a handsome silver cup, value $50, to 
be known as the Toronto Gun Club prize, for the best kennel of 
sporling dogs, owned by one exhibitor: won by the setters Dick, 
Gaverack, Liddersdale, Prince Phoebus, Canadian Queen and Gene- 
vieve, owned by T. G. Davey. ; 

:B.—His Excellency the Governor-General, $25 cash, for ihe best 
pointer, won by Meteor, Col, Hughes. 

@C,—His Bxcellency the Governor-General, $25 cash, for the best 
collie; won by Fairy, J. Lindsay. . 

D)p.—For the best setter, between 12 and 18 months of age, owned 
in the county of York, Ontario, Mr, John Young, acup, value $25; 
won by Dashing Storm, R. W. Boyle. hs 

HH.—For the best paw of sporting dogs, owned in Toronto by one 
exhibitor, Mr. M. McConnell, a gold medal, value $25. To be won 
twice in succession before becoming the property of the winner; 
Vakeel and Village Belle, fox-terriers, J. T. Cable. 

VP.—For the best fox-terrier bitch and puppies, Mr. James H. 
Mackie, of the American Hotel, a cup, value $20; won by Thistle, R 
Gibson. 3 

GG —For the best dog in the show, of all classes, Mr. W. R. Bing- 
ham, of the ‘Aub,’ a gold medal, value $20, to be known as the 
=Finb Medal”; won by Jobn E. Thayer's fox-terrier bitch, Richmond 


For the best brace of pointers, Mr. R. Davies, of the Domin- 
jon Brewery, a medal, value $15; won by Meteor and Vanity, J. W. 
nson. 
a Oe or the best collie that has never won a first prize, Mayor Bos- 
well, the president, $10 cash; won by Fairy, J. Lindsay, 
JJ.—F¥or the best setter and pointer owned by one exhibitor, Mr. 
R. §. Cassels, vice-president, $10 cash; won by Corbey and Suipe, E. 
5, Cassels. ; 
5 Ki Por the best Laverack setter, Ald. Maughan, a silver medal; 
won by Dick Layerack. T. G. Davey. . ‘ 
LL.—For the best field spaniel owned in Toronto, Mr. James 
Spooner, @ Méerschaum pipe, yalue $12; won by King Beau, J. F. 


Kirk. 
MM.—For the best oi ts Bpanie of all classes, Mr. C. A. Brough, 
10 eash; won by Bene, J. 8. Niven. 
‘ NN.—for the Beet Coulee spaniel owned by members of the club, 
the American Cocker Spaniel Club, $10 cash; won by Bene, J. 8, 
Niven. J 
00.-For the best Irish terrier, Mr. M, A. Thomas, of the Hnglish 
Chop House, a box of cigars, yalue $10: won by Norah, Dr, Niven. 
PP,—For the best collie owned in the Dominion (the winner of 
special prize OC_ to be excluded), the Ontario Collie Club, a silver 
eup; wou by Herdman’s Laddie, W,.M. Adams. ' 

@.—For the best blue and tan Yorkshire terrier, Mr, Charles 
Doherty, a terra cotta statuette, value $10; won by Fritz, Mrs. Hol- 
oe For the best black and tan terrier bitch, Messrs. Woods Bros., 
cigar manufacturers, a box of cigars; won by Bessy, Mrs. Scholes. _ 

§8.—for the best smooth-coated toy terrier, owned by a lady in 
Toronto, Mr. James Stewart, a horshoe ottoman, value $10; won by 
‘Tizzy, Mrs. J. H. Mead. i 

Ti —For the best bulldog or bitch, Messrs. Robinson Bros., of the 
Sheffield House, a bronze dog. yalue $10; won by Bellissima, J. E. 


haver. 4 
ey pr the best bull-terrier, Messrs, C. & J, Allen, a cup, value 


‘$3; won by Yo Bill, F.C. Whealer. 
Br OnE. the hoot ‘Beall tou Deaiee Messrs, Hart & Co., a Globe 
serap file; won by flint, G. H. Irving: 


WW.—¥For the best Newfoundland 
Boston, a handsome collar; won by Juno, W. D. Forbes, 
XX.—Yor the best terrier, 
won by Sandy, J. F. Scholes. 


YY.—Ffor the best mastiff, Mr. Dave Ward, a fish knife and fork, 


value $15; won by Nelson, Hugh Scott. 


individual, Messrs. J. B. Ellis 
Cambridge and Belle, Montague Smith. 
AAA.—For the best Irish setter, the Copland Brewin 


Company, a silver cup, value $15: won by Chief, Max Wenzel. 


ley. 
CCC.—For the best kennel of English setters owned in the Dominion, 


than five to compose entry; won by T. G. Davey. 


DDD.—For the best toy spaniel owned by a lady, Mr. John Ross 


Robertson offers a prize, 


value $10, in cash or plate; won by Charlie, 
Mrs. McLean. . ae yi : 


EEE.—For the best in the miscellaneous class, Mr. H. C. Hammond 
D. O'Shea, Hornet 


offers $10 cash. Divided between Foreigner, 
Il., J. F. Scholes, and Sam, M. McCarron. 


BEAUFORT’S CONDITION.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your last issue you say that Beaufort has nearly recovered 
from an attack of inflammation of the bowels, and that he did 
not, when exhibited at New Haven, carry himself in the fault- 
less manner he affects when at his best. Though the dog has 
been sick, inflammation was ayoided. Beaufort weighed 
sixty two pounds when exhibited at New Haven. J can show 
him at seventy-two pounds, and it was a pleasure to see him, 
when thus handicapped, win the special prize for the best 
Sporting dog in the show.—Cuas. H. Mason (New York, 
March 24). 


PEDIGREE OF LIT LAVERACK.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your paper of March 27, I notice that Mr. Thos. 
F, Connelly claims the name of Lit Laverack for a bitch 
puppy, and gives the pedigreeas by Tempest (Pontiac ex Fairy 
I.) out of Lilly (Carlowitz ex Queen Bess). I saw these pup- 
pies advertised out of Lilly (Carlowitz ex Princess Nellie). 
Which is corret, and is Lilly a eae Laverack if her dam was 
Queen Bess?—G. R. Nicnois (New Hayen, March 31). 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To iisure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 

6. Name and residence of owner, 
buyer or seller, 

%. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

. Age, or ‘ 8. Owner of sire. 

. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 

Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


(> See instructions at head of this column. 

Ravenswood Kennel. By Mr. C, B. Faxon, Boston, Mass., for his 
kennel of English setters. 

Beauty and Black Diamond. By My. J.P. Willey, Salmon Falls, 
N. H., for black cocker spaniel bitches, whelped Feb. 13, 1884, by Obo 
It. (A:K.R, 432) out of Lofty (A.K.R. 431). 

Emperor Frank. By Mr. Edward A, Todd, New Haven, Ct., for 

black and white English setter dog, whelped Nov. 28. 1883. by Tempest 
(Pontiac—F airy I1.) out of Lilly (Carlowitz—Princess Nellie). 
Princess Lilly. By Mr. Edward A. Todd, New Hayen, Ot., for 
black, white and tan English setter bitch, whelped Noy. 28, 1883, 
by Tempest (Pontiac—Fairy IL.) out of Lilly (Carlowitz—Princess 
Nellie). Fs 

Dash IV, By Mr. D. A, Goodwin, Jr., Newburyport, Mass., for black, 
white and tan English setter dog,whelped Feb. 12, by Dash III. out of 
Matchless (Roderick II,—Jennie). . 

Colonel Cool. By Mr, W. B. Gates, Memphis, Tenn., for black, 
white and tan English setter dog, whelped June 3, 1883, by Gath 
(Count Noble—Peep o’ Day) out of Lit (Gladstone—Juno). ; 

Dash, Juke, Pete, Cork aad Kate. By Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., 
for red Irish setters. four dogs and one bitch, whelped March 14, by, 
Ned Elcho (A.K.R. 984) out of Bridget O’More (A.K,R. 964), 


NAMES CHANGED. 


(= See instructions at head of this column, 
Hornell. Obo to Obo, Jr. Imported black cocker spaniel dog, 
whelped Feb. 3, 1883 (Obo—Nellie), owned by Mr. J. P. Willey, Salmon 


Falls, N. H. BRED. 


(= See instructions at head of this colwinn. 

Carrie J.—Paul Gladstone. Mr. W. B. Gates’s (Memphis, Tenn.) 
English setter bitch Carrie J. (Count Noble—Peep 0’ Day) to his Paul 
Gladstone (Gladstone—Lavalette), Feb. 23. ; 

Belle of Hatchie—Count Rapier. Dr. W. J. Cannon’s (Lambert, 
Tenn.) English setter bitch Belle of Hatchie (Scout—Lady S$.) to Mr. 
W. B. Gates’s Count Rapier (A.K.R. 498), Feb, 25. 

Morning—Plantagenet. The Ravenswood Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) 
English setter bitch Morning (Racket—Petrel 111.) to champion Plan- 
tagenet, Feb. 22. : : , 

Rose—Bang Bang. Tbe Wesuninster Kennel Club’s pointer bitch 
Rose (A.K.R. 214) to their Bang Bang (A, K.R. 394), March 22. 
' Moonstone—Sensation, The Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer 
bitch Moonstone (Bang—Luna) to their champion Sensation (A.K.R, 
217), Mareh 18. pW nt i 

Daisy Deane—Bang Bang. Mr, Elliot Smith's (New York) pointer 
bitch Daisy Deane to the Westminster Kennel Club’s Bang Bang 

.K.R. 394), March 21. 4 ' 

Ont il—kKing. Mr. G. L. Barnes’s English beagle bitch Dot 1. 
(Ring wood—Dime) to Mr, N. Elmore’s King (Victor—Lucy), March 23. 

Brenda—Nevison. Mr. J, A. 8. Grege’s mastift bitch Brenda to Mr. 
Chas. H. Mason’s champion Nevison urth—Juno), Jan. 3. 

Dorcas—Beaufort. Mr. Jobn Mathews’s pointer bitch Doreas to 
Mr. Chas. H. Mason’s Beaufort (A.K.R. 694), Mareh 21, : 

Juno—Young Toby, The Forest City Kennel’s (Portland, Me.) pug 
bitch Jumo (A-IC.R. 406) to the Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass,) 
Young Toby (A.K.R. 473), March 22. fi P 

Polka—Emperor Fred, Mr. Wm. A. Burns’s (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Polka (A,.K.R. 115) to Mr, E. A. Herzberg’s Enyperor 
Fred (A.K.R. 33), March 31. ; 

—DPorr. Mr. F. W, Dunn's (Batttle Mountain, Nev.) black and 
tan setter bitch to Mr. Fred. A. Taft’s Gordon setter Dorr (Don— 
Lady), Jan, 14. : : / 

Kitty Clover—Dash II, Mr. E. C. ¥reeman’s (Cornwall, Pa.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Kitty Clover (Thunder—Livy, A.K.R. 593) to Mr. A. 

.Tucker’s Dash ILI. , 
One eka Mr. C. F, Wilson’s (Palmyra, O.) mastiff bitch Oma 
(A.K.R, 261) to his Ceesar (A.K,R. 12), Feb. 21. 

irma—Cesar. The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) St. Ber- 
nard bitch Irma (A.K.R, —) tothe Forest City Kennel’s Gesar (A.K.R. 
22), March 16. P 

Queen—Dorr. Mr. A, B. Brown's (Rocklin, Cal.) English setter 
bitch Queen to Mr. Fred, A. Taft’s (Truckee, Cal.) Gordon setter Dorr 

Don—Lady), Feb, 28. : ; ¢ : 
t Lisa Mr. EB. J. Hein’s (Carlin, Nev.) red Irish {setter bitch 
Daisy to Mr. Fred. A. Taft's Dorr (Don—Lady), March 24, 

Grace—Beaufort. Mr. Luke White’s (Bridgeport, Ct.) pointer 
bitch Grace (Match—Nell) to Mr. C. H, Mason’s Beaufort (Bow— 
Beulah), March 29 ; ; 

Graceful—Bang Bang. Mr, Luke White's (Bridgeport, Ct.) pointer 
biteh Graceful (Sensation—Grace) to the Westminster Kennel Club’s 
Bang Bang (A.K.R. 394), March 23. 

WHELPS. 


2" See instructions at head of this column. . 

Foie Elonlune, Mr, W. B. Gates’s (Memphis, Tenn,) English setter 
bitch Lizzie Hopkins (Gladstone—Clip), Feb. 20, ten, by Mr. W. J, 
Crawford’s Gath (Count Noble—Peep o’ Day); one living. | 

Queen. Mr, N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) ee beagle bitch Queen 

ictor—Lucy), March 24, nine, by his Flute (Rattler—True); all white, 

lack and tan, 
n. Mr, N. Elmore’s (Granby. Ct.) English beagle bitch Thorn 
oA tee), cere 25, eight, by his Flute (Rattler—True); all 
ite, k and tan. , P 
Pe es George H. Whitehead’s (Trenton, N. J.) collie bitch 
Lark (A.K,R. 7), March 26, seven (four dogs), by his Kelpie (A.K.R. 6). 

Yolande. Mr. W. 8. Tuck's (Wilkesbarre, Pa.) cocker spaniel bitch 
Yolande (A.E.R. 523), March 27, eight (three dogs), by Colonel Stubbs 
(A. K-R, 802), 

ueen Bess. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) ; recap aeen U 
Bese Ge ofp, sare 5, seven (one dog), by champion Friday 
Nicht (A-K,R. f : 7 = r 
MW hheon, The Chequasset Kennel’s (Lancaster, Mass.) St. Bernard 


: 


cir CO to Re 
o 
b4 


—s 


bitch, the Acadia Kennels, of 


in class 65, Mr, John Cooper, $10 cash; 


22Z,—For the best pair of setters of all classes, the property of one 
& Co., fruit stand, value $15; won by 


and Malting 
BB,—For the best black and tan terrier, Messrs. H, A. Nelson & 
Sons, 4 pair of statuettes, value $10; won by Teaser, James T. Heas- 


Messrs. Dayis & Sons, of Montreal, silver plate, yalue $50, not less 


partial paralysis of his eS ona is a symptom often accompany- 


Ca ae (A.K.R. 94), Mareh 21, twelve (seven dogs). by Cresar 


Lorna Doone. Mr. 8. M. Nash?s (Southampton, L. I.) English setter 
bitch Lorna Doone (A.K.R. 89), March 29. ter (five aaEe) by Mr. J, H. 
Goodsell’s Prince (Pride of thé Border—Petrel). er 


re SALES. 
See instructions at head of this column 
Roland, Fawn mastiff dog, whelped Jan 12, b Apri AIC 
449) oub of Rena (A.K.R. 262), by the Riverview Kaveh ope ACR, 
to,Dr. 0. F. Hubbard, Taunton, Mass, yerview Kennel, Clinton, Mass., 
aleigh. Fawn mastiff dog, whelped Jan, 12, by Agri c 
449) out of Rena (A.K.R. 262), by the Riverview Kennel, ‘Clinton Msee 
to ee L it Kinney, ert Hapids, Mich, ee 
Atla. Fawn masti i (A.K.R. 686), by the Rivyervi 
Clinton, Mags , to Mr. L. F. Kinney, Grand Rapids, Mick, tne 
ashing Dan—Dais} arlight whelps. English setters, 
December, 1883, by Mr. H.W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., aoe eh 
white dog to Mr. R. L. Henry, Hamden, Ot.; a lemon and white dog 
and a black, white and tan dog to Mr. F. H. Gibbes, Columbia. S, G,- 
ie ppc, aplier. sae a dog OF Mr. aronealy, Boston, Mass.; a black, 
ite and ian bite - Lockwood, Boston, Mass. i 
white biteh to Mr. Chas. York, Bangor, Me. oS Aa eto 
Treland Dick. Red Irish setter dog (A.K.R. 977), 
etiel, hes to Mr. Peo Be ee Boston, Mass. 
uno. Hawn pug biteh (A,K.R. 406), by Mr, A. §. Potter, Lewis 
Me., to the Forest City Kennels, Portland, Me. pregaer: 
Jenny. Pug bitch (Tony—Beauty), by Mr. H. E. Stares, 
nes to area ay, Renuels, 2 ORES GS Me. 
ame. Lemon and white English setter dog. whelped Dece 
1883 (Dashing Dan—Daisy Starlight), by Mr. H.W. Dargin, Saneoe 
Me., to Mv. F, 8. Davenport, same place. ' 
Gun—May B, whelp, Black, white and tan English setter bitch, 
age eu given, by Mr. H. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., to Mr. Jarvis, New 
Cesar. Mastiff dog (a.K.R. 12), by Mr. W. Wade, Pittabur: 
to ee C. ON ee een QD, apa Des IUEbUNeR Eee} 
iperor Frank, ack and white English setter dog. whelped 
Nov, 28, 1883 (Tempest—Lilly), by Mr, Andrew J. Ward, Bost 
to sy Edward A. Poee New Haven, Ct. gl akg aes 
rincess Tilly. ack, white and tan English setter bitch, whelped 
Noy. 28, 1883 (Tempest—Lilly), by Mr. Andrew J, Ward, Boston, M. 5 
to Mr. Edward A. Todd, New Hayen, Ct. eu OME 8 
Lion. Black Newfoundland dog, whelped Sept. 30, 1879, by the 
SOayDELLY Hill Kennels, Leicester, Mass., to Mr. Jasper Murphy, 
same place, ; 
Beauchief. Black and tan collie dog, whelped April 2h, 1888 (Gyp— 
Buttercup), by the Strawberry Hill Kennels. Leicester, Mass. to Mr, 
bet Pe NG a A 
rank, ack, white and tan English setter dog, whelped Feb. 12 
1881 (Yale Belton—Lill), by Mr. Edward A, Todd, New Haven Ct., to 
Mr. Andrew J. Ward, Boston, Mass. 


DEATHS. 
Ee" See instructions at head of this column. 


Daisy. Pug bitch (A.K.R. 468), owned by the Chequasset K 
Lancaster, Mass., March 7. y q ennels, 


by Major Lovejoy, 


Deering, 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


A. D, W., Warren, Pa.—See answer to ‘*W, H, H,"" 


J. W. A., New Bedford, Mass.—Your dog probably has a slight 
attack of distemper. 


W. D. B., Westfield, N. J.—Give a teaspoonful of cod liver oil three 
times daily for a week or two, 


G, W. A., Boston, Mass,—Let the bitch pass one season and she will 
probably then breed all right. 


OnonDaGA, Syracuse, N. Y.—Weed your doz mutton and barley 
Bou For the trouble in his ear see auswerto ‘Night Havyk"' last 
week. 

O. B. M., Madison, Ga.— Wash the dog thoroughly with strong soap 
suds, then sop on freely sulphurous acid, one part to four of water; 
repeat Syeny, day forthree or four days, and follow with sulphur 
ointment. 


W.F.T., Altoona, Pa.—Your dog probably has distemper, The 
ing the disease, A liveral diet and the use of tonics with careful 
nursing will probably bring him out all right. 


W. H. H., Hartford, Conn,_1. The abseess which you describe is 
of very common occurrence among dogs. When forming it should 
be carefully watched, and as soon as @ soft place can be detected, 
showing that pus has formed, it should be opened at its lowest or 
most pendant point and the pus allowed to escape naturally without 
squeezing. This is often one of the milder forms of distemper, 2. 
Distemper assumes so many forms that it issimpossible for any one to 
intelligently prescribe withoub an examination, It is always safe, 
however, to recommend careful nursing, a warm kennel where plenty 
of pure air can be had, and in cases of debility, tonics may be given 


Rifle and Crap Shooting, 


FIXTURES. 
First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at Chicago, Tll., May 
26 to 31. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Oo., P, 0, Box 1292, Gin- 
einnati, Ohio. T 


POWDER IGNITION. 


Editor Forest and Stream; ; z 

As there seems to be great diversity of opinion as to the distance 
that the flash of a primer will penetrate the powder charge, I have 
made afew experiments to satisfy myself on the subject, and send 
you the results. ! ? / 

To show what wild statements experienced riflemen will make,I 
will quote the observations of two expert marksnien on the subject: 
One says that the flash of a Berdan No, 1 primer will permeate the 
entire charge to the base of the ball. The other that the force gene- 
rated by the explosion of the same primer will throw a .45-caliber 
ball from the shell out of the muzzle of a military rifle. Both of 
these statements are wrong. And here Iwish to make the point, 
that because aman has the natural gift of “holding well,” he is by 
no méans qualified to give points on scientific rifle shooting, rather 
the contrary, as he acquires his object without the study und pains- 
taking required by others. : 

Now for my experiments: [ took a quantity of sand carefully sifted 
io the same granulation as WG powder, and heated it thoroughly to 
exclude moisture and prevent cohesion, Then some .45-caliber goy- 
ernmeut shells (U. M.C.), capped with Berdan No. 1 primers, were 
loaded as follows: } ‘ 

No. 1. 10 grains of sand (by measure} on top of this 10 grains PG 
powder, then 1 felt wad. : 

Wo. 2. 15 grains of sand; rest the same, 

No. 3. 20 grains of sand; rest the same. ‘ 

Wo. 4, 30 grains of sand; rest the same. The sand in each case was 
poured in lightly to ayoid compression; powder the same, and the 
wad was lightly seated. 

The results were: 

No, 1. Powder ignited, and wad blown from gun. 

No, 2. Powder not ignited, wad thrown about an inch beyond 
mouth of shell, space between grains of sand and powder filled with 

oke. 
oon, 3, Powder not ignited, wad started but did not leaveshell, smoke 
arose when wad was removed, 

No, 4. Powder not ienited, wad not started, smoke arose from sand 
when poured out of shell. rio : 

10 grains of sand occupied 14in. in Jength of .45 cal. shell. 

15 grains of sand occupied $gin. in length of .45-cal, shell. 

20 grains Uf sand occupied 4gin. in length of .d5-cal, shell. 

30 grains of sand oceupied $4in, in length of .45-cal, shell. 

Whence I think that we may reasouably infer that the flash of a 
Berdan No. i primer, penetrates the charge less than 3gin. _ - 

Your correspondent, ‘J. J. P.”' raisés some interesting points in his 
“Rifle Queries,’? in your issue of eb. 21. Ishall answer oneor two 
of his questions when I have had time to calculate a few tables to il- 
lustrate my position, provided always, that some one does not cover 
the ground in the meantime. Purther experiments and more aceu- 
tate measuremen's than I had the means of making when I last wrote 
on the subject, incline me to the belief that Mr. Dodge is right in at- 
tributing the good performance of bullet No. 6 in my experiments to 
less friction, Ifind that the diameter of No. 6 is 0.4937in. against 
0.4051in, tor No, 4. If decreasing the diameter 14-10,000in. produces 
sucha marked improyenient, the question naturally occurs, what is 
the most efficient diameter? Will Mr. Dodge and our otber friend 
who are experimentally inclined help us to a solution? 


Manca 25, 1864. 


James Duane. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Eid, 1. 


RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 


THE WHITNEY RIFLE. 


ao tell the story of the Whitney arm in its entirety would give op- 
portunity to rehearse the entire history of American small arm 
manufacture, besides leading us away into many interesting by-ways 
and opening up chapters of American skill in invention and produc- 
tion, 
Eli Whitney, the elder, is probably best known as the inventor of 
the cotton gin, and the Whitney works started for the purpose of pro- 
ducing these machines, was opened in 1798. He soon turned his atten- 
tion to fire-arm manufacture and was the first to recognize the im- 
portance of using hardened jigs or sample pieces of each part of an 
arm. so that the pieces might be interchangeable. He also applied 
achinery to the making of the different parts, and many features of 
‘Tifle manvfacture which are now regarded as standardiu the different 
orks, took their start in the, Whitney Armory. While Thomas 
Riatfarion was Secretary of State he requested Mr. Whitney to under- 
take the manufacture of these arms and interchangeable parts.. The 
ides was laughed at by the English and French military men who 
had been accustomed to the old system, but upon the model of the 
old Charville flint lock. Mr. Whitney demonstrated the entire feasi- 
bility of the system demonsirated. and when the Springfield armory 
was established in 1800, this idea of making the corresponding part 
of each arm exactly alike was put in force and is now the system 
throughout the world. In fact the making of breechloading arms 
compels its use, No patents have ever been placed upon the old 
Whitney inventions, they remain the free property of all who care to 
improve upon them. 
The Whiineyville Armory, near New Haven,is now one of the 
largest in the United States, and has a working force of over350 men. 
The water poweris ample, and many interesting and ingenious bits 
of mechanism are to be studied there. The name is still retained in 
the persons of the son and grandson of the original inventor, and the 
E of Eli Whitney is still a dominant one in the management of the 
WOrKS. J 
_ The system of breechloading small arm, with which we have 
“Specially to deal, had its start in the inventions made by Mr. J. Still- 
man, of the Springfield armory, in 1865, and by Col. T. T. 8. Laidley, 
‘U.S, A.,in 1866. At that time it was patented in the United States 
and alsoin foreign countries. It was the system of a breech-block 
peed below the barre]. moving upward and toward itin closing 
j breech. At the time of its invention the arm was put to the most 
severe test, not only by the United States boards of examination, but 
by foreign boards as well, and many favorable reports have been 
Made upon it as an excellent arm for military service. 
| Col. Laidley’s first models were in form very like the present Whit- 
ney rifle, and this form was subsequently adopted by the Remington 
Co an any for their arm, after the Laidley models had been made and 
Shipited. 
|_ There have been many modifications placed upon the original 
Laidley invention. Itisclaimed that it can be loaded.and fired with 
rapidity equal to that of any other single breechloader, and for 
ntinuous firing that its rapidity cannot be excelled eyen by any 
peater or magazine arm. It has very few parts,indeed. The firing 
§ withdrawn by positive motion and is not liable to remain pro- 


Bad by 


_the firing pin and 
dee ig ch ig Pin 


is then i ; elos- 
lock! the anit it 


ing, or it may 


* 
eee eee 


he let down to the half-cock noteh and the arm is then in a condition 
for safe carriage by a competent rifleman. ; 

With such large works and the facilities for turning out great quan- 
tities of arms, special etfort has been made to secure contracts for 
military arms, and many have been filled with foreign countries. 
To Mexico over 20,000 of the Whitney musket and carbine haye been 
sent. Madagascar has taken a consignment of 5,000 for the use of 
the native troops, while scattered about other foreign nations 50,000 of 


the arms may be found, It would be an interesting point to have some~ 


return reports from the several native armies, which have been sup- 
plied not only with the Whitney, but with other American rifles, As 
a target rifle on American ranges, the Whitney has not been pushed, 
and - records are not as numerous as with other makes. It has done 
good work, hewever, At Marinette, Wis., Rifle Club range on May 5, 
1877, James Watson made 99 in a possible 100 at 800yds., following it 
up. with 73 ina possible 75 at 900yds., and Mr, Watson at 1,000yds., 


scored 59°in a possible 60; at 500yds:,H. O- Fairchild led off with a- 


close center and then put in 15 consecutive bullseyes. 


‘The arm may be seen in its complete stale in cut No. 1, which is a 


target rifie model. E. A. Leopold, of Norristown, has done much 
shooting with the Whitney arm, and very good shooting too, 49 out 
of a possible 50 at 200 on Novy. 1, 1878, at 100yds.; 15 consecutive shots 
were put intoa 4inch circle. From that time to the present all 
manner of matches have been shot by Mr. Leopold and with great 
success. 

Cut No. 2 represents the arm in section showing the breech action 
with block down. In it the parts are numbered as foliows: 1, re- 
ceiver; 2, guard; 3, barrel; 4, breech block; 5, hammer; 6, breech- 
block pin; 7, hammer pin; 8, extractor; 9, main spring; 10, trigger; 
11, ramrod stud. 

Cut No. 3 is the arm opened, showing the disposition of the parts 
when the weapon is ready for the reception of anew cartridge. It 
will be seen that the force of the recoil is carried down through the 
breech-block to the hammer block, and in that way transmitted to 
the hammer pin, and so to the breech frame ane stock, The arm is 
one of the simplest to take apart in case of necessity. To do so turn 
the screw in the side of the receiver that holds in place the two large 
pins (hammer and breech-block pins) sufficiently to release the 
heads or flanges, then turn them away from thescrew. Bring the 
hammer to full cock, take out the extractor screw (found on the side 
of the receiver below the breech-block pin), take out the breech-block 
hin and remove the breech-block and extractor together. Leb the 
hammer down so as to relieve it from the pressure of the main spring, 
take out the hammer pin and the kammer. 


To assemble the arm put the hammer in position in the receiver, 
pressing it forward soas to avoid the pressure of the main spring, put 
in the hammer piu and cock the hammer. Put the breech-block and 
extractor into the receiver together, as when taken out, and after re- 
placing the breech-block pin and extractor screw, bring the flanges 
of the two side pins together and tighten the screw that holds them. 

The arm is a comparatively cheap one, the prices running: 


Muskets—.433-caliber, length of barrel 35in., weight 9lbs. 50z., $15; 
-45-caliber, length of barrel 35in., weight 91bs. 80z,, $15; .50-caliber, 
length of barrel 32i4in., weight 9lbs. 80z, $14. Carbines—.433, .45 
and .50-caliber, length of barrel 20%in., weight “lbs. 20z., $13; .50- 
caliber, with rim and center fire breech-block, $18. Light or Buby 
Carbines—.46-caliber, rim fire, length of barre) 1914in., weight 5lbs. 
130z., $13; .44-caliber, extra me either center -or rim fire, length 
of barrel, 18}4in., weight olbs. foz., plain military finish, $13. The 
-44-caliber carbines are chambered for the .44-rim fire shot, long and 
extra long Winchester, and the .44-rim fire flat (Winchester 66 
model). The .44-caliber center fire Winchester ‘73 model, or the .44- 
caliber central fire Smith & Wesson cartridges. When ordering, it 
must be stated which of the above cartridges itis desired to use, as 
they are not ie pees Sporting and Target Rifies—.a8, .40,. 
44; -45 and .50-caliber central fire; .28 and .44-caliber rim fire; barrels 
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RANGE AND GALLERY. 


SARATOGA RIFLE CLUB.—Score of the Saratora Rifle Club 
Wednesday and Saturday, March 19 and 22. On Wednesday the 
severe snow storm so interfered that at times it was impossible to see 
the bullseye. Saturday the light was good and the wind was fairly 
steady—200yds. off-hand, Massachusetts target: 


AHAVS 5s wurteesaniieetesath ies ..+,.11 10 10 11 11 10 11 11 10 11—106 
EUDSWheeler: isch mmceseak went aes 10 12 11 11 10 10 11 10 10 11—106 
Wil BLGBee neh Sesh ernee hs batewiee an 121011 1211 11 11 911 8—106 
TSDSIPIRS le danaben staan weneee eer errs 10 11 10 912 11 11 10 11 10—105 
Hy Wellingtorin, «cient id tees oes 11 9101111 910 10 10 11—102 
WB: GID DS eta igs Che eng eed -.11 11 11 1011101011 9 


ANG? HIS Ae Yee cade uel ..10 1012 10 912 91012 S8—102 
i A White .. 71012 81012 9 12 12 10—102 
A ¥F Mitchell............... --1112 9 $8 810 91010 8— 96 
Ay CATO Gs Stared: cma ey rae ae de 810 99 9 911 9 7 7— 8B 


BOSTON.—Sonie very fine shooting has been done the past week at 
the Mammoth Gallery, asthe scores will show. Mr. M. lL. Pratt has 
the lead for the first prize, and A. B. Loring forthe second, and H. 
M. Drew for the third in New Beginner’s match: 

Amateur’s Match No, 1. 


DAU IP Bei P42 Nike 0 A RAAB A A LAA AAR A 46 46 46 47 48—233 
STS ALIOMTELIIZH 9 Mlrtotee aloe e'e ls ptaltre dla lglaeae bub nets tae 147 47 46 46 46—282 
(RIUPTLS Fie, ake Sn ae. .2) Pee Bee Oy ane 46 46 46 46 46—230 
BY eS ge OVC a A Oe ee SS 45 45 45 47 d7—228 
New Beginners—Amateur's Mateh No, 8. 
ELGG Wee tay eee ie Ma ty ete ones Oh wet 48 48 48 42 44—215 
TIPASECILCOs ik Bier tos wars tinal, feet danangete ie 41 44 41 41 48—210 
NV LORD AN a atresia 0/15 9 wae Les asin LS waa ae ht 42 41 42 42 40~207 
TEER SUR MIORISA A eres, Ge oth Sern epee, CoN seyret 39 40 40 41 40—200 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y., March 27.—At our club medal shoot to-day 
the following scores were made, 200yds. off-hand, 10 shots on Creed- 
moor target, wind light 5 o’clock: 


VAP TSS WVAICITEAN, 'stespttitte atashlstesce- ata aide pte tare 2,3 ovale dl 554584455 5—45 
PES UPLiNatetetinits tial seuiest of ee eee TR Ps 45454545 4 4-44 
GeWesnathitclie seat e', cote elec ene. aia pere 5443845445 443 
SONGAV TOS 5h roa Chetworea cre cela eentents cue ba 444438445 5 5—42 
CO.1G Cu OY ae a ero i i SE, a aka a 84453545 5 4—42 
WG DEA PUL on Sib Wey. nate scents sch onli aah oek tt a. 44344345 4 429 
Ha Bripost.geeaih trr2d > Moe veep e's bell reOatne teen, 8443844444 3—87 


NEW YORK. March 20,—Regular weekly shooting of the Bullshead 
Rifle Club, 32% Third avenue, 12-ring target, psssible 120: G. Zimmer- 
mann 118, M. Dorrler 118. C. Rein 118. A. Lober 117, J. F. Campbel 
106, J. Jordan 106, W. D. Seltzer 101, 8,F.C.Weber 96, D. Lowinskie 97, 


GRAND CENTRAL TOURNAMENT.—The following are the best 
scores made in the tournament at the Grand Central Rifle Range, No. 
5 Vanderbilt avenue: 


RH GEGOWM ova fiesy ees. Sons bast sites ae hoes 67 6" «667 66 66—333 
AACE Sere ees, ashe aM Senay eee Sere 68 65 65 64 68—A25 
Ge AMIMermMAnes 4s see Ae ys hes eases dane dice 65 65 64 64 64-822 
SUVARI ETON neces nace eens CAD nd oa bm Chem NEE 66 63 68 68 62—317 
WAIST ena © ee 4s oh Pet es Sees or ee 62 62 60 60 59—303 
COPREIIN Staats Ann Poe ALE alee we laren ahead as 61 60 60 60 59—800 
SVS PSOM tr. paca a Naat ade St oh eta gtotssoeet ohh 62 60 58 58 57—295 
DOWD G Greies ca Sterns Bake se Aons! Ge by cule soe .64 58 57 57 55—207 
Geert eg citis, Aedes RES ete es es Achat apenas 62 62 57 55 55—291 
APAEAELO WIELDS Same os rit Zak SPP RAE AL Capi seid pe 56 65 64 52-978 
YS EIRDS IIL ot St othe gd ko le etd oem! oe eae 64 he 58 §2—271 
NeODOUMOIURS Shh Si adores ee tare oe 56 51 51 47—267 
C M Honeywell. 55 49 50 46-261 
DF Manice...... GS eto Wee: 

MP SUA bi lene Mea te ae AMO bee Le fa Apne 51 50 48 

CON Oster) et atl iter, lie Grerna nbc bo a warts Hele ps Do) bl 

Dr Toal... 50 50 49 


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, March 28.—To-day the first Jong-range 
shooting for 1884 was done on our range; wind very fishtaily and 
strong from 5 to 8 o’clock, and bright sun at 800yds.; both wind 
light; much better at 900yds.; only one flaz onthe range. Great 
difficulty was experienced in finding the target. and to the surprise 
of all the elevations at 800 were up to one or two points of our figures 
of last summer’s §00yd. elevation. The following scores, consider- 
ing the weather condition and the first practice of the season, does 
uot discourage us. No sighters at 900yds,: 

800yds. 900Vds. 
Cale Maudlin......... 525594455555535—69 585555555355555—71—_ 140 
CM Skinner..........585545544545559—68 5255555555538555—70—188 


COW Wieeksot wae. 443555555555505—66 454554544554554—6§8—134. 
I A Dexter 56305555444 4525—67 564544545554543—67—_134 
A F Elliot. 885245545535545—63 455454445435443—63—126 
J Cooley.......-.....; 452555554485054—62 555584550345345—61—123 


Wind GAUGE. 


BOSTON, March 29.—At Walnut Hill to-day the conditions of the 
weather were not ood for high scores. The light was good, but the 
wind blew from 12 o’clock, and was tricky. and spoiled good holding. 
J.B, Fellows, with his new .32-caliber Maynard, made a clean score 
of ten bulls. counting £8 ont of a possible 100 on the paper target. 
This was his first clean score, and it is the first clean score ever made 
with a gun of this description. Capt. H. G. Parker, of the Carson 
City Rifle Club, of Carson City, Nev.. who is visiting friends in Bos- 
ton, was present and made some good shots. He stated that he 
thought the range the finest of any he had seen in this country. 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


Fl Cushing. ........: 445454454544 HG Parker (mil)....4454534444—41 
H A Barnes......... 4544545445—41 D F Warwell........ 354455443441 
TC Field..... Loree 535444545544 J Payson (mil) .. ..4484484535— 39 
C A Andrews.......544445444448 A Keach.,.,........ 4484354845239 


454445444 48 GH Bond 
BA Lappen......... 544444544442 FW Fowle (mil... 
- Creedmoor Prize Match, 


-5255885543—39 
4445844834 —38 


J B Thomas. . 054554554446 BA Lappen........ §454445445—44 
GW Locke..:....... 555554444445 HAH A Barnes........4444544545—43 
JP Batesecas us. 4145544455-44 Henry Dennison,. 4435544444—41 
Rest Match. 
FI fal a SEER Se pee ety GURU OQ |e ee 97999 8 9 7 10—85 
ei STACKED Darts: sleehpentote ates read AO De TL Oki hapa) Gna 
(CBW. IO GEG ts Aatira a tenn tiem sean ps OF 6.0) ot is “9 16) 8 eee 
eA OOD Meter ce eitteee ee cl mies Oo % 26 € 9. & 5.8) S75 
Victory Medal Match. 
JoBsehowss tae. cseee vos eee ....810 8 9 8 9 9 810 9-88 
CW Boeke... . ...-+. VAN: 5 ite iiCD aed het 91010 8 7625 % G4 
FEMA AITIGNS so vie Sette cee eee at See ere Te ay 


8 
The West Medford (Mass.) Gun Club has elected the following offi- 
cers: President, C. H. Parker; Vice President, E. F. Kakas; Treas- 
urer, J. E. Ober; Secretary, W. T. Morse; Executive Committee, J, 
A. Rockwood, E, G, Morse, F. O. Brown. 


THE TRAP, 


ST, CLAIR, Pa., March 29.—Fourth monthly contest for club’s sil- 
yer medal, was held by the St. Clair Sportsmen’s Club, Feb. 22, result- 


ing as follows: 
Sproats............2:. 0001101100—4  Daddow.............. 0111001011—6 
BUCO horde tated Mec 2 00100100w —2 Evans................ 0600101011—4 


Daddow won the medal. 
Fifth contest took place to-day with following result: 


LV TENT Sg ee 1001111100—6 Sproats,.............. 1011100111—7 
ECO iG sale tise ah 1000101101—5 Walker,.............. 0110100111—6 
Daddows 1. was wc nets 0000010110—3 Lee................ 4. 0001110000—8 
LE EHS eo Aa a 0010011110—5 


Both shoots were at clay pigeons, 18yds, rise 
ecreened, 8d notch, angle 30 degrees, direction of 
sach shot. 


COLLEGE MARKSMEN.—Harvard has a live corps of marksmen. 
Last year the shooters in college were tound to be numerous enough 
to warrant the formation of a shooting club. Now some of the rifle- 
men of the club propose to organize a rifle team, with an eye to inter- 
collegiate matches. Friday afterncon last the genilemen interested 
metinthe room of J. A. Frye to talk over the roject, and the out- 
come was that it was decided tosend letlers to Yale, Columbia, the 
University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania in re 
gard to forming an intercollegiate rifle association. The University ° 
of Pennsylvania already has a rifle team, and possibly such teams 
exist at the other colleges. If favorable replies are received, the 
Harvard boys will put a team in training at once, Where they will 
shoot is not yet decided. There isa range up toward Arlington, usea 
by the militia companies in pebridee, which may be secured, or 

atertowh mnay be used. If a team can 


2 Ligowsky traps 
flight changed for 


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month ago friend of the shooting club, a graduate of another col- 
lege. manifested his interest in their work by offering a cup, called 
the Walnut Hill Cup, to be given to the man winning in three com- 
petifions, W. L. Allen, ‘86, won the first, breaking 12 balls out of 15 
atisyds., fivetraps, W. H. Slocum, *86, second, with 13 out of 15; CG. 
C, Foster, 87, third, and in shooting off a tie with F, $. Palmer, ‘AT, 
both having broken 11; the fourth was won Thursday last by W. H. 
Slocum making his second victory, The next match will be held 
April 10. "The elub has about sixty members, mostly in the lower 
elasses. The Officers are; J. A, Frye, ‘86, President; H. 8. Abbott, 
*86, Vice-President; fF, B. Austin, ‘86, Secretary: J. CG. Ayer, '86, Shot- 
gun Executive Officer: J. A, Frye, ’83, Rifle Bxecutive Officer; W. H. 
Goodwin, °86, FW, S. Billings, 85, J. 8. Russell, *86, Directors; HE. J, 
Sartelle, °65, J. C. Bradley, "86, W H. Slocum, °$7, Match Committee. 
A great deal of the credit for the formation and prosperity of this 
eliib is due to its president, Mr. Frye, whose scores at Walnut Hill 
have made hima creditable tame asa rifleman, Heis as active in 
the Harvard Club as his father isin the Massachusetts association, 
TORONTO, March 28.—The mateh pigeon shoot between J. C. Cock- 
purn, of Toronto, and G. Wayper, of Guelph, came off to day at 
John Oulcott’s shooting grounds at Englington, The weather was 
ail that could be wished for, the attendance large and the birds first- 


ae Match for $100 a side, 85 birds each, 2lyds. rise, Dominion 
rules: 
Wapyper._-.-.-=,-),-.+..+----.+.-171019101101011101101111101101010101—24 
Gocicbulrh a ee te ta ted 101014.01101011111110101431111010100—24 
In the shoot. off at 26yds., the following was the result: 
Wayperic<,...e2 <2: F ret Hea 0111 0—38 
PORN AGIAN ee teeth oe pi tol) Set ee cmmertac els pu mas Mele pect naar 00014 1—2 


FAIR HILL, Md., Mareh 29.—We had a glass ball match here to- 
day, two men on a side, 25 balls, 2iyds, rise, straight away trap. 


DLE GLOENGID tig ete thi es _....01101100011011011000111141—15 
UY og CENT roe teh aneeatipenter eetee scrreys 4110111111111101119111111 —28—388 
n WAGE sey eer erer tee es eS 0100010001110191101000011 12 
1 Cig Song ee eo Ny ete gy Ay eeecy see 19 ym 44144111 .11111111111110111—24— 86 


UNKNOWN GUN CLUB.—The regular monthly match held at 
Dexter, Long Island, March 27. Weather clear with a strong blow, 
making the birds go like blue rocks. Twenty-eight members partici- 
pated in the match, this being the second sboot for three extra and 
three regular prizes, Vogelsang took first; Smith, Rathjen and 
Monsees divides second; Van Staden, Knebel, Layton, Tomford, 
Herman, Stillwell, Muller and Detlifsen shot off for third prize, miss 
and out. After one round, Knebel, Layton, Tomford and Herman 
divited. The next shoot, April 24, will decide who will be the lucky 
ones for the three extra prizes. The conditions were handicap rise, 
one barrel, club rule and classified. 


THE LIGOWSKY TOURNAMENT.—Some objection being made to 
the use of Dixon’s measure in the shot of the tournament, Mr. J. E. 
Bloom, the president of the company says: ‘'The sportsmen here- 
abouls whom I have consulted on the subject, are unanimously of the 
opinion ‘taat whereas said Dixon’s measure 1106 or 1107 is now the com- 
tion standard throughout the country, it should remain the standard 
for the tournament. but that the subject should be brought before 
the assembled sportsmen at Chicago for action as to future tourna 
ments.” This appears to be equitable, This question affords another 
argument, why we should haye a National Association to adopt a 
common code." 


MERIDEN, Conn.—Shoot for Individual State Medal, at Meriden, 
Wednesday, March 26. The medal was held by E. A. Birdsey, of 
Merideu, who won it at. Wallingford two weeks before. He was chal- 
lenged by thirteen mento shoot onthe 26th, Although it rained hard 
they shot for it at the Park, at 59 clay-pigeons cach, and it was won 
by 4. A. Folsom, of New Haven, Following are some of the best 
scores out of a possible 50: EH. A. Folsom 45,1. L. Baker 44, C. M. 
Spencer 42, H. Nichols 42, J. K: Camp 41, J. F. Ives 4i, E. A. Birdsey 
40, I. Ferguson 40, J. Talbot 88, G. A. Strong 26, H. L. Roberts 34, The 
medal is to be shot for every second aad fourth Wednesday of each 


month. 

PAWTUCKET R. I., March 18.—Union Club, match for State Badge, 
weather stormy: C, B. Payne, Union Gun Club, 28; W. H. Sheldon, 
Narragansett, 28; C, M. sheldon, Narragansett, 15;C. C. Gray. Narra- 
gansett, 22; G, F. Butts, Narragansett, 16; EH. 5. Luther, Watchemo- 
ket, £0; F O, Wehoskey, Narraganselt, 15; G. W. Barney, Watche- 
moket, 17; H. W, Tinker, Narragansett, 23; M. P, Cornell, J agnapang. 
9; J.¥. Eldevkin, Union, 7; 0. B. Potter, Narragansett, 15; KH. H. 
Roberts, Union, 20; F. 8S. Tingley, Watehemoket, 17; G. W. Cary, 
Narragansett, 22; C. F. Baldwin, Narragansett, 20; H. L. Palmer, 
Narragansett, 24; J. R Payne, Union, 11, A. F, Salisbury, Union, 14; 
J. H. Brady, Union, 18. 


BOSTON, March 26.—The clay-pigeon and glass-ball matches at 
Walnut Hill to-day called together a large attendance of shotgun 
see Sor matches were shot, and the result’s in each are ap- 

ended: 

Prirst event (five clay birds, 11 entries)—Siark first, De Rochemont 
and Bancroft second. 

Second event (Ave clay birds, 11 entries)—Stark and Short first, 
Johnson second, Bancrott third, De Rochemont and UOutting fourth. 

Third event (five clay birds, 23 entries)—Stanton and Wield first, 
Stark and Decker second, Cutting, Jameson and Nichols third, and 
Baneroft fourth 

Fourth event (three pair birds, 19 entries)—Sawyer first, Stanton 
second, Stark, Hutchinson and Hart third, Knowles and Short fourth. 

Filth event (five glass balls, 18 entries)—Deecker first, Hutchinson 
and Johnson segond, De Rochemont, Lovejoy and Newton third 
Short. Sawyer and Russell fourth. 

Sixth event (five clay birds, 25 entries)—Sawyer first, Tinker and 
Adams second. Decker and Stark third, Short and Shattuck fourth: 

Seventh event (three par clay birds, 24 entries)—Stark, De Koche- 
mont and Hart first, Stanton, Law, Knowles and Short second, 
Decker and Johnson third, and Jameson fourth. 

Eighth event (five glass balls, 20 entries)—Tinker and Henry first, 
Stark and Field second, Lovejoy, Shattuck and Lewis third, and 
Moore fourth. P 

Ninth event (three pair balls, 18 entries)—Decker first, Lovejoy sec- 
ond, Law and Hutchinson third, and Newton fourth. 

Tenth event (seven clay-birds, 29 entries)—Decker and Stark first, 
Nichols and Lovejoy second, Tinker third, and Bancroft fourth. 

Eleventh event (five straightaway birds, 29 entries)—Stark, Shat- 
tuck and Dodge first, Stanton and Short second, Nichols, Russell and 
Newton third, Bancroft. and-Henry fourth. 

Twelfth event (five clay-birds, 27 entries)—Field first, Stark and 
J nee second, Parker and Lovejoy third, Decker and Newtou 
fourth, 

Thirteenth event (five glass balls, 18 eutries)—Sawyer, De Roche- 
mont and Johnson first, Henry 4nd Moore second, Decker and 
Nichols third, and Knowles fourth. . 

Fourteenth ever (three pair clay birds, 20 entries)—Decker first, 
Parker, favor and Sawyer second, Tinker third,and Bancroft fourth. 

Vifteenth event (three pair glass balls, 13 entries) —Law first, Ban- 
crozt second, De Rochemont third, and Knowles fourth. ' 

Sixteenth event (five clay birds, 14 entries)—Wield first, Stanton and 
Stark second, Johnson and Russell third, Warren and Noyes fourth. 


Hachting. 


BUSINESS. 


HE efforts in these columns looking toward the general practice 
of racing and cruising outside are bearing excellent fruit.- The 
mere thought of such a thing still sendsa shudder through the antique 
relics of a past age, and some people in their nautical swaddling 
clothes. But the world does not stop progressing for them, which is 
fortunate. The number of races outside is constantly increasing, 
and whole fleets now cruise along the coast. Long Island ound is 
fast becoming to be regarded only as the Swash Channel of the Mast, 
aud nothing more than a fairway into port, excellently suited to be- 
inners practicing im small traps and sailboats, but quite infra dig 
or that yachting {0 which men prefer to engage. The American is 
ambitious, and thenotion that the brawn and muscle and enterprise 
of a live crowd of sea-loying people could forever be pent up in a 
httle stretch 90 x10 miles always struck the genuine yachtsman as 
supremely ridiculous, to say nothing of the impossibility of reaching 
the Sound from distant ports withouta passage at sea, _ - 
However, counterfeit yachting is jos it; charms with the rising 
generation, We hail with pleasure the proposition of Mr, J.D. Smith, 
of the Hstelle schooner, to offer a cup to sloops and cutlers fora 
and scramble round Long Island by the outside route, The New 
ork Y. CO. has abandoned play sailoring in the Sound, and will here- 
atter meet in Newport harbor preparatory to the regular annual 
cruise along the coast. Itis proposed to give the sluops and cutters 
some inducement to make the voyace to the rendezyous an interest- 
ing event and with great benefit to the sport, and for these innoya- 
tions upon ye ancient customs of diifting, the club has earned recog- 
nition from all go-ahead people. With sea cruising and ocean races 
& prominent feature, perhaps in the end to the entire exclusion of 
smoolh-water play, we may look for rapid strides in the improve- 
Ment ci modeland equipment, and the crews of our yachis, Revie 
sional and amateur, will develop into regular shellbacks aven before 


they know it, Then will come the consymmation of our wishes, | 


yachting real instead of yachting sham, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


WEIGHT FOR LIGHT AIRS. 


ie there is one thing which experience has settled beyond the posy 
A sibility of doubt, it is the value of weight for speed in airs and 
light breezes. Practice affords such incontestable proof that writing 
these lines ought to be supertiuous work, And yet the ctilpable 
ignorauce among builders and amateurs is such that valuable space 
nilist be oceupied, to teach what the tyro ought to known by mere 
intuition, Why people, who have been successful in other walks of 
life, refuse to apply to the matter of yachting a single turn of their 
brain, apd not only refuse to think the most trifling kind of a thought, 
but persist in clutching wildly at that which is diametrically opposed 
to the commonest process of logic and familiar facts enacted under 
their very noses day after day. isa poser in the study of human 
nature we are totally unable to fathom. 

_ If there is one kind of boat which excels in a most notable degree 
In lightness and in large sail area in proportion to her displacement, 
itis the catamaran, According to the hallucination of those people 
who ever and anon pop up before the public with the same old, daft 
iusion which mixes up weight and resistance, the catamaran ought 
to be astreak of lightning incarnate in trifling winds and in the 
coyest of catspaws, in the merest breaths trembling through 
the atmosphere, should show at her best and fly from heavier 
boats so as to knock them stupid. There isno boat in existence 
which can be expected to substantiate the “light weight for light 
airs*’ fallacy in more drastic and unchallengeable manner, And now 
what is the truth concerning the sailing of catamarans? They are 
slow, excessively and annoyingly slow, and notoriously so in light 
airs. They cannot be depended upon to stay and they are left out of 
sight by almost every hulk, tub, scow, box or fright which has weight 
and reasonable area of sail. ; 

Why is the catamaran slow in light airs? It cannot be because of 
clumsy lines or unfavorable furm. Her body is leaner, her lines are 
finer and more suited to speed than those of any other type of yacht 
in our waters, Ib cannot be a want ot driving power, for measured 
by any standard whatever, by length, by bulk, by displacement. by 
stability, by area of skin, by draft, she has a larger sail plan than 
any other style of vessel, and she has not the weight. And to the 
yery lack of that weight her sloth in light airs must be attributed. 
To nothing else whatever. 

When a boat has got on full headway the force of wind will allow, 
she develops ‘‘momentum” in strict proportion to her weight. The 
effect of that momentum is to keep up her rate of speed. Sheis 
possessed of a desire to continue, and if the wind were cut off in an 
instant as with a knife, she will keep on moying, slowing up grad- 
ually as she uses up her momentum in overcoming resistance to on- 
ward passage until there is no momentum left to 
she stops. 

Now, all winds, especially light winds, area series of rapid im- 
pulses, whose energy is transmitted to the hull throngh the sails as 
a medium, When a boat has acqumred full way every succeeding 
impulse finds the boat already on the move, and in strikmg the sails 
has not to start a dead body into life and overcome “inertia,” but the 
energy of succeeding impulses is utilized in re-supplying the waste 
of momentum whichis continuously being eaten into by the oppos- 
ing resistance. If a surplus of energy remains the boat will be im- 

elied at an increased speed. Now, itis piain enough to see that the 

oat possessed of the greatest momentum in proportion to resistance 
will bave her store of moving force éaten into least by the opposing 
resistance, and that there must be a larger surplus of wind impulse 
left to be utilized toward speed than ina competitor haying a less 
favorabie ratio between momeutum aud resistance. 

But resistance at low speeds is mainly, if not entirely, dne to fric- 
tion between the water and the skin of the hull. Now, the area of 
skin will vary directly with the dimensions, but the momentum of dis- 

lacament or weight, which is the same thing, varies in a higher ratio. 

n similar forms it varies as the square. Thus, two boats of circular 
section having diameters as 1 to 2 will vary in circumference or skin 
as 1 to 2, and so will their resistanecs at low speeds. But the areas 
of the two circles will vary as the squares of 1 and 2, oras 1 and 4, so 
will the bull on any unit of length, and so will the momentum of 
those bulks. 

It follows in direct consequence that, with a given sail area per 
unit of skin surface, the boat having the greatest weight is possessed 
of an innate advantage for speed in light weather, 

Furthermore this advantage may be so great that even with a less 
area of sail per unit of skin, the heavier boat will still in practice 

rove the faster. Henee the catamaran, in spite of large sail area in 
in proportion to we# surface, is overcome in a contest wy heavier 
boats driven by actually less power in comparison. 

Ttistrue that secondary attributes may in particular instances 
neutralize and even more than wipe out the innate advantage of 
weight, A boat may beso crank or so modestly sparred that the 
gain due to weight is more than lost by the deficiency’of driying 
power. Or in the other direction, she may have large sails, but her 
hull may beso extravagant in contour that a superabundance of 
skin wil be a drawback, overbalancing advantages of weight, 
When snch boats are beaten their defeatis notte be laid in truth to 
their great weight per se, but to the fact. that opportunity to display 
the benefits of weight is denied the boat through irelevant conditions 
tawang: no connection with the question of light versus large displace- 
ment. 

By inference from the foregoing, it follows that the problem of 
speed in light weather is to be solved through working up as near as 
possible to the subjomed axiom. . 

“The greatest weight in proportion to the resistance, coupled with 
the greatest sail area in proportion to skin friction.” 

And acorollary to the above is this: The mere comparison of 
weights, ten tons against twenty tons, has no meaning whatever, one 
way or the other, unless the citation be made in connection with the 
resistance, And under no circumstance dees twenty tons in itself 
indicate a bar to speed in comparison with ten tons, for it is always 
possible that the excess of the momentum of twenty tons beyond the 
resistance it experiences may be greater than that of a boat dis- 
placing only ten tons,in which case, so far froma being a bar, the 
greater weight is by the foregoing an actual advantage, and upon 
the assumption of equal sail to wet surface, an actual, positive bene- 
fitto speed. The opposite is equally true. Light weight, or in our 
example, ten tons, considered by itself, isnot to be accepted out of 
hand as a bar to speed for lack of weight in comparison with twenty 
tous, foritis also possible thatin proportion to the resistance ofa 

articular boat there may be a greater excess of momentum on ten 
te displacement than on twenty. 

So far then as the theory of speed in light wisds is concerned, the 
conclusion is, that weight by itself affords no true inference for or 
against, but that/the answer depends upon the relation between mo- 
mentum and resistance in each individual vessel, and that unless ac 
quainted with that relation, no decision in the case can be rendered 
for want of necessary data upon which to construct a verdict one 
way or the other. 

We are then in need, not only of the weights of vessels, but also of 
their resistances to pass judgment between alight and heavy com- 
petitor, 1t has already been mentioned that at low speeds resistance 
varies with the area of wet surface. Hence, of two designs, that one 
possessed of the greatest weight per unit of skin is the winning boat, 
providing she can spread to equal effect as much sail per unit of wet 
surface as her oppoueut, and upon this the desizner must scheme his 
hopes for success in light weather, It willbereadily seen thatin theory 
the advantage may rest in one case with the heavier boat and in an- 
other with the lighter, according as they meet the stipulations set 
forth. 

Now turning to practice, we find the application of the last para- 
graph exemplified in the apparently contradictory pentormarce of 
vessels, Upon one occasion a heavy boat has decidedly the heels of 
her lighter competitors, and upon some other occasion just the re- 
verse is observed between another batch ot racing vessels. 

But those contradictions are between yachts approaching one 
another in their principal elements, so Uhat aslight variation upon 
the relation between momentum, resistance and sail will bring down 
the balance on one side first and then again upon the other. 

Vor a broad conclusion, the evilence should be taken between boats 
differing quite radically, so much so that the preminence of their 
peculiaritiés cannot be overthrown by trifling variations between 
momentum, resistance and sail. Aud such comparisons manifestly 
offer all the more positive answer io the issue between light and 
heavy displacement, surrounded, as it must be, by those features 
which design demands for practical purposes. 

We have a TERDY instanced the performance of catamarans. Ex- 
actly the same behavior is found in light boats of any description. It 
is well enough known that the sharpie, the canoe, the whaleboat, 
the buckeye, and similar boats. one aud all, fail prominently in com- 
petition with yachts of tisual form in light weather, By comparison 
the light boats are tediously disappointing, and no matter how much 
care and thought may be bestéwed upon their planning, it is from 
the very start a physical impossibility to attain speed with them in 
paliy breezes. And this is due to the lack of as much weight and 
as great: momentum in proportion to resistance just as explained 
in the case of the catamaran. Most prominently does this want make 
itself felt in beating to windward, The lines of such boats, are, in 
themselves, highly favorable to speed, and the sailwhich racers spread 
ig euormous, “nd far beyond that of usual yachts jn proportion to 
skin, as witness the racing 1igs of some canoes in New York waters. 
While they occasionally do well with lifted sheets in winds of good 
working strepgth, all collapse in light. airs and when sheets are 
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be blowing with the water smooth, the sharpie has no chance what- 
ever with the heavier craft, and the lighter the wind, the slower the 
sharpie proves herself to be. ‘ 

ory explains the source Of value in weizht and practice, com- 
i transacted under the nose of every person 
afloat, backs theory in its decuctions and defends and directlg coun- 
sels the incorporation of weight in vessels intended for speed in light 


winds, 
* The builder who declines to enter pon a course of logic for fear he 


may be only theorizing after all, and the yachtsman who is too sbilt- 
less to think for himself, may possibly be excused upon the ground 
that in the pursuit of yachting they undertook no other contract than, 
toloaf. But when such persons not merely refuse to mentall yinbibe 
the kaleidescope of facts developing daily before. their eyes, but ag- 
gressively storm in a path barred at every step with jasurmonantable 
facts, and pilot themselves into a foggy reaim of dogmatic mybh, 
then, we confess, then it makes us very tired. > 


; DRAFT. 
fiditor Forest and Stream; 

_Mr,. Bassford’s letter contains one point which perhaps needs atten- 
tion in addition to the remarks you appended. He says the channels 
with 10ft. water leading into the harbors are so narrow that a keel 
boat drawing that amount could not work in them. A centerboayd 
drawing only 7 or 8£t, would have to show some of her hoard to get 
in and out, and would draw just as much, and sometimes more than 
the keel boat, so she would be no better off, Minx. 


[We add that there is from 8 to (ft. of tide in all the Sound ports, 
and it would only be one case in many when a yacht would try fo 
make certain, harbors with narrow approaches at dead low warer, 
and the width of the channels would be greater at quarter or half 
tide. But even in this respect we are hetter off than our Waclish 
cousins, who have to depend upon many harbors which are tidal 
Se and dry or nearly so at low water. Same holds good of 
the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts, Besides, 1tseems better policy 
to have the right kind of boat for sailing anyway, and mate harbors 
a8 best youcan. The test of a good boat is not how little water shies 
can float in, but her adaptsbility to cruising in whatever depth she 
happens toneed. Designing boats to meen secondary requirements ~ 
at a sacrifice of the principal object of their existence, is getting ths 
cart before the horse.] 


PETREL ON A CRUISE, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

. Isee you have the lines of Petrel in Fores: anv SrREAm, and as 
you Jaud her performances highly, 1 thought an account of the threa 
first days’ cruise of the Seawanhaka Y.(C. in 1880, so far as Petrel 
and Vivien took part in it, might be interesting, Vivien IT do nol con- 
sider yery fast. She is a pieced-out boat, having originally he na 
24ft. cat. She was raised Bin. and pieced out aft so as to malce her 
25l6ft. waterline and 28ft. overall. This ieft her yery full forward, 
and brought her board entirely too far forward. which made her 
steer hard and work bad, as an old sail from another boat was pubou 
her which did not fit, She is a veritable little tub, buf here is an ace 
eount of her performance in company with Petrel, these two boats 
being the only boats ef that class in the cruise, The account was. 
furnished me by her skipper. 

The yachts met.at Glen Cove. The next morning they were ordered 
to make a,runto New Haven. There was scarcely any wind vntil 
some time in the afternoon, There was not a ripple on the water, 
They all drifted on toward Eaton’s Neck, Vivien had no light sails, 
but a very-small topes with no yard, so she set it as best she could 
on anoar. She had but just been launched after being altered, and 
there had not been time to finish her for the ernige, ; 

Petrel had a good outfit of light sails, so she worked aiay some- 
what from Vivien, When near Haton’s Néck the latter struck across. 
for the north shore, thinking the wind would come ont from that 
way. and Petrel kept the Long Islaud shore. VFinally the wind came 
out fresh from south and Petrel of course gotit neariy half an hour 
before it reached across to Vivien, and by that time Petrel was nearly 
out of sight ahead. Besides this Vivien was so far to leeward that 
she could but little more than lay her course, whilé Petrel was run- 
ning with sheets lifted. Viyien arrived at New Haven about six 
minutes behind, The next morning the fleet was ordered to New 
London and the two little ones were given the pavlens of sharting 
ahead, It was blowing fresh from southeast. Petrel got away first: 
with areef down. Vivien had run further up the harbor,so was — 
some distance astern and to leeward. It was a dead beat out the 
harbor, and Vivien, under full sail, caught up to Petrel, who tlien 
shook out her reef, but Vivien was getting away from her in the 
meantime and when a good distance ahead the wind suddenly died 


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A while.after there came arain squall from the southwest, and both 
had to double reef. Then they were shut out of view by the rain un- 
til well on toward New London. The wind once more dizd ont and 
the rain ceased. and it was discwyered that Petre! was hull down 
astern, but much further to the south, or ont in the Sound, than 
Vivien, Again they lay becalmed. and again the wind came up fom 
the south and took Petrel long before it did Vivien. but she got it ab 
last, and arrived at New London about 744 minutes ahead of Patrel. 
The next morning tae larger yachts had arrived. and Petreland 
Vivien were told they might see as much of therace as they liked, 
and then run to Newport, which the larger yachts would do later in 
the day. Petrel soon started out. as was supposed by Vivien, to see 
the race, but when Vivien left later she found Petrel had madea 
straight wake for Newport. Soshe concluded nat to go any further 
east and ran over to Greenport, leaving the feet, as she then had no 
cabin on, but wasanopen boat. Davin Krrey. 

[Since then Vivien has received a cabin, and will come ontm a new 
rig and general overhauling this season, Mr, Kirby does uot state 
whether Vivien shifted ballast or not, though the presumption is she 
would not da such a silly thing.] 


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STYLE.—To aman of taste, there is nothing uglier than paint ~ 
about decks and deck fittings. It gives a boatan old and cheap ap- 
earance, and shows the blacking off lubbers’ ‘longshore brozaus. 
Reueve the old paint and varnish or keep “bright,” and the yacht 
will appear rejuvenated. To remove, either apply heat carefully be 4 

means of ahand brazier and theh scrape; or pay with one part pearl 

ash mnixed with three eee of quickstone lime, by slacking the lime 
ing the pearlash. Allow to remain half a day, — 


in water and then ad h. All 
til the paint sofiens, then scrape with scraper, or glass and sand- 

per smooth, Varnish hatches, houses, bits: ¢hekpit and imside of 
ulwarks, butleave the decksand the caprail natural wood. Keep 
them white by scrubbing freqnently, and then the boat will ‘brace 
up and have some style about her.’ Itis just aseasy to keep her in 
that condition as tokeep paint clean, and the boat will sell for 20 per 
cent, mors. To paint the side, scrape very carefully and fen 
Broken glassis the best tool. Don’t dig intothe wood. All paint 
neéd not come off, but the rough should be smoothed away, ‘her 
sandpaper, put on a light coat with plenty of oJ. Let ihdny well, for 
which time is required. Then give finishing coat with varnish enough 
to givea gloss and drier enough ta harden, as the nil will not sink | 
into the wood as with first coat. ‘ 


ARRIVED.—The handsome s. 8. Santa Cecilia arrived in this port 
March 27 from Havana, and took up a4 berth in North River, She 
was built by John Elder, of Glasgow, in 1881 !or Lord Alfred Paget. 
Ts 168ft, long. 28ft. Tin, beam, and 12ft, Bin. hold. Compound eugines 
18 and 86in: cylinders by 2¥in. stroke, of 80 horse power. Rigged asa 
three-masted schooner. She is a cruising steamer with a maxtnutn 
speed of thirteen knots, and a sea Speed of nine to fen knots on very 
small consumption. As a ernismg steamer she is #4 age ahead of 
the costly and ugly failures at high speed in this country s0 extraye 
gantly advertised by newspaper reporters- ; 

NEW BEBFORD, Y. C.—J. C. Rhodes, Commodore; David Tu. Pak- 
ker, Vice Commodore; Frank B. Saivin, Rear Commodure; John He” 
Barrons, Secretary; Executive Committee. Francis Habhaway, Wie 
lard Nye, Jr., Edward 5. Brown, Horace Wood, George M. Otapo, 
Richard S. Taber, E. Stanley Willis, George W. Parker, Riehard rT 
Morgan, Edward W. Hart and the officers, Membership, 253, 
includes 57 yachts. Measurement one-quarter overhang added 
loadline. l 

NEW JERSEY Y. C.—Annoual match fixed for Juneig. Officers 
for the year: Commodore, John H. Longstreet, catamaran Day 
Vice-Cormmodore, R. F. Rabe, sloop Minnehaha; Recording Seoreta 
John D, Goetschius: Corresponding Secretary, George E, Gari 
Treasurer, Charles J, Rogers; Financial Secretary, Henry tH. Stillimgy 
Measurer, William 8S. Dilworth; Regatta Committee, Edward W, Ke 
cham, Henry C, Dilworth and Edwin A, Barkelew. 


NEW MAGAZINE.—Welearz that a Boston publishing house W 
issue an illustrated yachting monthly early in -ume, There is re 
for an independent publication of the kind with literary merit, 
ought to be 4 success if it will steer clear of the breakers of “pa 
ism” and covert advertising in its reading pages, which have wir 
such feeble attempts as have been made to catch public suppe 

TOLEDO Y. C.—Has leased Guard Island for club purpose 
Spee tocides ten yachts, with one cutter now building ies 
Hepburn Bros. Officérs fos the year: Ls 

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A® a centerboard yacht considerably advanced beyond the ortho- 

dox trap, the Gleam can be taken as an excellent representative 
of recent date. She is of more than ordinary shapeliness, with 
clainis to style in her whole make up. Her lines will prove of special 
interest tothose who have to moor in shoal water, or cannot avail 
themselves of the keel for particular reasons. The Gleam is a copy 
of one of Philip Elisworthk’s small boats, with some minor modifica- 
tions introduced by Mr. N. D, Lawton, for whom she was built last 
spring. Clumsier dimensions could scarcely exist, yet in spite of 
their exceptional proportions the Gleam exhibits that unrivalled: 
clean cut fairness of body for which we have often put the Ellsworth’ 
models on record. This extreme fairness, which scarce any man can 
equal, coupled with enormous light weather rigs, is the real secret of 
the success of the Ellsworth boats so far as speed is concerned, and 
it is almost a hopeless task to expect to beat such beautifully chiselled 
Inasterpieces with ether craft many rungs lower on the ladder of per- 
fection in fairness of form, and this is without any reference to type. 
In view of the varied results of trial races during the past few years, 
we are more than ever convinced that far too much stress is laid 
upou mere type by itself when the question of speed is agitated, and 
that the clue to success should be sought in the most perfect dis- 
tribntion of bulk and general symmetry of hull, let the cardinal 

_ dimensions be what they may. We haveaill seen square races won 
by out and out cutters, by half-breeds with and without keel and 
with a little of both, by orthodox traps of a past epoch, and by all 
kinds of go-betweens. . 

Extensive and close observation will, in the long run, justify our 
yiews that all types within certain not well defined limits, can be 
made to reach equally high rates of speed, though some will excel 
under certain conditions. and others again under an opporite state of 
aiiairs, Butit will ever be a losing game to pit against perfection 
of one type anything of another possessed of less sweetness of form. 
So far as speed is the issue, it may be laid down as a truism thata 
good cutter will beat an inferior sloop, and a good sloop will beat an 
mferior cutter, and a good cutter and a good sloop will make an eyen 
sal, extraneous influences left out of consideration, In point of t 
all stand alike. and the victory will perch upon the most symmetrical 
arrangement of bulk, with no reference to the dimensions. In more 
detail, though, there seems to be evidence enough at hand that the 
deep, narrow keel has the call in light and baffling wind, and in any 
kind of weather accompanied by a sea, while the sloop’s especial 
opportunity will be found in smooth water, and good whole sail 
breezes. All of course subject to more or less modification, as facts 
are sprouted by events in the future. 

With this in mind itis an easy matter to find good cause why 

Gleam, upon yery uncouth dimensions, should nevertheless show 
excellent speed in the weather she likes. Not one man in ten thou- 
sand could produce her equal inform on the length, beam and 
depth she possesses. For this reason alone, if for no other. the boat 
which tackles Gleam tackles a Tartar, and the boat which beats her 
has something about which she may lustily crow. We are far from 
indorsing Gleam’s proportions. The same Pull ballast and rig could 

have béen disposed to much better advantage in a longer, deeper 
body of easier fashioning, with a gainin performance and accom- 
modations, but then the odious length rule steps in and threatens a 
tax for any such choice. The designer finds himself shackled in face 
of that foe to good proportions, which compels him to stunt his ideas 
in length and squat out in beam for the size he must have in search 
of power and general ability. Consequently the Gleam is the reverse 


Of an:economic:] boat in any respect; and or her size and the money 


expended does not represent the best attainable by any means, 
though she may be the best or nearly the best on the: Jeneth. Itis 
unfortunate that a rule which hampers inde 


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‘urther speculation as to what Gleam might have been but for the 
prejudicial interference of length measurement. 4 a. 

_ If the official record of the Gleam has not been especially brilliant 
so far, it isowing to lack of opportunity more than to want of speed 
inthe boat. Her debut in the A. Y.C, match of June 19, found her 
pitted against two rather unpretending cruisers, the Lois, of un- 
certain antiquity, and the Amazon, not known toracingfame. After 
an unsatisfactory day Gleam finished second, beating the Lois, but 
having to give in to Amazon, some 3ft. longer, by scant3min. Her 
second test was in the Seawachaka Corinthian race June 23, which 
turned out such a howling fluke as to be void of meaning, though 
Gleam proved lucky enough to lift the prize in the class. The third 
trial found her off with the Larchmont fleet in the annual open 
match sailed July 4. It was blowing a stiff breeze with a jump out in 
the Sound. Upon this occasion Gleam suffered a round defeat at the 
hands of two cruisers, the keel Varuna and Amazon, coming in a poor 
third, near 7m. astern of the second. Both her competitors were 
longer by several feet, and size will often make amends for poor 
model in blowy weather. 

The impressions received upon the occasion were that Gleam’s 
towering stick punished her severely, and that her beam caused her 
to swing as if on gimbles, while the sea stopped her at every bounce. 
It was noteworthy that in the same race, the Crocodile, another Ells- 
worth boat, suffered in like manner, and lost to Wave and Schemer, 
while she had shown herself more than a match for Wayein smooth 
water. During the remainder of the season Gleam got on a couple of 
local fights with ancient specimens, and sadly squandered them for 
their temerity, and likewise had one sail over, capturing the club 
championship in her class. Late in fallshe got underway in com- 
pany: with the tidy little yawl rigged cruiser Aneto, of the deep draft 

eel persuasion and 21ft. loadline, in a two-reef snorter, and after a 
struggle Gleam retired discomfited and hugely surprised at the 
Whoby, unexpected issue. Gentlemen who witnessed this litile sur- 
prise lay it to the load of spars Gleam had to whin, and to the anti- 
pathy of her beam for the sea there was running. To sum up, the 

jieam, owing to reasons already mentioned, should be considered 
fast and close-winded in smooth. water, but not a likely boat at all 
when brought down to more exacting work. which is the real test of 
merit, And this reputation holds good until the popular verdict can 
be shown to be mistaken. 

As our plans will explain, Gleam is one of the few, very few, sloops 
entitled to the claim of being handsome. In her depth, high side 
and comparatively liberal displacement, and in the absencc of flare 
ean be traced commendable properties in accordance with the pre- 
cepts aya these columns. In her stunt body and great rig is seen 
the cloven foot of length measurement. This year Gleam is to try 
1,5001bs. lead on the keel, which ought to make her display more 
mind of her own in lumpy water, though what effect it will have 
upon her footing of a summer’s day is not so easy to foretell. If we 
do not care to hazard a prophesy, there are also no clear facts known 
why she should not benefit by the change at alltimes, Though the 
idea of “lugging” ballast outside instead of lovingly carrying it 
along in the hold is high treason according to persons who appear 
to have served their apprenticeship aboard the Ark, and though Mr. 
Lawton may forever fall from high grace with that school, there are 
those willing enough to give him credit for experimenting with a 
somewhat bold innovation, whatever the upshot may be. 


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‘ Depth, top of deck to keel..... 2 1... 0..,.....,. 4£t. 9in 
Draft without board.........0.....0..08 rites seat. GLI 
Least freeboard to planksheer........ riddod saan . ft. 9n 


Displacement..............0.-0c00 00 IS. 11,0001bs. 


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at head, oak. Extra frame on bHge, 2x3, 
framing, 3x3 and 2x8, oak. Bed pieces for centerboard trunk, 7x4in., 
oak, Stem, post and rudder of oak, with locust stock. Plank, 144 
yellow pine, no butts above waterline. Deck stuff, 114 white pine, 
square, no butts. Trimmings, hatches and rail in mahogany. Cabin 
roof is of three layers thin boards, with canvas between. Sails of 
100z. duck, double bighted, also storm jib. Club topsail of 80z. duck, 
single bighted, and. spinnaker, balloon jib topsail of stout drilling. 
The bowsprit is a bright spar, run out nearly horizontal. Decks and 
interior of brignt finish. The cockpit floor is ift. above waterline, and 
the centerboard trunk is kept low in the cabin, the top being ‘'sealed”’ 
and caulked. 


ANETO AND GLEAM. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Since the appearance of my letter i: your last issue I havereceived 
a note from Mr. Lawton, from which I learn forthe first time that 
he disagrees with me as to the result of the trial last fall, believing 
that the towing of a boat by the Gleam more than counterbalanced 
the disadvantage to the Aneto of lesser size and inferior rig for speed. 

His letter exhibits much feeling, and satisfies me that the subject 
cannot be pursued with advantage to yachting interests. I according] 
withdraw my last letter to you in its entirety, and so retire from all 
discussion. THE OWNER OF THE YAWL ANETO, 

New Yorxs, March 31, 1884, 


[It is strange that so much feeling should haye been exhibited in 
this case, and other contracts from which the owner of the Gleam has 
withdrawn. The settled convicticn of good judges is that the Gleam 
cannotbe driven at high speed on account of her chubby form, and 
that the least chop completely breaks up her sailing. We make this 
statement in the interests of a proper appreciation of the question of 
design, as the personal prejudices of yacht owners are of no concern 
whatever to us, We should think every yacht owner would be glad 
to discover and admit the faults of his boat from an innate desire to 
further the truth. In the long run, this is bound to come out, and no 
super-sensitiveness or petty vanity of any individual can obscure or 
delay a correct estimate in the case. As a number of proposed trials 
with the Gleam have been lately rescinded, we desire to emphasize 
the fact that boats like the Gleam, howeyer successful in light airs 
through the benefit of extravagant rigs, have generally collapsed in 
a breeze and sea.] 


HULL Y. O.—Officers for the year: Commodore, Charles A. Per- 
kins; Vice Commouore, W. H. Crane; Rear Commodore, D. Hall 
Rice; Secretary, Peleg Aborn; Assistant Secretary, Frank ©. Brewer 
Treasurer, W. H. Litchfield; Regatta!Committee, M. J. Kiley, P. M. 
Bond, J. A. Osgood, W. K. Millar, H. N. Curtis, F. M. Griffen, E. A 
Doe. The club voted to join the New England Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion, and elected as delegate Charles A. Perkins, and as alternate, D. 
Hall Rice. Membership, 4387. Fleet includes 64 cats, 63 sloops, 24 
schooners, 2 cutters, 1 yawl, 10 steamers—total, 164 vessels. Of these 
75 are keels and 89 centerboards. 


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THE RIG OF RIGS.—The keel yachts Sunbeam, Mr. W. L. Wellman 
and Emily, Mr. A. McManus, are both to be be rigged as cutters, with 
new outfit of sails from MecMannus & Son. The same loft will supply 
4 complete rig to Mr. H. D. Burnhams new 115ft. schooner, building 
by Robert Palmer's Sons at Noank. 


_ NEW CUTTER.—We hear that Mr. BE, W. Syer, of Chicago, is hav- 
ing a smart ten-ton cutter built on the Thames, England, and will 
import her in time for the season* She willbe a great addition to 
the Chicago fleet, and take for lake sailing, where a deep, able boat 
is much needed. 


THE SHASON,—Attention is directed to yacht property offered 
for sale in another column. A fine semi-cutter can be purchased at 
a bargain, owing to departure of owner, She isa boat of three 
beams, quite new, and has an excellent reputation for strength and 
seaworthiness. 


NEW YORK Y. C,—Has elected Mr. Edward E, Chase, schooner 
Clio, Vice-Commodore, in place of Mr. W. P. Douglass, resigned, 
Owing tesickness. Also adopted protest and measures against the 
compulsory pilotage bill now-pending before Congress. 


ILEEN.—This fine clipper cutter has returned from her Southern 
eruise, and will receiye a general overhaul for thé season. A gentle- 
man who went outin the cabin,is to have a similar cutter built at 
once, though somewhat smaller. 


CAROLINA Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, C. H. Glid- 
den, sloop Wildbird; Vice-Commodore, H. M. Tueller, sloop Hlirt; 
Secretary, W. D. Porcher; Treasurer. W. W. Shackelford, Jr.; Meas- 
urer, W. i.awton Mikell. 


MATCH OR REGATTA.—We note with pleasure that our esteemed 
but yery slow contemporaries, are copying from us the introduction 
of the term match in place of the homely appelation regatta. Yacht 
elubs should follow suit. 


THETIS.—The accommodations of Mr. Henry Bryant’s new com- 
promise include a cabin lift. 6in. long. starboard stateroom 12x8ft., 
port stateroom 6x7ft., and captain's room 7x8. She is to be launched 
the latter part of April. 

MARIANA,—The Herreshoffs have launched the cruising steam 
yacht Mariana. She is the first bona fide cruiser in America. High 
speed has not been the only consideration, but accommodations and 
long time steaming. 

HUDSON RIVER Y. C.—Annual match fixed for June il, over 
regular North River course from club-House, foot of Seyenty-fourth 
strect, to Yonkers and return. Steamer has been chartered for the 
spectators. : 

WENONAH.—This famous flyeris to be commissioned this sea- 
son. and will hoist fighting flag for all the battles going. 


MONTAUK,—Put into Port au Spain, Trinadad, March 25, 


Canoeing. 


———— 


KEYSTONE C. C. 


7 EYSTONE C.C., Philadelphia, Pa. Organized November, 1883. 
Captain, Woodward T. Norgrove. Signal, white keystone on blue 
field. 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 


Twelfth Paper. 
APRONS. 


N rainy weather or in rough water it is necessary to cover 
the well entirely, either by hatches or by an apron fitting 
closely around the body. The simplest form of apron, and 
one especially adapted to the pointed coaming, is a cover of 
cloth, cut to the shape of the coaming and turned down on 
the edges, to button over screw heads in the latter, near the 
deck. It also extends aft about 6in. over the hatch or deck 
immediately behind thé back. A hole is cut for the body of 
the canoeist, and around the edge a piece (a) 6in. wide is 


—. 


stitched, so as to be drawn around the body. This piece is 
long enough to Jap, as at (0), and button on one side. That 
portion of the apron abaft the body is held down by a cord 
(c) made fast to cleats or s¢reweyes on deck, the apron not 
being buttoned to coaming abreast of the body. 


‘A beam (d), to which the apron, just forward of the body, 


a 
a ’ : 
* a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


is nailed, keeps it arched so as to shed all water. If a for- | rest on the shoulders; 
ward hatch is used, the fore end of apron may be buttoned | the ends of the box. 


toit. Jn case of a capsize, the after part will pull from 
under the cord, and the canoeist is free, the apron remain- 
ing on the coaming. Jnstead of a buttonhole on the flap, a 
loop of light twine should be used, so as to break at once, if 
necessary. ; 

Another device is the telescopic apron devised by Mr. 
Farnham, which consists of a wire framework covered with 
oiled cloth. This framework is composed of several brass 
or German silver tubes (¢), one sliding in another, as ina 
telescope, and also of carlins (f) of 4-in. spring brass wire, 
soldered or brazed, as shown, to collars (y) on the tubes. The 
ends of these carlins are turned, as shown, to engage under 
the beading on the outer edge of the coaming, and are also- 
bent into loops to avoid cutting the cloth. On the after end 
a piece of 5%; wire (A), bent to a curve, is brazed, being also 
braced to the after carlin. This wire should extend 2in. aft 
of the sliding bulkhead to 7. Forward of the well is a block 
screwed to the deck, and toit the first tube is pivoted by a 
universal joint, permitting a side motion to the framework, 
but holding it down forward, or it may be held by a strap, 
as shown. When the frame is drawn into position, the ends 
of the carlins, hooking under the beading, hold it down, and 
the curved ends of the piece (2) hook over blocks (2) on each 
side, keeping all in position. 

The cover is of stout muslin, cut about 3in. larger each 
way than the coaming, so asto turn down, an elastic cord 
being run in the hem to draw it tight. Before sewing the 
cover to the frame, the ends of the carlins and all sharp 
corners or edges are covered with leather, so as to avoid 
cutting the cover. Extra strips are sewn on the lower side, 
under the carlins, to hold down the cover. For rough water 
an extra apron is used, being a short skirt, fitting under the 
arms, the lower edge gathered in by an elastic cord, An 
extra wire (X) is attached to the framework, forming a coam- 
ing on the after end of the apron, and a wooden coaming 
also runs across the after hatch. The lower edge of the 
skirt is drawn over these coamings, and also over two knobs 
(2) at the sides, the elastic holding all in place. 

The apron on a Rob Roy or smal] canoe is sometimes held 
down by a strip of wood (m) on either side of the coaming, 
to which the apron is tacked, each strip having a flat brass 
hook (7) to hold it to the coaming, the forward end of apron 
being held down by a rubber cord passing around the fore 
end of well. 

The material for an apron should be a stout muslin, and 
after being cut and sewed it should be stretched tightly, 
well dampened, and coated with a mixture of turpentine one 
part, boiled linseed oil three parts, and raw oil six parts, 
laid on. yery thin, a second coat being given when the first 
is perfectly dry. To complete the covering of the well, 
either with hatches or aprons, a waterproof coat is neces- 
sary, made in the form of a loose shirt, opening about 6in. 
in front, the sleeves being gathered in at the wrists with | 
elastic. ‘The coat is just long enougu to touch the floor 
when seated, and it should have a flounce outside, just under 
the arms, and long enough to fasten over the coamings, or 
hinged pieces of the side flaps, if the latter are used, the 
coat being full enough to allow them to be opened inside of 
it. To put on the coat it is rolled into a ring, slipped 
quickly over the head, the arms thrust into the sleeves, after 
which it may be adjusted at leisure. Care should be taken 
in putting it on,-as an upset while entangled in it would be 
serious. 

A seat of some kind is necessary in a canoe; it should 
be as low as possible, in order to keep the weight down, but 
still high enough to be comfortable when paddling. Ina 
boat of ilin. or more depth the crew must sit several 
inches above the bottom to paddle comfortably, and in such 
a boat a high seat allows the body to lean further to wind- 
ward; but in a shoal boat all that is necessary is a small 
cushion on the floor boards. 

The tent, clothes bag or blankets may serve as a seat, 
though it is better that all bedding should be stowed below 
deck and out of the reach of any moisture. Some canoes are 
fitted with a seat of pressed wood, such as is used for chair- 
seats, and in some cases the seat is simply a box without top 
or bottom, about 10in. square and Bin. deep, the top being 
covered with canvas, or leather straps. : 

A feature that is peculiar to the canoe, and that adds 
greatly to the comfort of the canoeist, is the backboard, 
usually a framework with two vertical strips joimed by two 
crosspieces, as shown at 0, and hung from the shifting bulk- 
head by a strap. The vertical pieces are 24in. wide and 
# thick, slightly rounded on the fore side; and are placed 24 
inches apart, thus supporting the back on either side of the 
backbone, and the crosspieces are rivetted to them. 
Sometimes a flat board, about 8x12in., is used, either 
with or without a cushion; but the frame is better. For 
paddling double, an extra beam is used across the cockpit, 
with a backboard hung on it for the forward man, or a seat 
is made of two pieces of board hinged together, one forming 
the back, being supported by a brace hinged to it (p). This 
back may be used at any point desired, being independent 
of the well and coaming, and the angle of the back may be 
changed at will, while it is easily folded and stowed away 
when not in use. : 4 

To increase the stowage room and to secure a better dispo- 
sition of weights fore and aft, hatches are sometimes cut in 
the deck, but to be really valuable, two points sare essential 
which have never yet been obtained; they must be quickly 
opened and closed, and airtight when closed. As good a 
method as any is to make a regular coaming to the opening 
in the deck # to lin. high, the hatch fitting on to this coam- 
ing with a beading projecting down, two thumb serews 
being used to secure it. Its water-tight qualities may be im- 
proved by a square of rubber cloth laid over the opening 
before putting on the hatch. This hatch is heavy and 
clumsy in appearance compared with hatches flush with the 
deck, but the latter always leak, and are never to be relied on. 

Tn some cases where it may be desirable to get at the in- 
side of the compartments occasionally for repairs, a hatch 
may be cut in the deck and covered with a piece of +in. 
mahogany decking, lin. larger each way than the opening, 
and fastened by brass screws as the deck is, the laps being 
first painted, This piece will be airtight and yet can be re- 
moved and replaced in a few minutes when repairs are 
needed. 

For transporting the canoe on shore a yoke is necessary, and 
may be made in several ways, the simplest form being that 
used for the guides’ boats in the Adirondacks, a piece of 
wood (7) hollowed to fit over the shoulders and around the 
neck, the boat, bottom up of course, resting with one gun- 
wale on each end of the yoke. Another form is a box 
(s) with no top or bottom, long enough to fit in the width of 
the well, and having two straps (¢) across one side, which 


———— eS SC 


: (Apri, 8, 1884. 


the coaming of the boat resting on 


A plan lately devised by Mr. Farnham employs a frame 
of four pieces, which also serves in place of a sliding’ bulk- 
head. hen used as a yoke, two straps are buckled across 
7. are support it on the shoulders, the boat being. inverted 

n it. 
+. : PADDLES. 

The principal point of difference between a canoe and 
other boats, is the mode of propulsion, the paddle being held 
and supported by both hands, while in boats the oar or scull 
is supported on the boat, and its motion is directed ly the 
hand, The former is the primitive mode, and even to-day 
the craft used by savage tribes are propelled almost entirely 
by paddles, the oar being used by civilized nations L 

The shape of the paddle differs greatly in various localities, 
but two forms only are known to modern canoeists, the 
single blade, shown in the center of the accompanying 
plate, and the double blade, various forms of which are 
also shown. The former, derived from the North Amcrican 
Indians, is about 5}ft. long, with a blade 5in. wide, and is 
made of maple, beech, or spruce The upper end is fash- 
ioned so as to fit easily in the hand, the fingers beingdoubled 
over the top. The single paddle is used continuously on the 
same side of the boat, and its motion, in skilled hands, is 
noiseless. ; 

The double paddle, the one best known in connection with 
modern canocs from the time of MacGregor, is derived 
directly from the Esquimau and his kayak. ‘The length 
varies with the beam of the canoe, from 7 to 9ft., the former 
size being the one first used with the small canoes, but a 
gradual increase in length has been going on for some years, 
and of Jate many canoeists have adopted 9ft. instead of 8, as — 
formerly, for boats of 30in, beam and over. Various patterns 
of paddles, as made by different builders, are shown in the 
plate, half of each paddle only being given. The blades vary 
in width from 6 to 7in., and in length from 18 to 20in. 

Paddles of over 7ft. are usually cut in two and jointed, the 
joint consisting of two brass tubes, the larger one 54in, long 
and from 1+); to 174; outside diameter; the smailer one 22in. 
long, and fitting tightly inside the former. The short piece 
is sometimes fitted with a small pin, fitting notches in the 
longer piece, so that when the paddle is set, either with both 
blades in the same plane, or if paddling against the wind, 
the blades at right angles, no further motion is permitted in 
the joint; but this plan is not advisable, as when the joint 
sticks, as it often will, it is necessary to turn the parts fo 
loosen them, which of course the pin prevents. 

Tips of sheet brass or copper are put on the ends to pre- 
serve them from injury against stones and logs in pushing 
off, Pine or spruce are the best materials for paddles of this 
style. To prevent the water dripping down on the hands, 
rubber washers are used, or two round rubber bands on each 
end, about Xin. apart, will answer the same purpose. One 
half of the double paddle is sometimes used as a single blade, 
an extra piece, similar to the head shown on the double blade, 
being inserted in the ferrule; or when sailing, one half, 
lengthened out by a handle 18in. long, may be carried on 
deck, ready for any emergency, the other half being stowed 
below. The half paddle, in this case, is held with the blade 


under a cord stretched over the forward deck, the after end 
being held by a cord looped over a Cleat abreast the body. 
For racing and light paddling, spoon blades are used, the 
general outline being the same as the straight blades, but the 
latter are stronger and better for cruising work. 


CANOE vs. SNEAKBOX,. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 


Tt would afford me much pleasure to enter into a friendly contest 
with Mr. Geo, H. Wild, and at the Newburgh meet, May 30, if we are 
favored with a breeze, I will gladly sail my canoe (15ft.x3lin.) against 
his sneakbox, proyiding she is not more than i4ft.xdff. The race to 
be 3 miles, over an equi-lateral triangle course, “Seneca,” “Bo- 
jum” and Mr. Wild, all seem to have lost sight of the point of this 
Canoe-sneakbox controversy. ‘Seneca,’ in FOREST AND STREAM, Feb. 
i4, made the assertion that “She will live in a gale of wind that the 
heaviest ballasted Pearl would not dare to face,” It was this point 
to which I took exceptions in the Feb. 28 number. Nevertheless, @5 
Lhavye said above,lam ready tosailarace against the sneakbox, 
providing she is not a sloop. CHas. A, NBIDE. 
ScHUYLERVILLE, N. Y., March 22, 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


VI, WINNIPRSEOGEE AND MERRIMAC RIVERS. 


H. N. asks how much water is likely to be found in these 
W.. er by the middle of June, and whetherthereareanydams =~ 
or rapids, al 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


197 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 


T,— OUTFIT. 


BLE canoe cruising it is best to carry a sufficient outfit to cooka 
J meal in a single box or chest, so that when one steps ashore for 
his dinner he can take in his hands all that is necessary, without con- 
tinually running baek and forth from canoe to camp-fire for mate- 
rials, andif cooking inside the canos with a canoe stoye, the cover of 
the bomcan be opened wide and rested on the nee or some support 
to form a table, and everything is then convenient at the canoeist's 
hands, The box musi be water-tight. and its size will, of course. 
yary with the room at the canoeist’s disposal, the length of the voy- 
age, proximity to points where supplies may be Oe epee ete, Ihave 
seen very £000 chests of wood (Mr. Lucien Wulsin’s is, I believe, of 
poplar), but I prefer one of japanned tin or galvanized sheet iron, as 
less likely to fracture. f ; 

Contained in the chest, in separate water-tight movable tins 
(japanned) are coffee, tea (or cocoa), sugar, flour (or meal), rice, bak- 
ing powder, pepper and salt, the latter Ewo in small spice boxes with 
two covers, the one underneath being perforated. Eggs are safest 
earried in the tins with the flour, coffee and rice; bread and bacon 
(or salt pork) are wrapped in macintosh and put near the top of the 
chest; the ymegar goes in a whisky flask (mark it to avoid mistakes), 
and eanned goods. condensed milk, ete., in the own cans. The 


alcohol stove, if of the ‘‘poeket™' variety, may go in the chest, and ' 


utensils absolutely necessary to cook a meal, such as coffee-pot, cup, 
forks, knives, spoon, handleless frying-pan, plates, etc. ; : 

The handiest thing about a cooking outfit, and the least in use, is a 
small pair of blacksmiith’s pliers. This mstrument serves as a handle 
to the frying-pan and a lifter for everything on the fire, and can be 
always kept cool, A frying-pan made of a deep tin plate is as ser- 
viceable as any, except when broiling or baking in the frying-pan is 
to be done, then a regular iron one with a cover has to be used. A 
three-quart pail is necessary for stews, and two others may be nested 
in it, one of two-quart and the other of three-pint capacity. These 
and the cups should be of granite ware, : i 

Outside of the chest are kept two tin basins (for baking bread, as 

er recipe in F'ornst AND StRHAM for March 8), a jug of molasses, and 

utter in an earthen jar having a water-tight cover, so that it may be 
enveloped in a net and sunk to the bottom of the stream. 

A really first rate canoe stove has yet to beinyented. [have never 
used the flamme forcé, but should think it would be an improvement 
on many I haye tried. among others the Rob Roy. I generally carry 
two alcohol stoves of small size, Mr. Danforth, the fluid man, as I 
learned from his agent to-day, expects to perfect something this 
summer that he considers will fill the bill, be cheap, very portable, 
and lacking in disagreeable odor. I will announce results after I 
have tried it. 

Now as to grub in general, besides what I have already mentioned, 
condensed milk is a, good thing, but condensed coffee, condensed eggs 
and condensed beef are abominations. Flour should be of the self- 
raising kind, Indian meal is very nutritious and easily made up, as 
it requires nothing to lighten it; scald it before using when it is not 
fresh, Canned tomatoes, corn, fruits, beans, soups, salmon, etc., are 
easy to prepare. and yary the monotony of regular camp fare. 

The Brunswick goods are excellent, and they make a prepared food 
called ‘Brunswick clam fritters,*’ each tin containing material for a 
dozen fritters, with ingredients and seasoning complete, which can 
be prepared for eating in five minutes. I never had much success 


~ 

with Warren's ‘evaporated vegetables for sonE though household 
cooks use them considerably, I believe. eanned goods haye 
printed directions on the cans. Dried beef, corned beef, lemons and 
sardines make good additions to the outfit, Potatoes, onions, and 
other vegetables, if possible, should be proeured en route as needed. 

The above outfit 1s only intended for a solitary cruiser like myself, 
Where there is a large camping party the utensils will have to be, of 
course, more numerous and of larger size, and an iron pot and Dutch 
oyen should be added. Nothing should be left to stand in an iron 
pot after it is cooked. or it will become discolored and have an un- 
pleasant taste. If knives become rusty, rub them with a fresh cut 
potatoe dipped in ashes. SENECA. 


CLUB NOTES.—tThe Deseronto C. C , of Deseronto, Ontario, Can., 
was organized on March 17, 1884, with F, S. Rathbun, Captain; Geo. 
Clinton, Mate; E. C. French, Purser. The Hartford CG. C. haye 
sent us a neatly printed copy of their constitution and by-laws. 

LANSINGBURG CANOES.—The shop of Mr. C. W. Smith, the 
builder of these canoes, was burned down on Thursday last. Several 
boats, with ail models, tools and stock being destroyed. 


Auswers to Correspondents. 


H. T. O,, Cleveland, O.—There is no such breed. 

C. W.C., Essex, Mass.—We expect to publish the sketch shortly, 

C. L., Leadville, Col.—Write to Mr, William Loeffler, Preston, Minn. 

W. 8B. P., New York.—Your dog is not what is called a pure 
Llewellin. 

M. M., Girard Manor, Pa.—Flushing signifies starting the bird, re- 
trieving means fetehing. 

R. B. G., Leavenworth, Kan.—Perhaps if you would advertise your 
dogs you could find a customer. 

mM. M, R., Jacksonville, Fla.—We cannot recommend any par- 
ticular builder or model. Would advise a boat 14x80 with standing 
lugs instead of leg of mutton, 

D. A. G., Newburyport, Mass.—The Gordon setter biteh Nell, im- 
ported by Mr. T, H, Scott, was said to be by Rupert (Shof—Rhona) 
and out of Rhona (Reuben—Nell). 

D. H. S., Rushford.—The correction has been made, The dram by 
which powder is measured isan arbitrary measure, not a weight. 
You should measure the powder, not weigh it. 

J. G., Metamora, Ind.—I want to get my gun rechoked. Is J. Dan- 
nenfelser, No. 9 Chambers street, reliable? Ans, Perfectly so, we 
believe, He will do it as cheaply for you as any one. 

E. C. C., Munising, Mich.—Kindly send me the address of T. S. Van 
Dyke, one of your writers on ‘*The Choice of Hunting Rifles’’; would 
like to correspond with him. Avs. T.S. Van Dyke, San Diego, Cal. 

J. A, O., Boston, Mass.—We know of no sure remedy to prevent 
your dog from running away. Perhapsif you can induce the friends 
sees visits to whip him home a few times it may have the desired 
result, 

E. M. 8., Dundee, Yates.County, N. Y.—I have just finished reading 
the article on “‘Amateur Photography’’ in the last number of your 
paper, and being desirous of purchasing an outfit. wish to profit by 
the experience of others so as to obtain the best. Please inform me 
in regard to the choice of outfits; book of instrnection, and such other 
information as I need, Ans. Would advise your getting a medium 
sized camera, say witha plate 5x8 inches. You can obtain them of 


HE. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 Broadway, or of W.T, Gregg, 77 Fulton 
street, The outfit can be sent by express. We can furnish the book 
of instructions, ‘How to Make Photographs,” paper, 50 cents; cloth, 
75 cents, 

O. B, A,, New York.—In (eo list of open seasons you say ‘'Ver- 
mont, bass, pickerel and pike, May 1 to Jan.1. Does this apply also 
to brook trout? Ans, Thé trout season in Vermont opens May 1 and 
closes Sept. 1. 

C, F. N., Syracuse, N. Y.--1. Blue beltonis a term used to describe 
a color which has a ground work of white that is ticked with black. 
2. The ‘Dogs of the British Islands,’ by Stonehenge, will give you 
information about the different breeds. We can furnish it, price 

7,50, 

% Bos Wurrr, Brooklyn, N. Y.—1. Some breeders feed puppies boiled 
milk, others give it in its natural state; we have invariably had good 
suecess with the latter method. 2, ''The dogs of the British Islands.” 
8. Both are good. 4. Yes. 5, Yes, 6. ‘The American Angler's 
Book," by Thad. Norris, price $5 50, will serve both purposes. ‘Vish- 
ing in American Waters,”’ by Genio OC. Scott, price $3.50, is also good. 

F, E. M., Jerome, A. T.—1, Will you be kind enough to tell meat 
what season of the year the speckled trout of New York and vicinity 
spawn? 2. Alsothe close season? 3. Are there any fish that spawn 
in the autumn? Ans. 1. From November to March, 2, Sept. 1 to 
Aprill. 8 There is nota month in the year but finds some species 
ot fish spawning. Most of the salmon family spawn in the autumn, 

H. B., Holton, Kansas.—1. I had a 12-bore shotgun, J. P. Clabrogh 
& Bros., but sold it, and now want to buy a 10-bore, at what distance 
shoula a 10-bore killa duck with 444drs. powder and 1go0z. shot? 2. 
Is the Parker as good a gun as there is made, is there any better for 
shooting qualities and strength? Ans, 1, You should be able to rely 
on it, if held straight, up to 45 or 50 yards. 2. Yes. 

G. W. W,, Serana, N. ¥.—1. Please inform me where the gummed 
wads deseribed by ‘Falcon,’ in Forrst AND Stream of March 6, can 
be obtained, LIshould like to try some of them, but have never seen 
any in the market accessible to me, 2. Will you give me some idea of 
what a paddle should be (single blade)? I am using an open canoe 
made by Waters, of Troy, N. ¥. It holds two persons comfortably, 
and is fitted with outriggers and oars. [ want to make a paddle for 
all-around work on Lake Cayuga. Ans. 1, The gummed wads de- 
scribed by ‘‘Falcon” are not yet on the market. When ready they 
will be advertised. 2. See Canoeing’ on another page. 


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Boston, March i4,—Massachusettg Arms Company, Chicopee Falls, 
Mass.: The Maynard rifle with its new barrels was duly received. I 
wish to thank you for the very prompt and careful manner in which 
you have filled my order. Ipurchased a Maynard ritle some years 
ago, but with a desire which, I presume, all lovers of the rifle ex- 
perience, to possess the most accurate weapon. I purchased nearly 
every variety of rifles made in this country and some of English 
make. AJl [ have ever owned I have shot at target, and most of 
them on game. Ihave endeavored to ascertain the true meriisof 
each gun, and after experimenting a number of years I am now 
fully satisfied that the one that suits me best is the old reliable May- 
nard, Jn choosing a rifle I first look for accuracy, and [ am certain 
that none surpass the Maynard. For convenience 1 have never seen 
its equal. I have carried mine in my trunk with barrels of different 
caliber on many business as well as pleasure trips. law prepared 
fortarget or game shooting, and so high an opinion have Il of this 
gun, that I have disposed of all of my other rifles, retaining only my 
Maynard.—A. C. GouLp. 


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WHOLESALE OR RETAIN. 
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Manufacturer of Sportsman's 

124 Chambers Street, New York. 

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them, Write for circulars to NIAGARA TAR- 
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only by Bed. MARTIN, Rockville, Comm 


Leggins, Cartridge 
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of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nea two gauges larger, Load 

a n , using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. 

crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The erimping tool also 
fa ‘ an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen, 

shells will be mailed Qvithout charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 

Only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, 


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MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


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- Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, 
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nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. pransye getelina ted 00k ened on gut, Lieto Ritby. ned is 
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than any other living physician. His success has simply been 
astonishing; we have heard of cases of over 20 yeurs’ stand- 
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a P.O, Address, We advise any one wishing a cure to ad- 
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tions. We are the only house either in Redditch or 
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silk worm gut, for which we received the highest 
pve. viz.: a silver medal atthe Murcia exhibi- 
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Photographers, also for Camp Meetings. Fane 


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Wall st, Ferry House. Factory, 38 South st., 
Oar. Gid Silp, N. Y. City, . 


Harrisen’s Celebrated Fish Hook. 


Registered. 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
approach ours, which areio be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 

Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO,, 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. (December, 1882.) 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
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Tunninag Grinders, Shellers, Saws, etc. 
J. D. BROWER, 22 College Piace, N.Y. 
City, Agent for Pennsylvania, N. Y.and N. J. 


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Compasses, Barometers, Etc. 


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First International Clay Pigeon Tournament 


OVER 35,000 IN PRIZES AND SWEEPSTAKES. 


LIGOWSKY CLAY PIGEON Co. 


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A Five Day Programme, to be held at Chicago, Dlinois, May 27 to 31, 1884. 
PRINCIPAL CONTEST:—INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH. ~ 
CONDITIONS: 

Team shooting (5 to a team); 10 single birds, 18yds. rise; 5 double birds, l5yds. rise 
Ligowsky Tournament Rules to govern (excepting: use of single barrel only allowed), Five 
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winning team, #750,.00 gusranteed; to the best individual score, 

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THE LIGOWSKY CLAY PIGEON CO., 


August 1885. (P. O. Box 1,292). Office, No. 68 W. Third Street. Cincinnati, Ohio. 


Antelope and Deer of America. 


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JOHN DEAN CATON, LL.D. 


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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. , 
The Cleveland Dog Show. 
Experience with Dogs. 
A Hox Hunt, 
Bponiel and Beagle Classifica- 
ion. 


N. A. K. C, Derby. 
American English Beagle Club, 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 


EDITORIAL. 
A Gun License Bill. 
A Pitiful Story. 
The Future of the Park. 
THE SPoRTSMAN Tourist, 
Spence Pitcher’s Bear. 
- Dear Shooting. 
The Frog Catcher. 
Natura History, 


Bird Notes. Rifles of To-Day. 
Some Florida Pets. Range and Gallery. 
Protecting Song Birds. The Trap. 

GAME BAG AND GuN. CANOEING. 


The Performance of Shotguns, 
Mr. Conger Explains. 
Notes from Iowa. 
A Memory. 
Game in Texas. 
St. Lawrence Game Club. 
Wolvesin Maine. . 
10, 12 or 16, 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
Camp-FIRE FLICKERINGS, 
SA AND River Fisuine, 
' Rod Making. - 
Violations of the Fish Laws. 


Allegheny ©. ©. 
The Winter Camp-Fire. 
The Galley Fire. 
Simple Dishes, 
The Log Book. 
Among the Thousand Islands, 
Canoe ys. Sneakbox. 
Air-Tight Compartments. 
Ciub Notes. 
4 Few Hints on Camping. 
YACHTING. 
The Lake Y. R. A. and Measure- 


ment. 
The Gleam’s Record. 
The Lake Yacht Racing Associ- 
ation. 
Hampshire, : Cruising in a Sloop. 
FISHOULTURE. . Log of the Watersnake, 
An Hnelish Fisheultural Farm. | ANswERs To CORRESPONDENTS, 


Length and Weight of Fly-Rods 
Fishes and Fishermen. 
Opening the Season in New 


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THE FUTURE OF THER PARK. 


da [eee Yellowstone National Park seems now in a fair 

way to be properly administered. The Improvement 
Company has been from the firsta terrible bugbear—the 
ogre which threatened, at one gulp, to swallow our National 
pleasure ground. But for the prompt and energetic action 
of Senator Vest, it might well have irretrievably damaged 
this beautiful spot. For the present this corporation appears 
to be fully occupied in striving to find a way out of its own 
difficulties. A flood of light has been thrown upon it and 
its doings, which has shown the people very clearly what 
the methods and intentions of its projectors were. Its hands 
are tied. Like the bad giants of our ehildhood’s stories, it is 
at last defeated and crushed. From this danger, which was 
the most imminent of those that threatened, the Park has 
“been saved. 

The state of things now is not very unlike what existed a 
few yearsago. There is a difference, however, At that time, 
probably not ome man in a thousand knew that such a reser- 
yation as the National Park existed. Now very few are 
ignorant of this existence, and almost every one takes an 

interest, more or less active, in the preservation from de- 
struction of this grand region, in which each citizen should 
feel that he has a personal ownership. 

The Senate has passed a good bill for the proper protec- 

_ tion and eare of the National Park, and this bill is now in 
the hands of a committee of the House of Representatives. 
Senator Vest has appeared before this committee, and has 
fully explained the character and bearings of the proposed 
law, and it seems likely that it may be favorably reported, 

But when? What prospect is there, in the war of factions 
which is ever raging in Washington, that a bill, in which 
there is neither money nor politics, a bill merely for the good 
of the whole country, will be pressed toa vote before the 
session closes? It would seem, to one unacquainted with 
the strangely cilatery methods of American legislation, that 
‘it might be an easy matter to carry so important a measure 
‘as Mr. Vest’s bill, but we are not over-sanguine that this 
w Ilbe the case, 

_ We earnestly hope that the measure will become a law, 


ee 


On many accounts it is of the highest importance that it 
should pass. Any delay in enlarging the boundaries of the 
Park will be most unfortunate. The Jonger this action is 
postponed, the more difficult it will be to bring it about. 
Lands taken up on the borders of the Park will be difficult 
to acquire, and will be held at fancy prices by those who 
have entered them for settlement. 

But what was needed even more than a law on the subject, 
kas been aecomplished. The people have been aroused to 
the importance of preserving the Park, and they have spoken 
on this subject in tones that are unmistakable, They demand 
that this Park shall be cared for, and that they and their 
children’s chiidren may have the opportunity to see here for 
all time what our country was before it had been touched by 
the hand of civilization; what its fauna and flora were 
before ruthless butchery had exterminated the one, and im- 
portations of species from foreign localities had confused the 
other, 

The number of those interested in the Park is constantly 
increasing. As more and more intelligent people visit the 
region there will be constant accessions to this number. We 
must remember that if the Park is to be guarded as we wish 
to have it, a constant effort must be made. Influence must 
be brought to bear on all our legislators; the importance of 
the Park and its proper care must be insisted upen; the sub- 
ject must be talked up with neighbors and friends, and 
they must be interested; there must be no relaxing of our 
efforts. The matter is not one which interests the professed 
politician, He does not care for it, To him there is nothing 
‘practical’ in it. He even sneers at it as a matter of senti 
ment. Let him call it so if he will. There is needof a little 
sentiment in the American life of the day. 

Whatever it is, let us continue to work for the accomplish- 
ment of the good end we have in view. <A good beginning 
has been made, but it will not do to rest now. Each of us 
has a duty to perform, And on the faithful performance of 
that duty hangs the future of the Park. 

The proposition to utilize this reservation, or a part of it, 
as a zoological garden is one which may come up a few 
years hence with better prospects than it can now have, At 
this time people are considerably exercised as to how the 
reservation is to be cared for, and they will have enough to 
do to see this work properly carried out. It will bea mistake 
to have the energies which ought to be wholly devoted to one 
matter, divided and spread out over several. If the efforts 
of all the friends of the Park are concentrated on its en- 
largement and proper care, we may hope that before long 
these efforts will be crowned with success. After we have 
aceomplished this most important work, other minor matters 
can receive attention, but. just now let us waste none of our 
energy on side shews, 


A GUN LICHNSEH BILL. 

O* Tuesday last, a bill introduced by Mr, Moore passed 

the New York Assembly. Its provisions forbid the 
shooting of quail or small birds on Staten Island by non 
residents except on payment of a license fee of $10. This 
license fee entitles the persen paying it to shoot for ome year. 
The bill appeared to meet the general approval of the house; 
and only sixteen votes were cast against it. 

We cannot but regard this measure as an excellent one. 
By far the greater number of those who go to Staten Island 
to shoet are of a class very undesirable as visitors to any 
community. The objects of their pursuit are song birds, 
and to their thirst for the sparrow’s gore they sometimes unite 
aruffianly conduct that makes them extremely unpopular with 
the Staten Islanders. Too often they tear down fences, kill 
chickens, and alarm the families of the residents. These 
are the men who make the name of sportsman odious to: the 
farmer, and they should be promptly dealt with. : 

There is another reason for limiting by every legal means 
the shooting on Staten Island. Within the last two years a 
considerable number of quail have been turned out there, 
and with reasonable protection may do well, but if they are 
exposed to the attacks of every Bowery gunner who spends: 
his Sunday in tramping over the Island with hired gun and 
borrowed dog, they certainly cannot last long. 

This gun license law has often been spoken of as some- 
thing that must finally be adopted in America if the game is 
to be saved from extinction, and it has generally been 
thought that it would be very unpopular. It will not be 
long, however, before eyen the most thoughtless of sports- 
men will have to ask himself, ‘‘What is to be done to save 
the game?” Clearly, there is no hope in the sclf-restraint of 
those who pursue it, and who are most interested in its 
preservation, although it might be imagined that this would 
be the first remedy thought of, 


A PITIFUL STORY, 


NE of the saddest features of the collapse of that miser- 
able fiasco, the National Park Improvement Company, 
is the manner in which this corporation has treated the 
mechanics in its employ. For eight months prior to March 
last these mechanics have not received one cent of pay, and 
their condition at the present time is truly deplorable. It is 
stated that they are absolutely in need of clothing, that they 
are without shoes, and thisin a climate which is almost 
Arctic in its severity, the elevation of the Mammoth Hot 
Springs above the sea level being over six thousand feet, or 
about that of Mount Washington. 

We have recently had an opportunity of perusing a letter 
written by one of the employes of this company, in which 
the sad condition of himself and his fellowsis described, 
and the story told init was very touching in its rugged 
simplicity. 

In their desperation, the men have seized the hotel and 
intend to hold it, asin some sort a security for what is due 
them. We fear that this will scarcely help them much, 
though they may be able to give the Improvement Com- 
pany so much trouble that they will pay them off to get rid 
of them, Wedo not know enough of Territorial law to 
recommend a course to these unfortunate men, butin older 
countries they could file a mechanic’s lien on this ridiculous 


summer hotel, which would fully protect their rights. Can- 
not this be done in the present case? 
We have a very sincere sympathy for these poor men. It 


would be hard to find a more striking illustratien of the cant 
saying that corporations are soulless than is the present case. 


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Iv 18 BELIEVED that ‘‘Woodcraft” will be ready for de- 
liverv to an anxious public by the first of next week at latest. 
The sheets are now running through the press, and before 
the first reader of. Formest AND STREAM sees these lines a lot 
of them will be delivered to the binder. There have been 
some delays in certain parts of the manufacture of the book, 
which have kept the volume back a little; but in a very few 
days all the orders will be filled. The advance demand for 
‘the book has already been so large that we have been 
obliged to increase our order for the original edition one- 
half, and if the orders continue to come in at the same rate 
we shall have to double it. Every man who intends to spend 
a little time in the woods this summer or fall, will want a 
copy of ‘‘Woodcraft,” and as the number who annually 
spend their vacations in camp is very large, we anticipate for 
the book a sale quite beyond that of any book of the kind 
which has ever been published. In our advertising columns 
will be found some information about the work. 


THE NUMBER OF DOGS entered in the April number of 
the American Kennel Register is 105, making the whole num- 
ber entered in the first thirteen issues of the monthly, 1,115. 
Certainly this is a remarkable showing, and the fact indi- 
cates far better than any long-winded argument could, just 
how much need there was of such a register. Semething 
Was required which should be reliable, prompt and up to 
the times, for it does a man little good to register his dog 
and not haye the registry number published until after the 
animal is dead. The success of the Register is a matter for 
congratulation to all dog breeders. 


THE ACCOUNT given in another column of a Norwalk man 
who killed ata single shot 27 or 28 broadbills, or 60 old 
squaws, will startle some of our readers. Before condemn- 
ing the act let each man examine himself and discover 
whether he would have refused to take such a shot himself, 
had the opportunity offered. He that is without sin among 
us let him cast the first stone. At the same time, we cannot 
help thinking that if the shooter had used a hundred shots to 
kill his fifty birds he would have had a great deal more fu 
out of his shooting. A 


THE PRESSURE upon our space in all departments, but 
particularly, for the last few weeks, in our kennel columns, 
obliges us to hold overa great number of most interesting 
articles on various topics, We hope that our contributors 
will understand that their articles are only delayed through 
circumstances quite beyond our control. 


THE PRESENT SEASON has been remarkable for the num- 
ber and excellence of the dog shows which have taken place, 
Three only remain to be held, St. Louis, New York and 
Chicago, the latter some time late in May or early in June. 


202 


Che Sportsman Conrist. 


SPENCE PITCHER’S BEAR, 


b be was away back in the days of flintlocks. At that time 
the northern border of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua 
counties was mostly a wilderness, with only here and there 
small openings, which were made in the heavy timbered 
forest by the early pioneer settlers. This section of country 
is somewhat rough and broken, although not very moun- 
tainous, and was at that early day as well, or perhaps better, 

~stocked with game than any other portion of the State. 
Here were wolves, wildcats, foxes, raccoons, bears and deer; 
also marten, which were found in great numbers all through 
the couthern part of the State, as well asin Pennsylyania, 
and were eagerly hunted and trapped for their skins, which 
were always a ready sale, and were among the most choice 
specimens of fine furs that were then being collected in the 
Northern and Middle States. Those beautiful little animals 
have become nearly extinct. Perhaps a few may yet be 
found in the northeastern part of New York or in Northern 
Michigan. There was one other species of game that de- 
serves mention, This was the panther; but it soon fled 
beyond the pale of civilization. It was rarely seen and more 
rarely caught, In every new settlement there were plenty 
of imaginative individuals who were ever hearing panther 
screams, and who verily believed that panthers never trav- 
eled through the forest without making night hideous with 
terrific yells and screeching. If there had been no owls 
there would= have been aless number of panthers heard 
from, 1 have tramped and camped in the woods more or 
less for more than fifty years, and 1 must confess that my 
ears were neyer greeted with a single yell or scream from a 
panther. ’ / 

The first settlers of this region were men who had energy 
and perseverance, some of whom immigrated from Rhode 
Island, and others from the Mohawk Valley. There were 
but few skilled hunters among them, and their guns were of 
the coarsest kind—mostly of the old musket pattern, Deer 
were plenty, however, and they could generally obtain a 
supply of venison when other supplies failed. It was some- 
times obtained by crust-hunting in the month of February 
or March, when any unprincipled wretch could succeed in 
killing deer. ; , ; 

J always noticed that the most indefatigable crust-hunters 
were those thut never used a gun, but with knife and axe 
followed up the dogs until the deer was pulled down. I 
have been disgusted at the sight of the many fresh (and 
worthless) deer skins which I have seen hanging around 
some of the settlers’ cabins in the months of February and 
March. 

Bears were frequently caught in traps or log pens, and 
some were followed up with dogs and shot. I remember of 
one being caught’in a somewhat singular manner, which I 
believe never had a precedent. 

Spencer Pitcher was a noted hunter, who came with the 
first settlers, and was kuown far and near only by the name 
Spence. He was five feet eight inches high and weighed 
170 pounds; his speed and endurance were remarkable, and 
perbaps he seldom, if ever, found his equal, Now the ma- 
jority of the inhabitants worked most of the time and hunted 
occasionally, but Spence hunted most of the time and worked 
occasionally. He was hunting deer one rainy day about the 
first of November, when he discovered a bear, but his gun 
missed fire. Ordinarily his flintlock was sure-fire, but the 
rain had wet the charge, and by the time he found that bis 
gun had become useless the bear had begun to make off, 
Now a bear when started will almost invariably run up hill; 
where he has a decided advantage over his pursuer if he has 
the chance; but as they were then on the summit of a hill, 
there was no other course open but down hill, So the bear 
started on a full rum, and Spence was close a this heels. 
There was some three inches. of snow, and the continued 
rain had made it slippery and slushy, and some fallen tim- 
ber lay in the way, but the bear made good time and Spence 
kept well up in the rear. At every attempt which he made to 
crush in the bear’s cranium with the muzzle end of his rifle, 
it would just seem to slip about half a length ahead, and 
every time he struck it lessened his own speed, so that he 
had to put in his best to catch up again. 

They soon struck level land where the woods were. clear 
oflogs and brush. Here they both settled down into a dead 
run, The bear was rather Jean and in good trim for running, 
and Spence for once had met his match, and so had the 
bear. The flat extended fora half mile, the course leading 
toward another hill, at the foot of which runs a small brgok. 
Spence knew very well that when the bear reached the foot 
of the hill he would soon be left far in the rear, and what he 
was going to do toward capturing the bear he probably did 
not- know himself, unless he could provoke the bear to turn 
upon him, in which case we would suppose that the chances 
would have been more than two to one against him. The 
small stream before mentioned had a bank five or six feet 
high on one side, while the opposite side was flat and coy- 
ered with sand and gravel. Up to this bank they came at a 
2:40 gait; the bear plunged down the bank into the water, 
while Spence, dropping his gun, leaped over the bear, land- 
ing on the gravel some ten feet beyond. Here he snatched 
up a round stone which happened to lie within his reach, 
and whirling around, threw it at the bear’s head, which was 
not more than six feet distant, The stone struck the end of 
his nose, probably the most vulnerable part of the animal, 
when the bearsuddenly turned around, dropped his head 
between his forelegs, and as quick as thought Spence grabbed 
bim by the long wooly hair on each flank, which caused a 
sudden flank movement that brought them both into the mid- 
dle of the stream, here about two feet deep. Bruin was 
caught at a disadvantage, he had a heavy incumbrance tug- 
ging at his hindquarters. He iried hard to turn on his cap- 
tor, he tried to wring out and tried to kick out, but it was no 
go, Spence hung to him with the tenacity of a forty-pound 
steel trap. : F 

His success depended wholly on his active muscular power, 
in keeping the bear’s rear end well raised up, which brought 
his head under water. Then by a mighty eifort he succeeded 
in forcing his head under the edge of the opposite bank, 
where he held on (as he said) until the bear kicked his last 
kick. He always asserted that if they had crossed the stream 
at any other place, that he would have been unable to haye 

overleaped the bear, and if that round stone had not laid pre- 
cisely where it did lay, he could not have stopped him. — 
Spence lived to hunt with pill-percussion priming, also 
until percussion caps were , and died when about sixty 
years of age, long before breechloaders came into use, 
The region, before mentioned is now mostly covered swith 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


valuable farms, and wonderfully adapted to dairy and stock 
raising, and is occupied by the third and fourth generation, 
who know about as much concerning the first settlers as 
they do about the Esquimaux or New Zealanders: Now the 
thrifty farmer gathers his hay and grain into barns, which 
groan under the burden of plenty, and thinks not, nor knows 
not, of the privations, toils and hardships endured by the 
pioneers who first cleared the way and virtually laid the 
foundation to the present thrift and prosperity of the coun- 
try. tis not a question with the farmer of to-day whether 
he will be able to eke out his scanty supplies until next 
potato harvest, but rather a question whether he will be 
able to clear as much clean cash from his farm produce as 
his next neighbor, ANTLER, 
GRANDVIEW, Tenn., March 4, 1884. 


DEAR SHOOTING. 


Se years ago there lived in Illinois two families 
by the names of Crickley and Drake. There had al- 
ways been a fierce rivalry between the two families, both in 
field and farm pursuits, which rivalry was further intensified 
when one’ afternoon Colonel Crickley, having followed a 
wounded buck for several hours, at last came up with him, 
and found old Drake and his sons cutting him up. This 
incident added fuel to the fire, and from that time there was 
nothing the two families did not do to annoy each other. 
They shot each other’s ducks in the river, purposely mis- 
taking them for wild oues, and then by way of retaliation, 
commenced killing off each other’s pigs and calves, 

One evening Mr, Drake, the elder, was returning home 
with his ‘‘pocket full of rocks” from Chicago, whither he 
had been to dispose of a load of grain, Sam Marston was 
with him ou the wagon, and as they approached the grove 
which intervened between them and Colonel Crickley’s 
house, he observed to his companion: 

“What a beautiful mark Colonel Crickley’s old Roan is, 
over yonder!” 

‘Hang it!” muttered old Drake, “‘so it is.” 

The horse was standing under some trees about twelve 
rods from the road. Involuntarily Drake stopped his team. 
He glanced furtively around, then witha queer smile the 
old benter took up his rifle from the bottom of his wagon, 
and raising it to his shoulder, drew a sight on the Colonel’s 
horse. 

‘Beautiful!’ muttered Drake, lowering his rifle with the 
air of a man resisting a powerful temptation; ‘‘I could drop 
old Roan so easy.” 

“Shoot!’’ suggested Sam Marston, who loyed fun in any 
shape. 

ON 0, no; ’twouldn’t do,” said the old hunter, glancing 
cautiously around him. 

“T won’t tell,” said Sam. 

‘Wal, I won’t shoot this time, anyway, tell or no tell. The 
horse is too nigh. If he was fifty rods off, instead of twelve, 
so there’d be a bare possibility of mistaking him for a deer, 
I’d let fly. As it is, ’'d give the Colonel five dollars for a 
shot.” 

At that moment the Colonel himself stepped from behind 
a big oak, not half a dozen paces distant, and stood before 
Mr. Drake. 

‘‘Well, why don’t you shoot?” 

The old man stammered in some confusion, ‘“That you, 
Colonel? I—I was tempted to, I declare! And, as I said, 
Pil give you a ‘V’ for one pull,” 

“Say an ‘X’ and it’s a bargain.” 

Drake felt of his rifle, and Jooked at old Roan. 

“How much is the horse wuth?” he muttered in Sam’s 
ear. 

“About fifty.” 

‘Gad, Colonel, I'll doit. Here’s your ‘X,’” 

The Colonel pocketed the money, muttering, ‘‘Hanged if T 
thought you'd take me up.” 

With high glee the old hunter put a fresh cap on his rifle, 
stood up in his wagon, and drew-a close sight on old Roan. 
Sam Marston chuckled. The Colonel put his hand before 
his face and chuckled, too. 

Crack went the rifle. The hunter tore out a horrid oath, 
which I will not repeat. Sam was astonished. The Colonel 
laughed. Old Roan never stirred. 

Drake stared at his rifle with a face as black as Othello’s. 

“What's the matter with you, hey? Fus’ time you ever 
served me quite such a trick, I swan.” 

And Drake loaded the piece with great wrath and indig- 
nation. 

“People say you've lost your knack o’ shooting,” observed 
the Colonel, in a tone of cutting satire. 

“Who said so? It’s a lie!” thundered Drake. 
shoot—” 

‘A korse at ten rods, ha, ha!” 

Drake was livid. 

“Look here, Colonel, I can’t stand that,” he began. 

‘Neyer mind, the horse can,” sneered the Colonel; “I'll 
risk you.” : 

Grinding his teeth, Drake produced another ten-dollar bill. 

“Here,” he growled, ‘I am bound to have another shot, 
anyway.” . 

“Crack away,’’ cried the Colonel, pocketing the note. 

Drake did crack away—with deadly aim, too—but the 
horse did not mind the bullet in the least. To the rage and 
‘unutterable astonishment of ithe hunter, old Roan looked him 
right in the face, as if he rather liked the fun. 

Drake,” cried Sam, ‘‘you’re drunk! A horse at a dozen 
rods, oh, my eye!” 

“Just you shut your mouth or I'll shoot you,” thundered 
the excited Drake. ‘‘The bullet was hollow, ’ll swear. The 
man lies who says I can’t shoot! Last week I cut off a goose’s 
head at fifty rods, and kin dew it agin. By the Lord Harry, 
Colonel, you can laugh, but I'll bet now, thirty dollars, I can 
bring down old Roan at one shot.” 

The wager was readily accepted. The stakes were placed 
in Sam’s hands, Elated with the idea of winning back his 
two tens, and making an ‘*X” into the bargain, Drake care- 
fully selected a perfect ball, and even buckskin patch, and 
beaded his rifle. It was now nearly dark, but the old hunter 
boasted of being able to shoot a bat on the wing “ch star- 
light, and without hesitation drew a clear sight on old Roan’s 
head, 

A minute later, Drake was driving through the grove, the 
most enraged, the most desperate of mer, His rifle, inno- 
cent victim of his ire, lay with broken stock on the bottom 
of his wagon. Sam Marston was teo frightened to laugh. 
Meanwhile, the gratified Colonel was rolling on the ground 
convulsed with mirth, and old Roan was standing undis- 
turbed under the trees, 

When Drake reached home, his two sons discovering his 
ill humor, and the mutilated condition of the rifle stock, 


“T can 


SS 


hastened to arouse his spirits with a piece of news, which 
they were sure would make him dance for joy, 

“Clear away,” growled the angry old man. “I don’t 
want to hear any news; get zway, or I shall knock one of 
you down.” 

‘But, father, it’s such a trick,” 

“Blast you and your tricks.” 

age oat the Colonel,” 

_ ‘On the Colonel?” cried the old man, beginning to 
ee ge “Gad, if you’ve played the Colonel a trick, lew 
ear it. 
, “Well, father, Jed and I, this afternoon, went out for 

eer— 

“Hang the deer, come to the trick.” 

“Couldn't find any deer, but thought we must shoot some- 
ee so Jed banged away at the Colonel’s Roan, shot him 

eal a 

“Shot old Roan!” thundered the hunter. “By the Lor 
Harry, Jed, did you shoot the Colonel’s horse?” i are 

“J didn’t do anything else,” , 

‘Devil, devil!” groaned the hunter, 

“And then,” pursued Jed, confident the joke part of the 
story would please his father, ‘Jim and I propped the horse 
up, and tied his head back with a cora, and left him stand- 
ing under the trees exactly as if he was alive. Ha! ha! 
pia Colonel going to catch him. Ho! ho! ho! wasn’t it 
a joke?” 

Old Drake’s head fell upon his breast. He felt of his 
empty pocket-book, and looked at his broken rifle. Then in 
a rueful tone, he whispered to the boys: 

“It is a joke, but if you ever tell of it, or if you do, Sam 
Marston, V’ll skin you alive, By Lord Harry, boys, I’ve 
Ape shooting at that dead herse half an hour at ten dollars 
a shot.” . 

At that moment Sam fell into » gutter. Jed dragged 
him out insensible. Sam had laughed himself almost. to 
death, Hah Jel 


THE FROG CATCHER, 


Nee Jean Beghin was born in Belgium and learned 
the business of catchine frogs in the Netherland 
marshes, but having an ambition above the capture of 
batrachians had enlisted in the Belgian army. But the light 
pay and lighter rations of the Leopolds tempted little Jean 
to desert and tender his services to Napoleon III., not as a 
purveyor of grenouilles for the imperial table, but to become 
an imitator of Cortez in the conquest of Mexico. But the 
conquest of Mexico has wrecked the hopes of many a Johnny 
Crapeau, and our little Jean deserted from the French army 
in Mexico and sought the liberty of the Stars and Stripes. 
Such are the vicissitudes of military life. Nothing succeeds 
but success. Now, and for the tast four years, we find little 
Jean at Arivaca, Pima county, in the southwestern part of 
Arizona, catching frogs. 

The valley is about six miles long by three miles wide, and 
the czenega contains enough frogs to faed the French nation. 
Little Jean wears India rubber boots, and has made nets, 
held open by old barrel hoops, which he spreads for the lively 
frogs to jump into for some veretables and ihe sight of red 
flannel, when up goes the sweep, and little Jean is rewarded 
with six or ten dozen frogs per net. He then empties the 
net into a bag, and the bag into barrels, where there is some 
water and vegetable matter; but the barrel is so high that 
the frogs cannot jump out. The frog is a great jumper, and 
Jean has some trained frogs here which can jump from 
seven to ten fect. He will wager mouey against any jump- 
ing frogs this side of Calaveras county, California. 

Jean thinks the frogs breed twice or more a year from 
eggs deposited in the sac of the female, and estimates the 
nutaiber of each spawn at from fifty toa hundred. As frogs 
have an amazing longevity there is no danger of the supply 
being reduced, and the increasing taste for frog suppers is 
bringing this batrachian into large demand. I can remem- 
ber when frogs were scarcely considered proper food in 
America, when the country was overflowing with an abund- 
ance of meat quite as delicate as chicken. The French and 
Chinese have far outstripped us in searching out the bounties 
of nature for human food. f 

But to return to the frog catcher who, instead of wearing 
the decoration of the legion @honneur and a home in les 
Invalides rust earn his living by chasing the lively frog, and 
very poor pay he gets for it, too, Only 50 cents a dozen on 
the place and 60 cents per dozen in Tueson, sixty miles 
distant. Jean’s frogs go about four or five to the pound, and 
are esteemed the best in Arizona, as the desert is not famous 
for producing frogs, A ”" 

I have endeavored to stimulate Jean’s ambition by advising 
him to go into the canning business, by canning live frogs in 
the summer time for a winter market, in fact, have told him 
that frogs would live a thousand years in a hermetically 
sealed can, and then come out jumping. That may bea lie, 
but I did not originate the story. * 

By looking at the “Resources of California,” by Hittel, 
page 886, I find the consumption of frogs in San Francisco 
amounts to 4,000 dozen at $8 per dozen, with a rapidly in- 
creasing demand, lf our people would learn to utilize the 
bounties of nature, there wculd be no hungry people in 
America. 

T have been on this place twenty-five years ago “out of 
meat,” and Apaches so bad around that we could not go for 
game; without sense enough to catch the abundant supply 
of frogs and feast like Lucullus. I prefer them 7 la Bordelaise 
with red wine. : q 

1 forgot to mention that Jean has a team of frogs bridled 
and harnessed, and when he hitches them up for a drive the 
bucking beats any bronco team Lever saw crossing the plains. 

The temperature here to-day is 70°, Scenery unsurpassed 
in Italy, Switzerland, or even the fancied valley of Rasselas 
—not a flake of snow for several years. Plenty of arable 
land; more grass than millions of cattle can eat, and mines 
everywhere yielding paying ore; but it is a long ways from 
New York. CHARLES D, Postow. 

ARTVAGA, Arizona, March 1, 1884, 


Taare Quatn.—I have a quail (Ortya virgintanus), male, 
It ie seh Dec. 20, 1882. 1 keep it in a cage three feet 
long by two feet wide. He is as tame and contented as he can 
he. The remarkable point about this quail is that, after 
moulting, his whole throat and subscilary line came out coal 
black, and his entire plumage isdarker. To all appearance 
he is strong and healthy. Do they change their plumage — 
this way in captivity? I feed him on wheat shorts, witha 


i d, and keep tufts of grass in the cage, and wet 
little canary seed, an p er iy Oi on 
1 would 
M 

fm 


it down every aay eee 4s ig ae 
f green grass, 1 wish 1 c et a female, i 
and breed them,—-G, W, L, (Gildersleeve, Conn., March 81), 


“Apri 10, 1884.] 


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Aatuyal History. 


BIRD NOTES, 


A SOLITARY robin, the only one noticed this season, 
: appeared here on the 19th instant, and, after hopping 
about in a subdued kind of way for a few hours, suddenly 
rose up and disappeared, going south, and has not been seen 
since. Query—Did that Robin forecast the fearful snow- 
storm which commenced to rage here on the day following 
its departure southward? The weather for two weeks pre- 
ceding the 20th inst. was warm and pleasant. Ducks and 
geese appeared during this time in moderate numbers and 
proceeded to occupy the open water places in the lakes and 
streams, but the snowstorm referred to, which continued 
fortwo days and nights, sent them whirling back toward 
the South. No jack snipe yet. ANDY PAINTER, 
Vor Russett, Cheyenne, Wy., March 26, 1854, 


The cold winter North sent to Florida great mumbers of 
woodcock, to the joy of the shooters. Quail have been quite 
numerous, and the gardeners now complain that they take 
more strawberries than the robins North. The Everglade 
kite, Rosirhamus sociabilis plumbeus, Ridg., has been making 
us a visit near Jacksonville this winter. Three are now in 
the taxidermist’s hands, taken near here. 

Gro, A. BOARDMAN. 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, March 30. 


We are once more gladdened by the songs of the robins 
and bluebirds. They have been with us for nearly two 
weeks, Crows and redwinged blackbirds are also here, 
Several flocks of wild geese have passed here, going north, 
Ruffed grouse have wintered well here, and the prospect for 
next fall’s shooting is very good. A. I. J, 

CARLETON, Vt., March 30, 


Spring has fairly opened with us here, Many of the 
migratory birds are now on the wing. During the past week 
or two Jarge flocks of white-bellicd swallows (Tachycineta 
bicolor) and purple martins (Progne subis) have arrived. The 
purple martins breed here in holes in the tops of decayed 
trees. ‘The woodpeckers seem to be out in full force, and 
the cry of our northern species (Colaptes wuratus) is often 
heard. Redwing blackbirds (Ageleus pheniceus), meadow 
larks (Sturnella magna) and bluebirds (Sialia statis) are be- 
coming more plenty every day. I have not seen a robin for 
several weeks. The weather is very delightful here now, 
All the wild flowers arein bloom, and the birds’ tuneful 
yoicés are heard from morn to night, J. 0. C, 

CHARLOTTE HARBOR, Fla., March 27. 


Mr. Peter Johnson, who lives about nine miles from here, 
yesterday morning shot a golden eagle (Aguila chrysaetus), 
length, 3ft, lin., extent, 7ft. lin. Liketheone ‘J. 8, P.,” of 
Lockport, reports, this one had its legs and feet full of por- 
eupine quills. It was very poor, having a hard winter of it 
undoubtedly. The Grand Army of the Republic will haye 
me mount it for their hall, The first appearance of the 
birds was on March 24, when robins, bluebirds, chipping 
sparrows and blackbirds put in an appearance, OC. F. C. 

WAUvBACA, Wis., March 26. 


I have noticed a habit in the woodcock for several years 
past that I have never seen reported in your paper. They 
begin to lay as soon as the snow is off in March, and while 
the female is sitting, the male, just at dusk, will begin to rise 

with a chippering noise and continuing to rise in spiral 
-circles out of sight, then it will descend in a straight down 
plunge, with a short, sharp whistle, and after alighting on 
«the ground it makes a noise very much like the common 
.nigpt hawk. Haye other observers noticed it? Saw white- 
_ breasted swallow Mareh 21, robins and blackbirds March 
10; :-bluebirds have been with us all winter. There are 
thousands of water fowl in Narragansett Bay, and off Point 
. Judith the gunners are killing great numbers of them. 
Water Fown. 

Sour Kiyesron, R. 1, April 2. 

[Water Fowl” is notified that this habit of the woodcock 
| has been known for many years, and commented on by all 
~writers on the species. ] 

“What kind of a bird is that?” said —— this morning, 
~pointing at the same time toward a brown-colored bird then 

clinging to the side of a small tree. 

“That is a scansorial bird of the genus Picus,” answered 
the man with spectacles. 

“QO, yes, so it is, 1 see now; but really, I thought at first 
it was a woodpecker.” The subscriber moved on. 

Chickadees, woodpeckers and killdeers are here, the two 
latter varieties just arrived, and first noticed about 8 o’clock 
A.M, A warm wind from the south, well laden with mois- 
ture, has prevailed for the past twenty-four hours until 
about an hour since, when it commenced snowing, the wind 
changing tothe north, The snow is now two inches deep 
and still falling. Anpy PAINTER, 

Torr Russeuu, Wyoming, March 31. 


The woodcock were just a week later in appearing near 
my home in New Jersey this year. Last year L heard and 
saw the first ones March 14. On the 28d, our old friends 
the phoebe birds, were examining their former nesting place 
dyer the dining-room window, under the piazza. 

GHO. SHEPARD PAGE. 

Stanuey, Morris County, N. J., April 2. 


March 1, sawa flock of black snow buntings; 3d, first 
chipping sparrow; 4th, shore larks and snowbirds abundant; 
6th, first bluebirds; 7th, saw a song sparrow; 8th, this morn- 
ing I observed snowbirds and shore larks flying north, and 
at night they were flying south in large flocks. I observed 
this for four days; 12th and 13th, song sparrows and blue- 

birds plenty; 15th, saw first robin; 19th, saw a fine cock 
ouse or partridge budding in an apple tree, I watched him 
or several moments and he did not seem in the ieast afraid; 
20th, saw first chipmunk or ground squirrel. It was a gala 
day for the birds on the 20th, cedar birds, bluejays, blue- 
birds, robins, song sparrows, purple srackles and cow bunt- 
Ings were abundant everywhere. 2ist, saw 2 meadow lark 
near Syracuse, N, Y,, and have heard of their being quite 
plenty on the meadows by the Onondaga Creek; 22d, hawks 
of two species have put in an appearance to-day, the black 
hawk and the redtail hawk; 23, a phebe bird took a seat 
in a hickory tree, where she rocked back and forth with 
great gravity and had considerable to say about “phcebe, 


———— 


poor pheebe;” 27th, I saw a pair of kildeer plover on a wheat 

field, and also saw a spotted sandpiper, flying over; 29th, 

saw two white-bellied swallows to-day, Severe cold 

weather up to April 1. G, A. EK, 
OnonvaGca Hinn, N. ¥. 


SOME FLORIDA PETS. 


WAS much interested with “How do They Live,” in 

i Forest AND STREAM Of Feb, 7. My heart goes out to 
the writer, and | warm toward him, or any man who dares 
express his kindly feeling for our little friends of the woods. 

Down here in Florida we haye lots of outdoor pets, and 
although there is no severe cold weather here, yet it is cool 
enough in a norther to make them seek for shelter. We 
have three little fellows in particular, who often come to the 
house for shelter and protection, they are about the size of a 
wren and of dusky brown color. 

The first. we noticed them was one day when it was blow- 
ing furiously, and there was a driving rain. They came 
under the veranda, taking refuge under an old rubber blanket, 
which hung over a chair. There they remained all night, 
and in the morning, after a hearty breakfast of crumbs, they 
merrily lew away, 

The next cold rain they came again, and failing to find any 
shelter on the veranda, they came to the window. This being 
opened they entered without any hesitation and remained all 
night as before. They haye now become so tame, they will 
come at our call, and will hap about within three feet of us 
to get the crumbs we throw them. 

Not long since, while eating breakfast, a fluttering was 
heard, and in at the open door came one of our little friends, 
closely tollowed by a small hawk. The hawk finding his 
prey was beyond his reach for the present, retreated in good 
order to a tree near by, where he sat with great gravity until 
a charge of shot knocked him over. Iset him upand he now 
sits perched on my inkstand watching me write. 

We have two more pets which were very cunning for 
a while, but they are becoming entirely too familiar. On 
one side of the house and quite near it, stands a large live oak, 
Last fall when the acorns were full-grown, we noticed two 
crows coming every day for acorns. When they found they 
were not molested they became perfectly fearless, and would 
pick and shell the acorns while we sat on the veranda watch- 
ing them, occasionally throwing them bits of bread, meat, 
etc., until now they will come on the veranda, stalk about 
with great dignity, come into the house, and if no strangers 
are here, will go on the table, helping themselves to what- 
ever they can get. A crow will steal anything he can carry, 
whether it be food or not. As I said before, they are becom- 
ing too familiar, I don’t like to kill them, for I have coaxed 
them to be friends, but something must be done, as they will 
turn us out of house and home. 

We have mocking birds here which will hardly get out of 
our way they are so tame. Two black squirrels live in a 
tree near the house, and are so fearless that they are per- 
fectly at ease within ten feet of us, and will sit and munch a 
nut with all the coolness imaginable. 

This is a new place and yery littie shooting is done here. 
I expect, when the place gets well settled, the birds will be 
moreshy. I dread the day when it will be so, for I like to 
feel that friendship and confidence is the rule rather than the 
exception, And 1 want to say to ‘“Nessmuk,” that although 
I have never seen him and don’t even know his name, I like 
him. I should like to meet himin the woods or on some 
lake. I couldn’t believe it was ‘‘Nessmuk” if I met him in 
town or city. We may meet some time and swap hints on 
cruising. Quien sabe. Braye *‘Nessmuk;’ may you and 
the Sairy find blue water, pleasant skies and easy carries. 

lam getting ready for a cruise to the southward. Mean 
to spend four weeks in Charlotte Harbor and then go to 
Thousand Islands, perhaps further. Will write you what 
we see, find, feel and think about; until then, good-bye. 

Tarpon SPRINGS, Fla. TARPON. 


PROTECTING SONG BIRDS. 


AGREE with Mr, Tingley and “F. G, 8.” in your issues 

ot March 13 and 20, especially “‘F, G. 8.” in his last re- 
marks about how few naturalists and taxidermists are to be 
found in the various towns and cities, The city in which I 
live at the North is quite a large one, and I know of but two 
professional taxidertmists in the city, and one of these two 
does not work at his occupation. These taxidermists col- 
lect birds when migrating, but do not, I am sure, collect 
such birds as breed around our homes in summer, I do 
know of boys and men that shoot robins and our other song 
birds in the summer just for the mere fun of having some 
bird to kill. These are the ones that ought to be stopped. 
There are several young ornithologists in my city, and 
although their collections are not laree or mounted in first- 
class manner, they show an appreciation and interest in their 
work. There is one more thing I should like to inquire into. 
In your issue of March 20, in an artitle entitled ‘‘Protecting 
Song Birds,” your correspondent, ‘‘X.,” gives the reply of a 
member of the Legislature to a taxidermist, which is as fol- 
lows: ‘‘Well, perhaps you are right; but would you expect 
a traveler sent out to a far country to study the habits of the 
people to take a shotgun with him and kill and stuff the 
skins of all the people he could find? He would come back 
with a full knowlege:of the habits and customs of the 
people, wouldn't he?” 

Now if a traveler was sent out to afar country to study 
the habits of the people, would he not be among them nearly 
all of the time, and if he should at any moment want to find 
out anything about them, could he not do so at once? Can 
we do this with the birds? Are there not many species that 
are seen only when migrating, and then only for a brief 
time? Only men that have plenty of money can follow 
them thousands of miles from their breeding place to their 
winter home. Are there not- many species which, if they 
could be caught, would not live in a cage but a very short 
time? How, then, can these birds be studied without making 
up their skins? Did not Audubon collect and make up 
many bird skins? J, C. Canoon, 

CHARLOTTE HARBOR, Fla,, March 27, 


Editor Fovest and Stream: 

Ihave been much interested in several communications 
and in other articles, which huve appeared in the columns 
of the ForEsT AND STREAM referring tothe needless destruc- 
tion of our singing and forest birds. I would like to call 
attention to something which seems to me to be outrageous 
and an enterprise deserving the most unqualified condem- 
nation, Irefer to the infamous, wholesale traffic in bird 
eggs, carried on by certain persons in this and other States. 
I have in my possession samples of circulars which are 


doubtless scattered broadcast over the land and come into 
the hands of hundreds of boys, thus stimulating them to 
engage in the work of destroying our birds in the most 
effective manner. For it is unnecessary to add that more 
birds can be destroyed at the breeding season with less labor, 
than at any other time. A nest is seldom robbed, but its 
entire contents are taken or injured and in many cases, to 
conclude the outrage, the parent birds are shot. And for 
what, pray! Ina very great majority of causes, as is well 
known, merely to satisfy the passing fancy of an idle boy, 
or at most, an irresponsible and unscientific collector of 
curiosities, And I do not blame the boys, either, a fraction 
as much as those who encourage them in such a pursuit, in- 
stead of endeavoring to teach that birds should be guarded 
and protected by eyerybody. Listen to this from one of the 
circulars referred to above: 


“In order to reduce an immense stock of birds’ eges, the following’ 
low prices will hold good until April 15, 1884. * * * We make a spe- 
cially of oological specimens. Over 10,000 egesin stock. Lists for 
stamp. Collectors haying * * * eggs forsale or exchange at low 
rates, in large or small quantities, will please send their lists and 
prices. 


Then follows a long list of birds and the prices of their re- 
spective eggs. They are all there, and apparently can be 
supplied by the wholesale. Here are some: 


Gwin waves nists et 3a fo55 $0 02 Baltimore oriole,..-..... 0 05 
Blucbird. 2 .ed1.00% cows « O08 Meadow Jark.......,..... 06 
Song sparrow..... 2... OR WPewee..., ...:... ast uwss OB 
Rose-breasted grosbeak,. 20 Htc., ete. 


Now, Mr. Editor, this seems to me a nefarious business, 
The idea of trafficking, buying and selling, and getting gain 
out of the eggs of our little feathered friends, who never do 
us aught but good, and deserve the most jealous protection! 

Is it not contrary to law? Cannot it be suppressed? 

I do not intend to say aught against the collection of birds 
and eggs for scientific purposes by duly authorized and re 
sponsible persons. That is a very different matter from en- 
gaging in bird-nesting as a business, and thus, doubtless, 
employing directly and indirectly hundreds of skilled labor- 
ers, as well a8 many an amateur and bungling hand, in this 
atrocious business, Wa: 

Rye, N. Y. 


SHrikes Carco Mick wHen THRown in THE ArR.—A 
few days since I was told by an intelligent young farmer, 
who is attending the Union sehool in this city, that while 
drawing in cornstalks in November he noticed some birds 
following the wagon, catching the mice that were disturbed 
when the stooks were removed. So, picking up a mouse, he 
threw it in the air and the birds would catch it before it 
reached the ground, when it would fly to the fence, and, 
after killing the mouse, would return for more, and did so a 
number of times, ‘I'he young man did not know the name of 
the bird, but stated that they breed on the farm every season, 
and a few remain through the winter. I told him that the 
bird was the sbrike, or ‘butcher bird,” but did not know the 
same bird that breeds here remained through the winter, 
although we often have shrikes here all winter. I supposed 
they were the great northern (Collurio borealis), and that the 
loggerhead (0, ludovictana) were the only ones that breed 
here. I have found the nest containing eggs on the 24th of 
April. Recently the young man was looking at my son’s 
collection of birds, and I asked him if he saw any like the 
birds that caught the mice. He said he had not. I after- 
ward took him to a case containing a number of birds, and 
among them two shrikes, and as soon as he saw them, he said 
“‘those were the birds.” Two weeks ago I saw a field mouse 
impaled on a small pear tree, and concluded it must have 
been the work of a shrike. The nextday it was gone. Is it 
probable that the loggerhead (C. ludoviciana) remains here 
during the winter?—J, L. D. (Lockport, N. Y,). 


AN OLD FasiE.—While riding from the village to our 
house, I showed to my companion, Mr, B. L. Hall, several - 
fox-colored sparrows, and observed to him that I only saw 
them during their spring and fall migrations. This Jed to 
some remarks about birds, and he astonished me by saying, 
“I don’t suppose you would believe that swallows go into 
the mud and have been dug out from it.” This was not the 
first time I had heard of such a belief, bul it was the first 
time I ever heard a reliable man say he believed it, and knew 
aman who had dug them from out the mud. Unfortunately ~ 
this man, Mr. Benjamin Washburn, is dead. &Stiil the writer 
remembers him well, and so far as he knows, his reputation 
for truthfulness was good, It was useless for me to combat 
this story of Mr. H.’s who declared he was sure that it was 
as he said, and that others—whose names I have not learned 
—kuew of the finding of swallows in the mud. How so 
strong a belief could be impressed on a person’s mind I can- 
not imagine. Can any readers of ForEs1 AND STREAM sub- 
stantiate this belief? Your correspondent tried to refute it by 
showing its impossibility, but it was of no use.—Mrnreus 
(East Wareham, Mass., April 4). [This is a belief which is 
very ancient, See Coues’s ‘Birds of the Colorado Valley.”] 


Coacnwurr AND Rarripr.—Saw the last robin (flying 
northward) on the 25th of last month. We have had a great 
many with us the past winter. A large coachwhip snake 
over six feet long was seen in a fierce combat with a young 
rattlesnake to-day. The rattlesnake was probably about two 
years old, and was eighteen inches long. The coachwhip 
nearly killed his adversary, when acharge of shot put an 
end to both. The coachwhip snake is a great chicken eater. 
We never heard before, nor have we been able to find any one 
who has, of this snake being an enemy of the rattlesnake, It 
is well known that the black snake kills every rattlesnake he 
mects, and that where the formeris common the latter are 
rarely seen. JI also killed to-day, and preserved the skin of a 
very large gopher snake seven feet and one inch in length, 
and nine inches in circumference in the largest part. I don’t 
want the readers of Forrest AND STRHAM to infer by the 
above that snakes are abundant here, for they are not. This 
rattlesnake was the second one I have seen in two years, and 
I believe I 2m in the woods as much as any one in this section 
of the country, being engaged in surveying frequently, as 
well as hunting.—Rep Wine (Glencoe, Fla., April 1), 


SEALS IN THE Hupon orr Sine Sryc.—During the middle 
and latter part of March, seals (Phoca vitulina) were quite 
common in the Hudson off this place. They were seen on 
the cakes of ice that floated back and forth with the tide; 
few days passing but that some of the duckers saw one or 
two. I received a carcass of a male that was shot by Messrs, 
George and Benj. Smith, on March 18, near the channel; 
the same day one was killed by another ducker, A few days 
after, when the ice was soft, it was reported that one at- 
tempted to climb up in the bow of a duck boat, not seeing 
the man behind the screen,—A. K, Fisamr, M. D. (Sing 
Sing, N. Y.), 


204 


SomMETHING AnouT THE Oposstm.—lI have closely watehed 
the habits of opossums and haye discovered some interesting 
traits concerning them. On one occasion a large malo Opos- 
sum was captured ina trap set for rabbits. On lifting the 
lid the animal was found to be curled up and apparently 
asleep. When disturbed it slowly raised its head, opened 
its mouth, and in this position awaited coming events, 
although it did not offer to bite. In about five minutes it 
closed its mouth, slowly restored its head to a more com- 
fortable position, and closed one eye asif a single optic was 
enough to nofe what was transpiring. On being roughly 
handied it opened its mouth widely and made a low hissing 
sound, but did not uncoil its body. Although the animal 
undoubtedly realized that it was a prisoner, it seemingly 
had no fear of death, as it made no effort to escape, although 
entirely uninjured. After waiting an hour and seeing no 
signs of feigning death, I left the door of the box-trap open, 
and walked off some distance where I could sce the trap and 
be unnoticed by the animal. In about five minutes the 
*possum yawned, stretched its limbs, and then standin up 
took a survey of the surroundings and walked away. I ran 
toward it, when it quickened its pace, but I overtook it and 
seized it by the tail, when it crouched down, partially coiled 
its body and extended its jaws. When IJ threatened to vio- 
lently strike it (without doing so, howeyer), its head slowly 
sank down, its eyes closed, its breathing was affected, and 
the condition of the body indicated a temporary paralyza- 
tion through tear producing temporary unconsciousness. I 
have made scores of experiments of reviving opossums 
when apparently dead by a sprinkle of cold water, and it 
always restored them to consciousness, having the same 
effect as on a human being in a fainting fit. The opossum 
is lazy and timid, and not as intelligent as the otter, raccoon, 
muskrat or marmot, and in my opinion its habit of feigning 
death is more attributable to fear than cunning.— Naturalist, 
in Germantown Telegraph. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Eiditor, Forest and Stream: 

In the remarks of correspondents on the “‘Performance of 
Shotguns,” | find nothing as yet to settle the question as to 
What is the proper bore for shofguns, as each man has his 
particular size. Ihave used shotguns for the past twenty 
years, including muzzleloaders from 10 to 20-bore, 
and breechloaders from 10 to 16-bore, and my choice, 
first, last and all the time, is a 10-bore breechloader. 
Using “‘Westley’s” argument regarding wads, if a 12 is better 
than a 10-bore. why is not a 14, 16 or 20-bore better than a 12. 
- “Algonquin” says a 12-bore need not weigh over 7} 


pounds, and a 10-bore should weigh 9 or 104 pounds. I see 
no necessity for a 10-bore to weigh over 8} pounds. Healso 


says, if youtie the 10-bore down to 8 drams of powder and 14 
ounces shot, it will besimply nowhere. Now, if he will tie 
the 12-bore down io the proper charge for a 20-bore, the 12- 
bore will be in ubout the same place as the 10. My opinion 
is that guns of the same dimensions do not always require 
the same charge to get the best results. The proper charge 
oe only be determincd by experimenting with that particu- 
ar gun. 

Twould say to ‘‘Westley” that the number of wads used over 
the powder depends much on the length of the shell and the 
chamber of the gun. If the shell fills the chamber, one wad 
that will not blow to pieces will answer, but in my experi- 
ence I find that the best wads will sometimes do this, and 
therefore I use two. If the chamber is Jonger than the shell, 
enough wadding should be used so that the forward end of 
_ the wad will enter the proper bore of the barrel before the 
back part Jeaves the shell, or there will be an escape of gras 
past the wad into the shot, which will be detrimental to the 
performance of the gun. As for target, my idea is to have a 
gub make an even pattern with good penetration, even if it 
does not put as many shot in the specified circle. 

S. W. 


Oszorn Ho.tow, N. Y., March 29, 1824, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

As so many of your readers are giving their views as to 
the proper size gun and right charge for different size game, 
I thought an experience of 25 years might help to solve the 
problem, For quail use a 12-bore hammerless, cylinder 
bore, length of barrels 24 inches, charge 24 drams of fine 
grain powder, and $ of an ounce of No. 8 shot. Sportsmen 

will agree with me that 8 shots out of 10 are made in cover, 
when snap shooting is necessary. With a close shooting 
gun in such places the result is either » miss or the bird is 
torn into fragments. At 20 to 25 yards with my guu I can 
count on better results than with a close-shooting gun. The 
above 1s strictly a quail gun. 

1 use a 80-inch round barrel, cylinder and left barrel 
full choke, 14-bore. 6-pound gun for snipe and dove shoot- 
ing. We bait about one to two acres of ground with wheat 
in March when the doves assemble in large flocks, and after 
a few days a party of five or six take stands around the 
field and shoot them, as many as 500 per day. For snipe 
and dove you want a closer shooting gun than 24-inch barrels, 
charge same as No, 12-24, with this differenee—use for 
snipe No. 10 shot, and for doves No, 7. For larger game it 
has been a‘question with me whether a 12-bore, 32-inch, 94- 
pound, cylinder bore gun will not kill as far as a No. 10, 10- 
pound, 82-inch gun, 

The only advantage I find in large bore guns is, it gives 
larger killing cirele. It will not killfurther, For such a 

mun, .12-32-94, I would use 4 drams of coarse powder and 
4+ ounces of lead. The object in using fine grain powder 
in short barrels is that it burns faster and you get greater 
initial velocity, In longer barrels coarser powder has time 
to purn and has more staying power. The above sizes and 
charges I find sufficient to kill clean (not wound) and that 
is all a sportsman wants; besides, economy is not to be 
despised. 

‘he above is for those who can afford to keep an arm suit- 
able for every kind of game; but to those who must make one 
gun do the work of three I think there is no better gun than 
the 12-bore, 30-iuch barrels, 84 pounds, right bored cylinder, 
left full choked. The charge for such a gun will vary as 
the size of game demands. The extreme loading of sucha 
gun would be with me: For deer, bear and ducks, 34 drams 
powder, 14 ounces Jead; for bird shooting, 23 drams powder, 
4% ounce lead. The above is based on twenty-five years’ prac- 
tice in field, extending over fifteen years of carefully con- 
ducted experiments at target to get best results as to distri- 
bution and penetration, striving to get the best and most 


_— _— oe — 


economical charge that would do clean work, and without a incessantly, I’d better wait for flocks 


foolish waste of ammunition. I hayer never yet seen a 

chokebore gun that would shoot the larger sizes (6s to buck) 

shot well. In my opinion cylinder bore guns will shoot 

from 6s up to buck better than chokes, SPORTSMAN. 
CoLumpus, Ga., March 22. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In reply to ‘‘Tinker’s” inquiry in regard to sight on rear 
of three-barrel gun, [would advise him to get a Lyman sight 
fitted to it. It will have to be short on account of drop of 
stock. The shot barrels of my Baker gun put 90 per cent, 
actual count of No. 4 shot, chilled, in a 24-inch circle at 30 
yards, Out of 164 shot in the Joad, 14 ounces, it putin the 
circle 149, and besides this it put 80 of them through one 
inch of pitch pine lumber. It will average obout 145 with 
coarse powder, This gun is 10, 30-inch, 94 pounds. If those 
tube shells will do 50 per cent. better work than common 
ones, as one of your correspondents says, why don’t some one 
make them? I find by loading one-half coarse aud one-half 
fine ducking powder I can get good pattern with increased 
penetration, putling the coarse powder in first. M, 

Hastines, Ja., March 31, 


Editor Forest and Stream: ! 

Some time since an idea struck me that by a peculiar way 
of putting in the shot a strange result might he expected, I 
tried it and thereby succeeded in putting No, 6 through an 
inch pine board at forty yards, This was the modus oper- 
andi: 1 used the usual powder charge, then one pink-edged 
wad pressed down, then another pushed in the shell an eighth 
of an inch, then a single layer of shot. then a wad of thin 
blotting paper. Push shot down further and then place 
another layer of shot evenly distributed, then more blotting 
paper, until you have put in an ounce. Complete by push- 
ing all down steadily. I fired two charges only, with the 
above result, and gave up, asthe shot bunched. But per- 
haps some cute, persevering sportsman may work something 
tangible out of this idea and give us the benefit of it. 

Proron, Ont. R. P. J. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Luse fora field gun a Remington double-barrel breech- 
loading shotgun, model of 1882, 12-bore, 30 inches, 8% 
pounds, full choke. Experience has taught me to load as 
follows: 8% drams Dupont’s chokebore powder, one of 
Eley’s thick felt wads, one ounce of shot, and one thin card- 
board wad. This way of loading gives good satisfaction; 
still it is not perfection. J.C. ¥. 

WASHINGTON, Mich. 


A MEMORY. 


WV ITHIN imy cosy room, nothing meets the eye but bright 
¥ and cheerful things. Outside how different; the 
ground is covered with snow; the arctic wind liowls dis- 
mally around the corners of the house, rattling the doors 
and windows in trying to gain admittance; and the rain is 
unceasing, freezing the moment it reaches the ground. The 
trees are encased in ice, presenting to an eye unaccustomed 
to the sight, beauties of strange and fantastic forms. {t does 
not interest me, The moaning wind has carried my thonghits 
hack to a most successful duck bunt which commenced Noy. 
15, 1882, and ended the following evening. I will try to 
give the particulars. 

Our party had been anxiously awaiting a flight of wild 
fowl. A few had taken possession of the bayous, lakes, 
sloughs and ponds, but not in sufficient numbers to warrant 
a good bag. Hach day, however, added to their numbers; 
but it was not until we saw Gen. Hazen’s ‘‘off shore” signal 
hoisted, indicating a norther, that we commenced to arrange 
matters. Sureenough that night, Nov. 14, a norther came 
out, blowing with unusual severity, and lowering the tem- 
perature to near the freezing point. 

Next evening found the norther considerably abated, game 
flying in abundance, and our party on the wharf eager to be 
off. Finally, everything being arranged we weighed anchor, 
and, under the influence of the still brisk wind, skipped 
merrily along toward Caronkaway, West Bay. 

Caronkaway takes itsname from an extinct tribe of Indians, 
who, in former days, made it their fishing headquarters. 
Nothing remains to indicate their camping grounds but 
immense piles of oyster shells, remnants of former feasts. 
Occasionally pon removing these, one comes upon a bone 
knife or arrow head. 

We arrived at our destination just asthe sun sank to rest 
behind a bank of purple clouds, lighting the sky most beautt 
fully. We anchored in about four feet of water under the 
lee of the land. ‘This protected us most effectually, and as 
the yacht swung to her moorings we found we were in most 
comfortable quarters. Arriving too late to take advantage 
of the magnificent evening shooting, we consoled ourselves 
by making the cabin as comfortable as possible, and, amid 
clouds of tobacco smoke, each related past experiences. In 
this way time flew by. About 10 o'clock the Captain re- 
marked, ‘Time to turn in, boys,” and we took the hint, 

I was awakened the next morning by voices on deck and 
feeling the yacht pitching uneasily. Upon dressing and 
joining the others, 1 found, to my chagrin, that they had had 
coffee und were “fixing up.” When Il asked why they had 
permitted me to sleep, they replied, ‘‘Well, you see you 
looked so sweet, and your nasal organ was giving yent to 
such euphonious chords, we thought it asin to disturb you.” 

As we ‘‘piled”’ into the tender, previous to pulling ashore, 
we were aware that daylight was fastapproaching. Things 
could be seen but indistinctly. 

We had accomplished about half the distance between the 
yacht and shore, when the Captain frantically grabbed his 
sides and exclaimed: “Oh! my ammunition!” He had left his 
belt in the cabin. Here was another delay, but it took the 
laugh off my shoulders, and I was glad it occurred. 

We reached shore at last, and after making the tender fast 
each sought a stand. J took one I had occupied on a pre- 
vious occasion and waited in silence. The faint reports 
borne across the bay from Galveston Island, seemed to warn 
me that I would soon have my hands full. A deafening 
report from behind attracted my attention, and almost 
before I had time to turn, a flock of swiltly moving objects 
were upan me, I fired, and had the satisfaction of bringin 
down three. I was eager to know what they were, but - 
had no time io bring them in, for a bunch of teal immedi- 
ately claimed my attention, On they came, and just as they 
got to me I rose. Upon seeing me they bunched, which gave 
me an excellent opportunity of pouring in both barrels. 1 


goteleven. Three consecutive shots at single sprigs were | p 


next missed in beautiful style. I began to think that if I 
wanted to equal my three friends, whose guns were popping 


<a. lL lL a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


‘[Aprin 10, 1884, 


L ; in them I did more 
execution, After a while, however, I did better. 

_A dull in the flight gave me an oppolunity to bring in my 
birds. The three killed by the first shot I fired were, much 
to my satisfaction, canyas-backs, 

Suddenly the guns of my companions became active, and, 
although | could see flock after flock fly over the stands, not 
afeather came my way. 1 began to eet discourased, and 
had almost concluded to go to the yacht, when suddenly an 
immense Hock of mallards flew directly over me froni be- 
hind. To raise my gun and fire both barrels was but the 
work of amoment. I killed two, and, as in my estimation 
they are the most beautiful of all the duck family, L took 
great pleasure in handling them, Iam speaking, of course 
ot the greenhead. 

Finally, the ducks, asif tired of being made targets of, 
took to the bay; and I, feeling pretty hungry, followed them; 
first, however, counting up twenty-three birds, 1 thought 
my eleven teal would give me the adyattaze of my three 
companions in numbers, but I was mistaken. Together they 
had sixty-seven, added to my twenty-three, makes the total 
bag ninety. Not bad. 

30 ended the hunt. We pulled to the yacht, and, as we 
partook of a splendid breakfast, we discussed the incidents 


of the morning. Nemo (of Texas). 
FRANKLIN, March 8, 1884. 


MR. CONGER EXPLAINS, 


YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.- | 
Office of the Superamtendent, 
Mammoth Hor Springs, Wy. T., March 23, 1884, 
Hditor Forest and Stream: 

My attention has been calied to an editorial in the Forest 
AND STREAM Of March 13, on the subject of the Yellow- 
stone Park. My astonishment was great to find that so 
great and enterprising a journal as the Formst anp STREAM, 
devoted exclusively to kindred subjects to the National Park, 
should have misconstrued the jaw on that subject. By con- 
sulting the luw, you will discover that the superintendent is 
in no manner responsible for the appointment of his assist- 
ants, You willthen read with anew meaning the extract 
which you were pleased to quote from one of my letters to 
the Secretary of the Interior, in regard to my assistants. 

Secretary Teller does us but tardy justice when, in his 
letter transmitting my correspondence with the Department 
to the United States Senate, on the subject of the Park, he 
candidly admits that the superintendent and his assistants 
were powerless, under existing law, to enforce the orders and 
rules of the Department for the government of the Park. 

LT have tried for the past two years to impress upon the 
Department our helpless condition here, for the want of the 
necessary authority and power to enforce the law, and I 
have been answered only by scolding letters, and secret spies 
and the universal howl of an ill-advised press throughout 
almgst the entire country. Added to all of which has been 
the ceaseless and untiring hostility of this misnamed Park 
Improvement Company, chiefly by and through the com- 
pany’s superintendent and manager, C. T. Hobart, and why 
and for what reason, ask yourself the question, Mr, Editor, 
and I will not fear but you will arrive at a just conclusion. 

As tu Secretary Teller himself, it is but just for me to say, 
that I do not believe he has been personally aware, until very 
recently, of the condition of affairs here, as he has been 
obliged to leave these matters to the care of his assistant on 
account of the numerous and important duties pertaining to 
his high office elsewhere. 

But, Mr. Editor, I think I see for the Park the dawn of a ~ 
brighter day. Congress is better informed as to what is 
necessary to be done to render this marvelous park the pride 
of the American people, and a wonder to the whole world. 

I am much pleased to find in your paper the letter of Mr. 
Arnold Hague, of the United States Geological Survey, upon 
the railroads in the Park. And I am more than delighted to 
find that I have in your paper and Mr. Hague such power- 
ful allies in this great baitie between the speculators and the 
people. Ihave opposed the scheme of allowing railroads to 
enter the Park from its inceplion, I have sent my protest 
to the Secretary ; have written to members of Congress and to 
the editors of newspapers, calling upon them to sound the 
alarm and let the people know what designs the speculators 
have upon their heritage, : 

You very justly remark ‘‘that public opinion has not been 
altogether just to the superintendent of the Park,” and I will 
add, neither has it been just to the assistant superintendents, 
for I feel bound to say that « majority of them are excellent 
and efficient men, and have accomplished all that any like 
number of men could have accomplished, situated as they 
have been, 

In conclusion I desire to say that I neither ask nor expect 
any mercy from the public, should examination prove that I 
have been in fault. Jask then only simple and impartial 
justice. 

: P. H. Conerr, Supt. Yellowstone National Park. 

[Mr. Conger is in the right, and we regret that we should 
have done him injustice in this matter. The appointment 
of the assistant superintendents rests with the Secretary and 
not with the superintendent. We wrote of the Jaw as it 
should be, not as it is.] 


NOTES FROM IOWA. 


Ds ducks are in, and I can hear the guns from early 
_ morning until far into the dusk of evening. More 
geese went over us, going north, this spring than T ever saw 
before, but none were killed in this neighborhood, that I 
snow of. 

; There is a splendid lot of prairie chickens here now, and 
we do hope that they will stay with us, and that the weather 
will be favorable to their propagation this spring. ‘ 

Quail are fairly plenty. I know of enough to stock this 
place, if they are only permitted to hatch and the clutch is 
not drowned. , & 

We have given up going on our semi-annual hunt this 
spring, and i am just shooting in the evening, I get from 
one to three ducks each time I go out, and I am satisfied. 
Day before yesterday, the 26th, 1 beard the first jack snipe. 
If the weather stays as it is, jack snipe wilt be in thick in a 
few days, and the ducks—well we hope to see them in the 
fall. 

T was in our county seat (Woppello) the other day, on 
business, and found that they have a rifle club organized 
there, and have a regular day for practice each week. Mr. 
Cole is their coach. and if they all could shoot as good as he 
can, their scores would run high. He is manufacturing agun 
atented by himself, and thinks, like all the rest of gun 
makers, that his gun is the simplest and best. One thing is 
sure, he knows how to handle his own gun, as his score will 


. 


~ Aprt 10, 1884] 


ow. Tam no rifle shot but I do enjoy talking to the man 
UE is a od shot, and can pile up the fives—75 out of a 
possible 75, at 800 yards. Mt ey: 

Now that the snow is gone, my pistol is laid away, and 
when 1 take it up again there will be some practice before IT 
take it inlo the field. I wish you could see my old wood 
house in Ohio. Many a time I have stood and used up 
4 box of cartridges shooting at some particulary spot 1 the 
wall, and I expect that some day some hoy will burn it just 
‘to get the lead. ‘ MARK. 

Morning Sun, Iowa. March 28. 


D 


10, 12 OR 16. 


T is surprising how many sportsmen carry the first-named 

bore (10) weighing from 7+ to 10 pounds, Sucha weight 

of iron is, 1 think, useless in the field, and is fatiguing to 

earry. I am writing now of field work over a dog, Of 

coursein duck hunting a heavy gun is a necessity, although 

T have killed ducks with a 16-bore, and that at quite a long 
distance. A 

The 12-bore is, io the majority of sportsmen, the gun, 
good for anything, ducks included; asa 74 or 8-pound gun 
will burn 4 drams of powder nicely, and kill almost as far 
as a 10-bore with less weight to carry. 

A 16-bore is, in my estimation, the field gun pin excellence, 
and to cut down quail and partridges with this handy gun 
is truly a pleasure to the sportsman who aims it. The 16- 
bore is just heavy enough (6 to 6} pounds), and 2} to 3 drams 
of powder is sufficient for aload for this handy little gun, 
instead of throwing a heayy load of shot with from 3 to4 
drams of powder after a bird, and about the same bulk of 
shot. 

Lam yery glad the smaller bore guns are coming into use, 
much more than formerly, and it is truly more artistic fo kill 
quail, partridge or woodcock with this little gun, Of course 
some few carry a 2U-bore, but not one man ion four hundred 
carries such a tool. Lam told the 20-bores kill at a surpris- 
ingly long distance, but never haying used one I of course 
can’tsay much about them. Let us carry a small gun in the 
field, and not lug a cannon of 10 pounds weight, for such is 
not pleasure but toil. 16-BoRE, 

Manisow, N. J. 


ST, LAWRENCE GAME CLUB. 


T the third annual meeting of the 8t. Lawrence Game 
Club. held recently at the office of Mr. f. D. Hoard, at 
Ogdensvurg, N. Y., the President’s address showed that 
more than twenty indictments haye been found against indi- 
viduals for hunting deer ont of season, and a large number 
of suits have been brought to a successful issue tor minor 
offenses, Mr. Hoard says; 

“Brom a memorandum of the assistant district attorney, 
Mr. L. P. Hale, of Canton, and on file with the secretary, 
it appears that since the last annual meeting twenty-two in- 
dictments have been found by the grand jury, against thirty- 
six difierenf individuals for unlawfully killing und dogging 
wild deer, and. nine indictments against six different indi- 
viduals for unlawful fishing. That convictions and pleas of 
fuilty have been obtained in seven cases and fines imposed 
to the amount of $195, and one case dismissed Ivy the dis- 
trict attorney for want of evidence, leaving undisposed of 
one case pending on appeal and twenty-three cases in various 
Stages of advancement, Mr, Hale accompanies his memo- 
randum with ihe statement that ‘of the earlier of the cases 
noted as pending, repeated attempts huve in some cases been 
made to arrest defendants, thus far without success, but 
through no fault of the district attorney.. Other cases have 
been discontinued either by the defendants or the people.’ 
For further details of said memorandum, as to names of de- 
fendants, dates and character of the offenses described, L 
refer to the document itself. The above-mentioned results 
show an amount of labor on the part of our esteemed mem- 
ber and assistant district attorney, which entitles him to 
your favorable consideration and hearty thanks, at least, if 
not to some more substantial testimony of your approval. 

“Tt would appear from the foregoing that the necessary ma- 
chinery for the successful enforcement of the game laws in 
this protection district has been secured, and one of the 
leading objects of this society thereby satisfactorily accom- 
plished, So far as the enforcement of the law is concerned, 
we have only to continue, as heretofore, our encouragement 
and support of the officers in the discharge of their duties, 
to render it certain that in the near future the punishment 
of the offenders against these laws will be as fully sustained 
by the force of public opinion as the bringing to justice of 
any other class of criminal offenders now is.” 

The president also alluded to the importance of stocking 
the St. Lawrence River, and the streams and ponds of St. 
Lawrence county, with food fish, and made valuable sug- 
gestions as to the best methods by which this could be one. 

The treasurer's report shows the society to be be without 
debt and to have a balance in the treasury, 

The following named gentlemen were elected trustees for 
the ensuing year: John Webb, Jr., Gouverneur; George P. 
Ormiston, Governeur; M. D. Packard, Canton; §. D. Kim- 
pall, Canton; J. H. Rushton, Canton; Jas. R. Smith, Russell; 
William Peters, Ogdensburg; J. H. Brownlow, Oxdensburg; 
Josiah L. Brown, Potsdam; Allen Olmstead, Potsdam; 
Wm. Stillwell, Ogdensburg; D. G. Wood, Gouverneur. 

Mr. McNaughton addressed the association on the import- 
ance of haying the State game protectors act tovether in all 
cases of violation of the law. Continuing, he alluded to the 
desirability of haying fishways in all thedams in the county, 
and recommended that a law be drafted and presented to the 
Legislature. In order that this might be done, he moved 
that a committee of five be named by the chair to take steps 
to have such a law pass. The motion haying heen adopted, 
the president named as such committee Joseph McNaughton, 
Sidney Brown, Wiliam Peters, L. W. Russell and John 
Webb, Jr. ; 

The following committee was appointed to go to Utica on 
the 11th inst, to attend the St. Lawrence Anglers’ Associ- 
ae i J. McNaughton, Dr. Brownlow, Win. Stillwell, L. D. 

oard, 

_ The thanks of the clab were unanimously voted to District 
Attorney Lang and his assistant, L. P. Hale, for their per- 
sistent efforts to punish transgressors of the State game law. 


GAamn IN Mississrrrr.—No game is left here now except 
bear. They are thicker than on Wall street. If you know 


of any one wanting u bear ranch [ can furnish them, and 
will cuarantee an income of fifty bears per annum,—TucKa- 
HOE (Belzoni, Miss., March 31), 

x 4 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ‘ 

I must request permission to correct an error in my letter pulbs- 
lished by you in your issue of February 21, where I quoted from Far- 
row’ leiter that the drop of the ball of the rifle was 8 inches at the 
200-yard target when fired wilh the 100-yard sight, I received 4 letter 
from Mr. Farrow stating that this shouid be 13 inches instead of 3; the 
drop of the .45-75 being 2 feet 6 inches, and of the .45-80 2 feer 10 
inches. 

Heretofore the discussion on hunting rifles bas all been in the 
direction of calibers and charges, and I now would like to ask of your 
numerons readers if something besides proper calibers and charges 
isnot essential, if not vital.to the owners of a hunting pun; for 
may we not have a perfect barzel, with proper caliber and charge, 
and still have a gun that is only partially efiective from the lack of 
some other essential to its proper aiming and firing? 

Tn shotguns we have various “lengths” and ‘drops’ to stocks, so 
thatthe intending purchaser can procure a gun that will “fit’’ him, 
and come up promptly and properly for rapid wing-shooting, but in 
rifles have we any such variation? Has not the making of rifles by 
machinery caused an invariable model to be adopted by each maker, 
so that one has to submit to an improper fit sometimes if one wishes 
to possess the gun of a particular maker. through the mability to 
procure other than the model adopted by that maker? 

I have not the dimensions of the guns of various makers, sol am 
unable to give the length ani drop of stock of each; but 1am salis- 
fied that an @éxamination of the various guns possessed by your 
readers and correspondents, will show that there has been no 
rtandard adopted, and that a considerable variation will be found. 

I will give data as far as T have it from measurement of guns in my 
possession, toshow what I mean: 


Ballard, .22-caliber target rifle,..... Length 13)n., drop 384in. 
Peabody, .45-caliber.,........ weirs: Length idin., drop 24gin. 
Springfield, Mb-CAlIbD. 22.0.5 a85 is Length 1284in., drop 3lgin. 
Remington—Kun-pattern....,....,,Length1ain., drop 234in. 
Baker, three-barrel..,.-.....0-.s+++: Length 14in., drop alsin. 
a Gendbten (0 ee per rer ceenn eta: Bree Length 13in., drop 3l4in, 


These measurements are from the trigger to the middle of butt- 
plate for length, and from line of point-blank sights to toe of stock 
for drop, 

One thight say here was variety enough to choose from; but it will 
be observed that the variety is\in diferent styles of guns, and so far 
as I know, there is no variety in the same style of gun, unless one 
pays heavily for the special stock. ’ 

In military rifles such variety is not to be expected, bnt in hunting 
rifles lsee no reason why such variety, particwarly in the length, 
should not be made. Variation in length would also vary the drop 
without any changein the angle made by the axis of the barrel and 
center line of the butt; bul short and crooked stocks, as well as long 
and straight stocks, might be wanted also. 

Tt is conceded that one can learn to shoot, and shoot weil, with al- 
most any form of stock; but could not the sams man shoot better 
with a gun that fitted him naturally and easily, without constraint, 
than with a gun that did not fit himand which caused constraint? 
And would he not sooner acquire skill and expertness shooting such 
a gun than when he is forced to learn and every time take a con- 
strained position? 

Besides the length and drop of stock, does not the form of butt and 
butt plate have more to do with successful shooting than is ordin- 
arily conceded? I think every one will admit that constancy of post- 
tion in aiming is one of the neces-ities for fine shooting: butt high on 
the shoulder for one shot and low for the next will not make good 
shots, and the general form of butts has nothing with which to insure 
the proper position, ; 

T don’t know that I would adyoeate the butt with horns on heel and 
toe for this purpose, though nearly all the old muzzlelcaders had some 
sueh form of butt plats; but cannot some better form of plate be 
adopted than those we have now, that will give more grasp to the 
shoulder and insure the same relative position of the gun every ume 
it is brought to the shouleer? 

In the days of the muzzleloader the stock had a ‘‘patch box” set in 
it, and now that the muzzleloader has passed out of date, this patch 
box has also vanished from the stock, 

But are there not uses that this box could be put to. that would 
make ita valuable addition to the breechloader? Could it not be 
adapted to carry ascrew driver and such extra parts as are most 
likely to be useful in the repair of a gun? True, one can carry them’ 
in the pockets, but when wanted, they are almost certain to ‘‘turn 
up missing,’ from having been left at ‘home or lost from the pockets, 
while ifin the ~un stock a placeis made for them, they would be 
more likely io he at hand when needed, as that would be their place, 
and no reason for their being missing, _ 

L once had a 2un restocked froma pattern made exactly to my ‘‘fit,”* 
with butt plate to fit the shoulder, and a box of this kind (taken 
from an old muzzleloader) in the stock, and I can therefore tell from 
experience not only how much better I could take qiick shots with 
this gun that fitted me exactly, than I could before it was restocked, 
but also how ‘thandy” this box was. In it I could carry a small fold- 
ing serew driver and spare parts, with an oiled rag to wipe my gun 
when necessary to keep the outside from rusting in the rain, and I 
feel as though the box were indispensable. 

With many of our breechloaders (in fact nearly all) no provision is 
made for a cleaning rod being carried in any way, and how many 
times has the want of such a rod been severely felt when in the field 
and away from possible rods in camp? The Winchester rifle, and 
the Government carbine haye such rods placed in the stock, and so 
has the Fruend rifle, and manya time therr usefulness has been 
proved, when some accident has disabled a gun Ba a from & 
shell not extracting. Accidents will happen, and when oue goes ou 
a hunt every precaution,should be taken, not only to prevent such 
accidents, but also to have the means to overcome them should they 
happen. I would not recommend the use of this metal rod asa 
Cleaning 10d, nothing but a wooden rod should ever be used to clean 
a gun with, where a rod is used at all: but it is useful nevertheless, 
to drive out tight shells, should one stick, or to take out a headless 
shell, should the head of one blow or tear off; in the Springfield car- 
binea headless shell extractor is in the butt with the jointedramrod, but 
a bullet shaved down and ‘tupset”’ in the headless shell wil generally 
answer to drive out the shell, provided one has the ramrod to do it 
with, and i cannot, therefore, too strongly recommend its adoption 
in the stocks of all guns—shotguns as well as rifles. 

One can get pistol grip with checkered fore end and grip by paying 
extra for them, and some makers now place pistol grips on all their 
rifies, and this is certainly a move inthe right direction, With some 
of the under lever gun this may not be necessary, as the shape of 
the lever takes the place of this pistol grip: but 1 would be glad to 
see the straight grip become a thing of the past on all (even our 
military) rifles. Better holding and more even shooting would re- 
eb in my opinion, especially when in cold weather oue has to use 
gloves. 


Do makers pay enouga attention to the position of and shape of 
the trigger? We all know that the nearer one applies theiy power to 
the end of aleayer the less power it requires to do a certain work, 
and how many triggers are there that allow such application of the 
pull anywhere nearthe end? Besides this, should not the trigger be 
so placed and shaped that the pull comes naturally up and across 
the grip, so that a squeeze of the finger rather than a puli would be 
thé proper application of power to release the scar? I have one gun 
with trigger like this, and although in one direction it will bear a pull 
of several pounds, when applied in the proper line of this squeeze a 
much less force will fire the piece. 

J am speaking now of hard triggers. I have seen too many acci- 
deuts ever to want to use or see used any more “hair” triggers, and I 
elaim that better shooting can be made with a moderately hard 
trigger, that one can hold cn to as the piece is pressed tothe shoulder, 
ey tee it is made of the right shape and placed in the proper 
position, . 

Way should not triggers be roughened, the same asthe head of the 
hammer is, so as to preven slipping of the finger in pulling ib? and 
why should some triggers be made of such narrow surface for the 
pressure of the finger? Would it not be more comfortatle and better 
in every way to have a broad roughened surface for the finger to 
hook around, rather than the narrow smooth surface so often seen? 

Speaking of hard triggers remmds me of why some are so hard 
and how easily it can be remedie!. A greatmany are hard because 
the nose of the sear is a wedge-shaped surface instead of being the 
surface of a cylinder generated about an axis passing througu the 
center of the screw which forms the pivot for the scar, The nose 
being a wedge and the noteh m the tumbler being the reverse, the full 
strength of the main spring has to be overcome, as the tumbler has 
to be rotated slightly backward hefore the scar can be disengaged; 
whereas if this nose were the curved surface I speak of, and the 
noteh a similar curyed surface, these two smooth surfaces would 
glide smoothiy over each other, andthe scar would be easily disen- 
paged: no matter how deep the notch mizht be. I prefer a ‘creep’ to 

+ trigger, so that I can feel it sradually press baci, rather than a 
trigger that gives way all at once, like a bound door suddenly letting 


xO. j fs 

All who have practiced rifle shooting will, I think, agree that pull- 
jng trigger is the hardest part to lean thoroughly, especially in off- 
hand work,anu that.ita firm, positive aud proper pull could be 
Ziven, much improyement would result. It is no easy matter to hold 
anine-pound rifle off-hand, keep it on the bullseye, and at the same 
time puiloff with a ‘three-pound” trigger, without deranging the 
piece, andin my opinion there is much yet to be done in this direc- 


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tion to make the piece easier shooting, not inthe way of making 
sotteror hair frigg¢ers, bul those that can be felt and pulled, but yet 
pulled gradually inthe right direction, and that when they do "let 
go” will do so withoun imparting motion to the gun- 

Iwouid conelude by saying that T am well aware of the difficulty of 
introducing changes thaf will necessitate change in forms of the 
metal breech frames in breechloaders, and therefore change of tools 
end plant to make them, that would he necessary to have stocks of 
various drops—aund such changes would only he made upon its being 
made a) Mirek that they were desired by the majority—and for this 
reason I hope the views of your various readers and correspondents 
may be freely expressed. either for or against the proposed change. 

Ti may be less trouble to change the forms of trigger, as probably 
less expense in change of tools and plant would be necessary to pro- 
duce them, but on all these points 1 merely ask for opinions, having 
merely expressed my views, and the yiews of several with whom I 
have cuseussed these subjects, in calling attention to the matter. 

Forr Mokinnny, Wyo.,. March 7. CoD 


Lditor Forest and Stream: 

After giving the common express bullet niuch study, I am con- 
vinced that it is a failure, as it Jacks penetration, but if it could be 
made to make two holes in the skin of a grizzly it would be the best 
bullet by all odds for larze game, Now sucha, bullet should have all 
the qualities of a hollow-pointed bullet, and also, if perfection is 
wanted, those of a solidone To meet these needs I have planned the 
following, express envelope bullet. 


Parts—A A, expanding envelope. O, hollow at point. C, solid 
bullet. BB, flanges at base of sold bullet. H, conical cavity atrear, 

A solid bullet with conical head, and smaller than the bore of the 
piece from which itis intended to be fired, is cast, and should be made 
of such a mixture of tin and lead that it would not weld with pure 
lead. This bullet then being placed in the mould, pure lead is poured 
in, forming an envelope around it, with a hollow point, as shown in 
the engraving, this envelope on striking would expand, making a, 
large hole, while the core or solid projectile would give all the pene- 
tration that could be desired, The envelope might go on with the 
bullet proper, after expanding, which would increase its efficiency 
much, The flanges in the engraving at the base of the bullet are to 
prevent the envelope from separating before the moment of contact, 

NoRTH GRANVILLE, N. Y,, March 28. HAWEEYE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

As a contrisution to the very interesting discussion now going on in 
regard to the choice of hunting rifles, allow me to give briefly my ideas 
in regard to them, premising. that I speak only of large game, with 
which I have had considerable experience during the past eight years 
in the West. 

For a gun for general use I very greatly prefer a double express 
rifle, 45 or .50-caliber, and have used them exclusively during the 
past three years. I have two, both 45-caliber; one, a very fine im+ 
ported gun, takes tne Eley 3!4-inch shell; the other, made to my order, 
takes a Sharps 2%-inch shell. J always load my own shells, easting 
express bullets of four different weights and shapes, besides occasion- 
ally using a solid bullet and also round balls, two or three in each 
shell, which I find very convenient for running shots at coyotes, wild- 
eats, etc. I attach the greatest Dnportaice to heayy charges of 
powder and, for most purposes, a light bullet of 25Q to 325 grains, 
regulating the eftect of the bullet by the size and shape of the hole in 
front, and by the proportion of fin used bo harden it. 

Another important point that seems to be not generally known, and 
wh.ch is not jound in the one or two makers of so-called express rifles 
advertised by American makers. is to have a very slow twist to the 
rifling. one turn in four feet being quite enough. 

Such a double ritle, with slow twist, and shells properly loaded to 
get the full effect of the express principles, weighing not over 9 or 914 
pounds, and with 25 or 28-mech barrels, is, in my opinion, by far the 
most eitective and conven ent hunting rifle made, and with them I 
have more than once got oul of a “tight place’’ with a charging 
erizzly. the only really dangerous animal in this country. 

Personally I dislike repeating rifles, as J have too often seen them 
disabled, usually by the jamming of a cartridge, to have confidence 
in them; and rapid firing is by no means synouymous with effective 
firing, in fact, itis veryseldom effective. 

Of single-barreled rifles I like the Springfield, or ‘needle gun*' as 
it is often called, and the Sharps. and this preference is shared by 
the great majority of frontitersmen whom] have met, The actions 
are strong and simple. and will stand very hard usage without getting 
out of order. Worty-five is the smallest caliber I would use; .50 is far 
preferable to .40, except for those persons (who seem to be more 
common in the Mastthan I have found them to be on the Western 
hunting grounds) who invaritbly pul their bullets precisely where 
they wish10; for these a .32 or .8f-caliber is all tbatis needed, but I 
eannot recommend anything smaller than .45-caliber for ordinary 
mortals. 

If bear shootingat short rangeis expected, a more deadly arm than 
asbort and heavy 12-gange cylinder shoigun cannot be found; the 
wound and shock is terrible; the gum is easily and quickly handled, 
and itis besides often very useful for shooting ducks, grouse, etc., 
when large game is scarce, 

Few persons know what a deadly weapon this is when loaded with 
ball, and after a little practice with balls of the right size, it may be 
used with considerable accuracy at 75 yards, 

For one who bas used a gvod double express rifle on large game it 
is easy to see that a large proportion of those who write on this eub- 
ject have had no practica! and but little theoretical experience with 
these guns. Many are persons who seem to consider that “pumping 
lead” (a disgusting expression that deseryes a place in your indez 
expurgatorius) at game as long as it may bein sight is the height of 
spoit, and who care nothing for wounding a dozen animale. who 
escape to finally die of thei wounds after hours and days of suffer- 
ing, if only they wecasionally happen to hit one in a yital spot. Such 
per: ons are beyond the reach of argument, either as to guns or their 
own selfish and brutal ideas of sport; but for those who hke to kill 
and find the great majority of game they hit within fifty yards of 
where it stood when fired at, | can confidently recommend a trial of 
the express rifle. 

I cannot agree with your statement in your issue of Feb, 28 that 
“rifles require greater strength at the breech than could be secured 
by shotgun breech mechanism,’ for hundreds of such rifles are in 
use, and su far as lam aware all double express rifles are loaded just 
as a shotgun of thesame maker would be. One of my rifles is under- 
lever action without extension rib, It has done good and hard service 
tor its two owners for at least seven yeai's with shells holding about 
130 grains of the strongest powder, and is now as tight and closely 
fitting at the breech as the day it was finished. The other is a snap 
action with extension rib, and although it has not had as long or hard 
service as the other, I think it will wear as well. These are both light 
and easily handled guns, and the recoil (which some writers imagine 
must be excessive on account of the amount of powder used) when a 
lizht bullet is used is really less than in most common rifics that use 
a heavy bullet with a much smaller amount of powder, and once 
used I do not think any one would again hunt with the absurdly 
heavy single-barreled rifle as usually made, even without reference 
to the far more satisfactory results of a good double express using a 
suitable bullet, AREBARDEA, 


ditor Forest and Siream: 

lam more interested in a squirrel gun, and my ideal would bea .28- 
ealiber, made as light as it could beto retain a good shape and hal- 
ance, and be strong enough to be safe anddurable. It should be 
chambered tor the extra Jong cartridge, and be large enough so the 
shell could be made for a swaged bullet of full size all the way 
back, so as to insure a steady flight. 

The different kinds of ammunition should be put up in the long 
shells. and the space between the powder and lid filled with wads, 
Inthat way the lead could always be seated in the rifling and no chance 
of upsetting orsta:ting crooked. [woutd proter a simgleloader, be- 
cause the arm would be lighter and the action less complicau d, and 
if it is well made, so that the shells will not stick, there need Le very 
few good shots missed. 1 would say further that the ammunition 
should be made so.as to be reliable up to 75 yards, and by making slight 
ealcula‘ions this would be effective up to 100 yards, The proportion of 
powder should not be less than one to four tor good shooting at 50 to 
75 yards,and | would be satistied with a.22-caliber, provided the changes 
would be made so as to insurea reliable zunat 75 yards. N.J, 5. 

BROOKVILLE, Pa., March 31. 


206 


GAME IN TEXAS. 


I CAME down here last fall, and was agreeably surprised 

to find mysclf in a region where game was abundant. 
_ The sportsmen of the town and neighborhood were then 
killing deer in abundance, I had no opportunity to partici- 
pate in the sport, but as soon as the quail (partridge they 
call them) were fit to kill I took a hand in, going out at least 
once a week, 

Previous to my leaving the North my shooting had been 
principally done in New Jersey, where one would consider 
himself amply rewarded by a find of four or five bevies and 
a bag of a dozen birds, after a long day’s tramp. No wonder 
then that I was astounded when the first day I went out 
Waxy McCoy brought me to a field, not a mile and a half 
from the business portion of the town, in which we found 
six bevies of from twenty to forty birds each. They gaye 
us enough hunting the whoie afternoon, never leaving the 
one field. Of course the birds and ourselyes had ample room 
to move about in it, consisting as it did of about five hun- 
dred acres, Bags of from forty to fifty birds are frequently 
made in an afternoon by two guns over a pair of good dogs, 
and that issaying a great deal for the number of birds, when 
it is considered that the shooters here never follow them into 
the brush, hunting up a fresh ‘gang’ when the bevy seeks 
the kindly shelter afforded by the pines and undergrowth. 

The English snipe seem to remain with us all winter. I 
have shot a few each month from September to the present 
time, killing sixteen one afternoon two weeks ago, the best 
bag of them I heard of being twenty-six to two guns for one 
aftcrnoon’s shoot. Many of the native sportsmen do not 
consider them game, and will not shoot them, but believe 
me, your humble servant and other hunters in town who 
have been raised in the North, know how to appreciate them 
for the sport they afford and for their table qualifications. 

As you predict in your last issue, the little beauties must 
be on their way north, as the other day I shot but four on 
ground which was literally alive with them a short time 
previously. 

Woodcock must be a rarity here, as I have seen only two; 
one was brought to town by a countryman, who had shot 
it, and wanted to know if it were ‘‘good to eat.’’ Think of 
it! The other 1 flushed while shooting quail one day, and 
was SO surprised at its appearance that I missed him clean. 

A friend brought me the other day three birds which he 
had killed with one shot, within the precincts of the town, 
and asked me what they were, as he had never seen any like 
them before. They were large yellow-leg snipe. Is is not 
rare to find them so farinland? As I looked at them, visions 
of old times on Barnegat Bay arose beforeme. Many of 
them had I shot between Bill Chadwick’sand Uncle Jake 
Herbert's, when there was not a sign of a human habitation 
between those two places, and the railroad brought you only 
as far as Squan. 

Wild turkeys are plentiful here, and can be found almost 
anywhere within a radius of five miles of town. I heard of 
a fine gobbler being shot day before yesterday. The prairie 
chicken is about the only southern game bird which is not 
found in this immediate section, as we are surrounded by 
dense pine forests, but they are found in large numbers a 
short distance further west. The cottontail rabbit is very 
plentiful too, you kick them out of bushes every few steps 
When quail shooting, and the tall pines are alive with squir- 


rels. ALIQUIS. 
Jerrmrson, Texas, March 29. 


WOLVES IN MAINE. 


Pee Maine wolf cry is being narrowed down to pretty 

close quarters, and when the Formst AND STREAM 
stated some weeks ago that there were practically no wolves 
in that State, its assertion was ag near the truth as can ever 
be approached concerning such subjects. All the prominence 
the subject has been given by the discussion drawn out has 
failed to bring to light any but a couple of dead wolves, one 
killed seyeral years ago and the other last December—pro- 
vided it was a wolf. 

A Portland correspondent writes: 

PORTLAND, Me., March 29, 1884. 
Editor Forest aud Stream: 

In answer to your inquiry about a wolf being at Fryeburg, 
in this State, will say that John Heath caught what was called 
a Canada gray wolf Dec. 22, about a mile from Fryeburg Vil- 
lage. His trap was set for fox, The wolf was a large one, 
measuring 5 feet 8 inches from tip to tip, and stood 21g feet 
high, Hedragged the trap, heavily clogged, more than a mile, 
He was very savage when found, making a vigorous attack on 
Mr. Heath, who dispatched him with a shotgun, A few days 
before he was caught he attacked a young man while cutting 
wood, and tore his clotbing, scratching him considerably before 
being frightened away. F, 

This is a good avolf story, but as Fryeburg is abort fifty 
miles to the northwest of Portland, the account must have 
grown in traveling there. The Forest AND STREAM has 
carried its investigations of the wolf subject still further. 
The selectmen of Fryeburg have been written to, since they 
would be called upon to pay the bounty, and would be yery 
likely to know the truth of the matter. One of the board 
writes: 

FRYEBURG, Me., 


—, 1884, 
- Hditor Forest and Stream: 

Yours, making inquiries about a wolf killed here last winter, 
is at hand, I would say there was one killed here and the 
bounty paid. The animal was captured in a common trap; 
was undoubtedly a traveler, as they are not common in this 
patt of Maine. They are very seldom seen or heard, This 
wolf was of the Canada gray species, and is supposed to have 
strayed from the forests of that province. His size was 
medium. Will give you other information with pleasure, if 
desired, , Selectman of Fryeburg, Me. 

This letter gives no account of an attack by the wolf or 
wild animal upon a young man or anybody else. A letter 
from another correspondent in the same county says; 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

No wolf has been killed in this section for a great many 
years, I hear that one was killed in New Hampshire recently. 

Still another correspondent, from a town adjoining Frye- 
burg, writes: 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

Yours is received. Ihave heard that a wolf or wild animal 
was killed in Fryeburg or Lovell. 

Tt seems that there is some doubt about the animal being a 
wolf at all, while others claim that the creature was killed 
in New Hampshire, which is not difficult to understand 
when it is taken into consideration that the town of Frye- 
burg borders upon that State, But in order to investigate 
the wolf story still further the Maine Fish and Game Com- 
missioners, who offered the special wolf bounty in that State, 
have been applied to. One of them writes: 


—- ——— 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


“We have not as yet been called upon to pay a wolf 
bounty, neither do I much expect we shall be. There is 
always astray panther or wolf reported in the forests of 
Maine, and probably with some degree of correctness. The 
time is past when either of these creatures can exist in any 
numbers in our forests, whatever may be the plentifulness 
of deer and other game, so great is the enterprise and com- 
petition among our fur hunters.” 

All of which goes to show that our position was not far 
out of the way. 

Since the above was in type, and at the moment of going 
to press, we have received information from a gentleman 
well acquainted in Oxford county, Me., and perfectly relia- 
ble, that a wolf eseaped from the collection of curiosities of 
a traveling showman a year agolast fall. The showman is 
fin eccentric character, a resident of Oxford county. He 
had for several years a collection consisting of a black bear, 
a couple of Canada gray wolves, etc., which he was} accus- 
tomed to exhibit at a side show at county fairs, and Fourth 
of July celebrations. When not on the road he kept his 
animals in a pen in his barn, and from this pen one of the 
wolves escaped. The exhibitor kept the matter still for a 
long time, fearing trouble, if the story of a live wolf astray 
should get out, but finally the truth became known some 
months after. Jt is pretty generally believed that the wolf 
killed in Fryeburg is none otber than the tame one which 
had escaped. 


From SHAWNEBTOWN, Inn.—The winter was an exceed- 
ingly severe one, the thermometer going as low as 23° below 
zero, and fears were entertained that all small game would 
be frozen out. With some degree of interest, I have noticed 
the quail since the advent of spring and find them- much 
more plentiful than could have been hoped earlier in the sea- 
son. By inquiry among farmers and others I am informed 
that very few frozen birds were found after the hard weather 
of the earlier part of January. Squirrels are very plenty in 
the woods. On Saturday, while out ducking in the Wabash 
bottom, I noticed quite a number in the woods, although 
the ground was covered with from five to ten feet of water. 
During the exceeding high water in February the turkeys 
were all driven to the hills and, I am sorry fo say, quite a 
number were slaughtered. Water fowl have been plentiful 
for a month past, but at present are fast wending their way 
northward. Mallards are pairing and will soon leave us. 
Saturday, March 22, I took a trip into what we call Hamp- 
ton bottoms, on the Wabash, and ducks and geese were 
found in immense numbers. ‘To the true lover of nature, 
life has no greater pleasures than when in the solitude of 
the woods. ‘The air is filled with the resonant honk of hun- 
dreds of geese and the incessant quack of the wild ducks. 
There is a charm that seems to haunt his memory and bind 
him closer to the sports of thechase. While silently gliding 
through the thick timber of the inundated bottom lands 
the very air scemed. alive with the wild commotion of the 
frightened fowl, as, rising upon every hand, they sped away 
upon frightened wing. lam pleascd to say, however, that 
they all did not get away, as I had all I could possibly carry. 
Jack snipe are just coming in, and No. 10 shot will soon be 
indemand. By the time they disappear the young squirrels 
will be ready for shooting, and then the dogwoods will be 
in blossom, when the gun can be laid aside and some of the 
finest black bass that ever gladdened the heart of the angler 
will be ready to bite. In fact, I am already getting rods and 
lines ready—reels are of no use in this section, as the fishing 
grounds are so difficult to approach that nothing but a rod 
can be used. Last season I tried trolling faithfully, but 
could not succeed in hooking anything. Think Ill not try 
it this year. I will say before closing this that your articles 
on the most desirable gun for sportsmen’s use are read with 
interest and are of real benefit to amateur sportsmen like—X. 


THE Buack Hiris SPorTsMAN’s CLus.—A_ brief history 
of the organization of a sportsman’s club in Deadwood, Dak., 
will interest many of your readers, It is by the eiforts of 
clubs such as this one that game on the frontier is to be saved 
from extinction. A meeting was called for the purpose of 
organizing a sportsman’s club in Deadwood, D. T., for Jan. 
8, 1883, and was attended by tbe following gentlemen: Seth 
Bullock, W. M. Brewer, E. Butterfield, Porter Warner, 
Jas. Lawler, L, F. Whitbeck and John C. Ickes. A com- 
mittee was appointed to draft and submit a constitution and 
by-laws at a meeting called for Jan. 11, 1888, at which time 
the club was organized, to be known as the ‘Black Hilis 
Sportsman’s Club.” 'The club is said to have been tireless in 
its efforts to prevent the wanton destruction of game, out of 
season, and has secured the passage of wholesome laws by 
the Legislature to that end. Steps have been taken by the 
club for the introduction of quail with whose progeny to 
stock the Hills and a ecunnins country. The officers 
elected on Jan. 1 were as follows: Dr. L. F. Babcock, Presi- 
dent; John Stannus, Vice-President; John Jj. Ickes, Treas- 
urer. Board of Managers—Seth Bullock, B. G. Phillips and 
E, Butterfield. At present the club is composed of twenty- 
one effective members and fifteen honorary members; one 
from each of the journals published in the counties of Law- 
rence, Pennington and Custer.—Sramps, 


Sizn or Mmasures.—‘‘Hammerless” says that there is a 
difference of ten pellets between the Bridgeport and Dixon 
measure. I have a measure that, when it is set at the ounce 
notch, holds about six pellets of No. 5 shot over 14 ounces, 
The maker neglected to put his name on the measure, 
Another one, stamped ‘‘Bridgeport G, I Co., 23 C, R.,” 
when set at the 14 notch (there is no 1-ounce notch on it) 
holds eleven pellets less than 1f ounces. Another, without 
stamp, is about correct. The measures were filled level full 
and the shot weighed on a postal balance, I said that I did 
not consider the shell chamber in the gun any benefit. I 
presume some of your readers will differ from me in that, 
but I would like to see the 12-gauge gun that will shoot 
stronger than mine. Bitter Root Bill says that bis gun is 
chambered for 3-inch shells, but that it shoots as well with 
28 shells. Now if it shoots as well with a shell % of an inch 
shorter than the chamber, would it not shoot as well (or 
better) without any chamber? {t appeurs to me it would.— 
Gruen Wine (Freestone, Cal., March 20), 


A New Guy Crus.—The Independent Rod and Gun 
Club, of Rochester, N. Y., was organized March 25, 1884, 
Its object is to protect fish and game and the promotion of 
legitimate sport with the rod and gun, Officers for the en- 
suing six months are: President, H. Ritter; Vice-President, 
J. G. Zimber; Secretary, T. J. Zimber; Treasurer, J. C, 
Enders; Executive Committee, C. L. Harris, J. Long, T. J. 
Zimber; Vigilance Committee, J. Nouch, W, G. Weston, J. 
G. Zimber. 


[Apr 10, 1884, 
— eee 


SumMeR SHoorwe.—In your issue of March 20, ‘16-Bore,” 
of Madison, N. J., under the head of “Summer Woodcock 
Shootin: , makes some statements to which we take excep- 
lions. Lt must be very tame sport, indecd, in New Jersey, 
if his Views are correct. With ten yeurs ‘‘constant in sea- 
son’ woodcock shooting in this vicinity we must say that 
our experience is decidedly different from ‘'16-Bore’s.”” The 
seasou here opens July 4, and if the Jerseyman will come and 
make us a visit about that time we think that we can demon- 
strate to him that it requires something more than a mere 
boy to ‘‘catch on” to even a-bare majority of the birds 
flushed. In all of our experience we have never seen a single 
woodcock (after July 4) that could not get out of as small a 
hole, and do it as quickly as anything clothed in feathers. 
We have very fine partridge and quail shooting, but the 
woodcock is king of them all, and the hardest by far to bag, 
—PEDRO (Mehalson, Pa.), 


SLAUGHTER.—Mr. Francis Burritt, of South Norwalk, has 
been going for the ducks in aremarkable manner this spring. 
His first shot resulted in bringing to bag twenty-eight broad- 
bills; the second shot twenty-seven broadbills; and the third 
shot thirty-eight broadbills, These shots were made with a 
twelve-pound double eight-bore, with six drams of Hazard 
No. 5 duck, and 18 ounces No. 5 shot. The birds were 
plenty, and he sculled on to them, and fired both barrels 
with the above results. This only includes the birds that he 
picked up dead, of course, some cripples getting away. Last 
year he made another shot at oldsquaws, off Beaufort, Conn,, 
killing fifty (50), having used a single four-bore at them sit- 
ting, and a double eight as they rose. He picked up fifty 
dead, and many wounded escaped. We donot think this 
shooting has been beaten recently,—Four-BorE. 


Brrps in MARYLAND.—Snipe shooting has commenced in 
this section, As early as March 24, R, Cantler shot one snipe 
in Anne Arundel county, Md., and on March 30, he made a 
bag of six snipe in Baltimore county. Blackheadsand sprig- 
tail ducks have made their appearance on the Patapsco 
River. Isaw seyeral coyeys of partridges close to the city 
the last few days, and if they are not disturbed by the mar- 
ket gunner, sportsmen may expect good shooting close to 
the city this fall. There have been woodcock shot this spring 
to supply the demand of the taxidermists, the killing of 
which is against the law. But as long as they can be sold 
for a good price, those shooting for gain will continue to 
violate the Jaw and destroy the birds. AMATEUR (Baltimore, 
Md., April 2). 


Brrps IN On10.—Quail wintered pretty well here, the 
pheasants a little better. I found afew dead birds in the 
field that had been frozen and starved to death. Ducks are 
abundant here, fishing is fine also, Iam getting Hon. H, C, 
Greim, a representative, to try and help our game law 
through. That will protect the game when shooting seasons 
are over, it also forbids trapping birds and selling them, Let 
us hear from some other young sportsmen in the future.— 
Youne Sportsman (Somerset, O., March 25). 


New Jersey Nores.—Quail seems to be very scarce in 
this section of the State, notwithstanding the efforts of the 
game socicty we have here, who annually stock their leased 
ground. I was out with my dog last Sunday for a walk and 
put up two woodcock, but they were yery wild. I also ran 
into a flock of upland plover. Robins are quite numerous. 
Mr. Willis, the champion quail raiser, has an addition to his 
feathered pels in the shape of two imported pheasants.— 
Dasx (Westfield, N. J., March 27). 

PENNSYLVANIA NotEs,—Game wintered well in this sée- 
tion, for although we had a great deal of snow, there was 
little drifting, and no sleet or freezing rains, I flushed seven 
English snipe the other morning near town and, on the 20th 
ult., saw the first woodcock of the season. Trouting season 
opened on Tuesday, 1st inst., with a general rush to the 
streams, and although it is cold and stormy, some pretty 
good catches have been made.—T. E, D. (Hollidaysbargh, 
April 3), 


Camp Hire Hlickeyings. 
“That reminds me.” 


108. 
HE late Dr. John R. Curd was a native of Goochland 
county, Virginia, and possessed a talent for fiction 
which gave him a broad reputation. r¢ 

At a dinner party he related the following incident in con- 
nection with his experience as a high private in the army of 
Northern Virginia, 

“T was attached to a battery at the battle of Gettysburg, 
and in the fierce cannouade which preceded Pickett’s charge, 
every man, except me, in my detachment, was killed. But 
although left alone, I did not desert my post; and long after 
the shattered remains of Pickett’s division had returned to 
the Confederate lines, I continued to fire grape into the 
masses of the enemy on the opposile ridge. While I was 
ramming down the last charge, General Robert E. Lee 
galloped up and cried, ‘Curd, cease firing; let there be an 
end to this bloodshed.’ But I said to him, ‘General, I have 
but one charge left; let me give them this.” Overwhelmed 
by his emotions the noble Lee sprang from his horse, seized 
my hand, and with tears in his eyes exclaimed, ‘Dr. Curd, 
henceforth do not call me General, but call me Bob!’ 

NORTHSIDE. 


109. 

‘In a recent visit to Adironda I had the pleasure of calling 
on your occasional contributor, Major Joseph Verity, U. 8. 
H. I found the veteran hale and well and full of remi- 
niscences of the past, which he freely discoursed of. Early 
in the conversation he spoke of his first and second wives 
and his children, but later on, when I spoke of something 
concerning domestic relations, I think it was of wives some- 
times objecting to their husbands going fishing and shooting, 
he said that he ‘‘was not competent to give an opinion in 
such matters, having lived a bachelor all his days.” 

‘Why, Major!” said I, in some astonishment, ‘‘if I under- 
stood you aright you were telling me not long ago of your 
wife and children.” (L was afraid to venture on more than 
one wile). 

‘Was I?” said he, and then after a short pause he added, 
with great dignity of manner, ‘Well, sir, it cannot be ex- 
pected of one of my years that he should remember every 
little thing that has happened to him in the course of a long. 
and somewhat eventful life.” AWAHSOOSE. 


——— << LUC 


Aprit 10, 1884.) 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


207 


OO NN Nees 


Sea and River Sishing. 


ROD MAKING, 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

Several times I have noticed items in your paper, and one 
in last issue signed ‘“W. K.,” recommending swelled or over- 
capped ferrules which he says gets the full size of the wood, 
I would like io have some one tell me what advantage there 
is in using such ferrules; most. of us rod makers of late years 
in making a light rod would not think of letting in the 
ferrules flush with the wood. Weturn the ferrules at the 
end so as to make a nice finish, at the same time making it 
a little thinner and place a wrapping of silk next, which, 
when finished, makes the work complete, But it is claimed 
that it makes the rod stronger. Suppose we were going to use 
for a fly-rod No, 3 swelled or over-capped ferrules for first, 
and No, 0 for the last joint; it makes a rod which is really 
No, 4 and No. 1, which is just one size larger than No. 3 
and No. 0 straight ferrules, Again suppose we take a swelled 
ferrule which is size of No. 3 at Jarge end, and compare its 
size with No. 8 straight ferrule; we find it is just one size 
smaller where the male ferrule enters and the same size at the 
other ends, Now, where is there anything gained? The 
swelled ferrules cost more and it is more work to fit them 

_ on, I use them on some rods because they are ordered so, 
but consider them, like the dowels, of no use whatever. 

When I make a rod and use swelled ferrules, I use just 
one size smaller ferrules than I would in using straight 
ferrules to get same sized rod. 1 

The fact is we follow too faithfully in the old rut, and itis 
high time that such gentlemen as Mr. Wells should stir us 
fellows up, and we should help them to get the wool off our 
eyes and to benefit ourselves and customers. E. M. E. 


Hancoox, N. Y., Mareh 28. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

T have been much interested in the recent discussion in the 
columns of ForEsT AND STREAM concerning the use. of dowel 
pins in fishing rods, and would like to add my mite for the 
benefit of my fellow anglers, although I fear the subject 
has been already so ably and thoroughly exhausted by 
Mr. Henry P. Wells that my remarks will prove superflu- 
ous. 

Nearly thirteen years’ experience as an amateur rod maker 
has satisfied me of the soundness of Mr. Wells’s views in regard 
to dowel pins. During that period I have made about thirty 
rods of yarious descriptions for my friends, and since my 
first attempt I have abandoned the use of dowel pins, which, 
as Mr. Wells correctly states, not. only serve to weaken arod 
unnecessarily, but add to the angler’s perplexities when so 
unfortunate as to break his only rod while on the stream where 
the fish are biting freely, and possibly not another rod is to he 
obtained within a distance of forty miles, An instance of 
this came under my observation while bass fishing last fall. 

While engaged in the manufacture of my first fly-rod I 
was so fortunate as to make the acquaintance of the lamented 
“Unele Thad” Norris; this resulted in a correspondence, 
which was only terminated by his death. To him I am in- 
debted for many little kinksin rod making, for he had, as he 
expressed it, ‘‘an abiding sympathy for amateur rod 
makers,” and was always ready to extend a helping hand to 
tyros like myself, and share with others the stores of knowl- 
edge acquired by him during an experience extending 
through the many years of his useful life. He early pointed 

- out to me the abomination of the dowel pin; the weakening 
effect of the pins so generally employed to fasten on ferrules, 
also another fruitful source of broken rods, namely: making 
shoulders in the wood when fitting on ferrules—this latter 
method has to my mind even a far greater weakening effect 
than the dowel pin. In nearly every instance of a broken 
rod which has come under my observation, the fracture 
occurred just at the junction of the female ferrule with the 
wood. 

I approach the subject of tapered ferrules with some trepi- 
dation, but agree in the main with Mr, Wells. Straight fer- 
rules are undoubtedly the best if they cannot be had properly 
tapered. If properly made the female ferrule should taper 
very slightly from both ends to the center. This is accom- 
plished by stretching the end into which the male ferrule 
fits over a tapered mandrel; the male ferrule will then fit 
snugly the whole length of its insertion, and as the metal 
becomes worn, enters deeper and deeper, thus taking up all 
wear. Norris thus made his ferrules, and since commencing 
this article, I have examined my old fly-rod made by him, 
and used by me for nearly nine seasons, and cannot detect 
the least looseness or shakiness in the ferrules, which fit as 
tightly as when first made. During nearly thirteen years 
experience in fly-fishing, both for trout and bass, I have sel- 
dem had my rods throw apart, and am convinced that on 
every occasion where such mishap occurred, the fault was 
due mainly to my own carelessness in not properly jointing 
the rod. Unless unnecessary force is employed in casting 
the fly, I don’t see how a reasonably well jointed rod can be 
thrown apart. 

By the way, will some of your readers furnish mea recipe 
for making a good stick cement for fastening ferrules, or in- 
form me where it can be bought. Norris used to supply me, 
but since his death I have made numberless experiments try- 
ing to make something like his, but the results haye been 
unsatisfactory. Latterly Ihave been using a mixture of 
liquid shellac and powdered quartz, yet while this prepara- 
tion.appears to hold well, it would be rather inconvenient to 
take along on a fishing trip. G. A. BRANDT. 

Wassineton, D. C., April 1, 1884, 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 

If Mr. Brandt will make his ferrules fit the joint reason- 
ably well, and then proceed as follows, it is confidently be- 
lieved the result will be satisfactory: 

_ Warm the end of the joint and cover it evenly-with gutta- 
percha gum, distributing it as it melts with a stick for this 

urpose; warm the ferrule, place a small piecc of the gum 
Inside, and moye if about in like manner until the inside is 
coated. Then warm both joint and ferrule, and push into 
place with a twisting motion, This gum will be found to 
melt at a low temperature, to be extremely adhesive, and it 
is believed is sufficiently elastic to defy time or any other 
contingency, except heat, to loosen its hold. . 

For twelve years or more, off and on, I have experimented 
with ferrule cements, and though several were found which 
answered well, all left something’ to be desired, Sonie ex- 
periments in another direction reqhired’ the use of” gutta- 
percha gum,-and while manipulating it I was at once struck 


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with its unequalled adaptability to the purpose under dis- 
cussion. 

The theoretically perfect ferrule cement resembles the 
theoretically perfect knot, in that while it should hold for- 
ever if desired, it still may be loosened at any time with the 
ulmost ease. 

This discovery, if discovery it is, is too recent to have as 
yet undergone the crucial test of protracted use and abuse. 

ut as far as a limited Japse of time, and considerable ex- 
perience in the behavior of other cements, will warrant the 
formation of an opinion, it is confidently believed that this is 
the ferrule cement of the future, and that it fully meets and 
equals every requirement of the theory. . 

Tn all that I have written on the subject of fly-fishing ap- 
pliances, and in all that I may hereafter write, but one end 
and object has been and will be in view—the improvement 
of the art. I hope to see the day when the dowel will at 
least be the exception rather than the rule; when a detached 
handle will be of almost universal use; when the fastening- 
pin and cements which necessitate that a broken end shall be 
burned out of the ferrule, will all be things of the past. 

Every September for years past I have had to keep a Maine 
camp full of anglersin repair. This is a labor of love, of 
course, as it is to every true angler to aid another. I men- 
tion this, that your readers may see that sufficient experience 
has been had of the various accidents to which anglers are 
liable, to justify an expression of opinion. And no opinion 
that L have so formed rests, I believe, on so solid a founda- 
tion of fact as the objections and recommendation of the pre- 
ceding paragraph. gf Fr 

Gutta-percha gum may easily be had of any dentist In 
sufficient quantity to fasten a set of ferrules, but if Mr. 
Brandt will send me his address, I will gladly mail him some. 

Or some of that cement may be procured at any shoe- 
maker's, which they use to paste waterproof patches on shoes. 
This generally, if not invariably, consists of this gum dis- 
solved in carbon bi-sulphide, It is a thick brownish liquid. 
But of all the vile smelling compounds that the ingenuity of 
man has yet been able to devise, this solvent caps the climax. 
Therefore, unless prepared to defy an attack from a mob, it 
is not wise to use it in the near neighborhood of others. 

Not only is it believed that this gum will fill every require- 
ment as a ferrule cement, but an equal degree of confidence 
(based, however, less on experience than on theory) is felt 
that it will prove invaluable in emergent repairs, as a means 
of coating and uniting such splices as are employed to mend 
broken joints. Its extreme adhesiveness, its utter indiffer- 
ence to moisture, and its ready fusibility, seem to render it 
peculiarly suited to this purpose—far more so than the shoe- 
maker’s wax usually employed for the purpose. 

To such as may desire to thus fasten their ferrules, the fol- 
lowing procedure is recommended. Mark the distance to 
which the joint is to enter the ferrule. There wrap on 
tightly a strip of writing paper about three-quarters of an 
inch wide, and secure the outer end with mucilage or flour 
paste, that it may not unwind. Set the ferrule as before 
directed. Some of the gum will be crowded before it, which 
may be removed with a knife, wetted to prevent sticking, 
and set aside for future use. ‘Then heat till the residue is 
fluid, and wipe off clean with a rag, Finally remove the 
paper, and the job is complete. 

Mr. Brandt’s remarks in reference to the hour-glass con- 
formation of the bore of a female ferrule merit and receive 
my thanks, for they call to my attention an oversight in my 
comments on the dowel pin, of no little importance. In his 
skilled hands doubtless this may work well; but it is a prin- 
ciple of construction which must be handled with singular 
discretion. 

Let us analyze this fora moment. The hour-glass confor- 
mation we understand to be that, in which the inner diam- 
eter of the female ferrule diminishes from both ends toward 
the middle. Of course, the male ferrule is tapered to con- 
form. Now here we have a portion of a cone entering 
a conical hole. It is obvious that this cone may enter 
some distance before it is at all in contact with the sides 
of its socket; or in other words, before there is any fit 
at all. It is also plain that when contact does occur, 
yery slight additional advance of the cone wedges it 
fast, and it can enter no further. Therefore, the limits 
within which the fit lies are very narrow. On one side 
and almost in contact lies the ‘‘jam,” where further in- 
ward motion is brought to a stand; on the other side, and in 
almost equally close juxtaposition, is a point where the 
contact and consequent friction (or, in other words, the 
cohesion of the surfaces) is very slight. Now it is this fric- 
tional cohesion alone which prevents the rod from throwing 
apart. 

Have any of your readers ever endeavored to loosen a stub- 
born glass stopper from a bottle? Here we have the condi- 
tions exactly reproduced—a cone fitting within a tapered 
bore. Holding the bottle in the left hand and constantly 
turning it, each side of the glass stopper is tapped in alterna- 
tion with any light metal body, and in a moment an adhesion 
which defied all the torsional strain you could apply, is 
broken, and the stopper may easily be removed with the 
thumb and finger. 

And just here, and in ignorance or neglect of these simple 
and elementary principles, lies the foundation of the con- 
stantly recurring charge that the dowelless ferrule will throw 
apart. Give to such a ferrule, if constructed on the hour- 
class plan, any sudden shock or jar, start it ever so little, 
and the cohesion of the surfaces is so impaired that, if the 
next cast does not overcome this altogether, it at all events 
loosens it still more, until the joint throws apart, and the 
angler lifts up his voice in such remarks as he deems appro- 
priate to the occasion. 

Now let us contrast the action of a true cylinder. Enter 
one-eighth of an inch and it fits—enter it another eighth; it 
still fits, and the cohesion of the second is added to first—a 
third, and with like result, and so on, till it has entered to its 
limit, still fitting at each fraction of advance, and still con- 
stantly adding a due proportion of cohesion to that already 
obtained. Start this ferrule intentionally a quarter of an 
inch—yes, even half an inch, and still, if the fit is tolerably 
good, you have cohesion more than sufficient to meet and 
overcome the tendency of the joint to throw apart, and thus, 
as has been demonstrated by years of use by my friends and 
self, as well as it would appear from your columns by many 
another angler, this most aggrayating mishap may be alto- 
gether prevented, : 

Therefore it would seem that by no means should that end 
of the female ferrule which is to receive its mate be enlarged 
upon a tapered mandrel, but on the contrary, the bore of that 
part should be as true a cylinder as possible. If doubt of 
the fit is still felt, the following course is recommended: 
Stretclt the malé ferrule on 4 cylindrical mandrel, if it be 
tdo ‘small;-then cemeént it ahd its mate-each on a stick to 


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serve as a handle, and grind them together with flour, emery 
and oil. Im doing this be not content with simply twisting 
them around, the male within the female ferrule, but try to 
combine to some extent the reciprocating motion of the pis- 
ton of a steam engine, and this not only to insure a more 


‘even distribution of the emery, but that the grinding may 


be uniform and not in rings. To trained mechanics other 
abrading powders preferable to emery will suggest them- 
selves. But it is to be remembered that the ferrules of a 
fly-rod bear little analogy to the bearings of a running ma- 
chine, since the sum of all the motion communicated to the 
ferrules by jointing and unjointing the rod in many years 
would fall far short of that made by such & machine in & - 
very few minutes. Flour emery is everywhere to be had, 
and is, therefore, all things cousidered, the most available 
for our purpose. 

With the aid of a lathe this fitting becomes a matter of 
very trifling difficulty. Provided with a round stick armed 
with No. 0 gmery cloth, glued upon it, and of a size just 
to enter the female ferrule, the latter is chucked in the 
lathe. While revolving at arate of speed as high as the 
lathe will give, the stickis introduced well oiled, and while 
the ferrule revolves, the stick is moved constantly Inward 
and outward. A very few minutes suffices. Then the male 
ferrule can be readily fitted, while itself revolving in the 
lathe, with a ‘‘dead smooth” file, supplemented by emery 
cloth and oil, 

Since the srinding-stick is thus constantly reciprocated 
during this process, it is clear that while at the mouth of 
the ferrule the abrasion is continuous, if 1s intermittent 
within; and that this necessarily enlarges the mouth more 
than inner portions of the bore. But the difference is almost 
infinitesimal, and that it should be confined fo the least pos- 
sible quantity, the grinding should be continued for but two 
or three minutes at most, 

Thus from the tubing described in your issue of March 27, 
I can make and fit: the ferrules for arod, including a handle- 
ferrule, one butt, two middle joints, and two tips, in not 
to exceed three-quarters of an hour, I bave tested them with 
severity for years, and I know they will work in every par- 
ticular to leave nothing to be desired. Henry P, WELLS. 


VIOLATIONS OF THE FISH LAWS. 


HE Buffalo Courier says, in speaking of the work of 
Game Protector Stephen A. Roberts, of that city: 

‘*The first official act of Mr, Roberts was the taking and de- 
stroying of eight large nets found set in American waters of 
Niagara River early last fall. The owners of the nets watched 
the proceeding from hiding places along the river banks, but 
made no open opposition to the sacrifice of their property by 
the game protector and his allies. Loss of their nets is 
deemed infinitely more disastrous by the piscatorial law- 
breakers than the being detected and indicted. The former 
punishment means the loss of vaiuable nets, besides the pas- 
sible punitive penalty imposed by the court for the offense 
in case the name of the owner of the nets is learned py the 
public prosecutor or game protector. It may be news to 
many of our citizens to learn that all fishing with nets, ex- 
cept for minnows, is positively prohibited in the American 
waters of Niagara River at all seasons, and that it is an of- 
fense under the same statute to have in possession either 
black or striped bass weighing less than one-half pound 
at any time. Snaring with pound nets in Lake Erie and 
Ontario is forbidden at all seasons. Myr. Roberts said to a 
Cowrier reporter; "The opposition to my authority is yery 
strong, especially about Buffalo. The men who subsist here 
from the fisheries are mostly idle fellows, too lazy to work, 
and just sufficiently adventurous to love violations of the law 
for the very sake of the excitement. Several of them are 
desperate fellows who have served terms in the penetentiary 
and who literally poach for a living, When IJ first entered 
upon my duties these men committed open violation, claim- 
ing that the fish they saared were of Canadian parentage, but 
they found out their mistake. Last fall L used to go out at 
night in boats and make a regular patrol of likely spots for 
nets. A policeman from the nearest station-house would 
usuuliy accompany me, and we often found what we sought 
and without opposition could destroy the nets. During the 
winter I have been in the habit of visiting the river banks to 
watch operations, Now, however, I shall begin my water 
patrol systematically, and enforce the law strictly, Lintend 
to exercise my authority to the fullest, although [ am almost 
alone in my attempts. Citizens are not disposed to help me 
and even put obstacles in the way of my success. Even the 
sporting clubs of this city extend no helping hand to me in 
my effort to punish violations of the game laws. One1aicht 
naturally suppose that these organizations would be dis- 


posed to come forward and aid me, even to the 
extent of offering rewards for the detection of 
offenders, but they show no _ disposition to second 
my efforts in any direction. Already this  sea- 
son the poachers are thoroughly organized. They go 


off in boats and have sentries posted along the shore to warn 
them. When they have set their nets they go ashore and 
leave them over night or until early morning, setting a watch 
on shore to keep guard over their nets. If they see me com- 
ing in my boat, they shoot out from cover in a light skiff, 
cut the lines, and soT lose the chance of getting both net 
and culprits. . There is no man in the State fonder of hunt- 
ing and fishing than I am, and for that very reason, if for 
no other, [am determined to press poachers. Only I want 
the co-operation of the officers of the law and of the people 
generally. What good is it to have a man imdicted if he can 
pay a trivial fine and repeat his offense under my very nose, 
defiantly? None at all, My duties are hard enough, but E 
mean to discharge them to the very best of my ability, and 
earn my money while I hold my place. There are things 
about the game laws I should like, as a sportsman, to see 
changed, The present open season is from May 20 to Jan. 
i ead this is wrong, because, you see, these fish do not 
begin to spawn here until between the 12th and 15th of 
June, when they seek the shallow waters of the river sides 
and can be readily snared. If the season was not declared 
open until July 1 the spawning would be over and the fish 
swimming in mid-stream, safe from all but anglers, I have 
conferred with Mr. Sherman of the board, who has promised. - 
to have the matter brought up before the game committee in 
the Legislature, I hope some action will result from it. I 
am devoting my whole time to my keepership, and shall 
devote my days with equal impartiality to the poachers who | 
shoot and the poachers who fish and snare. I shall haye my 
hands full, at any rate. In August, when the woodcock 


season sels in, the destruction of hen partridge ,and their 


young will also be inaugurated, and I shall bring sportsmen 
of all shades of culture to the undiscriminating bar of, it is 
hoped, even-handed justice, Didn't know if was loadett ~ 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Arrin 10, 1884. 


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won't do if i hear of a young and uprotected partrid ge being 
knocked out by a gnileless sportsman. Well, good day, I 
have a trio of names of offenders before the grand jury and 
I must ¢o over to the hall, You might say, if you will, that 
all complaints directed to me at 56 Cottage street will receive 

rompt vttention. Good day,’ and the keeper of his excel- 

ency’s preserves and preserver of the game and dignity of 
the commonwealth turned away, and the stone figure of jus- 
tice on the city hall tower seemed to smile on him us he bent 
his steps toward the building,” 


At Swanton, Vt., there has been a ficht with the poachers 
on Missisquoi Bay. Our correspondcant, “Snip Snap,” sends 
us @ clipping from the Burlington Free Press, and says that 
it is the intention to enforce the laws although it is difficult 
to getia conviction in Vermont, ‘The article details a fight 
with clubs, axes and pistols, and concludes by saying; 

“The prisoners secured were two brothers named Nat and 
Joseph Sheets and Jo:eph Couture. The officers looked 
around and discovered three or four barrels of fish of excell- 
ent quality, caught that morning, which the fishers were 
prepared to ship to New York, The prisoners and the two 
large nets which were taken were loaded into the wagon and 
the officers started ont on their return tiip, As there was 
room in the wagon for only a part of their number, Sheriffs 
Barton and Atherton and Officer Dumas walked to Swanton, 
a distance of seven miles. The prisoners were taken to St. 
Albans where a complaint was entered against them for re- 
sisting the officers of the law, and in default of bail in the 
‘sum uf $250 each, they were committed to jail in that place. 
The State attorney at St. Albans has taken the cage in hand 
and the offenders will undoubtedly receive a lesson that they 
and their partners in guilt will long remember.” 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I am very glad to see that there is some one who will say a 
word against the slaughter of the fish in the western part of 
Vermont, It seems too bad that there should be s0 much 
illegal fishing of our lakes, and even in the small streams, 
where a few trout can be taken in the proper season. As it 
is now, there area certain few who ¢o fishing, and what 
fish they cannot catch with hook and line, they will take by 
nets and make a clean scoop as far as they go. In some of 
the trout brooks instances have been known of lime being 
thrown into the streams, which destroyed all of the fish that 
came in contact with it. No notice is taken of any of these 
acts, although there is a so-called fish protective society in 
the place. The same thing happens also in our beautiful 
Lake Bomoseen, where there are both large and small 
mouthed bass, pickerel, perch, sunfish, bullheads, suckers, 
aud a small fish galled the whitefish. The illegal fishing is 
carried on during the whole season. As soon as the ice is 
out of the above mentioned lake, spearing is commenced, 
and on any night during the spring that is suitable for spear- 
ing, can be scen from three or four up to a dozen boats. The 
writer has seen as many as thirteen jacks out at one time in 
one evening, and from then until the lake is frozen over net- 
ting is carried on, The nets used are mostly gill nets, It is 
a common occurrence in a certain locality to see the nets 
spread out on the grass or around the porches, drying. It is 
plaim to be seen that such work is spoiling all hook and line 
fishing, Now it is hardly possible for a person to catch with 
a hook and line a decent mess of fish, whcre a few years ago 
it could be readily done. It seems too bad, that as long as 
we haye a very stringent law againsi ali such illegal fishing, 
there cannot be found some one who has the pluck to put a 
stop to such work, 

The aforementioned fish protective society appointed cer- 
tain men to prosecute all such offenders; but there has not 
becn one single instance of any of the offenders being brought 
to justice. As this lakehas become quite a prominent place 
for summer visitors, it seems to me this illegal fishing ought 
tu be stopped, Such is the wish of one of the citizens of the 
place. SNAP SHor 6. 

CASTLETON, Vt., March’31, 


LENGTH AND WEIGHT OF FLY-RODS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The importance of selecting and using the right kind of a 
fly-rod is so great that I wish to indorse the article written 
by Ouonduga I1.,” in your issue of March 27. I do not 
know the writer, but he must be a master workman at the 
gentle art to handle the subject so well, 

Twenty years’ experience at fly-fishing has convinced me 
that a good split bamboo from eleven to eleven and one-half 
feet loug, from nine to teu ounces in weight, and properly 
balanced, which means niuch, is the safest rod that can be 
used, except for brook-fishing or very small trout. The ad- 
vantages of such a rod over a light and short one are: It will 
stand harder usage, is quicker killing, will make longer 
casts, and at the same time possess all the virtues that are 
claimed for alight, short rod. 

On my second trip to the Rangeley Lakes I was taught a 
lesson neyer to be forgotten. J had whipped the water from 
twenty to forty feet helow me with a light rod and three 
flies attached to a short leader for half an hour, and walked 
away in disgust, when a stranger to me quickly stepped on 
to the reck | had just left. He was armed with a ten-ounce 
split bamboo of the latest pattern. A short movement of 
the forearm, a gentle turn of the wrist, and the two flies 
went bounding outward and upward and at last dropping on 
the water like thistle down. Only afew casts, and they 
landed sixty feet away, and as they touched the water so 
deftly, a mighty swirl, a splash, and a five-pound trout that I 
had driven down the river was hooked and scientifically 
killed. I stood and watched him handle that rod until three 
trout, weighing nearly twelve pounds, were taken in that 
one place. 1 lost my trout, buf the lesson learned was the 
best one and the only one | ever needed. 

Since that time 1 have done the same kind of work for 
some hurrying, over-anxious nimrod who was apparently 
driving oxen instead of Hy-fishing. 

The point thet *‘Onondaga 1],” makes is a good one where 
he says: ‘Such a rod willcarry the flies to the full limit of 
its strength, and at the end of a taut line, accurately and 
softly.” 

One thing to be observed in sclecting a rod is to not get a 
too slim or limber one. I have two objects in writing these 
few lines. The first is to show “Onondaga II.” that there 
are some of the Forrst AND STRPAM’s readers who appre- 
_ ciate his article, and the other reason is to benefit some one 
of Jess experience in tht craft in selecting and-using a fly- 
on. -. : ; Bee. Wi x 


T — ela _ : 7 
Puewam, Conz., Marcli 81. - pe 


FISHES AND FISHERMEN. 


OME are born to greatness, some are born to wealth, 
Others come into the world and must needs work their 
way to fame and fortune, Whether a fisherman is born to 
always have good luck, 1 doubt, but I do not doubt the 
truism, that all lucky fishermen hadit bred and born in their 
bones, as sure as the son of a king is natural heir to a throne. 
I was born on Friday, therefore must expect some bad 
luck in my time, as in the past it has come to me, one way 
and another. I was brought to first see the light of my 
existence in Bradford county, Pa., ncar the mouth of the 
Wyalusing Creck, and spent my boyhood, orhaleyon days, by 
the side of a rippling brook that ran through my father’s 
farm upon the banks of the beautiful Susquehanna River, 
whose silent waters flowed past our very door. The lofty 
mountain that lifted its giant head on the opposite shore, 
cast its shadow every morning at our fect, and has a charm 
for me that no other spot on earth has. The old crooked 
river is mapped in my memory, though for thirty years I 
have become acquainted with new faces and strange waters. 
Now for our vacation of 1882. 

At the time of my first bout at sailing, Twas a resident of 
the thriving inland city of Syracuse. Whether it was for 
the purpose of getting a buge joke on me, or for the purpose 
of allowing me to spend some jolly days with a few jully 
Elmira boys, I will leave the reader to judge when my tale 
has been told, 

Two years ago this coming summer, in July, I found my 
friends awaiting me at the depot in Elmira. All prepara- 
tions had been made and a large flat boat was anchored in 
the Chemung below the road bridge, It had been well built 
by my brothers, Dr. C. W. Brown and T. F. Brown, resi- 
dents of Church street and College avenue. It was 20 feet 
in length and some 10 feet wide, with 12-inch sides, braced 
on the bottom with 2x4 scantling; a staunch eraft, with a 
Jarge cabin, with upper and lower berths, Ourstock of pro- 
visions, fire-works, guns and ammunition were in great 
abundance. The fire-works consisted of rockets, Roman 
candles, wheels and crackers, all the gift of our genial 
companion, Attorney-at-law Swartz. He had a fine voice, 
and could enchant any crowd with his melodious strains, 

Our company was made up of two Browns beside myself; 

; Legal Swartz, captain or conductor of pyrotechnics; Dr. C. 
W. Brown, captainisimo and general superintendent cf mo- 
tion; Rev. Manly 8. Hard, chaplain and professor of good 
order; W. H. Willson, of Ithaca, N. Y., a contributor to 
Forest AND STREAM and the possessor of the largest shces 
of any man inthe party; Mr. Copeland, champion bass eater; 
one of the editors of the Elmira Daily Advertiser, the taker 
of notes, ete. Several other gentlemen went on board with 
us, who acted as sailors. The writer was dubbed the cor- 
netist, he unfortunately having taken his horn along, the 
echoes of which may still be reverberating, for al! I know, 
from rock to rock up and down the ravines of Sheshequin 
or Sugar Run, ~ 

It was Sabbath night, and we all trying to be patient for 
the dawn of the morning. Our craft had been loaded, and 
everything was ready to lift anchor when the midnight hour 
should have past. The hours dragged slowly on, our sleep 
haying been dreamy and fitful enough to produce hysteria 
in a woman and hypochondriasis m any man but a born 
fisherman, 

The night was pitch dark when we left the dock and 
pulled out with a stiff wind blowing great guns. 

The river was low, and we were obliged to use an ash 
breeze to get on at all. It was broad daylight, and the sky 
overcast with clouds, before we had proceeded down the 
Chemung three miles. At this slow rate we could not expect 
to reach Athens, Pa., before midnight. At about 12 M. we 
landed on an island, where we found a large encampment of 
Hlmirians—ladies and children principally—the happiest lot 
we evermet. Their camp was called Wyckoff, and a neater 
place oue must go to the tropics to find. Grand old elms and 
beautiful buttonwoods cast their shadows over camp and 
field. 

The chirping of birds and the merry laugh of the children, 
combined with the musical voices of Rev, Hard and Attor- 
ney Swartz as they chatted with the ladies, completed the 
churming scene. We remained but a short half hour to rest 
from our pull against the wind, and to allow our captain, 
Dr. C. W. B., to get mere breath, to enable him to call 
lustily to the oarsmen for more motion-during the rest of 
the day before us. 

From Camp Wyckoff we sailed for Chemung. Before 
reaching this hamlet, nestled at the foot of a mountain,, we 
must needs pass ‘Johnny Cake Dam.” ‘This spot in the 
Chemung none of us will will ever forget. We called it the 
worst dam that ever dammed astream. The sequel will 
show why. My brother and the writer bad a skiff and went 
ahead of the large boat to pipepect We heard the roar of 
the water ahead of us, and felt the current sucking our boat 
fairly from under our feet. We were standing ,up looking 
at the torrent of rushing water as it sped through the old 
timbers and piles of the ragged remains of the defunct dam. 
Nearer and nearer our trembling skiff approached the ter- 
rible place, in spite of our efforts to pullinto safe quarters. 
We now gave up all effort to save our going over into the 
whirlpool, and prepared ourselves as best we could to meet 
the sbock, As serious as was our situation, Swartz and Rev. 
Hard laughed to see our frantic efforts to use our oars to 
conduct the boat into a space that might possibly allow our 
little craft a clear pussage between some of the numerous 
piles, sticking their ugly heals above the water. 

At this moment we struck. I went through the air like a 
rocket, some twenty feet, fish-rod in hand, and landed upon 
the seething waves, and went under of course. Fortunately, 
the place I struck was a shallow one, and my feet touched 
bottom. I braced and struggled against the awful current, 
but could only hold my own. I felt something entangling 
my legs; I felt for it, and sracpad ae of our trolling lines, 
T pulled upon it, and found it was fast to the boat, which 
had gone down between the piles, J was thus enabled to 
pull myself to the skiff in the space of afew minutes. The 
eddy formed by the lodging of our craft made it possible for 
me to stand neck deep in the stream. 

My brother was fastened by one leg between the boat and 
alog. I felt yreat alarm for him, but was soon relieved by 
his good fortune to disengage himself by an herculean effort, 
There we were, out in a cauldron (as it were), being furiously 
washed and swayed by the crushing, foaming water, not 
knowing how soon we might lose our footing and be swept 
down to death. ; 


The situation was becoming extremely alarming. 


Our 
friends saw the plight we were In, atid jumped from their big| 
jot and ran dowa" is iyand sive us, My brother | in 
ad found Ins money fast about | ca 


boat and ran down the beach 
| put his handto his pocket anc 


to pass out into the current, I also looked after my wealth, 
and was just in time to suave it also, We were but about 
twenty fect from a little idand, and on this we threw our 
cash and it was secured by our friends, . 

Our oarsmen—two is brave men as I ever met—took a 
rope and cast it to us, which we caught and fastened to a 
pile, and the shore end was manned by five of tlie crew, and 
thus we were saved from 4 watery and untimely grave, 

Iwas now reminded of a lost creel and fish, a lost coat, 
fish-rods broken and useless, a lost fly-book worth $20, the 
rod worth $25 with line and broken reel, all my trolling 
lines and spoons lust, tangled or broken, and our hides wet 
asa washerwoman’s dress, In trying to get our boat loose, 
we broke it to pieces, and thus lost $25 more. Rather an 
expensive trip for the first day of our journey. In the ‘wee 
sma’’’ hours of the night we anchored under the great, iron 
railrqad bridge of the Lehigh Valley, at Athens. We took 
a midnight supper at mine host Rice’s hotel, and went to 
bed with our boots on, and slept well, after one of the most 
eventful and hard day’s work of a lifetime, 

I neglected to mention that we were some three hours or 
more getting our large craft over a sluicewny to the east of 
the dam, and on our way toward Athens we found my creel 
on a shoal, more than two miles from where we had our 
great struggle in that dam site. 

When we left Athens, at 8 o’clock A, M., the wind was 
still blowing, and the skies Letokencd showers. We now 
entered the broad and tortuous Susquehanna and put out 
our fishing lines, with bait and spoons, which we had re- 
plenished at Athens. We took fifteen wall-eyed pike and a 
goodly number of black bass before we reached Towanda, 
none twenty miles from the place of starting at the railroad 

ridge, 

At Milan we stopped for dinner, and sucha dinner bun- 
gry aud wet fishermen seldom sit down to. 

Oh, how it did pour when we landed and while our dinner 
was being prepared. It seemed as il the heavens were let 
loose, and to add to our distress, we suw the river, so beauti- 
fully clear in the morning, now beginning to darken with 
mud. Like true braves and jolly tars, however, we sat 
down to fried pike and sweet and Irish patatoes, black rasp- 
berries, fresh picked, fricasseed chickens, lovely white bread 
and the sweetest of butter, coffee and tea of the bust flavor, 
also such milk as only can be had at a country hotel. Talk 
about eating and clearing a table; talk of a flock of wolves 
in a sheep told; expatiate on a hawk swooping down upon 
a brood of chickens, and then consider the wreelk made of 
that dinner, and you will have reached the climax of de- 
struction of viands. Not a cake, « pie, a chicken, or fish 
was left outside of us. After the rain ceased to pour we 
all went to dig fish worms, which seemed to be the best bait 
for pike and bass that day. We had small, strong spoons, 
with red and white feathers covering the hooks, whirlers; 
three hooks which we loaded with worms, a wad of the 
squirmers, most tempting in Jakes or rivers for wall-eyed or 
glass-eyed pike. No angler should go after these fish with- 
out the worms and the spoons I have deseribed, They sre 
the boss for summer fishins. 

The best pike fishing Lever had in any river is the Sus- 
quehanna at Milan, and at the mouth of Towenda Creek, 
and at Wyalusing. ‘Thebest luke forfishes is Onida; though 
they abound in great numbers in Onondaga Lake, where 
they are often taken with a fly. 

When we reached the long streak of still water above 
Towanda, we took several of the largest pike of the day. 
Here friend Swartz sent up a few rockels, aud we fired sev- 
eral rounds of cartridges from our fowhing-pieces to let the 
citizens of the town know of the approach of the jolly 
pirates. It still rained, and we all housed as soon as we 
could in the Ward House, kept by Col. Jordan. In the 
evening we had a host of friends and some curiosity seekers 
callupon us. Rey. Mr, Hard and Swartz gave a display of 
fireworks that elicited great applause from the company, und 
especially from the crowd that congregated on the streets, 
The evening passed too quickly, for it was one of the plvas- 
antest often enjoyed. The following morning we fount Lhe - 
river swollen and quite roily. Webad poor luck fishing, but 
made a quicker passage to Wyalusing on account of the high 
water, 

After coming to anchor at Weli’s Ferry, Capt. Brown 
arrayed the company in military order, the guns and fish- 
rods to shoulder, and with martial music we marched two by 
two to the Wyalusing House, kept by J. M. Brown, where 
we reudezvouzed tor a week, and enjoyed ourselves as only 
such a wide awake party can. Day aiter day we picnicked 
our sweethearts and better halyes, haying met us there by 
rail. We fished and banqueted by day and by night, and 
every hour was full of pleasure. 

One day while fishing in Benneti’s Eddy, I had a bite 
that raised me of! my fect. Our boat was anchored, and I 
had out about fifty feet of line, baited witha young bullhead 
as long as one’s index finger, The fish was a monster, and 
after I struck him, he took abee line for the west shore. 1 
could not check him in the least; on he went so rapidly, now 
heading up stream that all my line had run out, and 1, brac- 
ing with both feet, this towing the stern of the hoat against 
the current. What to do im this emergeney I did not then 
know, I was so much excitvd. Lsoon found that one thing 
was sure, my line must part if I could not turn him. My 
eight-ounce Hy-rod, split bamboo, was bent in a semi-circle 
and still on he went, never ouce slacking pace, Snap went 
my leader, and down I went in the bottom of the boat, the 
heaviest fish I ever had hold of was gone, and sowas my 
strength und patience. Have you ever been in such a plight? 
If so, you know how to pily a brother angler, : 

The Susquehanna River is the most natural water for fish 
in tLe State. One shore is made of amass of shelving rocks, 
the other is shallow, and gravel bottom, covered with arank 
growth of eelgrass. Here the young tish can live and thrive 
unmolested, while near them the male fish stand guard by 
night and by day till the gamy little fellows are large ¢nough 
to shift for themselves. .A resident of Wyalusing told me 
that he had scen two rods wide of the shoal water, along 
Bennett's Eddy, so alive with young black bass, that the 
water was kept constantly roily by their motion in it during 
spawning or hatching time. 7 : 

There are millions of bass hatched out in this one loag 
stretch of still water, This is only twenty-five minutes’ ride, 
from the hotel at Wyalusing avd only ten minutes’ walk 
from a lovely private boarding house at Browntown, kept 
by Theodore OWE. where the bestof board and the neatest 
ee sleeping rooms can be had fora dollar per day. Phila — 
delphia people put up there and at Wyalusing every sum- 
mer, pate he fun they haye would make a dyspeptic envious. 

Se ee ee eA wich vie ee 
| fropt of Mr, Brown's boarding huuse, to which water one 
pp ia vores minutes, Boys aad girls ten years old extol 


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twenty to thirty bass at this point in half aday, A lady 
eaught one there while out witha party from Wilkesbarre 
and Harrisburg that weighed over four pounds. Dr. 8co- 
ville, of Wyalusing, caught large numbers last season that 
weighed four and five pounds each, “of 

Every man who reeds this article and wishes a good time 

_ let him go to Wyalusing or Brownton next summer, It will 

be well to engage rooms now for the month of July. as there 
may be such a rush as to make it an impossibility if put off 
too late, 

We went home with renewed strength and bronzed faces 
and hands. We shall be there next season if we live. 

M. M. Brown, M.D, 
TrHAcd, N, ¥, 


OPENING THE SEASON IN NEW HAMP- 
. SHIRE. 


HAD often read and pondered over the sketches of the 

opening day on trout fishing, but being fully aware of 

the uncertainty of the results on so bleak and generally 

stormy date xs April 1, I hadnever ventured out. But this 

year 1 determived that if railroads were not blockaded by 

snowstorms I would go and have an opportunity lo realize 
al there might be of sport or discomfort. . 

Lwent; and mark the favorable conditions: no black flies, 
no mosquitoes, no midges, and no iee needed to keep my 
fish. I had a good hittle catch, no such score of weights as 
given hy the members of Long Island clubs, taken from 
their waters, but thirty good fish witha big one that weighed 
a pound, and all bright, beautiful and wild. Fifteen of these 
I brought home alive, and in my aquarium they attract the 
admiration of the multitude, and awaken the dormant love of 
the sport in the heart of the old timer as he gazes long and 
lovingly on them. 

Listen: ‘‘Ab! Brook trout! beauties—wonder where they 
were caught? I thought Ll wouldn't do any fishing this year; 

_ but 1 guess I must take a weeks or so.” 

No. 2—‘‘Hello, Jim; come over here. See that? Boss fish! 
I broke one of my best rods last year on a big one. I must 
be looking over my tackle; I havent been feeling well all 
winter, and must get away early this season and have a long 
trip.” 

These expressions, together with the usual ‘‘Where did you 
catch them?” and “‘How many did you get?” ‘I wish [ had 
been with you,” ete., show bow deep and universal is the 
love for the brook trout. 

l have also to-day added to my family seven live trout 
fromthe famous Monadnock Lake, Dublin, N.H., the classi- 
ficution of which has again become an open question this 
winter. J have a fine opportunity to compare the two varie- 
ties (?) as to outward markings, but as specimens have re- 
cently been forwarded io Prof. Baird for a decision, 1 will 
for the present call them the “‘no name” trout. The people 
of that vicinity are justly proud of their beautiful lake and 
its fish, and as jealous of non-residents as they are proud; 
but before they again order off a fishing party I would sug- 
gest that at least one of the three wardens may he made 
aware of the change of close time from May 1 to April 1; for 
that old law of the date of 1879, which they carry about in 
their pockets and read over the heads of “the boys,” won't 
count, and may get themselves into trouble. M, 

BROMFIELD House, Boston. 


PRoTEoCTION IN New JeRsey.—A meeting was beld last. 
evening in the law office of Senator Griggs for the purpose of 
forming an association which will look after the enforce- 
ment of the fish and game laws in this county, It is a well- 
known fact that. fish have been llegally caught in the Passaic 
River and in the up-county lakes for some time, and that the 
laws governing the killing of game have also been violated in 
a most outrageous manner. The meeting last night was a 
yery successful one, althongh a number of the prominent 
sportsmen of this city could not attend for private reasons. 
These will, however, join the movement at the next meeting, 
County Olerk William M. Smith was elected president, 
Charles A. Shriner secretary, and Henry Keenan warden, 
Posters were ordered printed and distributed, warning all 
violators of the law to cease their illegal practices. Another 
meeting for the purpose of forming a permanent organiza- 
tion will be held on Thursday of next week in Mr. Griggs’s 
ofiice. The work of the Assogiation was mapped out last 
night. Individual members of the Association or perscns not 
belonging to the Association, but interested in the protection 
of game and fish and the enforcement of the laws, willreport 
to the secretary all violations of thelaw which come under 
their notice. An vestigation will follow, and as soon as 
the necessary evidence has been collected the warden will 
muke a complaint before some justice of the peace. Senator 
Griggs has offered hisservices in the prosecution of all cases, 
an offer which was gladiy accepted by the Association. The 
Senator is one of the most enthusiastic sportsmen in the 
State, and by the prosecution of the violators of the Jaw he 
will make a warm friend of every lover of the rod or gun in 
New Jersey. The Association proposes to prosecute vigor- 
ousty every offender, and by so doing it is hoped to puta 
stop to all illegal methods of capturing game and fish,— 
Paterson Press, Murch 29. at 


TrRouTING on Lone IstAnp.—South Oyster Bay, April 2. 
—The trout season opened quite favorably here. Lakes and 
streams are numerous, and they all contain more or Jess 
trout. Mr, Stanley caught seven very nice trout, weighing 
54 pounds; Mr. Clinton only caught four, one of them weigh- 
ing two pounds, and the others one pound each, Some of 
the other sportsmen did quite well also, but the raia to-day 
interfered with the fishing. The trout I spcak of were 
caught in public streams and not in a preserve; taking that 
into consideration it is notso bad. There were as usual 
some big fish lost, bat that don’t count. We generally do 
better on the first day, but the weather has been too cold 
lately to expect good sport.—Gno. Kiitan, 


TROUTINGIN WesteRN New Yorrx.—Onondaga County, 
April 4.—Trout fishing opened on the 1st with a record of 
a few good strings, The veteran trout fisher, Charles Bebee, 
caught thirty-three on the 1st, whese aggregate weight was 
thiee and one-quarter pounds. He also took two California 
mountain trout of three and four ounces each. Some per- 
sons from Syracuse brought in between forty and fifty fair 
trout. On the 2d, a friend and myself fished two brooks 
and took twenty trout of quite good size. The two largest 
weighed one and a half pounds. I also took a mountain 
trout of about two ounces in weight.—Gno. A. Knapp. 


The attention of salmon fishers is called to the Boston agvertise- 
aueil for threo oF four rods.” is frou a geutledsan woom 9 Lua 


Tour AND Exnorricrry,—In one of the tanks belonging 
to Mr, Blackford in Fulton Market, is a collection of live 
trout from James Annin, Jr,, of Caledonia, N. Y., one of 
which is a lake trout of four pounds weight. The tank is one 
of those that have an electric light suspended in the water, 
and is made of slate with glass on the front and back, An 
iron pipe enters a hole near the top of one end for the supply 
of water, and another pipe connects at the bottom of the 
other end, There is a board cover which keeps the fish from 
Jumping out, One morning since the trout show the fish in 
this particular tank were noticed to be ina state of excite- 
ment, which was so violent that the passers-by stopped to see 
what was the matter. They rushed about, and tried to jump 
out for about two minutes, and then turned on their backs, 
One of the attendants jumped to take out the fish, And on 
putting big hands in the water received a shock which nearly 
floored him, Recognizing the cause of the trouble he took 
out the wire, which had become detached somehow, and he 
left, the fish in the tank to see if they would revive. Jn 
twenty minutes they recovered and were switmiug about 
as if nothing had happened. No doubt a few minutes more 
in the electric current would have killed them. 


Micmiean Fish Laws.—Detroit, April 5.—Zditer Forest 
and Stream: Your correspondent, 'S. B. B.,” calls upon me 
to state why the Fish Commissioners allow the slaughter of 
fizh to go on in violation of the law. In the first place, the 
Commissioners have no more to do with the enforcement of 
the law than any one else has. Tf ‘S$. E. B.” will read the 
Jaw he will see whose duty it is. To ask the Commissioners 
to attend to the enforcement of law, and pay their own ex- 
penses for the benefit of men too cowardly to act themselves, 
is absurd. We give our time to the work of the Commis- 
sion without charge now, and it takes a great deal of labor 
and time to carry on our work. Will ‘‘S. E, B.” please tell 
me where he finds the law he quotes and the authority for 
saying the Commission will prosecute, ete, IT do not know 
of any such law nor of any act on the part of the Commis- 
sion that could even.give color to such a report. When the 
law is passed making it the duty of the Commission, and 


they to be paid for their time and expenses, they will see. 


that the law is respected. We hope to be able to haye a law 
passed creating game und fish wardens, etc,—A. J, Krt- 
LoGe, Fish Commissioner. 


SALMON IN ScorTnANn.—Aditor Forest and Stream: A 
letter just received by me from Henry Wright, Hsq., secre- 
tary to the Duke of Sutherland, states that the salmon fish. 
ing in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, this season is exceptionally 
good. He writes: ‘One of my friends was there for seven- 
teen days, fished fifteen and caught seventy-eight, weighing 
790 pounds. A party of six fishing one river showed over 
fifty salmon, on their return to the hotel, in one day, and on 
the other riversit has been proportionately good. I told 
one man at Brora (near Dunrobin Castle), who fishes with 
nets forthe market, that he might go to Loch Brora and 
have a haul, He did and got 398 fish, weighing 3,960 
pounds. I don’t mean in one haul, but one day’s hauling, 
say eight or ten hauls. The country is beginning to look 
lovely, the fruit trees just coming into full bloom, and the 
grass green,”—Gro, Samparp Pager. 


A Fry Preventer,—A common prescription to keep off 
flies and mosquitoes is a solution made by soaking or boiling 
quassia chips in water, Although highly recommended by 
some of those who have tried il, it nevertheless often proves 
ineffective. Something like the quassia remedy in its char- 
acter is the following, taken from the Sydney (Australia) 
Tribune; ‘‘A reader, Namoi River, states that he has found 
that by washing his hands and face in a weak solution of 
bitter aloes, he has escaped annoyance from the attacks of 
mosquitoes, even in localities where they are most trouble- 
some. He has also found that his horses benefited in alike 
manner by giving them a wash down with the same liquid.” 
We print it tor the purpose of asking our readers if any of 
them have ever tried it, and if so, with what result, To many 
people the ordinary smear of tar and oil is only less disagree- 
able than the insects themselves. 


A Hanpsome Trovur.—On Monday we received a box 
containing one two and three-quarter pounds trout, sent with 
the compliments of Mr, A. Weeks. The fish was takennear 
Locust Valley, on the north shore of Long Island, where they 
have access to salt water. It was as shapely a fish as one 
ever sees, and its light silvery sides shaded off to a delicate 
pink underneath. It was a fish that should have been im- 
mortalized on canvas. If, as is claimed, the trout of Long 
Island are the handsomest in the country, this was one of the 
most beautiful of Long Island trout. 


Lishculture. 


AN ENGLISH FISHCULTURAL FARM. * 
1 ge week we noticed the arrival of 10,000 eggs of the Eng- 

lish trout at the Cold Spring Harbor station of the New 
York Fish Commission. The following is an account of the 
place from which they came, written by Mr. R. B. Marston, 
of the London Fishing Gazette: 

The other day, in response to a long-standing invitation, I 
aid a visit to Mr, T, Andrews, the pisciculturist, of Westzate 
iouse, Guildford, in order to see his place generally, and to 

arrange about a shipment of 10,000 English trout eggs, which 
are to besentas a present from the Fishing Gazette to the 
American Fisheulture Association. 

Ifound Mr. Andrews in his hatching house busy looking 
over his magnificent stock of ova and fry. Fish-breeding seems 
to agree with Mr. A,, for he looks the picture of a man who 
takes things easily, and always seems jolly and contented. 
One would hardly suppose that he had the care of the finest 
fish farm and breeding-place in England, and a large business 
besides. He commenced fish-breeding as an amusement many 

ears ago, and soon found such a demand tor his eggs and 
ry thathe had to_ goin for it thoroughly, and it now pays 

him splendidly. In addition to his large hatchery at his 
house, he has, a few miles off, a system of no less than forty 
onds fed by springs, and ranging in size from two acres down 
o a few pquare yards, In these ponds he keeps his yearling 
trout and his parent fish, and some idea of the magnitude of 
his fish farm may be fot trom the fact that at the present mo- 
ment he has about 40,000 trout in these ponds. ot having 
seen them, I must reserve a description of the ponds for 
another visit; suffice it to say they are all admirably arranged, 
are staked to prevent poaching, and the water can all be 
drawn off by means of iron sluice valves, and they are, be- 
sides, so efficiently watched that poachers have no eae 


In the hatchery, Mr. Andrews has facilities for hatchin, 
over two millions of eggs during the season, and his annua 
“output”—if I may use this expression—otten exceeds that 
number. Last year Mr, A. sold half a million trout fry and 
yearlings,.and about a silli 
rauge trow 2 


2 million eggs, and his prices for é¢; 
. to 40s. per 7,000, to try from Bs, to 60s. ae 


1,000, and for yearling fish (5 to 8 inches in length), from £30 
to £45 per 1,000. 

He has at present about nine hundred thousand splendid 
trout eggs of various kinds in his troughs and trays. It was 
to me extremely interesting to witness this wealth of embryo 
trout life. Six hundred English trout eggs stocked the 
streams of Tasmaniwand New Zealand; here around me were 
sufficient to stock a universe, The ova was oz different sizes 
and color, from a pale yellow to a deep orange. _ The largest 
eggs were a lot of hybrids, produced by crossing 8. ferow and 
S. salvelinus (char), Then came a fine lot of great lake trout, 
which Mr. Andrews had obtained from Dr. Zonk, Some of 
these had already hatched out in a most promising manner. 
A eubie inch of ordinary (medium size) trout eggs number 
about 125—#. ¢., five rows deep of twenty-tive eggs, A gallon 
measure holds about 40,000 ‘fine’ eegs, Mr. Andrews finds 
that equally good results are obtained by using '‘trays” in- 
stead of the old-fashioned “troughs,” He can rely, as a rule, 
on an average of over ninety per cent, of fry from every hun- 
dred eggs. Asan instance of the advantage of the trays over 
the troughs, [may mention that while a trough 8 feet by 7 
inches will only hold successfully about 7,000 egrs, trays | foot 
by 3 inches will contain 125,00, In addition to this, the trays 
are infinitely cleaner and more easy to manipulate. The trays 
are made of finely-perforated zinc, coated with ordinary tar 
varnish, Wivye of these trays fit into a wooden box, which 
contains the water, and are made with a flange turned out- 
ward; this is important, as the flange then supports the box 
when it is let into its place, and there is no difficulty in pour- 
ing out eggs or fry, as would be the case if the flange turned 
inwards. tray 12 inches long, 6 wide and 3 deep will hold 
50,000 ezes, and the water comes to within half an inch of the 
top, and the eggs lie 15 deep, 

The following, respecting the cost of a box with five trays, 
will be useful: 


s. d, 

‘Wooden box, 3it. by 5in, deep......-..,...-,. 70 
Vive trays, at 28, 6d, cach.....isccuceuvsceuuss 12 6 
HORI PINE MOUCt pe daiversltars Lene eres cee Fede ae re 70 
No) 1 ee een a ere rca Lay Ki 


Mr. Andrews is fortunate in haying a supply of excellent 
water, which is made to pass through three large cisterns, and 
thus settles down before it reaches the trays. He informs me 
—and it is a hmt worth remembering—that water from a high 
pressure is too highly aerated, is unfit for respiration, and 
kills the fish, The following information is also most valuable; 
For twenty-four hours after being stripped from the fish, eggs 
can be washed and manipulated almost with impunity; then 
for three or four weeks and until eyed” they are extremely 
delicate, and should be disturbed as little as possible. When 
fairly “eyed,” they will stand an almost incredible amount of 
judicious manipulation; indeed, Mr, A. once upset a box of 
25,000 eggs on to the floor and then swept them up without 
apprecisbly injuring them, In the garden are several large 
tanks for holding yearlings and other trout. Mr. Andrews 
netted out some of these to show me, including some very tine 
fontinalis, It would be impossible to imagine finer or more 
healthy-looking tish—not a trace of the imperfect gill covers 
showing the red gills, as is so often seen in artificiaily-reare 
trout which have not been properly treated. I asked him 
what his opinion was ot fontinalis, and he replied that they 
were splendid fish for ponds or any water where they can be 
prevented from escaping, but that they certainly do not 
answer in Hnglish rivers. This fully conforms what I have 
repeatedly stated in this paper, 

Mr; A. related tome a most encouraging instance of how a 
river may be re-stocked. Some years ago he set his heart on 
astream which he knew was capable of feeding trout to any 
extent. There were none in it then. as they had all been Killed 
by the chemical refuse from a mill. The mill did not pay, and 
had been converted into a harmless factory of some kind, and 
the river had gradually regained its aquatic vegetation, and 
with it insect ife, Without saying anything to any one, he 
placed about 20,000 fry into this stream, and in three years’ 
time the river was so well stocked that a gentleman wrote to 
the Field to point out the wonderful manner in which astream, 
it left to itself, willreproduce trout when the injurious refuse 
has been done away with. 

Mr. A, quietly stepped in and explained the wonder in a very 
much more rational manner. He still comtinues, every year, 
to put a few hundred yearlings into it, and itis now probably, 
for its size, the best bit of trout water in the county of Surrey 
—the fish running very large. 

fn another case, he turned about twenty-five brace of trout 
(averaging two pounds each) into a tributary of the Wey, and 
now fish of four, five, and even eight pounds, are not uncom- 
mon. 

ltis pleasant to know that one who has nnostentatiously 
done so much to increase that splendid fish, the trout, is him- 
seli an ardent and skillful fy-fisher. I spent a long time look- 
ing over his rods and flies, of which he has enough to stock a 
tackle shop. He showed me a capital fly-rod, made to his 
order by Mr. Bowness. It had duplicates of second, third, and 
top joints; these are carried by placing them so that the ends 
restin a corner of a big “‘Freake” bag, the tops rest over the 
left shoulder, and Mr, A. is thus prepared for any accidents, 
and he gives his fish no more law than his tackle will permit. 
I confess, for my part, I should not like to be encumbered with 
any spare joints except a top in the landing net handle, asi do 
not remember having an accident with any other joint but 
once, and that was in dace-fishing at Teddington, when a 
heavy chub took the fly, and the quick strike required for dace 
smashed a bad bottom joint. But even Mr. Andrews’ precau- 
tion would not have availed in this disaster, as he does not 
carry a duplicate butt. 


THE GOLDEN IDE, OR ORFH.—Mr, Hugo Mulertt, of Cin- 
cinnati, in speaking of this fish, recently said; “This is a fish 
which is but little inferior to the trout in gameness as well as 
on the table; and then notice his brilliant colors. He is called 
the gold orfe, and is pre-eminently the aristocratic game fish 
of the world. He is to be found in the pond of every German 
nobleman, and, [| must say, is worthy of every honor. These 
fish swim in schools near the top of the water, and in conse- 
quence are particularly fitted for fountains and ponds, They are 
perfectly hardy, may be left in the ponds all winter, and in a 
couple of years will sometimes reach the length of three feet,” 
The recent flood in the Ohio River carried away a great stock 
of fancy fish from Mr. Mulertt’s ponds, near Mill Creek, 
Among them were Japanese kingios, fringe-tails, telescope fish, 
golden orfe, and many other rare fishes. His loss is very 
great, and is to be regretted, as he is the only fisheulturist ih 
America who makes a specialty of ornamental fishes. 


McDONALD FISEWAYS FOR SCOTLAND.—The Tay 
Fishery Board have decided to place a McDonald fishway on 
that river, and Col. McDonald will sail for Scotland in June to 
superintend its construction, This was suggested by a writer 
in the Scotsman, who said: ‘There are atleast a dozen fish- 
ery districts in Scotland where impassable waterfalls shut out 

ood spawning ground, and in the great majority of these 

istricts there are district boards; and if the McDonald fish- 
way be really as valuable a discovery as it is stated to be, why 
should not-these boards arrange among themselves, and com- 
bine to bring the inventor over and let him try to open up the 
hitherto untouched spawning grounds on our Uppee waters? 
But itis not only to natural obstructions, In the shape of 
waterfalls, that the MeDonald fishway would apply. It would 
also be invaluable, if its claims are well founded, in enabling 
salmon to ascend the numerous dams belonging to mills and 


mauutactories which at present greatly retard, if they do, uob 
entirely reyent, their upward progress. The number of suth 
dams is legion.’ s 


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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
April 22.—The St, Louis Gun Club’s Bench Show, St, Louis, Mo. 
Entries close April 14. J. M. Munson, Secretary. 
May 6, 7. 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club's Righth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Pntries close April 21. Chas, 


Lincoln, Superintendent. R. C. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


A. K, R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc, (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
‘Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P.O, Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1115, Vclume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1,50, 


THE CLEVELAND DOG SHOW. 


HE second show of the Cleveland Bench Show Association 
was held at Cleveland, O., last week. Like all of the 
shows superintended by Mr. Lincoln, it was well managed, and 
we are pleased to add, pecuniarily successful. The number 
and quality of the dogs was not quite up to that of the show 
held two years ago. There was a notable falling off in the 
English setter classes, while the pointer classes showed an im- 
provement. The Irish setters were well represented, many of 
the best in the country being present. The black and tan 
setters were a mixed lot, with only two or three moderately 
good ones. The spaniels were fairly well represented, as were 
the beagles and fox-terriers. The collies were very good, both 
in numbers and quality, There was a meagre showing of 
large dogs, nearly all of the classes having but one or two 
representatives. ‘Phe ladies’ pets were out in force, and proved 
to be one of the most attractive features of the show. 

A large number of the stalls were tastefully decorated, 
many of them displaying handsome boquets and wreaths of 
choice flowers. The building is rather small, and at times was 
uncomtortably crowded. 

The judging was done upon a raised platform in the center 
of the building, affording the spectators a good view of the 
proceedings, which were watched with great interest, which 
often manifested itself in applause, assome favorite was given 
the blue. Major Taylor and Mr. Mortimer handled their dogs 
very nicely, and not much fault can be found with their 
awards, Me Munson was not quite so happy with the pointers, 
and some of his decisions were decidedly wrong. Major J. M. 
Taylor passed upon the merits of the setters, and Mr. J. M. Mun- 
son upon the pointers. Mr, J. ¥. Kirk was expected to judge the 
remaining classes. but business engagements prevented his 
presence, and Mr. James Mortimer very acceptably filled his 
place. In commenting upon the dogs, we deem it unnecessary 
to repeat our description of those that are well known, Many 
of the animalsin a large number of the classes were sadly out of 
condition, both in flesh and coat, and quite a number were af- 
flicted with mange and should not hayebeen shown. The spe- 
cial prizes, which were very valuable, as well as handsome, 
were open to all, unless otherwise specified, and in most cases 
followed the awards in the regular classes. The performance 
of the trick dog was yery good and afforded much amusement 
to the spectators. The Association will not hold a show next 
year, haying an understanding with Pittsburg to alternate 
with them. It having been fully demonstrated that both 
Cleveland and Pittsburg can hold successful shows, it would 
be much better for each to hold them annually, as we are sure 
that both larger and better entries would follow. 


SETTERS. 


The English setters were not_so well represented as they 
were two years ago. Major Taylor’s Lit was on exhibition. 
She is nct a bereh show winner, but the fame of her victory 
last winter over the celebrated Grouse Dale secured for her 
quite an ovation, Royal Ranger had a walk over in the cham- 
pion dog class. He has settled together and improved in form 
since we last saw him, although he was shown in very bad 

. condition, which was in part due to his having been hunted 
until recently. He was also suffering from mange. Dick Laver- 
ack, the only other entry, was absent, as were all of Mr. 
Davey’s entries. In the bitch class, Nellie May, who was in 
capital condition, won over Lady May, who was not at her 
best. Nellie May is a sweet little bitch, with no very weak 

oints. She lacks a littlein bone. Lady May is also a capital 
bitch, rather above the medium size, of good form, with plenty 


of bone. We thought her deserying of the ribbon, not- 
withstanding her feet were not so good as Nellie’s, 
In the open dog class, first went to Count Glad- 


some, a very nice upstanding dog of much quality. He 
was not in good condition. Laverack Chief, who won second, 
is also quite a good dog. He was in even worse condition than 
Count, Don, who was placed third, has not the quality of the 
others, although he is a well put together useful-looking dog. 
Chief Justice, he., is a big workmanlike-looking animal, with 
plenty of bone. He was shown too thin and soft. Napoleon, 
c,, we liked for the three letters. He is well built, with a fair 
head, and has capital legs and feet. He looks all over a work- 
man. Wealso ikea Brandon, unnoticed. He has nota first- 
class head, but has a good ehest, back, loin, legs and feet; he 
was notin good condition. None of the others were worthy 
special mention. In the bitch class, first and second went to 
Mr. Hartley’s Queen Alice and Daisy Queen, Both deserved 
their honors, although they were all out of condition, Daisy, 
who won third, was the only one left worthy of notice. Sheis 
quite afair animal. Dan Voorhees, in the dog puppy class, 
was an easy winner. He is a very promising youngster, with 
a nice head, and will probably be heard from again. Don, who 
won second, is a fair animal, but a bit big and inclined to be 
coarse. There was but one entry in the bitch class, Countess 
Floy. Sheis very pretty, and well deserved her ribbon. 

The Irish setters, although only about about half as numer- 
ous as the English, were far ahead of them in quality, Glen- 
cho, who won in the champion class oyer Chief and Norwood, 
was looking better than we have ever seen him, Hehas filled 
out and overcome much of his leggy appearance, he has also 
improved in stifles, as we predicted, and we doubt it a better 
representative of the breed can be found, Chief was sf well 
shown. He is also a hard dog to beat. Norwood we liked very 
much, Heisa capital dog, but was notin so good condition 
as the others, Biz was absent. In the bitch class, Trix 
furnished quite a surprise party to the friends of Lady Clare. 
When both are at their best, there is not. much to choose be- 
tween them; but both were out of condition, owing to the 
eares of maternity, and Lady Clare had a little the worst of it. 
Tn the open dog class Snap, who was second at New York last 
was placed first. He has improved and was 
ve well snown, as were all of Mr. VFierce’s dogs. 
Mickey C., who won second, is alsoa very nice animal, with 

ood head, chest, legs and feet, and a good flat coat. Mc- 
liough, yhe., is of good type, but was sadly out of con- 
dition. Chief IT., c.,is also well shaped. He wasalso im bad 
condition, and carried his tailtoo high. Conn, unnoticed, has 
a good head, and is well formed. Had it not been for his 
wavy coat he would probably have been noticed. In the 
bitch class, Reeta, fhe winner, had it all herown way. She 


was in good condition, The three others were litter sisters. 
All of fhe are very fair animais, of good forin, but a little 


under size, We thought them well placed, Glenmar had an 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


*easy win in'the puppy class, He is wonderfully developed for 
a six-months puppy, and is as hard asan old dog. If he goes 
all right he will be good enough for almost any company. 
Book, who was given second, is big and eoarse, and should 
not have been noticed, Blcho IV., the only other entry, is not 
eer to his name. He isa cross-bred and solid liver in 
color. 

The black and tan setters, with the exception of three 
or four, were a poor lot. Rupert 11, had a walk over in the 
champion class, He was not in very good condition. He has 
a good head and chest. with very rich tan markings; he might 
be better in stifles. There were no entries in the bitch class. 
Dark, who won first in the open dog class, is quite a fair ani- 
mal. There was not much to choose between him and Mr, 
Brown, who won second. Jet, who won first in the bitch 
class, is also a fairly good animal. Nell, the only other entry, 
was yery badly out at elbow, and the second prize was prop- 
erly withheld, First was withheld in the puppy class, and 
second might haye been also and no injustice done, as the 
winner was rather weedy and decidedly curly in coat, 


POINTERS, , 

The entries in the pointer classes were just the same in num- 
bers as two years ago, while the average quality of the ani- 
mals was animproyement. In the champion large dog class 
Faust was given the pride of place. He was looking very well, 
considering his age, and is still a grand dog, although he has 
grown throaty and shows his years. Brownie also shows age, 
and was not wellshown. Knickerbocker was looking better 
than when we saw him last. Vandevort’s Don, the only 
other entry, was absent, Marguerite IJ, was alone in the 
bitch class. She is quite a good bitch, and deserved her 
honors. She has a good body with a straight back, a nice tail, 
with good legs and feet. Her head is quite plain, and she 
might be better in stifle, and greatly improved in condition. 
In the champion small dog class Jet had a walk over. He is 
too long coupled and light in bone to win in good company, 

here were no entries in the bitch class. In the open large dog 
class there were three moderate specimens, with not much to 
choose between them, Joe, who won first, has a 
fair head, good chest and shoulders, and good fore- 
legs and feet. He is a bit leggy and lathy, and weak in stifles. 
Jacob, who won second, should have been content with third 
place, He has a fair head, but is coarse and has no quality: 
he is also legey and lathy, and has a coarse tail. Ruff, c., we 
liked as well as either of the others. e bas as good a head 
as either, and is much better formed; he has a good chest, 


| body, loin, legs and feet; he is a bit wide in chest and of as 


ugly color as we ever saw. In the bitch class Countess Vesta, 
who was given first, is far from being a good specimen. She 
has a fairish head with a good Join and quarters; her ears are 
set on too high and her shoulders are bad: she is out at elbow 
and her fore feet are close together, giving her a very awk- 
ward appearance in front; she is also swaybacked and has a 
coarse, badly carried tail. Belona, who was second, should 
have been first; she clearly outclassed the others; she has a 
good head, body, legs and feet and tail; she is a little too wide 
in chest, and was not in good condition, haying just weaned 
her litter, Fan II., vhe., we liked for second place; she isa 
fair specimen, with no glaring faults. Musette, hc., received 
all that she deserved; her head and eyes are bad. 

In the open small dog class King, who won first, is a very 
good specimen of the old style pomter. He has a fairly good 
head, except that the occipital bone is not well developed. 
His neck is elegant and wellseton. He has a good loin and 
quarters, fair legs and good feet. Heistoo wide and round 
in chest, and is a trifle too closely coupled; he is also let down 
just a bit behind the shoulders. He was in beautiful con- 
dition. Bang Bang, who won second, was clearly entitled to 
first, notwithstanding the bad condition in which he was 
shown. In no point except in condition was King his superior, 
while in most points that enlightened breeders deem of vital 
importance, Bang Bang was far ahead of him. Mr. Munson 
claims that Meteor is very near perfection. Now we venture 
to say that there is not a prominent pointer in the country 
who approaches Meteor in type so nearly as Bang 
Bang. Donald Il, vhe., is a fine big dog and shows 
considerable quality. He is a trifle lathy and a little 
too straight behind. The others that were noticed were 
perhaps as. well placed as was possible, except that 
Match, unnoticed, should, if the judge was right, have had at 
least vhe. He resembles the winner in form more than any in 
the class, and weil deserved a place. In the bitch class there was 
not much to choose between first and second, both are quite 
good, Lady Croxteth had a little the best of it in head, butin 
other respects they are nearly equal. Rose II., vhe., is fairly 
well formed, but she has a bad head, and is too wide in front. 
Dora, he., is quite a nice bitch, and gives promise when 
tInatured, of turning out a good one. Dora, unnoticed, is also 
quite good, and deserved the three letters, although she has 
just weaned her litter, and was notin good condition. The 
dog puppy class brought out two good ones. Both are well 
formed and promise well. They were very wellshown. The 
bitch class was not quite so good, We thought them properly 
placed, 

SPANIELS. 

The Ivish water spaniels were particularly good. Barney 
was alone in the champion class. He has been at work and 
was not in his usual good condition. In the open class, first 
went to Ponto,a very nice specimen of excellent type, but 
rather small. Patsy O’Connor, who won second, is also a cap- 
ital dog, with a very good coat. He carries his tail badly. 
Aleck, yhe., has a good coat and plenty of bone. He is well 
formed, but is too square on muzzle, and a little off color. 

Benedict, the only entry in the champion field spaniel class, 
was absent, In the champion cocker class, Bene beat the only 
other entry, Hornell Dinah. Bene is a very nice little bitch, 


with plenty of hone and a capital coat. She might be better 
in head. er ears are also a trifle short. In the open class 


for field spaniels, Hornell Maggie won tirst. She isavyery good 
bitch, but was not in first-classcondition, Burdette Bob, who 
wou second, we did not like so well. He is too high on his 
legs and has not a good coat, and, judging from the many 
scars he carries, his disposition is not of the best. F 

Cocker spaniels, other than black, was a poor class. Nellie, 
a black, was ruled outon account of her color, and Hornell 
Rattler, the only one left worthy of notice, was given first. 
He has a good head and good length of body, with plenty of 
bone. His ears aré rather small, and set on too high. Macduff 
and Queen Ann are both toyish in appearance and curly in 
coat, and not deserving the he. they received. In black 
cockers, first went to Hornell Silk, a capital little dog, with a 
good coat and body and plenty of bone. He is just a bit hich 
on his legs. Rosa, who won second, has a good body anda 
fair amount of bone, She is weak in head, and her coat is 
slightly curled. Hornell 101is good in body and bone, but has 
not a good head. Inthe puppy class, Ross, who was first, is 
a nice black, with good body and bone, but a bad coat, which 
may improve with age. The second prize was withheld. 
Nellie, who was he., got all that she deserved. She is well 
made, but istoo small. 

ait at dre Ob eeaplWe hee earn 

Ringwood was the only entry in the champion 
class. oe was looking well,and deserved his medal. Inthe 
open class Ringwood IT. won first, He has a good head and 
shoulders and plenty of bone. He is just a trifle slack in loin 
and might have better feet. Gabriel, who won second, a 
good head and ear and lots of bone, and a capital set of legs 
and feet. He isa trifle throaty, and is not good in back and 
loin. Sport, vhe., isa good stamp of dog, but is too straight 
in shoulder and moves badly. eader, hc., has plenty of 
bone, but has a poor head and ears, and lacks quality. 

BEAGLES, Nites 

Rattler, who won in the champion class, was not looking his 

best, Lill, the only other entry, isa good bitch, Sheis.a bit 


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short in ears and begins to show age. The open dog class was 
very good, King Pat, who was placed first, is a very nice little 
dog with a good head and ear, deep chest and good feet, He 
seems a bit weak at knee joints, Boxer IIIL., whe was second, 
has good bone legs and fect. He is only fair in head and ‘body 
and carries his ears a trifle high, Dell, vhe., has a good head 
with: lots of bone. He is outat elbows, and has too fine a 
coat. Minstrel, c., we liked for a better place. Heisagrand . 
little dog with first-class body, legs and fest. Hishead isa bit 
heavy, and we do not quite like the hang of his ears, He was 
suffering from mange, which undoubtedly set him back, There 
were three very good ones in the bitch class, Mischief, wha 
won first, has a beautiful head, good ears, which are nicely 
carried, good bone, legs and feet; she is a trifle weak in loin, 
Bonnie, who was second, is 4 very sweet little bitch of much 
quality; she is rather light in build, Lill IL, yhe.,is very well 
made, but is a bit too high in her legs, were it not for this 
fault she would have been a good second. There was only 
one entry in the puppy class, quite a promising youngster. — 


DACHSHUNDE, 

There were only three in this class. Prince, the winter, is a 
very good specimen. He has a good head, with zood length 
of body, plenty of bone and crook. Brunhilde, who won sec- 
ond, is not quite so_good as the winner in length of body or 
crook, Waldman K., vhc., we liked better for second place, 
although he was not in good condition. 


FOX-TERRIERS; 

Fennel had it all his own way in the champion dog glass, 
out-classing Dick, his only competitor, at every point. In the 
bitch class, Thistle was also an easy winner, beating Ruby in 
bone and coat. Lyra was absent. In the open dog Glass, 
Vakeel, who won first, is a very taking dog, full of character, 
He has a good head, with nice, well-carried ears, a sond neck 
well set on to good shoulders, and a dense coat. He is slightly 
out at elbow, and might have better feet. Belyoir Jim, who 
won second, is also quite good. He has good shoulders, legs 
and feet, and looks like a workman, He is a bit thick in skull, 
and stands a trifle too high on his legs. Greek, vhe., is a nice 
little dog all through, but rather too small. Grip, he., re- 
ceived more than he was worth. He lacks character, haslarge 
ears and open feet. Pouf, c., should also haye been unnoticed. 
He is large and coarse, with a poor head and is short of coat. 
Village Belle, who won fizst in the bitch class, is all over a ter-" 
tier, and the only one in the class that the judge noticed, a 
decision with which we agree. Tirst was withheld in the 
puppy class; second was giyento Vixen, a very moderate 
specimen. 

GREYHOUNDS, 

Spring Custer was the ouly greyhound 
age, but deserved his ribbon for his good 
ters, 


beet He shows 
ack, loin and quar- 


DEHRHOUNDS. 

There was but one entry in this class, Garfield, who was 
given first. Heis a magnificent dog in front, and not at all 
bad at any point, except that he has a bad tail which he carries 
much too high. 

MASTIFFS, 

Lion, the winner in the champion mastiff class, is a well- 
made dog-with a good skull and legs; he moves very well. He 
falls away below the eyes and is off color, and has too mich 
white on chest and feet. Tiny, the only other entry, we 
consider a much better specimen, but he was in wretched con- 
dition, and shouid not have been shown, Agrippa, the only 
entry in the open dog class, well deserved his prize. He has a 
good head, and is well formed, with lots of character. He is 
undersize, which is his most serious fault. There were but two 
in the bitch class. Cleopatra, who won first, has developed 
into a grand animal. She is well formed, with a good head 
and muzzle, and is full of quality. Duchess, who won second, 
is also very good, but does not show ynite the quality of the 
winner. 

ST. BERNARDS. 

Otho, the only entry in the champion rough-coated dog elas, 
is of immense size and bone. He has a massive head and 
stands 33 inches at shoulder. He was very low in flesh, which 
gives him a leggy, gaunt appearance. Lady Abbess, by mis- 
take, was entered in the champion class, but was transferred 
to the open class. In the open dog class, Hermit was alone. 
He well deserved his first. He has a massive typical head 
and plenty of bone. He is rather light in body, and was out 
of coat. Lady Abbess, who won first in the bitch class, was 
in much better condition than when wesaw her at London last 
fall. She has a good body, bone, coat and color, and is nicely 
marked. Shemight be more massive in head, Santa,who was 
second, is of good size and bone, but hasa very poor head and a 
badly carried tail, There were no entries in the smooth-coated 
champion dog class. Inthe bitch class Daphne yas alone. 
She has a good body with immense bone and a yery good 
coat, she might be better in head and tail. In the dog 
class Bishop, quite a nice orange and white dog, easily won 
over his kennel companion, Bonhomme, who is disfigured by 
having a pig jaw. Chartreuse, the only entry in the hitch 
class, was given first. She has a nice head and good body but 
is a little short of bone. : 

NEWFOUNDLANDS, 

The Newfoundlands were a poor lot.; Watch, the winner, 
is fairly good, with a good body and coat, He is deficient in 
head and lacks bone, Mackaboy, who won second, hasagood 
coat, legs and feet, but has a poor head and is slack in loin. 
York, vie., is an immense dog, and except that he has a re- 
triever coat he was the best in the class, The others were un- 
worthy mention. 

COLLIES. 

Rex and Lorne were the only competitors in the champion 
dog class, Rex winning the medal, Hxcept that Rex is just a 
trifle better in head and ear, we thought Lorne the hest, He 
is fully as well formed, and hasa better coat. He did not 
carry himself so well as bis stylish rival, which we presume 
lost him the race. Lassie had a walk over in the bitch class. 
She was heavy in whelp, and did not show to advantage. The 
open dog class was very good indeed, with not a bad one in it. 

arrow, the winner, does great credit to his sire, Rex, He is 
a very handsome, stylish dog, with a beautiful head and 
ears, good legs and feet, and lots of bone and 
a very graceful mover. He was trifle short of 
undercoat, Hiram, who won second, has not improved in 
condition, being as usual much too fat. There was not much 
to choose between the others, all of them were good with no 
glaring faults. The bitches were also a good lot and deserved 
their awards. Fairy, who was first, Was In excellent coat. 
Flyaway, second, has greatly improyed and, but for her light 
coat, would have made it very warm for the winner. The 
dog puppies were a promising lot, with not much between the 
three that were placed, We fancy that Roy, who was placed 
behind the others. will show them the way next year. Nan- 
nie O; had no trouble in winning oyer Olive, her only competi- 
tor in the bitch class. Olive, however, is very promising, and 
mnay do better when mature. 

Pakcineasion, tl i at his 
only entry in the champion class, was not 4 
ee pe “ or aoe class, Brimstone, placed first, has a 
good skull, but 1s rather plain in face and has a terrier body 
and tail. The second prize was properly withheld, as were all 
prizes in the bitch class. 
BULL-TERRIERS. 

In the large class the first prize was withheld, and no great 
injustice would have been done had the same been done with 
the others, There was but one-entry in the small class, Little 
Maggie, quite a nice little bitch of correct type. 

WIRE-HAIRED OR SCOTCH TERRIERS. : - 

Tn this class Heather, a very good bitch, with a capital ter- 
rier head, beat Tam Glen, who is a very typical dog, but not 
quite up to the winner in head. The others were all good and 
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not very much behind the winners. We liked Nibs the Tranip 
full as well as any except the first two. Hoe is a varmint-look- 
ing customer, and if the class were turned loose among rats 
we will warrant that he would not be the first to quit. 


BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS, 

This was also a good class, in which Vortigern, although de- 
fea for both first and second place, was not disgraced, as 
hoth of the winners were sired by him, They are both of good 
form aud well marked. Spring, he., is-well made, but is off 
in color and markings. Nell, c., deserved more than she got as 
she is a very nice little bitch, although rather too small. 


DANDIE DINMONTS 
were both absent, 
TRISH THRRIERS. 


We could tot guiite agree with the judge in placing Erin 
over Norah. Erin has a good coat and color, but he is not first- 
class in head and lacks bone, while Norah has a good head 
with plenty of bone and a fair coat. ; 

ha SKYE TERRIERS, 

Thére were no entries of Skyes except iv the prick-eared 
ch braun out three good ones in our old fayorite 


class whi ) in ou 
Judge and two of his get; we thought them properly placed. 
PUGS: 


Joe was alone in his glory in the champion class, He was 
not in his usual blooming condition, In the oa dog class 
first went to Treasure. He is 4 well made dog with good skull, 
mask and wrinkle, He is a bit coarse in coat, but will prob- 
ably improve as he grows older. Punch, who won second, is 
good in head and body butis deficient in mask, and has white 
tov nails. Pete, yhe.,is a very nice specimen, much better 
than Punch, except that he is blindin one eye, The others 
we thought well placed. The bitches were fairly good, the 
winner is very nice with correct markings. She carries her 
ears badly, which is her most serious fault. The remainder of 
the class as well as the only,puppy call for no especial com- 
ment, 

YORKSHIRE TERRIERS, 

Hero, the only entry in the champion class, deserved his 
medal. He was in good coat, although it was a trifle faded. 
In the open class, over dlbs., first went to Tiney, a nicely- 
colored dog, a trifle short in coat, The others, as well as those 
in the small class that received notice, were all fair specimens 
that eall for no special comments. 

TOY TERRIERS 
were allquite good. Dot, the winner, was a nice little black 
and tan, with correct markings. 
KING CHARLES OR BLENHEIM SPANIELS, 

Rosie, quite a nice little black and tan King Charles, was 
the only one shown. She was a little short of coat and 
feather. 

ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS. 

The only entry was absent, 

; POODLES. 

Bennie, a good coated corded gray, was awarded first; 
second went toa well shaped white and black, who was 
hardly close enough in curl. 

MISCELLANEOUS, 

This class was quite good, Sir Garnet, who won first, is quite 
a good Airedale terrier. Foreigner, who won second, is a 
four months old bloodhound, who promises to turn out a good 
one. He is good in skull, eye and ear, and has good length of 
body with immense bone. Heis short of flew and wrinkle, 
but may improve with age. The others call for no special 
mention except Fritz, vhe., who is an exceedingly clever trick 
dog. Following is a full list of the 

AWARDS. ; 

Classi. Champion English Setters, Dogs.—_ist, Howard Hartley's 
Royal Ranger, lemon belten, 3yrs., Royal 1V.—Shorthose Novel. 

Class 2. Ghampion English Setters, Bitches.—ist, D, O’Shea’s Nellie 
May, blue belton, Blue Dash—Jolly May. 

Class 3. English Setters, Dogs.—ist, John Overman’s Count Glad- 
some, white, black and tan, 2igyrs., Champion Gladstone—Lelia; 2d, 
A. G. Waddell’s Laverack Chief, black, white and tan, 344yrs., Pontiac 
—Fairy IL; 3d, l. G. Hanna’s Don, black, white and tan, 2\yrs. 
High com.. R. B. Carothers’s Chief Justice, black, white and tan, 2yrs., 
Byrou—Reign. Com., B. F. Wilson’s Napoleon, black and white, 
28mos.. Royal Blue—Lady Vin; Charles Willard’s Jake, white and 
black, 3yrs., Penn—Nettle; 5. A. Kaye’s Brackett, orange and white, 
4yrs., Gladstone—Clip. 

Class 4, English Setters, Bitches.—lst. Howard Hariley’s Queen 
Alice, black. white and tan, 4yrs., Druid—Cubas; 2d, Howard Hart- 
ley’s Daisy Queen, black, white and tan, dyrs., Rock—Meg; 3d, Jacob 
King's Daisy, blue belton, 2yrs.. Felton—Jessie Turner. Very high 
com,, B. F. Wilson's Dashing Romp, 4yrs. 7mos., Dash T1.—Norna. 
High com., Roe Reisinger’s Annie Boleyn, black and white ticked, 
12mos., Dash I/I.—Isabella. Com., A. C. Waddell’s Queen Alice IL, 
black, white and tan, 18mos., Laverack Chief—Queen Alice; S, A. 
Kaye's Druid’s Maid, lemon and white, 3yrs., Druid—Lady-of-the- 
za ce x 5. A. Kaye's Nannie, black, white and tan, 5yrs., Blue Dash— 
pport. 

Glass 5. English Setter Puppies, Dogs, under 12mos.—ist, P. B. 
Spence’s Dan Voorhees, black, white and tan, 10mos., Chief Justice— 

aney Lee; 2d, G. Tilke's Don, lemon and white, 1J4mos., Duke— 


Peg. : 

Giass 6. English Setter Puppies, Bitches.—lst, J. H. Dalliba’s Coun- 
tess Floy, black, white and tan, 9mos., Count Noble—Floy. * 

Class 7. ros th ate Trish Setters, Dogs.—ist, W. H. Pierce’s Glexcho, 
dark red, 2yrs. 10mos., champion Elecho—champion Noreen. : 

Class 8. Champion Irish Setters, Bitehes.—1st, William Kemble 
Lente’s Trix, dark red, champion Elcho—champion Hire Fly. 

Class 9. Irish Settters, Dogs._ist, W. H. Pierce’s Snap, red, 2yrs. 
§mos,, champion Chief—Tilley; 2d, H. HE. Chubb’s Mickey C., red, 
2yrs., Karl—Irish Countess. Very high com., Charies A. Willard’s 

cCullough, red, 20mos., Duncan—Maud. Com., H. P. Goetschius’s 
Chief IT., red, dyrs., Chief—Doe. 

Olass 10. Trish Setters, Bitches.—ist, Jas. T. Walker’s Reeta, red, 
Byrs. 1imos., Elcho—Fire Fly: 2d, Frank Billings’s Nora IT., red, 
2}syts., chamipton Biz—Nora. Very high com., H. BH. Hill’s Maggie 

., red, 2lgyrs., champion Biz—Nora. High com., George Randerson’s 
Red Daisy, red, 2i44yrs., champion Biz—Nora. _. 

Class 11, Irish Setters, Puppies.—Ist, W. H. Pierce’s Glenmar, red, 
6mos., champion Glencho—Mayourneen; 2d, George W. Short’s Book, 
red, 10mos., champion Glencho—Molhe. 

Class 12. pha DiC Black and Tan Setters, Dogs.—ist, Franklin 
Kennel’s Rupert I, black and tan, 4/4yrs., Rupert—Queen. 

Class 13, Champion Black and Tan Setters, Bitches.— No entries. 

Class 14, Black and Tan Setters, Dogs.—ist, E. Nutting’s Dash, 
black and tan, 5yrs , Dan—Diana; 2d, Miss L. Walton’s Mr. Brown, 
black and tan, 4yrs., champion Grouse—Topsey, Com., EH. B, Seidel’s 
Bob, black and tan, 5yrs., pedigree not given. : 

Glass 15. ist, H. R. Parker’s Gip, black and tan, @yrs. @mos; 2d, 
withheld, 

Class 16. Black and Tan Setters, Puppies.—Ist, withheld; 2d, Geo, 
P. Covert’s Lilly, black and tan, 7mos. 

Class 17. Champion Pointers, Dogs, over 55lbs.—ist, §. A. Kaye's 
Faust, liver, white and ticked, 8yrs,, Sefton’s Sam—Pilkington’s 


Nell. - 

Class 18, Champion Pointers, Bitches, over £0lbs.—ist, H. W. Faw- 
pete aret seri, liver and white, 444yrs., champion Faust—Devon- 

ire Lass. 

Class 19. Champion Pointers, Dogs, under 55lbs.—ist, W. R. Hun- 
tington’s Jet, black, 3léyrs., Frank—Lady. 

Class 20. Champion Pointers, bitches, under 501bs.—No entries. 

_Class 21, Pointer Dogs, Solbs. and over.—ist, T. H. Dalliba’s Joe, 
liver and white, 29mos., pedigree not given; 2d, J. H. Kirkwood’s 
Jacob, liver and white, 4yrs., pedigree not given. Com., Theo. F. 
Spencer and George R. Butler’s Ruff, lemon and white, 3yrs., Dilley’s 
Kanger—Dilely’s Fleet, 

Class 22. Pointer Bitches, 501bs. and over.—_ist, 5. A. Kaye’s Coun- 
tess Vesta, liver, white and ticked, 4yrs., imported Donald—imported 
Bell If.: 2d, Westminster Kennel Club’s Belona, lemon and white and 
ticked, 5yrs., champion Bow—Beulah. Very high com., A. C. Wad- 
dell’s Fan II, liver, 244yrs., Spat ag ee Fan. High com.. 8. A. 
Kaye's Mussette, liver and white, 4yrs., Bow—Queen. 

_Olass 23. Pointer Dogs, 55lbs, or under,—ist, A. C. Waddell'’s King, 
liver and white, 2yrs., Clipper—Dove; 2d, Westminster Kennel Chib’s 
SBang-Bang, orange and white, 3yrs., Gow les Bang—Princess Kate. 
Very high com., C. M, Munhall’s Donald IL., liver and white ticked. 
19mos., champion Donald—Devonshire Lass. High com., John R, 
Daniels’s Snap Shot, orange and white, idmos., Bob III.—Wan; B. F. 
Seitner’s Riot, liver and white, 18mos., Lort—Lass. Com., Adam, 
Baker’s Don, liver and white and ticked, 18mos., Rush—Nelly; J. W. 
Shannon’s Dash, liver _and white, dyrs., Bedire not given: Tusea- 
Tawas Kennel Club's King Bow, Jr., liver, white and ticked, 23mos., 
King Bow—Chess, J > joe yi 


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Class 24, Pointer Bitches, 50lbs, or under.—ist, B, F, Seitner’s Lady 
Groxteth, liver and white, 2yrs.. Croxteth—Lass; 21, B. F. Seitner’s 
Tass, lemon and white, 4yrs., tleaford—Dawn. Very high com., 8. 
A, Kaye's Rose IL., lemon and white, dyrs., Sengation—Rose. High 
¢om,, |. H. Dalliba’s Dora, liver and while, 12mos., champion Sensa- 
fion—Devonshire Lass, OCom., Joseph Lewis’s Lilly, lemon and white, 
Byrs., Fawcett’s Dulkke—Owner’s Spell. 

Class 25. Pointer Dog Puppies.—ist, B. T’. Seitner’s Rapp, liver and 
white, 1114mos., Croxteth—Lass; 2d, B. F. Seitner’s Doneuster, liver 
and white, 114¢mos,, Croxteth—Lass. 

Class 26. Pointer Bitch Eup pete G. W. Baker’s Ray, brown 
and white, 10ni0s., Brownie; 2U, 'red W. Stocky’s Brownie, liver and 
white, 7mos., Brownie—Unknown, 

Class 27, Champion Irish Water Spanicisist, John D, Olcott's 
champion Barney, liver, 7yrs,, Saamrock—Shamnon. { 

Glass 28. Trish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—Ist, Cleveland 
Trish Water Spaniel Kennel's Ponto, liver, 2yvs,, ehampion laren Fy 
Nora, 2d, C. W. Baire’s Patsy O'Connor, dark liver, 2yrs , imported 
Dan O’Connor—Traller. Very high com,, G, W. Baker's Aleck, liver, 


ys. 

Class 29, Champion Field Spaniels, any color, 28lbs or oyer,—Only 
entry absent. ; 

Class 30. Champion Cocker Spaniels, any color, uncer 2$lbs,—I1st, 
Dr, J. T, Niven's Bene. . 

Class 31. Field Spaniels, any color. 28lbs. or over, Dogs or Bitches, 
—lst, Hornell epee Glub's Hornell Maggie, black. Byrs., Bob 117.— 
Fan; 2d, Hornell Spaniel Club's Burdette Bob, black, 3yrs., Leigli’s 
Bob—Venus. ‘ 

Olass $2: Cocker Spaniels, other than bla¢k, under 28lbs., Dogs or 
Bitches.—ist, Hornell Spaniel Club's Hornell Rattler, 11/4mos., chest- 
mut and tan, champion Dandy—Dinah; 2d, withheld, High com., A. 
G. Dayken’s Macduff, liver and white, 1/éyrs;, Brandy—Lady, and 
Queén Ann, liver and white, 2yrs., importe 

Class 33. Black Cocker Spaniels, under 28Ibs,, Dogs or Bitches.—1st, 
Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell Silk, black, 18mos., champion Obo— 
Chloe 11.3 2d. Dan O’Shea’s Rosa, black, 16mos., Doctor—Dolly. Very 
high com., Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell 101, black, 16mos., cham- 
pion Benedict—Prin. . 

Class 84. Spaniel Puppies (any color)—Ist, B, F, Lewis's Ross, black, 
10mos.. imported; 2d, withheld. High com,, Thomas Neal’s Nellie, 
liver and white, 5mos., Brandy—Fan, fer 

Glass 85. Champion Foxhounds, Dogs or Bitthes,—Ist, Dan O'F hea’s 
Ringwood, black, white and tan, syrs., Forester—Lady- 

Class 86, Foxhounds, Dogs or Bitches,—ist, Dan O’Shea’s Ring- 
wood IT,, black, white and tan, 18mos., Ringwood—Rocksy; 2d, John 
H. Sweet’s Gabriel, black, white and tan, 19mos., Snifter—Jacobs, 
Very high com., Peter Knierin’s Sport, black, white and tan, 5yrs. 
High com., H, F. Knowles’s Leader, white and tan, 5yrs., Bouncer— 
Fido. 

Class 87. Champion Beagles, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Dan O’Shea’s 
Rattler, black, white and tan, 2yrs., Royer—Music. 

Class. 38. Beagles, Dogs.—ist, G. E. White’s King Pat, white, tan 
and black, 2imos., Searcher—May Belle; 2d, Fulton Kennel Club’s 
Boxer ill,, white, black and tan, 15mos., Our Boxer 11.—Lul. Very 
high com., R. & W. Livingston's Dell, A-K.R. 319. Com., W. H. Ash- 
burner’s Minstrel, black, white and tan, ?yrs., imported from England. 

Glass 39. Beagies, Bitches.—ist, Dan O’Shea’s Mischief, black, 
white and tan, 2yrs., Rover—Music; 2d, Mrs, C. EH. White's Bonnie, 
black, white, tan and ticked, Zimos., Seareher—May Belle. Very high 
coin., Fulton Kennel Club's Lill I1., white, black and tan, !imos., 
Boxer IJ.—Lill, Com., C, Wm. Fromm’s Stella, black, white and tan, 
ifmos., Spottie—Nina, : 

Class 40. Beagles, Puppies.—1st, Windsor T. White’s Mac, white, 
black and tan, 10wks., Pilot—Minnie. 

Class41 Dachsunde, Dogs or Bitehes.—ist, B, F, Seitner’s Prince, 
fallow red, 14mos., Berzman—Gretchen; 2d, J. P. Shaefer's Brun- 
hilde, fallow red. 14mos., Bergman—Gretchen. Very high com., Carl 
eae Waldman K,, black and tan., 4yrs., Waldman—imported 
Waldine. 

Class 42. Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs—ist, R. Gibson’s Fennel, 
black, white and tan, full pedigree, 

Class 48. Champion Fox-Terriers, Bitches.—1st, R. Gibson’s Thistle, 
black, white and tan, full pedigree. 

Class 44. Pox-Terriers, Dogs.—ist, John T. Cable’s Vakeel, white, 
black and tan, 244yrs., champion Volo—champion Spikepole; 2d. R, 
Gibson’s Belvoir Jim, black, white and tan, full pedigree. Very high 
com., 8. C. Gratf’s Greek, white with black and tan on head, 14mos., 
Fennel—Fay. High com., Frank T. Moorehead’s Grip, black, white 
and tan, i5mos,, Belgraye Joe—champion Nettle, Com., W. B. Sterl- 
ing’s Pouf, white, black and tan, imported, 

Class 45. Fox-Terriers, Bitches,—1st, John T. Cable’s Village Belle, 
mbes black and tan, 2yrs. 9mos,, champion Volo—Beauty; 2d, with- 
held. 

Glass 46. Fox-Terriers, Puppies.—ist, withheld; 2d, M. J. Kelly’s 
Vixen, lemon and white, 6mos., pedigree unknown. 

Class 47. Greyhounds.—1st, Dave Marshall’s Spring Custer, fawn, 
8yrs., MeGraw—Mirror. 

Class 48. Deerhounds, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Jacob Krieger’s Gar- 
field, fawn, 3iéyrs., imported. 

Class 49. Champion Mastiffs, Dogs.—ist, Jas. H. Lynch's Lion,fawn, 
28mos., Salisbury—Tigress IT. 

Class 50. Champion Mastiffs, Bitches —No entries. 

Class 51. Mastiffs, Dogs.—1st, Shaw & Bates’s Agrippa, A.K.R, 449, 

Class 52. Mastiffs, Bitches._ist, Dr. J. W. Alsop’s Cleopatra, A.K.R. 
258; 2d, Shaw & Bates’s Duchess, A.K.R. 260. 

Olass 58. Mastiff Puppies, Dogs or Bitehes.—No entries. 

Class 54. Champion Rough-Coated 8t. Bernards, Dogs.—lst, Fred 
W. Rothera’s Otho, A.K.R. 483. : 

Class 55. Champion Rough-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—No entries. 

Class 56. Rough-Coated St. Bernards, Dogs.—1st, Chequasset Ken- 
nel’s Hermit, A.K.R. 23. 

Olass 57. Rough-Coated St. Bernards, Bitehes.—ist, Fred W. Roth- 
era’s Lady Abbess, A.K.R. 482; 2d, H. B. Sherman’s Santa, orange, 
white and tawny, 15mos., Monk IT. 

Class 58. Champion Smooth-Coated St. 
entries. 

Class 59. Champion Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—ist, 
Fred W. Rothera’s Daphne, A.K.R. 488. 

Class 60. Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Dogs.—ist, H. B. Sherman’s 
Bishop, white and orange, 24yrs.; 2d, H. B, Sherman’s Bonhomme, 
orange and white, 2yrs., Webb’s Rex—Theon, A.K.R. 94. 

Class 61. Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—ist, H. B. Sher- 
man’s Chartreuse, orange and white, nearly 2yrs., Rex—Brunhilde. 

Class 62, Newfoundlands, Dogs or Bitches.—Wm. Sellers’s Watch, 
black, 4yrs.; 2d, A. C. Johns’s Mackaboy, jet black, 14mos. Very 
high com.. James McKay's York, black, 6yrs. High com., Jacob 
Kersig ere Prince, black, yrs. Com., Chas, Hilert’s Nero, black,white 
points, 3yrs. 

Class 68. Champion Collies, Dogs.—ist, Jas. Lindsay’s Rex, black, 
tan and white, 5yrs., Carlyle—Elcho. 
yess re Champion Collies, Bitches.—ist, Fred. W. Rothera’s Lassie, 

KR, 445, 

Class 65. Collies, Dogs.—ist, Charles A. Otis, Jr.’s Yarrow, black, 
white and tan, 18mos., champion Rex—Beauty; 2d, James Lindsay’s 
Hiram, sable and white, 10mos., Rex—Kittie Mae. Very. high com., 
Edith M. Wasig’s Mac, black, white and tan, 11mos., imported Captain 
—imported Topsy. High com., Frank TT. Moorehead’s Scot, black 
and tan, 2yrs., Lord Rayton—Cloudy; G. W. Evans's Trump, black 
and tan, 2yrs., champion Rex—Belle. Com., Dr. W. C. Wair’s Bobby 
Burns, black and tan, 2yrs., champion Rex—imported Lassie. 

Class 66, Collies, Biteches.—ist, James Lindsay’s Fairy, sable and 

white, 10mos., Rex—Kitty Mac; 2d, James Watson’s Flyaway, sable 
and white, yrs. and 8mos., champion Rex—champion Flora, Ver 
high com., G. W. Evans’s Hvaus’s Nell, sable and white, 6yrs., Patti- 
son’s Davey—Bell. High com., W. A. Jeffrey’s Letta, black and 
fawn, 12mos., Gatter—Josephine I. 
- Class 67. Collies, Puppies, Dogs.—ist, Edith M. Fasig’s Mac, black, 
white and tan, 11mos., imported Captain—imported Topsy. Very 
high com,, G. W. Eyans’s Sandy, sable and white, 6mos., Trump— 
ee High com., W.A. Jeffrey’s Roy, black and tan, 5mos., Bruce 
—Lukie. . 

Class 68. Collies, Puppies, Bitches.—Ist, James Lindsay’s Nannie 
©., black, white and tan, 10mos., Rex—Kittie Mac. Very high com., 
G. W. Evans's Olive, sable and white, tmos., Trump—Evans’s Nellie. 

Class 69. Champion Bulldugs, Dogs or Biteches.—1st, R. & W. Liv- 
ingston’s Boz, brindle and white, 3yrs. in June, Gamester—Brawse’s 


Betsy. ‘ 

Class 70, Bulldogs. Dogs.lst, J. P. Barnard’s Brimsteie, white, 
yellow, ears, 2yrs., Bonny Boy—champion Judy; 2d, withheld, 

Class. 71. Bulldogs, Bitches.—Prizes withheld. 

ak uit Champion Buil-Terriers, over 25lbs,, Dogs or Bitches. 
—Absent. 

Class 73. Bull-Terriers, over 25lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—ist, with- 
held; 2d, Wm. Veale’s Countess, white, 2yrs., Spot—Nellie. High 
com,, Wm. Veale’s Ben, lemon and white, 2yrs., Spot—Belle. 

: rene ?4, Champion Bull-Terriers, under 25lbs., Dogs or Bitehes.—No 
entries. 

Class 75. Bull-Terriers, under 25lbs., Dogs or Bitches,—R. & W. Liy- 
ingstou's Little Maggie, A.K.R. 525. 

Olass 76, Wire-Haired or Seoteh Terrieis, Dogs or Biteches.—1st, 
John H. Naylor’s Heather. brindle, 2yrs.; 2d, John H Naylon’s Tan 
Glen, dark gray, 19mos. ety ae. com., Dan O’Shea’s Boxer, 
wheaten, dyrs.. Major—Lady; W.H Little's Buster, Bedlington ter- 
rier, 12mos,, Sting—Wasp. High éom., Weddel House's Nibs, the 
Tramp, orey OYE ps , ¥ 

Olass 77. Black and Tan Terriers, Dogs: or Bitches, over 71bs.—Iist, 
Edward, Leyer's Lady, black and tan,-leyrs., Vortigern—Lillie; 24, 


Bernards, Dogs.—No 


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John Whitaker’s Brilliant, black and tan, 14yrs,, Vortigern—Lillie Tl. 
Very high com., Edward Lever's Vortigern, black and tan, 5yrs., 
champion Viper—Gipsy. High com,, H. A. Kistemann’s Spring, 
black and tan, 2yrs. Com. Charles Stalley’s Nell, black and tan. lyr. 

Class 78. Dandie Dinmont Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—Abgent. 

Class 7). Irish Terriers, Dogs or Bitehes.—1st, Dan O’Shea’s Erin. 
red ant Tim—Nora; 2d, Dr. J..8. Niven's Norah, red, 4yrs., Spring 
—Netitie. 

Class 80. Champion Skye Terriers, Drop-Hared, Dogs or Bitches_ 
No entries. 

Class 61, Champion Skye Terriers, Prick-Kared.—No entries. 

Class 82. Skye Terriers, Drop-Bared, Dogs or Bilches.—No entries. 

Class #8. Skye Terriers, Prick-Rared, Dogs or Bitehes.—ist, L. G- 
Hanna’s Judge; 2d, L, @, Hanna's Flora I. Very high com,, L. G. 
Hanna’s Bloss. 

Class 84. Champion Pugs, Dogs.—ist, Mrs, George H, Hill's Jow, 
fawn, 4yrs., champion Comedy—Clytie. 

Glass 55. Champion Pugs, Bitehes,—No entries, 

Class 86. Pugs, Dogs.—ist, Chequasset Kennel's Treasure, pale 
fawn, black points, iimos., imported Fritz (A.K.R. 569)—imported 
Banjo; 2d, H, A, Kistemann’s Punch, 2yrs. Very high com., lL. G. 
Hanna’s Ponto, fawn, 3yrs.; Mrs. E. V. Jewell: Pete, fawn, ayrs. 
High com., Thos. W. Cockerill’s Butler, fawn, 26mos, 

Class #7. Pugs, Bitches.—Ist, 7.5. Dumont’s Gipsy, fawn, 1smos,. 
imported; 2d, Mrs, H, L. Taylor’s Taffey, buff, 20mos. Very high 
com., Mrs. E, E. Bieman’s Jennie, fawn and black, 14éyrs., imported: 
Anton Petrey’s Sallie, stone fawn, 3l4yrs,, Punch—Judy, 

Class 88. Pugs, Puppies. Dogs or Bitches, under 12mo0s,—ist, Antow 
Petrey’s Prince, stone fawn, imos,, Peler—Sallie, 

Class 89. Champion Yorkshire Terriers, Blue and Tan, Dogs or 
Bitehes.—lst, H, A, Kistemann’s Hero, chanypion of the world, blue 
and tan, 3yrs. 

Class 90. Yorkshive Terriers, Blue and Tan, over 5lbs,, Dogs or 
Bitehes.—1st, Miss Jennie Axworthy’s Tiney, blue and tan, 2y¥s.. im- 
ported; 2d. H. A. Kistemann's Prince, blue and tan, 1%gyrs, Very 
high com., H, Schmidt's Dot, 2yrs, High com., Wm, Keegan's Tip), 
blue and tan, 9mos,, Dandy—Nibs, 

Class 91. Yorkshire. Terriers, Blue and Tan, under 5lbs., Dogs én 
Bitches.—ist, H, A. Kistemann’s Crickey, blue and tan, 2yrs.; 2d, Tf 
A. Kistemann’s Lillie, blue and tan, Iéyrs. Very high com,, P, F- 
McGue’s Nellie, blue and tian, 2yrs,, imported. Com., Wm. Keegan's 
Belle, blue and tan, 2yrs,, Billy—bBeauty; Thos, Blake’s Topsy, blie- 
and tan, 12mos. 

Class 92. Toy Terriers. other than Yorkshires, under 5lbs., Dogs oi 
Bitches,—ist, F. J. Hovlechek’s Dot, black and tan, i6mos., Tip— 
Fippy 2d, H, A. Kistemann’s Flora, tan, 2yrs. Very high com., S- 
H. Wilson’s Tina; black and tan, lyr. 

Class 98. King Charles or Blenheim Spaniels, Dogs or Bifches_— 1st. 
H. A. Kistemann’s Rosie, black, white and tan, 1l}4yrs. 

Class #4, Japanese Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.— No entries. 

Class 95. Italian Greyhounds, Dogs or Bifches,—Absent, 

Class 96. Poodles.—1st, Jacob Zuellig’s Bennie, gray, 3yis.: 2d, 
Jacob Zuellig's Prince, white, black ears, Xyrs. Very high com., Miss. 
§. M. Cohrs's Prince, white, 1lyrs, 

Class 97. Miscellaneous or Foreign Class.—lst, Ed. Lener’s Sir Gar- 
net, blue and tan, 2yrs., Airedale terrier, champion Crack—Gypsy 
Queen; 2d, Dan O’Shea’s Foreigner, bloodhound. black, white ani 
tan, 4mos., Lassie—Slave Boy; equal 3d, H. L. Stanton’s Moody 
black and tan, 2yrs.;'H. L, Stanton’s Sankey, black and tan, 2y7's- 
Very high com., W. Fleming’s Jep, flesh color, 2yrs., Mexican hair- 
less dog;+A, C. Cozad’s Fritz, fawn and white, 21mos., Maltese termer. 
Com,, Chas, Hogg’s Fanny, white with black spots, 8yrs., Dalmatian. 


SPECIAL PRIZES. 

A.—For the Irish setter bitch having won the greatest number of 
first and special prizes, Mr. Thos. Axworthy, gentleman's traveling 
yalise, value $50; won by Lady Clare, J. 8. McIntosh. 

B.—For the best kennel of spaniels, not less than six, B. & §., brass 
jug, value $45; won by the Hornell Spaniel Club. 

C.—For the best brace of cocker spaniels, B. & §., bronze plaque, 
yalue $25; won by Hornell Rattler and Hornell Silk, Hornell Spaniel 
Club, 

D,—For the third best pug, S, H. Wilson, fishing rod and reel, valne 
$12; won by Pete, Mrs. EH. VY. Jewell. 

E.—For the bestsmooth-coated collie, Messrs. P. L. Miles & Go., silver 
medal, value $10; won by Lassie Regis, the Scottish Chief's Kennel. 

F.—¥for the best rough-ccated collie owned im Cuyahoga county, 
Mr. George Forbes, canary bird and cage, value $10; won by Mac. 
Edith M. Fasig. 

G.—For the best Yorkshire terrier owned in Cleveland, Messrs. 
Edwards und Fasig, fancy inkstand and buckhorn penholder, value 
$15; won by Tiney, Miss Jennie Axworihy. 

H.—fFor the best Irish water spaniel, Hon. John Farley, silyer 
duckhead scarf pin, value $18; won by Barney, John D, Olcott. 

T.—Iror the best pointer bitch under 50lbs.. Mr. W. H. Corniny. 
picture and easel, value $20; won by Lady Croxteth, B. F. Seitner. 

J.—fFor the best bull-terrier, Mr. W. H, Corning, bronze dog, value 
$15; won by Little Maggie, R. & W. Livingston. 

K,—For the best English setter dog puppy, Bank street Hackmen. 
bronze dog, value $15; won by Dan Voorhees, P. B. Spence. 

L.—For the best bull, dog or bitch, Mr. Criltenden, painted antique 
pitcher, value $25; won by Boz, R. & W. Livingston. 

M.—For the best pug bitch, Mr. Henry Beekman, silk umbrella. 
value $10; won by Gipsy, T.S. Dumont. 

WN.—for the best King Charles or Blenheim spaniel, Messrs. Benton, 
Meyers & Co., pair of vases, yalue $10; won by Rosie, H. A: Kiste- 
mann. 

O.—For the best beagle dog, Messrs. S. Ranney & Son, pair hunting 
shoes, value $10; won by Rattler, Dan O’Shea. . 

P.—For the best black and tan terrier, over 71bs.; won by Lady, 
Edward -Lever, 

pant the best toy terrier, under 5lbs.; won by Dot, fF. J. Hovte- 
chek. 

R.—For the best Newfoundland; won by Watch, Wm. Sellers, 

§.—For the best foxhound in open class, Mr. Wm. Rhode, lamy, 
yalue $7; wou by Ringwood II., Dan O*Shea. 

T._For the kennelman showing the greatest number of animals of 
any class in the best bench show condition; won by B. F. Lewis. 

U.—Yor the best English setter bitch puppy. Mr. J. F. Chadwick, 
picture, value $15; won by Countess Fly, J. H. Dalliba 

V.—For the best English setter dog inthe best condition in the: 
open class, owned in Cleveland. Mr, ©. EH. Gehring, picture, value $25; 
won by Don, L. G. Hanna, 

W.—for the best brace of English setters, Messrs. Rice & Burnett, 
silver tea set, value $25; won by Brigand Chief and Queen Alice IL.,, 
A. ©. Waddell. 

X.—lor the best brace of Irish setters, Mr, J. ¥. Ryder, picture 
value $20; won by Glencho and Snap, Wm. H. Pierce. 

Y.—For the best black and tan setter dog, Mr. C. A. Selzer, placque. 
value $10; won by Dash, E. Nutting. 

G.—¥or the best collection of sporting dogs entered from Canada, 
Mr. N. Wilson, stove, value $20; won by Dan O'Shea, 

AA,—For the best pointer dog in the open classes, owned in Cleve- 
land, Mr. Henry Chubb, pair game pieces, yalue $20; won by Joe, T. 
H. Dalliba. 

BB.—For the best prick-eared skye terrier, Mr. J. Palmer O'Neil, 
fisbing rod, value $15; won by Judge, L. G. Hanna, 

OC.—For the best Nnglish setter bitch in the open class owned in 
Cleveland, Mv. Geo. Bashngton, brass stand mirror, value $10; won 
by Daisy, Jacob King. 

DD.—For the best English setter dog, Mr. Geo. W. Cady, antique 
brass plaque, yalue $10; won by Count Gladsome, John Overman. 

WE,—For the best Irish setter puppy, Mr. W. C. Ball. silver flasl, 
value $8; won by Glenmar, W. H, Pierce, 

7 uae Fane the best Irish setter bitch in the open class, Reeta, James 

. Walker, 

GG.—For the best collie, Mr. J. B. Perkins, picture, value $20; won 
by Yarrow, Chas. A. Otis. 

HH.—Flor the best spaniel puppy, Mr. M, Ryan, silver cup; won by 
Ross, B, F. Lewis. 

Il.—Yor the best mastiff, Mr. W. A, King, collarand whip, value $15; 
won by Cleopatra, J. W. Alsop. ; 

JJ.—For the best wire-haired or Scoich terrier, Messrs. Sigler Bros. , 
fruit dish, value $8; won by Heather, John H. Naylor, 

KK.—For the bes‘ eollie bitch puppy, Messrs. S. H. Poster & Co.. 
box cigars; won by Nannie O., Jas. Lindsay. 

LL.—¥For the best pointer dog, Mr: EK. Beach, picture, value $15; 
won by Faust, 5. A. Kaye. 

MM,—For the best smooth-coated St. Bernard, Messrs. Short & 
Foreman, ivory paper cutter, with rest, value $20; won by Bishop, 
H. B. Sherman, a 

NN,—For the best rough-coated St, Bernard. Mr. Dayid Johnson, 
bronze donkey, value $10; won by Hermit, Chequasset Kennel, 
_00.—fFor the best poimter dog puppy, Mr. Fred Diebold, case of 
fruit knives, value $10; wou by Rapp, B. P. Seitner. 

PP.—For the third best poodle, Messrs. Arnold & Hurd, work 
basket; won by Prince, Miss §. M. Cohrs, : 

().—For the fourth best dog or bitchin miscellaneous Class, Mr- 


‘|G, A. Mack, box of cigars; won by Sankey, H. L. Stanton, 


RR.—For the best pug dogin open class; won by Treasure, Ghe- 
quasset Kennel. 

$§.—For the best black and tan-setter bitch, Messrs. EH. M. MeGillen 
& Co., pair vases, value §15; won by Gip, H. R. Parker. i 
_ TT.—For the third best prick-eared Skye terrier} won by Bloss, L, 
G, Hanna, ’ 

UU.—For the best fox-terrier dog in the open class, Messrs. Colwell 
& Hubbard, silver fruit dish; won by Vakeel, John T; Cable, ~~ ~ 


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VV.—¥or the Vest fox-terrier biteh in open class, Mr. W, Murray 
French vase, value $7: won by Village Belle, John T. Cable, 

WW.—Por the third best beagle dog in open class, Mr, A. T, Kinney, 
box cigars; won by Dell, R, & W, Livingston. 

XX.—For the third best beagle bifeh in open class, Mr. F, W. Slos- 
S800, box cigars; won by Lill U., Fulton Kennel Club, 
in —for the third best dachshund; won by Waldman K., Carl 

ocke, 

ZZ.—For the best sporting dog owied by a lady, in Cleveland; won 
by Bonnie, Mrs. C. 4, White. 

AAA.—For the best setter or pointer shown in the best bench show 
condition, the Cleveland Clothing Company, hunting coat; won by 
Don, Adam Baker, 

BBB.—For the best brace of pointers, the Excelsior Clothing Com- 
Reps tuning coat and vest; won by Faust and Countess Vesta, 5. 

, Kaye, 

CCC.—FYor the best collie in open class, the Cleveland Gun Store, 
revilver; won by Yarrow, Chas, A, Otis, Jr. 

DDD.—Vor the best trick dog, Mr, J. Powers, revolver; won by 
FPritz, A. C, Gozad. 

EE®,—For the best Yorkshire terrier over 5lbs; won by Hero, H. 
A, K s:emnann, 

FITY.—For the best Trish water spaniel in openclass, Messrs. Likely, 
McDonald & Rocket, leather gun case; won by Ponto, Cleveland 
Irish Water Spaniel Kennel. 

GGG.—For the best pointer bitch over 50lbs., Mr, C. A, Selzer, 
plaque; won by Marguerite IT., H, W. Fawcett. 

HHAH.—For the best Irish setter owned in Cleveland, Messrs. Mc- 
Intrsh, Good & Huntington, carving set; won by Book, G. W. Short. 

_it.—For the best Italian greyhound, tue Medford Paney Goods 
Company. collar; not uwarded. 

_JJJ.—for the best terrier owned in Cleveland, the Medford Fancy 
Goods Company, collar; won by Tiney, Miss Jennie Axworthy, 
_KKK.—For the best pug owned in Cleveland. the Medford Fancy 
Geods Conipany, harne-s; won by Pete, Mrs, BE. V. Jewell, 

LLL.—For the best poister dog owned in Cleveland, the Medford 
Fancy Goods Company. collar; won by Joe, T, HK. Dalliba. 

MMM,—Ffor the best pug, won by Joe, Mrs. G. H, Hill. 


SPANIEL AND BEAGLE CLASSIFICATION. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

During the past two or three year's many of your prominent 
contributors have written you complaining of the lack of suf- 
ficient classes and a dearth of prizes, offered by the Westmin- 
ster Kennel Club for spaniels and beagles, at their annual 
shows. As their suggestions and requests for a different classi- 
fication have been fruitlessly made, 1 had intended renewing 
the same this year, not only as the opinions expressed were 
those held by most breeders, but more particularly as the 
number of entries in the past have watranted a more hberal 
Classification. 

But—too late—I find their premium list already issued, and 
therefore, after reviewing the classification for the above- 
mentioned breeds, lam induced to make a few miscellaneous 
commenisregarding this classification, as it seems to me to be 
further from what it should be than previously, in that the 
classification remains as before, with the exception that liver- 
colored spaniels are included m the black classes. The ob- 
jeclions to this I state below. 

Thad advocated, as had your many other contributors, that 
black or black and white, or if the whiteis allowed, more 

roperly in my opinion black, white and tan, be separated 
yey other than the above; that dogs be separately classed 
from bitches, as is done with all the other sporting breeds 
without exception, and that all the above classes be made for 
those weighing over 28 pounds, 7. e., for field spaniels, as well 
as tor those under 28 pounds, cockers. This year the W, K. ©. 
make anew departure in separating the spaniel colors into 
two classes, namely, black and liver, and other than black 
and liver. : 

Not only have we no distinct strain of liver-colored spaniels, 
but I believe liver color has no legitimate connection with the 
black as a class, although now and then a solid liver-colored 
puppy will creep into a litter of the best black strains, just as 
it will at times in a litter of Gordon setter puppies. 

To making separate classes for blacks, it has usually been 
customary to allow white (and a good lot of it, too,) on chest 
andfeet, while tan points have been barred. At New York, 
in 1882, | remember a tine bitch, which I think was good for 
second, if not first prize, which was ruled out for showing tan 
markings. I would suggest that in tho black classes, so called, 
either white or tan be allowed, or that the white as well as the 
tan be barred, making the class one for solid blacks only. The 
former combination of colors is a natural one, and one apt to 
appear in a litter, and on the score of beauty, think almost 
any one will prefer the tan to the white. Perhaps at the rate 
the little cock2r is increasing they will be of sufficient numbers 
to warrant the formation of the two classses in the future, 
“Solid blacks,” and ‘‘black, white and tans.” 

I believe the class heretofore most complained of (and justly 
so) has been the puppy class. Here but one class is mane for 
all spaniel puppies, blacks, liver,and whites, dogs and bitches, 
The number of entries in the past certainly have warranted 
@ more liberal classification, as well as better prizes. 

Looking oyer the Westminster Kennel Club's catalogue of 
1885, I find there were sixteen entries in the spaniel puppy 
class at $3 each, while the first prize given was only $4, and 
the second one a medal; the prizes, of course, were out of all 
proportion to the amount of entry fees received. 1 find 
further, that for pointer and setter puppies there were ten 
classes; in allbut two of these classes the number of entries 
was much less than in the spaniel class, while in all of them 
the pr.zes were double. 

No elass of hunting dogs has increased in numbers as well 
as favor with us of late years as much asthe cocker spaniel, 
and the increase has probably been greater during the past 
year than any year previously, and as a result, the number of 
entries received, and so the necessity of a more liberal classi- 
fication will probably be proportionately greater than hereto- 
fore. From private sources I have been informed that more 
good and typical cockers have been imported during the past 
year than in any previous year. I would theretore suggest to 
the W. K, Club that they act upon Lhe very sensible sugges- 
tion which the FOREST AND STRHAM made to the New Haven 
Kennel Club, namely: “That if the number of entries re- 
ceived be sufficient to warrant the same, that a further sub- 
division be made at the opening of the show.” 

In the spaniel classes I would suggest as follows: Class 61 to 
be divided either into “black, white and tan,” and ‘other 
than black, white and tan,” or that dogs be separated from 
bitches. Isuggest this, supposing that not sufficient entries 
will be received to warrant amore complete classification, 
uamely: ‘‘Black, white and tan” and ‘“‘other than black, white 
and tan,” and dog and bitch classesfor each. Also, that in 
open cocker spaniel classes, dogs be separately classed from 
bitches, and inthe puppy class the number of entries will 
probably warrant the separation of ‘‘black, white and tans” 
from others, and dog and bitch classes for each of these, and 
certainly the past shows have demonstrated the need of one 
subdivision, at least, here. : - : 

Until we are overburdened with spaniels bearing the title 
of “champion,” which, by the way, is altogether too cheaply 
acquired in all breeds with us, as definite a classification as 
the above is not necessary for champion classes, But where 
each one of our numerous shows with its recognized right to 
turn out champion candidates, is capable of turning out four 
spaniels annually, which are barred into a champion class, 
oue such class 1s certainly not sufficient, either dogs and 
pitches should be separated or black, wunite and tan from 
others, 

The entry feesfor the show. I observe, remain the same as 
last year, when they were advanced 50 per eent. above all 

other, and its own previous shows, while the amount of prizes 
bas not been increased at all, Judging from the objection 
made last ae SEED CEOS it ‘would be reduced to the cus- 
oung. . 


TIA AIMOUNY, sy pean Nee Seale ORE Se 
I ku of ouo very projiiinent breeder agd judge who bis 


often turned up as a first prize winner, who last year pur- 
posely remained away from the New York show on principle, 

In another way the entry fee of bitches is nearly trebled, 
thus, to a great extent, still retarding the only worthy object 
of bench shows—the advancement of our breeding dogs, 
I quote from Rule No, 19: ‘An entry fee of $38 will be 
charged for each animal entered, The entry fee for litters of 
pupEs whelped in 1884 will be $5.” (The italics are mine.) 

Whether this means the entry fee is $5 to enter a bitch with a 
litter of puppies, or $5 in addition to the entry fee of the bitch 
T do not know; but, viewing it in the most favorable light, t 
can give a prcetical, illustration of one great objection to it, 
Ihave a bitch, a previous show winner, which I had intended 
entering, which is due to whelp so that her pups will be nearly 
three weeks old at the time of the show. Hven if i desired to 
enter the pups to sell them, this would be useless at that age, 
and as a result, of vourse, personally, I would prefer to leave 
the pups at home, if possible. Practically, theretore, the entry 
fee for all bitches which may have unweaned litters is $5 or 
$8, whichever it may be, The W. K. C. write me that the 
mortality among puppies being great, they do not desire to 
encourage the entries of the same; but, as the exhibitor is the 
only one running any risk of a loss, I should say he should be 
allowed to use his own judgment in the matter without any 
extra bar. Therefore, if a fair extra fee bedemanded for 
salable puppies, well and good; but an exception should cer- 
tainly be made for all bitches which necessarily must be ac- 
companied by their unweaned puppies. 

The object of bench shows, as | stated above, is for the pur- 
pose of advancing the breeding of dogs, to allow breeders and 
admirers to assemble and obtain points and knowledge on the 
subject of breeding, which cannot be obtained in a better 
way than by criticising and expressing their views on the 
various animals shown, The entry tees to shows, therefore, 
should be the minimum fee which will keep out all dogs un- 
worthy to be shown, and consequently induce the greatest 
possible number of good dogs to be entered. Two dollars as 
an entry fee does not appear too low for the purpose. 

Nothing will be more likely toinduce the owners of the best 
dogs to enterthem than the shortening the length of shows 
from four to three days. Many owners of the most valuable 
field dogs refuse to enter their animals in a four-day show, 
owing to the danger they incur of contracting distemper, or 
some other disease from the additional mental excitement 
undergone on a fourth day. Where a dog goes the rounds of 
the several shows, the additional mental strain undergone on 
a fourth day at each show, on the naturally very nervous 
system already wrought up perhaps almost to frenzy by the 
noise and excitement, is far greater than one can imaging’, and 
out of humanity as well asfor the sake of the dog’s health, 
this fourth day should be abolished. 

I should like to ask the opinions of show managers and 
breeders on an idea I have often thought of, namely: Would 
not the entries to shows be increased, and the shows be bene- 
fited, by annually arranging a “‘circuit,” as it were, of the 
shows for the season, beginning, for instance, in the most 
Western city offering a show, and working Eastward: the fol- 
lowing week showing in the next nearest place offering a 
show, and so on, or vice versa, Hast to West. As recards the 
extra expense breeders who desire to follow all the shows are 
put to in the way of railroad fares and express charges, to 
say nothing of the wear and tear on the dogs from the much 
greater length of time they must be crated up, no more 
forcible Hlustration can be given than the arrangement of the 
shows this year. Starting at Cincinnati, almost at the doors 
of Cleveland, Washington and New York are passed by to 
reach New Haven. Then to reach Washington this ground is 
again passed oyer. Toronto is then reached by again passing 
New York. Cleveland is then visited. In order to show at 
New York that city is visited for the fourth time, and if, as 
last year, Chicago concludesto hold a show later, it caps the 
climax by causing the useles 1,200 mile ride from Cleveland to 
New York and return. 

And now I ask, would not many more exhibitors, breeders 
especially—and they are the largest exhibitors—show their 
stock, if a circuit had been arranged which would have done 
away with two-thirds at least of the present expense, For 
instance, had the shows been arranged to follow each other 
weekly, thus, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Washington, New 
York, New Hayen, and Toronto. Not only would better and 
fuller shows be given, but places on the route as, for instance, 
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and Boston, which otherwise cannot 
draw sufficiently owing to the expense exhibitors incur in 
reaching them, would be able to give shows. All my aborye 
comments | think, will be pertinent to all shows and, I think 
indorsed by many of your readers. 

As my communication has reached a much greater length 
than 1 intended, and though I am in the ranks with him in 
spivit, I shall leave the question of beagle classification to your 
genial correspondent ‘‘O. W. R.,” who, last year, with several 
others, pleaded for his httle musical pet. § yet the beagle 
has not increased in numbers and favor among us as his ad- 
admirers would wish that he might, and as he should have 
done, simply because, as we have not been made sufficiently 
well acquainted with him, we have not been able to appreci- 
ate him. His musicaltongue as he now strikes the trail of 
popular favor is just beginning to be heard, and he is just 
about two years behind the cocker spaniel. The American 
English Beagle Club, together with the encouragement given 
by the ForEST AND STREAM, will do for the beagle what the 
American Cocker Spaniel Club has done to bring the little 
cocker into notice, and, as a result, into favor. 

SPORTSMAN, 


A FOX HUNT. 


HE first snowstorm awakened the ‘‘brush gatherers,” a 
gleaner of wheat in a business letter added a feminine 
lu a P.S., saying that the tarnal foxes had carried off 
some more chickens. Charlie, Captain and the writer secured 
ateam and drove out to the scene of carnage. After inter- 
viewing the writer of the postscript, who said that ere pesky 
fox had carried off his favorite leghorn, and the critter had a 
nest about a mile from his house. After a survey of the coun- 
try we drove over to the Hadley meadows. We were joined 
here by Henry and Mott with Boissy and Frank, the hounds, 
We always took Henry for his ability to see game; he will see 
more foxes in one day than ever stood in Hampshire county. 
Castiug off the hounds at the edge of the pines, they did not 
go more than twenty rods before they gave tongue. Reynard 
made for the hills, and the hounds were doing their duty with 
legs and voices. The writer was given a station by a massive 
elm; Henry was totake the team and go over thehill, We 
took along look at the team, which we never expected to see 
again. If Henry had seen any fox he would have left the 
team to the tender mercies of the Humane Society and tried 
to bag the fox, or at least did on one of our former bunts, 
and after walking home a good six mile walk. The conversa- 
tion during that walk was not very lengthy but peer. The 
fox, after making a trip for his health among the hills, evi- 
dently thought the fercile valley good enough forhim. On 
reynard’s return tour he had to come in the direction of the 
writer, who was endeavoring to keep warm, having that day 
ut oO a pair of boots which would have fitted better had his 
Feet been smaller. Having heard from old settlers that by 
taking off your beots and rubbing snow on your feet they 
} would be warm at once. The snow being applied, and cir- 
culation not increasing at the rate desired, the writer took a 
walk ur ratherarun. After getting away from the big elm, 
and hounds were making considerable noise, casting my optics 
in the direction of my assigned position the fox was assing 
between me an ; ere seemed to be a “bluish 


d iy gun, Th tish’ 
vapor iy that, section, after gojug back to my boots, which 
were sbabe oii so quits nbbe the strae tote of My 


- 


[Arr 10, 1884, 


was heavy, and I did not enjoy very good health, the symp- 
toms had increased greatly within the past few Hipmants B 
went to the nearest farma house and happily there was a teara 
ee town, and the same conveyed the writer, There 
ye ee brushes secured that day; two by Charlie and one 

y Henry, and his fox was frozen, Whether he shot the tox 
or got him out of a trap is 4 question, PLiIcK FLICK. 

HARTFORD, Conn. 

Lt 


THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


HE special prizes offered for the Westminster Keun 1 Club’ 
bench show, to be held next month Tessa ee ada 
See areas follows: Bee aera Sfaere 
é Hastern Field Trials Club offér a ¢lub m i 
engraved, for the best pointer dog, pointer pitch ine pay 
ter dog, English setter bitch, Trish setter dog, Trish setter bitch 
and black and tan setter that haye been placed at any of the 
field trials that have been held in America, : 
The Westminster Kennel Club offer a club medal, suitably 
engraved, for the best kennels of large-sized pointers, small- 
sized pointers, English setters, Irish setters, black and tan set- 
ters and collies. Hach kennel to consist of not less than five, 
Also to the best black English setter, bestsetter or pointer that 
retrieves inthe most stylish and obedient manner, fastest 
greyhound, to be decided by heats, highest leaping greyhound 
and best trick dog. Best pug, dog or bitch, in the open classes, 
om oe Sie tape nee aes bugs once by one exhibitor, $10. 
embers of the club offer for the bes} pointer doe, the v 
Sensation, $15; for the best bitch, $10, P Eye eenee 
The Medford Fancy Grods Company offers a suitable callar 
for the best pointer dog, pointer bitch, English setter, Irish 
ee | St. Bernard, mastilf, pug, bulldog, collie and prey- 
ound, 


WITHHOLDING PRIZES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I returned a few days ago from a hurried trip to the Wash- 
ington dog show, and was disappointed in not seeing as fine an 
exhibit as they had last winter. The pointers were sood 
decidedly the best in the show as a class. There were some 
good setters, notably Plantagzanet, who was in splendid con- 
dition and carried off the champion prize. The mastiits, St. 
Bernards and Newtfoundlands were decidedly poor. Last year 
all these classes were very fine. I noticed that some prizes in 
several of the classes were withheld, I suppose for want of 
merit; in fact I have noticed it has been done at almost all the 
shows. This seems to me tobe wrong. I understand that the 
dogs entered at bench shows are judged by a scale of points 
(Stonehenge’s or some other). The prize list reads thus: “For 
the best English setter other than pure Laverack, $15; second, 
55.” Now, does not that mean that the dog entered that 
comes nearest to the scale of pOints by which the class is 
judged is entitled to the first prize, and so on? 

J cat see how it can mean anything else, and I don’t see 
how any judge of a show can throw out my dog, if he is the 
only one entered in his class, for want of merit. I have paid 
my entrance money and am entitled, according to the reading 
of the prize list, to first prize if he is a pure bred dog of that 
breed, no matter how poor a specimen he may be. The words 
“for the best” can’t, it seems to me, mean anything else than 
“for the best one entered.” Again, whatis the scale of points 
by which dogs are judged? and how do you arrive at the 
merit of the dogs? He gets so much, as | understand it, for 
the measurement of his different parts, according to a certain 
standard. How can we arrive at this unicss the measurement 
is actually made (that is, such parts as require measurement)? 
But no such measurement is made as far as | have ever seen. 

There has never, asl have heard, been any number of points 
of merit adopted, to which a dog must attain in order to win 
first, and if this is not so, then the best one entered and shown 
in the classes, it seems to me is clearly entitled to win. I heard 
some complaints in Washington in revard tothiscustom, from 
owners of dogs which were there thrown out, and this has 
suggested the idea of writing this letter. Iam nota disap- 
pointed exhibitor, and if lam wrong in the position I take, I 
would like to see the subject discussed and put right. I have 
acted as judge at a good many agricultural fairs and never 
yet saw any annimal or fowl refused the premium offered for 
the best for want of merit, The judges of bench shows are 
not selected (or ought not to be) to say which dogs, or whether 
any, have merit enough to win a prize, but to say which in his 
judgment shall haveit. The momentI pay my money into 
the treasury of the show, I am entitled to first prize it my dog 
is the best in his class that faces the judge, whether he ke a 
Plantagenet or not, or whether he will score one hundred or 
only ten points of merit, so he be the best dog shown- 

If this were not so, I should never show a dog to be thrown 
out at the option of a judge who differed with me, when ho 
other dog was shown against me. If this custom is right ac- 
cording to any rule of the shows, then the Sooner it be abol- 
ished the, better for the shows. No two men judge alike; one 
man will throw out a deg for want of merit that some other 
man would think entitled to first place, A dog may be shown 
at one time and place in the pik of condition and be placed, 
and when next shown be out of condition and be put at the 
foot of the list. Yethe is the same dog, as far as the seale of 
points is concerned. Lex. 

[Before subrei big is argument, ‘‘Lex” should haye exam- 
ined the lew loci, to be found in Rule 6, which says that ‘no 
prize will be awarded in any class where nw dog possesses suf- 
ficient excellence to entitle it to the prize.] 


EXPERIENCE WITH DOGS. 


EST “Flick Flick” shall think that I am a being without 
reason, and use the whip upon dumb creatures as a. 
master upen the slave, I wil], in a few lines, explain why a 
dog should be taught to retrieve uncer the whip, In most 
hunting dogs there is an inheritance which prompts them to 
ursue game, and so deeply rooted is this instinct, that to fol- 
ow itis their greatest source of pleasure. Hence it is that a 
perfect bird dog can be made, by simply siding this talent 
which is bred within him. We do not teach the dog to hunt, 
this he does matnre dy We only teach him to hunt inthe way 
our own experience has taught us is the most effective in bag- 
ging game, The dog supplies the motive power, we lay the 
rail which guides him to the destination we desire him to 
arrive at. Retrievingis to a certaia extent an inheritance to 
which all dog fiesh is heir; the mongrel will grab up an old 
shoe and race about with it in play, and almost anything with 
a bark can be taught to fetch on land or in the water, but the 
passion is not as strong as that which urges the pointer or set- 
ter, under a broiling sun, or through thorns and brambles to 
catch the delicious scent of the quail or grouse. Dogs tire of 
play,asdomen, They think it sport to rush through water 


“which is tempered by a summer's sun, but they shrink from an 


element which sends a shiver through every muscle of their 
body. I have never yet seen the dog trained as ‘Flick Flick” 
suggests, aud but very few that would brave the cold water 
of spring or the late fall. i 

For instance, I once owned a pointer which I trained to re- 
trieve in the manner suggested by ‘Flick Flick,” and he 
worked elegantly. One day in my absence My Ioom mate 
exhibited him to some friends, and kept him romping after a 
ball until he was very tired. Herefused to fetch, was whipped 
for his impertinence, and forever afterward refused to re- 
trieve. Ihad aspaniel that was forever on the watch for 
something to carry, but cold water, after one or two intro- 
Spear be eee are cen gt 

¢ could torce him.on, an SI of a whip would sc com- 
‘ iletely quench Lim that be would be, entirely useless 
blurs atierward. Now for tie demedy for suck 


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_ Tris Rose,—J, C, Vanee, Chattanooga, Tenn,, bitch, May 
18 (Dan—Ruby). 
POINTERS. 


Ricumonn.—John HE. Gill, Franklin, Pa,, lemon and white 
dog, July 27 (Vandevort’s Don—Beulah), 

GROTON, i F, Stoddard, Dayton, O., liver and white dog, 
June 11 (Croxteth—= Peover) i 

Ropert Le Diasty.—Hh. C. Sterling, St. Louis, Mo., liver 
and white dog, June 11 (Croxteth—Spinaway), 

Tom Couuins.—E. C, Sterling, St. Louis, Mo,, liver and white 
dos, June 11 (Croxteth—Spinaway). 

Dusk C.—B. F. Long, Pittsburgh, Pa., black and white dog, 
April 2 (Robert E. Lee—Darkness). 

TwinicHT.—B. F. Long, Pittsburgh, Pa., black and white 
dog, April 2 (Robert H. Lee—Darkness). 


jn our trusted friends. WhenI advise to train a dog to re- 
trieve under the whip I do not mean that any cruelty should 
be practiced. Thelesson to be taught the pape is this: that 
when he is told to retrieve hemust do it, If agreeabie to 
him so much the better; if not, that he must.doit just the 
same, This does not requirs any brutality. An even temper 
will enforce the lesson, and mot a blow be struck which would 
call a whimper to the lips of a child. ’ 
Thave a spaniel now, which, when I first adopted him, was 
a perfect fool. My sporting friends all laughed at me for 
allowing such a “Ikkyudle” (?) to follow me about, He had been 
raised by a ‘‘cullud pusson,” and was a type of all that is 
worthless. Raise your hand at him and he would fall on his 
back, feet in air, and tail close to his body, and there he would 
stay; endearments were wasted upon him and cuffs only con- 
stricted his tail. I handled him gently; tirst making him hold 
an object in his mouth, After a while Sy induced him to pick 
an object from the floor, and then my labor was practically 
over, the balance was simply extending the range of the in- 
struction, the hardest step at which was to teach my pupil to 


AMERICAN ENGLISH BEAGLE CLUB. 


pee G is the report of the committee of the .-Ameri- 
can Hnelish Beagle Club upon the standard to be adopted 


‘ ° a md, isd was gun by the club: 
a aad <u vee er CP estete eet Ne ne etons Lever | J. i a and Members of the American English Beagle 
ub; 


spoke a wordto him, Last fall he retrieved fairly for me in 
al kinds of weather, and before another year is passed, L 
venture to say that he will be as good a duck dog as any one 
would wish toown, This dog could never have been coaxed 
to retrieve. He did it because he had to at firsb: 

A dog trained under the whip to retrieve will never fail you 
in hot weather or cold. If he is not so trainedandif the whip 
is used to correct him at his firsb disobedience he willrefuse to 
retrieve for the time, at least, perhaps for all time as did my 


GENTLEMEN—Your committee appointed to draft a stand- 
ard for the beagle, very respectfully report that they have 
entered upon their duties with a tull realization of the dif- 
ficult es and importance of the subject before them. 

The necessity for a descriptive scale of points for this breed 
is very apparent, Bench show judges having no authorized 
type on which to base their decisions, differ widely in their 
estimates as to the breed marks of the race. At one show, 


; Hunt. dogs of harrier size and style, win the highest recognition, at 
On aes Minn . another, the smallest specimens are favored. Diminutive 
: : : size being seemingly the only passport to preferment, quality 

: N. A. K. C. DERBY.. being overlooked or ignored. 


Thus opinions clash, and breeders and fanciers hesitate to 
submit their dogs for exhibitions in the present see-saw con- 
dition of affairs. 

With an accepted standard the judge will have a guide to 
lead him through the difficulties of his position, and the 
breeder, if a novice, will be enabled with its assistance to dis- 
card those animals that are deticient in quality, and recognize 
Merit where it exists, thus elevating the status of his kennel. 

With this pretace, your committee respectfully submit the 
accompanying standard for the English beagle, the result of a 
careful and painstaking analysis. Dr. L. BH. TWADDELL, 

Grn’L R. Rownr, 
N, ELMORE, 
STANDARD AND SCALE OF POINTS FOR THE ENGLISH BEAGLE, 


Head,—The skull should be moderately domed at the occiput, 
with the cranium broad and full, The ears set on low, long 
and fine in texture, the forward or front edge closely framing 
and inturned to the cheek, rather broad and rounded at the 
tips, with an almost entire absence of erectile power at their 
origin. The eyes full and prominent, rather wide apart, sott 
and lustrous, brown or hazel in color. The oryital processes 
well developed. The expression gentle, subdued and pleading. 
The muzzle of medium length, squarely cut, the stop well 
defined, The jaws should be level, Lips either free from or 
with moderate flews. WNostrils large, moist and open. Dr- 
PrECTsS—A fiat sku narrow across the head, absence of dome, 
ears short, set on too high, or when the dog is excited rising 
above the line of the skull at their points of origin due to an 
excess of erectile power. Hars pointed at the tips, thick or 
boardy in substance or carried out from cheek showing a 
space between. LHyes of a light or yellow color. Muzzle long 
and snipey. Pig-jaws or the reverse known as under-shot. 
Lips shewing deep pendulous flews. DisquaLiricATions— 
yes close together, small, beady and terrier-like. 

Neck and fhroat.—Neck rising free and light from the 
shoulders, strong in substance, yet not loaded, of medium 
length. The throat clean and free from folds of skin, a slight 
wrinkle below the angle of the jaw, however, may be allow- 
able. DErects—A thick, short, cloddy neck, carried on a line 
with the top of the shoulder. Throat showing dewlap and 
folds of skin'to a degree termed ‘*throatness.” 

Shoulders and Chest.—Shoulders somewhat declining, mus- 
cular, but not loaded, conveying the idea of freedom of action, 
with lightness, activity and strength. Chest moderately 
broad and full. DErrners—Upright shoulders and a dispro- 
portionally wide chest, 7 

Back, Loin and Ribs.—Back short, muscular and strong. 
Loin broad and slightly arched, and the ribs well sprung, 
.| giving abundant lung room. Derrscrs—A long or swayed 
back, a flat narrow loin, or a flat constricted rib. 

forelegs and Keet.—Yorelegs straight with plenty of bone. 
Feet close, firm, and either round or hairlike in form, Ds- | 
FEcCTS—Out elbows. Knees knuckled over or forward, or 
bent backward. Feet open and spreading. 

Hips, Thighs, fHindlegs and Feet.—Hips strongly muscled, 
giving abundant propelling power. Stifles strong and well let 
down. Hocks firm, symmetrically and moderately bent, 
Feet close and firm. Drrecrs—Cow hocks and open feet. 

Yail.—The tail should be carried gaily, well up and with 
medium curve, rather short as compared with size of the dog, 
and clothed with a decided brush. Durects—A long tail 
with a tea-pot curve. DISQUALIFICATIONS—A thinly haired 
rattish tail, with entire absence of brush. 

Coat.—Moderately coarse in texture, and of good length. 
DIsQUALIFIcATIONS—A short, close, and nappy coat. 

Height.—The meaning of the term “Beagle,” a word of Cel- 
tic origin, and in old English Begele, is small, little. The dog 
was so named from his diminutive size. Your committee 
therefore, tor the sake of consistency, and that the beagle shall 
be in fact what his name implies, strongly recommends that 
the height line be sharply drawn at fifteen inches, and that all 
dogs exceeding that height shall be disqualified as over-grown, 
and outside the pale of recognition. 

Color,—All hound colorsare admissible. Perhaps the most 
popular is black, white and tan. Nextin order is the lemon 
and white, then blue and lemon mottles, then follow the solid 
colors, such as black and tan, tan, lemon, fawn, etc. This 
arrangement is of course arbitrary, the question being one 
governed entirely by fancy. The colors first named form the 
most lively contrast and blend better in the pack, the solid 
colors being sombre and monotonous to the eye. It is not in- 
tended to give a point value to color in the scale for judging, 
as before said all true hound colors being correct. The fore- 
going remarks on the subject are therefore simply suggestive. 

General Appearance,—A miniature fox-hound, solid and big 
for his inches, with the wear and tear look of the dog that can 
last in the chase and follow his quarry to the death. 

Nore—Dogs possessing such serious faults asare enumerated 
under the head of ‘‘Disqualifications” are under the grave sus- 
picion.of being of impure blood. Under the heading of ‘‘Defects” 
objectionable features are indicated; such departures from 
the standard not, however, impugning the purity of the 
breeding. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Linclose balance of entries for the fifth annual Derby of the 
National American Kennel Club. There are 88 inall, of which 
74 are Whelish setters, 5 Irish setters -and 9 pointers. 
think there will be the largest field of starters this year that 
we have ever had, as the entrics did not close until alter the 
distemper season was past, and the death rate will not be 
so great, There may be a few more entries by delayed and 
foreign mails, D. Bryson, Sec. 


Memputs, Tenn. 
ENGLISH SETTERS. : 
Kenwoop.—Montazue Smith, Forest, Ont,, blue belton dog, 
April 21 (Cambridge—Marchioness Peg). 
GLADIATOR,—Samuel §. McCuen, New’ Orleans, La., lemon 
and white dog. Oct. 19 (Gladstone—Dido TI.). , 
SportsMAN.—J. W. Murnan, Keeling, Tenn., black, white 
and tan dog, Aug. 21 (Gladstone—Sne). 
Fiouncu,—J. W, Murnan, Keeling, Tenn., lemon and white 
bitch, Mareh 11 (Druid—Ruby). : 
Moxse.—Rogers & Dalton, N. Albany, Miss., black and 
white doz, Oct. 16 (Gladstone—Nellie), 
Buourstons,—Rogers & Dalton, N, Albany, Miss., black, 
white and tan dog, Oct. 16 (Gladstone—Nellie). 
MarsHaLL Ney.—Rogers & Dalton, N. Albany, Miss., black 
and white dog, Oct. 16 (Gladstone—Nellie). 
Miss Crirron.—b. 8. Gay, Atlanta. Ga., white and lemon 
bitch, Mareh 15 (Dimnid—Princess Draco). 
Cicthy B.—N, B. Nesbitt, Cedar Grove, Miss,, black. white 
and tan bitch, Aug. 17 (Count Noble—Dashing Novice). 
Finert.—N. BR. Nesbitt, Cedar Grove, Miss., black, white 
and tan bitch, July 18 (Rake —Madam Llewellin). 
PenpRAGON.—T. 5. Dumont, New York, black, white and 
tan dog, June 11 (Count Nohle—Floy). : 
LADY BLAaNncHE.—John 8. Ormsby, Milwaukee, Wis., black, 
white and tan bitch, Aug. 28 (Count Noble—Rosalind). 
Prosprect.—L. J, Petit, Milwaukee, Wis., bluebelton dog, 
Aug. 28 (Count Noble—Rosalind), 
Harry Ryan.—Capt. W. H. Key, 
belton dog, May 24 (Gladstone—Countess Key). 
Ann Botmyn.—Ree Keising, Meadville, Pa., black and 
white bitch, March 25 (Dash ITI.—Isabelle). : 
PrRarrip Scout.—R. B. Morgan, Akron, O., black and white 
dog, age not given (Count Blythe—Pearl). 
PRatnim Sup.—R. B, Morgan, Akron, O., black and white 
bitch, age not given (Count Blythe—Pear'), 
Count WestLey.—J. Palmer O’Neil, Pittsburgh, Pa., plack, 
white and tan dog, Aug. 12 (Count Noble—Gertrude), 
Count RicHsArps.—J, Palmer O'Neil, Pittsburgh, Pa., black, 
white and tan dog, Aug, 17 (Count Noble—Dashing Novice). 
GULIDELIA.—Dr. C. Spahr, Bridgeville, Pa., black, white and 
tan bitch, Aug, 12 (Count Noble—Gertrude). 
BLACKSTONE.—L. F. Paterson, Bainbridge, Ga., black, white 
and tan dog, June 5 (Roy—Gretchen). 
Zor,—B. M. Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., black and white 
bitch, May 18 (Gladstone—Fawn). 
Rapip Ann.—8. M. Stephenson, La Grange, Tenun., black, 
white and tan bitch, May 15 (Gladstone—Fawn). 
Typpx.—J, M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., black, white 
and tan dog, July 10 (Gladstone—Countess Druid). 
-_ GLaApDstone’s Inace.—J. M..Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
black, white and tan dog, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.). 
GuAD Moon.—J. M, Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., black, 
white and tan dog, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.), 
JEssip WINFIELD.—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
black, white and tan bitch, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.). 
ANNIE Morcan.—J. M, Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., lemon 
and white bitch, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.). 
Lapy Brssin,—J. M. Avent; Hickory Valley Tenn., lemon 
and white bitch, Oct: 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.). 
Dasuine Monry.—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
lemon and white dog, May 18 (Dashing Monarch—Armida). 
Jack W.—Col. A. G, Sloo, Vincennes, Ind., lemon and white 
dog, April 22 (Sergeant—Hya), 
RicHmonD.—H, M. Usher; Vincennes, Ind., lemon and white 
dog, April 22 (Sergeant—Hya). 
CLiyDE T.—L. Shuster, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa,, lemon and 
white dog, May 24 (Thunder—Cornelia). j 
Rop Guapsroxe.—D. C, Jones, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan dog, June 28 (Gladstone—Donna J.). 
BLANCHE GLADSTONE.—Chas. Tucker, Stanton, Tenn., black, 
white and tan bitch, July 10 (Gladstone—Lavalette), 
Miss Druip.—Chas. Tucker, Stanton, Tenn., black, white 
and tan bitch, June 11 (Druid—May B.). 
Maup B,—Dr. Otto Moeber, Rowland, Ala., black, white 
and tan bitch, June 1 (Rollo—Morgo), 
Count Winp’rm, JR.—J. R. Henricks, Pittsburgh, Pa., —— 
dog, age not given (Count Wind’em— ~), 
ELTON’S Boy.—J, R. Henricks, Pittsburgh, Pa., black and 
white dog, Jan. 5, 1884 (Belton IJ1.—Skip). v4 
Roycr.—W. B. Stafford, Trenton, Tenn., black, white and 
tan dog, May 26 Mabe EU ville): 
Count.—W. B. Statford, Trenton, Tenn., black, white and 
tan dog, Aug. 28 (Count Noble—Rosalind), 


Flerence, Ala., blue 


SCALE OF POINTS, 


Not Namep,—Capt. Pat Henry, Clarksville, Tenn,, black and = 
white dog, Oct, — (Gladstone—Cammie). -” ; Oat is | | ah 5 Oe _ aS 
Not NAmEep.—Capt.Pat Henry, Clarksville, Tenn., black and | Mars.................. 2h Soe tS 
mus a O6t. a ieee Cable. 5 6 Byes Ltd 
‘AusT.--A. W. Foster, Atlanta, Ga., black, white and tan le. Jaws and Lips.....,, 5 
dog, July (Prince—Anne Boleyn), he ee 
IRISH SETTERS. Shoulders and Chest,,,.,..... 10 
Lonety Dora.—J. H. O'Reilly, Louisville, Ey., bitch, April | Back and Loims.,.,.......... 15 
OR rarasa): oe Ribs... ce seegseseterenssiorser 5 Valucof body..ccereinevs 30 
Nee Dis aes . EB, Venable, Atlanta, Ga., dog, April 15; Horelere and snd lind Lees. om a foe = mi 
pedigree not given. f oF ' ips, Thighs and Hind Legs.. 10 ue of running gear.. 2 
z Gichora ~ Metuto: sh, Pittsburgh, Pa., bitch, dap, 1 : Bcsssteesoastersnttnssns 5 Vv , od t a + 2 10 
gicho~-Flor ) t= err 4 a4 (aaa) ie 0: Se Ce cere Vatu oat and. § OTD see 
is oo JG: Vance, Chuttatlodse, ‘Tenn,, dog, Sept: i6 = ea el so 
psy te = 4 i ; : - Total... ene noo a toa ' su -100 


— * 


MASTIFFS AT TORONTO.—Our correspondent desires ug 
to correct an error which slipped into his report on the mastiffs 
at Toronto. Speaking of Lion he is made to say he is ‘‘a good 
little dog.” This was not our correspondent’s meaning, as 
Lion is of good size, ‘‘Well built dog,” he thinks was the 
expression he made use of. 


RECENT IMPORTATIONS.—Mr. John Gellatly, of New 
York, has received from England the Scotch deerhound bitch 
Lufra II, Sbe is not quite a year old. She is well bred and 
gives promise of good form when mature. She will be exhib- 
ited at the New York show next month. 


~' CORRECTION,—In our report of awards at Toronto show 
the dog Chief IT., in Class 9, red Irish setters, is spoken of as 
Max Wenzel's. rt. Wenzel bred Chief IT. (A. KR, 252) who is 
now owned by Mr. H, B, Goetschius, Hoboken, N. J. 


© 


PERSONAL.—Mr. James Watson has accepted a position 
on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Press, and he re- 
quests us to find room for the information that bis postal 
address is P. O. Box 770, Philadelphia, Pa. 


CHICAGO DOG SHOW.—There will be a dog show at Chi- 
cago, Il,, the last of May or earlyinJune. Mr. Chas. Lin- 
coln will superintend, 


THE POINTER BRAVO.—Mr. J. Norbury Appold, Balti- 
more, Md., requests us to say that the pointer Bravo, who 
won vie. at New Haven, isnot related to his champion Brayo, 


MEN In ''SArg EmMPLoyMENTS’' were pail a@ guerier of a million 
dollars last year by the Travelers, of Haitford, Conn., for accidental 
death and injuries. —4dv. 


Rifle and Gray Shacting. 


FIXTURES. 


First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at Chicago, Til,, May 
26 to 81. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P, O, Box 1292, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON, April 3.—The Fasi-day shoot at Walnut Hill was well al- 
tended notwithstanding the storm, The scores stood: Creedmoor 
Practice Match, 200yds,, possible 50: A, Law 45, P. B, Smith 44 W. 
Fisher 44, C. B. Edwards 44, S. Morse 42, M. Williams 42, W.H. Nor- 
ton 40, S. Edgar 40, G. L. Haynes 38, W. H. Oler 38, R. A. Lappen 33, 
H, A, Dennison 387, M. H. Croekett 37, A, J. Look 37, C.H. Best 386, A. 
Darling 36. 

Creedmoor Prize Match, possible 40: J. B. Troma: 48, O. M Jewell 
48, G. H. Wentworth 47, J. A. Frye 47, W. H. Oler 46, B. A. Lappen 44, 
W. Fisher (6, 0, E. Berry 45, J. B. Fellows 45, J. P. Bates 43. 

The names and records of the prize winners in the vanous matches 
which have been runuing since January are app‘ndéd. *“C.." **D.? 
and ‘‘R.”* at the head of the combination match signifies Creedmoor. 
decimal and rest: 


Creedmoor Prize Match. 


SB AR GMGRTEs.5 at te ty Sk ie. EE HE. 48 48 48 47—191-+ 8=14 
(Sail Rao dee Be | eet bebe ABB AGOE EA Oe 48 47 47 46—187-H12=199 
GA ISWOEbbis sso cheeses Er eor ec en croc. 60 48 48 48—1944 (=194 
Ceri WOOWOlitn Stil Siakeoteevdae sce. a. 47 40 4¢ 46-1674 T=194 
Die tigen sad ded ddck edd ods obs Dec enae 47 46 46 46—1854+- 8=198 
AM BrAckKStl: Lea pec nwyelnatleeel cies a 45 45 45 45—120+78—193 
TPPABALASL A: Hai Cal me meich ee eeekete ables 45 45 45 44—17'9-+-11—190 
GENET Welle fe Af cere Ora bloelmee mene leacs 48 48 47 46—-189+- 0=189 
ACM ABCNEWS reters atefoiielemicleeeieleieheiole ete, ream 48 47 47 4A6—188—- 7—159 
WEE ISHED. tn coca ciel teldies Psat tae nO hs. 46 46 45 44-1814 8=—189 
EJ Cram............. SAPP He tei in ei 48 47 46 46—1874- 1—188 
Cembination Match. 
‘ C. D. R. 
Wace CTA Cte Foy SAREE RELA OE ance ie Sayers 49 49 87 81 96 95+ 0=457 
VPA TATGIN tapi elec hese ee rece tae on ety ats 98 75. 97 984+-15—451 
RaDavis.2-ste oe. bY 80 O4 b2212—437 
A L Brackett. .... 73 76 7) 7 +-85=436 
MEE ACESS. pe Sah ee Ae) ORL Ponte ik 45 45 64 61 85 61-+28=889 


April 5.—As is usual after a holiday the attendance at Walnut Hill 
to-day was quite slim, and the practice match was the only one shot 
in. The day was exceedingly. bad fer shooting, the wind blowing 
hard from 11 o’clock. J. A. Frye was able early in the dey to make 
a fine 47, but this was the only one made. W. W, Perkins attempted 
military shooting with a Springfield rifle for the first time, and made 
afine 42. Saturday next a match will be commenced which will be 
shot on every alternate Saturday and close each day. It will be on a 
Creedmoor target, three scores to win, re entry permitted, and the 
prizes wil be 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5and 3 per cent. of the total entries. Fol- 
lowing are the best scores to-day. Creedmoor practice match: J. A. 
Frye 47, W. Charles 45, A.C Adams45, B. A. Lappen 45, F. W. Pei kins 
42, J. Payson 41, #. W. Fowle 41, A. L. Brackett 40, W. H, Morton 39, W. 
H. Slocum 36, W. Meadows 36, L. EH. Green 34. 


THE ZETTLER DEFEAT.—The challenge of the Zettler Rifle 
Club, of New York, after their first defeat by the Frelinghuysen 
Rifle Association, of Newark, N. J., on Mareb 17, was promptly ac- 
cepted by the latter cinb with the proviso that they would not shoot 
for prizes already won, but that a new set of individual badgesshould 
be provided and paid for by the losers of the match. A disinterested 
reteree, not a member of either club, to decide all doubtful shots, 
The match was shot on the Frelinghuysen range, No. lov Market 
street, Newark, Wednesday evening, April 2,and resulted as follows, 
the men shooting alternately in the following order and with the 
appended scores: ; 

Zettler—J. H. Brown 111, G. Joiner 113, D. Miller 106, C. Zettler 102, 
M. Engel 111, B. Zettler 105,P. Fenning 116, A, Lober 111, C, Judson 
111, M. Dorrler 109. Total, 1,095. : 

Frelinghuysen—W. F. Lynn 118, J. H. Shackleford 110, G. D, Weig- 
mann 111, Gecrge Zimmer 102, William Hayes 11%, H. O. Chase 111, 
W. P. McLeod 113, J, L. Tobin 110, J. K. Welsh 114, A, O. Neumann 
114. Total, 1,110. 

It will be noticed that the Frelinghuysens haye raised thescore and 
record one point above that of the last match, defeating the Zettler 
team by 15 points and making the high ayerage of 111 points per man 
throughout the team. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N, Y., March 31.—Following are the best 
scores of members in attendance at the Glen Mitchell Range, of the 
Saratoga Rifle Club, during Wednesday and Saturday, Maich ~6 and 
29. On the first day very little shcoting was doue because of lke fog 
Prev EaiUe, which at times was so dense that the target was invisible. 

he second day the light and wind was about as near pertectiun as 
we can get at this season of the year. Condition 200yds., oft-hand, 
Massachusetts target: 


TOTEM OES Geen gee ec ores 1212 10 12 12 10 12 10 11 +8110 
TRE RVG GTN ee cn arene a ena ls « 1012101210 9 10 10 12 11—106 
VREEONG ID DS teen tacs tuneiat: on oniee es rs 1110 1211 8 i2 11 10 11 10-106 
TR Ce en eer ra tiun = eta aeiieee se et) ee 1232 121112 8 9 910 1WU—106 
Wim Te eke yeci maids yt oiieleem 91112 11 10 11 ~5 10 10 10—102 
FAN CTE OY aarcieerisgecadone oooscH 9 91111101010 9 10 12—101 
J Hays......., foo tad pednedg aocdden) oH 121010 9111110 910 9-101 
ED Wiel HH PtOW gis. ec ce elena stant §121112 910 9 9 10 10—100 
LUA ae Ae bot Cp ONG MED On bate TO or jt 71111 910 § 11 11 11—100 
BAD pl BIE 2T y ad dr e  foe Sect rey 1012 1010 11 11 7 it 8 1W— 99 


& G@ Hour, Adjutant. 
NEWAKK, April 7.—The sixth and last tournament for the season 
of the Newark Rifle Association, was opened this evening on the 
Warren Range, when the Frelinghuysen team made the highest 
score yet shot in a match in this city. The scores as counted on the 
Creedmoor and ring target were as follows: 


Creedmoor. Ring-target, 

WORLD Ge peeps sa cect irete erie ts perch oLehct 49 tii 
ARR AE AVERT AL ree go ale ales Ma 47 1i2 
GD Weigmann. i.e eee ce ees ed = 48 111, 
DUECOMOLENS YC GS Ol eta eee hie ears alga ee Eta) 1i2 
Wa CC Ot sys meyer ere ws oye carrera tee 44 118 
DNR RID teint citer ne ae lee hls i UR Fe 48 118 
R Westermann ........ Sac A Prardeirees tach tetra 47 110 
8 H Shackletord,............ oon ete it 1i1 
ya PVOS oan HOLES oe adenine Sead PD of 116 
Ap AG NGUMAGMD cso at eesacnns qs keresn et eines nas Age 115 

: ; dou = 1,160 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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{[Apriz 10, 1884. 


Fic. 1. 


Fie. 8. 


RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 


THE KENNEDY REPEATING RIFLE, 

whee Kennedy arm, or as the manufacturers now prefer to name it, 

the Whitney-Kennedy repeating rifle, belongs to that class of re- 
peaters where the magazine is arranged in a tube below the barrel 
and the action is operated by a lever, the motion of which downward 
and forward performs all the work of cocking the hammer, opening 
the breech, throwing out the empty shell and bringing a new cart- 
ridge into the chamber of the arm ready for the next discharge. 
The rifie is manufactured by the Whitney Arms Company, of Whit- 
neyville, near New Haven, Conn.,U.S. A. Something was said of 
this company and its history in the notice of the Whitney single- 
loader last week. The Kennedy rifle dates back to 1872 and 1875 
when il was invented by Andrew Burgess, that prolific concocter of 
small arms, who has had so much to do with bringing about the art 
of small-arm shooting as it is known to-day. His devices were taken 
up by the Whitney Arms Company in 1877, and further improve- 
ments were made in 1879 by 8, V. Kennedy, superintendent of the 
works. Hl Whitney, Jr., during 1882, made other changes and im- 
provements, and the arm grew gradually to bear some resemblance 
to its present form. Among the patents which cover the arm may 
be mentioned: 

No. 184,589. Dated Jan. 7,1883, A. Burgess.—This patent covers the 
shape of the lever and method of locking the breech-block. 

No. 218,865 and No. 213,868, April 1, 1879, A. Burgess.—These 
patents cover minor points. 

No. 215,227. May 13, 1879, S. V. Kennedy.—This patent is for the 
earrier block, including the clamp for holding the cartridge in place 
when the block is raised. The carrier is quite different from that 
used in any other repeater, and contributes as much as any other 
one part to the perfection of the same. 

No. 218,426. Aug. 12, 1879, to F. W. Tiesing and S. V. Kennedy.— 
This patent is for the ejector, which throws the empty shell out of 
the way wheu the breech is opened after discharge. 

After patenting his invention in 1873, and yet further in 1875, Mr. 
Andrew Burgess made afew rifles by hand and exhibited them at 
the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, It was not until 1879 that the tools 
were completed and the rifles placed on the market. At that time it 
was called the Burgess rifle, and the model first made was adapted 
fo the government service cartridge, .45-70-405. The rifle as then 
made turned out to be a very unsatisfactory weapon, and it was evi- 
dent that other changes were necessary to make the arm both safe 
and handy. This led to the Kennedy improvements, and the re- 
christening of the arm. At the same time the .45-70 government ear- 
tridge was discarded as being unsafe on account of its rounded bullet 
which, in arepeating rifle, where the magazine isin the form of a 
tube, renders an explosion possible by the bullet of one cartridge im- 
pringing forcibly upon the primer of another shell. Smee 1880, when 
the Kennedy arm was put before the public, other improvements 
were made, the curved handle of the lever has been replaced by a 
loop, andin the large calibers, .45-60, 45-75 and .50-95 express, the 
carrier block has been so arranged that the cartridge does not jump 
its whole length from the magazine, but instead enters gradually as 
the breech block is moved back in opening the system. 

The arm is now turned outin large numbers, and thousands haye 
gone into use. During the year 1888 about twelve thousand were 
mae to supply the retail demand, It has been adopted as a military. 
arm, and several foreign governments have sent orders for supplies 
of this repeater. Upon its merits as a sporting arm. for use against 
game, readers of the Forest Anp StreAM have been given the opinion 
of hunters from time to time. The communication of ‘S. E. B.’’ in 
the issue of Jan. 17 last tells what the arm will do under hard usage, 
and the correspondent, “Big Injin,” has also given the arm a very 
thorough comparative test. The manipulation of the Kennedy is 
yery simple, and scores haye been made where rapidity of fire was 
important without taking the rifie from the shoulder. The magazine 


is cnarged while the breech is open by pressing the cartridges, one’ 


at atime, through the spring cover, which is placed on the right 
hand side of the receiver. Accidents from premature discharge are 
rendered impossible, as far as may be, as the hammer cannot reach 
the firing-pin until the breech is fully closed and locked. The re- 
sistance to the discharge is in direct line with the bore of the barrel. 
Its present builders claim that the qualities essential to a first-class 
rifle of safety, accuracy, durability, strength, simplicity, rapidity 
and care of manipulation are all united in the Whitney-Kennedy. 


The tests applied at various times to the Kennedy action have been 
very severe, 

It has been tested at the armory, by firing many hundreds of 
rounds successively, by excessive charges, by .defective cartridges, 
ete., and has stood every lest. The parts are of such size and form 
that they are not extra liable to break or get out of order. oy the 
best materials are used, Thesystemis made of steel throughout. 
The construction is simple, and the parts are few as in any other 
magazine rifle operated by a lever. The mechanism can readily be 
understood by any person whois at all familiar with fire arms, and 
no difficulty should be experienced in taking epare and assembling 
the system if the directions given below are followed. 

Ten shots have been fired from the Kennedy in two seconds, and it 
ean be fired as a single-loader (the charged magazine being held in 
reserve) as rapidly as any gun in the market. 

The rifie has a general record of some fine shooting by selected ex- 
perts. Captain H. BE. Stubbs thinks much of the arm, and at Gaines- 
ville, Ark., on Nov. 25 last, shooting at 1,000 glass balls thrown from 
screened Bogardus traps, at a distance of 15yds., broke 998, and dur- 
ing thefeat made arun of 700 without a break. Speaking in Sep- 
tember last, Captain Stubbs said: ‘I tried the Kennedy at Coney 
Island, 200yds. range, and made 47 consecutive bullseyes.”’ Again, 
on Dec, 31, Captain Stubbs writes: ‘I subjected the Whitney-Ken- 
nedy rifles on Christmas Day, just past, to a wonderful test of en- 
durance, making a total of 500 shots in a fraction less than five 
minutes. I used six guns, and all worked well.” 


Mr. C. Wilkins, at Franklin, Pa.,on May 4, 1880, broke 479 out of 
500 balls thrown from a trap. This feat was witnessed by the Frank- 
lin Sportsman’s Club and many hundred visitors. 

The directions for taking apart the weapon should be closely fol- 
lowed, andmay then be employed without the necessity of «a pro- 
fessional gunsmith. 

To take apart, the breech being closed with the muzzle of the bar- 
tel to the front: 

Take out the two side screws, on the Jeft side of the receiver, that 
are nearest the barrel. In the 45-caliber rifle take out also the largest 
screw (carrier-block screw) on the right side of the receiver, Re- 
move the bottom plate and carrier-block through the bottom of the 
receiver. Full cock the hammer and take out the extractor screw 
from the top cover, then depress the lever sufficiently to let the 
cover pass over it, pull back the hammer as far as possible and slide 
the cover out over it. Remove the breech-block and lever together 
through the top of the receiver. To disengage the lever from the 
breech-block: Take out first the firing pin screw; second, the fir- 
ing in; third, the ejector from the bottom of the breech-block; 
fourth, the large pin from either side. 

To assemble: Put the parts together in the reverse order from 
which they were taken out. 

If, from long use, the main spring should lose its force and the gun 
miss fire, it may bestiffened by turning up the set:screw, placed 
under it in the bottom tang. 

The accompanying cuts show the arm in its completed state, and by 
the cross section display the mechanism of the action with the breech 
closed and again when the breech 1s open. The partsin Fig. 2 cor- 
respond with the numbers as follows; 1, Recéiver; 2, bottom tang; 
8, lever; 4, breech-bloek; 5, top cover, 6, ejector; 7, carrier-block; 8, 
bottom plate; 10, hammer; 11, main spring; 18, sideloading spring 
cover as seen from back; 14, trigger; 15, carrier-block clamps 16, car- 
rier-block spring; 17, breech-block pin; 18, carrier-block screw; 19, 
hammer screw; 20, extractor; 21, ejector catch: 22, bottom-plate 
snap; 22, long firing pin; 24, short firing pin; 25, carrier block clamp 
spring: 26, ejector spring: 27, bottom-plate snap spring; 24, long firing 
pin spring; 20, short firing pin spring. 

There are now five different calibers or sizes made: .33-40, .44-40, 
45-60, 45-75 and .50-95, while a rifle is now under preparation to take 
a, .22-20 cartridge. The .38-40-160 arm, 24-inch octagon barrel, 13-shot 
magazine costs $27, while the same with a round barrel costs Pech 
The ,44-40-200,'24-inch octagon barrel, 18-shot cartridge, also costs $27, 
with a round barrel at Fa The .45-60-300 rifle, 28-inch octagon 
barrel, 11 shots, weighing 914lbs.. costs $29, while the round barrel 
comes at $27. The .45-75-350, otherwise similar to the last named, 
cames at the same prices. The .50-95-800 express rifie has a 26-inch 
barrel, carries 10 shots and costs $38 in octagon barrel, while with 
round barrel the cost is $35. All of these prices are for sporting 
rifles, fitted with open buckhorn or clever-leef sights; — 


SHORT-RANGE SHOOTING.—Ilion, N. ¥., April”3,—Editor For- 
est and Stream: T take the liberty of fotmeciite yonntl ne 
you diagram and 

electros of targets made on our range. The Prentice cond itons were 


a Be One cold, cloudy and poor light—A. ArmsTRoNG, Sec. Ilion 


Fra. 1, 


Fig, 2, 
Fig. 1.—Ten consecutive shots, made from rest, by L. N. Walker 
Ilion, N. ¥., March 3, 1884; distance, 100yds.; Remington rifle, 32° 
caliber, 85 grains powder, 150 grains lead. The above diagram is 

el eee wi nea wes the ninth fired, 
-*,—len consecutive shots, made from rest; 100yds. distance; 
by LN. Walker, Ilion, N. Y., March 20, 1884, with Remington speciai 
M. B. L., military sights; without cleaning; 80 grains powder, 550 
grains bullet, Remington waterproof patch. Used Dolan’s breathing 
tube, Diagram, actualsize, 3 


GARDNER, Mass,, April 3.—To-day members of the Gardner Rifl 
Club kept Ate house at Hackmatack Range and entertained a few 
members of the Worcester Rifle Association, and a right good time 
was the result, The American decimal target was used, shooting 
off-hand at 200yds., with a possible score of 100, The best results 
were #8 follows, in the face of one of the severest snow-storms: G. F, 
Elisworth 92, G. KE. Fordyce 89, A.C. White 89, G. C, Goodale 88, I. 
N. Dodge ‘87, G. F. Emerson 87, Stedman Clark 82, A. Mathews 79, B. 
Williams 76, H.C, Knowlton 64, A. Williams 59, P. George 57, J.L, 
Thomas 57. 

At the last regular meet of the Garden Rifle Club the following 
scores were made on the same target; 


actual size. Shot at lower ri 


WO ,DOVelande. nt SO RaLL nee 91010 6 9 810 9 9 9—8y 
AS MathOwsS i. codes ciaslacwoemdddaee cited 109 9 9 910 9 910 3-87 
LiaW Clark. Alvi ctaand see eer ear oae 810 810 6 910 9 6 10—86 
MeAtHertone. 7c. eae een shen tae 9 69 7 810 9 810 9—84 
Ganelistorphsse pacar: rein eoees 8 89 68 9 8 810 9—88 
GC Goodale 2S asfsrssou ee end ne 510 9 9 9 610 9 6 §—R82 
Spbildrethy srs arcsec 899 9 9 5 9 4 9 786 
Bo Walligtag 7... kc warevet deateee ates 768 9 6 6 %1010 9—78 
WaDickinisons sc cebets i) ase 410 7 6% 6 8 9 9-7 


7 
Atthe annual meeting, held this week, the club. elected officers 
as follows: President, I. N. Dodge; Vice-President, H. G. Kowlton; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G. C. Goodale; Executive Committee—F. B. 
Nichols and W. C. Loveland, 


NEW YORK.—Regular weekly shooting of the Bulls head Rifle Club 
Thursday, March 27, 12-ring target, possible 120: M. Dorrler 118, A. 
Lober 118, E. Holzman 117, C, Rein 115, V. Steinbach 114, H. Gunther 
113. J. F. Schrorder 109, A. Stolzenberger 109, J. Schneider 110, H, A. 
Wasmuth 108, G, Wendelken 106, D, Holland’ 101, J. ¥. Campbell 98, 
8. F. C. Weber 94, H. Zubiller 95, D. Louitzki 86. 


THE TRAP, 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT.—A dull, wintry day at Well- 
ington opened, and baal te a large number of shooters at the above 
tournament on the 2d inst., nearly all of the surrounding clubs being 
represented; later on the snow seemed likely to interfere with the 
day’s sport. In spite of all such difficulties, however, the comfortable 
quarters enabled the shooters to stand to their guns and exterminate 
some 2,000 birds, with the results tabulated below. Leading scores 
were as follows; 

First sweep, 6 birds, 18yds, rise: 


J Williams........ -.01111—_4 CFMStark....,,.... eee LI 
i SSEArhem cee eee EL hee 10111—4 : 

Second sweep, 5 single birds, 18yds. rise, 5 traps: 

Sampson....... Si Gabe tis 101i—4 Hager. ............ Wetec 111—5 
Jenkins......... Ba tepaitae 11111—5 ; 

Third sweep, 2 pair double birds, from 5 traps, 1fyds. rise: 
IRERTYaqaceces here ra oases AT IA. CET ATG eines serene es oe eh 11 ii—4 
NROTURATS Loss Seep ree vlOe I= 3 Share res, ee oleae 11 10—8 
VATS PS eee ste aes 11 01—8 ‘Cooper’... io... +. -10 11—8 

Fourth match, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise: 

WALA ish Ate aes esl oh 1011111—6 Jenkins.................. 1110011—5 
HA er ees he Us elatietits 9.5 1197901—6) arts: 2s. sah 1111-7 
Coopers ose iikas one e-eAl11111—7 Sampson................ 10111116 
PROVE Vance heir Ca naet W1111—6  Johnson................. 11111016 
Gerrish’ k= vena sees O11110I—5 Sawyer................. 01101115 

Fifth sweep, 5 single birds, 18yds. rise: 

SHwYVer...,0) cop ces eee 01111—4 Cooper,....... 22. ,.242... 11111—5 
GWA han ee ine eh els 11110—4 Gerrish............ Peer, 01111—4 
key} ta batstaneee mee Ligeia Se 111—5. Johnson........ ... 06665 11011—4 

Sixth sweep, 5 pair double birds, ityds. rise: 

WOMENS, wrsens ve sele HEE 13540) (01=— ho Marengo 4 ee. eas ti 10 10-4 
Ts Eh (een ah AN SS Wot 4 Perry 2.00. ee 11 10 11—6 
SAW oS oy gees secre 11 10 10—4 Gerrish............... di 10 10—4 
Sawyer... ...0..s-. 00 11 11—4 Johnson....,......... O1 10 11—4 
Braley...... veer 11 i1 11-6 

Seventh sweep, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise: 

Field........, aes hghietd hdene W111111—7 Sawyer...........-..500- 1011011—5 
Sha ae ASR AS ee 1011111—6 Gerrish..........,....... 0111111—t 
AM Aa N ET Vy: Re tg ee Ol1i11— 6 «Coopers... 2.0.02 eel 1111111—7 
JOBNSON...-.......0.00- Old IT Sarberry on. lose Ce. 1111111—7 
KirkwoOde.aaasues2. edd 1111101—6 Eager................... 1111110—6 
GUVen Ge eevee ele nd dbate 1100111—5 Jenkins.,................ 1111001—5 
GuMAany anh hime ercaias 1011111—6 

Highth sweep, 7 single, 18yds. rise: 

De Rochmont........... 1111010—5  Wield............... .... 0101111—5 
1213) 9 eg HG AOR DRBOBAR RPS 0111710—5. Hager. ..............08- 1111110—6 
tanks iO | 51easayseice oem 0111011—5 + Kirkwood...... .... ... 0011111—5 

Ninth sweep, 7 single birds, 18yds.: é 
Sawyer. ....+.-.. = ale 1111111—7 Nichols,-........... ,..- 0111110—5 
JeOnEINS:. 5422 netaiees 1011111—6  Field........ ....2..25., 1100111—5 
Sampson -.1101101—5  Williams........ -.1011111—6 

Wits cans ..1110101—5 Johnson. ,.0111101—5 
Maree ns ueasseste --1101111—6 Gerrish.. ..1011101—6 
Coopers (atte. taxes as AIS0II— 6) Parkers)... 5. pa tigeesiicns 11110116 

Tenth sweep, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise, 5 traps: : 
APUG TRE Sane +» AOTIHO=6. Warker slat os tena nce: 1011011—5 
Cooper. utc, daucety -1101011—5 Stark: 22.002. ck see 1001111—5 
PONDS: oa ee sincels Feet -+s-1101101—5 Kirkwood............... 1111101—6 
VONNSOD ce rile ee lee 0111011—5 

Hleyenth sweep, 8 pair doubles: 

Lay en 8 10 11 11—5 Houghten........... 10 10 11—4 
1 ET: epee eee eee 11. 49 6 05> SRarkerde sn Pees: 10 01 11—4 
Sampson weiesee 10 AL 11S Kirkwood. 2. .....222 10 10 11—4 
Cooper. it. ae eer 10 10 11-4 7 

Twelfth sweep, 7 single birds: 

JepEMR Sete 1011111—6 Gerrish ...............-. 1111 11—7 
ater A cee dar oe 1111001—5 Sawyer .-.............-- 1111100—5 
Cooper. ced eupn te 1101110—-5 Field.... 9 222...2:.5: 11110116 
SAMPSOU 2 sa eee de 1111100—5 Williams...............- 1111010—5 
PEDIY Saw Seats Sarah oboe oes a 11110116 

Thirteenth sweep, 5 single birds: 

SUB PEN as yee ete eee W1u1—5. Kirkwood................. 11110—4 
De Rochmont,............ O1d11—2 Gershon — 
Sampson). 2a syncs. sees 10111—4 Bield esse + ee. 01111—4 
RELEV.josees oneal shichisie aba 01111—4 

Fourteenth sweep, 5single birds: 

BEY a oi Seated ets 5 bd ee 111G3— ASA op stb cee wt ae 111-5 
TOHNGON Sethe tats soewe tase 01111—4. De Rochmont............. 0111—4 
Stade, hed th Saae Eanes 11n0—4 


THE LIGOWSKY SHOOT—Cincinnati, April 3.—The following ad- 
ditional clubs haye remitted $1 initial entrance fee, Ce a 
match, first international clay-pigeon tournament, May 26, 1884, The 
numbers indicate the respective order of choice as to time in being 
called to the score: 

14. Feb. 23—Knoxville Gun Club, Knoxville. Tenn. 

15; March 6—Kirtland Gun Club, Cleveland, Ohio: 

16. March 6—Eyanston Gun Club, Evanston, Il. t 

17, March A er en Sportsmen's Association, Algona. Iowa. 

18. March 14—Chippewa Falls Gun Club, Chippewa Falls, Wis. 

19. March 16—Farmington Sporting Club, eects ie Tee 

20. March 19—Bradford Sporting Club, Bradford, Pa. 

21. March 20—Boston Gun Club, Boston, Mass. - 7 ' 

22. March 21—Franklin Gun Club, Benton, Ill. : 

: ; _ . Ligowsky Cuay-Picnon Co, _ 

IOWA SHOOT.—The first annual tournament of the Winnesheik 
Gun Club will be held at Decorah. Ia, on May 13, 14 and 1b. - 
balls, clay and live pigedén“matches aré provided im abun+ + 


C8, 


—eS 


[Arnm 10, 1880 


HNEVA, N. ¥., April 2.—The second annual shoot of the Lake 
ide Gun Club took piace this afternoon, It being a stormy day, the 
attendance was not large. The following is the score; 


Contest No. 1, 10glass balls, Card trap: 
Stapleton. .....2.,--+------------ & (Orawford op cssi es ctssne reece 
Eh aee eee Era sta--\cyaie) DEY kuin ass WE Cis Les a RTE Sos 
State eeites cele tee sl deey nt Stneey, itl)... 2... i ARAAgH 
Geo Hutehmson,............-... PUESLOUL Vl lus shoes ween sean e ete nas 8 
Grant Fuichinson... ........... 4 Maunder......... Poa Aas 
Contest No, 2,10 glass balls, Card trap: 
Grant Hntchinson.....,.......... i, MIB, pewoerepy adress at th 7 
FSIS re ee oS cereale) RAYELCO wiv s pret ice vistply one peice top av 
Stapleton.....-..-.,. ..,--+-.--+-9 Geo Hutchinson,..,...-..-r>+f 
TH) bales Toe a es een verdes t NtRCEY slPeiwcer sen etseee ee bhp 7 
GRHWEOGHe ng bee iso, a ce MAtindoryedss lb Eices ulead ecoret 
Contest No. 3, 10 glass balls, Card trap: 
Grant Hutehinsonp,........-...... GF ARISE bok gon ee see ae ene eee Sisto q 
LA es eae a eae .....9 Geo. Hutebinson..,......+..++-: 6 
TU) Oe © Oe ee ee 9 Crawford (2lyds,)....,.--+---.-- 8 
he ER eT Fe IP Sa cae 6 Stacey (2lyds.).... .-......eee es 8 


MU GU See pwctey oi fuer ey Bebb : 

The club held its annual ineeting An the evening. The treasurer's 
report showed the club in a flourishing condition financially, and the 
following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, 8. 
Coursey; Vice-President, J, 8. Crawford; Secretary and Treasurer, 
J. Geo, Stacey. 

TORONTO, April 1.—The pigeon match between <A, Bieepnreyi 
of Toronto, and J, Bell, of Limaroux, for $100 a side, came off at John 
Ouleott’s shooting grounds, Eglinton, te-day. The weather was 
rather cold for this time of year, still it did not mar the gathering of 
sportsmen, who were numerous, The wind was favorable to the 
birds. Betting on the start was 2to1on Bell. Bell won by 6 birds, 
as follows: Match at 40 birds each, $100 a side, 21yds. rise; Dominion 

; - 


ist eee eee been eeweet , ---14041104999111011111111111000001101—26 
Humphrey, .., 2). <2... +++ + ee.41011010100011001107111011011101000—20 
Mr. J. Wilson acted as referee and Mr. Oulcott trapped. 
MUNOY, Pa., April 5.—Our new club, the Keystone, of Muncy, had 
its first shoot to-day; out of thirteen members seven shot, and below 
is the score. Weather awful. 


CY GAVEtOren, eee en ecupoueek thy. 0s MSH Bee ass aes saeste ss scree aoe 18 
B MeMichgel!... 22.22.22... ee. 10) EN ODTAONS2..auaene == Were eg 17 
eR OTT 10) g? Aes es OE, 10° Misyr Hills... ..20 ieee. toes 16 
W GCrawford........... BABAR RASA 19 
+ 
Hachting, 
FIXTURES. 

May 18,—Hclipse Y. C,, Oprning Cruise. 

May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

May 24.—Boston Y. C., Sees Cruise. 

May 80.—Knickerbocker Y, C., Spring Matches, 

May 30.—Atlantic Y. C,, Opening Cruise, 

May 30,—Newark Y. C,, Spring Match. 

ay 80.—South Boston Y, C., Spring Match. 

May 380.—City Point Mosquito Fleet, 18 and 15ft. boats. 

May #81—Boston Y.C,, First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups. 

June 9,—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 

June 10.—Atlantic Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 11,—Hudson River Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 14,—Hull Y.C.. Club Meet. 

June i4,—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Matches. 


3 16.—Hast River Y. C., Annual Matches, 
June 16.—Newark Y. C., Open Match. 

June 19.—New Jersey Y. C., Annual Match. 
June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 
June 28.—Boston Y. C., Ladies’ Day. 

June 30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 


June 30.—Eelipse Y.C.. Spring Match, 

July 4—lLarehmont Y. C., Annual Open Matches. 

July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

July 12,—Boston Y. C.. Second Club Match. 

July 26,Beverly Y. 0., Nahaut, Second Championship. 
Aug. 9.—Hull Y. C., Club Meet. 

Aug, 9.—Boston Y¥. C,, Open Matches, all clubs. 

Aug, 16,—Beverly Y, C., Swampscott, Third Championship. 
Aug, 23,--Beverly Y. C,, Marblehead, Open Matches, 
Aug, 23.—Boston Y, C.. Third Club Match. 

Sept, 6.—Beverly Y, C., Marblehead, Special Matches. 


Sept. 13 —Hull ¥. C., Chib Meet. 
Sept. 13.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day, 


THE LAKE Y. R. A. AND MEASUREMENT. 


A FULL report of the proceedings at the reeent meeting at Toronto 

is printed in this issue. It will be seen that the lake clubs, both 
Canadian and American, have, after investigation, decided upon a 
length and sail area rule, This cohclusion is in harmony with the 
general feeling prevailing in yachting circles on both sides of the 
Atlantic. The fallacy of ineasuring by simple length, and the evil 
tendencies of that rule, are fast becoming appreciated. The sailarea 
rule is making rapid strides, for the good reason that under it various 
types can be raced with some approach to equity. But the chief 
recommendation of the rule lies in the fact that small, economical 
boats, reasonably sparred and of convenient draft, will not be driven 
to the wall as under the comparison by se length. The modern 
Boston keel sloops and Itchen cutters, which are the direct outcome 
of the latter custom, are the largest and most expensive boats to 
build and sail, and draw more water than others of less extravagant 
size on thé length. Witness, for example, the keel sloop Cricket, of 
Boston, which, on a loadline of 29ft., draws no less than 7iéft.. or as 
much as the cutter Muriel on 40ft.; 24¢ft. more than the cutter Merlin 
on 265ft., 2ft. more than the cutter Yolande on 26left., as much as the 
BEE Madge on 83i4ft., and within 6in. as much as the cutter Maggie 
on 45ft. 

A rule which forces the construction of an unhandy and expensive 
type cannot long survive, and as fast as yachtsmen appreciate the 
tendency to great expense and oversparring with no commensurate 
returns for the outlay, there can be little doubt that simple length 
rules will gradually give way to more intelligent modifications which 
will allow all to build as they please, from the widest to the narrow- 
est, the shoalest to the debperts and so through competition promote 
the survival of the fittest. Already, with one exception, the principal 
clubs in New York haye given in adhesion tothe sail area rule. In 
the Hast the recently formed Y.R.A. haye nob as yet arrived at an 
conclision, and it is possible they will deeree the same method. 
Should this not be done, experience to come will show up the false 
and pernicious workings of simple length, that at future conyoca- 
tions of the powers the desired perfection will be brought about 
through the foree of public opinion. In England the sail area rule 
will be tried this year by several prominent clubs, and it has already 
popplanenied length in Itchen classes and Southampton waters gen- 
erally. 

There isa firm conviction abroad that the time has come for abol- 
ishing the old and prejudicial beam and length rule all around the 
British coast and the substitution of thenew system. As fast as ‘‘vested 
interests’’ can be set aside, the sail area rule is being accepted, and we 
think that in another season or two it will become universal through- 
out the saoutne wort as the best and most practicable substitute 
by which the difficulties in the way of obtaining the actual bulk of 
vessels will be oyercome. 

The Lake clubs are to be congratulated for being in on the new tide. 
The Toronto and Kingston clubs had already given the Seawanhaka 
tule a season’s trial with great satisfaetion, and at the recent meet- 
ing the whole matter was thoroughly canvassed and examined 
through application to actual boats whose relative performance is 
known. Hence futnre prosperity under the sail area rule can be con- 
sidered assured. The Chicago Y. C.is also debating in an informal 
mnanher 4 similar measure. and we learn thap Colin Archer ig worki 
among Swedish organizations to the same me ose. So the oat 
seems clear at last to a universal rule in which all interests will ac- 
quiesce. Nearer home, old prejudices still have some influence and 
strength, but that the errors of jength measurement are fully under- 
stood by intelligent observers elsewhere appears from the following, 
taken from Le Yacht, of Paris; 

“To sum up: The English Y. R.A. has decreed three classes of 
boats, of certain defined lengths, and applies to these classes time 
allowance based upon sail area and length. * * * It appears, then, 
that the division of boats in classes by length maintains the princi- 
ples of measurement by length, but at the bottom the allowance upon 
sail area and length has, as a direct consequence, the abandonment 
of measurement by length. * * * Experience has demonsirated the 
fallacy of simple length ; for among boats of same length it gives the 
advautageto the largest and most powerful, and as beoween boats of 
different type it hinders all fair comparison. Theintroduction of sail 
area oifers more equitable conditions for comparison, because the 
beam and depth [Flere appears the intuitive desire to measure actual 
bulks for fair comparison.—Epirok Forest AND STREAM] are the 
sources of sail carrying, and the new rule takes them into account. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


This must give results in racing at least fairer, if not perfeetly fair, 
because of the accounting for the bulk on the Jength, * * * This rule, 
ractically put to test in America under various forms, will be trom 
Phe present, through the Y. R, A., or perhaps in spite of it, engrafted 
wpen English rules for the racing of yachts and for smal) boats.” 
waddle about “patriotism’’ and the slushy scribbling of *‘penny-a- 
liners” with no higher aim than pocketing their pay for the filling of 
a certain amount of space, may find it easier to get along without 
any exertion of their brain, but wherever critics ot experience ven- 
ture an expression, it is in strong condemnation of simple length. It 
remains to be seen whether the New England Y. R. A. will have the 
insight to deal courageously with this question or whether it pro- 
poses to shirk by shoulderiig the vices of a bad rule which chokes 
off all further experiment and progress in its crass prejudice for the 
largest displacement and greatest expense in yacht, building to the 
exclusion of all fresh ideas aud the rapid development of the sport. 
A rule which forbids anything but the largest on the length cannot 
be fair, and that is notthe worst of it. ae expense of large boats 
frightens the public from building. The New England Y. R. A. must 
not look to the past ante but tothe future, What may have been 
food enough in the old days, when all yachts were shoal draft traps, 
is not necessarily good enough for an enlightened policy applicable 
to the future, which should give all a fair show and favor none in 
particular, Weare awareof the powerful prestige of old customs, 
and that the snares of ‘simplicity’ are bound to exert great influence 
upon the coming deliberations, But we believe the New Hngland 
Y. R. A. may be trusted to commit no hasty blunder, and that it will 
fuce the musie without regard to yested interests, and permit no 
narrow local issues or provincial prejudice to sheer it off the path of 
duty. That duty demands a rule free from favor to any type, in the 
light of experience abroad and at home, where there has been suffi- 
Glen} opportunity, to obserye the workings of rules adhered to for a 
ong time. 

The two leading clubs in the country, the N. Y, Y. C. and Seawan- 
haka Corinthian Y. C., in yiew of the constantly widening divergence 
in the type of the vessels composing their fleet, have, after deliberate 
consideration, resisted the pleadings of vested interests, and to their 
credit, refused to formulate a ukase against those whose experience 
or choice leads to deviation from the ancient typical trap. The sail 
area rule as a correction to the notorious unfairness of measuring by 
simple length has been introduced with good effect and satisfaction 
in Rew York, whatever this or that grewler with an oversparred 
trap may haye to the contrary. Itis receiyed with increasing favor 
cabroad and indeed is destined to take precedence of all other 
methods. The Y. R. A. council of Great Britain has positively de- 
clared length an inequitable gauge, The Lake Y. R. A., in full pos- 
session of all that has been said and reported upon the subject, has 
seen fil to reject simple length, Those journals making a specialty 
of yachting from a technical standpoint, are unanimous iu the con- 
demnation of simple length. It is not our purpose to further or 
force any selected rule. But we wish the issue to be put before the 
New England Y. R. A. in its true light. Are we to have in the East 
the liberty to build and rig as we like, or is the future to be rammed 
into a straight-jacket at the outset, only to have all hands wake up 
again some day and find our cousins abroad have stolen another 
long march on our practices and experiences? Will the New England 
Y. R. A. bear in mind that the evils of length measurement were only 
just beginning to show themselves, because builders are slow to 
recognize the loophole inthe rule? That, if a sloop on 29ft, draws 
left. and has 30ft. hoist to-day, the future, forced by the artificial 
stimulant of prejudicial measurement, will develop vessels drawing 
ae Beater als length with 35ft. hoist, displacement and cost corrés- 
pondin 


Can the association overlook the boat with'5ft. draft and 22ft. hoist, 


supplied at half the cost and equally as well fitted to the general 
objects of yachting? Is reason to be dumped overboard and riot in 
size the consummation to be sought? Are weto see all the troubles 
and tribulations of racing abroad transplanted to our own shores, 
only augmented in their interference with sport and the erection of 
false standards? 

This is the sequence length measurement is bound to bring about 
should the New Ingland Y. R. A. perpetuateits follics and emphasize 
them by officialindorsement. The largest and most expensive and 
most undesirable type will raise its head and tower above others, a 
fright to the pockets of all but a small number of rich people. and of 
a draft and general unwieldiness wholly unsuited to the promotion 
of yachting interests. We will see on this side of the Atlantic the 
same harrassing and regretable split between racers and cruisers, ad 
years willnot efface the eyil wrought, The past is not a sufficient 
criterion, as the sport was in a general state of chaos, Now that pil- 
ing up records is becoming the fashion, measurement rules will be 
swindled to the utmost possible. s 

Already the influence of length can be detected in the huge Kastern 
sloops as the first step in the direction we fear. Let every one desir- 
ing a boat ask himself whether he cares for 8ft. draft, 10 tons weight 
on the keel and 42ft. hoist for general yachting purposes on 8vft. 
loadline? Yet precisely such a boat was planned three years ago and 
made her appearance in last year’s matches about Boston, Sheis 
the product of length measurement, and not a boat representing the 
most advantageous or economical disposition of size. But for the 
fact that length refuses to consider size and permits it to race un- 
taxed, such monsters would never enter any one’s head. The length 
rule quashes the delicate play of reason and sets up as a fetish the 
brute force of bigness. Cruisers will refuse to bow to such a false 
idol, and as fast as they discover it a losing game to pit small boats 
on a length against large ones they will retire from the line and re- 
lapse in public estimate to the lower order composed ‘only of 
eruisers.’? The most excellent and talented designs will be spoken of 
slightingly as ‘‘cruisers,’’ and that only because a false standard has 
warped just comparison, . 

The danger lies herein. If the New England Y. R. A. seeks its 

uide by the past, it will fail to receive the true course for the future, 
Reeaune the past has scarcely afforded a chance for the poison to ap- 
pear on the surface. Wise counsel peers ahead and a warning against 
official indorsement looking to the perpetuation of a proscriptive 
rule, simply because its vices haye lain dormant in the past, cannol 
go unheeded, unless at serious sacrifices in the future and the com- 
plete miscarriage of the chief purpose for which yachting associa- 
tions are instituted. Once vested interests are permitted to grow 
strons under a fallacious rule. then neither reasou nor example may 
be able to put affairs round again on the other tack. 


LOG OF THE WATERSNAKE. 
[From “Cruises in Small Yachts,” by H, Fiennes Speed.) 


Tea for the little ship which was to be our home for three months 

on salt water and fresh, and which usually lay either at anchor 
or at her moorings a little below Erith Pier,im what is very com- 
monly called the *‘London River.’ She was a small cutter of about 
seven tons, built at Portsmouth in 1873, but redecked, sparred, can- 
vassed and thoroughly overhauled and refitted by MeWhirter at 
Erith in 1878, of pretty smart appearance and not overdone with 
sail. Dimensions as follows: Length over all 34ft, 6in., beam Sft,, 
draft of water 5ft. She had iron ballast inside and a small lead 
keel of half aton. Of course carvel built and with considerable rise 
of floor, Sternpost not much raked, and clew of mainsail plumb 
with taffrail. Main eabin 10ft. 8in. long, a good forecastle with room 
in it for a bed bunk, with which, However, it never was fitted, Her 
fittings below were mostly of teak and maple French polished, which 
looked very well. The little after cabin was entered by a ladder 
through the cabin top on starboard side, and had a washstand on 
starboard side and a 6ft, berth on port side, which was carried along 
under the deck and passed along one side of the steering well. The 
latter was 2ft. Tin, long, and completely shut off from the main cabin 
by a bulkhead which had fitted on it a small shelf to take the bin- 
nacle in a handy position. In most small yachts one enters the 
cabin through folding or sliding doors, and the question is usually, 
Where on earth is the binnacle to go? 

The whole crew of the Watersnake numbered three. We were 
therefore an amateur crew, No hand, no boy, no dog, not evena cat 
to curl up in front of the forecastle stove and make things look home- 
ae yey the kettle was onthe boil and sang merrily over the red 

ot coke. 

Provisioning for three months required some consideration, but of 
course we were to get fresh things when and where we could. But 
that pile, a second great pyramid of tins from Hugh Wood & Co,, 
heaped up on the cabin carpet. How are we going to stow all that 
lot in the lockers. 

Before wé warp off, a word about one's toggery on board a small 
craft. Whatis best to wear? Now, we all had pilot cloth. and blue 
jerseys, and flannel shirts. and blue worsted eaps, and India rubber 
soled shoes, All of which sounds professional, of course, but still 
there are drawbacks even to professional costume, e. g., a thick pilot 
cloth pair of trousers are not nice to go aloft in to cast off the topsaii 
lacing in a hurry, and get the fid cut of the topmast, till they grow 
pliant with sheer old age. They are too stiff and thick. Whereas 
flannels are charming and allow perfect freedom of action; but these 
again are nob warm enough on many a summer night, and get to 
look dreadful atter a little brasswork cleaning has been got through, 
and they have a plentiful modicum of brickdust and oi] daubed vpon 
their soft surfacé. In one short week their pristine beauty is gone 
Preyer and we all know the washerwoman’s hands don’t improve 

em. 

The question hes bebween pilot cloth, white flannel and blue pares 
no doubt, The firstis heavy and stiff, and when wet won‘t dry. The 
second ia easily wet through, but dries easily and is supple, but spoils 


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in appearance with the least thing. The third is a kind of go between 
and perhaps is best of all, as it dries soon, and allows one to bend 
one’s knees, and yetis fairly warm. It should be of good substauce, 
otherwise it soon perishes. : 

But now we warp off at last and drop down to moorings below the 
pier to wait for next day and get things squared below, wash the 
decks down and feel we have done with Brith Hard foratime. That 
night, having done a fair day's work on board, we sab up Jate and 
made merry; buf I made my crew clearly understand that it was 
only for a treat, and that the Watersnake always kept good hours as 
a generalrule. My brother sleptin the forecastle, [had the after 
eabin to myself, where T could pop up and down the ladder at pleas- 
ure and at a moment’s netica while at anchor, and not interfere with 
anybody; though my apartment was, I must confess, somewhat 
limitedin area, Pen slept in the berth on port side of main cabin aud 
#, in the starboard, i 

Next day, August 10, there was a nice breeze from §, W, (the usnal 

uarter), Slipped moorings about mid-day and reaching (lown a lit- 
tle beyond Herne Bay, brought up somewhere in the neighborhood 
of the Pudding Pan. We had a good sail, but nothing of much infer- 
est happened. 

August 11.—During the night the wind freshened a ood deal on the 
flood tide, and the old Snake rolled dreadfully, rolled in fact so much 
that each rail dipped, first on side then the other, and it takes a very 
heavy roll indeed to effect this, in fact, | never have had it happen in 
any craft. Breakfast while atanchor was impossible. Only two of 
us were left sound, and a hard job it was for us to get {he anchor, as 
the motion was so extremely violent with the fresh W. wind. When 
we had succeeded, and it was only a question of time and patience, 
and steering and holding on, and when the foresail was run up she 
was quieter, and we ran comfortably under a reefed mainsail past 
the Pan Sand Red ene and Yougne Light, taking this channel in- 
stead of the favorite old Gore channel by way of achange, After a 
bit it was ‘‘Gybe O!” for the North Foreland, and with a good breaze 
we ran into Ramsgate Outer Harbor till 10 P, M.; then warped into 
dock and slept peacefully. 


, THE GLEAWM’S RECORD. 


FMHE amount of ballast at present carried by this sloop amounts to 

6,200Ibs., Something over 1,7001bs, of which has recently been put 
on the keel. Considering the boat is only 23ft, loadtine, these fizures 
patently illustrate the tendency toward an expensive and unwieldy 
vype which length measurement fosters, What has been done in the 
Gleam on a small scale is only the forerunner to what we may expect 
in large vessels aS Soon as the weak side of thatrule is talken advan- 
tage of. Indeed, the new compromise, Thetis, building in Boston, 
gives a gauge of the tendencies of the times toward the enormous, 
aie record of the Gleam for last year, put in tabular form, is as fol- 
OWS! 


Kditor Forest and Stream: 

Inotice an error in to-day’s paper in your account of the perform- 
ance of the Gleam last season, Inthe A. Y, C. race, Gleam won very 
handily, with several minutes to spare, from the Lois, and Amazon 
was third that day, While I am at it, it is as well to say, that Amazon 
carried away the throat halliand block hook within two minutes atter 
crossing thé line, and although damages were repaired quickly, yet 
Amazon could not inthe light and baffling wind regain the distance 
lost. I pride myself upon neyer carrying away anything on my boat: 
but this accident was caused by bad ironwork well hidden by the 
galvanizing, something no one can guard against. 

In ihe Seawanhaka Corinthian race I tried an experiment on the 
silly rule of measurement now in yogue, yiz.: sailed without a top- 
mast, and thus gained about six minutes in time. Of course, [had ta 
take my chances on the weather, and this time got left, Thad the 
satisfaction of beatmg the whole class down to the §;W. Spit buoy, 
but there the wind died out entirely. ; 

Lalso had the satisfaction of showing there was a hole in that sys- 
tem of measurement, and the result is, I understand, that yachts will 
hereafter be measured for topmasts about the length of the xaff, 
whether they carry them or not. rive 

At Larchmont we had the only racing day of the season; a good 
topsail breeze, true and steady as a clock. Gleam and Amazon 
crossed the line side by side, Amazon beat Gleam, in round numbers, 
fourteen minutes, or nine minutes with her time deducted. 

Amazon is 2ft. din. longer on the water line than Gleam. 

Regarding the Lois, she is one of Mr. Ellsworth’s boats, formerky 
the Kangaroo. Although she is not now in racing hands, and is 
under-rigged, so as to he a comfortable boat in which a pentleman 
can and does safely take his wife and family with him, yetif there is 
any cutter or any sloop, carrying fixed weight, of her length, that 
thinks Lois can’t go, 1 willtry to convince them of the error for_a 
$100 cup, A. ¥. C. course and rules. FRANKLIN BEAMES, 

[We gladly make the correetion mentioned in the record of Gleam 
published last week, and regret that a misprint in the times of finish 
on our page 433 of Volume XX., should have led to the error. In 
reference to the Lois, we confounded that boat with another of the 
same name. The Lois, ex-Kangaroo, is no doubt a fast boat on leneth 
measurement in light weather with enough rig, but lile all of her 
kind, not to be depended upon in rough water.] 


CRUISING IN A SLOOP. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 3 
Idonot knowif I am atall singular in my experiénces on the 
water, but [do know [have had some nasty ones. The scene of the 
fullowing was the harbor of Halifax, N. §,, some fifteen years ago. I 
had just returned there from Lake Ainslie, Cape Breton, where [ had 
been sent on business, expecting to find certain letters. one of which 
I thought sure would direct me back again to Lake Ainslie for a six 
month's visit. In order to prepare for such a mandate when it came, 
Tlooked up certain yachtsmen and fishermen to find a staunch,. 
fairly fast, seagoing, 25. or 30ft. keel boat to take with me. Among 
many I saw was one in particular that took my fancy. Her size, build 
and price just suited me. She had nonice fixings below, so that I 
could fit her out to my fancy and pocket. The bargain I nade was, 
thatI should pay a forfeit in two weeks of a stipulated sun. in ease L 
did not want to purchase. After closing the agreementit did not 
take me long to throw aboard some bread and cheese, and prepare 
for a short cruise into the Atlantic. A fine breeze and tide tempted 
my haste, and soon I had mainsail on her, with the only jip she car- 
ried, Imade my dingey fast tothe anchor buoy, and slipped ny 
moorings. Off we bounded, my heart and joy keeping pace with the 
occasion. About one-half of the mainsheet was aboard, and the jib- 
sheet was belayed inmy hand, IThandled and feltther aa I would a 
colt just out of the stable, and soon gained great confidence in her 
abilities and qualities. This did not last long. I found I had been 
greatly mistaken in the wind, and that it was merely luck that had 
attended .me thus far, as squalls of great fierceness became the order 
of the day. My yacnt suddenly righted, her mainboom came 
aboard just as if I were passing under the lee of some 
great elevator, then down came the wind again with awful force and 
so quickly that my determination to reef had no time to be put into 
effect. Itried to bring her to, but another burst of acrial passion so 
puried her that I had to bring her helm up again and await a more 
peaceful moment. All this time the city was fast being shut out and 
the Atlantic opening. The quiet moments I waited did not come. 
Aeolus, on the contrary, appeared determined to make the most of 
his opportunity and hurled his imprecations at my awlacity in at- 
tempting alone to gain the mastery over one element i spite of the 
other, I forget just now who wrote ‘'Tempora mutantur, el wos 
nutamur in illis,” but 1 do not forget how forcibly those words came 
to me, The time was changed and [must change withit. So here 
goes. Down with the helm in spite of everything. I did some lively 
handling of that mainsheet, and if the jib whips into ribbons T can- 
not helpit. Itwasanawfulmoment. My sloop of that date was a 
very diiterent article to the cutter of to-day. There was no grip to 
her, she sat on the water like John Gilpin in the saddle. Whena 
uff came she went, when a sea rolled under her she rolled off, and 
ere she was on her beam ends. A regular Minnie-na-la in the cocl- 
pit, having it allits own way. We carried no boarding nettings, and 
hus the briny enemy found no difficulty in comin aboard, I 
thought nothing could saye me. The strong tide and wind prevented 
our ceming up aly more, and although the time seemed yery long to 
me it could only have been afew seconds, I tool my bearings for 
a swim, I might just as well have done so fora fly, or a wall, when 
crash went something. It was the jaw of the boom giving way with 
the weight of the water and wind. Then some of the masthoop seiz- 
ing pated and the yacht actually lifted her lee rail out of the water, 
Doubtless a Sull helped her. Now was nity chance. T inanned the 
downhaul and stowed the jib. Then forthe main halliards. But oh! 
no, not yet. I must first fight and conquer that wild manine of a 
boom or be struck down with it. Pat never wielded hig snilaiah morg 


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déxterously, nor the Roman legionary its battering ram more fiercely 
than the God of {the misty element hurled that boom about, I 
knew the spar could not long stand it, sol must be quick. I seized 
a line, and making two canal hitch loops I went for that boom. I 
waited, t dodged, I jumped, I lassoed it, and sprang round the mast, 
hauled jn, taking 4 turn or two round somethiug, and then let go the 
datlinvds. The gaskets soon had that sail in their embrace, and I 
breathed once again, 

I Was as strong as a lion up tothis, nowI was weak as a cat. I 

trembled now when I was comparatively safe, whereas before I did 
not even fear anything, Then f could think quite readily, now not at 
all, Iwas imbecile or next thing toit. I carried no colors to tele- 
graph a word of distress. I did not think any one saw mé, therefore 
I must act for myself, 
_ The tide was by this time nearly neap; the wind as fresh, but stead- 
ier. A gale was commencing, It had hanled a point or so. and more 
off shore. All this encouraged me, for I should have smoother water. 
I began operations by pumping, but had not done much when some- 
thing told me that my maimsail was split into ribbons and useless. 
I trembled hike a leaf, and cold sweat bedewed my whole system 
while IT examined and found it just so, and yet this fact so showed me 
my position that I found my nerves and mind strengthening every 
minute. My determination was to sail hack under jib in a head wind. 
Could it be dohe? Thad done so before in another yacht by trimming 
ship, i willtry thisone, I slashed the mainsailfree and stowed it 
away Tight inthe eyes. I then found a bar of pig iron that had not 
fone Out with the rest, and placed that there too. The water then 
put her down by the head, even thoughI went aft tothe helm. She 
sailed well. buf not fast, Thad at times to give her a weather helm, 
when the wind freshed more than usual. The tide, of course, after 
it commenced to ow, helped me along. The great drawback now 
was my inability to find either bread or cheese or pipe. A boat’s crew 
from H. M, 8. Royal Alfred had put off to assist me, but seeing me 
fast pickmg up my anchorage, they returned. As I neared the 
wharves I saw a dark line, which turned out to be nautical Haiifax, 
en masse, who cheered and cheered again as I luffed up, seized my 
anchor-bnoy, and made fast, VERAX. 

[A yawl or ecutfer rig would have prevented the discomfiture de- 
scribed, and a deeper boat would have made better weather.] 


THE LAKE YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION. 
[From the Toronto Mail.) 


T the annual general meetmeg of the Toronto Y. C, held on Sat- 
urday, Jun. 5, the feasibility of forming a yacht racing associa- 
tion was discussed, and a committee consisting of Messrs. G. H. Dug- 
gan, W. H. Parsons, Wm. Dickson and George E,. Evans were 
appointed, with instructions to put themselves in communication 
with the other yachs clubs around the lakes with a view to the forma- 
tion of suchan association, After considerable correspondence on 
the part of the secretary of the T, Y, C, with other yacht clubs on the 
Jakes, it was found that they were all very 1auch in favor of haying 
sich an association formed, A cirenlar was then sent to each of the 
clubs calling on them to appoint three delegates; these delegates to 
form a committee and draw up a constitution and rules to govern 
slich an association. 

The outcome of this preliminary skirmishing resulted in a meeting 
of the délegates so appointed at the Queen’s Hotel on Saturday after- 
noon. The Reyal Canadian Y, UC. sent Col. Grasett and Messrs. John 
ueys and Robert Cochrane, and the Oswego Y¥,C,, Messrs. Mott, 
Phelps, and MeMurrich, The Bay of Quinte Y. C: was unfortunately 
nnable to send delega/es, but authorized the secretary of the Toronto 
Y. C. to yote on the vital points which cameup for discussion. Mr, 
Leys took the ehair, and the delegates immediately proceeded to 
tackle the most important subjeet which came up for their discus- 
sion, viz., the measurement rule, for it was believed that if unani- 
mity cuuld be seenred on this subject. other less important details 
ke ely besettled. and the Association might be considered as, 

ormed, 

Mr, Eyans read a long and exhaustive letter upon the subject ad- 
dressed to him by Mr. Kunhardt, of WoREst AnD STREAM, which 
entered wilh great exactness into the principle underlymg the dif- 
ferent rules tor measurement of the Seawanhaka, New York, Yacht 
Club and English Yacht Racing Association, and after the matter 
had been fully discussed, and its effect upon typical yachts round 
the State examined, it was decided to adopt the Seawanhaka rule as 
a happy mean between the two others. The Toronto Y. C. have 
alteady adopted this rule, and sailed their last regatta under it. The 
Oswego delegates-came armed with full authority to bind their club 
and also declared in its favor. The Bay of Quinte Y. C., in their 
letter to the secretary of the Toronto Y. C., gave him full power to 
cast their-vote in its fayor, and the Royal Canadian delegates de- 
cided to recommend its adoption at a special general meeting of their 
club, which will shortly be held. 

Kingston, although unfortunately unable to send delegates, had 
written to the secretary of the Toronto Y. C. stating that they had 
already adopted the Seawanhaka rule, so that the co-operation of 
their ciub may be looked wpon as assured, 

A constitution was forthwith drafted by the meeting, which is ap- 
pended, by which it will be seen that any of the yacht clubs round the 
lake of good standing may become a member of the association hy 
adopting the constitution and by-laws. 

The officers for the se rata were next appointed, as follows: 

President, Mr. John Leys, R. OC. Y: C. 

Vice-President, Mr, John T. Wott, Oswego Y.C, 

Second Vice President, Mr. Hugh C, Dennis, Toronto ¥, C, 

Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. George H. Evans, Toronto Y. C. 

After the labors of the meeting the delegates adjourned to dinner, 
which was served in the Queen's best style, the Mayor presiding, with 
Mr. Leysin the vice-chair. After the dinner cigars were in order, 
and the delegates spent a very pleasant evening over the subject 
nearest to their hearts, and separated with great regret, but feelin 
satisfied that they had avcomplished, or almost accomplished, a aad 
work. Appended is the constitution, A copy of it and the sailing 
rules will be sent to each elub upon the lakes, and upon their signify- 
ing their acceptance of them they may become members of the Asso- 


ciation, 
LAKE YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION. 


CONSTITUTION. 

Article L—Name,—The Association shall be known as the ‘‘Lake 
Yacht Racing Association.” 

Article I1.—@bjects.—The objects of the Association shall beto en- 
courage yacht building and yacht racing and to establish and enforee 
uniform rules for the government of all races in which the yachts of 
two or more clubs compete. 

Article I1].—Offiecers.—The officers of the Association shall be 
president, vice-president, second yice-president, secretary (who shall 
als betreasurer), and :n executive committee, consisting of eleven 
members. of which the officers shall be members er offictis. The 
officers and members of the executive committee to be called the 
council. The officers shall be elected at each annual meeting, and 
shall hold office for one year, or until their successors haye been 
duly elected. Vacancies may be filled at any regular orspecial meet- 
ing, of which the secretary shall give at least ten days’ notice in 
writing to each member ot the council, and no member of the coun 
cil shall yote upon any question in which he is personally interested. 
A majority of the votes of the members of the couneil present shall 
be necessary to pass any rule or regulatien, Voting shall be by kal- 
lot. One member of the council from each club belonging te the 
Association or his proxy shall be necessary to form a quorum, 

Article TV.—Duties of Officers.—President,--The President shall 
preside at all meetings and enforce all regulations of the Associa- 
tion, : 

Vice-President — The vice-president shall assist the president in the 
discharge of his duties andi 1 his absence officiate in his stead. 

Second Vice-President—The second vice-president shall assist the 
vice-president in the discharge of his duties and in his absence offici- 
ate in his sfead. 

Secretary—The secretary shall keep a true record of the proceed- 
ings of allthe meeiings of the Assoviation in a book provided for 
that purpose; shal! keep a correct roll of all the clubs and delegates; 
shall notify each club of its election to membership, and shall notify 
pale eee of every meeling and of the purpose for which it is 
ealled. 

Treasurer—The treasurer shall collect all money due the Assacia- 
tion and pay all bills contracted by it, keeping a correct account of 
the same in & book proyided for that purpose, He shall make a 
report ait each anonal meeting of all receipts and expenditures, and 
ot the amount of money remaining in his hands. 

Execubive Committee—The executive committee shall act as a 
membership committee, shall establish and enforce penalties fer the 
infringement of the racing rules’ of the Association, and shall settle 
any dispute arising out of the construction of racmg rules which 
shal] be referred to tha Associatio.. 

Article ¥,_\Membership.—The following yacht clubs may become 
members of the Association by accepting theby-laws: Bay of Quinte, 
Kingston, Royal Canadian and Toronto, Any other yacht club on 
the lakes in good standing having fifty members and five yachts of 
16ft, lwadline or upward, shall be eligible formempbership, Applica- 
tion for membership must be made in writing to the secretary of the 
Assoviation, must be signed by the commodore or secretary of the 

elub appiying for membership, and must contain a correct list of the 
members and yachts of the clits so upplyin, . The executive com- 
mittee shali act upon said application, and shall admit all clubs 
eligible under this article; their decision shall be final, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Article VI,—Representation,—Any club becoming a member of the 
Association under Article V., shall be entitled to an equal numerival 
represertation in the council with the other clubs belonging to tie 
Association. 

Article VII,—Meetings.—There shall be an Annual meeting on the 
second Saturday in May of each year, at which the reports of the 
Sectetary and treasurer shall be read, and officers for the ensuing 
year elected, The first annual meeting. as aforesaid, to be held in 
Toronto, in the year 1885, at which meeting it shall be settled where 
the next meeting shall be held, and so on; the placé where each sub- 
sequent meeting is tobe held tobe settled at the preceding one, 
Special Dee eens club belonging to the Associntion shail be at 
liberty to call a special meeting by giving one month's notice in writ- 
ing, stating the object for which such meeting is called, and signed 
by the commodore or vice-commodore of the club, giving such notice 
to the secretary of the Association, who shall thereupon notify the 
members of the council of such special meeting and its date, giving 
them at least fourteen days’ notice. 

Article VIII.—Assessments.—Funds for defraying the current ex- 
penses of the Association shall be raised by an annual asséssnient on 
each club of of ten dollars, which shall be due and payable in ad- 
vance, and the financial year shall begin at the date of the annual 
meeting, and an additional assessment to cover the expenses of pub- 
lishing a book containing the constitution, rules and regulations, 
code of signals, ete,, of the Association to be borne by the clubs pro- 
portionably to the number of their members, No other assessment 
Shall be levied except by a two-thirds yote of all the members of the 
council present at a meeting called for that purpose. 

Article 1X—Resignations and Expulsions.—Tlhe membership of 
any club in the Association shall be forfeited by yoluntary with- 
drawal, by disbandment, or by & unanimous vote of all the clubs of 
the Association at a meeting Bey called, at which said club shall 
have an opporvanity. of being heard in its own defence. 

Article X,—That each club shall be furnished with a copy of the 
constitution and by-laws and be bound thereby, and that in case of 
i\fringement of such laws by any club, such club shall be liable to 
expulsion trom the Association in the manner provided in Article IX, 

Article XT.—Delegates to the annual general meeting to have power 
to appoint proxies to yote in their stead, 

Article X{I._Amendments.—These by-laws may be amended by a 
two-thirds vote at any meeting of the Association, proyided, how- 
ever, that the notice of such meeting shall haye coutained the pro- 
posed amendment in full. 


PETREL.—From a letter in last week's paper it might be inferred 
that the sloop Vivien had been shown a match fur fhe Petrel. We 
haye overhauled the records and find as follows: In 1880, second 
day of cruise, when Vivien was said to have beaten Petrel into New 
London, the day was too fluky for any real test, and Vivyien's gain 
was owing altogether to leaving the channel and cutting off inside 
the Bartlett’s lightship, Petrel passing to southward thereof. Leay- 
ing New London, Petrel was bound direct for New Bedford by pre- 
arranged plan, and gave the Vivien no thought one way or the other, 
Vivieu was then a light, open boat, and generally considered reason- 
ably smart and quite up to the average, Both yachts met again dur- 
ing the cruise of 18€2. First day’s run from Larchmont to Morris 
Cove, good leading wind, 44. miles in 7 hours, Viyien with spinaker 
and Petrel with otopsail, latter beat Vivien 16 minutes. Same 
cruise, Morris Cove to Greenport, light wind aft, spinakers carried to 
Plum Gut, Then beat up Gardner’s Bay to anchorage in strong 
we-terly wind, Petrel beat Vivien 29 minutes, 28 of which was made 
in the turn to windward of twelve miles: 


“CRUISES 1N SMALL YACHTS.”—Many correspondests are in 
formed that this interesting liitle yolume is on sale at the publication 
office of this paper. . 


OUT FOR REPATRS.—Owing to sickness correspondence and 
other material is unayoidably postponed. 


Canoeing. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs arerequested to send to Forest AnD 
STREAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canveists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forust anp STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


ALLEGHENY C. C. 


Ae Y C. C., Pittsburgh, Pa. Commodore, Chas. A. Robb; 

Vice-Commodore, P. W. Shepherd: Secretary and Treasurer, 
nea H. Maple. Burgee, 14x2lin., white field, blue border, letters 
n blue. 


CANOE VS. SNEAKBOX, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The question at issue is not as regards speed, but simply stability 
under press of wind and weather, and ability to go where you want 
to in open water. As regards the first point I can corroborate the 
statement of your correspondent from Tom’s River, 118801 madea 
trip to Barnegat. On leaving the cars at the village I was met by the 
boatman, whom I had engaged to take me over to the beach. He 
said that there had been a storm, and that all the boats at the land- 
ing were beached, but that he guessed he could take mé over in the 
morning. Thefollowing day I went down to the landing, and found my 
boatman, who refused to cross the bay. There were a dozen or more 
others there with boats from twenty to thirty feet in length, but none 
of them were willing to beat across. after a time a boat was seen 
approaching from the beach. She came free with fourreefs. The 
skipper of this boat, though offered extra pay, declined to recross 
the bay. Just then a small boy, thirteen or fourteen years old, came 
down to the Janding, jumped into a sneakbox. and started out, On 
inquiry I was told that be was the mail-carrier, and went over to the 
lighthouse every day. On expressing surprise that he should yenture 
outin sucha cockle-shell, was told that ‘them things will go any- 
where, even when we dassent take out our yachts.’ (The boatmen 
down there all call their catboats yachts.) This it seems to me should 
settle the question of the stability of sneakboxes, Perhaps canoes 
are superior in this respect, but I doubt it. Ihave never known a 
sneakbox refuse to go where her head was pointed: bub cannot say as 
much for canoes. Afew years ago the Puck, Rosalie and Psyche, 
attempted to go down the Hudson from Spuyten Duyvil, but could 
not do ii under either sail or paddie. We then crossed the river, 
hoping for better luck on the other side, On arriving at the west 
shore found that we were no better off, and that there was nothing 
left for us to do but to run back to Spuyten Duyvil under sazl, and re- 
turn to the city from there by rail. The present correspondent an- 
swers also the name of Snark,” and will only say that the little 
1214ft. box is no longer in his possession, The Bojum passed one 
summer on the Suuth Bay in company with the canoe Queen Mab,, 
and found no reason to be ashamed of the former’s perférmances, 

Tf Commodore Whijlock is anxious for a trial of canoe vs. suealk- 
box, I make him the follcwing offer; To sail in July or August next, 
from Rocky Point. Greenwich, around the west end of Captain's 
Island, thence around the island to starting point. The match to be 
sailed in a southwest reefing breeze, with an ebb tide, This, I think, 
will give a better open-water test than can be had in the Hudson, near 
Newburgh. If speed is to be taken into account, will give or take 
allowance under measurement rules of any yacht club the Commo- 
dore may select. Otherwise the race to be* goas you please.”’ lf 
If Mr. Whitlock finds if Inconvenient to accept, this offer is open ta 
any other single or double canoe, For the sneakbox | claim the fol- 
lowing points of superiority, as compared with the canoe: It will 
sail closer to the wind; it will live longer in a blow; itisaltogether a 
more comfortable boat in open water or for an all-day oe ' 


: OJUM, 
[No doubt Mr. Whitlock will be ready to race, but it is asking a go0d 


‘Apri 10, 1884. 


aed of the canoe to go from Staten Island to Greenwich, and wait 
: fre for @ strong southwest breeze and an ebb tide. Ib would be 
fat er to name a fixed date for the race, as fhe canoe has to £o so far. 

€ question of time allowance is also a difficult one, as the boats, 


pris Me abour the same length and depth, differ by 100 per cent, in 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


Ihave read with much interest the letters in Forms? AND STRMAM 
ecnecerning the sneakbox and 3 Q ‘: 
think fiat ieiuet mt ia eee PEEP and asI favor the -neulkbox T 
_ Three years ago Il was stopping with a frie neat, and ¢ 
the weakfish were running ee we made ioe giant meee 
man to go out on the bay antl fry them in his box. I thinicthe leneth 
of the box was about 16 or 17ft, Anyway, when we three were on 
board there was not much room to spare. I and my friend weighed 
about 125 pounds apiece, and the skipper was a short, thick-set man 
of twen fy-eight years. We started down Worked River seven o'clock 
next morning,.and after arun of a few minutes 1ound ourselves on 
the bay, and half an hour later on the grounds. ; 

After the skipper satisfied himself that he had the tight ranges, he 
hove over the prapnel and made everything snug, as the wind Was 
beginning to blow pretty fresh from the ‘-eastard.”” Anyhody knows 
that has been to Barnegat, that a stiff breeze will kick up a pretty 
lively sea there, and so it was that day. There were five boats within 
a half mile of us, and they were jumping around lively. Two miles 
“to windard’’ of us there was a forty-fcot fishing smack. aud she 
was pitching considerably, By this time we had eighty-four weak- 
fish ip the boat, averaging three-quarters of a pound, whilethe other 
boats had-alileft excepting the smack, It began to get so Pough that 
we thought we would leave too, so we tripped anchor and got under 
wax, bul had not gone more than a nile when the step gave way.’ 

The sticks were cleared off the deck and the skipper was on his 
knees heading the box before old Boreas. Heshailed the smacic 
which was near by, and when she oyerlook us and we threw our 
painter we had not shipped over a pail of water. One of the young 
fellows on board the smack was seasick. 

If anybedy thinks that a canoe can do any better than that let him 
write, | am ready to hear. SEAGULL. 


Editor Forest and Strean- 

_In reply to the Commodore’s challenge to sail his canoe against 
my heavy sneakbox, Luilt expressly for ducking, I must say I cannot 
accept, Should | race witha cance I should get Rushion (6 build me 
a sneak of the most approved pattern and rigged 10 compete with a 
canoe, Gro. 1, Winp. 


A FEW HINTS ON CAMPING. 


A FUNGUS SMUDGE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your canoe eolumns of Web, 28, IT noticed an article by ‘Sis, 
entitled. “Smoke ’em Out.” As a further suggestion for the ae om- 
plishment of so desirable an-end, and for the benefit of my fellow- 
sportsmen who hie away to the woods and trout streams, I will give 
you the substance used here as a “smudge” to repel the attacks of 
gnats and mosquitces. : 

_Itis the fungus growth frequently seen on the trunks of dead trees 
in the forest.-oid fallen timber,.etc., end commonly goes by the hame 
ot “gnatwood” by many, aiso called “toad stools,” thas frequently 
seen them as large in circumference as an ordinary half bushel 
measure. They grew pretty much all shapes and sizés, however. 
When old and dry, if cut into, they present a sort of spongy texture, 
both color and texte somewhat resembling cork, : 

This substanee burns quite slowly, will not go out when once lit, 
and emits a light wreath of smoke of a punzency and odor quite 
peculiar to itself, possessing a repulsive power against @ swarm of 
e#nats that can scarcely be obtaimed in any other way, and particu- 
larly efficaci us in driving off these infinitesimally small pests by 
some called ‘‘can’t see ’em's."! 

IT have frequently carried a piece of one suspended by a string 
around my neck, watch-guard fashion, and so secured in front as te 
keep the fire end outward while fishing on ibe head streams of Cheat. 
Tt burns invariably from the. end ignited until entirely consumed. 
Placed in a position where it will do the most good, it keeps the 
“enemy” at arespectable distance. 

Ihave also known if used by our ‘coon and *possum hunters as a 
ready means of conveying fire along with the hunt; in the absence of 
matches or other meaus for the purpose, a chunk the size of a quart 
cup being suificient to hold fire during eight orten hours, so slowly 
does it smoulder away. ; 

In fishing froma canoe or boat, sharpen a stick and thrust into 
one end, it can then be secured in any suitable position, and the fire 
kept from danger of contact with either the boat or contents. 

When freshly procured, it frequently happens they are so saturated 
with moisture as not to ignite readily; expose them in a hot place be- 
fore your camp-firs and roast until the superabundant moisture is 
driven off; then proceed and you will find it works saticrfactorly. If 
not required for immediate use ib can be laid up in some dry nook of 
the eamp or house and afew days will suffice to dry 1 out, cutting 
or brea cing into the inner part facilitating the drying process. 

To those who object to smearing themselves with any of the 
various conz:pounds of far and the essential ous, the above suggestion 
will prove beneficial. Converting oneself into a huge smelling bottle, 
with your siin exhibiting sensations as of a patent plaster or sheet of 
fiypaper, is certainly not one of the pleasures of camping ont, 

EEvERLY, W. Va. Backwoopbs. 


AIR-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 

I write once more to your valuable paper to be enlightened as to 
the proper size of air-tight compartments for a canoe 16ft. long (tan- 
dem). I propose having metallic ones, or can you suggest anything 
thatis better? Isthere not a rule by whichT can ascertain the num- 
ber of pounds a cubie foot of air will keep atloat? Rar. 

[A cubic foot of air will support.62l6lbs, in fresh waterand 6dlbs. in 
salt. A metal box, 1ft.in each dimetision, will Hoata weighwof 6244 
or 651bs,, less the weight of the box, the weight bemg out of water; 
and a proportionately greater weight, aecording to the density of the 
material, when the weight is inmmersed,) 


THE LOG BOOK. 
VL—AMONG THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. 


PROPOS of the meeting of the A. G. A. at the Thousand Islands 
next summer. send you the log of the Sadie N,, on one of the 
short eruises made during a fortnight’s sojourmm m that charming 
region last August. : 

Our headquarters were established on a beautifully wooded island 
known as Tidd’s, directly opposite to the town of Gananoque, and 
from this point we sallied torth from day to day as our faney led us. 

My fellow eanoeist, the Doctor,” having only a few days at his 
disposal, was aavxious.to make the most of the time, and readily 
accepted my proposal tomake a tour of the islands. He is a worthy 
representative of the single-blade, and had with him a beautiful little 
Rice Laker of Herald's build. oltre 

The morning of our start was unusually warm, with net a breath 
of wind. and our tiny craft floated so quietly that, though the current 
wasin ou favor, our motion was. scarcely perceptible. However, 
with an occasional dip of the paddle we slipped along at the rate of a 
mile or two an hour, which wis quite fast enough amid such pic- 
turesque surroundings; we were not tourists, 

Our course lay af first over a considerable stretch of open water, 
passing the Gananoque lighthouse in mid-stream witn its ves-1-vis, 
the beacon, known as Jack Straw. Thence through Halsiead’s Bay, 
wheu, no outlet being visible, a pocket map was consulted, which re: 
vealed a narrow channel to the right, aud presently we were thread- 
ing our way through a cluster of small islands which, notwithstand- 
ing pocket-map, compass, dead reckoning, etc.. quite perplexed usas 
to our exact bearings. Emergiog from this mage. another vista of a 
mile or two opened directly ahead, Weil's Tsland was now on our 
right, and the Canadian mainland on our left, with islauds dotting the 
river here and there, though less thickly 
_ Passing another lightnouse we entered a narrow gap between Ash 
ans! Wallace islands, and the canoes began to glide along at a lively 
pace with the quickening current. An important question with the 
Doetor at this juncture was, where are we to have dinner, and eateh- 
ing sight of thedJittle cottage of-the light keeper on the bank to our 
ght, he suggested that we halt for Imneh, — , 

With a cooling draught of milk from the kindly keeper’s dairy and 
a sandwich from our lunch basket, we were soon afloat again "like 
gianis refreshed.?’ A glance at the map showed that we were now 
approaching the notable Fiddler’s Ejhow and Lost Chatimel; but we 
vere placed_in the embarrassing posilion of haying two or three 
channels presented-to us, and, as the rushing current hurried us 
along, a Inementary doubi was felt as to whether tae Ganoeists might 
not find themselves in-the same predicament ss the channel afo'e- 
said. But like the historical Indian who yainly sought his Sele 
we did not allow (he misgiving to be moré than momentary, and ful 
confidence as to.our locus in quo was immediately restored. 

On reaehing the open miver.again a large cainp was'secn on La Rue 
Island, over our starboard bow, and getting within hailing distance 
we saluted the party, bub as the afternoon was waning we dented 


‘ ee 


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ourselves the pleasure of stopping to fraternize, The Canadian shore 
was again to he seen on our left. rising abruptly from the water, and 
at this point quite a remarkable echo may be produced, as was de- 
monstrated by the stentorian hallooing of the Doctor. 

Our course was now to the right, between La Rue and Club islands; 
thence by way of a small canal cut \hrough the lower extremity of 
Wells Isiand. and we soon found ourselves in the vicinity of Alex- 
andria Bay, the fashionable headquariers of summer life among the 


ands. 

The large hotels at the Bay and the splendid villas dotting the sur- 
rounding islands give the piace quite a civilized appearance, in 
striking contrast with the romantic wildness of the scenery of the 
Canadian channel through which we had just been passing. where 
nature has as ) et bern little disturbed. 2 5 

As it was now time for supper. a point with a commanding view 
was selected and our little pyramid tent pitched in short order, Sup- 
per over, the demorahzing effect produced upon the provision basket 
protoundly impressed us, Iortunately, the village at the Bay was 
only a short paddle from camp, and we conclnded to Fo in quest of 
fresh supplies at once. In our camp toggery, though, we felt we 
were hardly presentable in that 4 ate fo) 80 clean hoiled shirts were 
donned, toilettes hastily adjusted and we were off. As we passed the 
hotels the Doctor's eyes glanced wistfully in the direction of the fair 
promenaders on the piazzas. We strolled through the main street, 
replenished our larder sud were ready to return, when, chancing fo 
meet with an acquaintance, the way opened for an- introduction to 
some of those fair ones just mentioned. As we stepped up to the 
Thousand I-land House the sound of music from the parlors an- 
nounced that the nightly hop was in progress, and presently, when 
the whirlmg couples again took the floor our medical friend might 
have been seen with countenance serenely happy and—a charming 
young lady wpon his arm, é 

When we got back to camp no lullaby was needed to bring sleep to 
our pillow after the long day of sunshine and fresh air and activity. 

T must not omit to mention here the very pretty effect produced at 
night by the festoons of colored lights displayed about the hotels. 
Viewed from the river, with the shimmering reflections in its smooth 
surface, the effect is quite imposing. 

Next mecrning we started on the return to Tidds, by way of the 
American Channel. A genile east wind was ruffling the placid waters 
of the river as we got under way, and hoisting all sail fair headway 
was made against the current by ‘hugging’ the shore and taking 
advantage of the eddies; The Doctor's craft having a smaller area 
of canvas than the Sadie N., it afforded him the diversion of 'doub- 
ling up’’ to the front with the paddle semi-oceasionally, as he was 
left in the lurch. 

When passing a point bearing the high-sounding title of Central 
Park, about three miles up from the Bay, the well-known “toot” of 
a fish horn from the hotel verandah greeted our ears, Presuming 
the salute was from a knight of the paddle, we putin to the dock, 
and had the pleasure of shaking hands with the genial secretary.of 
the N.¥.C.0., who was staying here,with his family. As the wind was 
falling light we took our leave, after avery enjoyable half-hour’s 
chat. The next three miles were covered ata snail's pace, but even 
that was preferable to padding under a hot sun. By the time the 
Thousand Island Park was reached the wind had deserted us entirely, 
and there was nothing fovit but to paddle the remainder of the dis- 
tance to cai.p. 

For a short cut we went through whatis known as the ‘Gut,'’ be. 
tween Hemiock and Wells islands, and entered Hel Bay, an expanse 
of water some two miles in diameter, with only a few low islands 

. within its area; then steered a pretty straight course for Gananoque, 
skirting the northerly point of Grindstone Island, on whose gentle 
slope the white tents of the A. C, A. are to be planted next August, 
This is one of the largest of the Thousand Islands, being about five 
miles long, by to miles wide, and isin every respect a most des'rable 
location for the meet cf 1884, Eel Bay, at its foot, which is almost in- 
closed by the islands, will also be a capital place tor the regatta, 

When within a mile or two of camp a squall struck us and a lively 
race ensued as we went scudding betore it. It was ‘neck and neck” 
for so. time, when the Doctor, gradually inereasing sail, shot 
ahead; the Sadie N, followed suit hy shaking out reefs, but too late, 
and my friend had the satisfaction of leading the way to our moor- 
ings amid the plaudits of our party, a satisfaction I did not begrudge 
him after his long stern chase. 

The pocket map referred to will prove useful to the members of the 
A, C. A. who intend ernismg ainong the islands next summer. It is 
published by George kockyell, Fulton, Oswego county, Bee «i 

: ADIE N, 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


SIMPLE DISHES, 


ATMBAL is a staple and should always be carried by the cruis- 
ing canoeist. The best oatmealis the ‘A BC brand of steam- 
cooked cereals,” to be obtained at any grocery store; price twenty 
cents. This oatmeal is simply cooked by boiling in a pot or can for 
twenty minutes, or until it becomes as thick as the canoeist likes it, 
some men preferring it thick, others thin. The more water used, the 
Jonger it takes to cook, It should be boiled at least twenty minutes. 
Salt to be added when first put on the fire. Bat it with milk and 
sugar, sugar and butier, or butter and syrup, or any of the foregoing 
alone. Nowif you happen to cook two or three times as much as 
you want for one meal, don’t throw what is left away; keep it, cut it 
up in slices, and fry it; eat it with butter and sugar. N. B.—When 
boiling oatmeal be careful to stir at short itervals to prevent from 
sticking to the bottom of the pot and burning. 
_ Breakfast bacon is good fora change. Cut up in thin slices, place 
in afrying pan (without any butter, lard, salt, ete.) and let it fry 
until brown, or, if you like it well done, dark brown. 
One way to fry potatoes is to peel them, slice them into thin, fat 


wash in cold water, have the grease in the frying-pan deep 
enough to cover the slices and boiling, then take the slices directly 
from the cold water, drop them into the boiling grease and salt them, 
They won't require much turning over if submerged when dropped 
intothe grease. Eat while hot. a i 

To boil potatoes: Wash them clean or peel them, put into water 
with a little salt, and boil until soft. Test their softness with a fork 
or pointed piece of wood. 

An excellent way to cook eggs is to break two or three on a plate. 
Heat some butter until it turns black, pour the melted butter over the 
eges, add 4 little salt, and if you like your eggs very well done, place 
the plate near the fire for a few moments, Y 

To boil eggs soft. place them in boiling water for three minutes; 
hard, not less than six minutes, , 

A quick way of cooking eggs is to heat a frying-pan hot, take it off 
the fire, break half a dozen eggs in it, add a little salt, place the frying- 

an on the fre again, prevent the Caee fiom sticking to the bottom of 

he pan by the continued use of a knife. 

Never fry a beefsteak; broil it. When broiling a beefsteak never 
cut it to see if it is done. A piece of onion on each side of a steak 
when broiling gives it a pleasant odor. 

A word of advice. My friend, don’t attempt to go on a, real canoe 
cruise unless you arein company with a man who can cook, or have 
had a little practice in the culinary art. A small fire to co1k by is 
better than a large one, FRIDAY. 


THE WINTER CAM P-FIRE. 


Pee last of this series of meetings was held on April 2, at the Kit 

Kat Club room on Fourteenth street. The subject for the eve- 
ning’s discussion was ‘Tents.’ We omit a report here as the subject 
will appear shortly in the papers on ‘‘Canoe Building” in our columns. 
Mr, Norton described a new camp stove, made of four pieces of sheet 
iron, each about 10x18in., joined along the longer sides by hinge joints, 


pieces, 


| so that it will fold Hat, or may be opened to form a box, 1bin. long, 


10in. square, and open attop and bottom, About three inches from 
the lower end a piéce of each side is turned in, forming a lug on 
which asmall grate is supported, while a cover, also of sheet iron, 
fits ontop. The entire arrangement fits into a package 18x10x1}¢in., 
and is carried in a canvas bag. These meetings have been a help to 
canoeing in keeping alive an interestin the sport during the six 
months when it is usually neglected, and the example of New York 
canoeists has encouraged similar meetings elsewhere, and they will in 
the future become an established feature with all canoe clubs. 


CLUB NOTES. 


A. C, A.—Dr, Neidé has forwarded the draft of the associalion 
book to Commodore Nickerson for his approval, and it will be pub- 
lished shortly. 

NEWBURG.—Messrs. Oliver, of the Mohican C. C., and Stephens, of 
the N. Y, ©, U., will visit Newburg on April 10 to select a site for the 
local meet on Decoration Day. 


BIRCH BARK CANOES.—A meeting will be held in Boston on April 
16 to organize a club of birch bark canoes. About fifteen gentlemen 
are interested in its formation, seven of them being canoe owners, 


PERSONAL.—Mr., W. H. Bishop, of the Lake George C. C., was in 
New York last week and paid usa visit. Mr. Bishop has been spend- 
ing some time among the sneakboxes on the Jersey coast, and 
speaks very highly of them, 

SPRING CRUISE.—A number of Lowell canoeists think of shipping 
eanoes to Franklin, N, H., at the source of the Merrimac proper, and 
mak ng a two days’ run home (distance, about 75 miles) on the high 
water in the early sprng. The ice has just gone out of the river and 
the water is now extremely high. Fast Day willopen the canoeing 
season. 


TOLEDO C. C.—The canoe club organized on March 27 with thir- 
teen members. Officers were elected as follows; Commodore, Joseph 
Hepburn; Vice-Commodore, Chas. Phelps; Secretary and Treasurer, 
Gus. G. Kelp. Messrs. Webb and Lynn were elected’ members of the 
executive committee. There are now eight canoes in the fleet, but 
this number will be increased. 


AMSTERDAM GC. C.—A meeting of the Amsterdam C. ©, was held 
on the evening of March 20, at which the following officers were 
elected; ©. H. Warring (canoe La Polka), Commodore; Dr. D. 
McMartin (Canoe Gypsie), Purser. Four new members were ad- 
mitted, who will have canoes in commission before the ist of May, 
and more are looked for early in the season. The club expects to 
send a delegation to thé Newburg meet, and hopes to be at the Thou- 
sand Islands en masse.—CHARLES EH. Bex, Secretary pro tem. 


ROYAL OC. C.—At the spring meeting, held last month, the 
following programme of races was drawn up and decided upon: 
Saturday, May 3, four paddling races at Kingston; Saturday, May 10, 
sailing race at Hendon: Saturday, May 17, sailing race at Hendon; 
Saturday, May 24, sailing race at Hendon; Saturday, May 31, sailing 
race at Hendon for challenge cup; Saturday, June 7, long paddiing 
race, Teddington to Putney; Saturday, June 14, sailing race at Ted- 
dington; Saturday, June 21, paddling and sailing race at Teddington; 
Saturday, June 28, annual regatta at Teddington. A resolution ‘‘That 
in future all life SUD ECU EEO be invested, instead of being treated as 
revenue,”’ was brought forward by EH. B. Tredwen and E. A, Leach, 
and carried unanimously. A discussion was carried on for some 
time as to the best means of oringing country members into commun- 
ieati in with one another, with a view to alranging cruises under the 
elub flag, and it was suggested that a fcrtuight’s cruise in August 
next on the rivers and broads of Norfolk would meet with such sup- 
port. No more delightful spot for canoeing purposes could be found, 


and members who want companionship in their autumn holiday 
should make a note of this. Itis proposed, it sufficient numbers at- 
tend, to fit up one of the Norfolk wherries to act as tender to the fleet, 
with sleeping accommodations for those who have not ihe necessary 
appliances fitted to their canoes, H. Evans and the secretary have 
volunteered to make the necessary arrangements, end canceists from 
ether clubs who wonld like to join the cruise are invited to write for 
further particulars to the Secretary R.C.C., 11 Buckingham street, 
Strand, W. C. 


Answers to Correspondents. 


J. D., Hoboken, N, J.—Yes, a partridge is a game bird. 
G. H. G., Glencoe, Fla.—Mr, Hallock is now in Minnesota we believe. 
A. C., Moira, N. ¥.—Grounds of the Carteret Club, Bergen Point, 


Q. B. H.—Itis to be a straight shell, we believe, but is not yet on 
the market, 

J. B. H.—We shall publish drawings of canvas canoe and sneakhox 
in “Canoe Building.” 


0. T., Lennox, Mass.—it will not hurt shooting to have rifle re- 
chambered to shoot 24% inch shell. 


A. H., St, Cloud, Minn.—We know of no way to trap crows, except 
by netting them as with wild pigeons, 

W. 4H. D., Dubuque, Iowa.—See our advertising columns for best 
boat and canoe builders. Most of them show lines. Write for cata- 
lozues. 

W. M., New York.—1. Do you think I could get any snipeon four or 
five acres of salt meadows a few miles below Nyack, ou the Hudson? 
2. Do you thinkit would be worth trying? Ans. No. to both. 


F. P., Port Washington.—Would vou please inform me when the 
Game Laws of 1884 of the United States, by Suydam, is published, 
Also whereI could getthem? Ans. They have not yet been issued, 
we believe, 


W. 7. D., Norwich, Conn.—1. What months do blaclr bass rise to 
the fly? 2. Will dace rise to a fly, and ifso, in what months? Ans. 1. 
June and July are the best months, later they do not rise as well. 2. 
We bave had rises from dace ali through the trout season, but most 
numerous in June, 


W &Hz. B., Michigan.—Is there a law prohibiting the spearing of 
Mackinaw trout in Lakes Huron, Michigan, or Superior, or at the 
Straits of Mackinaw in the months of February and March? Ans, 
None that we know of, 


P. P., Shickshinny, Pa.—Can you five me directions how to polish 
a gunstock (walnut)? Had a gunsmith undertake to do it, but he 
only varnished it, and that will come off in blotehes and male it loole 
worse than before, Ans. Use oil and furniture polish. 

M. M. M., Girard Manor, Pa —1. Weare unable to give you any in 
formation on the wood powder. You must use it at your own risk. 
2. Plug should fill brass shell pretty comfortably, 3. Yes, cheaper 
grades are practically as good as the more expensive, 

. R.S., Dewitt, Arkansas,—The feath ers which you send belong to 
the cedar bird (Ampelis cedrorwm), This isa common bird of Bast- 
ern North America, often wintering in New England. Its nearest 
relatives among North American birds are the swallows on the one 
hand and the vireos on the other, 

E. L. R., Smithville Flats, N. Y.—1. WherecanI obtain an ordinary 
sized aquarium, say 18x30 inches base and 18 inches high? 2%. Where 
can J obtain materials for making an aquarium myself? Ans, 1; 
Write Bugo Mulertt, Cincinnati, O. 2. We know of no one whodeals 
in the materials. You can make patterns and have them castif you 
have lime and inclination, but can buy cheaper than you can make 
one. Wooden ones are notsatisfactory. 

¥. H. D., Somerville. Mass.—What size of buckshot should I use for 
deer shooting in a single barrel chokebore gun, and would it be per- 
fectly safe to useit? Whatsize shot should I use for duck shuoot- 
ing? What kind of a gun would you advise me to get, anywhere be- 
tween $50 and $100? Ans. Use a size which will chamber in the 
smallest diameter of the barrel, then you can doit safely. 2. Any 
size from eights for teal to threes for coots. 8. Impossible to advise 
you. There are plenty of good guns to be had between the prices 
youname, Consultan honest gun dealer. 

Pin Hoor, Elyria, O.—1. What kind of fish would bo best to restocl 
a public lake 144 miles long by 44 mile wide, gravel bottom, moss and 
grass in places, neither inlet nor outlet, water clear and of moderate 
temperature. There are now inthe lake black bass, pile, perch, dog- 
fish (Indiana name), bullheads. and several varieties of sunfish. 2. 
Would the whitefish thrive there? 3. Can they be taken with hook 
and line? 4. Where can black bass be obtained? Ans. 1. We cannot 
suggest any other fish. The black bass now there shovld increase 
and take care of the sunfish. 2. If the lake Is deep wilh cold sprigs 
the whitefish might thrive, 3, No. 4. Noone appears to haye them 
for sale. Apply to your Fish Commission. 

A.C. 8.—The colored drawings sent are easily recognizable. The 
fish is the ‘‘cowtish” Ostracium quadricorne, Jinn. I's range is St. 
Helena, Guinea, Cape of Good Hope and Charleston, S.C. Itis 

lentiful in Bermuda, It is encased in an inflexible triangular shell 

orming a ridge on the back and a flat surface underneath.: The 
commen name comes from its cow-like horns. The dorsal vertebree 
are not movable and are only flexible in the caudal peduncle. The 
fins are inserted through holes in the armor much ag the heads and 
legs of toy animals are. Your drawings show plates ou the caudal 
pedunele, but these are only occasionally present. and may relate to 
sex. Some specimens have them and others are without these plates. 
The drawings are at your service. ‘ 


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Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hook. 


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Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO.,, 
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Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
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Antelope and Deer of America. 


BY 
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This work is the most important publication ever printed on the subject. 


The subject is a capital one. These animals are the most interesting of all our Americati 
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The characteristic of the book is that itis, all the way through, a statement of facts 
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Acapulco Deer. : , .. i 

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CONTENTS. 


SEA AND RIveR FIsHrina. 
The Dublin Pond Trout, 
“Bireh Lake Perch,” 


EDITORIAL, 
How the Water Goes. 
lehthyophagous Club. 
Compulsory Pilotage, 
Vishing for Bags. 

THE SPORTSMAN ‘TOURIST. 
Down the Madawasca. 
Down the Yukon on a Raft.—rx. 
Mr. O’Brien Protests. 

Natura. History. 
Stearns’s Natural History of 

Labrador. 
Southern Limit of Quail and 
Grouse. 

A. Zoogenic Paradox, 

Gamr Bag anD Gun. 
Keeping Quail in Confinement, 
Ethics of Fox Hunting. 
The Virst Geese of the Season. 
Long Island Dueck Netters, 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
Mx Greener Uriticised. 
Summer Shooting. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles, 
New Hampshire League. 
Massachuset.s Game Prospecty. 
Tennessee Convention, 
Philadelptia Notes. 

Sra AND KIVER Fusaina. 
The Rod—Past and Present. 
An Vid-Fashioued Rod. 
Trouting on the Bigosh. 
Black Bass in Massachusetts. 
Fishing Through the Ice. 


Tennessee Notes. 
FISHCULTURE. 
Report of the New Jersey Com- 
mission, 
New Hampshire. 
THE KENNEL. 
Eastern Field Trials Club, 
New York Dog Show. 
English Kennel Notes, 
A Pious Pointer. 
Kennel Management, 
Kennel Notes, 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
CANOHING. 
Whitehall C. C. 
The Spring Meet onthe Hudson, 
A. Tint to Canoeists. 
Canoe vs. Sneakbox. 
Canoeing in Great Britain, 
Amateur Canoe Building. —xz1r, 
YACHTING. 
“Bad Advice.” 
The Lake Y. R. A. 
Want-d, Yacht Skippers. 
A Cruising Steamer, 
The New Steamer Electra. 
Which Shall It Be? 
Measurement on the Lakes. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all other 
American publications put together. 


HOW THE WATER GOES. 


aes lessened water supply of many of our streams 
and their periodical floods are occupying the public 
attention more and more. 

Last week there was a large and enthusiastic public meet- 
ing in New York, attended by our best citizens, at which 
both subjects were discussed, and resolutions calling for 
legislation to preserve the Adirondack forests were adopted. 
In the speeches, made by the Mayor and other citizens, the 
old story of the diminished water supply was told again. It 
is familiar enough to almost every one, and whoever spends 
a little time in the woods each year has seen the work going 
on under his own eyes. 

The trout fisherman, who in spring follows down his 
favorite hrook from its source among the hills, through the 
woods and out into the grass lots and cultivated fields, notices 
each year that more and more of the alders that once fringed 
the stream are cut away, and that the waters, that were for- 
merly almost everywhere shaded, are now exposed to the 
glare of the sun’s rays. Each year the woodcock shooter 
finds favorite bits of cover, spots where in former days he 
was always sure to start a bird or two, cut off, so that noth- 
ing but a cheveus de frise of stubs remains; so it is every- 
where. The swamps to which the quai}, when started, once 
fied for refuge, the hard wood forests in which the partridges 
used to wander, the very hedge rows along the old fences 
and stone walls, are being cut away. All this is, in one sense, 
an improvement; it gives to the farmer land once useless, and 
enables him to cultivate the whole of his tract. But the im- 


provement is one which will carry with it its own punish- 
ment. A land without woods is no country for the farmer. 
At once it lacks water, for this runs off as soonas it falls, 
‘At will soon lack soil, for the spring torrents carry this away 


and deposit it in the rivers, where it still further blocks up 
the ever shoaling channels, 

Within the past two or three years we have been amazed 
and alarmed at the rapidity with which forest destruction is 
being carried on in New Bugland. There is a place to which 
we go fora day or two every autumn for a little ruffed 
grouse shooting. Three years ago the rough and sterile hills 
were most of them well wooded with oa‘, hickory, chestnut 
and beech, and it was as good a locality for ruffed grouse as 
could be found in the State. The farmers and land owners 
seemed to cut only such wood as they needed for fuel or for 
fence rails. Since that time, some one has brought into this 
town two or three portable sawmills, The result is that all 
the timber has been cut off. Heaps of sawdust and great 
piles of tough, dry boughs and twigs cumber, but do not 
protect, the earth. Brooks that were once full and flowing, 
in which one could see the trout dart, and along whose bor- 
ders the woodcock fed, and the grouse stalked with deliber- 
ate tread, have disappeared. Their former channels are now 
dry gullies, which may serve to carry off the superfluous waters 
of the spring time, but have no permanent supply. 

The shooting and the fishing have gone with the brooks, but 
thatis not all. The manufacturers, whose mills are on streams 
which these former brooks fed, complain bitterly that they 
no longer haye water enough for their purposes, and say 
that during certain months of the year they will have to 
shut down unless some measures are taken to increase the 
supply. In fact, a very large proportion of the mills in many 
of the most thriving manufacturing towns of New York 
State have already put in steam power, finding that water 
power was no longer to be relied on. This is the case near 
Watertown, near Stuyvesant, near Claverack, near Chatham, 
and near half a hundred other towns that we could mention. 
There is need of speedy action if anything is to be done to- 
ward preserving the Adirondacks. It is said that the lum- 
bermen, alarmed at the general interest manifested in the 
subject, are cutting timberthere right and left, They merely 
fell it, not trimming at all, their object being to get as much 
on the ground as possible before any law interfering with 
them shall be passed. 

The whole story of our wasted water supply has an appli- 
cation broad enough to cover our whole country. Local 
legislation is necessary, it is true, but some general and wise 
measures must be taken by the Federal Government. 

We cannot think that the time will be long before some 
steps are taker in the right direction. The matter is one 
which touches, or soon will touch, the pockets of merchants, 
manufacturers, ship owners and farmers, and the pocket, 
among the well-to-do, is a very sensitive organ. 


THE ICHTHYOPHAGOUS CLUB. 


ites time approaches for the annual dinner of the fish 
eaters With the sesquipedalian name. We have not 
heard from them this spring, and do not know how they have 
hibernated, but as the ‘‘peepers” are out on the marshes, 
and one turtle has been seen to emerge from the New Jersey 
mud, we presume that the Ichthyophagoi are thinking of 
taking a slight ‘‘feed”’in order to get their stomachs in shape 
for the summer campaign, ‘The organization of this club is 
incomplete. There are not officers enough. At present 
there is only a president, treasurer, surgeon, head taster, 
naturalist and poet, and the last three positions are held by 
one individual. This came about because it was deemed 
desirable to kill the poet, and he was appointed head taster 
in the vain hope that some of the dishes suggested for him to 
experiment on might ‘‘lay him out.” This has not happened, 
and the club is in yearly danger of having some new verses 
inflicted upon it, which may cause death to some of the 
members who have withstood the assaults of hell-benders, 
water snakes, and other outré viands on their digestions. 

As the poet declines to die by natural means, we suggest 
that the club kill and eat him. We shall not carry the sug- 
gestion so far as to counsel them to imitate the Ancient Mari- 
ner, who survived the protracted cannibalism of his castaway 
comrades until he sang: 

*O, Lam the cook and the captain bold, 
And the mate of the Nancy brig; 


The bo’sen tight and the midship mite, 
And the erew of the captain's gig.*? 


Still, the obnoxious officer should be. disposed of, as he 
shows no intention of resigning; and there should be ap- 
pointed a corps of nurses, an undertaker, two grave diggers, 
and asextoun, It is certain that this indigestion-breeding and 
dyspepsia-encouraging club cannot go on forever eating hor. 
tible marine monsters without coming to grief some time, 


and the officers which we haye recommended to be appointed 


should not be allowed to eat with the club, but may safely 
be permitted to drink with them, in order that they may live 
to attend to their duties. It makes no diflerence whether 
the surgeon eats or not, he can be spared with the poet; but 
the undertaker and his assistants shorld not be subjected to 
risks, 

Instead of drawing their nets in distant waters for rare: 
and curious forms of aquatic animals, which are abhorrent 
even to those who are familiar with them, we suggest that 
they tempt fate by eating the products of the waters near the: 
city. Among these we would name: Oysters and shad from: 
Newark Bay with their flavor of petroleum, crabs from: 
Staten Island with sludge acid sauce, eels from Newtown! 
Creek served in Standard oil, and flounders from the Swash' 
Channel garnished with city refuse. Such a menu, with 
other additions, which will readily occur to their caterer, 
will put to the test the reputed bravery of this club, whicl 
has based-its reputation for courage upon eating perfectly 
wholesome articles which happen to ke refused by popular 
prejudice. The members who might die from the effects of 
this dinner would depart in the proud consciousness of havy- 
ing done good by calling attention to tke pollution of our 
waters, as would certainly be done by the daily press, and 
on their tombstones might be written: “Died that our waters 
might be purified.” 


COMPULSORY PILOTAGE. 


(0S bill before Congress relating to compulsory pilotage 

makes no especial exception of steam yachts. Of 
course this is only due to an oversight, as no reasonable per- 
son the Jeast acquainted with the state of affairs will attempt 
to push through a measure which would be an odious and 
uncalled for hardship to owners of steam yachts; which 
would, in fact, kill the sport at one stroke. We believe it 
only necessary that the committees recently appointed by 
the N. Y. ¥Y. C. and A. Y. C. should call the attention of 
those haying the pilotage bill in charge to the absurdity of 
the proposed infliction in order to bring about the required 
modifying clause exempting steam yachts. Such vessels are 
nearly all small, drawing but few [cet, can disregard chan- 
nels, and have superior intelligence on board at all times 
capable of conducting with safety in and outof port. More- 
over, being private property only, carrying neither passen- 
gers nor freight, steam yachts manifestly ought not to be 
dealt with in the summary manner the public safety may 
demand in the case of vessels plying for profit. It is too 
clearly to the interest of owners of steam yachts to navigate 
with due care to require the meddlesome interference of red 
tape. Besides, in the event of casualty, the loss would be 
upon @ private owner and the responsibility upon persons 
who voluntarily take the risks in accompanying him in his 
vessel. Steam yachting, and especially steam launching, is 
already overburdened with wanton legislative complications. 
What is needed for the prosperity of the sport is a relief 
from cfiicial fuss and humbug and not a further dose like the 
pilotage bill. There ought to be no hesitation in granting 
the request of the delegation of yachtsmen charged with 
seeking exemption from the proposed compulsory pilotage 
bill. To refuse assent to immunity would be to return to 
barbarous limitations about a sport which should receive the 
most liberal encouragement from legislation in behalf of the 
interests of the country at large. Yachting, as a school of 
the sea, deserves not only leniency but direct promotion at 
the hands of national, State and municipal admunistrations. 


A TexNEssEE AssocraTIon is to be organized at a conven- 
tion of sportsmen in Knoxville, May 20. The call is issued 
by the Knoxville Gun Club, and all individuals who are 
desirous of uniting for game protection in that State are 
invited to be present. Tennessee is greatly in need of such 
an association, and it is to be hoped that the Knoxville con- 
vention may be well attended. Nashyille should send a 
large delegation, and if Chattanooga and Memphis are at 
all adequately represented, this initial meeting will have 
enough influence to arouse public opinion on the subject. 


Maryianp Ducsine Law.—We have been told recently 
of attempts made to enforce the Maryland law, that boxes 
shall not be put on the ducking flats before daylight. The 
Chesapeake gunners are going to work the right way to 
utterly ruin what was once the finest ground for fowl on 
this continent. 


Our Reapmrs 2ill confer a favor by sending us the namer 
of such of their friends as are not now among the subscribers 
of the Forest AND STREAM, but who would preswmably ba 
interested in the paper, 


222 


FISHING FOR BASS. 

A BRIEF DISCOURSE, BY MICROPTHRUS SALMOIDES. 
SCENE—A clear stream overhung by water maples and wil- 

lows. M. S.,a veteran of not less tham five pounds weight 

by scale, of two pounds more by the better method of 

guessing, is surrounded by a school of his younger fel- 

lows, too big to be swallowed, but not too big to be taught by 

hin, 
M* young friends, the pleasure of fishing is not for men 

alone, nor yet for them and fish-hawks and king- 

fishers, otters and mink only, There is sport in it for fish, 
and do not understand me as meaning now in the taking of 
fish by fish, which is the greatest sport that a great fish can 
enjoy or a little one minister to (and if one of you were of a size 
to fit my throat and maw, I would be most happy to show 
you how to do it artistically); but I mean the sport of being 
fished for. Not by fish-hawks and otters, which are to be 
dreaded and ayoided by us, nor by kingfishers and minks, 
which are too insignificant ‘to be our foes after we have got 
beyond childhood, but by men. And not by men when they 
use their various deadly and insidious traps for our capture, 
nor try to impale us with mangling spears, sharper and 
crueler than the heron’s, but only when they endeavor to 
take us with a show of fair play, by means of a lure, con- 
cealing or attached to a sharp-pointed bent and baited bit of 
steel, fastencd to a long, slender thread. The lure is some- 
times an earth worm, such as we occasionally vary our fare 
with; sometimes one of those small minnows which were 
wisely created for our sport and food; sometimes the delicate 
frog, or the ugly, but appetizing helgramite, the cricket, the 
grasshopper, and any of the winged and creeping things 
which we feedupon. Our ingenious enemy contrives cun- 
ning imitations of most of these, many of them so per- 
fect that they would deceive the oldest and wisest Bass that 
ever swam until he had closely examined them, or tested 
them by touch or taste. Besides these he offers us wonder- 
ful combinations of feathers and gaudy colored silk, prob- 
ably expecting us to use them as playthings, for they look 
like no living insect that ever flitted over the water, or else to 
lead us to destruction by exciting our curiosity concerning 
such strange objects. 

Now, my young friends, attend to this rule, and hold 
always to it. Never attempt to lay hold of worm, minnow, 
insect, or any other article of food, or anything of un- 
usual appearance which you may see in or upon the water, 
until you haye examined it closely, and then if you discover 
that it is attached to a thread, no matter of what color, or 
though it appears to be only the slender stem of a water 
plant, be assured that it is one of the mischievous devices of 
man, and let your actions be governed accordingly. If you 
see nothing of this nature in conjunction with such an ob- 
ject, you need not hesitate to take it, andif you find it to 
your taste, to swallow it. Having satisfied yourself that a 
minnow fastened to one of these threads is a real and living 
one—if a sham never attempt to meddle withit, for the 
barbed steel will be in the tail, which you would first seize— 
you have presented to you an opportunity for sport. Cast 
your eyes upward and you will be likely to sce the man, 
plainly distinguishable, though perhaps somewhat distorted 
by the ripple and swirl of the water, standing upon the bank 
or in a boat, or wading in the stream, and if the water is 
clear enough you will observe that he holds in his long peec- 
toral fins a slim wand of wood, to the end of which is at- 
tached the thread or cord that tethers the minnow, Now, 
approach cautiously, and taking hold of the tip of the min- 
now’s tail, give it a slight puli. Then after a few twitches, 
you may alter your hold to one a little above the tail, and 
begin to swim slowly away, when you willfind the minnow 
given you for a little without resistance, But presently it 
will be jerked so smartly that it will be taken from you if 
the grip of your jaws is not firm, Hold fast and, swim 
which way you will, there will be a steady strain kept 
on the minnow by the man, but not yet will he attempt 
to draw you to him if he is skillful, but will let you 
rush whither you will, so it be not to weeds, 
routs or driftwood, while his wand bends as you have 
geen a bullrush witha marsh wren onits top, Ifthe min- 
now is tough aud hangs well to the bent steel, and you have 
been careful not to bite it in two, you may now add to your 
sport by making an impetuous rush and at the end of it leap- 
ing your whole length above the surface, when you may get 
a good look at the man, and be greatly amused to see the 
mingled exultation and anxiety displayed in his visage. The 
first expression will grow more intense if you keep your hold 
upon the minnow after the leap is made, which he thinks a 
desperate endeavor to free yourself, and having failed in it, 
he feels almost sure of your speedy capture, You may re- 
peat this maneuyer several times, being careful to put less 
force into each leap than in the one before it for the sake of 
keeping the minnow whole and to increase the confidence of 
your adversary, whom you will see grinning with delight, 
and hear him addressing you when your ears are above water, 
something in this wise: “Ah hah! My fine fellow! You are 
a brave fighter, but you'll have to give in! It’s dangerous 
fooling with my minnows! Don’t you wish you hadn't?” 
When he says: ‘‘Ah! you jolly old six-pounder!” you may 
think he is not talking to you, but he is, snd is not flattering 
you, but himself. When you have had cough of this fun, 
you may pretend to be exhausted and ready to give up, and 
allow the enemy to draw you toward him while you lie upon 
your side and gently fan the water with your fins, When 


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he has got you near to him, if you see him poking slyly 
toward and under you a web of threads stretched upon a 
hoop at the end of a stick, at once tear the minnow off the 
hooked steel as most likely you can easily do now. If you 
cannot do this, bite off your mouthful without delay and get 
to asafe distance with it. Ifthe man does not use this in- 
strument, but attempts to seize you with his five-rayed long 
pectoral fin, you may flirt his face full of water with your 
tail, take the whole or part of the minnow as you can, and 
be off with it. In either case, if you will just afterward put 
your ear to the air, you may hear a storm of words that need 
not frighten you, and if it does not shock you, will make 
you grin to your gills. 

Very likely he will continue to offer you minnows as long 
as his stock holds out, and you may have sport till you tire 
of it, and your belly filled till it aches, and the same when 
he uses little frogs or helgramites to bait you, But if he 
offers you worms, crickets and the like you will be obliged 
to exercise more caution and will have but little pleasure of 
it, for you must bite gingerly, and only at legs, wings and 
fag exds, which have but little strength to endure his and 
your pulling. 

As for the shams with which men seek to allure you, you 
would best shun all such as resemble minnows, frogs and 
helgramites, for in them ismore danger than sport or profit 
for you. Those which have something of the appearance of 
flies and other insects, youare by no means to touch with 
your mouth, but may rush at them with a great show of 
eagerness and then strike with your tail. whereupon you 
shall see your angler ina fine state of excitement, and he 
will continue to toss and skitter and drag about his feathers 
and silk till you and he are both tired of it. 

There be wretches so murdecrously inclined that they hesi- 
tate not to take our wives during the interesting and trying 
period of spawning, which they do by dropping upon the 
bed one of their steel instruments, sheathed in a worm. 
When such an object is seen intruding thereon, let it lie till 
the monster, grown tired of waiting for his intended victim 
to remove it, does it himself and departs. Men cannot live 
longer in the water than can we in the air; if we had but 
the power to draw such wretches as these and the netters 
into our element and then hold them till the miserable life 
had departed out of them, how worthy and glorious an act 
it would be, and one for which it would seem the better men 
must rise up and call us blessed. 

If by any mischance you should get in your jaws this barbed 
ipstrument of which I have so often spoken, you must rid 
yourself of it at any cost of pain, and strength, and trouble, 
or else part with your life. Try your utmost pulling on the 
line, running up on it, rubbing out the steel on the bottom, 
getting the line wound about a root, sunken Jimb or log, 
when you may exert all your strength on the line, the hook 
and your own flesh, without the everlasting giving and bend- 
ing of the pliant wand to thwart you. Spring from the water 
and shake the deadly torment loose at the instant the strain 
is slackened. Jf the man is in a boat, run underit. Get 
into the weeds if any are at hand. If all these fail, resort to 
feigning yourself fagged out and beaten before you are 
really so, and then when your would-be captor thinks he has 
you safe, and is off his guard, strike with all the sfrength of 
every fin for liberty and life. 

I will not detain you longer to-day, When next you come 
to listen to my words of advice and instruction, bring with 
you two or three of your younger brothers, say of four 
inches length, and I will show you how to catch a Bass, 


Che Sportsman Gourist 


DOWN THE MADAWASCA. 


66% \ID you take your usual trip to the Rangeley Lakes 

D this season?” inquired a friend of me last fall, 
knowing that my habitat in late August and early Septem- 
ber bad been for several years in that region. ‘‘No,” I an- 
swered, ‘Ll took a canoe trip down the Madawasea,” *‘Down 
the what?” ‘Down the Madawasca,” I repeated; and upon 
his professing in words what he had acknowledged in man- 
ner, viz., that he was entirely ignorant of the locus of the 
aforesaid river, I gave him information something like the 
following, which (presuming that some even of the readers of 
the FOREST AND STREAM may be equally uninformed) I insert 
here as briefly as IL can. . ; 

The Madawasca is situated in the province of Canada and 
flows into the river St. John at Edmundston, the northern 
terminus of the New Brunswick Railway. It has thissome- 
what remarkable peculiarity: About twenty miles from 
Hdmundston is its source in Mud Lake, and, passing through 
several lakes and receiving several tributaries, it takes a cir- 
cuitouscourse of over one hundred miles, and finally empties 
into the St, John, having in one place, about fifteen miles 
above Edmundston (at Griffin’s), run within four miles of its 

rling point, 
agi around this circle of piscatorial pleasures and 
primeval forests and pass over the waters, some of them ex- 
ceedingly rapid, of this lovely stream, requires for easy work 
and no hurry in order to enjoy the ever changing scenery, 
about two weeks at the least, though some parties will make 
it hurriedly in a much shorter time. {tis down stream all 
the way, of course, and there is no danger of getting lost, 
which is one consolation, One needs, hoNsyeN the ners 

uides when on the river; ¢ @, a good strong person with 
Fins canoe pole in the rapids, such as the Toledi Falls (pro- 
nounced ‘“Toolady”), and the twelve-mile rapids in the river 
between Squattuck Lakes, Nos. 8 and 2, There are seven 
or eight beautiful Jakes on this trip, where some paddling 
has to be done. The lakes vary from one to ten miles in 
length, The last lake, the Tamisconata (variously spelled) is 
about twenty-two miles long, but we enter if at the middle, 


[Apri 17, 1884, 


nearly, on the left hand shore, and are thus saved from pad- 
dling its entire length. Guides are paid $1.50 and $2.00 per 
day. We hada good one, Peter Theriault, of Caribou, 
Maine, the wost skillful man in the tapids I ever saw, and it 
was entirely owing to his skill that we were saved from being 
submerged in the swollen rapids and from haying our craft 
dashed to pieces on the projecting rocks, 

Now as to the fishing qualities of this stream, From the 
moment you strike the outlet of Mud Lake, the fishing be- 
gins. Trout by the hundrea may be caught going the twyelve- 
mile outlet of the first lake. This is called Beardsley (or 
Bazley) brook. These fish are not large, however, but as you 
pass down near to the next take, Squattuck Lake No. 4, 
the trout become larger, and rise to the fly in a way to suit. 
the most ardent fisherman, Frequently did I catch two at a 
cast, having only two flics. The color most attractive was 
red, or reddish; brown hackle with red body, Sloan fly, and 
dark winged Montreal never failed to do excellently. 
Throughout our whole trip the trout rose most readily. At 
the foot of Squattuck Lake No. 3, a rod or two from shore, I 
found my beau ideal of trout fishing. Whenthe ripple came 
just right, trout of one, two and even three pounds could be 
hooked in rapid succession. In fact this place is enough to 
spoil almost any fisherman for ordinary fishing. It is a grand 
place for camping out, and but for its difficulty of access 
would be camped to death. We were the first party that 
went through last year, and becanse of this had to cut away 


seven jams of logs. Dr. Griggs, of Brooklyn, was 
my companion, Dugouts are generally used. We 
went with one guide, and all our baggage in 


a cedar boat hired from Mr, T. S. Richards, of 
Edmundston. Indians can be got for guides at Tobique. Mr, 
H. C. Collins, of Fort Fairfield, Me., did us much service. 
Mr. Richards was also of great assistance. He keeps store at 
Edmundston, and will fit one out almost completely. Black 
flies and mosquitoes were quite troublesome, and one must 
take along plenty of antidotes. We had a small tent, grocery 
box, etc., etc., and got along splendidly; our whole load 
weighed about 1,000 pounds. The nights were generally very 
cool, even in August. > 
Take it altogether, if was one of the finest trips I ever had; 
full of excitement and variety all the way, with fishing to 
satisfy, and even satiate, the fondest loverof angling. As 
for expenses, you can go from Boston to Edmundston for 
$20, the rest of the trip will cost one from $50 to $100, ac- 
cording to tastes and economy used therein. It is on one of 
these trips that one is near to Nature’s heart, and from com- 
munion with her amid her grandest shrines one gains strength 
to go forth aud labor more heartily in the sphere to which 
he may be called. C. JACOBUS. 
Marawan, N. J 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT, 
BY LIEUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, U. 8 ARMY, 
Ninth Paper. 


FTER redecking the raft, which was completed one 
afternoon, I thought I would take a stroll far into the 
backwoods, for it had been reported that a number of fresh 
moose tracks had been seen the night hefore near a fresh lake 
where an over-zealous nimrod of the party, having no ap- 
parent fear of the many mosquitoes, had tramped around 
trying to get a shot at a band of mallards, My trip was a 
complete failure, owing to the mesquitoes, that were so thick 
that had any game been seen I doubt very much if a person 
could have gotten a fair clear sight through the dense cloud 
that continually hovered in front of the face, let alone the 
other reasons which made it impossible owing to their pres- 
ence. 

Early on the morning of the 5th of July we again got 
under way, our hearts much lighter for the fact that we 
believed, according to our Indians with us, that the worst of 
all the rapids and all other obstructions on the river were be- 
hind us, and nothing ahead but “‘plain sailing” (and only one 
lake of that some thirty or forty miles long) and plain float- 
ing, subject to the annoyances that I have already depicted. 
For the first few miles, after leaving the cascades, the waters 
of the river are still very swift in a number of places, prob- 
ably six or seven miles an hour, and oceasionally where huge 
boulders in the river bed protruded could still be called 
rapids, 

The Tahk-heen-a was flowing very muddy water, and this 
in a way confirmed the Indian reports that there were no 
lakes along its course, for it had been noticed that however 
muddy the inflowing stream of the head of the lake might 
be, its emerging or draining river was always clear, and re- 
mained so until it received the muddy waters of some stream 
sufficiently large to tinge it, which was flowing directly from 
the mountains, where the glaciers seemed to be the great 
originators of this murkiness. Thus the lakes were the 
great receptacles of this transported material, aud of course 
it was a mere matter of time, in a geological sense, when 
they would be filled up by it, and become mere ‘bottom 
lands,” covered with willow, birch, poplar and other riparian 
trees; and this yery filling up in fact seemed to have been 
done in several places where ancient lakes, I believe, could 
be traced. From the White River (the Sand River of the 
Chilkats), a large tributary of the Yukon ninety miles below 
the site of Selkirk, no lake interposes its currenticss waters 
to allow the sediment to be deposited, and as this swift 
stream literally flows liquid mud, the Yukon from its mouth 
to the sea is “muddy,” very muddy. As we had expected, 
this muddy water from the Tahk River spoiled our splendid 
grayling fishing that we had other reasons to suppose—as 
gravelly bottomsand swift current—would continue for some 
fime, and although they did not wholly desert us until White 
River was reached, we never again saw them in that abund- 
ance that made a couple of rods sure of a good meal of fish 
for the whole party after camping. Pretty well along in 
the afternoon we saw the widening valley of the last lake on 

river open out before us. 
that evening: flock after flock of the large black ducks 
with red heads, known in Puget Sound as ‘“‘whistlers,” went 
scudding overhead, most of them flying southward. Not far 
from our camp at the head of the new lake was a totem pole 
that was visited and found tobe of the very roughest con- 
struction, not comparing in carving with those of the Indi- 
ans of the tide-water strip of Alaska. No house was any- 
where near, and it seemed to be cut from a tall stump of a 
tree dircetly on the spot, The lake on which we found our- 
selves was called by my Chilkat Indians Kluk-tas’-s1, anil 
although they said that this was the local Indian name, 1 
could not help having my doubt, knowing full well the 
tribal tendency of this great family to consider their own 
names as conclusive against every other tribe, even that of 
the country in which they are traveling, a mild sort of ego- 
tism that [have often come in conflict with personally, and 


— ee oo een! -_ _ 


’ EE 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


could fill a Webster's dictionary-sized hook with in enumer- 
ating the mistakes of travelers founded on it, ‘The shores of 
Lake Kluk-tas’-si are of the same general nature as those of 
Lake Marsh, in being nearly filled to the water’s level with 
mud. Looking at a map (to which I have already referred) 
the first lake above old Fort Selkirk, 1 Hudson Bay trading 
post, burnt by the Chilkats in 1851, has been named Labarge, 
and I should haye been inclined to retain it instead of Kluk- 
tas'-si, had nof so many other gross errors of geography made 
it untenable, and really impossible to identify it beyond the 
one facet mentioned, Along the whole length of Kluk-tas'-si 
not a single Tahk-heesh Indian was fo be seen, When we 
had started it was with a good spanking breeze that, coupied 
with the current (which was quite evident in certain locali- 
ties during ‘dead calms” on the water), sent us along quite 
merrily, considering our rough craft, and we were induced 
to put out a trolling spoon, but caught rida Trolling 
an a raft under sail would make a fine picture for the pro- 
fessional anglers at home we all thought, but if must also be 
remembered that we were not altogether free from ‘‘pot- 
hunting” proclivities to vary our stale fare of Government 
field rations. r 

The right bank of Lake Kduk-tas'-si is overtopped by high 
rolling hills of gray limestone, the gullies between being pic- 
turesquely wooded with dark green conifers that formed a 
singularly pretty network and bright contrast to the hills 
themsclves as yiewed from thelake. The hills 1 called the 
Hancock Hills, after General Hancock of the army, They 
sloped back from the lake at an angle of about 45°, although 
in some places much steeper in escarpement, and were from 
2,000 to 2,500 feet high. On the western bank the hills were 
not so high, but the banks were more abrupt and broken, 
and often of a conspicuous red color, until about fifteen miles 
from its head this formation culminates in avery picturesque 
pile of red rocks that looked to us from the lake as if they 
were on an island, but our Indians swore by every log inthe 
raft that it was a part of the mainland, and that a consider- 
able sized river came in just beyond which we were unable 
to make out from any position we viewed it, but no doubt it 
exists, as our inspection could uot be critical. Mv Indians 
also said that the whole length of this river in the same 
pretiy effects of broken red rock were to be seen, in fact, the 
Indian name of this stream was the Red River, from the 
abundance of this red rock. Not desiring to add another 
Red River to the geography of the world, and not having 
seen any river at all, I simply named the rocks, which I con- 
sidered of sufficient prominence, certainly soit this route 
should ever be traveled, after an eminent German geographer, 
Von Richthofen. When we went into camp the evening of 
the 1%th, there was nota breath of wind blowing, and the 
lake looked like a mirror cutting two perfectly symmetrical 
and picturesque landscapes into twain at the water line. The 
clouds hung lazily in the air, not a sign of aquatic life was 

- on the lake or in the air, and one might have thought him- 
self in the lonely land of the dead if it had not been for the 
busy hum of the omnipresent mosquito. ‘Trout lines were 
gotten out and one good-sized fellow was hauled in in time 
for supper, and another one weighing over eight pounds, the 
limit of the Doctor’s fish scales, was bad for breakfast. 
Many fish were noticed feeding and jumping in the lake 
near by camp, but beyond the salmon trout mentioned as 
caught on the trout lines, nothing was captured, although 
the most tempting flies and baits were offered. 

Nota breath of wind blowing in the morning, we were 
delayed until past noon, and made the time useful in deter- 
mining the place astronomically, Thousands of small gray- 
lings about an inch long were seen in the clear, shallow 
water on the beaches of fine gravel, in schools of fifty toa 
hundred each, and, using a mosquito bar as a net, we cap- 
tured enough to use as bait for our salmon fishing, with in- 
cleasing prospects of success. At 1:30 P. M. a favorable 
breeze sprung up, and by 2 was raging asa gale, blowing 
over the tent, filling the coffee and eatables with flying 
gravel and sand—for it caught us at our midday meal—and 
we rapidly packed up. But while we were getting away the 
wind dicd down to an almost dead calm. After vainly 
waiting for a renewal of its vigorous midday energy, we 
went into camp at the base of the Hancock Hills, at a place 
so steep and rocky that a tent could not be pitched, and, of 
course, during the night it had to rain just hard enough to 

- scare every one half out of their wits for fear it would rain 
harder. This constant drizzling through the night, with 
one’s face exposed, does less harm in the way of wetting 
than it does in the loss of sleep. 

The next morning we got a very early start, for in biyouac 
as soon as the rain ceased the mosquitoes made sleep more 
than impossible, and between ihe two on one side of the scale 
and a good fresh wind on the other, we turned out quite 
early, e were so near the end of the lake, about thirty- 
five or forty miles long, that the fates seemed to give it up, 
and the wind, instead of dying out, as usual, surprised us by 
steadily freshening unti] we entered the river at 10:30 A, M., 

-and I think as the old tent went down forever from its 
clumsy mast, no besiegers ever saw the flag of a fortress go 
down with such heartfelt thanks. We had seen enough of 
rafting on a river to know that, as far as physical work was 
concerned, if was much harder than on the lakes; but the 
uncertainty of navigation at all on the latter, and constant 
worry and anxiety as we went crawling along even under 
favorable winds, when before us stretched some 2,000 miles 
that must be made by early fall or a lonesome wintering in 
this dreary country was the alternative, makes me safe in 


stating that my happiest day on the trip was the 9thof July, 


when we left behind us nearly one hundred and fifty miles of 
lake water never to be repeated in whole or in part. Our 
trip ahead might be hard work, but it was assured at the 
least. ‘There was still one rapid to be met in three or four 
days, so our Indians said, but as it was in no wise to be com- 
pared with those of Miles’s Cation, we feared it very little. 
A raft in a rapid was an explorer’s delight compared with 
one on a lake, the very maximum of helplessness, The old 
tent was carefully rolled up, and we worked with more relish 
at the pries when the bulky thing ground on the gravel bars, 
The high clay banks that had extended along the river 
from Lake Marsh, and especially conspicuous below Miles’s 
Camion, and had terminated with its junction with the Tahk 
River, again commenced after we left Kluk-tas’-si, and were 
higher and more conspicuous than ever. Far back on the 
hills the forest fires had made great winrows through the 
timber and as this hed fallen and decayed, a peculiar plant 
of the country had sprung up in these burnt and open 
districts, which, from its denseness and cappings of red 
flowers, gave a reddish tinge to the whole area, even though 
many miles distant. For a number of days we thought it to 
be due to a distinct color of the soil, but at last a nearer in- 
‘Spection revealed’ its true character, One butte, in fact, 
“Was 80 Conspicuous in its red covering that I named it Red 


Butte, All through these burnt districts could be seen 
stumps and fallen timber in all grades of dissolution, from 
the recently burnt trunk “as black as the ace of spades” to 
the almost whitened ones bleached by the beating rains of 
many years. Dull brown ones falling in great piles of rotten 
punk were freely distributed everywhere, and had there been 
a black or brown bear in these ‘burns’ all he would have 
had to do to save his careass was to keep quiet and the 
keenest eyes would never have detected him. About half 
past five on the afternoon of thé 9th, while dvifting down 
through one of these burnt districts, the resemblance of one 
of these brown rotten stumps to a grizzly bear was remarked 
by one of the party, referring to an object on the crest of a 
series of clay blufis, and his opinion was readily assented to 
by the others who took enough interest to notice it, 
As the raft floated down about 500 to 600 yards of the ob- 
ject, it came waddling down the crest of the bluff directly 
toward us, and we all scrambled around after our rifles in a 
Wiy more amusing than effective, Ido not know why it is 
that if a man puts his trust in fate for a quiet time, and his 
rifle in its case for preservation from the wet, all the griz- 
zlies and shootable game in the country pick that time for 
putting in an appearance; but so it really scems, and the 
present was, in a brilliant manner, no exception to the rule. 
Mr. Grizzly stood so ‘‘end on” that he was hardly a fair shot 
at such a distance, and just as the rifles were out he caughé 
one good sight of the raft, and quicker than one could think 
that a thousand pounds of bear meat could do so, he whirled 
around and tumbled into the wooded rayine between two 
clay bluffs, and then scampered off faster than it tales to 
chronicle it, only one more flashing sight being caught of 
his grizzly sides as he took up a gait that had a good deal of 
the appearance of a week’s hard run init. We sadly rolled 
up our gun cases and put them away, leaving our rifles so 
convenient that we could massacre a whole herd of grizzlies 
in a few seconds; and all wondered why we hadn’t fired 
at the beast anyway, but no one told the story of the man 
that invested a portion of his wealth in a padlock after the 
departure of a favorite charger. The well-known bud 
quality and even offensive nature of the meat of the grizzly 
and the perfect worthlessness of their robes, and the general 
“cussedness’’ of the creature in general as a topic of conver- 
sation, helped us to bring our feelings down to that point 
that when we pried the raft off of the next bar it washed 
them away almost entirely. 

About 6 in the evening, having been on the raft over 
twelve hours, and feeling satisfied with the day’s work, I 
determined on going into camp at the first favorable spot, 
and we commenced surveying the shores with that idea in 
view, but so uniformly wide was the swift river, with no 
eddy to deaden our headway or spot clear from willows, 
that it was not until after 8 that we found a place where we 
managed to get ashore, and then it was not very prepossess- 
ing. What was our great surprise, shortly after camping, to 
see three of the most forlorn human beings on the face of 
the earth put in an appearance. They were miners and 
belonged to an equal party still beyond, and these three were 
returning with barely enough ‘‘grub” to pack them hack to 
Chilkat in order to leave the remainder enough provisions to 
continue prospecting throughout the country. They had ex- 
pected to find an abundance of game in their prospecting tour 
for gold, and had they done so their ‘‘srub” would have been 
sufficient to haye lasted them all forthe summer, but the mos- 
quitoes had driven the game from the creek and river bottoms, 
where their labors were confined, according to their stories, 
and their return was the result. They had found plenty of 
tracks everywhere, and as this was the only part of the animal 
that could hold its own with the mosquitoes, however innu- 
tritious, they had to content themselves with it. They hadibeen 
living on nothing but flour for some time, with such meat and 
fish as they could procure from the country , and of course were 
about half starved. I stuffed them full of the bulky bean of 
Boston and the crisp corn beef of Chicago, until they must 
have been grateful beyond measure, for when I returned to 
civilization I found they had made quite a hero of me by 
proclaiming that I alone had shot all the rapids on the raft, 


and even my Indian allies had walked around. Had I filled } 


them with ice cream and mince pie | suppose they would 
have found me sleeping under a robe of Indian scalps that I 
had personally collected, while for another plug of tobacco 
I could have slain a grizzly with a bowie knife—in the news- 
papers, 


MR. O’BRIEN PROTESTS. 


To the Foresht and Strayme; 

Mistaer Eppyror—sorr; Me attintion hag bin called to 
a late noomber of your payriodical, in which that omadhoun 
ofa “IL. P, U.” has preshoomed to relate, for the divartise- 
ment of your rayders, a certain nocthurnal adventure which 
occurred to mesilf. 

Tn that article, sorr, he has endivored to hould up to ridi- 
cule, an Qirish gintleman, who boasts his proud descint 
from Brian Boru, and I can lick any bloody Sassenach that 
dares to thread on the tail ay me coat, 

Ye haye lassyrated me faylings, sorr, and have violated 
the sacred confidince which shood subsist betune man and 
man. That the corcumstanshiality av the incidince are cor- 
rect, sorr, 1 do not deny, but no rifirince is. had to,the mo- 
tives which impilled me upon that occaysion, Are ye not 
aware, sorr, that me burro, Mickey, reposhed in me that 
confidince and thrust which wan gintilman fayls in another, 
and that me proud boast is, that that confidince was nivir 
abused, and that thrust nivir bethrayed. Consequintly, av 
he desired to deludher me by playin’ bear, was it for me to 
lassyrate his tinder faylins by descinding from me three, 
‘and thereby litting him know that | saw through his disguise- 
ment? That dilicacy of sintiment, which is the pervaylin 
charactheristic of an Oirish gintilman, wad not allow me, 
sorr, to revayle to him the fact that [had penethrated his in- 
cognitow. The chakesay me wad have burnt wid shame 
for the rest ay me life, had I committed the ongintayle pro- 
ceedin’ av saying to um, “Shure, ’tis not a bear ye are, at 
all, at all, but only a burro, Mickey alanna!” Such, sorr, 
were me motives, and be thim shood me procaydins be 
joodged. 

But, sorr, T have another and a shtronger rayson for con- 
shiderin my faylins hurted, and mesilf insoolted be that same 
artickle, I could forgive the mishconsthruing av me motives, 
but the houlding av me up to ridicule as a man possessed av 
no eddication, and puttin’ such worruds into me mouth as 
there is in that same pace ay nonsense—’tis that, sorr, that 
touches me sinsibilities most dapely. Av I cudn’t talk nor 
shpell betther nor that, sorr, I would look upon mesilf 
wid the most abject scorn, sorr. I will lave it to yourself, 
sort, as an honest man, and a gintleman, if this» letther, 
which Lam writin’ to ye wid me own hand (barrin’ that it’s 
Misther Howard that’s thrimmin up the ideays, and Tim 


a 


Dooley is writin’ um down) isn’t after proovin that me ideays 
are as illigant, me sintiments as choice, me language as illi- 
gant, and me shpellin as correct as ‘‘H, P.U.’s,” or any other 
diyil’s buckie that makes foon av adacint man. Av you 
would do me the kindness to print the same, verbattim et 
litlyrattim, as the poet says, your rayders will see the im- 
poshibility av me usin’ that onraysonable kind av talk which 
he puts into me mouth, 


And foinally, an in conclusion, sorr, I wud say—av Lhave, 
in anny way, hurt your faylins, or those of ‘“H. P. U.,” be 
anny thing I may have said, onbeknownst to mesilf, or av 
the warrumth ay an Oirish heart has timptid me into anny 
extravagance of expreshion, or anny sintimint onbecoming a 
gintilmin, then, sorr, in that ease I freely forgive you both, 
and have the honor to be, sorr, 

Wid sintimints av the highist regayrd, and faylins av the 
most dishtinguished conshideration, 

Your most obayjient 
An respictful: 
Well wisher, 
; Patrick O'BRIEN. 
Divin’s Puan, Collyraddo, March the 6th, 1884. 


[It affords us much pleasure to give place to Mr, O’Brien’s 
explanations of the occurrences recounted in ‘HH. P. U.’s” 
account of bis adventure with the bear. We cannot, how- 
ever, believe that the narrator of the chronicle understood: 
the circumstances as we do now, for had he realized the 
motives which actuated the owner of Mickey, we feel con- 
fident that he would have set the matter forth in its true 
light. We need scarcely say that we reciprocate in the 
heartiest manner the kindly expressions of our Colorado 
friend, and should we ever be obliged to pass a night among 
the rough, cold mountains of the San Juan, we hope that 
it may be our good fortune to stumble on his camp. | 


alatuyal History. 


STEARNS’S NATURAL HISTORY OF 
LABRADOR. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your last issue, April 3, 1 notice with pleasure a some- 
what lengthy criticism of my Lists of Natural History of 
Labrador, as contained in the Proceedings of the U, 8, Na- 
tional Museum, soon to appear. I notice it, I say, with 
pleasure, as I believe that there is no true naturalist or author 
but who, while deploring his own errors, will not only in- 
vite criticism, but will thank his critic. 

Mr, Merriam has often visited the north shores of the St. 
Lawrence, and his name was quite familiar with Mr. Napo- 
leon Comeau, of Godbout River; Mr. Scott, of the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company’s post at Mingan, and also Mr. Cante, of 
Whale Head. Let meask Mr. “Merriam, however, did he 
follow down the shores of the river and gulf and extend his 
researches in Labrador, since all this region west of Blane 
Sablon belongs to the Province of Quebec? I doubt if he 
has. Let me say, therefore, that I defy him, or any other 
person, to collect of the flora of Labrador, eighty species of 
plants, including every specimen of both phenerogams and 
ferns that he can procure, in three weeks’ time anywhere on 
the coast of Labrador proper, which is bleak and barren 
land compared to the vicinity of Mingan and its surroundiag 
Province of Quebec. — - 

My lists are intended as aid to future investigation, and are 
presumably imperfect to start with. That they contain 
errors is apparent to anybody. Jam glad that Mr. Merriam 
points out some of them. It is well to say, however, that I 
visited the region hoth times more for my health than other- 
wise, and gave more attention to the sports of fishing and 
shooting (and their accompanying pleasures of feasting) than 
to collecting. My last voyage was given to collecting inver- 
tebrates, and its results sent to Profs. Verrill and Baird. 
These results appear in the same volume. 

Further. I do not wish to hold anybody responsible for 
my errors but myself, yet the lists Mr, Merriam criticises so 
sharply were all prepared under Mr. Robert Ridgway’s per- 
sonal supervision, who had authority to change any names 
that he wished or suppress any information contained therein 
at his own option. 

Be facts and errors what they may, I consider that an in- 
accuracy in transcribing the title and place of any scientific 
paper is greater than all the errors of the paper combined, 
and when Mr, Merriam starts his article by saying that the 
betore mentioned lists are contained in the fifth volume of the 
Proc. U. 8, Nat. Mus., I feel bound to say, for the benefit of 
any who may desire to refer to them, that it is the sixth vol- 
ume of said Proceedings, and that they have not yet appeared 
in book form, but that a few can be supplied to those desiring 
them as extras without charge. 

Now forthe errors in question. The estimate of young 
seals or “‘whitecoats” should read, and was so intended by 
the author, as the catch of Labrador vessels, and as such I 
believe the statement is correct. 

The silver and black fox are ‘‘accorded [a] varietal distine- 
tion,” I believe justly, Of the ringed seal [ have two speci- 
mens at Bonne Esperance ‘‘salted down” with others, and 
when these are secured, as I expect they will be this sum- 
mer, both Mr. Allen and Mr. Merriam shall haye the pleasure 
of examining them. I now believe that they will be found 
eventually more common than is generally believed upon the 
coast, 

I still doubt the Halichwrus grypus is found, rarely at any 
rate, on the coast of Labrador proper, My remarks upon 
the elk and moose, given provisionally, are true as far as the 
statement goes, While there, specimens of deer were brought 
infresh killed from large herds, which differed so much in 
size, color and shape, that one would easily believe them 
distinct species without the statement of the natives that 
their habits “‘were not the same.’ The white whale doubt- 
less occurs as Mr. Merriam states. As to the gray squirrel, 
Isawtwo skins, said to be taken on the coast, but I sup- 
pressed further mention of them for want of more positive 
evidence. The brown bat is still somewhere in my collec- 
tions and shall be ‘‘hunted up” at once. 

With the birds, the records of wood thrush was a mistake, 
the bird being, doubtless, as Mr. Ridgway remarks, H. 
aliele, The record of king: eider breeding off Mingan was 
doubtless misleading. It should have read, ‘‘The first 
record south of Hudson’s Straits.”” None of Mr, Merriam’s— 
other remarks need commenting upon, 2s they amount to 
little more than a review of the author’s owz words by quot- 
ing the same without any material remarks. ‘I'he ‘‘glaring 
inconsistency,” if such it in reality be, is contained in the 
“extraordinary announcement” respecting Somateria v-nigra. 


224 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[APnrt 17, 1984 


Game Bag ad Gun, 


KEEPING QUAIL IN CONFINEMENT. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

As the secretary of the New Jersey Game and Fish Pro- 
tective Society, it fell to my lot to be designated as one 
member of the society to care for the large number of live 
quail procured in December last, to he kept through the 
winter months for stocking purposes in the spring. The 
first installment of birds came about the middle of last De- 
cember, from Tennessee, They were at once turned loose 
into an inclosure previously constructed on the floor of a 
large room in the third story of my office. The size of the 
coop or inclosure was as follows: 16 feet long, 8 feet wide 
and 2 feet 9 inches in height. The top was covered with 
muslin, stretched tight. The front of the coop was con- 
structed of open lath work. The back and sides were the 
brick walls of the building. Two windows over ‘the in- 
closure allowed streams of sunlight to enter, and gave venti- 
lation by lowering the top. As fast as other installments of 
birds were received they were turned loose among those 
already received until there were some 250 in the coop. 
Another lot of 100 birds being procured from North Caro- 
lina, another smaller coop was constructed along lhe west 
wall of the building, 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and 2 feet 
high, covered with muslin, The front of both coops were 
covered over with burlap, shutting out all sight excepting 
the door where food and water was furnished them. The 
bottom of each coop was covered with sand and small gravel, 
wood ashes, and the screenings from hay mows, which 
formed a covering to the depth of several inches, in which 
the birds scratched and wallowed. 

At the suggestionof Mr, John J. Willis, of Westfield, N. 
J., who has had considerable experience in keeping same in 
confinement and breeding them, each corner of the inclosure 
was provided with small limbs or boughs of cedar trees. 
These were covered over with straw and in one corner with 
corn stalks. Under these the birds made their roosting 
places. In two corners were also placed the crates the birds 
came in, turned upside down, with a small aperture left so 
they could enter it. These they did not take to much. For 
food I gave them alternately every two days cracked corn, 
wheat, and screenings from the grist mill, with pounded 
oyster shells, and occasionally a little buckwheat. ‘T'wice a 
week cabbages, celery tops, water cresses, or some other 
greens were given them. Self-feeding drinking cans, such 
as are used in chicken hatcheries, farnished them water, 
which was changed every day, and cans were occasionally 
scalded out, The birds ravenously ate the greens provided 
for them. And now forthe mortality. The birds had been 
cooped up several days in the crates and were in an exhausted 
condition upon their arrival. 

In the first week | lost six of the Tennessee birds and two 
of the North Carolinas. None of them dicd until Feb. 3, 
when two more died, ‘Then followed three on the 5th, one 
on the 6th, nine on the’ 9th, two on the 11th, twelve on the 
j2th, and then one and two birds on the 18th, 17th, 18th, 23d 
and 26th. When the increased mortality occurred on the 
9th and i2th, at the suggestion of Mr. Willis, who examined 
them and pronounced the trouble distemper from indigestion, 
I put a small quantity of sulphur and a number of old nails 
in the water. After that they began toimprove. During 
March I did not lose a bird; and only two or three up to the 
time they were liberated from the 1st to 10th of April. About 
300 were thus kept in good condition, plump, with beautiful 
plumage and strong of flight when let loose. The greatest 
mortality occurred among the Tennessee birds. The North 
Carolinas seemed stronger and larger birds, and were much 
wilder. Those in the larger inclosure became quite tame, 
and did not attempt to fiy against the brick sides but against 
the muslin top when disturbed, which prevented them injur- 
ing themselves. When it became necessary to catch them, 
I would crawl into the coop and the birds would seek cover 
under the cornstalks and straw, where they were easily cap- 
tured. A large number were also caught under the before 
mentioned boxes by closing up the entrance to the .inside of 
it, and turning it over after they had entered it. If this 
statement is of any benefit to others who have had experience 
in endeavors to keep over quail for breeding purposes, they 
are welcome to it. We ‘Lean 

PLAINFIELD, N. J., April 11, 1884. 


Of that a few words, and I submit lists, errors and reply to 
the public. The author confesses that, to use a slang phrase, 
he may be ‘‘way off” in this announcement; he still believes 
that he can sustain his position. Too much credit must not 
be given to the ‘‘natives” in cases of scientific accuracy, yet 
everywhere in spring the ‘‘natiyes” recognize three kinds of 
“passing ducks,” One kind stay and breed—the eider 
proper. Two kinds, they say, remain each only a few weeks 
and then disappear. Of these, if there be two, one 
is the king eider, §. spectwhil’s. I have shot these by 
the dozen from flocks of as many thousands, while the 
native gunners kept saying, ‘Wait, and you'll get the other 
kind; and then again, ‘‘There’s another kind yet that you 
haven’t got.” One day, while shooting, several of the gun- 
ners pounced upon a duck I had just shot and exclaimed, 
“There’s the other kind.” I hastily examined the bird, but 
eould find little or no difference between it and the king 
eider, a pile of which latter birds lay near us on the rocks, 
Now, one thing I know, in one of the so-called “kinds” the 
black mark of the chin was rounded at its apex; in the other 
it was as clean cut a V-point as it was possible to make Jit. 
TI laid the bird aside to stuff, and the not too scrupulous 
cook consigned it to the oven in my absence as the fattest 
one inthe mess. I heard occasionally from other parties 
along the coast who had ‘‘shot the other kind of passing 
ducks,” but did not secure a specimen. I still believe I can 
procure suitable specimens of 8. v-nigra from Labrador. Of 
this kind, if it so be, the gunners say, ‘It only stays here a 
week or ten Gays,” and is not found like ‘‘the other passing 


duck,” all the spring. W. A. STRARNS. 
Ammerst, April 4. 


SOUTHERN LIMIT OF QUAIL AND 
GROUSE. 


AS the extreme southern limit of the Bob White and 
the ruffed grouse eyer been definitely ascertained? 
Several years avo I crossed on horse back, or rather on mule 
back, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, through the Republic 
of Costa Rica, C. A, For forty or forty-five miles after leav- 
ing the west coast the road constantly ascended until we 
reached an altitude of 7,000 or 8,000 feet, from which point 
we looked down upon the beautiful Catarge Valley, where 
lie the coffee plantations and the towns of San Jose, Catargo 
Alajuela, etc. On the coast grew the banana, plantain, 
cocoa palm, and many other species of purely tropical 
vegetation, but as we reached the higher altitudes this 
sradually changed until near the summit we found the range 
covered with deciduous trees and a general landscape that 
strongly reminded me of New England. Here we found 
seyeral flocks of ruffed grouse which were feeding and dusting 
themselves at the side of the road; they were comparatively 
tame and gaye us ample opportunity to observe them, the 
cocks strutting about with expanding tails in the manner so 
familiar to eyery one who has eyer had the pleasure of hunt- 
ing this splendid bird, while over their heads high in the air 
flew the great, gorgeous scarlet macaws, screaming like 
calliopes. 

A few miles west of the summit was the little village of 
San Mateo, situated at too great an altitude for the banana 
and plantain, but not too high for the orange, and on the 
stone walls that surrounded the smail fields in the suburbs of 
the town sat our old friend Bob White, whistling as loud and 
clear as we ever heard him in an old whortleberry pasture. 
We saw neither quail nor grouse after entering the valley, 
nor did we see or hear either in the hundred miles of tropical 
forest that closed in upon both sides of thenarrow trail lead- 
ing from Catsrgo to the Atlantic. But there is no mistake 
about their being there, and I am a lilitle curious to know 
where the southern limit of thei range is found. 

SAN Francisco, March 24. ForkeD DEER. 


A ZOOGENIC PARADOX. 


HERE is nothing which so perplexes one in charge of 
zoological collections, as the peculiar habits and actions 
of animals in confinement. He is so constantly brought face 
to face with occurrences which completely upset all precon- 
celved ideas of animal economy, that he finally becomes so 
ease-hardened as to cease to look for what are supposed to 
be natural actions from any of his charges. The following 
recent occurrence will serve to show thé last stumbling block 
in my perplexing calling. 

On the 3ist of last December the female axis deer 
(Cervus axis) in the Society’s collection gave birth to 
a fully developed male fawn, which has grown apace and 
promises to become a fine specimen. On the 5th inst., 
a few days over three months after the first birth, she 
hore a fully developed female fawn, which in Jess 
than an hour after birth, was strong enough to frisk 
around its mother. Immediately after birth the mother was 
found to be seriously sick, and in less than twenty-four 
hours died. Very naturally, on dissection, the generative 
organs were first examined, and were found in a healthy 
condition, Mr. Dury, the Socicty’s prosector, remarking to 
me: ‘Jf you had not have told me of her having recently 

iyen birth to a fawn, it would have been almost impossible 
or me to have detected the fact from the state of the organs.” 
Further examination proved that the prime cause of death 
was fatty degeneration of the heart, hastened by acute inflam- 
mation of the left lung. At present writing, April 8, the 
young one is being nursed by bottle, appearing perfectly 
hearty and healthy, and giving every indication of being 
successfully reared. Now here is an instance of an animul 
giving birth to two fully developed young ones within less 
than one hundred days of each other, whose period of gesta- 
tion is wel] known to be eight months, and as customary 
with the family, only produces once ayear. Is it possible 
that she could have been impregnated at two periods, with 
the above intervening space of time? If so, those who have 
made the zoogeny of the deer a special study, will haye to 
write a new chapter on the subject. Franx J. Tompson, 

ZooLoGIcaL GARDEN, Cincinnati. 


ETHICS OF FOX HUNTING. 


HAT was rather an unheppy remark of mine on the 
subject of fox shooting, for I see that ‘‘Awahsoose” 
takes my hyperbole in sober sadness, while on the other 
hand my fox hunting friends are reproaching me for treat- 
ing a serious subject with unbecoming levity. 
From which I infer that methods of sport are indeed 
matters of faith, and, of course, when the emotions are chief 


by an explanatory foot mote. I will be more careful in 
future, and to avoid all possibility of misconstruction, will 
follow the illustrious mother of the modern Gracchi and put 
‘all the indignation in capitals and all the sarcasm in italics.” 

However, I have no idea of taking up the cudgels for my 
fox hunting friends. In the first place they would not let 
me, for 1 have laughed too often at the extravagant terms in 
which they denounce the shotgun exterminators. ; 

And yet they have a case; a pretty strong case. For of all 
creatures which exist, the fox, and the fox alone, meets, and 
exactly meets, the full requirements of the chase. The hare, 
the deer, the boar, the bear, the ’coon, the badger, al] these 
are hunted by dogs, and are either shot from runways, 
brought to bay and dispatched, or worried in their dens. 
But the chase of the fox is altogether different. Different 
not merely in degree but in kind. It is a mixed game of 
well balanced strength and skill, mind and muscle, nerve, 
finesse and fortitude, unfolding constant scope for new re- 
sources, and dashed with just enough of the element of 
chance to make results foreyer uncertain, The fox under- 
stands his opponents, knows their powers and methods and 
often their individual characteristics. He is sophisticated. 
He has passed his life behind the curtains and is familiar 
with every rope and pulley. His profession is to hunt the 
hare—single, double, ‘‘ride and tie.” To him the mystery 


Bmp Notse.—I inclose report of my obseryations of the 
arrival of birds during March: P, R.—March 6, crow 
(Corvus americanus), common. W. V.—March 7, Acadian 
owl (Nyctale aeadia), yvare; 18th, great northern shrike 
(Lanius borealis), §.R.—March 5, Phoebe (Contopus fus- 
eus), common; horned lark (Hremophila alpestris); 6th, rob- 
ins (Turdus migratorius), males only; 21st, blucbirds (Siala 
sialis), males only; song sparrows (Mélospiza melodia), com- 
mon; redwinged blackbird (Ageleus pheniceus), common; 
24th, purple grackle (Quéscalus purpureus), common; 28th, 
robins, (Ziurdus migratorius), females; 31st, bluebirds (Stalia 
sialis), females; cedar waxwings (Ampelis cedrerwm), com- 
mon,—J. L. D. (Lockport, N. Y., April 5). 


fice, makes his road-runs with cool astuteness, notes the re- 
sult of hig doubles, and holds muscle in reserve for needed 
exigencies. 

Of course, he may be hunted differently. You may head 
him off, cut his doubles and throw the dogs on him when- 
eyer he shows up, a8 in average hare hunting; but that is 


know, fops may develop into acceptable sportsmen. 


interpreters, irony becomes perilous unless properly qualified 


of scent is an open book. He knows the value of each arti-, 


not the method practiced by those who censure fox shooting. 
Their idea is to play what they consider a fair and equal 
game, and it is but simple justice to state that I have never 
known a hunter of this class to sound a vyiew-halloo. On 
quest or trail they will aid the dogs with every resource of 
woodcraft and cheer the chase with all the stimulus of voice 
and horn, but they would no more think of calling from 
trail to a sight race than ‘‘Awahsoose” would think of taking 
a pot shot at a huddle of quail, and I cannot put the case 
stronger than that, for 1 recognize in his letters (fox shooting 
apart) the unmistakable tone of a true sportsman. 

It is by this scrupulous observance of laws, based on fun- 
damental qualities of hound and fox, that the issue of the 
chase is held in nicety of balance, and therein, I take it, lies 
the fascination of all sport. For in its last analysis sport is 
conflict, and without approximate equality conflict is im- 
possible, 

Jf quail were as slow on wing as sora, who would care to 
hunt quail? Why do we prefer ruffed grouse to prairie 
chicken? or woodcock to turkey? The rejected birds are 
larger than the chosen ones and certainly as toothsome. 

Glance tor a moment at the history of field sports and 
observe how this principle has been illustrated by the sweep- 
ing changes which have followed each improvement in the 
fowling piece. With the introduction of the matchlock 
falconry decayed, and the beagle and harrier hegan to extend 
their domain. These, in turn, received a relative check from 
the flintlock, which widened the sphere of the shotgun and 
extended its scope to slow-flying birds. With the invention 
of the percussion cap came still greater changes, It gave us 
modern wing-shooting and all that modern wing-shooting 
implies—pointers, setters, breechloaders and all the parapher- 
nalia of the field. Jt enthroned the neglected quailas prince 
of game birds and debased ground game into vermin, It 
gave us a literature of sport which reacted upon and exalted 
every form of outdoor amusement and made possible the ex- 
istence of such a journal as our splendid and beloved Fornsr 
AND STREAM, 

But amid all these changes, these constant efforts toward a 


maintenance of equilibrium in presence of the ever disturb- 
ing factor of mechanical improvement, the old sport of fox 
hunting remains what it was of yore. 


*‘Ace cannot wither it, nor custom stale 
Its infinite**—stability. 


Horse and rider, hound and fox, are to-day substantially 
what they were in the centuries gone by, and the devotees of 


the chase simply ask that an extraneous agency shall not 


be employed to compass the destruction of their chosen 
sport. 


Of ‘the Newport style of hunting” I know nothing, The 
anise-seed bag J suppose is pretty much a counterpart of the 
glass ball, and need scarcely excite one’s indignation. Dan- 
dies, it is said, make excellent soldiers, and for aught we 
In any 
case, let us give these gentlemen a fair chance, for surely the 
dude affords as noble a spectacle when chasing a burnt bone 


over the open fields, as when carrying a ‘cane on the pave- 


ment. In short, it is a move in the right direction, and for 
my part I sincerely hope that he will not ‘break his neck in 


his servile imitation of British sport.’’ For a fellow who takes 
those chances has good stuff in him, and the fact that he 
was not cradled in the saddle adds immensely to his merit. 
The new theory that ‘“‘it is unsportsmanlike to sheot foxes 
because it is un-English,” sounds somewhat peculiar to us, 
inasmuch as our fox hunting usages go back to an earlier 
time than the Janding of the Pilgrims, or the first settlement 
of New York. 


To throw the matter into a sentence: There are deadlier 


ways of taking all kinds of fish and game than those prac- 
ticed by sportsmen, and if sportsmen themselves willfully 
ignore each others’ methods, how can they expect the gen- 
eral public to give even a patient hearing to their claims? 


Guzen ALLEN, Va., April 6, 1884, WAUZHR, 


THE FIRST GEESE OF THE SEASON. 


\ AME here this winter has not been so plentiful as some 
seasons before, on account of scarcity of rain, and so 
ducks and geese could find very little food; and many an 
eager look has been directed toward the southern horizon 
during the last few months in search of rain clouds, When, 
therefore, our ears were greeted by the ‘‘gentle patter of the 
rain upon the roof,” one night last January, you can imag- 
ine how delighted we were, We were glad, too, to have it 
continue for three or four days; and many were the boasts 
made by this one and that one as to who should first get to 
the ‘‘honkers.”” Many an eager look was directed toward 
every farmer who chanced to come into town after the rain, 
and ‘‘Any geese out your way?” was often repeated, only to 
be replied to by a solemn shake of the head anda correspond- 
ing droop on the part of the questioner. : 

At last, however, I was delighted to hear that an immense 
band of ‘“‘honkers” had located some twelve miles out, and 
immediately hunting up young Morgan, we engaged a team 
and driver and arranged to start the ensuing Tuesday. 

Tuesday morning came—cold and rainy, but we got away 
about 7 o'clock, a late start, and in due time reached the 
place near where I was informed the geese were, but after 
taking observations all over the surrounding country i 
every direction we came to the conclusion that we were 
“badly left,” for not a goose or track could we see. We 
were on the mesa or high plain overlooking the ocean up 
the coast about fifteen miles, and distant from La Jolla, a 
favorite seaside resort, twelve miles; from town, about three 
miles, 

There being a large cafion coming down to the ocean, be- 
tween us and La Jolla, and as it was next to impossible to 
get on to the beach from the mesa, weshould have to make a 
return drive of about six miles to get to La Jolla, and by 
the aid of a glass we could see, or thought we could, some- 
thing foreign on the sidehills at LaJolla, We decided to 
attempt to get there by going on the beach, as we were after 
geese, and Morgan and 1 were both pretty certain we saw & 
band of them light on the mesa opposite La Jolla. So down 
we went, There had never been a wagon down there be- 
fore, so far as we had heard, and it was an open question 
for a time whether we would get down right or wrong side 
up, We were decided at length by seeing an almost obliter- 
ated wagon track ahead of us, and continued on down de- 
spite the remonstrance of our driver. ay 

ing the horses off once and drawing our wagon by 


By taking 2 
hand over a cut or two, we arrived safely at the beach, and 


we were delighted to find easy traveling the remainder of 
the way. On arriving to within a short distance of the hills 
on which we supposed the geese were feeding, we left the 


driver and reconnoitered, and were rewarded by sighting 
about eighty-five fat ‘“honkers,” quietly feeding uear the 
bluffs that fringe the beach, and distant about 500 yards 
from us. It was not clear how we were, to get on to the 
beach from where we were unseen, and then along the beach 
and up the bluffs so as to get at the geese, but after deliber- 
ating a while we decided to leave Morgan, Sr., in a blind 
where we were, while Walt and I should take the beach and 
attempt to get our work in by crawling until we got to the 
beach, and then chance the tide and bluffs. If we could 
only get to the top of that bluff, we would be within about 
fifty yards of as fine a Jot of geese as ever eladdened the eye 
of a hunter. After an almost incredible amount of crawl- 
ing we got to the beach and ran down the bluffs, and were 
delighted to find the tide out enough so that we could climb 
around all the points on the beach between us and the cov- 
eted place. After getting almost blown by bard climbing, 
we arrived at the desired spot half way up the bluffs, and 
directly opposite where we supposed our victims were. 

Morgan, after taking a hurried peep, whispered, SG 
have passed them,” and down we climbed, and back about 
a hundred yards we retraced our way, and at last ‘Now, ‘‘ 
says Walt, and we sat down plumb blown and quivering all 
over with exertion, and the perspiration actually dropping 
off our hodies. ; 

After resting, catching our wind, and secing that our guns 
and shells were all right, we slowly crawled to the top, and 
cautiously peeping through the thin grass, we saw the bean- 
ties, totally unconscious of anything in the shape of a man 
within a thousand miles, quietly grazing about fifty yards 
off. 

Cocking our guns, Walt whispered, “For God's sake 
don’t cross fire—now!”—and bang-et-bang-bang-bang! went 
the guns. The geese were demoralized, and the hunters 
frantic. You ought to have seen us. We had three dead 
and four wounded, and two of them were just everlastingly 
getting up and getting out of that, We cach took a goose, 
and breaking our suns in two as we ran, and putting in 
fresh cartridges, each suecceded in bringing his bird back to 
terra, firma, Walt made an excecdingly long shot at bis, 
the goose being all of sixty yards off, and correspondingly 
high. 

After retrieving our geese we went back to the scene of 
our glory, to find that the two remaining winged geese had. 
succeeded in reaching the beach and getting into the surf 
and we had the pleasure of watching them swimming off 
about eighty yards away in the ocean and totally out of 
reach, However, we had five, and I never saw larger or 
fatter geese. We laid down and took a good long rest, with 
the sea breeze fanning us, dirty, muddy, and our shoes a 
wreck, but oh, so happy. 

At length we shouldered our game and rejoined Morgan, 
the elder, who had witnessed our yictory from the blind, 
and who was delighted at our success. The eld man had 
held his end up to, for part of the band had come within 
seventy-five yards. And with one barrel he had crippled 
one so bad that he fell about a hundred yards off, and 
into the surf, but the old man said that it was a wonder 
he got any at all, from where he was to where the geese 

assed it was a remarkable shot to cripple a goose with 

Yo. 1 shot. 

We rejoined our team, tired out, but happy as kings, at the 
prospect of electrifying pur rivals that evening, on arriving 
in town with five fine fat gcese on as short a hunt as we had, 
for hunters generally go to El Cajon, or Santa Margarita, 
distant forty miles, for geese, 

A little before dark we got home, and carefully arranging 
our trophies on the wagon sides, where they would show oif 
to the best advantage and do-the most good, we proceeded 
down Fifth street. In a few minutes our wagon was sur- 
rounded by an eager crowd, and numerous were the queries, 
“Where'd you get ’em?” “How many have you got?” and 
“Tell us where to find them, boys,” etc. Of course we told 
them, each and every one, exactly where we found them, as 
we had had such an easy time to find them curselves; and, 
judging from the different partics who left town the next 
morning, and the different directions they went, a stranger 
would have thoughi that San Diego was a town of hunters. 
Such a gathering together of hunting paraphernalia and 
whistling up and chaining up of dogs ready for the morning 
1 have never seen before. 

We seemed to have thoroughly scared the geese out, for 
not a man has seen a zoose since within twenty miles of 
town, and we are yet the victors of the season. Ween 
joyed roast goose the next day, and had the pleasure of re- 
counting to a few friends who helped us demolish the geese 
the modus operandi of our hunt. 

I helieye the more difficult game is to obtain, the better 
dish it makes served up, for I never enjoyed a dish as I did 
that of the first geese of the season. Nos-RA-EP. 

San Diego. Cal. 


LONG ISLAND DUCK NETTERS. 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

In pursuance of the subject agitated by W. N, Lane 
and some others interested in protecting game on Lon 
Island, allow me to quotefrom Sec. 4, Laws of 1883, Chap. 
317: ‘‘The Cofhmissioners of Fisheries shall report to the 
Governor all cases of dereliction or neglect of duty of any 
protector which shall come to their knowledge, together with 
such evidence as they may have touching the case, and the 
Governor shall have authority to remove from office any pro- 
tector so reported to be delinquent, after giving him an 
opportunity to be heard in his defense.” 

And allow me to calk attention to the fact that each dis- 
trict protector is allowed $250 in each year for traveling 
expenses, independent of $500 gaiary- 

The game Jaws also provide for the arrest of violators on a 
Warrant, which any constable can execute. The section pro- 
viding for penalties, judgments, etc., of the laws of 1879 
includes the following: ‘‘One-half of the penalty recovered 
shall belong to the persons giving information on which the 
action is brought, and the other half shall be paid to the 
treasurer of the county in which the action is brought.” 

It will be seen, therefore, that instead of relying upon a 
man whose duty it may be to arrest or find out about viola- 
tors, the course is open for the prosecution of parties by pri- 
vate enterprise, with the reward as an incentive for obtain- 
ing information, 

A great deal might be said on this subject, but I will not 
-ask you to give any more space to my crude ideas, I only 
wish to point out the channel leading to a settiement of the 
-question. On the other hand, the game protectors may ask 
if they are obliged to lie in wait for violators, ete, My an- 
-swer to that is, follow the example of District Protector 
Dodge, of Prospect. He can show you a wrinkle or two. 


His energy took him into the heart of the Adirondacks wil- 
derness, and the course pursued resulted in the lives of a 
great many deer being sayed. And the sermons he preached 
converted many old hunters and guides, so that his mission- 
ary labors were easier afterward, The good done in freeing 
the Jakes of Central New York of nets was done with energy, 
and doubtless one-quarter the interest, honesty and persist- 
ence exercised on Long Island would preserve our game 
birds ten times better than they now are. W ALLOT. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 
Editor Forest and Stream; 

Concerning chambers for shells in shotguns, it strikes me 
that some one might strike a valuable lead in experimenting 
with barrels having no chambers. If shells were all of same 
thickness and length, then chambers might be well enough, 
The thickness of paper shells generally is about equal to the 
sboulder of chamber, but with brass there is considerable 
difference, so that shot must strike this shoulder more or 
less, resulting in resistance and deflection sufficient to im- 
pair accuracy and force. The same result, to an extent, 
obtains with paper shells, At least this appears so to me. 
I may bein error. Would it not be a good idea for some 
manufacturer to test this thoroughly? 

““W. J.” asks for opinions from some old hunter on load- 
ing with buckshot for deer, Jam not an “‘old” hunter, but 
I haye shot numbers of deer with rifle and shotgun, and 
have experimented considerably with buekshot, and that 
latter, it seems to me, is what is necessary for ‘“‘W. J.” No 
two guns are alike. Each gun has its own individuality in 
shooting. The load which proves most effective in one gun 
may not in another. I have tried Ely’s wire cartridges, 
thread-wound cartridges, flannel cartridges, cartridges made 
of a section of paper shell slit longitudinally, and other 
kinds of arrangements for increasing effectiveness of buck- 
shot, but none of these added to the effectiveness of my gun, 
which was a Parker .12-82-8'4, medium choke, the best gun 
T ever shot for all sizes of shot. Either barrel would put 
cight out of twelve No. 1 buckshot into a two-foot square 
space at fifty yards every time, actual target, The first deer 
I ever shot with it got eight shot through heart and lungs at 
over fifty yards, and this at night, fire-hunting, 

J experimented with this gun with all sizes of loads at dif- 
ferent distances with different kinds of powder, with differ- 
ent wacs, until I knew just what it would do. If it didn’t 
do what I wished there was only one conclusion—the man 
at the end of the gun was ‘‘off.” The load I always used 
was three drams Orange ducking No. 4 or Dupont’s No. 1, 
once ounce, full, shot, two pink-edged wads on powder, same 
size of shell (paper) one on shot. If I shot brass, which I 
always did at deer, IT used No. 10 wads, one each on powder 
and shot. ‘‘W. J.” should be very careful to do what has 
been directed in these columns hundreds of times—chamber 
buekshot at muzzle of gun if a chokebore, and to choose 
that size shot that most nearly chambers, whether three or 
four, without crowding. Jnever crimped shells. Just that 
force employed in opening that crimp is wasted. Infinitesi- 
mal it may be, nevertheless it is just so much power lost. 

Some one hag said that we want a $75 hammerless. Just 
that we want. if the number of pieces in a gunlock can be 
reduced to five or six, it ought to reduce price of guns. But 
we will yet be able to own a reliable and fine shooting ham- 
merless at $75, Then with the aid of electricity we shall be 
able to shock the game to bag with reasonable certainty and 
satisfaction. 

On reading “W. J.’s” article again, I should say that if 
his gun will do as he says, he don’t want to improve on it 
much. 8. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The first gun I ever owned was given me by my grand- 
father, and had a grand record for shooting, being a muzzle- 
loader, 16-gauge, 34-inch barrels, and would pattern about 
130 at an actual test, as I afterward found; but it was old and 
dangerously thin, and I laid it aside and bought mea W. & 
©. Scott & Son gun, muzzleloader, 14-gauge, 30-inch. About 
this time 1 commenced a series of tests with guns that re- 
sulted finally in the following conditions: 1 found by actual 
tests that my gun would target about 135 or 140 No. 8 shot, 
30-inch circle, 40 yards, and as [make that my standard I shall 
mean that in all cases hereafter. About this time the choke- 
bore craze began, and I caught it in its most violent form 
and talked chokebore all the time. I sent a gun belonging 
to a friend, with whom | had had many days’ sport, and also 
my own, to H. ©. Squires, with the request to choke them 
to their fullest capacity, Mr, Squires kindly sent word back 
that for upland shooting he should prefer a pattern of 185 or 
140; but if 1 insisted upon it he would choke it. I replied, 
“Choke “em,” and he did. My friend’s gun was a 14-gauge, 
30-inch, and it would pattern all the way from 180 to 472, 
and upon my reporting the latter performance to a Fornsr 
AND SrRHAM Official, he said he never heard of such a thing 
fora 14-cange. Ihave seen a woodcock’s bill and head cut 
off close to the eyes and not another shot in it anywhere. 
Haye seen numerous quail and woodcock split open, and 
utterly destroyed by this same gun, and my gun would aver- 
age, right 240, left 380, when loaded properly, of which 1 
shall speak hereafter. 

My next gun was a Remington breechloader, and I took 
it home and targeted, and Jost all faith in breechloaders. Its 
best pattern was about 130, and its average 100, and yet this 
same gun was as good a field gun asl ever want. I kept 
that a year or so, and bought me a Parker 12-28, which had 
no tag on when I bought it, and on taking it home found it 
would average right 240, left 300, and after using it one fall, 
I sent it back to the factory and had it bored for a cylinder. 
The gun came back with a tag bearing the No. 120, No. 8 
shot, 24-inch circle, 45 yards, Parker’s test; equal to about 
145 or 150 on a 80-inch cirele, 40 yards. I have never tar- 
geted it since it came back, I would rather remain in a state 
of “glorious uncertainty.” IJtis enough for me to know 
that it works well in the field, So much for patterns. 

Next comes loading, and here let me ask you to reprint 
“Charge for Shotguns,” by Major H. W. Merrill, published 
in Rop AND GuN and AmpRIcAN Sporrsman of April 7, 
1877. 1 think at this time they would be very acceptable, and 
as I have always made them my standard for all cases, I find 
them very accurate; and by varying the conditions, suitable 
for all shooting. My experience in shooting is to find the 
load best adapted to your gun and then stick to it, and you 
will always know what is coming, and not expect one load 
to knock your shoulder off, and the next one to have to open 
your gun to see if it went off. My experience in regard to 
two wads on the powder, leads me to believe that it makes 
at least one-third difference in a muzzleloader, and a large 


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increase also in a breechloader of both pattern and penetra- 
tion. 

J consider a ¢ylinder superior in regard to penetration to 4 
choke, all things being equal. I can give a positive test case 
that will show how it is in some instances. I don’t say it is 
so in all cases, only my own can I prove. <A friend of mine 
came upto my honse and brought 4 single breechloader, 
cylinder or nearly so, and was going to beat me on pattern, 
We tested, and the result was that I beat him on patiern and 
he beat me on penetration. He secretly sent his gun to the 
city and had it choked, to use his own words, “‘ail she'd 
bear,” and then challenged me to another test at both pat- 
tern and penetration, He now beat me at pattern and L 
beat him at penetration in the proportion of 65 to 48, and all 
things in regard to loading were the same as before. After 
I had my gun choked, I found it lost fifteen per cent. of its 
former penetration, From the above experience I have de- 
duced the following rule: A gun for upland shooting that 
will target 140 to 150, and shoot strong and even, is the gun 
for me, others may suit themselves. ‘‘You pays your money, 
you takes your choice.” Jim Crow. 


MR. GREENER CRITICIZED. 


HAVE recently read with some care the book entitled 
“The Gun and Its Development,” by W. W. Greener, 
and derived no little information upon many points by its 
perusal. The work was written, I take it, from the intense 
evidence which it affords, as an advertising medium for the 
guns which the author is engaged in manufacturing, and 
this fact detracts inno small degree from the merits of the 
performance. But with this fault even, it is an interesting 
and instructive work. 

That -Mr. Greener makes an excellent sun no man can 
doubt who has seen specimens of his handicraft. But there 
are others who are fully his equals in this respect, and 1 
think sell on more reasonable terms. With all due defer- 
ence, | am not able to see how it is possible to put work on 
a gun which will make it worth over $150. Fancy work 
and elaborate engraving add rothing to its real value, and I 
am credibly informed that the best of English oun barrels 
can be had for $75, which is one-half of the cost of a gun. 
All charges beyond that sum I regard as mere paymeuts for 
a maker’s name. 

But I did not commence this letter with the view of making 
any such criticisms. My object was to express my decided 
dissent from his ideas in regard to the aim of the sportsman 
at flying game. On page 486 e¢ seg. Mr. Greener advises 
that in cross shots, no matter how fast the bird is flying, the 
gun should be held ‘'on” the object. Now I de not hesitate 
to say that any man who follows this advice may shoot 
twenty times when the bird is in full flight and thirty yards 
off, and he will find that his bag is empty. _HEven in deer 
shooting—and I have killed quite as many as Mr. Greener 
has—it is necessary to hold the gun about the neck er well 
ahead, if it is expected to inflict a wound so deadly as to 
stop the flight soon after the gun is discharged. As to the 
distance ahead in wing-sbooting, which is requisite to suc- 
cess, Lam unable to say with proper accuracy, but I think 
when a bird is moving very rapidly at right angles with the 
shooter, and is distant from thirty to thirty-five yards, three 
feet ahead is not too much allowance tomake. Mr. Greener 
cannot kill birds in such cases if he does what he suggests to 
others. When it comes to duck shooting, he who expecis to 
get any game at all must hold his gun well ahead. If he 
holds ‘‘on” the bird he will surely miss. 

Mr. Greener intimates that they who believe in the “hold 
ahead” plan only think they do so. With great deference}; I 
beg to suggest that they who are the advocates of the ‘hold 
on” theory, only think they hold on the objeci, while, in 
fact, the gun is far enough ahead to allow for the ‘‘crawl,” 
or advancing movement. If the ‘hold on” shooters kill 
anything in cross shots, I feel sure they aim better than 
they suppose they do. 

But one of the most wonderful statements which Mr, 
Greener» makes is, that ‘‘some quick shots pull the trigger 
while raising the gun to the shoulder.” J@rabile dictu! He 
must be a quick shot, who can do that. J have never seen 
such; and i musi be pardoned for saying that if any one 
should tell me he was so electric in his movements as to do 
that, [ should begin to question-his veracity. Hunters’ tales 
often call for the exercise of human charity, and I haye 
heard and read some which made a heavy draw on that 
quality of my nature. But this trigger-pulling story stands 
‘in the solitude of its own originality.” Itis true he tells 
us that in such cases “‘the gun must be within an ace of the 
proper position.” I should think so! 

Mr. Greener’s idea that the left hand should grasp the gun 
about the end of the forestock, isa good one. Besides being 
safer in case of an accident, the gun is more readily under 
the coutrol of the shooter, and will be more securely held to 
its place. Whether sportsmen usually grasp where he says 
they do, I cannot say. Very few of those whom I have 
observed do so. 

I confess that I am pleased with his views regarding the 
weight of a sporting gun. Of course 1 allude toa gun which 
the sportsman must occasionally carry a whole day in his 
hands, with the additional load of shells, game and provisions. 
For Bob White, which we usually call partridge—and that 
name is far more appropriate than quail—a 12, 14 or 16-bore 
cylinder gun, weighing from 63 to 7} pounds, will answer 
all the purposes required. There is no need of any choke 
about it. If there is any, it should be confined to one barrel, 
to be used as a second one, or when the range islong. The 
only objection to this is, that it results in shooting the cylin- 
der barrel much more than the other. But Mr. Greener tells 
us that an expert gunner ought to use a choke always, I 
cannot admit that; and venture to assert that, with equal 
skill, the man who uses a cylinder gun will generally get 
more game than one who shoots a choke, In the open field, 
or in marshes, or prairies, the choke would have the adyan- 
tage; but Bob White prefers to take refuge in the brush or 
brier patches, and in such places the choke is not the 
weapon. ; 

I have used 12-bores, 14s and 16s; but the best shooting I 
have ever done was with a 16. It may be because it was 
made to order and fits me exactly, 

1 like his views in regard to machine-made guns, To my 
mind it is clear that, though they may shoot quite as well, 
they are incapable of standing the same amount of use that 
a carefully-made hand gun will bear. Americans are very 
expert mechanics, and perhaps, after a while, when the law 
shall require all gun barrels to be “proved” before they are 
put on the market, they may equal the skill of the Hnglish 
and Belgians, At present, however, their work is compara- 
tively inferior, even when they import nearly all the first- 
class barrels which they use and then call their products 


226 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Apri 17, 1884, | 


American manufactures. There is too much of the “‘cheap 
John” in our goods of all kinds. 

But I will stop at this point, because I am getting on the 
“ragged edge” of a dangerous subject, upon which my 
opinions would not be agreeable to the supposed interests— 
not convictions—of quite a number of my countrymen. 


WELLE. 
Rocemenam, N, C., March 21, 


SUMMER SHOOTING. 


N this week’s issue of Formsr avp Srream (April 8) I 
notice a correspondent from Long Island, *'G. W. R.,” 
who does not agree with me in regard to the killing of wood- 
cock in July. “G. W. R.” thinks he would not have any 
woodcock shooting at all were summer shooting abolished; 
but I think he is greatly mistaken, for summer shooting is 
the yery thing to make fall shooting poor. Surely, to kill the 
parent bird while trying to raise her young, is just killing the 
whole brood; whereas, if summer shooting was prohibited, no 
such thing would occur. 

What pleasure is there in hunting while the thermometer 
ranges from 90° to 100° in the shade? Certainly none. 

Tt is almost impossible to hunt woodcock in summer with 
any pleasure after sunrise, and then very often your birds 
spoil before night in your pockets. I, for one, would like to 
see a law passed prohibiting summer shooting, just to sce 
what difference it really would make. and I am sure we 
would have two woodcock in fall for every one shot now in 
summer. Last fall l was out fifty times or more and I did 
not flush twenty birds. Last fall’s shooting was very poor, 
and each fall will continue to be poorer until a stop is put to 
this infernal summer shooting. 

On Long Island, where ‘‘G, W. R.” resides, there cannot 
be many pot-hunters, since he says there are no partridges 
shot in summer, but that they are snared. Snaring is a curse, 
sure enough; but to kill a bird only half fledged is worse still, 
when such an act is against the law. Snaring is not carried 
on to any great extent in my neighborhood, for the simple 
reason, I suppose, that the partridges are much more easily 
killed in summer than snared in the fall, being then only half 
STown. 

Black ducks have been very scarce with us this spring, 
unusually so, Sprigtails are quite plentiful on the Passaic 
River, two miles from here, but very few are killed. 

English snipe were plentiful last week. This week snipe 
shooting will be much improved, as the water is much lower 
on the meadows, making better feeding grounds. 

16-Born. 
Manison, N. J. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Hiditey Lorest and Stream: 

When everything has been said concerning the choice of 
hunting rifles, the problem of making a judicious selection 
will still remain practically unsolved, at least for many per- 
sons. The development of new ideas and inventions, and 
the march of improvement in the construction of rifles fol- 
low, one after the other, in such rapid succession as to 
bewilder and puzzle the chooser and tend to restrain many 
persons and keep them in doubt as to the wisdom of making 
a choice now. At the same time the discussion of the sub- 
ject which has been going on in the many interesting articles 
kindly published in the Forrest AND STREAM from time to 
time lately, will result in much good, provided some of the 
gun makers read these articles carefully enough to catch the 

rift of them and get the ideas of the majority of the writers 
of them into practical shape, and will then proceed without 
delay to construct a hunting rifle which will be in harmony 
with the majority’s views, and will meet their requirements. 
Tn the meantime, the careful, cool-headed practical hunter, 
who has some knowledge of the habits of the game he seeks, 
and who is a good shot, will continue to succeed in killing 
it in reasonable plenty, no matter what kind of a rifle he has. 
Such a hunter, were he armed with an obsolete flintlock 
muzzleloader, would probably get,in a given time, more 
meat with it than could a tyro, or a careless hunter, or one 
who was an indifferent shot, armed with a modern breech- 
loader. 

In fancy I think 1 now see ‘‘Deerslayer” and Daniel 
Boone, restored to life in the prime of their best manhood, 
arrayed in the conventional backwoods dress of the hunters 
of their day, armed with their long-barreled, fine-sighted, 
flintlock, muzzleloading rifles, about to enter into a com- 
petitive hunt of ten days, against two of the most successful 
hunters of the present day, armed with the best modern 
breechloading rifles; and I am led to marvel as their sinewy 
forms seem Lo materialize before me in this dream of fancy, 
but [ quickly get back to the practical in trying to guess 
which party, which side, will get most meat in this com- 
petitive hunt. 

Without asserting which rifle is the best, I will say the 
Peabody Martini, .45-caliber, is my choice for such game as 
elk, deer and antelope. This gun is very reliable from one 
hundred to three hundred yards; it is handy, strong, durable, 
and will stand any amount of rough knocking about and 
hard usage. With 80 grains of powder, and 500-grain bullet, 
sharp-pointed and hardened with about one-tenth part of tin, 
itis an exceedingly effective and very deadly rifle, I am 
speaking of the pee model, having used one cf them 
more thanthree years. The sights on it are correctly placed, 
and have not been changed in any way. It is the same kind 
of a gun that was used by the Turks with such deadly 
effect on the Russians, in their late war. For five shots, or 
forty shots fired in rapid succession without cleaning, it is 
the most accurate shooting breechloading rifle 1 have ever 
used. it will, at any distance named, group the shots closer 
together, and put them nearer to the center of the spot aimed 
at than any other breechloading rifle within my knowledge. 

The sliding leaf of the rear sight is straight across its top 
edge, except the cut out V-shaped notch for aiming; this 
can be seen the minute the gun comes to the firing position, 
The butt-plate is checked and made rough on its outer sur- 
face to prevent it from slipping on the clothing. The low 
price of this gun—less than twenty dollars—places it within 
éasy reach. Using 70 grains of powder, it has the following 
drift, penetration in white pine, initial velocity, ete, 


DRIFT. 
405-grain bullet. 500-grain bullet, 
At 100 yards it is inch. 14g inches 
At 200 yards itis 124 inches. 3 imches 
At 300 yards itis 4 inches, 5 inches 
At 400 yards itis 8 inches. 8 inches 
PENETRATION: 
10 yards, 100 yards, £00 yards. 300 yards, 

20.8 inches. 17.2 inches. 12.4 inches. 10.2 inches. 


Initial velocity, 1850 feet; the bullet is then revolvin 
around its long axis at the rate of about 850 times Ina second. 


Using the same kind of ammunition, its penetration is about 
the same as the Springfield rifle. 

I have a 500-grain bullet in my possession, which was 
fired with 70 grains of powder from a Springfield rifle, 
squarely at an old grizzly bear’s head, at the distance of 
about six yards; it flattened out there and failed to penetrate 
the bear's skull. It cracked the skull bone, however, and 
lodged under the skin fiom whence it was taken out when 
the hear was being dressed. This happened last October, 
near Laramie Peak, about one hundred miles northwest of 
here. The fact that this bullet did not go through the bear's 
skull bone is a matter of sume astonishment, since it is 
known that it had a power of penetration equal to twenty 
inches in pine wood. But to come back to drift, etc., the 
writer contends that the drift of the bullet will be lessened 
when we have a cartridge which, in loading, will seat the 
bearing surface of the bullet well into the bore of the rifle, 
so that the bullet will start with the spiral metion produced 
by the grooves. The bullet of the cartridges now universally 
used is not, in loading the piece, seated in the bore, and con- 
sequently it must jump straight some distance before it 
reaches the bore and comes in contact with the grooves, and 
when it strikes the shoulder which joins the chamber to the 
bore, it is then moving with such fearful velocity that the 
vibrations the shock produced by one of the components of 
the resistance of the sides of the grooves, namely, that which 
gives to the bullet a rotary motion around its long axis, tends 
to derange the muzzle of the piece to the right. Moreover, 
the element of accuracy, which is undeniably one of the 
most important in rifle firing, is sacrificed to some extent 
when the bullet is seated away from the grooves and_is 
already in rapid motion when it reaches there. 

Lhad designed to drop a few words about the different 
forces which aet on a bullet fired from a rifle; the combined 
action of these forces, and some of the causes which tend to 
vary them, but this letter is now longer than was intended, 

Anpy PAINTER, 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of April 3, ‘“Penobscot” says his rifle also 
blew unburned powder out on the snow, May I ask him if 
this is strictly so, or did it only Jook so? Has he eyer col- 
lected this unburned powder, again placed the same in his 
gun or rifle, and with what result? Should he take the 
trouble to do so—from his present standpoint—I think he 
will be astonished. 

As regards his ideal repeating rifle, he has my idea pre- 
Cisely as to proportion of powder and lead, only I carry the 
same to the shotgun also. That is, by weight, three times 
as much projectile as powder, or as he sensibly puts it, 80 


powder to projectile, whether ball or shot, is close to the 
maximum shooting qualities of the piece, whatever it may 


be. M. U, Sera, 
Bartimorg, Md. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

When the first call was sounded in your columns for a 
new repeating rifle, I was strongly tempted to express 
my opinion about arms of this type. JI thought it 
better, however, to wait a little and hear what others might 
have to say on the subject, and 1am glad that I have done 
so. Among the many very mteresting and remarkable points 
brought out by this discussion, the most remarkable, to my 
mind, is the apparent general popularity of the repeater. Of 
allthe letters about rifles that have appeared in your col- 
umns, I can at this moment recall but two, in which the de- 
fects of the magazine rifle have been alluded to, One of 
these was from a gentleman, ‘‘W. N. B.,” whose experience, 
extending over more than thirty years, entitles his opinion 
to great weight. My own use of the rifie in hunting large 
game extends over only about half that time, but I give it 
for what it is worth, 

Before stating any facts, however, I shouid perhaps say 
that I have never habitually used a magazine rifle, and am 
therefore unaware of all their faults, their failures to act, 
and their weak points, On the other hand, having always 
used the singleloader, 1 am probably prejudiced in favor 
of that type of arm. Still, lhave hunted so much and 
have been so anxious always to obtain the best gun that 
was procurable, that, had the repeater presented to my mind 
any advantages over the singleloader which outweighed its 
disadvantages, I should have been very likely to use it. My 
hunting has always been done in the West. and so far as I 
can recollect, | have never, within the United States borders, 
killed a single head of large game east of the Mississippi 
River, In the Western country I have killed all descriptions 
of large game there found except the moose, the white goat 
and the grizzly bear; no one of which I have ever seen alive 
within rifle range, So much of personal explanation seems 
necessary in order to show that the opinions which I may 
advance are not ill-considered, hastily formed, or those of a 


TO. 

During the fifteen years which Ihave devoted to hunt- 
ing on the plains and among the mountains, it happened 
that for cight or nine I was obliged to journey through a 
country where hostile Indians were very troublesome, and 
where it might often occur that a man’s life would depend 
on his gun. Simplicity and certainty of action were thus of 
the first importance in the choice of an arm, and I learned 
very early that the magazine guns of the present type could 
not be depended upon in this respect. 

Repeating rifles with the magazine beneath the barrel, or 
in the stock, I believe to be unsafe, as I know they are unre- 
liable. 

1. Repeating rifles are unreliable. My first experience with 
arms of this type was many years ago when IJ traveled 


for four or five months with a party of young men, 


seven or eight of whom were armed with Winchester 
carbines of the then latest model, During all that time there 
was not, I believe, any single day when all of these weapons 
were in working order. The common fault was that a little 
dirt or a grain of sand would get in beside the carrier 
block, and so long as it was there, the lever was immoy- 
ably fixed, and the gun could only be put in order by 
tuking it to pieces, cleaning and oiling it, I happened 
to occupy the same tent with a young man who had 
a taste for machinery, and used toe enjoy taking guns to 
pieces, and every night before going to bed his blankets 
would be covered with the parts of the guns he was putting 
torights. If a gun was dropped in the sand, or a horse ran 
near one lying on the ground and scattered a little dirt over 
it, or it was not taken fo pieces and wiped for a week or two, 
the arm was useless, And in traveling in the West such 
things as these constantly happen, and must be expected to 
happen. Itisno answer to such objections to a gun to say 
that a man should keep his gun clean, and that then it will 


work weli. Suppose he does not keep his gun clean, and 


grains powder, 240 grains lead, The above proportion of 


that he is jumped by Indians or charged by a bad-tempered 
grizzly, is he to lose his life because he does not devote every 
evening 1n camp to polishing up his weapon? I have heard 
marksmen complain that wt Creedmoor in past seasons, when 
shooting at the “running deer” with the Winchester, it has 
been a common thing to haye the cartridges stick in the gun 
and the lever fail to work, Usually this is caused by a bit of 
dirt acting on the carrier block, and no matter how the open 
breech is protected, this is something that is always likely to 
occur. 


Tn the summer of 1877 [hunted with two men in a country 
where game was very abundant. One of my companions 
was very anxious to killa bear. He carried a Winchester of 
the model of 1876, the magazine of which holds, if I recol- 
lect aright, eleyen cartridges. We had one day killed some 
elk, and seen a great lot ot fresh bear signs, which so in- 
flamed the imagination of this man that the next morning 
he started out alone, with the avowed determination of shoot- 
ing at nothing less than a bear. When he came in at night 
he told the following story: He had hunted till about 5 P. M. 
without seeing anything but elk, and at these he had not 
shot. Just as he was about to return to the camp, and 
while he was resting on the edge of a little mountain park, 
three bears, two cubs and an old she grizzly, made their ap- 
pearance, one after another, in the little park, and traversed 
it, passing within about seventy-five yards of where he sat, 
He said that he had intended to shoot at the first of the 
bears, and that he had not doubted his ability to kill both 
the small ones, but that, when the third and big one came 
on the scene, his interestin bear hunting ceased. We laughed 
at him, of course, while he was telling the story, axd 
when it was ended he tried to take out of his gun the 
cartridge which was in the barrel, and found that 
he could not do so, It was at length picked out, 
and the gun being taken to pieces, this was found 
to be the state of things; He bad filled the magazine full, 
jamming in all the cartridges it would contain. The spring 
in the magazine had thus been greatly compressed, and the 
result had been that the lubricant in the cartridges had been 
squeezed into a very small compass and the balls pushed into 
the shell much further than in a fresh cartridge. Each 
cartridge was therefore somewhat shorter than it should 
have been. Now suppose we call the cartridge in the barrel 
No. 1, the one beneath it No. 2, and the one in front of two, 
No. 8. No. 1 could, of course, be fired, but the base of the 
shell of No. 8 encroaching upon the space which should 
have been filled by No, 2, interfered with the breech mechan- 
ism and prevented it from working. Each of the eleven 
cartridges taken from the magazine was from one-eighth to 
one-quarter of an inch shorter than a fresh cartridge taken 
from the box. Now it is very well to say that the man was 
a fool to put so many cartridges into his magazine, buf sup- 
pose he had fired and killed a cub with his one usable car- 
tridge, and afterward had been torn to pieces by the old 
bear, would the fact that he had been a fool have been any 
special consolation to his widow, or to us who would have 
been obliged to pack him back to the railroad? 

I could give other instances where these arms have proven 
entirely unreliable, but the one cited above, and tbe letter 
from ‘“W. N. B,” some weeks since, should be enough, 1 
think, to show that sometimes they do not work. And a 
gun that sometimes fails will never do for me to use, If it is 
for hunting in the Hast, or in a country where nothing more 
dangerous thana deer or an antelope is to be met with, the 
getting out of order of your gun isa small matter. To lose 
your shot, or evento go hungry to bed, is annoying, but no 
great hardship, bub where a gun’s failure to work may cost a 
man his life, the question becomes a more serious one, If 
one is going to use his rifle merely to pop away at a deer as 
long asit is in sight, let him use a repeater, if he thinks best, 
but if he expects to rely on if as a weapon of defense, he had 
better choose az arm on which he can place more Udepend- 
ence. 

2. Repeaters are unsafe, as I believe. They are unsafe 
because, with the tube magazine under the barrel, or with 
the magazine in the stock, there is always liability to a dis- 
charge of the cartridges in the magazine. This, it is true, 
may be avoided, provided the primers are yery deeply seated, 
so as to be flush with or below the level of the base of the 
shell, and the ball of the next cartridge be flat on the end, 
but a man who hunts much will use a great many cartridges 
ina season, and who shall say that every one of these cart- 
ridges will be perfect in these respects? It is scarcely to be 
expected that a man should examine each cartridge, and test 
it before putting it in the magazine. 

In the hands of a friend of mine, the magazine of a Win- 
chester rifle exploded on the discharge of the cartridge in the 
rifle. He was shooting from above, at a band of mountain 
sheep. He heard the sound of the intended shot, followed 
at once by the cartridges in the magazine, and involuntarily 
tossed the gun over the cliff after the running sheep. He 
then wiped the blood from his face and went back to camp. 
Fortunately he had but one slight cut on the side of the head 
from a piece of flying metal. 

In the hands of another friend, a Hotchkiss gun went to 
pieces. He was prospecting, and was driving a lazy jack, 
which was packed with his outfit, In trying to hurry the 
jack he punched it with the gun, which he held by themuz- 
zle. The magazine exploded, and—well, the jack hurried 
that time, and the gun flew down the mountain side, as far 
as a good stout arm could throw it. Those who. are in love 
with the repeater will prohapyy say that a gun should not be 
used to prod lazy animals. ery true, but I presume that 
every man who has ever traveled with a pack train, has made 
use of his rifle for just that purpose, These are my two 
objections to magazine guns as they are now made, and [ 
believe that they apply to all those constructed as I have 
stated. The Lee guns are not open to the same objections, 
but they will probably never come into favor as a hunting 
arm, the clumsy side bar being enough to condemn them 
utterly for that purpose. J 

Tt would not be difficult to show that for other reasons the 
magazine gun is very faulty as a hunting arm. Its balance 
is constantly changing, a very grave fault indeed, lt con- 
duces to poor shooting, for a man does not use the same care 
in aiming that he does with a singleloader, feeling sure that 
he can get in three or four more shots before the animal gets 
far, and being willing to take his chances of killing on some 
one of these. From this fact, too, it is a cruel weapon. The 
shooter keeps on firing away at the herd of animals, shooting 
at the “bunch” as long as they are within sight, and at the 
end of the ‘‘engagement” he may find one or two dead, put he 
is quite certain that half a dozen have gone off with broken 
legs or balls through the paunch, and that for days they will 
linger with festermg wounds in which the blow-flies have 
deposited their eggs, suffering we know not what agonics. ~ 

With the singleloader, this is notso likely tooceur, A wan — 


Fr Arent, 1%, 1684.) , 
who has had no experience in camp life and knows nothing 
Recollecting 


hunts mone carefully, works harder to approach his game, 
lants bis bal ; 
fen ects set his game, To my mind, nothing is more 
-unsportsmanlike than to keep on shoouns, shooting, shooting, 
after the game is beyond all reasonable distance. You know 
that if you hit it, itis merely a lucky scratch, and not good 
shooting on your part, and by ihe continued noise and racket 
you frighten all the game within hearing, and that, to lee- 
ward, is slong way, A single shot is not very alarming to 
game at some distance, many shots in succession are terrify- 
ing. Leta man, who is a real hunter, get: up as close to his 
game 1s possible; if it is not within 200 yards, let him wait 
for it to come to him, or to get behind some cover so that he 
can creep up toit, and then let him shoot so carefully that one 
ball will do the work, This will give him some satisfaction. 

T do not profess to be a good shot; I rarely shoot at an an- 
imal over 200 yards distant, and yet 1 find that with a little 
patience I can almost always get up within my own distance 
of game. A year ago last fall, in a month’s hunting, I killed 
with a single ballevery head of game shot at inside of 150 
yards, There were not very many of them, to be sure, 
perhaps a dozen antelope, four or five deer, and as many 
elk, but they were enough. I was not skin hunting or 
butchering; | only kept the camp in meat. / 

Since writing the foregoing lines 1 have received from a 
friend in the West a letter touching on this subject, which 
is so interesting and suggestive that I need not apologize for 
quoting from it very freely, It isin reply to some remarks 
of mine on repeaters and their disadvantages. After giving 
the origin of the Winchester as the Volcanic pistol, he says: 


Not very long after they becAme common in this region, ‘Old Jim 
Baker,” a famous mountaineer, while shooting at a target with others 
near this erty, suffered an accident, supposed at the time to be fatal, 
T was not present, but as [now remember it was occasioned by the 
explosion of a cartridge in the carrier, or by the blowing backward 
ot the plunger. The whole side of his face from the corner of his 
mouth to his ear was torn off, and although he recovered it left him 
terribly disfigured. ' : 

Inmy observation I have noticed the repeaters often failing, either 
in the progess of loading or in the fouling of a cartridge. I am not 
certain thatI ever witnessed a really serious accident, The failure 
in loading is easily fo beaccounted for, [think. To work propery the 
cartridge must be mathematically exact as to length. If ashade too 
long the carrier will not bring it up to the breech of the gun because 
it cannot pass, Ifashadetoo short, then the butt of the next car- 
tridge follows it down past the end of the carrier, and prevents the 
latter from coming up. Jolting of cartridges, by carrying amagazine 
full on horseback for instance, may cause this Jatter result. (Are 
nof Winchester cartridges, after manufacture, put through a sizing 
machine, which cuts them toa certain length? And is not this the 
cause of so many of their balls being cut off at the point as though 
with a knife or shears, thereby presenting a bad front for true flight?) 

When about places where hunters congregate, it is very common 
to hear them say ‘I would have gota splendid elk to-day, but my 
fun wouldn’t work,” or ‘I got left ona deer by getting a cartridge 
fast,” or many other similar remarks, as every one who has been 
among hunters will readily recall. Such failures are, I think, charged 
to repeating rifles four times out of five in ratio to their use. I know 
that their common reputation in communities largely made up of 
hunters is that they are far more liable to disappoint the bearer than 
are other guns. ‘, 

Ti you can find some officer who wasin the army of the Shenan- 
doah (valley of Virginia)zabout 1863, I think you can gét some points 
respecting the absolute danger of magazine rifles when placed in the 
hands of bodies of men. My recollection isthat a regiment or brigade 
of yolunteers were armed with them, and that so many casualties 
followed from accidental discharges, etc., that the guns had to be 
taken away from the men. This arming was in response to the im- 
portunities of the manufacturers, who claimed that the efficiency of 
troops would be greatly increased by giving them repeaters. (Mas 
there ever been a regular military force armed with magazine guns? 
Or have their manufacturers eyer tried to introduce them in actual 
war except upon this one occasion?) 

After all, what is the use ofa magazine when any expert can re- 
charge a breechloader as rapidly as there is any possible use to fire 
—faster than he can see_and realize the effect of his last shot, and 
faster than the smoke will allow him to see where to put the next: 
one? In fact, our arms are ‘all too good, too fast, too fatal. There 
will soon be little use for any for sporting purposes. 


This is about the way we older men look atit. ‘‘Nessmuk” 
threatens to g0 back to the old flintlock muzzleloader, and I 
think that there are many who feelas if something like this 
must be done, if the slaughter is ever to cease. Of course it 
is now practically too late to save the game, and the effort at 
present is to see who shall kill the most in the shortest time, 

I have purposcly refrained from expressing my preference 
for any type of singleloader, as I desire merely to present 
evidence against the repeater. G. 


NEW HAMPSHIRE LEAGUE. 


HE eleventh annual meeting of the New Hampshire 
Game and Fish League was called to order shortly 
after 11 o’clock in Mirror Hall, Manchester, April 1, 1884, 
the president, John B, Clarke, in the chair, The president 
read letters of regret from John Fattler, Jr., president of the 
Fish and Game Protective Association of Massachusetis, 
who was preyented from an attendance upon the meeting by 
reason of his presence being necessitated in Boston to look 
after the interests of the bill before the Massachusetts Legis- 
lature for the better protection of fish and game in that 
State. The secretary read an interesting paper entitled 
“Notes on the New England Salmon and Trout,” the author 
being Mr. 5, Garman, of Cambridge, Mass. 

Piesident—John B. Clarke, Manchester. 

Secretary—Charles L. Richardson, Manchester, 

Treasurer—Frederick Smyth, Manchester, 

Vice-Presidents—C. W. Pickering, Portsmouth; Luther 
Hayes, Milton; E. B, Hodge, Plymouth; Fred Gould, Con- 
cord; Edward Spalding, Nashua; W. H. Shurtleff, Cole- 
brook; Horatio Colony, Keene; Arthur L. Meserye, Bartlett; 
G. P, Whitman, Manchester; Herbert F. Norris, Man- 
chester; Charles F. Stone, Laconia. 

Hon. Charles F. Stone delivered the annual address; and 
Fish Commissioner Hodges spoke of the work done by his 
department; an abstract of his remarks will be found in 
‘another column, 

A committee consisting of Hon. Herbert F. Norris, of 
Manchester, Hon. V, C. Gilmore of Nashua, and Hon. John 
M. Hill of Concord, were appointed to inspect. the fishways 
of the Merrimack River. 

Dr, Edward Spalding of Nashua, Luther Hayes, Esq., of 
Milton, and HE. B. Hodge, Hsq., of Plymouth, made interest- 
ing remarks on pertinent topics. The latter stated that dur- 
ing the months of December, January, February and March 
over 200 deer, one moose, and one caribou had been killed. 
A large number of deer are killed in the lumbering camps. 
Dr. William Jarvis read a paper on “The Woodcock,” and 
Mr, John Foster of Manchester, discoursed of ‘Coons and 
Coon Hunting” in a style that delighted the veterans present, 
His paper will be given in full in our Kennel columns. An 
essay on “Guns and their Attachments,” written by Mr. 
Chas. M. Stark, of Dunbarton, contained many practical 
hints on this topic. The members of the League were in- 
phen on “Camping Out” by Mr. Herbert F. Norris, who 
 ~Baid; ; . 

“The well-worn saying, ‘He is a good fellow, but he can’t 
: keep 2 hotel,’ may well n applied to many a loyer of sport 
‘ =a 7 f : 


with more precision, and in my opinion, is 


have a camp stove that will last a lifetime. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


of the joys or discomforts of life in the woods. 
well my first night’s experience, when after airamp of ten 


miles I slept, or rather tried to sleep, beneath a shelving rock 
on the mountain side, while the hooting owl and barking fox 
aided the drumming partridge in a grand evening concert, I ; 
can well believe that knowing how to camp out is as neces- 


sary to the pleasure of a week in God’s first tempies as is the 
Boo ine of hotel keeping to the comforts of the guests, 

“T will 
sire to go camping, but before making preparations for your 
excursion you should always settle three questions. First, 
the time you can spend in camp; second, the game or fish 
“isi seek; third, the place or Jocality you desire to make the 

ase of operations. I have named these questions in the 
order I deem them important. Many an otherwise delightful 
week has been thrown away by attempting to crowd into it 
a trip that should have taken twice as long, and the boys re- 
turning say, ‘Yes, we had a good time, but had hardly got 
there when we had to come back,’ I believe it to be a good 
rule that no place is available for a week’s camping that can- 
not easily be reached in one day, Having settled the ques- 
tion of time, the kind of sport, wlether with rod or gun or 
both, can easily be disposed of, and, haying always in mind 
the available spots the time at your command will allow you 
to visit, you can soon decide where you will go. 

Then select one of your number to act as steward, who, 
with a carefully prepared list of what you will need, will 
procure and haye securely packed every thing except blan- 
kets and wearing apparel you think necessary for your com- 
fort. In this way you avoid the trouble of carrying larger 
quantities of stores than are needed, and the vexation of find- 
ing yourselves in camp miles from home without some things 
that are absolutely indispensable to the pleasure of your stay. 
To attempt to enumerate the many things that are taken into 
camp by those who go out into the woods would occupy the 
attention of the League during the remainder of its session, 
but there are some things that are so essential that you will 
pardon me it I suggest them. 

“No camp is complete without conveniences for cooking 
sich fish or game as you take; but few desirable camping 
grounds are to be fouhd where a heavy cooking stove and 
furniture can form a part of your equipage. It follows, 
then, that in this particular, as in every other, that the light- 
est, most convenient and easiest transported substitute for a 
stove is the best for your purpose. Let me suggest one that 
I have found, all things considered, unexcelled, Any sheet- 
iron worker can make it for you in an hour, and you will 
Take a piece of 
sheet iron and form of it a cylinder twenty inches long and 
about fifteen inches in diameter; put on one end a bottom, 
first taking out of one side at the same end a piece three 
inches long and an inch wide. Then for a top either a coarse 
wire netting or make a double cross of some strips of sheet 


iron with the ends bent so as to clasp over the sides, and 


your stove is complete, It is light, needs no funnel, can be 
set up In a moment, and heats quickly. The bottom pre- 
vents the fire from reaching the ground, the hole in the side 
gives excclient draft, and the cross or screen sufficient sup 
port for the spider or kettle. Some one will say that a stove 
of that shape takes up too much room in packing, Let me 
explain its advantages in that respect. Your stove is simply 
a large sheet iron pail. Why not use it as such? Within it 
you can place your camp kettle, tin plates, dippers and 
dishes, knives, forks, spoons and lanterns, in fact, all of your 
cooking and dining equipage, and know that it is securely 
packed. If you wish baked fish and game, brown bread 
and beans, don’t try to cook them in this stoye, but dig in 
the ground a hole fifteen or twenty inches deep, stoning up 
the sides like a well, if you desire, and you haye a splendid 
oven. To heat it, build in it and over it a rousing fire, and 
when the wood has burned to coals clear oul the oven, leay- 
ing some hot ashes and coals ov the bottom, For beans 
your oven may be heated at night. Place the pot in the 
oven, push back the coals and ashes around it and over it, 
and, adding fresh fuel, you may enjoy your evening camp- 
fire, knowing that in the morning you can take from beneath 
its ashes a superbly cooked breaktast. 

“To cook fish: Having placed some grass on the ashes at 
the bottom of the oven, to prevent the fish being scorched, 
lay them on the side, and putting overthem some more grass, 
fill up the oven as before. In three or four hours you will have 
a baked fish, with all its flavor and juiceretained, better cooked 
than in the best range in the land, 

“For bread a covered dish can be used; while game may 
be treated in many ways. 

**What luxuries you take into camp your own tastes will 
govern, but you should never forget the following reliable and 
substantial things: Plenty of salt pork, pilot bread or hard 
tack, coffee, Indian meal, salt and pepper; and if your camp 
is easy of access, potatoes, beans, onions, canned meats and 
flour should be added. 

“Your camp or tent should be on a dry, level spot as 
near as practical to a good spring or cold running water. 
You will need good water for cooking and toilet purposes, 
and it is sometimes the case that some members of the party 
will drink it. 

“Having your tent in position, if possible facing the south- 
east, carefully dig around it a good ditch. This will save 
you a repetition of my experience at one time, when I awoke 
in the midst of a heavy shower to find a fine stream of water 
running beneath the boughs that formed my bed, but not far 
enough beneath to prevent my getting uncomfortably wet. 
Throw the tent wide open as soon as the sun is well up in the 
morning, hanging out the blankets in the wind and shaking 
up the boughs that form your bed. I speak of your bed as one 
of boughs, because I believe, that while other things can some- 
times be secured to give a’softer couch, nothing is always at 
your command that will serve you as well. Again, the ob- 
ject of your visit is to obtain health and strength as well as 
sport, and there is about.a bed of boughs, rich in its flavor 
of the hemlock or spruce, together with the properties of 
the earth, strong medicinal qualities that I believe to be 
highly beneficial to those who for the remainder of the year 
are confined within doors in offices, stores or manufacturing 
establishments. 


“Being well settled in camp, don’t try to hunt or fish all 
the surrounding country the first day, “Such a course will 
ouly serve to unfit you for the enjoyment of the remainder of 
your stay. It is a changed condition of things for you, and 
you can easily misjudge your strength, and the second day 
find yourself lame and sore and unable to join in the sport 
at all. Take things easy the first day orso, and then you will 
be more than repaid for the loss of the few hours at the first. 

“Some people seem to fancy that all that is necessary in 
the way of clothing in camp is a fancy yachting shirt, with 
its broad, loose collar and flowing sleeves, and the attendant 


suppose for the purposes of this talk that you de- 


pair of hip pants, but you should nof fall into that error. T 
can think of nothing more poorly suited to your purpose, 
Your shirts should be made of the best flannel, with a narrow 
eollar and button close around the neck, with a close-fitting 
sleeve buttoning as tight as comfortable with three or four 
buttons at the wrist, You will. then save the annoyance of 
catching your sleeve upon every twig and bush, or of losing 
a fine tish by the reel catching in the needless cloth that 
hangs about your wrist, while that greater trouble than all, 
the mosquito and black fly, will be unable to select your 
neck and arms to feast upon, For the remainder of your 
clothing, any strong, well-made clothes will answer, being 
careful to select warm woolen under flannels and stockings, 
While the shirt L have suggested will protect you partially 
from the mosquito and fly, your face and hands will still be 
exposed, and will need guarding; for this purpose get af 
some druggist’s a small vial of a mixture of oil of penny- 
royal and sweet oil of the proportion of two paris of sweet. 
oil to one of pennyroyal, and when troubled by the insects 
apply it to the exposed parts. The singing and humming 
may still remain near, but the mosquito and fly will not harm 
you while the oil remains upon your hands and face.” 


MASSACHUSETTS GAME PROSPECTS, 


AY EK had a heavy snow storm here Wednesday night. It 

fell about fourteen imches on the level, followed next 
day by heavy wind and rain, On going out to-day to see 
how the birds stood it, I was surprised to flush in about 
three hours eight woodcock and a nice bevy of quail, twelve 
innumber. If we have a good dry summer, we will have 
good sport next September. Little yellow birds and fox 
sparrows, golden-wing woodpeckers and crow blackbirds are 
here. J. F. D, 

Danvers, Mass,, April. 


The winter and spring thus far has not been so severe as 
usual to game. A good reliable farmer told me that a few 
days since he saw eighteen partridges budding his apple trees 
at one time, visible from his front door, and that they have 
badly damaged them, Rabbits are on the gain in numbers 
hereabouts, and but for box trapping the gain would be much 
greater, 

At time of writing the ground is white with snow about 
twelve to fifteen inches deep, and sparrows, bluebirds and 
rebins have starved to death in great numbers. LE. §. K. 

WirstmMinstEeR, Mass., April '. 


TENNESSEE CONVENTION. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

It must be apparent to all those who have investivated the 
subject,that the great destruction of game throughout the 
State, by netting, trapping and killing out of season, as well 
as the wanton and exterminating method of killing fish by 
the use of dynamite powder, will soon deplete our fields and 
streams, 

The only legitimate method to prevent the wholesale de- 
struction of all kinds of game must be by stringent legisla- 
lion, and to this end the sportsmen of East Tennessee deem 
it expedient to call a meeting of all the lovers ot sport through- 
out the State, on Tuesday, May 20, 1884, in the city of Knox- 
ville, to.form a sportsmen’s association of the State for the 
purpose of memorializing our State Legislature’and securing 
the passage of such laws as will save from entire destruction 
our fish and game birds. 

The E, T., V.& G. R. R. will give excursion rates over 
their several roads. The Knoxville Gun Club will use every 
effort to render the meeting both agreeable and profitable, 
not only by assisting in the proper entertainment of their 
guests, the adoption of sound conservative and progressive 
resolutions, and in the furtherance of healthful legislation, 
but will hold their annual shooting tournament, lasting four 
days, which they hope may prove an interesting feature of 
the meeting. 

A most cordial invitation is hereby extended to all lovers 
of genuine sport to meet with us at this time, so that by our 
united and harmonious councils we may be able to arouse 
public opinion to the importance of this subject and con- 
struct such safeguards as will make our State in the futnre 
what it was in the past—the sportsmen’s paradise, 

Kynoxvitur, Tenn, J. ©. DuNcAN, 

S. B, Dow, 


Committee. 
EF. W. ARMSTRONG, ) 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


ERY few snipe were killed on our grounds this week. 

Atlantic City duckers have within the past few days 
been bringing in many sheldrakes, an unusual number of 
these worthless fowl having appeared, evidently on their 
northward flight. Some big yellow-legs are to be heard on 
the salt marshes, and the regular spring flight may be looked 
for during the next pleasant weather we will have. These 
birds do not stool well in the spring, and it is a fact worth 
noticing that they show themselves in much small numbers 
in the autumn migration, their place being taken in great part 
by the lesser yellow-leg, and we seldom see this latter-named 
variety on our shores in the spring. Can any one explain 
this? I notice to-day at some of our Philadelphia game 
stands many shore larks in bunches offered for sale; also 


‘blackbirds, and both varieties picked and tied together as 


reed birds are when sold, ‘There is a law against selling those 
birds at any season of the year, While writing of illegal 
trading in game, 1 might say that in Philadelphia, where 
game dealers were once so fearful of violating the law, they 
are now doing as they please with their stock in trade, 
When our Philadelphia Game Protective Association had its 
eye on these people they were kept in check, but now it 
might be said we have no law. An effort is being made on 
the part of the Philadelphia Kennel Club to procure the 
charter of the old organization, and a moyeI hope will be 
made to extend the usefulness of the Kennel Club to the pro- 
tection of game and the prosecution of existing laws. 

An ex-vice-president of the old Philadelphia Sportsman's 
Society said to me the other day when we were conversing 
on dog matters, ‘“What earthly use is it to own a dog when 
there is no game?” He deplores the present condition of 
affairs in Pennsylvania, and tah sure would aid in reorgan- 
izing In some way the old association. 

Iam told that the freshets of this year in the Susquehanna 
carried so much mud and trash on to the flats at Havre de 
Grace that the wild celery has been entirely destroyed; 
hence the failure of this season’s duck shooting at that point. 
I am compelled to think, notwithstanding this fact, that 
box-shooting also ig having its steady and sure effect on the 
fowl! also, Homo, 


Passaic Country, N. J.—A meeting of the Passaic County | 
Fish and Game Protective Association was held last week in | 


Paterson, 
The secretary reported that Senator Griggs was unavoidably 
absent, but that he had made some suggestions to the secre- 
tary with a request to bring them before the meeting. The 
first suggestion was in relation to the preservation of Amert- 
ean song birds. ‘The law at present prohibits the killing of 
all song birds, but as it is a State law with only a small pen- 
alty attached, it is very seldom enforced. ‘The charter of 
this city gives the Aldermen the right to pass ordinances for 
the protection of song birds, and if the Aldermen could be 
induced to take action in this matter, the whole Paterson 
police force would be compelled to make arrests whenever 
they saw any person killing any song birds. Most of the 
killing of song birds in this vicinity is done within the city 
limits by boys and men who go out either for the sport of 
killing or in order to get birds to stuff. In this manner hun- 
dreds of birds are killed nearly every month in the year. 
Mr. Griggs’s suggestion was to ask the Board of Aldermen 
to pass a stringent ordinance prohibiting the killing of song 
birds. The secretary was instructed to request the Board of 
Aldermen to pass such an ordinance. Another suggestion 
made by Senator Griggs was the printing in pamphlet form 
of the present laws in relation to the protection of fish and 
game. The laws have been fixed up every year by the Legis- 
lature, so that it is only with the greatest difficulty that per- 
sons can keep on the track of what is going on. The Senator 
offered his services in the matter, and was requested to draw 
up the compendium. A room for meetings will be procured, 
and until that time the association will meet at the corner of 
Cross and Oliver streets, where the next meeting will be 
held on Friday evening of this week. 


ARROWHEAD IN GameE.—I read with great interest the 
article regarding the. iron arrowhead found in the swan at 
Chesapeake Bay. Mr. Erastus Keith told me that seme 
years ago, a wild goose, shot near Lake Village, Indiana, 
had an arrowhead imbedded in thebreastbone. 1 ownabow 
and arrows from Washington Territory; the arrows are 26 
inches in length, the iron heads are 22 inches long and 2 of 
an inch wide; the bow is very strong, covered with snake 
skin, and is 38 inchés in length, no mean weapon in the 
hands of a brave. None of these arrows are barbed where 
they enter the shaft, which makes me think the one in your 
cut may have come from the remote north, and there may be 
some among your readers who haye seen such that ate barbed 
where they enter the shaft, as iron arrowheads are still used 
by many tribes, and they may know the names of tribes 
using such. As game escapes from white men with the best 
weapous, there must be more that escape from the arrow of 
poor Lo.—W. A. N. (Springfield, Mass., April 7). 


Game i lowa.—latimer, Iowa, April 10.—Ducks, 
geese and brant have visited us in large numbers this spring, 
andafew of the hardy duck shooters that could lic in a 
snow bank where the corn was not gathered, met with good 
success. Thousands of sandhill cranes are here now, but 
they are very poor. Ducks have also proved to be in miser- 
able condition, which is another argument in favor of the 
abolition of spring shooting. Prairie chickens wintcred 
well, and there seem to be more old birds than I have scen 
for several years, so that if there is any reasonable hatch the 
shooting will be exccllent next fall. Some curlew are to be 
seen, Our little favorite, the Jack snipe, has not put in an 
appearance, put is reported as being plenty 100 miles south 
of us. <A great many pickerel have been speared and shot 
along the small streams this spring.—Raw. 


Live QuaIL rok New Jxersny.—At a meeting of the 
Board of Directors of the New Jersey Game and Fish Pro- 
tective Society, held in Plainfield, N. J., on Friday evening, 
April 11, the committee on distributing quail for stocking 
purposes, reported that the birds had been liberated on farms 
in the counties of Union, Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex, 
Morris, Monmouth and Essex, where they will have protec- 
tion and gocd cover to breed. Some 800 birds, cared for 
during the winter months, were liberated. The percentage 
of loss in caring for them since December was small, in com- 
parison to. that of last year. Good results may be expected 
from this plant if the game laws are properly observed.— 
Fox. 


A Marxe Decisron.—The following opinion has recently 
been rendered by the Law Court of Maine: ‘‘Penobscot 
County Case,—Thos. F. Allen vs, Benj. L_ Young.—‘Plain- 
tiff nonsuit.’ Rescript—lIt is the opinion of this Court that 
if deer are killed during the time when it is lawful to do so, 
it is not a crime to carry or transport the hides or carcasses 
from place to place in this State during the time when it is 
unlawful to kill them; that such a carrying or transportation 
is not a violation of the statute for the protection of game. 
Barker, Vose & Barker fer plff.; Davis & Bailey for deft.” 
This applies to the transportation of all game.—J. F. S. : 


GAMeE IN Muskseaon.—Notes are scarce in this part-of the 
country, but I will give you one that probably the Muske- 
gon Sportsman’s Club will be proud of. Game—quail, 
ruied grouse and venison—has been openly sold in this place 
all winter, even into March, Let the State society appoint 
some more missionaries. Personally, I do not feel much ag 
erieved, as my sporting proclivitics do not extend beyond a 
fishing-rod; but I do not like to see the laws so flagrantly 
violated, even if I never shoot a bird.—A. P. 8, (Muske- 
gon, Mich., April 2). 


BrantTine At CuarnaAm.—I promised to write you in re- 
gard to branting. There are lots of brant here, but the tides 
have been very high indeed. We killéd 37 the last week in 
March; 17 the 8d of April; 17 the 4th, and this morning, the 
Sth, we killed 38 before 7 o’clock. 'Thege were killed from 
one box. April 7 we killed at one shot, with four barrels, 36 
brant, and got five more, making 41 brant in all, and got 
back to my island home before 8 o’clock A, M.—I. G. C, 
(Chatham, Miss., April 8). 


MarsHanurown, fa., April 5.—Your correspondent in 
company with Mr. L, C, Abbott, our crack shot, spent the 
ufternoon of the 4th on the *‘Snipe Bog,” with the result of 
usmall bag. It is rather too carly, and the birds are wild.— 
ee YD. 


Satem, Mass., April’7.—Woodcock are yet in our pas- 
tures, Some black ducks (A. obsewra) noticed; also snow- 
birds (J. Ayemalis) and tree sparrows (S. monticola). We 
look for snipe soon.—X, Y, Z, ’ 


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FOREST AND STR 


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Pay ror THE Mecwantos.—In the clerk's office of the 
U. 8. Circuit Court at Trenton, N, J., in the ¢ase of Charlés 


N. J.; the permanent organization was effected. | E. Quincey vs. the Yellowstone National Park linprovement 


Company, there was filed, off Tuesday, April 15, a petition 
asking the Court to permit the receiver to borrow $7,000 to 
pay the laborers, who have taken possession of the hotel and 
fixings, and refuse to let the receiver take possession until 
their claims are paid, Judge Nixon signed an order to that 
effect.—L. N. C. 


Brrps iw Inurwors.—We lost a good many quail last 
Winter, although there are some left. The duck shooting is 
about over. The weather is very fine, and birds haye gone 
north. I should like to see the spring shooting stopped, 
especially for market.—L, G@. (Lewiston, Ill., April 8). 


Ducks Near Monrrear.—Our spring duck shooting has 
just opened with prospects of very good shooting. One man 
was out last Friday and shot 54 yellow-eyes, 11 whistlers 
and 4 geese; not so bad for these parts.—Tucun BLEus 
(Montreal, April 8). 


Sea and River Hishing. 


THE ROD=—PAST AND PRESENT. 
Liditer Horest and Stream: 

The article written on the ‘‘dowel question” in late num- 
bers of Forest AND STREAM are instructive as well as 
amusing; and any apology for troubling your readers with 
what may follow, is due to the truth stated in Mr. H. P. 
Wells’s excellent article of Feb, 21, wherein he justly artaigns 
the followers of Walton for not writing more on what per- 
tains to the art of angling and the implements used. 

But their silence is due, no doubt, move to the gentle, un: 
obtrusive spirit which pervades this fratefnity, than to any 
selfish motives or ignorance on the subject. ; 

Many years haye passed since [ have used atod made with 
dowels. My first departure from the creed of the fathers 
occurred shoitly after the debutof that most excellent work, 


, “Phe American Angler,” by Thad. Norris, 


The tcachings of that eminent author were so plain and 
thorough that I concluded to try my hand at rod making. 
My first attempt was to reduce the unwieldy proportions of 
a store rod which I had used some seasons. This rod was 
furnished both with dowels and rings, such as were consid- 
ered orthodox in those days. AsJIhad made up my mind 
to try the experiment of making arod without dowels or 
rings, I proceeded to remove both, but to my surprise on 
putting the rod together I found the joints as shaky as an 
old window in a March wind, 

That experiment proved the use of dowels in rods eon- 
structed with badly made ferrules. To make a good ferrule 
I soon found required more skill and tools than I possessed. 
However, I believed that a perfectly fitting ferrule could be 
made, and on the strength of that belief continued to make 
all my ferrules, some fairly good, others bad, until I found 
a brother of the angle, who had both brains and tools 
enough to make ferrules of so perfect a fit as to leave noth- 
ing more to be desired in that direction. 

ext, I replaced the old rings with standing guides which 
TIT made of hollow wire. At first I made them large, but 
when John Shields produced the enamel line—the greatest 
improvement in lines the world has seen—I found that a 
guide a little larger than the line answered every purpose. 

After experimenting with the construction of the standing 
guides, I found that two perfectly round rings of wire sol- 
dered together so as to form a _A_ shape with a piece of 
metal at the base, thus constructed so as to be attached to 
the rod by silk windings, gave the best results. These guides 
have lately been improved both in fineness and_finish by the 
same party that makes the ferrules. 

With these ferrules and guides the amuicur can construct 
as perfect a rod as any professional, provided he knows how 
to make the wood part of a rod. Last season I was gratified 
to hear that salmon rods had been sent to the Hast from Cal- 
ifornia to have the rings taken off and these guides put on, 

While on a fishing trip last summer, in the Provinces, I 
was shown bamboo rods, made by our best makers, and 
owned by resident anglers, that had been sent to Boston to 
have these guides put on, and they expressed themselves 
more than satisfied with the change. 

From some of the articles written by the angling fraternity, 
and those anglers whom I had formerly met, living in the 
Provinees, I had been led to suppose that the antiquated 
‘spliced rod” was the only one considered the thing in those 
regions. But. was mistaken. 

Before closing, I will state for the benefit of those of the 
craft who desire to make their rods, that the ferrules and 

uides that I have found so satisfactory, can be had in New 
Tork of Hawks & Ogillvey; in Boston, of Appleton & Litch- 
field, Washington street; C. F. Pope & Co., 33 Weybasset 
street, Providence, R. I., or of the manufacturer, A. Seekel, 
409 Pine street, Providence, R. I. The ferrules are made 
of eighteen per cent. German silver, finely finished and rein- 
forced so as to admit the same size of wood above the joint 
as below it, thereby obviating most of the danger of the rod 
breaking at the ferrules. 

The following sizes can be had for fifty cents cach, viz. : 
fz to 44 inch inside diameter. Guides are made in four sizes, 
and sell at sixty cents per dozen, all sizes, and will fit the 
finest fly-rod or heaviest bait-rod. 

To recapitulate. The history of the rod may be summed 
up somewhat after this fashion. First, we have the pole 
intact from butt to tip, as used by “‘the fathers.” Second, 
the pole cut in two or more pieces, probably for the con- 
venience of transportation, or in some instances to avoid the 
trouble of cutting a ‘‘mast” for each cxpedition. The 
uniting of these pieces with strings constituted the ‘‘spliced 
pole.” Third, the uniting of the sections of a pole by fer- 
rules which were so poorly made as to require some device of 
the wood-worker to help out what the metal-worker lacked. 
This device consisted in adding a piece of wood below the 
end of the male ferrule, and was called a ‘‘dowel.”’ 

But I had nearly forgotten to mention a companion piece 
of the dowel, credited to our English cousins. I refer to 
those wire loops placed both above and below each joint for 
the purpose of tying the joints together, and when a ‘‘pole” 
is thus rigged out for action, it presents an appearance as 
substantial and ornamental as that of an Italian team in the 
streets of Florence or Rome, with the Jack harnessed to the 
cart by rops and rags. 

Finally, instead of the larval state called ‘‘pole,” we now 
have that most perfect of all angling implements, the split- 


bainboo rod with short ferrules that fit perfectly, 
that do not hinder or fray our elegant enameled lines. 
Therefore, at this stage of “evolution,” I conclude that 
the day is fast approaching when the ‘‘pole,” the “spliced 
pole,” the “doweled rod” and the ringed rod willbe relegated 
to the past, as stage coaches, etc., etc,, have been by the 
advent of the railroad, telegraph, telephone, and electric 


light. Esprit For. 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 


AN OLD-FASHIONED ROD. 


Editor Forest and Streams: : 

Let me fully indorse Mr. Wells’s articles about dowels, and 
corroborate him by saying that I have an old 10d, matle 
without them, which has seen hard service for twenty-five 
years-or thereabouts. I think it was in 1859 that I went tow 
-unsmith in Manchester, N. H., and selected the slendetest 

amboo rod that I could find, 20 feet long, and had it 
cut into five lengths of 4 feet each, and put tovether just 
as Mr. Wells describes, ‘lhe three top joints gave me a 12: 
foot trout rod for brovk fishing; the addition of tle next oie 
made 16 feet, and was Océasiotially Very iSeful, for wide; 
shallow stieams or mill ponds, and the butt; whieh addled; 
faye ine long pickerel rod.. _ ; 

course Thad no reel-seat, but a few feet of strong cord 
or old linen line, and a few minutes’ work, would fix the 
reel firmly to either joint. 

The original tip came to grief against a stump, in an 
alder swamp in Maine, while I was endeavoring to keep the 
mosquitoes off with my left hand, and also trying to ayoid 
getting over boot-tops in the mud, 

An old lancewood tip, from an older rod, was then spliced 
on and lasted for some years, until it met with a somewhat 
similar mishap, aud was finally replaced by a foot of whale: 
bone which Lworked down from one of the ribs 6f an anti- 
deluvian umb¢ella, aiid which is still Gapable of good worl. 
To be sitre; it is not a fly-réd, but in most of 6ur moubiaill 
brooks a fly-rod is of no use, and we have to depend on the 
primitive mud worn. 

Th all this long service only one ferrule has worn loose, 
and that might be easily tightened if I did not always forget 
it, so that when I get out on a stream and put my rod to 
gether I usually wrap that ferrule with one thickness of thin 
paper. 

{ have not used the rod much the last six years, except for 
trolling and bass fishing, as the charms of a light split bamboo 
have caused it to be honorably retircd, for the good it has 
done, but I mention it now in evidence of the truth of Mr, 
Wells’s theory, that dowels are non-essential, and I also 
fully believe them to be detrimental to the strength of a red, 
as | broke one of my split bamboos two yeats ago, just be= 
low the butt ferrule, in the endeavor to disengage the hook 
from a sunken log, Where a malicious black bass had left it, 
too deep under walter to be reached by hand. 

SAMUEL WEBBER. 


and guides 


LAWRENCE, Mass., April 5. 


TROUTING ON THE BIGOSH., 
THE COLONEL’S STORY, 


A HEAVY shower kept usin camp in the morning for 

over au hour, and as we sat in our dry bough shanty 
the Doctor turned to the Colonel and asked: ‘How did you 
pass the day, yesterday, while we were wading the stream?” 

‘Jack and I took a few trout.” 

“Lakers, I suppose; lugged them up from the bottom, 
much as one pulls up a water-soaked stick that his hoolk has 
fastened to, and can’t tell whether it be stick ti: 1 Oat until 
it heaves in sight,” ax ra 

“That uncertainty,” answered the Colonel, “is what gives 
variety to the sport. If variety is the spice of life, then un- 
certainty is the salt whith gives the relish. It is the uncer- 
tainty whether it will cost seventy-five cents or a dollar 
a picce to raise turnips, which makes amateur farming so at- 
tractive to the city merchant, and this refiinds me that Cape 
Cod is the most charming agricultural country in the world, 
They are always sure of a crop, but there is the delightful 
uncertainty before the spade is put in the groundswhether 
it will be potatoes or clams. But you are wrong in your 
guess, Doctor, we took some fine trout here in the luke. 
We found a spring hole and fished it from the boat,” 

I groaned audibly. There I had been, climbing logs and 
forging through thickets, to reach a stream which I missed, 
and merely to keep the Doctor company, getting wet and 
having no luck, while the Colonel and his son had_ struck 
good fishing from a comfortable boat, where we did not 
even think of finding brook trout. ‘*Where is this spring?’ 
L asked. 

“If is about six boat lengths to the east of the big sycamore 
across there, aud about the same distance from the shore, 
After you had gone we rigged up our fly-rods and rowed 
across the lake on a voyage of discovery, and going along 
shore carefully and casting ahead of the boat tosee if chuba, 
trout, or dace would rise, | hooked a small trout, About 

| twenty feet in advance of where he rose we could see a slight 
boiling motion to the water, and I told Jack that we had 
found aspring hole and might get some good trout. I let 
the little fish go backin the water, and Jack was for rowing 
right up where we could cast into the center of the spring at 
once, J explained to him that such a course would frighten 
all the fish in the pool as soon as the first one was hooked, 
and that we had best stop where we were and fish carefully 
all around the spring, and pick off those on the outside 1st, 
He saw the point, and we arranged that one should take the 
oars While the other cast, and as soon as a trout was hooked 
the boat should be pulled from the hole, so as not to disturb the 
inhabitants of it by allowing them to witness the plunging of 
their friends at the end of the linc. After a capture we 
would change positions. We worked in this way until about. 
9 o’clock, full three how's, and took in that time thirty 
trout, of which we returned to the laketwenty-one that were 
under six ounces in weight. Here are the others, nine trout,, 
whose united ayoirdupois is four and a half pounds, just 
enough for dinner,” ~ 

“Tt was too bad to put all those trout back,” said Jack; 
“they would have made a nice show and were big enough to 
eat, every one of them, but father insisted on it, and that 
settled it.” 

“it is very hard,” said the Colonel, ‘“‘to make a boy under- 
stand that all life is sacred and should not be wantonly de- 
stroyed. The desire to kill seems to be part of our Anglo- 
Saxon heritage. The Frenchman who said that when an 
Englishman asked his‘friend what they should do to enjoy 
the morning, was answered, ‘Let us go and kill something, 
struck many a bird with asingle stone, and especially our 
ounger men and boys. Not that boys in all ages are not 

he same, but I mean to say that the older we get the mi 


ital 


wea Cn  ——_—_—_ 
we value life of all kinds, including our own, as something, 
which a can take but cannot give.” 

“Colonel,” said IJ, ‘“‘you have stated a fact that we all ac- 
knowledge as time passes, I remember, when a boy of 
twelve years old, that three of us borrowed a gun, an old 
‘musket, and went to the outskirts of the village to shoot 
‘rame.’ Wesaw alittle yellow bird on a thistle-top picking 
the seeds in a perfect sense of security, and, as the oldest, I 
claimed the right to shoot, Advancing behind the fence, I 
put the old musket through the rails and rested it‘on one of 
them, with the muzzle of the gun within ten feet of the little 
innocent, pulled the trigger, and then jumped the fence and 
exulted over a shattered mass of skin and feathers, which a 
moment before had been a living thing of beauty in the full 
enjoyment of life. O, had some sensible man, wearing a 
stout boot, been there, and liad he applied the boot impar- 
tially, he would have enforced a lesson that took years to 
learn in a slow way.” ; 

“True,” broke in the Doctor, ‘‘but having learned this 
lesson of the value of life by years of observation, and the 
ease with which it can be destroyed and the impossibility of 
restoring it, you are in duty bound to tvach this to the new 
crop of boys which is constantly coming to the front, and 
who are as thoughtless and heedless as you were.” 

“It’s no use,” said the Colonel, ‘there are many things 
that boys must learn for themselves. 
value of life. Some boys learn it at forty, some at fifty and 
some never seem to know that any life is of value except 
their own and that of their fellow man. I once talked with 
a man on the subject of shooting birds in the nesting season. 
He asked why he should not kill birds at any time he wished, 
and when I said that the idea of young birds starving in the 
nest should be enough to deter one from killing the parents, 
he brutally answered that their sufferings were nothing to 
him, he only considered his own wants. Of course, there is 
no more to be said to such a man, yet he was a professor in 
a German university.” 

“How many fish did Jack take?” 

‘Jack has not yet learned to give his line time enough be- 
hind him in retrieving and he snapped off seven flies, which 
lost him that number of chances, or our system of alternate 
fishing would have equalized our ¢atch. I made him lose 
his chance every time he lost his fly, hoping to make him 
more careful in future.” FRED MATHER. 


BLACK BASS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 


N article in the Worcester Spy, which from the style 

we think was written by our friend Mr. §. H. Coe, 

sums up the character of the black bass in all its qualities of 

game, table and other points. We make the following ex- 

tracts from it, though we do not agree with the writer on 

the odor of the black bass, which to us seems an agreeable 

weedy flavor, yet we do not care for them on the table. He 
Says: 

_Of the several towns in this vicinity which began experi 
menting with black bass, it isdoubtful if there is one which 
is fully satisfied with the result of the undertaking, Mendon 
Pond was one of the first to receive attention, through the 
efforts of a company of sportsmen, and they were among 
the first 10 be dissatisfied with the results attained, or rather 
the lack of results. There are bass, large ones too, to be 
seen in the waiers of the pond, but they defy the ingenuity 
of an angler and the dead-falls of the potter alike. Occasion- 
ally one can be taken by still-fishing with a mud worm, but 
there is no sport for a sportsman. Experiments were tried 
at Asnebunmskit, in Paxton, but the results have not been 
satisfactory. At Lake Chauncey, in Westboro, there has 
been a fair measure of success, and the same may be said of 
Crystal Lake, in Gardner, but at neither of these places has 
the outcome been what anticipation pictured. In Brookfield 
all has not been realized that was anticipated. In the Lynde 
Brook reservoir the fish were considered as doing well till 
the disaster of 1876, which carried away the dam, the 
waters behind the dam and the bass in the waters. Millbury is 
the last of the towns in this vicinity to make the experiment 
and the result is unsatisfactory. Webster was one of the 
first of the Worcester county towns to make the experiment 
and is satisfied with the resulis as far as numbers and sport 
are concerned. While the various towns have met with 
varying degrees of success, haye the bass been yet given a 
fair trial? 

An alien to New England waters it has been brought here 
and left to shift for itself. Turned loose among fresh-water 
sharks in waters abounding in other fish which prey not 
only upon their own, but the spawn of all other occupants of 
the same waters, has the bass experiment been tried under 
the most favorable circumstances? Once large enough it is 
well able to take care of itself, and it seems to be the verdict 
of all who have studied its habits that it is more of a fresh- 
water shark than the pickerel, and every half-pound pick- 
erel is looked upon as having eaten three times its weight in 
other fish. The bass has been here but a few years, hardly 
more than ten in the ponds first stocked. Other varieties, 
pickerel, perch and the like, in the waters where the bass 
have been introduced, have not held their own. All inter- 
ested seem to agree in testifying that they have diminished 
rapidly. 

And the black bass is the gamiest fish of its size that 
swims in any water, fresh or salt, It fights continuously 
from the time it is hooked till it is brought to net. It never 
sulks, like the salmon, and goes to the bottom after being 
hooked only when it sees a possible chance for escape among 
the rocks or weeds at the boitom of the pond or stream. A 
bass always forces the fighting, and is never upon the de- 
fensive. The m*ment heis hooked he comes to the surface, 
jumps clear of tue water, sometimes to a height of between 
two and three feet, and shakes himself vigorously while in 
the air, in the effort to dislodge the hook, Then he makes a 
Tush through the water for the same purpose, following the 
first with other rushes, and often breaking waie1 two and 
three times, and sometimes more, in his efforts to escape. 
Only when forced by sheer exhuustion to swim on his side, 
does he show signs of quitting, and then he usually has 
vitality enough left for another struggle in deep water when 

' he nears the beat. He seldom breaks water again after once 

turning upon his side. He is a better fighter than the trout, 

but the pleasure of catching him ends with the landing, A 

trout landed is beautiful to look at; to the enthusiastic 

sportsman there is no handsomer sight. The bass has noth- 
ing to recommend him in this direction, and he is the 
tenon Le found En fresh ot and admiration of 
his fighting qualities is often turne | disgust by the dis- 
gieeable odor he emits when being dghboRed ia 


~ For eae ke undesirable, because of the 


for iutroduetion in New England 
4 


Speer fiesh; but he has not grown coarse since he 
avori 


One of those is the |. 


7 will 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


* 

waters. He was as Coarse then as now, and under a coarse 
scale fine flesh is seldom found, especially when that scale is 
‘set into a skin tougher than that worn by any of the fish 
found in the waters of this vicinity, when the bass was in- 
troduced. But there is no bad taste about a bass. On the 
contrary, although coarse, it is sweet, with the added merit 
that the bones are large and easily detected. 

Even at Webster, where the bass is quite freely taken, his 
habits are not yet fully* understood, and he still defies the 
sportsman’s cunning, refusing many times to be taken after 
the latter has exhausted all his patience, drawn upon all his 
resources, and employed all the art he may possess. They 
seldom take an artificial fly, although on other Worcester 
county ponds they rise: fairly, and it is believed can be 
brought up by a ‘‘Ferguson” at any time in July or August. 
Sometimes a trolling spoon coaxes them to strike, but it is 
never sure. A common mud worm is good at times, but 
fails often. Grasshoppers are good to-day, useless to-morrow. 
Live bait users tell the same story. Bass are not strong 
biters as a rule, showing their strength only when hooked. 
Then coolness, judgment, skill and good tackle are necessary, 
or the bass, no matter how securely he may be hooked, has 
a good chance for escape. Whether using artificial or 
natural bait he can be handled best with a fly-rod and click 
reel, 

The Fish Commissioners do not abandon the bass, although 
many who have taken the trouble to introduce them do. It 
may be possible that they have done so hastily. It is cer- 
tain that there is more sport taking black bass than any 
other kind of fresh-water fish, and if taken for sport alone 
there is no reason for finding fault with him. For food he 
is as desirable as when the experiments were begun. He has 
not increased in numbers as fast as was anticipated, but has 
time enough elapsed to make the experiments thorough? In 
size he excels any fish that will live in ponds im this vicinity, 
specimens weighing two pounds being freely taken, with 
those weighing three and four not infrequent, while occa- 
sionally those weighing five or six pounds are captured. 
The friends of the bass say give him a chance and you will 
be satisfied, while the sportsmen admit that for sport he is 
unequalled. The raising of any fish in fresh water for 
profit save trout in very retired localities, is out of the ques- 
tion. Is not the bass, the sportsmen’s delight, then, prefer- 
able to perch or pickerel? 


THE DUBLIN POND TROUT. 


Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Director U. S. National Musewn: 

Sirn—With reference to the trout recently received from 
Mr. Walter J. Greenwood, fish and game warden, Dublin, 
N. H., I have the following communication to make: These 
trout have also been made the subject ofa letter to Mr. 
Richardson from Mr. J, H. Kimball, of Hillsboro, N. H. 
They have been referred to, also, in the Boston Journal of 
March 22, under the title of ‘Dublin Trout,” and are also 
mentioned in ForEsT AND STREAM of March 27, 1884, page 
170, second column, under the title ‘‘A Peculiar Fish.” 

After a careful examination of the individuals received 
from Mr. Greenwood, I arrived at the conclusion that they 
are the common brook tront, Salvelinus fontinalis, diflering 
in no respects, so far as I can see, from the usual type of the 
species, excepting in their pale coloration and few vermilion 
spots—variations which I have frequently observed in trout 
from widely different localities. In ordér to aid in deter- 
mining the species, I record the following characters of the 
Monadnock lake trout: 

It is a Salvelinus without hyoid teeth. The gill rakers are 
fifteen to sixteen in number; there are about 115 tubes in the 
lateral line, the number of rows of scales, of course, being 
much greater. The eye equals the snout in length, and is 
contained four and one-half times in the length of the head. 
The maxilla reaches a little beyond the vertical from the pos- 
terior margin of the orbit, and is nearly one-half as long as 
the head, The origin of the dorsal is nearly midway 
between the tip of the snout and the root of the upper caudal 
lobe. The length of the pectoral is one-sixth of the total 
without caudal. Dorsal ten; anal ten, Coloration silvery- 
gray on the upper parts, whitish below; pectorals, ventrals, 
and anal, largely vermilion; vermilion spots on the sides few 
in number. TARLETON H. Brean, 

Curator, Dept. of Fishes, U, 5, National Museum. 

WasuHineton, April 5, 1884. 


“BIRCH LAKE PERCH.” 


LETTER from ‘“§. E. B.” appeared in these columns 
two weeks since deprecating the wholesale destruction 
of fish in Michigan lakes by netting and fishing with hook 
and line through the ice. Although ‘‘S. E. B.” is ‘away 
off” as regards the law and also as regards the location of 
‘Birch Lake,” still his strictures are timely, and his inten- 
tions evidently are to do good, The clause he quotes as 
from the laws of Michigan, however, is not to be found in 
them anywhere, while his suspicion that ‘‘Birch Lake” is a 
misnomer for some Northern Michigan sheet of water is 
altogether unjust. Mr. Gillman has never heard of *‘Birch 
Lake”; never fished it to his knowledge; in fact is surprised 
to have ‘‘S. E. B.” quote him as knowing its whereabouts. 
And as Mr, G. has never been in Manitoba, I don’t wonder 
at his ignorance of the lake; for ‘‘Birch Lake,” beit known, 
is but another name for Lake Winnipeg or a small lake near 
Lake Winnipeg. At all events, seventeen car loads of fish 
have been brought down from Manitoba by the Buffalo firm 
that our skeptical brother thinks alsoa myth. Of the seven- 
teen car loads three or four have been distributed by Detroit 
parties, who acted as agents for the Buffalo firm, in Michi- 
gan, Ohio and Indiana. 

The fish were of the variety called shoyel-uose pike, and 
ran remarkably even as regards size and weight, averaging 
from three pounds to five pounds each. None were larger 
than five pounds and few less than three pounds. They were 
caught by Indians who fished through the ice with hooks 
and lines, and the fish were nearly incredibly voracious and 
recs They bit at anything dropped in the water, and 
could be jerked out as fast as one pleased. Caught in.a tem- 
perature of 2()to 40 degrees below zero they froze at once, 
and then were hauled nearly 100 miles to a railroad, where 
they were packed in cars, or rather corded up like so many 
sticks of wood. Upon the arrival in Buffalo or Detroit, the 
inside of the car would be found literally covered with frost 
and the fish as solid us ice. Arriving as they did in superb 
condition, they met with ready sale, and the meat moreover 
was pink in color, and like nearly all the fish from the north- 
ern lakes, very palatable. 

When the first lot reached Buffalo, the question with the 

fish firm was, what shall we call them, and then the Birch 


Lake name was pitched upon aud they were called ‘‘Birch ' 4¢ 


Lake Perch.” Anything to make them sell, you know. The 
season is now by for them. At any rate, a carload, Iam 
told, went begging for a purchaser last week in Chicago. 

So much for Birch Lake, but after all I don’t wonder that 
“8. E. B.” is skeptical, or that be apparently has great con- 
fidence in the contents of our Michigan lakes to feed the mul- 
titude, at least for a while. Had he not the confidence he 
would never have imagined that Birch Lake, from which 
seventeen full carloads of fish haye been taken inside a few 
weeks with hooks and lines, was situated in Michigan. He 
knows perhaps a few lakes as [ do that might pan out nearly 
as well. I took the pains to ascertain the above facts, and 
my authority is undoubted for declaring that “S. E. B.” is 
all wrong in the conjectures he made. His letter won't do 
any harm, however, for our Michigan fish are certainly 


greatly lessened in numbers yearly. DELTA. 
Detroit, April 12, 1884. 
FISHING THROUGH THE ICE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of March 20 is an article on fishing through 
the ice. Now let me say, and I speak from actual knowl- 
edge, it is a mistaken idea that fishing through the ice lessens 
the amount of fish taken by the rod during the summer. I 
know of several large ponds that have been fished through 
the ice thoroughly for years, and the supply seemed to be 
inexhaustible. Ten years ago they were stocked with black 
bass, and fishing wus prohibited for seven years. Since that 
time it is almost impossible to get many fish, while other 
ponds of small area haye been thoroughly fished, winter and 
summer, and now yield good strings of good-sized pickerel 
in only a few hours’ fishing. The facts are thut ihe large 
fish eat up the small ones, and that is the whole secret. LI 
say if a man wants to freeze up and fish through the ice and 
catch the large ones, let him do so, and then in the summer 
he can have better sport than if no traps were used through 
the ice. 

A few years ago, while fishing for trout in the early spring 
at Rangeley Lake, a party of three of us caught in one hour 
thirteen trout that averaged four and a half pounds apiece, 
on ground that had been thoroughly fished through the ice 
all winter, and I hooked one and took from his stomach a 
dace, or chub, that was over a foot long, that was partly 
digested. Fortunately for the fish, but unfortunately for me, 
it hooked in his dinner instead of his stomach. 

8. P. Huspuarp, M.D. 

[When we wrote the article in question we were under the 
impression that if a pond contained a certain number of fish 
alter the season’s fishing, all those taken through the ice 
would necessarily be subtracted from that number. We now 
see that a lake which is thoroughly fished through the ice all 
winter is not robbed of its fish, because only the big ones are 
taken, and the fingerlings grow to take the places of the cap- 
tured ones in a few weeks. The results of fishing in the 
Rangeley Lakes, as quoted by our correspondent, are con- 
vincing, and instead of propagating fish to stock these waters, 
it will be well for the Commissioners of Fisheries to have 
them thoroughly fished through the ice each winter. } 


TENNESSEE NOTES. 


HE angling season began in earnest on the ist of April, 
and already a number of parties have been out to the 
various streams of Middle Tennessee. Ben McCann, Ander- 
son Crosswaite and four others returned from White Oak on 
the 7th, having had royal sport each day they were there. 
General Ira P. Jones had a splendid day in the preserved 
waters of the Rockvale Club, at Turnbull. Hermann Burk- 
holz, Jim Palmer and Jack Bentley are at present on the 
banks of South Harpeth, and Messrs, Eugene and Allert 
left for Buitalo to-day. 

Besides the above, hundreds of less well-fixed disciples do 
White’s and Mill creeks, bringing home very creditable 
creels, It is generally conceded that the streams are more 
abundantly supplied with fish this year than any within the 
last ten. Jam glad to learn, from every section of the State, 
that the feeling in favor of enforcing the protective laws is 
gradually growing stronger. This is all that is necessary; 
for, situated as is this favored region, millions of fine fish 
from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers will annually 
seek spawning grounds in those of their ixibutaries which 
rise in or run through it. 

Mr. Warner is succeeding admirably at his trout hatch- 
eries near Craggie Hope, in Cheatham county. Hitherto he 
has imported the spawn (to be hatched) from the North, but 
last year he stripped a number of his native bred fish, and 
their spawn came to maturity and yielded a large percentage 
of healthy fry. There are a great many localities in the 
State where an abundance of sufliciently cold water can be 
found, to establish even larger hatcheries than the one above 
mentioned, and it is safe to predict their early utilization 
since Mr. Warner has practicaily tested the feasibility of the 
industry. 

It is amusing to read the various opinions as expressed 
with reference to the German carp as a food fish. It has 
been considered a delicacy in Europe for the past 1,000 years, 
and is so much in demand at present, that carp pond projects 
(on colossal scales) form the theme of hundreds of newspaper 
items. Compared to the flesh of the salmon, trout and bass, 
or red snapper, Spanish mackerel, pompano, sheepshead, or 
codfish, it is less firm and savory, but then there are thous- 
ands of persons who cannot enjoy the pleasure of eating 
them, while the carp can be raised anywhere and in un- 
limited quantities, and serves as un elegant substitute for the 
more delicious varieties named, J.D. H. 


New Law mw lowa.—The lowa Legislature has enacted a 
law preventing the spearing of fish m any of the permanent 
lakes or ponds or outlets or inlets thereto within the State, 
between the first day of November and the thirty-first day of 
May next following. The sale of fish so taken is made un- 
lawful. Any person who may draw from the water any 
game fish, such as pike, bass and the like, when seiaing for 
minnows for bait, shall return the same without injury 
under the penalties of this act. 


Tue Aprronpacks.—April 10.—lt may be interesting to 
Adirondack fishermen to know that a letter with date of 
8th inst. has just been received from Blue Mountain Lake, 
Hamilton county, N. Y., which says, ‘‘Sleighing is good as 
any time this winter, and the ice in the lake istwo and one- 
half feet in thickness.’—T. §. 8. 


_—_——S 
THE Limirep Payment Pourciss of the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., 


concentrate payments into the working years of a man’s life, and 
leave him free from all worry in his later years even if helpless.— 
uy 
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ee 


230 FOREST AND STREAM. fArrm 17, 1884, 


$2.50, In 1885, you may expect a large run of salmon up the 
Merrimack River, and an increasing run yearly afterward. 
Massachusetts, besides sustaining one-half of the expense of 
supporting the hatching-house at Plymouth, has paid out $500 
yearly for salmon spawn. Last year, at the annual meeting 
of the League, I suggested that a committee be appointed to 
visit and examine the fishways along the line of the Merrimack 


Hishculture, 


cial BYChAE AOE ot shad in the Hackensack River, are worthy 
of the highest praise. There is but little doubt that these 


efforts will result in a largely increased annual run of smelt in 
that river.” 


NEW HAMPSHIRE. 


es 


DEATH OF EDWARD M, SMITH.—A telecram to the 


A T the recent meeting of the Fish and Game League Mr, E, 

B. Hodge, Fish Commissioner of New Hampshire, was 
called upon and spoke as follows: 

“Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Fish and Game League: 
I will endeavor, in as brief a manner as possible, to give you 
a short review of our work during the past year. Since our 
Jast meeting the Commissioners of Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire have planted 400,000 salmon fry in the Pemige- 
wasseb River. We haye nowinthe hatchery at Plymouth 
600,000 exes of Penobscot salmon, which will constitute the 


River. We have a population on the lower part of the river 
who are determined to hreak down our laws for the protec- 
tion of fish in this stream. I have no question that when peéo- 
ple begin to understand the cultivation of carp that they will 


enter upon their encouragement. Thespeaker closed by mak- 
ing an appeal that the men residing on the lower Merrimack 
be given no encouragement in their efforts to do away with 


the laws regulating the catching of fish, 


Rochester papers, dated London, April 12, says: ‘Mr. Edward 
M. Smith, American Consul at Merinheing, dred of apoplexy, 
last evening,” Mr. Smith was one of the Board of Fish Com_ 
missioners of New York for a number of years, At the time 
of his death he was on his way from Mannheim to Liverpool 
from which place he was to sail for home on the 15th of this 
month, He was fifty-three years of age, and had held many 
ositions of trust in Rochester, and for the past four years 
ad resided abroad in connection with his duties as consul, 


plant for this year. There were not as many salmon taken 
at Plymouth last season as in 1882, as the water was so low in 
September that the usual fall run did not reach there, I think 
that the usual number came over the fishway at Lawrence, 
but it was impossible for them to pass the falls here and at 
Bristol. The salmon taken at Plymouth, with two exceptions, 
were unusually large, the two exceptions were yery small fish, 
seven to eight pounds, and most likely of the plant of 1880, 
“From my observation ot the young salmon in the Pemige- 


REPORT OF THE NEW JERSEY COMMISSION. 


\ \ Je have the report of the Fish Commission of New Jersey 
covering the operations of 1879 and 1883. For some 
time preceding the death of Commissioner Howell, he had in 
ie a on an elaborate report upon the shad fisheries in the 
elaware River, which branch of the State fishing interests 
was especially committed to his care, and te which he had 
consequently giyen more attention than any other member of 


Che Hennel. 


. FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


wasset, I find that a part of them go down to the sea when 
one year old, the main body at two years of age and the 
small remainder at three years. 

“The habits of the salmon after they reach the sea are en- 
veloped in mystery. Two years ago the run of salmon in the 
rivers at the head of the bay Chaleur was very light, and the 
fishermen said that it was owing to the government hatching 
on the Restigouche. But the last season they came back in 
large numbers, and the catch on the Restigouche, Matipedia 
and Cosopsicul was much larger than for many years. From 
the large number of parr and smolt in the river the past three 
years. 1 feel confident that the only difficulty in restoring the 
salmon to the Merrimack is the want of water in the river. 
The volume of water in the Pemigewasset during the summer 
months of the past three years has not been over one-half as 
large as it was six and seyen years ago. The falling off can- 
not be attributed to the cutting away of the forests, for in 
that valley there is a larger area of woodland than there was 
twenty-five years ago, and the main part of the river comes 
from an unbroken forest not yet disturbed by the ax of the 
lumberman, butis due to causes over which man has no con- 
tro], and as one extreme always follows another the series of 
dry years through which we are passing will undoubtedly be 
followed by a series of wet ones, when success is certain to re- 
ward our labors in this matter, 

“Last year at this time we had in the hatchery 125,000 eggs 
of the land-locked salmon. The young fry were distributed as 
follows: Roxbury, 5,000; Hancock, 5,000; Andover, 5,000; 
Squam Lake, 10,000; Haverhill, 5,000; near Manchester, 15,000; 
Newfound Lake, 15,000; near Laconia, 5,000; Hillsborough, 
5,000; Francestown, 5,000; Sunapee, 15,000; Pittsfield, 5,000; 
in the eastern part of the State, 25,000. We haye now in the 
hatchery 120,000; they will be ready for distribution in June. 
Weare getting good reports from the various parts of the 
State where they haye been planted, and in some places the 
growth has been extraordinary, reaching fifteen pounds in 
six years. We received from the U.S, Fish Commissioner, 
through the courtesy of Prof. Baird, 260,000 whitefish eggs. 
The young fry were planted in Newfound Lake. We have 
the same number this year from the same source. Itis only 
an experiment, but as it costs only the express charges on the 
eggs it is well worth trying. 

“Hifty thousand brook trout were distributed last year, and 
we shall have 125,000 ready in May and June for this year’s 
plant. During the past year over 2,000 trout have been added 
to the stock in the ponds at the hatchery, and 5,000 more will 
be added this season. It is the intention of the Commissioners 
to extend the cultivation of the trout as rapidly as possible, 
so that in ashort time we can have a million of young fry 
instead of 100,000 or so as at present. but of course it will take 
time to callect and raise a stock of breeders in this work as in 
everything else of the kind. 

“We have also 100,000 eggs of the Lake Superior trout. 
These fish are of the red flesh variety, and are beyond a doubt 
the finest of aJl the lake trout species. Ihave made some ex- 
periments that haye never been attemped before in fishcul- 
ture. Impregnating the eggs of the brook trout with the milt 
of the Saibling or German trout, Penobscot salmon eggs with 
the brook trout, Penobscot salmon eggs with the California 
salmon. I am in hopes that the cross between the brook 
gohg aut Saibling will produce a fish that will breed and neta 
hybrid. 

“The senseless cry against the black bass has died out, and 
people are beginning to find that they are a great addition to 
our game fishes. 

“And now while we are doing all we can to increase the 
supply of food fishes by introducing new varieties and propa- 
gating our native fish, there is a large class of men that are 
doing all they can to destroy and exterminate not only the 
fish, but whatlittle is left of our game, Our laws are ample 
as far as laws gO, to protect our game and fish, but the difii- 
culty lies in enforcing them. One reason is that it takes more 
direct evidence to convict a poacher than it does to conyict a 
man of murder. In Lake Winnipesaukee hundreds of trout 
are destroyed on their spawning beds every year with spears 
and nets; yet it is almost impossible to obtain evidence against 
the guilty parties, There are some that think that itis a dis- 
grace to furnish information of the violationof the game laws, 
and in many cases they are afraid to doso. For my own part 
I believe it to be as much the duty of every person to give in- 
formation to the proper parties of the violation of any of the 
game laws that may come to his knowledge, as it would be to 
furnish information of the violation of any of the laws upon 
our statute books, The Commissioners are willing to enforce 
the laws against any one, no matter who, provided they can 
get evidence that will convict; and we ask and urge all to take 
hold and help us inthe matter, 

“Tn this State during the months of December, January, 
February and March oyer 200 deer, 1 moose and 1 caribou 
have been killed illegally, and some of them by parties who 
think that their social position will prevent proceedings being 
instituted against them. 

“And now, gentlemen of this League, allow me to urge the 
necessity of haying help from you. In this State we have no 
State police that the Governor can place at our service to aid 
us in enforcing the law, We are compelled to rely upon our- 
selves, and it is impossible for us unaided to prevent violations 
of the lay in our 240 towns, - 

“Tn many parts of the State a sentiment is fast growing that 
we must enforce our laws if we wish to have either fish or 
game left, orremove the game laws from our statute book 
and give a man who is willing ta observe, or who is afraid to 
yiolate them, an equal chance with those who snare our part- 
ridges, spear our fish on their spawning beds, and cut the 
throats of the deer on our mountains when deep snow renders 
escape impossible from the ruthless hand of the cruel hunter. 

“T do not believe that the people of this State are willing to 
do the latter, and as long as our laws remain as they are, the 
Commissioners will use every means in their power to enforce 
them. And we ask not only the co-operation of the members 
of this League, which indirectly as well as directly in the 
years past, has done a good work in this matter, but of, every 
sportsman and law-abiding citizen to take hold and help us,” 

Mr. Ei. A. Brackett, one of the Fish Commissioners of Massa- 
chusetts, gave a brief history of the moyement which sprang 
up favoring the construction of 3S ee along the line of the 
Merrimack River, and of the early @fforte of the Commissioners 
to secure salmon for the restoeking of the river, The cost of 
securing salmon, which was $40 in gold, we have reduced to 


the Commission. By reason of his death that report was 
neyer completed, and the presentation of a full report of the 
Commission was necessarily postponed to 
permit of the collection of the data requisite for the prepar- 
ation of the report herewith presented, which, while it will 
aim to give a comprehensive view of the work of the Com- 
mission, will of necessity lack the completeness of detail and 
the full statistical information which would have character- 
ized Dr, Hovell’s account of that branch of the work which 
was under his particular care. 

The ordinary work of the Commission consists of a super- 
vision of the wardens of the several counties, in the perform- 
ance of their duticrs in enforcing the laws regulating and 
governing the times, seasons, and modes of taking fish; and 
through the judicious legislation of the past few years, sup- 
plemented by a vigorous enforcement of the laws, they haye 

ad the gratification of seeing immense benefit to our coast 
a8 river fisheries, in an annual increase in the catch of food 

shes, 

Much attention hasbeen given to the enforcement of the 
law relative to close time, affecting the shad fisheries on the 
Delaware River below Trenton. These fisheries employ more 
capital, provide employment for more men, and furnish a 
greater amount of food fish, than the fisheries of any other 
section of the State, and although they are not usually in active 
operation for more than three months in the year, constitute 
an industry whichis of immense importance to the citizens of 
the counties bordering upon the Delaware River, 
been possible to procure perfectly accurate returns of the 
number of shad taken from the Delaware River each year, 
although the wardens of the several counties have made every 
effort to procure reliable information. Many of the fishermen 
being residents of the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware, 
but little can be learned of the catch made by them. In the 
report of the Commission for 1878, it is stated that, from the 
data available, it appeared that the whole nurober of market- 
able fish taken during the three months of the fishing season 
was about 7,000, and that the value of this product, at the 
prices realized, was $175,000. In each of the two succeeding 
years there was an increase of about 200,000 fish over the 
year before, and in 1881 the increase was so great ns it is 

n the 
opinion of the Commissioners, this great increase in the value 
of the important industry is due to the vigilant enforcement of 
the laws respecting close time, and to the effects of artificial 


operations of the 


estimated that at least 1,400,000 fish were taken, 


propagation. 
The operations of the present and former Commissioners, in 


connection with the attempis to stock the Delaware with sal- 


mon, were set forth with considerable detail inthe last report, 
Efforts had been made by the United States Fish Commission, 
for some years preyious to the appointment of the present 
New Jersey Commission, to stock the Delaware with this most 


Commissioner, was deeply impressed with the possibility of 
accomplishing this desirable result. During the four years 
included between 1879 and 1882, there were 1,121,200 salmon 
fry planted in the Delaware and its tributaries, 
were California salmon and part were the Penobscot species. 
No attempt has been made to capture any adult salmon which 
may have returned to the river, and it was not expected that 
they would make their re-appearance until four or five years 
alter they were placed in the stream. In the spring and sum- 
mer of 1877, however, six or seven fish were taken in shad 
nets at different pots on the river. They were medium- 
sized fish, averaging about ten pounds, but had evidently been 
to the sea and returned to the river to deposit theireggs, This 
was deemed highly encouraging, and the next season was 
looked forward to with much anxiety, by those who were 
interested in fishculture, and who appreciated the immense 
importance of the success of the efforts to establish this 
valuable fish in the rivers of the State. In 1882, the plantings 
were discontinued, notwithstanding the offers of the United 
States Commissioner to continue the annual shipments of 1m- 
pregnated ova, Prof. Baird, in correspondence with the 
State Commission, expressed himself in favor of a continuation 
of the work, and as strongly of the opinion that it would yet 
proye successful. It is now being carried on, the Commission- 
ers believe, under his auspices, by the Fish Commissioners of 
Pennsylvania, but in yiew of the meagre results which had 
been attained, and the uncertainty as to the future, the Com- 
missioners of New Jersey did not feel justified in continuing 
the annual expenditure involved in hatching and distributing 
the fish. The Commissioners say that it would be idle, or at 
least prefitless, to speculate upon the causes which operate to 
render these efforts unsuccessful. The well known instinct 
which impels anadromous fishes to seek, at the spawning sea- 
son, the head-waters of the streams in which they originated, 
was relied upon te bring an annual run of salmon into the 
rivers of the State, and many theories have been advanced in 
explanation of the failure of the habit in this case, but these 
theories are necessarily not capable of being reduced to a cer- 
tainty. In the opinion of the Commissioners, the most pro- 
bable explanation is, that in the late summer and early 
autumn, the waters of the Delaware are usually very low, and 
of a higher temperature than that of rivers to which the sal- 
mon is indigenous, and for this reason the fish haye been de- 
terred from ascending the stream, and have sought more con- 
genial spawning grounds, . : 

The efforts of the Commission to restore the partially de- 

leted trout streams of the State have been continued, and 

ees met with a cheering measure of success. There was 
Janted in 1879, 169,800 brook trout; in 1880, 155,000; and in 
881, 93,500, 

Since the date of the last report, they have distributed 22,- 
420 black bass and 98,192 land-locked salmon. 

Of smelt the report says: ‘Many attempts have been made 
to increase the production of the smelt fisheries by artificial 
propagation, and it has been found to be ephely pranwealis 
to procure impregnated ova and hatch the iish, but, on 
account of their infinitesimal size, it has proved difficult to 
contine and care for the fry until they are of a suitable age to 
be liberated in the stream, Mr. George Ricardo, fish warden 
of Bergen county, has probably more nearly succeeded in 
overcoming the difficulties in the way of smelt propagation 
than any other experimenter, and, by a device of his own, he 
has been able to add many millions of young fish to the supply 
in the Hackensack River. Mr. Ricardois an enthusiastic fs 
culturist, and his ingenious efforts to restore the productive- 
ness of the smelt fisheries, as well as his services in the artifi- 


It has not 


valuable fish, and Prof. Spencer F. Baird, United States Fish 


art of which 


sh 


April 22.—The St, Louis Gun Club’s Beneh Show, St, Louis, Mo 
Entries close April i4. J, M. Munson, Secretary. , 

May 6, 7, 8 and 9—The Westminster Kennel Club’s Hizhth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. (has, 
oe BUpeaeS een R. C, Cornell, Seeretary, 54 William street, 

ew York. 


A. K. R. 

4s AMERICAN KENNEL RHGISTER, for the registration of 

pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist, Should be in early. 
Eniry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
‘American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2852, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1115, Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50, 


EASTERN FiELD TRIALS CLUB. 


Ta meeting of the Board of Goyernors of the Hastern 
Fieid Trials Club, held at Delmonico’s,on Tuesday evening 
April 8, it was voted that the Memnbers’ Stake and the All-Aged 
Stakes close Oct, 1. The prizes and conditions for the Mem- 
bers’ Stake are the same as last year, the judges will be 
selected from members of the club, if available, by the nomin- 
ators the evening pone tothe running. There will be two 
All-Aged Stakes this year, one for pointers and one for setters. 
The purse in each event will be $400, with $250 to first and 
$150 to second. Forfeit $10 with $15 additional to fill. Open 
to all pointers and setters which have not won first prize in any 
All-Aged Stake or any special pointer cup. There will also be 
a special champion sweepstake, to close after the finish of the 
All-Aged Stake, with $50 entrance and $200 added by the club, 
allto go to the winner. Open to all first prize winners in any 
All-Aged Stake, and to winners of any special pointer cup. 
Three dogs, the property of different owners, must enter to 
fill. The order of running will be as follows; The Members’ 
Stake, the All-Aged pointer stakes, the All- Aged setter stakes, 
the champion sweepstake, closmg with the Derby, In re- 
sponse to a request for instructions as to the distribution of the 
donation of the club to the schools at High Point, to which a 
member generously added $50, it was voted that Mayor 
Snow and Prof, W. A. Blair be requested to distribute the 
same as they may think best among the schools that are situ- 
ated within 500 yards of the grounds used by the club at the 
trials, The revised running rules, as soon as printed, will be 
sent to applicants. 


NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


ditor Forest and Stream: 

Arrangements haye been completed with all the express 
companies to return dogs free of charge, providing they have 
prepaid the usual rates tothe show. Nearly all the railroad 
companies will carry dope free when accompanied by their 
owners or care-bakers, For dogs coming over the Hrie Rail- 
road their owners must apply for a pass for the same to Mr. 
Jno, Abbott, general passenger agent, Cortlandt street, N. Y. 

Tt has been decided to leave the entries open for the sweep- 
stakes prizes until 12 o’clock at noon on the first day of the 
show, but all entries for the regular classes close on the 21st 
inst. Following are additional special prizes: Silver cup, 
value $100, for best fox-terrier, dog or bitch, in the show. 
Silver cup, value $100, for best pair of bulldogs. $10 cash or 
silver mcdal for best collie dog, sired by champion Robin 
Adgir or Tweed I. $10 cash or silver medal for best collie 
bitch, sired by champion Robin Adair or Tweed Il, $25 cash 
for best-looking setter dog or bitch, placed in field trial in 
England or America, the Westminster Kennel Club to be 
allowed to compete. $25 cash for best-looking pointer dog or 
bitch, placed in field trial in America or England, the West- 
minster Kennel Club to be allowed to compete. Large framed 
photograph from Mr. J. M. Tracy’s picture, “The Haster 
Field Trials,” for best pair of pointers, Large framed photo- 
eraph from Mr. J, M. Tracy’s picture of “Dog Talk,” for best 
brace of English setters. Silver medal for best brace of Ivish 
setter puppies of same litter. For best English setter dog or 
bitch, over twelve and under eighteen montlis old, a valuable 
solid silver flask, suitably engraved. #20 cash itor the best 
trained setter or pointer, which has been trained by the 
methods laid down in ‘‘Training ys. Breaking.” 

Messrs. Sterling and Higgins, assisted by some one selected 
by them, will judge the pointer and English setter sweep- 
stakes. Cras, Linconn, Sup’t. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES, 


XO begin where Ileft off. [have not seen my namesake 
if uoted in the betting since I posted my last notes, but I 
Berby Day, Lillibulero in every- 
body’s mouth, as it was in the year 1683, when all the King's 
army were singing “Lillibulero and Bullen-a-lah.* 
So the truth is out, We now know why the Rev. A. Carter 
gave £300 for the smooth St. Bernard bitch Leila, She has 
been transferred to the American purchaser of Rector, for 
whom the same figure was paid. r J 
T could not understand an Englishman paying such a price 
for a bitch, as he stood no chance of ever seeing his money 
back. After all this very tall dog deine and chiefly on the 
part of Kennel Club men, I hope, we shall hear no more silly 
sneers at aman for turning to a profitable account his judg- 
ment and experience, both of which he may haye acquired 
dearly in cash and time. 4 ; 
The same thing is daily done by gentlemen with horses and 
cattle, then why should it be infra dig, to do a “deal” in dogs 
or birds when the opportunity occurs? Smooth-coated St. Ber- 
nards are not se valuable as rough, but Leila is by far tha 
handsomest specimen of the type. She has, [think, won the 
Challenge Cup twice. ‘ 
mibapeiae the prices that have been given for Rector and 
Leila, £250 was cheap for Leonard, and Mr. J, FP. Smith has a 
bargain, I have heard that the great Thor onee changed hands 
at £300, I should like to Buy. his equal at stud for the same 
rice. From a show point of yiew, he was not a wonder, but 
is stock, Hector, Uscar, Avalauche, Abbess, and many other 
Biauts proved where his value lay. in 


himself a mangy old brute and of very unc 
ae Fo. considerable source eet incom 
“ —_ 
s 


don’t despair of hearing, on 


temper, His stud fees were a 


Da tm Coa ee 
j ecessive owners—Murchison, Stiff, Mackillop, Mont- 
 Gomery, ete,and it was probably ue to the heartless use 
- madeof his services that his nature became soured. = 
He died in the possession of the father of the breed in this 
country, the Rey, Cumming Macdona, in whose grounds he 
‘obtained an honorable burial. But enough of St. Bernards, or 
my readers may mistake ‘‘Lillibulero” for the man who once 
had a name in the breed and was lately a reporter of the Live 
Stock Journal, 
_ The ehtries have closed for the Warwick show, and I shall 
be on the lookout for any wonders that may make their first 
_ appearance there. I will give a full description of them in this 
column. : 

Last year the collies were in great force, and we may expect 
the champion class to be of unusual interest this time, as 10 is 
organized on the sweepstake principle. The meeting of several 
champions is always interesting. Collie men are speculating 
upon the chances of Eclipse turning up to win the spurs. He 
has sulked since Edinburgh, they say. I saw in the office this 
morning the American Kennel Register, with a picture of this 
dog on the title page. Writing from memory, the dog struck 
me as being more lithesome than the picture conveys, besides 
which, it is difficult to recognize a sable dog in anengraving. 

Speaking of dogsy pictures, that isa splendid page of the 
basset hound hunt in the London Sporting and Dramatic 


News last week. The peculiar incidents arising in this diminu- 


tive form of sport are comically portrayed by the artist, a Mr. 
Dadd, whose whimsical expressions of dog life have afforded 


amusement ou several other occasions, I miss any mention of 


Mr. Krehl, whose name is so closely connected with these odd 
little hounds. : 
Isee the New York schedule gives them a class, from which 
I suppose some of them have already found their way across 
the Atlantic. I generally see a few of them in the foreign 
classes at our large shows, and I read in the Kennel. Gazette 


that Mr. Krehl lately sold one named Fino Y, for £140, a big 


price for a small dog of a new breed. 


They have been termed the dachshund’s rivals, but their in- 
troduction does not seem to haye affected the position of the 


Fatherland’s pets. The Dachshund Club deserves great credit 
for this. 
these animated yard measures. 

There are few breeds now that are not protected by a club, 


The last that has honored itself in this way is the black and 


tan terrier. It owes its birth to the perpetnal activity of Mr. 
James Berril, the well-known judge of bulldogs and toys. 


He wrote a letter to the papers, an enthusiastic meeting was 
held in a public parlor, a sanctum dear to old members of the 


“Fancy,” and the thing was done. 


The Black and Tan Terrier Club, by passing an emphatic 
resolution forbidding the continuance of the cropping, has 
already won the approval of dog lovers who cherish and 


admire their pets for themselves, and not solely as means to 
gratity their owner’s vanity by winning pots and medals, 
Now, then, ye bull-terrier, Irish terrier, Great Dane men, will 


you rest content to be distanced in the policy of humanity? 
tting aside the cruelty of the practice, do not its supporters 


tacitly admit their incompetence to breed good ears when all 


alike are sliced off by the operator’s knife? And when crop- 


ping goes let docking follow. 
Eyen the free lance of the kennel press must join in the 
praise of this specialist club’s action. Mr. Hugh Dalziel, to 


whom I allude, has lately led a crusade against specialist 


clubs in the columns of your English contemporaries. 


I don’t believe the charge of cal aes he has brought against 


them, I have met most of their honorary-officials who very 


generously deyote their time and abilities to disseminating 
knowledge and appreciation of their hobby breeds. I am con- 
vinced of their disinterested motives and of their just claim 


to the thanks of breeders, their only reward. 


tis also idle affectation to ignore the beneficial influence of 
a club—it gives a breed a spurt and position. It brings factions 


together, smooths out petty differences and unifies the type. 


So far from misinterpretating the influence of the specialist 


clubs, [think they are themselves unconscious of their own 
power. 


Tt may rest an unrealized dream, but lam strongly impressed 
with the notion that if a union of the specialist clubs could be 


accomplished the result would be an association that would 


wield as and influence in dog affairs and be in sympathy 

ithe ruled. It is a wish natiral to all free spirits to have 
a voice in the election of those who are to govern and direct 
their acts. This is a Spanish castle for which even the bricks 


with 


are not yet moulded. Meanwhile we have the Kennel Club, 
rH eateecs those who are satisfied with ‘‘whatever 
right. 

How wonderful are the subtleties of legal phraseology! 
Here is a specimen that appeared in the police news last week. 
Tt was headed ‘‘Cruelty by a Baronet,” A 
title in his teeth? It is not kind to reproach him with the ac- 


cident of his birth, The unfortunate geutleman was charged 


“that he did beat, ill-treat, abuse and torture, and did cause 
to be ill-treated, abused and tortured, a certain animal, to wit, 
a dog.” There isalmostas much comfort in the description 
as in that “blessed word Mesopotamia.” . 

We have been awfully amused with Mrs. Weldon’s cross- 

examination of Dr. Forbes Winslow, the mad-doctor and mas- 
tiff breeder, owner of Crown Prince. It seems our fellow 
fancier had been trying to get the lady into his asylum, but 1 
think after the terrific “‘powdering” she gave him in the wit- 
ness box, the doctor was the more “mad” of the two. 
_ I drink to your New York show. May it be a great success! 
Idowt know what you do about puppy classes, but let me 
utter a word of warning to intending exhibitors of dogs under 
ayearold. Let them strew well the bench and straw with a 
dry disintectant—I prefer Sanitas pawd er, because it does not 
mcommode the fon and shake the same allround. This may 
keep the immediate atmosphere pure; if it should not, then it 
is two to one that your pup brings home distemper, An addi- 
tional precaution is to wash the dog with a strong disinfecting 
ars on its return from the show, and before putting it back 
in the kennel with its mates that stayed at home. 

If don’t hear of any bloodhounds going to America. They 
are all noble brutes, but I believe not easy to keep. I know 
the trouble. Grantley Berkeley used to say “the would show 
his hounds the whip, but never struck them.” And I have 
heard of more than one awkward case of these dogs turniog 
round on their own masiers. 

There are only a few kennels of them in this country. The 
most successful is Mr, Edwin Nicholls, who can becomingly 
boast of having bred two of the grandest dogs of the day, 
Bape and Triumph. 

apier was the hero of the great doggy libel case. The re- 
orter of the Field insinuated that the dog’s eyes had been 
faked to show more of the haw. Napier’s head was a study;so 
narrow, and the loose thin skin folded in heayy wrinkles over 
his forehead, his ears set on very low were thin and papery 
and hung quite lifeless in beautiful curves, He has gone over 
to the majority. , 
Inthe living pup Triumph Mr, Nicholls hasa worthy successor, 
He is what has been termed a ‘‘fancier’s fancy,” all the points 
of beauty are exaggerated. I heard that the St. Hubert Club 
were going to subscribe among themselves his 


ful pup, who would like to have a copy of the engraving, 
Th ink at one another, but more 


Frank Robinson, who then had more money than 
Le ak a “ _ Latirevrero, 


There is no more energetic or orderly conducted 
specialist club than that which jealously guards the rights of 


is, is 


hy throw the man’s 


‘FOREST AND STREAM. 


A PIOUS POINTER. 


BEAUTIFUL pointer named Sandie, owned by a lady in 
A Avon, N. Y., has offen Ls TioNede a degree of intelligence 
almost human, and his latest achievement deserves particular 
mention, A few Sundays ago the dog’s mistress did not go to 
chureh as usual, and soon he began to show signs of unhappi- 
ness, and finally begged to be let out of doors, As soon 4s he 

ained his liberty, however, he ran off, staying so long that 

is mistress became alarmed for his safety. At last he re- 
turned in company with a lady of whom before he had neyer 
taken the least notice, and she related the following story: 
She said that when about half way to the church, which was 
within walking distance, the dog came bounding past her 
and ran on ahead, but all the time keeping her in view. At 
last he ran up to the church steps and there waited her ar- 
rival; when she came he followed her into the church and got 
up on the seat beside her, where he lay, putting his head in 
her lap. During the services Sandie paid strict attention to 
everything that was said and done, getting up every time the 
congregation rose, and sitting down again when they did, all 
the time as grave and decorous as possible. When, finally 
the plate was passed, he put his nose wistfully into it an 
seemed to say, ‘lam so sorry that I haye no money for you,” 
At the close of the service, Sandie followed his friend home, 
and seemed to look with reproach upon _his mistress, who 
had, he probably thought, neglected her duty, 

; A, R, CUSHMAN. 
New Yorr, March 29, 1884. 


NON-SPORTING DOG SHOW.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Kindly announce in your columns that in response to the invi- 
tation to non-sporting dog owners in your issue of the 2d inst,, 
that over 125 entries have been promised by well-known 
breeders and kennels, and that letters volunteering support, 
both pecuniary and otherwise, have been received by the seore. 
Everything seems to give evidence of hearty approval and an 
assurance of success far beyond expectation. A guarantee 
fund is rapidly being subscribed, question of much diffi- 
culty has arisen in exactly defining what breeds of dogs come 
under the head of non-sporting dogs. A list will be shortly 
prepared and announced. Probably the excluded classes will 
only consist of dogs shot over with a gun. —THE CLOVERNOOK 
KENNEL (185 Fitth avenue, N. Y.). 


BEAGLES AT THH NEW YORK SHOW,—The American 
English Beagle Club will offer several special prizes for the 
beagles exhibited at the show of the Westminster Kennel Club, 
to be held at Madison Square Garden next month, These 
little hounds are fast winning their way in the public favor, 
and we shall expeet to see the classes well filled. At least 
one representative from the kennel of every member of the 
club should be present. The standard of the Association, 
which will be used in judging, was published in our columns 
last week. Although a few typographical errors crept in, 
owing to the incorrectness of the proof sent us, they will be 
readily interpreted. 


THE CLEVELAND DOG SHOW.—There were two or 
three slight errors in our report of the Cleveland dog show. 
In the open class for small pointers. Mr. R. C. Cornell’s Match 
was awarded vhe., and our comment upon the supposed omis- 
sion was therefore both right and wrong. In the correspond- 
ing bitch class the types made us say that “Dora, unnoticed, 
deserved the three letters.” It should haye been Dove. We 
also omitted the award of the sewing machine special prize 
for the best brace of cocker spaniels, won by the Hornell 
Spaniel Club’s Hornell Silk and Hornell Rattler. 


PHILADELPHTA DOG SHOW.—The many dog shows held 
in the United States during the present spring season will be 
followed in the latter part of September by a yery extensive 
display of the same kind by the Philadelphia Kennel Club in 
their city. This organization has also, secured grounds 
for holding a field trial for members’ dogsin November, and 
the meetings of the club show a determination not to be be- 
nae cities in trials of merit in the field and displays on 

e bench. 


CORRECTION.—Flatbush, April 7.—ZHditor Forest and 
Stream; I would like to correct the pedigree and date of 
birth of Lit Layerack. In your paper of March 27, I cave it 
whelped Dec. 28, 1883, by Tempest (Pontiac ex Fairy IT.) out 
of Lilly (Carlowitz ex Queen Bess). It should be whelped 
Noy. 28, 1885, by Tempest (Pontiac ex Fairy II.) out of Lilly 
(Carlowitz ex Princess Nellie).—THos. F. ConnEexyy. 


MASTIFF IMPORTATION.—Mr. Wm. Graham, Newtown- 
breda, Belfast, Ireland, has shipped to Messrs. Shaw & Bates, 
Clinton, Mass., the mastiff bitch Hilda V., by Mr. Wynn's 
Young King out of Hilda TV. She won first at Birmingham 
in 1882, and second in 1883, and will doubtless prove a yalu- 
able acquisition to their kennel. , 


SALE OF MINSTREL,— Editor Forest and Strean: I have 
sold my imported black, white and tan, 1314 inches high, 
English beagle stud dog Minstrel, to Mr. A. C. Krueger, of 
Wrightsville, Pa., and would refer those who have written to 
me for information regarding the dog to Mr. Krueger.—W. H. 
ASHBURNER (Philadelphia, Pa.). 


PRIDE OF CANADA.—Hditor Forest and Stream: The 
Gordon setter dog Pride of Canada, winner of first at Toronto, 
is owned by me instead of Mr. H. F’. Curtis, who had charge of 
him, and in whose name he was entered. By making the cor- 
ena will greatly oblige, CHAs. HucEs (Montreal, Can., 

pril 7). : 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge, To iusure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
eae of each animal: 
1. Color, 


6. Name and residence of owner, 
2, Breed. 


buyer or seller, 
3. Sex. %. Sire, with his sire and dam, 
4, Age, or 8, Owner of sire. 
5. Date of bi th, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED. 


Es~ See instructions at head of this column. 

Drake Carter. By Mr J. J. Scanlan, Wall River, Mass., for black 
and white English setter dog, whelped May 1, 1883, by his Cashier 
(Dash I11.—Opal) out of his Flake (Druid—Swaze), 

Cliney Carter. By Mr. J. J. Scanlan, Fall River, Mass., for blue 
belton English setter bitch, whelped May 1, 1883, by his Cashier (Dash 
IiI.—Opal) out of his Flake (Druid—Swaze), 

Game. By Mr, Edward W., Beardsley, Hartford, Ct., for lemon and 
white pointer dog, whel ped Sept. 14, 1883, by Gay (Snapshot—Fanny 
TI.) out of Mr, A. Collins’s Grace (Sensation—Juno). 

Mink. By Mr. H.C. Bronsdon, Boston, Mass., for black spaniel 
bitch, whelped Oct. 27, 1883 (Diamond—Dell). 

Prince of Orange. By Mr. Robt. ©. Cornell, New York, for orange 
and white poniter dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1888, by champion Sensation 
(A.K.R. 217) out of Seitner’s Lass (Sleaford—Daiwn). 

Bang Up. By Mr. Robt. C. Cornell, New York, for liver and white 

ointer dog, whelped Jan. 9, by Bang Bang (A.K.R. 394) out of Mr. J. 

. Donner’s imported Fan. i 

Blue Solitaire. By Mr, B. W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., for blue 
belton English setter dog,swhelped Dee. 6, 1883, by Don Juan (‘Tam o’ 
Shanter—La Reine) out of Ruth (Dashing Lion—Armida). 

Watts, Jr, By Mr, Geo. 'T. Wells, Boston, Mass., for red Irish setter 
dog, ehelped July 20, 1883, by Watts (Berkley—Rose) out of his 
Romaine (A.K R. 638). 


Lottie. By Mr. Wm. Loeffler, Preston, Minn., for chestnut and 


? tan dachshund bitch, whelped Jan. 5 (imported Bergmann—Gretchen), 


231 


Diana, Laura amd Jolly, By Mr,Wm, Loeffler, Preston, Minn., for 
two black and tan and one chestnut and tan dachshund bitches, 
whelped Dec. 25, 1883, by his Waldmann IT, (faust—Flora) out of his 
Babette (Buck—Waldena). : 

Carland Dick. By Mr. Wm. Loeffler, Preston, Minn,, for chestnut 
and tan dachshund dogs, whelped Dec, 25, 1883) (Waldmann I7.— 
Babetie). P 

Mink, mma and Kuy. By Mr. Wm, Loeffier, Preston, Miun., 
for fallow red dachshunde, one dog and two bitches, whelped Jan. 
5, by his imported Bergmann ont of his Gretchen (Unser Frita—Wal- 
dine), A 

Shannon, By Mr, B.C, Alden, Dedham, Mass., for red Irish setter 
dog, whelped April 15, 1852, by ‘Blcho IIT, (Elecho—Rose) out of Mee 
Moe Neer i ‘ 

Joe, Nellie, Kittie, Ruffle ond Black Pearl. By Major Lovejoy, 
Bethel, Me., for greyhounds, one steel gray dog, three steel gray 
bitehes and one black biteb, whelped March 25, by champion Friday 
Night (A.K.R. 753) out of Queen Bess (A,K,R. 905), 

Pride af Glencho and Lady Glencho, By Mr. John J, Scanlan, 
Fall River, Mass., for red Irish setters, dog and bitch, whelped Oct. 
15, 1888, by champion Glencho (Hlcho—Noreen) out of Lulu I. (Berk- 
ley—Lulu), 

Tea. By Mr. H, N, Clark, Burlington, Vt., for red Irish setter 
dog, whelped Feb. 25, 1884, by Watts (Berkley—Rose) out of Skip 
‘Max—Fannie), 
toe. By ir. A.C, AN ay aN ty Pa., for white, black and! 
tan beagle bitch, whelped Oct. 11, 1883, by Racer (Rally—till) out of 
Mand (Lee—Old Mand), 4 : 

Van F. By_Mr, #, D, Brown, Mt. Morris, N. Y., for black and 
white ticked English setter dog, whelped Web. 18, 1834, by Dashing 
Berwyn Dash II.—Countess Bear) out of Vanity Fair (Guy Manneping, 
—W hirl wind). 

Herzog, Hugo, Humboldt. Hilgarde and Heidel. By the Chequasset 
Kennel, Laneaster, Mass., for orange tawny and white markings’ 
rough-coated St. Bernards, three dogs and two bitches, whelped 
March 16, by imported Cesar (A.K.R. 22) out of Nun (A,K.R. 24). 

Jsar, Idstein, Ion, Ivry and Iris. By the Chequasset Kennel, Lan 
easter, Mass., for orange tawny and white rough-coated St, Bernards,. 
four dogs and one bitch, whelped March 19, by imported Ceesar (A, K.K.- 
22) out of Brunhild (A.K.R> 25). 

Julien, Joyeux, Joris and Jason. By the Chequasset Kennel, Lan- 
caster, Mass., for orange tawny and white rough-coated St. Bernard 
dogs, whelned March 22, by imported Cesar (A,K R, 22) out of Theon 


(A. KR. $4). 
NAMES CHANGED, 


fe" See instructions at head of this column. 
Dell to Leader. White, black and tan beagle dog, whelped June 6,. 
1882 (Flute—Queen), owned by Mr. W. E. Livingston, New York. 
Wallace to Grouse. Red Irish setter dog (A.K.R. 993), owned by 
Mr, Chas, EB, Sanford, Worcester, Mass, 
BRED. 


(= See instructions at head of this columa. 

Flake—Cushier. Myr, J. J. Scanlan’s (Fall River, Mass.) English 
setter bitch FWlake (Druid—Swaze) to his Cashier (Dash ITI,—Opal), 
Apvil 6, 

Trucille—Don, Nilsson. Mr. Samuel H. Socwell's (Indianapolis, Id.) 
English setter bitch Lucille (Lofty—Fannie Kean) to his Don Nilsson 
(Druid—Nilsson), Feb, 14. ’ t ’ 

Nellie—Don, Nilsson. Mr, Jos. Becker's (Indianapolis, Ind.) English 
setter bitch Nellie (Rake—Queen Blanche) to Mr. S. H. Soewell's Don 
Nilsson (Nruid—Nilsson), Feb. 18. 

Lady May—Count Noble. Mr, H, Pape’s (Hoboken, N. J,) English 
setter bitch Lady May (Lofty—Mand Muller) to Count Noble (Count 
Wind’em—Nora), March 14. } 

Nellie—Glen IT. Mr, J. Crompton’s Gordon setter bitch Nellie to 
Mr. G. HE. Browne's Glen IT, (A.K.R. 604), April 4. 

Dashing Jessie—Zanzibar. Mr. E. W. Jester’s (St. George's, Del.) 
English setter biteh Dashing Jessie (A.K.R, 815) to his Zanzibar (Glad- 
stone—Mersey), Marcb 28, — 

Brenda—Cossack._ Capt. J. W. Foster's (Leesburg, Va.) English set- 
ter bitch Brenda (Pride of the Berder—Kirby) to Dr. M. G. Elzey’s 
Cossack (Morford’s Don—Fairy IL). 

Birdie—Sam. Mr. J. W. Stairley’s (Butte City, M. T.) white and 
liver English setter bitch Birdie to Mr. 8. Larahie’s Sam, Jan. 16. 

irost—Dashing Rover. Dr. W. A. Strother’s (Lynchburg, Va.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch frost (Leicester—Victress) to Dashing Rover (Das 
Ij.—Norna). 4 

Leah—Dashing Rover. Dr. W. A. Strother’s (Lynchburg, Va.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Leah (Gladstone—Frost) to Dashing Royer (Dash IJ, 
—Norma). 

Gipsey—Nimrod. Mr. W. N. Steere’s (North Attleboro, Mass.) red 
Trish setter bitch Gipsey (Goldstone—Cotfee) to the Ashmont Kennel’s 
champion Nimrod (A.K.R. 681), April 4. 

Maud S.—Peter Black, Mr. Herbert Symond’s (Brooklyn, N. Y.) 
black and white pointer bitch Maud §. to Mr, D. W, ©, Parker’s Peter 
Black, April 2. + ~~ 

Kesmid—Don, Mr. Wm. Loefiier’s(Preston, Minn,) red Trish setter 
bitch Kesmid to Mr. Morgan’s Don, April 23. 

-Fanchette—Pete, Jr. Mr, C, A. Holmes’s (Somerville, Mass.) pointer 
bitch Fanchette to Mr. H.C. Alden’s champion Pete, Jr. (Pete—Nellie), 
March 22. 
| Liddersdale—Dick Laverack. Mr. T. G. Davey's (London, Ont.) 
English setter bitch Liddersdale (A,K\R. 592) fo his Dick Laverack 
Thunder—Peeress), April 3. ; 

Canadian Queen—Prince Phebus. Mr, T. G. Davyey's (London. 
Ont.) English setter bitch Canadian Queen (Lava Rock—Liddersdale) 
to his Prince Phoebus (A.K.R. 597), April 4. 

Canadian Kittie—Prince Phebus, Mr.T,G. Davey's (London,Ont.) 
English setter bitch Canadian Kittie (Lava Rock—lLiddersdale) to his 
Prince Phoebus (A,K.R. 597), April 4. 

Rena—Foreman. Mr, A. C. Krueger’s (Wrightsville, Pa.) beagle 
bitch Rena (Ringwood—sSpider) to Mr, W. H. Ashburner’s imported 
Foreman (Brayo—Honesty), April 1. 

Tiny—Minstrel. Mr. A. ©, Krueger’s (Wrighisville, Pa.) beagle 
bitch Tiny (Racer—Bulnah) to his imported Minstrel, April 14. 

Countess Rose—Don Nilsson, Mr. Wm. Keffer's (Liberty, Ind.) 
English setter bitch Countess Rose (Royal Blue—Modjeska) to Mr. S 
H, Soewell’s Don Nilsson (Druid—Nilsson), April 10. 

_Girl—Glenmark, The Knickerbocker Kennel Club’s (Jersey City, 
N. J.) pointer bitch Girl (A.K.R. 697) to Mr, W. F. Steel’s Glenmark 
(Rush—Romp), April 10, 

Bessie—Glenmark, Mr, Wim. Taylors (Jersey City, N, J.) pointer 
bitch Bessie to Mr, W. F. Steel’s Glenmark (Rush—Romp), 


WHHELPS. 


ES" See instructions at head of this column. 

Ruby Croxteth. Mr. R. W. Shaw’s (Galveston, Tex.) pointer bitch 
Ruby Oroxteth (Croxteth—Lass), March 5, ten (five dogs), by cham- 
pion Faust. : 

Lady Bang. The Knickerbocker Kennel Clib’s (Jersey City, N. J.) 
pointer bitch Lady Bang (A.K.R, 698), April 10, nine (six dogs), by their 
champion Knickerbocker (A.K.R. 19), ' 

Cleo, Mr. John Carver’s (Atlantic, Mass.) red Irish setter bitch Cieo 
(Hlcho—Flourish), April 9, six (four dogs), by Dr. J. Frank Perry*s 
champion Nimrod (A,K.R. 631). 

Fanny Faust. Mr. 5. B. Dilley’s (Bosendale, Wis.) pointer bitch 
Panny Faust (Haust—Minnetonka), April 3, seyen (four dogs), by his 
Ranger Croxteth (Croxteth—Royal Fan), - 

Dinah I, Mr. W. Wade’s (Pittsburgh, Pa,) mastiff bitch Dinah 
ie 18), April 10, seven (four dogs), by Master Wade (A.K.R. 

oO 


Juno. Mr. George Langran’s (Yonkers, N.Y.) red Irish setter 
ice i uno (Berkley—Tilley), April 6, six (three @ogs). by champion 

xlencho, 

Birdie. Mr. J. W. Stairley’s (Butte City, M.'T.) English setter bitch 
Birdie, March 20, six (five dogs). by Mr. S. E. Larabie’s Sam. 

Queen Bess. Major Lovejoy’s (Bethel, Me.) grevhound bitch Queen 
Bess (A.K.R. 905), Mareh 25, seven (one dog), by Mr. H, W. Smith’s 
champion Friday Night (A.K.R, 753). ; 

fly. Mr, J. Satterthwaite, Jr.’s (Jenkintown, Pa.) beagle bitch Bly 
(A.K.R, 1012), Jan. 17, four (two dogs), by Racket (Rally—Louise). 

Black Venus. Mr. A. ©, Wilmerding’s (New York) eiaie biteh 
Black Venus (A.K.R. 300), March 16, eight (seven dogs), by his Black 
Prince (A,K R. 62); dam and puppies since dead. 

Phroney Jane. Mr. J. Satterthwaite, Jr.s (Jenkintown, Pa.) red 
Trish setter bitch Phroney Jane (A.K.R. 634), Jan. 12, two bitches, by 
Rory O’More, Jr. (A.K,R. 427), 

Fie. Mr. Archibald Gordon’s spaniel bitch Vie (Brage—Princess), 
meat Aight (two dogs), by Mr, A. H. Godeffroy’s Teddy Barr (Cap- 

ain— Flirt). 

Lady Bub, Mr, Herman F. Schellhass’s (Brooklyn, N. ¥.) black 
cocker spaniel bitch Lady Bub (A.K.R. 998), April 9, ten (four dogs), 
by his Benedict’s Boy (A.K.R, 130); one liver and two black bitches 


living. 
SALES. 
Es" See instructions at head of this column. 


Abel a Trish water spaniel dog, whelped Jan. 11, 1884 (nish Bob— 
ee ), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. W. A. Curtis, same 
place. 


Prince of Orange. Orange und white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 
11, 1883 (Sensation—Lass). by Mr. B, F. Seitner, Dayton, 0., to Mr, 
Robt. GC, Cornell, New York. 

Minstrel. Imported black, white and tan English beagle, 2vrs. old, 
by Mr. W.H. Ashburner, Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr. A. 0. Krueger, 

rightsville, Pa, . : 

Kex, Bawn mastifi dog, whelped Jan. 26, 1884, by Diayolo (A,K.R, 


— 


232 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


[Arrm 17, 1 


543) out of Madge (A.K.R. 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., 
to Dr. Wm. Jarvis, Claremont, N. H. 

Vesta. Fawn mastifi-biteh,whelped Jan. 26, 1884, by Diavolo(A,.K.R. 
543) oul of Madge (A.K.R, 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., 
to Mr. Walter D. Peck, New Haven, Ct. 

Icicle. Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R. 82), by Mr. Geo. W. 
Fisher, Luzerne, Pa., to Mr, R. 1. Vandevort, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Carl. Chestnut and tan dachshund dog, whelped Dec. 25, 1883 
(Waldmann II.—Babette), by Mr. Wm. Loeffler, Preston, Minn,, to Mr. 
Geo. R, Peek, Auburn, N, ¥, 

Lottie, Chestnut and tan dachshund bitch, whelped Jan. 5, 1884 
(Bergmann—Gretchen), by Mr, Wm, Loeffler, Preston, Minn,, to Mr. 
Geo. R. Peck, Auburn, N, ¥, 

Emma, Fallow red dachshund bitch, whelped Jan, 5, 1884 (Berg- 
mann—Gretchen), by Mr, Wm, Loeffler, Preston, Minn,, to Mr, C. 
Klocke, Pittsburgh, Pa, 

Hilly. Fallowred dachshund bitch, whelped Jan. 5, 1884 (Bergmann 
—Gretchen), by Mr. Wm. Loeffler, Preston, Minn., to Mr. A. C, Will- 
iams, Chagrin Falls, O. 

Pete, Jr.—Fan whelp. Black pointer dog, whelped Jan. 19, 1884, by 
Mr. &. C, Alden, Dedham, Mass., to Mr. R. Jones, Boston, Mass. 

Not Named. Black pointer bitch, 3i6yrs. old (Pete, Jr.—Kate), by 
Mr. BE. C. Alden, Dedham, Mass., to Dr. H. F, Aten, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Gnome—Maud S. whelp. Black and white pointer dog, whelped 
Jan. 26, 1883, by Mr. E. C. Alden, Dedham, Mass., to Mr. J. Philbrick, 
Roxbury, Mass. 

Pete, Jr.—Fan whelp. Liver pointer bitch, whelped Jume 28, 1883, 
by Mr. E. C, Alden, Dedham, Mass., to Mr. C. A. Holmes, Somerville, 

ass. 

annak. Red Trish setter bitch, whelped Sept. 16, 1882, by Ned 
Hicho (A.K.K. 984) out of Bridget. O’More (A.K.R. 964), by Major Love- 
joy. Bethel, Me., to Mr. J. D. Culver, New London, Ct. 

Juke. Red Trish setter dog, whelped March 14, 1884 (Ned Elcho— 
Bridget O’More), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. Fred. Brown, 
Lewiston, Me. 

Glencho—Lulu uhelps. Red Irish setters, whelped Oct. 15, 1883, by 
Mr. John J. Scanlan, Fall River, Mass., a dog to Mr. H. P. Kent, Lan- 
caster, N. H.: a dog to Mr, Frank $8. Kelly, New Bedford, Mass.;.a dog 
to Mr. Win. Brownell, Fall River, Mass.; a bitch to Ma. R. M. Huich- 
ings, Keene, N. H., and a bitch to Mr. I. R, Hope, Swansey, Mass. 

Somerset. Liver and white pointer dog, whelped June 29, 1883, by 
ehampion Snipe out of Rita Croxteth (A,K.R, 165), by Mr. Geo. L. V. 
Tyler, West Newton, Mass,, to Mr. Geo, 8. Tucker, Peterboro, N. H. 

Belle of Essex. Black, white and tan_setter bitch, age not given 
(Brant—lowa Belle), by Mr. J. 8. Brown, Montelair, N. J., to Mr. TW. 
Lilicocks, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Clem, Poimter dog, whelped Feb, 22, 1884 (Lord Sefton—Clio), 
by Mr, J. S. Brown, Montclair, N. J., to Mr. J. D, Freeman, same 

ace. 
sf Temptation. Black and white ticked pointer bitch. whelped_ June 
24, 1882, by Don (Strong’s Pete—Queen) out of Maud 8. (Petes, Jr.— 
Kate), by Mr. Geo. L. V, Tyler, West Newton, Mass., to Mr. H, C, 
Miller, Hudson, N. Y. 

Leader. White, black and tan beagle dog, whelped June 6, 1882 
(Plute—Queen), by Mr, Geo, B. Inches, Boston, Mass., to Mr. W. E, 
Livingston, New York. 

Pess. Fawn greyhound bitch, whelped Aug. 5, 1883 (Charcoal— 
Bess, A.K,R. 905), by Majer Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr, Walter D, 
Peck, New Haven, Ct. 

Curlew. Black and white English setter bitch, whelped Sept. 8, 
i883 (Robin Hood—Leah), by Dr. J. R. Housel, Watsontown, Pa., to 
My. W, T. Hutchings, Danville, Va, 

Spark. Lemon and white English setter dog, whelped Jan. 18, 1884 
(Robin Hood—Countess H., A.K,R. 1056), by Dr. J. R. Housel, Watson- 
town, Pa., to Mr, W. T. Hutchings, Danville, Va. 

Will, Black and white English setter dog, whelped Jan. 18, 1884 
(Robin Hood—Countess H., A,K.R. 1056), by Dr. J. R, Housel, Watson- 
town, Pa., to Mr. Raymond Rudd, Glenville, Ct. 

Robin Hood—Countess B. whelps. Two lemon and white English 
setter dogs, whelped Jan. 18, 1884, by Dr. J. R. Housel, Watsontown, 
Pa., to Mr. Henry May, Avgusta, Ga. 

Robin Hood, Jr. Black and white English setter dog,whelped Jan. 
18, 1884 (Robin Hood—Countess H.), by;Dr. J. R. Housel, Watsontown, 
Pa,, to Mr, M. C. Wilson, Bradford, Pa. 

PRESENTATIONS. 

ES See instructions at head of this column. 

Bang Up. Liver and white pointer dog, wheiped Jan. 9, 1884, by 
Bang Bang (A.K.R. 394) out of imported Fan, by Mr. J, O. Donner, 
New York, to Mr. Robt. C. Cornell, same place, 

DEATHS. 

2==— See instructions at head of this column. 

Yorick. Red Irish setter dog (A.K.R. 725), owned by Mr. M. Rich- 
ardson, New York, April 9, from distemper. 

Lady Nixon, Liver and white pointer bitch (A.K.R, 699), owned by 
Dr. A. McCollom, New York, April 14, from distemper. 

Rally IL Black, white and tan mottled beagle dog, whelped June 
14, 1879 (Rally—Dolly), owned by Mr. F. D, Hallett, Winsted, Ct., from 
distemper. - 

Wanda. Red Irish setter bitch, Smos, old, winner of first, New 
Haven, 1884 (Dan—May), owned by the Strong Point Kennel, New 
Haven, Ct., from distemper. 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. . 


(= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 

R. M. H., New York.—Show your dog to Mr. H, ©, Glover, No. 1,298 
Broadway. 

J_L. K., Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Give hrm a teaspoonful of cod liver oil 
an hour after each meal. 

D. B. G.. Melbourne, Fla.—We do not remember to have seen the 
letter you mention. Write description of symptoms. 

W. RR. H,, Albany, N. Y.—Give hera tablespoonful of cod liver oil 
twiee daily, and give with each meal a little lime water. 

A, M. G., Denver, Cel.—1. When about six months old. 2. Read 
article on '‘Lice on Dogs,” in Forusr anD STREAM Of Feb. 28. 

T. E. D., Hollidaysburg, Pa.—The fits may be caused by overfeed- 
ing, constipation, worms, indigestion, or exercise when his stomach 
is full. Remoye the cause and the trouble will disappear. 

H. L, H,, Monson, Me.—‘Training vs. Breaking” is the book you 
want. We haveit forsale; price $1. 1f your puppy’s first teeth are 
loose and cause trouble, remove them. 


Rifle and Crap Shoating. 


FIXTURES. 


May Gand 7.—Fourth Tournament Southern Illinois Sportsmen’s 
Association, Carbondale, Ill. C. P. Richards, Secretary. 

May 20 to 28.—Knoxyille Gun Club Second Annual Tournament, 
Knoxville, Tenn. C.C. Hebbard, Secretary. — 

May 26 to 31—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Ill. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P.O. Box 1292, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. : 

June 2 to 9.—Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen’s Associa- 
tion, Louisville, Ky. J, O, Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third avenue, 
Louisville, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON SCHUETZEN TOURNAMENT.—The East Boston Schuet- 
zen Corps have arranged for an interstateshooting festival, com- 
mencing Monday, August 11, 1884, at 10 o’clock A. M., and continuing 
each day following, closing at sunset on Friday, Saturday, the 16th, 
being devoted to the award of prizes and a grand ball and banquet. 
For the purposes of this festival, the corps haye secured the entire 
grounds of Oak Island Grove, where its shooting range is situated. A 
target of honor has been decided upon; the first prize being $100 in 
money and a gold badge, the winner to be crowned “shooting king” 
for 1884. Other valuable prizes will be giyen in connection with the 
target of honor, contributed by sister societies. The target of honor 
will be a ring target, entry to be $2 only, one score of five shots per 
man, any rifie. All shooting to be off-hand. No telescope or mag- 
nifying sights allowed. 

Other matches will take place as follows: Creedmoor Match,— 
National Hifle Association rules. Seven shots to a score; any rifle 
allowed of three-pound pull. Entry, $1; re-entry, 50 cents. Sixty 
per cent. of the gross entries for this match to be divided into twelve 
prizes. Team tch.—Open to all organized clubs in the country. 
Five mento ateam. Entry fee, $10 per team; five shots per man al- 
lowed. German ring target. Five money prizes to the value of $170, 
and each Son peraitadic winning team a gold badge, to be known as 
the “champion team of the year 1884." The other targets will be: 
‘*Man,’’°—Three shots to ascore, any rifle. Shootingrules, First en- 
try, $2; re-entry, $1. 18 money prizes to the value of $359. ‘‘Ring.”— 
Same as abvve, i7 prizes, value $430. Bullseye.—Ten shots to ascore. 
First entry, $1; re-entry the same. 12 prizes to the value of $130. 
One dollar will be paid for the first and last bullseye each day. Full 
particulars may be obtained by addressing, 5. Wourrsoun, 47 Court 
street, Boston Mass. 


BOSTON, April 5.—The prize shooting for month of March closed 
last Monday night at the Mammoth Rifle Gallery, Mr. M. L. Pratt 
winning the first prize, silver badge; A. B. Loring the second; H,. M. 
Drew the third, in new beginners’ mateb, This month there will be 
five prizes oifered, open to all that have never shot better than 48 on 
any range. Conditions—i0 rounds, the best five scores to wif in each 
class or possible 250; range, 150ft. Following are scores made in 
closing match of March: 


Amateur's Match No. 1. 46 


USE Oe arc es Een ate cies 47 47 48—234 
A B Loring, ..,..,-. 46 46 87—282 
grt gait las sei See 46 46 46—280 
RW Gardner 45 47 46—228 
JAP Stebel 48 48 45—219 
H M Drew 42 44915 
E A Peiree 43 43212 
AVCGTEy See AR a cae = Or ea hade dee a 42 40—207 
BE Metcalf 42 40—205 
TAS DB OtEay i U oe ei res Saabs Uemura LSS 35 40 41 42—202 

April12.—The Mammoth Gallery prizes offered for this month 


10, the best five scores to win in each class, or possiblé 250. Creed- 
moor targets. Following are the scores; 

¢ Match No, 1. 
At BIOTIN O7, 64/0209 8 oe 652) Ed Ruane ee 46 45 45 45 46—227 
BW Gardner Pie Pid 4 eee © Fie prams 45 55 44 48 42—220 
DEBIT ene 3s Sa AS Cer nL .....44 42 48 43 48—215 
aA PHANG. Get af fated soe te tee en AE 48 48 42 41 42—211 
EOD aCe NES Sig ogo ds Sosa oe ao ns Pee ye 41 41 43 42 42—209 
OV HMETAmMULOn tet ere nae eek ne eee, see Broek 41 42 48 41 40—207 

New Beginner’s Match. 

BUA Tayi1chsa-guce + on eee IIR 8 SOs eae Cg, 42.39 40 40 40—201 
CL Foster.--........ Rota hg Leb ees See 38 389 40 40 41—195 


BOSTON, April 12,—A nicer day than to-day would be harder to find 
at this season of the year. Asaresult there were a large number of 
riflemen ab Walnut Hill. The wind was moderate from 11 o’clock, 
and the light was fine. Among the gentlemen present was a large 
delegation from the Harvard Shooting Club, and besides practice 
they indulged ina team match. J. B. Fellows made a fine 82 in the 
victory medal match, and Mr. Wilder made an &9 with his new Kirik- 
wood three-barrelled gun, which meludes a strictly hunting gun, a 
double-barrelled shoteun with a rifle barrel under the others, the 
whole weighing but 844 pounds. Followiug are the best scores: 

Creedmoor Practice Match—J. A. Frye 46, H. C. Nash 45, re-entry 
45, A. L. Brackett 45, C, A. Hunt 44, W. 1. Allen 43, M. R. Jafry 43, A. 
Wanuikner 41, FP, Chauncey (mil.) 40, J. D. Bradley 89, J. H, Payne 38, 
W. Kirkwood 38, H. N. Grover 37, F. B, Austin 36, P. H. Jones 36. 
ae Match—W. Charles 84, B. A. Lappen 81, A, J. Look 78, W. 

. Oler 76. 


One-day Match—Creedmoor Target. 
J B Wellows............ baer ae sites sew en ny. 46 45 47+114—13914 
We Ch able sesame scents ee tees OT ee eel 45 47 47-0 - —139 
VAST? BIrAGhettneste nt aoubectas eres 48 45 45456 —189 
el IN RUDY wa athe oo Secnefate pene Sone ey in feel 44 45 46-+3 —138 
JOP LBATESS 5 inh etait = (Sl hee creeeewenea oe 42 42 42151413414 
Harvard Shooting Clio—First Team. 
ef PARSE 2 Statens st st cess wae BL lee Brot Do) &, oF oD) 489 5° 4S AS as 
PRO RII Moe coe sa aidan RY 45543444 4 4-4] 
Hoa TCT 5 oe tom etagemicins etnies 6 44444483 4 0 526 
PSB PACUS Lee he oe said oan eee eo 56 438 2 44 2 4 3 4—85—155 
Second Team, 
CEC! POSLEE TE nm -tlas fens 5 ep soe 5 38 44 3°25 4 4 5-40 
SWNT ATIGOR EEA erence tens anced 44444244 4 4-28 
J BLOdleyeni:|2utes yobeeee cae baie ee a: dies? bebe 1 4d Ay 
Wi Efwss LOGIN 2A 4 Lin tenet pe oak 56 3 3 2 8 @ 2 4 3 5—38—148 


NEWARK, N. J.—The sixth tournament of the Associated Rifie 
Clubs was begun on Monday, April 7, with the Frelinghuysens at the 
butts. The following excellent scores were made: G. Williams 49, 
A, C. Neumann 49, W. F. Lynn 48, Geo. Weigman 48, Wm. P. Me- 
Leod 48, J. L. Tobin 48. E, O. Chase 48, J. K. Walsh 47. §. Shackel- 
ford 47, R. Westerman 47. Total 480, out of a possible 500. 

On Tuesday evening the Celluloids shot, with the following result: 
EK. Coe 42, F. Willzey 48, F. Brandt 45, A. Erhard 48, W. Babbitt 42, N. 
Puder 43, S. T. Simmonds 45, W, Coe 47, C. F. Jackson 44, W. Vree- 
land 47. Total 448. 

On Wednesday night the Plymouths scored as follows: ©. H. 
Townsend 47, J. L. Summer 45, G. M. Townsend 43, J. Brower 44, G. 
Kinney 39, A. A. Baldwin 48, H. L. Leibe 45, J. E. Pollard 42, H. Grewe 
41, J. Kearny 45. Total 438. 

The Domestic Rifie and Rod Association shot on Friday evening and 
scored asfollows: B, Jeffreys 47, J. Reynolds 45, W. B. Pettigroye 
45, J. McGuiness 46, J. Velsor 45, W. Wadams 48, J. Leitz 45, J. 
Leitz 45, J. Dainty 48, John Long 45, A. Milward 45, otal 459, 


CARSON CITY, Nevada, April 6.—To-day was a field day among 
our crack rifle shots. The weather was beautiful. making all feel 
animated and eager for the sport. The most notable contest of the 
day was that between Mr. George C. Thaxter, of ours, and C. H. 
Galusha, Captain of the Emmet Guard team, and both members of 
the Nevada Rifle team, The conditions were i00 shots at the 200 and 
500yd, ranges, 50 shots apiece at each range, The contestanis both 
used the Hepburn Remington, The contest was remarkable close 
throughout, and if the shooters had cleaned their guns the scores 
would have been much higher, As itis, the scores are unusually 
high. The best previous record was that of Captain H. G. Parker— 
453, Itis the opinion of all present that Thaxter and Galusha can 


beat any two men living at the two ranges in question. Below are 
given the scores in detail: 
200yds. 500yds. 
( 444554445443 525505455549 
445555554547 5554555555 —49 
EPSOM pays siete rss ore oe 4544444445 42 554455445445 
555444554546 544535445544 
4555455545 47225 4455554355—45—282.—457 
544445454448 5559544545 AZ 
444454455544 50555555d5 48 . 
GUNS Asses cee scae teeee 4554455545—45 §455354555—46 
545545454445 345445455544 


444445445442 219 545554555548 222 452 
Thefour members of the Nevada team taking part in the shooting 
practice made the following scores: 


200yds. 500yds. 
DRARUGE, S592 he ek ts Sees depp hirack eroeneiee whe ag: 49—96 
Gea toe en ee ee Le eee eee 44 48—92 
HHT Clee totals oe cc allege cael: dae e cine pein eet CF Boe 45 A7—92 - 
PAW LOT thts een nee eutteL EL CPE eee 44 46—90—370 


This is an average of 92144, and proves that the men are more dan- 
gerous for the Californians this year than last. 

Two squads were selected from members of the Carson Guard pres- 
ent and a maich shot with the following result. Some of those tak- 
ing part have not fired a shot this year, while others are new be- 


ginners, Taking these things into consideration the scores were 
excellent: 

Wifes) eb ee SAE et ee Oa 5. 43 49—92 
PVVIGEOS Br per arels tei die’ ee ie 40 42—82 
Thaxter’s Team, TGSATA Pa ieee ie del ta et rel pee hel fe 42 40—S2 
PUBL edits tecete inte Rk poe s 41 44—85 

WEA aS a RR Aah i 39 4483 424 
(HOTA WEORG ero. Peeters so 44 44-—9) 
‘ Baal Gon Cotewa pe lated 44 45—89 
Crawford's Team,  3-Chenéy.... 00.23. os 44. 45—87 
ATO Ve Outage tc ine eotelies ote AQ) B8—78 

EEG er ne aN askat, . N 4 89—79—a28 


0 
100 shots at the two ranges. 


the back, 

GARDNER, Mass., April 12.-At the last meet at Hackmatack 
Range of the Gardner Rifle Club there was not as large a number of 
the members present as usual. Messrs. F. Parker and N. Jewett of 
the Ashburnham Club were present as guests. The American dect- 


mal target was used, distance 200yds., with a possible 100. Shooting 
off-hand, The following is the score: 

GSP NS tortie te dite si ahee seit noen nrc 999 9 9-8 9 9I0 9—30 
W Otliaveland, .. .Wiccrcceterescececce: 100787 78 9 10 9—82 
TAN od ges... aos cade nodes anamae sans 1-978 Th OB - 
IA Miuthews.. 00 oe CLEP RR bAnete sealers: oe 4S Bea oy 

Hl pankers.. sch 0854. eee.), eK 10 Dost Boo 

Nelewebb. soe la aaaeenas sae ae o..1 2% 9 9 & 910 O 0-53 


GRAND CENTRAL GALLERY.—The competition for prizes in the 
allcomers’ match excites increased interest as the match progresses, 
The leading positions are closely contested by Messrs. Brown, Fen- 
ning, Oehl and Zimmerman, Mr. Brown bemg an officer of the New 
York Rifle Ciub, under whose management the match is to a certain 
extent run, shoots fora record only, and,will not contest for a priz>. 
The match has deyéloped considerable proficiency among new men, 
who have had no experience heretofore. For instance, Mr, Keator 
never competed either in or out of doors heretofore, and yet he 
stands high on the record, leaving some old and experienced shots 
to bring upthe rear. The match will continue for two weeks more, 
and during that time some crack shots in and out of town will, no 


doubt, put in an appearance, and make those now at the head of the 
ait aa out for their laurels. The following are the best scores, the. 
Ponulvle being 350 on a decimal ring target: J. H. Brown, 333; P. G. 

W. MK 330; Henry Oehl, 325 W. Zimmerman, 322, M. Dorrler, 319: 
208: J. Copia) C. HE. Keator, 314; L. Bird, 310; A.J, Howlett, 
G. bw oppersmith, 808; Geo, J. Seabury, 308; Wm. Simpson, 307; 
209, eigman, 807; H. Von Derlinden, a? W. Klein, 503; C. Rein, 


BRATTLEBORO, Vé., April 11.—Brattl 
200yds., on the Massachusetts target, Po her eons 
scores, Mr. Cobo makin 
hand, it being a possible 
count: 


Small attendance but zood 
the best score ever made on the range off- 
50 Creedmoor, and ii4 Massachusetts 


1i—114 


NEW YORK, April 3.—Regular weekly shooting of the Rullshead 
Rifle Club, 12-ring target, possible 120: G. Zimmerman 119, M.Dorrler 
118, A. Lober 118, C. Rein 116. B. Holzmann 115, V. Steinbach 111, H. 
Hackmann 114, J, Schneider 104, B. Walters 108, G. D, Jolinson 105, J. 
Jordon 101, J. F. Campbell 95, D, Lowitzki 89, 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y., April 12.—Scores of regular medal match 


yesterday at 200yds., off-hand, Creedmoor target. Wind, at 10 o'clock, 
y! 


AH ONVAUIES tees tee eh terre oe Se Se Oe, ae 445545444 5—44 
JR Moore..... Ste ale eerie | 555444544343 
George sShatinekiee, et 298) ay Aik ee 444444544 4-41 
AVHRR WTC sens Seeks) Sree ee een, 445335445 441 
DANA YRS ns ce ee ee hea nme eos 84454404 4 4—36 


FLORIDA RIFLE TEAMS.—Two new rifle teams have recently been 
organized at Jacksonville, composed of the First Florida Artille 
and the J acksonville Light Infantry, as follows: First Florida Artii- 
lery—W. W. Simpson, Captain; B. E. Oak, Theodore Ball, H. LL. Wel- 
ler, W. A. oe A, T. Williams, L. J. Stevens, M. C. Riee, A. W. 
Barrs, and Geo. R. Reyolds. Jacksonville Light Infantry—R. M. 
Call, John T, Tyler, C. Ashmead, C. C. Barrs, Perry Holland, J. B. 
puceone aes 8. A. Cohen, Walker Lund and W. Palmer, <All are well- 
known acksonyille gentlemen. The rules and regulations of the 
National Rifle Association were adopted. An elegant gold hadge has 
been purchased to_be contested forevery month, The first contest 
came off April 83.—Rep Wie. 


TORONTO, April 12.—The sweepstakes match of the club on Good 
Friday was well attended. The moderate wind was changeable 
enough to annoy the riflemen and land them in the outer or magpie 
when they were sure of a bull. The light was sometimes bad, yet 
altogether seldom do they get such fayorable weather on Good Fri- 
day. The principal scores, ranges 200. 400 and 500yds., 7 shots at 
each, possible 105: Foreman 90, Mitchell 87, Bell 86, Mowatt 86. Lewis 
$1, Thompson 81, J, W. Duncan 79, Jack 79, W. S$, Dunean 78, Brown 
78, McQuestien 77, Kennedy 74, Allan 74, Lanskail 73, Schmidt 71. 


SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 12.—At the return match at Lake 
Lookout, yesterday afternoon, between the Collinsville, Conn., team 
and the Rod and Gun team of this city, the Collinsville team won by 
a score of 484 to 467. 


THE TRAP, 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


LOUISVILLE TOURNAMENT.—The tournament will begin June 
2and close June 9. Secretary’s addressis J. O. Barbour, 157 Third 
avenue, Louisville, Ky. June 2. First shoot, purse $350; five single, 
26yds., plunge traps: entrance, $5. Second shoot, purse, $600; eight 
Single, 26yds,, plunge traps; extrance, $8. June 3. First shoot, purse, 
$800; ten single, 26yds,, plunge traps; entrance, $10. Second shoot 
purse, $5,000. The American field cup for the championship of 
America, value, $250; 50 birds to each entry; fifteen single, 26yds., 
plunge traps; fifteen single. 80yds., ground traps; ten pairs, 2lyds., 
plunge traps; entrance, $50, $2 forfeit. June 6. First shoot, purse, 
$600; four pair, isyds., plunge traps; entrance, $8. Second shoot, 
purse, $600; eight single, 26)ds., plunge traps; entrance, $8, June 7. 
First sheot, purse, $800; ten single, 26yds., plunge traps; entrance. $10. 
Second shoot, purse, $600; eight single, 26yds.. plunge traps; en- 
trance, $6. June 9, First shoot, purse, $500; cight single, 2Llyds., 
plunge traps; entrance, $5 Secoud shoot, purse, $600; four pair, 
18yds., plunge traps; entrance, $6. LouisvilleSportsmen’s Associa- 
tion rules to govern. Ouly wild pigeons will be used. Class shooting 
inall matches. All purses fill or prorate. Five per cent. of purses 
for field expenses. In all but championship match, 40 per cent, to 
first; 30 per cent, to second; 20 per cent. to third; 10 per cent. to 
fourth, Birds extra except in champion cup shoot. Tie birds in all 
matches extra and must be paid for before shooting. 


KNOXVILLD, Tenn.—Regwar monthly shoot of the Knoxville Gun 
Club; Ligowsky medal match, 15 clay-pigeons, 1$yds., 4th notch of 


trap: 
Ae retrain ee 111111111111111—15 Curtis ........ 1140110111110101—11 
AH Hebbard. .011111111111111—14 C C Hebbard.. .001170110011111—10 
Campbell....... 111120111111111—14 Woodbury..... 01010110111131—10 
Slocum sew eres 11011111111111]—14 Deaderick.... .100171110100011— 9 
LOC ICH Aan toons 11111110101J111—13 Townsend...... 101110010110011— 9 
Ross.... ..-.....110111111111011—13 Ristine........, 000010110111101— 8 
Dow........ ++ 111111110111101—18  Worsham...... 000011110100111— § 
Duna. - 242546 111011011110111—12 Nicholson ..... 100010011001101— 7 
M G MeClung...111011101111110—12_ F A McClung. .060010000101011— 5 
Mead. .2f 2435.34 01111010111101J—11 Woods....... -001100011000100— 5 
French ..011111011111001—11__ Bd Ross........ 000011000100000— 3 
Jenkins.........0910111111100f1—11 

Match at5 pairs, 15yds,: 
MeClung...... 00 11 11 OL 11—7 Armstrong...10 11 11 00 10-6 
Mégd ae.) a5! 00 01 11 10 19—5 Slocum.. al 10 01 10 10-6 
Hidridge ..... 10 11 10 10 11—7 Deaderick.-..11 10 10 00 00-4 
Jaques’....... 00 10 10 11 01—5 Jenkins .. 10 00 10 10 11—5 
DOWs Sane. 11 11 10 11 1—9 Chase.... Ol 01 01 00 11—5 
HOES. coe ela 11 11 O1 00 OO—5 Dumean......10 11 01 10 11-7 
French ...,... 00 00 10 11 10—4 Townsend ...10 #1 11 11 11-8 
Ties on 7: McClung 3, Eldridge 2, Duncan 2. 

Sweepstakes at five clay-pigeons: 

EH GUS iw ee ip erbele DIHO=25 Fosse a. UPe en ee uunee 11111—6 
Riutnerrord's yj - hone 01110—38, Mead ... 23... 11110—4 
aitgaveret cyt se 4 x ea ee eae 01001—2 Worsham... .............. 1iii1—6 
Wi0OdS aa) teas ceeds or 11011—4 Slocum ................... 11011—4 
Campbell...... ol cd tea ae! OI10—2" DUCA ns ee eee ae 11101—4 
Armstrong...-........-.-. 1i1j—5  Jénkinss.. on... 10111—4 
OMCs eee ees 0000i—1  Hebbard........ ......... 01011—3 
W Rutherford............. 1111-5 -~“MeClaung,.......-.. 00111—3 
Hiloyesle de cere eee QOMNU—1 (Chase 2. i tasc cece veceeere 11001—3 
Nieholson".20 oof). Geena. 01110—3 Towusend ......-....+.5-- 01100—2 
Wd JROSS ee all teem ate 00010—1 


Ties on 5—Ross 2, Worsham 1, Armstrong 1. ‘ 

Ties on d—Mead 2, Duncan 2, Woods 2, Slocum 1, Jenkins 1, 

Second tie on 4—Mead 2, Duncan 2, Woods 2. 

Third tie on 4, miss and ont—Duncan 2, Mead 1, Woods 0, j 

Ties on 4—Rutherford 2, McClung 2, Chase 0, Hebbard 3, Nichol- 
son 0. 

The Knoxville Gun Club’s tournament will be held May 20 to 23. 
Shooting to be at clay-pigeons and live birds if they can be procured. 
All matches class shooting, unless otherwise specified. Club rules to 
govern. Entrances to matches to be made on the grounds. For 
further particulars address C. C. Hebbard. Secretary. 


NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., March 27,—Mateh for Ligowsky medal: 
; ee 4411111111111111001111111—23 


ee ie ee To ee cad 


the score, he won b 
and Hoody niet penis 


ey SP Tae Soe ; 7 oT rete 
) GUN_CLUB, Ne w Dok; T—Maitoh at pigeons for tite 
medal. a thopliy: rhinh a jebid nenreseutanion « ft 6 sum- 
‘st of Ireland, was won by Mr. William Glaccum, who killed bingy 
light at 25yds. rise. The president, Dr. George V. Hudson; killed 
birds # ds. rise. but one of them fell out of bounds, and he 
captured the second prize, $10 in gold, Following is the score: Wm 
Glaccum 8, L, Viemuster 4°Win. Turner 6, M, W. Murphy 6, Dr, Hud- 
ras ie .Glaceum 5, J, M. Watt 3, J.J. Ryan 4, M, Cherry 4, RB. Regan 

ye lg 


4, Godfrey 6, C. M. Grainger 6, H, Veidt §, J, Fitzpatrick 8, Aus- 
ten MeHale 8, P. Keenan 2, J. Howard 4, J. Measel 5, §. Thrader 4, N. 
a Measel 4, C, Measel 6, H, Mackin 8, Counsellor Cody 5, J, Mackin 2, 
J, Tane 4, A. Otten 6, After the snoot President Htidson invited the 
members of the ciuh to an excellent dinner, The club meets at No, 
55 Henry street the first Thursday in the month, and holds its pigeon 
Bhoo eyery two mouths at New Dorp, It is the only Lrish gun 
lib in the country: It is in excellent financial condition and pro- 
ire to nent ebminddious quarters for club purposes, The following 
at 


e the olfickrs for the text year! Dr, George V. Hudson, President; 
ohn Gla&ttum; ist ied. Presidents John Measel; 2d Vice-President; 
M. W. Murphy, Treasurer; John Guilfoyle; Seéretary: 
_ SOUTHERN [LLINOIS—The fourth annial iiveting and tovnas 
bient of the Southern Ilinois Sportsmen’s Assoéiation. will be held at 
Carbdndale, Ill:, Tuesday aud Wednesday; May 6 and 7; Thé toaima- 
hint will be held Gn the grounds of the Carbondale District Fait As 
Sotiation. Cititen’s purse of $75 o gold, the association medal; and 
other valuable prizes to be contested for. The prize list is extensi vas 
and it nen peed that, as usuae, the toutnaitient will be a most 
enjoyable alfair. Full progtammes may be had upon appli¢ation to 
Secrotaty; Mir, P. Richards. . 
oe TON CITY, Ind.—The Union City Gun Club holds its first, riffe 
and pigeon tournament for the seafon on Thursday, April 24. Three 
remiums to. be awarded: One live deer; a Marhu rifle for fhe best 
vé shots, distance 100 and 150yds., a donble-barrel breechtoading 
shotgun for best average at clay-pigeons,—THomas Jonus, President: 

ST. CLAIR, Pa.—The 8t. Clair Sportsmen's Club held its sixth 
monthly contest for club medal to-day. Clay-pigeons, 2 Ligowsky 
traps, screened, 7yds. apart, third notch, 18yds. rise, angle 30°, direc- 
tion of flight changed for each shot: 


TEP TAEARS - 2500s Sh ee Cale eee a Mists cee 1011101101-7 
Bittle es ah Le eR in eye, wie gee 0011101011—6 
JAVANSi*. 04... “ho > ee ah Se 5 eae ee 010000101 0—38 
SIAM eee ELI SPS NG nt on ae selene hele Os el 0—6 

BEG oe Oe ee, reel Cet ae ' 109000110 0-8 


Aproats having won medal for third time it becomes hls property, 


Ploomileld aventé; Newatk, N, J., there was a live pigeon match be- 
ween Messrs, Miles Jobhsbp and Hieglév, #5 bitds, find; trap; handle 
ahd pull your own, string, for $100.4 side: Jobnsoil: 21¥dg.; Ziegler; 
25yds. Miles was a little rattled atthe start; missing his fitst and 
second birds, so that bets of $100 fo $20 were offeréd that he would 
not win. At this juncture a Philadelphia delegation; headéd by 
Messrs. Robinson, Kleing and Greenwood, arriyed on the ground, and 
the tide turned in favor of the veteran, the betting changing to $100 
to $40 azainst Ziegler, and finally $100 to $5 that Johnson would win. 
M Johnson... 022... cece ee eee eee eee OUT 111111100171111101—18 
Aiegler...... So ees eS Sn eee ecanz4al 11111001000111001111010—14 


A 20-bird race for $50 a side, trapand handle, was afterward shot, 


between Messrs. Ryan and Bunn, the latter winping by Killing 9 to 
his opponent's 6, 

PHILADELPHIA, April 10.—The double-bird clay-pigeon shoot 

otten up by Mr. G. Bragg, manager of the Globe Shon Company, 
n imitation of field shooung, came of at Pastime Park this after- 
nion, The attual rise from the score to the five traps was Alyds, 
A slip wes drawn by the referea and handed to the puller, which con- 
tiined fbh@ nuniber Gf Yards Ur steps that the shooter was to advance 
Letere the tags were to he pulled, the shdofér tiof Knowing how far 
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BOSTON TOURNAMENT.—The Boston Gun Clvb has decided to 
continue a tournament April 16 and 80, and May ij and 14; and the 
New England clay-pigeon team badge mateh will be Gontinued on 
those dates: The highest stores madé so far have been by the Massa 
chusetts Rifle Association. As the dates have been arranged, it will 
be seen that April 30 and May 1 will give shooters from a distance a 
chance to fill the match for the gold medal offered by the club. The 
pana match will be conducted precisely as the great Chicago shoot is 

e. 


_ WHLLINGTON, Mass., April 12:—The leading feature of the Maiden 
Gun Club shoot to-day were the badge and silver cup cotitests. the 
winners in the former being J. Buffum, J, Nichols and FP, J. Seott. 
The silver cup was taken by J. Buffuim, There are four other days’ 
shooting in this contest. 


_CINCINNATI.- Cosmopolitan Gun Club isthe name of a new Cin- 
cipnatignun club. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: Mr, 
John H. Laws, President; Mr. ¥, W. Moore, Vice-President; Mr, J. E. 
Miller, Secretary; Mr. W. H, Campbell, Treasurer, 


dlew publications. 


“ROD AND LINE IN COLORADO WATERS.” 


CHARMING Hitle book with this title has been published by 
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console you for the anticipated dressing because of your interdicted 
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lar circumstanc s."’ Speaking of trout-hogs, he says: ‘‘There is no 
genuine enjoym: at in the easy achievement of any purpose, there is 
no bread so sweet asthe hard-earned loaf of the man who works for 
i. The rule holds good in the school of the sportsman. The fellows 
T have been writing of, liad they their way, would become mere en- 
gines of Gesiruction; they would catch, not for the pleasure of catch- 
ing. but because they could, and a universe of trout would not satiate 
them.” The book is neatty printed and has a map of Northwestern 
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their clubs, and alsd notices in advance of meetings and races, aud 
reports of the same, eis d all inte: : 

requested to forward to FOREST AND StReAw their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt. 


Canseing. 


Secretaries of Gande clube are requested to send to Formsr AND 
eit addtésses; with name; menibership: signals, ete,, of 


Canoersts and all interested in Gaticeing are 


FIXTURES. 


May 30 and 31.—Spring Meet at Newburg. j 
May 80 and 81.—Spring Meet on Connecticut River. 


WHITEHALL 


Cc. C, 


HITBHALL @, C.—Organized April 16, 1883, Commadore, R. E. 

Bascom; Vice-Commodore, EB. P. Newcomb; Secretary and 
Treasurer, W.:W, Cooke, Jr.;, Measurer, W. C. Blodgett} Cook, 
Traneis E, Cooke. Eleven active members; 9 canoes, 1 cutter, 1 yawl, 
i Cathoat, Signal, blue with white stripe two inches wide, wilh red 
ethers, 


THE SPRING MEET ON THE HUDSON. 


OF Friday jast; Messts. Smith, of Newburgh, and Stephens, of the 
N.Y. 6, @., visited the spot onthe west shure of the Hudson 
whete it is proposed to hold thé spring meet, in order to locate a camp 
ground. The point seleeted is about threé miles below Newburgh 
near the Moodna River, Phe gtound FiseS abruptly from the beach 
to a height of 20 or 80ft., at which point are the remains Gf an old earth- 
work occupied by the Continentals im the Revolution, Just back of 
the embankment isa level piécé o£ grotind admitably fitted for a 
camp, and from the rear of itrisesa steep HHl which tsolates the 
camp ground completely. ne ; i 

At the lower end of the fortification is a road Teading to the beach, 
and on the latter a short distance above is a spring of fme water. The 
beach itself shelves gradually, and is composed of small stonés,; hut a 
canoe can easily be beached and carried up. The rise and fall of the 
tide is three feet. ‘ 

Canoeists from up the river can send their boats by the steamer 
Eagle to Newburgh, where they will be stored in the boathouse, their 
owners coming down by train on Thursday evening and paddling to 
the damp, The steamer Melzingah leaves New York eyery morning 
at 10 A, M.. from the foot of West Tenth street, arriving at 3 P. M., 
and returning leaves Newburgh at 7 P. M., reaching New York about 
4AM. She will carry canoes for $1 each way. 

Arfangéments will be made for her to stop at 152d street, near the 
kK. ©. C. house, for the boats on Thursday. May 29, dropping them, if 
the tide permits, at the camp ground, and on returning, to pick up 
the boats at the camp, and Jeave them at 152d street, 

It is proposed to have the camp ready by Thursday, several canoe- 
ists going in advance ta make the nece=sary preparations, the others 
coming by train or boat in the evening. Friday and Saturday will be 
devoted to a series of impromptu races, and those who’are compelled 
to retufn to business by Monday will take the boat or train on Sunday 
evening. 

General Oliver, of the Mohican C. C., also visited Newburgh on 
Friday evening, and discussed the details of the meet with Messrs. 
Smith and Stephens. Itis desirable to know as soon as possible about 
How many will be present, and canoeists intending to do so will 

lease send their names to the Forms? AND STREAM aS soon as possi- 
ble: Further information will be given in our columns, and inquiries 
from canoeists will be answered as far as possible, 


CANOE VS, SNEAKBOX. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 

This “Ganoe vs, Sneakbox” controversy has assumed a different 
aspeét. Originally, as my files show me, it was as to theiv respective 
merits in rough water as sea boats. The question of speed came up 
then, and now, that being dropped, it is carried on by the dragging in 
of an outside question—that of stability. ; 

No canoe owner disputes with “Bojum,” Mr. Wild or ‘Seagull’ on 
that point. Any boat 3 to 5ft. wide. on the same or less length, must 
be stiffer than one of 80 to 3114in. But here, and for a party of more 
than one, gunning in shallow waters, the superior merits of the sneak- 
box ceases. I maintain that the modern sailing canoe will sail faster 
fo better to windward, and live in as rough a sea as any sneakbox 0 
an approximate size. For the general cruiser alone, or in company 
with other boats, on the sneakbox’s own water, viz., open bays, the 
modern sailing canoe is a more comfertable and handier all-round 
boat. 

J am not crazy on the subject of racing canoes, butI am fond ofthe 
excitement of a good race, and never unwilling to take up a challenge 
when fair conditions can be made. I would call your attention to the 
fact that my letter was an acceptance of a challenge made boastiully 
and containing an implied slur on canoes and canoeists. The gentle- 
mim was hopeless of a race under conditions which he stated to be 
so overwhelmingly in his favor, and his tame withdrawal, now that 
his challenge is taken up, is not very creditable. ha 

Tomy good friend *‘Bojum’’ I would say that the conditions he pro- 

oses are of a nature to make a trial impossible. A reefing breeze 
from the southwest with an ebb tide are only to be had by “‘patient 
waiting.’’ While that would certainly be “no loss” in his pleasant 
company, my duties to the N. Y. ©. C. this year will necessitate my 
spending the summer on New York Bay. but all discrepancies of size 
waived, I will be most happy to sail his big sneakbox a friendly race 
to ba and back when I pass through the Sound, as I hope to 
do in July. 

I alan however, that thatrace will not be a test of the respective 
speed and merits of the two models, as no advantage of form ought 
to be able to overcome So enormous an adyantage of beam on the 
same length. I consider a 15ft. canoe a match for any 12ft. sneakbox, 
and am willing to go half way to make a match to prove it. In con- 
clusion I hope that ‘“Bojum,’? Mr. Wild, ‘‘Seaguil,”’ and as many 
others interested in small boats as can, will come to our Newburg 
meet on Decoration Day and see what such yeterans as the owners of 
Dot and Snake can get out of their craft. Itis, beyond a question, a 
work of some skill to sail a canoe well, but the possibilities of the 
boats are much greater thanignorant scoffers are as en willing to 
admit, as several small catboats of 12ft. length have found to their 
astonishment on more than one occasion. Wm. WHITLOCE. 

New YORE. 


TORONTO C. C. 


ORONTO Bay is now (March 29) clear of ice. Mr. M. F. Johnson 

launched his Peterboro on that date, and had a paddle along 

the city front. The othermembers of the T, C. C. areali busy rigging 

up sails, centerboards, etc., and soon 48a pleasant day arrives will 
be afloat, 

Several new craft will be placed on the Toronto Club list this sea- 
son. The first will be 2 16x30 tandem, on the lines published in For- 
EST AND Stream last fall. She will be skippered by Mr. Petman, a 
new member, and is being buili by 8. R. Heakes. John Clindinning, 
our leading builder, has just commenced a new model 14ft. Sin.x31, 
10léin. at gunwale and din, round of deck. She was laid down by 
Richard Jenkins, Clindinning’s foreman, and promises to be a first- 
class all-round canoe for our-waters. It is Jikely she will become the 
property of another new meniber, and if so will appear in the uoyice’s 
sailme race ab Grindstone Island. Her rudder, hatches, etc., will be 
like those on the Isabeland Boreas. Both of the new productions 
will have Atwood boards. In addition to these accessions, two or 
three coon Peterboros ave likely to be purchased and added to the 
club's list. 

The isabel will have a new style of cruising sail this season. It has 
not been tried much, but the captain has such confidence in its turn- 


ing out a success that he has sold his balance lug sail formerly used 


fore 


he Boreas wil be much the same as last season, with the possible 


233 


exception of a largef dandy and the use of the aft centerboard while 
racing. Her owner is determimed that even in a light wind the: 
Isabel must not be allowed to beat the Boreas. _ , 

The Rushton Princess, Sadie N,, Capt. F. M. Nicholson, will be 
tauch improved this spring by the addition of seais on deck, a proper 
deck tiller, and probably an Atwood board in place of the wooden 
scimitar now used. <A large racing sailis also contemplated for the 
August meet. : i 

As already mentioned, Mr. Johnston has ordered from English of 
Peterboro an open 16’%28". . 

Mr, J. LE. Kerr wili attend the °8t meet in a new ¢craff ef some kind,. 
as he has advertised his Racine Shadow for sale, Y 

Mr. F. W. Mason has the Whimbrel, formerly the Fairy, the prop- 


| erty of ex-Commodore Bridgman, almost ready for launching. He 


will also attend the meet. A : ! 

Mr. A. B, Badie is thinking of putting the imported English Nauti- 
lus in commission this season, aid being present at the Thousand 
Tslands in August. Properly rigged and with sufficient sail area, she 
should be fast, bub her length—tlaft.—is against ner in lumpy water. 

The new vice-commodore of the elub, Mr. Stinson, will also be out 
this season in his Racine Shadow; other members will haye the same 
craft as last season. 


* It will be seen from the foregoing that the T. C. C. is still to the 


fore, and not likely to decline. ; 

Some of the members have already had their tiniforms made, and 
it is possible that at Grindstone Island the Knickerbockers and 
Mohicans may find opposition in the ‘‘mashing’’ business at the 
ladies’ camp, 


CANOEING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 


Ww: reproduce the following resumé of canceing 4 Great Britain’ 

from the London Field, as some of the points 4r4 new to our’ 
eanoeists, and ib also shows the present condition of the sport there. 
While iecal conditions have encouraged the growth of a finé élass of 
Sailing e€anoes, and of match sailing, cruising hasrun to thé lowest 
ebb, and as the racing is necessarily more or less exclusive, reqditing 
time; money and skill to take and hold a fair place, the numbers 6 
faters have dwindled toafew, With our larger waters, cruisin€ 
qualitles will always be niost esteemed, and there isno danger of rac- 
ing supplazitinge the more legitimate form of the sport. We wish our 
cousins as much success as has attended us in their similar attempt 
ata yearly meet, The Field says; 

Itis now nearly twenty Years since Mr. Macgregor made his famous 
tour of the rivers, canals and lakes of Europein the canoe which 
bears the name of Rob Roy. It may besaid that Mr. Macgregor in- 
vented this particular type of vessel, and indeed, canoeing itself as it 
is now practiced in England and America. Subsequently the Rob 
Roy made an expedition to the Baltic, and an account of each voyage, 
written in a very fascinating manner, inspired many young men with 
a desire for similar adventures, Disaster overtook some of these, and 
an evening paper of thé day, discussing the subject of canoeing and 
the formation of the Royai€. O©., said that the pursuit “unites the 
maximum of danger with the minimum of utility."’ This criticism ix 
epigrammatic, but scarcely just, aid may be classed with another api- 
gran in the same paper, that a *-Hansom’s cab is very difficult to get 
into and almost impossible to get out of.” 

At any rate, a few mishaps and severe satire did not preyent the 
nautical proclivities of adventurous youths talking the peculiar form 
oz development described as canoeing, That cange traveling fs open! 
to some Kind of criticism appears to have occurred ty the ming of 
Mr. Maegregor himself, as, after describing jhe many advantages 
which a canoe has for exploriug rivers or hidden nooks if kes, he 
says & canoeist may well be asked, ‘Has he traveled in offer ways 
so as to know their several pleasures? Has he climbed glaciers and’ 
Voleanoes, dived into caves and catacombs, trotted in the Nor#ay 
carriofe, ambled of an Arab, and galloped on the Russian steppés* 
Does he knew the charms of a Nile boat, or a Trinity eight, or a 
sail in the #igean; ora mule in Spain? Has heswung upon a camel, 
or glided in 4 sleigh, or trundled ina Rantoone?” Mr. Macgregor 
answers joyfully that he has done all these things, but the pleasure 
of canoeing was better than them all, This was something like en- 
thusiasm, but any one who reads his delightful books will have no 
difficulty in realizing the greek eharm of canoe traveling. 

The Rob Roy, it should be said, could be sailed, and her owner ap- 
pears to have been yery proud of her qualities in this respect; indeed, 
we found in 1866 that sturdy old sea dog, the late Sir Edward Belcher, 
discussing canoe sails, and comparing them with those of the 
canoes used by the Esquimaux, at the Institution of Naval Archi- 
tects, Mr, Macgregor having honored that society with a deserip- 
tion of his vessel and her achievements. But the sailing quali- 
ties of the Rob Roy were not quite so good as her owner thought them; 
at any rate, when Mr, Baden-Powell, a young naval officer, tool up 
with canoes in 1867, he thought more of sailing than paddling, and to 
that end produced the Nautilus, which was almost as distinet in type: 
as the Rob Roy herself. Mr. Inwards, another canoe enthusiast, and 
the first “ntate” of the Royal C. C., ridiculed the idea of a canoe being 
adapted more for sailing than paddling, and produeed the Ringleader, 
longer and narrower than either the Rob Roy or Nautilus, and of 
course very much easier to paddle. Both the Ringleader and Nauti- 
Tus were taken on many long expeditions, and the merits of the three: 
types were warmly discussed. In the end the sailing canoe proved to: 
be the more popular, and it can very well be understood that sailing 
afgords a greater variety of incidents than paddling, from a capsize to: 
a successful thrash to windward, 

At first the sailing qualities of canoes were rather irreverently 
spoken of, and it was not even admitted that they could be made to 
fo to windward at all: but by the aid of heayy meétal center plates, 
lead ballast, and battened sails, they were nob only made to ply to. 
windward, but could do so better than any boat of similar length not. 
provided with a center plate or lead ballast. The advent of Mr. ®. 
B, Tredwen, with his Pearl canoe, did much to show the capabilities. 
of canoes under sail, although it was not in the nature of things that 
she could be so {distinct in type as the Rob Roy, Nautilus or Ring- 
leader, each of which had,in a more or less complete manner, ful 
filled the three possible missions of canoes. Then there came Clyde 
canoes, Humber canoes, and Mersey canoes, each noted for some 
peculiar ‘‘kink or knot,”* by which the type is claimed. The Mer- 
sey, however, is nothing more nor less than a, double-ended boat,. 
with a turtle-back deck, and ought to be placed out of the category 
of canoes. This everlasting “typing” of canoes has undergone even: 
greater extension in the United States of America, where the British 
form of canoeing hasbeen adopted with much yigor, and although 
if may be open to much ridicule, there cannot be a doubt that it tends 
to keep alive the stimulus for canoe building. Old hands, who have 
been through all the variations of sailable-paddling, or paddleable— 
sailing, or paddling-sailing canoes, as defined by My, Baden-Powell, 
smile when they hear of a new type; but in canoeing, as in other 
matters, there is nothing else to do but re-invent. 

The great success of the sailmg canoes and the excitement of 
match sailing made mere paddling appear to be a very insignificant 
affair, and the superiority of sailing as an amusement was cansidered 
demonstrated, because any one could learn to sit in a canoe and 
paddle in five minutes, whereas it required weeks of patient practice 
to learn to saila Nautilus or a Pearl by the wind. The originators 
of the pastime acquired great excellence in canoe sailing, and two: 
or three others attained almost equal skill; but this excessive: 
cleverness disheartened many other beginners, who had not equal 
patience or that intuitive kind of aptitude for the art which no 
amount of practice will supply. At any rate, there is no doubt now 
that, asthe old hands in the natural course of events appear to be 
retiring from the sport, there are no younger men coming on who 
seem to care about mastering all the elaborate details of match 
sailme in canoes. The gatherings on Hendon Lake last season 
showed great falling off, and excited very little interest, even among 
members of the Royal 0. C,, and with the Nautilus, Pearl, Lurlne 
and Merlin out of the way, the contests would mevitably collapse. 
Under these circumstances, it is not surprising to find that the mem- 
bers of the Royal C. C. are striving to arouse a new interest in canoe 
life, and one which seems to be more in accord with the spirit of 
canoeing which existed when the club was founded in 1866. The pro- 
gramme issued by the club for the coming season is much the same 
as in past years so far as racing canoes £0, but the committee have 
set a project on foot for haying a grand meet of canoes on the Nor- 
folk Broads in August. We connot avoid agreeing that thisis a 
moyement in the right direction, and the many successful gatherings 
which American canoeists haye every year—and, mdeed, many such 
have taken place in Scotland—make one think that such meetings 
ought to be popular in this country. A more delightful region than 
the Norfolk Broads could not have been chosen for a canoe meet, and 
one that is fairly accessible for all members of the club, 

Such a project as that which we have just referred to would be 
well worthy of attention, eyen assuming that the interest in racing 
canoes under sail is not dying out. Something required to be done to 
bring the many members of the club together, which match-sailing 
quite failed to do, and we think there is not a doubt that a fortnight 
of adventure on the Broads will prove more popular than four sailing 
matehes on Hendon Lake. Of course it ean be said that sailing woul 
be more popular were it not for the elaborated gear of a racing canoe, 
This may be true enough so far as sailing gues, but when it comes to 
racing, a competitor is bound to use the most effective means for 
achieving success. Ifamanis really fond of racing, and has the 
aptness aud patience to master the art, he will not care whether it 
takes two minutes or two hours to get underway; put the caseis very 
different when a man wants & canoe to sail about by himself for idle 
amusement, He ywants something he can Jump mto and be off at 


it 


once, without having to spend an hour or so over reeving gear, 
arranging ballast, etc. But there are plenty of sailing canoes to 
suit this man, and we have illustrated many in the Field, one of 
which was exhibited at the Sportsman’s Exhibition. Thus, so far as 
canoe sailing per se is concerned, it cannot be justly said that the 
exigencies of racing stand in the way of the pursuit Seine generally 
enjoyed or retaining its popularity. Such meets as that projected for 
August next should show the advantages of a paddling canoe which 
“can be sailed, over # sailing canoe which can be paddled, 


A HINT TO CANOEISTS. 


Wwe would call the attention of canoeists to the report of the con- 
dition of the Toronto C. C., giving, as it does, such an interesting 
statement of the prospects for the season, changes in the boats and 
other details, such as eanceists care for just now. We should be glad 
‘to have simiulsr reports from other clubs, a8 such an interchange of 
anformation ‘will be of yalue to all. 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Thirteenth Paper. 
SAILS AND RIGGING, 


are success of a canoe as a sailing craft depends largely 

on the proportioning of the sails to the boat and the 
work to be done—on their proper fitting, and on the perfec- 
tion of all the smaller details of the rigging. Almost every 
known rig has been tried on canoes, all but a few having 
-been in time rejected, so that to-day but three types are at 
all popular with canoeists—the leg of mutton, the lateen, 
and the lug. 

Before deciding on the shape of the sails, the first question 
is, How much sail to carry? a question only to be decided 
by a comparison with the boats and their rigs. Attempts 
have been made to formulate expressions by which the area 
ot sail may be calculated when the dimensions and weight 
of the boat are known; butin a canoe the greatest elements 
in carrying sail are the personal qualities of the canoeist, his 
skill, activity, daring, prudence and good judgmett; and 
their value is easily appreciated when on the same canoe one 
man can carry 100 square feet of sail, while another will 
hardly be safe with fifty, This being the case it is impos- 
sible to calculate what area a canoe will earry, but a com- 
parison with similar boats will give the average cruising rig, 
the canoeist making such an addition to it as he considers 
will suit his individual wants. 

Another uncertain element in carrying sail is the charac- 
ter of the water on which most of the work is done. If on 
a viver or Jake, among hills, where squalls are sudden and 
violent, the sails should be small, and the arrangements for 
furling and reefing them as complete and reliable as possible; 
if on open water, where the wind is strong but steady, a 
large sail may be carried, fitted with an ample reef for 
rough weather. 

Whatever area be chosen, the almost universal practice 
With canoeists is to carry two sails. The cat rig, though 
simple, requires larger and heavier spars, a large boom and 
a high center of effort, and is more difficult to handle, as far 
as setting, furling and stowing sail, than the main und miz- 
zen rig; and, on the other hand, a jib has been proved to be 
of little use, as it is difficult to set in a boat where the crew 
cannot go forward, a number of lines are needed, it requires 
constant attention, is useless when running, and of little 
benefit when doing its best. By having the bulk of the sail 
forward, it can be easily reached, is always in sight, draws 
well when running, and can be quickly spilled without 
losing the power of luffing, while the mizzen aft requires 
very little attention, luffs the boat promptly and keeps way 
on her, and even if neglected, can do little but bring her into 
the wind. 

In a long, narrow boat like the canoe, the sail should be 
spread well fore and aft, long and low, rather than narrow 
and high, as the propelling power will be as great, and the 
heeling or capsizing power much less, and this end is best 
attained with the main and mizzen rig. ; 

In order to obtain a proper balance of the sails, it is ne- 
eessary that their common center or the point at which. if a 
force were applied, it would balance the pressure of the wind 
on the sails, which point is called the center of effort, should 
be nearly in the same vertical line with the center of lateral 
resistance of the hull, which latter is the point at which, if 
a string were attached, and the boat, with rudder amidships 
and centerboards down, were drawn sideways, it would 
advance at right angles to the string, neither bow or stern 
being ahead. These points would be described in technical 
language as the common center of gravity of the sails, and 
the center of gravity of the immersed vertical longitudinal 
section, including rudder and centerboard. 

The center of lateral resistance can be ascertained by 
drawing accurately to scale, on a piece of cardboard, the 
outline of that portion of the hull below the waterline, in- 
eluding rudder, keel er board, taking it from the sheerplan, 
then cutting out the piece and balancing it on a fine needle 
stuck in a cork. The point on which it will balance is the 
center of lateral resistance. 

To ascertain the center of effort, some calculation is ne- 
cessary. A sail draft is first made showing the sails, masts, 
hull and center of lateral resistance, the scale being usually 
4 or din. to the foot for a canoe or small boat. , 

First, to determine the area of the sail, if triangular, a line 
is drawn from one angle perpendicular to the opposite side, 
or to that side produced, Then the area will be equal to 
one-half of the side multiplied by the distance from the side 
to the angle; for instance, in the triangle BCD in the first 
figure, which represents the calculations of a sail of 89 
square feet, a line perpendicular to C D would not pass 
through B; so C D is produced to g then 12ft, 3in.x7ft. 6in. 
=91.87.2—45.9ft., area of BCD. If the sail is not tri- 
angular it may be divided into several triangles, each being 
computed separately. The sail shown will first be divided 
by the line C D from throat to clew; the area of BCD 
has been ascertained to be 45.9ft., and similarly the area of 
A CD is 42.9, then the entire area will be 88.8ft A shorter 
rule, and one that in most sails is sufficiently correct, is to 
multiply the distance A B by C D, and to take half of the 
product, but ina high, narrow sail, this would not answer, 
as in this case, where 16ft. 4inx12ft. 3in.—200+2— 100ft., 
or an error of 11ft. : 

The area being known, the center of gravity of each tri- 
angle is next found by drawing a line from the middle of one 
side to the opposite angle, and laying off } of this line, as In 
the triangle, B C D, where half of C Dis taken at a, a line, 
a B, drawn, and 4 of it taken, giving the point d, the center 
of the triangle. ‘The point c¢ is found in a similar manner, 
and we know that their common center of gravity must be 
on the line ed. ‘Now, dividing the sail by a line, A B, into 
another set of triangles, A BO and AB D, we find their 
centers at ¢ and f, and drawing the line ¢ /, its intersection 
with c d will be the center of gravity, and’ consequently 
genter of effort, of the entire’sail, 


ry 


To determine the common center of two or more sails, a 
vertical line is drawn just ahead of the forward sail, and the 
distance of the center of each sail from this line is measured 
and multiplied by the area of the sail. In the drawing, 
showing two balance Jugs of 45 and 20ft., the eruising rig 
for a 14x30 canoe, these figures would be 40x5ft. 2in, = 232) 
and 20x13ft. 7in.=273, or 505, Now, dividing this sam by 
the total area of the sails, or 65ft., we have 5°4—7.77, or 7ft. 
9in., the distance of the center of efforf from the vertical 


BRS 


line. In this case, the center of effort of the sails and the 
center of lateral resistance of the hull will fallin the same 
vertical. 

To be safe, a boat should always carry sufficient weather 
helm to luff easily, or in other words, when sailing on the 
wind, the leverage of the after sail should be enough to re- 
quire that the helm be carried slightly on the weather side 
to prevent her coming up into the wind, then if it be left 
free she will luffinstantly. Todo this requires in theory 
that the center of effort should be aft of the center of lateral 
resistance, but in the calculations if is assumed that both 
sails and hull are plane surfaces, while in reality they are 
both curved and the wind pressure is distributed unequally 
over the sails; while the pressure of the wave on the lee bow, 
aided by a decrease of pressure under the lee quarter, tend 
to shove the boat to windward, independently of her sails, so 
that she will have a greater weather helm in any case than the 
calculations show, varying with the fulness of her bows, 
and the center of effort may often be placed some distance 
ahead of the center of lateral resistance. 

It will be seen from this that such calculations are not 
absolutely exact, but they are the best guides we have, and 


if the calculated centers, and actual working in- practice of 
different boats are recorded, a comparison will show what 
allowance is necessary in the case of a similar boat. 

In planning a canoe’s sails then, three things should be 
kept in view; to distribute the sail well fore and aft, keep- 
ing a low center of effort; to keep the latter about over the 
center of lateral resistance, and to keep as short a main boom 
as is consistent with the first point. ] 

Tn order that a boat should sail equally well with her 
board up or down, the-center of the board should come 
under the center of lateral resistance, ‘otherwise, if the board 
be forward and the boat balances with it lowered, on raising 
it, the center of lateral resistance at once moyes aft, and the 


center of effort being unchanged, the greater leveraseis for- 
ward, and the oat head falls off, o oa 

If it is necessary to place the board well forward, it may 
be done by using a small mizzen, areef being shaken ont in 
it when the board is raised. A mainsail is sometimes rigged 
and tried with a cheaply made mizzen of any shape until the 


proper balance is obtained, when a suitable mizzen is rigged 
permanently. 
Se 


NEW CANOE CLUBS.—A club was oreaniz, 2 = 
kosh. Wis., with six active members, all catios Ser crete 
have since joined. We have received the Signal of the lanthe @. CG 
of Newark, N. J. The club now numbers twelve members and nine 
canoes. The club houseis on the Passaic River at Woodside, above 


Newark, 
hii 
achiing. 

FIXTURES. 
May 18.—EKclipse Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 24.—Boston Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 30.—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 
May 30.—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 80.—Newark Y. C., Spring Match. 
May 30.—South Boston Y. C., Spring Match. 
May 30.—City Point Mosquito Fleet, 13 and 15ft. boats. 
May 30.—New Haven Y, U., Opening Cruise. Y 
May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Mateh,Connor and Commodore’s cups. 
June 9.—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 
June 10.—Atlantie Y. C., Annual Match: 
June 11.—Hudson River Y. C., Annual Match, 


12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches, 
14,—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. 0., Annual Matches. 
16.—Hast River Y. C., Annual Matches. 
16.—Newark Y. C., Open Match. 
19.—New Jersey Y. C., Annual Match, 
21.—Hull ¥Y. C.. Pennant Match. 
23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 
24.—New Haven Y. C., Spring Match. 
28.—Boston Y. C.. Ladies’ Day. 
30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 
30.—Eclipse Y. C,. Spring Match, 
4.—Larchmont Y. C., Annual Open Matches. 
4.—Hull Y. C., Review and Cruise, five days, 
9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship, 
12,—Boston Y. C.. Second Club Match. 
12.—Hull Y. C., First Club Match. 
19.—Hull Y. C,, Ladies’ Day. 
26.—Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship. 
30.—Oswego Y, C., Open Matches. 
2.—Kingston, Ont., Open Matches. 
2.—Hull Y. C,, First Championship Match. 
6.—Bay of Quinte Y. C,. Open Matches. 
9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs. 
, 16.—Hull Y. C., Annual Open Matches. 
. 16.—Beverly Y. C., Swampscott, Third Championship. 
, 28.,—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Open Matches, 
. 883.—Boston Y. C., Third Club Match. 
. 80.—Hull ¥. C., Second Championship Match. 
6 —Hull Y. C,, Third Championship Match. , 
. 6,—Beverly Y.C., Marblehead, Special Matches. 
. 13.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


“BAD ADVICE.” 


Apes proverbial jackass braying in a lion’s skin is always amusing. 

A seribbler, who was convicted not long ago of malicious fabri- 
cation in the daily World, has, through some oversight, come fo the 
surface ina paragraph of notice in the Toronto Mail. Guileless 
senility from 2 potoriously incapable source would be passed by 
without another thought, so far as I am personally concerned, but 
friends have insisted that the individual should be ‘put in his place,” 
to double back the arrows of his ignorance, lest they might lodge 
casually in some spot. 

Granting that my letter, read before the Toronto Yachting conven- 
tion, did directly advise and urge the installation of a length and sail 
area rule, my advice would have been in accord with views positively 
expressed by all recognized and tried authorities the world oyer, 

An expert committee of the Y. R, A. Council of Great Britain gave 
simple length measurement full investigation this winter, and de- 
clared that measurement totally unfit to fairly class widely differing 
types. Mr. Dixon Kemp has often pronounced the same judgment. 
The French journal Le Yacht, and the German publication, Wasser- 
sport, presided over by Von Szefkow, of high scientific research and 
great experience, arrive at the same conclusion. The committees of 
experts appointed last year by the New York Y. C., and the Seawan- 
haka Corinthian Y. C., after mature deliberation, with the applica- 
tion of length measurement in local clubs before their eyes, also con- 
demned simple length ye the ground of prejudice to small, snugly 
rigged boats on a given loadline. Thereis a unanimity against that 
custom on the score of its inequity all the world over. Onthe other 
hand, even such clubs and people who have sought to establish it 
upon theoretic derivation have so far completely failed to agree upon 
any underlying theory. The Boston Y.C. and the Atlantic Y, C., 
which pirated its wisdom from Boston, set forth their “belief that 
the speed of boats will compare as two-thirds of the cube root of the 
Jengths, while other luminaries insist that it varies as 
the square _ root. Eyen where such empyrical explana- 
tions are laboriously set up as a shaky foundation, the 
reasoning presupposes the comparison between boats of like 
or nearly lixe bulks in proportion to the lengths. But as in the 
modern practice of yacht racing boats of diverging types and bulks 
on a length are‘being brought to the line, the assumption no longer 
inchides the field and equity no longer exists. Common experience 
tells every man living that a 40fb. canoe or a 40ft. boat of small bulls 
is not possessed of the same innate possibilities for speed as a 40ft. 

acht several times as big. Common sense rebels against racing 

oats even which differ materially in bull on like lengths. And com- 
mon expediency forbids a rule which drives boats of small bulk out 
of existence in slavish deference to those which are large, unwieldy 
and expensive. Untilit can be exactly demonstrated that like lengths, 
without regard to bulk, can produce like speeds all round a course, 
until it can be shown thata 60ft. telegraph pole, whittled into shape, is 

ossessed of the same potentiality of speed as a 50ft. sloop, common 
fairness points the necessity of granting compensation for difference 
in size on a length, unless publie attention is to be focussed into one 
rut and confined to that small realm of experimentation which deals 
only with the largest possible on the length to the exclusion of every- 
thing else which may be preferable on other scores and for other 
purposes, . . ~ ! 

That,in view of the foregoing, a flippant ignoramus, who gives 
no evidence of a single earnest thought in the matter, a hand to- 
mouth scribbler with no worthier aim than to fill space at the behest 
of a verdant master, should haye the effrontery to parade his spleen 
in a supercilious “opinion” concerning my letter to gentlemen in 
Toronto, and should seek to spring a clumsy “brick of the trade” 
upon my audience by indecently prejudging the contents of my let- 
ter, and slurringly reflecting nee lake yachtsmen, is comment 
enough upon the reprehensible dishonesty of purpose animating that 
person. t : : 

T draw satisfaction in the knowledge that during fiye years past his 
“opinions” have never been quoted elsewhere, but have been received 
universally with the contempt of silence, until the Toronte Mazl last 
week fell into his trap, and gave him the advertising of a paragraph 
under reservation, But itis nevertheless repugnant to find thatmy 
work is to be weighed even in a single instance in the scalé against 
the disjointed jabber of an empty-pated pretender. That such per- 
sons are appreciated at their real worth, I am gratified to learn from 
the following editorial in the Belleville Intelligencer of April 8: 

‘We also read in the Mail of Monday: 

“Says the New York Spirit of the Times with regard to the lately 
formed Lake Yacht Racing Association: 7 

‘'t Acting on some bad advice from this city, the new association 
adopted the rule of measurement used{by the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Y. C., but as a trial of that will show its imperfections, thatcan easily 
be amended next year. The lake clubs are to be congratulated on 
having formed this association.’ ” ‘ 

«(The bad advice” referred toisthe advice which was given by Mr. 
Kunhardt, the yachting editor of Forest AND STREAM, an uncompro-~ 
mising adyocate of the cutter type of yacht—as against the sloop. 
Mr, Kunharat’s views areso pronounced as to, perhaps, justly lay him 
open to the charge of bias.’ : 

“Our contemporary is unjust to Mr. Kunhardt, who, while advocat- 
ing the cutter as the fastest and safest type of yacht, has always 
striven to secure fair tests as between the varying styles of craft. 


With this end in yiew he urged the general adoption of bulkkmeasure: 


Se i — mes 


[Arar 47, 1884, 


, —— 
—— 


thent "actual size of hull—as the best means of testing type, 
‘and in this we heartily agreed with him, This rule was in force in 
the New York YO, for several years, but the easy victories of the 
Wacligh enters Madge and Magrie over venterboard sloops of much 

reater capacity gaye assurance that, were a match sailed under fp 
‘one of the big British cuthers forthe America’s cup, that very 
fully goarded trophy, which was at one time emblematical of 


* 
tbe yachtmg championship of the world, would infallibly cross the 


‘herring pond’ in the plate locker of the cutter, So in 1869, owing to 
rumor that a.cutter would challenge for the cup, the New York Y. 
C. altered its rule so as to embrace gail area and length, wider a for- 
tna whieh was less fair to cutters than a rule founded on a similar 
basis which had) the year previous, been adopted by the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y,C,, of New York, which is now the best yachting or- 
vanization at the commereial metropolis of the United States. Hay 
ine thus found that he eould not secure the adoption of a rule which 
would test model and type with absolute fairness, theoretically at 
least, Mr. Kunhardt therefore, like a Wise man, at once accepted the 
fairest rule which he Gould get, and that is the Seawanhaka Club's 
rule, which the Lake Yacht Racing Association has adopted, This 
wuch itis necessary to sayin order to vindicate Mr, Kunhardt—the 
ablest and best writer on yachting topicsin America—from an unjust 
aspersion, and to justify the course of the Lake Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation in adopting the rule of ;meusurement which met the unani- 
mous approval of the yacht clubs of which that body is composed, 

“Hor the Spirit of the Dimes to lecture the Lake Yacht Racmg As~- 
SOGiation as it does is a piece of downright impertinence, That body 
numbers among its members many men far more able by nature, by 
education and by experience to arrive at correct conclusions than 
the yachting reporter of the Spit, who is a mere echo of the 
kid-glove brigade and sea lawyers of the New York Y. G., and 
stupidly sticking to one style of craft will not, despite the hardest of 
hard facts to the contrary, admit that any type of yacht but that 
which his meutors fayor can possibly possess any merits. We assure 
this ‘critic’ that when the L.Y. R, A, want advice they will not apply 
fo him, but seek for itin better informed quarters.” 

Tam sorry to take up so much space with what is more or less 
personal, but it is necessary that the minds of some yachtsmen 
should be disabused, and that the difference should be established 
between the trickery of a witless time seryer and the deductions 
formed by men who have given the subject at least conscientious 
study and who are licnest in their expressions. Lalso confess that I 
resent warmly being mixed up indiscrimmately with the catile 
bellowing and yelping in my wake, seeking to curry fayor with the 
“great unwashed.”? OreP ris 


A CRUISING STEAMER. 


N contradistinction to the extvayagant display steamships build- 

_ ing ab Wilmington is the Mariana, a new cruising yacht built for 
yachting purposes by the famous establishment of Bristol, R. I, She 
possesses all the good points of a cruising steamer, and is remark- 
able for the onivinality of everything about her. At a fracvion of the 
outlay for the Nourmahal or Hlectra, much more practical results 
aré obtamed. The Mariana will out-steam her big sisters in point of 
distance and in speed, considering difference in size. She has ample 
and pleasant accommodations for a family, and we are at a loss to 
know what more a yachting mancan ask. Oarting a mob of guests 
about at sea may afford a chance to lavish wealth, but the occasions 

for such Oriental magnificence will be found yery few indeed in 
yachting experience, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred the 
owners Of the unwieldy monsters will yiew with envy the superior 
hardiness, economy and adaptibility of the Mariana. Fortunately 
fhe people who ean construct Nourmahals must always be few, else 
steam yachting would soon degenerate into steam shipping. Enor- 
mously large yachts are built, with few exceptions, by persons who 
do not know what they want, and are possessed of the fallacious 
notion that size and quality are concomitants, Building large yachts 
for the sake of their size is little better than buying paintings by the 
square yard. Wewrite trom the point of the sporting yachtsman, 
We iknow that a great deal of real sport can be derived from steam 
yachting; hut when sport degenerates into a race for notoriety in 
tonuage, we feel like disowning the monster ships and refusing them 
recognition in the circle of elect. 

We yenture the belief the Wilmington yachts will proye the 
worst investment their owners haye ever made. They are sailors’ 
hoarding houses, consuming and wasting thousands upon thonsands, 
too unwieldy tor handy nearby service, and fit only for yoyaging 

round the world, so far as size is concerned, and scarcely fitfor that 
tn their rapacious coal consumption and limited bunker capacity, In 
comparison with the economical English steam cruisers of the Sun- 
beam aud Lancashire Witch type, of 600 tons, the two Wilmington 
attempts are nothing more than ridiculously overgrown steam 
launches, representing the maximum outlay with the minimum of 
return in serviceable characteristics, 

Per contra, the Mariana is a scheme which fills the bill as a cruiser 
and sthart yessel under steam, though we should certainly prefer 
more tig and more complete equipment aloft, so that sail might be 
used to good purpose in the eyent of running short of coal or a break 
down in the machinery, Mariana is a fine flush deck yacht of extra- 
ordimary strength and ‘toughness’ combined with lightness of hull. 
She carries coal enough in the bunkers for ten days, steaming at ten 
knot speed, an endurance seareely equalled by small English steam 
cruisers and due to the great economy of the Herreshoff coil boiler 
and superb designs for compounding the steam. 

The Mariana is 50 tens CAEP ODES measurement, Length 86it., 
beam 13ft.. and $f. depth of hold with a draft of 5ft. Her engines 
are compound 8 and i4in, cylinders with idin. stroke, Four tons 
of lead are bolted to the keel so secure perfect immunity from being 
tripped in a, sea, and to steady the yacht in rough water. She has a 
bold high side, long easy entrance, light and jaunty stern and a 
plumb stem. The hull is composite, having iron frame with the 
plank screw-bolted and ‘‘edge-nailed” besides, strong enough to be 
rolled down an embankment, The deck is extremely attractive with 
no superstructure but the pilot house forward. Thesmoke stack is 
braced in its construction below, so that no guys are needed, and 
nothing interferes with clear passage fore and aft. She is rigged as 
a schooner without head gear. Below, the accommodations are very 
roomy, light and cheerful, ventilated by large lights in the side and 
mahogany skylights overhead, Her planning and fittings are much 
‘in the style of a smart modern racing cutter. The main companion 
is spiral and lands in a steerage or hallway, on the port side of which 
is a berth and opposite a retiring room. Aft is the ladies’ saloon and 
‘sleeping cabin, having one berth each side and a large double berth 
at the en‘ athwartships. The leet leads through doors into the 
inain saloon, with sofas each side and tabie in center, 

Forward of this is the space allotted to engine and boiler, the latter 
being abaft the machinery, This space is belween bulkheaus and is 
entered by a ladder frem deck. ‘The boiler is of the improyed coil 
pattern, in which a head of steam can be raised in three to fiye min- 
utes. While the mob of stokers aboard a Nourmahal or Electra are 
thinking about loading wp the grates with coal and slowly starting 
_ fives to wait one or two hours before steam is raised, amid smut and 

grime, one hand lights a few chips aboard the Mariana, throws a 
sbovelfull of fuel on top, and at once the gauge begins to rise. The 
Operation may be pertormed by a lady in silks and satins and the 
engine started with little more trouble than getting a sewing-machine 
under way, The room is at all times cleanly and cosy as a studio. 
The space occupied by the motive power is yery small and the bunk- 
_trs handy ai each side. Coal passers fet no show aboard the Mariana. 

One hand, if required, can fire up and attend 10 all below if desired, 
ag tle furnace room is within reach of the man attending the engines. 
Oomparison would be odious between the sweet, cleanand ever ready 
arrangement of Mariana and the ancient, clumsy and time-wasting 
Peat aboard the Wilmington vessels. When steam is up, in 

few minutes the auchor is catted by under-deck hoisting gear oper- 
ated from the engine room, and the pilot in his house sheers the ves- 
sel at will by aes the lever of the steam stearing gear with his 
little finger. The Mariana would be fifteen or twenty miles on her 

_¢ourse by the time the master of the Electra sends below to find out 

whether ten pounds has been raised and the screw can be turned 
_ over, ‘Three hands all told in a wateh will run the Mariana if needs 

ie three times that many would be a short allowance for the 
lectré. Yet Mariana is capable of all and more than the service the 

Tleetra can ever hope to accomplish, She draws but 5ft., and for 

work about the coast, for short runs from residence to place of busi- 
' ness in the morning and return the sane day, she is infinitely better 

ad d than the Wilmington ships, which in fact cannot perform 
uc fh tha be Bile Furthermore Mariana will go to sea and: Stay at 

a Wi ieabest, . : + 

dof the engine space is a forecastle with berthing for cap- 
otlvends of the boat and hold being devoted to  stor- 
king is done in a galley of oil stoves, and no nuisance 

ing up range are permitted, In finish, the Mari- 


ana is stylish all through, without any pretense to lavish and im- 


1 


FOREST AND STREAM, S338 


le eee — 


national competition with yachts from the American side, as they 
proper display which ought to have no place aboard 4 well regulated | would probably refuse to submit to any tax on their beam for thie 


vessel, Sheis a new type of steam cruiser, and ont we welconie asa 


refreshing variety and preatimprovement upon prevajling custionis 
: ork, whose concefitions of a steam 
yacht consist of a dugout with a tug engine and coal yards at short 
intervals, For ordinary day cruising about the coast the coal supply 
We consider she 
riure ahead, and that in time her characteristics 


among the builders about New 


of the Mariana will last from four to five weeks. 
marks anew de 
will find expression in an entire fleet. 


THE LAKE Y, 


R. A. 


T has been further decided that the classes should include yachts 
of 38ft, corrected length aud over, 24 to 88ft., and under 25ft. 
These fleures were adopted in order that yachts accustomed to par- 
ticular classes under the old tonnage rule would continue to race 
with the same boats. A yacht must sail in her own class and no other, 
Shifting ballasts prohibited in first and second classes. First match 
open to the union will be.sailed off Oswego July 30, Kingston will 
2, Bay of Quinte Aug. 6, affording a roundin a fort- 


follow suit Aug. 
night, 


WHICH SHALL IT BE? 


“(paul yacht of common sense—say 30ft. loadline, 8ft, beam, bft, 
hold and 5ft, draft, with 24f. hoist, and 11 to 12 tons displace- 


ment, ata cost of $2,000? Or, 


The yacht of length measurement—g0lt, loadline, 12ft. beam, 6ft, 
hold, 916ft, draft, with 24ft, hoist and 15 to 18 tons displacement, at a 


cost of $8,000? 


Which shall it be? Shall both be allowed to exist. pay for their 
size, through sail area, and the most meritorious of the two survive 


after fair competition? 


Or Shall the large boat smuggle in her power and size under length 
méasurement, ayoid a just accounting, and oyerwhelin the smaller, 
more economical and more serviceable boat, profiting by a rule play- 
ing into the hands of the big and swindling the small, until warped 
Interpretations bestow upon the larger boat’s form praise wrung 
from her smatler sister by brute force, yictories which in truth are to 
be attributed to superior size and not to superior fashioning of body 


at all? 


WANTED, YACHT SKIPPERS. 
Rditor Forest aad Stream: 


Some time since, I read with considerable surprise that the Fortuna 
hove to in a gale, had Jain broad off, and naturally been considerably 
The other dayI had an opportunity of asking 
what sail was she under, and the answer, ‘double reef foresail,’”’ of 
course solved the mystery, and gaye me another proof of the stu- 


swept by the sea. 


pidity of the average yacht sailing master. 


Generally, an individual whose brains seem to have stopped ex 
panding at the age of say twenty-five, and who handles all successive 
vessels in the manner which was applicable to the Mary Ann or 
Betsy Jane, on which he seryed his time, Ibis twenty-eight years 
since my firsb yacht race, and I have seen a great deal of the sport in 
all sorts of boats, and year after year I notice the same mistakes 
made by our sailiug masters. Attempts to carry balloon sails to wind- 
ward, forestaysails held on to when tacking, beamy boats in light 
winds trimmed until the life is all out of them, and then abused for 
not going fast; vessels like Wortuna, with a midship mainmast, hove 
headsail, and yillified for laying wide 
The ouly chanee for an im- 
provement in these matters seems to lie in more study and observa- 
tion on the part of {he owner, and the practice of an understanding 
that the owner is supreme, and if he chooses to lose his races by bad 
sailing he has aright so todo. I should advise all intending yacht 
owners to religiously avoid American masters, above all the fisher- 
man variety, and to select instead Danes, Swedes or Germans, as 
these latter have some idea of subordination, and can be made to see 


to under what is practical 


and being wet, and soon ad nauseam. 


that the man who pays the bills has a vight to giye the orders, M, 


MEASUREMENT ON THE LAKES. 


HE letter below we print by request. Tt was forwarded in answer 
The recipient 
thought well enough of the communieation to read it before the 
recent convention for the formation ofa Y.R. A, The subsequent 
deliberations of that convention resulted, as is known, in the adop- 


to some private correspondence with Toronto. 


tion of the Seawanhaka rule for lake racing. 


benefit of others deriving the same quality from a depth nov taxed, 

The question is then what substiluie to offer, so that all hoats can 
be watched with as much equity as possible. Such arule should 
take no account of model, During allthe agitation of the sniject 
and the numeéetous propositions made, there has been a gradual 
een of the mud,” and we are now able to see abead pretty 
clearly. . 

The propositions have to all intents and purposes narrawed down to 
only two which deserve serious consideration, 

These mve measurement by plain waterline length (with possibly 
some definite limit set to overhang to avoid circumventing the spiril 
of the method) and second, a messuremeut of witerline niodified in 
some way by sail area. 

The first rule is decidedly objectionable because in opposition to 
the first principle seb down. On equal lengths the large boat is cer- 
tain bo drive out of existence the small hoat, Im consequence, only 
the largest and heaviest (most costly) boats of greatest draft and 
running expenses would,atter a while, survive. The siiall boat would 
be forced out of racing and, of course, go under, as all will gradually 
accept the fashion and the economy of the sporn seriously unden- 
mined. In Boston they have already built a sléop of 20 tons displace- 
ment, 1016 tons ballast, and 8ft, 2in, draft, with 82fb. hoist on only Sift, 
loadline -as the direct onuteome of cormpelition under length, Now 
what chance against such a monster can another boat of like length, 
but with 6 tons (reasonable amount for all yachting purposes) ballast 
and 22 or 24ft, hoist possibly have in the majority of cases? She 
would be simply overpowered by her big sister and quickly go out of 
existence. No fair rule should have any such effect, Let A build as 
big as he chooses, but also let B for his purpose build as small on 
the length as he prefers, He may have just as good reason 
for so doing and no one has a right to command him 
to the contrary at the penalty of being handicapped in haying to 
race With much larger boats which may happen to be of same length. 
On the contrary, from reasons of economy aud for shoal water and 
for handiness, the small hoat ought to receive just as much recog- 
nition from a fair measurement rule as the large one, 

We then come to this problem: How can the sinall boat be com- 
pensated in equity as against a large one of like length? The answer 
is this: A small boat will,\broadly considered, cariry proportionately 
smaller sails than a larger and more powerful boat, Hence, if we 
introduce sail area asa factor in the rule, the correction is easily 
made and it only remains to place the proper value on the factor of 
sails in the formula so as not to offer a premium so great upon small 
sails as in turn to bear against large boats and rule them out by toc 
great favor to the other side, This would be altogether 4 matter for ° 
experience to decide by the tentative plan, as no theory can atford 
a hasis for the extent to which sail should be taxed. A comparison of _ 
performance of two well known. boats, considered good or best of 
their kind, will show how much one can allow the other to bring them 
home alike. With that correction applied, any difference at the~ 
finish between other boats brought about, in competition, would rep-- 
resent the superiority in design of the victorious party, 

One objection to such a rule has io be met at the outset. Tt is; 
possible that a large boat, through being cranir or of an unstable form, , 
may actually carry less sail in practice than another smaller, but,never- 
theless, stiffer boat. Hxauyple the Bedouin 434 beam cutter of 104 tons, 
displacement carries the same sail only as the flat broad 8 beam sloap 
Gracie, of 65 tons displacement. Their total size will not show qunile: 
the difference of their displacements, as Bedouin is narrow and sinalli 
comparatively above water, and the Gracie big and heamy, Still-the- 
total size of the Bedouinis perhaps one-quarter more tian that, of) 
the Gracie of same length, Yet she cairies only sane sail area, and| 
would bring her extra bigness to the line free of tax under a sail andi 
length rule in consequence of the foregoing. - hn 

Here that rule would appear to be an unfyir imposition upon tite 
smaller boat of the two. Buta good answer or explanation lies it: 
this: If the Bedouin, owing to her form, gan drive a larger body witli 
same sail as Gracie drives a smaller body, al same speed, so much bie 
better for Bedouin. Sheis really performing a meritorious feat, as 
the largest boat driyen by the smallest sail must be considered the 
most successful and praiseworthy design. Such a design aceom- 
plishes with relatively greater economy what the smaller Gracie only 
accomplishes by the aid of greater sailarea in proportion to hersize. 
Hence the Bedouin profits not by fhe introduetion of the sail factor, 
but really because her narrow, deep form, is so much superior to the 
flat, wide form of Gracie, that she reaches the same speed in spite of 
her (Bedouin’s) greater body with no more driving power. Andifshe 
does this, it is no reason why in equity she should be made to pay for 
that superiority in form due to proportions which enable her to do so. 

Again, a crank boat will carry small sail, and it might be supposed 


the L. and Sail rule would be putting a premium upon bad unstable 
forms. But it does not, because the unstable form carries less driv- 
ing power, and what might be supposed a gain under the rule one 
way is exactly lost in the other. 

The conclusion is that Length and Sailareais equitable as near as a 
tule can be made in practice, in its general application, and that 
under it a person can choose 4 narrow deep type driven with small 
sail or a broad type with large sail, the latter paying for her large 
sail, ibis true, but also receiving in return the benefit of laree driving: 
power. 

: Under this rule, the opposite types of like length can be raved, 
being only asked to put themselves on equality in dvivine power, or 
else pay for the use of more than an adversary. In practice the 


A buffoon in this city, actuated by jealousy, thereupon blurts forth 
his venom in the columns of one of the turf papers of this city, and 
reflects upon the intelligence of the Toronto meeting, with the assur- 
ance that the delegates had acted upon *‘bad advice tron) this city.” 
This particular personage, long a laughing stock to all but the great 
upnwashed,” has proven oyer and over again a cringing time server 
of a low order of intellect, and of too little account in the community 
to waste many words over. The Toronto convention can g¢t the true 
gauge of a charlatan by consulting the record of his own pen. 

The writer of the subjoined letter is not surprised that the meanest 
,newspaper trickery should be resorted to by an unprincipled clown 
seeking to coin cheap capital by the methods of literary ‘‘shysters.” 
But he learns with regret the failure of the sporting editor of the 


ouf even rd 
bringing about the decision of the conference, _ 
The letter was written as a private communication. 


contrary, keeps in view throughout equity for all. 


Finally, no matter what the correspondence may have contained, 
we decline such flattery as the implication that a single letter from 
our pen could turn the heads of all Jake yachtsmen and make them 
accept black for white and white for black, True, no yachting publi- 
cation has eyer exerted such widespread and radical influence upon 


achting affairs as Fores? AND STREAM, that much we know to beso, 


b 


editor of these columns might choose to send forth. 


Tt is our chief eee that in a position before the public, we 
hustle men who earn from us nothing but that con- 


have to meet an 
tempt we feel for the demagogue of the curbstone or the bravo of a 


longer. 
George B. Hvans, Esq., Toronto: 

Dear Str—In reply to your letter of March 201n relation to com- 
ing ¥, R, A, meeting of the Lake yacht clubs, I offer the following, 
hoping it will not reach you too late for your purpose: 

Leaving out of question all that relates to purely theoretical deriy- 
ation of measurement rules, and viewing the subject only in its prac- 
tical bearing, [should say that whatever your proposed association 
concludes to accept, it ought at once to abolish the present Royal 
Canadian L, and B. rule. No matter what type a person may prefer, 
he has no right to force his preferences upon others through prejudi- 
cial measurement. The choice of model shonld be free. The wants 
of all are not alike, and it is not desirable to proscribe those who, to 
meet the requirements of their environs, choose to build different 
from the particular style, to foster which an empyrical rule has been 
setup. Liberty of choice is the only fair basis of intelligent compe- 
tition. No person can assume to dictate what style should prevail, as 
long as opinions and tastes differ. But the style should be allowed io 
grow out of trial of all kinds bya natural process of evolution or 
selection of the best by the decision of each man for himself. Hence, I 
take it, no rule ought to be looked upon with favor which dictates model 
to any sericus degree. A free field and no favor, or else our 
ideas are bound to become warped on the supject of design, as 
if will not be the best boat which wins, but may be only that 
boat which happens to suffer least from improper discrimination of 
a rule showing partiality to one style and nursing it into prominence 
and favor beyond its deserts. Ti can be understood that by such par- 
tiality the best boat may actually be driven out of existence and the 
worst kind may be made to preyail. The door would beshut against 
all ae rovements, variations or new ideas, and the evolution of 
yacht building would come to a permanent standstill with “vested 
interests,” finally so strong that efforts to restore logical methods of 
comparison would be sure to fail. 

My first proposition is that a rule should show no appreciable par- 
tiality to any class of boat, and 4 rule which does so is upon the very 
face of matters ane ica and of baneful influence in the long run, 

For this reason I should say the tounage rule L—BXBx16B should 


94 
at once be abolished for the common goad, no matter what private 
interests it may fora moment affect. Ib has been already materially 
modified in England, where the hold of L3¢Brules are fast weaken- 


ing eyery day. Moreover, it would be impossible fo expect inter- 
7 Ly 


Toronto Mail to distinguish between a private letter written with 
honest intent and purpose, and the brazen chicanery of a vulgar non- 
entity superciliously summing up that letter as ‘bad advice, with- 
owing a word of its contents, or whatinfluenceit had in 


: It contains no 
advice, but seeks to explain the reasons for granting time allowance. 
It champions no scheme for benefitting any style of build, but on the 


ut we refuse to think we are able to rob other people of their own 
straight senses. If the Toronto convention was influenced by the 
letter below, it was because the members agreed with its lozic, and 
were about to come to just the same conclusion by themselves, and 
not because they accepted in blind faith anything at all which the 


gin aes And when estimable publications like the Toronto Maz! 
can be hoodwinked by such worthies, and we are made to sail in the 
same boat with such cattle, we fain would hau] down our fiag in dis- 
gust and turn the wheel of the future over to the sans-coulottes with- 
out further word, in preference to clubbing clowns under hatches any 


greater sail area is 4s often found on one type as upon another. 

If a person takes great beam and great depth and draft, he obtaing 
the largest boat on the length, requires the biggest sail and through 
the sail factor pays for the bigness of his boat, 

Tf a person wants a small boat, takes moderate beam and depth, 
he carries less sail, and throuzh the sail factor of therule, coguizance 
is taken of the fact that his boat is small on the lengih. 

If a person spars heayily or overspars and another builds on the 
same model but rests content with a snug rig, the rule in artificially 
bringing about an equality in the driving power of the two would 
(extranéous causes excluded) bring the two. boats even ot the finish, 
and that would be perfect equiby, as both being like in model, neither 
one can claim superiority over the other. 

Without the sail factor the largest rig would win in the ease cited, 
not from any superiority in the planning of the boat but from the 
fixed, inherent and well-known advantage of excess in driving power, 
to demonstrate which no race is at all required. To eliminate that 
inherent advantage of greater power, the sail factor serves. Then if 
two boats differing in shape or proportions compete, the result has a 
logical meaning, and from it we cam derive a correct opinion of the 
worth of the two forms, 

As to what importance or weight the sail area should be given, it Ts’ 
comparatively a minor question, if the general principles or basis for 
measurement can only once be agreed upon. 

The Seawanhaka Corinthian Y, C. gives if a little more weight thay 
the New York Y. C., and the English proposed rule mare than either 
by the following formula; 

English Rule; L»sail=lonnage. The divisor being a fictitious fiz- 

6000 _ 
ure adopted only to bring out the tonnage about as it is by J 
L. and b. rule to make former time ahieg serve, Saavtanhineacialen 
L+¥/ sail=correeted L. New York Rule: 2L-- ,/ sail—corrected nad 
2 3 

If you wish to bear light on large rigs, follow New York wale. If 
heavy, follow English rule. Ifan average between the two, nearer 
the New York rule a little, adopt the Seawanhaka rule, 

If none of them suitable, compare well-known standard bouts of 
radically different types cf same length, and give such weight to sail) 
area that both (on assumption they tepresent equal talent in the shap- 
ing of thtir lines) shall ba figured at the finish at the same corrected 
ime. 

As for the amount of time in minutes and seconds, only experience 
ean guide. Although theory gives 4 table based upon the assumption 
that speeds vary as 4/L,it does not serve, when length is modified 
by the introduction of sail, at least notin a direct way. If two boats 
with proportionately like sail are supposed to conipare in speed as 
Vl, then those two boats haying different proportions of sail would 
not come up to the theovy, and the difference between their pertorm- 
ance and the theoretic results (with equal proportion of sail) will 

represent the weight to be given to the difference in gail. 

Thus, if two boats 85 and aésft. long, with hke proportion of sail, 
finish, by theoretic formula, 5m, apart, and in practice, with different 
proportions of sail, say 8m, apart, then the extra 8m. isto be laid to 

the smaller sail area, aud the sail factor should have just such weight 
in the length and sail rule that upon applying the time table, ihe 
figuring should just cover or wipe out the extra 8m, So thatthe value 
to be given to sail depends upon the timescale you accept and vice 
versa. 

if you start with the theoretic comparison that speeds vary with 
the 4/L, and first build or adopta time scale on that. then sail aren 
should be given such weight as will cover the difference observed in 
practice with different proportions of sail beyond and above the 
difference déduced from the theoretic coniparison by WL and equcl 
sail. Itis customary to accept for practice only 40 per cent. of the 
theorelic ime allowance, as tal speed would seldom be attained and 
40 percent. is supposed to be the average proportion of the maximum F 
speed the lengths are capable of, which is achieved in actual racing 
Or in short, the factor of sailis a correction of thé theoretic allow 
ance {oaxed upon assumption of like proportions of sail) for those 
variations of sail in practice, not maccord with the theoretic ASsuUmMp- 
tion, Themtention of the correction being to assimilate the differences 


_— 


of driving power to the equality in that respect demanded for the 
equitable application of allowances of time deduced from the com- 
parison of speeds on the theory that they vary as the 4/Length. 

You will find in Kemp’s ‘Yacht avd Boat Sailing,” pages 563 and 
564, a time table figured according to 4/L, but 50 per cent. of theo- 
retic amount is given instead of 40 per cent., asl mentioned. The 

ercentage will be governed hy the prevailing winds, though a per- 

ectscale ought to be adjustable to the strength of the wind for 
each occasion, were it practicable, If much strong racing weather, 
then 50 per cent. If much light summer weather, then 40 per cent., 
and soon. For our New York climate 50 per cent. has recently been 
réduced to 40, as the former tax was deemed too heavy for the avyer- 
age weather, 

Time is computed in any scale or under any formula by starting 
with some speed of which a boat is assumed to be capable, and with 
yariationsin that assumption will ocuur variations in fle seale also, 
after interpolating for other sizes of boats. Thus Kemp assumes a 
boat G4ft. Jong, able to make 10 knots, and upon that deduces the 
speeds of vther lengths as per 4/Ltheory. Had he started with 1014 
imots, all the scale would have been Increased throughout. But for 
practical purposes he is as near the truth as need be with 10 knots 
tor 64£t. Yours very truly, 

New York, March 28. C. P. Kunnarpr. 


THE NEW STEAMER ELECTRA. 


VW 7 glean the following concerning Mr, Blbridge T. Gerry's new 
yacht from the Herald. She ts building at the Harlan & Hol- 
ae eee yard, Wilmington, Del,, from models and plans by Gustay 
Hilman, of this city. Conforms ta Lloyd's specifications, Length 
ee psu rit is 161igft,; beam extreme, 23ft.; depth, 18ft. 6in,; dratt, 
9ft. Gin.: 
Her keel is of the best hammered iron 6in. deep and Qin. thick, 
while the stem, also of iron, is Tin, by 134in.. rabbeted to receive the 
plating, and her stern frame forging is 6m. wide by 314in. thick. The 
frames are of steel angles, spaced 22in.. and are in ‘one piece from 
keel to under side of rail, 3in. by 244in. The floor plates (of iron) are 
2lin, deep at the center and run up to the bilge to a line of double 
their height, with a thickness of 6-16in. under the boilers and engine 
and 5-16in, forward and aft of the machinery, The reverse angles in 
the franes are of steel, 2}¢in. by 2i4in, by 5-16in,. every other one 
running to the upper deck, and one of 1?in. to the cabin deck, while 
they are doubled under the machinery to the lower turn of the bilge. 
There are doubling pieces at all keelsons and stringer angles. The 
keelson at the center is an intercostal plate 6-16in. in thickness, 25in. 
wide, and runs well forward and aft. The side plates are 8in. wide by 
7-16in., and are held to the intercostal by 3l4in. by 8in. by 6t6in. 
angles, while the clips are 2¥4in. by 2i4in. by 516in.- The bilge keel- 
son runs the full length of the vessel. The beams are of bulb T 
steel, Gin. deep by 384in. by 5-16in. for the upper deck, with steel 
Stringers 32in. wide by 6-16in, thick, The deck is of 8-16in. iron 
plates, covered with 3in. square white pine plank, though the cabin 
deck is covered with 134in. Georgia pine, tongued and grooved. All 
the plating is of steel, and varies in thickness from 3 to 7-16in,, the 
ales being worked flush and riveted and strapped as usual. The 
eel, stem and stern framie are double riveted with %4in. diameter of 
rivets, while the garboard and sheer strakes are double chain riveted 
with $4in, riyets, and the balance of the outside plating is single riv- 
eted with rivets 5gin. in diameter, There are six bulkheads made 
water tight of 5-i6in, iron plate, which is stiffened with iron angles 
3in, by 244in, by 5-16in, every 30in., all extending from the frame up 
totheupperdeck beams. The doors in the bulkheads will shut water 
tight, and can be closed from the deck. ! 

The Hlectra is fitted with one inverted, direct acting, surface con- 
densing, compound engine. The high pressure cylinder is 22in. in 
diameter and the low pressure cylinder 40in. in diameter by 26in. 
stroke of piston. All the journals are of such size and length as to 
insure uninterrupted work for any length of time without heating or 
needing the use of water or excessive lubrication when working at 
maximum speed, There isan independent condenser not built in 
the frame of the engine, and indépendent air, circulating and feed 
pumps, and also an independent steam, fire and bilge pump, with a 
blower, which will do much to secure proper ventilation, in addition 
to its providing for a food draft. The propellor is 8ft.in diameter, 
18ft. pitch, and capable of 160 turns a minute. Steam is provided by 
two ¢ylindrical steel shell boilers of the Scotch pattern, each 10ft. 
6in. in diameter by 11ft. long, with two furnaces 42in. in diameter, 
Hach boiler has from 1,500 to 1,600 sq. ft. of heating surface. The 
smokestack is double and fitted with a hood. ; 

On deck forward is a house 27it, long, 9ft. inside, and another aft 
24ft. long. Built of iron with mahogany casing. Pilot houselocated 
in forward structure and a bridge with a wheel is arranged in con- 
nection. Remainder devoted to stateroom wilh companion leading 
below. Under deck are the usual quarters for crew and rooms for 
mate and pilot. Opposite a family siateroom. Abaft this the main 
stateroom of the owner 18ft. long and the whole width of the vessel. 
Connected with this is a ladies’ room 9x11ft,, with bath and toilet. A 
passage way leads along the boiler and engine space to the accom- 
modations att. On port side is the engineer’sroom, on starboard side 
the galley, which is 9ft. long, Beyond these isa large dining saloon 
17ft. long, then a companion with guests’ rooms on either side, with 
cook and steward, wine lockers and store rooms inthe stern. Such 
is the huge white elephant building for Mr. Gerry in the competition 
for making the greatest show ailoat with the Jeast return in sport or 
pleasure ior the largest outlay of money. What the owner will do 
with such a vesselis a problem, and that there is no e¢rnomic rela- 
tion between her size and cost and the sport to be derived from her 
possession is quite certain. She is not to be classed asa yacht but 
as a steamship. 


THETIS.—The Boston Herald gives the following particulars: Mr, 
Henry Bryant will command his cutter Thetis, and Mr, William 
Crocker will be his mate. Tu important races, Mr, Aubrey Crocker, 
the successful captain of the yacht Shadow, who divides with Capt. 
Watson the honor of being the most skillful nayigator along the 
south shore, will handle the Thetis. Length over all, 72ft.: Jength on 
loadline, 64ft,; breadth, extreme, 19ft.; depth, 9ft. Gin.; draft, 8ft. 
6in.; draft, with centerboard, i8ft. 6in.; keel of oak, sides 26in., 
moulded 26in,; stem of oak, sided at head ilin., sided at keel Sin. ; 
post of oak, sided ati head 11in., sided at keel 4in,; floors of oak, sided 
at head 4in., moulded 6in.; first futtocks of oak, sided at head 4in., 
moulded 6x3in, First futtocks are in one piece from keel to gunwale; 
top timbers, sided din., moulded 5x3in.; stanchions of locust, sided 
din., moulded 3in.; clamp, in one length, 64ft. of yellow pine, 12x8in.; 
shelf. in one length, 64f6,, of yellow pine, 13x3in.; beam partners of 
oak, moulded and sided, 6in,; beam of hackmatack, moulded Gin. and 
sided $x5in.; coamings of mahogany, 6x12in.; bilge sitrakes, one 
length, 4x4in., square bolted and clinched with $¢ iron; twelye iron 
floors, 3=2in., arms 3fb. 6in.; ten iron floors, 3xzin., arms iff. 6in.; 
covering board of oak in one length of 65ft., 9in, wide and 214in. thick; 
lock strake, 65ft. long and 3}4x2l4in.; beam ends bolted through the 
lock strake and shelf, 54 iron; steering gear, quadrant and horizontal 
wheel, Chain plates and union plate extend Sift. below the gunywale, 
234s14in. between plank and timbers; centerboard case, first rim 
6x12m.: second rim, 4x12in.; rest, 8x10in.; rails of oak, 64ft long and 
bxzin.; deck plank of selected pine, 2x2in.; outboard planking of 
hard pine. 24in, thick; garboard and next strake of oak, in one 
length; garboard, 3in. on lower edge, the bottom treenailed withinch 
treenails all through and wedged in and out; bottom plank, butt 
bolted with in, copper through and clinched; topsides and wales, 
gquare fastened with galvanized spikes, 6x$gin.; clamp and shell 
holt of 54 galvanized iron; lead keels, weighing 20 tons, bolted with 
144 yellow metal hetween each frame; room of frames, 18in.; center- 
board, 19ft, fin, long, 10ft. deep, 8¥gin. thick; mast, 71ft. iong; at 
partner, 16in,in diameter; main boom, 61ft. long; at sling, 15in. in 
diameter; gait, 35ft. long; bowsprit, outboard, 27ft. long, 18x18in, 
topmast, 26ft. long, 94in. at cap; skylights and companion of the 
Mcintyre patent, after skylight and cockpit circular, and made of St. 
Domingo mahogany. The Thetis will carry two boats, one a Spanish 
cedar gig 19ft. long, 4ft, 3in. wide and 20in. deep, and theother a 
working boat 14ft. long, 4£t. bin. wide and 22in, deep, 


LAGONDA.—Mr, J. C. Hoagland’s new steamer waslaunched April 
8, from Mumm's yard, Bay Ridge. She is 130ft. on deck, 120ft. on 
water line, 19ft. Gin. beam and 10ft. hold, with 6ft. 6in, draft. Will 
receive her machinery in Wilmington from designs by Chas. Emory, 
Gylinders 14 and 24in. by 16in, stroke. Boiler of the Scotch pattern, 
9 by ft. fin, Space ocenupied fore and aft by the motive power, 26ft, 
Engine will be forward of the boiler, Bunkers for 40 tons. lush 
deck with open iron rod rail, Pilot house forward 16ft. teet long, 
Least freeboard 5ft. Kigged asa schooner. Accommodations con- 
sist of a saloon abaft the mainmast, stateroom each side of compan- 
fon and a large owner’s room with bath, etc.,forwardof saloon. All 
forward of machinery given up to crew and officers. Cabins finished 
in bird's ¢ye maple and mahogany. Wighteen 9in. lights each side. 


SINGLEHAND SAILING.—Onr Paris contemporary, Le Yacht,tis 
republishing, with illustrations, the series of articles on_singlehand 
sailing we wrote for these columus some time ago, Le Yacht is 
pleased to remark: “The articles denote a deep sympathy and loye 
fora boat on the part of the author, and a complete practical experi- 
ence, The composition of those articles is as fascinating as instruc- 
tive, and for this double reason we believe them well worth reproduc- 
tion, conserving their original character, which gives such pic- 
furesqueness to the description, and grace of style of the author,” 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


ATHLON,—The new deep centerboard, built by John Mamm, of 
Bay Hidge, for Dr. J. U. Barron, has heen Jauncheti and is fast filting 
out for the campaign. In point of model she is clean cut and fair and 
gives pronuse ol a food record, In pomt of rig she is a cutter in 
principle so far as Bay Ridge dared yentyre upon such an innovation. 
The torestay has been carried ont 6ft, on bowsprit and it is hard to 
say whether she carries jib and flying jib or foresail and jib, This 
will put the skipper in a quandayy as to what plan to show ina 
breeze. Jib only would be almost too small and far out ahead, and 
yet foresail oniy would be a ludicrous and lubberly arrangement, 
When Athlon’s rig was determined upon, it was supposed to be 
something original, us Bay Ritlge is constitutionally opposed to learn- 
ing too much ata jump, The sloop being now in bad odor, was no 
longer wanted, and the cutter too advanced for the loeal mind, Be- 
sides, all good patriots disdain to copy the cutter outright, though 
they come it neyertheless in the end. So things were split up half 
way aboard the new Athlon with the result that she is a half breed in 
rig with few of the good attributes of the cutter, but, enough of the 
sloop left as salve to the good patriot and in deference to the love of 
old. It is more than likely that Athlon will soon discover in her rav- 
ing cateer the value of shifting jibs to adapt her sail plan nicely to 
the occasions, and that in a season or two the half-hearted copy of the 
cutter will give way to an arrangement more creditable to all con- 
cerned, Of course this is high {reason to tradition, bub Athlon will 
come out a full fledged cutter in due season, as all smart racers are 
sure to do with the acquisition of greater experience. Athlon is 58ft. 
over all, Sift. Gin. on water line, 17ft, din. beam, 7ft. Gin, hold, and Gft. 
draft without board, Keel post and stem of oak. Frames of hack- 
matack din. sided and Yim. moulded at heel, reduced to 4in. ab head, 
Plank of 2)jin. yellow pine with oak topstreaks, Decks of 2Uin. 
square white pine. Cabin house is the stereotyped, i5in. high and 
24ft. long; locust stanchions. Wastenings galvanized nail work. 
Shelf clamp 4x6in,, through riveted. Finish in mahogany. Spars as 
follows: Mast, over all, 62ft,; deck to hounds, 49ft'; masthead, 7fb_5 
topmasit, 35ft.; boom, 50ft.; galt, 31ft.; bowsprit, outboard to stay, 
2dft. Accommodations below include small stateroom each side the 
companion ladder, saloon 12ff. square, owner’s room ft. long, with 
bathroom on starboard sidé forward and guests’ 1oom to port, also 
pantry, kitchen, ete, Finish in white ash with mahogany trimmungs, 

NEW SLOOP.—Miller Bros., of Ohieago, haye a new sloop under 
way, from a model by Cuthbert, According to the Toronto Mail, she 
is 50f¢. over all; length on water line, 45ft.; length on keel, 40ft. ; beam 
extreme, J4ft. 10in.; depth amidships, 5ft. din.; draft aft, 4ft. 6in.; 
draft forward, 1ft. 6in.; length of centerboard, 12ft. 2in.: drop of 
centerhoard, dft.; frames. double, of oak, 5in, moulded 2in. sided; 
2lin, between centers; keel, oak, 9in. moulded, 6léin, sided; plank 
sheer of oak, 9 by 3; mast,deck to cap, 48ft.; mast deck to hounds, 

43ft.; Mast doubling, 5ft.; topmast, extreme length, 24ft.: bowsprit, 
outboard, 24ft.; inboard, 4ft.; mainsail hoist, 33ft. 3in.; mainsail foot, 
44ft.; mainsail after leach, 54ft,; mainsail on pratt, 2d6ft.; jib after 
ee 39ft.; jib foot, 28it.; jih on stay, 48ft. 3in.; mast from stem, 
’ rat 

NEW BOOKS.—From Noria Wilson. 156 Minories. London, we 
have received a neat little volume eéntaining all the laws and recula- 
tions governing the ownership ofuyachts in Great Britain. It is 
entitled, “Yachting Under Statute,” andibeing compiled by B LAY, JB, 
Preston, a lawyer versed in maritime bffairs, supplies a wanbuyery 
generally experienced, No owner abroad#ean any longer “\jjlead 
ignorance of the lay. as the little volutmhe.-covers the whole gvouwnd 
including interpretations of the courts as tovebponsibility, insurance 
claims, shipping articles, liabilities, navigatibullawsuct the: PWAROUS 
authorities controling the chief rivers and harbots;ete,; aiwalrelat- 
ing to yachting in America are much simpler; hat still ‘siarilaripub- 
lication on this side of the Atlantic will be needeanbéforeidengiis the 
yalue of property at stake is increasing very fasty 5-1/1 oi JdsiG6 

NEWARK Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, #41, Grover, 
Vixen; Vice-Commodore, J. W. Williams, Onward; Ties xl Shes) BE, 
Cameron, Emmy C.; Secretary, A. F. Adams, Ramb ens Messurer, 
G. Hartung, Jr., Mand L.; Regatta Committee, C. E. Cami ron, ~hair- 
man; A, ¥, Adams, Secretary; J, Skellenger, B. H. Price and‘. M. 
Grover. Opening race on Decoration Day. June 16, open Bi teh, 
free to all, Six classes cabin sloops, jib and mainsails over 24ft., 
over 20ft., and under 20ft.; cats over 18ft,, under 18ft. Prizes, $20 
eash, with entrance $3. 

SOUTH BOSTON Y. C.—Has 158 members and 9 honorary mem- 
bers. Uxpenditures for past year $1,869. Has jomed the New Eng- 
Jand Y. R.A, Officers for the year: 
the North Star; Vice-Commodore, J. W. Sherman, Jx., of the Heho; 
Fleet Captain, O. L. Braman of the Zulu; Measurer, James Bertram 
of the Sylvan; Secretary, John Winniatt of the Blush; Treasurer, 
Thomas Christian. Regalta Commiittee—S. A. Crowell, John Ber- 
ae C. McKenna, H. J. MeKee, J. E. Chandler, R. V. King, F. G. 

ooley. 


AMERICAN Y. C.—The steam yacht club has elected the folowing 
officers for the year: Commodore, G. S. Seott, Viking; Vice Com- 
modore, A. De Cordoya, Promise; Rear-Commodore, GC. ¥ Timpson, 
Julia; Treasurer, W. B. Dowd; Secretary, H, A. Taylor. Trustees—J. 
A. Bostwick, Orienta; J. C, Hoagland, Lagonda; H. A. Taylor, 
Sphinx; A. De Cordova, Promise; 0. FE. Timpson, Julia; F. R. Law- 
rence and W, B, Dowd, After making first payment for new harbor 
at Charles Island, the treasurer reports $16,000 on hand. 


DORCHESTER Y. 0.—Has 227 members. Fleet comprises 36 sloops, 
45 cats, 2 cutters, of which 32 are keels. Club willjoin New England 
Y.R. A. Bxpenses last year were $460. Officers elected: Commo- 
dore, 8. P. Freeman; Vice-Commodore, Dr. C. G. Weld; Secretary, 
Edward G. Chase; Treasurer, C. H. Whiting; Measurer, Hartford 
Davenport. Directors—W. H. L. Smith, C. Barnard, C. H. Nute, Dr. 
L. D. Shepard. Regatta Committee—s. G. King, C, H. Whiting, 
Erastus Willard. H. B. Callender. 

ORION,—This historic cutter, in which Mr. R. T. McMullen made 
the memorable yoyages subsequently transferred to print in the 
*Oruise of the Orion,” ete., and inthe columns of ForESTAND STREAM, 
is now offered for sale, as her owner is obliged to retire from active 
sea life. Sheis of twenty tons, strongly built of hard wood and 
copper fastened, looks like a new vessel and likely to last another 
fifty years. Thoroughly rigged and equipped, capable of navigating 
round the giobe. 


THE NOANK SCHOONER.—Dimensions of Mr. H.D. Burnhani’s 
new schoouer building by Palmer, of Noani, are as foijlows: Over all 
115ft., beam 23ft., hold 10ft., draft 12ft. She is a keel vessel of whole- 
someform. Working sails 13,000sq. ft-, lower sails of 14in. No. 1 
duck, Spars as follows; Mainmast 87ft. Gin., foremast 86ft,, main- 
boom 70it., maingaff 83ft,, foreboom 32ft. Gin., foregaii 29ft., bowsprit 
outboard, 21ft., flying jibboom 25ft. outside the cap, fore and main 
topmasts 40it, 

OSHKOSH Y,. C.—We have received the new club hook, containing 
list of 128 members, constitution and by-laws, eic. The club now 
measures by multiplying mean length by greatest girth wherever 
found. Club signal is a red poinved burgee with white Maltese cross, 
Officers: Commodore, Geo. W. Burnell; Vice-Commodore, John 
Dickinson; Fleet Capiain, A. H. Woodworth; Secretary, G. M, Has- 
brook; Treasurer, Frank Heilig, and Measurer, 8. P. Gary. 


IMMENSE DRAFT.— What length measurement leads to, is shown 
in the boat J. H. Buckley, of Boston, has built for himself this winter. 
Length, 24ft.; on Joadline, 21ft.; beam, Sit., and draft, bit. On keel 
is a lump of 900 pounds and 1,500 pounds inside. Hoist, 1$ft.; boom, 
2aft. ; gait, idft.; bowsprit, outboard, ft. Six feet draft on 217t.loadline! 
Can people close their eyes to the pressure upon model exercised by 
the length ruje in face of such evidence? 


MAGGI.—This beantiful cutter has been receiving more lead on 
the keel, and with alarger rig this season, ought to make it pretty 
warm for all comers, including the sloop Vixen. It will be remem- 
bered that Maggie does all the pointing you can ask for but failed to 
foot like Vixen for want of sail, though she has shown herself good 
enough as it is, for all the rest who tackled her. 


CLEVELAND Y. A.—Officers for the year: Geo, W. Gardner, Com- 
modore; P. W. Rice, Vice-Commodore; W. TH. Eckman, Rear Com- 
modore; J, Geo. Downie. Secretary; H. G. Phelps, Treasurer; Henry 
Gerlach, Measurer; B. Lyman, Surveyor, Executive Committee— 
R. BE. Mix, W. Scott Robinson, Joseph Corrigan, H. D. Coffinberry 
and N. P. McKean. 

PETREL.—We hear this smart cutter has been sold to Mr. Steveus, 
of Hoboken. We hope the Petrel will ba put in thorough condition 
and ship a live crew of lithe and qnick-witted amateurs, in which 
ease Fetrel ought to make a clean sweep of her class fram here to 
Maine. Those who really know the boat concede her to be the fastest 
of her loadline. 

QUINUY Y. ©.—Will join New England Y, R. A. Officers for the 
year: Commodore. George W. Morton; Vice-Commodore, C. F. 
Adams, 38d; Fleet Captain, P. B. Turner; Treasurer, H. H. Sheen; 
Secretary and Treasurer, N. B. Furnald; Regatta Committee, B, FE. 
Bass, G. C. Adams, George H. Hitchcock and J. EH, Maxin, 


STEAM LAUNCHING.—Wood Brothers, of East Boston, haye been 
busy with launch work all winter, They have nearly completed one 
of S0ft., and will start another for Mr. S$ Pickering, to be a7ft, long, 
28ft. Gin, water line, ft. beain, ft. depth, 4and 7x7 compound én- 
gine and coil boiler. 

ANOTHER CUTTER.—They are turning them out fast in the Hast, 
by the dozen in fact. Jacob Rood, of East Boston, is at work ‘on. a 
cutter 3ift, over all, 26ft. loadline, 7ft. Sin, beam, and 6ft. draft, 
Sails by McManus. 


Commodore, Henry Hussey oft)’ 


RACING UNDER STEAM.—The secretary of the American ¥,0, 
has issued a letter proposing # series of steam Traces this year, open 
to all clubs, and suzgests correspondenecé on the subject trom all in- 


terested so as to make suijable arrangements for the equitable test 
of steam tonnage. 


SEAWANIIAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C.—Iereafter five professionals 
will be allowed for schooners, und four for first-class cutters in the 
Corinthian races. This is on the English plan, and will be productive 
ofmoré entries. as large vessels are difficult’ to man with Gaorintii- 
ang throughout, 


XANTHI—Is the name of anew steam yacht built by th HPeS- 
hotis. of Bristol, for Mr. J. B. Watkins, of. Lakes Canales, pea teks 
all. 45tt.; waher line, 41ft.; beam, 9ft.; depth, 4t. 8in., and draft, tt. 
$m, Oylinders, 44 and 7%7in. stroke, taking steam from a eoil boiler. 


ROYAL BERMUDA Y. G.—Officers for the yeav: Conimodore, Stail 
Commander W. Scobell Clapp, Royal Navy; Viee-Commandove, Laeat: 
P. C. Gubbins, Royal Boginvers; Kear-Cornmolore, James L, 'trim- 
ingtam. Comittee of Management—R. D. Darrell and @, H. Santi. 


_SPRING CRUISING.—On a recent cruise the entter Surf, dofb. load- 
line, ran with quartering wind from Oyster bay to New London in 
12h, stm., from anchor to anehor; distance 95 uawutical miles, Next 
day, close-hauled from New Loudon to Northport during dayliz ut. 


LYNN Y. C.— Officers for the year: 
Commodore, J, F. Lee; Meet Captain, W. 8. Doak; Secretary, W. B. 
Newhall; Treasurer, C. Bb. Taylor; Regzatia Comoiittes, W. Ml. Rand, 
W, Hawkes, C. H. Lockhart. W. 8. Newhall and F.S, Newhall. 


ON SPECULATION.—D. J. Lawlor has put up.a schooner for sale. 
Length, 80tt.; beam, 18ft.; depth, sft. _ Michae! Horton has got out a 
keel sloop 25ft. long. 9f¢. beam, 5ft, Gin. deep, and Sit. dratt. Both 
are offered to buyers. 

ANOTHER GOOD RECORD.—#ditor Fovest and Stream: The 
record of the Gleam is no better than that of the Boston sloop Hera. 
She won four races; all that she started in, aud the plizés amounted 
to $1,600 —C. GW. 

SURP.—This seven-ton cutter has heen in com mission, and ervising 
since early April. She was the first to show a yavht’s burgee in tow 
Sound ports. Had some strome weather, but the cruisiug was enjoy- 
able nevertheless. r 

THOUGIIT SO.—Last year Mr. J. B. Bake, of Harrison Square, 
Mass., had a huge catboat. built, over 30ff. Jone. She is new to be 
altered toa sloop. Simplicity is one thing, practical ecoliomy a muen 
better thing. 

“HUNT'S” FOR APRIL.—The last number of Hunt's Wagazine is 
more than usually full of interesting yachting sketches, among which 
we note wilh pleasure the acconnts of several crniges in small bouts. 

_ NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. —The April number of this London ya 
Jication contains some instructive articles ou Compulsory pilotage, 
Stability of ships, navigation, and merchant Shipping affairs. 

BOUND THIS WAY.—New York gentlemen haye bought the Bos- 
ton keel sloop Gracie M., hauled out at Hutehiugs & Prior’s, Uity 
Point Sheis to receive an overhaul and have her name ehanged. 

NEW CaT.—Harris, of South Boston, has launched a cathoat 21ft. 
sin, over all, i7ft, 10in, loadline, 8ft. 4in, beam, isin. draft, Sin, for- 
ward, Hoist of mainsail, 19ft. bin.; boom 22ft., gatt 13fb. bin, 

ANOTHER CAT,.—Borden, of South Boston, is huildiig for J.P, 
Bullard # cat 19ft. over all, 15ft, bin, loadline, 7ft. beam, and {din, 
draft without board. Hoist 14ft. Gin., boom 19fb,, att 11ft. 

NEW SCHOONER.—Mr, I. W. Coilender is haying a keel schooner 
builbat Bay Ridge. Length &7ft., waterline 76ft,, beam 21ft, 4in,. 
depth 9ft, Gin., draft 8ft. 10in. ‘Yo be named Speranza. 

NEW CUTTERS.— Toronto is building a smart 65-ton cutter, of 
which particulars later. Quebec fentismen advertise for a 2U-10u 
cutter to be delivered in Quebée from England, 

NICE REGATTA.—The Boston schoouer Citana won the big purse 
for,yachts over thirty tons ona sail over, the only other entry be- 
ing the small English cruiser Gladys. 

ORICKET.—This Boston sloop has become the property of J, Q. 
Adams, who proposes to put her in racing trim. She is 29ft. 4in, Joaa- 
line, 11ft. beam. and 7ft. Gin. draft. 

NEW YAWL,—Lawley & Son are to build a yawlrigeed yacht 24{ft, 
loadline, 6ft, beam, and 5tt. draft, with 4 tons iron on kewl, for Mr, 
Wellmay. She will be named Fad. 

HULL Y¥. C.—The appointments for the season will be found in 
our fixtures. They include a five days’ squadron ernise in midsum- 
mer. 

SMALL CUTTER,—Mr. John W. Truesdell, of Syracuse, is having 
a 20ft. cutter built. McManus & Son, of Boston, will supply the Mg. 

NEW CUTTER.—H. A. Davis has laid the keel fora 30ft. stunner 
of the modern style, at his yard, foot of Marion street, asl Boston. 

THE PILOTAGE BILL.—Remarks will be found on the editorial 
page, which we trust may have the desired effect before Congress. 

HUNTRESS.—Webber & Son, of South Boston, will launch a new 
sloop 26ft. 8in. long, 10ft, 2in. beam, with 1.000168. on the keel, 

* SARAGEN.—This is thename of Mr. Fowle's new 22ft. entter built 
by Lawley & Son, She is a promising craft, 

RAJAH.—This is the name of the new culter building in Green- 
point for Com, Beecher, New Haven Y. C 

SAPPHO.—This famous schooner is now in the hands of Mr. W. PF, 
C. Wigston, and Jies off Cowes, England. 

NEW ENGLAND Y. R. A,—Tirst annual meeting at Parker House: 
Boston, April 23. 

NAUTILUS.—This 40ft, schooner, of Boston, is to haye 134 tous 
iron on the keel. 

LESLIE,—This Boston sloop, 22ft. long, will receive new iron keel. 

MONTAUK.—Arvived at Kingston, Jamaica, April9, All well. 

AMY,.—This Boston sloop, of 30ft. will receive 1,00UIbs, on keel, 


Commodore, BE. 0. Neal; Viee- 


Answers ta Correspondents, 


{" No Notice Taken of Auonymous Correspondents, 


i, A, R., Baltimore, Md,—Can find no trace of ib. 
R. T. D., New York.—See answer to ‘‘Razor” this week. 


J. L, N., Philadelphia,—The cheapest and best way wonld be to 
take it to a gunsmith, 


W, A, Bay View. Mich.—Grease is a lubricant. 
beef or mutton, is very good. 


W.M. &., Philadelphia, Pa,—The gun you mention isa good and 
safe arm, and worth the price asked for it. i 

C. H, C., Philadelphia, Pa.—‘'Training vs. Breaking" will tell you 
how to teach your dog to retrieve. Wecan send if. Price $1, 

C, H.S8., Hartford, @onn.- Such a canoe sliould need uo ballast 
besides the weight of her erew. The bostis smaller than is custom- 
ary for sailing. 

W. T. B.. Brooklyn.—The gun you mention is 4 good shooting gun, 
and the other is also good. We cannot recommend one over the 
other. You had better consult a gun dealer. 

Razor, Wrightsville, Pa.—i. Tt will be safe to show her. 2, Ste 
Forest AND STREAM, Feb. 2, 1882, for article o1 conditioning dogs tor 
beneh shows, 38. An ordinary collar and chain willauswer every pur- 
pose, 

W. G. D., Boston, Mass.—1. Yes, 2. Generally from nine to twelve 
months old. 3 We prefer to commence training 4 dog when two or 
three months old; six months is not tea old, if he has not been tani-~ 
pered with. 

Waturox.—!. A mature pure whire setter we have nryer seen, al- 
thouch we have seen many that came yery nearit, If your biteh is 
absolutely free from any other color, we should like to see her, as she 
would be quite a curiosity. 2, Thecoloris not an indication of impure 
blood, ‘ 

#. G. B., New Britain, (t.—Stonehenge says that the coal o£ ihe- 
cocker spaniel is ‘Hat. slightly wavy.”’ The standard of the Amer 
can Corker Spaniel Club says, “Straight or wayy. but without curl” 
and that of the International Cocker Spaniel Association says. 
“Straight or wavy, but without distinct eur!,* 

W.P. C., Elmira, N. Y.—l, The game projectors are appomted by 
the Governor. 2. At requesb of protector or other ofiicer, district 
atlorney is required to prosecute, and is empowered to make requisi- 
‘tion on county treasury for necessary funiis. We can send you the 
law in full; price twenty-five cents. : 5 

M. A. B., Olean, N. ¥.—Is there any Jaw compelling owners of 

dams, in the State of New Youk, to paid lishways over them? Re 
We were of the opinion that such a Jaw was passed bu: 
to findit. We wrote to 


Tallow, either of 


Gen. R. U. Sherman, secretary of the Boaré 
of Fish Commissioners, anal he replies that’ be Siete nolaw 


t have foiled 


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this kind except in the case of the waters flowing from Cayuga Lake 
into Lake Ontario. In 1862 a law was passed covering the dams in 
these waters, but we do not think that a general law covering the 
whole State was ever passed. All the dams on the Seneca and Oswego 
-Tivers belong to the State and fishways were placed on all except two 
of them last year. 


A. M. H., North Springfield, Mo.—Where can we of this region be t 
obtain brook trout to stock our streams, and which is best to place in 
them, the spawn or the live fish? Ans. Perhaps the Fish Commis- 
siofers of Missouri may have them. They are John Reid, Lexington; 
J. G W. Steedman, 2,803 Pine street, St. Louis, and_Dr. J..8. Logan, 
St. Joseph. If they have none, you may write to B. F. Shaw, Ana- 
mosa, Iowa. 


TeyorAmus, St. Johns, Mich._There is no such book published at 
present. The papers on ‘Canoe Building” now appearing in ForEstT 
AND StREAM will be published in book form when completed. 2. The 
“Long Lake” is not a canoe, but a bort used by the guides in the 
Adirondacks. They are about 16ft.x8i¢ft,. sharp at both ends. 3. 
The Pearl, and also the canoe spinaker will be described in ‘‘Canoe 
Building” shortly. 

C.D, W., Portland, Mich. —Will you kindly inform me as to the best 
works extant on ornithology, also cost of same? Also best work for 
abeginner to study? 2. Is it good or bad shooting to put 225 pellets 
inside a 80-inch circle 46yds.,distance, load 11g ounces No. 8 shot? Ans, 
We regard Coues’s “ey to North American Birds,” pace $7, as the 
most useful book fora beginner, There are many other works vary- 
ing in price from $1,500 to $2.50. 2. Very good, 


Ro, Detroit, Mich.—1. Is it possible to procure a good serviceable 
camera (nothing fancy) with a lens capable of doing good work on 
interiors, exteriors, landscapes, machinery, etc. 2. What lens for 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


4, Will single achromatic lens do good 
interiors, etc., or will outside lines be 
curved? Ans, 1, Yes. 2. A platyscope costs about $320, 8, Camera 
for view 5x8 and above, lens about $90; with single achromatic lens 
ahout $65 4, No; lines willbe curved. A double lens only will take 
straight lines. Wesend you some views taken with single lens. 


E. B. B., Greenport, &. 1,—Where can'T gbtain Schultze gunpowder, 
and also is the Col. Hawker ducking powder a good article? I use 
breechloaders, and my shooting is mostly ducking at long range. I 
have found Hazard’s DS. to be quite good, but I want a strong clean 
powder. Ans. The Schultze powder cannot be obtained in this coun- 
try. Hawker ducking powder is made by Curtis & Harvey (English), 
and but little of it isimported. Can sometimes be procured, but not 
often, 


G. H. G.—1. To settle a dispute please tell us whether good English 
guns can be bought for less money than American guns; 2 friend 
says that they can. 2. Same party says that in order to be a good 
snap shot one must commence shooting that way. I said it was the 
wrong way for an amateur to practice at first, that “deliberate shoot- 
ing” was essential to make a good snap shot. Please give us your 
opinion. Ans. 1, Yes. 2. It takes long practice to become a good 
shap shot, but it comes more natural to some than others. 


W.H.D.B., Montrose, Pa.—1. What do you consider the best length 
of barrels, weight and size bore, for a double-barreled shotgun, for 
all kinds of shooting? 2. Should it be choked or cylinder bore? 3. 
What is your opinion of an English double-barrel gun (new) with all 
improvements, laminated barrels, that a dealer can afford to sell for 
$25, and is such a gun preferable to an American gun (new) that 
could be bought at the same price? 4, Do you consider a .32-caliber 


‘price for such an outfit? 
square work on machinery, 


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‘above purpose would you recommend? 3. What would be reasonable 


Winchester rifle suitable for deer shooting, if not, what caliber would 
be allowable tor shooting squirrel, duck and deer? Ans. 1and?. We 
should select an eight-pound, 12-gauge, 30-inch gun, right hand cylin- 
der, left modified choke, But itis a matter of fancy very largely. 3. 
We have no opinion to offer, and can tell nothing from the form your 
question tukes. 4. Depends on the Eonar charge. .32-caliber is 
large enough, if you can place the balls on the right spot. It would 
probably be effective within ordinary distances. 


G, L. W., Cambridge, Mass.—Will you please inform me if there is 
any way of catching the common black turtle found in rivers and 
fresh water ponds? I have tried several ways but have always failed. 
Ans. If you mean the snapping turtle they can be found on land 
only when they are laying their eggs in May and June. At other 
times they can only be taken with baited hooks or spears, as they 
never sun themselves on logs. The smaller water turtles can be 
netted, or if the object is to get rid of them, they can be shot, when 
on the logs, with a rifle. 


R. T., Topeka, Kan.—1, Does chilled shotmake a better pattern than 
soft shot? 2. Isa jug choke as good as one bored cylinder to within 
1 or 144in. of muzzle? 8. How many No. 5 pellets (172 to ounce) 
114 ounces to charge, cau be placed in 30-inch circle at 40yds.? 4. 
Would you advise a jug choke? 5, My gun gives as good penetration 
at 380yds. with 314 drams powder and 144 ounces shot as 4 drams povy- 
der and 114 ounces shot; in fact, itgives a better penetration, the 
814 drams and 114 ounces than 4drams and 134 ounces. I would like 
to know the full amount a 12-gauge will burn and why my gun will 
not burn more powder? Ans. 1. Chilled shot makes a better pattern 
because fewer of the pellets lose their spherical form in passing 
through the barrel. 2. No. 8, About 140 pellets, 4, No. 5. The 
proper charge for a gun is the one that it will do best execution with: 
overloading is to be avoided as much as underloading. S 


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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. THE KENNEL, 
Off for the Arctic. Nimrod, 


Some Questions. 
Show of Non-Sporting Dogs. 
Intercollegiate Shooting. 
THE SPORTSMAN TFOURIST. 
Down the Yukon ona Raft.—x. 
Owling. 
Where the Bung Tree Grows. 
NATURAL History. 
A Quail New to the United 
States Fauna. 
Southern Limit of Quail and 
Grouse. 
Deer in the Adirondacks. 
Congratulations and Specula- 


A Jersey Fox Chase, 
The Kennel Hospital. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
The Marlin Repeating Rifle. 
ignition ef the Powder Charge. 
More Rifle Queries. 
aan ae ae 
nge and Gallery. 
The Trap. bs 
Gun Queries. 
The Duffer Club. 
Boston Gun Club Tournament. 


tions. CANOEING. 
Gamer Bac. AnD Gun. Cleveland C. C. 
Shooting in Cuba. The Galley Fire. 
Inerease of Maine Large Game. Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. The Log Book. 
The Performance of Shotguns. The East Coast of Florida.— 
Philadelphia Notes. Cruise of the Alligator. 
Came-FIRE FLICKERINGS. A New Canoe Sail. 
Sra snp RIVER FIsHine. The Chart Locker. 
Black Bass Fishing in Central Winnipiseogee and Merrimack 
New York. That Sneakbox Again, ~- 
Long vs. Short Fly Rods. YACHTING. 


Little Brooks. 

Dace Fishing. 
FISHCULTURE. 

Migration of Herrings. 
THE KENNEL. 

A Private Field Trial. 


A Cruising Schooner. 
Opinions Against Facts. - 
Great Battles Prospective. 
The Hand of the Bourbons. 
An Old Hand on Deck, 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


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OFF FOR THE ARCTIC. 


O-DAY one of the vessels of the Arctic expedition sails 
for the North, to be followed in a short time by the 
other two which are to assist in the work of rescuing the 
Greely party. The little fleet starts under favorable 
auspices, and appears to be in all respects, so far as can be 
learned, well found in its ships, in its supplies and in its 
personnel. It will, no doubt, accomplish all that is possible, 
and we shall not have to record another disgraceful failure 
like that of Lieut. Garlington’s expedition. 

It had been hoped by many of those who have watched the 
preparations of this rescue party, that some steps might have 
been taken toward enlisting for each vessel a couple of 
woodsmen, We haye urged time and again that the services 
of such men would saye for explorers many valuable lives 
and much treasure. Had two such men been with De Long 
on his disastrous retreat along the Lena Delta, there is little 
doubt that the whole party would have been saved, instead 
of miserably starving to death. Food was all that was 
needed to enable them to reach a settlement, and this food 
was present in quantity, had there been any one in the party 
who understood the ways of the wilderness and of game. 
They passed through a region where ptarmigan were 
abundant, but had left their shotguns, and knew of no 


other means of capturing the birds; the idea of traps 


and snares does not appear to have entered their heads. 
There were plenty of reindeer in the country through 
which they marched to their death, They saw and shot at 
them, and their tracks were frequently seen, but there was 
no hunter in the party to kill the single deer which in all 
probability meant life to the hopeless, starving crew; and so 


in the midst of what to a man used to the wilderness would 
have been plenty, they struggled on a little further, and then 
one by one they died. ‘The expenditure of afew dollars for 
the pay and equipments of a single man, such as may be 
found in any wild section of our country, might have saved 
all this loss of life. 

That the landsman is a necessary part of any Arctic ex- 


pedition is perfectly apparent to any one who has traced the 


history of the various expeditions which have tried to pene- 
trate the mysteries of the frezen North. He knows a hund- 
red secrets about animal life, which help him to sucoeed in 
his search for food, and can make himself a warm and com- 
fortable shelter, where the sailor man would freeze to 
death, ; 

And why should we not utilize this special knowledge, 
which can only be acquired by years of labor, and in the 
stern school of experience? Our Arctic expeditions occa- 
sionally take along an Esquimau or two, which is ¢ertainly a 
step in the right direction; but the Esquimau’s pluck often 
gives out just when it is most needed, and then he becomes 
useless. It is hard to say why such men as we have referred 
to have never been employed in this most difficult work. 
Probably the real reason may be found in the inability of a 
Department to move itself out of a rut until it is absolutely 
forced to do so. 

With the record of the Jeannette and other sadly unsuc- 
cessful expeditions before its eyes, it would seem as if the 
Navy Department would spare no pains to make the present 
rescue party successful. If the Alert, the Thetis and the 
Bear had each two men on board who were thoroughly 
familiar with the lonely, self-reliant life of a trapper and 
hunter, the prospects forasafe return for the members of the 
expedition would be much more favorable, and if, without 
any public announcement of the fact, the services of such 
men have been secured, the Navy Department is to be given 
credit for unusual foresight and appreciation of the progress 
of events. 

This subject we have treated before at considerable length, 
and for our views upon it we cannot do better than refer our 
readers back to ForEsT AND STREAM of May 10, 1888. We 
shall all of us watch the progress of the Greely rescue party 
with anxiety, and hope that before many months the prison- 
ers in the North may be welcomed back again, 


SHOW OF NON-SPORTING DOGS. 


ie our issue of April 3, a correspondent suggested than an 

exhibition of non-sporting dogs be held in this city. 
Since the publication of this call a numberof communica- 
tions have been received, all in favor of inaugurating such 
an exhibition. 

We suggest to the gentlemen who have interested them- 
selves in this matter, that they confer with the managers of 
the Westminster Kennel Club. It is possible that the club 
might be induced to organize such a show; and if under 
their control, the success of the enterprise would be assured. 

The public interest in the several non-sporting breeds is 
increasing at a remarkable pace; witness the crowded non- 
sporting classes at the bench shows. There is certainly suf- 
ficient material for an exhibition exclusively made up of 
these animals, 

The entries for the coming bench show of the Westmin- 
ster Kennel Club are so full that the capacity of the Madison 
Square Garden will be taxed fo accommodate them all. A 
less number of entries would provide a more satisfactory ex- 
hibition. If the popularity of the shows given by this club 
increases at its present rate, the Westminster managers 
might find it advantageous to give two exhihitions annually, 
one of sporting dogs and the other of the non-sporting classes. 
The former could be given in the spring, and the other in 
the fall. The public would support two shows of this char- 
acter; and there is no question that greater satisfaction to 
visitors and exhibitors would be secured by the added facili- 
ties such a division of classes would permit. 


MASSACHUSETTS FisH AND GAME PROTECTIVE ASSOCTIA- 
TIOoN.—Following are the officers for 1884-5: President, John 
Fottler, Jr.; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Thomas Talbot, Hon. 
Daniel Needham, Walter M. Brackett, Esq., Charles W. 
Stevens, Esq., Horace T. Rockwell, Esq., Ivers W. Adams, 
Esq., Dr. John T. Stetson; Treasurer, James R. Reed; Sec- 
retary, E. 8. Tobey, Jr.; Librarian, John Fottler, Jr, Ex- 
ecutive Committee—Frederick R. Shattuck, Warren Hap- 
good, Wm. 8. Hills, Walton C. Taft, Edward T, Barker, 
Committce on Membership—W, M. Brackett, George Mix- 


| ter, B, F. Nichols, 


INTERCOLLEGIATE SHOOTING, 


UN clubs have been established at several colleges, and 
in some instances the members have acquired a very 
fair degree of skill in trap-shooting. We note with great 
satisfaction the growing popularity of the sport among col- 
lege students. As has heen said already in these columns, 
shooting with rifle and shotgun isa recreation worthy of 
college students, and a form of amusement which one is not 
likely to throw aside after commencement day. In this it 
differs essentially from baseball, football, cricket and row- 
ing. The college student who learns how to use a gun, has 
found a means of recreation that he may employ in after 
years. 

We are so thoroughly convinced of the good results likely 
to follow from increased participation in college shooting, 
that we are quite willing to do something as a practical en- 
couragement of it: To that end we propose to offer a $100 
cup or trophy as a prize for intercollegiate shooting compe- 
titions. It is probable, since the college year is already so 
far advanced, that the trophy will be given for the next year, 
beginning in the fall. Further particulars will be shortly 
announced, 


SOME QUESTIONS. 

VERYWHERE the game is growing scarcer, We all 
realize this, and grumble about it. There is a vulgar 
saying fo the effect that “‘talk is cheap,” and, like many 
another proverb, there is a world of truth init. We are all 
of us good at talking about game protection; how many of 
us have done anything besides talk? Suppose some one 
were to come around to-morrow soliciting subscriptions for 
a fund to pay a detective to secure evidence against some 
individual for killing or selling game out of season, or to 
pay a lawyer's fees in some game case, how many of us 
would contribute $10 to such a fund? How many men, 
among all our readers, wlio believe that birds should not be 
shot in spring, have refrained from starting out aiter snipe 
or ducks since the birds came on? Has not each one who 
could take the time for a day’s shooting, said to himself, 
“Every one else will go, and my staying at home will make 

no difference,” and then gone and killed or tried to kill? 

How long is this to continne? Surely, at the rate things 
are going now, the game cannot last much longer. It looks 
as though the day were at hand when there will be no shoot- 
ing grounds open to the public. And who is to blame for 
all this? No one but those who shoot. With what show of 
reason can we complain, if twenty years hence, we find that 
there is nothing for us to goafield for? 

When the forests are gone, and with the forest the game, 
we shall probably all think that this wholesale destruction 
might have been avoided, but then it will be too late to seek 
a remedy. 


WEAPONS Found InN GAME,—Tf a list could be had of all 
the old weapons and missiles found in the tissues of living 
animals, and a complete history of them all collected, the 
record would be an interesting one. Such finds are, we 
think, much less infrequent than is generally imagined. We 
have seen a number of them, and many others are on record. 
Several years ago we saw taken out from beneath the tender- 
loin of an elk, an old-fashioned round ball from a muzzle- 
loading rifle. The imprint of the cloth patch was still dis- 
tinctly visible on it. The arrow head from the swan’s breast- 
bone, figured a short time since in our Natural History 
columns, has reminded some correspondents of similar finds, 
both in birds and mammals. ‘‘Caballero” sends us from 
Buffalo, N. Y., a vertebree, in the body of which is imbedded 
the point of an iron arrow head, and asks to what animal 
the bone belongs. The specimen was picked up in the 
Nation by a man who was gathering bones for market, The 
bone is one of the anterior dorsal vertebre of a young buffalo, 
probably a two year old, and the arrow head is one of the 
common iron points which, until’ within a few years, have 
been used for hunting by all the tribes of plains indians. 


SHootine ToURNAMENTS.—The early summer of 1884 will 
be a busy season for the man who lives to attend all the big 
shooting tournaments. There is nothing upon wlrich we 
may base a prediction of the number of wild pigeons that 
will be killed, but it is very certain that the demolition of 
the ‘‘clays” will be unparalleled. 


— 


THE MassacHuseTts GAME BriLu passed the Senate 
unanimously, but was lost in the House. Our dispatch says, 
“Country members advocate poaching.” 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Aprin 24, 1884, — 


Che Sportsman Caurist. 


DOWN THE YUKON ON A RAFT. 
BY LIBUT. FRED’K SCHWATKA, UD, 8 ARMY. 


Tenth Paper. 

W HEN our miners were encountered they were packing 

_ on their backs their scanty supplies of ‘‘grub,’’ ac- 
cording to frontier parlance, and’ anxiously inquiring the 
distance to the next lake, where they hoped ‘to find a canoe 
or two, and thus make better time back. So dense was the 
undergrowth and fallen timber in the valley of the Yukon 
and its tributaries, that they had been forced back along the 
mountain ridges, where the fires had partially cleared out the 
underbrush, and although the fallen timber wasa little worse, 
in the sum total it was the least of the two evils. So abso- 
lutely impregnable had it become in places for them that, 
waiting for a favorable wind or one sweeping before them, 
they then set fire to the woods and again waited until it had 
cleared a way for them, and then proceeded through the 
burning path. They also confirmed the Indian reports that 
the moose and caribou (woodland reindeer) follow the snow 
ling in the spring and summer as it retreats up the mountains 
under the effects of the warm weather, and this undoubtedly 
from the dense swarms of mosquitoes that appear all over the 
face of this country as soon as the snow is lifted, as if that 
mautle held them down in layers several inches thick. 

During the 9th of July in the afternoon we had seen 
dense volumes of smoke ahead, showing the pine forests to 
be on fire, probably set by the miners, although we after- 
ward ascertained that Indians often do this, not only care- 
lessly while camping, but also in a premeditated manner to 
drive game to certain runways. This firing of the woods, 
however, is more likely to take place in the winter, when 
the ranways of game are limited to fewer trails, and the In- 
dians can, therefore, stand better chances of intercepting 
them on these few, than in the summer months, when, after 
all, their principal diet is fish and fowl when the latter are 
moulting, I also heard that when a brown or grizzly bear 
invades a neighborhood which is of value to the Indians for 
purposes that fire will not destroy, they do not hesitate to 
burn out the woods when a favorable wind makes them 
nia that the blaze will be carried in the direction of the 

ear. 

The 10th of July we got away early and about ten in the 
forenoon, passed through forest fires on both sides of the 
river (here from 300 to 400 yards widc), and the natural 
query was how it could have crossed unless set fire on both 
sides, for there was so little wind that great billows of smoke 
went Jazily upward directly for the zenith, and these, when 
seen in the morning, looked like vast banks of cumulus 
clouds arising up from that direction. At1:15in the after- 
noon we passed the mouth of a large river coming in from 
the eastern or right bank and was the one the miners had 
been prospecting before their party broke in two, They 
said they had ascended it nearly 200 miles end that from its 
width at that point they believed it to be 50 to 75 miles 
further to its very source. At this point the caribou tracks 
had been very thick and so recent that the deer could have 
only migrated but a short time before. One active Nimrod 
among them, maddened by so much sign, had taken his gun 
ind kept tramping for 30 or 40 miles up one of the branches 
of the river until he overtook a herd and killed two, and 
putting their meat on a raft started down to join his party. 
The raft was a very rude affair and finally brought up on a 
big boulder in the center of a rapid, where it stuck until it 
was liberated in two sections. The miner not being a double 
bareback rider abandonded his twin rafts and walked home 
with one saddle of venison and a couple of reindeer tongues. 

It was not until well past eight that we camped in a dense 
grove of small poplars. A great number of them had their 
bark chipped around by rodents at an altitude of eighteen to 
twenty inches from the ground, and as there was a consider- 
able amount of rabbit (hare) sign about the place it must 
have been these little gnawers, when food was the scarcest 
atthe deepest snow, which therefore could not have been 
much deeper than that during the past winter. Among the 
groye were many trees that had been killed in previous 
years, and probably in this very way, but the thicket was 
so dense that the intertwining branches with live ones on all 
sides held them erect. From the slight depth of snow, I im- 
agined that the winters must be ushered in with a sort of 
Arctic suddenness peculiar to polar regions, rather than like 
the nearer coast country where the snow falls deep and 
nearly all winter. Rummaging around, we found a couple of 
places where « number of dead trees were standing in a clus- 
ter, and readily pulling them up by the roots, we turned them 
over to the cook, and spreading our canyas and blankets in the 
spots, bivouacked as well as the weather and mosquitoes 
would permit us. We had passed a small family of abject 
Takh-heesh a mile or so before camping, and the man hav- 
ing mustered up the remaining courage of his life, managed 
to walk down to our camp, where he stood around with his 
mouth wide open, almost paralyzed with astonishment, and 
I think if I could have only deodorized him and varnished 
him up, I could have gotten a fortune out of him at a San 
Francisco Chinese ‘‘josh” house, he looked so much like one 
of their idols, 

Shortly after starting on the morning of the 11th we saw 
a magpie or two sailing around near the bank and finally 
disappear across an opening into the groves near the foot 
hills. Only once after that were magpies seen on the Yukon 
River. Several owls were seen during the day. During 
the day we passed several ‘‘Stick” or Tahk-heesh families (a 
family seems to be about the highest organization they can 
get together at any one place), and at every point there were 
seen small rafts of logs bound together with willow withes 
tied up af the shore in front of their brush houses, and no- 
where would there be seen any canoes. 

As we approached the last rapids on the river, a huge 
number of gulls rose in swarms from the rock towers where 
they were breeding and gave us the most discordant recep- 
tion of screechings and splashings that I had heard for some 
time. When the ice breaks up in the spring (although I 
doubt if these rapids are frozen over at all during the winter 
so swift is their current), tnese castles of rock become im- 
pregnable to foxes, wolves and all other carniyora not sup- 
plied with wings, and here these gulls find a safe and secure 
breeding place. As we rushed by some of the small gulls 
just from their calcareous bandbox were standing around 
with that stupid astonishment characteristic of the young 
of all species, from an vyster to a man. 

Daring the day we had passed the mouths of two riyers; 
oue I called Daly River, after Chief Justice Daly, of New 
York, Some twenty miles below this the riyer became yery 


leoaenoees About forty miles beyond the Daly River came 
in another of quite formidable dimensions, about 200) yards 
wide at its mouth, and, to change the order of things, came 
in from the west, the first noticeable stream on that side 
since we had passed the mouth of the Tahk River, a few 
miles below Miles’s Caiion. Nearly opposite its mouth was 
a bold bald peak that we caught a glimpse of a few miles 
away. It seemed to be on the river bank directly ahead, 
but a sharp bend in the river sent us well off in another way, 
and showed it; as we.supposed, to be inland. Another 
curve, and we started for it and ran up much closer, but not 
past it, before we were again hauled back along another 
stretch of the river, as if there was some repulsion in its 
great mass, and this oscillation we kept up until no less than 
seven times we had pointed our raft toward it on as many 
different ‘‘reaches” of the river, It appears on the map as 
Tantalus Butte, and the river opposite I named after 
Sweden’s great Arctic explorer, Baron von Nordenskiéld. 

A few minutes past two a crackling of brush was heard 
ou our right, andin a few moments a big buck moose came 
bolting out into an opening of slight scrubby willows, and 
before a gun could be brought to bear on him again disap- 
peared, but still kept persistently parallel with us as he 
struggled through the brush. Occasionally through the 
brush a vista of his dark brown sides and swaying horns 
was seen, but directly ahead of him was a small creek put- 
ting in with wide grassy banks, and here I felt sure of a shot. 
Just as he reached the open creek bottom, he whirled like a 
flash and once more buried himself in the deep brush of its 
upstream side. This animal and another about two hundred 
and fifty miles below this point were the only moose the 
party saw the whole length of the great river, a stream noted 
for the large number of these animals in its valley, The In- 
dians of this country know nothing about ‘‘moose yards,” 
and when described to them say they are not made by the 
moose of this part of the world. I afterward heard this 
corroborated by an old Hudson Bay trader, who had hunted 
them in lower latitudes and knew by experience what ‘“‘moose 
yards” meant, Again a Mr, Carr, a very intelligent miner, 
who had wintered on the river a good ways below this 
point, spoke of this, From what I could learn from 
the Indians 1 do not believe their sense of hearing is 
so acute in these parts as in the southeastern districts 
of the moose, as they are said to be easier to 
approach and kill in the summer than the caribou, and the 
stories of their sense of hearing as told by hunters from 
Maine and Nova Scotia borders almost on the miraculous. 
The greatest number of moose are killed in this end of Amer- 
ica while crossing rivers where they are completely at the 
mercy of their pursuers in their switt birch-bark canoes. Mr. 
Hearn, who was an Arctic explorer in these northern regions 
of the Hudson Bay Company, by whom he was sent over a 
hundred years ago when everything was purely primitive, 
says that he has seen an Indian paddle his light canoe up to 
one of the moose calyes after its mother had been killed, and 
take it by the nape of the neck without its showing any re- 
sistance or apparent fight whatever, the doomed defenseless 
animal seemed, at the same time, as happy and contented 
alongside of the canoe as if it was swimming by the side of 
its mother, and looking up into the faces of those who were 
about to be its murderers with the most apparent innocence, 
using its forelegs and feet every now and then to clear its 
eycs of the numerous mosquitoes which alighted upon them, 
and which seemed to be intent on eradicating as preventing 
its keeping up with the canoe. This reminds me of a very 
similar incident occurring with a little buffalo calf whose 
dam had been chased and killed by some cayalrymen, the 
little creature following the company on its scout for several 
days when, there being nothing to feed it, and the scout ahead 
put little prospect of termination for a Tong time, it was 
killed out of sympathy for its forlorn condition. 


OWLING. 


WN several occasions during my morning or afternoon 
O rambles through the lower meadows, I had awakened 
from his midday slecp a great white and brown horned owl, 
just as during more than one night in the past summer 
and autumn he and others of his fraternity had disturbed 
the midnight and early morning slumbers and dreams of a 
dozen or more cowpunchers.. Frank, the ranch cook, being 
quite askillful amateur taxidermist, had frequently expressed 
a wish to get him and see what kind of an appearance he 
would present with his wings and tail spread on the wall 
and his head peeping through them. I promised Frank that 
I would locate Mr. Blink and capture him; and though fin- 
ally succeeding in fulfilling my contract, it was only after 
considerable hard work and hard luck in connection with 
some thoughtlessness that I redeemed myself, 

My first attempt at finding him was a successful venture, 
so far as the simple finding was concerned; but the capturing 
of him proved quite a dismal failure. I bad tramped for a 
couple of hours through snow, from one to two feet deep, 
meanwhile carefully and thoroughly inspecting every tree 
that seemed likely to afford him a hiding-place and shelter, 
Finally, on the banks of the creek I came toa large beaver 
dam, and while inspecting it and the signs of recent work 
done by the beavers, had laid my gun aside and stepped out on 
the ice above the dam, when from a tree close by my intended 
victim darted away with almost the speed of a woodcock. 
I watched him as he dodged his course among the cotton- 
woods and box-elders, Up stream he went for nearly half 
a mile and alighted in the top of a tall cottonwood, where 1 
sighted him when about three hundred yards away. But he 
was wide awake, and again hit the breeze, this time going 
down stream by a circuitous route; and he was lost to me for 
that day at least. However, he had divulged one of his 
hiding. places, which was a great point In my favor, as they 
are almost invariably difficult to find, as they hug the trunk 
of the tree very closely. The first day was not barren of results. 

The owl is considered a wise bird, vide the oid saying, 
‘wise as an owl;” but this individual was a foolish one in at 
least one respect, inasmuch as he chose for his perch a tree 
with a dark background, which, on one’s coming toward 
him from the right direction, showed him up perfectly; but 

as a lucky bird. 
ne he following afternoon I strolled down to the old place, 
taking no special precautions to conceal my movements, and 
not expecting that the foolish bird with the magnificent orbs 
bad come home so soon. The first time I was in search of 
him he was indebted for his life to the beavers; this time it 
was to a jack rabbit, which sprang oul from a cluster of 
willows, and on my making a quick snap shot caught the 
rabbit and lost the owl, for at the report of the gun he was 


in wending his way by the air-line toward the Eastern 
Siates. rT Tadieuned ant there was no use in following him 
at the time, 


; Before owls are followed they must be given a long rest to 
divert any suspicion, and when they find that they are not 
pressed too closely they may resume their doze and give you 
another chance. They can be approached very closely before 
they are aware of any danger, but after once awakening to 
the situation, it is a most difficult matter to get anywhere 
neat them, for we yerily believe that their eyes are able to 
detect any hostile or other advance, and being fortified by 
ears more capacious in proportion to their weight than a 
burro, a second approach to them is rendered almost impos- 
sible. If their night sight is any better than their day sicht, 
they would not be able to answer as Sam Weller did, ‘Yes, 
I have a pair of eyes and that’s just it. If they wos a pair 
0’ patent double million maynifyin’ gas microscopes of 
hextra power p’raps I might be able to see through a flight 
o’ stairs and a deal door; but bein’ only eyes, you see my 
wision’s limited.” The owl can pretty nearly do those things 
at midday. 

A few days after the rabbit had forfeited his life and 
thereby saved the owl, I went out again in search of him. 
Coming in sight of the tree which had by this time become 
quite a familiar object, I carefully siid down the bank on to 
the creek afew rods above the beaver dam; quietly walked 
down on the ice, and soon had him in sight. ‘There he was, 
perhaps seventy yards away, peacefully and contentedly 
sleeping on his perch, all unaware of the danger he was in; 
and so was I in as blissful ignorance of my own danger. 
Sinners, it is suid, stand on slippery places, but I could not; 
for while trying to reach the little snow drift on the edge of 
the ice my feet suddenly went from under me, and again the 
owl took his departure toward the east, but not soon enough 
to save all his feathers. for from a sitting posture [ had a 
chance to ‘‘turn loose” (pardon the quotation) one barrel. A 
couple of feathers floated a while in the still air, then came 
softly down like two big yellow brown. snow flakes and 
anchored themselves in the willows. His splendid run of 
good luck was nearly over, the charm was about to be 
broken and my unlucky stupidity at owling was also draw- 
ing toa close, A wise owl would haye changed his habita- 
tion_after the repeated interruptions he had experienced, but 
this hunted and persecuted bird dreaded not the fire, though 
he had been slightly scorched at long range. 

The love of home was strong within him, and heedless or 
forgetful or ignorant of the danger menacing him, he wonld 
hoot ‘‘Home, Sweet Home,” and return to the hospitable 
shelter of his own box-elder which was soon to know him 
no more, and no more would he contribute his hoot to dis- 
turbing the slumbers of wearied “‘cowpunchers.” Over the 
same ground I tramped again, and this time succeeded in 
administering to him part of an ounce and a quarter of No. 
4 shot backed up by four drams of powder, just as he was 
spreading sail for another voyage down the stream. 

There he is—what remains of him—with wings and tail 
outstretched, and looking down at me through a pair of 
glass eyes from over the mantle-piece, and he is the hand- 
somest ornament in the room, Jooking as wide awake and 
life Jike as when he was darting among the trees, with only 
the one instinctive idea of escaping danger. MILLARD, 

BEAR CREEK, WY. 


WHERE THE BUNG TREE GROWS. 


vy) Rise early in July, the Professor and I left the land of 
Gotham to the bulls and the bears of barter and trade, 

for a couple of weeks sojourn in the land where the bung 
tree grows. Our quest was rest and recreation lrom the cor- 
roding cares of business, and like many another, who some. 
times got bit by a trout, we felt the old longing stealing o’er 
us, and when IJ whispered the magic word ‘‘trout”’ in the ear 
of the Professor, he suffered himself to be led off without 
remonstrance. 

The land where the bung tree grows? ‘‘Now whatin ithe 
name of goodness is a bung tree?” says the Professor, 

“What, John don’t know what a bung tree is? A bung 
tree is—is—is—John, did you ever casually observe men, of 
doubtful mien and wistful expression, cautiously approach 
something standing on the sidewalk like, which looked yery 
like a beer keg, and stealing a quick, apprehensive glance up 
and down the street, slowly remove that protuberance dis- 
cernible under his coat, which might be a tomato can, and 
witnéss the intense satisfaction with which he gloated over 
the find if it were large, or the all-gone hopeless look if the 
reverse? John, did you know a beer keg had a bung hole, 
and the same is stopped by a bung, and these bungs aremade 
from hard wood, such as beech, maple, and other bung trees, 
which grow away up in the mountains, way up where the deer, 
the bear, and the wily trout, do disport themselves and propa- . 
gate their species, and furnish enjoyment to such miserable fel- 
lows as you and J, John—grow, along with hemlock, the same 
you once essayed to walk, when the peelerhad just left it, and 
John, you ‘got left,’ didn’t you, old hoy? I could wipe the 
tears from my eyes now, just thinking about it. I can see 
the spray fly way above the pile of old driftwood, as your 
gravity and mine was upset, and how cold the water was, 
and how scared the trout who took my fly, almost at the 
same instant you took yours, dear John. That was the 
most sagacious trout I ever saw, for he evidently foresaw 
what was coming down ‘among him’ when he took his place 
in your element and you took Phan place in his, Do you 
remember that pole you carried into the woods? That pole, 
you had builded it a purpose for the occasion. Your expe- 
rience down on the Shrewsbury doubtless led you into this 
conceit, and you had the last big weakfish im your mind 
while you were building it. Well, the first trout yeu treed 
with it went about twenty feet straight up into the blue 
ethereal, and there took two or three turns round the limb 
of a bung tree, and I reckon it is hanging there yet. When 
you first exhibited the production I could see the look of 
pride on your face as you drew it from it’s case, and fondled 
it before the astonished ‘natives.’ Never shall I forget the 
emphatic exclamation, joined in by all hands simultaneously, 


-and one old fellow with a sadness he could scarcely control, 


tremblingly muttered, ‘Hanged if 1 haint seen most every 
kind of pole brought inter these woods to ketch trout 
with, but that ’ere beats em all, blamed if it don’t.’” 

That pole was 4 short time ago still to be seen, being pre- 
served in the family like some huge two-handed, prehistoric 
sword, handed down to posterity to excite its wonderment 

surprise. 
2 we were once more at the haven where we would 
be, and these old scenes came back upon us—reminiscenres 
of other days—and the trout were rising ever and anob in 
the pvol just in front of the.house, as some luckless 2k: 
insect hovered temptingly over their hungry maw. The 
June bugs had not all gone yet and a few had been drawn 
inside the house on a tour of investigation, and were now 
buzzing round a light which our host had kindly placed in- 


side, in the gloaming. 


———s tt 


(‘a ia 
Arner 14, 1684) 


“John, would a trout rise to a June bug?” 

“T don’t know why they wouldn’t; suppose we try.” 

A couple of old hats were brought into requisition in cap- 
turing a dozen or so, and, stepping down to the water’s edge, 
one was flung out into the eddying current. Round and 
round he spun, then, catching the edge of the swift current, 
shot down into the pool below with the velocity of an arrow. 
Vain were his frantic efforts to escape from the surging cur- 
rent, when the well-known splash and the sudden disappear- 
ance of the bug decided that a trout would accept a June 
bug for his dinner. Many went the way of the first, until 
the Professor, who by this time was worked up into a high 

itch of excitement, declared he was going to sce what a 
ittle investivation with hook, line and June bug might do 
toward solving the enigma of the size and temper of the 
fish we had been feeding. F : 

Hanging under the caves of the piazza were several bait- 
rods belonging to our host, and some were already rigged out 
with hooks and lines. Seizing one, which gave promise of 
holding a fish were we to hook one, a bug was carefully ad- 
justed. The line had no sinker on, and the bug remained on 
top of the water for some little time, long enough to float 
down to the spot where his predecessors had disappeared. 
Splash! and the Professor reeled in the biggest chub it has 
ever been my lot to witness; but cheer up, John, there’s trout 
in there; try again. And sure enough there were, for a good 
half-pounder took the next bug, then another and another, 
until we had a dozen tine fish, for our experiment had proved 
a complete success, much to the surprise of our host, who 
said he knew the trout were in there, for he had often seen 
them jumping, and laughed at the futile efforts of his guests 
to catch them. 

At daybreak the writer was up taking his usual survey of 
the horizon and making preparations fora good tramp up 
stream. The air was clear and bracing, laden with the 
odor of balsam, which grows in great abundance in close 
proximity to the house. ‘‘Old Sol” had not shown himself 
aboye the mountain tops yet, but the rays illuminating the 
mist rising over High Peak gave tokens of his early ap- 
pearance, the sparkling, foam-flecked waters before me 
flowed ripplmg along, lending their melody to the song of 
the birds; a spring of icy cold water, distilled way up among 
the clouds and brought down to the dwelling through a series 
of wooden tubes, poured its crystal waters into a tub half 
buried in the sand near by—its music lulled me to sleep last 
night—while ever and anon, from far up the mountain side, 
came, faintly echoing, the sound of cow bells, as the herd 
came slowly down, urged at intervals by the sharp barking 
of the dog Shep, and the maid of the house, Jennie, was 
wending her way with song to meet them; the tall mountains 
looked down upon the valley in majestic silence. their heavy 
foliage dense and impenetrable to the eye; a long, slender 
thread of smoke, slowly curling up from the kitchen chim- 
ney, and a savory odor of melted butter, with a suspicion of 
frying trout, permeates the atmosphere. 

As we journey up the stream, we follow the remains of an 
old bark road, part corduroy, part rock, and part swampy 
ooze, into which our brogans sink ankle deep, every step, or 
outline a double row of hob nails inthe mud. After journeying 
some three miles, we came to a small clearing—- big enough 
for its lazy occupant and his dozen or more frowsy tow- 
headed youngsters, whom we accosted for information as to 
our bearings. He had lived there three years, so he said, 
and had not been a half mile from the house either way 

during that time, and he looked it. -When we made his 
acquaintance, he informed us what a bad time he had the 
night previous, laying both fat “paws” over a corpulent pair 
of crushed strawberry jeans. 

“Yes, the old oman hed made me some pennyr’yl tea, but 
it did not tech the spot, an says I—Hanner, says 1; if some 
er them York fellers was only to kem along this way, says. 
Yes, the pain iz awful, it’s bin tremenjis bad; it did let up a 
leetle this mornin like, but now its cummin back wus en 
eyer.” And the wily old rascal bent over, his face a study 
of assumed suffering, until finally my companion, taking 
compassion on the old fraud, contributed the longed for 
alembic. We sat there a full half hour and listened fo tales 
of family troubles, bear fights, in which the old rascal pre- 
tended to have come off victorious, and of how in the winter 
he went to some trout pond, known only to himself, and 
cutting holes through the ice, “‘shoyeled em out with a dung 
fork.” To cap the climax the o!d rascal set his dog on us 
when we caine back that way. 

About half a mile above the house had been a mill pond; 
the dam had been worn away by frequent freshets, until 
only a few projecting timbers remained to show where the 
once pent up waters poured and seethed. The trout, eager 
to join their companionsin the stream above, no longer leaped 
up in frantic endeavor to surmount the impassable barrier to 
their progress, and the waters now rushed through a great 
fissure where the dam had formerly stood and seemed to in- 
vite a sweep of the rod over its surface. The old mill still 
stood there, a ghostly relic of former activity, weather 
beaten, stark and grim. its wheel dismantled—silent forever, 
Passing on up stream to the head of the pond (still so called), 
I quickly adjusted pole and line, and before the Professor 
had decided which fly to select I was struggling with a one- 
pounder, which took a coachman dropper almost at the very 
edge of the old hemlock, whose roots and branches trailing 
in the water had long afforded him a safe hiding place. 1 
stood on a deposit of pond ooze left by the recent high water, 
and my footing, to say the least, was very insecure, as I-was 
every second sinking deeper and deeper into the mire. A 
few yards off was a large rock, if I could only réach that; 
between the struggling fish and the mire [ was badly handi- 
capped, but making a determined effort I reached the rock 
and saved my fish. 

Perched on my elevated island I took a survey of my sur- 
roundings. The water came down a ravine, and entering the 
pond at an angle, formed a deep pool, at the foot of which I 
was standing; the Professor had selected his flies, and was 
moving up toward the head of the pool preparatory to mak- 
ing a Gast, and the very first cast he made caught my old 
felt hat on his leader and whirled it far out into the current. 
He broke the tip of his rod as he did so. Here was a 
dilemma, which, as experienced fishermen, with the aid of 
some strong waxed silk, we soon overcame, and securing 
the hat which had stranded on a projecting point, went on 
our way rejoicing. Our catch was about forty each, none 
as large as the one I caught atthe old mill, and at 5 P. M. 
we were glad to avail ourselves of the home comforts at our 
domicile, whose welcome portal loomed up before us as we 
east off leaders and reeled in for the night. 

It is a singular fact that large tfout seldom bite from sun- 
rise to sunset except for about 2 half hour or so at midday, 
‘when the water becoming warmed by the fierce rays of the 


sun, they will occasionally work out into the stream from | 


a oii — Tine 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


their hiding places, seeking a cool spot where some spring 
of water oozes up from the bottom or empties its waters into 
the stream, One reason why large trout are not more fre- 
quently caught in the day time is because you can’t get your 
bait where they lie hid, forif you do, it will be frequently taken 

y him even when he is not on the feed; perhaps he hates to 
see it waxed, suggests the Professor. 

About a mile up the stream from our house the waters 
make a sudden bend against the mountain side, the abrupt 
declivity against which they force themselves, rising hun- 
dreds feet above the* eddying current, turning the stream 
almost at right angles to its former course. The surging 
current had washed a side stream extending back a hundred 
feet or more alongside the mountain, This was overhung 
with dense foliage, reaching almost to the water's edge. Being 
of an investigating turn of mind on this cecasion, I made a 
wide detour, coming in at the head of the side stream where, 
as I surmised, a spring of very cold water flowed in. 1 cure- 
fully adjusted my flies, and with a deft twist of the wrist, 
sent them some twenty-five feet below me, past the over- 
hanging boughs, the flies circling underneath and dropping 
lightly on the dark water. In justice to myself, J must assert 
that 1 took a good many chances on that cast, resting on my 
knees in the sand so as to expose as little of my body as pos- 
sible, for if I got fast to a bough all further attempts would 
be useless, as it would haye been impossible to get loose 
without exposing myself to the gaze of the old settlers, 
which I felt sure had werked their way up from the pool 
below to refresh themselves in the cooler water, and subse- 
quent events showed my judgment correct. My flies went 
right to the very spot I could have wished; 1 could not do 
it againin a hundred easts, and I don’t know who was the 
most excited over the result, the wielder of the rod, or the 
big trout going down toward the pool with my fly imbedded 
in his jaw. So soon asI could get on my feet I plied reel 
and showed myself to the rest of them; I believe every trout 
who made bis: home in that pool was ‘‘taking a day off,” 
and visiting that binnikill either for my benefit or his own. 
I could plainly see my trout side by side with one which 
might have been his grandfather, so much larger was he 
as they sped along, in fact I couid not tell at first which of 
the two was trailing my line after him, so close were they to- 
gether; but I quickly brought the smaller of the two up with 
a short turn and soon had him panting in my basket, his 
head and tail forming a crescent therein. For the next half 
hour I might have been mistaken for asentry on post, so still 
Isat there, puffing away on my pipe and waiting events. 
Soon the other big trout came, slowly working his way up 
the binnikill as if reconnoitering every foot of the way—he 
did not notice that bunch of old gray tweed on the sand peer. 
ing down upon him with eager eye through the protecting 
branches, watching proceedings with such intense interest— 
whether he was seeking his mate or not I shall never know. 
He swam up into the shallow water until it barely covered 
his back, and then I began operations; pulling my leader 
through the rings on my rod I shortened it to about three 
feet, then poking the rod through the branches, whisked a 
fly over his nose; fly after fly was tried, then a grasshopper, 
a worm, everything available, nothing would suit his fastidi- 
ous palate, After working over him some time, and seeing 
my efforts were futile, an évil spirit suggested, ‘“You have 
tried all fair means, try foul.” Taking off my leader and 
cutting off a couple of yards of line, I tied it to a branch, 
then splicing three hooks together attached them to the end 
of my line. Carefully reaching out, the hooks were placed 


directly under his jaw, and then I pulled with all my might; | 


and then—and then—vwell, the branch broke, and a streak of 
lightning went down that binnikill into the pool with the 
broken end of my branch bobbing up and down like a pea 
in a hot skillet, and me dumbfounded and inconsolable, Con- 
found it! ‘Serves you right,” said a brown thrush over my 
head. ‘‘Serves you right,” croaked a frog in the spring. 
“Serves you right,” said I to myself, and I bade adieu to the 
binnikill, the pool, blasted hopes and blasted luck. 
[TO BE CONCLUDED. | 


dhatuyal History. 


A QUAIL NEW TO THE UNITED STATES 
FAUNA. 


HROUGH the kindness of an Arizona correspondent I 
am enabled to announce the occurrence in that Ter- 
ritory of Ortyx graysont. This species has not hitherto been 
known as occurring north of the western Mexican boundary, 
Ortyx graysont was first made known by Mr. George N. 
Iiawrence, in a paper entitled ‘Descriptions of New Species 
of American Birds,” published in the Annals of the Lyceum 
of Natural History of New York, Vol. VIIL., p. 476, May, 
1867. The type of the spécics was collected by Col. A. J. 
Grayson, and came from Guadalaxara, in Western Mexico. 
The species bears a general resemblance to the common Bob 
White, beiug most like the form Ortyx virginiana terana. 
In fact, the females of the two forms are almost indistinguish- 
able, but the male of graysoni may easily be recognized by 
the uniform reddish chestnut of the lower breast and belly. 

For the knowledge of the existence of this form of Ortyz 
in Arizona, 1am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Herbert 
Brown, of Tucson, who sent me an almost complete skin of 
a female bird, and portions of the wing, breast and tail of a 
male. ‘These fragments were submitied to Mr. Robert Ridg- 
way, of the Smithsonian Institution, who pronounced them 
undoubtedly Oriya graysoni. 

From a number of letters received from Mr. Brown on 
this subject, 1am enabled fo give some details as to the 
habits of this species, and especially as to its range 
within the Territory. In the country lying between 
the Barboquivari range in Arizona, and the Gulf 
coast in Sonora, and more especially between the Bar- 
boquivari and the Plumosa, this species is quite abundant. 
In fact, the bird appears to be exceedingly common in 
Southern Arizona. ‘They are to be found on the Sonoite, 
about sixty miles south of Tucson, and perhaps thirty miles 
north of the Sonora line. From the Sonoite Valley they 
can be found to the west for fully 100 miles, and through a 
strip of country not less than thirty miles in width within 
the Territory. Very possibly they may go beyond that both 
to the eastward and westward. Further observation must 
settle this point, but over this stretch of country they have 
been reported. There is some evidence that the northern 
range of the bird extends somewhat beyond the limits above 
fixed. I hope before long to receive more definite advices 
on this point. — 

The habits of Ortyx graysoni, so far as we know them, 


— 


appear to resemble very closely those of the common quail, 
only slightly modified by the conditions of their environ- 
ment. They utter the characteristic call “Bob White,” 
with bold, full notes, and perch on rocks and bushes when 
calling. They do not appear to be at all a mountain bird, 
but live on the mesas in the valleys, and possibly in the 
foothills, Mr. Brown has kindly promised to collect 
further information about this species, and to advise me of 
the results of his investigations. Gro, BrRD GRINNELL. 
New Yorr, April 22. : 


SOUTHERN 


LIMIT OF QUAIL AND 
GROUSE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In this week’s issue I notice under the aboye heading an 
account of the supposed occurrence of Bob White (Ortyr 
virginianus) and ruffed grouse (Benasa umbelius) in Costa 
Rica. The birds observed by your correspondent were 
probably Leyland’s partridge (Ortyx ylandi), and the large- 
tailed partridge (Dendrortyc macru7 us). The former belongs 
to the same genus as the Bob White, and while possessing 
similar habits and notes, is very distinct in plumage. The 
latter isa large bird, nearly equal to the ruffed grouse in 
size, and with a somewhat similar, long, broad tail, but be- 
longs to the partridge, and not to the grouse, family, the 
genus being quite peculiar to tropical America, 

As to the southern limit of the Bob White and ruffed 
grouse, I would add that the former occurs indigenously in 
Cuba, and has been naturalized in others of the West Indian 
islands. On the continent, however, it does not, so far as 
known, occur south of the Rio Grande, its place being taken 
in Mexico by allied representatives, but quite distinct species. 
Of the grouse family no member is known to occur south of 
the United States and Mexican boundary, the species which 
has been traced furthest southward being the dusky grouse 
or ‘‘blue grouse” (Canace obscura), which is abundant on the 
higher portions of the White Mountains In Arizona, It is 
not impossible that both this species and the Rocky Moun- 
fain race of the ruffed grouse (Bonasa wmbellus umbelloides) 
may eventually be found on the more elevated parts of the 
mountains of Central Mexico; but there is little chance of 
either extending very far over the border. 

The bird fauna of Costa Rica is probably more thoroughly 
known than that of any other country in tropical America, 
more than seven hundred species having already been actu- 
ally taken within the contracted limits of the small republic. 
The temperate districts of the interior especially have prob- 
ably been more completely ransacked by the ornithological 
collectors than any other State in the Union with the excep- 
tion of Massachusetts, and possibly one or two others of the 
United States. Therefore, it is not likely that any two birds 
of the partridge and grouse families can have been over- 
looked. Ropert Rrmeway. 
J. $. Nationa Museum, Washington, April 18, 1884. 


IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 


BY C. H. MBRRIAM, M.D. 


DEER 


[From advance sheets of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of 
New York, | 
Cariacus Virgintanus (Bodd.) Gray. 
COMMON DEER; VIRGINIA DEER; RED DEER; 
TAILED DEER. 


W HITE- 


EER are at present so abundant in most parts of the 
Adirondacks that they outnumber all the other large 
mammals together, and this in spite of the fact that during 
the present century alone, hundreds of them have perished 
of cold and starvation, hundreds have been killed by wolves 
and panthers, and thousands by their natural enemy, man. 
And there is every reason to believe that if proper game laws 
are enforced, their numbers will not materially decrease. 

This beautiful and graceful animal, by far the fleetest of 

our mammalia, roams over all parts of the Wilderness, being 
found high upon the mountain sides, as well as in the lowest 
valleys and river bottoms. It frequents alike the densest 
and mostimpenetrable thickets, and the open beaver meadows 
and frontier clearings. During the summer season, which 
is here meant to apply to the entire period of bare ground, 
loosely reckoning, from the first of May to the first of No- 
vember, its food consists of a great variety of herbs, grasses, 
marsh and aquatic plants, the leaves of many deciduous 
trees and shrubs, blueberries, blackberries, other fruits that 
grow within its reach, and largely of the nutritious beech 
nut. While snow coyers the ground, which it commonly 
does about half the year, the fare is necessarily restricted, 
and it is forced to subsist chiefly upon the twigs and buds of 
low deciduous trees and shrubs, the twigs and foliage of the 
arbor vite, hemlock and balsam, and a few mosses and 
lichens. In winters succeeding a good yield of nuts the 
mast constitutes its staple article of diet, and is obtained by 
following the beech ridges and pawing up the snow beneath 
the trees. : 
' When the first warm winds of approaching spring un- 
cover here and there in the beaver meadows small spots and 
narrow strips of ground between the snowdrilts, the new 
marsh grass is found already sprouted, and its tender 
blades afford the deer a tempting change from the dry twigs 
and tough lichens that constitute its winter fare.* 

From this time until the latter part of September much of 
their sustenance is procured in the immediate vicinage of 
water. After the snow has left the forests aud the new vege- 
tation has fairly started, they gradually work back into the 
woods, but return again in early June to feed upon maish 
plants and grasses, and wade or even swim to procure the 
lily-pads and other aquatic plants that thrive in the shallow 
water near by. During June, July and August, hundreds 
of deer visit the water-courses of this wilderness every night, 
and retire at break of day to the deep recesses of the forest. 

It has been stated that they do this to rid themselves of 
black flies and mosquitoes, but a little reflection will suftice 
to show the absurdity of this assertion, for nowhere in the 
entire Wilderness are these insect pests so abundant and an- 
huying as on the marshes and in the immediate neighbor- 
hood of lakes and streams, And since it is rare to find a 
deer above his thighs in water, the fallacy of this supposition 
is apparent. The fact is that, for the sake of obtaining the 
plants that grow in such situations, they submit to the an- 
noyance of swarms of insects, most of which they would 


*I was particularly struck with this fact cn the 29th of April, 1882, 
while crossing from Big Moose Lake to Lake Terror, in company 
with Dr. F. H. Hoadley. Here, along the banks cf a sluggish stream 
which was still bordered with ice eight to ten inches in thickness, we 
observed fresh green grass already over an inch and a half ingh in 
small bare spots between snowdrifts two and three feet in depth. 
The same day we saw a deer standing on a mass of ice and snow ou 
the shore of Lake Terror, doubtless in search of food. 


—— 


244 FOREST AND STREAM. [APR 24, 1884. 


“Scape did they remain amid the mountain fastnesses, It is 
true, however, that deer, particularly at the South, do some- 
times enter water when not in search of food, and sink to 
such a depth that little save the nostrils and eyes remain in 
sight; but whether this is done for the riddance of insects, 
or for the refreshing effects of the bath, is an open question, 
and for my part I incline to the latter view, 

Mr. E, 1, Sheppard tells me that he has on two occasions 
keen. deer enter the water and immerse themselves until 
almost the entire body disappeared from view, and this when 
not “‘skulking,” or endeavoring to elude an enemy, The 
Rey. John Bachman once witnessed this diversion and 
deseribed Jit In these words: ‘We recollect an occasion, 
when on sitting down to rest on the margin of the Santee 
River, we observed a pair of antlers on the surface of the 
water near an old tree, not ten steps from us, The half- 
closed eye of the buck was upon us; we were without a 
gun, and he was, therefore, safe from any injury we 
could inflict upon him. Anxious to observe the cunning he 
would display, we turned our eyes another Way, and com- 
menced a careless whistle, as if for ourown amusement, walk- 
ing gradually toward him in acircuitous route, until wearrived 
Within a few feet of him. He had now sunk 80 deep in the 
water that an inch only of his nose, and slight portions of 
his prongs were seen above the surface. We again sat down 

on the bank for some minutes, pretending to read a book. 
At length we suddenly directed our eyes toward him, and 
raised our hand, when he rushed to the shore and dashed 
through the rattling canebrake in rapid style.+ 

Early in September our deer begin to desert the water 
courses, and before cold weather sets in there is a marked 
decrease in their numbers in the localities which a short time 
previdusly were their favorite feeding grounds. The reason 
isapparent; the marsh grasses haye matured and sre now 
dry; the tender aquatic plants near shore have mostly with- 
ered and decayed; and the lily-pads and pickerel weed, cut 
down by September frosts, no longer remain to tempt. their 
appetites, ‘I'hey retire, therefore, to the higher ground in 
the forest, which still affords them abundant subsistence. t 

A large number of the Adirondack lakes are heavily 
bordered witha dense frontage of arbor vitx (here called 
‘white cedar”), which so overhangs the water that the lower 
limbs barely clear the surface, Around many of these lakes 
all the lower branches, up to a certain height, are dead, so 
that on viewing the shore one is struck with the strange ap- 
pearance of a sharp cut line, about the height of a man’s 
head, extending partly, or entirely, around the lake. Above 
it the dense foliage presents an almost continuous and un. 
broken front, impenetrable to the eye, while below it not a 
green sprig can be scen, the dead limbs and branches remain- 
ing in the form of a broad belt, 

The cause of this phenomenon long remained a mystery, 
and many and amusing theories have becn advanced for its 
explanation. It-has been supposed that some unusual and 
unknown agency operated to produce a great overflow of 
these lakes, and that the present green line indicates the high- 
water mark of this unrecorded inundation, the branches 
below it haying been killed by the water or ice. Were there 
no other reasons for disbelieving this hypothesis, its absur- 
dity is demonstrated by the fact that on many of the larger 
lakes the line is confined to one side. The only other theory, 
so far as I am aware, that is worthy of refutation, was ad- 
vanced by no less distinguished a gentleman than Mr. Ver- 
planck Colvin, superintendent of the Adirondack Survey. 
Mr. Colvin’s theory is, the snow which is blown off from the 
ice on some of the larger lakes, and is sometimes piled in 
drifs in certain places along the borders, buries the lower 
limbs of the cedars; and he thinks that this snow ‘in some 
unfavorable season, becoming compact and icy, had killed 
the inclosed evergreen foliage, ”’§ 

The fallacy of this view is proven, I think, by the follow- 
ing facts: First, branches on the opposite or shore side of 
these very trees are usually alive and green, which could 
hardly be the case were the drift theory true; second, the 
line is often more strongly marked on the shores of ponds 
that are too small, and too closely hemmed in by hills, to 
afford the wind a chance to drift the snow about their 
borders; and, third, the foliage line is, in all instances where 
] have observed it, perfectly straight and exactly parallel to 
the surface of the water, which could not possibly be the case 
were if caused by irregularly drifted snow. 

Moreover, it is now an ascertained fact that the green line 
is a result of the wintering of deer along the shores where 
it exists, and the evidence on this head may be summed up 
as follows: In the first place, it is absent from at least half 
of the cedar-bordered lakes, and is only found, of recent ori- 
gin, in localities where deer are known to winter. On some 
of the larger lakes it is confined to one shore and sometimes 
to a single deep bay, while the cedars about the rest of the 
lake remain unmarred. Furthermore, it is a fact, which can 
be verified by any one willing to take the trouble, that where 
the deer still winter in these places the snow which covers 
the ice is literally trodden down by them, a well beaten path 
follows closely the outline of the shore, and the stumps of 
newly broken branches may here and there be found, The 
height of the line shows the distance that a full grown deer 
can reach when standing on the snow and ice. nd finally, 
trustworthy witnesses aflirm that they have observed the deer 
standing on the icein the act of browsing upon the low 
branches of cedars overhanging the lake. 1 regard all this 
evidence as conclusive, 

Though deer are generally spoken of as nocturnal, they 
are by no means strictly so, their habits in this particular 
being modified by the enyirenment. In localities that are 
much frequented by man they keep their beds during the 
greater part of the day, and feed mostly by night; while in 
the remoter sections the reverse seems to be true. 

The spot on which one lies to rest is called its bed. It is 
generally hidden in some thicket, under the low branches of 
an evergreen, or by the top of a fallen tree.* 

They have no fear of water, and, when pressed by wolves 
or dogs, take to it as a means of escape. 'Ihey are excellent 
swimmers, moving with such speed that a man must row 


briskly tooverhaul them, Hvyen the young fawns swim well, 
and I once caught one alive that had been driven into the 
lake, It was in the spotted coat, and not more than three 
months old_+ 

The extraordinary sagacity of some of these animals, and 
the temerity, I might even say stupidity, of others, isaston- 
ishing. As a general thing, a deer is always on the alert; his 
cyesight is good, his hearing acute, and his sense of smell 
developed to an unusual degree. Under ordinary cireum- 
stances he detects the whereabouts of «man ata considerable 
distance, and even if abundant is seldom seem, At other 
times, particuiarly when feeding on the margin of a lake or 
tiver, if the wind is right he may be approached in broad 
daylight by aid of a boat, and will only raise his head from 
time to time, gazing at the intruder in a vacant sort of way; 
but let the wind shift a trifle, so that he gets a whiff from 
the direction of the boat, and he is off in an instant, Along 
the borders of the Wilderness a deer will sometimes join a 
group of cows or sheep at pasture, and follow them’ home 
within gunshot of the house, Notafew have met their 
death in this way, 

During the deep snows of our severer winters deer are apt 
to congregate and remain in one locality till the food supply 
in the immediate vicinity is exhausted, when they move off 
to some other place. By working to and fro in search of 
browse the snow becomes much trampled, and pathways are 
beaten in various directions. Thesc places are called yards, 
but they fall far short of the regular inclosures, walled in by 
Geep snow, that we so often read about, and even gee pic- 
tured under this head. They afford the much-persecuted 
animals no shelter or protection, for if discovered by either 
the panther or the infamous “crust-hunter,” they become 
graveyards for many. Mr. Verplanck Colvin, speaking of 
one he had found on the south side of Seventh Lake Moun- 
tain, Feb, 15, 1877, said: ‘It was impossible to estimate the 
number of deer which had occupied this yard, as they had 
fled at our approach, plunging into the eep snow below. 
The ground of this central area resembled a sheep yard in 
winter, the forms of the deer being plainly discernible in 
the beds of snow, in which they had slept, on every side. 

“Here we were startled by the sight of the fresh tracks of 
a panther or cougar, which evidently made his home in this 
abode of plenty; and shortly thereafter we found the body: 
of a deer freshly killed, and shockingly torn and mutilated, 
The guides were now all excitement, and followed the cou- 
gar’s trail eagerly. In less than thirty minutes a shout 
announced that he had been encountered, and rushing for- 
ward to the southern front of the plateau I came upon the 
monstrous creature, cvolly defiant, standing at the brow of a 
precipice on some dead timber, little more than twenty feet 
from where I stood. Quickly loading the rifle, I sent a bul- 
let through his brain, and as the smoke lifted, saw him strug- 
gling in the fearful convulsions of death, till finally precipi- 
tated oe the cliffs he disappeared from sight in the depths 
below.” 

It is stated by several writers that the deer delights in 
destroying snakes. Dr, Harlan thus speaks of this pro- 
clivity: 

“This species displays great enmity toward the rattlesnake, 
which enemy they attack and destroy with singular dexterity 
and courage; wheu the deer discoyers one of these reptiles, 
they leap into the air to a great distance aboye it, and de- 
scend with their four feet brought together, forming a solid 
square, and light on the snake with their whole weight, 
when they immediately bound away; they return and re- 
peat the same maneuvers until their enemy is completely 
destroyed.Ӥ. 


“See me put his eye out,’ whieh was done.” 


dynasty or a prestige that is passing away. 


=! 


money like water. 


it is a fallen angel. 


tin orgs? anp STREAM for Dec. 6, 1888 (Vol. XXI., No, 19, pp. 862), 
occurs the following; ‘Deer at Sea.—Portland, Me., Noy. 20.—The 
British sclooner Howard came in yesterday with one of Howard 
Knowlton’s deer on board, which had been picked up about five miles 
out at sea, The animal escaped from the garden on Peak’s Island 
last summer, and had not been seen since, probably haying kept in the 
woods at thelower end of the island. This is the biggest feat of 
capturing deer in the water on record.” 

{Report of Adirondack Survey, 1880, pp. 159-160. 

§Fauna Americana, 1825, p. 242. 


[TO BE CONTINUED. ] 


CONGRATULATIONS AND SPECULA- 
TIONS. 


[Extracts from a speech that might have been made on a late 
“solemn and interesting occasion,” had not circumstances prevented, 
or rather, had they been propitious. ] 

WING to a constitutional weakness I am perhaps a 
little late, but as my congratulations are somewhat dif- 
ferent from those you have already received, they may be 
acceptable even now, at any rate they will be ready for nexé 
time. 

Ten years is no great of a life in journalism; I have known 
dreadful mean papers to live longer than that. The ques- 
tion most prominent at present seems to be the progress 
made by the Forest AND STREAM in all those years, with 
its assured prosperity for the future, Why and from whence 
does it come when so little is ventured by its managers in 
either department it represents? I see no prizes sought or 
awarded to any of its ‘‘staff officers,” and yet fhe paper fills 
a place that has long and sorely needed just such a represen- 
tative, and consequently its permanent success is a legitimate 
result. 

Starting at first as a sporteman’s journal, that plebian rec- 
reation has risen to respectability under its influence, so 
that one may be proud of his rifie or gun, where once he was 
ashamed to be seen with one on his shoulder. Now we wil- 
lingly acknowledge that the keen-eyed hunter in his light 
canoe, penetrating ,regions unknown to civilization, has 
brought to light facts and fancies in organie life new to 
science and the world. 

The call for living issues, for facts as they appear to-day 
under our adyanced intelligence, has brought out an over- 
whelming amount of contribution and incident, raising the 
question as to the reliability of certaim early writers ef na- 
tural history, and laying bare discrepancies and omissions 
which should no longer exist. 

Here are opened channels of thought and research before 
unused. The sportsman in his record of facts and incident 
becomes a naturalist and scientist without effort, a source 
of human knowledge, now as never before showing its im- 
portance; and as new fields are under consideration and 
grow broader with each day, just so the interest, enjoyment 
and real soul, as well as bodily profit, is increased. It is the 
full free breath of mountain air that fills his lungs with 
oxygen, the living flame, and gives him strength and endur- 
ance beyond other men. The man of study and letters finds 
in the woods renewed energy from the same source, his 
writings have sharper edge and point, while to the “wit” the 


and think. 


it is sin of deepest dye to disregard. 


+Quadrupeds of North America, Vol, II., 1851, p, 223. 

{The largest and best conditioned deer I ever saw was a magnificent 
buck that Dr. ¥. H. Hoadley shot at Big Moose Lake, Oct. 31, 1881. 
Its stomach was full, containing a quantity of the leaves and stems 
of the ‘bunch berry” or dwarf cornel (Cornus canadensis), a small 
amount of wintergreen (Goultheria procumbens), and a tew leaf- 
stems of the mountain ash (Pyrus americana), while throughout the 
mass were scattered numbers of beech nuts with the shucks on. 

§Report of Adirondack auarey 1880, p. 162. 

*W hile on a snowshoe tramp from Big Otter to Big Moose Lake, in 
‘January, 1883, I counted upward of forty deer beds—mere depres- 
Sions in the snow. One only wasin an exposed LO, being in a 
little opening alongside a maple sapling. ith this single exception 
all were under shelter of small spruce and balsam trees, the space 
between the bed and the overhanging branches, loaded down with 
ica and snow, being in most cases barely sufficient to admit the ani- 


through the whole realm of organic life. 


fa aath 7s oe —_ *.. —_ 


field is new and just exhaustless. And yet this particular ad- 
vantage has been overlooked, its necessity in the maintenance 
of a well-Dalanced mind underrated in the fret and fever of 
business life. It is here that the Formst anp STREAM steps 
In to fill a place compilers have heen obliged to leave blank, 
ora story half told. The hunter tells his own story in his 
own way, and with a directness no other man can reach, 
The lion, tiger or panther in the menagerie is one thing; in 
their wild state, where the hunter's life depends on his cool- 
ness and precision, they are quife anothcr. As one said to the 
writer: ‘*We were standing side by side; the panther 
his fect for the spring, but hesitated a fatal mo 
we knew he would do. My companion raised his r 


gathered 


ment, as 
ifle, with 


Tis columns also offer a broad field where rival theories 
can be sustained or demolished; an elevated plateau over- 
awed by no institution, governed by no clique, and not likely 
to sacrifice its dignity and position by bolstering a failing 


All honor to the projectors of the Central Park Museum 
and the State foremost in its fostering care of natural history ; 
but beyond precedent fortunate that the Fornsr anp STREAM 
is under its shadow. Both are necessary, I might add indis- 
penusable; but if one must be sacrificed, which shall go first? 
In the Park we see form, size and color, pictures which every 
child knows and can name at sight, while character, habit, 
passion, emotion—that which constitutes its story through 
the whole realm of organic life—must be sought outside its 
walls. It is, therefore, no idle boast that, as natural history 
is being re-written, the compiler musi draw largely from 
these columns both base and structure of his worl. 

Ornithology as a pure science is exhausting itself. Micro- 
scopic distinctions, which at best only confer microscopic 
honors, have reached a point where common sense gives up 
the helm and abandons the guidance. The mighty crat 
already touches gravel, and unless a new tack is made it will 
stick fast where a neap tide will not float it off, 

Ihave read somewhere that ‘man cannot live by bread 
alone.” A striking illustration of its truth is herein apparent. 
Making no pretense to be a scientific journal, the Forrst AnD 
STREAM has on its pages more of what natural science is 
built upon than any other publication in the language, Look 
at the exhibitions of canine sagacity. Look at our yachts, 
true sca birds of the ocean, marvels of improvement in nayal 
architecture; the rifle of to-day, the deadliest arm the world 
has ever seen, and deny, if you Gare, the strides natural his- 
tory has made, gleaning in old fields, picking heads of aban- 
doned grain and shaking out the grass in sheaves already 
gathered—allliying issues of to-day, and for which, anxious 
to know and have their children know, men are pouring out 


I might as well here as elsewhere crave the reader’s indul- 
gence while I offer a word in explanation of a deviouscourse. 
I was drawn into the publication of papers on natural his- 
tory as subjects came up for discussion in the Forms AND 
StrFAM, until, before | was aware of the danger, honorable 
retreat was impossible. I now go back to an article written 
years ago, and which should have appeared at first as defin- 
ing the position assumed, only hoping, if the same idea is 
sometimes repeated, it will bear the repetition, The primary 
object of the essay was to engraft science back upon its 
parent stock, natural philosophy; because science is only a 
human method of studying creative works, and may go 
astray, while philosophy, the law under which all works were 
accomplished, came with them fromthe Creator’s hand, The 
man who cannot see this is to be pitied, the man who denies 


I offer, theretore, a simple record of what I haye seen in 
more than half a century of research, and what others 
have seen, and which IJ believe true statements. 
discoveries are neither brilliant nor numerous, and yet they 
are such as | hardly feel willing to see ‘‘appropriated” or for- 
gotten, to he rediscovered by and by. If the conellisions 
drawn are given with the confidence of strong beliet, rest 
assured that that is precisely the case since many an episode 
cost years of attention as its month came round, and many 
questions could only be settled in certain degrees of latitude. 
l may be pardoned for writing that a mushroom growth is 
here of all places most pernicious. To the young and super- 
ficial mind there is acharm in classification, orders, genera, 
and minor divisions. An array of hard names and indefinite 
distinctions obscure all above or beyond, the conclusion is 
at once reached that if these terms can be fluently repeated 
and profusely written, the whole matter is understood, and 
that this constitutes the study of nature in all its fullness and 
fruition. This weakness of young writers isa sad and fatal mis- 
take; it has filled our pages of natural history with crude un- 
philosophic theories, improbable “‘probabilities” and strange 
reports, ready to seize avy real discovery that is made, and 
still, erroncous record if no occurrence brings them to light. 
What I would impress is, that beyond this dark harrier of 
technicalities lies a field boundless as the love of God for his 
creatures, Where is spread out all that is beautiful, all that is 
elevating and satisfactory to an inquiring mind. 
little story of lite in the simple language of nature that every 
creature brings before us, the place they occupy in the great 
chain of intelligences; the contemplation of which raises us 
in the same scale, ennobles our position and leaves us to feel : 


My own 


Tt is the 


J would also impress a more close observance of thelaws |! 
which govern and sustain life in the orders below us, minis- * 
tering as they do by life and liberty to our pleasures and our 
necessities. ‘They have a claim on our mercy atleast, which~ — 


hen we deprive a bird or animal of liberty, we also per- = 
ee take hohe Heit ability to obtain thefood on which they 
live, and without which they must die, We may exhaust 
invention in mixing substitutes, but the broken natural law 
remains, and the penalty is death. Take the Southern mock- 
ing bird, an insect and worm eater exclusively. Not one in 
ten survives the first year in confinement: not one in twenty 
lives two years, and not one in a hundred lives over five years. 
And why is this? Not because you did not give food in 
abundance, but because you did not and could not give the 
food the Creator made necessary to sustain that life. “Why 
did my bird die when hesung so beautifully but yesterday? 
J have heard many times repeated, with only the same an- 
swer to give; ‘‘Your bird had only the language of song, and 
tue Jast wail of starvation could be nothimg else. 
our bird, a mere skeleton covered with feathers; as 1 said. 
perote: the unremitting penalty of a broken law, immutable 


Here is 


There's an old book ‘laying around,” you will find one in 
almost every house; in fact, every well regulated family 
ossesses One or More copies, for ‘‘there is a great deal in it. 
Not particularly a work on ornithology, although a bearing 
in that direction is perceptible. Turning its pages one day 


———— 


= 


Apnit 24, 1884, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


245 


TY ee eee 
SSS eee Sees Sew oro eeeseaeTwsssSemuess, 


my eve fell on this passage, “If a bird’s nest chance to be 
1 eee thee in the i, in any tree or on the ground, whether 
they be young ones or eggs, the dam sitting upon the young 
or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the 
young, but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go and take 
the young unto thee.” (Deut. xxii. 6-7.) 

Tsata long while in deep thought over it. Here was a 
key to what had been for years to me a mystery, and 
although giving no clue to the origin or process, such was 
my confidence in the authority of the command that I ac- 
cepted the fact, willing to abide by it, But why was this 
command necessary in this and in no other phaze of organic 

Jife? Yes surely, why? j 

The pet fever touched meat the usual age, to be supplanted 
by love for higher objects as years formed new tastes and 
aspirations, and culminating at Jast on that last work of 
creation, where it sticks to this day. (I account for the 
anomaly only on the simple fact that it leayes nothing fur- 
ther to be desired in that direction.) i ’ 

I took from the nest a brood of young birds with both the 
parent birds, put them in a cage, placed in it abundance of 
food, congratulating myself that the old birds were quiet 
and did not worry, and of course would tame easily. Six 
hours-afterward I looked into the cage; the mother bird lay 
dead, while the male survived a short time, Wishing to 
preserve the skins, I found the flesh dry and shrunken, the 
fluids exhausted, with cyery appearance of starvation a week 
rather than the work of afew hours. I tried the same ex- 
periment seyeral times, with the same result invariably, and 
grew discouraged, } 

After reading the above quotation the mystery was greater, 
while the liberty of investigation was abridged. Thoroughly 
human, I sought to evade the letter of the law and see how 
near I could come without incurring its penalty. I found a 
family of ¢rosbeaks and carried the young in my pocket, the 
old birds in a basket, I placed the old birds in the basement 
and the young birds in the attic. When I came in at evening 
the old bird was dead. It being warm weather the windows 
were open, the old birds would hear the call of their young, 
and hence the result, I must confess that seeing this my 
heart was far from flint. One trial more and I ceased for- 
eyer. I tooka pair of grosbeaks with the young, carried 
the young to my house, and the old ones to my office. They 
all lived. The young srew large and beautiful, the old 
birds easily domesticated, and all were lovely as tame birds 
could be. The question comes up then, what is this power, 
this influence of the passions and emotions which will so 
quickly exhaust the functions of life, shrink the living 
tissue and paralyze muscular action? 

The power of mind over matter is acknowledged in general 
terms, but the particular province and physical effects of 
passion, emotion, will and like attributes in organic life, 
science has not reached, and could not if it would. This 
train of thought I propose to follow, noting the physical re- 
sults of their influence and power, in moulding forms of 
life, changing and breaking up its organizations, with such 
other phenomena of interest as may occur. 

To return to the question, why was this single class of crea- 
tures designated among myriads to receive special privileges 
and exemption from calamities to which all organic life is sub- 
jected. We shall find the answer in their peculiar neryous 
organization and susceptibility. They could not be the 
fairy creatures they are with less. The rapidity of motion,’ 
the circulation of blood and muscular action, all show sen- 
tient intensity not possessed by any other warm-blooded 
creature. To offset and counterbalance this, comes in the 
wise provision of short memory, anda cessation of nervous 
excitement when the cause is removed. As was said before, 
the moment the call of the young bird ceases, whether from 
death or remoyal, the parent bird becomes quiet, and after 
a short time gathers food for itself, and allis forgotten. We 
see then, how the passions and emotions paralyze the func. 
tions of life, and how quickly the living tissue is affected by 
them. We find also that desire, effort, or will, though less 

rapid in operation, is not less wonderful in physical results, 

When I first looked at the American crossbill, creative de- 
sign was beyond my reach. The consideration followed of 
how far circumstances might have influenced the distortion 
of mandible, and that led me to keep one in confinement 
where neither desire nor opportunity could be indulged and 
where the mandibles would not be twisted, now right and 
now left, nor elongated by efforts to reach a seed a little be- 
yond his reach. At the end of one year I saw the mandibles 
were assuming a natural position. At the end of two years 
the bird died when the crossing was hardly perceptible. It 
may be urged that this being the case, the mandibles of the 
young bird should be parallel and straight. I reply, not neces- 
sarily so, since no fact is better substantiated than that in the 
transmission of life, both character and bodily deformity are 
carried with it. Here is positive evidence of natural effort 
to restore symmetry to a distortion brought on by the vary- 
ing circumstances and necessities of life. What we urge is 
that subjects fraught with such serious consequences to the 
best interests of life should receive the attention due to them, 
and we may rest assured that the line between what the 
Creator has done and what he has left us to learn and do, 
wil grow definite and plain as we proceed. The laws which 
govern the physical universe, govern also the beating of your 
heart and mine, and when understood, leave less and less of 
His dealings with humanity inscrutable. _ 

Henry Little grew from boyhood to manhood by my side. 
From a burn on his neck when quite a small child the in- 
jured muscle contracted, and laid his head down on his right 
shoulder, He grew up a strong, healthy, spirited young 
man, but continually cramped by this misfortune, which 
did not in the least impair intellect or ambition. Every 
moment of waking life was an effort to raise his head to 
an upright prsition, and this grew more intense as. the ap- 
proach to manhood made the misfortune more apparent. A 
physician, skillful, though somewhat given to hazardous ex- 
periments, said to him one day: ‘‘Henry,1 can part that 
contracted muscle and set your head up right.” ‘‘Do it—do 
it,” said Henry. ‘Cut my head half off if necessary. I'll 
risk it,” 

So one day he thrust in his knife, and feeling around 
among neryes and blood vessels, severed the strap, and over 
the head went to the opposite shoulder. Bracing it up in 
proper position, the wound soon healed, and his head was all 
right. Butanew phenomena now appeared, the face was 
all awry, the whole side was carried upward, the whole 
orbit of the eye and eyeball was carried three-quarters up 
into the forehead, so that the distertion was really more 
painful to look at than before. What counteraeting influ- 
ences might have followed we are unable to record, as a few 
months afterward he fell from the yard armin a stormy 
night at sea and was lost, B. Horsrorp. 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. 


—— ~ 


Birp Norns.—Robins, bluebirds and larks are here in 
force. The song of the lark is especially sweet after the ter- 
rible winter just experienced. Long before summer the 
meadows are yocal with his songs. The robin has not got 
tuned up yet, but is practicing, Several mornings 1 have 
heard him near my bedroom window. The bluebird 
warbled all through the month of March, It was pretty 
tough on him, but when he got here he stayed. The Ing- 
lish sparrow was here all winter, but with the first breath of 
spring has gone hence. The 15th of March I counted forty- 
nine wild geese, and on the 19th ult. sixty-one, sailing north- 
ward. Some five days later I heard a flock in the dusk of 
evening, but did not see it. L have not noted the flight of 
our wild ducks this spring, though I am informed that a 
great many have come in along the Hock-Hocking River, I 
usually see a great many this time of the year, Quail will 
be seare here this fall. Reports from the country around say 
that entire flocks perished during the extreme cold weather, 
Last winter was one of the worst ever experienced in this 
State, Near the office of our iron works (which, by the way, 
is way back in the woods) is a large coal slack dump which 
has been burning forseveral years, and over which is dumped 
hundreds of bushels of slack every week, Adjacent to this 
dump is a woodland, and one morning a flock of twelve 
quail filed out of the woods down to this fire. After a little 


time they flew away to the stables and were fed by the 


stable boss. Every morning I watched them, and with each 
visit the number was less. At last only three were left to 
answer rall call, All day they hovered close to the heat, but 
when the firelight began to brighten the dark landscape, and 
night was fairly on, they fled. In the morning the encamp- 
ment was silent, and after a search, made this entry in the 
note book: ‘‘Found dead upon the picket line.” Grouse 
wintered well, and are to be found in abundance.—PARson 
O’ Garu (Baird Iron Works, Gore, O., April 6). 


Tue DrApity Wrres.—A. large flock of wild geese passed 
over here rorthward this morning, the first I have observed 
this season. Last week the boys picked up in the road an 
English snipe and a woodeock. Both were probably killed 
by flying against the telegraph wires which line the high- 
way, om the numerous similar instances noticed, must 
we not conclude that the total number of game birds killed 
in this way is very large indeed? Unfortunately for this 
kind of destruction there seems io be no help, but on the 
coutrary it must continue to inerease as the cause increases. 
—H, W, C. (Rye, N. Y., April 8). 


Tur SPEED AT wHiIcH Ducks Fry.—A few weeks ago 
the writer was riding at the side of the Connecticut River 
on a train which was running not less than twenty miles an 
hour, As it passed a certain point a duck flew up and 
headed the same way we were going. It came just in a line 
with the edge of the window and kept there for several 
minutes without losing an inch until it began to slow down 
preparatory to settling into the water again.— CURTIS. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


SHOOTING IN CUBA. 
A DAY AMONG THE QUAIL. 


HAVE just risen from the perusal of my weekly file of 

_ the Herald, filled with terrifying details of the disastrous 
floods in the West, the destructive cyclones in the South, 
and the piercing blizzards inthe North of our grand republic, 
and cannot help feeling satisfied for the nonce that I am 
suailed upon by kindlier skies. While our fellow sportsmen 
north of Mason and Dixon’s are blowing their fingers and 
kicking their toes against the ice-covered trees to keep up the 
circulation of blood in them, I am kicking Bob White out 
of the matted grass in green fields and pastures new. No 
wonder then that the New Orleans and Oedar Key steamer 
of this week brought us seventy-three passengers, and nearly 
every week from forty to sixty, when, but three or four 
years ago, from six to ten was the usual number brought in 
by this line each trip. The fact is, increasing numbers of 
my countrymen are discovering that this is a wonderfully 
fine winter climate, generally with clear skies and the tem- 
perature ranging between seventy and eighty from November 
to April, frequently below seventy, with an occasional dive 
down to sixty for several days at a time during the northers 
which are probably the spent breath of your northern 
blizzards. 

Since sending you my last letter (‘“A Day Among the 
Wild Guineas’) I have not been out until this week, on ac- 
count of the sickness of my dog, which I will briefly men- 
tion en passant as a matter of interest to sportsmen. 

The dog in question is the red Irish setter bitch Fire Fly, 
formerly owned by Mr, Crause, of Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 
road, for which he paid, as he assured me, $1,150, and was 
purchased by me and brought to this island about eighteen 
months since. Soon after her arrival here I noticed she was 
very deaf on one side, and would often scratch her head 
furiously on the deaf side, and this continued until the day 
referred to in my last letter. "That day she did unusually 
heavy work, and suffered from lassitude and lack of appe- 
tite for several days thereafter, when her head became much 
swollen with an offensive discharge from the deaf ear. Be- 
coming alarmed at her symptoms, I laid the ear open and 
found the inner ear completely filled up with a blood tumor 
with broad base, which I dissected out, a suppurating mass 
with more than thirty maggots a half inch}ong and full line 
in diameter within it. 

The wound was dressed daily with water medicated with 
chinolin tartaric, two grains to the ounce, She madea good 
recovery, and now, four weeks after the operation, is entirely 
well, with hearing perfectly restored. 

Yesterday, 24th of February, I took her to the country for 
a day among the quail, which we both thoroughly enjoyed, 
she appearing desirous of showing especial gratitude for her 
improved abilities. 

The morning was particularly cool and pleasant, we, in 
the best form, were on the ground at sunrise. Light dew- 
drops sparkled upon the grass, refracting the cheery light 
that played upon and through them; the twitter of song birds 
filled the morning air with animating sounds, which wonder- 
fully harmonized with its charming freshness, while we en- 
joyed the thrill of the quickened circulation that coursed 
through its circuit of arteries and veins, the pleasure of which 
is heightened by our pleasing expectations of our favorite 
sport. The dog, in fuil sympathy with these expectations, is 
inclined to widen her range as she goes rollicking over the 


field, but to my great delight is pow quick in hearing and 
obedient to the whistle. 

Our first bevy we flushed wild in a field denuded of cover, 
and they scattered badly; one quartered within reach of my 
left barrel, and I scored my first bird, which the bitch te- 
trieved in her usual handsome style, laying in my hand a 
plump bird without ruffling a feather, These birds were so 
seattered | was unable to mark them, so did not try to fol- 
low, but at the other side of same field the dog commenced 
roading another bevy which she worked very cautiously, and 
finally located. They were in gond cover, and so cautiously 
had the dog crept upon them, that when flushed they rose in 
one bunch within a yard of her nose and two yards of the 
nose of her niaster, who did not molest them, only trying to 
mark them down. All except two, however, went out of the 
field; these two made the second and third birds contributed 
to my bag. 

I now followed into the field where the last bevy had 
flown, a full hour having been devoted fo the last field with 
a result of only three birds in the hag. 

Before proceeding far in the next field the dog began road-~ 
ing and soon came toa point. I flushed and killed a large 
water hen (Crex porzanw), and a little further, on a second 
point, I flushed a bevy of quailgand killed the Jaggard, 
marking the rest down, but little scattered, in a splendid 
cover of short, but thick and matted grass. Here I at once 
knew I was to have the best sport of the day. The grass 
was such as the quail, when flushed, love to hide in, and in 
which they will not run; so I called the dog tothe cool shade 
of a neighboring tree to rest and cool off in the gentle breeze, 
Near us we had the bevy marked down, within a space not 
exceeding two hundred feet square, in such coyer that 1 
knew they would rise in ones and twos, 

The owner of the hacienda rode up to invite me to break- 
fast with him and his family at 10 o’clock, and I told 
him of the game marked down, inviting iim fo remain to 
see the sport. Asking me to be careful not to shoot in his 
direction, he accepted my invitation. When both I and the 
bitch were quite rested, keeping her close, I commenced at 
one side and worked that patch of field as closely as if look- 
ing for needles in hayfields, she seeming to be as well aware 
as myself of the vicinity of the whole bevy, and that any 
unnecessary fuss would spoil our sport, How very like a 
cat she did all that delicate piece of work, constantly talkin 
to me with her eyes as she successively and surely pointec 
with her nose to their secret hiding places without ever 
making one mistake, her knowing glance saying to me, ‘There 
is your bird, are you ready?” and how quietly she would 
slip away to retrieve the dead birds and how carefully she 
laid each in my hand and resumed her work, I think it 
was the prettiest piece of canine work I ever witnessed, and 
my enjoyment of it was greatly augmented by my friend 
remaining to witness it also, His enthusiasm for the dog 
was boundless, and I could not help doing my part better 
than ever before. One by one (except once when two rose 
together) she found and pointed for me fourteen quail, and 
never before do I remember haying killed twelve quail out 
of fourteen successive rises. This time, asif to honor the 
fine work of my dog, twelve of these fourteen went into my 
bag, and then we adjourned to the house for breakfast, both 
Land the bitch having acquired a high reputation for skill 
in the estimation of my host. Sixteeu birds fat as squabs, 
a glowing satisfaction with myself and dog, and a rousing 
appetite, were the results of my mornirg’s work. 

The breakfast was worthy of my preparation for it in my 
glorious tramp over those fields, and I honored it with custo 
such as only a sportsman can comprehend. My host and J 
were full of the enthnsiagm brought in from the field, and 
we killed all those birds again over the breakfast table in 
company with his family, 

After two hours devoted to our breakfast and quiet rest, 
the gentle breezes under the wide balcony, the thermometer 
marking there about seventy degrees, I amused myself by a, 
few shots at the wild pigeons which were plentiful in a mil- 
let field near the house, bagging ten of them in a half hour, 
Until four o’clock I strolled about the place, and observing 
the domestic animals, amoug which is a phenomenal friend- 
ship, existing since several years, between a cow and a sturdy 
old gander, which are inseparable. Wherever that cow ranges 
that gander is ever by her side, and her champion against 
all violent aggressions, and will put to route even the most 
ferocious cattle that attack her by striking them violent blows 
with his sturdy wings.and sharp, horny bill about their eyes, 
sometimes leaving incised wounds in their eyelids. This you 
may think a very improper gander, but that is the only kind 
permitted in this anomalous country, no propaganda being 
allowed by the authorities of the ‘‘Siempre Fiel” to be even 
talked about, and I quail before indulging in such a thought, 

This being so, and 4 o’clock coming around, with myself 
and Fly perfectly rested and refreshed, I followed her to the 
fields, this time with the head and small boys of the family 
to show me where the game was most quickly to be found, 
and with a desire on their part to witness a renewal of the 
performances so celebrated at the breakfast table. 

The birds were already running, Several bevies were suc- 
cessively found, and they furnished us fair sport, though I 
was not able to mark down any in so favorable a cover as to 
repeat the morning’s performance; consequently 1 somewhat 
injured my reputation for great skill by more frequent 
taisses. Notwithstanding this I had a very enjoyable tramp, 
at sunset had flushed five bevies during the afternoon, and 
had added thirteen quail to my morning’s score. Total bag 
for the day, 29 quail, 10 pigeons’ and 1 water hen—40 birds 
—with which I arrived home by early train yesterday, the 
25th inst. Note the date, and that I say ‘‘total bag,” not 
‘total results,” which are still more far-reaching and iun- 
portant. 

It is big medicine, and I take it whenever I can get a day 
off, from November to April, for all bodily ailments, not to 
mention the alimentation which is one of its minor advan- 
tages also agreeable to your subscriber. bs 

Notwithstanding that there is no legally closed season 
here, the birds are plentiful because the absence of snow, 
abundance of cover and feod, and comparatively few sports- 
men do for them what only the most stringently enforced 
game laws can accomplish in the States. Included under the 
word ‘‘cover” are the cane fields, tangle woods and their 
vicinitics, where shooting is impracticable, so it will ever be 
impossible to exterminate the quail by much shooting, as it 
will always be replenished from these impenetrable preserves, 
and the same is true in some degree of the deer. 


Nemo Nimwanp, 
HABANA, Feb. 26, 18384. 


CentTRAL Laks, Mich., April 16.—Crow blackbirds first 
seen April14. No wild geese reported as yet. The inland 
lakes are opening fast, but there is still a good deal of ice. 
Grand Traverse Bay not open yet.—K. 


perl 


(WOREASE (OF MAINE LARGE AME pin mlnamnuurGucaann lo OF MAINE LARGE GAME, 


A MOST cheering report to the sportsman and friend of 
game protection comes from Maine. Moose, caribou 
and deer are increasing. The information eames from good 
authority and there is no buncombe about it, Protection of 
these kings of game animals was not begun in real earnest 
tall the jack-shooters and crust-hunters had made a heavy 
beginniug in the work of utter extermination—was not thor- 
eughbly begun till the winter of 1881-82, and followed up 
with a vengeance till the winter of 1882-88. But when early 
last winter Payson Tucker, Superintendent of the Maine 
Central Railroad, issued his remarkable order to forward no 
more moose, caribou, deer, or other unlawfully-killed game 
over his road or its branches, the backbone of Maine market 
hunting was broken. He was immediately followed by a 
similar order from the managers of nearly every other ex- 
press and transportation company with lines leading out of 
Maine. The result has been most gratifying, Instead of 
nearly two thousand deer, forwarded from that State a year 
“ago, there to be wasted or sold for a mere pittance, the 
winter is now over, the crust- hunting season is past and not 
over fifty deer have been received in . Boston. 

But the effect upon the game itself is most pleasing. A 
gentleman thoroughly familiar with the history of the moose 
in Maine, who has just returned from a trip through Aroos- 
took county, says that the most noble of game is surely on 
the increase. Lumbermen report their tracks aa more plenty 
than ever seen before. The lumbermen have frequently seen 
them. Alas! for the love of fresh venison they would prob- 
ably have killed them, but the game wardens and detectives 
made themselves too much of a terror a year ago, when they 
suddenly ‘dropped into camp,” helped themselves to moose 
hides, and called upon the lumbermen to call at the county 
attorney’s office and settle in the sum of $100 and costs for 
every moose killed. Deer are reported: as more numerous 
than ever before in that county, and they haye not been 
molested by either lambermen or crust-hunters. 

From Piscataquis and Penobscot counties the reports are 
equally good, The game wardens have done efficient and 
seasonable work, but the moose and deer unlawfully killed 
haye been very few, while a few hours’ drive from the city 
of Bangor would bring anybody within sight of deer tracks 
as plenty as sheep tracks, Occasionally moose also have 
been seen. Though respeetable citizens of that city have 
not been bitten by them, yet the question may be asked in 
sober earnest, what would have been the result of the seeing 
of a deer, or even his track, without the efficient arm of the 
game law over him? 

But the good work has been done, and too much credit 
cannot be reflected upon the earnest efforts of the worthy 
fish and game commissioners of that State. The reports are 
cheering, and only equalled by the fact that the admirable 
code of Jaws, published already in the Forrest anp STREAM, 
haye passed the Massachusetts Senate without a single dam- 
aging amendment. A veteran lover of the rod and gun in 
Maine scnds a greeting to the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association, and offers to extend it to the editor 
of the Forest AND STREAM. He says, ‘‘Moose and deer 
have made a decided gain in our State. I expect to live to 
kill yet another moose by square still- -hunting in open season, 
And it now looks as though there were going to ke enough 
for allof us. Come down next fall, in open season, and 
look over your trusty rifle barrel at the roots of a pair of 
antlers that stand ten feet above the ground!” Sprcran. 

Boston, Mass. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Eilitor Forest and Stream: 


Rifles and mechanics have been my hobby, and added to 
this is an experience of fifteen years in rifle shooting. I haye 
hunted from Texas to the Canadas and used all kinds of 
rifles in match shooting. I have owned one of each gun 
worth anything appearing in the market and have made 


some barrels according to my ideas of rifling, twist, etc., so 
this ipse diavt will have some solid basis. 
-  QOne correspondent advocates a bottleneck shell. This 


pattern has been long since discarded both by government 
and long range-experts; itis atype of the past, The recoil 
of a bottle-necked shell is fully two foot-pounds heavier 
than that of the same charge in a straight shell. The pow- 
der blow becomes more percussive (with equal charges) in 
proportion as the chamber is shortened within practicable 
limits, 

This percussive force we must get rid of and endeayor to 
make the conditions as nearly similar to the accurate muzzle- 
loader as possible, z. ¢., a ballso hard as to upset only for 
one-fifth its length, and of the same diameter as the barrel at 
bottom of grooves. Results of trials shew same accuracy as 
when ball is loaded from the muzzle in the grooves. 

Upon the subject of recoil another contributor speaks 
with such temerity as in a measure to vitiate his opinion, 
I have used as much as 180 grains powder and 550 grains 
lead, off-hand, and although case-hardened by firing thous- 
ands of shots each year, can get better work from lighter 
charges. The less the recoil the greater percentage of hits 
will be made. It is a curious fact, too, that the closer the 
shot the harder the gun seems to kick. 

We can expect only recoil and unaccountables from this 
40-90 bottle shell, and it seems a shame to spoil a Root bar- 
tel by chambering it for it. 

Use in its stead a taper shell of same length, loaded in the 
following manner, which will give the same initial velocity 
with 25 per cent, less initial pressure, and has 10 grains Jess 
powéer to dirty the barrel. I saw in an Ordnance report 
thatin the shell for the Austrian ‘‘Werndl” rifle a cake of 
compressed powder was used, with a resultant gain of some 
250 f, s. initial velocity over shells loaded with same weight 
loose powder. This set me thinking, and experiment 
indorses the following: Load with 20 grains IG in bot- 
tom of shell, then put in a cylindrical cake of compressed 
powder of 50 grains, then add 10 grains of a small-grained 
quick powder, say FEFG. 

The primer Etigula be No. 1 Winchester, as its safety in a 
magazine is in pr oportion to the size, besides wet want only 
enough flame to surely ignite the base of the charge to get 
the desired accelerutive effect, 

The ball should be 300 grains,*4 canelures, with a point 
terminated by a flattened spheroid, to get the maximum area 
of striking surface. 

An alloy of +!; is best, while the rings on the ball should 
caliper same as oe barrel at bottom of the grooves. 

Sir Joseph Whitworth and Dame Experience both tell us 
_ that to insure the rotation, a twist of one turn in twenty 
inches must be used for a ball of three diameters in length. 
The energy wasted in starting a ball mot seated im the 


suns every year. 


gun that stood specially loaded for special purposes beliind 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


grooves, and it cannot be in a repeater, is equal to a loss of 
two inches in lrajectory. 
On some balls fired in snow to determine this, the grooves 
in the lead were from .01 to ,10 inch wider than the lands 
in the gun, and vice versa. 1 find that for a ball started not 
in the grooves, an increase twist starting one turn in sixty 
inches and finishing one turn in sixteen inches, will deliver 
if most perfectly, giving at the same time so littlerecoil, with 
a marked increase in accuracy and trajectory, as to recom- 
mend its adoption. 
The number of grooves maybe 6or8, .005 inch in depth 
and twice the width of the lands. All corners should be 
rounded off to reduce the area of friction and fouling. We 
cannot choose a better action than the Winchester. 
To remove the fears expressed by some, I relate the follow- 
ing: I use from 3,000 to 10,000 Winchester cartridges in their 
Such was my faith in them that, to con- 
vince a friend who doubted, I shot first 18 shots in 9 seconds, 
with only one link; then fired from the shoulder a charge of 
120 grains and three 200- -grain balis on top ef it. He is a 
convert. 
Every accident with these guns may be traced to home- 
made shells and badly-seated primers. 
With a .76inch Winchester, chambered for the taper 
shell, adding thereto the modes of charging and rifling I 
have advocated, we have a gun that has all the requirements 
called for by expectant readers of the rifle column. 
Let us hear the eriticisin of some of your correspondents 
who replace experiment with theories hatched in fertile 
brains, and portray them with a more fluent pen than mine, 
W. Dry. F. 


PaILADELPHIA. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In ante-railroad days in Arizona, together with several 
othérs, I went to the first station west of town, known as 
she Nine Mile Water Hole, to meet the incoming California 
stage, upon which we expected friends. The place was at 
thattime kept by Colonel Whipple, a frontiersman of no 
mean renown, who has since died from the bite of a rattle- 
snake. Inthe immediate neighborhood ef the station was 
an immense mesquital that swarmed with the birds common 
to that neighberhood, and although it was July, many were 
nesting. Among them was a thrush, at that time a str anger 
to me, and as I had noticed the customary shotgun standing 
bebind the bar of the station, I took it and blazed away at 
my bird. What exactly followed I cannot tell, but I have 
and had then a faint recollection of being oyer- ended some 
four or five times in rapid succession and finally of bringing 
up with a bump against a neighboring tree with a bleeding 
nose, an aching head and an almost dislocated shoulder. I 
rested till I could properly get my bearings, then started 
back with the gun, that during my gyrations in the air had 
never left my hands. On the way I met Whipple, and he 
expressed surprise at my want of judgment in the use of a 


the liquor bar of a station on a lonely stage road. He then 
told me how much he had paid for it, and what 
a good gun it was. It had, he acknowledged, 
teen pretty well fited up, and then ‘added, by way of con- 
dolence, that he liked to feel a gun when it went off, inas- 
much as the result was always the more positive. I of course 
felt satisfied that he was right, and am yet convinced by the 
back action of that one Joad_that the performance of ‘shot- 
guns is asomcthing not to bedespised. Jafterward gathercd 
up the little remaining skin and feathers of the bird and sent 
them to 2 gentlemanin San Francisco for identification, and, 
by way of apology for the rags sent, recounted my sad ex- 
perience. Inreply, he advised me to “load lighter and shove 
a little on the breech.” I regret much that Ido not know 
the weight and ganye of the gun, or the pounds of shot and 
powder used; but it was a muzzleloader, and 1 have my own 
experience and Whipple’s word for it that the gun was a 
good one. ADIO8. 
Tucson, A. T, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

J hope I will be excused for stating facts, as my personal 
experience has proven them to be, nat guess work, in the 
performance of shotguns, in points wherein the facts are at 
variance with what many persons have stated as facts in late 
numbers of this journal, Not that I believe that these per- 
sons, any of them, would knowingly make misstatements of 
facts, but haye done so, by accepting as true a proposition 
that at the time to them seemed self-evident, but which, put 
to the crucial test of actual trial, would haye been proven 
erroneous. 

Let us take, for example, the most common of these mis- 
statements of fact when speaking of shotgurs both by editors 
and correspondents, which is the expressicr, When speaking 
of charges, *‘The 10-bore will stand much heavier _ charges 
than the 12 or 16-bore because itisthe stro «ez gun.” Isthis 
a fact as written? Most certainly no. Ti -16-hore, with the 
same thickness of metal at the breech 43 1. e 10- bore, is very 
much the strongest, and the 20-bore in {ue same way, ve 
much stronger than the 16. A tensioi. ihat would lay a 10- 
bore wide open would be easily withstood by the 20-Lore of 
equal thickness of metal. The sti tgth to withstand tensive 
force of your gun or your steam ; oiler is in proportion to 
the area of its inner surface, l « greater the area the less 
tension a certain thickness of s. ctal willsiand. The dentisi’s 
boiler of thin brass, four by “x inches, withstands a tension 
of 900 pounds to the square iach as safely as tle boiler of an 
ocean steamer made of the best steel ten or twenty times the 
thickness withstands twenty pounds to the square inch. 
This I give as a sample, easily understood, of some of the 
assertions of seeming facts that are not facts, and no one is 
excusable for presenting them as facts. 

I will now take up in sequence some of the assertions 
made in the issue of this journal in the number of March 18 
and other sportsmen’s journals that actual experience has 
proven, and will prove in all trials, are not true. We will 
take the assertion by “* * * *,” on page 125; ‘‘A close, 
hard-shooting pun * * * will kill with No. 8.9 or 10 
shot * * with remarkable certainty 45 to 60 yards,” 
This is not true of any shotgun, be it ‘‘hard-shooting” or 
close, wiih No. 9 or 10 shot, and generally not _so with No. 
8. Try it and see, Put your quail up at 50 yards—ineasured 

ards, not guessed at—and sce how much shooting at with 
No. 10 shot he will stand; if you can make him “‘lay down” 
oftencr than once in ten shots then 1 know nothing about 
shotgun shooting. I think my experiments in the line of 
testing the killing range of fine shot haye been careful and 
extensive enough for. practical purposes, and I have fou 
it to be as follows: For No, 12 Chicago shot, 26 to 27 yar 


for No. 9, 84 to 86; for No. 8, 36 to T mean that This ig 


ee 24, 1884, 


as far as any gun will injure a quail so badly sitting, as to be 
retrieved, Perhaps for one on the win if the gun he 
properly held. 5 to 10 yards further could be added. Try it 
and see. It is no more possible to kill a goose 100 yards 
with No. 10 shot than it is to kill one a mile with the same 


charge, unless the shot should in some way cement together 
by “Dalling, 4 


Again, we have in the same article: 


“BR h 
shot the larger the pattern,” ut the larger the 


The writer evident] ans 
the larger the shot the wider the spread, while Bea tly the 
reverse is the fact with all shotguns, 

In the following article, by “Spicewood,” wehave: “If I 
load my 26-inch gun with the coarser grade (ef powder) I 
find some of it blown out without being burnt.” This is 
truly wonderful. But as preposterous as it is, how often 
do we see the same sentiment in print; yet I do not believe 
but what the men writing it believe if, I believe—yes, I 
think I know—that if we had a tube reaching from here to 
the moon filled from end to end with gunpowder of any of 
the ordinary kinds, or extraordinary, and we sct fire to one 
end of it, that each and every svain of that power would 
be burned before that powder got rid of that fire. That, 
gun can be overcharged with powder so far as to even reduce 
its effectiveness isa fact that trial has proyen. But gun 
powder is quite sensitive to fire, notably so, and never 
becomes so disgusted and demoralized from misuse as to fail 
to explode or burn when subjected to the white heat of the 
flame issuing from the muzzle of an overlouded gun when 
fired, A. is out shooting when there is snow on the ground; 
he accidentally overcharges his gun, When he fires it he 
finds strewn on the snow in the line of fire something that 
very closely resembles grains of powder. He at once con- 
cludes without further examination that it is unconsumed 
powder. What is it? Simply the loosened powder scale 
left in his gun by former charges; and powder being a com- 
pound substance, made up of three very different thin gs, 
with no two things exactly alike, some of them are con- 
sumed or changed into gas instantly, while others (notably 
those which have nothing i in their composition but sulphur 
and charcoal) burn yery slowly and are projected on the 
snow while still burning, and are ‘‘put out” by contact with 
the snow, resulting in a pellet of charcoal looking very much 
like powder, these being the only two kinds of powder ever 
found on the snow in fiont of a fired gun. 

In the next article Mr. Alden seems to haye struck a snag 
with his first breechloader, when there wis really no snag 
there. He says: “It proved to be a very inferior weapon, 
although 1 paid a high price for it.” Isuppose, of course, 
he means that it did not shoot well. A remedy correcting that 
is easily found. The art of manipulating shotguns has for 
years reached that stage whereby the good gunsmith can, 
with his reamer, give any well-built gun any “desired close- 
ness of pattern in reason that one may desire. Therefore, I 
consider one shotgun as good as another, all other things be- 
ing equal, if it only has metal enough to withstand the requi- 
site reaming or chokeboring, 

A gunsmith with his reamer will manipulate the despised 
muzzleloader ag readily as a breechloader, then how is ‘*38” 
(in issue of March 13) going to beat it, all other things being 
equal? ‘The only, only advantage the breechloader has over 
the muzzleloader, is its ease of manipulation, and its self-evi- 
dent disadvantages are, that it ‘‘kicks” a little harder and re- 
quires a little more powder to do the same work, 

“38” is very nearly as lame in his next paragraph, taken as 
a whole. There is n0 measurable, or rather discernible, 
difference in the shooting of a 18 and a 12-bore gun, loaded 
with 4 drams of powder and 1} ounces of shot, aJl other 
points but the hore being equal, except that the 10 gives up- 
preciably the most recoil in all the experiments that I have 
made, and they have not been few. Why should the 10-bore 
‘cover more territory” than the 12, with same loads? 

Your correspondent, ‘‘Mark Ivel,” has at last got a gun go 
very much superior to the rest of the boys, and so far ahead - 
of any gun mortal man on this planet ever built, that I know 
without asking that he had it built on the planet Mars to 
special order. Does ‘Mark Iyel” himself believe that he 
was writing facts when he wrote, ‘‘This gun, when properly 
loaded, is sure to kill at 100 yards if held on the game’? 
He may if the Alabama yards are short, very short, 

The next paragraph by Mr, Newcomb, Who can find any 
fault with it? Not1l, ‘There is not, Tshould judge, an over- 
drawn statement init. We have all made wonderful shots, 
shots that secmed far beyond the range of possibilities, but 
we rust leave the ‘'kill every time” off #{ we wish to live 
happily and go to some place when we die. Have our 
mouths and pens chokebored, as it were, so that they may 
not scatter so outrageously. 

The next man, ‘‘New Subscriber,” will find plenty of men 
to enter the lists with the 12-hore against his 10-bore, all 
things being equal, except the bore, and many of them with- 
out qualifications, and not get beat on any point. 

So much for the notes on ‘The Performance of Shotguns ’ 
in one number of Forrest AND Srruam. If I have | gone 
beyond, in these remarks, the spirit of fair critieism, it is 
nol my ‘fault, but that of the writers. My excuse is, we ‘want 
facts and nothing but facts. Yes, only one issue, but it has 
been going on week after weelx and year after year. When 
‘‘Almo” says positively that he can kill a goose one hundred 
yards with Yo. 10 shot, and the tyro, having purchased 
an expensive gun and goes out to test it by this standard of 
“‘Almo’s,” and finds that he cannot ruffle the feathers, or even 
mike the old gander dodge. or scarcely, if at all, find the 
marks of his shot on a soft pine board that distance, he 
is liable to throw away a good gun, or try to ruin the repu- 
tation of its maker. Thereforé I say, let us all get choke- 
bored very frequently when writing on gunnery. Byryn. 
Lacon, Jil. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I use 93 Ibs., 10 gauge; load 44 drams powder, one paste- 
board wad and one felt wad on powder, 14 ounces shot, one 
felt wad on shot, and wads two sizes larger than bore, Find 
good work on all sizes of shot; No.9 shot for snipe and quail, 
5s chilled for ducks. I killed a mallard clean, and shestruck 
a treetop as the gun cracked, at eighty four paces, OF 
course such shots sre a scratch, but still the shot must fly 
hard to kill at, that distance. WeaApbs. 
Lewiston, Il.” 


ArKANSAS.—Memphis, Tenn., April 16.—Messrs. W. A. 
Wheatley (“Guido”), D, H. Poston and John H, Sa 
had some rare sport last week across the river. They ba, agged 
167 game birds in one day, and in half the next 130 fell be- 
fore their erring fire. From 8 to 11 o’clock Saturday 
morning, at Madison Station, on their way home, they killed 
fifty-six. Nearly all were snipe, and a run of sixteen straight 
kills (four doubles) was made. ‘All their families and friends 
had a feast Sunday morning. 


— 


Apri 24, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


247 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


URING the past week we have had some real snipe 
weather, about the first of the season that can be 
called favorable in every respect. Some birds were killed, 
yet very few compared to the good old times, when a dozen 
snipe in a forenoon was considered only fair work within a 
radius of five miles of Philadelphia. Nowadays a pair of 
snipe for a morring’s tramp seems to satisly our city men 
who carry the gun, and lucky is he who makes even this 
showing from our Philadelphia meadows. On the warm 
days of last week it would be safe to say there were aay. 
men with dogs on the Broad street meadows, and the Schuyl- 
kill and Darby Creek grounds had as many visitors. 

A snipe once found on these near meadows generally jumps 
out of gunshot, and circling round and round in a wide, 
diverging flight, keeps up an incessant squeaking that 
always tells of fright, and vainly seeks for a safe place to 
pitch into, not daring to trust himself in such populated 
quarters; until at last, weary of the cannonading and salut- 
ing he is receiving in his course away out of gunshot, he 
betakes himself to a more congenial section. : 

A day’s journey from Philadelphia, and by this 1 mean 
in neighborhoods only reached by steam railroads, good snipe 
shooting can very preahen ey be had, Delaware State has 
many spots and so has Maryland. Just now Milton Creek, 
Delaware, has many birds on its borders. This section is 
reached by railroad and stage, and therefore few visit it, 
the grounds are quite isolated and the local gunners “do not 
bother with snipe.” They wait for the quail season and only 
go ‘a birdin.” Milford, Delaware, neighboring snipe mead- 
ows are more easily gotten.at and have many Philadelphia 
visitors, but there is a very Jarge extent of good ground and 
plenty of room when birds are numerous, and they are often 
struck, The early coming varieties of shore birds have 
made their appearance on the New Jersey coast and the big 
yellow-leg has atrived in fair numbers. The later spring 
visitors of the wading tribe do not show themselves until 
next month, and those that enjoy and follow spring bay 
bird shooting wait for them, Of these there are the blaek 
breast plover, the robin snipe and the dowitcher, their stay 
is short and the flight must be hit just in time, 

Some of my friends, who have made the acquaintance of 
Western market shooters, whom they have at times employed 
as guides on October shooting trips, have been the recipient 
in the spring from some of these men of boxes of snipe. I 
have seen these packages of game opened, and am sorry to 
say, on more than one instance found half of the birds to 
have been upland plover, or as the market shooters termed 
them, ‘‘prairie keets.” : 

Snow can be still seen in the hollow places on the north- 
ern side of our Pennsylvania mountains. The season is late 
for trout fishing, and one may look for spring to tumble 
right into the lap of summer. Homo. 

APRIL 19. 


- DrcrEeAsH oF Birps IN FLoripaA.—t found nothing new 
or strange in Florida worth reporting; in fact, did not get 
away from beaten paths and the currents of travel. Thus 
much for going alone. I observed this, however, that the 
birds of Florida are greatly reduced since I first traveled 
in the State ten years ago, Ducks and other common water 


fowls have apparently diminished three-fourths, while the | 


more rare and finely plumaged birds have almost entirely 
disappeared along the lines of travel. This result, in the 
latter class of birds, is caused in some degree by the shooting 
of visitors, but mainly by their destruction for commercial 
purposes. The steamer lines have’ stopped promiscuous fir- 
ing from their decks, for which good step the officers deserve 
great credit. Formerly a Florida steamboat resembled a gun- 
boat in constant action, except inthe lamentable fact that all 
the shots were from her decks. Now she is an orderly, re- 
spectable craft in the main. At'Tampa I found a commer- 
cial man fitting out a. bird-killing expedition for the south- 
west coast further down. He declared his intention of 
bringing back 10,000 bird skins. I hope he will be disap- 
pointed. Further up toward Cedar Key, seeing many deer 
skins en route to market, 1 made Inquiryand learned that 
deer are habitually hunted in the less-inhabited districts for 
their skins alone. This kind of butchery will soon destroy 
Florida’s attraction for sportsmen. Tbe diminution of ducks 
and other migratory water fowl is probably caused by their 
destruction further north. Comparatively few of them are 
killed in Florida. The most accessibly fishing resorts are 
also perceptibly depleted of their finny game.—W. N. B. 


_Wiprowt in New Brenswick.—Hiditor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue ot March 27, I noticed a communi- 
cation from *‘B.” on ‘*Wildfowl in New Brunswick.” Tlive 
on Northumberland Straits, but have never seen the time 
when even one hundred geese could be bagged in one day. 
Most of our gunners would be very well satisfied if they 
could secure that number during the whole season. JI admit 
that there are better shooting grounds on this coast, but [ 
think, for all that, that “B.” has exaggerated, unless he 
means birds of all kinds. including ‘‘coots.” Most of the 
shooting here is done in icehouses (a structure of cireular 
form two or three feet high) over decoys. The boats described 
by ‘‘B.” are used for a short time only, when the ice is 
breaking up in the channels, In my opinion they injure the 
shooting, for the birds are driven from their feeding grounds 
and become very wild. We have had very bad weather for 
the last fortnight, and but few birds have been killed, The 
Jargest score for last week was five geese and one black 
duck.-—C. (New Brunswick). 


Minnesota,—Long Prairie.—Although the snow went 
off early, and the streams opened up in good season, we have 
had but few ducks when compared with the flight of 1880 
and 1881, There have been but few bags made here, the 
largest being fifteen ducks in a day by two men. Last spring 
the river opened Jate, and there were no ducks to speak of, 
and they were scarce last fall. Our sportsmen are puzzled 
to know whether the good old days are gone to never rettirn, 
or whether the ducks have simply taken a different route in 


their northerly flight, and next spring may come again. In- 


the fall of 182 the high waters destroyed most of the cro 

of wild rice, and this may have caused the ducks to shun te 
fora year or two. We have to content-ourselves with look- 
ing forward with high hopes for the fall shooting.—A. W, 8S. 


_ Hawuoox, Minn., Aprii 10.—Yesterday ducks and geese 
were coming over in large fipcks. The couliees connecting 
with Two Rivers are filling, up with them and-sport will be 
ine, pyar tee will start them north by the hundred = 
Norman; , . 


A 


_Experrmence Wire Live Quaiw.—Downington, Pa., 
April 7.—On 12th of February I had ten dozen quail shipped 
from Tennessee. They arrived evening of the 15th with 
twenty-eight dead. The rest were put ina room 10ft.xdft. 
Sin. high, covered with a blanket, and branches of cedsr 
trees leaned against side of room for cover. 
I found thirty dead ones. In five days they had all died 
except four, which I turned out, thinking they might live, 
but have every reason to think they went the way of the 


others. Can give no reason for their dying, unless they 


caught cold, as they seemed to have a sneeze and be stopped 
up in head. I accept this reason, As you see, my first 
attempt has not been very successful, but not disheartened, 
lam going to try it again. If any one can advance any 
reason for their dying I would be glad to hear from them. 
—Henry E. Eston. 


Burrato, N. Y., April 15.—A sad accident—the old 
story—took place Saturday last. Henry K. Childs, a young 
man of twenty-one, was returning from a duck hunt, In 
taking his gun out of the boat it was discharged, striking 
him in the chest; he liyed four hours. This was the second 
casualty of the week, the other being caused in the same 
way, when ‘‘Billy” Stewart, a market hunter, lost the greater 
part of his forearm. Several of our fly-fishers have been to 
Caledonia and succeeded in making fair catches. Perch are 
beginning to bite, but the fishing will not. begin in earnest 
for some weeks. Snipe are coming in slowly, one or two 
geod bags having been made up the lake shore, -CABALLERO, 


New Hamesatre.—Colebrook, Apri] 21,—State Commis- 
sioner E. B. Hodge, of Plymouth, N. H., made usa visit 
last week, and three of the crust-hunting [fraternity paid for 
their dog-chewed venison, and the fourth bound over for 
trial. There are others to follow. Much snow remains in 
the mountains about here, Not as many deer crust-hunted 
in this State as in 1883, but done without regard of a proba- 
ble enforcement of game laws. Wild geese and ducks have 
been here ten days, grouse have wintered well, while many 
owls found shelter in barns. Saw hawk owl yesterday with 
mouse in claws.—NED Norton, , 


Brrps 1x DAxoTa.—Chickens are quite plenty this spring, 
but many are being killed, which should not be done at this 
season of the year. Geese and ducks are quite plenty, but 
very wild, ten to fifteen rods being about the nearest that we 
can get to them. Three of us went to the lake hunting yes- 
terday. We got eight ducks and two geese; one of the geese 
when it struck the water, tore its sizzard and some of the 
intestines out.—G. B, C. (Letcher, Sanborn county, Dak.). 


Drop or Gun Srocxs.—Hartford City, Ind.—Hditer 
Forest and Stream: Will you invite one of your correspond- 
ents of a recent issue to please give his method of changing 
the drop of a gun stock as he promised that he would in a 
future issue? I have one that is too straight for me.—C. 


Camp Sire Hlichevings. 


> 
“That reminds me.” 


110. 

Bree were rather scarce at Put-in-Bay that fall, and the 

capture of a big bass was a rarity; so in order to keep 
even, some of the more;unscrupulous of visiting fishermen 
were known to stoop.so low as to drop a hook ina ‘‘crib” 
and quietly disentangle a large bass, while the oarsman kept 
a lookout forthe owner. But fish so caught usually had some 
tar sticking to their scales, owing to having brushed against 
the net in their efforts to regain liberty, and when a string 
of fine fish would be brought to the hotel and huny up for 
exhibition, there would always be questions put and equally 
suggestive glances made in relation to tar, etc. Rob P., a 
young lawyer from Cincinnati, caught an elegant bass, and 
as it wes his first experiment in fishing, he was greatly 
elated with his trophy. I hadn’t caught any, but was ‘‘eoing 
to” shortly, and intent upon that was sitting in: the other 
end of the boat paying no heed to Rob. Happening te look 
around I saw Rob withthe big bass between his knees rub- 
bing its nose with a piese of sandpaper in a vain cndeavor 
to erace a coal black birth mark, extending from the nose to 
one eye, with which the poor fish had been unfortuuately 
endowed. I promised not to tell, but being a fisherman my 
brethren will not besurprised at my transgression. Tan, 


111. 


It was in the days of muzzleloaders. Dominie M. was 
fond of an occasional outing with gun or rod, in company 
with a congenial spirit. On this occasion he had gone after 
ducks, with lawyer T. foracompanion. They had concealed 
themselves on a point, and toward night ducks were flying 
lively, exciting the gentlemen, who found it difficult to load 
and fire fast enough. In the midst of the melee the Dominie 
forgot to put powder in one barrel and rammed home the 
shot vigorously. Along came the ducks. Bang! went one 
barrel, and snap went the other cap. Fresh cay with like 
result. Another. Then the good man, striving to restrain 
his —well, call it impatience—remembered his omission, 
Calling to bis friend, he said: : 

‘*T., do you know what hymn this reminds me of?” 

“Don't know as I do,” replied that gentleman, whose ac- 
quaintance with hymn books was quite slim, 

“Well,” said the dominie, eying the gun regretfully, it 
runs this way; y 

“A charge to keep I have.” 8. 


MONTHLY LIST OF PATENTS 
For Inventions Relating to Sporting Interests, Beari D, 
March 25, 1884, Reported expressly for this pa by Tote eS 
Bagger & Co., Mechanical Experts and Solicitors 
‘ef Patents, Washington, D, C. 


295,630. 
204,429. Fishing Rod Reel Fastening.—G. L. Bailey, Portland, Me. 
294856. Cartridge vonn 
294,772. 
204,998. 
295,850, 
995,246, 


ye Loader and Cap Hxpeller.—L. Keller, New York, 


Mass. 
Row Lock.—S. H. Haas, Chicago, J.  ~ 
Artificial Kish Bait,—W. D. tihapiaan: Theresa, N.Y. 
Armorplated Gun Carriage—H Gruson, Buckau, near Mag- 
_ deburg, and M. Schumann, M; opt ey. Prussia, Germany. 


295,245. Gun Carriage.—H. Gruson. Magdeburg, Germany. 
295,585, Magazine Gun.—A. H. Russell, .S. Army, at 
295,286. Magazine Gun.—A. H, Russell, U. S. Army,. 


295,285. Gun Wad.—J. W. Dennis, Cincinnati, O. 
295,284, Gun Wad Retainer,—J, W. Dennis, Cincinnati, 0. 


Two days after } 


Sea and River ishing, 


BLACK BASS_ FISHING 
NEW YOR 


IN CENTRAL 


ered lover of the gentle and health-giving sport of 
fishing regrets to see the disappearance of the brook 
trout from the streams where they once were so plentiful. 
But so long as the people are so indifferent to their own in- 
terests as to take no measures for their preservation, we can 
look for no increase, but rather for the total extermination 
of this beautiful and game fish in all the settled portions of 
the country, This compels all lovers of the rod who cannot 
spare the time or the money for a trip into the North Woods, 
to Maine or Canada, to look for a substitute for the trout. 

The only fish worthy of being called a substitute for the 
trout, is the small-mouthed black bass. Those who haye 
become familiar with the habits of this wary fish will agree 
with Dr, Henshall that he is the coming game fish of 
America. There are several reasons for this. Amorg them 
that the black bass will readily take any kind of bait, or 
spoon, and is the only fish besides the trout that will rise to 
the fly, and when caught throw himself out of the water in 
his struggles to escape the hook. The Oswego bass will also 
take the fly, but rarely throws himself out of water, and, 
however gamy he may be in the West or Florida, is tame 
indeed compared with the black bass in New York. 

The black bass is very prolific and hardy. and thrives in 
lakes and sluggish streams where no member of the salmon 
family can live. He grows to a good weight, and is an ex- 
cellent table fish when properly cooked, But to the sports- 
man, his chief vilue is in his splendid fighting qualities, his 
strength, endurance and artful resources. He is as coy and 
shy as a young girl, as cunning and uncertain as an old one. 
To-day he is content to feed upon the humble angle worm 
and to-morrow nothing less dainty than a moth-miller or a 
butterfly will satisfy him. Minnows are his most regular 
diet, yet he will 1ise eagerly to the R. W., silver doctor, Fer- 
guson, Mann, peacock hurl or magpie when minnows are 
swarming around him, And then, his local habits haye to 
be studied if the sportsman would lure him from his home. 

» An Onondaga Lake bass and one from Oneida Lake differ 
as much in manner and habits as 4 New Yorker differs from 
a. Bostonian. . 

Central New York is very fortunate in having so many 
beautiful lakes and streams where the bass are plenty, and 
each year growing more numerous. With Syracuse as a 
center, the angler can go in any direction and in half an 
hour to an hour’s ride get on good bass-fishing ground. 
East, Cazenovia Lake; south, the Tully chain of lakes; west, 
Skaneateles, Cayuga and Seneca lakes and Seneca River: 
north (almost at our door), Onondaga Lake, Oneida Lake 
and River, the Oswego River and Lake Ontario. Good fish- 
ing can be had in each of these waters during the season. 

Fly-fishing begins in the Seneca River May 20, and is good 
upon the reefs throughout the season till November. In the 
other waters the season opens June 1. - In the Jakes fly-fish- 
ing actually does not begin much before July 1, as the fish 
will not rise much before the water gets warm. July, 
August and September are the best months for the lake 
fishing. 

On Lake Ontario at Mexico Point and near Oswego, and 
on Oneida Lake at Messinger’s, north of Canastota, and at 
Lakeport ind Shackleton’s Potst are rocky, blind islands 
where the bass come in great numbers from deep water to 
feed. Ateach of these places the bass will rise to the fly 
for a brief period in July and August, when rare sport may 
be had; but during the greater part of the season minnows 
are the most killing bait. In the other waters mentioned, 
especially in Onondaga Lake and the Seneca and Oswego 
rivers, more fish are caught with the fly than by any other 
method, and as nearly all our sportsmen are expert fly- 
casters, those waters are their favorite resorts. 

The bass of Onondaga Lake bear off the palm for game 
qualities, for hardness and firmness ef flesh. In this lake 
the shore “slopes very gradually until it is four or five feet 
déep, and then suddenly very rapidly into deep water. The 
steep slope is covered on all sides of the lake with a luxuriant 
erowth of aquatic plants, which afford shelter for the fish. 
Just within the weeds in shallow water are the spawning 
beds, scooped out like great bowls in the clean sand, so that 
the bass have excellent lurking places for themselves whiie 
guarding the beds-and their young. — - 

There are two methods of fishing—either row the boat in 
shallow water and cast over the weeds to the edge of deep 
water, or to row in deep water and cast up to the edge of 
weeds. The danger of the first is, that a powerful fish may 
dart into the weeds when struck, and get the flies entangled 
before the boat can be get into deep water. 

Most fishermen prefer fishing from deep water, as there is 
less risk of loss. In the excitement of the struggle with a 
three-pounder, or possibly two, one does not care to take too 
many chances with rod and tackle. 

As arule, a bass will not rise to the surface for the fly,” 
at the instant it touches the water; somctimes, though rarely, 
it will rush up and out of the water to meet the dropping 
fiy, and sometimes it will only take the fly beneath the sur- 
face, when gently trailed after the cast. Some fishcrmea 
put a split shot on the stretcher fly to sink it after the cast, 
but no one who loves his delicate split bamboo rud and its 
deft handling will so abuse it. 

The flies to he used can only be determined by aciual trial, 
the state of the weather, wind, clouds, sun, and water, and 
the special food the bass are seeking on the day, all having 
to be considered. Generally early in the season, when the 
water is high and discolored, light-colored, white and gray 
flies, and bright tinsel-bodied flies, like the silver doctor, 
are the most killing. Later dark brown, black, green and 
orange-bodied flies are most attractive. 

Frequent changes are desirable until the killing fly is found. 
Then arrange the cast with reference to that fly, and look 


for your reward. WAVERLY. 
Syracuse, N, Y., April 12, 1884. 


Gigantic TourRTLE.—Capt. Augnstus G. Hall and crew, 
of the schooner Annie L. Hall, of Gloucester, vouch for the 
following: On the Grand Bank, March 30, in latiinde 44° 10’, 
longitude 43, discovered an immense live trunk turtle, which 
was first thought to be a vessel bottom up. The schooner 
passed within 25 feet-of the monster, and there was ample 
opportunity to estimate its d’mensions in comparison with 
the length of the schooner. The turtle was at least 40 feet . 
long, 80 wide, 380 from apex of the back to the bottom of- 
the under shell. ‘The flippers were 20 fect long, It was not 
deemed advisable to attempt its capture—iVew Bedford — 


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248 


LONG VS. SHORT FLY-RODS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Premising that these remarks are confined solely to single- 
handed rods, may not this problem be analyzed, and atleast 
in part determined by reference to well settled mechanical 
principles? 

It would seem that the excellence of a fly-rod depends on 
the perfect embodiment of each of the following qualities: 

1. Power to cast the fly, 

2. Power to control the fish after it is fastened, or ‘‘kill- 
ing power.” 

3. Ease and comfort in use. 

Other qualities of importance there are, but on reflection 
they seem either to be embodied in, or necessarily to follow 
one of the above. For instance, elasticity is a necessary con- 
eee of the first, strength of the second, lightness of the 
third. 

That a fly-rod is a lever is too plain to admit of argument, 
Whether the rod be lengthened or shortened, but one ele- 
ment of this lever is varied, and that element is the longer 
arm. To the end of this longer arm, the weight against 
which the angler must labor, is applied, whether it be thé 
strain of the struggling fish, or the weight of the line and 
the resistance it encounters from the air and water in 
casting. ; 

It needs no Sir Isaac Newton to assure us, that with the 
same weight of line or fish, the muscular effort required 
from the angleris greater with a long, than with a ‘short 
rod, since the power he must overcome is applied against 
him at the end of a longer lever. 

The next question in order seems to be to determine, if 

ossible, what sacrifice in this respect each additional foot of 
ength requires. 

Using for this purpose the table computed by Mr. William 
Mitchell of this city (as 1am informed from direct experi- 
ment), we find the leverage upon a rod: 


12 feet long. 9440z,, reel and line 6lgoz.... -.. leverage 300z, 
11 feet long. 7140z., reel and line 5 oz. .....-. leverage 260z, 
10 feet long, 4\60z., reel and line loz... .... leverage 160z. 


Of course the leverage changes with the angle at which 
the rod is held, but sine this affects every length alike, the 
relative proportions are not varied thereby, 

If this table is correct, it would therefore appear that be- 
tween two individuals, one using a twelve-foot, and the 
other a ten-foot rod, the former is compelled to do nearly 
twice as much work as: the latter. Though this seems a 
Jarge difference, still I hardly think it wili be questioned by 
one who tries such rods comparatively, one immediately 
after the other. At all events such an one will admit that 
the difference is yery marked, and quite sufficient, after 
some hours’ use, considerably to affect the pleasure of an 
angler of the ayerage endurance of men of sedentary life. 

Therefore that the longer rod is under considerable disad- 
vantange in this respect, seems to be certain. 

But let us consider the question further; for it may well 
be that the ionger rod offcrs advantages in other directions, 
more than sufficient to offset this. 

We will then pass to the second consideration—the power 
to control the fish after he is fastened, which I take to be 
substantially the same thing as ‘‘killing power.” 

But the same laws of mechanics apply here as well; and 
from them and the table it necessarily follows that to apply 
the same strain upon the fish, he who uses a twelve-foot rod 
must exert nearly double the effort of him who employs one 
of ten feet. Jf the relative proportion stated be thought ex- 
cessive, slillit must be admitted that a very considerable 
diiference does exist, and in the direction indicated. 

The question may be advantageously viewed from another 
standpoint. Which has the greater killing and controlling 
power, a twelve-foot fly-rod, or an eight and a half foot stiff 
rod such as is employed in salt-water fishing for striped bass? 
This admits of but one answer;and it therefore seems un- 
questionable that the killing power of a rod depends on its 
length, only iu so far as increase in that respect increases the 
effort the angler must exert to produce a given efféct on the 
fish; and that consequently the longer rod is again at a dis- 
advantage. 

The foregoing seem to rest on established mechanical prin- 
ciples, not to be gainsaid without at the same time con- 
troyerting rules, recognized as truths in designing every 
construction of modern engineering skill. 

But the first proposition—power to cast the fly—cannot be 
tested in this way. : 

Here we sfand on fairly debatable ground, for our only 
appeal seems to be to experience; or, in other words, to the 
individual opinion which each reader may haye formed from 
the experience he has had, The circumstances under which 
experience is gained are so important an element in determin- 
ing the value, and the applicable limit of the teachings de- 
rived therefrom, that divergent opinion must necessarily 
follow. It may well be conceived that he whose angling 
has been confined to waters where a pound fish is a rare 
event, and he who habitually fishes where such are regarded 
as small fish, would differ on many points, perhaps radi- 
cally, 

The writer has for quite a number of consecutive yesrs 
fished the streams of New York and Pennsylvania and the 
ponds of Long Island for small trout, as well as the waters 
of the Rangeley region of Maine for large. He is, therefore, 
emboldened to express his individual opinion on this branch 
of the question, and the reasons on which it is based. Many, 
doubtless, will disagree with his conclusions, in just as firm 
belief that they are erroneous, as he does that they are sound. 
We all seek the truth, and only by fair discussion and honest 


compalison of all sides of this important question can that 


truth be reached. 

Those who at the tournament at Central Park, on Oct. 16, 
1883, saw ¢5 measured feet cast with a 10-footrod, weighing 
4#-ounces, will hardly question the ability of arod of that 
length, and of say 64 or 7 ounces in weight, to meet every 
requirement in this respect. Perhaps the discussion might 


be rested right here by an appeal to the hundreds who, in: 


common with the writer, witness:d that feat. To such as 
may be unfamiliar with that event, it may be remarked that 
the caster stood upon a platform eleyated one foot above the 
water; that the distance was accurately measured from the 
edge of the platform; that the weight and length of rod were 
correctly ascertained, and that a possible error of 18 inches 
in the distance credited to the cast would be a very liberal 
allowance. : 

Attention might also be called to the fact that at a similar 
event in the preceding year—the caster standing three feet 
above the water—91 feet were reached with an eight-ounce 
rod 10 feet 44 inches long, though it must be admitted that 
this was a ‘‘rolling,” and not an overhaad cast. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


the matter a little further. 


At one time the opinion was current, that an increase of 
one foot in rod length, would be answered by a correspond- 


ing increase of five feet in the possible length of the cast. 
This allowance is now thought by many to be excessive, 
But admitting the five-foot standard, we then allow a gain 


of ten feet in casting distance to the twelve over the ten foot 


rod, 


_ For some years I have each season been in the way of see- 
ing many excellent and skillful anglers cast day after day, 
and all day long; and this where there was unlimited space 
to swing all the line they might wish. In no instance can I 
recall a single cast in actual fishing that would exceed 65 
I doubt if any would 
even reach 60; while it is believed to be the general experi- 
ence, that more than ninety-five out of eyery hundred casts 
in actual fly-fishing throughout the lengthand breadth of the 


feet measurement from the caster. 


land, will fall within fifty measured feet. 


With average skill, 60 to 65 feet can readily be reached 


With a ten-foot rod. 

The question then seems to resolve itself into this: 
double labor be coustantly undergone, and power to control 
and kill be sacrificed, to attain ten feet increase of cast—an 
increase seldom or never to be utilized in actual fishing? 


It is a questien of personal preference, which each must 
decide for himself; but it seems to me it is “paying rather 


dear for the whistle.” 

Cne advantage, however, should in fairness be accredited 
to the longer rod, and as far as I can learn from the teach- 
ings of theory and practice, il is the only one. 

In fishing for the small trout of much-fished waters, so 


handling the flies that the droppers just drop upon the sur- 


face, undoubtedly gives the best result. It isclearthe length 
of cast can be more varied without losing this adyantage 


with a longer than with a shorter rod. Still, by adjusting 


the flies on the leader at somewhat increased intervals, it is 


believed that the disadvantage of the shorter rod in this re- 


spect becomes slight, and by no means sufficient to offset its 
other and decided points of superiority. 

1 seem to recognize 4 radical change of opinion on this 
subject within the last few years. At first short rods were 
only fit for baby-fishing, now their sphere of usefulness is 
asserted by many to be confined to long-distance casting 
from the tournament stand. 

Beginning with a twelve and a half foot rod, year by year 
and little by little, I have reduced the length of my rods to 
ten feet, and even below; after some experience in that 
region, I confidently believe that with rod of the length last 
named, the largest trout that swims the Rangeley waters can 
as readily be enticed, acd be more certainly handled and 
killed, than with a rod of twelve feet. 

In advocating a ten-foot rod, I do not wish te be under- 
stood necessarily to mean one limited in weight to 4% ounces. 
On the contrary, I strongly believe in plently of backbone 
inared. Have this first, if then the material employed will 
give the other as well, so much the better. A rod should 
be flexible to the yery handle, but never to such a degree as 
to prevent absolute command over the upper part of the rod, 
or even to render this a matter of question. 

This, of course, is_a mere matter of personal preference 
and opinion, for I freely admit than in nothing more than in 
the action of a fly-rod is it true, that ‘what is one man’s 
meat is another man’s poison,” 

But however this may be when the preferred action is 
determined on, there is no reason why a fourteen-foot rod 
and a nine-foot six rud should not have the same action. 
Not the length alone, but the other proportions as well 
sbould be, and usually are, varied. This, it seems to me, 
has not always been duly considered in the discussion of 
this subject. 

It might be supposed that all would admit that for equal 
lengths, a heavier material must make a heavier rod—to get 
the best possible action—than a lighter material; unless the 
heavier were at the same time the stiffer. But the common 
practice does not appear to sanction this supposition. The 
tendency seems to be to sacrifice everything to lightness, It 
seems to me that the propriety of this may well be questioned; 
as well as whether in this strife for excessive lightness, the 
diminution of the timber allowed to a rod has not fully 
reached, if it has not quite gone beyond, the prudential 
limit. 

One other consideration occurs to me, which to some will 
seem to have an important bearing on the question in point, 
if it is not its solution, 

After all, what are we after—what isthe end in view? Itis 
not merely obtaining possession of the fish, for this result 
can be had at far less cost, with much greater certainty, 
with a silver hook in the fish market. 

Recreation and amusement are the objects we seek; and 
therefore is it not reasonable to conclude, that whatever 
methods and whatever appliances best conduce to these re- 
sults, are the best in themselves, even though the total 
catch were a little diminished thereby? 

Since this depends solely on the personal preference of 
each individual angler, it may be claimed that I leaye this 
question just where i found it. 

But this I think is scarcely just. 

To one escaping but seldom from the weary routine of 
office work, to swing even a seven-ounce rod all day may 
become a burden; while to him whose muscles are braced by 
abundant exercise and robust health, it seems but as a 
feather’s weight. The truth is, that there isin this matter no 
hard and fast line where dogmatism may take its stand and 
say, this ts right and that is wrong. Let each use that rod 
which to him affords the most pleasure, and for him that 
rod is the best, whether it be forty feet long or only two. 

Ihave only sought to maintain what [ believe to be the 


truth, that any considerable excess over ten feet in length is’ 


attended with an increase of labor, for which no compensat- 

ing advantage can be found. To some this unnecessary 

work may be a pleasure, but to many, and those the very 

persons to whom this diversion is the greatest boon, I 

know it is a burden. To benefit the latter, if 1 may be so 

fortunate, I have said my say. Henry P. WELLS. 
New York, April 17, 1834. 


CALIFORNIA TROUT IN WesTERN New Yorr.—Olean, 
April 16.—On May 20 last we put in 30,000 California 
mountain trout in our streams here, and to-day I have two 
caught in Wolf Run near here by Burnside, they measure 


four inches in length, We also put in 15,000 brook trout, 
and we have an order for more this spring, and we shall 
keep at the good werk until our streams are restocked with. 


the beauties. They a put in by the Olean. Sportsnien’s 
Ofub.—Frep. R. Eaton. | v. 


Shall 


feel impelled to give it. nce, 
s@urce to its mouth, wasa fine trout brook. It is formed | 

two main branches, and on the map looks like a little Y. 
Both branches rose in woodland fields, their waters were. 


—————— 


[Apri 24, 1884. 


eee 


These facts would seem pretty decisive; still, let us go into 


LITTLE BROOKS. 


Ox day some two or three years ago the Doctor and the 
writer determined to hunt up a brook laid down on the 
map, and find out whether there were trout init or not, and 
if so, whether they might be caught. After a drive of 
several miles we turned down a side road, a stony, overgrown 
track, with bushes on either side that nearly met in the 
middle, and after following this about half a mile, came out 
in a little valley, Here was the place, and we hegan to look 
for the brook. At last we crossed a small bridge, a mere 
hole under the road, ard concluding that it must be the 
stream, got out and tied the horse to the fence. Rods in 
hand we plunged into the bushes, and after strugeling 
through an alder swamp for a quarter of a mile came out 
into the meadow. Here we found the brook, a mere trickle 
of ice-cold water from a mass of woodland springs forming 
aswamp above. I was scarcely a foot wide on the average, 
and almost entirely covered over with the tall grass, Flies 
being of no use, we put on good, lively worms, and wherever 
we could find an opening dropped them in. In this way we 
fished down the meadow and took sixteen trout, nine inches, 
just the size for ithe pan, and much to our surprise, too, for 
it was a bright, hot afternoon in July. After we had 
worked down through the meadow, we found that the brook, 
recelving more water from an open swamp, became larger 
and formed some fine pools. The first one we came to-in 
the edge of the woods was an ideal trout pool. A little cas- 
cade tumbled into it and sent a swirl of water along a huge 
hemlock log, that for thirty feet formed a mossy embank- 
ment along the side. 

There were fine lurking places all along under this log. 
The Doctor, standing well back, dropped his bait into the 
fall, and let the water roll it along the bottom in front of the 
log. I waited eagerly. We had had such unexpected luck 
in the little stream above that I anticipated rare sport in this 
pool. Isaw the Doctor’s line tighten, He struck and the 
next instant was lifting carefully ashore, a large, well-fed— 
dace. Noticing the expression on his face I said nothing, 
but leaving him struggling with the fish, which had snarled 
his line in a bush, I took his place and east. I had a bite, 
struck, and Jifted ashore—another dace, Well, we stood 
there ten or twelve minutes and lifted out dace alternately. 
I put on a cast of flies and caught—dace. We worked down 
stream to experiment, but it was all dace and no trout, and 
as the afternoon grew late we retraced our steps, and drove 
home in time to see our trout smoking on the supper table. 

This incident illustrates well some points I wish to make 
in regard to little brooks, It is, alas, an nndeniable fact that 
the trout in our brooks and streams in the New England and 
Middle States are every year decreasing in numbers, and de- 
teriorating in size and quality. The cause of this is not diffi- 
cult to find. It is not so much the illegal taking of the fish 
by spearing, snaring, netting, and poisoning the pools with 
lime, though this is bad enough, for trout have stood all this 
and have not been entirely exterminated; it is not so much 
the dumping of sawdust, filth and chemicals into the brook, 
for there are thousands of small streams throughout the coun- 
try where this has never been done, and yet where trout once 
swarmed now they are not, but it is by the reckless and inju- 
dicious cutting down the woods, I am not now speaking of 
the wholesale destruction of vast forests, such as is now 
agitating the public at large; it isa much more simple and 
every day matter. 

Our trout is not a true trout, in one sense of the word, but 
a char, aud like all of the chars, icy cold water is his very 
life, In the Thames, where his congener, Salmo faria, is 
every year caught of enormous size, our trout could not, 
probably, thrive at all. Now, that which gives the water of 
our streams this quality, so necessary to Salvelinus jfontinalis 
(does not his very name bespeak it?), is spring water. Every 
year the farmers, in cutting down woods, lay bare some 
spring, This may not always be an open one, but there are 
always indications that it is there. Thus uncoyered to the 
sun, the spring either dries up or its waters become warm 
and bad. In this manner the brooks, and of necessity the 
larger streams, gradually become tepid in temperature, and 
in summer diminished in volume, killing the trout in tinic, 
and causing them to decrease in size and quality in the pro- 
cess, At the same time, it favors the spread and growth of 
coarse, soft-fleshed, inferior fish, which take the food from 
the trout and devour their spawn. In the incident I have 
related, the tiny beck which issued from a swampy piece of 
ground, filled with springs, was alive with trout, because its 
water, bcing sheltered at its very source from the fierce July 
sun, was cold and clear. But as we went lower down, 
another stream of larger volume joined the little brook. The 
water of this latter stream came from an open swamp 
exposed to the midsummer heat, and as a natural sequence 
we found no trout below its mouth, but dace. Now, had 
this swamp been covered with a heavy growth of timber, I 
venture to assert its waters would have been much improved 
in quality and temperature, and the trout would not have 
been obliged to leave the main stream and crowd up into the 
little brook in order not to stifle. 

I think that twenty acres of woodland, rightly distributed 
in protecting the springs and marshy, springy spots, which 
form the headwaters of the little brooks and their confluents, 
would be of more value on a farm than fifty acres in one 
patch left at random, and could this be realized generally we 
would have less of the shrinkage of water and water power 
in summer time, Unfortunately, most farmers seem to haye 
no idea of the value of a piece of woods beyond that of some 
day being able to cut it all down to sell, or use the lumber, 
They think that a patch of woods is waste ground till it is 
down, and never realize that it is really, if rightly placed, a 
vast sponge to store up water which will make their land 
more fertile and help them out in time of drought. This is 
well illustrated by one of the correspondents of this paper, 
who told of the increased fertility and value of his land from 
haying formed a trout pond. The thirsty land by capillary 
force drew the water many rods inland, and thus improved 
the crops. There are many little water-courses which run 
dry in summer, which, if their sources were properly pro- 
tected, would be little trickles of water even in the hottest 
weather. These are of untold value to the farmer and the 
streams. It is, of course, well nigh impossible to get the 
farmers in. the settled parts of the country to do natin 
radical to improve this matter, but show them it wil pay, 
and the right spirit once aroused, much will be done, 
parts still unsettled an ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure. 

As I write, an instance of this thing rises before me, and I 
I know a stream that once, from its 


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clear and cold. A number of years ago the woods which 
covered ihe source of the right-hand branch were cut down. 
Now a miserable bog occupies the site. No trout are to be 
found any wore in this stream, but it is filled with dace, ete. 
Tt is a torrent in winter, a mud hole insummer, The land 
along its course has suffered with it. The other branch has 
not been injured in this way. It flows with a more even 
volume, and is filled with trout. It cools the main stream, 
so that tront are plenty to its mouth, and not a dace is to be 
found below the fork. 

I did not intend to write so much of an agricultural treatise 
when IJ started, but as agriculture is more important than 
sport, let us sportsmen cry commerce and agriculture with 
all our might. We will be listened to with sn infinitely 
greater amount of attention, and will gain our own ends at 
the same time. In conclusion I would only say, take care 
of the little brooks and the strearos will take care of them- 
selycs, PHROYVAL. 


DACE FISHING. 


I SAW an inquiry in your last week’s issue in reference to 
dace rising to a fly, Occasionally in the last few years 
{ have, in default of good trout fishing in Vermont, taken 
many a dace in fly-fishing, Last summer, in July and 
August, [ had excellent success, My experience is that a 
medium-sized fly, rather showy than otherwise, is the best, 
although | found the professor, the brown hackle and the 
grizzly king very good, Large dace take the minnow in 
deep pools, but I long ago discarded bait in fresh-water 
fishing, and can speak of the minnow only from observation 

-and hearsay. The grasshopper in: season is very attractive, 
and along by the first of September fly-fishing is not as suc- 
cessful as earlier. But I had no difficulty in taking. enough 
with a fly. 

The residents who fish for count in Vermont make, if their 
stories are to be believed, prodigious catches of small trout, 
I was casting for dace in a deep pool last summer, when one 
of the citizens kindly informed me that I would ‘‘never take 
a dace with that trap,” and that I “‘ought to go up on the 
mountain where his boy and another one took seven hundred 
and fifty-three trout in two days.” Tasked the weight, and 
was told they would average nearly two ounces each, Just 
then a dace of one and a half pounds rose and was soon 
landed. ‘‘Well,” said the old gentleman, ‘‘I never knew 
there was any such fish as that in this river, and I’ve lived 
on it over fifty years.” i 

Last summer my companion and myself took them weigh- 
ing as high as two and a quarter pounds. We found a long 

cast most successful, as they are very shy, Very quiet fish- 

ing is required; fully as quiet for good-sized fish as for trout. 

With delicate tackle I found the sport good, But after 

haying fished the ‘‘North Shore” and the Nepigon, with trout 

seldom below two pounds and up to five and # half, I cannot 

say dace fishing in Vermont is as good sport as angling for 

trout in those waters. ice 
INDIANAPOLIS, April 14, 1884, 


Trout FIisHERMEN AND THErR RicHTs.—When in the 
course of events the snow, which still lies in the woods and 
on the hills, disappears, the trout season will open actually 
as it has done legally—and illegally, since seyeral persons 
went out successfully about a week before the law was aff. 
It is said that there will be a great display of bran new signs 
along the brooks this season, and that some men in this city 
can tell about how they were placed. For two or three 
years there has been considerable of this putting up of signs 
that have no authority to back therh, and which operate 
merely to keep off fishermen who regard what they suppose 
to be the law, to the benefit of those who do not, or who 
have reason Lo know that the signs mean nothing, For in- 
stance, Mr. X of Hartford has some handsome signs painted, 
reading: ‘‘No fishing; trespassers will be prosecuted to the 
extent of the law,” or whatever it maybe. He goes out and 
planis them along some brook that has not been protected 
and where owners of the land care nothing about the matter 
or do not care enough to protect the stream. To say the 
least the scheme is unfair. Itis, however, doubtful whether 
these signs or a great many others that are put up by land 
owners in good faith, are worth anything legally. A notice 
that fishing is not allowed should specify to what part of the 
stream it applies. According to common usage, one or 
three, or four, stuck up near the road seem to be enough to 
coyer the whole brook which may flow through the land of 
a dozen or fifty owners, none of whom except the man next 
the road may have any objection to other people taking 
trout there. It is not toomuchto ask that notices should be 
signed by the owner or lessee of the property, and should 
state exactly what the tract is to which the protection 
applies. It is fair too, that there should be a peualiy tor the 
unauthorized placing of notices by those who have no right 
in the property, .As to the first two items it is said that al- 
though the law 1s not explicit it really covers the case already, 
and that no action brought against a person trespassing on 
land defended only in the way just mentioned can hold good. 
It is certain atleast that when a prominent lawyer was asked 
by a client what he must do to legally protect certain waters 
he was told to sign the notices and put up enough to make 
the warning conspicuons all along the water to be protected. 
The whole matter might very well come up for action that 
should at least make the law and penalty clear and leave no 
doubt of what is required on either hand.—Hartford, Conn., 
Courant. 


Hauuock, Minn., April 10.—The fish are beginning to 
Tun up stream, though the ice is only just breaking up. 
The time for pickerel is not yet, but when they come the 
youngsters are in high glee, The golden eyes will come 
with the spring Weather; then we expect to try the flies 
oncemore. The speckled treut will get a rest this season, 
for we can find none without taking a long wagon ride of 
ninety miles, or going up into Queen Vic’s dominions to get 
to Lake of the Wiad ctionerher 


Ramsow Trour my Sant Warer,—Among a lot of 
flounders and mixed fish caught in Hast Bay, a portion of 
the Great South Bay, Long Island, and sent from Moriches 
to Mr. Blackford in Fulton Market, last week, was a rain- 
bow trout of half a pound weight. The water there is 
brackish, and the fish is suppesed to be one of those planted 
a the peers of that vicinity in 1881 by’Hon. R. B 
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MIGRATION OF HERRINGS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

The appearance and a eventbaneety of fishes on our salt- 
water coasts, as intelligently described by Daniel T. Church, 
in FOREST AND STREAM of Feb, 21, must certainly attract the 
attention of all who take interest in the harvest of the sea. 
The ‘flood and drought” or the coming and going of fishes in 
their season and in their peculiar way, the cause of which we 
nave little knowledge, must yet be studied out. Man, in addi- 
tion to other enemies, may cause much destruction of fish 
life, but nevertheless they appear at times after seeming ani- 
hilation in greater numbers than ever before, as is well illus- 
trated in Mr. Church’s eleyen articles. To add to this experi- 
ence allow me to make some extracts from L. Lloyd's ‘‘Swe- 
den and Norway” accounts of floods and droughts of the 
herring on the Scandinavian coast during a period of over 250 
years, which, perhaps, may interest many of your readers 
who haye not access to the book. 

The Swedish herring fisheries were at one time the largest 
and most flourishing in Europe, but owing to the disappear- 
ance of the fish from the coast for the past sixty years, they 
have dwindled down to almost insignificance, and at the pres- 
ent day there is little to remind one of them except the curing 
houses and other buildings, now ina state of decay. These 
fisheries along the coast of Bohus Skirgiird may not be with- 
out interest both to those connected with similar establish- 
ments and to the naturalist. Though for ages previously 
herrings had been most plentiful, yet during the first half 
of the sixteenth century, beyond which it is needless to 
go back, they in great measure deserted the coast. In 
1556, however, there was a “land st6tning,” as it is called, 
that is, the fish haying emerged from the deeps, their 
usual Pe of resort, appeared in incalculable numbers alon 
the shores of the Skager Rack, and they continued unt 
1587, a space of thirty-one years, when they for the most 
part once more absented themselves, During the period of 

Jut (flood) from 1556 to 1587, the fisheries are described as 
Auyine been more productive than at any other on record. 
We learn from the old chronicles, indeed, that for the space of 
fifty or sixty miles the shores of the mainland and adjacent 
islands were studded with curing and salting houses, many of 
them two and three stories high, and inhabited by vast multi- 
tudes of people, who had congregated there from various and 
distant parts, and whose sole occupation was in connection 
with the fisheries. “Herring Were then so very abundant 
that thousands of oe came annually trom Denmark, Ger- 
many, Hriesland, Holland, England and France to purchase 
the fish, of which sufficient were always found for them to 
carry away to their own and other countries.” This would 
not seem to bean exaggerated account, as from the small 
town of Marstrand alone some 2,400,000 bushels were yearly 
exported. The disappearance of the fish from the coast in 
1587, which reduced mR people to poverty and misery, was 
attributed solely to witchcraft, which was quite as plenty in 
those days as herring themselves, 

From 1587, the concluding year of the glut (flood), to 1660, a 
space of seventy-three years, the herring only appeared in 
small numbers on the Bohus coast; but in 1660 there was 
another land stétning, though not equal to that of 1556. But 
as during the dearth of fish most of the people connected with 
the fisheries had deserted to their distant homes, and the fish- 
ing houses had fallen into decay, tew beside the inhabitants of 
the province were enabled to ayail themselves of the oppor- 
tunity, and these men, having now the fish all to themselves, 
so to say, soon became comparatively rich. This continued 
until 1675, when the war put an end to the fishery for that 
time, Subsequently the fish appeared at intervals on the coast, 
especially in the year 1727; but there being a want of people, 
and also of proper fishing gear to enable them to take advan- 
tage of the opportunity, no very great captures were made. 
In 1747 there was again a land stétning, though much less 
abundant that that of 1556,and the same continued until 1808, 
when the fish once more departed, In this while, a space of 
sixty-one years, the fisheries were prosecuted with great 
ardor and success. Herring were so very plentiful during one 
particular year that four bushels could be purchased on the 
spot for two shillings, and though the fish were converted to 
all manner of purposes, people hardly knew what to do with 
them. One year when the herring were unusually numerous, 
it was calculated that not less.than 2,938,000 barrels were 
taken; and as each barrel is supposed to contain about 1,000 
fish, the aygregate would be something like 2,938,000,000 of 
herring. uring this glut, extending from 1747 to 1808, the 
Bohus fisheries was considered a second El Dorado; indeed, 
when in its glory, it was computed that independeutly of its 
inhabitants themselves, fifty thousand strangers took part in 
them. In 1808, as shown, the herring once more left the coast, 
and have never since visited it in any considerable numbers. 

The absence of the Mernings. from Skargird for the past 
sixty years (this account by Mr. Lloyd was written in 1867) 
has given rise to a great deal of speculation, The reasons 
assigned by Swedish naturalists and others who were deputed 
by the government to investigate the matters, were many and 
weighty. Among the rest the noise and uproar in the Skirgard 
when the fisheries were flourishing, caused by tens of theus- 
ands of congregated people, which noise in calm weather, or 
when the wind was off the land, might be heard miles and 
miles out at sea; the enormous quantity of refuse of all kinds 
cast out frain the curing and boiling-houses into the sea, 
which, on sinking, destroyed all submarine vegetation, and 
masses of which, resembling floating islands and emitting a 
dreadful stench, might at times be met with far away from 
land. Another cause! The reduction in the size of the 
meshes of nets, and lastly, the use of the wad, a drag net of 
gigantic proportions, which, sweeping the bottom, pfoved de- 
structive to all the grasses and other plants among which her- 
rings are accustomed to spawn, This wad of 200 fathoms in 
length and fifteen fathoms in depth, with hauling lines 500 
fathoms long, often landed at a single haul 2,000 barrels of her- 
rings, and sometimes inclosed such a multitude of herrings 
that the men were unable to draw it on shore, consequently 
phones were killed and left to rot on the bottom of 
the sea. 

Though the reasons assigned by the learned and others for 
the absence of the herrings from the’ Bohus coast are plaus- 
ible enough. They are not altogether satisfactory. One or 
more of the nuisances complained of—such as casting the offal 
of the curing-houses into the sea, and the noise in the 
Skargaérd, may not improbably have deterred the fish from 
entering inlets near the shore, but they do not sufficiently ac- 
count for their altogether absenting themselves from the 
coast. The cause for this must be sought elsewhere. The 
herring, as known, is a most capricious fish, seldom remaining 
long in any one place. There is scarcely a fishing station 
around the British Isles that has not experienced the great 
variation, both as to time and numbers in their visits, and that 
without any assignable reason. Their present absence from 
the coast of Bohus is owing, perhaps, to some hidden law of 
nature of which we are ignorant, than to the causes alleged. 
A good authority, Dr. Culloch, takes a similar view of this 
subject. Hesays: ‘‘Ordimary philosophy is never content un- 
less it can finda solution for. excryehing, and is satisfied for 
this reason with imaginary ones. Thusin Long Island, oneof 
the Hebrides, 1t was asserted the herringsshad been driven 
away by the manutacture of kelp, some imaginary-ceingidence 
having been found between their disappearance and,the es- 
tablis tof that business. Byt the kelp fire did not drive 


em aw other shores,.which they treqyent and aban- 
don without s > thus. sae It has’ been. a stillangre 


favoriteand popular faney. that: they. were driven away. by 


the firing of guns, and hence this is not allowed during the 
fishing season, A gun has scarcely been fired on the Western 
Islands or on the west coast since the days of Oliyer Crom- 
well, yet they have changed their places many times in that 
interval,” 

In a similar manner and with equal truth, it was said they 
had been driven from the Baltic by the battle of Copenhagen, 
It is amusing to see how old theories are revived. This is a 
very ancient Highlander’s hypothesis, with the necessary mod- 
ification. Before the days of guns and gun powder, the 
Highlanders held that they quitted the coast where blood had 
been shed, and thus is ancient philosophy renovated. Steam- 
boats are now supposed to be the culprits since a reason must 
be found to prove their effects. 

Loch Fine, visited by a steamboat daily, is now their fayor- 
ité haunt, and they have deserted other lochs where steam- 
boats have never yet smoked. 

Taking all things into consideration, therefore, and as the 
herring has on many preyious occasions absented itself for 
years and years together from the Bohus coast, it seems not at 
all improbable that the inhabitants will some fine day be re- 
joiced by another “and stétming” of these fish. 

Dr, HE, STERLING, 

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 20, 


WHITEFISH RAISED IN CONFINEMENT.—At the dis- 
play of trout at Mr. Blackford’s on April 1, among other fishes 
sent by . Frank N. Clark, Superintendent of the U. 8. 
hatchery at Northville, Mich., were a number of young white- 
fish (Coregonus albus), one year old, which had been raised in 
confinement. The specimens were about five inches in length, 
and attracted a great deal of attention from fishculturists on 
account of their novelty. These are, we believe, the first 
whitefish that have been artificially reared. 


lew Publications. 


THE GAME FISH OF THE NORTH.* 


N the preface to his book the author says: ‘‘Having always been 
an enthusiast with the rod and gun, attributing to the sports of 
the field and stream the retention of good health amid confining and 
sedentary occupations, I made the preparation of this work a labor 
of love, and have with time come to be more than ever impressed 
with the importance of out-door recreations, Inspiration acquired 
from the woods and streams, and yigor earned by exercise in the 
pure air of Heaven are good for the soul as wellas for the body. I 
was one of the first to press on the State and National Goverments 
the importance of establishing fishery commissions, and being myself 
appoioted on that of the State of New York when it was created, in 
the year 1867, and having remained on it ever since, I have necessarily 
kept up with the times, and all improvements which have been made 
either in the science of fishculture or in the tools and methods of fish- 
ing. Looking back, and still more I may say, looking forward to 
what the future will bring forth, [have a right to claim that in aid- 
ing the cultivation and protection of the objects of the sportsman’s 
pursuit, and the means of his pleasure,in protesting against their 
unreasonable and improper slaughter, and in describing the most 
legitimate and scientific methods, and takingtthem, I have conferre1 
some advantage upon mankind as well as amused some idle hours.”” 
The work before us is a new edition of the book first published in 
1862, and, with the exception of the chapter on fishculture and the 
appendix, is xepranved yerbatim. Mz. Roosevelt is a most entertain- 
ing writer and his lines flow pleasantly, enticing the reader to try to 
finish the book at one sitting, He ayoids committing himself on the 
question of the identity of the sea trout, and there are several ques- 
tions which have been settled since the first edition of the work 
which he does notice, such as the classification of the cisco, the fed- 
eration pike, etc. There has been a steady demand for this book, 
which has been out of print for some years, and all who own the 
first edition will certainly want the second, if only to see what changes 
have been made. The appendix of the new work contains, instead 
of fish laws, a treatise on flies, rods, reels and lines. This chapter 
contains much information of a substantial character, but is con- 
densed perhaps too much, and we confess that we do not understand 
the difference between dying and staining gut, which Mr. Roosevelt 
says is important, nor do we agree with him that itis essential that a 
split bamboo rod should be round. Nojmatter what a man writes, it 
is ee that some one will differ with him. The price of the work 
is $2. 


*The Game Fish of the Northern States and British Provinces, with 
an aecount of the salmon and sea trout fishing of Canada and New 
Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, 
etc., etc. By Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, author of ‘Superior Fish- 
ing,” “The Game Birds of the North,’ ‘Five Acres too Much,” 
*‘Polyanthus,’’ etc., etc. Illustrated, New York: Orange Juad 
Company, 751 Broadway. 1884. 


The Kennel, 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 

May 6, 7, § and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’ s Righth Annual 
Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 21. Chas. 
Finooin, puperinisndent. R. C. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
New York. 


A. K. R. 


HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc, (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the Ist. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advanee. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
‘‘American Kennel Register,"’ P.O, Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1115. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.60, 


A PRIVATE FIELD TRIAL. 


eee are on here in limited numbers, but very wild. With 
warm weather, fair shooting may be had. An interesting 
match between a dog of unknown pedigree and one of the 
bluest of the blue is to take place here the last week of the 

resent month on snipe. Both are owned near this place. 
The match to be run on the low lands bordering the marshes 
of Lake Hrie, where the grounds are of such a character that 
every movement of the dogs can be seen, and enough mud and 
water exists as to try the mettle of the best; the dogs to be 
down four hours and hunted together. Both are fine field 
dogs. The friends of the stranger think he has the heart to 

o to the front and the power and action to Keep him there. 
itis opponent has also many admirers, and his friends are also 
very sanguine, and they have certainly no duffer. A lively 
time is anticipated, I will post you as to the result. The 
judges selected are practical sportsmen of large experience in 
the field with dogs, and were chosen not from their social 
standing in society but from their knowledge of what a dog 
ought to be in the field, which can be gained only by great ex- 
perience. Why can’t our Canadian neighbors get up a tield 
trial the coming season on some of their preserved grounds, 
giving moderate Ba gi and making the entrance fee so that 
people of limited means can enter? Some excellent dogs 
might be thereby brought to light that under the present 
arrangement of field trials must forever remain in darkness, 
Many would enter that I know of, and a good meeting would 
certainly be the result, as few Northern sportsmen can afford 
the expense of preparing and running their dogs in the South- 
ern States, where the field trials are now held, and unless pre- 
pared there they are handicapped to such an extent as to 
cess almost impossible, who would readily patronize 
1G. where accessible to home. Joun Davipson, 
Mosrog, Mich,, April 15, 


T suc 
trials 


250 


NIMROD. 

\ \ JE give this week a cut of 

y the red Trish setter dog 
Nimrod (A.K.R. 631), owned by 
Dr. J, Frank Perry, Boston, | 
Mass, Nimrod was whelped | 
March 20, 1880, and is by cham- | 
pion Hicho (A.K.R, 295) out | 
of Lorna (A,K.R. 296). He has 
been shown but twice. At New 
York, two years ago, he won 
first in the open class and the 
Special for the best Irish setter 
in the open classes. At Ottawa 
last year he won the champion 
prize. and with Meg the special 
for the best matched pair of 
Irish setters. In writing of him, 
Dr. Jarvis says: ‘Tn attempting 
to describe champion Nimrod, 
I cannot really do him justice, 
for he has all through that ‘high 
quality’ which cannot be put 
on paper; he leoks yery- much 
like Elcho, is about the same 
size, has the same rangy up- 
standing build, and the tong, 
lean, narrow head his sire has 
been noted for. He is strong- 
boned and well-muscled, with 
the best of feet and legs: his 
eyes are brown, soft and loving 
in expression; his disposition ve 
could not be milder, In coat | 
and color, Nimrod is about per- | 
fect, the former short and flat, | 
but with good feather: the 
latter a beautiful deep, rich, | 
red mahogany, and dark all | 
through. In brief, he is one 


SALMA 
Dr. J. Frank Perry's Champion Red Irish Setter Dog “Nimrod.” 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


i} Ait (i 
MM He 
AIK 


of the’ very best Irish setters 
to be found anywhere, as his | 
record’ proves.” The cut is from a sketch by Harry Talmen, 
and is an excellent likeness, : 


A JERSEY FOX CHASE. 


MC a pleasant day’s hunt I have had atter deer, fox, 

ivi quail and cotton-tail. Eyen down here in South Jersey 
we have some good hunting grounds. True, they are not 
yaried by rugged crags and cliffs, deep cations and roaring 
waterfalls; and yet these woods are not without their charms. 
I have seen on a bright autumn morning the sun’srays dancing 
through the needle-like boughs of the pine. on which the 
frosted dewdrops looked like millions of rainbow-tinted dia- 
monds. The air is clear, crisp and bracing. On such a day 
one forgets all his infirmities. Ifeel that I have added years 
to my calendar by frequent visits to these pine woods in search 
of health and game. Some of our Western hunters may smile, 
and ask in whose barnyard we find our game, Let such an 
one come and see, and if he starts into these pines, scrubs and 
#wamps of Atlantic county on a cloudy day, let him take with 
him an extra day’s rations, for he may become so completely 
lost that he will look about him for a place for a comfortable 
night’s lodging. He will even lose faith in his compass, so 
completely will his head be turned. This is owing to the per- 
fect similarity of this upland country, Each particular local- 
ity looks exactly like the other. Scrubs and saplings every- 
where are higher than your head, almost impenetrable, and 
interspersed with pines. The only extensive view one has is 
zenithward. There are no mountain ridges nor prominent 
boulders as guide-posts to direct one on his way. 

But [ hope that Ido not frighten any one from coming here 
to hunt lest he should be lost in the wilderness, I only. wish 
to haye you know that we have genuine hunting grounds, all 
the more enjoyable because they are wild and unfrequented. 
I know itis not considered proper by many of the ForEsT 
AND STREAM readers to hound a deer at allin any locality. If 
this be so, then it is not proper to kill a deer at all here, as in 
this part of the country the man who does not get a deer until 
he secures one by stalking, might not live long enough to 
taste of venison. You can track a deer to twenty paces of 
where he jumps up, and only hear the bushes rustle, without 
catching even a glimpse of the game any more than if it had 
plunged beneath the waters of the ocean. ~ 

I want to tell you of a delightful chase, last week, after the 
gray fox. At 8 o’clock Monday morning last, we stepped 
down from the Camden and Atlantic train, twenty miles from 
home, at Ellwood station, slipped the chains from Texas and 
Trap (they being selected for trailing), while Jack, Sport and 
Doe, having a propensity for chasing the rabbit, were kept 
in string until reynard should be up and going, Doc is a 
short-legged Dutch beagle, fourteen inches high, I mention 
this because some haye asked how about beagies for foxes. 
‘The station was not yet out of sight when Texas announced 
the discovery of a trail, which he kept close to, giving us 
music as he gave us exhibition of his genius in tracing up the 
devious route of this sly game to his forest retreat. Now and 
then he doubled around over his own trail, or walked in the 
rut of every wagon road that he came to, knowing that the 

-first wagon to pass would coyer up the scent and prevent 
pursuit from his enemies. But it was too early in the morn- 
ing tor the wagon, so on we went two miles from where the 
trail was first found, to the edge of adense cedar swamp 
when the hurried and excited notes of Texas proclaime 
reynard on foot and hastening away. 

Quickly all the dogs were unloosed, andaway went a full 
chorus chiming through the forest; what soul-stirring music! 
Tt thrilled through the whole frame, and accelerated the 
throbbing of that important little organ beneath the left side 
of the vest, and quickened our pace to head off and keep in 
hearing of the music, which means healthy, energetic exer- 
cise. hese enlivening strains were kept up until about mid- 
day, leading us several miles away. Then the explosion of a 
cartridge from a No. 16 gun put an end to this chase, and 
each dog coming up gave the prey a shake of satisfaction, 
while the little beagle, who was close in at the death, seemed 
not to be satisfied until he had made the bones crack the full 
length of the spinal column. fe 

Ihave often wondered at the seeming bitter antipathy of 

_the hound tothe fox. We excuse ourselves here for killing 
them, as they are plentiful and so destructive of the quail 
and rabbit. 
seating ourselves on fallen trees, we. engaged in that other en- 
joyable part of a day’s hunt-satisfying our sharpened appetites. 

While thus engaged, the wind suddenly veered around to the 

north, and came rushing down upon us like a Western blizzard. 
The snaw flew thick and fast, the trees bowed, twisted and 
sqeaked, while the scrubs and bushes seemed to be disturbed 
as if by a stampeding herd of buffalo; it was wild and grand, - 
and we were happy, for we enjoyed the storm, ; 

On our way out after lunch, we.struck another trail, and 
away went all the dogs pell mell. In amoment they were 

' lost to hearing amid the roar of winds and consequent confu- 
sion of sounds, On tracking them to leeward a mile or more, 
we found they had crossed an immense swamp and nothing 
more could we hear of them, We. waited until it was grow- 
ing lafe and our home train must be made at the station we 
left at 5 o'clock, while we ale how four miles away, tomake 
which required a little extra will power brought to -bear‘on 
the fléxors and extensors, we made on close time and returned 


home. ; Aftera good night’s rest, the early train was again” 


taken; and we Started im searth of dur lost hounds, wind 


was still Blowing, and although we searched beyond the great |.and from-wh 


After remoying the pelt a fre was built, and | 


swamp, where last we left their trail, no tidings were had of 
our lost dogs, so we returned home again without them, and 
again on W ednesday morning we wentin search of them, 
taking with us two fresh hounds, Sport and Drum. While 
on our way to the same swamp we struck a fresh trail; away 
went Sport and Drum to the swamp, giving tongue to the 
routed fox, until the sound died away far up toward the head 
of the branch. While we were intently listening after them, 
we distinguished the sound of running hounds far off in the 
opposite direction. The tox before the two hounds doubled 
and came back, was shot and quickly skinned. 

We then hastened off to where we last heard other dogs, A 
walk ofa mile and a half brought us in with them, they were 
our lost dogs still pursuing the fox, their yoices so changed we 
could searcely recognize them; poor little Doc was so weak he 
could searcely make an audible sound. One of the party 
caught him and while in the effort to get him something to 
eat from his amie bag let go of him and away he slipped, and 
soon rejoined the others in the chase. The two fresh dogs 
were put on and of course soon left the tired ones far in the 
rear. This was probably an unfair thing for us to do, for they 
were completely thrown out of the chase, but one of the party 
soon alter killed the fox. Texas and Doc were secured, but 
Sport and Jack must have lain down somewhere on the last 
round; Texas, a large black and tan, had injured his shoulder 
and has not been able to walk since, while Doc was blind for 
three or four days after. ‘rap was found at a station the 
same eyening ten miles on the way home; a telegram on Satur- 
day informed us of the arrival at Elwood station of Jack and 
Sport, appearing in right fair condition. Now what do you 
think of the beagle for foxes and of the sticking qualities of 
these dogs? Rt. 

ATLANTIC Ciry, N. J. 


THE KENNEL HOSPITAL. 


RESULTS OF INFLAMMATION, © 


1 ei ny last article I attempted to show that inflammation was 

a process taking place in the minute blood vessels of a 
par having for its chief accompaniments dilatation of the 

lood vessels with more or less stagnation of blood within 
them and blood through them. This condition may simply 
rise to its height and then gradually abate, or ib may cause 
other changes to take place in the tissues. A pimple onthe 
skin is an infammation—there is swelling, heat, pain, and 
redness, due to the changes we have already described. Its 
simplest termination is to gradually’subside, which it does by 
the blood yessels resuming their healthy tone and the exuded 
fluids being re-absorbed. When this best of all terminations 
of an inflammation does not take place, the pimple, which 
was hard as well as red and swollen, begins to soften in the 
center, its apex turns white, and if it be punctured a white 
fluid escapes called matter or pus. 

Suppuration, which is the term used to express the forma- 
tion of matter or pus, is anevent of such frequent occurrence 
that we roust devote a little time to its consideration. There 
are three forms in which we find it. On mucous membranes, 
such as line the nose, mouthand eyelids, pus is often formed 
as theresult of an inflammation. In ordinary colds in the 
hear and in distemper a purulent discharge from the nose and 
eyelidsisa common symptom. Jn the case too of wounds and 
some diseases of the skin a discharge of pus is seen upon the 
surface of the inflamed part. Under all circumstances pus is 
produced in the same way. not by any healthy secretion, but | 
by a perverted growth or development of the cellular elements 
of the part; thus it is that IMfammation in some parts is 
seldom productive of suppuration, whereas in others a very 
slight degree of inflammation gives rise to copious formation of 
pus. The morbid processis the same always, but the tissue 
affected being different, we have different results. Good pus 
isa harmless, even if not a blaxid and protective fluid. It 
should be white, without smell, and thicker than milk. 
When thin, stinking, and altered in color by assuming either a 

eenish, blackish, or reddish hue, we look for some cause of 
Phra steed which may be a diseased condition of bone or 
ligament at the part, orit may be some constitutional disease 
affecting the wholesystem. ‘Solong as pus escapes freely from 
the inflamed surface, it does no harm beyond the drain upon the 
animal’s system. When, however, pus is formed in some 
part where, instead of escaping from the body, it burrows 
under or infiltrates other tissues, great danger to the animal 
ensues. Whenever there is much tissue of a loose texture, such 
untoward result may be anticipated as the result of eo se 
tion. In the dog the skin of the neck is attached to the body 
by a lot of loose tissue (connective tissue), No part is so liable 
as the under part of the neck to be affected by diffuse suppur- 
ation as the result of inflammation foliowing bites and tears, 
Pus formed here is very likely to diffuse itself down the neck 
and between the muscles and other structures, It rapidly 
decomposes and causes fatal gangrene. A very common form 
in which suppuration is found is when it is unable to escape as 
it. is produced or to diffuse itself among surrounding tissues; 
where, in fact, it is surrounded, and forms a collection known 
as an abscess. : a Pe ‘Ade: 

Abscess.—An abscess is simply a swelling containing matter, 
the result of inflammation. As the contents of the swellin 
increase it becomes softer, and the tissues nearest the ext 
surface are by absorption made thinner. The thinning and 
softening of the skin over an abscess is well Khown under the_ 
popular term of “pointing,” If an abscess be not interfered. 
with, it finally 


— | 


bursts at the Spot where it is most prominent. .|| When a superficial infia 
ich the “Nair wadally falls, It is, however, not ' painand heat are lessened, but 2 good deal of swelling: 


S22 — 


advantageous to wait for an 
abscess to burst. As soon as 
we aresure that a swelling con- 
tains matter, it is advisable to 
open it with’a knifé, thus allow- 
Ing the matter to escape and 
Saving the animal further pain, 
The formation of an abscess is 
accompanied by great pain; 
and its treatment should con- 
sist of such measures as are 
likely to allay pain and hasten 
the development of pus, The 
application of heat and moist- 
ure does this, and may he effect- 
ed by either warm fomenta- 
tions or poultices, Such reme- 
dies are often abused by being 
contiuued after the contents of 
an abscess have escaped. They 
then do more harm than good, 
keeping the parts in an unfa- 
vorable condition for healing. 
When an abscess is Sener: 
either by bursting or by the 
judicious use of a lance, no 
squeezing is requisite: it does 
no good, and causes great pain, 
Isay judicious use of a lance, 
because the creme should al- 
ways be made at the lowest 
point, and thus permit the con- 
tents to escape by gravitation. 
The treatment of an opened ab- 
scess consists merely in cleanli- 
Z ness, the use of mild disinfect- 
a ants, and, when it has been 
large, some support to the pen- 
dulous lips of the wound by a 
dry bandage and a pad of car- 
bolizedtow. The old practice of 
; ; filling the cavity of an abscess 
with ointments or other dressing is quite unnecessary, 

Uleeration.—When a sore shows no disposition to heal, or 
when it gradually spreads, the condition is known as ulceration. 
This is the result of inflammation still gomg on in the part, 
preventing the reproduction at the same time that it is des- 
troying the normal structure of the tissues, Ulceration in 
the dog is not common. We sometimes see it on the hind 
limbs of paralyzed animals when the prominences of the hips 
and thighs are damaged by constantly lying in one position 
not unfrequently the coat being soaked with dirt and mois- 
ture. We find it,{too, on the tips of the ears, when some disease 
causes the dog to constantly bruise the parts by violently 
shaking the head. Sometimes a simple sore is converted into 
an uleer by the dog persistently licking it. In all cases the 
first thing to do is to find out the cause which keeps up the 
inflammatory pases and remove it, after which treat as a 
surface wound. : 

Mortification, or the death of a part, is nob often seen in 
dogs. As the result of stoppage of the circulation from a 
tight ligature, I have seen the ear and the limb mortify. A 
similar result is sometimes seen to follow inversion of the 
womb, and the bowels are liable tw mortification from strang- 
ulation or intersusception—the latter statement often traceable 
to violent remedies employed to remove worms. 


TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION. 


In one of Youatit’s books the old notion of the nature of in- 
flammation is very tersely put thus—‘‘When the nerves com- 
municate too much energy and the blood vessels consequentl 
act with too much power, inflammation is produced.” He 
then proceeds to say—'If inflammation consists of an in- 
creased flow of blood to and through a part, the ready way to 
abate itis te lessen the quanity of blood. If we take away 
the fuel, the fire will go out. All other means are compara- 
tively unimportant contrasted with bleeding.” There is a 
piduetbilihys about this line of treatment, and the argument 
eading to it that has misled manypeople. It seems logically ta 
tit in with or to follow the statement that inflammation is ac- 
companied by “too much energy” of the nerves, and “‘too much 
power” in the blood vessels of a part. Our own sensations of 
an inflammation (say a whitlow on the finger) also incline us 
to accept the explanation that extra activity is the essential 
feature of the disease. ; 

We now Enow that dilatation of a blood vessel is due to 
deficient nervous energy, and that if the nerve be paralyzed 
the vessel is unable to contract or to prevent its contents 
distending it to its utmost caliber, We know also that the 
flow of blood in an inflamed part is not active, but retarded. 
Such facts, of course, quite upset the old theory and all the 
methods of treatment which were based upon it. They are 
quite incompatible with the use of remedies whose only action 
was to depress the system. Fortunately the dog is not so easy 
to bleed as most animals, and thus often escapes an operation 
which can never do any good to an inflamed part, and which 
must always do harm to an animal that has to resist a violent 
affection of an important organ. There are no casesin which 
bleeding can remove the stagnating blood from the vessels of 
an inflamed part, The blood Hows from the running stream 
—from around, not from within the affected eenter. To 
directly cut into an inflamed part would only aggravate the 
mischief.. Bleeding, however, not only does no good to an in- 
flammation, but it does much harm to the patient, It causes 
debility. It renders the blood watery, and thus fayors a 
dangerous accompaniment of inflammation in most organs— 
yiz,, exudation. In short, bleeding can never cut short an in- 
flammation; it tends to aggravate the local results of the dis- 
ease, and it puts the whole body into a condition unfayorable 
to making a quick recovery. ; 

Other ancient means of abating inflammation, such as the 
administration of mercury and antimony, must also be dis- 
carded, their adoption being simply based upon an erroneous 
theory. They de no good to the inflamed part, they depress 
the general system, and often produce disturbance of some 
organ not implicated by the disease. ; 

Having now cleared the ground by pointing out what is not 
to be done, let us see what we can do. First, we must en- 
deavor to determine the stage of the inflammatory process; 
then we must try and guide it to the best possible termination; 
and, lastly, avoid allcomplications. Thesimplest inflammation 
to treat is one in someexternal part, such, for instance, as Tay 
result from a bruise, sprain, or ocher injury toalimb. Sucha 
case, in the earliest stages, may properly be treated by cold 
applications, with a hope that we may be able to limit the 
quantity of blood in the part'by constricting the vessels, If, 
however, sees co and swelling exist, we do good by cold 
applications. hat we wished to. prevent has already taken 
place, and our aim must be ta favor a returm to health by 
othermeans. We try to relieve pain and to fayor reabsorption 
of the swelling. armth and moisture do this. arm 
fomentations or poultices may be used. When much pain ~ 
exists some local sedative may be used, such as decoction of 
poppies, or it may even be advisable to act upon the whole 

stem by administering such a, sedative as morphia or chloro- | 
date, It must be borne in mind that warmth and moisture 
favors the formation of matter, and that matter is most un- 
desirable in some parts—for instance, near a joint, Nature 
can always be trusted to do her share in restoring ts to 
health, and, therefore, weniwst take-care Hot to unduly press 
even such-apparently simple measures as poulticing or 
fomenting, . = 


gial inflammation is abating—t,é,, when the. 
remains 


OOOO YO! — VS 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Aran, 24, 1884. 


251 


MollieBrandy, Mr, H. G, Miller’s bull-terrier bitch Mollie (Peter 
—Rose) to Mr, M, Gifford’s Brandy, April 16. 


WHELPS. 


Ee=> See instructions at head of this column, 

Claire. Mr. James T. Walker’s (Troy, N. Y.) red Irish setter bitch 
Claire (A.K.R. 233). April 10, nine (two Gore). by champion Glencho. 

Maud. Mr, Max Wenzél’s (Hoboken, N. J.) red Irish setter bitch 
acm Il.\, April 6, twelve (six dogs), by his Chief 
: Lodin. The Ashmont Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) imported mastiff 
biteh Lodin, April 8, eleven, by their Diavolo (A. K.R, 543). 

Ruby. The Knickerbocker Kennel Club’s pointer bitch Ruby 
eR rich April 16, eight (six dogs), by Mr. D. G. Elliot’s Scout 

Meta, Mr. A, G, Bloowfield’s (New York) collie bitch Meta (Lord 
Eleho—Mageie), Feb, 6, nine (three dogs), by Mr. George R. Krehl’s 
Eclipse (E.K,0,8,B, 12,949), : 

Collette. Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) beagle bitch Collette 
(Chanter—Beauty), April 10, six (two dogs), by his Ringwood (Ranter— 
Beauty); all white, black and tan, 

Belle, Mr. D. 8. Gren Ory) Jr., 2d’s, pointer hitch Belle (A.K_R. 203), 
March 27, five (two dogs), by Mr, C. H. Mason’s Beaufort (A.K.R. 694); 
all since dead. 


wits 

Vancy. Mt, H. G. Miller's (Hudson, N. ¥.) pointer bitch Fancy 
\Croxteth—Royal Fan), April 10, seven (three dogs), by Ducahon (Dan 
—Lady Sensation); two since dead, , 

Pey Pe. Mr. H, GC. Miller’s (Hudson, N. Y.) pointer bitch Peg 
Peg (A.K.R. 920), April 18, three (two dogs), by champion Knicker- 
bocker (A.K.R. 19), 

Brenda, Mr. J, A,S. Gregg’ 
March 4, thirteen (seven dogs), 


—our aim is sim to assist in the absorption of exuded 
material and in a repair of injured tissue. Stimulating 
applications are then employed, varying in activity from an 
ammonia liniment toa blister, Too often these agents are used 
while inflammatgon is still going on, and then, instead of 
effecting a reduction of swelling, we increase it, and, most 
probably, render it permanent, at the same time that we retard 
the repair of injured tissues. 
Jn the case of inflammation of internal organs, although our 
principles of treatment are the same, we have one extra care 
to take. We have to consider the interference with the 
special functionof the part, When the lungsare inflamed the 
respiratory functions are affected, and it behoves us to judi- 
ciously regulate the admission of air to the animal, to avoid 
great changes of temperature and all volatile impurities which 
might aggravate the already overweighted organs, When in- 
flammation of any of the organs of digestion exists the special 
eare is, of course, applied to the judicious selection of food. 
When the kidneys are inflamed we not only avoid all sources 
of irritation, buf endeavor to relieve them by calling into in- 
creased action such other organs as may be able to take upon 
themselves some part of their function. ‘ 
Although inflammation is necessarily always a. local condi- 
tion, we can usually do some good by general treatment, The 
judicious use of aperients is advisable, and sometimes diuretics 
may be given withadvantage. They remove fluids from the 
body, and thus promote absorption, even if they do not posi- 
tively retard the exudation at the inflamed spot. ‘ 
These general principles of treatment will be considered 
more in detail when we come to apply them to each organ or 
part. Meanwhile they will not be superfluous if they have the 
effect of saving some poor dog from injury by causing his 
owner or doctor to relinquish the oid heroic method of 
attacking inflammation—_Wm. Hunting in Land and Water, 


onder. W, Y.)mastiff bitch Brenda, 
y champion Nevison (Gurth—Juno), 


SALES. 

ES" See instructions at head of this column. F 

Duke of Orangé. Orange and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 11, 
1883 (Sensation—Lass), by Mr. B. F. Seitner, Dayton, O., to Mr. Louis 
B. Wright, New York. . 

Landseer, Mastiff dog, whelped March 4, 1884 (Nevison—Brenda), 
by Mr. J. A_S. Gregg, Fordhani, N. Y., to Prof, A. H. Dundon, South 
Fordham, N. Y¥. b 

Cassindra, FWawn mastiff bitch. whelped Jan, 26, 1884 (Diavolo, 
A.K.R. 548—Madge, A.K.R, 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, 
Mass,. to Mr. W. D. Peck, New Haven, Ot. : 

Leicester A. Black, white and tan ete setter dog, age not given 
(Leicester—Nellie). by Mt. J, M, Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn,, to Mr, 
Samuel Giles, Graniteville, 8. C. 

Clara. Biackand white English setter bitch, age not given (Penn— 
Poeahontas), by Mr. J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., to Mr, Louis 
Meleor, Battle Creek, Mich. 

Ringuood—Siluer whelp. White and black ticked beagle bitch, 
whelped Noy. 12, 1888, by Mr. N. Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr, Casper 
Langer, Kenosha, Wis. 

Rita. Fawn mastiff bitch, whelped Jan, 26, 1854 (Diavaio, A.K.R. 
548—Madge, A,K.R. 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to 
Mr, F. B®. Rogers, Portland, Me. 

Dolly Varden. Mastifi bitch (A.K.R. 75), by Mr. W, P. Wright; to 
Dr. J. Frank Perry, Boston, Mass. 

Rinygwood—Maida whelp. Beagle bitch, whelped Feb. 3, 184, by 
Mr. N, Eimore, Granby, Ct., to Mr, Harry Clark, Utica, N. Y. 

Folko. Rough coated St. Bernard dog (A.K R. 477), by the Che- 

uasset Kennel, Laneaster, Mass., to the Millbrook Kennel, New 


ork, 
. Smooth-coated St. Bernard dog (A.K.R. 804), by the Che- 
uasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr. Robert Elliott, Hannibal, 


NEW YORE DOG SHOW.—The entries for the eighth an- 
nual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club closed last 
Monday, with a total of over eleven hundred. _S8o0 many 
entries were received on Monday and Tuesday that it has been 
impossible to obtain full particulars regarding them. Enough 
is known, however, to warrant the belief that the show will 
excel its predecessors in the quality of the exhibit if not in 
the number of animals shown, The St. Bernards promise to 
be the feature of the show. Nearly one hundred are entered, 
and, with the exception of the show of the St. Bernard Club 
in England last November, there will be a display of these 
grand dogs that has never been equaled. Many of the other 
classes will be well represented, and Mr. Lincoln is confident 
that this show will be the best that has ever been held. 


TRIAL BY JURY.—Cleveland, Ohio.—Abner, the fox hun- 
ter, was once brought before the Cuyahoga Court for selling 
tum at his tavern, ou the Euclid cross roads. His lawyer 
gave him able defense. As the jury retired, he turned to his 
client, remarking: ‘tAb., we have lost our case.” Abner, 
with face serene, simply replied: ‘‘Not much.” “How sso, 
old boy?” Abner, with open hand to his mouth, softly whisp- 
ered in his attorney’s ear, as only a giant can, ‘*There are two 
fox hunters on that jury.” The next day that jury could not 
agree, The court dismissed them and told them to go home 
and stay there. Shall the jury system be abolished? That is 
the question nowadays. The case of Abner is a fact and is 
en record in our court to-day.—Dr. H. STERLING. 


0. 

Montreux. Smooth coated St. Bernaril dog (A.K.R. 800), by the 
rede eos Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr. A. §. Van Winkle, Cleve- 
and, O. 

Grouse—Belle whelp. Black and tan Gordon setter dog, whelped 
Sept. 23, 1888, by Mr. N, Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr, F, N. Manross, 
TYoresiville, Ct. » 

Gay—Grace whelp. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 
i* cuen by Mr, N. Elmore, Granby, Ct., to Mr. E. W, Beardsley, Hart- 

ord, (Ot. 

Watis—Skip whelps, Red Irish setter dogs, whelped Feb. 24, 1884, 
by Mr. Geo. T, Wells, Boston, Mass., one to Mr. W. N. Clark, Burling- 
ton, Vt.; one to Mr. H, N, Coon, Burlington, Vt., and one fo Mr. #, 


Sweet, Malden, Mass. 
PRESENTATIONS, 


te See instructions at head of this column. 

Landseer, Mastiff dog, whelped March 4, 1884 (Nevison—Brenda), 
by Prof. A. H. Dundon, South Fordham, W. Y., to Mr. Henry T. Ed- 
son, Fordham Heights, N. 'Y¥. ' d 

DEATHS. 


=" See instructions at head of this solumn, 
Chiefly, Red Irish setter dog (A.K,.R. 966), owner by Mr. H. C. Mil- 
ler, Hudson, N. ¥., Feb. 26, killed by bulldog, 


THE COLLAR DOG.—It was announced in our issue of 
March 7 that the dog receiving the number 1,000 in the Amert- 
can Kennel Register would be presented with a collar by the 
Medford Fancy Goods Company, 101 Chambers street, this 
city; but we have neglected to state what dog received the 
collar. No. 1,000 was Dr. J. S. Niven’s spaniel Niven's Darkey. 
The Kennel Register entry reads: ‘1000. Niven’s Darkey, 
black dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1883. Breeder and owner, Dr. J. 
S. Niven. London, Ont. Sire—lFrank (A.K.R. 251). Dam— 
Niven’s Nellie (A.K.R. 522). The collar is a handsome affair, 
made specially for the purpose by the Medford Fancy Goods ES. = aa eee 
Company. ; KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 

be" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 

M. A. D., Newman, Ga,—We fear that the lameness is of too long 
standing to yield readily to treatment. The best linament that we 
ever tried in such cases is the following: Two ounces of camphor 
dissolved in a pint of alcohol, then add a beef gall. This should be 
well shaken and applied twice a day and well rubbed in: rub with 
the hair, not against if. 

J. H. W., Boston, Mass.—Dew claws are occasionally seen in nearly 
all breeds of dogs, Theycan be easily removed when the animal is 
young. They do not disquality for the bench show. 


ST. BERNARD IMPORTATION.—Mr, E. R, Hearn, Pas- 
saic, N. J., has just received from England the rough-coated 
St. Bernard dog Duke of Leeds, the bitch Rhona, and the 
smooth-coated dog Don IL. and bitch Leila. They were seiected 
for Mr. Hearn by Rey. Arthur Carter, the well-known 8t. 
Bernard judge. All of them are exceptionally fine specimens 
of the breed, and with Bonivard and Gertie, also owned by 
Mr. Hearn, make the finest kennel of the breed in this country. 
All of them will be exhibited at the show next month. 


PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


THE power of the pen is incalculable. Its costis easily known by 
asking the nearest stationer for Hsterbrook’s Falcon No. 048 and 
other numbers.- Adv, 


From the edition of Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co.’s ‘American 
Newspaper Directory,” now in press, it appears that the newspapers 
and periodicals of all kinds at present issued in the United States and 
Canada reach a grand total of 13,402, This is a net gain of precisely 
1,600 during Bie last twelve months. and exhibits an increase of 5,618 
over the total number publics just ten years since. The increase 
in 1874 over the total for 1873 was 493. During the past year the 
dailies have increased from 1,188 to 1.254, the weeklies from 9,062 to 
10,028, and the monthlies from 1,091 to 1,499. The greatest increase 
is in. the Western States. Dlinois, for instance, now shows 1,009 
papers in place of last year's total of 904, while Missouri issues 604 
instead of the 528 reported in 18838. Other leading Western States 
also exhibit a great percentage of increase. The total number of 
papers in New York State is 1,523, against 1,399 in 1588. Canada has 


THE ST. LOUIS DOG SHOW. — der Dispatch to Forest 
and Stream; St. Louis, April 22.—The St. Louis Gun Club's 
dog show opened this morning. There are 265 entries, includ- 
ing many bench show and field trial celebrities. The show is 
well arranged, and promises to be successful. There isa large 
entry from Pittsburgh, Pa., but owing to the illness of the 
attendant none of them were present, The display of point- 
ers and setters is very good. The collies are also out in force, 
many fine ones being present. 


KENNEL NOTES. 
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To msure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following pavr- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1, Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, SEE BEA UH Se TDG ee 

2, Breed. buyer or seller. Tue A. J. Corcoran SoLtm WxueeL Storm-Deryinc WrinpMiLy.— 
8. Sex. %. Sire, with his sire and dam. One of the comforts of modern civilization in rural districts is a good 
4, Age, or 8. Owner of Sire. windmill. To the pisciculturist or stockraiser it is a necessity. But 


5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. ‘ _10, Owner of dam, 
All names must be plainly written, Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED. 


be See instructions at head of this column. 

Duke of Orange. By Mr. Louis B. Wright, New York, for orange 
and while pointer dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1883. by champion Sensation 
(A. K.R. 217) out of Seitner’s Lass (Sleaford—Dawn). 

Grouse, Jr., Jock, Jr., and Dora. By Mr. Jas. T. Walker, Troy, N. 
Y.. for black and tan setters, two dogs and one bitch, whelped 
Fev 20, 1888, by Jock (Grouse—Moll) out of his Black Begs (A.K.R, 


£22). 
_ Glenclatre. By Mr. Jas. T. Walker, Troy. N, Y., for red Irish setter. 
are ee April 10, 2884, by champion Glencho out of his Claire 

Spark. By Mr. A. C, Tufts. Somerville, Mass,. for black and tan 
Gordon setter dog, whelped Feb, 1, 1884, by Bailey’s Tom (Dash—Fly) 
out of Dayie’s Cute (Don— Nellie). 

BRED. 

23=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Domino—London. Mr. W.G. Chisholm’s (London, Ont.) English 
setter bitch Domino (Prince Royal—Nettie) to Mr. J. W. Humpidge's | 

_ London (Paris—Lill), April 17, ~ 

Princess Belle—Colonel Thunder. Dr.G. A. Seaman's (Maryville, 
Kan,) English setter hitch Princess Belle (Rufus—Rose) to his Colonel 
Thunder (Thunder—Moll), April 7. . Y 

Little Maggie—Grand Duke. Messrs, R. & W. Livingston’s (New 
York) bull-terrier bitch Little Maggie (A.K.R, 525) to their Grand 
Duke (A.K-R, 524), rity 1. ' 

Jido—Skip._ ‘The Worest City Kennel’s (Port Me.) Skye terrier 
bitch Dido (A.K.R. 869) to their imported Skip, April 9. 

Sibyl—Cesur, The Forest City Kennel’s (Portland, Me.) rough- 
coated St. Bernard bitch Sibyl (A-K.R. 757) to their imported Ceesar 
ea iloe Pound Lovys The Vorest Olty Kennel's (Port ug 
* Jumo—Young-! F é Fo enn (Portland; Me.) pug 
biteh Juno (A.K.R. 406) to the Chequasset- Kennel's Young ‘toh H 
AE, 43); Marches ee 


a! be. 


there are windmills and windmills. The antique object of Don 
uixote’s wrath is out of date, but not more inefficient than some of 
the traps now offered at so-called cheap rates. On the other hand, 
there are mills which, without fuss or trouble, unobstrusively and 
diligently get through a vast amount of work. One such. made by 
A. J. Corcoran, of 76 Jobn street, New York, has for many years 
supplied three fishponds of six acres each at Pierre Lorillard’s famous 
Raucocus stockfarnm. It has been known to raise the ponds an inch 
in a single night, and has never cost a cent for repairs. The mill is 
made with a solid wheel, strongly tired like a wagon-wheel, and under 
heayy wind pressure simply luffs up to the breeze, as it were, and 
steadily pursues the even tenor of its way. In some other kinds, 
twenty-five per cent. of the power at least is lost by the action of 
counterbalancing weights, while the wheel itself, opening in sections, 
isracked by a blow, and like a lady’s watch, is always wanting some- 
thing to be done toit. This letting the wind blow through the wheel 
instead of making the wheel turn its feather-edge to the wind is as 
_unphilosophical and unmechanical as it would be unseamanlike to 
have valves in the middle cf a yacht’s mainsail to relieve pressure. 
ane Dereon mills are well known and deserve their great popular- 
Hty,.—Adv. 
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COPY OF A LETTER written by Senator John I. Mitchell to 
“Nessmuk”’ in relation to the latter’s new book: ‘Senate Chamber, 
Washington, March 4, 1884.—Deay Sir; Iam very glad to know that 
your beok on “Woodcraft” is about to get published. Your life-long 

experience as a woodsman, and your peculiar gift in this kind of lit- 
erary work, evidenced by the popularity of your writings, leave no 
doubt in my mind of complete success in this new undertaking, The 
book is so compact and full of meat for those whoseek the forest and 
stream for recreation, that it must be well received, and itis so cheap 
that it appears to me its circulation must be general. Tam anxious 
ta see it printed and in covers, and you may depend upon me for’ 


respectfully, Joun I. Mirensnn,"” 


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twenty-five copies, which Lwill-circulate among my friends,—Very | weakened? 


Rifle and Trap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. : 


May 6 and 7.--Fourth Tournament Southern Ulinois Sportsmen's 
Association, Carbondale, Ill. O, P. Richards, Secretary. 

May 20 to 23.—Knoxville Gun Club Second Annual Tournament, 
Knoxville, Tenn, ©. C. Hebbard, Secretary. 

May 26 to 31—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Tl. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P. O, Box 1292, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

June 2 to 9.—Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen's Associa- 
pons eae: Ky. J. O. Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third avenue, 

ouisyille, 


SMALL CALIBER RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Being confined to the house by a touch of malaria I will occu hg 
myself by detailing for the benefit of my fellow riflemen some of the 
receyit experiments with the ‘‘spiral grooye.’** My practice has been 
confined to small bores, .28 and .25 cal., and have confined myself to 
rest shooting at 55 and 100yds., without wiping the rifle between 
shots. Haye experimented with various powders and various 
weights of powder and lead. also yarious tempers of bullets, The 
best results I have obtained so far with the .28-cal. have been with 
Hazard No. 8 duck powder and an 85-gr. bullet about 1 tin to 9 lead. 
With this cartridge 80-85-gr. I fired 20 consecutive shots in two groups 
of 10 shots each, the groups measuring from center to center of the 
widest shots, 2 7-16 and 27gin, respectively; or, in other words, it would 
take circles of these diameters to contain the groups, At the same 
time I moved the target up to 55yds, and firing 7 shots at this distance 
without change of sights, I found these grouped but Jin. higher, tak- 
ing the average of each group, than at the longer distance. In fact, 
there was but one shot at the shorter distance that struck ahove 
the highest shot at the longer distance, and that but lin. As mear 
as I can judge from several similar tests, the bullet from this carkridge 
rises only about 14%4in. at the highest point of the curve in firing at 
100yds. In other words, this cartridge will shoot continuously into a 
3in. ring at all distances up to 100yds. without any change of sights or 
allowance for the varying distances within that range. . 

To show bow superior this ammunition is to the ordinary stuff in 
the market, I wish some rifleman having an ordinary ,32-caliber 
would make a similar test with the ordinary .32-cartridge, care being 
had to use peep and flobe sights, and to see that the average of the 
group at 100yds. be slightly below the center of bull, asif the ayerage 
is above the center at the longer distance the group at dayds, will not 
show the actual rise, If a rmg front sight is used, a proportionately 
reduced bull should be used at the shorter distance, The average 
vertical position of the shots should be obtained by measuring to the 
center of each bull, Of course, if the average is below the center at 
100yds. it will be proportionately lower at A5yds, 

Tn practice at 55yds. one day ny powder ran short, but wishing to 
expand another new shell I poured in what I had, filling the shell 
about one-half full bad been shooting 80-85 grain cartridges). To 
my surprise, this half-filled cartridge sent the bullet full 2in. higher 
on the target, This, I thought, must be a wild shot, but subsequent 
practice satisfied me that this rifle, a 1b, Remington Hepburn—the 
same action in all respects as their long-range rifles have, an action 
as strong as any in the market and perfectly safe under the heaviest 
charges—was actually buckling (being depressed at the muzzle) 
under the strain of my .28-80-85 cartridge. I had long known that 
rifles using heavy charges would do this, but it was a genuine surprise 
to find this result with such a cartridge. “ 

Tam satisfied from recent experiments that it isimpossible to judge 
of the comparative merits of different powders and bullets by shoot- 
ing them at any one distance, Nothing but the paper screens or care- 
ful practice attwo or more distances without change of sights will tell 
the true story with rifles using over a 20-65 cartridge. Tt is probable 
that the test of the Bullard by Mr, Farrow, described by him in your 
issue of Jan. 17, in which he states that the government cartridze 
struck the target #4 to 86 inches lower than the 85-295 gvains, would 
look somewhat different had the test been made with sereens, I 
think it would then have been found that the heavier bullet started 
decidedly lower than the lighter, owing to this buckling of fhe rifle 
under the greater strain of the heavier projectile. 

Iam glad to see a growing dissatisfaction among riflemen with the 
miserable small-bore ammunition generally in use, but the majority 
do not yet realize the immense advantage of a flat trajectory, else 
they would make it warm for the rifle and cartridge makers of this 
land, For sporting purposes the proportion of powder to lead should 
never run much below 1to 3; for target practice at fixed distances 
almost any proportion will do, so the shooting is accurate, though it 
is doubtful if itis ever advantageous to run below 1 to 6. 

While lam having my growl about small-bore ammunition I may 
as well relate my experience with the U. S. C. Cot’s. .82-15¢ c.f, 
shells. Barlyin the winter I purchased of the company a small lot 
of these sheUs and 1,000 primers to fit same, Found the shells poorly 
finished, and the primers very sensitive, as many as four to six per 
cent. exploding inrecapping. I managed to get along with them, 
but recently I received another small lof of same make, length and 
caliber, but reduced at mouth by Messrs. E. RB. & §. to 25-100 bore. 
The primer pockets of these shells are about 1-32 less in depth, and I 
have had to drill them deeper before they would fit their own U.S. 
©. Co. primers, and be reloaded. In trying to use these shells—there 
being none other of this length in the market—I have exploded 
several in closing the rifle, the first injuring my finger considerabiy, 
Had the riflé been of the rotating breech block kind, the accident 
would probably have been serious, as in that case I might have re- 
eeived the entire shell instead of the primer only. 

Later on I may have something to say of the little -25-bore, 

: F, J, RABBETH, 


Bilitor Forest and Streanu ; 

Your correspondent *G. H.” complains of the popular .22-cartridge, 
stating that this ammunition is most unsatisfactory, Concerning the 
short or gallery cartridge I think no complaint should be made. 
Whether furnished by the Winchester or the U. M. C. Co. the accuracy 
is all that can be desired. I have frequently seen from seven to ten 
successive balls go through the same hole ab 26yds, At Conlin’s gal- 
lery may be seeu a series of one hundred consecutive shots, of which 
99 were bullseyes, made at the distance indicated, the bullseyes being 
ene inch and a quarter in diameter. The cartridge is, however, very 
sensitive as regards elevation, and is therefore not adapted to even 
the smallest game except at very short ranges, as no fellow can eal- 
culate where to hold for longer distances, excepb after an intermin- 
able series of experiments. If for squirrels and the like, we select 
the long or extra-long .22, we are still worse off,¥orI have yet to 
find any brand of cartridges of this size that make even the 
slightest pretense to accuracy, If manufacturers would take the 
same pains with these as with their short cartidges, there would be a 
good demand for them, and sparrow pot-pies would prevail, 

GREENHORN. 


MORE RIFLE QUERIES. 


Editor Forest and Streani; 

The communications of “*W. M. F.” and “fi. A. L,,” each inits way, 
has contributed very satisfactorily to the discussion which it was my 
aim to elicit, and { shall be somewhat relieved from the suspicion of 
obstrusiveness in offering this second imstalment. 

1. It is authoritatively stated that the heavier bullet bas a longer 
range, because of the momentum it derives from weight, At shorter 
range the lighter bullet may haye more momentuin resulting from 
velocity. Approximately, what is the distance at which the force of 
the two bullets will be equal? What of 200 yards? 

2. Has it been demonstrated that a bullet driven with extreme 
yelocity is less affected by wind across the line of fire than one moy- 
ing at a reduced speed? ‘ ; 

3. Is there any exactand ascertained ratio betayveen the force of a 


powder charge on a bullet, and the resistance of the atmosphere in 


the bore of the rifle? What increase of pressure behind will be more 
than held in check by the unexpelled air before the bullet? If the 
relative force of a bullet is lost in any degree within the barrel, can 16 
be regained in the least on its flight outside? 

4, The books refer to the drift of a rifie, and describe it as the ten- 
dency of a bullet to deviate in the direction of the twist, right or left 
asthe case may be, This deviation is put down as aboui five inches 
at 200 yards. ow, in the common practice of sighting rifles, is it 


| found necessary to make allowance for any such variation as is here 


indicated? Ina still atmosphere, if the sights are on a line with the 
center of the bore, is it not usually found that the bullet surikes the 
target perpendicularly to the center? 

5. Is not the rifling of target rifles, with very. shalluw grooves, 
detriniental to even shooting, on account of the bullet being held in 
too weak grip? The modern system is shallow grooves and hard bul- 
let, and thess two conditions match each other; under perfect adjust- 
ment they may approximate perfection. But suppose the variation 
of deeper rifling and the use of a hardened bullet.: Should the upset 
not fully fill thé grooves, will not the air-pressure-in front of the bul- 
let prevent an escape of gas; and even if slight currents of air mingle 
with the expanding gas, would the force of the charge thereby bp 


6. Many riflemen preter te use at their option either a patehed or @ 


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lubricated bullet. Is there any system of rifling for which manifest 
superiority-can be claimed, taking into account the twofold service 
indicated? Or are the requisites named so different that they can- 
not be combined in one weapon? 

7. The matter of bullets has only to be mentioned, and innumerable 
questioners wht have gone through hopeful, baffling, disappointing 
experiments, clamor for answers that will at least give them tem- 
porary rest, The Jeading manufacturers of target rifles are alloying 
their patched bullets of the same weight and ahae in widely differ- 
ent proportions, varying from 1 to 16,to 1 to 40. Is the result of 
the experience ot expert riflemen so different? 

If there is any standard authority for the length ofa bulletadapted 
to guns having a short uniform twist, itis three times the measure 
of its diameter, Yet, it would be interesting to know how arbitra- 
rily this standard is to be adhered to, more especially in the case of 
difference of caliber, or variation of powder charge. The blunt, 
pug-nosed bullet seems to have won its way to nearly universal 
adoption, It has the obvious advantage of being weighty at the 
point, and thereby aiding the counterpoise of its polarity. It strikes 
the air so as to leave a Jarger circular vacuum in which to maintain 
its rotary motion unimpeded. It is an open, and perhaps urgent 
question, whether bullets of blunter points than sre in general use 
might not raise the scores of all grades of marksmen, J.J. P, 


WoRGESTER, Mass. 


IGNITION OF THE POWDER CHARGE. 


Hditor Forest and Stream; 

In your issue of April 3 James Duane would have us believe he 
goes to the bottom of “the distance the flash of a primer permeates 
the charge of powder.*’ He selects a shell with three holes for the 
flash of the primer to be divided into. Let him take a shell with a 
central orifice, so the full force of the primer may go up the middle 
of the charge; then he must think that the flash burns a hole as it 
goes In, which it cannot accomplish when entering sand. 

The *point,”’ which he also makes, is something out of his province 
to decide, and he goes a long distance out of his way to put itn, the 
reason for which I cannot fathom. HoLpine WELL. 

cago, April 15, 


Hiditor Forest and Stream- 

_ My innocent article on powder ignition in a recent issue of your 
journal has developed such a storm of opposition among my friends 
that I haye undertaken a new series of experiments, substituting a 
yariety of materials, covering a wide range of specific gravities, for 
the sand used in my iirst experiment. 

i had intended to hold my peace until these experiments were com- 
eluded, but your note received this morning, inclosing the comments 
of ‘Holding Well,”* has decided me to speakatonce. I hope that 
this effusion of *‘Holding Well”’ will be published in your next issuc, 
that your readers may appreciate the unfair, not to say dishonest 
tone of his criticism. 

In the first place, he says that I ‘would have us to believe he goes 
to the bottom,” ete. Now, I do not think that my communication 
Warrants any such statement. I made a few experiments to satisfy 
myself, sent you my results, with a description of my manner of 
making them, and drew my inferences in all diffidence. 

It may be proper to add that my subsequent experiments, made 
with materials varying in specific gravity from charcoal to shot, con- 
firm my first deductions, Practically non-combustible materials were 
purposely selected, as the mechanical and not the chemical action of 
the flash is what we wish to investigate. I find that the depth the 
flash will penetrate is nearly independent of the specific gravity of 
the interposed medium, but is greatly influenced by its coarseness of 
granulation. That is, the larger the grains the larger will be the 
voids between them, and the less will be the loss of head of the jet of 
flame due tofriction. (lemploy a term more applicable to water, but 
it will serve to illustrate.) The great objection, however, to employ- 
ing any granulated material, is the difficulty in obtaining uniform 
granulation. 

An admixture of small grains, filing the spaces between the 
larger oner, will occur in apts of all ordinary care, and will be de- 
structive of uniformity. haye, therefore, devised the following 
method for testing the relative performance of primers, which, when 
properly applied, will give practically uniform results. Hold the gun 
muzzle down, push a bullet a short distance into the barrel from the 
breech, insert a tube and pour asmall quantity of powder through it 
on top of the bullet, the object being that no powder shall adhere to 
the sides of the barrel; then insert a primed shell and discharge it. 

li the powder isignitei,repeat the experiment, the bullet being 
pushed in further, and so on until the powder is notignited. This 
will give a correct limit to the range of the Hash in an air space in 
each case. re air space should be of a uniform temperature, as 
the fiash will range further in hot air than in cold.] 

For the benefit of *‘Holding Well,” I will state that I have tried this 
experiment in a .45-cal. gun, with both the Berdan No. 1 and the Win- 
chester No. 2% primers, with the following results: The Berdan will 
ignite the powder atan average distance of 3}4in., once it did so at 
din , but there was a distinct hang fire, and the result may have been 
due to grains of powder adhering to the surface of the barrel at less 
distances than din. The Winchester failed to ignite the powder at 
284in., but did ignite it at 2i4in. Thus we may infer, with ‘Holding 
Weil's’ permission, that the Berdan No. 1 is stronger than the Win- 
chester No. 244. It will also ignite the charge more thoroughiy 
through its three holes than the Winchester through its one. 

“That the flash burnsa hole asit goesin’ isirrelevant. It ignites 
the grains with which it comes in contaet, these ignite the next, and 
so on. Thus, if we take a pound of powder and make a train of it 
several feet long, and apply a match to one end, the match may be 
said to ignite the further end of one train, but itdoesso by very in- 
direct means, 

Next he comes to the ‘point’ that I made, and considers it some- 
thing out of my proyince to decide. I think there are many men who 
are at least the equals of ‘‘Holding Well” on both theoretical and 
practical gunnery, who will agree with me that my point was well 
taken, and that I did not go a long distance out of my way to put it 
a as I gave two very pertinent illustrations of my pointin this same 
etter. 

Before giving another illustration I wish to assure *‘Holding Well” 
that I do not intend to be offensively personal, but that I must be per- 
sonal to be understood. 

To quote Mr, O’Brien, though I do not wish “torevayle to him the 
fact that | had penethrated his incognitow”’ I may venture a shrewd 
fzuess that he is an off-hand marksnian ef some note. Thus heis a 
fair tyne of a certain class of ritlemen who have had considerable ex- 
perience in a narrow field, 

Qontrast with him Prof. Francis Bashforth, who may never have 
fired a gun in his life, and possibly could not hit a barn off-hand at 
200yds, Yet Prof. Bashforth could probably give us more points on 
scientifie rifie sHooting in a day than a dozen such men as ‘‘Holding 
Well” in the course of their natural lives. JAMES DUANE. 


New Yorr, April 19, 1884. 


NEW YORK STATE PRACTICE.—General Orders, No.7, current 
series, Adjutant General's office, Albany, promulgates the classifica- 
tian and order of duty in rifle practice for the season of 1884, pre- 
scribed by Brigadier-General Charles F. Robbins, G. I. R. P. With the 
exception of some few modifications the orderis identical with that 
of 1848 in its requirement, The principal change is the doing away 
with carbine practice, only those troops armed with and_using the 
rifle being required to perform field duty as riflemen. In general 

ractice (class firmg by individuals) it is directed that five consecu- 

ive shots will be fired at each distance, instead of ‘five shots only,” 
as formerly. Explicit mstructions are laid down to be observed by 
officers in conducting skirmish drill with ball cartridge. Instead of 
commencing at 250yds., firing on the advance at such points as they 
may determine best, ordering the march in retreat at 50yds,, and fir- 
firing two shots while going to the rear, it 1s directed that 
“eommandants should use discretion and tact, varying the 
drill according to their ground and targets, commencing 
at 275yds. in frout of the targets, deploying men and taking such dis- 
tances as target and range will allow, firing on the advance one shot 
at 250, one at 150 and the third at o0yds. At this point order the 
march in retreat and fire one shot at 100 and one shotat200yds.” The 
prizes offered last year to the companies haying the* largest number 
and percentage of marksmen and highest figure of merit, based upon 
anenrolled strength of not less than 60 men, have been dispensed 
with this year, The practice for the season will close on Saturday, 
Noy. 8, and no scores made after that date will be recognized. No 
alteration is made in the conditions attaching to qualifications in 
matches, and ammunition will be limited to forty rounds for each 
officer, non-commissioned officer and private enrolled, as per quar- 
terly returns for quarter ending March 31, 1&4, Transportation will 
be furnished by the State only for first general practice to each or- 
ganization located more than three miles from its range, at the 
actual cost of the same, but not‘in any case exceeding fifty cents for 
each man actually parading, All suosequent practice will be had at 
the expense of the individual or organization. 


NEW ARK,—The total scores for Lhe season of six tournaments are 
as follows, the Frelinghuysen leading. Possible 8,000, 10 men per 
team, 10 shots per mar Frelinghuysen R.A., 2,797; average, 466'1-6; 
Hssax Avenue R. C., 2,749: average, 443 1-6; Celluloids, 2600; average, 
4431-6; Domestic R.and R. A., 2,645; aygrage, 441;- Warren R, C., 


2,bo7; average, 4281-6; Plymouth R. A., 2,508; average, 418. 


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THE RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 


MARLIN REPEATING RIFLE. 


ae Marlin repeating rifle, manulactured=Zby the Marlin Fire Arms 

Company, New Haven, Conn.,is an arm of the “Colt” class, 
operated by theJever, Ithas only recently been pushed in the market. 
There are a number of inventions embodied init, which were per- 
fected at various times. For a long time before its introduction it 
was, in the opinion of its manufacturers, apparent that the magazine 
guns then on the market did not meet- the sportsman’s practical 
wants in a number of ways. The .4440-grain rifle had too little powder 
and lead to be effective, while the larger calibers used special ammu- 
nition not always obtainable readily, and of but poor range and 
accuracy. This, combined withjthe call for a gun having fewer pieces, 
and an action which was not likely to break down through a defec- 
tive cartridge or rough handling, was the first incentive toward pro- 
ducing the Marlin. 

Although a number of other magazine guns have since been put on- 
the imarket, it still claims the lead for simplicity, strength and accura 
acy. The fact that the Ballardrifle is made by the same company is 
guarantee of good workmanship, 

The Marlin is made to use the regular .45-70 Government cartridge, 
popper or brass, also a .40-cal. cartridge with 60grs. of powder and 
260 of lead, which is very effective up to 800yds., and possesses an ex- 
ceedingly flat trajectory, It has obtained the reputation. in some 
quarters, of being the best cartridge for hunting deer, antelope, and 
the like, now onthe market,and has frequently killed such game 
with one shot, the animal drupping dead in its tracks and the bullet 
going clear through the carcass. 

As soon as the Marlin became known, the demand was such, it is 
said, that the factory for over, two years could not furnish one gun 
where ten were ordered. In 1883, the capacity of pipducsion was in- 
ereased three-fold, but still the orders were about three months ahead 
of the supply all through last fall and winter. 

Its special claims are} first, that it has about one-half the number 
of pieces used in other magazine rifles; second, the solid bolt behind 
the cartridge, preventing any accident, no matter how effective the 
ammunition may be, as all strain comes against the former; the re- 
ceiver is also one solid piece, no lock plates being used; third, the 
rifling which has obtained its great reputation in the Ballard; fourth, 
ease of manipulation and of loading: the cartridges can be inserted 
with the lock either open or closed, and all ten shots have repeatedly 
been fired in less than five seconds. Dr. Carver found thatit was 
suitable for his rapid and aceurate work, and for over a year, the 
markers assert, he has used no other. 

For those who may want a heavier cartridge the .45-cal. is made 
also to take 80g¢rs. of powder and 800grs, of lead, making in all three 
sizes, .40-60-260, .45-70-405, .45-80-300. There have been frequent calls 
for other sizes, but as yet the company cannot make any new yen- 
tures, owing to their inability to supply the present demand. 

Besides these, 2 Marlin magazine shotgun is made of the same cali- 
ber as the ,45 rifle. Theshell used is 244in.in length, and will hold 
40grs. powder and 340z. of shot. It holds the same number of cart- 
ridges as the rifle and is made in same styles and and at same prices, 
which ar3 as follows: : ‘ 

Octagon or half octagon barrels, 24in., $30; 26 and 28in., $32; 30in., 
$35, weighing respectively 9, 944, 916, and 1llbs., the latter extra 
heavy. The sights used are the favorite Rocky Mountain rear and 
knife-edge front. Double set triggers are $5 additional; 28-in. barrel 
is the standard size, holding cartridges in the magazine and can be 
loaded into the barrel, which latter is convenient for patched bullets 
to be used in target shooting. Half magazines can be furnished at 
same prices if preferred. 

The Marlin, elonsin to the sporting class of weapons, has 0 
special target record. From various partsof the country re 
Lave come which show it to have good holding qualities. C. Gove, 
of Denver, Col., on Jan. 11, 1881, shot a Marlin before 2 number of 
spectators, He shot fifty shcts in nine minutes twenty seconds, and 
of this time four minutes were consumed in replenishing. the maga- 
zine and passing a wet whisk through the barrel after each ten shots. 


The score at 200yds. off-hand was 220in the possible 250, 
This rifle was entered at the government trial, before a board for 


selecting a magazine gum in 1881, and was put through the ar 
tests. In the fest for enduranee there was an explosion of a cart- 
ridge in the magagine, The Board of Officers '‘were of 
the cis tpg was due to the joltin: countered in ee 
throug. 


down 
the magazine and the repeated blow on the base of the cart- 


orts | 


opinion. that 


ridge from} the column behind it, caused by the rezoil of the piece 
at each shot, and possibly combined with an over-sensitive cart- 
ridge.”” Subsequently the arm fired 500 shots im good order, The 
dust test was passed in fine style, but the gun was not chosen by the 
board for provisional issue to the army. 

The construction of the weapon may be studied from the cut Fig. 1 
representing the completed arm in elevation. 

Fig. 2, a cross section of the action closed. A represents the lever; 
B the bolt, C the extractor, D the carrier block, E the ejector, F the 
carrier block spring, G the hammer, H the trigger. I the firing pin, 

Tig. 3 is the same with the open position. It will be seen that throw- 
ing forward the lever A withdraws the firing pin I. unlocks the bolt B, 
and causes it to recede, carrying with it the extractor C, which ex- 
tracts the shell of the cartridge just fired, while the ejector H, at- 
tached to the lower section of the bolt, ejects the same from the 
receiver, By the same motion, the carrier block D is raised from its 
natural position, asin Fig. 1, brings the cartridge with it, and places 
the same in line with the chamber of the barrel, while the spring F 
firmly holds the cartridge in place. The hammer Gis brought to full 
cock by the same motion, and held there by the action of the trigger 
H, entering its full cock notch. Bringing the lever back to its 
natural position causes the bolt to move forward, pushes the cartridge 
into the chamber, lowers the carrier block to receive a fresh car- 
tridge, locks the breech mechanism, and leaves the arm ready to fire, 
The magazine is loaded through an opening in the side of the re- 
ceiver, which opening is closed by a cover, aS shown in Vig. 1, 

The manipulative directions for taking theaction apar{ are: Pirst— 
Take out the lever pin screw, and drive out the lever pin, allowing 
the lever to be remoyed. Second—Take out the tang screw (tbis 
allows the stock to be removed), hammer screw, and front pin that 
goes through the trigger strap; now remoye the trigger strap with 
the lock work attacked. Third—YThe bolt can now be slipped out. 

To assemble the action, put the parts into the receiver in reverse 
order from that in which they were taken out, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


EXPLANATION WANTED.—Suceasunna, N. J.—Referring to the 
two wonderfully good targets ina recent issue published by Mr. A. 
Armstrong and made by Mr. L. N. Walker, of Ilion, N. Y,, will either 
of the gentlemen tell us how the thing is done? Did Mr. Walker 
make a six-tenths’ inch (6-10in.) bullseye, put it up at 100yds, and fire 
only ten shots at it, or did he make a larger bullseye and after shoot- 
ing scribe his 6-10in. circle around the shuts’ It was stated the 
weather was cloudy and light poor. How did he manage to see that 
small dot at that distance with the naked eye? I put that size bulls- 
eye at above distance and could but barely see it with both eyes open 
and not at all through sights. Was a telescope attached?—Van, 


PENNSYLVANIA STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The regular 
spring meeting will be held at the Stockton range May 10, The offi- 
cers recently elected for the year are as follows: 

Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, President; Major Joseph H, Burroughs, 
Vice-President; Henry C. Rushton, Secretary; J. L. Weatherly, 
Treasurer. The standing committees of the year as made up by the 
President comprise the following: : 

NE: Committee—Lancaster Thomas, chairman; Dr. M. Price, 
C, W. Zieber. 

Range (eramittiee Sr: M. Price, chairman; W, De VY, Foulke, J. L. - 
Weatherly. 

Prize Committee—Major Joseph H. Burroughs, chairman; C. W. 
Zieber, G. W. Miles, Dr. M. Price, H. C. Rushton. 

Finance Committee—C, W, Zieber, chairman; Wallace Proetor, L. 
Thomas, J. H, Burroughs, G. W, Miles, 


THOMASTON, Conn.—A year ago,arifle club of about fifteen 
members was formed in this place. Their range is located about two 
miles from the village, near Reynold’s Bridge, and is named Bridge- 
moor. Nearly allthe members were new at rille shooting, but some 
of them made very good scores in the course of the season, some of 
them making as high as 107 out of a possible 120, Massachusetts ring 


target, ‘The first apo of this season was ou Good Friday, when the 
badge was won witha score ef 98. The weekly shoots are held every 


Saturday, P. Be Sor a Ser r 

range somewhat nearer the village, m0 
emen. new m are now joining. 

basi’ distancs ayes aap 4, PeRuiss, 


retty badge. Weare fitting up a new 
> and more accessible to visiting 
Our shooting is oif- 


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BOSTON.—Following are the scores already madein the matches 


for April af the Mammoth Gallery: 

Amateur Match, Pale ae ern 
ASISRAAOLUS eater renin cette Woe ls Coes, — 
BW Gardner... a iwes Pita. P eT TS COTE gore 45 45 44 43 43—220 
SBS Uh oe en, SS RRS AR enn ee 45 48 43 48 44—218 
PAS EAGLES chromcti U).6 4 pt ee (AE e le Jan 2) ee 43 43 42 42 48—216 
IMSS aT Pee CEN ts Reeds ia tele sai sieed'vs sie eed ‘ 438 42 48 43—216 
AB Wilson.... .... POAEEA 5 a0 send ERASE AOE 8 a ley 48 44 42 48 438—215 
PAGyY Lc ee ae eee eee Cees So 438 43 48 42 48—214 
OPM Sach a eS eee ee eek ase 438 43 42 42 42—212 
OYE hy <3 Oo oe eee Meats Perey sey here tee 4i 41 43 42 42—2090 
VOLS L LEE ach [p0)s9 Jawa Spee ety. eee speeea tt he 41 42 48 41 40—207 
” Beginners’ Match, 
CL Foster... ee pid bores we corbevient es 41 41 41 48 43—200 
PAPE EL Aa" era. cial gue we te hee 4.5 5 42 40 40 41 41—204 


BOSTON, April 19.—The cold, raw wind prevented a large attend- 
ance at Walnut Hill to-day. and those who did attend were prevented 
by this same reason from making large scores. Following are the 
scores, all at 200yds. + ' 

Creedmoor Practice Match.—J. A. Frye 46, C. B. Edwards 45, H. 
Cushing 45,M. R. Jafray 45, A. L. Brackett 43, FP. Stetson 42, W. J. 
Meadows 42, F, C. Shepard (mil. 41, W. H. Oler 41, B, A. Lappen 41, 
J. Paysen (mil.) 40, M. J. White 40, W. J. Look 39, A. Darling 38. : 
. Creedmoor Prize Match.—J. P. Bates 45, re-entry 44, J. A. Cobb 42, 
re-entry 42. B. A, Lappen 41. ; 

Decimal Match.—W. Charles (C.) 86, J.A. oh (A.) 78, A. C, Adams 

G.) 7%, re-entry 75, M. J. White (A.) 72, B. A. Lappen (A.) 72, W. J. 
ook (C,) 70. : 

BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB.—April 10, 12-ring target, possible 120: 
M, Dorrler 119, A. Lober 119, C. Rein 115, G, Zimmermann 114, J Hs 
Goancel ili, S, Mehrbach 107, B. Walters 101, 5. F. C. Weber 95, Lou- 
itzki 89, 


PRIMROSE SOCIAL CLUB.—Series of matches at club range, 
Fourth and Market streets, Camder, N. J. Airgun, i0lbs., 465ft. 
range: 


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Wm. Stein, Jr..... 83 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 11 ;167 | 185-9 
Louis EF. Stein,....) 81 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 15 |154 | 171-9 
Ghas. H. Stein.....| 80 | 18 | 15 | 19) .. | 13] (8 | 14 | 9 (185 | 16% 
AY Weber........ aioli oe eee ene .- | J3 | .. | 18 | 65 | 1644 
A, WS Wes sian. 29.) 22)... | 39) 6 | 12] 45 | 12 | 15 1108 | 153-7 
BH. Austarmuhl,...| 21 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 15 (141 | 151% 
LEAT ELEC oe ee 19 Sule elo 14 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 11 /122 | 1514 
He, Wiebe. 28: 2 .. | 18 | 14} 14] 138 |) 17) .. | 12 |206 | 151-7 
LEAP TO AS oho) 5 eed el G7) 216) SE es pate) Se Ge] a2 7 | 87 | 1446 
WoBOpIa CII .22 425 24118 | il 1}... |12)] .. | 18 | 13 | 97 | 186-7 
§. Martin...-.. asa) 26 | 19 6 | 15 7 |. | 12 7 | 14 |106 | 1314 
Deiss WACUNNEs ¥+.5) 28} 11/16); 8 EE |p aud 6 | 14 § |117 | 18 
IPEOo pm ti oii. s3 o4 | 12 | 18) 15 | 12 |} 14] 7] 6! 13/116 | 128-9 
W. Fahrion.,...... UP lea tit || ER isa oe dB IBS Cee SEG 
MW UCIT es die | eel ee | ae PAT Isl | MB Wee ete 
H. Blackwell...... ae POT F159) Me |p ae |S |. RR 1 
WT AVVAING es 22] 8} .. 8 3/ 7} 13 | 19} 80.) 1138-" 
J. Grossman,...... ah We mee 4547 0 Se .. | 21 | 10: 
5) hel 3 ee ee |p| id) 2) 14] 8 | 12 | 10 | 10 7 | 96 | 103 
Dr. C, Hoell AF e| eee .. | 1| 48] 17) 81 | 101% 
C. Preusch........ 21 le ee oe 2} .. | 11 } 41 | 10% 
G. Seybold .........! 10 ls | eee, .. |20 | 10 
J. Hussong........ :. 4) 2) @)48)18-)'38 | 9 | 12 | 69 | 96-7 
J. Kelly . A F sete y 5 Melee | ae Pio) 9 
OMoellile) he. a3 || AX $1) ..] 6} 10) 25) 8 
W. Thompson..... Sel] ue! 6 be peel MAS) °Y, 
J. Welden. ....... wn Shy <5) 3 4 : 73 M6 
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WHEELING, W. Va., April 5,—The attendance at the 200yd. range 
to-day (on the appearance of W. Milton Farrow) was small. The 
elub has not yet recovered from the effects of the flood. A perma- 
nent target, with butts for the marker, will soon be in position, when 
the scoring will be arranged for the Massachusetts target by the 
favorite watch-dial plan. At present the scoring is very primitive; 
the marker takes a 7xdin, slate and a piece of chalk, and after the 
shot is pasted up makes his figures on the slate, which is then held 
up to be read through a telescope at the firing point, Occasional 
mistakes are made by'the shooters in deciphering the figures, but 

enerally in ihe right direction; a check on such mistakes, however, 
Is made by keeping the previons shot on the other side of the slate. 
Thirty shots each were fired, which are divided into strings of 15 shots 
fer convenience. A combination target was used, but the score,-to be 
intelligible to your readers, must be by Massachusetts or Creedmoor 
count, the former is appended. Mr. Farrow used a Bullard, Mr, 
Jaeger a Ballard and Mr. Cox a Sharps rifle: 


Farrow §10 912 9 11 10 10 11 11 12 12 10 10 11 12—158 
ae te 110 10 11 12 12 8 11 10 11 11 12 11 10 10 11—160—318 

Jaeger ‘3 ie 12 81210 8101112 8 91012 9 9—152 
AE Daa 111010 11 10 911 9 8 10 12 10 10 10 12—158—305 

Cox 10 10 1011 10 9101210 910 9 OU 12 12—144 
ie ee A a 1011 8 1011121112 9 11 12 11 10 10 10—158—392 


The elub entertained the champion at a banquet in the evening, 
where all the talk was on rifies and bullets, ‘ 

GARDNER, Mass., April 19.—At the Hackmatack Range yesterday 
the Gardner Rifle Club shot a match avith the Brattleborough Club, 
exchanging shots by telegraph. Twoscores to each on a Massachu- 
setts target with a possible 120. The result was as follows: 


‘ Gardner. Brattleborough. 
GF Bllsworth..... 109 103—218 Cobb....... .. 108 106—214 
IN Dodge.......... 110 §©106—216 Howe.......... ..102 109—211 
GC Goodale........104  108—212 Nichols.... ........ 105 103—208 
A Mathews ........ 106 108—209 Wood.............. 103 100—203 
§ B Hildreth ...... 99 109—207 Smith........... .. 105 98—203 
CASHinds eee, 105 100—205 Reed............... 100 101—201 
HO Knowlton... . 99 101—200 Knight.............. 97 98—195 
F H Knowlton. «..., 97 102—199 Taft...........0.0.. 102 §4—106 
W C Loveland....,. 86 97—188 Nichols............. 101 72-198 
JESS) 1 We AA er 92 98—190 
2047 — 
2014 


NEW YORK GALLERY SHOTS.—The All-Comers Match at the 
Grand Central Rifle Range, No.5 Vanderbilt avenue, still conrinues 
to excite increased interest as it approaches itsend. It has shown 

' gonelusively by its success that the interest in gallery practice has 
not altogether died out, and that it needs only the proper stimulus to 
develop an old time enthusiasm. There have been few changes in 
the scores of this week. The following are the best: J. H. Brown for 
record 333, P.G. Fanning 338, H, Oehl 325,G@. Zimmerman 3:2, M. 
Dorrler 319, L. Bird 319, W. M. Farrow 317, J. Coppersmith 317, C. E. 
Keater 314, G. I. Seabury 318. W. Simpson 310, H. I. Howlett 308, H. 

. Yon Der Linder 307, Dr. Toal 396, W. Klein 303, C. Rein 300. 


CUYAHOGA RIFLE CLUB.—At the annual meeting, held at Cleve- 
land, O,, April 14, officers were chosen for the year: W. K. Hunting- 
ton, President; W.J. Akers, Vice-President; }'. D, Bosworth, Secre- 
tary; P. F. Spenzer, Treasurer. The president appointed Messrs. 
Sobey, Luehrs and Brunner as Trustees. 


_ DOVER, N. H.—On April 19 Geo. H. Wentworth, of Dover, N. H., 
while practicing at 200yds., off-hand, made a clean score of 50 points. 
Out of 15 shots fired, 14 were in the bullseye. 


THE TRAP. 


THE DUFFER CLUB. 


; Yee correspondent has found the champion club of the country, 
and without malice will set down their doings of one day. Henry 
Bush isthe secretary of the Sippo Gun Club, and with him I went to 
the shooting ground. - ‘ 
On the way, Hen. Bush explained to me that this was to be a match 
for the chaarpionship of the club, and they were to shoot from 
a rotating trap with a screen, their first venture at that sort of shoot- 


ing. ; 
Hen. furthermore stated that the 8. G. O. had some thoughts of 
_ going to Chicago to partivipate in the clay-pigeon tournament at that 
place next May. ri Pe P- 
After setting the trap and adjusting the screen I-held four small 
twigs in my band to let the Pippo Club draw and determine the 
order of sHootns: Hen. Bush hel 
diately grasped his 
the treasurer of the club, managed the strings,and Iwas to kee 
tally. “The secretary yelled ‘Pull,’ and threw his gun to bis Bini 


the shortest twig, and he imme- 


der as Hank gave a terrible k on thesame string that he had 

eee volving t ran ‘On seaing aia yu Rte ence r 

act cbatuied and looked avound ar Hen, way, bub that 

wortby neyer budged, but just kept his gun up eye along the 
} 


i 


gun and walked upto themark. Hank Greene, | 


sights. Allat once Hank gave the other and right string a yank, and 
that ball came up over thatscreen like a streak of lightning and 
struck the secretary in the paunch with a dull thud. Hen. groan 
but immediately arose, and while rubbing his stomach managed Lo 
claim a foul as he did not see the ball, but he was politely informed 
that he had scored a miss, and so I tallied it. 

Much disconfited Hen, retired and Hank Green next faced the 
trap, and when the ball flew up in the air, he shut both eyes and 
pulled the trigger, the ball falling to the ground all safe. When told 
of this the treasurer appeared dazed and remarked, “Gosh, I_ had a 
fine bead on her, but then I always told yeu that this gun was N. G,” 

Rad Skinner, the president, next toed the seratch and gota beauti- 
ful straight away shot, and after following up and half way down, 
he surprised us all and himself the most so by breaking the ball. 
Skinner stepped back with a smile hovering away around behind his 
ears, not doubting that he already had won the badge, 2 

Tot. Bush, Hen.’s brother, and vice-president? of the club, stood up 
to take bis shot, and as le raised his gun a beautiful little drop came 
in toward him. and when it was almost in the gun, he pulled the trig- 
fer and the ball disappeared, On seeing this Skinner’s jaw fell and 
he swore that the ball broke on the gun barrel. , , 

When Hen. stood up for his second ball, he again raised his gun, and 
as hesaw no ballin the air, he just pulled the trigger and jumped 
sideways. F 

But this last movement was unnecessary, as the ball, which was 
going the way of Hen.’s first one, was smashed into a thousasd pieces, 
and in reply to the laughter which greeted his movement, Hen. re- 
marked: ‘Lt had her down fine, and only stepped aside to see the 
pieces fly.” AAG 

Hank walked up to the mark with blood in hiseye and yelled *‘pull’”’ 
in a Joud tone, and on seeing the ball fly away to the right, he repeated 
his former movements as regards his eyes, and pulled the trigger. A 
thundering report was heard, and Hank, after several back somer- 
gaults, took a seaton a stump, while his gun writhed in agony on the 
ground. The poor fellow had pulled two triggers instead of one, but 
nevertheless he broke his ball, : 

When the president stood up for his second ball, he saw one go off 
to the left, and after it had rolled on the ground he sent a load of No. 
10s flying after it, but it was too late and he was scored a cipher. 

So the fun continued until the fourth round had passed, with all the 
members tied on one out of four. : 

Hen. appeared nervous when he faced the trap forhis fifth ball, and 
when it sailed away from him, he banged away at it in a reciless 
manner and was consequently scored a miss. : 

Hank got his first incomer for his fifth shot, and it so confused him 
to see the ball shooting toward him” that he dodged, but it was too 
late, and the ball smacked him on the cranium, and thenI suppose 
cracked itself laughing at Hank’s terrible grimace, for it fell to the 
ground in pieces. Hank retired and joined Hen., both looking down- 
east. 

When Skinner’s turn came he took extra precautions to win the 
medal, and just as he was about to ponr in the shot into his gun he 
called out, ‘Ain’t that a rabbit over there to the left,”’ and as all eyes 
looked for the rabbit Rad. just let an extra charge of shot slip into 
the one barrel. : ‘ fl 
- This load might win him the championship, and he was going to 
tun norisks. No rabbit being in sight, the match was proceeded 
with, and the president stepped up to the scratch fullof hope and 
success. He got a nice one to the left, and covered it in a very cool 
manner and pulled the trigger. The president’s eyes and mouth opened 
when he was informed that the ball was safe, but when he lowered 
his gun his hair stood on end, for about 3 ounces of No. 10s rattled 
out of his gun’s undischarged barrel, and piled upon the ground a 
terrible proof of the president’s duplicity, 

On seeing the rest of the club’s eyes and mouths open, Rad. re- 
marked, ‘*Darnéd it I didn’t forget to put a wad on that other load,” 
and this seemed to satisfy the remainder of the ‘8. G. C.”’ 

Tot Bush now had only to hit his ball to win the medal, and he did 
it in grand style I must say, and to show us what he could do he 
emptied his other barrel at a large piece of the same ball, but as it 
was pretty close to the ground, and as the basket containing the safe 
balls was in range the entire load struck it, demolishing balls, basket 
and all. Nevertheless the vice-president dangles the championship 
medal on his manly breast, while Hen. curses the trap, Hank his gun 


and Rad. his luck. Following is the score in full: 

ETE FIMESUIR tics erate ates elcts ate renee bee tee ha ah cl earache] alors auateate ees 0100 0-1 
TROUT RRA h be CRs a etme tee tree atee tibet otto FEES IRIE fa 1000 01 
PE Gree ay a mcnletetlses sp oeeao tise eee eet rieyete gone 0100 041 
ats) eee bgeh Sa, on encase: Se Ed Lee UNE sasirs J 100 0 1-2 


T was asked by Hen. what I thought their chances would be at 
Chieago, and I told him they would be “‘good;” but I added, ‘‘for the 
tail end,” to myself. If they goI will promise the readers that they 
will again hear from SIPPO. 

MassruLon, Ohio. 


GUN QUERIES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I will be thankful if some of your readers who haye practical 
knowledge of the subject, will give their views upon the following 
questions: d 

Will a 16 or 20-bore, with its proper eharge, kill as far as a larger 
bore gun, both being bored in the same manner? Of course, the 
chances of peng are less with small bores than with larger, because 
the air is not so full of shot, but provided the game is hit, will the 
killing power or penetration be as great at the same distance? 

The second question is, Why are the small-bore barrels made 
shorter than the larger bores? The 16-bores as a rule are 26 inches, 
the 12-bore 80, and the 10-bores 30 to 832 inches, If a 16-bore 28-inch 
barrel will burn all the powder and give all the force, why will not 
the same length of barrel do the same with the larger bore? Of 
course, more powder is used in the larger bore, but there is also more 
space in the barrel for it to consumie, 

Third—Is there any advantage in having long barrels? 

Fourth—Which is the most desirable in a 16 or 20-bore; to have one 
barrel cylinder and the other choked, or both choked, either full or 
modified? J. BE. W, 

VirGInta City, Nev. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT. 


ELLINGTON, Mass., April 16.—Below find results of the above 
shoot. A fine day made the meet one of the most successful 
held, the best shooters of the surrounding clubs being present in 
fullstrength. Between 3,000 and 4,000 birds were required to feed 
the voracious traps. The next two days’ shoot, April 30and May 1, 
will CRU be a great day, particularly should weather conditions 
assist: 
First shoot, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise: 
MY CORSA Ties .1100011—4 GC Reed..... 


GA Sampson...... .0110111—5 CH Gerrish. 1111100—5 
CH DeRochmont . .1111001—5 -~W 5S Perry 1110111—6 
BRP Sehbaetere...... 5... - 1101100—4 A Houghton 1101010—4 
ABW AEN Th ns owe ore 1001110—4 JClark...... 1011111—6 
WWERAP OD Ait eerer ee 0011010—3 W J Braley.. 0100101—3 
BYTES MBH ys oss) stots 0011010—3 D Kirkwood............. 0111011—5 
OP Stark. 2 ...2 2 1110001—4 LE Johnson....... .... 1110111—6 


Winners—Reed first, Clark and Johnson second, Kirkwood and De- 
Rochmont third, Eager and Houghton fourth. 


Second shoot, 3 pair doubles, liyds. rise: a 

Sith) ae Speyer: bass A (etien Olde Cinnio Selene bee toes 11 10 00-8 
Parkers ots Bieta 108 002 O01 Wraleyaen ces ete te .01 10 00—2 
SIND we Sees Pee 00 10—1 DeRochmont......... 11 10 10—4 
Gerrish. NT ee OOP 10° 11—8 Magers... ek. 10 11 11-5 
INGE Rep bknant OBE sy 10 00 10-2 C¥Steele............ 10 00 11-8 
PRIVY tee Wadena 11 10 11—5 Houghton............ J1 11 11-6 
Sampsprieey. ce peau 10 11 10-4 EC etn rate C8 11 10 00-3 
Schaefer............. 01 01 10-8 Kirkwood............ 10 11-3 


00 
Winners—Hoyghton first, Perry second, Stark and Sampson thi 
and Kirkwood fourth. ci ; Psep kite 
Third shoot, 7 single, 18yds. rise: rt 


Gerrish........ Pe ee O111101—5 Steele..........,........ 0100000—1 
Sam PROM. Weer... ee oe oe 110011I—5 Braley ..,............08 0010001—2 
Kirkwood, 22. .07iw seme 1110110—5 Parker...2.... 0... ..s50 1111011—6 
“De Rochmoent........... OLONOOO—— aes Remirye oe eee steer ene © 1111010—6 
DUALS ot aeen dan tes oe 0110100-8 JS Snow............... 1000100—2 
MAS OA ndende nade eet k tme 1111011 —6, “A T Decker............: 1101111—6 
Clark.) ois. rosters 100511i—4 A F Cooper........-.... 1111110—6 
J RRB etc eee 6 1010100—3 J W Getchell........... J111110—6 
1g a esog tartare 5. O1111—6 EW Law............... 1110111—6 
Schaefer. 229.55 yee O1111i—6 ~-L BE Johnson.....,....,.1111101—6 
Houghton.....-.......... 111000I—4  _H White............ .. 1111101—6 
SUTIbIT kis ool cae eee ae ee 01111116 


Winners—Decker and Law first, Gerrish second, Clark and Hough- 
ton third, Stark and Field fourth. : 
peatip shoot, 3 Bang aL lbyds. rise: 


Vady Flo Th in 1i—3 Houghton... .. Bese 01 11 11-5 
BtArk. 1th ee wats 11 10 10—4 Schaefer............ 01 11 11-5 
WaSer. wn. chance sens TP Be aw... so. cee e 11 10 10—4 
POETY.ssidasatce dace 00 11 Wi—4 Decker............... 01 10 10-3 
DeRochmont.... ....00 10 11-3 Cooper............... 1 i 15 
at hs ds gare eet be) -01 10 01-3 HC Warren......... 60 01—1 
ampson. . Sg eig dG Si Th 2 Sh (a Pia PRR Re 00 O1=1 
Parker... Sousa ih 10— W Tiuker.........- 10 it Owed 

wood....,..-.-...41 10° 0 ‘1b 2 hm Wid, 4) bi e544-4 1 10 11=4 
now.. Soest LOP OOP tet 


Winners—Eager and Schaefer first, Stark and Parker second, Ger- 
vish, Snow and Kirkwood third, Warren and Field fourth. 
Fifth shoot, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise: 


Gerrishten cfievtsciscess WWW —T POINT... i cece ce ec cee nee 1111111—7 
vi ae rete epee ieee TOTO —4 " Ware tte rete rages 0111111—6 
Schpeler Go... esc nee de. O10tTI—5) “Smiths ses sep ess oe 1110111—6 
DeRochmont............ 1111111—7 GF Cutting............ 111100i—5 
ROG Powe toes bhos cond ese 0001110—8 Stark....... Serery pee 1101111—6 
PALECIG pew hehneik cole 0011010—3 Houghton........... «. 1111001—5 
Titik Gta.) et betes ube. J1TTOOI=— 65> SHOW ae e rien yes ree 1111010—5 
W D Gilman............. 11011015 Wield ................4... 01117700—4 
WiGERCLO ate Liew none y.. 01100114 Williams,.......... ..... 1010001—3 
DEGCKebes i. yaetnas334443 1110011—5 WF Chester......,........ 0010101—3 
MOOPEM oe. 4 oes ee eee ae 1101111—6 Kirkwood.,.............. 110)111—6 
WAI. 2 tae a OLOTOII—4  “Bralbyin.. coe, ees hase oee 1110101—5 
apes ...0111711—6 J Nichols..............- 4110101—4 
Glatkacw bs. eee ete oF 1111111—7 CB Holden.... .. es, 10111710—5 


Winners—Perry and Gerrish first. ie oe Stark and Kirkwood 
second, Decker, Snow and Holden third, Nichols fourth, 
Sixth sweep, 5 single ares ae 5 traps, 1Syds, rise: 
11001— 


GBITishwie =. 2.0005 Sven nano Tr’ 8895 25 be Bo view 01111—4. 
DeRochmont.............. WU Sse Pees coves soeeaets 00101—2 
Winker s/s sf rar nts etd 00000D—0 Decker........... 2 abuse 00011—2 
Netitdiccir, Be Om ds eee py rt Pe PATO SP Orry:, nick heb bia ds bnet coe 11111—5 
SMa SAAS ST eee 11010—3 Sampson............. ...11000—2 
GTM Bn eye eee OOLNI—2 “Coopers... tucs oa ste eie sad 11100—3 
Sriowye Oey Pores SP Pes OO Reeder oes 11010—3 
Schaefer: ... 26.22 cesses ess 00110—2 Cutting. ........-....2:4% 00000—0 
PERT TOU eet ora ay a eer LOI —4. Warren scrreet bese teteat 10100—2 
Cran S tea” sie Si dari biel Bs 3 oy OL1tI—4 “Hieldss .. c..ceyseseetectets 11001—3 
WI AIMED Ss eRe da cys a: 10000= 1, Braleyicatteerrtaliree 00110—2 
1 a eee 11001—3> Steele... wees sss sdeende 10001—2 
Tors; ess suse. tasoy hy Q1000—=1" "Whites bivgsttsa rer ener? 01111—4 


Perry first, Houghton and Hager second, Law and DeRochmont 
third, Smith and Braley fourth. 
Seventh shoot, 3-man team, badge match: 
Massachusetts Rifle Association, First Team. 


Doubles. Single Trap. 

10 il il 1111111111—19 

11 i1 01 1111011110—17 
10 O1 11 1111110111—17—53 

an’s Club, First Team. 

0 0 01 11 10 1011110111—15 

1 1 ites Tt 011111110118 
Perry 1011 01 10 il 1111100111—16—49 

Exeter Sportsman’s Club. 

Gerriphi.a suas e oii 11110 li 11 10 1100101011—15 

Stare ek pe ceca 01101 deh Sbieais’ 1000111111—16 
GOP ETE chy uasen nate 11100 10 11 O1 0111001011—13—44 


Four teams additional shot, ranging from 44 to 35. Winners thus: 
Massachusetts Rifle Association first, Worcester second, Exeter team 
third. 

Eighth shoot, 7 single birds, 18yds, rise: ; 

DeRochmont...... ... .. 11111117 


UROL, ss we dois ecto i]s [eH 0111111—6 

Garrishias. (Aedes AIAG D ey Da ye Se ee ees 1111110—6 
ANTUNES oot Uy wee eee eee 0031101—4. Smith...,.....5..00...05 0111110—5 
TAMRGE Sie te tee eine Mes nd 10011J1—5 Schaefer.......,........ 1001111—5 
OU FR to REE ned eae cee 1100111—5 "Cutting, ................. 0011110—4 
IEDAyS ble EEUU Eto Rue i TPLOL Te SNOW, 2s +2 Me lees + Petes eta 1110111—6 
Sag sOW se ce oe ae 8 ee oe 1101110—5 Houghton............... 0110110—4 
MA ee a Fee 1100101— 4 Decker ............5.-244 1111111—7 
White 3 fase eoasasesthess4 TOTMIO—5 » Wield. ete 4 0011001—3 
Btamlsso ie an ete 1101171—6 Parker.:.............4.: 0010100—2 
Cooperiie. 225 ose ines. 1001116—4 Nichols .........3..0..4. 0010000—1 
TG pee TES eS a 0010100—2 Holden.................. 1010000— 2 


Winners—Gerrish, Decker and DeRochmont first, Eager second, 
Sampson and White third, Cooper and Houghton fourth, 


Ninth shot, 5 single birds, i$yds, rise: 

Kinkiwiodin: ponysisetiesetbe ces WO1JI—4 White... 12. nce. nee eeae oe 1i11—5 
Gerrishia vette eaten. 100102" (Slain): Pests cece rscic ss 10111—4 
RW EE CEDRISS 2 Stes Fs tects 00111—38 DeRochmont............. 11111—5 
SUSIT ISAT Se Tiere na ccsraver as ira HUTS) “IEG Gb eel asel ole |atetel = eae ott 01101—8 
SEM Diba y cathe aes 8b irnh-> wey ec N11 Bie SOW Bae sl wo tlw ote notes Here 01011—2 
PEER OT accent aon teiet tee elele alone ddI — ie “SGhaefer Alin) eee 11011—4 
SSUCRIGR ay qos Sodas eraienets WOM—4 Braley .2.8 ek one 00110—2 
PON Yira re yn t 4 51s 8 sels ares 01011—3 Cooper.............6,..65- 11111—5 
ROG iateatepe ee att ten stele Liles 11011—4  Warren...,.......-2..... -11111—5 
SAMPSON Ng ees temieseansuee IOV — 45 Oat ieee Pay, See ies eae es 11111—5 
iSjaindl ey BMGen Gel ees eee ey ee PEI SATS Ses So eee 11111—5 
HAS ET ey ener e cals Ase e nealee OUT I—4, Law fons nc svssepeeseets eves 11001—3 
TENTS 3 3: eRe eto at G9 -01111—4 

Hold ena 1424 heseen ....11016—8 


liyds. rise: 
Bq 


Pernyave.s SPAR wes dP 10} Db eno Wess een Fe Fe! 01 01 00—2 

DeRochmont...-....- IT TL 20S SS Bager: 3325 .ck oe: 11 11 01-6 
Ii 11—5 Sampson............. 10 11 Oi—4 
01 10-4 § Ji 11-5 
jl 01—4 li 01-3 ~ 
0) 10—2 GO 11-4 
11 01—38 li 01—4 
01 10—3 10 00—3 
01 11—4 10 00—3 

01 O01 10—8 
Winners—DeRochmont first, 


Prentiss second, Decker and White 
third, Reed and Snow fourth. x 
Eleventh shoot, 5 single birds from five traps, 18yds. rise: 


IDECEBER peck ork hn athe ess 11111—5- “Williams... ............... 01000—i 
Sampson ..........-...-..5 TA — 4, VW Gliese o rheyitiesy cies 1.110-3 
IOUS HTOMS Sa eacddadesces TELO0—a ‘Cogper: SOF al. 82. Sess 10110—3 
Stackie5 Vis Mee we 8s sees 11011—4_ DeRochmont ............. 10111—4 
abd ay (ort aah ea AMO—L » Reed. ence h See 101L0—2 
PAK CE Mt Aer vente Soviet LOGOO—4.. Thaw: 22 25. DoS 11010—8 
PULBEIO eke la telt alee lie itine 10000—t Gerrish .................. 11011—4 
LON Te eV enn oe 9 on, ee! 00010—1 J Lawson................, 00010—1 
SHO We tte elie tees eeeead OOO —1 = Snnithe! eyo Na es, 11101—4 
Teg AES ULLES Wr ceercbel arn caevicieletieceeen OONLOSV Oaths wows Sere oeae: 01101—a 
EGET a ciel s ne eiemeciele, 00111—3 Nichols ................,., 10111- 4 
lark iin Beis tenet. gh DGC sp Uitte SAR RAGA na ne .11011—4 
Wiel Ce “fy as 2 MADR Le 01011—8 Prentice.....2..,.,.....4. 00010—1 


Magers Ms eb see 1 —5 Warren... o1 01—2 
HaTnken sess: scene. OL O01 11—4 Bailey.... 00 11—3 
LEG ha a tot re Ja” TO 11 —p Deekery ie so Bee 11 00-3 
DeRochmont........ It 10 10—4 Stark... 11 11—t 
UTE We PARE egies arte meals li O01 O1—4 Cooper............... OL 10 11—4 
RTENTISSO) os pa eae meee 11 10° 10—4 WField....70..20...220 10 41 10—4 
Snow..... eer ach ees 00 11 O01—3 Nichols.... -......... 11 O01 O-8 
GeDnighe oceete.. wc tach 10 10 11—4 White................ li 11 10—5 


Stark first, Perry second, DeRochmont, Law and Prentiss third, 
Snow fourth. # 
Thirteenth shoot, 7 single birds, 18yds. rise: 


IRGRRY ct Gath het ameter an 1101100—4 White... ..........s5..., 1100001—3 
HAREl ie asjace reas [eee as O011111—b5» etield ot. ectiiesk week 4 1010000—2 
Biarilenea aes Shes ae TIGHAO-~b FReedises | Rees oge ces 1001600—2 
DeRochmont...........- PST ie Clare itil jotetm ow sa taee dee 1001111—5 
COONCI waren ne tnins are 1131111—7  Houghton............. ..1113111—-7 
SAMPSON. eos... e oe oe APTI IN WWATVOMN ss besa a cfaincio sil: on 0001100—1 
KAP WoGd ras sere anes 1111001—5 _ Decker................2. 110,111—6 
1 er AST lids A oto bene oe COE THO rie EAEWWe he ehc)aihle a slat "arepne eines 1011111—6 
GOTTISU eae: apnea o101111—5 


Winnners—DeRochmont, Cooper, Sampson and Houghton first, 
Decker and Law second, Stark and Clark third, Perry fourth. 
Fourteenth shoot, 5 single birds, 18yds. rise: 


GED Sy CHOON eacscelovarsion ss oes 00110—2 Cooper.......... 
Decker MCLG Ja, U5. aerate ete ee 
UP ete Pah p-cHAdabeerHdet ob IPADKGY 2,2 ¥. 00 et, vay ee cas 01010— 2 
Cuttin RES. hse eos ee dee area 
DeRochmont laps): Li ity eee 
NOW ages ates lem sris tes te eA NighOlsw iy iis. ea 
Stark....... Steele. js .4). 0. anes 
Eager Paap eee 

Decker and Steele first, Clark and Hager second, Parker third, 
Nichels fourth. - 


NEWTON, Mass,, April 10.—Glass ball and clay-bird shoot. The 
Newton Rifle Association and Newton Center Gun Club enjoyed 
friendly matches,.which resulted in victory for the Newtons in both, 
The scores follow: __ ; 

Newton Rifle Association Team. 


Clay-Pigeons. - Glass Balls, 
Pratt. sevtteweectiaesecia a! 0111101110—7 1111111111—10 
Edmunds beret rte Fe pane ol 1010111111—8 1101111111— 9 
SAT yy Se ee 1111001000—4 -11111101i0— § 
COG Soh ence Teen ayers 0111100600—4 0111111100— 7 

AUG rein rte tsp reega es vue 1118011111— 8—32 1011110111— 8—42 
Newton Center Club Team, 

f Clay-Pigeons, Glass Balls, 
BROOK AS. Hi ees 2 eee etc set 111011f011—8 1110001111—7 
PISIGGEER LEEOL facie jel tata tones 1100001100—5 1010111011—7 
MUM OTC rete aie bas gG oe gga s 0000011001—3 11111100118 
1111110101 —8 


RUBCUB Sutra ci, ane oe vals = rf, ret 
TUN IES. Costes pttee ensg ca an Fos Tit —1—21 1111101001—7—37 
tis hoped @ retairn match vill be shot soon.—T. A, 


254 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Arr 24, 1884. 


_PROVIBENCH, R, I., April 3.—At the regular weekly shoot of the 
Narragansett Gun Club, for the State Badge, the following scores 
Were made out of a possible 25: W. H. Sheldon 22, EB. W. Tinker 22, 
EK. §. Luther 20, E. H. Roberts 20, C. B. Potter 18, H, D. Mathewsen 
18, G. W. Cary 18, HL. Palmer 18, L, M. Eddy 16. F. O. Wehoskey 16. 
C, F. Baldwin 15, FP. E. Tingley 138, C.M. Sheldon 18, C.-C. Gray 12, G 
F. Butts 12, Tie between Tinker and Sheldon: Tinker 5, Sheldon 5, 
Second tie: Tinker 4, Sheldon 4. Third tie: Tinker1,Sheldon 2. W, 
H. Sheldon wins badge second time, ; 

Regular shoot of Narragansett Gun Club for state badge, 25 clay- 
pigeons, léyds., Straps: G. F. Butts 23, W. H. Sheldon 20, W.L, Pal- 
mer 20, E W. Tinker 19, E. H. Roberts 18, C.C. Gray 14, E. 8S. Luther 
22, F, E Tingley 22,0. B. Potter 20, H. D. Mathewson 18, G,. W. Cary 
19. G. I, Butts wins badge first time, Sweepstakes same day: Virst 
sweep, W. H. Sheldon first, Luther and Roberts second, E. W. Tinker 
third and L. M. Eddy fourth. Second sweep, E. W. Tinker first, 
Palmer second, W. H. Sheldon third and Luther and Roberts fourth. 
—W. H. SHELDON. 


WALLINGFORD, Conn., April $,—Match for State club medal, 
teams of four men, 25 clay-pigeons each, or 100 each team: New 
Haven (No. 1), (9; New Haven (No. 2), 55; Wallingford, 66; Meriden, 
65; Bridgeport, 60; Milford, 52. Match for individual medal, 50 clay- 

izeons each: Goodrich (of Wallingford) 41, Folsom 39, Baker 39, 
Eensdon 88, Nichols 35, Brogden 35, Ives 34. Spencer 33, Fowler 27, 
Talbot 27. Gurd 24, Tousey, Armstrong and Smith withdrew. Next 
shoot for State medal, New Haven, second Wednesday in May. 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY.—Ithaca, N. Y., April 15.—The Cornell 
University Gun Club is now in a flourishing condition. It was organ- 
ized in the fall of 1883, and has now about twenty members, of whom 
several are very good shots. Tne grounds of the club are located on 
the lake shore, and we shoot over the water. Ata meeting heid April 
10 the following officers were elected; President, I’. G. Scofield, *84; 
Vice-President, H, C. Taylor. '86; Secretary and Treasurer, A. C. 
Cogswell, *87. At the regular shoot on Saturday following, the gold 
medal was wou by A. 8, White, 13 out of 14. We have a strong trap, 
with frequently a heavy breeze, but as yet the medal has never been 
won by a smaller score than 12 out of 15, The gun is becoming popu- 
lar in other colleges now, and it would be pleasant to have a few in. 
terecllegiate contests.—A. C, C, 


WELLINGTON, Mass., April 19.—About fifty shooters gathered at 
the Malden Gun Club’s grounds this afternoon, and participated in 
the yarious events of the day, with the following results: 

Cup mateh—Adams 7, Goodnow 7, Sawyer 6, Wemy.-3 5, Buffum 4, 
Hopkins 4. 

First eyent, five birds—Scott first, Brown second. 

Second event, five birds—Brown and Hopkins divided first, Scott 
and Steele divided second. 

Third event, five birds—Pratt first, Chambers and Goodnow divided 
Seat a Sawyer and &teele divided third, Sanborn and Browndivided 
fourth. 

Fourth event, five birds—Goodnow first, Hopkins second, Pratt and 
Adams divided third, Saunders and Seott divided fourth, 

Fifth event, five birds—Chambers first, Pratt second, Sawyer and 
Goodnow divided third, Saunders and Harrold diyided fourth. 

Sixth event—Saunders first, Chambers second, Goodnow and 
Brown divided third. ; 

Seventh event, five birds—Brown first, Hopkins second, Scott third. 

pene event, five birds—Goodnow first, Sawyer second, Hopkins 
third. . 

Ninth event, five balls—Sawyer and Hopkins divided first, Hunter 
and Brown divided second, Pratt and Adams divided third. 

Tenth event, five birds—Adams first, Brown and Goodnow divided 
second, Saunders third. 
aa event, five birds—Saunders first, Hopkins second, Browm 

ird, 

Twelfth event, five birds—Sawyer first, Hopkins and Brownsecond, 
Hunter third. 


SOBTHBRIDGH, Mass., April16—The Southbridge Rod and Gon 
ca haye recently held their annual shoot, with the following re- 
sults: 


Balls. 
0111111110—8' 
1110001111—7 
1011011111—38 


Pigeons. 
1111100111—8 
11101110118 
1111010110—7 


IBRTABONO a eec seat och Ree tar eat on 1101011010—6 1111100111—8 
GURL Taisen Ss) ons 9. tte! te brag 0010110111—6 1100111101—7 
TAN Ree ee A one 1011110111—8 1010010011—5 
PION #e-2! eee dee sae ah. Boe sae eats 1110101000—5 00111011 11—7 
{fe ere Mespongas) 0111010011—6 1110110001—6 


Maren GOMy ee a. arnt +k cee Ae Ste 1010110011—6 1011000110—a 
BrOWUe, tce- sabe esdcdn tp s2 eee asta oe eOLEDOOD IT — 6 0100110104 
Mettaliors, Siege iis atsce esss2s place 0000011101—4 0011001101—5 
The following is the result of the shooting to settle ties: 
BEES 10) Yo | EP a ei ey a -..11100—8 0 1—1 
Marble.-...<-- a= aecisa ss Pe en Press ths 0110 1—38 1 1—2 
IRCOWSIOE S gars ass Pere trie Stes beeen tire Fae 00011-2 1 
Metcalf.... 0:24 :::..t1 5. ee rs 1010 0-2 0 


Sweepstakes: First, 7 bails. Marble first, Howe second, Metealf 
third, Phillips fourth. fecond, 7 pigeons; Pocci first, Phillips and Ellis 
divide second, Brown third, Howe fourth, Third, 5 balls: Harring- 
ton first. Philips and Bradford secoud, Howe third, Pocci fourth. 
Fourth, 2-men team, 5 balls per man; Howe and Harrington first, 
Williams and Phillips second. ’ 


WEBSTER, Mass., April 18.—The officers of the Rod and Gun Olub 
for the ensuing year are: President, Henry J. Bates; Vice-President 
and Secretary, Alexander Graham; Treasurer, John F. Hinds. The 
elub liave a shoot on Memoria] Day, arrangements to be completed 
next week. 

CLAY-PIGEON PATENTS.—We have received from a Tennessee 
correspondent a conimunication in reference to the clay-pigeon pat- 
ents. The writer assumes that the original patent does not cover 
the manufacture of the pigeon, as it isnow made, and gives it as his 
opinion that an imitation of the device would not be held by the 
courts to be aninfringement, We judge that the writer's examina- 
lion of the Ligoweky patents has been incomplete; and a reference 
to the patents issued since the one he quotes will probably show that 
all the changes in the pigeon are covered.. The numbers are (original 
patent) No. 231,919, No. 246,401, No. 256,227 (re-issue!, No, 10,122, No, 
248,362. and four more are pending. Thosenamed relate to the target, 
No. 246,161 relates bo the process by which the dise ismade. This, 
we believe, the Ligowsky Company consider the moct valuable of 
their patents. for by this process clay-pigeons (and other pottery) 
can be nade cheaper than by any other method now in use. This 
has been tested by a Canadian firm, who some time ago b-gan the 
manufacture of clay-pigeons, and found that even with their import 
duty of 25 p+rcent., they could buyzof the American manufacturers 
cheaper than they could make the article themselves. 

THE CLAY-PIGHON DIAMOND PIN, whichis to be given at the 
Chicago tournament, is now on exhibition at the manufacturers’, 
Messrs. Tiffany & Co., this city. 


Answers to Correspondents. 


ta7- No Notice Taken of Auonymous Correspondents. 


Mx. E. Hoven will oblige us by sending his address to this office. 

P, A. ., Parerson, N, J.—The open brook trout season in New Jer- 
sey is March 1—Oct, 1. No law on pickerel, 

J.P. H.. St. Martinsville, La.—You may procure a wire scratch 
brush fram any one of the firms dealing in firearms in this city. 

H. b. O., Minnesota.— The rifle will be described in the series of 
iustrated articles now in course of publication in our rifle columns. 

W. E. H,, Fort A. D. Russel, Wy.—1, The rubber dealers furnish a 
cement for repairing rubber goods. 2. To glue cloth to metal use 
siratena. 

PF. A. H., Westminster, Vt.—We donot know where the traps are 
made. but you can procure them by writing to any of the dealers in 
firearms. 2 

J. H. B., Boston.—Is there any book or directory published which 
gives The names and addresses of al) the rifle clubs in the country; 
also the officers of each club? Ans, No, 


BE H.C., New Orleans.—How can I whiten the feathers of pigeons 
for mounting? Ans. Suspend the skins in a barrel, set bottown up, 
and burn some brimstone under it. Let them smoke for a day ortwo. 

ipLpwitp, Neweastle, Del_—l. We know of no firm making a 
specialty of sporting pictures, except Currier & Ives, of New York. 
2. Try the Lyman sight. 3. Apply to the National Rifle Assoviation, 
New York, 

B. W. &., Detroit, Mich,-The English setter generally arrives at 
maturity when about a year and a half old. Somé of them develop 
earlier fea this, and some are not full grown until two or two and o 
half years old. 

READER,—Please stdte where 1 would be likely to find good bass 
fishing in New York State. Would I be likely to find good fishing 
and camping grounds gn either Oayuga or Seneca Lake? Ans. The 
hass fishing on Hemlock Lake is probably as good a8 any in Western 


New York. You can find good camping grounds there. There are 
bass in Cayuga, and also other good fishing, but we do not think that 
Seneca Lake is as good, .We should go to Hemlock, Honeoye, Cana- 
dice, or to Canandaigua Lake in preference to Seneca, 


A, M. B.—Ordinary paint, mixed with linseed oil and turpentine, 
will answer for fresh water. For salt water there are a humber of 
anti-fouling compositions to be had of ship chandlers in all seaport 
towns. They are ali applied with an ordinary paint brush. 


J.C. C., Charlotte Harbor, Fla.—tIs there another name for the 
poisonous lizard called Heloderma? What is the length and color of 
the lizard, and where is it found? Ans, The Heloderma suspectum, or 
ae Sometimes four or five feet in length. Fuund m the 

outhwest. 


W. H. K., Philadelphia.—There are deer and partridge in the Bush- 
kill (Pa.) region, with many excellent trout streams, or streams that 
were formerly good for fishing. The inclosure to which you refer is 
probably that of the Blooming Groye Park, which is some distance 
from Bushkill, 


Prrticus.—Where ean I go to fish near New York and return the 
same day, and what fish can I catch? Ans Take ferry to Staten 
Island or go to Gravesend Bay and catch striped bass, weakfish, ete., 
in season. For fresh water try Lake Ronkonkoma for black bass, or 
g0 to Croton Lake. 


Remus, Rochester, N, Y.—I forward you a tree toad. which I have 
caught in this vicinity. Please giye me some information about it. 
Will it develop into any other form? Ans. The specimen is one of the 
little ‘‘peepers’* so often heard in early spring mm wet places. It has 
attained its full development and will change no more. Your speci- 
men appears to be Chorophilus triseriatus. It belongs to the family 
Hylide, or tree frogs, 


W. A, W., Virginia.—The compilation entitled “Frank Forester’s 
Fugitive Sporting Sketches’ contains the following papers; ‘The 
Game of North America (Woodcock and Quail),”’ “Among the Moun- 
tains,” *‘A Blaze at Barnegat,’’ ‘The American Bittern,’ ‘The Death 
of the Stag,” ““Thé Red Fox," ‘A Trip to Chateau Reiher, or Snipe 
Shooting on the St. Lawrence,” “Spring Snipe—a Rambling Paper,” 
“Domestication of Game Birds.” 


M. H. P.—1. Where can we find good lines for a cruising sneakbox 
for a crew of two? 2, We have alight practice boat which we wish to 
provide with seats, rowlocks and oars: where can we obtain correct 
information as to the relative Posteos and dimensions of the same? 
Ans, 1. We will publish the lines later on, Do not know where you 
can find them. 2. In ordinary rewboats the thwarts are placed Tin. 
below the gunwale, and the rowlocks ahout 9in. from after edge of 
thwart. The thwarts should he placed so that the boat will trim witn 
one, two, or more in her, allowing sufficient room between them for 
the legs when extended. : ham 


Iachting. 


FIXTURES. — 


May 18.—Eclipse Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—®swego Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Boston Y. C., pee Cruise. 

May 80.—Knickerbocker Y, C., Spring Matches, 

May 3i).—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30.—Newark Y. C., Spring Match. 

May 30,—South Boston Y. C., Spring Match. 

May 30.—City Point Mosquito Fleet, 13 and 15ft. boats. 

May 30.—New Haven Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 81.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore’s cups. 


9.—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 


June 10.—Atlantie Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 11,—Hudson River Y, C,, Annual Match, 

June 12.—New York Y.C,, Annual Matches. __ 

June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Matches. 
June 16.—East River Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 16.—Newark Y. C,, Open Match. 


» 19—New Jersey Y. C., Annual Match. 
21.—Hull ¥. C., Pennant Match. 


June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 

June 24.—New Haven Y. C., Epring Match. 

June 28.—Boston Y. C,, Ladies’ Day. 

June 30.—Manhattan ¥. C., Annual Cruise, 

June 30.—Helipse Y. C.. epg Match. 

July 4.—Larchmont ¥. C., Annual ®pen Matches. 


4.—Hull Y. C., Review and Cruise, five days. 


July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12,—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. 

July 12.—Hull Y. C., First Club Match. 

July 19.—Hull Y. C., Ladies’ Day. ; 

July 26.--Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship, 
July 30.—Oswego Y. (., Open Matches. 

Aug. 2.—Kingston, Ont., Open Matches. 

Aug. 2/—Hull Y. C., First Championship Match. 

Aug. 6§.—Bay of Quinte Y. C.. Open Matches. 

Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Open Matches, all clubs. 

Aug, 16.—Hull Y. C., Annual Open Matches, 

Aug. 16,—Beverly Y. C., Swampseott, Third Championship. 
Aug. 28.—-Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Open Matches. 

Aug, 238.—Boston Y. C., Third Club Match, 


. 80.—Hull Y. C., Second Championship Match. 

6 —Hull Y. G,, Third Championship Match, 
6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Matches. 
;, 18.—Boston Y. C., Second Ladies’ Day. 


THE HAND OF THE BOURBONS. 


A MOTION was made and promptly sat down upon aN in one 
of the principal yacht clubs of New York to have the lines of 
winning yachts taken off and kept on file as club property to further 
interest and instruction. A similar rule is already enforced in 
another club, and the parent institution insists upon the deposit of 
every yacht’s model in the club before granting p+rmissicn to race, 
The reasons, if they can be dignified as such, why the motion in this 
particular club failed to pass, are as thoroughly stupid and benighted 
as other customs for which the Bourbon and retrograde element in 
yachting affairs is responsible. It was argued that builders spent a 
ife time in perfecting their models, and their success should not be 
paraded for the profit of others. In other words, the less we know 
and the Jess chance we are given to find out, so much the better, 
Hide your light, little penny dips at that, under a thimble, lest some 
one might catch a stray ray from the feeble glim of bungling, blun- 
dering stumbling upon the truths a yacht club is suppo-ed to or- 
gfanize to further in accord with the terms of its charter, The ridic- 
lous aspect of this opposition from the Bourbons is truly laughable. 
Nine yachts out of every ten to be seen off Bay Ridge are more or 
less hideous, misshapen boxes and traps no knowing man would deizn 
to look at twice, rahe the single exception in the ten is searce equal to 
mediocrity in most cases, The builders and owners of those yachts 
could not reproduce the same vessels themselves if they tried. 
They are clumsily set up from rough, unfair whittled chunks 
not within many inches of the boats supposed to be 
copies of the elegant kindling wood furnished the owners to 
play with, and upon which are based the sapient opinions 
of people who have never been off soundings, who would not bet 
heavily upon the tack they are sailing, and to whom a grommet or an 
Irish splice are conundrums unfathomed, aad accurate knowledge of 
the principles of construetion in theory or practice as much of a mys- 
tery as the proper keyhole to @ belated citizen among a row of tene- 
ment houses. To throw patecuards around the brains the majority of 
yachts represent. lest some deluded subject try to steal their horrible 
forms aod execrable sail plans, is carrying the selfishness of “pro- 
tection” to a preposterous exaggeration. The plans of the famous 
schooner America have been published broudcast the world over, 
How many copies of the America have been attempted im this coun- 
try or in poeta during the quarter century those plans have been 
accessible to the public? And the same can be said ef the Sappho, 
the Mischief, and countless other yessels, If these, with their inter- 
national reputations, have neyer been filched or even approximated 
in a single case, what are the chances of any one’s stealing the tray- 
esties and dugouts which concentrate about Bay Ridge? The mere. 
vanity of the supposition 1s grotesque. Is there a man living who 
would copy the Grayling, the Comet, the Gracie, or such an arch trap 
as the Crocodile, needing only a breeze and inadvertence at the wheel 
to tumble 6ver, fast as such boats have shown themselves to be in 
smooth water? Was not the notable Columbia radically altered upon 
recent rebuilding in spite of her record? Are we not all learning 
every day, thatany one should care to perpetuate the mistakes and fol- 
ljes of the past? Does any one think of duplicating the Gleam, with 
near one hundred and fifty per cent. of her loadline squared in sail? 
Has the owner of the Crocodile, who built several yachts in sucees- 
sion, all fast in moderate weather, stuck to the same set of lines all 
through? Was any one knows fo build an exact reprovuction of ere 
yacnt? Least of all, any ofthe great mass of tubs and maehines whie 
were once so highly adored and are how not quite so highly adore 
any longer? Protect the builders indeed} One would think mosto: 
those intérested scarce displayed enough, talent to zo. sonne in the 
shape of a little free adve mit The squelching of this motion is 4 
measure of the Bourhons and little bits of suburban minds which can 


be stowed by the score ina peanut shell Does a club which refuses 
e a Bue promote Enowledze in the matter of yacht building live up 
ee i: e Sa) of its charter, or is it not a fit concern for the repeal of 
tob OrpOnah existence? A policy of suppression in these days is sure 
o be rewarded with internal dry rot in the futur It is on a par 
with the obstruction to reform in measurement rulés for fear the an- 
ene ideas may have to strike colors to the new. It isa repetition 
of that perverse want of common sense which proclaims two feet of 
overhang. useful only as a mainsheet outriggerand measuring a little 
more than a hatful, the equivalent of one foot of body with half a 
vent os Sele tN 4 ae ree ee Peat Itis natural engneh 
i choice Bourbon Jegi i ili 
hand under the same colors. legislation sailing hand in 


GREAT BATTLES PROSPECTIVE. 


HE coming season gives promise of being thé hottest o 

T Innumerable cups are waiting to be captured and Seater 
will form the feature in the many events announced. More than eyer 
before will popular interest be riveted upon the great fight between 
cutter and sloop, for preparations are being made for contests which 
are destined:to haye a vast influence upon the course of the sport and 
yacht construction in the future. The stately Bedouin, who yan- 
quished the redoubtable Gracie last fall, has been hauled out at New- 
burgh and has had her lead keel rounded down in the latest fashion, 
She is to come out with four feet more hoist and tackle her adyer- 
saries for ‘once without the handicap of being under-rigeed. She 
proved herself good company for the best last year. Who will say 
that, with a rig she can easily carry, her share of the mugs will not 
be hited this summer from the light displacements of old? enouah, 
the most precious pearl of naval construction in America to-day, has 
had ten tons more lead bolted up below, so she can swing her big rig 
to best advantage, and as she is already known ag a flyer of the first 
water, with four firsts out of five matches sailed last season, we look 
for a goodly string of winning flags from her masthead by the time 
the ice again drives her into winter quarters. These two clippers, 
with the new Ileen thrown in as a dark horsee, will make up a trio 
destined to-“ereate revolutions” in our yacht-building history. It will 
Re a aineck day, indeed, when one of them does not do the piloting for 

& fleet, | 

Then there are preat hopes for Oriya. in the hands of an adept 
Corinthian, after the splendid manner in which she settled Vixen, in 
the Seawanhaka mateh last fall. Maggie, the nobby little fi hting 
ceck of the Hast. has also been receiving attention in the way of more 
lead on the keel. and we learn is likewise to bend a bigger fit of 
dimity. This cutter is a notable pincher on a turn up, and was good 
enough for all hands last year, excepting the sloop Vixen. If the 
improvements turn.out as well as hoped, she may yet be able to score 
from the fastest sloop ever Jaunaghed or likely to be launched this 
side of the Atlantic. She failed to foot with Vixen, but with more 
rig she is certain to do better. How much of course remains to be 
seen. Then we haye another dark horse in Isis, Mr. Ganfield’s new 
cutter, and we learn that two ten-ton clippers are to be shipped to 
this country from England in thespring. Recent letters from abroad 
likewise have it that common rumor about Liverpool has picked out 
a forty-ton cutter to pay us a visit of a friendly character, to try on 
our skimming dishes, such as are left of that dying tribe of smooth- 
water driflers. Add to this the début of the numerous small fleet of 
new cutters, the Merlin, the Rajah, the Rondina, the imported Daisy, 
and lots of smaller shayers, and it can easily be seen that the history 
of the season will pivot upon the performance of the cutters. That 
in yiew of the past, now that they will get something like a fair 
show, the records will wind up with the cutters well up to the top 
of the tree, we venture in prognostication of the fighting soon to be 
started, and that the winter ahead will see further additions to the 
ever growing family of cutters in our waters, we also consider as 
good as a foregone conclusion. 


AN OLD HAND ON DECK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tt is with great reluctance I write you upon the subject of yachts 
and yachting in this great country ofours. While I am to the manor 
born, an American, yet I cannot help but see some good in my fellow 
men in other parts of the world, I, for one at least, feelasif there 
was something yet to learn from them. I have had some experience, 
both as a close observer of the building as well asinodeling of yachts, 
for a number of years, dating back to the tire when Commodore 
Stevens proudly walked the deck of the then wonder of New York, 
the old sloop Maria, with her great hollow boom, and was also-ac- 
quainted with that genius Steers, who first carried war into the Brit- 
ish Lion’s kingdon with the grand old America, Searcely-has thera 
been a yacht of any note, but I have seen started from keel up until 
proudly floated upon the bosom of the waters, the admiration and hope 
of thousands. I hayesat down in the ship yards and chatted bo 
with builders. modellers and owners, and last but not least, have 
read with' great interest the criticisms of our daily journals, until I 
arrive at this late day and forthe first time in the history of yachting, 
find one.gjournal which has the manliness to frankly tell us that we 
were going to sleep while the wagon wheel ran in the same old rut. 
All hail to Forrest anp SrR#AM, which first gave us some hints that 
we were behind the age. Until it sprang intolife, we never saw a Cut 
or drawing like those so well portrayed in your entertaining journal. 
Let us look at the past and then at the present, and see whether any 
great improvement has been made. Ithas long been asserted that the 
American yacht was a dish bottom. Now I hold to the contrary, There 
aré men, and the writer was one of them, who have for the last 
thirty years argued in their private capacily against the shoal 
flat boat as a seagoing pleasure craft. and contended that beam with- 
out depth was faulty, and likewise depth without form. At this day 
Istillso contend. The great trouble is, I think, first, that we are 
really infants in the business as yet; second, that vine out of ten who 
either buy or build kmow oothing at all, and co not realiza the pur- 
pose they intend their yacht for, The first word to tbe builder is, *‘I 
want a yacht to go,’ and the next, ‘I do not want her to cost too 
much.” And what is the natural result? <A lot of slip-shod built 
craft, with a board fence for bulwarks and many other parts of the 
mechanical work in keeping. We want a vessel built. 8 first con- 
sult some of the so-called naval architects, and they make a lot of 


pretty lines upon paper, beautifully showing great qualities and ample 


room. Now fora builder, or more properly, contractor, He lumps 
the job forso much. Of course be must have bis profits. and he has 
taken the work so low that he must sublet the getting out of the frame. 
The planking is also let out, as well as the ceiling and joiner work, 
and the fastening, boring, anc tree-nailing, which are all sublet, Now 
how are you going to get a first-class job under such circumstances? 
Last, but not Jeast, is the caulking. It is done by the job. Not that 
all builders do this, but the greater part, and it can be proven, There- 
sult is, as some of our wealthy yacht owners can hestify, in one year 
the yacht must be hauled out in the winter. and we read in the papers 
that Mr, Jenkins has his yacht on Mr. Pinkey’s ways undergoing ex- 
tensive repairs for the next season—another bill of $5,000 or more; 
and so if goes, until Mr. Ignoramus is sick, and sells ont and goes out 
of yachting. As the Frenchman would say, ibis ‘one pig humbug.” 
We look with pride upon our yachts upon a calm June regalta day 
as a sight to be proud of, yet how many do you find outside of those 
entered for the great cups who dare poke their nose outside of the 
Hook if it should happen to blow a single reef breeze? Look atthe 
record of the regatta of °2, when the Montauk made her maiden and 
successfulrace. A nice full-sail breeze and only one schooner yacht 
at the lightshipto see them turn, and large steam yachts making 
one dive to see how deep it was, and then turn back for the sheltere 
waters of the Horseshoe and call it yachting. Some of the large 
schooners had great trouble to get there with foresail stowed, and 
diving out of sight, Now, what is the trouble? There must be 
faulty construction and oversparring. Think of it, ye bold yachts- 
men, a little 40ft. clam sloop, coming up the beach in the month of 
March, decks to, with perfect safety, and not a yacht of her size dare 
poke her nose outside for Hampton Roads. Yet weread and seé con- 
tinually of our cousins across the water cruising up tae Mediterranean 
or up the coast of Norway ib a boat of similar size. lam not going 
to condemn our yachts by any means as being all wrong. We haye 
some good boats which it will be bard to beat, inside or out, but you 
can almost count them on your fingers’ ends. Go on with your good 
work is my-adyice to Fornst AND STREAM. What we need are safe, 
able and comfortable boats, which, if if comes on to blow, can stay 
there, and not have to run for the first harbor that is close by. 

As to model, at another time I will intrude upon your space, and 
have something to say. ZEKIEL, 


OPINIONS AGAINST FACTS... 


DVICES from England inform us that during his recent visit to 
A Liverpoo! Mr, Busk, owner of the Mischief, “ridiculed the idea 
of cutters ever becoming popular in America,’’ There are in New 
Yor< and Boston just three large racing sloops representing the ex- 
tent to which such boats haye become popular during the develop- 
ment of yachling since the war which closed twenty yearsaso. Dur- 
ing the past three years only a like number of large cutters have been 
built, so that at this day they enjoy at least equal recognition from 
the public, When Mr. Busk sails Hast next season and looks aboutal, 
gny feneral meeting of the fleet he will discover cutters in every 
direction, more than he will be able to count. If Mr. Busk had read 
the papers he would also have }mown that over twenty. cutters have 
been Constructed this winter. If he were as well situated as we are 
Yo judge of the public pulse, he wonld know that ‘bundreds of people 


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are anxious to own cutters as soon as an opportunity is presented to 
acquire such property. If he were to consult with builders or per- 
sons who keep posted he would learn that all the variations made 
upon the pristine sloop trap are in a direction which, step by step, 
is assimilating our fleet to the English cutters. If he were possessed 
of acute logical faculties he could draw the true conclusion that only 
time is required to pass through the period of transition and that 
there ig a strong likelihood of the pesule sloop disappearing 
altogether, and that, whether she be displaced by cutters of more 
beam than the latest English racers or whether in some instances 
we follow our cousins into the last inch of the extreme, is perfectly 
immaterial to the main issue on the question. Instead of its. being 
“ridiculous” to look for popular approval of cutters in this country, 
it is extremely ridiculous for a gentleman like Mr, Busk to be ready 
with a sweeping opinion and at the same time perfectly obliyicus to 
plain facts. The cutter is already FoRules in America, witness the 

_ large fleet.of such yachts built in three short years in spite of the 
_ most strenuous pposivion from Bourbon sources. But, Mr. Busk 
pwns a sloop, and his own little world and limited horizon is bounded 


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by that sloop’s rail, hence his mistaken notion that all the world is a 
counterpart of Mr, Busk. He is simply behind the times and chooses 
to ignore what is passing under his nose. 


MOSQUITO Y. C.—Sailed first match last Saturday in Dorchester 
Bay, Wind from H.N.H., steady. Single gun, or rather whistle, 
start. Two classes, over and under 18ft. Judges, J. Winniatt, R. 
Wallace, John Page, Finish as under, Wizard, Lizzie, Clyde and 

ascot were the winners: FIRST CLASS. 


Length Actual. 
Wizard, James! bAtlonne snes, pele pt, ores ta sy shed 13 421 15 
Lizzie, H. We NOtia ye Henweey tian ns rat i Acree S «13.3 4 26 48 
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Clyde, J. Page. .............. by, fe kaa pe RR oe 

_Mascot, Ff. Whitman............... 

Herald, C. Smith........ Stoo Sidhe 
MOWER. 6B) Bibber, eo filegkbs estes. 

Egeria, W, Oondon....... Peete eiat oon: ere 


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A CRUISING SCHOONER. 


i ee spring Mr. W. O’Sullivan Dimpfel, C. E., of Baltimore, built 
a small schooner on lines similar to those of the Pengance lugger 
for all-the-year cruising in Chesapeake Bay. After giving the yacht 
twelve months’ trial her owner reports favorably concerning her be- 
havior and general adaptability to his purpose. The Gaetina exhibits 
in her waterlines a close likeness to the Penzance fishing craft, but 
she was given ift. of extra depth to her benefit. She has been found 
quite fast in her own waters, very easy, dry and comfortable, with 
liberal arrangements below, as the illustrations indicate, With iron 
ballast stowed in bloeks under the cabin floor and a pole mast rig she 
was also very economical in first cost. The sail plan shows a large 
lug on the fore in dotted lines. This sail the owner devised for light 
winds, and under this and jib she can be sailed with mainsail in the 
gaskets. The splicing of her rigging is ‘‘metallic” all through. For 
hard weather also a trysail and storm jib, which have both been 
brought into requisition in the lower halfé of the Chesapeake, which 
is more of aseathana bay. The Gaetina is especially good in light 
winds and airs in spite of her draft and thirteen tons of displace- 
ment, much to the astonishment of local critics, who prophesied her 
failure on that account. Her owner often sails her singlehanded be- 
tween Baltimore and his residence in the country, near the mouth of 
the Choptank, a distance of sixty miles. 

While building, the old school critics foresaw the usual dire calami 
ties. Could not sai] because sodeep. Would fall over. Slow in light 
winds ‘“‘lugging’’ so much ballast, etc. She was something of a de- 
parture to Baltimore critics, though here we have got used to such 
depth long ago, and with the exception of the juvenile conceptions of 
some provencial lights, no one would take exception on the score of 
draft and weight, The accommodations include a small steerage with 
the companion aft, leading into an after state cabin 7ft. long with a 
berth on each side. The saloon is reached from this through doors, 
and is 9ft. long, with extra wide sofas of 30in., having 8ft. 6in. of floor 
between, and 6ft. under beams, Between cabin and forepeak are 
retiring room and panty. A hammock can be swung from foremast 
to the eyes for the paid hand, who has access to the deck by means 
of an iron ladder and quadrant hatch overhead, The chief elements 
are as follows: 


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Geng teon! WAWe. «. - aise ny ete cant gat ee 35ft. 

lsiermoalaey. di {evra\Ss 5 AMR RRNA Cin ce ence ee lift, 3in. 
Farha HOG Penwith epee, oh. ee cs Lae 6ft. 
MeaStLTEehOAaTdin, Wane cu Ceviesuinc se octiiles cleans 2ft. 10in. 
ISM AGeIne Nie EnV TeMinc want a eae acs skuisauy 13 short tons 
IER ase RO AMMA: Rae PLP cp ae age RR . 6 short tons 
ANCOR ONT ELENA SAR eae eid «.ratstel nel alch eh blades 950sq. ft. 
POISON TMAISA awe ey eee es eee clive 5 

EL OISHOD TONES AT snnscnuisines calcite cn ch te eee 24ft, 
NMIBITGOM tiie. wh oe bametes Riaters phewtae eens 28ft. 
Bowspritoutboard w.. +, Jit ..s woes eee cone 10f¢. 


SOUTH BOSTON Y. C.—Has issued circular governing the open 
races fixed for May 80. Start at 1:80 P.M. Classes 28 to 40ft., 22 to 
28ft., 18 to 22ft., 15 te 1&ft., and special keel class 15 to 22ft. Two" 
prizes for boards and keels in first two classes, $25 and $10. Three 
prizes, $15, $10 and $5 in third and fourth, and $15 and $5 in 
special class. Two yachts to compete. Three for a second prize, 
four for a third prize. Courses, 14 miles first class, 9 miles second, 
third and special, and 6 miles for fourth class. No restrictions 
on sails, Measurement waterline plus one-third overhang, One 
hand per five feet length and fraction thereof, First and second 
will coms into line between flags marked One. Third and special 
between flags marked Two. Fourth between flags marked Three, 
All sta1t from single guns with no allowance for crossing. First and 
second class goat2P.M. gun. Third and special at gun 2:05 P. M., 
and fourth at 2:10 P.M. Entries to R. V. King, 43 Milk street, Boston, 
cloe2 P. M., May 29. Regatta Committee, John Bertram, C. McKenna, 


| H. J. McKee, F. G, Cooley, J. BH. Chandler, R. V. King, S. A. Crowell, 


Judes; E. G. Robinson, W. Hutchinson, G. Conant, T. Christian, W. 
orris. 

REAL YACHTING,.—Schooner Fortuna, from Hampton Roads 
last, has arrived in this harbor, Scheoner Wanderer, Mr, Geo. W. 
Wild, arrived off Hamilton, Bermuda, April 15, five days out from 
New Bedford. Had strong northwesterly weather, and was hove to 
twenty-five hours, Sailed April 17 for Norfolk. 


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[Apri 24, 1884. 


“YACHT AND BOAT SAILING.” 


We. have received from Mr. Dixon Kemp the fourth edition of his 

popular and comprehensive work, ‘*¥Yacht and Boat Sailing."’ 
Excellent as the third edition was, this new issue is a yast improve- 
ment éyen upon its predecessors. Not only has the book been mate- 
rially enlarged, but the chapters added are of such an interesting 
nature that we reserve a more complete review till next week. It is 
enough at present to say that new topics have been introduced re- 
lating notably to small yachts and to steam yachting, while the 
branch of canoeing has likewise been more fully covered. Especially 
commendable are the numerous examples of the latest English prac- 
tice in the designing of small craft from three to ten tons, and accom- 
modation plans of steamers of various sizes. The book is not only 
of yalue to amateurs, but ought to be in the hands of ail our builders 
and professional people, who ean stady its teeming pagés with ad- 
vantage to their interests. The book is excellent proof of the wide 
range of experiment and diversity with which Eaoglish yachtsmen 
and constructors have made themselves familiar during recent years. 
There is scarcely a conceivable type of boat from one extreme to the 
other, keel or centerboard, which has not a fitting representation in 
this volume, which will be hailed by all hands as a prize precious 
to every yachting interest under the sun. Published by Horace Cox, 
Field office, London. Price in England, $5. To be ordered through 
newsilealers or news agents in this country. 


SOME CORINTHIAN RULES.—The Cheshire Y. C., of England, 
has a rule prohibiting lead ballast to restrict the cost of small yachts. 
The club has 150 members devoted to small craft, the racing class 
being composed of 5-tonners. Six matches are arranged for the 
year, including a ‘‘Channel Race.” distance 45 miles. Last year this 
ig race was won by a 544-ton yawl. That kind of thing looks like 
real business and not like the ten-mile smooth water play of our own 
sngall boats. Why should we not race yachts of 25-to 380ft. at sea 
just as well as large vessels? It would be ten times the sport and 
infinitely more instructive, useful and dignified in its results than 
the boyish make-believe in sheltered waters. 


DETROIT NOTHS.—Mr. E. B. Wendell has designed anew schooner 
for Mr. H. C. Hart to be used on the St. Clair flats, Length over all 
68ft., on deck 66ft. 3in,, on waterline 53ft., beam 20ft. 8in., draft 2ft. 
10in. without board. Frame 5x7 at heel, and 5x5 athead. Keel 
14x14, board 19ft. long, plank 2in. oak, sides tumble home 244in. The 
same designer hasalso struck in a steam Jaunch 35ft. x &ft. 6in., which 
is now in frame. A deep boat 18ft. long, sharp ends, has been added 
to the Detroit fleet. She is said to be very fast. The Jennie June 
will be lengthened and receive a 3-ton iron keeland hardwood cabin 
isft. long. 


LAKE Y. R. A.—A gentleman writes that it was proposed to send 
areply to |he contemporary we took to task last week for i's reflec- 
tions upon the judgment of the Assoeiation in choosing sail area 
measurement, but that it was not deemed worth while to give thai 
publication any attention, as it is without influence around the lakes. 
Before the Toronto meeting the subject of measurement had been 
thoroughly canvassed, and the Seawanhaka rule was found to be the 
fairest to all classes of boats; hence its adoption. 


AMERICAN Y. C.—Has presented cotors to the Arctic expedition 
vessels, Thetis and Bear, to be given up to club uponreturn. The fol- 
lowing officers of the expedition have been elected honorary mem- 
bers: Commander W. 38. Schley, Executive Lieutenant U. Sebree 
and Chief Engineer George W. Melville, of the Thetis; Lieutenant 
W. H. Emory and Executive Officer T. H. Crosby, of the Bear, and 
Commander 8. W. Coffin and Executive Officer 0. J. Badger, of the 
Alert. 


BOSTON Y.C.—Has 200 members, 23 schooners, 30 sloops, 9 cutters, 
12 cats, 12 steamers, 1 yawl. One of the schooners is Steers’s old sloop 
Silvie, built in 1851, now belonging to Mr. C. C. Manbury. Silvie 
erossed to Cowes in the fifties, but was handily beaten by the old 
time cutters. Three cutters were added to the fleet this yaar, Sara- 
cen, Edna and Beetle, also Mr. Bryant’s semi-cutter Thetis. Club 
owns property worth $15,000. Next meeting at club house April 30. 


THE NEW HERA—Will spread 2,000sq. ft. in lower sails. Mast, 
53ft. 6in., topmast 30ft., mainboom 38ft., maingaff said to be 27ft., 
bowsprit outboard 22ft. 6in., which is a whacking big rig on 36ft. 
loadline, but the boat is very powerful, and needs a lot to drive her, 


SOUP ON THE TABLE.—At the last London Fisheries Exhibition, 
some crockery for yachts was displayed, having arubber bead round 
the base to prevent slipping from the cabin table. Thisis a good 
idea where ‘*swing tables” are not adopted. 


SAN FRANCISCO Y. C.—Officers for the year: Commodore, C. H. 
Harrison, yaw! Frolic; Vice-Commodore, W. Letts Oliver, yawl Emer- 
ald; Secretary, Chas. G. Yale; Measurer, Matthew Turner, ship- 
builder; Treasurer, F. Bangs. 


THE SAIL AREA RULE—Is steadily gaining ground abroad. The 
Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Y. C., the Corinthian Y. C. and the 
Junior Thames Y. C., will sail their amateur Channs! matches under 
the new rule this season. 


THE WHITE CAP.—Mr. Wesley Webber has finished a handsome 
and lifelike oil painting of the yawl White Cap, off Hull Gut, which 
Rear-Commodore Dayid Hall Rice has presented to the Hull Y. C. 


SARACEN.—Mr. Fowles’s little cutter has been on a trial. Looks 
smart and sails well. Lawleys are putting up two steam launches, 
said to be for New York Herald shipping news service. 


SOUTHWARK Y. C,.—Officers for the year: Commodore, H. D. 
Baizley; Vice-Commodore, A. J. Fox; Rear-Commodore, J. Rutter; 
Secretary, Francis George; Treasurer, Isaac Sharp. 


NEW CLUB.—Rockport, Cape Ann, is going to organize a new club. 
Seems to us consolidations among small clubs would be better policy. 
Little local enterprises never amount to much. 


MOHEGAN.— Mr. Henry D. Burnham’s new schooner was launched 
April 19, from Palmer’s yard, Noank. Dimensions in our last issue. 
John Lyvere will skipper the new one. 


FOR EXPORT.—Higgins & Gifford, of Gloucester, have turned out 
a batch of six deep epene 31ft. Jong for the West Indies. They are 
12ft. beam and 414ft. depth of hold. 


PETREL.—The lines of this cutter have been much admired by our 
Pnglish readers, but they object to the transom stern and would spin 
her out into an archboard finish. 


SINGLEHANDERS IN FRANCE.—The Sport Nautique de 1l’Ouest 
has included in its programme some races for amateurs in single- 
hand yachts to be sailed in June. - 


CAPSIZED.—Uriday last a sailboat was picked up in the Narrows 
bottom up. Three persons drowned: Samuel Hopkins, Stoddard 
Hopkins and Samuel West, 


NEW CUTTER.—The 36ft. cutter built by the Lawleys during win- 
ter, has been bought by Mr. £. M. Tylor, Boston Y. C, and Hull Y. C. 


NEW CUTTER.—The owner of the Hattie G., of Gloucester, is re-~ 


ported as intending to build a eutter, haying sold his former boat. 


THE NEW IDEA.—Sloop Vidette will rip out board and change to 
keel, with 600-pound iron shoe. She is 20ft. long. 


TRON KEEL.—Miller, of City Point, has got out a keel sloop 26ft. 
Sin. long, with 1,0001bs. of iron on Keel. 


WANTED.—Address of Michael Horton, who is building a 25ft. cut- 
ter at East Boston. 


NEW CUTTER.—Mr. A. P. Thayer, Hull Y. C., is building a 21ft. 
cutter in Boston, 


Caneeing. 


8 ies of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forms? AND 
Seer aioe addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc., of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same, Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Formst AND Stream their addresses, with 
logs of crnises, maps, aud information concerning their local waters. 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 


to the sport. 


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FIXTURES. 


30 and 81.—Spring Meet at Newburg. J 
May 30 and 31. Spring Meet on Connecticut River, 


-“ 


A NEW CANOE SAIL. 


A SAIL has long been in demand which combines the short boom 


and reefing 


ossibilities of the balance lug with the simplicity 


and short mast of the Lord Ross lateen. On any gail that could be 


é 


Fic. A.—‘Montcan*™ Satu. 


Fic. B.—SInGLE REEF. 


hand. Granting this point, [ believe that the 


mitted henewith, ‘ 
Fig, A represen 


Fie: C.—Dounk# REEF. 


ised to lower or reef when the boom is out of reach of the hand, 
nach be, as & minimum, at least a halliard and reefing line to 


“Mohican” sail, sub- 
‘fills the bill.” d 
ts the sail set. The short mast with pin, and the 


spars toggled together of the Ross Jateen, are used with the addition 
of @ jaw at the end of boom. Thesailis set in the usual Jateen man- 
eee ae the spar, B, becomes virtually a high mast, and is treated as 
ee our very light bamboo battens are put in the sail to increase 

he he and the sail is attached to the spar, B, as far up as the ring, 
ay aus that point to a batten (a), and this batten is attached to B 
ite Lue See diy ate vreuee peck to foot and back to hand. 
usual manner OP Mtoe Me iard (6) or taken off mast, A, in the 

e first reef is taken by letting ¢o halliard an ing i i 

(one bemg the continuation of the other) until tl ae Pe eee 
The Dot’s reefing gear is used in this instance, and works admirably. 
The second reef is taken by unshipping boom © from mast A and 
hooking it again to Aby the jaw. Batten No. 2 drops to No, 4, and 
the siack is taken up by reef line, as shown, and the sail becomes an 
ordinary lateen. The halliard and reef line may be made fast on 
boom, and should be so when sail is stowed away. 

Iclaim that this sail can be unshipped and stowed exactly as the 
lateen, and with the same advantages. We always stow our sails on 
deck, made fast to side of coaming; that it has the reefing adyan- 
tages of the balance lug, the short boom, and the heighth to catch 
light winds, with none of the disadvantages as to many ropes and 
high ee ' 

Ais the jaw; B, the spar or topmast; C, the boom: E, block for 
reef line; F’, block for halliard: 6 hook for second reef. ° 

Fig, B shows sail with one reef and Fig. C with two. First reef 
can betaken in before the wind; second reef cannot, unless first 
reef is repeated with a parallel batten. 

In case ee mautton form of sail is used the area is much reduced. 
but all but No, 4 batten may be omitted, and the sail made fast to 
Spar B by rings, and hoisted and lowered as in ordinary leg o’ mut- 
ton sails. It has been tried both ways successfully. 

ROBERT SHAW OntveEr, A, CG, A. 


THE LOG BOOK. 


Vil.—THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA.—CRUISE 
GATOR. 


N Feb, 5, 1884, three of us, my wife, who is an honorary member 

of the A. C. A,, and myself, in the sneakbox Alligator, and Mr. 

Hugh Willoughby, A. C. A,,in the canoe Windward, left St. Augus- 
tine for a cruise down the eastern coast of Florida. 

We had prepared for an early start, but as our course was due 
south, and asa strong wind with heayy sea eame directly from that 
quarter all day, we delayed tur departure until afternoon, hoping 
for a change of wind or a lull. As neither came, we finally decided 
to make a start, and at least establish a camp somewhere beyond the 
city limits. After four hours of hard work with oars and paddle we 
reached a point on Anastasia Island about five miles from the city, 
where we established Camp No.1. There was no fresh water at this 
camp, but we had brought plenty with us, and no wood for a fire; 
but with our alecohollamps we soon had supper prepared, and were 
comfortably fixed for the night. 

On the second day a beam wind led us to hope for a goodrun, but 
our hopes were dashed by the centerboard of the Alligator which, 
swollen by water, refused to move into its box, and it as well as our 
hopes were frequently dashed in emphatic language. After making 
a few miles under oars, with the Windward sailing ahead and wait- 
ing by turns, we landed, unloaded the ‘‘box,” turned her bottom side 
ap, and spent three hours in planing the centerboard down with an 
axe, 

Finally got under way again late in the evening and ran until after 
dark among marshes that afforded no camping pround, unti! we came 
to a bit of low beach raised but afew inches aboye the water on which 
ie ee and made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances per- 
mitted. 

The water was so shoal here and the flats so extended that an hour 
after we landed the falling tide had left us nearly half a mile inland. 
Our only chance of escape was to take advantage of the next high 
tide, which necessitated our s.arting before daylight in a dense cold 
fog next morning. . 

Soon after sunrise we landed on a wooded point, dried our tents 
and blankets and cooked breakfast, but were forced to make a 
hurried departure by the rapidly receding tide which threatened 
to leave us high and dry. At noon we pas-ed the old Spanish ruins of 
Fort Matanzas and the Matanzas Inlet from the ocean, out on the bar 
of which we could see the great rollers combing in an unbroken line 
of foam. We made a pleasant camp that nightina grove of cedars 
near plenty of wood and water 

The following morning we entered the canal that is being ent to 
connect the Matanzas and Halifax rivers, and thus establish unbroken 
water communication along the entire coast, and about noon reached 
the dredge at the head of the cut. Here a carry of six miles con- 
fronted us, and as but one team could be obtained, Willoughby de- 
cided to retrace his route about five miles to another pomt, from 
which the carry could be made, although from there it would be 
much longer. ; , 

We separated, after appointing a rendezvous on the Halifax, and 
late that evening the Alligator and her crew were deposited beside 
“the basin” on the headwaters of Smith Creek, which flows sluggishly 
into the Halifax. : ; 

The following day being Sunday, we rested quietly in camp, and on 
Monday descended Smith Creek to its junction with Bulow Creek, be- 
low which the two streams are cajled Halifax Creek, in reality the 
head of Halifax River. This was where we were to have met the 
Windward; but instead we found enly a roll of charts and a note from 
Willoughby, forwarded by special messenger, which stated that he 
had been taken ill after leaving us at the dredge, and had deemed it 
best to return to St, Augustine. — ; 

From here the Alligator cruised alone down the Halifax past 
Ormond, Holly Hill and Daytona, making a three days’ stay at- the 
last named place; past Mosquito Inlet, where a new lighthouse is in 
prospect of erection, into the Hillsboro River, past New Smyrna, 
where we found letters, and through the tortuous windings amid the 
beautiful mangrove islands of the Hillsboro into Mosquito Lagoon 
to Oak Hill. This is a sportsman’s paradise, and here is the Atlantic 
House, the best kept and most popular sportsman’s hotel in the State. 

From Oax Hill.a run of twelve miles before a brisk norther took 
us to the “Haulover,’’ which is really a narrow and shallow canal 
about 300 yards long, connecting the waters of Mosquito Lagoon and 
the Indiaui River. A mile from the Indian Kiver end of the Haul- 
over is the Dummit orange grove, the most famous grove in Florida, 
and here we lingered so long picking, eating and fillmg every vacant 
space in our boat with the delicious fruit that it wanted but an hour 
of sundown before we started ‘on the ten-mile run to Titusville, on 
the western bank of Indian River, which was our objective point for 
that night. The river at this point is between seven and eight miles 
wide, and is known as the Bay of Biscay. 

The long-continued northers had raised a tremendous sea in the 
bay. and the heavily-laden Alligator had all she could doto hold her 
own amid the angry waters, although two reefs left but a small 
show of sail. Sunset found us still far from land, and the darkness 
whicb almost immediately followed, rendered thesituation extremely 
unpleasant, not to say dangerous, After an hour of the most anxious 
sailing we reached the coast, and whirling around Sand Point, amid 
a smother of white water on ils long bar, reached the comparatively 
quiet water beyond, and were soon comfortably housed in the Titus- 

ille Hotel, $ 
f For the next hundred and fifty miles we had a delightful rnn down 
the broad expanse of Indian River, taking advantage of favorable 
winds, and camping, sometimes for days at a time, and exploring the 
surrounding country, when they were ahead. On thisrun we stopped 
at Eau Gallie, Melbourne, Malabar, the St. Sebastian River, Port Cap- 
von, and the mouth of St. Lucie, ever getting further from civiliza- 
tion, until at length the first of March found us camped near Jupiter 
Licht, at the extreme southern end of the Indian River. 

We were now in the land of cocoanuts, bananas and pineapples, 
where the mangrove attains tree-like proportions. Here perpetual 
summer reigns, and only the sensitive convolyuli showed trails of the 
slight frost that had been felt twice during the winter. At this point 
we were fired with the ambition to go still further south and pene- 
trate the beautiful but little known region of Lake Worth. ; 

From Jupiter two routes lay open to us, the outside via Jupiter 
Inlet, through the breakers, and down the coast ten miles to Lake 
Worth Inlet, and the inside, through a series of the most bewildering 
creeks, penetrating the vast saw grass swamps that lie between the 
coast and Lake Okeechobee. With a breeze from the west or north- 
west the outside passage could be easily and safely made; but at this 
season the southeast trades that blow so steadily all summer had al- 
most set in and it seemed impossible for the wind to blow from any 

r direction. 
Se aothan boat containing two men was about to attempt the laby- 
rinthine passage of the saw grass, and we decided to accompany #. 
The distance was fifteen miles, and after three days of desperate 
work, and two nights spent in our boats, amid the wild solitudes 
ot the saw grass, we accomplished it, and reached our goal, Lake 
Worth, the most beautiful spo* in Florida. : 

Here the lightest frost, the faintest breath of winter, is unknown. 
Here the India rubber tree. grows in stately luxuriance, cocoa nuts, 
pineapples, guavas, sapodillas, mangoes. and an infinity of tropical 
fruits, are among the ordinary products of the soil, The surrounding 
forests abound in game, the lake teems’ with the finest fish, among 


OF THE ALLI- 


| which the toothsome pompano is pre-eminent, and the ocean beach 


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Apri 24, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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s strewn with such a variety of tropical shells as would drive a con- 

-chologist wild with oo ae j 
Here we camped and reyelled in tropical surroundings for two 
weeks, Then wéleft the Alligator with our tent and all our camp 
outfit in readiness for next year’s cruise, and on board the schooner 
that makes bi-weekly trips between Lake Worth and Jacksonville 
bape to our point of departure well satisfied with our winter's 

work. 

A point definitely and satisfactorily settled by the crew of the ANli- 
vega on this cruise is that at least one honorary lady member of the 
. GC, A, enters into the pleasures and endures the hardships of 
genuine camping and smail-boat cruising with as much zest, hearti- 
ness and pluck as her more masculine associates, and she makes 
solemn declaration that she will never be left at home again when a 
similar expedition is to be undertaken by her husband. 
0. K, CHOBEE. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


VI.—WINNIPISEOGEE AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. 


‘Ww. H. N.” will find plenty of water in both of these rivers any 
time in June. But look out for logs, as the annual driye is due about 
that time, The Winnipiseogee is obstructed by innumerable dams, 
and the wise canoeist will transport his craft from Tilton four miles 
aeross country to Franklin, where the Pemigewasset and Winnipi- 
seogee unite to form the Merrimack. Sewall’s Falls, above Concord, 
easily run; Garvin’s Falls, three miles below, are the worst on the 
river, half mile carry; short carry around Hooksett dam, then nine 
miles slack water to Manchester; look out for Amoskeag dam above 
bridge; carry through city; five miles of rapids to Goff's Falls; can 
berun, but care must be used; run Reed's and Cromwell's Falls; 
clear water Nashua to Lowell; canal through city. or better, carry 
around Pawtucket dam and rapids below: Hun’ts Falls, a half-mile 
series of easy rapids, below city; take canal through Lawrence; 
strong current, passing through Mitchell’s Falls to Haverhill at the 
head of tide water, then broad and open water to the sea at New- 
buryport, The lower half of the Merrimack is the prettiest for 
cruising, and some of the choicest bits are found between Lovell 
and Lawrence, where it is proposed to hold a local meet for Eastern 
canuoeists early in June, Don’t-miss It. CLYTIE. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 
Il,— SOUPS. 


i Pye the canoeist the canned soups are the handiest, and can be 
prepared in a very short time by following the directions printed 
on every can. But for the general camper, whose room for luggage 
is not limited toa boat 14x30, I submit afew instructions on soups 
that may be useful. 
The time given for cooking soups in the recipes below may seem 
unnecessarily long, but if it is done in a less time, it is at a loss in the 
flayor. Wast boiling drives off considerable of the aroma of the in- 
gredients used, the water evaporates fast and requires constant re- 
plenishing with boiling water, which compels the cook to haye an ad- 
ditional vessel always on the fire. Constant skimming is necessary, 
and an occasional slight stirring will prevent any of the vegetables 
from burning on the pot where but little water is used, Campers do 
not commonly have fresh meat in camp, unless in a portion of the 
country where venison, buffalo or bear meat form a part of the larder. 
With any one of these, or with beef, we can make what I will call 
Meat Soup.—Use one pound of lean meat to a.quart of water. Put 
on thedire with the water cold, and let it heat gradually and simmer 
rather than boil, skimming it constantly and keeping the cover on 
the pot when this operation is not being performed. If any cooked 
meat or bones are to be added, this should be done after the soup has 
cooked three-quarters of an hour. From five and a half to six hours 
are necessary for the soup to cook. Just before it is done, season 
with salt and pepper, If made in an iron pot it should be transferred 


a 


as soonas done to a tin or earthen vessel. In cold weather this soup 
may be kept fresh and sweet for a week, and “warmed over” as long 
as it lasts. 

Vegetable Soup.—Onions, potatoes, carrots, turnips, beats, pars- 


‘nips, cabbage, cauliflower, pumpkins, squash, ete,, should be picked 


over, washed, pared, and cut into small pieces from a quarter to a 
half inch thick, put intoa pan of cold water, rinsed and drained. 
Tomatoes should be sealded, peeled and sliced, Prepare a meat 
soup as above, and when it has cooked four hours put in all your 
vegetables except potatoes, which should be put in only about thirty 
minutes before the soupis done, Stir the soup occasionally to pre- 
yent the vegetables from seorching or sticking to the bottom of the 
pot, and skim frequently, When done take out the vegetables, mash 
and return them to the soup, boil one minute, season and serve. 
Canned corn or tomatoes may be used in this soup the same as fresh 
vegetables, 

Deer's Head Soup.—Skin the head and split it in pieces, remove the 
eyes and brains and wash thoroughly in cold water. Then cook same 
asin meatsoup. Squirels, rabbits, and small game generally can be 
cleaned and splitand made into soup as above. When vegetables are 
added to soup made of small game, the latter should be remeved and 
strained, and the good meat returned to the pot just before the vege- 
tables are put in, leaving out all the bones, skin, gristle, etc. 

Tomato Sowp,—Mix one tablespoonful of flour and a piece of but- 
ter the size of an egg into asmooth paste, and chop one onion fine. 
Prepare three pounds of tomatoes as for vegetable soup (the same 
amount of canned tomatoes may be used) and put all the ingredients 
with a teaspoonfulof salt into three pints of cold water. Boil gently 
for an hour, stirring frequently enough to dissolve th®tomatoes and 
prevent burning. then stir in one pint of boiled milk, and let it come 
again to a boil, constantly stirring. Season and serve. 

Rice Soup.—Make a meat soup, with the addition of one sliced 
onion. Prepare the rice (one-half pound toa gallon of water) by pick- 
ing it over, washing and draining. and stir it into the soup half an 
hour before it is done, stirring frequently to prevent burning. 

Bean Soup.—Pick over two quarts of beans, wash, and soak them 
over night in cold water, Scrapeclean oné pound of salt pork, and 
eut into thin slices. Drain the beans, put them into six quarts of cold 
water, with one tablespoonful of soda, and let them boil gently for 
half an hour, skimming constantly. Then drain off all the waver and 
pul in the same amount of fresh boiling water. Boil slowly for an 

our and a half, stirring frequently; then putin the pork. When the 
beans have become tender enough to crack, take out the pork and 
mash the beans into a paste with a wooden masheror the bottom of 
a large bottle. Then put all back and boil slowly an hour longer. If 
no soda is used, longer boiling will be necessary. Bean soup will burn 
ifnot constantly stirred. Not much salt, but plenty of pepper should 
be used for seasoning. 

Pea Soup.—Treat the peas exactly the same as the beans in the 
above recipe, except as to the preliminary boiling in water with soda. 
Make the same way as bean soup. Pea soup cools and thickens 
rapidly, therefore if squares of fried bread are thrown upon the sur- 
face betore serving. it should be done quickly and while the bread is 
hot. Use more salt than with the bean soup for seasoning, and boil 
gently or it will surely burn. 

Onion Soup—Put three tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying-pan, 
cut six large onions in slices, and stir them into the butter over the 
fire till they begin to cook. Thea cover tight and set them where 
they will simmer slowly for halfan hour. Puta quart of milk with a 
tablespoonful of butter onto boil, and while this is doing stir into the 
onions a tablespoonful of flour while they are simmering, Turn the 
mixture into the boiling milk and cook quarter of an hour, seasoning 
withsalt and pepper. If an old tin pan is handy that you can use for 
the purpose, the soup will be improved by knocking small holes in 
the bottom of the pan, thus making a colander, and straining the 
soup through it, afterward adding the well-beaten yolks of four eggs 
and cooking three minutes longer. 


Oyster Sowp.—Put a gallon of milk and half a pound of butter into 
the pot and heat gradually. When hot, stir in the strained liquor of 
two quarts of oysters, very gradually, to prevent the milk from curd- 
ling, then one pound of crushed crackersgpr bread crumbs, When it 
has come to a boil put in the oysters (two quarts), and let it cook till 
the ae of the oysters curl up, when it should be seasoned and 
served, 


Clam Sowp.—Exactly the same as above, using clams instead of 
oysters. ; 

Mud Turtle Soup.—At Lake View Point, Onondaga Lake, I was 
once regaled with an excellent soup made of rar ap Eee 
or “mud turtles.” Unfortunately I did not obtain the recipe, but 
hare written to a friend who may be able to get it of the cook, 
“french Fred”? Ganier, and if obtained. it willbe given in a future 

aper. 
co ext week's discourse dietetic will bé on the subject of “Wish,”’ 
SENTOA, 


THAT SNEAKBOX AGAIN. 


Editor Forest and Stream: E 

Tf I can possibly have a 124 sneakbox in stock at the time of the 
A.C. A, meet in August, I will have it at the Thousand Islands, and 
give the ‘‘boys” a chance to compare it with the canoe if we get wind 
enough, 

I have heard that they will live where nothing else can, and L know 
the canoe will live where much larger craft dare not venture. Ihave 
been under paddle in a 1016ft.x26in. canoe, where it troubled an 
18ft.x4ft. Whitehall open boat to keep free Trom water. 

Call Dr. Heighway as the next witness; he took a very rough sail 
down Lake Ontario in a 15ft.X3lin, Princess two years ago, and [ 
think found out just about how much wind and water such 4 canoe 
could live in. J. H, Ruspron, 


Canton, N. Y. 


PELICAN C. C.—Twenty gentlemen met at Young's Hotel, Boston, 
on the 16th of April, and organized the Pelican ©. C., owning ten 
canoes. The following officers were elécted: Commodore, Wayne 
H. North, Boston; Vice-Commodore, ©. C, Osgood, Geonr eva: 
Mass. ; Secretary, b. J. Bowen, Boston; Treasurer, C. E. Symms, 
Medford, Mass.; Directors. William P. MeMullan, Biddeford, Me., 
Arthur Y. King, Boston: G. A. Holland, Medford, Mass. The club 
burgee adopted was white maltese cross on red ground. its size 
1ix20in. One of the most enjoyable features of the evening was a 
banquet, the center piece on the table being a small canoe of bireh 
bark filled with beautiful flowers. This was floating on a miniature 
lake with banks of flowers. A canoe of ice was served resting on a 
sea of spun sugar, and was very palatable as well as artistic. Com- 
mittees were appointed to lay out cruises, ete. 


THE ROCHESTER C. C.—At the annual meeting, held April 8, 
elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Captain, Frank P. 
Andrews; Mate, Edwin M. Gilmore; Purser, Matt Angle; Executive 
Committee, Geo. H. Harris, Herbert J. Wilson, Fred W. Storms, The 
constitution was amended, abolishing the cumbersome titles of com- 
modore, vice-commodore and secretary-treasurer, and substituting 
captain, mate and purser in their place. The new club house on Iron- 
dequoit Bay, a two-story structure, 16x34, will be occupied early in 
May. Several new canoes are being built for the fleet. Itis the in- 
tention of the club to hold a regatta when warm weather sets in. 
Communications have passed between the Toronto Club and the 
Rochesters, lookiag toward a local meet.—MarTrT ANGLE. 

N.Y. Y. C.—Mr. Stokes, in the Will o’ the Wisp, in company with 
Mr. Taylor, in the Hiawatha, made the first trip of the season—a run 
around Staten Island—leaying the club house at 6 A. M. on Saturday 
and reaching West Brighton at 7:30 P, M., haying sailed down the Bay 
and paddled against tide and wind up from Perth Amboy- 

NEW YORK STILL AHEAD.—The secretary of the Knickerbocker 
C. C. writes under date of April 14: ‘Had the pleasure of lugging 
one of our men from the (semi) briny depth of the Hudson on Friday 
last, after the first upset of the season.’”’ The _N. Y. C.C, had their 
first upset on Thursday, April10, Try again, Knickerbockers, 


APT. FARRAR’S NEw Boox.—We are informed that Capt. Charles 
A. J. Farrar, well known to many of our readers, has a new book in 
press, entitled ‘Wild Woods Life; or, A Trip to Parmachenee,”’ which 
will be published early in May by Lee & Shepard, Boston, The story 
is written in the same pleasant style that characterizes all of the 
Captain's works. The retail price of the book will be $1,50, and 
orders for il may be sent to this offiee, which will be filled as soon as 
the books are out of the bindery. 


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Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment ot 
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unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
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Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
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only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, 
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Antelope and Deer of America. 


—BY— 
JOHN DEAN CATON, LL.D. 


This work is the most important publication ever printed on the subject. 


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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 
The New York Dog Show. 
Retrievers. 
American English Beagle Club. 
St. Louis Dog Show. 


EDITORIAL. 
Dynamite Guns. 
Yacht Measurement in the East. 
An Elk Hunt. 

THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 


Charleston to Cape Roman. 
Where the Bung 'Tree Grows. 
NATURAL HISTORY, 
Application of Trinomial No- 
menclature to Zoology. 
Deer in the Adirondacks. 
Game Bag anv Gun, 
The Woodeock. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
Michigan Notes. 
Life Saving Crew Gunners. 
Concerning Robins. 
Major Joseph Verity. 
Long Island Game Protection. 
Air Resistance. 
Sea AND RIVER FISHING. 
Opening of the Maine Season. 


Non-Sporting Dogs. 
*Ware the Beagle. 
English Kennel Notes. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 


CANOEING. 


Mohican ©. C. 

The Mohicans of Albany. 

The Chart Locker. 
Wisconsin Rivers. 

The Log Book. : 
Caloosahatchee River 

Lake Okeechobee. 
A Local Meet at Lake George. 


and 


For New York Anglers. 
Fly-Books. 

Dowels and Reel Seats. 
Draining the Androscoggins. 


Amateur Canoe Building, —xry. 
YACHTING. 

A Fine Yacht. 

International Amateur Channel 


FISHCULTURE, Match. 
American Fisheultural Associ-| A Bit of Real Yachting. 
ation, New England Y. R. A. 


The New York Fish Commission 


Nyssa. 
Fishculture in Colorado. 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


YAOHT MEASUREMENT IN THE EAST. 


CORRESPONDENT informs us that the sentiment 
among the representatives of the New England Y. 

R. A. was in favor of the Seawanhaka sail area and length 
tule for the measurement of large yachts, But the greater 
simplicity of gauging by plain length was considered in- 
ducement enough to apply that method to the small boats, 
which constitute the great majority of the racers in Eastern 
waters, where many of the entries still are ‘open boats.” 
The association also realized the necessity of proposing a 
rule which would not cause dissension at the outset, hence 
the recommendation of the plan hitherto generally fellowed 
by the various local clubs in their individual capacity. This 
is well enough, perhaps, for the time being, though we had 
wished for reformatory legislation at the outset. As the 
average tonnage of racing yachts is destined to grow very 
fast all over the country, the association may in the future 
see fit to proclaim the sail area and Jength rule for the larger 
classes and confine simple length measurement to open boats, 
as if ought to. If this aspect of the matter is kept in view, 
the association may be trusted to introduce the desired modi- 
fication when the proper time arrives in its opinion. The 
danger we foresee. in such a course is the liability to crys- 
tallize a makeshift into a permanent custom, as even large 
yachts built under a plain length rule will be so big on their 
Joadline and so heavily sparred that vested interests in the 
future may become too strong to be forced to a return of an 
equitable-policy under which other styles shall receive jus- 
tice, and that in effect racing yachts will become such ex- 
pensive and unwieldy affairs as to steadily differentiate the 
huge racer from the economically-formed cruiser more and 
more every year, much to the detriment of the whole sport. 
When that time arrives, as it is sure to do, no one can blame 
us for not having clearly pointed out the drift events are 
bound to take in ample time to head off the consequences. 
Only one particular style of yacht can flourish under length 
measurement, and we question the policy of forcing experi- 
ment and custom into one narrow rut by “prejudicial 


legislation, ee 


thie 


DEFEHAT OF THE NEW HNGLAND BILL. 


HE defeat of the proposed game law by the Massachu- 
setts House of Representatives is disgraceful from the 
position in which it puts that State with the rest of New 


‘England. A convention was held carly in the season in 


Boston, and it was well attended by delegates representing 
the best fish and game protective interests of the other New 
England States. A code of game laws was decided upon as 
best fitting the wants of New England, and delegates agreed 
that if Massachusetts would lead off and adopt the new code, 
they would see that each of their own States did the same. 
The bill passed the Massachusetts Senate without opposition, 
and its chances were just as good in the House. 

But the market interest in Bosten predominates. The 
shrewd Yankees under Faneuil Hall and in and about Faneuil 
Hall Market, would willingly see the last quail, the last 
woodcock, the last partridge or deer that the woods were 
ever to bestow, brought to their doors, provided the chance 
appeared to make a dime or a dollar upon it. Indeed, these 
tradesmen are greatly disturbed because the game laws of 
Maine lave stopped their selfish traffic from that direction. 
The proposed universal game law for New England—one of 
the best game bills ever drafted—frightened them. They 
tried dining and wining the members of the committee and 
of the Senate. Here they failed; but there were members 
of the House found to be more readily gullible. <A 
good dinner, a theater ticket, a bunch of cigars or a glass of 
beer went a good ways in these members’ notions. They came 
into the House and voted squarely against a game law de- 
signed to protect their own interests—their own property— 
to please fifty marketmen, whose only object is to make a 
dollar. But the question is not dead yet. There is a grow- 
ing public sentiment, and Boston market as “the dumping 
ground” for the last relics of the fish and game of New 
England will yet be dammed up by some good, wholesome 
legislation. 


DYNAMITE GUNS. 


| tena experiments in the neighborhood of this city 

seem to indicate that the use of dynamite introduced 
into missiles will soon become general. The difficulty here- 
tofore has been, that the cartridge containing this powerful 
explosive at the front end, when tired with the ordinary gun- 
powder charge, was sure to compel the dyvamite to explode 
simultaneously with the ignition of the powder. This, of 
course, was a vital objection, and in place of haying the de- 
structive effect a mile or more away, the tearing apart was 
upon the gun itself. Many devices were arranged to meet 
this difficulty, and a very fair result was obtained by tle use 
of compressed air as a motor, in place of the ordinary black 
powder. The air was compressed in machines constructed 
for the purpose, and then introduced into the weapons be- 
hind the peculiarly devised cartridge, which carried a very 
destructive charge of dynamite at its head, 

The results of many trials showed that the question of 
the use of the nitro-glycerine explosive has been answered 
in a certain manner, The gun used was, however, a very 
unwieldy contrivance, and there were other objections. To 
meet these came further inventive effort, and in a short time 
a company of experts were invited to witness the trial of a 
compound cartridge which was inserted in an ordinary Rod- 
man gun and fired with a charge of ordinary gunnery pow- 
der, when away went the cartridge head with a two-pound 
charge of dynamite snugly tucked within it, off over the 
meadows to delve a great cellar pit in the earth a mile away. 
The method of so taking off the suddenness of the start, 
which had been the stumbling block in previous trials, was 
in the use of a rubber buffer wad. This seemed to answer 
every one of the demands of such a weapon, and so mode- 
rated the suddenness of the impact of the powder gas upon 
the dynamite-charged ball that they were enabled to fire re- 
peated charges. 

This simplification of the methods of using the dynamite, 
suggests at once the question of how soon this pewerful agent 
of destruction may be adapted to the smaller class of arms, 
and the rifleman of the near future be prepared to use a bul- 
let, beside which the express bullets of to-day will be com- 
paratively harmless, against certain classes of game or 
wild animals where the important point is to kill’ surely and 
swiftly. To put into the body of a wolf a bullet which shall 
create a general destruction of the animal's interior will be 
an important point, and if this can be done with as mueh 
safety to the marksman as though he were using the present 
form of cartridge, there would*doubtless be a large demand 
for such an article. bea 

Tn warfare the use even of the larger form of dynamite 


a circular, of interest to-Long Island sportsmen. 


cartridge will produce very marked results, and add one 
more to the other important changes brought about by the 
introduction of this modern agent. When the use extends 
to the small arms the change will be forced at a rapid gait. 
With two armies facing each other and each provided with 
weapons so surely destructive as these dynamite bullets may 
be made, war will become too certainly deadly for future 
pursuit and the dream of the peace disciples be brought to a 
reality by the very perfection of the weapons of destruction. 
If to the accuracy which already marks the small arm of to- 
day be udded the terrible destructiveness which would come 
with the use of this new cartridge, to go to war would be 
little less than a deliberate suicide, and the determined 
bravery and gathered skill of the most hardy of veterans will 
be set at naught by the force of a mere mob in whose hands 
this new missile was placed. 

The grimy black powder of the past centuries should make 
way for something which more exactly represents the knowl- 
edge of modern time in chemical and mechanical sciences. 
The day will come when arifle magazine of the ordinary 
size will contain as many times more than the present supply 
of cartridges, and their destructive power will be increased 
in inverse ratio to the space saved. ‘lhe possibilities of the 
future in the matter of changes in ammunition are very 
great, and the army of inventors now busy upon the prob- 
lem of how best to apply the discoveries recently made to 
the demands of the hour, cannot be expected much longer to 
fail in their endeavors and aims. How far the methods of 
sportsmen will be affected is at present only an interesting 
speculation, but the time is rife for change, and the altera- 
tions will come in the near future. 


AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS will be interested in learning 
that Dr. Elliott Coues is about to visit England. It will be 
remembered that some years ago Dr. Cones received a memo- 
rial, signed by most of the leading scientific men of Great 
Britain, inviting him to visit Europe for the purpose of con- 
sulting foreign Ifpraries in furtherance of his great work, 
the ‘Bibliography of Ornithology,” and it will be a matter 
of congratulation among ornithologists everywhere that the 
author of this important undertaking is now able to avail him- 
self of this invitation. The trip is undertaken ostensibly for 
health and recreation, but those who know the energy 
with which Dr. Coues works, will be slow to believe that this 
summer vacation wiil be spent in idleness. The use of tri- 
nomials in ornithological nomenclature has become pretty 
well established in America, and is now agitating the British 
mind; and Dr. Coues, as vice-president of the A. O. U., will 
no doubt give much attention to enlightening our English 
friends on this and kindred points. There are already signs 
that the ‘‘American idea” of trinomials is taking root in 
England, and it would not be surprising if a speedy alliance 
were brought about between the American and British 
schools of ornithology. The question is certainly of very great 
interest, and one upon which substantial agreement among 
English-speaking naturalists is sreatly to be desired. Dr. 
Coues expects to sail May 24 on the Guion steamer Oregon. 


. 


A Fuxp ror Lone Istanp.—In another column appears 
That the 
game laws cannot be enforced without men or money is a 
proposition which meets general acceptance, and this appeal 
frem Game Protector Whitaker deserves the careful con- 
sideration of those who visit Long Island to shoot or fish, 
The gentlemen named in the circular have consented to re- 
ceive the money contributed and to supervise its expendi- 
ture, and the movement, if carried on with energy, cannot 
fail to be productive of good. We have consented, at the 
request of Mr. Whitaker, to receive subscriptions to this 
fund, which we will hand over to the committee as fast as 
received. Long Island, from its geographical position, offers 
an excellent field for this experiment, . which, if successful 
here, may be extended to other regions. 


Ratnsow Trovut.—We would call attention to the para- 
graph in our notice of the report of the New York Fish 
Commission concerning these fish. It is beginning to be 
learned that they are migratory, and do not remain in brooks. 
We have never been much in favor of this fish, because we 
have known, what is not popularly known, that the fish is 
strongly suspected to be a salmon. There is no difference 
that an ichthyologist qan find between the Salme dridea and 
the salmon known as ‘‘steelhead,” ‘‘hardhead,” and 
“salmon trout” on the Pacific coast, the Salmo gairdneri. 
Although this is the case, and the species tridea is a doubte 


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ful one, yet it has been thought best not to combine them for 
the present. We have been waiting and watching the 
habits of this alleged trout with great interest in order to 
learn if its habits might not show it to be in some respect dif- 
ferent from the steelhead, The evidence of the Commission 
tends to show that it isa migratory fish, and if so it may 
eseape to sea and be lost, as the other California salmon was. 
We believe that Mr. Roosevelt has not seen the rainbows 
which he planted in streams emptying into Great South Bay, 
Long Island, since they were yearlings, 


e AN ELK HUNT. 
MM? things are relative, they say, 
Some put it in a stronger way; 
But sure [am in ‘Sixty-three, 
When Meade and Hooker fought with Lee, 
When for the rights of States or slaves 
Brave thousands slept in bloody graves; 
When by the dun Missouri’s stream 
‘Still flashed the Pawnee camp-fires’ gleam, 
And bison ‘round the Rocky chain 
Shook with their march the darkened plain, 
The world was younger. I @on’t mean 
Some twenty years. That’s quickly seen, 
Nor in a geologic sense, 
Where dreary ages yawn immense, 
But that the human race we'll say 
Was twice as young as ‘tis to-day. 
I own I have a friend who winks 
When I say this, and clearly thinks 
That the world’s age, by my account, 
Tallies quite closely in amount 
With my own wrinkles. Nay, declares 
The youngest man the planet bears, 
After a year of Kansas chills, 
Can patronize the eternal hills. 
But one fact surely’s not in me, 
For all observers must agree 
That since the ’Sixties. noble game 
Is much less plenty, and less tame; 
Yet every hunter knows that ground. 
Where over night great droves were found, 
May be for months silent, forlorn, 
Unyisited by hoof or horn. 
This truth some prospectors onee proved; 
It seemed that all the game had moyed, 
Warned by the autumn winds that blow, 
Loud threats of high-piled smothering snow; 
Their cabin rose among the hills, 
Where, gathering up a thousand rills, 
With every streamlet gaining force, 
The Yampa speeds its headlong course. 
Hastes to the Green with eager leaps, 
Joins with the Grand and onward sweeps, 
Down through the deep-split, rock-walled gash, 
Where Colorado’s currents dash. 
Their food was gone, and all around, 
A wide, white waste. No living sound, 
Save when on swirling wind-gusts float, 
The yelpings of the far coyote. 
But two brave comrades volunteer 
To hunt once more some God-sent deer, 
And so start out in swinging tramp, 
To feed the starving, freezing camp. 
The web-shoed wanderers plod along, 
Feeble in limb, in purpose strong, 
To the low foothills, spreading wide 
Around a rugged mountain’s'side, 
Channelled by storm, and seamed with scar, 
Called, fromthe top that showed afar 
lis steep black ridge’s lowering frown, 
“The mountain of the iron crown.” 


Warm from his bed the elk arose. 

Tkough nested ’mid November snows, 

His long, thick coat, and mighty heart 
Defied the ice-king’s sharpest dart. 

He swelled his neck, sniffed the light breeze, 
And starting downward through the trees, 
With horns thrown backward to his haunch, 
Sixfoot long points on either branch, 
Struck out in reaching trot, where grow 
The aspen thickets far below. 

On fragrant twigs the dainty beast, 

Still makes his aromatic feast, 

When grass lies deep beneath the sheet 

Of frozen drifts and crusted sleet. 


The hunters spy the fresh-made track, 

Their hearts beat fast, their strength comes back; 
Panting, they strive, though stiff and lame, 

To get to leeward of the game. 

At last their caution gets its due, 

And the great victim stands in view, 

Feeding below them at his ease, 

Among the leafless aspen trees. 

A breathless pause; then, with firm rest 

On an old log that topped the crest,. 

The hunters pull.. The rifles crack, 

And the bull throws his antlers back, 

Jumps wildly to the dizzy edge 

Of a steep boulder-breasted ledge, 

Where wind-bared rocks showed sharp and brown, 
Goes clattering, sliding, crashing down, 

Far, far they traced the trail of blood, 

Till in the depths of a dark wood, 

Whose crowded pine boughs scarce let through 
A glimpse of heaven’s upper blue, 

They found the great brown graceful form, 
Amid the trampled snow, still warm, 

While the gored wolf that lay beside, 

Showed how in brave defense he died. 


So fell the elk, and back again, 

With meat to feed the hungry men, 

The hunters toiled, and thought the road 
Seemed shorter for the welcome load. 
The mountain monarch’s antlered head 
Still guards the memory of th¢ dead, 
Showing, where glasses shine and ellnk, 
Where thirsty miners crowd to drink, 
And sodden vice and folly lurk, 


‘The majesty of nature’s work. ‘HL G, Dutoa, | 


— so tu a“ he es AS 
FOREST AND STREAM, 


_, Hearing a sigh from Deerslayer, and inquiring the cause, 
it seemed that his fingers were cut at every discharge of the 
gun, and were fast swelling out of shape, for as his avoirdu- 


Che Sportsman Courist. 


CHARLESTON TO CAPE ROMAN. 


A BARREN mud flat, with standing pools of water, ‘in 

and around which plover and curlew are standing and 
feeding. A solitary diver, softly whistling, a few rodsoff, high 
and dry, with a list to one side, a tug, on the deck of which, 
in various attitudes, isa group of men, sprawled out in 
sleep, while over and around all is a canopy of dense thick 
fog. At the stern, with his number eights, and about a foot 
of his legs projecting over the side, lying with a satchel for 
a pillow and the deck for a bed, was Deerslayer, dreaming 
of the manner in which he would seal up the ends of his 
legs, which he imagined were cut off, and hesitating between 
sealing wax and rosin as the remedy. On the port side, some 
six feet anda half off, humanity was stretching its length 
with a capacity for hominy and butter simply stupendous, 
and from its cavernous mouth came, ever and anon, gentle, 
tender murmurings, that made one think of purling 1ivulets 
in spring time, or some other time. ~ 

On the starboard side, with his genial face looking up to 
the skies, was our pilot and quondam host, owing to whose 
skill and guidance we were now tranquilly resting upon the 
oozy bosom of Palmetto Flat, in Bull’s Bay, South Carolina, 
on a cold morning in mid-December, 1883. 

In the boiler room was the engineer; curled up below deck 
in the bow was Jenkins, our colored boy, whom I would 
back to get into more trouble and do more things wrong ina 
given time than any one of his inches in the country. 

Forward of the boiler and below decks, Ollie and Jack 
were lying spoon fashion, the first our Captain, the latter our 
shifting ballast, while wedged between the afterbitts and 
the house, with his head in a basket and bis feet on the 
rails, was the writer. This comprised the party, and this 
would have been the scene presented could an observer have 
reached the spot on the morning of Dec. 20. 

It may be wondered why we did not go into the pilot 
house or cabin to take our interviews with the dream god. 
Alas! her cabin was the hold and boiler room, her pilot 
house was but a sham, four feet wide by about fhe same in 


pols is something over two hundred and eighty, with fingers 
in proportion, there was not a superabundance of room be- 
tween guard and flesh, 

With fingers lame and bleeding, and a gun that opened 
continually, poor Deerslayer was becoming: rapidly discour- 
aged, and as all the ducks we saw were so wild that they 
speedily put as much space between themselves and the tug 
as was possible, it began to dawn on us that our duck supper 
would be more a matter of fancy than reality, 

After a discussion between the engineer and captain as to 
the proper channel to select of the many that opened to view 
one was chosen which the captain had tried before and knew 
to have sufficient water, although the distance was greater 
than by one that was much less crooked, but in which, on a 
shrinking tide, we would be more than liable to be stranded 
on an oyster bank. 

Trying an_occasional shot with the rifle at great blue 
herons, or ‘‘Po’ Joes,” as the darkies call them, taking snap 
shots at helldivers as they ducked from sight, occasionally 
getting one as it rose from the water, watching the buzzards 
as they rose and circled above the distant land, and with a 
thorough enjoyment of our position, but not of our luck, we 
wound our way through the narrow channel, now and then 
meeting great lumbering-looking sloops, loaded almost to the 
guards with rice going to the Charleston market, the boats 
propelled along with poles when the wind was ahead and 
the course too narrow to tack. 

After an hour more we reached the upper end of Capers 
Island, and on the wharf found Mr. Magwood, who had in- 
vited us to be his guests, 

Dropping anchor in the stream we went ashore in one of 
our small boats and received a most hearty welcome. 

Learning that we had brought no dogs, he dispatched one 
of his servants to the mainland to borrow two of Mr. White- 
side’s hounds, in order that we might have a run on Capers 
the next morning. 

The house where we were entertained was on an oyster 
reef with marsh land around it, the inlet from the sea on one 
side, and a deep creek separating it from Capers on the other, 
while a walk elevated on short piles led to the wharf. 

The house itself consisted of two rooms with a half-loft 
-overhead. In one room a table and some stools comprised 
the furniture, and a broad fire-place, in which fat pine knots 
were blazing, added a cheerful aspect to the whole. The 
other contained a bed and a stand. 

This house was used by the men engaged in planting and 
watching the oyster beds belonging to Mr. Magwood. 

After a hearty lunch, in which roast oysters, fresh from 
their beds, played the principal part, I crossed the inlet to 
Bulls Island with Mr. M,’s brother, who makes his home 
there and attends to the stock and superintends the business 
of getting out palmetto logs, making them into rafts and 
shipping them to Charleston, which destination they reach 
by poling and drifting with the tides, it sometimes taking 
ten days or more to make the trip. 

I went to Bull’s for a still-hunt, having been told that there 
were plenty of deer and that they were very seldom hunted. 
Having neyer been on the island before 1 knew nothing of 
the lay of the land, but first tried a hammock (a word whose 
spelling has been discussed in ForEsT AND SrReAM, I think), 
Although sign was plenty and the ground carefully gone 
over, nothing was started, and a ridge was explored with 
the result of starting up a wild sow with a litter of pigs, 
which ran off with grunts and squeals, but the old lady, 
with a bristling back and a regular whistle, charged with 
fire in her eye, and reminded me very much of a similar 
charge made on me by an old bear, whose cub I had killed, 
in the Adirondacks. The Magwood brothers have a large 
number of hogs that run semi-wild, and I was uncertain 
whether this was a wild one or one of theirs, so held my 
fire, mentally resolving that if the sow came any nearer 
than a sapling about twenty feet off, to let the Winchester 
talk, for both gentlemen had cautioned me not to let either 
boars or sows come too near, as they were often very dan- 
gerous when startled, and only the week before two men 
had been treed for over an hour by an enraged boar. As if 
warned by intuition, she stopped as her nose reached the 
sapling, just as my finger was pressing the trigger, and with 
a snort tore off through the bushes at a great rate, leaving 
me somewhat relieved, as { had come for venison, not pork. 

A heavy wind springing up, and as the creeping vines, the 
brush and saw palinetto was almost impenetrable, I decided 
to return to Cupers and hunt there with the dogs and reserve 
my still-hunt until I was more familiar with the island and 
could learn where one would be most liable to find the game. 

A still-hunt in a Southern jungle is vastly different from. 
one in our Adirondack forests, for the thickest cedar swamp 
cannot compare with the density of some of the thickets [ 
tried and which were a perfect net work of perplexities, 
where sound would haye to avail more than sight, but hay- 
ing been told that the deer resorted to them during the heat 
of the day, and that when ‘‘jumped” sought the more open 
land, or the sandkills, I resolved to get them ont if there 
were any there. S 

After tumbles innumerable, hopeless tangles with vines 
and creepers, and haying made more noise than a train of 
cars, and raised row enough to paralize any deer in his right 
senses, [made my way out and concluded that as a still- 
hunter in that sort of place, ‘‘Onondaga” was not a success. 

Thanking Mr, Magwood for his proffered hospitality and 
bidding him adieu, a brisk walk of some four miles brought 
me to the inlet where a couple of shots from the rifle brought 
a boat from the other shore, where boiling coffee and steam- 
ing oysters awaited me. 

After a short game of ‘‘draw” we all sought sleep, and 
some found it, as the rollmg thunders of heavy rest pro- 
claim: d, that two at least, had ears unmoved by sound. 

For medicinal purposes Deeslayer had placed in his satchel 
a bottle of gin, and before going to rest thought he would 
take a ‘‘wee sma’ drop,” but hard was the luck, for the cork 
had come out and his extra trousers held in solution a quart 
of the choicest Holland, and he was left the choice of chew- 
ing a piece of his breeches or sleeping without his toddy. 

At early dawn the next day we were all assigned stands 
on Capers Island, by universal vote giving Deerslayer what 
was thought to be the best, for be it known that he had 
earned the illustrious title by five years’ hunting, and as yet 


lee 

o bulwarks protected her, and it were hazardous, in- 
deed, for one to pass another on her decks without holding 
on to the rail that graced the house covering the boiler and 
engines. 

She was no beauty, but well had served the purpose re- 
quired of her, and had towed many hundred thousand feet 
of timber during the past year from its home on the Wando 
River down to the island where rest the bones of Osceola, 
whence it went to be hidden from human sight forever be- 
neath the waves of the Atlantic that roll their surges over 
Charleston Bar. 

It had been a long talked of and cherished plan with my 
partner and myself that when our works were completed we 
should take a trip by the inland route from Charleston up to 
Cape Roman and the South Santee on one of our tugs, but 
the larger ones drawing too much water for the passage we 
were compelled to fall back on the little Bull River, with 
the spacious accommodations described. 

We had invited one of the county officers and a friend of 
his, who was to bring four hounds, to join us, but at 11 
o’clock the night previous to our start we received word that 
business of importance would compel him to go to Columbia 
to represent his county’s interests, and that neither his friend 
nor himself would be able to go. 

We determined to go, however, and as the sun was begin- 
ning to rise over the distant sandhills, steamed away from 
our wharf, filled with brightest anticipations of the most 
glorious sport among the ducks and deer, but with a feeling 
of disappointment that our expected guests could not be 
with us. 

As we entered the creek that wound its way tortuously 
among the marshes, we left behind us the beautiful harbor of 
Charleston, its forts, its beacons, and its historic and roman- 
tic interest, 

Opposite the Catholic church on Sullivan Island we catch 
a glimpse of Fort Moultrie, under the shadow of whose walls 
lies.a marble slab with the simple legend ‘‘Osceola, Patriot 
and Warrior,” and next his grave a plain wooden railing 
incloses the spot where rest the bones of several sailors and 
soldiers who were sunk in their ships in the harbor during 
the war. 

It was there that Marion, the Swamp-Fox, once held com- 
mand, and there it was that General Sherman held his first 
commission, and on his hunting trips from that place gained 
such valuable knowledge of the country. 

Game ahead! / 

Thoughts of generals, conquests, romance and beauty 
vanish. 

The gun is seized, and, as a bunch of ducks go whizzing 
by, one is picked out, and with the report still goes whizzi 
on, leaving a very much astonished gunner; not astonishe 
at the miss—used to that sort of thing too long—but the old 

un, after years of steady use, had gone back on me and 

ew open. This was a cheerful prospect for my partner, 
who was not used tomy Lefevre hammerless, and had elected 
to use my hammer gun, as more ta his taste. 

Rubber bands around the barrels failed to prevent the gun 
opening, so it became virtually a single barrel gun, as the 
second barrel was almost invariably useless. The fault was 
afterward discovered to be caused by the wearing of the 
bolt. 

After making three consecutive misses, flinching every 
time, I changed guns, and then madea twenty-five cent ‘“‘pot”’ 
on shots. My record was unimproved for some time, but 
at last I retrieved my reputation and stopped even. 

Passing Long Island and Swinton’s, we at length reached 
Deweese’s Inlet, where on a pleasant day last May Deer- 
slayer Ollie and I caught fifty-seven splendid sheepshead in 
about four hours, and as two of us, at least, were novices 
at landing the crafty bait-stealers, we felt very proud of our 
record. 

Saluting old Mr. Jones, whose hospitality we had enjoyed 
on previous trips, with three blasts of the whistle, we passed 
back of the island, and there I succeeded in killing a Joon 
with my Winchester, intending to use his breast as the cover 
to a chair bottom; but neglecting to skin it that day, the next 
saw it a subject for the buzzards, and an odor pervaded the 
air that might haye even moved a New York City Board of 
Health officer. 

As we steamed along we started up great flocks of cormor- 
ants, or as they are here called, ‘‘nigger geese,” but the. 
were very wild, and we did not succeed in stopping any wi 
either shot or rifle, though I wanted oné for my collection 


and did my best to secure a specimen, 


patience said his turn must come in time. 

The weather was cold and dry and but one hound was to 
be had, the other having slipped his collar and tried a Jone 
hunt of his own on the mainland the night before. 

Our drive was not a success, for after spending six hours 
without a deer being seen, we returned to the oyster house 


had never had a shot at a deer, but with a true hunter's 


a 


and prepared for an early morning start for the South Santee 
River. 

During (he afternoon and early evening a few sheldrakes 
and divers were killed, but not a-single good duck was 
killed. While sitting in a bateau and trying to drift within 


gunshot of a bunch of scaup ducks, a killdee plover lit on | 


the seat of the boat within five feet of me, and without fear, 
after cocking his head and eyeing me as much as to say, “You 
look like a man, but you must be a stump,” began to preen 
his feathers, but a wink of the eye or an involuntary move 
of the hand sent him circling round the boat, bul even then 
he did not seem in the least frightened, and essayed to alight 
twice or three times afterward. ‘ x 

Leaving Capers Island, we steamed along without incident 
back of Bull’s Island and out into Bull’s Bay. 

There was nota breath of air stirring, so we tried to take a 
short cut across the flats, as we had a good tide to give plenty 
of water under our Keel. ; 

All went well until we were within a mile of completing 
the crossing, when a sudden lurch to one side, a scraping 
below, and a sudden stop showed we were aground, and 80 
hard and fast, too, that no amount of backing or kedging 
availed us, and we had no choice left but to wait for the 
next high tide, which would be at midnight. 

To pass away the time the bateaux were rowed to the 
nearest islands and the decoys set out, but not a duck came 
near them, anda pair of curlew and three oyster cafchers 
was the result of the afternoon's shooting. : 

A little after sunset Mr. Magwood filled his Jack with 
light wood knots, and stowing away a bag of the same in 
the bateau, invited me to try an hour or two'graining for 
trout and bass, as Bull’s Bay is fairly teeming with both. It 
was my first experience with the grains, but lL was fairly 
successful, as but-six or seven were missed of the thirty odd 
that I struck at. Thesmoke from the Jack made my eyes 
smart and run torrents of tears, until a faint breeze bore the 
smoke to leeward, but of the other effects it produced it is 
enough to say that when we reached Cape Roman light, 
having floated the tug off the flat at high water, the light- 
house keeper thought I was the negro servant, and ordered 
me to bring in an armful of wood for the fire. When I 
looked in the glass I was not surprised at his mistake, for a 
sootier-looking individual never walked than the one who 
had spent three hours behind a light-wood jack that night. 

The keeper’s apologies were profuse, but no offense could 
possibly have been taken, for the hue was Ethiopian. 

We reached the lighthouse at about 1:30 A. M., and were 
most hospitably received by the second assistant keeper, Nel- 
son, a Swede by birth, the other keepers being on watch or 
asleep. We were soon asleep in his quarters, but at 4:30 
were roused up, and found a heaping dish of fried bass and 
trout, boiled potatoes and steaming coffee ready on the table. 

Half an hour later we were all on the way to our blinds; 
McPherson, a tawny-haired Scot, as guide to Deerslayer and 
Jack, Magwood and Walker following them. while Nelson 
acted as my guide and adviser. 

Landing in the mud and both boots remaining fast, the 
natural result was an overthrow, so Nelson packed me 
ashore on his back and then returned and pulled out the 
rubber boots which had remained behind, standing like for- 
lorn senfinels amid a waste of ooze. 

The weather was too fine and the ducks must have been in 
the rice fields, for the total bag of the whole party was one 
cormorant, four divers, two shelldrakes and a pair of ayoeets, 
the last falling to my lot. ' 

The supply of wood being short, it was decided to return 
across Bull’s Bay that night and hunt deer on Bull’s Island 
next morning, so despite the warning of the keepers, we 
made a start at 10 o’clock that night, Mr. Magwood acting 
as pilot, fer none of the party knew the course save him, 
Hyerything was lovely until high tide, and we were congratu- 
lating ourselves that the worst was over, when with a bump 
We stopped, and there we stuck. We backed, and we poled, 
and we kedged; we put, Deerslayer and Jack on the bow, 
then they moved to the stern. All hands were put in the 
boats except the engineer and Ollie. It wasnouse. We 
Were doomed to spend another twelve hours on the bank, 
and to cap the climax, a thick, heavy fog set in, and blofted 
out every landmark. 

We made the best of the inevitable, and after drawing the 
fires, each sought a place for sleep. No watch was needed, 
for by the time the fires were drawn, the water was less than 
two feet deep alongside, and two hours more we knew would 
leaye us high and dry, and high and dry we were; when, 
crawling from between the afterbitts at dawn, the scene pre- 
sented itself to me that I have tried to describe at the open- 
ing cf this article. 

A few yells and whoops brought every one to a realizing 
sense of where they were, Deerslayer examined his legs 
and was immeasurably relieved to find they did not need 
sealing-wax, Steve, the engineer, ceased waging a war, in 
dreams, with bursting boilers and dire collisions. 

Jack had no time to rake in the pot on the royal flush he 
held, nor was Ollie carried down with the mat he was sink- 
ing on the bar. 

Walters moaned at the thought of the feast before him 
ee the Onondaga cry tore him from his first juicy mouth- 

ual, 

Magwood’s dream must have been of making a double, for 
he first exclaimed, ‘I have ’em both!” 

All were stiff and sore and damp, and as an inyigorator 
we all took a good swallow of tomato catsup, there being 
nothing stronger on board except the above-mentioned pants 
of Deerslayer. 

Breakfast was cooked over a fire made in the fishing jack, 
and then Mr. Magwood and | took a row off in the fog to 
get our bearings, while the engineer made steam to be all 
TeAGy. for a start when the tide would be high snough to 

oat us. 

By good luck Mr. Magwood found one of the stakes mark- 
ing the channel, and with a pocket compass we got the direc- 
tion of the tug and then returned, and three of the party 
amused themselves with penny ante poker until the tug 
had floated almost clear of the bottom, when the three heavy 
weights got in one of the boats, and after some backing and 
starting the Bull’s River was once more headed in her proper 
course, 

The delay in starting caused a fearful reduction in our 
supply of fuel, and we only reached Bull’s Island by sacri- 
ficing every box, board and movable piece of wood on board, 
the bunker planks and even the stools being given up, and 
the three boats in tow were turned loose, each with an occu- 
pant, when half a mile from the landing, which was reached 
with barely steam enough to turn the screw over. 

After a dinner at Mr. Magwood’s house we were all given 
stands on the road, and two darkies and a dog weresent into 
the hammock to drive, 


Ed : 


Mr. Magwood had the first shot, but did not kill, and 
(hen it was that Deerslayer covered himself with glory, 
killing a magnificent buck in splendid style with never a 
quake of buck fever, and although the deer was on a keen 
run he stopped dead in his tracks at over fifty yards. 

I saw a large doe, but she was too far off for buckshot, 
and I had put the Winchester aside by request, as if was 
feared it might carry too far, and possibly wound a driver. 

We all congratulated Deerslayer, of course, and as | had 
killed the most deer of any one inthe party, to me was given 
the task of decorating him a “Knight of the Forest,” in true 
Southern style, and an Indian in his war paint would have 
turned green with envy could he have seen his gory orna- 
mentation after he had been duly sworn in. 

A good wash, a hearty meal, a chat around the blazing 
fire and then what a glorious sleep we had in the first bed 
we had occupied in nearly a week. , 

The next morning a cart carried the deer to the inlet, 
which place we reached on foot and found the tug ready, 
with steam up, awaiting us, as she had preceded us to 
Capers Island the night before. 

A hearty shake of the hand all around, a few coins of the 
bird of freedom to the drivers and darkies, and We were 
homeward bound, with only pleasant memories of the man- 
ner in which we had been entertained by the Messrs. Mag- 
wood, and the kind reception given us at Cape Roman Light 
by Chief Robinson and his two assistants, McLellan and 
Nelson, all of whom did everything in their power to add 
to our comfort and enjoyment. 

We reached Sullivan’s Island too late for me to catch the 
last boat io the city, so bidding good-bye to Deerslayer the 
trip was made in one of our yawls propelled by four lusty 
pair of arms, and as the negro melodies from the rowers’ 
voices floated out over the waters under the starlight, so 
soothing was the music I dropped asleep, 

When I awoke we were at the market wharf, and a few 
hours later I was speeding northward to receive my Christ- 
mas greeting beneath ithe snow-clad hills of ONoNDAGA. 

May Por, Mla., Webruary, 1884, 


WHERE THE BUNG TREE GROWS. 
[CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 243, | 


*¢ DROFESSOR, suppose we try the dam to-day?” 
“Nouse; plenty of fish there, but you can’t catch 
them.” 

I merely nodded and blew a wreath of smoke from my 
pipe, and rising from my chair, shortly returned with a book 
of flies. The Professor winked at our host, and watched me 
while J selected a half dozen or so. 

“Now, John, jump into that buckboard with me, and if 1 
don’t show you a mess of trout tonight that will make you 
green with envy, I’]l own up beat.” 

A vide of an hour brought us to the dam, 
pouring over it to a depth of six inches. Rather high for 
good fishing, thought I, but we’re in forit. The water fall- 
ing on the immense apron of the dam, sent the spray rising 
in clouds, while the poo! at the foot thereof looked so invit- 
ing we could not restrain an exclamation of delight. We 
found a party of English fishermen already on the ground 
before us, who were vigorously whipping the water, but on 
inquiry, discovered they had not caught anything; and upon 
presenting ourselves armed cap-a-pie for the fray, they with- 
ae to watch the Yankees ‘‘yank ’em out,” by they didn’t 

ank, 

y We found our companions at the dam a party of jolly good 
fellows, and passed a most delightful day in their company, 
but we, none of us, caught any fish. I say none, I must de- 
mur from that remark, all but myself had withdrawn in dis- 
gust, to a little country store near by, and were regaling 
themselves on crackers and cheese, while I sat on a large 
rock near the pool smoking, A small boy, the ubiquitous 
small boy, with pole to which the bark yet adhered, the 
proyerbial small boy, with bare feet, one suspender, and a 
cotton line, crept along the slippery apron of the dam, crept 
along, with a fat grasshopper for bait, and looked exultingly 
across al me, and in less than «a half minute he had a 
whopper upon the apron. The fish dropped off the hook 
just as he got him up, and then began a struggle on the 
slippery apron, pitch and toss; first the boy would have the 
best of it, then the trout, and finally, after a bard fight, the 
boy fell flat on his face, in a vain endeavor to crush his 
adversary, coming near going over the edge into the pool as 
he did so, but the trout was onetoo many for him, and shoot- 
ing to one side escaped. The boy was wet, of course, from 
head to foot, and looked both disappointed and crestfallen 
as he met my gaze. I beckoned fo him and he came around 
to where I sat, ‘’ Twas too bad, bub, wasn’t it?” I questioned 
him, while he examined my rod, line, and flies, in amaze- 
ment, Finally, after preventing him with two or three flies 
and some hooks, he became very confidential, told me he had 
played ‘‘hookey” from school that day, and was afraid his 
“dad” would flog him if he went home, especially as he had 
no fish; ‘‘but,” says he, “if you give mehalf what you ket@h 
I'll show you where you can get—oh, lots.” 

I could eulogize that boy, but I won't, I could have 
hugged him then and there, but I didn’t. I gave hima 
quarter, divided my lunch with him, and he let me into a 
secret. Let a boy alone for finding out where the big trout 
rendezyous, ‘'Mister, do you see that alder bush over there 
tother side o’ the dam, where the water is still and quiet 
like? Well, right in there is a spring hole, you can’t see it 
now for it’s all covered up by the water flowin’ over the dam, 
but when the water is drawed down you kin; now you jest 
creep round there with me and I'll show ’em to you, more’n 
a bushel,” and sure enough there they were, as I found upon 
investigation, While my companions were munching their 
crackers and cheese in the little grocery I amused myself 
and delighted the small boy by taking out from there about 
thirty of as handsome trout as I ever saw taken from one 
pool. The boy went on his way rejoicing over his luck and 
the prospect of appeasing the wrath of a stern parent, and I 
strolled up to the store to witness the discomfiture of my 
companions. I can’t make the Professor believe but those 
fish were bought and cached expressly for this occasion. 

The Professor made a discovery of a wonderful ‘‘fungus” 
growth encircling a tree in the forest; hear him: 

“Yes, I was following up a small stream, which enters the 
main stream, just below the wash out, when above the noise 
of the water, [ heard a peculiar sound—now pitched on a 
high treble, now in the middle octave, again basso profundo, 
what could it be? My cogitations as to its cause were soon 
brought to a termination, as I discovered the most won- 
derful growth of fungus on a tree over head. Stepping 
forward to more clearly observe this marvel of the wilder- 
hess, the noise befere mentioned grew decidedly 
louder, and I could see immense numbers of flies buzzing 


The water was 


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around it; but, gentlemen, those were not flies, they were real 
old-fashioned bald hornets, I made tracks out of there, just 
about as fast as my legs could carry me—why if that swarm 
had taken after me I’d never reached hore alive.” And he 
wouldn’t, for we afterward together inspected the hornets’ 
nest at a safe distance, and it was a most wonderful curios- 
ity, and big as a clothes hamper. 


Berry’s was some ten miles from where we were stopping, 
and consisted of a one-story cabin, weather-beaten and for- 
lorn, like its owner; but he and his wife were good-hearted 
people, who lived in this isolated spot, eking out a scanty 
living for themselves. Weknew the accommodations were 
very primitive and the capacity of the house such that we 
need not build our expectations too high. Still, we con- 
cluded to take things as we found them, and this is how we 
found them, On our arrival at the Berry mansion, we 
rapped on the small red front door for admission, but getting: 
no response we concluded nobody was at home, Going 
back of the house, we found evidences of feminine occu- 
pancy in the shape of several Berry pies, which had but re- 
cently been placed outside, on a covered shelf, to cool, and 
whose warmth showed a recent proximity to the oven and a 
comparatively recent proximity of the cook. We still fur- 
ther investigated and discovered a can of milk in the spring, 
whose icy coldness had been communicated to it by a long 
immersion, and as they evidently expected company we 
thought we would register, so John made his mark on one 
of the pies and I followed suit; the milk helped wash it 
down. The pie was good and so was the milk, and when 
we stopped registering we had absorbed half apie and a 
quart of milk, 

Shortly a dog made his appearance; he approached us, 
scented around, acted in a familiyr manner toward John’s 
fish-basket, got a kick from the Professor, who don’t like 
dogs, and finally made friends through the medium of a 
piece of imported bologna brought with us. We strolled 
around in front of the house where our horse was tied; we 
smoked, we whistled, told stories, sung songs, and suddenly 
the door opened and a frightened apparition in red calico 
appeared standing therein; she evidently came in through one 
of the rear windows, and had ‘“‘fixed up” for the occasion. 

“Good afternoon, mam, can you accommodate us over 
night?” 

‘Wall, yis, if you'll be civil.” 

‘Well, mem, we'll try to be,” and the Professor's face 
wore ifs most winning smile, 

“Wall, then, if you kin put up with what we kin give you, 
you kin stay an’ welcome,” 

Our room was furnished with a husk bed on which the 
few martyrs who visited that region might seek repose, and 
an hour-glass pillow. I designate it an hour-glass pillow 
because of its shape when in use, and because I counted the 
hours while using it. The bed had not been occupied since 
the last time the room was cleaned, and the two were evi- 
dently both accomplished at the same remote period. 

The room was tenanted by wasps, they weré there in colo- 
nies. Now if there is anything I do absolutely detest it is a 
wasp. ~ Wasps! Horrors! I went to bed that night with such 
a crawling sense of nervousness as I never before experienced, 
and as I hope may never experience again. Cold chills crept 
up and down my back like a man with the ague, the Profes- 
sor was snoring by my side, and I was waiting, waiting for 
what? Waiting for one of the varmints to drop from the 
ceiling on to my pillew, I had not long to wait, for asharp 
tap on my pillow near my left ear, accompanied with an 
angry buzz, gave token that my cherished expectations were 
realized, and I waited in agony for the piercing of the epi- 
dermis, which J felt assured must speedily follow. The per- 
spiration was oozing out from top to toe, and the tortures of 
suspense was only aggravated by the pertinacity of the Pro- 
fessor’s attempts to sound double G. Each second was mag- 
nified into moments, and the attempts to reach the bottom of 
the sonorous gamut ended in a howl and a kick of the bed 
clothes which sent them flying over the footboard of the bed, 
and the Professor sprang on the floor, leaping clear of his 
{bed fellow. While the Professor was executing a double 

shuffle, I lit the candle, and we began an onslaught on the 

wasps, burned them out, smoked them out, and we crushed 
them till we crushed them out. 

A hearty meal the evening before retiring, of fried salt 
pork, had made my throat dry asa nutmeg grater, but I 
forgot my thirst in my dread of the wasps. Now the wasps 

having been exterminated, I began to feel a return of it, and 

I suddenly discovered that I wanted a drink, I had noticed 

a pail of water sitting ona chair near our bedroom door, 
just before retiring, and hanging on the wall just above it a 
tin dipper. I stood the intolerable thirst as long as I could, 

consideration for John kept me from rising for fear of dis- 

turbing him, but now 1 rose very quietly, creeping out of 
bed as softly as 8 mouse, refraining irom lighting a match, 
lest I disturb the Berrys, whose sonorous breathing greeted 
my ear as I opened the door leading into their apartment. The 
pail of water sat on a chair to the right of the door, and of 
course I could put my hand right on it; passing through the 
door and turning to the right I groped along, ‘twas pitch 
dark. Strange, surely the pail sat just about here, and the 

dipper hung right here. I placed my hands on the wall, as I 

thus soliloquized, and felt for the dipper. My hand came in 

contact with something of a metallic nature, and the next 
instant Mrs. Berry’s big bread pan came thundering down, 

Rolling to the middle of the apartment it began the most in- 
fernal waltz; round and round, and round and round on the 
hard board flooring in the stillness of the night it spun, giy- 
ing out a peculiar tinny roar, now soft, now loud, asit turned 
from edge to edge; round and round, as though some demon 
of the night was urging it on faster and faster apparently, 
until it began to wobble. A titter from a woman and loud 
guifaw from a man proceeded from some undistinguishable 
quarter from out the Cimmerian darkness, startled me, and 
caused me to realize the ludicrous position 1 was in, while 
the man’s voice direeted me to the left of the doorfor the 
drink I sought. 

The fishing we had on the morrow made amends for all the 
tribulations of the night preceding, and we had such sport, 
as I never had before, and took back a beautiful display of 
trout, 

_This ended our fishing, and our return to the land of 
civilization was uneventful. To all these ardent followers 
of the rod, who love sport for sport’s sake, I cordially recom- 
mend a trip to the forests and streams of the land where the 
“bung”’ tree grows, Cc. A, M. 


Kentucky.—Mill Springs, April 21.—Birds wintered well, 
and a favorable nesting season is all that is necessary to an 
abundant crop of game next fall, Young squirrels are 
ready for the table —KENTUCKEIAN, 


- a? a... “a 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


dened with nominal sub-species, too slightly differentiated to 
require any formal recognition by name. 


[Norn.—In the business meeting of the Academy, which 
ensued after the public session, Dr. Coues introduced a 
| resolution, which was referred to the Council, that a com- 
mittee of five be appointed to inyestigate the subject of 
zoological nomenclature, with reference to the estublishment 
of a more uniform system, | 


American Ornithologists’ Union, and is already in use by 
ornithologists almost without exception in this country. 
Likewise, in Europe, the trinomial system is beginning to he 
employed in the yery stronghold of British conservatism, in 
the British Ornithologists’ Union—one of the leading orni- 
thologists in that country having recently published some 
monographs of birds, in which that system is applied. 
Trinomialism is known as the ‘‘American school” of orni- 
thology, and the central idea is the ‘‘American idea” of orni- 
thology. It isin general use in this country. 

Under these circumstances, speaking as one who is largely 
responsible for the growth and spread of trinomial nomen- 
clature, I have no hesitation in laying the matter before the 
Academy, for an expression of the views of members present, 
as to ils applicability to other branches of biology, and to 
inquire whether it seems likely to become a permanent fea- 
ture of biological science. 

DISCUSSION. 

In the discussion which followed upon this communication, 
Dr. Theo, Gill said that the question ‘so well discussed by 
Dr. Coucs was one of terminology, but not only one of termin- 
ology. It was well known to all how much these termin- 
ological appliances had accelerated and facilitated research. 
The views expressed were almost a necessary result of pro- 
found study of our bird fauna, and the logical application of 
the doctrine of evolution. 

In a time when belief in the creation of animals was prac- 
tically universal, the name given to any species indicated the 
condition of things under which an animal was supposed to 
have come into existence. Had the animals of this country 
alone been studied, we would ultimately have been led to 
believe in the doctrine of evolution. Noone could take up 
the study of the birds or other animals of this country with- 
out seeing that between certain extremes, the differences are 
so radical that differentiation into species would be necessary. 
Such had been the history of ornithology. In early times 
we knew simply the birds of the Eastern slope, Then we 
named them as species with limited range of variation. 
Later, numbers of forms were obtained in the West, and 
these forms, although somewhat alike, were also differen- 
tiated as specics, distinct from those found in the East, and 
were so named, But still later, large collections were grad- 
ually amassed from the intervening regions of the great 
interior, and these were elaborately studied (in collections 
sometimes of hundreds), and many were the Eastern and 
Western so-called species thereby connected. But then it 
became evident that something more should be done than 
merely lock together into one heterogeneous fold forms so 
different. Then it was that this trinomial system came into 
use as a very convenient tool for the distinction of the var- 
ious intermediate forms. Ultimately a philosophy became 
the result of study and practice, so that now we can at once, 
by the inspection of a catalogue, approximately ascertain 
whether the forms are radically distinct, what variation ex- 
isted between the extremes of form, and by the trinomial 
names, whether a given species was variable and whetier it 
was manifest under a number of modifications, 

In this trinomial system we have an example of a scheme 
by which we can become cognizant ef the amount, to a cer- 
tain extent, of variation in a given group. By this con- 
venient means we are also enabled to differentiate the char- 
acters, and to give at once to the mind of the reader or 
student some idea of the range of characters that may be 
deemed to prevail in-a certain group, 

Turning to Dr. Coues’s request for information with regard 
to other groups, Dr. Gill said that it was true that we have 
in other groups a similar applicability of these principles. 
A number of examples are afforded in the case of the fishes, 
insects and mollusks, where the naturalist is compelled to 
degrade some forms and admit them as simple variations and 
sub-species, This scheme would also come in as a con- 
venient tool for the differentiation of recent from fossil 
forms, there being.a number of extinct forms very much like 
those now existing, which are regarded by some as con- 
specific and by others as different, receiving different names. 

Prof. Wm. H. Brewer remarked that, as a matter of con- 
venience, this was about the only way that we could scien- 
tifically describe many varieties of cultivated plants and 
breeds of domesticated animals, which differ from one 
another much as species do, the differences, however, being 
less constant. Already some agricultural writers, who have 
knowledge of natural history, are beginning to adopt this 
method in the description of cultivated plants, both useful 
and ornamental, 

Dr. Gill said in regard to this question: ‘‘We have had a 
condition ‘of things which must appeal to the sense of the 
ludicrous. In former times there was an undivided belief in 
creation, and yet we had before us our domesticated animals 
and cultivated vegetables, exhibiting these excessive yaria- 
tions—so great, that if seen in nature, they would be differ- 
.entiated not only into species, but different genera, Take 
the dog. We were told the dog was a species—by some said 
to be created for the use of man. What is the dog? It is 
not a species in any sense of the word; it is simply a conju- 
gation of forms, derivatives from a number of wild species. 
The dog is not a species; it is the result under cultivation 
and domestication of the off-spring of half a dozen different 
species. It is a composite which itself shows the processes 
of development in a marked degree, so that we have in what 
is popularly known as the dog, acombination of species and 
eyen genera.” : 

Dr. Coues said it gave him great pleasure to note the ex- 
tent of the indorsement given to this system; but that he had 
expected that some one would have put forward the ob- 
jections which might be raised. As none appeared to be 
forthcoming, he would venture to state some of them him- 
self, The purpose of the trinomial system, the Doctor con- 
tinued, is an obvious one, yet that system is so sharp a todl 
that without great care in handling, one is apt to cut his fin- 
gers with it. It is of such pliability and elasticity, and lends 
itself so readily to little things, that in naniing forms, one is 
tempted to push discriminations beyond reasonable and due 
bounds. It gives one an opportunity—even a temptation— 
to enter into faunal catalogues and lists of animals an almost 
indefinite number of very slightly differentiated forms in 
any department of zoology—forms which perhaps only the 
eye trained in that special line is able to satisfactorily dis- 
ciminate. We therefore have in our lists a number of so- 
called geographic and climatic races which no one but their 
discoverer or describer is able to recognize or appreciate. 
This is the real difficulty—the real objection to the system— 
its abuse in the hands of immature specialists. Dr, Coues 
said with some emphasis, that since he had ventured to bring 
the matter to the attention of the Academy, he would not 
conclude without adding the word of caution, that the tri- 
nomial system must not be pushed too far; otherwise, almost 
immediately, our catalogues would be insufferably overbur- 


Alatural History. 


APPLICATION OF TRINOMIAL NOMEN- 
CLATURE TO ZOOLOGY. 


BY DR, ELLIOTT COUES. 

[Spoken before the National Academy of Sciences at the stated 
session held in Washington, April 15-18, 1884, and stenorgraphi- 
cally reported by C. D. Gedney of the U.S. Coast Survey.] 

_Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Academy: 

I have no formal paper to present to-day * on the subject 
of the Application of Trinomial Nomenclature to Zoology ; 
but speaking off-hand, I wish to offer a few remarks upon a 
subject at the present time attracting much attention—upon 
a matter which has come up within the last few years, and 
which bids fair to effect a very decided change in our sys- 
tem of naming objects in biology. In former years I have 
not thought it necessary to bring the matter to the notice of 
the National Academy of Sciences, because it had not then 
assumed a status or position which appeared to warrant such 
a course. Now, however, it seems probable that a decided 
innovation upon a system of nomenclature which has been 
in vogue for a century and a quarter is likely to be made, at 
least in one department of zooloey, The question is, there- 
fore, whether that innovation is desirable or not—whether 
the change is to be accepted or rejected; and, if accepted, 
how far it is likely to be applicable to other departments of 
zoology, as well as to ornithology. 

As is well known to you all, since Linnzeus established a 
binomial system of nomenclature in which each organism 
should be Known by two terms, generic and specific—since 
1758, when that system was first consistently and systemati- 
cally applied to zeology, there has been until the last few 
years no formal or decided change in that Linngean method; 
it has become ingrained in the study of biology, and is, in a 
sense, supposed to be essential to a methodic system of 
zoology. But it will be remembered that in the long period 
which has ensued since the time of which I speak, the idea 
of what constitutes a species in zoology, and, | may add, in 
botany, has radically and entirely changed. It seems pro- 
bable, therefore, that a system of nomenclature perfectly 
adequate and applicable to a former status of zoological 
thought, may become, in the course of time, inapplicable to 
the later stage of science. And such appears to be the ease. 
In former years, a species was supposed to be a'more or less 
distinct creation, it was, moreover, supposed to be possible 
to say of a given organism whether it was or was not speciti- 
cally distinct from another given organism. At the present 
day, largely through the influence of the Darwinian Theory 
of Eyoluticn, which has become established within the last 
quarter of a century, we know that one animal may not be 
specifically distinct from another, and vet be sufficiently dif- 
ferent to require recognition in some manner, which a sys- 
iem of nomenclature, to be valid and adequate, must provide 
for. The question is, therefore, how shall we recognize it? 
That is a subject which has long occupied the attention of 
zoologists, and they have been working up to the present 
state of trinomialism by virtue of what may be termed sub- 
terfuges. Thatisto say, a given organism not sufficiently 
distinct from another to receive a specific name, has been 
called a ‘‘variety,” a ‘‘sub-species,”’ a ‘‘con-species,” a. ‘‘geo- 
etaphical race,” or a “‘climatic variation.” Various terms of 
this sort have gradually crept imto the nomenclature of 
zoology to indicate the still imperfectly differentiated, still 
incompletely segregated forms, but always with the inter- 
vention of some sign or other, as the sign *‘var.,” or with the 
letters of the alphabet, ‘‘a,” ‘‘b,” “e,” or with the abbrevia- 
tion ‘‘subsp.,” ete., intervening between the binomial name 
of the creature, and the yarietal designation which follows; 
as Turdus migratorius for the robin, Turdus migratorius var. 
propinguus for its Western variety, and so on, whiutever the 
given case may be. 

This has long seemed to me an entirely unnecessary, super- 
fluous, somewhat awkward and cumbersome method of deal- 
ing with the nomenclatural technique of our science, and it 
has recently come to pass that this needlessly intervening 
term or sign has been entirely done away with by the lead- 
ing ornithologists of this country. The latest lists of our 
birds discard it altogether, and present a decided and radical 
innovation upon any binomial nomenclature, by employing 
the three terms consecutively without the intervention of 
any sign whatever, as, Turdus migratorius propinguus, This 
method, moreover, as used by competent ornithologists, 
has a meaning and significance of its own. It is not 
simply a question of recognizing any variation, any ab- 
normality, any sport, as 1 may call it, any variety in the 
old sense of the word; for we proceed upon a perfectly 
definite, well-understood and recognized principle of varia- 
tion, viz., variation according to conditions of physical envi- 
ronment, using this term in the largest sense, to cover all 
those exterior influences which exert a modifying influence 
upon animal organisms. 

From our study of North American birds, which are per- 
haps better known than the same number of birds of any 
other portion of the world, we have so exactly traced their 
geographical yariations, that we are enabled in some cases 
to positively foretell what will be the characteristics of a 
given bird in a given geographical area. In one case atleast, 
within my knowledge, before any specimens were received, 
a given set of sub-specific characters were hypothetically 
assigned to a bird [Juneco connecteus Coues] from a particular 
region; and, upon receipt of specimens, the hypothetical 
characters of the presumed sub-species were confirmed. 

Here is the definite principle and rule of action in the atp- 
plication of such trinomials: That the third term of the 
technical name is given to climatic or geographical races 
varying according to known conditions, as latitude, elevation, 
temperature, moisture and conditions of allsorts. The prac- 
tice, therefore, has a logical basis, a consistent, possibility of 
strict scientific application. It appears to me to be a simple, 
natural and easy way of disposing of a large number of 
intermediate forms which have not become specifically dis- 
tinct from their respective nearest allies. It is quite true that 
the recognition of this result of climatic conditions is largely 
a matter of tact and judgment, and that it is not always 
possible to say whether a given organism is or is not ‘‘speci- 
fically” distinct from another. 

There isin this use of trinomials, as you perceive, a prin- 
ciple of practicable application entirely differentfrom the more 
arbitrary naming of yaricties,such as sports and abnormalties. 
And the question is, what status is this principle likely to ob- 
tain in biology? The status that trinomialism has already ac- 
quired in ornithology is this: that it is likely in the near 
future to receive the sanction of the entire hady of the 


*April 18. 


DEER IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
BY C. H, MERRIAM, M.D, 
[From advance sheets of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of 
New York.| 
Cariacus Virginanus (Bodd.) Gray. 
COMMON DEER; VIRGINIA DEER; RED DEER; WHITE- 
TATLHD DEER. 


Antlers. 


HE branching and gracefully curved antlers which adorn 
the heads of the bucks, and contribute so largely to the 
elegant appearance of the animal, are shed and renewed 
every year, Their growth is so rapid that the full size is 
usually reached in about three months, and they fall off 
about four months afterward. They are first seen with us, 
as arule, about the middle of May, appearing as soft, dark- 
colored and rapidly-elongating vascular excrescences. They 
harden from below upward, and by the time the growth is 
complete all but the tips is well ossified. The soft, skin- 
like material, called the velvet, with which they are covered, 
now begins to peel off in irregular strips and shreds, and by 
the early part or middle of September the horns are gen- 
erally clean. The velyet does not come away of itself, but 
is rubbed and scraped off against shrubs and small trees, as 
if the antlers itched at the period of maturity. The Hon. 
Judge Caton, of Ottawa, Ll., whose facilities for observa- 
tion in this field have rarely been equalled, makes the follow- 
ing statement, which will, by many, be received with sur- 
prise: ‘“‘The evidence, derived from a very great multitude 
of observations, made through a course of years, is conclu- 
sive that nature prompts the animal to denude its antlers of 
their covering, at a certain period of its growth, while yet 
the blood has as free access to that covering as it ever had.”* 


Seasonal Changes in Pelage. 

Descriptions of the pelages of our mammals do not fall 
within the scope of the present work; but the seasonal 
changes in the coat of the deer have so much to do with its 
life history that a brief glance at the distinctive features of 
these Changes is necessary. Our deer shed their coats twice 
each year, in June and September; and, from the general 
appearance of the pelage, are said to be in the red coat in 
summer, and in the blue or gray coat during the rest of the 
year. The gray is merely the blue after it has become old 
and worn, forin maturing it loses the handsome blue ap- 
pearance that characterizes the first few weeks of its growth. 
These seasonal changes are not confined to color alone, for 
there is an equally radical difference in the length and tex- 
ture of the hair, In summer if is fine and short, and lacks 
the wavy look that is always noticeable at other times. In 
winter it is long and coarse, has a crinkled appearance, and 
the individual hairs are so large and light that the animal 
will fioat in water.t 

Judge Caton, whose spacious deer parks and carefully re- 
‘corded observations have contributed so largely to our 
knowledge of this species, has published the most accurate, 
detailed and complete account of the changes of pelage, that 
has ever appeared in print. From his extended remarks 
upon this subject I quote the following brief passages: “The 
change from the summer to the winter coat is gradual, the 
new displacing the old by dislodging the hairs promiscu- 
ously, till they become so thin that the new coat is seen 
through the old, This is not simultaneous over the whole 
animal, for the ncck and shoulders may be clothed entirely 
with the new dress, while the old still prevails on the thighs 
and rump; or the winter coat may have replaced the old 
on the back, while the belly still shows only the summer 
pelage. When the winter has replaced the summer garb, 
the hairs are short, fine and soft; but they rapidly grow in 
length and diameter, and undergo the changes of color 
peculiar to the species, At first they lie down smoothly, 
but presently the diameter becomes so great that they force 
each other up to a more vertical position, or at right angles 
to the skin. As the diameters increase, the cavities within 
enlarge and become filled with a very light pith, and they 
become brittle and lose their elasticity, so that the integrity 
of the walls is destroyed when sharply bent, and they remain 
in the given position. *f 

The exact period of shedding and of renewal of the coat 
varies somewhat from year to year; and it does not always 
take place at the same time in all the deer of the region, 
during the same season, It evidently depends in great measg- 
ure, if not wholly, upon the condition of the animal at the 
time of the moult, and this is determined mainly by the way 
the deer wintered. After severe winters many are poor and 
jll-conditioned, and they do not put on the red coat til late in 
June, or even till the first of July—the blue being correspond- 
ingly delayed, Ii, on the other hand, the winter has been a 
mild one, and the supply of beechnuts large, the deer have 
probably wintered well, and come out fat and healthy in the 
spring. In this case they shed the old gray coats early, and 
the red may be seen covering a large part of the animal by the 
middle of June, or even earlier. These deer assume the blue 
coat very early, and the change may be well advanced by 
the last of August. 

Deer rut in November, the season commonly extending 
from the latter part of October till the first week in Decem- 
ber. As this period approaches, the necks of the bucks be- 
come enormously enlarged,| and their whole demeanor is 
changed. Instead of ireading cautiously through the forest 
they now rush wildly about, tracking the does by the scent; 
and when two or more bucks meet, fierce conflicts ensue. 

In these engagements their antlers sometimes become in- 
terlocked, so that the combatants cannot free themselves, and 
both most inevitably perish. My father has a set of locked 
horns that were found, with the carcasses attached, frozen 
in the ice on Pine Creek, in Lewis county, several winters 


*The Antelope and Deerof America, By John Dean Caton, LL. D., 
1877, p. 172. ’ 

+i eae not be forgotten, however, that deer are commonly poor 
in summer and fat in autumn and early winter, Hence, the later in 
the season the more nearly will the specific gravity of the animal 
approach that of water. Consequently, a much smaller amount of 
buoyant material will suffice to float the animal in October and No- 
vember than in July, August and September. 

+Antelope and Deer of America, pp. 126-7. 

As early as the last weex in October I measured the neck of a buck 
that was 30 inches (76%mm,) in circumference, only 10 inches bebind 
the ears. The maximum development is attained about the middle 
of November. é 


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ago. Thebody of the larger buck was in fair condition, 
while that of the smaller was much emaciated, showing that 
the larger and more powerful had succeeded in foreing his 
adversary’s head to one side so that he could browse a little, 

Audubon and Bachman state that they once saw three 
pairs of horns thus interlocked. What a wretched trio this 
must have been, slowly starving in the midst of plenty! 

At this ‘season the bucks not only fight among themselves, 
but occasionally attack man, and more than one unfortunate 
person has been gored to death by them, In battle they 
make use of their horns and also of their forefeet, whose 
sharp hoofs are capable of inflicting terrible wounds. I was 
once sitting quietly on a log in a deer park when a muck ap- 
proached, snd, making a sudden spring, dealt me such a 
powerful blow on the head, with the hoofs of his foreteet, as 
to render me unconscious. No sooner was I thrown upon 
the ground than the vicious beast sprang upon me, and 
would doubtless have killed me outright had it not been for 
the intervention of a man who rushed at him witha club-and 
finally drove :him off. Both my father and myself have 
been knocked flat upon the ground by being strack in the 
abdomen by the forefeet of a very harmless-looking doe. 

As a rule, two fawns are born at a time, one being the ex- 
ception, Most of them are brought forth in May, a few 
being dropped as early as the latter part of April, while 
others are postponed until the first week in June. They are at 
first spotted, the spots usually remaining about four months 
and disappearing in September, when both old and young 
change their coats. Before the moult takes place they may 
be fairly regarded as one of the most beautiful of North 
American mammals, and their graceful and sprightly move- 
ments cannot fail to elicit admiration. 

The clear white spots are set ina ground of rich bay, and 
the contrast is heightened, to use the language of Judge 
Caton, by the animal’s “exceedingly bright eye, erect atgi- 
tude, elastic movement, and vivacious appearance, * * * 
The highest perfection of graceful motion is seen in the fawn 
of but a month or two old, after it has commenced following 
its mother through the grounds, It is naturally very timid, 
and is alarmed at the sight of man, and when it sees its 
dam go boldly up to him and take food from his hand it 
manifests both apprehension and surprise, and sometimes 
something akin. to displeasure. I have seen one 
standing a few rods away, face me boldly and stamp 
his little foot, in a fierce and threatening way, as if he would 
say, If you hurt my mother I will avenge the insult on the 
spot.”. Ordinarily it will stand with its head elevated to the 
utmost; its ears erect and projecting somewhat forward; its 
eyes flashing, and raise one forefoot and suspend it for a few 
moments, and then trot off and around at a safe distance 
with a measured pace, which is not flight, and with a grace 
and elasticity which must be’seen to be appreciated, for it 
quite defies verbal description. A foot is raised from the 
ground so quickly that you hardly see it, it seems poiscd in 
the air for an instant and is then so quietly and eyen tenderly 
dropped and again so instantly raised, that you are in doubt 
whether it eyen touched the ground, and if it did, you are 
sure it would not crush the violet on which it fell.Ӥ 

Fawns are readily tamed, in fact become tame of them- 
selves, if much handled, in an astonishingly short time; and 
I have known one to follow its keeper, and even bleat for 
him, when out of sight, within three or four days after its 
capture. At this tender age they display neither judgment 
nor common sense in the selection of food, devouring almost 
anything that fails in their way whichthey are able to swallow. 
Bits of newspapers, old rags, and pieces of boots and shoes 
are seized and disposed of with as much apparent eagerness 
as bread and butter or lily-pads; and I once saw a fawn eat 
a box of chewing tobacco given it by an unprincipled visitor, 
Jt died next day. : 

The flesh of the deer is juicy, tender, and well flavored, 
and is the most easily digested of meats. Its good qualities 
are too well known to require further comment. 

The hide is put to a variety of uses, the most important, 
with us, being the manufacture of gloves and moccasins, 

Our deer are much larger than those of the South and 
Southwest, adult well-conditioned bucks averaging from 200 
to 225 pounds avoirdupois in weight, and exceptionally large 
- ones being much heavier. Hence the Adirondack deer is 
more than double the size and weight of the same species in 
Florida, 

Lhave taken great pains to ascertain, approximately, the 
number of deer annually slain in this Wilderness, but with 
indifferent success. [tis alow estimate to state that from 
five to eight hundred have been killed here yearly for the 
past ten years, How much longer their numbers can with- 
stand this enormous drain, is an open question. 

On the 8d of July, 1609, Samuel de Champlain ascended 
the river Richelieu, and entered the lake that now bears his 
name. In his narrative of this memorable journey, he 
speaks thus of the animals found upon the island at the foot 
ot the lake: ‘‘Here are a number of beautiful, but low 
islands, filled with very fine woods and prairies, a quantity 
of game and wild animals, such as stags, deer, fawns, roe- 
bucks, bears, and other sorts of animals that come from the 
mainland to the said islands, We caught a quantity of 
them, There is also quite a number of beavers, as well in 
the river as in several other streams which fallinto it, These 
parts, though agreeable, are not inhabited by any Indians, 
in consequence of their wars.” 

Pennant says, that 25,027 hides were exported from New 
York and Pennsylvania in the sale of 1764, (Arctic Zoology, 
Voi. I, 1792, p. 38). ; 
ae [TO BH CONTINUED. | 


§Antelope and Deer of America, p, 155, 
‘Documentary History of New York, Vol. IIl., p. 5. 


Brrp ARRIVALS AT CLEVELAND, OnTo,—We are having 
quite a cool spring, but the birds are coming at about their 
usual time. Following is a list of the arrivals thus far this 
spring: Bluebirds, Feb. 19; robias, Feb. 24; crows, March 
1; purple grackle, March 20; meadow lark, March 20; red- 
winged blackbird, March 22; yellow-shafted flicker, March 
24; cowbirds. March 25; Wilson’s snipe, March 29; wood- 
cock, March 29; green heron, March 29; chipping sparrow, 
April 1; mourning dove, April 7; grassfinch, April 11; wood 
pewee, April 12; brown creeper, April 18; barn swallow, 
April 19; kingfisher, April 21; yellow-bellied woodpecker, 
April 23.—Srtr. 


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Game Bag and Guy. 


THE WOODCOCK, 
[A paper read before ae Oh veya a and Game League 
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1. Wm, Jarvis. 


ie the list of birds pursued with dog and gun there is one 
that has a lasting claim upon the affections of the sports- 
men, both on account of its beauty and the mystery that 
surrounds its ways. Abird of nightly wanderings, and daily 
rest; a bird with eyes so dark and deep that the glories of an 
autumnal sky and landscape are reflected in miniature from 
their depths; a bird with the magic power to turn a sports- 
man from all other feathered game if he once hears the 
whistle of its wings or sees its form glide stealthily down the 
glade. Its plumage above is mottled with rufous, slate and 
black, while below upon its shapely breast, there is a tinge 
of pink thut fades toward the tailto a paler hue. Its legs 
are of moderate length and almost flesh-colored, while the 
feet have a brownish cast. Its bill is dark in color and very 
long, and its eyes are set near the top of its head, that it may 
the more safely push its earthy investigations without injury 
to its eyesight. Its weightis from five to eight ounces, 
the latter found more generally among the females. Such 
is the woodcock, a bird once known never to be forgotten. 
It has, too, a claim upon the epicure, as well as sportsmen, 
and from those days when the Pontine marsbes furnished 
woodeock in such numbers that the Romans feasted off their 
tongues, uatil the present time, this bird has been regarded 
as one of the daintiest morsels ever tasted by mortal man, 

Of woodcock we have but one variety inhabiting Eastern 
North America, and breeding in various sections throughout 
the United States, called by ornithologists Philohela minor, 
to distinguish it in a learned and scientific manner from its 
cousin, the woodecock of Europe, a bird differing from ours 
in shape of wings, in being perhaps a third larger, and in 
general markings. However, it is not in my province to 
offer an elaborate or extended article upon this bird, but 
merely to bring forth a few notes concerning the tribe ag I 
have found it in New England while wandering through our 
glensin the early season and in autumn months, “‘beating”’ 
the hillsides with dog and gun. And yet the woodcock is 
about the same sort of a bird wherever youfind it, and wood- 
cock shooting is much the same sport throughont the length 
and breadth of our land. Interspersed here and there can be 
found many a stream trickling from among the hills and 
winding through the lowlands of New England, upon whose 
banks of deep, rich loam, woodcock love to feed, and amid 
whose alder-covered environs they nest and rear their broods. 

Their arrival in the northern latitude varies with the sea- 
gon; but it is not long after the bluebirds and robins have re- 
turned, and the loam along the brooksides has been softened 
by the sunny days. Soon after mating, for the male bird, 
unlike the ruffed grouse, is satisfied with a single love, they 
build upon the ground their nest of leaves and twigs, not 
very wonderful however as specimens of bird architecture, 
And then the female lays her eggs, four or five in number, 
quite round in form, of a dull, clay color, covered with 
brownish spots, and in size corresponding to the pigeon’s. 
The male bird assists in incubation, and if all goes well, soon 
the little family of longbills are waddling about on their 
slender legs, the funniest little crowd one ever sees in all the 
woodland. They tumble about in their efforts at locomotion 
like a troop of tyro acrobats, and their billsseem to be always 
in the way. However, they grow apace, and in aboul four 
weeks are able to fly, though they are by no means easy in 
their flight. 

The parent birds are very solicitous of their little ones, and 
when mankind encroaches upon their domain, endeavor, by 
all the arts known to birdland, to attract attention to them- 
selyes in order to give these downy chicks a chance to hide 
beneath leaf and twig. They sumetimes eyeh convey their 
young bodily through the air to a place of safety. There is 
no other bird family of all our fields and forests so peculiar 
in their ways, none of whose ways are so hard to study, 
consequently none so little understood; and the reason is 
very plain. The woodcock does not fly about during the 
day for cither food or pleasure, scarcely ever taking wing 
unless disturbed, but keeps all the day long from vulgar 
eyes, and when the sun has set and most good birds retire to 
rest starts out for its feeding grounds. And often in the 
gloaming of summer evenings have | scen them dart across 
my path like spirits, noiseless and*swift, in their journeys to 
favorite dells. They seem to know by intuition what loam 
contains the fattest, sweetest worms, what bos contains the 
choicest loam, and by their borings leave for us, otherwise 
unsophisticated In woodcock logic, indications of their feed- 
ing grounds. However, I must confess that they are not 
wholly birds of the night, neither are their deeds evil, that 
they do feed while the sun is shining, though not where it 
shines. I know of this, for 1 have caught them at their 
borings where a dark morass was clothed with pools mar- 
gined with deep, rich loam, and the alders were so thick 
that the sunlight could not reach the earth beneath, where, 
low upon the earth, all was dark and still, save the hum of 
insect life and the purling of the brook; and once, one hot 
August day, while creeping through a meadow cornfield in 
my efforts at stalking ,an upland plover which was 
standing alert, just outside in a short patch of clover, 
I found a woodcock busy at his mid-day feast, prob- 
ine the rich, moist soil beneath the shadows of the 
tall, thick corn. I watched him some time, until either sus- 
picious of my presence or satiated with his feast, he walked 
from my sight with bobbing head, It was his last feast, as 
I soon flushed and shot him, I have often wondered if they 
act the same by night as day, and what could be their ways 
as they feed on stormy nights beneath the cover of over- 
hanging tree-lined banks, if they are as solemn then as when 
feeding in the daytime. But I have no doubt they pass 
many a night in revelry by the margin of some favorite 
pool, whose mirrored surface reflects the starlit zenith, the 
moon high above them for their chandelier, the wind 
anthems through the treetops for their music. If they do 
not often pass the night in high carnival why are they such 
quiet birds by daylight? Why are they not found running 
about like the lordly grouse or the upland plover? It is only 
one of the many mysteries that surround a tribe whose com- 
plete history is not yet written. However, in my rambling 
lines I must not forget the love notes of the male bird, for 
to do that would be to do him rank injustice. It is a 
sweeter song by far than that of many a famous songster, 
and I have no doubt sounds as sweetly to his lady bird 
down in the ferns beneath as did ever song of troubadour 
to his lady love in ‘‘ye olden times.” It is during the twi- 
light that the woodcock utters his love notes. He gives a 


prelude to his song upon the ground, then circles up in 
flight through the treetops till lost to sight. You hear his 
murmuring high in air, and in his downward flight you 
catch the full melody of lis love song as he approaches the 
place he started from, near which without doubt his female 
is awaiting him, This song of the woodcock may be new 
to many, but it is one onee listened to you will not soon 
forget. 

oodcock are a riddle to the sportsman who knows them 
best, while to those without the pale of field sports they are 
known only as the name is seen upon some bill of fare, or as 
they are brought upon the table served with the highest culi- 
nary skill. To the rustic lad and farmer upon whose land 
amid the swamps and glades they breed, they are unseen, 
unknown, or if seen, known only as mudhens or by some 
other low-born title, and should you inquire for woodcock 
you would most likely be directed to the old trees in the 
orchard or upon the hillside, but not often, 1’ll warrant, to 
the alder-covered lowlands, for the farmer is not so familiar 
with these bird tenants of his freehold as with the ruffed 
grouse and several others of the feathered race. There was 
formerly much mystery in regard to the disappearance of 
woodcocks during August and early September, and various 
have been the ideas advanced, but to go into all these theories | 
would take too long. That they do, to a certain extent, 
vanish, or at all events are not to be found in any great 
numbers in their breeding places is well known, yet there is 
no black art in all this. A few remain in their old haunts, 
some go to the cornfields, others to the hills; in short, they 
simply scatter. It is the time of breaking off their family 
ties, for it is their moulting period, and being not pleasant to 
look upon, or plump of body, or smooth and glossy of 
feather, they have a lady’s pride, and so withdraw to some 
private, sylvan boudoir, there to nurse their strength till 
nature shall have worked her course, aml they may once 
more preseut themselves in all their gorgeous beauty, the 
sportsman’s pride and glory. Summer woodcock shooting 
ought to be abolished for the welfare of the tribe, not that 
they are any easier to bag then than later on, at least I have 
never found them so, but that they are notin so good form 
for either gun or table, and furthermore, it is disustrous to 
the ruffed grouse, for, as the law stands in New Hampshire, 
many a ficdgling grouse helps to fill the bag during August 
days, when ‘‘shooting woodcock,” by men who neyer shoot 
them later and have no dogs suitable for the sport, is an ex- 
cuse for being in the covers with dog and gun. Thelaw for 
both birds should be the same, then, my word upon it, there 
would be better shooting amcng the hills. 

It is during the cool, moonlight nights of September, that 
golden month of the harvest moon, that woodcocks leave 
their hermit life and visit the southern hillsides, sunny 
glades and tinted brakes, there to linger till the colder frosts 
shall warn them to be on their journey ere the winter snows 
fly among the naked trees and cover the brown ferns and 
meadows. How the whistle of a flushed woodcock on an 
autumn morning stirs one’s blood! What «a thrill it sends 
dancing along one’s nerves! No other im all the list can ex- 
cel it; not even the ruffed grouse of our woodland as he 
cleaves the low grown treetops, nor the grouse of the West- 
ern plains as he rushes from the stubble, nor the quail as he 
whirs from the sedge and cornfield, nor yet the snipe as he 
twists away upon the wind. I have shot them all in season, 
so write from my own experience. The woodcock, too, is 
unlike them in the manner of its flight. When flushed they 
are up and away, you may be right sure of that, but the 
woodcook, with all its vagaries, is almost as likely to come 
into one’s face as to go elsewhere, yet it is no dullard, but as 
great a rascal as ever flushed before a gun, In fact, you can 
place no dependence whatever upon its flight, and that very 
uncertainty is, perhaps, one of the magic links which bind 
us to its pursuit. It will often pitch headlong at the report 
of the gun down into a bunch of brakes or tuff of grass, even 
if caught on the open hiilside, thereby giving to the uniniti- 
ated the idea that it is killed or badly wounded. It often, 
too, rises straight from before you as though impelled by 
some hidden spring, then, taking in its flight a ride over the 
alder tops, pitches just behind, not two rods from where you 
flushed it. Or, if you have no dog to catch the scent, it ma 
wait till you have passed it by, then, when your back is 
turned, steal away like a thief, without even a note of warn- 
ing. It is truly wonderful how the woodcock directs its 
flicht, for no matter how thick the trees and branches to mar 
your aim, it skillfully avoids them in its flight, and leaves you 
wondering how in the name of flesh and blood it ever escaped 
their network. 

Though September brings back woodcoek from their 
moult, yet itis when October’s scenes are full upon us, and 
their beauty reigns not elsewhere as it does here in New 
Hampshire, by the dashing streams, among the woodlands 
and along the furrowed hillsides, that the finest woodcock 
shooting is enjoyed throughout New England, And what, 
pray you, can excel an October day, when the morning is 
clear and fresh, and the frost of the night before, harbinger 
of the woodcock’s flight, whitens the fence-tops and fallen 
trees, and hangs sparkling and dripping from the lichen- 
covered tree trunks, from every leaf and twig, and the rank 
herbage isa mass of fretted silver; or that when the mid- 
day sun casts over land and water that misty veil so peculiar 
to autumnal months, giving to the pineand hemlock a softer 
hue than at any other season, and to the swamp maple and 
the oak a deeper tinge, especially when in contact with the 
golden orange of the birch and beech? Or what can sur- 
pass the setter’s work, the eager, swift, yet cautious pace, 
the quick turn on scent of game, the poise so staunch and 
true, as the odor comes in warm gusts to the sensitive nos- 
trils; or what again the active roading of the cocker spaniel 
and his merry yelp when the bird is flushed? Truly these 
are glorious days, golden links between heated summer and 
cold winter, and never to be forgotten scenes. 

Of all who love these days the woodcocks seem to love 
them most and are not loth to take advantage of them amid 
our sunny glades and hillsides as they wing their way to 
southern grounds. Jn their autumn flights some choose the 
slopes covered with brakes and sapling pines, some the 
knolls covered with birches, others the alder patch and 
willow covered interval. I have found them on the highest, 
dryest hills, and in the Jowest covers, under hemlocks, near 
large woods, amid the rocks on a_river’s bank and among 
the briers in the open pasture. Verily, the woodcock is a 
bird of strange caprice, and I well remember the antics I 
caught one at one autumn day some thirteen years ago, 
when, with a friend, I was beating a high hilltop for ruffed 
grouse. Our setter came to a point toward a clump of pines 
and we expected to hear the rush of the startled grouse, but 
not asound. We peered beneath the trees, and there, upon 
the carpet of pine needles, saw a woodcock strutting about 
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fan, and drooping wings. He would nod his head in time to 
the moyement of his feet, as though listening to music we 
could not hear. It was a scene droll, at the same time 
picturesque, the tall green pines above their carpeting of red 
brown needles, a red doe standing like a statue with out- 
stretched neck. and glaring eye, a small, long-billed, dark- 
eyed, mottled bird, marching back and forth with all the 
pomp of a grenacier, and two sportsmen on their knees as 
silent spectators. 

Woodcock, in their migrations south, are sure to give the 
best of sport, for though one shoots a favorite cover clean, 
two or three frosty nights will bring others to inhabit it 
aruin. But when the cold blasts of November whistle 
through the leafless trees, and the cold nights freeze the loam 
tos hard for a woodcock’s bill, then they bid adieu to our 
northern ken, and are off for a warmer clime, leaving the 
ruffed grouse the only game bird of our woodlands, 


THE PERFORMANGE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Practical men in every branch of sport, are unanimously 
calling for an all-around type, be it a yacht, a canoe, or a 
rod. While excellency of special types has been, in late 
years, eugerly sought and hase attained, the all-around types 
have been sadly neglected, alnost unthoueht of. In fite- 
arms, for instance, we have the far-killing 10-gange choke- 
bore for waterfowl, the 12 gauge modified choke for field 
birds, the wonderfully fast and effective rifle repeater for 
deer and grizzlies. But what has yet the inventive skill of 
gunsmiths done to put into the hands of the woodsman a 
suitable weapon to meet the daily emergencies of his adven- 
turous journey througli forests and streams? 

‘The woodsman, for safety as well as for food, wants a 
weapon with which he can kiJ] anything, either fur or feather, 
which chance nféy throw ucross his path. With a shotgun 
he cannot succeed in killing large game, while a rifle will 
not afford him any opportunity to bag birds. To this I hear 
the interested manufacturr reply: ‘‘Let him take both,” 
When the woodsman, burdened with his canoe and supplies, 
is carrying over the mountainous range, creeping under the 
fallen tree, walking knee deep in the swampy path, his mus- 
cles strained, sweating and breathless, how comforting and 
refreshing it should be to throw another ten pounds ou the 
weary man’s back! 

A combination of the rifle and shotgun in a single, safe, 
effective, compact, fast-shooting and light weapon is then a 
desideratum; and, from the intense interest this question 
has raised every time it was mentioned, the gunsmith who 
will furnish it, [am sure, will be handsomely repaid. 

While it would be unfair not to acknowledge what nas 
already been accomplished in this way by two very mer- 
itorious productions—Mr. Shelton’s auxiliary rifle and Mr. 
Baker’s three-barrel gun (whose success should induce com- 
petition)—it is, at the same time, only justice to say that 
neither weapon fills the bill in such a way that no further 
improvement should be looked for. 

The auxiliary rifle cannot be so adjusted as to be perfectly 
accurate, and it is obvious why. The adjusting piece is a 
Jead collar around the rifle barrel at its muzzle end, which 
has to be reduced to the gauge of the gun at the head of the 
cbamber, through which it is shoved into the gun barrel; 
from the head of the chamber up to the choke the bore of 
the gun is gradually widening, so that when this centering 
collar has reached its resting point it fits loose, thus causing 
vibrations which seriously impair the accuracy of the 
shooting. 

After much trouble and many trials, however, by getting 
solder put around the muzzle end of the foul-protector which 
screws on this rifle, to have it fit exactly the inside of my 
gun’s muzzle, I have succeeded in partially remedying this 
defect. In a gunsmith’s shop at Montreal, I was shown 
another auxiliary, Iutt there by a friend of mine for the 
object of correcting the same fault. Whether he was suc- 
cessful or not | am not aware. 

The three-barrel gun is a very accurate, powerful and well 
finished weapon, each barrel, shot and rifle, doing exactly 
what the maker claims; but a very serious drawback to it, 
as far as my Own experience goes, is the complication result- 
ing from the connection of the rifle and left gun locks. ‘‘To 
operate the rifle hammer, @ock the left hand shotgun lock, 
and then push forward the thumb piece A of rifle hammer, 
which will cause the hook C to engage with the pin E,which 

“ig attached to the tumbler of the left hand lock; then by 
pulling the back trigger, the rifle hammer will be caused to 
strike the firing pin at B and stop, thus not allowing the 
left band hammer to go quite far enough to reach its firing 
pin. After firing the rifle, cocking the left hand hammer 
throws the rifle jock out of gear, then the shotgun locks are 
entirely independent of the rifle lock.” This extract from 
the maker’s instructions how to use his gun shows that it is 
altogether too complicated to be really effective, on the 
ground, where nine times out of ten success depends on 
quick action. I have always wondered why the inventor has 
not adopted an independent self-cocking rifie lock, with a 
safety catch, as that used in the hammerless? This would 
undoubtedly add much value to his gun, 

As to its selling price, Lmay say also that the manufacturer 
is n aking us pay rather too high for his patent. Of two guns 
exactly the same grade, the double barrel he sells for $45, 
the treble barrel $75, making for the rifle barrel and lock 
alone $30, the full price of the best repeaters on the market, 
representing three times the labor snd material and surely 
no less ingenuity. 

Both the auxiliary and the threc-barrel, and this is my 
capital objection, are, like all breechloaders, too slow ex- 
tracting, reloading and recocking to compare in effective- 
ness with the repeater, They are unquestionably worthy im- 
provements on the general gun, yet not fully what is re- 
quired, 

My object in writing this paper is not to detract from the 
real merits of these two weapons, both of which I am glad 
to possess and usc, as the best all-around guns yet produced, 
I insist on their defects and insufficiency only to show the 
urgency of improvements, and to induce inventors to search 
for something still better, 

The woodsman’s gun must be single barrel and repeater, 
capable of shooting both bullet and shot—in other words, a 
modification of the present repeating rifle. As for details, I 
will mention: Barrel, cylindrical smoothbore, about ,65 
rifle caliber or 18 gun gauge, 27 or «8 inches long, three dis- 
tinct metal cartridges, round Lullet, buck shot and fineshot, 
lever action, acting at will as repeater or singleloader, 
weight 8 pounds. 

The repeater is indispensable, as rarely a single shot will 
fini-h large or dangerous game, and as more than one may 
be shot at. The half magazine, with 5 or 6 cartridges, is 


quite sufficient to meet any emergency; and to ayoid com- 
plication in the action, it should be used to store only bullet 
cartridges, the me pealane being hardly required with theshot, 
the shot cartridges might be used by operating the gun as 
singleloader, while the contents of the magazine would be 
held in reserve. 

The caliber of the barrel, 74; inch, is a sufficient compro- 
mise of the rifle and shotgun to secure efficiency in shooting 
both bullet and shot. The cylinder bore is necessary to 
make the bullet accurate, while small-gauged guns need no 
choking to give hard and close shot shooting. 

The reund or spherical bullet dispenses with the rifling, 
which would make the barrel unfit to shoot shot. And it 
must not be forgotten that the round ball, large caliber, is 
the most effective form in which the same weight of lead can 
be cast (Van Dyke, ‘‘Still Hunter,” pp, 342, 345), also that 
the round ball will make seventy or eighty yards or more in 
half the time the other does, and therefore make much less 
of a curve (Idem, p. 347). In fact, up to 100 and 150 yards 
(which are about the longest ranges a practical hunter ex- 
pects to kill) the round bullet has a flatter trajectory and a 
greater penetration aud killing power than that of any other 
shape, while its comoarative lightness requiring less powder 
lessens the recoil. It wouldalso allow making a shorter and 
more compact cartridge. The Indians in this country never 
use in their hunting any other than the round bullet, 

it is useless to add that this bullet must fit exactly the bore 
of the barrel, I would further suggest, to secure the full 
propelling power through the whole length of the barrel, the 
insertion in the shell of a thick concave felt wad, to nest the 
bullet in, over the powder, this shape preyenting any upset- 
Ba of the wad by the force of explosion, and thereby loss 
of gases. 

As to the action, that of any of the leading American 
magazine rifles would do. with but slight alterations in size, 
and some improvement, perhaps, to make the singleloadiug 
more handy ane quicker, the Hetchkiss being, 1 believe, the 
most perfect on this point. 

The weight of the projected weapon is also a matter of im- 
portance; so telling it is on the woodsman’s shoulder in a day’s 
tramp, that any unnecessary ounces of this item should be 
dispensed with. What is strictly consistent with strength 
and steadiness only should be allowed. Owing to the com- 
pee lightness, both in lead and powder, of the cartridge, 

should think eight pounds quite enough. The actual 
weight of repeating rifles on the market, ranges from 84 to 
11 pounds. As the thickness of their barrel goes a great way 
in that weight, why not build the barrel of this with same 
material as the shotgun, twist or Damascus, giving much 
more strength to same bulk? 

The above covers about all the points claimed by me at the 
outset for the projected weapon. Not being a specialist, I 
don’t assume, of course, to be strictly correct on ail the de- 
tails; but, feeling that the idea I am making myself the 
humble exponent of, is, in the whole, practical and useful to the 
craft, I repectfully invite discussion on it by more competent 
men than myself, confident it wili more effectively bring out 
the all-around gun in the best shape it can be produced. 

And I trust American makers, whose rare ingenuity has 
so wonderfully developed excellency of firearms in a variety 
of styles, will seon give us the suggested weapon, with the 
same degree of perfection attained in others. 

Soret, P. Q., April, 1884. J. B. BROUSSEAU. 


Following is the table of charges for shotguns, drawn up 
by Maj. H. W, Merrill: 


Gauge |Diameters| Areas of | Ratios of |Loads Pow-| Loads of 
Numbers. | of Bores.| Bores Areas. |der Nearly.|Shot Nearly 
| 

4 1.08 9137 2.45 74d 2 7-160z. 

5 .99 7693 2.06 615d | 2 1-160z 

6 98 6782 1.82 514d 1iZ0z. 

7 89 6277 1,67 5d 1 18-166z. 

8 85 5052 1.51 416d 1iéoz. 

9 82 5275 1.41 444d 1 7-i60z 
10 -79 4398 1.31 4d 1 5 160z 
11 76 4521 1 21 334d 1 3-160z 
12 73 4176 1.12 Bled 11g0z. 

13 ipl 8956 1.06 6 1-5d 1 1-160z 
14 .69 736 1.00 3d loz. 

15 67 3516 0.94 2 4-5d .15-160z 
16 65 3228 0.86 2 8-5d 14-1602. 


Novre.—The unit of measure is three drams of powder and one 
ounce of shot fora No, 14gun. Tatham's standard shot, No, 6. 


MICHIGAN NOTES. 


Sees duck shooting has been excellent during the last two 

or three weeks, The early spring shooting, however, 
was a dead failure. Those who started to meet the first 
flights and shoot over air holes while the ice was solid, were 
woefully disappointed, One well-known shot, who made 
the arduous trip upon the ice from New Baltimore to the 
house of the Lake St. Clair Fishing and Shooting Club, aver- 
aged one-quarter of a duck a day, He was gone twelve days, 
and all told, in the twilve days, he killed three ducks, He 
believes firmly in the saying that spring duck shooting is in- 
deed a lottery. Just now the shooting is at its best. Not 
many redheads have been killed, but the bluebills have been 
killed by the thousands. And they are hard to dispose of— 
the dead ones, I mean—for who likes spring ducks? Bah! 1 
don’t. Tough, thin, fishy, not any in mine, thank you, l’ll 
wait till October. 

The shooting at the St. Clair flats during the last ten days 
bas been especially fine. So, also, it has been along the 
Lake Erie marshes. I can but think that the good results of 
prohibiting battery shooting are now being reaped in the 
increased numbers of ducks. 

As yet snipe have been found in no great numbers, al- 
though bags of from eight to fifteen have been made just 
outside the city limits. Should we soon have a warm rain 
the birds will come in greater numbers, 

Messrs. Harrington & Richardson are to be congratulated 
upon having secured the services of Mr, John E. Long, who 
now travels in the interests of their excellent gun, I know 
of no one better fitted to represent such a worthy arm, John 
¥. (I hate to call a gentleman Johnny) has the enthusiasn we 
all like to see; a long experience in fire-arms such as few can 
boast of, and he is moreover as complete a sportsmen as ever 
trod a field of Michigan in quest of grouse, or quail, or snipe. 

Quai] wintered nicely notwithstanding a long, severe 
winter, I have heard of none that were frozen. An old 
farmer a few miles out tells me of a lively bevy that by some 
wonderful chance escaped the hordes of hunters who beat 
the fields about Detroit incessantly. May that bevy live 
long and prosper and multiply. Data. 

Derrorr, Mich., April 26. 


LIFE SAVING CREW GUNNERS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tt is generally supposed that the crews of the different: life 
saving stations on our coast are not allowed to be out of 
hailing distance from their headquarters from the 1st of 
September until the Ist of May, the period for which their 
services are engaged by the United States Government. IJn- 
deed, if I am not mistaken, there is a special rule to this 
effect, yel many of the members of these crews, especially 
those on the New Jersey coast, spend almost the entire 
portion of the day at 2 great distance from the station houses 
behind their decoys, with their guns at same point or in some 
cove during the ducking season, 

Some years ago $4) per motth from the 1st of November 
until the Ist of April was the amount paid each member of 
the crew, while the captain drew more from the Government, 
The monthly salary paid them now has since been raised to 
$45 per month, and again to $50, and the commandant’s $75. 
While many lives have been saved by this branch of the 
Government service, complaint has been raised this season 
that should a vessel run ashore during daylight it would be 
difficult at many points to get the crews quickly together in 
order to rerder prompt assistance; indeed one instance has 
lately occurred where a schooner, in broad daylight, im 
entering one of the important inlets of the New Jersey coast 
went aground owing to poor pilotage, not one of the life 
saving crew being on hand to do the work as was wanted. 
After running aground, baymen, not of the life saving crew, 
had to be employed to aid in getting the vessel off, the crew 
of the station being off in the bay shooting. 

Again, while those not engaged at the stations are endeay- 
oring to eke out a livelihood during the dull season of the 
year, with their guns, the stationmen, well paid by the Govy- 
ernment, occupy the best points of the ducking grounds and 
greatly interfere with the amateur, who visits these sections 
yeeking a day’s enjoyment, Iam writing in a general way 
but could be more specific in relating the complaints that 
have reached my ears. It would seem tn me that the life 
saying crews should be compelled to obey the rules under 
which they were made members of this service, and not be 
allowed to carry on market shooting. Their pay is good, 
yet when a point is occupied by a city sportsmen and his 
bayman, and fowl are flying, these station men push directly 
in alongside of them, throw aut their decoys, and claim a 
part of the shooting or else go somewhere directly to lee- 
ward and ruin the sport for both parties. ARTICHOKE. 


CONCERNING ROBINS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of March 13, ‘‘A. T. 5.” writes that he used 
the following language to a Floridian who had been guilty 
of shooting robins: ‘‘Fortunate for you, sir, that you live 
in the South; if you were seen in the North with that ba 
of song birds in your possession you would be lynched, aHe 
your carcass given to the crows.” The indignation of “A. 
T. S.”-was just, but if it be true that those who shoot robins 
in the North are lynched, then a certain eminent man, a 
writer whose books most of us love, is in great danger. Mr. 
John Burroughs lives, I believe, on the banks of the Hud- 
son, near New York City, and yet Mr, Burroughs, in a 
charming sketch published in Seribner’s Monthly for Decem- 
ber, 1880, unblushingly states that he hunted robins. Says 
Mr. Burroughs: ‘‘In the afternoon, remembering the rebins, 
and that robins are game when one’s larder is low, I set out 
alone for the pine bottoms, a mile or more distant,” In lit- 
erary matters Mr. Burroughs is quite an authority, and if 
we allow also that he is to be hear* on the question of what 
is and what is not lawful game, and take for true his state- 
ment ‘‘that robins are game when one’s Jardet is low,” then 
we must certainly acquit the Fioridian; for his reply to ‘A. 
T. $.,” “O, them’s mighty fine eating,” shows that he only 
shot them to eat and not for the mere sport of killing. 

But it is likely that Mr. Burroughs, charming wuiter and 
learned critic that he is, is not yet an authority on questions 
of game and shooting, and that he and the Floridian are 
both inthe wrong, It is evident to me that if Mr, Bur- 
roughs is a sportsman at all he is remarkable both for want 
of success and for strict truthfulness. In the sketch above 
mentioned, after stating that one of his companions was ‘tan 
old ducker,” he says of himself: “For my part [ had never 
killed a duck—except with an ax—nor have I yet.” Now 
would any sportsman ki!l a duck with anax? Perhaps ‘‘his 
larder was low,” but even then would any sportsman make 
the damaging confession against himself that he had never 
killed a duck in any other way? However, the object of 
this communication is not to settle the status of Mr, Bur- 
roughs as a sportsman, but to call the attention of “A. T. 8.” 
to the fact that, as you, Mr, Editor stated, the Floridians 
are not the only people guilty of the offense of which he 
complains. In the case of Mr. Burroughs the offense is 
somewhat aggravated by the fact that the robin has been to 
him a source of much inspiration, the title to one of his 
earliest books being ‘*Wake Robin.” 

Let po one think that I wishany of the missionaries of 
whom ‘‘A. T. S.” speaks, sent to correct Mr, Burroughs 
from his error of robin hunting, still less that I have called 
attention to this matter in order to have him lynched. In 
his favor it can be said that his hunting does but little hurt 
to game or birds of any kind, and 1 doubt if even the robins 
would wish it prohibited. . 

Unlike most sportsmen he does not measure the success of 
his hunting by the amount of animal life destroyed, Going 
to hunt robins and finding none, he comes back satisfied, be- 
cause he had seen a wild turkey. ‘‘I found no robins,” says 
he, “but went back satisfied with having seen the turkey, 
and having had an experience that I knew would stir up the 
envy and disgust of my companions.” To show how little 
dependent upon the mere shooting is his enjoyment of the 
hunt, read the following from the-same sketch: 

“The ducks flew quite briskly that night; I could hear 
the whistle of their wings as stood upon the shore indulg- 
ing wyself in listening. The ear loves a good field as well 
as the eye, and the night is the best time to listen, to put 
your ear to nature's keyhole and see what the whispcrings 
and the preparations mean. 1 overheard some muskrats 
engage ina yery gentle and affectionate jabber beneath a 
rude pier of brush and earth upon which I was standing. 
The old, old story was evidently being rehearsed under there, 
but the occasional splashing of the ice-cold water made it 
seem like very chilling business; still we all know it is not,” 

During a three days’ stay they bagged but one duck, yet 
Mr, Burroughs seems to have counted it a successful hunt. 
‘‘With our one duck, but with many pleasant remembrances 
we returned to Washington that afternoon,” 

Happy Mr. Burroughs! we could better lynch a better 
sportsman. . 

Ganvssvinie, Ark., April 17. 


-— 


J. E. Rmpicez. 


[May j, a 


May i, 1884.) 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


267 


LONG ISLAND GAME PROTECTION, 


| bares Mr. George W. Whitaker, the game protector for 
the district of the Long Island counties, we have re- 
ceived ncopy of the following circular, which is self-ex- 


planatory + 
SourmAmpron, April 15, 1884, 
To the South Side Sportsmen's Club of Long Island, the Game and 
Tish Protective Association of Richmond County. the Staten 
Island Gun Glub, the Fountain Gun Club, the Washington Gun 
lub, the Long Island Shooting Club, the Long Island Morester 
Club, the Prospect Gun Club, the Garden City Gun Club, the 
Sey. IsJand Rod and Gun Club, and the Glenmore Rod and Gun 
ub: 

Thaye, upon inquiry, been given the names of the above clubs, and 
L appeal to them fo render me, the undersigned, State Game and Fish 
Protector of the First District. comprising Suffolk, Kings, Queens and 
Richmond counties, their assistance. . 

The district is too extensive for a Game Protector to personally act 
a8 a faine keeper in any one locality, but he can supervise the whole 
district, which 1s what, I suppose, his appointment means. — ; 

What herequires is 4 detective. He can from time to time obtain 
and furnish such information to a detective as will erfable him to ob- 
tain evidence suflicient for him to prosecute, whereas the Protector, 
being personally known, could not obtain such evidence. 

The Brooklyn Gun Club has already yoted a sum of $25 to be used 
for this purpose, and others have promised assistance, ; 

What is desived is, that some persons be named to receive the 
money, not only from any club, but also from s)ortsmen generally 
who muy wish Lo contribute for such a purpose, the receivers to have 


full power to employ and pay such a detective. : 

In such ease it is confidently believed that such assistance rendered 
the Game Protector will enable him to put astop to the snaring 
and trapping of quail and partridge. and other breaches of the law. 
i would suggest that Mr. Francis rndicott, the president of the Rich- 
mond Game and Fish Protective Association, and Mr, Gustave Wal- 
ter, of the Brooklyn Gun Club, act as receivers of any such subserip- 
tion, trusting that these gentlemen will consent to act as such re- 
ceivers, and thereby render the community of sportsinen a further 
obligation by being the means of the further preservation of game. 

I will at an early date personally see or communicate by letter with 
the officers of each elub, I willalso see Messrs. Walter and Endicott, 
and will insert an article in the Forms? AND SrrBam, the result of my 
applications. Gio. W. WHITAKER, 

State Game Protector of Kings, Queens, Suffotkand Richmond Coun- 
ties. 


MAJOR JOSEPH VERITY. 


S0ME OF HIS SPORTING ADVENTURES, AS MODESTLY SET 
FORTH BY HIS OWN HAND, 
Chapter IX, 


BELIEVE that I promised, long ago, to tell of a rather 

remarkable shot 1 once made, and | will not longer defer 

it. The shot was only remarkable because if was delivered 

at just the right instant, and that by it [secured more ani- 

mals than [ saw at this time, or intended to get, It hap- 
pened in this wise; 

I was still hunting on the first snow, which that seasou 
fell late for Adironda, it being then about the middle of 
September. I had tracked a fine buck, as I knew by the 
size of his footprints, only about twenty miles one morning, 
when I came upon him lying down to rest under a great 
hemlock. He was one of the largest I ever saw, and I stood 
a moment admiring his graceful pose and noble proportions 
before I should send the leaden messenger of death to lay 
him low, and must confess that I hesitated to speed it on its 
murderous errand. What sportsman worthy of the name 
has not at times, even in the ardor of the chase, had an 
almost overpowering softness of heart come upon him, a 
pity for the poor hunted object of his pursuit, a questioning 
of his conscience as 10 what right he has to take the life of a 
creature vastly his superior tn innocence and harmlessness? 
Thus for a short space I stood, almost wishing that the buck 
were not so entirely al my mercy; but there were short com- 
mons in camp, and I had the butt of my rifle almost at my 
shoulder when somehow my attention was drawn to the 
great hemlock by a slight stir of a branch. Looking closer J 
Saw an enormous panther crouching there, just ready for a 
spring upon the deer lying all unconscious of the two-fold 
danger lurking so near him. Now I saw the way out of my 
shedding the blood of the buck. How many of us are will- 
ing enoush to see another commit, without lifting a hand to 
prevent, an act of cruelty we shrink from doing ourselves, 
and then holding ourselves conscience-free? 

As the panther, assured of his aim, sprang out of the screen 
of evergreen branches in a great curve, I fired at his heart, 
and he fell upon the deer, crushing him beneath his 
weight, and rending the remaining life out of him in his ter- 
Tible death-throes. I rushed forward to give the panther a 
finishing shot, but it was not needed, for the first had done 
its work completly, and the giant cat Jay dead stretched upon 
his intended prey, As I stood looking with some pride upon 
my handsome morning’s work, my attention was called to a 
violent commotion in the undergrowth a little beyond, and 
going to see the cause of it, I found if to be a fine doe, whose 
back had been broken by the same bullet which killed the 
panther. Dispatching her with my knife, and turning her 
over to disembowel her, I found a grouse that, having bur- 
rowed in the snow, had been killed by the doe in her flound- 
erings, and presently [ stumbled over a hare that had been 
frightened to death by the noise, and the bloody scene which 
had been so suddenly enacted before him. 

Now, of course all this, except the killing of the panther 
and the subsequent death of the buck, was purely fortuitous, 
and I claim uo credit but for the well timed shot, yet I think 
it has seldom happened that one shot has brought one so 
much game, large and small, as did this. 

This mention of deer reminds me that the salt lake of 
which I have told, is, or was, a great resort for these animals, 
its shores affording them an immense lick, and I haye seen 
these shores so crowded by them that there was not room for 
another Lo stand, and many were pushed into the water, and 
would have been drowned (as there was no room for them to 
land), but for the extreme Uensity of the saline fluid, upon 
which they were buoyed so lightly that no more than their legs 
and bellies were wet. Here were chances forsuch murderous 
pot-shots, as would delight the bowels of some who now resort 
to Adironda for what they call sport, But such a shot I 
was never guilty of, nor would I permit my companions to 
be, even were they so disposed. 

A few words more concerning fishing. Iwas always sat- 
isfied that fish are not altracted to artificial flies by hunger 
or by mistaking them for any winged things which they ever 
feed upon, but only by curiosity or rage at beholding such 
palpable shams offered them, To further strengthen my con- 
viclion—which we are always fonder of fortifying than of 
weakening—once when the lake of the singing fishes was 
just frozen enough to bear my weight, and the ice was trans- 
parent as the limpid water, 1 tied a gandy fly upon a length 
of gut without a hook, and going out upon the lake cast it 
with no great, skill—for I never sought tu acqnire that art— 
not many yards from me. Then, bump! as I anticipated, 
came a yvreat singing fish against the ice beneath with such 


force that he was quite stunned, and so remained till 1. 
chopped him out with my hatchet, which I had brought, 


ee 


expecting such use for it, I took many more so, and in so 


doing had sport which gratified then my experimental mood, 


and afterward my stomach, for these fish were excellent eal- 
Now and then where the ice was thinnest, and an un- 
commonly large and vigorous, curious or enraged fish 
dashed at the fly, he would burst quite through the film of 


ing, 


congealed water and fall on top of it, 


Now let me ask the intelligent reader if it is reasonable to 
suppose that any fish could be so silly as to expect to see any 
fly that he had ever been accustomed to feed upon, flitting 
over the frozen surface of his native waters, or be fooled by 


the cunningest imitation of such insects at this season? 

As I threw my fish upon the ice till I had done fishing, 
the first caught were frozen stiff by that time, That night 
in camp I was almost shocked when I was awakened by 
sweet, strains of music arising from the bucket of water iu 
which the benumbed aquatic minstrels had been put to thaw 
preparatory to dressing. I was reminded of the fabulous 


death song of the swan, and I own that my feeling were pain- 


fully touched. But underthe influence of the melody I soon 
fell asleep again, and in the morning the fish were all dead, 


' AIR RESISTANCE, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

Had Mr. James Duane studied Bashforth’s ‘‘Onthe Motion of Pro- 
jectiles’’ as conscientiously as the importanes of thesubject demanded, 

@ would not have fallen into the error he has. and discovered, ap- 
parently, a huge ‘mare's nest.”’ as indicated by the following quota- 
tion from an article in yourissue of August 9, “Muzzle ys. Breech”: 
“Your correspondent ‘P.' would seem to be a rifleman of great prac- 
tical experience, and one whose opinionsare entitled to much weight, 
Any error, therefore, committed by such aman is likely to do con- 
siderable harm if ajlowed to go unchallenged. In his interesting and 
otherwise instructive articleof July 12, he says: ‘Taking the element 


of velocity into account, the air resistance, proved from these exper- 


ments (the Bashforth experiments) to be the greatest between veloci- 
ties from 1,100 f.s, to 1,350 f.s.?” 
He then goes on to prove by Professor Bashforth himself what 


every casual student of-that yaluable work ‘‘On the Motion of Pro- 


jectiles,”’ will readily admit he does mean, and what willbe admitted 
was my meaning, by the quotation above made, by any one reading 
over whatever has been written by myself on this subject. In my 
opinion there can be but one view of its proper construction by those 
well posted on the subject. In this quotation the same nomenclature 
has been used, as1n numerous instances has been been adopted by the 
learned Professor himself; that is, using the term “resistance of the 
air’ as synonymous with ’'co-efficients of air resistance,” as will appear 
from the following references, among others from the above mentioned 
work. Page 31: ‘Does the resistance of the air vary as the cube of 
the velocity, for all practical velocities of the projectile?’ ete. Page 
69: “Inasmuch as the fesistance of the air does not vary strictly as 
the cube of the yelocity,” etc. So also in ‘Reports of Hxperiments,”’ 
etc., 1878-79, etc., page 4, he says: ‘If these values of K (the co-effi- 
cients of aif resistance determined on) may be relied on, the resist- 
ance of the air varies as the square of the velocity for velocities 430 
to 880 f.s., and asthe cube of the velocity from 83) to 1,000 f.s,° In 
his “Final Report of Experiments,”’ 1678-80, page 4, he says: *'The 
resistance of the air varied as the cube of the yelocity fur velocities be- 
tween 1,000 fis, and 830 f.:,, and approximately as the square of the 
yelocity for velocities below &30f.s." So other quotations could he 
inserted were it necessary. So Major Sloden, who was his principal 
assistant and pupil during these experiments, in his “Principles of 
Gunnery,’ uses these ferms as synonymous, page 63. So does Captain 
Mackinlay, in bis later and equally as valuable work, ‘‘Text-Book of 
Gunnery, 1884,” page 77. 

Isay in the aboye quotation, ‘The resistance of the air proyed 
greatest.’’ between certain velocities. Why? Evidently because be- 
twéen those velocities the resistance of the air varied as the cube of 
the yelocity, whereas, at velocities above and below those velocities, 
itvaried as the square of the velocity. As the cube of a quantity is 
greater than the square, my use of the term “‘greatest’’ in connection 
with the former term was correct. Any othér construction, to me 
would seem absurd. 

The subject of air resistance has been studied a great deal by the 
writer within the past few years, as the columns of the sportsmen’s 

ress bear witness; bub there has been nothing written by me that, 
in the remotest manner, can bear the construction that a ball, for in- 
stance, at 1,000 f.s. has greater resistance i: pounds avoirdupois than 
the same ball at 2,000 f.s., for it is very evident that, at the latter 
velocity, its actual resistance in pounds is eight times greater than at 
the former velocity. ; 

Ttake it for granted Mr. James Duane has read some of the discus- 
sions, in which I have been engaged on this very subject, within the 
past two years, as it is observed in a Jate number of Formst anp 
Srruam, he is now eugaged in firing off at Mr T.58. Van Dyke some 
of the same ammunition that was used by myself within the past two 
weets in combatting theories that appeared to me very impracti- 
cable. 

‘‘Aar resistance’ is irrespective of the weight of the projectile, and 
is expressed in pounds, ayoirdupois, by the formula: 


d2 Toe y° 
oes g£ E ( 1000 
“Retardation” is very different, and varies inversely as the weight 
of the projectile, and is expressed in loss of yelocity, in feet per sec- 
ond. ‘Retardation is negative acceleration; it is subject to the same 
laws, but is opposite in sign.’’ It is expressed by the formula; 


d2 Vv \3 
a w be ( 1000 ) 

Take the 405-grain .45-caliber bullet—for 1,000 f.s. its air resistance 
is R=0.472Ibs,. avoirdupois; for 2,000 f.s. R=2.776lbs. 

Tam perfectly willing to leave to more competent philologists the 
guestion as to whether Prof. Bashforth and the other authorities 
quoted are technically right in wsing the term “resistance of the air” 
as Synonymous with the ‘‘co-efficient of air resistance.”’ His name is 
high in authority, whether in mathematics or literature. To him is 
justly due the high distinction of having first mastered the problem 
of ‘‘the resistance of the air to the motion of projectiles,” that had 
occupied the study and thought of the most distinguished mathema- 
ticians and scientists of the world for nearly 200 years. 

The most elaborate expériments had been made by some of the 
European governments with the ballistic pendulum, but without any 
practical result, The advent.of the electric telegraph stimulated this 
channe! of thought, and was followed by the invention of numelous 
chronographs, some of great merit, but none of these measured 
more than one interval of time, It was then that the Rev. Francis 
Bashforth, a clergyman of the Church of England, ‘‘chalked out” in 
his mind the solution of this intricate and much studied problem, and 
with that end in view invented his “clock chronograph,” in- 
tended to measure the time of the passage of successive 
intervals of space by the same projectile. This was to 
be done by firing the projectile through a succession of wire 
screens placed at intervals of 25yds. and sometimes 50yds., 
and by haying each screen connected by the electric wire with the 
main instrument, the exact time of the projectile passing each screen 
was accurately recorded upon a revolving cylinder. In this way the 
retardation in velocity atthe time of passing each sereen could be 
carefully and accurately ascertained. The constants thus determined, 
combived in the proper formula, gave numerical values for the co- 
efficients of air resistance, which, again combined in other formula, 
resulted in the formation of tables by which, with muzzle velocities 
and weight of bullets known, their flizbt through the air could be 
traced with rem irkable accuracy. As with all importantinventions, 
its introouction met with difficulties. Having been, however, once 
tested by the British Ordnanes Department, its practical applica 
bility to the design of the inyentor was fully established, and tae 
series of experiments, under his supervision, to determine the true 
theory of “the resistance of the air to the motion of projectiles” 
were commenced, which, with the necessary calculations and delays 
incident to a new invention, occupied a space of sixteen years—1865- 
1880, Hvery detail of these experiments, with the formule used, as 
also the calculations in detail, were published to the world, and the 
criticisms of mathematicians invited. As far as my information 
gues, there were no adverse criticisms, but the contrary, and to-day 
the co-efficients of air resistance, as determined by these experi- 
ments, as well as his methods and tables for their practical applica- 
tion for the determination of the flight of the ball, are of recognized 
high authority among the scientific men of the world. 

Though these experiments were made both with the spherical and 
ogival-headed shells of from three to nine inecnes diameter, they 
were atterward found equally applicable to those of the small arms 
caliber, as will beséen by the extract following from a paper by 
Major MeClintock; Royal Artillery, and assistant superintendent of 
the Royal Small Arms factory, Enfield Dock, paonetet in the Wield 
(London) Sept. 8, 1883: “The accuracy of rifle bullet trajectories, 
calculated by means of Prof. Bashfortin’s tables, has been tested by 
firing alarge Humber of rounds through paper screens, placed at 
different points along the range, The rifie used in the experiment 


was the Martini-Henry (.45-cal.), and the sereens were erected at 
intervals along a 500yds. and 1,000yds. range. The results of the 
SS thts Ae was most satisfactory, the mean heights of the bullet 
holes in the screens agreeing closely with the heights found by cal- 
culation,” 

The writer was the first, as far as my information extends, to call 
attention in an American journal to the importance of the results of 


; these experiments, some two years sinée, wih an expression of 


belief, from kis own experiments, of their applicability to the smaller 
calibers, conclusions proven conclusively hy the above extract, which 
bears the impress of the British Ordnance Department, 

Itis, indeed, a matter of surprise that Her Britanuie Majesty's gov- 
erhment, usually so protapt to recognize distinction, whether in 
R¢ience, literature, the arts, arms, or the church, should not have 
rewarded such distinguished services ere this. The value of the 
results of these éxperimeénts, not only in the design and manufacture 
of artillery and small arms, but in fhe use of these arms against the 
public enemy, can seareely be over-estimated. Ib is even intimated 
that this distinguished professor was very inadequately paid for his 
time and scicnce during the experiments, 

During the time these experiments were being made, Professor 
Helie, a distinguished mathematician in the servics of the French 
government, was making experiments with a view to the same end by 
Means of the Boulengé chronograph measuring, howeyer, only one 
interval of time. Theresults of these experiments were consequently 
not so satisfactory, nor did they embrace a very exfended range of 
velocities. His experiments embraced velocities befween 1,100 f,s, 
and 1,500 f,s. it is understood that fairly coincided with the results of 
the Bashforth experiments, and whieh for practical purposes were 
embodied in the formula: 

Vie 


14-C VX 

Cis a constant, however, that was dependent for its value on an- 
other constant 6, which bad .o be det-rmimed by experiment for 
each particular ball. This formula has been used a great deal by the 
officers of the U.S, Ordnance Department, the valve of } haying been 
determined for the service bulles by careful experiment. It is plain 
this formula is not of general application, on account of the constant 
6, being indeterminate, except by careful experiment, which few 
have the means of undertaking; whereas the Bashforth methods and 
tables are applicable for any diameter and weight of projectile and 
fer all practical velocities, and whether for spherical or ogival-headed 
projectiles, and can be practically used by any one conversant with 
the urdinary principles of mathematics, As above related, their ap- 
plication has been practically tested by numerous experiments. 

I was very glad to notice in the Forest AND STREAM Of Oct. 11, 1883. 
the report of some experiments by Mr. Duane for ascertaining rifle 
trajectories, and itis to be hoped, he and others will continue such 
experiments. Ib is, however. suggested that they be made over a 
200vds, range; or, if a less range, thatit should be some multiple of 
25yds., so that the results can be compared with those that have been 
and may, hereafter, be made on each side of the ocean, 

My objectin alluding to them at this time. however, is to call his 
attention 1o a serious error. judzing from my own experience, he has 
fallen into, as will more fully appear from the quotation following, 
Speaking of the target being 24ft. higher than the firing point, he 
says: “This will make the trajectory Zin. higher (theoretically) than 
for a level range, but as it would operate about equally on all bullets, 
it was not considered of much importance.” He is im errer, and if is 
hoped he will not consider me unnecessarily critical or a mere quib- 
bler, in pointing it out, as it lies at the foundation of succes-ful shoot- 
ing in a mountainous country. 

In hunting mountain sheep, there are times when, as was my ex- 
perience last fall, the game may he 200 to 250yds. vertically, either 
above or below you, and in firing, the axis of the boreof the rifle may 
make an angle of 76°, with the horizontal plane passing though the 
muzzle, He, who in either case aims according to the direct distance 
to the game, will miss every time. So, proportionately, with smaller 
angles of elevation. On my first advent in mountain hunting, in 1976- 
77. my attention was first called to the subject, after wasting a gool 
many excellent shots at game above and below me, and experiment, 
the best guide out of suen difficultie:, was resorted to for a solution 
of the difficulty. Ranges were measured on the steepest slopes of the 
mountains accessible, tha vertical elevation having been measured 
carefully by a pocket level, and the horizontal distance with a tape 
line and plumb-line, the hypothenuse or direct distance hay- 
ing been caleulated. The result was, for all practical pur- 
poses, satisfactory ta mysef, and appeared a correct solution 
of the problem, The conclusion arrived at was that in aiming at 
objects aboye or below you, be governed by the horizontal distance, 
For instance, if the object is 140yds, on the slope of thse mountain, 
either above or beneath you, and 100yds. away on the horizontal, aim 
with the sight that will so to the spot on the level range of 100yds. 
In other words, the angle of elevation of the sight varies as the co- 
sine of the angle of departure (the angle between the axis of Lhe 
bore and the horizontal plins passing through the muzzle), In one 
of the issues of FoREST AND STREAM of the spring of 1878 will be 
found a short article from myself embodying this experience, accom- 
panied by an explanatory diagram. It was headed ‘‘Problem in 
Mountain Hunting,” but when published this was changed to ‘‘How 
to Aim.”’ I have not the scrap book containing this picce, but the 
proper back number will contain it. Criticism wasinviied from those 
well up in the calculus, but n>» one appeared to have the courage to 
tackle a problem that combined so many elements of discord,- Sub- 
sequent experiment at longer ranges and higher angles of departure, 
with further thought on the subject, so far confirmed me that the 
first solution arrived at was approximately correct (sufficie tly +o for 
the purpose of hunting) that a solution by means of the calculus has 
never been attempted by me. 

To apply the foregoing principles to the quotation given above 
from Mr. Duane’s article. It is understood he measured the range 
on the slope A C (see his diagram), and firing from A to C itis under- 
stood he means that the trajectory made by the ball above the line of 
sight is high-r by 2in. than were the target placed 24ft. below C in 
the horizontal plane passing through A, and 204yds. from the latter 

oint. Heisin error theré. Instead of the trajectory being higher 

y 2in., it willbe flatter than were the range horizontal, the amount 
depending on the muzzle velocity and weight and caliber of bullet. 
In this example, however, there will be a very slight difference he- 
tween the two trajectories, the co-sine of the angle of departure being 
very little less than the direct range, say 6ln. 


The above principles are restricted to muzzle velocities of about 
1,400 f.s,, as no experiments were made much below thst velocity. 
The experiments were made for an altitude of about 5,000ft. above 
sea level. It does not appear to.me reasonable why the principle is 
not applicable to all velocities or altitudes. 

It would seem that the question lately mooted (and alluded to in 
Mr. D.’s article) in the discussion ‘Muzzle vs. Breech,’ as to whether 
arifle with a permanent plug in the breech will give a greater or 
less muzzle velocity (all other conditions being the same) as compared 
with a barrel with a temporary plug, as the brass shell is not a de- 
batable one. It simply depends on the amount of gas escaping 
from the breech. ab the instant of explosion. There isalwaysa slight 
escape of gas from the shell, under the most favorable circumstances, 
So there is always more or less escape of gas from the tube of the 
muzzleloauer by the raising of the hammer, Formerly each muzzle- 
loading rifle was provided with a small vent hole on ths base of the 
tube to facilitate a slight eseape of gas to reduce thé strain on the 
breech. So that the relative muzzle velocities attainable by the two 
arms is dependent entirely on the foregoing conditions, which vary so 
little in each case as to make very little difference bebween them in 
this regard; like causes producing like effects. 

T do not understand Major Merrill as contending that the muzgzle- 
loader, per sé, will give a flatter trajectory than the breechloader, but 
that on account of its adaptibility for increasing er decreasing the 
peyece charge or weight of balla flatter curve could be had when 

esirable for the longer ranges by increasing both the chargeand ball, 
whereas in the breechloader you are limited to a certain amount of 
powder in the shell. 

This discussion of the relative merits of the two systems has not 
been barren of results, as some seem to intimate. It has been the 
meéaus of showing upsome of the defects of the present American 
breechloader, and it is to be hoped that it will be kept up until these 
defects are corrected as far as is practicable. My understanding of 
Major Merrill's preference for the muzzleloader is that on account of 
certain advantages it possesses in certain details, its shooting is much 
steadier, the ball passing from its seat over the powder charge 
throughout the barrel without any obstruction, a condition that does 
not obtain with the breechloader, as every observant riflemsn must 
admit. Were these, among other defects, corrected, his preferences 
would be for the breechloader on account of its rapidity of fire, Tt 
is tu be hoped Major Mevrill will continue to hammer away in the 
same direction until these defects are corrected, or the attempt made 
for their correction’as far as is practicable. THe will always have my 
hearty eyes and good wishes in the task, Ee 

Manon 24, 1884, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 1, 1684. 


Parrerson, N. Y., April 25.—The Passaic County Fish | the length of a two-foot pocket rule. 


It will be remembered 


and Game Protective Association held a regular meeting last ; also that the detectives discovered in the cellar of a poacher, 


night in the new hall in the Vandevoort Building. The 
first feature of interest was the announcement by the seere- 
tary that he had received a check for $100 from Mr. Jacob 
8. Rogers for the association. The principal feature of the 
organization which Mr, Rogers approved of was the inten- 
tion of the association to protect song birds, The associ- 
ation will see to it that the State law is enforced relative to 
the shooting of songsters by persons who indulge in that 
practice principally out of sheer wantonness. The Board of 
Aldermen has been requested to pass an ordinance imposing 
a heavy fine for the killing of song birds within the city 
limits, and the ordinance will in all probability pass, as there 
is no opposition to it anda great deal may be said in its favor, 

. Rogers’s generous gift was accepted and he was tendered 
a yote of thanks. The constitution and by-laws of the asso- 
ciation were then adopted and ordered printed, so that per- 
sons desiring to join the association may know its objects. 
Tn some way or other an impression has gone abroad that 
this association is nothing but a mere club, which will have 
rooms open eyery evening where the members can spend 
their eyenings, Nothing is further from the intention of the 
association. It was formed for the purpose of protecting 
game, game fish and American song birds, and the by-laws 
provide regular machinery for the prosecution of all persons 
who offend against the laws. The association will hold 
monthly meetings and a committee was instructed to procure 
a room for that purpose. The counsel of the association, 
Senator Griggs, was requested to draw up a certificate of 
incorporation, which will be filed with the County Clerk and 
recorded, so that the association will enjoy all the privileges 
of incorporated bodies. 


From A FARMER’s Port or Virnw.—‘‘My Dear Sir: You 
are fortunate in having it In your power to go where game 
is. But few of us farmers can do so unless the game is near 
by, for we have not the means nor the time to make long and 
expensive trips in quest of sport. If we had the means, at 
the season when such a trip should be made, we have not the 
time to spare. A farmer’s days of leisure fall in winter 
mostly. A day now and then in summer for fishing, and in 
fall for shooting, is about the extent of his plasant weather 
play days, And so to no one more than the ordinary farmer, 
who loves field sports, is the preservation and protection of 
fish and game in his home streams and woods important and 
desirable, I, for one of them, am almost hopeless of any 
effective protection in my day. There is such apathy and 
such ‘eussedness’ and selfishness among those who should 
be most active and generous in the good work, that it is 
enough io dishearten the faithful few. And yet we must 
do what we can, and hope for the awakening of a better 
spirit in the masses.” 


THe Erastic Hper-Piatse, described and illustrated in 
our issue of Aug. 23, 1583, has been put upon the market, 
and an advertisement of it will be found elsewhere. The 
purpose of the rubber is to serve as a recoil pad, and it does 
this yery successfully. One of the veterans at the Parker 
gun works, the other day, after firing a heavily-loaded gun 
without and with the elastic heel-plate, compared the first 
recoil to the kick of a mule and the second to a blow with a 
soft boxing glove. The new heel-plate will add much to the 
pleasure of a day’s shooting. 


Sea and River Hishing. 


OPENING OF THE MAINE SEASON. 


yee opening of the season in Maine, May 1, will be pro- 

pitious, though the snow still lingers on the mountains 
and in the woods, and the lakes and ponds are frozen over, 
But the rapid streams and lower rivers are clear of ice. They 
have been cleared earlier than usual by a great rise of water, 
which has been kept up by the copious rains and melting 
snow. Such a state of the streams is very favorable for 
trout. As soon as let out from their ice prison of the winter, 
agreat abundance of food is washed within their reach, or 
they are permitted to visit parts of the shores in search of 
worms and insects where low water would never permit 
them to go, and hence by catching time they are well fed 
and fat after their winter fasting, Besides, their progress 
from winter quarters in the deep pools to the swift running 
rapids, where they delight to spend the sunny May and leafy 
June, is greatly facilitated by high waters. One of the best 
trouting spring seasons ever noted on the Richardson Lake, 
one of the Androscoggin chain, followed the late extra flow- 
age of thirteen feet, put on by the Union Water Power Com- 
pany, in the fall of 1831. Trout were caught near the shores 
where dry land existed only a year before, actually caught 
in the woods with their maws full of ants and wood worms. 

The ice is not expected to move from the Androscogyin 
lakes before the 10th of May, possibly not till the 15th. 
Last year Richardson Lake cleared on the 12th, followed by 
Mooselucmaguntic the 18th, and Rangeley about the same 
time. Four parties of Boston merchants, six in each, will 
start for these lakes about as soon as the ice is ont. The 
artists, Messrs. Griggs and Hollingsworth, will start for the 
Upper Dam as soon as the ice is out of Richardson Lake, 
At Lewiston, Maine, the usual early spring parties have 
their tackle all in order, and they will be followed by Port- 
land sportsmen and parties from South Paris, Norway and 
Bethel. The spring trolling usually brings oul, some large 
fish—six, eight, and even ten-pound brook trout. 

A strong pull is to be made for Sebago land-locked salmon 
this spring, in both Sebago Lake and Long Lake above. 
Commissioner Stanley will take his spring fishing trip to 
these waters this year, instead of to the Androscoggin lakes 
as usual, The finding of those cnormous specimens of the 
lund-locked salmon in Rodgers Brook, a tributary of Long 
Lake, last November, has’ convinced sportsmen that some 
noble fish exist in the Sebago waters, and a determined effort 
will be made to capture them with rod and reel this spring, 
Commissioner Stanley, who has been very successful with 
these fish, recommends that sportsmen give them a fair trial 
this year. He recommends casting the fly for them in the 
night as well as the daytime. It is altogether likely that 
success will be achieved by somebody with these beautiful 
fish at the end of the line. The specimen which was found 
stranded on the shores of Rodgers Brook last fall measured 


thirty eight inches in length by nine inches in depth, and 


weighed twenty-five pounds. The female land-locked 
salmon found in the same brook a few days previous, 


alive aud on the spawning bed, was taken out and 


measured and returned to the water, She was exactly twice 


with a reasonable ereel. 


who lives on the shore of Songo River, in the fall of 1882, a 
land-locked salmon, which must have weighed thirty pounds. 
It, with several smaller specimens, had been pitched out of 
the Songo, the connecting river of Sebago and Long lakes, 
with a pitchfork. Protection, then beeun in earnest, has now 
stopped such poaching, and hundreds of such noble fish are 
now alive in the Sebago waters, which had, previous to 1882, 
been pitched off from the spawning beds by the worthless 
poacher. It is believed that anglers in open season will be- 
gin to reap the henefits of such protection this spring. The 
Maine waters will doubtless be fished more than ever this 
season, but they haye been better protected for the past two 
years, and there will be more fish for the honest angler, The 
non-transportation fish and game Jaw has effectually stopped 
market fishing for trout and Jand-locked salmon in that 
State, and the fish are left for the angler, who is satisfied 
SPECIAL, 
Boston. 


FOR NEW YORK ANGLERS. 


WORD anent some good trouting ground. At Henry- 
ville, Monroe county, Pa., on the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Railroad, close to Stroudsburg and the 
Delaware Gap, are good fishing and excellent gccommoda- 
tions. JT was there ten days ago and was surprised te see 
such fish. Although an invalid, unable to wade, I caught 
fair messes every day; but I suw catches that amazed me. 
Looked into one creel and saw a lot of Salvelinus fontinalis 
taken with a fly that were worth traveling tosee. Weight 
eleven pounds; average less than four to the pound, with 
three fifteen-inch fish. Another mess, caught with bait, 
numbered sixty; weight sixteen and a half pounds, Twen- 
ty-five of the fish were over fifteen inches long. Parson 
Knight caught a fine mess with the fly. The place has a 
record of one four-and-a-half-pound trout and one four-pound 
trout. : 

The streams are the West Brodhead, the Big Brodhead, 
Paradise Creek, Saw Creek, the Big Bushkill and a dozen 
others, and are within eleyen miles of the streams that flow 
off High Knob, at the point where Wayne, Pike and Monroe 
counties meet. West Brodhead and Paradise creeks have 
the purest spring water lever saw. W. EH. Henry, post- 
master at Parkside, one-third of a mile from Henryville sta- 
tion, is the angler’s ‘‘guide, philosopher and friend.” 

AMATEUR. 


DOWELS AND REEL-SEATS. 


Fiditor Forest and Stream: 

T have read with much interest the discussious in your 
paper regarding dowel questions. I agree -with Mr. Wells 
that dowels on a rod are not only useless but also weaken the 
rod. I have never built a rod with dowel pins where | have 
been allowed to use my own judgment, but if a customer in- 
sisted on haying them I would put them on with the under- 
standing that I did not consider the workmanship perfect 
and would not warrant the rod against breakage at the fer- 
rule. If cylinder ferrules are used and fitted on over the 
wood without shoulder and are wrapped at the end of the 
ferrule with silk, there is little danger of breakage at this 

oint. 

E I notice that some of your correspondents advocate swelled 
ferrules as preferable to cylinder ones, on account of the in 
creased strength of the wood at the large end of the ferrule 
preventing the rod from breaking at this point. If some of 
the advocates of this principle will rise and explain, it will 
enlighten a rod maker, who is very much in the dark, and 
at present writing has no hope of eversecing the light on 
this point. I claim that in order to make a fishing rod perfect 
it is necessary that the ferrule should be made perfectly 
waterproof. In order to do this a metal disc should be fast- 
ened in the inside center of outside ferrule, also metal cap on 
the end of the inside ferrule. I prefer to fasten them with 
soft solder, as it makes a perfect job, and if necessary can be 
removed without trouble; this prevents moisture from getting 
at the wood, and preserves the wood at the ferrules sound 
for all time. 

Tam very much in favor of banding the lip of the female 
ferrule, particularly when light ferrules are used, as it pre- 
vents the female ferrule from swaging open by careless joint- 
ing of the rod, and adds much to the finish of the ferrule. 

T also think a rod should be mounted with a solid metal 
reel-plate, as it prevents the reel trom getting stuck fast by 
the swelling of the wood, which is very liable to occur when 
reel-bands are used. 

T also think that when manufacturers of rod mountings 
settle on some standard size of reel-seat, and ree] makers 
make their reel bases to conform to the reel-seats, a step will 
be taken in the right direction, EDWARD SMITH, 

Pirrsrorp, Vt., April 21, 


DRAINING THE ANDROSCOGGINS. 


Kiditor Forest and Stream: 

The future of the Rangeley Lakes, so far as trout fishing 
is concerned, is, [rom the present outlook, rather dubious. 
That remarkable species of the Salmo family, which has 
peen the pride and making of the Rangeley region, is doomed 
to speedy extermination if the existing condition of affairs is 
allowed to continue. As the matter now stands it is the 
interests of a.corporation against the fishing interests of the 
region; hut that corporation 1s a wealthy one, and what can 
a few hotel keepers and guides accomplish against it? The 
habitués of this famous fishing locality are scattered through- 
out our broad Union, and to nearly all of them the Formst 
AND STREAM comes laden with the news and doings at all 
the sporting localities of the known world, and to them this 
wail from the forests of Northern Maine should go. 

The case stands about thus: A few years ago the Water 
Power Compuny, of Lewiston, on the Androscoggin River, 
bought or acquired the right to use the Umbagog, Welo- 
kenebacook, Molechunkamunk, Mooseluckmaguntic and 
Cupsuptic lakes for storage of water, and proceeded to raise 
the dams and overflow the banks of these lakes, spoiling 
the beauty of the shores by covering up the beautiful 
beaches and scenes of many a ‘‘noouday roast,” sendiny the 
waters back into the woods and marring the view generally. 
This they probably had a right to do, and so far it was an 
offense against the eye only. ' . ‘ 

A year or two later they acquired the same rights in 
Rangeley Lake and raised the water as in the other lakes, 
but, that not sufficing, they, during the past winter, have 
gone to the other extreme and have drained the Rangeley 
Lake to such an extent as to lay bare‘the best spawning 
beds, thereby slaughtering spawn by wholesale, To accom- 


plish this I understand they haye dredged the stream at the 
outlet to the depth of about five fect, Yet this is not the 
exteut of the enormity. Last summer, when the gates of 
Middle Dam were open and the stream below full of water 
and fish (a fayorite resort), I am informed that the gates 
would be suddenly shut tight, stranding and’ destroying 
multitudes of fish at each operation. 

This occurs in a State where one year ago the most strin- 
gent Jaws were enactcd for the protection of fish, and the 
amount of fish each sportsman could take away was limited 
by law, Then, at great expense to the State, the Commis- 
sloners carry on their artificial propagation in these waters, 
turn their few handfuls of fry into the stream, and prosecute 
vigorously any offender to the extent of a fish or two, and 
stand idly by and witness this wholesale slaughter, without, 
so far as I have yet heard, any remonstrance. 

Do they permit this enormity because they have not the 
will to stop it, or because they have not the power? Tf the 
latter, why keep up the farce of hatching houses, stringent 
laws, commissioners and fish wardens. . , 

Can a water power company acquire the rights of absolute 
proprietorship in these lakes to the exclusion of all rights of 
the fishing public? is now the mooted question.. 

ALB. BOLEYN. 


FLY-BOOKS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Now that our pioneer, Mr. Wells, has cleared out the way, 
and called our attention to that “Jong felt want,” a discus- 
siou through your columns of the advantages and disudvan- 
tages connected with our tools, I wish to direct the attention 
of some of our experts to the many miserabije, useles fly- 
books, which are annually foisted on innocent novices, and 
which a great many who are not novices in the art of fly- 
fishing, are compelled perforce to use. 

These abominations are of several kinds, the greatest of 
which is the parchment, or asit is generally made, paper 
book, with several thicknesses in the leaves, forming several 
—generally three—pockets on each page. These can only 
be used to carry the old style of flies, with the long, coiled 
snells, and were well enough in their day, when the long 
snells were used, and the angler was content to spend five 
minutes every time he changed his fly in straightening the 
snell. Now, however, all good flies are made with short 
snells, which can easily be carried at full length, in a book 
which will not be of inconvenient size. To keep up with 
the times, and provide some means of carrying the short 
pressed flies at full length, the manufacturers have devised a 
book with parchment pages, and a row of small hooks at one 
end, or (as some are made) at one end with a band, at the 
other end to slip the loop of the fly under. : 

These, however, do not meet the situation, for the reason 
that, if there are hooks at each end. the snells are of course 
not exactly of the right length and the flies will not stay on 
the hooks; and if the hooks are on one end and a band on the 
other, about the same difficulty is presented. 

Another style which I have seen was a slight improvement 
on the last-named, inasmuch as three of the hooks on one end 
of each page were replaced by very small coil wire springs, 
about half an inch long, which kept the snells stretched out 
at full length. 

As there were only about five pages in the book, however, 
this arrangement only allowed of fifleen flies being carried in 
thig.manner, and the modest price asked for this book was 
ten dollars. Now, it seems tome that a fly-book migbt be 
made which would combine cheapness with utility, and such 
an one I would make something as follows: 

I would have the book contain about eight pages, made of 
some stiff material, for instance, leather stiffened with steel 
or brass bands along the end. Each page should have, say, 
six small coil wire springs on one end and a fixed hook for 
cach spring at the other end. 

This arrangement would accommodate six flies on each 
page, and hold them firmly in place at full length. The 
book would hold four dozen flies, and would also contain 
pockets for leaders and extra flies. This book need not be 
buiky, and would be about the thing in my opinion. Some- 
thing of this sort may be now manufactured. If so I would 
like to know about it. : 

For my part I have adopted the plan of keeping my flies 
in envelopes and find it works very well. I use a book with 
eight compartments, and use small envelopes opening on the 
end, five inches long and two and one-half inches wide. 
These I label on the end conspicuously, putting one or two 
varieties in each envelope. As my flies all have short snells, 
they go in at full length and are always straight. This 
method is superior to any other in my estimation, but there 
are of course many who prefer to have the flies in sight, and 
it is for their possible benefit that | make these suggestions. 

GOVERNOR. 

Sratrue, Washington Ter., April 5. 


Tue Sian 18 Not Rrewr.—Mill Spring, Ky., April.21.— 
The oldest weather wizards have not stumbled on an ad- 
jective satisfactorily expressive of the unprecedented winter 
and spring of 1884 up to now, nor does the oldest manipula- 
tor of red worms recall so few opportunities to indulge de- 
ferment of 2 few chores to a half day’s recuperation from 
spring fever, In fact, there have been but two or three days 
suggestive of an attack and the necessity of medication, and _ 
only the fortunate resident, convenient to the mouth of some 
of the larger tributaries to our rivers, has enjoyed 4 Cast. 
Last year I began taking pike-perch the last day of February, 
and by this date had strang, with numerous others, six pike- 
perch and one pike, which ageregated fifty pounds by the 
scales, and without the addition of numerous odd ounces at 
each draft, Three times I have had a bucket of minnows 
caught for the next proper stage of water, and as often that 
proper stage was not, To-day was anxiously anticipated, as 
the Gogwood is in bloom and the mercury soared into the 70s 
yesterday and the day before, but an infantile blizzard from 
the east last night is followed by an unceasing rain from that 
quarter to-day, and when the wind is from the east our or- 
dinarily inspired weather prophets give itup. Our aquiter- 
ous apparatus has been unaccountably deranged since the 
snow. Some farmers have concluded that Mother Shipton’s 
calculations should have figured oui 1884.—KENTUCKIAN. 


TROUTING IN Wyomrye.—South Fork of Stinking Water, 
April 18.—Trout are very numerous in this beautiful moun- 
tain country, and yesterday 1 took twenty fine ones in an 
hour. Game is abundant also, and B. T. Rogers, better 
known as “Curley” Rogers, is preparing to furnish pack out- 
fits and guide parties in the mountains. The troutaverage 

| a good size and rise freely.—BmuLINGs. 


— ——— 


 Fisyey Inying as an ANGLER—The English Fishing 
- Gaectte says that Mr, Wenry Irving, the actor, isan enthusi- 
astic aneler, and an accomplished artist with the fly-rod; 
and if is no secret that he owes much of his success on the 
stage to those quiet days on the trout stream, when the study 
of Shakespeare and the killmg of trout alternately accupied 
his attention. Another yreat exponent of Shakespeare on 
the stave, the late My, Phelps, spent most of his spare time in 
fly-fishing for trout in the Darenth, at Farningham. 


Fisp Protection iy New Jersny.—The Governor has 
appointed Mr. Henry Keenan, of No. 140 Mill street, Pater- 
son, N. J., the Fish Warden of Greenwood Lake, in place 
of Elias Sindle, whose term has expired, Mr, Keenan is also 
the Fish Warden of the Passaic County Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Society, and is said to be an energetic man as well as 
an enthusiastic angler, 


A Hermsruroprre Saap.—Mr. E. &. Blackford reports 
that there was a shad in Fulton Market recently which was 
a true hermaphrodite, containing on one side an ovary and 
on the other a spermary, or roe and milt as they are called, 
The fish was sent to Professor Baird, who pronounces it to 
be a well-developed case of hermaphroditism. 


Navronan Rop anp Renn Association, —There will be 

a meeting of the Association af the Metropolitan Motel, on 

. Tuesday, May 6, at 5 o’ciock P. M. Arrangements for the 

next tournament will be discussed and the dute fixed. Mem- 

bers may remit the annual dues (#3) to the secretary, Fred 
Mather, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. 


= 
Sturekon Hooxs,—Delaware City, Del., April 22,—Hdi- 
tor Forest and- Stream: Will ‘‘Verax,” or some other reader, 
please give exact size of hooks used for catching sturgeon 
with bait and line. J wish io try it on the Delaware, as no 
one has ever fished for them here with line and hooks.—O, 
Von CULIN. 


Hisheulture, 


THE NEW YORK FISH COMMISSION. 


\ \ 7B have received the thirteenth report of the New York 
Fishery Commission, being a biennial report, trans- 
mitted to the Legislature Feb. 1, 1884. It is a yery yaluable 
one, in fact the best of the series, and shows that the Commis- 
sion is an active and progressive one, It comprises 131 octavo 
pages, and is filled with readable matter and embellished with 
several new cuts. The frontispiece shows the new hatchery 
at Caledonia, which is a substantial building. The report 
covers so much ground and is so well written in every part 
that it is difficult to condense it or to select extracts, 

Since the establishment of the Commission in 1869, there has 
been planted from the Caledonia station, 65,534,300 young 
shad, 12,519,000 lake trout, 6,909,200 brook trout, 4,499,000 
rainbow trout, 45,500 hybrid trout, 2,000 Kennebeck salmon 
678,000 California salmon, 18,000 land-locked salmon, 2,480,000 
whitelish, 900,000 frost fish, 34,920 black bass, 4,004 pike-perch, 
2,655 yellow perch, 5,825 bullheads, 155,000 sturgeon, 93,000 
eels, and 610 German carp. 

From Cold Spring Harbor, in 1883, there was planted! 62,000 
brook trout, 600,000. whitetish, 26,200 rainbow trout, 85,000 
land-locked salmon and 295,000 Penobscot salmon, the latter 
on account of the U, 8. Fish Commission, In the work at 
Cold Spring Harbor the Commissioners have received valuable 
aid from the U. $, Commission, of which Commissioner Spencer 
F. Baird is the efficient head. Commissioner Baird has fur- 
nished this station with most of its spawn. He has also given 
it useful apparatus, and last year, during the hatching season 
paid the salary of the supermteudent. All the fish atehed 
at the station were deposited in New York waters. 

The production of shad, owing tothe total barring of the 
lower Hudson by nets, and thus preventing spawn-bearing 
fish from ascending to shoal water, has latterly much dimin- 
ished. The Commission recommend that, in order to allow 
the fish to have a little show for their free passage up the 
river, a law be passed requiring that all nets be taken up each 
Saturday night, remaining up until Monday morning, which 
would ina measure increase the facilities for hatching this 
most valuable food fish, An interesting description of the 
hatechin g and work of the Commission is given under this 
head, Tén millions of fry should be floated yearly to keep up 
the market supply, and unless some means are taken by the 
Legisiature whereby more fish may be secured for stripping, 
shad must cease to be an article of food for the many and 
tale rank among those costly fish which are classed as 
luxuries. 

Next in importance tothe shad supply in the Hudson the 
Commission places the maintenance of the stock of salmon 
trout in the inland lakes. But for the stocking of the Com- 
mission during the past ten years, these waters would have 
been practically barren of this valuable fish, which for size 
and quality can claim rank next to the salmon. The salmon 
trout isaiish which has a fondness for deep, pure and cold 
water. Indeed, he will live in no other, and though his food 
is mainly fish, it is cleanly, and where it exists in abundance 
the growth israpid, After the second year the progress is at 
arate equaled by no other fresh-water fish of his quality. He 
is caught with suiticient facility by fair methods for reasonable 
market supply, bears transportation well and retains his 
quality, under proper conditions, a fair time after his capture. 
While the chief supply forthe markets of the State come from 
the great Northwestern lakes, the liberal stocking of the lakes 
in New York will, in the absence of netting, soon proyide an 
available stock from inland sources of a superior quality of 
fish. The supply of spawn this year is sufficient to enable the 
Commission to distribute double the amount of fry of previous 
years. A gratifying indication of the advance in public senti- 
ment regarding fishculture ig shown by the fact that, where a 
few years ago it was found difficult to place the fish, and the 
State was forced to bear the expense of transportation, now 
the only difficulty is to supply the demands. The efforts of the 
Commission to increase the supply of this fish have, in some of 
the larger waters, been retarded by violators of the law who, 

with spears or other greedy devices, destroy myriads of the 
salmon trout when rich with spawn and ready to contribute 

- a thousandfold to the stock. Such action cannot be too greatly 
deprecated nor too severély punished. The Commission will 
hereafter refuse to stock any waters where the public senti- 
ment is not honest or braye enough to protect the fish from 
these selfish and greedy murderers. 

Of brook trout, the report says: ‘This peerless beauty, 
with his gold-ecked sides, his game qualities and his delicious 
fiesh, ranks foremost among the fresh-water fish. ‘This prince 
among the finny tribes deserves more than passing mention. 
Like all great luxuries, he is costly. He cannot be produced 
in overstock by nature, for he is the object of constant pur- 
suit trom the time he becomes a fingerling till he succumbs to 
the fisherman’s line. Nor a prolific spawner like the hard- 
rayed fish, careless of his seed after it has been cast in fhe 
waters, and not scrupling to satisfy his appetite by the con- 
sumption of his own kind when other food is not at hand, the 
stock, in places accessible to his captors, cannot be kept up by 
natural means, and but for the art of piscicultyre many 


waters In which he formerly existed in abundance would | 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


know him no longer. The process of hatehing and rearing 
fish of the trout family is slower and more costly than that of 
other fishes, The stock fish must be kept and fed the year 
around in order to’ obtain the spawn, The fry, too, after 
hatching, must be fed, after the absorption of the yolk sae, till 
they are deposited in the waters they are thereafter to inhabit. 
The rearing of brook and salmon trout forms the larger share 
of the expenses of the Caledonia hatchery. The law granting 
the appropriation tor hatching brook trout was passed in 
1875, and an average of 1,000,000 fry have been hatched and 
distributed annually since, The result has been eminently 
successful,” 

By a clerical error the Huropéan brook trout received from 
Germany is spoken of as the saibling. The latter is a charr 
Salmo salveliuus, inhabiting deep lakes only, The fish referred 
to were Salmo fario. With this carrection we quote the 
report as follows; “Last year there were hatched at Cale- 
donia and at Cold Spring a few thousand saibling—the brook 
trout of Germany. ‘These are the same kind of fish known in 
Pnegland as the Salmo fario—a fish in its structure more neatly 
resembling the salmon than it does our brook trout. The 
scientists now call the latter charr, to distinguish it from its 
English and California rival, Some English writers hold that 
the Salmo fario is the better fish, Theit judgment, however, 
is based upon comparison with American fish that have been 
placed in’ English waters, where, on account of the sluggish 
flow and the higher temperature, they could not reach their 
best development. If there is a better fish than the brook 
trout of the American Atlantic coast, in its native waters, it is 
yet to be found in depths to which the angler’s hook has not 
penetrated. The quality of any fish is largely altected by the 
quality of the water it inhabits, and there is no water in the 
world that can excel in coolness and purity the pure crystal 
currents that flow oceanward from North American moun- 
tains. 

The saibling at Caledonia have done well, but are not yet 
old enough to show of what service they may become in our 
waters. Itis probable that the latter, being better than the 
water whence tlie stock came, the fish willbe better than 
those in their native streams. Thus far they have shown a 
tendency to rapid and vigorous growth. Those at Cold Spring 
Harbor, f’om causes explained in the report of Superintendent 
Mather, have not doneas well. The spawn were a compli- 
mentary gift to Mr. Mather from Mr: F. yon Behr, of Berlin, 
whose writings in Europe, republished in English translations 
here, haye been so valuable an addition to the literature of 
fisheulture. 

The rainbow trout have shown remarkable vitality and 
fecundity. At Caledonia, they grow more rapidly than our 
native brook trout in the same water. The stream that sup- 
plies this hatchery is strongly impregnated with lime. We 
have observed that at Cold Spring Harbor, where a few thou- 
sand were hatched last year, from spawn obtained at Cale- 
donia, that the growth in the soft water of Long Island was" 
much more rapid than in the hard water of Caledonia creek; 
the rate of growth in six months at Cold Spring being quite 
equal to one year’s growth at Caledonia. There is a differ- 
ence also in the growth of our native brook trout at the two 
places; the fish developing more rapidly in the soft water 
than in the hard; but the difference in the case of the brook 
trout is not as great asin the rainbow species. This tends to 
show that the latter will thrive much the best in soit water. 

A good deal is to be learned yet respecting temperature and 
other local conditions affeeting fish. Till the past year not 
enough had been done in stocking with rainbow trout to war- 
rant a judgment of their ultimate success in waters on the 
Atlantic side. Theirtime of spawning occurring at a different 
season from that of the native brook trout, it would not seem 
to be policy to plant them in waters inhabited by that fish. 
The protective seasons would need to be different, and inhab- 
iting the same waters one kind might be taken often when the 
other was fished for, and thus unintended violations would be 
liable to ovcur. An obstacle to their ready success in our 
waters presents itself in the circumstance that at the season 
the fry are ready to plant, ali other fish are greedily feeding, 
and consequently a considerable share of the fry are liable to 
be nipped in the bud. This, howeyer, may be avoided by pro- 
viding places where the fry can be free from the presence of 
predatory enemies till they are able to look after their own 
satety. 

Shon the circumstance that they have not been readily 
found always, in the second year, where the plants have been 
made, it has been surmised that they are a migratory fish— 
working their way, as soon as they attain any considerable 
growth, down stream toward the ocean, Their disappear- 
ance, howeyer, may be accounted for by the other cause 
stated. Further experiments will be necessary to solve all the 
problems connected with their establishment in Hastern 
waters; but the promise continues to be that they will prove 
themselves a fish cf great value in stocking large streams 
whose temperature is too high for brook trout. As to the 
quality of this fish, the Commissioners reiterate their judg- 
mént expressed in their last report, that under the same con- 
ditions of water and food, they will be found not inferior to 
the native brook trout. 

The hybridizing of trout is much practiced at Caledonia and 
is claimed to produce good results. Itis of doubtful, utility, 


however, as it has been tried for years in Germany, and has 


not met with much favor. It will produce a larger fish than 
the brook trout by crossing it with the lake trout, but its hab- 
its are uncertain. 

Land-locked salmon have done well in Adirondack waters, 
notably in Woodhull Lake, and the planting will be continued. 
The eges come from the U, 8. hatchery at Grand Lake Stream, 
Maine. This fish has been distributed with success hy the 
Commission in Woodhull Lake, Blood River, South Lake, and 
in the waters of the Fulton chain. Of the first deposit in 
Woodhull Lake, the larger number, when*their spawning sea- 
son arrived, true to instinct, took advantage of the open gates 
to descend and spawn in the beds of the stream below, Of 
these a number went still further down the stream toa smaller 
lake several miles below, passing on their way through two 
intervening lakes and their connecting streams. It is thought 
that fish from this stock will eventually workthrough to Lake 
Ontario. Thefish in Woodhull Lake in 1883 ranged from two 
to four pounds, a remarkable size for four yearsold. In the 
Fulton lakes they will thrive and eventually become very 
abundant. ; 

No part of the work of the Commissioners has given more 
thoroughly satisfactory results than the distribution of black 
bass. ‘This fish was originally unknown to waters other than 
those directly connected with the great lakes; now they are 
perhaps the most numerous and widely distributed of game 
fish. The Erie Canal was the first medium of communication 
between Lake Hrie, the stock farm of the bass, to the interior 
streams. The busimess of increasing and multiplying their 
race has been attended to by the fish themselves, A dozen 
pairs of mature fish, protected from netting, is sufficient to 
lay the foundation of an imperishable colony, The ‘‘Western 
wide waters” at Rochester is the source of the State's supply. 
There are two distinct varieties of this prince of finny fellows, 
the small-mouth, who claims the lead in quality and who 
affects rock bottom, and the large-mouth, by whom a mucky 
or prassy bottom is preferred. ‘To the skillful angler a rise to 
a fiy by a black bass of any Weight is not exceeded by any 
other sport. 

The pike-perch, known to many as the wall-eyed perch, is, 
like the bags, a voracious but clean feeder. He takes his food, 
alive, and consequently does not partake of tainted sub- 
stances, He isa game fish, too, as many an angler knows who 
has had the pleasure of hooking him. As a table fish he is one 
of the best in fresh water, Heis a rapid and hearty breeder, 
and needs no artificial help to sustain his stock, - Ps ; 

The summary: of work regarding the food and breeding 


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seasons of some of the sea fishes and the artificial propagation 
of the oyster, by Prof, H, J, Rice, is an exceedingly valuable 
paper, and is illustrated with cuts of the apparatus devised by 
him in his experiments in breeding oysters in the Multon 
Market laboratory. We would refer those interested to the 
report itself, 

The salt-water work at Cold Spring Harbor promises to be of 
the greatest value, while much good work in the fresh-water 
department has been done, The superintendent, in his report 
to the Commissioners, says: 

“T have a firm belief in the value of this station for any 
work at present done in fishculiure, except shad, which re- 
quites river and not spring water, and as for the salt-water 
department the possibilities are beyond my calculation, 

“The facilities for oyster breeding are exceptionally fine, 
and the place has been examined by Prof, H. J, Rice, whose 
valuable experiments in hatching oysters are well known, 
and heis of the opinion that the grounds are well adapted to 
oysture culture, should the Commission wish to undertake it. 
The oyster industry here is a large one and seed is scarce, 

“There seems practically no limit to what may be donein the 
cultivation of salt-water fishes, except the supply of eggs, 
The water we have of proper density and very pure, in ah in- 
Se quantity. Give us the eggs aid we will turn out the 

The appendices contain encouraging letters to Supt. Green, 
of the Caledonia hatchery, and the record of distributions, 
which, if they were in the form of tables, would show to 
better advantage, the distribution of carp by the U,$, Fish 
Commission in the State, through State Commissioner Black 
ford, and an account of the salmon breeding establishment in 
Maine, followed by an article on salmon, by Walter M, 
Brackett. 

We regard the report as not only the best one issued by this 
Coninission, but as superior to that of any State report which. 
we have yetseen. It shows advancement in every depart- 
ment and is instructive and therefore readable on every page. 


AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATOIN, 


HE thirteenth annual meeting of the American Fisheultu- 

i ral Association will be held in the lecture hall of the 
National Museum, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 
May 15, 14 and 15, 

The Hon. Theodore Lyman of Massachusetts will deliver 
an address before the Association, and a number of important 
papers will be presented by prominent fishculturists and fish- 
ery experts. It is requested that members of the Association 
desirous of presenting communications will torward titles of 
their papers at once to R, Hdward Earil, chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Programme, Smithsonian Institution, in order that 
the full programme may be anneunced in advance, 

At the time of the meeting the shad fisheries of the Potomae 
willbe at their height, and the central station of the U. &. 
Fish Commission, in Washington, will be in full operation, 
exhibiting on a large scale the methods and apparatus now in 
use for hatching and distributing shad. The regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution have placed at the disposal of the 
Association the lecture hall of the National Museum, and Pro- 
fessor Baird has tendered the use of one of the Fish Commission 
steamers for an excursion to the large fishing shores of the 
Potomac. Those in attendance at the meeting will thus have 
an opportunity to observe the methods of collecting shad eggs, 
and transporting them to the hatching station, 

The new fisheries section of the National Museum will be 
opened to the public during the progress of the meeting, and 
the Association will haye the opportunity of examining the 
collections so successfully exhibited by our Goyernment at 
the International Fisheries Hxhibitions of Berlin and London. 

The United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries has 
invited the Commissioners of the several States to meet in con- 
ference with him the day following the adjourument of the 
meeting. 

This circular is sent to many persons not members of the 
Association, who are known to be interested in fisheulture, in 
the hope that the occasion will induce them to attend the 
meeting and assist in advancing the great interests which the 
American Fisheultural Association was organized to promote. 

The Local Executive Committee will esteem it a favor if 
you will at your earliest convenience inform them whether 
or not you will be able to attend. 

MaRrsHaLL McDonarp, 
Chairman of Local Executive Committee. 

Programme,—First Day—Morning Session, 10 to 12:50.— 
Annual address by the president: secretary’s report of last 
meeting; proposals for membership; reading and discussion 
of papers; recess, Afternoon session, 1:30 to 3:30—Hlection of 
officers for the ensuing year; reading and discussion of papers; 
visit so Government carp ponds. Evening session, 5—Address 
by the Hon. Theodore Lyman, of Massachusetts. 

Second Day—Morning Session, 10 to 12:30.—Proposals for 

membership; reading and discussion of papers; election of 
members by acclamation; recess, Afternoon session, 1:30 to 
3;30—Report of Treasurer of the Association; reading and dis- 
cussion of paper's; visit to Central Hatching Station of United 
States Fish Commission. In the evening, the Association will 
be invited to attend the formal opening of fisheries section of 
the United States National Museum. 
_ Third Day—Morning Session, 10 to 12:30,—Reading and dis- 
cussion of papers; adjournment. Im the afternoon, the mem- 
bers of the Association will be invited to visit several of the 
larger fishing stations of the Potomac; one of the Fish Com- 
mission steamers being placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. 

A circular has been issued to Commissioners of Fisheries, in 
which Prof. Spencer F, Baird says; ‘The Local Executive 
Committee is making a special effort to secure a very general 
attendance from all sections of the country on that occasiun, 
and the meeting promises to be one of unusual interest, Since 
many of the State Fish Commissioners are members of the 
Association, this seems an opportune time to call a meeting of 
the Commissioners for the purpose of conference on matters 
connected. with fishculture, It has been decided to hold this 
conference May 16, the day following the adjournment of the 
Fishcultural Association. Permit me to express the hope that 
you will find it convenient to attend the meeting,” 


FISHCULTURE IN COLORADO. 


m8 FEW days ago I again visited the State fish hatchery, 
about eight miles down the Platte River from this city, 
and will report briefly to FoREST AND STREAM past progress 
and present condition of the establishment. The hatchin. 
house, water supply and situation have been betore described, 
but it may be well to state briefly the work thus far accom- 
lished. “Dec. 28, 1581, the first trout spawn were received, 
100,000, from Plymouth, Mass. About a week later there 
came another 100,000, and at the end of another week a third 
lot of the same number. Of these 300,000, 997, per cent. were 
successfully hatched. This result was determined by actual 
count of the spoiled eggs withdrawn, and is not guess work. 
About 285,000 of the young fry were, in the months of April, 
May and June, distributed to various streams of the State. 
In the fall of the same year specimens of them were tre- 
quently taken with the fly of from six to eight inches in 
length. The few thousands retained ab the hatchery, having 
been well fed and cared for, were considerably larger, and 
many of them cast spawn in the ditches where coufined. 

The next year’s spawn was not received until after the ist 
of January, 1888, Shen 150,000 came trom Piymouth, Mass. 
They were laid down and hatched about as well as the year 
before. Isis proper to state that all the spawn received trom 
Plymouth was.“‘eyed,” had been carefully picked over before 
shipment, aiid was in first-class condition, whith accounts 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 1, 1884. 


measurably for the exceptionally large percentage of the 
hatehing. After the first shipment early "in January, 1883, 
something happened to the Plymouth establishment which 
prevented getting any more spawn from there, and 175,000 
egos were then ordared from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and they 
came, but in very bad order. The lossin hatching these was 
very great. Later 25,000 eggs were ordered from Caledonia 
Springs, New York, which came in goodorder and hatched 
well. Asin the year before, most of the young fry were dis- 
tributed to various streams throughout the State; only ten 
or twelve thousand being kept for breeding purposes. 

On Noy, 15, 1883, Mr. Bogart, who has had charge of the 
hatchery from the beginning, began taking spawn from the 
fish hatched in January and February, 1882, then about 
twenty-one months old. He continued taking spawn from 
time to time up to Feb, 10, reaching about 500,000 in quantity, 
which, he says, might have been increased to 1,000,000. Of 
this spawn 50,000 were sold to a yacty on Gunnison River, 
whose hatchery failed to work. He then placed them in a 
spring brook, and lost them all. The other 450,000 were laid 
down in the hatchery from time to time, and turned out from 
eighty to eighty-five per cent. of fry from the gross product 
of spawn. They are all hatched now, and the young are in 
excellent condition, 

The “two-year-olds” are now being marketed, and will all 
be killed, except a few for experiment and observation. 
Among them are many of two pounds weight each, and a 
greater number that will weigh one and a half pounds each, 
The great majority, however, range between halfa pound and 
one pound in weight. These weights are not guessed at, but 

royed by the scales, and in the presence of myself and others. 

e pound and a half and two-pound fish are about twenty- 
two months old, and are New England brook trout. iis 
Bogart says, however, that he can pick out no less than four 
varieties of types among them. ext year’s spawn will be 
taken from the fish that are now yearlings. 

In the spring of 1382 there were also obtained 10,000 spawn 
of the California rainbow trout, They hatched well but have 
not grown as rapidly as the Hastern variety. The largest 
specimens, now a little under two years’ old, probably do not 
exceed a pound and a quarter each, They are nowspawning, 
and fighting viciously over their spawning beds in the com- 
mon preserve of the ‘‘two-year-olds.” If present care is 
maintained in the future, this hatchery and its preserves will 
furnish much valuable information relative tothe growth of 
trout. Mr. Bogart says it is the most favorable place to 
hatch, and that the trout grow faster than in any other -place 
he has ever known. 

There are some carp at the hatchery in ponds proyided for 
them, ranging up to six pounds weight, but the day being 
cloudy there was little chanee to see them, 

Half a mile further down the river is the farm ot J. M, 
Broadwell. He has thesame kind of water supply (from 
springs) asthe State hatchery, and has entered somewhat 
into trout culture. He began some years ago with native 
brook trout, but suffered many disasters and much discour- 
agement, chief of which was the destruction of his fish by 
muskrats. One spring they destroyed over 20,000 fry, and he 
finally killed one of the animals in the act of entering the 
hatching box. For some days before the droppings of musk- 
rats had been found in the troughs along with dead fry and 
fragments of the same. Three or four hundred muskrats and 
a few minks haye been killed about the State hatchery since 
jts establishment, but the persistent use of traps and dogs 

reyent the pests from doing much harm, The last two years 
Mir, Broadwell has purchased fry fromthe hatchery. He is 
now ee two-year-old trout at seventy-five cents per 

ound. 
G Gordon Land, a fishculturist of long experience, who has in 
the last few years started a number of private preserves for 
various parties in this State, some months ago pre-empted a 
small sheet of water high up on the eastern slope of the Blue 
River Mountains, in Summit county, this State, known as 
Cataract Lake. It was naturally well stocked with native 
trout. Onthe bank of the lake are springs supplying water 
yery favorable for hatching purposes, and he has arranged 
properly for their use. Last season he took spawn from wild 
fish and in a letter recently received from him he says: ‘My 
young S. fontinalis have done exceedingly well; I will have 
3, trifle over 225,000 to place in the lake ‘as soon as ib opens. 
There are quite anumber of albinos, or white trout among them, 
I kept eleven young trout of last year’s hatching in one of 
my vacant troughs where they could get no food except such 
minute particles as that afforded by a stream passing through 
a quarter inch augur hole, until they were a year old. Nine 
of the eleven survived, and were of perfect form; the largest 
one being 15 inches and the smallest 144 inches in Jength. I 
had at another place a few of the same age that had been 
regularly fed at least once each day during the same period, 
of which the largest weighed 734 and the smallest a trifie over 
4 ounces, actual weight, not fisherman’s weight, From all of 
which I infer that an abundance of food has much to do with 
the size of trout. I can grow all the native trout in the sum- 
mer that this lake will sustain and they are good pagnen : is 


Denvur, Colorado, April 16. 


Answers to Correspondents. 


(= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


C. P_.F., New York.—We suggest that you advertise the volumes of 
FOREST AND STREAM. , 


H. P. O., Boston, Mass.—It is not uncommon to see pure white pup- 
pies. As they grow older they will show other color, 


J.H.M., Wooster, O.—Fatrar’s Rupert was by Shot (Bruce—La 
Reine) atid ont of Rhona (Ruben—Nell). Fan was by Dick and out of 
Fan. 

Sennx, Tray, N. Y.—I have a silk fly-line which I had laid aside 
after oiling and has become stiff. How can I restore it to its former 
condition for use? Ans. We should soak it again in the same kind of 
oil, and then wipe it as dry as possible. 


G. H., Sibley, lowa.—l would he glad if you would inform me 
whether a pickerel may be correctly called a small pike? 2. Whether 
a pickerel is a pike? Ans, Yes, take the lettere from pickerel and 
you willseeits derivation. 2. Yes, but in places where the *‘wall- 
eye” is called ‘'pickerel,” as in Cannda, it is not, Pikeis the old name 
for Hsoz lucius, called pickerel in New York and some other places, 
Weare not sure whether you refer tothe tue pikeor to the “‘wall- 
eye,” or pike-perch, the names are so mixed in different localities. 


WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT. 


AE Beatelphin Times (April 26) says: *‘The average book on 
camping out and the rod and gun business is apt to be too enthu- 
Siastic or cranlcy for sober enjoyment or any real guide to the unin- 
itiated; but a little pocket yolume called ‘Woodcraft.’ by ‘Nessmuk,’ 
issued by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York, is 
as full of sense and snap and fresh air as iv is of valuable and practi- 
cal information, Unexperienced young men contemplating fish- 
ing or gunning excursions the coming season could not well do 
better than read ‘Woodcraft’ till the breezy spirit of the author 
and some of his well-told experiences had well fastened themselves 
in their minds, : 

The Boston Cowrier (April 27) recommends it as a book ‘‘to teach 
the traveler how to journey through the wilderness with ease.” 

The New York Hvening Post says: ‘Those wha are looking for- 
ward to an outing the coming season will find in ‘Woodcraft’ full 
directions by a veteran sportsman, It aims to reduce theannoyances 
of camp-life for the experienced to a minimum.” 


Vasviturs FAMILIES ae saddeningly plentiful; but they would be 
much fewerif the fathers while living had invested a few dollars in 
ures life and accident policies of the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn.— 

Uv, 


Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Wntries close April 21. 
STE Paper Uneaten R. GO, Cornell, Secretary, 54 
ew York, 


Show, Chicago, Ill. 


sporting fanciers will take the idea up at once an 


killing both dogs and owners by the weather they 


The diennel. 


FIXTURES. 


BUNCH SHOWS. 


May 6, 7, 8 and 9.—The Westminster Kennel Club’ :Highth Annual 
Chas, 
illiam street, 


June i0, 11, 12 and 13.—The Second Annual International Bench 
Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 


A. K. R. 


HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 


lished every month. Entries close on the Ist, Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry, 
inserted unless paid in advance. 


No entries 
Yearly subseription $1, Address 
‘‘American Kennel Register,”’ P.O. Box 2882, New York. Number 


of entries already printed 1218, Volume L., bound in eloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50, 


NON-SPORTING DOGS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: # 

The idea proposed by the Cloyernook Kennel of a non- 
sporting show to be held in New York this fall, meets with 
my most hearty concurrence, May we not hope that non- 
make it a 


grand success, As things are, our shows are all crowded in 


the spring, because the sporting dogs are engaged during 


other parts of the year, and a more miserable time than a lot 
of dogs have at a show in the raw weather of our springs is 
hard to imagine. Boston and Cleveland were capable of 
urnished 
at the last shows they had. Besides, with all deference to 
our setter and pointer friends, we are about tired of furnish- 
ing the interest that really draws the public to a show, and 
then have the cream go to them, leaving us the skim milk, 
How well both dogs and owners will enjoy a show in the 
bracing weather of October. Ihave written most of the non- 
sporting fanciers I know, and all are heartily in favor of the 


proposal. W, WaAdé, 
PITTSBURGH, Pa. 


AMERICAN ENGLISH BEAGLE GLUB. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : : 

I wish to say to the members of our club through your 
paper that it is hoped as many of them will attend the West- 
minster bench show as possible, for we would like to meet all 
interested in our little hound. I would name Wednesday, 
May 7, for those who will not be able to spare more than one 
day. It may be possible that the judging will be done then, 
as it has been formerly (on that day), W. H. ASHBURNER. 


Editor Forest and Stream, 

In accordance with a request of the president, [ take this 
means of informing the members of the American Hneglish 
Beagle Club that Mr. L. D. Sloan, who has been elected by 
this club as judge of the beagle classes at the coming New 
York bench show, has not been accepted as judge by the 
managers of the Westminster Kennel Club show, they already 
having appointed Mr. Mortimer for judge of these classes. 
But Mr, Sloan will be permitted to judge the beagles for the 
special prizes offered by the American English Beagle Club 
only. - A. C. KruncGer. Sec’y and Treas. 

WRIGHTSVILLE, Pa,, April 25, 1884. 


RETRIEVERS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Among the many attractions that the Westminster Kennel 
Club will offer to the public at its coming bench show, by no 
means the least will be the presence of a pair of very fine Eng- 
lish retrievers, entered by Capt. McMurdo, 

The importation of fine specimens of this breed is yery op- 
portune, considering the interest which is now manifested 
in retrievers, as shown more especially by the demand for 
Chesapeake Bay dogs, and as a desirable strain to cross with 
them the brown-coated English retriever seems unequalled. 
As far as winter duck and goose shooting goes, our Chesapeakes 
cannot be BurpeseeU, but when it comes to general shooting, a 
less bulky, lighter and more elegant dog might be more de- 
sirable, ‘The most enthusiastic admirer of the Chesapeakes 
(and I am one of them), must acknowledge that they are not 
handsome, unless we accept the matter of fact detinition of 
beauty, that a thing is beautifulin proportion to its adapta- 
bility for performing its function or end. I do not think there 
is any doubt but what the English retriever and the Chesa- 
peake are, both of them, the result of brepding for a similar 
purpose, and that the means taken to accomplish this purpose 
were about the same in both cases, 7. e., a crossing of the 
setter or spaniel, to get nose, with the Newfoundland or Lab- 
rador dog, to get the adaptability to work in the water. 

As might be expected, the Chesapeake gunner cared little 
or nothing for the beanty of his dog, breeding simply for work- 
ing quality, while the English breeders, while not neglecting 
useful quality, kept the looks of their dogs in view. The large 
landed estates that are, in England, handed down from father 
to son, make possible the maintenance of kennels bred on 
certain rules; hence such kennels as the Castle Gordon 
the Clumber and Blenheim spaniels, etc. That retrievers will 
ever come into general use with us, in upland shooting, I very 
much doubt, but it is not only with quail, woodcock and 
grouse, that a pleasant and healthy day’s recreation and rest 
may be had, and certainly for duck shooting a good retriever 
isinvaluable. Nobody who has noi tried it can know how 
the monotony of sitting ina blind ona hot dayin August, 
with decoys set out to call the flocks of waders and ploverthat 
pass down our seaboard, is alleviated by the companionship 
of an intelligent retriever, to chase the cripples and bring in 
the dead, With such an one at heel, even the bagging 
of a couple of dozen of fat peep and ringnecks 


along the beach, or on the salt marsh, gives an 
enjoyment beyond the anticipation of the sayory 
pie into which they are to be consigned. The gray 


squirrel knocked off the top branches of a chestnut tree 
with a small-pore rifie, or the rabbit whose hind leg has been 
crippled, and who manages to scuttle into a thick briery 
swamp to die a lingering death if notretrieved, willhe put into 
the game bag with all the more satisfaction from haying been 
brought carefully to you by your sure-nosed retriever. Some 
setters will do this work, but they do it under protest. I 
never shall forget the first beach bird I sent my old Ned (a 
cross between a Gordon and a native) to retrieve. Hewasone 
ot the best retrievers I ever saw, and were it now for the fact 
that I saw he would be crippled with rheumatism, i should 
not have asked for a better duck dog, He went for the dead 
bird, a yellow leg, I believe, smelt of it, poked it over with 
his nose, and then turned on his back and rolled on it, just as 
if it were carrion. After that he would retrieve aay thing: 
from a peep to a sicke bill curlew, but he invariably wou d 
eurl up his upper lip as though saying, “‘how nasty.” ~ 
There is one reason why it may be an important matter to 
pick .out the best strain of blood to cross with our Chesa- 
peakes, and that is that very few kennels were preserved in 
their purity through the general upsetting of that part of our 
country during the late civil war. In looking over the breed- 
ing of almost every Chesapeake to-day it will be seen that the 


blood of the kennels of Dr, Keener‘, Messr's. Jenkins, Bidwell, 
Foulkes, etc., is the source from which they sprung, Ido not 
say that the time has come yet, but come it will as sure as 
fate, when the curse of inbreeding will begin to crop out, in 
the way of runts, blinkers and gun-shy puppies, and half of 
them going off with distemper, i individually shall, certainly 
for the present, breed straight; but I must confess that in 
spite of the old saw, handsome is as handsome does, I should 
like to have my reliable Ripple a little more elegant and high 
bred in appearance. ; 

I am looking forward with great interest to seeing Capt. 
MeMurdo’s dogs, and think that we ought to feel srateful to 
him for going to the expense and trouble of bringing them on, 
especially, as there being no class for them, the only reward 
he can get will be the knowledge of the pleasure he has given 
the public in exhibiting them. They are mother and datighter, 
of the brown, curly-coated breed, and the mother has taken 
four prizes in England, among them being a second at the 
Crystal Palace. The daughter was imported in utero, and 
their breeding is from King Coffee who, I believe, has carried 
everything before him onthe bench; If any field trials for 
retrievers can be atranged for next aitumin, I think the Cap- 
tain will be there with the young dog; and I only wish I could 
be there to see. Mic Mac. 

Boston, Apri 2). 


*WARE THE BEAGLE! 


N a late issue of FOREST AND STREAM, ‘‘Sportsman” kindly 
A referred to me asa champion of the beagle, and so I am, 
in a modest way, but I do not feel asif J ought to step to the: 
fore, as if were the only one to sound his praise, or to ad- 
vance his interests, I do wish to see this fearless little hound 
take his proper place at bench shows and in the estimation of 
dog lovers, and under the fostering care of the American Eng- 
lish Beagle Club; Iam quite sure he*will, and the better he is 
known the more will he he appreciated, both as a companion 
and pet, and for field use. As a memberof the club I am 
heartily glad that the standard has been made so absolute ag 
to the size of this hound, and I hope judges and breeders will 
“govern themselyes accordingly.” My thirteen months old 
dog Guy of Warwick (whose sire is my friend Hlmore’s Ring- 
wood) is just within the limit of fifteen inches high, and is a 
fine specimen of his type, hut my preference and pride is the 
diminutive “basket” beagle, and my adyice to. breeders and 
fanciers is to breed to this type, and to keep the strain pure. 
We do not Want harriers in our beagle kennels: 

I hope that the English correspondent of Formst AND 
STREAM, ‘‘Lillibulero,” who writes so pleasantly of kennel 
matters in dear old England, will soon give us on this side of 
the water some ‘notes” upon the beagle, where he is native 
“and to the manner born.” We need a little fresh blood here, 
so that itis blue enough. I hold the Formst anp STREAM also 
to a long-standing promise to give an article on the beagle, 
and it is high time that we had some illustration of this breed 
in its pages. 

I here repeat the suggestion I made last year, that as soon 
as practicable the A. HE. B. C. promote the holding of a bench 
show limited to hounds, preference being given, of course, to 
its foster pet, the English beagle. 

It is to be hoped that the exhibit of beagles at the approach- 
ing show in New York may be large and indicative of what 
we may expect in the future. 

With hearty good will, I propose the health of the “coming” 
dog—the English beagle. oO. W. R, 


THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 


OLLOWING is a list of the ea prizes offered for the 
eighth annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club, 
to be held in Madison Square Garden next week! 

The Eastern Field Trials Club offer a club medal, suitably 
engraved, for the best pointer dog, pointer bitch, English set- 
ter dog, English setter bitch, Irish setter dog, Irish setter bitch. 
and black and tan setter that have been placed at any of the 
field trials that haye been held in America, ‘ 

The Westminster Kennel Club offer a club medal, suitably 
engraved, for the best kennels of large-sized pointers, small= 
sized pointers, English setters, Irish setters and black and tan 
setters. Each kennel to consist of not less than five. Also to 
the best black English setter, best setter or pointer that re- 
trieves in the most stylish and obedient manner, fastest stey- 
hound, to be decided by heats, highest leaping greyhound, best 
Clumber spaniel, best basket beagle under 12 inches, best 
champion bull bitch, best three bulldogs and best trick dog, 
best collection of five pugs owned by one exhibitor, 510, 

Members of the club offer for the best pointer dog the get of 
Sensation, $15; for the best bitch, $10; best fiye St, Bernards, 
rough or smooth coated, $25. Silver cup, value $100, for best 
fox-terrier, dog or bitch, in the show. Silver cup, value 5100, 
for best pair of bulldogs. $10 cash or silver medal for best 
collie dog, sired by champion Robin Adair or Tweed IL 310) 
cash for best collie bitch, sired by champion Robin Adair or 
Tweed II. $25 cash for best-looking setter dog or hitch, placed 
in field trial in Fngland or America, the Westminster Kennel 
Club to be allowed to compete, $25 cash for best-looking point- 
er, dog or bitch, placed in field trial in America or England, 
the Westminster Kennel Clubto be allowed to compete. 
Large framed photograph from Mr. J. M. Tracy’s picture, 
“Vhe Hastern Field Trials,” for best pe of pointers, Large 
framed photograph from Mr. J, M. Tracy’s picture of “Dog 
Talk,” for best brace of English setters. Silver medal for best 
brace of Ivish setter puppies of same litter. For best English 
setter dog or bitch, over twelve and under eighteen months 
old, a valuable solid silver flask, suitably engraved. $20 cash 
for the best trained setter or pointer, which has been 
trained by the methods laid down in ‘Training vs. Breaking.” 
$10 cash for the best fox-terrier got by the stud dogs or bred 
in the kennel of the Messrs, Rutherford, 5310 cash for the best 
deerhound dog, $10 cash for the best deerhound bitch, Silver 
medal for the best pointer puppy, the get of Bang Bang. 
Silver medal for the best pointer dog under 12 months old, 
sired by Sensation. Silver medal for the best white poodle. 
$10, for the best cocker spaniel dog, to be judged 
by the standard of the American Cocker Spaniel 
Club, open to members only; $10 for the best cocker 
spaniel bitch, same conditions. Cup for the best ken- 
nel of greyhounds, three or more, Cup for the best stud 
pointer to be shown with one or more of his get, Cup for the 
second best beagle, owned by a member or the American Eng- 
lish Beagle Club. Cup for the best pointer the get of Bow or 
Faust. Five dollars for the fastest grreyhound. Five dollars 
for the highest leaping greyhound. Cup forthe best pointer 
sired by Beaufort. Collar for the best Yorkshire terrier under 
9 ignite old. Silver medai for the setter or pointer pe P 
best trained toretrieve. Cup forthe best imported nelich 
setter under 12 months old. 

The Medford Fancy Gcods Company offer a double leash 
ior the best brace of greyhounds, a collar and harness for the 
best pug dog, and suitable collars for the best Poitier dog, 
pointer bitch, English setter, Irish setter, greyhound dog, 
greyhound bitch Sb. Bernard, mastifi, bulldog and collie. 

The AmericanEnglish Beagle Club offer a silyer medal, suit~ 
ably engraved, for the best beagle hound, dog, bitch or puppy, 
and a silver cup for the best beagle, dog, bitch or puppy, 
owned by a member of the club. 


SWEEPSTAKE PRIZES. 


There will bea sweepstake for large pointer dogs, Hnglish 
setter dogs and Trish setter dogs, entry fee $10, all the money 
in each class to the winner, with a piece of plate added hy 
theclub: The winner to be knownas the champion of Am- 
erica; the Westminster Kennel Club to be permitted to com- 
pete, Entries close at, 12 o’clock noon, on Tuesday, May 6, 


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ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


HE pitiful union of “green pleasure and gray grief” was 
T Reade with painful irony on the 28th of March, when 
the Prince of Wales stood on the course watching the Grand 
National Steeplechase, withthe unopened telegram in his hand 
that announced his brother's death, 

It was quite lately chronicled as a serious item of news that 
Her Majesty's favorite dog Noble was ill, and that Mr. Roth- 
erhani, the well-known veterihary surgeon, had been stim- 
pe to the palace to prescribe for his ailment, a serious one 
—old age, } 

_ Nobile ig a collie from Lord Charles Ennes-Ker’s kennel, Her 
Majesty has also a pair of handsome Skye tierriers and several 
other dogs. é 

When the Prince of Wales is at honie a couple of collies 
frolic on the staircase of Marlborough House, and are watched 
with celestial disdain by the Princess’s Chinese dog who, pok- 
ing Ins head through the banmisters, “‘glowers, amazed and 
éurious, as the mirth and fun grow fast and furious,” 

Becatise the Princess has one, Mrs. De Tomkyns, Smythe 
and Robinsonne are ransacking Zoological collections for 
copies, but they are not good companions, like their infamous 
countrymen, their ways are “‘vain and peculiar,” and they are 
snappish. In appearance they resemble a red Pomeranian, 
and have, like all Chinese dogs, black tongues, 

The Prinee has 4 valuable kennel of various breeds at Sand- 
ringham. The kennelis considered one ot the sights of the 
place, and T was told by one of the Prinve’s guests that what 
interested him most was a litter of bassets, the offspring, he 
was told, of a couple given to his royal highness by Mr, Krehl, 
who I believe has a small pack of them for hare hunting. 

T regret to record the death of a very promising young col- 
lie, Maleolm TT,, who won first prize at the last Birmingham 
show. He was exhibited at the Crystal Palace in January, 
but met a better class of dogs, and was also notin good con- 
dition, During the show he was missed. from the bench, and 
his disappearance has never been satisfactorily explained. 
On his return home he showed signs of distemper, and eyent- 
ually succumbed to its fatal course. 

Nhis fell disease is making such sad havoc in our kennels, 
ind one is likely to become confused in the multitude of 
specifics advertised and recommended: I cannot believe that 
a pandeea exists, though many treatments dre herdlded forth 
to the public with this pretension, Rockham’s balls (of Nor- 
Wich) are used by many breeders for their cohvenience; 
bit eyen more hardy is the powder sold ini little bottles 
by the Duke of Rutland’s huntsman, Frank Gillard. (The 
bottle is sold witha small gilt spoon which holds a dose, 
You have only to open the Bees mouth and throw it in. 
Then there are Hedge’s (of Dale End, Birmingham) distemper 
balls. These last are much in fayor with some fanciers, who 
ate hever without them and promptly administer one on the 
slightest suspicion. 

Tconld mention many similar patent medicines (Spratt’s blue 
‘powders, Hind’s pills, etc., ete.) each regarded as infallible by 
their believers, but [am assured onthe authority of a very 
eminent breeder of several varicties that no one remedy can 
be of use for the multifarious forms of distemper. The last 
time Iwas down South am old-fashioned dealer gravely in- 
formed me that the proper cure for distemper was ‘‘keep the 
dog alive, when he gets weal pour beer tea into him, and 
arrowroot and port wine, brandy and eggs, bub keep him 
aliye. Give him also anything that will encourage the discharge, 
oras he phrased it, “Blow it out of his head.” If he cough 
muich, resort to opium, and when he is convalescent, quin- 
ine and cod liver oil, sunshine and happiness. 

{find a note in my common-place book about cod liver oil 
capsules, this is a simple method of administering a dirty 
medicine. I will try to find out where they can be had. 

On my book-shelf stand most of the published works on the 
dog, the oldest and newest, but the book thatis the dirtiest, rag- 
gedest, must thumb-marked, and dog-eared, is Dalziels ‘‘Dis- 
éases of the Dog.” Thatis my sheet anchor. Itis a small one- 
shilling, one-volume affair treating all the ils that dog-fiesh is 
heir to, ina plain, intelligible form, to beunderstood of the 
multitude, no erudite diagnoses nor complex remedies, no 
ES uaPane of strange signs that only a chemist ean un- 
ravel, 

_ Instead of signs, I read grains, ounces, drams, teaspoons and 
dessert-spoonfuls so that 1 can take up my own set of kennel 
scales and weigh out the prescriptions myself, This is a great 
saying in a big kennel, because the ingredients cost nothing, it 
isthe mixing the apothecary charges for. My advice is the 
reverse of that given in “Madame Fayart,” I “always mix” 
my own recipes. 

Our M. PF. A. tells me his huntsman always sews up the dis- 
temper patients in flannel, leaving the head, etc., free. He 
says the warmth and comfort this infuses are more than half 
the battle. 

Here is a remedy given tome by a Freneh sportsman: ‘Kee 
the dog warm, and plenty of black coffee; if there should be 
much discharge from eyes and nose, pass.a seton, if, on the 
contrary, the illness falls on the lungs, clip the hair off on each 
side of the chest and rub gently with one drop of creton oil 
and seyen drops ef common oil, Give strengthening food, but 
aboye all, keep him warm.” These are his own words, but I 
don’t know whether the coffee is to be given internally or ap- 
plied as a lotion, and creton oil is also outside my philosophy. 

The Bulldog Club will hold their next show at the Crystal 
Palace in May. One of their own members has been selected 
to judge. As Mr. Jackson combines with a knowledge of the 
breed a phlegmatic disposition that will be proof against the 
andible asides of the esthetic exhibitors from the Ratcliff 
Highway, the Hast End and St. Giles, 1 prophesy him a suc- 
cess on his début in the ia 

Stolid coolness is a most desirable quality in a judge, and it 
is certain that Mr, Jackson will not be flattered into mistakes, 
and he owes it to the forgetfulness of nature that whatever 
may happen he will be six foot four above the snarls of the 
disappointed exhibitor, 

Limagine it was by Mr. Jackson's assistance that the club 
secured the Crystal Palace for their show. The Palace is 
much to be preferred to the cowshed at the back of a public 
house in the Hast Hnd, where the fixture last took place. The 
locality was regarded as a happy thought by the aristocratic 
members of the club, whe thought that dogs would show up 
better in suitable surroundings, and though the “gate” was 
small and the freedom excessive, yet the company was high— 
as overhung venison, 

The bulldog is our national breed, and I am glad to see no 
signs of its degenerating, but still I could wish that its ad- 
mirers did not ye up and dress up to their fancy quite so 
touch. To tale one’s walk abroad with a bulldog there must 
be n0 middle course in your “get up,” you must dress quietly 

and well, oy you must don the attire of the stage rat catcher. 

Smasher, who had such a phenomenally good time of it in 
the ring while the property of Mr. Vero Shaw, and such inex- 
plicable ill-luck with his last owner, has jomed the majority. 
He was a most gentlemanly bulldog. Mr, Benjamin is con- 
soled for his loss by the possession of the hideously perfect 
Britomartis. This bitch is a near relation of the invincible 
Monarch, whose equal in head properties, bone and massive- 
ness [ have never seen. 

The boarhound Jupiter, late Joubert, whose size, price and 
owership have been persistently adyertised of late, is dead: 
Demoriuis nil nisi bonum is all yery well when applied to 
men, butif you speak out plainly about the living dog, you 
must expect to be haga ae With interested motives, and be 
prepared to enjoy the lifelong malignity of the owner. . 

This is nob a prelude ta a disparagement of Jupiter, but I 
inust confess that I never: believed his published measure- 
ments, [liked not his light body vor the shape of his head. 
I donot pretend to be a connoisseur of thes 


k e Danish dogs, and 
never owned nor wished to own one, but these parts were 


a 


dog, 
reader's the benefit of it in time, 
with a rush, and the lucky dealers first in the field are gather- 
ing in the golden harvest that usually accompanies the latest 
fashion in caninity. 

Ido not see what we gain by their introduction, surely who- 
ever likes 4 large dog of this shape could be content with our 
old English mastiff or the Scotch deerliound. Is not Crown 
Prince more massive and dignified, and Mr, Joplin’s Chieftain 
more elegant atid picturesque than a boarhound? 

Tthink we might leave the Germans their boarhounds, they 
are not too rich in canine varieties. Warwick will open its 
show on the 16th, with the significant entry of 1,200, Fox-ter- 
riers have most, of course, and next to them come collies with 
164, Newfoundlands number 34, which beats the Palace 
record, There dare 18 Great Danes. I wish I could be there 
myself, biit I hope to get.a few notes from a friend who is 
going, 

One of our actors, Mr, Clayton, has beet getting into trouble 
with his St. Bernard. The dog attackéd a man in the street, 
who went before the magistrate for redress, and received heavy 
compensation. Keep your guard on Rector, Mr. Hmmet. The 
drama patronizes the saintly breed: Monsieur Marius, when 
on his provincial tour last year, was accompanied by a noble 
St, Bernard that be called Tiny, Mr, Wilson Barreft and Mr. 
John Hare have also beeti bitten with the holy ‘‘fancy.” 

My. Hare’s beautiful self-colored dogis a son of Dr, Maurier’s 
famous Chang, with whose majestic dimensions the readers of 
Punch haye become familiar from his frequent presence in the 
artist’s clever society sketches, LILLIBULERO, 


Aprit 8, 1884, 


ST, LOUIS DOG SHOW. 


A Rae St. Louis bench show just over was called the First Grand 

International not because no dog show has preceded it, 
but in the fond hope that it will have successors. It may be 
considered that the exhibition holds out such promise, as 
though it cannot be termed a success either in point of num- 
ber or se yearn attendance, it has at least taught the 
pedple here that it is not necessary to be a millionaire to be a 

og breeder. The large sums sunk here in pees years in 
such purchases as those of Faust, Bow, Berkely or Erin led the 
bulk of dog lovers to blind themselves to the utility of breeding 
anything but pointers or setters, aiid secondly, to the theory 
that none biit capitalists have any right to dabblsin the latter. 
The show has the further benefit of teaching people that their 
own canine crows are not the blackest, that there igsuch a thing 
as a standard for judging each and eyéry breed, and that iv at 
least behooves an owner to ascertain that his dog somewhat 
resembles the standard of the class for which he enters him. 
This remark is rendered almost necessary by the extraordin- 
ary mistakes made in the toy classes. Charm a judge never 
so wisely, he could not persuade the fair owner of a silky- 
coated nondescript that it was not a Skye, and the number of 
pets, bred without respect to the obligations of caste, far ex- 
ceeded those who could laugh at the msinuation of a bar sinis- 
ter of their ’scutcheon. 

Really fathered by the managers of the Natatorium as a 
profitable means of filling the hiatus between roller skating 
and swimming, the whole work of the show fell at first hand 
on Mr. J. W. Munson, who was py enough to secure an 
able assistant in Mr, Chas, Gardiner. It is no depreciation of 
the yalue of Chas. Lincoln’s services to say that these two 
gentlemen got the show very well on without him, and hostile 
criticism of the arrangements is really difficult. There is no 
building in the United States better adapted for a dog show 
than is the St. Louis Natatorium. A first-class carpenter did 
the kennel work well, the water is from a natural spring, and 
the location of the building is the most central in the city. 
It cannot be said that the public of St, Louis did not look to 
the number of dogs as unattractive, for though 265 entries 
may be yery few in other places, they mean a great stride in 
this, hitherto, generally, un-doggy city. The causes of but 
poor attendances have therefore to be looked for elsewhere, The 
show, which opened on Wednesday and closed on Friday last, 
was cursed with the most horrible weather for the first three 
days, and to add to this, the attraction of Cole’s circus, just 
across the road, worked doubly to the disadvantage of the 
bench show. Many people who could afford but one outing, 
took in the greater, while many people wandered into Cole’s 
by mistake, and came out wondering, ‘‘Where in blazes has 
he stuffed the dogs?” Others thought the affair a side show 
of the circus, for which Cole had no right to charge so ex- 
orbitantly as titty cents. 

To come to immediate business, a slap of a mild kind may 
be taken at Mr, Munson for the order cf numbering the classes. 
Programmes ought by this time to be schemed out perfectly, 
and it seems ridiculous to draw up 4 premium list on the sim- 
ple score of height, as isso generally done. Itis no reason 
that because other shows do so, that St. Louis should begin 
with mastiffs and wade through the breeds highest at the 
withers down to sporting dogs, continuing the process down 
till toys are reached, for this principle not only gives trouble 
in handling the programme, but offends the eye asthe dogs 
are being studied. Considering, also, that a suggestion has 
been strongly urged from here to at once come to a system of 
judging whereby a beaten champion will be forced to subuzit 
to the word ex being prefixed to his title, it might haye been 
well to have introduced some champion of the champion class, 
which would have left not only a lasting halo on each dog so 
winning here, but also on St. Louis, as the place where a bench 
show decisively established such an innovation. 

It is as well to admit, flat-foooted, that the show, asa show, 
was just saved, its saviours being pointers, Irish setters, Hng- 
lish setters, and Irish water spaniels, in that order, A few of 
the fox-terriers were good, the beagles were a good, small, 
class, collies were fair and pugs were plenty; but without the 
breeds first named the whole affair woul haye been most 
stale and unprofitable. Here and there was to be found a 
dog which would do credit to his class anywhere, the most 
notable instance of such being the hard-haired Scotch terriers 
Heather and Tam Glen, shown by John H. Naylor, of Chicago, 
and which left for the New York show at the conclusion of 
that under notice, 

The judging was satisfactory, fewer remarks being heard 
from disappointed owners than is generally the case. Kicks 
were, of course, made here and there, but were so exceptional 
as to be almost complimentary, The gentlemen weak enough 
to occupy these invidious distinctions were Major Taylor, of 
Lexington, Ky., for sperting dogs; R. Henry, J. A. Long, and 
Dr. Voerster, of St. Louis. ‘The latter gentleman had, for his 
sins, accepted the task of judging the bull-terriers and ladies’ 
dogs, and fell terribly into the bad books of the owners of 
both before he had got through. Dog fighters objected to the 
Doctor’s strictures on any color but white, and to his penalizing 
for mutilation. This gathered on his awarding but a third 
prize to the class, wnich was really a very fair one, and the 
muttered discontent of the boxing fancy was rewarded by a 
re-opening of the issue by the management, when three prizes 
were awarded, The ladies also went for the Medico, who, in 
their view, should judge by the same number of standards as 
there were pets exhibited. 


& decidedly moderate mastiff puppy was the sole entry in 
that class. The St. Betmards were a moderate and a well- 
mixed lot. One of them had the luck to die an hour atter be- 
ing kenneled, probably, as it was remarked, on the Ananias 
BEDE IDI} at the mere idea of being called a St. Bernard, A 

apanese spaniel, pig fat, and a cross-bred retriever, also 
adorned this part of the show, and were classed as St. Ber- 
nards. The first premium went to W. A. Hobbs, of the 
Post-Dispatch, with Marco, a moderate dog, that would 
havyeno show Hast. Of the six Newfoundlands shown, D, 


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ointed ott to me by a German gentleman who had seen the | O'Shea, of London, Canada, had decidedly the best in the 
Ishall post myself up a bit in the breed, and give my | yearling Nellie, although M : 
i They have come to the fore | 1s a pup that will grow into a very handsome animal, A sreat 


iss Lillie Munson’s Prince Albert 


mistake was made in awarding first in the greyhound class to 
Bob, a local dog, who would never be near enough to wrench 
a hare turned to him by Lady Vinem, a bitch belonging to Dr, 
Gt, Irwin Royce, of Topeka, Kan, This bitch is unfashionably- 
colored, white, with mouse markings, but is of rare quality, 
and should be looked after by Califernia breeders: Of the 
Scotch deerhounds, the local dog had clearly Br yhound strain, 
while Mr, Taylor’s Dick, from Lexington, Ky,, is a noble ani- 
mal, of the Custer breed, which Col. C. L. Hunt was Incky 
enough to purchase before Major Taylor left the city, 

Mr. W. J, Crawford, Memphis, Tenn., showed Gath; P. H. 
Bryson, Gladstone (for exhibition only) and W. H. Wells, 
Chatham, Ontario, Mingo fer the champion Hnglish setter 
prize. Atter careful examination, the judge tacked the blue~- 
ribbon on to Gath, who was at the time the better dog of 
Gladstone or the others, The old dog shews no weakness, but 
the signs of age are coming over him, and though every one 
must wish him a green old age, his days of a “has been” are 
at hand and, like the rest of us, he will have to make way for 
his juniors. ‘The Brysons showed Peep o’ Day, Major Taylor, 
Lit (fer exhibition only), and D. O’Shea Nellie May in the 
ehampion Hnglish setter biteh class, in which old Peep looked 
a Glass away from her company, Although she and all the 
Tennessee dogs show siens of late doings with the quail, it is 
doubiful whether this grand bitch ever was in better fettle 
than she was last week, Seventeen competed for the pre- 
miums for English setter dogs, the winners being Paul Glad- 
stone, owned by William B. Gates, Memphis, Tenn., Bryson’s 
Stanton second and John A McDonough, of St. Louis, obtained 
third with Count Glickstone, A. C, Waddell’s Laverack Chief 
and W. B, Mallory’s Pink B. were vhe. Will Davidson, Chat- 
ham, Ontario, was he. with Rake, and ¥, H. Westmann, of 
St, Louis, scored ac, with Lady Pembroke’s Boy. 

Nineteen bitches paraded for the setter bitch prizes; J. M. 
Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., took first with Bessie A,; A. 
C. Waddell was second with Countess Blythe, and Richards & 
Fox, of Jerseyville, Il],, took third with Truth. John Drees, 
of Little Rock, Ark., was-hce. with Princess Royal, J. B. 
Lucas, of St. Louis, with Countess Rake, Mart & Dorwart, 
Jacksonviile, Iil., with Nettie D., and W. R. Faribault’s Bon- 
nie Dimple was c. Seven Hnglish setter puppies under 12 
months are a most promising class, the winner of which was 
Gladstone’s Image, owned by J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, 
Tenn. P. B, Spence, Newport, Ky., was second with Dan 
Vorhees, and J. W. Murnan, Keeling, Tenn,, tookthird with 
Sportsman. A.C. Waddell’s Prince was yhe,, and D. O’Shea’s 
Dido he. 

No ee as a Gordons showed, and in the ordinary Gor- 
don class Major Taylor made award of but a second prize 
among the three entered, the taker being Grouse, a bitch 
owned by John W. Umberline, of St. Louis. Were she 
judged by the Malcolm standard this bitch is’ up to the best 
form. 

IRISH SETTERS. 


Of the five entries for champion Irish setters, the best was 
judged to be Norwood, owned by Henry Overman, of Cinein- 
nati. Fat, owned by W, H. Pierce, Glencho Kennels, Peek- 
skill, N. Y., beat the Emporia Kennel’s Trish Faith for the 
champion setter bitch prize, no others being entered. Although 
twelve put in appearance for the Irish setter dog prize, Major 
Taylor thought nothing good enough for first, second going to 
Dr. Chas. E. Michell’s (St. Louis) Blarney, and third to Chas, 
H. Peck’s Elcho, Jack, the property of R. B, Farris, St. 
Louis, and the Emporia Kennel’s Irish Ranger were vhe. Of 
the nine Irish setter bitches, J. A. Sullivan’s Effie took first 
to Cincimati. Two St. Louis animals took second and third, 
these being Chas. Steismeier’s Hlsa and J. B. C. Lucas’s Biddy 
IL Daisy Patti and Irish Maud were he. Inthe Ivish setter 
puppy class the Emporia Kennel were first and second with 
irish Lilly and her sister, Irish Maud, bL, A. Moffitt, of St. 
Louis, was third with Hallie. 

POINTERS. 

Nothing could be more interesting to the scientific dog 
breeder than the sight of Meteor and Faust, cheek by jowl to 
each other in adjoining kennels. Faust preseryes wonder- 
fully, and seems almost as limber and spry as ever, despite the 
erizzling ot his mask. He was well honored at this show 
through his progeny, and looks healthy enough to keep on 
leaving his noble marks on the litters of many a day to come, 
He was, however, withdrawn from competition, and the 
moot point of supremacy between him and Meteor was, 
theretore, still left undecided. The latter is a grand dog that 
with all the quality the strictest judges may insist on, has all 
the stoutness so desirable in a stud dog, It would be nearly as 
useful a job to set to work to gild gold as to try to pick holes 
in Meteor, who, with all the dogs in the Munson kennel, 
showed up in splendid order, thanks to the care bestowed on 
them by his English kennelman, Tom Lake. After Meteor 
had walked over as the champion dog, four sweet bitches 
mounted the platform to be studied over for the championship 
of their sex. The award was foregone after Munson’s Vanity, 
imported, was seen. Munson’s imported Maxim, litter brother 
to Meteor, was an easy first in the 55-pound pointer dog class, 
A, C. Waddell being second with Jim and third with Clipper. 
Munson’s Bang, imported, was vhe., and Geo. A. Castleman’s 
Blucher ec. There were ten competitors. For the small poin- 
ter dog class of eight entries, but two awards were made, A. 
C. Waddell being tirst with Prince, and W. H. Stafford second 
with Major Croxteth. John W. Munson was first and sec- 
ond in the open pointer bitches with Spinaway and Flash 
Tit. Waddell’s Fan IT. was third. Munson’s Modesty and 
Robert Labadie’s (St Louis) Jessie were vic. John Hender- 
son’s (Jacksonsonville, Ill.) Maggie V., Joe Mest’s Patts and 
John Nolde’s Flora he,, the two last being owned in St. Louis. 
The best of the six puppies under 13 months was judged to be 
Geo. J. Nook’s Jake, owned in St. Louis and pedigree unknown, 
ue H, Stafford of Trenton, Tenn,, took third with Bonnie 

ang. 

SPANIBLS, 


John D. Olcott, of Milwaukee, was first and second in a really 
excellent class of Trish water spaniels, with Barney and Fly. 
C. B. Rhodes, of Moberly, Mo., was third, with o Marsh. 
A, C. Waddell was awarded a second for Doctor, a black and 
tan, in the field spaniel class, D. O’Shea took first and second 
inthe 28-pound class, with the blacks Rosey and Bene. Geo. 
W. Schenck, Burlington, Ia., was third, with the black, 
Bengal. D. O'Shea also captured the 23-pound cocker prize, 
with the black, Bessie, to whom Dr. E. C, Franklin’s Flossie, 
liver and white, was second. Here it may be fair to ask why 
there is so strong a tendency to breed black cockers, wheh the 
great bull of American sportsmen won't look at an Enplish 
retriever, because, they claim, his black color scares wildfowl. 

D, O'Shea took first and third in the foxhound class of six, 
with Ringwood and Forester Il., of the English type, the 
second going to Fritz Thome, of St. Louis, with the black and 
tan Driver. Arthur Mittleberg’s Queen was yhe. Nine really 

ood beagles were headed, after judgment was passed, by D. 

*Shea’s Rattler and Music II., a yery good couple of dwarf 
beagles. Wilson P. Hunt, of Normandy, Wis., showed three 
couple of the larger sort, imported, but failed to get nearer 
than third, which he landed with Fanny, his John being vhe.. 
and his Warrior, Jr,, and Maid he. The only dachshund 
entered was the moderate Gertrude, to whom a second was 
given, Mrs, 8. A. Kay’s Tipsy, a neat imported bitch, tool 
the champion fox-terrier prizé. An excellent specimen, Sam 
Sam, belonging to the Eraporia Kennel Clib, being first in the 
open dog class, 8. A, Kays Sting I,,.second, and Col, GC. L. 
Hunt’s April Jim, third, The same-owner’s Rhadama took 
the bitch prize from one competitor. ‘The two last mentioned 
dogs owe their names to the fact that the one has assumed 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


sentry duty over the race horse April Fool, while the other 
mounts guard over atwo year old filly, named Rhadama, of 
the Colonel's. In the fox-terrier puppy class a new style of 
dog was seen in two white and brindled specimens, Alex 
and William Bennett, just imported. They are bdth 
sood looking. Alex took the premium. The three collie 

rizes were won locally by Joseph Camopbell’s Scott, 

. M. Andetson’s Bruno and Ben. McColloch’s Bruce. 
Rob Roy, a stud dog, owned by J. A. Longs, of St. Louis, on 
exhibition only, was one of the handsomest dogs at the show. 
Of the seyen bitches competing the winners were Thomas OC. 
Johnson's Meg II., Joseph Campbell’s Madge’ Wildfire and 
John EK, Yore’s Wannie. Searing Marsh’s Daisy was vhe.—all 
are owned in St, Louis. No bulldog was shown, and the judge 
at first refused to award any prize but a third (to Tom Kelly’s 
Paddy) to any of the seyen bull-terriers, The closeé-cropped 
fraternity were, however, afterward made happy, Jim 
‘Busby’s Billy, imported, a really excellent dog, being first, 
William A. Ross’s (Fort. Worth, Tex.) Napper second, and 
Tom Eelly, the ex-prize fighter, third with Paddy. Michael! 
Rohan took a second with Flora in the over 7 pounds black 
and tans, and D. O’Shea was first and second with the Bed- 
lingtons Sting IT. and Wasp {1. Not a prize was awarded to a 
Sicye, though yhe. was given George Fehl’s Frank and ac. to 
Harry Passmore’s Boxer. There were five in the class. Heather 
Tam Glen, noted above, were the only hard-haired Scotch and 
terriers worth a second look. D, O'Shea was first and second 
with the Irish terriers Erin and Garryowen, and a solitary c. 
to Mrs. J. E. Rowland’s Box was the only award a hard- 
hearted judge would make to a lot of (so-called) Yorkshire 
terriers. Mrs, George H. Hill, of Cincinnati, scored well with 
Joeas the champion pug. In the open pugs, whose kennels 
were got up in the most gorgeous way by their fair owners, a 
second was gained by Miss Emma Bailey’s Punch, and third 
by Mrs. Isabelle Chapman’s Fritz, both owned in St. Louis. 
Mrs. Samuel A. Gaylord’s Sadie, a yery beautiful 217 pound 
blue and silver little lady toek first, Mrs. T. Joell’s Tiney sec- 
ond, and G. Lamar Collins’s Dude third in the indefinite ter- 
rier list, for which most of those in the other terrier classes 
might well haye entered. Major Taylor gaye a second to the 
well felt-coated but too light-colored Chesapeake Jumbo, 
owned by A. F. Shapleigh, C. de St. Aubyn’s Diane being 
third. None contested with these local dogs. C, C. Carroll 
was alone iu his glory with two coach or plum-pudding dogs 
Dash and Captain Jinks, In the miscellaneous class an im- 
mense Ulm dog, Jumbo, mouse-colored and horrible to look 
at, won first for Peter Zimmer, Joe Schiller coming next with 
a Russian retriever, Russ. Eleyen Italian greyhounds com- 

osed the last class, the winner. Beppo, the property of Hon. 
2 Kirby, of Jacksonville, Ill., being a very handsome speci- 
men. Mrs, E. P. Roberts, of Alton, Ill., who entered the bal- 
ance, took second with Petkins, her dogs, though neat, being 
so finely in-bred that they have in the highest the shivering 
qualities which make this breed so objectionable to many. 

SPECIAL PRIZES, 

St. Louis did itself fairly proud in the special prize line. 
Jobn Munson won a $150 dog collar, donated by J, B, McCul- 
lagh, editor of the Globe-Democrat, tor the best pointer, with 
Meteor, Peep o’ Day took a handsome bronze as the best set- 
ter. Munson’s Vanity took a silver cup, given by Charles H. 
Mason, of New York, to Bang’s best daughter. John Hender- 
son took a prize donated by himself, for the best pointer bitch 
with pups. Henry Overman, of Cimeinnati, won, with Nor- 
wood, the Ligowslky prize of a trap and clay-pigeons, for the 
best red Irish setter. Olcott’s Barney and Fly took a pipe for 
the best brace of spaniels, the former also winning a wading 
suit. Bessie captured a silver cup, for cockers, and Miss Lillie 
Munson, a Smyrna rug, given for the best dog owned by a 
lady, with her Newfoundland pup Prince Albert. Joe took 
an umbrella and a silver cup given for that breed, while Miss 
Emma Dailey walks off with a Langtry bang, by help of 
her pug Punch. Madge Wildfire won a clock, for collies, and 
Meg I1., silver goblets for that breed. W. A. Hobbs is plus 
a silk hat, thanks to his St. Bernard Marco. Tipsy II. took a 
box ofcigars, and a case of claret goes to Emporia, Kas, through 
Trish Lilly. Miss Munson’s Newfoundland further obtained 
her a basket of flowers, Peep o’ Day got a dressing case for 
Mr. Bryson, W. B. Wells received $25in cash for the excellence 
of his English setter Mingo, and D. O’Shea’s Bedlington, Sting 
Tl., obtained him $15 as the best terrier from Canada, 

Following is a full list of the 

AWARDS. 

Glass 1. Mastiffs.—ist and 8d withheld; 2d, Dr. Henry Newland’s 
Flora, yellow, 11mos, 5 

Class 2. St. Bernards._ist, W. A. Hobbs’s Marco, fawn, 4yrs., im- 
ported; 2d, T. HWhrhardt’s Bismarck, tan; 3d, T. Fleischer’s Rox, 
black. Jigyrs. Very high com., A. Baron’s Minca, tawny, 3yrs., im- 
Pees 3. Newfoundlands.—ist, D. O’Shea’s Belle, blaek, lyy., Carlo 
—Wanny; 2d, Miss Lillie Munson’s Prince Albert, black, 6mos., im- 

orted; 3d, J. C. Strauss’s Kid, black, 8mos. Very high com., R. 

Vagner’s Nero. black, 4yrs. : 

Class 4. Greyhounds.—lst, J. A. Pozzoni’s Bob, fawn, 3téyrs., 
Punch—Judy; 20, Dr. G. I. Royce’s Lady Vinem, 22mos,, Count 
Custer—Lady Rose; 3d, H. Piatt’s Swift, blue, 15mos. 

Class 5. Scotch Deerhounds.—ist, Mrs. J. M, Taylor’s Dick, gray, 

Ts.; 2d, Hmmet McDonald’s Gold Dust, light brown, 4yrs., Denyer 
—saturn. 

Class 6. Champion English Setters, Dogs.—ist. W. J. Crawford’s 
Gath, black, white and tan, 3yrs,, Count Noble—Peep o’ Day. 

Class 7. Champion English Setters, Bitches.—ist, P. H, & D, Bry- 
son’s Peep a” Day, white, black and tan, 5yrs., Gladstone—Clip, 

Class 8 Hmnglish Setters, Dogs.—ist, Wm. B. Gates’s Paul Glad- 


stone, black, white and tan, 22mos., Gladstone—Lavalette; 2d. P. H. 
& D. Bryson’s Stanton, black, white and tan, 24yrs., Gladstone— 


Frost; 3d. John A, McDonourh’s Count Glickstone, black, white and 
tan, Zyrs. 1imos., Royal Blue—Modjeska. Very high com., W. B. 
Mallory’s Pink B,, black and white, 2yrs, 1imos., Gladstone—Countess 
Key, and A. ©, Waddell’s Laverack Chief, black, white and tan, 
Bleyrs., Pontiac—Pairy If. High com,, Will Davidson’s Rake, blue 
ticked, 19mos,, Mavk—Princess Bow Bell. Com.. PF. H. Westmaun’s 
Lady Pembroke’s Boy, black, white and tan, lyr., Judge—Lady Pem- 
broke. , ' 
Gless 9. English Setters, Bitches.—_ist, J. M. Avent’s Bessie A., 
Jemonand white, 8yrs., Dashing Lion—Armida; 2d, A. C. Waddell’s 
Countess Blythe, black, white and tan, 2yrs., Prince—Diamond; 3d, 
Richard & Wox’s Truth, black, white and tan, 15mo0s., Erp—Kate, 
High esm.. John Drees’s Princess Royal, white and black, Royal Blue 
_florrie: J. B. GC. Lueas’s Countess Rake, white, black and tan, 
aiéyrs,, Rake—Phyllis; M. A, Dowat’s Nettie D., black, white and tan, 
i8mos., Tasso—bird. Coma OY. E set a Bonnie Dimple, white, 
black and tan, li4yrs., Bracket—Dinkey. t 
Olass 10. English Setters, Puppies.—ist, J. M. Avyent’s Gladstone's 
Image, black, white and tan, Gmos., Gladstone—Bessie A.; 2d, P. B. 
Spence’s Dan Vorhees, black, white and tan, 1imos., Chief Justice— 
Naney Lee; 3d, J. W. Murnan’s Sportsman, black. white and tan, 
Smos., Gladstone—Sue. Very high com., A. C. Waddell’s Prince, 
black and white, 1imos., Layerack Chief—Lucky Deal. High com., 
D, O’Shea’s Dido, black and white, 8mos., Princess Ko al—Nettie. 
Qlass 11, Champion Black-Tan or Gordon Setters,—Prize withheld. 
Class 12. Black-Tan or Gordon Setters.—lst, withheld; 2d, John 
W. Wuiberline’s Grouse, syrs., Dart— ——; 3d, withheld. _ 
Class 13. BlackTan or Gordon Setters, Puppies. No entries. | 
Class 14. Champion el Setters, Dogs.—ist. Henry Overman's Nor- 
wood, 3i4yrs., Elcho—Kose. ; ‘ , 
Class 15. Champien Irish Setters, Bitches.—Ist, W. H. Pierce's aun, 
. Smos., Hlcho—Noreen, 
"Glass 16. Irish Setters, Dogs.—ist, withheld; 2d, Dr. Charles H, 
Michel's Blarney, 4yvs., Erin—Biddy; 3d, Charles EK. Peck, J r,s, Wicho, 
iyr., Brin Il.—Shuffle. Very high com., Emporia Kennel Club’s Irish 
Ranger, 4yrs., Karl—Irish Kate, and R, B, Farris’s Jack, 2imos. 
Class 17. Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, J, A. Sullivan's Effie, 2layrs., 
Tollstone—Ruby I1,; 2d, Chas, Steismeier’s Hlsa, Syrs,, {rin I1.— 
Dora; 3d, J. B. ©, Lucas’s Biddy I1., dyrs., Erin IL—Whitford’s Erin. 
Very high com., Emporia Kennel Olub’s Irish Maud, 5nios., Derby— 
Trish Dick, High com., Mrs. HW, Steismeier’s Daisy Patti, 2yrs,, 
Chance—HElsa. 
(@Class 18. Ivish Setters, Pu 
ee tes act Trish Maud, 
t?s Hallie, smos, ‘ 
Class 19. Champion Sa ar NS roa J. W. Munson’s Meteor, 
liver aud white, 3yrs., Garnet—Jilt. : ' 
Class 20. bustier: Pointers, Bitches.—ist, J. W. Munson’s Vanity, 
jiyer and white, 2yrs, champion Bang—Pride, 


pies.—Ist and 2d, Emporia Kennel Club's 
mos., Derby—Irish Duck, 3d, L. A. Mof- 


_ Class 21. Pointers, Dogs, over 55lbs.—ist, Col. W. E. Hughes's Maxim, 
liyer and white, 3yrs,, Garnet—Jilt; 2d and 8d, A. GC. Waddell’s Tim, 
orange and white, 2eyrs., Lake—Queen, and CaPres liver and white, 
syrs., Haust—Clytie. Very high com., J. W. Munson’s Bang, liver 
and white, syrs,, champion Bang—Luna. Com., Gee. A. Castleman’s 
Blucher, liver and white, 2yrs., Croxteth—Trinket, 

_Class 22, Pointers, Dogs, under 55lbs.—ist, A. C. Waddell’s Prince, 
liverand white, 18mos., Clipper—Dove; 2d, W. B. Stafford’s Major 
Croxteth, liver and while, 2yrs., Croxteth—Lass: 3d, withheld. 

_Class 23, Pointer Bifches.—ist and 2d, J. W. Munson’s § inaway, 
liver and white, 4yrs., Garnet—Keswick, and Flash III., liver and 
white, 2yrs., champion Bang—Pride; 3d, A. C. Waddell’s Fan I1., 
liver and white, 2hayrs., Bow—Kan. Very high com., J, W. Mun- 
son’s Modesty, liver and white, 2yrs., Groxteth—Trinket, and Robert 
Labadie’s Jessie, liver and white, 3yrs., Beau—Clara. High com., 
John Henderson’s Maggie Y.. liver and white, 2yrs., Vandal—Maggie 
G., and John Nolde’s Flora, 13Zyrs., Prince Royal II.—Fannie, Com., 
Joseph Mest’s Patti, lemon and white, 3yrs., Little Ruffian—Plicht, 

Class 24. Pointer Puppies.—ist, George J, Mook’s Jake, liver and 
white ticked, 10mos.; 2d, withheld; 8d, W. B. Stafford's Bonnie 
Bang, white, Imos., Bang—Olivette, 

Class 25. Irish Water Spaniels._ist and 2d, John D. Olcott's Bar- 
ney, Syrs., Shamrock—Shaun, and Fly, 1imos., Mike—Lady; 3d, 0 
B. Kodes’s King Marsh, 18mos., Pat—Tide. 

Olass 26. Field Spaniels, Any Color, over 28lbs.—ist and 3d, with- 
held; 2d, A. C. Waddell’s Doctor, black and tan, 8yrs., Bow-Josie. 

Class 27, Cocker Spaniels, Any Color, under 28Ibs.—lst and 2d, D. 
O’Shea’s Rosey, black, 18mos., Doctor—Polly, and Bene, black, 2yrs., 
Bob Ii.—Black Bess; 3d, Geo, W. Schenk’s Bengal, black, 1dmos., 
Tips —Toronto Jet. 

Class 28. Cocker Spaniels, Any Color, under 23lbs., to be judged by 
I, 0.5, Association Standard.—ist, D. O’Shea’s Bessie, black, 1bmos., 
rg a 2d, Dr. E. C. Hranklin’s Mossie, liver and white, 844yrs.. 

nips—idol. 

Olass 29. Foxhounds.—Ist and 3d, D. O’Shea's Forester II., black, 
white and tan, 2yrs., Ringwood—Roxey, and Ringwood, black, white 
and tan, 4yrs., Forester—Lady; 2d, Fritz Thome’s Driver, black and 
et EES Very high com., Arthur Mittelberg’s Queen, black and 

an, dyrs. 

Class 30, Beagles.—_ist and 2d, D. O’Shea’s Rattler and Music I1., 
black, white and_ tan, 2yrs., Rover—Music; 3d, very high com. and 
high com., (2) Wilson P, Hunt’s Fanny, white, black and tan, 4yrs., 
Spot—Music; Jehu, white, black and tan, 3yrs., Spottie—Vic; War- 
rior, Jr. and Maid, white, black and tan, lyr., Warrior—Fanny. Com., 
aeiwate Hogan’s Leader, white, black and tan, 10mos., Rattler— 
flora. 

Class 81, Dachshunde.—lst and 3d withheld; 2d, Louis Melchoir’s 
Gertrude, 13mos., Bergman—Gretchen. 

Class 82. Champion Fox-Terriers.—Ist, Mrs.‘8, A. Kaye’s Tipsey I1., 
4yrs., Viper—Tipsey. 

Class 83. Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—Ist, Emporia Kennel Club‘s Sam- 
Sam, lyr., Blister—Nell; 2d, Missouri Kennel’s Sting II., 8yrs., Sting— 
Flirt; 8d, Chas. L. Hunt’s April Jim, lyr. 

i Class 34. Fox-Terriers, Bitches.—_1st, Chas. L. Hunt’s Rhadama, 
yr. 

Class 35, Pox-Terriers, Puppies.—ist, H. 8. Wiser’s Alex, 5mos. 

Class 36. Champion Collies.—No entries. 

Class 37, Collies, Dogs.—ist, Joseph Campbell’s Scott, black and 
tan, 9Jmos., Rex—Collie; 2d, F. M. Anderson’s Bruno, black and 
Rpts 15mos., Tweed—Fly; 3d, Benjamin McColioch’s Bruce, A.K.R. 
320 


Class 38, Collies, Bitches.—_lst, Thomas C. Johnson’s Meg II., sable, 
jimos., Champagne—Nellie; 2d, Joseph Campbell’s Madge Wildfire, 
A.E.R, 887; 3d, John K. Yore’s Fannie, black and tan, 20mos. Very 
high com., Searing Marsh’s Daisy, black and tan, 2yrs..'Scottie—Collie, 

Classes 39 and 40, Bulls, Dogs and Bitches.—No entries. 

Class 41, Bull-Terriers.—ist, J. Busby’s Billy, brindle and white, 
2yrs,, Patti—Queen;\2d, W. A. Ross’s Napper, white, 4yrs., Victor— 
Nell; Tom Kelly's Paddy, white, 9mos., Napper—Wasp, 

Class 42. Black and Tan Terriers, over 71bs.—ist, withheld; 2d, M. 
Rohan’s Flora, 4yrs. 

Class 43. Bedlington Terriers.—Ist and 2d, D. O’Shea's Sting Il. and 
Wasp I., lyr., Sting—Wasp. 

Class 44. Skye Terriers.—ist, 2d and 3d, withheld. Very high com., 
George Fehl’s Frank, 5yrs. Com., Harry Passmore’s Boxer, 5yrs., 
Rowdy—Beauty. ~ 

Class 45. Hard-Haired Scotch Terriers.—ist and 2d, John H. Nay- 
one Heather, 2yrs., and Tam Glen, i9mos., Wallace—Flora; 3d, with- 

eld. 

Class 46, Irish Terriers.—ist and 2d, D. O’Shea’s Erin, U4yrs., Rock 
—Norah, and Garryowen, 3yrs., Paddy I.—Erin. 

Class 47. Yorkshire Terriers,—Prizes withheld. Com., Mrs. J. E. 
Rowland’s Box, 5yrs. 

Class 48. Champion Pugs,—ist, Mrs. Geo. H. Hill’s Joe, 4yrs., 

; 2d, Miss 


Comedy—Clytie. 

Class 49. Pugs.—ist, J. G. Baker’s Lady Dufferin, 22mos. 

Emma Bailey’s Punch, 3yrs., imported, 3d, Mrs. Isabelle Chapman's 
Fritz, $mos,., Punch— 

Class 50. Toy-Terriers.—Ist, Louis C. Billon’s Sadie, blue, 18mos.; 
2d, Mrs. T. Joell’s Tiney, black and tan, Syrs.; 3d, G. L. Collins’s Dude, 
black and tan, 18mos. 

Class 51. King Charles, Blenheim and Japanese Spaniels.—No 
entries. 

Class 52. Chesapeake Bay Dogs.—ist withheld; 2d, A. ¥. Shapleigh’s 
Jumbo, sedge, Seafoam—Wayve; 3d, C. T. De St. Aubin’s Diane, brown, 
Tyrs., Joe— Nellie. 

Class 538. Coach Dogs.—ist and 2d, C. C. Carroll’s Dash, dyrs., Hero 
—Gipsey, and Captain Jinks, &yrs., Dan—Queen. 

Class 54. Miscelaneous.—Equal ist, Jos. Schiller’s Russ, black Rus- 
sian retriever, Syrs., and Peter Zimmer’s Jumbo Ulmer, 9mos. 

Olass 55. Italian Greyhounds,—Iist, KE. P. Kirby’s Beppo, fawn, 3yrs., 
Pe See neiaa 2d, Mrs. I. P. Roberts’s Petkins, fawn, syrs., Pet—Dotty 

imple. 


BREEDING FOR COLOR,—Editor Forest and Stream: For 
the benefit of your readers who breed dogs, and who desire 
certain markings and certain colored pups, the following may 
proye of some advantage tothem, I have often read of breed- 
ers experimenting with bitches for sex in pups, but never 
heard of any one claiming to haye the means to have whelps 
of any color they see fit to choose. A short time ago a labor- 
ing man from the Old Sod let out a secret which, he says, 
works with a certainty, and he says he has often seen it tried 
on both bitches and mares, and worked well every time. The 
secret and mode of operation is this: First, you procure a 
piece of sheet tin, about six inches long by four wide, and on 
this tin draw the image of a dog; then cut this out the exact 
shape as near as possible of the image, and ee this image 
the color you wish the pups to be; then place this tin image in 
the drinking cup immediately after the bitch has been lined, 
and the pups are sure to be of that color. Since I have notex- 
perimented or tried the above plan, I cannot say much about 
it either way; but I am positive my informant believes in it 
thoroughly, Since a number of breeders are trying for a black 
(all black) Llewellin pup, probably they would do well to give 
this plan a try, at least. 1 know a gentleman trying a number 
of experiments now with bitches, as regards the color of 
whelps, and he is pretty confident he can foretell their colors. 
Tf I can get him to publish them in ForEST AND STREAM J am 
certain they will be read with much interest by the dog men 
in geseral.—l6-BORE. 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB.—There will be a quar- 
terly meeting in conjunction with the regular Board of Goy- 
ernors’ meeting, held at Delmonico’s, Fifth avenue, corner of- 
Twenty-sixth street, New York City, on Tuesday evening, 
May 6, 1884, at 8 P. M,, for the discussion and promotion of 
subjects relative to the welfare of the future of trials and the 
elub, Also, as a social reunion of all members and inter- 
change of past experiences on the development and improye- 
ment of dogs and shooting afield. All members, resident and 
non-resident, who are in attendance on the dog show, are cor- 
dially requested to attend.—WAsHINGTON A. COSTER, Secre- 
tary and ‘Treasurer. 


SETTER IMPORTATION.—Mr. Joseph Lewis, Cannons- 
burg, Pa,, has received from the kennel of Dr. Walter Iliffe, 
Kendal, Eng., the English setter bitch Nellie Laverack. She 


is three years old, and is by Llewellin’s Count Dan and out of 
Floss (Blue Prince—Flash), She is in whelp to champion 
Royal Rock, 


THE CHICAGO DOG SHOW.—The second annual Inter- 
national Bench Show at Chicago, will be held at the armory 
of Battery D, on June 10, 11,12 and 18. Major J. M. Taylor 


will judge the setters and pointers, The other jud; be 
announced at an early date. The premium list be ready 
next week. - 


NEW YORK DOG SHOW.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
In case of any misunderstanding in regard to the sweepstake 
pres desire to say that the managers decided a month ago 
thatthe judging could best be done jointly by the recnlar 
judges of Irish and English setters. For pointer and Euglish 
setter sweepstakes, the regular judges in the setter classes. 
These gentlemen to select a third judge to act withthem, The 
judges kindly agreed to this proposition, which was duly an- 
nounced throug the ie intries for these sweepstakes 
will close on Tuesday, May 6, at 12 M,—CHas. Lincoun, Supt, 


THE LAVERACK MEMORIAL FUND.—New York, April 
20.—Kditor Forest and Stream: Nearly two years ago 1 con- 
tributed to the fund for the erection of a monument over the 
remains of the late Mr. Edward Laverack, Not having seen 
any account of the disposal of the fund, I write to know if you 
can throw any light upon the subject.—PonTo. [We are unable 
to give the desired information. Mr. BH, A. Herzberg, who 
collected and forwarded the fumds, may be able to do-so.] 


CLOVER BELLE.—The Cloyernook Kennels have returned 
to the managers of the Cincinnati bench show the prize which 
was won by their fox-terrier puppy Clover Belle, and it has 
been awarded to Mr. H, G. Groesbek’s Judge. An explana- 
tion of the mistake may be found in our issue of March 27. 


GREYHOUND IMPORTATION.—Mr, H. W. Huntington, 
Brooklyn, N. Y¥,, received on Friday last from Mr. William 
Graham, Belfast, Ireland, three yery fine black greyhounds, 
Bouncing Boy, Begonia and School Girl. They will be ex- 
hibited at the show next week. 


SETTERS FOR SALE.—Any one in want of a well-bred 
setter, will do well to correspond with Mr. Hatheway, whose 
advertisement will be found in another column. There is no 
better working blood in the country. 


KENNEL NOTES. 
NOTICH TO GORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of ehenae: To iusurs 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 

5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 


of death. , _10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


=~ See instructions at head of this colummn. 

Carolina Girl. By Mr, B. G. Atkinson, Madison, Ga., for liver and 
white pointer bitch, whelped Nov. 25, 1883, by Marshall Ney (Beaufort 
—Nymph) out of Sprite (Beaufort—Fannie Turner). 

Wanda T. By Mr. Ernest F. Thomas, Hoboken, N. J., for cocker 
spaniel dog, whelped Novy. 17, 1883 (Don—Belle). . 

Actress. By Messrs, Vaiden & Houston, Uniontown. Ala., for liver 
and white ticked pointer bitch, whelped Feb. 4, 1884, by Mr. J. W. 
Munson’s Bang (Bang—Luna) out of Spinaway (Garnet—Keswick), 


NAMES CHANGED, 


LE See instructions at head of this column. 
Harold to Carrots. Red Trish setter dog, whelped Sept. 6, 1883 
(Flcho—Helda), owned by Mr. HB. L. Fiske, Boston, Mass. 


BRED, 


=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Clara—Rush Gladstone. Mr. J. M. Avent’s (Hickory Valley, Tenn.) 
Wueglish setter bitch Clara to his Rush Gladstone (Gladstone—Donna 
J.), Feb, 29. 

Countess C.—Rush Gladstone.—Messrs, I. Yearsley, Jr., and J. M. 
Avent's English setter bitch Countess 0, (Dashing Lion—Armida) to 
Rush Gladstone (Gladstone—Donna J,!. March 2, j 

White Lilly—Ranger. Mr. S. B. Dilley’s (Rosendale, Wis.) pointer 
biteh White Lilly (Dime—Queen) to his Ranger, April 21.” 

Fifine—Chief. Capt. L. 8. Ward’s (Goyernor’s Island, N. Y_) red 
Trish setter bitch Fifine (Rory O’More—Quail I11.) to Mr. Max Wenzel’s 
Chief (A.K.R. 281), April 138. 

Blue Belle—Zanzibar. Mr. B, M, Jester’s (St, George's, Del.) English 
setter bitch Blue Belle (A. K.R, 99) to his Zanzibar (A.K,R. 1182), April 24. 

Dashing Belle—Zanzibar. Mr, HB. M. Jester’s (St. George’s, Del.) 
English setter bitch Dashing Belle (A.K.R. 914) to his Zanzibar (A,K,R. 
1182), April 22. , é i 

Noreen I.—Chief. Mr. Johu F. Dwight’s (Boston, Mass.) red Irish 
setter bitch Noreen II, (Eleho—Noreen) to Mr. Max Wenzel’s Chief 
(A.K.R. 231), April 21, ? 

Belle Brandon—Zanzibar, Mr. Geo. F, Clarke’s English setter bitch 
Belle Brandon to Mr. E. M. Jester’s Zanzibar (A.K.R, 1182), April 23. 

Gipsey Queen—Ringwood. Mr, Chas. F, Kent’s (Monticello, N, Y.) 
beagle bitch Gipsey Queen (Griar—Bush) to Mr, N, Elmore’s imported 
Ringwood (Ranter—Beauty), April 18. : ’ 

Mary—Ringuood. Mr, F. Wright’s (Granby, Ct.) beagle bitch Mary 
(Flute—Lucy) to Mr. N. Elmore’s imported Ringwood, April 26. 

_ Fictress—Flute. Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ct.) beagle biteh Victress 
(Victor—Lucy) to his Flute (Rattler—True), April25. , 

Lucy—Flute, Mr. N. Elmore’s (Granby, Ut.) beagle biteh Luey 
(Inno—Old Bess) to his Flute (Rattler—True), April25. ; 

Leigh Doane—Chief. Mr. 1. H. Roberts's (Camden, N. J.) red Trish 
setter bitch Leigh Doane (A.K.R. 58) to Mr. Max Wenzel’s Chief 
(A.K.R, 231), April 19. 

WHELPS. 


se See instructions at head of this column, _ 

Flirt, Mr. Wm. 38. Thurston’s (Huntington, L. 1.) pointer bitch Plrt 
(@lenmark—Girl), April 11, twelve (six dogs), by champion Sensation 
A.K.R. 217). 
: Maud. Mr. Max Wenzel’s (Hoboken, N, J.) red Irish setter bitch 
Maud Date Gukye Il.), April 8, twelve (six dogs), by his Chief 
A-K.R. 231). 
‘ Novice. Mr. Fred. W. Rothera’s (Simeoe, Ont.) imported rough- 
coated St. Bernard bitch Novice, April 25, four (one dog), by his 
champion Priam (A.K.R. 485). é 

Rue. Mr. Bayard Thayer’s (Lancaster, Mass.) pointer bitch Rue 
(A. K.R. 401), April 22, oon (three dogs), by the Westminster Kennel 
Club’s Bang Bang (A.K.R, 394); all orange and white. ‘ . 

Rhona. Mr. Bayard Thayer’s (Lancaster, Mass.) pointer bitch 
Rhona (A.K,R. 399), April 24, nine (four dogs), by Mr. R, T. Vande- 
yort’s Don (A.K.R. 165). ‘ j 

Morning. The Ravenswood Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) English setter 
hitch Morning (A.K.R. 41), April 25, six (five dogs), by Mx. J, H. Good- 
sell’s champion Plantagenet, 


SALES, 


= See instructions at head of this column. i 

Ranger. Brown and tan Gordon setter dog, dyrs. old, pedigree 
unknown, by Mr, Chas, F. Kent, Monticello, N.Y., to Dr, John Kelley, 
Fairview, N. J, r 2 f 2 . 

Carolina Girl, Tiver and white pomter bitch, whelped Noy. 25, 
1883 (Marshall N SN apore) by Mr. #. H. Hudson, El Paso,Tex,, to Mr. 
E, G. Atkinson, Madison, Ga. . 

Bounce. Lemon and white English and Irish setter doz, 7yrs. old, 
by Victor (Dash—Creena) out of Kate (Thompson’s Duke—Kings- 
land’s Belle), by Mr, E. BE. Hale. New York, to Mr. Lincoln Welles, 
Wyalusing, Pa, 

Guide, Italian greyhound dog (A.K-R, 906), by the Strawberry 
Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass., ta Mr, C. W. Barnum, Lime Kock, Ct. 

Lennox. Lemon acd white pointer dog (A,K.R, 1045), by the Knick 
erbocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr. H, Ww. Smith, Wor- 
cester, Mass. ‘ 4 4 

Rushton. Liver and white pointer dog (A,K,R. 215), by the Kuick- 
erbocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N. J,, to Mr. H.C, Miller, Hudson, 
N 


rex 

Harold, Red Irish setter dog, whelped Sept, 6, 1883, by champion 
Bicho (A.K,R. 295) out of Helda (Ike—Naucy), by Mr. Jean Grosvenor, 
Boston, Mass,, to Mr. E, L, Fiske, same place, 

Killeena, Red Ivisb setter bitch, whelped Aug, 25, 18283 (A.K.R. 620), 
by the Ashmont Kennel, boston, Mass., to Mr, E, F. Boyd, Attleboro. 


Pero and Frazer. Greyhound dogs, whelped Jan. 13, 1882, by the 
Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass., to Mr, W. H. Cook. Sara- 
toga Springs, N, Y. 

EXCHANGED, 


("See instructions at head of this calurur. be 
Blue Frisk for Dashing Money, Mr. J.M. Avent, Hickory Valley, 


—- 


= = - — —— —— 
“Tenn., has exchanged with Mr. T. Yearsley, Jv., Coatesville, Pa., the 
Shek? white and ae glish seiter bitch Biue Frisk. whelped Aug. 29, 


Loe by delat Bec cies (Gladstone—Donna J.) out of Clara (Penn— 
Pocahontas), for the lemon and white ser setter dog Dashing 
Money, whelped May 18, 1893, by Dashing Monarch out of Armida 
(Leicester—Pocahoutas). 
DEATHS. 

B= See instructions at head of this column. 

Dorothée. Black greyhound bitch (A.1.R. 72), owned by Mr. H.W. 
Huntington, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 22, from poison. 


KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
te No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


J. A. §., Berwick, Pa.—See answer to “D. H.,” this week. Do not 
give calomel. 


J. D. S.. Rahway, N. J.—We have never tried Little’s soluble 
seve hia We have heard it highly spoken of by those who have 
used it, : 


G. 8. J., Washingtonville.—The tail can be safely cut_at the joint 
nearest the injury. We would not advise this unless it should prove 
to be unsightly after healing. 


T. W. P., Providence, R. I.—Your dog probably has distemper. The 
best advice that we can give is to nurse him carefully, and keep him 
in a well ventilated dog kennel. 


A. ©. F., New Bedford. Mass.—Your description is too vague, the 
dog may have some foreign substance in his throat, or an abscess 
may be forming which may be determined by a careful examination, 


G. A. B., Washington, D. C.—You neglect to state whether the 
canker of your dog’s earis external or internal. Ifthe latter, use 
equal parts of bromo ehloralum and laudanum diluted with six 
times their bulk of water, fill the ear and gently knead the base for a 
short time. One or two applications should effect a cure unless the 
case is of Jong standing. i 

D. H., Clinton, Conn.—Your puppy has chorea, which is often a 
sequence of distemper. The treatment®of this disease is not satis- 
factory. Young dogs very often outgrow it if well cared for, The 
diet should be nutritious, with abundant out-door exercise. Would 
advise one grain sulphate of zinc and one grain extract of gentian 
twice a day for a week; also give a tablespoonful of cod liver oil once 
or twice a day. 


Rifle and Cray Shaating, 


FIXTURES. 


May 6 and 7.—Fourth Tournament Southern Tlinois Sportsmen's 
Association, Carbondale, H]. C. P. Richards, Secretary, 

May 20 to 23.—Knoxville Gun Club Second Annual Tournament, 
Knoxville, Tenn. ©, C. Hebbard, Secretary. 

May 26 to 31—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Ill. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co,, P. O. Box 1292, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

June 210 9.—Annual Tournament Louisville Svortsmen's Associa- 
Mots pevilss Ky. J. O, Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third ayenue, 

ouisville. > 


- RANGE AND GALLERY. 


GARDNER, Mass., April 28.—At Hackmatack Range to-day, the 
Gardner Rifle Club shot a match with the Saratoga, N.Y. Club, the 
score being exchanged by telegraph. There were two scores. with 
a possible 120, on Massachusetts target. The totals were as follows: 
Gardner team 2,978, Saratoga team 2,892. The detailed score of the 
Gardner team was as oe 


GC Goodale,........,1 107—215 GR Pratt ...... .-- 98 100—198 
Chester Hinds -.,.... 105 106—211 Frank Nichols....... 99 99—198 
G¥ Ellsworth..._..., 106 105—211 WC Loveland....... 99 97—196 
TEN Gu ees fie. vis ss 105 104—209 L Walker............ 103° + 90—193 
SB Hildreth ......... 102 102—204 FH Knowlton....... 94 97-191 
CO Bente se Gem ass ee 108 95—208 H C Knowlton....... 94 91—185 
J Newton.... ......., 99 102—201 CShumway.......... 79 86—165 
A Matthews........., 100 100—200 


After the match there was shooting by members cf the club on the 
American decimal target, distance 200yds., shooting off-hand, with a 
possible score of 100, The totals were as follows: .G. F, Ellsworth 95, 
G. EB. Fordyce 95, H. CO. Knowlton 85, G.C. Goodale 85, A, Matthews 
84, I. N. Dodge 88. Chester Hinds 83, §. B. Hildreth 81, L. Walker 80,’ 
W. GC. Loveland 77, Fred H. Knowlton 72, G. R. Pratt 67. 

BULL'S HEAD RIFLE CLUB, New York, April 17.—12-ring tar- 
gets, possible 120: GC. Rein 117, A. Lober 117, G. Zimmermann 116, H. 
Hackmann 116, M, Dorrler 115, J, Schrarder 118, J. F. Schneider 112, 
H. Gunther 112, W. Ross 112.5. F. C. Weber 108, J. Jordon 106, D. 
Holland 106, G. D. Johnson 105, G. Wendelken 104, J. I’, Campbell 102, 
H. H, Wasmuth 101, H. Zubiller 98, D, Louitzki 97. 


BOSTON, April 26.—The shooting men hereabout, and there is a 
very large battalion of them, had a yery bad day of it, but the scoring 
went on as usual. There was a very slim attendance at Walnut Hill, 
and they wet'e considerably bothered by the strong wind from the 
northeast. The records made are appended: 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


WAG iit sod eee oe ees aes 4°45 45 5 5 4 5 4+ 45 
TASS BraGkeptit. tei: 26 arse ce ee 4444444 4 5 441 
Creedmoor Prize Match. : 
KING NS}athares, eh pad RP OA Ae 455 4 5 4 5 4 4 5—45 
fi Rest Match. : 
CUB Mawards. . 255) 529 Fess hoe serene 10 9 9 9 810101010 9—94 
JB Mellows ...--2.1-+5- Note tee AV 8 9 8 81010 91010 9—91 
IATLDIWICTICO oe doce fF ag ts oe es ee10 710 9 10 8 10 10—90 
Victory Medal Match. 
ATA Glave hd (35 5b <b eens ere ee oe 10 9 SD) 9 bn O 19) O85 
REAR INV ote soe dnds be +s be Seager tad 10 51010 8 8 910 9 7—86 
ee pMGhawsaodaddbade.svaket cori aee ee 108 8 ¥ &8 7 510 8 10—81 
OATIGEUSOM Penh es sas Besisnn se nme poe 910 § 4 8 9 9 510 9—81 
AMPH IEIMGT 2h ere sials. suite ctcees= fire 9 68 5 810 9 9 8 7-79 
SP le hatesc) hoy poe wee See Sater ss 107 %7 95 810 % -~ 8-78 
(Gib ll ae eee ee eee ie MMR te OT, Oe hae fone. 


At the fifth and last competition by the members of the Harvard 
Shooting Club for the Walnut Hill cup,held on Friday, Apvil 25, at 
Watertown, the euy was won for the third time by W. H. Slocum, 
*86, and therefore becomes his property, W. lL. Allen, *86, and C. 0. 
Foster, ‘87, had won it once each, and are tied for second nig for 
which a silver medal was offered. The tie will beshot off at the next 


Inatch. ~ 

The Hast Boston Schuetzen Corps held its weekly shoot at Oak 
Island to-day, and some fine shooting was done, although the wind 
blew a gale from the northeast, and was hard to contend with. The 
corps will open a new match on the man target, which is new in this 
part of the country, The best scores of the day were as follows: 

Creedmoor Practice Mateh—Capt. Garney 45, C. Gertze, 44, F. Gra, 
44, ©. M. Gueth 43, M. Crist 43, C. Muller 48, G. H. Wiltert 40, J. 
Wissil 39. 

Creedmoor Prize Match—Capt. Garney 45, F, Kline 44, C, Becker 
44, N, Woods 37. ‘ 

Rest Match—N, Woods 77, N. Woodbury 75, F. Kline 66. 


THE ILION TARGETS.—HDion, N. Y., April 26,—Editor Forest and 
Stream: ‘“YVan'’ calls for explanation in your paper of 24th inst, 
relative to my targets,showi im your paper of a previous issue. 
Target was 514 or Gin. bullseye, first shot being taken for center of 
froup and all subsequent shots being engineered for thab purpose. 
No telescope was used, peep and epen bead being the sights used.— 
L, N. WALEER, 


CARLISLE, Pa—The Cumberland Valley Rifle Association will 
open a grandshoot onits grounds May 20, and a prizelist aggregating 
$850. Eniry, $2, and re-entries $1. The rules of the match provide: 
Fivyé shols shall constitute a score, Ties shall be shot off with3 shots, 
No person will be allowed more than one original entry and five re- 
entries. No ticket-holder shall be entitled to more than one prize. 
Ticket-holders not desiring to shdot for themselves may select an- 
other to shoot for them. Persons shooting for two or more ticket- 
holders will not be allowed to know who they are shooting for when 
called upon the stand. The target used shall be a combined Creed- 
moor and ring target, din, bullseye with 2in. center, and the distance 
100yds., off-hand. Any rifle and any sights (except rifles with hair 
triggers and telescope sights) may be used. Persons holding ties on 
more than one prize shall shoot off on the highest, and if successful 
their interest in the balance of the ties shall cease and determine. If, 
however, they are not successful, they shall shoot off their next 
highest tie; provided, however, that they cannot use the score made 
on a Bie prize for iheir benefit on a lower one, and so on through- 
out the list of prizes. Ticket-holders cannot surrender their right to 
a higher score for the purpose of gaining adyantage on a lower one. 
Ties shall be shot off by marksmen n @ the original score. The 
match shall commence at 9 o’clock A, M. and continue till 12 o'clock, 
noon; again at 1 o’clock P, M. and shall continue until dusk, and shall 


be continued from day to day until completed, The range will pe 


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rifles until 9 o'clock A. M,; also between the hours of 12 M. and 1P. 


M. The range will be open to all marksmen for practice for two 
weeks before the match, The Range Committee, with the president 
of the association, shall have power to close the original extries at 
any time after the first day’s shooting. 


NEWARK, N. J., April 23.—The closing meeting of the Newark 
Rifle Association was held to-night, all clubs being represented. 
Prizes offered in the tournament were presented to the successful 
clubs in order as follows: Frelinghuysen, Essex, Celluloid and Do- 
meéstic. The total number of points made by each during the six 
matches were: Frelinghuysen, 2,797; Essex, 2,780; Celluloid, 2,659; 
Domestic, 2.645; Warren, 2,567; Plymouth, 2.608. The individual 
positions of members connected with the several clubs in the tour- 
nament show following averaves: 

Six Matches,—Hld. Neil, 481-6: A. C. Neumann, 47 5-6; G. Williams, 
4734; Wm. McLeod, 47144; Geo, Weigman, 4714; J. Coppersmith, 4714; 
J. Dainty, 47; A. Walters, 47; F. Brant, 47: Wm. Watts, 4634; R. 
Westerman, 8644; H. O. Chase, 461-6; Jefferys, 45 5-6; W. Coe, 4514; 
J. Bayer, 4514; 8. Shackelford, 45 1-6; T. Miller, 451-6; Wm. Nunley. 
45; C. H. Townsend, 445-6; T. L. Sommers, 4494; 8. Simmonds, 4414; 
Vreeland, 4414; Wadams, 44 1-6; C. Ff. Jackson, 44; J, Velsor, 43 5-6: 
Willazey, 43 5-6; Babbit, 4844; A. Erhard, 481-6; Burns, 425-6; H. J. 
Pollard, 42 5-H; Puder, 42 1-6; G. M. Townsend, 42; Greire, 4134. 

Five Mateches.—Pahls, 47; Smelling, 462-5; Wm. Felts, 461-4; G. 
Zimmer, 461-5: Leibe, 46; J. L. Tobin, 46; J. K. Walsh, 45 4-5; Rey- 
nolds, 45; C. Waa, 44 3-5; Alexander, 44; P. L. Sommers, 48 3-5; HE. 
Coe, 43 2-5; J. Wolf, 43 1-5; G. Freehe, 48; Leibe, 40 1-5, 

Four Matches.—J. McCullum, 4544; Valentine, 4314; J. McConnell, 
4214; MeGunness, 4314. 

Three Matches.—B. Germayne, 4614; W.F. Lynn, 46; A. A. Bald- 
win, 45%; Keenan, 4524; §. M. Brade, 4324; Shafer, 422g; Millworth, 


4223; Cheeseman, 89; Kinney, 37. 

GALLEERY SHOOTING,—At the Grand Central Range on Vander- 
bilt avenue, the current match closed with sceres as follows: Mr. 
L. V, Sone made during the last week of the match in practice 67, 67, 
67, 67, 66, 384, while J. H, Brown made 67, 67, 67, 66, 66, 333, The 
scores stood: 


Area Tesh a 5 955 5555 OOOO Sb. loon pednd 66 65—383 
AMOVE TI PRO Toh helene ise. etl tee sat ace tle |e 6 64 638—325 
G Zimmermann.. 64 64-823 
H Vonder Linden.... 64 64-822 
LENS) POP ee Aree ee 70 63 68—321 
RUPEE OGESHAT UE cc chctotacclselectesletiiert}> wicjpels wlelsaees uate ofa 36 63 63—320 
IW A Dns hctooe Fp ae BRED Cees Rs Si 5 63 62—17 
WEIL TRE dda oe 8 PA RRB ees Pee oc Sas ar 5 Gt 64 62—317 
AGH USAW DUM ey ns petals age ae Pete : | Perera 64 63 63 63 61—315 
CePA PICOLC Tala ecaeiy nay oexeya ales seen ces can neces 64 64 62 62 62-314 
"Dig 5 42)) ee A pe a8, Tk Fw Mee ES ie ey ee ihe 15 65 63 60 59—312 
JSD 2rd ee eee ae er Rete oe on ae ean 63 63 6g 61 61—310 
SVT SIT PHO eR Pao ae PRM ate Nace nae 68 68 62 62 62—810 
OTIS |evi Gis pace Calg ee eee i ee See iret are ee 638 61 61 61 69—896 
AEE TSPCILGIION Un Vere en, Bees orem te seep eget Le 63 63 62 59 58—805 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y., April 26.—At our regular medal match yes- 
terday. the following scores were made; 200yds., Creedmoor target; 
wind heavy from 10 to 2 o’clock: 


ED Vine tiny 2 Se 454555444545 A. ¥, Warner...... 4445433444—39 
SRS BUNS ooo sess ees 454445545444 HD DeLisle....... 4444442344 —37 
VOR UMO ORR Seve anes 4444434444 89 A BF Ward......... 8050435445— 38 


THOMASTON, Conn., April 26.—At our weekly shoot Saturday, the 
19th, F. Carr won the badge with a score of 90 out of a possible 120, 
Massachusetts ring target. The weather and light were unfavorable 
for high scores, the match being shot during an April shower. To-day 
the shoot was over the new range, though the range is incomplete as 
yet, it will be formally opened with an open to all shootin May. W. 

unbar won the badge with a score of 107 with his new Ballard P. G, 
The other scores mace were: 


G Gitbert, Ballard .38-cal....... 100 F Carr, Remington .40-eal...,.. 88 
G Canfield, Ballard .40-cal...... 98 C Alling, Ballard .38-cal........85 
CF Williams, Ballard P. G..,.. 96 Fox, Winchester .44-cal,....... 72 
EK Bennett, Ballard .40-cal....... 91 


On Thursday, the 24th, the B. B. Social Club met at Burns’s gal- 
iery, the ladies to shoot for a prize (a bangle charm) using a Creed- 
moor target, the inner half of bull to count six each, to shoot two 
strings of four shots each: 


NrsiHortons..85 2. ..25... 18 20—88 Mrs Reed........ ... .22:17 17-84 
Mrs Fenner........... 16 19—37 MrsBush................ 1? 17—84 
EPS MPPIGe le, ohn. sm ileew 18 17—35 Mrs Fenton.....-......- 18 14—32 


Mrs, Fenton accidently discharged the gun the first shot on the 
last target, and the terms of the match did not allow her another 
shot, or the result might have been different.—R. H. Burns. 


‘THE, TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on oue side of the paper only. 


CLAY-PIGEON BADGE. 


| { HEREWITH is given an illustration of the beautiful diamond 

badge which is to be presented as a prize to the individual 
making the highest score at the coming Clay-Pigeon Tournament at 
Chicago in May. The Ligowsky Clay-Pizeon Company announced 
that the value of the badge would be $250, and we understand that 
the actual cost has slightly exceeded that sum. The execution of the 
design is by Tiffany & Oo., of this city, at whese establishment the 
badge is now on exhibition. The prize will be awarded to the shooter 
whose score shall be the highest, irrespective of his belonging to the 
winning team. Jt will be his personal property. The question just 
now is, where will the badge go to after the tournament is over? We 
know of several clubs who think that they can give a very definite 
answer, but it is at best only conjecture. 


BROOKLYN.—The regular monthly shoot of the Unknown Gun 
Olub took place at Dexter’s, on Thursday, April 24, for threeregular 
and three extra prizes. Handicap rise, gun below the elbow, club 
rule, and classified with the following results; 


Plate, 24yds.......-. . 1U111—7 Layton, 2lyds........... 1100110—4 
Moller, 22yds.... .. 11110116 ‘A Harned, 23yds......... 1011010—4 
Vogelsang, 23yds.......1011111—6 Stillwell, 23yds......-...0100111—4 
Schroder, 25yds.....<... 1111101—6 Cahill, 2lyds_ ........... 0110110—4. 
Rathjen, 25yds.......... 11110116 Detlifsen, 26yds...-....... 0111010—4. 
Van Staden, Sr., 23yds..1101101-5 W Harned, 28yds.......- 1001010—8 
Smith, 22yds.....:...<.. 0011111—5 Doyle, 2lyds.-........-.. 0000111—3 
Pope; 24905. pescs <c5s 1011011—5 Van Staden, Jr., 25yds..0010101—3 
Knebel, 25yds...,.......1111100—5 Muller, 24yds..... ..... 0011010—38 
Tomford, 25yds.,.....-. 0111110—5 Brandenberg, 2lyds..... 0010000—1 
Monsees, 24yds....... .. 0101110—4 


On account of scarcity of birds the ties divided; 7 first, 6 second and 
5 third prize. : 

Of the extra prizes. counting two shoots out of three, VoRelsae; 
Plate, Rathjen, Knebel, Pope and Smith divided first, Van Staden, Sr., 
Tomford, Muller, Monsees, Detlifsen, Stillwell, Schroder, Layton and 
Muller second, Cahill, A. Harned, Van Staden, Jr., Doyle and W. 
Harned third.—H. K. 


MAINE STATE TOURNAMENT.—Through J. E, Bloom, #sq., 
president Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Company, the Willard Shootin 
Association of Portland, Me, was appointed trustee of a beautifu 
gold and a4 badge emblematic of the championship of the State. 
April 17, Yast Day, was fixed upon asthe tournament day, and teams 
of five men from s~x clubs arrived early on the grounds of the Wil- 
lard Association, and competition commenced under the following 
conditions: Each man 10 single birds and 5 pair doubles, singles at 
i8yds_ vise, doubles i5yds , trap setin fourth notch, a second barrel 
break to count one-half bird. All shooting from 5 traps set 3yds. 
apart. The weather was anything but pleagegt, a strong and cold 


open at 7 o'clock A, M., and marksmen will be allowed to test their! east wind blowing into the faces of the men, and frequently rain fel 


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briskly. The Androscoggin Gun Club of Lewiston was proven the 
winner, and immediately received a challenge to shoot for the badge 
inside of fifteen days, from the Willard Shooting Club of Portland. 
The winning club is subjected to immediate challenge, the club win- 
ning the most times within one year from the tournament becoming 
permanent owner of the badge. The arrangements were perfect and 
satisfactory to all the shooters, and reflect credit upon the Willard 
Association, who were indefatigable in their endeavors to please, 
Geo. H. Pierce, secretary of the Willard Club, was chosen referee, 
and Major Lovejoy, of Bethel, and Z. M. Cushman, of Kennebunk, as 


judges. Following are the scores in detail, Wigure 2 indicates 
second barrel break: 
Androscoggin Club, Lewiston. 
Singles, Doubles. 
MASON «5 5520sseve: 0011111100—6 di df 11 10 11—-9—15 
Donovan,......+.: 1214111411—914 11 10 11 OO 11—7—161% 
SDAWs. wep esnes es 1112092111—7 10 11 10 11 10—7—1414 
Whitney.......... 1121101220—6 00 if Of 11 11—7—138% 
Pettengill,........ 1120210111— 01 41 41 10 11-86-15 —74% 
Willard Shooting Association. Portland. 
Willard........... 1010021211—6 di ii O1 00 11—7—13 
Randall .....0. ss 1200101111—644 11 11 00 00 11—-6—12% 
TOM ess arta: 0012111121—7 1 11 O01 11 O1—7—14 
Farrington........ 1112121101—8 12 10 11 10 11 -8—16 
pale iv ew ur ate 1119121111—9 11 00 11 O1 OO—5—14 —ODlg 
Bethel Club, Bethel. 
Skillings .......... 0111110101—7 10 tf 10 11 00—6—18 
Wormell ......... 2112111111—9 oO 11 00 11 10—5—14 
Tapp eed 1111012102—7 11 oii 10 10 O01—7—14 
Glare se eserons 0120201111—6 OL Of 11 10 00—5—11 
EVO ee oamee noel 1111010010—6 01 01 di OL 11—7—18 —H5 
: Riverside Club, Topsham, 
Goud, A. Q....... 1102111220—6ha 00 10 11 10 11—b—12% 
Alexander........ 0111111111—9 1110 10 WW 10—7—16 
Keyes ,.-......-.. 211111110184 00 00 if 00 11-4126 
PIU er gcc ae 2211210211—7 O1 11 OL 10 O1—6—123 
Goud, G. H....... 2011000010—31% | 10 10 00 11 10—5— BY44—- 626 
Brunswick Club, Brunswick. 
Knights, ..-....... 1102021011—6 00 00 Of O1 O1—3— 9 
Toothaker........ 2200201000 —216 00 O1 01 10 O1—4— 64% 
Winslow........... 0100012010—3% 00 00 00 11 O1—8— 6% 
Stetson... +0210. 01011: 10116 11 10 00 11 O1—6—12 
POEL Viste wien py Seen 00014211116 i 10 10 00 00-4—10'44—4d4b6 
Rod and Gun Club, Kennebunk. 
Saunders... ...... 0012012111—6 10 00 10 00 01—-3— 9 
TGMOFs s+ er ds _..1210121100—6 00 10 10 141 0O—4—10 
Stanley sees, 0101200010—314 01 00 00 10 10—8— 614 
ERTRUOM We os acre aa 0012101100 —414 OL 10 10 00 01—4— 8g 
NAST) Mellow 0000001010—2 00. 00 00 00 00—0— 2 —#6 


CLEVELAND, O., April 17.—Hleven men of the Cleveland and Kirt 
land clubs faced the traps for the contest for the Ballantyne badge 
this afternoon at the Cleveland Club’s East End grounds. As nsual. 
a keen contest came out of the meeting, Mr. C. E. Calhoun, df the 
Cleveland Gun Club, winniug the trophy for the second time, with a 
clean score of 20 glass balls and 20 clay-pigeons. The trophy, when 
won by an individual for the third time, becomes his personal prop- 
erty, and is open free to any member of a gun club in Cuyahoga 
county. The shooting, under the badge rules. is at 20¢lass balls 
thrown from one rotary trap, at 18yds. rise, and 20 clay-pigeons from 
one Ligowsky trap at liyds. rise. There was a good attendance of 
sportsmen at the shoot, and the weather was fair. The individual 
scores of the eleven contestants were as follows: 


Balls. Figeons, Total. 
C E Calhoun at 20 40 
R HE Sheldon 19 20 89 
PR AOLOE Sade as selena 20 19 49 
CAP WVite adept oo ee See REA oo ee ee ECE 19 19 38 
OVEN ODS cheers Sei a rere ele enc Fletantel eters CL MnCIE ORL 19 19 38 
(DPN TE Fore ot Oe Ae Oily SE ORR RA CA ORAE EE EA or is 16 a4 
L9G Dy "110 fron eee ARAB aN 4 ia swageortaeetice 18 13 al 
{DEST ed © Son a el AO aE Pe A nate 2 Bee 14 16 30 
AY "ote UV GN Rita ee me bac cheesy Ace, 14 12 26 
George Newberryoc, 222.205) ee Re 14 10 24 


sana itelot A Aye MO Weak aan anes Wh came WR Tiel 12 8 20 

The winners of the badge since its existence have heen as follows: 
CG. M. Roof. Kirtlands; C. E. Calhoun, Clevelands; R. E. Sheldon, 
Clevelands; C. M. Roof, Kirtlands; J, J. Wightman, Cleyelands; GC. BE. 
Calhoun, Olevelands. 


WALLINGFORD, Conn., Aug. 3.—FolHowing is the score of those 
that shot for the individual State medal to-day, possible 50. It will 
be shot for again May 14,in New Haven, at the State shoot: H. 
Nichols 38, F. Smith.25, J. F. Tyes 39, Talcott 26, Hall 36, A. Ives 37, 
Gurd 28, Goodrich, Folsom, Beers and Brogden withdrew. 


NIAGARA, N. Y,, April 24.—The fourth of the monthly contests for 
the championship of Niagara county, took place to-day at La Salle. 
A finer day fora shooting match could not be wished for. Smith 
won the medal for the second, and stands well to be final winner. 
The score was: 


SMI eenes wale aar talent ces tSsansoe ss - -1100111111011111111111111—22 
FOTN barbers ys cet east oe wh ourtens etc ee 1111141101111111111001111—22 
Bat ken oyt1225333 saw sep tee cas tens ~~ = -1111111111011111010111111—22 
PISCE: |e Fy bss 334555400 6eS vet ies 1111111111110101111110111—22 
WENN ESS . OF estes fi ena ats hee tne eee 0101011211100111111011111—19 
BNE host BARRA Soe CAR DORE pre re OCR pet 0101010011111140110001010—13 
Philpotint 20:2 iaceec1s~ bie di we seeh coed gerd 0100010000100010111111100—10 
Teatrsgn | Phere eee confer ey i ie ee 0101010101011010110010000—10 


eee at ten Clay-Pigeons._Smith 9, Gombert 9, Barker 8, 
ierce 9. 

pecong Tie at ten Clay-Pigeons._Smith 9, Gembert retired, Pierce 
retired. 

Sweepstake shooting followed. First contest at 5 target balls: 
Gombert and Smith first, Jewett and Barker second, Ripson third. 

Second at 10 Target Balls.—Smith first, Barker second, Pierce third, 
Bampfield fourth. 

Third at 10 Clay-pigeons.—Smith 9, Jennings 9, Barker 9, Pierce §, 
Jewett 7, Taylor 7, Bampfield 6, Gombert 5, First tie at 5 clay-pig- 
eons, Smith 5, Jennings 5, Barker 5. Second tie at 5 clay-pigeons, 
Smith 5, Jennings retured, Barker 3. 

SCHENEVUS, N. Y., April 26.—The club was out to-day, using the 


combination trap, fourth notch, at i8yds. The scores ran: & 

Gh amber iy ee ere OR Nae 11101710111010101610—13 
aceineyiededt Cel S700 WG oda deco tA tay ICR bre ead 111011110110i 110170—i4 
VohnsGewWilsGiie keh sek acne ee ce ett a ote cect | 00100011111100010111— 11 
CREB LOCK Web ye eet ciate sielaem sip eaiiciets laa od Raison Se she 00111001100100100110—10 
DUP ATTIC Earn re itgt Meck Rouse aise aS 0000111100¢000G00010— 5 
CSA RAETISULOD Srey seresen osiebebet oe ore cee oe ale 17110000111114011011—15 
IBA DWSE DSL 0) (CAE APG echt almond elie obiri icp e fele ye 11100000111100131100—11 
OPP ATS ONS So er hg eich ans etaie, oc aiaht dee eee Me tart oe 01100011001111110101—12 


WORCESTER, Mass., April 24. This has been a field day at Cool 
Mine Range of the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club. Among the gfuésts 
were FE, Brogg and B. Moses, of Springfield, George Tidsbury and J. 
H. Oole, of Ashland, and J. M. Frye, of Boston. The event of the 
day was a contest for the Pape enabiy individual glass bajl badge 
of the State Association, Mr, Charles DeRochmont, of Newbw yport 
having challenged W.S. Perry, of this city. Mr. George Tidsbury 
was Judge, Gilbert J. Rugg, of this city, and J. A. Cole, referees. 
The score was as follows out of a possible 50: 

POY bine ~10111141911101101111019111 111111101011111111110111—43 
DeRochmont..... 11010111011111110011111111111111001101111010111011—39 


WELLINGTON, Mass,—The weekly meet of the Madison Gun Club 
at Wellington, was attended by a large showing of lovers of the sport, 
and a good number of birds were broken. In the gold medal match, 
the first class medal was taken by J, Buffum with a score o7 17, the 
second class by C, I. Lewis with 14, and the third class by F, J. Scott 
with 13. The winners of the other events were as follows: 

First event, five birds—Adams and Loring divided first, Powers and 
Saunders divided second, Scott third. 

Second event, five birds.—Loring first, Scott second, Saunders and 
Adams divided third. 

Third event, five birds—Loring first, Adams and Scott divided 
second, Lewis third. 

Fourth event, five birds—Lewis first, Nichols and Saunders divided 
second, Loring and Adams divided third. 

Fifth event, five birds—Lewis first, Hopkins, Nichols and Scott 
divided second, Goodnow and Shattuck divided third. 

Sixth event, five birds—Geodnow first, Lewis and Nichols divided 
second, Shattuck third, Loring fourth, 

Seventh event, three pair doubles—Scott first, Adams secoud, Short 
and Nichols divided third, Shattuck fourth. 

Highth event, five birds—Saunders and Hopkins divided first, Short 
second, Nichols third, Snew fourth, 

Ninth event, five birds—Hopkins and Saunders divided first, Short 
second, Nichols third, Sanborn fourth. 

A ert events three pair doubles—Short first, Hopkins second, Saun- 
ers third. 

Eleventh event, five birds—Saunders, Scott and Hopkins divided 
oe Lewis and Adams divided second, Short and Brown divided 


‘twelfth event, three birds, 21yds.—Nichols first, Snow second. 
Thirteenth event, three birds, 2lyds.—Nichols and Sanborn divided 
first, Snow second, Adams and Douglas divided third. _ 
_ Fourteenth event, three birds, 2lyds.—Nichols first, Goodnow and 
Saunders divided second Snow third_ 


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[May 1, 1884, 


achting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 18.—Eclipse Y. C., Opening Cruise. 
May 24.—Oswego Y. C,, Opening Cruise, 
May 24.—Boston Y.C,, Opening Cruise. 
May 238.—Qniney Y. C., First Match. 


30,—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 


May 38(.—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

May 80.—Newark Y. C., Spring Match, 

May 30.—South Boston Y, C., Syring Match, 

May 30.—City Point Mosquito Fleet, 18 and 15ft. boats. 
May 380.—New Haven Y, C., Opening Cruise. 

May 31.—Boston Y.C,, First Maich,Connor and Commodore's cups, 
June 9.—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 

June 9,—Sayannah Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

June 10,—Atlantic Y. C., Aunnal Mateh, 

Juhe 11.—Hudson River Y. C., Annual Match, 

June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matehes. 

June i4,—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C,, Annual Matches. 
June 16,—Kast River Y. C., Annual Matches. 

Juné 1§.—Newark Y. C., Open Match. 

June 19—New J ersey Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 21.—Hull ¥, C.. Pennant Match. 

June 23.—Newark Y, C., Open Matches. 

June 24.—New Hayen Y, C., Spring Match. _ 


A FINE YACHT. 


ME commodore’s pennant of the New Hayen Y. C, will this year 
fiy from the masthead of a yacht in which all hands may take 
just pride. The nobby cutter Rajah, now nearly finished at Lris- 
coll’s yard, in Greenpoint, is a vessel one can Jook at twice. Sheisa 
thorough cutler, 82ft, loadline, Sift. beam and 614ft. draft. Her 
lines were depicted in our issue for Jan, 24, She is of course flush 
feck, with 7.3 tons, practicaliy all her ballast, on the keel. Built to 
exacting specifications, she has been put upin excellent shape, with 
a good deal of finish outside and in, The accommodations are some- 
thing at which to wonder, and far in excess of those of any flat-iron 
of same length, When the New Haven investigator climbs over 30in, 
of freeboard atthe quarter and proceeds below upon the commo- 
dore’s invitation, he need not even douse his plug hat. The first 
thing at which lie will express astonishment will be the delightful 
coolness and quiel light of the cabins, no matter how broiling the 
summer sun may be shining; and this wonder will be all the more 
pronounced if the visitor should happen to bave pulled off from a 
Boop, where the heat down below has driven all hands out as intol 
erable, 

Forward be will finda roomy forecastle with hatch and berth for 
the foremast hand. Next between two bulkheads a large pantry on 
one side and a w.e. on the other, Abaft of this in the mid body of 
the vessel he will admire a spacious main cabin with ample sofas and 
the companion ladder coming down at the after end. Surely this is 
all; but no, pass through a door and you face an after cabin or ladies’ 
saloon with sofas each side, and then discover another bulkhead with 
4 trap into a large a large sail and storeroom, Standiug height with 
a haton tore and aft. Over the after eabin is a skylight admitting 
moreé air than need be, and so much light that the rays have to be 
softened by colored glass sashes. The yachtis fit to cruise round 
the globe, so far as build, ability, rig and accommiddations are con- 
cerned, Sheis absolulely non-capsizable and non-knockdownable 
mto the bargain, For Sound sailing in summer her cool cabins and 
big displacement are specially adapted, as she is certain to go in 
light winds. 

On deck skeis pretty as a picture, and there isstyleand smartness 
in her long counter, in her rig, and in all Her fittings. She will not be 
plastered over with lubberly lincrusta on the ‘‘ceiling,’ nor will she 
he lathed and plastered insiule, but panelled neatly and with taste in 
pine in good ship-shape fashion. Sheis,in short, just what a good 
yacht oughtto be. As for her speed, we yenture no predictions. Her 
type is certainly not against fast sailing, as many races haye already 
proven. If sheis not fast it will be due to the shaping of her lines 
and not to her cardinal dimensions. But we see no reason why she 
should not perform satisfactorily, and be remarkably dry and buoy- 
ant in 4 sea, and work out to windward with reasonable comfort when 
the traps hayeto square away for the nearest shelter. The Rajah 
will make a host of converts this season, and no doubt be the cause 
of some sister vessels before another twelve months roll round. Her 
iron work was made to special patterns, and is commendable, with 
the exception of a clumsy windlass, for which the lack of good pat- 
terns among the trade is responsible. 


NEW ENGLAND Y. R. A. 


pe a meeting held April 23, at the Parker House, Boston, the final 
steps were taken in the organization of the association. Clubs 
represented were the Beycrly, Boston, Dorchester, Hull, Jeffries, 
Lynn, Quincy, Salem Bay, South Boston, West Lynn and Yale. Any 
other elub in New England having 50 members or 25 yachts over 16ft, 
is eligible at future sessions. A subscription of $10 per club was or- 
dered to deffay expenses, The following officers were chosen: 
President, W. Lloyd Jeffries, Beverly Y.C.; Vice-President, Lonis M. 
Qlark, Dorchester Y. ©.; Secretary and Treasurer, Benjamin W. 
Rowell, West Lynn Y. C.; Executive Committee, with president and 
vice-president ex-oficii—Commodore H, 0, Neal. Lynn Y.C., Commo- 
dore @, A. Perkins, Hull Y. C., and Charles P. Pike, Jeffries Y. C. 

The meeting, as a committee of the whole, adopted rules to goy- 
ernraces held under its supervision, It was decided to allow time by 
the Herreshoff table on a measurement of water line length. The 
question of measuring overhang was referred to a committee to 
repert ab next meeting. We have already pointed out the unfairness 
and tendencies of measurement by length, and in this matter the New 
England Y. R. A. ranges ivself in opposition to the decision of experts 
ali the world over. However, the association is perhaps too young 
to visk its existence by any precipitate reform movement, and open 
Opposition to the length rule might have driven out some of the 
clubs given to sailing small boats. But as itis, should the committee 
not recommend ineluding overhang, the rule of the association will 
be a vast improyement upon the ‘mean length,” or “one-third over- 
hang” rulés, which interfere so seriously with a fimished afterend, 


and impose such an unjust penalty upon any one with taste enough to 


spin his overhang out intoa shim edge. It is at all events one step 
abead, and When the association has acquired the strength and influ- 
ence of age, further reforms may be hoped for. ’ 

Tt will not be long before many will rebel against the excessive cost 
and clumsiness of yachts built under a leneth rule and then the agi- 
tation for some modifying factor will begin by which size ean be held 
accountable, The meeting likewise resolved to prohibit shifting bal- 
last altogether in boats of any kind, A wiser and more enlightened 
move could not haye been made. The custom of shifting ballast is so 
directly subyersive of all earnest object in yachting, that the sport 
is to be congratulated upon the effective quietus the New England 
¥_R.A. has given to the carrieaturing of the whole business in boats 
sg well asin the men who sail the bag shifters. The penalty of in- 
fraction of the prohibitory rule, we are glad to find, has been made as 
heavy as it could be, as the offender will be expelled with his yacht 
from membership in all the clubs composing the association, 


INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR CHANNEL MATCH. 


W 7H have received the following conditions to govern the proposed 
Corinthian “cross seas’? matches from the Thames to Ostend, 
Belgium, and from Ostend return to Portsniouth. The distance from 
the Medway to Ostend is 100 miles, and the match home to Ports- 
mouth coyers 200 miles, nearly all of which will be open sea work, 
These races are ai invovation which all well-wishers of ‘‘real” yacht- 
img hail with delight, since they put vessels and crews to actual test 
without a trace of the hippodrome or greased pole exhibition with 
which our smooth-water racing still has too close connection, The 
creys are to be amateurs in the main, so that the profit will not 
merely be a cop won, bub a grand lot of experience all round, of 
which the last boat partakes as much as the first. Of course, 
the sickly old hens in this country will be seized with holy 
horror at the idea of small craft from cen to twenty tons 
putting out to sea for a business-like proceeding which meu can 
countenance instead of contenting themselves with horse play on a 
pond, but the ‘longshore old maids hayeno say in English yachting 
and #vould be Janzhed out of countenance, so the races are certain to 
proceed despite the ludicrous misgivings of frightened old dish rags, 
We hope the example of our cousins may lead to similar attempts in 
our own waters, so that the poverty-stricken traps may be shown up 
in all their shortcommgs. Hitherto the little ocean racing done in 
‘America has been confined to huge schooners, most of whom made a 
retty poor showing as soon as the glue got wet, A race from Sandy 
Foal around Block Island and home in September or October, open 
to sloops under 50ft.. would be something like the real thing, but how 
many of our boys and drifters would have the ability and counage co 
come to the seratch for what ought to bea very ordinary event? — 
CONDITIONS OF THE PROPOSED AMATEUR GHANNEL MATCHES, UNDER THE 
FLAGS OF THE CORINTHIAN ¥. G.. AND THE ROYAT, PORTSMOUTH CORTA- 
THIAN Y. G.: , 
First Race—To start from Port Victoria, at the entrance of the Med- 
way, leaving the Shivering Sand Bell Buoy on the starboard hand, 


and finishing inside a markboat, to be moored outside the Stroom 
Bank, off Ostend Harbor, Itisintended to start thisrace to arrive 
in time for the commencement of the Ostend Regatta, so that vessels 
intending to be present or take part in the regatta can avail them- 
selves of this match in sailing to that port. 

Second Race—To start from a markboat off Ostend Harbor, finish- 
ing off Southsea Pier, Portsmouth, No restrictions as to course, It 
is intended to start this race at the finish of the regatta at Ostend. 

These matches are open to cruising yachts under 51 tons, Y. R. A, 
tonnage; belonging to any royal or recognized yacht club. The yachts 
will probably be divided into classes, viz., up to and including 20 tons, 
ace a ee 20 tons, but this will depend entirely on the number of entries 

ePived, 

Time allowance to be calculated on gail area and load water line; 
taking the distance of the first course to be 85 miles and of the second 
to be 170 miles, 5 

Yachis to sail in cruising trim, under the rules of the Y. R. A., with 
the exceptions that every yacht must carry a boat, and thatthe clause 
in the rule relating to crews will be altered as follows: No restriction 
to the nuniber of amateurs on board, but boats of 15 tons, ¥, R. A. 
tonnage, and under, will be limited to one paid hand; boats over 15 
rit i to 40 tons, two paid hands; boats over 40 tons, three paid 

_Only members of recognized yacht clubs to be allowed to touch the 
tiller, or in any way to assist in steering the vessels. 

The committee reserye to themselves the power to refuse any entry, 
and to make any alterations they may think necessary. 
derhone of closing entries and further particulars will be advertised 

r. 

Ttis proposed to give two prizes for each race, and prizes to the 
amateur crew of the winning yessel in each class. The value of the 
prizes will altogether depend on the amount of the subscriptions re- 
ceived, which may be sent to the following gentlemen: 

S. Harman Sturais, Esg., Vice-Com. 0, Y. G., 
4 12 Copthall Court, London, E. 0, 
A, G. Wiipy, Esg., Rear Com. J. T. Y. C., 
13 Furnivals Inn,, London, E. G. 
Capr, Surronx, Vice-Com, R. P. C. ¥, C,, 
High street, Portsmouth, 
H, Crampton, Hsq., R.P. GC. Y. G., 
Wi High street, Portsmouth, 

Subscriptions Already Receiyed._Royal Portsmouth C. Y. O., 
#10 10s.; Corinthian Y.C., £10 10s.; Junior Thames Y, C,, £10 10s. ; 
Other subscriptions under £5, about £40, 

APRIL 8, 1884. - 


A BIT OF REAL YACHTING. 


rp \i following summary of the schooner Furtuna’s recent cruise 

i to the West Indies, we take from the Herald. It will give an in- 
sight into a bit of real yachting, and will, we hope, lead many others 
to follow suit, even though ina smaller way with smaller boats. It 
is certain that the day of the frightened old hens, who faint away at 
the suggestion of going to sea in a yacht, has about come to a close. 
The modern generation of Americans ‘have pluck and ambition 
enough to follow the sport from the standpoint of men. So many 
yachts have passed successfully through the exceptionally sévere 
weather this spring at sea, that a large fleet is certain to take to ocean 
cruising as a regular thing with the attainment of experience. In 
fact. 1b may be accepted that yachting in America is fast undergoing 
a change in its. objects and methods of pursuit, which is but the 
natural transition from child’s play in Jand-locked stretches, to the 
bolder and nobler attainments of genuine nautical life at sea. Tt has 
its counterpart in the expanding ambition of the youngster astride 
the wooden nag of the merry-go-round to mount a veritable saddlein 
the field. And who would dare insist the youngster should forever 
stick to the wooden counterfeit until his hairs grow gray, simply be- 
cause the real saddle offers less chance for play, and urges riper dex- 
terity, coupled with weightier responsibilities, and correspondingly 
greater realization in return, 

It seemed like a wild prophesy some years ago to predict winter 
eruising down our coast even by a fleet of big schooners. Yet that 
prophesy has now been fulfilled. To the crustaceans and fossils of a 
past generation it may likewise seem wild to pee a swarm of little 
tellows dodging in and out from rockgirt Maine down to the sandy 
dunes of the Bahamas or the coral reets of the Floridian shores. 
Yet that, and nothing short of it. is written in positive characters in 
the hook of thefuture. Time will come when ten and twenty tonners 
will think no more of 4 run over to the Bermudas and a thrash home 
than they do now of a ‘‘pleasure excursion” to Greenport and home, 
and there are those who even at this day look forward to accomplish- 
ing the passage in a five-ton cutter as a yenture fraught with spice, 
laurels and gratification, which many others will learn to appreciate 
in the near future. Yachting is dropping its swaddling clothes in 
America, and with the change in popular sentiment in favor of deep, 
safe boats with shipshape rigs, the sport is donning the breeches of 
men. None view this rapid expansion with more satisfaction than 
those who, like ourselves, have been brought up to the sea and know 
well the vast zu there is between the feeble sham of drifting up the 
Sound and the yigorous activity of body and mind in a fight which 
ponguens the wild elements in sweet reward of a courageous under- 
taking. 

The. tide of affairs leading on to the ocean can no Jonger be stemmed 
by the relics of the old flat trap period, who play Sir Oracle, snugly 
ensconsed in the armchairs of some of the older organizations, nor yet 
by the stale, vapid washwomen, who curry their favor, and affront 
Americans of grit in some public prmts with cowardice of spirit and 
bodily sloth. Out upon such lubbers and traducers of our national 
backbone, who defame us before the world as a nation of simpering, 
effeminate asses, with neither pride in the athletics of our bodies nor 
ambition in the direction of mental acquisition! 

‘The deep keel schooner Fortuna, Mr, Henry 8. Hovey, of Boston. 
has arrived, after a five months’ cruise, in the West Indies. In this 
time she experienced much bad weather, and soon after starting en- 
countered a revolying hurricane which thoroughly tested the craft, 
but she passed through the ordeal with flying colors. At another time 
nineteen ugly squalls in twenty-four hours tried the patience of the 
yachtsmen, the ability of the sailing master, the strength of the crew 
and the staunchness of the yacht, but the men were equal to the occa- 
sion and the boat gave the greatest satisfaction to herowner, Bad 
weather lasted, with only short intervals of favorable sailing breezes 
and sunshine, for nearly two months, but the lust ten or twelve weeks 
were delightful and more than compensated for the disagreeable 
nature of the early part of the voyage. 

“The Fortuna yesterday looked as if she had been fitted out for the 
season’s cruising, instead of recently returning from a long ocean 
trip. Her brasswork was polished, decks holystoned, sails with 
covers on, and a boat riding at the boom, while a stout, hardy look- 
ing crew forward, and a sun-browned, smiling sailing master aft 
made her indeed look the cruising vessel allover, In the cabin and 
owner’s stateroom were found Specimens of tropical plants and fish, 
together with a fine collection of quaint pottery, picked up at the 
many places touched in the long ocean ramble so happily finished. — 

“From the appearance of the seams, both inside and outside, this 
pleasure vessel passed through the unpleasant experience of hurri- 
canes, squalls almost without number and continued bad weather, 
requiring most of the time double reefed sails, without the slightest 
injury. Nothing was washed overboard and nothing carried away, 
not even to the parting of aropeyarn. The winter and spring have 
made up a season of exceptionally bad weather at sea, as the many 
disasters chronicled fully attest; butthere is no record of much worse 
weather than that through which the Wortuna passed. The hurricane 
was a very seyere one. The wind at the nearest point of land, which 
was sixty miles away, registered seventy miles an hour, and Sir 
Thomas Brassey’s sea cruising steam yacht Sunbeam, of 565 tons 
haying caught the last of the plow, reported that in their extende 
experience they had never met anything worse. 

“The Fortuna left Gloucester, Mass,, at half past 6 o’clock on the 
morning of Nov. 25, bound to Bermuda, with the owner and guests 
on board, the latter bemg Mr. C. A. Longfellow, Mr. William Stack- 
pole and Mr, Joseph Fay. On the morning of the 26th at 5 o'clock, 
hardly twenty-four hours haying elapsed, the yacht had put 264 miles 
astern—nol a bad day’s work, by the way—when a wicked blow from 
the southeast came cn, and it continued to gather strength with such 
astonishing rapidity that Captain Newcombe made the necessary 
preparations and the yacht, was hove to,in which condition she re- 
mained thirty hours before it was again prudent tomakesail. About 
noon of Noy. 27 the wind hauled due north, and the yacht was scud- 
ded under single reef foresail the balance of that day and night and 
until 1 o'clock of the afternoon of the 28th, when the gale became so 
dangerous another reef was put in the foresail and, said Captain 
Newcombe, ‘we then let her go—and go she did, like a bullet, making 
splendid weather of it.’ On the 29th an obseryation showed the yacht 
to be sixty miles due west of Bermuda, and all hands soon expected 
to see tha friendly light of that island. Neptune, however, had 
another score to settle with them, as at midnight fhe revolving hur- 
ricane alluded to strnek them with but meager warning, and for 
twenty-four hours the yacht wrestled with wind and waves, and 
conquered. A friendly uor’weater at last made them forget their 
trials, aid on Saturday morning the lighthouse of Bermuda was 
sighted, The yachhremained at Hamilton and 56. George until Dec. 
10, the time being passed in an enjoyable manner, many of the Ber- 
mudan officers, citizens and ladies visiting the craft and inspecting it 


in Mr, Hovey’s company. : 
“St. Kitts was next touched, where the yacht remained five days, 
by the party were 6 with 


and frequent excursions on shore 
evident pleasure and gratification, The island of Montserrat then 


engaged attention, but the stay there was brief, The island of 
Dominica was next visited, where two days were heron and parties 
from on shore, including the English Consul and his fami'y, came on 
board, being delighted with the chance given them to closely ex- 
amine such # fine vessel. Guadaloupe was called at, and while the 
roads present a fair anchorage and the seenes on shore were very 
attractive, so much so ag to keep the yacht there a week, Captain 
Newcombe sailor-like says, ‘Well, remember that place and won't 
forget it, as they charged us $80 in gold for a ton of ice.’ Martinique 
was touched, and in the harbor-of St. Pierre they stayed four days. 
The weather until now had been detestable, and the yacht was under 
double reef sails most of the time. From Martinique there was an 
agreeable change, and for nearly three months after the crew slept 
on deck. Barbados was the next island in order, whera one week 
was passed iu a most charming manner, the Governor, fort officers 
and officials coming on board at various times, and Mr. Hovey and 
4is guests visiting them on shore. Port Spain, island of Trinidad, 
the southernmost of the Windward group, was next on the list, and 
here the Fortuna Jay ten days. Many persons came on board the 
vessel, and the yachtsmen made excursions to the pitch lake, and 
spent many hours wandering about the large plantations. The 
rugged and picturesque island of Grenada next engaged the atten- 
tion of the yachting party; then Tobago, ‘where it's all rocks,’ was 
the exclamation of the sailing master, after which the islands of St. 
Vincent and St. Lucia were visited. 

" “Fortuna then began to make her way back. Martinique and 
Guadaloupe were again touched, and then St. John's, island of 
Antigua, Here Mr, Fay reluctantly left the yachting party with a 
view of returning to Boston, where he was required on business. Su. 
John’s is a pleasant place and the harbor excellent, St, Thomas, Sf. 
Kitts, Santa Cruz and Porto Rico followed, and then Jamaica, where, 
in the harbor of Kingston, oae week was passed, the yachtsmen 
having a glorious time, with fine weather. From Kingston to Hayana 
and thence to Nassau was the programme, when the yacht crossed 
over to Fernandina, Fla., and glad indeed was the party to be once 
more on their own coast, although the cruise had been full of énjoy- 
ment. The yachtsmen went to St. Augustine, and upon their return 
Mr, Stackpole took steamer fgr New York. Ten days was passed at 
Fernandina, Then ‘Up the coast!’ was the word, and Sayannah, 
Charleston and Old Point were stopped at, the yacht remaining from 
tour to six days at each of these ports. 

“'The yacht is a magnificent vessel,’ said Captain Newcombe, ‘At 
no time were we completely shut up, and it was only about six Lours 
during the revolving hurricane that the cook coula not do his work, 
and only about the same time that the men did not go down forward, 
but came aft and passed through the cabin. The men could always 
po thelr work on deck and,’ he concluded, ‘thé yacht works beauti- 

ully. 

“The Fortuna will go on the serew dock to-day for inspection, and 
on Monday she will leave for Boston with Mr. Hovey on board. Upon 
reaching the latter port she will again be fitted with her racing spars, 
and during the coming season will be found at the starting point in 
all the regattas in Eastern and New York waters. The Fortuna was 
built in Brooklyn, by Messrs. ©. & R. Poillon, from designs by Mr. A. 
Cary Smith, and is 11?ft. over all, 105ft, on water line, 22ft. Gin, beam, 
and draws 12ft. of water.” 


DEEP LAUNCHES.—Lawley & Son, South Boston, are building 
twoseagoing launches for New York Herald shipping service from 
special designs of Mr. Beavor Webb. That is enough to say that the 
new craft will come up to expectations. They are deep, highsided, 
and have deadrise, which is a stridein advance of the swampy little 
traps hitherto accepted as all that could be asked from asteam 
launch in this country. The pair will be named Herald and, Telegram. 
Length 57ft., on loadline 50ft., beam 9ft. 2in,, depih moulded 7£t. 3in., 
dratt git, Supplied with the famous 3-cylinder compounds of Wil- 
lans and Robinson make, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, These 
engines have no link motion, and are entirely encased, They work 
up to high speed without noise or jar Boilers will be built in this 
country, 48 imported generators cannot receive the United States 
Government stamp required by law. 


ADELINA.—Mr. Bierck, of this city, has purchased the keel sloop 
Gracie M., in Boston, and has changed her nameto Adelina, She has 
received an overhaul from Hutchings & Prior, and will clear for this 
1 May 6 with Rufus A, Smith as skipper and the owner on board. 

he Adelina is of moderate beam and good depth, with an iron keel, 
built, we believe, in Marblehead. The demand for keel yachts is so 
great that the New York market is bare of such eraft and Mr. Bierek 
was obliged to look elsewhere for a safe boat. The yacht agents in- 
form us that they have few or no keel boats for sale, butany quantity 
of centerboards. Keels are now at such a premium that recent sales 
in this city brought near first cost for boats half through their 
natural term of life. Adelina will pick up moorings off Sea Cliff 
during summer, 


SEABELLE.—This handsome cutter, recently imported from the 
East by Mr. Avery, has been bought by Mr. H, A. Seymour, of Wash- 
ington, who will keep her off his summer residence at Sachbem's 
Head, in the Sound, and in winter in Chesapeake waters. She is dift. 
L: W. L., and on the passage round logged 33 nautical miles in 3 
hours, with 6 miles of tide in her fayor, under double-reefed main- 
sail. This is at the rate of 9 knots an hour, or two knots more than 
Kemp’s observations recorded in his “Yacht and Boat Sailing,” and 
seems a very high rate. Yet we have the assurance from direct 
sources that the speed wastmade. Mr, Avery leaves for Japan for an 
absence of several y ears. 


YACHTING IN GERMANY.—German yachting has been picking up 
of late, and sea cruising in the Baltic is becoming common; but so far 
the government has failed to relieve yachtsmen of burdensome and 
harrassing legislation, as all yachts are subject to the same rules and 
restrictions as merchant vessels, and have to clear every time upon 
leaving port for an hour's sail, and submit to customs inspection and 
a lot of red tape upon returning, A moveis being made to seek re- 
lief, Itis a wonder that a government so enlightened and so anxious 
to cultivate national sports as the Berlin Ministry should not long ere 
this have taken action in the matter. 


ATLANTIC Y. C.—The rule compelling the deposit of model or 
lines before receiving a prize from the club, which has been enforced 
for several years, was repealed at the meeting of April 14, quite un- 
expectedly, at the instigation of a small clique. At the meeting held 
April 28, the more enlightened element of the club turned out in 
force, and by a yote of 23 to4 re-established the rule in @ strouger 
form than ever, Itis to the credit of the vlub that it does not pro: 
pose to countenance the petty selfishness of a few persons, 


MUST GO.—‘'The tendency is to fixed ballastin both large andsmall 
yachts and the sandbagger must go,” saystheSouth Boston Inquzrer, 
Which is very true and very much to the interests of yachling on 
small tonnage. We note likewise with satisfaction the determined 
attitude of the New. Jersey Y,C, tolive up to its excellent tenets in 
instructing Mr, Dilworth to have nothing to do with auy proposition 
for a combination race with the Oceanie Y.C., should the latter seelr 
to make it a piece of sandbag tomfoolery. 


FLUSH DECK.—Coelkpits, even among the lounging class of yacht 


‘drifters, aie fast going where the woodbine twineth. Schooner 


Cohunbia has come out asa flush-decker after recent alterations. 
Where is that ‘comfortable lee” and that ‘‘protection’’ so dear to the 
old hens? American yachtsmen are assuming a hardier complexion, 
The chewing-gum school must go. Columbia now is a vast improye- 
ment upon her former self. Four inches more freeboard, longer 
overhang and fined out forward, 


FRENCH YACHTING.—The value of a \yon by French yachts 
last year was $28,000. The sport has madesteady and rapid progress, 
many yachts being imported from England and others built after 
American ideas. Im 178, total value of prizes won was $10,090, so 
that in five years the amount has been doubled. In 1883 there were 
sailed 188 races, with an average value of prizes of $120. The num- 
ber of winning yachts last year was 150. 

PROVINCETOWN Y. C.—As the first meeting of the season of the 
Provincetown ¥, C., the following principal officers were chosen; 
Commodore, Thomas Lowe; Vice-Commodere, A. P. Hammon; Fleet 
Captain, Frank Alien; Measurer, Joseph 5. Atwood; Secretary and 
Treasurer, H. A. Jennings. A list of the officers was ordered fo be 
sent to Forest AnD STREAM, the Boston Courier and Cape Cod tem. 


PROMOTING SPORT IN FRANOE, — The regatta society of 
Rochelle, France, receives a subsidy from the city of $200; from the 
department in which it is situated, $60; from the Minister of Marine, 
$80; from the Y, C. de France, the parent institution, $500; from 
Admiral Veren, Maritime Prefect, The association has 202 
members. 

THUNDER BAY Y. C,—Officers forthe year: Fred Jones, Cam- 
mana, H. K. Wickstead, Vice-Commodore; W. T. Clarke, Secreta 
and Treasurer; Committee of Management, W. I’. Davidson, G, T. 
Marks and J. 1. O’Connor, The Vice-Commodore has nearly 
a five beam cutter, but will probably rig her as a yawh 

NEW CUTTERS,—Mr. Brisben, of Philadelphia, is having a cutter 
built by Albertson Bros.. of Kensington. Sbeis similar in model to 
the Windward, illustrated in our issué for Feb. 7. The design fora 
Beane cutter 22ft. long has been sent to another gentleman in Phila- 
delphia, 

HARDWARE. We recéiye inquities from time to time from Can- 
ada for the address of a ship chandler dealing in yaehts’ hardware 
across the border. If such an establishment exists we would like to. 
publish address for benefit of Canadian yachtsmen, 


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NYSSA. 


pe Nyssa, built by. Wood Brothers, of East Boston, and now the 
property of Mr.J L. Wall, of the Seawavhaka Corinthian Y. C., 
Serves as an excellent example of the modern Boston keel sloop. It 
will be seen that to good depth she also adds large beam, and re- 
quires a correspondingly liberal rig. Boats of this class are very 
stiff and powerful, with great ability in a sea, and, of course, uncap- 
sizable, as they are Sup puoe with plenty of outside ballast. In some 
recent specimens nearly all the weight is hung on the keel. The 
drag and deep heel is peculiar to the East Boston builders. Where 
there is enough water this deep heel is an advantage in steadying the 
boat, and doing away with long bowsprits, as the center of lateral 
resistance is found well aft. : 

The extent to which such boats can be modified with benefit by 
clipping some of the beam and filling below, making an easier form 
to drive, is indicated in the success of such yachts as Vayu, Beetle, 
Oriva, Mavis and many others. Such ‘alterations would in no wise 
interfere with cabin oor, but add to_its width and to the height 
below as well, so that even in boats of the Nyssa’s length a flush 
deck is not impossible. The present popular tendency is in the 
direction mentioned. In other words, the typical Boston sloop, 
evolved since the introduction of keel ballast, is slowly approximat- 
ing the regular cutter with three to four beams. 

How far this gradual merging into the cutter will be carried in our 
waters is for the future to tell. Under length measurement boats 
must always remain very large on their loadline: hence we may look 
for all the depth, displacement and draft which experience will 
allow, and in addition such beam as is congenial to the other requi- 
sites. This tendency has received exemplification in the numerous 
new yachts built in Boston during last winter. Itisa most whole- 
some pie eee veapion for the future. As fast asthe truth is vividly 
brought home to the public pee the force of example that more 
Satisfactory and practically useful results can be obtained through 
moderation in beam and corresponding expansion in depth proper and 
displacement, the sooner will we all arrive ata type which will be- 
come the ruling standard for the future, and the present period of 
sore transition, with its trials and tribulations, will come to an end. 
When a yacht becomes go deep as to afford head room under the 
beams, houses and encumbrances on deck will disappear of them- 
selves, as in many new buvats recently constructed; so that the 
assimilation of the Boston sloop to the cutter, step by step, is 
really a foregone conclusion to any one who draws logical in- 
ference from the influences at work. For the resent, however, 
the Nyssa represents a large class of Hastern s oops which have 
deservedly become widely popular in the search for a reliable gsub- 
stitute to take the eee of the old time light drafts and light dis- 
placements. But for the prevalence of these deep drafts with their 
outside weight, general cruising along the astern coast would be 
practically impossible, as it would be fraught with such risks and so 
many accidents, that few would care to expose themselves to the 
chances of going to Dayy Jones’s locker at an untimely age. Our 
columns in the past have recorded many tet nees of close escapes 
In Boston sloops, where disaster would have been a certainty in a 
light draft centerboard of the New York pattern, 


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The Nyssa was well built in the first place, anda year ago received 
a thorough overhauling, fresh rig and outfit, under the Spee 
dence of Mr. John Harvey, of this city, so that she is to-day the most 
complete and best equipped sloop of her class in New York waters. 
The keel is Gin, sided, stem and post 4in., allof oak. The deadwood 
is din.thick. Timbers bélow the bilge are of oak 2162, and of 
natural crookhackmatatk from the bilge up: the floors 3-inch oak, 
and the frames double up to turn of bilge. The planking is yellow 
uve gin. thick; the deck being 114in. white pine laid tapering with 
the sheer. 


ONE GHEO VEE: mall eter ANON een ae Walelie s oMlelals sleet 80ft. din. 
Meng ob OumIGAdlin exit, eas, yews ak eee ees aes 26ft. 9in. 
Beam moulded on L.W.L -....... cc ecececeeuee 9ft. 10in 
Depth, rabbet to planksheer on M.S.............. 5ft. 11in 
Dat eAp Heelan ase tet ISIN ed, sah vate sactodir: 5ft. Yin 
IRC ASTAEROUDOALIE OTE inn teak td, she ee 1ft. 11in 
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BAMASiSICO Se tah eet saves bake otis ee 65771bs 
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stays, and amost complete cabin and nav 


REQUISITES.—We have received an illustrated catalogue of yacht- 
ing requisites from Norie & Wilson, 156 Minories, London, containing 
much that is interesting and novel as well as a long list of yachting 
books suitable to the cabin library. 


NEW SHARPIE.—Mr, Clapham has an order for a new 65ft. shar- 
pie, to sail on dew and of course beat all creation while she is build- 
ing, though what she will actualiy accomplish is quite another affair 

NEW JERSEY Y.C.—Has chartered the steamer John Lennox for 
the matches of June 19. The construction of a dock 170ft, long will 
afford the club anchorage excellent shelter, 

BEETLE,—Mr. Hemmenway’s smart cutter Beetle has received an 
extra ton lead outside. but may not appear this season, as her owner 
will be abroad. Sloops breathe free. 

FAD.—This yaw] is building for Mr. Goddard, of Boston, from his 
own designs, and not for Mr. Wellman, who has had the Sunshine 
cutter rigged by McManus & Son. 

DORCHESTER Y. C.—The commodore will fly his pennant from 
his new acquisition, the Boston keel sloop Nirvana, known as a prize 
winner in many Eastern battles. 

NEW CUTTER.—Mr. C. E. Brown, of Chicago, is having a cutter 
built by Eddy, of Marblehead, who has acquired Keating’s former 
establishment at that place. 

LILLIE.—This famous little Boston flyer is to try an iron keel. and 
if her rig is increased in proportion, some fresh trials with the Hera 
would be very interesting. 

RARITAN Y, C.--This club, with headquarters at Perth Amboy, N. 
J., has issued a new book containing constitution and sailing rules. 

THETIS.—This new semi-cutter, built for Mr. Bryant, by Smith of 
South Boston, was launched Saturday last. 

ELLA MAY,—This is the name of the new 82ft. cutter 
Lawley & Son by Mr. E. M. Tyler. 

TRI.—Mr. Tudor’s Boston sloop Tri will come out improved with 
two-ton iron keel this season. 


MEASUREMENT IN THE EAST.—A few remarks will be found 
upon the editorial page. 

QUINCY Y. C.—Fixtures are 
Aug. 28 and Sept. 11. 

MONTAUK.—This schooner arrived at St. Augustine, Fla., April 
24, from Havana, 

SAY NOTHING.—The design for a large five-beam cutter is now 
underway. 

MICHIGAN Y. C.—Has been organized at Detroit with a capital of 

2,500. 

BUNKER HILL Y. C.—Ias 58 members and 37 boats. 

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BOOKS RECEIVED. 


A Srupy, with critical and Sen aE notes of Lord Tennyson’s 
poem, ‘‘The Princess,” By S.E.Dawson. Second edition. Mon- 
treal: Dawson Brothers. 1884. 


Cuinese Gorbon; a Succinct Record of His Life. By Archibald 
Forbes. New York: George Routledge &Sons. 1884. Price, $1. 


bought from 


club races May 28, June 30, July 30, 


GQanacing. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested tosend to Forrsr 
StreAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc, 

their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrest anp Stream their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport, 


FIXTURES. 


May 30 and 31,_Spring Meet at Newburg. 
May 30 and 31.—Spring Meet on Connecticut River, 


MOHICAN C. C.. 


R W. GIBSON, Snake, Captain; P, M. Wackerhagen, Thetis, Mate; 
e B.I. Stanton, Black Hawk. Purser; B. Fernow, Fior da Lice, 
Secretary; R. S. Oliver, Marion, member of Executive Committee. 
The Mohican C. C., of Albany, N. Y., was organized in 1882, with five 
members and five canoes, an old Everson Nautilus, weighing 150]bs., 
more or less, and still occasionally takea out under the name of the 


Tub, though leaking badly; a brass monster, the Curiosity, gone to 
the bow-wows in a mysterious way; a Racine St. Paul, the Henrietta, 
sold to an Amsterdam canoeist; a Rob Roy, the Isadora, whereabouts 
unknown, although her master is still a Mohican; and the Albani, 
American Traveling canoe, still inthe club house, The present mem- 
bers number 21, with 14-@anoes. 


A LOCAL MEET AT LAKE GEORGE. 


iditor Forest and Stream: 

A meeting of the joint committees of the Lake George and White- 
hall canoe clubs was held on the 9th of April, 1884, 

Arrangements were made for a canoe meeting on Lake George on 
the 24th, 25th and 26th of July next. It will be a cruising meet, the 
canoeists congregating at the Canoe Islands and then cruising in 
POD ERY. through Lake George, camping where night overtakes 
them. 

The races will be under the control of the Programme Committee 
consisting of F. C. Cooke and H. A. Greenough, of the Whitehall G, Ch 
and Will Ranger, of the L. G. OC. C, 

The date has been so arranged that canoeists on their way to the 
A.C. A, meet at the Thousand Islands may take part in this one. It 
is something new in the way of a canoe meeting, and itis hoped that 
it will be asuccess. For further information address 

WBITEHALL, N. Y. W. W. Cooxg, Jr. 


AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION.—Dr. 
members a very neat certificate of membership, desisned by Mr. 
Gibson, of Albany. The upper portion represents a fleet of canoes 
under sail and paddle, and the lower is decorated with paddles, rud- 
ders, anchors, etc., while on the left hand side are the A. OG, A. flags 
and also blank flags, to be filled in with the owner’s signals. 


Neidé is now sending to 


276 


AMATEUR CANOE BUILDING. 
Fourteenth Paper. 
SAILS AND RIGGING—CONTINUED, 


ae simplest rig for a canoe is the leg of mutton, or, as it 
: is sometimes called, sharpie rig, consisting of two tri- 
angular sails, requiring only mast, boom, halliard and sheet, 
and on a narrow boat, where but a small area can be carried, 
they will answer very well, but where a large spread is 
needed, the spars must be so long as to be unmanageable; 
for instance, to spread 60 square feet, with an 8ft. boom, 
would require a mast 16ft. above the deck. Another disad- 
vantage is the necessity of using rings on the mast, as they 
are liable to jam in hoisting and lowering. 

A simple sail, once used on canoes, is the spritsail, but it 
was abandoned on account of the difficulty of handling the 
sprit in so small a boat. The ordinary boom and gaff sail is 
also objectionable as it requires two halliards and the rings 
on the mast. ’ 

The lateen sail, as adapted by Lord Rosse, is much used 
on canoes, especially the smaller ones. It has the ad- 
vantages of a short mast, low center of effort, and few lines; 
but the yard and boom must be very long, the sail cannot be 
furled or reefed when before the wind, and it is not suited 
for large areas. The lateens introduced by the Cincinnati 
C. C. arc practicallyeleg of mutton sails, the yard peaking 
up into the position of a topmast, as shown in the drawing. 
The ordinary latven rig consists of a triangular sail laced to 
a yard and boom, both spars being jointed together at the 
tack, and a pole mast with a spike several inches long on 
top. A brass ring is lashed to the yard near its lower end, 
and a jaw (a) of wood or metal is fastened to the boom, a 
short distance from the forward end. In setting the sail, 
the yard is lifted until the ring can be hooked over the spike 
on the mast, then the boom is drawn back, lifting the yard, 
and the jaw is dropped in place around the mast, the oper- 
ation being reversed in taking in sail. 

The following method of reefing the lateen was devised 
by Gen. Oliver, of the Mohican 0. C. The fore end of the 


STANDING LuG Sar, 


Reering GEAR FOR LATEEN SAIL. 


boom is fitted with a jaw () which encircles the mast when 
the sail is set, making aleg of mutton sail, while on the boom 
is a jaw (a). In reefing,’the jaw (2) is removed from the mast, 
allowing the boom to come forward until a touches the mast, 
the slack of the sail being taken in by a reef line, ddd, 
One end of this line is made fast at the tack, it is then rove 
through grommets in the sail, and the other end made fast 
on the leach, the slack being taken in by hooking the cord 
over a screweye (¢) on the boom forward, and another aft. 
Another similar plan dispenses with the jaw on the end of 
the boom, using instead a second jaw on the hoom near the 
first, the shape of the sail being a little different, but the 
details of reefline, etc., the same. 

The old sliding gunter is no longer used, as it was difficult 
either to hoist or lower the topmast with any pressure of 
wind on the sail. Several other varieties of gunter have been 
introduced at times, but they are inferior in simplicity and 
effectiveness to the lug, 

On a canoe, the nearer the sails approach a square, the 
shorter boom and yard they require for any given area, and 
the easier they are to handle and stow. All things con- 
sidered, there is no sail so easily set, reefed or furled as the 
simple standing lug. The head of the sail is laced to a yard 
on which a ring 0 is lashed, while the foot is laced to a boom, 


in the forward end of which an eye is spliced. On the mast 


is a brass traveler a, formed of a ring to which a hook is 
brazed. An eye is formed on the upper part of the hook in 
which the halliard ¢ is spliced, while the downhaul ¢ is 
spliced to the hook itself. } 

~ The halliard and downhaul are sometimes in one piece, the 
lead being from eye in traveler through block at masthead, 
thence through double block at foot of mast to cleat on side 
deck; thence through double block again and to hook of 
traveler, the latter part forming a downhaul, The tack d is 
an endless line rove through. a single block on deck at the 
foot of the mast and « screweye near the well, and having a 
toggle spliced into it. To set sail it is taken from below, the 
eye in the end of boom toggled to the tack, hauled out and 
belayed, then the yard is lifted, the ring hooked on to the 
traveler, and the halliard hauled taut and belayed. The 


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: FOREST AND STREAM. 


downhaul is led outside of the sail, the latter always being on 
the same side of the mast. . 


at 7, and leading around starboard side of mast through &% 
and block m on deck, to cleat; or the tack may be fast at 2, 


Where a large area is to be carried, as in racing, the best | lead through a thimble lashed at starboard side of mast, then 


sail is, beyond all question, the balance Jug, a modification of 
the sails long in use in China, which was introduced to 
canoeists some fifteen years ago. In this sail a portion pro- 
jects forward of the mast, greatly lessening the outboard 
weight when running free, as well as the leneth of the boom. 
The sail is spread on a yard and boom, as the standing lug, 
but is so hung that a portion hangs forward of the mast, 


CINCINNATI LATEEN. BROKEN Linrs £How ANOTHER Form 


Lire of Murton Sart. 


about one-seventh to-one-cighth of the boom being forward; 
thus, a sail of 7ft. on the foot will have no longer boom 
when running free than an ordinary sail of 6ft. on the foot. 
To handle a large sail quickly and certainly a number of 
lines are needed, some of which may be dispensed with at the 
will of the skipper, but we will give all in the description. 
One peculiarity of these sails, a feature also derived from 
the Chinese, is that they have a light batten sewn in a hem 
ou the sail at every reef, keeping the sail very flat, and per- 
mitting the use of reefing gear instead of the ordinary reef- 
oints. 
? The sail always remains on the same side of the mast, on 
either tack, being permanently hung there. On the yard 
just forward of the mast is a short piece of line (g), having 
an eye in one end, and a wooden toggle in the other, and abaft 


+d 
the mast is athimble, & The end of the halliard has an 
eye spliced in it, then in setting sail—supposing, as is usually 
the case, that the sail is on the port side—the halliard 1s 
passed through the eye , around the starboard side of the 
mast, and toggled to the eye in the line g. 


The boom is rigged in a similar manner, with thimble (R) 


and tack, the latter, about 5ft. long, being spliced to the boom 


through eye & and to cleat on boom. In these sails the luff 
must be set up very taut to keep them flat, so the tack and 
halliard gear must be strong. 

_ On each batten a short line (0), called a parrel, is made fast: 
just forward of the mast, fastening with a togele to an eye 
(p) on the batten abaft the mast, allowing such play as is 
necessary in lowering sail or reefing. These parrels confine 
the sail to the mast, keeping it flatter, and distributing its 
weight more uniformly over the entire length of the mast, 
thus easing the strain on the masthead. 

. A topping lift is usually fitted, being in two parts, one on 
each side of the sail. The lower ends are ‘‘crowsfeet,” as 
shown, the main Hines leading through a block at the mast 
head, and uniting in one part, which leads through a block 
at the deck and to a cleat. 

Another line, ¢, called a jackstay, is made fast to the mast- 
head, Jeads down outside of the sail, and is made fast to the 
mast just above the boom, or it may be led through a thim- 
ble on the boom toa cleat. Its purpose is to hold up the 
fore end of the boom in reefing and lowering sail. A down- 
haul is also rigged to gather in the sail quickly, especially in 
case of an upset. It is made fast to the yard near the eye, i, 
and leads through a screweye or block on deck. The main 
sheet is made fast to a span, or for a large sail a single block 
travels on the span, and the sheet is rove through it, one end 
of the latter having an eye in it. When running free, the 
entire length of sheet is used, the eye bringing up in the 
block and preventing it unreeving, but when closehauled the 
eye is hooked over a cleat on the afterdeck, and the sheet is 
used double, giving a greater purchase and taking in the slack. 

For racing with very large sails, backstays are some- 
times necessary, leading from the masthead to the deck 
on each side, one being slacked off, and the other set up, in 
jibing. When not in use, the slack is taken up by a rubber 
band. Inrigging the mizzen, the jackstay and backstay are 
omitted, and the topping lift is a standing one, made fast to 
masthead and boom, the sheet being single. 

The following method of handling a balance lugsail, writ- 
ten by My. E. B. Tredwen, and published in the London Feld 
some time since, refers both to the large racing sails, and toa 
cruising rig also: ‘‘The difficulty which is experienced by 
many canoeists, appears to arise from the needless labor of 
taking off the sail every time the canoe is housed. I have 
always found it best to keep a mast for each sail, a cruising 
mast and a racing mast, and the respective sails are never 
taken off their masts except for washing or repairing. Simi- 
larly the mast which has been last used on the canoe is 
always put away with the canoe, either unstepping it, and 
laying it on deck, or lowering it (Gf a lowering mast be used) 
and letting it lie with a lashing to keep it in place, 

If, however, the canoe must be left in the open, it is neces- 
sary to remove the mast and sail, which is very easily done. 
Having finished sailing and come alongside the boat house, 
the topping lift is let go and the after end of the boom comes 
on deck; then the tack must be slacked, or if the tack is a 
fixture, the jackstay must be slacked a few inches. The 
reeflines should next be gathered together, and stowed into 
a fold of the sail, the halliard and hauling part of the top- 
ping lift, similarly stowed in a fold on the opposite side of 
the sail, and the main sheet cast three or four times around 
all, 

All the lines leading to the masthead (topping lift, halliards, 
etc.) should then be gathered to the mast about two feet 
above deck and a tyer put around. The after end of the 
sail can now be brought up to the mast and tied there, and 
the whole let run into a long bag and stowed away in the 
boat house. 

When next going out for a sail, the mast is stepped, the 


tie of the boom end to the mast let go, and the sail brought 


down to the deck, the mainsheet cleared from around the 
sail, the topping lift set up, and the reeflines allowed to lie 
in the fore end of the well, The jackstay being set up, 
sail may be hoisted at once. The trouble when under way 
of reeving two reeflines through two screweyes, and knot- 
ting the ends for the sake of keeping them in their places, 
appears to be a detail scarcely worth discussion. 

lf the mast and sail are not taken off the boat at the end 
of the sail, there is not even the trouble of untying the knots 
in the ends of the limes. When my canoe sails have not 
been put away by a stranger, I can always get under sail in 
five minutes. 

Ina cruising sail there is ne necessity for the tack to lead 
along the deck, or even along the boom. J have always 
cruised with a fixed tack about 6in. Jong, made fast to the 
lug of a triple pulley on the mast for the reefing gear to lead 
through. = 

The only occasion on which the tack need be started is in 
racing, when the wind is very light and the canoe is sailing 
between high banks. The tack may then be eased up until 
the yard is hoisted chock ablock, so as to get the sail as high 
as possible; at all other times a standing tack will do with- 
out any part on deck.” 


THE LOG BOOK. 


VII.—_CALOOSAHATCHEE RIVER AND LAKE OKEECHOBEE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

My last was written from Dredge No. 1, at the headwaters of the 
Caloosahatchee River, and 1 believe I promised you some items on 
arrival at Kissimee, I cannot keep my promise, for we did not go to 
Kissimee. But we did go to Okeechobee, and found it quite a pond, 
also that it would kick up the biggest sea on the least provocation of 
apy pond we had ever seen. 

On leaving Fort Thompson at the headwaters, we passed through 
a series of lakes connected by canals. First came Lake Flirt, quite 
a lake, but so filled with lily pads and grass as to look more like a 
meadow. Some seven or eight miles of canal and river alternately, 
and we came to Bonnet Lake —another meadow under water—more 
canal, and we ran into Hickopochee (Little Water). Hickopochee ts 
nearly cireular, and from three to four miles in diameter, Water 
quite deep. Bottom muddy. Caught some yery fine black bass, 

From Hickopochee a short canal takes us to Okeechobee (Great. 
Water). Reached the lake at sunseton the 14th of March. Turned 
out on the 15th and found a well developed norther on hand, Con- 
cluded we did not care about going to sea, so amused ourselves 
shooting ‘‘ ’gators.”’ Okeechobee and. vicinity must be the home of 
the alligator. I think we saw thousands. Blew hard all day; 16th 
and 17th ditto, but on the 18th we got away and ran across to mouth 
of Kissimee. I heard of a canoeist once who could not find the 


‘mouth of the Kissimee. Idon’t wonder now. 


After taking a good look at the mouth of the river, we decided to 
spend what time we had at our disposal on the lake, and return via 
Caloosahatchee. Sailed around the northern end of the lake as far as 
Chansey Bay, on the east shore. Stopped at the bay one day shoot- 
ing ‘gators, and then laid our course for Kissimee River again. 
Camped in the mouth of the river, and early next morning s 
the back track, reaching Dredge No. 1 at4 P, M., March 2% 
next morning and reached Fort Myers on the 25th. 

My companions left me at Myers, and I returned home alone, 
spending afew days in Charlotte Harbor. Okeechobeeis Great Water. 
No doubt of that, but if any one contemplates going there for a sport- 


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ing tri would say, don’t. Game is scarce, fish are scarcer, and 
ane boat that can aut into the lake would havea lively time with even 
a moderate breeze. : 

‘The Caloosahatchee, howevor, abounds in deer and turkey, and the 
scenery is Soueear banks are high, with generally a heayy growth 
of cabbage palmetto: in many instances the pines came to the river, 
and ere aa po) live oak are plenty. The fishing is noth- 
ing to brag of. 

Tn Charlotte Harbor there are both shooting and fishing enough to 
satisfy the most fastidious, with fine oysters in abundance. Clear 
water, blue skies, beautiful green islands, and, in fact, everything fo 
make a eruise enjoyable. TARPON. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


VIT.—WISCONSIN RIVERS. 


H. G,, Cleveland, asks for information as to Wisconsin rivers 
e and maps of the same. 


CANOEING IN BUFFALO.—In the small boat line we have the 
usual number of clinker boats being built, and one or two experiments. 
Among the latter are two lapstreak boats 15ft, “4dft., with center- 
hoards and decks, built by Geo. Moon, who is anxious to build a boat 
that will ‘get away’’ from the 15ft.s8in. Joyner, owned here, A 
canvas canoe is on the stocks, being built from lines furnished by 
Capt. Kendall, and promises to be a flyer if lines and sail area, count. 
Sheis 15ft.x36in., and will have iron on her keel, being intended for 
lake service. A Pearl is being talked of by one of our younger boat- 
ing men, and we have a Racine St. Paul and a Rushton Stella Maris, 
so it begins to look as though we would muster a fair number of 
canoes this summer, We have no club, but soon as we get four or 
five active members we will organize. Of course there must be three 
officers, and we want a private to boss. With our waters we should 
have a large fleet of canoes, but the pioneer was put on the river last 
summer.— CABALLERO. 

THE CHOCKSETT C. C,—This club was recently formed at West 
Sterling, Mass. with E. A. Coolidge as Commodore, BE. W. Sawyer, 
Treasurer, and H. Coolidge, Secretary. 


AFLOAT AGAIN.—“Nessmuk” writes us on April 18; “My new 
canoe, Bucktail, is here, and is simply the most perfect cedar canoe 
I have ever seen. Not very light, 24lbs., staunch, serviceable, 
eapable; finished like an Elgin watch; intended for a river cruise 
down the Susquehanna River. She will be heard from.” 


PERSONAL .—Messrs. Longworth and Lucien Wulsin, of Cincin- 
nati, were in New York last weck, the former sailing for Europe. 
Mr. Gibson, of Albany, was also in New York for a few days. 


THE NEWBURGH CAMP.—We have received from Mr. Smith some * 
photographs of the camp ground, showing the beach and inside of 
the old earthworks. 


LEAKS IN BIRCH BARK CANORS.—Can any of our readers in- 
ate us as to what is used to stop leaks in a bireh bark, and how ap- 
plied? 


UMPHREYS 


OMEOPATHC™ Ae 


VE TERINA FICS 


FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES OF 
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs & Poultry. 


For Twenty Years Humphreys’ Veterinary 
Specifics have been used by Farmers, Stock- 
breeders, Horse &.B.,'Travel’g Hippodromes 
Menageries and others with perfect success. 


LIST OF SPECIFICS. 
A.A. Cures Fevers and Inflammation, Milk 
Hever, Spinal Meningitis, Hog Cholera, 
8.8. Cures Founder, Spavin, Stiffness, 
}.C, Cures Distemper, Nasal Discharges, 
B.D, Cures Bots or Grubs, Worms, - - - 
E.E. Cures Cough, Heaves, Pneumonia, 
F.F. Cures Colic or Gripes, Bellyache, 
.G. Prevents Abortion, 
H.H, Cures all Urinary Diseases,- - - - 
L.1, Cures Eruptive Diseases, Mange, &c. 
J.J. Cures all Diseases of Digestion, -_- 
Veterinary Case (black walnut) with Vet- 
értinary Manual (sp pp.), 10 bottles of 
Medicine, and Me icator, 
edicator,- - ----+---7 7+: - 


{These Veterinary Cases are sent free to any 
address on receipt of the price, or any order for 
Veterinary Medicine to the amount of $5 or more. 


Humphrey’s Veterinary Mannal (330 pp.)sent 
free by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents. 
&}-Pamphlets sent free on application. 


HOMPUREYS HOMEOPATHIC MED.CO. 
109 Fulton Street. New York. 


center, 


COLORED BY HAND BY 


Standard American Black Bass and Lake Flies, 


WAKEMAN HOLBERTON., 


Size 20x24 inches, containing 40 named varieties of Black Bass and Lake 
Flies, with an engraving of a Black Bass (also colored by hand) in the 


SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF PRICE, 


$5 00 


Standard Trout E*lies. 


A companion to the above, containing 65 named flies and an engraving of a 
Brook Trout, all colored by hand, 


3 50 


SENT BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. 


ds.9g ABBE YW & IMBRIE, 


Manutacturers of every description of 


Eine Fishing TWackie, 
48 & 50 MAIDEN LANE, AND 383 & 35 LIBERTY STREET. NEW YORK. 


SILK WORM GUT. 


EF. LATASA, 85 Broadway, N. Y., 


alls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 

Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 

Gut to Bxtra Fine. Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to fine, $5.00, 
For price list address 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, N. Y. 


Fishing Tackle. ‘Harviso’s Celebrated ‘Fish Hook 


Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- 
ficial Baits 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
haying spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
appreach ours, which are to be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 

Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditeh, England. __ 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 

| description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


/ SOMETHING NEW. 


APPLETON GLITCH, Sportsman's Fishing or Camping Tents 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
WITH AWNING, 


Flies for all Waters. 


Special patterns tied to order. 


EXCELSIOR BAIT PAIL. 
(Patented). The Fisherman’s Friend. 


There is an inside 
pail which can be re- 
moved and placed in 
the water the same as 
a “fish car,” thus 
keeping the bait alive 
for an indefinite time. 
|| The pan which fits m 
the inside pail can be 
raised and lowered, 
thus affording an easy 
selection of bait with- 
out wetting the hand. 
The bait is kept alive 
during transportation 
(the critical time) by 
he continuous flow- 


And if desired, a portable curtain to close tent at 
night, orin storms. These tents are made of best 
waterproof goods, rendered mildew-proof at slight 
extra cost. Also tents of all kinds, flags, banners, 
etc, Yacht and boat sails. Send for illustrated 
circular, Address S. HEMMENWAY, 60 South 
street, Factory, 39 South street, New York City. 


Hornbeam Rods 


hrough the perfora- 
tions, thus causing a 
never failing supply of 
fresh air. For sale by 

= all dealers, or will be 
sent on receipt of be 8 Quarts, $2.50 each; 12 
ee $3.25 each. Manufactured only by DE LA 

ERGNE & CO., 176 Chambers street, New York. 


NEW. 
A Splendid Doe Whistle, 
Water-Tight Match Box, 


Reliable Compass 


OCOMBINED. 


Nickel-plated metal. Sold by dealers in Sp 
men’s goods, or sent by mail on receipt of price 


— 


WILBUR & CO., Box 2,832, N. Y. P. 0, 


A SPECIALTY. 


W. HUNTINGTON, 


WILTON, CONN., 


Makes a specialty of the manufacture of FINE 
HAND-MADE RODS of Hornbeam for fly-fishing. 
Every fly-fisher should have one of these rods, for 
whatever preference he may have these are the 
only thoroughly rehable rods, secure against break- 
age and capable of real hard usage. With one of 
these rods a spqrtsman may venture into the woods 
for aseason and take no other rod, and be fairly 
sure of returning with it in serviceable condition. 
As made from wood of my own cutting and season- 
| ing, they are powerful, easy in action and full of 
endurance, For circular send to WALLACE 
HUNTINGTON as above. 


Allen's New Bow-Facing Oars. 


For sale by the trade, and by F, A. ALLEN, 
Monmouth, i, 


EE 


SAS. KF. MARSTERS, 
25 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Fine Fishine Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


__Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75£t., $1.00; 120ft., $1.95; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; B00ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600fb., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts. extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 80yds., 75 cts,; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra, Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O’Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
package. Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 
Twisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 ets. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bags 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft. long, $1.50 to $10.00. Aiso forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishiv 
pare les of hooks, leaders, etc., sent by mail on receipt of price in money orstamp, Send stamp . 
eatalogue. 


Established 20 years. Open Evenings. J. F'. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 
rr S IW © & ET’ ss 
Patent Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 
KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


_ These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, Cost 
only about half as much. _ Weight less than paper shells, They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shelis. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and erimpers 
not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER & GO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


First International Clay Pigeon Tournament 


OVER 35,000 IN PRIZES AND SWEEPSTAKES, 


UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 


LIGOWSKY CLAY PIGEON CoO. 


Of Cincinnati, Ohio. ; 
A Five Day Programme, to be held at Chicago, Dlinois, May 27 to 31, 1884. 
PRINCIPAL CONTEST:—INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH. 


CONDITIONS: 
_ Team shooting (6 to a team); 10 single birds, 18yds. rise; 5 double birds, 15yds. rise 
Ligowsky Tournament Rules to govern (excepting: use of single barrel oaly allowed). Five 
traps screened Special prize donated by the Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Company:—'r'o the 
Winning team, $750.00 guaranteed; to the best individual store, 
$250.00 Diamond Badge, cost guaranteed. Entrance fee, $25.00 per team. En- 
trance fees and gate money, less cost of birds, grounds and advertising, to be distributed as 
Second, Thira, Fourth and Fifth Team Prizes—40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. A series ot ‘‘Sweep- 
stakes” will be interspersed with and follow the preceding, 
Headquarters in Chicago, Arrangements will be made for reduced railroad rates and 
hotel charges. 
_ Clubs should enter at once by remitting $1.00 to the undersigned. Choice as to time in 
being called to the score will be allowed to clubs in the orderin which they enter. Balance 
of entrance money payable on the grounds at Chicago, on first day of shoot, to the General 
Manager aud representative of the Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Company. Clubs entering must 
be known as regularly organized Gun Clubs at least two months previous to this tournament; 
members of entered teams must be in goud standing, the same length of time, endorsed by 
the president and secretary of the respective Clubs. Copies of the rules, details, ete., can be 
obtained on applying to the gowsky Clay Pigeon Company, to whom all communications 
on the subject should be addics-ad. Further detailed list of matches, prizes, donors, ete., 
will be subsequently announced, together with exact date, grounds, ete. (Signed) 


THE LIGOWSKY CLAY PIGEON CcoO., ; 
(P. O. Box 1,292). Office, No, 68 W. Third Street. Cincinnati, Ohio. 


TARGET BALLS AND BALL PIGEOXS. 


New and Superior to all others. 


venga Sample barrel of the New Ball and a handsome silver 
LU Co badge sent to any address for $3.00. The Moyer ‘Ball 
=a Pigeon’ and trap will be ready about April 15, “Trap, $14; 

ew Pizeons, $18 per M. Any club desiring to test the new ball 
thoroughly we will send 1000 for $5, after which the regular 
price will be inflexible at $9 per M. Card’s latest ball trap, 
the only one we guarantee and recommend, and 1000 balls for 
$14, The trap in exchange for your old ball trap and $6.50, 


TARGET BALL AND BALL PIGEON CO., Lockport, N, ¥, 


August 1883. 


Send for circular, 


278 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 1, 1884, 


STORM-DEFYING WINDMILL. 


is 


5) - — 
bor pumping water for rural residences, toun- 

tains and fish ponds. A. J. COR it 

street, New York City. Fie at eg ake 


PHOTOGRAPHIC OUTFITS 


FOR YACHTS, CANOES OR WHEELS. 


Instantaneous pictures of HORSES, DOGS AND 
OTHER ANIMALS, All Grades. Cheap, Medium 
and High Prices. MONROE DRY PLATES, 

Sold by 


WILLIAM T, GREGG, 


apl7,4t ?7 Fulton street, New York, 


« Business Opportunity. 


A resident of Montana, having one of the best 
locations in the Territory for a sheep ranch, on 
which he has made many improyements in the way 
of houses, barns, sheds and corrals, desires to ar- 
range with some Eastern capitalist for taking a 
herd of sheep on shares. References given and 
roquired. Address J. W. SCHULTZ, care Con, 
Jos. Kipp, Fort Benton, Montana. may ltt 


VOPIES WANTED.—SEPT, 25, 1879; MARCH 18 
and 25, 1880. Weare short of these issues and 
would be obligedif any of our readers haying one 
or all of thesé numbers that they do not want will 
send to Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 389 Park Row, 
New York City. jan24 tf 


WANTED ALIVE. 


Ail kinds of native birds and animals; also tame 
rabbits, Price must below. CHAS. I; GOODALE, 
Taxidermist, 98 Sudbury st., Boston. feb28,38mo 


E WANT A FEW FIRST-CLASS LIGHT 

bont builders. Steady work guaranteed the 
whole year. Address POWELL & DOUGLAS, 
Waukegan, Il. mech27,6t 


Se CORRESPOND WITH SOME 
one in Texas or Wyoming Territory that has 
a catile ranch and wishes a partner, or some one 
that wishes to go into the business of cattle rais- 
ing, Address R. §.. Lock Box 185, Holyoke, Mass. 
may1,2b 


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ANGLERS, ATTENTION. 


Kilbourne’s Game Fishes of America 


(@0 Plates), 

With a Letter Press by Prof.G. Browne Goode, 
A new copy of this superb work for gale, 
Price, $40.00, 

Address Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 

39 Park Row, New York. 


Salmon Fishing For Lease. 


Parties desiring one of the best chances seldom 
offered for salmon fly-fishing in British waters for 
three or four rods, including use of finely situated 
furnished club house, only twentyfour hours’ ride 
from Boston, will address Box 1,370, Boston P, O. 
tor particulars. apl10,5t 


SALMON FISHING 


IN CANADA. 


Wor Sale—The undivided half of one of the best 
salmon riyersin Canada, Particulars on applica- 
tion to W. B. HUNTER & CO., 182 & 134 Front st., 
New York. apl7,5t 


Just Adapted to he Let Loose. 


A lot of very fine English pheasants for sale, 
Call on or address, CHAS. RHICHE & BRO., 55 
Chatham street, New York City. ap?4,26 


Roe SALE.—-REMINGION IMPROVED LONG- 
range Creedinoor rifle (Hepburn’s Patent) $125 
gerade; 100 shells, 30 loaded. Price $55. Acidress 
¥. W. PERKINS, 63 Summer st., Boston, Mass, 
mayl,1t 


OR SALE.—ONE AMERICAN TRAVELING 
K canoe, buut to order Jast season vy H. M. 
Sprague. Good as new. Address C,, West Sterling, 
Mass. mayl,2b 


SALMON POOLS. 


For lease this season, two pools on Restigouche 
River. Apply to Lock Box 226, Savannah, Sim at 
mich6, 


A Leading London Phys 
ician establishes nam 
Officein New York 
_ forthe Cure of 
EPILEPTIC FITS. 
From Am, Journal of Medicine, 


Dr, Ab, Meserole (ate of London), who makes aspecial 
of Epilepsy, has without doubt treated and cured mre mete 
than any other living physician. His success has simply been 
astonishing; we haye heard of cases of over 20 years’ stand- 
ing successfully cured by him, He has published a workon 
this disease, which he sends with a large bottle of his won- 
derful cure free to any sufferer who may send their express 
and P.®, Address. We advise any one wishing a cure to ad- 
dress Dr, AB, MESEROLE, No. 96 John St., New York. 


a 
A Skin of Beanty is a joy Forever. 
e DE T. FELIX GOURAUD’S 


Oriental Cream, or Magical Beautifier 


Removes Tan, 
Pimples, Freck- 
les, Moth Patches 
and every blem- 
ish on beauty, 
d defies detec: 
Y tion, It has stood 

the test of thirty 
years, and it is 
so harmless we 
taste it to be sure 
the preparation 
is properly 
made, Accept 
no counterfeit of 
similar name, 
The distinguish- 
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Skin. 


PURIFIES 
Beautifies th 


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harmful of all the skin preparations.” One bottle 
will last six months, using it every day. Also Pon- 
dre Subtile removes superfluous hair withoutinjury 
to the skin. 
Mur. M, B. T. GOURAUD, Sole Proprietor, 
48 Bond street, N. Y. 

For sale by all Druggists and Fancy Goods deal- 
ers thronghout the U.S,, Canadas and Europe. Also 
found in N. Y. City, at R. H. Macy’s, Stern’s, 
Bhrich’s, Ridley’s, and other Fancy Goods Dealers. 
"Beware of base imitations. $1,000 reward for 
arrest and proof of any one selling the same, 


RIPHOTOGRAPHY MADE EASY. 


y 
d 


The Tropicals (dry 
succesfully in warm 
e 


plates) are the onl 


ones that can be use 
eather without ice. 


Remember the negatives may all be developed on 
your return home. 

The lightest, most complete and practical of 
Amateur Equipments. Price $10 and upward. E. 
& H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 591 Broadway, N. Y. 
Send for catalogue. Book of instructions free, 
Forty years established in this line of business. 


THE COLLENDER BILLIARD TABLES 


Manufactured only by the 


W, COLLENDER 


i= 
WAREROOMS: 
768 Broadway, New York, 
84 and 86 State Street, Chicago. 
17 South Fifth Street, St. Louis. 
118 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 

367 West Baltimore §t., Baltimore. 
Indorsed by all the leading players, and awarded 
the highest prizes at every exposition where ex- 


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BILLIARD AND 10-PIN BALLS 
CLOTH, CHECKS, 
Cues, Cue Chessmen, 
Tips, ‘Dice, Keno, 
OHALK, Etc., aie DOMINOES. 


PLAYING CARDS, Ete, 


Ivory, Shell, and Pearl Fancy Goods, 
TOILET SETS, CANES, FANS, Ete. 


Repairing done, Ten-Pin Alleys built and estimates 
furnished. 


F, GROTE & CO,, 114 E. 14th st. N.Y. 


eyes 


fles, 
= Ete, 
( Address —_ 
arge Tl. Great Western 
gue free, ~ @unWorka, Pittsburgh,P 
Gunmakers’ Receipt Book and Workshop 
Companion, 


This work contains many invaluable receipts and 
much yaluable information for Gunsmiths and 
Mechanics in general. It was written by a practi- 
cal mechanic, and tells the processes in plain words. 
Hivery artisan, inventor, farmer, mechanic and 
tradesman should haveacopy. Browning, stain- 
ing, varnishing, tempering, 
case-hardening, soldering, tinning, brazing, plat- 
ing; laquering, etc., and a great many new and 
original processes never before put in print. 


The Book is Worth its Weight in Gold. 
PRICE, 75 CENTS, POSTPAID, 
For sale only by Jd. H. JOHNSTON, Great West- 


‘ern Gun Works, Pittsburgh, Pa. 


Gunsmiths and Dealers should send for our Gun- 
makers’ Material list. 
ee el 


A NEW DISCOVERY! 


THE NIAGARA TARGET BALL, 


Patented December 18th, 1883. 
COAL BLACK AND BREAKS LIKE GLASS. 


Impossible for shot to penetrate this ball without 
having it fly to pieces; one pellet of shot will break 
it; sure test of shooters’ skill; no unaccountable 
misses. Clubs will not use any other target ball 
after giving these a fair trial, Ask your dealer for 
them, Write for circulars to NIAGARA TAR- 
GET BALL CO., Niagara Falls, N. ¥. 


anneaiing, blueing, ’ 


PRICE, $75 TO S250. 


Send for Illustrated Catalogue. ras 


OUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 


This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 lbs. weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate, 


ia. C. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N.wWY. 


The Maynard Rifles and Shot Guns. 


NEW OFF-HAND 


PRICES REDUCED. 


TARGET RIFLE, MODEL OF 1881. 


WITH PISTOL GRIP STOCK, TIF STOCK, 
AND SWISS BUTT PLATE, 

For Hunting and Target Practice at all ranges, 

the “MAYNARD” more completely supplies 


the wants of Hunters and Sportsmen generally, than any other Rifie 
in the world, as many barrels can be usedon one stock; and for accuracy, con- 
venience, durability and safety, is notexcelled, Send for Tlustrated Catalogue 
describing the new attachment for using rim and centre-fire ammunition. 


MASS. ARMS COMPANY, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman’s Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


CATING SHOOTIN G” 
Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 


Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practica! hints upon wing shooting; 


directions for hunting snipes, woodcocks, 


rufied grouse and quails. 
Tilustrated: Bound in cloth, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 


50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00. 


T. G. DAVEY, Publisher, London, Ont. 


The English “ Fishing Gazette.” 


Devoted to angling, river, lake and sea fishing, and 
fisheul 


ure. 
Every Friday, 16 pages, folio, price 2d. 
Volume VI. commenced with the number for 
January 7, 1882. 
Eprror—Rk. B. MARSTON 


Free by post for one year for 12s, 6d, (say $3.20) to 
any address in the United States, _ 

Sent direct from the office for any portion of a 

ear atthe above rate. U.S. ose? stamps. can 

© remitted, or money order payable to Sampson, 
Low, Marston & Co., the proprietors. 

Contains special articles on all fresh and salt 
water fish and fishing; reports of the state of the 
rivers; reports from angling clubs; fishculture and 
natural history; where to fish; angling notes and 
ee angling exchange column; notices of 

hing tackle, books, &c., and other features. 

A copy of the current number can be had 
free by sending six cents in stamps to R. B, Mars- 
ton, the FIS: G GAZETTE office, 12 and 13, 
Fetter-lane, London. - 

The FISHING GAZETTE circulates extensively 
among anglers and country gentlemen in all parts 
of the Empire. 


“There is a large public interestin fishing. . . 
An excellent class organ.’’— World. 

“One of the best authorities on these and kindred 
subjects.’’—Truth. J 

“A brighter and gayer little paper is not pub- 
ptt a ON 

The FISHING GAZETTE is quoted by the Times 
and all the best papers, 


One of the best mediums for 
ADVERTISEMENTS 


of fishing tackle makers, fishculturists, hotels ana 
fishing quarters, whisky, waterproof fishing goods, 
cigars and tobacco, books of angling, and all othur 
requirements of anglers; also for all general adver- 
tisements addressed to a well-to-do class in all parts 
of the country and abroad, 

Office—12 and 18, Fe**+er-lane London 


EVERY PERSON WHO INTENDS VISITING 


The Sporting Wilds of Maine 


Needs one of the following books. 


EASTWARD, HO! or Adventures at Range- 
ley Lakes. Handsomely bound im cloth, 376 
pages; 5illustrations. By mail, $1.50. 


FARRAR’S Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake, 
and the North Maine Wilderness, a valuable 
companion for the Sportsman Tourist, Bound in 
Cloth. By mail, 60 cents. 


MOOSEHEAD LAKE and the North Maine 
Wilderness Illustrated. The only complete 
and comprehensive Guide Book to Northern 
Maine. 266 pagesandlargemap. By mail, 50 cts. 


CAMP LIFE in the Wilderness. Second edition 
now ready. This story treats of ‘‘camp life” in- 
doors and out, is amusing, instructive and inter- 
esting: 224 pages, 12 ills. By mail, 30 cents. 

FARRAR’S Pocket Map of the Androsco 
Lakes Region, including the head waters of the 
Connecticut River, Connecticut and Parmachenee 
Lakes, ete. Cloth bound. By mail, 50 cents. 


Richardson and Raugley Lakes Illustrated. 
A thorough and complete guide to the Andros- 
coggin Lakes region. 320 pages, 60 ills., and a 
large map. By mail,50cents. CHARLES A. J. 


k, Jamaiva Plains, Mass, 


FARRA 
m GOOD,NEWS 
GREATAMERICAN 10 LA IES! 


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Greatest inducements ever of- 
fered, Now's your time to get up 
orders for our celebruted Teas 
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fil Gold Band or Moss Rose China 
Ten Set, oe Handsome Decorated 

Rose Dinner Set, or Go! a 
Soe etaaa roar Set For fnll particulars address 
HE GREAT AMERIC 


A’ = AN TEA CO, 
dp. O, Box 28% sland 33 Vesey St, New York, 


THE 


CoMPANY 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman’ 
Dining Koom ever made. 
Natural ‘Dead Game™* under glass, and no more 
bulky than an ordinary picture. 
Will send per express C. O, D, subject to approval, 
on receipt of express charges, 
Send for photograph and prices. 


Hi. E., CHUBB, Taxidermist, 
285 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, 0. 


Naturalists’ Supply Depot. 
Artificial Glass Eyes. 


TAXIDERMISTS. 


Branexw Orrice, 409 Washington st., Boston, 


ELLIS & WEBSTER, Pawtucket, R. I. 


OLD RELIABLE STOVER 


(IMPROVED.) 


We are the Sole Owners 
and Manufacturers of the = 
Stover Pumping Windmills « 

for Railroads, Villages, Suburban 
houses. Lawns, Dairies, Brick Yards, 
Draining, Inrigating, etc,. as well as 
Geared Windmills of all sizes, for 
running Grinders, Shellers, Says, etc. 
J. D. BROWER, 22 College Pilate, N.Y. 
City, Agent for Pennsylvania, N. Y. and N. J. 


Freeport Machine Oo., Freeport, Hl., U.S. A. 


R. SHEPHERD, 
No. 112 West 14th st., west of 
Sixth ave., N. Y, 
Patentee and Manufacturer 


or 
ADJUSTABLE 

FOLDING CHAIRS. 

Also importer and manu- 
facturer of Brass and Iron 
= Bedsteads. Orders by mail 

= attended to promptly. Goods 
shipped G.0.D. Send stamp 
for illustrated eireular, 


“The Otis Parlor Mantle and other Folding Beds. 


Send a 2-Cent Stamp 


to pay postage on a handsome Lithographed Ad- 


yertising Razor. Address 
THE CLINTON WIG Co., 
20 Vesey street, New York. 


a a | 
Pittsfield, Mass. Cuts Free: 
Full-Length COT, in this case;. 


$10. LOUNGE, in this ease, $8:. 
Sold everywhere by the Trade. 


Brass-Shell Swage. 


Youcan swage ashell to its original size in one- 
minute. Price $1. No more tight shells. No more 
profanity. For sale by the trade, and by PF. A, 
ALLEN, Monmouth, Ml. 


| Fine Fishing Rods. 


Snakewood, Lancewood, Greenheart, Bethabara 
ete, The finest rods for the least money. Sen 
stamp for circular, H. M, EDWARDS, Hancock, 


Del, Co,, N. ¥, 
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winners in many classes are not announced until the last day 
of the show, and so are seen by only a small proportion of 
the visitors. Thus a great deal of the good that a dog show 
should do is lost. 

There are other matters that will bear reforming, to which 


special allusion need not now be made, but we hope another 


year to see the necessary changes made. 


INIQUITOUS MEASURES, 
ae game law tinkers, who turn up annually at Albany, 


have devised certain amendments to the present statute 
which will effectually nullify any force the law may have 


now. 

One amendment allows owners of land to trap birds on 
their own property -which means that the New York and 
Albany and Utica and Buffalo market stalls will be piled up 
with snared game. 


Another permits the sale of woodcock in nine counties, in- 
cluding New York county, in July—which means that the 


market refrigerators will be stuffed full of woodcock, killed 
out of season in other parts of the State. 


tried to foist on the sportsmen of this State some years ago, 


This is something 
like the “refrigerator amendment” which Mr. Abel Crook 


any part in the private correspondence which has been going 
on, that there is no better time to canvass the matter than 
during the present week, when every exhibitor of promi- 
nence is in attendance at the Westminster Kennel Club 
show. 

It has been objected that this work would naturally fall 
within the province of the National American Kennel Club, 
and that this body was originally organized for the purpose 
of filling in America the place occupied in England by the 
E. K. Club, This was undoubtedly the case, but these pur- 
poses have been so modified that the N. A. K. Club is inter- 
ested now only in pointers and setters, and, while holding 
each year successful field trials, gives no attention to the 
non-sporting classes, which now fill so large a proportion of 
the benches at our shows. It is but simple justice to state 
that the N. A. K. Club has done a great work for kennel 
matters in America, but it ‘has so far modified its original 
‘purposes that it has become a field trials club, and what 
breeders and exhibitors are now calling for is a club to eare 
for matters which do not fall within the province of a field 
trials club. 

If the time is ripe for any decided action in this matter, 
it will no doubt be taken hold of energetically and carried 


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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 
Eastern Wield Trials Derby. 
The Warwick Dog Show. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Rational Target Practice. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
CANOEING. 
Cleveland €, C. 
The Galley Fire. 

Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
The Chart Locker. 

The Susquehanna. 
Canoeing in Florida, 
Merrimac River Meet, 

Club Notes. 

Fun and Experience 

The Mohicans of Albany. 
YACHTING. 


EDITORIAL. 
Defects in Army Practice. 
Bench Show Judging. 
A Bench Show Association. 
Almost a Catastrophy, 
Mr. Lumberman Littlejohn, 
TIniquitous Measures. 

THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST, 
“Monty."’ 
Maas Joseph Verity’s Steam 

sat, 


NATURAL History. 
« Deer in the Adirondacks. 
Game Bac anp Gun. 
Upland Plover in Minnesota. 
American and Imported Guns. 
Southern Shooting Grounds. 
The Performance of Shotguns, 
Two-Eyed Shooting. = 
A Day with Snipe. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
Sz4 AND RIVER FISHING. 
Concerning Black Bass. 
Fly-Books, 
Fishing Afoot. 
New England Salmon and Trout 


New York Y. C 

Florinda’s Great Triumph. 
Estimating Displacement. 
Racing in England. 


Trap Season. 


Philadelphia Notes. Hardly Correct. 
FISHCULTURE, The Nice International. 
Fishways in Scotland. Ballast Whips Beam. 

THE KENNEL. Windward. 


The New York Bench Show. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, than is con- 


tained mm all other American publications put together. 


BENCH SHOW JUDGING. 


We regret to see that the practice of holding dog shows | 
extending over a period of four days still continues, as’ 


well asthat of dragging the judging along over the wholé 


time of the show. It is gencrally acknowledged that beth 
of these practices are wrong in principle, that. the dogs wouid 
suffer much less ina three-days’ exhibition than when con- 


fined for four, because the’ accumulated strain of confine- 
ment, excitement and bad air increases in geometricai ratio, 
and the poor beasts by the fourth day are either frantic or 
utterly worn out. It wasthe place of the Westminster Ken- 
nel Club to have inaugurated a reform in these particulars. 
The strongest and best equipped bench show association 
should have had the courage to break its way out of the old 
rut. The time was when the dog show was kept open for 


four days, in order to pay expenseg and to put a little balance 


into the pockets of those who took the risk of the expenses, 
but that time is past. 


be done to attract the public. This last is the reason for the 
long drawn out judging, 

Mr. Charles Lincoln’s utterly mistaken idea that the public 
desires to see the judging explains the survival of this ancient 
custom, which has long been obsolete in the country where 
dog shows were first held, and from which we have drawn 


most of our best dogs. No one but the exhibitors care a rap 


to see the judging. What the public care about is to know 
which aré the best dogs, and to be able to examine and 
admire them. The judging should, therefore, be all done on 
the first day of the show, and the catalogues marked, in 
order that the public, whom it is desired to instruct, may 
have an opportunity of seeing what the best dogs are, and 
learning why they are the best, As it is at present, ihe 


A third clause so hampers the investigation of suspected 
stores of contraband game that it practically puts beyond 


Yacht Building on the Delaware 


Early Opening of the Death- 


A dog show in New York is now 
sure of liberal patronage, and it is no longer necessary to treat 
it as if it were a peep show, which must remain open as 
long as any one would visit it, and at which everything must 


probability the detection of the offenders. 


These three moves are all in the direct interest of the 
market dealer, and, we understand, are engineered by the 
same individual who has been so notoriously engaged in 
working for the New York game dealers for several years 


past. 


The only salvation against the machinations of these 
selfish game law tinkers is a powerful State association of 
men who honestly desire the good of the sportsmen com- 


munity and will work to secure it. 


Is there any possibility of organizing such a society? It 
We have been shown 
to-day two snared quail from a wholesale poultry dealer’s 
refrigerator in this city, and the man who brought them in 
said he would -get thousands of the same sort, with wood- 


would have abundance of work to do. 


eock and ruffed grouse in the bargain. 


A BENCH SHOW ASSOCIATION. 
| correspondence and private conversation which 


we have had with many breeders and exhibitors of 


dogs, it is apparent that there is a strong desire on the part 
of a number of them for centralization in dog matters. Com- 
plaint is made, and very justly too, that dog shows are at 


present carried‘on in an aimless fashion, the managers of 


the show being responsible to no one body of men, which 
represents the kennel interests of the whole country, There 
are several large and wealthy clubs representing certain 
sections, which have done good work with the sporting dogs, 
and the two special clubs which have recently sprung up are 
doing a great deal for the breeds which they have taken in 
charge. Any one who will inspect the beagle and. spaniei 
classes at the show now in progress, will see how great is 
the increase in the interest taken in these breeds -within the 
last two or three years, 
has a good effect, but much is required, besides this special 
care for particular breeds, to put kennel matters in this coun- 
try on the same firm basis that they now have in England. 
A radical change in the methods under which our bench 
shows are now held is imperative. The old-fashioned rules 
require extensive modifications and additions, and some 
court of last appeal is required, before which all questions of 
importance may be brought. It should not be possible for 


{any irresponsible person or set of persons to hold bench 


shows, as has several times been done, fer speculative pur- 
poses. There should be some recognized authority which 
should have the power to approve or disapprove any show. 
Many other matters would come before such an association. 

It is evident that such a kennel club, covering the whole 
country and having on its membership roll the names of the 
recognized leaders among the exhibitors and breeders of the 
different varieties of dogs, would be a power in the land, 
and could work out the needed improvements in the methods 
at present followed. This seems to be the general sentiment. 
The question now is, howis such a kennel elub to be formed? 
There are reasons enough why something should be done, 
but it is not our province to call upon exhibitors to carry out 
their.own wishes; the project is one which is best left to de- 
velop itself in the hands of those most interested, until the 
columus of the Formsr anp StRwaw are necessary for its 
more complete establishment, ' f 


}. We would point out, however, to those who have taken 


All this effort is well expended and; 


MR. LUMBERMAN LITTLEJOAN. 


fl Vilas Lansing bill_in the New York Legislature, provides 

for the appointment of a forestry commission to under- 
take the intelligent care of the Adirondack forests. The 
bill, as it came from the Senate, is not all that an Adiron- 
dack measure should be, but is good so far as it goes. Now 
Mr, Littlejohn wants the Assembly to amend the bill in 
various ways, reducing the number of commissioners, and cut- 
ting down the appropriation. This move of Mr. Littlejohn 
is not for the benefit of the Adirondack forests; it is a 
deliberate, thereby disguised attempt to hamper legislation 
on the subject, and at this late day to preyent any measure 
at all from being enacted. It is, so far as the public can 
judge, a big scheme to ward off the day of judgment for the 
men who are wrecking the Adirondack woods. Mr, Little- 
john, in other words, is working in the interests of the lum- 
bermen, of whom he is one. His purpose is to look out for 
his own pocket at the expense of the public weal, If the 
members of the Albany Legislature care anything about. 
their constituents, they will repress the activity of Mr. Lum- 
berman Littlejohn and pass the Lansing bill, 


ALMOST A CATASTROPHE. 


(Nese steam yacht Norma was launched last Saturday from 

Poillon’s yard in Brooklyn and came near startling 
New York with a frightful accident, the lives of two hund- 
red people having been risked in a manner which calls for 
condemnation, The steamer was sent off the ways with her 
spars on end and no ballast inside, She had no sooner slid 
clear of the ways when she toppled over and rolled from side 
to side up to her hatches. Everything that could possibly in- 
sure a catastrophe, was done, and neither the builders, nor 
the skipper, nor the ‘‘designer” foresaw the fearful risk they 
were taking. It was a miracle that the yacht did not eap- 
size, and but for the fact that the righting arm of her stability 
couple reappeared, when the vessel was on her side, after yan- 
ishing at the outset, hundreds would have met a watery 
grave, Coming s4 300n on top of the Daphne disaster abroad, 
the incompetev« 7 or callousness exhibited in this case calls 
for the severest censure, in the hope that the insane advertis- 
ing dodge of herding a crowd aboard a vessel about to be 
launched will be done away with in the future by law or thé. 
good sense of the people in charge. The Norma has alread y 
been described in these columns. 


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Dyy witr Mmasures.—Mr. Nathan Curtis and a con- 
frére ~ “ned Freeman were pursuing the gentle art of angling 
with usnamite cartridges in Lake Champlain last Saturday, 
When one of the infernal engines of destruction went off 
prematurely, blew the boat sky high, and deprived Mr. 
Curtis of one of his arms. Thus it appears that a dynamite 
cartridge is more powerful than a game constable. 


_ Books anp PicrurEs.—We are prepared to supply 
sportsmen’s books of every description. Our facilities are 
such that we can promptly supply all orders for books, 
Our series of Fornst anp STREAM publications include 
“Woodcraft,” ‘Training vs. Breaking,” “Shore Birds,” 
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portraits of canine celebrities have been received with great 
favor; we still have a limited number of sets on hand, 


DEFECTS IN ARMY PRACTICE. 


fl ie system of target practice in the regular army has 

been tried long enough to show that there are many 
grave defects in it, It was a good system when it was 
started and has done good work, but this was irue simply 
because it came after a period when there was absolutely 
no provision for instructing the men of the regular forces 
in the handling and firing of the ritles provided for them, 
Bad as it is now found to be, the system was capable of 
making a vast improvement upon entire ignorance, and the 
army of 1884, judged from a marksman’s standpoint, is an 
entirely different thing from the army of a dozen years ago. 

What some of the faults are, which haye been shown to 
exist in the present system, will be found set forth in the in- 
teresting letter of our correspondert ‘‘C, D.” He writes 
from an army post and knows accurately the entire field of 
facts covered in his narrative. The present scheme, it-would 
appear, is in danger of being submerged and rendered next 
to useless by a flood of red tape, so that when the officer has 
completed the elaborate system of returns and has filled up 
all the blanks which an active printing press turns out, there 
is little time left for him to devote to the instruction of his 
men, 

The fundamental error seems to be that too much depend- 
‘ence is placed on mere emulation. This in itself is a capital 
thing, It secms to be inseparable from rifle practice, 
whether it be the civilian contest, or by men in the ranks. 
But in the army, with its great chain of scattered posts and 
companies, oftimes of the same regiment, located a thousand 
miles apart on garrison or frontier duty, a system of reports 
seems necessary. Each company is required to do a certain 
amount of ball practice, and as far as can be done by a rigid 
scale of rules, each man of the army is placed on exactly the 
same footing. Certain grades are established and certain 
percentages fixed to entitle the marker to particular grades 
in the order of rifle shooting merit, and just here comes in 
the inherent weakness of the system and a pretty exhibition 
made of the jugglery of which figures are capable. The 
company or post commander sets his wits to work in order 
to “heat the punch,” as the railroader would say. There is 
an effort to make the best showing on paper, whether that 
showing really represents the doings and real merit of the 
men or not. There is no absolute dishonesty; but there are 
arrangement of the results which, cleverly done, is apt to 
bring out very misleading conclusions. 

There needs to be, over and beyond these routine reports, 
some sort of supplementary examination of the men which 
should show their ability as shots in an entirely different 
manner from that conveyed through the present filling up of 
blanks. A sharp visiting inspector could, in a single after- 
noon, put a company through a course of individual, file and 
yollev firing, and make s report thereon, which, in connection 
With the data afforded by the reports now made, would en- 
‘able a very accurate estimate to be formed of the real shoot- 
ing ability of the men, considered as skirmishers or line-of- 
patile men in actual warfare. 

Another point upon which stress is properly placed is the 
seemingly absurd and wasteful system of having each 
man of the army go over each year the eutire course of 
rifle instruction. The theory is, that on 4 certain date of 
each year the entire army is considered as a great squad of 
recruits and put through a certain order of scores. It mat- 
ters not whether any particular man has shown exceptional 
skill as a marksman, and has for years held his place as a 
sharpshooter, he swings back to his place as a recruit, and, 
of course, easily passes through the routine of qualification. 
There should be some system of post-graduate marksmanship, 
by which any particular man in the ranks can go on to more 
difficult feats of shooting, in place of the present ever- 

_slipping-backward method. 

We are glad to witness a disposition in various parts of 
the country to have friendly bouts before the butts between 
regular army and militia teams, or between the army and 
plain civilian marksmen. Thus far the general practice has 
been for the men in blue to get points from those who shoot 
for pleasure. The outsiders have experimented for pleasure, 
haye made improvements which have been adopted by the 
men under arms, and so a very steady progress has been kept 
up. With an army of so much leisure as ours, the inventive 
. faculties of both officers and men should be stimulated to 
the utmost. There is abundant room for changes, and radi- 
cal ones, too, in our whole scheme of small arms, but it will 
hardly come so long as the main effort is directed toward 
wriggling into a certain position on the annual roll of merit, 
and the men regarded as so many items in the account to be 
manipulated to the best advantage. | 


Tim WIMBLEDON Mrntinc.—The English papers devoted 
to the art of rifle shooting come to us with the programme 
for the Wimbledon meeting of July next, given in its usual 
very complete shape. The list of matches is a Jong one and 
the range of prizes large. There are many modifications 
upon the programmes of previous years, but inthe main the 
wants of the various classes of riflemen are well looked after, 
and there is a disposition to add prizes where the conditions 
of the match attract marksmen, and to take away competi- 
tions which seem to have outlived their usefulness. There is 
again of £1,200 in the aggregate prize list, and with its 
general attractiveness, there is no reason why a number of 
American markemen should not be found among the list of 
entries-and winners as well: aia ; 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Che Sportsman Couvist. 


: “MONTY.” 


Wyte combination of circumstances had led us, John 
and I, to take up our temporary abode in the deserted 
cabin on the southern slope of El Conquistador, it is not 
necessary, for the purposes of this sketch, to particularize. 
We had been there now about six weeks, and should prob- 
ably remain that much longer, The trail from Argentum to 
San Rafael ran down the main valley some four miles below 
us, and, there being neither game nor ‘‘mineral” as yet dis- 
covered, on that side of the mountain, no wandering hunter 
nor peripatetic prospector intruded his uawelcome presence 
upon us. Once a week one or the other of us sauntered 
down to the trail below and met the mail carrier from Argen- 
tum, received our share of his precious freight of letters and 
papers, had a few moments free and easy chat while he 
smoked his half-way pipe, and then climbed leisurely back 
to our solitude, With this exception we had not seen, or 
cared to see, a human face since the day we had turned our 
backs upon the mining camp we called, for the moment, 
home, But it was for that reason we had come, and we 
rather dreaded the day when that gad-tly of American life, 
called ‘‘business,” should sting us back to the smoke and 
the smelters, the riot and roar of Argentum. For the first 
time in many years John had leisure to indulge his yaga- 
bond instincts, to botanize and geologize, unharrassed by 
thoughts of sulphurets, gauge, pay dirt, dips or strikes; 
while I—well, those passages in my essay on ‘“Che Thingness 
of the Unconditioned, as differentiated from the Condition 
of Unthingness,” and which have most touched and thrilled 
the great thinkers of the present day, owe the larger part, if 
not all, of their incisive analysis, psychological sublety, and 
soul-stirring pathos to the hours spent on the grass in front 
of that old cabin at the head of the gulch on El Conquistador. 

As to who erected this cabin, his purpose in so doing, or 
why he abandoned it I know no more than you. We had 
heard dim rumors of it, searched for it and found it, and 
incontinently took possession thereof, It was comfortable, 
it was picturesque, it was home-like. It fitted as happily 
into its surroundings as though it had resulted fiom a slow 
process of evolution, or had arisen by a happy consentaneous 
thought of the brown spruce boles, who had whispered to 
each other, ‘‘Go to; let us doff our green crowns and huddle 
ourselves together, that we may form a shelter for the wan- 
dering brother poet, who some day will come hither to learn 
the music of our songs.” In front of the cabin, one huge 
spruce had thrown himself prone, as though to rest after 
long centuries of laborious uprightness, and it was there I 
first saw the subject cf this sketch. John was in his favorite 
lair under a huge pine that overhung the stream, watching 
for the hundredth time the antics of a water ouzel, and I was 
stretched lazily on one of the bunks in the cabin, when, 
through the open door 1 caught sight of a stranger sitting 
at ease upon the log. He had not yet seen me, and | had 
time for a protracted study ef him before his eyes met mine, 
He was in the prime of life, that is, neither old nor young, 
though his hair, brown in shade, showed in the sunlight 
faint siftings of gray. His eyes were the blackest and 
keenest 1 have ever seen, with a clear, straightforward gaze 
that somehow seemed to pierce all defenses of sham and 
custom, and read the inner man like an open book. His 
forehead was rather low and sloped downward to a shapely, 
slightly pointed nose, under which his black .moustache 
curved backward over a mouth whose thin lips parted 
slightly over white teeth in a half-expectant, half-contempla- 
tive way. His form was lithe and muscular, giving one the 
impression that he would be a bitter antagonist in a personal 
conflict. Hewas dressed in a suit of. some grayish-brown ma- 
terial, fitting closely and giving him a natty, jaunty appear- 
ance, contrasting strongly with the general baggy look of the 
ordinary San Juaner, clad in woolen shirt and canvas overalls, 

As he sat, carelessly contemplating the cabin, he seemed 
so alert, fearless and keenly alive in every nerve and fiber, 
so interfused with the strength of the rocks, the vigor of the 
pine trees, the dash and sparkle of the running brook; so 
in keeping with all the surroundings, so much a part and 
parcel of this wild life, that it never occurred to me to be 
surprised at his sudden appearance, or to do him the imper- 
tinence of attempting to act as host in a place where he was 
evidently far more at home than I could ever hope to be. 
He was so different from anything I had yet seen among 
the biped inhab-tants of that country that my heart instinc- 
tively warmed to him, and I think he read the feeling, as his 
eyes met mine, with a glance in which was neither surprise 
nor doubt, neither silly self-assertion nor loutish subser- 
viency, but a clear, straightforward gaze of modest equality, 
This was the beginning of our acquaintance, which grew 
and strengthened every day. He was so much a resultant 
of the hills and rocks, such a true ‘“‘montagnard” in every 
look and gesture, that I found myself unconsciously calling 
him by the half-playful, half-affectionate, diminutive 
“Monty,” a freedom which he did not resent, accepting the 
name as calmly as though it were his proper appellative. 
What his real name was I never thought to ask him, and he 
never volunteered the information. In regard to his past 
history, or his present business in this remote mountain 
yalley, he would furnish us no Jight whatever, To all our 
delicately-worded hints, as well as to more outspoken and 
direct questioning, he presented his buckler of impassive 
taciturnity, against which our interrogatory javelins were 
hurled in vain. So taciturn was he, that I do not think, in 
all the time of our acquaintance, I ever heard him speak a 
dozen consecutive words of English. When he did speak, it 
was genetally in so low atone that he could hardly be heard, 
and often in a language which, though I was familiar with 
most of the tongues of that polyglot country, L could not 
recognize as either English, French, German, Swede, Polish, 
Spanish, Navajo, Ute, Pi-Ute, or Stickareen. I thought once 
it sounded like Gypsy, but when I put the question flatly to 
him, ‘‘Can tuto rakker Romanes, miti, pal?” though the twinkle 
in his eye left me stiJl in doubt as to whether he understood 
me or not, I received no more satisfactory answer than when 
T addressed him in English. But with all his limitations as 
to conversation, there was a charm in his presence if was 1m- 
possible to resist. His cheery simplicity, his shy confidence, 
a, certain subdued gravity and compassionate air, as though 
he, so near to the very heart of nature, pitied those who, like 
ourselves, cuught but fitfully the rustle of her robe, were all 


lightly used, but in making tactual and visual inspection of 
everything belonging to our “‘outfit.” In less than a week 
after our first meeting there was not an article in our cabin 
which had not undergone a thorough scrutiny from him. A 
small clock, which John had insisted on bringing, especially 
excited his curiosity. He would sit for an hour at a time 
gravely watching the beat of its exposed pendulum, and 
listening to its sharp metallic ‘‘ick-tock, tick-tock,” One 
peculiarity he had which assimilated him still more in my 
estimate to the wild life around him. - The sense of smell, 
which in the rest of us had been atrophied into comparative 
uselessness, Was in him as acute as that of sight or hearin g. No 
investigation was complete until he had submitted the object 
to this last crucial test. He often dined with us, and it 
was curious to note how the nose instead of the palate was 
made the judge of any new dish submitted to him. But-this 
sense was not developed at the expense of the others, for 
they were all normally keen. As John said, he had the eye 
of a hawk, the ear of a stag, the foot of a fox, the nose of a 
hound, and the nous of a wild turkey. His taste, in matters 
of food, was exceptionally plain—I had almest said dainty. 
He ate very little meat, contenting himself vith yegetables 
and bread, and as to tobacco, whisky, tea or cofiee, he 
literally abhorred them, His healthy natural taste revolted 
against them as coarse stimulants, unnecessary and repul- 
sive to a palate unspoiled by artificial pungents. 

He had an uneconquerable aversion to dogs, and the first 
time that Swipes, our bull-lerrier, appeared upon the scene, 
Monty left the cabin, and vanished up the gulch with a haste, 
which, if all his movements had not been so uustudiedly 
graceful, would have bordered upon the undignified; nor, 
after he had become rmaore accustomed to our quadrupedal 
companion, did he ever seem to feel at ease in his presence, 
Friendship there never was between them, only a state of 
suspended hostility, and it generally took all our authority, 
backed by the persuasive force of kicks and cuffs, to prevent 
Swipes flying at our guest’s throat, whenever they were 
together. There was 4 reserve, an impassive dignity about 
our friend, which prevented our asking impertinent 
questions as to his domestic affairs, and his habilat and 
place of abode were unknown to us, until accidentally, in 
one of our rambles up one of the ramifying gulehes which 
radiated, like the fingers of a hand, from the main canon in 
which we were, we stumbled upon his rustic home, hidden 
so cunningly in a thick cluster of pines, that only accident 
revealed its presence. Here, much to our surprise, we found 
his wife and family, the latter consisting of five ruddy 
youngsters, fac-similes in everything of their father, At 
least, for charity’s sake, we will call her his wife, though 
from yarious circumstances, we were satisfied that no legal 
or religious ceremony, such as is deemed essential in more 
straight-laced communities, had ever thrown the «gis of its 
sanction over their companionship. A weak compliance 
with popular prejudices was not one of Monty’s failings; 
though innately pure, according to his lights, he was a law 
unto himself; but, though neglecting, probably from an in- 
nocent ignorance, that such a thing was elsewhere demanded, 
the requirements of legalized matrimony, he was a faithful 
husband and a loving father. The home was well stocked with 
food, simple but healthful, and though the furniture generally 
was scanty and rude, we could but admire the softness and 
cleanness of the luxurious beds, made of the sweet-scented 
vernal grass, evidently gathered afresh every morning. 

We did not make much headway in establishing friendly 
relations with the family, as Mrs, M. was generally too 
much occupied with heusehold chres to have time for gos- 
sip, and the children, shy as wood rats, scuttled off at our 
approach and laid perdu behind the fallen pines till we had 
taken our departure. This was hardiy to be wondered at, 
as we felt assured that we were the first strangers from the 
outer world whom they had ever seen. But Monty himself 
was more sociable, and a day rarely passed that he was not 
to be found in his favorite seat on the old log. Here he 
would sit while I talked to him, saying little or nothing 
himself, but listening with calm enjoyment and an air of 
placid receptivity, as though devoutly assenting to every- 
thins I said, though sometimes a subdued twinkle in his 
keen black eye would seem to cast a shade of derisive doubt 
on some of my statements. Whatever ideas I adyanced— 
whether upon bread making or the telephone, ‘Shakespeare 
or the musical glasses”—he met them all with the same air 
of grave, respectful attention. I was often puzzled to decide 
whether my words flew as far above him as the wind that 
stirred the treetops over his head, and with as little meun- 
ing in their sound, or whether, on the other hand, he had 
not some familiar Socratic ‘‘demon,” who had already re- 
vealed to him all this crude product of thought which I was 
laboriously spreading before him. Emotion of any kind 
rarely stirred the fine-graven lines of his Sphinx-like face; 
the art of self-repression had in him reached its highest de- 
velopment. Though utterly unconventional he was “‘high- 
toned” in the best sense of the word. Inever knew him to 
do an ungentlemanly act or bé swayed by a Jow impulse. 
His every movement was characterized by dignified cour- 
tesy and unembarrassed ease. He never Jounged and he 
never hurried. His walk was smooth and gliding, yet full 
of a nervous grace that was the furthest possible removal 
from affectation or languor. In the care of his face and 
hands he was so dainty as to be almost finical, Ina word, @ 
thoroughbred gentleman from head to foot, with an innate 
delicacy and refinement that would have put to the blush 
many who had possessed a-million-fold his advantages. 

I and myself loath to approach the sad catastrophe, which 
brought to sudden end this friendship, so dear and so unique. 
Something had gone wrong at the smelter in Argentum, and 
an urgent message had been despatched to John, requiring 
his immediate attendance. When the bearer, Tom Lee, a 
burly miner, reached us, it was loo late in the day to start 
ona return trip, so arrangements were made to leave early 
inthe morning. We were sitting in the cabin, talking des- 
ultorily about business matters, when suddenly Lee’s hand 
dropped to the butt of his revolver, and in a momentthe long 
shining barrel was leveled at something outside the door, 
Turning quickly to see what the target might be, I canght 
sight of Monty in his accustomed place on the end of the 
lox, with his head turned sideways looking at something 
which had attracted his attention up the gulch. Before 
could speak or move the pistol cracked, and I saw for a mo- 
ment the livid mark, neeaare on the temple, where the bullet 
had done its cruel work, . 

“@ood shot,” said Lee, coolly, as he threw out the empty 
shell, and put in a fresh cartridge. 


so—I had almost said unbuman, that 1 felt sometimes as atin 
i H ife in these fastnesses| 1 was stunned fora moment at the suddenness of the atro 
Se ornate nee vail sence failing he | city, and then broke forth in execration of the brutal deed, 


of our western Sierras. 1 fa 
had, almost abnormally developed—that of curiosity ; net 
manifested by asking questions, for, as I said before, he 


The blood-stained ruffian listened stolidly for a moment, and 
then interrupted me with: ‘Seems to me you make a—of & 
fuss about a mountain rat!” UPFORD, 


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FOREST AND STREAM, 


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MAJOR JOSEPH VERITY’S STEAM CAT. 
‘There, where the Garden of Irem lies, 
Are tlie roots of the Tree of Paradise; 
And happy are they who sit below, 
When into this world of strife and death 
The blossoms are shaken by Allah's breath,” 


i i recently happened that I found myself one evening in 
the luxuriously-furnished library of Mr. J. P. Squibob. 
We had dined, and the gas was lighted, and as we selected 
our cigars from the silver gargs eet upon the teapoy, I 
observed, by its side a copy of ForEst AND STREAM, lying 
open at the last paper on the Bigosh, ‘‘Ah,” said I, “at 
seems that you manage to find time for Mr. Mather’s admir- 
able sketches.” 

Replied then the Squibob: ‘‘With pleasure and profit 
have I devoted to these papers a portion of those moments 
of leisure which I sometimes contrive to reserve from the 
cares of State.” - 

“What, then, think you, of the Bigosh? Is it a real 
stream, ora delightful figment of the imagination?” 

Mr. Squibob leaned back in his fauteuil, with a far-off 
look in his eyes, and silently smoked, until the ashes from 
his cigar descended upon and obscured the lustre of the 
magnificent coprolite which blazed in the bosom of his shirt. 
Then he spoke: “The Bigosh is no myth. I know its 
waters well, Itisastream of many sources, and the finest 
fishes of all lands are there obtained. Its tributaries —I haye 
traveled far and I have seen them oft. They rise in the 
erim shadows of Hood and Shasta, of Tahawus and Cho- 
corua, of the Monck and the Aarhorn; of Snowdon and the 
Bens of Lorn, and their confiuence may be found in the 
Garden of Irem, where stands the Tree of -Paradise. 

Mr. Squibob remained silent for a space, while I mused 
on the somewhat peculiar statement he had made; then he 
spoke again: 

“T made the acquaintance of the Bigosh when a little boy. 
My first cane fishing-rod was in my hand, and I was happy. 
I steod on asmallledge of rock, with the bank rising abruptly 
behind me, and the foam of an eddy circling at my feet. 
Above, there was a dam, and a bridge on which stood other 
fishers. Across the river, the old mill clattered on; the sun- 
beams sifted gently through the branches of the ancient elm 
above, the dash of the water was in my ears, the golden 
oriole darted in and ouf of his pendent nest. I could have 
reached it with my rod, but I had come to fish, and had I 
not, in my own hands, and for almost the first time, the 
means of doing so? 

“There was a new cane rod, and a good stout line, and a 
nice large hook, and a fine fat worm, and a good big hunk of 
lead, and the cork of a bottle, and— 

There was a tug anda strain, and—welli! It is very fine, 
and all that, to hear those tarpon fishers tell of their petty 
exploits, with a few hundred yards of spare line to help 
them out of a tight place; but there was I, an urchin five or 
six years old, with line tied fast to the tip of the rod, and 
standing on a ledge like a window siil, no chance for retreat, 
the water foaming at my feet, and a good four-pounder do- 
ing his level best to pull me in. . 

“By dint of the most herculean efforts, born of despair and 
the necessities of the case, 1 managed to raise the fish, once 
ouly, half out of the water. That one look was enough. I 
set my tceth hard, and planted my heel more firmly and held 
on Jike prim death. How long the struggle might have 
lasted, and whatits result, had I been left to my own de- 
vices, can never be known, for a young man, seeing my dire 
predicament, and fearing, from the gallant fight the fish and 
I were both making, that I might be pulled in and drowned, 
ran down and landed the prize. ‘‘Augustus,” said I, as to- 
gether we rode homeward from the mill. with the ‘‘grist” 
for which we had come, ind the fish I had taken at our feet 
in the wagon; ‘‘Augustus, if that fish had pulled me in, 
wouldn’t you have saved the fish-pole?” 

“But, Mr, Squibob,” said I, ‘‘could you not contrive to 
communicate some definite information concerning the Bi- 

osh?” 

: Aguin there came into the eyes of my friend that far- 
away look, but I brought him to a realizing sense of his 
duties to the guest within his hall by requesting a light for 
my cigar. Mr. Squibob struck with a sledge hammer, which 
hung at his side, a large tin pan, attached by an emerald 
clasp to a chain of rubies, pendent from the frescoed dome 
above, and ere the soft tones had died away in the dim re- 
cesses of the vaulted walls, appeared two gigantic blacks, 
habited, one in the costume of the Falklands and one in that 
of the Farallone Islands, and bearing flaming torches of the 
perfumed wood of the Oklawaha. When I had availed my- 
self of their services, another stroke upon the melodious pan 
sent them through the floor, as I imagined; for so sudden 
was their exit that, but for the burning cigar and the sable 
wreaths of pitch pine smoke which floated among the silken 
folds of the portico, it was as if they had never been, 

‘You are well and promptly served,” said I. ‘‘Aye,” he 
answered. ‘‘Those fellows were formerly in the service of 
the Countess de Landsfeld-Heald. She trained ’em. But 
to return. The Bigosh flows through many lands, and 
is finally lost in Adironda, near the southeast corner of 
Major Joseph Verity’s park.” ‘‘Ah,” said I, ‘‘this reminds 
me. Did you see, a few weeks since, in the ForEsT AND 
STREAM, a communication from Major Joseph Verity, in 
which he relates an incident connected with the initial ex- 


periments with the combination bear-machinery?” ‘‘I did, 
sir. I remember it well, as 1 was much annoyed.” “Then 
the statement was incorrect?” “I did not say that. The 


annoyance arose from the Major’s having called me J. B, 
Squibob. My name is J. P. Squibob, and in schoolboy 
phrase, I do not like to be called out of my name. I infer 
that his memory fails. Besides, the original combination 
bear-gun was no invention of mine. lt was conceived in 
the brain, and manufactured by the hand of Dcctor Ebene- 
zer Christopher Columbus Kellogg, Justice of the Peace and 
quorum.” ‘‘And custalorum?” ‘‘Aye, and rotalorum, too, 
of Mancelona, Michigan. Hevis a man after Major Verity’s 
own heart, and Jet him haye due credit,” 
“But the Major's statement?” ‘Why, as to that, it seems 
odd that, any one should remember such wu trivial occurrence. 
Major Verity isa gentleman, firm of eye and calm of Jip. 
There was atime when the mere slaying of a bear with a 
bowie, or the ineidental slashing off of the seat of a gentle- 
man’s galligaskins, would have left his leathern visage 
undisturbed even by the faintest ripple of emotion. But I 
think that he retains some old-fashioned ideas concern- 
ing pistols and coffee, and has, besides, quarte and tierce at 
his fingers’ ends, I shall not question his statements. The 
graves of those who have thus presumed, now dot the sward 
from Passamaquoddy to Alaska, I think that had it not 
been for a little circumstance connected with his old inven. 


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tion of the once celebrated ‘Steam Cat,’ he’ would scarcely 
have borne in mind the occurrence he has related.” Then 
Mr. Squibob dreamed again, but roused himself, apd said: 
“T was trying to call to mind the occasion on which I first 
met Major Verity. I think that it was in the charge of the 
Six Hunered, at Balaklaya—or was it Solferino?—no—l 
have it, It was in the famous campaign against Kamaiakan, 
when together we ‘wallowed in the Walla Walla,’ and when, 
in the words of a historian of that day, the hardy pioneers, 
at the call of their country, casting aside the frivolous spade, 
the enervating pickaxe, and the trifling hoe, shouldered their 
$50 rifles, and springing into their $80 saddles, dashed their 
$300 steeds into the desolate plains of the Walla Walla, and 
there recklessly and fearlessly encamped. It was in this 
action that the Major won his spurs, ‘They were purchased 
By subscription of the brigade, from Spiegel Hisen & Co., of 
‘Frisco, and cost at the rate of $1.90 a dozen, 15 per cent. off 
for cash in six months, and they were, I regret to say, a 
fraud. Weall did know those spurs, and I remember the 
first time that the Major had them on, T'was on a summer 
evening, neat his tent, and the rowels were hooked into the 
sinches of a bucking eayuse. They both gave way. The 
distance from the cayuse to the point where we picked the 
Major up, was stated in the report of the Government sur- 
veyors attached to the expedition, at sixty-seven feet and 
four inches, in a northwesterly direction.” 

“And what were the results of the expedition?” 

‘They were thus briefly summed ae the historian pre- 
viously quoted: ‘That great chief, Kamaiakan, now sits 
and gnaws the gambrel om of a defunct Cayuga pony, 
little knowing on which side of his staff of life the oleagin- 
ous product of lactation is disseminated.’” 

“But about the ‘steam cat?” 

‘*Well, the Major and I drifted East after the war, and as 
he did not at that time own the immense diamond mines 
which he subsequently discovered in the Barkhamsted 
Lighthouse Territory of Connecticut, he was, I imagine, 
sumewhat impecunious, and either invented or purchased 
the celebrated steam cat. Properly managed, there might 
have been a fortune init, It was designed to overcome an 
do away with a leading cause of insomnia. Placed upon a 
roof in the heart of a great city, its duleet caterwauls were 
absolutely irresistible, and the cats swarmed in like Bulwer- 
Lytton’s ghosts, only to be torn in pieces by the steam cat’s 
claws of steel. I think that it was first set going in Cleve- 
land, Contracts from all the larger boarding houses were 
rapidly filled and money was flowing in, when, unfortu- 
nately, a large Persian cat, belonging to the wife of the 
Mayor, yielded to the seductions of our animal, and the 
Mayor’s wife caused the passage of an ordinance prohibiting 
its further use in the city. The other lake towns were jeal- 
ous because Qleveland had the first chance, and wouldn’t 
allow it within their limits, 

“The Major was discouraged, and got a new idea. He 
said: ‘There’s a big demand for kindling wood just now; 
let’s take the cat into one ef the tracts of dead pine, make 
kindling, and freight a fleet. There’s millions in it.’ The 
thing looked feasible, and in fact, the plan at the start proved 
successful. The cat clawed a forty-four inch pine into 
kindling stuff in nine minutes, and I began to think our 
fortunes were made. ‘There was, however, one trouble. 
Our engineer was ill, and we hired McBallywhistle to take 
his place. You knew him—not Dunk McB. of Buctouche, 
but Donald, the son of old Mrs. McBallywhistle of Meri- 
gouische. He had been guiding parties, and used to leave a 
piece of Limburger cheese at the camp so that he could 
easily get back by a short cut, and not Jose his way, but the 
party was attacked by what the doctors, 1 think, called 
‘acute nostalgia,’ and he was thrown out of ajob. Well, 
Mae didn’t understand the cut-off or something, and the cat, 
under his management, became restive and dangerous, and 
would sometimes jump the wrong way. 

‘*We had just set the machine at work at the foot of a huge 
piue, and Mac depressed the lever, when I saw in the steel- 
blue eye of the animal, a glean which meant mischief. It 
was at that instant headed at the Major. ‘’Ware cat,’ [ 
shouted, and Verity sprang. The claws just missed his 
cuticle by the thirty-second part of an inch, but—this in your 
ear—there wasn’t as much clothing left on the weather side 
of him as it would take to wad a combination bear gun.” 

G. WHILLIKENS. 

ELk Raprips, Michigan. 


latural History. 


IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
BY C. H, MURRIAM, M.D, 


[From advance sheets of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of 
ew xLork, 
Cartacus Virgintanus (Bodd.) Gray. 
COMMON DEER; VIRGINIA DEER; RED DEER; WHITE- 
TAILED DEER. 
Spike-Horn Bucks. 
HE matter of ‘“spike-horn bucks,” though somewhat 
threadbare, deserves mention in this connection from 
the circumstance that the suppposed variety was first de- 
seribed from the Adirondacks, In a note in the American 
Naturalist for December, 1869 (Vol. IIL, No, 10, pp. 552- 
553), a writer observed that he had hunted in the Adiron- 
dacks for twenty-one years, and goesontosay: ‘‘About 
fourteen years ago, as nearly as I can remember, I first be- 
gan to hear of spike-horn bucks. The stories about them 
multiplied, and they evidently became more and more com- 
mon from year to year. About five years ago I shot one of 
these animals, a large buck with spike-horns, on Louis Lake: 
Tn September, 1867, I shot another, a three-year-old buck 
with spike-horns, on Cedar lakes. These spike-horn bucks 
are now frequently shot in all that portion of the Adiron- 
dacks south of Raquette Lake. I presume the same is true 
north of Raquette Lake, but of this latter region I cannot 
speak from personal observation, having visited it only once: 
‘The spike-horn differs greatly from the common antler of 
the C. virginianus. It consists of a single spike, more slen- 
der than the antler, and scarcely half so long, projecting 
forward from the brow, and terminating in a very sharp 
point. It gives a considerable advantage to its possessor 
over the common buck, Besides enabling him to run more 
swiftly through the thick woods and underbrush (every hun- 
ter knows that does and yearling bucks run much more 
rapidly than the large bucks when armed with their cum- 
brous antlers [!]), the spike-horn is a more effective weapon 
than the common antler. With this advantage the spike- 
horn-bucks are gaining upon the common bucks, and may, 


DEER 


in time, entirely supersede them in the Adirondacks. Un- 
doubtedly the first spike-horn buck was merely an acci- 
dental freak of nature. But his spike-horns gave him an 
advantage, and enabled him to propagate his peculiarity. 
His descendants, having a like advantage, have propagated 
the peculiarity in a constantly increasing ratio, till they are 
slowly crowding the antlered deer from the region they 
innhabit.’’* 

The foregoing note contains several inaccuracies of state- 
ment, and the writer’s deductions are wholly erroneous, It 
was very justly criticised by Mr. W. J. Hays in the Natu- 
ralist for May, 1870 (pp. 188-189). Further remarks and 
discussions may be found in the same journal, Vol. 1YV., pp. 
442-443, 762-768, and Vol. V., pp. 250-251. The subject is 
now well understood, and the Hon. Judge Caton has pre- 
sented the facts of the case with such accuracy and concise- 
ness that I cannot do better than transcribe his own words: 

“Tt has lore been a prevalent opinion among hunters, and 
to some extent has been adopted by naturalists, that a race 
of common deer, the adults of which have antlers without 
branches, have established themselves in the no theastern 
part of the United States and in Canada, whence they are 
driving out the prong-antlered bucks. 

“This is a matter of the greatest scientific importance, and 
Lhave taken pains to investigate it to my satisfaction, and 
am entirely convinced that it is a popular error, founded upon 
incomplete observations. The spike bucks found in the 
Adirondacks are all yearling bucks with their first antlers. 
The universal aL so far as L have been able to gather 
it, is that they are smaller than the average of the prong- 
antlered bucks, and that their spikes vary in length 
from eight inches, or ten inches at the very utmost, down to 
two or three inches inlength. It is only the largest of these 
that any have claimed to be adults, If is very easy for a 
hunter to say, 2nd even believe, that he has killed deer with 
spikes ten inches long, but did he actually measure them, 
and make a note of the fact, with time and place, describ- 
ing its appearance, and take and note the measurements of 
the animal, or did he preserve the head, so that he could 
submit it to the examination of others? *~ * * 

“Continued observations upon the young deer inmy parks 
have enlightened me much on this subject. For several 
years I really persuaded myself that I had the true spike- 
antlered bucks, and set myself to carefully note their pecu- 
liarities, and fondly believed that Iwas about to add an 
important chapter to scientific knowledge. But these careful 
and continued observations soon undecetyed and disappointed 
me, By marking the spike buck of one year, which was as 
large as one feeding by its side haying two or three tines on 
each antler, I found the next year that his antlers were also 
branched, and my spike-antlered buck had become a fine 
specimen of the ordinary kind. And then the early fawn of 
the year before, dropped from a full adult vigorous doe, 
which had furnished him plenty of milk, had now grown to 
the size of a medium adult, and had fine spike-antlers, 
resembling in all things his older brother of the preceding 
year now bearing the pronged antlers. And so I anxiously 
pursued my observations for a number of years, ever looking 
in vain for a second antler without prongs. Without this 
certain means of knowledge, I should haye believed that 
those large spike-antlered bucks were more than yearlings 
and nearly adult. It is true the dentitien might have unde- 
ceived me, but this I could not acertain while the animal was 
alive, and this test has probably been rarely examined and 
carefully studied bythose hunters who believe they have 
killed adult deer with spike antlers. I feel quite sure that 
they lad not the means of accurately determining the true 
ages of the wild deer which they had killed; and what I 
have already stated may serve to show how very liable all 
are to be misled in relation to a point upon a certain knowl- 
edge of which the whole question depends,” i 

The only exception, that has come tomy knowledge, to 
the rule that spike-horn bucks are always yearlings, is 4 case 
that fell under the observation of Mr. &. L. Sheppard: A 
very old buck, with much gray about his head, was killed 
in Queer Lake about ten years ago. In addition to its ex- 

| treme age, it had but three legs and was consequently ill- 
conditioned, having been unable to procure sufficient food. 
It carried a pair of spike horns, which differed from those 
of yearling bucks in being much thicker at the base, 
rougher, more warty, and deeply wrinkled for some 
distance above the burr. This apparent exception is an 
illustration of two general laws (a) that in extreme age 
there is a tendency for certain parts to revert to a con- 
dition resembling that of early life; and (0) that ill-nourished 
bucks bear stunted and more or less imperfect horns, It is 
a well-known fact that the largest, handsomest, and most 
perfect antlers geome from middle-aged deer that have win- 
tered well, and are in fine condition; while the few-pronged 
and unsymmetrical ones are grown by young or very old 
animals, or by those that have been wounded or from other 
cause are poor and ill-conditioned. t 

All yearlings do not have true spike-horns, and if the term 
be made to include all unbranched antlers, | am strongly of 
the opinion that two-year-old bucks sometimes grow them, 
I have a pair of unbranched antlers that are curved both, in- 
ward and forward, and are of exceptional length, 
the separate horns measuring respectively ten and a half aud 
eleyen inches (or 267 and 279mm.) over the curve, and 
seven and a half and eight inches (190 and 203mm.) in a 
straight line from the base of the burr to the tip. The long- 
est horn presents a slight enlargement, three inches from the 
tip, along its upper and posterior border, the greatest thick- 


*The above passage fell under the ever-searching eye of thateml- 
nent naturalist and Indefatigable collector of facts, the late and much 
lamented Charles Darwin, whose massive intellect and exhaustive re- 
searches have revolutionized natural science and mark a ew era in 
the progress of knowledge. Mr. Darwin, misled by this account, part 
of which he quotes in his masterly work on the ‘‘Descent of Man,” 
remarks upon it as follows; “A critic has wellobjected to this ac- 
count by asking, why, if the simple horns are now so advantageous, 
were the branched antlers of the parent-form ever developed? To 
this I can only answer by remarking, that a new mode of attack with 
new weapons might be a great advantage, as shown by the case of 
the Ovis cycloceros, who thus conquered a domestic ram famous for 
his fighting power. Though the branched antlers of a stag are well 
adapted for fighting with his rivals, and though it might be au advan- 
vantage to the prong-horned variety slowly to acquire long and 
branched horns, if he had to fight only with others of the same kind, 
yet it by no means follows that branched horns would be the best 
fitted for conquering a foe differently armed.” (‘‘Descent of Man,” 
New York, 1875, p. 513.) 

+ Antelope and Deer of America, p. 231-282. 

$+ Through the kindness of the well-known guide, Mr, H. L, Shep- 
pard, I possess a specimen of unusual interest that well illustrates 
this point. The buck, which was an adult, was killed at Big Moose 
Lake, September 10, 1880, and its horns are imperfect, asymmetrical, 
and very seraggy. The animal was lank and thin, and was found to 
beacripple. Its left humerus had once been broken and the frag- 
ments had united at a might angle, so that the fore leg was directed 
forward, and the shortening of the humerus was 80 great (ils greatest 
length being less than six and a half inches, or exactly, 164mm.) that 
the foot could not be made to touch the ground, 


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284 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 8, 1884, 


ness of which is three-quarters of an inch (19mm.), thus in- 
dicating the point where a prong ought to have grown. 
take it that these are the two horns of a two-year old, but 
have no means of determining this very important question, 
J also have two other pairs of horns from young deer that 
are smaller than those just described, and yet one horn of 
each pair is forked, Whether they came from yearlings or 
two-year olds I will not venture to decide. 

In my opinion the term spike-horn should be limited to 
the straight and true spike that is known to be characteris- 
tic of the yearling buck, 

Does sometimes, though rarely, have horns, and they are 
usually of the “‘spike” pattern, only more incuryed than 
those of the bucks, and they are apt to be more or Jess im- 
perfect and unsymmetrical. They are generally covered 
With the velvet, no matter at what season taken, in this re- 
spect resembling those of castrated bucks. Does that bear 
antlers do not commonly hear young, though they are not 
always barren. § 

The Ohase. 


An account of the different ways of hunting the deer on 
the plains and prairies of the West, in the canebrakes and 
swamps of the South, and in other sections remote from the 
regzicn under consideration, howeyer interesting, does not 
fall within the scope of the present work; hence the methods 
practiced in the Adirondacks will alone be described. 

_ There are three principal ways in which deer are hunted 
in this Wilderness, namely: By floating, by driving (hound- 
ing) and by still-husting. 

loating consists in paddling up to a deer, at night, with 
alight called a jack fastened above the bow of the boat, and 
so arranged that it casts the whole light ahead, leaving the 
boat and contents in exaggerated darkness. ‘The jack of our 
ancestors (used even within the brief period of my own 
recollection), was a yery simple affair, constructed where 
occasion required. It consisted of a torch, or sometimes a 
tallow candle, fastened upon a piece of bark, and backed by 
a bark reflector. This rude illuminator was attached toa 
stick, three or four feet long, that stood upright in the bow. 
The stick, or standard of the primitive jack, still remains, 
and now supports a lantern which is closed in on three sides 
so that all the light shall be thrown in front, Some sort of 
a reflector is generally used to concentrate aud project the 
rays to a greater distance, Sometimes the light is fastened 
to the hat. ' 

Two people constitute a floating party, and the, modus 
operand: is as fellows: ‘The sportsman sits on the front seat, 
with his legs tucked under the bow in a position that is, at 
the start, anything but agreeable, and becomes distressingly 
uncomfortable as hour after hour drags slowly on. He dare 
not moye lest the noise thus made should alarm the deer. 
The ruide sits in the stern and must be expert with the pad- 
dle, for it is his duty to propel the boat steadily and noise- 
lessly within easy range of the wary deer, 

The locality is usually selected in the daytime, and is 
generally some marsh-bordered bay, abounding in lily-pads, 
or a similar place along the banks of a sluggish stream. On 
nearing the feeding ground not a word is spoken, not even a 
whisper, and the hunters strain eye and ear to discover 
the whereabouts of the quarry. The light is turned 
in such a way that it covers the shore as the boat 
glides silently on, for the deer may be gazing at it from the 
bank, standing motionless and silent, Indeed, he is often 
seen, Dot more than a couple of boat lengths away, before 
any sound has forewarned them of his presence. 

Bright moonlight nights are undesirable, because the ani- 
mal can then detect the outline of the boat, and is apt to 
take to the woods without delay. 

Let us note the course of events in an ordinary floating 
expedition, premising only that the sportsman is somewhat 
of anovice. Unless there is direct water communication 
between the camp and the place selected for the hunt, the 
party eat an early supper and set out at once in order to 
reach the spot before the gathering darkness obscures the 
way. The guide, placing the bout upon his sturdy shoul- 
ders, takes the lead, following some old trail or blazed line, 
or, if the spot be unfrequented, finds his way by certain 
features of mountain or valley that are familiar landmarks 
to his practiced eye. The sportsman follows, carrying the 
jack and gun, as well as a bottle of tar oil for protection 
against insects. 

The start is well timed, for the outlines of near objects have 
already become indistinct, and the shades of dusk are fast 
blending the dim forms of the evergreens, transforming the 
coniferous forest into a uniform mass of darkuess, when they 
emerge upon the open shore of a small and shallow lake and 
Jaunch the canoe in its black but unrufiled water. Night is 
upon them, and with it the flies and mosquitoes. Tar oil is 
applied frecly to face and hands, the jack is lit and placed, 
and they step quietly into the boat and move noiselessly off, 
—the sportsman on the front seat, his overcoat buttoned up 
to his chin, and his feet crowded uncomfortably under the 
bow, one oneach side of the jack-stick; the guide astern, 
silently plying his paddle. 

The nearest marsh-bordered bay is soon reached, and as 
the light skims along the bank, falling in turn upon clumps 
of bushes, old logs and stumps, and the dark cone-like forms 
of the young spruce and balsams, the sportsman’s expecta- 
tion is at its highest piteh; he feels his heart beat faster and 
faster, and grasps his gun tighter and tighter, imagining that 
each fantastic shadow will show the white tail of a retreat- 
ing buck. The suspense is of short duration, for this feed- 
ing-ground is passed without so much as the sound of a mov- 
ing branch to indicate the presence of any animal larger than 
the flies that swarm about his head. Now comes a pull of 
half a mile before the next ground is reached, which would 
afford the sportsman ample time to compose himself, were 1t 
not for the armies of pestiferous flies and mosquitoes that 
demand, and receive, his undivided attention, The 
bottle of tar oil is produced, and a thorough smear- 
ing grants temporary respite. No sooner 1s this 
accomplished than the next favorable shore for 
deer is fast appearing over the port bow. Another 
ten minutes of breathless suspense and they turn again 
into the open lake. A close listener might have de- 
tected a half suppressed sigh of submission to-the inevitable, 
from the fore part of the boat, but no other sound disturbs 
the unbroken silence of the night. The third swampy bay 


for the time that itis invested with any significance of a 
noticeable broad nature. Concerning the qualifications of 
the biped for table uses nothing need be said, since it is 
notoriously a luminary of the leading order in the gastrono- 
mic firmament. . 

From the fact that in the eastern section of our country 
plain lands constitute a relatively meager geographical ele- 
menf of the region, the apg plover is nowhere a truly 
familiar avian figure here. It is far differont in the West, 
however, since, with its greatly open character, this part of 
our national domain proves specially attractive to the 
creature, and at the right season the prairies of all the 
Western States and Territories which yet retain their primal 
features unchanged, are shown to be abundantly peopled by 
it. During a long residence in Minnesota it was the writer's 
good fortune to be afforded the opportunity of seeing much 
of the specics, and the results of these observations,.both as 
they relate to the creature’s course of life thereabouts, and 
the usages best commended to the sportsmen of the section 
in engaging in its pursuit, it is his present purpose to lay as 
succinctly as he ean before the reader, 

The particular locality in Minnesota wherein my investi- 
gations in the line indicated were prosecuted comprised the 
prairie district in the vicinity of Minneapolis, Here the up- 
land plover made its appearance by the middle of May, and 
almost simultaneously with their arrival the birds cfiose 
their mates. In their earlier stages these unions were 
marked by little passionate ardor, the parties thereto being 
content simply to rest or range about side by side. This 
‘condition of aifairs continued for about two weeks, or till 
the first of June drew near. At this period the interest 
which the pair felt in each other suddenly became so inten- 
sified as to effectually sweep away all barriers of reserve be- 
tween them, and they gave themselves over to the freest 
interchange of amorous dalliance, So far as the avian swain 
was concerned at least, this love climax proved also to be a 
factor which gave the note tomuch of his general demeancr, 
More especially he was observed to indulge in signally ex- 
travagant exercises on the wing at the time. These consisted 
for the most part of hoyering bursts upward and on a due 
perpendicular line till the creature had reached a height of 
fifty or sixty feet, when the particular phase of feeling by 
which it was moved seemed to reach its term, and the bird 
descended on a pinion used quite afterits normal fashion by 
a long slant to the earth. The direct meaning of these fan- 
tastic demonstrations was not apparent. It would naturally 
be inferred under the circumstances that they were perform- 
ances which in part at least were intended to excite the 
‘admiration of the female. But if such was the case it was 
in no wise verifiable, sinee it was not definitely shown that 
his sweetheart even honored them with a glance. 

Be this, however, as it may, it was soon to be seen that 
our feathered heroine was occupied with a wholly fresh set 
of relations. These, as the reader is doubtless ready to sur- 
mise, were of a maternal nature. The opening date of the 
term wherein she figured in this character, fell generally in 
the second week in June, and from this point of time for 
an interval of a month or six weeks, one encountered the 
bird only on the rarest oceasions. The work of deciding 
upon the Jocation of the family nest as well as rearing it 
was, itis hazarding but little to say, exclusively her own 
enterprise. ‘The materials used in the edifice in question in- 
cluded the common forms of prairie grass, and in shape and 
general appearance it much resembled a Jarger edition of the 
red-shouldered blackbird’s nest, with the difference, how- 
ever, that it was of somewhat lighter construction. Its site 
was on the ground, and usually fixed in a portion of the 
prairie well removed from house or farm or routes of human 
travel, although occasionally it turned up in places which 
were not to be designated as noticeably sequestered. The 
eggs of which it became the repository were four in num- 
per, and of a pale clay color, dotted with amber spots. 
These also, like the eggs of most sandpipers, were so dis- 
proportionally large at one end that they diverged greatly 
from the conventional egg form, and were more nearly pear 
shaped. Their discovery was a pieee of good fortune 
which the oologist could not often boast of, one or two sets 
of the treasures being at the utmost all that he would have 
to show as the result of a season’s toil. This, however, as 
the initiated in the sphere of work in question will under- 
stand, was in a great’ measure ascribable to the nature of the 
field of search; oologizing on the prairie being a venture 
noticeably beset with crosses and hindrances peculiar to it- 
self, and calling for the address of the Indian or trained 
prairie scout to make it more than the veriest venture, 

The purpose of the female plover as she withdrew into fe- 
tirement was, as will be guessed, nosecret to her partner, and 
sharply on the heels of the event, he exhibited himself in an 
entirely fresh réle—that of budding plover fatherhood. In 
due order the feelings which now dominated him were those 
of egregious self-satisfaction and family solicitude of the = 
gushing stamp; and, as may be inferred, in giving vent to 
these sentiments his methods partook noticeably of the spirit 
of oddity, which at the time had so much to do in shaping 
the great run of the fashions in which his expressional func- 
tions were exercised. The arena selected by him tor the 
portrayal of this new part mostly comprised the face of the 
prairie, where, so Jong as he was undisturbed, he strutted 
about throughout the entire day, visibly gloating over the 
honors and preferment that had been vouchsafed him. Be- 
ing approached too closely, however, by observers or pas- 
sengers over the prairie, he was fain to jump at the conclu- 
sion that the presence’of these parties boded no good to his 
honsehold peace; and he was, therefore, moved to tuke such 
steps as he conceived would effect their removal from the 
scene, In setting about this undertaking he took to his 
wings, and nearing the personages whom he would usher off 
the field to within the distance of seventy or eighty yards, he 
sailed about them with-an air meant to counterfeit partial 
inanity, till he caught their full attention, when, with a still 
more emphasized show of decrepitude, he bore away toward 
the outskirts of the plain, clearly hopmg to tempt pursuit. 

If this stroke of strategy failed to succeed as he desired, 
he was commonly ready to supplement it with another de- 
yice greatly out of course with a wader of his class, and 
which he doubtless believed to constitute a piece of finesse 


is reached and passed, with like result. A conncil ensues, 
in a low whisper, and it is decided to run up the inlet, a 
marshy stream averaging Jess than a boat’s length in width. 
Having arrived at its mouth they proceed yery slowly, for 
good feed abounds on both banks, and a deer may be sur- 
prised at any moment, Presently a noise is heard ahead; it 
is vague and indefinite, but evidently something moving. 
The boat comes nearer; the noise ceases; it is heard again. 
The sight is strained to penetrate the bushes along the shore, 
but nothing is discovered. Hark! something dripping in 
the water; the eyes are lowered, and there, on a log that pro- 
jects into the stream, almost within reach from the boy, is 
seen the foria of a large porcupine, lazily eating lily-pads 
and gazing stupidly at the light. The sportsman is tempted 
jo fire, but controls his disgust and says nothing. <A 
bend in the tortuous channel is passed, and another, and 
—aplash, splash, splash: it is the unmistabable sound of a 
deer wading in the creek. Then all is still again. Is the 
animal standing in the water looking at the light, or has he 
stepped out upon the bank? The sportsman hears the faint 
ripple of water against the bow as the boat moves swiftly 
on; heis conscious that the hat is rising on his head; his 
heart beats louder and louder, and he feels it knocking vio- 
lently against his ribs. The boat is slackened and the light 
made, in turn, to cover both shores, Moments seem like 
hours, and the flies are entirely forgotten, But what has 
become of the game? Inadvertently the gun rubs against 
the jack-stick when, simultaneously, is heard the sharp, 
shrill whistle of a startled buck, from behind a bush to the 
right, and the fading sound of crackling branches announce 
his disappearanee in the forest. 4 

The fiies now seem worse than ever, and so they really are, 
for the boat is passing through their very headquarters, and 
the bright light attracts them to the spot. Continuing the 
course up the sluggish stream it is some time before anything 
occurs to divert the sportsman’s attention from these tor- 
menting insects, which constantly get into the eyes, nose and 
mouth, till, harrassed, exasperated, and well nigh distracted, 
he applies his-only remedy, the tar oil, so freely that he soon 
feels it trickling slowly down his aching back, The cramped 
position of his legs and feet is actually painful, and his back 
“seems as if it would break.” The hour is past midnight, 
his lids are heavy, and he has almost determined to request 
the guide to turn back when a loud plunge alongside the 
beat gives him a sudden start and elicits the involuntary ex- 
clamation: ‘‘what’s that?” forgetting for the moment the 
necessity of silence. ‘‘Nothing but a muskrat,” calmly re- 
plies the guide in a whisper. ‘Muskrat? hum!” he retorts 
in a tone of ineredulity, but says no more. 

Another hour passes wearily away. The inlet, which ‘is 
here so narrow and shallow as scarcely to admit the boat, is 
crossed by a fallen tree that bars further progress. The re- 
turn voyage becomes very monotonous, and finally eyen the 
flies fail to keep up the excitement. The drowsy hunter nods, 
his eyes close, and his head hangs heavily upon his breast: 
Suddenly az owl, on a low limb overhead, utters one of his 
loudest and most startling cries. The affrighted sportman 
cocks both barrels of his gun, expecting to detect the crouch- 
ing form of a panther preparing for the fatal spring. On 
being assured of the harmless nature of his imaginary foe he 
cannot. suppress a groan of mortification and disgust while 
he endeavors to regain his equanimity, Beads of cold sweat 
mingle with the oil upon his forehead as he solemnly and 
silently yows that floating is a diversion into which he will 
never again be beguiled, He feels chilly,;and wonders if 
this is really a sample of Adirondack sport, or if his guide 
has been playing him a trick, While his mind is occupied 
with these meditations they have reached the lake, and the 
guide, anxious not to return empty-handed, has put the boat 
into a shallow bay and is working it slowly ahead among the 
lily-pads. The sportsman, now too cold to sleep, feels the 
boat slacken its headway and stop. He wondersif the guide 
has dropped off in a doze, is about to turn and investigate 
when the word “‘shoot,” uttered in a low whisper, falls upon 
his ears. He doesn’t see anything to shoot, but on looking 
more closely, discovers, partly hidden behind a bush, the 
form of a deer, as motionless as a statue, gazing inquiringly 
at the light. Raising the gun nervously to his shoulder he 
fires, A desperate leap, a wild plunge ahead, a heavy fall, 
and a noble buck lies dead upon the bank, 

[To BE CONTINUED. | 


UPLAND PLOVER IN MINNESOTA. 


VERYBODY who has paid the slightest attention to the 
subject knows that the bird commonly called the up- 
Jand plover is no plover atall, but a sandpiper, and that its 
full appellation, as given by the authorities, is that of Bar- 
iram’s sandpiper. Being of the race that it is, one would 
naturally look for it to make a strong show of aquatie pro- 
clivities. But in this connection it proves to be not a little 
of an anomaly; marhes, mud flats and the like being in no 
wise to its mind, whether as places of resort or sources of 
food supply. In fact, as its common name implies, it is ex- 
clusively a bird of the fast land, with a special penchant 
for spacious open tracts assuming the character of downs or 
plains; and where, in the stores of insects, grass seeds and 
berries incident to such localities, it finds wholly congenial 
fare. The geographical rangeof the species is nolieeably ex- 
tensive, including—so it is affirmed—a large portion of Brit- 
ish North America, our own country east of the Rocky 
Mountains, and a considerable share of Mexico, Forced to 
look well to its ways in the matter of being provided with 
the sustenance adapted to its requirements, 1t is a migrant of 
the strictest type. rus ; j 
Throughout all the winter months it is a close sojournerin 
the southernmost divisions of its habitat, and in yielding in 
spring to the instinct to revisit the north it takes proper 
thought to lay up no sorrow for itself by giving rein to 
the prompting with undue precipitation. Its wariness and 
cunning are proverbial, being, indeed, quite of a piece with 
the similar endowments entering into the intellectual outfit 
of the crow or black duck. While not a pronounced beauty 
it is nevertheless strongly commended to the observer on the 
score of good looks, Sree: oe cal ge at Egat 
ith designs in white, black an , and also. being x ee ¢ 
ania *, poast of a figure distinguished to an eminent | not to be transcended. This was ee ine in a lame pide 
degree by the attribute of presence. Its capacities for flizht, | ing way, on a fence or dry limb o By bu He Rane he pegs 
whether as to endurance or swiftness, are but little short of | the subjects of his oblique regards, an eat oe ie : - 
first-class, using the phrase in its exact sense, Even more them to conclude thathe was a a an nie op “see ~ 
can be said for the facitily with which it exercises its run-| ness, and that an vag whi abe im ath, —— a ae 
ning gear, this being in sober truth highly phenomenal. Its the prize of the + a xeout net @ + a oe ea oe 
ordinary note consists of a clear, sustained, and withalsome- | tainty. These tactics he ag HB a aH fy es 
what plaintive whistle, keyed to a single tone in the middle | himself’ that they were to be serviceably emp oyed, 2 


uides inthe Adirondacks, has kindly presented me with a very 
heautiful pair of spike antlers that were taken from a doe which was 
killed at Second Lake of North Branch about the first of September, 


length. The measurements of these antlers are as follows: : this sound uttered when he decided that they had. answered their turn he was 
Brom bu Ube ea aga me A eign) | TREO | Hor the Ost Pov i alain, Tie, however, ie | geo toHetake, miele streghbway to is estate peripate 
Distance Per con BET Ae aed ain (i59mm.) not invariably the case, although it cannot fairly be affirmed | tics once more: — 


wae 18849 FOREST AND STREAM. 


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Ere Jong, however, another spirit came over the bird, as 
at the end of a couple of weeks ora little after he awoke to 
the right sense as to the line of conduct befittin 5 his paternal 
condition, and rejoining lis spouse, he divided with her in 
all soberness, the supervisionary care of their offspring, 
which eyen thus early in their Jives had bade adien to their 
nest, Doubtless for the reason that their young were virtu- 
ally secure from the attacks of hawks therein, the places 
mostly frequented by the birds at this time were the more 
heavily grass-grown sections of the prairie, aud as will be 
understocd, in seeking these resorts they became yery widely 
dispersed over the sifnally extensive expanse, and so far as 
the casual observer was concerned, at all events, quite eluded 
his eye. 

But their stay in these deeper fastnesses was of compara- 
tively short duration, since by the first of August the 
juvenile scions of the family had already attained a stage of 
bodily and mental vigor that enabled them to cope success- 
fully with the main run of suca dangers as were incident to 
their career, when with one accord, both old and young took 
their way to grounds of a totally fresh stamp. These em- 
braced certain barren stretches of the prairie which were 
now populated by myriads of grasshoppers, spiders, crickets 
and other like insectivorous forms, drawn thither to the end 
of luxuriating in the entirely unimpeded downpour of the 
solar warmth. Here the birds took up their quarters by the 
hundred; and as I scarcely need say the day became one 
protracted feast with them. The etiquette of their gustatory 
observances at the time was seen to be of the usual family 
order, much eager bolting characterizing their disposition of 
their food when it was once laid hold of, and no small degree 
ot tumultuous flying hither and thither being practiced by 
them in their endeavors or seize upon it, One was also led 
to remark that under these circumstances the bipeds 
were singularly silent, the juveniles of the tribe being wholly 
dumb, and their elders sounding their pipe only at greatly 
protracted intervals. That they should add to their avoirdu- 
pois during these days with almost porcine celerity was but 
after the proper order of things. But this pleasant process 
of larding themselves was in nowise permitted to conduce to 
the enslavement of the creatures, since, with the opening of 
the third week in August, they seemed to hear a call from 
the south which gave a wholly fresh turn to their thoughts 
and aspirations, and in cenformity with which they set forth 
for the region indicated with precipitate speed. 

While the plovers were massed fogether in the open parts 
of the prairie as above described, it was not unnaturally 
their fortune to signally fire the sporting element of the dis- 
trict and enlist its energies freely in the attempt to effect their 
capture, 

Jn many instanees in engaging in this undertaking the 
shooter was content to stake his chances for suceess on his 
skill as a stalker, But the outcome of dealing with the mat- 
ter in this way was seldom conspicuously brilliant. So far 
as the older birds were concerned in any event, creeping 
upon them, waylaying them and the like, came to little or 
nothing, With the less matured members of the tribe arts 
of the sort succeeded better. Still, when all is said, the 
highest count of the bag even through an all day’s campaign, 
Wherein measures of the above nature constituted the strate- 
gic machinery, rarely exceeded ten or a dozen birds. 

The method commended to the more painstaking gunner 
in addressing himself to the task in question was of a radi- 
cally different character, inasmuch as he invoked the aid of 
a horse and buckboard and a coadjutor in the shape of a 
driver. Attempts to approach the birds in this manner 
turned out as a rule all that one could reasonably ask. The: 
young birds anyway were to be neared as closely as was 
necessary, with little or no trouble, by this device. The 
trustfulness of their elders was of course less to be depended 
upon. But if the driver was genuinely competent they too 
were brought within fair striking distance by this means in 
goodly numbers, That the gunner needed to second the 
driver worthily here goes without saying. More particu- 
larly it was incumbent upon him to be up to the trick of 
making good his aim when both bird and buckboard were 
equally under free headway; or, in other words, it was 
specially desirable that he should be astrong snap shot, 
When this was really the case with him the enviable for-. 
tunes of the enterprise were assured beycnd peradventure; 
the bag secured being—humanely speaking—merely limited 
by the scope of his ambition. W. L. Tirrany. 


Game Bag and Guy. 


IMPORTED GUNS. 


AMERICAN AND 


Hidlitor Forest and Stream: 

I have carefully read a letter from ‘‘Wells” criticising Mr. 
Greener’s book on the “Gun,” Mr, Greener is an English 
punmaker, and*his book isa cheap way of advertising his 
work. Some allowance must therefore be made for his state- 
ments—statements, of course, to his own interest. The book 
contains a great many incorrect statements besides those on 
wing-shooting, The assertion that Damascus barrels are the 
weakest of all twist, and his laminated steel are the strongest, 
is one error, as also ave his remarks on machine-made 
guns, which mean American guns. His reason why the 
Damascus barrel is the weaker is to a gunmaker quite ab- 
surd, however guod it may appear to those who are not gun- 
makers, In the first place, he gives the methods of manu- 
facture, and states that in twisting the iron the fibers are lia- 
ble to be broken, and thus are rendered weaker than other 
twist. barrels, Now gunmakers know that the same process 
which welds the bars will also weld any fiber which may be 
broken; and experience and common sense teach us that 
twisted fibers are stronger than those which are not. If the 
accidental breaking of the fibers of the iron in Damascus 
barrels make them weak, it would only proye his to be 
weaker, for while the Damascus might have one or two 
fibers broken by accident, his, in short, are broken by 
intent by the hundreds, being made up of small scraps 
and not of bar iron, which is sufficient in itself to show 
that Mr. Greener has the facility of stating things which are 
not so. 

As I said, he has his business to advertise, and Iam pre- 
pared to make an allowance for an English maker running 
down American work; but I cannot make the same allow- 
ance for ‘‘Wells” when he backs up Mr, Greener in depreci- 
ating American work. ‘‘Wells” may be capable of criticising 
Mr. Greener on wing-shooting, but when he attempts to 
criticise American work in comparison with foreign work, 
he undertakes that which his own statements prove he 
knows but very little of, when he says he cannot see over 
150 worth of work on a gun, except in fancy work. If 
“Wells” were a judge of work he would be able to see where 
over $150 worth of work could be put on 2 gun; and facts 
show that some of the finest guns have the least fancy en- 
graving on them, He states that the best English barrels 
may be had for $75, Granted, Now if the barrels cost $75, 
the locks to suit them will cost $75 more, fer fine barrels 
and equally as fine locks cost the same. A piece of wood to 
match will cost from $12 to $15. Now, commence the frame 
and actions and the mountings, $75, and say nothing for 
work of fitting up, and here are figures amounting to $237, 
This, in itself, is sufficient to show that ‘‘Wells” is no judge 
of what constitutes a fine gun, and, therefore, has no right to 
come out in public print and condemn American work, for 
in doing so he is doing an injury to the country and Ameri- 
can mechanics; for when any one makes what is supposed to 
be a disinterested statement, they are supposed to know what 
they are writing about, and they will go far to injure the 
reputation of American work, and in that way doan unealled 
for injustice. ‘‘Wells” states that there is too much “cheap 
John” work about American goods. This may be; but from 
his statement about the $150, it seems to me that he is one of 
that sort who patronizes the ‘‘cheap John” classes; but he 
wants the foreign manufacture, they are so Henglish, you 
know. 

I will state facts for the benefit of *‘Wells.” There are 
thousands of English and Belgian guns imported to this 
counlry that are no more to be compared to Colt’s or other 
American makers than a five cent nickel is to be compared 
to agold dollar. Americans this day make the best gun for 
the money that any country produces. I am a gunmaker. 
I served my time with one of the best makers in Hurope, 
and I claim to know what I am talking about. I am in no 
way interested in any make of gun; in fact the machine- 
made gun is an injury to me; for the more of them that are 
in use the less work I get. I repair a hundred English guns 
to the one American. The loeks of the American gun are 
plain and of good material; the tumblers and sears are steel, 
while nine out of ten of the English guns imported have 
tumblers and sears of iron, not even case-hardened, with 
the names of respectable makers fraudulently put on them so 
as to swindle the purchasers, men like ‘‘Wells,” who think 
that nothing good is produced in America. Some American 
dealers have no use for machine-made guns, for there is not 
that opportunity for fraud that there is in imported ones, If 
*‘Wells” were a judge he would soon’ find out that there is 
ten times more ‘‘cheap John” about the average imported 
guns than there isin the American. The American gun is 
plain and well fitted, with nothing of the ‘‘cheap Joh’ 
about it. 

Ten years back an American if he had$1l00 to spend on a 
watch, couldn’t have been induced to buy an American watch; 
it was a machine-made thing; therefore most of the American 
watches were made on the cheap and medium class, if fine ones 
were made they could not be sold unless they had a foreign 
markonthem. This is what prevents the best class of goods 
from being manufactured in this country, To-day high-priced 
witches are manufactured in America and sold with the 
makers name on them; but this has been only since the 
Swiss Commission reported that our cheap, machinery-made 
watches were equal to their best; so you see the Americans 
had to be informed us to the good quality of our watches by 
foreigners before they were willing to admit it and pay a 
sufficient price for a fine piece of work—and just so with the 
guns. If Americans can make as difficult a piece of ma- 
chinery as 4 watch by machine and have it rank amoung’ the 
first, why can they not make a gun as well? Simply this, 
because no foreign commissson has as yet proclaimed their 
superiority for the money, When this may be done then the 
amateur judge will pronounce them the best, and the Ameri 
can shoddy will not be ashumed to be scen shooting with an 
American pun, Some ore f think that 1 am severe inymak- 
ing such a statenent, out Lean assure my readers that [have 
good grounds. = = | ' 

Some years back I made a rifle, price $100. A well- 
known shot and would-be judge, exam 
mark that it could in no way compare with Purdy work. I 
answered, “‘Neither does the price; give me Purdy’s price 
and you shall have Purdy’s-work.’”” J 
_and wanted to know if I would pres to set my work 
alongside of Purdy’s, I was compelled for the time to sub- 
mit to the jeer; but my time came, some time afterward, 
and in a way least expected. A Purdy gun, manufactured 
‘to order at a cost of $550, was breught to me to be cleaned. 


Muskrat As 4 Frsa-Barer.—Hditor Horest and Stream: In 
a recent number of the Forest anD StREAM Dr, C. H. Mer- 
riam asks for more information regarding the fish-eating 
habits of the muskrat, and the following brief note is sent in 
tor a slight aid in this direction. The muskrat is the most 
abundant mammal to be found in all the marshy parts of 
Alaska, south of the Arctic circle at least, and during my 
residence in that country I had frequent cpportunity to learn 
of its fondness for fish, Often when skirting the border of a 
pool or following the edge of some sluggish stream in the 
evening or during the dim light of the Arctic nights in sum- 
mer, | frightened the muskrats from the body of dead fish on 
the bank at the water's edge, The fish were usually small 
sluggish species and such as could have been easily caught 
by the animal itself although it feeds upon fish not killed by 
itself, That the muskrat will feed upon dead water fowl 1 
have also had frequent occasion to notice, and like many 
other rodents, especially among the Murid@, this animal is 
undoubtedly carnivorous whenever a tayorable opportunity 
offers.—E. W. Newson (Tucson, Arizona, April 22). - 


Tue Arrow-HEAD IN THE Swan.—ZLditor Forest and 
Stream: In a recent issue of your paper is a cut of an iron 
arrow-head taken from a swan killed in Chesapeake Bay. 
During my explorations in Alaska I secured seyeral quivers 
of iron-tipped arrows, notched like the original of your cut, 
and the form being unusual, The region whence I secured 
iny notched iron’arrow-heads is probably the same whence 
the swan brought its unwelcome burden. My arrows of 
this character are all from the Upper Yukon River, about 
two hundred miles above Fort Yukon, and are from the 
Tutch6ne-Kutchin tribe of the Chippeway Indians. I scarcely 
need add that swans are very abundant on the Upper Yukon. 
—E. W. Newson (Tucscn, Ariz., April 22), 


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cockatoo (male), two slender-billed cockatoos, one Alexandrine par- 
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4 laughed at the idea,’ 


I saw the judge (?) coming’ down the street, and T remarked 
to a gentleman in the store, ‘‘Here vomes Mr, Blank, and I 
mean to have some fun at his expense.” I had just finished 
& gun for my own use, and taking the Purdy out of the case 
as Khe came in, I said. ““How do you like this gun for an 
imitation Purdy?” Ile answered, ‘'Pretty fair gun, but not 
to be compared to Purdy’s work.” Now he shot a Purdy 
gun himself, but it was an old pattern, while the one I was 
showing him was 4 new and later date. 1 then handed him 
my own gun, which I had made, and asked him how much 
difference he would give in preference of the imitation 
Purdy over mine. He examined both guns attentively and 
said he would not give my gun for two like the other, I 
then told him to examine it again, for although an imitation 
it was a very fine piece of work, He examined it again and 
made the same statement as at first. I then told him it was 
a genuine Purdy, but could not get him to believe it until he 
found out the owner, If ever you saw a crestfallen man 
that amateur judge of shotguns was ene. He went away, 
and in about two hours returned, making me an offer of 
$250 for my gun with this condition, that 1 would remoye 
my name and substitute Purdy’s. His offer was rejected. 
So much for American work and American judges, 

About the same time I received an order to make a gun 
for $175. As the gentleman wanted the gun by a certain 
time I proposed ordering one for him; this he would not 
consent to, so 1 began the work for him, Every day he 
visited me and saw the gun made by me, piece by piece, and 
I think I gave him more individual work than any maker in 
England would have done. I received the barrels in the 
tubes, Iput them together. breeched, made the lecks and ~ 
mounting, stocked, finished and engraved the gun for him, 
I got his permission to exhibit it at a coming fair, which 
began three days after I had promised-to deliver it to him, 
and together with a rifle I had also made, I placed it on ex- 
hibition. This was in 1869, 1 received first on both guns, 
a diploma on each for the best gun made in the State, and a 
silver cup on each for the best gun on exhibition open to the 
world. The judges stated that they had not thought such a 
gun could be manufactured in Amcrica. The owner after- 
ward exhibited the same gun in Alabama, and took the 
premium for best gun on exhibition. Some years afterward 
{ exhibited it against a gun costing $475. Two gunmakers 
were on the examining committee. Both guns were entirely 
stripped, and after close examination, I received first prize, 
a gold medal valued at $50, for the best double gun. 
The gun was worth more money than I got for it; 
for I did the work for exhibition and the owner bene- 
fited. He bought a common English gun to soot from 
a boat -to use for one trip. He paid $18 for it. It 
had Purdy’s name stamped on the barrels, He brought 
it to me to examine and see if it was safe. I told him it was 
as far as the barrels were concerned, but that the locks were 
not safe, which is the case with all common English guns, 
but these he said he would risk, On his return he told me 
that he had played a good joke on afriend of his. They 
started on a hunt, and when the friend looked at the gun, 
which had been made to order by myself, he remarked, 
“Pretty nice gun,” and when he saw the name on it, said, 
“Imported by —— of » “No,” said the owner, ‘‘he 
made the gun for me.” ‘‘How much did he charge you for 
it?” was the next query. ‘‘$175)" was the answer. ‘‘Phew!” 
he whistled, and said, ‘“‘By thunder! he knows how to charge 
for his work.” Nothing more was said that day on the sub- 
ject. The following day they went on the river duck shoot- 
ing, when the gentleman took his $18 gun with him. He 
handed that to his friend, and asked, ‘‘Whatdo you think 
of this gun?” He looked at it and answered, ‘‘You have 
fine guns.” ‘‘What do you think of $500 for this,” inquired 
the gentleman. ‘‘Oh!’’ was the reply, ‘Purdy is a fine 
maker.” ‘‘You don’t whistle to-day,” remarked the owner, 
‘I don’t understand,” was the reply, ‘“‘Why,” said the gen- 
tleman, ‘‘You whistled when I told you my other gun cost, 
$175.” “But,” was the answer, ‘‘you don’t compare this 
gun with the one you had yesterday. Why, the maker of 
this is the finest in England.” ‘‘Well,” replied the owner, 
“fF should not think 1 would compare them, This gun 
cost me $18, and the name on the barrel is a fraud, Purdy 
never saw the gun.” Now, no doubt but this judge of work 
and prices would be just as willing to air his opinions on 
American work as ‘‘Wells” has been. Sometimes persons 
exposé their ignorance when they least expect to. In the 
case just noticed, the man knew that Purdy was a fine 
maker only from reputation, and made himself a laughing 
stock. 

It is amusing to see what blasted fools some men do make 
of themselves. They know but little and they think every 
one as stupid as they are. One of this sort brought a gun to 
me for repairs; it was a Belgian gun and had “Manton” 
stamped on it. He remarked to me when he handed it to 
me, ‘‘This is the finest gun you ever had in your store. My 
grandfather had it made to order by old Joe Manton, and it 
cost $500.” I looked at him inastonishment. The gun was 
not five years old and the cost was about $16. I told him he 
must be mistaken. He immediately became very angry, and 
said I did not know a fine gun when I saw one. I took the 
barrels out of the stock and showed him the Belgian proof, 
when he snatched the gun out of my hands and leit the store, 
and, although we were soldiers together and brother officers, 
hehas never spoken to me since. This circumstance taught 
me a lesson; and now, if a man were to bring in a broom- 
stick and say it was the finest gun I ever saw, I should not 
contradict him. I have had a number of similar cases since. 
One day a man brought me a gun to repair, with ‘‘W. Rich- 
ards” on the barrels, and worth about $40. He said it had 
been made to order by Westley Richards at a cost of $300. I 
said not a word, only looked at, him. A doctor who was 
present noticed my look, and when the young blood had 
gone he inquired what it meant. I told him my experience, 
and showed a ‘‘Westley Richards” and made comparisons, 
He laughed heartily, and said it reminded him of a cireum- 


“stance which he knew of where just as great ignorance had 


been chown, A gentleman of his acquaintance had set him- 
self up 2s a judge of fine paintings. He had all the names of 
the masters at his tongue’s end, and, like the gun judges with 
Manton, Purdy, Richards, Greener, Dougall, Scott, Powell 
and Riley, he could discuss the merits of cach quite fluently. 
So far did be carry this that whenever a new painting was 
purchased by a wealthy citizen, he was at once sent for to 
One day he and the Doctor stepped 
into a paint shop, and the judge’s attention was immedi- 
ately drawn to a painting which was hanging against the 
wall. Heswid, ‘Doctor, look at this piece of work, by one 
of the masters. Why, itissplendid. 1 know the author of 
that, but I now forget it; but he was one of the finest in his 
day.” He inquired of the clerk, who said he thought it 
belonged to the ‘‘boss.” ‘‘l wonder,” gaid the judge, 


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“where he got it from, Tt is the finest piece of work I have 
examined for years.” Soon after the painter came in, The 
judge asked him, ‘‘Mr. ——, is that picture yours?” The 
painter said it was, ‘‘Will you sell it?” ‘‘Yes.” ‘How 
much will you take for it?” ‘Five dollars.” He put bis 
hand in his pocketbook and drew out a V, while the painter 
unhung the picture, and he whispered in the Doctor’s ear, 
“Why, what a fool he is; it is worth a hundred.” Then 
turning to the painter he inquired if he knew the history of 
the picture and who painted it. ’‘Yes,” said the painter, 
‘I did.” The V was returned to the pocket and the painter 
lost the sale, while the Doctor’s opinion of his friend’s judg- 
ment in matters of art, you may knew, was considerably 
less. He had read but did not know anything of the old 
masters and their creations. So with the gun judges; with 
the coolest assurance they will say to you, ‘There is no use 
in your saying this or that to me, for I have handled a gun 
all my life.” So had the gentleman above seen pictures all 
of his life, and so have 1 carried watches for thirty years; 
but 1 have better sense than to put my opinions against a 
watchmaker’s, or to state in public print which country 
makes the best. Iwill leave that to men in the business 
who are judges, and I will not injure any country or indi- 
vidual through my ignorance. 

Now, understand me, I do not mean to say that the best 
guns are manufactured in America, What I do say is that 
the best gun for the money is made in America. <A $50, or 
$75, or $100 American gun will outwear any foreign gun of 
the same price, and in purchasing them there is no danger 
of ever being swindled, as you often are with those of for- 
eign make. The reason why the finest guns are not manu- 
factured here is that in nine cases out of ten, if an American 
is able to buy a $500 gun, he would not have it made here 
even if he knew it could be made better, and why? Because 
it is not fashionable, and would lack the name unless he 
could get one manufactured at half price and have an Eng- 
lish maker’s name stamped on it, like the chap who wanted 
me to erase my name for am English maker’s. And, lest 
your readers may think I write this to advertise my business, 
you will have to excuse my name and accept my nom de 
plume, Vitus 


SOUTHERN SHOOTING GROUNDS. 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 


Th pursuance of your idea of investigating new fields for 
sportsmen in the South, I took special notes by the way be- 
tween St. Augustine and this city, coming by the Waycross 
and Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad from Jacksonville. Since 
the line has been opened between Waycross and Jackson- 
ville, it is much easier to get into the rich hunting grounds 
of the Okefinokee Swampthan formerly. Now, those daring 
huntérs who want to test their bravery and skill can do so 
by following bear, wildcat, panther, and other dangerous 
animals in the depths of that splendid fieid for game. 

Going southwest from Waycross, there are numerous points 
in the neighborhood of which game of a most enticing char- 
acter abounds, Within easy reach of Valdosta, Quitman, 
Thomasville, Bainbridge and Chattahoochee there are plenty 
of small birds, fox-squirrels, wild turkeys, pheasants, quail, 
deer, and occasionally bear and panther. 

Among the knobs and numerous streams that abound west 
ef Thomasville to the river, there isas wild country asa 
hunter ever trod, and it requires the quickest kind of eyes, 
quicker powder, and dead shot work to bag any kind of 
game in those jungles. Those sportsmen who have been 
haunting the section, report that the sport is lovely and ex- 
citing beyond anything that can be imagined. Much of the 
interest that attends a season of shooting in that seetion, lies 
in the spice of danger and adventures that occur daily to 
those who indulge in that kind of pleasure. There is a deal 
of jungle in the region, in the lairs of which it is very neces- 
sary to travel with eyes wide open and ready fingers to call 
on the trigger in sudden emergencies. This is in broad con- 
trast with hunting in the pine forests in the eastern part of 
Georgia, where there is comparatively no undergrowth, and 
where a deer can be seen a mile away browsing on the low 
grass, and where they see the hunter and are smart enough 
to keep beyond long range. 

Crossing the Chattahoochee River, we came by the new 
railway to Pensacola, and found the route one of the most 
delightful that we have ever traveled on in the South. The 
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company owns the line, 
and have provided {the trains with buffet and sleeping cars 
and every modern appliance necessary for the comfort of 
travelers. Winding that this new line will be popular with 
hunters andanglers, especially from the North, Superintend- 
ent Harahan has arranged matters so that sportsmen shall 
have every advantage they may desire to pursue their object 
in that quarter. Mr, Chipley, the superintendent of the line, 
has a fondness for dog, gun, rod and liney and consequently 
a kindred feeling for brethren of the craft. Hence, the 
order stands that dogs and guns must be well cared for on 
the P. & A. R. R., and those who hunt along the line will 
find royal treatment, kindly favor and attentions that will 
surely make the mest exacting fall in love with the manage- 
ment that provides for their enjoyment, 

With regard to the quality of sport and game ground 
within convenient reach, itis only necessary to state that 
the field is entirely new, has never been pot-hunted, and 
seldom invaded by professionals or parties of amateurs. 
Those who go would have to take camp equipage, but so 
little is required for shelter and cuisine that the equipment 
need not be anything more than each person can readily 
carry. Among the pines, there are no musquitoes or noxious 
insects to worry one, and the balsamic odors always pervad- 
ing the atmosphere are simply charming. Pheasants abound 
in all portions of that region, and quail are plentiful in the 
vicinity of every old plantation throughout that section of 
South Alabama. There is plenty of big game also to the 
north and south of the line in the vicinity of Westville, 
Crestville, Marianna and Milton. Along the streams in this 
region, there are old plantations, in the surroundings of 
which game of the most attractive kind abounds. 

In the vicinity of Milton, Escambia Bay and all of the 
broad and magnificent sheets of water that are in that re- 
gion, there is more fine duck and snipe hunting than can be 
found in any other area of like size on this continent. This 
kind of game has scldom been disturbed in their haunts, and 
finding safety they have increased to astounding numbers, 
The bunters who have investigated this new field report ex- 
travagant results of their shooting, and what they say is 

t empting beyond all measure to an old hand who likes to try 
new and prolific ranges to test waning skill and work within 
the limits of our lessened powers of endurance and fatigue. 
Ob, it is very nice to hunt lazily and yet make bags in an 
hour that in other lands and years required a day of hard 


work to fill. Im this land of soft sunshine and sleepiness, 
where even the fish and game take their siestas carelessly, it 
is charming to hunt without much labor, and snooze beneath 
the light of tropical starlit skies. With regard to fish, I do 
not think there is another such stretch of water on the globe 
for varied and delicious fish as that body of soft blue and 
green which lies to the east of Pensacola, Just think of 
pompano and kindred fish, the very name of which delight 
epicures beyond all that the eloquence of words can express, 
and to sail on those waters, drifting with the soft winds that 
blow odorous from isles where the tropical sun distils thous- 
ands of perfumes from myriads of richest flowers. There is 
nothing outside of heaven that one can imagine so delicious, 
so balmy, so elysian, Iam in love with that glorious south 
coast, for in its sweet airs there came to me healing balsams, 
which drove the demon of fever from my blood. Its forests 
gave to me appetite for the tender and rich game with which 
they abound. Its waters have supplied delicious fish, and 
hence it is with the zest of a pleased taste and renewed 
health I write this record, that others may g° there and do 


likewise. DR HE. NAGLE. 
Nw ORLEANS, La. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Two of your correspondents have spoken of using a pink- 
edge wad on powder. I think this a poor plan if shells re- 
main weeks or months loaded, as the grease will certainly 
escape and affect the powder to a certain extent. Will some 
one please try the following, and report success through your 
columns: Over powder place one Baldwin wad, then two 
pink-edge wads or one felt, and then one Baldwin or card- 
board wad; over shot, one Baldwin and cardboard. This 
last, over shot, is to prevent wads from starting, as two are 
more liable to keep in place than one. I use 34 drams pow- 
der for small game and 32 drams for larger; 14 ounces shot. 
My gun is a Parker 12-30, 8 pounds 5 ounces. It is certain 
death at 40 to 50 yards, and if I do miss, I blame the gunner 
and not the gun, and when I make an extraordinary shot I 
credit neither gun nor gunner, but attribute it to the god of 
chance. M. M. 

y GiraARD Manor, Pa., April 10. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

When I first commenced to collect, several years ago, I 
used a 12-bore double-barrel muzzleloader. I next bought 
a single-barrel gun, 12-bore, and with this small, light gun I 
did some very good Work. The last gun, one l am now 
using, is a 14bore double-barrel gun weighing 6 pounds 
13 ounces. I have done some good shooting with this gun 
this winter, and have found it large enough for all kinds of 
birds and animals. The last deer I shot was a large, fine 
buck. 1 shot him 30 yards off, putting ten very large buck- 
shot into his side, all of which went in back of the fore 
shoulder. The shell was loaded with 4 drams powder and 
14 shot. Can many of the 12 and 10-bores beat this? I 
am well aware that for shooting at large bunches of birds a 
10 or 12-bore gun will kill more birds than a 14-bore, as 
they can use more powder and shot in the large bores, but 
for single birds of any kind give me the small bores. I think 
the next gun I buy will be a 16-bore. CHESTER. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

My own experience of some thirty years with the shotgun 
of yariou® makes convinces me that if the best results are 
sought—close pattern and hard hitting, the shells should fit 
the gun chamber perfectly, being neither too long nor short; 
and there should be sufficient wadding over powder to pre- 
vent the escape of gas, My guns have never indicated that 
one wad would doit effectually, except it was a heavy felt 
wad. 

A short time since I fired a few experimental shots from a 
10-bore Parker, for the purpose of ascertaining difference, 
if any, in result between 2$inch and 2{inch brass shells, 
gun being chambered for latter. The shells—four of each— 
were loaded with 4 drams Hazard FG powder and 1} 
ounces (actual weight) Tatham’s No. 4 chilled shot, with 
two pink-edge wads No. 8 over powder and one brown 
No. 8 over shot. I fired two shells from each barrel, then 
cleaned the gun thoroughly and fired the other lengths in 
like manner, distance 40 yards from muzzle of gun, at 30, 


24, 18 and 1¥ inch rings, using same center for each, Aver- 


age result of 2£-inch shells was: 30-inch ring, 1122 pellets; 
24-inch, 88%; 18-inch, 634, and 124nch, 33$. Of 2finch 
shells: 30-inch ring, 1234 pellets; 24-inch, 104%; 18-inch, 
774, and 12-inch 44% Not ashot but showed in fayor of 
the long shells, the small-sized rings showing greater per- 
centage of increase, that of 12-inch averaging some 35 per 
cent., 18-inch 22 per cent., 24-inch 18 per cent., and 30-inch 
9} per cent, over short shells. I had no means of determin- 
ing penetration, but as most of the pellets went through a 
three-quarter-inch pine backing on which the targets were 
tacked, think either showed force enough. The rings were 
made after shots were fired, so asto get the center of pat- 
tern in each target. E. M. G, 
New JERSEY. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

My gun is a 12-80-83, LIload for ducks 4 drams powder, 
1 ounce No, 6 chilled shot, two pink-edge wads over pow- 
der, one overshot. For small game 3}drams powder, ah 
ounce shot. I incline to chilled shot at all times, as it gives 
better penetration with the same amount of powder. I think 
coarse powder gives the best results in breechloaders, also 
the finer sizes of shot. I find no trouble in killing ducks 
with No. 6 chilled shot up to 50 yards, killing wood ducks 
often, when hunting snipe with No. 9 chilled shot, I gen- 
erally fasten the top wad with a little mucilage, having no 
trouble with them starting, Another thing ] notice, that 
most persons like a 30-inch barrel. I once owned a gun with 
a 23}-inch barrel that was a splendid shooter, and the gentle- 
man I shoot with uses a 25-inch. H. E, , 

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. 


Editor Horest and Stream: 

Your correspondent ‘‘S, 8. W.,” in issue of April 10 says 
—speaking of my remarks in reference to 10.and 12-bore 
guns:—“Now if he will tie the 12-bore down to the proper 
charge for a 20-bore, the 12-bore will be in the same place as 
the 10.” I reply, not quite, ‘‘S. S. W.”is mistaken, A 
charge of 24 drams of powder and 1 ounce of shot with a 
12-bore, will give a closer pattern at 40 yards than can be 
got out of a larger charge of powder, with sufficient pene- 
tration to kill a duck at that distance and even ten yards. 
further. I have killed a black duck sitting at fully 40 yards, 
with barely 1 dram powder and 14 ounces of shot, “‘stone 
dead,” too, For duck shooting with a 20-bore, the charge of 


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powder should not be less than 24 drams, and that of shot 
not less than 1 ounce. With this charge, and careful hold- 
ing, a 12-bore gun, choked on the same principle as my ham- 
merless, will give a good account of itself every time, up to 
50 yards and even 60 yards when held straight. A 10-bore 
with heavy charges and consequently larger killing circle is 
better, I readily admit, for shooting at flocks—a little better 
only—but I cannot see the necessity of a weapon heavier 
than 74 pounds and 12-bore, to kill a single bird at all 
ordinary ranges, ending, let us say for certainty, at 80 yards 
as the maximum. By this] do not mean to admit that a 
flock of ducks, either sitting or flying, would be quite safe in 
si of a 12 bore gun charged with either No. 1 or No. 3 
shot. 

From the drift of opinion as indicated by many articles in 
your journal, it seems to me that the day of unnecessarily 
heavy guns and wasteful shattering charges is rapidly draw- 
ing toaclose. I have given a pretty fair trial to both the 10 
and the 12, and I must confess to a preference for the latter, 
not because popular opinion is now largely in its favor, but 
on account of its being—taking it all in all—according to 
the tangible and practical restlts of my experience, the 
handier and the better gun. ALGONQUIN, 

Orrawa, April 14, 1884. 


Eidttor Forest and Stream: 

I have been not a little amused in reading the article by 
“Byrne” in your issue of April 24. I again assert the “truly 
wonderful fact, preposterous as it is,” that a heayy charge of 
coarse, slow-burning powder, fired from a 26-inch barrel, 
will blow some of it out without being burnt. In regard to 
his lunar tube experiment, I think if he stayed here among 
his friends and would close the end of that tube with his 
hand, it would be torn to pieces by the grains of unburnt 
powder, “‘although gunpowder is notably sensitive to fire,” 
I do not state this as ‘‘a fact, as my personal experience has 
not proven it.” Now, about what “A.” finds in the snow. 
I admit that ‘‘powder is a compound substance, made up of 
three very different things, with no two things exactly alike.” 
L also admit that, with some gunners even their first shot in 
a day’s hunt is froma foul gun, and the marks in the snow 
are from “the loosened powder scale left in his gun from 
former charges,” but Lagain assert that a heavy charge of 
slow-burning powder, forced from a short gun barrel, will 
stain that snow with its unburnt grains. I have lived for 
many years in the anthracite region of this State and have 
had some experience in the mines, and on several occasions, 
when the miners haye been injured by premature blasts, 
have picked from their flesh grains of powder that haye been 
blown there by the force of the explosion. I invite ‘“‘Byrne”’ 
to come over here among these Blue Ridge hills and hunt 
quail and pheasants with me. My guns, dogs and team are 
at his service. While we differ we can be friends, 


SPICEWOOD. 
CENTRALIA, Pa. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have used shotguns for the past twenty-five years, often 
owning at some times two or more of different gauge, length 
of barrel and weight, some of them chokebore more or less, 
others cylinder, including muzzle and breechloaders, and 
have made many experiments in the matter of testing the 
shooting qualities of different gauges as shown by pattern 
and penetration on target, the only true test. Some of my 
experiments in loading will be found recorded in Forrsr 
AND STREAM, issue of March 29, 1883, page 169, entitled 
‘Hints About Loading.” I believe, for the reason there 
stated, that better results can be obtained as to pattern, and 
especially penctration, by loading either breech or muzzle- 
loading guns substantially as described than by any other 
mode, viz.: Use about five parts coarse and two parts fine 
powder, always putting fine powder on top of the coarse; 
for wads, use one heavy cardboard wad one gauge smaller 
than bore of gun, then one good felt wad one or two gauges 
larger than bore, on this and next to shot put a firm leather 
wad of same gauge as cardboard wad, with a charge of shot 
properly proportioned to bore of gun and amount of powder 
used (and this must be ascertained by a series of experi- 
mental shooting with the individual gun), with a felt wad 
on shot. JI recommend this mode of loading for both muzzle 
and breechloaders, uniess paper shells are used, when the 
large felt wads might cause the shell to bulge. Of course, 
it takes a little more time to load, but it produces clean 
killing. 

T do not believe there is any freat difference as to the ac- 
tual killing range as indicated by penetration of the several 
gauge guns in common use, while there is a great difference 
in the hitting circle ur range in favor of an 8 gauge, loaded 
with 6 to 7 drams of powder snd large amount of shot, over 
the 20-bore, with its light charge of powder and shot, One 
of the hardest hitters 1 have ever seen shot is a 16-bore, 23- 
inch barrel, single breechloading gun converted by a country 
gunsmith from an army carbine. Weight 64 peunds, But 
little inferior to this gun is a semi-hammerless of 12-gauge, 
30-inch barrel, and of not quite 6 pounds weight, made by 
the American Arms Company, of full choke, muzzle being 
contracted by swedging. Itisa cheap twist gun, but the - 
pattern and penetration is extra, Both of these guns are 
worthless for any shooting except sitling shots at long range. 
One of the best field guns I ever used had been 2 82-inch bar- 
rel, 10-bore, of about 8 pounds weight, a tmauzzleloader, the 
muzzle of one barrel had been blown off through the care- 
lessness of the user, who accidentally filled it with mud 
which was uot removed until it was carried away with the 
muzzle attached. Previous to the accident the gun was 
nothing extra asa shooter, Asan experiment, the barrels 
were reduced to 26 inches in length, nothing further being 
done to them. The right barrel proved to be extra, both 
for pattern and penetration, while the left lost nothing by 
the change in length. j 

My preference is for a full 12-bore, 28-inch gun, of 7% 
pounds weight, right barrel cylinder, left modified choke- 
bore, 1 chose such a gun after having tested several 
different gauges, length of barrels and weight of gun, on 
woodcock, grouse, rabbits and other game found im coyer 
shooting in Central New York. ’ 

Will some one who has examined a Pieper ‘‘rifled choke” 
inform me through columns of Forest AND STREAM what 
form of rifling or grooves is used, and how many are put 
inte a 12-gauge gun; also state how broad and deep such ~ 
prooves are. os mt ee 

I quite agree with ‘‘Green Wing” and “‘Vox” that there 
should not be a shoulder at inner end of ‘shell chamber, espe- 
cially if. metal shells are to be used. There was none in the 


16-bore I have mentioned, and but little in the semi-ham- 


merless, and no gun of any gauge, either muzzle or breech- 


improvement on 
i. 


loading, will give better penetration. 
Is the pisto] grip in its several forms an 


the old-fashioned, Jong, slim, easy grip, or does it not have a 
tendency to cause the butt of the gum to be raised too high 
in snap-shooting, with consequent under-shooting at the 
bird? isitnot a fact that the substitution of the rubber 
buti-plate in the form now used for the old-fashioned metal 
one hollowed out to fit the shoulder is detrimental to correct 
aiming in quick shooting? M. E, B. 
Winunrr, N. Y. 


TWO-EYED SHOOTING. 


Editor Forest and Stream: “ 

In response to your kind invitation to ‘‘contribute oc- 
casionally” to your valuable journal, I thought an explan- 
ation of how two-eyed shooting is practiced and its advan- 
tages over the almost universal method of sighting over the 
rib with one eye shut, would, to some of your readers, be in 
teresting and instructive. What I mean by two-eyed shoot- 
ing is keeping both eyes wide open and not sighting the gun, 
I know of no one (except myself) at the South, who shoots in 
this way. At the North, I understand it is not the rule but 
by no means unusual. To succeed at all in this kind of 
chooting, it is imperative that the gun must eae fit the 
shooter. What I mean by ‘‘nearly” will be explained further 
on, WhatI mean by “fit” is, when the gun is thrown to 
the shoulder, it will point at the object to be shot at, There 
dre two ways of determining the fit of a gun. One isto 
stand in front of a mirror and look at your reflection in the 
eyestintently; throw up the gun to your shoulder, keeping 
your eyes fixed on your reflection’s eyes, and if the gun fits 

ou will not see more than a half inch of the rib of your gun 
and the gun will be pointing directly at your eyes. If you 
see more of the rib your gun is too crooked or too much drop. 
If you don’t see any portion of the rib your gun is too straight 
or not enough drop, ‘ 

Now comes in the ‘‘nearly” referred to above. When you 
get a gun to fit, as per above rule, you will find that you will 
undershoot rising birds and birds at long distances; there- 
fore it is advisable to get a gun that shoots a little high or 
‘nearly a fit.” Having selected your gun you have only, 
when going to shoot, to look at the object to be shot at in- 
tently, and until you fire, with both eyes wide open. Throw 
up gun, and from moment of throwing gun up to time of 
discharge, let there be an interval of about two seconds. (In 
throwing gun up or down, the muscular exertion forces the 
gun below or above the object, but almost instantly recovers 
and follows the eye.) A little practie will convince any one 
that it is the only correct way to aim a gun. The other way 
of determining if a gun fits, is to target with both eyes open. 
If it shoots high the stock is too straight, if below too 


~ crooked. ' 


It will require some practice to change from the old ruts, 
but once out there will be no regret at the change. The ad- 
yantage in this kind of shooting is apparent in pond duck- 
shooting, where ducks come into ponds so late of evening 
(to roost) that one eannot see the sights on his gun, and if 
one eye was shut he would not see his duck, Again, in snap 
shooting one needs both eyes*to follow the quick turns of a 
bird in cover, and thirdly, distance cannot be estimated with 
one eye shut, with both eyes you can do much better. ° 

SPORTSMAN. 

CoLuMmsBus, Ga. 


There is something of a discussion in the English papers 
upon the subject of using both eyes when aiming, and a re- 
cent writer in the London Times says: 

“Pwo-eyed aiming is carried out similarly to one-eyed 
aiming, with this great difference—that the left eye is kept 
quite open and looking at the target with all its power. The 
aim is actually taken with the right eye, but instead of de- 
pending on it alone the shooter utilizes the other to help the 
aim; to tell him, as it were, that his aim is exact and not de- 
viated from in pulling the trigger, If he use one eye only, 
even if his aim be exact in the first instance, there is nothing 
to assist him in maintaining that exactness until the gun be 
discharged, neither can he sheot with the same rapidity. 
All he has to insure accuracy is his more or less muscular 


power to hold the gun in the exact position he has given it | 9 


on taking aim, or with one eye open, only there is a frac- 
tional but_most critical moment whes he must lose sight of 
the object aimed at, because that eye gets more or less behind 
the sights on the gun, which are actually intervening. To 
overcome this he must not only aim slowly, but do so over 
the top of the front sight, and this is called ‘drawing a fine 
bead.’ Virtually, when he uses both eyes, the sights become 
transparent, and interpose no obstacle to his clear view of 
the target, and this can be easily demonstrated in the follow- 
ng way: 
“Tet the reader of this cut a card of some few inches in 
length into the shape of the letter V, with the limbs over 
half an inch in breadth (I give these comparatively large 
dimensions to all the more severely test the question), but 
with these limbs meeting, just as a V does at an acute angle. 
Let him hold this card right in front of his face and look 
toward the top of a chimney or a house at some distance or 
any point of a pinnacle or other well-defined object just ap- 
pearing between the limbs at the bottom of the open space 
in the Y. Doing this with both eyes open, the solid card 
will disappear, but Jeave in .its place a sufficiently distinct 
although transparent form, becoming the very ghost of its 
solid self, if the Society of Psychical Research will allow 
me to call it so, and the object looked at will be in no man- 
ner obscured from view. Let him then, keeping the card in 
this position, shut the left eye, and he will find that the 
right is domg the actual aiming, although he had taken no 
means to provide for this, and this fact is the sole mystery, 
at least tome. The card will then also become solid or 
opaque to the sight, but retaining its position in reference to 
the point or pinnacle. Let him, however, shut his right 
eye instead of the left, and he will find that, while the card 
also becomes opaque, it has apparently shifted its position 
very considerably—several inches—toward the right hand. 
He will now begin to see what the two-cyed system does. 
_ It clears away obstacles in the gun itself, it strengthens his 
vision, it increases his available light, and it lets him use his 
left eye, not to aim with, but to strengihen considerably by 
its what I may tautologically call ‘‘supervision,” the aim 
which the other is taking. Jf he then continues to hold the 
card in the desired position, he will readily see how easily he 
loses exactness with one eye only, and how well he can 
maintéf#the exactness with both eyes open. The VY is as 
the rear right of the rifle, and for exactness may be held*at 
the same distance from the eye—that being some fifteen 
inches, The absence of the front sight in no way affects 
this illustration. 'The left eye, I may state at the risk of re- 
Petition, looks, as it were, round the sight on the gun, yir- 
tually obliterates it, and tells the right eye at once of any 


aberration it is making in its aim, thus acting as its faithful 
guide and supporter.” ek 
The British Medical Journal takes up the subject editori- 
ally, and says: ‘“T'wo-eyed rifle shooting has recently been 
the subject of numerous letters in a prominent morning con- 
temporary. It is perfectly clear from the there recorded tes- 
timony of such eminent authorities on shooting as Dougall, 


Hay, Lowe and Malet, that. person shooting with both eyes 
open has a considerable advantage over those firing in the 
ordinary way under circumstances of varying or defective 
illumination, or where rapidly changing objects form the 
target, and he will probably be at least their equal under or- 
dinary circumstances. The question then arises as to the 
way in which this shooting is effected. In ordinary vision 
the eyes working together have certain incontestable advan- 
tages, even where the image of one eye is suppressed. This 
is well recognized by microscopists, as one of the correspon- 
dents has pointed out, and also by those in the habit of 
using the ophthalmoscope. Theadyantage thus gained is pro- 
bably due to resting of the muscular apparatus, both external 
and internal, of the eye, as vision can continue longer under 
such circumstances without fatigue or aching, A state of 
rest of the eye must also favor accurate taking of 
aim in the ordinary way, though the image of 
the other eye must be suppressed, as in the case 
of the microscope and ophthalmoscope. But there is 
another method of taking aim, that in which the marksman 
does not look carefully along the barrel, or perhaps even 
fails to raise it to his shoulder, but judges the distance and 
direction of the object, and adapts his aim accordingly, It 
is on this principle that a stone is aimed by the hand or a 
pea is aisehnret from a pea-shooter. This method is said 
to be habitually employed by the Chinese, and in ils essential 
points by the distinguished shots to whom reference has been 
made, Under such circumstances the image of the second 
eye, instead of being suppressed, becomes of great use; for 
not only is the vision of each eye rendered less uncertain, 
but the two together see somewhat more distinctly than either 
separately. Also, the distance can be judged far better and 
the aim taken more quickly, points of great practical im- 
portance when rapidly moving objects of unknown size and 
distance are to be aimed at, in circumstances very different 
from those of ordinary shooting at Wimbledon, and far 
more allied to those actually existing in the recent South 
African war. We cordially add our voice to those of the 
eminent shots who are desirous of impressing on the war 
office the merits of this method of shooting.” 

An officer of our own Regular Army commenting on this 


says: 

“The difficulties which the British experienced in their op- 
erations against the Boers are the same as our troops have to 
contend with in their skirmishes with Indians. Firing at 
rapidly changing objecis, especially when those objects as- 
sume the shape of an Indian, is most certainly quite differ- 
ent frem firing at a 600-yard target at Creedmoor or Leaven- 
worth. It is in such campaigns that two-eyed rifle shooting 
is of great advantage, since on rapidly judging the distance 
and quickly taking the aim not only depends the result of the 
shot, but only too often the life of the marksman or one of 
his comrades. It appears that a revised manual of rifle firing 
is in preparation, as stated by the Lieutenant-General of the 
Army in his report to the Secretary of War, dated Feb. 5, 
1884, and the compilers of this manual, the instructors in 
rifle practice and our sharpshooters are invited to give this 
matter their consideration.” 

Recently in experimental firing at Strensall, England, 
Major General Cameron finally ordered a battalion to fire at 
a range of dummy soldiers, with both eyes open and as rap- 
idly as possible, not looking along the barrel of the rifle, but 
keeping their eyes fixed on the enemy, who was supposed to 
be making a rush on the position defended by the volunteers, 
Hight rounds were so fired in sixty-seven seconds, and the 
result completely bore out recent arguments, no less than 38 
per cent. of the shots having struck the dummy figures, 
Drawn up in line against an enemy in the same formation, 
1,000 men would thus deliver 7,000 shots in about a minute, 
with some 2,660 hits, 


A DAY WITH SNIPE. 


HORTLY after the formation of the Curlew Club, in 
1876, I visited this locality in search of snipe, but it 
was an off year for the wary dodgers. I had the pleasure, 
instead, of meeting the members of the Curlew Club, who 
had constructed a handsome club house, fronting Ludlam’s 
Bay. This club included on its roll Wm. P.'Clyde, Dr. A. 
G. B. Hinkle, Wm. Shuster, Wm. Reckless, R. Walter 
Peterson, James Y. P. M, Young, James FE, Wallace, Dr. 
Peltz and other enthusiastic sportsmen. The hospitality of 
these gentlemen was overwhelming, and I was urged to re- 
new my visit ut an Bary date. Time (which, as Byron says, 
makes all things equal) made sad hayoc with the Curlew 
Club. The club reorganized as the Sedge Island Club, and 
increased the limit to thirty members, it having formerly 
been twenty, but dissensions arising among the members, the 
club disbanded. 

These recellections of my early visit were recalled when, 
hearing that a flight of snipe was on, I made my second 
visit to Ocean View, and put up at the house of Capt. T. F, 
Shute, who had officiated for the Curlew Club. The snipe 
grounds here are the Littleworth Meadows—meadows that 
are famous for snipe and known to nine-tenths of our sports- 
men. They were so named because they were of little worth 
to anybody, being regarded as so much useless land. The 
cedar swamp creek runs through the meadows, the tributary 
being the Tuckahoe River. Finer snipe ground, or a richer 
variety and extent of springs, it would be hard to find or 
imagine. The meadows are four miles in length on each 
side of the creek, and when snipe are on it is a good two 
days’ work to cover them properly The ground is made 
historical with the footprints of our eminent sportsmen. 
Here the world-renowned pigeon shot, Mr. Oharles Macal- 
ester (accompanied often by his wife as a keen participator 
in the sport, or by his friends, or by his gunning man, Jake 
Sutton), has whiled away many hours, and hardly had Capt, 
Shute and your correspondent entered the meadows when, 
fastened near a small waterway, we saw a boat, and on the 
oars was branded ‘‘C. Macalester,’ of whom we had been 
speaking only a few minutes before. Our attention was 
then attracted to the dogs, Capt, Shute’s setter dog, Ducket, 
and my pointer bitch, Lady B., having come to a stand. 
“‘Cureful,” said the Captain, and we advanced with anxious 
expectation, Up went two birds. I shot heedlessly and 
missed, but Capt. Shute laid his bird low, and Ducket re- 
Hoe nicely. It was a fine specimen, plump and as fat as 

utter, 7 s— >. 

‘Where there is one there are two, and where there are 


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two there are more,” is the old paradox, and ridiculous as 
the saying is, it is, nevertheless, just as often quoted, We 
were delighted when the dogs again drew up, both having 
got points, Instead of the single birds expected, eight got 
up, and then the slaughter commenced. The Captain’s first 
barrel killed two and his second another, while I nailed one 
with each. We then seemed to be right into the midst 
of fthem, for in twenty minutes more we had a total of 
forty-one birds, with Captain Shute leading your corre- 
spondent by one bird. As many of the birds had crossed 
the creek, we determined to imitate their tactics, and, getting 
into the roadway, did some lively walking for the lower 
bridge and entered the southern meadow, Hardly had we 
entered when several birds flushed wild, but settled ahead 
instead of recrossing, much to our satisfaction. Then we 
got on to a loyely bit of ground, and the first mishap oc- 
curred, a treacherous bog hole treating me to. a dose of mud that 
was anything but pleasant. Captain Shute enjoyed a laugh, 
and said 1 heldup my Greener hammerless as if it werea thing 
of sacred value, The dogs were again sent to work, and the 
finest sport of the day ensued, the birds flushing with a wild- 
ness that was refreshing. 

When we had almost reached the end of the meadow, we 
called in the dogs, and returning to the road where our horse 
and wagon had been ‘‘cornered,” we sat down to ‘‘count,” 
“Thirty-four!” exclaimed Capt. Shute, with an expression 
that plainly said, ‘‘beat that, if you can.” ‘‘Thirty-three,” 
I said, and shook hands with the Captain. ‘‘You heat me 
one bird.” But it was a better beat than that, as we had bet 
champagne (a bottle ou each bird) that we would each kill a 
majority out of the last five birds; Capt. Shute got four out 
of the five, the birds quartering on his side. Satisfied we 
had had a grand day’s sport, we returned to Capt. Shute’s 
pleasant home to partake of a hot and palatable supper, and 
spent the evening, pipe in hand, talking over the various in- 
teresting points of the day. The Captain was proud of his 
victory, becauso he is proud of his Chas. Daly 10-bore, pre- 
sented to him during 1879 by a number of friends and ad- 
mirers. 

My next try will be at the bay birds here, which are ex- 
pected to be unusually numerous this season. I will write 
you a few lines if a chance occurs. B. B. 

OcGEAN ViEW, Cape May County, N. J., April 24. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Kiditor Forest and Stream: 

Most of your correspondents seem to have a craze for re- 
peating rifles, and a large number of them have considerable 
to say about the grizzly and buffalo. Now I would venture 
to say that two-thirds of these sportsmen, should they at any 
time happen to come across said grizzly or bull buffalo, would 
give either a wide berth, for 1 know from experience that 
the grizzly or buffalo of imagination differ materially from 
those in actual life, and this fact can never be fully realized 
until one comes in contact with them. I would suggest that 
a gun for this class of sportsman be of the Gatling species, or 
a sort of crank and funnel gun, one from which cartridges 
could be ground out ad infinitum, or perhaps the new dyna- 
mite gun that has a shooting radius of four miles would be 
better. 

My experience with the rifle extends over a period of fif- 
teen years on the Pacific from the Isthmus of Panama north 
to British Columbia. Have used all kinds of rifles, and have 
killed game from the smallest squirrel to bear, elk and deer. 

I dislike the repeating rifles, first, on account of its pecu- 
liar construction, which renders it liable to get out of order 
at any time. Second, the rifle is never of the same weight, 
and at each discharge it becomes lighter. Third, the wasted 
ammunition of one becomes careless, and one would kill 
far more game than he kills, for if he misses the first shot he . 
will continue to pump away as long as he can see anything, 

To illustrate the above: *I was on an elk hunt, in South- 
ern Oregon, in the fall of ’82, in company with two gentle- 
men who were armed with the Winchester repeating rifle. 
I used a Remington single-loader, .40-70. We tracked up 
and got into a band of fifteen elk. The moment we came 
in sight of the game my Winchester friends opened fire and 
fired thirty-two shots before I raised my rifle to my face. 
They killed one elk and wounded another, which | after- 
ward killed with a single shot. I then got in position on a 
point of a hill and killed three more in three straight shots, 
making a total of four elk for me in four shots, while my 
Winchester friends got one in thirty-two shots. As a matter 
of course, I did not shoot at random und took no chances, 
but gave each dead shot behind the shoulder. 

Now, without entering into details with regard to the par- 
ticular merits of the different kinds of rifles, I say that with 
a singleloader Remington 80-inch barrel, double trigger, 
.40-70, I can kill anything that walks in the shape of game, 
and were I going into an Indian country, where one’s hair is 
liable to be lifted at any time, I would want no better gun, 

Ez RD 


POUGHEEEPSIB, N. Y. 


Ware EL.eraant SHoorme Is New Yorr.—A white 
elephant—the only one left in New York, a creature of 
wickerwork and cotton, fifteen inches taller than Jumbo, 
owned by the roller skating rink people, and used like the 
other white elephants for advertising purposes—halted in 
Printing House square at half past 5 last evening, to give the 
Siamese high priest in ultra-Oriental toggery a chance to 
figure on the walking match scores and see how he was likely 
to ceme out. It was the hour when many are starting home 
from their work, und the bulletins from the Garden and the 
presence of the elephant had attracted a crowd. In the 
throng was a vague and elusive small boy who had read of 
elephants slain in Africa by Stanley with his elephant rifle. 
The boy did not happen to have such a thing as an elephant 
rifle about him, but he carried acap pistol in the after pocket 
of his knickerbockers, This he drew, and fancying that the 
elephant might be vulnerable in his off hind heel, let him 
have it. The shot took effect and the boy took his depar- 
ture. The persons standing on the City Hall Park sidewalk 
saw asmall flame creeping up the hollow hind leg of the 
artificial pachyderm as flames creep up the elevator wells in 
fireproof apartment houses, With great rapidity the blaze 


spread to every part of the elephant save his trunk. 
It broke through his back and flamed up as 
high as the wires on the tall telegraph poles, 


The high priest’s attention was attracted from the 
walkers’ scores, He jumped from the truck on which 
the elephant stood, and, catching the burning creatare 
by the trunk, endeavored to persuade him to come off, The 
driver leaped down and unhitched the four heavy dapple- 
gray horses from the truck. Policeman Hawkins rang an 
alarm from the fire box in front of Freneh’s Hotel, The 


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colossal figure of Franklin stood within a few yards of the | spear, for he is progressive himself, and the steamers and 


blaze, with one hand extended, in the attitude taken by Mr, | sailing craft on our 1 


Barnum when he gestures toward his sacred elephant and 
says: “Gentlemen, behold! behold!” Hook and Ladder 1 
was the first to answer the alarm, and came up with sound 
of gongs and rattle of wheels. Hngine 7 was only a few 
seconds behind, filling the square with denser smoke than 
that from the blazing white elephant, Engines 12 and 29 
thundered up, and Hook and Ladder 10 arrived. The in- 
suranee patrol was on hand, and last of all the water tower 
came rumbling into the square. The chiefs of the First and 
Second battalions rattled up in their little red wagons. The 
firemen seemed astounded. Que of Engine 7’s men was the 
first to attack the flames. This he did with a small chemical 
extinguisher just as High Priest Slee, Principal Keeper Hall 
and yoluntcers from the crowd succeeded in toppling the 
blackened frame of the elephant off the truck. It was a 
noteworthy spectacle—Three fire engine companies, with 
machines belching black smoke, two hook and Jadder com- 
panies, the water tower, hose carts, chiefs’ wagons, the 
patrol, a great crowd surging around, an array of policemen 
in the midst of it, and one fireman playing a half-inch stream 
out of a tin can on the charred wreck of the elephant’s 
framework. Hesoon got the conflagration under control, 
The high priest said he thought he would know the small 
boy if he should see his again. Odds of two to one were 
freely offered that he wouldn’t see him.—/Vew York Sun, 
April 30. 


Mr. Henry C. Squrrus, who has lately removed from 
Cortlandt street to his new and more commodious quarters 
at No. 178 Broadway, has just issued a voluminous cata- 
logue of sportsmen’s tools and luxuries. The. primary pur- 
pose of the publication is presumably to produce polyprag- 
maty in Mr. Squires’s store; but*apart from this the compila- 
tion is valuable as a compendious and useful book of 
information about the thousand and one things that the 
gunner of the day needs, or thinks he needs. The illustra- 
tions are numerous and lucid. Mr. Squires, we infer, does 
a cash business, for he gives no credit for the gems of senti- 
ment mined from the FoREsT AND STREAM, which flash out 
to illuminate his prosaic price lists. 


New York GAMe Districtrs.—Three new districts have 
been formed under the law for the protection of fish and 
game, and protectors will be appointed within a few days. 
One district includes Jefferson and Oswego counties, one is 
in the heart of the Adirondacks, and the third includes a 
strip of territory extending from south of the Mohawk 
River to the State line. The protector of this district is also 
to be a protector of the State at large, and is to be under the 
direction of Gen. R. U. Sherman, of the Board of Commis- 
sioners. Gen. Sherman has taken a great interest in this 
matter, and has given much earnest thought to it, 


OLEAN SPoRTSMAN’s CLUB.—At the annual election at 
Olean, April 25, the following officers were elected for the 
year: Fred. R. Eaton, President; E. M. Johnson, Vice- 
President; W. R. Page, Secretary; A. P. Pope, Treasurer. 
Hxecutive Committee—A, P. Pope, C, B, O’Donnell, F. H. 
Oakleaf, H. W. Curtis. W. H. Simpson.—Y. 


Home-Mapvr Huntine Surr.—A suit of the proper color 
(for ducks) can be made of cheap, material from coffee sacks, 
which are just the right color. I think the poor success of 
some duck hunters is undue movement on the approach of a 
flock, and too small time allowance ahead, for cross shots and 
over, for ducks rising from the water.—H, E, H. 


Mountary QuaAtn.—Lowell Hill, California, April 19.— 
Mountain quail are whistling in all directions. Thousands 
of them are coming up from the valleys and are pairing off, 
They will follow up the Sierr## to their very summits as fast 
as the snow disappears.—J. W. B. 


Sea and River ishing. 


CONCERNING BLACK BASS. 
BY A. N, CHENRY. 
[Read before the Anglers’ Association of the St. Lawrence River.] 


Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Anglers’ Association of 
the St. Lawrence htver: 
While your worthy corresponding secretary could have 
asked many anglers far more competent to “prepare a paper. 
in regard to the habits of the black bass, the various means 
of catching them by angling, the baits used, and the placcs 
where they are to be found at different seasons of the year,” 
he could not have asked one who is a greater admirer of the 
gvod and game qualities of this fish, which is destined to 
stund in the not far away future, if it does not already, at 
the head of the list of game fishes that are to be found in 
the greater area of the waters of our State. Long may the 
slorious Saloelinus fontinalis be spared to us by the exertions 
of anglers’ associations, like your own, to enforce just laws, 
and a liberal State government to provide the fry by arti- 
ficial means. 

But the black bass has even now, in many sections, in- 
vaded the haunts of this patrician beauty, and he is ener- 
getically and constantly seeking new fields, He is the 
embodiment of independence, and wherever he finds a home 
he locates to stay, provided the murderous netter and the 
worse spawning-bed thief, leaves him unmolested, for he 
fears no fish that swims, and is the only one of our so-called 
game fish that guards and cares for its young. In this year 
of grace, 1884, the black bass is pre-eminently the game fish 
of the people. The trout streams—greatly diminished in 
yolume—still run or trickle through the farm lands of our 
sires or grandsires, but the trout took their departure soon 
after the ‘wood lot” was cleared, or remain only in story, 
Trout and progress are, in a measure, incompatible. 
Waturally secluded in their habits, the constant hacking of 
the lumberman’s axe and the screech of the locomotive 
whistle jar upon their sensitive nerves, and they retreat be- 
fore civilization, snd the modern savage—he of the net and 
spear—and are now only feund, or mostly found, in places 
that are inaccessible to the mass of the people, either by rea- 
son of the distance to the favored location, or the expense 
necessary fur comfortable sojourn in these remote haunts, 
or lack of knowledge of the comparatively few profitable 
fishing waters, or waut of time for an extended journey, or 
all combined. , , 

The black bass, on the contrary, fears only the net and 


akes and rivers are his familiars, and he 
is on good terms with the mule-propelled vessels in the great 
ditches, yclept canals. He is a thorough Yankee and proud 
of every acre of this great ‘land of freedom” that gave bim 
birth, and he is a game fish, whether found in the great lakes 
and rivers or small ponds and streams, for he is equally at 
home in the still waters of one and the rapid current of the 
other. The latter, however, heightens his game qualities, so 
that therein he is seen at his very best. But a species of tish 
that produces young in still water that will, when two and 
one-quarter inches long, impale themselves on the hooks of 
a trolling spoon in their efforts to swallow it, requires very 
little heightening of game qualities. 

I have thus far spoken of the black bass without other dis- 
tinguishing descriptions, but as there arc two species of this 
dusky fish, it may be well to separate them. I trust the 
veteran anglers of this association will bear with me while I 
bricfly note a few of the marked differences between tie 
small-mouthed black bass—the Micropterus dolomieu—and 
the large-mouthed black bass—the Mieropterus salmotdes— 
the adjective in each case fitly describes the mouth. In the 
former the maxillary bone or mouth does not extend back to 
a vertical line drawn through the posterior part of the eye; 
while in the latter it reaches to and passes such a vertical 
line. ‘The small-mouth has also smaller scales, there being 
eleven rows of scales between the lateral line und the dorsal 
fin, while the large-mouth has but eight rows of scales be- 
tween the same points. The former again has seventy-five 
to eighty scales along the median line, and the latter sixty- 
five to seventy. The scales of the small-mouth are much 
smaller on the opercle, breast and back of neck than on thie 
sides of the nsh, and on the cheeks they are minute. The 
scales of the large-mouth are little, if any, smaller on the 
breast, back of neck and gill covers than on the sides of the 
body, The notch between the spinus and soft-rayed dorsal 
is deeper in the large-mouth than in the small-mouth. 

As to the game qualities of the two species there is a dif- 
ference of opinion. Some anglers hold that pound for pound 
there is no difference In their activity when on the hook. 
Others contend that the large-mouth is not for a moment to 
be compared to the small-mouth as a game fish. Of tbose 
who hold the latter view are two members of the medical 
profession, well known as angling writers, each having an 
experience with rod and line of more than half a century. 
One says, in a personal Jetter: “The big-mouth smells and 
tastes of the muck, and we do not fishfor them,” The other 
writes: ‘Ido not bother with the big-mouth, for they will 
not fight. When hooked they give a flirt, open their mouths 
and come in like a log of wood.” The author of “The Book of 
the Blaek Bass” champions the cause of the big-mouth, and 
considers him the peer of the small-mouth. Some years ago 
a prominent fishculturist, in writing me about the black bass 
of certain waters, said it was barely possible that they were 
a cross between the large and small mouth, but I have never 
been able to gather any evidence that the two fish would 
cross; on the contrary, there is every reason to believe they 
will not, even when the two varieties are confined in circum- 
scribed waters. 

The record of the experiments in black bass propagation 
by Major Isaac Arnold, Jr., U. 8. Army, is very interesting, 
and I quote the following from it: “The black bass—bot 
species confined together in a small pond—hatched out by 
the thousand, and I think there will be more in a few aay’. 
The young fish are all healthy, but they eat each other. Yes- 
terday my foreman, in less than fifteen minutes, saw nine of 
the young fry swallowed by fish of apparently the same size, 
The large-mouths seem to do the greater part of this work. 
Each day the number of this year’s fry grows lessas the 
strong ones destroy the weaker. The first hatchings are now 
nearly three-quarters of an inch in length, and can probably 
protect thems2lves.” From the dates given, I judge that the 
small fish referred to were about three weeks old. 

The large-mouth thrives in waters with mud bottom, 

wherein are rusiies, reeds and flags; but the small-mouth de- 
lights in clear, cold water, with a bottom of rocks, gravel 
and clean sand, or resorts, during the heat of August, to the 
long. fine grass in deep water. The large-mouth, if sur- 
reunded by as favorable conditions as to habitat as the small- 
mouth, might be a more stot fighter than he is by many 
supposed to be, but I shall hereafter speak only of the small- 
mouth. 
In coloring, the black bass varies from a pale green to 
almost black, growing lighter from the dark back to the 
dusky white belly, and they are spotted, mottled and barred, 
transversely or longitudinally. 1 have also seen them when 
they appeared almost white in the sun as they leaped from 
the water, Color, however, is a very fallacious guide. Ifa 
number of black bass of various colors, or shades of color, 
are confined together alive, they will all become, m a short 
time, of the same hue, and the color will be like that of their 
surroundings. This change takes place evidently at the will 
of the fish, and it is part of a wise provision of nature that 
enables them to thus cloak themselves by assuming a line in 
harmony with their abode for the time being. : ( 

They spawn in running water earlier than in the still 
waters ef alake. In rivers they generally spawn in May or 
early in June; but in lakes or ponds they are on or near their 
nests with their young far into July; and last season I saw 
them with their fry early in August, and heard of them on 
their beds as late as the 21st of the same month. But last 
season they were, for some unknown reason, unusually dila- 
tory iu attending to their domestic duties. "The spawn of 
the black bass is surrounded by a gelatinous fluid that causes 
it to adhere to the stones or gravel of the spawning beds in 
tibbon-like sirings; and for this reason the bass cannot be 
spawned with profit artificially, and there is no necessity for 
attempting it, They only require to be left unmolested at 
the breeding season to thrive and multiply. At this season 
they refuse all food, but they keep their beds swept and 
dusted, and quickly remove any foreign substance that may 
fall upon them. ‘The pot-fisher avails himself of his knowl- 
edge of their cleanly habits and drops a bare hook or hooks 
into the nest; at once the bass takes it into its mouth tocarry 
it from the bed and is ruthlessly snatched out of the water. 
It is this nefarious practice that does more to destroy our 
black bass than any other means used by those who have no 
fear before their eyes of the law or an hereafter. Thousands 
of fish are destroyed, while a few mature bass, unfit for food, 
are thus cruelly killed. I have always to curb my pen when 
writing of this yile murder and those who doit. A fish that 
affords: such grand sport will be allowed by all honorable 
men a bare month, or sucha matter of time, in which to 
produce their young in peice, , 

The spawning of a pair of black bass extends over two or 
three days, and the parent fish remain with their young 

itil they are ten days or two.weeks.old, and the dry prey 


upon each other until they are two or three weeks old, Their 
cannibalistic proclivities cease when they have gained a 
little discretion, but their pugnaciou> qualities grow with 
their growth. A black bass will vanquish a pike of a much 
larger size than himself by swimming swiftly under the 
enemy and cutting him across the belly with a rigidly erect 
dorsal fin. The black bass grows rapidly under favorable 
conditions of water and food, and reaches maturity at three 
years of age. Only a few years ago a black bass of six 
pounds was considered to have attained the maximum 
weight, but more recently small-mouthed bass have been 
caughed of eight pounds in weight for a single fish, Paren- 
thetically, let me say that we have it on good authority that 
the big-mouth has been taken in Florida waters weighing 
eighteen pounds, The larger fish—small-mouth—are go ex. 
tremely fat, however, that they do not display the activity 
of atwo and one-half or three pound fish.. These weights 
are, as a general thing, the size of fish that gives the angler 
the most sport when on the rod. 

Judging frem personal experience, the largest bass are 
caught at an early hour in the morning—the earlier the hour, 
if it be daylight, the better the fishing or catching. When 
the black bass have spawned in the shallow of a river, they 
move seemingly in a body to swift water on the foot of a fall, 
if such there be, and are there caught in numbers in the 
down pour or boil of the rapids. After a few days in this 
rough water, which perhaps reinvigorates them, afte: the ex- 
haustion attendant upon spawning, they fall back and dis- 
perse, to be found just at the foot of the tapids, behind 
some boulder in mid-stream that forms a little eddy, and 
along the shores, just in the edge of deep water. When the 
season advances and the water becomes warmer, they rest in 
deep pools and eddies, and with the approach of winter, 
they retire to broken rocks or submerged longs in deep, still 
water, there to become torpid and hibernate, until released 
by the warm sun of spring. After severe cold weather in 
the fall, a few days of warm sun will awaken them so that 
they will take the hook, if it is let down npon their winter 
quarters. During the fishing season they lie in wait for 
small fish just off the rocky shores, or near a weedy or sand 
points, where the water deepens rapidly, or near a weedy shoal 
shore that harbors bait fish. They make a rush into the shoal 
shore water or weeds, and grasp their prey and return to 
deep water only to repeat the operation as often as hunger 
demands. 

Rocky shoals in midwater are also favorite places for black 
bass in June and early July, and there they may be found 
nearly the whole day, as the water is comparatively shallow. 
These are the places and this is the time for fly-fishing in 
lakes and deep rivers. Nevertheless, the bass will come on 
to the shoals to get food at morning and evening during the 
entire shmmer, so that a little fly-fishing may be had at feed- 
ing time, although one must be prepared for many disap- 
pointments. In September and October the bass are moving 
about in an aimless sort of a fashion, and may be on the 
shoals, shores, off the sand poinis, or in deep water, or in all 
of these places. This is the time to catch the largest fish, 
and they are in prime condi#ion, Let one catch a black bass 
in a cold, clear lake, and he thinks it about the most vigorous 
tish to be found in fresh water, but when he catches one of 
the same fish in the current of a rapid river, he discovers his 
mistake, for river bass afford the finer sport. This is owing, 
in a measure, to the fact that the swift water, sunken bould- 
ers and possible snags add to the chances of the bass to 
escape. ‘Therefore, the angler’s satisfaction is greater if he 
succeeds in saving his fish after a clesely contested fight in 
which the chances are nearly equal. A pound bass may 
afford more pleasure in the catching than one of twice the 
weight. To quote my own words, used when writing of the 
black bass on another occasion‘ 

“Tt is the play that the fish affords that warms the cockles 
of an angler’s heart, not the fish itself; and as one looks 
back over other days, it is the gamy, hard-fighting fish that 
rise up in one’s memory like mile stones along a pathway. 
Greater fish there may be between, but they live only like 
so many pounds and ounces, and occasion no thrill, no 
tremor of the muscles, no increased beating of the heart, no 
particular joy or exhilaration at the retrospect, except that 
they may have beaten some other fellow’s fish, If the mere 
pounds and ounces lived, there can be no thrill. of pleasure 
at the remembrance, for there never was one; nothing—but 
pounds and ounces.” ! 

I have had excellent sport catching black bass in the 
autumn when the water was covered at an early hour iu the 
morning with a dense fog, and in no single instance has 
such a morning failed of good results. But one has to 
choose, I am informed by a female member of my family, 
between the danger of malaria and a good score. I can say 
that to date J have not suffered from malaria because of ex- 
posure in fishing. 

At the season when the bass are roving I have had splen- 
did returns from baiting certain fishing places. For instanve, 
I save all crayfish that die on the hook during an afternoon’s 
fishing; and just before leaving the lake or river, I throw 
them into the water at the best fishing places; the next morn- 
ing I fish these points and again bait them tor evening, The 
baits used for bass are many, including the artificial fly for 
casting and for trolling, the trolling spoon or spinning bait, 
the minnow gangs, with live minnow, and the artificial 
trolling minnow; the live bait, including all small fish which 
are Classified as minnows, and smull perch which are best of 
all, particularly for large bass; the grasshopper and cricket, 
live frogs, crawfish or crayfish, dobsons or helgramite, in 
both the black and white state, and the common eartl worm. 


|'In still-fishing, a dead bait is useless, and the soouer it is 


taken from the hook, and a fresh, lively bait substituted, the 
better. Dobsons and crayfish, both excellent bait when 
native to bass waters, are indifferent or worthless in waters 
where the bass are not accustomed to feeding on them. In 
two large lakes in this State is good bass fishing, In one, 
the grasshopper is a prime bait, and the cricket is of second 
importance; and in the other the reverse isthe case. Around 
the first lake “hoppers are more plenty than crickets, and 
around the second crickets are more plenty than ‘hoppers. 

1 think the greatest pleasure is derived from casting the 
artificial fly, and perhaps the next best mode is casting the 
minnow. ‘Trolling or still-Gshing is much, if not most, 
generally practiced. In trolling with artificial flies, two, 
three or four flies of a large, gaudy pattern, are used on a 
single leader that terminates in a small fluted trolljug spoon 
ana small minnow gang, baited with a minnoW. Black 
Bass are very capricious, in some waters taking a certain 
bait with avidity one day, and refusing it utterly the next. 
Of live baits, the minnow is the standard for the season 
through, although at times in the autumn the crayfish or 
frog is.better. In trolling with flies it is pecessary to wei, 
. dire lentler-2ind sink the flies when the bass are in 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


289 


ia August. By deep water I mean thirty or a feet, for 
bass are rarely found in water of greater depth, The largest 
bass I ever caught in a Jake where I have fished more or less 
for twenty-five years, I took on a pike gang that was trolling 
in forty feet of water, with an eight-ounce sinker, for pike 
—E. Lucius, ; 

One great wrong to the bass fishing is the trolling of the 
shores of lakes and rivers for pike with gangs at a time 
when the bass are either on or leaving their beds, and are 
still about the shores with their fry. Many bass are thus 
caught and the gang injures the fish, so that if they are 
returned to the water but few can récover, The truth is, 
the bass are not often returned to the water when so taken; 
the fisherman argues that the bass will die anyway, aud he 
may as well keep them. Another wrong is done in retaining 
small bass. The law says that it is unlawful to catch black 
bass of one-half pound or under, but the limit should be a 
pound, for bass are so yoraeious that little ones of an ounce 
or two will bite a hook, and many of less than half a pound 
are necessarily injured in taking them from the hook, and 
in hundreds of cases there is no pretense of returning under- 
sized bass to the water, If the limit in weight was one 
pound, there would be less excuse for a person to keep a two- 
ounce bass, thinking it weighed eight ounces. Many anglers 
now refuse to basket black bass that weigh less than sixteen 
ounces, The example is good, but the trouble is that these 
gentlemen do not fish with the people who keep the finger- 
lings. 

The province of the Anglers’ Association is to educate the 
people in the way of all legitimate means of angling, as well 
as to enforce existing Jaws that foster our game fish; and a 
sttiking proof of the great good that can be done by an asso- 
ciation like your own, is the letter in a recent impression of 
the Utica Observer to your president from a fish dealer, sug- 
gesting co-operation in this grand work of reforming exist- 
ing evils. The letter of the gentleman referred to touches 
one of the great rocts of the matter, and the accomplishment 
of ihe suggestions therein will be a grand work in itself, for 
saan the angling brotherhood will rise up and call you 
blessed, 


FLY-BOOKS. 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

“Governor's” communication in your last issue but re- 
echoes a complaint common to the whole angling fraternity. 
Fly-books, as usually made, are justly open to his criticism. 
They are an excellent thing to “putter” over in the winter, 
but sometimes exceedingly awkward to use on the stream. 

In seasons past I have tied all my large flies with loops 
only, and quite small loops at that. When fishing in Maine, 
where a boat is almost invariably used, I have found no fly- 
book so convenient as a shallow cigar box. 

* This spring, unable to see why this should not work well 
on small flies, 1 tied up anumber of midges with small 
loops. Though as yet only tried in two days’ fishing, it 
seems to be an improvement. 

Where the loops pertaining to the leader and tail-fly join, 
is yery conspicuous in the water, since these seem to catch 
and imprison the air, thus giving rise to brilliant reflections 
of light, This, if true, is all the more objectionable since 
the short snells for flies have come into general use. 

Therefore to such as are disgusted with fly-books they may 
happen to have, this is suggested: 

1, That all flies be tied with small loops, 

2. That the leop on the fly-end of the leader be omitted, 
and the tail-fly simply tied on with the same knot by which 
the leader is ordinarily secured to the line—a knot we all 
know will never slip, yet will infallibly loose with ease. 

8. That separate short pieces of gut for the drop-flies be 
attached to the leader in any of the usual ways, and the 
drop-flies secured thereto in the same manner as the tail-fly, 
Thus, when a drop-fly is to be changed, the fly will be 
merely unfastened from the gut, the latterremaining attached 
to the leader. 

Three advantages at least appear to be secured by this 
method: 

1, Every fly may be used indifferently as a tail or drop- 
fi 


% The visibility of the connection between the leader and 
flies is reduced to the minimum, since the knot is so close to 
the head of the fly as really to form part of if. 

3. An ordinary tin chewing tobacco box becomes a most 
conyenient fly-book, in which every fly may be seen and that 
desired selected at a glance. The usual fly-book then be- 
comes a mere repository for material for repairs, leaders, 
strands of gut for droppers, and perhaps the reserve stock 
of flies in paper envelopes; and resort to it while actually 
fishing would rarely be required. 

Of course like other reforms, tf this may be entitled to be 
so considered, the change should be gradually made, since it 
would be folly at once to discard a good stock of snelled 
flies, merely for this purpose. Nor have 1 used this method 
long enough to justify me in asking that the foregoing be 
considered as other than a suggestion, on the strength of 
which radical action would be unwise. 

New Yor, May 5, 1884, 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


HE trout fishing season in our State has been good thus 
far. Harrisburg, Pa., anglers state that it hasnot been 
better for years past. Many good fish have been taken from 
Newville Oreek, Pa., and good catches have been made by 
Alderman Fager, Mr. Horace Lutz, Mr. W. L. Powell, Mr. 
Charles Greek, Mr. Lerne Lemer and Dr. Vallorchamp, of 
our capital. Mr. W. P. Seiler, of Harrisburg, accompanied 
by his friend, Rev. John R. Paxton, of New York, have 
taken some fine fish from Silver Springs, Pa. Your corre- 
spondent had good success with the fly on two Pennsylvania 
frout streams, and I fancy the growers who state that Penn- 
sylvania trout fishing is not worth seeking on account of the 
small size of the fish, would have altered their tone if they 
could have seen my creel. Not a wonderful display for 
numbers, I will confess, but a lot of average and good-sized 
trout, taken from a stream well worn on both sides by paths 
made by anglers. Perhaps Iwas luckyin just_striking the 
day, but I warrant the fish were educated, and appeared to 
remember the spring of 1883 when they were Anil er. 
Fly-fishing for bass is regularly practiced here with suc- 
cess by two or three gentlemen living -in our immediate 
vicinity as soon as the season opens; and I am told they have 
been very successful, especially during the month of June, 
just below the rifts in Perkiomen Creek, and in the swift 
water below the dam on the Schuylkill River, above Consho- 


Henry P. WELLS. 


hocken. The report comes to me from such reliable sources 
A Sia inGeelam aol Ve vest BOTA HAS rece ae 


‘There were some rainbow trout placed in the Upper Per- 


a a ve 


kiomen Oreek by the Anglers’ Association of Hastern Penn- 
sylyania about a year since. Now that it is said that the rain- 
how trout is nothing but the young of the California salmon 
(this IT am not yet satisfied to accept), it will be interesting to 
look for the outcome of the planting. I have my fears, how- 
ever, be these fish what they may, the bass of the Perkiomen 
Creek will prevent a satisfactory solution of the Guess 
TOMO. 


FISHING AFOOT. 
Kditor Horest and Stream: 

It is not every one in whom the love of truc sport is 
as surely planted as was in Izaak Walton himself, that can 
take a month to visit the lakes and rivers of Canada, the 
trout lakes of Maine, or even some noted river or creek in 
his own State, to enjoy to the full the fascinating sport. 
Many have to be content with whatever fishing they may 
find in their immediate vicinity. Car fares, board bills, and 
time lost is often too great an expense to be met, and the 
enjoyment of watching the cunningness of the fish with 
fisherman’s wisdom has to be given up. But three boys ef 
the Keystone State were uot to be cheated of the pleasures of 
spending a week in this sport by a lack of filthy lucre, ‘‘We 
can easily walk to Uncle George’s, and after we are there we 
can yery soon trot up to the woods,” says George, the oldest 
of the brothers. Frank and Peter agree with him on this 
point, and they make preparations to start. 

Saturday morming bright and early the trio could have 
been seen by early risers striding briskly along the public 
road leading toward Jefferson county, Pa. George and 
Frank are tall and move over the ground like amateur go-as- 
you-pleasers, but Peter is so very small that he usually keeps 
upon a slow trot to keep from falling behind. He is four- 
teen years old and weighs about sixty-five pounds, but is as 
tough as whalebone and as spry as a weasel, Frank and 
Geerge say they will ‘“‘run him down” before they reach 
Worthville, Peter only laughs and tells them to “light out” 
then, as he can keep up his present pace all day, which 
would cover much more than the twenty-five miles of road 
lying between their home and Worthyille. But they soon 
forget this little rivalry and make the most of seeing all that 
is to be seen through the country along their course. Reach- 
ing the top of Mahoning Hill they have a splendid view of 
all the eountry south of them. The sun is just rising over 
the hills to their left, three miles away, and Mahoning Creck 
looks like a stream of molten silyer where the sun strikes it 
between the hills. - Beneath the high ridges running north 
and south the fog lies dense and motionless like a sea of 
light snow. The air is hollow and carries the sound of the 
Stewartson furnace steam engine plainly to them, They 
cannot see the Allegheny River, but the winding line of 
heavy mist rising aboye the hills very plainly shows the 
course of the stream for a dozen miles or more. As the sun 
rises higher and dispels the fog, the furnace with its scat- 
tered houses and gas-well derrick grows into view. Beyond 
the furnace and on the highest hill in the country near by 
the two oddly-shaped cucumber trees known as the king and 
queen can be plainly seen. They see all this and much more 
while walking steadily forward. They have eyes and know 
how to use them. They haye not lived in the country all 
their lives for nothing. Now the road winds along the 
sandy top of a long ridge, and there is little of interest to be 
seen. They notice a golden-shafted woodpecker’s nest, and 
see why they are sometimes called high-holes. This nest is 
at least fifty or sixty feet above the ground in the smooth 
and limbless trunk of a dead chestnut, or what appears to 
be a chestnut from the road, This pair will be safe from 
any prowling odlogists at least. Passing a field thickly over- 
grown with briers and scrub oaks, George tells the boys to 
look out for a chat, and sure enough they see one of these 
skulking birds gliding along beneath the thickest brush. 
Only for an instant they sce it, and then it is as effectually 
out of view as if no such bird existed. 

Cakland, ten miles from their point, they reach at 8 
o’clock, Crackers and cheese are bought, a few questions 
asked and answered, and they are again on the road, Red 
Bank Creek is soon in view, and a train of cars is seen enter- 
ing the tunnel four miles up the creek, and coming out on 
the other side of the narrow hill, and twisting itself in and 
out along the creek’s tortuous course, until it rambles behind 
a hill and is lost to view. ’Tis seven miles around by the 
creek, while the tunnel is but two or three hundred feet in 
length. The dealer in general merchandise in Oakiand told 
the boys that there was good_ bass fishing in the creek near 
this bend, and had the hill been less precipitous and their 
road less long, they would have been tempted lo prove the 
truth or falsity of this information, 

It is the second of June, and as they passa ‘‘city of the 
dead” they see the fresh wreaths lying on a half-hundred 
mounds, speaking volumes of the patriotism of the braye men 
who once fell. They have left half of the road behind them, 
and itis not yet 10 o’clock, so they open the unlocked gate 
and pass along the graves, reading the names and epitaphs at 
the foot of each, A mile or so further on they meat a bushy- 
haired teamster driving a very scrawny span of bays, tug- 
ging away ata ton anda half of iron ore, who greets them 
with, ‘‘Are you gentlemen from Mahoning?” 

‘We're from near that place,” George answers. 

“See anything of Lize Williams down there?” This, look- 
ing over the side of the wagon with a grin on his face, 

“Have not the honor of the lady’s acquaintance,” Frank 
says with mock politeness. 

“Oh! IT thought may be you'd seen her,” and he drives 
slowly on, while the bovs go ahead briskly te overtake Peter 
who has not stopped. They wonder who “‘Lize” is, and why 
the bushy teamster is interested in ber whereabouts. Peter 
supposes that she is the teamster’s wife and hastaken French 
leave for the benefit of her eyes, which might have been, and 
thus they dropped it. 

Twenty-five miles is no little walk to legs and feet that 
are habitually doubled up in a Keystone iron ore mine, 
Peter says it takes sixty-five thousand steps to traverse the 
distance. But eyen this appalling number will at length be 
finished, and as the sun crosses the meridian the country 
loses its familiar look, and the boys know they have passed 
the limits of their native county, and entered the pine and 
hemlock-covered hills of Jefferson. Rocks—hard, flinty, 


“gray sandstones—are seen on every side, and the soil looks | 


anything but fertile. Little Sandy is seen below them with 


‘its laurel and rock-lined banks. “The hill on either side is a 


weary waste, cpus nothing but rocks, rocks, rocks, and 
the blackened and lifeless trunks of ten thousand pines. 


“Many years ago acycloneswept up the creek, devastating all in 


its course. ‘The livid fire in the midst of the circling winds 
instantly destroyed every tree In its course, and now the 
‘place is'a famous berry field, where, amid the rocks and 
rattlesnakes, the hardy and undaunted berry pickers fill 


great pails and baskets with whortle and blackberries in 
their respective seasons. 

The boys have reached their uncle’s house, and are resting 
themselves in his cool best room. Uncle George is in Worth- 
ville, and his good wife entertained her nephews, They have 
soon dispatched a substantial meal, and are looking at the 
sows and pigs, the chickens and garden, the young corn and 
potatoes, und asking questions about every thing when their 
uncle returns. He is pleased to sce his dead brother’s sons, 
brings out his two rifles and a revolving pistol, and invites 
them to shoot with him. Shooting is Uncle George’s fayor- 
ite pastime, when he has not time to go to the creek, a couple 
of miles distant, They shoot 1 while, and then, the sun yet 
being a couple of hours high, they tramp over the two hills 
to the creck at Worthville, to “try their luck” on sunfish 
and chubs, There is a sawmill here anda ‘‘bracket’? dam, 
and just under the ‘‘apron” of the dam the sunfish are gener- 
ally quite plenty. But for some unknown reason the fish 
would not bite, and the fishers leaving the dam, went hack 
of the little village and fished in the creck, but with no bet- 
ter success, At dusk they retraced their steps, wearily 
enough now, and reach the house disgusted with ‘‘chub” 
fishing, and boasting of what they willdoon the coming 
Monday, when they propose to gv to the Middle Branch, to 
fish for trout, 

Monday morning Uncle George complains of not feeling 
well, and as there is an appearance of rain, all reluctantly 
agree that they had befter wait until the next day before 
starting to the trout streams. But they will try Little Sandy 
again for chub and sunfish, A lot of angle worms are spaded 
up, hooks and lines are arranged, and they start for the 
ereek, The chubs bite savagely to-day, and before noon they 
have caught over sixty, They are not very large, but what 
they lack in size they more than make up in quality. 

“Tet us catch the even hundred,” says Uncle George. 

“Allright,” Frank answers, ‘‘We lack only thirty-four.” 

“ll catch twenty if you boys catch the other fourteen,” 
Uncle George proposes. 

‘‘A greed!” they chorus, and the race is begun, but strange 
as it may appear, Uncle George had caught his twenty ere 
the boys had Janded six. But they were all tired and hungry, 
and started homeward with their ninety-two chubs. At a 
little bend in the creek there lay an old log, partly submerged. 
George threw in near the log and instantly hooked a large 
sunfish, Then they all crowded along the bank and dropped 
in their carefully baited hooks. Five more sunfish and two 
suckers were caught, making their hundred, and then fold- 
ing their lines, and_ throwing away their rods, they started 
homeward. After dinner, they cleaned their fish, and what | 
atime they had of it! George was covered with fish scales 
from head to foot, but he only laughed, and said he would 
be scalier yet before he was through fishing. Aunt Ellen, 
who never did like fish, says she can’t see why any person ~ 
would fish a half day in the scorching sun for the likes of 
their fish, They al] laugh and tell her they are only “‘getting 
their hand in,” preparatory to the real ‘‘fishing scrape,” as 
Uncle George calls it. 

But if Uncle George felt ill in the morning, he was really 
sick in the evening, and even the next morning yet felt too 
bad to go far from home. Consequently Tuesday was spent 
in looking about the woods near by for nests of hawks, But 
it was too late for broad-winged hawks and no other variety 
were seen. Uncle George showed the boys where he had 
once killed a deer—a fine doe—with a little shotgun while 
hunting pigeons. Unfortunately she ran a quarter mie after 
being shot, and was not found until unfit for food. They 
looked for the bones, but could find none, Doubtless foxes 
or dogs had long since carried them away, as it was. twenty- 
three years since the deer was slain. Peter shot a couple of 
chipmunks off the fence with a liltle revolver, and George 
took a couple of long-range shots at crows with one of the 
rifles. Some snowbirds were seen in a cool pine-shrouded 
ravine, but after a careful search, the hope of finding a nest 
was given up. <A hawk’s nest was visited that had been 
razed a month before by some of the farmers near. George 
ascended to the nest, but got nothing but a few broken shells, 
much discolored by the action of the sun and rain. Thus 
the day was spent, all impatient to be off to the woods of 
which Uncle and George talked so enthusiastically They 
had fished in the streams before, and pictured in glowing 
colors the size of the trees, the density and coolness of the 
whole forest, and the probability of their seeing a deer or 
fawn before their return, 

Wednesday morning, just as the sun looks over the bill 
with a ominously red eye, the party of four start up the Jane 
én route for Middle Branch. Aunt Ellen tells them that it 
will rain before ten o’clock and that they had better wait 
another day. But they were too anxious to be off, and said 
the sky would soon clear off or the rain would all go ’round. 

“Call Ned, Peter,” Uncle George says, as they reach the 
head of the lane, ‘‘We want a dog to watch while we are 
sleeping.” 

Ned is standing in the lane near the house, Aunt Ellen 
bids him come back, but Peter only laughs and calls the 
louder. Ned would like to go with the fishers, but he hears 
Aunt Ellen calling him back. 

“Fire your revolver,” said Uncle George. Bang! bang! 
into the fence, as if at a chipmunk, and Ned comes bound- 
ing up the lane, yelping with delight. He is a pretty, pug- 
shaped dog, always accustomed to being petted and adios 
most of his time in the house. He was a year and a half 
old, but had been in the woods but a couple of times. Aunt 
Ellen said he could not stand the fatigue of tramping a 
couple of days through the woods and water. The party 
carried a hwee basket containing doughnuts, light cakes, 
lard, butter, knives, pans and salt, everything needed for 
their comfort for their intended two days’ stay in the forest. 
There is nothing of special interest in the walk up the creek. 
They take over hills and through forests for four miles; then 
along the creek past McKinsters, a brisk little village lying 
in a pleasant bend of the creek; then over a farm to save a 
long walk around by the creek, and they are on the outskirts 
of the wilderness, The road plunges into a mass of tall hem- 
locks and threads its way dimly up the creek, How tall and 
slender these useful trees are, Their tops weave themselves 
tog ther in a thin canopy nearly a hundred feet above the 
fishers’ heads. ‘ 

‘Tsn’t it quiet in here?” Peter says, looking away through 
the forest until the view is shut out by the blending of all 
the tree trunks into one solid dark wall. 

“Yes,” replies George, ‘‘and when you once reach the real 
forest it will be quieter yet, Isn't this a treat to us who at 
home cannot remember a single moment of such solitude?” 
_As the party pass Sparr’s, the last human inhabitants, 
they see oldman'e arr busily churning on his porch, while 
the women aze working ip the garden and driving their cows 
to a distant pasture near the hilltop, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 8, 884, 


ee 


“Only one more deserted farm to pass and we will be in 
the woods,” said Uncle George. 

“What farm, and why did the owners leave it?” Frank asks. 

“Tt was a rented farm, and afier the farmer had spent 
twenty years of hard work, clearing, chopping and grub- 
bing upon it he grew tired and left it,” Uncle George ex- 
plains. “There is a good place for deer in the fall. Right 
up there behind those fields among the laurel they can 
always be started.” 

‘Where do they g6 when started?” Pete inquired, 

“They run across the Galehouse farm, cross Indian Camp 
Run, over the Miller farm, eross Middle Branch, over Sugar 
Ridge and Burnt Ridge, and on eastward through the wil- 
derness into Forest county,” replies Uncle George, who has 
hunted for deer in these woods more than once and knows 
most of the ‘‘crossings,” 

At the old bridge where the clear sparkling Indian Camp 
Run joins Middle Branch they arrange their fishing tackle. 
There are plenty of big chubs under the bridge and just 
above it. George stands on the bridge and pulls out a half 
dozen, yainly hoping to hcokatreut. The big dam just 
below the bridge afew hundred yards isa good place for 
these big and exceedingly wary old trout. Occasionally a 
lucky angler lands a two or three pounder, and is the hero 
for a season or so until some one else captures one a little 
longer or heavier. George hopes that some of the big 
trout from the old dam may be about this quiet nook, the 
bridge, but he is disappointed. They soon pack up their 
luggage, equally divided among the four according to size 
and. strength, and plunge through the underbrush up the 
creek. Indian Camp Run does not look favorable for trout, 
although well supplied with chubs, so they don’t lose much 
time on it, but strike up Big Sandy, as the stream is called 
- here; further up it is called Middle Branch, although how 
the extreme right hand stream of the three could be called 
the central one George could not understand. Three years 
before when George and Uncle George were fishing, the 
former caught the first trout, and while the other members 
of the party were eagerly striving for a bite, he coolly hauls 
out a six-inch trout. But soon all have caught one or more 
fish, and they are full of the excitement of this rare sport. 

The Branch is arapid, brawling stream, with numerous 
eddies and rifles. Hundreds of immense hemlocks in dif- 
ferent stages of decomposition are lying across the stream, 
forming bridges fer the wildcat and raccoon, and such fish- 
ermen who prefer scrambling oyer than to wading the 
yiffes. Here is a miniature dam formed by the breaking of 
just such a log in its center and lodging of driftwood and 

eaves against it. There are sure to be a couple of fine trout 

in this hole, and there are hundreds and thousands of such 
dams on this stream, A line dropped in too close to this 
barrier may become fastened among the twigs of some limb 
or the roots of the old beech upon the bank, as no one can 
tell where or how the water whirls and twists before it 
escapes in a foaming fall on the other side. But who 
would not risk a hook and line too that he may hook one of 
these bright-colored beauties hiding somewhere among the 
branches or roots in the gurgling water. 


At 10 o’clock they lunch, resting on a fallen beach and |. 


then move on up the creek. The clouds have been threaten 
ing all morning and soon the rain is falling in a steady 
melancholy way that gives token of long continuance. The 
fishers are soon damp and then wet, but they care little for 
this and press eagerly on along the creek. Each little eddy 
and dam holds two or three good.trout for them if they are 
but skillful enough to capture them. 

By a roaring fire, on which is cooking a pan of fish, the 
little party are seated. A wide spreading hemlock, centuries 
old, keeps the steadily falling rain off, and they vote ita 
splendid place for camping. The chubs nicely browned, a 
pan of trout are cooked in plenty of lard and butter, a table 
is mide of a bed of moss, and Frank annoutices dinner. 
Uncle George comes up from the creek, where he has been 
cleaning fish, and his oldest nephew comes through the 
woods with an armful of dry beech limbs for the fire. He 
piles up the fire and seats himself before the table, declaring 
that he is as hungry as a bear. They attack their dinner in 
a manner that makes the outlook for the next day look 
gloomy enough unless they can liye en a diet composed 
solely of fish and frog legs. What a keen relish for food 
the stimulating air of the pine woods give. What a wonder- 
ful-appetite does tramping through the creek and the excit- 
ing sport give. They praise the doughnuts and dispatch the 
well-buttered light cakes with hearty zeal. The chubs are 
eaten first and then the trout, when one and all declare that 
much as they have been praised no words yet penned have 
ever fully described their many excellencies. Ned is fed 
and Uncle George enjoys a smoke while the boys fix up their 
provisions so that they may-not be damaged by the rain. 

Frank and Peter are loath to leave the cheerful fire and go 
out again in the rain, which fecls strangely cold and uncom- 
fortable now. But George and his uncle are already trying 
to make a raise in the good paols ahead, and, covering up the 
fire so that it will keep until night, they, too, start out again. 
The afternoen is as disagreeable as it well can be, and long 
before evening all the boys are heartily sick of the fishing, 
and wish themselves in their uncle’s house snug and dry. 
Wed, ton, is thoroughly disgusted with the whole business 
and walks along with a sullen air, with his tail turned down- 
ward instead of upward as is his wont. At length the party 
get together and hold a consultation as to what they had 
be ter do. 

“Ti?s too wet and disagreeable to camp out now, sure,” 
George says, ‘‘and it looks like rain now, I believe we had 
better pull for home.” 

“Yes, I guess we had. I would like to gtay, but the 
weather is too bad,” his uncle replies. ‘‘Wrap up the lines, 
I want to iry this good place here a minute, and 1’ll catch 
up with you.” 

Then down the creek Frank and Peter run, eee 
through the creek in wild delight, glad that they are starte 
homeward. George and his uncle come on behind, trying 
to raise a few trout, as the down-stream fishing is always the 
best for brook trout. They wonder why they cannot hook 
any until they see the boys plunging through the creek. 
They haye them go down the bank, and Uncle George is 
soon dropping out the speckled beauties. George says he 
had seen some rapid fishing, but had never seen a man gal- 
loping and catching a dozen trout, as his uncle did, in a ten- 
minutes’ run down the creek. ‘I'he low, blowing clouds that 
all afternoon had been threatening more than a common 
shower, now broke over the forest in torrents of rain. The 
fishers sought shelter beneath a wide-spreading hemlock. 
They were soon thoroughly s@aked with the deluging water, 
and, leaving the tree, they walk rapidly down the creek. 
There is a sudden cessation of rain, and in its place they 
hear a low sighing in the treetops. Soen the dim crowns 


of the mighty hemlocks begin swishing softly like a troubled 
iver. The low sighing grows to an audible murmur, and 
the clouds, dark and circling, blow swiftly over the tree- 
tops. From alow hum the storm soon springs into a roar, 
terrible in its fierceness. 

“Run for the creek!” cries George, as the appalling snap 
of an immense hemlock just before them warns them, ‘*’tis 
madness to push on while the trees are swaying on every 
side, threatening every moment to fall.” 

Into the creek they plunge like mad, and down its shallow 
bed they struggle and under a strong log lying across the 
high banks. ‘“‘We’re safe here,” they cry, as they shrink 
under the log close to the bank, cross the creek Ned 
stands, yelping so shrilly that George thinks it is his uncle 
or one of the boys whistling for him to come under the log. 

Ah! it is something to awe the stoutest heart when the 
storm-king reigns with a furious hand amid the tottering 
giants of the forest! When no sound can be heard save the 
deafening and unceasing thunder of the rushing winds in 
the slashing treetops! When the unnatural darkening of the 
sky is only lightened by the vivid and constant flashes of 
lightening! And seated under their protecting log, the fish- 
ers look out on this scene of awe with feelings indescribable. 

Half way home another storm comes on, and the fishers 
are compelled to seek refuge in Bobbie Neal’s barn, Here 
Ned again causes trouble by not being able to get into the 
barnyard. He yelps as shrilly as at the Branch. Uncle 
George runs out into the storm to get his dog, fearing lest 
Mr. Neal’s big dog will be roused up, which would necessitate 
their staying in the barn all night, which wouldn’t be the 
pleasantest thing in the world, But the, eventful day is at 
length ended. The sixty-one trout are salted and placed in 
a cool place. The boys will take fifty of them home for 
their friends and a sick grandmother. They all eat a 
hearty supper in spite of their having eaten about all of their 
two days’ rations since starling away in the morning, to 
Aunt Ellen’s great consternation. She tells them that they 
haye thrown it away, as Uncle George did the rifle when the 
last thunderstorm overtook them. But this buxom aunt's 
good humor soon returns, and she shakes with mirth as she 
scans the half-drowned and much-fatigued fishing party, 
Peter, with his uncle’s leng thrown-away pigeon-tailed coat, 
which floated back like streamers when coming down the 
creck, is an object of much merriment. They have all 
worn some clothes which fit in a ludicrous manner. ‘They 
are, indeed, a laughable looking set, but full of good humor 
now that they have reached home again. A half hour later 
all is quietin slumber. 

After resting and drying up a day the boys leave for home, 
highly pleased with their trip, and promising to try it again 
in the coming spring if all goes well. On the return trip 
they reach home at noon, and think, as we (one ef them) do, 
that fishing is fun if but afoot. Gro, ENTY, 

TEMPLETON, Pa, 


NEW ENGLAND SALMON AND TROUT. 


[A paper read before the New Hampshire Fish and Game League 
by 8. Garman.] 


re New England salmon and trout in the Agassiz Mu- 
seum were obtained in all parts of the section, and 
among them are probably representatives of all the species 
and varieties belonging to it. A study of the collection, 
made in accordance with the wishes of the Fish Oommis- 
sioners, has resulted in conclusions partially indicated below. 
Of New England salmon there are but two, the common 
salmon of our coasts (Salmo salar) and the Jand-locked 
(Salmo sebago). The latter is hardly to be distinguished from 
the former in its small stages, but being confined to the 
fresh water it does not go through the same changes in color- 
ation. The shape of fins and number of rays and scales are 
about the same in each. In a line from head to tail, a little 
above the middle of the side, there are from 120 to 135, and 
in a row across the side from the dorsal to the fins just in 
front of the vent there are from 38 to 48 scales, 

Of the trout there are five forms which can be distin- 
guished with more or less readiness. Two of them are 
commonly called lake trout; the togue (Salmo namaycush) 
and the blueback (Salmo oguassa). a 

The togue is found in most of the lakes; it has from 195 
to 215 scales in the row from head to tail, and across the 
flank there are from 56 to 62. In this species the tail is 
most deeply notched and the ends have the deepest points. 
The upper jaw or maxillary extends back much further than 
the eye. 

The little blueback seems to belong only to the Rangeley 
Lakes and their tributaries. It has from 210 to 235 scales in 
a row along the flank, and from 64 to 76 across it between 
dorsal and ventral, The upper jaw does not extend as far 
back as the hinder edge of the eye, and the hinder margin 
of the tail is more waved, while the notch is not so deep as 
in the togue, The short upper jaw (maxillary) and the notch 
in the tail serve to distinguish the blueback from small togzue. 

The brook trout is represented by several closely allied 
forms. ‘The rows of scales are greater in number than in 
any of the preceding. Between dorsal and ventral and the 
side there are from 78 to 86 rows. The more southern form 
has a less number of rows from head to tail than either of 
its allies. Its number varies from 195 to 210. This is the 
Salmo fontinalis of Mitchell. A form occurring in Lake 
Monadnock, for specimens of which I am indebted to Col. 
E. B. Hodge and others, differs from Mitchell’s form in 
haying a greater number of scales from head to tail—215 to 
240—and in this respect it agrees better with the brook trout 
of the tributaries of the great lakes and also with the spotted 
variety from Northern New England. The brook trout as 
commonly known has a greet many bars, blotches and yer- 
miculations of brown and light on the back and retains these 
markings in large specimens. "The brook trout of the great 
lake region resembles the togue more in the markings, but 
has a shallower notch in the tail than the latter, though 
slightly deeper than the fontinalis. The trout of Lake 
Monadnock is closely allied to the brook trout of the lake 
region further west, but differs considerably in coloration. 
Small cimens of seven to eight inches are clouded and 
have indistinct bands o@ the upper part of the flank, with 
spots along the side. Later in life they assume the shape of 
the ciscowet (Saline siscowet), but become whitish or bleached 
and silvery. This trout contrasts greatly with the spotted 
variety of brook trout of Bastern New England; it has about 
the same specific character and the difference is mainly in 
coloration, By means of this it is readily separated from 
the siscowet of the great lakes, The notch in the tail is 
deeper and the number of scales greater in each of the more 
northern varieties of the brook trout, i ' 

New England thus possesses two salmon, two lake trout 
aud threg brook trout, ’ y 


the Travelers, of Hartford, Cont 


STURGEON Fisnrng.—Petaluma, Cal,—Here in California 
the Chinamen and some white fishermen have a rather odd 
way of taking these fish. They have a long stout line, 
ranging from afew hundred yards up to several miles in 
length. At short distances apart are placed other smaller 
and shorter lines and at the end of each is suspended a stron 
barbless hook without bait. The main line is stretche 
across streams, or along their beds, close to the bottom, and 
the fisherman usually visits his line 2 couple of times a day. 
The fish in swimming over the line hooks himself and in 
threshing around becomes entangled with other hooks, and 
it is a wonder if he escapes. It is not unusual to find a heavy 
fish with eight or a dozen hooks fast in him. A line of this 
description was recently stretched along the channel of Peta- 
luma Creek, for a distance of over six miles, and with its 
thousands of barbless, unbaited hooks the catch was enorm- 
ous, The Cnegeo caught ranged from two feet to nearly 
ten feet.—W. F. 8. 


Lancer Pompano.—For the past four years there have been 
occasional large specimens of pompano caught on our coast, 
and as the ordinary fish is considered large at two pounds, 
these monsters of fifteen or more pounds attracted much at- 
tention. They came in singly, and were considered to be 
stray specimens from the west coast of Africa, the Trachy- 
notus gorcensis, instead of our own 7’ carolinensis. Latterly, 
however, our fish has been suspected to be only the young of 
the former, On Monday last, Mr. Blackford had ten spect- 
mens which weighed 170 pounds, the largest one weighing 
twenty-one pounds. This is the first time that the large fish 
have appeared here in more than single specimens. They 
came from North Carolina. 


MracnaAm Lake, April 29.—Our long winter is ended, 
and the lake once more clear of ice. The trout fishing began 
the 28th, with a catch of fifty, by F, P, Dennison, of Syra- 
cuse, but Frank says they have been frozen so long they 
come out of the water like a stick. As soon as we geta 
little warm weather, we expect a lively time ‘‘among the 
fishes.” My eggs of the land-locked salmon are all hatched 
and doing nicely. I will turn them into the lake about June 
1. Everything indicates a good fishing season —A. R. Fut- 
LER, 


“For New York AnGuErs.”—Lditor Forest and Stream: 
In the item ‘“‘For New York Anglers,” I said, in speaking of 
the sixty fish caught with bait, that twenty-five were over 
ten inches long, and three of them over fifteen inches long, 
not ‘twenty-five over fifteen inches long’ as you have if, 
and which would make the catch very much more than 
sixteen and a half pounds,—AMATEUR. 


Tue Natrona Rop anp ReEL ASsocIATION, at a meet- 
ing last Tuesday, decided to hold the next annual tourna- 
ment Oct. 7 and 8. 


Lishculture. 


FISHWAYS IN SCOTLAND. 


A Ree Secretary of the Board of Salmon Fisheries for the 
Tay District, Scotland, writes that the McDonald fishway 
has been chosen as the form which will be erected on the Falls 
of the Tummel. Col. McDonald will go to Scotland in June 
to superintend the erection of the structure. 

The Edinburgh Scotsman, of March 6, has an article on 
fishways from which we extract the following: 

“There are at present in Scotland more than 500 miles of 

rivers and locks barred against the ascent of salmon by im- 

assable waterfalls. The Falls of Tummel shut out between 
00 and 200 miles of water; the Falls of Monnessie, on the 
Spean, 40 miles; the Falls of the Conon, 22 miles; the Falls of 
Rogie, 15 miles; the Falls of the Kirkaig, 20; and the Falls on 
the Polly, in Ross-shire, several miles of river and eleven lochs. 
Besides these, there are a number of other falls which prevent 
the access of salmon toa great extent of good spawning ground, 
Hitherto, the difficulty and expense of overcoming these nat- 
ural obstructions by means of salmon-ladders or passes has 
prevented much being done to open them up; it having been 
found by experience that no salmon-ladder with a steeper 
zradient than 1 in 8 or 1 in 9 will enable fish to ascend. That 
is to say, if a water-fall be 20 feet high, the length of the lad- 
der must be from 160 to 180 feet; and in the most efficient 
salmoao-ladder in Scotland—that at Deanston, on the Teith— 
the gradient is much flatter—namely, 1 in 27. It is obvious 
that the steeper the gradient by which the fish can be enabled 
to surmount an obstruction, the shorter and cheaper will be 
the salmon-ladder, and that in proportion as the gradient gets 
flatter, the longer and more expensive will it be. The 
McDonald fishway, therefore, which was exhibited in the 
United States department of the International Wisheries 
Exhibition in London, and for which it is claimed that it en- 
ables fish to ascend easily and certainly a gradient as an a 
1in 3 or 1 in 4, is a great improvement on anything of the dad 
that has been constructed in this country. A company has 
been formed to work it, and it has been patented in the 
United States, in Canada, and in Great Britian and Ireland. 
The cost of fishways constructed on this principle is stated to 
have varied from £2 to £5 per running foot, and Col. McDonald 
writes that the price of constructing a fishway, with a gradient 
of 1 in 4,'on the Falls of Tummel, which are 16 feet high, 
would vary from £100 to £250, depending upon the difficulties 
of the site, the strength of construction required, and the cost 
of the substructure or foundations. Reasoning from the data 
thus furnished, it would seem that a fishway on the Falls af 
Monnessie, on the Spean, which are 22 feet high, would cost 
about a third more; and that one on the Falls of the Conon, a 
little below the outlet of Loch Luichart, which are 28 feet in 
height, and where the site eos peculiar difficulties, would 
probably cost nearly double the estimate for the fishway on 
the Falls of Tummel. Yet these sums, considerable though 
they are, are very much less than what would be the cost of 
an efficient salmon-ladder on any system known or practiced 
in this country, For example, almost the only attempt as yet 
made in-Scotland to enable salmon to surmount an impassable 
waterfall has been made, within the last few years, at the 
Falls of the river Moriston, which rises in Loch Clunie, and, 
after a course of twenty-five miles, fallsinto Loch Ness. The 
falls are situated a short distance above the junction of the 
river and the loch, and being upward of 20 feet in height, 
they entirely prevented the ascent of salmon into the river 
until the construction of the present ladder, which was com- 
leted in 1880, It is 240 feet long, and has cost £1,500; whereas 
had it been constructed on the McDonald principle, it would 
have been only 80 feet long, and would have cost only from 
£160 to £400,” 


THE NEW YORE FISH COMMISSION.—The Governor 
has appointed Mr. William H. Bowman, of Rochester, to be a 
Commissioner of Fisheries to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Edward M. Smith. 


Man LARS has been paid to its policy holders by 
Over Ten Min Lion Don Noah eon parte a4 Saiteauon. Present 


payments are over 4 million a year,—Adv, 


The Fennel, 
en 
FIXTURES, 
BRNCH SHOWS. 
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Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close a ca 21. Chas. 
pele eee R, GC, Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 
ew York. 


June 10, 11,12 and 13,—The Second Annual International Bench 
Show Chicago, Ill. Mr, Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 


A. K. R. 


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lished every month, Entries close on the ist. Should be in early, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope, 
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inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
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of entries already printed 12138. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50, 


EASTERN FIELD TRIALS DERBY. 


OLLOWING are the entries for the Hastern Field Trials 
Derby, to be run next November at High Point, N, ©, 
All were whelped in 1883; 
ENGLISH SETTERS, 


PrnpDRAcon,—I. 8. Dumont, New York City, black, white 
and tan dog, June 11 (Count Noble—Floy), 
Lorp Surrern.—J. Otto Donner, New York City, orange 
and white dog, Aug. 2 (champion Thunder—Donner’s Bessie), 
Lapy Surrern.—J. Otto Donner, New York City, blue bel- 
ton bitch, Aug. 2 (champion Thunder—Donner’s Bessie), 
MarTaporE.—J. Otto Donner, New York City, black, white 
and tan dog, Dec. 25 (Mate—Madge D.). ; ' 
CuiirrorD.—J. Otto Donner, New York City, black, white 
and tan dog, July 22 (Emperor Fred—Fairy Relle). 
Count Ropert.—F. R. Hitchcock, New York City, black, 
white and tan dog, Noy, 15 (Count Noble—Spark). 
BuvE Lituy.—Chas. Heath, Newark, N. J., blue belton bitch, 
June 21 (Blue Drake—Gypsy Queen). » 
Nosleman.—Dalliba & Munhall, Cleveland, O., black, white 
and tan dog, June 11 (Count Noble—Floy). 
Crown.—F.. EB. Perkins, Providence, R. I., dog, April 7 (Dash 
{II.—imported Blanche). 
-Prince.—F. E. Perkins, Providence, R. I., dog, April 7 (Dash 
Il,—imported Blanche), ‘ 
PavuL,—F. H. Perkins, Providence, R. 1., dog, April 7 (Dash 
Tl.—imported Blanche). 
Nor Namep,—H, J. Rice, New York City, July 29, Good- 
sell’s Prince—owner’s Pebble). ; 
PrematiTn.—N. Rowe, Chicago, DL, black, white and tan 
dog, April 11 (Cambridge—Marchioness Peg). : 
PEGoMANCcY.—N, Rowe, Chicago, Il., blue belton bitch, April 
11 (Cambridge—Marchioness Peg). 
WINDERMERE.—Dr. §. Fleet Speir, Brooklyn, N. Y., lemon 
belton dog, June 17 (champion Druid—Countess Louise), 
Ciypr T,—UL, Shuster, Jr,, Philadelphia, Pa., lemon and 
white dog, May 24 (champion Thunder—Cornelia). 
THORN.—Jos. M. Sturges, Philadelphia, Pa., lemon and 
white dog, March 15 (Buckellew—Sally). 
JACK W—Col. A, G. Sloo, Vincennes, Ind,, orange and white 
dog, April 22 (Sergeant—Eva). ; 
Kine Dick.—T. W. Stoutenburg, Collinsville, TL, 
and white dog, April 3 (Bracket—Nannie). 
THUNDERBOLT.—J esse 
and tan dog, May 7 (Rex—Dot), 
Bonniz G.—Jesse M, Whaite, Chester, 8. C., black, white and 
tan bitch, May 7 (Rex—Dot). 
GLADSTONE’s Boy.—Dr, G, G. Ware, Stanton Depot, Tenn., 
black, white and tan dog, Jan. 10 (Gladstone—Sue). 


GLostEr.—Edward Dexter, Boston, Mass., lemon and white 


‘dog, June 3 (Dashing Rover—-Belle). 


BELLE or PIEDMONT.—Edward Dexter, Boston, Mass., bitch 


(Dashing Rover—Ranie). 
Faust.—A. W, Foster, Atlanta, Ga., black and white dog, 
June 1883 (Prince Charlie—Anne Boleyn). 


JENNIE ITI.—W, Tallman, Pawtucket, R. L, black, white 


and tan bitch, Oct. 29 (Foreman—Jennie). 


Count RANGER.—H. D. Towner, Nyack, N. Y., black, white 


and tan dog, Aug. 12 (Count Noble—Gertrude). 

Daisy BeLToN.—J. R. Hendrick’s, Pittsburgh, Pa., black and 
white bitch, Jan, 8 (Belton III.—Countess). 

RIcHMOND.—E, M. 
dog, April 22 (Sergeant—Hva). 


SurRey.—W. B. Mallory, Memphis, Tenn., black, white and 


tan dog, June 10 (Gath—Juno IL.). 
Lavy Ler.—Ww, B 
and tan bitch, June 10 (Gath—Juno 11.), 


COLONEL Coou.—W. B. Gates, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 


and tan dog, June 30 (Gath—Lit). f 

Dora.—W. B. Gates, Memphis, Tenn., black, white and tan 
bitch, July 22 (Gladstone—Carrie J.), 

RopErigo,—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., black, 
white and tan dog, April 11 (Count Noble—Twin Maud). 

HAYDEE.—Gates & Merriman, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 
and tan bitch; April 11 (Count Noble—Twin Maud). 

Lexincton,—W. J. Crawford, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 
and tan dog, June 10 (Gath—Juno IT.). 

Bruty Garres.—Dr, A. F. McKinney, Forest Hill, Tenn., 
dog, Aug. 21 (Count Rapier—Kate B.). 

Littran.—J. H. & D, Bryson, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 
and tan bitch, Aug. 21 (Gladstone—Sue). 

GuiaD Roy.—Whyte Bedford, Horn Lake, Miss., black, white 
and tan dog, June 28 (Gladstone—Donna J.). 

GLIDELIA.—C, Spahr, M.D., Bridgeville, Pa,, black, white 
and tan bitch, Aug. 12 (Count Noble—Gertrude). 

BuacKny.—Benj. 
white dog, June 22 

FANNIE,—Benj. Machaneer, 
bitch, June 22 Ly ciara eres 

Inprx.—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn,, blue belton 
and tan dog, July 10 (Gladstone—Countess Druid). 
_ JESSIE WINFIELD,—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
black, white and tan bitch, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.) 

GuLapsTone’s Imacr,—J. M, Avent, Hicko: valley, Tenn., 
black, white and tan dog, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.). 

Guap-Moon,—J, M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., black, 
white and tan dog, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A,). 

Annis Morcan.—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
lemon and white bitch, Oct, 5 (Gladstone— Bessie A. 

Lavy Buss.—J. M, Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., lemon 
and white bitch, Oct, 5 (Gladstone—Bessie A.) 

’ IRISH SETTER. 

Rose or KitLarney.—Luke White, Bridgeport, Conn,, red 

bitch, Aug. 25 (Killarney—Lill IIT.). 
' GORDON SETTER. 

Prtotace.—Dr. 8. Fleet Speir, Brooklyn, N. Y., black and 

tan dog, June 1 (Pilot—Fan). 


(Sig—Bessie). 
reyerton, Pa,, black and white 


S4m.—G. W. Amory, eer Mass,, liver and. white dog, 
. W. Amory, Boston, Mass., liver and white dog, 
May 1 (Sensation—imported Sal}. 

D ward Berens Boston, Mass,, liver and white dog, 


su —URDIC), ‘ ‘ 
PRINCE oF ORANGE.—R, C, Cornell, New York City, lemon 
Seitner’s Lass), * 4 = 


lemon and white dog, § 
and white dog, Aug. 14 (Croxteth—Dol 


white pen 24 
.—H, E, Hamilton, New York City, liver and white 
ticked bitch, March 28 (Dilley’s Ranger—Dilley’s White Lilly). 


orange 


M,Whaite, Chester, 8. C., black,white 


Usher, Vincennes, Ind., orange and white 


. Mallory, moe Tenn., black, white 


Machaneer, Treyerton, Pa., black and 


(black), Joe aolier being withdrawn 
yan 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Lucky Srone.—Westminster Kennel Club, Babylon, L. 1, 


liver and white bitch, Aug. 24 (Tory—Moonstone). 


MaApstonr.—Westminster Kennel Club, Babylon, L. I., liver 


and white bitch, Aug. 24 (Tory—Moonstone). 


DUKE OF ORANGE.— Westminster Kennel Club, eile es 3 2,1; 
t. 11 (Sensation—Seitner’s ass), 


Ricamonp.—John #, Gill, Franklin, Pa,, lemon and white 


dog, July 27 (Vandevort’s Don—Beulah), 


Granger, New York City, liver 


ly). 
Prince Hamiet,—F. R. Hitchcock Rew York City, lemon 
and white dog, Sept, 11 (Sensation—Seitner’s Lass). 
TAMMANY. R. Hitchcock, New York City, liver and 
Tory—Moonstone). 


InD BrraR,—John EH. I 


FLASH 


Manrs.—Otto Plock, Guymard, N, Y., liver and white dog, 


March 24 (Croxteth—Seitner’s Lass). ( 
Romp,—Neversink Kennels, Guymard, N. Y., liverand white 
bitch, March 24 (Croxteth—Seitner’s Lass). 
QUEEN Favust.—T. W. Stoutenburg, Collinsville, [l., lemon 


and white bitch, Oct, 15 (Faust—Rose I1.). 
Nasoz.—k&, F. Stoddard, Dayton, Ohio, liver and white dog, 
Feb. 17 (Croxteth—Trinket), 


FResco.—Grant & Smith, New York City, black and white 


dog, September (Bang-Bang—Daisy), 


CAHONTAS.—Luke White, Bridgeport, Conn., lemon and 


white bitch, Aug, 19 (Tramp—owner’s Grace). 


Vireinia.—L. White, Bridgeport, Conn., lemon and white 


bitch, Aug, 19 (Tramp—owner’s Grace), 


Dras.—A, R, Heyward, Rock Hill, §, C., lemon and white 


bitch, March 31 (Dan—Arrow). 


Miveet,—J, C. Vail, Warwick, N. Y., liver and white ticked 


bitch, July 14 (Match—Belle). 


THE WARWICK DOG SHOW. 
[From our special correspondent.] 


ft Dee second exhibition of sporting and non-sporting dogs at 
Warwick, England, was held on April 16, 17 and 18. The 
total number of entries amounting to 1,204, and taken together 
with the quality of the animals exhibited, it must rank as one 
of the best exhibitions ever held. The dogs were benched in 
a new building erected by the society, and the situation was 
one of the best. There were plenty of grounds outside the 
building for exercising the dogs, and large reomy tents erected 
for judging, and as the weather was fine, there were several 


Tings out in the open and the judging was got through pretty 
well. were not very favorably 
received, but on the whole things seemed to give general 


In some eases the awards 


satisfaction. 


The first on the list was as usual, bloodhounds. Nestor ‘ig 
n 
champion bitches, Dido, the only entry, won. She was look- 


ning first, haying almost a walk over from Lavwyer. 


ing well and is no doubt a good specimen of the bloodhound. 


In open dogs, Mr. Nichols’s young dog Triumph, who made his 

ow bench last January at the 
Crystal Palace, won again here, first and special cup. He is 
rather dark in color, which we think is improving since we 
saw him before, and no doubt will continue to improye with 
age; otherwise he is one of the best—if not the best—blood- 


first appearance on the s 


hound ever exhibited. His ears are something extraordinary. 


We consider he stood well ahead in his class, which was in 
all respects a good one, all of the noticed dogs being quite fit 
to win at an ordinary show. In open bitch class, Witch I. is 
We prefer the he, Patti to the second 


@ very good animal. 
prize bitch Daisy, the latter being rather small. 


In champion St. Bernard dogs there was ne competition. In 


champion bitches first went to Hlfrida. She is very large, 


is a good bitch but was ra 
for dogs, Prince 
rather fine of face and large of ear, 


is always against him. 


rather curly in coat. Hthelbert, third, is a tine large dog, 


with orange markings on head, body white; he resembles his 
sister Elfrida very much. Valentine. the winner, shown in 


good form, and has the best head of anything in the class, 


good feet and legs, and a well-marked head; his faults being 


color of body and want of dew claws. In the bitch class, 


Minna IT., a grand bitch, curly of coat, and Countess of Beau- 
fort, both vhe., is well made, with good markings on head 


and face, white body and orange markings, a good coat, 
and altogether a very nice bitch. Khiva, vhe. and re- 
serve, is a ver 
color and markings. Dacia, second, has good color and mark- 
ings, but. is too fine before the eyes. Crevasse II,, third, is also 
weak in head. La Mascotte, first, a well-marked black brin- 
dle, has plenty of coat, whichis rather curly. In dogs and 
bitches, smooth-coated, Silvia, second prize, isa fairly good 
specimen, with a well-marked head and white body. Bruce, 
the winner, is short of leg. In dog puppies, Guy, yhe., smooth, 
is rather long of face. Plinlimmon, : 
standing puppy, of good color and coat. We consider him 
leggy, quite too long of face and large of ear. Brennus, second, 
is goodin color. In bitch 
best in the class. The St. 
nothing more than a moderate collection. 

In champion mastiffs there were four to face the judge, 
who awarded first to Pontiff, a decision we could not agree 
with. He was the smallest dog of the lot, and had the 
smallest skull, and is rather weak in his quarters. We would 
have giyen the honor to Cardinal, who was looking his ye 
best; he has a grand head, good quarters, feet and legs, and is 
the largest dog. Orlando is very good in skull and body, but 
he is very low before and straight behind, and is quite a 
cripple when moving. Crown Prince is not so large in skull 


as Orlando, but is better in wrinkle: we never liked his liver- 


colored face and bad quarters. In champion bitches first went 
to Rosalind, a really grand bitch, larger than her opponent, 
Crown Princess, nevertheless we like the latter best, being 
more full of quality and better in coat and muzzle, with the 
best quarters we ever saw on amastiff. In open dogs, third 
went to Montgomery, a very nice dog, of the correct type, but 
with not so much bone as some. We thought this dog should 
have been second, as the second prize dog, Moses, is flat- 
ribbed, out at elbows and weak in his pasterns. The Prince, 
placed first, well deserved his position; he is good on his feet, 
with a grand skull, good muzzle and wrinkle; we would pre- 
fer him with better Ue is In bitches Olga, who was third 
is a very nice bitch; she might be shorter inface. Ilford 
Claudia, vhe., is another good bitch; she stands too high on 
the leg and is light of body, The Lady Isabel, first prize, well 
deserved her position; she is a really good bitch, good in face 
and body, a good mover and well quartered. Boadicea, sec- 
ond, is another good bitch and was well placed. 

The two classes for brindles brought out some fairly good 
specimens, and they were correctly placed. The first prizo 
brindle bitch Lily II. is a remarkably fine specimen, Mr, 
Taunton, her breeder, coming second with a full sister, only 
older, . Evans won first and second in puppies with two 
very nice young bitches. Elaine, first, is more matured than 
her sister, and smaller in ear and better in color. 

Great Danes, or boarhounds, Sultan Il. had a walk over 
in the champion class. He is certainly a grand animal and 
was shown in the best of condition, and worth going some dis- 
tance tosee. There were some good specimens in the open 
classes and the decisions seemed well received. 

In Newfoundlands, Gunville won irst in champion dogs 

om competition; Tro- 
the next class, Trafalgar not competing, In 


with light orange pia eines on head and a white body. She 

her out of coat. In the open class 
Arthur, he., is of good color and coat, but 
Faust, second prize, is 
well known. He is a grand dog, wereit not that his condition 
Musgrave, vhe., is rather fine in muz- 
zle and short on his legs, otherwise a good dog, with goodcolor 
and markings and good coat. Valor, vhe. and reserve, is 


good bitch, but out of coat. She is of goad 


first, isa very large up- 


uppies, first went to Thisbe, the 
ernards, taken altogether, were 


a& great improvement in the spaniel class in a short time. 


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caente is bitches, the well-known Zoe had no opposition. In 
open dogs, first went to Courtier, a grand dog in good coatand 
condition. Scamp II., second, was rather out of coat. Leo 
V., vhe., is a good dog, bar his legs, In bitches, Mr. Nichols’s 
Sybil won first easily. There was nothing else really good in 
the class. In Newfoundlands, other than black, there were 
six entries, representing almost as many different types, con- 
tequently there was general dissatisfaction among the exhibi- 
sors. 

In deerhounds, Cuchullin, first in champion class, is a very 
good specimen with good hard coat and coler, he might be 
larger, In champion bitches there was but one entry, 
Heather, who is showing age. In the open class for dogs, 
Corrie Il., who won second, is a very nice dog of goodsizeand 
good coat, he is rather light in color. Lord of the Isles, first, 
is a grand Sib AE dog, good dark blue in color, with a 
beautifnl coat. The bitches were well placed. 

In greyhounds, County Member had a walk over in the 
champion class, There were no entries in champion bitches, 
In open dogs Whiskedale II. won easily and the same gentle- 
men wou first and second in the bitch class and cup for best 
greyhound in the show, with Mother Demdike, she is a black 
nae white. We saw her here for the first time and consider her 
the most perfect greyhound we have ever seen. 

Young Wa won in champion pointer class with nothing 
against him, Helle of the Ball repeating the sanie performance 
in the bitch class. In open dogs, Devon Sam, a liver and white 
with plenty of bone and substance, won first, he looks all over 
aworkman. Nap, second, is a good sort of dog, with plenty 
of go in him, and showing quality. In bitches, Devon Fan, 
first, is a liver and white, with plenty of bone and quality. 

In the setter champion dog class, Ganymede, an Irish setter, 
and Sir Alister, an English setter, were placed equal first. 
We would haye giyen it to Sir Alister. The Irish setter 
bitch Geraldine won first in champion bitches, haying 
no opponent. The English setter dogs were a very fine 
collection, the winner, a lemon-marked dog, by Emperor 
Fred, being one of the best setters we have seen lately: he 
might move freer behind, but he is much better than his 
sire in that respect. Glencairn, second, is another good dog, 
possessing good bone and substance, and at the same time full 
of quality, is a very difficult dog to beat. The bitches were 
not quite so good a class asthe dogs. Mr. Cunnington’s Lady 
Westmoreland, vhe., by his Sir Alister and bred by Mr, Cock- 
erton, is a very fine bitch, good in coat, plenty of bone and full 
of quality. She may be a bit onthe small side. Plimsy, sec- 
on is another moderately good specimen, almost white in 
color. 

The black and tan setters were only a moderate collection, 
the winners in the bitch class being perhaps the pick of the 
basket. 

Irish setters were a fairly good class, but nothing above the 
average, In puppies the winner looked a trifie high on the 
leg, but full of go. Sir Kent, second, struck us as a promisine 
puppy with a very good coat, 

etrievers were a fine collection, Mr. Shirley haying a very 
large entry and carrying away most of all the prizes, which 
he generally does in this variety. Curly-coated retrievers 
seem going back. There are not suck strong classes as there 
were afew yearsago. Banner, the winner im the dog class, 
was a very good specimen. Mr. Skipworth’s puppy, Smike, 
second, isa very promising young one, well grown: hs was 
heavily handicapped, competing against old dogs. 

There was a special cup offered for the best team of point- 
ers, setters or retrievers, and no less than nime kennels 
entered, Mr. Shirley’s team of nine wavy-coated retrievers 
carrying off first honors. Next, Mr. Cunnington’s collection 
of stz English setters. As the several kennels possessed such 
quality, the committee decided to give some extra prizes, so 
Mr, Daly’s curly retrievers and Mr, Bulled’s pointers came in 
for extra prizes. 

In Clumber spaniels, Lance, the only entry in the champion 
classes, did not putin an appearance. The winner, Boss, in 
the open class, isa remarkably fine young dog, large, long 
and low, but a trifle long in face. Ramble, second, is another 
fair specimen, his color is not quite what we would like, being 
rather a bright red. We missed Mr. Holmes’s dogs on this 
occasion. 

In Sussex, or liver-colored spaniels, there were no entries 
in champion dogs. In champion bitches, Brida IT, won, with 
no opponent, In open dogs, Horatio, well-known, was an 
easy first. In bitches, Eastern Bee, first, was much the long- 
est and lowest. Sheisrather weak in pasterns and short of 
coat, which no doubt will improve, as she is only twelve 
months old. 

In water spaniels, champion els had no entries, In cham- 
pion bitches, Lady and Young Hilda were equal. In theopen 
class for dogs and bitches, first and second prize winners were 
only moderate specimens, This variety of spaniel seems tobe 
dying out. 

In champion field spaniels, dogs, other than black, Mr. 
Spurgin’s Hop, and in bitches, Mr. Spurgin’s Floss had a walk 
over. In open class dogs, first went to Bruce, avery nice young 
black and tan dog, rather dark in color. Counsellor, second 
prize, isa liver. Newtown Abbott Beau, vhe., isa very good 
black and tan, good coat and good color, a little short of 
feather, and not as square in head as we would wish him. In 
the bitch class, Mr, Easton was once more to the front with a 
very nice liver and tan, long and low. 

In cockers, first prize went to Nellie VIZ, a very nice little 
bitch of the correct size and type, but out at elbows. Freda, 
second, is a black, tan and white, of fair quality. Lilac, he., 
is of good stamp, with a bad head. 

In black spaniels, champion dogs, Roysterer and Solus were 
equal first. We certainly would have had no hesitation in 

lacing Solus first. ‘The Messrs. Willets placed Solus over 
Pearstorr at Birmingham, and Solus, we consider, looked much 
better on the present occasion. In champion bitches, Miss Obo 
won, beating Beverley Bess. We consider Miss Oboa very 
handsome, small field spaniel, but cannot recognize her as a 
cocker. In spaniel dogs (black), first went to Haston’s Bracken. 
He has a good head, and is long and low, with plenty of bone. 
Lord Bute, second, is not so low as the winner, and is rather 
short of coat and feather. President, vhe., is a good dog with 
a good coat, but stands rather high on leg, In bitches, Easton 
once more won first with Busy, which makes a total of five 
firsts with brothers and sisters all out of one litter by cham- 
pion Solus out of Beverley Bess. It is a pity Mr. Royle ob- 
jects to put Solus to stud. If he did we certainly would fee 

& 
have seen some of Solus’s puppies in Scotland which we con- 
sides equal, if not superior, to any shown at Warwick by Mr, 

aston. 

Collies came out in great numbers, and the quality was 
good. In champion dogs there were four entries. Charle- 
magne, who won first, quite deserved his position. Rutland 
was next best to our mind, Eclipse being in rather good com- 
pany, good dog as heis. In champion bitches first went to 

adge. We rather preferred Jessie. The open classes of col- 
lies were 50) dogs, 36 bitches, 33 dog puppies and 19 bitch pup- 
pies. ‘The awards in every case did not seem to give general 
satisfaction, Nevertheless, we consider from the winner down 
to the vhe. dogs in each class, with few exceptions, they were 
all fairly good typical dogs, fit. to win at any ordinary show. 
In champion smeoih dogs Guelt had no opposition; in the cor- 
responding bitch classs Yarrow beat Sattie. We consider the 
latter much the best. In the open class we would have placed 
the first prize winner third and the third prize winner first, 
leaving the second as it was, The bob-tailed-sheep dogs were 
about the best class we haye seen of this variety. The winner 
is a veny strong, muscular dog, good in coat; the second prize 
Welsh Boy, not far behind the winner. 


In champion Dalmatians, first went to Mr, Fawdry’s Dee 
ure, he was much the best. In the open class Mr, Fawdry 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


SS eee 


wen, first and second, with only moderate specimens; the 
others were an inferior lot, 

In champion bulldogs first went to Diogenes, a very good 
white dog, beating Lord Nelson. Queen Mab won in champion 
bitches. In open dogs first went to Mr. Shirley’s Cervantes 
@ very good fellow with a good chest, good y, and a well 
arched back, he is not as deep in face as we would like, Castor, 
second, is too small before the eye, and light of bone, he was 
shown in bad condition. In open bitches Rhodora was first. 
Dona Sol, vhe., is small of skull and light of bone. We con- 
sider her properly placed on this occasion, In bulldogs not 
over 45 pounds, first went to Monarch IIL, who was correctl 

laced, he is a good, well-made dog, a trifle small of skull. 

he rest were nothing aboye the ayerage. The bitches not 
over 35 pounds, were a moderate lot. 

In champion bull-terriers Max Marx had no opponent, In 
dogs and bitches over 25 pounds, Cairo won first; Count, second; 
we fancied most. Trentham Lady, vhe. reserve, drops before 
the eye and appears cheeky. In the small class Mr. George was 
first again, but the class was a yery moderate one, a good 
many being over weight. 

In champion fox-terriers, Brokenhurst Sting beat The Bel- 
grayvian, a decision we cannot agree with, and one that seemed 
to give general dissatisfaction to the fanciers of this variety. 
In champion bitches, Diadem I, had no competitor. She isa 
yery good one, with good ears which would be better if 
carried more close to the head, In open dogs there were forty- 
one entries. First went to Mr. Wood's Splinter, a son of Sutta 
Vida. He is a good ae ea pe dog with capital feet, legs and 
shoulders and good shaped body, e think he might show 
more quality about his head and neck, but we consider he won 
well. Forrester I. we did not like near so well. His head is 
short and strong. We preferred the vhc. Sago to this dog, 
Stockwell, third prize, is fine of face and coarse of neck; 
nevertheless we preferred him to the second prize winner. 
In bitches, No Joke, yhe. is strong and well made, but lacks 
quality. Cynisea, first, is well to the point. She is a good, 
well-made bitch with good body, feet, legs and coat, with lots 
of terrier character, Stanhope Semlah, third, has a good long 
head which Jacks character. She has good feet and legs. 
Dusky, second prize, is another good bitch a trifle large in ear. 
Scoop, c., is a nice terrier in bad condition, The same remark 
applies to Miss Nick, In dog puppies, Rallison, vhe., stands 
high and is strong in head. Hognaston Rebel, first, is a good 
terrier. He might be in better condition. Raby Muddle, he., 
is a good made young dog by Mixture. He is a little strong in 
head with ears badly carried at present. His markings are 
not what we would desire. Stockwell, second prize, was third 
in open dog class. In bitch puppies there were twenty-eight en- 
tries, Mrs, Candour, the third prize. weedy and faulty in head. 
Stanhope Semlah, third in open bitches,second here,and Dusky, 
second in open bitches, first here, Scoop, he., we preferred to 
the third prize winner. 

In champion wire-haired dogs Newboy was first, beating 
Briggs, shown out of form. In the corresponding bitch class, 
Miss Miggs won, being closely pressed by her Kennel tcom- 
panion, Vora. The wire-haired dogs, open class, contained 
some real good specimens, and mosb of the noticed dogs are 
all fit to win. Scrimage, third prize, is on the large size. 
Quilp, vhe., carried his ears badly. Rocket, first, is a real 

ood one, rather wide in chest. In bitches, first went to Rock 
Rose, a well-made one with good coat, deficient in head. 
Dolly Varden, second, held the same position in the puppy 
class, a good sort and preferred by many to the winner. In 
dog puppies, first went to Mr. Carrick’s Tinker, a good young 
dog, but many preferred Jack Frost, commended, who has 
rather too much coat, Tormenter was first in bitch puppies; 
is rather snipy, long-casted and short of coat; she got more 
than she deserved. i ; : 

The beagles were a small class, the prize winners being very 
good specimens. é 

Basset hounds had a very fair entry, and the awards were 
well received, as is usually the case winen Mr. Jones judges, 

In Bedlington terriers, champion class (dogs and bitches), 
first went to Dina, owing, no doubt, to Topsy being in bad 
condition. Projectile has had his day, Tinner, first in open 
dog class, hada clear win. In bitches, Domino won: she is a 
bitch we always admired, having a good head, plenty of go 
and style, with a good short back and arched loin, and is of 
the correct size. ] 

Mr. Harding Cox exhibited three grand couple of harriers, 
and had no opposition. j 

Dachshunde turned out in good force, no less than seven 
charapions, and the other class also well filled. ; 

Airedale terriers were a small class, owing, no doubt, to the 
Halifax show being held the day previous. 

In Irish terriers, dogs and bitches, first went to Glory. We 
prefer Pretty Lass, who was rather out of coat on this occda- 
sion. Thady II. deserved a yhe. . 

In hard-haired Scotch terriers, first went to Nipper, and cor- 
rectly. Ailsa, vlic., was preferred by many to the second 
prize, Lochiel., : E 

In Dandie Dinmonts, Jeannie Deans won well in the cham- 
pion class, and her kennel companion, Rhoderic, won first in 
the open class and special for best Dandie of all classes. He is 
a good dog, with good head, ears, coat and color. 

the black and tan champion class, first went to Wheel of 
Fortune. We consider her too large, and she walks stilty be- 
hind. In the open class, dogs and bitches, first prize was 
awarded to Welcome, catalogued at £10 and claimed by sev- 
eral, She was afterward put up at auction and realized 19 
ineas, at which price we consider her anything but cheap. 
‘ir. ‘aylor won in the small-sized black and tans with Sissy 
7. She is rather light in body. ; ¢ 

In les. dogs, Flute, the winner, is a real good specimen. 

In champion pugs Stingo Sniffles, who won first, is a nice 
size, rather dark in face, and nose not quite black. In bitches 
So So had a walk over. Mr. Sheffield won again in open dug 
class with Sir Stafford; nt at ‘a face, the second prize dog 
being better in that respect, but larger. 

cae Charles spaniels Alexander the Great was the only 
entry in champion class, Mr, Briggs also _winn first In open 
dogs with Bend Or, the winner at the Palace last January: 
he is good in size, remarkably good in head, with a better coat 
than Alexander the Great, butis notso good in body. The 
winner in the bitch class was a good way ahead, remarkably 
good inears and coat, good head, rather dark in color and 

ht of body. " 

lenheim Tpaticls and Yorkshire terriers were only a mod- 
erate lot. 

Foreign dogs were a good class, Mr. Taunton as usual carry- 
ing away most all the prizes. There was a selling class, but 
no particular value offered. The local classes were filled with 
animals, but little above selling class form. Following is a 


list of the AWARDS. 


BLOODHOUNDS. — Cuamrios — Dog: Mark Beanfoy’s Nestor. 
Bitch: J.C. Tinker’s Dido: Opgx—Dogs; ist and cup, Edwin Nich- 
ols’s Triumph; 2d, J. C. Tinker’s Duncan. Bitches; 1st, Osborn Hill's 
Witch; 2d, W. C. Nash’s Daisy, Puppies: 1st, Samuel Amphlet’s 
Judy. 

. BERNARDS.—CHampion—Dog; Absent. Bitch; H.C. Joplin’s 
witnde, Opmn—Roucu—Dogs: ist, Sidney W. Smith's Valentine; 
2d, H. C. Jopln’s Faust; 3d, G. Neville Wyatt’s Ethelbert. Bitches: 
ist and 3d, L. C. R. Norris Elye’s La Mascotte and Crevasse IL. ; 2d, 
Thomas King’s Dacia. SmoorH—ist, Samuel Smith’sBruce; 2d, E. 


*s Bilva; 8d, Joseph Small’s Garnet, — 8: ist and 
ee cup, Rey. CN Carter’s Plinlimmon; 2d, Wm. B. Me- 


3 B ; 8d, W.L. Bicknell’s Rex. Bitches: ist and St. Bernard 
Sep Rey. Artin Maa rers ‘Thisbe; 2d, Mrs. Annie Mansfield’s Lady 
Burghley; 3d, W, Cox’s Lady Raggs. setae 

MASTIFFS. — Cuampion — Dog; Cup rk Beaufoy's 
Bitch; Dr. Forbes Winslow's Rosalind. Stud dogs: 1st, W. E. Tauz- 
ton’s Cardinal. OpeN—OTHER THAN BrinprE—Dogs: 


ist, Joseph 
y : seph Bean's ; 8d,.T. W, *s Mont- 
Borie s = ite Beet JoePh Teener’s the Lady Isabel; 2d, Z. W. 


Pontiff. 


Walker, Jr.'s Boadicea; 2d, Thos. Wallen’s Olga. BrinpLE—Dogs: 
ist. W. R. Taunton’s Commodore; 2d, W. Francis’s Kepler; 3d. James 
Hutchings's Titus. Bitches; 1st and challenge cup, F. J. Campbell's 
Lilly 11.; 2d and 3d, W. K. Taunton’s Mleopatra and Nell 1, Puppies 
—Any color: 1st. and Cupand 2d, Joseph Evans’s Elaine and Vivien. 
Mastiff breeders* cup, Dr. Sidney Turner. 


GREAT DANES.—Crampion—Dog: Charles Petvzywalski's Sultan 
Il. Bitch: No entry —Oprrn—Dogs, ist, E, G. Martin’s Nero; 2d, 
Mrs, M. Hazlerigg’s Prince Charlie; 3d, as a Wooten’s Thunder. 
Bitches; 1st. Mrs. M. Hazlerigg’s Peeress; 2d, H. St. James Stephen's 
Laura; 3d, Charles Petyzywalski’s Flora. Puppies; Miguel Del 
Hicea 's Leal; 2d, A. A. Grosyenor’s Mark Antony; dd, Joseph Evans’s 

entor. 


NEWFOUNDLANDS,.—Cuampion—BLack—Dog:; H. R. Farqu- 
harson’s Gunyille. Bitch; T, KE, Mansfield’s Zoe.—Caamrion— 
OTHER THAN BLAcK—Dog: H. R. Farquharson’s Trojan. Bitch: No 
entry.—OpEn—BLAcK—Dogs: 1st and cup, H. R. Farquharson’s Court- 
jer; 2d, A. E, Ainsworth’s Scamp Il. Bitches: ist, Edwin Nichols's 
Sybil; 2a. H. R. Farquharson’s Lady in Waiting OTHER THAN 
Buack.—ist, H. R, Farquharson’s Seaman; 2d, Kdwin Nichols’s Ad- 
miral Drake. . Puppies, any color: 1st, Edwin Nichols's Admiral Nel- 
sun; 2d, A, E, Aimsworth’s * ebastian Cabot. 

DEERHOUNDS.—CHamPion—Dog; G. W. Hickman’s Cuchullin. 
Bitch: D. P, Thomas’s Heather._Open—Dogs; Ist, @. W. Hickman’s 
Lord of the Isles; 2d, Frank Dugdale’s Garrie II, Bitches: 1st, Max- 
well & Cassel’s Minna; 2d, W. Gordon's Beatrice II. 

GREYHOUNDS.—Cuampion—Dog: H. CG. Joplin’s Country Mem- 
ber. Bitch: No entry.—OpEN—Dogs: ist, Messrs. Charles’s Whiske- 
dale I1.; 2d, S. P. Heatly’s Hylan Prince. Bitches: ist and cup, and 
2d, Messrs. Charles’s Mother Demdike and Acalia. 


POINTERS.—CHampPion—Dog: J, Paylor’s Young Wage. Bitch- 
J. Lee Bulled’s Belle of the Ball. Open Crass—Dogs; ist and cup, 
J. Lee Bulled’s Devon Sam; 2d, Edwin Bishop’s Nap; 3d, J. Taylor's 
Earl of Croxteth. Bitches: 1st, J. Lee Bulled’s Devon Fan; 2d, J. R. 
Jones’s Ruby of Homestay. 


SETTERS.—CHamPion.—AN¥ VARIETY—Dogs: Equal ist, Rev. 
Robert O*Callaghan’s red Irish Ganymede and Thomas Cunnington’s 
English Sir Alister. Bitch: Rey. Robert O’Callaghan’s red Irish 
Geraldine. OpEn—Eneiise—Dogs; 1st, J. H. Platt’s Sting: 2d, 
Joseph Royle’s Glengairn. Bitches: ist, Thomas Cunnington’s Blue 
Maud; 2d, J. H, Platt’s Plimsy. Buack anp Tax—Dogs; ist. Adrian 
Phillips’s Young Duke; 2d, W. Long's Norwich Banquo. Bitches: 
Ist, F. A. Manning’s Alice; 2d, Robert Parnell’s Ruby. IrtsH—ist, P. 
A. Beck’s Lismore; 2d, Rev. Robert O’Callaghan’s Tyrone. Trish 
Stud Dogs: 1st, Rev, Robert O'Callaghan’s Ganymede. Puppies. any 
variety: 1st, Capt. E. H. Howeli’s Lymington Bruce; 2d, James 
Hogarth’s Sir Kent. 

RETRIEVERS.—Cuampion—Dog: S. E. Shirley’s Moonstone. 
Bitch: 8. ¥, Shirley’s Zee. Opmn—Wayy—Dogs.: ist and equal cup 
and 2d, 8. E. Shirley’s Tracer and Tractor. Bitches: ist, Harding & 
Cox’s Zealous: 2d, 8. E. Shirley's Tacit. CHampron—Curty—Dog: 
§. Darbey’s Wonder. Bitch: nd entry. Orrx—Dogs: ist. S, Darbey’s 
Banner; 2d, H. Skipworth’s Smike; 3d. S. W. Hallam’s Talbot. 
Bitches: 1st and equal cup, George Hyde Granville’s Chicory Il.; 2d, 
Dr. W. A. G. James’s Lune. 

POINTERS, SETTERS AND RETRIEVERS.—Team prize, equal ist, 
J. Lee Bulled’s pointers, Thos. Cunnington’s English setters, and S. 
E. Shirley’s wavy retrievers; 2d, 8. Darbey’s curly retrievers. ; 

SPANIELS.—CuAmpion CitumMBer—Dog: No entry. Biich: J. B. 
Wilkes’s Lance. Opzn—ist, Joseph Allen’s Boss IT.; 2d, Messrs. 
Charles’s Ramble. Sussex AnD LiyER.—CHAMPION—Dog: No entry. 
Bitch: James Partridge’s Brida IIT. Opsen—Dogs: 1st, Holley Bros.’ 
Horatio: 2d, C. Newington’s Laurie. Bitches: ist, Arthur H. Basten’s 
Easten's Bee; 2d, Holley Bros.' Aureola. ENGLISH AND IRISH WATER. 
—CuamPion—Dog: No entry. Bitches: Equal, George S. Hockey's 
Lady and Young Hilda. Open—ist, W. W. Thompson’s Barney 
O’Tale; 2d, G. F. Smurthwaite’s Barney Malone. FIELp.—CHAMPION 
—OTHER THAN BLAckK—Dog; H. B. Spurgin's Fop. Bitch: H. B, 
Spurgin’s Floss. Opex—Dogs: ist, Arthur H. Hasten’s Bruce; 2d, H. 
B. Spurgin’s Counsellor. Bitches: ist, A. H. Easten’s Bride; 2d, WwW. 
Van Wart’s Cosie. Cocksur, Any CoLor.—OPpEN—Dogs; ist, R. Lloyd's 
Little Dan; 2d, G. W. Carter’s Jingo. Bitches: ist, C. H. Lloyd's 
Nellie VIL; 2d, H. B. Spurgin’s Freda. BuLack.—CHamPron—Dogs; 
Equal, H. B, Spurgin’s Roysterer and J, Boyle’s Solus. Bitch; P,P. 
Phipps’s Miss Obo. Open—Dogs; ist, A. H. Easten’s Bracken; 2d, J, 
H. Hussey’s Lord Bute. Bitches: Ist, A. H. Easten’s Busy; 2d, H. B. 
Spurgin’s Coy. : 

COLLIES—Cuampios—RovuGH-Coatep,.—Dog, Cup, James Bissel’s 
Charlemagne. Bitch; Rev. H, F. Hamilton's Madge. Stud Dogs: 
ist, James Bissel's Charlemagne. OPEN—SABLE—Dogs- Ist, J. F. God- 
fres’s Lord Clyde; 2d, M. C. Ashwin’s Cairn; 3d, John Pirie’s The 
Scot. Buack anp TAn—Dogs: 1st, H. Ralph’s Sly Fox; 2d, Henry 
Skipworth’s Scotch Laddie; 3d, Dr. W. A. G. James’s Flockmaster. 
SasLE—Bitches: 1st and cup, W. R. Docksell’s Flurry; 2d, 8. Bodding- 
ton’s Beck; 3d, Arthur L, Chance's Lady of the Lake. BuLAck AND 
Tan—Bitches: 1st, Dr. W. A, G. James's Tippet; 2d, M. C. Ashwim’s 
Ida; 3d, Joseph Beach’s Myra IV. Puppres—Any Cotor—Dogs: ist 
and cup, W. B. Docksell’s The Squire; 2d, J. ¥. Godfree’s Lord Clyde; 
83d, John Pirie’s The Scot. Bitches: 1st, A. L. Chance’s Lady of the 
Lake; 2d, J. F. Godfree’s Gipsy Clyde; 3d, Dr. W. A. G. James's Gle- 
mosa. SMooTH-CoaTED—CHAmMPION—Dog: W. W. Thomson’s Guilt. 
Bitch: W.W, Thomson's Yarrow. Open—ist, M. C. Ashwin’s Lady 
Elcho; 2d, Joseph Royle’s Clyde. SHesp Docs—Bos-Tattzep—ist and 
24. D. P. Thomas's Sir Guy and Welch Boy. SHEPHEEDS’ Dogs—Any 
Vanriety—ist, James Freeman’s Peter. 


DALMATIANS.—Cuampion—James Fawdry’s Treasure. 
and 2d, James Fawdry’s Nelson and Gipsy. 


BULLDOGS.—CuaAmPpion—Dog; Medal, John Scudamore’s Diogenes. 
Bitch: John Morris's Queen Mab. OpEN—Dogs, over 45lbs.: ist, S, 
EB. Shirley's Cervantes; 2d, B. W. Donkin’s Castor. Bitches, over 
B5lbs.: ist, George Raper’s Rhodora; 2d, L. Q..Kermode’s Psyche. 
Dogs, under 45lbs,; 1st, C. KE. Bartlett’s Monarch II,; 2d, W. H. 
Sprague’s Don Pedro. Bitches, under 35lbs.: ist and medal, A. M. 

odgson’s Pussy; 2d, J. 8. P. Sellon’s Belladonna. 

BULL-TERRIERS.—CuHampion—Alfred George’s Max Marx. OPEN, 
oyER 25uns.: ist, Alfred George's Cairo; 2d, J. R. Pratt’s Count. 
UNDER 25Lzs.: 1st, Alfred George’s Grand Duchess; 2d, James Chat- 
win's Treasure. 

FOX-TERRIERS,—CuAmpion—SmootH—Dog: Ist, F, L. Evelyn’s 
Brokenhurst Sting. Bitch: 1st, F. Redmond’s Diadem. Opzx— 
Dogs: 1st and cup, A. R. Ward’s Splinter; 2d, A. H. Clarke’s Forest; 
8d, F. Reeks's Stockwell. Bitches: 1st and cup, Rev. Charles T. 
Fisher’s Cynisea; 2d, F. Redmond’s Dusky; 3d, Joseph Foreman’s 
Stanhope Semlah. Pouprres—Dogs: ist, A. Hargreaves’s Rebel; 2d, 
F. Reeks’s Stockwell; 3d, L. P. C. Astley’s Acquisition. Bitches; ist, 
F, Redmond’s Dusky; 2d, Joseph Foreman‘s Stanhope Semlah; 3d, 
T. W. Haslehurst's Miss Candour. Wire-HsireEpD—CHAMPION—Dog: 
Cox & Jaquet’s Newboy. Bitch: Earl of Lonsdale’s Miss Miggs. 
Open—Dogs: 1st, Corner & Marfitt’s Rocket; 2d, H. F. de Traffird’s 
Jingle; 3d, J.B. Dale’s Scrimage. Bitches: 1st. Geo. Raper’s Rock- 
rose; 2d, F. H. Field's Dolly Varden; 4d, Cox & Jaquet’s Kate Broad. 
Purpisrs—Dogs; ist, Wm. Carrick. Jr.’s, Tinker; 2d, F.H. Field’s 
Buzfuz. Bitches; ist, Perey C. Reid’s Tormentor; 2d, F. H. Field's 
Dolly Varden. 

BEAGLES.—ist and 2d, Charles H. Beck’s Abigail and Myrtle. 

SSET HOUNDS —Dogs; ist and two cups, M. B. Kennedy’s Fino 
vi 3a. F W. Blain’s Bourbon. Bitches; 1st, George R. Krehl's Theo; 
2d, H. V. 8. Craig’s Carillon. 

DLINGTON TERRIERS.—Cuampron—J. A. Baty’s Diana.— 
aes: ist and special, G. F. B. Milner’s Tinner, 2d, G. A. 
Koch's Bonus. Bitches: 1st, A. Holcroft’s Domino; 2d, G. A. Koch’s 
Olga. 

HARRIERS.—Covuries.—ist, 2d aud 3d, Harding Coz’s Shamrock 
and Archer, Lady and Beautiful, and Lenient and Marvelous. 

DACHSHUNDE.—CuamPion—Medal, H. A. Walker’s Hager, Stud 
dogs; 1st, H. A. Walker’s Ozone.—OPpEN—Dogs; 1st and cup, Mrs. P. 
Merrik Hoare’s Carlowitz; 2d, J. 8. Pierson’s Zagwong; 3d, H. A. 
Walker's Culoz. Bitches; 1st and cup, Mrs. P. Merrik Hoare’s Zither; 
ed, H. A. Walker's Zulina.—Puperes—Dogs; Ist, J. 8. Pierson’s Zag- 
wong; 2d, Miss Field’s Daehel. Bitches: Ist,H. A. Walker's Zinnia. 
—Team prize: 1st, H. A. Walker. 

TURNSPIT DOGS.—No entry. 

AIREDALE TERRIERS.—1st, H. C. Grove’s Roy; 2d, F. P. Smith’s 
Choir Girl. 

TRISH TERRIERS.—ist and 2d,H. A. Grave's Glory and Pretty 
Lasg, 

SCOTOH THERRIERS.—ist,G. J. C. Harter’s Nipper; 2d, Albert 
Krekl’s Lochiel, a tre i 

DANDIE DINMONTS.—CHampion—G. 8. Ball's Jeannie Deans. 
Stud Dogs: 1st, C. H. Lane’s Laird. Opren—Dogs; 1st and cup, G. 8. 
Ball’s Rhoderiuk; 2d, A. Nutter's Gethart. Bitches: J. Sherwood, 
Jr.'s Mary Scott; 2d, Harl of Antrim’s Quartz, ; oo 

SEYE TERRIERS.—CHAmPion—W. Nicol’s Saxon, OpreN—ist, J, 
K. Kaye’s Claret; 2d, Rev. Thomas Nolan’s Kingston Roy. 

BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS.—CuampPion—ist, 0. Whitebouse’s 
Wheel of Fortune. EN 12yns.—ist, C. W 's Wel- 


te kc ee ae 


OPEN —Ist 


POODLES.—Dogs; 1st,B, W. Donkin's Flute, Bitches: ist, S. J. 
Forbes’s Jet II. ‘ : ' 

POMERANIANS,—ist, S. R, Platt's Marco, 

TRUFFLE DOGS—No entry. 

PUGS.— CHAmPrion— Dog! Mrs. W. L. Sheffield’s Stingo 
Bitch: Mrs. W. L, Sheffield's So So, Opsn—Dogs: ist, W, 
field’s Sir Stafford; 2d, Miss Barlow's Nicodemus, Bitches; 
L, Sheffield’s Set Set; 2d, Lady Brassey's Sunbeam. 


KING CHARLES SPANIELS.—Cuampron—Mrs. J. A. Bugys’s Alex- 
ander the Great, Opzn—Dogs: ist, Mrs. J. A. Buges’s Bend ’Or; 2d, 
Mrs. William Forder’s Jumbo Il. Bifches: ist, G, Lodge’s Lizzie, 


_BLENHEIM SPANIELS.—CHampion—Mrs. L. E, Jenkin’s Bowsie. 
Toca H. E. Jenkin’s Trixey; 2d, Francis Kuhnor’s Prince 
eopold, 


YORKSHIRE TERRIERS.—CuamPron—No entry. Opmy—ist and 
2d, Mrs. E. M, Monck’s Kitty and Dolly. 


MALTESE,.—Iist, Miss Elinor Sidebottom's Behe. 

ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS.—No entry, 

JAPANESE,—lst, John Lewis’s Oskei; 2d, Mrs, E. M, Moneck’s 
Chang. 

TOYS.—UnpErR 7ips—ist, J. K. Kaye’s Sybil. 

FOREIGN DOGS.—Selling and local classes we omit. 


Sniffles. 
L, Shet 
1st, W. 


NEW YORK BENCH SHOW. 


lier eighth annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club was cpened at the Madison Square Garden, in this 
city, last Tuesday morning, and is now in progress. Nearly all 
of the 1,117 dogs entered were in their places Tuesday. any 
of the classes have filled well, notably that of the St. Bernards, 
which are out in force. Sucha display of this breed has neyer 
before been seen in this country. Pointers make a good show- 
ing; the quality is very much better than that of this class last 
year. English setter dogs are not up to the mark, though the 
open class of English setter bitches is most excellent. English 
setter puppies are also good. We donot consider that the 
dogs in the sporting classes are in so good condition as they 
should be at this season of the year. Collies and fox-terriers 
make a very creditable appearance. Below we give our usual 
table showing the comparative numbers of dogs entered in 
each class for the eight exhibitions of the Westminster Club: 


COMPARATIVE TABLE. 


BREEDS. (1877 (1878/1879) 1880) 1881}1852)1883) 1884 
i 

Wests... osc Uys bel djerdtaedteenaneees 26 | 18] 20 | a6 | 24 | 36 | 61 | 40 
Sie Bernards sco g uc oe sos ote 17 | 16 | 14 | 83 | 24 | 52] 63 | 97 
Bershande Jey cscs td poe eee ees o> [uch me). scans] Meera ety antl coe lle 
Newfoundlands..................+. 12 | 13 | 20} 25] 7/120) 8) 45 
Greyhounds. .....005.0205......05. -18 | 23 | 16 | 15 | 28 | 88} 20 | 46 
DESrHOUNOS. das Ssdlaaetie + od bone ale | 9 4/ 6) 7) 4/41) 6 )48 
LEMOS: ORB A SABES eT Wee ae 121 | #8 128 |184 |125 j1d4 |118 |149 
Pnglish setters. ................ .. 203 |128 |157 |:85 |160 1172 |159 |150 
Gordon setters...............,..-- 65 | 64 | 73 | 74 | 91 | 58 | 56 | 58 
Wise SEDlGUS clades «cece es cedbel et 149 |108 |158 |185 | 87 | 99 | 97 1105 
Chesapeake Bay dogs.......... .. mee | ees | eee ed oe “ii 3 
Irish water spaniels,..........-..: TG) les) Lard D0 FIG Go) ect 
Field spaniels.... .............-.. 2 | 18) 31 | 41) 438/56) 8) 13 
@ocker'spaniéls...f.s.. 2. te ara | We |i eet] be |) leew | eo Hea 
AWo od ira eks « BA Ae pee eA ee 14 | 46 5 9 | 18 | 18 | 10} 13 
Weaeles: SNe | eye Ssee. nats bene 6 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 36 | 13 | 10 | 23 
Bassetatounds) . ie wee ee ole + ae) age Pa) eee 2 
Daclshinde toes see nha 169) JI See aS | ai 
WO=LELEIGLS Oy fee ee nee 20.| 36 | 45 | 63 | 69 | 6) | 56 | 78 
COUTTS Se 5 a pe le as Bre 8 |} 19 | 16 | 31 | 50 | GO| 71 | 42 
BO RR sr doe et oe epi Mae 10} 10| 8] 19} 15 | 14 | 28] 20 
Bm berciersy ss: 1... neeN esses 11 | 29 | 36 | 34 | 28 | 24] 15] 19 
Shey ec errierse. cis. ew ean ase 28 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 19] 12) 12.) 14 
Treshstervieie ssa t4s3. stones Poe} apie reine 4 dd Dail) ak 
Rough ternerSies coccess..44<ns' on F Beelexe | ede | Rane | meee lls eee | lee 
Black, and tans: 465062, - os ge aan 13} 20/138) 9| 6/14!) 8) 6 
Dandie Dinmonts,........ es 105) 3p 8!) Gah) Bl a5) 7 a 
Bedlington terriers... ......-....:- at thes 8 so. | Coe ae eee ene 3 
Yorkshire terriers................. :. | 389} 36) 26 | 80 }18 | 22 | 35 
RD VM OLFIOES Serer or sPsees eee 4 21/12); 9/18) 5, 10) 10) 11 
PUPS poset ee tsetse oe 27 | 80 | 23) 33 | 22 | 82 | 40 | 47 
TOY: SPANICls...055 5s if seeders wt ty 8|13)18{ 9) 13/15/10} 1 
Italian greyhounds..........-..... 6/14) 9/10)10) .. | @| 5 
POO CS ees ara ae iene le I mite a wots) rosa ates es | Daag beeen West m [eLL 
Miscellaneous, .........00.s0..e0ee 23.| 8 | 27 | 38 | 23 | 18 | 26 | 11 


Tuesday was arainy, gusty, drizzly, and what an Enelish- 
man would call “nawsty” day, but in spite of the pluvial 
downpouring, a very fair attendance of visitors gathered in 
the Garden, Yesterday was likewise stormy, a condition of 
affairs which must materially affect the pecuniary proceeds of 
the exhibition. The facilities for showing the ons and for 
judging are better this year than ever hefore. The ring is 
capacious, and the work of awarding the prizes went on 
briskly on Tuesday and Wednesday. The awards up to the 
time of our going to press (Wednesday noon) are as follows: 


Champion English Setters, Dogs.—ist, C. F. Crawford’s Foreman, 
black, white and tan, 4yrs., Dashing Monarch—Fairy I, 

Champion English Setters, Bitches.—Ist, T. G. Davey’s Belle’s Pride, 
dyrs., blue belton, champion Paris—Harrison’s Belle. 

English Setters, Dogs.—Ist, F. E, Lewis’s Rock, lemon and white, 
Qléyrs., Water’s Grouse—French’s Daisy; 2d, L. C. Clark's Bob White, 
lemon belton, 2yrs., Young Laverack—Lady May ; 3d, Neversink Lodge 
Kennel’s Laverack Chief, black, white and tan, ., Pontiac— 
Fairy Il, Very high com., Thomas F. Ryan’s Count Dan, blue belton, 
‘5yrs., Carlowitz—Queen Bess; Dr. 8. Fleet See Marquis de Correze, 
black, white and tan, 2l4yrs., Emperor Fred—Lizzie Lee; Stewart Mc- 
Kay's Pride of Columbia, white, 2yrs., chap gion Cossack—Ophelia; 
H, Pape’s Prince Messenger, white and black, 2yrs.. Thunder—Loui; 
A. H. Moore’s Prince Al, lemon and white, champion Leicester— 
Dodge’s Rose. Comn., T, G. Davey’s Prince Pheebus (imported), black 
and white, 4yrs., Tam o’ Shanter—Prue; G. FP. Jordan’s Telford, blue 
belton, 2yrs., Darkie—Rosie Morn. : 

English Setters, Bitches.—ist, E. W. Jester’s Dashing Belle, blue 
belton, 44mos., Dashing Monarch—Blue Belle; 2d, E. W. Jester’s 
Dashing Jessie (A.K.R. 815), blue belton, 34mos., Dashing Monarch— 
Blue Belle; 3d, C. A. Stone’s Forest Dora, blue belton, 2yrs., cham- 
pion Dick Laverack—Forest Fly. Very high com., John G, Heck- 
scher’s Modjeska, lemon and white, Yyrs.. champion Leicester— 
Peeress; J. O. Donner’s Princess Helen, orange and white, 2yrs., 
champion Thunder—Donner’s Bessie; Thomas F’. Ryan’s Linda, black, 
white and tan, 2lmos., Emperor Fred—Cecilia D.; BE. A. Herzberg’s 
Lucid, blue belton, 5yrs., Sim’s champion Dash—champion Maid of 
Honor; John J. Scanlan’s Flake, black, tan and whiteticked, Druid— 
Swaze; Howard Hartley's Daisy Queen, white, black and tan, 3yrs., 
Rock—Meg; T. G, Davey’s Genevieve, blue belton, 2yrs., Harrison’s 
London—Dawn. High com., H, ¥, Aten’s Crook, white, black ticked, 
4yrs. 9mos., Carlowitz—Dell; ¥. B, Greenhough’s Brier, white, black 
and tan, 2yrs., 8mos., Coin—Dr. Greenhough’s Beauty; 8. Pleet 
Speir’s Lady Sanborn, orange belton, 3yrs., Count Noble—Spark ; 

. A. Buckingham’s Alice Dale, orange and white, 2yrs.. Waters 
Grouse—Daisy Dale; Lawrence Shuster, Jr.’s Clemantine D., white, 
black and tan, 4yrs., Dash 11I.—Cornelia. Com., Locust Grove Ken- 
nels’s Smut IL., lack, 5yrs,, Pratt’s Trim—Earl’sSmut; R. W. Dodd’s 
Lily, white, 2imos.; Charles E. Husted’s Daisy, black, white ticked, 
5 ., Benedict's Dash—GalUoway’s Flirt. _ 

English Setter Puppies, over 12 and under 16 Months, Dogs.—ist, W. 
R. Travers’s Rocket (A.K.R. 118), white, black and tan, 17mos., Wag- 
ner (A.K.R. 229)—Nell Kelly (A.K.R. 286); 2d, J. J. Scanlan’s Drake 
Carter, black, white and ticked, 10mos. 6dys., Cashier—Flake. Very 
high com., 8. B. Foord’s Brant F., blue belton, 17mos., Dashing Mon- 
arch—Mollie Bawn; C. A. Stone’s Royal. _High com., G, K. Haswell’s 
Jock, orange and white, 17mos,, Promise—Abbey; H. Hodeman’s 
Plunger, blue belton, 14mos., Emperor Fred—Polka. Com., Locust 
Grove Kennel’s Paul, black and white, 15mos., Dash IlI.—imported 
Blanche, ; 

English Setter Puppies, over 12 and under 18 Months, Bitches.—ist, 
J. J. Seanlan’s Cliney Carter, blue belton, 12mos., Cashier—Flake; 2d, 
Ed. Lohman’s Mistletoe, lemon and white ticked, 12mos., Emperor 
Fred—Countess Belle. Very high com, Lawrence Shuster, Jr.’s, 
Olarenda T., white, black and slightly blue belton, 12mos,, Thunder— 
Cornelia. High com., Bassford & Hall’s Betsy Druid, black, white 

d tan, 1mos., King Dan—May ieee : 

a eenaligh Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches,—Ist, C. 

H. Mason’s Princess Phcebus (imported) blue belton, 10mos,, Prince 

Phcebus—Pateb; 2d, §. B. Foard’s Rosa F., black, white and tan, 

te Dashing Monarch—Leab J. Very high com.,5,Fl P's 
indermere, léiion belion, under 12mo0s., Druid= 

T. 5. Dumont's Pendragon, 


ack and white, 9mos., Count Noble— 
= 


ay 8, FOREST AND STREAM. 


Floy; Ricanio de B. Smith's Peek-a-Boo, blue belton, 10mos.. Perfec- 
tion—imported Beauty: H. D. Townes’s Count Ranger. black, white 
aud tan, $mos,, Count Noble—Gertrude; J. H. Lee’s_Cashhoy, blue 
belton. 1imos. 2idys., Cashier—Tiske, High com., Dr. R. T. Tnill’s 
Dashing Armida, black and white ticked, 1imos., Dashing Monareh— 
Armida; Dr. R. T. Tull's Dashing Prim, black and white ticked. 1Imos., 
Dashing Monarch—Armida; Pierre Noel's Verra, white and orange, 
Smos.. Bruce—Abbey. ye 

(Champion Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, W. Kemble Lente's Trix, dark 
red, t4yrs., champion Elcho—champion Fire Fly. 

Trish Setters, Dogs.—ist, Hiram & William Harris's Jack, red, 2vrs., 
imported, Rarney—Rhoda; 2d, J. Henry Roberts’s Bruee. red. 3yrs., 
champion Hleho (A.K,R, 295\—champion Noreen (A.K.R. 297); 34, 
Rory O*More Kenuel's Rexford, red, 3yr=. 3mos,, charnpion Berkley— 
Sampgon’s Nora. Very high com.. H, B. Goetschius's Chief I. ( ALK.R, 
282), red, 3yrs.. champion Chief (A.K.R. 231}—imperted Doe: Charles 
W. Roedenberg’s Chip, red, 8yrs,, Chief—Doe; C, H, Bunnell’s Berk- 
shire, ref, 121smos,. Chief—Kate. High com., Charles R. Thorburn’s 
Rory O’More, Jr., dark red, 2l4yrs.. champion Rory O'More—Nora 
O’More; F. L. Van Benschoten’s Red Dick, red and white, 5yrs., 
BElcho—Jessie: Philo, red. 4yrs,, Derg—Kathleen. Com., Max L. Ran- 
son’s Larry IT, rad, lyr. $moes., Larry—lted Lassie. } 

Cocker Spaniels (liver or black) under 28 Ibs,, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, 
B, F, Wilson's Peerless Glass, black, 33mos., Young Berwerlac—Nel- 
lie; 2d, E. W, Durkee’s Jumbo, Jiver, 12mos., Hornell Dandy—Hornell 
Dinah. Very high com.. Andrew Laidlaw's Woodstock Flirt (A.K.R, 
661), black, 141smos.. imported Tippo—imported Toronto Jet (A.K.R. 
860). High com.,Wm. Dunphy’s Bessie. black, 15mos., champion 
Beau—Fancy. Com.. Hornell Spaniel Club’s Sam, black, 20mos.. 
champion Bonanza—Pansv. if 

Field or Cocker Spaniel Puppies (any color) under 12mos.—ist, Win- 
chester Johnson's Black Tournie, biack. &8mos., Oho IT. (A.K.R. 452)— 
Critic | A.K.R. 8°38); 2d, W. O, Partridce’s Helen, black, 8mos,, bo IT. 
{A-K.R. 432)—Critic (4 KR. 303). Very hich com.. Dr. J, 8. Niven’s 
Niven’s Darkey, black. 8mos,. Frank—Nellie. High com,, Hornell 
Spaniel Club's Darling. liver, 10mos., Dandy—Topsy. 

Champion Foxhounds, Dogs or Bitches.—Ist, Essex County Hunt's 
Vinegar, white and tan. 6yrs., imported. 

Foxhounds. Dogs or Bi'ches,—ist. Essex County Hunt’s Cardinal, 
white and tan, 5yrs,, imported; 2d, Essex County Hunt’s Warrior, 
white and tan. 6yrs., imported; 84, Essex County Hunt's Manager, 
white and tan, 5yrs., imported, VWigh com,, W. Ball’s Brownie, dark 
tan, 17mos., Sam—Flora. Com., Essex Kennel Club's Sport, black 
and tan, 2yrs. 

Dachshunde, Dogs or Bitchés.—ist, W. B. Vozelsang’s Gretchen, 
dark brown and tan. lamos.. imported: 2d, J. B. Marris, Jr.'s Dutchy, 
brown, 3yrs., ngs sen Hich com , Essex Kennel Club’s Waldman, 
black, Com., W. Schell, Jr.'s, Cora, black and tan, 3yrs,, Dan— 
Tankell. 

Champion Mastiffs, Dogs.—ist, Chas. H. Mason’s Nevison, im- 
ported. fawn, black points, 4l4yrs.. Gurth—Juno. — . 

Champion Mastiffs, Bitches.—ist, Ashmont Kennel’s Dolly Varden 
(A.K.R. 75), fawn. black poiuts, 4vrs,. Young Prinee—Merlin. 

Mastiffs. Dozs,—ist. Harry Hill's Dan, fawn, 4yrs.. full nedizree; 
2d, Henry Pratt’s Billo, 18mos., imported stock—Nellie; 38d, W. P. 
Stevenson's Homer, fan, 16mos., Cato—Queen IT. (A.K.R. 158). Very 
high cam.. David G. Yuneling, Jr.’s Jim, fawn, 3yrs.. full pedigree, 
High com., William H. Lee’s Ilford Cromwell, brindle, 3yrs.. Car- 
dinal—Cleopatra. Com., Max Meyer’s Bruno, fawn, i&mos., full 
pedigree, 

Mastiffs. Bitches.—ist, A. Grant*’s Regina, fawn. 3yrs.. Youne King 
—Rannee: 2d. W. R. MacDiarmid’s Monmouth Meg, fawn, 2hevrs., 
Salisbury—Tizress Il.; 8d, James L. Flung’s Nana. fawn, black 

é' points, &yrs., Cassar—Dido. Verv high com., C. D. Arthur’s Queen, 

fawn, 20mos., Harold—Dido. High com., A. F. Henninzs’s Dizz, 

fawn, 20mos., imported Monarch- Nell. 

Mastiff Puppies, Dogs or Bitches,—ist, W. P, Stevenson's Hector, 
fawn, 9mes.. Nevison—Venus; 24, James Lenox Banks’s Mayor of the 
Cedars (A.K.R. 549), fawn and black points, 10moes., Nevison—Venus; 
3d, M. M, Frothingham’s Sandy, fawn. 4inos., Grim—Sallie Waters. 
Very hich com.. W.S, Phraners’s Court, fawn, 445mos., Harold—Dido. 
High com.. C. F, Frotheringham‘s litter of puppies, fawn, {mos., 
Grim—Sallie Waters. Com., C. H. Hays’s Veuve Clicquot, fawn, 
dmos.. Harold—Dido, 

Cocker Spaniels (any eolor other than liver and black) under 2Slbs., 
Dogs or Bitches.—1st. Hornell Spaniel Club's Rattler, chestnut and 
tan, iyr., Dandy—champion Dinah: 2d,Wm. Dunphy’s Fancy I., 
black, 15mos., champion Beau—Fancy, Very bigh com.. Capt. J. E. 
Jones’s Blossom, liver and white, 15mos.. Charley—Powder. High 
com., Capt. J, H. Jones's Powder, liver and white, 4yrs., Lord Cardi- 
gan’sKennel. Com., George Miller’s Clytie, liver and white, 6yrs., 
Watson's Shot—Hall’s Lou. 

Italian Greyhounds, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Mrs. Constance A. An- 
drews's Queenie, golden yellow, 8yrs., imported 1862, born in Italy; 
2d. BE. W. Jester's Pearl (A.K.R. 758), fawn, 5yrs., Douglas—Gypsy 


ween. 
. Newfoundlands, Dogs er Bitches.—ist, C. J. Whigam’s Jacek, black, 
5yrs., imported: 2d, Chas. T, Strauss’s Tasso, black, 2yrs., Pontoon— 
Fannie, Very high com , W, H. Lacy’s Bruno, black, 8yrs., imported, 
High com., W. Barbour’s Cabot. black, white spot, 7}gmos. 
Chatnpion Greyhounds. Dogs.—ist, H, W, Smith's Friday Night, 
black and white, 2iéyrs., Master’s Prince—IL H. Salter’s Sally, 


Greyhounds, Dogs.—ist H. W. Huntington’s Bouncing Boy, blac, 
tisyrs,, Walton Lad—Cremorne; 2d, Mrs. Henry Allen's Dell, fawn, 
2yre,.. imported, Very high com,, J. Coleman Drayton’s Slingsby, 
black. % yrs., Rapid—Sally. High com,, Edward Cullen’s Moscow, 
fawn. 3yrs.. full pedigree. 7 
_ Greyhounds, Bit hes.—ist,H, W. Huntington's School Girl, black, 
iléyrs., Schoolfellow—Sol Fa; 2d, withheld. Very highcom., H.W. 
Huntineton’s Beronia, black, 4yrs., Born a Demhon—Bella, 

Greyhound Puppies, under 12mos., Dogs or Ritches.—ist withheld ; 
2d, Hy. Henderson’s Flash, fawn, 9mos. Very high com., H. W. 
toniageéon La Belle, black, 10mos., champion Double Shot—cham- 

ion Clio. 

Se phammpiod Deerhounds.—ist, Clovernook Kennel’s Roy, brindle, 
2yrs., Paddy—Lassie. ‘ 

Deerhounds, Dogs.—ist, Archibald Rogers’s Bruce, dark brindle, 
Usyrs.. Grey Comyn (Jate Hector)—Leona (late Linda); 2d, W. D. 

Whipple's Brueé, dark gray.5yrs. Very highcom., Archibald Rogers’s 
Spring, cray. diévrs.. Marni—Thulah, 

Deerhounds, Bitch+s.—Awards withheld. 

Champion Pointers, over 55 Ibs,, Dogs.—ist, John W. Munson’s 
Meteor. imported, liver and white, 3yrs., Garnet—Jilt. ; 

Champion Pointers, over 50 Ibs. Bitches._1st, Luke W. White’s 
Grace, liver and white ticked, Match—Nell. 


INTELLIGENCE OF A SPANIEL.—Johnsontown, Va.— 
About “45 or 46 I became the owner of a cocker spaniel dog 
pup. I called him Cassius, which, of course, was shortened 
to Cash. He was very affectionate and intelligent, and I 
taught him many tricks, and some he took up of his own 
accord, I lived at that time on the south side of a street run- 
ning east and west. My morning paper folded in the shape of 
a parallelogram was slipped under the door every morning 
early by the carrier. Cash would pick it up and bring it to 
my chamber door every morning and bark for admission, One 
morning a northeast rain storm was prevailing. Cash came 
up as usual but without the paper, I asked him where it was 
and he dropped his ears and tail, and I supposed that the 
paper had not come. When i went down stairs 1 found the 
paper in its proper place, but the rain had beaten under the 
door, wet the paper thoroughly and it stuck to the oil cloth, 
On the corner where the folds were thickest were the marks 
of Cash’s teeth plainly visible, and the paper showed signs of 
tearing. Now, Cash seemed to have found that he could not 
get the paper without tearing the corner, and to haye known 
that it must not be torn, and so he left it, If that was not 
“reason” what was it?—OLD Foey. 


CANINE JEWELRY,.—They are haying a big dog collar 
competition in this city. The Medford Fancy Goods Company, 
of Chambers street, without whose collars no well-bred dogs 
assume to bark or bite, has given a dozen collars for the best 
dogs at the Westminster show. There are silver and gold 
collars for pointers, leather and silver collars for greyhounds, 
tancifully ornamented collars tor setters, big collars for mas- 
tiffs and St, Bernards, Morigmer collars for bulldogs, a collar 
with a silver buckle for the Collie that is smart enough to win 
and wear it: and a set of harness for the best Pug. When the 
successful collar competitors are arrayed in all this finery, the 
rest of the dogs will be mad with rage, unless their respective 
owners go down to the Medford Fancy Goods Company to buy 
for each a collar, 


Aifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 20 and 21.—Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association Tournament 
Delaware. Ill. D.G, Cunningham, Secretary. San Jose, Dl. 

May 20 to 283,—Knosvillé Gun Club Second Aunnal Tournament, 
Knoxville, Tenn, C.C, Hebbard, Secretary. 

May 26 to 31.—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Ill. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P.O. Box 1292. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

June 210 9.—Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen’s Associa- 
peer Rees Ky. J, O, Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third avenue, 

ouisyille. 


RATIONAL TARGET PRACTICE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your editorial on regular army rifle improvement in your issue of 
Feb. 25, leads me to request space for some remarks upon this sub- 
ject, based upon my own observation and experience as an instructor, 

oping that from these remarks otners may be led to state their ob- 
servation, and to seeif we cannot get true improvement instead of 
fictitious merit. ; 

At the very outset let me say that no one will more readily concede 
than I that improvement has taken place, for the time was not so 
yery far back when such a thing asa regular organized target prac- 
tice was unheard of; but although I fully syampathize with the pres- 
ent enthusiasm. and aid it in every way possible, still I contend, and 
always have contended, that our efforts are all tending in the wrong 
direction, and have not the true object in view, namely, the making 
of skilled and reliable shots, able to shoot at any and all times with 
a fine degree of proficiency. . 

Our system of instruction, though originally based upon ‘‘Lindley’s 
Manual,*’ has spread and extended under the various orders and in- 
structions that have been issued from time to time, so that besides in- 
struction we now have an elaborate series of reports to render, pre- 
sumably to show what progress has beeu made from month to month, 
and it is this series of réports that I would particularly mention as 
being the primary cause that has led to the fictitious merit of which 
I complain, and to which I would direct attention. Doubtless eniula- 
tion, as well as instruction, has beneficial results if ropenly guarded, 
but when reports are based, asat present, then emulation, being upon 
animpropec basis. and not properly guarded, may, and I contend, 
does, produce improper results, and may, as I think it does, produce 
discontent and discouragement instead of pride and confidence. 

Let us begin at the beginning and touch upon each pojnt as it pre- 
sents itself, not only as more systematic but as dividing the subject 
up into heads the more easily to be answered. 

Instruction,—The principles of rifle shooting having been taught as 
thoroughly as may be, with a view toward making men good shots, 
should not individuality im the practice bethen taught? Isitright for 
theinstructor to continue to adjust wind gauges and elevations for each 
man, and coach him on every shot, so that he. the instructor, fires the 
shot in all except actually holding the piece and pulling the trigger. 

For match or team firing I admit that the coach is indispensable; 
there the coach has nothing else to do but coach, and as a means to 
an end, coaching in practice may be admissible when not abused or 
earried too far; but the end we should have in view, being to make 
reliable shots on the field of battle against animate instead of inani- 
mate targets, the coaching allowable should only extend to proper 
instruction and peu jeer such instruction is followed by the men, 
and each man be taught to depend upon his own gudgment and skill 
for success, whether at the target or the enemy. 

At present I am convinced this is not the case. Shooting for recerd, 
under the vicious system of reports that are required, as will be 
shown later on, causes the instructor who desires to emmlate in these 
reports, to substitute his knowledge, his judgment and his skill, for 
that of the individual, to the bettering of the record to be sure, butat 

Pointers. over S5lbs.. Does.—ist, C. W. Littlejohn’s Fritz, lemon | the same time to the production of a record that does not exhibit the 
and white ticked, whelped June. 1881, Beaufort—Spot; 2d, Neversink | true merit of the shooting of his men, but a record that exhibits the 
Lodge Kennel’s Drake, liver and white, 2yrs., champion Croxteth— result of his individuality impressed upon each man, instead ofa 
Lass: 3/, L. & W, Rutherfurd’s Danby, liver and white, 3yrs., Speck | record of his men as individuals. s ‘¥ 
—Dinah.’ Very high com., Fred Wilbrath’s Dash II., liver and white, | _In my own experience I have seen the bad results following such a 
8yrs, fmos., Rake I.—Juno: J. W. Munson’s Maxim, imported, liver | System. I have seen men who were good shots when shooting under 

white, Syrs. , Garnet—Jilt: J. W. Munson’s Bang, imported, liver | their coach, make most wretched failures when shooting as individ- 
and white, 5yrs., champ. Bang—Luna. High com., J. H. Stromberg’s uals, and fromthe acknowledged fact that they could not shoot when 
Guy. lemon and white. 2yrs., Beaufort—Spot;C. M. Munhall’s Donald | placed upon. their own individuality. Apart from the coaching our 
Il.. liver, white and ticked, 20mos,, champion Donald—Devonshire | System of instruction appears to me to be radically wrong. 
Lass; H. W. Force’s Clydesdale, white, 8yrs., Massey’s Dash—Virginia | After such course of preliminary firing as may be followed, generally 
Belle. a full course ef gallery practice during the winter months, the rifle- 
man begins in the spring at 100 yards off-hand, Following thesystem 
of classification to be mentioned further on, as soon as he has 
made 66 per cent. for two scores, not necessarily consecutive, 
of five shots each, he is advanced to the 200-yard range; and so on up 
to 600 yards. Right here in his tirst advancement is the first error. 
True, it may be that firing at 100 yards at our eight inch bullseye is 
‘nothing more than aiming and pointing drill,” as I sofrequently 
hear; but Joes any well structed rifleman mean to say thab long 
practice is not beneficial at this range, and that a tyro is sufficiently 
well instructed when he has made 66 per cent for two scores as above, 
to be advanced? I have had men who never had fired a piece before 
in their lives go out and “scratch” 66 per cent, the firstday, then miss 
the target nearly every shot ior a week’s firing, then “scratch” Us 
er cent. again, and consequently “by order’ be supposed to know 
ow to shoot well enough to be advanced; but who will claim that 
they did“know enough to be advanced? As an experiment as well as 
obeying the order, I advanced them to the 200-yard range, and as a 
matter of course, they could not hit the target and had to go back ta 
the 100-yard range and stay there until they could do reasonably good 
shooting before they were fit to be advanced. 

It strikes me that preliminary practice at short rie should be 
continued until a rifieman was Ee Sei well grounded, not only 15 
the principles of rifie firing but in ability to shoot, and 66 per cent. 
for two scores does not make him so. I have been shooting for the 
last nme years, nearly constantly, and I yet have to regret the long- 
continued *short-range” practice and training I subjected myself to. 
and I yet shoot at from 5U to 10yds. constantly to keep my hand in, 
It is true that I practice at smaller targets than the Sinch bullseye. 
but still [ keep up the short-range practice. for I know it benefits me 
at every other range, no matter bow far, or even if I then am lying 


. 


Pointers, over 50lbs., Bitches.—1st Frank H. Rogers’s Miss Merry- 
may, liver and white, 3yrs., King Bow—Grace; 2d. J. O. Donner’s 
Fan Fan, liver and white. 4yrs., imported; 3d,G. W. Amory’s Sal, 
liver and white. 38yrs., Dick—Ruby. High com., Knickerbocker Ken- 
nel Clnb’s Lady Mae (A.K.R. 1040), black, 3yrs., champion Pete—Mab. 

Champion Irish S-tters, Dogs. — ist, Dr. W. Jarvis’s Hlcho, Jr. 
(formerly Eleho VII.), dark red, 2yrs. 1imos., champion Elcho— 
champion Noreen. } : 

Champion Irish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches,—No entries. 
Trish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—1st, Archibald Rogers's 
Trish Chief, liver, 3yrs., champion Barney—Irish Nell; 2d, Essex Ken- 
nel Glub's Wasso, liver, 18mos., Sailor—Fannie. : 
Champion Field Spaniels (any color) over 25 lbs., Dogs or Bitches,— 
ist, H. W. Huntington’s Benedict (A,K.R. 61), black, 4yrs., champion 
Bachelor—Negress. — , 


Field Spaniels (any color) over 28 Ibs., Dogs or Bitches,—ist, Win- 
ehester Johnson's Critic, black, 2yrs.. Brush If—Blackie II,; 2d, 
James Watson’s Bateman, imported, lemon and white, i8mos. Very 
high com,, Andrew Laidlaw’s Toronto Jet (A.K.R. 860) imported, 
black, Wyrs., Nigger—Belle. Higb com.. Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
Jewell, black, 2yrs. 10mos., Brag—Nelly; Frank Thomson's Don, 
lemon and white, Bruno—Gill, Com., Herman F. Schellhass’s Bene- 
dict’s Boy (A.K.R, 180), black, 22mos,, imported champion Benedict— 
ES ag Beatrice; Frank Thomson's Punch, lemon and white, Bruno 
—i1 a 

Champion Cocker Ppartels (any color) under 28 lIbs,, Dogs or 

Jey’s OboIl., black, 23mos., Farrar’s Obo— 


es up and does Ndi remain to hetter 
spa teat. By me score of 16 and one of 


, or in the same month; that 


298 


a seore of 17 can be made with three centers, one liner and one 
outer, or by twe centers and three inners (not counting better combi- 
nations of 5-4-3-2 to produce 17) and that even a center does not neces- 
sarily hif the’size of a man from the circular shape of the target, and 
one then can see for himself whether this mun is in reality a first- 
class shot, or anything approaching one. Remember, also, that the 
poor shooting has not been considered, that no average is taken, and 
it will then he sufficiently apparent that this rileman may be and 
probably is anything but a first-class shor, 

But let us follow him again and see what becomes of him. Having 
become a first-class man (!) he now goes back to 200yds., or the low- 
est range, where he has yet 80 per cent. to make; for a man may have 
jade 80 per cent, for two best scores, when he was only trying for 66 
per cent. Here he begins again and shoots and shoots, under his 
coach" or not, depending upon the belief of his instructor as to 
such a system being advisable or not, until he makes 80 per cent, 
for three scorés, not necessarily conseculive or in the same month, 
when heis advanced to the next higher range, to there repeat the 
lesson until He has 80 per cent, or better for these three scores at 200 
and 300yds, He then jumps the 400 and 300-yd,. ranges and begius at 
the 600, and hammers away there until he has made his 70 per cent, 
for three scores, Each score must be of the required percentase— 
that is, each score of five shots must be 80 per cent, at 200 and 300yds. 
or better; and each score at 600yds., of five shots each, must be 70 
per cent. or better. Perhaps some one right here will tell me how to 
make a score of 70 percent, on five shots; it is beyond my arithmetic; 
but anything Itss than 70 per cent, for five shots don’t count: conse- 
queutly a man can’t make 17 and 18 for two scores and count that, but 
must make 1$ or better. Why dont the order then say 72 per cent. 
and have done with it? Wor scores of five shots are the standard, and 
not scores of ten shots, even if they be consecutive and on thé same 
day (See G. O., No, 53, series 1882, A. G. O. J X1.), 

And now the man is a ‘‘marksman”’ (?), and on what qualification? 
He has pctne over Lhe range once and made 66 per cent. or better at 
from 100 to d00yds., inclusive, couhlting his two best scores of five 
shots each at each range; he has thus gone over the 200, 300 and 
600y0s. range, or as much as.may have been necessary, and has 
made £0 per cent. for his three best scores at the 200 and 300yds. 
ranges, and 70 per cent. (72 per cent. in fact) for his three best scores 
at this distance. No account has been taken of his poor shooting, 
and he has not been required to shootin all kinds of wind and weather; 
but I'll guarantee that the weather was fine and the wind did notblow 
when he made his ‘qualifying scores.*’ And it is on this basis (7) 
that our marksmen (?) are “qualified” and orders are published and 
go forth to the world showing the number of marksmen in the army !!! 
On paper we have 4,£34 marksmen, or had when the order was pub- 
lished, and I ask in all seriousness, how many of these were and are 
bona fide marksmen? T'll answer, not 50 per cent.; by which I mean 
that not.50 per cent. could go on to the line of battle and at 200, 300 or 
600yds. repeat their qualifying scores of €0 per cent. or 70 per cent. 
against a live target, or who could, except under extraordinary con- 
ditions, repeat their qualifying scores upon the Creedmoor target. 

But let us follow the rifleman a little further, and see what now 
becomes of him asa marksman. To become a sharpshooter he must 
go back again to the 200yd, range and there make §8 per cent., then bo 
the 300 and 600yd. ranges and repeat these percentages for three 
scores at each range—imaking therequired percentage, for each score 
of five shots—and making the third time he has gone over the range 
up te 600yds. Having, for his best scores still, made these pereent- 
ages, he now for the first time begins to shoot at 800, 900 and 10G0yds., 
and when (by a combination of favorable circumstances, by some 
coaching or what not) he has made 76 per cent, at these ranges for 
each of his scores, he is then a ‘‘sharpshooter’’ and supposed to bs 
able to repeat his scores at any time (or he should so be able if he 
really is a sharpshooter) and to be qualified to act as sharpshooter 
against the enemy when called upon, As yet we have no sharp- 
shooters, but next year how mary may there not be who have made 
the sceres requisite, but who, the sameé as marksmen now, will not in 
reality be sharpshootet's, 

Let us again follow the rifleman and see what now becomes of him. 
All this going over the range has had some good effect, or else has 
been so much “Jove’s labor lost;” but by the time all this has been 
dene, the “end of the target year” (Sept. 30) has probably drawn 
pretty near, and no more time is left for anything further. The 
movable, vanishing, skirmishers’, or dolly target, have all been 
neglected so far and not a shot has been fired except at the regular 
Creedmoor range targets. 

Oct. 1 comes to hand, and with it comes the ‘new target year.’’ The 
rifleman who has not made his qualification as marksman, sharp- 
shooter, etc., buf who Las yet but one score at the last range left to 
make to so qualify, loses all credit made for the preceding twelve 
months, and must begin again at the 100yd. range, make his 60 per 
cent. there, his 80 per cent. and 70 per cent., etc. anew, instead of 
going on fromthe point he had reached Sept. 30, and make that a 
stepping stone to something higher for the following year. 

Would this going back bé at all necessary if he had been properly 
grounded at first at the 100yd. range? Would not he have shot better 
all through the year if he kad been so properly grounded, and would 
he not have been ready—ifa marksman or sharpshooter—to have 
gone ou to something better instead of going back? and if not quite 
yet a marksman or sharpshooter, would he not be then ready to keep 
on and make himself one during the remaining fine days in October 
or November, rather than to lose it all and have to begin anew? and 
what is the sense of this going back each year any way? If once I 
have learned to spellin tio syllables. must I each year go back to 
rudiments because by a certain fime I have not learned to spell in 
five or six? If I have learned once to spell properly in four syllables, 
and have not quite learned the five, must I go back and re-masterthe 
two, three and four before I complete the five? Would it not be better 
for me to keep on when Iam just on the point of success and leave 
the fiveand then goon tosix orseven? But no! Our system only 
taught mea smattering of two-syllable words, then a smattering of 
three and four, and consequently lam ‘stumped, because I didnot 
learn the smattering of five syNablesin the time set, and I must go 
back to the two syllables and get a re-smattering, and so on upagain 
ad injinttum, and most decidedly ad nauseum. 

This is our system and these our marksmen, and these will be our 
sharpshooters. Let us look at the cause, to be found in our classifi- 
eation, from eur reports. Letus laok at the reports first: At the 
end of each month each troop, battery or company commander has 
to render a report of target practice; said report only mentions the 
two best scores made by each officer or man during the month, and 
again Do report is made upon the worst or average shooting of any- 
body. The result of these reports is published, and here the emula- 
tion comesin. Naturally I, being a troop commander, desire to have 
a high average for my troop, so as not to compare unfayorably with 
other troops, etc. Naturally, therefore, I select my days; I shoot 
when the weather is good and but little or no wind, and only then; 
for otherwise my percentage might be poor ascompared with others. 
Naturally, also, I coach my men; I watch each man set his wind- 
gauge, fix his elevation, see that his piece is “level,” ete,, and do all 
the fine part of the shooting myself, and do not allow the individual 
to exercise his ilemer in the slightest. Result;I havea fine report 
to make, and I stand “‘away up” as compared with others; I am 
‘patted on the back’ and called a good boy, whereas, for all any 
one knows,I may deserve censure rather than praise; for I may 
have given a false impression, even without any falsehood or false 
returns, and the average of my shooting or of my troop be much 
lower than that of some other troop whose best scores are lower than 
mine. 

ic is true that another report has ta be made, giving the total num- 
ber of shots fired by each man at each range each month, together 
with the percentages for this total number at each range, but whatfor 

asses my understanding, for no account seems to be taken thereof 
in any qualification, classification or figure of merit. If some account 
were taken of it; if marksmen were qualified and classified on their 
average and their number of shots, even if a lower percentage were 
called for; if the results were published, or any standard of cumpari- 
son taken therefrom or allowances made in figure of merit, then and 
only then would we begin to have intelligent and honestresults, At 
the end of the year an annual report has to be made, and here comes 
in the “classification.’’ This report is made frem the monthly record 
of best target firing, and "any two scores of five consecutive shots, 
each at the same range, during the year, may be taken for determin- 
ing the percentage at thatrange,” From this we get our marksmen 
(except that now it willread three scores). So here we have the re- 
nee of best pls ek each range foreach man for the entire year, and 

0 per cent. at and 300, with 70 per cent. at 600, makes a marks- 
man—those who have made 66 per cent. at 200, 300 and 500 are first 
class men; those who have made 50 per cent. at 200, 300 and 500, 
second class men; and-all others third class men. Nice qualification, 
isn’t it, and ought not one to be prond to be classed as a marksman? 

Now I have ‘qualified’ as a marksman for two consecutive years, 
and, to be a little egotistic, let us see what I have done on my best 
scores for three years, and then, to be honest, let us see what my 
average was, counting every shat I fired, good, bad and indifferent. 
_ In 1882, I was published in order as a marksman, with the follow- 
ing percentage for two best scores: 200yds,, 62 per cent.; d00yds., 8% 
per cent.; 60Uyds,, 88 per cent,; total. 82 per cent, 

I began firing on Aug. 5, having been absent up to that time, and 

\fired up to and meluding Sept. 28, with tire following results: 
At 100yds., total 45 shots, average percentage, 82.5. 
At 00yds,, total 45 shots, average percentage. 76 8 9. 
At d00yds.. total 140 shots, average percentage, 594-7. 
Be a0 yas. total 110 shots, average percentaze, 66 2-11. 
u See » Wotgl 100 shots, average percentage, 66 15, 
. aw s,, total 125 shots, average percelttage, 51 7-2. 


294 FOREST AND STREAM. [Max 8, 1884. 
————————e——01?06K00—nS=$9$sS$SS SSS. SSS ee 
And yeb I made qualifying scores as a marksman. as follows: RANGE AND GALLE RY. 


“¢ eeyas 4 per eur or over, hile Ener ad of : eae Seb: 

t yds., 80 per cent or over, 4 times—scores of 5 shots each. “4 fio 

At 300yds., 80 per cent. or over, 2 times—scores of 6 shots each. aap his Probe our bee E esa Sante ets, Fetes ieee 

At 400yds., 80 per cent. or over, 4 times—scores of 5 shots each. Ameriean decimal target was used, distance 200yds., shooting off- 
hand, with a possible 100. The totals made were as follows: G. F. 


At 500yds., 72 per cent. or over, 6 times—scores of 5 shots each. 
At 600yds., 72 per cent. or over, 4 times—scores of 5 shots each, Ellsworth 91, A, Mathews 90, M. Atherton 86, G. E, Fordyce 86, H. OG. 
Knowlton 81, W. C. Loveland 77, G. C. Goodale 77. ly 


on Sees od prsienens pecute been nee onmy BVETAEE 

where wou ave been, unless the percentage had been lower? An ee 

yet my best shooting is no criterion as to what I could be expected to Peal t al ‘Galtery cioesa lee Whee oe tne 
winning the first prize, gold badge, M. L. Pratt the second, B. W- 


do under any and all circumstances. 
In 1883 I was published again as a marksman as follows: At 200yds., | Gardner the third, J, J. Monroe the fourth, and ©. L. Foster the 
bronze badge in beginners’ match. Some yery good shooting was 


90 per cent.; 300yds., 90 per cent.; 600yds., #4 per cent.; total 91,3 per 
cent. I began firing om the new target year Oct. 8, 188, and fired | done, as the scores will show. A list of regular prizes will be put up 
for this month, 
Amateurs’ Match, No. 1. 


TUSSdAy A team from our home club visited Worcester to com- 
pete for the state badge and were defeated, The reason for their 
defeat was that they were unable to make their score sufficientl 
high to overcome that of the Worcester team. The cause of such 
inability, however, was evident to all present at the match; and ibis 
probably true that tothe increasing number of marksmen from all 
parts of the State, who decline to visit Worcester in any further 
contests with the Worcester club, may be added those from Spring- 
field.’ I wish you could find some corner under “The Trap” column 
for this article, as I helieye it to be a clean protest which may help 
eliminate such conduct from future contests.-SPumayretcoe 


TOPSHAM, Me., May 1.—At the annual meeting of the Riv si 
Shooting Club held on April 24, the following officers rag Gece 
for the ensuing year: M. C, Hall, President; Chas, Goud, Secretary; 
A.Q. Goud, Treasurer, A. H. Perry and (, L. York were added tq 
the aboye named officers to constitute the executive committee. At. 


during the year as follows: 
At 100yds.— With carbine, 75 shots, average 8514 per cent. ; with rifie, 


; their annual shoot on May 1, the. following scores were 5 
15 shots, average 96 per cent. , ; Hs aE Loving Fp mer ssae oot arte Satan mm soak Sanigug nts a a a a eae for silver badge, 10 single clay-pigeons, Byds, rise, aso “OF bathe pot 
_At 200yds.—With carbine, 65 shots, average 76 4-13 per c ent,; with oe Oi scale Mirae pane cheesiest ae ote haa y_99g rels, second barrel to count a half bird, 5 single balls, 18yds. rise, 
Trifle, 190 shots, average 7211-19 per cent. Ey Medes Cor See TRO 45 45 ad 44 a= > | > pairs pigeons, 15yds. rise, Card revolving trap: 
REE Ee ee Pe ae ee eee be TO.4 Der combs With rifles, |B Wawandsis5,ts0106-r-bb, ern ese ae AD A aS | Ria ieonder Gir Pea. cee 
shots, average 74 10-19 per cent. PACH Gy 9 PH pec ah aan Epes 43 43 42 48 46-217 |G Hall SHON” OLIeaE ee Ee 
At 400yds.—With carbine, 15 shots, average .6914 per cent.; with | JH Bird... 1. dd. AS” AS ds a8 ote) eae ter Ae tare cr oer tes a 101119 
th : ; ips] tS 9 aan ae SPC EDT 111001111. 1011.11.10 0» 4111119 
rifie, 10 shots, average 96 per cent. JF Stetson, ......- 2... see eee teehee reese ees 43 43 42 44 44-216 | 4 Q Goud........ ele 101111001 1111 0110 01 «= 0111-4 
_At 500yds.—With carbine, 20 shots, average 54 per cent.; with rifle, a aee bette te easee eres et tere eeer seen eeee ase ee rs z ri ems aE FRCS 3-14 og ale 1*01110111 11 0011 11 10 0001116 
25 shots, average 70.4 per vent. Sey RAR Lt he Reka ane Le 43 43 43 42 43214 A D Hall....... Brady NAS 1*0001*110 = 00: 01 01 10 11 | 1101-14 
At 600yds.—With carbine, 55 shots, average 56 per cent.; with rifle,|~ =~ Beginners’ Match. a a aera seta sas <n ssche iat ‘s sete ae en 
830 shots, average 54.4 per cent. SR Ef 0) Tete Meee AA pe oy AR py gars 53 44 43 48—215 | W Dunning ...122277702777 000110100 40 12 00 41 10 Cup T 
Scores of 80 per cent. or over, at 120yds.—Carbine 14, rifle 3; total 17, | T A Lynch,.......... AS Ah rt Oe grey Pea Ne 42 43 42 42 48212 OH Greenleaf ............. 1101101014 41 01 00 00 10 ih 
Scores of 80 per cent. or over, at 200yds.—Carbine 6, rifle 12; total 18. | L V Smith.....2/ 22.2.2... eee eee srvessesdt 41 4t 41 41-205 | SStrout... _... veces vee 1#10010010 40 1. 11H. ovr 
Scores of §0 per cent. or over, at 300yds,— Carbine 8, rifle 13; total16. | BOSTON, May 3.—The members of the Massachusetts Rifle Asso- | GBStrout..2/2.0.22727.27227 "100001000" 00 10 00 00 00 141111 81g 
Scores of 80 per cent. or over, at 400yds.—Carbine 1, rifle 2; total 3. | ciation turned out in strong force to-day at Walnut Hillrange. The | CM White... 1.020077 00000000 00 01 10 00----00001—.5 


Scores of 72 per cent. or over, at 500yds,—Carbine 2, rifle 2; total 4. 
Scores of 72 per cent. or over, at 600yds,—Carbine 1, rifie 23; total 24, 


These figures again seem to need. no comment, and yet on my aver 
age where would I again have been? 

In 1882, in one of the Departments there were something like 223 
marksmen; the highest had 80 per cent. as his total, and there were 
thirteen who had 76.6 per cent. for their totals, that is, they just had 
the required 80 per cent. at 200 and 300yds., and 70 per cent at 600yds. 
In 1883, in the same Department, there were something like 602 marks- 
men; the highest had 92.6 per cent, fof his total, and about thirty- 
three had 76.6 per cent., or just qualified. 

Now so far asthe report shows, these last in the two years just 
Managed to ‘‘squeeze in.”’ They may have had several scores of 80 
per cent. or 70 per cent., but from whatI know of the modus oper- 
andt, the chances are that they did not, and therefore they probably 
are marksmen on the only scores they made that had the required 


10 O1 
ere on 19}44—M. C. Hall 110—2, A. 8. Alexander 1111116, C. Kean 
*Second barrel. 


WORCESTER, Mass., April 29.—At Coal Mine Range to-day there 
was a large nnmber of sporting men present, The principal event 
was the team match for the State Championship Badge of the Massa- 
chusetts Glass Ball Association. It has been held some time by the 
Worcester Sportsmen’s Club. Their opponents were the Springfield 
clot The men in the two teams shot and scored in the following 
order: 


large attendance was due in part, no doubt, to the fact that a trial 
of skill was to take place betwee ams representing the home club 
and that cf the Springfield armoM®. As neither team could leave 
home, it was arranged that each should shoot on its own range and 
the scores be telegraphed. The result, recorded below. shows a de- 
feat for the home team, Springfield winning on a score of 313 against 
309 at 200yds.. During the day the wind caused trouble, blowing from 
1i to 2. peed but the light was excellent. The day’s records are 
appended; 

Creedmoor Practice Match.—O. M. Jewell 48, J. B. Fellows 46, D. 
Korkwood 45, F. Chauncey 45, J. C. Chambers 43, J. H. Payne, Jr., 42, 
F. Stetson 40, W. H. Morton 40, E. B. Smith 40, F. W. Fowle (mil) 39, 
J.D. Darmody (mil) 39, M. Williams 38. 

Decimal Match.—VW. Charles 82, A. C. Adams 78, W. Gardner 79, J. 
N. Frye 74, Lewis Ross 73, G. Warren 70, W. H. Ober 68. 

Creedmoor Prize Match.—J. P. Bates 44, Lewis Ross 44, E. B. 


Worcester Team. 
George A ‘Sampson. .2. 5.0.0 ).0. 0082. 11411111101111111111—19 
LE Sa (4A ge ey Pee yy lt 1a ea 00110110101111111110—14 
BD Sriniblis Let re OR Seo ee a ene es 11111101111111131101—18 
CE Hodes tw Beek ct POR ERS 110011111011101111170—15 


percentage. Are such men necessarily marksmen? and are not the | Souther 43, H. Mortimer 41, D. Humphrey 40, Ws Perry ere tbe ne eee tele 2 at 1 454 455,45 11111101111111011141—i18—84 
chances very great that they are not marksmen, but that they simply | _Rest Match.—S. Wilder 96, C. B. Edwards 92, P. Sylvester 87, J. SE Ford...... Springtield Team. 

had luck enough to make the percentage and are therefore called | Hurd 83. . y ; B dford Wi a OOPS SOs BM i Ss: joionlot idiot atte 
such “‘by order.’ Understand that I do not mean to say that it is to Team match.—Springfield Armory team: T. B. Wilson 47, R. T. oe fon OORT ons slel Fas artis eee ee 10110110111110141111—18 
any one’s discredit that he should have made 8) per cent. or 70 per | Hill 46, J. Kimball 45, S$. 8. Bumstead 45. L. H. Mayott 44, M. W. Bull, SoH Hache tLe a ee ee TgH OH TON MT —97 
cent. ab the proper ranges; it indicates something, and that some- |} 43, T. R. Bull 43, total 3138. Massachusetts Rifle Association: W. pee fils) 4 i OEE are cariglicha ot aes eye 1114111110111111011118 
thing is of value, but I claim that it does not necessarily indicate a | Charles 47, J. B. Fellows 46, D. Kirkwood 44, O. M. Jewell 44, J. A. SA aes ed ed One Se Bae AQIN1T 1111111 011110 —17—80 


marksman. Now let us look at it in another way: A has thirty marks- 
men in his company troop, qualified as above explained; B has none, 
A’s company or troop has 4 high figureof merit; B’s company or 
troop stands away down. Let us analyze a little and see whether this 
is just. 

he form and dimensions of the target now come in. The 100, 200 
and 300yd. target, as all know, has an 8-in. bullseye, and a 26in. 
“4ring’ or center. Let us suppose B has taught his men to shoot on 
the verticai, and has bent all his energies to that, rather than to 
shooting for glory, record and marksmen; the chances are that he 
will have over fifty per cent. of his men who car “pull up” on either 
the 200 or 300-yd. target and make 16, 17, or 18, every time, but who 
have not the luck or skill to make the magical 20. Will not any one 
of three scores on the vertical be a more killing score than 20 made 
by scattering shots, all inside the 4ring. but all so far out to right or 
left, that they would miss the size of aman? Itis easy to make hori- 


TRBull....-.. 4544444454—42 11 43 LA Mayott,.4554444554 44 —44 ‘ 
T B Wilson... .5545554454 147 RT Hare... ..4544555545-46 —46 MAINE, —The first challenge shoot for Ligowsky medal, following 
the State championship tournament, held on April 17, took place to- 
day, April 30, on the grounds of the Androscoggin Club at Lewiston. 
The weather was all that could be desired, and the mateh was 
watched by a crowd of interested spectators. The shooting was 
governed by the following conditions: Teams of 5 men, 10 single 
birds, 18yds. rise, and 5 pair doubles, l5yds. rise. Fivé traps, three 

ards apart, set in fourth notch, Second barrel break half bird. 

iol, E. C. Farrington, referee; Wormel and Irish, judges, The River- 
side Club, of Topsham, have challenged the winner; 


THOMASTON, Conn,., May 5.—Ata meeting of the Empire Rifle 
Club, Wednesday evening, April 30, it was decided to accept the chal- 
lenge of the Canton Gun Club to shoot a series of matches, the first 
one of the series to be shot June 4. The team will be selected from 
those of the club making the highest aggregate in threes weekly 
shoots, from the first ten shots. The club also voted to have a shoot, 


zontal firing, that is to always shoot a little to the right or left; and, | open to all, May 21 and 22, and formally open theirnew range. The Androscoggins. 
with our target, so long as they enterinside the 4-ring, even if it be on Racy prizes will aggregate $90, divided ea ehaliotra: $40, $90, 315. $ig, | Nasou......--..- T1i1111011— 9 dt 10 if ii 01— 8-17 
the extreme right or left edge, all the shots are fours, and the magic | $5. There will also be numerous other prizes, some of which are | DonOvan.......- Hit 111—10 d1 i if di 10— 9-19 
20 has been made. Whereas it is hard work to shoot on the vertical | now on exhibition at Williams’s drug store. Mr. Williams is secre- | Shaw.-....,----- ae 9 li it if 10 11 9-18 
line, and a 4-6, 4-12, 4-12 all so close that they all but hit the bullseye, | tary of the club, and is doing all in his power to make theshoot 4 | Pettengill.. ..... o ie 1101— 6% O1 10 00 ti 10— 5—114 
followed by a 3-6, and 3-12 just outside the 4-ring is “by order’ worse | success. At the weekly shoot Saturday last, the following scores | Witney... ._..01 ae de 1 10 10 00 10 00—3— e—% 
firing than the five fours at 9 or 3o’clock, and the man gets no credit | were made: W. H. Dunbar 104, G. Canfield 102, G. Gilbert 101, 0. F. j 13962 a ard Club, Portland. 
for it. ‘ : ‘ fl Williams 94, E. Bennett 88, Dr. Goodwin 88, C. Alling 87, A. Fox 63,— | McKinney....... Lee cea ee ee ae 

T have had men say to me time and time again, ‘‘If you will let me) F. A, P. eee faa ee spent rchpe oe uo i a a a eae 
ett ace Lea rea nit apt tne reer ener ee Ase a arksmnan’s |. §. SHARPSHOOTER.—Capt. J.M. Thomson, 24th Infantry, of | wijard... 1)! 1190101012— 6 10 11 10 10 o1— 6—12 
Seer curate vertionl chootine asit waete hit the trne Hiriteo. | Fort Supply, Indian Territory, has taken the first sharpshooters’ cer- | qarmon 0011111112— 714 00 10 00 10 10— 3—1014—70¥6 
and accurate vertical shooting as it was to hit the 4ring. Hit it any- | tecate under the new regulations. It was issued by Lieut, Manning, | ~~. 4.7 “ vas 


where, but hit it, and be marksmen. I had several men last year— 
good shots, foo—who had made 17-18-19 right along at 200-and 300yds., 
who could and did shoot on the vertical and close to the bullseye. 
but who, for some unaccountable cause, would always get in at least 
one three high or low in their scores. They never got to be marks- 
men, but I'll gamble on their shooting better and killing more men 
than many of the so-called marksmen. Then again, as between 
marksmen, all are alike marksmen, and all of one class by order, and 
yet what vastdifferencesthere are. Oneman makes only 80 per cent, 
and yet every shot is but six inches from the center of the bullseye; 
another maxes 80 per cent. also, but every shot is thirteen inches 
from the bullseye center; the first man’s shots were all on the verti- 
eal and measure say 36 for string; the second man’s were all at 3 
o’cloclk and measure 78 inches for string—some difference it strikes 
me, and yet each is only amarksman. So faras string measurement 
=ces, the man with but 18 for a Creedmoor score can beat the 78-inch 
string 3 4-12 at 415 inches from the center, and 2 38-12 at 18% inches 
from the center only count 18, and yet the string is 40.5 inches, 87.5 
inches better than five 4s at 8 or 9 o’clock on the extreme edge of the 
center. 

Doubtless we need a standard of comparison, and the Creedmoor 
target was well enough in theinfancy of target practice; but has it not 
outlived its usefulness, and has not target practice got beyond it? I 
recognize the difficulty of string measurement as applied to target 
practice where large bodies of men haye to be practiced, scored and 
classified, and doubtless the circular target was invented to over- 
come this difficulty; but should we not now have another target? 
Should we not have a meaus of scoring and classifying the men ac- 
cording to their actual merits as shots, and not as now, according to so 
fixed and arbitrary standard, which may, or may not meananything? 

Over a year agolhad the honor to propose asystem of targets 
that overcome the greater part of the difficulty. I proposed an 
elliptical bullseye, with elliptical decimal diyisions—and these tar- 
gets, or modification thereof, are being now discussed as the coming 
target. 

Tris eonceded that no target, unless we return to the ald outline of 
aman, can bedevised that will embody everything we want. We use 
elliptical targets, where shots may hit and count high in the score 
which would have missed 4 man by going over his shoulder, beside 
his head or neck, etc.; but yet these elliptical targets would mean 
much more than the circular ones now do. <A “tactical man" is as- 
sumed to be 2#in. wide. All his vitals are inside of the limits of from 
12 to 14in. in width and 16 to 18in. in Jength, not counting his head as 
being toosmallto shoot at at any distance beyond 200yds. Can we 
Rot Therefore, have a bullseye and series of elliptical rings that will 
cover this vital region, and then have asystem of counting such thata 
shot in one of them means a vital or disabling shot, and not a miss or 
4, possible miss, as at present? Draw the outline of a man, in propor- 
tion to the target, on the Creedmoor target for 100, £00 and 800yds., 
as ib now is. and see how much space there is inside the 4-ring 
where a shot can hit and not haye hit the man, and then my meaning 
will be beyond a doubt. 

T would not wish it to be understood that I claim that a marksman 
should always be able to make a dead shut, was always to be able to 
make his qualifying scores at the target, for I know such would be an 
absurdity. I know that when firmg at unknown distances the best of 
shots have got to feel their way; | know that aman is a very small 
object at even so short a distance as 600yds,, and that it takes an ex- 
cellent shot to hit one even once out of five times, but I do claim that 
we should haye some intelligent basis for scoring and classification, 
that means what it says, and when it says that a man is a marksman 
then lorany other commander can depend upon that man to make 
as good a shot asis possible when a long and difficult shot presents 
itself. I claim that a system of olassification and set of targets should 
be used, such that I and every other man may get justice from our 
scores. I wantto see my men have credit for their shooting that I 
know would be yery dangerous shooting for a man as a target at the 
same distance, and Ido not want to be censured for a low figure of 
merit when such is not deserved. 

I claim that our present system is wrong and faulty, and a humbug 
from beginning to end. Under it we haye made improvement, and 
have made many men who are really marksmen, whether so classed 
or not, as well as many men who are not marksmen, although they 
are so classed. Under a better system doubtless we would have fully 
as many marksmen, but they would all be genuine, and many who 
are now so classed would drop out. _ ‘ ’ 

Tf the recent orders had been in such a right direction they would 
have been hailed with delight by every true friend of rifle shooting; 
but they are simply an extension and continuation of our present 
system of humbug, and therefore worthless for true results, 

Fort Mokinspy, ‘Wyo, Cc. D, 


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BOSTON GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT at Wellington, Mass., April 
30 and May 1. Many clubs were represented at,the above shoots, the 
absence of some of the team shooters prevented the necessary 
number of teams filling up the gold medal_match; for this purpose 
additional dates are added, May 14, June 11 and 25, which will con- 
clude and decide the preceding in three man team, clay-pigeon 
shooting. The second day of the shooting the matehes more in order 
were those likely to conform with the shooting expected at the great 
tournament, Chicago. Fine weather afforded ample scope for all the 
shooting desired which was keen and close right through, hardly a 
shooter being present but was recognized as being the best from the 
surrounding clubs within fifty miles, The two days’shooting bemg 
too much to give in full, only winners are given of the different events: 

First Day,—First event, five clay birds, twelve entries—Schaefer 
first, Sampson and Perry divided second, Parker and Kirkwood di- 
vided third, Evans fourth. — 

Second event, three pair birds, nine entries—Byans first, Kirkwood 
second, Perry third. 

Third event, five clay birds, twelve entries—Johnson first, Hager 
second, Schaefer and Pillsbury divided third. 

Fourth event, three pair birds, fitteen entries—Nager first, Evans 
and Kirkwood divided second, Sampson and Curtis divided third. 

Fifth event, five clay birds, five traps, sixteen entries—Kirkwood 
and Eager divided first, Pillsbury and Maloon divided second, Perry 
and Cutting divided third. 

Sixth event, three pairs birds, twelve entries—Perry first, Snow 
second, Hager third, Johnson and Parker divided fourth. 

Seventh event, two man team match, fourteen entries—Sampson 
and Perry first, Eager and Stark second, Kirkwood and Maloon third, 
Jones and Pillsbury fourth, : 

Eighth event, three pair double birds from five traps, fifteen en- 
tries—Sampson first, Perry second, DeRochmont third, Tinker 
fourth. 

Ninth event, seven birds, five traps, nine entries—Perry first, Eager 
second, Tinker third. : 

Tenth event, five clay-birds, twenty entries—EKager and Jones 
divided first, Perry and Curtis divided second, Stark and DeRochmont 
divided third, Tinker fourth. 

Hleyenth event, three Pause double birds, fourteen entries—Samp- 
son first, Kirkwood and Stark divided second, Tinker and Perry 
divided third, DeRochmont and Parker divided fourth. 

Twelfth event, five single birds, five traps, eigiteen entries—Hager 
and Sampson divided first, Tinker and Sampson divided second, 
DeRochmont and Curtis divided third, Cutting, Evans and Snow 
divided fourth. : , 

Thirteenth event, seven birds, eleven entries—Stark and Parker 
divided first, Eager second, Donovan third, De Rochmont and Mc 
Donough divided fourth. ) ‘ 

Fourteenth event, three pairs birds, fourteen entries—Evans first, 
DeRochmont second, Snow third, McDonough fourth. 

Fifteenth event, five clay birds, fourteen entries—Eager first, Shat- 
tuck and Cutting divided second, Kirkwood third, Snow fourth. 

Sixteenth event, five clay birds, fourteen entries—Evans first, De 
Rochmont second, Donovan, Snow and Cutting divided third, Parker 
fourth. fl 

Suconp Day,—First event, tensingles and five ‘i double birds, five 
traps—Hager first, Stark second, Sampson third. 

Second event, same conditions—Sampson first, Eager second, Perry 
Third t ingles, t airs double birds, five traps—Eager 

ird event, six singles, two p. L eb * 
first, Gardner venta Betelien and Stark divided third, Gerrish and 
DeRechmont divided fourth. 


of Rifle Practice, for the department of Missouri. Thé scores made 
are remarkably fine ones as qualifications for sharpshooters, which 
are: 88 per cent. at 200yds. standing, 300yds. kneeling. and 600yds. 
lying; 76 per cent. at 800, 900, and 1,000yds. lying, in three scores of 
five shots each, the possible scores being 25 points each, or 75 points 
at each range. Capt. Thompson’s scores are as follows: 200yds., 
scores 28 and 24, per cent.°92 and 96. 300yds., scores 22 and 28, per 
cent, 88 and 92. 400yds., scores 22, 22 and 22, percent. 8. 800yds., 
scores, 21, 22 and 19, per cent, 84, 88, and 76. 900yds., scores 20, 21 and 
23, per cent. 80, 84, and 92. 1,000yds., scores 20, 22, and 21, percent. 80, 
88 and 84. 

DENVER. Col., April 27.—The rifle match between the Trinidad 
Rifle team and the Governor’s Guard, which has been on the tapis for 
several weeks past, was shot lo-day, the former team shooting at 
their home, the latter at the Jewell Parkrange. Company B’s team 
shot with a high wind blowing and only made a score of 359, which, 
with the 20 points allowed them by their opponents, made a total of 
379. The Trinidad team telegraphed Capt, Lower that their score 
was 372, thus leaving the Goveruor’s Guard team winners by 7 points. 
The following is the score in detail of the home team; J. Lower 37, 
H. 8. Davis 34, E. W. Lehman 36, L. Marix 39,C, C, Compton 35, F, P. 
Jackman 34, G. 8. Henderson 34, Ed. Armor 35, G. Lower 44, W. G. 
Hardin 31. 

WALTHAM, Mass., May 2.—The Hillside Rifle Club, of Waltham, 
held its first shoot of the season at 1ts range in this town to-day, 
Since last summer the club has tmcreased its membership, put in a 
new pit, and otherwise materially improved its range. The individ- 
ual scores (being out of a possible 50) are as follows; 

Creedmoor Mateh—John Foster 46, W. H. Stone 46, L. O. Dennison 
45, ©. C. Osgood 43, E, A, Emerson 43, G. Bassett 42, F. Dunlap 41, R. 
B. Edes (mil,) 41, C. H. Gray 39, H. L, Whiting 38, John K. Low 33, 
George Strickland 88, G. B. Brown 36. 

Rest Matech—L. O. Dennison 49, W. H. Stone 46, J. R. Monroe 46, 
Joln Foster 44. : / 

The spring meeting of the Massachusetts Rifle Association has been 
fixed for May 29, 30 and 31. 

BULLSHEAD RIFE CLUB,.—April 24, 12-ring target, possible 120; 
A. Lober 117, G. Zimmerman 116, ©. Rein 114, G. D. Johnson 108, G. 
Wendelken 107, 8. Mehrbach 105, J. Schneider 110, J. F. Campbell 100, 
D, Loumski 99, D. Holland 96, B. Waters 95. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on oue side of the paper only. 


ASHLAND, Mass., April 28.—The Ashland Glass Ball Club has just 
held its third annua! meeting, The report of the Treasurer, J. H. 
Dascomb, shows that the club is in good standing financially. The 
club has done what it could during the past severe winter to preserve 
the birds in this section by inciny barley and other grain in places 
most convenient for the birds. The election of officers resulted as 
follows: President, George G. Tidsbury ; Vice-President, J. B. Knowl- 
ton; Treasurer, J, H, Dascomb; Secretary, F. N. Oxley. Tt was voted 
to join the State Association for another year. G. G. Tidsbury and 
F, x. Oxley were chosen delegates to the annual meeting of the State 
Association.—F. N. 0 


WINCHENDON, ee ae 40.—The Le pherarnra ea el Bere 

ractice to-day, with the following results: Glass balls—L. F. Mar- ; . We 
Sie, sFAvcgie raat broken; H. E. Curtis 5 thrown, 3 broken; F. F. Fourth event, seven clay birds—Euger and Sampson divided first, 
Hopgood, 10 thrown, 7 broken; P. S. Davis, 10 thrown, 5 broken. | Perry second, Gardner and Rowe divided third, Gerrish fourth. — 
OClay-pigeons—F. M, Brown, 7 thrown, 4 broken; H. E. Curtis, 8 Fifth event, three pair double birds—Sampson and White divided 
thrown, 3 broken; James Sutherland, 10 thrown, 7 broken; F. F. | first, Hager and Chambers divided second, DeRochniont and Rowe 
Hopgood, 10 thrown, 7 broken; L. F. Martin, 10 thrown, 6 broken; P. | divided third, Gerrish and Houghton divided fourth. 
si. Davis, 10 thrown, 2 broken. The regular shooting of the club be- ere lbs five Gee ae DeRochmontand Rowe 
gins next week. vided second, Kag sf J 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May. 15—Editor Forest and Stream: Tu-| , Seventhevent, seven clay birds—Law first, Houghton and Sampson 


closed I hand you a slip cut from this morning's Republican. Our | divided second, White third, Gardner fourth. 


F 4 ighth event, flve single, three pair double birds, for two-men 
t ere not treated as they should have been, as the article states Hight 4 peber 
Ennis too bad tat anyibiie which 1 contrary to the “squarest ee irate len aig Gerrish first, Sampson and Perry seh “a Eager 
deal” should be allowed to enter into these friendly matches between hi rth A 
true sportsmen, Here is the extract: ‘A correspondent writes in pea Stet a Eve Sy lth Sie eee aoe MES first, Gerrish 
this way: After a recent match at glass balls, shot in this eity, the | S°COMO, iy dang sys Bi Y hearts Hewlett ‘rst 
charge was made by the Worcester Spy that the visitors were | , Pleventh erere sais ep iene, ps ae sats evan, repeat 
received with scant hospitality and that shameless attempts were peer Teh, Ghaich ean an 4 c: ri aay een a ema un. 
resorted to to defeat fair play. These charges were ‘afterward ig Tcpannes aig EM oot hada yee Sets ase, 
repudiated by the visitors themselves, and sufficient apology was| MALDEN GUN CLUB May fT elub had a very yable 
tered for such inaccurate expression on the part of the Spy. Last. shoot to-day at Wi on, e@ record showing ~ First even s, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Saunders first, eens second, Snow and Lewis third; second, 10 

birds, Snow first Hopkins second, Wemyss and Brown third; third, 
5 birds. Short and Lewis first, Scott_ second, Brown third: fourth, 6 
birds 21yds. straight way, Hopkins first, Brown and Adams second 
Seott and Lewis third; fifth, five birds, Hopkins first, Adams and 
Ellsworth second, Scott and Lewis third, Sanborn and, Snow fourth; 
sixth, 3 Ss, Hopkins and Saunders first, Short and Snow second, 
Ellsworth and Adams third; seventh, 5 birds, Binden first, Brown 
and Saunders second, Adams third; eighth, 5 birds, Saunders and 
aon first, Scott second, Adams and Ellsworth third; ninth, 7 
balls, Adams and Ellsworth first, Saunders and Short second, inden 
and Snow third; tenth, 5 balls, Snow and Hopkins first, Lewis and 
Brown second; Elisworth third; eleventh, 5 birds, Hopkins and Short 
first, Saunders and Brown second, Adams and Scott third; twelfth, 
cup match, Buffum, 6, 6, 6; Wemyss, 5, 6, 5; Hopkins, 6. 

_PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 5.—The following are the scores for the 
three last weekly shoots for the Ligowsky State championship badge, 
wl shot upon the grounds of the Narragansett Gun Club, at 25 clay- 
pigeons from five traps, 1loyds. rise. 

April 17—W.H, Sheldon 24, BE. Tinker 23, BE. 8. Luther 22, ©, B. 
Payne 22, C. H. Brown 21, Geo. Barney 21, F, B. Tingley 18, Isaiah 
Barney 18, C. B. Potter 17, S. D. Greene 16, W. G. Crandall 15, (, 
C. Gray 14, H. D. Mathewson 14. W. H. Sheldon won for the 
third time, fue: 

April 24.—E. W. Tinker 22, Geo, J. Crandall 22, J. B. Valentine 21, 
W.H. Sheldon 20, H. D. Mathewson 20, C. B. Payne 19, C. H, Brown 
18, C. B. Potter 15, G. F. Butts 15, H. Salisbury 13. Mr. E, W, Tinker 
wen on the tie by breaking 4 to Grandall’s 3, out of 5, making 8 times 
that Mr. Tinker has won this badge, 

May 1.—W. H. Sheldon 21, C. F, Baldwin 20, G. ¥. Butts 20, KE. W. 
Tinker 20, H. D. Mathewson 19, Geo. Anthony 18, F. O, EROS Oe. 18, 
©. 0. Gray 17, C. B, Potter, 16,5. D. Greene 15, F. Hoard 8, hei 
Sheldon wins badge for fourth time.—_W. H. 58. 


Hachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 18,—Eclipse Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Oswego Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

May 24.—Boston Y. C,, Opening Cruise. 

May 28.—Quincy Y, C., First Match. 

May 30.—icnickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 
May 380.—Atlantie Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30.—Newark Y. C,. Spring Match. 

May 30.—South Boston Y, C,, Spring Match, 


30.—City Point Mosquito Fleet, 13 and 15ft, boats. 
30.—New Haven Y. U., Opening Cruise, 
y 31.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups. 
June 9.—Portland Y. C., Challenge Cup. 
June 9,—Savannah Y, C., Opening Cruise, 
June 10.—Atlantie Y, C., Annual Match. 
June 11-—Hudson River Y. C,, Annual Match. 
June 12,—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 
June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. O,, Annual Matches. 
June 16.—Kast River Y. C., Annual Matches, 
June 16.—Newark Y¥. C., Open Match. 
June 19.—New Jersey Y, C., Annual Match. 
June 21.—Hull ¥. C.. Pennant Mateh. 
June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 
June 24.—New Haven Y. C., Spring Match. 
June 28,—Boston Y. C., Ladies’ Day, 
June 30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 
dune 30.—Eclipse Y, C., Spring Match. 
dune 30.—Quincy Y. C., Second Match. 
July 4—Larchmont Y. ©.,gnnual Open Matches, 
July 4—Hull Y. C., Review and Cruise, five days. 
J uly 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblefead, First Championship. 
J 12.—Boston Y, C., Second Club Match. * 


HARDLY CORRECT. 


A WELL vwritten letter from London last week in the Herald con- 
yeyed the impression that the new Scotch yawl Wendur’s decks 
were too narrow to carry sufficient crew to work her racing sails to 
adyantage. We hayeit on the best authority that no such trouble 
was found with her at all. and that if the erew ever was ‘‘pumped,” 
it was simply from too much work, just as crews often get pumped 
in broad boats. Wendur’s crew always mustered the customary num- 
ber of hands, and more would only have been in each other’s way. 
The same letter from London says such boats are very wet in a cross 
sea, This is opposed to recent experiences in the Leen, a 534 beam 
cutter, for she proved herself especially dry under the worst circum- 
stances, and it is a fact known all over the world that the six-beam 
_Jullanar is about the ‘'dryest’® yacht ever floated. It seems evident 
zthe letter in quéstion was prepared to suit the supposed American 
palate, But we haye already learnt better in America, and decline 
ste hoist aboard any taffy, even when coming from an apparently 
2g00d source. Enough will be seen of the Ileen this season for those 
Shill in the dark about narrow boats to discover their real merits. 
The Wendur is 91.5x17.7, according to Lloyds, and that means 
about 90ft. L.W.L., so that she is; little more than a five-beam boat, 
or, gauged by other racers, such as Vanduara and Samoena, she is 
mot a particularly narrow boat, and we hear nothing about too little 
deck room aboard her sister vessels. One foot more or less beam 
miakes quite a difference in the preportieg of beam to length, but 
_€annot possibly have any practical bearing upou handling the sails. 
The 40-tonners race without trouble on 11 to 12ft,. so Wendur is well 
oif with more than 17ft., which, considered by itself,is very good 
breadth, and a crew which cannot work in 1/ft. could accomplish 
nothing mere on 25fb. The fact is, Wendur proved herself a very 
smart boat, and the London critics merely seek to quibble and find 
fault because sheis not a South of England production. If she did 
not win as often as others, it was more owing to her tonnage, which 
unfits her for class racing, as the smaller yachts find their weather 
much oftener than a big vessel of 125 tons. 


RACING IN ENGLAND. 


comparative beam of a gunKten of a century ago, but the general 
balance of evidence tends to show that for any given tonifage a well- 


RS ted of a century it was cousidered that four and 
a hajg beams o 


Ape ae es ment, rig and si 
seein carean ts 
‘ 


cheaper than a beamy one of like length, supposio hoth to be 
equally first-class in évery respect. Witness the cost of a 30x5f6. 
Chitty wee of 1itons displacement and — sq: ft. of sail,and a 30 10Et. 
Tfchen boat like Keepsake. with 15 tons displacement and sq. ft. 
of sail. The latter has the depth and draft of the former, with 


‘larger displacement, beam and vig. topsides. deck, ete., and is bound 
a 


to be more costly, and requires a larger crew to race. f 
No, the real reason why we see so few entries in English matches is 
not the first cost of narrow cutters, but simply the outrageous handi- 
cap the present ¥. R, A. rule imposes without reason upon beam, 
making it perfectly futile for the beamy boats to appear at the line, 
saddled with ten to fifty per cent, more tonnage than they really 
possess in competition with narrow boats having ten to fifty per cent. 
greater tonnage then they are assessed for, Abolish the Y. R. A. 
rule and substitute sail area and length, and then the beamy and 
narrow boats will be put approximately on an eyen footing, and the 
broader yachts will at once put in an appearance again at the races. 


ESTIMATING DISPLACEMENT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : F 
In your paper of April 24, you give the displacement of the cruising 
schooner Gaetina as 13 short tons. Her L.W.L. is 35rt., her beam 


1)14ft., draft at heel 6ft. Will you please give the rule by which you 


get the displacement, as this only gives a co-efficient 0.25, and she is 
a pretty full boat. Qass. 

For ah approximate estimate of displacement of a tolerably full 
boat, the co-efficient is about 0.88 or one-third the circumscribed 
parallelogram of the three cardinal dimensions. In case of Gaetina 
it is 85x10, the beam on L.W.L. to outside of plank, and that agam 
multiplied by 3ft. 6in., the depth from L.W.L. to lower edge of rabbet 
on midship section =1,225, One-third of this, or 408, will be the dis- 
placement in cubie feet, which at 64/bs. per cubic foot, represents an 
approximate displacement of 26.112lbs., or say 13 short tons, For 
exact displacement the application of Simpson’s rule to the sections 
in detail would be necessary, as explained in '‘Kemp’s Yacht Design- 
ing” or in works on naval architecture. Gaetina is a little full about 
the sections, but has a lean after end, so that her co-efficient is prob- 
ably not over 0.33,] 


FLORINDA’S GREAT TRIUMPH. 


‘Ole: report of the Nice regatta was from special sourees, not in- 

fluenced by any preference for English yachts. We now quote 
the conclusions of the London Feld on the trial between the English 
yawl Florinda and the Boston schooner Gitana, The Field expresses 
@ very positive conviction, which coincides exactly with our own; 
“The result was highly satisfactory to the admirers of the English 
type of yacht, as Florinda on every point of sailing showed 4 very 
decided superiority over Gitana.”” Again, in speaking of the sailing 
the first day, the Field says: ‘“Florinda soon overhauled Dauntless 
and luffing sharp up on Gitana’s weather in grand style took her 
place in the van. Florinda steadily increased her lead and at the 
end of the second round the times of finish were as under: Florinda 
3.35.32 and Gitana 4.06.58, Dauntless having given up.’ Of the sec- 
ond day’s race, the Field says: ‘Dauntless was an absentee, appar- 
ently thinking she had no chance of winning a prize. Florinda and 
Gitana were soon leading the fleet, and the former was leaving the 
latter even faster than she did on the previous day. * * * Florinda 
was showing Gitana how she could march out to windward, and had 
a long lead when she weathered the eastern mark and set her spin- 
naker for therun home, * * * Flormda was steadily increasing 
her Iead, when ultimately the wind died away and Gitana and the 
small eraft closed up, * * The times at the finish were for Flo- 
rinda 5.28.14 and for Gitana 5.35.04." 


BALLAST WHIPS BEAM. 


UR reports of the Nice International, sailed April 15 and 16, are 
yery disagreeable reading. They announce the complete dis- 
comfiture of our two crack schooners, Dauntless and Gitana, by the 
English yacht Florinda, But for the rig prize given to schooneérs the 
first day, our yessels would have come away empty-handed. The easy 
Manner in which Florinda polished off sur schooners, even after 
allowing them a deduction of their tonnage for difference of rig, an 
allowance not granted by our home elubs, is the latest testimony to 
the fallacious dogmas upon which our yacht-building practice rests, 
Not only did Florinda exhibit superiority of a very marked kind, but 
she did it with a rig only two-thirds as large as those of our schooners 
compared to their loadline lengths. If we refuse to take to heart 
these signal defeats at Nice. the consequences will be upon the heads 
of those responsible for blinding our people to the truth, that in the 
building of fast yachts we have been left far in the wake of our 
cousins. What show would we have against a Wendur or even against 
Florinda herself in the light of the experienees at Nice? The races 
were sailedin ‘‘our weather,” mild winds and smooth water, and if, 
under such conditions, the English yacht can overmatch us from a 
ees to half an hour, what would she not do in a slogger, with pile- 


riving ina head sea? The triumph of Florinda will be hailed with- 


delight by all who wish to see the best type carry the day. With us 
the nationality of the competitors has no weight or meaning. We 
know Flerinda to be a very stiff, able, and exceedingly roomy yacht 
of handy rig, m every way and on eyery count preferable to the 
schooners whose pretensions to speed she so signally demolished. 
Hence we rejoice in her victories, and insist that unless we take a 
fresh departure from such ringing defeats as our vessels have’ sus- 
tained, the futere for our glory in yachting Jooks dark. 


NEW YORK Y. C. 


2 SECRETARY'S OFFICE, ) 
Club House, 67 Madison Avenue, May 1, 1884. { 


OMMODORBE BENNETT instructs me to state that he offers the 
following prizes to be competed for by steam and sailing yachts 
during the New York Y. ©. cruise in August next: ‘ 

No.1. A cup of the yalue of $1,000 to the steam yacht winning with 
time allowance. 

No.2. A cup of the value of $1,000 to the steam yacht making the 
shortest time over the course. 

No. 3. A cup of the value of $500 to the steam yachtarriving second 
without allowance of time. 

The above race to be over a course of not less than sixty statute 
miles, and no race unless five vessels start. 

No.4. Cups of the value of $500 each to two classes of schooners, and 
cups of the value of $500 each to two classes of sloops, to be awarded 
to the winners of arace from Brenton’s Reef Lightship toand around 
Sandy Hook Lightship and back to the starting point. 

The above race te be without time allowance. 

If it can be arranged, Commodore Bennett also desires to offer val- 
uable cups for a steam launch race. 

All Jaxnches not measuring more than sixty feet upon the water 
line will be entitled to enter, under such rules and classification as the 
regatta committee may see fit to impose. Launches will be divided 
into two classes. 

The races for steam yachts and launches will be open to the compe- 
tition of vessels belonging to all duly organized yacht clubs. 

All the above races are to take place while the New York Y. C. 
squadron is ab Newport, and wpon such dates as may be mutually 
agreed upon or fixed by the regatta committee. The regatta com- 
mittee will make the necessary arrangements for the aforesaid races, 
Sud haye Sabie ae of ee eae pee shale any question of dis- 

ute arise they shallbe settle the rules and sailing regulati 
tne New York Y. C. ‘) cee ee 

Yacht owners intending to enter their vessels for the above races 
are requested to notify the undersigned to this effect at their earliest 
convenience. C. A, Minton, 

Secretary New York Yacht Club. 


THE NICE INTERNATIONAL. 


AS an international affair the Nice regatta, in spite of itslarge 
l prizes and many attractions, turns outa disappointment this 
year more than ever. The absence of English racing yachts is attri- 
buted to the very peculiar rulings of French committees and courts, 
which have uot acted in accord with the recognized customs adhered 
to among yachtsmen, but rather with the intent of giving the public 
on shore a good treat. Hence the races which ought to constitute the 
chief European event in the year have degenerated into local strug- 
gies of little more than scratch importance, The only two matches 
of any interest to the American public were the classes for schooners 
and yawls, sailed over a sixteen mile course, twice round. The entries 
included the New York schooner Dauntless, Mr. Colt, 11614ft. water- 
line, the Boston schooner Gitana, Mr. Weld, 9214ft, waterline, and the 
little English iron-built cruiser Gladys, Mr. Collins, 79ft. waterline, 
from Liyerpool. Also two yavyls, the Florinda, 85/éft, loadline, and 
asmall french craft called Gabrielle. 

The wind was light to moderate and not over steady. Florinda 
quickly went into the lead and beatall the schooners as she liked, 
crossing the finish in 3.35.32 corrected time, half an hour ahead of the 
leading schooner. Ofthe two-stickers, Gitana went into the lead and 
won in 4.02.44 correcied time, beating the Gladys by about forty-six 
minutes; the Dauntless having been so badly outsailed at the start 
that she gave up after the first round, being twenty minutes astern of 
the Gladys. The easy manner in which the yaw! Florinda turned 
away from our American schooners is a warning as to what will hap- 
pen should a large Engliso yawl show up in our waters after the 


America cup, of which there is some likelihood before long, Flor- 
inda took first prize and Gitana got the special purse of $1,600 for 
schooners; 

The second day there was a match open to all yachtsfor the “prix 
d'honneur.” over a sixteen mile course. The wind was feeble from 
east and at times almost calm. <A small local craft of 16 tons cap- 
tured the prize. The large yachts in this race included Florinda, 100 
tons; Gitana, 127 tons, and Gladys, 65 tons, the same trio which met 
in the first day’s event. Dauntless did not appear, as she has heen 
found so slow and leewardly in working to windward that she stood 
noshow, Ofthese three large yachts, the English yavrl Florinda led 
the schooners by twelve minutes, finishing in 6.27.31, the Baston 
schooner Gitana second, in 5.35.05, and the small English cruiser 
Gladys third, in 5.3783, 

The time allowance was ridiculously small, the 127-ton Gitana al- 
lowing only 58 seconds to the 100-ton Florinda, and but 2m, 28s. to the 
65-ton Gladys. The FPlorinda, Gitana. and Dauntless were the hest 
mated as to size, and of the three Florinda was found considerably 
the best boat. She is 85.7ft, loadline, 19.3ft. beam, 11,9 draft. Main- 
mast, deck to hounds 54.5ft.; rizzenmast, deck to sheave 33.5ft. ; bow- 
sprit, outboard, one stick 26ft.; mainboom 56,5f6., maingail 42.5ft., 
topmast, fid to sheave 4#ft., area of lower sails 5,257, whichis only 
0.61 of the square of her loadline and in strong contrast to the un- 
wieldly sail areas of our beamier boats, which the Florinda beat 
handily. The Gitana was to race in the Menton International as 
well, but could not reach the start in time to cross with the rest, a 
serub lot of small French beats of all varieties. 


WINDWARD. 


yas single-hand yawl is now ready for her ballast and rig at 
Stepheus’s shop, West New Brighton, Staten Islind, Sheis weil 
worth an inspection from those interested in small boats, Her lines 
and details were published in our issue for Feb. 7. She is 18ft. on 
water line, 22ft. over all, 6ft. beam and 4ft. draft, with 1,500lbs. on 
keel. The deck plank is laid dead fore and aft with the house and 
cockpit all on the square,ship fashion. The house is more like a 
hatch, low and handsome, but supplies 5ft. 2in. head room in the 
eabin. The cockpit is roomy enough for one hand to recline in while 
steering, Below are two good berths and lockerroom, In the run a 
30-gallon water tank and store room, She will be uncapsizable, un- 
knockdownable, and unfillable, as the cockpit is narrow and the door 
sill at deck height. The ‘door’ will be a fap hinged on the bottom, 
opened by dropping down. It can beshut in an instant by turning 
up and slamming to. The hoat will be yaw! rigged with single jib 2nd 
pole mast, She is an excellent example of what a small single-hand 
cruiser of moderate draft should be. Her speed and general per- 
formance will, of course, be in proportion to the excellence ef her 
lines. Fast boats of similar dimensions haye been built often enough, 
and there are no reasons why anything should be urged againstboats 
like the Windward on the score of wanting in speed. It is only a 
question of good lines to open and close the water, proper build and 
ballasting anda racing rig, and upon those items each boat must 
rest for her individual perfection. The type in itself is perfectly 
compatible with speed, and as for comfort, accommodation, useful- 
ness and handiness, these deep little boats require only ta be seen to 
capture every man who knows what he wants a boatfor. They are 
now becoming so popular thata special club to further their interests 
will be formed betore long. A yacht elub limited to decked boats 
under 25ft. would contribute much to the spread ofracing and cruis- 
ing in small but perfect craft, which are within the reach of the mul- 
titude. Nothing could be more thoroughly sporting in spirit than 
the gathering of the webfooted clans aboard a fleet of two and three 
ton cutters and yawls, manned solely and always by owner and 
friend, who quickly learn to delight in roughing it and participating 
in sea life so far as the tonnage of their boats will permit. The 
proudest official position in the yachting world will some day be con- 
ceded to the man who flies the Commodore’s burgee from a three- 
tonner, the leader of a club wilh several bundred practical yacht 
sailors who can design their eraft from keel to truck and then gail 
them with boldness and skill, which will rank them far ahead of the 
mere yacht owner whose chief qualifications to esteem is the posses- 
sion of wealth. 


YACHT BUILDING ON THE DELAWARE. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

The yacht Nohma, 28ft. over all, has been thoroughly tested. and 
the 2,800 pounds of iron on keel and smalliron centerboard has 
proven a complete success. She was originally a sandbagzer with a 
large board. The change was thought risky, but being a boat of 
large displacement this great weight was really a necessity, and much 
to the suepne of old shellbacks did its work asthe owner expected. 
The sail plan of course has been brought down to a lower center of 
effort consistent with a low genter of weight. Two men can handle 
her now except in a race, when large. light sails have to be used. She 
is active in light airs, turns nicely, and holds on wellin heavy weather 
and lumpy water without her board. Next season her centerboard 
irunk will be removed, and she will be lengthened aft about 5ft. with 
a nobby fantail. She has been heeled down until the lee edge of her 
house top was submerged, but goes about her business all the same 
and never loses her way. Her long-footed jib has been split in two, 
and of course, like the other improvements, was to be all wrong. The 
little Curlew, 18ft. long, 9ft. beam, 32in. deep, owned by Dociors Earl 
& Davis, originally open and also a sandbagger. has been housed, 
centerboard trunk taken out, and a keel substituted. I have wit- 
nessed her performance, and find she does her work admirably, not- 
withstanding every one predicted a failure. I eandidly admit. in the 
Curlew’s case especially, I was skeptical of success. I built this boat 
and thought her form too wide for a keel, but her deadrise and 
weight pulled her through, You will probably be glad to know that 
the teachings of Fores? AnD STREAM are appreciated even here in a 
stream but little more than a half mile wide. Low centers, heavy 
displacement, ete., are being understood and acted upon by intelli- 
gent yachtsmen, such as Ferry, Whitehead, Davis, Earl, Williams, 

aJker, and a host of others. For myself I can say, though the 
father of dish boats, I took up your ideas, gave them a full, practical 
test, and I am not ashamed to say, found it best to hedge. 

2,053 BRANDYWINE STREET, Phila. R. G. WinKrs. 

[We may add that Mr. W. M. Brisben is having an 18ft. loadline cut- 
ter built by Albertson Bros,, of Kensington. and that designs for 
other small cutters haye been sent to Philadelphia.] 


EARLY OPENING OF THE DEATH-TRAP SEA- 
SON. : 


SLOOP yachi belonging to Toronto, Ont., capsized’ two weeks 
ago and three hands were drowned. The smack Wreck—most 
appropriate cognomen—capsized in the Lower Bay last week, and 
the crew would have been drowned but for thelucky prommity ofa 
rescuing vessel. Other ‘‘accidents” of the kind have happened. It is 
only a matter of time when the community is to be startled with the 
wholesale drowning of “prominent yachtsmen” in one of the many 
traps of gilded pretension which still exist in the’ New York fleets 
awaiting only the first unfortuitous combination of circumstance to 
tumble oyer and spill their cargoes of human freight. 


NOURMAHAL.—This big steamship, building by the Harlan an 
Hollingsworth Co.. of Wilmington, Del., for Mr. Maton. of this ae 
was launched last Saturday, and will be fitted out as*fust as possible 
for a yoyage to Europe. She is 232ft. Sin. on deck, 221ft. waterline, 
30ft. beam, and i8ft. fin. hold. Vertical direct acting compound en- 
gines of 1,400 1. H. P. cylinders, 34 and 60in by 36in. stroke. Four 
steel boilers 12ft. long and 8ft. 3in. diameter. Bark rigged, with 
7,000sq, ft. of sail. FPoremast, 74ft.; mainmast, 76ft.; mizzenmast, Tift. ; 
fore and main topmasts, 2ift.; fore and main topgallantmasts, Zit. 
6in.; poles, 5ft. 6in.; mizzentopmast, 78ft.; fore and main yards, 52ft.- 
fore and main topsail yards, dift.; fore and main topgallant yards 3 
2sft.; foregaff, 26ft.; mizzengaff, 27ft. 6in.; bowsprit outboard, 20F¢. 
Built to class at Lioyds. Will have asteam launch 35ft. long, with 
coil boiler; 35ft. gig, 28fb. lifeboat and dingy. Model on Norwegian 
lines, with considerable sheer and characterless watermelon stern, 
according to the old dogmas of the Copenhagen school, which still 
talks of “keeping down the midsbip section” to the least possible, 
though experience has long demonstrated the fallacy of such notions 
as witness the big midships of Bedouin, criven as fast asthe much 
smaller section of the Gracie with the same sailarea. Iorm and not 
area isthe true basis of estimating resistance, but anything at all 
will do in a steamship. 


PHOTOS.—We haye received from Mr. Ed. Lincoln, of Cambridge- 
port, Mass., a very fine assortment of instantaneous views of the 
principal yachts of New York and Boston. Among them we mention 
several views of the famous Maggie, of Boston. one showing her 
bursting Lbrough the Gut in last year’s open Hull match, when she 
slid out from under the lee of several blanketing sloops in a way one 
shallnever forget. Also the Bedouin, abeam, bows on and quarfer- 
ing; very instructive in the details of her rigandfittings. A broadside 
view of the nobby Oriva close aboard, Gracie. Fannie, Crocodile and 
other well known sloops in all kinds of situations. These photos are 
by far the best of the kind yet taken in America, They may be pro- 
cured from Mr, Lineoln direct, who will send a cireular ahd prices 
upon application. 


EASTERN Y. C.--Mr. Henry 8. Hove 
Fortuna, has been elected Commodore 
resigned, 


of the smart schooner 
. ¥, O, vice Com, Pickman 


296 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 8, 1884. 


ADELINA.—This Eastern keel sloop, soon to appear in New York 
waters, was built in 1880, in Charlestown, Mass., by Commodore D. 
H. Musgrave. A letter informs us that ‘‘She is on the deep plan, with 
iron on keel and reduced beam, of the style now called the modified 
eutter. At that time she was derided by all the old fossils, and was 
predicted to be a failure on thataccount. She proyed very fast, a 
grand sea boat, and one of the entering wedges to the now accepted 
models which you have so long and faithfully labored to bring into 
notice. Her former owner now intends to build a full cutter. Her 
new proprietor picked her from alot of others which were for sale 
for her fine model and good sailing qualities, and is fully satisfied 
with his bargain.” ; 

NOMAD.—Rear-Commodore_ Wintringham’s new sloo was 
launched from Mumm’s yard, Bay Ridge, last Saturday. Model by 
herowner, Intended for near-by family crujsing. Shows up large 
room inside and in the cockpit. Finished inside and out in polished 
woods in neat and ship-shape manner. Has cabin, stateroom, pantry 
and forecastle for one hand. Thayer's noiseless brake or pump wind- 
less on bits. Length over all3tft., waterline 32ft. 2in., beam 13ft. 6in., 
depth 5ft., draft without board 3ft. Tin., ballast 5 tons inside. Mast, 
deck to hounds 37ft., masthead 5ft., topmast 24ft. 6in., boom 36ft., 
gaft 21ft., bowsprit outboard 17ft. 

BOSTON Y. C.—Has prohibited shifting of ballast. No restriction 
to sail. One hand to every five feet and fractioual part of her measure- 
Ment. Yachts will be measured on loadline with one-third after 
overhang added. This is entirely too much and very unfair to 
yachts having long overhangs, as we will show by a special article 
next week. Classes for yachts over 38ft, 26 to 3¢ft. and 18 to 26ft. 
First two classes to be subdivided acecrding to rig as occasion de- 
mands. Any yacht may enter larger class by assuming minimum 
length of that class. 


WENONAH—Has had only 144 tons lead added outside and not 10. 
Her rig is not considered too large at all by Mr. Harvey. She has 
always been able to carry it well enough, contrary talk notwithstand- 
ing. The addition to her lead is simply to fill up about the garboards 
where an angle was left as a rabbet to measure from under the 
former bulk rule of the New York Y, C. Filling upthis angle is only 
bringing the yacht up to the original intentions of her designer. 


NORMA.—Commients upon the launching of the Norma are drawn 
as mnliildiy as the case admits upon the editorial page. Thé law ought 
to step in to secure the puolic against similar exhibitions, which 
argue a total ignorance of the principles of stability even by the so- 
called “‘designers”’ of this latest commonplace piece of yachting 
furniture. F 

BERTIE.—Mr. Fred Gallatin’s new sloop was launched last Saturday 
from Mumm’s yard, Bay Ridge. Usual New York type, thougn 
deeper than older sloops. Over all 55ft..on waterline 49ft., beam 17ft., 
depth 6fc. 6in., draft without board 5ft. Mast, deck to hounds 46ft., 
masthead 6ft., boom 46ft., gaff 28ft., bowsprit outboard 23fb. Gin. 

LARCHMONT Y. C.—New club house and grounds were opened 
last Saturday. Includes three buildings, the visiters* house, billiard 
room and additional sleeping apariments, which offer permanent 
accommodations of forty sleeping rooms. 

WANDERER.—This schooner, Mr. Weld, has been off shore cruis- 
ing. Ran from New Bedrord to Bermuda in five days. Thence to 
Hampton Roads and Norfolk, from which port she sailed May 1 for 
New York. 

MONTAUK,—This schooner arrived off Staten Island at midnight 
last Saturday, bringing her eleven weeks’ cruise at sea to a close. 


LOOSE FOOT.—The yaw! White Cap, Com. Dayid Hall Rice, is to 
have loose foot mizzen this year, and square head topsail. 

CUTTER RIG.—Sloop yacht Emily is being altered to cutter rig by 
McManus & Son of Boston. 

BEDOUIN.—The addition to the hoist of her mainsail is 24¢ft. in- 
stead of 4ft., as reported. . k, 

DOURON.—This Eastern yacht is to be altered from centerboard to 
keel. 


Canoeing. 


FIXTURES. 


May 10.—First Cruise Chicago C. C. > # 
May 30.—Pittsburgh C. C,, First Annual Reratta, 
June i1.—Hudson River Meet at Newburgh.° 
June 1.— Connecticut River Meet. 

July 9 to 15.,—Chicago C, C., Club Cruise. 

July 19 —Chieago C, C,, First Annual Regatta. 
July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet at Lorna Island, 


CLEVELAND C. C. 


OMMODORE, G. W. Gardner: Secretary, W.H. Eckman. Organ- 
ized 1880; 10 active members. Signal, regul-tion size; white 
field, design in red. Commodore—Blue field, a border an mech wide 
around the field, same design, and five stars in Semi-circle over 


design; border, design and stars in gold. Vice-Commodore—Same 
as Commodore, omitting border and dropping one star; design and 
stars in white. Rear-Commodore—Same as Vice, dropping one star. 
Secretary and Treasurer—White field, design surmounted by two 
stars; design and stars in blue. Captains—White field, design sur- 
mounted by one star; design and star red. 


SOME FUN AND LOTS OF EXPERIENCE. 


HE following was sent to us by an Eastern canoeist, with the in- 
T dorsement, “This is not iny funeral:” 

Eleven young men of aquatic tastes very recently rede out inte the 
country to enjoy # quiet mid-day lunch. They drove out in style and 
sent their six canoes ahead by draymen, intending to float down the 
swift and tortuous B. brook from the bosky wilds of P. The recent 
rains have filled it to overflowing, and it is now quite ariver. The 
drive and the lunch were a hilarious success. The canoeing was also 
@ success, but in a different way that temporarily dampened the 
spirits ef the party. Two canoes were capsized and the occupants 
summarily ducked; two other canoes attempted to shoot some dan- 
gerous rapids and were broken in two in the middle, leaving the pas- 
sengers to crawl or swim ashore amid the plaudits of allC.. Two 
other men lost or broke three paddles; and still another lost a roll of 
bank bills and half of his clothes. At this point the picnic divided. 
One party was taken to the hospitable hearth of a well-known gentle- 
man, while the other party packed the remnant of the canoes upon a 
hay cart and walked homie, Such good clothes as belonged to the 
party when they started for home, being either lost or soaked. the 
tatigue dress in which the retreat was made was highly picturesque, 
though far from sesthetic, The procession moved as far as possible 
across country and through baek yards and alleys. 


CANOEING IN FLORIDA, 


ANOBING has received quile an impetus in this place and, in fact. 
C all along the St. Johns 
a fleet of seven canoes, including the Psyche, N. Y. ©, C.; the Sun- 
beam, an Everson Shadow, the Wyomi, Blue Lightning, Vixen, and 
another, all open Rushton canoes, provided with fan centerboards. 
The word Wyomi is the Seminole for whisky, and when the owner 
of the canoe of that name was asked why he thus christened her he 
replied that he wished to associate in his canoe and its name the two 
things most dear to him. ' ‘ 
Lopes the Florida breezes all five of the flags which she is 
now entitled to display, the canoe Psyche assumes such a gala day 
appearance that she is invariably saluted by a!l passing steamers. 
eir pilots probably imagine that she has an excursion party on 
bothe owner of the Sunbeam purchased and received his canoe but & 
few weeks since, When be was ready to make his trial trip in her a 


number of his friends assembled on the wharf to see him starb, Step- 


is wioter. Herein Mandarin we have | 


ping boldly into the canoe she at once turned bottom up and he was 
temporarily lost to view. Since theu.in answer to numerous con 
gratulations upon his success, he remarks that he was merely testing 
the stability of his canoe by attempting to walk along her gunwale. 
All canoes sent to Florida from the North should be shipped by 
schooner to Jacksonville, which can be done at a moderate cost. 
all means avoid the railroads. Irecently shipped the Psyche from 
Fernandina to Jacksonville, a distance of thirty miles, over the 
Transit Railroad, and was made to pay ten cents permile, She came 
in a freight ear, at shipper’s risk, By steamer the exorbitant charge 
of $20 is made for a canoe from New York to Sayannah. 
O, K. CHOBEE. 
MANDARIN, FLA, 


MERRIMACK RIVER MEET. 


J Spesseea Ss eanoeists haye signified their assent to warrant the an- 
nouncement that a local meet will be held on the Merrimack 
River, between Lowell and Lawrence, June 14. 15 and 16. A beauti- 
ful site has been selected, and permission obtained to camp, in a 
secluded spot near ‘‘Deer Leap,” five miles below Lowell. Ample 
room is provided on high land by a level, open space, backed up by 
a wooded hill. Water supplied by a spring directly opposite. River 
broad enough for sailing just below camp, and races can be arranged 
if desired. 

Proposition is this: Ship canoes to Lowell (care George EF. Stanley, 
truckman); leave city early Friday afternoon and paddle in fleet 
down the river, running Hunt's Falls, a half-mile series of easy 
rapids, en route; camp Saturday and Sunday; break up Monday 
morning and paddle five miles to Lawrence, from which point canoes 
may be shipped home or eruise continued to Newburyport (thirty-six 
miles) ab mouth of river, It is proposed to establish a genuine camp 
(no hotels in vicinity), Individuals or parties will, therefore, provide 
themselves with tents, blankets and threé days’ rations, 

All New England canovists are cordially invited to attend and make 
the meet arouser, Location central, expenses light. Further par- 
ticulars given by letter, and views of camp ground and river sent on 
application. It is desirable to know at once who and how many will 
Ee. Communicate with R, F, Hemenway or F. H. Pullen, Lowell, 

ass, 


THE MOHICANS OF ALBANY. 


AO the river had been free of ice for some time previous 
to the 8th of April, for reasons beyand the control of the club no 
canoe was taken out before that day. Then General Oliver tried his 
new sails and found them working like acharm. The new riggings 
of both the Marion and the Snake (R. W. Gibson) will create a sensa- 
tion, 1 think, at Newburgh, and deserve great praise for the ingenuity 
of their designers in making reefing easy. 

W. BR, Wackerhagen has sold his Henrietta (North River build). and 
has been rather unlucky in his effort to acquire a new one from the 
same builder; the shop of the latter, Chauncey Smith, burnt down 
with seven canoes, Wack’s among them, almost ready for delivery. 

B. Fernow’s Fior da Lice, a Waters Nautilus, is being shorn of her 
keel. and provided with an Atwood C.B. Her owner expects to do 
something in the sailing line this year. 

The Peterboro, new model (decked), imported by General Oliver, 
has been sold by him to Walter L. Palmer, the well-known painter, 
and anew member of the M, C. C. 

Henry R. Pierson, Jr., also a new member, is. negotiating for a 
Shadow, now the property of Dr. Gardner of the Cincinnati C. C., and 
lying at Crosbyslde. 

Two other new recruits to the paddling fraternity, Messrs. Weidman 
and Weine. have built themselves two canvas canoes after a short- 
ened Ellard model. One of them is entitled to special mention For 
haying been the first'this year to leave the deck of his canoe for the 
cooling waters of the river. Cause: Hatch not fastened. 

George Hilton, our last vice-commodore, being prevented by busi- 
ness engagements from active canoeing this season has sold his 
North River to 8S. M. Babcock, alsoa ‘‘Morgan,” though a young one, 

The Mohieans will appear in force at Newburgh. and anticipate great 
fun; but not so much in the **mashing” line (as the Torontos insinu- 
ate) as by their good ‘‘seamanship”’ and general jollity, ’ 

After the meet the Marion and the Fior da Lice, with such others as 
will join, intend to carry by rail to Deposit, on the Delaware; cruise 
down the Delaware, through the Gap—not to speak of such mitior in- 
cidents as Coshocton Falls, Lackawaxen Dam, ete.—to Belleville, N. 
J.; thence by rail to Hamburg. or Franklin, on the Wallkill; make 
aequaintance with the ‘‘Drowned Lands,” trees and snags, dams and 
falls of this stream. and try to reach, without any serious accidents, 
the Rondout Creek, and emerge into the Hudson near Kingston. 

FIor DA Lice. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


VIll.—_THE SUSQUEHANNA. 


INGHAMTON, N. Y.—River navigable for your canoe from this 
point, Distance to Owego, 22 miles. Would advise start from 
here as it is a beautiful part of the river all the way to Qwego. Your 
canoe willbe cared for until you want it, can Jaunch within 80 rods 
of the freight office, good roads to landing and river banks low. Freight 
Agent, N. Y,, L. BE. & W.R. R. 

Owego, N. Y.—No obstructions in the river here. Steamboats draw- 
ing 20in. run insummer, Postmaster. 

Tunkhannock, Pa,—In ordinary times canoe will pass easily. Par- 
ties from heie go up as far as Owege and come down in boats. Foree 
of current about 3 miles an hour, Postmaster, 

Wilkesbarre, Pa.—No obstructions here. A slight fall about a mile 
above the town, but it can be easily run. Stage of water varies with 
the seasons; steamboat drawing 15in, runs down to Nauticoke, 9 
miles. At Nauticoke there is adam, but you car run through the 
shute, Postmaster. 

Sunbury. Pa.—No obstructions in the riyer north of Harrisburg. 
Just below Harrisburg there are falls, called Canawago, which you 
eould not run atany time. Current about3 miles an hour. Dam 
here which you can get past through thelock. You will have no 
trouble in going down asfar as Harrisburg, 

The following points were got by corresponding with a young law- 
yer in Tunkhannock, Pa.; The river is very low in July, August and 
September, and in places not navigable for canoes then. Canawag 
Walls (as they,are called by the natives) are really a series of rapids, 
which rafts 0 down but are pretty heavy for canoes. A rise gener- 
ally ocenrs some time in June, called the June *-fresh,” when rafts 
are floated down, and by putting the canoe on one of these the falls 
could berun. Scenery very fine below Harrisburg. Sunburyis about 
half way between Owego and the bay—a raft covers the distance in 
about five days during a fresh, laying upatnight. Rafting begins in 
in April, when the water is high. . j 

My own experience—No dangers of any kind between Binghamton 
and Harrisburg. A few rocks were varnished the last day of the 
eruise. All falls—if you can call them so—can be run, and theseveral 
dams got round by running the shutes or carrying round. Lots of 
springs all the way. Riyer water very good. Food to be had in 

lenty either from the farmhouses or small towns all along the route. 
ity. eruise was made early in May. Find out before starting the 
height of the water, and time your trip accordingly. Transportation 
to avd from the river by rail fairly cheap. 

Experiences of others.—Gen. Oliver and Mr. Fernow of Albany, 
cruised last May from Binghamton, N. Y., to Bloomsburgh, Pa. Mr. 
Chas. L. Tilden, of Boston, cruised down the Susquehanna in 1868 in 
a Rob Roy, all the way to the bay, running every rapid, including the 
Canewago Falls, below Harrisburg. Mr. F.5S. Hubbard, of Boston, 
who has also made cruises on the river, says: “I can most sincerely 


-recommend the lower part of the river below Columbia as a cruising 


ground, This cruise should be taken im May, so as to get a good stage 
of water, as the channels are narrow and the recks pretty thick in 
places, especialy at the Canewago bridge and below.” 
Atripof over 400 miles can be accomplished on this river, the 
waters of whieh carry you from New York, across Pennsylvania and 


into Maryland. Try it. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 
111.—FISH. 


caught out of muddy streams have an unpleasant taste, 
f igus Seta be lessened to a large extent by soaking them half an 
hour or more in strong salt water. Fish that have been frozen should 
be soaked in cold water to thaw them before ep ena Don’t boil a 
fish under three pounds welen and of course don’t bake a fish too 
small to be stuffed. If you do nor carry a fish-car to keep your cap- 
tured fish alive, kill them assoou as caught by a sharp rap on the 
back just aft of the head with a stick or the hanale of your big knife. 
This not only in justice to the fish but because he tastes better, for 
the same reason that et eh os steer would taste better than one 

hat was smothered to death. ~ 

‘ You may find grubs in fish along the backbone in July and August. 
You will generally remoye them by taking out the backbone and its 
branches. Butif you don’t get them all out, never mind; they are 
good to eat; but if any one of the party is squeamish, tell him you 
have gat them all out-any way; hewon’t know any better after they 
arecooked, Itis to be supposed that everybody knows how to clean 


a oe _ 


& fish after it is caught, so I i i 
for the camp table: got, for proceed at once te its preparation 

Boiled Fish.—Tie or pin the fish in a clean cloth. If the potis 
small for the fish skewer the tail into the mouth. Put it into enough 
boiling water to cover it about an inch. and simmer steadily until 
done, Some fish boil quicker than others, as a general rule those of 
white flesh requiring less time than those of a darker tinge. If a 
couple of tablespoonfuls of salt and four ditto of vinegar are put 
into the water the fish will cook sooner. About twenty-five minutes 
are necessary for a three-pound fish, and over that six minutes extra 
toevery pound. An underdone fish is not fit to eat, and one boiled 
too long is insipid, When the meat separates easily from the back- 
bone it is cooked just right, Take it up, remove the cloth carefully. 
and pour oyer it the following hot ; 

Fish Sauce.—Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and two ditto of 
flour into a hot frying pan over the fire and mix them together with 
a spoon into a smooth paste. Pour over yery gradually about a pint 
of the water in which the fish was boiled, shirring it wellin. Boil u 
Once and season with pepper and salt. If an acid taste is desired, 
add a few drops of vinegar. 

Fried Fish.—Small fish may be fried whole, but large ones should 
be cut up, Have enough pork fat or lard Se hot in the frying- 
pen to well cover the fish. Smear the fish well with dry corn meal or 

our, or, what is better, dip it into well-beaten egg and then into 
bread or cracker crumbs, and fry both sides to a clear golden brown. 
Sprinkle lightly with pepper and salt just as it is turning brown. 

Baked Fish.—Prepare a stuffing of bread or cracker crumbs, mixed 
with one chopped onion and enough butter or lard to make the mix- 
ture moist, Put the stuffing lightly into the fish and sew up the open- 
ing. Dig a hole in the ground eighteen inches deep and large enough 
to contain the fish; build a fire in it and letit burn to coals. Re- 
move the coals, leaving the hot ashes in the bottom, on which 
place a thick layer of green grass. Put the fish on the grass, cover 
with another Jayer of grass; then rake back the coals and loose earth 
and build a small fire on top. In an hour the baking will be com- 
plete, the skin will peel off and leave the flesh clean. <A fish prepared 
this way need not be scaled, as the scales will come off with the skin 
after itis cooked. : 


CLUB NOTES. 


CHICAGO GC. C.—Chicago, April 28.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 
Canoeing is “booming” here. At the last meeting of the Chicago 
Canoe Club eleven new members were admitted, increasing the roll 
to forty-two. At least a dozen new canoes will be launched this 
spring. the majority of which are being built by Messrs. Thomas 
Kane & Co. A new model crniser, designed by a veteran canoeist, 
will be put on the market shortly by the above firm, Two or 1hree 
haye already been ordered. Itis confidently expected that she will 
proye to be the boat for cruising on the lakes. The first Saturday 
afternoon cruise will take placé on May 10. Canoes assemble at foot 
of Thirty-fifth street, at three P. M. Cruise south five miles, through 
the smail lakes of South Park, returning to starting point. The first 
regular annual regatta will be held on Lake Michigan, off Chicago 
July 19. Several handsomegold medals will be ofiered by individual 
members as prizes. The club cruise will take place from June 9 to 
15, inclusive. Starting from Madison, Wis., where a regatta will be 
held, the club will run the Roek River as far as time permits. The 
fleet will be under the command of Com.G. M. Munger. Idividual 
club niembers stand ready to erect a handsome boat house as soon as 
a suitable site can be secured, for which a diligent search has been 
instituted. A special meeting has been called for May 9—QvuI Vive. 


NEW YORK C. C.—The float has been out for several weeks, anda 
number of the boats are already in commission. Dr. Neidé wasa 
guest of the club on Saturday last, at Marmalade Lodge, and enjoyed 
a paddle on the Kills in the evening. On May 4 the Jessica, Mr. 
Cooke. Mosquito, Mr. Delavan, and Pirate, Mr. McMurray, paddled 
down the Kills and up the bay to the Morris Canal at Pamrapo, por- 
taged over and paddled across to NewarkgBay, and making another 

ortage into the bay, paddled home, arriving at 3P.M. The Freak, 
Air. Schuyler, was the first boat in cof. mission thisseason. During 
the winter shegbas had a new deck with greater crown, air tanks in 
each end, a 3inch keel in place of her centerboard, and some changes 
in her sail plan. The Surge, Mr. Bailey, has also had air tanks of 
copper put in, one on each side of her trunk and one aft, while an- 
other mast tube has been placed forward, 15in. from the how. 


SPRINGFIELD C. C.—The Springfield C. C. own a convenient float- 
ing house 55x25ft., on the Connecticut River. On each side are nine 
shelyes to ho:d one canoe each, and nearly all are now occupied, be- 
sides which there are a number of boats on the floor. Mr. W, R. Holt 
has sold his Racine Shadow to Chas, P. McKnight,a new member, 
and will have an Ellard or Grayling. Mr. F. L. Safford has sold his 
Racine St. Paul, to a Chicago man, and he is going to order an Billard. 
Dr. Brewer has sold his Shadow to A. L. Spooner, and is to order an 
open canoe, and the cunoemg season promises Lo be early and active, 
The club now owns 20 canoes, 11 having centerboards, besides 1 birch, 
1 sneakbox and a St. Lawrence boat. 

THE HUB C, C.—This club was lately formed in Boston, the officers 
being C. W. Hedenberg, canoe Rambler, Captain; T, A. Walter, canoe 
Alice, Mate; G. E, Dutton, canoe Waif, Purser, A meet is proposed 
on Decoration Day. ’ ‘5 

PITTSBURGH C. C.\—Ten canoes are now in the house and four are 
building. Nearly all are in use. The ciub will hold their first 
annual regatta on Decoration Day. 

ROCHESTER CG. C,— The new house on Irondequoit Bay,on the site 
of old Fort de Sables, is nearly ready for oceupancy, The club has 
now twenty members. 


THE AMBRICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION,—Dr. Neidé is now in 
New York attending to the completion of the annual Association 
Book, which will be ready in about ten days, being now in press. 
The book will be published by the Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 


BIRCH BARK CANOE LEAKS,—I notice in your last issue a re- 
quest for information as to how to repair a leak in a bark canoe. It 
can be done as follows: Take some piue pitch and melt it. Then dip 
a piece of linen or cloth in it and apply over the hole. Cover this 
thickly with the rosin and smooth ip down so as to present no rough 
edge. If the pitch is allowed to burn a little in the melting it gets 
much harder and does not soften in the sun. The Indians im Canada 
always carry a tin basin full of pitch in the bow of the buai, and the 
whole operation of repairing does not take more that fifteen mimutes. 

B. 


guswers ta Correspondents. 


k2- No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


QC. ¥., New York.—A .88 or .45 will suit you best. 

J, H., Elizabethtown, N. J.—The address is Providence, R. I. 

GC. J. C., Dorchester, Mass.—For gun barrel browning “recipe see 
issue of Jan. 31, 1854. 

W.H.3., Philadelphia.—Miss Sarah McBride is not making flies 
now, Sheisin Ausiralia. 


J. W. C., Brooklyn. N. ¥.—You will find no snipe shooting within 
100 miles of New York in July. 

C., Hartford City, Ind.—Where can I buy trout fry? Ans. Address 
Eddy & Ca., Randolph, N. ¥,, or James Annin, Jr., Caledonia, N. Y, 

Constant READER.—Yacht you inquire about costs, hull, spars and 
rigging, $1,500, and completely fitted out, $2,300. Is perfectly safe 
for cruising along the coast and well adapted to such service. 

R. A., St. Louis.—The celebrated English gunmaker, Joseph Man- 
ton, died in 1835. His guns were the most famous of, the day, being 
the highest deyelopment of the flint-lock and the pioneers of the per- 
eussion cap arms. 

w. A. R., New Haven.—The route to Grand Marian, N. B., is from 
Boston, by steamboat to Eastport, Me.,.thence by steamer. Consult 
Osgood’s “Maritime Provinces,”’ an admirable guide book. We can 
send itto you. Price $1.50, . 

J. G. D., Ohio —The arm is in process of manufacture, It will 
form the subject of one of our illustrated papers on the rifles of the 
day. Your suggestion abouc other papers has been cunsidered 
before, and will probably be put into execution. 

S. B., New York,—Where can I have good treut fishing in the Cat- 
skills and also which flies are most killmg. Ans. At Big Indian you 
will be near many streams. Write Mr. Dutcher, Giant Ledge House. 
Take a general assortment of fhes, as prefessor, coachman, cowdung, 
etc. 

W.S. V., Quebee.—l. Use light drilling for tent, patereese gz 
with boiled aint oil and tereben, We canuot give you the other 
recipe. 2, Your gun can probably be changed from muzzleloader to 
breechloader. Write to some of the gun dealers whose addresses are 
to be found in our columus. : “ 

F. W, W., Grovetown, Ga.—Will you please inform me as to the 
manner of seer etsy the leather or mirror carp? Ans, Carp are 
very shy biters. They are taken with a fine line and a small hook on 
single gut, Bait with boiled peas, dough worked Suto, cotton, 
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worms. The carp has a hard mouth, and it should be allowed to gorge 
ebait. A cloudy day is best and a ripple on the water hides the 
splash; do not use a sinker. 
H. W., New York.—Snipe shooting atJamaica Bay is sometimes 
od, but the locality is too near to the city and too much frequented 
iy gunners, 
©. D. W , Portland, Mich.—1. Is there a rifie barrel made to use in- 
side a breechloading shotgun?» 2, What fly is best for black bass? 3.. 
What is best work or works on taxidermy? 4, A new edition of Coues’s 
“Key to North American Birds" is now in press. Ans. 1. The Shelton 
auxiliary barrel is such an implement. We believe that it is no longer 
manufactured. 2. There are many bass flies, 3. Try Manton’s, price 
50 cents. 4, We ean furnish it when it is published. 


_ G. W.—There are a great many shad at the head of our river, and 
1 want to try them with the fly. Can you give me the name ot the 
kind of fly used? I have seen accounts in Forrsr AND STREAM where 
the shad are eanght successfully, but the name of the party and the 
kind of ily and the manner that the shad are caught I have forgotten, 
Ans. Shad are taken with the fly at Holyoke, Mass, Thomas Chal- 
mers, of that place, makes flies for them. Thé fishing is usually 
done toward or after sundown, and the line islet down with the cur- 
rent. Yellow sally, white miller and soldier moth are good shad Hes. 


A. B.8,, Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio.—Can you tell me the hame 
of the duck of which this isa descriptionY It was shot on a pond 
about ten miles south of Sandusky Bay, Short bill, full‘webbed feet, 
black chops, top of head and throat white, black bar across breast, 
black on back with few brown feathers in wings, two long black 
feathers in tail like pin or pigeon tail, Length trom point of bill to 
end of tail 18/4 inehes. Don’t sayit was a pin-tail, for we are familiar 


with that duck, Ans, Your deseription is vague enough, but we 
presume the bird is a male old squaw or long-tailed duck in summer 
plumage. This 1s a yery common marine duck, sometimes found on 
the great lakes. Its scientific name is Hwrelda glacialis. 


Drrico, Portland, Mei. If in shooting double clay-pigeons a 
broken and a whole bird leave the traps, and the shooter breaks the 
broken one and misses the other, how should the referee decide? 2, 
If he misses the broken ove, and breaks or misses the whole, how 
should he decide? Ans, 1 and 2, The referee should decide one 
broken and one missed. The shooter may refuse to shoot atthe 
broken bird and demand another; but1f he shoots at it, he must abide 
by the result, 


GREENWING, Syracuse, N, Y,—A party of men from Syracuse have 
leased # trout stream, The sigu boards which they haveerected con- 
tain these words, ‘‘Fishing not allowed in this stream,” There is no 
name signed. Are the boards made according to law, and ean they 
prosecute a person for fishing in the stream? The land that is leased 
is not jnclosei1. neither are there any signs except along the brook, 
Ans. The law regarding tresp@ss reads as follows: Section 16. Any 
person who shall knowingly trespass upon cultivated or inclosed 
Jands for the purpose of shooting or hunting any game protected by 
this act, or shall take any fish from private ponds or streams not 
stocked in whole or in part by the State, or after publie notice has 
been given by the owner thereof as provided in the following section, 
shail beliable to such owner or occupation, in addition to the actual 
damages sustained, in exemplary damages to an amount not exceed- 
ing $25. Sec. 17. The notice referred 10 in the preceding section 
shall be given by erecting sign boards, at least one foot square, upon 
every fifty acres of land upon the limits thereof, or upon the shores 
or bank of any lake, stream, or pond, in at least two conspicuous 


places on the premises; such notices to haye appended thereto the 
name of the owner or occupant, and any person who shall tear down 
orin any way deface or injure such sign board, shall be liable to a 
penalty of $25, 

A, L. P., New York.—i, Do youknow any place within three or four 
hours from New York where I can haye good black bass fishing? I 
know the usual places, Greenwood Lake, éte., but I do notcare to fish 
from @ boat, and prefer fishing a stream on account of the exercise. 
Last year I tried some alleged trout streams in the Delaware regions, 
but found them‘fished out. Of course I want to get fly-fishing, if pos- 
sible. When does black bass fishing in this region begin? 2. What is 
the best trip for fishing purposes (about two weeks) to take from Chi- 
cagoin July? I believe that I saw some time ago an article on the 
Northern Peninsula of Michigan. Can you give me any address to 
write to in ,order to get the necessary information? Ans, 1. You 
might find s me bass fishing along the Delaware River, above Lam- 
bertville and about Point Pleasant. Jt is not certain af alltimes. 2. 
Go to Mackinac and eross the straits, or fo to Escanaba, From these 
places you can easily reach good trouting. Consult the map. Guides 
can be had at $2 per day. 


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time to the Gothamites. He will have a fine stock of guns and fishin 
tackle, and is the New York agent for H. M. Spragte’s boats an 
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of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL, 
Chicago Dog Show. 
The Vicars Testimonial. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Army Rifle Practice. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Wheeling Club. 
The Trap. 
The Chicago Tournament. 
Proposed National Association, 
Notes from Worcester, 


EDITORIAL. 
Game Protection Fund, 
Open Seasons. 
Non-Sporting Dog Show. 
Naticna] Trap-Shooting Ass’n. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Sport in the Apennines. 
NATURAL History, 
The Catbird. 
Deer in the Adirondacks. 
Superfetation in the pee 


Gamer Bac AnD Gun. CANOEING, 
A Hunter’s Camp. Tanthe C. C. 
Cimarron to Cimarron Canyon. The Chart Locker. 
Camp Tinware. Walkill River. 


Fish and Gamein Manitoba. 
A Fund for Game Protection. 
" Philadelphia Notes. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 


The Galley Fire. 

Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
A Night on a Log Jam. 
Airtight Boxes for Canoes. 
Canoe Rigs. 

Leaks in Birch Bark Canoes. 


Camps of the Kingfishers.—1, The Spring Meets. 

The Maine Season Opened. YACHTING. 

Fly-Fishing for Shad. ~ Isis. 

An Angler’s Wife in Camp. Knickerbocker Y. ©. 
FISHCULTURE. Yachting at Belleville, Ontario. 


The Menhaden Question. ~ 
THE KENNEL. 
Westminster Kennel Club Show. 


The Collapse at Nice. 
Tapering Down. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


. 
A NATIONAL TRAP-SHOOTING ASSOCIATION. 


AC ANe delight in national associations. Almost 

every branch of trade has its organization of this 
kind, and so has almost every branch of ‘‘sport.” The 
horsemen are leagued together, so are the base ball men, the 
cricketers, lacrosse players, archers, boating clubs, lawn 
tennis clubs, and all the rest of them. Some of these socie- 
ties are active, useful and influential; others are unwieldy, 
purposeless and moribund. With the character and work- 


- ings of some of these national associations, the readers of this 


journal are tolerably familiar. 

There is the American Fishcultural Association, which is 
national in design, but in reality chiefly supported by its 
Eastern members, who represent a quite circumscribed terri- 
tory. But the society is unquestionably national in its in- 
fluence; the fruits of its efforts are seen from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific. The National American Kennel Club, the 
American Canoe Association, the National Rod and Reel 
Association, and the National Rifle Association are all strong 
and useful bodies, each of which in its special sphere has 
materially advanced the special interests to which it is de- 
voted. 

Some years ago a National Sportsmen’s Association was 
formed. It tried to do too much; to cover too much 
ground, to unite the inharmonious interests of trap-shootin g 
and game protection. It proved too big, was unwieldy, and 
fell to pieces. The history of the movement is instructive; 
we may recur to it at another time. 

At the clay-pigeon tournament in Chicago, it is expected 
that twenty-five or thirty clubs will be present, representing 
fairly well the trap-shooters of the country, and it is pro- 
posed to take advantage of this meeting to form a 
new national association, which shall have for its pur- 
pose the encouragement and direction of trap-shoot- 
ing in this country. In another column will be 
found a letter from Mr, J. E. Bloom, giving an outline 
of what it is thought such an organization might do. We 
publish the letter and call attention to it at this time, so that 
the gentlemen who are going to Chicago to represent their 


clubs in the clay-pigeon tournament, may. have an opportun- 


ee 


ity to discuss the project with their fellows before leaving 
home. 

Nothing is easier, on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, than 
the formation of a national association, We apprehend, 
then, that it will be no difficult task to organize the pro- 
posed society at Chicago, and to elect a president and other 
officers. But, the society once established, it is quite an- 
other thing to keep it going. We suggest, then, the im- 
portance of very thoroughly discussing the exact aims and 
character of such a national body before taking decided 
measures to establisn it, The purpose ought to be very 
definitely understood; and the efforts of the members should 
be directed to that one thing alone. 

So far as we are informed, the purpose for which it is de- 
sired to establish the new association, is to provide annual 
tournaments, in which the clubs belonging to it can contest 
at the trap for prizes and renown. The success of the pro- 
ject then, will depend upon whether or not the association 
can make annual provision of sufficient inducements to at- 
tract clubs to come from a distance to its tournaments. In 
other words, the one question to be considered is the finan- 
cial one. “: 


GAME PROTECTION FUND, 


N another column may be found a letter from a New 
York gentleman who knows something of the way in 
which the game of this and other States is being peddled 
out of season, and who understands that the administration 
of justice so far as it relates to this subject is a huge farce. 
As things go now, game traffic is carried on all the year 
around. Our correspondent then proposes to gather funds 
for the detection and. prosecution of offenders. He asked 
us what we thought of the project. We replied that it was 
excellent, but that its great weakness was that it appealed 
to the pocket-book. There are plenty of folks who will 
talk game protection by the hour, but few who will give 
anything toward it. But we should be glad to own up mis- 
taken in this case. Does anybody want to join in raising 
such a fund? ' 

This gives us occasion to repeat what we have often said, 
namely, that in New York State there ought to be a live 
association of men bound together by their interest in game 
and fish, to take active charge of all matters pertaining to 
the enactment and carrying out of the laws on the subject. 
There is abundant material for such a body. Why can it 
not be organized? 

We believe that were such a society started by the 
right persons, it would receive the support of a sufficient 
number of sportsmen to carry through any measure it might 
think best to urge at Albany. “This would do away with the 
annual game law tinkering at Albany, and would insure a 
good statute against being subjected to the interested schem- 
ing of men who are working for mercenary or selfish ends. 


OPEN SHASONS. 


NE way to secure the observation of the times and 
seasons for game and fish is to make them known. 
This we are doing to the best of our ability by publishing 
every year a revised list of open and close seasons. That it 
may be correct, we have invited the co-operation of our 
readers in the several States. Now the request is repeated. 
Please report to us any changes that have been made in the 
laws of your State during the past winter. 


Tue AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASsocIATION convened 
at Washington last Tuesday, and the meeting is now mn 
progress. Mr. Theodore Lyman, of Massachusetts, delivered 
the annual address, and Mr. John A. Ryder read a paper on 
“Legislation Necessary for the Protection of Ocean Indus- 
tries.” A report of the proceedings, with the papers read, 
will be given in our columns. 


A Fun Report of the bench show in this city last week 
is contained in our Kennel columns, As we have there noted, 
a remarkable improvement was seen in some of the classes 
exhibited. There were unnoticed exhibits in classes which, 
according to the standard of excellence at former shows, 
would have received the ribbons, The show was well man- 
aged, and ranks high among the creditable exhibitions given 
in this country. 


Marne Laxes.—The ice is out of the Richardson, Moose- 
lucmaguntic and Rangeley lakes, and the boats are running, 
Elsewhere will be found a communication on the subject. 


-of these classes which are known as non-sporting dogs. 


A NON-SPORTING DOG SHOW. 


ENS on the suggestion contained in the FoREST AND 

StrEAM of April 24, the gentlemen interested in in- 
augurating a bench show of non-sporting dogs, have con- 
ferred with the Westminster Kennel Club, which has con- 
sented to give such an exhibition. The show will be held in 
the Madison Square Garden, this city, in the third week of 
next October. 

There is just now a tremendous ‘“‘boom” in the popularity 
The 
demand for these dogs exceeds the supply, and all sorts of 
ridiculously fancy prices are paid for fairly good specimens, 
Almost every steamship from England brings into port ac- 
cessions to the multiplying canine hosts. The bench shows 
are crowded with them. In fact the exhibition of 
the Westminster Kennel Club has grown to propor- 
tions altogether unwieldy. The number of classes and 
the entries in each are so great that there is abundant 
material for two exhibitions instead of one. This arrange- 
ment will accomplish more in the education of the public 
than could have been attained by the other plan. With the 
spring exhibition devoted chiefly to sporting dogs, and the 
fall exhibition to the other breeds, visitors will have a better 
opportunity of intelligently studying the several classes. 
The judging can be finished more promptly; there will be 
more room for display; and in various other ways the ex- 
hibition can be managed to greater satisfaction than is now 
attainable, 


A CoMPETENT ForEstry OFFICER.—We have had several 
opportunities of discussing forest conservancy with Mr. 
Charles F. Amery, a gentleman of considerable professional 
experience, gathered both in the forest bureaux of Germany, 
and it. the East Indian forest department, in which latter he 
held a high appointment for fourteen or fifteen years. Mr. 
Amery is well known in India and to forest.men in England 
by his ‘‘Notes on Forestry,” a little work in which the 
whole system of forest management in Germany is intlel- 
ligently set forth, together with practical instructions for its 
application to the East Indian forests. His wide experience 
in practical forest management, and in dealing with the 
many difficulties inseparable from the inauguration of a 
system of forest conservancy, would render his services 
very valuable at the present juncture in this country, where 
in spite of the generally recognized necessity of doing some- 
thing for the maintenance of a permanent timber supply, 
action is paralyzed by the difficulty of deciding how best to 
set about it. It is precisely difficulties of this sort for which 
the services of the trained professional are required, and the 
appointment of such a man as Mr. Amery on the staff of the 
forestry department would be regarded as an earnest that 
the Government had at length come to the resolution to face 
the problem squarely. Mr. Amery is an alien, if itis proper 
to apply the term to one who has made this country his 
home, and has no claims to political patronage, his sole 
claim to nomination is the value of the services his special 
training qualify him to render, and these are certainly ex- 
ceptional. 


Forrest Fires AnD Forest Foruy.—Our exchanges 
have been filled with reports of the extensive and disastrous 
forest conflagrations which have raged in various portions of 
the country, and numerous editorial pens have bewailed the 
consequent loss of human life and the destruction of millions 
of dollars’ worth of property. But no one of our numerous 
and highly-esteemed contemporaries appear to have thought 
it worth while to suggest that one-tenth part of the money 
which has been so lost, if judiciously expended in securing 
protection against the forest fires, would have averted the 
terrible calamity. It requires a long time for us here in 
America to learn these things. 


CANNED Goons should not be cooked in the cans, for the 
physicians tell us that there is danger of poison if this be 
done. The proper way is to pour the meat or vegetables 
into a cooking vessel. It is possible to provide abundant 
facilities for all necessary culinary operations without cum- 
bering oneself with a heavy load of pans and kettles. In 
another column we quote from ‘‘Woodcraft” the description 
given by ‘“‘Nessmuk” of his camp tinware, 


THE MASssacHuseTts Fish AND GAME PROTECTIVE Asggo- 
CIATION will hold its last meeting for the season to morrow 
evening, and the matter of the defeat of the game bill will 
be thoroughly discussed and plans for the future mapped 
out, 


8302 


Che Sportsman Canrist. 


SPORT IN THE APENNINES, 


W HILE spending some months in Tuscany, the luxuriant 
garden of Italy, the ill health of a member of the family 
caused us to seek for cooler air and complete rest in some 
secluded spot high up the Apennines. ‘lhe journey thither 
was a thing to be remembered; what lovely drives over well 
kept roads, up steeper and steeper grades, the roads winding 
up apparently endless hills; a turn, and suddenly another 
green yalley would be seen, with quaint old stone-built farm 
houses, with the old-fashioned tools lying around, telling 
of patient and hard toil at the bosom of mother earth, cum- 
bersome and clumsy ploughs, all but the ploughshare of 
wood, and a job for four oxen to pull at, now at rest, however; 
for were not the valleys smiling with the ripples of the wav- 
ing wheat, and was not the Indian corn rising, green and 
strong, and telling of plenty and of happiness? Every farm 
house had several old walnut trees growing around it, or 
some lofty old oak, towering, eyery inch a king, over the 
many mulberry trees, food for the silk worms, another 
source of richness. 

Higher and higher, and the mulberries ceased to grow, and 
the grapevines were no more festooning in rich garlands 
from tree to tree, but instead now and then a straight cedar 
would appear, or a tall spruce, or even, but more rarely, an 
old pine would be seen looming up above other trees, as if 
foolishly it was challenging the ready woodman’s axe, Fur- 
ther on and the chestnut trees begin and increase in fre- 
quency, and here and there a thin column of dark smcke 
announces the spot where charcoal makers are at work. For 
many, many miles do the chestnut trees surround the road, 
and cover the hills everywhere, trees of great use, for the 
wood serves as fue] or is made into charcoal, and the chest- 
nuts are eaten, or collected and dried in the sun and ground 
into flour, to form the principal staple of food of the Apen- 
nine mountaineers. 

Later ou even the chestnut trees cease to thrive, and 
cedars, pines, spruces, birches, sycamores, firs, maples, and 
many others are growing thickly; the air is cooler and 
balmy, with a faint but delightful odor of hidden violets 
and little red wood strawberries, 

This journey having lasted afew days, we reached our 
goal, a little, unpretentious inn nearly on the summit of one 
of the lofty hills, where the breeze was cool and agreeable 
and heavily laden with perfumes of Alpine flowers, and the 
inyalid felt as if new and purer blood was coursing through 
her frame, and as if every inspiration was another word 
written on a new lease of life. 

Dinner at once and plentiful. The first dish, trout! 
Trout indeed; and how | wanted to know all about them, 
and where they were caught and how; and could I fish for 
them, and this and that, until the folks around had a faint 
suspicion, becoming hourly more marked, that I was the 
invalid, whose afiliction was aiental one. I could see a 
rod nowhere, and | found out that the way trout were caught 
in the neighborhood was primitive, if not sportsmanlike, for 
it consisted in one man holding a big landing net over any 
hole in the rocks or under some old log, while another poked 
in the hole with something like a hop-pole, resulting-in an 
occasional catch and many misses. 

JT had a small rod with me; I have it still, and have been 
a twin brother to it for years; I also had a few small snelled 
hooks with me, and the next morning the few rare inhabit- 
ants were amazed at seeing an otherwise sober-looking 
American pursuing sundry roosters in quest of material for 
flies. With surreptitious help from the ladies’ bonnets 
and a little waxed sewing silk, several gorgeous specimens 
of fanciful entomology were soon at hand. 

Next morning I started with a small boy and we walked 
a couple of miles to a mountain brook, quite a good sized 
one, where the boy said there were ‘‘trote.” We arrived at 
one lovely pool, and I put myrod up, and the boy was 
astonished; I placed the reel, he was amazed; I placed a 
couple of flies, ‘‘yellow rooster and ostrich” and ‘‘brown 
rooster and ostrich’ or some other colored rooster and 
ostrich, the boy’s eyes started out of their sockets, and ina 
subdued way he said, ‘‘Maria Santa, 6 pazzo.” Well, he may 
haye thought he had good reason to believe he was with a 
lunatic. 1 whipped this pool, caught nothing, and the boy 
smiled. I tried another, same luck, the boy laughed, I 
tried another, and the boy looked as if he was thinking of 
home, and about to cry. I was tired, took a rest; lad 
another cast on principle, and a rise. The fish gave a good 
pull, and I being excited, gave another, and forgetting that 
once upon a time I had been a good angler, made up my 
mind to catch a trout before that boy, and | pulled again, 
and it only took us a half an hour to disentangle the quarter- 
pounder and the fiies from a good sized maple tree whither 
they had betaken themselves to flight. ; 

After this signal success, I went on, and finding better 
pools higher up I managed to kill about a dozen handsome 
fish, the largest a trifle over a pound and the smallest 
about six or seven to the pound, We turned homeward, 
and I felt proud, disgustingly proud no doubt, and very 
happy. I placed my rod against the barn, and after a cheer- 
ful evening went to bed, 

Next morning, as I rose early, I went to the barn; the 
whole available population was there, looking on, much in- 
terested in the description the small boy was giving of my 
methods, and finally an old fellow shook his wise and yen- 
erable pate, and declared he hardly believed it was right, 
inasmuch as he knew it had never been done before. 

Many another good day’s fishing did I have in those moun- 
tain brooks, those rippling and bubbling brooks, now tear- 
ing down in the torrent bed and now calmly resting in some 
deep, dark pool, under the shades of old trees; and the fun 
was glorious, even with small results. 

A few days after I met the government forester, a charm- 
ing and clever young Italian, a graduate of the School of 
Forestry at Vallambrosa. He promised to take me with him 
on his next trip up the wooded hills, and told me to take my 
gun along. : 

A day or two after we started off on a prospecting tour, 
as he had to mark certain trees that were to be felled, and to 
see some young trees he had planted recently. By his 
learned talk and enthusiastic descriptions I saw how much 
he loved the woods, how he was laboring to restore the for- 

ests, and I never understood so well how much we in 
America are to blame for our short sighted negligence of our 
woods as after having explained the wiole process of regener- 
ation by my friend. For a few years only he had held his 
position, and already he had established a huge nursery, 
where thousands and thousands of young trees were being 
carefully reared, He had planted thousands about the hills, 


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and had done a great work. He proudly stated that the sav- 
ing to the government in repairs 1o the postal road from the 
washing of its bed by mountain torrents, which he had 
nearly stopped by tree-plant, covered a large slice of his ex- 
penses. 

We had with us two lean hounds who had been rummaging 
about, and suddenly gave voice, and were off like lightning. 
The old guard with us said, ‘‘Una volpe,” and we separated, 
and waited wherever we thought we had achance. After 
three-quarters of an hour or more the deep baying sounded 
nearer and nearer; after a while I heard a shot to my right, 
and the young forester came up to me, dragging old reynard 
by his brush. The guard skinned him there and then, and 
we went on. Before the day was over ] had a chance at a 
couple of big hares, and bagged them both. 

As I reached home we saw all the villagers assembled, and 
we saw they were looking at the body of a large wolf, that 
had been killed in the morning by one of the shepherds high 
up on the hills. I was told that he had killed a large num- 
ber of sheep before he had succumbed to the big round ball 
from the old five-foot smooth-bore. ; 

The invalid recovered and we went away. I had not 
seen much sport, but [ expected none, and I had had much 
enjoyment; but the best of it was that I had seen the work 
of one man, with little help, in the forests there. There are 
thousands and thousands of us here that are interested in 
ours. Shall we let them go to ruin? GV, 8.5 

New York Cry, 


Ghatuyal History. 


THE CATBIRD. 
(Mimus Carolinensis.) 

HE vine tangles along the roadsides and in the swamps 
are losing their rusty appearance, and the gray lengths 
of Virginia creeper have thrust their tendril fingers into the 
crannies of the rough bark, and are drawing themselyes up 
to the soft spring air and sunshine. Delicate green tufts of 
miniature leaves are already quivering on every swaying 
branch and twig, and soon their soft rustlings will come to 
us on the wandering breeze. In the midst of all this spring 
loveliness appears the catbird with his unostentatious suit of 
slate-colored feather cloth. Unannounced he comes when 
he arrives, and where from we know not, so well has he 

kept the secret these many years, 

Scrupulously neat, his modest dress is none the worse for 
wear, and his black cap is set as jauntily as ever on his saucy 
little head, The old sparkle is still showing in his bright 
eyes, and the quick flirts of his long tail evidence the work- 
ings of the restless spirit that has always pervaded his little 
life. 

Curiosity is strongly developed in the catbird, for a more 
inquisitive little chap it is hard to find. Walk quietly on the 
borders of a wood, where the briers and vines have grown 
and interlaced themselves through and through the bushes, 
hanging in festoons from every sturdy sapling. Here, if you 
remain quiet, you will see and hear much to interest you. 
Confine your observations for the present to the subject of 
our remarks, the others we may investigate at another time. 
All is very still, and we see the midges hovering in a fantas- 
tic dance about a shaft of sunlight that glances down into 
this secluded spot. Hist! what was that? Churr! churr! 
Ah! here he is, and half hidden in the leaves of an alder we 
discover the sly fellow; so still he sits, that were it not for 
the utterance of that cautious churr, churr, he would have 
altogether escaped our notice. After a most careful examin- 
ation of us, he runs swiftly up the trembling branch on 
which he has been so quietly perched, and pausing an instant 
to look back, flutters off for his mate. How carefully he 
pilots her as they both return. Together they crouch in the 
shade, while he seems to be telling her how it was he first 
discovered us. As they approach more closely you see their 
dusky wings open and shut in their nervous excitement, and 
hear the quiet churr of encouragement as they draw closer 
to the object of their curiosity. Let them see that they are 
observed, and the bushes will ring with their alarm cry of 
chee, chee, 1 have often had a pair of these birds attend me 
for along distance through the woods, keeping pace with 
me, now ahead, and vow to one side, but ever silent, until a 
sudden movement startling them, they would commence 
their cries. ; i! 3 

They build a nest, much like that of a robin, in the 
thickets among the briers, or on the borders of the woods or 
swamps, and are also very fond of locating in the spruce and 
hemlocks on the lawn. Housekeeping well under way, the 
male bird will mount the topmost bough that bends above 
his home, and ruffling himself into a fluffy ball of feathers, 
he will pour ont his little soul in song; low at first as though 
afraid to trust his voice, his notes gradually increase in 
power until the air is filled with the sweet trills and warb- 
lings of this:much maligned, because little understood, 
songster, I find one fault with the rascal, howeyer—while 
the ear is ravished with his exquisite notes he will suddenly 
utter one or two rasping cries, and entirely destroy the effect 
of some of his most lovely passages. Morning and evening 
are his favorite song times, and as he is a first cousin of the 
mocking bird one is not surprised to recognize the notes of 
many of our familiar birds, intermingled with his own. An 
incessant bather, he is constantly spluttering about the bird 
tank, and immensely does he appear to enjoy it. 

he sun has set and as the twilight lingers with a rosy 
gloom, among the fleecy clouds we see our little friend 
mounting the topmost spray of his spruce, and presently his 
pure voice floats out clear as a crystal among the multitude 
of feathered choristers as they chant an evening hymn of 
praise. One by one their little voices are hushed until 
finally it is left almost alone with his music. Admonished at 
last by the silence, that itis bed time, he ceases abruptly, 
and with a quick diye, drops from his perch and joins bis 
mate, under the dark green boughs. A good-night to the 
little fellow, ILMOT, 

New Yorke Cry. 


CrossBiLLs IN New JERsEy.—Maplewood, N, J,, May 
8.—Editor Forest and Stream: <A flock of a dozen or more 
American red crossbills (Lezia americana) have frequented 
this neighborhood for several weeks, feeding on coniferous 
trees. April 28, I captured several specimens of both sexes. 
On dissecting the females, I found eggs in a very undevel- 
oped state, and the breast showing no signs of nesting. I 
understand these birds breed early in spring. Are these 
birds likely to be found in a flock while breeding?—C. B, 


Riker. [This species sometimes breeds in winter in the 
northern Vow England States. Perhaps those you took had 
already bred.] 


DEER IN THE ADIRONDACKS. | 
BY C, H. MERRIAM, M.D. 


[From advance sheets of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of 
New York.] 


Cariacus Virginianus (Bodd,) Gray. 


COMMON DEER; VIRGINIA DEER; RED DEER; WHITE- 
TAILED DERR. ' 


The Chase—Oontinued. 


467 )RIVING” consists in chasing a deer with hounds, 

and killing it, if possible, when it takes to water, 
A deer is not much afraid of a dog, and when the latter 
commences to bay on the track does not start off at once 
but waits till sure that the hound is realiy chasing it, It 
then moves away at a brisk pace, rapidly distancing its pur- 
suer, and is apt to run several miles, circling through yal- 
leys and over hills, before taking to water. If now a stream 
of any size is reached, the animal is liable to wade for a 
considerable distance in order to throw the dog off the 
scent, If then stops to listen, and if after a while the dog 
again finds the track, will generally take a pretty straight 
course for some neighboring lake, and swim it in order to 
rid itself of the annoyance of being followed. Instead of 
swimming, it sometimes skulks in shallow water near shore, 
and in this way bafiles the dog. 

The details of the hunt haying been arranged over night, 
the participants proceed, soon after daylight, to their respec- 
tive posts, while the guide puts out the dogs, If the lake 
about which the hunt centers is a large one, two or more 
men are stationed at different points to watch it, while the 
others make portages to adjacent lakes and ponds. The 
guide commonly starts seyeral dogs, each on a separate 
track. Each watch-point is provided with a boat, and the 
hunters keep a sharp look out, for the deer is frequently so 
far ahead that it takes the water before the bay of the hound 
comes within hearing. If the game is a doe or fawn, and 
particularly if early in the season, the head alone is com- 
monly seen above the surface, and at a distance it is likely 
to be mistaken for a buck. A buck swims higher, and the 
later the date the more of its body shows out of water, 
Deer killed in September generally sink, but after this month 
they usually float. This depends on the state of the pelage; 
for when in the red coat they sink, while, on the contrary, 
when the blue coat, which grows very rapidly, is an inch in 
length, it will, as arule, float the deer that carries it, and 
this length is generally attained about the 1st of October. 

When a deer is seen swimming the lake, the hunter waits 
till it has gone far enough from shore to give him an oppor- 
tunity to head it off, before launching his boat and starting 
in pursuit, By exercising a little caution and not hurrying 
too much, he is often able to approach within easy range 
without being observed; but, if the animal sights him or 
hears any suspicious noise, it swims so fast that unless in a 
large lake and some distance from shore, the hunter -has 
great difficulty in overtaking it. 

When a large buck is overtaken and unexpectedly finds 
that be is pursued, he suddenly turns toward the boat, with 
a look of mingled astonishment and horror, rises high out 
of water and snorts; then, facing about, makes a desperate 
but usually fruitless effort to escape. 

In September it is not uncommon for a guide to drive the 
deer about the lake till well nigh exhausted, and then catch 
and hold it by the tail, so that it will not sink, while the 
“sportsman” kills it! 

n driving, a hunt ordinarily. lasts seven or eight hours, 
and is apt to become a trifle monotonous, particularly for 
those who do not happen to see a deer. It commonly has 
this advantage, however, that there are at this season 
(autumn) no flies to pester the watchman, who, if he can 
manage to keep warm, and has enough to eat, may maintain 
a tolerable degree of complacency. 

“Still-hunting,” with us, consists in following a deer, by 
its tracks on the ground, and in attempting to overtake and 
shoot it, by daylight, in its home in the forest. It is some- 
times, though rarely, practiced by our most skillful still- 
hunters in summer and early autumn, after a recent rain has 
so moistened the surface that the footprints can be traced. 
But it is when the ground is covered with a few inches of 
newly fallen snow, in November and December, that this 
method of hunting is commonly resorted to. A rifle is the 
weapon usually employed. 

In order that he may step as noiselessly as possible, the 
hunter lays aside his boots, covers his feet with several pairs 
of woolen stockings, and over them draws a pair of well- 
made buckskin moccasins, Starting early in the morning, 
he makes a circuit in search of fresh tracks, and if deer 
are plenty, pays no attention to those of does and fawns, 
but proceeds till the track of a large buck is discovered, 
This he follows slowly and cautiously, taking care Jest he 
tread on some dead branch or in any way make a noise 
that might alarm the ware deer. The animal often takes 
fright and makes off at full speed before it has been seen at 
all, This the hunter at once detects by the difference in the 
track, the long spaces between footprints plainly ShowdDs 
that it was on the run. He now throws off all restraint an 
strikes into a brisk pace, for the deer is already likely to be 
several miles away, and whatever noise is made cannot pos- 
sibly reach its distant ears. When the tracks indicate that 
the deer has slackened its guit into a walk, and has, perhaps, 
commenced to browse a little, then it is time to advance 
again slowly and with great circumspection, for having been 
once alarmed, it is even more on the alert than usual, and 
can only be approachad with the utmost care. 

It not unfrequently happens that the deer enters a swamp 
where several others are fecding, in which case the’ snow is 
apt to be so much cut up that it is impossible to follow the 
original track unless its size serves to distinguish it; and 
even then it may cross and recross its own path so many 
times as to bewilder the hunter, who must now do one of 
two things; either advance stealthily and noiselessly through 
the swamp, without regard to the footprints, hoping by 
chance to get a shot; or he must make a wide detour, cir- 
cling around it, to see if the track he is after leads away in 
any direction. If it does not, he knows that the deer is still 
in the swamp, and must return and attempt to find it. 
Appreciating the difficulty of the undertaking, he moves 
with great deliberation, his practiced eye penetrating, at 
each step, every space and recess that the slight change 
of position brings in view. To the left he observes 
a prostrate maple, felled by the winds, and, know- 
ing that deer are fond of the kind of browse it 
affords, works cautiously toward it. The branches are 
reached but no live thing is seen, and his eyes are bent in 
other directions when—crash, crash, under his very nose, 
and he is deluged with a shower of snow that, for the mo- 
ment, completely blinds him, He may, or he may not, 


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is constitute the target usually presented to his eye. 


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too late, discovers the bed 


ay the fallen treetop, at his very 


fate—they are butchered in cold blood. 
, } : Deer Protection. 


The hunter rarely sees the whole outline of a deer in still- 
hunting. The forests are so thick, and the evergreens so 
loaded with snow, that an object is not commonly visible at 
any great distance, and a part of the leg or a patch of hair 
He some- 
times fires directly at what he sees, and sometimes ‘‘allows 
a trifle,” aiming a little ahead or a little behind, as the case 
may be, If severely wounded, without being killed ont- 
right, the animal is generally left for several hours, or 
until the next day; for if pursued it would 
continue to run as long as its strength held out; while, on 
the other hand, if left alone it soon lies down and will prob- 
ably never rise again. Judge Caton says: ‘‘But few animals 
will go so far and so fast, after receiving a mortal wound, 
as a Virginia deer,”’+ and I have myself followed a buck, 
shot through both lungs with a .44-caliber rifle-ball, more 
than a mile and a half through the woods. ; 

In localities where deer are abundant, an expert. still- 
hunter frequently kills two or three in a single day, but such 
hunts are very laborious, for the track often Jeads many 
miles, in a tortuous course, over hard-wood ridges, across 
stretches of spruce and hemlock, and through dense balsam 
and cedar swamps. It is a long distance to camp, but 
thitherward, at nightfall, the weary hunter wends Ins way. 
His course lies through a swamp in which the evergreens 
grow so near together that the eye is unable to penetrate 
further than a few paces in any direction, and are so 
loaded with snow that the dark green of the few uncovered 
branches contrasts markedly with the uniform white of the 
tent-like cones from which they protrude. The silence is 
oppressive, and unbroken, even by the sighing of the wind. 
The imagination, aided by the gathering shades of dusk, 
sees in this picture a primeval forest, among whose time- 
worn trunks stands the Jong deserted encampment of a by- 
gone race. The well-preserved wigwams of spotless white. 
bleached by many winters, and pitched upon a floor of 
alabaster, mark the final bivouac of an unremembered 
nation, 

Of the three methods of hunting heretofore considered, 

driving is the least sportsmanlike, and affords the deer the 
smallest chance of escape. It requires neither skill nor cun- 
ning on the part of the executioner; for patience, and a very 
ordinary amount of common sense, are the only essentials. 
It has this advantage, however, that the deer, if wounded at 
all, is almost certain to be killed outright—which cannot be 
said of the other methods. 
’ “Floating” requires one of the actors to be expert in the 
use of the paddle, and is really quite an exciting diversion, 
This is partly becanse it can only be practiced by night, and 
partly because each change of position of the boat, and cach 
curve and bend of the shore brings new objects into the 
limited field of vision, keeping the expectation in a state of 
acute tension. But after all, when the novelty has worn off, 
one cannot help realizing that it is like carrying a lantern, 
any dark night, through a frontier pasture, and shooting the 
first unlucky cow that chances to stand in the path. - 

Tn still-hunting, on the other hand, the hunter is thrown 
entirely upon his resources, and it is the only method of 
taking the deer in this Wilderness that requires any particular 
skill or labor on his part. The guide is here superfluous, 
unless it be to string up the game and find the shortest way 
to camp when the hunt is over. 

_ $till-bunting tends to toughen the muscles, to sharpen the 
_yision, to quicken the hearing, and fo impart to the whole 
system a glow of health and vigor. it calls into play the 
exercise of functions that are apt to be neglected by the 
student and man of business, and inspires the lover of 
nature with a zeal and enthusiasm not easily extinguished. 

In addition to the three foregoing legitimate (!) methods 
of hunting the deer, there are sometimes practiced here two 
other ways of killing—I might say butchering—that are too 
despicable even to be spoken of without a feeling of shame. 
They are: by means of licks and by crusting. 

A lick is a place where salt is put{ and the supply from 
lime to time replenished. ‘The deer, being exceedingly fond 
of salt, after having once discovered the place, repair to it 
with great regularity. When they have visited the lick 
nightly for some little time, which is ascertained by examin- 
ing the ground round about for tracks, the murderous pot- 
hunter, armed with a doublebarreled gun loaded with buck- 
shot, secretes himself at dusk behind some convenient 
covert, or in a neighboring tree, and in silence awaits the 
approach of his unsuspecting victim. 

“Orusting” is a method of destruction that is still more 
unfair and atrocious than that just described, and is 
only practiced by the most worthless and depraved vaga- 
bonds, lt depends, fortunately, upon a condition of the 
deep snows that is usually of short duration, and rarely 
oceurs save in the months of February and March. When 
the snow averages fcur or five feet in depth on the 
level, a thaw, followed by a freeze, converts the sur- 
face into a stiff crust, which renders the deer very 
helpless, Taking advantage of this state of things, 
the crust-hunters sally forth. Their snowshoes enable 
them to skim lightly over the surface, while the poor deer 
are unable to move except by the greatest effort, and aresoon 
exhausted. They sink to their bellies at every plunge, the 
sharp hoofs cutting through the frozen crust, which lace- 
rates their slender legs till the tracks are stained with blood. 
The cruel foe is upon them, and well do they realize that 
the struggle is for life. Every muscle is strained to the 
utmost in the frantic effort to escape, but in vain. Every 
leap tells bitterly on the fast-waning strength, and they soon 
sink in the snow, breathless and with heaving sides. Their 
large liquid eyes are turned toward their brutal pursuers, as 

ic- 


the Adirondacks. 


still contracting with ominous rapidity. 


turing establishments that consume vast quantities of wood, 


Wilderness. 


that constitute its home. Hence it phonies 
st 


unless the region is early converted into a State preserve, 


soon prove inadequate. 


intelligent and judicious legislation. 


enactment, but it has ceased to meet existing conditions; 
that it will prove ineffectual against the demands of the 
rapidly increasing occupancy and destruction of the forests, 
requires no great perspicacity to foretell. 

There are two weak points in the law as it now stands: 
First, the open season is too long by at least a month; and 
second, there is no limit put to the number of deer that a 
party, or an individual, may kill during this period. The 
season begins with the month of August, and when the 
weather is propitious more than a hundred boats are nightly 
engaged in floating, on the various watercourses of the Adi- 
rondacks. Now it is an undisputed fact that by this method 
of hunting, more than twice as many does as bucks are 
killed, and that a large percentage of those fired at are 
wounded, and escape into the woods to die. It is also afact 
that, as a rule, each doe has two fawns, and that fawns de- 
prived of their mother’s milk before the first of September 
usually die. Hence the appalling truth becomes apparent, 
that for every twenty-five deer secured by floating, at least 
fifty (and probably a much larger number) must be destroyed! 
Therefore it seems proper that the season should not open 
before the first of September. The second weak point in 
the law is also a yvitalone. It is notorious that during the 
past two years many hundreds of deer have been slaughtered 
over and above the number necessary to keep the parties 
killing them supplied with venison. Im parts of Canada, 
and in the State of Maine, the law sets a limit to the number 
of moose, caribou and deer that may be killed by an indi- 
vidual or camp during a given period, and I see no reason 
why a similar law might not be enacted and enforced in our 
own State with like good results, 


SUPERFETATION IN THE DEER. 


N Forest AND Stream of April 17, 1884, p. 224, under 
the heading, ‘‘A Zoogenic Paradox,” Mr. Frank J. 
Thompson, Superintendent of the Zoological Garden at Cin- 
cinnati, records the following very interesting case: ‘‘On the 
dist of last December the female axis deer (Cervus axis) in the 
society’s collection, gave birth toa fully developed male 
fawn, which has grown apace and promises to become a fine 
specimen. On the 5th inst., a few days over three months 
after the first birth, she bore a fully developed female fawn, 
which, in less than an hour after birth, was strong enough 
to frisk around its mother. * * Now here is an instance of an 
animal giving birth to two fully developed young ones within 
less than one hundred days of each other, whose period of 
gestation is well known to be eight months, and as custom- 
ary with the family, only produces once a year. Is it possi- 
ble that she could haye been impregnated at two periods, 
with the above intervening space of time? if so, those who 
have made the zoogeny of the deer a special study, will have 
to write a new chapter on the subject.” 

In response to Mr, Thompson's inquiry it may-safely be 
said, not only that it is perfectly possible that this deer was 
impregnated at two distinct periods separated by nearly one 
hundred days, but that this is the only rational explanation 
of the facts. Had the fawn born Dec. 31 been expelled pre- 
maturely, the case might be regarded simply as one of twin 
pregnancy, but this was not the case, for Mr. Thompson ex- 
pressly states that both fawns were ‘‘well developed,” aud 
both were alive and doing well at time of writing. The case 
falls under the head of superfctation, and has many parallels 
in the human subject. In the Edinburgh Medical Journal 
for 1865, Dr, Bonnar, of Cupar-Fife, recorded several ex- 
ceedingly interesting cases, in which the time intervening 
between the two deliveries varied from one hundred and 
twenty-seven to one hundred and eighty-two days. Dr. Ty- 
ler Smith, in his ‘‘Wanuaiof Obstetrics,” states that 1 woman 
“miscarried at the end of the fifth month, and some hours 
afterward a small clot was discharged, inclosing a pzrfectly 
healthy ovum of about one month. There were no signs of 
a double uterus in this case.’ When a double uterus is 
present, superfetation is of far more frequent occurrence, 
and a large number of authentic instances have been re- 
corded. 

Now it must be remembered that while a double uterus is 
exceedingly rare in the human female, it is the normal con- 
dition in the great majority of mammals, including the 
deer, Hence the question arises, Why is superfetation not 
more frequent in those species of deer which normally bear 
but one young? There are two excellent reasons: First, 
because as a rule the physiological process of ovulation is in 
abeyance between tke time when conception takes place and 
the expiration of pregnancy; and second, because in the 
deer, as in the majority of wild animals, there is a definite 
period of rut, after which no impregnaticn takes place till 
the next season. The artificial life of captivity, in inclos- 
ures of limited size, and particularly where the animals are 
subjected to unnatural climatic influences, coupled, as is 
commonly the case, with a more or less radical change in 
the nature of their food, brings about a modificatian of the 
animal's habits, and frequently perverts the reproductive 
function. Therefore, instead of ‘‘a zoogenic paradox” we 
have simply a very interesting example of superfetation in 


*Deer preety devour the lichens that adhere to the branches of 
trees that have ong been dead, and the buds and twigs of those that 
were living when they fell, This fact is well known to woodsmen, 
who invariably assert that if a tree falls during the night, tracks of 
deer can always ‘be found there next morning. And Ihave heard 
More than one old hunter affirm it to be his sincere belief that deer 
know the cause of the noise produced by a falling tree, and, guided 
by the sound, at once set out in quest of the spot. Mr. John Con- 
stabje tells me that he once shot a deer in the act of browsing upon 
the lichens that elung to 4 fallen treetop. The animal was standing 
on its hindlegs, with its forefeet resting upon a large limb, and was 
reaching up for the lichens, 
tLoe. Cit., p. 88s. 


4The only natural deer lick in the Adirondacks, so far as I am 

_ aware, is thus spoken of by Colvin: “I observed in a moist place a 
deposit of marly clay, a rare thimg in this region, What was most 
in ei however, was the fact that this was a natural deer-lick, 
many} pees phoning where the deer had licked the clay, possibly 
obtaining a trifle of potash, alumina and iron, derived from sul- 
‘phates from decomposing pyrites.’’ (Report of the Adirondack Sur- 
“yey, 1880, P. 193). oF te = 

ae sag 


if to implore mercy, but tione is given. All share a like 


For many years an army of hardy lumbermen, wood- 
choppers, and bark-peelers has been steadily at work, to- 
gether with its concomitant devastating fires, in making pro- 
gressive and disastrous inroads upon the ill-fated forests of 
Much of the proper borders of the region, 
long since stripped of timber, present to the eye a desolate 
and barren waste, whose present irregular boundaries are 


New sawmills, pulpmills and numerous other manufac- 


are constantly being erected; and, asif this were not enough, 
it is possible that before the snows of another winter cover 
the earth, a railroad will pierce the very heart of this grand 


It augurs ill for the deer when the footprints of the 
panther or wolf are found near its winter quarters, but the 
cold steel tracks of the iron horse admonish us of the pres- 
ence of a tenfold more insidious and subtle foe; for the rail- 
road not only brings the deer’s greatest enemy, man, into its 
immediate haunts, but destroys and carries off the forests 
follows that 


which, unfortunately, seems hardly probable, the laws that 
heretofore sufficed to enable this animal to hold its own will 
Therefore. the subject of deer pro- 
tection becomes one that claims earnest and thoughtful con- 
sideration from our sportsmen and hunters, and demands 


The present law was a fairly good one at the time of its 


the deer—a case which does no violence to the well-known 
physiological laws, and which was rendered possible by the 
artificial conditions incident to the semi-domesticated state 
in which the animal lived. C, Harr Mpreriam, M.D. 
Locust Grove, N. Y, ° 


DECREASE OF Sond Brrps,—Boston, Mass., May 7.— 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: I notice in your advertising 
columns the advertisement of a Boston taxidermist who calls 
for ‘“‘all kinds of native birds.” You may not be liable to 
be taken to task for so aiding and abetting the violation of 
our bird laws, but I am inclined to be wroth over it. You 
may not recall the fact of my haying for some thirteen years 
noticed the simultaneous arrival of the Baltimore oriole 
with the opening of the cherry blossoms here, or rather at 
my home. This year the trees blossom almost one month 
late, and still ‘‘Lord Baltimore” has not been seen or heard. 
1 account for it, perhaps, on the ground that other taxider- 
mists have advertised in local papers to same effect as above, 
for last summer I saw in the window of a Jarge millinery 
store here over one hundred and fifty stuffed skins of the 
Baltimore oriole all together, labeled 75 cents each. I was 
so mad I didn’t get over it for a week, and my family shan’t 
spend a cent in that store if they go bareheaded the remain- 
der of their lives.—Rerenoups. 


Philadelphia, Pa.—The past week did not bring the flights 
of black-breasted plover, robins, snipe and dowitchers, looked 
for by some. The season is backward, but they will no 
doubt arrive on our coasts within the next ten days, especi- 
ally if a southeasterly storm occurs during the pericd of 
time mentioned. As these birds treated us last spring, so 
will they act this—a sudden appearingand a very brief stay— 
it may be but for a day or two, Many of the warblers have 
shown themselves. The black and white creeper of course 
is here, the summer yellow bird arrived some days ago, and 
on Sunday, the 3d inst., the blue-winged yellowback could 
be seen among the fruit blossoms in the rural sections of 
Philadelphia. Both the Baltimore and orchard orivles have 
been present for several days, and the yearly war on the part 
of the so-called collectors of birds for scientific purposes 
against these bright-plumaged songsters has begun, Each 
collector, armed with a copy of our game laws, which al- 
lows the shooting of insectiyorous birds for scientific pur- 
poses, goes forth, fearing no interference, when every 
feather secured finds its place in the hat of the fashionable 
milliner, instead cf on the shelves of the ornithological cabi- 
net. We have a city ordinance that can be enforced in the 
case of these people. It is that of discharging firearms within 
the county limits, for which there is a fine for every offense, 
When the State law is faulty the city law should be resorted 
to.—Homo. 


Corn CRAKE (Crex pratensis).—Owing to the number of 
Fornst AND Stream for Feb, 14 being mislaid until a few 
days ago, I did not see Mr. Park's communication on the oc- 
curence of this bird in the State of New York last November, 
Some years ago, I think in 1859, I saw a specimen which 
was shot by one of the officers in Halifax garrison while on 
a sporting trip in Newfoundland, More singular still, a 
specimen was shot by my lamented friend, the late Liecut.- 
Col. Wedderburn (42d Highlanders) in the remote Ber- 
mudas. Here isCol. Wedderburn’s account of it in our ‘*Nat- 
uralist in Bermuda” p. 45: ‘The Landrail of Europe (Crez 
pratensis).—On the 25th of October, 1847, while out shooting 
in the dusk of the evening, in Pembroke Marsh, my good 
old dog Flora pointed, and a well known bird took wing, 
which I most fortunately killed, and it proved to be a young 
male landrail of the year. I sent the specimen to the late 
Mr. Yarrell, and at the sale of his effects it was purchased by 
Col. Drummond, who recognized the skin, The occurrence 
of this birdin such an out of the way place as Bermuda, 
and so far to the westward of its line of migration, is most 
wonderful, and it certainly gave me more pleasure to find 
this single bird, than the whole of the other birds put to- 
gether. I sent a notice of the occurrence of this bird to the 
Zoologist, in 1849.” To reach the Bermudas from the Amer- 
ican continent, this bird must have traversed some six or 
seven hundred miles of ocean; no small distance for a mem- 
ber of a family not specially fitted for continued flight.—J. 
MarraEew Jonss (Fern Lodge, Waterville, N.8.). ~ 


Cuimney SwaLLows.—Saratoga Springs, May 4,—Last 
evening and this evening I witnessed the unusual sight of 
myriads of chimney swallows circling around and dropping 
into an unoccupied chimney of a house adjoining the Arling- 
ton Hotel. Fully one thousand of these birds were together, 
attracting the attention of parties in the yicirity by their 
chippering cries and erratic evolutions, as they passed over the 
chimney top, halting for a moment, when apparently their 
courage gave way and they would circle around again, till 
at last some of last year’s veterans (evidently posted as to the 
internal arrangements of the chimney) dropped confidently 
down, when bushels followed in rapid succession. Evidently 
the birds have just arrived, and use the old chimney as a 
sort of assembly rooms, where they discuss matters pertain- 
ing to the coming season, pair off and seek permanent nest- 
ing places. The habits of this bird are singular, it is the 
ouly one of the feathered tribe that never alights, except in 
the dark recesses of its nesting place. It breaks a twig for 
its nest while on the wing; it gathers its food while on the 
wing; it is a perfect barometer, predicting storm or rain by 
skimming along near the surface of field or road, and soar- 
ing high for its food when a high temperature exists near 
the surface. Thestormy petrel, purple martin, whipporwill, 
swallows and all apparently tireless birds are seen to rest 
Reeieney on land or water, but the chimney swallow never. 


~ 


ANOTHER SEAL iy Lake OntaArto.—Learning that a 
harbor seal (Phoca grenlandica) had-recently been captured 
in Lake Ontario, near Henderson, Jefferson county, N. Y., 
I addressed a letter of inquiry to Mr. C. H. Sprague, of that 
place, and have received thefollowingreply: ‘‘A seal weigh- 
ing 100 pounds was taken from a trap net set in the head of 
Henderson Bay, near Henderson Harbor, Sunday morning, 
April 20. He was dead when taken out, evidently havin 
drowned. He was of a grayish color, and a perfect speci- 
men, ‘This is the only one that has been captured here.”— 
C, Harr Meretam, M. D. (Locust Grove, N. Y., May 10). 


DeratTH or Wis0n Fuage —Wilson Flagg, the naturalist 
and author, died at his home in Cambridge on Monday, after 
a long and painful ilmess. My. Flage was born in Beverly 
in 1805, He received his education at Andover Phillips 
Academy andat Harvard College, and afterward studied 
medicine, but never practiced the profession. He removed 
from Andover to Cambridge in 1856, where he had since re- 
sided.— Boston Advertiser, May 8. 


Game Baq and Gun. 


A HUNTERS’ CAMP, 


HERE wasasudden stir in Astoria among lovers of 
river shooting, one late October day, when two hunt- 
ers, who had been down on the bottoms prospecting, brought 
back word that the fall flight of wildfowl had begun. Tents 
were overhauled, and camping traps of all sorts were speed- 
ily put in order, for ours was to be a party of genuine lovers 
of the camp-fire. There was to be no clinging to civilization 
in the shape of boarding houses or hired cooks, Such things 
might do for noyices, but when we had once entered the 
Swamp forests there was to be no coming back to soft beds 
and easy chairs until the hunt was ended. 

The party went out of the yillage in the early morning, 
perched high on rolls of bedding and boxes of provisions, 
which had been bestowed in an ancient lumber wagon, 
drawn by a matched team, a low-spirited horse, and a dis- 
couraged-looking mule, Steve, the stalwart farmer, was 
strangely silent about the fields, thickly carpeted with grow- 
ing wheat. or studded with obese shocks of corn; enough to 
Joosen the tongue of the most taciturn tiller of the soil. He 
was not silent, howeyer, about former river expeditions, 
There was a wistful look in his eyes, as though he could al- 
ready, in imagination, hear the whistle of teals’ wings. 

The sorriest figure in the party was cut by the Parson. 
His shining beaver was replaced with a weather-beaten 
slouch, and his coat and breeches were evidently not out on 
their first expedition, though certainly out at elbows and 
knees, The Deacon, occupying the rear berth in the wagon, 
smoked away placidly in spite of the rain and hail that pelted 
us as we toiled through the mud. Another team brought 
the balance of the half score—Senator, Doctor, the Notary, 
Tom, another dominie (afterward christened the Pelican, 
when he tried to palm off, as afresh corpse, a cadaver of 
that species, which he had picked up in the back-water), the 
Mote (weight 225 pounds) and last and least, the Bantling, 
The Deacon ruled that in case of dispute, the Senator should 
decide all legal questions inyolyed: in case of accident the 
Doctor should be allowed to officiate; and any member of 
the party should have “benefit of clergy” in case of hanging. 

It was a long pull from the landing, where the boats were 
loaded, back into the lakes, where the cracking of guns led 
to the ducks’ highways and pastures. The storm had passed 
and the sun was banging among the trees, when the boats 
were pulled up on the eastern shore of Steward Lake, above 
the mouth of the Any Carte, The tents were deposited 
under maples and elms, whose leaves were brilliantly streaked 
with red, The prevailing autumn color of the trees on the 
riyer bottom, however, especially if the first frosts are light, 
is yellow. Back on the bluffs there are plenty of reds, but 
liere the mass of color is yellow; not the shallow, flat, murky 
sort, but clear and transparent. Sometimes, pushing your 
boat into a bayou or narrow inlet, you will catch sight of a 
pecan or soft maple stained the deepest saffron, 

But while we haye been looking at the trees, the hunters’ 
ready hands have cut posts and poles and stretched the tents. 
There is 4 hurried search among the ‘‘plunder” after loaded 
shells, for the sun is dipping out of sight, and if any one gets 
a shot before the nf&ht falls, it must be soon, The Parson 
and the Senator drift together as the party scatters to shoot- 
ing points, and for the rest of the week the law and gospel 
go hand in hand, 

There seemed to be no method in the flight of the birds; 
they were evidently looking for lighting places. The Parson 
hushed the Senator in the midst of afunny story, as a buuch 
of low-flying mallards came toward their blind. The guus 
flamed and two drakes dropped out of the flock. Dusk was 
gathering, but a flock of teal sweeping across the lake, catch- 
ing sight of the half-concealed gunners, mounted sharply, 
their climbing forms silhouetted against the sky and offering 
arare shot, ‘Three of them dropped at the edge of the water 
when the guns blazed, It soon grew too dark for seeing, 
though swift wings could be heard fanning the air overhead 
proyokingly near. At such a time the hunter longs for power 
to see in the dark. 

At the camp the Deacon, who, by the way, had a weakness 
for good feeding, had installed himself as cools, a position all 
were willing he should have and hold after they had once 
tasted the fruits of his culinary skill. Then and there a 
burden of anxiety roJled from the minds of all the party as 
the Deacon—who had joined the expedition in the capacity 
of philosopher seeking escape from the turmoils of civiliza- 
tion, rather than as a hunter—volunteered to have the meals 
ready when the others came from their boais and blinds. 
He blandly called attention to a set of by-laws which he had 
unanimously adopted and pinned up in a conspicuous place. 
Here they are: 

1. The cook must be 
dish washing, 

2. The man who snores shall be fired into the lake. 
Mote regarded this as personal. | 

3. The wearing of buttonhole bouquets is strictly for- 
bidden. j 

4, For every tardiness at meals the offender shall forfeit 
one duck to the cook, 

These rules were simple enough, but.there was a suspicion 
in-some minds that the Deacon had his eye on many ducks 
in No, 4, a suspicion which seemed confirmed, as his string 
of birds grew longer each day. : 

How we slept that night. A heapof dried leaves, covered 
with gum coats, made a bed, where we slumbered as men do 
only under like circumstances. Strange it is that one rarely 
takes cold in a tent. A silk skull cap drawn well over the 
head is the only preventive needed, With the wind blowing 
in at every corner, and the rain sifting through the canvas 
in a fine mist on your face, you awake with a head as clear 
asa May morning. Ye dwellers in pent-up offices and stuity 
parlors, take to tents and forget that men are ever troubled 
with colds and sleepless nights. 

‘Ffello-0-0-0!"’ shouted some one just as we had fallen 
asleep, as it seemed, but hours after as it proved. It was 
the Notary, who had caught the noise of swiftly movin 
wings close above the treetops. Wewere soon in boots an 
away. The eyelashes of the dawn were already visible. 
There came a fash across from the point of timber where 
Steye had taken his stand behind the willows. He after- 
ward brought in four redheads as the result of shooting into 
what he called ‘‘a bunch of shadows.” 

The Senator’s teeth chattered and the Parson was blowing 
his fingers behind a blind formed of willow twigs stuck in 
the mud. A flock of mallards came squarely toward the 
blind, the dominie catching sight of them first. The Sena- 


exempted from wood cutting and 


[The 


tor sat still, wondering why the Parson didn’t shoot, as he! 


flict. 


: ——_— 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


seemed to havea fine bead on the birds, and to be fairly 
reaching after them with his yun; but the birds went “‘tail- 
ing off” in safety, for the Parson was pulling with all his 
might on the guard of his gun instead of the trigger. The 
mistake cost him some chafling at the breakfast table. There 
was rare shooting that morning. <A steady, low flight of 
mallards kept the guns smoking, In the clear morning light 
the birds looked as large as brant, and there was a coustant 
temptation to shoot too soon, under the impression that the 
game was within range. Some old hunters insist that one 
must wait until the duck’s eye can be secn before he is 
fairly within range; but with No. 4 shot in our shells and 
44+ drams of powder behind them we did not wait for 
quite such close range work. A fine lot of birds were strung 
up in front of the tent at breakfast time, the Notary exciting 
every one’s envy by coutributing a pair of canvas-back 
drakes. These are not often bagged on the Illinois River, 
the more numerous species being mallard, teal, bluebill, 
“blackjack,” sprigtail. redhead and wood duck. 

One day the Doctor and Tom wandered for a change into 
the woods, after stalking through the wet ground for several 


hours after jack snipe, with a total result of twenty-one 


birds. They brought back a brace of crippled owls, much 
to. the delight of the Bantling, and the whole camp for a 
while. As the proper one to handle the wounded, the Doc- 
tor thrust his hund into Tom’s shell bag for the birds. One 
of them resented the intrusion by striking his claw into the 
Doctor’s palm. ‘‘Take him off! ‘Take bim off!” he yelled, 
while Tom cautiously backed away from the scene of con- 
“Why don’t you drop him?” suggested Tom, as he 
dodged behind the Mote, ‘‘I can’t. Take him off!” fairly 
shricked the victim, The Bantling had no difficulty after 


‘that in securing an unincumbered title to the owls. 


The Notary and the Pelican were sitting, one evening, be- 


hind a blind beside the lake, debating a proposal to cross to 


the camp, It was at that feverish moment when the hunter 
wants just one more shot before quitting for the night, The 
two had at their feet a score of teal and bluebills. The 
Notary said there was ‘‘an unsatisfied longing in his sou!,” 
“an aching void,” which ducks could not fill, He waslook- 
ing wistfully at a flock of geese driving like a wedge along 
the horizon. But not even the “howitzer,” a number seven 
bore, used for heayy werk; would reach them, unless they 
came lower. All at once the leader dropped a little and 
changed his course. Down they came toward the water, 
wheeling with heavy flight to scan the lake. The Notary 
fumbled for shells loaded with heavy shot. It was the work 
of a moment to slip these into the guns. Steadily the old 
gander led his flock toward the concealed battery, which 
opened fire with effect. The first to fall was the leader him- 
self, After him came two others, dropping with tremendous 
splashes into the unruffled water. ‘My longing is satistied,” 
said the Notary, as they waded out after the birds, ‘'the 
aching void is filled.” ‘They were in high feather that night 
at the camp. The evening hour in the tent is a delicious 
one. Stretched out at full length, with feet toward a hot fire, 
the hunter talks glibly, if ever. The Pelican had been a sol- 
dier, and told of the times when he hunted with a rifle can- 
non, instead of a Remington shotgun. Steve had been a gold 
miner in California, and had had many a brush with the In- 
dians. There were no dull ones in that company, and the 
evenings were all too short for the things which were to be 
recounted. . It will be long before the good fellowship of 
that congenial half score will be forgotten by any one of the 
nuaber, RicHARD GEAR Hosss. 


CIMARRON TO CIMARRON CANYON. 


if ROSE very leisurely on the morning of Dee, 26, and just 
as the clock struck 9 here came Tracy in his lmmber 
wagon, drawn by a two hundred-dollar mare and a twenty- 
dollar Texas pony, with the old wagon filled with corn, 
grub, tent, wood and the hundred and one things, that when 
we cut entirly loose from the railroad we have to take with 
us. I had not got my wagon packed yet, but everything 
was ready and piled in a heap in the hall, Blankets, grub 
in boxes, bread baked, coffee ground, cartridges and corn, 
and before Tracy had disappeared over the hills to the south 
I was packed into a buggy that is made of an old govern- 
ment ambulance altered over, with Mr. ©. by my side, and 
we were off for a two weeks’ trip, across the shallow Arkan- 
sas, through the sandhills, and over along, dreary, twelve- 
mile flat; then more hills and at sunset we drew up at the 
Wolfley dugout on Crooked Creek, which this winter is in- 
fested by cowboys. The owner hasa kind of rheumatism, 
and has gone Hast for repairs, and has lent his dugout to the 
boys who are holding some cattle. As I knew them all they 
treated us with great hospitality, Gave us a nice supper 
and drank up all my whisky while we were eating it, We 
did not find Tracy at the ranch, but in about an hour one of 
the boys came in and reported him in camp two miles up 
the ereek. I neyer camp out when I can find a house, 
especially in winter, and so C. and I concluded that we 
would hitch up early and catch him at daybreak, The 
evening was spent by the gentle cow-punchers in seeing who 
could tell the biggest lie in regard to riding bad horses and 
other feats. ] an 
We found Tracy just ready to start and in good spirits in 
spite of his lonesome night, and pulled out for the south- 
west again. Thirty miles over a rolling prairie, with no 
water and not an apimal in sight and we came to Wildhorse 
Lake, a pond that generally has water init. There we un- 
hitched, fed the horses and watered them, got something to 
eat, hitched up and pulled on, We soon met a freighter 
coming from Beaver Creek, with an eight mule team, two 
wagons tied together and loaded with about eight thousand 
pounds of buffalo bones, which he was taking to Dodge 
City, where they are worth $15 a ton, . They are shipped to 
St. Louis by the carload, and are said to be used in a sugar 
refinery. He reported buffalo on the head of the Beaver 
about one hundred miles from the Cimarron Canyon, and 
that the country up there was said to be filled with white 
men, Indians and Mexicans hunting them. So we went on, 
and about dark camped. , 
When it became light we saw a large herd of wild horses 
in three bands about a mile from camp. When they noticed 
us they edged off a little, but kept in sight of us, traveling 
in a parallel course with us for several hours. We were 
close enough to see the stallions herd their bands. They 
work in the rear of the herd like a shepherd dog and bite 
the stragglers. There were about sixty head in all. They 
stay on this big flat summer and winter, unprotected from 
the terrible storms, and seem fat and happy. , 
At about noon we reached the Cimarron Canyon or river 
(so called). Where we struck it, the water barely runs from 
pondto pond. It is a broad valley about a mile wide, with 
sandhills stretching back about five miles on each side, and 


all the antelope for fifty miles each way watering at the 
creek and grazing in the sandhills. Where we struck the 
creek the Harwood Cattle Company has a side ranch, where 
they are feeding ninety saddle horses corn and seventy fine 
bulls hay. © men are in charge of the ranch and live in 
a big dugout. They are Boston boys, and have got as many 
of the comforts of civilization as they can command. Have 
good food and lots of it furnished by the company—a very 
uncommon thing, by the way, in the average cow camp, 
where coffee, poor flour and bacon are all that is generally 
furnished (beef is considered too rich for the blood). They 
had lots of papers and ‘‘Seaside” novels, and a real kerosene 
lamp to read by, instead of fire light and an occasional candle, 
The creek bottom was covered with cattle and antelope. I 
counted about a hundred antelope in sight. 

I wanted to camp near the dugout, but Tracy, who isa 
little bashful, thought we had better go a mile up the creek, 
and I assented. We then had a council of war in regard to 
going onto buffalo, and Tracy and John both wanted to 
stop at Cimarron and make a load of antelope. Tracy said 
we didn’t have enough corn to go to buffalo, and I had to 
give in, though reluctantly. So John and Tracy went on 
up the creek to make camp, while I stopped al the dugout 
and mended my buggy with Texas iron (rawhide). I was 
pretty sulky, but when Frank Mayo asked me up to dinner, 
and told me [had better put my horses in the corral and 
feed them hay, I began to see life in a different aspect. I 
didn’t hurry in mending the wagon much, und at sunset 
drove up the creck to find camp, but no camp could I find, 
and just as I had turned back to go to the dugout and spend 
the night, I heard Tracy’s old wagon come rattling in from 
the hills, and met him at the creek. He and John had 
killed three antelope and wounded another, Tracy had 
come to camp, got the wagon and’ gone after the carcasses, 
while John followed up the wounded one. By the time 
John came in unsuccessful, we had the tent up, a fire made, 
supper cooked—more antelope liver fried than anything 
else—and we all ate with hunters’ appetites. 

When we got up the next morning one of my horses was 
gone, and after breakfast I started after her, while Tracy and 
John went to the hills on foot Ifound my horse in about 
an hour, took it back to camp and picketed it—tied it to a 
stake by a long rope—and started for the hills on horseback. 
After riding from point to point for about two hours, occa- 
sionally catching glimpses of Tracy and Johnin the dis- 
tance, just as I came up on the bill there was an antelope 
herd on the other slope, about half a mile away, in full 
sight. Iknow some of them must have seen me as | slid off 
my horse and crawled back out of sight on all fours, leading 
the horse, but I peeped when I got my horse out of sight and 
they had all gone to feeding again. The wind was blowing 
directly from me to them, so Lhad to go around them and 
come up on the other side. The country was all very hilly 
and 1 struck out to ride the circle at a fast lope, keeping as 
near the antelope as the lay of the land wouid Jet me and yet 
be out of sight. 

When I got down wind I picketed my horse and walked 
up almost to the top of the hill and there crawled over to 
about a hundred yards from twenty of the prettiest antelope 
I ever saw. I carefully stuck my feet toward them, sat 
up, rested my gun ina puir of rest sticks that | sometimes 
use on a windy day, and aimed at a buck’s shoulder; he fell 
at the crack and I jumped up and got in about six more 
shots as they ran off and saw one more drop. 

Disemboweling the two dead ones 1 followed the herd on 
foot and soon found blood. When I went over the ridge 
there stood another, shot through the paunch; he saw me 
and ran off a few hundred yards and stopped, I followed 
and shot at him at 250 yards or so and missed; then kept 
following and missing for three miles. Just as he went up 
a ridge about'a mile ahead of me I saw six more feeding ina 
Jittle hollow to the right, and I concluded I had rather try a 
new antelope than that old one, and commenced to make a 
sneak on the new band and got up toabout 150 yards. Shot, 
but miscalculated distance, and shot under, and the band ran 
right toward me to about fifty yards and stopped. 1 put 
that bullet in the right place anyhow, exactly into the old 
buck’s throat. He went down as if struck by lightning, and 
the rest ran through a little opening in the hills, helped along 
by a couple of shots from the Winchester as they went.. | 
heard a shot a few minutes after they had disappeared as L 
was bleeding and fixing my buck, and then went on top of 
the hill to mark it by sticking aiming sticks up and tying 
my handkerchief to them so that I could find my game when 
T came after it with the wagon. As1 stood there counting 
the empty loops in my cartridge belt John came in sight, 
He came over and told me that he had one dead and followed 
another about as I had and lost him at last. So I struck out 
for my horse to go to camp and get the buggy. In about an 
hour 1 had the buggy back to the scene of action, got my 
two and found Tracy and picked up one for him, Got 
Jobn’s buck and mine and at dark was in camp; tired, oh 
my. About two pounds apiece of that rarity in a hunter's 
camp—fried liver—lots of strong coffce, and some bread and 
butter; and we crept into bed after feeding the horses and 
went to sleep at about 7 P. M., all three in one bed, John in 
the middle, with loads of blankets and comforters over and 
under us. Nig, the dog, occasionally made a dash out of 
the tent to run off the coyotes, who, attracted by the smell 
of blood, howled around the tent all night, but he came 
right back and lay close to our feet on the foot of the bed. 
At daybreak next morning Tracy got up” and cooked 
breakfast, and John and I arose and eat it up for him, and 
we hitched up the best team to the buggy, tied Nig, who 
would catch a wounded antelope in good shape, behind, and 
flew for the hills. [Nig was poisoned last week, since I got 
home, and it hurts me to have to speak of him. A big, coarse 
black greyhound that knew as much as @ man, that would 
catch and kill anything that Idrew blood on, that would 
not eat game if you left it lying around—he was the best 
broken catch-dog that I ever owned and I never expect to 
see his equal.] Wesaw antelope after driving about three 
miles, and stopped and unhitched the horses and tied them 
to the wheels to eat grass while we hunted, Just as we got. 
ready to go for them, two of Harwood’s herders came into 
sight, both carrying @ rifle. I pointed to the antelope and 
waved them to keep out of sight as they came toward us, 
and they came up carefully. Tracy, John and one of them 
crept one way, the other man and I another. Tracy and 
company scon fired and missed. They were too far off for 
me, so I sat down and waited for the boys to come back. 
We got together and had a talk. They were pretending to 
herd cattle, but had really come out after buffalo, which 
were reported to be drifting north. .A man had seen two 
about five miles from our camp the day before. a, 

While we were standing together, Isaw antelope beyond. 
usin ashallow canyon about two miles away—l carry a 


Tracy in, and went after a wounded one. e 
when the antelope commenced to run off, and he killed it 
after a chase of a mile. When we got to him he was lying 
down biting it in the neck, surrounded by an admiring andi- 


ence of Texas cows, He smiled with his tail when he saw 
us coming, and we gave him some water in a pan from our 
keg and put him and the antelope into the wagon and went 
back for another; but J. had killed one and lost the other, 
so we had to be contented with five. John drove for camp 
a roundabout way, because the ground was roughand Tracy 
and I went cross-lots on foot. We saw John stop and fin- 
ally erawl out and shoot at five antelope that were coming 
out into the hills from water; and finally we got into camp 
and had two hours of daylight to get a good supper in, We 
went to bed soon after dark. f 

The wind rose in the night, and when we got up next 
morning it was snowing and colder than ever. I soon made 
up my mind that staying in the tent through a bad storm 
and having our horses stand out would be foolish, and told 
the boys that I was going to the dugout and that they could 
do as they pleased. In half an hour we had packed and 
started in a storm so severe that we could not see fifty yards. 
When we got to the dugout I acted as spokesman, and we 
soon had our horses under the lee of a big haystack and our- 
selves in the dugout. The thermometer stood at 5° below 
zero at 9 A. M., with a strong wind, and we stuck to the 
house for the day, I fetched in some of our provisions, but- 
ter, etc.—in fact, things that they did not haye—and Ed. 
Newell, who officiated as cook, and I got up a wonderful 
New Year’s dinner. The next day was not much better, but 
Tracy got uneasy, and he and John started out on toot, 
making me promise to meet them in the hils at about ¥ P. 
M. with the buggy to fetch in the game. When I went out 
it was as cold as ever, The icicles hung to my mustache in 
a few minutes and I was yery cold, though | had so many 
clothes on I could scarcely stir, and had half our blankets 
and robes in the buggy. I finally foimd the boys, saw them 
at a distance on a knoll. They had killed three antelope. 
We bundled them into the buggy and all rode home at a trot, 

The next morning by 9 o’clock it was warm and pleasant, 
and we went out in the buggy across the bottom, through 
the water where the crossing was good, past hundreds of 
cattle that had come in to water, up a long slope and into 

the red grass hills. A drive of a mile and we came to the 
edge of a saucer-shaped prairie, and we could drive no 
further. The prairie was a mile wide and two long, and 
there feeding guietly were at least four hundred antelope in 
bands of from ten to fifty, We unhitched and made a plan 
of action. The wind blew directly toward us, and so John 
and I crept and walked along the hills to the left of the 
prairie, while Tracy worked down straight toward the 
nearest bunch. We had got well past the first bunch and 
crept up on the ridge as near as we could to the line we knew 
that they would run, when Tracy shot, and here came the 
band past us. We fired two shots apiece ineffectually, and 
just as they swung past a point Tracy fired again and down 
came a buck. Tracy was at least four hundred yards 
away, Iran out to the antelope, bled him and looked for 
the bullet hole. It was in the head, a little hole that showed 
Tracy’s .40-caliber had done the work. Tracy was com- 
ing, and J put the point of my knife in the hole and gave it 

‘a twist. It looked like a .45 then. Up comes Tracy: 
“Who killed that antelope?” I silently pointed to the mark 
of the big bullet in the head, and Tracy gave a grunt. We 
were shooting for share and share alike, but of course every- 
one wanted to kill the most, and I regret to say that at times 

- Tracy brags insufferably when he gets ahead. 

John went back after the buggy, and Tracy and I went 
on and soon reached ground that was slightly rolling, with 
a band in sight abouta mile off. They were moving up 
wind and uneasy, sometimes feeding a little, and we sneaked 
after them like coyotes, walking when we could, crouching 
along sometimes, and occasionally crawling on hands and 
knees for a hundred yards or so, but keeping out of sight. I 
have worn the skin off my knees till they bled three times 
this winter by this fool trick of crawling. We finally gotto 
within about 225 or 250 yards, and as we could get no nearer 
both shot together at the word. Tracy shot his buck through 
the paunch, I missed. Here is where Tracy has the best of 
me with a .40-85 rifle against my .45-60. I can beat him at 
100 yards, but when an animal is over 150 and I miscalculate 

_the distance a little 1shoot over or under, while his gun 
shoots on so flat a trajectory that he don’t have to raise his 
sight anywhere within 200 yards. His gun issighied for 125. 
The band ran off, but the buck soon stopped, and we went 
around him and approached him so that when he got up he 
would run toward the way the wagon was coming from. 
‘When he saw us he got up and ran just the way we wanted 
him to and stopped after about a half milerun. We had 
lots of chances to get a shot at 50 yards, but we kept driv- 
ing him on till at last here came Nig over a ridge a mile 
away, Close toa badly wounded antelope, John after them 
in the old buggy, the horses on a run, making the buggy 
bounce over the rough prairie. Nig soon had his buck by 
the leg and the buck showed fight. John stopped and looked 
on, and Tracy and I ran for the scene of action, but before 
we got there John bad unhitched the team and tied them to 
the buggy, ran up ard helped Nig kill the game and had a 
broad grin on his face as we came panting up. He had shot 
the buck as he was going back for the buggy. Hitching up 
and all getting in we soon found the other, but he had 
enough life in him to give Nig a run of about a mile, in a 
circle. Nig made a giab at his fore leg when he got up to 
him and threw the buck heels over head; before he got up, 
Nig was at the back of his neck and gave him a few big 
bites, and by the time I got te him he had about kicked his 
last kick, and we droye for the Harwood dugout with an an- 
telope apiece. At least Tracy said so. 

That night as we sat around the fire we heard the coyotes 
howl, and just as I opened the door to hear then more dis- 
tinctly—for I like to hear them—down the wind came the 
long-drawn, hollow howls of a pack of big wolves. They 
were the first I had heard for several years, and it seemed 
pleasant, for it showed we were in a wild coun 


2 : try. The next 
morning Tracy had another bashful fit, and nothing would 
do him but to moye down the creék two miles and leave 
that nice dugout again, and to keep peace in the family we 
did so. We put the tent inside a roofless claim eabin belong- 
ing to the Harwood Company, and as itwas late concluded to 
get some dinner before we went hunting. As we sat around 


am going up to kill one of them antilope yonder.” 


little and fall down again. 


for their guns, 
fore you could say scat. 


worrying her, Several saw us and ran back for the hills, 


but five came on, not noticing us. 


all bitten to pieces. T. and I shot. 
branch, waded in, drank, and then lay down. 


were away ahead. 


breath. 


A short walk and we saw the band of antelope grazing 
quietly, and I had to crawl about three hundred yards and 
ot to within 125 yards, and when 
racy missed, and John’s cartridge 
failed to explode, and so John exploded. We went on after 


re-skin my knees. We 
we shot, | killed dead, 


the herd, and the boys walked me down in about two miles, 


as I had chased a runaway horse about five miles in the 
morning before we started, and was pretty tired before we 
So I sat down and they went on and 
killed three of the biggest bucks I ever saw. By the way, 
out of thirty-four antelope that we killed on this trip, there 
were but three young ones; all the rest were six years old or 
John said that 
we were probably sent down by providence to kill them be- 
We sent John back after the 
buggy by drawing matches to see who would go.” He was 
gone a long time, and when he came back we bundled in 
our game and started for camp. The reason he was gone so 
long was that he had to take the tent down, as a man came 
When we got in we 


commenced hunting. 


over, and only six does out of thirty-four. 


fore they died of old age, 


to camp that wanted to roof the cabin. 
had a roofed home to sleep in and the man was still at work. 


I got supper as quick as possible, liver as usual, at Tracy’s 
special request, and invited Brown—the man who was fixing 
I started 


the house—to eat with us, which he did at once. 
after supper for the Harwood dugout, to bake some bread, 
for it is tedious work baking bread outdoors. 
to stay all night and of course accepted, Brown came up, 
and staid all night too, and nearly talked us all to death. I 
went to sleep trying not to listen to the monotonous drawl 
which that pestiferous sheepman inflicted on us; and when I 
awoke next morning he was talkings till—perhaps he stopped 
afew minutes to sleep, but I doubt it. As a singlehanded 
talker I will back Sheep Brown against the world for ten 
cents; but I won’t stay around and judge the match. When I 
got to camp the boys had gone hunting afoot and Jeft me a 
letter, written on a feed box, to follow them with the team. 
When I found them they had four dead and four wounded. 
Nig caught three of them, and we went to camp with seven. 

We decided to start for home the next day, and at day- 
break we started, with Tracy’s lumber wagon stacked tull 
and seven in my buggy. Passing the dugout we bid the 
Harwood hands good-bye and commenced pulling across 
the forty-five mile dry strip against a head wind. Jt was so 
cold that we had to walk almost all the way, and got to 
Crooked Creek at 12 midnight in a blinding snow squall. 
We overtook a man with a team on the road and we all went 
into camp together in the brush, made a big fire and cooked 
a lot of eggs that the new man had in his grub box. Tate a 
sparing meal of eight boiled, washed down with coffee, and 
slept tranquilly as aninfant. When we awoke the sun was 
shining and we got some breakfast and started off on the 
home stretch. When we reached the Arkansas it was frozen, 
Wecrossed in good shape and soon were in my house, where 
liver is not the popular food. It is good to go hunting, and 
it. is better to come home. W. J.D. 


FISH AND GAME IN MANITOBA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of April 17 “Delta” was giving ‘‘S. E. B.” a 
lesson in geography. About the lakes in Northern Michigan, 
Lhaven’t much knowledge, but I am of the opinion that 
there is no lake in Manitoba called Birch Lake, certainly no 
very largeone. He is quite right about the fish, but they 
were caught mostly in Lake Manitoba and in the Assiniboine 
River and Long Lake, which is an old bed of the same river; 
and he is astray in the distance from the railway, as Lake 
Manitoba is not more than ten miles from the Canadian 
Pacific Railway. 

A person who has not actually been here can hardly 
believe how fish swarm in the Jakes and rivers. I have not 
yet heard any one express a fear that the supply will ever 
become exhausted. I have seen the pike, or jackfish as they 
are called here, so thick in the Seine River, a tributary of 
the Red, which empties into the Red at St. Boniface, that 
the half-breed children would go to the banks with manure 
forks and throw them out on the shore, and eyen kill them 
with sticks; and that while the water was so thick with 
sediment that the fish could not be seen, but were killed 
with random blows. In the ditches along the C. P. R. from 
St. Vincent, in Minnesota, to Winnipeg, the jackfish are 
very plentiful and are caught with wire nooses on the end 
of a pole. The stupid fish will not move a fin while the 
noose is slipped over his head. The jackfish is not con- 
sidered so good a fish as the whitefish, those caught in Lake 
Winnipeg especially, being very fine, 

The spring here has opened fully two weeks earlier than 
last year. ‘The birds are nearly all here. The chickens have 
wintered well, and from present appearances we will have 
splendid shooting next fall, This is the breeding ground of 
geese and ducks, and both are herein great numbers. Have 
no geese yet, but the ducks are very fine. We have larger 
game than those, of which I will have more to say at some 


other time. NoRTHYWB5ST, 
CARBERRY, Manitoba, April 25, 


the little fire drinking black coffee and eating some of that 
everlasting liver that T. is so fond of and even the name of 
which he rolls like a sweet morsel in his mouth, and which is 
rather poor fodder in my opinion, the old man gazed intently 
up and across the creek, and said, ‘‘After I eat some liver I 
T looked 
in the same direction and saw some light-colored spots skip- 
ping around that did look like antelope in color, but pretty 
soon I saw a large, dark object get up and charge around a 
I got my ficld glass, and sure 
enough it was fifteen big wolves killing an A yearling. I 
remarked in an off-hand way that they were wolves, and it 
would have tickled you to see the boys drop the liver and go 
I had to scratch, too, for they were off be- 
We ran up the creek and the year- 
ling got up and came down toward it, with the wolves 


As the heifer passed us 
at 125 yards one big wolf reared up, put his paws on her 
stern and commenced biting her at the root of the tail. The 
blood was all over his head and foreparts, and the heifer was 
I shot just over the 
wolt’s back and T. also missed, and the wolves ran over the 
hills and far away. The heifer went down to the spring 
1 knew that 
IT could not save her life (she died that night), so I left her 
and struck for the hills, following John and Tracy, who 
I soon saw them stop and commence 
crawling to the right to get out of sight of a band of antelope 
coming down toward water; but they were too late, the an- 
telope had seen them and ran back, and I made arun of 
half a mile and caught up with the boys, a little out of 


I was invited 


A FUND FOR GAME. PROTECTION. 
Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

There are now before ouir Legislature at Albany two little 
jokers in the shape of amendments to the game laws which, 
if passed, will not only do away with the efficiency of all the 

“ume laws, but will eventually do away with all the game, 
ne of them is to allow the farmers to snare and trap on 
their own lands, and the other one to prevent practically any 
search warrant to be put into operation, by giving the owner 
of the ice box ample time to clean out his ice box hefore any 
inspection takes place. ‘ 

Is it not about time that the sportsmen wake up out of 
their lethargy, and take out of the hands of a very few inter- 
ested demagogues the making of the laws? Iam told that 
to-day or any other day of the year, open or closed season, 
there are to be had from any wholesale poultry dealers, game 
of all kinds, quail, woodcock or partridge. Tor an illustra- 
tion to what I say, I send you herewith two quail, gotten 
this very morning from a wholesale poultry dealer, 

If there is any ‘‘detective fund” needed anywhere, it is 
certainly for New York city, where the game laws are noth- 
ing buf a dead letter. If you think yourself able to raise or 
start such a fund, I for one will subscribe to it at once to 
the amount of ten dollars. We have real sportsmen enough 
in this State to make this fund a perpetual fund of about one 
thousand dollars, to enable us to employ somebody to repre- 
sent us ably and decently, and by able argument counteract 
the workings and doings of a few parties interested in having 
the game annihilated to enable them to sell it the whole year 
around, G. 

New YorE Cry. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


HE forest fires have extended over a large portion of the 
woodland section of our State, and I fear many nests 
of the ruffed grouse have been destroyed. In the Wind Gap 
section the hillsides have all been ablaze, and from the upper 
Lehigh and Pocono comes the news that the woodlands haye 
been swept over by the blaze. The Pocono section has 
always been good grounds for grouse, and it was upon the 
plains of Pocono that the ‘heath hen” once existed. No 
better field for ‘‘pheasant” or ruffed grouse shooting could 
be found in Pennsylvania than the latter, but J fear all pros 
pects of sport of this description for the coming auturan are 
destroyed, for an early hatching is now out of the question. 
It is reported that Mr, John McCarty, who owns an exten- 
sive property six miles from Hagerstown, Md., has liberated 
2,000 quail in his section, together with twenty-four pairs of 
English pheasants. This being correct, we may expect the 
region for miles around Hagerstown to be well stocked by 
thé coming season, if the birds hav® been properly put out. 
It is a great mistake to put out more than one or two pair of 
quail in one particular spot; they should be well scattered 
to prevent any possibility of the birds running together into 
a covey or pack, in which case they very often remain in a 
flock and refuse to pair the first season, especially in a 
strange country. 
Snipe shooting has been a failure hereabouts this spring. 
In the first place the birds were scarce, and in the second 
place we have had but little fitting weather. Homo, 


CAMP TINWARE, 


Y entire outfit for cooking and eating dishes comprises five pieces 
of tinware, This is when stopping mn a permanent camp. When 
cruising or tramping, I take just two pieces in the knapsack. 

I get a skillful tinsmith to make one dish as follows: Six inches 6n 
bottom, 634 inches on top, side 2inches high. The bottom is of the 
heaviest tin procurable, the sides of lighter tin, and seamed to be 
water-tight without solder. The top simply turned, without wire, 
The second dishto be made the same, but small enough to nest in the 
first, and also to fit into it when inverted asa cover. Two other 
dishes nade from common pressed tinware, with fhe tops eut off and 
turned, also without wire. They are fitted so that they all nest, tak- 
ing no more room than the largest dish alone, and each of the three 
smaller dishes makes a perfect cover for the next larger. The other 
piece is a tin camp-kettle, also of the heaviest tin, and seamed water- 
tight. it holds two quarts, and the other dishes nest in it perfectly, 
so that when packed the whole take just as much room as the ketile 
alone. I should mention that the strong ears are set below the rim 
of the kettle, and the hale falls outside, so, as none of the dishes 
have any handle, there are no aggravating ‘‘stickouts’’ to wear and 
abrade. The snug affair weighs, all told, two pounds. I haye met 
parties in the North Woods whose one frying-pan weighed more— 
with its handle three feet long. How ever did they get through the 
brush with such a culinary terror? 

It is only when Igo into a very accessible camp that I take so much 
as five pieces of tinware along. I once madeaten days’ tramp 
through an unbroken wilderness on foot, and all the dishes I took 
was 2 ten-cent tin; it was enough. I believe I will tell the story of 
that tramp before I get through. ForI saw more game in the ten 
days than I ever saw before or since in a season; and Iam told that 
the whole region is now a thrifty farming country, with the deer 
nearly allgone. They were plenty enough thirty-nine years ago this 
very month.—‘‘Nessmuk” in ** Wooderaft.” 


WHAT THEY SAY OF “WOODCRAFT.” 


The Indianopolis (Ind.) Jowrnal, April 80, says: ‘‘Poet as well as 
woodsman and philosopher, bis writings possess a peculiar grace 
and worth and all that he so diffidently suggests is so wholesome, so 
very reasonable that the reader is won over to his view, unless indeed 
the reader be already a crank in matters pertaining 10 wood-lite. 
This book is written for the masses, the author not caring to waste 
his efforts on men of means sufficient to have everything their own 
way. To those who care toenjoya summer outing in the best, 
easiest and cheapest manner, this book of hints is indispensable. It 
1s woodsy and wholesome in every line. The author's fifty years of 
life among the summer forests fits him for what he has at last under- 
taken; a guide to the best, easiest and most enjoyable manner of pre- 

aring to spend a vacation in the woods, Theinvestment of one dol- 

ar here will make rich returns.” 

‘Seneca’? in a private letter praises the book in this wise: ***Wood- 
cratt’ certainly is a work that stands without a peer in its field, as 
was only to be expected from the years of experiences and habits of 
observation of its author. Its main value is in its thoroughly practical 
instruction, and thé veriest tenderfoot ought to enjoy eamp-ife as 
thoroughly with this book at hand as the oidest huntér. ‘Nessmuk’ 
hits me in a tender spotin his talk about frogging and about still- 
hunting from the patient sitting on a log, for have been there in 
both cases to the fullest extent of enjoyment possible, and these two 
particulars have been a hobby of mine eversinee I can remember, 
Old ‘Nessmuk’ never wrote. anything that showed his happy style 
better than the description of his ten days’ tramp through Michigan, 
which reads like a veritable fairy tale.” / 


MarsuHaLitown, Ja., May 4, 1884.—A few days ago one 
of our best shots, Mr. Hank Bruner, spent the day in a call 
on the Seolopaz, and returned witha bag of 42. Reporis 
last few days are of the scarcity of birds, and opinion pre- 
vails they have continued northward.—Disnmr, 


306 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

“Spicewood” is right. 
in any gun 30 inches and under and 10-gauge and under, will 
vot all burn when discharged. An “overcharge” would be 
5 drams in a 10, 44 dramgin a 12, and 3in a 20-eauge. 
Shoot such charges in the dark and observe the long stream 
of burning powder beyond the muzzle. It will not be the 
mete red heat of the ‘‘dirt’’ or “powder scales left in the 
gun from former charges,” but will exhibit a long blaze of 
burning powder. Clearly, then, the powder does not all 
burn in the gun. If all the particles or grains were not ig- 
nited at once, nor while traveling through the barrels, would 
it be unreasonable that some were not, after they left the 
barrels, This experiment has been tried time and again, 
Spread sheets of paper on the ground twenty feet long and 
four or five feet wide; shoot such overloads of coarse pow- 
der over them horizontally, and after a few shots you can 
gather from the sheets a charge (small) of unburned powder, 
and fire it off in the gun again, The only remedy for this 
waste, is a medium charge of coarse and fine powder mixed 
half and half in gauges ten and over, and in lesser gauges a 
medium charge of fine powder. Such medium charges as 
will all burn in the gun, or nearly all, will be likely to give 
you the best pattern and penetration of which the gun is 
capable. 

In our eagerness to make others admire our guns and our 
ways of shooting, holding and loading, we frequently fall, 
unintentionally, into serious errors. For instance, ‘‘Sports- 
man,” in the same paper (May 8, 1884) in his excellent arti- 
cle on ‘“T'wo-Hyed Shooting,” says: ‘‘When-yout get a gun 
to fit, as per above rule, you will find that you will under- 
shoot rising birds and birds at long distances; therefore, it is 
advisable to get a gun that shoots a little higher or ‘nearly’ 
a fit; Having selected your gun, you have only, when going 
to shoot, to look at the object to beshot at intently, and until 
you fire, with both eyes open. Throw up the gun, andfrom 
the moment of throwing the gun up to the time of discharge 
let there be an interval of about taro seconds.” (The italics are 
mine). In conclusicn, ‘‘Sportsman” says: ‘‘The advantage 
in this kind of shooting is apparent in pond duck-shooting 
so late in the evening that one cannot see the sights of his 
gun,” etc, Now, if his advice to hold the gun still about 
two seconds before shooting only applied to duck sitting on 
the water, or any bird not in motion, no doubt he is correct; 
but it does not appear to be so limited, for he speaks of 
“snap shots” and ‘‘birds rising, and birds at long distances.” 

In the latter event, if the gun be held after it is thrown 
up to the shoulder two seconds and the bird flying at the 
rate of only 40 miles per hour, it would have flown in two 
seconds a little over 39 yards. If at 60 miles per hour 
(about the average spé€éd of a scared bird on the wing) the 
distance flown in two seconds would be over 58 yards. Add 
to these distances the space between the gunner and the 
bird at its rise, or at the time when the gun was thrown up 
to the shoulder (generally from 20 to 40 yards) where would 
the bird be by the time the two seconds interval had expired? 
Evidently from 70 to 100 yards away, too far to hit or kill 
with any degree of certainty, especially in cover. Two sec- 
onds of interval is too much. lt would not do even if he 
had advised the carrying of the gun along with the flight of 
the bird and shot 20 feet ahead of him. ID WiGs 

OLEVELAND, Ohio, May, 1684. 


An overcharge of coarse powder 


Editor Horest and Stream: 

I think that a few facts may not be amiss—and, by the 
way, let us havefacts, By facts I mean actual experience at the 
target with a counted charge of shot and a measured distance 
of 40 yards and a circle of 30 inches diameter. All of these 
long shots in the field prove little or nothing, for they may 
be made by a gun that don’t shoot central, and the shooter 
happening to hold in the right place, the bird is killed; then 
some one paces off the distance, taking long steps, and it is 
45, 5) or 60 yards, ‘‘Almo” tells usabout killing game 100 
yards with No. 10 shot. Any one can satisfy himself as to 
the killing power of No. 10 shot at this distance, by measur- 
ing 100 yards and shooting his gun at a target 6 feet square, 
using No. 10 shot. At this distance the killing force won't 
be very great, neither will the killing circle be very large. 
Many a bird haye I killed and thought it a long shot until I 
measured the distance, and some of the writers will find 60 
yards isalong way, to say nothing about these 100-yard 
shots which we hear of. 

For years I have thought a gun should be somewhat in 
keeping to the caliber of the manusing it, and don’tthink it 
advisable for any man to Joad himself down with a gun that 
he cannot carry all day and handle with ease. A man who 
uses a 12-bore, 28 to 30-inch barrels, right barrel cylinder, 
left barrel choked and sticks to the same gun after he has 
targeted it and knows the proper charge to use in it, is a 
hard man to beat. Neither can 1 see any decided advantage 
in using a10 bore, 8}-pound gun, for the 12-bore of the 
same weight will kill just as much game, and there is an ad- 
vantage in the 12-bore as the ammunition for it costs less, 
Not long since I saw a letter from a prominent officer in a 
Western fort, who wanted an 8-bore, 84-pound built, claim- 
ing this was the gun to use, and that the time would come 
when no other bore or weight of gun would be used, Per- 
haps that time will come, but doubt it a good deal, and I 
also know that no good maker would build any such gun, as 
the proportion of metal and wood differs so much from the 
caliber of the gun that the beauty and balance would be 
entirely out of place. Ithink that a 10-bore ought to weigh 
from 94 +0 104 pounds, for this makes a. good proportion 
and a good-looking gun, and 32 inches is long enough to 
balance, and do not see how there is any benefit to 
be derived in using a 10-bore, 12-pound gun, asthe 103- 
pound gun will shoot just as well and will burn all the 
powder necessary and all that will burn to good adyan- 


tage, yet some say a 10-bore, 12-pound gun is the 
thing to use. When you get over 104 pounds the cali- 


ber should be 8 and the weight 12 to 14 pounds and bar- 
rels 32 to 34 inches in length, To illustrate the way guns 
are sold, L relate the following, which was told me by the 
dealer bimseif:; A customer came in to buy a gun and se- 
lected one that suited him, but wanted to see it shot, The 
gun was taken into the backyard and a target placed against 
the building. The proprietor took the gun to the shooting: 
point, which was forty measured yards. This was a long, 
narrow place between two buildings. Back of the store 
there was a square place before you entered this narrow 
lane. Telling his customer to step around the corner, he 
goes to the forty-yard mark and then calls him to look and 
see where he then stands, which he did; then motioning bim 
back, so as not to be in the way of the charge, he (the pro- 
prietor) runs up about ten yards, fires and runs back before 
his customer can see where he fired from. The buyer's eyes 


are upon the target, which, under these circumstances, is a 

ecidedly good one, being made at thirty and not forty 
yards, as the customer thinks. Being well satisfied, he takes 
the gun home and tells all his friends what a wonderful 
shooting gun he has, and produces the target to prove it. 
But if he should happen to shoot his gun at forty yards and 
wilh a counted charge, it would open his eyes. 

Then, again, some one gets a gun, and they tell him the 
target was made with No, 8 standard, when, if the truth was 
known, it was No. 9 ‘trap shot.” It is time this humbug- 
gery was stopped. With one exception, don’t know of a 
single American maker (and very few English) that can tell 
by actual count what one of their guns will do. Hach one is 
anxious to outdo his opponents, so puts in a heaping measure 
of shot, shoots his gun a few times, and marks the highest 
pattern (not the average) made; and when the gun is actually 
tested it falls short of what it is marked. Who will be the 
first maker to give us guns targeted as they should be, and 
have done with this guesswork? If all the makers adopted 
this plan, then one could make a comparison of any gun and 
tell what it ought to do. Ithinkthis would save the orrEsT 
AND STREAM answering so many times the question, what 
ought my gun todo? Personally 1 do not own a gun, and 
have long hoped to own one of these wonderful guns that 
shoot so far, kill their game so dead, and make such large 
targets; and if you know of any such gun for sale, I will 
give a good round price for one of them. ‘‘Octo”’ did not 
accept my offer, as he has none to sell, and says he did not 
claim a good gun would average 440 in a 30-inch circle at 
40 yards. Had he made his promised experiments before 
saying ‘‘that a good gun at 40 yards, with 14 No. 8 Tatham’s 
shot (400 to ounce), and 5 drams of powder, should put 
375 to 440,” he would never have written any such thing for 
this reason. 

A short distance from where I now write there stands a 
shooting horse, and pointing north is a target 40 measured 
yards. Over this horse haye been shot the following different 
makers’ guns many is the time and oft: Westley Richards, 
W. W. Greener, Charles Daly, Clabrough, Scott, Dougall, 
Remington, Parker, Colt, John A. Nichols, and many 
others, and as good guns as these makers can make, and not 
one of them did or will do what the maker claims a good 
gun ought, And if any of his friends have a gun that will 
average these figures I would like to purchase it, and will 
pay more than it is worth. Some time ago a noted English 
maker gave 2 gun as a prize, made to order, for the winner 
in one of our United States shoots. Well, the gun came 
and it was a “‘daisy” to look at, and according to all reports 
could outshoot any gun, A friend borrowed it and brought 
it to shoot over this same horse. A noted American maker 
also brought one to shoot against it. Well, the American 
maker’s outshot it, but the shooting of both was below what 
either was marked. The American maker said he had better 
shooting guns in stock, but took the first one he came to. 
This looks strange when there was so much talk about the 
shooting of this gun. At that time the American maker 
had never shot one of his guns at 40 yards (and don’t now), 
and at that time shot all of his guns from the shoulder, 
which is a very uncertain way. He now uses, I am told, a 
shooting horse. Yesterday I asked a good gunmaker why 
it was that I could never get one of these guns that do such 
shooting and what a good gun ought todo. ‘‘Well,” he 
said, ‘‘with all of your experimenting haven’t you yet 
learned that these guns are very, very scarce?” ‘‘The best 
gun I ever saw is one I have heard them tell about.” 

HAMMERLESS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Perhaps a record of some actual experiments might be. 
more interesting than my views and opinions. 

After reading a -well-known English maker’s book on 
chokebored guns it occurred to me to test whether he could 
make a gun for a moderate price which would do as well as 
he says in his book guns ought to do. A gun to be of any 
use must be a hard hitter as weli as able to give a good pat- 
tern, I therefore wrote to ask if he would make mea 
light gun, 12-gauge, weighing not over 7 pounds, and with 
barrels not oyer 28 inches long, that would throw 70 per 
cent. of the pellets of an ordinary charge of shot into a 30- 
inch ring at 40 yards and algo penetrate at least 30 out of 60 
sheets of a Dennison pad. The answer was “‘Yes.” The 
gun was ordered and tested for me by a careful operater with 
the following results, which I need not say were very satis- 
factory : 

RECORD OF TESTS 
with a 7-pound, 12-bore, 28-inch barrels, double hammerless Greener, 
treble wedge-fast, No. 19,848; 16 shots, all fired at 40 yds. into 30-inch 
ring; Dennison target and pad of 60 sheets. from ordinary rest, wind 
light. Powder used: Dupon’t Eagle Ducking No. 2, two pink-edge 
wads over powder; one Baldwin over shot. Shot used: 14g0z. of 
Spark’s Philadelphia chilled and soft No. 6 shot. 


} Pattern. Penetra- 
. pst — tion. 
> | mH - | : 
go | cee | Bo | ae) § [ys 
Se Powder g2 | ge !] gs aa 
3 oa Charges. Sho. j5e8e)4e) a | oz 
5 2m Asm a | o oo 
° — Be S o a wy 
A | 2 a S| a> | 3 | 25s 
Fa B33| 3S | & | 6A 
i= | 4 a 
1 R. 3 drams. Chilled 253 | 195) .77 25 
2 RK, 3 drams. Soft. 218 .89 27 
3 L. 3 drams. Chilled 253 | 175 69 30 
4 L. 3 drams. Soft, 2451 288! .97 25 
Average. ....88 27 
5 R. 314 drams. Chilled 253 | 149 59 31 
6 R. 314 drams. Soft. 245 | 226 | .92 33 
vi L, 344 drains. Chilled. | 258 | 214 87 31 
8 L, 344 drams. Soft, 245 | 198 | .B0 32 
Average....- 79 32 
9 R. 34 drams. Chilled. 253 | 169 | .67 36 
10 R. 3l4 drams, ol. 245 198 80 30 
i L, 314 drams. Chilled 253 | 163} 6 42 
12 L. 3i4drams. | Sott 245 | 195 | .80 33 
13 R. 834 drams. Chilled * : 
14 R. 334 drams. Soft. 245 | 298 | *91 32 
15 L. 3e4 drams. Chilled 253 181 vel 40 
i6 | L. | 88drams. | Soft. | 240 | 167| .69) 34 
Average. ..,.12 | 36 
| Bight barrel,...........-..s008c+ ees .765 and 32 
Total averages ee Tt ree MS Pen ene ‘V7 and 3334 


Several things are worthy of notice. First, the right and 
left barrels shoot nearly alike, the left a little the better. 
Second, chilled shot has the greatest penetration, but soft 
shot makes the best pattern. Third, as the charge of pow- 
der is increased the pattern is not so good but the penetra- 
tion increases. ¥ | 

I finally adopted a standard charge, consisting of 34 drams 
powder and 1 ounce soft shot. This averages about 33%; for 
pattern and 35 sheets penetration. I would suggest that 
when careful experiment has determined the best charge for 


any gun it should be engraved on the gun, or on a plate set 
into the stock, as the information is too valuable to be lost. 
_ This gun makes very regular patterns, and inside of a 20- 
inch ring at 40 yards leaves no holes the size of a quail un- 
covered by shot. Owing to its barrels being comparatively 
short and heavy at the breech, it balances well, and is alto- 
gether the best gun for upland shooting I ever owned, while 
its cost was moderate. 

_ Allow me to suggest that you take the above form, or with 
improvements, and ask your correspondents to give actual 
tests of their guns, Then if tabulated by you and published 
would give us # common standard of comparison. 


EXPBRRIMED 
SEABRIGHT, N. J. oe Aerts 


Be Forest and Stream: 

n reply to gun queries in your valuable paper of April 
24, by “E. W.” First, that a 16-bore gun will kill anita as 
far asa 12 o0ra14bore provided they are bored on same 
principle and are properly charged; but in 20-bore the force 
of the shot would be greatly diminished—the range short- 
ened, Second, smali-bore Vusreke are made shorter than 
harrels of larger bore to give proper pattern, as a 16-bore 
barrel 50 or 82 inches long would shoot too close for any 
use, while a 10 or 12 bore 28 inches long would be just the 
reverse, the pattern would be too open. Third, there is no 
use in having barrels longer than 30 inches in 12-bore or 32 
inches in 10-bore, as long barrels will produce the same 
effect as small bores—the force of the shot would be very 
much lessened. Fourth, in 20-bore gun, barrels 28 inches, 
would not have them choked under any consideration; but 
if 16-bore would have right barrel cylinder and left barrel 
modified choke, Ri OW. Mi: 


EDGEFIELD, S. C. 


Kditor Forest and Stream: 

I use a 10-bore, 8-pound gun, and load my shells with a 
thin Baldwin card wad on top of the powder, next an Eley’s 
8-inch white felt wad, then another Baldwin card wad, and . 
lastly a thin cardboard wad oyer the shot. ‘‘Byrne,” in 
issue of April 24, has expressed my views exactly about 
those persons who can ‘‘kill every time” at 50 to 75 yards. 
An occasional good shot does not justify a man in saying he 
can do the same thing every time. In many cases no doubt 
they magnify their feats in order to give spice to their tale, 
yet how much more pleasure is derived from an. article in 
which you know the simple truth is told, and upon which 
you can rely. VW ooncocg. 

Princeton, N. J. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I would be much obliged if you or some of your corres- 
pondents will be so kind as to inform me: First—With 
what rifles were the extraordinary off-hand scores made in 
the New York shooting gallery, at 200 yards, as recorded in 
your paper for March 15? Second—Whether there are any 
‘American sporting rifles from .40 to .45-gauge which, with 
a charge of powder not less than one-third the weight of the 
bullet, can be depended upon when fired from a rest, to put 
several successive shots into a square of six inches width at 
200 yards? If so I would be glad to know the names and 
addresses of the manufacturers. 

Judging from the published targets there is no rifle which 
gcems to me to make such fine shooting at sporting ranges as 
the Maynard, the .40-gauge of which takes a charge of 
powder one-fourth the weight of the bullet, and lam much 
inclined to doubt if this proportion can be exceeded without 
spoiling the accuracy at 200 yards. I have not yet seen an 
express rifle which can be relied upon to hit a deer in the 
right place at distances beyond 150 yards, and by the words 
“rigt place,” I mean not merely the heaft, but anywhere in 
the thick part of the lungs, a wound which will cause an 
animal to drop quickly through suffocation even when made 
by a bullet of moderate size. A deer hit in the wrong 
place, such as the bowels, by a bullet of the largest size, 
will frequently run for miles, and eventually escape to die 
uselessly and in torture. While, therefore, appreciating a 
flat trajectory very highly, | would never attempt to gain it 
by a sacrifice of accuracy. I do not consider that any one 
ought, for sport, to fire at an animal beyond 200 yards, but 
whatever the sporting range may be, the rifle ought to be 
capable of hitting, at that range, the spot aimed at. 

Asa very interesting controversy about the best kind of 
hunting rifie has been going on in your paper for some time 
past, perhaps I may be permitted to give the result of my 
own experience, having killed quantities of large game dur- 
ing a residence of several years in India, and afew deer in 
America. I have used eight different rifles, varying in gauge 
from a .86 express with 20 grains of powder and 150 grains 
of lead, to one with a round bullet weighing 18 to the pound 
and 90 grains of powder. As an all-round weapon, to be con- 
stantly in the sportsman’s hand, for use in both thick brush 
and open ground, there is nothing made in the British mar- 
ket equal to a double-barreled central fire .45 express about 
nine pounds weight, with a powder charge not exceeding 125 
grainsand a hollow bullet of not more than 300 grains, hard- 
ened with one-tenth or one-twelfth part of tin. It is light 
enough to be carried all day with comfort by a man of average 
strength; it requires when fired at an animal’s shoulder, no 
judging of distance up to 100 yards, and when properly 
patted. has been proved by plenty of good sportsmen to. be 
powerful enough for killing tigers and polar bears, which 
are doubtless as tenacious of life as the American grizzly 
bear, With a stock like that of a shotgun and held against 
the shoulder, the recoil is not unpleasant, and is not even 
felt when firing at game. Doubtless it would bruise severely 
if the rifle had a short stock with crescent-shaped butt and 
were held at the upper arm in the American fashion. The 
latter system 1 personally prefer when the charge is light in 
proportion to the weight of barrel, for mere off-hand shoot- 
ing ut a murk, but it is not good for quick shooting at game. 

With regard to the weight, the late Capt. Forsyth, of the 
Indian army, in his book upon the sporting rifle, said that 
he found 9 pounds about as much as an average man could 
carry for any.Jengtk of time and use effectively. My own 
experience agrees with his, and when out shooting in India 
with men who had rifles of 10 or 12 pounds weight I have 
always noticed that they often gave them to attendants to 
carry, and thus risked losing good chances of game. Iam 
of average strength, and was in the habit for many years of 
walking in the American bush and Indian jungles, fre- 
quently for eight or ten hours daily, yet found that when 
fatigued I could not use a rifle of even 94 pounds with the 
same quickness and precision as one of half a pound less 


weight. Taking, then, 9 pounds as about the weight, it is 
difficult to see how any gauge can be equal to.45. If, for 
a 


, 


w= —— ——— —— 
q instance, if be made .40, with the usual charge of 80 grains 
7 and a hollow bullet of 220 grains, the trajectory up to 150 
yards is equally good, and, from the diminution in recoil, 
the aceuracy may be slightly better, but the immediate effect 
_of the bullet is not sufficiently paralyzing upon dangerous 
animals like tigers or bears, or eyen upon deer the size of the 
American elk. 


_ If, on the other hand, the gauge be increased to .50, there | gu 


: is only a choice between two evils—either the powder charge 
must be so much smaller in proportion to the lead that the 
trajectory is spoiled, or the recoil must be so great that the 
accuracy is spoiled. With only 125 grains of powder and a 
hollow bullet of 340 grains, a .50 express must weigh at 
least 94 pounds to he fired with any comfort, and cannot be 
used beyond about 120 yards without making allowance for 
the curve of the bullet’s flight. 

Rifle makers’ assistants, accustomed to heavy charges, and 
employed constantly in sighting rifles, will make good shoot- 
ing from a dead rest after fixing themselves in a certain posi- 
tion, even with light weapons, but a sportsman who is often 
obliged to fire quickly without thinking of the way he holds 
his rifle, will find a marked difference in the practical accu- 
racy obtainable with great instead of moderate recoil. 

For many years I used rifles with rouad bullets of about 
an ounce in weight, and even now am by no means sure 
that they are not, on the whole, equal to expresses for shoot- 
ing in thick woods. Their striking surface is sufficiently 
great for most purposes, and they cut through twigs wiich 
will turn conical balls out of their course, while their pene- 
tration is so great that they usually go clean through large 
animals lengthwise. In nine-pound rifles they can be made 
almost as accurate as express bullets up to 150 yards, and 
with.a very flat trajectory up to 110 yards. P 

Of late years I have chiefly confined myself to two rifles 
for game shooting, viz.: a double central fire, 16-bore, and 
a “Cape gun,” with the right barrels 16-gauge and smooth, 
for shot or ball, and the left .45 express. The latter weapon 
was manufactured to order by one of the best English 
makers, for a purpose which it completely fulfilled, that of 
shooting for food in remote districts, where it was often un- 
certain whether large or small game would be met with. 

The double rifle: weighs ten pounds, and has barrels 26 
inches long. The bullets are round, weighing 472 grains, 
and are fired naked with from 96 to 100 grains of Curtis & 
Harvey’s No. 6 powder. One of Eley’s felt wads 7% of 

‘aninch thick, is placed between powder and bullet. Fired 
from a rest the rifle will hit a square 44 inches wide almost 
every shot at 100 yards, and I once put 14 successive bullets 
into that space from alternate barrels without any rest, but 
sitting down with an elbow on each knee, the 100 yards be- 
ing measured, and the charge 110 grains of powder. At 150 
yards the accuracy decreases considerably, the bullets being 
seldom ina smaller space than a 10 or 12-inch square, and 
the best shooting I have made from the sitting position was 
to put 7 suecessive shots into an 8}-inch square. At 200 
yards no reliance can be placed upon the rifle. 

The express barrel of the Cape gun takes brass conical 
cartridge cases holding from 110 to 125 grains of powder, 
over which are placed a card wad, a lubricated felt, and then 

i another card. The bullets are cast slightly too large and 

assed through a swedge. They have cannelures for hold- 
ing lubrication and are used naked. They are of three kinds 
—a hollow conical weighing 270 grains, a solid of the same 
weight with a flat point like that of the Winchester repeater, 
and one with a hollow less in diameter than that of the first 
and weighing 290 grains. At 100 yards there is no differ- 
ence in the accuracy of the three bullets, but the solid one 
performs best at 200. Hley’s machine-made papered bullets 
fit equally well, but do not give better shooting, and any 
number of shots can be fired ata time without the least 
necessity for wiping out. 

The rifle weighs 8 pounds 12 ounces, and the barrels are 
28 inches long, with rebounding locks and pistol-grip stock. 
Fired from a rest a number of successive bullets go into a 
square 44 inches wide at 100 yards. The best continued 
shooting from the sitting position that I have made was put- 
ting four bullets into a square 84 inches wide by 22 deep, 
and six into 4 wide by 6deep, At 150 yards I have not been 
able to shoot closer than four bullets into 9 inches wide by 
5 deep, six into 11 wide by 5 deep, and six more into 11 by 
6% on the same occasion. I once put five bullets into 44 by 

52, but the sixth struck six anda half inches below the 
‘square. At 200 yards the shots are seldom less than about 
20 inches square, and the best work I have done was putting 
six into 17 inches wide by 9 deep. ‘The bullets make a curve 
34 inches high between the muzzle and 150 yards, and the 
block sight is so arranged as to make them strike 14 to 2 
inches high at 80 yards and drop the same at 150. 

Although shooting from the sitting position gives rather 
inferior results to that from a fixed rest; it will be seen from 
the above account that the accuracy of the rifle falls off very 
materially at 200 yards, and almost every express has the 
same defect, according to my experience. The problem yet 
to be solved in hunting rifles seems to be the proportion of 
powder to lead which can be used without producing inac- 
curate shooting. LLM. 

Lonpon, England, April 16, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

With respect to “‘G. H., M.D.’s,” communication in your 
issue of March 27, it may interest him to know that there 
‘is a miniature rifle cartridge made by Messrs. Kynoch for 
the Morris tube, which is almost perfect for the work it 
is intended. The little cartridge of drawn brass is bottle- 
Shaped, .295 reduced to .230, central fire, # of an inch long; 
it takes a charge of 5 grains powder and a hardened bullet 
of 40 grains; .45 inch long, perfectly cylindrical at its rear 

end, which is not reduced to fit the shell. 
This bullet has no cannelures for lubrication, a jute disc 
i and greased wad doing this work most efficiently. It is 
cupped at the base. This cartridge is said to have an initial 
velocity of over 1380 f.s., and to carry well to over 500 
yards inthe Morris tube. It makes splendid practice, and 
as a fairly flat trajectory up to 100 yards. I was shown 
a tube out of which more than 4,000 shots were said to have 
_ been fired, and it showed scarcely any signs of fouling. The 
little bullet penetrated over three inches of pine at thirty 
feet and splashed on an iron plate behind. There is a 
shorter cartridge, taking 3} grains of powder with the same 
bullet. A cartridge of this kind, lengthened to take a 
bigger charge, would, I think, satisfy “G. H., M.D.’s,” 
wants. It is beginning to be used a good deal this year for 
rook rifles, and is displacing the large sizes in this country. 
The most popular sizes here are the .295 or .300, which 
iat ze gtains powder and 80 lead, and are very accurate 

‘ait ‘cr 


ses, a 


an +, ' 
is tube is used with the Snider or Martini rifles, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 307 


had left the south. But the reward of the ardent ones came 
at last, and for the past two weeks they have been knocking 
the birds right and left, in numbers sufficient to satisfy any 
reasonable person. The best bag I have seen was in the 
possession of Secretary Hartman of Greece, who brought in 
thirty-six as the result of one day’s shooting, Various other 
men have been almost as successful in thinning the ranks of 
the feathered passengers on their way to the breeding 
ground. We have all done it, but it does not seem right to 
carry out in this way the sentiment. ‘‘after us the deluge,”— 
Ei, REDMOND. 


for musketry instruction; it fits inside the rifle barrel, and is 
in two pieces. The tube itself is inserted from the muzzle, 
and its breech end from the breech of the rifle, and the two 
are then screwed together. A collar screwed on to the muz- 
zle of the tube keeps it steady. An extractgr is worked by 
that of the rifle, and ejects the cartridge on the breech of the 
rifle being opened: A tube of .800-bore can be fitted to shot- 
ns. The Morris tube is rifled only for about half its length, 
the rear half is smooth-bored, on account, I suppose, of 
manufacturing difficulties, as it isso long. The cost of the 
,280 cartridge is 2s. 6d, and 2s. 9d, per hundred, that of the 
-22 rimnfires being 2s. : 

Perhaps the following particulars of the usual weights, 
charges, ete., of English express and other rifles may be of 
interest to your readers. 


Cost oF SHELLS.—Washington, D. C., May 9.—Zditor 
Forest and Stream: Yesterday, when I began to lay in my 
supply of ammunition for spring bay bird shooting, 1 found, 
to my dismay, that the paper ‘shells had risen, and the rise 
took my breath away. The second grade, N. M., for which 
I had all along been paying 65 cents a box, had jumped to 
95 cents. Now I for one deplore that the speculators have 
turned their attention to the sportsmen’s goods. If they suc- 
ceed in this venture there will soon be a corner in shot, 
powder and caps. I kicked and bought nickel shells, and 1 
hope the fraternity of sportsmen will combine and not sub- 
mit to any imposition,—CHAssEur. 


Charge of 
powder, 
gerains, 
appro xi- 
mate. 


Weight of bul- 
let, grains, | 
approximate. 


Weight, 


Pounds. Remarks. 


Caliber, 


Express. 2 
36 6 to 8 40 to 50 150 to 180) =| Flat trajectory to 
140yds. Suitable 
for small ante- 


lope, biistard, 
etc 


7 to 845 Suitable for ante- 
lope and small 
' deer. Very flat 
| trajectory and 
| high velocity. 
746 to 10 95 to 150 270 to 820 (Suitable for all 
| antelope and 
deer, but many 
prefer the ,500, 
Trajectory flat 
to 200yds. with 
large charge. 
The best ‘‘all- 
round” rifle for 
allgame. Great 
penetration with 
solid bullet. 
Suitable for dan- 
gerous game. 
Very effective 
with solid ball, 
Suitable for dan- 
gerous game, 
preferred by 
some to the 
heavy express. 
Suitable for heavy 
thick-skinned 
game, 
Suitable for heavy 
thick-s kinn ed 
game. 


“WAKE Ropr.”—Will Mr, Riddick allow me to correct a 
slight misapprehension into which he has fallen, in his pleas- 
ant article ‘‘Concerning Robins,” in the issue of Fornst AND 
STREAM for May 1, of the current year? The title of Mr, 
Burroughs’s book, “‘Wake Robin,” is derived, not, I am as- 
sured, from Vurdus migratorius, as Mr. R. states, but from 
the flower Triliium canadensis, one of spring’s earliest har- 
bingers in New England, and which is known to Northern 
children by the name of ‘‘wake rebin.” Of the derivative 
philology of the name I am not sure, but think it may possi- 
bly be derived from the early coming of the bird.—H. P. U. 


40 80 to 110 180 to 220 


816 to 11 | 120to 160 340 to 390 See 

BUFFALO SPRING SHootinc.—Buffalo, N. Y., May 6.— 
The spring duck shooting is over and our shooters have oiled 
and laid away their big duck guns for the summer. The 
shooting on the whole was not satisfactory. The ducks 
were few and far between, while there was no lack of 
hunters. One morning a few days before the season 
closed, your correspondent shot nine bluebills and whistlers, 
which was not considered bad under the circumstances. 
Swivel guns have been used by certain parties living on the 
Canadian shore, slaughtering and driving away a good many 
ducks.—W, A, A. 


BELLEFONTAINE, O., April 22.—A gun club was organized 
here last evening with thirty mentbers, for the protection of 
game, trap-shopting, ete. The club will be known as the 
Fountain Gun Club of Bellefontaine, O. The following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. C. 
Brand, Jr.; Vice-President, H. C. Garwood; Secretary, C. C. 
Lane; Treasurer, J. H. Hornberger; Executive Committee— 
W. H. Taylor, 5. Faris, B, Laport.—C. C. Lanz, Sec. 


iz —«|[1044 to 1214) 160 to 180 | 480 to 500 


Large bore. 


.73 (12-bore); 10 to 18 160 to 200 |580 spherical to 


800 conical. 


.77(10-bore)| About 14 | 220 to 270 |'700 pubenigat to 


1,000 conical. 


270and over|860 spherical to 


-835 (8-bore) s 
1,260 conical, 


About 1634 


The barrels of the small bores are usually of steel, those of 
the large bores mostly of twisted metal. ‘Their length is 
from 26 to 28 inches. Double rifles usually weigh a little 
more than single. Solid bullets weigh from 20 to 60 grains 
heavier than hollow-pointed ones. The muzzle velocities of 
the .40, .45 and .50 expresses with the heaviest. powder 
charges are close on 2,000 f.s. Recoil with the expresses is 
not severe, but they require a long, strairht stock, and should 
be held properly; with the large calibers recoil heel plates 
are necessary. 

The following tables (see the Feld, Sept. 8, 1883) show 
the .powers of a .45 express and long-range rifle in com- 
parison: 


Iowa PRAtRIE CHICKENS.—Woodbine, Harrison County, 
Jowa, May 5.—Prairie chickens are more plentiful than they 
have been in a number of years, so those that live here tell 
me. Some quail left, too.—L. A. R. 


Sea and River Mishing. 


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& BES ae gE ome BES Og He. CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 
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Rifle, Slees| Fe |By| Soo ISLolkes Black Lake, Michigan. 
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io Q) : 725 |: Sel: ss NCLE DAN SLOAN and the Writer, with four other 
= ———— a ial i =a good fellows, spent our summer vacation of 1882 on 
.45 double barrel express the old stamping grounds, the ever lovely upper and lower 
by Messrs. J.GW.Tolley| 10 [26 150.87] 274|1 to 1,822] 2,000} 2,431 | waters of the Intermediate chain of Jakes in Charlevoix and 
Antrim counties, Northern Michigan. It appeared to be an 
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lovely and satisfactory as some of our former camps on the 
same chain, so that when Brother Bert. Hughes, of Hamil- 
ton, Ohio, in November of the same year, filled Jim 
(ye Editor) chock full of marvelous yarns about the beauties 
and charms of Black Lake, the prodigiousness of the black 
bass stiffening its waters, and the enormous proportions of 
some of the Hsouv nobdilior infesting its dark depths, the old 
place lost its sweetness; the current of our thoughts was 
changed, and we resolved to kindle our flickering camp-fire 
somewhere on its, to us, unknown and unexplored shores, 

When Jim had been charged until he could hold no more, 
he hied himself down to the city to pour into the willing 
ears of Old Knots (the Seribe) and I the wonders and attrac- 
tions of this lake of the dark waters, and soon after we paid 
Hughes a visit and received from him many choice morsels 
of information, that Jim, in his inability to hold everything, 
had failed to bring down and impart to us. Hughes, with a 
party, had fished this lake a couple of weeks in September 
of that year, and had some wonderful stories to tell of the 
size and numbers of black bass and pickerel taken, notably 
of an afternoon’s sport when they took fifty-six fish with six 
frogs, and how their lines were repeatedly snapped and their 
rods smashed into countless fragments by powerful but un- 
seen fish that never stopped to say good-bye when they 
started for some other part of the lake, or even to drop them 
a hint about the inefficiency of their tackle, or the masterly 
skill they displayed in not stopping them. And then he told 
us that he had seen three or four fingerling trout in a spring 
branch that flowed into the lake within a rod or two of their 
camp. 

This meant trout, at least in some of the streams in the 
vicinity, and when he told us that a settler, their nearest 
neighbor across the lake, had given them a pointer on a 
stream, seven or eight miles from the head of the lake, that 
literally swarmed with grayling—so thick in fact that the 
water had to be changed twice a day to keep them from 
famishing—we were ready to throw up our hats and shout 
“Eureka,” or anything else that would serve as a safety 
valve to ease the pressure that was nigh bursting our “‘pisca- 
torial bilers.” It appeared, however, that the pointer had 
been given them only a day or two before breaking camp, as 
is usual in such cases, and they were unable to pay the 
slream a visit, 

According to the settler’s story, the tangles of this stream, 
the *‘Ocqueoe,” had never been penetrated except by a stray 
mossback now and then. No city feller had ever thrashed 
its quiet pools with ‘‘a sunfish pole and a bunch o' fool 
fethers,” or polluted it by squirtin’ tobacker juice into its 
limpid waters. 

It was wild and pure almost as when the sun first shone 


Time of Flight 


Velocity at (seconds) to Striking energy at 


Rifle. 


60 | 100 | 150 | 60 | 100 | 150 
yards|yards|yards|yards|yards|yards 


60 100 | 150 
yards|yards|yards 


1611 
1167 


1439 
1104 


09612 
1419 


1675 
2418 


2661 
8759 


1880 
1590 


1578 | 1258 
1450 | 1297 


.45 Express. . 


Heights of trajectory in inches, 


Rifle. At 100yds. range. | At 150yds. range. 


40yds. 60yds. 60yds. | 80yds. 


1.2672 
2.6712 


1.8260 
2.7384 


3.1560 
6.4128 


sae RT XAIL ORS boars eleialy Charge pete > 3.4176 


68208 


.45 Martini-Henry ............ 


The 276-grain bullet loses velocity very rapidly, and much 
better work would be done by a heavier ball of about 320 to 
350 grains weight, the loss of flatness of trajectory would be 
practically nothing, and the gain in striking energy at the 
longer sporting ranges very great. Double rifles shoot well 
enough at sporting ranges. A double .40 express, by Messrs. 
D. & J. Fraser, put seven out of eight shots into a 38-inch 
bull at 110 yards at one of the Wimbledon competitions a 
few years ago; but I have mentioned this subject already in 
one of my letters. Lancaster’s four-barreled .45 express, a 
beautifully made, though very costly weapon, is only 10 
pounds in weight, and very handy, Its action is similar to 
that of a double action revolver, the hammer, an inside one, 
being cocked, and each barrel fired in turn by the trigger; 
but the *‘pull off” is beautifully light and better arranged than 


that of any double action revolver. BENGAL SEPOY. 
Lonpon, Eng., April 7. 


Snipe Asout Rocuester.—Rochester, N. Y., May 8. 
—Those of your readers who are opposed to spring shooting 
will not be pleased to hear the fact that the snipe shooting 
has been excellent in this county the present season. There 
was the usual strife among sportsmen to get the first bird, 
and numerous trips were taken to the fields before the snipe 


308 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 15, 1884, 


ee a a er 


on it, and we promised ourselves then and there that we 
would pay our respects to it and take out a sufficient number 
of its silvery treasures to give the remaining few a chance to 
get an abundant supply of a purer flow of water without 
changing. 

We were referred to this settler, a Mr. O. 8. Merrill, for 
further information and particulars, and [ at once opened 
up a correspondence with him. He corroborated all of 
Brother Hughes's statements and put in a side winder occa- 
sionally on his own hook, which so increased the fever in us 
that by the time spring opened, a trip to Black Lake was a 
serene conclusion, and our preparations were made to that 
end, 

The last ‘‘sockdologer” we got from this guileless moss- 
back. in May, was in the shape of a string inclosed in his 
letter, which, he said, represented the length and girth of a 
black bass taken in the lake a short time before. The string 
was 31 inches long, the length of the fish, and 24 inches of 
it, to a knot tied as a marker, was the girth around ‘‘the 
minnow and frog compartment.” Great Scott, what a bass! 
Not an ounce under 14 pounds, 

Does any brother of the rod, with the spirit of a green frog 
in him, wonder that the fever immediately seized on us with 
a fiercer and more relentless grip? JI inclosed the string to 
Old Dan (along with a few remarks that I thought would 
touch the spot), and Dan showed it to Ben R—w, a farmer 
neighbor, who had for some time been balancing himself on 
the edge of a strong desire to join the Kingfishers in a trip 
to the North Woods, but had not just made up his mind 
which way to fall. That string laid him out, and he came 
full length on the Michigan side. This ‘‘new member from 
Macon county” filled our party to the limit of eight, yiz.: 
Old Knots, ye Editor, Uncle Dan Sloan, the Writer (the 
scarred veterans of the old Kingfishers), John R., one of the 
party the previous year, Ben R—w, Dick Mac and H. H. 
Muller, Assistant Postmaster of our sooty city of Cincinnati. 
The three last had never ‘‘fit muskeeters and cussed black 
flies in the bresh of Northern Michigan,” and we, who had 
gathered up a good deal of experience in this branch of ang- 
ling, looked forward to an opening night in the woods that 
would reficci credit on the new members, and at the same 
time be a source of comfort to the afore-mentioned insects. 
The entertainment came off as expected, and Dick M. will 
attest to the extreme cnd of his natural period that it was a 
most—agonizing success, Dick, bv the way, is a ‘‘jaynius” 
in his way, but a mighty good fellow withal, and as Knots 
usually tacks on a nickname to each new member to fit some 
peculiarity in their make up, he was dubbed Mrs. Partington, 
on account of his fondness for using big words with an utter 
disregard of their fiimess. Any word that came uppermost, 
wilh plenty of sound and syllables in it, he would fire out 
perfectly regardless, and with a refreshing serenity that 
nothing would disturb. Jolnny R. was called the Deacon, 
by reason, perhaps, of the violent contrast between him and 
any bona fide, well-regulated deacon in good standing, and 
so on to the end of the string.* 

Our preparations were made to start about the middle of 
July. We shipped our camp outfit and a box of provisions 
ten days ahead to Cheboygan, in order that we might not 
be delayed in our start for the woods when we got there by 
the cheerful information ‘‘goods not arrived.” 

The Scribe, Editor, Dick and John R, decided to start 
four days ahead of the time set for the party to leave, which 
would give them time to take a runoyer to Mackinac Island, 
buy and have ready butter, eggs, flour, etc., that we would 
need in camp, and have the wagons, engaged ahead threugh 
the kindness of that prince of landlords, Mr. Wm. Spencer, 
of the Spencer House, Cheboygan, loaded and ready to move 
on the arrival of the rest of the party. Brother Muller would 
be unavoidably detained three or four days, and this left the 
Writer to go it alone again as far as Ft. Wayne, Ind., where 
Dan and Ben were to strike the G. R. & I. road. 

Stepping out of the train at Fort Wayne, I looked all 
around for Dan, but the old pelican was not to be found, 
and I concluded he and Ben must have missed connection or 
met with an accident, for I felt that when old Dan failed to 
be on time on a fishing trip, something must be out of gear. 
While rapidly deliberating on what to do in the case, a thin- 
faced man with a fierce moustache, wiry-looking in every 
fibre, bronzed and sun-tanned and brown as a ripe hazel nut, 
stepped up and said very deliberately, ‘‘My name’s Ben 
R—w, and you must be ‘Old Hickory,’ the feller old Dan 
Sloan has told me so many lies about?” ‘Yes, same feller; 
shake, powerful glad to see you, but where is the old peli- 
can?” ‘Well, I’m sorry to tell yethatjest afore I left Deca. 
tur, he was taken suddenly sick, and as I didn’t want to dis- 
appoint the party, 1 jest took the train and come on, and 
here Lam.” Our traps are all here, and now what do you 
think we'd better do, go on and leave Dan, or wait til next 
train? for I think he’!l be able to travel to-night.” Here was 
what Capt. Truck would have called ‘ta h—I of a category.” 
Going a-fishin’ without old Dan, my veteran comrade in 
many a pleasant camp, who had fished with me in sun and 
rain, and even snow, who had shared with m2 the triumphs 
of numberless battles with the black warriors of divers 
streams and lakes for the last score of years, would be play- 
ing Hamlet with that moonstruck melancholy appendage 
Jett out. 

While trying to figure out the best course to pursue in the 
matter, Ben scraped a match on the rear of a new pair of 
jeans breeches, which I noticed were tucked carefully into 
his boot tops, and liftimg a sbort briar root pipe, which he 
had loaded while talking, said: ‘‘Tell ye what, if we stand 
here much longer blowin’ our horns. that train’ll hie out, 
and we'll git”—biff, came a smart blow on my left car, and 
turning quickly around to flatten out the offender, there 
stood olu Dan, looking as radiant as a young school marm 
atter a creditable examination, and then those two old loons 
just humped themselves and laughed “‘voriferously”—as Dick 

would have said—at the joke they had played on ‘‘Old 
Hickory.” How going a-fishing doth make boys of us all. 
After seeing ull their luggaye put on, Ben and i hustled Dan 
jnto the train, and we were soon discussing the prospects for 
big sport at Black Lake. 

At Grand Rapids, in the evening, we were met at the depot 
by our friend Charley Pike, of the First National Bank, 
who stvered us uptown and entertained us very agreeably 

_ during the hour or more that the train laid by. We missed 
the beaming ‘phiz” of genial, fun-loving old Bill Hess, 
whose acquaintance and Pike’s we so happily made in the 


+ Just here I will crave the indulgence of the craft for jotting down 
all these little details and enue! and offer as an excuse that 1 
like to read such things when written by others, and will take it for 
zranted that every Sportsman tikes to do the same; that he takes 
interest in the prépa:ations made by a party before making a pro- 
posed trip; shares the joys of theiranticipations: likes to know about 
the material aud make-up of the party, and wants to know where 
they are going and how they get there. — 


taken with hook and line, 
with our party at least, proved a better bait than minnows 
in these Northern lakes, and they certainly are not one-tenth 
the trouble to keep alive and transport from one camp to 
another, if occasion requires. 
box where the water of some little stream near by can run 
through one corner of it without wetting the whole bottom, 
and a handful or two of grass scattered inside will evoke 
various toned croaks of satisfaction that will convince you 
that even frogs are not devoid of gratitude. 
treatment they will live four or five weeks on wind, albeit 
they will look a trifle gaunt in the region of the waistband, 
but they will be almost as frisky as when first put in the box. 


no rapids, I would select the stroagest running water. 
chor your boat and let the water trail out the flies to seyeral 
distances; I would change places often, it makes no differ- 
ence whether the flies are on the surface or a foot under; I 


‘‘bresh”’ two years before, as he was out of town, but he 


left his blessing to be bestowed on us by Charley, anda 
promise to hunt up our camp in the next fortnight if he 
could spare the time from his business. 
may his days be long in the Jand. 


Blessed old Bill! 


At Mancelona, early next morning, our old cook of ’81, 


Frank Frantz, joined us, having been engaged by letter for 
the trip a week before. E i 
and circus combined in the shape of a box containing 375 
live, speckled frogs, for bait. 
purpose, with wire netting sides $-inch mesh and a hinged 
door a foot square in the top, was sent up some time ahead 
to one of our old neighbors on Central Lake, a Mr. William 
Derenzy, with instructions to have his boy Tommy catch 
the frogs a few days before we were to be along and send 
them up to Mancelona by the mail wagon. 
this streak of forethought was we were going to a wild and 
strange place, and we could not be certain of procuring 
suitable bait in sufficient quantity to keep the boys in good 
humor, and if anything is calculated to make ye honest 
angler forget his early Sunday-school training it is to run 
short of bait when the fish are just in a mood to ask for it, 


Here, too, we took on « menagerie 


The box, made for this special 


The reason for 


The result proved the wisdom of the venture, for we found 


frogs were a scarce yvarmint around Black Lake, and we 
found only one locality on the lake where we could catch 


minnows large enough for good bait, and these had to be 
Besides, speckled frogs have, 


When in camp place your 


Under this 


I write all this about frogs, that in case any of the brethren 


who may take a notion to make a camp on any of the lakes 
of this region of Michigan, they may have the benefit of our 
experience, 


KINGFISHER. 
[To BE CONTINUED. | 


FLY-FISHING FOR SHAD. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


There isa great awaking among the angling fraternity. The 


number of letters on the shad fly and shad angling are such 
it would be impossible for me to answer them individually, 
and wishing to accommodate as many as possible of the 
lovers of the gentle art, [ will ask the use of your columns 
for a few hints to those who would try for the sport in fresh 
pastures. 


~ Shad fishing at Holyoke, for the last two years, has heen 


so poor that | have not put up a fly in that time, and as 
there have been no brawny workers in Western Massachu- 
setts the increase of shad in the Connecticut has been left to the 
praying ones. 
haye to depend on an old cast. containing three old favorites, 
namely, a white miller, second drop; a yellow Sally or a 
soldier moth, hand drop; a red ibis for trail fly. The red ibis 
aud the white miller are favorites through the season. 
are times when the shad will take any fly, in fact I have seen 
them taken with three or four feathers bunched, and tied 
to a hook without other preparations of any kind. 


If the prayers are heard and answered, I will 


There 


There are many other hooks to choose from, and almost 


every angler has a choice of hooks which he considers the 
very best. 
hollow point, but would recommend a hook about the size of 
a No. 6 Limerick H.P-., for the reason I could rise ten fish 
with the small hook, to two with the large hook, but gener- 
ally secured more fish with the No. 4. The cast can be 
stained, or natural color, as suits the taste of the angler. I 
uever could see any difference in the chances offered, nor 
does it matter whether the reel is placed above or below, as 
far as the fish are interested. Il take sugar in mine if it 
should kill me, 


For my own use I dress to a No. 4 Limerick 


As some of the inquirers are located on tide water, I would 


say try it, if the current is strong enough to support your 
flies at or near the surface, with from forty to fifty feet of 
line ont. 
distances; if not current sufficient to keep the flics floating, 
try casting a long line across stream, letting the water carry 
the flies down stream, at the same time draw gently round 
below the stern of the boat. 
fish in that way when crowded out of the regular fishing 
grounds; also in rowing gently round and trailing the flies 
has brought some good fish into the boat. 


Let the flies trail ont and try it at shorter or longer 


IT have taken some very good 


For resular river fishing above tide water, where there are 
i An- 


would also try casting as above, as well as different kinds of 


flics, for ] am persuaded that shad can be taken in all fresh 
water, and the goal, when reached, will be a pleasant one. 


From 4 to 10 o’clock A. M., and from 5 to 9 P, M. are the 

best hours to taxe them; if the day is cool and cloudy they 

will take the fly all day. THomMAS CHALMERS, 
Honyoke, Mass., May 10, 


THE MAINE SEASON OPENED. 


IGRATION to the Maine trout and Jand-locked salmon 
waters has never set in with more enthusiasm, Al- 
though the ice is hardly out of some ot the lakes yet, several 
sportsmen have got tired of waiting. and. have started. A 
party of five or six Boston merchants started for Moosehead 
Saturday, and on their return, in about a week, they will 
go to Bangor and thence to Aroostook to try the waters. A 
company of five merchants will leave Boston next Saturday 
for Rangeley Lake and the upper Androscoggins. They 
will be gone two weeks; the Jatter one a part of them will 
spend at Lake Kennebago, that jewel of trout lakes nestling 
in the unbroken forest, eight miles from Rangeley. But 
alas! the march of improvement wakes us up from the 
pleasing dreams of trouting in the wilderness, with only 
pine boughs for our pillow and the stars for a fe siciga i 
lear that a little steamer has been or is to be put into Ken- 
nebago even, and that a hotel is to take the place of the old 
camps. Alas! Those steamers and hotels, They bring the 
lazy tourist into our dearly loved nooks, and they drive 
away the sensation of rest born only of solitude. Their 
ceaseless bluster takes us right back to the active, bustling 
WOECSSAM sow, soe tee 2 ee ee 
A cae punber than usual of merchants abd professional 


men have planned fishing trips to the Maine waters this sea- 
son. Nearly 100 from Boston and the neighboring cities and 
towns will make the early spring trip, to be followed later 
by the fly-tishermen in June, the teachers, clergymen and 
schoolboys in July and August, and the late fiy-fishermen 
and sportsmen with dog and gun, in September. Senator 
W. P. Frye, of Maine, wiil go into camp under his own 

shingled roof on Lake Mooselucmaguntic, early in the season, 

Weston Lewis, of Boston, vice-president of the Oquossoe 

Angling Association, with other members—some of them 

the near neighborsin New York ofthe Porusr anp SrREAM 

—will start for their camp at Indian Rock, head of Moose- 

lucmaguntic, before these lines are scanned by you, dear 

reader, The lamented A. D. Lockwood, president of the 

association, will not be with them this year. He has gone 

to his rest. The last time he visited the happy trouting 

waters, where he had been punctual nearly every season for 

some twenty or thirty years, it was with crutch and cane in 

one hand and rod and reel in the other. A true, noble lover 
of nature. He could organize and carry on successfully 
powerful manufacturing companies, but he never forgot the 
twirl of the trout, even when white hairs had frosted his 

pene and years of active business had enfeebled his manly 

step, 

At the lakes all is bustle, if ever those guides and back- 
woodsmen can bustle. The boats are painted and out to 
dry. The minnows are caught or mapped out where they 
can be secured with a dip net at an hour's notice; the (don’t 
turn up your nose, kind readers) worms are dug. Next 
week the lakes will be dotted here and there with boats, a 
guide at the oars (sunbrowned and tanned as black as a red 
man) and a sportsman in the stern with trolling line and live 
minnow, sunburned and blistered as red as the flesh of an 
indoor white man knows how to be. Some big trout will be 
caught, five, six and even up to eight ornine pounds. Don’t 
imagine, dear uninitiated novice, that such big trout com- 
monly rise to the fly. No, they are feeders upon larger bait. 
A truthful record of the catching of about nine-tenths of all 
the large trout taken in Maine waters would show that they 
were lured upon the hook by some kind of bait. The fly is 
more sportsmanlike, neater and requires more skill to handle, 
but when trout will not rise then bait must be resorted to or 
we go back to our desks and counting rooms to dream oyer 
them another year with only a two-year-old recollection to 


help us through to the next season. SPECIAL, 
Boston, Mass. <. 
AN ANGLER’S WIFE IN CAMP. 


§ the summers have rolled around, with our boy we 
3 have enjoyed the life in camp, beside some stream, or 
in the deep groves of maples, until I prefer ‘‘tenting on the 
old camp ground” to any summer resort, hotel or boarding- 
house. The years have come and gone, until [ am almost as 
much interested in matters pertaining to angling as my hus- 
band, possessing my own rod—a fine lancewood—my own 
reel, lines and hooks; flies I do not aspire to yet, hence 
satisfy myself with fishing from a boat, with my boy for my 
boatman; and to his credit be it said, he can handle a boat 
well, so well that he has taught me to row. Ihave but once 
before attempted to write my camping experience; my hus- 
band’s reputation is established, while 1am but pluming my 
feathers. For ten long years my husband has borne a nom 
de plume which Ihave come to recognize almost as closely as 
his given name. Isee his pen skimming page after page 
oftimes when he should be resting; find the letters going to 
well-kuown sportsman’s journals, and but for the fact that 
almost twenty years of married life has woven his name 
into my daily life, 1 should prefer to call him by his vom 
de plume. As [take the journals and read the very interesting 
letters from different anglers, sometimes reading them nearly 
all through when I come to one that reads like *‘Norman,” L 
look at the end of the letter, and there is the old familiar 
name, And here is my thirteen-year old boy stringing out 
long sentences, quoting poetry, giving his experieuce to the 
genial ‘‘Kingfishers,” whom we had the pleasure of meeting 
in Michigan when dz transitu for our camping grounds, and 
find him corresponding with gentlemen whose names are 
well knewn in the angling world. So you will not think it 
strange that I have caught the scribbling fever. But to my 
story. 

We camped this past summer close to a small creek con- 
taining some beautiful trout. Every time they were brought 
to camp and I cooked them, I longed to try for some my- 
self, 1 love the dainty little fish, and take pleasure in serving 
them on the table crisp and brown, but cooked to perfec- 
tion. 

Just below the camp, about a quarter of a mile, was an- 
other creek, broader and deeper than the one we had fished; 
so we determined to try this. Rigging up a rod and line, we 
took worms for our bait, and began fishing. We climbed 
logs, clambered oyer fallen trees, crecping through the thick 
undergrowth, once in awhile finding a place to drop a Jine, 
but I presume the trout knew { was a novice, for they would 
come out from their hiding places and glide swiftly back 
under the old stumps and logs. Once, yes twice, my lady 
friend had one right out of the water, but just when she was 
about to take him off the hook he was gone, and before she 
could pick him up he was into the water again. 

And now we sre in the thick of the forest toget trout; we 
must walk on logs, for they lay every way across the stream, 
thickly covered with moss, the stream at times almost hidden 
from sight with stumps and undergrowth, but the ripple of 
the clear, cool water guides our way. Our friend and his wife 
are gone up the stream, and I am trying to swing my bait 
into a hole under some stumps when, instead of dropping 
into the hole, iny hook swings into the thick brush. I step, 
as I think, on another log, to save my rod, but it proved to 
be nothing but brush wood covered with moss, and in I 
went, My greatest fear was that my rod would be broken; 
it bent under the pressure almost into an half circle. Some-_ 
how 1 managed to pull myself out again, and saved my rods * 
fortunately the brush had kept my clothes from getting wet. 
I was not going to leave off for this little dip, so kept on up 
strearn determined to try again. ' 

Well, we saw the trout and we will have them next time, 
and 2lthough we had to content ourselves for this day with 
a nice string of perch which we caught on the dock, yet the 
beautiful woods and the cool creek, with the lovely moss- 
grown logs, will be remembered fora long time, But I am 
going to try again another summer, and Fcep on trying until 
I can bring home trout, and place them beside my husband’s 
as he emplies his creel. We cannot ali be expert anglers, 
and study the nature and habits of this beautiful fishin his 
wild-wood streams, deep in the forests. I can pardon my ; 
husband’s enthusiasm when discussing trout with a brother 
angler, and his earnestuess with his pei ee ; 

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them; his love for the depths of the forest is deep and genu- 
ine, and I think sometimes he spends more time watching 
their habits than he does killing fish. I judge so from his 
creel when he comes home; he never kills for count, 
. Mrs, Lucy J. T. 
-Haxtocr, Minn. 

Misynows ror Trour.—A great number of pike have 
been lately taken by anglers, who are fond of the sport, from 
the New Jersey ponds situated near the city, Iam sorry to 
state that the illegal catching of bass in the same State by 
Philadelphians has reached the writer’s ears. Why can not 
two weeks more of patience be practiced, when all can fish 
with a clear conscience? On the trout stream of Carbon 
county, Pa., which your correspondent fished only ten days 
since, there is a fair-sized dam, once used to furnish power, 
but now abandoned by the lumberman. The stream aboye 
and below this dam is fished to death, yet still contains a 
tolerable supply of trout, but all of them now doubly edu- 
cated. The pond harbors many fish of large size, the water 
being very deep at the breast, To this portion the trout 
before the spawning season congregrate until they ascend 
the stream. In this deep part of the pond they never rise 
to the fly, no matter how skillfully cast, but in the shallower 
parts smaller ones at times take the fly freely and make good 
sport, Occasionally a big fellow is hauled up by a bait fish- 
erman sitting on the breast, who has the patience to wait 
until his worm is swallowed by the trout at the bottom, and 
his size always indicates the dimensions of more below. <A 
plan I have proposed to my friend living near the stream, 
- who bye the bye is 42 true fly-fisherman, and has heretofore 
vowed he will use nothing but the feather, has at last been 
accepted, and he will attempt to lure these “‘whoppers” with 
the minnow and twelve-foot leader, his bait being caught 
and.carried to the pond from the Lebigh. Iam anxiously 
waiting to hear the results of his attempts, and although 
the minnow does not occur in the stream where these trout 
exist, I feel confident the plan will succeed and a number of 
large fish will be taken. Can any of your correspondents 
inform me if they have ever caught trout in the manner pro- 
posed? In England it is considered legitimate early in the 
season, Why should it not be here at times and under the 
conditions stated? Nothing else will bring these big fellows 
from this deep hole.—Homo. 


VERMoNY.—Highgate, Vt., May 3.—‘‘Verily the world 
~ moves,” and it gives me great pleasure to say that since my 
last letter to your journal, the net fishers in this vicinity 
have been taught a severe lesson. Fish Wardens Atherton, 
of Waterbury, and Tuttle, of Montpelier, have seized a full 
dozen of seines, trap and fyke nets, and have arrested the 
‘ringleaders among the fishermen, two of their number, 
Herb. Donaldson and Nat. Sheets, have already been fined 
#100 each, with costs, while the others arc under heavy 
bonds to appear at the next term of county court. Wardens 
Atherton and Tuttle’s task has not been an easy one, but 
unflinching firmness, backed by muscle and trusty revolvers, 
has enabled them to conquer all opposition. Owing to the 
extreme high water that we have had here during the past 
month, spring duck shooting has been poor. The trouting 
season opened here on the Ist inst., but as the streams are 
still full bank the catches have been small. Now that net 
fishing is stopped and bass and pike-perch are allowed to 
spawn and mulliply, we may soon expect good sport in the 
Missisquoi River and Lake Champlain, and fish food will 
become to our citizens a common article of diet instead of a 
rare luxury,—STANSTEAD. 


Wairk Perce In LAkE Grorce, N. Y.—There are a 
number of salt-water fish which, when they are placed in 
fresh water, grow to twice or three times the weight they 
would ever attain in salt or brackish water. The white 
perch, Roccus americanus, is one of these fish. It is often 
caught in fresh water weighing two or three pounds, whereas 
in salt water a fish weighing a pound is considered large. 
Knowing this fact, Capt E. 8, Harris, Messrs. W. W. Lockhart 
and O, B. Lockhart, determined to place some in Lake 
George. With thts object in view the two latter gentlemen 
went to Sing Sing, where friends assisted them in procuring 
tish from fykes set for the purpose. On April 26, they left 
with seven milk cans full of fine lively fish, and arrived at 
Lake George the evening of the same day with the fish in 
good condition. There was quite an assemblage of people 
at the depot when the train arrived, to see the new fish; 
every one seemed pleased with their appearance. The gen- 
- tlemen feel well satisfied for the trouble they have taken in 
first introducing this fish into the waters of Lake George.— 
A. K. FisHer. 


FisHine ror Count.—Worcester, Mass.—A large and 
enthusiastic meeting of the Worerster Sportsmen’s Club was 
held on Thursday evening, May 8, at the Bay State House 
to make arrangements for the annual “‘fish day” and dinner. 
Asa R. Jacobs and R. L, Golbert were chosen captains, and 
Maj. L. G. White, H. E. Smith and H. B. Verry, with the 
two captains, constitute the committee to arrange all the de- 
tails of the affair. Wednesday, May 22, was decided upon 
as the day for the fishing, the dinner to be served on the 
evening of the following day. In choosing up sides every 
member will be chosen, and all who do not ‘go a-fishing,” 
but who attend the dinner, will be counted on the losing 
side and also fined one dollar; and all members who neither 
fish nor attend the dinner will be fined one dollar, All 
money thus collected to be used toward paying for the 
dinner. The club held its first fishing day festival last year 
and it was a complete success. If this one is equally suc- 
cessful it is safe to say all will be well satisfied.—W. g. K. 


Dous THE Rarysow Trout Mierate?—Since our edi- 
torial note on this fish we have heard that two rainbow trout 
have been caught in the Hudson, near Hyde Park. The fish 
were taken by men who were ‘“‘scapping” for the river her- 
ring (alewife), and were sold to Mr. John A. Roosevelt, the 
well-known bass caster of Poughkeepsie, and they weighed 
three-quarters of a pound each, 


BurraLo, N. Y., May 6.—The perch fishing has not 
fairly commenced as yet, although several strings of from 
thirty to forty have been made. A continuance of the 
pleasant weather that we have been enjoying for ihe past 
few days, will warm up the bays and improve the fishing.— 


Monson, Me., May 5.—The ice is all out of the lakes and 
ponds in this yicinity. Our local anglers are already mak- 
ing good catches of spotted trout. Spring fishing is ten 


i, 


CaTALogux or Wrtir1amM Minis & Son—We have just 
received the illustrated catalogue of fine fishing tackle of 
William Mills & Son, 7 Warren street, New York. It is de- 
signed for the retail trade and includes a complete outfit for 
an angler, from a Leonard split bamboo to a boy's rod cost- 
ing not more than twenty-five cents, and from waterproof 
lines to tentsand wading boots, Reels, lines, hooks, and the 
many other articles used by anglers are shown in great variety. 


Fiy-Fisning FoR SHap.—l note your reply to ‘G. W.” 
with reference to fly-fishing for shad. I have seen them 
taken at Holyoke at various times of day, especially at mid- 
day and in bright sunshine, The white miller was used at 
the end of a long hand line, in some cases, when fishing from 
the bridge, from 200 to 400 feet long. The fishermen in- 
formed me, however, that, like the black bass, they were 
whimsical biters—Miuton P. Prrrce, 


Tue Neverswyxc Cxius, of which Mr. Altred Roe is presi 
dent and Mr, W. Holberton is secretary and treasurer, has 
leased four miles of the west branch of tne Neversink River, 
two miles above and below Parker’s. The club will make a 
vigorous effort to preserve this stream and have begun stock- 
ing it with trout. The rules of the club forbid any member 
to take more than twenty-five fish in one day, and no fish 
must be under six inches in length, 


Hishculture, 


———s 


THE MENHADEN QUESTION. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I wish to make a few remarks in regard to the menhaden 
fishery, and call your attention to a few statements made 
by your correspondent, Mr. Church. 

Aristotle, when asked what has a man gained by telling a 
falsehood, replied: ‘‘Not to be believed if he speaks the truth.” 

First. The menhaden is bait and food for nine-tenths of all 
the hook fish along our coast. Mr. Church knows that thou- 
sands of barrels of this fish are salted for mackerel bait yearly, 
the bank and lobster fishermen use it, and the club houses 
along the coast use it as feed and bait for bass fishing, Mr. 
Church has a great deal to say about the tautog and porgies 
which is not to be considered in the argument upon menhaden, 
for itis neither bait nor food for these fish. 

Second. In the summer of 1882, Mr, Church fitted his fleet 
of steffmers with small-meshed seines, to catch the small half- 
grown fish along the New Jersey coast. He was censured by 
those who knew it to be true, and they wrote that the meshes 
should be restricted by law. 

The taking of these smail fish was denied by the Church 
Company in a letter printed in the Fall River Weekly News, 
of Nov. 23, 1882, from which I extract the following: “Still 
further our opponents make the apparently unanswerable ar- 
gument that we drive the fish from their old feeding grounds. 
Tl admit that they have deserted their old feeding grounds for 
the time being, but contend that we have no agency in the 
matter, and asa case in point to show how little we know 
about fish, their habits, enemies, etc,, will cite what I saw the 

ast summer while fishing on the Jersey coast between Cape 

Tay and Barnegat. About the first of August, the coast above 
mentioned was packed with small menhaden, so small that 
our nets were not fitted to catch them, and besides there were 
plenty of large ones, so that we had no occasion to molest 
them. Well, these small fish drifted up the coast from the 
southward until they had passed the whole of the menhaden 
steamers, and when ten miles north of Barnegat they stopped, 
turned in their tracks, and went southward again, proving 
conclusively to me that they had met the same unseen enemy 
in the water which had drawn the large menhaden from their 
old feeding grounds.” 

This admits what I claimed in my article of Jan. 10, viz. 
that there is a scarcity of fish, caused by the crowding o 
this fish from the coast. 

fn a letter written to Prof. $. F. Baird, and printed in the 
“Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission of 1883,” page 
463, and signed by D. T., Church, in defense of taking these 
small fish, he says: *** * * Hence, we shall catch all we 
can of any size we can get hold of. By observation we know 
that during ninety days of the year 1880, 30,000,000 barrels of 
menhaden were destroyed by bluefish and weaktish in Narra- 
gansett Bay, and in a tract of water only twelve miles long 
by two miles wide. As the total catch with purse seines is 
less than 3,000,000 barrels a year, it seems foolish to limit free 
fishing. * * * J believe that more menhaden are destroyed 
in one hour by fish than are destroyed by man in a year.” 

Admit this foolish statement to be true, and that the fish 
seeks its food for ten hours a day, it would take nearly 30,- 
000,000 barrels a day to feed the fish along the coast. Now, let 
us glance at the menhaden fishery for the past five years; 
from 1875 to 1882 the steamers had crowded this fish from the 
coast from Maine to New York, There were less than 100 bar- 
rels taken m the harbors and inlets of Rhode Island in 
the season of 1882. In the season of 1883, as the fish were 
coming on the coast, thick fogs and fresh gales protected the 
fish from the purse seine at sea, True to its instinct, it 
reached the inlets of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island 
and Massachusetts in a limited amount, and a few—the first 
for five years—reached Maine. As the weathersetitled, the 
steam fleet soon caught what they could in the inlets and 
crowded the rest from the coast, where they could only be 
reached by the largest steamers. With ninety of the fleet 
pushed from the business of 1885, and 1,000 men thrown out of 
employment, the remainder made a fair season’s catich. 

This fish has decreased 90 per cent. within twenty-five years 
from our shores. There have been more than 500 purse seines 
pushed from the business, since the steamer was introduced, 
for want of fish, yet Mr. Church tells the public that they are 
more plenty than ever; place his shark story with the above 
statement. In my epien) there could not be a man found 
from Maine to South Carolina, who is acquainted with the 
pie ace) who would believe these statements if made under 
oath. 

Protect this fish for ten years from the purse seine and fish 
would be the cheapest food found in the market, The best 
would not be more than ten cents per pound. If the Fish 
Commissioners along the North Atlantic States would investi- 
gate this subject they could tell the public that their labors 
were almost worthless in comparison with what they would 
be if this fish was protected so that it might deposit its spawn 
in the inlets near the coast, for the fry of the herring, shad 
and salmon is used np tor food and bait. This demand was 
supplied by the menhaden for our hook fish before it was 
crowded from our coast, If there could be located 100 steam- 
ers with oil works in the best places at New Foundland, Belle 
Isle Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrente to catch the numer- 
ous schools of herrings that are found in these waters, it would 
make the hook fishing as worthless there in ten years as-it 
is onour Own coast. The man that would dare tospeak in 
defense of the hook fishermen of those waters would hear 
from some one of the steam fleet that there was no searcity of 
food fish nor of herring, and there was no law needed to pro- 
tect this fish, for it did not spawn along the coast, but at the 
North Pole; and that they were disciplining seamen for the 
navy and the Government should send its revenue cutters to 


days earlicr here this year than it was at the same time in rian daclisbactatassohecre Are site oper yey se ag 
ce re ea Se 77 aword to your Pacific coast readers, I will close. ‘The 
ss -, coe shi o Ber eee hue bert, oo de " 4 


purse seine and oil works are already established on your 
coast at or near Puget Sound to catch the herrings, which are 
the food of your salmon, halibut, cod and mackerel. As 
these herrings are used up the above-named fish will soon 
leave your coast, the salmon first, for bether feeding grounds. 
FISHERMAN. 
Westport HArzor, Mass, 


MR. ROOSEVELT ON THE CARP.—Hon. R. B. Roose- 
velt, of the New York Fish Commission, has been up to 
the Caledonia hatchery and has eaten carp. He said to 
a reporter of the New York Herald: “A carp, taken 
from the preserve where he had been feeding on the 
aquatic growth, not artificially, and consequently in the best 
condition, was the first to’ be experimented upon. He 
weighed two and a quarter pounds, and was plainty boiled, 
so that his flavor should not be changed either for the better 
or the worse. 
was not in any way disagreeable and far better than no fish at 
all, but that he did not compare with most of the native varie- 
ties, such as the sucker or the bullhead, His flesh was exceed- 
ingly soft and yet quite tough, leaving a sort of stringy resi- 
duum after it was masticated. The flavor was not bad, and is 
probably capable of unlimited improyement with condiments 
and sauces. The fish not only gave good sport on the light 
rod with which it was damitmedk making many desperate runs 
to escape, but also seemed so tame when taken out of water, 
although it had never been fed nor fondled, that the captors 
disliked to kill it. This proved that its race could be made 
interesting pets.” 


THE OSWEGO FISHWAYS.—Oswego, N. Y., May 9,— 
Tiditor Forest and Stream: tam pleased to be able to report 
that by practical test the fishways placed in our river last 
fall by the State, of the McDonald pattern, are a success. The 
mullet, or red band sucker, a fish which is taken in great 
abundance in these waters in the early spring but which have 
never been found above the dams since they were first built, 
is now being caught upon the firsh and second levels of the 
river, conclusively proying that the ways must have served 
their purpose. We have strong hopes that the salmon fry de- 
posited this year by Gol. McDonald, of the U.S, Fisheries, will 
thrive, and if they do we look forward to the day when our 
river will again be as noted as it was forty years azo, offering 
sport to the salmon fisher without the expense of a trip to 
Canada or Brunswick. We have this spring added 50,000 
brook and mountain trout to the supply in our small streams. 
We propose to keep Oswego a fishing county.—H. 


BLACK, BASS FOR STOCKING.—There is a demand for 
black bass of all sizes, for stocking new waters, and no one 
seems to attempt to supply them in quantities at all times. 
Occasionally we hear of some for sale and on announcing if 
they are gone, Mr. Livingston Stone, Charleston, N. H., 
sometimes fills orders but does not always have them. <A cor- 
respondent writes us that Henry Harris, Weverton, Md., has 
three hundred for sale. 


Che Fennel. 


. FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
June l(, 11,12 and 13.—The Second Annual International Bench 
Show Chicago, ll. Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 
Oct..3, 9,10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn, E.8. Dayis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 


A. K. R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should bé in early, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
‘‘American Kennel Register,” P.O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1213. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.50, 


THE VICARS TESTIMONIAL. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

After a very long delay I have the pleasure to inform the 
subseribers to the above testimonial that a monument has 
been erected in St. James’s Cemetery, Toronto, over the grave 
of the late Bloomfield H. G. Vicars, secretary and-treasurer of 
the Dominion of Canada Kennel Club, whose lamented death 
we all mourned after the first bench show held under the 


.| auspices of the Dominion Kennel Club at Ottawa. The delay 


has been caused by many circumstances, especially the depart- 
ure from London of the secretary of the fund, and the tardi- 
ness of the subscribers in sending in their subscriptions. I 
will be happy to forward to any subscriber a statement of the 
disposal of the sum placed in my hands to be used according 
to the wishes of Mrs. Vicars. % 
The folowing is the inscription which met with her ap- 
proval: “In memory of Bloomtield H. G. Vicars, Secretary of 
the Dominion of Canada Kennel Club. Born Jan. 27, 1850. 
Died at Ottawa, April 4, 1883. This monument is erected by 
thoes who appreciated his services to the club. Faithful unto 
eath. 
I hope this will meet with the approval of the subscribers, 
J.S. Niven (Chairman of the V. T, F.), 
Toronto, Canada, May 1, 1884. 


THE CHICAGO DOG SHOW. 


| eae will probably be a large number of dogs exhibited 
at the bench show, to be held in Chicago next month, and 
the managers are confident that they will close the season 
with the best show that has been held in the West. 

There will be extra champion classes for setters, pointers, 
and spaniels, that have won not less than three prizes at any 
bench show, in addition to the regular champion classes, 
Major Taylor will judge setters and pointers, and Mr. James 
Mortimer all other classes. Premium lists may be secured on 
application to Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, Chicago, 
Il. There will be a great number of special prizes. Many 
Eastern exhibitors have already promised to send their dogs, 
especially so among non-sporting exhibitors. The month of 
June is particularly well adapted for a bench show, as the 
weather in Chicago at that time is cool and pleasant, and the 
building is capitally ventilated. Prizes will‘be given for the 
greyhound or deerhound showing the most speed, and there 

ill also be trials for setters, pointers, spaniels, etc., for re- 
trieving; in fact, no pains will be spared to make this one of 
the best shows of the season. Special arrangements have al- 
ready been made with the various railway and express com- 
panies and everything will be done to insure the comfort and 
welfare of dogs and their owners. 


DANBURY SHOW.—The third annual bench show of the 
Danbury Agricultural Society will be held with the annual 
fair in Danbury, Conn., Oct. 8, 9,10 and 11. An annex to the 
main building was built last year expressly for the bench 
show, in which suitable pens are placed for complete accom- 
modation of the dogs. Competent attendants, night watch- 
men, food and all necessary care are provided by the Society. 
Dogs are taken from and to the trains at-the expense of the 
Society. For full particulars .of entries, priges,and of other 
ee Renae to the exhibition, apply tothe superintend- 
ent of the bench show—J. S. Davis (Danbury, Conn.).- --: 


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WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB SHOW. 


HE eighth annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, which opened on Tuesday the 6th instant, closed 
last Friday. 

From the point of yiew of those interested in our dogs, the 
show was a most successful one, though it was not a money- 
making affair, The number of dogs actually exhibited was 
very large, and the quality of the classes was, on the whole, 
an improvement on anything that has been known in America. 
The exhibits were by no means confined to animals owned in 
this country, and a number of the best known breeders and 
exhibitors of England sent drafts from their kennels to com- 
pete for the prizes. While the so-called sporting classes were 
as usual numerically the largest of the show, yet itis clear 
that the non-sporting classes are annually growing stronger, 
and forcing their way into publicfayor. Thus there were 
shown this year nearly one hundred St. Bernards, forty mas- 
tiffs, seventy-eight fox-terriers and seventy-two collies. This 
increase in popwarity of the non-sporting dogs is a most 
healthy sign of the time, and promises more and more for 
future bench shaws. There is certainly no reason why point- 
ers, setters, spaniels and other dogs used in the pursuit of 
game, should, as they have hitherto, greatly outnumber the 
dogs which are kept for other purposes, and the fact that the 
former made up at this show only a little more than one-half 
oi the total number shown will be satisfactory to all lovers of 
the dog. Mr. Lincoln fairly outdid himself, and at no 
previous show in this country have the arrangements 
been so satisfactory, The benches, while not differing materi- 
ally from those of past years, were more neatly finished and 
had a better general appearance, Those devoted to the West- 
minster Kennel Club’s dogs were partitioned off by iron rail- 
ings instead of the ordinary pine lumber, and these railings 
had a very pleasing effect. The arrangement of the different 
breeds was much more satisfactory than on some occasions 
in the past, the classes seeming to follaw one another as one 
went round the building in a natural sequence. The arrange- 
ment of the judging ring was a vast improvement on any pre- 
vious show. The whole central space was inclosed by a high 
wooden railing, thus perfectly keeping off the public from the 
ring sacred to judges, reporters, and exhibitors or keepers. 
This ring was strewn with fresh sawdust, and formed not 
only a most excellent place for judging, but also a capital 
place for exercising the dogs when it was not in use for other 
purposes. 

The dogs owned by the Robins Island Club, thirty-seven in 
number, were benched together, without any partition be- 
tween, making a very attractive appearance. xt number of 
the large kennels also made excellent displays of their dogs. 
Many of the stalls were nicely titted up and tastefully decor- 
ated. The performance of the trick dogs was the best that we 
haye ever seen. The retrieving was also very interesting to 
the spectators, who warmly applauds the various perform- 
ances. The running of the greyhounds was not a decided suc- 
cess except for the winner, whose name and owner we 
were unfortunately unable to obtain. 

There was considerable dissatisfaction with the judging, and 
this was especially marked in the mastiff and pointer classes. 
This dissatisfaction was due in a measure to the fact, that this 
year Stonehenge was laid aside and everything was left to the 
discretion of the judge, who selected the type of dog which 
best fitted his eye, without reference to any of the standards 
laid down in the books. This being the case, a wide margin 
was left for individual preferences, and in our comments on 
the various classes given below, we shall have occasion to dif- 
fer widely from many of the decisions, 

There was some sickness among the dogs during the show, 
and afew deaths. Wesaw many puppies and some old dogs 
which were quite sick, and no doubt more or less deaths will 

-follow in due course. Those who exhibit puppies, however, 
take the risk of this. The dogs were fed on Spratt’s biscuits, 
and the arrangements for their comfort as to clean bedding 
and fresh water were all that could be asked. Features of the 
show were the exhibition of the dog collars, chains, and other 
necessary articles of dog furnishings by the Medford Fancy 

' Goods Company, the exhibit of Mr. H. C, Glover, and the book 
table of the Orange Judd Company, 

The weather during the four days was anything but pleas- 
ant, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday being rainy, and 
Friday more or less overcast, though occasionally the sun 
showed his face. The attendance, though fair, was by no 
means what might have been anticipated had the days been 
fine, and only on the last day was there at all a largse crowd. 
This, while no doubt to be deplored by the managers, was 
from the yisitor’s point of view a real advantage, since it 
gaye him abundant opportunity to study the dogs to the best 
advantage. We understand, however, that there was a small 
eredit balance after all expenses were paid. Next year we 
hope to see the New York show held for three days only, and 
that the judging may all be over by the end of the first day. 
Our bench show managers will have to come to this, and they 
may as well do it nowaslater. The reasons for this are so 
manifest that they do not need repetition here. 

AMON those present at the show were most of our well- 
known Hastern sportsmen and breeders of dogs, as well as 
many from the West and some from Hngland. 

Leaving now the general features of the show, we pass to 
the cousideration of the classes in detail. 


MASTIFF§, 


The showing of mastiffs was not so good as we had expected 
to see, although there were seyeral fine animals present. In 
the champion dog class Nevison was awarded the prize. He 
was not in good form and had a nasty mange sore on his hind 
leg. He should have given place to Hero II,, a capital big dog, 
with plenty. of bone. Heis betterin skull, muzzle and hind 
legs than the winner and as good in body, coat and feet. He 
was well shown, having filled out since we saw him at New 
Haven. We understand that he was claimed at his price by 
the Ashmont Kennels. Zulu, the only other entry,is rather 
small for good company. There were but two in the bitch 
class, Dolly Varden, the winner, is a grand bitch, but her con- 
dition was very bad and sheshounld not have been shown. 
Dido, the only other shown, is far from a good one. The open 
dog ciass was badly placed. Dan, who won first, has a fair 
skull and body, but is weak behind and lacks mastiff charac- 
ter. Billo, who was given second, ismuch worse than Dan, as 
he has no Tedneulie OUEN OES: Homer, who won third, should 
have been second. eis a very good dog with a grand head, 
gaod ears, except that they are seton too high, good body 
and jegs, He is small in size and might be a bit better in feet, 
Jim, who was yhe., we thought well placed. Hehas good 
body and legs, butis poor in head. Uford Cromvyvell, who 
was he,, was the best inthe class. Heisa grand dog with 
an immense head and is excellent in body, legs and 
feet. He has but just arrived from England and 
was not in the best of condition; should he fill out well 
he will take a lot of beating; his worst fault is a light eye. 
Bruno, who was c., was the third best in the class; heis a 
fair dog, although he lacks character. First in the bitch class 
went to Regina, who was much the best; she is a trifle under 
size, but has a good head, body, legs and feet, and looks a 
mastiff; her ears area bit large and she might be a little better 
in bone. Monmouth Meg, who was second, is light in bone 
and lacks character. Nana, third, is leggy and has a long, 
thin head, and should not haye been noticed, Queen, who 
was vhe., should have been second; she is fairly good, all 
round. The puppies, except the three winners, were not 
much. Sandy, who was third, we thought the best of the lot. 
There was an immense-nine months’ puppy, measuring full 33 
inches at shoulder, but like most large dogs he is long in face 
and may not mature well, 

‘ ST, BERNARDS, 


The showing of St. Bernards was by far the best that has 


good. brood bitch. 
but lacks 
head and, if nothing befalls her, will do better when mature, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


ever been seen, except at the exhibition of the St, Bernard 
Club in England, Boniyard was alone in the champion rough- 
coated dog class. Hewas in grand condition and well de- 
served his prize. In the bitch class Gertie had an easy win. 
She was in better form than when at New Haven. In the 
open dog class Duke of Leeds made his first bow to the Ameri- 
can public. He isa grand young dog, even better than Boni- 
yard, and with these two Mr, Hearn has a brace that we do 
not believe can be beaten. Second went to Caliph, a very 
good all-round dog. We liked Cardinal Borromo, vhce., full as 
well for the peice. except that he was short of coat and lacked. 
condition. e has the hest head and color, and when at his 


best will, without doubt, find no trouble in getting a better 
place. Primate, also vhe., is very pretty and is nicely marked, 
but altogether too small. In the bitch class Rhona, who won 


first, has one of the best heads that we ever saw. Were shea 
little higher at the shoulder, she would be a yery hard bitch to 


beat. Millicent IT, who won second, is a grand big bitch, 


with good color and markings, She has a capital body, but 


might be better in bone behind. She has rather a long, sharp 
face. Baronne, who won third, has a very good body, with 


capital legs and feet. She will undoubtedly make a 
Beryl, vhe., has a beautiful head, 


substance, Sappho, he, also has a good 


In the champion smooth-coated dog class Fidv had a walk 
over as did Baroness in the bitch class. The open dog class 
contained some good ones, We thought them well placed ex- 
cept that we should haye transposed second and third. Royal- 
ist, Who was second, is lanky and long in face. Sultan, who 
won third, is a good all round dog, although he is rather small. 
Jolly Friar, who was c., is also small and has too much coat 
for his class. Leila, who won first in the bitch class, is the 
best bitch we ever saw, although heavy in whelp she was 
clearly much the best. The winners in the rough-coated 


puppy class were a fair lot, we thought them well placed. In 
the smooth-coated class we liked Snowstorm for first place, 


and Noblesse for second, instead of the yhe. each received, we 
think them very promising. We know that it is next to im- 
possible to form a correct idea of what a puppy will turn out, 
especially when of so large a breed as the St. Bernard. 


BERGHUNDE. 


There were but four presentin the berghund class, and we 
can do no better than to repeat our comments of last year: 
“The berghund, although a noble looking dog, isa mongrei, 
and should never be recognized as a distinct breed. He is cer- 
tainly no better than the St. Bernard or mastiff from which 
he comes, and consequently is a failure as a distinct breed, and 
he should be relegated ta the miscellaneous class, where he 


belongs.” 
NEWFOUNDLANDS, + 


The Newfoundland class was not avery good one. Jack, 
who won first, isa bigdog witha fair head and a good flat 
coat which is of a good color. He lacks a little in bone, Tasso, 
who won second, is also of good coat and color and has more 
bone, but is not so large as Jack. We liked Bruno, vhe., full as 
well for second place. Matt, unnoticed, is of good form but 
much too small. 

GREYHOUNDS. 


Friday Night showed up in the champion dog class in much 
better form than when at New Haven, although he was not 

uite at his best, There were no entries in the champion bitch 
class. The open dog class brought out a rare good one in the 
winner, Bouncing Boy. He, with School Girland Begonia, who 
won first and vhe. in the bitch class, have just been imported by 
their owner, who may well be proud of them, In the bitch 
class, the second prize was withheld. We can only account for 
this in that she was decidedly inferior to School Girl, and did 
not by comparison please the judge. We thought her more 
than an average bitch when compared with the entries of 
previous years, and should have placed her second. There was 
nothing very good in the puppy class. 


DEERHOUNDS. 


There was a larger display of deerhounds than we have ever 
before seen together, any of them were in yery bad condi- 
tion, and poor coats, flabby muscle and soft flesh was therule. 
Roy, who wonin the champion class was, however, fairly 
well shown, which will perhaps account for his defeat of 
Lance. Inthe open dog class, both of the Bruces, who won 
first and second, are very good specimens. The judge failed 
to find anything in the bitch class that he thought worthy a 
prize, and all awards were withheld, although to our mind 
theie were two or three of more than average merit. 


POINTERS. 


The exhibition of pointers was much better than last year 
both in numbers and quality. There were 149 entries with 13 
absentees. This onen has been exceeded but ounce. Two 
years ago there were 151 entries with also 15 absent. There 
were cight in the large champion class. Meteor, who won the 
pride of place, is of the type of the small pointer, although he 
is one or two pounds over the dividing line when in good con- 
dition. We first saw Meteor at the Chicken Trials a year ago 
last September, and then wrote of him, ‘With the exception of 
being a little off in head, Meteor is one of the best tormed 
animals that we ever saw. He has a thoroughbred, gamy ap- 
pearance that is not often found.” He was in beautiful con- 
dition, except that there was an unsightly lump, caused by a 
bite, wpon the side of his head. Beaufort was not at his best, 
although he has improyed since he was at New Haven. He 
has grown throaty since we first saw him and appears to have 
some trouble behind which we presume is caused by his 
recent illness. He is, without doubt, the best large pointer 
we have and should have been placed at the head of his class, 
The others were looking well. 

Water Lily won in the bitch class, She was very well 
shown, except that she was a trifle toofat. There was not 
much to choose between her and Nan, who was also in good 
condition, The open class for large dogs was the best we have 
ever seen, There was scarcely a poor onein the lot. They 
were placed as well, perhaps, as was possible, except that 
Scout and Jimmie, both unnoticed, were well worth the two 
letters at least. We greatly admired Fritz, who won first. 
He is ve good all over, with no striking faults, and does 
great credit to his sire, Beaufort. In the bitch class Miss 
Merrymack won first. She is quite a nice bitch, with a fair 
chest, good shoulders, body, loin and legs, and fair feet; she 
might be better in head and greatly improved in tail, Fan 
Fan, who won second, is a big hitch with lots of quality; she 
is too wide and round in chest. Sal, who was third, has the 


class Bravo was an easy widner; he-was well shown. Mr. 
Sterling declined to judge the bitch class, as he once owned 
one-half of Vanity, and Mr, George DeForest Grant.was called 
upon to decide upon the merits of the class. Vanity, who 
won the prize? is an elegant looking animal, of much quali 
and very well put together; she carries her ears badly and 1s 
too wide in front, and might be straighter in fore legs; she has 
a capital tail, but carries it badly. Duchess should have won, 
although she was not quite at her best, and age begins to tell 
on her, With the exception of a faulty head and tail she is a 
very hard bitch to beat. : } 

The open dog class was not well handled. Pride, who won 
first, was in capital condition, which is about all that can be 
said in his favor. Hehas not a first-class head, and is legey 
and Jathy. ‘There was not much to choose between aaa 
second, Match, vhe., and Bob, unnoticed, for first, second ant 
third, The two former’ we have described before, Bob is 


amination will show him to be of exceptionally good form 
with plenty of bone. He has not a head, and his color, 
black and white, does not improve his appearance. ‘he rest 
of the class received all that they deserved : 


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In the bitch class first went to Jilt, who was perhaps desery- 
ing, although we liked Belle and Joy, both fi full as well. 
Vision, who won second, was transferred from the large 
class, is also a very fair animal. Flash IIL, who was third, is 
very well made, with plenty of bone and good legs, but her 
very bad feet should have left her out of the money. The dog 
puppies oyer 12 and under 18 months were nothing extra. The 
corresponding bitch class was very fine indeed, and had the 
judge given Nell I[f one more letter, they would have been as 
well placed, perhaps, as was possible. The puppies under 12 
months we are not disposed to criticise, as there is no breed of 
dogs that is so uncertain when young as the pointer. Many of 
them looked very well, but we noticed nothing that was ma- 
ture enough to warrant a guess as to its future, 


SETTHRS, 

The champion English setter dog class brought out only 
three, Foreman, who won, has greatly improved in form 
since last year, having gained in muscle and filled out in loin. 
He was short in coat and feather, having been worked until 
late in the season. He has also just recovered from a touch of 
mange, Heis very nearly the correct type for field work, 
Emperor Fred was shown a bit too heavy. He was notin his 
usual blooming condition, Dick Layerack we never saw look- 
ing so well. He is a capital dog, and was, like all of Mr. 
Davey’s dogs, in beautiful condition. Plantagenet and Prince 
were absent. In the bitch class first went to Belle’s Pride, a 
very good bitch, except that her head is too large, which gives 
her a coarse appearance. We greatly preferred Queen Alice 
for the place notwithstanding her bad condition, as she has 
much the best head of the two, and is fully the equal of Pride 
in eyery Ree eeY and a little ahead of her in appearance. 

The open dog class was not a good one. First went to Rock, 
a very fair dog in beautiful condition. He is of good type and 
very well put together with very good shoulders, chest, body 
and loin. His ears are too thick and set too high, His fore 
feetistand too close together and his tail is carried too high. Bob 
White, who won second, was in very bad condition and should 
not have been shown. He was a long way ahead of anything in 
the class, and had he been$shown in proper form he would 
have carried off the highest honors. The bitch class was of 
better average quality than we have ever seen. The large 
number of excellent animals rendered it very difficnl+ to be- 
stow the honors, indeed the unnoticed ones made a very fair 
class of themselves, although nore than half of the class re- 
ceived mention. We thought them well placed. The puppies 
over 12 and under 18 months were not quite up to those of ast 
year, although there were seyeral yery good ones shown, The 
puppy class, under 12 months, brought out several promising 
ones. Princess Phoebus, the winner, is very good indeed, She 
bids fair to turn out as sood a Laverack as we have. 

The black and tan setters were much better than we have 
seen in a long time, In the absence of Mr. Wise the classes 
were judged by Messrs. Sterling and Higgins. In the cham- 
pion class one judge was in favor of Arzus, while the other 
thought Turk the best. Mr. J. M. Tracy was finally called 
upon to decide the question, and succeeded in convincing them 
that Flash was better than either, and he was given the prize. 
There were but two in the bitch class, Lady Gordon and Per- 
ley, Both are very good indeed, with not much to choose be- 
tween them, Perley, who finally wou, is a shade better in 
head. The open dog class contained several very fair speci- 
mens, who were we lager except that Duke, who was yhe., 
is better in head and bone than Punch, who was third, and 
they should have changed places, The bitches and puppies 
were fairly good and correctly judged. 

The Irish setters were a grand lot allthrougzh. The cham- 

ion dog class was magnificent, Berkley, who was on exhi- 
bition only, was looking finely. Dash is a grand dog in coat, 
color and chest; he has not an Irish head and is faulty behind. 
Chief was never shown in better coat andfeather, Hlcho, Jr.. 
the next on the list, furnished the winner; he is a very good 
all-round dog, with an almost perfect head and of the correct 
type all through; he was not in first-class condition, and 
might be a bit better in back and coat. Glencho was not 
quite at his best, yet we thought him good enough to win, 
but Mr. Higgins likes a small, compact dog, and Hlcho, 
Jr,, just filled his eye. Trix was an easy winner in ¢hie 


bitch class, although she was not in good coat or 
form, Faun is also a rare good one, and may sur- 
prise some of the best of them next year unless 


they are at their very best. The open dog class made a splen- 
did appearance in the ring. Many of them were very good, 
although we failed to find anything very remarkable, The 
winner is a little faulty in head, which was the most common 
fault to be found with the class. We thought them well 
placed. The hitches were better than the dogs. Noreen II, 
who won first, is a very sweet bitch, although she is not quite 
perfect in color. Reeta, unnoticed, should haye been second, 
although she was hot in good form, Nearly all of the 
others in the class were good, and the seven yhe’s. that 
were given were no more than were deserved. Irish setter 
uppies are notoriously uncertain, as they often change im 
orm and color. Rory O’More II., who was first in the dog 
class, wasrightly placed. He is grand in color, and if he ma- 
tures well he will be heard from again. In the bitch class we 
should have transposed first and second. 
CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS. ‘ 
There were only three entries in this class, The two winners 
are very good specimens. 
SPANIELS. ; 
There were no entries in the champion Irish water spaniel 
class, and only three in the open class, The winner is a very 
good specimen. In the champion field spaniel class Benedict 
added another to his long list of wins. e certainly was not 
in such bloom as we have seen him, but his gcod body, legs 
and feet carried him through, Black Prince was in magnifi- 
cent shape and he never looked better, Dash, who is rather 
heavy in head and a trifle low at the shoulders, is good in coat 
and body, but is a little out at elbow. Inthe open field spaniel! 
class the winner is not as straight in front as she might be, 
and was a little off in coat. Bateman, given second, is 4 
strong, good-headed dog, a little short of ear, but with 
a very good set of legs and feet. Toronto Jet, vhe., 
Don he., Jewell he. and Punch and Benedict’s Boy, c., were 
tolerably good ones. In champion cockers, any color, Obo II. 
had a walk over. He well deserved his prize, In liver and 
black cocker spaniels, Peerless Gloss was given first, He 
was shown in poor coat, doubtless owing to his recent sea 
voyage. He is just imported. He has avery good head and 
body, and excellent legs and feet, with plenty of bone. Jumbo 
second, is another good one. He is rather high on his legs and 
ight in bone, but hasa capital coat and was well shown, 
oodstock Flirt, viec.,is too fine in bone. Bessie, he,, isatrifie 
legey, but will improve with age. In cocker spaniels other 
than liver or black, Rattler was awarded first. He wasin 
very poor coat, and we do not like his eyes, He has good 
length of body and plenty of substance. Fancy IL, second, 
we do not admire. Blossom, vhe. is a good little deg of the 
old type, but was bad in coat, Powder, he., and Clytie, c., 
were well placed. In spaniel puppies, Black Tournie was 
given first, Helen, second, Niven’s Darkey, vhe,, and Darling, 
he. This was a very good class and well judged. 
he only entryin, heebrmpion aaieal Shade 
Vinegar was the only entry in the champion calss. Hels 
ei bles one, good all through. In the open class, the Essex 
County Hunt with-Cardinal, Wazsrior and Manager won first, 
second and third respectively. These are all good ones, Usr- 
dinal being.a little the best m back and loi. Brownie, he., 
and Sport, c., though fairish dogs, were quite outclassed in 
this company. = th Fe ‘- 


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The standard of the American English Beagle Club 
is different in some respects, and as many of the animals ex- 
hibited are owned by members of the club it will be as well, 
perhaps, to compare the merits of the dogs under the latter. 
The class was well filled and of better average quality than 
has yet appeared at any of the Westminster Club shows, 
clearly indicating that the interest in this breed is rapidly ad- 
vaneing. The necessity for a class division for height was 
clearly demonstrated. Probably half the exhibit were dwarf 
beagles, and when brought into competition with the larger 
variety serve to perplex the judge and mystify the lookers on, 
who cannot understand why a 15-inch dog should beat a 10- 
inch one, or the reyerse. In the champion class, two contest- 
ants appeared. The winner, Bush, is a fair average beagle; 
her principal faults are in forelegs and feet, coat and carriage 
of ear. Leader, who entered the lists against her, is best in 
ear and coat, but falls behind in back, loin and muzzle. In 
other points they are very near together, the bitch being a 
shade the best. In the open class tor dogs we differ from the 
award. Frank, placed first, was shown in the pink of condi- 
tion and is an attractive dog, but a careful analysis of his 
pee shows him very wide of the mark as a pure beagle. 

is eye is light in color and too small; he is long in body and 
tail, and his coat totally disqualifies him. Duke, awarded 
second, is a much better dog and should have 
been first; he is rather cloddy in make-up, but is a 
useful-looking hound, and, moreover, shows no im- 
purity in breeding. Bugle should have been second, 
Apart from his head being too conical he is quite a good aver- 
age beagle with no absolutely strong points, yet no positive 
defects. Foreman, hce., should not have been shown; the dog 
was quite ill and moved in a listless, woebegone manner about 
the ring. This no doubt lost him a-place higher in the awards. 
Pedro is well eared and looks like a workman; hardly up to 
standard style, however. Jack is rather long bodied, but has 
fair head and ears, Prince has either basset or dachshund 
blood in his yeins, and his looks strongly inclined to that side 
of the house. Charm is a large puppy with well hung ears; his 
coat is rather short for a beagle, looks as though he would be 
useful in the field, but has no positive beagle qualities, and when 
grown will be oversize. The closest competition was in the 
open class for bitches, which class was really very good. While 
we regard Chase as being an exceptionally fine bitch, we 
differ with Mr. Mortimér in placing her first, for which posi- 
tion we prefer Deborah, who was given third, the latter will 


' score very high as a typical beagle, and as the contest was in 


reality between these two it will be proper to note ourreasons, 
Deborah is better in muzzle, jaw and lips, inhips, thighs and 
hindlegs, and in width of ear, although Chase’s are excel- 
lently hung and the proper length and texture. Both bitches 


are slightly open in forefeet, with these exceptions they are 


model beagles. Midget, a very good little bitch, got second. 
Rena should have been assigned this position in our opin- 
ion. She is better in skull, ear and eye, while in 
lips and muzzle Midget is best, as she is also in 
neck. In back and loin Rena is somewhat the best of 


_ the two, while in rib Midget reverses the order; and is best 


also in forelegs and feet. In hips, thighs and hindlegs, Rena 
has a decided advantage, in other points they are about on a 
par. Balancing the pros and cons Rena will outscore. Tiney, 
weak in muzzle and light in bone, is withal quite a neat little 
bitch, and has some very good marks. Fly isa handsome 
beagle, with strong back and loin, and good tail and coat. She 
is off in skull, ears and eyes, but has a well sprung rib and her 


_ feet and hindlegs are good. Lady Elmore could not be roused 


up sufficiently to be critically examined, being obliged to look 
her over in her stall, therefore cannot go into detail, but con- 
sider her general appearance good. Belle, the last of the class, 
shows a very defective hip and loin, has great length of back, 
and bad forelegs and feet. She lacks beagle character. Among 
the puppies, Marjory, first, is the best of the lot. Music, vhe., 
has a remarkably high domed skull with low-hung ears. She 
is, or rather will be, oversize, somewhat long in body, but taken 
allin all, quite a nice puppy. Keiser’s head is not quite the 
thing, but hasa good body. We thought Judy a little too 
much out at elbow, but being young may improve in that re- 
spect, otherwise she is moderately good, a oe 
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excellent breed 
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the head and hanging in graceful folds: great length of body, 
with short, but strong forelegs and feet. Countess, the only 
other entry, is of good length and close to the ground, but is 
not of the requisite color. 

DACHSHUNDE 


Were not a good class. Gretchen, the winner, is a nice little 
dog, but more of the terrier type than the hound, Dutecly was 
second, Waldman, he., and Cora, c. 

4 FOX-TERRIERS. 

Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—This brought out Brocken- 
hurst Joe, Mixture, Royal and Fennel. Fennel is the youngest 
of this celebrated quartet, and showed it. He is good in body, 
legs and feet, and coat, but has a bad head, is weak in jaw 
and has heavy ears. Mixture is a well-shaped little fellow, but 
is blind of aneye. Royalshows hisage. He has a beautiful 
head and ears, but is not quite straight infront. Brocken- 
hurst Joe, the winner, though ten years old, carries his age 
like a, two-year-old. He has a beamntifully-shaped head, 
sraall ears, well placed, good neck and shoulders, and 
tiptop coat. He is a trifle high on his legs, and 
his feet were not so good as they might have been, stilljhis 
fire and terrier quality made him an easy winner. In cham- 
pion bitches, Richmond Olive was much the best. She is a 
nice-shaped bitch, a trifle large, with good head, ears nicely 
carried, fairly good legs and feet, but lacks bone and coat. The 
latter probably due to the fact that she has just reared a litter 
of puppies. She comes with the best of credentials from Eng- 
land, and is no doubt one of the best we have yet seen. Viola, 
an honest little bitch, begins to show age. Jeopardy was 
shown too fat, and Gypsy was here out-classed. The open 
class for dogs was the best ever seen in this country. First 
prize was awarded to Belgrave Primrose. He has the best set 
of legs and feet we haye ever seen on a terrier, his coat is per- 
haps a bit soft, and his ears, though small, are not at all times 
well carried. Scarsdale, given second, is a rare-stamped little 
dog, with good head and ears, feet and legs; heis a trifleheavy 
and straight in the shoulder. Raby Tyrant, given third, we 
were somewhat disappointed in, Heis wide in chest and is 
not so gocd in his legs and feet as he should be, still he is un- 
doubtedly a well bred one. Vakeel, Marlboro Jockey Jr., 
Roderick and Buff, vhe., are all good ones, Vakeel being a 
little the best. Roderick is a nice dog, but on too large a 
scale. Marlboro’ Jockey is a gamy-looking dog, not quite 
straight in front and a trifle soft and open in coat. Buff 
shows age. Grip, Terror and Belvoir Jim, he., were far above 
the average, while Governour, Nip and Tough, c., were well 
worthy of honorable mention. In fox-terrier bitches, Dance 
was given first over Village Belle, second. These are both 
very good ones, of a different type. Dance is very good in 
coat, body, legs and feet. Village Belle is a little fine in bone 
and coat, and perhaps a trifle cowhocked. Warren Testy, 
giyen third, is rather weak in jaw, has heavy, large ears and 
soft coat. Diamond, vhe,, is a good little bitch, almost too 
small, Squeak, vhe., is pretty, but light in bone. Twinkle, 
he., has good head and coat, but is somewhat out at elbows 
and bad on her feet. Lady Gay, c., isa neat bitch, too fine in 
bone and coat for the present day. - 

In wire-haired terriers, Tyke was a good first. He is too 
fat, and is getting soft in coat. Meg was placed second, and 
Sweetbriar third. Itis a pity this workman-like terrier does 
not become more popular. In dog puppies, under 12 months, 
Warren Joe was given first, to which honor he was well en- 
titled, and Acteon, a nice puppy but almost too large for his 
age, was given vhe. In the class for bitches Clover Belle, with 
her good coat, legs and feet, was an easy winner. Azola, 
vhe., and Daphne and Juno, he., were each nice ones, as was 
also Betsy, hc. Taken altogether, the fox-terrier classes were 
the best that have ever been seen in this country, and many 
of the unnoticed dogs could have won easily a few years ago. 


COLLIES. 


In the champion class for dogs, Robin Adair was awarded 
the prize over Bruce and Jake, Rex and Tweed II. being on 
exhibition only. The winner is a very typical dog, with a 
beautiful head, nice ears correctly carried, good coat, abund- 
ant on neck aud shoulders, but short on back and loin, nice 
tail and of very stylish catriage. Bruce is also an exceedingly 
good collie, first-rate head and coat, but a trifle, shallow in 


chest arid slackinloin.’ Jake: was outclassed. Ini-the cham- 


pion bitch class, Zulu Princess, Effie and Meg competed, and 
the honors went to Princess, ~ 


Mi We never saw this handsome |. 
| bitch in better shape, In the open class for dogs, Hiram was 


even first, Duncan second, Brack third, Sandy and Hero vhe., 
okeby and Laddie he., and Donald c. This class did not com- 
pare favorably with the bitch class in point of quality, and we 
did not think one of them first-rate. In the class for 


bitches, Winnie was placed first. This is a first-class 
bitch, and fully bore out our prophecy at New 
Haven, when we said she would make it hot 


for any of them when in good coat. Jean, second, is a nice 
little bitch, with the good coat and rather heavy body of her . 
sire, old Marcus. Fairy, third, isa good mover, but we do 
not like her heavy ears. Of the three vhe.’s, Flyaway, Jersey 
Lily and Lizzie, we liked Flyaway the best. Higg, c., is a 
well-bred bitch with good coat, but too short on leg and 
cloddy in appearance. In collie dog puppies, under 12 months, 
Argyle, placed first, we liked very well. Fritz and Robin 
Hood, vhe., are both nice puppies, the latter showing a good 
deal of quality, but is at present short of coat. Collie, Shep- 
herd Boy and Major, he., and Help, ¢., are all good puppies 
and worthy of mention. In the collie bitch puppies, under 
12 months. Peep o’ Day, a clever little tricolor, was given first; 
this is a very handsome puppy, with good head and ears, but 
a trifle short of coat. Effie Dean, vhe., is very little behind 
the winner. Nannie O., vhc., has pe coat, heavy, badly 
carried ears, and is coarse. Juno [1., he., and Laurie, c., are 
both promising youngsters, especially the former. 


BULLDOGS. 


The champion class was divided into dogs and bitches. In 
the dog.class Messrs. R. & W. Livingstone’s Boz, shown in the 
very pink of condition, just managed to beat Tippoo, who was 
below himself in flesh and is a little pinched in muzzle. Bill is 
also a first-rate dog, but scarcely up to the standard of Boz or 
Tippoo. Old Ben was not for competition. In the bitch class 
Bellissima, in magnificent shape, easily beat Sweet Brier, who 
is pinched in face. In the open class for dogs, Hamlet, a toler- 
ably good little brindle, beat Hero II., given second, and 
Boxer third. Mose, vhe., and Moses, c., we did not like. In 
the corresponding bitch class, Rhodora, a white bitch, wrongly 
entered as brindle, won easily over Helen, a very good-bodied 
bitch, placed second. Jenny, third, has seen her best days, 
and Julia is only a very moderate one. 


BULL-TERRIERS. 


It the champion bull-terriers over 25 pounds, Grand Duke, 
shown in superb condition, was given first. Young Bill shows 
age, and Lord Nelson, though he has a good body, is coarse in 
head and lippy. Bull-terriers, dogs or bitches over 25 pounds. 
President was placed first over Charley, given second, and Rose 
third. These are three fairly good ones. In champion bull- 
terriers under 25 pounds, Little Maggie was the only entry. 
She is a very good little bitch, rather coarse in tail, Bull- 
terriers under 25 pounds, dogs or bitches, were a very moder- 
ate lot. Doonie, transferred from Class 91, was given first, 
Venus second, Short third, and Katy vhe. Bull-terrier pup- 
pies brought out one fairly good one in Rosa, who was given 
the award. 

BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS. 


Black and tan terriers over seven pounds, dogs or bitches, 
was a small class. Bessie, the winner, is a very good one, 
especially in head; her markings might be a trifle better, but 
she is a well-shaped bitch and hard to beat. Lady, second, is 
well marked, but a triflesmall and not so good in head as the 
winner. Brilliant, vhe., is a good shaped dog, rather thick in 
skull and a little too dark in color of tan. Of the others, 
Doctor, he., and Sambo, c., are little moré tan toys. 


ROUGH-HAIRED TERRIERS, 

This was the usual odds-and-ends collection. They were 
well judged. Some thought Sir Garnet should have been in 
the money, but our idea is that an Airedale’s place is in the 
miscellaneous class. Heather and Tam Glen are two very 
good rough-haired Scotch terriers, the proper stamp of dog to 
win in this class, : 

DANDIE DINMONTS. 

There were only three in the class, we thought them 
properly pisced, the winner is quite a good specimen. 

The Bedlington terriers were a small class, only two facing 
the judge out of the three entries. _Blucher, the winner, is a 
first-rate dog, perhaps a little weak in jaw, but is of good coat 
ee the correct type.,:Second prize was very properly with- 

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Jim, well known by this time, took another championship 
from Pepper and Souter Johnnie, In the open class there 


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were several very nice ones, only they were decidedly under- 
sized, There was not much to choose between Boss and 
“Watty, while Fanny was a good third. This was a remark- 
ably welljudged class in our opinion, Indeed, Mr. Mortimer 
seems to be especially at home with long-coated terriers. 

PUGS. 

Pug owners did not agree with Mr, Dana putting Roderick 
oyer Joe in the championship class, True, ‘‘Rod” was looking 
better than we have ever seen him, but he is so bad in his 
hindlegs, double jointed in fact, that we must say we think 
Joe should have been first, Effie had a walk over for her 
championship. In the open elasses the average quality 
was poor, for after the first three were sifted out 
fhe others were not worth much. Max is good in 
head and wrinkle, but has a flesh-colored nose, and 
the Roderick hindlegs. Bob is a very good one for a nine 
months’ puppy. Tu-Tu is heavy in ears, faulty in skull and 
weak in under jaw. Wrinkle is plain in head, light in mask 
and small in eye. Pete is light in eye and lackscharacter. In 
the bitch class, Victoria we greatly preferred to Duchess, 
whose ears are outrageously large. Victoria, but for her 
Joose tail, isa hard one to find fault with, Forest City Ken- 
nel’s Dolly was shown too fat, and was nothing like so good 
as Minnie May II. In this class we should have placed Vic- 
toria first, Cryer’s Dolly second and Minnie May II, third, 
The puppies were mostly of very tender age, and it is precari- 
ous work picking out winners at three months old and as bad 
ta eriticise such awards. 


YORKSHIRE TERRIERS. 


Through the whole of the Yorkshire classes Mr. Mortimer 
exercised excellent judgment. Hero was alone for the large 
championship. He is going off in coat, both in color and in 
quantity, and his owner was fortunate to sell him for a good 
price. In the large open class we had Lancashire Star first, 
good in coat and color. Prince is rather light in color, but 
makes up for that defect in length of coat. Bright on the 
contrary was good in color, but his coat should be longer. 
Both Nellie and Ben are Montreal silvers and were properly 
placed behind Billee Taylor and Eddie, both fairly good ones, 
Mrs. Kisteman was again to the front in small Yorkshires, 
winning the championship with Crickie and first in open class 
with Spring, the latter a very good little one, Chester is 
another nice one both in color and coat. Nellie and Teddie 
were not well shown, and we might have been inclined to give 
Charley third place though he is a little off in color. Mr. 
Marriot’s pair were hardly up to the highly commended 
standard. 

TOY THRRIERS AND SPANIELS, 


Yn toy terriers under seven pounds, commendations were 
very freely distributed. Daisy we nussed from her cage when 
making our inspection, but marked Gyp as best of the lot we 
did see, Pud and Nellie were also worth noticing, but the 
others had no great calls except on a judge’s liberality. 

The winning King Charles spaniel is far too large, and 
Sankey isnot a goodone. Mr. Phillips’s unnamed one is too 
long in the face and not good otherwise. Duke of New York 
is a wonderfully shori-faced dog, but thatisall. Roy has no 
tan and Gypsy was out of condition. In Blenheims Sir Guy 
is nice in color but is too long in the face, and Duke is a big 
coarse dog not well marked. The Japanese spaniels were 
small in number but really extra good in quality. Ada prom- 
ses to make up better than anything in the class, 


POODLES AND MISCHLLANEOUS. 


Mr, Heckscher hit the mark every time when he handled the 
poodles, and next year the poodle owners ought to support 
his nomination for the same position. Rajah I. isa good dog 
and was well barbered, indeed the barber has as much to do 
with winning as the dog in the poodle classes.’ In the mis- 
cellaneous classes there was nothing of any great) merit, 

Many of the specials followed the awards in the regular 
classes. Where judging was necessary the decisions were in 
most cases satistactory. In class NN., for the best English 
setter, dog or bitch, we do not understand why Mr, Higgins 
should give the place to Rock, For reasons already given we 
think him inferior to Foreman. The prize should have gone 
to Queen Alice, who is better than either. The ForEsT AnD 
SrreaM prize for the best trained setter or pointer which has 
been trained by the method laid down in ‘Training vs. Break- 
ing,” brought out three, being nicely trained pointers, A. 
©. Collins’s Fritz, Philip Thurtle’s Jilt, and Luke W. White's 
Grace, All of them performed their tasks in a cheerful 
and intelligent manner that reflects great credit upon 
their handlers, That this exhibition was yery pleasing to the 
spectators was manifest in the well merited applause which | 
ee liberally bestowed. The different classes were judged as 
follows: Mastiffs, Newfoundlands and pugs—Mr, Paul Dana, 
New York. St. Bernards, berghunde, spanieis (all classes), 
beagles, bassets, dachshunde, fox-terriers, collies, bulldogs, 
pull-terriers, and all other terrier classes—Mr. J ames Mortimer, 
New York. Greyhounds, deerhounds and Italian greyhounds 
—Mr. Joseph R. Pierson, Buckingham, Pa, Pointers—Mr. E, 
C, Sterling, St. Louis, Mo, English setters—Mr. John C. Hig- 
gins, Delaware City, Del. Black and tan setters, Ivish setters 
and foxhounds—Mr. EH. C. Sterling and Mr, John C. Higgins. 
Chesapeake Bay dogs—Mr. Isaac Townsend. Pooudles—Mr. 
John G, Heckscher, 

Following is a full list of the 


AWARDS. 


Champion Mastiffs, Dogs.—Ist, Chas. H, Mason's Neyison, im- 
ported, fawn, black points, d4léyrs., Gurth—Juno. 

Champion Mastiffs, Bitches—1st, Ashmont Kennel's Dolly Varden 
(A-K_R. 75), fanyn, black points, 4yrs., Young Prince—Merlin, __ 

Mastiffs, Dozs—ist. Harry Hill’s Dan, fawn, 4yrs.. full pedigree; 
2d, Henry Pratt's Billo, 18mos., qe ated stock—Nellie; 8d, W, P. 
Stevenson's Homer, fawn, 16mos,, Cato—Queen II. (A.K.R. 158). Very 
high com., David G. Yungling, Jr.’s Jim, fawn, dyrs,, full pedigree. 
High com., William H. Lee’s Ilford Cromwell, brindle, 3yrs., Car- 
dinal—Oleopatra. Com., Max Meyer’s Bruno, fawn, 18mos., full 

dizree, 7 ' 
PaMtastitts, Bitches.—ist, A. Grant's Regina, fawn, 3yrs., Young King 
—Rannee; 2d, W.R. MacDiarmid’s Monmouth Meg, fawn, 2l4yrs., 
Salisbury—Tigress If.; 3d, James L. Flung’s Nana, fawn, black 
points, dyrs,, Cassar—Dido. Very high com., C. D. Arthur's Queen, 
fawn, 20mos., Harold—Dido. High com,, A, F. Hennings’s Dizz, 
fawn, 20mos., imported Monarch—Nell. ; 

Mastiff Puppies, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, W. P. Stevenson’s Hector, 
fawn, Imus,, Nevison—Venus; 2d, James Lenox Banks’s Mayor of the 
Cedars (A.K.R. 549), fawn and black points, 10mos., Nevison—Venus; 
8d, M. M. Frothingham’s Sandy, fawn, 4mos., Grim—Sallie Waters. 
Very high com., W. §. Phraners’s Court, fawn, 444mos., Harold—Dido; 
OQ. F. Frotheringham's unnnmed, fawn, 4mos., Grim—Sallie Waters. 
Com,, 0, H. Hays’s Veuve Clicquot, fawn, 6mos,, Harold—Dido, Jr. 7 

Champion Rough-Voated St. Bernards, Dogs.—ist, H. KR. Hearn’s 
Bonivard (B.K.C.8.B. 11,738, A.K.R. 361), dark orange tawny, 4)4yrs., 

ouldan—Myzar. , 
5 Ghampiot Rou h-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches,—ist, E. R. Hearn’s 
Gertie (A.K.R. 788), orange tawny, 3}4yrs., Nero—Clio. ; 

Rough-Coated St, Bernards, ge pets BH. R. Hearn’s Duke of 
Leeds, imported, ricb orange brindle, pane, Mount Zion II.—Novice; 
2d, Rev. J. Cumming Macdona’s Caliph, whel ed August, 1882, Cen- 
taur—Snowdrop; 3d, Washington Seligman’s Brave, red and white, 

“Byrs., full pedigree. Very high com., Mrs. D. P. Foster’s St. Elmo, 
tawoy wae white, 4yrs., full pedigree; Rev. J. Cumming Macdona’s 
Cardinal Borromo, whelped July 30, 1882, (B, 11,727) Boniface—Bessie 
Ii.; J. E. Orr’s Bronze, imported, brindle, 29mos., champion Cardinal 
—Abbess; Rev. J. ming Macdona’s Primate (E. 11,787) Boniface 
—Duchess (E. 9,385), High com,, Locust Grove Kennel’s Tige, tawny, 
brindle and white, Major—Beauty; Jonathan Thorne, Jr.’s Pontiff, 
tawny and white, 4yrs., Matterhorn—Madge; Arthur 0. James's Alp, 
tawny and white, 20mos., Grosvenor—Higer, Com., J. H. Smith’s 
Judge, black, ata ae tawny, 3yrs., Phelps's imported Bruno— 

‘helps’s imported Minka. 
ae h-Coated St, Bernards, Bitches. ist, E. R. Hearn’s Rohna, 
imported, orange and tawny, 13mos., 5. W. Smith's Rollo—Mr. Snell- 
ing’s Queenie If; 2d, Rodney Benson’s Millicent I., orange and 
Sm 24yrs., Ruler—Darig; 8d, Rev. J. Cumming Macdona §'Bar- 


nue, Ch. Barry, 64/4—Mont Genis: Very high com., Rev, J, Qum-~ 
cing’ Maedoua’s’ Beryl, waelped Reb. #3, Ch, Bayandy-SddteBich- 
ey sh es aE PT a a ee Se it a Tada 


‘10mos., imported Fido—Rosary; E. R. Hearn’s 


mond Brande, High com., Jonathan Thorne, Jr.’s Sappho, tawny, 
white and black, 15mos., Monk II.—imported Sheila (A.K.R. 796). 

Cham ion Smoeoth-Ooated St, Bernards, Dogs.—Springhurst Ken- 
nel’s Fido, tawny aud white, 8yrs,, imported from Hospice St. Ber- 
nard, Switzerland. 

Champion Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—Springhurst 
Kennel’s Baroness, tawny and white, 3yrs. 9 mos., Grosvenor 
(E.K.C,8.B,, 9,366)—Vesta, 

Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Dogs,—1st, EB. R. Hearn’s Don II. (E. 
K.C.8.B. 12,907) imported, orange tawny, 3yrs., champion The Shah 
—Dewdrop; 2d, Millbrook Kennel's Royalist (A.K.R. 580), orange 
tawny, 5yrs., champion The Shah (B. 4,481)—Bernie III; 3d, James H. 
Hyde's Sultan, white, tiger spots, 18mos., Pluto—Blanca. Very high 
com., Springhurst Kennel’s Harold, tawny and white, 23mos., Fido— 
Baroness; A. M. Dodge’s Guard, brown and white, 2yrs. 10mos., im- 
ported Harold—Judy. High com., Springhurst Kennel's Jumbo, tawny 
and white, 1&mos,, Fido—Baroness. Com., Charles. Smith's Dio- 
genes, tawny, 2yrs,,5mos,, Rex—Diana; Miss GC, Pryor’s Schnel, tawny 
aud white, i14mos., Haine’s champion Harold—Haine's Vix; Rev. J. 
Cumming Macdona‘s Jolly Iriar, whelped July 4, 1882. Full pedigree, 
Hermit—imported Dora. 

Smooth-Coated St. Bernards, Bitches.—ist, NH, R, Hearn’s Leila (H. 
K.0.8.B. 12,912), imported, tawny brindle, 2i4yrs,, Roland—Nellie; 
2d, Milbrook Kennel’s Snowball, orange tawny, Pearsall’s Fido— 
Loomis’s Dinah; 8d, Springhurst Keonel’s Gladys, tawny and white, 
lyr. limos., Fido—Baroness, Very high com., R, W. Leonard's 
Rosary, tawny and white, 4yrs,, Chamounix—Blane. 

Rough-Coated St. Bernard Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or 
Bitches.—1st, Jonathan Thorne, Jr.’s Schoonhoyvenu, tawny and white, 
§mos., Monk I.—Sheila (A,K.R. 796); 2d, E. R. Hearn's Gora (A.K.R. 
1050), light tawny and white, 10mos,, Monk—Sheila. Very high com., 
Neversink Lodge Kennel’s Alp, tawny, 8mos.. Carlisle—Beauty. High 
com., Miss Hilda Ward’s Ma-Gog, fawn, white and black markings, 
8mos., Macdona’s champion Bayard (E.K.C.S.B. 8447)—Bega (E.K.C. 
S.B, 1359). Com,, Essex Kennel’s Bernardo, tawny and white, $mos., 
Alp If. (A.K.R. 705)—Daphne IT. (A.K.R. 489), 

mooth-Coated St. Bernard Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or 
Bitches.—ist, John P. Haines’s Juan, orange and tawny, 3mos., Lohen- 
grin—champion Jura; 2d, John P. Haines’s Caro, orange and tawny, 
3mos., Lohengrin—champion Jura. Very high com., Millbrook Ken- 
nel’s Eckhardt (A.K.R. 413), orange tawny, 10mos., Rex—AlmaI.; G. 
F, Baker’s Como, tawny and white, 10mos., imported Fido—Rosary; 
HE. R. Hearn’s Puritan, brindle and white, 3!44mos., Rector—Alma II.; 
OChequasset Kennel Club’s Noblesse (A.K.R. 803), orange, brindle and 
white, 5mos., Alp I. (A.K.R. 705)—brenner (A.K.R. 706); Springhurst 
Kennel’s Tony, tawny, 1lmos., imported Fido—Rosary: Rey. J, Cum- 
ming Macdona’s Snéwstorm, 7mos., Rupert—Duchess; John P, 
Haines’s Chic, orange and tawny, 3mos., Lohengrin—champion Jura. 
High com., Woodbury Langdon’s Argus, tawny and white, 10mos., 
Rex—Diana; John P. Haines’s Perro, orange and tawny, 3mos., Lohen- 
grin—champion Jura; R. P. Lounsbery’s Buster, tawny and white, 

: ‘Druid, brindJe and 
white, 344mos,, Rector—Alma II. 

Berghunde, Dogs.—ist, George E. McCollom’s Don, orange, tawny 
and white, 44yrs., imported Mareco—imported Alice; 2d, W. A, Fuse- 
ron’s Dan, tawny, 3yrs., imported, out of Pflocksie. Very high com., 
F, M, Du Faur’s Belle, tawny, 3yrs. 

Newfoundlands, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, G. J. Whigam’s Jack, black, 
5yrs., imported; 2d, Charles T. Strauss’s Tasso, black, 2yrs., Pontoon 
—Faznie. Very high com., W. H. Lacy’s Bruno, black, 3yrs., im- 
ported. High com., W. Barbour’s Cabot, black, white spot, 7}44mos. 

Champion Greyhounds, Dogs.—ist, H. W. Smith’s Friday Night, 
eee 708) black and white, 244yrs., Master's Prince—I. H. Salter’s 
pally. r 

Greyhounds, Dogs.—lst H. W. Huntington’s Bouncing Boy, black, 
l}éyrs., Walton Lad—Cremorne; 2d, Mrs. Henry Allen’s Dell, fawn, 
2yrs., imported. Very high com., J. Coleman Drayton’s Slingsby, 
black, 7 yrs,, Rapid—Sally, High com,, Edward Oullen’s Moscow, 
fawn, Syrs., full pedigree. 

Greyhounds, Bitches,—ist, H. W, Huntington’s School Girl, black, 
lwyrs., Schoolfelow—Sol-Fa; 2d, withheld. Very highcom., H. W. 
Huntington’s Begonia, black, 5yrs., Born a Demon—Bella. 

Greyhound Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Ritches.—ist with- 
held; 2d, Hy. Henderson’s Flash, fawn, 9mos. Very high com,, H. W. 
Huntington's La Belle, black, 10mos,, champion Double Shot—cham- 
pion Clio. 

Champion Deerhounds.—ist, Clovernook Kennel’s Roy, brindle, 
2yrs., Paddy—Lassie. 

Deerhounds, Dogs.—ist, Archibald Rogers’s Bruce, dark brindle, 
Vayrs.« Grey Comyn Vlate Hector)—Leona (late Linda); 2d, W. D. 
Whipple’s Bruce, dark gray, 5yrs. Very highcom., Archibald Rogers’s 
Borrua, dark brindle, 2i4yrs., Wallace—Lorna. 

Deerhounds, Bitches.—Awards withheld. 

Champion Pointers, over 55 lbs,, Dogs.—ist, John W. Munson’s 
Meteor, imported, liver and white, 3yrs., Garnet—Jilt. 

Champion Pointers, over 50 Ibs,, Bitches.—Ist, Christopher Mol- 
ler’s Water Lily, lemon and white, 5yrs.. Skidmore’s Don—Dolly. 

Pointers, over 55 lbs., Dozs.—ist, C. W. Littlejohn’s Fritz, lemon 
and white ticked, whelped June, 1881, Beaufort—Spot; 2d, Neversink 
Lodge Kennel’s Drake, liyer and white, 2yrs., champion Croxteth— 
Lass; 3d, L. & W. Rutherfurd’s Danby, liver and white, 3yrs., Speck 
—Dinah. Very high com., C, W. Littlejohn’s Pilot, iver and white, 
3layrs., Scout—Spot; J. W. Munson’s Maxim, imported, liver and 
white, 3yrs., Garnet—Jilt: J. W. Munson’s Bang, imported, liver 
and while, 5yrs., champ. Bang—Luna. High com., J. H, Stromberg's 
Guy, lemon and white, 2yrs., Beaufort—Spot;C, M, Munhall’s Donald 
IIL., liver, white and ticked, 20mos., champion Donald—Devonshire 
Lass; W. H. Force's Clydesdale, liver and white, 3yrs., Massey*s Dash— 
Virginia Belle. 

Pointers, over 50 lbs., Biteches.—lst Frank BH, Rogers's Miss Merry- 
mack, liver and white, 8yrs., King Bow—Grace; 2d, J, O. Donner’s 
Van Fan, liver and white, 4yrs., imported; 3d,G. W. Amory’s Sal, 
liver and white, 3yrs., Dick—Ruby, High com., Knickerbocker Ken- 
nel Club’s Lady Mac (A.K.R. 1040), black, syrs., champion Pete—Mab. 

Champion Pointers, under 55 Ibs., Dogs.—ist, Norbury Kennel’s 
Bravo, lemon and white, 4yrs., Bragg—Kate. 

Champion Pointers, under 50 lbos., Bitehes.—ist, J. W. Munson's 
Vanity, liver and white, 2yrs., champion Baug—Pride. _ 

Pointers, under 55lbs., Dogs.—ist, W. Tallman's Pride, liver and 
white, 2yrs., Croxteth—Royal Fan; 2d, A. 0. Collins’s Fritz, lemon 
and white ticked, 2yrs, 7mos,, imported Bob—Gabbs’s Fly-Shot; 3d, 
I. S. Crane’s ©. Don, liver and white, 2yrs., Robin—Sigler’s Gypsy, 
Very high com.,G, F. Jordan’s Booths, lemon and white, 2lsyrs., 
St. George—Dinah; Knickerbocker Kennel Club's Craft (A.K.R. 1038), 
lemon and white, 2}4yrs,, Bang—Jean; R. C. Cornell’s Match, liver 
and white, 4yrs., champion Sensation—champion Grace; Francis 
Lynch's Max, fawn and white, 4yrs. High com., Dr. John A. Wells’s 
Puck, liver and white. 244yrs.. Lewis Joe—Martin’s Fan, 

Pointers, under 50lbs., Bitches.—ist, Neversmk Lodge Ken- 
nel’s Jilt, liver aud white, 19mos.. champion OCroxteth—Lass; 
2d, IF. R. Hilchcock’s Vision (A.K.R, 778), liver_and white, éyrs., 
Croxteth—Vinnie; 3d, J. W.. Munson’s Flash II1., liver and white, 


2yrs., imported Bang —Pride. Very high com., Charles R. 
Ghristy’s Nina, black and white, 2yrs,, Nat—Susy Ror als J. N, 
Lewis’s Jill, liver and white, 2yrs., Joe—Van Fan. gh com., 


W. R. Williams’s Rose, liver and white, 2l4yrs,, champion Don— 
Lamb’s ehampion Elf; D. 8. Gregory Jr., 2d’s Belle (A.K,R, 203), 
lemon and white, 4yrs. 3mos., Sensation—Grace; R, T, Vandevort's 
J oy. liver and white, 2yrs , Boon—Rena, 

Pointer Puppies, over 12 and under 18 Months Old, Dogs.—lst, Chas. 
F. Murphy’s Rox (A.K.R, 566), liver and white, 14mos., Dick (A.K.R. 78 
—Gen. McLaughlin’s Belle, by Scout out of Freeman’s Belle; 2d, 
Jas. K. Heyde’s Don, lemon and white, whelped April 27, 1883. Jim 
(A.K.R, 353)—D, Allerton Jr.’s Dione. ; 

Pointer Puppies, over 12 and under 18 Months, Bitches.—1st, C. M, 
Munhall’s Dora, liver and white, 13mos., champion Sensation—Devon- 
shire Lass; 2d, W. F. Sage’s St. Kilda, liver and white, 12mos., Dilley’s 
champion Ranger—Dilley's White Lily, Very bigh com., Neversiuk 
Lodge Kennel’s Romp, liver and white, 14mos., champion Croxteth 
—Lass; Essex Kennel Club’s Cora, liver and white, 16mos., Arcos I.— 
Cora. High com., Thomas F. Ryan's Nell 111., lemon and white, 
whelped Noy. 18, 1882, Czar, by Snapshot—Gypsie, dam Nell I1., she 
by Rake IT.—Nell. ¢ 

Pointer Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Norbury 
Kennel’s Daisy Bravo, lemon and white, 8mos., champion Brayo— 
Lily I1.; 2d, F. R. Hitehcock’s Prince Hamlet, lemonand white, 8mos., 
Sensation—Lass. Very high com., Dr. A. GC. McCollom‘s Faust I. 
(A.K.R. 696), liver and white, whelped May 12, 1883, champion Faust 
—Gertrude. High com., Garret Roach’s Lou, lemon and white, 1135 
mos,, Beaufort—Duchess; Knickerbocker Kennel Club's Jule (A.K.R, 
1042), liver and white, 8mos., St. John—Folly; Julien Rosenblatt’s Don, 
brown and white, 10mos,, Don, Sr.—imported bitch; Francis Lynch's 
Windsor, white and black, 7mos., Bang Bang—Daisy Dean. 

Champion English Setters, Dogs,—ist, C. F, Crawford's Foreman, 
black, white and tan, 4yrs., Dashing Monarch—Fairy 1, 

Champion English Setters, Bitches.—1st, T. G. Davey’s Belle’s Pride, 
4yrs., blue belton, champion Paris—Harrison’s Belle. J 

English Setters, Dogs.—ist, F. E. Lewis's Rock, lemon and white, 
2éyrs,. Water’s Grouse—lrench’s Daisy; 2d, L, C, Clark's Bob White, 

mon belton, 2yrs., Youn, Laverack—Lady May; 3d, Neversink Lodge 

mnel’s Laverack Chief, black, white and tan, 5 yrs., Pontiac— 
Fairy Il. Very high com., Thomas F. Ryan's Count Dan, blue belton, 
5yrs., Carlowitz—Queeén Bess; Dr, 8. es oe Marquis de Correze, 
ack, white and tan, TS peipenge ed—Lizzie Les; Stewart. Mc- 
Kay’s Pride of Columbia, white, , Cossack—Ophelic 


Prince Messenger, white and. blyck, 2yrs. 
Moore's Prince Al, lediob ad white, cl 


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Rose. Com., G F. Jo 4 I e— 
Rosle Morn Jordan‘s Telford, blue belton, 2yrs., Darkis 
nelish Setters, Bitches.—Ist, B. W. Jester’s Dashing Belle. (A. K.R. 
414) blue belton, 34mos., Dashing Monarch—Bine Belle; 2d, H, W. Jes- 
tens Dashing Jessie (A.K.R. 815), blue belton, 34mos., Dashing Monarch 
— Blue Belle; 3d, OC. A. Stone’s Forest: Dora, blue belton, 2yrs.. cham- 
pion Dick Laverack—Forest Fly. Very high com., John G. Heck 
scher’s Modjeska, lemon and white, ‘7yrs., champion Leicester— 
Peeress; J, O. Donner’s Princess Helen, orange and white, 2yvs., 
champion Thunder—Donner’s Bessie; Thomas F, Ryan‘s Linda, black, 
white and tan, 21mos., Emperor Fred—Cecilia, D.; E. A, Herzberg’s 
Lucid, blue belton, 5y1s., Sim’s champion Dash—champion Maid of 
Honor; John J, Scanlan's Flake, black, tan and whiteticked, Druid— 
Swaze; Howard Hartley's Daisy Queen, white, black and tan, 3yrs., 
Rock—Meg; T. G. Davey’s Genevieve, blue belton, 2yrs.. Harrison’s 
London—Dawn. High com,, H. . Aten’s Crook. white, black ticked, 
4yrs,, Carlowitz—Dell; Dr. FP, B, Greenhough’s Brier, white, black 
and tan, 2yrs., 8mos., Coin—Dr, Greenhough’s Beauty; Dr. §. Fleet 
Speir’s Lady Sanborn, orange belton, 3yrs., Count Noble—Spark; 
W. A. Buckingham’s Alice Dale, orange and white, 2yrs,. Waters 
Grouse—Daisy Dale; Lawrence Shuster, Jr.’s Clemantine D., white, 
black and tan, 4yrs., Dash 11.—Cornelia. Com., Locust Grove Ken- 
nels’s Smut II,, black, 5yrs., Pratt's Trim—Harl's Smut; R. W. Dodd's 
Lily, white, 2imos.: Charles H. Husted’s Daisy, black, white ticked, 
5}éyrs., Benedict’s Dash—Galloway’s Flirt. 

English Setter Puppies. over 12 and under 16 Months, Dogs.—ist, W. 
R. Travers’s Rocket (A.K.R. 118), white, black and tan, 17mos., Wag- 
ner (A.K.R, 229)—Neil Kelly (A.K.R. 286); 2d, J. J. Scanlan’s Drake 
Carter, black, white and ticked, 10mos,, Cashier—Flake. Very 
high com., S. B. Foord’s Brant F., blue belton, 17mos., Dashing Mon- 
arch—Mollie Bawny; O. A. Stone’s Forest Royal, blue belton, 13mos., 
Prince Royal—Forest Queen. High com., G. K. Haswell's Jock, 
orange and white, 17mos., Promise—Abbey; H. Hedeman’s Plunger, 
blue bellon, 14mos., Hroperor Fred—Polka. CGom., Locust Grove 
Kennel’s Paul, black and white, 15mos., Dash IIT. imported Blanche. 

English Setter Puppies, over 12 and under 18 Months, Bitches.—1st, 

J. J. Scanlan’s Cliney Carter, blue belton, 12mos., Cashier—Flake; 2d, 
Ed. Lohman’s Mistletoe, lemon and white ticked, 12mos., Emperor 
Pred—Countess Belle. Very high com., Lawrence Shuster, Jr.'s, 
Clarenda T.. white, black and slightly blue belton, 12mos., Thunder— 
Cornelia. High com., Bassford & Hall’s Betsy Druid, blaek, white 
and tan, 15mos., King Dan—May Queen. 

English Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, F. 

Windholz's Princess Pheebus (imported) blue belton, 10mos., Prince 
Phosbus—Patch; 2d, 8. B, Foard’s Rosa F., black, white and tan, 
10mos., Dashing Monarch—Leah II. Very high com., Dr. §, F. Speir’s 
Windermere, lemon _belton, under 12mos., Druid—Countess Louise; 
T. S. Dumont's Pendragon, black and white, 9mos., Count Nohle— 
Ploy; Ricardo de B. Smith's Peek-a-Boo, blue belton, 10mos., Perfee- 
tion—imported Beauty; H. D. Towner’s Count Ranger, black, while 
aud tan, 9mos., Count Noble—Gertrude; J. H. Lee’s Cashboy, blne 
belton, iimos. 2idys., Cashier—Flake. High com., Dr. R. T. Tull’s 
Dashing Armida, black and white ticked, limos., Dashing Monarch— 
Armida; Dr. R. T. Tull’s Dashing Prim, black and white ticked, 11mos., 
Dashing Monarch—Armida: Pierre Noel's Verra, white and orange, 
Smos., Bruce—Abbey. 

Champion Black and Tan Setters, Does.—iIst. G. R. Reed's Flash 
(A, KR. 958), 3yrs. 4mos., Brown—Cute. oe 

Champion Black and Tan Setters, Bitches.—ist, Dr, W. H, Tilling- 
harst’s Perley, 6yrs., Marble’s Grouse—Queen Bess. 

Black and Tan Setters, Dogs.—1st, Edwiu 8. Dixon’s Little Boy, 
jlyr. 5mos., Dixon's Pilot—Fly; 2d, Miss Lillian Woodworth’s Phil, 
3yéyrs.; 8d, Miss Maggie H. Mann’s Punch, 6yrs., Dr. Fleet Speir’s 
Romeo—G, C. Colburn’s Fannie, Very high com., Theobald Puek- 
eridge's Ocolia, 2imos,; Ed. Maher’s Duke, 3yrs,, Bob—Nell; L. Water- 
bury’s Pride of the Frontier. 4yrs., Howe's Duke—Fisher’s Vlirt. High 
com., L. W. Pye’s Puck, 2lmos., Dexter (A.K.R. 379\—Belle. Com, 
Stony Point Kennel’s Black Shoon, 3yrs.; Neversink Lodge Kennel’s 
Bruce, 4yrs., champion Bob—chanipion Beauty. 

-Black and Tan Setters, Bitches.—ist, Malcom MeLane’s Daisy Blo3- © 
som, 2yrs., Blossom—Bessie B., by Marble’s Grouse—Young St. Hilda; 
2d, J. L. Campbell’s Diana, 2yrs.. Jack (Grouse—Moy)—Gup (Duke— 
Belle II.); 83d, W. H. Mason’s Daisy, 2yrs. 8mos., Dr. Aten’s Glen—W, 
H. Pierce’s Fannie. 

Black and Tan Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs,—ist, 
James T, Walker’s Grouse, Jr., black, 5l4mos., Jock—Black Bess 
(A.K.R. 422); 2d, James T. Walker’s Jock, Jr., 5}4mos,, Puddicomhe's 
champion Jock—Black Bess (A.K,R. 422), i 

Black and Tan Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Bitches, —1st, 
James T. Walker's Dora, black and tan, 544mos., Puddicombe’s ¢ham- 
pion Jock—BPlack Bess. ; 

Champion Irish Setters, Dogs. — 1st, Dr. W. Jarvis’s Elcho, Jr, 
(formerly Elcho VII.), dark red, 2yrs. limos., champion Elcho— 
champion Noreen. ; 

Champion Irish Setters, Bitches—Ist, W. Kemble Lente's Triz, dark 
red, 4yrs., champion Elecho—champion Fire Fly. 

Trish Setters, Dogs.—1st, Hiram & Wiliam Harris’s Jack, red, 2yrs., 
imported, Barney—Rhoda; 2d, J. Henry Roberts's Bruce, red, 3yrs., 
champion Elcho (A.K.R. 295)—champion Noreen (A.K.R. 297); 3d, 
Rory O’More Kennel’s Rexford, red, yrs. 3mos., chamipigs Lae 
Sampson’s Nora. Very high com., H. b. Goetschius’s Chief IT. (A, KR. 
282), red, 3yrs., champion Chief (A.K.R. 231)—imported Doe: Charles 
W. Roedenberg's Chip, red, 3yrs., Chief—Doe: GC. H. Binmell’s Berk- 
shire, red, 12}4mos., Chief Rate’ High com., Charles R. Thorburn'’s 
Rory O’More, Jr., dark red, 244yrs., champion Rory O’More—Nora 
O’More; F. L. Van Benschoten’s Ked Dick, red and white. 6yrs., 
Elcho—Jessie; H. L, Bullard’s Philo, red, 4yrs., Derg—Kathieen, 
Com., Max L. Ranson’s Larry I1.. red. lyr. $mos,. Larry—ited Lassie. 

Trish Setters, Bitches—1st, John ¥. Dwight’s Noreen IL., red, 2yrs., 
1imos,, Elcho—Noreen; 2d, H. B. Thomas’s Fama, red, lyr,, Glencho 
—Nora; 8d, Chas. R. Thorburn’s Phroney Jane, dark red, 2yrs., cham- 
pion Berkley—Nora. Very bigh com., A. 8, Guild’s Doreas, dark red, 
16mos., champion Glencho—Syren U,; F, M. Carrington’s Hazel, red, 
8yrs. 1imos., Eleho—Rose; C. R. Squire’s Ruby 8. (A.K.R, 512), red, 
Qyrs. 3mos. 6 days, champion se O'More — Nora O’More; 

thas, J. Stewart’s Meg, red, 8yrs, x Wenzel’s Chief; Rory 
Q’More Kennel’s Lady Edith, red, 2imcs., champion Roary .O’More 
—Lady Berkley; J. J. Scanlan’s Lulu Il., red, 4yrs., champion 
Berkley—Lulu. High com., Frank Leonard’s Bess, red, 15ntos., 


Glencho—Syren II, Com., Rory O’More Kennel’s Gay, red, 4¥4yrs., 
champion Flcho—Fire Fly; C, HE. Bunnel’s Lady Berkshire, 12}¢mi0s., 


red, Max Wenzel’s Chief—Kate, and Kate, red, 4%4y1's., Lincolu & 
Hillyar’s Dash—Bray’s Kate. 

Trish Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs.—ist, Rory O*More 
Kennel’s Rory O*More II., red, 9mos., champion Rory O'More—Norah 
O’More; 2d, John J. Scanlan’s Pride of Glencho, red, 6mos,, champion 
Glencho—Lulu. Very high com., Stony Point Kennel’s Claret, red 
Jmos., Dan—Moy,; W. G. Brokaw’s Pilot, 9mos., Daua—Moy; Bassfor 
‘& Hall Harrison Kennel's Garfield, limos. 2/dys., imported Zig— 
Fashion; D, Barrow Freedman’s Prinee, red, 5mos.. Dan—Moyse. 
Com., W.S. Maddock’s Lad, red, 5mos., Denis—imported bitch. 

Trish Setter Puppies, under 12 Months, Bitches.—ist, Johr J. Scan- 
Jan's Lady Glencho, red, 6mos., champion Glencho—Lulu Iil.; 2d, 
®. M. Carrington's Pattie, red, 9mos., Biz—Hazel. Very bigh com., 
Ashmont Kennel's Noreena, dark red, 2mos., champion Hicho—cham. 
pion Noreen; W. H. Mason's Nett, red, 6}4mos., Glencho—Fannie; W. 
H. Mason's Lillie, red, 6}4mos,, Glencho—Fannie; W. H. Mason's Rose, 
red, 644mos,, Glencho—Fannie. 

Chesapeake Bay Dogs, Dogs or Bitches.—Ist, J. H. Bradford’s Rose, 
Lena—Bell, tull pedigree; 2d. Louis C. Clark's Chess, reddish brown, 
8yrs., Averill’s Sport—Averill’s Rose, . 

Champion Irish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—No entries. , 

Trish Water Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Archibald Rogers’s 
Irish Obief, 8yrs., champion Barney—Irish Nell; 2d, Essex Kennel 
Club’s Wasso, 18mos., Sailor—Fannie. : 

Champion Field Spaniels (any color) over 28 lbs., Dogs or Bitches,— 
ist, H. W. Huntington’s Benedict (A. K.R. 61), black, dyrs., champion 
Bachelor—Negress. . f 

Field Spaniels (any color) over 28 1bs., Dogs or Bitehes,—ist, Win- 
chester Johnson's Critic, black, 2yrs.. Brush If—Blackie I} 2d, 
James Watson’s Bateman, imported, lemon and white, 18mos, Very 
high com., Andrew Luidiaw's Toronto Jet (A.K.R, 860) imported, 
black, 3i4yrs., Nigger—Belle. High com., Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
Jewell, black, 2yrs. 10mos.. Brag—Nelly; Frank Thomson’s Don, 
lemon and white, Bruno—Gill, Com., Herman P. Schellhass’s Bene- 
dict’s Boy (A.K.R. 130), black, 22mos,, imported champion Benedict— 

imported Beatrice; Frank Thomson's Punch, lemon and white, Brono 
—Gill. 

Barat Cocker Spaniels (any color) under 28 lbs,, Dogs or 
Bitches,—Isb, J. P. Willey’s OboIl., black, 23mos,, Parrar’s Obo— 

‘hloe TI. 

" Cocker Spaniels (liver or black) under 28 lbs, Dogs or Bitches.—isb, 
B. F. Wilson’s Peerless Gloss, black, 33mos., Young Berwerlac—Nel- 
lie; 24, E. W. Durkee’s Jumbo, liver, 12mos., Hornell Dandy—Hornell 
Dinah. Very high com., Andrew Laidlaw’s Woodstock Flirt (A.K.R. 
661), black, iberios. imported Tippo—imported Toronto Jet (A.K.R. 
860), High com., Wm, Dunphy's oo black, 15mos., champion 
Beau—Fancy. Com,, Hornell Spaniel Club’s 8am, black, 20mos,, 
champion Bonanza—Pansy. ‘ : 

Gankek Spaniels (any color other than liver and black) under 28)bs. 
Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Hornell Spaniel Club's Rattler, chestnut an 
tan, lyr., Diratty Chane Dinah; 2d, Wm. Dunphy's Fancy 


black, 15mos., champion Beau—Fancy. Very high com., Capt, J. a, 
Pelee ihe ae sliver aa sat ; ‘Bao. « Charl cat ea h 
com,, Capt. J, H, Jones's Powder, liver snd white. dyrs., Lore oe 
Kennel. | Com:. George Miller's Clytie, liver aud’ white, 61s... 
Wats 1s Sbot—Hall’s Lou. rile zag z yt i" 


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Winchester Jolinson’s Black Tournie, black, &mos., Obo IT. (A.K.R. 482) 


as ae Beagles, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Albert H, Wakefield's 
Bush, white, black and tan, 2iéyrs., Plute—Queen. } 

Beagles, Dogs.—ist, Henry Douoliue’s Frank, lemon and_ white, 
2yrs. 10mos., Bud—Rose; 2d, W. TH. Moller’s Duke, black, white and 
tan, 4yrs., Ringold—Ringlet; 8d, W. H. Moller’s Bugle, black, white 
and tan, tyr. }mos., Deacon—Midget. High com., W. H. Ashburner’s 
Toreman, imported 1684, tan, lemon and white, 4yrs,, Bravo—Honesty, 

Beagles, Bilches.—ist, N. Elmore’s Chase, white, black and tan 
ticked, 1yr. 10mos., Ringwood—Winnie; 2d, W, H. Moller's Midget, 
black, white and tan, Syrs., General Rowett’s Lee—Hay’s Rill; 8d, W. 
HH. Ashburner’s Deborah, imported, black, white and tan, 2yrs,, Mira- 
culous—Rachel. Very high com., A. C. Krueger’s Rena, white, black 
and tan, 34yrs.. Ringwood 1I.—Spider. High com., Chas. F. Kent's 
Lady Elmore, black, white and tan. 15mos., Rinswood—Queen,. Com., 
3 : seg: a Jr.’s Fly, black, white and tan, 3yrs. 11mos., Pet— 

eauty. 

Beagles, Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches.—lst, W. Hi. 
Moller’s Marjory, black, white and tan, 9mos., Hunt’s Duke—Hunt's 
Midger, Very high com., George A. Post's Judy, black. white and 
tan, 9mos., Racket—Fly. High com., W. F. Streeter’s Keiser, black, 
whits and tan, 6mos., Elmore’s King—Mary. Com., Locust Grove 
Kennel's Music. black, white and tau, 1imos,, Box—Lilly 11.; Francis 
Lynch’s Sally, black, white and tan, 5mos., Ringwood—Silver. 

Basset Hounds, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, W. R. Chamberlain’s 
she, OES black, white and tan, l4mos., Jupiter (E.K.C.8.B, 12,152)— 

iviern, 

Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—ist, Prescott Lawrence’s Brocken- 
hurst Joe, white, black and tan, 10yrs., Belgrave Joe—Tricksey, 

Ohampion Fox-Terriers, Bitches,—ist, John H. Thayer's Richmond 
Olive, white, with black and tan markings, 2yrs., Olive Tiart—Dicker- 
son's Jess. 

Fox-Terriers, Dogs,—ist, L, & W. Rutherfurd’s Belzraye Primrose, 
white and tan, 18mos., Belgrave Jerry—Wasp; 2d, Clovernook Ken- 
nel’s Searsdale, white, black and tam, lyr.. 1Imos., Joker—Ella; 3d, 
John EB. Thayer's Raby Tyrant, white, black and tan markings, 3yrs., 
Bailiff 1.—Peach. Very high com., John T. Cable's Vakeel, white, 
black and tan, 24¢yrs., champion Volo—champion Spiteful; New 
Brighton Fox-Terrier Kennel’s Marlboro Jockey, Jr., white, black 
and tan, lyr,, Marlboro Jockey—Twinkle: Prescott Lawrence’s Buff, 
black and white, 8yrs., Buggett’s Swan; J. B. McDewitt’s Roderick, 
black, white and tan, 18mos., imported. High com., B. M. Cole's 
Terror, white and orange, lyr., Dr. Vield’s Tyke—A. Belmoet's 
Fide; New Brighton Fox-Terrier Kennel’s Grip, white. black and 
tan spots, 2yrs., Yorkshire Bill—Vanity, High com,, R. Gibson’s Bel- 
voir Jim, white, black and tan, 2yrs., Spigot—Lily. Com., H.-L. Dag- 
gett's Nip,white and black markings, 4yrs.. Brockenhurst’s Joe—Lad 
Teazel; New Brighton Fox-Terrier Kennel’s Goyernour, white, black 
and tan, lyr., Grip—Nancy; Geo. W. Haines’s Tough, black and white, 
2igyrs., Imported. full pedigree. 

Fox-Terriers, bitches.—ist, L. & W. Rutherfurd’s Dance, white, 
black and tan, i8mos.. Brockenhurst’s Spice—Polonaise; 2d, John T. 
Cable's Village Belle, white black and tan, 2yrs. 9mos., champion 
Volo—champion Beauty; 3d, R. & W.Rutherfurd’s Warren Testy, 
black, white and tan, lyr., Nailer—Diana. Very high com., Alex. 
Taylor, Jr.’s Squeak, white, black and tan, 2i¢yrs., Moslem IJ.—Moon- 
light; New Brighton Fox-Terrier Kennel’s Diamond, white, black and 
tan, lyr.. Marlore Jockey—Twinkle. High com., New Brighton Fox- 
Terrier Kennel’s Twinkle, white; black and tan, 2yrs., Jester IT. 
—Thyra. Com., Neversink Lodge Kennel’s Lady Gay, white, black 
and tan markings, 6yrs., P. Lawrence’s Paulo—Nettle. 

Wire-haired Fox-Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—lst, Neversink Lodge 
Kennel's Vyke, white and tan, 5yrs., Tee Side Lad—Foster’s Vix: 2d, 
Neversink Lodge Kennel’s Meg, white, tan markings, 3yrs. 10mos., 
Hemp—Nelly Il. Very high com., Howard 8. Jaffray’s Sweetbriar, 
white, black spot on eye and tail, 19mos,, imported Wildbriar—im- 
ported Vixen, 

Fox-Terrier Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs.—ist, L. & W. Ruther- 
furd’s Warren Joe, white, black and tan, 18mos., Brockenhurst Joe— 
Swansdown. Very high com., Alex. Taylor, Jr.°s Acteou, white, 
black and tan, fmos., Rutherfurd’s Joker—Squeak, 

FYox-Terrier Puppies, under 12 Months, Bitches.—ist, Clovernook 
Kennel’s Glover Belle, white, black and tan, 9mos., Rutherfurd’s 
Joker—Warren’s Bessie. Very high com., Alex. Taylor, Jr.’s, Azola, 
white, black and tan, 6mos., Rutherfurd’s Joker—Squeak. High 
com., Alex. Taylor, Jr.'s, Juno, white, black and tan, 6mos., Ruther- 
furd’s Joker—Squeatk; BH. A. Hawes’s Betsy. white and black, 8mos., 
imported; Alex. Taylor, Jr.'s, Daphne, white, black and tan, tmos., 
Rutherturd’s Joker—Squeak, Com., Mrs. Mary W, Herzbere’s Rosa 
Bonheur, white, orange ears, 6mos.. Peregrine Pickle--Gypsum. 

Champion Collies. Dogs.—lst, Thos. H. Terry’s Robin Adair (im- 
ported, E.K.C.S.B, 12.963). red, sable and white, 2yrs., Guy’s Cliffe 
(B.K.C.8.B. 10,700)—Tyne (B.K.C,8.B, 9447). 

Champion Collies, Bitekes.—ist, Thos, H. Terry’s Zuln Princess 
Gmperted, E-K.C,8.B. 11,896). 4tyrs., champion Marcus (£.K.C.S.B. 
7526)—Ruby I. (#.1.C.8.B. 10,751). , 

Collies, Dogs.—ist, J. Lindsay's Hiram, (A,K.R. 882) sable and 
white, 1imos., champion Rex—Kiity Mac; 2d, W. L. Whittemore’s 
Duncan, black, tan and white. 2yrs. 9mos.. Mareys—Flora; 3d, 
Martin Dennis’s Brack, (E.K.O.S,B. 11.883, A,.K.R. 8), black. tan and 
white. 4yrs., imported, champion Carlyle (W.K,0.8 B., 8,505)—San- 
foil (E.K.C.8.B, 6,518), Very high com., QO. N. Boyd's Hero, black, tan 
white, 2yrs. 9mos.. imported; J. W. Burgess’s Sandy (A.K.R, 540), 
sable and white, 2yrs , Marcus (£.K.C.8.B. 7,520)—Daisy (E,K.0.8.B. 
9.452). High com., Neversink Lodge Kennel’s Laddie, black and tan, 
16mos., Rob Ray—Nora; J.D. Shotwell’s Rokeby (A,K.R. 1,022). dark 
sable and white, 3yrs., Mareus (C.K.C.S.B. 7,526)—Isle (H.K.C.S.B. 
11,872) Com.,J. W. Burgess’s Donald (A.K R. 582), sable and white, 
Qyrs., Marcus (E.K.C.8.B, 7.526)—Daisy (E.K.C.S.B. 9,452). 

Collies, Bitches.—ist, Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s Winnie, sable 
and white, 2yrs., Gairlock—Laurie; 2d, John W, Burgess’s Jean, 
black and white, 2yrs., Mareus (W.K.C.5,B, 7,.526)—Plora (E.K.U.8.B. 
11,871); 3d, J, Lindsay’s Fairy (A,K.R. 147), sable and white, 1imos., 
champion Rex—Kibty Mac. Very high com.,J, Lindsay's Jersey Lily, 
black, tan and white, 19mos., champion Mareus—Comet; J, Lindsay’s 
Lizzie. black, white and tan, 3yrs.. champion Kex—Topsy; James 
Watsou’s Flyaway (A.K_R. 587), sable and white, 8yrs. 7mos., cham- 
pion Rex—Burgess's Old Flora. High com., Neversink Lodge Ken- 
nel’s Nora, tawny, 2yrs., Bruno—Nora, Com, Thomas H. Terry's 
Wigg, black, tan and white, 2yrs,, imported, Gillie (B.1K.C.8.B. 9,424) 
—Watech (.K.C,S.B, 7,553), 

Collie Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs.—1st. John W. Burgess’s 
Argyle, black, tan and white, §mos., Brack (A.K.R, 3)—Dora (A.K.R. 
4). Very hizh com., Geo. Aibken’s Fritz, black and tan, white breast, 
§mos., Marquis 11.—Clyde; John Romaine’s Robin Hood, black and 
white, 9mos., chanipion Robin Adair—champion Zulu Princess. High 
com., Romeyn §. Stafford's Collie, black and white, ?mos., Baldy— 
Zephyr; J. Lindsay’s Major, sable and white, Gmos., champion Kex 
—Jeannie Nettles; J. D. Shotwell’s Shepherd Boy (A.K.R. 1023), dark 
sable and white, 9mos,, Rokeby—Fannie). Com., J, Lindsay’s Help, 
fawn and white, 10mos., champion Ayrshire Laddie—Lizzie. 

Collie Puppies, under 12 Months, Bitches.—1st, Mrs, F.C. Phebus’s 
Peep o’ Day, black, white and tan, 8mos., Mr. Arthur Turnbull's Roy 
—Mr. Thompson's Floss. Very high com., J. Lindsay’s Nannie O , 
blaek, white and tan, 11mos,., champion Rex—Kitty Mae; Neversink 
Lodge Kennel’s Effie Dean, tawny, 8mos., Bruno—Nora, High cora., 
Geo Aitken’s Juno II., black and tan, white breast, 8mos., champion 
Carlyle (E.K.0.8.B. 11.883)—Juno. Com., Jas. M. McCullah's Laurie, 
black and tan and white markings, 9mos., Laddie—Lassie. 


Champion Bulldogs, Bitches.—ist, John EH, Thayer's Bellissima, 
brindle, 3yrs, Dogs—ist, R, & W. Livingston’s Boz (@.K.C.S.B, 13,020), 
white and brindle, 2yrs. jimos,., Gamester—Browse’s Bets}, 

Bulldogs, Dogs.—ist, J. P. Barnard, Jr.’s Hamlet, brindle, i8mos., 

Wheel of Fortune; 2d, Monarch Bottling Co.'s 
Hero IT. (A.K.R, 1), brindle and white, lyr, 11mos., Livingston’s Hero 
ens Gypsey; 3d, James Osborn’s Boxer. white, 2yrs. 4mos., 
Parewell—Daisy, Very high com,, James Patterson’s Mose, brindle, 
dyrs.,champion Ben—Rose. Com., John BN. Thayer's Moses, (A.K.R. 
823), white, 3yrs., Sir Bevis—Nancy Lee, 

Bulldogs, Bitches.—1st, J. E. Thayer’s Rhodora, white, 3yrs.: 2d 
R. & W, Livingston's Helen, white, lyr, 7mos., Bley osbelie Helene: 
8d, James Patterson’s Jenny, brindle, 10yrs.. imported. High com., 
J. P. Barnard, Jr.’s Julia, white, lyr., imported, 
Champion Bull-Terriers, over 25 lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—ist, R, & W. 

ston’s Grand Duke (E.K.C:S.B. 13, 3), white. 2yrs. dmos., 


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ley, white, lyr. 5mos., Spot—imported Lill; 8d, Hon, Wdmund Sandy’s 
Rosy, white, 24syrs. ? 

Champion Buil-Terriers, under 25 Ibs.. Dogs or Bitches.—1st, R. & 
W. Livingston's Little Maggie (A-K,R,. 525), white, 16mos., Hinks’s 
Dutch—Young Venom. 

Bull-Terriers, under 25 Ibs., Dogs or Bitches.—1st, James FP. Mal- 
loy’s Doonie, white, 22mos., Modoc—Nellie Bly; 2d, BE. H. Hays's 
Venus, white, fyrs; 8d, Locust Grove Kennel’s Short, white, 2yrs., 
Barney—Fanny. Very highcom., A Starling’s Katy, white, 3yrs. 

Bull-Terrier Sirona, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches,—1st, J, P. 
Barnard, Jr.'s, Rosa, white, §mos., President—Scarlet II. 

Black and Tan Terriers, over 7 lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—ist, John F, 
Scholes’s Bessy, 22mos., imported Nep-—imported Tep; 2d, Pdward 
Lever’s Lady, 1 ., Vortigern—Lilly Il. Very high com., John 
Whitaker’s Brilliant, 1gyrs., Vortigern—Lilly If. High com., Miss 
Marion Booth’s Loctor, 5yrs., Prince—Nellie. Com., Mrs. J, F. Vier- 
son’s Sambo, 4yrs. 

Rough-Haired Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, John H, Naylov’s 
Heather, brindle, 25mos., imported; 2d, John H. Naylor’s Tam Gleh, 
dark gray, 20mos., full pedigree. Very high com., G. H. Gilbert’s 
Muldoon, gray, 2yrs., imported Tag—Tilley ; Edward Lever’s Sir Gar- 
net, blue and tan, 2yrs., champion Crack—Gypsey Queen. Highcom., 
Allerton and Moses's Putsey, blue and black, i7mos.; G. H. Gilbert’s 
Peto, gray. 2yrs.,imported. Com.,. O. Richards’s Clinker, red, 3yrs, 
imported; John Hammond’s Scotche, blue and tan, 9mos.; Louis B. 
Wright's Vic., red, 2yrs. 10mos., Billy—Lady. 

Dandie Dinmont Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Robert Hume’s 
Badger Il., pepper, 4yrs., Badger—Rosa; 2d, Jas. P. Swain Jr.'s. 
Sally (A.K.R. 866), pepper, Tartar—Flo. Very high com., George Ait- 
kens’s Bob, steel gray, 14mos. 

Trish Terriers, dogs or bitches.— No entries. F 

Bedlington Terriers.—ist, John F. Scholes's Blucher, liver, 244yrs., 
Peachon—Jess; 2d, withheld. Com., Edward Lever’s Vixen, liver, 
fmos., Stixg—Wasp. <% C 

Champion Skye Terriers, Dogs or Bitches,—1st, William Pierre San- 
derson’s Jim, blue, 4yrs., Burkie—Highland, Mary. 

Skye Terriers, Dogs or Bitches.—1st, Geo, Peabody Wetmore's Boss, 
steel bine, fy7s., Monarch—Belle; 2d, Geo, Sanderson's Watty, steel 
fray, 2yrs., imported; 3d, Geo. Sanderson’s Fanny, steel gray, 3yrs., 
imported, Very high com., Mrs. T. D. Burke’s Bob, blue and silver, 

yrs., full pedigree; T. D. Burke’s Elfin, silver, 244yrs., full pedigrte, 
High com,, G. H. Gilbert’s Pert, pepper aud salt, 2isyrs., imported. 
Com,, Geo, B. Sealey's Gypsie, blue and silver, 4yrs; Miss Mary Grant’s 
Nona, pepper and white, 15mos,., full pedigree. f 

Champion Pugs, Dogs,—ist, M. H. Cryer’s Roderick, fawn and 
black, 6yrs., champion Punch—Judy. 

Champion Pugs, Bitches,—Ist, W. R. Knight’s Effie, stone fawn, 
8lgyrs,, imported, Banjo—Zoe. 

ugs, Dogs.—Ist, M. H. Oryer’s Max, fawn and black, tyr., cham- 
pion Roderick—Dolly ; 2d, M, H. Cryer’s Bob, fawn and black, 9mos., 
Atlas———; 3d, Mrs, C. Wheatleigh’s Tu Tu, fawn, *eyrs., Young 
Peter—Loe. Very high com., Miss Lulu Lockwood's Wrinkle, fawn, 
4yrs. High com., Miss Ada L, Gibbs’s Pete, light fawn, Zyrs. Com., 
Peter Cassidy’s Punch, Morrison Strain, 2yrs. 
Pugs, Bitehes.—ist, Miss Morley’s Duchess, fawn, 25mos.; 2d, M. H. 


OCryer’s Dolly, fawn and black, 4yrs., Toby—Liz; 2d, Forest City Ken- 


nels’s Dolly (A.K.R. 170), apricot fawn, 3yrs.. Punch—Judy, Very 
high com., Mrs, C, Wheatleigh’s Victoria, silyev gray, 16mos., Atlas 
—Vie, Highcom., Lucy Bros.’s Minnie May I1., silver fawn, 11mos., 
Luey’s Fritz—Luey’s Minnie May. Com, W.H. Closs’s Puck, fawn, 
tyr.; John G. Browning's Judy, fawn, 2yrs,, imported, 

Pug Puppies, under 12 Months, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, G. B, Wilson’ s 
unnamed, fawn, black points, 12wks., —— —Peggie; 2d, J. F. 
Schenck’s Chochra, fawn, 3mos.; 8d, M. H. Cryer’s Puppy, fawn 
and black, champion Roderick— ——. Very high com., John Ham- 
moud’s Minnie, stone fawn, limos., imported. High com., Andrew 
Ludwig’s Punch, cream, 8mos., Punch—Plucky. Com., Andrew Lud- 
Wig’s Jerry, eream, 3mos., Punch—Plucky. 

Champion Yorkshire Terriers, oyer 5 lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—Mrs. 
H. A. Kisteman’s Hero, blue and tan, 4yrs., full pedigree. 

Yorkshire Terriers, over 5lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—ist, H. A. Kiste- 
man’s Lancashire Star, blue and tan, 2yrs., full pedigree; 2d, John 
Hammond's Prince. blue silver tan, 4yrs., imported: 3d, H. A. Kiste- 
man’s Bright, blue and tan, itéyrs., full pedigree. Very high com., 
Lieut. Aaron Ward’s Billee Taylor, blue and tan, 3yrs., imported; H. 
F. Vogt’s Eddie, blue and tan, 1$mos., imported. High com., John 
Hammond’s Nellie, golden tan, 3léyrs.. imported; John Hammond’s 
Ben. blue and tan, 15mos., imported. Com., Dr. Gage’s Flossie, blue 
and tan, 3y7's.: Mrs. James B, Wasson’s Muif, silver blue, 4yrs. 

Champion Yorkshire Terriers, under 5 lbs., Dugs or Bitches.—H. A. 
Kisteman’s Chickie, blue and tan, 2yrs., full pedigree, 

Yorkshire Terriers, under 5 lbs., Dogs or Bitches.—ist, H, A. Kiste- 
man’s Spring, blue and tan, 2yrs., full pedigree; 2d, Mrs. Robert 
Lyon’s Chester, blue and tan, 17mos., full pedigree; 8d, John Ham- 
mond’s Nellie, blue and tan, lisyrs., imported. Very high com., 
John Hammond ’s Nellie, blue and tan, 18mos ,imported; John Ham- 
mond’s Teddies, blue and tan, 2h4yrs., imported; John Moore’s Char- 
ley, blue and tan, 15mos., imported. High com., John Mariiot’s 
Charlie, blue and tan, 15mos.; H. A. Kisteman’s Prince, blue and tan, 
ilgyrs., full pedigree; John Marriot’s Flora, blue and tan, lyr, Com., 
Wm. MecGovan's Frank, blue and tan, I4yrs., Nip—Sallie; Miss 
M R. Finlay’s Rags, silver grey, d4tayrs., —Putz. 

Toy Terriers other than Yorkshire, under 7 lbs., Dogs or Bitches.— 
ist, John Power’s Daisy, black and tan, dyrs., Dandy—Fanny; 2d, 
Peter Mooney’s Gyp, black and tan, 2yrs, Dandy—Fly. Very high 
ecom., Tom Poleasky’s Nellie, black and tan, 3yrs., imported; Miss 
Emily Green’s Pud, black and tan, S5yrs., Patsey—Fan,. High com,, 
Bernard Costello’s Martha, slate, i4mos., inyported Teddy—Rose: R. 
& W. Livingston's Daisy, black and tan. 2yrs. 10mos., 5am—Daisy; R. 
F. Wheeler’s Charlie, silver, 14mos. Com.,, F. L. Vogt’s Dan, black 
and tan, 2yrs., Imported. 

King Charles Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches,—ist, John Hammond’s 
Charley, black and tan, white star. dyrs., imported: 2d, John Ham- 
mond’s Sankey IL,, black and tan, 6mos., Sankey II. Very highcom., 
Wn. Phillips's , black and tan, imported, full pedigree. 

Blenheim Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Miss Gertrude Gibert's 
Sir Guy (formerly Charley), orange and white, Charlie—Lucie; 2d, 
Josh, Geo. Browning’s Duke, orange and white, 2yrs., imported. Com., 
Frank Mariott’s Charley, liver, 13mos. 

Japanese Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches,—ist. Jobn Hammond's Ching, 
dlack and white, 2yrs., unported; 2d, James F. Larkin’s Mancha, 
white and black, 18mos., Onaska—Otomasen, Very high com., Wal- 
ter Seott’s Venus, white and black, 2yrs. High com,., John Ham- 
mond's Ada, black and white, 5mos,, Ching—imported Nelie. 

Poodles, Dogs.— 1st, Miss Work’s Rajah il., black, 4yrs., imported; 
2d, Miss Rives’s Gaulois, black, 3yrs.. Mr, Lorillard’s Schwartz, im- 
ported—Mr. Lorillard’s Flora, imported. Very high com., Mrs. Wal- 
ker Breeece Smith's Figaro, black, 4yrs., Mr, Lorillard’s Schwartz, im- 
ported—Mr. Lorillard’s Plora, imported. Com., J. Pierrepont Ed- 
wards’s Peter the Great (E.K.0.5,B, 11,016), black, 4yrs.; Prescott 
Lawrence’s Sweep, black. 

Poodles, Bitches.—ist, BH. B, Wall's Mignon, 2yrs. 4mos., Work’s 
Dog; 2d, J R. Sergeant’s Pompey, black, full pedigree. Very high 
com,, Prescott Lawrence’s Dinah, black. 

Ttalian Greyhounds, Dogs or Bitches.—ist, Mrs. Constance A, An- 
drews s Queenie, golden yellow, 4yrs., imported 1852, born in Italy; 
Ou E. W. Jester’s Pearl (A.K.R. 758), fawn, 5yrs., Douglas—Gypsy 

ueen. 

Miscellaneous (or Foreign Class), Dogs or Bitches, over 25 lbs., not 
specified in the above classification.—ist, Geo. A. Saportas’s Judge, 
brindle, 18mos., Jones’s Bruno—Unknown; 2d, Edward Dexter’s Belle 
Tinker (English retriever), black, 3yrs., imported, King Coffee—Sal- 
ter’s Belle; 3d, John H. Foster’s Nellie, spotted, 4yrs. Very high 
com,, Wm, F. Smith's Bob, black, 6mos. 

Miscellaneous (or Foreign Class), Dogs or Bitches, under 25 lbs,, 
not specified in the above classification —ist, N. Thomas’s Me Too, 
mouse, 2yrs., Unknown; 7d, John F. Scholes’s Hornet I,, white, 
2léyrs,, Hornet—Juliet. 

: SPECIAL PRIZES. 


The Eastern Field Trials Club prizes for dogs that have been vlaced 
at any field trials were awarded as follows: fi 
. Best pointer dog—Neyersink Lodge Kennel’s Drake. 

Best pointer bitech—No entry. 

Best English setter dog—C, Fred Crawford’s Foreman, 
Best English setter biteh—Dr. 8. Fleet Speirs’s Maida, 
Best Trish setter dog -Max Wenzel’s Chief. 

Best Ivish setter bilch—No entry. 

. Best black and tan setter—No eniry. 

The Westminster Kennel Club specials: 

H. Best kennel of large pointers to consist of five.—The Knicker- 
bocker Kennel Club’s Knickerbocker, Lady Gleam, Jimmie, Glen- 
mark and Lady Mac, 

I, Best kennel of small pointers to consist of five.—The Knicker. 
eka Kennel Club’s Lady Bang, Craft, Temptation, Doncaster and 

ule, 

J, Best Kennel of English setters to consist of five.—T. G. Davey's 
Ghee Laverack, Belle’s Pride, Glenfinlass, Genevieve and Canadian 

ueen. 

K, Best kennel of Irish setters, to consist of five—Rory O’More 


Qakiyotop 


Kennel’s Rextord, Lady Edith, Ryle, Gay and Kory O’More II. 
1 Best kennel of black and tan setters, to consist of five—No 
entry, ‘ 


Y A 
MM, Best collection of fivepugs—Dr. M. H. Oryer’s Roderick, ; 
Be pone anes Diebiy : sik ce : if c, Max. 
Bar aces Bleck ck setter—The Locust Grove Kennel’s Sut: 


P. Best basket beagle under 12 inches—No 
For the dog or bitch that retrieves 
obedient manuer—A., C. Collins’s Fritz. 
R. Best champion bull biteh—John H, Thayer's Belliessima, 
§. Fastest Greyhound— —. ’ 
T. For the greyhound making the highest leap—George S. Paryin’s 


Major. 
U. Best trick dog—A. C. Collins's Fritz. 
. Best bull dog or bitch the get of Ben—Mrs. James Patterson's 


Vv. 
Bil, 

W. Best pointer dog got by Sensation—R. C. Cornell's Match, 

Best pointer bitch, got by Sensation—J. H, Swain, Jr.'s Nan, 

Y. Best fve St. Bernards—B. R. Hearn’s Bonivard, Gertie, Duke of 
Leeds. Rhona and Don II. 

Z. Best looking setter that has been placed at a field trial—Max 
Wenzel’s Chief. ; . 

AA. Best looking pointer that has been placed at a field trial—The 
Westminster Kennel Club’s Bang Bang. 

BB. Best pair of pointers—J. W. Munson’s Meteor and Vanity. 

CC. Best brace of English setters—E. W. Jester’s Dashing Belle 
and Dashing Jessie. F 

DD. Best brace of Irish setter puppies of one litter—John J. Scan- 
lon's Pride of Glencho and Lady Glencho. 

BE. Best fox-terriers.—Prescott Lawrence's Brockenhurst Joe. 

FF. Best pair of bulldogs.—Jobn E.Thayer’s Tippo and Bellissima, 

GG. fed dog puppy got by Sensation.—_F’. R. Hitchcock's Sensa- 
tion Lad. 


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SWEEPSTAKE PRIZES. 


HH. Best pointer dog over 55 Ibs.—J. W. Munson’s Meteor. 

i. eee pointer dog under 55 Ibs.—The Westminster Kennel Club’s 
Bang Bang. 

JJ. Best English setter dog.—C. Fred Crawford’s Foreman. 

KK. Best Irish setter dog—Dr. Wim. Jarvis’s Elcho, Jr. 

The Medford Fancy Goods Company’s specials: 

LL. 


L. Best pointer dog—J. W. Munson’s Meteor. 
MM. Best pointer bitch—J.W. Munson’s Vanity. 
NN. Best English setter—F. BE. Lewis’s Rock. 
OO. Best Irish sevtter—Dr. W. Jarvis’s Elcho, Jr. 
PP. Best greyhound dog—H. W. Huntington's Bouncing Boy. 
QQ, Best greyhound biteh—H. W. Huntington’s School Girl. 
RR. Best brace of greyhounds—H. W. Huntington's Bouncing Boy 


and School Girl, 
SS. Best St, Bernard—E. R. Hearn’s Duke of Leeds, 
TT. Best mastiff—C. H, Mason's Nevison. 
DU. Best pug dog—Dr, M, i. Cryer’s Roderick, 
VV. Best bulldog—R. & W. Livingston's Boz. 
WW. Best Collic—Thos, H, Terry’s Zulu Princess. 


EXTRA SPECIALS. 

XX. Best collie dog sired by Robm Adair or Tweed II.—John Ro- 
maine’s Robin Hood, 

YY. Best collie bitch sired by Robin Adair or Tweed II.—No entry. 

ZZ. Best fox-terrier got by the stud dogs of the Messrs. Ruther- 
furd or bred in their kennel,—The Cloyernook Kennel’s Clover Belle. 

AAA, Best trained setter or pointer which has been trained by the 
method laid down in “Training vs. Breaking’—A. C. Collins’s Fritz. 

BBB, Best English setter over 12 and under 18 months old.—J, J. 
Scanlan’s Cliney Carter, 

ccc. Best pointer got by Bang Bang—G. de Forest’s Grant’s 


Fresco. 
DDD. Best deerhound dog—O, F. Dumbmann’s Jack. 
BEE. Best deérhound bitech—T, A. Blake’s Lorna IT. 
FFF, Best white poodle—Miss Edith Jones‘s Mouton. 
AMERICAN-ENGLISH BEAGLE SPISCIALS, 
GGG. Best beagle—H, W, Ashburner’s Deborah. 


HHH Best beagle owned by a member of the club—H. W-. Ash- 

burner’s Deborah. 
EXTRA SPECIALS. 

TY. Best American-bred bulldog—Mrs. James Patterson’s Bill, 

JJJ, Best cocker spaniel dog owned by a member of the A. C, 8, 
Club—J. P. Willey’s Obo IT. 

KEK. Best cocker spaniel bitch owned by a member of the A. C,S, 
Club—Andrew Laidlaw’s Woodstock Flirt. 

LLL, Best stud pointer—A. E. Godeffroy’s Croxteth, 5 

MMM, Best three greyhounds—H. W. Huntington’s Bouncing Boy, 
School Girl and Begonia. 

NNN, Second best beagle owned by a member of the American 
English Beagle Club.—N. Elmere’s Chase. 
: ed NA. Best pointer, the get of Faust or Bow.—C, H. Mason's Beau- 

ort. 
PPP. For the fastest greyhound.— 


PPP.A. Highest leaping greyhound.—George 5. Parvin's Major. 
89 . Best pointer got by Beaufort.—C. W. Littlejohn's Fritz. 
RRR, Best Yorkshire terrier under 9 months. --Not awarded. 


SSS. For the pointer or setter under 12 months best trained to 
retrieve—No entry. 

TTT. For the best imported English setter under 12 months—F. 
Windholz’s Princess Phoebus. 

UUU. For the best five collies—Thos. H. Terry's Robin Adair, 
Tweed II,, Zulu Princess, Effie and Meg. 

The Cocker Spaniel Produce Stakes.—ist, Hornell Spaniel Club’s 
eens 2d, Andrew Laidlaw’s Woodstock Flirt; 8d, Dr. J. S. Niven’s 

arkey. : 


THE PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW.—The exhibition of 
the Westminster Kennel Club last week in New York, has 
given a great impetus to the dog men of Philadelphia, and the 
only topic of conversation at the rooms of the Philadelphia 
Kennel Club is their coming show, to be held in connection 
with the State Agricultural Society’s fair the last of September. 
A special building for the dog showis to be erected, and some 
very attractive features never before had in connection with 
a canine show will be added, which cannot fail to be interest- 
ing. The list will be large and already very many valuable 
special prizes have been promised. A field trial for members’ 
dogs will be had next November, and a number of farms well 
supplied with quail have been leased.—Homo, . 


_ No Mrpican ExAmrnation is required to take out an accident policy 
in the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., guaranteeing a sum of money 
weekly while disabled from accidental injury, and principal sum in 
ease of death resulting therefrom.—Adv. 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 20 and 21.—Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association Tournament 
Bees ue Beh oan aa Secretary, San Jose, Il. 
May 20 to 28.—Knoxyille Gun Club Second Annual Tournament 
Knoxville, Tenn, C. C. Hebbard, Secretar y. } 
at 


May 26 to 31.—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, 
Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co., P.O. Box 1292, 


Chicago, Ill, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
_June 2 lo 9.--Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen’s Associa- 
oe ene Ky. J. 0. Barbour, Secretary. 157 Third ayenue, 
uisville, 


ARMY RIFLE PRACTICE, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tam but little given to noticing, much less discussing the merits of 
any scheme of action that has for its object the overthrow of an ap- 
proyed system, science or industry, and that does not at the same 
time propose and formulate a better one for adoption, but I cannot 
contentedly let pass unnoticed the communication of your correspond- 
ent “C. D.,” in your issue of May 8, who so persistently attacks and 
reattacks the army system of rifle firing, an old and well-established 
system, and, although admitting it to be good, in the end denounces 
it as “‘wrong and faulty, anda humbug from beginning to end.’ I 
need not remark upon the many evidently strained conclusions 
reached in his efforts to discredit the system that he denounces so 
unsparingly, and lam wondering if he hasnotalready beenreminded 
that it is not so much thesystem, but the practices that have beep al- 
lowed at his station to grow upon this system, that constitutes for 
him his grievance, and which may have led him to declare it all a 
“numbug from beginning to end.” 

Lhave no wish to follow your correspondent in all the different de- 
tailed statements he makes. It would occupy too much of your 
valuable space, nor can this be desirable, showing as he often does, 
to the thoughtful reader the yery praetices he condemns to be almost 
if not quite necessary, and for which he evidently knows no suitable 
remedy, and but in this one—simple one as he evidently thinks it— 
that of targets, does he suggest a substitute for what he condemns. 
He would substitute an elliptical or oblong pereey and markings for 
the Creedmoor or round target markings. haf superiority he 
claims for 1t seems to be this, that the new target would more nearly 
represent the ‘tactical man,” that they would call for shots to be 


firéd and counted on elliptical or oblong’ target _markings- 
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the center was of more value than one at the right or left, and all be- 
cause a man, when he stands on his feet, offers a similar target. 
Reepoee we admit this to be the case when he stands; now let him 
lie down, as he willin most eases if time be given him, or you, for 
careful aim, what then? Forsuch cases shall we lay the elliptic on 
ifs side and practice at ita time that way? And Suppose the man 
lmeels, then what shall we do to meet such a case? We would need 
fo make the elliptic into a circle, I guess. 

Tnasmuch as we cannot well make these changes at pleasure, 
hadn't we better use the round target marking as a good comparison? 
Ithink so, As to '*C. D.’s” estimate that a shot above or below is 
better than one to the right or left of the center, of course that must 
depend upon whether the shot be fired ata man standing or not. 
Certainly it is easier to make line shots than others; I mean easier to 
put shots on, or aboye and below, the center than in the center. A 
Tifleman in a bad wind will easily make fair line or vertical shots, 
firing with whatis known as a “rising sight; indeed, not to do such 
ee is what he wants. We have gone far past the day of ‘line 
shots.** 

“Blank's” men’s ‘fours’? were of more value than ‘tC, D.’s*) men’s 
“threes,’’ and must always be so in our modern times. When this is 
reversed will not be when men take aim, but when men fire without 
aim and with both eyes open, as is not unusual in the heat of battle, 
and then not at one man but at a body of men. Lam thinking that 
“C, D,’s” men’s scores were credited for quite what they were worth. 
Surely the Creedmoor target gives quite completely what he claims 
to want, and is very easily understood and yery practical, and has 
been selected because it possessed, all in all, the best excellence of 
all the many heretofore tried. No, most decidedly it has not out- 
lived its usefulness, 

The cJassification that gives your correspondent so much concern, 
will undoubtedly be regulated to the needs of the service from 
time to time, and itis likely that the new manual General Sheridan's 
orders refer to will show that full consideration has been giyen this 
subject. Making the second grade of sharpshooters is a step in that 
direction as established by the G, O. No, 12, that your correspondent 
declares to be ‘worthless of true results.” 

itis much to be wished that when riflemen like your correspondent 
eondemn to be destroyed, that they do net do so without being pre- 
pared with something better; it is nof enough to say that itisa 
“humbug” and ‘“tworthless.’’ For if such sayings are intended to do 
good they fail to work, for as nothing is .offered as a substitute for 
what they condemn, an intelligent discussion tending toward any 
assured advancement cannot be had. 

I trust your readers will see that there are two sides to this 
question as to most all others, and that they will understand that 
much of your correspondent’s details may have quite a different ap- 

lication than given by him, and that has somewhat warped your 
judgment and led you to the belief that the army system. declaring 
meritin rifle firing,is based on a system of ‘‘jugglery”’ and that 
merit goes where all has been “‘manipulated to the best adyantage.” 


. You err greatly in this, and I fear your editorial article unintention- 


ally gives a very mistaken estimate of the army system of rifle firing 
and “the defects in practice.” BENTON. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


THE WHEELING CLUB. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The Wheeling Rifle Club still keep up their weekly practice at 
200yds. off-hand. There are five members who shoot about even, 
sometimes one and then another comes out on top. 

Messrs. Stewart and Dwight have lately begun using Sharps mid- 
range, ,40 cal., 30in., 2i4in. shell, and like them very much for off-hand 
work. The Sharps short-range was heretofore used among our rifle- 
men, and some good work has been done with them. With a crescent 
butt plate on the mid-range it holds yery nicely, and the 70 grains of 

owder behind a 285-grain ovyal-point bullet gives a very flat trajec- 

ry and true, flight. 

. Pwight has been using the open bead for off-hand practice, 
and has finally mastered it, although few riflemen seem fo use it, 
either from uot having given ita trial, or not bein 
We would like to hear the experience of others wit 
off-hand practice, ri . 

We have been using a new target lately, which is the design of Mr. 
Dwight. Itis the Massachusetis target with each of the rings out- 
side of the bullseye divided into two rings by a line drawn around be- 
tween each line on the Massachusetts target; then the bullseye is 
divided into rings with one-half inch space between each line, and 
leaving the center space one inchin diameter. This latter space is 
numbered 25, and each ring out from that is nambered one point less. 
Thus the four-inch circle, whichis the 12 line on Massachusetts target, 
is the 22 line, and the edge of the eight-inch bullseye is 18, and the 
Massachusetts 10 ring is numbered 17 and 16 andso on outward, The 
target thus arranged gives a closer count than any oné used, and as 
thé object of a target is ta record the closeness of the shooting, this 
certainly is more correct than to haye such wide spaces, even as the 
Massachusetts target has. The latter target has become a favorite 
by the fact of its spaces being divided up more than the old Creed- 
moor target, and this new target has the same advantages over the 
Massachusetts as the latter has over the Creedmoor. We have tried 
the German ring target, but the twelye-inch bullseye is too large for 
us. These targets are easily made at home, and the rings on the 
black bullseye may be made by a drawing pin on dividers, with thin 
mucilagein place of ink, and then rub over some bronze powder, 
which adheres to the gum and brings out the lines on the black very 
plain, and does not dim it for aiming. 

The following scores were made on our new target last Saturday, 
3dinst. As the lines of all the rings of the Massachusetts target are 
retained, the scores can be kept on both countsif desired, and also 
Creedmoor count as well. Ourring target we call the ‘West Va. 


this sight for 


target,” 
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F PE 3 17 2 j—16 
Chas E Dwight,.,...- . 4 i 2 1 2 19 10 10 2 if 10 106 
#975 {i4 18 14 19 Re 22. 1 a— 
William Oox.......-:\:..- 19 1 9 11 12 12 11 12 9 12—108t 
mf a is "48 18 24 21 18 20—192* 
wi (17 21 2 g 19 
Ohas H Dwight,.....-.--.- 710 11 WT 9 it in 18 tt it 11 —108¢ 
se eet BOL 19) (22, 22 22) 1 A — 
RAS Stewart....::.-.i..<.5 + i1 172 12 12 10 11 8 9 11—107+ 
ies 16 19 18 12 21 23 14 24 16 22—185* 
JF Shirk,.:.....» verti ut ifthe k tel 8 11 12 § 12 10 12—106+ 
met Me aN ¢ 16 18 28 16 20—183* 
. 22 1 i] ao 
Chas E Dwight,. ee a ae his 10 10 ii 10 10 ii iz i ee 
. 16 27 d4 16 16 QW 1 & — 
AYER lds Ct-1 OSS: i 10 10 9 10 10 11 10 12 10 11—103t 
* West Va. + Massachusetts. 


Mr. Jaeger has made 205 on the West Va, target, counting ili 
Mass., and Mr, Dwight has made 200, counting 111 Mass. also. 

The club will shoot a telegraph match with any who wish amuse- 
Ment of that kind, WInD. 

WHEELING, West Va, 


BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB. May 1.—12-ring target. possible 120: 
G. Zimmermann 118, G, Holzmann 116. A, Lober 116, M. Dorrler 115, 
V. Steinbach 113, C. Rein 114, S. Mehrbach 111, H. Gunther 110, J. B. 
Schrarder 110, W. Ross 106, J. Jordon 106, D. Holland 102,58. F. ©. 
Weber 98, H. Zubiller 98, B. Walters 106, G. Wendelken 107, G. D, 
Johnson 104, H, Kruger 106, D. Louitzki 10%, A. Stolaenberger 110, A. 
Ringler 107, A. Hesser 107, G. Angermeier 105, J. FP. Campbell 102. 

Thursday, May 1.—12-ring target, possible 120; G. Zimmermann 
ii7, A. Laber 117, C. Rein 114, M. Dorrler 114, A. Ringler 112, J. Schnei- 
der 111, H. Hackmann 111, B. Walters 108, J. Schrarder 103, J. Camp- 
bell 100, L, Lonitzki 98, §. Mehrbach 98, J. Weltze 96, D. Holland 94, 
A. Pierson 94, 8. F.C. Weber 94. 


THOMASTON, Gonn., May 12.—At the Empire Rifle Club’s shoot on 
Saturday, G. Canfield captured the badge with a score of 103 out of 
a possible 120. Following are the other scores: C. F. Williams 95, Ww. 
Donbar 93, C. Alling 93, G. Gilbert 90, F. Carr 89, E. Thomas 88, EB. 
Bennett 85, A. Fox 82, The weather was rather untayorable for high 
seores, being alternate rain and sunshine, The “open to all shoot 
is to be the 21st and 22d. 

‘THE PRELINGHUYSENS AT NEW YORK.—Newark, N.J., May 
%.—Hditor Forest and Stream: I beg space in your columns to enter 
a protest, in the name of the Frelinghuysen Rifle Association of this 
city, against the manner in which the prizes haye been awarded in 
the late match at the Grand Central Gallery in New York, Your last 
issue gives the prizés awarded for scores ranging from 333 to 305, en- 
tirely ignoring the score of 307 made by our representative, Mr. Geo. 
D, Waterman: ‘who shot on or about Thursday, April 10, TD think. The 
score was counted by the regular range scorers and placed on black 
poard when made. When Mr. W. called a week later, to improve his 
récord if possible, he found his score missing, and it was again placed 
in-line when pitention was called to the omission. On the award of 
prizes, however, it is,again dropped and without explanation Fae a 
man who has spent about $5 in shooting and car fares is thus de- 
barred from receiving the trivial $2 prize he has honestly earned. 
We cannot believe that this is done by the connivance of mon of such 
well-known integrity as the judges are Imown to be; but must say 


able to hold it. 


a ae 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


that if New York clubs wish the help of any out-of-town shooters in 
thet sso oat mere avanh 8 be eur Pantd we shall have 
what we haye @ righ expect—fair play in the keeping of score 
records.—Epwarp O. CHASE. vi ey TES 
_ SAVANNAH, Ga., May 10.—The Republican Blues had a very en- 
joyable day at the Schuetzen Park last Thursday, the occasion of 
their annual picnic. The attendance was very large, and among the 
guests were noticed msny members of the several organizations of 
the city. A feature of the day was the target shooting for prizes, 
which resulted as follows; In the first class Sergt, N. Nathans won 
the first prize, a silver butter dish, and was also awarded the company 
medal, score 19; in the second class Private 8. C. Lee won a silver 
cake basket. Sergt. J. J. Gaudry won the prize for the best single 
shot, and Private John G. Butler, in the contest of the ununiformed 
and pay members, won the prize on a score of 19, a silyer pickle dish. 
The same afternoon several well-known marksmen met at the 
echuetzen Park and, after the Blues had indulged in their rifle con- 
test, they had some fine shooting. The following shows the scores 


RR Dancy... 

PL Go Op us pOnCe eee Cece ee neer eines 5 44446446 4 4-49 
SIRE ANY DIGS eettcee si asanrt et tyes et crete Part pee 454544454 4-48 
HR OISHORIE tee wee Peed ee eee KOSS et heer aes 5494544428 5-41 
IA ON Ch picroteccncp eon Merits nhorabrrg ort 444444544542 
ela be VATE een ernie 4446554444 5-48 
Hi Kolshorn..........::.. 44544445 4 5-48 
RR Dancy........... -tHdd444445 543 
J P White.... 44544444 4 5—42 
EDREGG ISH OTD, Dee tele? Pe seein nes ee eens ne 44444424 4 4—38 


The Sayannah Rifle Association turned out a full membership at its 
regular practice atthe Schuetzen Park yesterday afternoon, anasome 
excellent scores were made. Among the best shots were Dr. J. D, 
Martin 65, J. P. White 63, R. R. Dancy 61, E. J. Keiffer 62, W. M. Mills 
61, The shooting was 15 shots at 200 yards, Creedmoor range, and 
excited considerable interest. Afier the practice an_election of 
officers was held, with the following result: President, R. H. Ander- 
son; vice-president, J, W, McAlpin; secretary and treasurer, J. M, 
Bryan; executive committee, Dr. J.T, McFarland, H. M. Gomer, J. D. 
Martin, Martm Tufts, H. A. Palmer; ordinance officer, J. P. White. 
The Eee practices of the association will be held during the sea- 
son on Friday afternoons, cars for the accomodation of the members 
leaying West Broad street at 3:30 o’clock. The date of the annual 
prize contest has not yet been determined, but will probably be some- 
time during the latter part of thismonth. ‘The association has an 
increased membership oyer last year, and the interest manifested in 
its affairs and in the practices promise some excellent records of 
marksmanship before the close of the season. 


WALTHAM, Mass., May 10.—Followimg are io-day’s scores of the 
Hillside Rifie Club, 200yds.: 
Creedmoor Practice Match. 


JT Hosters... ... 5545444454—. LOWE. cL rae fea 445444944440) 

EC Osgood.......... 44445444444] G@ Strickland...,....4484534345—37 

J O Dennison 4444444444 40 J RMonroe.......... 3442442235—33 

HL Whiting........ 4444434544 40) 

Creedmoor Rest Match. 

Jobn Foster......... 554555554548 JR Monroe..,....... 445555544546 

G Bassett....... _...0455545455 47 CH Gray..,......... 545544445545 
| GO Dunson...... .. 554455445546 H S Whiting.... ... 445554454444. 


BOSTON, May 10.—There was a fair attendance at Walnut Hill to- 
day, and some very good shooting was done. The weather was not 
all that could be desired, except in the early morning and late in the 
afternoon, after the shower. A team match was shot between two 
teams of six members of the association,-which resulted in a victor 
for Mr. Charles’s team by a lead of 20 points. It should be stated, 
however, that Messrs. Ashmead and Brackett were shooting with 
open-sighted rifles. Saturday next there will be another team match, 

robably between the members of the M, R. A. and members of the 
awrence Rifle Club. If the Lawrence Club does not send a team 
there will be a match similar to that of to-day, Following is the re- 


sult; 
Creedmoor Practice Match. 
EG CUSHINE aeeeree Pee neat eters 45445 5 6 45 4 445 
HLOHRUNCE Ae ae capa dos dyadee tomes eces 444445 5 4 5 544 
(QPISSI ORS Fee ict ee es Cae al 544 5 44 4 5 4 448 
J EB Darmody (mil).. 08 4 4 65 45 4 5 4 4-4 
PeBismith: 2 2.0... 444444444 4 40 
H Lewis (mil).. 8344444 5 4 4-39 
SB Perrin........ 844445 4 4 4 3-89 
FW Powle (mil)... 2 ......0.--+- 324 4 4 4 5 4 4A 0 4 4-37 
Decimal Match. 
WHCHANIOS cE Apa ur eel ales Saee = ane 510 810 §10 9 9 8 8—8 
"ALG, Adams, Be nu ene uae: Ate? 1010 9 910 9 8 6 7 6—84 
WET OLE cB er eel ese. w css eee ire 7 510 910 9 8 8 8 8—88 
WeGardner) Hay) ayseeeteeae aeons -810 78 7 6% 8 7 2% 
BeBePerrin; He oy ee ate eee ete 97 9 610 9 5 8 9 3-7 
Rest Match. 
WIG ATONeN. .46.0i6 nciaaeeeese ete eeore: 10 91010101010 9 8 9-95 
WHOL Gr Yo. Su ene ee oneee nective tee 101010 91010 7 9 8 9-92 
SUWilderesig eoree Cee ee 10 9 9 810 6101010 9—91 
EXSilverstala poten. eet id ns) ees 8 910 910 9 9 8 8 10—90 
First Team. Second Team. . 

OG BEdwards ..... 5—31 A MJewell........ 4544555—32 

H Cushing.-..-...., 5545444—31 we BALES oe. eons 5445454—381 

W Chariles......, 5554444 —31 J B ¥ellows........ 445544430 

© H Hubert....... 445544430 W Gardner .....-. 4444534 28 

C A Hunt......... 454444429 AL Brackett...... 4334445 —27 
PBSmith...,..... 443534427179 HL Ashmead... .0030332—11—159 


In the one-day match the prizes were won by W. Charles, O. M, 
Jewell, J. B. Fellows and J. P. Bates, in the order named. The spring 
meeting of the Massachusetts Rifle Association will occur May 29, 3 
and 31. There willbe two matches open to all comers, one on Creed- 
moor and one on decimal target, with prizes amounting to at least 


BOSTON, May 10.—Mammoth Gallery, 655 Washington street.—The 
prize list for the month of May will be $10 for all-comers’ match, 
gold, silver and bronze badges for amateurs’ matches. Also extra 
prize of $10 for ten consecutive bullseyes. Following are the scores 
as they now appear on the blackboard: 

A. B. Loring.. .44 45 45 44 46—224 ©. L. Holmes. .43 43 44 44 45—219 
J.J. Munroe...44 48 44 45 45222 J.A. Wright ...41 42 43 44 42—212 


WHEELING, W. V2.—In reference to the scores made on April 5, 
during the visit of W. M. Farrow to this city, the record in Forusr 
AND STREAM Of April 24 is somewhatin error. The account presents 
them as in two strings of fifteen shots each, but they were not shot 
in that way. They were three scores of ten shots each, and Mr, Jae- 
ger won first match and Farrow second one, and Cox the third.—J. 


MILWAUKEE, May 7,—The Sentinel of to-day says of Mr. Farrow's 
doings in town: ‘*W. Milton Farrow, the celebrated rifle shot, who has 
been in the city for a day or two, visited the Soldiers’ Home grounds 
yesterday, ties participated with members of the Milwaukee Rifle 
Club in a competitive shoot, off-hand, at the 200yds. range. Hach man 
had 15 shots, the possible total being 75. The weather conditions were 
unfavorable, a drizzling rain falling during part of the afternoon, 
and the trip to and from the grounds was disagreeable because of the 


mud. The detailed score of the shoot is as follows: 

Farrow 4 5 5 5 5 6 56 45 6 5 & 5-72 
Meunier aa 44444655 5 5 5 5 5 466 
Drake.......... 45444444 5 5 5 4 5—65 
Welles ye eiitoe s+ t cise 4 4555444465 44 5 465 
alee ye WWW a serene 13) 456454844444 4 4 -€2 
FIOMMBY sata eee as eee 8444566 4d 4 4444 4 4 4-61 
Simonds... ..- ¥ 4448 844 38 4 4-387 
Greenleaf....,--. ...-4... 844444 4 38 3-87 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on ove side of the paper only. 


PROPOSED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION: 


To all Sportsmen of the United States: _ 

At the coming First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament to be 
held at Chicago on the 26th inst., an effort will be made co organize a 
national sportsmen’s association, whose objects will be primarily: 

First—To establish a cove of rules for each species of shooting— 
live birds, Clay-pigeons, etc. i mae 

Second To appoint an Executive Comtiittee, whose duties it shall 
be: (a) to organize future annual tournaments; (b) to act as an arbi- 
tration committee to_adjust all disputes; (¢) to establish a central 
office or address in charge of a specially appointed secretary; (d) to 
execute the will of the association as indicated at its annual meetings. 

To organize this association properly, the thoughtful consideration 
of all sportsmen is invited. If you cannot be there in person and 
desire to make any suggestions, transmit same to me, care the Palmer 
House, Chicago. Wherever practicable, obtain the yiews of your 
club, and if possible secute a-proxy to act’ for the, same, or a club 
which will have no representative present can send its proxy to me. 
The principal points to consider in my opinion are: (i,) The mone- 
tary question—how funds shall be raised to effect the purposes of the 
organization; (2,) ab what pomt the central office (the secretary's) 


a 
(Max 15, 1884. 
SE SN a 


and he would have the marksman taught that a shot over or under 


shall be established; (8.) what other functions, if any, the associatio: 
1s (3. Ok Fi ¢ mn 
tetera ears pe ane ee eyeupe shall be open to, both clubs and 
’ . Ou i : 
freasurer and exee utive as aye ries vote for president, secreta.y. 
y own views in brief are as follows: The association to be o 
to both individuals and clubs, the initiation fee to be $1 for clubs ee 
$1 for individuals; the annual dues to be $1 for each active member 
of a clob, and $1 for the individual subscriber; that each member pf 
all firms in the gun (and kindred) trade be invited to join, initiation 
fee $1, annual dues $1; that donations from gun (and other) trade 
firms be invited; that if sufficient means can thus be raised, a perma- 
nent office be rented for the headquarters of the association with a 
salaried secretary in charge, said secretary to bea sportsman (not 
connected with any mercantile firm engaged in the gun or Inndred 
trades) and who shall carry out the orders of the executive commit- 
tee, attend to the correspondence of same, collect the annual dues 
(for the safe keeping of which he shall furnish proper bonds) pro- 
mote all gun sports under the direction of the executive committes, 
conduct the office so as to make it a club room for all visiting sports- 
men, form a sporting library of reference, file all sporting papers of 
this and other countries, etc., and that said office be permanently lo- 
cated at New York City or Chicago, depending upon which city, with 
fifty miles of surrounding country, furnishes the mostcash subsecrip- 
tions to the treasury of the association by Oct, 1, 1884. 
J, BE. Broom, 


THE CHICAGO TOURNAMENT. 


ahs diamond badge for the best individual score in the clay-pigeon 

tournament at Chicago, will be on exhibition at Duhne & Ca,’s., 
corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, until the 18th inst., 
when it willbe placed in the show windows of Spalding & Bros., Ghi- 
cago, 

Mr. J. 0. Bloom, President of the Ligowsky Company, will be at 
the Palmer House, Chicago, on the 20th inst., to parteek arrange: 
ménts fot the tournament, 

‘The following have entered teams for the first international clay- 
pigeon tournament. Entries close on first day of shoot; 

Boston Gun Club, Boston, Mass. 

Tallahassee Gun Club, Tallahassee, Fla. 

Vicksburg Gun Club, Vicksburg, Miss. 

Niagara Gun Club, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

Narragansett Gun Club, Providence, R, I. 

Cleveland Gun Club, Cleveland, 0. 

Capital City Gun Club, Washington, D. ©, 

Knoxyille Gun Club, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Kirtland Gun Club, Cleveland, 0, 

Byanston Gun Club, Hyanston, Il. 

Chippewa Falls Gun Club, Chippewa Falls, Wis, 

Franklin Gun Club, Benton, il. 

Des Moines Gun Club, Des Moines, Ta. 

Parker Gun Cluh, Meriden, Conn, 

Springfield Shooting Club, Springfield, 0, 

Bradford Shooting Club, Bradford, Pa. 

Peoria Shooting Club. Peoria, 1], — 

Oshkosh Shooting Club, Oshkosh, Wis. 

Cincinnati Independent Shooting Club, Cincinnati, O. 

Exeter Sportsman’s Club, Hxeter, N. H, 

Lincoln Sportsman’s Club, Lincoln, Neb. 

Medfield Sportsman’s Club, Medfield, Mass. 

Worcester Sportsman's Club, Worcester Mass. 

Algona Sportsman’s Association, Algona, Ia. 

Farmington Sporting Club, Farmington, Il. 

Other clubs are yet to be heard from. It is expected"that the 
gathering will be arepresentaliye assembly of shooting men. The 
railroads have announced that they will issue excursion tickets from 
Cincinnati to Chicago atrate of fare oue way. 


NOTES FROM WORCESTER. 


Ace the challenge badges, fourin number, owned by the State Asso= 
ciation, are now in the possession of the Worcester Club. After 
the individual glass ball badge was won from Mr. Moses, of Spring- 
field, on March 1, they all rested peacefully till some time in April, 
when we received, almost simultaneously, three challenges as fol- 
lows: From ©, H, DeRochmont, of Newburyport, for the individual 
glass ball badge; from the Springfield Club for the team glass ball. 
badge; from the Massachusetts Rifle Association Club for the team 
clay-pigeon badge. The matches have been shot on our grounds in 
successive weeks and an account of the first two, with the scores, has 
appeared in the ‘‘Trap* columns of the last two numbers of Fornst 
AND STREAM. The last of the series was shot yesterday, the account 
of yack we shall expect to see in this paper when the week rolls 
round. : 

Tn connection with these matches we have held all-day tournaments 
which have been largely attended by sportsmen from different sections 
of the State, and so far as our clubis aware everything has passed 
off eaeely, oneach o¢casion. We have supposed that as a club, 
and individually, we enjoyed the most friendly relations with the 
clubs of this State, and so far as acquainted, throughout the country. 
There appears, however, an article in the last number of Forrest AND 
Srream signed ‘Springfielder,’’ to which I desire toreply. I wish to 
say at the outset that I do not know as thearticlein question eman- 
ates from the Springfield Club or that itreceives their indorsement, 
It is apparent that somebody intends to say something to injure the 
standing of our club among sportsmen. The article, which is appar- 
ently his own, and partly a clipping from the Springtield Repwhiican, 
is vague and amounts to little more than a few blind insinuations sus- 
ceptible of any construction, but evidently intended to convey the 
idea that the Springfield Club were ill-treated at Worcester, and alsa 
that other sportsmen had been shabbily treated by us, and that the 
Springfield shooters would now join that aggrieved party and here- 
after give Worcester a ‘‘wide berth.” Now as this is the first and only 
complaint we bave ever heard, we don’t feel called upon to defend 
ourselves, and I shall only state a few facts concerning the matter 
referred to by ‘‘Springfielder.”’ ‘ 

In the first place, he alludes to an article which appeared in the 
daily Spy after the match between Perry and Moses, and for which, 
he says, the Worcesters made “suitable apology.” It is true that 
there was an unpleasantness on that occasion, caused by what a 
prominent member of the Springfield Club was pleased to call “a 
shameless attempt on the part of the referee to hold up the seore of 
Moses after he had utterly gone to pieces."’ Our men expressed their 
indignation strongly, and said perhaps more than they would haya 
said in cooler moments, Afterward an individual member of the 
Springfield Club held a correspondence with the secretary of the 
Worcester Club, in which there weremutual explanations and regrets 
that anything of the kind should have occurred, and this correspond- 
ence was understood to be confidential. There never was an Official 
word passed between the clubs concerning the matter. The articlein 
the Spy was incorrect and unjust to the Springtields, and was deeply 
regretted by the members of our club. We were, however, inno way 
responsible for it and never indorsed ib. 

So far asthe late team match is concerned, we supposed every 
thing was satisfactory. We certainly intended to do all in our power 
to make it pleasantfor our ests, and also give them a perfectly 
square deal in the race, and itis equally certain that we heard no 
word of complaint. The trap was changed just before the mateh ab 
the suggestion of the cape of the Springfield team, and was as new 
to us asto them. The best of feeling seemed to prevail throughout 
the day, and when our friends departed, their captain shook hands 
with our president and remarked; '"Wealways havea good time when 
we visib Worcester.” Our tournaments have been well attended, 
many shooters coming from other States, andso far as we are aware, 
have always gone home happy, If there be one who has recetved un- 
gentlemanly treatment from our club, let nim stand forth and we 
will make “suitable apology,” EK, SPRAGUE KNOWLES. 

Worcester, May 10, 1884. 


WORGESTER, Mass., May 9.—This has been a field day at Coal 
Mine Range of the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club. Theywere favored 
with good weather and a large attendance. There were present as 

uests Messrs. J. H. Cole, of Ashland, and B, P. Tinker, of Provi- 
Sanes: The event of the day was the match for the championship 
clay-pigeon team badge of the Massachusetts Association, which the 
Worcester Sporftsmen’s Club has held since June, 1883, subject to 
challenge. The one to-day came from the Massachusetts Ritlé Asso- 
ciation. Their judge was Mr. David Kirkwood; the judge for the 
home club was Mr, L. J, White, while Mr. H. Gardner was referee, 
The position of each man with the score of each was as follows: 

' Massachusetts Association. 


(oH Dekochmont oe 11011 110001000011100—10 

Ch eyan pee eee ae ee leone ores 17101111100111111011—16 

Rayan orn ee Se LL looses 01111011011111111101—416 

peanva aro ar i ORR 5 os See a a a eo ae M1 UnI—1F 

SEPT E DUM Ur fol] Diy es ogee Aa eae Sy ty OR ee Re 19111.039110111111110—17—_76 
Worcester Team. 

ESP WORST nS Sante or ee tee ge eer eee 111171117101111011141—18 

palate Stari t Tea a 5 a 5 5 NAR yt 17111101411011011101—16 

oP fen sgh teds pe am he ES Rag aot 1 


George A Sampson,,.........--...-.----.-- 
W_S Perry.....-.. 
The club have 
fish day, re followa 

acobs an 


be chosen, and all men who do. ale 
prizes to be used to help the defeay 


! 


TOPSHAM, Me., March 9.—Riverside Olub’s regular shoot for silver 
badge, clay-pigeons, 10 singles, i8yds. rise, use of both barrels, second 
barrel 14 bird, 5 pairs, Ibyds. rise, 2 traps. Figure 2 denotes second 


barrel: 

PAR ITE YaS TG Ve See a ee 1111001110 41 «10 «11 «11 «11-16 
SLs BT SE Male ir ECE Pe ee 8 le 1111111221 11 00 OF 10 O1—l4 
PAS SAA ORADO GLb a acter wesw st 0111111111 «11 «200 «11 «11 «(1-16 
GL Work... ,-..2--.--+-.-+-------1020210021 11 10 10 00 11—10% 
GB Strout ......- eR RR ia ee 0001101000 + ii 10 10 10 O1—9 


Ties on 16: A. Q@. Goud, 0111115; A. §. Alexander, 101011—4. 


SIZE OF SHOT FOR THE CLAYS,—Will some sportsman be good 
enough to give his opinion as to the best size shot to use for clay- 
pigeons,I haye tried all sizes and cannot come to a decision — 
AMATEUR. 

WELLINGTON, Mass., May 10.—The Malden Gun Club had a lively 
time this afternoon at the traps at Wellington, with the following 


result; 

as Gup Match. 

J Buffum 1111111101—9 Crosby... 01010111005 

H Wield... ...1111011111—9 Scoitt........ 0101101010-5 

AF Adamsg.1101110110—6 Short........ 10110100015 
Badge Match, 

WaGl Yt Gh a4 dosason gaan 11110100117 010111111 1—8—15 

J) ButlaM).455.)5125: 11011110118 110100101 i1—6—14 

PEWASM helices ec. 01101011117 017120011 1 1-77-14 

ASF ON 0th Ard TS 10110110016 111111011 0-814 


First taken by Field and second by Brown, 

WALNUT HILL.—The Massachusetts Rifle Association will hold a 

ractice and sweepstake shoot at clay-pigeons and glass balls, on 

ednesdays, as follows: May 7 and 21, June 4 and 18, July 2, 16 and 
30, Aug. 13. and 27, Sept. 10 and 24, Oct. 8 and 22, Noy. 5 and 19, Dec 3, 
1ivand81, Rifie shooting every Saturday. 

SCHENEVUS, May 10.—Conditions: Combination traps, 18yds. 
tise, 3d notch: 


SEVECG Ti SeTTU TA EARRELT TD eee hye «sess aseietay sbsy sy coats cerecetece tse 01101111011101011111—15 
SO elt te ig Pa cuenta Eee be cee meen) ,01011010000000111110— 9 
PHU GRUS he EES) eas) or Gene Se Sone eed Pape 01000001110101110010— 9 
J Wilson Pern he Ee a earl TA Ld 00100101101111001110—11 
RA ELIS UA ERI snitch ter iceanten wend aa aietae ee 10100010001010000001— 6 


Sine to the inclemency of the weather but few were present.— 
. i i. 


E 


ALGONQUIN GUN CLUB, New York, May 12.—On Thursday last 
the Algonguins enjoyed a visit from their old friends, che Washing- 
ton Heights Gun Club who, together with some members of the 
Knickerbocker Gun Club, made up a team that came very neas: beat- 
ing the more or less noble red men at the traps. The teams agreed 
upon were twelve members of the visiting clubs against an equal 
number of the home club. Twenty puff balls to each shooter, thrown 
from a screened rotary trap. At the close the score stood 215 hits 
out of 240 balls shot at by the Algonquins, to 211 hits for the visiting 
clubs. Sweepstakes in clay ie eons closed the afternoon’s sport, 
which seemed to be thoroughly enjoyed bal concerned. The clubs 
cheered each other until the throats of the different members were 
as ‘dry as lime kilns,” and then—J.H, M.L. 


Machting. 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. C. 


pas club has shown its progressive spirit in deciding at_the meet- 

ing last week to adopt the Seawanhaka sail area rule in place of 
length measurement, ana in limiting crews for all boats to one hand 
per three feet of length. Thus a 27ft. sandbagger is now allowed only 
nine hands anda helmsman, thereby abolishing the tomfoolery of 
sailing open boats with unlimited crews and giving the boat some 
chance instead of reducing a veh match to a trial of foolhardiness 
and gymnastics. In course of time we hope to see the club go one 
step further and prohibit all shifting of ballast with crews reduced to 
one hand for eyery five feet of length. Many new members and 
yachts haye been added. Amoug these we note the Amazon, Mr, 
Franklin Beams, a sloop, which has at times given evidence of con- 
siderable speed, even under a meagre racing outfit. This year she is 
to appear with kites of all kinds in the sail room, and lead’ ballast, so 
we may expect to see her figure wellat the finish. Wirst match will 
be sent away at ii A. M, May 30, for which nearly forty entries have 
been made. Steamer Perseus leaves East 120th street, Harlem, at 
9:45, and Port Morris dock at 10;30. Club now numbers 160 members 
and 76 yachts, Club house at Morris Beach has been extended and 
renovated, — 


Na 


THE COLLAPSE AT NICE, 


N further illustration of the deféat of Dauntless and Gitana by the 
English yacht Wlorinda, we offer this week a sketch of the suc- 
cessful yawl and cross sections of the three competitors, drawn to 
scale. The Dauntless being considerably larger than the others, did 
not find the wind of sufficient strength in proportion, and was left 
hull down early in the race. But making all due allowance for size, 
there can be only one conclusion to the fiasco, that Dauntless.is an ex- 
cessively slow vessel in light winds, and too slow and unwieldy in 
stays to be ranked as a competitor in company of first-class racers. 
Yet at home Dauntless has the reputation of being something of a 
wonder, and columns haye been filled in other papers chanting her 
fame. A truthful estimate of that schooner and the whole class of 


Flori 


her kind in our waters has never been made. The public has been 
misled from the start, deriving the impression that our large schoon- 
ers were really fast vessels, from the pointless trials between the huge 
Sappho and Cambria,and the old-fushioned Livonia.a bluffish schooner 
ranking only a poor ayerage with other Hnglish old timers across the 
water. Yet we have seen that same unpretentious old Livonia hold 
her own with our crack Columbia in one of the international matches, 
and which Liyonia would actually have won but for the misunder- 
standing about turning the outer mark. 

Of late we have all been falling down upon-our knees in adoration 
of the new Montauk as a wonderfully fastschooner, Yether reputa- 
tion rests upon nothing more solid than contests with such mediocre 
productions as Tidal Wave and other ordinary vessels, much in the 
same class with the Dauntless, to say nothing of sundry small schoon- 
ers differing too much in size to afford a fair chance for comparison. 
And eyen in company of our home vessels Montauk is not at all a 
brilliant performer ip light winds, though quicker in working than 
the Dauntless. It is of course exceedingly unpatriotic to tell unpleas- 
ant truths, but we take it to be our businesss. Had any one predicted 
that Florinda would run and turn away from Gitana at will and make 
the Dauntless appear ridiculous over a thirty-two mile course in ‘our 
smooth water’ and “our mild weather” such as was found in the 
recent Nice International, he wouldshave raised a howl of patriotic 
indignation about his poor head and been accused of being a rabid 
“Anglophobist”’ and a traitor inthe camp, Yet the very worst has 


happened. 
When we now venture the prediction that in face of Wendur, 


Latona, Florinda or Miranda, our choice Montauk would utterly col- 
lapse in a bout to windward, and that the pretentions of our schooners 
would be found as mythical here at home as they have been showu 
to be at Nice. We expect just the kind of self-complacent indifference 
to such a prediction, which the faulty interpretation of the Cambria 
and Livonia races has served to propagate. We have been under- 
estimating our foe all along, The modern English schooner or yaw! 
is quite a different affair from old time arks like Livonia, If we 
choose to overlook the progress made abroad since the general intro- 
duction of outside ballast, the awakening from our self-sufficiency 
will be very abrupt and very disagreeable. The truth is, we have not 
progressed one iota in our schooners since the days of the America, 
while our cousins abroad have passed through various “‘revolutions,*~ 
which made our defeat at Nice a foregone conclusion and point to a 
collapse of our remaining pretentions as a probability in the near 
future. 

The test between Florinda and Gitana was fair and critical, Both 
have like displacement and ballast within a few tons. Florinda, 
carries 54 tons on 150 tons displacement and Gitana about 80 on 165 
tons. The latter has likewise about 7ft. extra length to her benefit, 
The only radical difference is depicted in the cross sections, Florinda 
being the narrower and deeper of the two, with a longer sweep to 
the bilge and less floor, Gitana furthermore received a concession 


; of 15 per cent. of her tonnage for ‘difference in rig, while on this side 


of the Atlantic the yawl is quite generally ridiculed as a sort of crazy 
piece of British nonsense. Not one in a thousand in this country but 
who would have rigged Florinda as a schooner in preference and 
laughed at the notion of paper better results from a silly English 
custom, the choice of which is decried as ‘‘snobbery”’ thraughout the 
truly patriotic circles. Let us hope that even the blindest patriot 
will catch a gleam of light from the slaughter of our schooners 
within sight of the attending crowds along the Promenade des 
Anglais. The lesson to be drawn from the Nice regatta is simple 
enough and has two chapters. 

First, ‘patriotism’: does not win races. Second, the old faith that 
beam to carry sail and floor to ‘‘slide over the water’’ in some impos- 
sible manner, or floor “for to stand up on,'’ are the essentials to 
speed, is arrant humbug, empty words deveid of meaning, refuted a 
thousand times over in experience, and once more again in the disap- 

ointment at Nice. Finally, in view of the much smaller sail of Flor- 
inda, that beam contributes more potently to resistance than depth 
and displacement ia a narrower form. Florinda’s lower sail area is 
5,250 sq. ft. in racing condition, though we learn that her spars were 
docked for cruising in the Mediterranean, with a sail area not over 
4,500 sq. ft. The rig of Gitana, whether cruising or not, we cannot 
positively say, was large enough to attract general attention and was 
commented upon in the London Field, It could scarcely haye con- 
tained less than 6,000 sq, ft. 


TAPERING DOWN. 


fee old mean length rule is gradually tapering down to hard pan. 

From mean length to one-third overhang, to one-quarter over- 
hang, and now comes the New England Y. R. A. and annvunces in 
Rule 4, that for the measurement of length, only one-fifth the over- 
hang aft shall be included, Where length is still to remain the stan- 
dard, one-fifth the after overhang is somewhere near to common 
equity. The stupidity of taxing 6f6. counter as equal to 3ft. of middle 
body, or even 2ft, or 144ft., isso patent to every one witha grain of 
mechanical conceptions in his make up, that the example of the New 
England Y. R. A.is sure to be followed quickly by other cluhg stil¥ 
adhering to measurement by “simple length.” 


YACHTING AT BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO, 


4 he annual meeting of the Bay of Quinte Y. C., which was hela 
yesterday evening, was of a character to show that the season 
will be quite lively in these waters. The club isin a good position 
financially, without a dollar of outstanding debts, and a balance im 
the treasury. The principal officers elected were: Commodore, W- 
H. Biggar; Vice-Commodore, R. M, Roy; Captain, 8. R. Ballewill; 
Secretary, R. 8. Bell}; Treasurer, Wm. Pike; Measurers, Geo. N. 
Leavens and Wm, 8. Drenary. All were re-elections except the com- 
modore, captain and the second measurer. The secretary now 
enters upon his tenth year of service, baying filled that honorary 
position ever since the establishment of tne club, 

The new commodore is a man of the right stamp. An enthusiastic 
yachtsman, one of our ablest young barristers, energetic and 
wealthy, his administratlon will beyond doubt be successful, He 
made a very neat speech on assuming the chair, and intimated that 
he will present a valuable prize for competition, 

As the by-laws of the Lake Yacht Racing Association have not as 
yet come to hand, the formal union of the club with the association 
could not be made, but a committee was appointed with power t 
act in the matter, and the commodore, ex-commodore Clarke an 


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vice-commodore were appointed to represent the club on the execu- 
tive committee of the association, and toa endeavor to secure a 
change in the date fixed for the association regatta here. 

Work on the fitting out of the local fleet is being proceeded with. 
The folanthe has undergone considerable alterations. Her spar has 
heen shifted forward, her cabin enlarged and the house lowered, and 
she will be fitted with a wheel, 

The new rule of measurement, sail area and Jength, as adopted by 
the L, Y. R., A., has béen received with great favor here, as itis felt 
that it will equalize rating much more satisfactorily than the old 
Jength and breadth rule. : 

There is one proposed rule of the L. Y. R, A. which I do not like, 
thatis, confining each yacht to her own class. For my part. I cannot 
see why, if a small-yacht is good enough to compete with her bigger 
sisters, she should be debarred from doing so, the more especially as 
she has to accept a handicap in order to sail in the class above. 

BELDEVILLE, Ont., May 8. Port Tack, 


iSts. 


ae, new cutter, built by Poillons, of Brooklyn, was launched 

last Saturday. She is a fine, bold, flush deck craft, with mas- 
sive material in her framing and rather old-fashioned in construction 
and fastenings. the garboards being merely treenailed, and most of 
the work spiked, Built from lines by her owner, Mr. Cass Canfield. 
She has a long bow and short run, which, in connection with large 
beam and snug rig, will not be likely to result in a fast craft, though 
well adapted for cruising, with more room on deck and below than 
any yacht of her length im these waters. 


PRE DSAIO VCR tulle, «lea Re Ne ieee seas able GOft. 10in. 
erie thy: OMTOAMIMG sete ts wn cowersnndte cits hire ses Sift, 5in, 
Paar THs OX UNOS a wht Ain coc! RLS -ticsh is awed nissan heed 13ft, 

Regma On IOAGUNG? 6. sii ees ddadaineedta tad 12ft. 4in, 
iBT) el eo hs Xo) La ge eae ee Re LS ea 8£t. Gin, 
MEFPATECAD OPAL iat eres shkokr cL eCUe bet yen beeen es Oft. 

MRIS DIRBOMIED ees 9. id cha hb nine pelde bbecate Sarndwote eee 41,7stons, 
eaAlttotOUNOGL ie, rose wey spied ldnae secu tcie iste: 32,000lbs, 
TENURES Aa tricits Cae ity oe me ie, ene wer 9,0001bs. 


2,.325sq. ft. 

Length of lead keel is 22ft.; width across top, 22in., and aepent 19in, 
ait midships. Genter of buoyancy abaft center of loadline, 1.97ft, 
Meta center above same, 2.517ft, Center lateral resistance abaft center 
of Joadline, 2.02ft. Mast deck to hounds, 41ft. 6in.; masthead, 7{t,; 
topmast, heel to shoulder, 30ft, bin.; boom, 47ft.; gaff, 30ft.; bowsprit 
outboard, 25ft, 9in,; spinnaker boom, 47ft. 


LAUNCHED.—The new schooner building by Lawley & Son, South 
Boston, for Mr, J. Maicomb Forbes, trom designs by A. Cary Smith, 
was launched last Saturday. Length over all, 78ft.; water-line, 65ft, ; 
beam, 19ft. 6in,; draft without board, 6ft. din. Centerboard trunk of 
boiler plate, 18ft. long. Displacement, 68 tons, with 27 tons lead bal- 
lastinside. Built of two skins, inner skin being lin. thick. outer of 
oak, with yellow pine bends, both caulked and copper-riveted to- 
gether, after paying oyer with crude turpentine. An iron hog strap 
is wrought over the frames in wake of the chainplates, to take the 
strain fromthe rigging, Keel of oak, 18x20in.; frames of oak, 2lin. 
between centers, sided 4in. and moulded 41 at heels, tapering to 314 
at head. Floors of iron, 2x8in. and &ft. long. Deck of 214 square 
white pine. Locust stanchions and bits and mahogany fittings. Main 
cabin, 16<9ft., with over 6ft. height under house beams. Two state- 
rooms each side of centerboard. Berthing for six hands forward, the 
iron berth frames fureineup against the side when nct in use. Yacht 
has long cutter fantail. Schooner rig, with fore staysail and single 
stick standing bowsprit for one jib outboard. She is a splendid job 
throughout, full of new ideas which have been well executed by the 
builders, to whom she is a great credit. 


FIXED BALLAST.—The South Boston Inquirer wants ballast to be 
sealed down in races to prevent surreptitious shifting. This does not 
speak well for the honesty of those it apparently addresses. In Eng- 
land shifting was abolished many years ago, and the rule is enforced 
without recourseto any penal precautions. Are we less honest in 
this country? The fact ofa person’s shifting could hardly be kept 
secret for any length of time, and the disgrace of expulsion from the 
yachting brotherhood will probably be enough to hold in check any 
tampering with ballast, unless inso few eases as nof to require a dis- 
agreeable reflection upon all hands in assuming them to be card 
cheats in adyance. However, anything at all to prevent shifting. 


MICHIGAN Y¥. C.—The new club of Detroit will consider adopting 
the Seawanhaka rule of measurement, A gentleman writes from 
Detroit very pertinently as follows: ‘‘I think the length and sail 
area rule is whatwe want, The snug cruiser can stand some show 
with her big, over-rigged rival. It is time this ‘brute force” sailing 
should end, A boat with half a ton of live ballast on a six-foot lever 
heats a fixed bailast boat with three men to windward, and the boat 
gets credit for it, whenif the same boats were to.sail singlehanded 
over the same course and same wind, the fixed-ballast fellow would 
beat her blind, Now is that a test of boats and models, or is it a test 
of gymnastics?’ 


SHAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C.—The club has decided upon 
the following further qualification of the method for obtaining sail 
area, to preveuit a relapse to broomstick topmasts: ‘*But the measure- 
ment to be recorded as the height of the perpendicular, shall in no 
case be taken as less than the distance from the upper side of main 
boom to the under side of hounds with nine-tenths of the length of 
gaii added thereto.** The club has also iuduced the N. Y. Y. C. and 
the EB, Y. C. to join it in adopting a uniform signal code and system 
oi etiquette and rules for hoisting colors, etc. 


PAYING DECK SEAMS.—After caulking with cotton, pay with 
eare with mixture of whitelead and common whiting, mixture to 
have consistency enough to be properly applied. See that the seams 
are filled thoroughly, using an ordinary putty knife, ‘‘Marine glue.” 
an Hnglish preparation of tar, rubber and yarnish, has been tried in 
this country, but not with success, as the glue softens in our strong 
summer sun. This marine glue cannot be bought on this side. Thick 
whitelead can also be used without admixture of whiting. 


NEW SCHOONER.—Mr. Edgar Harding has had a new schooner 
built on lines by Dwyer, of Portland. Overall 63ft., waterline 57ft., 
beam 14ft., draft 9ft., mainmast 61ft., foremast 60ft., bowsprit out- 
board 18ft.. jibboom 13ft. beyond cap, mainboom 43ft., gaff 24f6., 
forehoom i8ft., gait 17ft. Mastheads are 5ft, Sails by A, Wilson, of 
No. duck. Area, mainsail 1,820 sq, ft., foresail 625, jib 426. Staysail, 
flying jib and two topsails 1,196 sq. ft. 

MADGE.—Orders have been received to fit out this famous eye- 
opener, at Newport, forracing this year, Who is going to skipper 
her? A green hand will make a mess of it. It takes years to become 
an Al cutter skipper. The sloop man has first to unlearn all he 
knows and then begin over again. Itrequires the finest touch and 
keenest Judgment to tool a cutter for all she is worth. 


PASTE THIS UP.—Rule % of the New England Y, R. A. reads: 
“Shifting ballast shall not be allowed in anyrace governed by therules 
of this association under penalty of the boat and the owner of the 
boat, or any other boat belonging to him, being debarred from any 
further entr'y or participation in any race given by any club affiliated 
with this association.”’ 


CLUB HOUSES.—Buy an old schooner with sound bottom, build a 
mansard roof over her from rail to rail, keep lower masts and rigging 
standing. Construct large ‘‘tops” with railings at masthead. Then 
you will have a cheap club house, roomy, appropriate, can be shifted 
at will. Splendid lookout from aloft and exercise racing up and 
down the rigging. 

STHAM LAUNCH .—Kirby, of Rye, has buill a 45ft. steam launch 
for Geo. Mertz & Sons of Port Chester. She has ft. 8in. beam and 
5ft. depth. Flat floor and quick bilge, as she will be required to lie 
on the mud at ber moorings. 

ALGA.—This 382{t, cutter, which has been drying in Lawley’s yard 
for two years past, owing to Mr. Longfellow’s absence in Europe, 
will be launched and fitted out this season. She will have English 
made spars and sails, 

JHRSEY CITY Y.'C.—Will open the season with an informal 
ernise May 30. Spring match fixed for June 12, which is an unfortu- 
nate selection, as it clashes with the date of the New York Y. C. races. 

CHICAGO Y. C.—Annual cruise fixed for July 3, sail for Milwaukee. 
A subseription has been raised ta purchase a fine yachting library 
and photos from Halifax. Mr. Miles Nixonis now recording secretary. 

SOUTH BOSTON Y. C.—Circular for Decoration Day races haying 
been issued before the formation of the New England Yachting As- 
sociation, shifting ballast will be allowed on that day. 

ROYAL CANADIAN Y. C.—Will establish a system of junior mem- 
bership, enabling young men under twenty-four to become members 
on an annual subscription of five dollars. 

ATALANTA.—Mr, Isaac R. Thomas has bought the 2ft, catboat 
Abbie A., of Marion, and changed her name to Atalanta. She will fly 
the burgee of the Beverly ¥, C. 

SALEM BAY Y.C.—Has arranged for matches as follows: First 
championship, June 26; second, July 26; open traces, Aug. 16; third 
championship, Sept. 4. 

GALLEY FIRE.—The owner of the schooner Gaetina accomplishes 
all his cooking over two oil stoves swung on gimbals. 

NEW KEELS,—Borden, of South Boston, is altering the center- 
board sloops Ellen and India to keels, 


Ganoeing. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest anp 
Srream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete . od 
their clubs, and also noticesin advance of meetings and races, an 
reports of the same. Camoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Fores ann Stream their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or deseriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


FIXTURES. 


May 80.—Pit(sburgh C, Q,, First Annual Regatta. 
June 1.—Hudsen River Meet at Newburgh, 

June 1,—Connecticut River Meet, 

June 14 to 16.—Merrimack River Meet. 

July 9 to i5.Chieago C. O,, Club Cruise. 

July 19.—Chicago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 
July 24 to 26,—Lake George Meet at Lorna Island. 


JANTHE C. C, 


[ANTE C. C., Newark, N. J. Organized 1880. Seeretary, John B. 
._ Russell, No. 51 Mt. Pleasant avenue, Newark. House on Passaic 
River, at Woodside. Twelye members. Signal, blue 


Nine canoes. 
field with white arrowhead. 


THE SPRING MEETS. 


MERRIMACK RIVER, 
Leditor Forest and Stream: 

T noticed in a recent issue of Forrest Anp SrrEAm that it was pro- 
Posed to hold a local meet on the Merrimack, and it struck me as 

eing a first-class idea, and, for one, I should like to attend. 

If there is any canoeist in this vicinity who would like to make the 
cruise to the meet in company, let him ship his canoe and himself to 
Sterling, and I will take him to the head of canoe navigation on the 
Stillwa ev River, a tributary of the Nashua, and a cruise from here to 
Lowell will be very pleasant. E, H. Coonmes. 

WEsT STERLING. Mass. 


NEWBURGH. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

New Yorkers may find the following a good wav to go up to the 
Newburgh canoe meet: Get afloat with everything stowed about 
slack low water and lay for a tow of canal boats or barges anywhere 
between the Battery and Thirty-fourth street. Paddle alongside one 
of the rearmost boats of the tow and make arrangements for a 
deck passage with the skipper. The crew will cheerfully lend a hand 
in getting the canoe on board, and vou can turn in as comfortably as 
if you were camped on shore. I haye been treated with great 
courtesy on several occasions when availing myself of this means of 
transit; but don’t try itif you are a snob, or anything of that sort. 
The bargees are a rough set and won't be patronized. ITadvise you 
to wear trousers over your knickerbockers and not to part your hair 
in the middle if you would have them regard you as a being fit to 
associate with them. A supply of cigars will go far to cement 
friendship and secure the favor of all hands. An afternoon start 
will secure an arrival off Newburgh at an early hour in the morning 
if no serious delay occurs. C.L, N, 

New Yor Crrvy. 


LEAKS IN BIRCH BARK CANOES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

To stop aleakina birch bark canoe, turn her bottom up and let 
her get dry. Have a mixture of piteh and lard which will be just a 
little soft when it cools. Heat this and plaster it over the leak. By 
wetting the finger and rubbing the pitch therewith, a smooth patch 
can be made, If the crack is a large one, a few coarse stitches should 
be taken through its edges with string or strip of bark before apply- 
ing the pitch, If very large a patch of birch bark is sewn on, and the 
seams paid over with the pitch mixture. Cc, L, N. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In answer to “What will stop leak in bireb bark canoe,” will say: 
Have made many trips in themin the Maine waters where bottom has 
been broken by rocks in swift waters or by a knothole. The guides 
always had asmall tin cup of piteh and built a light fire, melted it, 
and turned canoe over and had it perfectly dry. Applied the pitch 
hot with flat stick and wetting the ends of their fingers rubbed the 
pitch smonth. It sticks like a poor relation, If the break is a lon 
one or on the bow of canoe, or ata seam in the back, take a strip 0} 
strong cotton cloth or canvas. cover it with piteh and apply it to the 
spot hot, then cover it outside this patch with hot pitch and rub 
smooth while cooling with your thumb wet, and you have no fear it 
will ever come off unless coming in contact with rocks. Allow me to 
congratulate you upon the excellence of your FoREST AND STREAM. I 
have bought and read eyery copy. J. H. W. 

Corning, N. Y. 


CANOE RIGS. 


HE Snake has got her new mainsail rigged after the Stoddard- 
Oliver plan with some modifications. It is an endeavor to get the 
rapid and easy reef on or before tae wind, which the lug affords, with 
the weatherly qualities and lightness of the lateen,and it seems to be 
very successful as an all-round sail, not too large or heayy for cruis- 
ing, being about 56ft,, nor requiring too high a mast—5ft. 10in, above 
deck. It has besides the sheet only a combined halliard and reefin 
downhaul, practically one repe. Tack and jackstay are dispense 
with, and a jaw or hook on boom working between two collars on 
mast holds the boem in position. It is detached from the mast in five 
seconds, and a smart flat sail not perceptibly different from the 
lateen. 

In fact, the Snake's sail and the Marion’s are both lateens by Rush- 
ton, differently mounted. The Snake found that the 60ft, lateen 
with spars big enough to stand the strain of her manner of working, 
was too heavy to be manageable with the ring and pin arrangement 
at masthead. The limit for that pattern seems to be about 50ft. and 
then the spars must be very deftly madeto be light enough without 
weakness. Therefore advantage was taken of Gen, Oliver’s and Mr, 
Stoddard’s experiments, The Snake will come to Newburgh with 
87ft. of sail, comprising main 57ft., dandy 17ft., jib 14ft. The main 
ryeefed shows about 88fb. 


AIRTIGHT BOXES FOR CANOES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: i 

As airtight boxes seem to me the best means of securing a cance 
from sinking, 1 yenture to report the results of my recent experi- 
ment in making them. The ends of a canoe are the best places for 
such tanks; they occupy there space that isnot very ayailable, and 
that ought never to be filled with baggage, if the canoe is to earry 
her load easily. As my new canoe is 15ff. long she gives me room 
enough, after filling the stern with a box 2ft. Sin. long, 1ft, 5in, wide 
on top, llin. deep at its forward end, and shaped like the end of the 
canoe, and putting in the bow another box 2£ft. 3in, Jong, 11}4in. wide 
on top, and 5in. deep at the after end. his forward box is quite 
shallow, to allow the spars to run forward to the stem. 

These boxes are made of nickeline silver*No, 3, gauge 32, the manu- 
facture of the Holmes & Wessell Metal Co., West Twenty-fourth 
street, New York. This alloy is so strong that even this exceedingly 
thin sheet is able to withstand the pressure of the water when the 
tanks are submerged, The larger box weighs only 4ibs. and floats 
Chas. aboye the water; the smaller one weighs (élbs. and floats 
15!bs. 


bs 

They are held in place by light, removable bulkheads, screwed or 
Hittaned toa CREnHe ane the keelson, so that the boxes may be 
taken out easily for repairing the canoe without taking off the deck. 
They were made by 4 tinsmith, over frames shaped like the space 


r ee 


they occupy, but the frames were not left in thetanks, As thisnivl- 
ee ae Me Peasy much in or = pees T shall henceforth feel 
uriby in the buoyancy of the 0, 
Minton, N, v April 28, Teen ie 


i 


A NIGHT ON A LOG JAM. 


O*. bright morning in early September two ardent canoeists 
: started on a short cruise, part of which has been more pleasant 
in remembrance than it was in actual experience. The trip proposed 
was on a small stream in Northern Wisconsin, culled the Wanpaca, 
which flows into the Wolf River, then down the Wolf to Lake Winne- 
bago, across the corner of the lake and down the Lower Fox. As we 
were to pass through several small towns we went m a single canoe, 
with a 9ft, cockpit, and trusted to find sleeping quarters for the two 
m three nights we expected to be out in some farmhouse, barn or 

ayvern. 

Tt was about 7 o’clock when we put our heavily loaded canoe into 

the water at the pretty village of Waupaca. The Waupaca River 
offers much that is pleasant for a one or two days’ cruise, It runs 
almost entirely through a thickly wooded country, with banks yary- 
ing from one or two to fifteen or so feetin height. Itisas crooked 4 
stream as can be found in the United States. 
_ It would be impossible to make out its general direction from cruis- 
ing on if, as it never keeps any direction more than three or four rods. 
It doubles and turns and twists until an exact map of it would look 
like a row of 8's tied in double bow knots. Asan instance of this, K., 
who had been on the stream before, called my attention, as we got 
under way, to a barn not many yards away, and ten minutes later we 
whizzed passed the same barn with a fiye or six-mile current, haying 
made a detour of a mile, 

After sn hour of easy paddling, but of great progress, awing to the 
swittness of the current, we were segs oe by a portage over some 
accumulated drifiwood. As we were pulling the canoe over a log an 
unlucky movement at 4 critical moment caused her to caréen so that 
& capsize seemed inevitable; but as she shd into the water on the 
other side she righted brayely, and the only thing which went over- 
board was a package of crackers, which floated calmly on the surface 
of the water for a moment and then, caught on a rock, tore open, and 
for as much as half a mile, as we lazily dipped our paddles, we en- 
countered now and then swollen and uninviting looking fragments of 
what we had expected would go, in company with plenty of milk, in 
yery different channels. 

On we went through apparently uninhabited country, darting 
around bends, passing under the branches of trees which leaned 
almost completely across the narrow stream, now slacking 1p as we 
passed through some little stretch of rapids, and éncountering occa- 
sionally a log so fallen as to necessitate getting out and drawing the 
canoe over it, just enough of these to afford a pleasant variation, and 
none requiring us to go ashore. 

Toward noon we came suddenly upon a brick yard and a dam six 
feet high, The canoe could not shoot this, loaded as she was, but as 
neither of us had ever jumped a dam, K. was anxious to try, So we 
unloaded, and getline a good starfi he went over successiully, and 
carrying the canoe around again Ialso went over without accident, 
much to the disappointment of the workmen at the brick yard, who 
left their tasks and watched us with great terest. 

There was here a good illustration of the crookedness of the river. 

The water which furnished power for the mill escaped by a tail race 
only a few yards long into the riyer again, while from the dam to the 
same place, as the river ran, was more than a mile, To make up for 
the time spent at the dam, we portaged over this neck of land. 

About noon we came to an immense pond, thickly studded with 
tree stumps. There was a gentle breeze in the right direction, and 
we let the canoe drift and ate our dinner on board, occasionally inter- 
rupted by the canoe’s gently bumping against a stvimp. 

At the end of this pond, which we reached just as we finished our 
meal, we had our last portage on the Waupaca. From tliere to the 
Wolt we had free water with the exception of a néwly fallen tree, 
which occasioned some delay, Toward # o’clock we reached the Wolf 
River, having eome no less than 65 or 70 miles since 7 o™%lock. 

Here the prospect was entirely changed. The river was larger, and 
the current mueh slower, and the channel contained a great many 
logs. They seemed to float much faster than the current, and we 
were bothered considerably by them, as sometimes they took up al- 
most all the channel, though they were loose and we mauaged to pick 
our way among them at a pretty fair rate. 

We began to feelalittle anxious, howeyer, and made inquiries of 
some men we met, but received indifferent answers. As we went on 
we found the logs getting more and more numerous, and a row of 
piles was driven down the middle of the channel and a boom stretch- 
ing past them divided the river lengthwise. All the logs now went 
into one side, and we rejoiced for some time in clear water. But be- 
fore long we found that every half mile or so the other side of the 
river would be full of logs so that we were obliged frequently to pull 
the canoe over the boom into the clear side. 

At every turn matters became worse, and fangs of river men were 
seen on the booms letting the logs out. Becoming now quite anxious, 
we male inquities of every one of these rivermen we overlook as to 
the logs ahead, chances of obtaining sleeping accommodations, étc.. 
but from these we could only learn that the logs did not extend very 
far ahead, that we could find several farm houses along the river, 
and that atthe ‘“‘cut’' three or four miles below, there was a river- 
man’s cabin, where we would be weleomed. One of them shouted to 
us, ‘You had better get ahead of this jam to-night. Itll bea mile 
and a half long before morning,’’ 

The river now ran through an immense marsh stretching away as 
far as we could see, through which we pushed on as fast as possible, 
About 5 o'clock we ran on to a large jam of logs about 40 rods long, 
There was nothing to do but go over the top of it. To gothrough it 
was impossible, but thinking that our troubles would be over after 
passing them, we went to work yigorously and pulled the canoe over 
the slippery rolling logs, without any unpleasant result beyond wet 
feet. 

Believing that we were now ahead of all the logs, we took things 
more easily, keeping a sharp lookout for the riverman’s cabin. Just 
as it was getting too dusky fo see distimetly further than across the 
river, as we rounded a bend another jam met our gaze, Getting out 
on the edge we strained our eyes to see the further end, but in the 
gathering darkness it seemed to stretch away indefinitely, and no 
clear water was visible. We even walked along the lozs a few rods, 
but could see nothing. } 

Coming back to the canoe we found that the logs had floated in 
from above and inclosed us in the jam, so that adyance and retreat 
was impossible except over the tops of the logs, which in the 
darkness would be attended with much danger, We were left to 
choose between two aiternatives; either to walk on the logs till we 
reached the riverman’s cabin, providing the jam extended that far, 
leaying the canoe in the marsh, and trusting tofind itin the mcrning, 
or else to make a night of it on the Jam, where we were. i 

Choosing the latter, and finding two large logs on the edge of fhe 
marsh close together, we placed the canoe between them and sat 
down toa cold supper. When we were ready to turn in we placed an 
immense shawl over the whole cockpit, to keep out the mosquitoes. 
Besides this we had a small wolf robe which we placed in the middle, 
and as it extended as far as our hips, our feet at least were comfort- 
able. As for the rest of us, he who had in his yalise the greatest num- 
ber of shirts or socks, slept that night the most softly. Spreading all 
such things in the bottom, as K, expressed it, 12 feet of canoeists 
erawlad into 9 feet of cockpit 28 inches wide. = 

The dew falling on the shawl made the cockpit so nearly airtight 
that now and then one or the other of us would raise up a corner to 
get a breath of fresh air, and then the mosquitoes would come in, 
As to the size of these mosquitoes silence had better be strictly pre- 
served. In these degenerate days no one can say, how large the 
mosquitoes were on the trip he took and be believed. At any rate, 
they were large and numerous, and but for them the night would not 
have been very unpleasant. Ic. said they kept him awake all night, 
and from an iicident which occurred the nexb day I am inclined to 
believe him. . 

Some time in the night we were startled by a tremen/‘lous noise, 
which we were at first unable to explain. I thoughtitwasasteamer, 
but K, declared it was another band of mosquitoes. In either case 
our situation was unpleasant, Jf it was a steamer and attempted to 
break the jam we would be capsized; if it was another regiment of 
mosquitoes we would be eaten up. But, whatever it was, ib made no 
further demonstration. 

With the first appearance of dawn we got up and surveyed fhe 
scent, Up the river tne logs, which had come in during the night 
silently and cautiously, stretched away, thousands and thousands of 
them, beyond the bend, and I have no doubt for two or three miles 
farther, Down stream, not more than thirty or forty rods away, was 
the end of the jam, with clear water beyond, and at its edge was the 
riverman’s cabin on a raft of logs, furnished with mosquito bars and 
all that a tired canoeist could desire, 

There too was the steamer whose whistle had awakened us in the 
night. We had come the evening before to the first of all the logs, 
but it had been too dark fo see either the open water or the cabin. 
Leaying the canoe we made our way over the logs to ascertain our 
exact whereabouts. As we were walking along the event occurred 
which made me think the mosquitoes had really kept K. awake all 
night, I was a little ahead and heard thelogs behind me bumping mn 
a rather lively manner, Looking around I saw him een ae 
animated double shuffie on some small and very slippery lookmg 
logs. When he had regained his equilibrium I asked him the cause 
of his unwonted gayety, With a rather sheepish air he confessed 


C, TY. PaRNHAM, 7 


= 


that he feared he had fallen into a doze and nearly slipped in. But 
perhaps be had not yet got fully awake. It was a wonder that he did 
not go down between the logs. 

From the riverman we learned that the ‘‘cut”’ was full of logs, so 
that we would be obliged to go around by the main channel, an ad- 


ditional nine or ten miles. Declining his hearty invitation to stop and 
take a ete of coffee we bumped the canoe over the iogs and dropped 
her into the water, hoping to reach the lake some time in the after- 
noon. This we suceceded in doing, passing through two small lakes 
on the way, buf the canoe had received such rough handling among 
the logs, and besides was so heavily loaded with double crew and 
outfit, that we concluded it would be quickest and safest to go home 
by rail, shipping the canoe by the next steamer. 
Altogether the trip had more of fun in it than discomfort. The 
_ fame trip, under more favorable circumstances, would be very pleas- 
ant, We afterward learned that the jam, which was nearly four 
miles long, held for three weeks, and if we had pot reached the point 
ey did that night we should have been left in a very unfortunate Bons 
ition. 3 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


IX.—WALLKILL RIVER, 


AN any one who has made the trip or heard of it, give information 
about the Wallkill, from Hamburg and the “drowned lands” 
down to Rondout? Some sarees boats propose to accompany the 
Marion and Fior da Lice, and although some accounts haye been 
given they do not seem to apply to the spring condition of the Kill, 
and it is hoped that early in June there may be water enough for 
Ellards. Who knows? SNAKE. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY, 


lI. —FISH— CONTINUED. 

Planked Fish.—Shad, flounders, sunfish or any other *‘flat” fish may 
be “planked.”” Cut off the head and tail, split open the back, but do 
not cut cléar through the belly, leaving the fish so that it may be 
opened wide like a book and tacked on a plank or piece of bark, 
Tack some thin slices of bacon or pork to the end of the fish that will 
be uppermost wheu before the fire, and, if you like, a few slices of 
raw onion sprinkled with pepper and salt, Sharpen one end of the 
plank and drive it into the ground, before a bed of hot coals. Catch 
the drippings in a tin cup or large spoon and baste the fish continually 
till it smells so good you can’t wait another instant fo eat it. It is 
then done. 

Skewered Trowt—Sharpen a small, straight stick, and on it skewer 
small trout and thin slices of bacon or pork in alternation, Hold 
over a bed of hot coals and keep constantly turning, so that the 
juices will not be lost in the fire. A very few minutes will suffice to 
cook the trout. 

Fish Chowder.—Clean the fish and cut up ail except the heads and 
tails into small pieces, leaving out as many bones as possible. Cover 
the bottom of the pot with slices of fat salt pork; over that a layer 
of sliced raw potatoes; then a layer of chopped onions; then a layer 
of fish; on the fish a layer of crackers, first made tender by soaking 
in water or milk. Repeat the layers, except pork, till the pot is 
nearly full, Every layer must be seasoned with pepper and salt. 

Put in enough cold water to moisten the whole mass well, cover the 


pot closely, set over a gentle fire, and let it simmer an hour or 80, 
Cook it till itis rather thick, then stir it gently, and it is ready to 
serve. Tomatoes may be added as a layer after the onions. 

Clam Chowder—Is made the same as fish chowder, using clams 
instead of fish, 

Boiled Fish Roe—Wash and wipe the roes with a soft cloth. Wrap 
in a cloth and boil the same as fish; or, they may be tied inside the 
fish with string and boiled with it. 

Fried Kish Roe,—Prepared as above, dredged in meal or flour and 
fried exactly as fish, SENECA. 


MOHICAN C. C.—Held their regular monthly meeting Wednesday 
evening, 7th inst. The following gentlemen were elected members; 
QO. Winne, W. Tipping W. L. Palmer, H. Cushman, G. H. Thacher, 
R. W. DeLano, V. D. Goeway and I. iu. Mix, who will all be active 
canoeists, and, therefore, a considerable acquisition to the club. Sev- 
eral new boats are arriving and expected, including a Rushton 
Princess for Mr, Pierson, a man of proportionate size. A Rushton 
Ellard has just appeared, and isa beauty and evidently a good boat 
all round. Lansingburg boats, by Smith, are also in demand; two 
more are due in a few days. The boat house and club room have 
been rearranged and improyed to accommodate the increased num- 
ber of members, and the necessity of further extension is being con- 
sidered. The Newburgh meet was discussed and a large attendance 
promised. Some prizes for open races were also offered. The new 
constitution was found to be working very well on the whole, but 
notice was given for minor amendments with regard to the election 
of members and to the rates for housing canoes. The Mohicans de- 
mand only a moderate subscription and an extra rent from canoe 
owners. After the adjournment the Executive Committee (who con- 
trol racing) were called together by the captain and asked to consider 
a challenge prize for sailing offered by him; tke prize to be a silver 
badge, with the word champion, and a streamer bearing the same 
word. Conditions: Sail limited to *5ft.area; ballast to 75lbs.; course 
and other regulations as determined by committee. Prize accepted, 
—SNAKE. ~ 

MERRIMACK RIVER MEET.—Correct dates are Saturday, Sunday 
and Monday, June 14,15 and 16. Fleet leave Lowell afternoon of 
first day; break camp Tuesday morning. In addition to New England 
canoeists, two are expected from Canada and at least one from New- 
York. The interest is growing. 


Answers to Qorrespondents. 


(=> No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


IF. BE. Wasson, Cleveland, Ohio,—Letter sent to address you gaye 
has been returned, 

SuBSORIBER is informed that we do not know the address of party 
who makes portable houses. 

H, B,, Lancaster, Pa.—Can you tell me where I can buy a buckskin 
hunting suit, coat and panis? Ans, See advertising columns. The 
gun stores keep them. 

A. G., Baltimore, Md.—Will you please inform me what course to 
pursue to have my collie dog registered in the American Kennel 


a a a a 


Register? Ans, Read the notice at the head of Kennel department on 
page 309, 

C. F., New York.—1. The expression .40-70 applied to rifle means 
that the rifle is 40 in caliber and the charge is 70 grains of powder. 
2. Chilled shot is shot which has been submitted to a hardening or 
chilling process, 


J. M. E., Sinelairville, N. ¥.—Can you recommend to me some 
work on the mammalia of North America, something that will 
answer the same purpose that Coues’s ‘‘Key™ does for the birds? 
Ans. There is no such work. 


W. S.—Sew a piece of canvas neatly oyer the hole, first putting a 
coat of shellac vartfish on its inner side, the outside being painted 
thoroughly to match the rest of the boat. See directions for repair- 
ing a birch canoe in another column, 


B., Boston.—I have bought seasoned lancewood for making a rod, 
one {gels of which is badly warped. Is there any way of straighten- 
ing it without hurting the elasticity of the rod? Ans. It is difficult to 
do, but you may steam it and hold it straight in clamps for some days 
and try it. A cabinet maker or carriage maker may do it for you. 


C. L. C., Johnstown.—Will you kindly give me the name of the fol- 

lowing bird: Head purple, back light green, breast and belly yellow, 

wings green with some black feathers, tail dark green, legs black, 

eye black, bill thick and gray color. Bird about 544 inches long. 

mat oe ela a young male purple finch, though your description 
ardly fits. 


E. A. B., Blair, Neb.—Will you please inform me through corres- 
pondents’ column what is the Latin, also the common name of a goose 
or brant that is common here. We call them herethe mountain geese 
or California geese. They are a fac simile of the common wild 
geese or Canada geese in color and marking, only smaller. Length, 
27 inches; length of wing, 2214 inches; length of bill, 44 inches. We 
also haye the snow geese or white brant, also the speckled-breasted 
brant or Hutchins’ geese as some call them. The goose I have tried 
to describe is about the size of the other two, Plenty of water fowl 
here this spring, Ans, The gooseis Bernicla canadensis hutchinsii, 
Hutehins’ goose. The speckle-breast of which you speak is the white- 
fronted goose, not Hutchins’. Hrror in local name. 


G. E., Chicago, Ill.—1. What isthe common English name of the 
small gull or tern, about the size of a turtle dove, which abounds on 
the sandbars of the Middle Mississippi River? It has yellow bill and 
legs, and is dark eream-color on the back and lighter underneath, 
also what is its scientific name? 2. What are the English and scien- 
tific names of the creeping or trailing plant foundtin the South bearing 
a peculiarity attractive flower called by the darkies the ‘‘Maypop?” 
Ithas large dark green leaves, and the blossom is about three inches 
in diameter with the petals presenting the appearance of a delicate 
pinky fringe. Is found around old cultivated fields. 3, Has the theory 
of oiling the waters ina storm to break the force of the waves ever 
been put to a decisive practicaltest? Ans. 1. Your description is so 
vague that we cannot tell what bird you mean. 2. The flower called 
Maypop in the South is the Passiflora incarnata, one of the passion 
flower family. 3. The theory has neyer been tested by scientific men 
that we know of. Itis safe to regard the alleged smoothing of the 
sea by oil as a sea, captain's tale until it has some better authority. 


CANOEISTS AND CAMPERS will find in another column an advertise- 
ment of the Great American Tea Co., who put up packages of con- 
yenient size and form for use in the woods. 


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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL, FISHCULTURE, 
The Worth of Dog Flesh. The American Fishcultural As- 


sociation. 
THE KENNEL. 
The Philadelphia Dog Show. 
A Private Field Trial. 
Pointers at the New York Show. 
Beagles at New York. 
English and American Fox- 
hound. 
English Kennel Notes. 
The English Field Trials. 
Kennel Notes; 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Air Resistance. 
The Winchester Repeating Arm. 
Range and Gallery. 


Proposed National Association. 

The St. Clair Plats in Congress. 

The Fisheultural Association. 

Large Trout. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOBRIST. 

Camps of the Kingfishers.—11. 
Natura History, 

The Couesian Period. 

The Brown Thrush. 

The Grizz.y Bear in Labrador, 
Game BAG and Gun. 

My First ‘‘Honker.”’ 

The St. Clair Flats, 

The Adirondack Bill. 

Massachusetts Game Interests. 


Sea Otter Shooting. The Trap. 

Fish and Game in British The Chicago Tournament. 
Columbia. CANOEING, 

Dorchester Bay Ducking, Toledo C, C. 


Down an Idaho Snow Slide. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
Sma AND RIVER FISHING, ° 
Salt-Water Fishing. 


My First Canoe Cruise. 
Canoe Pilots. 

Canve Tricks. 

Canoeing in Florida. 

Leaks in Birch Bark Canoes. 


Lake Ontario Fishing. YACHTING. 
Landlocked Salmon in Sebago. A River Cruise in the Hornet. 
FISHCULTURE. New Foiding Boat. 


Maine Salmon Hatching. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


PROPOSED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 


TL and water will not mix. It is just as well to remem- 

ber this, and much cheaper to accept the teaching of 

experience than to waste good oil and water in useless and 
silly experiments to demonstrate an old truth. 

We obscrve in certain quarters a foolish and ill-advised 
suggestion that the national association, which it is proposed 
to organize at Chicago next week, be made up of two ele- 
ments, those who are interested in trap-shooting and those 
who are interested in game protection. It is suggested that 
the proposed association serve in a dual capacity, to encour- 
age trap-shooting and to promote game protection. 

If any of the gentlemen who are going to Chicago seri- 
ously entertain the notion that they can get up such a society 
with any good to themselves or the country, we beg to warn 
them that the project is visionary and utterly impracticable. 
Oil and water will not mix. _ 

This thing has been tried once. It was undertaken after 
much deliberation and planning. There were influential 
men back of it. The initial meeting was attended with a 
gond deal of what we nowadays calla ‘‘boom.” After that 
it fizzled out by degrees, and was finally lost altogether in 
the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The experiment cost those 
who made it $25,000, Such experiments are too costly to be 
often repeated, 

A. prominent official of the former association once told us 
that he thought the pigeon shooters were to blame for the 
failure of the society. Now, pigeon shooters may be (and 
often are) enthusiastic game protectors. But it has been 
proven time and again that when the attempt is made to 

combine these two interests, game protection goes to the 
wall and the trap absorbs all the attention, This was the 
case at the meetings of the National Association, it has been 
the rule at al] recent State conventions. To repeat it on a 
national scale is simply foolishness. 

Moreover, there is no call for a national association to 
dabble in game protection. We can conceive of no practi- 
cal work for it, Game protection is just as well off without 
it, If any ardent game protectors are so enthusiustic on the 

subject that they want a national association, let them work 


off their enthusiasm by doing something for the game and 
fish at home. The country is full of men who are always 
ready to make a glowing speech at a sportsmen’s conven- 
tion, but who at home remain as mum as a dead clam shell 
while the waters are netted and the birds trapped all around 
them, 

If the men who are concerned in inaugurating the new 
association really desire to see their project made a success, 
they must confine their efforts to one purpose. * To establish 
a trap-shooting society of national scope is a much more 
feasible undértaking than the attempt to form a comprehen- 
sive trap and protection society. Even this can he done 
only by the expenditure of a generous amount of downright 
hard labor. 

For the consideration of those who are going to Chicago, 
we repeat our suggestion of last week, that the success of a 
national trap-shooting society will be dependent wholly upon 
the financial strength it can show. The only way to collect 
club delegations from different States will he to provide 
generous prizes for competition. Without such inducements 
shooters will not be willing to spend time and money to 
attend the tournaments. The important question to be 
considered by the gentlemen at Chicago next week is the 
money question, 


THE WORTH OF DOG FLESH. 


T is customary for the exhibitors at our bench shows to 
place opposite the dog’s name in the catalogue a figure, 
which is presumed to indicate the price of the animal, 
Sometimes this is $25; sometimes it is $10,000. The former 
is what the owner would sell the dog for, if he could; the 
latter is only another way (and a poor way at that) of saying 
that the dog is not for sale. When bench shows in this 
country were, by eight years, more of a novelty than they 
are to-day, it was not unusttal to see a crowd of open- 
mouthed visitors gathered about the stall of a $10,000 dog, 
mutely wondering at such a gold mine incased in dog fur, 
At the present day, however, the average visitor is up to 
snuff, and pays little attention to the fancy figures in the 
catalogue. It is very probable that the time will soon come 
when exhibitors will cease to make themselves ridiculous by 
affixing such prices to their exhibits. 

In the catalogue of the last New York bench show, less 
than one-half of the dogs were priced by their owners, The 
values given ran from. $25 to $10,000. The total sum of all 
the values so printed was in round numbers $318,500. It is 
perfectly safe to assume that the owners of the other dogs in 
the show thought as’highly of their animals as did the ex- 
hibitors who named prices. By doubling the sum given 
above as the alleged value of one-half of the dogs, we find 
$637,000 to be the total value of all the animals exhibited, 
Including the puppies, there were 1,185 exhibits, The aver- 
age value then would be more than $500. This is too high. 

We have gone through the catalogue, and with some care 
have estimated the market value of each animal named in it. 
The owner’s prices have been disregarded. One dog marked 
in the catalogue at $10,000 we have put at $200, another 
priced at $100 we have put up to $150. Here are the prices 
which, as dogs go, we judge to be approximately correct: 


% dogs, worth $1,000.00 each................... $7,000.00 
84 dogs, worth 500.00 each............. ...... 17,000.00 
2 dogs, worth 400.00 each............ 2.1.02. 800.00 
34 dogs, worth 9800.00 each.................... 10,200.00 
47 dogs, worth 250.00 each...,..............- 11,750.00 
46 dogs, worth 200.60 each.. ................. 9,200.00 
72 dogs, worth 150.00 each...........¢........ 10,800.00 
228 dogs, worth 100.00 each..................5. 22,800.00 
29 dogs, worth 75.00 each...................- 2,175.00 
266 dogs, worth 50.00 each.................... 18,300.00 
875 dogs, worth 25.00 each..........-......005 9,375.00 
9 dogs, worth 15.00 each..................- 135.00 
80 dogs, worth 10.00 each............ ....... 800.00 
5 dogs, worth OQ KERE Hg oh ss teks hee se 25.00 

1 dog, worth A Mera ten a) 
Total value......... iS weetemet Sinan Bh $114,860.25 


This is something less than one-fifth of the sum quoted 
above. Nevertheless, $114,860.25 is not a total to be scoffed 
at. 
collateral at our valuation, might float a Wall street bank. 
The average value is only $96, a sum simply ridiculous be- 
side the rounded $500 ayerage claimed by the exhibitors. 
Still, $96 is a fair average price as dogs are bought and sold. 

Figures are dry. Here is a little story to relieve the arid- 
ity of these statistics, It is, moreover, true: t 

One winning dog in & New York show was priced in the 
catalogue at $100. His owner was so elated by the unex- 
pected decision of the judges that he at once jumped the 


price from $100 to $500. A customer turned up, very anx- ' 


The Madison Square Garden dog exhibit, turned in as- 


ious to buy the dog; but he could not stand the inflated price, 
and the two began to haggle over it. , 

“The dog is worth it,” said the owner, ‘‘every cent of it, 
and more too. Why, see here. He has beaten all the crack 
dogs in his class. They came here from all over the country 
to compete with him, and he just walked away from the best 
of them and took the prize from the whole lot. A dog that 
wins first is worth $500, sir, if he’s worth a cent.” 

“Oh, well,” rejoined the customer, ‘“‘you ask entirely too 
much forhim. I can buy the winner of second or third a 
good deal cheaper, and I guess I'll take one of them.” 

“Now, see here,” put in the owner, ‘“‘don’t doit. Iwould 
advise you, as a friend, to haye nothing to do with them. 
The dog that took second is nothing but a cross-bred duffer, 
anyhow; the third is worse yet. In fact there isn’t a half- 
way decent dog in the whole class, except. my own here.” 

The man did not buy the dog that had beaten ‘‘duffers” 
ouly. 


THE FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 


Res recent meeting in Washington was not only the 

largest, but the best in every respect, that the Associa- 
tion has ever held. There were fishculturists"from every 
State between Maine and Nebraska, and Michigan and North 
Carolina, It was gratifying to the friends of the Associa- 
tion to note the return of the Commissioners from the New 
England States, who left it some years ago on account of 
difficulties with one who was then prominent in its councils. 
The meeting at Washington was also supplemented by a ses- 
sion of the different State Commissioners, at the request of 
Prof. Baird, and brought mary new members. The character 
of the papers and discussions was of a broader nature, and 
we do not hesitate to call it the most important meeting yet 
held in the interest of fishculture. 

Another great benefit derived from the place and time of 
meeting was the opportunity it gave the members to see the 
shad-hatching work in the central hatching station, where 
improved machinery is used, and the large.operations are 
carried on in the most systematic manner. The Association 
has.for years been gradually widening its sphere of useful- 
ness, and taking in all subjects which may be in any way 
considered as connected with fishculture. One of these, 
which at present bids fair to become a vital question on the 
sea coast, is the culture of oysters, and this occupied a great 
deal of attention at the Washington meeting, and some yalu- 
able suggestions were made, which we will give in full. 


THE ST. OLAIR FLATS IN CONGRESS. 


ape people of Michigan are urging that the United 

States shall set aside the public lands of the St. Clair 
Flats as a permanent national park for the free use of the 
people. They have been aroused to do this by the endeavor 
of certain clubs to acquire exclusive shooting rights on the 
Flats. The result will be watched with great interest, for 
the territory in question is well known as one of the best 
wildfowl shooting districts in the country. 

If a bill passes Congress giving the people this grand 
domain for a pleasure ground, where they may sail, fish and 
shoot, it is highly desirable that adequate provision be made 
for properly restricting the exercise of these privileges. The 
preservation and well-appointed public control of the St. 
Clair Flats will insure a long-enduring benefit to the people 
of Michigan and of the United States. We hope Congress 
will make a law to that effect. 


THE ANTIDOTE,—Public attention is weekly called by 
some startling example to the pernicious effects of the dia- 
bolical police gazette and five-cent flash story-paper literature 
that is corrupting the young folks of the land. State Legis- 
latures are enacting laws to suppress this monstrous evil by 
making the sale of such papers to minors a misdemeanor, 
This is as it should be. Another wise course is to supply 
wholesome literature to the boys. Give them healthy read- 
ing—the Forest anD STREAM for instance. Let them in- 
hale the odor of the balsams, then they will not have a taste 
for the reeking atmosphere of the five-cent novel scenes. 
Equip them with fishing rods and shotguns, then they will 
not transform themselves into arsenals of bowie knives and 
bulldog pistols to exterminate Indians, parents and school- 
masters. ; 


THE CURSE OF PoLITICs.—Elsewhere is given the full text 
of the Adirondack bill as passed at Albany. The measure 
is calculated to insure good results if honestly carried out. 
But there is a chance for political corruption to counteract 
the possible good. Let us hope that the Adirondacks may 
not be blighted by the curse of politics, 


322 


Che Sportsman Tourist. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


J Black Lake, Michigan.—Il. 
| eee Mancelona, a run of forty miles brought us to 
Petoskey, getting a sight on the way at the sleepy 
hamlet of Boyne Falls, of the famed Boyne River, which 
flows into the head of Pine Lake, six milesfrom the railroad, 
This stream was, a few years ago, noted for the numbers and 
size of its trout, but much fishing and the lumbermen have 
produced the inevitable result, and to get the good ones, the 
angler will have to follow it up some distance into the tan- 
gles where the waters haye been little disturbed, The train 
stopped half an hour at Petoskey, and we had a glorious 
first view of Little Traverse Bay, a sheet of water that rivals 
in beauty its big brother, Grand Traverse Bay, further south. 
Here all was life and bustle. The depot platform was 
crowded with people, representing perhaps half the States in 
the Union; some going further north, many looking eagerly 
for friends on the train, and others looking on from idle 
curiosity—the latter a class that every country town is af- 
flicted with—idlers that consider it a religious duty to be on 
hand, schedule time, to see the ‘‘cars come in,” 

As Ben said, ‘‘there’s a good deal o’ human natur’ layin’ 
‘round loose at Petoskey,” and during the thirty minutes’ 
stop, we amused ourselves standing on the car platform, by 
taking in a few of its different phases, Of course, there 
were the pests of the earth, the howling hackman, and the 
hotel runner, boiling over with impudence and lies about. the 
merits of the respective hotels they had the honor to repre- 
sent. ‘There was the timid passenger with his gripsack, look- 
ing furtively around for a means of escape from these vul- 
tures, who were making life a burden to him. By the bag- 
gage truck was the anxious-about-histrunk passenger, care- 
fully looking it over to see if it had been tampered with, ora 
speck of the yarnish scraped off. 

Over there by the corner of the building was a Mossback, 
pure and simple, standing at rest, with both hands clasped 
around a long ‘‘gad” that looked as if it had done service as 
a persuader for a pair of sleepy oxen in surmounting a vexa- 
tious sandhill. He was taking in the whole show for noth- 
ing, and from his fixed attitude and down-hanging lower 
jaw, seemed to be enjoying it rather more than the expendi- 
wure would warrant. Old Ben nudged me gently, and said 
in his emphatic way, ‘That ole feller don’t wear very high- 
toned clothes, but sich as him is jest the salt o’ this livin’ 
earth’ —and Ben was right—a big truth expressed in a terse, 
homely phrase. 

Further along the platform, wasa bevy of chattering, 
laughing girls, bright and rosy as a summer morning, evi- 
dently on their way to the bay shore just below after sunfish, 
as two of them had fishing rods, and another held something 

wrapped. in a paper that was certainly an old oyster can con- 
taining ‘‘wums.” They had no doubt arranged among them- 
selves to take turns with the rods, while two were fishing the 
others would do the screaming, and add their mite to the 
chattering when a fish was landed. They were just of an 
age when girls will laugh at anything and everything, and 
have more fun at a funeral than the average boy at a circus. 

But after all, their happy laughter was good to hear, and 
as my thoughts wandered back to a certain ‘“‘Kingtisher’s 
daughter” left at home, I felt younger, and said to myself as 
the infectious melody rippled from their lips, blessed is pure 
and happy girlhood. 

Here come three quiet, sensible looking men, each with a 
rod, minnow bucket and landing net, and as they file into 
the coach next to us we catch ‘“‘Crooked Lake,” and we 
know, without asking, that they belong to the brotherhood, 
and that they are going a-fishing. 

“Look yander!* whispered Ben, “what kind of a thing is 
that? A dude fisherman, by the big bear of the Sierras,” he 
added, nudging me violently in the ribs. [Benspent several 
years in California, hence the big bear.] ‘‘Hey, Dan! get 
your eye on that, and then go inside and break up yer rods,” 
with another nudge that nearly sent Dan off the platform of 
the car, 

Making his way through the crowd, we saw a fellow 
heading for the forward coach, that old Ben said was “‘jest 
too sweet lookin’ to live another solitary second,” 

He was decked out in a brand new suit of corduroy knee 
breeches, brown woolen stockings and a pair of laced up 
walking shoes, In one hand he carried an ash and lance- 
wood rod, and in the other the indispensable landing net, 
while out of one of the numerous pockets of his coat we 
caught a glimpse of what we supposed was a fly-book, or, it 
might have been a cigar case. Evidently a trout killer. His 
head was surmounted by what Ben termed ‘‘one o’ them new 
fangled cork lined hats, as if,” he growled, ‘this head wasn’t 
light enough without cork,” and to finish up the outfit he 
wore eye-classes, gorgeous necktie, and sported ‘leg o’ mut- 
ton” whiskers, as Dan made them out to be. Last, Ben 
called our attention to a diminutive gripsack slung over his 
shoulder by a strap, which he remarked was, “like as not as 
empty as his head.” : P 

I felt a twinge of compassion for the poor devil as he 
passed into the car, but on a reconsideration the feeling 
changed intoa mild form of wrath, that the gentle art should 
have discredit cast on it in the eyes of sensible people by 
such infernal idiots as this ass in knee breeches and leg 0’ 
mutton whiskers. Fortunately, however, the insect is rare, 
and barmless to man and fish as well. —As we took our seats 
in the train and moved away, Ben very gravely lent us the 
information, ‘‘In all my travels, that’s the worst. case 0’ 
damfool I’ve ever seen on the face o’ this liyin’ earth. 
Why, I'll bet he haint got the sand in him to tackle a hoss- 
fly, and cf he'd git into these woods five rod_ he wouldn't 

_ have sense enough to find his way out agin. Trout fisher!”’ 
—with supreme disgust —‘“‘put a trout and a mud turkel in a 
tub o’ water an’ he couldu’t tell which from t’other, ‘less the 
turkel would get him by the finger;” and this appearing to 
settle the matter in his mind, he scraped a match, and light- 
ing the inseparable briar root, settled back in his seat in sat- 
isfied serenity. Winding around the base of the hill we 
passed the camp-meeting grounds, aud were soon flying 
through a dismal-looking cedar swamp, over a narrow strip 
of clean sand filled in for a road bed, and after a run of six 
miles to Conway Springs, at the head of Crooked Lake, the 
train stopped two or three minutes to let off a few passen- 
gers, among the rest our three anglers and the dude, We 
mentally wished the brethren ‘good luck,” and Ben echoed, 
T am sure, a kindred sentiment in oli! Dn und me when he 
said, in his dry way, ‘‘l hope that dade ‘Il get a duckin’ an’ 
lose them specs before he ketches u solitary fish,” which 
rather uncharitable wish Caused a laugh and restored, as 
Dick would have said, the ‘‘cquibilerum” of the party, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Our original purpose had been to take the little steamer at 
this point and go through to Cheboygan via the ‘Inland 
Route,” through Crooked, Burt and Mullett lakes, but as 
the boys would be waiting for us on that particular morning, 
the plan was changed to go on to Mackinaw City and down 
the M. OC. R. R., in order to make our camping place the 
same evening, if possible. Afterward we regretted we had 
not made the run through by water, as Knots and Jim, who 
had once made the trip, were warm in their praise of the 
beauties and scenery of these three lakes and the rivers con- 
necting them, but life is short, and our fingers were itching 
to grasp a rod and measure strength and cunning with some 
monarch bass or mascalonge of the lake of the dark waters, 
and we promised ourselves this trip ‘‘some other time.” 

From Conway Springs on to Mackinaw City, the road runs 
through as wild and utterly lonely a strip of country as ever 
a Crow flew over. Woods, woods, and swamp and tangle so 
thick in places, that it looked a matter of impossibility for 
even a mink to make its way through the green walls that 
here and there line both sides of the road, And yet in this 
very wildness and solitude is one of the greatest charms of 
these evergreen and odorous north woods, To one who had 
gazed on nothing more enchanting than brick walls and the 
unsurpassed (?) forest scenery around the ‘‘Hsplanade” fora 
year, all this wealth of wood and stream and lake, of dismal 
swamp and lonely tangle, of fern, and brake, and clinging 
mosses, was a rare treat that I thoroughly enjoyed until a 
prolonged whistle from the engine warned us we were ap- 
proaching near to the City of the Straits. 

Our traps were soon transferred to the M. C. train just 
across the wide platform, Frank and I carrying the ‘‘me- 
hagerie” across under a fire of questions and giggles from 
the idlers and loungers infesting the place. One wanted to 
know, ‘‘Goin’ a-fishin’?” ‘‘Yes,” said Frank, ‘‘What ye 
froin’ to do with them frogs—eat em?” ‘‘No,” said old Ben, 
as he lent a hand to hoist his camp box into the car, ‘takin’ 
em along to keep the muskeeters off; best thing on the face 
o’ this livin’ earth fur muskeeters, black flies an’ sich; eat 
nen weight o’ them insecks every day—ef you ketch ’em 

ur “em,” 

This was said with a gravity, accompanied by an inim- 
itable wink at Frank and me, that nearly caused us to drop 
the whole show, and a broad sun grin to overspread the 
countenance of the chump, who walked away with a new 
‘‘pointer” on the use of speckled frogs for a fishing party. 
We were beginning to find out that Ben was a character in 
his way, full of dry humor and quaint sayings that made 
him a favorite before we were in camp a day; but more of 
old Ben as we go along, 

We had several minutes left before the train started, which 
we improved in walking out toward the pier, where the ferry 
steamer had just left for St. Ignace, six miles across the 
Straits. This steamer connects with the Detroit, Mackinaw 
& Marquette Railroad, which runs through 150 miles of the 
wildest portion of the North Peninsula, a region abounding 
in game, and trout in nearly all the streams flowing north 
into Lake Superior, clear around to Duluth. 

Many of the streams flowing south from the “‘divide” into 
Lake Michigan are also famous for the abundance and size 
of the trout in them, notably two emptying in at Gilchrist, 
some thirty miles west of St. Ignace. This point and many 
other streams along the south shore may be reached semi- 
weekly by steamer during the season from Mackinaw City. 

I-write this not from personal knowledge of the region, 
but from information imparted by little Charley Pike, who 
spent his vacation near Gilchrist two years ago, and from 
fish talks with *‘Old Bill” Hess, who, in the course of his 
meanderings, has kindled his camp-fire and ‘‘fit muskeeters”’ 
on half the trout streams, perhaps, of the State. 

Through the misty, blue haze of this glorious July morn- 
ing, we could see the dim and indistinct outlines of Bois 
Blane Island off to the right, and further north loomed up 
out of the soft mists the grim, storm-beaten old sentinel of 
the Straits, the historic island of Mackinac. Here and there 
a sail dotted the blue waters, every stitch of canvas sct and 
drawing, but so light was the breeze they seemed to us 
entirely motionless. Wrapt in silent admiration of the 
dreamy picture before us, hours of enjoyment were crowded 
into as many minutes, We took no note of time, but pres- 
ently a shriek from the locomotive at the depot brought us 
back to the realities of life, reminding us that railroad trains 
wait not on individuals, and hurrying back we were soon on 
our way to Cheboygan and the boys. From Mackinaw City 
down to Cheboygan, sixteen miles, the road runs through a 
flat, dreary looking country, relieved only by occasional 
glimpses on the leff of the blue waters of Lake Huron in the 
distance, and we were not sorry when the brakeman notified 
us in the musical and intelligible tone usual with brakemen 
that we had arrived at our destination, at least as far as the 
comforts of the rail were concerned. 

We were heartily welcomed by the boys, who were at the 
depot waiting for us with the wagon loaded ready to start, 
and after a short stop atthe Spencer House to get the grip- 
sacks and re-arrange the loads to accommodate the additional 
baggage, we were off a little afler 10 A. M. for Black Lake 
and camp. : 

While yet in town, we crossed the Cheboygan River, the 
outlet at this point into Lake Huron of all the waters west as 
far as Crooked Lake near Petoskey, north to the Douglass 
Lake region, and south for 75 miles or more, except a few 
small streams flowing into Lake Huron on the east. It dranis 
the waters of Crooked, Pickerel, Douglass, Burt, Mullett, 
Long and Black lakes, and all the streams flowing into them, 
among which are the famous Pigeon and Maple rivers—the 
former noted for its grayling—the little Black and Rainy 
rivers, and scores of smaller streams that are nameless on the 
maps. ; 

These lakes and streams float annually millions of feet of 
logs to Cheboygan, giving employment to hundreds of hardy 
lumbermen in the woods, and quite a little yillage of work- 
men in and around the great sawmills at Duncan City, a 
mile and a half down the coast from the mouth of Cheboy- 
gan River. 

But ‘we digress.” Out of town along a pleasant road, 
down through the little village, past the busy mills and great 
piles of lumber, we shortly turned off to the right into alow, 
swampy country, through which, however, a good road had 
been built, and were fairly on our way. Eighty rods, or 
such a matter, inte the swamp, we stopped to gct a drink out 
of a little cold trout stream winding through the tangle, as 
one of our drivers said it would be our last chance to take a 
square drink for several miles, volunteering, at the same 
time, the information that the waters of the brook were full 
of trout, a hatchery being located a skort distance below, 
and for ‘‘two shillin’”’ a day permission could be had to fish 
the stream. Before climbing back on the wagons the Scribe, 
the Deacon, Mrs. Partington, our culinary artist and the 


[May 22, 1984” 


three drivers proceeded to fortify themselyes against a possi- 
ble attack of skeeters, numerous signs of which they ap- 
peared to have discovered in the adjacent bresh, the others of 
us taking our chances on clear water without the addition of 
a qualifier. This is mentioned merely to illustrate the pres- 
ence of mind possessed by the Scribe and Deacon in case of 
emergency, and the promptitude they display in detecting 
the approach of these ferocious insects and devising: measures 
for their extinguishment. 

_A short distance further on we struck the ‘‘plank road,” 
used at some time as a tramway on which to truck logs out 
of the woods to the water near the mills, but now falling 
into decay. It is made of heavy planks, a couple of feet 
wide and fiye or six inches thick, bedded level with the 
ground end to end, with room for a couple of horses or cattle 
to walk between. This led off up alow sandhill and out 
into the “plains” for perhaps three miles, at the end of 
which we dropped again into the heavier pull of a plain 
North Michigan country road, sand and roots and jolts, with 
an occasional mud hole after we got into the hard-wood for- 
est, by way of variety, Why they are called ‘plains’ is not, 
quite plain to any one who has crossed the plains of the far 
West, where a hundred miles may be traveled without see- 
ing a tree or bush, but they are plains, as every Michigan 
man you meet will tell you. Asa matter of information, 
and to explain, they are simply tracts of country that haye 
been ravaged by forest fires, leaving a few charred and 
blackened trunks and stumps of trees standing where once 
was a pathless wilderness. Here and there a grove of shiver- 
ing, quaking aspens, a second growth of young pines and 
hemlocks scattered sparsely over the waste, and patches of 
bushes are the only evidences of life to relicve the desolation 
of the scene, 

Some of these tracts are miles in area and are of little value 
only as a feeding ground for the grouse and bears in ‘“‘huckle- 
berry time.” Acres and acres of this juicy and insipid fruit 
grow on these burnt tracts, on bushes from three to twelve 
inches high, so thick in many places that one may not take 
a step for rods without trampling them under foot. They 
are the large blue June berry, called blue berry by the 
country people, and are a source of some revenue to the lazy 
Indians that infest the villages and towns of this upper part 
of the State. They are fed to the ‘‘resorters” by the bushel; 
breakfast, dinner and supper, there’s your huckleberry, 
Stop at any hostelry in the land during the season, and 
there is the inevitable dish of huckleberries staring you in 
the face, or they may be lurking at your elbow in the shape 
of a pie, or that breeder of night sweats, a huckleberry roll, 
They seem to think this particular berry a necessity to diges- 
tion, or that every tourist and angler that stops at a hotel 
came up there for the especial and sole purpose of eating 
huckleberries, and the only way to get rid of them and pre- 
Serve amicable relations with the fair nymph that waits on 
you at table is to eat *em (the berries) and hold your peace. 

Leaviug the plains, the road led into a dark shady wood 
of maple, beech, ash and a hemlock or pine occasionally, 
with here and there a wild cherry and ironwood to remind 
some of us of woods we had hunted squirfels in when we 
had more sap in our bones than now. 

The change from the hot sandy plain to the cool shadows 
of the overhanging branches was so grateful that all but Dan 
and the drivers got out to walk a couple of miles and work 
the kinks: out of our legs. Everybody was in high good 
humor, and many a joke and laugh and shout, smothered 
and pent up for a year, waked the solitudes of the old woods 
that day for miles around, and had our years been gauged by 
“how good we felt,” any railroad company would have 
carried us at half fare rates, for verily we were as a party 
of boys turned loose to go a-fishing. 

Even brave old Dan seemed to forget bis limp and useless 
Tight arm and feeble right leg, and although unable to walk 
well enough to keep pace with the party, laughed and 
“hollered” from his perch on the wagon with the best of us, 

‘Wonder how fur it is to that spring one o’ them drivers 
was talkin’ about?” said Ben, as he made a pass at a deer fly 
hovering around his nose, ‘I’m so dry I feel like I could 
drink up a whole trout stream, trout an’ all.” ‘ 

Two or three miles further on we unhitched to feed the 
horses and take a lunch, and following a path a few yards 
down a low hill to the left, found the promised spring, the 
first water we had seep since leaving the trout streain, The 
water was poor in quality, tasting of Lhe marsh surrounding 
it, but as the Scribe said, “it seryed to keep us and the 
horses from perishing,” 

Here, he and the Deacon found more skeeter sign, but long 
practice in their peculiar line of warfare against these pests 
prevailed, and with the assistance of Dick, Frank and the 
drivers, another emergency was passed in safety. 

When we returned from the spring we found Dan had 
established himself with the lunch basket in the shade of 
some bushes by the roadside, and as we approached a pair 
of bright-eyed little ground squirrels darted away into the 
thick underbrush, but soon returned, peering cautiously at 
us to see if we meant them harm. While we were at the 
spling, Dan said they had come timidly out of the woods 
and creeping gradually nearer had stopped within a foot of 
him and asked us plainly as they could with their eyes for a 
share of his lunch, Reaching out his hand he dropped two 
small pieces of bread near them, which they snatched up 
and, scampering back to the edge of the bushes, sat up on 
their huunches and ate with avidity. This was repeated 
two or three times, and so tame were they and such trust did 
they seem to place in the old Pelican’s goodness of heart 
that had we not appeared on the scene and scared them 
away, Dan said he had no doubt they would bave soon ex- 
plored the lunch basket to see if he was not cheating them 
out of some of the choicest morsels, As we came up and 
took possession of the basket they skurried back into the 
woods and were not seen again, but it was 4 pleasing little 
incident that Iam sure will not soon be forgotten by those 
who witnessed it, KINGFISHER, 

[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


SHore Brrps.—Philadelpbia, Pa., May 17.—There are 
many golden plover and grass plover in our Philadelphia 
markets. While the law allows the shooting of all the wad- 
ing birds during their migratory visit to us in the spring, the 
first mentioned, which are of a more upland habit, are in 
like manner unprotected, It ig a great shame that the grass 
plover at least cannot be allowed a short stay in May unmo- 
Jested, as they are seldom, if ever, in the fine condition we 
find them in August on their return with their young. ‘These 
birds, not long since, nested in considerable numbers in the 
tablelands in the elevated portions of our State wherever & 
meadow exists, but of late years have greatly decreased, and 
should not be shot before the 15th of August.—Hono, 


a 


SE — 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


But this period is prehistoric; no evidence remains, save in 
some quaint pictograph or rudely graven image. ‘There fol- 
lowed a period—shorter by far than the former one, though 
it endures—when the same birds awakened in other men an 
interest they could not excite in a savage breast, and the 
sense of beauty was felt. Use and beauty! What may not 
spring from such divinely mated pair, when once they brood 
upon the human mind, like haleyons stilling troubled waters, 
sinking the instincts of the animal in the restful, satistying 
reflections of the man? 

The history of American Ornithology begins at the time 
when men first wrote upon American birds; for men write 
nothing without some reason, and to reason at all is the be- 
ginning of science, even as to reason aright isitsend, The 
date no one can assign, unless it be arbitrarily; it was during 
the latter part of the sixteenth century, which with the 
whole of the seventeenth, represents the formative or embry- 
onic period during-which were gathering about the germ 
the erade materials out of which an ornithology of North 
America was to be fashioned. As these accumulated and 
were assimilated—as the writings multiplied and books bred 
books, “each after its kind,” this special department of 
knowledge grew up, and its form changed with each new im- 
press made upon its plastic organization, 

Viewing in proper perspective these three centuries and 
more which our subject has seen—passing in retrospect the 
steps of its development—we find that it offers several phases, 
representing as many “epochs” or major divisions, of very 
unequal duration, and of scientific significance inversely pro- 
portionute to their respective lengths. All that went before 
1700 constitutes the first of these, which may be termed the 
Archaic epoch. The eighteenth century witnessed an extra- 
ordinary event, the consequence of which to systematic 
zoology cannot be over estimated; it occurred almost exactly 
in the middle of the century, which is thus sharply divided 
into a Pre-Linnwan epoch, before the institution of the bi- 
nomial nomenclature, and a Post-Linnean epoch, during 
which this technic of modern zoology was established—each 
approximately of half a century’s duration, In respect of 
our particular theme, the first quarter of the nineteenth cen- 
tury saw the ‘‘father of American ornithology,” whose spirit 
pointed the crescent in the sky of the Wdsoniwn epoch. 
During the second quarter these horns were filled with the 
genius of the Audubonian epoch. In the third, the plente- 
ousness of a master mind has marked the Bairdian epoch. 

Clearly as the six epochs may be recognized, there is of 
course no break between them; they not only meet, but 
merge in one another, ‘The sharpest line is that which runs 
across Linneus at 1758; but even that is only visible in his- 
torical perspective, while the assignation of the dates 1700 
and 1800 is rather a chronological convenience than other- 
wise. Nothing absolutely marks the former; and Wilson 
was unseen till 1808. 

The Archaic epoch stretches into the dim past with un- 
shifting scene, even at the turning point of the two centuries 
in which it lies, It is otherwise with the rest; their shapes 
have incessantly changed; and several have been the periods 
in each of them during which their course of development 
has been accelerated or retarded, or modified in some special 
feature. These changes have invariably coincided with— 
haye, in fact, been induced by—the appearance of sonte 
ereat work; great, not necessarily in itself, but in its relation 
to the times, and thus in the consequences of the interaction 
between the times and the author—who left the science other 
than he found it. The edifice as it stands to-day is the work 
of all, even of the:-humblest builders; but its plan is that of 
the architects who ,have modeled its main features, and the 
changes they have successively wrought are the marks of 
progress. It is consequently possible, and it will be found 
convenieni to subdivide the epochs named (excepting the 
first) into lesser natural intervals of time, which may be 
called ‘‘periods,” to each of which may attach the name of 
the architect whose design is expressed most clearly, I recog- 
nize fifteen such periods of very unequal duration, to which 
specific dates may atlach. Seven of these fall in the last cen- 
‘| tury; eight in the three-quarters of the present century. We 
may pass them in brief review. 


Tab ARoHAIC HrpocH: To 1700. 


Mere mention or fragmentary notice of North American 
but, to the eighteenth, no book entirely and exclusively de- 
birds may be traced back tothe middle of the sixteenth century ; 
voted to the subject had appeared. The turkey and the 
humming-bird were among the earliest to appear in print; 
the latter forms the subjéct of the earliest paper I have found, 
exclusively and formally treating of any North American 
bird as such, and this was not until 1698, when Hamersly 
described the “American Tomineius,” as it was called, One 
of the largest, as well as the smallest of our birds, —the 
turkey, early came in for a share of attention. The germs of 
the modern ‘‘faunal list”—that is to say, notes upon the birds 
of some particular region or locality—appeared early in the 
seventeenth century, and continued throughout; but only as 
incidental and very slight features of books published by 
‘eolonists, adventurers, and missionaries, in their several 
interests—unless Hernandez’s ‘‘Thesaurus” be brought into 
the present connection. Amon such books containing bird- 
matter may be noted Smith’s “Virginia,” 1612; Hamor’s 
‘Virginia,’ 1615; Whitbourne’s ‘‘Newfoundland,” 1620; 
Higginson’s ‘“‘New England,” 1630; Morton’s ‘‘New England 
Canaan,” 1682; Wood’s ‘‘New England’s Prospect,” 1634; 
Bayard Theodot’s ‘‘Voyage,” 1632; Josselyn’s ‘“New Bng- 
land Rarities,” 1672—and so on, with a few more, some- 
times mere paragraphs, sometimes a page or a formal chap- 
ter, but scarcely anything to be now considered except in a 
spirit of curiosity. 

Tue Pre-LinNaan HEpocu: 1700-17658, 
(1700-1730.) 

The Lawsonian Pertod.—lt may be a lucus a non to call 
this the “Lawsonian” period; but a name is needed for the 
portion of this epoch prior to Catesby, during which no 
other name i¥ so prominent as that of John Lawson, Genile- 
man, Surveyor-General of North Carolina, whose ‘‘Descrip- 
tion and Natural History” of that country contains one of 
the most considerable faunal lists of our birds which ap- 
peared before 1780, and went through many editions—the 
last of these being published at Raleigh in 1860, The sev- 
eral early editions devote some fifteen or twenty pages to 
birds—an amount augmented considerably when Brickell 
appropriated the work in 1787. The Baron de la Houtau 
did similar service to Canadian birds in his ‘*Voyages,” 1793; 
but, on the whole, this period is scarcely more than archaic, 

1730-1748, 

The Cutesbion Period.—This comprises the time when 
Mark Catesby’s great work was appearing by instalments, 
“Phe Natural History of Carolina, Florida,” etc,, is the 
first really great work to come under our notice; its influence 


THE COUESIAN PERIOD. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

With the kind permission of Dr. Coues and his publishers, 
Jam able to send you in advauce of publication a portion of 
the ‘‘Ilistorical Preface” of the new ‘‘Key to North Ameri- 
can Birds,” which cannot fail to interest your readers, and 
ppuden which I beg to say a few words. : ; 
_ Twas present at the meeting of the Biological Society of 
Washington, when Dr. Coues complemented the society by 
laying before it a complete set of proof-sheets of the “Key,” 
and read the substance of the ‘Historical Preface,” in 
which he traced the progress and development of American. 
ornithology from the earliest times to the beginning of con- 
temporancous history, dividing the time down to 1872 into 
six “epochs,” or major divisions, and into fifteen * ‘periods, ” 
or minor divisions, each tersely characterized in the manner 
which the accompanying preface shows. 

In the diseussiun which followed the delivery of the ad- 
dress, Prof. Lester F. Ward proposed to carry this system of 
chronical classification further than Dr. Coues, of course, 
gould have done, by recognizing the fourth quarter of the 
present century as a seventh “epoch,” extending from 1872 
to 1900, which he called the ‘‘Couesian epoch.” 

Heartily indorsing this proposition as I do, I beg to add 
a few words upon the ‘‘period” to be assigned to Coues in 
this epoch. In my judgment, the time from 1872 to 1884, 
or that between the two editions of the “Key,” may appro- 
priately be termed the ‘“‘Couesian period,” and Iam sure that 
your readers will with one accord indorse the propriety of my 
proposition, 

Prof, Ward, on the occasion referred to abcve, ably de- 
fined and in a few words characterized the ‘‘epoch” which he 
proposed, much in the same way as a thoroughly competent 
and broad-minded zoologist might present those strong char- 
acters which stamp a new genus when it comes within the 
field of his observation, Following Dr, Coues's own plan of 
classification, as precedented in the ‘‘Wilsonian epoch” with 
its ‘““Wilsonian period,” or, still later, the ‘‘Bairdian epoch” 
with its ‘‘Bairdian period,” it devolves upon me to refer to 
at least some of the leading specific characters which mark 
the times included within the ‘‘period” I have proposed, 

The old ‘Key,’ constituting as it does the initial 
landmark of the “Couesian period,” differed in one great 
respect from all other works upon ornithology that had pre- 
ceded it. It reached the people. The great works of Audu- 
bon and Wilson were up to that time the dream of all young 
American ornithologists, of which the “‘Key” was the reali- 
zation. Its influence was both marvelous and good, and can 
hardly be over-estimated, for if became a living factor of the 
growing mind of the coming generation of men of the time 
in which it appeared. It fell into the hands of boys who 
could now ‘‘find out the names” of the birds which they saw 
and collected, It taught to classify, to observe, to record, 
and as a result of all, to appreciate and admire, 

The influence of the book was scarcely more than the in- 
fluence of its author who, through all this part of his life, as 
he has ever since been, an example of that fixedness of pur- 
pose—which honest men cannot help but esteem—added to 
which he has been the direct encourager of the younger 
workers, in a thousand ways, and in none more than the ex- 
ample set by himself in his cheerfulness, under many of the 
direst of trials which the greater share of the world’s people 
is sure to cast across the path of such men. — 

The heart of the Couesian period is filled with many other 
noble works, famtiliar to aJl of us, and setting aside the two 
hundred or more minor papers by this author we see stand- 
ing boldly out in relief our “Field Ornithology,” “‘The 
Birds of the Northwest,” ‘Birds of the Colorado Valley” 
and ‘‘The Coues Check List.” These all have given an 
immense impulse to the advance of thescience of ornithol- 
ogy, and all exerted an excellent influence, 

Jt will not be possible for me to attempt in this letter even 
an outline of the scientific activities on foot during the mid- 
years of this period. It imcluded the days of the great sur- 
yeys—the Goyernment expeditions—when many a hardy 
naturalist was sweeping into the general treasury the western 
forms of birds, 

Following the digest of all this material, which had thus 
been collected, another feature that had been slowly growing 
now, in the last few years of the period, comes quite promi- 
nently in the foreground to assert itself as an additional char- 
acteristic, This is the study of the structure of birds, and 
ag the older countries have already taught us it is the ad- 
juster that follows in the track of the pioneer. Ornithology 
owes not a little to Dr. Cones for his labors in this all-im- 
portant field, as many of his productions will attest. 

Ah! I see the eye of every true ornitholcgist inthe country 
grow brighter as he regards the picture of the triumphs for 
his science, that go to make up the closing days of the Coues- 
ian period. 

The mere mention of the name of the center feature, here, 
is sufficient to bring to mind a train of thought, which if 

followed in all its pleasant bearings, would carry me far be- 
youd my Jimits. 

We all know the debt ornithology owes to Dr. Coues for 
his zeal and judgment during the times of the establishment 
of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and how much this 
organization promises to the science in this country. 

The days of the period, so full of honor and achievements, 
are numbered, and we have but a few more left us to enjoy 
the pleasures of anticipation, betore its namesake will hand 
us the volume, that brings it to a close. 

R. W. SHurecp, Captain Medical Corps U.S. A. 

Chairman Sect, of Avian Anatomy, Amer. Ornith, Union. 

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Unton, Washington, D. O., May 3, 1884. 


HISTORICAL REVIEW. 


Were a modern Hesiod to essay—neither a cosmogony nor 
a theogony—but the genesis of even the last depariment of 
human knowledge—were he to seek the beginnings of Amer- 
ican Ornithology, le would findit only in Chaos, For from 
this sprang all things, great and small alike, to pass through 
Night and Nemesis to the light of days which first see orderly 
progress in the course of natural evolution, when is first es- 
tablished some sequence of events we recognize as causes 
and effects. Then there is system, and formal law.; there 


science becomes possible; there its possible history begins. 
Long was the time during which the hirds of our country 
were known to our inhabitants, after the fashion.of the peo- 
ple of those days—known as things of which use could be 
made and studied, too, that use might be made of them. 


‘a : 


was immediate, and is even now felt. It is the “Audubon” 
of that time: a folio in two volumes, dating respectively 
1751 and 1743, with an appendix, 1748; passing to a second 
edition in 1754, to a third in 1771, under the supervision of 
Edwards; reproduced in Germany, in “‘Seligmann’s Samm- 
lung,” 1749-76, It was published in putts, the date of the 
first of which I believe to haye been 1780, though it may 
have been a little earlier, Volume J., containing the birds, 
appears to have been issued in five parts and was made up jn 
1731; it consists of a hundred colored plates of birds, with 
as many leaves of text; a few more birds are given In the 
uppendix, raising the number to 113. ‘These illustrations 
are recognizable almost without exception; most of the 
species are for the first time described and figured: they fur- 
nish the basis of 1auny subsequently named in the Linnsan 
system; the work was eventually furnished by Edwards 
with a Linnean concordance or index; and altogether it is 
not easy to overestimate the significance of the Cateshian 
period, due to this oue work; for no other book requires or 
indeed deserves to be mentioned in the same couuection, 
though a few contributions, of somewhat ‘archaic’ char- 
acter, were made by various writers. 
1748-1758, 

The Edwardsian Period.—This bridges the interval be- 
tween Catesby and the establishment of the binomial nomen- 
clatare, and finishes the Pre-Linnean epoch. No great 
name of exclusive pertinence to North American ornithology 
appears in this decade. But the great naturalist whose name 
is inseparably associated with that of Catesby had begun in 
174i the ‘Natural History of Uncommon Birds,” which he 
completed in four parts or yolumes, in 1751, and in which 
the North American element is conspicuous. This work 
contains two hundred and ten colored plates, with accom- 
panying text, forming a treatise which carly ranks among 
the half-dozen greatest works of the kind of the pre-Linnzan 
epoch, and passed through several editions in different lan- 
guages, Its impress upon .American Ornithology of the 
time is second only to that made by Catesby’s, of which it 
was the natural sequence, if not consequence. It bore simi- 
larly upon birds soon to be described in binomial terms, and 
was shortly followed by the not less famous ‘‘Gleanings of 
Natural History,” 1758-64, a work of precisely the same 
character, and in fact a continuation of theformer. Edwards 
also made some of our birds the subject of special papers 
before the Philosophical Society, as those of 1755 and 1758 
upon the Ruffed Grouse and the Phalarope. It may be noted 
here that one of the few special papers upon any American 
bird which Linnzeus published appeared in this period, he 
having in 1750 first described the Louisiana Nonpareil (Pas- 
serina civis). This period also saw the publication of part 
of the original Swedish edition of Peter Kalm’s “Travels,” 
1753-61, which went through numerous editions in different 
languages. Kalm was a correspendent of Linnmus; the 
genus of Plants Kalmia commemorates his name; his work 
contains accounts of many of our birds, some of them the 
bases of Linnean species; and he also published, in 1759, a 
special paper upon the wild pigeon. As in the Catesbian 
period, various lesser contributions were made, but none 
requiring comment, Thus Lawson, as representing the con- 
tinuation of a preceding epoch, and the associated names of 
Catesby and Edwards inthe present one, have carmed us 
past the middle of the last century. 

[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


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THE BROWN THRUSH, 
(Harporhynchus Kufus). 


HE brown thrush is a shy fellow, and the greatest quiet 
and patience are requisite, if one would observe him at 
his ease, His flight, as he passes from tree to tree, is a short, 
jerky flutter, and it is amusing to see him ‘“‘pitch himself,” 
so to speak, into a spruce. He will dash in among the 
boughs with a clumsy flutier, remain perfectly silent for a 
moment, then with a swift run he goes out to the very end 
of the branch, where he will oftentimes remain quiet for 
many minutes, apparently lost in contemplation of the view, 
from his airy perch. In action he closely resembles the 
mocking bird, possessing in common with the latter a re- 
markably sweet voice, which he uses in the most artistic 
manner. His favorite song times are in the early morning 
and evening (although he does not confine himself strictly to 
hours), the former being the boldest and continuing longer 
than at sunset. He will select some high perch on the tip of 
a spruce, or way up in some tall poplar, and day after day, 
from this vantave ground, you will hear him carol his favor- 
ite melodies. As a musician, he ranks with the finest in our 
woods. Would you hear him at his best, though, you must 
find him as he crouches close in to the trunk of some dark 
pine or hemlock, during the heat of the day. There, as he 
sits in the cool shade, you will hear him extemporize, very 
softly, as though talking to himself, but in such an exquisite 
strain, that you listen enraptured. One must be close to en- 
jov all this, as I doubt if his notes at these times could be 
heard at over twenty yards distance, His usualery of chek/ 
chek! wheww! igs most frequently heard at eyening, as he 
a about, in search of a perch, on which to pass the 
night, 

The bright, fresh colors of the thrush’s plumage on his 
arrival, and before his ‘‘good clothes” have grown rusty with 
use, is shown in pleasing contrast with the rich green of the 
young grass as the sprightly fellow hops about the lawn, 
He rarely ventures far from the trees when hunting for food, 
and is ready on an instant’s nolice to flirt his long tail and 
flutier up among the boughs out of sight, generally keeping 
on the further side of the tree as you approach. He has a 
great habit of poking about the brier tangles, and, as a gen- 
eral thing, you ure almost sure to find him there, along the 
edges of woods and in the hedges, These thickets and 
tangles are where he loves to build his nest, although he will 
sometimes select a location more exposed to observation, 
Still, you will often find it as above, in the very thick of the 
thorns and briers, snug and cosy and cool, a fit abode for the 
sly chap. Like the catbird, the flirts of his long tail fre- 
quently serve as an index to the state of his mind. Curios- 
ity, for example, is expressed by a quick flip of the tail from 
one side to the other, as he clings to some trembling vine and 
peers out at you from under the leaves, fancying himself un- 
observed. Should he find that you have discovered him, he 
silently disappears; quietly, mystcriously he goes, without a 
sound, nothing to indicate his course but the vibration of the 
foliage or the quiver of an alder as he noiselessly threads his 
way through the maze of twigs underneath. This bird, with 
his curious ways, is a favorite of nine, and I heartily welcome 
his voice again as it mingles with the evening chants rising 
from field and forest in the early spring. 

The gray of twilight is fading into dusk, and the shadows 


are deepening among the shrubbery. Out on the hill an en- 
thusiastic robin still lingers to finish his song, which is all 
the sweeter as it comes to our ears subdued by the distance 
and accompanied by a murmur of delight from the soft green 
leaves around us. The music ceases, and all is quiet save 
the chek! chek! whew'w! chek! chek! whew w! of our thrush 
as he calls good-night to us from the valley below. 


‘ Wiimor. 
New Yorr Cry. 


THE GRIZZLY BEAR 


Hiditor Forest und Stream: 

The reading of Stearns’s ‘Natural History of Labrador” 
reminds me of the fauna of that almost unknown land as de- 
seribed by John - McLean, in his notes of a twenty-five years’ 
service in the Hudson’s Bay Territory. Obeying the orders of 
Sir George Simpson, he went as a discoverer from the southeast 
shore of Hudson’s Bay and established a fur trading post at the 
most northern point of the peninsula at Ungava Bay on the 
south shore of Hudson’s Strait, and this is the way he writes 
of the fauna of that country where he lived for three long 
years, two of which the Hudson’s Bay relief ship, from Eng- 
Jand, failed to reach him with supplies: 

“To enumerate the varieties of animals here is an easy task, 
Theextremely barren nature of the country and the severity 
of the climate prove so unfavorable to the animal kingdom that 
only a few of the most hardy species are to be found, viz., 
black, brown, grizzly and polar bears. 

“Black, silver, cross, blue, red and white foxes. 

“Wolverines, wolves, martins and beaver, but extremely 
rare here in the North. 

_, Otters, minks, muskrats and ermine; Arctic hares, rab- 
bits, reindeer and the lemming.” 

_ QVhe skins of all these animals Mr. McLean collected dur- 
ing his three years’ life at the Ungava station, for the benefit 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Speaking of the grizzly bear 
(Ursus horribilis), Mr. McLean remarks: ‘When we consider 
the great extent of country that intervenes between Ungaya 
and the plains of the Far West, it seems-quite inexplicable 
that the grizzly bear should be found in so isolated a situ- 
ation and none in the intermediate country, The fact of 
their being here, however, does not admit of a doubt, for I 
have traded and sent to England several of these skins from 
the region of Ungava and many more from the eastern slope 
of the Rocky Mountains years before. Some time since I 
called the attention of the late Mr. Mittleberger, of this city, 
to this fact, He assured me that the grizzly was found in 
Northern Labrador. Mr. M. had been for a long term of 
years a factor in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Fur Com- 
pany, and during this period had traveled over the largest 
portion of their possessions, handling every kind of fur ani- 
mals, and was thoroughly acquainted with the fauna of the 


country.” Dr: E. Srreurme. 
CLEVELAND, O,, April 24, 


IN LABRADOR, 


BIRD MIGRATION. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I inclose report of bird observations during April. The 
yellow-bellied woodpeckers reported were two males taken 
at one time, and are the only specimens we have taken, or 
known to have been seen here in six years, although they 
were formerly tolerably common. 

Vie : 

April 6—Brown creeper (Certhia faméiliaris). 

April 10—Fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca). 

April 11—W hite-throated crown sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis), 

April 12—Wilson’s snipe (Gallinago wilson). 
April 183—Golden-crested kinglet (Regulus satrapa)—only males, 
April i4—Hermit thrush (Turdus pallasi). 

April 14—Winter wren (Anorthura troglodytes). 

April 17/—American widgeon (Mareca americana). 

April 17—Yellow-bellied woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varius). 

April 17—Bnuffiehead duck (Clangula albeola). 

April 26—Ruby-crowned kinglet (Regulus calendula)—males only. 
April 30—Golden-crested kinglet (Regulus satrapa)—temales only. 
Ss. R. 

April 6—Purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus). 

April {7—Killdeer ring plover (4gidlites vociferus), 

April 9—Chipping sparrow (Spizella domestica). 

April 10—Carolina dove (Zenaidura carolinensis). 

April 109—Bay-winged bunting (Powcetes gramineus), 

April 14A—Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperi). 

April 14—Great-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus). 

April 14—Golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes awratus), 

April 18—Purple martin (Progne subis). 

April 19—W hite-bellied swallow (Tachycineta bicolor). 

April 20—Loggerhead shrike (Lantus fudovicianus), 

April 24—Barn swallow (Hirundo horreorum). 

April 24—Golden- crowned thrush (Siurus wuricupillus). 
April 24—S8wamp sparrow (Melospiza palustris). 

April 25—American bithtern (Botaurus lentiginosus), 
April 26—Virginia rail (Rallus virginianus). 

April 26—Carolina rail (Porzana. carolina). 

April 283—Sparroyw hawk (Falco sparverius). 


Locrport, N. Y., May 2. J. L, Dayrpson. 


UsurPINnG SwaALLows.—At home in Texas where we only 
see the white-bellied swallows during the migrating pericd, 
gracefully skimming along the ground, we consider them 
beautiful and innocent birds. 1, however, haye seen them 
in their true colors, and they really surprised me, they are 
such vicious little pngilists. Two weeks ago a pair of blue- 
birds took possession of a little cot, where, until this morn- 
ing, they have lived in perfect happiness; but the usurper of 
this domestic bliss was at hand in the shape of a white-bellied 
swallow. This morning, while reading the FoREsr AND 
SrRBAM, I noticed a pair of swallows circling over the cot, 
and at each approach the bluebird quailed. 1 paid no atten- 
tion to it, nor did I notice them again till a great commotion 
drew my eyes from my paper toward them, Judge how 
surprised I was when 1 saw the male swallow take the blue- 
bird fiercely by the throat and thrash him unmercifully. 
The poor bluebird seemingly made no resistance; still he did 
not seem inclined to give up. Finally, however, superior 
strength conquered, and he tottered away. The swallow 
immediately took possession of the cot, and yery soon after- 
ward was joined by his mate——Nermo (of Texas), (Franklin, 
Mass.). 


Hareor Srau.—By aslip of the pen Phocu grenlandica, 
instead of P. vitulina, was given as the specific name of the 
harbor seal, mentioned in a recent note on ils occurrence in 
Lake Ontario.—C, Hart MERRIAM. : 


ARRIVALS AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, CINCINNATI, tP To May 1. 
—Bred in Garden—One jaguar (Felis onga), one bonnet monkey 
(Macacus radiatus), one axis deer (Cervus axis), one pony (Lquus 
¢aballus), one cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata). Donated—Two 
wood hares (Lepus sylvaticus). eight red foxes (Canis fulvus), one 
Qanada poreupine (rithizon dorsatus), Capturedin Garden—Three 
cardinal grosbeaks (Cardinalis virginiand), one song sparrow (Melos- 
piza fasciata), ten snowbirds (Junco hyemalis). Received in Ex- 
chauge—Three Enropean lapwings (Vanellus ea neta Purchased— 
One wildeat( Lynx rufus), two prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), 
one macaque monkey (M, cynomolgus), one white-collared mangaby 
(Gercocebus collaris), two moustache monkeys ( Cercopithecus cephus), 


Game Bag and Gun. 


MY FIRST “HONKER.” 


WAS born a sportsman, Nay, I am not quite sure that 
T had not 4 gun in my hand when my eyes first opened 
to take in the glories of this mundane sphere, 1 have been 
in the school-room or college halls all my life, either as 
student or instructor, and make it an object always to spend 
my vacations in the forest or by the stream, save and except- 
ing only an oceasional trip to the sea coast or shore of some 
sequestered lake, on whose bosom float in serene quiet 
myriads of water fowl, or from whose waters I may draw 
the finny beauties. To-day, in my forty-sixth year, I stand 
more erect than nine-tenths of city youth, and have infinitely 
more elasticity In my anatomy, Health vigorous, appetite 
good, eye keen, hand steady, mind active and intellect clear, 
while many of the companions of my boyhood are crawling 
round in the iron grasp of dyspepsia, with mind and body 
prematurely old, 1 need not tell the sportsman the reason 
of my elasticity of mind and body, or the cause of my 
friends’ despondency, but lest some reader should accuse me 
of egotism let me say that I throw care to the winds and 
gather fresh life by forest.and stream as each succeeding 
year rolls by. 

How I pity the man who has none of the instinct of the 
true sportsman in his composition. Nature’s true noblemen 
are they who are found regularly at the appointed season 
with rod and gun in hand, following the chase or plying the 
gentle art. You can rely on such a fellow wherever you 
meet him, and go your bottom dollar that he will prove a 
friend ‘‘tried and true” in any emergency. He shoots, not 
to kill and destroy, but for the pleasure and health it affords, 
and is content to Jet a few birds escape that the coyerts may 
be well stocked another season, and takes more delight in 
exhibiting half a dozen two-pounders in his basket than the 
trout hog does in telling of the thousands he hag slain, per- 
haps with only the weapon used by Samson of old when he 
mowed down the Philistines. The true sportsman is the 
most unselfish being in existence, | care not who may say to 
the contrary. He is fond of solitude because he loves to 
hold conyerse with nature in her softest as well asin her 
sternest mood, and finds a host of advisers and instructors in 
the world of animate and inanimate nature round him. He 
is never solitary for the simple reason that he never feels 
himself to be alone. “‘Nunguam minus solus, quam cum 
solus.”’ 

But I must back to myself again, Yesterday I packed 
‘“Daisy” away in her case well oiled and clean, bade her an 
affectionate good-bye until next season opens, and promised 
to look right well after her safety during her rest. A host of 
recollections came trooping in as I sat down after my labor 
of love was completed, and I determined to write up at least 
one incident for my favorite journal ere another sun had set. 

“My First Honker’—Well do I remember the morning on 
which he measured his length on the grass and flopped his 
life out in vain attempts to rise in air. Ah, he must have 
been indeed a sad rake in his day, leading his harem forth to 
pluck up and destroy the wheat crop of the Sacramento 
Valley, but he proved a ‘‘tough cuss” when brought to the 
table, despite his twenty pounds of flesh. Some two days 
after the little “racket” with the boys on that snipe hunting 
expedition, getting an early start Jim and I found ourselves 
about 8 A, M. running our skiffs side by side up a narrow 
ehaunel among the tules, now and then dropping the paddle 
to pick up the gun and drop a mallard as it rose quacking, or 
a brieht-winged teal as it shot past with arrow-like speed. 

After proceeding some three miles in this way we hauled 
up our boats on the levee and leaning on our arms took in the 
scenery and arranged for the evening sport. Just then a 
flock of ‘‘honkers” hove in sight, bearing directly down on 
us. Dropping to the ground we watched their approach 
with keen delight, our dexter fingers playing neryously with 
the triggers, at least mine did; for, dear reader, I had yet to 
bring down my first ‘‘honker,” and if you have been there 
yourself you can appreciate my position. On they came, 
bearing swiftly down—honk, honk, honk—surely we will 
have a shot, that leader must be mine. ‘‘Jim, my boy, leave 
him to me,’ Isaid. ‘‘All right,” and it was agreed upon. 
Fancy our disgust as they were seen to bear off to the left 
and pass us at about 200 yards distance, fying low and 
evidently bent on some feeding spot not far away. Rising 
again to our feet we watched their flight, and with something 
like satisfaction saw them lighting at about three-quarters of 
a mile to the eastward. 

‘‘Now, Professor,” said Jim, “if you want that old chap, 
be off, make straight for that there high bunch of tules, 
erawl low then, and I think you-will get him.” 

Off I went right briskly, notwithstanding heavy gum 
boots, and on approaching the bunch of tules found that I 
had to lie low to escape observation. However, this was no 
inconvenience. I had graduated in crawling long before I saw 
the Pacitic coast, but before I had gone twenty yards found 
my progress stopped by adeep gut, about tive feetacross. Cau- 
tiously putting down my leg I found that the bottom must have 
dropped out, at least 1 could not find it, and as standing up 
to leap across would spoil my chance of a shot, nothing 
remained but to crawl along and find a crossing place. I 
squirmed around for nearly a hundred yards and found a 
place that seemed all right, Reaching over, gun in hand, I 
threw my weight forward, and just as I attempted to draw 
my legs after my body, which my right hand and gun had 
preceded, the treacherous ‘‘other side” gave way and down I 
went up to the ears in mud and slush. This mishap did not 
dampen my ardor, on the contrary, it added to my determina- 
tion to bag that leader, who was standing so boldly up, keep- 
ing watch scarce 300 yards away. in 

Shaking myself as I emerged from this involuntary bath, 
I renewed the snake-like proceedings, lying low until I 
reached the bunch of tall grass that had screened me from 
the flock, What was my annoyance to find that instead of 
being only 50 or 60 yards from that old gander I was be- 
tween 80 and 90, Highty-three paces it proved to be, as I 
stepped it afterward. But the mind quickly makes a 
decision in such a case. Drawing my No, 4 shell, I replaced 
it with a bruss one carrying 4 drams of Hazard’s No, 3 and 
14 ounces of BB. This in my left barrel I felt confident 
would not fail me. Then rising I gaye the old fellow the con- 
tents as he spread his wings for flight, and to my intense 
delight over he rolled at my service. Did I fire the right at 
the flock? you ask. No, I did not, for the simple reason 
that they were oyer 100 yards distant, too far to kill with 
certainty, and I never shoot to wound or cripple if 1 can 
help it. I would rather miss half a dozen outright than 
wound one, to crawl away and die in agony, Did I “talk 
right out in meetin’?” Yes, brother sport, I did. I went 


into a committee of the whole then and there and gave my- 


self a unanimous yote of thanks, which 
received and becomingly acknowledged, 
I took that old ‘‘thonker” by the neck and, throw- 
ing him over my shoulder, wended my way back 
to the spot where Jim stood waying his hat in congratula- 
tion. I meditated, too, as L walked; but that wetting did 
not trouble me much, True, I was scarcely dressed to suit 
company, but then I was jubilant, and I fully realized the 
fact that [had killed “my first honker.” I have killed many 
since then, but none afforded meso much real zest as did 
that old fellow among the tules of the Sacramento. ' 

I have been much interested of late in the articles on the 


was modestly 
after which 


“Choice of a Hunting Rifle” and ‘‘The Performance of Shot- _ 


guns.” My favorite gun is a 10-bore, 30-inch barrels, 9 
pounds, ‘This I find will do all that.can be reasonably ex- 
pected. I use 4drams best powder and 1} ounces shot— 
No. 4 for geese, No. 6 for ducks, No. 8 for quail and doyes, 
Tecan kill my bird clean at fitty yards with average cer- 
tainty, and Iam content, My favorite rifle is a Winchester, 
24-inch barrel, .44-caliber, full magazine. Ido not want a 
better weapon for mountain work. I believe the 30-inch 
barrel gives greater accuracy at long range, but the 24-inch 
is handy. 

I will tell you how I killed my first buck ere long; and as 
‘The Professor” is too long for a nom de plume, will in future 
subscribe myself : LEONIDAS. 


THE ST. CLAIR FLATS BILL. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The question of the status and disposition, of the chief and 
choice part in United Stales waters, of that famous shooting 
territory, usually denominated the St, Clair Flats, is before 
Congress and likely to be finally determined, and a few words 
to you about the matter wil] not be out of place. 

Some two years since a bill was introduced in the last 
Congress to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land 
Office to sell the same district as United States overflowed 
and unsurveyed lands, the possession of which was sought 
by some wealthy parties, the territory having become both 
very desirable and valuable. 

The move was obseryed by a citizen of Michigan, who 
takes interest in public affairs, and set down by him for 
further attention. The matter apparently attracted neither 
comment nor eyen notice during several weeks which went 
by, when he, deeming it a doubtful policy and unjust to de- 
tach this large and noble shooting territory from the people’s 
domain and constitute it a close, private shooting preserve, 
to their perpetual exclusion from all privilege therein in the 
midst of a publie water, their constant resort, drew an earn- 
est protest or petition against the measure, setting forth in 
terse and pointed statements the merits of the case, and the 
same was widely circulated, and signed by thousands of citi- 
zens from Detroit to lowa and Port Huron, and then forwar- 
ded to Members of Congress. Numbers of influential citizens 
rendered aid, Members of Congress were conferred with and 
interested, and influence assured. Don M. Dickinson, a 
noted lawyer and politician of Detroit, appeared before the 
committee having the bill in charge and made protest 
against its passage in the interest of private claimants (him- 
self one of them), to the same territory, a matter which 
somehow did not ‘obtain publicity. The bill never passed 
from the hands of committee, 

Tt may be related here that until very recently the fact of 
there being private claims of ownership of the overflowed 
and marsh district in question was little, if at all, publicly 


known or heard of, prominent local citizens and public men | 


and active supporters of the bill above referred to not know- 
ing anything of the same. However, I do not state this to 
assert that such claims had not already been born or made 
a manifest of life. 

The citizen above cited as organizing opposition to the bill 
described, proposed to two or three different Members of 
Congress the plan to set the territory in question aside for 
the people, and suggested the merits and advisability of con- 
sidering and perhaps inaugurating a like procedure with 
like Government territory cenerally, but somehow they 
failed to discern the magnitude of the cherished interest 
which exists in this field and its valued relation to a large 
mass of the people. Some political cigar, perhaps well 
lighted but of transient and comparatively insignificant im- 
portance, as appointments to office, seemed to take prece- 
dence and monopolize their attention, and they gave no sign 
of regarding such really national interest as possessing even 
importance. 

The bili had fallen, but the individual mentioned, fully 
realizing that the St. Clair Flats would ere long in some 
manner be grasped by private interest and the public cease 
to have any rights therein if no permanent bulwark of pro- 
tection was interposed, now advocated the setting aside of 
that territory by Congress as a national preserve for the 
people. Believing efficient game protection compatible 
with a system of national preserves, and deeming it a hard- 
ship and an injustice and a matter that in the future will be 
most aggravating in effect to haye the extensive shoal water 
and marshy margins of Government waters detached from 
the people’s domain and created close private shooting pre- 
serves, to the perpetual exclusion of the people from all 
right therein, the policy of setting aside such Government 
territory in the future for the people and the efficient protec- 
tion of the same in all its interests by authority was urged. 
Indeed, to amplify in this view, it seems a rank impropricty 
for the Government, the people’s instrument, created by them 
to subserye their wants and needs, to sell for a pittance, the 
benefit of which is not sensibly felt, these shoal-water dis- 
tricts, and shut the public out from the sameforever, consti- 
tuting as they do about the only territory for game preserves 
in the nation, and margining public waters to which the 
people habitually resort. for health and pleasure—boating, 
fishing and hunting. The people, ever having been used to: 
almost unlimited freedom in sporting fields, appear to have 
failed to discern the rigid enthrallment of these privileges 
which is fast approaching, but they will very soon see its 
lines and feel its bonds, when their neglected and lost in- 
terest will be irreclaimable. _ P 

The public interest in this field and the above views rela- 
tive to the same were brought earnestly to attention in high 
quarters in the Government and received consideration and 
a friendly recoguition. Events in their course finally led to 
the preparation of a bill to set aside the unsurveyed and 
overflowed and marsh lands of the St. Clair territory as a 
national preserve, and an understanding that the measure 
should be presented in Congress. as | 

The lookimg up of the data essential to the describing and 
bounding of the territory to be set aside furnished a peculiar 
experience. The General Land Office was applied to and 


i 


7 , he 7 
- directed the request to be made to the Chief of Engineers, 
rte Hameo NaS estas droite chart as the sum of its 
ability to contribute in this line, and the Land Office at 
Detroit, after long delay, reported that it, had nothing which 
would be of help in the matter. The Government chart, of 
P course, is an Accurate sarvey of Lake St, Clair and river, 
giving location and outline of the shores and islands and 
earefally everywhere the depth of water, : 

_ About the time these delays came to an end, the Hon. W. 
_ ©, Waybury, member from the Detroit district, introduced 
_ two bills in Congress, the objects of which were to recognize 

] and confirm title to private claimunts to Harsen’s and Dicken- 
_ son's islands (exceptiug a trifling portion of one of the same) 
4 and io include extensive marsh, overflowed or shoal water 
territory adjacent within certain general bounds, the latter 
being defined under the head of natural and alluvial accre- 
tions, \ 

The claim to title in each instanee dates back to the days 
of Enelish dominion, no part of the Jand proper has ever 
been surveyed by the Government save a portion of Harsen’s 
Island, and to the same surveyed portion the United States 
long ago confirmed title. : , 

The territory included by the claims set forth in the bills 
consists mainly of overflowed lands, and has an ares of over 
fifty square miles. It comprises the main bulk and the very 
cream of the world-wide famous shooting territory in United 
States waters, known as the St. Olair Flats. As 1s generally 
known, parties resort thither for shooting from the Atlantic 
cilies to the Mississippi, and it is a possession sufficiently 

’ desirable to excite great temptation for its acquisition. 

There are several notable things to be taken into account 
relative to the matter. The claimants are plainly asking for 
that which they hayen’t got—title; and an interest in and 
claim to the territory on the part of the United States is 
recognized to exist in the asking for the relinquishment of 
the same, ‘The overflowed territory has, beyond question, 
largely taken on its shoalness since the claims set up profess 
to have been founded, and at which date dt is not probable 
there was any thought of the same being included in the 
claim, Eyerything assures that Lake St. Clair itself will 
eventually fill up and become land, save the river channels; 
it is but a shoal water anyhow, and if this claim can be 
allowed in its full extent, it is dificult to see where 
boundaries may not extend or be set up, The United States 
waters of Lake St. Clair proper attain to a depth of eighteen 
feet only over a very limited surface, and nowhere to over 
twenty-one feet, and in its Canadian portion nowhere attains 
to twenty-three feet. Large areas haye a much less depth 
and rushes rise freely above the water. 

Besides the aboye two bills of Mr, Maybury relative to 
this territory, one has been presented by Senator Palmer, of 
Michigan, to have the entire United States marsh and over- 
flowed lands within and bordering Lake St. Clair and the 
divisions of the St. Clair River set aside as a national pre- 
serve for ihe people of the United States, subject to such 
regulations as may be provided, thus removing it from the 
grasp of private parties and ownership. Thismeasure seems 
eminently an act of justice and a tribute to public rights, 
and if carried out will probably lead to the institution of an 
effective game protection over the region, and all like pre- 
serves, if such shall be instituted hereafter, A petition (a 
copy of which 1 inclose to you) in support of this bill was 
drawn and has been extensively circulated and signed in 
the cities and villazes of Michigan, not one citizen in a hun- 
dred being found who is notin favor of it, The foremost 
citizens and best minds, wherever attention has been called 
to the matter, not only generally, but almost without excep- 
tion, express decided approbation of the measure, and many 
leading citizens are lending active aid. 

Also, this matter is one of national interest, and expression 
Tespecting it is properly in order from any State in the 
Union; the bill deals with national territory only, and for a 
common or national purpose, and petitions for signature have 
been sent to several States. 


PHRTITION: 


ASKING CONGRESS TO SHT ASIDE THE UNITED STATES OVERFLOWED AND 
MARSH LANDS OF LAKE Sil. CLATR AS A PRESERVE FOR THE PEOPLE. 


To the Hon, Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States: 

Whereas, A bill was introduced in the last Congress to enable the 
United States Land Commissioner to sell the extensive marsh and 
overflowed or shoal water lands in the Unites States waters of Lake 
St, Clair, which lands are one of the most notable resorts for shooting 
and fishing in the nation and most highly esteemed for the same, the 
purpose of the bill being to enable private parties to become the own- 
ers of this large territory and make the same a close private shooting 
preserve to the exclusion of all right and privilege of the people 
therein, which bill was not perfected by congressional act; and 

Whereas, two bills have been introduced into and are being con- 
sidered by the present Congress, the purpose of which bills is to give 
tifle and ownership of the greater and most valuable part of the ter- 
Titory above described to private and interested individuals upon plea 
of old time claims to contiguous islands, which claims profess to have 
been founded in the days of English rule; and 

Whereas, title to the islands proper, if established, should not con- 
yey ownership of the many miles in extent of adjacent marsh and 
overflowed or shoal water lands, which also represent much financial 
value Bue present great temptation to private greed for their posses- 
sion; an 

Whereas, the bills introduced to give and confirm title to the afore- 
said claimants admit a claim to the territory in question to be existing 
ou the part of the United States; 

Therefore, we pray you that notitle pass or be confirmed which is 
not unmistakably demanded by indisputable legal right and justice. 
and that the United States unsurveyed marsh and overflowed lands of 
Lake St. Clair and berdering the divisions of the St. Olair River, be 
seb aside permanently as a National Preserve in common for the 
people of the United States, subject to such regulations as may be es- 
tablished by rightful authority. a> 

And further, we earnestly deprecate the policy which is heing exten- 
sively practiced, of Government's selling the shoal water and marshy 
Margins of our Great Lakes and other Government waters—the peo- 
ples’ patrimony—to private parties, to be converted by them into 

close private shooting preserves to the perpetual exclusion of the 
pepple, in common therefrom, which restriction and monopoly will 
in the future, be deeply felt as_a standing public aggravation an 
outrage of magnitude, and is contrary to both good public policy and 
justice; such favorite grounds for game and shooting throughout the 
nation are fast passing, and largely have already passed, to private 
ownership and-control; Therefore, we express our belief that Con- 
gress should allow such proceeding to go no further, bub should set 
aside such territory as & preserve in common for the people, subject 
to appropriate and efficient provisions and regulations. 


Further. Mr. Maybury, who presented the bills for the 
private claimants, has also recently prepared another bill for 
the purpose of setting the same territory aside as a national 
park and game preserve, placing it under charge of the Sec- 
retary of War, but is not expected to present the same until 
the committee haying charge of the bills for private claim- 
ants have expressed their views respecting the same, 

The State of Michigan has also appeared in the case as a 
‘claimant to the St. Clair territory in question, under the 
Swamp Lands act of Congress relating to a class of United 
States lands in the State. It sent one of its ex-Congressmen, 
Mr. McGowan, to Washington to look after the State’s in- 
terest In the matter, He is reported—no doubt correctly— 


- FOREST AND STR 


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EAM. 


as having advised that the General Land Office pass upon the 
question of ownership, and if tie United States is adjudged 
the owner, let Congress "have a survey made and the lands 
sold, he evidently having embraced the whole matter with a 
t is reported later that the State 
authorities at Lansing are preparing papers to forward to 


yery ordinary view. 


him showing the State’s ownership of the lands, 


There is no disposition on the part of the movers for a 
National preserve to deprive any one of legitimate private 
The move has pro- 
ceeded upon the common public understanding, which fairly 
might be said to be universal, that the overflowed lands of 
Lake St. Clair belonged to the United States, such land, of 

iy legitimate and proper for such pur- 
The prime movers in the matter had never heard of 


rights or show disrespect for the same. 


course, being entire 
pose. 
the claim of private ownership to this territory until Mr. 
Maybury introduced his bills in the interest of the same. 


Parties opposed the bill introduced in the preceding Con- 
gress to enable this shoal-water territory to be sold as United 
States nnsurveyed lands, and conferred with different mem- 
bers of Congress respecting the same, and yet never heard of 


such private claims until Mr. Maybury’s move. 


Private claims to land of the islands proper which ought to 
be respected may be shown, and if so, say all let them so be, 
Title to the islands proper, it is claimed, carries the same 
right to this many miles of vverflowed shoal water territory, 
This claim 
should not be granted because the same is asked for. It 
should never be conceded except after the most thorough 
scrutiny determines that justice unmistakably demands the 


the most of which you can sail a boat over. 


same. 


The islands proper, in question, were not deemed essential 
It seems like a most 
liberal stretch of credulity to contemplate that this large, 
overflowed territory should pass upon the claims set up, 


in the plan for a national preserve, 


when the case is fairly and fully scrutinized, 


Able eiforts by able counsel have been made=before the 
committee for the claimants, and it is due the people that 
both sides he thoroughly presented, as no doubt will be done, 
and then let Congress give a fair decision, dictated by intelli- 


gent justice. 
MicHican, May 12. 


THE ADIRONDACK BILL, 


‘(HE text of the Adirondack bill passed by the Albany 


Legislature is as follows. 
SECTION 1. 


The said Commissioner shall receive an annual sal- 
ary of $4,000. Neither said Commissioner nor his subor- 
dinates shall be liable to any person or corporation for any 
damages sustained by reason of want of repair of any road 
or bridge situated upon the forest lands of the State. Said 
Comnnissiouer shall have an office in the new Capitol in the 
city of Albany, where all the records of said Commissioner 
shall be kept. 

Sec. 2, It shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to 
cause all the forest lands now owned or which may be ac- 
quired by the State to be located, and, when necessary, to be 
surveyed; to procure suitable books of record and cause all 
said lands to be recorded; to make and publish such reason- 
able rules and regulations for the use of said forest lands by 
the public as shall give the greatest amount of liberty in the 
use thereof, consistent with the preservation of the forests 
thereon; to prevent trespass upon the said lands and streams 
situated thereon; to make reasonable regulations for the pre- 
vention and extinguishment of fires thereon; to prevent 
overflow of lands belonging to the State by the erection of 
dams and obstructions hereafter built or made in the streams 
within said boundaries; to report to the Legislature on or be- 
fore the fifteenth day of January in each year his official 
action during the preceding year, and such information as 
may be useful in preserving the forests upon State lands and 
the forests of the State generally, and maintaining and_pre- 
serving the supply of water derived therefrom; and also to 
report generally upon the subject of forest preservation and 
the utility thereof in its scientific aspects; to report to the 
Attorney-General trespassers upon said land and streams and 
furnish to him the evidence thereof. Said Commissioner 
shall not grant to any person or class of persons or corpora- 
tions any exclusive use of any portion of said forest lands 
or any Jakes or rivers thereon. 

Src, 3, The Attorney-General shall, upon the report of 
the Forest Commissioner, commence actions in any court 
having jurisdiction against persons who have committed 
trespass upon forest lands of the State, to recover the 
penalties prescribed by this act, or for any cause of action 
the people may have against such trespassers. In any action 
brought by the Attorney-General, under this aci, an injunc- 
tion may be granted upon the application of the Attorney- 
General restraining any act of trespass, waste, or destruction, 
and in cases where lands belonging to the State within said 
boundaries are being “injured by the maintenance of any 
dam or obstruction which may hereafter be erected in any 
stream or lake, the court may order the removal or partial 
removal of said obstruction during the pendency of said 
action, provided that the owner of such dam or obstruction 
shall not be deprived of any legal or equitable right to 
damages for such removal. 

Src. 4. The said Commissioner shall have power to ap- 
point such foresters as he may deem necessary, not exceed- 
ing ten in number, at salaries not exceeding $600 each per 
annum, and such clerks as he may deem proper, within the 


limits of the appropriation made by this act. 


Src. 5. Any person or corporation who shall cut, or 
cause to be cut, any tree or timber standing upon the forest 
lands of the State, with intent to remove the same, or any 
portion thereof, or bark therefrom, shall forfeit to the people 
of the State of New York the sum of $10 for each tree so 
cut, to be sued for by said Commissioner. 

Sec. 6, Whenever the State owns an undivided interest 
with any person in any forest lands, or holds or is in posses- 
sion of any such real estate as joint tenant or tenant in com 
mon with any person, within this State, who has an estate 
of freehold therein, any such person may, upon obtaining 
consent in writing of the Comptroller thereto, maintain an 
action for the actual partition of said property according to 
the respective rights of the parties interested therein, in the 
sume manner as if the State were not entitled to exemption 
from legal proceedings and with the same force and effect as 
in other cases, except no costs shall be allowed to plaintiff 


Within ten days after the passage of this act 
the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, shall appoint a suitable person, who shall be a resi- 
dent and citizen of this State, as Commissioner, who shall be 
known as the Forest Commissioner of the State of New 
York. Said Commissioner shall hold office for six years and 
until his successor shall be appointed and confirmed by the 
“Senate. 


therein, and no sale of said Jands shall be adjudged in said 
suit. 

Sno. 7. The sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may 
he necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes 
of this act, payable on the warrants of the Controller to the 
order of the said Forest Commissioner, . 

Sno. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 


MASSACHUSETTS GAME INTERESTS. 


N Friday evening, the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association held a very successful and en- 
thusiastic meeting, Five new members were received, and 
the attendance was the best for a long time. The meeting 
was the last of the season, but it was decided to come to: 
gether again in the fall earlier than usual, Several new and 
very important committees were appointed, some of which 
may strike poachers and jaw breakers with surprise. 

The matter of the defeat of the game law, which was to 
have been generally adepted in New England, was discussed, 
and it appears that the stupidity and the cupidity of the 
country member had much to do with the defeat, Two 
clauses in the bill, both of minor importance, appear to haye 
weighed heavily on the mind of the member from the rural 
districts, and together with the force of the market element, 
the bili was killed, The obnoxious clauses in the bill were 
the ones relating to ‘‘shore birds” and to killing birds in 
certain ponds in the State, Evidently the country member 
desires to shoot ducks and geese on the shore at all seasons, 
and means to have all there is left of migrating waterfowl 
which are accustomed to stop to rest in Massachusetts ponds, 

A member from amoung the marketmen claims that there 
is an improvement going on among the game dealers, and, 
honest and earnest himself, he will labor in that direction, 
and hopes that, at least, his fellow-dealers will not meet the 
bill another year with organized opposition, It is also very 
gratifying to note that several of the lobster dealers, secing 
the depletion so rapidly going on in these valuable shellfish, 
have declared themselves in favor of stringent protection 
and promise to aid in securing legislation in that direction. 

The game bill came up in the House at a very unfortunate 
time—during the unavoidable absence of its best friends and 
defenders, But its loss for one season has not disheartened 
them in the least. Mr, John Fottler, President of the Asso- 
ciation and than whom no man in the State has labored more 
earnestly for game protection and for this bill, at the time it 
came up in the House was performing the mournful duty of 
burying his business partner. All the best friends of the bill 
at the State House happened to be away, and consequently 
when the measure was attacked by its enemies, present in 
full foree, there was nobody to defend it, ‘ 

Commissioner EK, M. Stillwell of Maine, says that he is 
not at all surprised al the defeat of the Massachusetts bill. 
In fact he rather expected it. His experience with the ob- 
taining and enforcing of the excellent law in Maine has 
shown him the fighting qualities of the poacher and market 
hunter. He regards the defeat this year as but one of the 
drawbacks which will probably lead to success next winter. 
He expects a fight in his own State then, and dreads the in- 
fluence of the Boston game dealers more than any other 
force. But efforts are already begun for the early passage of 
the Massachusetts bill in this State, and as the Maine and 
Massachusetts Legislatures next meet at the same time, the 
game dealers will haye a double enemy to fight, Harnest 
work will be put in by the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association, and the ultimate success of the New 
England protective bill without essential modifications is 
confidently expected, The Commissioners of the other 
States are neither alarmed nor discouraged at its defeat this 
year in this State, but will labor for its enactment at home. 

Boston, May 18. : SPECIAL, 


SEA OTTER SHOOTING. 


aes from a nest of Jow sandhills, covered by 

stunted hemlocks and dwarf cedar, the grand Pacific 
Ocean, with its continuous line of white breakers extending 
as far as the eye could reach north and south, presented a 
glorious view. It was just one mile to the first breaker, 
directly across a stretch of level sand beach, where the look- 
out or derrick was stationed. A derrick is mounted on three 
legs, like a tripod, with an open box 4 feet square inclosed 
on three sides, shore side open, the upper edge of the box 
being cushioned for gun-rest. The box is supplied with low 
stools for the hunter. The derrick is 30 feet high, and placed 
on a line of about half tide. I take a glance at the weather 
vane—wind in the sou’west, good; tide coming in, better; 
sky clear, correct. These different conditions of wind and 
tide have to be closely observed to insure the drifting ashore 
of the otter when shot. .A nor’west wind is as good as one 
from the sou’ west quarter, but it seldom occurs in this sec- 
tion of country. The guns used are Sharps rifles, 12 to 16 
pounds weight. .44-caliber, using from 100 to 120 grains 
powder and'450 to 550 grains lead, bottle-necked shells, per- 
feetly smooth, square-butt, naked bullet. A Rocky Mountain. 
rear sight is used with a globe sight in front, the globe being 
about one inch long, with pinhead. There is considerable 
inquiry among the otter hunters in regard to new guns, as 
their Sharps rifles are wearing out and they cannot secure 
more; the Ballard seems to be the favorite. A wooden step 
is made for each distance of 100 yards and laid in rotation 
for instant use, to avoid mistakes or confusion. 

In twenty minutes we were on the derrick, elasses in hand. 
An otter was discovered diving for crabs. He soon came up 
with a large crab in his little, squirrel-like front paws, and 
lying on his back, with head erect, proceeded leisurely to 
eat it. In an instant the 700-yard sight was adjusted, the 16- 
pounder spoke, and a 550-grain bullet was landed three feet 
to windward. A good horizontal line shot. The distance 
was correct, but the wind not carefully noted, which was 
from the 10 o’clock quarter, the otter at 12 o’clock and the 
shooter, at 6 o’clock points. In about a minute the otter ap- 
peared at the 1 o’clock point, about 100 yards to windward; 
the same sight was used, and at the second shot the otler 
turned ‘‘back up,” head and flippers down, and began drift- 
ing ashore dead. It proved to he a fine siiver-tipped, and 
$100 was received for its pelt on the beach, 

Tt must be remembered that sea otter shooting is attended 
with many difficulties, viz.: All shooting must be done 
from 4.00 to 1,000 yards over the water. Generally there isa 
heavy ground swell, and there is more nice calculation in 
making a shot of this kind than the reader would naturally 
suppose, First you haye to calculate on the force of the 
wind, distance, rise and fall of the otter, and last, but not 
least, this calculation has to be made in a moment. 

TILLICUM 


Gray’s HARgor, Wash. Ter. 


826 


FISH AND GAME IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 


A® many of your readers visit the far West in quest of 
. sport with rod and gun, perhaps a few might extend 
their trip to this far western isle, if they but knew the sport 
to be obtained in our mountains, valleys and rivers. Deer 
are plentiful within a few hours’ drive of this city, and in the 
open season dozens of fine carcasses are brought in weekly 
to our market. Bear (black) are also plentiful, and on the 
mainland of the Province, mt further north than this, grizzly 
are 10 be found, and I am informed that on the banks of the 
Skena River they are very numerous, as also game of all 
kinds. The game birds of the island are grouse (blue and 
yellow) quail, ducks and brant, Grouse are very plentiful, 
and good bags are made by our Jocal sportsmen in the neigh- 
borhood of the city. Quail are abundant, and do not. suffer 
from our winters, which are very mild. On all the rivers 
and creeks, bays and inlets, mallard, teal, butterball and 
brant, abound in large numbers. Not being much of a shot, 
and caring very little for packing a gun all day, 1 may not 
do this part of my letter the justice it deserves, but all that 
I have stated I know to be facts. 

Tn a radius of fifteen to twenty miles from this city we 
have a number of small lakes called Prospect, Pike, Long, 
Thetis (little ‘and big), Laneford, Elk and Beaver, in ull of 
which trout are abundant, and in the sumner take the fly 
freely, in fact, they have been biting in Prospect Lake for 
the past three weeks or more, and some very fair bays have 
been taken (say fifty betwecn three rods) ‘They were taken 
with bait, but ‘‘oh shame, oh sin, oh sorrow,” they were 
taken with salmon roe, which is not prohibited by our game 
laws But. the fishing in these lakes is iame compared with 
that in the Cowichan and Comou rivers further noth, on 
the eastern side of the island, and in nearly all the rivers and 
creeks of the mainland trout are plentiful and bite freely, and 
are said to go as high as six pounds in weight. Last sammer 
myself and a friend paid siveral visits to Pike Lake, and 
caught15 to 25 cach, weighing from 4 to 14 pounds.’on each 
trip, fishing from the bank, and now we look forward to 
renewing our acquaintance with the lish of Prospect, Pike 
and Long likes. 

Salmon are about us in unto'd numbers, but, sad to say, 
they will not rise to the fly; but our Indians catch them with 
hook an‘ line in sult water. From iy residence I frequently 
see an old Siwash trolling for winter salmon. and he catches 
them, weighing from 16 te 20 pounds, with herring bait, and 
in summer thcy troll with spoon; but, so far, | have not 
heard of many white men even trying to catch them. 

Should any of your readers visit this city for sporting pur- 
poses, they can outfit here at small cost, and obtain all the 
information they require at any of our sporting emporiums 
or by asking any of our sporismen. 

- I may state that all the lakes I] have named are accessible 
by horse and buggy, and the cther points by steamer. 

_ The mouth of the Frazer River is a favorite spot in the 
fall for ducks and brant. OANUCK. 

VictortA, B. O,, April] 2, 1884. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 
fiditer Forest and Stream: 

Your correspondent ‘‘G.,” in issue of April 17, apparently 
brings up many objections to the repe.ter, and there have 
been so many adverse criticisms of the “deadly rifle’ that I 
cannot but come forward aguin in defense. 

Some of your correspondents appear inclined to be 
facetious, and others vunceessarily alarmed as to the rapid 
killing of game by the proposed hunting rifle, The latter 
mistake their premises; for which destroys the most game, 
the accurate and deadly rifle that secures its game at every 
shot, or the ‘wild shooter,” that hits, but does not hitin a 
vital place, and leaves a wounded hcad of game to escape 
and die a lingering death, thereby destroying one head of 
game with no corresponding beni fit to mankind? 

I think I but voice the thoughts of all good hunters and 
sportsmen when I say that I decry the wanton billing or 
destruction of game as much as any one. But to. kill game 
is one of the main objects of huniing, for] know of no one 
who will persistently hunt, simply fur the health-giving ex- 
ercise and recreation, and come home each day with empty 
bag. Ido know a good many, however, and I do think true 
sportsmen cun all be included, who like to bunt, not only for 
this reason, but for the sake of the game they kill, and who 
are satisfied to kill simply for their wants, or those of their 
friends, and not for glory. 

Now what does any true hunter want to hunt with? Does 
he not want a true rifle that kills, and kills every time? Will 
such a hunter go on piling up meat and wasting or wantonly 
de:tioying game just for the sake of killing? With such a 
weapon will he not be satisfied with the one deer he kills, 
and leuvye all the rest for some one else, or for anocher day? 
Will he not be able to kill that one deer with less liability of 
damag, to the multitude? Will he have to go on shooting 
at now this deer and now that, wounding ail but losing them, 
ard then by destroying perhaps ten deer for the one he fin- 
ally brings to bay by some lucky shot, as woutd be the case 
if he had a gun that was not accurate? I think that ‘‘Ness- 
muk’s” return to his beloved muzzleloader was just because 
he wanted the most deadly weapon he knew, for just such 
reasous as those above, having become disgusted with a mur- 
derous weapon, such as all poor shooting rifles must be. 

Having seen so much of just such work as that indicated, 
by murderous rifi-s, I among the first proposed the deadly 
rifle as a means of saving gume. Ihave been sick and dis— 
gusted witli the sight of wounded game escaping to die and 
benefit no one but the wolves, and | have longed for the 
lime t6 come when sportsmen could get a rifle that would 
kill and not wound when they shot, although there doubtless 
are those whv would abuse such a gun, and kill more than 
they needed just for the sake of killing, still 1 claim that in 
the yreat majority of cases good and not harm would result 
from the general introduction ot the accurate rifles. Doubt- 
less, also, game would still be wounded and escape at times, 
-eyen with such a rifle in the hands of an expert; for luck, 
chance, or what not, might cause a bad shot to be made, but 
the proportion would be greatly lessened, and more gape 
left uninjured and less be destroyed for the amount actually 
bagged. 

All high trajectory rifles are murderous on game. They 
were neyer built or intended for hunting guns, As military 
rifles, to use ugainst an enemy, to shoot long distances, and 
to wound or kill a hutnan being, were and are their legiti- 
mate object. As such thry are intended to be murderous, 
for ‘a wounded euemy is as good as three dead ones,” and 
in battle the wounded and not the deal are what demoralize 
the line. But who wants to use such weapons against 
game? It isa lucky chance if the hunter can come on his 
game at a known distance, or have full time io estimate it 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


and, with such a rifle, put his ball where he wishes. A shot out cleaning, using the magazine. The state of the breech mechan- 


too high, or too low, Jeayes his game with enough vitality to 
escape and leave him bootlegs, to linger and suffer and die, 
with only the wolves to rejoice. 

I have been striving to obtain a rifle that shoots close 
enough to hit and kill whenever I shoot at any reasonable 
distance, J may find my game to-day at 50 yards, to-morrow 
at 150, and yet 1 want my rifle to shoot so Hat that to-day, 
to-morrow or next day I can shoot with a certainty of kill- 
ing and not wounding, I do not want to see a deer, an 
antelope, or any game go off on thcir legs, disappear with a 
wound anywhere, to leave me sick and disgusted with my- 
self at the useless pain and death resulting from my bad 
shot, J go out to kill and not to destroy, and I am as sick 
of all the mamby-pamby sentimentalism against killing 
game when needed as I am of all needless and useless suffer- 
tne end death inflicted by murderous rifles. 

ut I hear the question, why should I want a repeater, 
when I wanta gun that kills at the first shot? I answer, 
simply asa protection to game again, by giving one the 
ability to fire the second shot, and the third and the fourth 
if necessary, as rapidly as possible, should I by any chance 
fail to kill at first and thereby prevent this wounded animal 
from escaping. 1 would wunt the repeater as a reserve to 
fall back upon in cases of emergency, using it ordinarily as 
a singleloader and choo-ing my shots with it as carefully as 
though the one slot 1 had in the chamber was the one on 
which my life depended. lt is admitted that in the hands 
of a nervous man, or perhaps in any one’s hands under some 
circumstances, the repratet would be abused; but | claim a 
bettcr state of affairs for the great body of sportsmen. It 
would be as well to condemn all horses because some are 
vicious and run away and smash things, as to condemn all 
sportsmen with repeaters because one Joses his head and 
“throws ] ad” hastily and indiscriminately. 

Then again, in spite of the assertions to the contrary, in 
this Western country the hunter frequently takes his life in 
his hand while hunting. Heavy and dangerous game is not 
so scarce as some of your correspondents would seem to 
indicate, and I for one would not think of going into the 
mouutuins without being prepared to encounter ferocious 
and dangerous game. I mivht hunt for a month and nvyer 
see a bear; but like the Texan and bis six-shooter—when | 
did wunt a repeater ‘I would want it mighty bad.” TI have 
seen men of w party slop fishing and come to camp on ac- 
count of the proximity of bear; and one can’t tell in this 
country what he may find when he unee is beyoud civiliza- 
tion. ' 

And even were I where I knew there were no dangerous 
animals, human or brute, I would still want the repvater, 
although of perhaps lighter caliber, for to me it represents 
the latest advance and aeyelopmeut of firearms; and every 
hunter should have the best. 

And now as to ‘‘G’s” criticism. He says repeating rifles 
are unreliable. Had he suid-some are so | would agree with 
him. But has he tried them all? Or has he seen the many 
improved weapons of late yeurs all tried? His first experi- 
ence was by his own statement ‘‘many years ago,” and with 
the Winchester carbine. ‘Many years ago” ITalso owned a 
Wincehcster, and I found it unreliable and sold it, but I did 
not thereby lose all my faith in repeaters, nor condemn them 
as he now does after years have elapsed for improvement, 
First efforts are rarely successful, and a steady march of im- 
provement fur over three hundred years has deyeloped our 
present breechloaders and repeaters from their prototypes of 
long ago. Brechloaders and 1epeaters are nota thing of 
to-day; but their development was slow until the introduc- 
tion of the metallic cartridge, and since ‘“‘many years ago” 
many and valuable improvements have been introduced. 

Besides this, the Winchester is not the only nor the best 
repeater extant. Why do all refer to this as the one weapon 
of all on which to pin their faith or unbelicf in repeaters? 
True it is, that it was one of the first and haskd to many 
others, and is entitled to much credit, not only for its own 
excellencies, but jor its good work; but also true it is, that 
other and better repeatcrs are to be had to-day, and steady 
improvements are being made by firms, who have new lite 
anil not the conservatism ot the older gunmakers. 

I cannot help but criticise ‘‘G.’s” ideas about caring for 
guns. The hunter, soldier or scout who does not keep his 
gun clean deserves to ‘Jose his sealp” if ‘‘juped by Indians 
or charged by a bad-tempered grizzly.” He bas about as 
much business anywhere near either as a first-class lunatic 
has out of his as) lum, and such a man would probably “pass 
in his checks” at such a tame, even if he were armed with the 
most perfect weapon under heaven and that in the most per- 
fect order. After an experience of some dozen years in the 
camp and field, I have yet to see a similar experience to that 
he narrates with any class of weapons, eithvr singleloaders or 
repeaters. My Winchester became unreliable because it was 
eld and rickety, and even the best of weapons grow unreli- 
able from such causes. 

Again we have a man of the ‘‘didn’t-know-it-was-loaded’ 
class who wanted to hunta grizzly alone. I wonder if he 
had ever secn one before the time mentioned, when he saw 
three? Lucky for him that he did not shyot at any of them 
—and more {ool he four ever thinking of shooting at a cub 
unless he knew the she bear was away beyond ear shot. 
Had his gun even been in order, he would probably have 
had ‘‘his belly full” in no time. But what is one to think of 
any hunter, or any one else who abuses a gun in the manner 
deecribed. Guns are made to use and use propeily, the 
same as any other piece of mechanism. Governors on steam 
engines have broken down before now and the engine has 
“run away and smashed things,” but are all steam engines 
unreliable on that account? 1s the Winchester or any other 
repeating arm to be held up to ridicule because some one 
does not know bow to use it? On the contrary, are there 
not hundreds, yes thousands, who use them, well aware that 
they are reliable—provided the ‘‘man behind the gun” is 
reliable too? ' ‘ 

Then we are told also that repeaters are unsafe, and again 
because a cartridge in a Winchester magazine, one in a 
Hotchkiss and another in a Spencer (‘*G.” makes it appear as 
a Winebester), exploded and tore things to pieces. ‘‘Acci- 
dents will happen, even in the best regulated families,” but 
there generally is some preventable cause for each accident, 
and the fault in each of these cases was perhaps the tault of 
the man and not the gun, . a : 

I have the report of a board of officers before me, who in 
1881 tested magazine guns with a view to thiir mtroduction 
as military weapous. Since theu several new repeaters have 
been introduced, and that they were not tested was simply 
because they bad uot then been born. - 

lt may be ot interest to state what some of the ‘official 
tests” were: 


ism_to be examined at the end of each 50 rounds. 

me Defective Cartridges.—Each gun to be fired once with each of 
ine sou ering defective Cartridges: 1. Cross-filed on head tonearly the 
vee ness of the metal. 2. With a longitudinal cut the whole length of 

Pica rake Ls from the rim up, a fresh piece of white paper, marked 
with the number of the gun, being laid over the breech to observe the 
escane of gas, if any occur. 

Vv. Dust.—The piece to he exposed, in the box prepared for that 

Urpose, to a blast of sand-dust for two minutes; to be removed, fired 
Sed ona: replaced for two minutes, removed and fired 20 rounds 

Vi. Rust.— The breech mechaniem and receiver to be cleaned 
from grease, and the chamber of the barrel pian ania plugged, the 
butt of the gun to be inserted to the heisht of the chamber in a Solu« 
toin of sal-ammoniae for ten minutes, exposed for two days to the 
open air, standing in a rack, ani! then fired 20 roids. 

VIL. Haxeessive Oharges.—To be fired onee with 85 grains powder 
and one ball of 405 grains of lead; once with 90 grains powder and 
one ball, and once with 90 grains powder and two balls, The piece 
ae ere examined erat each discharge. [Note—Pieces buile to 

re .45-70- ammunition. uy gun failing in any of th i 
tests will not be submitted to Panther tests, x 4 SOE OLE 

Supplementary Tests.—1, To be fired with two detective cartridges, 
Nos. land 2, arid then to he dusted five minutes, the mechanism 
being in the mouth of the blowpipe and closed, the hammer being at 
half cock; then to be fired six sho s, the last two d4fective Nos. 1 
and 2; then without clea: ing 1o be dusted with the breech open and 
fired four shots. The piece to be freed from dust only by pounding 
or wiping with the bare hand, 2. To be fired five rounds with the 
service cartridge ( 45-70-405 ; then without cleaning to be fired five 
rounds with 120 grains powder and a ball weighing 1,200 er.ins; the 
gun to stand twenty-four hours after firing without cleaning and 
then to be thoroughly examined. 3 Facility of manipulation by 
members of the board, 4, Liability to acvidentul explosion of cart- 
ridges in the magazine, : 
4 pone tests may be made to clear up doubts raised by previous 
rials. 

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# * * # # * 


Un ‘er the fourth supplementary test, in addition to the test already 
made of gi ing a jolting motion to a column of cartridges in a vertical 
tube with the spiral magazine spring, a column of six cariridges to be 
jolted in a tube without the spring, and, if there be no explsion, 
then the lowest bullet in the eulnmn to be replaccd by a pointed steel 
plug—ifrst using ‘he spring below the plug—anu in the event of if not 
producing explosim 10 be tried without the spring. Also if ther= is 
no explosion resulting from the joliiug tesis, the tubé containing the 
column of cartridges heavily weaizhted at the lower end to insure its 
veriical position, and having the spring at the bottom of the tube, to 
be dropped from a heightof twenty feet upon a pavement, and if 
there is no explosion’ tu be droppe! as before without the spring in 
the tube, Afterward a pointed steel plug to replace the lowest bullet 
in the column, and to he dropped witn the spring in the tube; then, 
it there is no explosion, the dropping to be finally tiied with the 
spring removed, These te-ts to be applied equally to the Frankford 
and exterior piimed cartridges. 

[Now the ouly wonder is that any gun should have stood these tests 
at all, for any one must concede that they are excessive | Forty guns, 
re pres. nting thirteen model-, were submitt.-d for experiment with re- 
sults as fullows, omitting all of no in:portance 16 this dis¢ussion: 

In safety test and rapidity, with accuracy and rapiity-at-will tests, 
allinaguzines were filled, and in tafety test but one pun failed by 
bursting of receiver. No cartridge burst in maguzines, and there were 
24 failures tu exiract. but here were 4U suns, each fired 10 rounds in 
safety test, or 4001 0unds, and 3,713 rounds firedin rapidity te ts, mak- 
mg a total of 4,113 rounds, and only 24 f ilnres to extract, and these 
were nearly all by runs afterward found to be puor in design or de- 
fective, and were rejec ed. Asan average the percentage of failure 
to eject was but 0055 per cent. 

In the endurance tests, the results were as follows; 92 miss-fires; 
but 72 of the ie were by guns of one mudel. leaving 20 miss-fires to the 
balance; 18 failures to extract and cartridge exploded in magazine, 
And yet here were 11,948 rounds fired as a woole, among which to di- 
vide the above accidents. 

poeteciye cariridges—Miss-fires none, 2 failures to extract, 72 shots 
all told, 

Dust test—9 failures to extract, 7 miss tires, 920 rounds all told, 

Rust test—Miss-fires 27, but 18 by one gun; no failures to extract, 
420 shots all told. 

Excess in charges—Miss-fires none, guns generally opened hard, six 
shells with head blown off, 3 failures to extract, (3 shots all told. 

tixcessive ghenress a explosion in magezine, 6 guns tested, 

Tn all the tests for liability to accidental explosion in the magazine, 
but one cartridge exploded, there being 2,759 rounds fired from 6 uns 
in this test. 

The tests mentioned above wtre never carried out; but the Zol- 
lowing modifications were adopted and tried with six guns that had 
been found by the preliminary :rials to be best adapted for mil tary 
purposes: ‘“‘Liability to accidental explosions of cart idges in maga- 
zine A—Magazine to be filled with each of the four kintis of carb- 
ridges on hand and shut of. Then to be fired 100 rounds as a single- 
loader, in the fixed rest, using the heavy Frankford cartridge (7U-o00 
grains) in the chamber to obtain greatest recoil where practicable. 
The vartridges inthe magszine to Le examined and changed after 
each fifty shots, B-Same as A, except the magazine being half 
filled. O—Sameas A, except the gun suspended by wires so as to 
permit greatest extent of recoil.” Four kimts of ammunition were 
used, viz.: Frankford, U. M, C., Winchester and Lowell, and the fol- 
lowing resnits obtained: 

First Gun,—Test A omitted. Test B—One hundred shots; maga- 
zine partly filled; no explosion in magazine, Test C—One tunured 
shots; magazine entirely filled; no explosion in n agzine; one fail- 
ure to extract shell, This was repeated with the U M,. 0. and Win- 
che:ter ammunition, and with the Lowell ammunition up to 52 shots 
in test C, when a cartridge exploded in the magazine; 752 shots all 
told; tube magazine under barrel, 

Seeond Gun.—Test A—Seventeen shots fired, when gun broke down 
from defects, not of the magazine, and became disabled, and tests 
discontinued; tube magezine us.der barrel. 

Third Gun.—Test A—All tour kinds of ammunition used for 100 
shots each; no explosion in magazine. Test bomitte!. Test C— 
Same remarks as for test A (800 shots all told; tube magazine in 
stock). / 

Fourth Qun—Test A—All four kinds of ammunition; 100 shots. 
Test B—Three kinds used, 100shots used, when it became apparent 
there was no danger of explosion, and test discontinued. Test O— 
Three kinds and 100 each; all successful (1,000 shiots all told; tube 
magazine in stock). 

Fitth Gun—Detachable magazine; test only a short one; 150 shots 
all told, as it became vyident the danger was a minimnm. 

Sixth Gun—Detachable maguzine; test only a short one—4) shots— 
as gun was not easily loaded as singleloader when magazine was 
attached, and best results of gun not to be had when used a single- 
loader with magazine fitted anu atb.ched; 40 shots all told. 


This is all 1 ean give from the report without occupying 
too much space, but from it we can see how*vely unlikely 
such avcidents as “‘G.” mentions are to happen. One of the 
vuns that stood the test the best is the yery Hotchkiss model 
he mentions as one of the guns whose magazine exploded. 

Those who wivht be timid about buying a magazine rifle 
after reading ‘'G.’s” article can tuke comfost from the above, 
and rest assured that so long as they use proper ammunition 
there is not one chance in ten thousand of their getling burt 
by any maguzine explosion. By proper ammuniiion | mean 
that with flat, pointed bullets; and if the cartridges are re- 
loaded at home, see that the primeris properly seated, and 
the danger is reduced to a minimum—it may be said to 
nothing. : fe 

Upon this very point of ammunition allow me to differ 
from “G.,” and his friend who writes to him and whose 
letter he gives, It is a man’s duty to examine every cartridge 
he intends to use, There are times when there is nothing 
else to do, and one ean yery pleasantly and very profitably 
spend his time in inspecting luis ammunition. If he reloads 
it Limself, then bis reloading. if properly done, is an inspec- 
iion. Primers should always be seated down where they 
belong, below the plane of the rear face of the shell. Proper 
priming toolsalways put them thereif the shells and primers 
are intended for each other, and if one finds his primers 
won't go “‘home,” then citber shells are flefective or he is 
using the wrong primers for his shells, and must change te 
get proper results, Primers not properly seatcd are danger- 
ous in any gun, either singleloader or repeater, and besices 
are liable to cause mistires from not being seated firmly 
home to take the force of the blow of the hammer. Do not 


IL, Zndwrance.Bach gun to be fired 800 continuous rounds with | use too thin or sensitive primers for repeaters; there is all 


; —— rl i le 


“May 22, 1884,] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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‘the difference in the world in this, and the mainspring 
should be heavy enough to explode even the least sensitive, 
Then proper rcloading tools aré a perfect gauge as to the 
length of the completed cartridge. To be sure, a cartridge 
for a repeater uveds an invariable length, the same as for any 
other gan; for TI know of no gun that will take cartridges 
that do not fit it and do good work, A cartridge a little too 
Jong in a singleloader may cause as much trouble and lose a 


_ gaan his life from the inability to ‘‘work” the gun, as one too 


short or too long in a repeater; and this variation in length 
will not obtain it the shells are loaded properly, as the ball- 

“geater in a proper set of tools seats the ball invanably the 
same, Nor will properly loaded shells shorten up under the 
jolting in the magazine, for the ball should be firmly seated 
on ihe powder by heavy pressure or blows by a mallet, and 
cannot enter any further, The lubricating disk is a thing 
of the past long since, and should never be used in any mag- 
azine rifle or any other to secure accurate shooting. 

But whiut-is ile use of my stating this? Itis all known al- 
rerdy by the rifle shot who merits the name, and [am sivk 
and tired of bearing the mun’s fault laid to the gun; or try- 
ing to teach such a man what any rifleman should know, and 
that is how to not only take care of himself, but also load 
and take care of his rifle and ammunition, so that they will 
take care of him in the time of need, Any man who will 
take the field without such knowledge deserves all the ills 
that befall him, and needs a guardian to kecp rifles and all 
such out of his bands until he 1s competent lo understand 
and handle them. Doubtless there are many who necd such 
guardisnship, who always succced admirably in getting 
t emselyes into a scrape and leave their friends to get them 
out; but don’t let us bear their faws laid on the poor gun, 
when the latter would have served them well with even a 
very small amount of intelligent. attentio _ to its wants. 

Tt so happens that | know Jim Baker very well, having 
passed the winter in the same camp wilh him once on a time 
and having had him on my pay-rolls as a Government scout, 
and he told me exactly how the accident happened to him 
It did not happen from any accident with a Winchester, as 
“G,’s? article would lead one to suppose from the way he 
quotes his friend’s letter; but it did happen from the explo- 
sion of the magazine of an old Spencer 1im-fire carbine, aud 
his accident was not the only one that has happened with 
such guns. The accident broke poor -lim’s jaw, cut open 
his peck and tore off his right thumb. an aecident that only 
could bave happened with a gun with magazine iu stock. 

Now the time was when the Spencer was considered a fine 
gun, and in the hands of troops during the war it caused the 
enemy many a heart beat, and this, too, in spite of the de- 
fects of mechani-m and faulty ammunition. It is a rim- 
fire gun, and so were the Henry and first Winchester, hence 
so many accidents, and never should have been used as a 
Magaz ne gun, owipy to its danger; but gunmakers have ‘‘to 
live and learn,” and its day has long since pussed never te 
return, §o we can safely divmiss Jim Baker and his acci- 
dent with the Spencer as entirely foreign to any accidents 
likely to happen with more modern weapons. —_ 

“Gs” friend asks whether efforts have been made since 
the war to arm troops with repeaters. J can tell him, most 
emphatically, yes. Every civilized nation, and some that 
are nol so classed, are experimenting with repeaters, looking 
to their general introduction as weapons of war. England 

_Jooks upon the magazine gun as the coming weapon. Our 
-own country has adopted them for trial, und they are now 
in the hands of some of our troops. Our Indian police are 
armed with them and know how to use them, too, while the 
Turkish cavalry were largely armed with them in their late 
war with Russia. Our arms companies are mainly interested 
in the production of repeaters for army use, and fill large 
orders for foreign shipment. The Winchester—then called 
the “Henry”’—was in the hands of our troops during the 
late war, and many atime did the rebels meet a surprise 
parity when coming against them, and the Indians, when 
first they met them, were most gloriously ‘‘licked” before 
they *‘tumbled to the racket,” and to-day you cannot make 
an indian arm himself with a singleloader when he can beg, 
borrow, or steal enough to get the wherewithal to buy a re- 
péater, and when gotten he treasures if as the ‘apple of his 

After tle ‘Milk River fight” in 1879, after the arrival of 
the relieving columns, I picked up handfuls of Winchester 
shells from behind the Indian breastworks, showing that the 
Utes had them to nse—and did use them pretty effectually— 
‘against us. But the Spencer and the old Henry, or the early 
Winchester, compare about as favorably with our late re- 
peaters as do the ‘flint locks” with the modern ‘‘hammer- 
less,” and the good work the more modern repeaters can do 
will compare as favorably with the work the old ones did. 

But we are not striving for a weapon for troops—let gov- 
ernmenis do that—we are striving for a weapon for the 
hunter to which he can ‘‘ti” at all times and in all places, 
and ithe number of repeaters thus far déveloped that ‘*fill the 
bili” can be counted on the thumb of a one-armed man. We 
haye many so-called ‘‘sporting” repeaters, but they each and 
all would prove the “‘murder-us’ and “cruel” gun, which 
we hear decried against game, not hecause they don’t shoot 
hard enough, not because they don’t shoot far enough, not 
because they don’t shoot lead enough, not because they don’t 
shoot true enough when the distance is known; but because 
_they all do shoot with a too high trajuctory, throw too much 
lead and ioo little powder, and one cannot plant his lead 

with certainty in a vital spot. But we have one class of re- 
peaters that is bound to succeed in spite of croakings as to 
the danger, quoted from experience with old pattern or in- 
ferior kinds of arms. 

I will conclude this article by telling what I know has 
been done with a repeater, where verily a man carried his 
life in his hand, protected only by his coolness and skill, and 
the rifle he carried. In Arizona I know an Indian scout, 
with whom 1 scouted many a mile of country, who, one 
day in an engagement, ran an Indian into a thicket ina fight, 
Mr. Redskin was armed and was skulking for cover to get 
his chance at picking off a white man, The scout knew 
better than 1o rush in or to expose himself unnecessarily to 
fire, so he too crept around under cover until he could see 
about where the Indian was hid; then, believing that the 
Indian did not know about repeaters (the Apaches in.1870 
to 1875 knew very litile about them) he deliberately fired a 
shot, believing that the Indian would show himselt to get his 
shot before the scout could reload. Show himself he did, 
with a grin on bis face. as much as to say “it’s my turn now,” 
to get a shot between “‘wind and water” from the scout’s re- 
péater, that hud been loaded without having been taken from 
the shoulder, Well, there was one ‘‘good Indian” more, 
and he never lived to learn how that gun was reloaded so 
quickly. Again, another scout, armed with a repeater, 
held alone the only place the Indians could escape from an 


engagement, He rained lead so fast upon them, snd they 
were there by the dozen, that they could not and did not 
face it, bit turned back to try the steep rocks, where the 
way was steeper, but where lead .did not buzz like angry 
hornets, 

T might multiply instances and not romance in the least; 
but each and all know of many a time when, but for the re- 
péater, diath would have.claimed the hunter, scout or sol- 
dier, and it is needless for me to dwell on this. 

Believing that the new departure in riflesis in the right 
direction, [ can only hope it will prosper, leaving, however, 
each to take his choice, but at the same time earnestly hop- 
ing*that blame for non-suceess will be put by each where 
it generally will be found to belong—upon the man and not 
the gun, provided a good, late pattern and thoroughly well- 
made gun has been chosen, and good, properly loaded am- 
munition is used therein, C. D. 

P. 8.—The work you are now engaged in of giving a com- 
plete description of the later styles and mdels of rifles is 
to be commended, for from the information there contained, 
riflemen can more intelligently selvet the rifle best suited 
to their wants. Those who have the opportunity doubtless 
post themselyes upon all models of rifles before purchasing 


any, but there are so many that have not the chance, your” 


description will give wide eirculation of details, ordinarily 
not to be found in any advertisement, giving a fair field and 
favor to all, C. D, 


DORCHESTER BAY DUCKING. 


if WAS in Dorchester, New Brunswick, and complying with 

an invitation from my friend, J. H. H, I joined him on 
Raster Monday for a cruise down the bay in his guoning 
boat. Dorchester Bay is at the head cf the Bay of Funday, 
and the tide rises aud falls thirty feet. We started at 4 
A, M., and launching our boat on the ebb tide sped down 
the bay “indifferent to the huge waves that tossed our boat 
around like an eggshell, 

The boat, built for the purpose, is about fourteen feet long, 
flat bottomed, aud propelled by paddle wheels and cranks, 
the covering of the paddle boxes being carried across in 
front, forming a breastwork which hid all but our heads 
from the birds. It was my first experience in this mode of 
sunning and I became enthusiastic over the ease and com- 
fort with which we proceeded with my muscular friend at 
the cranks. My opinion was somewhat movitied later wlen 
my turn came to play the part of steam engine in a launch. 
If any of your readers wish te try how it feels, let them 
place two grindstones side by side and then sit flat on the 
ground between them and turn them simultaneously for a 
few hours. Even that would hardly give a correct idea, as 
you must hold your head still so as to make your shooting 
hat look like part of the boat while paddling up to the wary 
geese and ducks. My spine even yet takes an occasional 
kink which serves to keep the experience fresh in my mind, 

It would take too long to give a detailed account of the 
day; suffice it 1o say that we bagged five wild geese anid 
three ducks, and becoming heedless in the chase [et the tide 
get too far away with us, and when we tried to return home 
against the current the futility of struggling with the Bay 
of Fundy bore became apparent. By herculean efforis 
we succeeded in beaching our boat on mud flats about a 
mile from shore, After a somewhat extended wait, we 
reached home on the flood tide at 3 o’clock the next morning 


coyered with mud and glory, the contents of the game bag |’ 


being only one of the many incidents which made the day’s 
outing most enjoyable. D. 
Amuerst, N.§., April 24. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Having suggested some objections to the full choke sys- 
tem in former communications, some advocates of that 
system have replied pretty vigorously; striving to fortify 
their position with some statements that must certainly cause 
a broad smile to suifuse the features of every practical sports- 
man. 

The man who can increase his pattern 100 pellets simply 
by using a star wad over his charge of shot, must be cer. 
tainly romancing, or writing up a big boom for the star wad 
manufacturer. 

I will give you the result of some investigations and tests 
my friends and self have made: A standard 10-gauge shell, 
using Tatham’s standard shot No, 8, 400 pellets to an ounce, 
will chamber on the outer circle circumscribing the inner 
circumference of the shell 25 pellets, Filling up the center, 
in even und full layer of shot, we have, by actual count, 
about 62 pellets. - 

In 14 ounces we have a total of 500 pellets, which, dis- 
tributed im even, consecutive layers, as above, of about 62 
pellets to the layer, make & layers, forming the full charge 
of shot. For other sizes of shot, and for guns of different 
pauges, sportsmen can make their own estimates. 

itis a well settled principle that, of the pellets of shot of 
which the charge is formed, those lying on the outer circle of 
the cylindrical body forming the charge, and next the inner 
surface of the barrel, are, by the force of the discharge in 
passing out of the barrel, retarded to some extent by friction 
and more or less jammed into an angulated form thereby, 
thus destroying to some extent their efficiency at the limit 
of the range of the gun. Hence, it bas long since been 
demonstrated that even in cylinder barrels, the pell ts of the 
inner cirele of the charge are most efficient, have the greatest 
foree and penetration and the most killing power. 

To do away with this difficulty in some measure, wire 
cartridges, conventrators and other forms of shot cartridge 
were adopted 'o preserve the spherical form of all the pellets 
composing the charge, and to keep all alike up to the same 
initial velocity. That they do perform what is claimed is 
too well settled {o admit of either comment or arguiaent. 
But, it is claimed for a loose charge in a full choke gun, that 
the choke effects the same purpose and more too, How! Is 
the friction decreased? It is increased; for upon the arrival 
of the charge of shot at the choke, the cylindrical form of 
the body cf that charge must necessarily be elongated in 
order fo pass out; and then too, the wad between the powder 
and shot assumes necessarily at that point a surface convex 
to the bottom of the charge of shot, thus increasing the 
number of pellets that are affected by the friction up the 
barrel, jammed into angles and their spherical form more or 
less irjured—the worst possible-conditions for a good per- 
formance. 

As shown above, the number of pellets in 1} ounces of No. 
8 shot that lic next the inner surface of the barrel is 8 times 
25, or 200, a large percentage of which would be affected 
in the manner described above even in a cylinder-bored 


barrel; in a full choke a much larger. percentage would be 
affected. 

Tt has been admitted time and time again in the commu- 
hications of numerous correspondents who have contributed 
to these columns upon this subject, that buckshot und the 
larger sizes of shot will neither pive good pattern nor penc- 
tration out of a full choke. Exactly sa. 

Some inquire: -How shall I ioad with buckshot for deer? 
You had better not load with them at all in a full choke 
barrel The result will be a failure iv efficacy, and if you 
attempt to use any of the forms of shot cartridge the result 
will be the same. They will inevitably jam in the choke, 
the force be greatly retarded, besides being so scattered as to 
destroy their effect on your game. Then, too, repeated 
jammings of this character, if your gun be a light one‘at the 
muzzle or choke, will spring the choke out of if. 

Use a eylin‘ler-bored barrel ‘for buckshot if you desire to 
make long shots; use a wire cartridge (Bly’s are very good), 
and back them with every grain of powder your gun will 
bear. Jf the gun be an average good performer, you will 
have no reason fo complain of results. BACKWOODS, 


" Buveriy, W. Va. . 


DOWN AN IDAHO SNOW SLIDE. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

T send a few notes from letters received from Idaho, think- 
ing they might prove interesting lo some one, or surve if 
more entertuining matter was lacking. 

‘Rocky Bar, Idaho Territory. —Dear F,—The package of 
Forest AND StkEAMS received. We take great pleasure in 
reading them herein the wilds, for I can appreciate a bhunt- 
ting or fishing trip myself, though game is so plenty here, 
the majority don’t care for hunting except for meat to eat. 
I think I should like to huve one of the smart dogs I read of 
in the Kennel depurtment, though we can find grouse easily 
without a dog. The favorite dog here is a good deerhound 
that can be held in check, unless game is wounded and then 
sent after the deer. The game law is very strict in Idaho 
now, and it has been enforced several times in this county. 
Nevertheless, I must plead guilty to taking what game I 
need for my personal use in or out of season, as I contend I 
have spent time enough muking trails over the mountains to 
entitle me to all the game [ can eat. We had a nice spell of 
weather a short time since, and the grouse began to come 
down. but yesterday it stormed again and they will stop. 
One of the mail carriers traveling on snow sbces ran across 
three deer on Boise River bottom and ‘took in’ two with bis 
snow shoe pole; they had been living in the bottom and were 
fine and fat, When one has been living on frozen beef all 
winter a change is beneficial. Snow here about 64 feet deep 
and coming down fast, but what comes from this out don’t 
pileup The other day I had qnite an adventure, and as it 
is one that, though it might happen to many, few would like 
to relate, will send you a scrap cut from a local paper. 
Judge for yoursell,” ‘The scrap reads as follows, being taken 
from the Wood River News-diner: 

‘Tt is seldom in the career of a reporter that he is enabled 
to chronicle a more thrilling advi nture or fortunate escape, 
than that which befel the well known foreman in charge of 
the Bonaparte Company’s mines, Having occasion on Wed- 
nesday evenivg last, to visit the prospeciing camp of Gray 
and Marly, some two miles distant from the Bonaparte, Mr. 
McK. mounted his snow shoes and began the ascent of the 
bleak ridge dividing the two places. Albeit the snow was 
as neatly slush as-would conveniently lie on the mountain 
‘side, he determined on reaching the summit to have a ride 
down the mountain, and accordingly turned his shoes down 
a steep and precipilous ridge leading into Snake Creek Canyon 
and while descenuing with the speed of an arrow, he sud- 
denly felt his footing give way and instantly discovered that 
the entire mountain had slid and that he was in the midst of 
an enormous snow slide. With great presence of mind he 
hastily disengaged himself from the incumbrance of his snow 
shoes, aud by dint of much kicking, struggling and rolling, 
managed to keep on top of the slide, which was twisting and 
splintering gigantic trees in its fearful rush to the canyon 
below, which was filled many feet deep with the frozen ele- 
ment, which had by this time reached nearly tbe solidity of 
ice, and swept away everything movable in the shape of trees 
and rocks from the mountain side above. Yet when the 
tremendous mass of snow was still, Mr, McK. found himself 
still on top, aud with the exception of a few slight bruises 
and a sense of suffocation, unhurt, and a few minutes later 
w:.s exultingly relating his fearful snow slide in 4 place of 
safety.” 

T ane whom the fearful power of a snow slide or aya- 
lanche is Known, the above adventure and escape from death 
is truly miraculous, PRAIRIE Dog. 
DerRort, Mich. 


QUAIL FoR THE MiiLti0n.—Henrietta, Clay County, Tex., 
May 1.—It was a beautiful day. I boarded the cars at Hen- 
rietta for Bowie, to see what prospects there were for next 
September, Twenty-eight miles brought me to Bowie, on 
the Fort Worth and Denver City R. R., just into the cross 
timbers of Montague county. J! there found as good a team 
as is generally found at a livery; called on a lady friend to 
take a drive. Westurted out, The first 1 saw of quail was 
a boy throwing rocks at a covey as they ran along the road- 
side, a mile’s drive. I saw what appeared to me a continu- 
ous covey. Quail to the right, quail to the left, quail to the 
front, quail all around. I wus as.onished. I suspect my 
lady friend thought me a dull fellow, I was occupied think- 
ing what a time | would have with old dog Blackno'e on the 
first of September. 1 would have kept this to myself, but 
quail were too numerous. I went off the road and found 

uail behind every bush, 1 now heartily extend an invita- 
tion to all dog-breakers, field trial men, pot-hunters and mar- 
ket hunters, All come. The country is alive with Bob 
Whites; quail in Montague county by the millions, Open 
post vak shooling, What is better? Brother sportsmen, 
where quail are :carce, come and kill a few belore something 
happens, but do not come till September.—ALMo. 


AMERICAN AND IMPORTED GuUNS.—Hditor Forest and 
Stream: *‘Vitus” says ‘‘thata better -un can be madein Amer- 
ica for the same price that you would pay for an English 
gun in the same place.” But when you consider that Hng- 
lish guns pay from thirty-five to forty per cent duty, besides 
a liberal profit to the importer, you will see that there is no 
comparison between them, and to get ther comparative 
value, you must find what ) our Boeliee gun cost before im- 
portation, and then compare it with some Amvrican yun of 
like cost, und Tthink you will find the English gun is the 
best.—HOou is, 


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In A Cotp WATER Hotz.—North Loup, Neb., April 14. 
—Having had much enjoyment in reading the experiences of 
your contributors, I willadd my mite. This is a fine place 
for hunting, but our one grief is the want of guns that will 
do sufficient execution among the geese. I read of guns 
that will kill geese from 80 to 110 yards with BB shot. I 
shot at one about thirty yards with BB shot and hit him 
with seven, four going clear through him. He got clear 
across the riyer and upon the bank before I got to him. 
ast evening I killed a white pelican that measured eight 
feet two inches from tip to tip and five feet six inches from 
point of bill to claws. I had a12-gauge i6-pound muzzle- 
loader with 43-inch barrels. No geese came nearer than 
seventy-five yards, and I could cut out lots of feathers but 
kill no. goose. At last a small bunch passed nearer. I 
picked out my bird, and when the report jarred the sur- 
rounding blutts he fell. He lay on his back kicking for 
quite a while, then slowly recovered himself and started 
across the sandbar. I stripped and took after him. IL re- 
tained my upper garment and pulled it over my head for 
fear the goose might be embarrassed. I stepped imto a 
quicksand hole just six feet deep. Luckily there were three 
inches more to spare orl might have got wet. Just here 
will somebody please tcll me how the water in those holes 
manages to maintain a temperature of 25° below zero all the 
year around? At least that’s how it felt, Well, I just got 
close to him when he flew off down the river. My wife 
don’t allow me to sweat, but I quoted some forcible passages 
to him. Then IJ had to wade back, and fell in another kole. 
The climate of Nebraska must be mild, because the railroad 
documents say it is, but dressing on the bank of the river in 
acold east wind don’t count, Is there any gun that will 
shoot close enough to hit a goose with at least four OO shot 
at eighty yards, and hard enough to drive them through? 
Tf there is I will have it next fall.—C. 


LoursanA Notws.—St. Martinsville, La., April 14.—The 
past season in’ this vicinity was a gamy one. One hunt I 
wot of by two members of the Louisiana Gun Club in com- 
pany with a local shooter; sum total of bags in three days, 
487 quail. One member of same club, on annual hunt; 
bagged 97 woodcock. I am informed he wasn’t the best 
shot in the club either, consequently many birds got away. 
On the lake ducking was splendid. I shot exclusively over 
decoys, and made bags from 11 to 35 on each hunt. Of 
course, at present all game has departed hence. The fishing 
on the lake has been good, I’ve known parties already to 
have captured 24 fine trout through the holes in the floating 
prairie contiguous to Spanish Lake, The largest of trout 
which I refer to was five pounds, the smallest two pounds. 
Last summer I heard of eight and even eleven pounders being 
captured. Of course, you are aware these are not: the 
*‘speckled beauties” that I read so much of in your columns, 
but the lake, or green, trout, as they are termed here. They 
are exceedingly delicious in flavor, as the water of the lake 
is clear and cold even in our hottest August days, it being 
fed exclusively by subterranean springs,—J. P. H. 


FLORIDA GAmE.—Enterprise, Fla., May 8.—The hunting 
for the season is over at this place, the Brock House having 
closed two weeks ago. Notwithstandmg the many sports- 
men who hunt here during the winter, and kill quantities of 
game, deer can be found three miles from here in large 
enough numbers to make a day’s sport both exciting and 
profitable. A resident of this place bagged three while out 
one day last week, Quail are plenty, but do not receive the 
sportsman’s attention as they do North. They are very tame 
and are caught in traps, few being shot by the residents of 
this vicinity. The sport most indulged in by the winter 
visitor is fishing, because a novice can be successful, while 


hunting deer requires the surest shot. Trolling is the favorite | 


mode of fishing, and an experienced angler seldom returns 
from a day’s fish with less than twenfy, and as high as 
eizhty-three haye been caught by one maninaday. Bass 
- are caught more than any other variety, For duck shooting 
come here in Noyember, when hundreds make Lake Monroe 
and adjoining ponds their home for the winter.—G. G. J. 


New York GAme LAw AMENDMENTS.—The amendments 
to the game law passed at the last. session provide that non- 
residents of Richmond county, (Staten Island) must take out 
a $10 license before shooting there. This we believe to be 
an unconstitutional law. Woodcock open season in Oneida 
and Delaware counties, Sept. 1-Jan. 1; elsewhere, as before, 
Aug. 1-Jan. 1. Squirrels, open season, Aug. 1-Feb. 1. A 
third amendment, relating to power of supervisors, will be 
given in our next issue. 


An Oup Trver.—Meigsville, Ohio.—I am an old man 
almost seventy, yet 1 like to shoot a good rifle. Iwas one 
of the first settlers of Morgan county. In 1815 there were 
deer, black bear and wolves in abundance. I used to shoot 
deer with a flintlock rifle—I, R, W. 


lowA Wuiiprown.—Hastings, Ia., April 8.—I bagged 
over forty geese on the ‘Platte,’ near Kearny, Neb., in two 
duys, over decoys, last week. There are millions there, but 
you have to hit them hard to score. —M. 


WHAT THEY SAY OF “WOODCRAFT.” 


The little book on ‘'Woodcraft,” by ‘‘Nessmuk,” is admirable in its 
way, going over the whole ground of outfit. food, fire, ete., with 
sound, practical knowledge and not a little originality. The most ex- 

erienced camper-out will find something new in it, and the tyro will 
find it a storehouse of practical knowledge. Take, for instance, his 
recipe for making club bread, that we fancy no club has ever in- 
dorsed. The first ingredient is a heavy club of black birch or sassa- 
fras two feet long and three inches thick at the big end, shaved clean, 
and stuck in the ground, small end down, the big end over a bed of 
liye coals, where it will get “screeching hot.” Meantime the dough 
is mixed and Imeaded, and then wound in a long strip, spirally, about 
the broad end, and baked for half an hour before the fire, with fre- 

uent turning. Sometimes his woodland instinct against superfluous 
dufile gives way with dry humor to his appetite. "I often have a call 
to pilot some muscular young friend into the deep forest. and he 
usually carries a large pack-basket, with a full supply of quart cans 
of salmon, tomatoes, peaches. etc, As in duty bound [ admonish him 
kindly but firmly on the folly of loading bis young shoulders with such 
effeminate luxuries; often I fear hurting his young feelings by 
brusque advice. But al night, when the camp-fire burns brightly, 
and he begins to fish out his tins, the heart of the old woodsman 
relents, and I make amends by allowing him to divide the groceries.” 
Tn canoes, he recommends the light clinker-built paddling canoe, 
though he confesses that his ten-and-a-balf pounder was rather light, 
and advises one twice as heavy. He also recommends, besides the 
regular double-blade, a small auxiliary single-blade paddle, tied with 
a yard of line to a boat rib, ready for use in a narrow stream, and not 
lost when dropped for a hasty shot, or by accident. But we must re- 
fer our readers to the book itself,—Outing and the Wheelman. 


“J AM WELL AND STRONG, 4nd don’t need to insure.” Queer logic! 
When you are sick or broken down you can’t getinsured. Nowis the 
time to insure—in the Travelers, of Hartford, Conu,, best and cheap- 
est of sound companies.—Ady, 


Sea and River Fishing. 


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SALT-WATER FISHING. 


§ a reader of your paper I take the liberty of asking you 
how it happens that your news on fishing is all about 
trout and other angling, such as only a rich man can afford. 
Now I know of many readers of your paper who, like my- 
self, can only afford to do salt-water fishing in the vicinity 
of New York, and if you would give us some talk on this 
subject we would feel that we “poor, but honest” fisher- 
men were not overlooked, Now, as for trout fishing, we 
would enjoy also, and if you could only get your South 
Oyster Bay correspondent (Geo, Killian) to post us as to 
where we could get free fishing on Long Island, we would be 
doubly favored. TACKLE. 
[It occurs to us that the probable answer to ‘‘Tackle’s” 
question isto be found in the fact that fresh-water anglers 
are more enthusiastic than the salt-water fishermen. If the 
latter are not sufficiently interested in their pursuits to write 
about. them, they will, of course, be crowded out. If 
“Tackle” wishes to be posted by our South Oyster Bay cor- 
respondent, perhaps the simplest way would be to write to 
him and ask the questions on which information is desired. ] 


LAKE ONTARIO SALMON. 


VERY interesting letter has been written on the sal- 
mon of Canada, and especially of Lake Ontario, by 
W.G. Austin, of Maple Hurst, Megantic, Quebec, to the 
Toronto Globe. The letter is much too long for reproduc- 
tion in our columns, but it contains a great many good 
points and truths which deserve wide publication, and these 
we extract: ; 

Referring to the salmon, he says: ‘‘This noble fish at one 
time abounded in Lake Ontario and its tributaries, as well as 
in the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, the Saguenay and their 
tributaries, but the wasteful practices and the murderous 
engines planted by the greed of man in every spot where 
this persecuted fish wanders, have nearly annihilated the 
race.” * * * ‘The Government of the Provinces, as 
then constituted, appointed fishery officers to regulate these 
important fisheries, At the time-a law existed on the statute 
book which was all that could be desired. All fixed engines 
and self-acting instruments were forbidden to be used in the 
capture of salmon, trout and maskinonge.” 

After referring in commendatory terms to the action taken 
on this subject by the English authorities, Mr. Austin con- 
tinues: 

“The department found a good law on the statute book, 
and, wishing to change it, a committee of members of the 
Quebec Parliament was named to investigate the qualities of 
the fixed engines. They examined principally the fishermen 
who used mesh nets anchored to the soil, and took the evi- 
dence of these interested parties as material upon which to 
base their report to the House.” . 

The report of the committee was substantially to the effect 
that the engines used in Canada were not so injurious to the 
salmon fisheries as certain amateurs had supposed, but at the 
same time time it recommended that their employmentshould 
be limited as much as possible. It was shown to the Govern- 
ment on the most undoubted evidence that wherever the 


fixed engines had been used salmon fisheries had rapidly 


declined in value. The opinions of experts was asked and 
they denounced the action of the department as calculated 
to destroy the salmon fisheries entirely. 

Again Mr. Austin says: ‘‘Now we come to the brush weirs, 
engines self-acting, made of a kind of wicker work extending 
from the high water mark down to the low water mark, 
sometimes nearly a mile in length; covered with water when 
the tide is full and bare when the tide is out, with one or 
more pounds or receptacles into which fish of all kinds are 
forced by being unable to get through the tender of the weir. 
There are hundreds of these weirs erected on the shores of 
both sides of the St. Lawrence. Tread in a sporting work 
many years ago that these weirs had destroyed the salmon 
fisheries of Lake Ontario, no salmon from Lake Ontario or 
above the tidal flow could get. down to the ocean through 
these weirs. AJl these statements and arguments were con- 
tained in the representation sent to the Hon, Mr, Campbell, 
and that gentleman knowing that it was impossible for the 
fish migrating the shores to pass them, madea provision that 
in the lowest part of these weirs a grating should be placed 
to admit the passage of the fry of fish. I have visited many 
of these weirs, and have observed that as soon as the current 
begins to ebb it carries with it sea weed and other floating 
matter, and lodges it against the gratings and closes them 
completely. It happens, too, at every ebb of the tide, that 
the first fish swimming to this grating attempting to go 
through, their bodies fill up the spaces and leave no passage, 
so that this device of the grating is useless, -I have seen fish 
from a full grown salmon to a little sardine caught at the 
same time, and I have been told by a credible navigator that 
he has seen eighteen bushels of young salmon caught and 
lying dead in a single weir at one ebb of the tide.” 

Mr. Austin then proceeds to point out the folly of the 
action of the government in spending large sums annually 
in their efforts to restock Lake Ontario and the St, Law- 
rence with salmon while the shores of the river are blocked 
with these weirs and other appliances which render their 
passage from the ocean to their breeding grounds impossible. 
“On their way from the sea to their breeding grounds,” says 
an ‘excellent authority, ‘the salmon never swim in mid- 
stream, but hug the shores as if they were scenting out their 
own. rivers.” 

In another portion of his letter Mr. Austin says: 

“Two hundred and fifty-nine thousand four hundred dol- 
lars have been spent in building and working fish hatcheries 
in the Duminion, and a great part of them above the tidal 
flow. From the great Dominion fish-breeding establishment 


‘near Newcastle, Ontario, 5,600,000 young salmon have been 


distributed, and not one of them has ever been Known to 
return. How could they ever reach the sea (and to the sea 
the genuine Salmo salar must go or perish)? 

“Twenty years’ valuable time has been lost, besides all 
this money. The Fisheries Department were warned by me 
over and over again that their system was worse than use- 
less, and the result is eyen more deplorable than I could have 
anticipated.” 

And again—‘‘Not one of these bush weirs that have de- 
stroyed the 5,600,000 young salmon, the fourteen years’ 
product of the great fish-breeding establishment at Newcastle 
had a legal right to exist; and what were our Ministers of 
Marine and Fisheries doing when they allowed the public 
use of the coasts of the St. Lawrence to be so encumbered as 
to commit such hayoc upon the ratepayers of the Dominion? 


They have eleven fish hatcheries now in operation, eight of 
them hatching salmon eggs, with the shores around them 
full of destructive fixtures and anchored self-acting engines, 
peters going on to protect the fisheries off the face of the 


In concluding his letter, Mr, Austin Says; 

“The course to be followed is plain, but we have to beg in 
again and be wiser. Lake Ontario connected with the tides of 
the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence, wi th its great 
tributaries, the Ottawa and the Saguenay, and all their 
branches, forms a field for the cultivation of salmon unriv- 
alled in capacity and extent, The river Tay in Scotland is 
expected to yield annually 80,000 fish of the cash value of 


£60,000 sterling, or about $300,000 of our money, but 
there are no brush weirs and mesh nets there, 
LANDLOCKED SALMON IN SEBAGO. 


HE season for landlocked salmon fishing in the Sebago 
waters is practically at an end for the year. It is true 
that a large fish may be occasionally taken, even as late as the 
last of June; but still with the return of the smelts to deep 
water the salmon go also, and but little is known of their 
whereabouts, except in spawning time, for the rest of the 
year. This season has been the best since this resort for 
sportsmen began to attract attention. There haye been no 
very large fish taken, but the numbers are much larger than 
ever before, and speak a good word for what little protection 
has been done, and that is little enough, at best. Eleven 
pounds would be about the true figures for the largest speci- 
mens taken in these waters this spring, but there have been 
several of these, and a large number ranging from five to 
ten pounds. Also.a much larger number than usual of '‘red 
spots” have been taken at the same time. a j 
The fish have been very democratic in their tastes, and 
have been attracted by the clumsy fishing of the novice fully 
as often as by the most skillful angler. A good illustration 
of this was the case of ‘‘Biddeford,” who, after furnishing 
sport for all hands for three days by his awkwardness, went 
away on the morning of the fourth day with 11 large fish, 
all of his own catching. Of the Maine fish Commissioners, 
however, who are the acknowledged leaders of this class of 
sport, one was obliged to content himself with a single ‘‘red 


spot” of four pounds for his weck’s work. The other Gom- — 


missioner was a little more fortunate, as he bagged two sal- 
mon and three “‘red spots.” Supt. Hamilton, who caught 
the big fish of last year, served his time this year without 
scoring a single fish until the morning that he went away. 
At that time his friends gave him a half dozen fish, so that 
he would not go home euchred. But fishing is uncertain. 
This same gentleman, trolling, as he was being rowed across 
the Jake on his way out, captured two salmon of six and 
seven pounds respectively. 

Considerable amusement was caused by an adventure of a 
party fishing from a canal boat. There were six or seven 
men on the boat, but no one of them had ever caught a sal- 
mon, unless it was with a pitchfork or sucker spear. As 
luek would have it, one of the number struck a fish which 
proved to be a 104-pounder. The capturer at once reeied in 
his prize until he had the fish at the end of his rod, where it 
was making a terrific swashing of the water in its struggles 
to get away. At this moment one of the party reached an 
old smelt net under the fish just in time fo receive it as the 
hook broke. The last man then attempted to lift the fish on 
board with the net, but just as it was over the side, the fish, 
with a flop, went through the bottom of the net and struck 
squarely across the rail of the boat. For a moment it seemed 
to balance in that position, and then, by a turn unlucky for 
itself, slid from the rail into the boat, 

Another party of sportsmen have distinguished themselves 
in a way rather more questionable. They used bait from 
the tank of live smelts which the club had put in, without 
asking leave, but this was allowed as the gentlemanly owners 
thought that there was enough for all. When the same 
party went away they put in their crowning act. They 
dipped all the smelts from the tank they could, and fried 
them for their breakfast. Then, to add a greater insult, they 
broke open one of the fish cars belonging to the club and 
stole a large salmon. These fellows will probably haye an 
invitation to call and settle. 

Something over one hundred fish have been taken in all, 
the largest catch by any one individual being ‘‘Biddeford’s” 
11. Sunday, May 4, was the best day, there being both the 
largest number of fishermen (over thirty) and the largest 
number of fish taken, 
the bar, each playing a salmon at the same time, The ac- 
commodations at the Sebago fishing grounds are as yet, 
rather limited, there beg but one camp and that private 
property. The most of the comers have-to shift as they can, 
Boats are plenty, and with a man to row, cost from $2 Lo 
$2.50 per day. 

It is sheer nonsense to talk that this fishing is well pro- 
tected in close time. The poaching is still carried on under 
the very noses of the wardens, who from fear, or more 
questionable motives, have thus far displayed their great 
ability intalk only. The services of one resolute man like 
Detective Wormvwell, for a week, are worth more to the 
salmon fishing interests here than a life time of such granny 
ism as that heretofore displayed by the wardens.—Portland 
(Me.) Correspondence Boston Herald, May 17. 


PrInADELPHIA, May 17.—Trout fishing in the many 
streams in Pennsylvania has been very good this’ year. 
Favorable weather und good condition of the water aided, 
and we hear of good catches from many anglers returning. 
Bass fishing is yearly attracting more and more trout fisher- 
men, aod not a few zealous fly-fisher en have confessed they 
as fully enjoy the struggles and leap& of a fair-sized bass as 
they do the rise of a trout, Some of the older members of 
the West Jersey Game Protective Society who were instru- 
mental in haying the head waters of-the New Jersey streams 
stocked with fish, state they have not noticed any good re- 
sults from their work, and if has now been several years 
since the fry was liberated.—Homo. 


TROUTING IN THE Bic Busuxriyu.—In reply to “Homo” 
in your issue of May 15, would say that I have several times 
caught large trout in the still waters of the Big Bushkill 
with live bait—minnows. I only have resorted to this after 
thoroughly going through my fly-book, most always finding 
some ‘‘feather” that would lure them out of those deep 
pools. If all this persuasion was of no avail then I offered 
them fin instead of feather. Sometimes even this was not 
taking. While whipping one of our little streams last week 
L saw five wild turkeys and an unusual number of pheasants. 
Tam afraid the winter went hard with the quail, I haye 
several coyeys which I have hired kept.—SpicEwooD, 


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Ner Frsatye ww Laxs Cuampiarn.—The Montpelier 
Argus says: There is considerable agitation these days rela- 
‘tive to net fishing in Lake Champlain, caused by efforts to 
enforce the law forbidding it, The spring and early summer 
is the season when the wall-eyed pike or perth-pike and the 
black bass spawn. The great spawning grounds of the 
whole lake for the wall-eyed pike is Missisquoi Bay: or more 
properly the streams emptying into it. The Missisquoi 
river being of much more importance in this respect than all 
the others. ~The wall-eyed pike, the most palatable and most 
important of all the food fishes in the lake, leave the deep 
waters they frequent at other seasons, and seek the shoals of 
the bay and its tributaries, to deposit their spawn, commenc- 
ing torun in February, Then these net fishermen begin 
their warfare upon them, the especial harm being that they 
catch them in immense quantities just at the time that to do 
80 is to exterminate them. They catch them in fyke nets 
which stretch across every avenue whereby the fish pass to 
and from their spawning beds; they take them in pound nets, 
the arms of which reach out and guide them into these 
prisons; and they drag the bed of the lake with seines that 
reach almost from shore to shore, making it almost a wonder 
that a single fish escapes, to deposit its spawn, Commenting 
on this, the Republican, Plattsburgh, N. Y,, says: ‘‘Is it not 
possible to devise some way to prevent this wholesale depop- 
ulation of the lake? If there could be a stop, or even a fcem- 
porary check, for a brief season, to this wasteful destruction 
of the embryo fish, the inhabitants of the Champlain valley 
could haye a plentiful supply, in the proper season, of the 
delicious food, fresh from its rich pasturage, and the lovers 
of the sport could have abundant opportunity to exercise 
their skill and cocupy their leisure, with a fair prospect, and 
-even some assurance, that they would not wholly lose their 
time in vain effort, As it is, they are not only nearly 
altogether deprived “of the grateful nourishment, and 
of the excitement attendant upon the pursuit of it, for 
if the over sanguine do affect the hook and line they are 
almost certain to return with disappointed hope and sun 
burnt energy to ruminate upon the inefficacy of the laws 
and the rapacity of mercenary and reckless pot-hunters.” 
The Rutland Herald also has something to say on the sub- 
ject, as follows: ‘‘Fish and game protective associations 
seem to be the same in New York that they are in Vermont; 
they do not protect. Some of the most prominent members 
of the Vermont Association live in Franklin county, where 
a majority of our fish pirates lives, and skin the spawning” 
prounds of the wall-eyed pike every spring, but these ‘fish 
and game’ fancy sportsmen never take any pains to enforce 
the fish law. If it was not for the zeal of Hiram Atkins, of 
the Montpelier Argus, no fish pirate would ever be brought 
to justice. The Montpelier Watchman says that ‘Fish War- 
dens F. H. Atherton, of Waterbury, and John L. Tuttle, of 
Montpelier, assisted by C. E. Demerritt, of Montpelier, 
William Deal, of Waterbury, and Constable Rockwell and 
Mr. Fadden, of ,Alburgh, last week Wednesd#y seized four 
nets belonging to the Mitchells, of Alburgh, who, a few 
weeks ago drove off officers who went after their nets. Two 
of the nets seized were new pourd nets, costing $50 each 
this spring, and two were gill nets. The same officers were 
up there again on Thursday, but nobody was fishing.’ 
These facts tell the story. The officers of the Jaw in Frank- 
lin county suffer fish full of spawn to be swept off their 
beds every spring with impunity, and Mr. Atkins has to call 
upon the authorities of Washington and Chittenden counties 
to enforce a law that the authorities of Franklin county 
ought to haye local pride and common sense enough to en- 
force: Fish and game protective associations angle some- 
Ames, eat fish dinners sometimes, but they nevor protect 

Sh. ? - 


’ 


Eun TRoncLAD OatTH,—Philadelphia, Miss., May 2.— 
Hiitor Forest and Stream: send you a clipping from the 
Neshoba Democrat, which shows one way to initiate mem- 
bers into a fishing club. This club was organized for bream 
fishing, and the common black crickets are the only bait 
used in taking the fish. It will be seen that the treasurer’s 
only business is to take charge of the crickets, there being 
no money in the club to look after.—S. P. NAsH. ‘Pro- 
ceedings of the Fishing Club at Lake Burnside, April 14, 
1884, * o'clock P. M. AJl members present; also the Hon. 
J. H, Reagan, applicant for membership, Club proceeded 
to business, as follows: Resolved, That the president of the 
club propound such questions to applicants for membership 
as he thinks proper, or such questions as may be suggested 
by any member of the club, with a view of ascertaining 
their competency to become members, or their usefulness if 
elected to membership, taking into considerstion their busi- 
ness or avocation in life. After the adoption of this resolu- 
tion the Hon. J. H. Reagan, being in wailing, was intro- 
duced and prepared for admission, first by divesting him of 
all cumbersome wearing apparel and tieing his hands behind 
him substantially with a fish string. After these prepara- 
tions he was placed in the end of a small canoe and a No. 2 
snood hook inserted up to the beard in his upper lip, to 
which a line fourteen feet long was tied and attached to a 
pole of equal length, and the pole given to a member, who 
stood on the bank of the lake, in which condition the follow- 
ing questions were propounded to him by the president of 
the club: First—Are you a prohibitionist? Ans,—I am 
not, but object to excessive drinking. Second—Do you 
own a breechloading shotgun? Ans.—I do not, but expect 
to purchase one as soon as my pecuniary ability will permit. 
Third—Do you own a horse sufiiciently strong to carry four 
skillets, eight bed quilts, one-half bushel of shelled corn, six 
poles, yourself, and rations sufficient to last four men three 
days? Ans.—I have such an animal, but his back is 
very sore at present, but is rapidly recovering. Fourth— 
Tf you were called upon bya member of the club and 
informed that the wind was from the south and that the age 
of the moon indicated that the sign was in the fishes mouth, 
would you start immediately though your father was indicted 
for murder, and the penalty death, if found guilty, and your 
service as a lawyer needed to defend him and the day set for 
his trial included a day that you expected to be absent. fish- 
ing? Ans,—I would obey the summons unhesitatingly. 
Whereupon a motion was made by Bro. J. B. Parkes that he 
be received into full membership, which motion prevailed 
and the member was gently shoved backward into the river 
and directed to invest himself of the clothing of which he 
had been divested, and returned to the club, where the new 
member wus lectured as follows: ‘Bro, Reagan, you were 
placed on the end of the boat and the hook fastened in your 
upper lip, not for the purpose of inflicting physical pain, but 
_to teach you to be perfectly quiet in case your comrade in 
the same boat were to make an awkward throw and hang 
the hook in your eye, rather than squirm and twist about 

. and thereby disturb the waters and frighten the fish. You 


a 


Hayes, Washington 


were asked the other questions in reference to gun and horse 
to ascertain whether you were sufficiently equipped to make 


an efficient member. You were asked the last question fo 
see whether you were connecting yourself with the club with 


that degree of faith aud integrity that is necessary to build 
up and support any institution.’ 
urer Bro, Reagan was put in Domination and unanimously 


The club having no treas- 


elected, and the crickets turned over to him for distribution 
among the members. A petition for membership was re- 


received from R. Hi. Holmes, Esq., and a committee ap- 


pointed to inquire whether or not the said Holmes would he 
likely to make a good member—which committee, after a 
few minutes’ deliberation, reported that he was wholly unfit 


in every material particular, whereupon he was duly re- 
jected. The club then proceeded to the lake, and. after 
having captured, cooked and devoured forty very fine bream 


adjourned to meet on Thursday the 16th inst,—F’. M. Woop, 
President,” t 


Wautre Perce iy FrResa-Water Ponps,—The expert- 
ment of planting white perch (Rocews americanus) in Lake 
George hy Captain E. $8. Harris and Messrs. W. W, Lock- 
hart and O. B. Lockhart, mentioned in Forest AND STREAM 
of a late date, cannot fail to meet with success if the fish de- 
posited in these waters are larye enough to take care of them- 
selyes and escape the attacks of the black bass. An instance 


where the white perch has been taken from tide water and 
placed in a pond, and increased to such numbers and great 
size as to furnish capital sport, came under the writer's ob- 


servation many years ago. Black’s Pond, located near the 


town of Swedesboro, N. J., empties its surplus water through 


flood gates at its breast into Church Run, and the run into 


Raccoon Crek, a tide-water stream running into the Delaware 
River. 


Twenty or more years back a seineful of white 
perch, taken from the creek, were placed in the pond men- 
tioned, and the fish became very numerous and were fre- 
quently taken weighing three pounds, with live bait, just as 
one would fish for bass. Your correspondent has had fully 
as much enjoyment with these large perch as with the bass, 
with a light rod and fine tackle, and the residents of Swedes- 
boro well remember the catches made by the writer in boy- 
hood, only to be equalled in number and weight by old Lev. 
Anders, a native of the place. The perch in this pond lost 
the darker shade on the back that is found on tide-water 
fish, They also seemed to be less robust and of a finer outline 
than their relatives of the creek, and notably in color of a 
brighter silver. We took them in the deeper parts of the 
pond, from a boat, under the overhanging trees wherever 
the shade was darkest, in the same manner bass would be 
angled fur with live bait. Since that time a freshet has 
carried the dam away, and I understand the perch haye dis- 
appeared, no doubt into tide water. A new dam has been 
built and its waters stocked with black bass by a party of 
gentlemen, of which your correspondent was one, but I have 
not learned if the bass have thriven. There is no reason 


why the white perch should not be placed in many of our 


inland ponds. They are gamy and make excellent sport, 
growing to double the size they do in tide water, fresh or 
brackish.—Homo. 


Bra Oarcu.—Monson, Me., May 16.—Yesterday three 
young men from our village returned from Riddell Pond, 
which is situated in the wilderness twelve miles west of 
Shirley and about eighteen miles from here, with 338 spotted 
trout, which weighed 102 pounds. They left here Monday, 
the 12th, fishing Tuesday and a part of Wednesday. They 
caught in all, ineluding what they ate in the camp, over 400 
fish. Riddell is one of a chain of lakes and ponds, the out 
let of which empties into the Kennebee River. They are so 
far from civilization and uncivilized poachers that trout 
fishing there is now in its primitive state.—J. IF, SPRAGUE. 


Ocxantic, N. J., May 20.—The fishing has commenced in 
the North Shrewsbury River, I took the first bass (striped) 
this morning; took four fine ones troliing.—Gro, WILD. 


LSishculture. 


THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 


THE annual meeting of the Association was held in the lec- 
ture-room of the National Museum at Washington on 


May 18, and was called to order by President Benkard, who 


made an address of welcome to the members and reviewed 
the events of the past year. The Secretary read the minutes 
of the last meeting and the Treasurer gaye in his reports, both 
of which were approved. <A list of papers had been prepared, 


but it was found impossible to follow it in the regular course, 
because some of them had not arrived. 


Prof. Spencer F. Baird was elected an honorary member, 
and the following new members were proposed and elected: 
Charles G. Atkins, Bucksport, Me.; Tarleton H, Bean, Wash- 
ington, D. ©,; Prof. A, 8. Bickmore, New York; Dr. H. H. 
Carey, Atlanta, Ga.; A. Nelson Cheney, Glens Falls, N. Y.; 
Frank N. Clark, Northville, Mich.; J. W. Collins, Washington, 
D. C.: W. V. Cox, Washington, D. C.; Hon. Thomas Donald- 

n, Philadelphia, Pa,; R. B. Baril, Washington, D, €.; H, W: 
Elliott, Washington, D. C.; W. E. Garrett, Néw York; A, A. 

D. C.; Dr. J. A. Henshall, Cynthiana, 
Ky, ; George 8. Hobbs, Washington, D. C,; E. 8. Hutchinson, 
Washington, D. C.; A. J. Kellogg, Detroit, Mich.; Hon, B. G. 
Lapham, M, C., New York; W. lL. May, Fremont, Neb. ; Hon. 
H, P, McGown, New-York; Dr. J. C. Parker, Grand Rapids, 
Mich.; Hon. R. G. Pike, Middletown, Conn.; Richard Rath- 
bun, Washington, D, C.; Hon. Ossian Ray, M. C., New Hamp- 
shire; Prof. J. A. Ryder, Washington, D. C.; Carl W. Schuer- 
mann, Washington, D. C.; Col. James Stevenson, Washing- 
ton, D. C.; Joseph Willcox, Media, Pa.; Lieut. Francis Wins- 
low, U. 8. N.: 8. G. Worth, Raleigh, N.’C. 

At the close of the morning session the members inspected 
some fine specimens of Huropean trout from the ponds of the 
New York Fish Commission at Cold Spring Harbor, and then 
went in a body to yiew the national carp ponds, which have 
been greatly extended during the past year. In the after- 
noon the papers and discussions were continued. In the even- 
ing the hall was filled with people to hear the addresses of the 
speakers who had been announced. Senator Lapham, of New 

ork, chairman of the Sub-committee on Fish and Fisheries, 
presided and introduced the speakers. Hon, Theodore Ly- 
man, of Massachusetts, made the opening address, and was 
followed by the Hon. S, S. Cox, of New York, who humor- 
ously illustrated any points which he thought the audience 
micht think obscure. e 

The Wednesday morning session was mainly devoted to the 
oyster, Dr. Hudson, Prof. Goode and Lieut. James Winslow, 

. 8S. N., reading papers on the subject of oyster culture, and 
Prof, Ryder taking partin the discussions. Col. McDonald 
followed with an equally important paper on the natural 
causes influencing the movements of fish, which was regarded 
by fishculturists as the most valuable paper read during the 
whole session. a 

The first paper of the afternoon was a thorough and care- 


tully written article upon “The Chemical Composition and 
Nutritive Value of our American Food Fishes and Inverte- 
brates,” by Prof. W. O. Atwater. This paper was the out~ 
come of some inyesti¢ations undertaken at the suggestion of 
Prof, 8. F. Baird, United States Fish Commissioner, and pro- 
moted by the contributions of certain of the members of the 
Association. Prof. Atwater said that a housewite of the mid- 
dle or lower classes would, for economy’s sake, choose the 
cheaper of two pieces of dress pattern in choosing clothes for 
her children, but was often forced to payan exorbitant price 
for nutritious food because she was not aware that there were 
other kinds of food which were just as nutritious and very 
Touch cheaper, He hoped that this series of investigations 
might be the means of changing this condition of affairs to 
some considerable extent. On account of the length of the 
paper of Prof. Atwater, only one other paper was read, that 
on ‘Some of the Causes which Limit the Survival of Fish 
Embryos,” by Prof. J. A. Ryder, 

An election of officers was then in order, and the following 
were elected; President, Hon, Theodore Iiyman, M, C., of 
Mass.; Vice-President, Col, Marshall McDonald, of Va. ; Treas- 
urer, Eugene G, Blackford, of N. Y,; Corresponding Secre- 
tary, R, Edward Earll, of Ill.; Recording Secretary, Fred 
Mather, of N. Y. Executive Committee; James Benkard, 
N, Y.; Geo. Shephard Page, N. Y.; Barnet Phillips, N. ¥.; G, 
Brown Goode, Conn. ; Dr, W, M, Hudson, Conn.; C. G. Atkins, 
Me.; 8. G. Worth, N. C, 

Afterward the members visited the hatching station in the 
Armory building and saw the operation of the McDonald fish- 
way and the hatching. On Wednesday evening a large number 
of guests, including Senators, Representatives, citizens of 
Washington, members of the Association and their wives and 
friends were present by special invitation of Prof. Baird, at a 
preliminary exhibition of the fisheries section of the United 
States National Museum. The exhibit was nearly the same 
as that made by the United States at the London Fisheries 
Hxhibition last season. 

On Thursday morning Messrs, Rathbun and Worth read in- 
teresting papers. 

The meeting adjourned to visit as a body the President at 
the White House. The members were received very cordially 
by President Arthur, recalling yery strongly the sympathy he 
has always felt and shown for fish as well as fishermen. 

After returning from the White House the Fish Commission-~ 
ers of the various States met at12 M. at the National Museum 
in consultation with the United States Commissioner of Fish 
and Fisheries, Prof. 8, F. Baird. Discussions followed ia re- 
lation to the propagation of the shad, cod, whitefish, and 
especially the need of some aid, State or national, or both, in 
developing the oyster resources of the country. At1 o’clock 
the members assembled at Lower Cedar Wharf, on board the 
United States Fish Commission steamer, the Fish Hawk, 
Lieut. Wood, United States Navy, commanding, and the ves- 
sel was soon under way for some of the fishing stations down 
the Potomac. On its return trip, and during the home journey, 
the Association held a special session in the cabin. It was for 
the purpose of receiving the report of the Oyster Committee, 
which had been appointed at the previous day’s session. The 
committee reported resolutions recommending the adoption 
of the principle of individual ownership of oyster ground. And 
it was likewise the opinion of the committee that an investi- 
gation of all the conditions affecting the life of the oyster 
was eminently desirable and should be immediately under- 
taken. The resolutions were adopted, and it can hardly be 
doubted that the latter part of the first resohition, that advis~ 
ing an investigation, etc,, is eminently desirable, and worthy 
of legislative action. 

The following gentlemen were elected to be corresponding 
members of the Association: 

Capt. N. Juel, Norwegian Royal Navy, President of the 
Society for the Development of Norwegian Fisheries, Bergen; 
S. Landmark, Inspector of Norwegian Fresh-water Wisheries, 
Bergen; Dr. §. A. Buch, Christiania, Norway, Government 
Inspector of Fisheries; Prof. O. G, Sars, Christiania, Norway, 
Government Inspector of Fisheries; Dr. Oscar Lmndberg, 
Stockholm, Sweden, Inspector of Fisheries; Baron N. de Sol- 
sky, Director of the Imperial Agricultural Museum, St, Peters- 
burg, Russsia; Prof. B. Beneke, Commissioner of Fisheries, 
KG6nigsberg, Pomerania; Prof. T. H. Huxley, H. M. Inspector 
of Fisheries for Great Britain; Hdward Birbeck, Esq., M. P,, 
President National Fisheries Association of Great Britain; Sir 
James Gibson, Maitland, Bart., Stirling, Scotland; R. B. Mar- 
ston, Hsq,, Hditor of the Fishing Gazette, London; Dr. Francis 
Day, F. L, §., late Inspector General of Fisheries for India; 
Thomas Brady, Esq., Dublin Castle, Inspector of Fisheries for 
Treland; Archibald Young, Hsq., Edinburgh, H. M. Inspector 
of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland; Arthur Fedderson, Viborg, 
Denmark; Prof. A. A. W. Hubrecht, Member of the Dutch 
Fisheries Commission and Director of the Netherlands Zoo- 
logical Station; M. Raveret Wattel, Secretary of the Société 
d’Acclimatation, Paris; Don Francisco Garcia Sola, Secretary 
of the Spanish Fisheries Society, Madrid; Prof. H. H. Gigliolt, 
Florence, Italy; M. A. Apostolides, Athens, Greece, Wiliam 
Maclean, Sydney, President of the Fisheries Commission of 
New South Wales. 

After a long discussion in which Messrs. Mather, Stone, 
Roosevelt, Endicott, and others strongly objected, the name 
of the American Fishcultural Association was changed to The 
American Fisheries Society, and the meeting adjourned, 

The papers read, and the discussions, will be given in full in 
our columns. 


MAINE SALMON HATCHING. 


S ILLUSTRATING the noble work being done by the 
Maine Commissioners of Fisheries and Game in stocking 
the waters of that State this year, ib may be stated that they 
have already hatched 1,400,000 salmon fry. The little fish are 
in fine condition and will be turned loose to thrive for them- 
selves by the time these words are comprehended by the 
reader. Messrs. Stillwell and Stanley have 700,000 sea salmon 
and 55,000 landlocked at Enfield for the Penobscot, 300,000 sea, 
salmon at Norway for the upper Sebago waters, 200,000 sea 
salmon and 55,000 landlocked salmon at Weld for Webb’s pond 
and adjacent waters, 40,000 sea salmon at Dennysyille, 50,000 
landlocked at Rangeley for the Androscoggin waters. Therea- 
son of the great quantity of sea salmon for the Penobscot is 
that Prof, Baird of the U. §. Fish Commission, has kindly 
donated a surplus of eggs in the hands of the Government 
Commission,t0 the Maine Commissioners, with the understand. 
ine that they go into Penobscot waters, their natural home. 
tt is suggested that Prof. Baird has not much faith in the 
putting of sea salmon fry into inland lakes, that they may 
become landlocked, while the Maine Commissioners are quite 
confident of its success, The Maine Commissioners are certain 
that sea salmon fry put into inland lakes, have grown up to 
large fish, but to what extent they are not certain, by reason 
of subsequent putting of the fry of landlocked salmon into 
the waters where proofs might have been abundant, But the 
most marked success of the restocking of inland lakes and 
ponds these Commissioners have seen is the case of Webb’s 
ond, in the town of Weld. In 1875 and 1876 a few thousand 
landlocked salmon eggs were put into this pond, where never 
before a salmon had been known. Within a year or two four 
and five pound salmon have been taken there and larger ones 
seen. ast year sportsmen fished there with great success, 
and probably the same thing will be done this year, 
SPECIAL. 
Boston, Mass., May 18. 


THE MARYLAND COMMISSION.—The Governor of Mary- 
land has appointed Dr. B. W. Humphreys, of Salisbury, to 
be a Commissioner of Fisheries for the Eastern Shore in 
place of Thomas Hughlett. 


330 FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 22, 1884. 


SHAD FOR THE HUDSON,—Last week, during the session 
ot the American Fisheultural Association, Prof, Baird offered 
Mr, Blackford, of the New York Fish Commission, a million 
and a half of shad from eggs taken on the Potomac and 
hatched in Washington. The transportation car lett Wash- 
ington on the night of the 15th, ahd arrived at Glens Falis the 
next evening, where they were met by Mr. A, N. Cheney 
With teams, and part were planted above and the remainder 
bolow the falls, 


THE OHIO COMMISSION.—Mr. George Daniel, of San- 
dusky, has been appointed Commissioner of Fisheries in place 


of Mr, H. C, Post. 
The Kennel. 


FIXTURES, 
BHNCH SHOWS. 


June 10, 11.12 and 18.—The Second Annual International Bench 
Show Ohicago, ill. Mr. Charles Lincoln. Superintendent. 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Keune] Club, Mr. P. GC, 
De Saque, Secretary. 

Oct. 5, 9,10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn. 4, §, Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 

Oct, 14.—Non-sporting Bench Show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, Madison Square Garden, New York, Mr. Charles Lincoln, 
Superintendent, . 


W. expressed a willingnessto pay all dues, and stated he would 
like to get a few birds as besthe could, Owing totheirsearcity 
and wildness ten only were secured, but the amount of amuge- 
ment it afforded, as the goodmatured although sareastic re- 
marks passed between the rivals, then, and later in the eve- 
ning. when with dry socks and slippers the events of the day 
were rehearsed around the sheneeit hearth among a number 
of congenial spirits, was ample compensation for the labor 
through the mud and water during the day, and such a time 
was had as leayes no regretful feelings and such as is seldom 
enjoyed excepting among the genuine and _ practical sports- 


mai, JOHN DAVIDSON. 
Moyron, Mich., May 6. 


POINTERS AT THE NEW YORK SHOW. 
Hditor Morest and Stream: 

When I asked of you the privilege to write a few lines about 
the pointers and the judging of the same at the New York 
show, and when that privilege was so courteously and cheer- 
fully accorded, I felt that the time had arrived for those who 
loye these handsome dogs, and who have spent years of valu- 
able time endeayoring to improve them, to come to the front 
and fearlessly and impartially criticise their merits and de- 
merits. To allow mistaken views to predominate, or to per- 
mit errors of judgment to be placed on record unchallenged 
and unheeded, is to impede progress, shatter the standard, 
an suuEnEy. the very object for which dog shows were insti- 

uted. 

My remarks will apply to dogs, not men, and if any of my 
brother lovers of pointers can show errors of judgment on 
iy part, I shall be pleased indeed if they will do it. Im- 
partial criticism of our pets is conducive to improvement, and 
improyment is the primary aim of a sportsman’s journal, 
ale it should also be the first consideration of good dog 

overs. 

So much has already been written and said of the judging, 
that I will simply add it was the worst I have ever seen dur- 
ing my experience as an_ exhibitor, either in Bngland, Scot- 
land, Ircland, Wales, Germany, France or America, My 
remarks on the various dogs exhibited will show why Larrive 
at such a conclusion. 

Twelve months ago I alluded in these columns to the fact 
that pointers were degenerating, In my opinion marked im- 
provement has been wrought during the last year, and if due 
care is exercised and intelligence brought to bear on breeding, 
I shall soon expect to see the pointer of this country take rank 
second to none, either on the bench or in the field. There is 
no earthly reason why a good dog should not also be good 
looking. Such dogs] have seen, and there is as good fish in 
the sea as ever came out of it. Mr. Price’s beantiful dog Bang 
was not only the best looking pointer of his day, but a great 
field dog and the best-sire ever known. The incomparable 
Wage was a field trial winner, and my old favorite, Don II. 
(Wagg’s only brother)-not only won first in the field, but 
scored the highest honors at Birmingham and elsewhere, after 
which he sired that typical bitch Prude II. Hamlet and Rap 
were handsome and goodin the bargain; Rap was the best 
looking, Hamlet the best workman, both were great stud dogs, 
T could name a score of others that have distinguished them- 
selyesin the field, on the bench, and in the stud. What has 
been done so often may surely be done again, but discretion 
must be used. Itis a notorious fact that the best looking 
dogs have been produced-from large dogs of great bone and 
substance, crossed on small size bitches, and breeders of point- 
ersshould bear thisin mind. By your courtesy I will place 
before the readers of FoREST AND STREAM at an early date, a 
description of what I consider a typical pointer should be, and 
at the same time I will give a few hints to those who may not 
have had a Jong or varied experience with the breed. With- 
out further preamble I will come to business. 

Hight champion dogs make a good class, especially so when 
most of the cracks are out. 

Tramp, the sturdy-looking son of Sensation and Psyche, is 
not the type of pointer Lhave been educated to admire, He 
is wanting in true pointer character, is coarse in head, faulty 
in back and round in barrel. He has plenty of bone, his best 

oint. . 
3 Joe (Munhall’s) has a beautiful chest to recommend him, 
but he is snipy, light in bone and faulty in feet—a serious de- 
fect, He carries his tail too gaily, and there is a something 
wanting, the absence of which is easier missed than explained, 

Meteor, the winner, has a head which, if brought under the 
notice of such judges us Whitehouse, Price, Lort, Brierley and 
others, would disqualify him. His shoulders are straight and 
his feet not good, He is short in the back (the pointer is not a 
short-backed dog) and too long on the legs, and if followed 
behind when on the chain he will be found to be “stilty.” He 
is not nearly so good a looking dog as his sire, Garnet, never 
by us considered to be a typical dog, though he was a work- 
man. He has a fairly good neck, a good coat and a well- 
shaped tail, which he carries at times very badly. He is not 
a show dog, and all the newspapers in America cannot make 
one of him, Father Time will, I think, prove this opinion to 
be correct. 

Knickerbocker is a better type of dog than the winner. He 
has a pointer’s head, fair good legs and bone, but is faulty in 
back, stifles, tail and neck. 

Don, the well known champion of many a hard-fought 
battle in the field, is ton coarse throughout for a show dog. 
Lack of quality is his fault. He is a well bied dog, and 
should proye invaluable to cross on light-boned weeds. 
Croxteth was looking his best. My opinion of him has often 
been expressed, but heis a better dog than the winner, and I 
told his keeper so before the class was judged, 

Perth was in very bad condition. He has a fine chest, 
shoulders, legs and feet; also, a nice clean neck; but he is 
bitchy in head and has a coarse, high-carried tail. ‘ 
Beaufort I must not criticise for obviousreasons. A descrip- 
tion of him from my pen, before I owned him, appeared in 
FOREST AND STREAM nearly twelve months ago, and to the 
same must I refer your readers. 

Tn the corresponding bitch class, my old friend Water Lily 
won. _ She was shown too lusty. er faults are badly-carried 
eurs, lack of bone, a low set_on tail and faulty stifles, She 
deserved her blue ribbon. Nan is a bitch with a fair good 
head and abundance of bone. Faults: badly-carried ears, 
heavy shoulders, washy color, drooping quarters and round 
barrel. Old Grace was as playful as a kitten, notwithstand- 
ing her twelve years, She never was a show bitch, though 
she las won prizes. Herclean neck and excellent feet, how- 
ever, attract attention, and she has the reputation for throw- 
ing better puppies than any other bitch in the country, besides 
au undeniable field record. 

The open large dog class was a great improvement over that 
of last year, but was, in my opinion, wretchedly judged. 
Fritz, placed first, is a grand “little dog,” and if reduced in 
weight a pound or so, he will show a clear pair of heels to 
any small pointer in America. He tas a good head and ears, 
perfect legs and feet, lots of bone, and a well placed and well 
carried tail. Depth of chest would improve him. Drake, 
placed second, was not entitled to the honor; ibreally belonged 
to Ins kennel companion, Sefton, a decidedly better looking 
dog: he beats Drake everywhere excepting in head and neck. 
Sefton is a little sour in expression and light in eye, he is also 
throaty, but he has good quarters, and he stands on capital 
legs and feet; he is a better looking dog than his sire. Drake 
has a slack back, bad loin and faulty feet, which are failings I 
canrot tolerate in a pointer, or, indeed, in any sporting dog. 
Thurtle (Mr. Godefftroy’s kennel man) indorses my opinion 
that Sefton is a much better looking dog than Drake. Scout, 
also by Croxteth, is faulty in back, loin, and feet, besides 
being plain in tace. Pilot (Littlejohn’s) is a trifle strong in 
head, and is heavy at the shoulders, but he is good in bone, 


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THE PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW. 


£ isnow fully determined upon to hold a dog show in con- 
nection with the Pennsylvania State Fair in Septeniber 
next and preparations have already been made to erect a spe- 
cial building for the canine exhibition, The premium list will 
be a large one both in regular and special prizes. Collie 
trials will make an interesting part of the show and dog racing 
will give those unacquainted with this sport an opportunity to 
learn of its operation in this its headquarter city. The racing 
in New York at the late show was a farce and not a single doz 
but the little snap or wiffet had been trained to itor knew 
what it was expected to do. Owing to the fact that thirty or 
forty acres of ground will be inc'osed at the State Fair. ample 
opportunity will be had for properly exercising the exhibited 
dogs, a feature that will please many and go far toward rob- 
bing the kennel owner of the fear of disease which is so often 
contracted at dog shows, Some proper changes in the classifica- 
tion of dogs and alterations in standards were made at the last 
meeting of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. This may canse 
comment, but we are sure the majority of dog owners will be 
pleased when the premium lst now being printed reaches 
their hands. A second dog show to be held this year in Phila- 
delphia is talked of for next May, and it had been fully de- 
cided upon betore it was known one would be given in connec- 
tion with the State Fair in September. Homo. 


A PRIVATE FIELD TRIAL. 


De G thelast week of April we met on the snipe grounds 

to try conclusoins between Jack, owned by B., and Mac, 
owned by W., according to previous arrangements. Jack is 
a large sized orange belton setter of unknown pedigree, lithe 
and active in movement, with dark intelligent eyes, under the 
most perfect control in the field, with a natural instinct for 
hunting and a thorough love of his work—just such a dog as a 
sportsman delights to shoot over. Mac isa fair sized black, 
white and tan setter, quite handsome, also lithe and active, 
with beautiful motion in the field, obeying more because he 
must than from any desire to do so, but being owned by a 
thorough sportsman, was also under good control, although 
lacking the lively cheerful obedience of his rival, Heis hardly 
bred upto the latest discovery in the science of setter breeding, 
the prescription showing him to have a few grains more 
*averack than Llewellin in the composition or admixture, but 
h:isa good dog notwithstanding. 

According to the terms of the match the shooters were to 
walk abreast of each other at a distance ot about sixty yards 
apart, the dogs hunting and ranging the same asin an ordin- 
ary day’s shooting when using a brace of dogs together, with 
as little interference by the handlers as possible, so that the 
merits of the dogs must decide which is the best, not the 
sharpness of those handling them. The wind was blowing 
freshly from the northeast, raw and cold, making the birds 
yery wild when the dogs were turned down shortly after 
noon, the shooters being headed down wind, B. being on the 
left, four friends (two ot which acted as judges) following 
close in the rear, anticipating some fun, assome small bets 
had been wagered on the result by the friends of each. On 
being cast off the dogs went away beautifully, Jack going 
straight away down wind until a blast from his master’s 
whistle wheeled him instantly, when he, tacking into the 
wind, quartered quickly, stillcarefully, back, and pinned the 
first bird before he was five minutes down. Mac did not 
back on sight, but was stopped on nearing the other dog, and 
qwas penalized for not backing, B. sprung the bird and drop- 
ped it handsomely as it rose into the wind. Both dogs were 
steady to shot and Jack, when ordered, retrieyed it nicely. 
When the dogs were again cast off, Jack going down wind 
like an arrow, and just passing a third to leeward, wheeled 
so quick as almost to throw himself oyer and nailed ib in a 
crouching position. This teat was much admired by all, and 
some remarking to B. he hadastar ofadog, he quickly re- 
plied he was no star but the full moon of the dog kingdom, 
although not put up by preseription so far as he knew, Mac 
coming up was stopped but not penalized for not backing, 
owing tothe unusual position of the pointing dog. The bird 
was sprung by B. and was dropped across a slough, both dogs 
being steady tothe gun, and when sent on Jack found and 
retrieved it finely. When the dogs were again sent on, Mac 
doing some fine ranging, and quartering beautifully, but un- 
fortunately blundering onto first one and then another bird 
without notidine them at all, and evidently lacking the 
caution and sense of his adversary. His owner contended he 
had been little used on snipe, and that it was an improper 
way to hunt adog down wind. His pepe replied 1b was 
certainly the best way to get snipe, but that he was quite 
willing to try it any way. Then areturn was made over the 
same ground up wind, afew birds flushing wild and turning 
back over the shooter, and dropping toward the lower end of 
the beat. On returning down after those, Jack suddenly 
turned to 4 staunch point by the side of a small ditch and Mac 
backed firmly. Two birds got up here, B. dropping one on 
each side of the ditch. Jack was sent for the one on the left, 
and Mac across the ditch for the other, which was only 
winged, He mangled it badly, then dropped it and refused to 
pickitup. Jack had not yet found his bird, but was recalled 
and sent over after the other, which he brought, and then 
without being ordered returned after his own, which he had 
marked fall, and after a long search among mud and water, 
unaided, found and brought itin perfect form. At this point 


middle and stern; he should have been third. Donald IJ. 
(Munhall’s) disappointed me much, and will never do credit 
to his illustrious sire (Donald), being shelly and long on the 
legs and having bad shoulders, Danby (Rutherfurd’s) has a 
fair good head, but is lesgy and plain. Maxim (Moinson’s) was 
in luck’s way to get a vhe, card; he has a coarse, heavy head, 
bad ears, neck and shoulders, Bang (Munson’s) is a well bred 
dog, and one that should get good stock from certain bitches; 
he is a much better ¢ of dog than Maxim, but with age he 
prows coarse, Guy (Stromberg’s) is full in the cheeks and 
heavy at the shoulders; he was not well shown, but can 
always beat Maxim, Icicle is not a show dog in any respect. 

The open large bitch class was a poor one. Miss Merryman 
won and was rightly placed. Waults, ears badly carried, 
throaty, little too wide in front, and coarse in tail, Legs, feet 
and head fairly good. Fan Fan (Donner’s) placed second, Has 
a fair head and tolerably good feet. Faults, throaty, wide in 
front, light in bone, and too round behind the shouiders. Sal 
is not good, neither is Lady Mac, who is very stilty behind. 

Tn the next class for champion small dogs, Bravo (Appold’s) 
won, andto him should haye been awarded the small size 
sweepstakes, Brom eye to nose he is decidedly weak, and he 
is too round in the barrel. He has a good neck, splendid legs 
and feet, a good loin, fair back, and a good tail, which he car- 
ries well, He was the gentleman of the small size classes 
without doubt. Ross,in the same class, is a fair, good dog 
though wanting in pointer character. He is light in bone and 
fine in muzzle. Dick was outclassed. He shows age, and is 
faulty in cheeks, neck, chest and tail. 

The corresponding bitch class was not well judged. Vanity 
(Munson’s) was pot entitled to premier honors, She has a plain 
head, badly carried ears, is out at the elbows, and carries her 
tail away over herback. The judge seemed to have a weak- 
ness for ringtails, but I for one have yet to learn they are 
poe attributes. Duchess and Lady Bang in this class can 

oth beat Vanity easily. I do not like the black eyes and nose 
of Duchess, nor yet her shoulders and carriage of tail, Her 
gait, too, is not quite comme wl faut, but she clearly beats the 
winner. Lady Bang shows her good breeding. She is too full 
on the brow, throaty, and light in bone, out of much better 
type than the winner, 

I never haye seen pointer classes handled so badly as were 
the next two for small-size dogs and bitches. Had the judge 
been asked to select the worst dog in the class he could not 
bave succeeded better than when he placed Pride (Tallman’s) 
first. He was absolutely the worst dog in the class, and should 
not haye been noticed. He is wide in front, has crooked fore- 
legs, with feet twisted out (as seen in the dachshund), splay 
feet, a weak back, and bad loins. Second prize was awarded 
to Fritz (Collins’s), another graye error of judgment, in my 
opinion, and one which surprised nobody more than the 
owner. Fritz has a plain face, a light eye, bad loins, and a 
coarse tail, He has no pretensions to show form, though his 
shoulders, legs and feet are fairly good. He is a wonderful 
trick dog, which was possibly taken into account by thejudge, 
Third prize went to Don (Crane’s), also a mistake, He is wide 
in front, has a plain face, light eyes, bad quarters and tail. 
The best dog in the class was Heath’s Dash, a nice lemon and 
white of good quality. He was not even commended. Second. 
should have gone to Booths, good in body, legs, feet and stern. 
He Las a fair head, and is a little heavy at the shoulders and 
wide in fron® He was clearly entitled to,second place. I 
would have given third prize to Bob (Amory’s), by Bang— 
Princess Kate. He has fair head .and ears, good body, legs 
and féet, Heis too wide in front and carries his tail badly. 
Puck, owned by Dr. Wells, should have received the yhe, card, 
though faulty in shoulders and a little ightin eyes. Match 
Keone) is bad at both ends, He has a good neck and a fair 
middle. 

Tu the bitch class, the Neyersink Lodge Kennel’s Jilt won, 
and was property placed at the head of affairs. I cheerfully 
admit that iT never expected to see Croxteth sire so good a 
bitch, She is 4 trifle fine in muzzle and inclined to be throaty 
for oneso young. She is also too wide in front and a trifie 
slack behind the shoulders; nevertheless she is a good one, and 
had I been judge, she would have won the special for best 
pointer bitch in she show, as the winner, Vanity cannot com- 
pare with her. Vision. though by no means.a bad bitch, did 
not deserve second prize, which was clearly won by Belle 
(Gregory’s). Though Vision has a fair good head, neck, legs 
and feet, her loin is bad, as is also her tail and the carriage of 
her ears. 
coarse in tail. Flash IIL, to whom third prize was awarded, 
is not a show bitch, and her place should have been occupied 
by Lyde I1,, winner of first at Washington, or by Rose 
(Williams's), who is also a much better bitch, though she does 
carry her tail badly. The faults of Flash II. are heavy 
shoulders, splay feet, crooked legs, round skull and snipy muz- 
zle. Her ears, too, are badly carried. The skull of the pointer 
should not be round, and the muzzle should be long, square 
and blunt, ’ OHARLES H, MAson, 

New York, May 19, i884. 


BEAGLES AT 
Editor Forest and Stream: : 
IT presume that the Westminster Kennel Club see the mis- 
take they made by accepting a different judge to make the 
awards in special prizes for beagles, and will not allow it at 
future shows, but have one judge for all classes. I do not 
believe it was the desire of the Beagle Club to have a separate 
judge if it could have been properly considered, and I would 
like toask the president of the Beagle Club who made the 
nominations? 
T was not aware that the club would nominate and yote for 
a special judge until I received the printed nomination. Of 
course I did not vote, and if there had been time would have 
strongly opposed it, believing that the Westminster Kennel 
Club are competent to select and eed their judges; and if 
they had considered the matter I feel certain they would 
have had only one judge, and hope in the future that they 
and other managers of bench shows will haye but one judge 
for all beagle classes; but hope that the judge will be 1n- 
structed to judge acccrding to the standard of our club, and 
that our president will try to have judging at future shows 
governed by our standard. Perhaps it will not be out of place 
to say that Mr, Mortimer indorses our standard (with perhaps 
one exception), and I could not see why he did not follow it 
as well as possible in making awards except making note of 
points. While 1 will not draw any comparison between the 
two judges, will say Mr. Mortimer’s judging was consistent, 
and regret thas Mr. Sloan should haye reversed Mr. Morti- 
mer’s decision, irrespective af the fact that Mr. Mortimer had 
the dogs placed right. 


NEW YORK. 


In your report of the show you say, “The beagle class was _ 


well filled and of better average quality than has yet appeared 
at any of the Westminster Clib shows.” Then speaking of 
Bush that won first in champion class you say, ‘“The winner, 
Bush, is a fair average beagle.” Now it is not quite clear to 
me how this fair average beagle (Bush) could win champion 

rize in a show where the quality averaged better than at any 
joerc exhibit, and when she had for a competitor a beagle 
that had taken first prize at Lowell, first and special at New 
Haven, third at foronto, yhe, and special at Cleveland, and of 
whom FoREST AND STREAM had said, ‘He has a good head 
and plenty of bone,” and Bush also won first_at New York, 
1852, in puppy class, and first and special at Pittsburgh, 1883, 
'Phis fair average beagle has certainly been yery fortunate 
and it looks to me a little as though Forrst AND STREAM got 
a little of the mist that was so abundant during the first three 
days of the show into its brain and could not seeclearly, _ 

Peneeand to your comments on Chase and Deboiah I will 
only Say, that much as I dislike to say anything against my 
friend's beagle I cannot avoid it, but will be brief and only 
touch a few important points. 


Belle is a good bitch, a little weak in head and. 


4 


 Lagree with youin Baying What Deborah has the best muzzle, 
being the squarest cut, buf many other points Chase is far 
her superior; has much better length of ear, they are hung 
better and fully as good in regard to width, her coatis better, 
Deborah's being # little too short and lying a little too close, 
and Deborah has very little brush on tail while Chase has 
plenty, The cecal expression of Dehorah was very puggish 
and she lacked the hound-like expression that a beagle should 
possess, N, HUMORE, 
Granby, Conn., May 19, 


ENGLISH AND AMERICAN FOXHOUND. 


Tis evident, judging trom the specimens of both English 
and American foxhoitnds exhibited at_the late show of 
the Westminster Kennel Club, at Madison Square Garden, in 
New York, as well as at the other numerous displays through- 
out the United States, that the two animals should not be 
placed in the same class or judged by thesame standard. They 
are now as separate and distinct as are the pointer and the 
Dalmatian, The English hound haying been crossed and re- 
crossed with other breeds to sive him hoth courage and speed, 
has lost all vestige of his former outline, and notably failed in 
his scenting powers. While the American dog, descending 


_ from the old Southern hound, brought to this country by the 


Cavaliers of Virginia and Maryland, has been kept pure with- 
out a cross and to this day shows his clear origin and_typical 
characteristics. The several breeders of foxhounds in this 
section, as well as owners of working packs (I donot refer to 
aise-seed bag work, but the chase of the fox), who haveall at 
different times imported the English foxhound with a view of 
making a fair comparison with their own dogs, and to cross 
then if advisable, ave in eyery instance discarded the Brit- 
isher and declared him inferior. Mr, Howard Lewis, a promi- 
nent member of the Rose Tree Hunt, has made the experiment, 
aud both Messrs, Shaner and John Yerkes, breeders of this 
section, will not allow an English dog in their kennels, 

Mr. Lort, while at one of the Westminster Kennel Club 
shows, acknowledged to a prominent Philadelphia fancier that 
the English dogs had sadly degenerated and did not possess 
the nose the breed once had, and remarked that another cross 
would have to be looked for in order to recover the ground 
lost, and named the otter hound as the only one they could 
gotoin England, The writer has knowledge that Mr. Lort 
would have taken back with him a pair of very fine black and 
tan hounds of Mr. Yerke’s breeding, had the owner, Mr. 
Laudenberger, been willing to part with them, There is no 
paecl of foxhounds in England that does not now require the 
whipper-in, in order to be kept on the scent of afox. Show 


me an imported ahimal that ean keep up with our own 


hounds on the trail of a fox which takes as his course of flight 
first the woods, then the swamp, and then the rocky hillside, 
Lam told by fox hunters who have tried the BPnglish dogs 
here that they have seen him “show wp” and lose their fox in 
the open field. Our own doy may not have the speed and dash 
ofthe Britisher, but he has the qualities we need for this 


country, a keen nose to follow and stick to his fox in all kinds 


of ground, : 
Tt will take but half an eye to discover that the English 


foxhound and the American dog are different in conforma- 
tion and should not be placed in the same class at shows. The 
former, in my estimation, has decidedly a cur took, shows his 
coarse lines, rough coat and the crosses that have been re- 
sorted to, while the latter has a thoroughbred appearance, a 
true hound savor that has been given him by the old Southern 
hound, from which he is descended. We need just such a dog 
in this country, but the English dog is useless here and has 
take him as our standard and 
award him the blué and red ribbon when, in my mind, at the 
late New York show the first prize should have been given to 
the exhibit of the Blooming Grove Park Association? It is 
hoped that the attention of foxhound breeders will be drawn 
to this subject and their views made known inthe Forrest AND 
it would be very interesting to your readers if both 
Mr. Howard Lewis, of Media, Pa., and Dr. Hydekopher, of 
Philadelphia, could be induced to write upon the subject, as I 
know of no persons better posted on the American breed of 


proven such. Why, then 


STREAM. 


foxhounds. Homo. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


ee Success of the Warwick show, which closed on Friday, 
the 18th inst,, is the chief topic of conversation in the 
dog world, Tt was not difficult to foretell its success; they 


had all the elements of that quality to start with. 
The show presented a yery pretty coup d’@il on entering. 


There was ainple space to promenade between the benches 
without leaving Sees from your tailor in the inquisitive 


jaws of the exhibite 


Spratts did the benching and Jeyes the disinfecting. [have 
Mesers. Spratt by 
this time should surely know what space the different breeds 
require, and yet some of the classes were so uncomfortably 
situated in room that they could not turn round. With re- 
gard to Jeyes, I cannot understand why they prefer to use 
their liquid instead of dry disinfectant. The effect is to make 
the place sloppy, and most objectionabie to visitors, being 
ruinous to their boots and dresses, The powder is equally 


one gromble against each of these firms. 


efficacious, 2 

imust admit that J heard more complaints than usual about 
the judging, especially of the collie and mastiff classes. 

The judges of these classes were Messrs. Radcliffe and Por- 
tier. The first named struck meas being; very painstaking 
and very conscientious, but I think his knowledge of the breed 
is hardly protound enough yet to enable him to deal with such 
large classes containing so many new lights, He was uncon- 
scionably long over his work, and seemed to hesitate, weigh and 
consider where there was really no doubt, and every collie 
man round the ting had made up his mind, and then when he 
did decide, the result was usually a surprise to the onlookers. 

There is a dealin “how” one judges. You can be too care- 
ful, if you hesitate till you are lost in doubt and confusion, 
There are many methods and means of arriving abt the best 
dogs, but I think the simplest and surest is the weeding out 
principle. If twenty dogs file into the ring, there will be at 

‘least six so conspicuously bad that you can turn them out as 
they come in. , 

Having got allthe class before you, nicely round the ring, 
be careful that your ring-steward has not left any sitting on 
the beneh, which is an injustice that often happens to dogs at 
shows unaccompanied by their owners, who are chagrined at 
the defeat) of their dog, which may never have been Jed out 
before the judge, In your first survey you will probably see 
another four good enough to leave. 

Now you must begin to be careful if the class was a good 
one, These ten will require a careful looking over, so first trot 
them round the ring; this willshow you the halt, the lame, 
and the blind. If any of the exhibitors should feel his pride 
hurt by the circussing, and resent the walk round, promptly 
give his dog to a keeper to lead, and if he objdet to that, order 
him out of the ring. I Would show no consideration in such a 
case, because if on account of the clumsy way in which his 
loutish owner showed the dog, you overlook him, and he turns 
‘out to be 4 Sood one, be sure no mercy will be shown to your 
blunder. 

Well, here are the dogs walking round. “Hullo, oul you go 
there with the broken off foreleg,” “What did you say. Mr. 
Exhibitor, only noticed him walking stiti this morniic, ab, 
really, what a very unobservant man you inust be, take him 
out,” “Gad, how Baslly. that onemovyes, bring him here, please; 
let me see his teeth (alwaiys let the owner open the mionth), 
yes, very old, and must haye been a grand dog six years ago, 
‘but every dog has his day you know, sir; I will give you the 
highest honor short of the coin, and of that he has won plenty 


at other shows—yhe.” So you haye got some room, only | 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


eight, and you think you can see the winner already, but don’t 


be ina hurry, lead up to him. 

Now forthe individual inspection. “Fair head and coat 
short in the couplings rather. Don’t hit your dog, sir, 1 don’t 
mind his jumping up, give me your stick. Here dog, pst! fetch 
it! Good ears; hullo, look at his tail right over his back, that’s 
what you wanted the stick for; eh? to keep his tail down, sly 
dog, but he’s worth a c. card.” Seven left, ‘Decent all- 
round. dog, this one a bit slack behind—trot him up there in 
front of me: hem! I thought so, inclined to be cow-hocked, 
he.” Six. Sit tight and play up, how anxious that tall man 
looks, and that keeper ought to have his neck screwed for the 
little interest he shows in the job, The very confident cock- 
sure-looking gentleman thinks, ‘‘——, can’t lose to-day,” Well, 
we'll see, but you are looking at the wrong end of the chain. 

“Whoa, there, Sayage,ishe? Then why didn’t you say sof? 
Coarse throughout—another he.” 

Five. Yes, there’s no doubt about him, ‘Put him wp in the 
corner.” Confident man much surprised oe is not sent to fol- 
low, but affects to look unconcerned, which doesn’t go far to 
reassure his wife, who now glares at the judge, while the 
keeper, with the swell of the party in the corner, listlessly 
converses with a pal over the barrier. Now these four. 
‘Very characteristic dog.” You like him? ‘What a coat; 
but that head. Well, you are not far out of it, sir Whatis 
your number? Thanks—vyhe,” 

Three and one in the corner. 
some pup. Hntered in the puppy class, too, ishe? Ah, well, 
well! ‘Well, he’s hardly made up enough yet—vhe. Youwll 
never do worse. In a few months he'll carry you into the 
money.” 

Two and oneinthe corner. ‘Here, you fellow, bring that 
dog out of the corner,” Where’s your ring, steward? All the 
people haye got under the barrier, and are crowding round 
you and the three dogs in theiranxiety. “Stand back, please.” 

“Gallop them round,” What action that dog has. But the 
swellstillleads. ‘Stop! Bringhim ontheboard, Good head; 
something wrong about the shoulders—heayvy rather; chest 
could be narrower, too.” ‘Bring the other two on the board.” 
“Heet not so good as theirs, either,” ‘‘What did you say? 
Took first prize at Carrabas? What's that to do with me, sir? 
A very improper remark to make to the judge. Ihave halfa 
mind to turn you out of thering. What have I given you? 
(ood advice, sir, but your dog I award third prize to,” 

And out he goes with the proverbial lively insect in his ear, 
which will tingle for the next half hour. Come, now, here’s 
the tug of war. You still like the look of the swell, but take 
it quietly, You know the other is a famous dog, been Coing a 
lot of winning, and you have neyer seen the youngster before. 
Well, give him extra attention, then. Head perfect, legs 
straight as pillars, coat flat and straight, splendid quarters, 
“Yes, he’s a nailer.” Put them alongside of one another. 
Not much to choose; more quality inthe young one perhaps— 
yes, by Jove, and more character; color not so pleasant as the 
other, but the texture of coat—let me feel the other’s—rather 
much better, 

“Only second, sir; well, you ought not to feel ashamed of 
being beaten by this lovely animal.” But the confident man 
is very much annoyed if he isn’t ashamed, and sneeringly re- 
peats your observation to his indignant spouse, who button- 
holes him at the exit, and they Walk away together consoling 
themselves by remarking that ‘they suppose you bred the 
winner or sold him; that’s it, of course, what can you expect, 
and after all what does he know about ——s?”’ 

All the crowd are locking at the winner. Who's this im- 
petuous young man rushing up, elbowing his way and asking 
excitedly, ‘‘Where’s my dog? I missed my train and they say 
the judgine’s over, Hullo. keeper! what did he do? First? no, 
hurrah!” and up goes his hat, and the crowd smiles, the 
keeper looks happy with half a sovereign in his hand which 
he didn’t earn, and the mad-with-joy exhibitor, whose first 
entry this was in the show world, ‘bred him myselt? rather, 
of course I did!” walls proudly out, leading the swell and feel- 
ing that every eye is on him, and so they are. : 

Well, but look here, this did not happen at Warwick, so 
adieu, imagination, and return hard facts. I was talking 
about the new judges. The other, viz,, Mr. Portier, I have 
an idea has judged before, but I don’t remember where. This 
is the gentleman who writes very long letters on black and 
tan terriers and mastiffs over the nom de plume of ‘Anglo 
American.” By his accent he is French, and that may be 
why he was chosen to decide tipon merit in the foreign classes, 
bul why mastiffs? 

Oh, wait abit. I notice the British Kennel Association, 
which I understood was in difficulties, comes down handsome 
in prizes in the mastiff classes. Envious people might dwell 

on the flush. Mr. Taunton is the B, K, A.; Mr, Portier is his 
Fidus Achates (Arcades ambo). Cardinal beat Crown Prince 
tor the stud prize. 

Not one suspicion do I cast upon Mr. Portier’s strict probity 
and I can say more, that I feel confident that the aboveawart 
was an honest, independent and conscientious one, but none 
the less when the atmosphere of the kennel world is so thick 
with sharp practice, shady doings, etc., no handle should be 
given to the party of ‘envy, hatred, and all uncharitableness.” 

What others and Imay call courage, Mr. Portier’s good- 
hatured friends may term partiality. 

[think Mr. Portier was plucky to put Mr. Beaufoy’s Pontiff 
over Crown Prince, and [also think he was wrong. Compared 
to his highness the papal one is small, but very massive, he 
has a short square head, plenty of bone, and isfawn gray with 
a black mask. Itis true Crown Prince has a flesh-colored nose 
and fleshy linings to lips and eyes, but stand him up side by 
side with any other mastiff alive, and see how he ‘‘towers.” 

Crown Prinee is a grand and imposing brute, his head is full 
of mastif? character, and at stud I know few dogs that have 
so improved their breed as this splendid creature, There is 
the type of the sire about all his ‘get,’ and you can walk 
down the bench and say “that’s by Crown Prince, and that, 
and that,” 

Mr. Taunton and Mr. Portier seem anxious for the preserva- 
tion of brindle mastiffs. I don’t see the necessity, if their 
coloristo be all and all, fora more miserable, half-starved, 
under-sized lot of yard-dogs I never saw than in the two 
classes deyoted to brindles at Warwick. I don’t like the color, 
and think a brindle must be a yery good one to win; the color 
makes them look mean and insignificant. 

Cardinal is the best I have seen since Wolsey, but Cardinal’s 
headis very plain and unwrinkled, and he looks light against 
the fawns. Orlando, who was also on view in the champion 
class, was out of his depth. He has a rare head and should 
have a lot of weak, snipy-headed bitches sent to him. He has 
a peculiar fault. is hind legs are very straight and he stands 
inches higher behind than in front. I don’t know whether a 
dog would or could transmit such a blemish to his progeny. 

The champion bitch Rosalind is by Crown Prince,and a beauty 
she is, on thesmall side perhaps, but much quality, Taken all 
round I considered it an exceptionally good show of mastiffs. 
As an Hnglishmen, I cannot help feeling “gratified to see a 
native breed holding its own against foreign invasion, A big 
mastift on good legs is an imposing, coraforting companion, but 
a moderate mastiff is a wretched thing—that is where some of 
the other breeds have the advantage, for a moderate St. Ber- 
nard is still a handsome companion dog. 

The mastifi’s rival though is the boarhound, but I was not 
impressed with this class. Sultan 1], was allowed a walk over 
in Ghampions. He is a mouster, but his head is weak, jaw too 
pointed and fine. Mr, Martin’s Nero won easily in the open 
dog class. Nero is one of the giants, and has fulfilled the pro- 
mise of his puppylood. Heisalight-yellowish color with a 
few stuipes in it, he stands on wonderful aptelee and was 
shown in the hardest condition. I should describe his faults, 
common head forso grand a body, and an unpopular color, 

Prince Charlie, second prize, isa poor “tiger” with a good. 


Yes, he’s a devilish band- 


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head, liked the black Thunder almost, if not quite, as well. 
Mrs, Hazlerige’s black bitch Peeress has a perfect long head, 
and well merited her honors. The puppy winuer, Leal, is a 
splendid tellow and remarkably furnished for his age, I like 
his color, a deep, dark brindle. Lobserye that he is entered 
inthe catalogue “age eleven months, breeder and pedigree 
unknown.” That always puzzles me where they get the age 
fromif they don’t know who bred him, in whose possession. 
he was born. 

LT noticed a case in the Newfoundland class that struck ma 
as ridiculous aud unjust. The classes are divided into black 
and other than black. Most of the black dogs, like all self- 
colored breeds, have a little white on the chest and often some 
onthe hind feet. Thisis not liked, a little is tolerated, but 
much would be disqualification. Now mark the ingenuity of 
the owner of a dog named Trojan. This dog is black, but he 
has a lot of white on his chest, therefore he is a disqualified 
black dog, but his owner then enters him im the other than 
black class, which is unjust to the exhibitors of the Landseer 
type, for this Trojan has no white on bis head er back. It is 
cute, 

Mr. Mellor made a great mistake in the Landseer class when 
he put Seaman and Admiral Drake over the beautiful Charle- 
Since Hvan’s old Dick, I have seen nothing that so 


magne. 
Heatly approached Sir Hdwin Landseer’s picture of a ‘‘Distin- 
guished i ember of the Royal Humane Society” as this Charle- 


magne. 

On the whole, though, I think most dog connoisseurs prefer 
the blacks, Newfoundlands have suffered the most from the 
advent of the St. Bernard, but there are still sufficient fanciers 
to preserye them from extinction, and while there is Gordon 
Stables there is hope, 

The champion deerhound prize looked a good thing for Mr. 
Perey Cooper’s Bevis on paper, but Cuchullin won on form 
and condition. The winner is a dog of conspicuotisly aristo- 
cratic appearance, with thin, long, snaky heak, and blue stéel 
coat, hieftain looked unkempt against the other two. 

Pointers were a nice class, Devon Sam won and took the 
cup, I thought he looked good enough to ¢laim at his cata- 
logue price, 50 guineas. His owner won again in bitches with 
Devon Fan, priced the same. 

The judge could not separate those two beautiful dogs, 
Ganymede, the Irish, and Siz Alister, the Layeracl setter, so 
he divided the champion prize, Asallthe champion classes 
were,on the sweepstake plan each won his entrance fee, there 
being only two entries. Sting, by Emperor Fred, bred by 
Lord Downe, won in dogs, another £50 dog, Saukey got 
second honors. Blue Maud, by ‘I'am o’ Shanter, followed wp 
her Crystal Palace luck. In the Irish division two dogs, by 
the champion Ganymede, were first and second, Lismere and 
Tyrone. 

In wavy retrievers Mr. 8. E. Shirley’s kennel carried every- 
thing before it. Both champion prizes, first and second in 
dogs, and second in bitches, His three winners in the open 
class being out of one litter by Zelstone ex Think, born March, 
1883. Will he be able to breed another such litter from the 
same parents? I doubt it, have seen it tried repeatedly, and 
failed. 

Mr. 8. Darbey was, as usual, to the fore in curly-coated re- 
trieyers, a far more interesting variety, in my opinion, than 
the wavy, the latter have a Newfoundland air about them, 
whereas the curly are a very distinct and peculiar breed like 
no other dog under the sun. A good curly retriever is an ex- 
traordinary sight, with its short, close, springy corkscrew 
curls. Chicory IL, first in bitches, looked cheap enough at £21. 

The most extraordinary dog in the show was the Clumber 
spaniel Boss, He is not a year old yet, and is the finest I 
have seen. His body is enormous, and if you come up to him 
lying down you would take him for a big dog, and then to sea 
him stand up on such impossibly short legs is quite surprising, 
His coloring and coat ate beautiful: his coat has that peculiar 
appearance as if the atmosphere held it up, it looks so light. 

is effect is only noticeable in Clumbers and English setters. 
I dare say Boss was claimed, His sister Doll, also a beauty, 
got vhe. in the same class. 

Brida II. is a grand colored golden liver, and a big one. The 
invincible Miss Obo was returned champion again. She is the 
very model of a black spaniel, quite a picture, and [I don’t 
think a mistake was made when she was claimed at Hertford 
for £150. She is entered‘‘not for sale” now. 

I asked a friend to go round the collie classes with me, and 
he says the quality was superb. Charlemagne was there, and 
it would take a strong-minded man to put the old champion 
anywhere but first. His son Eclipse was next best (he looked 
as if he had had a swim in the morning), and then came Rut- 
land, a black and tan dog, rather short in the couplings and 
otherwise lacking freedom. Donald is not worth mention. 

The open classes were so large that the judge divided them 
into sables and black and tans. Lord Clyde, faulty about the 
head, won in sables. This was a dreadful mistake, for by far 
and away the best sable in the open and puppy classes was 
Mr. Pirie’s glorious dog pup The Scot, who is remarkably like 
his sire Eclipse in face, color and coat. He only received third 
prize in both classes. Red Gauntlet also, only vhe., I thought 
should have beaten the winner. Then there was a gray dog, 
Scottish Hero I think his name is, who could win in any com- 
pany. Bar color, he is a yery typical sheep dog. 

For the bitch prize it looked “a cornucopia to a cabbage- 
net,” as Pierce Egan says, on Mr. Krehl’s Beatrix, a rich-col- 
ored sable half-sister of the same owner’s Eclipse. It must 
have astonished the other end of the chain when she got only 
vhe. This was a most unaccountable decision, but I expect to 
see it upset when she is next brought out. Flurry won, and 
she is a pretty bitch, a bit wooden if anything. Miss Charle- 
magne (a very vulgar name, by the way) L could not stand at 
any price, she is only a nursery toy. ' 

Tn the next class a pup, The Squire, beat Lord Clyde, the 
open dog winner. Mr. H. W. Thompson, the celebrated collie 
judge, cleared the bench with hissmooth champions, Guelt 
and Yarrow. 

Ihave just read an extraordinary letter in the Field, by 
Hugh Dalziel, on the Hertford distemper case last year. He 
makes some damaging charges against the Hertford and Ken- 
nel Club committees. But there is one sentence about a mem- 
ber of the K, C. committee, Mr. Percy Reid, that will require 
explanation or the club will have to take action, unless they 
want public opinion to take it up. 

To return to the Warwick show. I was delighted to see so 
‘ood a fancier asthe Rey. A. Carter with sucha grand St. 
ernard pup as Plinlimmon. When full grown and made up 

there’s not the dog born that will hold him safe. I quite 
expect to see him develop into as large a dog as Rector and a 
much finer type of the breed. Plinlimmon’s head has the 
kind, benevolent look that is so essentially characteristic of 
the St. Bernard; it appears a little long and fine from the eyes 
to the nose, but then with age his muzzle will broaden and 
square up the head. His BOHy, cannot be criticized—color and 
markings are perfect. I much prefer his orange tawny color 
to the brindles. 


Mr. Smith is generally in the prize list, and he was to the 
front again here with a new dog named Valentine. Although 
rightly first in this class I don’t think he is quite of the first 
water. His head is very massive and full of expression, owing 
to the black under the eyes, He has no dew claws and his 
color is objectionable; itis a mousey gray. Faust was second: 
he is well known to show-goers; his expression is rather sour, 
and the coat curly, otherwise a fine, big dog. Valour was 
vhe. He lately changed hands at a stiff figure and now be- 
longs to Mr. Sweet. I hardly think Valour fills Turk’s place, 
and if I were Mr. Sweet I should rather see Turk back in my 
kennel than its present occupant. Turk now belongs to a 
Northern fancier, who, I hear, is doing remarkably well with 
him, and sees the guineas (about sixty, I believe,) he paid for 
him rolling back merrily in stud fees, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


(May 22, 1984, 


Turk’s stock compares favorably with that of some of more 
fashionable competitors. Pilgrim also, who has long been at 
stud and must be getting an old dog now, has distinguished 
himself and sent up his value in begetting Plinlimmon. 

Phantom is another from the kennel lately sold off by Mr. 
Fox. Heis fit to competein any company, and was: rather 
unlucky on this occasion. 

The open class for the fair sex contained no surprises, There 
is room fora good bitch. The lucky claimant of third prize, 
Countess of Beaufort, showed his judgment without much 
hesitation. Had I been a St. Bernard breeder, directly I saw 
her i should haye broken my neck in my haste to get to the 
office and claim her for £31,10. If she be put to a suitable dog 
I would like to lay odds on her litter against anything else that 
may be bred about the same time. She is built to breed from. 

Her brother Silva was awarded second prize in the smooth 
dog class. He shows lots of character, but is frightfully cow- 
hocked. 

Mr. Kaye exhibited a dog in the puppy class called ‘‘Rt. 
Hon. W. £. Gladstone,” [don’t know if Mr. Kaye is a mem- 
ber of the St. Bernard club, nor what authority that body 
has over its members, but if it possesses any, they would be 
well advised in using it to give the owner of this dog a lesson 
in good taste by putting their yeto on such yulgar nomen- 
clature which is calculated to make a noble breed ridiculous. 

Thisbe, the winner in the bitch puppy class, will credit her 
owner, the Rey, A, Carter, with as many yinning brackets in 
the future as her kennel mate Plinlimmon. She comes of a 
rare-headed stock. 

The bull bitch Rhodora walked away from her class and has 
now deserted her country. She will be your side of the pond 
by the time these notes are in print. It will have to be 
a good one that, during this show season, can lower the colors 
of Monarch IIf., who won very easily. Mr. Berrie (not Berril, 
as Mmisprinted in my notes of the 10th ulto.) was the judge. 

Cairo only beat Count by the skin of his teeth for first in 
over 25 pounds bull-terriers. The same fancier whose name 
conjures up old memories and anecdotes of his father, ‘Bill 
George,” was successful again in the smaller class with Grand 
Duchess. 

I was quite unequal to going through the fox-terrier classes. 
Té splits your head to stand anywhere near them, their short, 
quick barks go through your brain. I was glad to observe 
more terrier character about the winners than at some shows. 
the very long, thin head often softens out the desirable wicked 
look which is altogether indispensable in a terrier. ° 

Beagles were a very small, but still a pretty class. Mr. 
Hoig was not so fortunate here with Mariner as at Aston, 
where he wen first prize to the incredulous astonishment of 
his owner. Nothing could beat the Brummagen winner, 
Abigail, but Mariner was second best. 

The position of the beagle in this country is seriously threat- 
ened by the increasing attention paid to the French basset 
hound. With a love for all things English, I cannot help feel- 
ing sorry to see a home breed being pushed out of their posi- 
tion by the foreigners. Candor, however, compels me to avow 
that 1 do not wonder at it. It is the fault of our beagle 
masters that they for years have bred too large. A fourteen- 
inch beagle is now considered an average hound, and I know 
very few men can live with them. You must bein hard train- 
ing and as fit as a fiddle if you want to see any fun witha 
fourteen-inch pack. 6 

Iam generally pretty tough, but I shall not forget my last 
day with the beagles, When they went away I was well up 
till they got on the flat, and then came the pace; it was a 
sprint speed. Excited with the ardor of the chase, I ran like 
a hundred-yarder till I dropped, and there I lay on my back 
thinking the end of the world had come. By the time I had 
got my breath and was able to sit up I saw the lad who was 
carrying my coat and flask puffing along in the field behind. 

“There they are, sir,” he gasped, pointing to the small bunch 
of white, black and tan, as they swept along in the distance, 
their music from afar sounding very low and sweet. But lhad 
already concluded this hunting didn’t pay. ‘Yes, and here! 
am I,” I said, ‘‘and those will continue to be our positions till 
puss is broken up or lost.” So putting ou my coat, [ clambered 
with the lad’s aid, up a pollard. After a long, strong pull at 
the flask, the land that reared Scotchmen earned its forgive- 
ness when it produced whisky. I settled myself down to the 
beautiful view. From this point I saw most of the run, and 
as 1 write I almost feel the cool breeze playing round my tem- 
ples and see again the peaceful landscape and the little pack 
merrily bowling along. 

But what has become of our twelve-inch beagles? Honestly 
measured, 1mean. Stand them on the level, hold their heads 
jnaline with the body, and then lay a flat rule across the 
shoulder blades; from the point it touches the wall to the | 
ground isthe proper height. That is correct hound measure- 
ment. Where are the packs that could Indian-file past a bea- 
yer hat without topping the brim, ‘and you can coyer them 
with a sheet, sir, by Gad!” Where, indeed, 


“All gond avay in de Hyigkeit, 
-Avay mit der Lager bier,’’ 


unless you haye got themin America. And where will you 
find a nine-inch beagle now, that is not a shivering toy? 

T haye one in my memory that I saw years ago. I was 
riding from Battle to Hastings, when I noticed sitting before 
a small house on the doorstep a picture. His hound markings 
were perfect and bright, but his face was inexpressibly sad as 
he sat dreamily blinking in the warm sunshine, now twitching 
one ear then another, as worrying insects spinning around his 
head alighted there for rest and inspection. Iwas sorry to 
disturb him, and still more sorry after carefully handling his 
symmetrical body to have to ride away without him. “Don’t 
ask me to sell him,” was all his owner said, and I hadn’t the 
heart to do so. ‘ 

T have read in old French works of a pack of little hounds 
that were famous in France before the Revolution. They 
were so small and so pretty that the people called them the 
“porcelain” hounds. 

In my inquiries for the whereabouts of small beagles I have 
quite forgotten my own, So back to Warwick, 

Basset hounds are next in the catalogue. Looking at these 
heavy little dogs on curiously short, thick, crooked legs, one 
can understand the favor they find with those who love to 
follow on foot. Their note is as deep and musical as the 
bloodhound’s, I understand, and one can quite believe it when 
one observes the similarity of the head properties. The same 
hanging flews, the dewlap, etc.—the descriptions of the head 
points of these two breeds must be almost identical. I don’t 
know the average height of these hounds; I will take the first 
opportunity to find out and mention it in these notes. The 
beagle class had six entries, the basset fifteen—this speaks for 
itself. 

I observe the Live Stock Journal reporter, a Mr. Gresham, 
who once kept St. Bernards, says, “Fino V. had no difficulty 
in disposing of the Basset hound dogs,” whereas a lady who 
was present and watched the judging tells me he was a very 
considerable time over this award; that he had Bourbon on 
the platform with Fino V., and from the anxious appearance 
of the judge he seemed to have a very difficult task to 
separate the brothers of the same litter. This shows how 
little value one should attach to these ‘thack” reports of 
dog shows. ; r : 

Mr. George R. Krehl seemed to have it all his own way In 
the bitch class; in fact, looking through the prize list, he ap- 
pears to own or have bred all the winners. 

There was a nice show of Bedlingtons. 
some, hardy lot, regular miners’ dogs. 

Mr. Harding Cox gaye the prizes in the harrier class, and 
being the only exhibitor, won them all himself. : 

He is one of the few independent and representative mem- 
bers of the Kennel Club Committee. A glance through the 


They are a quarrel- 


catalogues will show that he has “fancied” or judged many 


breeds—bulldogs, Irish terriers, fox-terriers, bull-terriers, 
collies, ete. 

For many weeksshe had a standing advertisement in the 
Field—‘Wanted, basset hounds;” but the breed was too rare, 
and failing in his endeavor to found a basset hunt of his own, 
he purchased a pack of harriers, which are kenneled at his 
delightful Buckinghamshire residence, Missenden Abbey. Mr. 
Harding Cox is a good fancier, a good sportsman, and a gen- 
tleman unassuming and intelligent. 

“Turn about” my pen— Warwick. Irish terriers were a poor 
show indeed, the only two worth notice being Pretty Lass, 
who could ay get second, and Canteen, by Garryowen— 
Pretty Lass. The truffle dog class was unable to provoke a 
single entry. 

The foreign dogs were a tremendous sight. It seemed as if 
all the Zoo had turned out to win prizes. The Esquimaux in 
particular made a fine show. 

The “‘gate”-seeking committee last year cutely secured Lady 
Florence Dixie’s heroic St. Bernard, Hubert, for the atttrac- 
tion; this year the community who love dogs but are not 
“doggy” were treated to a view of another canine celebrity, 
the railway dog Help. This sagacious creature has collected 
a good deal of money up and down the lines for the railway 
servants fund. 

Help is a black collie with white markings. He is by no 
means up to show form, being coarse in head, with large 
heayy ears; but his coat is glossy and he has a cleyer, bright 
expression, s. 

In reply to the charge that in his capacity as a member of 
the Kennel Club Committee he attended and took part 
at a meeting where the conduct of another body was 
being examined of which he was also a member, Mr. Percy 
Reid has made the yery weak and unsatisfactory reply 
that though he was present at the meeting which tried the 
body of which he was a member, he did not assist in the 
judgment. He left before a decision was come to, he says, 
and fancies, therefore, that he is exculpated from the charge 
of bad taste for judicially assisting in the trial that led up to 
the verdict on the conduct ofhis colleagues and himself. After 
reading Mr, Joachim’s letter in this week’s Field, it will be 
the opinion of most on-lookers, that of the Hertford Com- 
mittee, the Kennel Club Committee, Mr. Murchison, and Mr. 
Reid, none will emerge with credit from this affair. 

LILLIBULERO. 

May 6, 1884. 


THE ENGLISH FIELD TRIALS. 


HE National Field Trials, held at Shrewsbury, Eng., the 
23d, 24th and 25th of April, were quite successful, except 
that, owing to the very dry and dusty condition of the ground, 
the work of the dogs was not quite so satisfactory as has usu- 
ally been witnessed at these Trials. 


The Pointer Puppy Stakes brought out fifteen starters. We. 


give the entries in the order in which they were drawn to 


run; 
POINTER PUPPY STAKES. 


At 5 guineas each; first £45, second £20, third £10. 
Mr. C. Thelwell Abbott’s liver and white ticked Duke of 
Wellington (The Fop—Jane), 15mos.. 
agatnst 
Mr. R. J. Lloyd-Price’s liver and white Royal Puck (Royal— 
Mabel), 13mos. , 


Mr. Barclay Field’s liver and white Rustic (Bow—Peach), 
15mos., 


against 
Major Platt’s liver and white ticked Lady of the Lake (Lake 
—Flash III.), 13mos, : 


Major Platt’s liver and white ticked Lord of the Isles (Lake 
—Flash III.) 13mos., 
ag 


gainst 
Mr. C. J. Cotes’s liver and white Sally Back (Jasper—Sal) 
12m0os. 


Mr, A. P. Heyward-Lonsdale’s liver and white Polly (Bow— 
Peach), 15mos., 


against 
Prince Atbert Solms’s liver and white Luck of Hessen (Naso 
TI,—La Vole) 9mos. 


Mr. C. H. Beck's lemon and white Lingo (Bang Bang—Polly) 
15mos., 
against 
Mr. A. P. Heyward-Lonsdale’s Jest (Jasper—Spangle) 13mos. 


Mr, C. J. Cotes’s liver and white Carlo (Jasper—Sal) 12mos., 
against ; 
Mr. T. Statter’s liver and white Pilot (Pax—FPoll) 13mos, 


Mr. R. J. Lloyd-Price’s liver and white Owen Alaw (Lucky 
Sixpence—Co diad yr Hedydd) 1imos., 


‘ against 
Mr. H, A. Adderley’s black Chloe (Sambo—Duchess), 12mos. 


Mr. C. J. Cotes’s lemon and white Jenny Jones (Young 
Dick—Di Vernon), 8mos., a bye. 

The stake was finished Thursday morning, with the follow- 
ing result: 

Lingo, first. 

Carlo, second. 

Polly, third. 


SETTER PUPPY STAKES. 
At £5 5s. each; first £40 and £10 added money, second £25, 
third £15, fourth £10. 
Mr. Thomas Statter’s lemon and white Ella (Coningsby— 
Eve), 14mos., 


against 
Mr, T. Dicken’s black, white and tan Frank (Brave Baron— 
Blue Bell), 11mos. 


Mr. J. Bishop’s black, white and tan Bouncing Queen (Bux- 
ton—Bonny Queen), 14mos., 


against 
Prince Albert Solms’s black and white Tempest (Blue Boy— 
Countess Kate), 10mos. 


Prince Albert Solms’s black and white Bandit of Braunfels 
(Roderick of Braunfels—May Queen), 15mos., , 
against 
Mr. T, Statter’s black, white and tan Grist (Esqr.—Doll}, 
14mos. 


Mr. T, Dicken’s black, white and tan Satin (Bruce—Bess), 
12mos., 


against : 
Mr. G. Shaw’s black, white and tan Rose (Diamond—Min- 
nie), 12mos. 


Mr. E. Bishop’s black, white and tan Ranging Moses (Blue 


Boy—Princess Maud), : 
agains 
Mr. E. Armstrong’s lemon and 
Slut IT.). 


Col. Cotes’s black aud white Wild Daisy II. (Sir Alister— 


Wild Daisy), 12mos., 
against 


Mr. E. Bishop’s black, white and tan Ranging 
III.—Maud). 


t 
white Bess IV. (King Ned— 


“Samuel (Sam 


Mr. H. Burra’s lemon and white May Flower (Bend Or— 
Jewel) 15mos,, ; 


- against : 
Mr. C, J. Cotes’s black, white and tan Daphne (Sir Alister— 
Wild Daisy) 12mos, 


Mr. R. G, Mawson’s black, white and tan Dinah (Rahger— 
Judy) 15mos., 
against 
Mr, H. C. Hartley’s black, white and tan Pilot (fam O’Shan- 
ter—Gipsy Girl) 15mos, : 


Mr, P. Power’s red Field Marshall (Count—Tilly) 14mos,, 


agains 
Mr, E. Bishop’s black, white and tan Rangi ron (BI 
Boy—Princess Mand). si aed 


Mr. C. J, Cotes’s black and white Duchess of Wales (Dick 
Il.— —_) a bye. 

Following is the result: 

Rose, first. 

Ranging Aaron, second. 

Bouneing Queen, third. 

Ranging Moses, fourth. 


The final heat between the winning pointer and the winning 
setter was decided in favor of the setter Rose, whose sire won 
first in the setter stake at Shrewsbury in 1877. 


CLOVERLEY STAKES, 


Braces, pointers and setters, all ages, £10. 10s. each; pointers, 
first prize £30; setters, first prize £30; the second best brace 
of either breed £20; absolute winning brace £10 added. 
There were eleven entries for the brace stakes—seven 

pointers and four setters: 

Mr. Barclay Field’s liver and white Young Dick (Dick— 
Flame), 3yrs., and liyer and white Young Di (Drake—Puss), 
lyr. 10mos.—poimters. 

Col. Cotes’s lemon and white Duke Wind ’em (Count Wind ’em 
—Countess Moll), 2yrs., ad black, white and tan Dashing Rose 
(Dash II.—Countess Rose), 2yrs.—setters. 

Mr. A. P. Haywood-Lonsdale’s liver and white Cassandra 
(Birr—Fan), 4yrs., and liver and white Polly (Bow—Peach), 
lyr. 3mos.—pointers, 

Col, Cotes’s lemon and white Carlo (Jasper—Sal), lyr., and 
lemon and white Jenny Jones (Young Dick—Di Vernon), 8mos. 
—pointers. 

Mr. Daintry Hollins’s blue and white Ragman (Rogue—Silk 
IL.), 2yrs., and liver and white Boscobel (Rogue—Silk IL), 
2yrs.—setters. 

Mr. C. Thelwell Abbott’s liver and white The Fop (Faust— 
Bele) arvises and Brave Bijou (The Fop—Bonny Lanul), 2yrs, 
—pointers. 


pointers. 
r. R. J. Lloyd-Price’s liver and white Fatima (Bang— . 
Hebe), 4yrs., and liver and white Hlias (Bang—Hebe), 4yrs.— 
pointers. 

Following is the result: 

Cassandra and Polly, first prize in pointers and first in stake, 

Little Bess and Ranger’s Ghost, first in setters. 

The Fop and Brave Bijou (pointers) prize for second best of 
either breed. 


The Kennel Club Field Trials. 


'HESE trials were held near Stratford-on-Avyon. There 
were twenty-six starters out of the 159 entries for the 
Derby, fourteen pointers and twelve setters, as follows: 


TENTH FIELD TRIAL DERBY. 

For pointer and setter puppies, bred in 1885; £50 for the best 
pointer, £50 forthe best setter, £20 for the second best. of 
each breed, and £50 extra for the absolute winner; 159 subs. 

POINTERS. 


Mr. C. T. Abbott’s liver and white dog Duke of Wellington 
(The Fop—Jane) Jan. 28, 


against 
Mr. C, H. Beck’s lemon and white bitch Linge (Bang Bang— 
Polly) March 30, 


Rev. W. J. Richardson’s liver and white bitch Milton Rita 
(Young Bang—Nina) March 2, 
against 
Mr. Barclay Field’s liver and white bitch Rustic (Bow— 
Peach) Jan, 8. 


Major Pratt’s liver and white dog Lord of the Isles (Lake— 
Flash II1.), March 31, a bye, (owing to error mm entry of com- 
petitor). 


Mr, J, H. Salter’s white and black bitch Paris (Priam—Hops), 
June 30, 
against 


g 
Col. C. J. Cotes’s liver and white Carlo (Jasper—Sal), April 14. 


Major Pratt’s liver and white bitch Lady of the Lake (Lake © 
—Flash IIL) March 31, 


against 
Prince Solms’s liver and white dog Luck of Hessen (Naso— 
La Vole), July 31. 


Sir T. B, Leonard’s liver and white bitch Maud IIL (Priam 
—Nell), May 51, 
ugainst 


Mr.. G. Pilkington’s liver and white dog Lymm (Lake— 
Norah), June 11. 


Mr. R. J. Lioyd-Price’s liver and white dog Owen Alaw 
(Lucky Sixpence—Golden Guinea), May 4, 
against 
Sir T. B. Lennard’s liyer and white dog Plover (‘Tory—Crys- 
tabel), May 5. 


Mr. Heywood-—Lonsdale’s liver and white bitch Polly (Bow 
—Peach), Jan.-8, a bye. d 
. SETTERS, 

Mx. Elias Bishop’s black and white dog Ranging Aaron 
(Blue Boy—Priticess Maud), Feb, 27, 

; against 

Mr. E. W. L. Popham’s black, white aud tan bitch Penelope 

(Count Dan Il.—Pallas), March 9. 


Rey. 8. East’s orange and white dog Count Dazzle (Count 
Dan I1.—Duchess of Orange), April 15, 


agains 
Mx. Edwin Bishop's black and white dog Windham (Rake of 
Weedon—Daisy), Jan. 15. 


Mr, T. Dicken’s black and white dog Frank (Braye Burton 
—Blue Bell), May 27, 


‘ against : ‘ 
Mr, E. W. L, Popham’s black and white dog Pan (Count Dan 
IL.—Pallas), March 9, 


—" —— tt “‘CSP;™”;” 


“Prins Solms’s black mad white dog Bandit of Braunfels 
(Roderick of Braunfets————), Jan. 10, 


against 
Mr. H, C, Hartley's black and white dog Pilot (Tam o’ Shan- 
ter—Gipsy Girl), Jan. 9, withdrawn, 


_ Mr. BE. Armstrong’s lemon and white bitch Bess IV, (King 
Ned—Shut IL.), April 1, 
i against 
Mx. Elias Bishop’s black, white and tan dog Ranging Moses 
(Blue Boy—Princess Maud), Feb. 27. 


Mr. J. Bishop’s black, white and tan bitch Bouncing Queen 
(Buxton—Bonnie Queen) Feb. 24, — 
against 
ol. C. J. Cotes’s black and white bitch Duchess of Wales 
(Dick I1,—Grace) Feb, 15. 


Mr. J. H. Salter’s Paris was the winner of the pointer prize, 

but was absent when called to run the final tie with the setter 

for first place, and Mr. Elias Bishop’s Ranging Aaron was de- 
clared the absolute winner of the Derby. 


ALL-AGED STAKE. 

_ A sweepstake of £6 10s: for sixteen all-aged pointers or setters, 
dogs and bitches, £50 for the winner, £25 tor the second, and 
the third and fourth £10 each. If the stake does not fillthe 
prizes to be given in proportion to the number of entries. 
There were fifteen in the All-Aged Stake, nine pointers and 


six setters, as follows: ; ' ; 
Mr. Fauntleroy’s black and white setter bitch Piff (Penn IT. 


—Philo), 3yrs., 


against 
Mr. Blias Bishop’s black and whitesetter dog Ranging Aaron 
(Blue Boy—Princess Maud), Feb. 27. 


Mr. H. C. Hartley’s black, white and tan setter dog Bevis 
(Buxton—Pearl IL), Jan. 25, 1881, 
against . 
Mr. T. Armstrong’s black and white setter dog John Ander- 
son (John o’ Groat— Wise), about 2yrs. 


Mr. J. F. BH. Harter’s liver and white setter bitch Rhine ITI. 
(Lord Downe’s Sam IiI—Rhine IL), about lyr. 9mos., 
against 
Mr. W. Arkwright’s black, white and tan setter bitch Little 
Bess (Blue Boy—Maud) 2yrs. 


Sir T. Barrett Lennard’s liver and white pointer dog Priam 
(Young Bang—Teal), ! 
against 
Mr. R. Lloyd-Price’s liver and white pointer dog Ruler (Little 
Ben—Bow Bell), Jan. 11, 1882. _ 
Mr. Barclay Field’s liver and white pointer dog Young Dick 
(Dick—Flame), about 5yrs., 
against 
Mr, GC. T. Abbott's lemon and white pointer dog Brave Bijou 
(The Fop—Bonny Laurel), 2yrs. 


Mr. Edward Armstrong’s liver, white and tan pointer dog 
Garfield )Lord Downe’s Bob—Lord Downe’s Jane), 
against 
Mr. R. J. Lloyd-Price’s liver and white pointer dog Elias 
(Bang—Hebe), April 9, 1880. 
My. Pilkington’s liver and white pointer bitch Dingle (Druid 
—Bess), 2yrs., 
against 
H. 8. H. Prince Solms’s pointer dog Naso of Kippen. 
Mr. J. H. Salter’s pointer bitch Malt (Mike, 4215—Romp, 
4245), born in 1881, a bye. 


Mr. J. H. Salter’s pointer bitch Malt won the first prize. 
Mr. BR. J. Lloyd-Price’s pointer dog Elias won second prize. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
Kennel! notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To iusure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Golor. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

8, Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 

5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9, Dam, with her sire and dam. 


of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. / 


NAMES CLAIMED, » 


(= See instructions at head of this column. 

Roxy O’ More. By Mr, W. Clinton Mumford, Brooklyn, N. Y., for 
red Irish setter bitch, whelped Jan. 1, 1884, by Rory O*More out of 
Sybil (Larry—Anne Boleyn). 

Count Ranger, Prince Ranger, Bang Ranger, Drake Ranger, 
Minnie Ranger, Drab Ranger and Nell Ranger. By My.5. B. Dilley, 
Ro:endale, Wis., for lemon and white pointers, four dogs and three 
bitches, whelped April 3, 1884, by his Ranger Croxteth out of his 
Fanny Faust. 

Mayflower Belton. By Mr. W. 8. Cornell, Waterbury, Ct., for liver 
and white English setter bitch, whelped March 5, 1884, by Yale Belton 
(Belton—Blonde) aut of Gipsy (Sport—Belle). 

Dan. BY. Mr. C, H. Sweet, Malden, Mass.. for red Irish setter dog, 
ee eb. 25, 1884, by Watts (Berkley—Rose) out of Skip (Max— 

annie), : 

Dashing Primrose. By Mr. G. R. Nichols, New Hayen, Ct., for 
black, white and tan English setter bitch, whelned July 20, 1883, by 
Dashing Monarch out of List (Lincoln—Petrel II.). - 

Ludy Pearl. By the Vetroit Kennel Club, Detroit, Mich,, for white, 
with black ears, English setter bitch, whelped June 3, 1883, by Nixey 
(A, KR. 177) out of Princess Alice (A,K.R. 116). 

Creole Belle. By Mr. BE. D. McConnell, Madison, N. J., for black 
and white English setrer bitch, whelped March 29, 1884, by Prince 
(Pride of the Border—Petrel) out of Lorna Doone (A.K.R. 39). 

Rebel King, Rebel Jack, Rebel Mua and Rebel Juno. By Mr. R. 
M. Brown, Jr., Amberst Court House, Va., for lemon and white Eng- 
lish setters, two dogs and two bitches,whelped April 22, 1884, by Rebel 
Wind’em out of his May (Lincoln—Daisy Dean), 

Rebel Dick, Rebel Fritz and Rebel May. By Mr. R. M. Brown. Jx., 
Amherst Court House, Va., for English setters, whelped April 22. 
1884, a black and white dog, a black, white and tan dog, and a black, 
white and tan bitch, by Rebel Wind’em out of his May (Lincoln— 
Daisy Dean). / 

Sport, Beau, Mattie Croxteth and Bessie. By Mr. R. W, Shaw, 
Galveston.Tex., for liver and white pointers, two dogs and two bitches, 
whelped March 5, 1884, by champion Faust out of Ruby Croxteth 
(Croxteth—lass).- 

Made Croxieth. By Mr. R. W. Shaw, Galveston, Tex., for lemon 
. aud white poimter bitch, whelped March 5, 1884, by champion Faust 

out of BDV ACTORIEES (Croxteth—Lass). ; 

Game. claiming the name Game for my pointer puppy I said 

(by mistake) that the dam, Grace, was owned by Mr. A. Collins. She 

is owned by Mr, N. Elmore.—E. W. BrarpsLery. 


= BRED. 


tas~ See instructions at head of this column. 
Lassie—Don. The Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer bitch Lassie 
(A.K.R. 205) to Mr, R. T. Vandevort’s Don (A.K.R. 165), March 29. 
Bell—Don. Mr. J. W, Murnan’s (Keeling, Tenn.) pointer bitch Bell 
(Hick—Peto) to Mr, R. T, Vandevyort’s Don (A.K.R. 165), April 7. 
Lady Romp Il.—Don. The Moorfield Kennel’s (Phila Sphia, Pa.) 
ae eee Lady Romp I. (Francis’s Prince—Leache’s Belle) to Mr. 
. PD, Vandeyort’s Don (A.K.R. 165), April 25. 
biteh Shultz (Clipper—Bow Queot) tothe Detroit Remel Club's king 
itech Shultz (Chipper—Bow Queen) to the Detroit Kennel Glub’s Kin: 
ks ok Laan un AG 
ue—King Bow, ‘The Detroit Kennel Club's (Detroit. Mich.) pointer 
bitch Sue (Hindoo—Princess Bow) to their King Bow (AK RBS, 
Leah I—Zanzibar. Mr. 8. B. Foard'’s (list se Md.) English 
setter bitch Leah Il. to Mr, ®. W. Jester’s Zanzibar (A.K.R, 1182), 


4 


May 1%, 


“FOREST AND STREAM. 


Nancy Rake—Buckellew. Mr. Thos. F. Connolly’s (Flatbush, L. I.) 
English setter bitch Nancy Rake (A.K.R, 42) to Mr. W. A. Coster’s 
Buckellew (A-K.R. 30), May 14. 

Woodstock Flirt—Hornell Silk, Mr, Andrew Laidlaw’s (Woodstock 
Ont.) cocker spaniel bitch Woodstock Flirt (A.K.R. 661) to Hornell 
Silk (Obo—Chloe IL), March 28. 

Snowhall—Prince, The Millbrook Kennel’s {New York) smooth- 
coated St, Bernard bitch Snewball (A.K.R. 416) to Mr. Amasa J. Parker, 
Jr.'s, Prince (A.K.R. 1058), April 19. 

Fan—Zanzibar, Mr. Geo. Bennet’s English setter bitch Fan to Mr. 
EK. W. Jester’s Zanzibar (A.K.R. 1182), April 30. ; 

Bizorah—Nimrod. Mr. J. H. Child's (Milton. Mass.) red Irish setter 
bitch Bizorah (Biz—Flora) to the Ashmont Kennel’s chainpion Nimrod 
(AJR, 631), April 27. 

Snipe—Suil-a-Mor. Mr. Edward Lawrence, Jr.’s (Boston, Mass.) 
imported red Irish setter bitch Snipe (Palmerston—Quail) to Mr. Jos. 
Hayes’s Suil-a-Mor (Claremont— Dido), May 10, 

Myrtle—Mingo. Mr. Will Davidson’s (Chatham, Ont.) English 
setter bitch Myrtle (A.K.R. 114) to Mr, William Wells’s Mingo (Druid— 


Star). 

Nina—Coin. Mr, J. Dobson's (Hyde Park, Mass.) English setter 
biteh Nina (Lelaps—Jessie) to Mr. F. B. Pay’s Coin, May 2. 

Bird—Feaufort. Mr. J. R. Trissler’s pointer bitch Bird (Harry— 
Nell) to Mr, CO. H. Mason's Beaufort (A.K.R. 694), April 24. 

Flora—Black Prince, Mr. H, Reiche’s (New York) cocker spaniel 
bitch Flora (Plake—Lady) to Mr, A. ©. Wilmerding’s Black Prince 
(A.B, 62), May 10, 

Queen Maud—Count. Mr. 8. Hawks's (Ashfield, Mass.) Enelish 
setter bitch Queen Maud (Racket—Kelp) to Mr. P. H. Foster's Count 
(Count Noble—Rosalind), April 30. 

Nellie—Peter Black, Mr. Henry §. Wood’s (Greenfield, Mass.) 
pointer bitch Nellie to Mr. D, W, C, Parker’s Peter Black. April 28. 

Marchioness—Diavolo. The Ashmont Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) 
imported mastiff bitch Marchioness to their Diavolo (A.K.R, 548), 


May 7. 
—Beaufort, Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant’s imported pointer 
biteh to Mr. C, H. Mason's Beaufort (A.K.R. 694), May ‘7. - 


WHELPS, 


== See instructions at head of this column, 

Folly. Mr. W. A. Walker’s (Nyack, N. Y.) pointer bitch Folly, April 
19, seven (four dogs), by Mr. A. BH. Godeffroy’s Croxteth. 

Flick. Mr. Frank Huckins’s (East Boston, Mass.) black and tan 
setter bitch Flick (A.K.R. 293), May 4, seven (five dogs), by Dinks 
(A, K.R. 1077); one dog since dead. 

Hadie. Mr. J. Dobson's (Hyde Park, Mass.) English setter bitch 
Hadie (Wrank—Jessie), March 20, nine (three dogs), by Lelaps. 

Bow Queen. The Detroit Kennel Club’s (Detroit, Mich.) pointer 
bitch Bow Queen (A.K.R. 558), May 6, three (two dogs), by their King 
Bow (A.K.R. 83). 

Lassie. Mr. Fred. W. Rothera’s (Simcoe, Ont.) imported Scotch 
collie bitch Lassie (A.K.R. 445), April 30, nine (four dogs), by his Lorne 
(A.K.R, 446). , 

May. Max. R. M. Brown, Jr.’s, English setter bitch May (Lincoln— 
Daisy Dean), April 29, nine (four dogs), by Rebel Wind’em. 

Beulah, Hon. John §. Wise’s (Richmond, Va.) pointer bitch Beulah 
(Flake—Lilly), April 25, five (two dogs). by his Tom (Sensation—Col- 
burn’s Belle); all lemon and white. = 

Spot. Mr, B. W. Jester’s (St, George's, Del.) beagle bitch Spot, 
May 8, five (three dogs), by his Lead (Sailor—Rose). 

Smut. Mr. H. CG, Bronsdon’s (Boston, Mass.) black cocker spaniel 
biteh Smut (A. K.R. 858), April 29, five (three dogs), by Obo I. (A. K.R, 
432): all black; one dog dead, 


SALES. 


GS" See instructions at head of this column. 

Midnight. Black cocker spaniel bitch (A.K.R. 656), by Mr. Andrew 
Laidlaw. Woodstock, Ont., to Mr. Geo. McBride, Hamilton, Ont. 

Bub—Toronta Jet whelps. Cocker spaniels, whelped March 12, 
1884, by Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ont., a black dog to Mr, 
J. CO. Fox, Orangeville, Ont.; a black dog to Mr. W. W. Blair,Toronto, 
Ont. ;a black bitch to Mr. W. Morris, Toronto, Ont., and a liver dog to 
Mr. A. Hardheimer, Toronto, Ont, : 

Newton Abbot Lady. Imported liver and tan cocker spaniel bitch, 
whelped 1883 (Bend Or—Ladybird), by Mr. Thos. Jacobs, Newton Ab- 
bot, Hng., to Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ont. 

Bessie. Liver and white pointer bitch, whelped March 5, 1884 
(champion Faust—Ruby Croxteth). by Mr. R. W, Shaw, Galvestun, 
Tex., to Mr, Benj. Calhoun, Bryan, Tex. 

Sport. Liverand white pointer dog, whelped March 5, 1884 (cham- 

ion Faust—Ruby Croxteth), by Mr. R. W, Shaw, Galveston, Tex., to 

r. Morgan Price, Montgomery, Tex, 

Beau. Liver and white pointer dog, whelped March 5, 1884 (cham- 
pion Faust—Ruby Croxteth), by Mr. R. W, Shaw, Galveston, Tex., to 
Mr. T. GC. Buffington, Anderson, Tex. 

Kittimari. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 1087), by Dr. Wm, Jarvis, 
Claremont, N. H,, to Mr. Chas. Parsons, Jr., New York. 

Megora. Red Irish setter bitch, whelped Aug, 4, 1888 (Hlcho, A.K.R. 
2956—Rose, A.K.R. 298), by Dr. Wm, Jarvis, Claremont, N. H.,to Mr, J. 
A. J. Sprague, Englewood, Ill. 

Little Kote. Tan and white English setter bitch, whelped Dec, 12, 
1883 (Dash II].—Katydid), by Mr. E. H. Fisher, Jr., New Bedford, 
Mass., to Mr. J. L. Motley, Danville, Va. - : 

Don. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelpéd April 27, 1883 (Jim, 
A.K.R. 35—Dione), by Mr. Jas. K. Heyde, Bronxville, N. Y., to Ma. 
Ernest F, Thomas, Hoboken, WN. J. i . 

Lady Pearl. White. with black ears, English setter bitch, whelped 
June 8, 1883 (Nixey, A.K.R. 117—Prineess Alice, A.K.R. 116), by Mr. 
Cc. A. LaTour, Detroit, Mich.. to the Detroit Kennel Club, same 

lace. 
= Guido, Italian greyhound dog (A.K.R. 906), by the Strawberry Hill 
Kennel, Leicester. Mass.. to Mr. C. W, Barnum, Lime Rock, Ct. 

Forest Royal. Blue belton English setter dog. 15mos. old (Prince 
Royal—Forest Queen), by Mr. C. A. Stone, London, Ont., to Mr. Wm, 
Tallman, Worcester, Mass. : 

Crisp. Irish water spaniel dog, whelped Jan. 11, 1884 (Irish Bob— 
Trish Bess), by Mr. W. A, Curtis, Bethel, Me., to Major Lovejoy, same 


lace. - 
eer Scott, Crisp and Jennie. Trish water spaniels, three dogs 
and one bitch, whelped Jan. 11, 1884 (Irish Bob—trish Bess), by 


Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to Mr. Charles A. Boxer, Winnipeg, Man- 
itoba. 
Lady Madelon. Mastiff bitch (A. K.R. 547), by the Ashmont Kennel, 


Boston, Mass., to Mr. J. H, Child, East Miiton, Mass. 

Rory O’More—Lady Sybil whelp, Red Irish setter bitch, whelped 
Jan. 1, 1884, by the Rory O’More Kennel, Albany, N. Y., to Mr. W. 
Clinton Mumford, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

Forest Dora. Blue belton English setter bitch, 2yrs. old (Dick T.ay- 
erack—- Forest Fly), by Mr. C, A. Stone, London, Ont., to M1.Wm, Tall- 
man, Worcester, Mass. 

Gus Bondhu—Countess Mollie whelps. English setters, whelped 
Feb. 27, 1883, by Mr. P. Moeller, Nyack, N. Y., two dogs to My. John 
D. Ladd, Cairo, Ill.; two dogs to Mr, B. Moeller, Nanuet, N'Y.;one dog 
and one bitch to Mr. D, A. Goodwin, Jr., Newburyport, Mass., and one 
dog to Mr. Hikhoff, Nanuet, N.Y. 

Spark, Fawn mastiff dog, whelped Jan. 26, 1884 (Diavolo, A.K.R. 
548—Madge, 548), hy the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to Mr. G. 


‘| Nicholas Jacobi, eer ne, A. 


Queen Bess. White, black and ticked English setter bitch (A.K.R. 
372). by Mr. L. T. Wield, Fall River, Mass., to Mr, E. H, Fisher, Jr., 
New Bedford, Mass. 

Dashing Primrose. Black, white and tan English setter bitch; 
whelped July 20, 1883 (Dashing Monarch—List), by Mr, J. C. Higgins, 
Delaware City, Del., to Mr. G. R. Nichols, New Haven, Ct. 

Joy—Nelly whelss. White, black and tan beagles, one dog and one 
bitch, whelped Feb, 21, 1884, by Mr. Oscar Green, Somerville, N. J,. to 
Mr. A. K. Fowler, Caledonia, N. Y. 

Pete. Red Irish setter dog, whelped March 14, 1884 (Ned Elcho, 
A.K.R, 984—bridget O’More, A.K.R. 964), by Major Loyejoy, Bethel, 
Me., to Mr. Gardner Crane, Brunswick, Me. 

Rakewell. Black, white and tan English setter bitch, age not given 
Rake—Mellissa), by Mr, Chas, Rule, Cincinnati, O., to Ma. J. A. Os- 
camp, same place. 

Essex. Smooth-coated St, Bernard dog (A,K.R. 941), by the Essex 
found Andover, Mass., to the Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, 

ass. 

True—Daisy whelp, Black, white and tan beagle dog puppy, by 
Mr. J. S. Cassen, DeKalb, Ill, to Mr. W. J. Percival, Stanton, Mich. 

Racer—Maud I, whelp, Black, white and tan beagle bitch puppy, 
by Mr. W. H. Todd, Vermillion, O., to Mr. W. J. Percival, Stanton, 


ich. 

Myrtle. Black and white ticked English setter bitch (A.K.R. 114), 
by the Detroit Kennel Club, Detroit, Mich., to Mr. Will Davidson, 
Chatham, Ont, 

Village Belle. Fox-terrier bitch, 2yrs. Ymos. old (Volo—Beauty), 
by Mr. JohnjT. Cable, Toronto, Ont., to Mr. Frank C. Wheeler, Lon- 


don, Ont. 
Bernardo, Rough-coated St. Bernard dog (A.K.R. 930), by the 
Essex Kennel, andoyer, Mass,, to Mr, Geo. N. Gardner, New York 


Lopez. Mastiff dog, whelped Jan, 26, 1884 (Diavolo, A.K.R. 548— 
Madge, A.K.R. 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to Mr. G, 
H. Jacobi, Baltimore, Md. 

Hero IU. Mastiff dog (A.K.R. 545), by Mr. J. W. Burgess, Hast 
Orange, N. J., to Dr, J. Frank Perry, Boston, Mass. 

Jill. Liver and white pointer bitch, 2yrs, old (Joe—Fan Fan), by 
Mr. J. N, Lewis, Mahwah, N. J., to Mr. F. R, Hitchcock, New York, 

Brant F, Blue belton English setter dog, 17mos. old (Dashing 


Monareh— Mollie Bawn), by Mr, S. B. Foard, Bliton, Md., to Mr. G 
Edward Osborn, New Haven, Ct, 

Black Tourmie. Black cocker spaniel biteh (A.K.R. 648), by Mr. 
Winchester Johnson, Boston, Mass., to Mi, 1. N, Phelps Stokes, New 


York, 
PRESENTATIONS. 

=> See instructions at head of this column, 

Duke of Orange, Orange and white pointer dog (A.K.R, 1786), by 
Mr, Louis B. Wright, New York, to the Westminster Kennel Club. 

Tom—Reulah whelp, Leémou and white pointer dog, whelped April 
25; cen by Hon. John 8. Wise, Richmond, Va., to Mr, Jas, G. Winter- 
smith. a 

Maude Faust. Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped March 5, 
1884 (champion Faust—Ruby Croxteth), by Mr. R. W. Shaw, Galves- 
ton, Tex., to Mr. M. P. Yarborough, Navasota, Tex, 

Mattie Croxteth. Liver and white pointer bitch, whelped March 5, 
1884 (champion Faust—Ruby Croxteth), by Mr. R. W. Shaw, Galves- 
ton, Tex,, to Mr. M, P. Yarborough, Navasota, Tex., who has pre- 
sented her to Dr, A. H. Ketchum, same place. 

DEATHS. 

(S—- See instructions at head of this column, 

Trim, Red Irish setter dog (A.K.R. 380), owned by Mr. John A. 
Smethers, Berwick, Pa., April 21, from distemper. 

Dashing Prinrose. Black, white and tan English setter bitch, 
whelped July 20, 1883 (Dashing Monarch—List), owned by Mr. G. R. 
Nichols, New Haven, Ct., from distemper. 

Criz. Ivish water spaniel dog, whelped Jan. 11, 1884 (Irish Bob— 
Irish Bess), owned Hy Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me. 

Othello. Newfoundland dog (A.K.R, 763). owned by Mr.W. H, Tuck, 
Wilkesbarre, Pa., from distemper, 

Obo I.—Hornell Ruby whelp. Black cocker spaniel biteh, whelped 
Feb. 4, 1884) owned by Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ont,, from 
distemper. 

Colonel Stubbs— Yolande whelp. Cocker spaniel dog,whelped March 
27, 1884, owned by Mr. W. H. Tuck, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 


ANOTHER LEGAL DECISION.—Judge Van Vorst and a 
jury, in Supreme Court, Circuit, were occupied during the 
entire session yexupcay. in settling a dispute as to the owner- 
ship of a diminutive Skye terrier. The dog disappeared from 
Mr. Kane’s residence at Newport, R. I., and was found in a 
New York stable. John Thearl, a coachman, said he 
had purchased the dog of John Darling, another coach- 
man, who said he had brought it from Newport. The 
question whether Kane or Thearl owned the dog was to 
be passed upon in that suit yesterday. Mrs. Kane declared 
that the dog she saw in Thearl’s possession was the pet she had 
lost, and, on cross-examination, was positive she could now re- 
cognize it among any number of dogs. Then five Skye terriers,, 
apparently exactly alike, were brought into court, and each 
in turn was taken before her while -on the witness stand, 
from behind the jury box. She quickly answered as to 
each of the four first produced, “That is not the dog,” 
but instantly the fifth appeared she said, ‘‘That is my dog.” 
Experts testified for the defendant that if was impossible to 
indentify one Skye terrier, after the lapse of two years from 
any other Skye terrier: that the dog in controversy was but 
four years old, as appeared by its teeth, while the age of the 
dog Mrs. Kane lost would now be nearly five years, and that 
this was not, therefore, Mrs. Kane’s dog. Darling, of whom 
Thearl bought the dog, could not be produced, as he had a few 
days ago suddenly left his employment here and gone to 
Oregon, It wasshown that he was in Newport in the summer 
of 1881. Myr. Simon Sterne claimed on behalf of the defendant 
that a dog was not property in the sense that a replevin action 
could be maintained for its recovery, Judge Van Vorst held 
that this was no longer so in this State, the common-law rule 
having been abrogated, and charged the jury that the only 
question to be determined by them was whether the dog was 
Mrs, Kane’s property. at the time Thearl claimed to have 
bought it, It did not matter whether the dog had strayed or 
been stolen, and was then sold by the thief or person who took 
itup. A purchase from such person did not give title as against 
the owner of the dog. The jury gave a yerdict for plaintiff, 
assessing the value of the dog at $75, and awarding $25 
damages in addition.—N. Y, Sun. 


BOY AND DOG.—James Gessner and his wife called at sey- 
eral police stations yesterday for news of their 14-year old boy 
Cornelius, who has been missing since May 1. His mother had 
turned his little black dog out of the house, and Cornelius said 
he would go with the dog. . ‘‘I met some boys up town,” Mr. 
Gessner said, “and they told me that they saw him near 
Twenty-third street and Second avenue last Saturday, He 
was cuddled up in the doorway of a big building asleep with 
the dog. They said they tried to get him to come home, but 
he ran away. Mr, Doherty, my neighbor, saw bim upon 
Second avenue on Monday with the dog. A policeman had a 
eae with him on Tuesday, and the dog was with him.”—W. Y, 

Un. ’ 


ROYALIST.—Editor Forest and Stream: Please note in 
your paper that the Millbrook Kennei’s smooth-coated St. Ber- 
nard dog Royalist, second prize at the New York show, had 
only arrived from England the Friday previous, after a four- 
teen- days’ passage. He was seasick all the time, and did not 
eat more than five mealson the voyage. His weight when 
in good form is 170 pounds. He lost some 55 pounds coming 
over. Hoe is very big-boned and massive, and will not be 
ale in a month from now.—W. W. Tucker (New York, 
May 15). 


THE CHICAGO DOG SHOW.—the second annual bench 
show to be held at Chicago June 10, 11, 12.and 14 promises to be 
the largest show ever held in the West. There wili be extra 
champion classes for setters, pointers and spaniels, The show 
will be held in the armory ot Battery D, the same building 
that was used last year. Entries close May 51. Premium 
ee neg had by addressing Mr. Charles Lincoln, Box 384, 

thicago, 1. 


SPANIEL IMPORTATION,—Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, Wood- 
stock, Ontario, has receiyed the liver and tan cocker spaniel 
bitch Newton-Abbot Lady from Jacobs’s Kennel, Devonshire, 
England. She is by Bend Or, a noted prize winner, out of the 
celebrated Ladybird, and should be an acquisition to the 
spaniel stock of the country. She was bred to Farrow’s Obo 
before bemg shipped. 


FASTEST GREYHOUND PRIZE.—Mr. J. McMaster'’s 
Scotty won the special for the fastest greyhound at the New 
York show. We were unable to obtain the information in 
season to publish last week. 


SPECIAL SENSATION PUPPY PRIZE.—The winner of 
this prize at the New York show was Mr. F. R. Hitcheock'’s 
Prince Hamlet (Sensation—Lass). 


BLACK VICTOR.—Kditor Forest and Stream: Gan you or 
any of your readers give me the pedigree of the cocker spaniel 
Black Victor?—K. 


PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


The small boy im front of the organ grinder is no more inevitable 
than that the pen in the penholder you are using should be Hster- 
brook’s.—a4dv. 

The Clinton Manufacturing Co., 22 Vesey street, New York, offer a 
gold watch to the person sending them the largest number of Hnglish 
dictionary words contained in “Bayberry Glycerine Suvap” (proper 
aos eeEtnHcal names excluded). The list will close on July 4, 1884, 
—Adv. : 

Boor oF THE Dog.—We have received from the Philadelphia Ken 
nels, 237 South Highth street, a copy of their Dog Buyers’ Guide. It 
contains & finely executed colored frontispiece; well drawn engray- 
megs of nearly every breed of dog, and all kinds of dog furnishing 
goods. Weshould judge that the book cost to produces a great deal 
more than the price asked—i10 cents—and would advise all our read- 
ers who are interested in dogs to send for the book,—Ady, , 


334 


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FOREST AND STREAM. [May 22, 1864, 


Rifle and Tray Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 20 to 28.—Knoxville Gun Club Second Annual Tour: 
Knoxville, Tenn, OC, C. Hebbard, Secretary. sin ta 
May 26 to 31.—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Ill, Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Oo,, P. 0. Box 1292 
Cincinnati, Ohio, : 
_June 210 9.—Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen’s Associa- 
ne nee ao Ky: J, 0. Barbour, Secretary. 157 Third ayenue, 


RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 


THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARM, 


HIS rifieis one of the best known of the many repeating arms 
which haye followed each other into public attention within the 
past twenty years. It has lived down much opposition, and is 4 fayor- 
ite with many expert hunters in every section of the world, 
The present form of Winchester gun is to be eredited to several 
different inventors. In 1854 the Messrs, Horace Smith and D. §. Wes- 
son (Of the firm of Smith & Wesson, pistol makers) invented the ar 
rangement of finger lever, links and breech bolt now used in the Win- 
chester gun. These they made use of in what was krown at that 
lime as the ‘‘Volcanic Repeating Pistol.” In this form it came into 
porsession of the Voleanic Arms Company, a corporation organized 
for its manufacture at New Haven, of which Mr. 0. #. Winthester 
was avery large stockholder, This concern failed immediately, the 
pistol proving to be a very imperfect invention, defective in the form 
of cartridge which it used, and in other respects, more by reason of 
the state of the art at that time than through fanltin design. The 
assets of the bankrupt company were purchased by Mr, O, F. Win- 
chester anda new company was organized for the manufacture of 
the same arm, improyed by Mr. B Tyler Henry, of New Haven, and 
the new gun was known as the Henry rifle. Mr. Henry's improve- 
ment permitted the use of a metallic cartridge, and added to the gun 
the form of extractor and arrangement of firing pin used in the pres- 
ent gun. The Henry gun was succes-fully manufactured for several 
years, during the warand afterward, Several Western regiments 
were armed with it and it speedily acquired reputation, As vhe de- 
mand inereased, the manufacture of the gun, which had been carried 
on at New Haven, was transferred to Bridgeport, Conn. 

The defects which had been found to exist in fhe Henry gun were 
remedied chiefly by the improvement of Mr. Nelson King, ati that 
time (1866) in the employ of the company, which had again changed 
its name and become the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Mr. 
King’s improvement consisting in the side loading arrangement, 
which has, since the expiration of his patent, been adopted in all re- 
peating arms which have the magazine under the barrel. As the gun 

iad accumulated many improvements, so that its origin could be 
attributed to no one individual. it gradually lostitsname and acquired 
to itself the name of the company manufacturing it, becoming 
known as the Winchester guu, In 1870 its place of manufacture was 
changed from Bridgeport, Vonn., to New Haven, in the same State, 
where has since been made. About four hundred thousand of all 
kinds have been made and sold, Itis now offcred in many different 
forms. The model of *66is arim-fire gun. The model of 73 and % 
are center-fire guns. The model of *73 is made for 382, .38 and 44 
caliber cartridges. A ,22-caliber of this model will soon be put upou 
the marker. The model of ‘76 is made to carry two different cart- 
ridges of .45-caliber, one of 75 grains and one of 60 grains, and a .50- 
caliber cartridge of 95 grams of powder, 

The Winchester gun ts universally used, the foreign demand being 
about as large as the domestic. About one hundred thousand guns 
are in the hands of the Turkish army, and the celebrated “leaden 
vain” at Pleyna came from them. About twenty-five thousand are in 
the honds of the Chilian troops and were used against the Peruvians 
in the late war. The Northwestern mounted police are armed in 
large part with carbines. model '76, which haye been bought from 
time to time in small lots during the last f-w years. 

No attempt has been made to advertise the Winchester gun at 
targets or upon the different ranges of the country. The sale and 
reputation of the gun has made tois, in the opinion of its makers, 
entirely unnecessary. The following score of the rapidity and accu- 
racy match at Creedmoor of 1876 shows what the Winchester has ac- 
complished os the national range. 

The match was for the Schuyler, Hartley & Graham medal, which, 
according to the conditions, was open to all comers. Distance 200yds. 
Position. standing, Any rifle. Magazine guns to be used as single- 
Joadrrs only, Two sighting shots, to be fired consecutively. Com- 
petitors may fire as many shots as possible within half a mimute, and 
to haye two chances; the aggregate score made in both rounds to be 
counted. Entrance fee, 50 cents; half the entrance money to be 
divided among the three highest scores, as follows: The first taking 
the badge and half the money, the second two-sixths. and the third 
one-sixth, No restriction as to the manner of tukine cartridges. 
Badge to be won three times (not necessarily consecutively), before 
becoming the personal property of the winner. Competitors will 
stand at firing point with rifle loaded and cocked, butt below elnew, 
until the command ‘Fire.’ The scorer will comm«nd: ‘Are you 
ready? Fire!” and inyert a half-minute sand glass; at the end of 
thirty seconds he will eall Time.” A bullseye will be deducted from 
the score for every Shot fired after ‘‘time*’is called. 


WINNERS. 

Date—1875, | Number of Name Rifle. | Scor 
“ : Competitors. ; x7 POne: 

1—July 22......... 19 Wm. Robertson....| W.-B. v4 
2—August19....... 6 Geo. W. Wingate...| Spr. Br! 
3—September 16... 10 J, EH. Stetson ,....., Win. 52 
_ 4—vectober 21...... 5 J. E. Stetson ...... Win. 73 
5—November 18.... 6 J. H, Stetson........ Win. 63 


Finally won by Capt. J. E. Stetson, who entered only on the Jast 
three days, using a Winchester rifle as a single breechloader only, in 
competition with Ward-Burton, Remington; Springficld, Sharps and 
Peabody rifles. 

The cuts show the general features of the arm in Fig. 1, while in 
Rigs. 2 and 3may be seen the interior workings of the breech mechan- 
ism. 

Te magazine is charged while the system is closed, in the position 
shown in Fig, 2, by pressing down the spring cover, found on the 
right hand side of the receiver, with the point of the cartridge, and 
inserting the latter through the opening thus made, This last is 
closed by the spring cover as soon as the cartridge is inserted. The 
operation is repeated until the magazine is filled, 

When it is desired to load, the finger-lever, B, is thrown forward to 
the position shown in Fig, 3, and then returned to that shown in Wig, 2. 
This motion throws out the shell or cartridge in the chamber, trans- 
fers a cartridze from the magazine to the chamber, cocks the ham- 
mer, and leayes the arm ready to fire by pulling the trigger. 

This motion may be execu/ed while the gun is at the hip or at the 
shoulder, withont taking the eye from the sights, thus enabling the 
firer to discharge two or more shots without removing the gun from 
the shoulder or losing sight of the object which it is desired to hit, 

The model of 1866, now regarded in many quarters as little better 
than a pop gun, was first introduced in 1260 to supercede the Henry 
rifle, which had from 1860 been manufactured by the New Haven 
Arms Company, which was suecee(led in 1866 by the Winchester Re- 
peating Arms Company. Ib remains, in the mechanism for loading 
and firing, precisely the same as the Henry, the improvements con- 
sists in an entire change in the magazine, and the arrangement for 
filling it. This gun uses a rim-fire metallic cartridge, .44-caliber, 
with 28 grains of powder and 200 grains of lead. The receiver, or 
lock frame is of gun metal; the other parts, except the stock, of 
steel and wrought iron, of the best quality: no malleable iron being 
used, Up to tne limit of range that is possible with the small amount 
of powder and ball used, it to-day remains unexcelled as a weapon or 
hunting piece; and, contrary to the expectation of the manufacturers 
since the introduction of more powerful arms, it is still in active 
demand in many markets, and about 160,000 are now in use. 

Tn the model of 1873, the first and most important improvement 
consists in adapting it to the use of alonger and center-fire cartridge. 
holing a charge of 40 grains of powder instead of 28 as in the model 
of 1866, retaining the same caliber, .44, and the same weight of ball, 
viz., 200 grains. The effect of thischange is to increase the initial 
velocity of thearm from atjout 1,125 to 1,825 feet per second, reducing 
or flattening the trajectory, and increasing the power and accuracy 
of the arm, and giving it a penetration of about four inches in pie 
board at 1,090yds. The cartridges can also be reloaded. A second 
improvement in the sporting arm is the addition of a set, or hair- 
trigger. This differs from the ordimary hair trigger, in that it can be 
used precisely as if this trigger were not on the gun, if, as m hunting. 
it isnot wanted. For fine shooting, as in target practice: it is made 
available, thus; After setting the hammer at full cock, the trigger 
ahold ane pressed forward slightly, and itis thusset. If it is found 
too delicate, or not delicate enough, it can be adjusted to suit the 
wishes by turning’a set Screw in or ont, This serew will be found by 
the side of the trigger, 


opening in which the carrier block moves up and down. This lid, by 
the action of the finger lever. opens automatically when the 
loaded, and should always remain open until closed by hand atter 
firing. The object of this lidis to keep dirt and snow out of the lock. 


of gun-metal or brass, in the manufacture of the lock-frume, butt 
plate. and other parts, thus increasing the strength of the arm and 
reducing its weight, 
rier-block and the lid in the butt-plate, 
for the cleaning-rod. the object being to av id the liability to rust, so 
as to impede the movement of these parts, which would existif made 


gun carrying a central-fire cartridge, capable of reloading, caliber 45 
With 75 grains of powder and 350 grains of lead, being nearly double 
the charge used in model 1873, and giving an initial velocity of 1,450 
feet. 
in kind and quality asthe model 1873. Both set and plain trigger 
rifles are made; and all guns with plain trigger are provided with an 
attachment which renders premature explosion of the cartridze, even 
from carelessnes-, absolutely impossible. Im both infantry musket 
and carbine, the magazine is covered by the forearm its entire length. 
Sporting rifles may be had with pistol grip stocks, vernier and wind 
Zauge sights, if ordered. ; 


to meet the wants of those who desire an arm using a lighter charge 
than 75 grains of powder and 350 grains of lead, which is the amount 
used in tue regular model 1876. Ttis the same in every particular as 
that arm, and differs only from itin that it is chambered to use a .45- 
caliber straight shell, with 69 grains of Bomest and 300 grains of lead. 


froni it only im caliber, ,50, and in the cartridge to which itis adapted. 
Tnislast contains 95 grains of powder, and a hoilow-pointed bullet 
weighing 300 grains. J 
inserted copper tube is simply pe in to stiffen the bullet. It contains 
no powder or explosive of any kind. 


split-pointed bullets, as may be desired, Allthese bullets weigh 300 
grains each, and their shooting qualities are about e ual. 


obtained: and no ¢ ’ 
enabling the hunter to avoid missing the game through error iu cal- 
culating distances, while the recoil is not much greater than thatofa 
12-gauge shotgun using ordinary charges. 
for the English market with a 22in. barrel and with full length maga- 
zine, weighs but 84 pounds. 


using the rifle, before ) 
cleaned and oiled, inside and out; for this purpose a cleaning-rod 
will be found in the stock of the rifl 

in the butt-plate. 


1ing-pin, pull out the magazine tube, and take off the Fore-arm: then, 


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be strengthened by turning up the strain screw, which will be found 
directly under it, on the under side of the frame. 

To remove the breech-pin in the model of 1866,—After removing the 
side plates and links the spring-catch must next be taken out. which 
is done by moving the breech-pin back so that the pin that holds the 
spring-catch will be in a line with a corresponding hole through the 
frame; then with a small steel, wire punch out the pin. then move 
the breech-pin forward and take out the spring-catch; the piston can 
then be unscrewed from the breech with plyers or hand vise, first 
setting the hammer at full cock, or taking it out. 

To remove the breecn-pin in the models of 1873 and 1876 —After 
removing the side plates and links, fake out tho link-pin and re- 
tractor; the piston can then be pulled out with the fingers, first 
removing the hammer or settmg it at full cock. 

The price list of the Winchester arms varies with the different 
models, and care should be taken in ordering to specify the model as 
wellas the caliber if any specialform of arm is desired. The 1867 
model sporting rifle costs B22 with 24in. round barrel. carrying :6 
shots anu weighing 9 pountls. Octagon barrels cost $1 more. Muskets 
for the same cost $22, and carbines $20. The 1873 model sporting rifle 
carries 15 shots, .44-cal., and costs trom $25 to $27 according to the bar- 
rel. Muskets and carbines cost respectively $26 and $24. ‘Thismodel 
is chambered for the .44-40-200 cartridge, for the .33-40-180 and for the 
32-20-4115 cartridge. ‘The model of 1876is a much heavier rifle, and 
costs from $27 to $29. haying a 12 shot magazine and a 2sin. barrel. 
The musket with a 32in. barrel costs $27, and the carbine 22in. long in 
the barre! costs $25. 

The weapons Of this class call for a .45-cal, bullet and the cartridge 
made for it is a .45-75-350. The largest rifle of the company is the ex- 
press of .50-eal. The cost is from $35 to. $38 according to shape of 

harol all being 261n. long or under. The target rifle, which belongs 
to the 1876 model class, costs with pistol grip $45, and with vernier 
and wind gauge sights in addition $63. 


A third improvement consists in a sliding lid, which coyers the 


pun is 


A fourth improvement consists in the substitution of iron, in place 


The gun-metal is, however, retained in the car- 
opening into the receptacle 


of iron. 

A fifth improvement consists in a device which, it is, claimed, ab- 
solutely prevents accidental orpremature explesious. In most brer ch- 
loading firearms the firing pin, after the explosion of a cart: idge, de- 
pends upon a spiral spring to be thrown back even with the face of 
the breechclosing holt, If this spring is very strong, so as to insure 
its operation, it fends to break the force of the blow of the hammer; 
but if not strong enough fur the purpose, it soon gets so foul as no 
to work; and the firine-pin then projects, and if the breech is closed 
with a quick motion, the eartridge is exploded prematurely, To ob- 
viate this, nospringis used; but the firmg-pin 1s earried back by a 
positive motion retractor. 

There is made also of this model a -38-cal. to meet the demand for 
a Small-bore repeater. It employs a bottleneck shell holding 40zrs. 
nowder and 180 of lead, andis accurate up to 300yds., and for glass 

all shooters is a convenient arm. Tomeet a demand for a repeater 
of still smaller caliber, the .32-cal. arm was made, also carrying a cen 
ter-fire cartridge, haying 20ers of powder behind 115 of lead. Like 
the preceiling arm, in is made with full and halt length magazine. 

The success attending the sale and use of model 1878, and the con- 
stant calls from many sources, and particularly from the regions in 
which the grizzly bear and other Jarge game are found, as well as 
from the plains where the absence of cover and the shyness of the 
game require the hunter to make his shots at long range, made it 
desirable for the company to build a still more powerful gun, and the 
model of 1876 was introduced. 

Retaining all essentiil mechanical elements of the formermodel, and 
adding such improvements as seemed pos-ible, the result has been a 


AIR RESISTANCE. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

Before answering categorically the article on ‘‘Air Resistance,” b 
“Pp. contained in your issue of May 1, | wish to call attention toh 
fifth paragraph, commencing ‘I take it for granted, etc. 

He has made a mistake in taking it for granted. The facts being 
that I have been a reader of Forest sNp StREAM for but little over a 
year, and that the article I criticised last fall was the first of his that 
Thad eyer seen. Thus the implied charge of plagiarism falls to the 
ground. A careful perusal of his article and of the authorities quoted 
(mot ‘P.’s’’ quotations. for he has selected these to suit his and) will 
convince any unbiased reader. 

First—Thal in making my criticism I have not fallen into any error 
or discovered any ‘mare’s nest,”’ but that my conclusions were ab- 
solutely correct. Compare my article in Forres? anD STREAM, Aug. 
9, with ‘Motion of Projectiles,” also with section four of the article 
under discussion. 

Second—That "P.” was wrong in saying that “Taking the element 
of velocity into account, the airre~istance proved trom these experi- 
ments to be greatest between velocities from 1,100 f.s. to 1.350 f.s.” 

Third—That he knows thut he was wrong. See bis fourth paragraph 
in which he says, ‘But there has been nothing written by me thatin 
the remotest munner can bear the construction that a ball for instance 
at1,000 f.s. has greater resistance in pounds, avoirdupois, than the 
same ball at 200 f.s., for itis very evident that at the latter velocity 
the actual resistance in pounds is eight times greater than at the 
former velocity.”? In other words the resistance varies as the cube 
of the velocity. (This is not strictly correct, as the variable coefficient 
K has been omitted, taking this intoaccount the ratio becomes 1 to 
7.34 instead of 1 to Bas above). _ . 

Referring ta the above quotation I claim that what was written by 
him last summer could bear the construction he now wishes to disown 
and no other. The fact of the resistance being expressed in pounds, 
avoirdupois, makes no difference whatever. If it had been expressed 
in kilogrammes or in any other nnit the ire involved remains 
the same. Attention is also called to the fact that his fourth para-- 
graph Hlatly contradicts his third. 

Fourth—That he tries to escape from his position bya quibble 
utterly unworthy of bim, when he attempts to confound “resistance 
of the air’? with the ‘‘co-efficient of air resistance’—K, 

Now, what is this K to which ‘‘P.”’ seeks to give undue prominence? 
Tt is simply @ variable empirical co-efficient, representing no general 
lai, and is only introduced to effect an agreement between the results 
of experiments and the so called ‘cubic law of resistance,’’ Thesame 
acreement might have been effected, less convenient! perhaps, by. 
employing a variable exponent of V instead of the cube in place of 
this variable co-efficient. . s 

The next pagagraph that calls for an answer is the one in which he 
calls my attention to another error. My statement that the trajectory 
would ‘be 2io, higher (theoretically) than for a level range, was In- 
ferred from a calculation contained ia the report of Chief of Ord— 


The materials used in the construction of the gun are thesame 


Nhe .45-60-300 form of the model of 1873 has been put on the market 


The express rifle is a modification of the model 1876, and differs 


The bullet contains no explosive material, The 
Cartridges for this model are loaded with hollow-pointed, solid, or 


The bullet having a high initial velocity, a yery flat trajectory Is 
hange in sighting is required up to 150yds., thus 


This model, as made up 
The rifie ig considered an easy one to keepin good repair. After 


putting it away, it should always be well 


e, and is got oub by opening a hid 


To tale out the barrel,—Take.out the two tip-screws, the magazine 


before unscrewing the barrel from the frame. the breecn-pin must 
be thrown back by moving the fingerlever forward; otherwise the 
attempt to unscrew it will break the spring-eatch that withdraws the 
cartridge, and ruin the breech-pin. The only spring in the gun that 
is liable to lose its strength from long use is the main-spring, which 
wili be discovered by the gun missing fire, Should this occur, it may 


=< sti‘ we” 


mance; 1882, pp, 465-456. where it is deduced that a Springfield rifle 
being fired at a range of 500)yds, with the normul elevation, but at an 
object 100ft. higher than the’ gun, the bullet will strike 2 87ft, below 
the point aimed at. Idid not check this calculation, but too< it on 
-trust. This, 1am willing to admit, was a vee 
we should never accept as true any proposition 
ourselves, | . 

The following considerations would 
tion above referred to is wrong; 


aa 


hat we can verity for 


seem to show that the calcula- 


D 


A 


In Fig. 1, A is the position of the gun and B is the point aimed at, 
The normal angle of elevation fora level range of 50 ‘yds. or 1,500ft, 
is piven at 1°11’. Thus the faJ] in feet due to gravity is evidently 
equal to 1,500 * tan, 1° 11’, or 30,984ft. 

‘the case under consideration the axis of the bore makes an 
angle of 5° 00’ 2" with the horizontal, and if gravity did not acy the 
bullet woul | strike at D, at un elevation aboye C=A Cxtan, 5° 00! 21"= 
131.()95ft, But we have already seen that under thei fluence of gravity 
the bullet will fall 30,984ft. Thus it will strike the vertical line C D at 
a point above G=13) 09 —30,984 or 100,111ft. or 0 111ft above B instead 
of 2.87ft. below it, as given in the text. That it strikes above is due 
to the fact that A C is somedft short of the assumed 500yd. range 
and also that the angle of elevation probably is slightly greater than 
1°11’, In stating that the trajectory woud be higher, [referred to 
the point B and not G, as ‘'P,” seems to suppose. See his sketch, — 

Though 2" is considerably in excess of the truth, yet the curve will 
always be higher at mid range than for a leve) range. as will be 
ae further on, and my error was one of amount rather than of 

neiple, 
ne. and 3 embody the substance of ‘‘P.’s"" remarks on mountain 
shooting. 

It will be seen that he is practically correct in stating that the angle 
of elevation in either case is the same as that corresponding toa level 
range of which the inclined range is the hypothenuse. ‘The reason 
is obvious when we reflect that, although the range and time of flig: t 
are longer, and consequently that the fall due to gravity (B D)is 


300 He. 


€ B= 208.937£t, TRAJ. = 293,934ft, 


greater, only the component of this force, G B (Fig 2), acting at right 
angles to the axis of the bore, produces deflection. __ 1 
The other component of gravity acting in the direction of the axis 


OB = 293.937f£t. 


profuces either retardation (Fig. 2) or acceleration (Fig. 3), accord- 
ing as it acts mm opposition to the motion or with it. In Fig, 2 let 

R = the inelined range A B, 

r = the corresponding horizontal range A C. 

H = space described by grayi'y corresponding to R or B D. 

h = space d+seribed by gravily corresponding to r or K C, 

A = angle made by inclined range with the horizontal. 

B = angle of elevation. : 

Then the deviating component of gravity G B = ae cos ik A-+B) and 

r= Rxcos A. 

From these relations and the equation to the trajectory, it may be 
proved that the triangle G A B is similar to K A C, or, in other words, 
that the angle of elevation for the inclined range is equal to that for 
the corresponding level range. 

This is only approximately correct, as it is based on the supposition 
that cos (A--B)=cos A cos B, This will obtain very nearly when A is 
large and Bis small, or when B is jarge and A is small, or when both 
A and B are small. If A and B are both large the above will not apply. 
This reasoning is equally applicable to the depressed range Fig. 8, ex- 
cept that the difference of the angles A and B must be employed in- 
stead of their sum. 

The trajectories shown in the figures are calculated for a ,40-cal. 
gun, shooting a 287-grain bullet with an initial velociiy of 1,425 £.s. 

At the eleyated range the bullet strikes .086in. below the point aimed 
at, and at the depressed range .06in. above it, This ig due to the re- 
tarding and accelerating components of gravity mentioned above. 
Another point of interest is that, though the bullet strikes very near 
the point aimed at, it will make a much higher curve in getting there 
than for a level range. 

Thus in Vig, 2. the height E at mid range, measured at right angles 
to the range is 2.792 inches, while the height F for the level range is 
only 2.688 inches or 1.104 inches lower If the range were extended to 
200 yards, the differencé would be about 5 inches. At mid range 
though, the bullet would still strike within a fraction of an inch of the 
place aimed at, These results are of general application and are 
nearly true for any angle and range, provided that a practical 
equality exists between the cosine of the sum of the angles and the 
product of their cosines. (If the range is depressed, the difference of 
the angles isto be taken. See Fig, 3), 

I have gone into this subject of inclined ranges at considerable 
length as the question is one of consiaerable importance. and one that 

_believe is not very generally understood, The algebraic computa- 
lions have been omitted. as they were alee within the scope oF this 
article. Any one, however, who wishes to check them, may doso by 
referring Lo works on the subject. ‘‘\\ationaland Practical Ballistics,” 
Captain Siacci, seems as satisfactory as any, 

As to Maj, Merrill’s argument that the muzzloader would give a 
flatter trajectory than the breechloader, He stated his case clearly 
enough, and I do not think that his position has been misund: rstood 
as might be inferred from what “P.” savs on thesubject. The Major 
said in substance: First—That the muzzleloader would take more 
and quicker powder for equal bores. Second—It would takea lighter 
bullet and the lightest of any for equal hores, To.which I replied 
that the breechloader will take as much powder as can be consumed 
in the length of the barrel and as quick powder as is desirable having 
the best results in view. Since writing the above the breechloader 
has been adapted to greatly increased charges and the only practical 
jimit is that of therndurance of the man behind the gun. As to the 
bullet, the breechloader will shoot acurately the lightest bullet con- 
forming to the flattest trajctory at 200yds., the range under discus- 
Sion, and there is no practical reason why itshould not shoot a lighter 
one if it were desirable. That a heavier bullet has been generally 
adopted is due to the fact that we are not willing to sacrifice accuracy 
and energy to a flat trajectory, See what has been written by myself 
and others on this point. 

The comparative merits of the two systems as to accuracy may be 
considered as settled. But there is oue point of superiority in the 
breechloader that has been barely touched on in your columns. 
Capt, Mackinlay’s ‘“Pext Book of Gunnery” staies this so clearly that 
Ineed hardly apologize for quoti' x from him here. After showing, 
from Capt. Noble. the great difference in energy imparted to a pro- 
jectile by varying ratios of expansion, obtained by dividing the yol- 
ume of the bore by the cpace occupied by the powder charge, he 
says: ‘The rifled muzzleloading guns whichreplaced them [the early 
formof R. B. L] were less accurate. chiefly because some gunners 
ram home with mole force than others, and, as the cartridge is 
ey. compressible, different charges occupied different spaces, 
according to the streneth of the gunner who happened to he ramming 
home; the velocities of the projectiles, and consequently the ranges, 
varied, and the accuracy was itnpaired,” 

That this cause of inaccuracy is liable to occur in all muzzlaloaders 
Seems to me self-evident, and it is equally evident that it need never 
occur in a breechloader with ordinary care. James Duane. 

New Yor, May 11, 1884. , 

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TRAY. = 293.932ft. 


course to pursue, a8” 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


“WRELINGHUYSENS AT NEW YORK.'—Zaditor Forest conve 
Stream: Under the head of the “Frelin-huysen's at New York, 
your issue of the 15th inst, contams a communication from Edward 
O. Chase, taking exception to the manner of Tecan the scores in 
the late tournament at the Grand Central Rifle Gallery, That some 
errors should nec; ssarily occur i a match when there were some 
fifteen hundred targets shot could hardly be avoided. Jn this class 
must be considered the omitting from the score record the names of 
Messrs. Neil and Sneller, whose targets were inadvertently tied 
together by the attendants and put among the inspected targets with- 
out in any way coniing under the notice of the umpires. In the case 
of Mr. Weigman the communication is positively unjust. This gentle- 
man’s score gob on originally through an oversight. The number of 
shots on the targets were not counted, ani! on a revision it was found 
that only six could be found. 'The tarfets were submitted to several 
riflemen thoroughly conversant with gallery shooting, pamely, Henry 
Oehl, P. G. Fanning. Chas. Overbaugh, ete., and by all pronounced 
not to have the requisi;e number of shots, and as consequence were 
rejected, That there was no “connivance” in the award is sufficiently 
apparent when itis considered that placing the name of Mr, Weig- 
Man as a prize winner would only result in dropping that of Mr. 
Sneller, alsoa Newark rifleman, From the committee of the N, Y. 
Ritle Clob.—J, H. Brown, Capt. 


“W. M. F.7 1S NOT FARROW.—Grand Haven, Mich., May 3, 1854. 
—Iditor Forest and Stream: Mx. Duane probably thinks as scores 
of others do, that lam the author of contributions appearing in 
FOREST AND ETREAM signed W.M. F., on rifle matters. Would it be 
asking too much to let him know to the contrary?—W. Miron 
Farrow. 

MANCHESTER, N-H., May 18.—Regular shoot of the Manchester 
Ritle Association, Creedmoor practice match: 


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VAY caleie ity per we SS Porras heed wane See a. 26 20 —55 
PU RU ED TAR Tole tes See iy epee da yt a ee 25 26 —51 
MaNOUIMAT So" ulech snare tee els. Pode ge Co Ne 20 25 —45 
AUR tDVOMIES oth Seeees, are TT CN a eae per hain 28 —28 
GEORES SURVOLSe, beh ph dav pate merece nee cd eeltam aceite pal —24 
Creedmoor Prize Match. 
G A Leighton,,,..... 445554544545 ( M Henty....,..... 4544454444 dd 
Re-entry. ......... 4545455445—45 FJ Drake........,.. 4444454444 — 41 
@D Palmer,. ...... 5555544444 45 Re-entiy.....-2,.5 4348555445 —42 
John Lawrence..... 445455444443 WHO Paul ........2. 554553844449 
Reentry oy... 444455535544 Re entry. ..:-.._-. bsd4535454 —42 
Frank Bennett...... 4584545544438 J Hodge............. 4555843444 —4] 
Re-entry... -.... 455554354444 Re-entry... 22.2... Addbddd tj 41 
AB Dodge.......... 454544444442 AS Brown.,... .... 4244543443 —37 
Re-entry...s ese. oe 444554444543 
Bixby Prize Match. 
F J Drake 29 30 31—90 
RON oo | 68 
88 — 28 


BOSTON, May 17.—_Not a first-class day for rifle shooting, but still 
the gentlemen at Walnut Hill had quite a pleasant time. Carrying 
out the mnoyation of last week, a team match was shot. This was a 
close fight, and resulted in a victory for Mr, Charles's team by one 
point. Following is the result of the team match; 


W. Charles’ Team, J. B. Fellows’ Team, 
W. Charles......44655565—48 UL. F. Richardson.5 45565 4 5—33 
W. Wisher....,... 64455 5 5—82 C.B. Hdwards.-..4445 55 4—31 
H. Adams........ 4544453—2) J.B. Wellows.....54545 44-3) 
W.. @) Eddy... +: 4454384428 P.B. Smith,.....3438 5 4 4 8~26 
122 121 


In addition to the team match, the regular matches were on, and 
filled quite well. Following are the scores: 
Creedmoor Practice Match. Creedmoor Prize Match. 


CB Edwards........ 555555545448 HW Richardson..... 455555545548 
J E Darmoddy...... 444554435442 BD Curtis ......... 5555545543—46 
EROS ASS, ehaleiaiogs 54433444439 W Wisher............ 6046444545 —45 
HJ Woster,...-.:.-. 443445245439 H Cushing.......... 4554554445—45 
EEE Sri ities, oe 3443444548388 J P Bates.......... 548544554449 
S  Sturgis.......... 443424442336 CJ Darrington...... 4444444444 40) 
GiG Gates: SFa5so0 13+ 4444043445 —36 
Resi Match, 

SGT NOSWEN 4 Bmw aa t-ectnk he OTT he ee 10 910 810 910 8 7 8—89 
Gib Gates. confi iistecs. iareee esta tas Re 999 9 8 7 910 9+9—88 
DEM CWSI 8 «ores are re paren hrs ae 610 910 610 9 8 7 9-84 
BA CS BING ger ore ers tee 0 2d 85 9 8 8 8 6 8 9 10-74 
Re Reed ar sie ees Seeks Voi foes +8 9 6 8 6 5 8 6 6 10—72 


THOMASTON, Conn., May 19,—At the shoot of the Empire Rifle 
Club on Saturday last, E. Bennett won the badge with a score of 105 
out of a possible 120. Following are the other scores: W. Dunbar 
104, G. Canfield 98, A. Fox 94, 0, P. Williams 92, F. Carr 85, G. Lem- 
mon 85, G. Gilbert 83, C. Alling 77, 

MANCHESTER, Mass.—Following is the programme for the spring 
meeting of the Manchester Kifle Association fcr May 28, 29 and 30: 
200yds. match, Creedmoor target, open to all comers; position, stand- 
ing; rifle, any within the rules; rounds, 7; entries unlimited; entry 
fee, $1; re-entries. 25 cents each. Winners decided by the aggregate 
of the best three scores ecunted as one continuous seore, 


BOSTON, Mass.—The directors of the Massachusetts Rifle Associa- 
tion, have decided on May 29, 30, and 31, for the spring meeting at 
Walnut Hill, and have issued tbe following programme: 

First—200yd, match, Creedmoor target, open to all comers, distance 
200yds.; position, standing; rifle, any within therules; rounds, seven; 
entries, unlimi.ed; entry fee, $1; re-entries, 50 cents each. Winners 
to be decided by the aggregate of the three best scores counted as 
one continuous score, the winners to select prizes in order of their 
scores. 

Seeond— ivy a: match, decimal target; conditions same as inmatch 


0. 1, 
Third—600yd. carton match; conditions asin mateh 1, except as to 
povition, which may be any within the rules, 
Liberal prizes are offered in each match. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on oue side of the paper only. 


CHICAGO TOURNAMENT. 


YPNHE first international clay pigeon tournament will begin at Chi- 

eago next Monday, May 26. For list of entered clubs see last 
issue. The Chicago Musical Festival will be held on same daie, and 
local excursion tickets will be sold on railroads. The address of the 
manager, Mr. J. E. Bloom, is Palmer House, Chicago, 


CAPTAIN STUBBS, who is pretty confident that’ he can whip all 
creation with the shotgun, is out with the following challenges, pre- 
paratory to his exhibition tour through the country: 

“Challenge No. 1—I will shoot a match against any man (Dr. W. F. 
Caryer preferred) from standing positions and from horseback in full 
run, with shotgun, rifle and pistol, at still and flying objects, in any 
match or consecutive number of matches, and )nder any equal terms 
and conditions that may be named, for the championship title and 
$2.500 to {$5,000 a side and gate money. (Signed) Gaprarn F. E. 
StusEs, Champion Combination Wing Shot of the World (Gainesville, 
Ark,, May 15, 1884). Ohallenge No, 2—Asa test of endurance and skill, 
I will shoot a match against any man (Dr W. Ff. Carver preferred) 
with rifle and solid bullets, and with shotgun, at 1,00) composition or 
clay balls each, thrown in the air by two assistants standing 10 feet 
apart, for the championship title and $2,500 to $5,000 a side, the con- 
lestant making shortest time anj greatest number of hits to be de- 
clared the winner of stakes and owner of gate money, (Signed) Cap- 
TAIN B. £. Stupss, Champion Endurance Snot of the World (Gaines- 
yille, Ark., May 15, 1884). Terms and conditlons—Notified of the ac- 
ceptauce of either of the above challenges, or both of them, I will 
deposit within ten days from date of such notification, with the 
Spirit of the Times, $1,000 as fonteit money (the party accepting to do 
likewise)—the stake or challenge money to be depo-ited in the same 
hands ten days before the date fixed for the match or matches (the 
party failing Lo comply with this condition to forfeit the deposit 
already mad )), said match or matches to be shot in New York within 
six months from date, in fine weather only, and according to the rnles 
fOverning such contests. (Signed) Caprain EH. ©. Srupss, Champion 
ean Wing Shot of the World (Gainesville, Alk., May 15, 

NEW HAVEN, May 14.—The State clay-pigeon medal. which was 
held by the New Haven Gun Club, and the individual State medal, 
held by J. F. Ives, were shot for on the grounds of the New Haven 
Club to-day, The day was fine with the exception of a strong wind, 
which made the shooting difficult and reduced the scores of (he dif- 
ferent clubs, Before the match a sweepstake was shoot, with 24 en- 
tries, which resulted in Langdon, of the New Haven Club, and J. F. 
Iyes, of the Parker Gun Club, dividing first, Talcot took second, B. A 
¥olsom third, and E. Booth fourth. Wleven teams from the different 
eluds shot for the State me ial, with the following result, 4 men each 
teaui, 100 pigeons: New Haven 61, Meriden 66, Winsted 68, Winsted 


885 


No. 2, §8, Derby 53, Bridgeport 51, Wallineford 456, Milford 51, Milford 
No. 2, 47, New Haven No, 2, 57, Meriden No, 2, 41, Over 3) men shot 
for the individual State medal, at 50 pigeons, and it was won by 
Tousey, of Bridgeport, with a scove of 41; J, F, Ives, 40; the others 
withdrew, Next State shoot in Meriden, June 11, : 

MINNEAPOLIS GUN CLUB.—At their annual meeting held Mon- 
day, April 21, the following officers were elected: 1., Harrison, Presi- 
dent; Frank Gruglas, Viee-President; Chas, A. Russell, Secretary and 
Treasurer. Board of Directors: L. Harrison, fF, W. Caulkins, James 
Marshall,—lL. H, 

ACME ROD AND GUN CLUB, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Dexter's Park, 
Cypress Tlills, L, I, Tuesaay, May 13. Glass balls, revolving trap, 
for a gold badge, 


Keppler, ......... pee SE Pert dah eek 14114110191111111711—419 
steleaye are we oe ee eee eae eee . .11011111111111011111— 18 
TEU eR ayy sabes be bed ~11111111011101110101—16 

COIs Liae tse alchee et tah biepeate ts, Echoes et bois kha b bine ’s .. LOOTT11111011 1110111 —16 
MUI GED AS ae Lehre vattat se fond aves ted ida hadtae tan 01111111011110111100—15 
[ey ee EPR Pee ee ee R Pele Geen a dS ee eee 01011011111100011111—14. 
Fieht.a. BN ited dave ect} antes © peices 110100100111111111)01—14 
BOSS. Ft Fate Ta ee Bie ets, Ges hb ital bt - 00101411011 100100111—12 
Selaritel ty 4 ae ett th eh gee aie eh aw re Pet 00030011111100001111—11 
Buckman... os2. 6.21 955 ett sr nici arcem » 10111011001000100111 —11 
ROD. Sides ph cise S ihte Mae orn wane de eed oetes Tet Pe 01010101101100101000— 8 
Bitzicieekumesies seta aor euen Entel ey Cree 10U0100000000100111 i— 6 
CUZ ns ee ee weed crs boner? eee 00000000001001001000— 3 


PITTSBURGH, May 13.—The annual shoof of the Allegheny Sports- 
men’s Association was held at Idlewood, on the Panhandle Railroad 
to-day. The weather was good, aud notwithstanding a strong wind 
was blowing from the west, some remarkable shooting was done. 
Twelve members of the club took part in the pigeon match for the 
| Hague silver cup and the prize offered by the elub, The conditions 
were 26yds, rise. plunge traps, 5yds. apa: t and 80yds, boundary, both 
barrels, Mr, Helwig was chosen referee, and Messrs, Grogan and 
Sharp judges. ‘The mateh was very exciling. Many excellent shots 
were made, several birds being killed at 70yds. 

Mr. C. G. Donnell made a clean se ore, killing 15 birds in 21 shots, 
Messrs. G. HE. Painter and R. 8S. Hartrick made a score of 14, one bird 
of the former dropping dead ten feet out of bounds. ©. G. Donnell 
15, G. BE, Pamrer 14. R. 8. D. Hartrick 14, C. B. Lovato 18, W. H. Bown 
8. §. D. Thompsm 11, GO. M. Hostetter 11, John Lovatt 13, CG. H. Voigt, 
M. D, 19, W. 5. Bell 8, E. Gregg 9. 

MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 14,—The Montgomery Shooting (hib’s 
annual election and dinner at Jackson's Lake to-day was a recherche 
affair and largely attended. ‘They elected Col, W.S, Reese, Presi- 
dent; John L. Cobb, Vice-President; Henry 0, Davidson, Secretary 
and Treasurer; C. EH, Wallin, H. D. Long and W. §. Hutehins, Direct- 
ors, Their model secretary was presented by the club in very appro- 
priate remarks with a handsomely engraved mammoth silver piteher, 
rhe atie “Montgomery Shooting Club to Henry GC, Davidson, May 
14, 1884. * 

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—The two concluding matches for 
positions on the team which will represent the Capital City Gun Qlub 
in the international tournament at Chicago, commencing May 26, 


were shot yesterday afternoon. Conditions: Ten double and ten 
single clay-pigeons pet man, from five traps, set three yards apart, 
15yds. mse for double and isyds for smgle birds, 
First Match. 
EULESS pce peice ana et bse oe 1H GANG argh ph 114141111 1—20 
Weenies oat § 5 ys eee ae Tee LOR OD 1140111111117 
ALS Is See ee ilesicctes eee eee 10) Os sie is *41 001010111114. 
Banleynw) ee tok lv petcme See eetasewe 01 00 O01 11 11 11013,01011—13 
MceBeld pn cen ites atnpeen sess 10 00 11 10 OL 111111001118 
Miciacode ened | pbb ladies 01 10 11 10 10 111000111143 
Jones....... Pe a cot oT bees 00 42 if 10 10 011010191143 
Mavruder,......-., Be ee AT ale Sie 1011001001 —141 
Ttinies, ete eas betes tereee: 00 10 00 OF 14 1010111001—10 
Second Match, 

JGR TS a es ey SD 100 te 1 1111011 1-17 
Bae ke eee se ee -.01 11 10 10 41 114) 11114116 
MeBielieny iss... tess Teeter ers LOMO SEL A et. 111101101016 
Dye Syst ye | eae els ee he ee = LOL Or .6F 101111111146 
TONESe ee: Leer nt ori ae 10 00 11 10 if 11111111 0—15 
SSDAU AG re he tees neni eee oe aad O1 OL 11 O1 11 0101111110—14 
AWYCN=a 01) Ri BE ho Cherie ict Ol 11 10 10 11 1100011¢01—i12 
(BTEC BE SHEE AG Beh bh tbe ae li O01 11 10 00 011101001112 
Maparitdertis: sii nahaatieestcces 10 10 10 10 10 110101000i—10 
Re-entries on account of matches missed: 

Wie Eat (el gar AE rine ye SES 10 10 11 10 10 1114110111—15 
SBA RGIS Petia hate aie tcasraares mitastereeejchaese 3ye ti 11 Ii OL 00 1111011017—419 
The final result of the eight matches gives the contestants standing 
in the following order, each selecting his best six scores, out of a pos- 


sible 120: E. L. Mills 105, William Wagner 93, William B. McKelden 90, 
James Smith 85, £. M McLeod 84, James Bailey #3, R. L. Jones 80, GC, 
H. Laird 72, The shooting has been done uuder most unfavorable 
¢onditions, many days being dark and cloudy, and it is expected that 
with fair conditions, the team selected, which will be the highest five 
on the list, will do much better shooting at Chicago, 
ANDROSCOGGINS ys. RIVERSIDES.—The second challenge shoot 
for the Ligowsky championship medal between the Androscoggins, 
of Lewiston, and the Riversides, of Topsham, came off at the An- 
droscoggin’s grounds, in Auburn, May 16, Riversidés being the chalJ- 


lenging club. A heavy rain prevailed during the entire shoot. Con- 

ditions—5 traps. 10 singles, 18yds. rise; 5 pairs, léyds. rise. The fol- 

lowing are the scores. (Figure 2 denotes secgnd barrel): 
Androscoggins. 

IMA SOM a ste ets obs! cse cele 1011110111 10 00 O00 11 11—12 

Donovan,.. ,,. ........, 2111211111 10 11 O1 01 1f—161¢ 

Ourtis,..... Penn ae mend 0111111110 00 11 10 00 10-12 

Fickett..... See ERE ey 0200201101 10 00 Of 10 11—9 

Sy ein Be Stee EB EP REE Bs 1111111112 01 1 di 11 —1844—69 

Riversides, 

ASOTIC ASO) ee eae ges gia ental 4014101111 11 10 10 4 11-16 

Bee Bh ag eee Sn ASME 1011011011 Of O01 O1 13 11-14 

GoudS Ge eee ode 1101110111 10 10 11 11 OO—14 

TIE sete, Bee case eke le 0171122211 O01 01 O1 10 00—111% 

Alexander....., 0. 20...% 1122211211 11 10 di 00 11-15 —70lg 


TORONTO, Ontario, May 16.—The first match by the Toronto Gun 
Club for the President’s gold medul opens af the Waodbine to-day, 
commencing at 2:30 o’clock sharp. The conditions are 15 target balls 
each, 18yds, rise from a rotary trap, use of one barrel only; five 
member's to compete or no score; to be won three times by any com- 
petitor before becoming his property. The following days have been 
seb apart for the matches: May 16 and 80, June 13 and 27, July 11 and 
aa ANE 8 and 22, Sept. 5 and 26, Oct. 10 and 24, Noy. 7 and 21, Dec. 5 
and 19, 

MENOMONIE, Wis., May 17.—Following is a detailed score of a 
practice shoot indulged in by the members of the Menomonie Gun 
Club, on May 15. First shoot—ten clay pigeons each, i8yds. rise, 
fourth notch; 


HL THEEED IG tapenade he W11111i—10 LJ Seamans....,.. .1111101110—8 
EA Benjamin,...... 1111111111—10 SJ Bailey............ 1010111011—7 
JR Matthews....... 1111110111— 9 GH Seely......,.....0011111001—6 
GReBrewel. 325. .24 111111110— 9 RJWPlint.... ...... 110110110)—6 


Messrs. True and Benjamin divide first; Matthews and Brewer 
divided second, and Seamans took third. ; 
Second shoot—Ten glass bails, rotary tray, 18yds. rise: 


Barley, 22 1 coe. sus 1111111111—10 _Brewer............... 1101110111—8 
Benjamin... .... ...1111111111—10 Mathews......._-. 1010710111 —7 
ANabt wee pepe ee oy see 1111111171—10  Plinc........,... -. ,0110110011—6 
Seamans ....-.......1110110111— 8 


Messrs. Bailey, Benjamin and True divided first, Seamans and- 
Brewer divided second, and Matthews third, 


Seamiansi i... osvien.. 111111011—9 Bailey............ 22. 1060111111—7 
Benjamin...,..::.... A1I1111111—9 Brewer..... ...... -. ..1001111010—6 
EBVO Prin bees O1OLNI1131—8 Plint,................. 1001010101—5 
Matthews ...,......-. 1101111101—8 Seely................. 1040100001—4 


Messrs, Seamans and Benjamin divided first, True and Matthews 
divided second, and Baily took third.—B, 

LOUISVILLE TOURNAMENT.—Louisville, Ky., May 17.—Owing to 
the limited supply of wild pigeons, the Louisville Sportsmen's Asso- 
ciation has decided to postpone che tournament until the 25a of Juae, 
at which time the original programme will be carried out.—J, 0. Bar- 


BOUR, Secretary. 
Bachting. 


FIXTURES. 


May 24.—Oswego Y, C., Opening Cruise. 

May 24.—Boston Y, C., Opening Cruise. 

May 28.-Quuey Y. C., first Match. 

May 30,—Knickerbocker Y. C., 8, ring Matches. 

May 30.—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

May 30.—Newark Y. C., Spring Match. 

May 30.—South Boston Y, C., Spring Match, 

May 80.—City Pomt Mosquito Fleet, 13 and 15ft. boats. 

May 4).—New Haven Y. C., Opening Cruise, 

May 81.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups, 


336 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


(May 22, 1984. 


A RIVER CRUISE IN THE HORNET. 


Nee eeae Aug. 5, 1888—A most beautiful day, The members met 
on the corner of West Broadway and Canal street. All hands 
wentto church. Boarded an Eighth avenue carto Highty-fourth 
street, then walked to the Columbia Y, C. Though we are vot mem- 
bers of the said club, we keep our boat at their club house. After 
some confusion got under way, with a fair wind and tide in our favor. 
Had a brush with a small jib and mainsail boat, passed her; but she 
made up for lost time when the wind slacked up. Got as far as Dobbs 
Ferry, when the tide turned, and we anchored on the west bank of 
the river, packed the provisions, and all hands went in swimming. 
Conlague, the invited guest, got stuck in the mud, Meta party in a 
smal cat trom Nyack; they, after drifting for about five miles, thought 
they would anchor. Hada good time together, they promised to 
keep company as faras Nyack. About 6 o’clock the tide turned, anid 
we got wider way with a fair wind on our starboard quarter, Hung 
our lantern in the stay (did not have side lights) and sailed in eom- 
pany with our Nyack friends. Got very dark, no moon; kept.as near 
shore as possible, sailing along nicely, when we were hailed by our 
Wyack friends, who told us we had better take soundings. One of the 
crew shoved the boat hook over and found we were sailing in about 
three feet of water. Just then the mile pier at Piermont loomed up 
and gave us 8 good svare. Went about and thought we would never 
get to the end of that pier; sailed for about half an hour and the wind 
got foo strong for us,so we put iiforshore and anchored for the 
night; lost sight of our friends. Put up our cabin (forgot to say that 
we hada home-made cabin, out of an old sail) tried to make our- 
selves comfortable, but I must say it was nota success. I hed a coil 
of rope and a coffee pot formy bed. the invited enest had a cheese 
box anda fryiny pan. We were to Jeave invited guest at lona Island, 
to return home by the “Col, Burns excursion’ from New York. Was 
yery cold during the nigut. 

Monday, Aug. 6,—Awoke about 4 o'clock. Weather clear and bright 
with no wind; found we had anchored below Nyack; cooked our cof- 
fee on the oil stove, had breakfast of bread, butter and canned beef, 
The oil stove was a nuisance; blackened everything up. Tide run- 
bing up the river, got under way and drifted about six miles up. 
Wind sprung up fromthe north, and being amateur sailors did not 
make much time beating. Were passed by the Col. Burns excursion, 
and became afraid we could not get to Iona Island in time to leave 
our guest. On getting into Haverstraw Bay the wind had increased 
toa gale. We took in a reef and hada hard time of it; were nearly 
run into by aschooner. Reached Tona Island two hours later, and 
haying friends on the excursion we had a good time. Conlague, the 
guest, was loath to part with us, notwithstanding his uncomfortable 
couch. Drifted a half mile below the steamboat landing and anchored 
for the night. All hands turned in for a good sleep. 

Tuesday, Aug. 7.—Awoke late, about 7 o’clock (had no watch on 
board, so had to guess the time by the sun). Head wind still blowing. 
Cooked breakfast on that oil stoye (more misery), got sail up and 
went across t) Peekskill. The boys went to the city and posted some 
letters and bought some fresh bread. Ran on the beach, and built a 
rousing fire and cooked a good dinner of hacon and boiled potatoes, 
which all hands did justice to. Tried to make some headway up the 
river, bul after fooling around for about two hours went over to Iona 
island and anchored above the steamboat dock, The boys picked 
about three quarts of blackberries on Iona Island, and they made a 
nice dessertfor supper. WHished fora while, but soon gave up in dis- 
gust. Steam yacht Cadet, from West Point, passed and pave us a 
salute, which we returned with our fog horn; put up our cabin and 
turned in, 

Wednesday, Aug. 8.—Awoke about 7 o'clock, Cooked breakfast on 
shore—bacon, potatoes and coffee. Expected 10 go to Newburgh. 
Wind and tide against us. Made about five miles, anchored, picked 
Some more berries, killed a small snake. Met aparty from Peekskill, 
who were camped near our old camping place. Turned in early. 

Thursday, Aug. 9.—Awoke late. The boys areall getting lazy. All 
out of fresh water; had te tramp about a mile to awell. Got under 
way with a head wind; conld not hold ont against the tide. Laid to 
till tide turned. Went ashore and cooked our dinner. Got under way 
again with a light, fair wind from the northwest. Ate dinner on 
board. A large steamer, with a party of picnikers from Newburgh, 
passed us, bound for Iona Island. The pilot came yery close to us to 
see who we were. Just as we were running for a dock in Newburgh 
our throat halliards gave way and the gaff came down on our heads, 
However, we soon repaired damages and landed at Newburgh. Vis- 
ited Washington's headquarters and other places of note, bought 
some bread, got under way and sailed about five miles to Mud Hole, 
and cooked supper on the oil stove. Turned in about 7 P. M. 

Friday, Aug. 10,—Ran the Hornet ashore, cooked breakfast and 
went to visit the beautiful city of Mud Hole, on the West Shore road. 
Said town consisted of two houses and a railroad station. Tried in 
yain to buy some milk. Got under way with the tide. Wehad to get 
the aid of some Italian laborers to shove our boat off the rocks, The 
Olarita, of the Columbia Y.©., passed us, bound up. Cooked dinner 
on the oilstoye. One of the crew tried to clean the stove by hanging 
it on the boat hook, and lost it overboard, We were glad to get ri 
of it. Broke one of the oarlocks. Were saluted by the steamboat 
Bagle. Landed at Poughkepsie about 8 o’clock. Had to skirmish 
around with a lantern to find wood, Cooked supper and turned in 
about 10 o'clock. 


Saturday, Aug. 11.—Awoke about o’clock, cooked breakfast. While 
eating, I saw a large muskrat swimming and fired at him, but he 
diyed and we saw him no more. Sailed up to the city, posted some 
letters and bought some storés; also, got a salt mackerel to fish with, 
itis good bait for catfish. Inquired where to buy a skiff; but could 
not find the place. Got under way and sailed about two miles up the 
river, where we were hailed by some men ona sloop, who told us 
where to buy a skiff, We found the place this time and bought a 
small skiff for $3, We were very welltreated. The young man also 
repaired our pnmp—(if he should happen to read this he will accept 
our sincere thanks). All the boys were pleased with the new skiff. 
We got under way and sailed about three miles, and. then anchored 
for the night. A party of young men from the Albany Y. C. were 
camped opposite us; said they would spend Sunday with us. Turned 
in about 10 o’clock. Our Albany friends made a great deal of noise. 

Sunday, Aug. 12—We camped in a beautiful place. Breakfasted 
on ham and eggs, coffee and bread. Bender and I went out for a 
pull in the skiff and upset. The boys had a good laugh onus. We 
intended to stay over. but our Albany friends invited us to a race 
with them. We accepted their challenge, but we got left, Landed 
at Esopus Island to cook dinner. Went fishing and caught a good 
toess of catfish. Intended to camp at the island, but the crew 
wanted to zo uptheriver. Saw a setter belonging to a party of gen- 
tlemen from Hyde Park swimming across the river. We ran in to 
eook supper. The boys were about to Jand when they heard a rattle, 
which they claim to be a snake, but I think it was a locust. At any 
rate, it seared us out of our cofiee.’ We turned in on bread, canned 
salmon and rryer water, which J may addis very good drinking water. 

Monday, Aug. 18 —Woke about 8 o'clock. We found we were 
camped just below Staatsburgh. Cooked a good breakfast of catfish 
and bacon, fried potatoes, bread and butter. Two gentlemen got us 
someice, All were sitting in the cabin when a steam launch struck 
us. I fot on deck and was about to ask the captam If he was blind, 
when he sung out in a loud yoice,“*Want any milk?” We bought 
some soda crackers and clams from the captain, then got under way, 
with the wind and tide in our favor. Sailed about five miles when 
the wind got too strong for us and we put into Rbinechif. Bought 
some sugar, then took in a reef and sailed up about ten miles; all 
went ashore to cook dinner; argument about how we would cook the 
clams. My brother and 1 wanted a roast, Messrs. Bender and Lang 
wanted chowder, so we divided up and cooked them to suit ourselves. 
We spoiled our roast and the others emptied about one ounce of 
pepper in the chowder, which made itrather hot. One of the boys 
went to masthead to fix our flyer. Got under way and sailed a few 
miles when the wind died out and we anchored opposite Barrytown, 
Bender anu Lang went vowing. Waited till darkness settled and they 
eould not find the boat; we gave up all hope of seeing them that night 
when we spied them coming up the river at 1] P.M. Blowing yery 
hard, afraid our anchor willuot hold. 

Tuesday, Aug. 14.—Awake late, Wind still blowing very hard 
do not think we can sail much to-day, A Sunday school excursion 

ged up the river and we were saluted by the captain and the young 
adies on the barge. Sailed under a reef for a couple of miles, went 
ashore to cook dinner. I cooked a splendid dinner of beef stew, and 
stewed tomatoes. Sailed to Tivoli, where we bought some butter in 
the post-office. Put Bill ashore to cook supper, and he had to swim 
+o the boat as the boys were up to Tivoli with the skiff. Very high 
wind; got very rough; we had to row to the flats to anchor for the 
night, which proved very cold. 

Wednesday, Aug. 15.—Found we had anchored near the body of 
a cow which had probably lain on the beach for a few years; the 
stench was horrible. We got-up anchor and drifted to Cruger’s 
fsland; after we got the coffee cooked, found we were again out of 
bread. We had to row across the river to Glascow im the skiff and 
had a narrow escape from a eka ise Bought some bread in the 
hardware stere, Got uuder way witha fair wind and started for 
home. Made good time down the river. About noon we say a camp- 
ing party and J went ashore and hada food dinner with them; they 
rere from Peekskill, Spent about two hours with the party and had 
to row about five miles to catch the yacht, We made Rondout about 
2 o'clock and went to the post-office for mail and laid in some fresh 
provisions. Saw the sloop Corinne of the Jersey City Y. C. Got 
under way and sailed to Port Hwen; here it was very rough, 80 we 
ran behind a breakwater and anchored, going ashore to cook some 


beef stew with stewed corn and then turned in. It was very rough 
during the nizht. 


THE NEW REAL Save the Brooklyn Sunday Eagle very truly; 


“The inauguration of the Corinthian open sea yachting has caused 


Thursday, Aug. 16.—Awoke about.5 o’clock this morning, and had | our amateur sailors'to grow more and more venturesonie in laying 


a hunt attera wounded duck (hell-diyer), Wired ten shots at him 
with my revolver, but did not hit him, but had the whole town out 
looking at us. I was foolish enough to try and cateh him by swim- 
ming, but soon faye it UP, he was a better diver thanI, Got under 
way about 10 o’clock, and stopped at Esopus Island for dinner. Just 
as we got dinner cooked saw a tow coming down the river, and started 
to catch it, but after rowing about five miles we thought we would 
stop, and pene we did, and ate our dinner, Got under way once more 
and sailed till about 9 o'clock in the evening, and then anchored just 
above Poughkeepsie. Saw a large building and thought it was the 
Vassar College, and proposed to stop and see the girls, but our college 
proved to be the insane asylum. 

Friday, Aug. 17—Awoke late. Rowed to the city to get the mail 
and bought bread enough to last till we reached home. Made sail 
about noon and caught a tow. Found our friends on the Corinne had 
towed from Rondout, The captain of the ice barge Indian inyited us 
to dinner; and such a dinner! It was fit for a king. Wried ham, 
green corn, boiled potatoes, hot biscuit, tea and a splendid bread 
pudding. We complimented the captain on his cookiny, for it was 
good. Weagreed to stand watches during the night, but got very 
cold and all hands went to sleep, 

Saturday, Aug, 18.—The captain woke us this morning. Found we 
were opposite Edgewater. Let go our tewline and bade our friend 
the captain good-bye. Sailed up to Manhattanville and turned in to 
finish our sleep. Awoke about 9 o'clock, cooked breakfast, had a 
Swim, packed our things and got under way. Arrived at the club 
house about 4 o’elock, All hands agreed it was the best fwo weeks 
we eyer spent in our lives. Cost of eruise all told, $24. 

CHRISTOPHER HOLDERMAN, 


NEW FOLDING BOAT. 


ASE Ontario Canoe Company, of Peterborough, have brought out 

anew folding boat of canvas, suitable for service aboard small 
yachts, They are light and portable, and when expanded are quite 
stiff and good carrisrs. Invented by Dr. GC. M. Douglas, brigade 
Surgeon in the British Army. They are now manufactured to 
various sizes by the company, and patented for the United States. 


They are simple and lasting in the arrangements for collapsing, being 
supplied with fore and aft battens, and a few ribs with a stretcher to 
keep the sides open. The two sizes now in the market are 9 and 12ft. 
long by 36 and 42in. wide, weighing 45 and 65lbs. respectively. When 
folded they can be stowed down the cabin or lashed fiat im the gang- 
way on deck, with ends round skylights or house and cockpit. 


NEW STEAM LAUNCH.—The Snyder Engine Company have built 
one of their standard lannches for Messrs. Wyckoff, White & Foley, 
of New Brunswick, N. J. She has proved a splendid success. Length, 
30ft.; beam, 614ft.; depth. 8ft.; draft, 26 to 34in.; forward cockpit, 8ft. 
long; after cockpit, 10ft. long; engine space, 5ft. long: after deck, 4ft. 
long: forward deck, 2ft. long. Frame, keel, stern posc, stem and dead 
woods of white oak; planking of selected white cedar in longest pos- 
sible lengths; whales and clamps, Georgia pine in one length; bilge 
keelsons, Georgia pine in one piece, thoroughly secured to frames; 
ceiling and decks made of narrow white cedar, a strong oak thwart 
or beam abat't of engine is properly secured to sides with oak knees, 
which are bolted tosides; and main beams of deck forward and aft 
sare kneed in same manner. An oak coaming runs entirely around 
cockpits 444in. above decks. Planksheer aud moulding are made of 
oak, Large coal bunkers are placed on each side of the boat, abreast 
of boiler. Extra wide seats extend around forward and after cockpits; 
cockpits are nicely floored and sides sealed with cedar. FWastenings of 
palvanized iron and copper; stem band galyanized iron, Rudder, 
iron, with spare tiller. All work smoothly finished. Hull below 
water-line has two coats red copper paint; aboye water-line two 
coats glossy black; interior, two coats drab. A mahogany and locust 
steering wheel is erected on walnut frame in forward cockpit and 
properly counected to rudder with manilla and wire rope, A blue 
and white canvas awning with wide border, trimmed red, extends 
oyer entire length of cockpits. Side curtains are furnished, which 
button down to the oak coaming, completely closing in the cockpits 
and machinery. This awning is properly supported by a framework 
securely erected on turned ash stanchions. These stanchions are held 
in place by wrought iron brackets. The entire arrangement is port- 
able, and may be taken down or put up in a few minutes. The 
machinery consists of a Snyder ‘Little Giant” vertical launch engine, 
having cylinder 444in. hore by 4!in. stroke. The boilers are vertical 
tubular, 30in. in diameter by 50in. high, and are complete with finest 
fittings. These boilers are of sufficient capacity to generate an 
abundance of good dry steam for the engine, with moderate firing 
and little attention. Propeller wheels aré two-bladed, 24in. in diam- 
eter for the light draft boats, and 28in, for the 30 to 34in, dratt, The 
shafts are of steel, 14in. diameter. A Hancock inspirator is fur- 
nished which heats the water to a high temperature and forces it into 
boiler either when engine is running or standing still (a decided ad. 
vantage over the force pump). For use in salt water a keel conden- 
ser, made of 2in. brass pipe, which extends from exhaust of engine 
through bottom of boat along keel; to and around stern post and back 
to engine room, where it discharges into hot well. A three-way cock 
in exhaust pipe shuts off the condenser and allows the engine to work 
non-condensing. This condenser asfords constant supply of fresh 
water and preyents the disagreeable noise which always accompanies 
the discharge of exhaust steam into the air. A hot well, made of 
heavy galvanized iron, is located conveniently to take discharge from 
condenser and furnish inspirator with feed water for boiler. A bilge 
water ejector is provided and properly connected With steam and 
outboard for quickly discharging accumulations of bilge water. A 
jet blower is arranged for use in quickly startling fires. 

MONTREAL Y. GC —Officers for the year: Commodore, A. J. McIn- 
tosh! Vice-Commodore, ©. P. O’Connor; Secretary, G. L, Sait; Trea- 
surer, Walter Jones; Measurer, T, A. Adkins; Sailing Committee, W. 
H. Stanley, J. J. Roberts, and A, W. Glassford Club House Commit- 
tee, W. H. Kirby, W. Bruce, G. N. Roberts, P. C. Falconer, CA. Liffi- 
ton, The club has $150 in the treasury, is prosperous. and talks of a 
new club house. The first cruise takes place on the 24th. 

TORONTO Y. C.—Mr. Geo. E, Eyans has been elected Captain 


vice Mr, G. H. Duggan, resigned, The old time iron cutter Rive 
will be ovit soon with new Sa and add much interest to the racing. 


out the courses for their races. Smooth-water sailors are at a dis 
count, and little sloops of thirty-four feet and under now go pokin 
their noses through the big waves off the Saudy Hook Lightship with 
ag much assurance as the largest schooners. This tendeucy toward 
open sea work is having its natural effect, There isa larger demand 
than ever this year for deep keel boats in preference to the center- 
board light draft craft, so dear to the hearts of the American yachls- 
men for many years. Winter cruising is becoming fashionable, and 
eyen the hurricanes to be met and conquered along the Southern 
coasts only add zest to the sport of the thorough-going yachtsmenu of 
to-day, During the past month a number of yachts haye returned 
from long trips South, the crews telling of storms safely passed 
through and trials of every kind known to rough old ocean overcome 
by the staunch little vessels. There seems to be a tendency among 
yacht builders and designers to strike a happy medium between the 
light draft, broad-beamed American model. and the deep, narrow 
English cutter model. The great problem is to obtain lines which will 
insure both speed and seaworthiness, The Bay Ridge Construction 
Company and other builders report that the demand for keel boats 
was never so large as atpresent, A number of centerboard crafts 
are lying idle in their yards waiting for purchasers. Ginger bread 
work in the interior fittings of new yachts is far less indulged in, the 
preference eine for substantial hard wood finishing of the kind that 
can succéssiully withstand an occasional salt-water drenching. 
Heavier spars are the rule among the new yachts, and in fact the 
yachtsmen are evidently prepairing for what they would call an 
active outside season of races.”’ 


ON SPECULATION,—Several inquirers are informed that the ad- 
dress of Michael Horton is Maverick street, Bast Boston, and thatthe 
cutter he is bulging for the market is 25ft. long, 9ft. beam and 4ft, 
fin. deep, Davis, of Hast Boston, is also building a small cutter for 
which A. Wilson is making the sails. 


Canoeing. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Worrsa anp 
SrrREAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete, of 
their clubs, and also noticesin advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and ail interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrest AnD SrrmAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps, and intormation concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt. 


FIXTURES. 


May 30.—Pittsburgh ©, C., First Annual Regatta, 

May 30 to 31,—Hudson River Meet, Newburgh. 

May 30 to 31, Connecticut River Meet, 

June 14 to 16—Merrimack River Meet, 

June 19.—Rochester C. C., Summer Regatta, Irondequoit Bay, 
July 9 to 15,—Chicago C. C., Annual Cruise. 

July 14.—Allegheny ©, C., Cruise at Connéaut Lake. 

July 19.—Chicago ©. C., First Annual Regatta, 

July 24 to 26,—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island. 

Aug. 1to 12,—A, GC. A. Méet, Grindstone Island. 


TOLEDO @C. CG. 


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OLEDO CO. C., Toledo, O. Organized March 1884. Commodore, 

J, W. Hepburn; Vice-Commodore, Chas, O. Phelps; Secretary 

and Treasurer, G. G, Keip. Nineteen members, Signal 1015, red 
diamond and two blue triangles, 


CANOE PILOTS. 
Eiditor Forest and Stream: 

For some time I have been thinking over the laying. before you and 
all canoeists, and members of the A. C. A., the following suggestions, 
which, if approved of, can be acted upon at the next meeting of the 
Association at Grindstone Island, 

Our bicycle friends haye a system of locating at different points 
throughout the country, certain specified members of the League of 
American Wheelmen (which I believe, occupies the same place in the 
bicycling world that the A. C. A. does in the'canoeing), to act as gen- 
eral informants for all bicyclists in giving all the details as to the 
condition of the roads, situation of hotels, ete., and whom they call 
“consuls.”” Why would not the appointment of similar members of 
the A. C. A, be a great advantage to our paddlers? 

The “consul” or representative by whatever name known, if located 
on any stream could give valuable information to any man eruising 
in his vicinity as to good camping places, distances, location and ex- 
tent of rapids, and other facts which if known before starting on a 
trip, would preyent the occurrence of many unpleasant happenings 
and save for full enjoyment much time. 

Our Association, numbering asit does over 600 members who are 
scattered over the United States and Canada, could haye a cons” 
or ‘pilot’ at or near all the canoeable waters and the problem which, 
was discussed sometime since as to the best plan to conduct a “canoe 
pilot’? will be solved. I would have the “pilot” who was located at 
New York, for instance, haye all the maps and information about the 
waterways near that ciby, which he would be expected to explain to 
any member of the A, C, A. who was about to cruise in his vicinity, 
and s0 on, - 

The expense of the maps, etc,, would, I feel certain, be gladly met 
by each individual ‘‘pilot,”” and the amount of good feeling that would 
arise amone the now oftentimes isolated members would amply repay 
them for any trouble that they might be at. , 

This is only a suggestion and presented here so that 11 may be 
thoughe over before the August meet. I should like very much to 
hear the views of other members. Trp, 

Brooxrtyy, N, Y., May 6. 


CANOEING IN FLORIDA. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

Yesterday we formed the St. John’s C. C., of Mandarin, Pla., of 
which [ herewith send the design of the flag. Itis modelled after 
the Chinese flag and bears a blue ball on a yellow field, the blue ball 
haying been substituted for the Chinese dragon. We have ten mem- 
bers. Our captain 1s Mr. Whiting Arnold, and our purser and general 
business manager is Mr. William McD. Pierson, both of this place. _ 

We are very proud of haying thus formed the first canoe club in 
Florida, and we began active operations at once by having a sailing 
race upon the very day of organization. The time of calling the 
races was fixed at 3 o'clock, but following the well-established prece- 
dent of similar but more experienced associations we were not ready 
to start until an hour later. By this time the little piers and summer 
houses, or rather winter houses, that line the riyer oank here were 
filled with ladies in light summer dresses and all wearing the club 
colors, and a dozen large sailboats, gay with flags and laden with 
spectators, stood off and on near the starting line, These with the 
canoes, all showing new sails and flying club colors and private sig- 
nals, formed the gayest and prettiest sight of the kind ever seen on 
the St. John’s. f : 

The start was effected by pistol shots—one to make ready, and a 
second three minutes later to go. The starters were Captain Arnold 
and Mr. Dinsmore in the Rushton canoe lise, 14ft. bin. long 42in, 
wide, provided with 3in. keel, fan centerboard, canvas deck, balance 
lug racing mainsail and leg o’ mutton dandy, aud carrying 150 lbs, 
ballast; Purser Pierson and Mr. Maynard in open Rushton cance 
Tire-Water, same dimensions as Wlise, provided with fan center- 
board, mainsail, dandy and jib. but no ballast; Mr. Huntingdon in 
Everson Shadow canoe Sunbeam, no ballast, le o’ mutton sails; and 
Mr. Munroe in Nautilus canoe Psyche, N. Y. C. C., balance lug sails. 
50 Lbs, ballast. ; 

At this point the river is about three miles wide, and general direc- 
tion is north and south; the breeze was from §.W.and fresh enough 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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nt white caps on the considerable sea. running, ana the course, 
out with reference to it, was one mile anda half close hauled 


around a stakeboat and return with lifted sheets, 


—_—" 


At the start Firewater was first off, followed by Elise, Psyche and 
Sunbeam in order named. Five minutes later Psyche was leading 
the fleet, with lise second. At the stakeboat Psyche had put a 
dozen lengths of clear water behind her, and rounding with one tack 
reached the finish an easy winner about the time that the Hlise, which 
was second boat, succeeded in turning the mark, This yictory, how- 
ever, reflects but little credit wpon Psyche, as the Rushton boats 
showed such a height of freeboard that they found it almost impossi- 
ble to work to windward, and the Shadow was handled by a.novice. 

As there were not argued paddling canoes on hand to make a race, 
the sailing match was followed by one in which were eight contest- 
ants, and which was won by Mr. J. D. Mead. 

~ We lave already seven canoes in the club, and, as-several more are 
to be bough this summer, an interesting season is promised for next 
winter. O. K. CHoprn. 

MAnparin, Fla., May 10. 


CANOE TRICKS. 


ae regatta day the event that interests the average spectator most 
is the upset race. This little trick, though, has been worked 
fduwn to such a fine point shat the vpsetting of a cance does not seem 
to impede its speed much, or embarrass the paddler. 

In former times, when every man fot in over the end of hiscanoe— 
if he succeeded in getting in at all—it was an interesting sight to see 
him crawl along deck. and to bet—if you ever bet at a canoe race— 
ou the chance of his reaching his seat or not. 

Now that every one going into an BpeS race has practiced so fre- 
quently that it takes but five seconds to upset, turn the canoe over, 
and getinto place again over the side, the excitement of watching 
the contest has lost much of its charm, though it still cannot be said 
to lack a certain kind of entertaining quality. 

This upset business is a trick—a_knack—and it is but one of many, 
though by far the best known, as il often is practiced unintentionally. 
Upsetting a canoe and turning her completely over right side up 
again, has been accomplished by an A. C, A. member without even 
getting out of hiscanoe, To besure his family have several times 
realized the insurance on his life while learning the trick. It is quite 
possible in a canoe as large as the Shadow to walk on deck (minusthe 
shoes) from stem to stern, and it also has been done. Standing up is 
comparatively easy, even ina Rob Roy, and paddling. Itis more 
difficult to stand, a foot on deel amidship on either side of the well 
and paddle. / 

Place a mast in either mast step, crawl] out on deck and go round it 
without getting overboard or upsetting the canoe. It is much more 
difficult to do than it looks to see it done. Go round head first once 
then feet first. Ship the rudder from deck afterleaying shore. Take 
two canoes, a foot in each, and paddle without splitting yourself in 
two parts. Try an upset race with the condition that each man con- 
testing shall getin fromtheend. Try some of these tricks tandem 
if you become very expert. 

Lots of clever performancés ean be arranged by stowing costumes 

_ below deck, upsetting the canoe, putting your head out of water up 
into the well, changing your dress and coming up again to view per- 
haps with a high hat on and a pipe, lit, in your mouth. Some yery 
comical effects can be got in this way. A canoe upset carefully will 
float on her deck with the bottom well out of water, and will so re- 
main for along time, keeping the airin. Upsetting with sail aboard 
is lubberly and usually has no point unless the canoe can be righted 
again—Dr, Heighway’s admirable knack. 

Somersaults from deck or well floor into the water, leaving canoe 
right side up, are yery easy and effective: standing on one’s head in 
the well is tolerably simple to uccomplish, but itis another matter to 
doit with the deck hatch for a head rest. Paddling races, using 
hands for paddles, are usually won by the largest palm—to whom the 
palmis awarded. Using the paddle on one side only amidship also 
Fess skill to make a ‘‘go”? of it. 

here are many other tricks that suggest themselves to the inter- 
ested. It is not proposed to have these performances on the A. C, A. 
programmes, but they certainly lend a charm to scrub matches and 

~ elub regattas, and are sure to interest your cousins and aunts if they 
‘do not feel too much anxiety for your personal safety. The skill in 


handling acquired by practicing these maneuvers is an excellent 


mer time, and I slept in my boat drawn up on the shore, where 


argument in their favor; and there isno knowing when a demand | had a fair chance at me. 


will be madeon you for some special knack. which if you have 
acquired will bring success instead of failure to your venture. 

The cleyerest trick perhaps yet thought of is for two skilled pad- 
dlers to give an upset race exhibition, and then suggest to two noy- 
ices to take the canoes and try their luck, furnishing them with bath- 
ing suits. The mule trick at the circus does not hold a candle fo it. 
Cases have been known where persons were made temporary ill by 
excessive laughter by the attempts to right an overturned canoe. Ib 
looks so easy, you know. 

IT pass. ho trumps this card and takes the next tricky 

Sua Bre, 


LEAKS IN BIRCH BARK CANOES. 
Nditor Forest and Stream: 

In response to inquiry regarding leaks in birch bark canoes, let me 
recommend rosin with about one-eighth its weight of lard. A little 
beeswax will render its consistence more constant under changing 
temperature, but it sticks better without it. Apply hot to seams with 
a stiff “sash tool,’ IT case a hole is ‘‘stove,”* cover with a piece of 
birch bark well smeared with the warm gum. In case no bark is to 
be had, an old handkerchief, coat lining, or shirt will do. A woods- 
man is never at a loss. 

Don’t leave the birch bottom up inthe sun to dry, nor yet try the 
so-called Indian method of drying it with a torch. The sun willcause 
the gum already on to run off, and unless the torch is used cold, it 
will blister the bark. Wipe as near dry as possible with a cloth, and 
in ten minutes itis ready for the gum. Never leave the gum tins be- 
hind. Nanoy Bru. 


o____ & 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Having been troubled some to get the right mixture of pitch, etc., 
for bark canoes, lam satisfied that made with the following propor- 
tions it will do good service: 11 ozs. of resin, 1 oz, of prime tallow, 
1 oz. of boiled linseed oil. Melt over slow fire and mix thoroughly. 
This will be firm but not brittle. WENONAH. 

BippErorp, Me., May 16. 


MY FIRST CANOE CRUISE. 


HIS was made away back in the forties. My craft was 11ft. lone 

by 15in. beam, was built of three pine boards, was sharp at both 

ends, and propelled by a paddle, so of course might be classed as a 

canoe, It was rather uncouth, both in shape and workmanship, be- 

ing made of lin. stuff, besides being the work of a boy of eight years, 

whose tools consisted of an axe, hammerand common wood saw, 
supplemented by the ever handy jack knife to finish with, 

The bottom was first hewed into shape with the axe, then the sides, 
after being sawn nearly through and clear across, so as to bend read- 
ily, were nailed to the bottom with such nails as could be picked up, 
pulled out of boxes, ete. To makeit tight, I used strips of cloth 
saturated with roofing tar (pilfered from a mill which was building 
hard by), When finished, my craft would weigh probably some two 
Dae pounds, and to my eye was the finest piece of work in the 
country. 

My paddle was a single blade, made from lin. pine board. When 
allwas completed my craft was launched on the mill pond, and made 
its trial tripin about an equal mixture of water, sawdust, eel-grass 
one liy pads. It proved a success, and Il was as proud as a commo- 


ore. 

But the mill pond was too small, and so when a neighbor, who was 
going up river with a team, offered to earry my craft and myself to 
Fitchburg, some fifteen miles. I took advantage of the offer, and the 
next morning, bright and early, saw me perched on my cherished 
boat, which was stowed bottom up in a large lumber wagon, and all 
rattling away up river. 

My craft was unloaded beside a small stream, a tributary of the 
Nashua, and I was soon paddling down the swift current. My outfit 
was very simple, consisting of a roll of tea matting, a pocket knife, a 
small tin pail filled with bread, butter, and a fair share of that pride 
of the New England boy’s heart, doughnuts, and the clothes I stood 
in. How I worked on that cruise, pulling over shoal water, tugging 
around dams, and fighting the mosquitoes, for it was the sweet sum- 


T had some tronbles, was picked up for a truant once, and jumped 
one dam}; but not because I wanted to. My trip lasted a week, and 
ended at Lawrence on the Merrimack, where my father found me and 
urged me Se ae fo home with him. Iwent. My next cruise 
was around the Horn,” and in the course of which I wished several 
times that my father would come and take me home, but he didn't, 
and by ee tinte I got back T was used to it all, and had become very, 
very salt, 

1am fresher now, I sometimes go over the ground again in fancy, 
and as the two cruises are always connected (in my mind), that look- 
ing back at them they are but one. The whole course of my lite 
seems to have been decided by that little trip down the Nashua and 
Merrimack rivers. Ah, me! What possibilities if 1 had not been born 
web-footed. 

But to change the subject before I get sentimental. Have been out 
in my canoe all day; paddled some twenty-five miles; caught a dozen 
sea trout and one duck, a moist one. Having a howling norther here 
to-night. Am very glad lam so near the equator, The next move I 
make will be south. ; TARPON, 

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla,, May 9. 


PERSONAL.—Mr. C. K. Munroe, N. Y. ©. C., returned to New York 
on Monday last, after spending the winter in Florida. Mr. Chas. L, 
Norton, N. Y. C.C.,in company with Mr. H. B. Howard, started from 
Sry wet on Monday last for New York in the tandem canoe 

ttiwake. 


CLUB SIGNALS.—We have received sketches of signals from the 
Howard C. C. of Cambridge. the Hub C. C. of Boston, and the 
Potowonok ©. C. of Fort Madison, Iowa. 


Answers to Correspondents, 


=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


H. C.—We are unable to give you the address. 


H. v. L. New York.—Is a man shooting in sweepstakes or for mon 
prizes termed a professional? Ans. No. 


S. J. B., Philadelphia, Pa.—Lapstreak is lighter and better. ~~ 
cost will be from $5 to $7 per foot length, according to quality. 

J. J.. Pine Plains, N. ¥.—The pointer bitch Cara C. is registered 
ies first number of the American Kennel Register. Her number 
is 18, 

T. B. D., Ellicott City, Md.—Ruby is by Woodrufft’s Dick out of 
Fawn. We know, nothing of the collie Hske; perhaps some of our 
readers can give his pedigree. The fox-terrier is a sporting dog. 


H, W. G.—Would you kindly inform me if there is any black basg 
or trout fishing near Saratoga Springs, and when the season begins 
in your State for fishing? Ams. Yes, both. Season begins on June 1. 


C. J. V. A., Albany.—Can you tell me when is the best time to fish 
for carp, and what kind of bait or fliesto use? Ans. Morning and 
evening. Use worms. dough, boiled peas orfresh beef, We do not 
know that they will rise to the fly. 


Cc. J. W.—I have a new rod, all lancewood, weight 344 ounces. Is 
it too light for bass? Iam not a very expert angler with such light 
tackle. Had I better exchange it for a heavier one, say about 10 
ounces? Ans. The rod is too light; we would exchange. 


C. L, W.—Will you “kindly inform me what make, weight and 
length split bamboo fiy-rod you would advise for Rangeley Lake fish- 
ing? Ans, Arod 104% tollfeet and weighing 9to 10 ounces. We 
cannot recommend any particular maker. See our advertisements. 


TEACHER, Cadiz, O.—Where and when shall I go during the sum- 
mer months to find excellent bass fishing in Lake Erie and Lake 
Huron? 2. Can we find camping ground? 3. Cun you give address 
of sportsman’s hotels? Ans. There is good bass fishing at Kelley’s 
Island in Lake Erie, and also at St, Clair Flats. 2. You can camp at 
the Flats. 3, No. 


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Humphreys’ Veterinary Manual, (30 pp.) 
Bent free by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents. 
i2- Pamphlets sent free on application. 


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ABBEY & IMBRIE, 


Manufacturers of Fine Fishing Tackle 


48 and 50 Maiden Lane, New York City. 


catalogue is its accuracy.” 
AMERICAN ANGLER: 


MARK 
published.” 


SOIENTIFIC AMERICAN: 


We beg to call attention to our new 120-page folio Illustrated Catalogue. We have spared neither labor nor expense in our effort to 
ete werk of its kind. We will send a copy, postpaid, on receipt of 50 cents, which price does not nearly reimburse 


FOREST AND STREAM: ‘The list is surprising, even to one familiar with such matters. The great merit of this 


“Tt is, without doubt, one of the most complete and elaborately illustrated cataloeues 
nab has ever been issued in the interest of a 
owing to its practical value to the general angler.” 


NEW YORK EVENING POST: ‘‘The amount of ingenuity* exercised in devising means to capture fish becomes 
apparent only upon study of such a catalogue of fishing tackle as Abbey & Imbrie, of New York, have just 


private firm. This catalogue may be classed as a text book, 


“The book has 92 large plates, covering almost every conceivable appliance in this line, 
and in such profusion of styles as would probably delight even our most expert of fishermen, President Arthur.” 


MAIL AND EXPRESS: ‘To the practical angler the work is indispensable, as it shows him just what to get.” 


SILK WORM GUT. 


mE. GATASA, 38S Broadway, N. Y., 


SAS. FE. 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


MARSTERS, 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 

Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 

Gut to Extra Fine, Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heayy to fine, $5.00. 
For price list address 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, N. Y. 


Fishing Tackle,|Hormbeam Rods 


A SPECIALTY. 
_| W. HUNTINGTON, 
Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- | 
ficial Baits 


WILTON, CONN, 
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


Makes a specialty of the manufacture of FINE 
HAND-MADE RODS of Hornbeam for fly-fishing. 
Eyery fly-fisher should have one of these rods, for 
whatever preference he may have these are the 
only thoroughly reliable rods, secure against break- 
age and capable of real hard usage. ith one of 
these rods a sportsman may venture into the woods 
for a season and take no other rod, and be fairly 
sure of returning with it in serviceable condition. 
As made from wood of my own cutting and season- 
ing, they are powerful, easy in action and full of 
endurance. For circular send to WALLACE 
HUNTINGTON as above. 


Riaton’s Rust Preventor. 


For GUNS, CUTLERY and SURGICAL INSTRU 
MENTS. Specially adapted for salt water shooting. 
For sale at all principal gun stores. Western 
trade supE bed dy E, E. EATON, 53 State street, 
Chicago, fll. Cannot be sent by mail. 
Manufactured solely by 


GHD. B. EATON, 570 Pavonia Avenue, 
, Jersey City, N. J. 


—_—— 


Flies for all Waters. 


Special patterns tied to order. 


APPIBION & LITCHFIELD, 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 


E"ine F'ishinese Wack ile. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft,, $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; 300£t., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600t., $2.50, Any of the above Reels with Drags. 
2% cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, oid, 50 cts.; 80yds,, 75 ets.; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O’Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
package. Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 8yds., 15 cts. Double 
Twisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft. long, $1.50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishi’ 
Bein les of hooks, leaders, ete., sent by mail on receipt of price in money or stamp. Send stamp . 

ogue. 


Established 20 years, Open Evenings. J. FE. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 


EXxyYyWNw Oc E’s 


Patent “Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 
KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 


Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers, Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 
Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 


only about half as much. 
of a heayier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
ouly. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers 
not less than one dozen, by - 


HERMANN BOKER & CO,, Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


———— 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


PRICES 


Brass Multiplying Reels-with balance handles, 
180Ft., $1.50; 240ft,. $1.75; B00f6., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25 
and Drdgs extra, 


by mail or express on receipt of price. 


A Lotion 


Sold by the 
country. 


S. ALLCOCK & CO., 


Fish Hook, Fishing Tackle Mf'’s. 


REDDITCH, ENG, 


sau ERE e ee 
S6SV2ak, - 
SPRING STEEL 
lone SuHanxs, 
Out Points, Ringed, © 
CARLISLE, 


- ALLCOCK & Co. 
EY No. (Repprtcu). 100. 2% 
SESRISES SEGRE Ga ae 


Hooks made of the best Spring Steel, Swivels, 
Phantom Baits, Patent Standard Fiy Book, Patent 
Waterproof Lock Joint, Trout Rods, Patent Spring 
Hook Swivel. All descriptions of Fishing Godds, 
which can be had through all wholesale houses in 
the United States. 

AWARDS: Gold medals at Paris, Berlin, Nor- 
wich, Wurzburg and Calcutta, and the highest 
awards at Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide, South 
Africa, Toronto, London, and other exhibitions. 


Harrison’s Celebrated Fish Hook, 


Registered. 


SSRN 


oe 


Mark. 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
approach ours, which are to be obtained from 
the most respeetable wholesale houses in the trade. 

, Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


THE PETMECKY 


GUN CLEAN ER. 

The only Cleaner that will thoroughly clean a gun 
barrel, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
without adjustment. Will do the work quicker and 
better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined. Price, $1.25. By mail, 10 cents extra, Ask 


our dealer for it, Discount to the trade. Circular 
eae J.C, PETMECKY, 


Wholesale Dealer in Guns, Fishing Tackle, etc., Aus- 
tin, Texus. 


WITH 
: HOOK 
2 AND 
y OMe Bz 
Ue ~ LINE. 


NAA 


By Frank Forrester. 84 pages, illustrated, by 
mail, post paid, 25 cents. 

Comple Catalogue of Fishing Tackle Free. 

Address PECK & SNYDER, Manufacturers and 

Importers, 126, 128 & 180 Nassau street, New York. 


THE SETTER, 


— a 


LAVERACK. 


With colored illustrations. Price, postpaid, $3.75 


FOR SALE BY THE 


Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 


OF FISHING TACKLE. 


first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
; GOOEt., $2.50; 750ft., $2.75; 900ft , $3.00. Nickel plating 
Brass Click Reeis, 25yds , 60 cts.; 40yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00. Kiffe’s 
Oelebrated Hooks -nelled on gut. Single gut, 12 cts. per doz,; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 
doz, Single Gut T.out and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 8yds., 15 cts. 
Leaders, 2 length.5cts.; 4 length, 10 cts.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15. cts.; 
4 Jength, 25 cts. Trout Flies, 50 cts, per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per coz. 
SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Between Fulton Ferry and City Hall. OPEN EVENINGS. 


JULIE OLE NE 


Protects persons using it from the attacks of MOSQUITOES, 
BLACK FLIES, and other insects, 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather. 

Iris beneficial to the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; is color- 
less and cleanly, not staining the finest linen, and washes off 
readily on the application of soap and water. 


THOS. JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor. 


OUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 


30 cts. per 

Double Twisted 
extra heavy 4-ply, 
Samples of our goods sent 


PRICE, $75 TO $250, 


Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 Ibs. weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate. 


i. C. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N.Y. 


Dame, Stoddard & Kendall, 


—SUCGCESSORS TO— ; 


BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 


Fine Fishing ‘Tackle 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


During the season now opened we shall have a 
full stock of everything pertaining 
to an Angler’s Outfit. 


DAME, STODDARD & KENDALL, 


374 Washington St., Opp. Broomfield St., Boston. 


UP & MCS FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
AND THE 


HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


Of Waterproofed Duck, Dead Grass Color, Irish 
Fustian and Imported Corduroy. 

ASSORTED COLORS. 

Unequaled in Convenience, Style or Workmanship. 


for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others. 


and from SUNBURN and the 


> 


MANUFACTURED BY 


leading dealers in sporting goods throughout the 


Two Beautiful Iustrated Books 
PADDLE AND PORTAGE 


Canoe and Camera. 


BY THOMAS SEDGWICK STEELE, of Hartford, Conn. 


123 exquisite illustrations of life in the woods, 
with map in each copy. 

_The humorous as well as the serious side of cam 
life is vividly represented, while Mr. Steele’s wall 
known artistic perceptions, and a most intense love 
of nature, has made the work all that could be 
desired. 

Sryen Eprrions of these works sold. Most popu: 
lar books in the market, Cloth. Price $1.50 each. 


A NEW MAINE MAP. 
The headwaters of the 


Aroostook, Penobscot and St. John Rivers 


Compiled by Tuomas SEDaWick STEELE. 


The chart is 20x30 inches, printed on Goyern 
ment survey paper and mounted on cloth. Sent 
postpaid on receipt of price, $1. 

FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO, 
39 Park Row, New York. 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman’s 
Dining Room ever made. 
Natural ‘Dead Game” under glass, and no more 
bulky than an ordinary picture. 
Will send per express. C. O. D, subject to approval, 
on receipt of express eharges. 
Send for photograph and prices. 


Hi. E. CHUBB, Taxidermist, 
235 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, 0. 


Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 


THIS 


UPTH EGROVE is our Skeleton Coat or Game Bag. Weighs but 15 ounces. 


i AND Can be worn oyer or under an ordinary coat. Has seven 
pockets and game pockets. Jtis of strong material, 
McLE LLAN, dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfu 
2 day without losing a hair or feather. We will mail it to 
Valparaiso, Ind. you, postage paid, for $2.00. Send breast measure. 
“0.0.” New Model Patent Per'eeti 
The 0.0.” New Model Patent Perfection 
TREBLE MULTIPLYING REEL, 


WITH CLICK ATTACHMENT, 


Is the handsomest and most practical 
Reel Made. 


Following are its points of excellence: 


Center Action, an entirely new 
feature for a multiplying reel. 

Balance Handle, revolymg within 
a projecting metal band, no chance for 
line to catch upon the handle, 
= A Treblé Multiplying Click, when 

the index is in the position as shown in 

ths above illustration. 
A Treble Multiplying Free-Running 
Reel. when the index is pushed to the right, 

Raised Piilaf, permitting the extension of. 
the spool, thus increasing the carrying capac- 
ity of the reel fully one-third and greatly re- 
dueme the weight. Material and Finish, 
the best. Price, ‘‘within reach.” 

Please order the above ‘Patent Perfection 
Reels” through the Dealer in your place. If for 
any cause you can not so obtain them, please 
advise me and I will correspond with you. 

WM. M. CORNWALL, Importer & Jobber 
of Fishing Tackle and Gun Goods, 18 Warren 
street, New York City. : 


Naturalists’ Supply Depot. 
Artificial Glass Eyes. 


TAXIDERMISTS. 


BrRANGH Orrice, 409 Washington st., Boston, 


ELLIS & WEBSTER, Pawtucket, R. I. 


The Still-Hunter, 


ave 
Tr. Ss VAN DY scr, 


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For Sale by the Forest and Stream Pub, Co, 


THE 
BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER COQ, 


Successors to THE J. M. Brunswick & BALKE Uo, 
and TH H, W. CoLuENDER Co. 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 
rx: WICH O1L:s 
it Ba ishing. 
118 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Hexagonal Split Bamboo F Ss ing Rods 


; 1 aj ize—10 Soversigns. Noted for excel- 
Itimore St., Baltimore | Were awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize ‘i i 
Indorsed by didn ieadine pavers and awarded | ence more than numbers. This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods. 
the highest prizes at every exposition where ex- Manufactured by B. F. NICHOLS, 153 Bape Pe, 1 OPEP aaa 
hibited. TRIED AND PROVED. Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Laws. 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman's Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


“W7rIimNMNG SHoo Trin G” 


Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 
Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-Inader; practical hints upon wing shooting; 
directions for hunting snipes, woodcocks, rufted grouse and quails. ; 
Tilustrated: Boun: 


860 Broadway, New York. 
84 and 86 State Street, Chicago. — 
17 South Fifth Street, St. Louis. 


Black Flies-Mosquitoes. 


NO TAR, NO OTL. 


“T find the ‘Angler’s Comfort,’ made by N. 8. 
Harlow. of Bangor, Maine, the most effective and 
satisfactory preparation I have ever used to keep 
off mosquitoes, black flies, ete,” EH, M, STILLWELL 

Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for the 
State of Maine. ] 
Orders by mail solicited. Retail, 25 cts., postage 
Yeas Wholesale, usual discount, 


N.S. HARLOW, Druggist, Bangor, Me. T. G. DAVEY, Publisher, London, Ont. 


eee ee 


in cloth, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00, 


FOREST AND $ 


TREAM. 


A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. 


TurMs, $4 A Yrar. 10 Crs, A Copy, 
Srx Montss, $2 


NEW YORK, MAY 29, 1884. 


VOL. XX1I,—No, 18. 
{ Nos, 39 & 40 Park Row, Naw Yors. 


CORRESPONDENOE. 

Tre ForEst AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- 
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Communications upon the subjects to which its pages are devoted are 
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garded. No name will be published except with writer’s consent. 
The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 


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Nos. 39 anp 40 PARK Row. New YorE City. 


CONTENTS. 
E\prrorrAt. FISHCULTURE. 
Rattlers and Rattlings. The American Fisheultural‘As- 
Pistols and Children. sociation, 


Large Trout. 
THe SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
A Story for Decoration Day. 
NatTuRAL History, 
The Baltimore Oriole. 
The Couesian Period. 
Game Bag AND Gun. 
English and American Guns: 
The Performance of Shotguns. 


THE KENNEL. 
Dachshunde vs. Spielhunde. 
N. A. K. Trials, i 
Pointers at New York. 
The English Field Trials, 
Beagles at New York. 
Chicago Dog Show. 
National Bench Show Ass’n. 
Kennel Notes. 


The Choice of Hunting Rifles. | Rirte anp TRAP SHOOTING, 
That Steam Cat. Range and Gallery. 
Midnight Melody. The Trap. 

Two-Kyed Shooting. CANOEING. 


Deer Floating Incidents. 

The Massachusetts Bill. 

The New York Law. 
Camp-FIn& FLICKERINGS. 
Sa AND River FIsHrne. 

Camps of the Kingfishers.—11r, 

Useful Hints, 

Michigan Angling Notes. 

Fish Day at Worcester. 

‘Schroon Lake. 


Deseronto C. C. 
The Association Book. 
The Chart Locker, 

Mississquoi River. 
The Hudson River Meet. 
The Connecticut River Meet. . 
The Merrimac River Meet. 
Canoeing in the Eastern States. _ 
Stowage of Canoes. 
Organization of Canoe Clubs. 


Tim and Seven Ponds. YACHTING. 

Philadelphia Notes. The Merlin. 

The Revallier or Ravallia, Food at Sea—Cheese vs. Salt 
FISHCULTURE, unk, ‘ 


The Menhaden Question. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


RATTLERS AND RATTLING. 


(re lying proverb that all is fair in love and war has been 

a convenient excuse for all sorts of rascality ever since 
it was first uttered. A fair stand-up fight has no tricky 
features about it, and every move of either contestant in a 
battle is fair according to the rules of equal opportunity or 
it is the unfair advantage sought by an antagonist who stands 
in self-confessed inferiority. It matters not whether the 
game at stake be a crown and its dependencies and the sub- 
terfuge the deceitful approach of an armed force under 
cover of a flag of truce, or whether it be a match before the 
trap for a medal bauble and the trick of the beaten team be 
one of an hundred well-known devices by which one marks- 
man seeks to ‘‘rattle” or confuse another. 

We recall with pleasure the stately courtesies which 
marked the opening series of matches between the American 
and Irish teams of riflemen. It was one company of gen- 

-tlemen working with another company for a common aim. 
Hach was intent on making as big a score as it was possible 
with the arms and experience at its command, and each ex- 
pected the otier to do the same. Defeat came to one side, 
but if did not bring with it any feeling of vindictiveness, 
Those who failed to make the better score knew that they 
had done their best, and they knew, too, that they had re- 
ceived the best wishes of their antagonists, and they were the 
first and most sincere of those who heaped congratulations 
upon the winners. It was not a match in which the utter- 
ance of such a word as “rattling” was heard. Instead, the 
match at Creedmoor and again at Dollymount was made the 
vehicle for the conveyance of many expressions of good will. 
It was, in short, a match conducted strictly according to the 
conditions laid down for it, yet without for a moment losing 
sight of the gentlemanly courtesy due at all times from one 
individual to another, There was no sinking of the gentle- 
man in the sportsman, or rather, there was a proper blend- 
ing of the two, as there always may be and should be, if the 
greed for victory does nof crowd out of sight the natural in- 
stincts of fair play, which every true sportsman feels. 

In many trap contests we have seen the same regard for 
the rights and feelings of the antagonists manifésted that 


_—_—— es 


marked the rifle matches to which we have referred. Visitor 
marksmen or a team from a distance were treated as guests 
of the home team rather than foes to be beaten af any cost. 
It was recoguized on both sides that there was to bea 
trial of skill and that with equal opportunity and barring 
mishap, the most skillful among the group of con- 
testants was sure to win. Such meetings were of good 
effect in so far as they encouraged the patrons of trap- 
shooting to seek their own advancement through honest 
endeavor and diligent effort. Hach man sought to improve 
his own style and accuracy because he was sure that success 
would follow such attention to detail. It was, in short, an 
exercise where there was iniprovement in real merit because 
such merit was recognized at the scoring point. 

There is another side to these pictures, however, and too 
frequently they are brought to public attention, to the dis- 
grace and scandal of true sportsmanship. In these contests 
the only criterion is that of victory, It matters not how it 
is gained only that the final showing gives at least a nom- 
inal success, There comes in then the fine art and low 
cunning of the “‘rattler.” Professionalism in the worst 
meaning of that much-abused term comes out in all its force, 
and while perhaps the letter cf the conditions may be strictly 
observed, the spirit of the conditions, which is after all the 
spirit of fair play, is completely thrown to the winds. The 
intention of each side is not fora trial of skill or victory 
founded upon superior merit, but rather for a test of subter- 
fuges, for such a series of surprises for the enemy as shall 
snatch victory from his grasp. There are surprises which 
may be perfectly honest. If A, by putting thought and 
brains into his work, shall produce a gun, closer shooting, 
harder hitting and surer in its fire than any that have here- 
tofore been used, and shall introduce it to the attention of B, 
through amatch, be is entitled to all that his brain work 
shall bring him, He has earned his victory, not perhaps by 
being content todo better work with an inferior gun, but by 
producing a better gun and thereby insuring better work. 
Such a step is fair and honest; but it is quite another matter 
to snatch yictory, at least on paper, by resorting to the many 
confusing’ tactics of the professional ‘‘rattler.” 

It would be a waste of space and time to go into all the 
unpleasant details of the progress of a match in which the 
arts and devices of those who win by trickery are brought to 
play, and once this sort of thing is countenanced there is no 
limit to the extremes to which tt may be carried, and a 
match ceases to be more than a measure of rascality. 

Tn the past the Forest anD STREAM has found occasion to 
administer some sharp rebukes to the mug-hunting, mer- 
cenary spirit which in large measure lies at the foundation of 
the evil under consideration. WRivalry is the life of all such 
gatherings as those before the trap and the butts; but that 
spirit of rivalry is quickly quenched when the spirit of greed 
comes in and is allowed to run full sway without the control 
of gentlemanly courtesy, and that observance of the intent 
as well as the mere letter of formal conditions. 

A gun club may organize pretty much as a band of pirates 
is drawn together, by a common motive of plunder. It msy 
for a time carry its own by sheer dint of worrying its 
opponents; but in the end it kills by the mere crushing out 
of all the true sportsmean’s feeling, which is, that the reward 
of sport is in the exercise itself and not in such results as 
may be turned to base material advantage. 


National Benow SHow AssocraTion.—The Westmin- 
ster Kennel Club have taken the initiatory step toward the 
formation of a National bench show association. They have 
sent to all of the prominent kennel clubs a circular letter re- 
questing the attendance of some of their members at a meet- 
ing to be held in New York on June 21, for the purpose of 
consultation regarding the formation of such an association. 
That the call will meet with a hearty response there is not 
the slightest doubt. We luok forward with much interest to 
the meeting, believing that its action will result in great 
benefit to the breeder and exhibitor, and in increased useful- 
ness and popularity of our bench shows. 


Lucx.—It is reported that a rich vein of coal has been dis- 
covered on the lands owned by the Woodmont Rod and Gun 
Club, on. the Potomac. If the prospector is right about the 
find, there will be millions in it for the club members. ‘This 
is an instance of virtue rewarded, as it should be, The 
club’s motto is ‘‘Protect and Enjoy.” The usual motto is, 
“Enjoy, and if anything is left let it protect itself.” The 
Woodmont anglers deserve their luck, They have demon- 
stracted beyond all question that game protection—with a 
coal mine, an oil well, or a gold reef thrown in—pays. 


PISTOLS AND CHILDREN. 


N arrest made Monday in this city was the first under a 
recently enacted ordinance, which prohibits the sale 
of pistols to minors under the age of fifteen years, A boy 
had been sent on an errand to purchase a pistol, and the fact 
coming to the notice of the police, an arrest followed. There 
bas been in the past a great deal of trouble over the firearm 
question as affecting children. There would seem to he a 
natural fever on the part of every boy at some time to own a pis- 
tol. It may be the most dangerous possible contrivance, and 
the very fact that this danger is unforeseen only makes it the: 
more to be dreaded. To meet this demand of the lads and 
the measure of their pockets, the firearms companies have: 
sent out a series of alleged pistols which huve only cheap- 
ness to recommend them. They have neither strength nor: 
accuracy nor beauty in their favor, and there exists no pre-- 
tense of a reason to justify their manufacture. 
In this city, where the evils which naturally follow in the 
train of such deadly contrivances are so manifest, there: 
have been many ordinances and local laws aiming to reduce 
the disastrous consequences which follow this pistol-carrying 
mania. There are laws which make it necessary to secure @ 
permit for the habitual carrying of a pistol; but still the boy 
nuisance remained, and the more recent ordinance naturally 
followed to reach this trouble. Rigidly enforced, it will do 
much toward reducing the trouble toa minimum, but the 
real remedy is to be found in a complete suspension of this 
useless class of arms. If this be brought about by a general 
prohibition of their sale, good. An arm of service is one 
thing, but a dangerous toy, placed by mercenary manufac- 
turers in ignorant, innocent hands, is quite another, 


LARGE TROUT. 

CCOUNTS of the capture of large trout are now in sea- 
son, and in reading them one must always consider the 
locality where the fish are taken. For instance,a trout of 
five pounds taken in the waters of Maine or of the Sault Ste. 
Maria would not be a remarkable fish, while, if taken in the 
waters of New York, Pennsylvania, or Vermont, it would 
be considered a monster. New Hampshire papers chronicle 
a catch of 127 trout, taken by Eugene Batchelder and John 
Lynch, of Claremont, which contained many fish of six to 

eight ounces, as the finest catch in years. 

From Pennsylvania comes the account of the largest trout 
taken in Pike county in ten years. It was taken by Thad. 
Mercer in the Little Bushkill, below the lower falls, last 
week, and weighed four and a quarter pounds. Previous to 
this the largest trout taken in Pike county was taken a dozen 
years ago at the mouth of the Sawkill, and was a quarter of 
a pound heavier than the one mentioned aboye. Both these 
fish were taken with the worm. This region has furnished 
several large trout. One came out of the Beaverkill and was 
exhibited in Barnum’s Museum before it was burned, and as- 
it was said to weigh six pounds, there were many in those 
days who doubted that a brook trout ever reached that weight.. 

The largest wild trout that we know of being taken im: 
the State of New York, was taken by A. R. Fuller, of 
Meacham Lake, Franklin county, in Clear Pond, near 
Meacham, and weighed five pounds. 

From Maine come the largest trout taken in America. The 
great fish taken by Mr. Geo. Shepard Page, of ten and a half 
pounds, weighed after being out of water for two days, and 
the eleven and a quarter pound fish sent to the Smithsonian, 
have never been beaten. last year a trout was taken in the 
Rangeley Lakes that weighed nine and a half pounds. 


RAILROADS IN THE NatTIoNAL Park.—There are abund- 
ant reasons why no railroads should be allowed in the Yel- 
lowstone National Park, but the Cinnabar and Clarke’s Fork 
Railroad Company are untiring in their attempt to lobby a 
bill through the Senate at Washington, giving them permis- 
sion to construct a road through the Park. Government 
officials, paid liberal salaries, are found, who shamelessly 
lend themselves to helping on the nefarious scheme, and only 
the vigilance of honest Senators can thwart the job. The 
subject came up in the Senate last Monday. Messrs. Vest, 
Logan and Voorhees spoke in opposition to the bill, and Mr. 
Sawyer would have shown what.a fine thing this road must 
be to the dear people, but he was not given'a chance to de- 
liver himself. 'The monopoly granted to the Hatch concern 
was a national disgrace; to permit this railroad company to 
grab what they have the presumption to demand, would be 
another cause for humiliation among right-thinking citizens. 


A New Friorrpa Boox,—Dr., J. A. Henshall’s new book, 
“Camping and Cruising in Florida,” is now in press and will 
be issued shortly. 


Che Sportsman Cauvist, 


A STORY FOR DECORATION DAY. 


ii was midwinter in war times; the scenery mountainous; 

the weather cold, dark and cloudy; time, about 6 P. M. 
The battle had been fought and victory perched on our ban- 
ners; roll call was over, and the weary troops had gathered 
around newly-made camp-tires to prepare their scanty suppers 
of coffee and hard biscuit, The camp kettles, suspended on 
rails resting on forked sticks, were beginning tosteam. The 
dark clouds that had gathered over the battlefield, heavily 
charged with chilling rain, became threatening and might at 
any moment pour down their unwelcome floods on the 
unsheltered heads of the devoted men who were scattered 
around and trying to draw some comfort from the cheerful 
blaze and the prospect of a cupful of hot, strong coffee, 
Some of them had taken off their shoes and were rubbing 
their sore feet; others were sitting on rocks and rails talking 
in low, broken murmurs, as they recalled the conflict and 
spoke the name of some fallen comrade who had dropped by 
their side; others lay prone on their backs, silent, their right 
arms drawn across their eyes, their minds, no doubt, wander- 
ing back to their peaceful homes on the broad prairies or 
sheltered woodlands of the Northwest. A little in the fore- 
ground stood long lines of stacked rifles, along the further 
side of which paced the sentincl, weary but watchful, guard- 
ing those trusty weapons that had done such good services 
during the day, Still further in front was a different, but 
more sad spectacle; long ranks of dead soldiers lay side by 
side, wrapped in their blankets, ready to be laid in the 
shallow trench then being prepared for their reception. Still 
further to the right appeared the flickering lights at the field 
hospital, where the faithful surgeons were doing all, by their 
skill and goodness of heart, to allay the sufferings of the 
wounded. Such were the scenes that passed in quick review 
before the eyes of the writer as he sauntered around to see 
how the boys felt after their hard fight, and to make inquiries 
regarding the fate of true and trusted comrades. 

But the kettles begin to bubble and boil, while a pleasant 
aroma fioats around the camp-fire, arousing the boys, who 
bestir themselves, and hunt for hayersacks and tin cups pre- 
paratory to dipping in and soaking their hard biscuit. All 
is now animation; jokes and bauters pass around, gloom is 
dispersed, and cheerfulness asserts her ever potent power for 

ood. 

But I must return to duty, and find Black Tom, who is 
neighing for me at a short distance. On my way I pass regi- 
mental headquarters, established around a Jarge brush heap, 
then burned down to a bed of burning, glowing coals. No 
tents, no camp stools, nothing but an orderly holding some 
horses by the bridles, and the mess cook and major trying 
their best to make some coffee without scorching their faces. 
The colonel is sitting at the foot of a tree, the other officers, 
among whom there areseyeral captains, are scattered around, 
some sitting on the ground, others lying flat, all holding an 
animated discussion regarding the fight, the sulphurous 
smoke of which yet adulterated the air. Leaning against a 
tree, I stood a silent spectator of the picturesque scene. One 
of the group, a tall, handsome officer, wearing a captain’s 
uniform, remarked, rather emphaticly, ‘‘T don’t understand 
why the General does not follow up the advantage and cap- 
ture the last d—d man of them.” The words had scarcely 
passed his lips when an orderly rode up, jumped from the 
saddle, ran his eyes around the group, advanced 10 the 
colonel, saluted, pulled from his belt a bunch of orders, 
handing one over, turned on his heel, mounted, and was off. 
That officer read the order, jumped to his feet, remarking, 
“The fight isnot over yet, your wish is gratified.” The 
order, in brief, was a call for four companies under a field 
officer, provided with three days’ rations, eighty rounds of 
ammunition, in light marching order, nothing to be carried 
but pouches. The battalion to march at once to the rendez- 
vous, where the ammunition and cracker wagons awaited 
them. ' 

This meant fight, and all was bustle in a moment; ‘‘get 
ready,” ran down along the camp-tires. The men gulped 
down their scalding coffee, hardly taking time to wet the 
flinty bread. No detail was made, but volunteer com- 
panies called for. The order to fall in was promptly obeyed, 
and tne officers in charge put the question, “‘All you that are 
in favor of a three days’ force march on hurd tack, and 
plenty of fighting, will hold up your right hands.” Hvery 
hand was up in a moment; and the captain without as much 
as “rest? or ‘break ranks,” turned on his heel and reported 
his company ready. This was all done in far less time than 
it iakes 10 write it, and the first four companies reported 
were accepted, while the others, every one of whom had 
promptly responded, were chagrined and disappointed at 
being left, These brave fellows, footsore and battle-weary, 
were ready to start off on a three days’ forced march, loaded 
down with dry bread and double allowances of cartridges, 
in the dead of winter without a blanket or overcoat, with 
eyery indication of fallen weather, to fight against heavy 
odds with a fair prospect that it was the last march they 
would ever make, for they knew not what they were to be 
dashed against. Yet these self-sacrificing heroes, all actuated 
by the same spirit of tenacious bravery, self-sacrifice and 
lofty patriotism, were striving for places in that forlorn 
hope, cheerfully offering their lives as a willing sacrifice in 
the protection and upholding of our dear flag and country. 
Of such was the material composing our volunteer army. 
May every American boy, be his home in the North or South, 
Rast or West, be inspired by the same noble principles. But 

igressing. 

; *Gatohine the spirit of reckless adventure that took posses- 
sion of all, and although my duties led me in a diiferent and 
safer quarter, yet I hurried to headquarters and offered my 
services as commissary and quaricrmaster of the expedition. 
The General looked at me incredulous; his eyes seemed to 
read my very soul; he answered, “No train accompanies 
them,” but after a little reflection he continued, ‘‘however, 
you may go, although they will have no use for your ser- 
vices,” and pencilled a brief order to that elfect, rasping 
the order I hurried to my horse, sending an orderly to the 
train informing my assistant of my detail for three days, 
then turned Tom’s head toward the rendezvous. 

A tew days previous the cavalry had brought ma com- 
pany of mountaineers as prisoners, They were brought 
past the train to be disarmed. These men carried long, 
ancient rifles of the old frontier pattern. ‘The officer cap- 
tured with them was a young, bundsome, dashing fellow, 
dressed in a suit of home-made gray jeans, no doubt the 
handiwork of his mother or sister or wife. It was cut in 
the Confederate regulation style, with three gold bars on the 
collar; it fit to perfection, and he looked every inch a gen- 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


tleman-and soldier. His arms consisted of a rifle, supported 
across his back by the sling, and a deer-skin pouch well 
filled with cartridges. I was standing a short distance from 
him, and noticed him beckoning me to approach. When 
close up he said, ‘‘1 am in for the bull pen” (meaning the 
military prison); “this is my private property” (disengaging 
his rifle); “I make you a present of it. It is the best piece 
you ever handled; take care of it.” The command, ‘Right 
face, forward march,” was given, and he disappeared. I 
examined the piece minutely, It had a 30-inch barrel, about 
.30-caliber, weighed 7} pounds, silver-mounted; in fact one 
of the neatest rifles I ever handled, and after trial proved to 
be the finest rifle I ever shot. The pouch contained a quan- 
tity of hand-made cartridges, with extra large charges of 
powder, no doubt intended to kill Yanks, but afterward 
used for the better purpose of saving them. This rifle and 
pouch were strapped to my saddle when I mounted to join 
the rendezvous, 

Reaching the place I found four battalions of infantry, and 
two small mountain howitzers, and two ambulances, The 
fighting force was about one thousand strong, quite a small 
detail to tackle a whole division of the enemy that had been 
cut off and were then in full run for the river, some eighteen 
miles distant, The men having filled their haversacks with 
crackers, and their boxes and pockets with cartridges, the 
line was formed and we started south at a swinging gait. 
The colonel in command, with whom I was riding, enlight- 
ened me as to our destination. We were to make straight 
for the ferry or ford, and if in time, to dispute the passage, 
and to hold the same until reinforced ; but if too Jate, then we 
were to push down the left bank and prevent a recrossing, 
and harass the retreat as much as possibe. In passing along 
the line to the front, one of the officers jokingly asked me, 
“What are you going to do with your popgun?” J answered, 
“Keep the boys in meat,” The men caught my answer and 
hoarded it up for future use, and paid, me back in double 
measure, ; 

The march was silent, rapid and unbroken. Sunrise 
found us at the river, the last of the *‘Johnnies” disappear- 
ing on the opposite side, and the ferryboat, a trap run by 
horse power, putting down stream at her top speed. A few 
shells were sent after the broken and retreating foe, there 
was a brief rest, and then the head of the line was turned 
down stream, By this time the long threatened rain had 
broken loose, and poured down in torrents; but there was no 
rest nor shelter for us, On we went the whole day. A 
littie before dark, on turning an abrupt bend in the river, 
camp-fires were seen on the other side, and the ferryboat 
tied to the bank. To piace the guns in position and throw 
a dozen shells into the midst of them was the work of a few 
minutes. They thought the whole Yankee army was on 
them, and off they went, wagons, boat and all, soon disap- 
pearing beyond the woods, With brief intervals of rest, the 
chase was kept up for three days and nights, several times 
frustrating the enemy’s attempt to recross and join the main 
column then on the retreat further north. 

On the second day out, I was riding along the line, when 
the boys noticed me and called out, ‘‘Hallo, Crackers, where 
is our meat?” the chorus being taken up by all, and ‘“‘bring 
on your meat,” met me on every side. 

When starting I had been told, and had expected that my 
position of commissary and quartermaster would be a sine- 
cure, but alas, here I was face to face with more than a thous- 
and hungry mouths to fill, and scores of miles from our base 
of supplies, and still marching further, What was I to do? 
I felt for the boys, and their repeated calls of “‘bring on 
your meat,” were prompted by a deep-seated feeling of ne- 
cessity. I went to the colonel and told him that I would 
ride ahead and seeif I could find some stray cattle or hogs if he 
would let the men dress and cook them, to which he readily 
assented, I started at once, and scoured the country for 
miles on the left of the column, hoping at every turn to find 
a sturdy cow or hog, but to no purpose, the country had 
been closely foraged before us; and night found me spurring 
on after the men empty-handed. I was ashamed and almost 
afraid to see them, but face the music I must, The first 
question was, ‘‘Well, Crackers, what luck?” None. Trouble 
was afloat in a moment, and “bring on your meat’ met me 
at every turn. ' ’ 1 

Next morning before day found me miles from the line of 
march, determined to hunt something for my hungry com- 
trades, Anda more faithful searching hunt a man neYer 
made. Up the hills and down the valleys I went, perhaps 
1 could get adeer, a pig, anything, 1 would have been 
tempted to haye killed a inule had I found one. But no, 
the country was silent, and barren of hair and feather worth 
carrying to camp, and must have been scoured by hungry 
men before me. The middle of the afternoon found me 
again with the command. I was met on every turn by the 
hungry ery, “Bring on your meat.” T was desperate; yet 
had I not voluntarily assumed the responsible position, and 
to whom else could the men look for meat? : 

When I reported my failure to the commanding officer, he 
looked daggers at me, pulled out his watch, looked at the 
time of day; two hours to sundown, the last cracker gone, 
in a section very sparsely settled, the men almost broken 
down, and hungry, their feet wet and blistered. The rain 
which had poured down on us during the past two days had 
spent itself, and the sky was bright for the first time, A 
halt was called, and a council held, All had been animated 
by the hope of catching up with the fugitives, and giving 
them battle, and there had been glimpses of them at inter- 
vals during the day, pushing down the other side of the 
stream, and trying to effect a crossing. But now a new 
enemy met us, hunger. What was to be done? To retrace 
our steps was starvation, to proceed further would be diso- 
beying orders, or at least, stretching them beyond excuse. 


‘Tt was finally decided to change ourcourse, and march north 


in the hope of striking a settlement that had not been closely 
pea ee was therefore ordered to take the first left hand 
road and find a suitable bivouac for the night, Spurring on, 
I found across road within a short distance ol where we 
stopped, and I called their attention to it, All was soon in 
motion, and I went cantering along to perform the duty as- 
signed me. Mile after mile I rode, but no break in the pine 
forest. I found a deserted cabin with a small clearing, but 
no water, that would not do; so on I went a mile or two 
further. 1 began to despair of relief for the troops, and de- 
termined to select the first spot that afforded wood and water 
and trust to the morrow for provisions. } 

Night was coming on, stil] there was no break in the forest, 
I felt sad and siek at heart thinking of the hungry, footsore 
boys behind me, who were looking ahead at every turn in 
the road for me and relief, I slackened my pace and per- 
mitted my poor, faithful horse to walk up a sharp incline in 
the road, My rifle was lying in front across my saddle, the 
reins loose on Tom's neck, My thoughts took flight and 


= 
were away off in my own home, There I met my wife and 
baby, Mary; tears, hot, scalding tears, ran down my cheeks, 
my heart was full, for the moment I had forgot my duty, and 
was slowly repeating the following stanza: 


*Methought from the baftlefield's stern array 
That T wandered far on a desolate tract; 
it was evening, and sunshine arose on the way 
To the home of my loved ones, who welcomed me back,” 


I had repeated half of the next, when my horse came to a 
sudden stand. I looked up, brushed the tears from my eyes 
and looked around. I was on the brow of the ridge, and 
right in front of me, in the valley beneath, lay a beautiful 
farm. Half a mile distant were the farmhouse, barns, and 
orchard. The smoke rose from the chimneys and eddied 
away in the evening breeze. The tingling of a cow bell 
came floating up the hill, and a lot of cattle stood in the 
road in front of the homestead. Stacks of fodder stood by 
the barn, and turkeys were flying up to roost. In a field 
back of the house, that stretched within two hundred yards 
of where I sat, there was a small flock of sheep grazing in 
apparent security. There was plenty, if not peace, within 
my grasp. How long [ sat gazing at the peaceful scene 
before me I know not, but the clear neigh of a horse away 
at the foot of the hill behind, told me that the column was 
near, 

Ina moment my course was mapped out, I would tie 
my horse, creep to the fence, shoot down that flock of sheep, 
and buy them afterward. When I reached the fence I was 
within from sixty to one hundred yards of the flock, sixteen 
in number and large ones. I steadied my nerves for the 
work, determined that every shot should count. Dropping 
down in the fence corner out of sight, I loaded and fired in 
quick succession. One after the other of those innocent erca- 
tures dropped to my shots. I seemed to be inspired; not a 
bullet missed its mark, and just as the last one fell the head 
of the column appeared, on the top of the ridge on myright, 
and an angry farmer came running across the field on my 
left. When the pleasant view burst on the eyes of the 
weary, hungry soldiers, they broke out in loud cheers, which 
drew the attention of the farmer, who took in the situation 
ata glance, He stopped short, looked first at the troops, 
then at his bleeding flock. I went up and tried to explain 
matters, but after listening a while he turned on his heel 
and started off without a word. When distant about twenty 
steps he turned and said, “Stranger, come down to the 
house, will you?” and left. ‘ 

After seeing big roaring fires of dry rails ablaze, and the 
sheep stripped of their pelts, which was a wonderfully short 
job, I went to the house, and was kindly received by the 
host. All were in a state of abjeet fear lest the men would 
come down and do all kinds of bad things, as they had been 
told would happen when the hireling Yankees would come, 
but seeing that I was a human being, and rather a kind one 
at that, the children came up to me, and when I told them 
of my own little darling at home, they became reassured, 
and when I asked for a piece of bread, for 1 was hungry, 
that true spirit of American hospitality came to the front, 
and the oldest daughter, who had been very shy, brought me 
some sweet milk and light bread, which proved a treat. 
After assuring them that we were friends, that nothing should 
be disturbed, and that we would pay for everything in good 
greenbacks, they became sociable and obliging. The old 
gentleman offered to haul a load of sweet potatoes to the 
camp at thirty cents a bushel, and priced his sheep at two 
dollars and a half a head, all of which was paid. We even 
paid him for the rails we burned, for he proved to bea good 
man, and befriended us ina pinch, What a feast we had 
that night, roast mutton and sweet potatoes. The men dried 
their clothes and got a good night’s slecp on that hillside. _ 

The next day, with asupply of sweet potatoes stored in 
haversacks and ambulances, and our horses well fed with 
sweet fodder, we turned our faces campward, receiving ac- 
curate directions from our host as to the course, and on the 
third day we reached our tents without the loss of a man. 

This perchance may meet the eyes of some of the boys— 
now old men—who helped eat the mutton, if so, thev will 
know that ‘‘Crackers” still lives, Care Roce. 

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo, P 


alatiyal History. 


THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
(Telterus Galbula.) 

4/7 HAT a beauty! Yes, you may well say so, Observe 
W the tasté he displays in his dress—orange and jet—a 
most perfect combination. The colors, too, so rich and of a 
brilliancy I have rarely seen surpassed. The fine fellow is 
the dandy of his family, his modest spouse affecting a more 
quiet costume and appearing, in consequence, all the more 
lovely by contrast. A joyous, rollicking chap is “‘Balti- 
more,” and a gay life he leads, spending most of his time in 
the treetops, from whence his clear, ringing calls come down 
to us with the rush of the breeze through the foliage. 
There is a wild freshness about the life of this bird that im- 
parts an indescribable charm to him, The home he builds is 
a marvel of ingenuity, and so well is it put together that with 
a little repairing it often answers for the second season. 
Many times I have found it half filled with the husks of 
beechnuts and empty acorn shells, remnants from the feasts 
of tree mice, who took possession after the rightful owners 
had vacated the premises, With us he is inclined to fayor 
the beech as a building site, no doubt fiom the fact that its 
twigs are stouter and Jess liable to snap in the strong gusts 
which sometimes sweep among the boughs. : 

Way out, in the Jast fork of some gracefully drooping 
branch he will tie the foundation knots of his pendant home. 
String, horschair, paper, strips of soft cedar bark (and in 
one instance in my own experience a piece of blue ribbon) 
are most cunningly interwoven and shaped into a pouchlike 
form. Nearly a fortnight passes before the work is com- 
pleted to the satisfaction of the little architects and the 
house ready to receive its mistress. All is ready at last, and 
‘any lady,” looking as demure as possible, is soon deep in — 
household cares. — 

The finished nest is a light, graceful structure, swaying 
responsive to every breath that stirs, but withal so strong 
that the fierce gale will only toss it about, without injuring 
its contents, and often the mother bird will ride out Lie 
storm therein in perfect security. So well is it hidden that 
it often passes unseen, the dark leaves roofing it In com-— 
pletely. The male, however, often betrays its whereabouts 
with his noisy chatter, as he dashes at some careless bird 
who has ventured toonear, Immediately after you will hear 


Papaia wee 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


348 


“his metallie tu-c! ta-e! te-! tue! as he proclaims to his mate 
that ‘‘all is well." When the little family arrives the joyous 
arents are busy from early norning until night foraging 
or food, and they are valuable at thia season as most inde- 
fatigable insect destroyers. As I have said, the oriole is 
strictly a tree bird, and rarely seen below. He has often 
come to the bath, however, yielding to its attractions during 
the summer heats, and a beautiful sight it is to see him dash 
the spray from his jetty wings as he washes, his handsome 
brown eyes rivaling the flying drops in their sparkles. 
When does he arrive? With the buds and blossoms; when 
the orchards are covered with flaky blooms, and the locust 
fills the air with its perfume, then it is you hear him, with 
his wild voice full of the breezy tree tops and his bri eht form 
@leaming like a coal of fire among the leaves. T'u-e/ tu-e/ 
teal! tu-e! Wrtmor. 
New York Crry- 


THE COUESIAN PERIOD, 


By R. W. Shufeldt, Capt, Medical Corps, U.S, A., Chairman Section 

” of Avian Anatomy, A. O. U, Continuation of the Histor- 

ical Preface from advance sheets of Coue’s ‘Key.”’| 
Tur Post-Linn=an Epocn: 1758-1800. 
(1758—1766.) 

HE Linnean Period.—An interregnum here, during 
which not a notable work or worker appears in North 
American ornithology itself, But eyents elsewhere occurred, 
the reflex action of which upon our theme is simply incalcu- 
lable, fully requiring the ‘recognition of this period. The 
dates, 1758-1766, are respectively those of the appearance of 
the tenth and of the twelfth edition of the ‘‘Systema Nature” 
of Linn#us, In the former the illustrious Swede first form- 
ally and consistently applied his system of nomenclature to 
all birds known to him; the latter is his completed system, 
as it finally left his hands; and from then to now, zoologists, 
and especially ornithologists, have disputed whether 1758 or 
1766 should be taken as the starting point of zoological nom- 
enclature. In ornithology, the matter is still at issue be- 
tween the American and British schools. However this may 
result, the fact remains that during this ‘Linnean period,” 
1758 to 1766, we have the origin of all the tenable specific 
names of those of our birds which were known to Linnzus; 
the gathering up and methodical digestion and systematic 
arrangement of all that had gone before, Let this scant de- 
cade stand—mute in America, but eloquent in Sweden, and 

since applauded to the echo of the world. 

Nor is this all. The year 1760 saw the famous ‘‘Ornitho- 
logia’” of Mathurin Jacques Brissou (* April 20, 1725—} June 
23, 1806) in six portly quartos with 261 folded plates, and 
@laborate descriptions in Latin and French, of hundreds of 
birds, a fair proportion of which are North American, Many 
are described for the first time, though unfortunately not in 
the binomial nomenclature, The work holds permanent 
place, and most of the original descriptions of Brisson are 
among the surest bases of Linnean species, 

(1766-1785 ) 

The Forsterian Period.—Nearly twenty years haye now 
clapsed with so little incident that two brochures determine 
the complexion of this period. John Reinhold Forster was 
a learned and able man, whose connection with North 
American ornithology is interesting. In 1771 he published 
a tract, now very scarce and of no consequence whatever, 
entitled “A Catalogue of the Animals of North America.” 
But it was the first attempt to do anything of the sort—in 
short, the first thing of its kind. It gives 302 birds, neither 
described nor even named scientifically, But that was 4 
large number of North American birds to even mention in 
those days—more than Wilson gave in 1814, Forster fol- 
lowed up this exploit in 1772 with an interesting and valu- 
able account of fifty-eight birds from Hudson’s Bay, occupy- 
ing some fifty pages of the ‘‘Philosophical Transactions.” 
Several of these birds were new to science, and wereformally 
named, such as our white-throated sparrow, black-poll warb- 
ler, Hudsonian titmouse and Eskimo curlew, Aside from its 
intrinsic merit, this paper is notable as the first formal treatise 
exclusively devoted to a collection of North American birds 
sent abroad. The period is otherwise marked by the publi- 
cation in 1780 of Fabricius’s ‘‘Fauna Greenlandiea,’”’ in which 
some fifty birds of Greenland receive attention; and especially 
by the appearance of a great statesman and one of the Presi- 
dents of the United States in the role of ornithologist; 
Thomas Jefferson’s ‘‘Notes on the State of Virginia” having 
been first privately printed in Paris in 1782, though the 
authorized publication was not till 1787, It contains a list 
of seventy-seven birds cf Virginia. fortified with references 
to Catesby, Linneus and Brisson as the author’s authorities. 
There were many editions, one dating 1853. 

The long publication in France.of one of the monumental 
works on general ornithology coincides very nearly with this 
period. 1 refer of course to Buffon and his collaborators. 
The ‘Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux,” by Buffon and Mont- 
beillard, dates in its original edition 1770-1788, being in nine 
quarto volumes, with 264 plain plates. It forms a part of the 
grand set of volumes dating 1749-1804, in their original edi- 
tions. With the nine bird volumes are associated the mag- 
nificenf, series of colored plates known as. the “Planches 
Enluminés,” published in 42 fascicles, from 1755 to 1781. 
The plates are 1,008 in number, of which 973 represent 


birds. 
(1785-1791.) 

The Pennantian Period.—A. great landmark—one of the 
most conspicuous of the last century—was set up with the 
appearance in 1786 of the second yolume of Thomas Pea- 
nan’ts “Arctic Zoology.” The whole work, in three quarto 
volumes with many plates, 1784-87, was “designed as a 
sketch of the zoology of North America,” Jn this year, 
also, John Latham completed the third yolume (or sixth 
part) of his ‘‘General Synopsis of Birds.” These two great 
works haye much in common, in so for as a more restricted 
treatise can be compared with a more comprehensive one; 
and in the history of our subject the names of Latham and 
Pennant are linked as closely as those of Catesby and Ed- 
wards, The parallel may be drawn still further; for neither 
Pennant nor Latham (up to the date in mention) used bino- 
mial names; their species had consequently no standing; but 
they furnished to Gmelin in 1788 the same bases of formally 
named species of the thirteenth edition of the ‘Systema 
Nature,” that Catesby and Edwards had afforded Linneus 
in 1758 and 1766. Pennant treated upward of 500 nominal 
species of North American birds. The events at large of 
this brief but important period were the progress of Latham's 
Supplement to his Synopsis, the first volume of which ap- 
peared in 1787, though the second was not completed till 


1801; the appearance in 1790 of Latham’s ‘Index Ornitho- 


logicus,” in which his birds receive Latin names in due 
form; and the publication in 1788 of the thirteenth edition 
of the “Systema Nature,” as just said, 


We are so accustomed to see '‘Linn.” and “‘Gm.” after the 
names of our longest-known birds that we almost uncousci- 
ously acquire the notion that Linnseus and Gmelin were 
great discoverers or describers of birds in those days. But 
the men who made North American ornithology what it was 
HR last century were Catesby, Edwards, Foster, Pen- 
nant, Latham and Bartram, For ‘‘the illustrious Swede” 
was in this case little more than a methodical cataloguer, or 
systematic indexer; while his editor, Gmelin, was merely un 
industrious, indiscriminate compiler and transcriber, Neither 
of these men discovered anything to speak of. 

(L791—1800.) 

The Bartramian Period. William Bartram’s figure in the 
events we are sketching is a notable one—rather more on ac- 
count of his bearing upon Wilson’s subsequent career, than 
of his own actual achievements, Wilson is often called 
“the father of American ornithology;” if this designation be 
apt, then Bartram may be styled its godfather, Few are 
fully aware how much Wilson owed to Bartram, his ‘‘guide, 
philosopher and friend,” who published in 1791 his ‘‘Travels 
through North and South Carolina,” containing much orni- 
thological matter that was novel and valuable, including a 
formal catalogue of the birds of the Eastern United States, 
in which many species are named as new. I have always 
contended that those of his names which are identifiable are 
available, though Bartram frequently lapsed from strict 
binomial propriety; and the question furnishes a bone of con- 
tention to this day. Many birds which Wilson first fully 
described and figured were really named by Bartram, and 
several of the latter’s designations were simply adopted by 
Wilson, who, in relation to Bartram, is as the broader and 
clearer stream to its principal tributary affluent. The notable 
“Travels,” freighted with its unpretending yet almost por- 
tentous bird matter, went through several editions and at 
least two translations; and I consider it the foundation of a 
distinctively American school of ornithology. 

We have seen, in several earlier periods, that men’s names 
appear in pairs, if not also as mates. Thus, Catesby and 
Edwards; Linnzus and Gmelin; Pennant and Latham; and, 
perhaps, Buffon and Brisson, The Bartramian «ter ego is 
not Wilson, but Barton, whose ‘Fragments of the Natural 
History of Pennsylvania,’ 1799, closed the period, which 
Bartram had opened, and with it the century also. Benja- 
min Smith Barton’s tract, a folio now very scarce, is doubly 
a “fragment,” being at once a work never finished, and very 
imperfect as far as it went; butit is one of the most notable 
special treatises of the Jast century, and I think the first 
book published in this country that is entirely devoted to 
ornithology, But its author’s laurels must rest mainly upon 
this count, for its influence or impression upon the course of 
events is scarcely to be recognized—is incomparably less 
than that made by Bartram’s “Travels” and his mentorship 
of Wilson. 

By the side of Bartram and Barton stand several Jesser 
figures in the picture of this period. Jeremy Belknap treated 
the birds of New Hampshire in his “History” of that State 
(1792), Samuel Williams did like service for those of Ver- 
mont in his “History” (1794). Samuel Hearne, a -pioneer 
ornithologist in the northerly part of America, foreshadowed 
as it were, the much later “Fauna Boreali-Americana” in 
the narrative of his journey from Hudson’s Bay to the 
Northern Ocean—a stout quarto published in 1795, Here a 
chapter of fifty pages is devoted to about as many species of 
birds; and Hearne’s observations have a value which “‘time, 
the destroyer,” has not yet wholly effaced. 


Tre WrisontAN Hroow: 1800-1824. 
(1800-1808.) 

The Vietllotian Peviod.—As we round the turn of the cen- 
tury a great work occupies the opening years, before the ap- 
pearance of Wilson, a work by a foreigner, a Frenchman, 
almost unknown to or ignored by his contemporaries in 
America, although he was already the author of several illus- 
trated works on ornithology, when, in 1807, his ‘‘Histoire 
Naturelle des Oiseaux de l’Amerique Septentrionale”’ was 
completed in two large folio volumes, containing more than 
a hundred engraying, with text relating to several hundred 
species of birds of North America and the West Indies; 
many of them figured for the first time are entirely new to 
science. ‘This work, bearing much the same relation to its 
times that Cateshy’s and Hdwards’s respectively did to theirs, 
is said to have been published in twenty-two parts of six 
plates each, probably during several years; but the date of 
its inception I have never been able to ascertain. However 
this may be, Vieillot alone and completely fills a period of 
eight years, during which no other notable or even mention- 
able treatise upon North American birds saw the light, 
Vieillot’s case is an exceptionable one. As the author of 
numerous splendidly illustrated works, all of which live; of 
a system of ornithology, most of the generic names contained 
in which are ingrained in the science; of very extensive ency- 
clopsedic work by which hundreds of species of birds receive 
new technical names; Vieillot has a fame which time rather 
brightens than obscures. Yet it is to be feared that the 
world was unkind during his lifetime. At Paris, he stood in 
the shadow of Cuvier’s great name; Temminck assailed him 
from Holland; while, as to his work upon our birds, many 
years passed before it was appreciated or in any way ade- 
quately recognized. Thus, singularly, so great a work as 
the ‘‘Histoire Naturelle’—one absolutely characteristic of a 
period—had no appreciable effect upon the course of events 
till long after the times that saw its birth, when Cassin, 
Baird and others brought, Vieillot into proper perspective. 
There is so little trace of Vieillot during the Wilsonian and 
Audubonian epochs, that his ‘‘Birds of North America” 
may almost be said to have slept for half a century. But to- 
day, the solitary figure of the Vieillotian period stands out in 
bold relief. 

(1808-1824.)| 

The Wilsonian Period.—The ‘Paisley weaver ;” “the Scotch 
pedler;” the ‘‘melancholy poet-naturalist;” the ‘‘father of 
American ornithology”—strange indeed are the guises of 
genius, yet stranger its disguises in the epithets by which 
we attempt to label and pigeon-hole that thing which has no 
name hut ifs own, no place but its own. Alexander Wilson 
had genius, and not much of anything else—very little 
learning, scarcely any money, not many friends, and a paltry 
share of ‘the world’s regard” while he lived. But genius 
brings a message which men musf hear, and never tire of 
hearing; it isthe word that comes when the passion that 
conceives is wedded with the patience that achieves, Wil- 
son was a poet by nature. a naturalist by force of circum- 
stances, an American ornithologist by mere accident—that 
isif anything can be accidental in the life of a man of 
genius. Asa poet, he missed greatness by those limitations 
of passion which seem so sad and upaccountable; as the 
naturalist. he achieved it by the patience that knew no lim- 


him at all. 


itation till death interposed~ As between the man and his 
works, the very touchstone of genius is there; for the man 
was greater than all his works are, Genius may do that 
which satislies all men, but never that which satisfies itself; 
for its inspiration is infinite and divine, its accomplishment 
finite and human. Such is the penalty of its possession. 

Wilson made, of course, the epoch in which his work ap- 
peared, and I cannot restrict the Wilsonian period otherwise 
than by giving to Vicillot his own. The period of Wilson’s 
actual authorship was brief, it began in September, 1808, 
when the first volume of the ‘American Ornithology” ap- 
peared, and was cut short by death before the work was 
finished. Wilson, having been born July 5, 1766, and come 
to America in 1794, died August 23, 1813, when the seventh 
volume was finished ; the eighth and ninth being completed in 
1814 by his friend and editor, George Ord. But from this 
time to 1824, when Bonaparte began to write, the reigning 
work was still Wilson’s, nothing appearing during these 
years to alter the complexion of American ornithology ap- 
preciably. Wilson’s name overshadows nearly the whole 
epoch—not that others were not then great, but that he was 
so much greater, This author treated about 280 species, 
giving faithful descriptions of all, and colored illustrations 
of most of them. There are numerous editions of his work, 
of which the principal are Ord’s, 1828-9, in three yolumes; 
Jameson’s, 1831, in four; Jardine’s, 1832, in three, and Breyw- 
er’s, 1840, in one; all of these, excepting of course the first 
one, containing Bonaparte’s ‘‘American Ornithology” and 
other matter foreign to the original ‘‘Wilson.” In 1814, 
just as ‘‘Wilson”’ was finished, appeared the history of the 
memorable expedition under Lewis and Clarke—an expedi- 
tion which furnished some material to Wilson himself, as 
witness Lewis’ Woodpecker, Clarke’s Crow and the *‘Louisi- 
ana’ Tanager; and more to Ord, who contributed to the sec- 
ond edition of ‘‘Guthrie’s Geography,” an article upon orni- 
thology. Ord’s prominence in this science, however, rests 
mainly upon his connection with Wilson’s work, as already 
noted. Near the close of the Wilsonian period, Thomas Say 
gave us important notices of Western birds, upon the basis 
of material acquired through Long’s expedition to the Rocky 
Mountains, the account of which appeared in 1823, In this 
work, Say describes sundry species of birds new to science; 
but he was rather an entomologist than an ornithologist, and 
his imprint upon our subject is scarcely to be found outside 
the yolume just named, 

A noted—some might say rather notorious—character ap- 
pears upon the scene during this period, in the person of C. 
8, Rafinesque, who appears to have been a genius, but one 
so awry that itis difficult todo aught else than misunder- 
stand him, unless we confess that we scarcely understand 
In the elegant vernacular of the present day he 
would be called a crank; but I presume that term means that 
kind of genius which fails of interpretation; for an unsuc- 
cessful genius is a crank, and a successful crankis a genius. 
For the rest, the Wilsonian period was marked by great ac- 
tivity in Arctic exploration, in connection with the ornitho- 
logical results of which appear prominently the names of 
William E. Leach and Edward Sabine, 

As illustrating the relation between Wilson and Bartram, 
which I have already pointedly mentioned, I may quote a 
few lines from Ord’s ‘“‘Life of Wilson,” * 


* “Fis schoolhouse and residence being but a short distance from 
Bartram’s Botanie Garden, situated on the west bank of the Schuyl- 
kill, a sequestered spot, possessing attractions of no ordinary kind; 
an BOO Mate Ler was soon contracted with that venerable naturalist, 
Mr. William Bartram, which grew into an uncommon friendship, and 
continued without the least abatement until severed by death. Here 
it was that Wilson found himself translated, if we may so speak, into 
anew existence. He had long been a lover of the works of Nature, 
and had derived more happiness from the contemplation of her sim- 
ple beauties, than from any other source of gratification. But he had 
hitherto beena mere noyice; he was now about to receive instruc- 
tions from one whom the experiences of a long life, spent in travel 
and rural retirement, had rendered qualified to teach. . From 
his youth Wilson had been an observer of the manners of birds; and 
sines his arriyal in America he had fovnd them objects of uncommon 
interest; but he had not yet viewed them with the eyes of a natural- 
ist... This was about 1800—rather a little later. Wilson’s “noyitiate’’ 
was-the Vieillotian period, almost exactly. Bartram survived until 
July 22, 1823, his eighty-fourth year; the date of his death thus coin- 
ciding yery nearly with the close of the Wilsonian epoch and period. 


[T0 BE CONCLUDED. | 


Tustrine DEUTERONOMY.—One of the most singular things 
J ever heard about birds was related to me by a friend who 
has long been an ardent student of ornitholozy, and of the 
Scriptures as. well. In the course of his reading he came 
across a. chapter in Deuteronomy which embraces '‘sundry 
laws and regulations,” and found his attention attracted to 
the following yerses: ‘‘If a bird’s nest chance to be before 
thee in any tree or on the ground, whether they be young 
ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon 
the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: But 
thou shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young to 
thee, that it may be well with thee, and tnat thou mayst 
prolong thy days.” This passage puzzled him a good deal; 
so, With true scientific ardor, he set out to break its injunc- 
tion, and try to find out why it was made, It being nesting 
time for the birds he had no particular difficulty in finding 
what he sought, and soon returned with a female bird and a 
nest with four -young ones in it, put them all together in a 
cage, and, after supplying them with food and water, left 
them for the night. In the morning mother and young 
were found lying dead together, though without any marks 
of violence upon them whateyer, or anything to indicate 
why they had died. Eyidently something was wrong here, 
so he went out and caught another family, put the mother 
in one cage and the young in another, and gave them sepa- 
rate rooms, although not remoying them so far apart but 
that they could hear each other in case one or the other 
should cry out. The next morning all the birds were found 
dead as before. Again the student went out, and again 
came back with a capture, and this time he put the young 
birds in the garret and the old one in the cellar, but althoug 
neither mother nor offspring could hear each others’ cries, 
the coming morning showed the same result, He then 
went out and captured a nest of birds, but let the mother 
go, and successfully raised the entire brood. In each case 
the yariety of bird was the same —the rose-breasted grosbeak, 
which is one of the strongest and easiest to rear of all New 
England species, The reason of this strange occurrence does 
not appear, but of one thing my friend is convinced, and 
that is that Moses was the first agitator for a Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and that he knew what 
he was talking about when he discussed birds.—Sun. 


THe PHILADELPHIA ZooLogroar Society has issued its 
twelfth annual report, which shows the institution to be in 
& most satisfactory condition. The success of the Zoological 
Gardens is due in a very large measure to the efficiency of 
the superintendent, Mr, Arthur Erwin Brown. 


Game Bag and Guy. 


ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GUNS. 
A BRIEF REVIEW OF MY REVIEWER. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

It was my fortune to be absent from heme when the 
FOREST AND STREAM Of the 8th inst, came to my office, or I 
should have taken occasion somewhat earlier to have paid 
my respects fo your correspondent, ‘‘Vitus,’’ who has seen 
proper to indulge in some harsh criticisms upon my article 
in which I begged to dissent from certain, views of Mr. 
Greener, Ordinarily, I have no disposition to evade a legiti- 
mate and decorously-conducted controversy, but I have no 
taste for that which degenerates into nerveless puerilities 
or the introduction of matter certainly aliwnde to the ques- 
tions involved. ‘‘Vitus,” instead of contenting himself with 
a dissent from my opinions in regard to the value of a gun, 
and expressing that dissent in respectful terms, has evinced 
his entire ignorance of the courtesies of a newspaper discus: 
sion, however much learning he may have, according to his 
own statements, in regard to the mechanical excellence of a 
gun and the cost of its construction, According to his own 
testimony, he is a proficient in these matters, and woe be to 
him who dares ‘‘come betwixt the wind and his nobility.” 

There was nothing in my letter which called for a large 
part of his criticisms, Indeed nearly all of his article is entirely 
irrelevant. I will use no harsher term. He will allow me 
to say, however, that even after the authoritative expressions 
of this self-exalted expert, 1 have the temerity to adhere to 
every utterance which I made in the letter which he pre- 
tends to answer. If I err, it is beeause I have listened to and 
believe the statements of persons who ought to be quite as 
well acquainted with the subject as this boastful gentleman, 
even though he may be a gunsmith, and may have acquired 
his skill in the workshops of Europe and America. It may 
never have occurred to ‘‘Vitus” that there are some persons 
who have an idea as to what constitutes well-executed 
mechanism who do not follow a mechanical profession, and 
who are not entirely ignorant of its commercial value, and 
that there are those who have pursued such calling for many 
years, who are not, and never could be, clever artisans. But, 
of course, *‘Vitus’ does not belong to the latter class, He is 
such a thorough expert that no dissent from his statements 
can be tolerated. 

Certainly, I never said, either in my letter or elsewhere, 
that American mechanics are incapable of turning out first- 
class work. Why should ‘'Vitus” have made such a charge? 
He had no authority forit, I said nothing of the kind, and 
believe nothing of the kind. I did say that many American 
gunmakers bought English and Belgian barrels, not entirely’ 
finished, and hence at a less rate of duty, used them, and then 
claimed that their product was American manufacture. Can 
“Vitus” deny this? With all his vainglory, I think he will 
not have that temerity. Why do they buy them? Because 
they are inferior in quality? He will not say that.. He 
admits that the best quality can be had for $75, but insists 
that the additional cost of completing the gun will run the 
figures up to at least $250. Hesays that locks for such barrels 
are worth $75. He must excuse me if I venture to say that 
a first-class article can be had for much less—locks which 
have the plate case-hardened and the tumbler and dogs steel. 
There is no need of case-hardening them. If the metal is 
hard enough to yield to a file, it will last a lifetime. I have 
examined the locks of guns made by Purdey, Westley Rich- 
ards, Scott, Greener and Tolley, and not one of them had 
their parts case-hardened. I have seen many inferior ones of 
English and American manufacture, which had been sub- 
jected to the process. It is not an expensive one. I have seen 
guns by Westley Richards, Scott, Greener and Tolley, whose 
locks were all made by Stanton & Company. At all events, 
they were so stamped, ‘‘Vitus’’ need not tell me that the 
stamp was aforgery. These were four-pin bridle locks, and 
no American can surpass them in their mechanical excel- 
lence. They did not cost $75, for some of the guns were 
imported at a less cost than $150. 

I haye seen advertisements of American and English man- 
ufacturers, in which they propose to fit extra barrels for half 
the eost of the gun. Now, if a first-class pair of barrels is 
worth $75, what is the yalue of the gun? It was my for- 
tune to have imported, within the last twelve months, a gun 
made to order by a well-known English manufacturer. He 
represented the gui to be the very best he could make, and 
that the barrels were of the finest Hnglish Damascus. I 
have quite as much confidence in his statements as I have in 
those made by ‘‘Vitus,” however unpardonable he may regard 
the offense. The gun had an extra pair of barrels of the 
same grade as the regular ones, and the charge was $75. It 
was elaborately engraved, and the cost was far less than 
“Vitus” alleges as the proper value of a first-class gun. 

Some years ago I was in New York, and at the house of 
Francis Tomes & Son, 206 Maiden Lane. It was before 
breechloaders were known, The superintendent, H. W. 
Tomes, stated to me, in answer to an inquiry, that $75 would 
buy as serviceable a gun as could be made, and when men 
went beyond that price they were paying for fancy work, 
which was really worthless, or for the name of some man 
who charged fabulously for his reputation. Perhaps Tomes 
knew nothing of the subject, and was one of these ‘‘blasted 
fools’’ who beget the ire of Vitus. Verily, some men do 
make themselves ‘‘blasted fools,” or nature may not have 
been very lavish of her gifts tu theni, But, of course, ‘*Vitus” 
is not one of them. He stands somewhat as Phillips said of 
Napolean, ‘‘A sceptred hermit in the solitude of his own 
mechanical magnificence.” 

“Vitus” condescendingly informs ‘‘Wells” that there are 
thousands of English and Belgian guns imported into this 
country vastly inferior to Colts. If he will pardon me for 
saying it, 1 will state that I am not indebted to him for this 
information, I knew the fact. There are thousands of such, 
and I would not give one smile of benignant approval from 
such a man as ‘Vitus’ fora whole cargo of them, even if 
they aré “Hinglish, you know.” Itwas too bad for “Vitus” 
1o have made this ill-tempered fling. If it had been brilliant, 
I could haye admired the scintillation and not noticed the 
venom, But it was too—I will not say stupid. 

But let us get back to the question, How many guns 
which are well made, and capable of withstanding severe 
usage, have these high-priced stocks? Of what real value is 
that beautiful curl in the wood? How much more durable is 
such a piece of timber? Cannot a stocker finish a neat, strong 
stock, of tough wood, for less than $20? Cannot American 
walnut be found which has all the essential qualities? I 
have thought so, Mr, Greener to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing. Why will not $150 buy a gun possessing all the 


necessary qualities for long use and good shooting? One 
who has the money, and is so disposed, may invest more 
heavily; but will not a well-made $150 gun, plain and un- 
adorned, stand all the ‘‘wear and tear’ of a more highly- 
priced one? Am I to be regarded as a “‘blasted fool” for 
thinking sot If so, then there are American manufacturers 
en have incurred the ‘‘wrath” of this mighty Achilles, 
‘ 1 us. 77 

“My offense hath this extent.” I chose to allude to the 
habit of American gun makers buying foreign barrels and 
then claiming that their product was domestic work. Per- 
haps 1 trod upon ‘‘Vitus’s” corns, and he seeks to wreak his ven- 
geance upon me for simply stating the truth, Do American 
manufacturers buy English and Belgian barrels? If so, then 
the statement should not have produced the harsh criticisms. 

Permit me to direct ‘‘Vitus’s” attention to one of his over- 
whelming arguments (?) in which he details what occurred 
with regard to the cheap Belgian gun, which was claimed to 
bea Jo. Manton, the ‘‘circumstance” which taught him a 
“lesson,” by which it is clear he derived no profit. ‘If a 
man were to bring in a broomstick and say it was the finest 
gun I ever saw, I would not contradict him.” And yet, when 
I stated that American gunmakers used foreign barrels, this 
brilliant pupil forgets all he has learned, and ‘‘fallsa cursing, 
like a very bawd, a scullion.” For shame, ‘Vitus! Take 
a good dose of Simmon’s Regulator, and get an amiable 
digestion. 

T trust I am not guilty of the charge which my assailant 
makes, of hostility to American manufactures, Nothing 
which I ever said has given a decent pretext for the allega- 
tion, It is simply untrue. No man has a higher appreci- 
ation of the skill of our mechanics and artisans, or a more 
exalted respect for that class of our people. My daily pur- 
suits bring me in contact with them, and they have gained 
my admiration. I belong to a race of mechanics, who take 
pride in their “coat of arms”—an anvil and a jack plane, 
But when an American professes to sell a domestic article, I 
protest it is not just he should finish up the handicraft of a 
European and palm it off as his own work. If that is a 
“‘Hinglish” idea, “Vitus” may make the most of it he can, 
and get out of it all the consolation it will afford his patri- 
otic soul, He may rest assured that Iam one of the un- 
fashionable class who buy guns and watches, not because 
they are made in England or America, but solely because 
I think the article is best worth the money which I may 
invest. : 

“Vitus” has yet something to learn, preposterous as he 
may regard the assertion, lt would be well for him to enter- 
tain the idea that there is at least a possibility that the powers 
of the Almighty were not exhausted when He brought him 
into being, and that for wise purposes He made others, who 
are not entirely destitute of knowledge in relation to mech- 
anism, and that such are entitled to the courtesy of even so 
exalted a person as my uncharitable critic. At all events it 
is but due to even the humblest man that his positions upon 
any subject should be fairly stated, and that a perversion of 
them, for the sake of triumph, is unworthy of any one who 
has a decent regard for his own character. WELLS. 

RocKInGHAM, N, C., May 20, 1884. 


SNAPPING TURTLES AND SKUNKS. 


N READING of late, the able and interesting work of C, 

Hart Merriam, M. D., ‘‘Mammals of the Adirondacks,” 

we have been reminded of something that may be of use and 
interest to many readers of Forest AND STREAM. 

Dr. Merriam does not say too much in defense of that 
much abused animal, the skunk. It is now more than 
fifteen years since the writer of this article made his first 
visit to the beach at the mouth of Sandy Creek, Jefferson 
County, N. Y. No, 1 Life Saving Station now stands on the 
ground where our party built a shanty of slabs picked up 
along the beach, and enjoyed boating and fishing for more 
than a week. 

It is just at this place that Sandy Creek, with another 
stream, finds its way into Lake Ontario, The most northern 
of these streams runs through Woodville, and the other one, 
Sandy Creek proper, through the village of Ellisburg. But 
before either of them find this outlet, they pass through a 
marsh for the distance of two miles or more. This marsh is 
well known to many sportsmen of Oswego, Watertown and 
Syracuse, and many individuals living in the neighborhood 
are only too well acquainted with it for the good of the game 
that finds a home there, In days past it was a favorite breed- 
ing place for the wood duck (Azz sponsa), with some black 
ones (Anas obscura), and any number of coots (Fuliea 
americana), grebes (Podilymbus podiceps), and rails (Porzana 
carolina). Indeed it is a favorite resort of the wood duck 
still, but neither they nor any other water bird have much 
chance to increase there now. 

This is a different place from what is known as ‘‘Little 
Sandy Pond” by the sportsmen in the northern part of the 
State. Little Sandy is three or four miles tothe south of 
the place we are describing, This marsh is sometimes called 
Pierrepont’s Marsh, or Noble’s or Gilbert’s, or it has other 
local names around its borders. Little Sandy has for 
many years been held, we have heard, as a preserve by the 
Leather Stocking Club of Oswego. But the marsh im ques- 
tion is about six miles long, with it ponds and creeks and 
brooks, and a mile and a half or morein width. It lies 
north and south, and on the west is protected from the 
waves of the lake by a sand beach that extends along its 
front. Through this beach run two shallow entrances into 
the marsh, apart from the deeper entrances, where the 
streams run into the lake at the life-saving station. Schooners 
enter here and take the North Creek, as it is called, winding 
up to Woodyille, or Sandy Creek, going toward Gilbert's 
Landing and the village of Hllisburg, Nothing but fishing 
boats and small yachts could make the other entrances. And 
these are nearly two miles away, one north and the other 
south of the station. Of course, through these openings 
the waters of Lake Ontario flow in or out of the marsh, and 
fish pass to and fro, The openings are on an average one 
hundred fect wide, and the ‘heavy west winds blow the 
waves on shore and raise the waters over the marsh and 
along the uplands; or on the contrary, an east wind carries 
them off and the depth decreases in proportion. 

The marsh itself is filled with every variety of feeding 
ground for water birds and waders. Miles of lily pads 
spread themselves out, white and yellow. There are acres 
of wild rice, and flags and rushes and sedge in abundance 
and through all these brooks and creeks, as they are called, 
and narrow passages. There are ponds bordered with old 
driftwood, and bog neadsand muddy grounds. A 

The beach is merely a ridge of sand of the finest kind— 
fifteen feet high in some places—that blows and drifts like 
snow. We have the best reason, as many others, for remem- 


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[May 29, 1884. 


bering this, On our first visit we were surprised to find 
everything we ate, or attempted to, gritty with sand, The 
cook for the day was asked w':ether he had not made a mis- 
take and used sand instead of pepper. Pickerel, perch, 
bread, butter, everything sandy, And this would happen 
eyen when there was the lightest wind blowing, and with the 
utmost care that we could take to prevent it, And so the 
sand has gone on blowing on that beach ever since, and 
long before we knew it, and winds and waters haye made 
many changes. Acres of marsh have been covered within 
our recollection, and are now eonverted into a low sand 
beach over which the breakers wash at times. Great gaps 
have been hollowed out in the ridge, through some of which 
the high waves of the lake in spring and fall dash across 
some three or four hundred feet, and pour their waters by a 
new way into the marsh. Then the sand has heen blown 
away from the roots of the larger trees that stood on the 
ridge and they have fallen. The roots now remain, like great 
sprawling spiders, hanging and projecting from the banks; 
while the trees themselyes have been cut away for fire wood 
or remain where they fell. Im the rear, next the marsh, the 
alders that grow there are in many places buried to their tops 
in sand. It is sometimes eight or ten feet deep. 

The old residents living near the place can remember when 
the whole ridge was almost a continuous line of trees, In- 
deed, we can ourselves, and when from the mainland it was 
only here and there that you could catch a glimpse of the 
water near the shore. Itis even curious to this duy to see 
pieces of wood and roots of trees five and six feet below the 
present surface projecting out of the higher banks, proving 
that for years since the first trees were cut along the shore 
there had been changes going on and a drifting of the hills 
toward the marsh since the ridge began to be denuded, In 
time, no doubt, the hills will be carried inland and help fill 
up the marsh, while nothing but alow sand beach will be 
left to attest their past existence. 

As we remember this marsh on our first visit, it was filled, 
as we have implied, with ducks and coots and rails and 
divers. Indeed, it seemed almost alive with all of these, and 
we do not know what to compare the quacking and squeal- 
ing and peeping to, that could be heard there in the early 
morning. There wus no trouble then in securing a game 
dinner. We have seen hundreds of ducks there the first day 
of September and earlier, for the 15th of August was the 
open season then. Black ones, and wood and blue-winged 
teal, especially in the evenings have we seen these, as they 
sought the quiet ponds to “‘roost,”” while Wilson’s, or Hng- 
lish snipe, and yellowlegsand plover from time to time would 
fly past the shanty. 

But now all this has changed, and it has been changing 
for years, so far as our observation goes, while there does not 
seem very much more bunting than formerly. Last fall 
revealed a state of things that we were not unprepared for. 
Eyery bird about that place, except blackbirds, redwings 
and marsh hens were in smaller numbers than we had eyer 
seen them; and our annial visit seemed almost devoid of the 
pleasant surroundings of the past. The grebes that were so 
tame, because few hunters disturbed them, were nearly all 
gone; even the frogs and water snukes were in smaller num- 
bers, and these were always so plenty. They*would sit wpon 
the shore or cur) up upon the logs, or swim across the creek, 
while the muskrats that whined among the flags, or splashed 
from the banks, or swam in front of the boat had cntirely 
disappeared; and we could not think that they had all per- 
ished by the hand of man. 7 

But now what is the cause of all this change? Not to say 
that man’s hand may not have had something to do with 
almost the whole of it, but surely not with the grebes and 
snakes and frogs, We know of no one there that eats frogs. 

Well, here, we think, is one reason of this change and 
this scarcity, and here is the reason for our thinking as we 
do, let sportsmen and others form their own conclusions: 
The borders of this marsh and the beach that stands in front 
of it were, a few years ago, a favorite resort of the skunk, 
They abounded in the neighborhood and no doubt at times 
made raids upon the hen coops and the nests that were 
stolen away. But they did more than this in the way of - 
destroying eggs, And here comes, in another of their uses, 
which we take the liberty of suggesting to Dr., Merriam. 
They followed along the beach (we haye seen their trails in 
the sand) and around the borders of the marsh and dug out 
the snapping turtle’s eggs (Cherydra serpentina). We have 
seen many of the shells of these eggs in little collections of 
four, five or six drying up in the sun. No doubt there were 
afew minks that helped them inthis work. But the mink 
fur passed out of fashion and the skunk fur came in, and 
hence there was a price offered for their pelts, And very 
many men and boys went to catching them. We hayea 
friend, F, M. Noble, living near the marsh, a buyer of furs, 
who bought hundreds of their skins. He told the writer 
that he stored them in his woodhouse, and that the place 
smelt so of skunk that he could hardly eat in his kitchen for 
nearly a year. 

And now the result of all this. The snappers have taken 
possession of the marsh, they and their congeners the C/iry- 
somys picta (of a smaller size, and perhaps only less destrue- 
tive because they are fewer in number), and there is nothing 
to keep down their increase. The beach is one of their fay- 
orite places of resort to lay their eggs in the warm sand. 
We cay one of their favorile places, for we have 
seen the shells of their eggs, where the skunks and 
minks have dug them out, all around the marsh we 
might say, wherever there was a dry knoll or sandy hillock. 
But the beach is their favorite resort, and after a warm sun 
in June, it is covered with tracks where they have gone up 
and came down, while in August and before it hundreds of 
little ones may be seen crawling along the sand, and leaving 
a. double line as they make their way toward the marsh. 

There are few skunks and fewer minks around that place 
now left to destroy the eggs. Hence the increase of the 
snappers. Indeed they haye the marsh, as we have said, 
almost to themselves, and everything that crawls, creeps, or 
swims about it is exposed to their depredations. This is the 
reason that those living in the neighborhood—friends of the 
game laws, too—speak of the large numbers of wood ducks 
that are seen in the early summer, and with their young, and 
then the few that seem to be around when September comes 
in, and this number seems to be decreasing, and only con- 
firms what we have witnessed ourselves on this same marsh 
not many years ago, I will give it as it occurred, 

It was during the early part of August thatI was there 
for my health with auephew. We were trolling for pick- 
eral in the North Creek, he at the oars and I with the line. 
We had gone up some distance when I observed a coot with 
asingle young one more than lialf grown, swimming across 
the stream, about two hundred yards ahead of us. As my, 
nephew was a city lad and unacquainted with the marsh, 


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first called his attention to the birds, and then asked him if 
he would like to see them nearer. He replied that he would, 
and I at once drew in my line and told him to seat himself 
in the bow of the boat. Ithen took the paddles and com- 
menced urging the skiff forward as quietly as possible. The 
birds meanwhile had erossed the creek and gone in amon 
some lily pads and tufts of wild rice that prew close to the 
edge of the stream. We had hardly entered these when up 
went the old bird, but no young one started, and I knew 
that it was fully fledged, This rather surprised me, and [ 
told my nephew to stand up, look carefully, and he would 
see it swimming and hiding in the rice that was around us. 
But no, no bird was there, I was about to stand up myself 
and see if I could not discover it, for the place was compara- 
tively open, when all at once Frank turned around, with 
something of terror depicted upon his countenance, and ex- 
claimed, “‘Oh! what an enormous bullfrog, and he has the 
bird in its month.” Knowing that he had mistaken a large 
snapping turtle fora frog, 1 told him to take the oar and 
strike it. He did so, or attempted to, when up came the 
young bird, It was warm and the blood was running from 
its side. I found no marks on its feet as though they had 
been bitten. but a great mouthful had been taken from the 
side of the bird and the entrails were hanging out. 

The only way now that we can see of increasing the game 
on that marsh or any of those bordering the lake, if the 
skunks must be destroyed, is to watch the snappers and their 
congeners in June, when they go up the bank to lay their 
egos, and destroy them; while many of the males might per- 
haps be shot as they sim themselves on the logs. But we do 
not think the snapping turtle is as much given to this as his 
companion. However, this is thrown out as a hint to those 
who have preserves and wish to increase the number of game 
birds. We have known many young ducks, and eyen some 
pretty well grown, to be taken away by snappers. And this 
even in ponds in close proximity to the house. A friend had 
to let his pond off last summer before he could catch the 
turtle that destroyed many of his young ducks. No doubt 
dogs and minks are often blamed for doing something that 
belongs to a creature of a very different nature. Farmers 
had best watch the ponds and brooks where their ducks and 
goslings feed if they miss them. A. H. G. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Hditor Horest and Stream: 

T have read in a recent issue of your paper the courteous 
reply of “C. D.” to my criticism of certain repeating rifles. 
The defense is an earnest one and commands the respect al- 
ways due to sincerity, yet I cannot sec that the reasoning of 
your Wyoming correspondent invalidates at any point the 
position which I have taken. ‘‘C. D.” pleads for the re- 
peater, and instances cases where it has been useful; but he 
does not show that uccidents do not occur with it, nor that 
it can be relied upon to do its work unfailingly. The tests 
which he quotes are certainly very interesting, but I observe 
that in these tests there was a failure to extract a shell, 7, ¢., 
the gun did not work, a breakdown, and an explosion in the 
magazine. ‘These are the things that Ido not wish to have 
happen with the gun lam using. Of course I do not pre- 
tend to say that such occurrences take place often, but I do 
say that they may take place at any time, and that I prefer a 
gun not liable to such mishaps. 

“©. D.’s” critical reply covers a good deal of ground, and 
to answer it in detail would occupy more time than I can 

ive to the task. I hope, therefere, that he will pardon me 
if I confine myself to the original proposition as stated in the 
letter to which he takes exception, and to one or two other 
matters more personal in their nature. Of these last let me 
speak first. 

I must apologize to my critic for giving a false impression 
as to the arm which caused the Jim Baker accident. I sup- 
posed, from the connection in which the incident was given 
in the letter quoted, that it was a Henry (or Winchester) 
rifle, but, as ‘‘C, D.” had his account from the old man him- 
self, it is evident that my idea of the occurrence was an 
erroneous one, I certainly had uo intention to mislead. 

It is clear that I must have expressed myself unfortunately 
as to the care which. J think, should be given a gun, and so 
have been misunderstood by ‘‘C. D.” I believe that a man 
should keep his gun in good order, but I do not think that 
one who, for whatever cause, fails to do this, should lose his 
life for this failure. The- penalty is rather too severe, you 
see, for what may be nothing more than a little carelessness, 
or may be quite unavoidable. ‘‘C, I.” implies that I criti- 
cized all repeaters as to their reliability of action and safety. 
My impression is that a second reading of my letter will con- 
vince him that I did no such thing, but that I expressed the 
opinion that those repeaters which have the magazines in a 
tube beneath the barrel or within the stock are unreliable and 
unsafe, Of the former there are a number of forms, all act- 
ing on substantially the same principle, all, I believe, likely 
to get ouf of order on small provocation, and all liable to 
premature discharge within the magazine from a number of 
causes. The Winchester gun is spoken of by those who 
write on the subject, because it is the oldest of these repeat- 
ers, and the one from which all subst quent inventors appear 
to have drawn their ideas. The most recent rifles of this 
model have not yet been practically tested in the hands of 
the public, and when any single individual says that some 
particular form is the best repeaterin the market, is per- 
feetly safe, and will not get out of order, the public natur- 
ally waits, before approving or disapproving, to take more 
testimony on the subject. The dictum of one man is not 
enough. These arms are new and untried. They have yet 
to make a record for themselves. I hope that ‘‘C. D,” will 
pardon me if I say, moreover, that in some of his recently 
published writings he has shown a very strong bias in fayor 
of one particular arm. and:that, therefore, his opinion, how- 
ever honest, may not be quite free from prejudice. 

In my previous letter I attempted to show that with the 
repeater the chance of serious danger to the hunter is vastly 
greater than with the singleloader, I do not pretend to assert 
that cartridges often explode in the magazine. On the con- 
trary; I think that this oceurs very seldom, but then it may 
occur at any time, snd this possibility is somewhat alarm- 
ing, Two cases of this kind already cited occurred in the 
hands of men with whom I had close relations. 

“C. D.’s” criticism of men who should not be trusted 
with guns is just enough. But then he must remember that 
to erris human. If no one ever did a foolish or a careless 
thing we should have very few accidents with guns. As he 
very justly says, there is some preventable cause for each 
accident,” but, as guns go into the hands of wise men and 
fools alike, we must try to save the lives of as many of the 
fools as possible by making the guns as safe as possible, and 
80 reducing the danger, from whatever cause, to a minimum. 


like a snake in that it lives lonp after it has been n‘ortully 
wounded or hus its head cut off. It is pretty well known 
that a good sized alligator is hard to kill; that in order to 
kill one at all (outright, or so you can capture it), the ball 
must be sent into the eye or just buck of the foreleg. I 
know, nine times out of ten, where my leaden messenger 
will strike, and as I never attempt to kill game at distances 
over one hundred yards, (and that is further than most gamé 
is killed), I am pretty sure of making a mortal wound. 

Try the 82 and .38:caliber rifles, (save ammunition an 
sore shoulders), and you will become crack shots, and bag 
more game, 1n fact have more real sport than you could with 
your 115 to 120 grains of powder and 350 grains of lend, 

Rep Wire, 


The mah who uses # repeater exposes himself to many dan 
gers not ynderfone by him who uses the singleloader. If 
he is willing to tuke these risks that is his affair. 

- [his just becatse a man in the western country must some- 
times take his life in his hands that a gnu is required that 
will always work. And this is not true of the Winchester of 
to-day, nor do I believe it true of other repeaters working on 
the same plan, I cannot pbdsitively assert that all of the 
various models built on the Winchester plan will get out of 
order, because, as ‘‘O. D.” suggests, | have not tried them 
all. But, admitting this failing in the Winchester of latest 
model, the inference that the other arms built on a similar 
plan will act, or fail to act, in the same way, is not an unfair 
one. I instanced the case of ‘‘many years ago,” because it 
was the first time that I had seen fae of the repeater, but 
[ think that ‘‘O, D,” must very well know that at the present 
day, notwithstanding the march of improvement for ‘‘three 
hundred years,” it is an extremely common thing for a cart- 
ridge or shell to stick in a tube repeater, This is the 
testimony of so large a number of practical hunters, whose 
word would be unhesitatingly taken in other matters, that 
we cannot doubt that itis a faet. In a country where a 
man’s life may depend on the readiness with which he can 
use his gun, an arm can have no fault more serious than this. 

And now, although I have already written more than IT 
had intended, let me touch on one or two additional points 
brought up by “CO, D.” He appeals for rifles that are more 
accurate. In this appeal I unite, though | cannot but think 
that for practical purposes any one of hulf a dozen rifles now 
on the market is quite good enough, The proposition that 
to do vood shooting we must have good rifles, seems certainly 
rather elementary. He complains in the ijast part of his 
letter that the errors of the man should be charged to the 
rifle, but he does not appear, in his expressed desire for 
rifles that will always hit the mark, to remember that, after 
all, this hitting depends on the mau vastly more than on the 
rifle, No intelligent and observant person can use a rifle 
much without learning its peculiarities, and after he has 
acquired this knowledge he can scarcely fail to do with the 
arm work that is reasonably good, This on the supposition 
that he is a decent shot, and that the arm is bored true and 
shoots alike every time. No man, however, can account 
for the shooting of a tube repeater, the balance of which is 
constantly changing. If it be supposed that each time a 
man goes hunting he isto carry a rifle with which he is 
entirely unacquainted, we could understand how it is that 
there should be so much anxiety about the accuracy of these 
rifles, but the rifles of to-day are practically accurate, and an 
individual may learn by firing at different ranges at a target 
all he needs to know about his gun; and as soon as a man 
knows how his gun shoots, the fault if he misses lies in him 
and net in the weapon. ‘‘C. D.,” however, appears to as- 
sume a man who is infallible, and takes it for granted that a 
failure to place a ball in the spot aimed at is due to some 
fault in the rifle he is shooting. That is the way his article 
reads, but of course I cannot suppose he intended to give 
utterance to any such absurdity, 

He says further, ‘‘It is a lucky chance if the hunter can 
come on his game at a known distance or have full time to 
estimate it.” 1 grant that it is unusual to come on the game 
at a known distance, but dissent utterly from the latter part 
of his proposition. A man who is hunting will often—even 
usually—see his game before it sees him, and will have 
abundant time to estimate his distance before shooting. Of 
course, if one merely rides over the country, taking his 
chance of stumbling on game, things will be as ‘‘C. D.” 
says, but I am speaking of men who hunt, not men who 
blunder. And suppose the game is found to-day at 560 yards 
and to-morrow at 150, the hunter who knows his arm should 
be able to make the necessary allowances for the difference. 
To judge the distance and shoot accordingly is about as im- 
portant 3s any part of the work a hunter has to do, 

I hold that the repeater is a cruel weapon, because the 
knowledge that a man hasa dozen shots in reserye, makes 
him careless in his shooting, and leads him to continue it too 
long, ‘“‘C. D.” theorizes about an ideal sportsman, but we 
must reason about the average man. Probably neither “C. 
1).” nor I would continue to shoot, if we carried repeaters, 
longer than was advisable, but the young hands, the men 
who are hunting big game for the first time, will try to kill 
as long as they can. The inen who butcher, who wound 
five head of game for one that they kill, are, so far as I have 
had the misfortune tc be thrown with them, those who are 
so crazy to kill game that nothing can restrain them; they will 
shoot aslong as the animals are in sight, The man who hunts 
for his needs knows enough to take his time and to avail 
himself of every advantage. He getsas close as he can, and 
the single ball from his rifle does the work. Even a cool 
headed man, unless he is accustomed to the sight of game, 
will fire ten shots from a repeater’ where he would use a 
singlcluader but once. Thus the repeater is a constant tempt- 
ation. : 

Tam unable to see that the article to which this is a reply 
is other than a virtual admission of all that I have advancd 
against this dangerous arm, [ believe that other things 
being equal, the best gun isthe safest—satest in action, [ 
mean, and in being always ready for use, and, as I have said 
belore, 1 do not believe that the repeater with the magazine 
im the tube under the barrel or within the stock, fulfills these 
conditions, 

My time is so occupied that I cannot give much of it to 
writing, and I only reply now to “OC. D.” to show him that 
I do not consider his arguments good ones, or that he has in 
any way replied satisfactorily to the points I tried to make. 

G. 


GLENCOE, Fla. 


Hidilor Forest and Stream: 

At last in looking over your articles on ‘The Choice of 
Hunting Rifles,” | have found a man after my own heart in 
your correspondent ‘'E. T. D.” Th» case he cites in regard 
tothe Winchester, is almost invariably the way I have found 
it. The majority shoot away, thinking they are bound to 
hit something in ten or fifteen shots, when generully the op- 
posite is the case, I have seen so many ‘'tenderfeet” with 
their repeaters, pump away (excuse the word pump but it is 
very expressive) at a deer, within casy shooting distance, 
and that deer wasas safe as if he were 100 miles away, 
You do not, asarule, find old Rocky Mountain hunters, 
who face the fiercest, animals, use a repeater, they trust to 
shooting straight, not to the number of shots. I have had 
considerable experience with the rifle, in shooting such large 
game as bear, mountain lion, elk, deer, antelope, efc , and 
after giving the repeaters a fair trial, have thrown them all 
aside and swear by my Sharps hammerless, .40-70-880, and 
would far rather be face to face with a ‘'silver tip” with 
my .40-70, than with twenty Winchesters or any other make 
of repeaters, I anticipate a two months’ trip this summer, 
and if ““E. T. D.” wilk come out here, I will guarantee to 
show him all the bear, deer, elk, ete., he could desire, and 
moreover as fine trout fishing as the most fastidious would 
ask for, lsay with him, “I want no better gun than the 
40 70,” SPORT. 


CRESTED Burrs, Colo, 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Editer Forest and Stream; 

I don’t care for ‘‘style” in a gun, provided the gun is safe, 
handles well, and is a close, hard shooter. No matter how 
strong the material, 1 want some weight of metal in the 
barrel of my shotgun and especially at the muzzle of a choke- 
bore, I believe that where # gun is choked at the muzzle, if 
it is light at that point it springs so that we do not get tbe 
full benefit of the choke. I came'to this conclusion by pnt- 
ting a light band of lead, fitting closely, around the muzzle, 
and after firing the gun I found it would drop off easily, 
having expanded quite perceptibly, 

T have been using for the past two years one of the Amer- 
ican Arms Co.’s semi-hammerless single guns, a 12-gauge 
gun, 28 inches, 9% pounds, made to order (a 12-gauge on a 
10-gauge stock), cut off and rechoked to leaye it heavy at the 
muzzle. PEDAGOG. 

CLEVELAND, O. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Several of your correspondents have made statements that 
I kill geese at 100 yards with No. 10 shot. It is not so. I 
have seen pinnated grouse killed at that distance, and I have 
seen geese killed wilh Nos. 8 and 10 after being shot at with 
largest size drop shot. A good 10-gauge gun bored for 
Kynoch’s cases will kill a goose at 100 yards with shot from 
BBB to TT in size, and it is my opinion it is better to hit a 
goose at long range with small shot than miss it with large, 
I have killed geese and turkeys when hunting quail at long 
range with small shot; longer range than I ever killed a 
quail under same circumstances. Small shot loaded with 
good powder, good wads and held right will kill a long way. 
| have never owned a fine gun yet that | had made for long 
Tange but what would stick No. 8 shot in a pine board at 100 
atds and stick it in good. Any Baker gun 10-gauge, 32- 
inch barrels, full- choke, will do it, and put TT clear through 
an inch soft board. Remember to use the very best powder 
and felt wads. Field loading for wildfow), say 44 drams 
of No. 6 ©. & H. powder, one cardboard, one § felt, one 
pink-edge, 14 ounces of Tatham’s TT shot, 3-inch brass 
cases. 1f American guns are not fine enough for “Byrne,” 
order from England, and you will get as long range, but not 
a bit longer, You cannot get such shooting from guns 
chucked out on a machine so many a day, but from a 
maker who prides himself on a long-range gun. ‘‘Almo’s’’ 
experience cxtends over three continents and twenty-five 
years’ shooting, in season; and when I stated that a gocse 
was killed away up yonder by a boy with a $25 gun loaded 
with No. 10s for quail, 1 did not intend it as my mode of 
loading. 1 still say if you want a dead goose it is better to 
hit it with No, 8 than miss it with TT, ALMO. 
TEXAS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

There’has been but little allusion to the great importance 
of bavtig a gun that will throw shot centrally with a good 
degree of unitormily. It has been my experience that any 
gun that will throw a given number of pellets to the center 
will always distribute the rest of the charge in rerular man- 
ner. How very few cyhnier barrels can be depended upon 
to do this beyond forty yards, For years 1 shot a cylincer 
as good as any for the above distance, but how *‘wild’”’ it 
would shoot much of the time, after getting a little foul 
especially. In spite of my prejudices in favor of my dearly 
loved old cylinder gun, 1 was actually forced into the pur- 
chase of a ‘full-choked” breechloader.= I bad too much evi- 
dence crowded unwillingly upon me, so that I had to put 
by the old gun that had occasionally made such splendid 
shots and oftener made such decided misses, 

I put the manufacturer to a severe test, as [ thought. I 
wanted a gun that would shoot 60 yards with No. 6shot, and 
70 yards with No. 4, with sufficient uniformity to kill a duck 
or pigeon. Three ‘‘full-choked” guns were targeted. Euch 
gun was shot four times. In the record there were from one 
pellet to five that struck a five-inch bullseye in a thirty-inch 
circle every time, Only one pellet in one discharge; in all 
the rest a sufficient number to have struck a duck or par- 
tridge. In twelve shots the fiveinch bullseye was not 
neglected once. Such is my idea of what constitutes a good 
shooting shotgun. I have never yet seen a cylinder that 
would do that kind of shooting with uniformity. Lattribute 
the difference to the system of *‘choking.” The shot may- 
possibly get tangled up somewhat when they reach the 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


1 have owned and used rifles of large and small bores, and 
have at last settled down to the .32-caliber, short and extra 
long cartridges, for general hunting and target shooting. 

I believe that accuracy is of more importance than weight 
of powder and lead. If one knows that he can place a ball 
in some vital part of the game he is hunting, he is pretty 
certain of making a mortal wound. ThereisJittle or no recoil 
to the .32-caliber to affect the aim, as in alllarge bores. Of 
course for grrizzlies, buffalo and moose, a large bore is ne- 
cessary. But l am spraking now of common hunting, deer, 
turkey, geese, etc. Probably the ,88-caliber would be better 
still where no small game is hunted. 

lam now using a little .32-caliber, and find no difficulty 
in killing whatever laim at. I have killed several alligators 
with it lately—all at one shot. The last one was eight feet 
in length, the ball (.32 short) entered at one eye, passed 
through the head, and carried away a large piece of bone 
near the other, disabling the ’gator se bad that, after he had 
stopped lashing the water with his tail, I drew him out on 
the land without resistance on his part, The alligator is 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[May 20, 1884. 


choke, but they go from 20 to 30 yards further with more 
directness, and if the gun is properly loaded, the penetration 
is not materially affecied. 

Those who hunt ducks have probably found it to be very 
convenient to have = its that will carry with uniformity 
one ounce of heavy shot 60 yards, backed by 4 drams of 
good powder. This increase of distance is uncoubtedly ob- 
tained by the wise system of choking that our makers have 
succeeded in getting, enabling us to reach out after game 
that grows more wild as it gets more scarce. For wing- 
shooting in the brush I should not desire a iull choke, but 
would even there like a modified choke. We are often 
obliged to take long shets at quail and partridge il we get 
any shots at all. Wire cartridges in a cylinder do good 
work, but they are costly luxuries for rapid shooting. One 
thing more: Let it be proven that English guns exc.l the 
make of our home munufactories in the field before we 
decide in their favor. A‘uerican mecbanics never have 
been excelli'd in the long run. They are not now. Europe 
has had our gun trade long enough. CHOKE-BORE. 


THAT STEAM CAT, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

itis sad to gruw old; to be thrust aside from and be left 
behind by the strugeling, advancing crowd of younger men, 
to feel the vigor ot one’s frame passing away, the once firm 
muscles vrown flabby, the bones invaded by rheumatic pains, 
the lissome joints stiffening with age, the erect form warped, 
the eye grown dim, the ear dull, tue arm nerveless, the grass- 
hiupper become a burden, All these indications of app1oach- 
iny senility are hard for one, first to realizr, then to submit 
to; but it is harder still to become aware that one’s mental 
faculties are failing, and that time is blotting many things 
fiom the page of memory, and that already much recorded 
there has become a blank. = 

This pang I felt most keenly when I read the communica. 
tion of your correspondent ‘‘G. Whillikuns,” in a recent 
issue of FOREST AND STREAM, for many of the thingsrelated 
by his friend Squibob as having happened to him and me 
have entirely passed out of my recollection. I have nu reiem- 
brance of anything in relation to the steam cat, nor even of 
the existence of such an animal, and certainly none whatever 
of my having taken part in any land battle on this continent. 
What little fighting that | remember done hy me with human 
foes was with my corps, the Horse Marines, at sea, and I can- 
not recall the fact that | ever bestrode a *‘cayute,” whatever 
that may be, though during one cruise, when I was attached 
to the U, 8. frigate Constipation, we were mounted on sea 
horses. It was the hardest service I ever saw, for we were 
in the saddle almost constantly, swimming our stceds around 
the ship, half of us all day and half all night, only going 
aboard for our rations and sleep, 

But it is not my purpose to relate my adventures here. but 
only to confess how sadly my memory has failed. Ah me! 
it is indeed sad to grow old, but it is a consolation to me to 
feel that though bodily and mental faculties are waning, my 
love of truth is as strong as ever, and to know that I have 
not Jost, as some appear to have done, with youth and vigor, 
my capacity for telling: it. 

Your's for the truth, 


AptronpA, May i4. Major JoOsmpPH VHRITY, U.S.H.M. 


MIDNIGHT MELODY, 


Ci Pig ee appears to be something peculiar in the geographi- 

Gal situation of this city that attracts migratory birds io 
passing over. On several occusions of late years vast numbers of 
plover have been heard calling as they went over the city on 
their autumnal migration, and before the wild pigeons had 
been reduced in numbers to the present propoitions they 
were seen in this vicinity whenever they enteied the State at 
all. There has not been a noteworthy flight of pigeons here 
within fifteen years, but plover, ducks and gvese continue to 
show themselves about the time they are changing their hub- 
itation. 

On the night of Thursday, May 22, the midnight sky. was 
yocal with what seemed to be the whixtliug of innumerable 
birds of the plever species, perhaps they were what you pvo- 
ple along the sea coast call bay snipe. They were not gray 
plover, for its call 1s so peculiar that I never fail to recoguize 
it, The night was dark and a litttle rain was falling, so that 
no one could see the birds, although they sometimes few so 
low, to judge from the clearness of their twitterings, that 
they must have been within gunshot, Again they would 
be heard so faintly as to indicate that they were athousund 
feet ubove. They seemed to be moving from the eust to the 
west, and the variety of cries led to the belief that all of the 
birds were not of the same kind or size. The prevailing 
call sounded to my var very like the soft whistle ot widgeon 
as they bover over dccoys. BH, Repmwonv. 

Rocuestier, N. Y., May 24. 


TWO-EYED SHOOTING, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

As my article on ‘'Two-Eyed Shooting” was written for 
the purpose of assisting beginners and others in the art (for 
it ig an acquired power) of shooting, in justice to myself 
and those for whom the ben: fit was iuteuded and through 
courtesy, I ought not to leave unanswered the kind criticism 
of your gentlemaniy correspondent, “‘D. W. C.,” in your 
issu of May 15, Before procveding to discuss his strictures, 
1 must discluim any desire to “induce others to admire my 
gun,” etc., as set forth in Ins preamble, as reference to my 
article will show that ‘a gun that fils 1s the only gun alluded 
to,” and as to “my holding” that was the subj ct matter und 
Iam vxcusable, Now, as to the main pomts of his (“‘D W. 
©.’s”) objection, 1 Will, to make it clear (without giving in 
full ““D, W. C.’s” communication) quote ouly points of 
variance, to wit: ‘‘Now. if his advice to hold the gun still 
about two seconds before shooting only applicd to duck 
sitting on water or any bird not in motion, no doubt he is 
correct,” ete. To which I reply that the aim by my method 
is equally true at moving objects as at stationary objects. 
The rule holds good that if the aim of the gun by this 
method is true 1n one instance it will be in another, 1 tried 
in my first communication to make it appear that the eyes 
directed the movement of the gun—by what scientific pro- 
cess [am unable to say. 

If that point is conceded (which ‘“‘D. W. C.” does concede 
by saying “if applied to duck sitting on water or birds not 
in motion, he is correct”), does it not follow that the gun 
will change as the eye changes from one point to another? 
In cross shots, es with shvoting with one eye shut, allowance 
must be made for distunce and speed of bird and sight taken 
accordingly, but how much better can it be done with object 


within line of vision with both eyes open than with one eye 
shut, losing entire sight of object and making the holding 
all guess work. To quote further, he says: ‘*Where would 
the bird be by the time the two si conds interval had ex- 
pired? Evidently 70 to 100 yards away.” 

As to rapid flights of birds | have no data to compare with 
“D. W. C.’s” figures, nor do I think it necessary. It must 
be remenibered that a bird’s initial vel city does not compare 
with the rifle ball, if he does have more ‘‘staying power,” 
therefore ‘"D. W. C.’s” extreme speed docs not apply to a 
bird taking wing. I will admit that when game flushes at 40 
yards away (and as 1 am nota 100-yard sunman) two seconds 
may befatal to success, but is it certain that he who shuts 
one eye, can aim quicker? But when birds (as with us) rise 
from 3 feet to 20 yards, I find no difficulty with my gun 
(excuse allusion to it), barrels 24 inches long 2} drams 
powder and { of an ounce of No. 8 shot, in stopping them. 

“D. W. C.” will admit that there are potterers at all things 
they undertake; aiming a gun is not an exception, and 
notably so is a hunting friend of mine, and he will bear me 
out, that I scold him for beivg slow in the one only thing he 
ought to be quick. Nevertheless, with this pottering in aim- 
ing, when he has no intervening object, in a clear field, with 
his 1, 2, 8 and 4 seconds, he makes his bag, when it comes 
to the bush, with the manner @/a prince and generosity un- 
equalled, remains a spectator, with the remark, ‘‘My friend, 
yuu have need of both eyes, perhapsthree.” 1 practice what I 
preach, and at risk of being thought a braggart, I will state 
that I am considered a good shot and it is known fo all of 
my hunting companions that [shoot no other way, With 
kiniest regards and esteem for ‘‘D, W. C,” Sportsman, 

CoLumaBus, Ga, 


DEER FLOATING INCIDENTS. 


VV als reading the articles on ‘‘Deer in the Adiron- 

ducks” in your paper, 1 was reminded of two anec- 
dotes, which George Sweeny was accustomed to relate when- 
ever the conversation turned to ‘*night hunting” or *‘floating” 
for deer, Probably all sportsmen who have entered the Ad- 
irondacks by wuy of the Lower Saranac have seen or heard 
of George Sweeny, one of the best and most trustworthy of 
Adirondack guides, one much sought after by sportsmen on 
account of his steady habits and general excellence and also 
a member of that seemingiy exhaustless family of the name 
of Sweny. (One rarely fails to find a Sweeny or a Moody in 
any purt uf the Saranac or St. Regis country.) 

At one time, in years gone by, George was in camp at the 
head of Big Tuppers’ Lake and was guiding a gentleman 
from Ireland, who was in this country in pursmit of sport, 
Bving out of venison it was suggested that George and his 
sportsman should paddle up tug River and endeavor to 
secure that valuable article. As soon as it was dark they 
started and on their way to the carry by the falls George 
spent the time in instructing Mr. Sportsman into the modus 
operandi to be pursued. He told him that if they had the 
good Juck to see a deer, to keep perfvctly still, and not to 
shoot until he whispered to Sim tu do so, 

Up the river they silently paddled until, as they came 
around a bend, George discovered a nice buck standing in 


the water some distance ahead. With strong silent strokes 


of the paddle George sent the boat along until he thought 
the proper time, when he whispered “‘shoot.” The man in 
the bow never slirred. George whispered ugain a little louder 
“shoot,” but norespousefrom the bow of the bout. Ina state 
of excitement, G. orge whispers in as loud a tone as he dures, 
‘shoot, shoot quick,” He has hardly finished when Mr- 
Sportsman from Ireland turns abvut so as to face him and 
exclaims in aloud voice and with a brogue betraying his 
nationality, “Would ltake him now?” It is needless to state 
the result. 

At another time George was one of the guides in the —— 
party from Yonkers, and one evening tuok the youngest 
mumber of the purty out in order to give him his first Jesson 
in “night hunting,” and caution d bimto keep perfectly still, 
whatever he saw. As they were slowly floating along a deer 
came ib sight and the instant the boy saw it he jumped up 
shouting, ‘George, I see a deer, I sce a deer.” 

So he did, but that was all. AMPERSAND. 


THE MASSACHUSETTS BILL. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Knowing something about the defeat of the proposed 
game law of Massachusetts, 1 would like to record some 
facts concerning it that do not seem to be generally known. 
The bill passed the Senate without opposition, and it would 
have gouve through the House in the same way had it been a 
proper bill, intended for the best interests of sportsmen, 
The House luckily contains a sportsman or two, und their 
attention was drawn. to several very objectionable ciauses, 
that prohibiling the shooting of sea birds in inlaud waters 
being most important, in which case the very best autuma 
gunning on the Massachusetts coast would be entirely pre- 
vented, This clause of itself merits the defeat ol the bill. 
The closed season for black duck shooting begins just as these 
birds arrive on the coast. Other closed dates were very 
obj: ctionable. + 

in addition to these were the portions which referred to 
collecting song birds, Under this clause no person could 
get an ornithologist’s certificate until over twenty-one years 
of age. {| know a number of young men who would be 
yery much injurd by such legislation, provided it was exe- 
cuted, As this part of the game Jaw never has been en- 
forced there is little yeason to hope that it would have been 
this year. Indeed, l-gislation in regard to song birds is and 
always has becn in this State a mere farce. tis a poor way 
to begin to strengihen them by prosecuting young men 1n- 
terested in ornithology, while the fields are filled with 
yvanton bird killers More care should be exercised in giv- 
ing out certificates, and each person ought to be obliged to 
furnish some proof that he is interested in the birds’ welfare. 
As the Mussachusetts law stood it was entirely ui fil to pass. 
Until a game law suitable in all respects is framed for the 
interest of sportsmen, naturalists and the public, I for one 
hope that all iu the mea.time will be defeated. The talk 
about members of the House being brihed by theater tickets, 
civars, etc., is, I think, based entirely upon theory, As for 
the person who started the opposition and was most instru- 
mental in killing it, 1 can say that he 1s an ardent sportsman, 
who has brought more than one violator of the game law to 
punishment, and would be the Jast person lo accept a bribe 
for killing a bill, especially one relating to game. R. T. 


Editar Horest and Stream: 


Our proposed game law fell through. Generally good, it 


yet was faulty. While it cut off spring snipe, which is the 


best time about here to get them, it prolonged the open &ea- 
son on fowl, perhaps to give some gentlemen who visit Cape 
Cod a better chance at brant. Then again it made the close 
season on shore birds up to Aug, 1. I have known good 
shooting on robin snipe by July 13, and for jack curlew, the 
most of them go aloug in July. ‘Then the uplands leaye on 
the first good frost. Two weeks in July are worth consider- 
able, Ihave said nothing about peeps and ringnecks, but 
they help out a mess, small as they are. Finally, it seems to 
me that when the birds commence to return from the north 
it is time fo shoot. Whether it be July 1 or any other time, 
when they come back the fall flight has of course begun. 
Males generally come first, then the females, and finally 
the young of the year as they become strong enough to per- 
form the migration. The trouble is we have too much Jaw 
now, but not enough euforcement. Sometimes it seems to 
me as if the so-called pot-hunter got more thai his share of 
blame. Just as long as the genus homo endures, there will 
be those who, to satisfy their appetites, will pay almost any 
price (in or out of season) for birds or other game, Two 
wrongs will. not make a right, but I do say that a shot at the 
class | have just mentioned, is one delivered at a fair target, 
and a very important factor. Boston market is a great dump- 
hole, 1 admit that and truly hope to see a change. 
Sportsmen who want more stringent laws and proper en- 
forcement must dig down deeper into their pockets and fight 
harder, I mean more substantially, or they will lose the race 
against marketmen and gourmands four times out of five. 
XK, ¥ Z. 


SaLmm, Mass., May 3. 


THE NEW YORK LAW. 


N answer to a correspondent the other day we quoted the 
following sectiims of the Game law: 


Section 16. Any person who shall knowingly trespass upon culti- 
yated or inclosed lands for -the purpose of shooting or hunting any 
game protected by this act, or shall take any fish from private ponds 
or streums not stocked in whoie orin part by the State, or after public 
notice has been given by the owner thereof as provided in tiie follow- 
ing section shall be liable to such owner or occupation, in addition to 
the actual damages sustained, in exemplary damages to an amount 
not exceeding $25. ‘ 7 

Section 17, The notice referred toin the preceding section s>all be 
given by erecting sign boards, at least one foot :quare, upon eyel'y 
fifty acres of land upon the limits thereof, or upon the shores or bank 
of any lake, :tream, or pond, in at least two ecunspicuous places 
on the premises; such notice to have appended thereto the name of 
the owner or occupant, and any person who sball tear down or in 
ay deface or injure such sign board, shall be liable to a penalty 
of $25. c 


The Monte Fredy Fishing Club requests us to print also 
sections 27 and 28, which read: 


Section 27. Any owner or owners, or lessee or lessees, of lands or 
lands and water, whether :uch owner cr owners, lessee or Jessees, be 
an individual or individuals, association or associations, suciety or 
societies, corporation or corporations, desiring to lay out, devote or 
d: dicate such lands or lands and water, for the purpo-e of a private 
park or territory, for propagating or protecting fish, birds, and game, 
shall publish at least once a week for three mionths, iu a paper of 
general circulation, printed in the county or counties within which 
such lands or lands and water arelvcated, descriing the same, Thére 
shall be inseried in said notice, a clause declaring that such lands or 
lands and water will be used as a private park for the purpose afore- 
said. It shall be the duty of such owner or owner , lessee or lessees, 
at any time during the publication of said notice, or wi binsix months 
after the final publication thereof, to po t up or put up nm tices or 
sign boards, warning all persons against trspassing thereon, such 
notices or sign boards to be not less tian one foot square and placed 
not more than forty ruds apart along the entire bouidary of said ter - 
ritory, when said premises shall con*ist entimly of land, and y hen 

he same shall consist of both land and water, the said no,ices shull 

be placed in conspicuous places upon said territiury, so there shall he 
at least one notice or sizn board so placed or ereeted for ¢ very one 
bundred acres of said territory. When the p operty to be protect)d 
shall consist of a lake or pond only, said notices shall be placed in at 
least four conspicuous places upon the shore of such lake or pond. 
When the premises shall be inclosed by a fence or fences of reason- 
able capacity for protecting said premises, then notices orsignbourds 
of the aimensions aforesaid shall be placed on said fence or fenves 
notanore than one-half mile apart. After such territory shall be 
dedicated and designated, all Osh, birds,and game, of. in, or upon 
the same shall be the property of the owners or lessees thereof, [As 
amended May 31, 1880. chap. £31- , 

Section 28, Alter such grouni's are inclosed in such manner as to 
render: uch fish or game private property, no person shall catch or 
take from, or kill, any fish, birds, or game, in or upon said prownds 
or waters, or put on such grounds orin such wat fs, any pOi-onous 
or other deleterious substance, or piscivirous fish, or let off the 
waters from said grounds, with invent to take fi-h, or to destroy the 
fish or eggs placed in such waters, or deface or destroy any sien or 
notice posted or putup as aforesaid; or place any object against or 
near su-h ence or inclosure. wirh ment to aid dogs or other avimals 
lo get into said grounds, orto enable animals kept therein to escape 
therefrom, or enter upov such grounds with the implements or 
weapons for catching, taking, or killing fish, birds, or game thereon. 
Any person found guilty of any offense against this section shall be 
liable to the owner or lessee, in addition to the actual damages in- 
curred, i exemplary damages to the amount of $25, 


The club correspondent.adds: ‘The first trout stream in 
Onondaga county that has been leased we have possession 
ot. We have stocked and will continue to stock it. Our 
lease is for twenty years, absolute title, We have complied 
with the law all the way through arid trespassers or poachers 
will have to take their chances, The first man we catch 
fishing on our stream will get the full penalty of the law itat 
costs $1,000.” j 

The section relating to tle power of supervisors has been 
amended to read as follows: i 


Section 37. It shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of-Any 
county, at their annual meeting. to make any regulations oF ordi- 
pances protecting other birds. fish or game than those mentioned in 
this act, and also for the further protection of such Pie fish or 
game as arein this act mentioned, except wild deer, and to this end 
to prohibit hunting and nshing in particular Jocalities or waters lying 
witiin their respective counties, fur limited periods and during cer- 
tain mouths of the year, and to prescrie punishments and penal ies 
for the violation thereof, and adopt all necessary measures for the 
e forcement of such punishment and the collection of such penalties, 
And such regulations and ordmances shall be published in the papers 
in such*county in whicn the session laws are publisued; and a certified 
copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Gaus 
pruvided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construe 
as conferring upon the board of supervi-ors of any county the right 
or authority to prohinit the Owner or Owners, in whole oriu part, of 
lands and waters wholly private, or the lessee or lessees thereof, 
whether such owner or owners, lessee or Jessees be an individual or 
individuals, association or associations, society or societies, corpora-_ 
tion or corporatious, from angling and taking fish in a lawful] manner 
during the months now allowed by the laws of this Stute, This actis 
intended to apply only to such owner or owners, in whole cr in part, 
of lands and waters, or the lessee or lessees thereof. who shall have 
complied with the provisions of section rwenty-seven of said chapter 
five hundred and thirty-four of the Jaws of eighteen hundred and 
seventy-nine, and the acts amendatory thereof, 


Domesticatine WinprowL,—Since the loss of the flock 
ot wood ducks recorded in our columns, Mr. Fred Mather 
has received, at his place at Cold Spring Harbor, L. i., the 
following birds, some of which are already mated: One pair 
of Maudarin ducks or Chinese teal (Aix galericudata), four 
pairs of American wood ducks or summer ducks (Azz sponsd), 
two pairs Eurnpean widgeon (Marca penelope), one pair of 
European pintail ducks (Dafila aewt), and one male green- 
winged teal (Querquedula crecea). The «ffort to breed our 
beautiful wildfowl in captiyity will be made, and many 
additions to the list are desired. a 


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‘Tre ‘’RAPPER’s Siuent FRrenD.—Olympia, W. T., May 
10,—Bditor Forest and Stream: Your valu:ble paper has 
been the sportsman’s friend and the medium of exchange of 
valuable ideas, the result of the practical experience of 
acientific sportsmen, and the liberal manner in which these 
ideas have been viven to the public has, in reality, laid the 
foundation for many of the uselul inventions iu connection 
with the rod and gun, and various other articles belonging 
fo the sportsman’s catalogue. Perhaps by the same method 
improyements can be made on the trapper’s silent friend, the 
steel trap. At least information and queries may be cx- 
changed, that will prove of interest to more than ove, I 
notice a growing inclination on the part of the modern 
trapper and hunter, to catch his fur scientifically and to 
keep up with the times, and I can show you the files of the 
Forrs? AND 8) RHAM in almost every trapper and hunter's 
camp west of the Cascade range of mountains in W. T., 
where a post-office is accessible. The principal fault that 
vatious trappers find with the steel trap of to-day is that the 
catch that works over the jaw of the trap has a fendency to 
throw the animal’s foot away from the trap when sprung, 
at most catching it by one toe, thus allowing it to twist out, 
This Josés at least twenty-five per cent. of valuable fur, I 
have reference to beaver and otter. Perhaps some trapper 
wil say, ‘You should set your trap so as to drown your 
beaver or otter.” In anticipation of such advice 1 will say 
that on a Juke or river, or where you have plenty of water fo 
drown the animal, that would be correct, but in the shallow 
brushy swamps that you find west of the Cascade Mountains 
in this Territory, one dots not always haye a choice, and 
even where there is sufficient water the animal is lable to 
cling to the brush or shore and twist out. Give us an im- 
provement on the steel trap. What think ye?—TILLIcUM. 


SHorE Birp Movements —Philadelphia, May 24.—The 
expected bluck-breasted plovers, robin snipe, curlews and 
dowitchers appeared on the New Jersey coust on their way 
north on Monday, the 19th inst , in small numbers, My last 
week's communication reached you simultaneously with their 
arrival and the birds will have passed on before you go to 
press aguin. On the 20th, 21st and 22d larger flights showed 
themselves, and shooting is good at tbis writing. Market 
shooters that started out from Atlantic City made good bags, 


~ and the birds brought in on the first three days of the week 


were shipped to this city. Quite a number of short-billed 
curlew are go‘ng north, but are wild and do not stool well; 
black-breasted plover are more numerous than the other 
varieties. The birds will not locate at any point on the New 
Jersey coast, as they once did, and are only passing. Not 
many years ago willets bred on the New Jersey shore in 
considerable numbers, and their eggs were collected by some 
in quantities and considered a great delicacy; but it has been 
ten years since I have heard of a nest where they once hatched. 
Ocean City, a growing watering place on Peck’s Beach, now 
occupies what was once a favorite breeding spot. A bear 
and cub were shot near Honesdale, Pa., last week. On beiny 
discovered the old bear, contrary to the custom of Ursus 
with young, beat a retreat, and the cub went up a iree and 
was first killed. The old one being fullowed was dispatched, 
making no resistance —Homo 


Mosquito PREVENTIVE,—Baltimore,—A year or so ago I 
found a paragraph in a book by G. A. Sala (‘Living Lon- 
don,” p. 322), in which he stated that the English army, then 
in Egypt, were much annoycd by fleas, etc., and thal they 
had found a protection in Pyrethrum roseum. I tried the 
remedy the following summer. While knocking about 
Chesapeake Bay m a small catboat, it was my custom to 
camp on shore af night. These camps were generally in a 
clump of woods, and the ‘mosquiloes, flies and fleas were 
simply awful. Ifourd that by taking a small quantity of 
Pyvrethrum reseum, ov the Persian camomile, making it into 
@ paste with a few drops of alcohol, then diluting with three 
or four times as much water, applying to the exposed parts 
ot the body and allowing it to dry, that the trouble was 
much mitigated, The pyrethrum is not poisonous, and may 
be freely used without Naneee, The drug is the basis of the 
so-called Persian insect powder, sold in all drug stores, but 
some of it is worthless —D. H. B. 


Camp Sire Hlicherings. 
“That reminds me,” 


112. 


HAD noticed while driving along the road some miles 
from home a large pond with a swampy, swalish sur- 
rounding, and while gazing on it, up flewa brace of wild 
black ducks. As was natural in any one fond of sport, my 
heart was ina flutter, and a mental resolve was at once 
made to come here 10-morrow with my gun. I sought a 
companion, congenial both to the business in view. and the 
requirements of sociability, and secured a young, robus!, zeal- 
ous sportsman, who was an inveterate smoker. In him I 
had just the companion I wanted. The morrow was fine, 
but windy. Our drive, which accupied about two hours, 
was somewhat marred of pleasure by the strong wind which 
prevented our smoking and filled our eyes with dust, for the 
season had been wonderfully dry. Arriving at last, we tied 
the horse to the fener, and rammed down a heavy charge of 
No 4 into those old-fashioned muzzleloaders of that date. 
Now, for the first time, we noticed a large bourd intimat- 
ing ‘‘No trespassing,’ which, however, caused no more 
trouble than the loss of a moment or so, in consultation, It 
was a brave deed, we thought, to attack that pond, lying as 
it did under the very shadow of the house and farm build- 
ings, whose owner had expended Jubor ard money in erect- 
ing those warning boards for our benefit; but the grass and 
the weeds were high and thick, which lessened the danger, 
and we had of necessity to crawl so as not to disturb the 
ame. : 
ii Going on hands and knees in excruciating agonies and dire 
discomforts, our nether garments soaked, our heads throb- 
. bing and swelling fit to hurst, we at last found ourselves in 
full view of the pond. But not a duck was there, and bar- 
ting the two that had visited the place the day previous, I 
do not believe there ever had been any, e were both 
angry, and a look at either of us was as much evidence of 
the fact as if we Lad openly declared it. The strong wind 
which now blew with unsheltered strength on us, had a 
cooling effect, however, and we filled our pipes. As we 
puffed away, some thought, either of revenge or mischief, 
sei-ed my companion, for he quickly said, ‘Il wonder if this 
stufi would- barn?” and by way of illustrating what he 
meant, applied a match to the parched reeds and grass. Oh, 
what a blaze was there! What a game the wind had all 


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alone. It seemed to pick up tuft after tuft of red hot grass, 
and hurl them all over that swamp. It reminded me of 
Samson's foxes over again, or ten thousand will-o’-the-wisps 
gone crazy. The heat became intense, and we were soon 
hemmed between the two elements, fire and water, before 
and behind. 

A shout startled us; then, as if in echo, ten, twenty more, 
and we beheld a regiment of agriculturalists on the double, 
each armed either with instruments of punishment or fire 
extermination, we did not know which. We conld not 
stand in i(Jeness any longer, so we went to work, and worked 
hard, too, by running with all our energy and strength along 
the edge of the pond, mirmg at every other step in our en- 
deavor to escape the excited mob, I think we should have suc- 
ceeded bad not five or six men lain in ambush and seized us as 
we emerged from the swale. Wedidno fighting, Wecowed. 
Discretion and valor had a meeting, and decided in favor ot 
the former. Thoroughly ashamed of ourselves, we joined in 
fighting the flames, and after throwing down a few hundred 
rods of fencing and beating the blazing carpets till the spark 
dust flew thick about us, we became inasters of the situution. 

The rest is tld in a few words. We footed the bill and 


said no more about it till now. I often think now that it 


would have paid me better to have bought a farm than to 

go secking a couple of ducks that my own eyes had beheld 

flying away twenty-four hours before. VERAX, 
JANADA. 


113. 

Ten years ago I found av Indian skull while hunting in 
Chaquaco Canyon, Colorado, and took it home to my ranch. 
I have had so much fun with it since that [ have always kept 
it, and at this moment it is grinning at me. 


I came to Kansas in 1878, and bung the skull in the office 


of my hotel. The country was full of land hunters !rom the 
East, who proposed to make farms out of a chunk of this 
desolate prairie that will hardly raise buffalo grass, They 
were to the Jast man very romantic and anxious to hear big 
yarns. My clerk obcerved thut if he told the truth about the 
skull when questioned about it, the tenderfeet would seem 
disappointed, so he used to romance a little, One morning 
he related to a lone land seeckera most blood-chilling account 
of how he shot the Indian in the bowels and cut off his gory 
The next day another man 
questioned him, and he forzot that Number One, who was 
present, had ever heard anything about the skull, sohe killeu 
the Indian over for Number Two by pnitting out a biscuit 
baited with strychnine, and ‘“‘ketching’ him and afterward 
cutting off his head with an ax.” 


els with a rifle and scalped him.” ‘'That was another time 
I killed him,” remarked Jim, looking Number One mildly 
in the face. W.J. D. 


114. 


A young man who did not know a setter from a pointer or 


a trigecr of a gun from the hammer, went from this city to 
Toronto, and became acquainted with some Canadian sports- 
men, to whom he vaunted of his skill with the shotgun and 
success in the field over dogs. He was welcomed inte the 
circle of shooters and promised by them a day’s sport, they 
volunteering to provide him with gun and dog. A party 
was made up and duly repaired to a locality where birds 
were known to be abundant. Our hero (who told the story 
himself), with gun in hand, followed asetter, and after some 
tramping through the brush noticed the d4g moving slowly 
and finally stop as if paralyzed. He thought that it was a 
hunting dog’s business to hunt, and that a dog which grew 
tired and gave up so soon in the day deserved punishment 
for laziness, so picking up a piece of wood he hurled it at the 
offending setter, and started in amazement as a “lot of big 
brown birds” burst up before the dog, Crown Wap. 
ROCHESTER. 


115. 

Uncle John McK. was a local preacher, quite wealthy, 
and withala good man. He was also a sportsman and well 
known in several counties around for his love of field sports. 
His case was the subject of frequent discussion among his 
brethren, but the old man still clung to his gun, rod, hounds 
and bis profession, 

One Sunday morning, while on his way to fill an appoint- 
ment, he found his youngest boy, Russel, at the foot of the 
river fishing. The old man was justly indignant; but just 
as he reined up his horse the boy made a handsome cust and 
strike. The hard lines on the face of the father gradually 
so{tened as the play went on, and presently he said, ‘‘My 
son, give bim the butt of the rod and he is your bass.” 
Even then he was not forgetful of the duties of his calling, 
and when the boy plead the beautiful day and the voracity 
of the bass as the cuuse of his transgression, the father, 
mindful of the publicity of the place, leaned forward-in his 
saddle and whispered, ‘‘Russel, my experience Jeads me to 
advise that just up around the bend of the river is the best 
fishing ground in the State.” Parson O’GAtTH, 


AIO. 
Sr 
WHAT THEY SAY OF “WOODGRAFT. 


HIS book contains a series of useful instructions for those who 


go to the woods in search of health or amusement, and is, on the 
whole, a valuable companion and assistant to such as have not large 
stores of personal experience to draw from. It is systematically 
arranged and plainly written. * * * On the whole, the 
book is sound and practical, and well worth the reading.—The Nation. 


This charming little book is written to teach the traveler how to 
journey through the wilderness with ease, and on perusing its con- 
tents we find that it is the experience of an old hunter, who gives the 
best of advice to those who go out in the woods for a season of rest 
and relaxation, and need to study lightness and economy in a forest 
and stream outing.—Spirit of the Times. 

SratrLe, Washington Territory, May 8.—I received ‘‘Nessmuk’s” 
book, and was highly pleased with it; in fact, did not lay it down till 
T had finished it. It contains numberless hints of value to the novice, 
or “‘tenderfoot,” and even some which we old hasids might profit by. 
Succe-s to old “‘muzzieloader’s’” venture anyway, and may he sell ten 
million copies.—H,. H. L. 

The newest yolume of the Porusr AnD Srrpam series is ‘*Wood- 
eraft,” by ‘‘Nes-muk.” It isa little volume written in a sparkling 
vein, and crammed with hints to the camper-out. It is intended to 
teach the reader ‘how to make an outing a pleasure instead of a 
misery, 4 comfort instead of a Calamity,’ andit is certainly one of 
the brightest books on the subject that has ever come to our uotice. 
Not the smallest of its attractions is the illustration of the subject, 
even to the details of making a camp-fire, showmg at a glance what 
the writer meansto teach. Itis a charming little publication, and is 
quite as attractive for its occasional dissertation on trout fishing, as 
for tts matter-ofact details of camp life,—Portland(Me.), Press, 


“Hold on,” says Number 
One, “you told me yesterday that you shot him in the bow- 


Sar 


Sea and River Hishing. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 
Black Lake, Michigan,—IIl. 


HORTLY after leaving the spring we came to the’ ‘twin 
lakes,” a pair of lovely little gems of water, sep- 
arated by a high backbone a few yards wide at. the top, over 
which the wagon road passes. So narrow is this ridge that 
from the wagons we could look down, seventy or eighty feet 
it seemed, on either of them; the one on the right appearing 
much lower than the other. 

They are perhaps eighty rods long by half as wide, and 
are surrounded on the sides opposite the ridgo by hills that 
are thickly wooded to the water’s edge. 

We could see no inlet or ovtlet to them, and our driver 
said he had never heard of their having any, nor was it 
known whether they contained fish or not, As this was a 
question we did not care to spend time in solving, we drove 
on, satisfied that the Master had scooped them out for some 
wise purpose Which to uS was a sealed book. 

Skirting around the base of a lofty, forest-clad ridge, 
trending off to the left in a southeasterly direction, the road 
led us arouud the point on to another plain, and off in the 
distance we caught the shimmer of water and the sight of a 
green line some miles away that our driver informed us was 
the further shore of Black Lake. Our understanding had 
been that we were to have crosscd Big Black River some- 
where below and gone up on thie opposite side from where we 
now were, as Merrill lived on that side and our camp was to 
be somewhere near his house; but we ndw learned from the 
drivers that if was impossible to cross the river without 
swimming it, so we had the unpleasant alternative left of 
driving clear around the lake to a point some three miles 
from the head to where we were to make camp. 

And we Jearned. too, that neither of the three smart driv- 
ers knew where they were going or how to get there, nor did 
they know where Merrill lived, only that his place was 
twenty-two or twenty-three miles from Chebcygan and near 
Black Lake. Here was another *‘category,” but we took the 
matter into our own hands and mildly requested them to 
“bile ahead till they smelt blud,” or find Merrill’s, if it took 
a week. The road led straight across the plains to the lake, 
Which we struck a mile or such a matter from the outlet. 

From the top of the bank overlooking the lake, we could 
see a Small steamer at anchor near the further shore three or 
four miles away, which our driver said was used to tow 
booms of logs tothe head of Big Black River—the outlet of 
the like—and this might be brought over by a smoke signal 
to take us and our traps up to our camp, which would allow 
them to drive back to town that evening. 

Four or five of us got out and took an old loggers’ road 
down to the water to get a better view of the lake and study 
over the situation. 

The driver’s hint was not acted en and no smoke was 
made, except by oll Ben in making a few remarks to fit the 
occasion, as the water was too shallow near shore to. allow 
the steamer to get nearer than thirty or forty yards, which 
would leave us to float our heavier boxes alongside and get 
them and ourselves aboard as best we might. 

This we did not propose to do, and we went back to the 
wagons and took the road up the lake ia not quite as hilarious 
a mood as pervaded the party at the spring, for we knew by 
the slant of the sun that 1t would be long after dark before 
we reached Merri!l’s, where we could at least pass the nicht, 
or what remained of it, and go to camp early in the morning, 

But we were in forihand drove along at a good pace 
without grumbling, haying made up our minds that growl- 
ing would not shorten the distance nor find Merrill’s clearine, 

When near the head of the lake, shut off from view, how- 
ever, by a belt of timber, the road forked and the drivers 
soon decided they did not know which one to follow. The 
one leading tu the right might be only an old log road ending 
at the lakeside; the other they thought led into the State 
road a mile or so further on, which crossed the Rainey River 
near the head of the lake. ‘‘Nothing like having drivers 
that don’t know anything,” remarked the Scribe, ‘as it gives 
ue a chance to run the whole show for a brief period our- 
selves.” 

We settled the matter by taking the right hand road, as 
promising a near cut, taking the chancvs at the same time 
on getting through, or carping somewhere for the nigtt, 
At the top of the hill we got out, except old Dan, Frank 
und the drivers, and forming ourselves into a pioneer corps 
went ahead, the wagons following after. Down a steep, 
sandy hill, and into a cedar swamp bridged by a corduroy 
of poles and logs, a matter of forty rods from the main 
road, and we came suddenly out of the tangle onto the 
beach at the very upper end of the lake. Here the road 
seemed to end, and we were in a worse category than ever, 
for it would be a serious matter to turn around here and get 
the heavily loaded wagons back to the top of the sandhill, 

When our minds were about made up that we were ina 
trap, we noticed famt wagon whecl marks in the bushes to 
the left which the Scribe and I followed a few yards and 
found a good road leading along w strip of low, open bottom 
Jand between the beach and the hill a few rods back. 

A hundred yards further, we stood on ast:bstantial wooden 
bridge spanning the Rainey River, only a few rods from 
where it flowed into the lake, and from this point we had a 
good view of this beautiful sheet of water for the greater 
part of its length, which is about nine miles, It was fully 
as wild as we had pictured it. 

Sweeping away around to the left in the form of a deep 
bay, toa poiut six miles or more below, where the luke 
narrowed {rom six miles, at its greatest width, to about three 


and a half miles, was an unbroken line of wooded shore, not 


asign in sight of clearing, house or shanty to mar the 
harmony of its green setting. Down the right hand -side, 
near which we wert, the shore line was nearly straight, and 
as far as we could sve for a trend in it to the northward, the 
geueral features were the same, woods and bushes nearly 
down to the water the entire distance. It was a rare, quiet 
picture, but we had little time in which to enjoy it as the 
sun was nearly down, and Merrill’s yet in the dim and un- 
certain Gistancc—verily not a cheering prospect of seeing our 
camp that night, 

e shouted to the boys to come ahead, and following the 
road along the bottom for perhaps an eighth of a mile it led 
us off to the left up a low rocky hill (the first rocks we had 
seen) out onto the leyel couniry and into the State road. Soon 
we saw a faint blue smoke through the woods, then a house, 
and as we came abreast of a small clearing by the roadside, 
a man hoeing in a ‘tater patch,” the whole “‘farm” fenced 
by the road on one side and a wall of woods or: the other 


three. Walking over to the stranger, who on noting our ap- 


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proach had come to a rest on his hoc handle, we bid him 
good evening and asked if he could direct us to one Merrill, 
who as near as we had been able to learn, lived somewhere 
in this neighborhood. He could, and pointing across the road: 
‘He leef over dare ‘bout mile,” This was good news, but 
when he said we would have to go around three or four 
miles, as there was no road through the woods in the direc- 
tion he had pointed, we felt our grip relax and had a mind 
to camp richt there for the night, but finally decided to go 
on to Merrill’s, or ‘‘kill every -hoss and driver in the proces- 
sion.” as Ben said. ‘Follow State road *bout'mile west,” said 
the Frenchman of Canadian extraction: ‘‘Mebbe leetel more’n 
mile; come to schoolhouse (they have schoolhouses in Michi- 
ganif nothing else), turn to right, follow road mile north, 
turn to right, go mile east, come fo Merrill.” ; 

Here was a section of Jand with roads on three sides of it, 
but the one we most needed just at that particular juncture, 
appeared to haye been left for us in the shape of a howlin’ 
wilderness. 

We made afew remarks right there at the edge of that 
tater patch that would not dress up very well in print, so I 
will leave them to the imagination of the reader. 

Mounting on the wagons as they came up, we thanked our 
friend of the hoe for the directions given, and were off for 
the schoolhouse at a good jog, for this State road is a good 
one and kept in good repair. 

As we turned north at the section corner, oJd Ben selected 
from a large stock of plain and ornamental oaths kept con- 
stantly on hand, one that seemed to fit into the right place, 
and swore ‘that mile back 10 the Frenchman’s is the iongest 
mile on the face 0’ this livin’ earth; we’ve come three mile 
ef we’ve come a solitary foot.” 

By the time we turned into the road going east it was so 
dark we couid feel it, and the horses were left to pick tbe 
way for themselves, as any attemptto guide them would 
have led to a calamily in the shape of a dispute with some 
invisible stump as to which was entitled to the right of way, 

We caught an occasional glimpse of a patch of sky up 
through the wallof trees lining either side of the narrow 
road, which only seemed to intensify the gloom through 
which we felt our way, The only sounds which broke the 
oppressive stillness was the rattle of our wagon, as the- 
patient, intelligent horses picked their weary way carelully 
through the blackness, a grunt from old Ben or the writer, 
a whine from Dick, ora string of high-flavored adjectives 
that a pi-usly afflicted type setter would probably represent 
thus: —— —— — —— — , as a wheel would strike an un- 
usually large root, with which tbis delightful highway was 
numerously infested. 

We stopped two or three times to listen for sounds from 
the ather wagons, but nothing broke the silence but the 
breathing of our tired horses. We knew the spring wagon 
ahead of us was all right, but the one behind gave us some 
concern as it had only the driver and Frank to pilot it 
through the darkness. and we were fearful lest they had 
missed the way or gat los! in the tangles of another ‘‘huckle- 
berry patch.” 

At last we shouted loud and long, and waited for a response 
from the rear. A clarion blast away abead in the hair-rais- 
ing voice of Old Knots was all that came back, and we drove 
on, leaving them to find the way as they might, or pass the 
night in the ‘‘bresh,” an exhibition of brotherly feeling that, 
aftcr thinking over seriously, I trust will not be an example 
set up to copy after, but we were a trifle riled at them for 
not kveping us in sight: at the schoolhouse, and made our- 
selves believe that under the circumstances we could do no 
better. 

When we had felt our way throuch the woods for “‘not a 
solitary foot less’n five mile,” as Ben averred, we thought 
we saw the faint glimmer of alight ahead to the left, and 
the next mimute were plunging through a mity swamp 
ibat must have taken the horses to their knees. A pole or 
log across it here and there—a miserable make believe that 
an attempt had once been made to corduroy it—only made it 
worse, and it was by the most desperate efforts of the brave 
team that we reached tle hard ground four or five rods 
abvad, 

Here an opening in the woods, that looked much lighter 
than the inky gloom from which we had just emerged, prom- 
ised a ‘‘clearin’,”’ and directly, “Come ahead, boys; bere’s a 
house,” infused new life into us; and in a few minutes we 
were off the wagon with the others, at the edge of the clear- 
ing, trying to shake our loosened joints together again after 
the severe jolting of the last mile. 

Out in the clearing, a hundred yards or so, a couple of 
dogs were barking furiously, “‘ten yelps to a breath,” as Ben 
expressed it, and, joining in the racket with a united yell, we 
soon had the satisfaction of seeing a light slowly approach- 
ing, ba Se by the yelping dogs. As it came nearer, ‘‘Shet 
up Turk, don’t be so fresh,” quieted the dogs. and as the 
light flashed on us, ‘‘Helln, gentlemen; this must be the King- 
fisher party,” from a gruff yoice, was followed by a brief in- 
troduction to Mr. Merrill, the long-sought and hard-to-find, 
tlie dogs meanwhile sniffing at our heels, undecided whether 
to make friends or snatch a veal cutlet out of our calves. 


A sharp rebuke from their master, followed by a vigorous: 


kick at one of them which he dodged with a neatness and 
celerity that showed long practice in avoiding these gentle 
reminders, put a sudden stop to their investigations and the 
“talk? went on without further interruption. Merrill claimed 
he had not received my letter asking plain directions kow to 
find his house, nor had he expected us until the next day, 
else he would have met us with the boats at the point where 
we first struck the lake, and as we were really one day 
ahead of the time set, he had the best side of the question, 
which gave us little room to talk back. = 

Still no sound from the lagging wagon, and we began to 
fear they had met with a mishap of some kind. Merrill 
went with the lantern to the edge of the swamp and “‘hollered” 
at short intervals in a voice that must have awakened every 
sleeping varmint within two miles, and finally when we had 
about given them up as lost, an answering whoop announced 
they were coming, When they came to the mud hole, we 
fully expected they would stick, as they had the heaviest of 
the three loads and a pair of light hoises, but as Ben said, 
"The little fellers was chuck full o’ sand and grit,” and they 
brought the wagon through with a regular step that showed 
how reliable they were in a tight place, Tleir late coming 
was due to not keeping usin sight at the schoolhouse, and 
they had driven straight on past 1t a mile or more. before dis- 
covering their mistake. ‘“‘Huckleberries,” growled the 
Scribe, which was probably nearer the mark, 

But now, here we all were, in the suburbs of Merrill’s un- 
fenced tater patek, tired with the long ride and walk of over 
thirty miles, hungry as wolves, and best of all, in excellent 
humor. The horses were unhitched, watered, and given a 
well earned ration of hay and oats, the frogs carried to a 


little pool near by and a couple of buckets of water dashed 
over them and left for the night, and then it was mildly 
hinted to Merrill that if the trouble were not too great, a 
trifle in the way of satisfying a feeling of emptiness pervad- 
ing the party would endear him and his good wife to us for 
the remainder of our sojourn, to quote Ben, ‘‘on the face 0” 
this livin’ earth.” He said we would ‘‘have to ask the ‘boss’ 
about that,” and repairing to the house the good woman was 
prevailed on to fry some bacon, slice up a huge loaf of old- 
fashioned home-made bread, and brew a steaming pot of 
coffee, and this, with butter and eggs procured from our 
prvyision box in one of the wagons, made a meal that Ben 
declared ‘‘jest laid over anything in the way o’ eatin’ he’d 
seen in a solitary year.” 

Frank insisted on teaching the matron of the house how 
to make good coffee and boil eggs to the proper turn, but 
his officiousness was nipped in the bud by a timely hint, and 
he retired to a corner an abashed spectator of the proceed- 
ings. 

I write this that in case it meets his eye he may take unto 
himself warning not to tamper with this pernicious berry in 
future while on his way to camp, and if the hint mayhap 
touch any of the brethren in a tender spot, I trust no offense 
will be taken, and that it may bear better fruit than the 
berry in question. 

We found the accommodations at the ‘‘Hotel Merrill” to 
be exceedingly meagre; the back part of the one room of 
the cabin being curtained off into sleepinz rooms for the 
heads and smaller members of the somewhat numerous 
family, while the front and larger part served as kitchen, 
dining-room and room of all work. Overhead in the loft, 
Merrill informed us, were more of his boys and four or five 
sleeping lumbermen, so we were forced to betake ourselves 
to the ’tater patch or the ‘‘bresh.” 

Without much trouble we got out of the wagons a couple 
of buxes packed with blankets, and distributing them 
around, each one proceeded to stake out his claim by the 
light of the lantern. 

Old Danny was, however, made as comfortable as possible 
on the floor in the house, while Frank, with a commendabie 
concern for Dan’s welfare, rolled himself in a single blanket 
and was soon snoring near him, an odorous terror to any 
foolhardy morquito that might come prowling around with- 
in the range of his breath. 

The Deacon made friends with the two dogs, and wrapped 
in his blanket, passed the remainder of the night with them 
by the side of the house without any serious trouble arising 
between the trio. The rest of us‘scattered ourselves around 
and under the wagons, Jim taking much comfort to himself 
in the possession of an extremely soft pine board which he 
found lying near the house. 

Old Knots, Ben, Dick and the drivers selected places to 
their pleasement and made their beds, while the chronicler 
of this night’s comforts and miseries found a soft s} ot in the 
sand near a wagon wheel that just fitted his frame, where he 
rolled himself in the ample folds of a rubber piano coyer and 
stretched his weary bones for a tew hours much needed rest. 
it must have been midnight when quict reigned in the tater 
patch, but not long did this guict abide with us. The skeet- 
ers and punkies seemed to haye been apprised of our coming 
and had been coming in from all quarters since our arrival, 
until they bad become, as the Scribe iemarked, ‘quite mul- 
titudinous,” and were sharpening their bills on the wagon 
tires and waiting for us to settle down, to begin their work 
of making life a burden to us, 

While we were moving around they were not very trouble- 
some, but when everything was still, and not having the pro- 
tection of bar, net or ‘“‘smear,*’ they began business in earn- 
est. Mutters and growls from all sides, and imprecations 
not Joud but of great depth and frequency flouted around in 
the darkness until it was a question which were the more 
pumerous, the skeeters or the fragmentary profanity fired at 
them, and not a few getting in range of Ben’s remargs must 
have escaped with singed wings and the temper drawn from 
their bills. But Jim, of whom much bad been expected in 
this liné, said not a word; he just went quietly off to sleep 
with as much unconcern as though his pine board was a 
couch of down aud not a skeeter or punkie in miles, Dick 
and one of the drivers were, however, the objects of their 
especial attention, Dick’s locality being plainly indicated hy 


yicorous slaps that were simply astonishing, 

‘A few of the pests found their way into my breathing hole 
through the folds of the rubber, but I was too tired to remain 
long awake and went to sleep with the sound of Dick's 
gentle voice ringing in my ears, and knew no more until 
aroused by him at daybreak with, ‘Get up you old crank 
and let’s get out of this, for ’m about eat up by them cussed 
c1oppies, or whatever you call ’em.” (He meant punkies, 
but had forgotten the word.) He and the driver had nol 
slept a wink the whole night. When they could bear it no 
longer, he said they got up and paced up and down the road 
a few yards till the first streak of dawn, and, according to 
his estimate they must have wiped out of existence fully a 
million *‘croppies” and half as many skeeters, and he further 
proclaimed in a voice reaching for high ©, that he ‘wouldn't 
go through another sich a night for all the fish in Michigan, 
and the d—elightful State throwed in.” (Note.) Dick held 
a consultation with himself sometime afterward and decided 
he would like to try it all over again, with the first night 
left out. 

[To BE CONTINUED. ] 


THE REVALLIER OR RAVALLIA. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 
In reading up the back numbers of Forest AND STREAM, 
I find in the issue of Jan. 17, 1884, a communication from 
my friend, ‘Al Fresco,” on the ravallia of the west coast of 
Florida. He seems to be in doubt as to the identification of 
this fish, but he will recognize it at once under the name of 
“snooks,” as it is called on the east coast, I referred to it 
particularly in both series of my Florida papers in Forust 
AND STREAM, under the various names of cobia, crab-eater, 
sergeant-fish acd snooks. The name “'snooks” is used as 
early as the seventeenth century in the account of the voy- 
ages of Captain William Dampier, who also mentions mul- 
lets, ten-pounders, tarpoms, cavallies, paricootas, gar-fish, 
sting-rays, Spsnish mackerel, ete. : 

In the communication referred to, ‘‘Al Fresco” embodies 
an opinion of David 8. Jordan, who supposed (from the 
similarity of sound of the two names) the rayallia to be 
the robilo (Oentropomus undecimalis), but I never heard 
“ravallia” or ‘‘vevallier” applied to any fish on the west coast 
but the sergeant-fish (Hlacate canada). 

In ‘Fishing with the Fly,” Dr. Kenworthy alludes to the 
ravallia being taken with the artificial fly by Dr. Ferber, who 


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a stream of whines, disjointed utterances of dire import, and’ 


describes it as resembling the pike-perch, and that it is taken 
up to thirty pounds in weight—all of which I can indorse, 
though in shape and habjts it more nearly resembles the true 
pike, especially in the form of its head and dentation. 

_ it is probable, however, that there exists some confusion 
in the use of the name rayallia on the west coast of Florida, 
as the two fish mentioned are somewhat alike in formation 
und appearance, and both have a very distinct black lateral 


line. JAME } 
s A, HuNSHALL. 
CynTHiana, Ky., May 17. it 


USEFUL HINTS. 


ee articles on fly-rods, started by Mr. Wells in Forest 
AND STREAM, have been yery interesting tome. Since 
my first essay in fly-fishing some years ago, I find tlat my 
enthusiasm for the sport increases each season; and the sub- 
ject has become quite a hobby with me, occupying much of 
my time and thinking in winter as well as in summer. Being 
possessed of an expermenting turn of mind and some mechan- 
ical experience, I find a pleasure in making my own rods 
and flies. [have now ready to take into the woods the coming 
season rods of my own make and of four different materials, 
viz., split bamboo, bethabara, hornbeam, ash and lance- 
wood. I have made, as an experiment, some joints and tips 
of two pieces of wood glued together, with the grain running 
in opposite directions. All of my rods fit into one handle 
about fourteen inches long. I do not use dowels or pins. 

For a ferrule cement, 1 make a composition of about two 
parts gutta-percha and one part white rosin. The gutta- 
percha is nearly white, and comes in thin sheets looking a 
little like a piece of white birch bark, It makes an excellent 
wax for wrapping silk, according to the receipt of Norris— 
one ounce white rosin, one dram gutta percha and one tea- 
spoonful raw linseed oil. When a rod breaks near a ferrule 
I do not try to dig it out, or put it in the fire, as I once did, 
but I Jay it in a hot oven or over the chimney of a lighted 
lamp for fifteen minutes or so, when the wood will shrink so 
as to drop out easily, unless the ferrule has been pinned, in 
which case it will be necessary to leave it until the wood has 
become charred, which will occur without softening the 
temper of the ferrule. 

Ido not remember to have seen described what seems to 
me the best way to fasten a silk lashing. I have read about 
winding over a quiil and then drawing the end through it, 
and about threading a needle and running it back under the 
winding, etc. I takea piece of strong silk (buttonhole twist), 
double it, ard lay it over the lashing, parallel with the rod, 
with the loop or bight extending beyond the lashings, Then 
take three or four turns of the lashing silk over the loop, in- 
sert the end in the Joop and pull it through under the lash- 
ings. I make use of the same fastening at the head of flies. 

One more small bint is not to allow rubber of any kind to 
come in contact with your flics; the sulphur in it will tarnish 
the tinsel. 

Asl1 believe that correspondence in regard to angling 
resorts is invited by Forrsr AND STREAM, I wish to say a 
word about a locality in which I have only a friendly inter- 
est and a desire to have it better known and appreciated, I 
refer to the camps of Mr. Kennedy Smith at Tim Pond and 
the Seven Ponds, Maine. Hach season for the past three 
years | have spent about two months with Mr. Smith, and I 
intend to go again the coming summer. His log camps are 
models of their kind, every one is well treated, and the 
charges are very moderate. The trout are not of the largest, 
for Maine trout, but they are there in sufficient numbers to 
satisfy angereasonable expectations, and the days that they 
will not rise to a fly are verv rare throughont the season; 
and they are remarkably beautiful and gamy and fine-flavored 
trout as well. 

There is another reason why I go each year to this region. 
I am asufferer from that strange discase known as “‘hay 
fever,” and | should live in torment at home from the middle 
of August until the appearance of frcst. I escape this seri- 
ous trouble altogether at Tim Pond, and if is a medicine 
that is very pleasaut to take. In that vicinity there is none 
of that abominable ‘ag weed” or Roman wormyood, the 
pollen of which is believed to be the exciting cause of this 
distressing malady. 

Iam sure that | have seen queries in regard to hay fever 
in the columns of Forest AND SrrREAM, and perhaps the 
above may be of interest to some of its readers, W. G. 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 10, 1884. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


W EAKFISH (blue lights) are being seined in large num- 

bers down the bay on the Delaware State shore, The 
‘neck” farms in the vicinity of the fishing grounds are de- 
riving a benefit from them asa fertilizer as there is no market 
for the fish, they are so numerous. 

Bluefish are reported very scarce on the New Jersey coast 
this spring, from this the baymen argue that fisbing with 
rod and line will be good the coming summer, as the absence 
of the bluefish will allow the varieties upon which they feed 
to come into the bays freely. 

It is stated by John Upperman, of Kensington, Phila., 
who is said to be the oldest shad fisherman of our city, that 
the lurgest shad caught in the Delaware River in his experi- 
ence of fifty years weighed ten pounds, and that the size of 
the fish has steadily decreased until artificial propagation 
was attempted about fifteen years ago. Since that time there 
has been a great improvement both in size and numbers, 
and now a six-pouod shad is by no means uncommon. 
This year a very marked difference is seen and hundreds of 
shad tipping the scales at six to seven and a half pounds 
can be seen. r “ : 

On the roof of the Philadelphia Record building there is a 
water tank which holds 18,000 gallons, this is supplied by the 
city main. Last week when the engineer who has charge 
of the steam pumping maehbine cleaned ont the tank he dis- 
covered numerous eels from six inches to nine inches in 
length in his bucket. A further investigation brought to 
light catfish four inches long. As the water is pumped into 
the tank through a three-inch pipe, it is supposed both the _ 
eels and catfish fouud their way from the Schuylkill River 
when they were very small, ‘he Heed proof-reader, who 
is a disciple of Uncle Thad Norris, can now go up-stairs, 
bait his hook at dinner hour, and save car and steamboat 
fere to Wissahickon. 

The Cape May, N. J., Porpoise Fishing Company are 
about erecting extensive buildings on the bay side for the 
double purpose of extracting the oil from these fish and 
turning the refuse into phosphates. The venture of this 
company last year with its patent nets was successful, but 
we prophesy continual fishing for them will, in a few years, 
drive them entirely away from the section referred o ail 

; OMO. 


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. 
TINUE eccond annual fish day festival of the Worcester 
Sportsman’s Club ocenrred on Wednesday, May 21, and 


J 


FISH DAY AT WORCESTER. 


was a success in every respect. The rules governing the 
affair were the same as last year, except that a fine of one 
dollar was impased upon every member who did not partici- 
pate in the sport. This rule had the desired effect, and 
called out a much larger number than usnal—not that they 
cared for the dollar, but they did not like to be branded as 
delinquents. The conditions prescribed were: ‘‘Every fish 
onthe list to be caught with hook and line, on the day set 
for the fishing, Points—Trout, 16 points to the pound; 
pickerei, 4 points to the pound; perch, 2 points to the pound; 
pout, 2 points to the pound, For every trout that weighs 
over eighteen ounces, an additional point to every ounce 
will be allowed. No private trout streams or ponds to be 
fished,” 

The fishermen went in all directions, some to New Hamp- 
shire, some to Connecticut, some to the hills of Berkshire 
county, and a few who did not aspire tu trout fishing trolled 
for pickerel or bobbed for perch and pouts in the ponds about 
home, lt was the first really hot day of the season, and 
some of the men who are unused to being out of doors came 
in with faces that would have made good headlights for 
locomotives, All were tired, but jolly, and nearly every man 
had a good story to tell concerning the exploitsof the day. The 
scene in the small hall at the Bay State House on Wednesday 
eyening was a delightful one to any man who enjoys looking 
at a fine display of fish, A long table was spread with plat- 
ters, in order that those members who had made good catches 
could spread them out in the most attractive style, as it was 
pleasant to watch the expression of their faces.as they proudly 
unloaded their creels. lt was truly a magnificent display of 
trout, to say nothing of the other varieties. The finest dis- 
plays were those of Capt. Jacobs and Chas, A. Allen, caught 
in New Hampshire; John R. Thayer, caught in Connecticut; 
H. E. Smith, Davenport, Verry and Barton, caught in 
Berkshire county, and Samuel Brown and James F, Daven- 
port, caught in the western part of the State. The count 
closed at 9 P. M., with the following score; 

CAPT, GOLBERT'S SIDE, CAPT. JACOBS’S SIDE, 


R. L. Golbert and Alba WU. PACODS foe ee eu ese 12545 
PIOUS st LEAL oe eres 241 ©, Hartwelland A. Colby... 240 
A. F. Earle and Frank P. AVSLCPE OLE ye eee ard obe. c 83 
POOREMASS ic se clew:ass spemiere 60 AV AD CLS tee nate os ee 34. 
John B, Goodell .. —---.-:. 62 V.Sheldon and Wm. Cue... 88 
JG AKG WIGS Skis caters 26 R.J. Healey and 8. Porter.. 72 
Stedman Clark......-......- 10 Chas. A. Allen.......0...... 70% 
THRO Sy rerhitelce pop a meee] 12 JAS. Stoddards rs. .iiset... 15 
J, A, Titus and W. Thayer... 48 M. 0. Whittier.............. 23 
G. J. Rugg and. G. White.. 30 Joseph Garland........ aie GLO 
H. E. Smith, $. T. Davenport, A.B. F. Kinney...,........ 31 
H. B. Verry. C.8. Barton... 4654 C.K. B. Claflin........ 2... 39 
Samuel Brown and J, FF. Hdward Wright.........-.. 38 
LOE G Cte ee eee een Jesse Smith. ..0...........2 i 
Redd. BeLnyi.. 2.2 -0se4+- ses John R, ‘Thayer... 65 
Joseph H, Smith... “ W.. LL. Davis................ ve 
§. Hamilton Cos... Caleb Colvin.... .. ......, 08 
B. Henry Colvin.............. Tae Loe ELS ORC Et tn nena Oe Pes 07 
G, ®. Batchelder:... .......4- Waldo Simpson............ 09 
Fe he bets Tewteas 5 skye eg ve a Patt ti 11 
1.56316 1,003 


Captain Jacobs and his men bore their defeat good-natur- 
edly, and Captain Golbert received the congratulations of 
his friends. The crowd of spectators scattered away and 
a set of tired fellows went to their homes to dream of the 
dinner they were 10 enjoy on the evening of the following 
day. On Thursday evening, the members with the invited 
guests assembled in the parlors of the Bay State House one 
hundred strong’, and about 9 o’clock marched to the large 
dining hall, where Richardson’s orchestra was discoursing 
excellent music. The ha]l was Gnely decorated; the tables 
Jaid with rare taste and decorated with a profusion of beautt- 
ful flowers. It was strictly a fish dinner, Afterthe company 
had done ample justice to the dinner, President White 
opened the ‘‘after dinner exercises” with a neat speech, in- 
troducing H, B. Verry as toastmaster for the evening, who 
called up seyeral gentlemen in response to sentiments. 
Mayor Reed opened the speaking with a witty and supposed 
apropos story. Pleasant remarks were made by~ Messrs. 
Jacobs and Golbert, captains of the teams of fishermen, 
ex-Mayors Hildreth and Stoddard, Gen. A. B. R. Sprague, 
Dr, Merrick Bemis, President E, O, Parker of the City Coun- 
cil, Dr. W. H. Raymenton, Messrs. John Thayer, E. §, 
Knowles and I’. A. Gaskill. H. SPRAGUE KNOWLES. 

Worcester, Mass,, May 24, 1884. 


“SCHROON LAKE. 


ULL of hope, desire, zeal and ambition for a pleasant 
J trip, we boarded the train at the thriving lake town, 
Platisburg, Friday, the objective point being the Trojan city, 
Troy. Simple chance and nothing more caused your corre- 
spondent to become erratic and deviate somewhat from the 
programme so hastily made the day before. Leaving the 
train at Crown Point, we boarded the stage for the business 
part of the town, known locally as Hammond’s Corners. 
This place supports a lively little local paper, and from our 
short acquaintance with its editor, R. W. Billett, we should 
judge he was able to accomplish the duties involving upon 
him in the way of writing up church sgociables, quilting 
bees, and the many other little trifles so necessary for the 
peace of a country village. From him we learned many 
valuable bits of Information, and if he should happen to read 
the issue of your paper containing this, he will please accept 
our sincere thanks. 

It was our intention to take the C. P.1. Railroad to 
Hammondville, and it was also our misfortune, of fortune, 
to miss the train, so engaging a conveyance we determined 
to make the best of the matter and find consolation in 
the fact that the scenery would be more enjoyable from 
a carriage than the railroad coach. By this time Troy was 
nearly forgotten in the one idea of seeing a part of the 
world-renowned Adirondacks, and Schroon Lake seemed the 
ave feasible point from which to resume our journey Troy- 
ward. 

The scenery after leaving Crown Point Center grows each 
mile more grand. ‘To the east the Green Mountains of 
Vermont roll upward as far as the eye can reach, and to the 
north are displayed the outskirts of the Adirondacks, sloping 
downward to Lake Champlain, dotted here’ and there with 
farms, each just beginning to show the thrift of its worker. 

Soon Hammondsyille is reached, and stopping to inquire 
the way to our destination, we view with wonder and sur- 
prise the many striking features of the iron mines which are 
here. The sun gives us warnivg to move on, and reluctantly 
leaving the works of man we euter deeply into the works of 
nature, and soon are where we can view the different features 
of the woods. To fhe far north can be seen towering u 
among the clouds nearly 6,000 feet, and to the: west, gran 

piles of mountains, which convey an idea of grandeur to the 


“a ———— 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


beholder that no others inspire. The very air, the clouds, 
the surroundings, bring forth exclamations from the tourist, 
and leave wonder in the mind that the section should be 
blessed with such a multitude of charms and attractions, 
We have viewed Pike’s Peak in Colorado; with alpenstock 
in hand we have climbed the Alps; we have been astounded 
by the greatness of the Himalayas, but never have we scen 
sO many wonders combined as one can find in the Adiron- 
dacks. We are passing through a wilderness, with moun- 
tains on the one side and deep and awe-inspiring precipices 
and chasms within a step from the wagon track on the other; 
fear, mingled with a fascination, besets the timid, and 
frightened, yet dreading to leave the scene, he views the 
panorama of nature silently, with an emotion too great to ex- 
press by word or pen. 

It is now quite sundown and the sweet music of the forest 
warblers recalls vividly to our mind the stanza: 

“O, nightingale, that on yon gloomy spray 
Warhlest at eve, when all the woods are still, 
Thou with fresh hope the traveler’s heart dosé fill,” 

Nature seems king, but not for long. Soon we emerge 
from the wilderness and enter quite a thickly populated agri- 
cultural district, and we know we are nearing our Mecca, 
Schroon Lake. A littleafter dark we alight from the carriage 
at the hospitable doors of the Windsor House. 

Let us turn from poetry to the practical. Schroon Lake 
is fast becoming a popular watering place, and each year 
brings new faces as well as the old ones, Unlike Saratoga 
Springs, Long Branch, Newport, and other older resorts, it 
retains its primitiyeness. The sound of the locomotive is 
yet unknown, and nature has decreed that the railroad can- 
not penetrate the wilderness. It would be an innovation that 
would not be endured by the people who congregate here 
year after year, and the people here would regard it in much 
the same light. Like Saratoga, nearly every resident “‘takes” 
boarders, and besides the boarding houses there are several 
magnificent hotels that surprise the stranger by their beauty 
and elegance, 

Among the leading hotels can be named the Leland, Wind- 
sor, Ondawa and Lake House. The two first named are 
comparatively new and both are modern and fully up to the 
wants and needs of the seeker after pleasure and rest, The 
Leland accommodates 200, the Windsor 100, and the Ondawa 
75. The Lake House, another popular hotel overlooking the 
lake, is the nearest to the sheet of walter that gave the place 
its name. Of the lake itself little remains to be said. Its 
charms, its beauties and attractions have been told in poetry 
and prose. My next letter will be from further back, and my 
only wish is that you were to be with me. Ep, M. H. 


TIM AND SEVEN PONDS. 


FTE sportsmen in Connecticut were greatly pleased to see 

in your advertising columns of last week notice that the 
resorts named in the caption of this article are soon to be 
opened to their many friends for the season. It is very 
eratifying news to us in this section. The cold season has 
been long. The spring weather has been treacherous, The 
birds came when the almanac said they should come, but 
the snow and ice caused them to retire. They came again 
and began their homes, but the cold storms drove them 
back. And so they have struggled and are now striving 
with wind and wet. And our trials have been as disappoint- 
ing as those of the little gay-plumaged songsters.. Some of 
fhe bravest of us went to the brooks, but trouty had no 
overcoat and was not there. We have been several times 
since, still only a few of the toothsome swimmers could be 
found. A few gentlemen went to a distant part of our State 
and returned with fairly well-filled creels, Our streams are 
well supplied with water, and later we hope for good strings. 
As I have intimated, our tackle has been in good order for a 
long time, and we have been restless to use it, and I repeat 
we were glad to learn our favorite fishing grounds of North- 
ern Maine are soon to be ready for us, We have great ex- 
pectations, for since the nefarious work of poachers has 
been stopped, notwithstanding the large and increasing num- 
ber of visiting sportsmen, the trouting is better in these 
ponds than when they were opened by Smith to the public, 
This fact was very noticeable last year to those of us who 
haye fished these waters for five or six years. The first of 
June, [ think, will be about the right time to reach there, 
for the ice is scarcely out of the ponds and snow out of the 
buckhoard roads. Since the great wind of last autumn 
the roads haye been cleared of fallen trees and put 
in better order than ever before the entire distance 
to Seven Ponds-via Tim Pond. New horses and wagons 
haye been procured to run between Smith’s farmhouse and 
the cabins at the ponds. ‘The cabins are being repaired and 
refurnished. So large a number of customers, old and new, 
have made and are making engagements for cabins and 
board that itisfound necessary for Smith to make much 
ereater preparation than any previous year. The trouting 
of these ponds in the Dead River region is not damaged by 
water-power companies and steamboats, as are the lakes at 
the head of Androscoggin River, described in the ForrEs? 
AND STREAM of recent date; nor are tons of trout sent away 
by express, to spoil on the reute before reaching their desti- 
nation. Consequently; sportsmen find that Tim Pond and 
the Seven Ponds and others in this region maintain their 
high standard of excellence for fishing, while the lakes in 
the region to the west are on the retrograde. A. W. Robin- 
son, of Boston, seeing the greatly increasing demand for 
information about the Dead River region, has in preparation 
a guide book and map of this interestiug section of the 
country. Iam not informed just when it will be given to 
the public. 

I tind a large number of the gentlemen from this State and 
from Boston will go this year via Farmington and Kings- 
field to Kennedy Smith’s farmhouse, Eustis, Maine, from 
thence they and their luggage will be taken to the ponds on 
buckboard wagons. The location of the Franklin & Megan- 
tic Railroad has been approved to Kingfield, and the con- 
tracts for construction made. Cars are expected to be run- 
ning on if this autumn. 

A new feature is tc be added to the attractions of Seven 
Ponds for the enjoyment of Smith’s visitors. He is to cut 
and spot a trail to the top of Snow Mountain for a sort of 
observatory, from which can be seen almost the entire Dead 
River valley to the Kennebec River; and one can see Lake 
Megantic in Canada, also the boats when on the lake, and 
some of the settlement. It isa grand view. Two years ago 
I witnessed a portion uf its magnificence as I ascended to 
the second plateau, about three-fourths of the distance to the 
top of the mountain. It is thought that ruffed grouse have 
wintered well from the amount of drumming from the 


drummers. More anon. J. W. T 
New Briram, Conn., May 22. 


349 


MICHIGAN ANGLING NOTES. 


BEcs bass have been caught in large numbers during 

the past two weeks in the Clinton River, near Mount 
Clemens. Several large catches are also reported as having 
been made at Johnson’s Channel, St. Clair Flats. As it 
is the spawning season, and as the fish are caught off the 
spawning beds, | am sorry that there are not more sports- 
men to rebuke the unthinking anglers who are boasting of 
their success, The fish are now thin and poor, and J regret 
to say that many are caught with trolling line and spoon, 
How any one can find sport In trolling for black bass when 
rod and reel are near by is beyond my conception, 

Perch have been remarkably plentiful this spring in all 
the waters about Detroit. In fact, the great numbers taken 
by anglers have been matters of remark. I have a sneaking 
admiration or love for the gamy-looking perch, They 
surely present an exceptionally animated and beautiful ap- 
pearance as drawn from the water, with fins all erected, 
they gleam and dance in the sunlight. And what a memor- 
able thing it would have been to have landed one of 
these Western one-pound beauties years agone when, a little 
shaver, I used to haul out the ‘pumpkin seeds,” dace and 
shiners down in old New England. Yes, I love the tooth- 
some, hardy perch. I can appreciate them for what might 
have been. Remembering the numerous lickings received 
for playing ‘‘hookey” in those halcyon days to catch a 
dozen or so paltry little fish, I verily believe I would have 
deliberately agreed to be walloped for a week for the sake 
of a big perch such as I caught to-day, 

The season at the various club houses at the “flats” has 
fully opened, and the regular habitués of the flats how make 
their weekly pilgrimages to their fascinating resorts. 

Tt’s not often that a Frenchman, born and bred as it were 
ina boat at St. Clair Flats, loses his life in their waters. 
Several fatal casualties haye occurred during the last few 
years, but the victims have been gentlemen who went there for 
recreation, and indeed who sailed or rowed without a profes- 
sional] punter in their boats. Last week, however, Clowel Tea- 
bedo, for some time cook on Mr. Harry Newberry’s hunting 
yacht Venita, and who was considered more at home in a 
boat than elsewhere, lost his life. He left Herson’s Island 
iz a small boat at 5 P, M. bound for the Canada shore, 
eighteen miles away. Shorily after his start a heavy gale 
commenced to blow, which lasted for twenty-four hours. 
Nothing has been heard from him, and it is not to be doubted 
that he was capsized and drowned. Careful search has been 
made, but nothing found to explain the poor fellow’s fate. 

The lovers of grayling fishing are making ready for June 
1, when the open season on these beautiful fish commences, 
Wading stockings and pants are being overhauled or pur- 
chased, and from appearances a far greater number of 
anglers than usual will take to the streams to enjoy the 
delitious sport. DELTA, 

Detrorr, Mich,, May 24, 1864, 


A Sworp SwWALLOWER CroKED oN Bass.—Complaints 
concerning persons catching black bass out of season have 
been numerous of late, but despite the vigilance of the mem- 
bers of the Passaic County Fish and Game Protective Asso- 
ciation the complaints could not be traced to any good source. 
Some of the members of the association have taken trips into 
the country on various days for the purpose of ascertaining 
whether fish and game were taken out of season. In most 
instances it was found that there was no ground for the 
‘stories circulated; in others it was found that the accounts 
had been grossly exaggerated and that the catching of fish 
was done by boys who occasionally captured a black bass 
while fishing for other fish. The question has frequently 
arisen what is a person to do if he catches a black bass by 
accident. There are various methods of catching fish and 
if @ person adopts such a method as is gencrally recognized 
as the proper method for-catching catfish, suckers or dace; 
and then accidentally captures a black bass he cannot be 
held responsible, for the law does not punish accidents 
unless they can be avoided by the exercise of reasonable 
prudence. But if a black bass is caught, say on a worm, 
it is the duty to return the bass to the water if the fish is not 
so badly injured that he will necessarily die. Should his 
gills be badly cut itis not thought wrong to take the fish 
home, as throwing him back into the water would not tend 
to increase the number of fish there. Last week several 
members of the association were informed that Mr. John J. 
Garrabrant and Signor Carlo Benedetti, the sword swallower, 
had returned from Greenwood Lake with a large mess of 
fine fish, including several black bass. The allegations were 
at once reported to Fish Warden Harry Keenan, who is also 
the warden of the association, and an investigation showed 
that Garrabrant and Benedetti had displayed some of the 
black bass at the depot of the New York, Susquehanna & 
Western Railroad on their return to this city. Quite a 
number of people had seen the fish and the warden consid- 
ered himself justified in making a complaint. Senator 
Griggs, the counsel of the association, accordingly drew up 
a complaint which was sworn to last night before Recorder 
Greaves and warrants were issued. Greenwood Lake lies 
partly in New York State, and over that portion magistrates 
in Passaic county have no jurisdiction, but it is said that in 
the present case ample evidence will be forthcoming to shaw 
that these fish were caught in Passaic county, Should it 
appear otherwise there is every probability that the accused 
will be arrested in New York State as soon as they return 
there, the association intending to protect the waters of 
Greenwood Lake at all hazards, as this is the only sheet of 
water near New York where first-class black bass fishing 
can be had. Mr. John J. Garrabrant runs the Passaic Hotel 
and Signor Carlo Benedetti is the famous sword swallower 
who has given repeated exhibitions in this city of the won- 
derful construction of his swallowing apparatus.— Paterson 
(WV. J.) Press, 


BLUEFISHING IN GREAT SoutH Bay.—A few days ago, on 
the 14th inst., myself and friend paid a visit to the Prospect 
House, Bay Shore, L. I., and after a night’s sojourn started 
at early dawn in the sloop Pelican for a trial of fishing for 
bluefish, none having as yet been caught this season, We 
determined to be first in the field or on the water. Wewere 
soon on the blue wave and began to troll for the swift and 
gamy fish, and before long had our reward in hauling in fish 
after fish, weighing from 7 to9 pounds each, Around us by 
this time many other boats had congregated, and all seemed 
to be busy, and almost every boat had quite a successful day; 
one boat taking 35 magnificent fellows. This being the first 
run of the season, the fishermen are alive and anxious to get 
out. From now until the 20th of June the fish will be in great, 
abundance and afford splendid sport. Bay Shore is-the finest 
situation on this magnificent bay.—YACHTSMAN. . 


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WoopMont Rop anp Gun OCLus.—Mr. §, H. Kauffman, 
the president of the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club (of 
Washington, D. C.), reports that the institution is in a reas- 
onably prosperous condition, financially and otherwise. 
From the annual repori we take the following: ‘Owing to 
the frequent rains of last summer and the consequent high 
and muddy waterin the river, the opportunities for angling 
were, during 1883, fewer than usual, and the season was, on 
the whole, an unfavorable one. Nevertheless there were a 
number of excellent catches reported, both as to the number 
and size of fish taken. Several of the members had also 
good success wita the gun, bringing in deer, turkeys, ducks, 
and much small game. A case of poaching on the estate of 
the @lub by two persons was reported during the winter, 
and instructions were given to cause the prosecution of the 
offenders, if possible, but up to the present time no arrests 
have been reported. In this connection I have much pleas- 
ure in stating that Mr. A, H. Hvans, to whom that service 
was confided at the last annual mecting of the Club, suc- 
ceeded in securing, at the late session of the Legislature of 
Maryland, the passage of a stringent law looking to the 
protection of game, etc., in Washington county, copies of 
which have been extensively circulated in the neighborhood 
of the Club grounds, It may be stated here also that a more 
stringent law against trespass and poaching was passed at 
the same session of the Legislature. From both of these 
measures the Club will be able to derive considerable advan- 
tage in the greater enjoyment of its legal rights. Witha 
view to drawing and keeping game upon the estate, arrange- 
menis have been made for cultivating two or three lots of 
ground at different points during the coming summer. The 
crops to be"put in are corn, beans, and buckwheat, the yield 
whereof will mot be gathered, but left upon the ground as 
food for game of various kinds during autumn and winter, 
Upto this time nothing has been done, so far as can be 
learned, by the authorities charged with that duty, toward 
constructing the promised and much needed fishway at Dam 
No. 6, When this important work shall be done there is 
reason to believe that the sport of angling will be greatly 
improved at all points above the dam, both as to quantity 
and varieties of fish. In that event it will be possible for 
fish from below to pass that formidable obstruction, whereas 
under existing circumstances those which are carried or find 
their way over it during high water haye no chance what- 
ever of returning to their original haunts.” 


Fuiy-Fisnine For ‘‘Hickory SHAp.”—There has been 
considerable excitement among the anglers of Baltimore (re- 
ports the Germantown Telegraph) over 4 novel impulse which 
seems to have seized upon the hickory shad—a fish which 
has hitherto been rated as extremely plebian. He comes into 
the rivers of Maryland above tide water this year as game as 
a salmon, and has been rising to the fly in a dashing: style 
that has fired the Waltonian instincts of all true fishermen 
and carried them out with rod and reel in great numbers. 
The Patapsco, at the Relay House, Stemmer’s Run, Bush 
River and other places where the salt tides do not come, has 
been alive with these hickory shad. It has always been cus- 
fomary with old gudgeon fishermen at this season to carry 
with thein to the banks a cast of flies for a stray rockfish or 
striped bass, and a dip in the water often is rewarded with a 
strike, but hickory shad have never taken the fly before to 
any extent. Mr. John Donaldson, a few days ago, caught 
forty pounds of them. Mr. A. Dresel, on Monday, hauled 
in five splendid fellows, and others have met with similar 
luck. The only difficulty encountered in pursuit of the sport 
is the great number of early gudgeon fishers who line the 
banks, and who quarrel if their lines and corks are inter- 
fered with by an elghty-foot cast and two hackle flies. Those 
who have been catching the hickory shad in the Patapsco 
haye been using small trout flies. On sunny days the gray 
or drab flies are the best, but on a cloudy day the ‘‘green 
hackles,” ‘“‘coachmen,” or “‘proféssors” are about the most. 
attractive on account of their bright colors. Tbe shad rises 
to the fly with a little splash and takes it off with a fourteen- 
horse power run. He is hard to kill because his mouth and 
gills are peculiarly adapted to breathing with the jaws open, 


Bass t’ Harvey's Laks, Pa.—The black bass (small- 
mouthed) have made their appearance near the shore in Har- 
vey’s Lake (this place), and there is promise of good sport 
during the season, as the fish are abundant and vigorous. 
They do not take the fy (but perhaps the right kind has not 
been used), and live bait only can be relied on in casting, 
Harvey’s Lake is said to be the largest body of fresh water 
(I mean Jake, of course) in Pennsylvania. It may be de- 
scribed as J shaped, the two lines forming the figure being 
two miles in length. Its width varies but little from about 
three-quarters of a mile. It is private property, but the 
owners do not deny the privilege of fishing to those who en- 
gage init in areasonable and lawful way and during the 
proper season. It is located in Luzerne county, about thir- 
teen miles northwest of Wilkesbarre, and is reached by stage 
or private conveyance. The place is not much of a resort, 
owing, probably, more to ignorance of the people that it is 
such a delizhiful spot than to anything else, for it is cool 
and salubrious. I wish you to kuow that I am not after an 
advertisement gratis, as L am not a hotel keeper nor have I 
land to sell, but write to tell you of a place where your rea- 
sonable friends who are fond of fishing for black bass may 
have some sport. The Lake House has good accommoda- 
tion for this country, and its proprietor, Col. James W. 
Rhoads, former sherifi of the county, will answer any in- 
quiry as to accommodation, etc., by letter, or by telephone 
from Wilkesbarre.—T. G. 


Buack Bass tn Onro.—Cedarville, Ohio, May 22.—So far 
as I haye been able to learn, there has been no change in our 
game law, though it was reported that a provision had been 
made to protect squirrels from Jan. 1 to June 1. This 
would, I believe, be too sensible a measure to emanate from 
our honorable body of legislators, and, though the proposi- 
tion was before them, I understand it was defeated. eve 
was a Change in the fish law, but not, of course, for the bet- 
ter. How strange it is that the simple proposition to protect 
our black bass from hook and line, as well as every other 
means of capture, during spawning season, cannot be allowed 
to remain On our statute books when once there, nor re- 
enacted after its Idiotic repeal. The provision which allows 
the catching of suckers and mulletsin any way between 
March 20 and April 20, may justify the remark of a friend, 
who when told of it said, ‘‘Whoever enacted such a law as 
that must be asel of suckers themselves.” At any rate I 
regard it asa fraud, under the coyer of which black bass 
may be seined with impunity.—J, G. D. 


TROUTING IN THE ADIRONDACES.—A private letter from 
Gen. R. U. Sherman, of the New York Fish Commission, 
dated Bisby Lake, May 19, vontains the following, which we 
have been permitted to publish: ‘“The season here is sour 
and backward. -The leaf buds are scarcely visible on the 
trees, and the waters are cold and high, We take what trout 
we need for the table by diligent fishing toward nightfall 
only. I doubt whether there has been any really good fish- 
ing yet on any of the lakes in the Wilderness. The runnin 
streams are much too high for brook trout fishing. I hear 
of one good landlocked salmon taken on Woodhull last week 
with a worm bait, The fish taken are dark-colored and 
slimy, indicating that they haye just come from deep water 
and have not cleaned yet, as is their custom, on the sands, 
The great body is yet in deep water, and probably will not 
move until the minnows run to the shores, I saw many 
freshly-hatched caddis flies yesterday. No black flies or 
mosquitoes yet.” 


_ Waar Fise is THis?—A correspondent writes; I have 
just returned from fishing the Macedonia Brook, in Kent, 
Conn. In the stream I found large numbers of fish about 
two to five inches long, something like trout, but with 
sharper noses and forked tails, they are splashed with red, 
not spotted like trout. Are they young land-locked salmon? 
I hear such were put in the stream a year or so back. You 
can judge of their numbers asI put back forty-two in an 
afternoon’s fishing; but understand the folks that way count 
all fair and basket them, The little rascals took a fly furi- 
ously, and jumped time and time again after being hooked, 
[As salmon and landlocked salmon are black spotted, and 
have neither red spots nor splashes, we do not recognize 
what fish these can be. Perhaps these were rainbow trout, 
but the sharp nose and forked tail seems to forbid the sup- 
ea Without specimens we cannot decide on the spe- 
cies. 


_ A Carrrornta SALMON IN THE MoHAwx.—Capt. L. A. 
Beardslee, U. 5. N., has informed Prof. Baird that a Cali- 
fornia salmon was taken in the Mohawk River near Little 
Falls, N. Y., some time about May 16 to 20, We have no 
further information on this subject, nor has Capt. Beardslee 
or Prof. Baird. The former obtained his information from 
a newspaper slip which came into his possession. We would 
like a description of the size of this fish, its capture and by 
whom, and also of the disposition made of it. 


Coast Pisnes.—The bluefish have struck in from New 
Jersey to Cape Cod simultaneously instead of gradually 
going north, in great numbers. Weakfish are becoming 
plenty below New Jersey. Kingfish are in the markets in 
fair numbers. Menhaden are swarming at the eastern end of 
Long Island and along the coasts of Connecticut and 
Massachusetts in numbers exceeding that of any previous 
year within the last fifteen or twenty. All things point to a 
good season for the salt-water anglers, 


TROUTING IN CHENANGO County, N. Y.—New York, 
May 26.—Will one of the many readers of the Forust anp 
SrReAM inform me if there is any trout fishing near Greene, 
Chenango county, N. Y.?—NIAGARA. 


MicHicAN Brrp ARRIVALS.—House wren first observed 
May 12. Ruby-throated humming bird first seen May 18.— 


_K, (Central Lake, Mich.) 


LHishculture. 


THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 


HE President called for Mr. Sweeny’s paper which had 
not arrived, The next paper on the programme was 
then read; it was entitled: 


FRESH AND SALT-W ATER HATCHING AT COLD SPRING HAREOR, 
BY FRED MATHER. 


The new station of the New York Fish Commission, designed 
for hatching both salt and fresh water fishes, is situated on 
the north side of Long Island, thirty-two miles east of New 
York city by railroad. The harbor was formerly a whaling 
station, and many old buildings connected with that industry 
still remain there, unoccupied. The line between the counties 
of Suffolk and Queens runs through the center of the harbor, 
and while the village and post-office is in the former county, 
the hatcheries are in the latter. There are two points of 
especial excellence in the site which will at once commend it, 
and these are the elevation of the springs, one of which is fully 
fifty feet above the hatchery, and the proximity to salt water, 
which at half tide is only two hundred yards away, 

The work at the station was begun on January 1, 1883, by 
the joint operations of the United States and the New York 
Fishery Commissioners, and has been continued by both Com- 
missions since. The grounds were given, rent free, bv Mr. 
John D. Jones and his brothers Townsend, Samuel and Hd- 
ward, and the upper spring by Dr. O. L. Jones, and, in addi- 
tion to this, Mx. Tewnnond Jones has given stone from the 
Connecticut quarries to build a sea wall to hold the tide at all 
times. Two old buildings have been fitted up as hatcheries, 
and the work done in the short space of time will bear close 
inspection and comparison with older establishments. Maps 
of the grounds will be found in the last report of the New 
York Fish Commissioners by those who care to know more 
of the station. , 2 

In the fresh-water department the present capacity of the 
houses has been nearly taxed by the hatching of 500,000 sal- 
mon, 10,000 landlocked salmon, 38,000 rainbow trout, 50,000 
European trout and 1,000,000 whitefish. The fact that the 
European trout were in five different lots, which will be enu- 
merated further on, rendered it necessary to place them in 
separate troughs, even though as small a lot as 2,000, taken 
from one English stream, were Kept separate in a elite 
which could just as well haye accommodated 50,000. The 
whitefish table will hatch 4,000,000 as well as 1,000,000, so that 
at present we can atk that the capacity of the hatcheries is 
800,000 salmon and 4,000,000 whitefish, or 1,000,000 salmon and 
the whitefish. This can be increased, if necessary. 


TROUT, 


Our native brook trout were formerly plenty in the ponds 
on this place, but owing to a lack of protection, they were 
very few when the land was leased to the Fish Commission; 
about fifty fish being the extent of their number. Hggs of the 
rainbow trout have been received from three different places, 
viz.: Direct from the U. 8. hatchery at Baird, Shasta county. 
California; from the U.§. station at Northville, Mich., and 
from the New York station at Caledonia, They have grown 
well, but are a fish that I have never fancied much, and am in 
greater doubts as to their value since reading the last report 
of the New York Fish Commission, which says: 

“A good dealis to be learned yebrespecting temperature and 
other local conditions affecting fish. Till the past year not 
enough had been done in stocking with rainbow trout to war- 
rant a. judgment of their ultimate success in waters on the 


Atlantic side. Their time of spawning occurring at a ditferent 
season from that of the native brook trout, it would not seem 
to be policy to plant them in waters inhabited by that fish. 
The protective seasons would need to be different, and inhabit- 
ing the same waters one kind micht be taken often wheu the 
other was fished for, and thus unintended violations would be ~ 
liable to occur, An obstacle to their ready success in our 
waters presents itself in the circumstance that at the season 
the fry are ready to plant, all other fish are greedily feeding, 
and consequently a considerable share of the fry are liable to 
be nipped in the bud. This, however, may be avoided by pro- 
viding places where the fry can be free from the presence of 
PEPE OUOTY, enemies till they are able to look after their own 
safety. 

“From the circumstance that they have not been readily 
found always, in the second year, where the plants have been 
made, it has been surmised that they are a migratory figh— 
working their way, as soon as they attain any considerable 
growth, down stream toward the ocean. Their disappear- 
ance, howeyer, may be accounted for by the other Ganuse 
stated. Further Fearne) will be necessary to solyeall the 
problems connected with their establishment in Hastern 
waters; but the promise continues to be that they will prove 
themselves a fish of great value in stocking large streams 
whose temperature is too high for brook trout.” 

An editorial note in FOREST AND STREAM of May 1 says of 
the rainbow trout: 

“We would call attention to the paragraph in our notice of 
the report of the New York Fish Commission concerning these 
fish. Itis beginning to be learned that they are migratory, 
and do not remain in brooks, We have never been much in 
favor of this fish, because we have known, what is not popu- 
larly known, that the tish is strongly suspected to bea salmon, 
There is no difference that an ichthyologist can find between 
the Salmo iridea and the salmon known as ‘steelhead,’ 
‘hardhead,’ and ‘salmon trout’ on the Pacific coast, the 
Salmo gairdneri. Although this is the case, and the species 
tridea is a doubtful one, yet it has been thought best not to 
cornmbine them for the present, We have been waiting and . 
watching the habits of this alleged trout with great interest in 
order to learn if its habits might not show it to bein some 
respect different from the steelhead. The evidence of the 
Commission tends to show that it is a migratory fish, and if so 
it may Scape to sea and be lost, as the other California salmon 
was. We believe that Mr. Roosevelt has not seen the rain- 
bows which he planted in streams emptying into Great South 
Bay, Long Island, since they were yearlings,” 

If this fish has to be confined by screens to prevent its mi- 
grating and perhaps entirely disappearing, as the quinnat 
salmon did, then it will be useless in our open brooks. The 
promise of the rainbow trout was that init we hada quick 
growing fish, which was not as sensitive to warm water as 
our own fontinalis, a desideratum which now promises to be 
filled by the brook trout of Europe, Salmo fario. Lwould 
here call the attention of the Association to some specimens 
of this fish, which jumped out of the ponds last October, when 
they were six months old. They are, as you see, full six inches 
long, and are plump, handsome and finely formed. The eggs 
from which they came were sent to me as a personal present 
last year by Herr yon Behr, president of the Deutschen Fischerei 
Verein, one of the most earnest and enthusiastic fishculturists 
in the world. Two varieties were sent, one from the deep 
waters where they grow large, as in our Maine lakes, and the 
other from the swift mountain streams of the Uppes Rhine, 
where they aresmaller. This year he has repeated his gift 
by sending some to the United Stattés Fish Commission, in my 
care, and some to Mr. B. G. Blackford, Commissioner for New 
York. Last year, when the fish were sent to me personally, I 
gave some of them to Mr, F. N. Clark, Superintendent of the 
U. S. Station at Northyille, Mich., and to Mr, M, A. Greene, 
of the New York Station at Caledonia, Both report them as 
doing well. 

This year I repeated these divisions of the German eggs and 
also received ten thousand eggs of the same species from Mr. 
R. B. Marston, editor of the Mishing Gazette, London. Five 
thousand of these were labelled ‘‘our best trout,” 3,000 were 
from the Itchén, and 2,000 from the Wye. Both last year and 
this season the large German trout have hatched well but hayes 
died freely before taking food, while the small variety has 
thrived and been distributed to waters not named in this article. 
The large English trout haye done splendidly and will be kept 
atthe station for breeders, This European brook trout has, as 
you may see, a larger scale than ours, and to my eyeis a more 
beautiful fish than our own trout. It is a fish that from its 
habit in Europe should live in the Hudson from North Creek, 
or above, down to Troy, In Hurope it is found plentiful in the 
South of England, while the charrs, of which our so-called 
trout is one, are only found in the deep cool lakes of the North, 
T believe that we have the necessary conditions on the Atlantic 
coast to successfully acchmatize this fish, and I haye always 
been skeptical about habituating the Salmonidce of the short 
streams of the Pacific coast, with their snow-fed waters in 
mid-summer, to our longer and warmer rivers, and this skept- 
icism has increased since I have suspected the so-called rainbow 
trout to be identical with the steelhead salman, S, ga@irdneri, 
which is a migratory fish. 

WHITEFISH, 

The great surface exposure of the reservoir at this stationis 
favorable to the late hatching of the whitefish. Thetempera- 
ture of the water in the hatchery for the month beginning 
February 23 and ending March 25, varied from 54 degrees to 
48 degrees. the mean being 3814. Shipments of whitefish were 
made this year to Great Pond near Riverhead, Long Island, 
on Feb, 15, and to Lake Ronkonkoma on March 19, Thisis as 
late as the fish are hatched in the cold lakes, and the young 
will find food when planted in March, 


THH SALT WATER WORK. 


The cold weather caused us to suspend out-docr work before 
the completion of the great tidal reservoir, but we were ena- 
bled to hold the water as high as half tide and to begin work. 
The hot air engine worked very well and we hatched the eggs 
of the little tomcod (Microgadtus tomcodus), locally known as 
“frostfish” in the fallof the year, and as tomecd in the spring, 
Isent some of these eggs to Prof. T, J. Ryder, at the Central 
Hatching Station of the United States Fish Commission, and 
he hatched them in artificial sea water. The spawning season 
of this fish isin Noyember and December, and they had fin- 
ished spawning before our engine was in position, but we 
gathered the eggs from the seaweed, to wluch they are at- 
tached in bunches of the size of a hen’s egg, and are easily ob- 
tained by the oystermen when raking for oysters, 

We also obtained several million codfish eggs from the cars 
at Fulton Market, but noneof them were good. They showed 
the shrunken vitellus which gives both them and shad eggs a 
“speckled” appearance, which indicates that there is no possi- 
bility of impregnating such anegg. In every case the parent 
fish had been brought in the wellof a fishing smack, and after 
being dipped out had been thrown into the floating car along- 
side, falling from four to six feet, usually on the abdomen, 
This, in my opinion, is more than the delicate cod egg can 
stand. ' 

The membrane, or shell, covering the egg of the codfish, is 
so delicate that a light touch of the finger, when the egg is on 
any hard substance, will burst it like a soap bubble, while a 
trout’s egg will bear the hardest squeeze that can be given be- 
tween the finger and thumb. It is possible that the eggs will 
haye to be obtained from the fishing grotinds and be taken 
when the fish are first hauled in, although they may possitily 
be found to be good after the smacks arriveand before the fish 
are put in the cars. 

: POSSIBILITIOS OF THE STATION. 


In addition to the salt-water fishes mentioned it is possible 
to hatch many other species. The density of the water varies 


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from 1.018 to 1.022, sea. water Dee lates and distilled water 1. 
The temperature of the water in the hatching jars has, during 
the months of sen eey: February and March, varied from 35 
to 48 degrees Fahr,, the mean being 4297. The water is clear 
and pure, and everything seems to be favorable for doing 
much good work, Spanish mackerel and other valuable fishes 
way be attempted, while in the opinion of Prof, H. J. Rice, 
the situation is most favorable for oyster culture. The har- 
boris partof the celebrated Oyster Bay, and oysters and 
clams are usually abundant and excellent, The past year, 
however, has not been a good one for either of these products, 
but the difficulty, whatever may have been the cause, is prob- 
ably a temporary one. ’ 

Itis to be hoped that the State of New York will adopt 
some such system as Connecticut has and which is now in 
good working and is giving general satisfaction, and in addi- 
tion begin experiments looking to the production of seed 
oysters. At a comparatively small expense these experiments 
can be conducted on the grounds at Cold Spring Harbor, 
where the machinery for pumping salt water is now in posi- 
tion, and where the situation is favorable for making such 
ponds as may be necessary, - 

The experiments of the gentlemen who have devoted their 
tims to the impregnation of the eggs of the oyster have proved 
that they can be fertilized and hatched in laboratories, and 
theré seems to be no obstacle to the work being carried on, in 
a suitable location, on a larger scale, 


THE, MENHADEN QUESTION. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your Westport correspondent quotes the old adage that a 
liar is not belisved when he tells the truth. By that rule he is 
in bad repute, for he makes the following inexact statements 
in his article; 

First—That thousands of barrels of menhaden are salted for 
mackerel bait. , 

Second—That there was unusually bad weather during the 
spring of 1883, ing 

Third—That menhaden are decreasing; for itis a matter of 
record that the greatest scarcity of menhaden ever known was 
about twenty-five years ago. = 

Fourth—That there has been a diminution of five hundred 
purse seines since steam fishing came in yogue, for the reason 
that less than three hundred were in use at that time. 

Fifth—By saying that menhaden are food for mackerel. 

Another illustration in favor of free fishing is furnished by 
the abundance of porgies and sea bass this spring. The large 
porgies have been absent since 1868, and the sea bass even 
longer, but they are back againin quantities equalto any 
other year in the business, 

Providing you or any of your readers wish to know quan- 
tities and prices of said fish, we invite your inspection of our 
accounts with Sam. B. Miller and Dudley Haley, Fulton Fish 
Market, for the month of May, 1884. If you do, you will find 
it even beats the following, which I cut from the Boston 
Herald, bearing date of May 24, 1884; d 

“Fresh fish of all kinds are very plenty, and the market is 
dull, with prices low. Large cod sold yesterday at $1 to $1.50 
per cwt.; market cod, 75c, to $1.50; haddock, 5c. to $1.50, 
with a large supply, There are no hake or cusk here. Choice 
split pollocksold at.50c. per cwt. Fresh mackerel range from 
$2.50 to $4.50. from the vessel. Halibut are plenty and very 
cheap. New shoals sell at 6ic. per tb., and bank at 5c. Shad 
have been selling at 10c. for bucks, and 20c. for roes, Salmon 
are easier, and good eastern can be had at d4e. per lb. There 
1s very little doing in oysters, as the season is over. The trade 
now is confined to restaurants and hotels, Clams are in good 
demand at 50c. per gal, for shucked. Lobsters sell at 8c. for 
boiled and 6c. for live. A down-east schooner yesterday 
brought 6,000 live lobsters.” DanigeL T, CHURCH. 


The Kennel, 


FIXTURES, 
BENCH SHOWS. 


June10, 11,12 and 13.—The Second Annual International Bench 
Show Chicago, I!l. Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Keunel Club. Mr, P. C, 
De Saque, Secretary. 

Oct. 5. 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn. H, §. Davis, Superintendeni, 
Danbury, Conn. ‘ 

Oct, 14.—_Non-sporting Bench Show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Charles Lincoln, 
Superintendent, 


A. K. R: 


4] EES AMURICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 
lished every month, Entries close on the ist. Should be inearly, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in adyance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,’ P.O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1213. Volume I., bound i cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50. 


DACHSHUNDE. 
Hditor Forest and Stream: 

tt has appeared to me that either dachshunde should not be 
admitted into any American bench show, or else that a proper 
classification should be made, the three distinct breeds recog- 
nized, and the judging done by persons familiar with the dog 
in its Own country, not by persons who have received their 
practical education in this line by studying the mixed lot that 
pags as dachshunde in this country. I make these criticisms 
because [ have become astonished at the bewildering maze of 
incongruities that seem to hover around the decisions of the 
judges when the alleged dachshunde are brouzht into the 
ring. Now this is how the matter stands at present with those 
who are the friends of the dachshund: The uncertainty 
whether the terrier, hound or Hanoverian spielhund is con- 
sidered by the erudite judges as the type of dachshund to set 
up asa criterion, Of course, if itis distinctly understood that 
only the hound type is to be considered, or the terrier, or 
whichever of the three the judges decide upon, owners will 
know what to do and what entries to make. 

To give you an example of how this uncertainty makes us 
afraid to enter imported dogs otherwise than those with which 
the judges are familiar with here. In New Haven there were 
only two dachshunde, properly speaking, these were two 
distinct_types. One a Hanoverian spielhund, from the 
Royal Kennels, and a first prize winner in puppy class in 
Berlin, 1883—a type of dog only found in Hanover and yalued 
very. highly by the Germans, The other entry was a good 
specimen of the ordinary tekel, a dog that can be picked up 
for a few dollars an where on the continent. Now this dog, 
Scamp, took first, while the Hanoverian type was not recog- 
nized asa dachshund. This was satisfactory to the owner, he 
supposing that the judges in this country did not recognize 
the dog as belonging to the dachshunde. What was his su 
prise upon afterward hearing that the judge had never seen 
the spielhunde. __ : 

_ Now to come to the point: In New York there was not a 
single full-blooded dachshund. Gretchen, the first prize 
winner, was a beautiful epeeeen of the Hanoverian type, 
but the same type that had been refused at New Haven. 
Now what I want to know is, how are we to tell what the 
judges consider dachshunde? If they would only establish at 


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MR. F. EL. LEWIS’S LEMON AND WHITE ENGLISH SETTER DOG "ROCK." 
Winner of First Prize, Open Class, New York, 1884. 


least two classes, they would see fine exhibits, and be released 
from a sense of Knowing that all lovers of the dachshunde in 
this country only look upon them with pity and uncertainty, 
Supposing now that there had been a good entry in the class 
in New York, it would have been a gross error to have ne- 
glected. Gretchen, yet you would have been obliged to have 
neglected the dachshunde preper or else Gretchen, I heard 
the judge at New Haven tellthe owner of Scamp when he 
pulled up his skin some four inches from his back that it was 
a shame to starve the dog so, Do you think that he thinks 
much of the prize awarded through such a judge of dachs- 
hunde? AUFWIEDERSEHEN, 
HArRtTrForD, Conn. 


NATIONAL BENCH SHOW ASSOCIATION. 


DBiitor Forest and Stream: 

LT inclose you a copy of a circular sent by the Westminster 
Kennel Club to the foremost kennel associations of the country. 

The importance of concert in dog matters should be recog- 
nized by all and it is hoped that the meeting will be fully at- 
tended and may result in the establishment of a national asso- 
ciation of kennel clubs which may take the position in 
America filled abroad by the English Kennel Club. 

ELLIOT SMITH. 


(CIRCULAR. ] 

Gentlemen: - 

You are invited by the Westminster Kennel Club to attend 
a meeting of American kennel clubs, which will be held at 
Delmonico’s, Twenty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, on the 21st 
day of June, 1884, to discuss the propriety of uniting in a 
general association with the object of securing uniform rules 
for the conduct of bench shows, adoption of standards, con- 
sideration of protests within certain limits, and such other 
kindred matters as may be submitted. 

Ropert C. CORNELL, Secretary W. K. C. 
New York, May 24. 


BEAGLES AT NEW YORK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your last issue appears an article on the above by Mr. N. 
Elmore, in which hesays: ‘I presume the Westminster Ken- 
nel Club see the mistake they made by accepting a different 
judgs to make awards in special prizes for beagles,” that he 
don’t believe it was the desire of the Beagle Club to have a 
separate judge, and asks me woo made the nominations for 
judges. Some’ time before the standard was adcpted by our 
club (it being then in the hands of the committee, of which 
Mr. Elmore was one), some of the executive committee of our 
club wrote to me saying that we ought to have a proper judge 
at the New York show; one who understands and knows what 
a beagle ought to be. I replied that I fully agreed with them, 
but we had better vw ait until the standard was adopted by the 
club, so we could ask to have the judging done by it. As soon 
as the club adopted the standard (the time for action being 
limited), I nominated four members of the club, who were 
fully capable for the position of judge—Mr. J. N. Dodge of 
Michigan, Dr. J. W. Downey of Maryland, Mr, F. D. H Met of 
Connecticut, and Mr, j-ouis D. Sloan of Pennsylvania, to 
represent the West, South, East and Middle States; and 
sent out the postal card of which Mr. Elmore speaks, 
I then wrote to the Westminster Kennel Club, ask- 
ing them if they would appoint as judge one of our 
members who would be elected (Mr. Sloan was duly 
elected notwithstanding Mr. Elmore did not vote). They re- 
plied that they had already appointed the judge for beagles, 
but would allow Mr. Sloan to award the special prizes donated 
by the club. I consider I had the authority to make the nomi- 
naticns by Article I. of the by-laws of our club, and also in 
carrying out the objects of the constitution by Article IL, 
which reads; * * * ‘also haying proper judges selected at 
our bench shows.” I was unaware that the Westminster 
Kennel Club had appointed Mr. Mortimer until their reply to 
my letter, Iwas carrying out the object for which we are 
organized. It was no mistake of the Kennel Club to have the 
special prizes awarded by a beagle judge and member of the 
club and by the Beagle Club’s standard. Tie Beagle Club, I 
am sure, did not donate special rizes to be awarded by any 
other seale of points than those adopted by them as the stand- 
ard, Are we to go backward and have the mistakes made, as 
has been done in the past? If so, there was no use of our 
uniting or organizing our club. I refer Mr, Elmore to the 

reface of the standard, which says: ‘‘The necessity for a 
escriptive scale of points for this breedis very apparent * 

* * quality being overlooked orignored. * * * With 
an accepted standard the judge will have a guide to lead him 
through the difficulties of his position.” 

Theartily agree with Mr. Elmore in hoping that all bench 
show managers will haye only one judge, and that one ap- 
pointed from among the many capable members of our club, 
and the judging done by our standard. If it is not it will be 
the fault of the club. did my best to have it done at New 
York and will elsewhere, Mr, Elmore says; ‘Mr. Mortimer’s 
judging was consistent * * * and had the dogs placed right.” 
Task Mr. Elmore if he considers the dog Frank, which won 
first In the open class, a beagle or not. I should like an answer 
to this question, yes or no, forif he says he does I will have 
something more to say, If he don’t consider him such, how 


can Mr. Elmore indorse Mr. Mortimer’s decision and at the 
same time accept the standard of our club (he being one of the 
committee to draft the same). He will have to accept one or 
the other in toto. He cannot do both, as Mr, Mortimer didnot 
judge by the standard, as will be seen by his award inthe case 
of Frank, I cannot think Mr, Elmore wishes to ignore all our 
efforts in haying formed a beagle club andin trying to im- 
prove on the old style of judging, but it looks very much that 
way when he finds fault with a judge who made his awards 
by the standard of our club. I am pleased if Mr. Elmore has 
a better bitch than Deborah, But leave that for the opinion 
of others. W. H. ASHBURNER, 
President American English Beagle Club. 

(Mr. Elmore writes that the followmg sentence in his re- 
marks of last week should have been quoted, being the opinion 
of another writer and not hisown: ‘‘We regret that Mr. Sloan, 
the judge for the Beagle Club’s prize, should haye reversed Mr. 
Mortimer’s decisions, irrespective of the fact that Mr. Mortimer 
had the dogs placed right.”]. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

I shall take Mr. Mason at his word when he saysin his letter 
of May 19, that he will be “pleased indeed,” if any one can 
show errors of judgment in his criticism of pointers at the 
New York show. : 

I do not propose to criticise Mr. Sterling’s awards, I only 
want to have my say about some of the well-known pointers 
exhibited. 

First—As to the champion class of large dogs, Meteor, in my 
.©pinion, was far and away the best of the lot. I had him out 
and carefully handled him before he went into the ring. His 
one important fault is that his head is not handsome. There 
is almost no stop below the eyes and little depth of skull. In 
back, loin, legs and feet he is extremely good—such a dog as 

| ought to make an untiring worker in the field, ergo, such a 
dog as I want to see noticed at a bench show. My ideaisthat 
we don't want a dog for the bench and another for the field, 
but a dog for bench and field. 

Mr. Mason says Knickerbocker is a better type of dog than 
the winner. He may bea better type than the “plain dog,” 
but he surely is not a better pointer, and simply because he is, 
to quote Mr. M., “faulty in back, stifles, tail and neck,” be- 
side these faults he is-cow-hocked, 

Don, to be sure, is a trifle coarse, but he is withal a capital 
pointer, and I would sooner breed to him on account of his ex 
cellent pedigree than to any dog in the class. 

Beaufort is, tomy mind, not nearly as good a pointer as 
Meteor, and for the following reasons: His legs are extremely 
bad, being crookeG both fore and aft, his peste ras are bent in 
so that the dog is actually bowlegged, and his hocks are like- 
wise also bent, I think the criticism applied to Meteor by Mr. 
Mason would much better fit Beaufort. ‘‘He is too long on the 
legs, and if followed behind when on the chain he will be 
found to be ‘stilty.’” Add to this a yery heavy throat, and 
Beaufort is found lackingin points which are absolutely neces- 
sary to make a dog first-class in the field, and he ought not, 
therefore, to be rated first-class on the bench. On the other 
hand, the dog has a very good head, a beautiful coat, a good 
body and a wonderfully fine stern—I had almost said it was 
an unnaturally fine stern. 

As to the statementthat Brayo should have beaten Bang Bang: 
Bravo is better in just one point—he has better hocks. In 
all other points Bang Bang is immensely his superior. Bang 
Bang is the most strikingly handsome pointer dog in America 
to-day. His shoulders are such as no other pointer I ever saw 
is fortunate enough to eC) and if he proves as level-headed 
as I think he will, the . K. C. will have what they haye 
always had in view, viz.: a dog fit to compete and able to 
hold his own in any company, both on the bench and in the 
field. Rost, C. CORNELL, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of May 22 appeared a lengthy criticism of the 
judging of pointers at the New York show from the pen of 
Mr, C. H. Mason. A few days later the manager of my ken- 
nel handed me the followimg note addressed to him by the 
same gentleman: 

DEAR Sir—A. protest—indorsed by fifty exhibitors and breeders of 
nointers—is fo be published against the absurd decisions at the late 
N. Y. show. The protest is already signed by many of the most in- 
fiuential breeders, exhibitors and clubs. : 

May I add yours or those of any of your triends, who do not wish 
to see the grand pointer degenerate? Very faithfully, | j 

Cras, H. Mason. 

No, 49 West Twenty-fourth Street, New York. 

As Mr, Mason knows me to be a member of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, this appears to me questionable taste, and as 
unfair to pire ny employe in so equivocal a position, against 
which I object in his behalf. 

As to Mr. Mason’s criticism, I have had too little time and 
opportunity during this show to know whether he is right or 
wrong in allthe cases he mentions. shall therefore con-. 
fine my countercriticism to the few dogs which I have known 
for years, both on the bench and in the field, simply to show 
that no judgecan see everything, and eyen Mr, Mason can be 
mistaken, 

Let me begin, as the fittest subject, with Fan Fan, my own 


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exhibit, in the heavy pointer bitch class, whose faulty form is 

so evident éven to a novice, that nothing but the knowledge 
of the general worthlessuess of this class im years past, could 
induce me to exhibit heratall. Lrelied on the unusual quality 
in so large a bitch te carry her well to the front, and was not 
mistaken, She was easily beaten for first by the only one in 
the class pretending to any form at all, though asa brood bitch 
I think it much easier work for me to correct Fan Fan'sfaulty 
frame than to infuse good or high quality into the winner. 

To digress for a moment: It isa fact that nearly all large 
pointer bitches exhibited in this country for many years have 
been coarse and short of quality (my definition of quality be- 
ing the greatest strength in the smallest weight, which neces- 
sitates fine bone, fine fiber and fine texture throughout). I 
have a horror, not of size, but of coarseness and lumber. 

Whether this coarseness is due to the use of all sorts of 
native bitches and the fact that mostly dogs are imported of 
the highest class, is of no consideration just here, The truth 
is that the highest quality is found im the smaller bitches and, 
as Mr. Mason states, the best results, at least for the bench, are 
obtained from breeding large dogs to the small bitches. But 
is this any breeding at all? I callit mating. The breeders are 
those who will keep up the Scperats strains of large dogs and 
small bitches, as long as a distinction is made, in order to 
enable the exhibitor to produce the happy medium. I do not 
believe in hybrid nor grades of any kind unless I can perpetu- 
ate them and make them a breed. Hence, I Salat advise 
either to abandon the large pointers as a breed or to improve 
their quality. That the latter is possible is evidenced in Fan 
Fan, who has little else to recommend her. But to return to 
Mr. Mason’s criticism of her; he writes: ‘Fan Fan (Donner’s), 
placed second, has a fair head and tolerably good feet,” My 
judgment is that she has a good head (including lips, eyes, ears 
and skul]), but has intolerably bad feet; in fact, I think a 
rooster has better feet, at least for the purpose of sitting on 
the fence. Mr. Mason continues: ‘Faults, throaty.” I claim 
her skin fine as a mole’s, fits her like a nd glove from the ti 
of her nose to the end of hertail. His next utterance—‘wide 
in front’—I might-have written myself, so well do I agree 
With it; but when he continues—“light in bone”—I again hold 
another opinion. __ : 

The bitch has all the bone she wants. In fact, I never heard 
of dogs breaking bones except b2tween their teeth. I wish 
they were allivory and as light as possible. A really biz bone 
is the surest indication of coarseness, sponginess and gontiness 
in any animal. I am sure Mr. Mason knows this, but uses the 
expression “light bone” to designate the Jeg as a whole, and I 
think we only disagree as to the quantity there should be of 
this, and claiming exceptionally high quality for Fan Fan, I 
disagree with Mr. Mason as to the quantity of leg necessary. 
The highest bred horses have apparently light legs, but the 
actual bone is of ivory density without core. The common 
horse has large bones of a spongy cellular material. The 
former is not only initself the strongest, but especially so 
from the manner in which the tendons are placed at the great- 
est possible distance fromthe bone. These act as the cord of 
anarch and at doublethe distance give nearly double the 
strength to the arch, I therefore like a broad, flat or deep 
leg of fine bone, with the tendons set clean away from it. 

a this respect, I do not only disagree with Mr. Mason in re-. 
sardto Fan Fan, but conclude from his remarks made in 
raise of other dogs, that’ he prefers even an actually round 
fee and coarse bone, as long as there is plenty of it, to a really 
fine leg of ample strength. 

I find that fine legs as a rule accompany fine tails (though 
both may be faulty in shape). A fine tail indicates a fine bone 
in the entire frame, and Lconclude that it is due tothe demand 
for too much bone intheleg which causes so many coarse 
fails and skulls in our large pointers. I can count every bone 
in Fan Fan’s tail. Her skullis fine and her legs arein har- 
mony with her general quality. Mr. Mason’s last remark 
about Fan Fan, ‘too round behind the shoulder,” I indorse 
only in so far.as to say, “entirely too round underneath the 
shoulder,” as I want a dog well sprung in the back ribs assoon 
as they are clear of the shoulders and elbows. After the above 
minute statement in regard to a single dog, I could offer my 
reasons for disagreeing in a number of instances from Mr. 
Mason’s criticism, but for fear of offending owners shall take 
the liberty only in regard to some dogs owned by a personal 
friend. 

These are Mr, Godeffroy’s Drake and Sefton, and Mr. Mason 
writes: ‘Drake, placed second, was not entitled to the 
honor; it really belonged to his kennel companion, Sefton, a 
decidedly better looking dog; he beats Drake everywhere ex- 
cepting in head and neck. Sefton is a little sour in expression 
and light in eye; he is also throaty, but he has good quarters 
and he stands on capital legs and feet.” I do not wish to! 
criticise Drake, except to state that in spite of his show form, 
good or bad, he can and does gallop as long as Sefton can trot 
or even walk, and he prefers to do so. What is the reason? 
T answer—coarseness and lumber in Sefton. In this he is so 
well balanced that at twenty-five yards distance he looks 
almost first-class, But don’t gonear him! You find besides 
the faults enumerated by Mr. Mason, a coarse muzzle andskull, 
thick ears, neck and beefy shoulders, with coarse, open hard 
hair all over to the end of his tail. What does Mr. Mason now 
see in him, except big legs and general symmetry to change 
his opinion about him? We agreed better on this subject 
when he criticised this same dog a year ago, quite as severely 
as 1 doto-day, and asl hope with Mr. Godeifroy’s consent, 
who has long ago ceased to breed trotting dogs for field trial 
winners. Sefton is a well-broken field dog, but can be bought 
reasonably, it : 

Mr. Mason cannot answer me by saying that my ideas ofa 
dog are against the authorities. JI think the difference 
between us lies in the different interpretation of the same 
rules, and here a difference in opinion may well prevail—at 
least I never found anything in the rules to prevent a good 
field dog to be also a handsome dog, but [know of many 
cases where bench winners turn out very poor movers in the 
field. This should not beso under good judging, and I doubt 
whether Mr. Mason is the only judge who will do justice to 
both Stonehenge and the dog. J. O. DONNER. 
New Yoru. 


N. A. K. TRIALS, 1884. 


CANTON, Miss., May 19, 1884, 
To the President of National Field Trials; 

Dear Sir—Knowing that the trials for the last year were 
held at Grand Junction, and knowing also that Canton is a 
superior place for such trials, we are induced to write this 
letter as directed by the members of our club. Canton is 
south of Grand Junction, 187 miles, on the Illinois Central 
Railroad; has 3,000 inhabitants, and has plenty of hotel ac- 
commodations for the visitors. It is 24 miles north of Jack- 
son, at which point the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad 
strikes, Its advantages geographically are excellent, but its 
natural advantages excel by far all other places. This was 
acknowledged by gentlemen who attended the New Orleans 
Guu Club trials here last fall after attending the trials at 
Grand Junction, They spoke in high praise of the open fields 
and number of birds at Canton. Our gun club has stocked 
with birds a body of land containing over three thousand 
acres within a mile and a half of Canton. This land already 
had plenty of birds on it, and before stocking it was no trouble 
to find twenty-five coviesin oneday, We have had the land 

d; no one is allowed to hunt it, not eyen ourselves. 

Now a few words as to its surface: Seven-eighths of these 
3,000 acres is open level land, the rest is cover and not heavy 
cover. By our endeavors the Logislature last fall passed a 
law prohibitin baa kat ee netting of birds in this county, 
so that next fall birds will be still more plenty than hitherto. 
The people of our town are hospitable and will 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


We feel sure that the National trials, if once here, will be al- 
ways held at Canton. The New Orleans;Gun Club trials will 
be held again at this point next winter. To sum up, we guar- 
antee you 3,000 acres of beautiful ground within a mile and a 
half of Canton; more than plenty of birds on it, plenty of 
places to lay your heads, and plenty to eat, and we extend a 
cordial welcome as a club to the National field trials to come 
next winter to our town. We will do our best to so treat them 
that they will always smile a smile of gladness when the word 
Canton is mentioned, We refer you most respectfully to the 
following gentlemen who visited our grounds last winter to 
see the New Orleans Gun Club trials: Messrs. Wallace, Presi- 
dent New Orleans Gun Club; Renaud, Secretary New Orleans 
Gun Club; J. Palmer O'Neil, Pittsburgh, Pa.; H. B. Harrison, 
Ontario, Canada, and the two judges at the trials, Mr. Thomp- 
son, of Louisana, and Capt. Key, of Florence, Alabama. 

ours very respectfully, 


G. R, Kemp, Secretary, LAWRENCE Foot, President. 


CHICAGO DOG SHOW, 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

Beyond the regular pres offered, medals will be given for 
the best kennel of five English setters, best five Irish setters, 
best five Gordon setters, best five pointers, best five Irish water 
spaniels, best five cocker spaniels, best five collies, best fox- 
terriers, best three bulldogs, Medals will also be given for the 
fastest greyhound or deerhound, also for making the highest 
leap, and a medal for the best trick dog, one for the best re- 
trieving dog. A $10 silver cup for the best pug owned and 
entered by alady. A handsome collar for the best black and 
tan toy terrier inthe show, and one for the same kind ex- 
hibited by a lady. 

The entries are coming in yery well, and there is no doubt 
that the show will be a good one. 

The entries close on the 3lst inst., and should besent in at 
once, addressed to me, P. O. Box 569, Should any intending 
exhibitor not have received their entry blanks, by sending the 
breed of dog they desire to exhibit, with the sex, color, age, 
and pedigree, their entries will be accepted, 

: CHas. LINCOLN, Supt. 
fagaratan lists and entry blanks can be obtained at this 
office. ] 


THE ENGLISH FIELD TRIALS. 


W®* CLIP from the London Field a penes of its leading 
' article upon the late English Field Trials, to which we 
append a letter from Rey. J. Cumming Macdona in reply: 

“Within the past two weeks haye been held the two great 
Field Trial Meetings, for pointers and setters of the year, 
neither of which can be said to have passed over under favor- 
able circumstances. The first—that at Shrewsbury—will 
stand alone and unprecedented for the badness of the scent, 
hard, and cold east winds. A hot sun had parched the ground, 
eracking it in places, and as the wind lulled we had not even 
that help to enable the pointer or setter to feel the body scent. 
The second, at Stratford, is remarkable from causes almost 
exactly the reverse. There had been and was plenty of rain 
—and cold rain too—wind, and storm generally, and, although 
under such conditions we have at times seen the best of scent 
both for hounds and dogs, it was not so on the occasion 
of which we are writing. Possibly on the Friday afternoon 
scent was as bad as it had been the previous week, and 
only during two or three hours each day (generally early in 
the morning) did the conditions prove favorable for testing 
the scenting capabilities of the entries, 

These trials have not yet become popular, and, though the 
attendance at the National Trials was fair, perhaps as large as 
it ever was, at the Kennel Club meeting it was moderate in 
the extreme, never exceeding some eighty people, and not 
more than a score and a half were present to witness the 
final trial between Ruler and Malt. The pointers, as a class, 
far out-worked the setters; they did this not only under the 
hot sun and dry ground of Shrewsbury, but were alike pre- 
dominant under the rain and heavy going at Stratford, This 
is rather difficult to account for, especially with the fact star- 
ing us in the face that of late years the setter has enjoyed 
much the greater popularity of the two, and is far more ex- 
tensively bred, especiaily for bench show purposes. At some 
of our later exhibitions the pointer classes have been sadly 
poor, while exactly the reverse was the case with the setters. 

Then, of the latter breed actually competing at the two 
trials, there was but one Irish setter, and not a single speci- 
men of the Gordon or black and tan; while as a rule those 
animals the most shapely, and haying by blood and outward 
appearance the greatest pretensions to success in the prize 

ring, performed the worst of all, and, though they had style 
enough when they found game or backed the point made by 
their opponent, their noses and breaking were far below 
mediocrity. Can this be more than a coincidence? We are 
sadly afraid it is not. Perhaps we may be writing that 
which many people will consider a foul calumny on the present 
handsome race of setters, who, with coats and feather almost 
like floss silk, sweet and expressive countenances, straight legs, 
perfect feet, beantifully-placed shoulders and ears, loin and 
muscle not to be surpassed, are seen taking the cups on the 
show bench. Yet our experience of them has been just as it 
was proved at the recent trials—poor in the field, and not 
nearly equalin work to the common-looking little creature 
who, so tar as show purposes are concerned, would not be 
worth sixpence, Many of our most successful exhibitors of 
setters have their shootings, and, as sportsmen, they shoot 
over their dogs, and are all loud in praise of their excellence 
in the field. Yet the handsome prizes given do not appear 
sufficient inducement for them to run the risk of a Crystal 
Palace or Birmingham winner haying in the field its nose put 
out of joint by a dog not good enough te win ata public-house 
show in the north. Here are facts as they appear before us; 
we are shocked to find them, and they are not altogether 
creditable to those whom the subject most concerns. Of course 
we do not infer that the handsome setters have never won. 
There is one well-known kennel, which was not represented 
either at Shrewsbury or Stratford, that can be as successful 
in field trials as at Curzon Hall; but as a rule the facts are as 
stated by us. Now, so far as pointers are concerned there isa 
great difference, and if we have not actually had the handsom- 
est animals winning, still they have been an advance in this 
respect on the setters, and generally throughout were a great 
improvement on them. There were half a dozen or more 
quite up to first-class show form which ran creditably, and 
somehow the handsomer a pointer was in ordinary appear- 
ance the better style it had on game, and usually had pace to 
boot. We must naturally come to the conclusion that just 
now, shows notwithstanding, our pointers are far better in 
the field than our setters, and nothing but practical proof to 
the contrary will conyince us we are wrong.” 

Following is the letter of Mr. Macdona: 

Sirn—You are so often right, and so generally take a common sense 
view of things, I confess { feel some temerity in joining 1osue with 
you in your interesting article on the late field trials, Youstate they 

“have not yet become popular.” Is this really so? Perhaps they 
may not be in the strict sense of the term “‘popular,”’ because they 
are not, nor ever have been, attended by great numbers of péople; 
but is this a true test of popularity? Consider the conditions. Those 
who attend field trials come, as a rule, from long distances. Whether 
they be owners of dogs competing, or keepers and trainers of dogs 
(I like the American term “trainer” better than ‘‘breaker’’), both alike 
evince a keen and intense interest—sustained over several days, 
which I have never seen excelled at other competitions. A horse 
race or coursing mutch, with all the horrible and hoarse shoutings of 
the betting fraternity, rises quickly to fever heat, and the excitement, 
is over in 4 few moments. Ata field trial, what are supposed to be 
the best trained dogs meet, and in calm and collected manner do their 
level best against each other, racing in gallant form, yet with well- 


welcome cor- | pred and well-trained dogs seldom outpacing their nose. 


e . S , = 
dially all visitors, The rooms ot our club will be open to all.! ‘You state, ‘An unpleasant feature is the continued whistling, some~ 


a L@ 
[May 29, 1884. 


ae Shouting, of the worker,” ete. Now, Sir, if there is one change 
or ok better more than another that field trials have effected, itis, I 
think, universally acknowledged that the deportment and manners of 
Ene keepers and trainers of the dogs has wonderfully improved since 
: ¢ establishment of field trials, I have attended field trials from 
heir establishment, and have seen a vast change for the better, not 
only in the quality of the dogs competing, but m the men that work 
them, If field trials have “not yet become popular,” how is it we 
neyer see 2 field trial fail for want of entries? That the public do not 
flock to them in great numbers may be easily accounted for. Proprie- 
tors of large landed estates, who generously give their ground to be 
worked over, do not care to haye more of the public (especially where 
estates adjoin large towns that harbor many paarers) present than are 
supposed to have a direct interest in the dogs being tried. If field trials 
were to become “popular’'in the same sense that race and coursing 
m¢etings are, the pristine purity of the privilege of attending thém 
would be for ever gone. 
_, Hf there is one charm that I cherish more than anotherin field trials 
it is the select circle of sympathetic spirits, gathered from all parts 
_of thé compass that, meeting in the open, trudge on throngh briar 
and bramble, oyer plough and fallow, through sunshine and storm, 
most earnestly intent upon the moyements of the dogs, the keepers, 
and the judges. It is passing pleasing to meet there such true types 
of Irish sportsmen as Mr. King and Mr. Lipscombe, to meet Germans, 
Frenchmen, Belgians, Austrians, Italians, Dutehmen, aud Americans 
come purposely over to attend them. Who that bas met Prince 
Albert Solms, Von Gusted, Von Alvensleben, and other-keen Conti- 
uental sportsmen at our field trials does not feel proud of the prestige 
of our old English sports in being so attractive in their intiuence? But 
to my mind more than all this intense interest of distinguished 
foreigners and our own country gentlemen in these field trials is the 
keen appreciation of them by the backbone of all our sport, the game 
keepers and dog trainers of our country. Why, bless my soul; it is 
well worth a journey of one hundred miles by railto go to a field trial 
to see one of the ‘‘bishops,”’ when not oceupied with deceased wife's 
sisters or pigeon shooting, ‘put down by the judges” to work against 
Anstey, Armstrong, Brailsford, Bret, Fletcher, Knowlton, Roberts, or 
Thomas. The keen yet silent zest with which they set to work is a 
caution to Convocation. To watch the way in which Bishop Elias, 
the archbishop of all the bishops, worked Ranging Aaron and Rang- 
ing Moses was truly unique if not strictly ecclesiastical; and when 
Ranging Moses turned a summersault in the air, as he pulled himself 
up in a headlong gallop when he spotted his competitor on a point, 
was one of the episodes of the late field trials that well deseryes to be 
handed down to posterity along with the deeds of Garth’s Drake and 
my champion Ranger, Though I have never hesitated in giving my 
opinion pretty ‘freely about the faults of the Kennel Club, yet I am 
bound to do it the justice it deserves of commending its pluck and 
spirit in keeping up its field trialsas it has done. Of course I know 
it is, and, as far as [remember anything of it, it has been, inconsis- 
tentin many things. Mr. Richardson’s case seems decidedly hard 
and a direct violation of its own printed rules, It is still more incon- 
sistent of the Kennel Club to shut out from its Stud Book Birming- 
ham and Darlington shows, and yet admit the field-trial winners at 
the National Field Trial at Shrewsbury, who avowedly repudiate and 
fOr both it and its rules. I agree with you that it isa great pity we 
o not see more Irish setters and Gordon setters at the Field Trials. 
Tf Col. Starkie would compete next time, we would, I think, see a rare 
team of genuine Gordon goers from the far-famed Huntroyd Ken- 
nels. If Lord Lovat, Lord Roslyn, Sir John Clark, and other well- 
known breeders of Gordon setters would only have the pluck to try 
their dogs at field trials, the public would, I think, be delightfully 
astonished to see what the handsome, well-bred Gordon can do. 
Hilbre House, West Kirby, May 13, J. Cumming MAcpowa. 


THH WINNING POINTER PUPPY AT SHREWSBURY, 


Lingo, the winner of the National pointer puppy stake at 
Shrewsbury, is the daughter of the Westminster Kennel Club’s 
Bang Bang. ‘The following description of her from Land and 
Water will be read with interest; : 

“Lingo, the property of Mr. 0. H. Beck, was the actual win- 
ner. Sheis, with the exception of a very slight lemon mark 
ing of the faintest shade on the ears, pure white incolor. Her 
sireis Bang Bang, the winner of this same stake two years 
ago, and she is thus the daughter of a field trial winner, and is 
one of a long line of winners having their foundation in one of 
the grandest pointers of modern days, old Deyon Bang. The 
dara of Lingo is Polly, a bitch that is nearly related to Sir T, 
Leonard's Priam on his dam’s side. Lingo is rather on asmall 
seale, but there is little room to find fault with her in her 
make and shape. She is built on very much the same lines 
as her sire, Bang Bang, her head in particular looking asif cast 
in the same mould. She hasa fair amount of bone, straight 
limbs, good chest and fore quarters, is fairly well ribbed up, 
has wide loins and well-bent stifles. Her pace is good and her 
action is capital, both before and behind, but she seldom ex} 
tended herself, pottering about at times in a most agerayvating 
manner. She carries her head but indifferently, and few 
people who witnessed her earlier heats took her chances of 
winning into consideration, so remote did they seem}; indeed, 
we doubt if her breaker thought much of them himself at 
first. The weather make the trials very ‘‘fluky,” so that any 
dog which did not actually commit the gravest of faults was 
always ‘‘in the race,” In this case the extreme carefulness of 
the bitch stood her in good need, The scent being so poor, a 
free-ranging dog, carrying his head as she did, would have 
been certain to flush frequently, On a fair scenting day, a dog 
even with a moderate nose only, but that carried his head well, 
would give her little chance unless she altered her tactics. We 
do not, however, wish to detract from the merit of her win, 
which on the whole she deserved.” 


CURRENT DOG STORIES. 
EEX, 


There is sorrow in the Fifth street police station. Jack, a 
nondescript, four-footed member of the force, is under the 
care of a surgeon. He paces info the station a few nights 
ago, and mournfully Jay down near the stove. One of his 
forelegs was broken, and he was suffering from internal injur- 
ies, His recovery is doubtful, but his friends think his strong 
constitution and tenacity will pull him through. Jack, like 
Moses and other great characters, has no surname. He was 
born in the Fourth ward, and passed his early years in the 
pursuit of the quiet-orbed, turtuous-horned goat, and the 
contents of eating-house ash barrels. After three years of 
suffering he was adopted by a citizen who passed most of his 
time in an Allen street barroom. The citizen died, and be- 
queathed Jack to the barkeeper. One night a drunken man 
kicked at Jack ashe was coming out ofthe barroom. Jack 
dodged, and the drunken man’s toes stiuck the door jamb 
with painful violence. The man, angry beyond control, ran 
after Jack until a policeman interfered with his hostile inten- 
tions by arresting hi Jack followed the policeman and his 
prisoner to the station, When the policeman returned to his 
post Jack went after him, and refused to be driven away. At 
night Jack returned to the station and was formally adopted 
by the force. Jack has been in the habit of sleeingin the sta- 
tion during the day. He leaps up from behind the stoye when 
the gong sounds for the 6 o’clock relief to assemble. When 
the men are drawn up facing the Zap seca it ack places himself 
solemnly in front of them. At the Captain’s order, “present 
arms,” Jack barks. He then selects a policeman from the 
ranks and follows him out. Heremains with the policeman 
until the roundsman comes along, and he then transfers his 
attention to the roundsman. He has assisted in capturing 
thieves, in driving noisy crowds from corners, and in protect- 
ing property. He was once left at the entrance to a basement 
in which there was a slight fire, while the policeman turned 
inan alarm. Jack refused to let the owner of the basement 
enter until the policeman returned. The bartender who for- 
merly owned Jack captured him, and tied him up in the bar- 
room, When the time came for the midnight relief to go out 
Jack began tohowl. He continued unidiat 3 until morning, 
when the bartender, who had been kept awake all night, gave 
him to the driver of a brewery wagon. The driver fied Jack 
in the wagon and drove to the brewery. A roundsman from 
the Fifth street station happened in the brewery and saw 
Jack tied toa post. Jack emitted a wild bark of recognition 
and delight, leaped up on his hind legs, broke the rope that 
bound him and ran to the roundsman. Since his injury Jack 


‘has made several efforts to go out with the midnight relief, — 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


353 


ut he has suffered so much that he could crawl only a. little 
distance, Ashe sees the last man disappear through the door- 
way he sets up a mournful howling.—N, Y. Sun, : 


XEXL 


Domestic animals are turned to curious account in some 
s ofthe world. For instance in Spain a small dog is often 
used by housekeepers for turning the spits before the fire; and 
it is nob at all to be wondered ati that he doesn’t take kindly 
ta such employment. Tosay nothing about the heat of the 
swork, it must be a terrible temptation to the poor animal to 
keep from touching the meat and fowls, which he would 
much souner eat up ina raw state than assist in roasting for 
the consumption of others. A gentleman who traveled once 
in Spain tells the following amusing story, in which he gives 
the little turnspit dog credit for a wonderful amount of sharp- 
ness, One evening I reached a solitary little inn. Close to 
the stove lay a dog warming itselfin comfort. “What can 
you give for dinner?” Jasked the landlady. ‘‘Some eggs,” 
was the reply, and the dog looked fixedly atme. ‘‘Eggs,” re- 
peated L ‘That's poor sustenance for a man that has come 
thirty miles on horseback. Have you nothing better?” 
“There’s a bit of bacon.” suggested the landlady; and the dog 
looked at me more intently than ever, ‘I’m not passionately 
fond of bacon,” replied I; ‘twhat else haye you?” ‘Santa 
Anna,” cried the landlady, “I can give you a chicken!” At 
these words the dog jumped up and sprang through the half 
open window. ‘Good gracious!” said 1; why the word ‘chicken’ 
was like a bombshellto him?’ ‘‘Ah,” smiled the hostess, ‘‘it’s 
because he turns the spit.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean. 


DEERHOUND CHALLENGE CUP.—E£ditor Forest and 
Stream: A New York gentleman has expressed his intention of 
giving a challenge cup, to cost $250, at the shows next autumn 
and the spring of 1885 for the best kennel of deerhounds, sub- 
ject to the followi 


owing conditions; This cup to be competed for 
only at shows where at Jeast ten deerhounds (dogs and bitches) 
are entered in the open class; a caataion (winner of three 
first prizes at shows where a first prize has heretofore quali- 
fied the entry of the same dog in the champion class at the 
Westminster Kennel Club’s shows), not to be eligible as an 
entry making one of the ten requisite in the open class, but 
elizible to conirele as one of a kennel; three entries, either all 
dogs or all bitches or dogs and bitches, to constitute a kennel; 
cup to be the property of the kennel or individual winning 
it three times. The cup will be on exhibition at those shows 
meee the foregoing conditions are in force.—CLOVERNOOK 
NNEL. 


SIMON CAMERON'S DOG,—Last December a fine New- 
foundland dog, which had been presented to Simon Cameron 
by a friend, was stolen in Harrisburg. It has just been ascer- 
tained that the thief sold him in York, Pa., for 35, stole him 
again, and sold himasecond time. The Harrisburg Chief of 
Police has gone to recover the dog. 


OnE Miniion of Men haye held the accident policies of the Travel- 
ers; of Hartford, Conn., and one in nine have received cash benefits 
on them.—Adv. 


KENNEL NOTES, 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge, ‘To iusure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3. Sex. 7, Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 


5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9, Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10, Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer's name. 
NAMES CLAIMED. 


E> See instructions at head of this colunn. 

Don. Glencho, Madge Glencho, Sultana and Lady Fire Fly. By 
Mr. James T. Walker, Troy, N. Y., for red Irish setters, one dog and 
three bitches, whelped April 10, 1834, by champion Glencho out of 
Claire (A K-.R, 233). 

Monarch 8. By Mr. J. K. Smith. Waterbury, Ct., for orange and 
white English setter dog, whelped Oct. 29, 18&3, by champion Fore- 
man out of Tallman’s Jennie (Lathrop’s Dick—Harrington's Gyp). 

Forenan I, By Mr. N, Wallace, Waterbury, Ct., for blue belton 
Enuelish setter dog, whelped Oct. 29, 18838, by champion Foreman out 
of Tallman‘s Jeune (Lathrop’s Dick—Harrington’s Gyp). 

Portland. By Mr. W. bradford Smith, Orange, N,J., for liver and 
white ticked pointer dog, whelped Feb. 22, 1584, by Lord Sefton (Crox- 
teth—Vinnie) out of Clio (Sensation— ). 

Laura B, By Mr. W. H. Pierce, Peekskill, N. Y., for red Irish setter 
biteh, whelped April 2, 1884, by champion Glencho out of Hill’s Daisy 
(Ghief—Tilley). = : 


=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Blonde I1—Prince B Mr, John Bolus’s (Wooster, 0.) English set- 
ter he Blonde II. (Britton—Blonde) to Prince B. (Pontiac Il—Buck- 
eye Belle). 

Breeze—Blue Dick. Mr. John Bolus’s (Wooster. O.) imported Eng- 
lish setter bitch Breeze (Lord Downe’s Duke—Belle) to Bue Dick 
(Blue Dash—Jolly May). 

Oey, B.—Blue Dick. Mr. John Bolus’s (Wooster, O.) English setter 
pin BA 5. (Pontiac 11,—Buckeye Belle) to Blue Dick (Blue Dash— 

olly May). 

Spinaway—Maxim, Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) imported 
pointer bitch Spinaway (Garnet—Keswick) to Maxim (Garn et—Jilt). _ 

Helen—Boz. Messrs. R. & W. Rutherfurd’s (New York) buil-bitch 
Helen to their Boz (A.K-R. 441), M:y 9. 

Murvel—Meteor. Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St. Louis, Mo.) pointes bitch 
Marvel (Croxteth—Trinket) to his champion Meteor. 

—Meteor, Mr. J, W. Harries’s imported pointer bitch 
to Mr. J. W. Munson’s champion Meteor. 

—Bang. Mr. J. H. Richards’s pointer bitch to Mr. J, 
W. Munson’s imported Bang (Bang—Luna). 

Rita Croxteth—Meteor, Mr. George 8. Tucker’s (Peterborough, N, 
H.) pomter bitch Rita Croxteth (A,K.R. 168) to Mr. J. W. Munson’s 
champion Meteor. ; 

Kate—Bang. Mr, T. W, Sterling’s pointer bitch Kate (Croxteth— 
Trinket) to Mr. J. W. Munson’s imported Bang (Bang—T.una), 

Dent—Meteor. Mr.J.W. Blythe’s poiuter bitch Dent (Faust—Lassie) 
to Mr, J. W, Munson’s champion Meteor. 

Deil—Meteor. Mr. George A. Castleman's pointer bitch Dell (Crox- 
teth—Trinket) to Mr. J. W_ Munson’s champion Meteor, 

Winnie—Bruce. The Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) 
imported collie bitch Winnie to their Bruce (Marcus—Isle), March 25, 

Pearl—Snap. Mr. B. W. Jester’s (St. George’s, Del.) Italian grey- 
hound bitch Pearl (A.K.R. 758) to Snap (Rome I1.—Naughty), May 20. 

Ruth—Bobolink. Mr. B. W. Jester’s (St. Georges) Del,) Euglish 
setter bitch Ruth (A.K.R_ 827) to his Bobolink (A.K.R, 1167), May 23. 

Leesburg—Bang. Myr. T. B. Legare’s pointer bitch Leesburg to Mr. 
J, W, Muison’s imported Bang (Banz—Luna). 

Flash [il—Meteor. Mr. J. W. Munson’s (St, Louis, Mo.) imported 
pointer bitci Flash If. (Bang—Pride) to his champion Meteor, 

AE eae Mr, J. W. Munson's (St, Louis, Mo.) imported 
pointer bitch Vanity (Bane—Pride) to his champion Meteor. 

Dey, Avvo elton. Mr. John Bojus’s (Wooster, O.) English 
Beer eign Dixey (Belton—Dimple) to American Belton (Relion— 

onde), : 7 

Buckeye Belle—Chip. Mr. John Bolus’s (Wooster, O,) English set- 
ie bien Buckeye Belle (Belton—Belmore) to Chip (Belton—Bur- 

esque). _ 

Cherry Blogsom—Don, Mr. John A. Doolittle’s (New Haven, Ct.) 
cocker spaniel bitch Cherry Blossum (A.K.R. 729) to his Don (Dart— 
Floss), May 25, 

Flora—Black Prince. Mr, H. Reiche, Jr.'s (New York) cocker 
spaniel bilch Flora (Flake—Lady) to Mr, A, C. Wilmerding’s Black 


’ Prince (A.E.R. 62), May 10. 
Mr. L. Shuster, Jr.'s English setter bitch 


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Coomassie—Gladstone. 
be (A.K.R, 949) to Mr. P, H. Bryson’s Gladstone (Dan—Petrel), 
ny th. : 
Jona—Bruce, The Kilmarnock Collie Kennel's (Boston, Mass.) im- 
ported collie bitch Iona to their Bruce itareue tae Feb 2 : ) 
Trish 
1 


Wellic—Glencho. Mr. F, Lynch’s (Newburgh, N. ¥.) re 
setter bitch Nellie ta Mr. W. H Pierce's ae Gsnet, Koril 
sctier bitch Peids to Mr, WH Pisron's chao Glee Renta 
tch: a . W. H. Pierce's champion Glencho, Ap ~ 
Mag—G encho. Mr. Richard Bennett’s (Lowell, Mass.) op 


. 


setter bitch Mag (Berkley—Tilley) to Mr, W. H. Pierce’s champion 
Glencho, April 21, 

Netia—Glencho. My, J, B. Graham's (Wilmington. Del.) red Trish 
setter bitch Netta (Spy—Reeta), to Mr, W. H, Pierce’s champion 
Glencho, May il. _ 

Biddy—Glencho. Mr. Wm, Dunphy's (Peekskill, N, ¥.) red Irish 
setter biteh Biddy (Elch6 I1I,—Mag) to Mr. W. H. Pierce's champion 
Glencho, May 3. 

Lulu 12,—Glencho. Mr. J. J.8canlan's (all River. Mass,) red Trish 
setter bitch Lulu II, (Berkley—Lulu) to Mr. W- H. Pierce’s champion 
Glencho, May 7. 

Vic—Glencho, Mr, C, H. Dayton’s (Peekskill, N. Y.) red Irish setter 
Rion ie (Elcho—Lady Helen) to Mr. W. H. Pierce’s champion Glencbho, 

ay 5, 

Nora—Glencho. Mr. A, A, Sampson’s (Troy, N. Y.) red Irish setter 
bitch Nora, (Eleho—Fire Fly) toMr, W. H. Pierce’s champion Glencho, 


May 11, 

Yeats Gleneies Mr. W. H, Cox’s (Newport, Ky.) red Irish setter 
bitch Lizzie (Rory O’More—Queen Bess) to Mr. W. H. Pierce's cham- 
pion Glencho, May 17, 

Fun O’'Mason—Glencho. Mr. J. M. Dyckman’s (Peekskill, N, Y.) 
red Trish setter bitch Wan O’Mason (Larry—Gussie Il,) to Mr. W, H, 
Pierce’s champion Glencho, May 19, 


WHELPS, 


ES" See instructions at head of this column, 

Jona, The Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) imported 
coe bitch Iona, April 28, eight (two dogs), by their Bruce (Marcus— 

sle). 

Donna. Dr, C. A. Packard’s (Bath, Me.) English setter bitch Donna. 
(A.K.R, 499), May 10, seven (two dogs), by Mr. A, M, Tucker's Dash 
III. ; one dog since dead. 

Kate. Mr. T. W. Sterling's pomter bitch Kate (Croxteth—tTrinket), 
seven, by Mr. J. W. Munson’s imported Bang (Bang—Luna), 

Dent. Mr. J. W. Blythe’s pointer bitch Dent (Faust—Lassie), six, 
by Mr. J. W. Munson’s champion Meteor. 

Dell. Mr. Geo. A. Castleman's pointer bitch Dell (Croxteth— 
Trinket), nine, by Mr. J. W. Munson’s champion Meteor, 


SALES. 


i" See instructions at head of this column. 

Grace. Liver and white ticked pointer bitch, whelped Feb. 22, 1880 
(Don—Dot), by Mr. F. W. Chapman, Darlington, Wis,, to Mr. F, H, 
Dwyer, New York, 

Brewster, Blue belton English setter dog, whelped Dec, 24, 1883 
(Blue Dick—Bramble), by Mr. John Bolus, Killbuck Kennel, Wooster, 
O., to Mr. A. Saybelt, Ji.. same place. 

Bruce. Black and white HEzglish setter dog, whelped May 15, 1883 
(Blue Dick—Buckeye Belle), by Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., to Mr. 
Thos. Gregory, Provencal, La. 

Ashmont Nina. Red Irish setter bitch, whelped March 17, 1884 
(Nimrod, A.K.R. 631—Romaine, 4,K.R. 688), by the Ashmont Kennel, 
Boston, Mass., to Mr. 8, J. Lobdell, Kast Paw Paw, Ill. 

Feszan. Mastiff dog, whelped Jan. 26, 1884 (Diayolo, A.K.R, 543— 
Madge, A.K R. 548), hy the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass,, to Miss 
A. M. Libby, Ghelsea. Mass. 

Glencho—Claire whelp. Red Trish setter biteh, whelped April 10, 
1884, by non James T, Walker, Troy, N, Y., to Mr, John Wilson, Balti- 
more, Md. 

Dash TiT.—Donna whelps. English setters, whelped Oct. 12, 1883, 
by Dr. G.A. Packard, Bath, Me.,a white and black dog to Mr. A. M, 
Tucker, Charlestown, Mass.: a white and black dog to Mr, Thomas M. 
Steele, Dover, N, H.; a blue belton dog and a white and black biteh 
to Mr. J. W. Kittridge, Ayer, Mass., and a blue belton bitch to Mr, 
John A. Graham, Chester, 8. C. , 

Portland. Liver and white ticked pointer dog, whelped Feb. 22, 
1884 (Lord Sefton—Clio), by Mr, J. B. Brown, Montclair, N. J,, to Mt. 
W. Bradford Smith, Orange, N. J. 

Pink. Black and white English setter dog, whelped May 15, 1883 
(Blue Dick—Buckeye Belle), by Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., to Mr, 
Thos. A, Addison, Chelsea, Mass. 

Duke. Blue belton English setter dog, whelped Oct. 20, 1882 (Pon- 
tiac Il.—Buckeye Belle), by Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., to Mr. D. L. 
Slade, Boston, Mass. 

Cassandra T. White and black English setter bitch ees 943), 
by Mr, L. Shuster, Jr,, Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr. W. Tallmam, Pavw- 
tucket, R. 1 

Olarinda T. White and black English setter bitch (A.K.R. 945), by 
ea L. Shuster, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr. W. Tallman, Pawtucket, 


Ie 

Pluck. Trish terrier dog (A.K.R. 197), by Mr. Lawrence Timpson, 
Red flook, N. Y.. to Mr. W, A, Coon, same place. 

Foam—Ruby 1. whelps. Chesapeake Bay dog and bitch, whelped 
Jan. 15, 1884, by Mr, G. G. Hammond, New London, Ct., to Mr, M. EH, 
Sears, Lafayette, Ind. 

Primer—Jersey Gyp whelp. English setter, color, age and sex not 
Riven, yar W. E. Rea, Hackettstown, N, J., to Mr. Jas. Houtaling, 

urley, N. Y. 

Don. Red Trish setter dog. whelped April 10, 1884 (champion 
Glencho—Claire, A.K.R. 238), by Mr. Jas. T. Walker, Troy, N. Y., to 
Mr, Waldo K. Chase, same place. 

Sultana, Red Irish setter bitch, whelped April 10. 1884 (champion 
Glencho—Claire, AK.R. 283), by Mr. Jas. T. Walker, Troy, N, ¥., to 
Mr, Erastus Corning, Jr., Albany, N. Y 

PRESENTATIONS. 

[=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Foam—Ruby I. whelps. Chesapeake Bay dogs, whelped Jan. 15, 
18k4, by Mr. G. G. Hammond, New London, Ct., one to Mr. R. S. Floyd, 
San Francisco, Cal,; one to Mr. James Flood, Jr.. San Francisco, Cal., 
and one to Lieut.-Goy. Chas. EH. Laughton, Carson, Ney. 


Rifle and Crap Shoating. 


FIXTURES. 


May 26 to 31.—First International Clay-Pigeon Tournament, at 
Chicago, Ill. Managers, Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Oo.,, P. O. Box 1292, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

June 2 io 9.--Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen’s Associa- 
Mists reheat Ky. J, O, Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third avenue, 

ouisville, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


PHILADELPHIA.—The Passyunk Rifle Co. and Cosmopolitan 
Rifle Ciub, two Philadelphia organizations, contested ina match at 
the Stockton Rifle Range, Camden, on the 21st, Conditions were. any 
open-sight rifle over 3 pounds pull, 200yds,, off-hand. The ! assyunk 
team shot with Remington .32, rim-fire and Union long cartridge. 
The other club u-ed heavier rifles and stronger ammunition, both of 
various manufactures. The following is the result: 


Passyunk Rifle Co. Cosmopolitan Rifle “lub. 
Capt J D Vautier ..4444545444— 42 Geo W Coulston ...5545425425— 43 
J B Hofiner........ 4444454454— 42 W Chambers.... .. 444dddddsd 47 
H S Hoffner.... ... 4444543344— 39 P Woods.... ...... 3434434544— 38 
J D Hoffner........ 5524343443— 87 C Greenfield ....... 4444343444— 38 
W Kirshner......-. 3534433434— 36 LL Dubois...... sae 3424344434— 35 
PUR ayes see yee 4334444334— 36 Dr Shimyell....... 3444402434— 32 
JT Dunlap........- 4442445343 385 Capt C H Jones....2408444442— 31 
J Hinchman ....... 4343353483— 385 F Jesser............ 0545242342— 31 
W M Hoffner....... 3432845482— 34 J Dixon....... .... 3234444222— 30 
D Shetzline......... 0443434434— 43 GC Bowers........... 6340420042— 24 


Several of the contestants had never shot over the 200yd. range 


before. 


NEW JERSEY.—To-morrow afternoon, May 30, there will be an 
opportunity at the Shooting Park,in South Orange avenue, to see a 
competitive trial between eight or ten of the best riflemen in the 
country. Such shots as Jomer and Brown, of the American team of 
1888, Oehl, Will Hayes, Zettler and Dorrler, besides two or three 
others who are equally well known, have arranged to fire each one 
hundred times at the ring target, 200yds., to determine which is the 
best marksman, There will be no prizes, but a natural pride in his 
reputation will move each man to do his best work, No admission 
fee will be charged. The spectators will find that the new gallery 
will afford them a standing place where they can look down the 
contest, seeing both the men and the target. The match will begin 
about 1 o’clock and last about three hours. 

The festival of the Newark Shooting Society, on June 9, 10, 11, and 
12, promises to be the biggest ever held. Prizes amounting to $2,000 
are oifered, and well-known shots from many Hastern cities and even. 
from points beyond the Mississippi, will compete. 


A DISPUTED TURN.—Bostor, Mass., May 22, 1884.—Hditor Forest 
and Stream: There isa dispute about the ruling of a certain presi- 
dent of a rifle club here, which you will please answer through the 
mediym of the Forest AND STREAM. The facts in the case are these: 
A silver medal Is being shot for every Thursday night for six months. 
A re-entry is allowed, making two scores per man. The bighesiscore 
of the evening wins the medal, Ee the winner wears the medal until 
the following Thursday night, when the medal is again contested for, 


and so continued until the six months have expired, A certain mem- 
ber leads off and the other shooters follow, according to the order of 
their names, which have been entered in a book by the secretary of 
the club. Tne president of the club calls upon the first shooter tolead 
again as all members have shot once around. The member objects 
to lead again, wishing to hang back until the last, as he expresses it, 
to see what is scored, The president ordered him to shoot in histurn 
or forfeit his re-entry fee, He was not willing to shoot m bis turn, 
and demanded hisre-entry fee back again. The president rules that 
he eannot have his money back, and that he must shoot when his 
name is called. Please give decision, and oblige—RubpOoLPH SCHAEFER. 
[lt was the duty of the marksman to shoot his score when called to 
the firing point. To yield to the demand of the shooter in this case 
Nit pa a tae a precedent which might bring the match to a short end- 
ing.— Lp. 

BOSTON. May 24.—There was a large attendance of riflemen on 
the range at Walnut Hillto-day. The day proved a bad one for close 
shooting, wind blowing most of the time down the range, J. Francis 
who, by the way, has another and a real naine, an old member of 
the association, 1ow a non-resident, was present, and as usual, was 
shooting with an odd firearm, a .20-caliber rifle. With this little gun 
he made several brilliant scores, aud iv the team shoot secured fourth 
position. The interesting event of the day was a telegraphic match 
between teams representing the Massachusetts Association and the 
Springfield Armory Club. As will be seen by the records appended, 
“ye men of Walnut Hill’ were victorious by 4& score of 316 against 
their opponents’ score of 314. The records in all the matches are 
appended; 


Creedmoor Prize Match. Creedmoor Practice Mateh. 


WOharles,B .. ...5555545555-49 O M Jewell..........5555454545—47 
H G Bixby, B ...,..5555455555—49 KR Reed eee eee. 300055544447 
> ¥ Richardson, BG. 654445555547 J Francis............ §445544055—46 
A @ Adams, HB 56445455547 A L Brackett........ 554454545546 
G@ Cushing, B........ 454554545546 C BEdwards........ 4545455545—46 
J 1’ Bates, B....... .4445505445—45 A B Oarr....-..2.... 4445544 545—44 
CB Edwards, B.....9445544554—45 J BDarmoddy...... 3458454454 —41 
J © Cobb, B....... .5454545454—45 W H Morton........ 443544444440 
J B Thomas, B,...,. 554554544445 L A Harkins........ 54143344334—37 
W H Oler, E....; -...445455453—44 PL Haton........... 244345334234 
ABCarr, B..,,,....40f4444544—48 
Decimal Mateh. 

W Charles, By......-....... ISSA RAS 910 9 9-9 5 810 7 

SE eNO WSs Ata ees eee 668 9 810 769 9% 
AOAC INS, “RIS Ue bate ssh jens sale 5 8 7 6 6 9 81010 9-78 
Wr OST AS ee pe pees aa wo AL olay 599 9 8 810 5 7 B%8 
IHEGUSHING, EAL Fao kee pay hae ake ivi wEs i 8 9 9 8 6 610 6 4 568 
PPB CUntisy Oh eh vtiee eae pet eae a 6947 5 9 7 5 @ 867 

Rest Match 
W Gardner, H.....-.... oa ne 101010 810 9 810 9 10-94 
HaGushinp ees. doves ape ee -.. %1010 710101010 9 10-938 
JOR EHUGISECA. Oban ees kelp viene see 9 7 9 710 9 81010 9—88 
W 4H Oler, A........ dus ton eae 8 9 8 910 8 & 9 8 F—S81 
PAS OULORS coe ea Eee en pA 1010 8 9 5 & 6 9 ¥ 10—80 
Team match. 


Massachusetts Rifle Association, 


EB F Richardson..... 455555545548 BWR Bull. g,-. ci.) spencer cdrteces 49 
H Seavernms.,......- 544454555546 RJ Hare..............2......--- 46 
JB Fellows,......-. 555445455446 1 B Wilson . 46 
SP PANIGIB, aoe gees eos 444544554445 § § Bumisted ...............-.... 46 
W Charles.....,... 6645445544—45 J A Kimball..,,........../..-.5. 44 
OM Jewell. ....... 444454455448 LH Mayott..................-.. 43 
HG Bixby....,. :.. 455444454443 PW Bull... lll, 40 

316 314 


THOMASTON, CONN.—The shooting tournament of the Empire 
Rifie Club, at the opening of their new range here on the 21st and 
22d. was the biggest kind of a success. The weather was perfect, and 
a large delegation of visiting riflemen were present and expressed 
themselves as highly pleased with the range, saying that it was one 
of the best in location and appointments in New Wngland. Some of 
the most notable shots present were G. W, Elisworth, of the Gardner 
(Mass.) Club; W. Charles, of the Walnut Hill Club, Boston; G. H. 
Hubbard, D. E. Marsh and W. H. Beardsley, of Bridgeport, Conn, ; Q. 
B, Hull, of Collinsville, and H. Andrus. of Hartford. The conditions 
of the shoot were: Distance, 200yds.; off-hand; Massachusetts ring 
target: rifles limited to 3lbs, trigger-pull; strings of 5 shots each, pos- 
sible 60, three highest to count for prize, making a possible 180; re- 
entries unlimited. The following are the prize-winners, the three 
highest tieing with a score of 170: 

G. W. Ellsworth. 


HaGSE: SCOVEs sees eA nee e & Seeks mie usee es ll 12 12 12 11—d58 
Second score...............-.--- hve stee Cet 11 10 12°11 12—56 
DHIFGESCOLG: Pekhiaes Gnewetlsare womeioe Calas 10 12 11 11 12—56—i70 
Prize, $40, 

W. Charles. 
HPSUBCOLOLM beet el Sch eEELL eb Lene. cate 12 10 12 ii 12-57 
Second Bove esses seemless ii..210 1% 12: 12 J1—5F 
THIS COL CeIn asleiis tele ot oe Dheag bane nie oe 2 10 11 11 12—56—170 
Prize, $20. 

©. B. Hull. 
TAPS HS COLO. Bey ime gel eee cll: eine feed ately 11 12 12 10 12—57 
SGcondescorce. sere ele. deer’ doe pon names 12.12 9 12 12—57 
WWikhdthite open ep ly ae ee le eT 12 10 ii 12 11—56—-170 
Prize, $15. 


G. H. Hubbard 168, W. H. Beardsley 1638, D. EK, Marsh 162, E. Noth- 
nagle 161, H. Andrus 161, W. H. Dunbar 158. B, Higley 158, G. A. Lem- 
mon 154, D. 8, Seymour 154, J. Gregory 1538, W. W. Tucker 152. B. H. 
Sutliff 152, D. B. Wilson 159, 8. J. Lyon 149, C. F. Williams 146, G. W. 
Canfield 146, B, W. Pease 143, Capt. O*Brien 138, M. O’Connell 137, W. 
H. Tuttle 135, OC. L. Alling 134, G. P. North 184, A. R. Lacy 133, P. Sim- 
mons 132, D, C, Calhoun 130, P, M. Beers 129, R. 8. Goodwin 129, E, W, 
Bennett 125, P . 

G, W. Ellsworth also took a special prize of $10 for the largest num 
ber of buliseyes, 102. Over $100 were given in cash prizes.—F. A. P. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on oue side of the paper only, 


THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH. 
[Special to Forest and Stream.) 


Cuicaao, Ill., May 28, 9:18 A. M. 


WING to windy weather the International championship match 
Was postponed to ten o’clock this day. In the Chicago sweep- 
stakes, 6 single birds, l5yds rise, entrance $7\jthere were 56 entries. 
Still, Perry, Sheldon. Williams, Jenkins and Taylor divided first 
money. Drake and Calhoun second. Rowers, Sampson, Taber, Wil- 
son and Kleineman tuird. Second sweepstakes, 74 entries, 18yds. 
rise, $5 each, 7 birds. J. A. Prechtel, Cleveland won first money, 
scoring 7 straight birds. Perry and Mills second. Gartright and 
Riley third. The third sweepstake was a miss and out, $3 each, 18yds. 
rise, 20 entries. Gartright and Jenkins tied and divided the stake, 
The championship match is the exciting topic to-day. Visiting sports- 
men from all sections are here iu large numbers, J. E. B. 
THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM MATCH. : 


1:45 P. M.—The Championship Team match began at 10 o'clock this 
morning. The scores sofarare as follows: Blue Island Gun Club 
(Illinois) 22; Jacksonville (Ill.) Gun Club, 24; Chicago Gun Club, 26; 
Diana Gun Club (Chicago), #4; Bradford (Pa,), No. 1, 22; Bradford 
(Pa.), No, 2,29. Hight other teams are to follow. S&est individual 
score of ten straight was made by C. H. McKenett of Bradford, Pa. 


WALNUT HILL, May 24.—Some days since I mailed you a card 
giving dates on which occur the regular shoots of the Massachusetts 
Rifle Association, which you kindly published, thus making hnown to 
the lovers of the rifle and shotgun in other sections of the country 
who may have occasion to visit this vicinity, and possibly may be 
pleased to spend a few hours at Walnut Hill, the days they can (lo so 
With the certainty of witnessing a shoot, and should they so desire 
enjoy the privilege of participating in the same, Our range, and 
mutches generally, are open to all, and we are pleased to have all 
who enjoy the sports we indulge in come and participate, 

Wednesday last was shotgun day at the range, and the day and 
occasion proved most enjoyable, asa more perfect day is rarely had 
for out-door sports. Inclosed T hand you report of the day’s doings: 

First event, 6 clay birds, 12 entries—IFrancis first, Tobin second, 
Evans third, Snow and Newton divided fourth. 

Second event, 4 glass balls, 9entries—DeRochmont and Hartdivided 
first, Tobm second, Francis third, , 

Third event, 5 clay-birds, 12 entries—Stanton and Francis diyided 
Best nes and DeRochmont divided second, Nichols third, Tobin 

ourth, 

Fourth event, 3 pair clay-birds 12 entries—Hart first, Evans and 
Suow divided second, Stanton third, Nichols fourth. i 

‘Fifth event, 6 clay-dirds, 18 entries—DeRochmont and Stanton 
divided first, Evans and Francis divided second, Thompson, Eddy 
and Cutting divided third, Papanti and Souther divided fourth. 

Sixth event, 5 glass balls, 12 entries—Francis and Tobin divided first, 
DeRochmont and Evans divided second, Newton aud Shattuck divided 
third, Short pou of! 

Seventh event, 6 pair clay-birds, 13 entries—DekKochmont, Eyans and 


Stanton divided first, Snow and Short divided second, Eddy third, 
Souther and Tobin divided fourth. 

Eighth event, 5 clay-birds, 22 entries—Shattuck first, Evans and Gore 
divided second, Francis third, Nichols fourth, 

Ninth event, 5 glass balls, 9 entries—Evans and Decker divided first, 
Nichols second, Francis third. 

Tenth event. 5 glass balls, 13 entries—Francis and Snow divided first, 
Evans and Warner divided second, Decker and Nichols divided third, 
Crosby fourth. 

Eleventh event, 5 clay birds, straightaway, 19 entries—Francis and 
Evans divided first, Hart and Tobin divided second, Crosby third, 
Cutting and Warren divided fourth. 

Twelfth event, 5 glass balls, 10 entries—Decker first, Tobin and 
teed divided second, Newton third, Warren and Short divided 

ourth. 

Thirteenth event, 3 pair clay birds, 16 entries—Decker and Francis 
divided first, Stanton second, Hart third, DeRochmont fourth. 

Fourteenth event, 7 clay birds, 20 entries—Hvans and Stanton divided 
first, DeRochmont, Thompson and Parker divided second, Souther 
third, Warren and Cutting divided fourth. 

Fifteenth event. 5 glass balls, 13 entries—Crosby and Francis divided 
first. Tobin, Newton and DeRochmont divided second, McCoy and 
Eddvr divided third, Warren fourth. 

Sixteenth event, 8 pairs clay birds, 9 entries—Decker and Francis 
divided first, Nichols and Gore divided second, Snow third. 

Seventeenth event, 5 glass balls, 10 entries—Francis and McCoy 
a first, Nichols and Eddy divided second, Decker third, Warren 

ourth. 

Eighteenth event, 5 clay birds, 2lyds. rise, use of both barrels, 20 
entries—DeRochmont, Marston and Francis divided first, Stanton and 
Gore divided second, Nichols and Crosby divided third, Short fourth. 


NIAGARA,—The fifth of the monthly shoots for the medal which 
is to decide the championship of Niagara county, took place on Sat- 
urday last, on the old shooting grounds between Niagara Falls and 
Suspension Bridge. The following is the score: 


BEG MOGE yee ke.) ool. Sad deth okt sce tem 1101111111111011 11111111123 
TUNES Ess 015 gas eee eae per Sega pare 1111111101011411111111011—22 
RS PSRICG a Ee ee Sct seas cokaaey 1111111011011011111111111—22 
(2), WEN RES 5 ay5a5ShS 39) SS SE Ss ab Spa 1101110111111111111111110—22 
41S SEL OUPE UE (252 5 Rue Dy seers oe eRe oR ee mk 1110111111111111111110010—21 
MRS MACECO Me Et et, «is woe ee atla debe 1011111011100110011111111—19 
MAROC Re SAD ROM eres Pre toea Giese wes sweats one § 0011011111011111110111011—18 
PING MAOWALG: foe Ln ae ews ch estos tow sleok 1111111110110010011111011—18 
RASH OGU Ya: Nate ct ce tse ove temic niieee alee 1012110110000111111110001—16 
Mie TN GOUb Nx ot say eke Let teeaa ces sie - -1000010100011111110910110—13 
BURNER VAG. SA acs Sarg nes napete Siew one Bots -1110000000011100000010111—10 


Ties of 22 for ‘second: Smith 4, Rice 4, Moyer 4, Smith 5, Rice 5, 
Moyer retired. Smith and Rice divided second, Jennings took third, 
Pierce fourth. 

UNKNOWN GUN CLUB.—Brooklyn, N. Y.; regular monthly match, 
May 22; three prizes, one barrel, gun below the elbow: 


Knebel, 25yds........... 1111111—? A. Harned, 28yds....... 1110111—6 
Rathjen, 25yds.......... 11111117 Doyle, 2lyds ........... 1111100—5 
Moller, 28yds-............ 1111111—7 Midmer, 28yds.......... 1110101—5 
Tomford, 25yds.........- 1101111—6 Muller, 24yds............ 0011011—4 
Pope, 24yds...........-5- 11011116 Plate, 24yds..... ....... 0001111—4 
Van Staden, 23yds...... 1111110—6 Stillwell, 2yds.......... 0001111—4. 
Layton, 2lyds..... =e oe 1111110—6 W Harned, 28yds....... 0111110—5 


WILL NOT BREAK WITH ONE SHOT.—Poughkeepsie, May 2.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: Some time ago [noticed an advertise- 
ment in FoREST AND STREAM of the Target Ball & Pigeon Co. of Stock- 
port, N. Y., saying that their target balls were far superior to glass 

alis, were no injury to the finest lawns, and were sure to break if 
struck by a single pellet of No. 8 shot, and much more to the same 
effect. We tried the balls several times, and it was very seldom that 
a ball would break if struck by no more than one or two No. 8 shot. 
In fact we were constantly picking up balls with one, twoor three 
holes in them. We hung one up ona stick at 40yds. and shot at it, 
and it took three charges to break it, each time putting one shot 
through. Werepeated this several times and found that it was al- 
most impossible to break these balls with one pellet. A good compo- 
sition bal] would be a great thing, as almost all farmers and owners 
have objections to broken glass on their land.—A.C.G._ [Theremedy 
is to load or hold the gun better. The only ball that will suit every- 
body will be one that can stand all kinds of rough handling, but will 
break automatically when a gun is pointed at it.] 

WELLINGTON, Mass., May 24.—The summer heat to-day tended to 
augment the number of shooters at the grounds of the Malden Club 
at Wellington, and a goodly array of events were participated in, 


as follows: 
- Gold Badge Contest. 

STUNTS eo ee ae a pre Oe oe nS AED RE es ee 10110111111111101101—16 
MST ERIN St, ie ee = Lota fo Sins eign i che Bee Slareiclte 10111111011111111000—15 
AAAS 2p. see aet ont Nk Saab See 2 pe ole we 11101110010011111111—15 
ERG) OVE ECG SSH ae Soe PR Aire oP 11110111111111100000—14 
Brown ..... oe Er ae ards Saket le intend Asse talented 01110101111101011011—14 
INSET OU yee ee he fais tL cared satcsatglnletolive susin ctu wicliiplg etnies 11001011100011111111—14 
SOC 5 ie Se Dies er Oy ee es geen Se La HeoaT 11011111100101101101—14 
SET CLC ae a RS See a a RT ie I A ~.--11110010110110101101—13 
NETS Sy ee aes neee L a eri ee ee 01101101011011111000—12 


Winners—First badge, Field; second, Saunders; third, Scott. 


SYRACUSE. May 25.—A large crowd assembled at Lake Side Park, 
Friday, My 23, to see the clay-pigeon match between Geo. C. Luther, 
of this city, and John E. Graham, of Canastota, N. Y.; 100 clay- 
pigeons each, 18yds. rise, trap set in 4th notch, use of one barrel: 

Laatloer—1111111101117411011111111111111111111110111111111111111111101 
119111111111111111110111111111111011111—_95. 

Graham-—110111111101010101111001 111111911101111111111001111111111101 
1117110111100111111111111111011111111111_84.—_1. I. C. 


_ BELLEVILLE, Ont., May 21.—The first contest for the possession 
of the champion badge of the Sportsman’s Club, which is to be won 
three times before it becomes the property of any one. took place to- 
day on therifle ranges. Six competitors came to the front, and when 
the contest opened a number of spectators were present. The condi- 
tions were: Card tran rotating, 18yds., 15 glass balls each. Whilethe 
score was being recorded it was plain to be seen that the contest for 
the trophy lay between Prof. Bell. hisson R. S. Belland John N. 
Pringle. Mr. R. 58. Bell, first vice-president of the club, led the score 
and captured the prize. Prof. Bell, for a gentleman of his years (78) 
did remarkably well. Appended is the score of the leaders: 

IRIS) B7eLL Lee oor pt ae 110111111101011—12 
TERE B58) Lge im Ba gc a ee 011030111111011—11 
J N Pringle 011111111110000 —10 

Messrs. S. R. Balkwell, W. Mills and C. Wallace followed in the 
order named. The second competition will take place on Friday, 


June 13. 
Aachting. 


FIXTURES. 


Secretaries of yacht clubs will please send early notice of pro- 
posed matches and meetings. 


May 30.—Knickerbocker Y. C., Spring Matches. 

May 30.—Atlantic Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 30.—Newark Y. C., Spring Match. 

May 30.—South Boston Y. C., Spring Match. 

May 380.—City Pomt Mosquito Fleet, 13 and 15ft. boats. 

May 30.—New Haven Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

May 31.—Boston Y.C., First Match,Connor and Commodore's cups. 

June ¥—Portland Y.C., Challenge Cup. 

June 9.—Savannah Y. C., Opening Cruise. 

June 10.—Atlantice Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 11.—Hudson River Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 12.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 12. Jersey City Y. C.. Spring Matches. 

June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Matches. 

June 16.—East River Y. C., Annual Matches. 

Juve 16.—Newark Y. C., Open Match. 

June 17.\Dorchester Y.C. Race at Nahant. Open to clubs of the 
New England Y.R. A. Three races for small craft, 
Fallrace for club boats. 

June 19.—New Jersey Y. C., Annual Match, 

June 21.—Hull ¥. C.. Pennant Match. 

June 23.—Newark Y. C , Open Matches. 

June 24.—New Haven Y. C., Spring Match. 

June 26.—Salem Bay Y. C., First Championship, 

June 28.—Boston Y. C.. Ladies’ Day. 

June 30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 

June 30,—Eclipse Y.C., Spring Match. 

June 30.—Quincy Y. C., Second Match. ai 

July 4.—Larehmont Y, C., Annual Open Matches. 

July 4.—Hull Y. C., Review and Cruise, five days. 

July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 

July 12.—Bostoa Y. C., Second Club Match, 

July 12.—Hull Y. C., First Club Match. ay 

duly 19.—Hull Y. C., Ladies’ Day. ee 

July 26.--Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship,; 

July 26.—Salem Bay Y. C., Second Championshiv. ray 

July 30.—Oswego -Y. C., Open Matches, 

July 30.—Quiney ¥.C., Third Match. . x ee eee 


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SAN FRANCISCO Y, €.—While the Nellis was out on the waysshe 
had iron keels puton alongside the wooden ones between the fore 
and main chains on both sides. Some new planks were also put on. 
Some inside ballast was removed and a little more lead added to the 
keel. The plans and a model of the yacht to be built for James V. 
Coleman have been received. The model shows a hull of graceful 
lines, predominantly suggesting speed. The yacht will have some 


THE MERLIN. 


¥F the many new boats of the cutter type now building in New 
O York and the Wast, none is better worthy of notice than the 
cruiser now building in South Brooklyn from the designs of an ama- 
teur, who has devoted some study to this class of boat. 
The main objects of her designer were safety and accommodation, 


speed being but of secondary importance; but we shall be disap- | novel features, such as an unusual “drag” aft, or greater draft abaft 
pointed if she does not make almost as good a showingin the latter | midships; a considerably raking stern post and largely atta cig 
respect as in the former two. The boat has the wave form through- | stern, The deck will present the appearance of being flush, the sma: 


out, the calculations being based on the theories of Mr. Colin Archer. 
The radius of the construction circle (ft. 6in.) was so selected, how- 
ever, a8 to make the center of gravity of the curve of areas nearly 
coincident with the centers of buoyancy, ete. 

The frame is of white .oak, keel sided and moulded 8in., stem and 
stern sided din , frames all of steamed oak, 244>3 at heels, tapering to 
2146 at heads, and spaced iZin center to center. The bilge clamps 


house cnly extending over the after staterooms, and rising no higher 
than the skylights over the saloon and gangway from the’ saloon for- 
ward. A sectional view shows that there will bea Stateroom on 
either side of the companionway and two on either side of the gang- 
way between the saloon and galley, making sixinall. The saloon 
will be 15ft., measuring fore and aft by the full beam of the acht. 
The pantry and galley will be forward of the gangzway and will bear- 


and wales are of yellow pine, the plank lin. thick, of white cedar, | rangea with an eye to more cruising than the bay affords. The 
and the ceiling of white pine. The planksheer is of white oak bent | qimensions of the yacht will be 79ft. 10tgin., length of deck 65ft. on 
on cold, and the deck of narrow white pine, laid with the side line. | waterline, 16ft. 5in. beam, 10ft. draft, and least freeboard 3ft, Her 


timbers will be all natural crooks of white oak, and her floor timbers 
rights and lefts. There will be 11 tons of lead on the keel, and a total 
ballast of 35 tons, all of lead. The furnishing has not been all de- 
cided upon, nor the interior decorations, but both will be elegant and 
luxurious, while preserying the strength and substantial qualities 
demanded in all the appointments of a sailing craft intended for use 
more than show. Mr. Esleman says he has about decided to have his 
eraft built in the East, as all the details of the plans were made with 
reference to the building materials in use there, and under such cir- 
eumstances yachtsmen consider it inadvisable to proceed with con- 
struction with materials not considered in the plans. 


THE LAST OF A FEDERAL CRUISER,—A recent London dispatch 
announced the abandonment at sea of the bark Elliot Ritchie, Capt. 
Perkins, from Brunswick, Ga., to Buenos Ayres. The crew were 
landed at Pernambuco, This vessel was the last of a once celebrated 
Federal cruiser—the Harriet Lane. She was named after President 
Buchanan’s niece, that estimable and popular lady who did tne honors 
of the White House so gracefully during Mr. Buchanan’s term of 
office. During the war the Harriet Lane made things lively for block- 
ade runners along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. She was a very fast 
yessel under steam or sail, She was once captured off Galveston, 
Tex., over which there was great rejoicing among the rebels, and was 
carried to Hayana as a prize vessel by Admiral Semmes, Her engines 
were taken out and she was converted into a sailing vessel, bark- 


The fastenings are all of copper, riveted over burrs. 

On deck forward is a hatch opening into the forecastle, over the 
cabin is a companion and skylight in one, and aft a cockpit 5ft. long. 
Immediately under the cockpit is a drawer for ice, below which is a 
water tank intherun. On descending the companion ladder there is 
a closet to starboard, just aft of which, and partly below the cockpit, 
is a sail locker; while on the port side there is an extra berth running 
back beside the cockpit. -A narrow door at the head of this berth, in 
connection with the similar door of the closet opposite, serves to shut 
off this portion of the bout from the main cabin. s 

The cabin proper has two lockers, the seats of which are arranged 
to fold out, making large berths for sleeping. On the starboard side 
forward is a washstand and mirror, the former provided with a hinged 
top, making a small tuble of it if required, and opposite, on the port 
side, is a.space bulkheaded off for aw. c. 

A door abreast the mast gives access to the forecastle, where a place 
is provided for a stove and a berthfor one man, The chain locker is 
just forward of the mast, thus lessening the weight in the bows. 

T. e workmanship throughout is of the first class, and in every way 
she is a credit to her builder, Mr. Daniel C. Bernard, who may well be 
proud of her. Her sails, the drawings of which we will publish next 
week, are being made by Wilson & Griffin, of South street, and in 
quality will be in no way inferior to the rest of the work. 

The following are here principal dimensions: 


ABE DEL WCU oe oo a9 ase Lede ed ode aa rigged, and was one of the fastest sailing vessels afloat. She was an 
peneeh Sa BU ee eee ewes en este eeese ene oes wide 4m. SIA Heiter along the coast, latterly pelon eee to Savannah, and was 
Draft i eter AREER EERE ERR EE WERE DOE gc Marit o> 3 5tt, loaded with lumber for Buenos Ayres when she was abandoned at 
Height of freeboard.........0.. cccceesseueeee 1ft, 1in pea. Fi Herat. : 
Midship section aft center of length L.W.L...  1ft. 9in SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y, C.—The fleet will rendezvous off 
Area Joad water plane..... ..... .....-.-.--- , 59.79 sq. ft the club house, Edgewater, Staten Island, on Friday morning, May 
Center of gravity dittoforward section,..,.... .138ft. 30, upon the arrival of the 10 o'clock boat from New York, for the 
Area midship section.................... Wnty aed eb, annual Decoration Day practice sail, On signal, yachts will pass in 
Center of buoyancy forward section........ . 144 ft, review between the flagship and the club house, saluting the commo- 
Center of buoyancy below L.W.L............. 1,463 ft, dore’s flag by dipping colors. Signals will be as follows; Prepara- 
Center lateral resistance aft center of length tory signal, gun and V of code; starting signal, ten minutes later, for 
Ry ee ae se Bree anak MARR ere ge is Ft, paehis to cross the line as above, gun and M of code. The fleet will 
Center effort of lower sails aft center of length hen proceed upon one of the fo lowing courses, to be announced 
= A Cae ee Se et eR Dane ae 1ft. 6in from the flagship before the starting signal is made; To and around 
Displacement in long tons..................... TA Buoy 844 on the Southwest, Spit, thence to and around the Gedney 
BAAR InBiG we Coe eee, bay eur. 0 nek ce Ooh 216 tons Channel Whistling Buoy, thence home; or, to ana around Buoy 84 
Be eet OUeLRiG es Leer cutteee Le cau Vow, oan tue oe : $ tons. on the Southwest Spit, thence to and around the Scotland Lightship, 
Mast, from foreside stem..... ........... 006 10ft. thence home, leaving Buoy 84 on the starboard hand. 
Mast, deck to hounds.....-\..-.1....+..50--0+ 238. NEW LIGHTHOUSE IN THE HUDSON RIVER.—Notice is given 
Topmast, fid to sheave...-..........-..2.+.-+: » 19ft. Gin, by the Lighthouse Board that on and after May 24, 1884, a fixed white 
BOOM, ..,-..-+2---cnc ese ereeeseeeneres . 26ft. light will be exhibited from the structure recently erected at Lam- 
Gait... 0... ..22----- 17ft. pneres Dock (Narrow Channel), Hudson River, New York. The light 
Bowsprit, outboard. 18ft. should be seen in clear weather from the deck of a vessel twelve feet 
Area, lower sail ...... 730 sq. ft. aboye the water ten nautical miles. The structure is a hexagonal 
Masthead ... ...--.-ss.eeeeeee ere erstveesreees BEE frame portable beacon eleyen feet high, on a brick foundation, one 
Angle of gaff with horizontal ,...... ....,.., 51 deg. foot above the ground. 


LENGTH AND SAIL AREA RULE ABROAD.—The Royal Alfred 
Y. OC, will sail their six Channel and Corinthian matches this year 
under the ‘Length and Sail Area Rule,” the six Champion Cup 
matches being sailed under present Y. R. A. rule; a practical test of 
the new rule that, if is to be hoped, will lead to its permanent adop- 
tion. The Royal London Y. C. will also sail some of their races under 
it. 


FOOD AT SEA-CHEESE VS. SALT JUNK. 


AS one who is able to find a substitute for salt junk is a bene- 
-& factor to our seamen, and it would appear that such a benefactor 
has arisen in the person of Mr. W. Mattien Williams, F.C.S., who has 
lately been delivering the ‘Cantor’ lectures for the year at the 
Society of Arts to crowded audiences. The substituteischeese. Not 
cheese eaten as it is purchased, but cheese to which has been restored 
the proper amount of the salts of potaxs necessary to convert it into 
nutritious and digestible food. It is well known that the chief reason 
why salt meat is unwholesome and not nutritious is that the salts of 
potass have been drivin out of itin the pickling, It is now kmown 
that one reason why cheese is indigestible is because the salts of 
potass originally in milk are absent fro o cheese. 

As regards the relative nutriment in meat and cheese the Professor 
telis us that— 

“Taking the composition of a whole skinned and prepared sheep or 
ox as it hangs in a butcher's shop, the amount of nutiiment in it is 
about equal to one-third of its weight of cheese. The fat is about the 
same in both, but the difference is aue to the bones and excess of 
water. Thus twenty pounds of cheese contain as much nutritious 
material as a sheep of sixty pounds weight and would have the same 
yalite as practical nutriment of it could he as easily digested. ‘Cheese 
is the most portable of all food, even more so than wheat, on account 
of the ter value in a given bulk.’’ 

Mr. Williams goes on to tell us that the common English or Ameri- 
can cheese is the best for the purposes of food. Here. then, we have 
in our midst the most valuable food to be obtained, and it is not used’ 
simply for the reason that 0 «ing to absence of salts of potass it is in- 
digestible. Make it digestible by restoring the potass, and we have 
food for our toiling millions On shore, and for those at sea a food 
which will go far to not eb pees the consumer, but to make him 
proof against scurvy as well _ 

Here is the recipe, and we would advise our readers who are master 
marivers to copy it into their private logs, and those who are lands- 
men to haye a copy made for use in the kitchen. Cheese prepared as 
below is not only good and sufficient of itself for a mea! with potatoes, 
rice, etc., but forms a most useful, digestible, and appetizing adjunct 
to the menu of even a ‘‘swell’’ ainner, - 

a Out the cheese into shreds, or grate it, or chop it up fine, like 
suet. 

2. To every pound of cheese thus treated add quarter of an ounce of 
bi-carbonate of potass. [Thisas nearly as possible puts back into the 
cheese the amount of potass that was taken out of it in separating 
(oy rennet) the curds in the original milk.] 

. Put the mixture cf cheese and bi-carbonate of potass intoa 
saucepan with either three times its bulk of cold water or four times 
its bulk of cold milk and mix well. 

4. Put the saucepan on the fire and bring the mixture slowly to the 
boiling point, takiug care to stir it all the time. 

5, Having got it to boil, keep it hot until the cheese is melted which 
does not take long. 

6, Turn it out into a dish, and the result gives a beautiful nutritious 
mixture which thickens like a custard in cooling, This custard may 
be eaten with impunity even by those persons who would be iil afer 
eating a piece of cheese the size of a nut, and is peculiarly adapted 
as food for all persons who work hard with either brain or muscle. 

Fancy dishes may be made by the ship’s cook in the following 
manner for the captain’s and passengers’ tables, e. g., take the mix- 
ture of cheese and bi-carbonate and water (or milk) given above, and 
add to it two eggs, white and yolk beaten up together, for every 
quarter of a pound of cheese in the mixture. Put into a dish ora 
semes of disnes (previously buttered) and bake tillbrown. This must 
be eaten with bread or biscuit. Another way is to make the mixture 
4 little thinner by adding a little more milk or water, and to put itin 
@ pie dish with slices of bread laid one over the other. The custard 
should be poured in cold and left for an hour to soak before it is 
baked. This dish is a great improyement on the ordinary bread and 
butter pudding.—"Sea Cook” in Nautical Magazine, 


Canoeing. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forresw anp 
Srrramu their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc , of 
their clubs, and also notices in adyance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and al] interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Foresr anp Srream their addresses, with 
logs of ernises, raps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the sport. 


FIXTURES. 


May 30.—Pitisburgh C. C., First Annual Regatta, 

May 30 to 31.—Hudson River Meet, Newburgh. 

May 30 to 31.—Connecticut River Meet. 

June 14 to 16.—Merrimack River Meet. 

June 19.—Rochester C. C., Summer Regatta, Irondequoit Bay. 
July 9 to 15.—Chicago C. C., Annual Cruise, 

July 14.—Allegheny C. C., Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 

July 19 —Chicago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 

July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island. 

Aug, 1to12.—A, C. A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


DESERONTO C. C, 


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ESERONTO C. C., Deseronto, Canada. Captain, F. S. Rathbun; 

Mate, Geo. Olinton, M.D.; Purser, E French, Organized 

March 17, 1884. Thirteen members, Burgee, red diamond, two blue 
triangles, letter D in white. 


CANOEING IN THE EASTERN STATES. 


OR some unknown reason canoeing has been of much slower 

growth in the Eastern States than in the Middle Statesand Canada, 
there having been, previous to 1884, but few clubsin Massachusetts and 
Connecticut, though the number of individual canoeists has increased 
steadily. Of late, however, & number of new clubs have formed, and 
the coming meet on the Merrim.ek River will doubtless add largely to 
the ranks of canoeists. The following from the Lowell Courier shows 
the growing popularity of the sport: 

“Rowing is at & low ebb in the Tespes club, although the plan of 
holding the annual regatta so early in the season may tend to awaken 
& new interest. Thus far only two or three members are known to 
be taking regular practice, but seyeral others are out occasionally, 
and the number will inerease as the weather grows warmer. The 
new Lowell Rowing’ Association seems to be haying up bill work, and 
the new boat house is still a thing of the future. There is some difii- 
culty about getting asuitable lot of land, and the recent benefit ball 
netted but 4 comparatively small amount, though it is hoped to swell 
this by a picnic later on. 

“By far the most active local interest now centers in canoeing and 
in this popular sport the Vespers haye taken the lead. Prominent 
oa smen of former years are now enthusiastic canoeists and have ex- 
changed the toil of rowing, with the strict training necessary to its 
satistactory accomplishments, for the more easy, eful and quite 
as healthy exercise of paddling, Single and double blades are seen 
glistening in the sun of a pleasant’afternoon, while tiny sails Alt about 
on the river and add to the witchery of the sport. From the very first 
the canoe interest has steadily grown, while the fleet of canoes has 


A “PLANE ON EDGE.”—The term “plank on edge,” first applied 
derisively to anything whose moderate beam did not entitle her to 
the designation of ‘‘ilatiron,” seems likely to become almost literally 
true, if we may judge from the drawing of the new three-tonner Ne 
Plus Ultra, described by Mr. Dixon Kemp in alate number of the 
London Field. The principal dimensions of this remarkable craft 
are as follows: Length oyer all. 60ft.; length on L.W.L, 38.5ft.: 
beam extreme, 3ft.; draft of water, 1ifc.: ballast on keel, 15 tons; 
displacement, 19.8 tons; center of buoyancy below W.L., 2.9ft.; ratio of 

‘sail area to wetted surface, 2 43; area of lower sail 1,500 sq. ft.; mast, 
deck to hounds, 28it.; tonnage, Y. KR. A. rule, 3 tons; tonnage, sail 
area rule, 12 tons. Of course the advantages such a boat enjoys are- 
only possible under the arbitrary rule at present in vogue in Binsland, 
and they would at once disappear under any rule that gauges even 
approximately the size of a boat; but itis to be hoped that the me- 
chanical difficulties attendant on such an extreme form may be suc- 
cessfully overcome, and also thata crew long and lean enough to 
live aboard and work her may be found, as her success will hasten 
the abandonment of the present rule of measurement. 


GREENWICH, CONN —Indian Harbor will be lich ed 
from June 15 to Sept. 15 for the benefit of posh eerans pore 
Yachtsmen desiring to enter can obtain sailing directions by address- 
gag H, P, Winslow, udian Harbor Hotel, Greenwich, Conn, 
— a 


at the same time increased proportionately in numbers. Indian 
birches, which are perhaps more romantic though not so dry or com- 
fortable as modern canoes, were first introduced and the Vesper 
house now contains nive of this class, largely imported from New 
Brunswick at comparatively small cost. Next came the light open 
lapstreaks which have proyed quite popular, owing to ease of making 
a portage with them. 

*‘In addition to the Vesper fieet there are numerous canoes housed 
elsewhere. Corbett’s house contains two small ones used by boys. 
At MecFarlin’s are four canvas canoes, three of which are decked and 
used with double paddles, There is also one open lapstreak, Two 
finely finished home-made paper boats of fine model and good sailing 
capacity are housed by Williams, while a Racine St. Paul with severa 
lapstreaks and canvas canoes are kept by individnals im various parts 
of the city. Altogether the number of canoes owned and used in 
Lowell will not fall short of forty. and probably runs higher, so it will 
be seen that the sport, which is yet scot erp pee | in its infancy, has 
already reached extensive Ba and is still growing. 

‘Boating men in other,cilies along the Merrimack are also taking up 
the sport, and there are a number of active canoeists in Manchester, 
Nashua and Lawrence. Among the canoes in the latter city are sey- 
eral built of canvas and medeled exactly like a birch. They werede- 
signed by Mr. J. H. Treat, a veteran woodsman, whi has used them 
not only on our own river but often in the wilds of Maine. Going on 
down the river we find canoeists in Haverhill and Newburyport, with 
still more in Salem. Cambriige has a club and Boston two, both of 
which were recently organized and one confined to birches while the 
other embraces legitimate cruisers. Leading cities throughout the 
country all boast their canoe clubs nowadays, and as showing how 
they do things in the West it may be stated that the Chicago club, or- 
ganized Jan. 11, already has over forty members, nearly all of whom _ 
own canoes, and has arranged not only a regatta but a whole 
week's cruise to come off in July. Over all stands the American Canoe 
Association, with its 600 members, many of whom will meet, camp 
and race at the Thousand Islands in August. : 

“Canoeing properly émbraces camping in connection with eruising, 
and it is to be regretted that so few local members of the fraternity 
indulge in this branch of the sport. A complete cruising canoe 
affords facilities not only for paddling and sailing but for sleeping as 
well, and when this craft takes the place of the other variety now so 
common, as it properly should and eventually must, there will be a 
more true appreciation of the field of canoeing.. And it is not the 
Tracer who paddles to score as many miles as possible. but the 

‘dawdler’ who drifts leisurely along some picturesque stream or 
threads his way among the islands of a beautiful lake, that fully en- 
joys himself and hiscanoe. At frequent intervals he stops to luneh, 
to bathe, to sleep, He is constantly in the open air and in close eom- 
munion with nature. Heit is who catches the spirit of canoeing. a 
manly pastime free from the taint of professionalism. He it is who 
reaches the acme of the outer’s happiness, the maximum of health 
and pleasure at the minimum of expense." 


THE ASSOCIATION BOOK. 


qe third annual report of the American Canoe Assoeiation has 

just been completed and sent out by Secretary Neidé in the form 
of a neat little book from the press of the Forest and Stream Pub- 
lishing Company. The officers of the Association are: Commodore, 
F, A, Nickerson, Springfield, Mass.; Vice-Commodore, C. K. Munroe, 
New York City; Rear-Commodore, Col. H. C. Rogers, Peterboro., 
one canis Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Chas, A. Neidé, Schuyler- 
ville, N, Y, 

The Executive Committee is composed of the officers, with Messrs. 
Robert J. Wilkin, of New York, W.B. Wackerbagen, Albany, and 
Hugh Neilson, Toronto, Canada.; the offices being so distributed, 
geo Taplcallys as to represent all localities in turn. 

The Regatta Committee for 1684 is as follows: William Whitlock, 
New York C, C., New York city; E. B. Edwards, Peterboro CG. 0,, 
Een ts Ont., Canada; L. Q. Jones, Hartford C. (©., Hartford, 

onn,. 

The listof members shows four honorary, twelve lady members 
and 6524 active, compared with 215 active last year, a gain of 309 
members, An inspection of the list shows that a large majority of 
the members are from the Middle and Hastern States, and Canada. 
the Association thus far having made but little progress in the West, 
although there are a large number of active canoeists west of Pitts- 
burgh, whose interests are identical with those of Eastern canoeists. 
and whose names should be found in the book. Thé list of canoesin- 
cludes 257 names. 

ANNUAL MEETING, 1883. 

The third annual meeting of the Americon Canoe Associatien was 
held inthe Headquarters Marquee on Juniper JSland, Stony Lake, 
Canada, on August 23, 1883. Officers present: E. B. Edwards, Com- 
modore, and Dr. Chas, A. Neidé, Secretary and Treasurer. 

The meeting was called to order by the Commodore. The Treasu- 
rer read his report for the year ending August 3, 1888, showing nis 
expenditures to be two hundred and seven dollars and twenty-seven 
cents ($207.27), and a balance on hand of three hundred and sixty-six 
dollars ($366) 

The Secretary's report showed a membership of four hundred and 
fifty (450). 

The report of the Committee on ‘'Fouls’’ was then read and ac- 
cepted. On motion of Mr. R. J. Wilkin. an appropriation of one hun- 
dred and fifty dollars ($150) was voted for the Secretary’s use for 
clerical hire, 

The Nominating Committee then made their report, and the Secie- 
tary was directed to cast one ballot for each nominee, which resulted 
in the unanimous election of Messrs. Fred A. Nickerson for Commo-.- 
dore; C. K. Munroe, Vice-Commodore; Col. H. C. Rogers, Rear-Com- 
modore; Dr, Chas, A, Neidé, Secretary and Treasurer. R. J. Wilkin, 
Hugh Neilson, W. B. Wackerhagen, three Members-at-Lurge, 

On motion of Gen, Robt. shaw Oliver, a vote of thanks with cheers 
was given Rev. Geo. L. Neidé for his services as As-istant Seeretary- 
Treasurer during the past year, and the request that he act in the 
same capacity in the absence of the Secretary during the coming 
year, A vote of thanks, backed with cheers, was given Commodore 
Edwards. 4 

On motion of Gen. Oliver, the Executive Committee was requested 
to look over the amended Sailing Rules and reject what they consid- 
ered unnecessary. 

Mr, R. J. Wilkin moved, as instruction to the Executive Committee, 
that the terms Junior and Senior be abolished. 

The newly elected officers and Messrs. Toker and Wood then made 
short addresses, following which the meeting adjourned., 


MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. OCT, 13, 1883, 

At the call of the Commodore, the Executive Committees of the 
American Canoe Association met at the Delavan House, mm the city of 
Albany, N. Y., on the afternoon of Oct. 13,1883. There were present: 
F, A, Nickerson, Commodore; C. K. Munroe, Vice-Commodore; Col. 
H.C. Rogers, Rear-Commodore: Dr. Charles A. Neidé, Secretary- 
Treasurer; Mr. R. J. Wilkin and Mr, W. B, Wackerhagen, Members- 
at-Large; Mr, William Whitlock and Mr. R. B, Wood (the latter rep- 
resenting Mr. EK. B. Edwards, who was unayoidably absent), of the 
Regatta Committee for 1884. ‘ 

The meeting was called to order by the Commodore, in the chair. 
Vice-Commo ore Munroe presentéd a motion that the present offi- 
cers’ flags be changed to a flag 13x18 inches, on which shall be dis- 
played a pair of crossed paddles, with the letters A. C. A. in the three 
upper corners and a star in the lower one. That of the Commodore 
to be of blue with deyice in white, that of the Vice-Commodore to be 
of red with device in white, and that of the Rear-Commodore to be of 
white with device in red. Unanimously earried. 

The motion of Mr. W. B. Wackerhagen, seconded by Vice-Comma- 
dore Munroe, that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to 
design an appropriate membership badge, was unanimously carried. 

The committee then elected the following named applicants to 
membership in the Association, viz.: William A. Rogers, New York 
city; Edwin M. Gilmore, Rochester, N. Y,; H. M. Stewart, Rochester, 
N. ¥.; G.C. Edwards, Ottawa, Canada; Chas, Y. A. Decker, Ron- 
dout, N, Y.; Williams Lansing, Buffalo, N. Y¥.; Livingston Crosby, 
New York city; F. W. Batrershall, Albany, N. Y.; James K. Hand, 
Sing Sing, N, Y., and F. J, Kirkpatrick, Springfield, Ohio, Mrs.C. K 
Munroe was elected a lady honorary member. Vice-Com. Munroe 
then made an address on the advisability of a permanent home for 
the A. C, A., and made a motion, seconded by Mr. R. J. Wilkin, ‘that 
this body recommend to the Association at its next annual meeting, 
that the American Canoe Association haye a permanent home,” The 
motion was unanimously carried. 

The members present then expressed their views as to the location 
of the 1484 Camp; and Rear-Com, Rogers reported that the Canadian 
local committee would haye about one maid? ed and forty dollars to 
hand over to the Treasurer of the A.C. A. The thanks of the Com- 
mittee then, on motion of Mr, Wilkins, were voted to Messrs. Edward 
Wood, Toker and White, for their curtesies during the Stony Lake 
meet, Mr, Whitlock, of the Regatta Committee, presented a2 motion, 
“that the present rule of the Association, which defines that a boat 
shall be measured between perpendiculars, be changed to read ‘A 
boat’s sailing a Ve be defined to be her water line length; total 
overhang allowed, to be defined to be not more than six inches, "’ 

Thé recommendations ot the Regatta Committee Zor 1884 were then 
presented and accepted, 

On motion of Commodore Munroe, the terms Senior and Junior 
were abolished, and the term Novice adopted, the Jatver to mean 
“one who has never sailed a race prior to January of the current 


ear,” : 
Applications to offer special prizes to A, C, A. races were acted on 


(May 29, 1884, 


and lost, The action of the Committee on the location of the Camp 
for 1884 resulted in the PS of a committee of two, whose 


duty it should be to visit the various sites offered, and report. The 
meeting then adjoined subject to the call of the Commodore. 


REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON 1884 CAMP SITE, 


The Committee, appointed by Commodore Nickerson, af the meet- 
ing of the Executive Committee, Oct, 13, for the purpose of locating 
a site for the 1884 Camp of the American Canoe Association, visited 
the Thousand Island region, and inspected two sites offered, and 
Tecommended that the next A. C, A, Camp be held on the northeast 
end of Grindstone Island. A copy of the Committee’s report was 
sent to each member of the Executive Board, with a request that he 
send in to the Commodore his vote on the same, which resulted in 
the unanimous adoption of the suggestion. 

The regatta of 1883 included 7 paddling races, 11 sailing races, 1 
sailing and paddling race, 1 double paddling races, 3 upset and 1 por- 
tage race, for which 38 prizes were given, : 


THE 1884 CAMP. 


The fourth annual meeting and camp of the American Canoe Asso- 
ciation will be held on Delaney’s Point, at the northeast end of Grind- 
stone Island, in the Thousand Islands region of the St, Lawrence 
River, commencing on Friday. Aug. 1, and continuing until Friday, 
Aug. 15. The camp site is about four miles distant from Clayton, 
N_Y., and five miles from Gananoque, Canada. The steamer Puritain 
will make regular trips between Clayton and Gananoque, stopping at 
the camp on both trips when passengers are to be landed or taken on 
board. At Clayton, she connects with the Utica and Black River 
Railway, and at Gananoque with trains on the Grand Trunk Railway 
of Canada. The fare on this steamer will be twenty-five cents each 
way, with canoes and kits free. Other, transportation arrangements 
will be made prior to the date of meeting, of which due notice will be 
given through ForEsT AnD STREAM. 

The book also contains the Constitution and By-laws of the Asso- 
ciation, with the sailing rules. It is yery neatly gotton up, of a con- 
venient size for the pocket, and altogether reflects great credit on the 
Fentleman who has filled so well the position of secretary forthe past 
two years. 


ORGANIZATION OF CANOE CLUBS. 


W ANSWER to several inquiries from newly formed canoe clubs, 
we give below a constitution and by-laws that have been found 

to work well in practice. Article VIII, has been amended so that the 
election is now by postal card, the name of each new candidate being 
sent to the members by the seeretary, If no negative replies are 
received, the candidate is considered elected. If a candidate is re- 
jected, he can appeal to a ballot at a meeting of the club. This plan 
has beer found necessary where the members live ata distance and 
méet but seldom. 


CONSTITUTION. 


Article I.—Officers.—The officers of this Club shall consist of a Com 
modore, Vice-Commodore, and Secretary. ; 

Article J.—Elention of Officers.—The annual election of officers 
shall take place at the last general meeting in each year, and said 
election shall be by ballot only. Hach officer shall hold office until 
the adjournment of the last general meeting of the following year. 
Vacancies may be filled at any general or special meeting. 

Article I1l.—Quorum,—Five active members to constitutea quorum, 

Article IV.—Duties of Commodore,—It shall be the duty of the 
Commodore to take command of the squadron, to preside at all meet- 
ings. and to enforce the rules and regulations, He may call a special 
meeting of the Club at his pleasure, and he shall do so at the written 
request of two active members of the Club. 

Article V,—Duties of Vice-Commodore.—tit shall be the duty of the 
Vice-Commodore to assist the Commodore in the discharge of his 
duties, and im his absence to officiate in his stead. 

Article VI. Duties of Secretary,—It shall be the duty of the Secre- 
tary to keep a record of all the proceedings of the Club; to receive 
all moneys due the Club, and pay all bills duly contracted by it, keep- 
ing a correct account of same; and to make a report at the last gen- 
eral meeting in each year. . . 

Article VIl.—Voting.—All voting to be by active members of the 
Club: each member to be entitled to one vote. 

Article VIII.—Flection of Members,—Any person shall be eligible to 
membership. Each candidate for admission must be approved by 
the Executive Committee, and elected at a meeting of the Club; two 
negatives shall defeat an election. t 

Article [X.—Dues.—Each member, on his election, shall pay an 
initiation fee of * * dollars, If said sum is not paid within thirty 
days from the time of his election, such election to be null and void. 
The yearly dues shall be * * dollars, and shall be payable inadvance. 

Members who are absent from the United States for a whole year 
shall be exempt from their dues for such year, provided they give 
notice of their absence to the Secretary. On the first day in Novem- 
ber of each year all members whose dues fer the year remain unpaid 
shall at once be notified of the same by the Secretary; and if any 
member shall allow his dues to remain unpaid for a year, he shall be 
considered, unless he be absent from the Umted States, as having 
forfeited his membership, No member shall be entitled to any of the 
privileges of the Club until his dues are paid, as 

Article X.—Honorary Members.—Any person shall be eligible to be 
elected an honorary member who shall be approved of at a general 
or special meeting. . 

Article XI.—Executive Committee.—The general government of 
the club, and the supervision of the club house and the property 
thereof, shall belong to an Executive Committee of five, of which 
the Conunodore, Vice-Commodore and Secretary shall be ex-officio 
members. and the remaining two shall be active members of the 
club, and shall be elected at the last general meeting of each year. 
All regattes shall be under the control of a committee of five, to be 
appointed by the Commodore. __ Ta. 

Article .—Amendments.—This constitution may be amended at 
any meeting; but no amendment passed at any general or special 
meeting shall be yalid until approved at a subsequent meeting; and 
any amendment must be submitted at a general meeting, 


BY-LAWS, 

Chapter I.—Notices.—Notices shall be sent to every member, of ail 
meetings, at least five days before such meeting. ; 

Chapter Il.—Representatives.—Any active member may authorize 
any ommer active member to yote for him by 4 written proxy, which 
shall be valid for that meeting only, f 

Chapter II,—Order of Business.—(1.) Minutes; (2.) Treasurer's re- 

ort; (3.) Election of members and officers; (4.) Committee reports; 
(5 )Miseellaneous business; (6.) Adjournment. ; 

Chapter IV,—Pendants,—The Commodore's signal shall be a broad 
pendant, with two crossed paddles encircled by four five-pointed 
stars in white, on a blue field. The Vice-Commodore’s shall shall be 
@ broad pendant, with a similar device on a red field, The Acting 
Commodore will have a broad pendant, blue field, without device. 

Chapter V.—Signals —The distinguishing signal of the club shall 
be a pointed burgee, its width being two-thirds of its length (length, 
one inch for each foot of length of deck); the deyice bein ee 
x  * * %* ach canoe is required to havea distinguishing 
signal flag, such signal to be rectangular, and same Width and length 

signal. 
ees Vi—Senior Officer—In the event of the absence of the 
Qommodore and Vice Commodore, the oldest member of the club, 
being at the time a canoe owner, shall be considered the senior officer 
acting Commodore. f 
arcane Vil.—_Expulsion.—Any member may be expelled by the 
yote of the majority of actiye members at any general meeting, 

Chapter VIUL—Amendments.—These by-laws may be amended at 

any general or special meeting. 


THE CONNECTICUT RIVER MEET. 


30 and 31 the Hartford and Springfield Canoe Clubs will 
rae their second annual meet on the Connecticut River, at Calla 
Shasta Grove, six miles south of Springfield, This beautiful grove is 
on a bluff overlooking the river, which av this point widens into a 
splendid sheet of water that resembles a lake more than a river, 
pecause three miles north of the grove and four miles south there are 
curves in the river that give the outline of an oblong lake and retards 
the current so as to give almost slack water. 

The fiveznile sailing course is in full view of the camp, and can be 
used favorably in either of the preyailing winds, viz., northwest or 
southwest. There are also a fine pavilion, swings, bath-houses, superb 
camping ground, an open spot tor games, etc., also a cook house 
well eupplied with the necessary firniture, 

At a meeting of the Springfield C. C, on May 19 all arrangements 
were perfected for the entertainment of our guests, who write that 
they will certainly bring twenty canoeists, and may show up wilh 
twenty-five, They leave Hartford Thursday night by steamer, and 
we hope to join them with twenty men fromourelub. A showing of 
forty canoes at a local meet of two clubs is rather suggestive of ‘\canoe 
fever well developed" in this region, 5 

We have every reason to expect a grand pow-wow and camp-fire, 
when it is known that fourteen of the Hartford C, C, members are also 
members of a famous banjo team, and said fourteen men will bring 
banjoes with them, and, reinforced with ovher insauments and a 
chorus of good yoices, they will alternate with the usual camp stories 
and camp experiences. The Hartford men will remain in camp until 
Sunday, and then set sail down river, a distance of about twenty-five 
miles. Springfield will break camp Monday morning, GERI 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 20, 


THE HUDSON RIVER MEET. 


PRIZES FOR THE RACES. 


pas meeting of canoeists on Newburgh Bay on the 30th of this 

month promises to be of a very interesting and pleasant char- 
acter. Paddlers and sailors from the New York, Albany, Rondont, 
Knickerbocker, Lake George and other clubs, besides many unat- 
tached canoes will be present. A number of races will take place and 
ihe canoeists of the city have gotten up four elegant prizes which 
they will present to the winners, They are now on exhibition in the 
windows of Mr. N. §. Smith’s book-store, No. 76 Water street, and 
their beauty is attracting a great deal of attention, The prizes con- 
sist of four flags, made of heavy silk, two of deep blue and two of 
crimson. In the center of each isa charming paimting in oil, one a 
perfect picture of Washington’s headquarters, the other three being 
views of the Highlands from diferent points onthe river. Each pie- 
ture is oval and is a gem of art. Paddles and boat hooks, the em- 
blems of a canoeist, are crossed behind each painting, while cat tails 
and broad-leafed lilies are gracefully arranged on each side. ‘'New- 
burgh, 1884,” is painted in antique letters on the front of each, and 
on the reverse side, *‘Won at Newburgh, 1884,” is printed in small 
letters. The flags are all of the regulation size, 10 by 15 inches, and 
are bordered with a heavy silk fringe, of a deep gold color, two 
inches wide. They aretinely mounted ou black walnut statis, with a 

old spear head, Nothing could be more elegant and appropriate 
or the occasion, and there will no doubt be a strong and earnest 
contest for their possession, The flags were gotten up by Mr. N, 8. 
Smith, with whom the idea originated, and were painted by Mr. 
Thomas B, Pope, artist of thiscity. Itis expected that no less than 
seventy-five canoeists will participate in the meet, which will continue 
for three days— Newburgh Daily Register. 


THE MERRIMACK RIVER MEET. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I notice by your columns that there is to be a canoe meet on the 
Merrimack, Juneidtoi7. The location chosen for a camp is unsur- 

assed, being high and dry, there are two fine cold springs of water 
just below the camp, and one, with a cold brook fed by springs, just 
opposite. Both sides of the river are bounded by hills covered with 
pine, hemlock, and a great variety of deciduous trees. Not a house 
can be seen, but only woods, fields, ledges and the river. Back of the 
woods are a few farmhouses where milk, ete,, can bé obtained. 

Have also been informed that many different styles of canoes will 
be present, birches, canvas and wooden boats. It is to be hoped that 
all canoeists who can will be present and test the relative merits of 
the various kinds of craft. There is a fine expanse of smooth water 
for racing. J. H. Treat. 

LAWRENCE, Mass. 


STOWAGE OF CANOES. 


4 tate limited room in a canoe makes the problem of stowage a 

serious one, especially to the novice; how to utilize each inch 
of space, and yet have everything as nearly within reach as possible. 
The accompanying sketch shows the plan followed by Captain Ken- 
dall in his canoe Solid Comfort. The dimensions of the boat are, 
sone th 14ft. 2in., beam 36in., height amidships 9in., sheer forward 6in., 
aft 4in. 


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R \ees Hit) s *TR et 
Sevott Sbosse Blankets deising 


The tent‘s rolled up and laid alongside of the clotles bag, and the tent 
poles are hung under the starboard deck over the gun and axe. The 
camp chestis of tin 18x12x7}4in., with five screw-top tin cans for 
sugar, coffee, etc., with knife, spoons and forks in the lid. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


X.—MISSISSQUOI RIVER. 


| fi this river navigable for canoes from Lake Memphremagog to 

Lake Champlain in July and August? 

HARVARD ©. C. SPRING RAOES.—The first set of races of the 
Harvard ©. ©. on Charles River course came off to-day (24th) very 
successfully. The weather was perfect, a stiff breeze giving good 
opportunities for showing skill in handling canoes, The first event 
was 4 sailing race, two miles on and off the wind; six men started. 
The start was lively, owing to thestrone wind. Three had to drop 
out in a short time. T. Dunham, ’85, led the whole race and came in 
first; E. L. Hand, of Law School, second. Time of whole race nat 
taken, but Dunham covered the Jast mile in eight minutes. The 
second event, paddling, in tandem, three-quarters mile, had five 
entries, and it was close and well contested. P.L. Livingston, ‘85, 
first; A. G. Webster, 85, second. The third event, atlas in tan- 
dem, three-quarters of a mile, had two entries: Frothingham, °84, 
and Livingston, '85, againt Dunham, °85, and Webster, *k5. A very 
close race was won by Frothingham and Livingston by several 
lengths The fourth eyent, upset race, had three entries. The race 
was yery amusing. Webster, '85, first; Dunham, ’85, second. Prizes, 
silver cups. Referee, Mr. F. A. Mason, ’#4, Judge at stake, Mr, W, 
L. Everett, °85.—N. Y. Herald. 


LAKE GEORGE C. C,—Canoe affairs are moying along splendidly. 
A new aud commodious club hou‘e is under construction, and will be 
ready for ovecupancy ina week or ten days. It is situated at Glen 
Lake, three miles from Glens Falls. This little gem ofa lake is a 
mile and a half long by three fourths in width, abounding in black 
bass, perch and pickerel, and during the migratory season with 
ducks. A carry of about ten reds brings one to the *bull-heading”’ 
ground, where this not unpalataple fish is caught as fast as the honk 
can be baited. The shore is beautifully wooded, and in fact, the spot 
is “too lovely for anything,” so she said. With such attractions one 
cannot wonder atthe recularity our members are seen en route, afoot 
and walking, to their favorite rendezvous, The uniforms will be fur- 
nished in about two weeks. New members are joining, aud withal 
the elub is in a very satisfactory and flourishing condition.—HAwk- 
EYE (Glens Falls, N. Y,., May 26). 


THOSE RUSHTON CANOES.—Editor Forest and Stream: Iwas 
both amused and vexed with “\O, K. Chobee’s” article in FoREsT AND 
Srrpam of May 22. That I built canoes I4ft, 6in.x42in. was somie- 
thing new tome. That *'O, K, Chobee” should call an open pleasure 
boat 14ft. 6in.x42in., a canoe was amusing. That my ‘'canoes’’ of 
42in, beam should be so badly beaten by Psyche was vexatious. Ido 
not know that Lever builta boat 14ff, tin, ~42in., but last winter I 
sold two pleasure boats 15ft. x42in. to a gentleman in Mandarin, and I 
suppose those are the ‘canoes’ referred to. Toften fit these boats 
with Atwood centerboard and a small sail, but never had any idea vf 
their being raced against first-class sailing canoes; when they are 
they shoul be reported as pleasure boats, not canoes.—J. H. RusH- 
TON, ¢ 

HILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK BY CANOE,—Messrs. Norton 
aad Howard, of the New York C. C., made the trip from Philadel- 
hia to New York in the tandem canoe Kittiwake, leaving the Scbuyl- 

ill River on Monday, May 19. halting oue night at Burlington and 
one at Kingston, and arriving on the third night at South Amboy. 
Here the boat was stored, the crew coming to New York by rail. On 
the 27th, they returned to South Amboy by rail, were under way at. 2 
P. M., and reached West Brighton at 8 P. M., stopping for the night 
with Mr. Stephens. On Wednesday morning the voyage was com- 

leted by a short paddle to the N. Y.C. 0, house, The cruise was 
Niversified by an upset, caused by the tow line of a boat on the Dela- 
ware and Raritan Canal. 


LEAKS IN BIRCH BARK CANOES.—Zditor Forest and Stream; 
In issue of ist inst, a recipe for stopping leaks in a bireh bark canoe 
is asked for, Boil rosin and oil together, smear some of the mixture 
hot on the bark, lay smooothly over it a piece of strong cotton, or 
light duck, large enough to cover the leak, then more of the mixture 
over the cotton. Let the rosin cool before launching and the Jealk is 
effectually stopped, [Im *‘Wenonah’s” receipt for stopping leaks in 
birch bark canoes in last week’s issue, the amount of tallow should 
be two ounces instead of one, as printed,] 

E C, C.—The Neptune C. C., of Newark, N.J., organized 
in eer vith twen!y-five members, have built a club house on the 
Passaic River at Newark, N.J, The club’s new officers are: Com~- 
modore, George O, Totten; Vice-Commodore, L. Thorn; Secretary, 
Harry T. Freeman; Purser, Edward A. Alston. 

A QUICK RUN.—The canoe Rambler, owned by Mr. Lyman R, In 
graham and attached to the Hartford club, recently sailed from 
Hartford to Middletown, twenty-two miles, in one hour and fifty 
minutes. 


OTTAWA G. C,—This club now numbers thirty-six active members, 


The officers are; Captain, R. W. Baldwin; Mate, E. King; Purser, a: 


H, Henderson, 


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answerg to Correspondents. 


i= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. — 


F. B. W.—We do not know where you can buy rubber decoy ducks, 


Max.—We know of no journal devoted to the subject. ‘Thanks for 
address, 

F. D,, East Toledo, 
as a deer region, 


K. A. N., Brooklyn, N. ¥,—‘‘Practical Canoeing.” i 1 
$2.50; can furnish it for you, RE EDI BHC, 


BF. W.S,, New York.—There is no shooting to be ha 
in the vicinity of New York. e Sn at 


F.M. M.—A 10-bore is usually considered to have some advantage 
over a 12-hore in trap-shooting. 


ScuBscriper,—Address of portable house makers is Amerie: S 
table House Mfg Co., Corona, N. Y. asia 


F. H. H.—The book *‘Camp. Life in Florida” was compiled from the 
columns of the ForEsT AND STREAM, Itis now out of print, 


A. G, W., Cambridge, Mass.—Provisions for cruise, about $3 per 
week, See the ForEsT AND Srream of April 3, 1884, for aprons. 


SUBSCRIBER.—Where can Igep a day’s trout fishing on a Long 
ae preserve near the city? Ans. Try Carman’s ponds at Amity- 
ville. 


Constant READER, New York.—Can you let me know where I can 
have some large anne (living)? Ans. Write Mr. BE. G. Blackford, 
Fulton Market, New York. 


W. S.—How can Iremove tan and sunburn? Ans, Keep out of the 
sun and in time the tan will wear off. If skin ig burned by sun so that 
it is painful, apply glycerine or vaseline. 

O, C. M. A., Dorchester.—A strong paper is specially made for paper 
boats; we do not know where it can be had; 1430 would be better; 
we cannot tell the proable cost of material. 


P. L,, Jobstown, N. J.—The best baits for carp are worms, boiled 
peas, and wet cotton, into which flour has been worked. They are 
very wary and no sinker to make a splash should be used. 


J.D, B., N. J.—1, When is the law up on black bass in New Jersey? 
2. Where is a good place to go forthem within three hours from New 
York city? 3, What are the best baits? Ans.1, Junei. 2. Lake Ho- 
pateong or Greenwood Lake. 3. Helgramites, minnows and frogs. 


C. F. L,, Cincinnati.—The title of the book by ‘‘Stonehenge” is ‘‘The 
Modern Sportman’s Gun and Rifle," The first volume treats of the 
gun; the second (not yet out) of the rifle, Price per yolume $6. We 
can furnish the first to order, will take about three weeks to import. 


E. B. Y. G., Pittsburgh, Pa.—Hoy’s Wilderness is reachel via Oak- 
land, West Vir inia, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. There 
used to be good trout fishing in Hoy’s Wilderness or Blackwater 
region, and we presume there is pow;and there used to be bear. deer 
and wild turkey shooting. Possibly some reader may supply fuller 
information from recent experience. 


C.. B. H.—i have eleven wood duck eggs underahen. Provided 
they hatch what will be the most suitable food for the young ducks? 
Ans. Feed soaked bread at first, butnot much corn meal. They should 
also have some animal food, which they may get if they hayea run 
in the garden, where they will find insects. As they get older they 
will eat wheat screenings and_ table scraps. 


W. E, W., Lexington, Va.—l. The bird note will receive attention 
on return ot natural history editor. 2, The angle fish is not so named 
because of his big mouth, but because he is supposed to hold the an- 
tennz in front of him to serve as lures to attract the fish within 
reach. See Prof, Gill’s article on this subject in our last yolume, 
page 229, entitled ‘‘Deep Sea Fishing Fishes.” 


A. C., New York.—Are the fisheries of Greenwood Lake, Stirling 
Lake and also of Lake Mahopac and St: Mary's Lake public, and 
what fish are to be caught in these lakes during this month? Ans, 
Greenwood and Mahopac are public; the others we know nothing of; 
there is little fishing for anything but black bass in Greenwood, 
and the season begins June 1; there are perch in Mahopac, 


F. W. Inaersont —The Lewis and Clarke expedition was sent out 
by the Government in 1803, ro explore the western territory, They 
started in‘the summer of 1803, spent the winter at the junction of the 
Missouri and Mississippi, in spring, summer and fall of 1804 ascended 
the Missouri, camped among tue Mandans in winter of 1804-5, in July 
of 1805 reached the three forks of the river, ascended to the source of 
one of them, the Jefferson, then went to the mouth of the Columbia. 
Returning, they reached Sc. Louis Sept. 23, 1806. an account of their 
expedition was published in 1814, and other editions later, The work 
is now in great demand and is exceedingly scarce. You might possi- 
bly obtain a copy hy writing to Mr. Chas, L. Woodward, dealer in 
Americana, No. 78 Nassau street. New York. 


GreenHorn, N. Y.—1, Please tell me whatis spinning with the min- 
now? How is it done, what is the necessary tackle? 2. What is 
“skittering?’- How is it done? Whatis the tackle? For what fish? 
Ans. 1, ‘‘Spinning’' is a term used by English anglers for what would 
be called “trolling”? in America. Itis done with a minnow gang, on 
which the minnow is so placed that it revolves or spins, as itis drawn 
through the water, A smif rod is used and the bait is cast and drawn 
to the right or left. 2. “Skittering.’’ we believe, is an American term 
for casting a minuow and making it skip or “skitter’’ on the water by 
quick jerks, much as boys make flat s.ones or shells skip on the sur- 
face of apond, Both spinning and skittering are (ione for pike (New 
York pickerel) and occasionally for black bass. 


Youn@ TexperFoot, Philadelphia.—_1. What size and kind of rod, 
hooks and line tor trout and black bass (bait-fishing) would you ad- 
visa me to get? 2. Can you recommend ‘Hallock’s Sportsman's 
Gazetter’ as a practical guide foratyre? 3, Did Mr... 5. Steele, 
author of ‘Canoe and Cam-ra,’’ make tne 200 mile Maine trip in an 
Osgood folding boat, and afterward reconimend them by affidavit? 
4, Can you give me directions for skinning and preserving snake 
skins? Ans. 1. Get an 8 to 10-foot ash and lancewood rod, a goad 
reel, a waterproof silk line, and sproat hooks, Nos 5to7 2. Yes. 
3. He made the trip in an Osgood boat, but we don’t know anything 
about an affiduviv. 4, If for belts, cut the snake down the abdomen 
and skin. Take it to a tanner and have it tanned, unless you are an 
adept at tanning. 


O.—We have heard the region highly spoken of 


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A Palace-Prison; or, the Past and_the Present.—A novel. New 
York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert. The story is of a young girl 1m- 
mured in an insane asylum, where by the fiendish devices of superin- 
tendent and attendants she becomes hopelessly insane. A book 
like this one ought to open the bars and let out the yictims who are 
sharing the horrible fate of the heroine. 


eet 


PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


Sportive Booxs—Mr, J, W. Bouton, of No. 706 Broadway, an- 
nounces a rare collection of works on angling, shooting. the horse, 
hunting and yachting. Elsewhere see his card. 


Tue Conry Isuanp EEAsON has opened and New Yorkers are happy 
once more, The great bulk of the travel thither is over the New York 
and Sea, Beach Railway, which connects with Battery baats, 


ORIENTAL, 
CANTO L. 

One night, the poor disconsolate 
Young heiress in her boudoir sate, 
‘-Would I were beautiful, or dead " 
‘Why so?” asked Jenny. ‘Don’t you see 
De Smyth won’t fall in loye with me! 
What's gold to me? What's jewels? What 
The splendid mangen T have pot? 
With jhalt my wealth Pd gladly part, 
If I could win my Alfred's heart.” 
“Give me a thousand dollars, Miss, : 
And you shall have that much prized bliss.” 
“One thousand! Jenny!" Julia said, 
“T'l] couble that the day we’re wed!”’ 
** Tis done!” exclaimed the lady's maid, 
“And don't go back from what you’ve said.”’ 


CANTO I. 


That night, the magic rites begin, 

With D ritericus compound, which 
Made her complexion white and rich; 
Freckles and pimples faded away, 

Like darkness, atthe smileof day, | 
“How was ib done?” now fair Julia cries, 
“Tl tell you how,” the maid rephes; 
“That peerless skin's bright snowy gleam 
You owe to Oriental Cream,” 

To close the story, let me say 

The pair were married yesterday, 

And sent, for darling Cupid's sake, 
(Gouraud T. Felix) a mighty slice of cake, 


eK rt“‘SOéC CC; 


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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL, THR KENNEL. 
The Wild Dogs of Maine. English Kennel Notes. 
Pointers at New York. Pointers at New York, 
~ The Reward of Virtue. Beagles at New York, 


THE Sportsman Tourist. 
Unele Lisha’s Shop.—t. 
Adirondack Fish and Game. 

NatTuRAL History. 

The Couesian Period, 
The Spikehorn. 
GamE Bag AND Gun. 


Early Accounts of the Grizzly. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 


The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 
Philadelphia Notes. 
The Cost of Guus. 
SA AND RIveR FIsHINe. 
Camps of the Kingfishers.—ty. 
Trout and Water Snakes. 
Pennsylvania Angling Notes. 
Black Bass in Tennessee. 
Rod and Reel Association. 
FISHCULTURE. 


Kennel Notes, 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery. 
Creedmoor, 
California Rifle Association, 
The Trap. 
The Clay-Pigeon Tournament; 
oy rae ; “aay 
ring Meeting at Newburgh. 
Pittsburgh C. ©: e 
The Merrimack River Meet. 
The Tale of a Boat, 
The Chart Locker. 
Mississquoi River. 
YAcHTING. 
S, Boston Y. C. Spring Matches. 
N. Haven Y. C. Opening Cruise. 
Knickerbocker Y, C. 
Atlantic Y. C, Opening Cruise. 


Columbia River Salmon Hatch- Seawanbaka Corinthian Y. C, 
i Larchmont Y. C. 


ing. 
Fistculture in Canada, 


The Merlin. 
THE KENNEL, Another Blow at the Sand- 
The Philadelphia Show. baggers, 


Are Dogs Domestic Animals? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORE, 


et the judging of the pointer classes at the West- 

minster Kennel Club show was received with surprise 
and dissatisfaction by a large majority of those interested, is 
well known. Asa consequence of this we have received a 
great number of letters bearing on the subject, Of these a 
very considerable number contain no statements of argument 
or fact, and will therefore never make their appearance in 
these columns; others, which deal liberally in reckless accus- 
ations, of ‘‘hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness” on the 
part of other writers, will also fail to appear in type, while 
a third class, deyoted to the laudation by their owners, of 
certain champion stud dogs, can only be printed at our usual 
advertising rates. 

It seems too often impossible for men to discuss the faults 
and merits of the dogs which they own in a temperate and 
cominen sense manner. If X. criticizes Y.’s greyhound as 
having a bulldog head, Y. is very likely to reply that X.’s 
paternal grandfather made his money in the slave trade. 
Reason, logic, and common sense appear to be thrown to the 
wind when it comes to a question of a dog’s qualifications 
for the show bench, tis not difficult to see why this is the 
ease. The explanation, of course, lies partly in the warm 
affection which exists between the dog and his owner. No 
one of the lower animals is so near to man as the dog, and 
in many eases the love with which it is regarded is not very 
different from that feeling which a man has for his children, 
So it is that very often when a man attempts to write in 
defense of his dog he is so strongly moved that he will use 
any weapon, however puerile, which he thinks may serve 
his purpose, And yet it ought to be possible for men, who 
in the ordinary affa*rs of life are sensible enough, to employ 
their intelligence in considering a-question where their feel- 
ings are so deeply engaged. They ought not to write like 
children, and when they do so it will be a waste of good 
postage to send their letters to this office. 

Mr, Mason’s criticism of the pointer judging was temper- 
ate and quiet, devoted wholly to pointing out what he con- 
siders the faults in the individual dogs, and so a model of its 
kind. The replies to it should be in the same strain, and it 
is certainly unnecessary that they should contain anything 


more than the judgment of the writer on the animals dis- 
cussed. After all this judgment will be nothing more than 
an expression of opinion, for we have no model, no perfect 
dog with which we can compare the living animal. Each 
man in looking at a pointer for example, will have a differ- 
ent idea as to the faults of this particular dog. One man 
will think that his chest is just right, while another 
will consider it not deep enough, and a third too wide, and 
to a positive statement as to faults of this kind there seems to 
be no reply except a reference to authorities which can not 
settle the question because their statements are susceptible 
of widely differing interpretations, 

Another reason why men find it impossible to reason 
temperately about the bench show qualities of their dogs is 
that the average man appears to be utterly unable to appre- 
ciate that excellence on the bench and excellence in the 
field may be, and often are, two utterly diverse things. A 
bench show winner may be a good field dog, or he may be 
utterly worthless to shoot over, but there are thousands 
of dogs which it is a delight to follow afield in the autumn 
days, but which, if entered in a bench show, would be 
laughed at by every one. Yet, we often hear a disappointed 
exhibitor say, ‘“Well, my dog ought to have had a place, he 
is a superb dog on ruffed grouse!” Such people ought to 
know enough to keep their dogs out of bench shows, and so 
save themselves expense and much anxiety. A dog’s field 
qualities depend largely on characters which are mental and 
are susceptible of cultivation. They are more or less de- 
pendent on outside circumstances, but a dog’s bench show 
qualities are purely physical, and can scarcely be modified 
at all after the animal has matured. Bench show qualities 
are, in a measure, the result of breeding, yet the most care- 
ful breeding may produce animals which have the gravest 
faults. Therefore accident, or some unknown quantity 
which we cannot as yet determine, usually decides what the 
young animals shall be. 

We urge upon our correspondents interested in kennel mat- 
ters, the importance of moderation in their discussions, and 
for ourselves we must decline to admit to our columns any 
bitterness. The virulence of these quarrels, as sometimes 
carried on in our contemporaries, cannot but give sportsmen 
generally the impression that dog owners and breeders are 
a quarrelsome and ill-conditioned lot, and that like their 


favorites so much maligned by good old Dr, Watts, they 
* * *€ “delight 
To bark and bile 
For ‘tis their nature to.” 


THE WILD DOGS OF MAINE. 


Re the dakhun hide in the shadow of Cheops, and the 


cuansu slink abashed into the jungle; let the polugar 
dhole drown in the Ganges, and the pariah flee to Himalayan 
fastnesses; let the pero get him to the uttermost antipodes, 
and the dingo crawl intoa hole. The dogs of Maine are 
wild. So pronounces the Supreme Court of that State. 
Dogs (wild and tame) sometimes go mad; Supreme Court 
judges never lose their reason. 

The learned gentlemen whose opinion on this point is else- 
where given in full, have performed a courageous and 
momentous task. Weterm it courageous. It is. Upheld 
and inspired by their keen vision into the arcana of canine 
philosophy, the Maine judges have dared to stand in the 
face of the common sense of mankind in this year of grace 
1884 and declare that the dog—‘‘man’s best friend’—is a 
wild beast. The pet that plays with the children, the old 
house dog that has been a faithful guard so long, the pointer 
and setter, fine bred and trained, all these belong with the 
bear, the wolf and the ’coon, to the-fere nature. 

We are surprised that certain citizens of Maine, who style 
themselves sportsmen, are disposed to be enraged at the dic- 
tum of the judges. Clearly these fault-finders do not fully 
comprehend what a glorious thing this is for the game sup- 
ply. In decimating and exterminating Maine game the dog 
has taken an active part. He has run the deer and pointed 
the grouse. ‘‘Now,” reason the judges, ‘‘we will have a bit 
of retributive justice. The dog has helped to destroy the 
game, we will make game of him. There is little else to 
hunt, let us hunt the dog.” This, it will be observed, fully 
exempts the judges from the yery serious charge made 
against them, namely, that ‘they are no sportsmen.” On 
the contrary, they must be sportsmen, and the very 
truest sort of sportsmen at that, While other sportsmen, 
glowing with earnestness, haye been devising various more 
or less impracticable schemes to conserve the game, the 
Supreme Court worthies have grappled the problem and 
solved it on the instant by transforming into savage beasts: 


‘the tens of thousands of formerly inoffensive and presuma- 


bly domestic animals, The novelty of this class of game 
may lead to much perplexity of spirit among those who 
desire to hunt dogs in a decent and “legitimate” manner. 
The ethics of the sport are little understood, and it will take 
some time to learn what is the approved fashion of dog pur- 
suit. Perhaps the gentlemen who hunt the metropolitan 
curs might be induced to go to Maine and instruct the rising 
generation in their art. 

We congratulate the hunters of Maine upon this sudden 
and magnificent addition to their wild game supply.. It is 
to be hoped that enthusiastic dog hunters will not recklessly 
engage in the exciting and ennobling pursuit of shooting the 
game. The dog is, of all wild animals, the most confiding. 
In some parts of Maine, we are credibly informed, he ven- 
tures in broad daylight into the barnyards, and even now 
and then into the kitchens of the farmhouses.- These habits 
render it very easy for the circumspect gunner to approach - 
him. If every man and boy who happens to own a gun goes 
out to shout dogs, it stands to reason the supply will be 
decimated in less than no time, and before long the Maine 
wild dog will go the way of the dodo and the snakes in 
Treland. 

It is imperative that a close season should be provided, 
during which no dog should be killed; and it might be well 
to add a clause forbidding at any season the exportation of 
dog quarters to the Boston sausage market, or of their hides 
to the New York kid-glove factories. We are quite content 
to leave this matter of a dog season to the sportsmen of 
Maine, merely suggesting that they have now an opportunity 
to provide an abundance of game for the professional gentle- 
men who take their vacation in mid-summer. There is no 
Special reason why the dogs should not be shot at that sea- 
son; and it is probable that those who enjoy shooting the 
doe with fawn would take kindly to the sport of dog shooting. 

An exception should be made in favor of the yellow dog. 
He ought to be protected all the year around, and be given 
every encouragement to increase and multiply, in the hope 
that in some way, at some time and in some place, a yellow 
dog anda Maine Supreme Court judge may meet, for the 
judge might learn something from the dog. 

e 


THH REWARD OF VIRTUE. 


NE of the most mysterious features of angling, to one 
who has not the gift, is the patience with which a man 
will sit at the end of his rod, hour after hour, and half a 
day or a day at a time, though never a nibble nor arise gives 
him encouragement. The uninitiated are wont to scoff at 
such perseverance; they are always ready with a dozen or 
two other things that a man might well better give his time 
to than dangling a bait-line or throwing a fly. Leave such 
wiseacres to their conceit. The patient angler is wiser than 
they. He knows that after all the waiting there may yet 
come the reward, Perseverance is his cardinal virtue. 
Hope springs eternal in the angler’s breast. And if the fish 
is not finally creeled, if the long vigil has been without tang- 
ible fruition, yet is he not without compensation, for has 
he not all day long been indulging in the pleasures of hope? 
To-morrow, perhaps, he will prove again not only the joys 
of anticipation, bul the satisfaction of basketing a fish as 
weli; and so to-morrow you will find him once moré at his 
post. 

Tt is a pleasant little story that comes to us from a corre- 
spondent in Vermont. A St. Albans angler went out the 
other day to try his luck for speckled trout at Fairfield Pond. 
He began fishing at 10 o’clock; 11 came and he had had no 
sign that there was a fish in the pond. The sun climbed to 
the meridian; 1 o’clock, 2, 3, went by, and still no fish. 
Finally, at half past 3 there was a rise, a strike, and a 64- 
pound trout in his basket. He had been fishing five and one- 
half hours. The cateh averaged just one pound to the hour. 
He felt amply rewarded for the day’s work. There are all 
varieties of tastes and shades of sentiment among anglers; 
and it might not be universally conceded that this was very 
good fishing, Some anglers might contend that they would 
prefer their five and one-half pounds of trout in installments 
at more frequent intervals, while there are others who would 
choose the luck of the Fairfield Pond man, In their scale of 
merit, one five and one-half pound trout tips down the beam 
against a bushel of fingerlings. 


HypropHopra.—A lawyer of Goshen N. Y., who is also 
an angler, gives it as his deliberate opinion that the average 
citizen stands a better chance of being blown to flinders at 
the mouth of a cannon than of being bitten by a rabid dog, 
He is right, 


8362 


. FOREST AND STREAM, 


[Junn 5, 1884. 


Che Sportsman Cowrist. 


UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP. 
T 


FTER his adventures with the bear, which some of the 

& readersof Forest AND STREAM may remember, Uncle 
Lisha Pegg’s shop became a sort of sportsman’s exchange, 
where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, the hunters and 
fishermen of the widely scattered neighborhood met of even- 
ings and dull out-door days ‘‘to swap lies.” Almost every- 
one had a story to tell, but a few only listened and laughed, 
srunted, or commented as the tule told was good, bad or of 
doubtful authenticity. And so one October evening, as the 
rising hunter’s moon was streaking the western slopes with 
shadows of evergreen spires and long paths of white moon- 
light, Uncle Lisha’s callers began to drop in by ones and twos. 
The first comer got the best seat, the broken-backed chair, 
the next the second best, so accounted, the chair with three 
legs, though the occupant had to give so much thought to the 
keeping of his balance, that he sometimes tumbled to the floor 
when the laugh came in. The iater comers had the choice 
of seats ona rollof sole leather, the cold box-stove, ora 
board Jaid across the tub in which Lisha soaked his leather, 
and the latest the floor with the privilege of lying at length 
upon it or setting their backs against the plastered wall. So 
were disposed a half score of the old cordwainer’s neighbors, 
thus far doing little but smoke, chew and silently watch 
Lisha as he hammered out, shaped and pegged on the tap of 
a trayel-worn boot as intently as if they were taking lessons 
in the craft, when Antoine Bassete entered with a polite 
*«tood eyelin, Oncle Lasha; good eyelin, all de ghoute mans.” 
Then as he looked about he drew forth from one pocket his 
short black pipe, from another his. knife with which he 
scraped out the pipe and emptied it on the stove hearth, 
then he got out from another a twist of sreenish-black 
tobacco, and whittling off a charge and grinding it between 
his palms, filled and lighted his pipe at Lisha’s candle with 
such sturdy pulls that the little dip seemed likelier to be 
quenched than to longer ‘‘shine like a good deed in a 
naughty worid.” 

“Git aout! ye dummed peasouper,”’ Lisha shouted, after 
pounding his fingers instead of a peg in the uncertain light, 
“you'll hey us all in total moonlight fust ye know! Take a 
match er a splinter an’ light yer pipe like white folks, stiddy 
suckin my candle aout. Don’t ye know what the feller said 
at was goin’ t’ be hung in ten minutes, when they gin him 
a candle i? light his pipe with? He says, sez he, ‘gimme a 
match if ye please, ‘taint healthy t’ light a pipe with a can- 
dle’ sez he. Take keer *f yer health, Ann Twine, f’ that ’ere 
Canady Gov’ner ’ll want ye t’ be wuth hangin’ when he gits 
a holt on ye.” 

“Tah, naow, Oncle Lasha,” said Antoine, ‘‘dat wus too 
bad faw you talk sotome. Who help you w’en dat bear 
keel you, hein?” 

‘Wal, yes,”’ Lisha. rejoined, ‘‘ye did help, sartin; the bear 
am I done the fightin’ an’ yeou done the runnin’. Yeou larnt 
how to dew that in the Pap’neau war, an’ ye larnt it well, 
Ann Twine; ye don’t need no more lessons.” 

“Walahdoseh! Ah wan’ some bodee show ine haow ah 
rin wid dem boot you mek me ’f ah don’ cah heem in mali 
han’ an’ den he pooty heavy. But, gosh! wa’ heem on may 
foots? Ah, jus’ leave wa’ two store like dat. He be jus’ so 
sot’, jus’ so not heavy.” 

“‘Huow d’ ye spose any body could fit yer dammed Canuck 
feet arter ye’d wore souyaas ever sen’ ye was weaned, ker- 
splash, ker-spotter, till yer feet ’as wider’n they was long? 
Yeou git ye some babeesh an’ I'll give ye ten sides o’ sole 
Juther, an’ then ye can make ye some souyaas, ’n’ then put 
on yer ole trouses 71 ye could carry a week's p’yision in the 
seat on, an’ be a Canuck; ye can’t be a “Merican, no ways.” 

“Ah, Oncle Lasha! You pooty bad hole man. Haow 
you feel dat time you tink you dead? Wha’ yo tink you 
go? A’nt you sorry you don’t was been mo’ gooder? Wha’ 
you tink you go, hein? 

“TI do’ know,” Uncle Lisha slowly responded; ‘‘but T 
hoped I’d go where the’ wa’n’t no Canucks!” 

“Dah! dah! Oncle Lasha; you so weeked no use talk to 
you,” cried Antoine, when the laugh in which he joined had 
subsided; ‘*’f you tole dat leet’ story you beegin dat night, 
ab won’t saidjno mo’; you leave off rat in meedle w’en de bear 
shoot heself, an’ you see ab got so Yankee ah mos’ come dead 
’cause ah do’ know de en’ of it. Dat story, you know, 
*hout man dot cut bread so fas’ wid shoe knife. You 
*mernabry ?” 

Te’ me see,” said Lisha, scratching his head with his 
awl; “oh, yes, I remember. Wal, IT s’pect that’s a true 
story, Ann Twine, an’ ’f I tell it ye got t’ b’lieve it,” 

“Oh, sartin, Oncle Lasha; ah don’ b’leeye you tole lie no 
more as ah do; no, sah.” 

‘“Humph!” Lisha grunted, ‘1 neyer knowed but one 
Canuck but what ’ould lie.” 

‘An’ dat was me, Oncle Lasha?” 

‘‘No, sir! He was a dead one! Wal, the’ was a shoemaker 
*t lived in Connecticut, an’ my father knowed him, ‘at he'd 
a knife jullnck this’—holding up his longest knife—‘‘the 
cutest thing t? cut bread with ’t ever was, but he wouldn't 
let nob’dy but his own self use it, so they use ter send for 
him to allgret dinins t’ cut the’ bread fer’em. Wal, arter he'd 
ben a cuttin’ raoun’ for three, fo’ year, they sent fer him one 
July to go t’ Colonel Leavenworth great shearin’, He kep 
a thou-san’ sheep, an’ hed twenty shearers, an’ made a big 
splonto, ‘wine in quart mugs an’ strawb’ries rolled in cream, ’ 
he use ter brag about, but they wan’t on’y pint mugs ’n not 
filled very often at that, an’ the wine was cider, an’ the’ wan’t 
more ’n tew strawb’ries a piece, ’n’ they was dried apples, 
Wal, the shoemaker come with his knife keener ‘n ever, an’ 
the han’s and comp’ny hed all got washed up for dinner with 
the’ clean ¢lo’s on, an’ stood ’raound watchin’ on him cut 
the bread, ker slice, ker slice, faster “n a gal could pick up 
the slices, off ’m a loaf ‘t he hel’ agin his breast. He done it 
so neat ’t they cheered him, which he got kinder ‘xcited an’ 
tried t’ cut faster ’n ever, an’ the next lick he gin the loaf he 
cut hisself clean intew, an’ the man ‘at stood behind him 
clean intew, an’ badly wounded the next one. They sot 
tew an’ stuck ’em together so ’t they lived, but it spilte the 
shoemaker’s bread cuttin’ business, an’ he hed to go back to 
shoemakin’ an’ starvin’, julluck me.” 

“Wal sah, Oncle Lasha,” cried Antoine, emphasizing every 
word with a gesture, ‘‘ah b’lieve dat story, cause ab promise, 
babt ah tink t’'was cause you goin’ tole it dat bear scrape 
you so bad, You see, sah, bear is send for punish bad 
folkses, An’t you hear haow bear keel fawty leetly hoy 
“cause dey call hole man he don’ got no hair on top hees head 
of it—what you call heem—ball? Ah spec’ dey be nudder 


bear long ‘fore soon for ketch hole man what tole such story, 
an’ den tell Frenchman he don’ lie honly w’en hedead!” 

“Good airth an’ seas!” Lisha roared, “I dew beleeve one 
on ’em would hev the last word ’*f he was deader ‘na door 
nail. Wal,” he continued, as he put his tools in their places 
and took off his apron, “‘it’s "baout time ’| bonest folks was 
abed an’ rogues locked aout, but you needn’t hurry none 
*baout goin’ ? bed, Ann Twine,” 

Ten minutes later the shop was dark but for the patch of 
moonlight thut shone in through the little window set long- 
wise of the room, and the visitors scattered to their homes. 

AWAHSOOSE, 


ADIRONDACK FISH AND GAME. 


HE snow and ice are now all out of the Adirondack 
woods south of this place, excepting in some few of the 
deepest and most shaded ravines or valleys, and the trout 
are now biting freely in all the streams and ponds. A fine 
string of about thirty pounds in weight was taken this week 
out of the Twin Ponds by two young men of this place. 
The largest was seventeen inches in length and weighed two 
pounds thirteen ounces, A number of fine lots have been 
taken out of the St. Regis River near Blue Mountain during 
the past week. 

In a former communication to the Formst AnD STREAM 
I stuted that a railroad was being built from this place to 
some point in the Adirondacks south from here, This road 
is now completed from here to Spring Cove, on the middle 
branch of the St. Regis River, distant from here twenty 
miles, and is within four miles of Blue Mountain, and six of 
the foot of the sixteen-mile level. Passenger trains are run- 
ning to St. Regis Falls, eleven miles from here, which con- 
nect with passenger trains on the Ogdensburg and Lake 
Champlain road at this junction. Lumber trains run over 
the remainder of the road from the Falls to Spring Coye, on 
which parties visiting this region can get themselves and 
baggage carried after arriving at the Falls. During the 
coming summer the road will be extended to River Pond on 
the sixteen-mile level, which place is about ten miles west 
of Paul Smith’s Hotel at St. Regis Lake. 

The building of this road makes the region about the 
headwaters of the St. Regis River the easiest of access of 
any portion of the Adirondacks where game and trout are 
still to be found at all plentiful. Spring Cove, the present 
terminus of the road, is itself inthe heart of a good hunting 
and fishing locality, where scores of deer have been kiiled 
and many fine creels of trout caught during the past three or 
four years, and the sixteen-mile level, only six miles above, 
is one of the best waters for trout fishing I know of that 
does not require a tramp of several miles on foot to reach it; 
and is also a noted place for deer hunting, the great extent 
of unbroken wilderness on both sides of it making it a great 
resort for those animals. There are also several other 
streams and a number of ponds in this region which are not 
so easy of access—all of which contain trout—and hereto- 
fore have been but little frequented by sportsmen or anglers. 

For the last five years the sixteen-mile level has been my 
camping ground through the greater portion of each season. 
Last season I found as good trout fishing there during July 
and August as I ever found before at any time or at any 
place. I found no better twenty-five and thirty years ago 
when I first began to frequent the Adirondacks. I caught 
ten trout that all together weighed thirteen and three quarter 
pounds, and I must have caught fifty to sixty weighing’ 
half a pound or over. The most of these I caught fly-fish- 
ing mornings and evenings out of a pool in front of my 
camp. I could have caught ten times the number had I 
wished. I camped alone most of the time and did not want 
to catch more than I wished for my own use and occasion- 
ally a mess for a party who fished only with bait and could 
not catch any at that time in the season. There is only now 
and then a day during the last half of July and through 
August that sunken bait can be used with any chance of suc- 
cess in these waters. 

Sportsmen and anglers will for one or two seasons at 

least, find better hunting and fishing, I believe, in this region, 
than in any other part of the Adirondacks that will not re- 
quire a ride in a wagon of fifteen or twenty miles over a 
rough road to reach. At Spring Cove is a boarding house, 
where meals and a bed can be procured if wanted, But at 
Blue Mt, Hotel, four miles further south, good accommoda- 
tions can be had by the week or day, and Mr. Henry Phelps, 
the proprietor, keeps boats and will furnish guides at a 
moderate charge. The greatest objection is that it is three 
miles from the foot of the sixteen-mile level, the nearest 
water navigable for boats. The river is but half a mile 
below the house, but here are rapids, and although it affords 
good fishing from the banks, it is not so favorite a resort for 
anglers as the sixteen-mile level and the nine-mile at Spring 
Cove, where boats can be used. Mr. Phelpsalso keeps boats 
at McCavanaugh, Long and Wolf ponds, which are distant 
three to eight miles from the house, If the angler is willing 
to take a tramp through the woods four or five miles on foot, 
he can find as good trout fishing in‘a number of waters in 
this region, where the trout are as plenty in them to-day as 
they were fifty years ago, or as plenty as they were in the 
Bigosh in its palmiest days. But if the tramp is not taken 
soon, he will find them like all other localities that are easy 
of access—a thing of the past—as far as trout fishing is con- 
cerned, 
Deer are still very plenty all through this region, although 
hundreds of them have been shamefully slaughtered during 
the five years that I have made it my camping ground, The 
majority of them were killed by night-hunters and during 
the early summer months, I am not prejudiced against, or 
interested in, any one method of hunting deer more than an- 
other, any more than wishing to have game preserved as 
long as possible within the Adirondacks; and I do not think 
any disinterested person who has spent the whole or nearly 
of each season in camp in them, as I have for the past five 
years, will contradict me when I say that more deer are de- 
stroyed by night-hunting than by all other methods com- 
bined, 1 would be pleased to have night-hunting and hound- 
ing both prohibited entirely, and_still-hunting confined to 
November, with no extra time allowed to dispose of the 
venison, As we now have a game protector appointed for 
this county, I hope the slaughter here out of season will be 
stopped. ADTRON ONDAOK. 


Morr, Franklin County, N, ¥., May, 1884, 


Just returned from a flying trip to the Adirondacks, and 
although the season has as yet not opened there, the inhab- 
itants are busy preparing for the expected visitors, and it 
bids more than fair that the coming one will bea lively 
season. ; 

I spent two days at the upper Ausable Pond in company 


parts of Audubon’s elephant folio plates, 


edition of Wilson. 


with Frank C. Parker, the well-known guide of Keene Val- 
ley, and Joe Parker, of Brooklyn, who had with him his red 
Irish setter Victoria. We tried the trout in trolling and 
hooked three beauties, averaging 35 ounces, The trout in 
this pond are all speckled ones, and have been caught weigh- 
ing 44 pounds. 

Early in the season, or up to the 4th of July, the trout 
fishing in Keene Valley is very good, in John’s and Roaring 
brooks, also in Orbed Brook, a tributary of John’s Brook. 
The writer caught 36 pounds in two days’ fishing on Orbed 
two years since, and 30 pounds last August in two days with 
the fly, and the fishing there is royal sport. Keene Valley is 
the place for health and pleasure, and cannot be excelled for 
scenery and advantages for camping out. 


W. L. Howarp. 
BRook.yn, June 1, 1884. 


latmpal History. 


THE COUESIAN PERIOD. 


[By R. W. Shufeldt, Capt. Medical Corps, U. 8. A., Chairman Section 
of Avian Anatomy, A. O. U.  Uonelnsion of the Histor- 
ical Preface from advance sheets of Coues’s ‘‘Key.”’] 

Ton AuDUBONIAN Epocn: 1824-1853, 
(1824-1831.) 

HE Bonapartian Period.—A princely person, destined to 

die one of the mostfamous of modern naturalists— 
Charles Lucius Bonaparte, early conceived and executed the 
plan of continuing Wilson’s work im similar style, if not in 
the same spirit. He began by publishing a series of ‘‘Obser- 


vations on the Nomenclature of Wilson’s Ornithology,” in 
the “Journal” of the Philadelphia Acadenzy, 1824-25, repub- 


lished in an octavo volume, 1826. This valuable critical 
commentary introduced a new feature—decided changes in 


nomenclature resulting from the sifting and rectification of 
synonymy. Itis here that questions of synonymy—to-day the 
bane and drudgery of the working naturalist—first acquire 
prominence in the history of our special subject. There had 
been very little of it before, and Wilson himself, the least 


“bookish” of men, gave it scarcely any attention, Bona- 


parte also in 1825 added several species to our fauna upon 
material collected in Florida by the now venerable Titian R. 
Peale, whose honored name is thus the first of those of men 
still living to appear in these annals. Bonaparte’s ‘American 


Ornithology,” uniform with ‘“‘Wilson,” and generally incor- 


porated therewith in subsequent editions as a continuation of 
Wilson’s work, was originally published in four large quarto 
volumes, running 1825-83. The year 1827, in the midst of 
this work of Bonaparte’s, was a notable one in several par- 


ticulars. Bonaparte himself was very busy, producing a 
“Catalogue of the Birds of the United States,” which, with a 
“Supplement,” raised the number of species to 366, and of 


genera to 83; nearly a hundred species haying been thus 
become know since 
dropped. William Swainson the same year described a 
number of new Mexican species and genera, many of which 


Ord laid aside the pen that Wilson had 


come also into the '‘North American” fauna. But the most 
notable event of the year was the appearance of the first five 
In 1828-29, as 
may also be noted, Ord brought out his third volume 8vo 
In 1828 Bonaparte returned to the charge 
of systematically cataloguing the birds of North America, 


giving now 382 species; arid about this time he also pro- 
duced a comparative list of the birds of Rome and Philadel- 
phia. His main work having been completed in 1833, as 
just said, Bonaparte continued his labors with a ‘‘Geo- 
graphical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and 
North America,” published in London in 1888. 
brochure gives 503 European and 471 American species. 


This 


The celebrated zoologist wrote until 1857, but his connection 
with North American birds was only incidental after 1888. 
The period here assigned him, 1824-1831, may seem too 
short: but this was the opening of the Audubonian epoch—a 
period of brilliant inception, and one in which events that 
were soon to mature their splendid fruit came crowding fast; 
so that room must be made for others who were early in the 


resent epoch. 
P P - (1831-1832,) 


The  Swatnsonio-Richardsonian Period.—The ‘Fauna 
Boreali-Americana,” the ornithological yolume of which was 
published in 1831, made an impression so indelible that a 
period, albeit a brief one, must be put here. The technic of 
this celebrated treatise, more valuable for its descriptions of 
new species and genera than for its methods of classification, 
wa3 by William Swainson, as were the elegant and accurate 
colored plates; the biographical matter, by Dr. (later Sir) 
John Richardson, increased our knowledge of the ltfe-his- 
tory of the northerly birds so largely, that it became a foun- 
tain of facts to be drawn upon Oy. nearly eyery writer of 
prominence from that day to this, Each of the distinguished 
authors had previously appeared in connection with our 
birds—Swainson as above said, Richardson in 1825, in the 
appendix to Captain Parry’s “Journal,” The influence of 
the work on the whole cannot be well overstated, 

Two events, beside the appearance of the “Fauna,” mark 
the year 1831. One of these is the publication of the first 
volume of Audubon’s “Ornithological Biography,” being 
the beginning of the text belonging to his great folio plates. 
The other is the completion of the bird-volumes of Peter 
Palias’s famous ‘‘Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica,” one of the 
most important contributions ever made to our subject, 
treating so largely as it does of the birds of the region now 
called Alaska. The same year saw also the Jameson edition 
of ‘Wilson and Bonaparte.” 

(1832-1834.) 

The Nuttallian Period.—Thomas Nuttall (*1786-41859) was 
rather botanist than ornithologist; but the travels of this dis- 
tinguished English-American naturalist made him the per- 
sonal acquaintance of many of our birds, his love for which 
bore fruit in his ‘‘Manual of the Ornithology of the United 
States and Canada,” of which the first volume appeared in 
1832, the second in 1834, The work is notable as the first 
‘‘hand-book” of the subject; it possesses an agreeable flavor, 
and 1 think was the first formal treatise, excepting Wilson's, 
to pass to a second edition, as it did in 1840. Nuttall’s name 
is permanent in our annals; and many years after he wrote, 
the honored title was chosen to be borne by the first disti/ -t- 
ively ornithological association of this country—the ‘'Nut- 
tall Ornithological Club”"—founded at Cambridge in 1873, and 
still flourishing. ; 

(1834-1853.) ' ' 

The Audubonian Period.—Meanwhile, the incomparable 
work of Audubon—“‘the greatest monument erected by art 


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_ to nature’—was steadily progressing, The splendid genius 
of the man, surmounting every difficulty and disconrage- 

—qent of the author, had found and claimed its own, That 
which was always great had come to be known and named 
as Such, victorious in its impetuous yet long-enduring battle 

with that course of the world—I mean the commonplace; 
the commonplace, with whieh genius never yet effected a 
compromise, since genius is necessarily a perpetual menace 

to mediocrity. Audubon and his work were one; he lived in 
his work, and in his work will live forever. When did 
Audubon die? We may read, indeed, ‘“‘on Thursday morn- 
jog, Jan. 27, 1851, when a deep pallor overspread his counte- 
nance . . . Then, though he did not speak, his eyes, 
which had been so long nearly quenched, rekindled , with 
their former lustre and beauty; his spirit seemed to be con- 
seious that it was approaching the Spirit-land,” And yet 
there are those who are wont to exclaim, ‘‘a soul! a soul! 
what is that?’’ Happy indeed are they who are conscious of 
its existence in themselyes, and who can see it in others, 
every instant of time during their lives! 

Audubon's first publication. perhaps, was in 1826—an ac- 
count of the turkey buzzard, in the ‘‘Hdinburgh New Philo- 
sophical Journal,” and some other minor notices came from 
his pen’ But his energies were already focused on his life 
work, with that intense und perfect absorption of self which 
ouly genius knows. The first volume of the magnificent 
folio plates, an hundred in number, appeared in 1827-30, in 
five parts; the second, in 1831-34, of the same number of 
plates; the third, im 1834-35, likewise of the same number 
of plates; the whole series of 4 volumes, 87 parts, 435 plates 
and 1065 figures of birds, being completed in June, 1839. 
Meanwhile, the text of the ‘Birds of America,” entitled 
“Ornithological Biography,” was steadily progressing, the 

first of these royal octavo volumes appearing in 1831, the 
fifth and last in 1839. In this latter year also appeared the 
“Synopsis of the Birds of North America,” a single handy 
yoluime serving as a systematic index to the whole work, In 
1840-44 appeared the standard octayo edition in seven vol- 
umes, with the plates reduced to octavo size and tlie text re- 
arranged systematically; with a later and better nomencla- 
ture than that piven in the ‘Ornithological Biography” and 
some other changes, including an appendix describing vari- 
ous new species procured during the author’s journey to the 
upper Missouri in 1843. In the original elephant folios 
there were 435 plates; with the reduction in size the number 
was raised to 483, by the separation of yarious figures which 
had previously occupied the same plate; and to these 17 new 
ones were added, making 500 in all. The species of birds 
treated in the Synopsis are 491 in number; those in the work, 
as it finally left the illustrious author’s hands, are 506 in 
number, nearly all of them splendidly figured in colors. 

In estimating the infinence of so grand an accomplishment 
as this, we must not Jeaye Audubon “alone in his glory.” 
Vivid and ardent as was his genius, matchless as he was 
both with pen and pencil in giying life and spirit to the 
beautiful objects he delineated with passionate love, there 
was a strong and patient worker by his side—William Mac- 
gillivray, the countryman of Wilson, destined to lend the 
sturdy Scotch fiber to an Audubonian epoch. The brilliant 
French-American naturalist was little of a “scientist,” Of 
bis work, the magical beauties of form and color and move- 
ment are all his; his work is redolent of Nature's fragrance: 
but Macgillivray’s are the bone and sinew, the hidden ana- 
tomical parts beneath the lovely face, the nomenclature, the 
classification—in a word, the technicalities of the science. 
Not that Maegillivray was only a closet-naturalist; he was a 
naturalist inthe best sense—in every sense—of the word, 
and the ‘‘vital spark” is-gleaming all through his works 
upon British birds, showing his intense and Joyal love of 
Nature in all her moods. But his place in the Audubonian 
epoch in American ornithology is as has been said. The 
anatomical structure of American birds was first disclosed 
in any systematic manner, and to any considerable extent, 
by him. But only to-day, as it were, is this most important 
department of ornithology assuming its rightful place; and 
haye we a modern Macgillivray to come? 

The sensuous beauty with which Audubon endowed the 
object of his life was long in acquiring, with loss of no 
comeliness, the aspect more strict and severe of a later and 
maturer epoch. Audubon was practically accomplished in 
1844, the year which saw his completed work; but I note no 
special or material change in the course of events—no name 
of assured prominence, till 18538, when a new régime, that 
had meanwhile been insensibly established, may be consid- 
ered to haye closed the Audubonian epoch—the Audubonian 
period thus extending through the nine vears after 1844, 

While Audubon was finishing, several mentionable events 
occurred. I have alreadyspoken of Bonaparte’s ‘‘List’”’ of 
1838, and ofthe 1840 edition of Nuttall’s ‘‘Manual.” Rich- 
ardson in 1887 contributed to the Report of the Sixth Meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 
an elaborate and important ‘Report on North American 
Zoology” relating in due part to birds. The distinguished 
Danish naturalist, Reinhardt, wrote a special treatise on 
Greenland Birds, 1888; W, O, Peabody one upon the birds 
of Massachusetts, 1889. The important Zoology of Captain 
Beechy’s Voyage appeared in 1839, with the birds done by 
NN. A. Vigors. Maximilian, Prince of Wied, published his 

«Reise in das Innere Nord-America” in 1839-41. Sixteen 
uew species of birds from Texas were described and figured 
by J, P. Giraud in 1841, and the same author's useful ‘‘Birds 
of Long Island” was published in 1844, This year also the 
bird volume of DeKay’s ‘‘Zoology of New York.” The 
Rey. J. H. Linsley furnished a notable catalogue of the birds 
of Connecticut in 1843. A name intimately associated with 
Audubon's is that of J, C. Townsend , whose fruitful travels 
in the West in compauy with Nuttall in 1834 resulted in ad- 
ding to our list the many new species which were published 
by Townsend himself in 1837, and also utilized by Audubon. 
Townsend’s “Narrative” of liis journey appeared in 1838; 
and the same year saw the beginning of a great work which 
Townsend projected, an ‘Ornithology of the United States,” 
which, however, progressed no further than one part or 
number, being killed by the octayo edition of Audubon. In 
1837 I first find the name of 4 friend of Audubon which 
often appears in his work—that of Dr. Thomas Mayo 
Brewer, who wrote on the birds’ of Massachusetts in this 

ear, and in 1840 brought out his useful and convenient 
duodecimo edition of Wilson in one volume, In 1844, Aud- 
ubon’s last effectual year, the brothers Wm. M. and S. F. 
Baird appear, with a list of the birds of Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
vania, having the year previously, in July, 1843, described 
two uew species of fly-catchers, in the first paper ever 
written by the one who was to make the succeeding epoch; 
and il is significant that the last birdin Audubon’s work 
was named “Hiynberiza bavrdti.” 
Such were the aspects of the ornithological sky as the 


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florious Audubonian sun approached and passed the zenith; 
still more significant were the signs of the times as that orb 
neared its golden western horizon, In the interval between 
1844 and 1853, Baird and Brewer continued; Cassin and 
Lawrence appeared in various papers, and round these names 
are grouped those of William Gambel, with new and _ inter- 
esting observations in the Southwest; of George A, McCall 
and 8. W. Woodhouse in the same connection; and of Hol- 
boll in respect of Greenland birds. The most important con- 
tributions were the seyeral papers published by Gambel, in 
1845 and subsequently, and Baird’s Zoology of Stansbury’s 
expedition, 1852. But no period-marking, still less epoch- 
making, work accelerates the setting of the sun of Audubon, 


Tits BarrprAn EpocH: 1853-18— 
(1853—1858,) 

The Cassinian Period.—W hile much material was accumu- 
lating from the exploration of the great West, and the Baird- 
ian period was rapidly nearing; while Brewer and Lawrence 
were continuing their studies and writings, and many other 
names of lesser note were contributing their several shares 
to the whole result; the figure of John Cassin stands promi- 
nent. Cassin was born September 6, 1813, and passed from 
view in the Quaker City, January 10, 1869. Numerous 
valuable papers and several’ important works attest the 
assiduity and success with which he cultivated his favorite 
science to the end of his days. Ithink that his first paper 
was the description of a new hawk, Oymindis Wilsoni, in 
1847. Among his most important works are the Ornithology 
of the Wilke’s exploring expedition; of the Perry Japan ex- 
pedition; and of the Gilliss Expedition to Chili, Aside from 
bis strong co-operationSwith Baird in the great work to be 
presently noticed, Cassin’s seal is set upon North American 
ornithology in the beautiful work begun in 1853 and finished 
in 1856, entitled, ‘Illustrations of the Birds of California,” 
etc., forming a large octayo volume, illustrated with fifty 
colored plates. His distinctive place in ornithology is this: 
he was the only ornithologist this country has ever produced 
who was as familiar with the birds of the Old World as with 
those of America, Enjoying the facilities of the then un- 
rivalled collection’of the Philadelphia Academy, his, mono- 
graphical studies were pushed into almost every group 
of birds of the world at large. He was patient and laborious 
in the technic of his art, and full of book-learning in the 
history of his subject; with the result, that the Cassinian 
period, largely by the work of Cassin himself, is marked by 
its ‘‘bookishness,” by its breadth and scope in ornithology at 
large, and by the first decided change since Audubon in the 
aspect of the classification and nomenclature of the birds of 
our country, The Cassinian period marks the culmination 
of the changes that wrought the fall of the Audubonian 
sceptre in all that relates to the technicalities of the science 
and consequently the beginning of a new epoch. 

- The peers of this period are only three—Lawrence, Brewer 

and Baird, The former of these, already an eminent orni- 
thologist, continued his rapidly succeeding papers and was 
preparing his share of Baird’s great work of 1858; though 
later his attention became so closely fixed upon the birds of 
Central and South America, that a ‘“Lawrencian period” is 
to be found in the history of the ornithology of those 
countries rather than of our own. Dy. Brewer's various 
articles appeared, and in 1857 this author so well known 
since Audubonian times became the recognized leading 
oologist of North America, through the publication of the 
first part of his “North American Oology’—a work unfor- 
tunately suspended at this point. Though thus fragmentary, 
this quarto volume stands as the first systematic treatise, 
published in this country exclusively devoted to oology, and 
giving a considerable series of colored illustrations of eggs. 
But a larger measure of the world’s regard became his much 
later, when, in 1874, appeared the great ‘‘History of North 
American Birds,” in three quarto volumes, all the bio- 
graphical matter of which was by him; and, even as I write, 
two more volumes are about to appear, in which he has like 
large share. ‘Thus closely is the name of Brewer identified 
with the progress of the science for nearly half a century— 
from 1837 at least, to 1884, some four years after his death, 
which occurred January 23, 1880, He was born in Boston, 
November 21, 1814. 

Baird published little during the Cassinian period, being 
then intent upon the great work about to appear; but the 
number of workers in special fields attests the activity of the 
times. S. W. Woodhouse published his completed observa- 
tions upon the birds of the Southwest in an illustrated octavo 
volume. Zadock Thompson’s ‘‘Natural History of Vermont” 
(1858) pays attention to the birds of that State. Birds of 
Wisconsin were catalogued by P. K. Hoy; of Ohio, M. C. 
Read and Robert Kennicot; of [linois, by H. Pratten; of 
Indiana, by R. Haymond; of Massachusetts, by F. W. Put- 
nam; and various other ‘‘faunal lists” and loca] annotations 
appeared, including President Jefferson’s Virginian ornitho- 
logy, three-quarters of a century out of date. Dr, T. C, 
Henry and Dr. A, L, Heermann wrote upon birds of the 
Southwest; Reinhardt continued observations on Greenland 
birds; Dr. Henry Bryant published some valuable papers. 
The since yery eminent English ornithologist, Dr. P. 1. 
Sclater, appeared during this period in the present con 
nection. The series of Pacific Railroad Reports, which 
were to culminate, so far as ornithology is concerned, with 
the famous ninth volume, were in progress; the sixth yolume, 
containing Dr. J. 8, Newberrys’s valuable and interesting 
article upon the birds of California and Oregon, was pub- 
lished in 1857. Thus the Cassinian period, besides being 
marked as already said in its broader features, was notable 
in its details for the increase in the number of active workers, 
the extent and yariety of their independent observations, and 
the consequent accumulation of materials ready to be 
worked into shape and system, 

(1858—18—), 

The Bairdian Pertod.—The ninth volume of the Pacific 
Railroad Reports was an epoch-making work, bearing thesame 
relation to the times that the respective works of Audubon 
and Wilson had sustained in former years. A great amount 
of material—not all of which ismore than hinted at in in the 
foregoing paragraph—was at the service of Professor Baird. 
In the hands of a Jess methodical, learned, and sagacious 
naturalist, of one less capable of elaborating and system- 
atizing, the result would probably have been an ordinary 
official report upon the collections of birds secured during a 
few years by the naturalists of the several exploralions and 
surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi Valley 
to the Pacific Ocean. But haying already transformed the 
eighth yolume of the Reports from such a ‘‘public document” 
into a systematic treatise on North American Mammals, the 
author did the same for the birds of North America, with 
the co-operation of Cassin and Lawrence, This portly quarto 
volume, published in 1858. represents the most important 


and decided single step ever taken in North American orni- 
thology in all that relates to the technicalities of the science, 
It effected a revolution—one already imminent in con- 
sequence of Cassin’s studies—in classification and nomencla- 
ture, nearly all the names of our birds which had been in 
use in the Audubonian epoch being’ changed in accordance 
with more modern usages in peneric and specific determina- 
tions, While the work contains no biographical matter— 
nothing of the life-history of birds, it gives lucid and exact 
diagnoses of the species and genera known at the time, with 
copious synonymy and critical commentary. Various new 
genera are characterized, and many new species are described. 
The influence of the great work was immediate and wide- 
spread, and for many years the list of numes of the 738 
species contained in the work remained astandard of nomen 
clature from which few desired or indeed were in position to 
deviate. The value of the work was further enhanced in 
1860 by its republication, identical in the text, but with the 
addition of an atlas of 300 colored plates. Many of these 
plates were the same as those which had appeared in other 
volumes of the Pacific Railroad Reports, notably the sixth 
and tenth and twelfth (the two latter volumes having ap- 
ae in 1859); others were those contuined in the ‘‘Mexican 

oundary Report” which appeared under Professor Baird’s 
editorship in 1859; about half of them were new. 

LT have spoken of the collaboration of Cassin and Lawrence 
in the production of this remarkable treatise. Considering 
it. as only one of a series of reports upon the Pacific Railroad 
Surveys, I should bring into somewhat of association the 
names of others who contributed the ornithological portions 
of other volumes, as the fourth, sixth, tenth and twelfth— 
Dr. ©. B, R. Kennedy, Dr. J. 8. Newberry, Dr. J. G. Cooper 
and Dr. George Suckley. Nor should it be forgotton that 
numberless other collectors and contributors, whose speci- 
mens are catalosued throughout the yolume, brought 
their hands to bear upon the erection of this grand monu- 
ment, 

But what of the genius of this work?—for I have not 
measured my words in speaking of Wilson and Audubon. 
Can any work be really great without that mysterious qual 
ity? Certainly not. This work is instinct with the genius 
of the times that saw its birth. This work 1s the spirit of an 
epoch embodied, 

But here I must pause. My little sketch is brought upou 
the threshold of contemporaneous history—to the beginning 
of the Bairdian period, of the close of which, as of the dura- 
tion of the Bairdian epoch, it is not for me to speak. When 
the splendid achievements of American ornithologists during 
the past quarter of a century shall be seen in historical per- 
spective; when the brilliant possibilities of our near future 
shall have become the realizations of a past; when the glow- 
ing names that went before shall have fired another genera- 
tion with a noble zeal, « lofty purpose and a generous emula- 
tion—then perhaps, the thread here dropped may be recoy- 
ered by another hand. 


THE SPIKEHORN. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In one of the elaborate and highly interesting papers on 
“Deer in the Adirondacks,” by Dr. Merriam, published in 
your journal of May 8, the’subject of the spikehorn deer is 
treated at considerable length. In the article in question, a 
quotation is given frem the ‘““Antelope and Deer of Amer- 
ica,” by Judge Caton, whose truly exhaustive treatise I have 
read with singular pleasure and profit. Iam well aware of 
Judge Caton’s ability to give a sound, scientlfic and practi- 
cal opinion upon any point connected with the morphology 
of the genus Cervide, and it is with much diffidence that I 
venture to differ with such a learned and distinguished 
specialist, in so faras the spikehorn is concerned. Judge 
Caton holds that the spikehorn is a yearling, or only a youny 
animal. : 

In that portion of my paper on the ‘Deer of the Ottawa 
Valley,” published in Formsr AnD Stream on the 27th of 
March last, I gave a brief description of the spikehorned deer, 
as | have found him, seen him, known him and shot him, at 
various times during the last forty years. The peculiarities 
of this elegant deviation in that beautiful branch of thé deer 
family, specifically designated Cereus virginianus, as given in 
the article to which I haye referred, 1 believe, and know from 
the experience of others,and my own experience and research, 
to be substantially and literally correct. Imay repeat, that the 
spikehorned buck, as we have him here in Canada, is shorter 
in the legs, rounder and thicker in the body, and hasa much 
more elegantly shaped head than the buck of the generic 
animal with branching horns. The venison of the spikehorn 
is much finer and more delicious than the other, The buck 
of the spikehorned variety—if the term legitimately applies— 
has usually straight horns, from six inches to a foot long, 
sharp-pointed and prongless, set backward on a line with the 
face, Occassionally, however, the horns are found slightly 
curved inward, in which case they are far less formidable 
weapons than such as are perfectly straight. The spilze- 
horn grows to fully 200 pounds in weight, as he stands. 
No Virginian deer of one, two, or three years old attains this 
weight, 

By those well acquainted with this deer, even ihe doe of 
the spikehorn class can readily be distinguished by her char- 
acteristic peculiarities. The track of this animal ean also 
be distinguished from the track of the branching horn, being 
somewhat rounder and less pointed, 

Ido not know how many Virginian deer Judge Caton may 
have had altogether in his acclimatization srounds; but I 
believe it quite possible that even among hundreds kept in a 
state of domestication he may not have had asingle specimen 
of the true spikehorn. 

The spikehorn has always been a puzzle to me; neverthe- 
less, there he is. I cannot ignore his existence, notwith- 
standing the fact that it is almost a species of zoological 
heresy to question the experimental deductions of such a 
well-established authority as Judge Oaton, 

There may be, after all, Some grounds for the story of the 
spikehorns driving the branch-antlered deer out of the Adir- 
ondacks. ‘There can be no question whatever as to the fight- 
ing capabilities of the former. I believe that the moose, or 
even the wapiti, would be compelled to fly from his danger- 
ous attack, as the bison has to retreat from the battering 
charge of the ponderously-horned Rocky Mountain cimmar- 
ron, or the domestic bull from the ordinary tame ram. 

I have written this letter, not through any feeling of a 
captious nature or in the spirit of dogmatism. I have been 
simply endeavoring to prevent my old and beautifully-inter- 
esting acquaintance, the spikehorned buck of the Ottawa 
Valley, from being scientifically exterminated. 

Wo. P. Lev, 

Orpawa, May 17, 1884, 


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_ PE Witter Breppine in DELAWARE BAy.—For the 
information of ‘‘Homo” I would say that on one of my col- 
lecting tramps (May 19) I discovered a nest of the willet 
(Symphemia semipalmata) containing three beautiful fresh 
eggs, and they now form a valuable addition to my collec- 
tion. This nest was found in the long grass on the marsh, 
near the Warner house, on the Delaware Bay, and what we 
Jerseymen call Big Island. The mother bird wouid not leave 
her nest until 1 had my hand almost upon her. This is the 
first nest of the willet [have ever found, and I have collected 
in the same locality for several years.—Cuas. E, BunLows, 
Pu. G, (Bridgeton, N, J., June 2, 1884). 


. HEatTep SPARROWS.—Hollidaysburg, Pa,—While stand- 
Ing in the casting house of a blast furnace at this place I 
Witnessed a striking illustration of the well-known pugnacity 
of the common English sparrow, The two birds engaged in 
the battle fell from the rafters of the building to the heated 
surface of a large cake of slag, on which they continued to 


fight, until a distinct smell of scorching feathers was no- 
ticed, when a workman with a broom served them notice to 


quit.— J UNIATA. 


Game Bag and Gur. 


EARLY ACCOUNTS OF THE GRIZZLY. 


HE exploring expedition of Captains Lewis and Clarke 
across the western territory of the United States, along 
the Missouri and Columbia rivers, early in the present cen- 
tury, probably gives the earliest description of the grizzly 
bear now accessible. Thinking some extracts from their 
journal may prove interesting to readers of the Fornst AnD 
STREAM, after the lapse of cighty years from the time the 
incidents occurred, I have compiled the following pertaining 
to the animal named: 

The expedition set out from the mouth of the Wood River, 
hear St. Louis, Mo., May i4, 1804. It consisted of the 
officers of the United States Army above named, and forty- 
two men, provided with three boats of twenty-two, seven 
and six oars respectively, with sails to be used when practi- 
cable,and two horses, ‘‘to be led along the banks of the river.” 
Those who have seen the Missouri River need not be told 
that progress up its turbid current, with row or sail boats, 
was very tedious. 

The first mention of the grizzly occurs October 20, when 
they were just aboye the mouth of Cannonball River, in 
speaking of the game observed: ‘“‘We have seen great 
numbers of elk, deer, goats and buffalo, and the usual attend- 
ants of these last, the wolves, who follow their movements, 
and feed upon those who die by accident, or who are too 
poor to keep pace with the herd; we also wounded a white 
bear, and saw some fresh tracks of those animals, which are 
twice as large as the track of a man,” 

No further mention of the grizzly is madethat year. Novy. 
8, they established winter quarters about midway between 
the mouth of Cannonball River and that of the Little Mis- 
- gouri River; built cabins protected by a stockade and called 
it Fort Mandan. More or less of the men were engaged in 
hunting most of the winter but no ‘mention of bears occurs. 
April 7, 1805, the expedition resumed its tedious voyage up 
the Missouri, April 10 they ‘‘saw the track of a large white 
bear.”’ April 13, ‘‘two white bears were seen.’”’ April 17: 
‘Around us are great quantities of game, such as herds of 
buftalo, elk, antelope, some deer and wolves, and the tracks 


of bears.”’ April 27 they passed the mouth of Yellowstone 
River. 
April 29: * * “Capt. Lewis,who was on shore with one 


hunter, met about 8 o’clock two white bears. Of the strength 
and ferocity of this animal the Indians had given us dread- 
ful,accounts; they never attack him but in parties of six or 
eight persons, and even then are often defeated, with the loss 
of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows 
and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply 
them, they are obliged to approach very near to the bear, 
and as no wound except through the head or heart is mortal, 
they frequently fall a sacrifice if they miss their aim. He 
rather attacks than avoids man; and such is the terror he has 
inspired that the Indians who go in quest of him paint them- 
selves, and perform all the superstitious rites customary 
when they make war on a neighboring nation. Hitherto 
those we had seen did not appear desirous of encountering 
us; but, although to a skillful rifleman the danger is very 
much diminished, the white bear is still a terrible animal. 
On approaching these two, both Capt. Lewis and the. hunter 
fired, and each wounded a bear. One of them made his 
escape; the other turned upon Capt. Lewis, and pursued 
him for seventy or eighty yards; but being badly wounded 
he could not run so fast as to prevent him from reloading 
his piece, which he again aimed at him, and a third shot 
from the hunter brought him to the ground. Itwas a male, 
not quite full grown, and weighed about three hundred 
pounds; the legs were somewhat longer than those of the 
black bear, and the claws and tusks much larger and longer. 
Its color was a yellowish brown, the eyes small, black and 
piercing. The front of the fore legs of the animal, near the 
feet, is usually black, and the fur is finer, thicker and deeper 
than that of the black bear; added to which, if is a more 
furious animal, and very remarkable for the wounds which 
it will bear without dying.” 

May 6: ‘‘Captain Clarke and one of the hunters met this 
evening the largest brown bear we have seen. As they fired 
he did not attempt to attack, but fled with a most tremen- 
dous roar; and such was his tenacity of life, that although 
he had five balls passed through his lungs, and five other 
wounds, he swam more than half across the river to a sand- 
bar, and survived twenty minutes. He weighed between 
five and six hundred pounds at least and measured eight 
feet seyen inches and a half from the nose to the extremity 
of the hind feet, five feet ten inches and a half round the 
breast, three feet eleven inches around the neck, one foot 
eleyen inches round the middle of the foreleg, and his claws, 
five on each foot, were four inches and three-eighths in 
length, This animal differs from the common black bear in 
having his claws much longer and more blunt; his tail 
shorter; his hair of a reddish or bay brown, longer, finer 
and more abundant, his liver, lungs and heart much Jarger 
even in proportion to his size, the heart particularly, being 
equal to that of a large ox; and his maw ten times larger. 
Besides fish and flesh he feeds on roots and every kind of 
wild fruit.” 

May ii: * * ‘About Sin the afternoon one of our men 
* * camerunning to the boats with loud cries and every 
symptom of terror and distress, Forsome time after we had 
taken him on board he was so much out of breath as to be 


unable to describe the cause of his anxiety; but he at length 


told us that about a mile and a half below he had shot a 
brown bear, which immediately turned, and was in close 
pursuit of him; though, being badly wounded, he could not 
overtake him. Oaptain Lewis, with seven men, immediately 
went in search of him; and having found his track, followed 
him by the blood for a mile, found him concealed in some 
thick brushwood and shot him with two balls through the 
skull. Though somewhat smaller than that killed a few 
days ago, he was a monstrous animal, and a most terrible 
enemy. Our man had shot him through the center of the 
lungs; yet he had pursued him furiously for half a mile, then 
returned more than twice that distance, and with his paws 
had prepared himself a bed in the earth two fect deep and 
five feet long, and was perfectly alive when they found him, 
which was at least two hours after he recciyed the wound. 
The wonderful powers of life which these animals possess 
render them dreadful; their very track in the mud or sand, 
which we have sometimes found eleven inches long, and 
seven and a quarter wide, exclusive of the claws, is alarm- 
ing; and we had rather encounter two Indians than meet a 
single brown bear, There is no chance of killing them by a 
single shot unless the ball goes through the brains, and this 
is very difficult on account of two large muscles which cover 
the side of the forehead, and the sharp projection of the 
center of the frontal bone, which is also thick. ‘The fleece 
and skin of this bear were a heavy burden for two.men, and 
the oil amounted to eight gallons.” 

May 14: * * “Toward evening the men in the hind- 
most canoes discovered a large brown bear lying in the open 
grounds, about three hundred paces from the river. ~ Six of 
them, all good hunters, immediately went to attack him, 
and concealing themselves by a small eminence, camé un- 
pereeived within forty paces of him. Four of the hunters 
fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them di- 
rectly through the lungs. The furious animal sprang up 
and ran open-mouthed upon them. As he came near, the 
two hunters who had reserved their fire gaye him two 
wounds, one of which, breaking his shoulder, retarded his 
motion for a moment, but before they could reload he was 
so near that they were obliged to run to the river, and before 
they had reached it he had almost overtaken them. Two 
jumped into the canoe, the other four separated, and con- 
cealing themselves in the willows, fired as fast as they could 
reload. They struck him several times, but instead of weak- 
ening the monster, each shot seemed only to direct him toward 


the hunters, till at last he pursued two of them so closely 


that they threw aside their guns and pouches and jumped 
down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; 
the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the 
hindmost, when one of the hunters on shore shot him in 
the head and finally killed him. They dragged him to the 
shore and found that eight balls had passed through him in 
different directions,” 

May 19:. * * ‘Our game consisted of deer, beaver and 
elk; we also killed a brown bear, which, although shot 
through the heart, ran at their usual pace nearly a quarter 
of a mile before he fell.” 

May 22: * * ‘We killed a dear and a bear; we have not 
seen in this quarter the black bear, common in the United 
States and on the lower parts of the Missouri, nor have we 
discerned any of their tracks, which may easily be distin- 
guished by the shortness of its claws from the brown, griz- 
zly or white bear, all of wnich seem to be of the same family, 
assuming those colors at different seasons of the year.” This 
is the first reference to the animal under the name grizzly, 
This was just below the mouth of Judith River. 

June 2: * * ‘The hunters who were out the greater part 
of the day, brought in six elk, two buffalo, two mule-deer, 
and a bear. This last animal had nearly cost us the lives of 
two of our hunters, who were together wher he attacked 
them, One of them narrowly escaped being caught, and the 
other, after running a considerable distance, concealed him- 
self in some thick bushes, and, while the bear was in quick 
pursuit of his hiding place, his companion came up, and for- 
tunately shot the animal through the head.” 

June 14; Captain Lewis, alone at the time, was exploring 
the country about the falls of the Missouri when ‘‘he met a 
herd of at least a thousand buffalo, and, being desirous of 
providing for supper, shot one of them. The animal im- 
mediately began to bleed, and Captain Lewis, who had for- 
gotten to reload his rifle, was intently watching to see him 
fall, when he beheld a large brown bear which was stealing 
on him unperceived, and was already within twenty steps. 
In the first moment of surprise he lifted his rifle; butremem- 
bering instantly that it was not charged, and that he had no 
time to reload, he felt that there was no safety but in flight. 
it was in the open, level plain; not a bush nor a tree within 
three hundred yards; the bank of the river sloping, and not 
more than three feet high, so that there was no possible mode 
of concealment. Captain Lewis, therefore, thought of re- 
treating with a quick walk, as far as the hear advanced, to- 
ward the nearest tree; but, as soon as he turned, the bear 
rushed open-mouthed, and at full speed, upon him. Captain 
Lewis ran about eighty yards; but, finding that the animal 
gained on him fast, it flashed on his mind that, by getting 
into the water to such a depth that the bear would be obliged 
to attack him swimming, there was still some chance for his 
life; he therefore turned short, plunged into the river about 
waist deep, and, facing about, presented the point of his 
spoutoon. The béar arrived at the water’s edge within 
twenty feet of him; but, as soon as he put himself in this 
posture of defense, he seemed frightened, and, wheeling 
about, retreated with as much precipitation as he had ad- 
vanced. Very glad to be released from danger, Captain 
Lewis returned to the shore, and observed him run with 
great speed, sometimes looking back, as if he expected to be 
pursued, till he reached the woods. He could not conceive 
the cause of the sudden alarm of the bear, but congratulated 
himself on his escape, when he saw his own track torn to 
pieces by the furious animal; and he learned from the whole 
adventure never to suffer his rifle to be for a moment un- 
loaded.” 

June 25: * * ‘J. Fields was sent up the Missouri to 
hunt elk; but he returned about noon and informed us that, 
a few miles above, he saw two white bears near the river, 
and, while attempting to fire at them, there came suddenly a 
third, which, being only a few steps off, immediately at- 
tacked him; that, in running to escape from the monster, he 
leaped down a steep bank of the river, where, falling on a 
bar of stone, he cut his hand and knee, and bent his gun; 
but ; fortunately for him, the bank concealed him from his 
antagonist, or he would have been most probably lost.” 

June 27: The hunting party killed nine elk and three 
bears. ‘‘As they were hunting on the river, they saw a low 
ground coyered with thick bushwood, where, from the tracks 
along the shore, they thought a bear had probably taken 


refuge; they therefore landed without making any noise, and 
climbed a tree about twenty feet above the ground, Having 
fixed themselyes securely, they raised a shout, and a bear 
instantly rushed toward them, These animals never climb, 
and, therefore, when he came to the tree and stopped to 
look at them, Drewyer shot him in the head. He proved to 
be the largest we had yet seen; his head appeared to be like 
that of a common ox; his fore feet measured nine inches 
across, and his hind feet were seven inches wide, and eleven 
and three quarters long, exclusive of the claws. 
these animals came within thirty yards of the camp last 
night, and carried off some buffalo meat which we had 
placed on a pele.” 

July 3: “Having completed our celestial obseryations, 
(this was at the head of the Great Falls of the Missouri) we 
went over to the large island to make an attack upon its 
inhabitants, the bears, which have annoyed us very much of 
late, and were prowling about our camp last night. We 
found that part of the island frequented by the bear forms 
an almost impenetrable thicket of the broad-leafed willow; 
into this we forced our way in parties of three, but could 
see only one bear, which instantly altacked Drewyer. For- 
tunately, as he was rushing on, the hunter shot him through 
the heart within twenty paces, and he fell, which enabled 
Drewyer to get out of his way; we then followed him one 
hundred yards and found that the wound had been mortal. 
Not being able to discover any more of these animals we 
returned to camp.” 

July 24: * * ‘We saw a large bear, but could not 
come within gunshot of him.” Again, woder the same date, 
“On this island we saw a large brown bear, but he retreated 
to the shore, and ran off before we could approach him. 
These animals seem more shy than they were below the 
mountains.” ‘The expedition was now in the neighborhood 
of the Three Forks of the Missouri, and bears are rureiy 
mentioned. They appear to have been very numerous from 
the mouth of Judith River upward to the head of the Great 
Falls of the Missouri. 

July 25: * * “While crossing the island they killed 
two brown bears, and saw great numbers of beaver.” 

On Aug. 26, the expedition passed over the summit of the 
Rocky Mountains and reached the waters of the Columbia, 
From here onward game was very scarce and bears sre not 
mentioned at all. Horses, dogs and roots procured from the 
Indians, became the chief food. Novy. 16 they reached the 
mouth of the Columbia. A few days later they established 
winter quarters a few miles south of the Columbia, on the 
sea coast, naming it Fort Clatsop, 

March 22, 1806, the return march was begun, retracing 
substantially the route pursued in going west the year before. 
On May 14, when well up toward the head waters of the 
Columbia, the journal says: ‘The hunters killed some 
pheasants, two squirrels and a male and female bear, the 
first of which was large and fat and of a bay color; the 
second meager, grizzly, and of a smaller size. They were 
of the species common to the upper part of the Missouri, 
and might well be termed the variegated bear, for they are 
found occasionally of a black, grizzly, brown, or red color, 
There is every reason to believe that they are of precisely 
the same species. Those of different colors are sometimes 
killed together, as in the case of these two, and as we had 
found the white and bay associated together on the Missouri; 
some nearly white were seen in this neighborhood by the 
hunters. Indeed, it is not common to find any two bears of 
the same color; and if difference of color were allowed to 
constitute a distinct species, the number would be increased 
to almost twenty. Soon after they killed a female bear with 
two cubs. The mother was black, with a considerable in- 
termixture of white hairs, and a white spot on her breast. 
One of the cubs was jet black, and the other of a light red- 
dish brown or bay color. The fur of these variegated bears 
is much finer, longer, and more abundant than that of the 
common black bear; but the most striking difference be- 
tween them is that the former are larger, have longer tusks, 
and larger as well as blunter claws; that they prey more on 
other animals; and that they lie neither-so long nor so closely 
in winter quarters, and never climb a tree, however closely 
pressed by the hunters, The variegated bear here, though 
specifically the same with those we met on the Missouri, are 
by no means so ferocious, probably because the scarcity of 
game and the habit of living on roots may haye weaned 
them from attacking and devouring animals, Still, how- 
ever, they are not so passive as the common black bear, 
which are also found: here; for they had fought with our 
liunters, though with less fury than those on the other side 
of the mountains.” ; n 

May 31: ‘“Two men visited the Indian village where they 
purchased a dressed bear skin of a uniform pale reddish 
brown color, which the Indians called yaekah, in contradis- 
tinction to Aohhost, or the white bear. This induced us to 
inquire more particularly into their opinions as to the several 
species of bears; and we produced all the skins of that ani- 
mal which we had purchased, The natives immediately 
classed the white, the deep andthe pale grizzly red, the 
grizzly dark brown, in short, all those with the extremeties 
of the hair of a white or frosty color, without regard to the 
color of the ground of the fur, under the name of hohhost. 
They assured us that they were all of the same species with 
the white bear; that they associated together, had longer 
nails than the others, and never climbed trees. On the other 
hand, the animals with black skins, those which were black 
with a number of entire white hairs intermixed, or with a 
white breast, the uniform bay, and the brown and light red- 
dish brown, they ranged under the class yackah, end said 
they resembled each other in being smaller, in haying shorter 
nails than the white bear, in climbing trees, and in being so 
little vicious that they could be pursued with safety. ‘This 
distinction of the Indians seemed to be well founded, and we 
were inclined to believe, first, that the white or grizzly bear 
of this neighborhood form a distinct species, which, more- 
over, are the same with those of the same color on the upper 
part of the Missouri, where the other species is not found, 
Second, that the black or reddish brown, ete., are a second 
species, equally distinct from the white bear of this country, 
and from the black bear on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, 
which last two seem to form only one species. The common 
black bear is indeed unknown in this country; for the bear 
of which we are speaking, though in most respects similar, 
differs from it in having much finer, thicker, and longer hair, 
with a greater proportion of fur mixed with it, and also in 
haying a variety of colors, while the common black bear has 
no intermixture or change of color, but is of a uniform black.” 

July 10: The expedition was now again on the head 
waters of the Missouri, and near the scene of their long delay 


of the year before at the Great Falls of that river, A party 


had been sent in advance with the camp and reported at night 
that “they had been pursued as they came along by 


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large bear, on which they were afraid to fire, lest their 
horses, being unaccustomed to the report of a gun, might 
take fright and throw them. This circumstance reminded 
us of the ferocity of these animals when we were before near 
this place, and admonished us to be very cautious.” 

July 15: “During the day we were engaged in drying 
meat and dressing skins, At night McNeal, who had been 
sent in the morning to examine the cache at the Jower end of 
the portage, returned, but had been prevented from reaching 
that place by a singular accident, Just as he arrived near 
Willow Run he approached a thicket of brush in which was 
a white bear, which he did not discover till he was within 
ten feet of him; when his horse started, and, wheeling sud 
denly round, threw him almost immediately under the ani- 
mal, McNeal started up instantly, and, finding the bear 
raising himself on his hind feet to attack him, struck him on 
the head with the butt end of his musket, The blow was so 
violent that if broke the breech of the musket and knocked 
the bear to the ground; and, before he recovered, McNeal 
sprang into a willow tree which he saw close by, and remained 
there, while the bear closely guarded the foot of it, till late 
in the afternoon. He then went off, when McNeal came 


_ down, and, having found his horse, which had strayed to 


the distance of two miles, returned to camp. These animals 
are, indeed, terribly ferocious; and it is matter of wonder, 
that in all our encounters with them we should have had 
the good fortune te escape unhurt.” 

July 16: * * “As we came along we met several white 
bears, but they did not venture to attack us,” From the 
head waters of the Columbia, Captain Clarke, with u portion 
ot the command, diverged southward, and crossing the head 
waters of the Missouri, reached the Yellowstone and de- 
scended that stream. Under date of July 31, narrating the 
progress of this division the journal says: ‘‘Having made 
sixty-six miles, they stopped for the night; and just as they 
lanaed, perceived a white bear, which was larger than any 
of the party had before seen, devouring a dead buffalo on a 
sand bar, Though they fired two balls into him, still he 
swam to the mainland and walked along the shore. Captain 
Clarke pursued him, and lodged two more balls in his body; 
he bled profusely, but still made his escape, as the night pre- 
yented them from following him.” 

Aug. 2: * * “The bear, which had given them so much 
trouble at the head of the Missouri, they found equally fierce 
here. [Along the Yellowstone,] One of these animals, which 
was on a sand bar as the boat passed, raised himself on his 
hind feet, and after looking at the party fora moment, 
plunged in and swam toward them; but, after receiving 
three balls in the body, he turned and made for the shore, 
Toward evening they saw another enter the water to swim 
across, When Captain Clarke directed the boat toward the 
shore, and just as the animal landed shot it in the head, It 
proved to be the largest female they had seen, and was so old 
that its tusks were worn quite smooth.” 

This is the last mention of the grizzly in the journal, The 
divided party reunited below the junction of the Missouri 
and Yellowstone and on Sept. 28, 1806, reached St. Louis. 

N. B. 


Denver, Colorado, 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your correspondent “‘Hammerless” in issue of May 15, 
must have yery limited chances of observation or else he has 
never really tried to find the gun that did not fall short of the 
target given by the maker. J have neyer yet tried an Ameri- 
can gun that didn’t make, with the proper load, as good, if 
not better target, than that given by the maker, Parker's 
guns are universally so, by common report among gun deal- 


ers and others who handle a great number of them. Reming- |. 


ton’s and Colt’s also usually make a better target than that 
marked on the tag, if properly loaded. I lay great stress 
upon the loading, as the pattern depends almost entirely 
upon that, and it is unreasonable to suppose that any gun 
will shoot in the same manner, regardless of gauge, length of 
barrels or choke. I have a 10-30-10 that has made the fol- 
lowing targets, off-hand shooting, which is not tle best way. 
Distances were measured: Forty yards, with five drams Eagle 
duck powder, one ounce No. 8 shot (my measure gives 460 
to ounce) 318 pellets in a 24-inch circle, 330 in a 24-inch 
square. At 50 yards, 244 in a 24-inch circle; using this time 
14 ounces of shot. I would have tried a 80-inch circle, but 
could get no paper Jarge enough, These are probably better 
than a long series of shots would average, but am satisfied 
that 1 can very nearly do as well every time. I consider 
that the secret of all this lies in the loading. I use two pink- 
cdge wads over powder, not quile duwn, the powder being 
left rather loose, In this way I can burn 63 drams in my 
gun every time and get the full force of the charge. I don’t 
want my powder all crushed to fine dust as I have seen done 
by forcing the wads down as hard as they can be driven. I 
have found by experiments, too, that coarse powder is better 
for pattern than fine, and as for close cover or snap shooting 
L use Electric, and find about the same pattern at 18 yards as 
With coarse Eagle Ducking at 40. Q. U. Am. 


ORLANDO, Fla, 


Eiditor Forest and Stream: 

I will have to give it up for the present that fire and gun- 
powder haye some kind of an understandiug mutually that 
under certain peculiar circumstances they lay aside their 
well-known antipathy to each other and occupy the same 
space at the same time without the one interfering with the 
other. ‘‘D, W. ©.,” in issue of May 15, says that this pecu- 
liar condition of affairs comes about when a gun is over- 
charged with coarse powder. ‘‘P.” says tbat the same thing 
happens when the rifle is overcharged with powder. These 
gentlemen would hardly write so pointedly and positively 
unless they had carefully experimented and proven their 
position absolutely, But have they experimented? IT am 
well aware that this inquiry casts a reflection, but the idea is 
simply so preposterous on its face is my excuse for asking 
the question. 1 have experimented in this line carefully, but 
perhaps crudely. *‘D. W. C.’s” own words, “‘a long blaze 
of burning powder,” should set the matter at rest, for how 
can in any possible way a grain of powder that did not take 
fire in the gun escape this *‘long blaze of burning powder?” 
By what hocus pocus do these two things occupy the same 
space at tl.e same time and the fire not explode the powder? 

I did not say, nor do I pretend to say, that-each and every 
grain of powder is entirely consumed in the gun when it. is 
overcharged and fired. 1 know that such is not the fact. 
But I did think I knew that each and every grain ‘‘took fire” 
and began to burn—explode—before it reached the muzzle of 
the gun, or, at least, before they got out of ‘‘the long stream 
of burying powder beyond the muzzle.” I said in this pxper, 
April 24, that gunpowder was a compound substance, made 


result that no powder has two 


up of three yery different things just simply mixed, with the 
rains exactly alike (the 
proofreader in the other article made mesay ‘‘things”’ instead 
of ‘‘grains,” in that way spoiling my meaning); some of 
them—the extremes—differing very muterially from others, 
Tf all the powder grains in a charge had exactly the same 
and the right proportions of saltpeter, sulphur and ¢harcoal, 
and these were mixed the same in each, then all would be 
changed into their gases in the samme length of time; but it is 
impossible to mix these three substances so intimately 
together in mass, that when the mass is grained into 
powder all will be the same. Some grains will 
be nearly pure sulphur, which we all know burns 
very slowly and does not explode, others will be sulphur and 
charcoal; they will also burn slowly, etc. These pellets of 
sulphur and of sulphur and charcoal will be projected from 
the muzzle of the gun afire, and fall to the ground afire. 
Here is a sample—fhe common 22-caliber, rim-fire cartridge, 
short, containing three graius of very fine and strong powder. 


1 have often seen when firing these froma 30-inch Ballard 


atter dusk, grains fall clear to the ground ablaze, Once I 
was standing up and firing this rifle over an open dish of 


powder—about a pound—from which a party were loading 


shells, The dish was about eight feet in front and six feet 
below the muzzle of the gun, when one of these sparks of 
slow-burning compound—we can't eall it powder—dropped 


into the dish and got up a regular “‘picnic” among some ten 


or fifteen of the boys, scorching some of them severely, Now, 
if there ever was a gun overcharged with coarse powder 


(FG), it was that tin cup. ButI think it all burned inside 
or outside of the cup, at least I do not recollect of an indi- 
vidual grain getting away. Possibly if there had been white 
paper spread around sufficiently, we might have gathered at 


least a charge or two. 
But why say more on this subject until after careful ex- 
periment. Assertions prove nothing. 1 shall experiment in 


this line as carefully as possible and if I find that [am wrong 


It may be that nearly all of us have been 


IT will own up, For if 
or if an 


wrong, been laboring under foolish delusions. 


overcharge of powder don’t all burn, we have been very 
foolish for thinking ihat our guns would ‘‘kick us heels over 
head” if we put in ten drams of powder instead of five, for 
according to this newer philosophy no more than five drams 


can possibly burn in a ten-bore gun. BYRNE. 


Lacon, Ill., May 17, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


I have just been testing my pair of wildfowl guns to see 
guns 
are of no use except for wildfowl, as they shoot so close at 
short distance as to tear quail or young chickens all to 


what I can get out of them. (Inclosed targets.) These 


pieces. I have just cleaned them up and put away till 


next November. 


long practice, It takes me three or four days every season 


before I get the hang of it, 


shooting I presume that my guns make as poor a pattern as 
aman could findin a month’s ride. 
for quail and most of the time on turkey. No one could 
persuade me to use a choke on quail over a dog, or even 
snipe, yet the mania for close-shooting guns increases. 1 
know hundreds who use 10-pound 10-bore close choke on 
quail when a 16 or 20-cylinder would be the weapon, 

MO. 
HENRIETTA, Tex. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Steam: q 

The articles on “‘Choice of Hunting Rifles” tell pretty 
plainly that the majority want a rifle with a bullet heavy 
enough for good execution and the flattest possible trajec- 


tory. In the May 22 number of Foresr anp Strrmam the 


article from “C. D.,” which overflows generally with good 
sound sense, contains one statement which is the object of 
this letter to disprove, viz.: ‘‘The number of repeaters thus 
far developed that fill the bill can be counted on the thumbs 
of a one-armed man,” and all ‘‘because they shoot with too 


high a trajectory, throw too much lead with too little pow- 


der.” Not Knowing what repeater is to he counted on that 
thumb, it is supposed to be the one that shoots the least lead 
with the most powder. Now let us see. It is the old, old 


story of condemning a good rifle on account of its ammuni- 
“C.D.” points it 
out all through his article, but at last does the very thing 
“There are times when a man has noth- 


tion or lack of ingenuity in preparing it, 


himself. He says: 
ing else to do, and he may very pleasantly and_ profitably 
inspect his ammunition. If he reloads it himself, then the 
reloading, if properly done, is an inspection.”” With the above 
I decidedly agree. I think I have loaded every shell I have 
used hunting for four years, and in doing so 1 keep in view 
a flat trajectory. I put in all of my .45-75 Winchester shells 
90 grains of powder and 300-grain bullet havtened 1 to 11; 
but what I prefer to dois to buy new cartridges, draw out 
the bullet and put in 20 grains of Hazard No. 3 ducking 
powder, and then seat the 300-grain bullet aforesaid. 

I do not know just the trajectory at 200 yards, but venture 
the assertion that it will compare favorably with any other. 
Another ihumb, please, 

I can take any empty government shell and Joad it with 
90 grains powder and the 300-grain Winchester bullet; but, 
better still, take out the bullet from a new cartridge and put 
in «5 grains of powder above named, or some equally as good, 
and seat the bullet. This I have repeatedly done and work 
them perfectly through the magazine. The recoil is not as 
much as before Chaneme, and they are perfectly safe in any 
rifles that will take the United States government shell, which 
are several, So several more thumbs are required, The 
last-described ammunition I used hunting deer with a Marlin 
rifle in Northern Minnesota three years ago. I do not know 
that the new .45-85-285 cartridges, so favorably spoken of and 
used and advertised by the Marlin Arms Company, was the 
result of my experience, but it tickles my vanily to know I 
led off “‘in that direction.” Two years ago, while huntin 
in Montana in company with a friend who had a 45-60 
Winchester, I had two rifles, the .45-75 Winchester, with 
modified ammunition, as before described, and a Hotchkiss, 
with 90-300 (government shell). After shooting over a deer’s 
back at 100 yards and under his belly at 200 yards until be 
got tired of it, I persuaded him .to try my Winchester and I 
would use the Hotchkiss. At the end of one day he was so 


pleased with the result that he wrapped his rifle up in a gum 
blanket and hid it in the sage brush and used mine the 


remainder of the hunt, 


I consider Tam at fault if I do not kill 
geese or ducks at 80 to 100 yards onthe wing. The chances 
of holding far enough ahead on swift game are great; it takes 


Red River for sixty miles is one 
vast bed of sand, making the best goose ground I know of 
this side of the Rockies, and from November till March a 
sportsman can get his fill of goose shooting. For other 


1 use a plain eylinder 


I wrote the Winchester Arms Company two years ago 
about loading 1,000 cartridges to order for me containing 90- 
300. They answered they would, but cash must accompany 
the order as the goods would be worthless for any one else, 
evidently thinking the inquiry came from a crank, Now, I 
certainly predict that in less than three years just such car- 
tridges will be on sale everywhere, the same as the .45-85-285 
are now (which, by the way, is nothing but the government 
sbell with modified charge, and not a special rifle, as a great 
many think), and such cartridges will not ‘tbe worthless for 
any one else.” 

In all my use of a Winchester I never got ‘‘balked,” ex= 
cept where it was clearly my own fault by reloading my shells 
so many times that they were swelled and would not enter 
the chamber or would not extract after firing. The .45-90 I 
prefer to the .40-90, for the reason. that when an animal is 
shot clean through, the .45 hole is the most deadly, one o 
your correspondents to the contrary notwithstanding. As for 
comparison of the recoils, trajectories, etc., ] know nothing, 
never having seen a ,40 90, but the recoil of the .45 90-300 is 
not so unpleasant as the .45-75-350 with the same weight of 
powder and lead as the express Winchester .50-caliber. Ts not 
the .45-caliber entitled to the name “express?” I think so, 

C, M. SxiInNER, 
MrInnespouts, Minn, 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


| aur urge living in the section of Pennsylvania lately 
visited by forest fires state that damage has been done 
to the ruffed grouse of that section, One farmer, who re- 
sides about ten miles from the Lehigh River, told your cor- 
respondent he had found two or three nests of scorched and 
deserted eggs, and from all I could learn during a trip to 
the Lehigh Valley (from which I have just returned), the 
prospects of good pheasant shooting in that region for the 
coming autumn is yery poor. Deer have been coming to 
neighborhoods from which it was thought they bad long 
since been driven, The same gentleman informed me that 
several had been frequenting his rye field within the past 
two weeks, and that he had on more than one occasion seen 
them. ‘This is within ten miles of a town of at least fifteen 
hundred inhabitants. 

Mr. Harry Parker's estate is now offering for sale a num- 
ber of semi-domesticated deer, which have been for a few 
years running at large within the inclosed park this gentle: 
man took so much pride in at Mauch Chunk, Pa. The 
Bloomingdale Park Association should secure these speci- 
mens, as they are fine ones. 

The stay of the bay birds on our near New Jersey shores 
was a brief one, Many were killed during their short so- 
journ. The professional market gunners at the different sea 
side resorts have now put away their guns and are getting 
their yachts and sailboats in trim for the summer season, 
and their attention will mostly be given to “waiting upon 
the boarders” unless the demand for gulls and water birds 
for hat ornamentation should offer a more lucrative occupa- 
tion. If the rage is to continue another year, millinery 
establishments will send to New Jersey coast, as they did 
last season, taxidermists who will remain at the different 
hotels the whole summer and purchase everything in the 
shape of feathers, from a strand%snipe to a blackheaded gull, 
and better wages can be earned by the baymen than sailing 
sea-side visitors at $3 or $4 per day. It is hoped the fashion 
spent itself last year, and the gulls and beach birds may be 
spared to ornament the sea side and not the hats of the city 


belles. Homo, 
May 31. 


THE COST OF GUNS, 


Editor Horest and Stream: 

“Wells's” article on “English and Américan Guns,” 
reminds me of a conversation I had some years since with 
my late colleague on the New Hampshire Fish Commission, 
Mr. A. H. Powers, of Grantham, N. H. 

Mr. P, had for some time the superintendence of the 
forging department for the Providence Tool Company, at 
the time they were deeply engaged in the manufacture of 
military rifles for foreign governments, and he informed me 
that the cost of gun barrels was a mere trifle compared to the 
common opinion of their expense, and that the material, 
forging, rough boring and turning, all of which can be done 
by machinery, would amount to but a very few dollars for 
a pair of first-class barrels. Of course a large amount of 
hand-labor can be put on them afterward to get a high finish, 
and if all the work was done by hand it would be still more 
expensive, but still, he told me a pair of barrels does not cost 
anything like as much as they are supposed to. 

“Wells” is right also about the cost of locks, It is the 
fashion among the old school gunsmiths to decry ‘‘muchine- 
made” guns, but as a practical mechanic, I beg to say that 
no hand-work van equal the precision of amachine. Witness 
the military rifles and revolvers, all made by machinery of 
American inyention, to say nothing of the sewing machine, 
machine tools, agricultural implements, etc., into the cost of 
which hand-labor scarcely enters, and at best forms but an 
insignificant item, Sam’L WEBBER, 


SHoormne Near New Yor«,—I have never seen so many 
partridges and quailasat Nyack. I lived near center of 
village. Last November in one day I put up five bevies of 
quail and sixteen partridges within two miles of my house. 
They are all to be found along the ridge which runs from 
Oak Hill Cemetery north to Hook Mountain—partridges on 
top ot ridge on Maxwell farm and north of it, and quail on 
eastern slope of ridge. We will have fine quail shooting 
here this fall. I hear them whistling in every direction. 
There are three broods on our place alone. East of Cress- 
kill station, on the Alpine road, is the best wootlcock ground 
T have ever seen, My dog found four nests in one place 
there this spring, and he is a youngster, never been trained 
at that, He did not flush the old birds, just pointed, and 1 
am told it was a beautiful sight. I think this will do for so 
near the city.—N. 


MAssacuusEerts.—Salem, Mass, May 80.—I was at fps- 
wich Beach the 22d, There were a good many ‘“‘peeps,” and 
Lalso saw eighteen beetleheads (8, helvitica) and fourteen of 
the greater yellowlegs, I also saw a least bittern that had 
been shot and thrown away by some one, and as it was 
“Tipe” when I found it, I much regretted the Joss. Wood- 
cock are hatching, and some quail are heard whistling, I 
don’t think hawks have been as numerous this season as 
usual, The season thus far has been wet, and if it continues 
it will have a tendency to help fall gunning, Of course, now 
things are between ‘‘hay and grass” go far as shooting goes, 


. ’ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


_ Manrrosa Game Law.—Srveral changes have been made 
in the pame laws. The various close seasons during which 
game and fur-bearmg anirals must not be shot at, hunted, 
trapped, taken, killed or had in possession within the 
Province cf Manitobu are as fellows: All kinds of deer, in- 
cluding cabri, or antelope, elk or wapiti, moose, reindeer or 
eariliou, or the fawns ofsuch animals, from Jan. 1 to Oct, 1. 
The following varieties of grouse, commonly known as 
prairie chickens or phea-ants, and partridyges, from Jan. 1 to 
Sept. 1. Woodcock. plover, snip:, and sa.dpipers, from 
Jan, ito Aug.1, All kinds of wild duck, sea duck, pigeon, 
teal, wild swan, or wild goose, except the variety of wild 
goose commonly known as the snow goose or the wavy, 
from May 1 to Aug. 15 Otter, fisher or pekan, beaver, musk- 
rat and sable, from May 15to Oct 1. Mink and marten 
from Oct. 15 to Nov, 1. Any such animal or bird may be 
had in po-session fr the priy.te use of the owner and his 
family at any time, but in all cuses the proof of the time of 
killing, taking, purchasing or purpose for which had in 
possession shal] be upon the person so in possession. Tris 
provision merely applies t. avimals or birds killed during 
the open season, and kept over until the clese season, anid 
does not permit any of the avimals or birds above mention+d 
to be Elied or taken dur ng the | eriods in which they are pro- 
tected, No eggs of any of th: bris above mentioned shall be 
at any time disturbed or bad in pos es-ion, Nine of theanimals 
or birds above mentioned shali be exported trom Manitoba 
at any time whatevr, Any person violating anv of the 
provisions of the game laws is liable to « fine of $50 and 
costs for each offense, with imprisonment in di fault of pay- 
ment. The Department of Agriculture has already appointed 
about two hundred game guard:ans in different portions of 
the Province. This nuwb-r wil be incr ased as rapidly as 
possi Je, In ord rtocnforce the law in the city of Winni- 
peg, which heretofore appears to have bien the principal 
place in which violations occurred, owing to dealers pur- 
chasing and selling dwing the close season, a sum has been 
placed in the estimates to provide for the payment cf ex- 
pensés which may be incutred in pro-ecuting offenders, and 
securing their conviction and punishment,—H A. P, 


GamMp IN THE SouTHwEsT —Fort Bowie, Arizona Terri- 
tory.—In Arizona ana New Mexico the deer are growing so 
scarce that it is almo-t impossible to see one. You may 
trav] for days and never ser avy, where.a few years ago you 
could tit in your cabin doors and shoot them at any time. It 
is almost impossible to see an antelope at all, and they are 
growing more scarce every day. Al the rate they are di,ap- 
pearing inside of five years there will be no such animal in 
the Southwest. There are more white-tail deers in the coun- 
try than of black-tail, for the former are so wild that the 
hunter and trapper cannot get near them. The black-tail 
deer is almost as scarce astheantelope, Wild pigeons, ducks, 
partridgys, praiie chickens end wild turkcys are found in 
abundance, but the reasou for this is hat there are very few 
shotguns in the country, and the hunters prefer large game 
to fowl: Of course, there are laws lor the purpose of pro 
hibiting the killing of game in certain parts of the ycar, but 
they are not enf. rced, About the only place large game can 
be found at the present day isaway upon the siountuins and 
along the Mexican Jine. As soon as large game disappears, 
the country will be flooded with shotguns and the sma'l game 
will disapprar. Even now shotguns are becoming very 
plentiful—Oxup Trver. 


FisHING AND SHooTrne Resorts.—The Erie Railway 
(J WN. Abbott, G: neral Passenger Agent, New York) and the 
New York, Ontario & Western Railway (J. C, Anderson, 
General Passenger Agent, New York) have published guide 
books to summer resort~ reached by their lines. For sports- 
mén’s aid they give particulars like these: ‘‘Rutherford. N. 
J., fine fishing in the Passaic; woodcock and snipe sheoting 
near Passivic, N. J.. fine fishing on river; Lake View, N J, 
gocd fishing at Dunder Lake; Hobokus, N. J., woodcock, 
quail and pick: rel, verv good lake fishing; Suffcrn, N. Y¥., 
buss and pickerel fishing, partridge, quail and woodcock; 
Ramapo, N. Y., good fishing aud gunning; Sloatsburgh, N 
Y., a paradise for sportsmen, bass und picker«] fishing, good 
hunting, partridge, woodeock and quail; Lorillard’s, N. Y., 
black bass, pickerel and perch, privilege of fishing, liberal 
price per rod per day, boat included; Southfield, N. Y., 
partridge, quail, .abbits, duck and woodcock, good fishing in 
Jakes near by; Turner's, N, Y., a retreat for sportsmen, pait- 
ridge, quail, wocdcock, buss, pickerel, perch; Monrov, N. 
Y., black bass, pickcrel, perch, woodcock, quail, rabbits,” 
And’so on through the catalogue, 


Ler THE TRAPPERS BE Hearp.—LHditor Forest and 
Stream: J uotice a | tter in your Ja-t number signed ‘*Till- 
cum,” from Olympia, W. T., regarding liability of present 
style of Newhouse steel trap to throw cut the toot of the 
animal, and asking for an improvement. In my opinion a 
stecl trip should always be set lengthways in the path for 
beaver «nd otter, and by so doing they will not set their foot 
on the catch that holds the jaw down, but will set their ivot 
fuir on the pan, and as the trap is sprung their foot will not 
be lilted up by the jaw of the trap. | think myself some 
improyement might be made by having the jaws wider and 
higher, rctaining the sane size of spring, and I think, too, 
thut un entirely different style of catch to hold the jaw 
might be adyautageously substiluted, It is to be regretted 
that trappers as a cluss are not much given to writing. Yvur 
readers miss much valuable and interesting matter thereby, 
For the experience of many a mote trapper, if written ip 
a plain, undemonstrative manner, would acd very much to 
the pleasure se m: ny Lrcthren of the crait dizive from your 
good paper.—J. Len Surpiey Dugdale, Pa.). 


Sniep FLyinG FRoM THE WArTER.—Glendale,O.—In read- 
ing Forester’s ‘Field Sports” revi-cd ed wp. 16.i-4), Tsee he 
notices the fact that snipe swim ac)oss parr.w streams, etc., 
and wonders whether they could tuke wing trom the surtace 
of water, Hedcinbtsit, A recent: xpericnce ol my own may 
therefore be of interest. While shooting one day this spring, 
) marked down an Engli-h snipe ou che edge of a large opeu 
pond. Upon walking it up, it flew out directly over 
the water, and fell to my second barr t. I had no dog with 
mv, and so alter replacing my shells and prrparing my-elf 
to wade, all of which time the snipe lay in the water, I 
started out after it. I had gone perbaps ufteen yards, and 
the water was already above my knees, wien the bird rose 
char of the water into the air and flew about a hundred 
yards and dropped aguin. By wading again I secured it, 
and proved it to be beyond a doubt a snipe There was no 
grass nor weeds in the water from which it could have 
sprung. OF this 1am positive. Is uot this an unusual feat 
for a Scolopax welsont?—T. P. 


Paterson, N, J., has a new ordinance which forbids the 
capture or sale of trapped nighthawk, whippoorwill, spar- 
row, thrush, meadow lark, skylark, finch, martin, swallow, 
woodpecker, robin, oriole, red or cardinal bird, cedar bird, 
tanager, cutbird, bluebird, snowbird, or other insectiverous 
bird. It also forbids nest robbing. This is a wholesome 
law. Hundreds of song birds have been killed daily in Pat- 
trson, a city covering a large amount of territory, but the 
efforts of the officers of the Passaic Association under the, 
ordinance has put a stop to this. The State law is worthless, 
as it permits killing of birds for stuffing. 


OFF THE CHESAPEAKE BAy—May 26.—The shooting this 
spring is very fine, The curlew are unusually plentilul, the 
willets very scarce. Calico backs and graybuacks are in pro- 
fusion. A trio of us killed, one evening off Cape Charles 
bar, fifty-two curlew. The robin snipe have just made their 
appearance, and » very late one. The prospect for summer 
shooting, judging from the numbrr of sportsmen here this 
spring, will not be very good, as a large flight of spring bay- 
birds generally is followed by a small flight in summer, and 
vice ver'sd.— CHASSEUR. 


PENNSYLVANIA Prospects.—Hollidaysburgh, May 27.— 
Prospect for summer shooting is fair. Black bass and catty 
fishing is already begun, with satisfactory results JUNIATA. 


Sea and River Sishing. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


Black Lake, Michigan.—lV. 
V E roused imerrill out and were on the way to the lake 
before sun-up, through green fresh woods, vocal with 
bird melody and redolent with all the sweet smells of an 
early moruing in the pines and cedars. 

Three quarters of a mie over a rough road, part of which 
was swaiupy, brought us to the lake, where four boats, 
pulled np on the shore, awaited our use, and Mertill pointed 
out the location : f the cam ping place he ha2 selected lor us, 
a couple of miles below, which, he said, could be reached 
with the wagons by driving along a narrow strip of sandy 
beach which lined the shore down this sideas far as we could 


see, 

We did not expect to fish any that day, and started with 
only two of the boats; Frank, Old Dan and the Deacon in 
one boat and neighbor Merrill and I in another, the others 
preferring to stay with the wagons. Before we had gone a 
hundred rods a sbout from Frank’s boat ahead proclaimed 
that someth ms had happened, and looking in their direction 
we siw the Deacon, who had before leaving home concealed 
a trolling line snd spoon somewhere about his person, hold 
up a shining small-mouthed black bass that, when weighed, 
pull) d down’ the scale to nearly four pounds, This was a 
symptom, a very larg:-sized symptom, of good things to 
come, and then we all shouted and felt better than we did the 
night. just passed. But we had ouropivion of the Deacon for 
snaking iv that first bass on us in such a surreptitious manuer, 
and with a hand line, too. Snade of gentle Tuad Norris! A 
solemn conference was hele that night around the flickering 
camp-fire aud the Deacon was vot d a pot-fisher wf the deep- 
est dye, and fit only to rank with a man who will fish for 
black bass with woims. 

In crossing the mouth of a little creek (Rocky Creek) near 
where the bass was taken, one of the horses attached to 
the spring wagon took it into his cranky old head to mire in 
the soft sand and falidown. The driver and the boys in the 
wagon jumped out and into the water; a couple cl feet deep, 
and yauked hiv: to his feet before any damage was done, 
and putting their strength to the hind wheels, quickly had 
all safe on the beach across the creek with no more serious 
consequences than a partial wetting and a slight scare; thus 
pulling out of a ‘‘eaegory” that might have ben a calamity 
liad the horse drowned A few hundred yards further down 
the wagons came to a halt where a couple of trees had fallen 
across the strip of beach. and as they could not drive around 
them throuyh the wood nor around the tops lying in the 
water, we were forced to unload and take to the boats. The 
other two were brought down and all fuur were loaded and 
started to camp, the drivers stopping long enough to feed 
the borses before starting back, but declining our invitation 
to go to camp and take breakfast, 

Two trips ot the boats heavily loaded took the traps to 
the camping place, and after a hurried breakfast, of which 
the Deacon’s bass formed a tooths: me part, we decided that 
this place Merrill had s: lected was just no camp at all, and 
we would hunt for a bitter one. 

He had hacked out with his axe 4 small square ina dense 
cedar swamp within a few feet of the water, which was 
barely large enough for a good sized tent, to say nothing of 
four, and a kitchen fly, and the yround was lumpy, damp 
aud spongy; in short.a spot that Dick said would be ‘‘very 
dil»torious to our health.” 

The only redeeming feature was a little stream running 
into the lake at one side of this opening; but even this was 
a smull inducement to stay, as the water in it tasted flat and 
swampy. 

The place would not do, and, taking a boat, Merril], Jim 
and I started down the shore to look at a spot about a mile 
below, that M. said was dry, grassy, free of underbrush, and 
“nig enough to hold fifty tents, or a hundred of ‘em if we 
had ’em;” a place he would have picked on in the first place 
only the drinking water was not handy, he thought. Artiv- 
ing at the spot a hasty glance satisfied us, and, leaving Jim 
to cut, tent poles—we bad brought the axe with us, thanks to 
the Scribe’s usual forethousht— Merrill and I went buck, and 
the work ol moving began again. 

Two hours of hard work completed this last move, and as 
old Ben lent a hand to get the last box out of the last boat 
he was moved to warble a line from un old song, slightly 
altered to fit the occasion, ‘Sich a gittin’ toa camp I never 
did +ee’’—agrced to on the spot without a dissenting yoice. 

In two or three hours more the four tents were up in good 
shape, a fly stretched for the dining-ruom, stove put up, and 
supper and dinner at once under way, and we began to fecl 
at home and well pl:ased with our surroundings. A nice 
level, dry place, five or six feet above the Jake level, plenty 
of grass for a carpet, no underbrush, trees enough for shade, 
abundance of firewood along the beach, and a cold spring 
branch within fifteer. or twenty rods of the ‘kitchen door’— 
what m: re could heart of camper-out banker after? A few 
reds bavk of us a sttip of cedar swamp ran along the foot of 
the low hill, and from the brow of this, streicbiag away 
towurd Litule Black River, was another vast tract ef plaias— 
and hucklet» rries. 

A hundred yards bdow us stvod an old roofless loggers’ 


in his favor with at least one of his auditors, 


camp, back a short distance from the water, which may 
serve asa land mark for any wand:ring brother who may 


some time want to find about the best camping ground 
Black Lake. ~ a ping on 


After supper was over and pipes lighted for a resting 


smoke, neighbor Merrill gave us a taste of his quality as a 
talker ‘‘ot many parts.” Hé was wound up to the last notch, 
and as this was no doubt the first wpportunity presented for 
some time to unburden himself, ‘he jest turned himself 


loose,” as Ben said afterward, ‘‘and let the old machine 


buzz till it run down,” 


He said the plains back of us were a great resort for the 


black bear during bucklvberry time; in fact they were regu- 
lar ‘‘summer resorters,” and as this fruit was just pow in its 
prime, we were liable to see a bear most any day that we 
would take the treuble to go a half mile from camp in the 
burnt district. 


And then he told us how, a few days before our arrival, 


one of bis boys and one of the Stewart boys had been out 


on the plains, not far from our camp, bringing iu a puir of 
stray oxen, and how they came suddenly on a monstrous 


bear eating berries by the roadside, and how one of the boys 


put aload of birdshot into him at short range and the bear 
got away, and how in the evening he and the boys and 
the dogs had picked up the trail and run hin half the night, 
finally losing him in a cedar swamp not far from his bouse, 
after he had ‘*jest licked the daylights out o’ all the dogs,” 

Without giving us time to cutch a breath after this story, 
he gave the crank anoth:r turn and pr ceeded to dilate at 
length on Turk’s merits as a bear dog, and dog for the *‘gin- 
eral run of all kinds o’ varmints.” Tiuik was a splendid 
snecimen of Scoteh terrier, very large for this breed, sinewy 
and wiry looking as a wildcat, and possessed of rare dog 
sense and intelligence, He sat on his haunches near his 
master’s knee with eyes half closed, as though he had beard 
this story before, and as the barration of his many explrits 
was volubly rebearsed and his name occasionally mentioned, 
he would look up at the old man with one eye shut and the 
other balf open, as much as to say, ‘Draw it mild, old pard 
—a leetle milder, ef you please.” 

After giving us a long history of Turk, he called him and 
said, ‘Turk, show the hoys that scar.” 

We could see an old scar ihat began near the top of the 
head and extended down back of the left esr unter the jaw, 
which had healed so well that it was barely noticeable uniess 
closely observed. 

“Bear done that,” said Merrill. ‘‘One night a bear came 
a smellin’ around the house—spect after a deer i’d killed sn’ 
hung up that day, and you bet Turk jest went fur him. If 
there’s anything Turk likes to fight it’s a bear, and as I was 
a sayin’ he went fur that bear like a house alire, and the way 
they kicked up the sand around then: was a caution, “Twas 
after night, and bi fore I could git up and git my gun they had 
fit across the clearin’ into the bushes, and sich a yelpin’ an’ 
gnurlin’ an’ thrashin’ around in the brush you never heard. 
Befcre I could git to ’em the bar hid laid Turk out an’ got 
away, an’ when I got the poor fcllr back to the house he 
was the wust used up dog you ever see, but gentlemen, he 
never whined, no, siree, he was too gritty forthat Oneleg 
was bad hurt an’ be was all over blood, an’ one side of his 
head was jest cuffed loose—that’s the scar—but he never 
whimpered. I patched him up sn’ nussed him for three 
weeks before he could git hi. jaw in workin’ order agin, but 
he's all right now, an’ would tackle a bear jest as quick as 
he would a mink; fact is, he pears to hev a gruuge agin 
bears ever since, an’ | b’lieve he would swim the lake any 
day if he thought there was a beur on other side waitin’ for 
a feht, Why, I’ve bin offered twenty dollars for that dog, 
but money won’t buy him, no, sir, the’d be war up to old 
Merrill's if I’d sell rk, for if you b’iieve me, Loys, the 
young uns and my wile thinks more v’ that dog than they do 
ome.” All this was rattled off in about the words i have 
wiitten, as near as I can now recall them, and as he ‘run 
aown,” he broke into a quiet chuckle that could huve heen 
heard half a mile, Turk, meanwhile, snapping aimlessly at 
an imaginury fly and dozing through it all with the air of a 
martyr. 

Mure the Scribe in the goodness of his heart vffered the old 
man ‘‘a drap to moisten bis thrapple” after all this ¢xpendit- 
ure of wind, but to his utter amazement he declined with the 
terse statement, ‘I never drink licker,” which scored a point 
The sun was 
now down, and straightening up from the campstool he said, 
‘Well, boys, I must be goin’ back; Ill take One O° the boats 
an’ bring that lumber down in the mornin’ to make your 
table.” ’ 

‘‘Speakin’ o’ bears,” as he dipped a cup of water out 
of the bucket, “‘there’s one thiug ubout bears that mehbe 
you don’t know, Sometimes they come smctlJin’ ’round a 
inan’s camp in the night, an’ som: times they git into mis- 
chef, break up things an’ carry off apy kind o' loose vittels 
layin’ ‘round, but you needu’t be scared of ’em to-night; 
there’s one thing about bears, they never come botherin’ 
‘round a man’s camp the tirst night, it’s most allays the 
second night, or mebbe the third or fourts night, an’ if they 
don’t come then, they ain’t 1 goin’ to come at all, but they 
won't come to-night, they allays come the second nizht, you 
cap bet on that,” and with this comiorting assurance he 
shoved off in his boat and went up the lake singing, ‘‘Come 
all ye valyant sailyers,” or some such ancicut ditty, in a 
camp kvetle tone of voice that 1 confidently believe cunld 
have been heard clear across the lake, a distance of six mils. 

‘Tuk was indeed a splendid dog, the fincst Scotch terrier 
Y think I ever saw, and without a dou: t deserved all the 
praise his master bestowed on him, He was a hard dog to 

et acquainted with, but as he got the bang of the camp, 
kind treatment got the better of his surlincss and Turk took 
his place as a favorite, his bright eye and the wag of his 
stump tail always insuring Lim a welcome fiom the hoys. 

Old Ben sat for some time holdiug his ¢ampstool down, 
one leg over the othr, looking up the lake at Merrill’s re- 
ceding boat, something evidently on his mind, and as he 
got up and knocked the ashes out of his pipe he said in his 
deliberate way, ‘‘Boys. it’s a heap o’ comicrt to know them 
bears ain’t a comin’ ‘round to-night; il’s mighty good in ’em 
to give us a rest the first night, for we're too tired to enter- 
tain’em.” Here afew whiffs to start a fre-h pipe. “‘To- 
motrow we'll hey the camp all fixed up slicker’n grease, an’ 
ef they drap in on us in the eveuin’, we'll git up a reception 
fur ‘em. Teeaphians is one of my best holts.” A few viger= 
ous puffs to keep the pipe from going out seemed to develop 
a new idea, aud he went on, ‘‘But maybe they’li come ’r und 
to-morrow night, an’ maybe they won't, Old Merrill ‘pears 
to hey em aown fine, been studyin’ their points some, it’s 
likely, but you kin jest put up )our la-t nickel that he kin 
smell a camp further’n a bear kin, au’ mind ye he'll be here 
oftener’n the bears will.” 


Joe 8, 1884.) 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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Dick thought ‘if Mervill’s predilections about the bears were 
Jikely to come to pass, we had better hunt another camp, as 
_ they were a little too adjacent for him, but he could bear it 
if the rest could.” 

- Old Knots suid if trouble was “bruin” it behooved him to 
mvet it with spirit, and by certain sounds (with which we 
were somewhat familiar) coming from his tent a minute or 
two later,, we knew he and the Deacon were ‘‘meeting it.” 
The talk was mostly “bear,” till old Dan growled some- 
thing about this bear joke being worn about threadbare, 
which checked the nnexampled display of smartness and 
turned our attention to getting things in shape for a full 
apes needed sleep and rest. , 

there is a place, to use Ben’s favorite expression, ‘‘on 
the face o’ this livin’ earth” where one can enjoy sweet and 
refreshing sleep, it is in these wilds of Northern Michigan 
after » hard day’s work getting into and fixing up a camp. 
Happily the mosquitoes and “no see ‘ems,” like Merrill's 
bears, were second night varmints and our first night in the 
brush was one of solid comfort. We were undrr shelt-r none 
too soon, as rain began to fall some time during the night, and 
continucd nearly all «of next day, which had a rather de- 
pressing effect on the camp; but we put in the forenoon in 
stretching a fly for Frank to cook under, putting the two 
stoves iz place, overhau ing tackle, smoking, cracking dismal 
jokes, wishing it would stop raining and blessing Merrill for 
not bringing the lumber for the table. 

A rainy day in camp; drizzle and drip. The patter of 
rain op a well-pitched tent is always wusical; sweeter and 
more soothing perhaps after a wiek’s pleasant angling, but 
when it comes on a fim day in camp. before you have wet a 
line, when all is eagerness and expectancy and every fiber in 
you is crying out to ‘‘go out and fish,” the melody loses a 
trifle in sweetness, and the accompaniments jar and grumble 
and seem all out of tune, 

Recoll: ctions of that afternoon are rather dim, but T re- 
eall the fact that the fever so possessed some of us that we 
went a-fishing—and I In lieve there were only two of the 
purty so badly aifecteu-—old Dan and the writer. We made 
ourselves believe we were ravenously ‘‘fish hungry,” and this 
was excuse enough for going out in the rain to precure this 
on? necessity to the peace and well-being of the camp—fish 
for supper. 

We had little time to hunt up the good feeding grounds or 
study the water, as the pattering rain so disturbed the sur- 
face of the lake that we could not get a good view of the 
bottem and surroundings alone shore, nor tell where the 
water looked ‘‘fisby,” but before time for supper we had 
taken enough pickerel to keep the camp ‘‘sortin’ bones” for 
a we: k, 

No bass, however, were taken, although the most tempt- 
ing of speckled frogs and a trolling spoon were held out as 
special inducements to provoke a difficulty. 

Back again in cump we found neighbor Merrill had not 
come with the lumber, and Ben accounted for it by saying, 
“Guess he’s been hiein’ round in the wouds to-day notifyin’ 
them bears that they’d better be a little pvart or they’d make 
him out a liar, fur yon know this is the night they was to 
git in their work on us.” 

But neither Merril] nor the bears disturbed the quiet of 
our slumbers that night, although I am not quite sure his 
confident air about the promised visit had nothing to do with 
the excuses made for ov: rhauling the firearms belonging to 
the purty, for I confess to slipping a cartridge ina ,44-caliber 
Wesson rifle and placing it in easy reach, and Dick and Ben 
under the thin subterfuge of getting a shot at a duck a half 
mile down the beach Jouded their shotguns he:vily with 
buck, instcad of duck shot, as it transpired next morning 
when one challenged the other to a trial of skill at a mark. 

[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


TROUT AND WATER SNAKES. 


W E used to think that the water enakes could not catch 

a trout, but knew that they could take bullheads, We 
have seen them often as they worked and strained to get the 
horns down their throats, and this even when these projected 
nearly an inch on each side of their jaws. And they always 
succev‘ded. But as for catching a trout, this we considered 
was beyond them, May be we thought they would not dare 
to pursue such a kingly fish. But they will, and will cap- 
ture them, 09, 

Tt is several years since we had an opportunity of witness- 
ing how this was done. We will give it as we saw it, though 
since that time we have sven more then one trout disappear- 
ing between a snake’s jaws, and found many a scarred one 
where, no doubt, they had escaped the almost fatal “strike” 
of the wa'e: snake. But the period in question was one 

leasant morning in June, We were on a walk, and cross- 
Ing a stone bridge, that extends north and south overa spring 
stream. <A striam, we might remark, too, that was once 
quite celebrated for its trout fithing. Just above the bridze 
Was a small pond, about filty fect Jong and twenty wide, 
with a depth of six feet in the deepest part near the bridge, 
while 1¢ shallowed- away to eighteen inches at its upper end. 
: The pond was in the very position for observing what took 
place in its depths. This bridge was fifteen fret above it, 
and the nine o'clock sun light: d up its waters, so that when 
the wind did nc t Llow, everythirg was almostas trensparent 
bencath the surface asin the air above. This morning it 
was especially clear, and one standiny on the bridge could 
see every old tomato can, fragment of china, iron hoop, 
and white pebble that Jay scattered along the bottom. For 
the pond wus quite near the owner’s residence, and not far 
from a vi'lage, : 

In this place were some fifteen or twenty trout, and they 
frequented this decp hole near the bridge. It was only 
necessary for one standing on the bride to look over the 
low stone purapet that guarded it, and he would see the fish 
hurrying and scurrying, either to the upner end of the pond 
or under an old log that lay close to the abutments of the 
bridge. Among fhose fond of looking at the fish was the 
writer, perhap~ sometimes with lunging eyes. But we liked 
to put our bead suddenly over the parapet and see the tish 
pass out of siyht, almost as a shadow, and then return, if no 
movement was made, alter a few minutes. 

This morning, as we have said, the pond was especially 
still and transparent, and everything almost as clear as in 
daylight, and as usual when we looked over, away went the 
trout. Only they were congregated, we noticed, not in the 
place where they generally lay, but some six or eight teet to 
the right of it, But what is that swimming or ciawling in 
themud there? Is it an eel? No, it has no fins; then its 
tail 1s diffrent, and the body is too slim 1 proportion to its 
length. Then that eye and head aré not those of an eel; and 
see, its skin is mottled, which even appears through the 
mud and sediment in which it seems to be burying its body. 


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| Tt is a large water snake. Let us watch; yes, let us watch. 


Here come the trout back. How carefully they come, as 
though they were suspicious of something besides the eyes 
looking at them over the parapet. Now they are going right 
up to that old piece of stick; and there lies the snake close 
alongside of it, and I declare he has vither changed his color 
or covered his scales with mud, It must be mud, for there 
is a little patch, like an oozy bed. near him. But now look 
out. Here come the fish. Snap! snap! he strikes at them. 
My! no toad’s tongue ever went swifter than that snake’> 
head. He must have caught one. No, be did not. And 
there he strikes again at that little fellow. We cannot stand 
this, Weraise our hands and the fish hurry away, But 
see the snake. Heseems to be burying himself in the mire 
and sediment again, while we run to the entrance of the 
bridge and bring a stone as large as we can carry, and toss 
it over the place where he hides. When the ripples have 
subsided the stone is where we meunt if should go, but 
whether the snake was under it we never learned. Most 
likely oot. 

Our next experience with water snakes was nearly half a 
mile further up this same brook. This time we were trying, 
in July, to get a few fish for a sick girl in the neighborhoorl. 
We knew a ‘ good hole” by a stump where th+re were some 
low willow bushes to screen the dsherman. Before we got 
tu the place though, we saw through an opening in the banks 
that the water was quite agitated and at times the head of a 
trout or something would appvar, They are hiving a good time 
jumping there, thought we, and we will get some. Hurry. 
now! But let us look at this ‘‘coachman” though, before we 
cast. All right! Go carefully, and threw back-handed. 
Now, ready? No, stop! What is that? Why see tht trout! 
What m the world does he keep his head above the water 
for? It must be he is sick and trying to get under. I de- 
clare he is coming this way, too. I wish he would keep still, 
Whut does make him bob so? And a ‘‘ten-incher,” too. Oh, 
[sce] Anu immense water snake has him in bis mouth, and 
he is to trying to drown him. He has caught him just above 
the tail. I cannot stand this, I will kill that snake, Givi 
me a stick. That fish would weigh three-quarters of a pound 
nearly, Here! Slap! whack! The trout is gone, and here 
ee the pusty snake straight or my legs and I cannol 
pull this foot ont. It is caught between the rocksand [ will 
20 over directly. Get out you beast. I don’t want you to 
wind around my legs Ah! It is the Jarge rock tuat my 
right foot is resting on that you want, is it? You are hurta 
little, too, and mean to hide, Iam glad. And now I wil. 
have another peg at you = ean ‘see half your boily. You 
are only a foot under water and | will drop this rock on you. 
That is good, you will catch no more trout. 

This snake was a yard or more in length, and the next 
time we visited the stream, his body, nearly twice its natursl] 
size, was lodged against a stone a few rods below the plac 
where we killed him. We congratulated ourselves when we 
sw it that be did not get a chance to wind around our legs 
and that the lives of many trout had most likely been saved, 

But since that time, as we have said, we have seen severul 
snakes with trout between their jaws. They succeed bust 
in capturing them in August, when the streams are low, and 
in small brooks where the trout have liitle chance to escape. 
They pursue them over and under everything and it is hard 
to tell the injury they do, especially when the water 15 
shallow. A. H. G. 


PENNSYLVANIA ANGLING NOTES. 


lie did not surprise me at all to learn while on a Jate trip to 
the Lehigh Valley that large trout in some numbers have 
been taken in waters which it was thought bad long since 
been depleted of fish. One stream in particular which to 
me always looked very ‘‘trouty,” and which | was always 
told contained only chub, was fished by an intimate friend 
on being informed by less expert anglers than himself that 
large fish kept stripping off their flies and breaking theit 
leaders, and to his astonishment, trout of good dimensions 
were basketed. 

There arc many large streams in Pennsylvania flowing into 
the Lehigh which have been given up as troutless by the 
native anglers simply because the fish do nut respond to their 
bungling efiorts to catch them, when there are many favorable 
days during the season, when an expert. fly-fisherman can take 
a fair number, at l.ast e: eugh «ducated oncs, to furnish good 
rport, We know how long the Sauken Creek at Hellertown, 
Po., gave sport to a few scientific fly-fishermen, when to 
even the natives of its banks it was thought the trout hd 
years ayo disappeared from its waters. Because the country 
veanpole and horse hair line and worm bait cannot at once 
yank trout from a stream, 1t is nv reason the waters do not 
harbor the fish and cannot be taken by the angler who 
imitates nuture and is cautious. Homo, 


Mr, A. M: Spangler, of the Auglers’ Association of Eastern 
Pennsylvania, has been telling a Philadelphia 7imes reporter 
avout the fishing in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. He 
says: 

ass can be caught in the Schuylkill all the way to Royer’s 
ford, but ut Reading and below that poiut they are poisoned 
by the sewage. They can be caught in the Delaware and its 
tributaries, from Trenton to the headwaters. There are not 
muny bass found in the Lehigh. The Susquehanna, ata 
number of acccssible points, has, within a few years, become 
noted for the excellence of its bass fixhing, Bor the striped 
and black bass are caught. Beginning at Port Depusit. 
sitiped bass are tuken weighing as high as filly pounds and 
black bass range in weiyht frum two to seven pounds. 

The bait used varies according to circunisvances, as the 
black bass will sometimes tuke a tly readily and then again 
he won't, Crawfish and minnows are olten used and the 
uvly black worms called helgramites are good. The best 
bait are small fish brought irom Baltsmore called. ‘mud 
dabbers.” At Port Deposit one can get buats and men to go 
with you for very moderate sums. June and July are the 
best months, but there is no restriction under the laws of 
Maryland, and you may fish the year round without molest 
ation, Above Port Deposit there are many good fishing 
points, of winch Conowinvo Bridge, Bald Friar, Peach Bot- 
tom, White Eddy und Safe Harbor occur to me now. Further 
up are Columbia, Marietta and many other excellent spots 
aji the way to Harrisburg and up the east and west brancues 
of the Susquehanna. The Juniata is full of black bass, and 
they are good-sized ones, tuo. Bass are the gamiest: fish 
caught, and when a ten-pound, striped fellow gets hold of 
your hook it doesn't take you lung to find in out. 

Below Havre de Grace, at the mouth of the Susquehanna, 
fine suvfish or moccasin are caught witha fly. They are 
also. taken in the Northeast River in the channel at some 
stages of the tide and at Spesutia Island, further down the 
bay. Perch fishing is especially fine at the mouth of the 


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Sassafras River. To get there you take the Philadelphia, 
Wilmington, and Billimore Road to Clayton and go by way 
of Still Pond to Betterton. Tue perch there vary creatly in 
size, the hvaviest weighing a poand and a half. Perclr ean 
be caught along the D laware on the bars, but they are 
ather small. Early in the season good-sized ones can be 
caught up the stream in the shallows. Timber Creek and 
Newton Creek, near Gloucester, are good perch fishing 
grounds, if one knows his business. The piers at Chester, 
Mareus Hook and at the mouth of Christiana Creek are 
famous places to cateh entfish, rock and perch, Pennsboro, 
on the other side of the bay, is equally good. Sturgeon und 
shad roe are the hest biit. Further down the buy, say 
seventy-five milvs, to Sea Breeze, reached by the steamer John 
A. Warner, you can go off in a bout fo Ship John Light and 
catch your boat full, if the day is right. And close by is 
Fortescue Beach, famous for fishing and mosq"itoes, All 
the way down the bay, where there are shell beds, you can 
find good weakfishing, esp cially at Fishing Creek, eight 
miles north of Cape May light, Big drumfish are caught 
here. Matt Quay, you know. devotes’ much of his dimv to 
these fellows. But for real sport go to the Breakwater and 
you can catch blackish, weakfi-h and sheepsheuds in any 
quantity, 

Outside on the Jersey coast are the bluefish, now gradually 
disappcarng, and immense weakfixh and croakers. It is a 
curious fact that thirty years ago the croakers were to be 
fouod in great numbers, hut the blu ‘fish drove them out and 
destroyed them. Now the bluefish are going and the 
croakers ure coming back. The best time to catch these 
fish is from the middle of Angust until quite late in the 
season. J have caught a barrel of weaktish a day. All the 
sounds and inlets from Cape Mav to Barnegat ave alive with 
weakfish, kingfish, and sheepshead. Off Townsend’s Inlet 
last season the blue sharks were very troublesome, They 
would bite off our fish just about as fast as we hvoked them, 
[ believe more fi-h can be caught along the Jersey coast than 
any other waters in the United States. The good fishing 
p ints are Rio Grande, Townsend’s lnlet, Somers Point and 
Beasley’s Point. Then if you take the Long Branch road to 
Barnegat there are Long Beach, Short Beach. Burnvgat 
Inlet, T m’s River und Weirtown, all good resorts for fisher- 
men, But the finest fishing here for seabass and black fish is 
found outside, especially off Long Branch, The fisherman 
launch their boats throurh the surf early in the morning and 
on erect au mile or so off they catch enough for use in the 
hotels. 

Trout fishing is very nearly at an end in this State. In 
the northern counfivs patient anglers manave to oitch a few 
small ones now and then, but to do very much trout fishing 
one must go outside ot Pennsylvania, 


BLACK BASS 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

If you will kinaly suggest in your paper. or by private 
letter to me, how b’ark bass can be shipped, and the proper 
size, ete , I can make arrangements with fishermen on Reel- 
foot Lake to supply the United States, if necessary to do so. 
[ have lately talked withsome leading fisherm:n, and in an- 
swer to some of my questions they inform me that they can 
supply them in any quantity and: f any size on short nctice. 
This town is only three hour drive to the lake and to the 
rapid Reelfoot Bayou, and is from one to eight miles of 
the Obion, the Forked Deer and South Fork rivers, all of 
which are abundant of bess, white perch, ch»nnel cat, 
salmon trout, pike, etc., etc. I saw even in last February 
600 pounds of bass and perch in one wagon, selling at six 
cernis a pound. If any of your readers want good summer 
fishing, let them come to this place, via C.0.& 8. W. R R., 
and go to the Jakes or basins, formed by the curthquakes of 
1811, and they will find good fishing, good spring water, 
fiue camp ground, fine scenery, clever people, aud can have 
a good time. 

T own no land, «xcept my home, and have no nets, no 
seines, nor any axe to grind; but «enjoy rod and minnow fish- 
ing. and like for my friends tu enj -y it with me, I would 
tuke pleasure in answering a limited number of letters, 
where stamps arescnt for reply. 1 have nothing to sell, tut 
will do my best to give any information in my power about 
fish and fishing in West Tennessee, T. L. WEuts. 

Dverssure, Tenn., May 19, 


IN TENNESSEE. 


RED SPOTS ON SALMON. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I notice in this week’s number of Forest anp STREAM, a 
paragraph leaded “What Fishis This?” Ju your answer 
you state that “salmon and Jandl-cked salmon are black 
spotted and have neither red spots nor splashes,” 

Permit me to correct you. The young fry or parr of both 
salmon and Jinolocked salmon have the seme rid spots as 
the brook trout, during the first year of their existence, 
They do not put on the black and silver liv ry until the end 
of thesecond summicr. so far as my «xpetience goes. 

They have, as your correspondent says, sharper noses and 
forked tails, and are very active, aid ris to the fly readily. 

We have taken numbers of them in that way, experinien- 
tally, in the Pemigewasset River, near the Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire hatching house, and know that hundreds 
of them were so taken and culled trout by the boys, until 
the difference was explained to them, : 

I do not recognize the ‘‘red splashes,” but the red spots of 
the young sulmon in their ‘‘parr” state are even more brilliant 
than those of the trout, and they are only to be distinguished 
from tiout at a casual glance by the iorked tail, aud more 
gen: ral shaipness and slendirness of outlive. 

They have also the swme dik cross bands, like those of the 
common pereh, which mark the brook troutin their first year. 
I should be much inclined to think the fish spokcn of were 
young salmon. 

LT bave just got Mcssrs. Orvis & Cheney’s new book—''Fish- 
ing with the Fly’—and must beg Jeave to cay a word in 
praise of its beauty, The plates of flies are exquisite, and 
worth more than the price of the buok, and the leiter press is 
equally good. The selections are capital, and the new mat- 
ter by Messrs. Orvis & Cheney equally good, and Mr, Orvis’s 
“Suggestions” eminently practical, as much so as Nessmuk’s 
Woodcraft.” Can I say mure? SAm’L WEBBER. 

LAWRENCE, Mass. 


ARRIVAL OF SatMon.— The first salmen from the Resti- 
gouche arlived in New York on Friday last. A few irom 
the Mirimichi are also coming. The fish look bright and 
ure bripging fair prices These rivers are the only ones on 
the Atlantic coast that have yet sent salmon to market this 
SGus0D. 


368 


~[Junn 5, 1884, 


FOREST AND STREAM. ~ 


ROD AND REEL ASSOCIATION, 


OR the coming Tournament of the Association, to take 
place on October 7 and 8, President Endicott has ap- 
pointed the following Committee of Arrangements: 

Hon, Henry P. McGown, Cuttyhunk Club, Chairman; 
James Benkard, South Side Club of Long Island; E. G. 
Blackford, New York Fish Commission; 8. M. Blatchford. 
Squibnocket Club; Dr, E, Bradley, Blooming Grove Park 
Association; Martin B. Brown, Wa-Wa-Yanda Club; D. W. 
Cross, President Oneida Club; Francis Endicott, President 
(en-efficio); C. B. Evarts, American Fishcultural Association ; 
Hon. James Geddes, Onondaga Fishing Club; William C, 
Harris, St Lawrence Fishing Club; Dr, J. A, Henshall, 
Cynthiana, Ky.; Dr. C. J, Kenworthy (‘‘Al Fresco”), Jack- 
sonville, Fla.; William Blair Lord, Oquassoe Club; Thatcher 
Magoun, Jr., Massachusetts Game Protective Society; C. H. 
Mallory, Ichthyophagous Club; Prof. A, M. Mayer, Stevens 
Technological Institute; J.C. McAndrew, Restigouche Club; 
Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, New York Fish Commission; Isaac 
Townsend, West Island Club; James L. Vallotton, Pasque 
Island Club; J. §. Van Cleef, Willowemoe Club; C. Van 
Brunt, Willowemoc Club; Edward Weston, Greenwood Lake 
Association; Locke W. Winchester, Restigouche Club; Louis 
B. Wright, Westminster Kennel Club; Rev. H. L. Ziegen- 
fuss, Crist Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Frep Maruer, Secretary. 


GreEeNwoop Laxke,—The fun has begun. The black 
bass season in New York and New Jersey opened June 1. 
The season for nabbing poachers opened some days before 
that date. The Passaic County Fish and Game Protective 
Association sent a posse of officers to the lake. They had 
warrantebor the arrést of several notorious violators of the 
law ; but these persons had taken fright, and one of them had 
left the country for good and is not expected to return, In 
fact, although the neighborhood of the lake was thoroughly 
searched, none of those for whose arrests warrants had been 
issued could be found, The lake was examined for setlines, 
but the lines which were in the lake last week had been 
removed, The weirs or traps for catching fish were the next 
attended to. A man named Jacob Ryerson had a weir in 
the outlet of the lake and he was notified at once to destroy 
it or be placed under arrest and taken to Paterson. He 
agreed to comply with the request. Mr. Keenan then pro- 
ceeded to a large weir run across the Wynockie River, im- 
mediately below the outlet from the lake. This weir belongs 
to a Swede, who was not to be found, haying apparently 
made himself scarce on hearing of the approach of the 
officers, The fish warden proceeded at once to destroy the 
weir. ‘This weir consisted of two wings of stone walls built 
in the Wynockie River, and joined together by a large trap 
in the middle of the river. In this way every fish which 
left Greenwood Lake was captured except the very smallest. 
Mr. Keenan had come prepared and he and his assistants 
waded intu the stream, reached the trap and made kindling 
wood out of it, which was allowed to float down the stream, 
There was no opposition whatever to this work of the fish 
warden's. The party then returned to Ryerson’s weir. It 
was found that Ryerson had taken an axe and had apparently 
destroyed the trap. Investigation showed that only a foot 
below the surface of the water had been removed and that 
the ‘basket’ at the bottom still remained intact, In this 
way some of the fish might escape, but the larger ones and 
the larger portion of the smaller ones would still be caught. 
Ryerson was informed that this would not do, and that he 
would at once be arrested and taken to Paterson if he did 
not muke a good job of the work of destruction. He needed 
no further urging und destroyed, in view of the party, the 
wholetrap. The association proposes to keep 4 close watch 
on these traps and other contrivances about the lake, but 
from present appearances the violators of the law have been 
thoroughly impressed that the association means business and 
intends to see that the law in relation to fish and game is 
enforced. 


AmaArgeuR Rop Maxine.—I wish to thank Mr, Wells for 
the information that his interesting articles in late numbers 
of the Forrst AND STREAM has conveyed, and by which I 
have been benefited. Jam an amateurrodmaker myself and 
make all my own fly-rods, and have made quite a number 
for friends about here. I have just been fastening the. fer- 
rules on a rod with guttapercha gum as he recommended, 
and believe it will hold them in place much better than any 
thing heretofore found. This has always troubled me in the 
past more than anything else in making rods. For the bene- 
fit of amateur rodmakers, let me say that T. H. Chubb, 
whose advertisement is in the Forrsr AnD STREAM, will 
supply them with rod material and trimmings of the best 
quality at prices about one-fourth of what most other dealers 
in such articles charge. And those ordering by mail sending 
money in advance, will get just as good an article as they 
would were they there to pick it out for themselves. This 
is more than can be said of some dealers. Some time ago, I 
ordered from a certain dealer by mail, some lance and betha- 
bara wood, and I found when IJ received it that a stick of 
each kind of wood hada knot near the middle of each the 
full size of the sticks, one being # and the other } inch square, 
The lance stick was marked on the knot with a cross 4, and 
the word ‘‘cull” was written with pencil on oneside. I paid 
the price of the wood in adyanc, besides paying postage and 
registering fee, and the wood was perfectly uselessto me. I 
claim that doing business in this way is downright robbery 
and nothing else, and that a dealer who serves a customer so 
after receiying his money in advance and knows they cannot 
help themselves, is actually a robber. But those who do 
business in this manner are sure to lose more than they make 
in the end, for no one will long deal with any one whoserves 
them in such 4 manner.—ADIRON ONDACK. 


Satmon.—Mr, S. J. Martin reports to the U,8, Fish Commis- 
sion that a salmon weighing 214 pounds was taken in a tra 
net at Kettle Island, on the Massachusetts coast, just sout 
of Gloucester, on the 21st of May. The Bangor, Me., Com- 
mercial says: ‘‘The king of all the salmon is on exhibition 
at A, BE. Jones’s market on Kenduskeag Bridge. The label 
attached to the fish says it was caught by R, French, Sandy 
point; the weight is forty-six pounds. Not even the oldest 
inhabitants can remember of so large a salmon being caught 
in the Penobscot. The salmon fishing at Grand Lake stream 
is reported to be good.” 


TRouT NEAR New YorkK.—Sing Sing, N. Y., June 2.— 
The hills hereabout afford most excellent trouting. My 
friend Mr. H. W. Ambler, of this place, a most devoted 
Waltonian, made a creel of twenty good brook trout, the 
largest of which measured 14 inches.—Canonicus. 


isnot wholly true, for a compensating element of great weight 
comes in to disturb the calculation. Nature, perhaps tanee 
aptly speaking, providence, in the ease of fish, as well as with 
numberless other creatures, produces great quantities of seed 
that nature does not utilize or need. it looks like a vast store 
that has been provided for nature to hold in reserve against 
the time when the increased population of the earth should 
need it and the sagacity of man should utilize it, Atall events 
nature has never utilized this reserye, and man finds it already 
here to meet his wants. 

If this were not so, if there were no reserved stock of seed 
rovided beyond what nature uses every year, or toapply the 
ypothesis to the subject before us, if the salmon produced no 

more eggs every year than what are needed to keep the places 
ofthe parent fish filled, then it would be time that a river's 
stock of salmon would diminish just in proportion to the num- 
ber of salmon or salmon eggs taken outof it. Asit is, the 
parent salmonin a state of nature Proves roduce three 
thousand times as many eggs as would be needed if allbecame 
full-grown reproductive fish. The calculation is a very simple 
one. For instance, the quantity of salmon in any specified 
river, before they were molested at all by man, unquestion- 
ably remained constant from year to year. Making allow- 
ance, of course, for exceptional years, the average of any one 
decade has been, without doubt, about the same as that of the 
previous or next succeeding decade, It follows, of course, 
that every pair of full-grown haye produced during their 
lives just two, or their owno Dumber of full-grown fish of the 
next generation in order to keep the whole river supply good 
from year to year. 

If they produced more uniformly, the salmon in the river 
would increase till the river would ultimately become full of 
fish; if less, the stock for the reverse reason would be ulti- 
tnately exhausted. 

Now, as one pair of salmon produces yearly, say six thous- 
and eggs, it follows that there are deposited each year three 
thousand times as many eggs as would be needed, supposin 
that every egg became a full-grown, reproducing parent, i 
should add that this computation is based on the sttpposition 
that all the parent salmon die after spawning and never re- 
produce again. This is true of the bulk of the Pacific coast 
salmon. If any do live to get back to the ocean after spawn- 
ing and reproduce again, it increases the ratio of the number 
of eggs deposited to the number of salmon that reach maturity, 

The value to food-requiring man, of this reserve seed stock, 
becomes particularly apparent when we consider the effect of 
the fishing of asalmon river. The first thousand fish taken 
out of the river, though it deprives the river of three million 
eggs, makes no perceptible difference with the future supply, 
because there are so many eggs left that this abstracted quan- 
tity, great as it is, absolutely is relatively insignificant, the 
number of eggs left being so vastly greater, 

The first hundred thousand salmon taken from the river 
makes no difference, partly because there are so many eggs 
left and partly because one of nature’s compensations comes 
in by making the struggle for existence among the diminished 
number so much easier that the eggs that are left go as far 
toward replenishing the river’s stock as the larger number 
did under the less fayorable conditions of a comparatively 
over-crowded river. 

So great is the reserve stock of seed originally provided, 
and so effective are the compensations of nature, that even 
the first million of parent salmon taken from a great river 
like the Columbia seems to make no difference in the annual 
run of salmon up the river. 

We might go further, perhaps, and say that the first two 
million would make no difference, but we need not take the 
trouble to prove this, for it would not help to ilustrate the 
point if we did; the point being that if the annual catch goes 
on increasing, the limit will ultimately be reached when the 
number of eggs in the fish that are left will not be enough, 
even with the heipiot nature's compensating agencies, to keep 
up the river's stock, 

I need hardly remind a body of fishculturists and Commis- 
sioners that when this limit is passed, the decrease of the fish 
proceeds at a rapidly accelerated rate. lt is burning the 
candle at both ends, for while the diminished stock of the river 
keeps diminishing from an inadequate supply of seed, the 
destructive capacity of the engines of capture are constantly 
increased to offset the poorer fishing that results. 

Then begins a geometrical ratio of yearly decrease which 
is starthng, and of which the end is complete extinction, 

Some intelligent people thought that the limit just men- 
tioned had nearly been reached in the Columbia several years 
ago, Many more persons think it has now. Still, the resources 
of the great Columbia are so wouderful that, although upward 
of two thousand million eggs are annually abstracted from the 
river, there seems to be a doubt remaining yet whether the 
eges that are left are not sufficient to keep up the stock, 

However, if the fish-eating world does not go backward, the 
danger limit will soon be passed, if it has not been already, 
and it is none too soon to consider the question of taking 
measures to guard against the danger by artificial propagation, 

What has been done in the Sacramento in this direction is 
wellknown. I take the liberty to quote from an article bear- 
ing on the subject, by Mr. C, A. Smiley, of the United States 
Census Bureau: ‘ ; 

Mr. Smiley, after mentioning some of the difficulties of fish- 
culture, says: 

“I will close with citing one of the most remarkable of the 
successes thus far attained. The salmon canneries of the 
Sacramento River annually increased in number until b 
1870 the entire 11m of salmon was being caught and utilized. 
The greatest natural capacity of the river under these cir- 
cumstances may be considered to have heen reacbed mm 1678, 
when the yield to the canneries was 5,096,781 pounds, 

The first possible fruits of fisheulture were in 1876, when the 
young of 1873 may be supposed to have returned. — 

The United States hatchery was established in the latter 
year at Baird, Shasta county, California, and a half a million 
young released in 1873 and again in 1874. i ; 

In 1875 the number was increased to 850,000, in 1876 to 1,500,- 
000, and during each of the years 1575, 1879, 1880, 1881, two 
million young fry were placed in this river. From an annual 
catch of 5,000,000 pounds the river has come up to the annual 
catch of over 9,500,000 pounds, which figure has been main- 
tained during the past four years, 


Trout AnD Bass NEAR Nww Yorx.—If you can coax big 
trout, and are not afraid of water and mud, take the North- 
thern Railroad of New Jersey, to Cresskill. Just west of the 
station you will find a good sized creek, keep on the east 
bank and fish north for four miles. I have heard of several 
two-pounders being taken from this stream this season and 
know personally that there are large fish in it. One gentle- 
man had 1,500 large trout weighing from one to three 
pounds washed out of his nouda into the creek the past 
spring, and one of the best natural streams in the State 
empties into it just north of Cresskill, I haye never noticed 
you mention Rockland Lake in your paper. During the past 
year some fine catches of black bass and pickerel were taken 
there, one bass of eight pounds. The East Reef opposite old 
ice house at the southern end of the lake, is best for early 
morning, and West Reef, direclly opposite, for afternoon 
for bass, and crawfish is the only bait for them, though 
they will sometimes take the fly. The nortliwest shore, just 
on the edge of the lily pads, abounds with pickerel from one 
to seven pounds, also yellow bass of large size. I have had 
fine sport on this water; it is easy of access, and a few days’ 
fishing costs but little. Take Northern Railroad of New 
Jersey to Nyack, four miles to lake, and either hire convey- 
ance or do as I do, foot it. There is another place quite 
near by which I have not seen you mention, The Hudson 
River from Luzerne, on Adirondack Railroad, to Corinth, 
seven miles of as fine black bass fishing as one can wish for. 
Minnows or small suckers are the bait. On the west bank a 
number of fine trout streams come in. My cousin and friend 
took two hundred good sized trout from these streams one 
day last week, none of the fish were trout hog size either, 
and all were eaten. We get a fish in the Hackensack above 
Oradel called ‘‘wind fish,” from the fact that they are taken 
most readily when the wind blows. In shape it resembles 
the trout, also in gaminess, takes the fly readily and is a good 
table fish. The back is dark olive, sides dull gold, belly 
white, fins underneath edged with red, weigh from eight 
ounces to two pounds. Can you tell from this poor de- 
scription what they are?—N. 


Taxive Bre Trour.—Hallock, Minn., May 28.—Ziditor 
Forest and Stream: The fishing for the ‘‘whoppers,” described 
by “Homo,” in the issue of May 15, with minnows for*bait, 
is legitimate and justifiable. ‘These big fellows are gour- 
mands, feeding on young trout from choice. Their appetite 
is insatiable and demand a constant feeding to keep up their 
appearance. We consider a flight similar to those invented 
by Mr. A. N. Cheney, and used by him for lakers with a 
minnow for a bait, will kill them every time. We have pur- 
sued just this course when fishing for Salmo farie, and with- 
out any lashing of conscience. These big trout are cannibals 
in every sense of the word, growing ugly in appearance as 
they grow older, They should be exterminated by all fair 
and honorable means, Oursystem is to make a flight of 
three hooks, using one for a lip hook, on this 1 put my 
minnow for bait and then spin this across the hole. If 
‘‘Homo” wants to kill these big fellows let him cut out the 
ventral fin of one of the small brook trout, put it on the Jip 
hook, and if he spins it carefully he can readily kill the 
monsters.— NORMAN. 


Trout in CHEeNAnco County, N. Y.—Smithville Flats, 
N. Y., June 2.—I reply to the inquiry of ‘‘Niagara,” in 
Forest AND Stream of May 29, relative to trout in Che- 
nango couaty. There are very few trout left in any of our 
public waters; however, some very fair catches were reported 
in April. As a general thing there are two fishermen for 
every three trout. What is known as the Wheeler Brook, 
about a mile and a half below Greene, contains nearly all 
the trout in the immediate vicinity of the town. ‘‘Niagara”’ 
could find good bass fishing in the river and excellent pick- 
erel fishing in most any of the numerous natural ponds or 
lakes of Greene or Smithville.—E. L. R. 


Bootnuess BusnxEess.—Grand Rapids, Mich,, May 27,— 
You will see by the inclosed clipping that we are doing some- 
thing all the time to protect for the legitimate use of the 
people the public property represnted by our wild game ani- 
mals. Yet it is a bootless business, to expend personal time, 
money, and mental and physical labor for the protection of 
public property in the hope of getting a fair share of the 
benefits of such expenditure, and then io see that preety 
gobbled up by lawless poachers is getting monotonuous.—E. 
8. Hormes. [The slip reporis that one James M. Bryant 
of Grand Rapids had been arrested and fined for taking trout 
of less than the lawful size.] 


LittLe AND Bre.—The Manton, Mich., Trtbune ef recent 
date reports: ‘Some very fine specimens of the trout specie 
are being taken from Oedar Creek this season. A Sherman 
man caught &8 trout one day last week, and rumor says he 
carried the entire lot home in a four-quart pail. Last Wed- 
nesday, A. Newkirk succeeded in bringing in a trout which 
turned the scale at three pounds and two ounces.” 


Rarssow TRovT In GREENWooD LAxe.—Mr. W. H. 
Schiper brought to our office last Monday a specimen of the 
California rainbow trout (Salmo tridea), which he caught 
while fly-fishing for bass near the west shore of Greenwood 
Lake. Several thousand fry were put into the lake three 
years ago, and this is the first that has been heard of them 


since. The fish would weigh about four ounces, : 
The figures were: 
4 Pounds, 
VBSOc ies eae e'gt ne Ee vrernves +10, 837,000 
7 RAMS "600,000 
ff 18 I cultur nnn (Mem cacepehnuen bia at! Lye te re 9,605,000 
TEbD. tee enone, te A late eee 2 9,586,000 


Allowing the three years which it takes for salmon to come 
to maturity and enter the river for spawning purposes, the in- 
crease in yield to the canneries for ten years has been almost 
exactly proportionate to the increase in the disposition of fry. 
Taking into consideration the cost of ate pepe: salmon 
annually, and the value of the increase of 4,900,000 pounds, it 
will be seen,” Mr, Smiley concludes, “that there is a very large 
per cent. of profit in artificial fishculture, when conducted 
under circumstances as favorable as these.” 

What man has done man may do, and what has been done 
in the Sacramento can be duplicated in the Columbia, and in 
as much larger proportion as the Columbia is larger than the 
Sacramento. 

An effort was made in 1877 to hatch salmon on the Clacka- 
mus River, a tributary of the Columbia, 

This location seemed to combine every advantage for the 
hatching of salmon on a large scale. The nver heads, as you 
are aware, in the perennial snows of Mc. Hood, and the cold- 
ness of its snow-fed waters is very attractive to he apc e 
salmon. Just above its mouth, on the Wilhamette, into whic 
it empties, are the impassable falls of Oregon City, which pre- 


COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON HATCHING.* 


BY LIVINGSTON STOND. 
[Read before the American Fishcultural Association,] 


t yas eaew ONE has heard of the immense quantities of salmon 
that are annually canned on the Columbia River. It is 
not necessary to go into details. The general facts known to 
all prove that an enormous number of salmon have been ac- 
customed to ascend the Columbia River every year and it is 
robably safe to say that the Columbia has been the most pro- 
note salmon river in the world. 

This is one side of the subject, The other side is this: Such 
enormous quantities of salmon taken from a river must ulti- 
mately endanger the productiveness of it. The situation is 
not, however, quite as bad as it looks, for it seems ab first 
sight as if the stock of a salmon river would be diminished in 
proportion to the number of salmon taken out of it, but this 


*The salmon referred to in this paper is the Oncorhynchus chouika 
the spring salmon of the Columbia, the chinook salmon, quinnat 
salmon, the common salmon of the Sacramento River. 


ms 


re 
vent the salmon from going up : 
and naturally turns. then. be < into the Clackamus, if they 
missed that river im the first place, Then, if necessary, the 
Clackamus ¢an be so obstructed that every salmon coming up 
can bestopped in front of the fishery. The river is a favorite 
resort of the galmon, as it must necessarily be, with its cold, 
clear. ani iff running water and, before canning on the 
Columbia began, the Clackamus was famous for its hundreds 
of thousands of magnificent spring salmon that used to swarm 
up its channel to spawn. 


But the establishment of the station cametoo late. Already 
—this was in 1877—there were fifteen or twenty canneries on 
the Columbia below the mouth of the Wilhamette, and with 
their thousand miles or nearly of drift nets waylaying the 
ascending fish, the main river became so depleted of parent 
salmon that those that reached the Clackamus in 1877 were 
but a sorry fragment of the immense shoals that originally 
came up the stream to spawn, 

It was too late, Had the station been established twelve 

ears before, twenty million eggs of the best yariety of salmon 
in the Columbia River could have been taken there eyery 
yeat, The time has gone by now for that, and only a few 
milion eggs ean be taken in a season on the Clackamus, until 
some legislation allows a larger proportion of the parent 
salmon to reach the river. , 

This station was partly destroyed by a hurricane a few 
years ago, and has been abandoned for the present, 

Unfortunately the same objection which applies to the 
Clackamus River as a hatching station for producing young 
salmon on alarge scale, viz., the enormous yearly catch of 
salmon on the Columbia below the Clackamus, also applies to 
all other good locations inthe Columbia River basin, or rather 
What were originally good locations. T'wenty years ago there 
were scores of places on the ad&uents of the Columbia where 
ten to twenty million salmon eggs could have been obtained 
annually, because such an enormous quantity of salmon ran 
up the Columbia that they swarmed in thousands into each of 
these spawning streams to deposit their eggs, 

Now that every season asthe salmon come up to spawn, 
hundreds of thousands of them, I might almost say millions, 
are caught for canning, there are not enough left to distri- 
bute themselves in very great numbers in each of their thou- 
sand spawning beds up the river, and it will never again, in 
my Opinion, be very easy to find more than one or two places 
in the Columbia River basin, where tweuty million salmon 
eggs can be anmually obtained unless some legislation protects 
the salmonon their upward journey, or artificial hatching, 
simultaneously carried on at various independent localities, 
increases the number of salmon in the river. 

Thave made three explorations of the Columbia River for 
the purpose of finding a good place for getting salmon eggs on 
a large scale, the last time under the direction of the United 
States Commissioner of Fisheries, following the Columbia, ex- 
cept around the Great Bend, all the way from the Rocky 
Mountain diyide, where you can step acrossit (here called 
Deer Lodge River), to the bar at its mouth where it is fifteen 
miles across, and | am convinced that the salmon do not now 
come up to any one of their famous original spawning grounds 
in such quantities as to makeit an easy thing to get twenty or 
even ten million eges a year from any of them, 

I must except some places (aotably the foot of Shoshone 
Falls in Idaho) on the tributaries of the Snake River, now 
difficult of access, where if is possible perhaps, if the attempt 
is made soon enough, to obtain sufficient spawners for large 
operations in hatching. I will also except the mouth of the 
Little Spokane River in Washington Territory, where there is 
a most excellent location for a hatching station, and where 
perhaps ten million eggs a year could be collected, if the state- 
inents made about the number of salmon that come up the 
fiver are at all true. These statements have not been sub- 
stantiated yet for want of opportunity, and all we can say is 
that thousands and thousands of breeding salmon used to fre- 

vent this natural and favorite spawning ground, and perhaps 
the canners leaye enough now in the Columbia to stil make 
the Little Spokane a good collecting place for their eggs, As 
my report to Prof, Baird recommends this point as'a fayorable 
location for a hatching station, a description of some of its 
advantages may not be out of place here, and the first I will 
mention is its accessibility. Eight miles from the mouth of 
the river, over a remarbably hard and level road, is the 
town of Spokane Falls, anew, but thriving and promising 
settlement of perhaps 5,000 inhabitants. This town is situated 
on the lme of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and is in daily 
communication with the rest of the world by mail, telegraph 
and railroad, the railroad being one of the great trans-conti- 
nental thoroughfares of the country. 

These general facts alone are sufficient to show the accessi- 
eh of the location without the necessity of mentioning 
details. : 

The water suppiy at the mouth of the Little Spokane for 
hatching the eggs is practically unlimited. As there is a 
strong current in the river, and as the water does not rise till 
after the raeree season and hatching season are over, the 
water can be safely raised from the river itself by a current 
wheel, as at the McCloud River Station, and this being the 
case, any required quantity of water can be brought to the 
hatching house at asmallexpense. The locationis also fayor- 
able for obtaining water conveniently. The river does not 
ever rise more than a few feet, and pennequenety, the hatehing 
house can be erected not very far above the low water mark, 
A small current wheel will, therefore, be sufficient to raise 
the water to the hatching house, and the adjacent land is so 
favorable for building on that the wheel can be placed yery 
near the hatching house, which will render unnecessary the 
construction of a long flume from the wheel to the hatching 
house. As the river does not rise till the hatching season is 
over, the wheel need not be protected from drift woed, nor 
arranged with reference to the rising and falling of the water. 

These are great conveniences, and on the whole it may be 
said that the water supply may be safely depended upon in 
every respect. ‘The location is also remarkably favorable as 
to availability, Fortunately the adjacent country is still in 
its primitive state. When I visited the place in July, 1883, 
many Indians were encamped on the river bottoms, but I saw 
no white men, Itis true some claims near the river haye been 
taken up by white men, but they are not valuable and and 
could be bought without much expense. It is therefore very 
probable that the site of a salmon building station could be 
obtained without much cost, and as there are very few settlers 
up the river and no towns or villages, no objection would 
probably be raised to collecting the parent salmon during 
spaying season by means of a dam across the river. 

The Little Spokane is also of such a character that it would 
be an easy matter to capture the breeding fish. Indeed, I 
think a seiming ground could be arranged so that nearly all 
the spawning fish that come up to the river could be caught, 
and furthermore, it being closeto the main Spokane River 
it would not be difficult to run two seining grounds, one on 
each side, which would undoubtedly somewhat increase the 
yearly catch of breeders. 

Tt would be a very easy matter to build a dam or salmon 
rack across the river to keep the breeders on or near the sein- 


the Wilhamette any further, 


ut in an chstruction that is perfectly safe, 
east, the maximum rise of the river during 


a “he 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


the year is so inconsiderable, that there will never be any 
danger of the hatching house and other buildings being washed 
away, even if they are placed, as it is desirable that they 
should be, close to the river, 

Besides possessing the essential qualification just enumer- 
ated for a salmon breeding station, the Spokane location has 
many convenient features about it to recommend it. In the 
first place, if is in a good timber country, where lumber can 
be easily and inexpensively obtained for building, Then the 
roads in all direétions are hard and good, even during the 
rainy season, which is a merit which ean be fully appreciated 
only by those who have lived in other parts of the Pacitic 
coast, where the roads become peace y impassable during 
the rainy season on account of the great depth of the mud. 
The ground is also almost level from the mouth of the Little 
Spokane to the town of Spokane Falls, which would make 
communication with the town and freighting to and from the 
breeding station very easy. The climate is also a greatrecom- 
mendation to this place, It is never very cold nor very hot, 
but the temperature is quite eyen, and consequently very 
fayorable for work of any kind, 

By prancing. over what has just been said about the mouth 
of the Little Spokane, it will be seen that itis known to be in 
all essential points an unusually favorable location for a 
salmon breeding station, If it should prove to be capable of 
furnishing an abundanes of breeders, I should not hesitateto 
recommend it emphatically as one of the best situations to be 
found anywhere for taking and distributing salmon eggs. If, 
howeyer, it should fail to supply the required quantity of 
spawning salmon, I do not kaow where we could look for any 
one place on the Columbia River or its north fork which, by 
itself, would be adequate and satisfactory, and I think we 
should be reduced to the necessity of going further from the 
railroad, or erecting two or three separate stations at different 
points. 

Before closing, allow me to mention a fact which may pos- 
sibly be as much of a surprise to many of you as it was to me. 
It is that there are no salmon in the whole of that portion of 
the North or Clark's Fork of the Columbia, which flows through 
Western Montana and Idaho, including that magnificent body 
of water, Lake Pend d’Oreille in Northern Idaho, 

This fork of the Columbia, known as it flows westward 
under the various names of Deer i odge River, Hellgate River 
and Missoula River, has a length of about three hundred 
miles before it reaches the Falls of Senniacwaiteen, just below 
the outlet of Lake Pend d'Oreille, where it is believed the 
ascending salmon are finally stopped from going any further, 
and in the long stretch of river above this point clear to the 
Rocky Mountains no salmon whatever are found. Iwas not 
aware of this fact, and when we had crossed the Continental 
divide, which was accomplished then in a wretched mud 
wagon (called by courtesy a stage), and had descended the 
western slope of the Rocky Mountain range far enough for 
the Deer Lodge Brook to have become a respectable river, I 
expected to find salmon very abundant, but to my great sur- 
prise the people there were as unfamiliar with salmon in their 
natural haunts as the people of this aty are, and were nearly 
as far from them. 

I found that there were three principal obstructions which 
kept the salmon from ascending the river. The first one from 
the ocean is Kettle Falls, in Washington Territory, on the 
main Columbia, 711 miles from its mouth, These falls are 
about twenty-five feet in height at low water, but they are 
not wholly impassable, for on the east side they are broken 
into a series of cascades, through which the salmon can and 
do get above the falls at certain stages of the water and pos- 
sibly at all times. 

Forty-two miles above Kettle Falls, the Pend d’Oreille River 
(Clark’s Fork of the Columbia from Lake Pend d’Oreille to the 
main river is called Pend d’Oreille River) empties into the 
main Columbia. Near its mouth, at a distance variously 
stated from afew rods to twenty miles, is another fall, which 
is undoubtedly a serious obstruction to the salmon. This fall 
(it being on the Great Bend, I did not see it myself) is said to 
be ten or fifteen feet in height. 

Theard of salmon being caught all the way up to the falls 
of the Senniacwateen, so the salmon are obviously not all 
stopped at the falls of the Pend d’Oreille, though probably not 
a very large proportion get by them. 

About one hundred and fifty miles above these nearly im- 

assable falls and not far below the outlet of Pend d’Oreille 
ake are the falls of the Senniacwateen, which, though not 
over eight or ten feet in height, probably head off the com- 
paratively few salmon that reach them and mark the highest 
point, the ultima thule of the upward migration of the salmon 
of Clark’s Fork of the Columbia. I mention these facts, partly 
beacause when I was in Idaho and Montana, there was a strong 
feeling among some of the residents on Clark’s Fork in fayor 
of opening a way for the ascending salmon through the ob- 
structions just mentioned, and allowing them to come up into 
Idaho and Montana, which they would undoubtedly do if they 
eould, although itis nearly twelye hundred miles from the 
mouth of the Columbia to Deer Lodge City. 

I will merely add in this connection that a movement has 
been started for obtaining the intervention of the Territories 
interested, and if possible of the United States, for the purpose 
of opening a passage for the salmon through the formidable 
obstructions at the mouth of the Pend d’Oreille River, but in 
my opinion these falls will be found to lie in British territory, 
and the undertaking mentioned will require the co-operation 
also of the Dominion government. 

Tneed hardly sayin conclusion that in my judgment the 
sooner we get about this work of hatching salmon on the 
Columbia the better. We have waited toolongalready. The 
great opportunities of twenty years ago are all gone, and 
every year makes the matter worse. 

Mills are going up, settlements are forming, railroads are 
being built in this trans-Rocky Mountain region with surpris- 
ing rapidity—all accelerating the decrease of the salmon— 
and in a short time we may be glad to even get opportunities 
that we scorn now. A great industry as well as an immense 
food supply is at stake, and something ought to be done very 
soon. F 


FISHCULTURE IN CANADA. 


ME F.WHITCHER, formerly Commissioner of Fisheries 
for Canada, whose article condemning the system of 
fisheulture pursued in the Dominion, created such a stir some 
time ago, now writes to the Montreal Gazette as follows: 
Sir--Referring to “Hansard,” of the 9th instant, I respect- 
fully bring under notice the following. part of a recent diseus- 
sion in parliament relating to fish 
with an item of supplementary estimates. 
ported thus: 


“Mr, MeLelan.—* * * Istatedto the house when the estimates 
were under discussion, my opinion as to the success of the fish hatch- 
eries, and the grounds upon which I hold the belief that they have 
been successfu!. I take it from the reports of all the fishery overseers, 
and I find from these reports that in the salmon rivers, wherever we 
have placed and haye been for years placing the young fry, these 
rivers have held up or increased in their production, while rivers that 
have been continuously fished through that period and have not been 
supplied with fry are nearly fished out and have decreased in the 
yield, And so with veference to the figures given by the Commissioner. 
They show 4 considerable increase of between 30 and 40 per cent. in 
the total catch between 1871 and 1881, Talking the whole there is that 
increase, but while there has been au increase in the whole, there 
bas been a large decrease in the rivers that have not been supplied 
with the young fish and fed from the hatcheries, while all the reports 
from the officers for 1883, and for 1882 as well, show that the rivers 
that have been supplied with fry have maintained their yield or 
largely increased it,’ 


The words italicized are those to which I beg leave more 
particularly to refer. “The figures given by the Commis- 
sioner,” are. for the provinces in which fish hatcheries exist, 


At p. 1586 it is re- 


atcheries in connection }- 


_— — -_- 


Leal 


369 


and were taken by me from Vol, 3, pages 286-87 of the census 
returns tor 1870 and 1880 respectively, They showed an in- 
crease, as correctly stated, but chiefly in districts unatfected 
by hatcheries, Having since more carefully examined the 
fisheries’ schedules of the census for 1880, I have discovered 
(and called official attention to) a serious errorin the summa- 
tion of sub-districts, under the salmon column—15,935 barrels 
being reckoned in mistake for 7,252 barrels, The erroneous 
figures, by which I was myself misled and have unconsciously 
misled the Minister of Marine atid Fisheries, gave 3,187,000 
pounds of salmon, while the corrected figures give 1,446,400 
pounds, cial operations are carried on extensively m 
that vicinity. The comparative totals “given by the Commis- 
sioner,” I may addin perfect good faith, which are adduced 
as evidence of an increased catch of salmon within the decen- 
nial period of ‘between 50 and 40 per cent.,” and which in- 
crease is alleged to be due entirely to artificial hatehing, would, 
therefore, prove as corrected, a local difference of 1,740,600 
pounds, and a general decrease of very nearly a quarter of a 
million of pounds. I take the carliest_opportunity that my 
health will admit to amend this fault, lest the error should 
creep into other calculations affecting the Canadian salmon 
fisheries before its correction can be incorporated in the pub- 
lications of the statistical department, 

Under ordinary circumstances it might be supposed that 
such difference would not materially affect any Foductiona 
from the total salmon yield of 1880 in the maritime provinces, 
as the reports of the fisheries department should afford an ex~ 
act or corrective basis of computation. Unfortunately the 
salmon catch for 1880, as given in the fisheries statements, is 
63 per cent. less than that given in the census returns, even as 
corrected, There was every advantage, therefore, in prefer- 
ring the census tables to compare data affecting artificial fish- 
culture, although any person actuated by improper “motives” 
would obviously prefer the former, If, however, the fishery 
returns for 1870 and 1880 be taken as a basis of comparison the 
whole decline amounts to 2,504,347 pounds. The figures 
‘“civen by the Commissioner” may, I reasonably submit, be 
yiewed as evidence not only of a desire to be accurate, but 
also of the utmost fairness toward artificial fish hatching. 
Knowing also the defectiveness of the departmental returns, 
to which I so often and so vainly drew attention when in 
office, and have of late years for that reason refused to sign, 
I thought it safest to quote the census tables in preference to 
the others. Altogether, therefore, the census affords a just 
and even a generous measure as illustrating the practical re- 
sults of artificial salmon hatching in Canada during ten con- 
current years. 

Allow ine, sir, in your columns, to apologize for having been 
the innocent medium through whoro the Hon. Mr. Mcielan 
has thus accidentally adopted data supplied by the blue books, 
which, as revised, indicate a condition of things quite con- 
trary to the desired result, and which may possibly haye 
assisted in producing the erroneous conclusion embodied in the 
foregoing extract, Permit me, at the same time, to point ont 
that the case of Nova Scotia was instanced ‘‘by the Commis- 
sioner” to show that in ten years, from 1870 to 1880, the salmon 
catch had declined over fifty per cent.. as shown by the cen- 
sus, while, according to the fisheries statements, it had fallen 
from 1,845,905 pounds to 383,150 pounds. Above six millions 
of salmon fry were distributed from the Nova Seotian hatch- 
eries during this time. Here, again, adyantage was given to 
the claims of artificial hatching, 

The fact that a decrease in salmon of 168,200 pounds accord- 
ing to the census returns, and of 2,504,347 pounds, according to 
the fisheries statements, as admitted by the official reports, 
forcibly suggests the advisability of revising whatever other 
information purports to establish that ‘there has been an in- 
erease in the whole.” 

Regarding the alleged specific increase of produce from 
rivers in which salmon fry artificially bred haye been placed, 
and the corresponding decrease from riyers dependent on 
natural propagation, itis of primary importance that if such 
realization is true, the fact should be clearly established, If 
it can be proved there would be every reason to substitute 
artificial for natural methods of cultivation, Its co-existence 
with a general decrease is not incompatible. In order to test 
such a theory the individual instances must be judged by the 
rélative proportions of natural and artificial supply forming 
the mature stock. That a fluctuating decline of the salmon 
fishery since 1874 has occurred throughout the easterly section 
of the Dominion of Canada it is useless and unwise to deny. 
A table appended proves this conclusively. The precise ex- 
tent to which this declension has been arrested during a series 
of years on the one hand by reserving and guarding the natu- 
ral spawning grounds, eradicating abuses, imposing restric- 
tions in the modes and curtailing the periods of fishing, by 
constructing fishways and removing obstructions to the ascent 
of salmon, by opening up new and extensive breeding areas, 
and regulating and protecting the inland fisheries generally, 
and on the other hand by planting salmon fry artificially 
hatched; all of these elements form a fair subject for impar- 
tial inquiry from which much useful and reliable information 
might be derivec. But any attemptto prove that ail other 
endeavors to augment or to maintain the salmon supply from 
natural sources have entirely failed, and itis only from the 
eoumat of the hatcheries that improvement has been effected 
or that normal production has been maintained, conflicts at 
once with the whole history of the business, extending over a 
series of laborious years, since 1852, and disputes recorded 
facts and figures existing in the journals of the House of Com- 
mons and the departmental files, which if honestly examined 
tell quite a different story. It also runs counter to the knowl- 
edge and unvvritten experience of many sportsmen and ob- 
servers acquainted with the salmon fishery in all parts of the 
country. The general and special reports of the principal 
fishery officers, including those actually in charge of hatch- 
eries, reinforce and confirm the entire record. 

Attention is drawn to the following table condensed from 
the fisheries statements, It gives the gross produce of salmon 
fishing in the river, estuary and coast districts of the proyinces 
of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for each year 
from 1869 to 1882, both inclusive. The particulars of 1883 are 
not yet published, but the preliminary report of the fisheries 
department announces that in New Brunswick and Nova 
Scotia there is a considerable decrease, and a slight increase 
in the Province of Quebec, principally in districts remote from 
the hatcheries. Inthe Miramichi and Restigouche districts, 
where the best hatcheries are located, the yield is reported to 
have been worse than anywhere else. 


TABLE OF SALMON GATCH IN QUEBEC, NEW BRUNSWICK AND 
NOVA SCOTIA FOR FOURTEEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS. 
Pounds. 


Pounds. 


culture to omit details. ‘ 
In mentioning artificial salmon hatching as having heen re- 


370 


_ 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


. 
[Jon 5, 1884. 


newed in 1873 in the eastern provinces I speak by the card. 
Breeding salmon and trout by artificial process was first prac- 
ticed in Canada by Richard Nettle, Hsq,, then Superintendent 
oi fisheries, in 1858. in a Government hatchery at Quebec, 
The experiments were measurably successful. Mr. Nettle was 
enabled to deposit vivified ege'sin considerable numbers and 
to hatch out and distribute a large proportion of liying healthy 
fry. He also transported impregnated ova to Australia, This 
enterprise was authorized by several ministers, the Hon. Mr. 
Cauchon, Judge Sicotte and the Hon. William Macdougall. 
Tt was not continued by the latter because the limited means 
provided by the Legislature were absorbed in controlling and. 
improving the salmon rivers proper, all available resources 
being required to guard the streams against destructive prac- 
tices which had brought the salmon fishery in the Province of 
Quebec to the verge of ruin. Mr. Nettle, however, succeeded 
single-handed and with a very meagre outfit in proying the 
feasibility of breeding salmon and trout by artificial means, 
and he deserves the credit of initiation and perseverance in- 
yolving severe exposure and strong personal enthusiasm, 
Another successful instance of artificial salmon hatching 
occurred in 1867, under instructions from the Hon. P. Mitchell, 
en the Miramichi River, N. B., conducted by Messrs. Stone 
and Goodfellow, assisted by W. H. Venning, Esq,, Inspector 
of Fisheries for that Proyince, The system now on trial is 
not, therefore, a novelty; it 1s merely a resumption of the 
original operations; it was not discovered, invented nor intro- 
duced by Mr. Samuel Wilmot, although he claims the pater- 
nity and usurps the credit. The documents of the fisheries 
department contain all the particulars requisite to do justice 
in the premises, 

This, however, isa small matter compared to the assertion 
that while natural hatching has failed to improve or even to 
keep alive the salmon fishery, artificial hatching has rescued. 
and restored it, Itis well known that such an idea has been 
familiarized by Mr. 8, Wilmot to serye his own ambitious 
aims, He has not contented himself with unduly crediting his 
own share of work, but has unjustly ignored or decried the 
labors of others. Im his reports and pamphlets this is most 
conspicuous, It was always to the fore in the International 
Fisheries Exhibition, and the proceedings of conferences and 
the columns of the London Canadian Gazette (see No. 19), at- 
tributed all the prosperity of the salmon and whitefish fisher- 
ies of the Dominion to ‘‘Mr, 8. Wilmot’s well-directed system 
of fisheulture,” of which he unscrupulously claimed to be the 
author, A recent pamphlet reiterates pretensions which now 
assume a semblance of authority from the conclusion above 
announced in parliament. 

Asa comparison to the table inserted aboye, I propose to 
tabulate the yearly deposits of fry in rivers and districts in 
juxtaposition tothe annual catch in the same rivers and dis- 
tricts, and to compare them with each season’s catch in simi- 
lar streams and divisions wherein no fry from the hatcheries 
have been distributed. Hxtracts from the reports of the fish- 
ery officers in each section will also be arranged, These will 
be compared ii another form with the production in every 
ease before artificial hatching was applied. [t should then ap - 
pear intelligibly to which the salmon fishery of Canada owes 
most—legislative and administrative protection or artificial 
stocking. 

Sir Alexander Campbell may be said to have laid the foun- 
dation of the system of organized protection for the inland 
fisheries in 1865, although, of course, the work of his predeces- 
sors was vsilized away back to the time of the Hon. P. M. 
Vankoughnet, and throughout the able officiate of the Hon. 
Wm. Macdougall. Sir Alexander well knows through what 
difficulties he upheld a policy founded in moderation instead 
of radical change, and the legislature’s debates of that day 
testify to the masterly way in which he treated the whole sub- 
ject, and the peculiar interest taken in it by many other legis- 

ators. There could be no better proof of the thoroughness of 
the Fisheries Act than the knowledge that it has never needed 
amendment, While there have been passed in England since 
then some twenty different salmon acts, and twelye royal 
commissions have investigated the British salmon fisheries, the 
Canadian system has been worked under the same law, and 
all the information has been procured and the improvements 
have been made through the regular official staff, without im- 
posing burdensome restrictions on fishermen or devolying ex- 
tra burdens on the public. Recollecting with what virulence 
Iwas assailed for seconding (some said advising) this careful 
course, Sir Alexander at least can understand the spirit in 
which at this distant day I defend it bravely from the impli- 
eation of failure. The same system was adopted by such earn- 
est and able men as Mr. Mitchell, Sir Albert Smith and Mr. 
Pope. It has been successfully carried out by as zealous and 
useful a staff of officers as ever served under any government. 
Ts it conceivable that all of these experienced public men and 
allof those energetic and intelligent subordinates who have 
served under them inside and outside of the fisheries depart- 
ment were wrong, and that only Mr. Samuel Wilmot isright? 

Let the facts and figures answer. ; 
W, F. WuircHenr. 

Ripwau Bang, Ottawa, April 22, 1884. 


BLACK BASS FOR HOLLAND.—On the 4th inst, the 
steamer Schiedam sailed. with twenty-four black bass sent by 
Prof. Baird to the Zoological Society of Amsterdam. The 
fish were obtained by Mr, Blackford, Special tanks for the 
fish were fitted up in the steamer. 


Answers ta Correspondents. 


=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


Garnoat.—Old paint can be removed by first burning with a 
painter's ‘‘torch™ and then scraping With a steel scraper, Use the 
commonest grade of vaseline for the mast, There are a number of 
compositions for ships bottoms to prevent fouling, They can be 
obtained of shipchandlers in the large cities. ‘ 

Novrop.—i, What fish are in season at Lake George from July 15 to 
Aug. 15, 2, Whab method is used in capturing, first, lake trout, 
second, bass? 8. What bait, artificial or live, is used at above 
named locality? Ans. 1. Black bass, lake trout, pike and perch. 2. 
Lake trout are fished for by trolling in deep water, and by baiting a 
buoy and fishing it a day or two after, Black bass are taken with 
both the fly and with bait. 3. Minnows, frogs, crickets, etc, 

W. H. G., Worcester, Mass.—What kind of ammunition did Mr. 
Farrow use when he made the score in Milwaukee, mentioned in your 
paper? Did he use patehed or naked bullet? And did he clean after 
each shot, or shoof the scoré without cleaning? Ans. Mr. Farrow 
used the 40-cal. Bullard cannélured bullet, 800 grains, Lafiin & Rand’s 
1 FG. powder. He did not clean in the score, but used a rubber tube 
to breathe in the barrel. 


M., New York,—I am told that an occasional mascalonge is taken 
in Saratoga Lake, Please (describe the tackle, bait, etc., used in fish- 
jug forthem. Ans, We think it doubtfulif the mascalonge is found 
there. The great lake pike, Hsow weiusis canghtin Saratoga Lake,and 
this fish when large is often confounded withthe mascalonge. Use an 
eight or nine-foot trolling rod, a reel holding at least 300 feet of bags 
line and either a gang of hooks with a minnow for bait, or a spoon. 
Row and troll, The fish are sometimes taken by keeping close to the 
weeds and at others in the middle of the stream. 


INFORMATION WANTED. 

Can you tell mé of some good place where I can spend the last 
part of August and first part of September and find good partridge 
shooting and bass fishing? If caniiot have both shooting and fishing, 
should prefer to give up fishing. Would like to go somewhere in the 
northern part ot Peunsylvania or in the southern patt of New York. 

“Do not cars to go as fal as the Adirondacks,—W. C. M. 


ty DAvs or Hearty prepare for sickness; in on prepare for old 
g6: which means éiswre in the Travelers, of Hartford, while you are 
ealthy and can get msurance. and while you are young and can get 
+ oheap.—Adv. 


Che Fennel. 


FIXTURES. 
BRANCH SHOWS, 
Juné 10. 11,12 and 13—The Second Annual Tnternational Bench 


Show Ohicago, Ill. Ma, Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, 


Sept, —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Keunel GJub. Mr. P. C. 


De Saque, Secretary. 


Oct. 3, 9,10 and 11,—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 


Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn, EH. §. Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 


Oct, 14,—Non-sporting Bench Show of the Westminster Kennel 


Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr, Oharles Lincoln, 
Superintendent, 


A. K. R. 


HH AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 


lished every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 


Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted uuless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
‘American Kennel Register,’’ P,O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1213. Yolume 1., bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.50, 


THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW, 


Edator Forest and Stream; 

In the section of Pennsylvania round about Lancaster there 
are at least one hundred foxhounds, belonging to several 
hunting farmers, who keep them for the purpose of chasing 
reynard, and pride themselves on the trueness of their dogs. 
These gentlemen, I understand, own some splendid specimens, 
not valued especially for the good looks they possess but for 
hunting qualities, and haye never exhibited them at shows, 
nor, indeed, have the owners eyer attended an exhibition, 
when they really have a very good chance of winning with 
their animals. An effort has been made by the writer to have 
at least six couple of the best of these hounds brought to the 
bench show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, to be held, in 
connection with the fair of the Pennsylvania State Agricul- 
tural Society, in September next. These hounds and repre- 
sentatives form the Rose Tree Hunt’s pack as well as animals 
about West. Chester and Chester, Pa,, and it is hoped the 
Essex and Queens Counties Hunt, of New York, would make 
a crand feature of the show. 

he beagle men, we are assured, will be out in force. New 
importations will haye reached the United States by Septem- 
ber, and this class will be very large, Mr. L. D. Sloan, of the 
American English Beagle Club, afew days since received by 
the steamship Indiana, from Hngland, two additions to his 
kennel of little hounds—Bannerman and Myrtle—of which 
you will receive a descriptive account. ; 

Why isit that the English harrier is so poorly represented 
at the shows in this country? Doubtless for the reason they 
are scarce in the United States, I know of but two genuine 
harriers ever haying been exhibited in the States. It strikes 
ine that good working dogs of this breed would be valuable in 
some sections. I will venture to prophesy that the breed will 
not long be neglected by Americans. Should importations be 
made a proper standard for judging should at once be adopted 
so that a well-defined difference would be established between 
them and the numerous ecross-bred rabbit dogs, small fox- 
hounds and so-called beagles, of which we haye no many in 
the United States. : Homo. 


ARE DOGS DOMESTIC ANIMALS? 


A Supreme Judicial Court of Maine saysno. <A dissent- 

ing opinionis given by ex-Chief Justice Appleton. We 
are indebted to a correspondent for sending us the report in 
full as published in the Gardiner Home Journal: 


STATE OF MAINE vs, CLIFFORD J. HARRIMAN. 
Lincoln, Opinion Feb, 9, 1884, 
Dogs. Domestic animals. R. S., ¢. 127, § 1. 


Dogs are nob recognized in the law as belonging to the class 
denominated ‘“‘domestic animals.” 
One cannot be convicted under R. 8., c. 127, $1, (which relates 
es the killing or wounding of domestic animals) for killing a 
og. 
APPLETON, C. J., dissenting. 


ON EXCEPTIONS by the respondent to the ruling of the court 
in overruling a demurrer to the indictment. 


(Indictment.) 

“State of Maine, Lincoln, ss.—At the Supreme Judicial Court, be- 
gun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the county of Lincoln, 
on the fourth Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thou- 
sand eight hundred and eighty-two, 

“The jurors for said State, upon their oath present, that Clifford J. 
Harriman, of Waldoboro, in said county of Lincoln, on the twenty- 
fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and eighty-two, with force and arois, one Newfoundland dog, 
called ‘Rich,’ of the value of one hundred dollars, of the goods and 
chattels of John D. Miller, then and there in the inclosure and imme- 
diate care of his master being, did then and there wilfully and mali- 
ciously kill and destroy, against the peace of said State, and contrary 
to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.” 

R. 8S. Partridge, county attorney, for the State. J. £. Moore, for 
the defendant. 

DanrortH, J. Demurrer to an indictment found under R. §., ¢. 127, 
81, which provides for killing or wounding ‘‘domestic animals.’ The 
indictment alleges the killing a dog. Therefore the question involved 
is. not whether any particular dog or any number of dogs have be- 
come so domesticated as to be called domestic animals, but whether 
as a elass they may properly be so called in distinction from that 
class known in law as fere nature. If the dog belongs to the latter 
elass the indictment must fail, for the statute does not cover that 
class, A distinction has heen recognized in the law between the two 
Glasses from theorigin of the common law, from the earliest date of 
authentic history, when the wealth of individuals was reckoned by 
the number of their flocks and herds. ; 

That by the common Jaw the dog belongs to the wild class of 
animals is recopnized by all the authorities, and in that state he was 
and is utterly worthless, his flesh even being unfit for food, so that 
legally he was said to haye no intrinsic value, and “though a man 
may have a bare property therein, and maintain a ciyil action for the 
loss of them, yet they are not of such estimation as that the stealing 
them amounts to larceny.’: 4 BI. Com. 236; 2 Bishop’s Crim. Law, 
8773. Itis true that dogs have extensively become domesticated, so 
that it is usual and perhaps not an improper use of language to call 
them ‘domesticated animals,’”* but as they still retain in a great 
measure their natural propensities, they may more properly be called 
domesticated animals with vicious habils. They still keep their wild 
characteristics, which ally them to the class of ferw nature, so 
much so that in their domestic state they furnish no support to the 


_| family. add nothing in a legal sense to the wealth of the community, 


are not inventoried as property of a debtor or dead man’s estate, or 
as liable to taxation unless under a special provision of the statute; 
but when kept it is for pleasure, or if any usefulness is obtained 
from them it is founded upon this very ferocity natural to them by 
which they are made to serve as a watch or for hunting. : 

_From his greater attachment to his master mm the domestic state, 
from which arises a well-founded expectation of his return when 
lost, the law gives the owner the sent of reclamation, but in all 
other respects the owner has only that qualified property in him 
which he may have in wild animals qonerally, . 

These continuing instincts, from which arises the danger that he 
may at any time relapse into his savage state, have made itnecessary 
in all states to have a code of laws pecaeay applicable to the 
dog and not applicable to domestic animals; not for the protection of 
his life, but rather for the protection of the community from his fe- 
rocity, Smith v. Horehand, 100 Mass, 140; 20 Albany Law Journal, 6. 
Under these laws the dog is recognized as property sofar as to afiord 
a civil remedy for an injury, but seldom, 1! ever, any other, In many 
cases it is made lawful for a man to kill the dog of another, as when 
he becomes a public nuisance. 1 Bishop, Crum. Law, § 1080, and note; 
and in yarions other instances as provided in our own State. B.S., 


e. 80. 
Thns it will he perceived that originally the dog beloged te the 


class of aninials feree nature, and that up to the present time the 
law has treated him as continuing in that class and has never recog- 
nized him as belonging to the domestic class. The two statutes, c. 30, 
R. 8., and ¢. 127, the first relating to dogs and the latter to domestic 
animals are so dilferent that they cannot be reconciled. If a person 
is liable to be convicted for killing a dog under ce. 117, he may be pun- 
ished tor what he has a legal right to do under ec. 80, 

But as dogs have never been recognized in the law as belonging to 
the class denominated “domestic animals,” and as domestic animals 
alone are mentioned, it would be contrary to all rules of construction 
i extend the meaning of a staluteso highly penal heyond tts exact 

TOS: 

Beceptions and demurrer sustained: 


Barrows, Virgin, Peters, Libbey and Symonds, JJ., concurred: 


DISSENTING OPINION BY 


Appurton, U. J, This isan indictment agaliist the defendant for 
malicious mischief, under the provisions of B.S., cv. 127. § 1, which 
provides that ‘whoever wilfully or maliciously kills, wounds, maims, 
disfigures or poisons any domestic animal shall be punished by 
imprisonment not more than four years, or by fine not exceeding 
five hundred dollars.”’ It will be perceived that the largest discre- 
tion is allowed in regard to the punishment to be inflicted or the fine 
to be impased, : ‘ 3 

The indictment alleges that the defendant on Joly 24, 1882, at Wal- 
doboro, in the county of Lincoln, ‘‘with foree and arms one New- 
foundland dog, called ‘Rich,’ of the value of one hundred doilars oF 
the goods and chattels of John D. Miller, then and there in the inelos- 
ure and immediate care of master-being, did then and there wilfully 
and maliciously kill and destroy, against the peace of said state and 
contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided,”* 

To this the defendant has demurred, thereby admitting the truth 
of the allegations contained in the indictment, 

The main oa is whether a dog is a “domestic animal," for if 
he be, the defendant is guilty by hisown admission and shonld be 
held criminally liable. : 

A dog is the subject of ownership, Trespass will lie for an injury 
tohim. ‘Troyer is maintainable for his conversion. Repleyin will 
restore him to the posséssion of his master. He may be bought anel 
sold. Anaction may be had for his price. The owner has all the 
remedies for the yindication of his rights of property in this animal 
as in any other species of personal property he may possess. 

He is a domestic animal. From the time of the pyramids to the 
pres day, from the frigid pole to the torrid zone, whereyer man 

as been there nas been his dog. Cuvier has asserted that the dog 
was perhaps necessary for the establishment of civil society, an 
that a little reflection will convince us that barbarous nations owe 
much of their civilization above the brute to the possession of the 
dog. Heis the friend and companion of his master—acconipanying 
him in his walks, his servant, aiding him in his hunting, the playmate 
of hig children—an inmate of his house, protecting it against all 
assailants. : i A ; 

It may be said that he was ‘‘fere nufurcw,” but all animals, natu- 
ralists say, were otiginally “fere nature,” but have been reclaimed 
by man, as horses, sheep or cattle; but, however tamed, they have 
never, like the dog, become domesticated in the home under the roof 
and by the fireside of their master. 

The dog was a part of the agricultural establishment of the Romans 
and is treated of assuch. There were the canes villafici to guard 

the villa of the Romnan senator, canes venatic? accompanying him 
in his hunting expeditions, and the canes pastorules by whom his 
flocks were guarded. Virgil, in his Georgics, has given directiong as 
to their management and education, To-day, in many couttries they 
are used for draught, as in France and Holland, and everywhere re- 
garded as possessing yalue and as the subject matter of traffic. 

The language of the statute is most general, “any domestic ani- 
mal,? The words are not technical or words of art. They are the 
words of the common people aiid should be construed as such. Noth- 
ing would more astonish the people for whom the laws are made 
than to learn that a bull or a hog was a domestic animal and that a 
dog was not. ' f 

The lexicographers define a dog as a “domestic animal,’ ‘‘A well 
known domestic animal of the genus canis.’ Worcester’s Dictionary. 
Tn Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, he is defined as ‘a well known domestic 
animal.’? Otway the poet, says of them: 


“They are honest rreatures 
And ne’er betray their masters, never fawu 
On any they love not,” 


So, in the encyclopedias he is canis familiuris, and Called a domes- 
tic animal; so that m the ordinary use of language he ts within the 
clear provisions of the statute under which this indictment was fond. 
“The domestic dog has occasioned many legal disputes and the pre- 
sumption of the common law of England is that he is tame.’ Camp= 
bell on Negligence, § 27, ; 4 

By BR. 8., ¢. 6, § 5, 2 tax is imposed on dogs. This is a distinct and 
statutory reeognition of their being property and having value. and 
that the owner has the sainé rights to their protection that he has for 
anything else he may own. In New York, dogs were taxed and this 
was held to be a statutory recognition of them as property and that 
they were the subjects of larceny. In The People vy, Maloney, 1 Park 
(N. Y.), Gr. 598, the court say that if there was ho'statute on the sub- 
ject, they should feel bound by the rules of the common law, “but the 
revised statutes are inconsistent with the common law rule, By them 
dogs are so far regarded as property as to be in certain cases the sub- 
ject of taxation, The owner is made liable for the acts of his dog, 
thus recognizing that the dog has an owner and consequently that 
the thing owned is property. For every civil purpose, nof oaly by 
statute, but by the decisions of courts, a dog is regarded as property.” 
‘All of the distinctions as to animals fer: nature," observes SETTLE, 
J., ‘as to their ganerous and base natures, which we find im the Eug- 
lish books, will not hold good in this country. = ia ‘ “ ; 
We take the true criterion to be the value of the animal, whether for 
the food of man, for its fur or otherwise.” ; _ 

In the present case the Newfoundlad dog, “Rich,” of the value of 
one hundred dollars, was ‘in the inclosure and immediate care of his 
master.”” He was domesticated. i 

Whether the property of the master was origmally of a qualified 
nature or notis immaterial. The dog was under his dominion and 
control, ‘While this qualified property continues, it is as much un- 
der the protection of the Jaw as any other property. and eyery inva- 
sion of it is redressed in the same manner."’ 2 Kent's Com. 840. 

A dog being a ‘domestic animal” and property, an indictment is 
maintainable under R, §., ¢. 127, §1, for his malicious destruction. 
When the statute made malicious mischief indictable, ib was held that 
a dog was the subject of absolute property and the killing of one un- 
der the act prohiliting malicious mischief was an indictable offense. 
State v. Sumner, 2 Porter (Ind.), 8?7%7, Thereis such property in dogs 
as to sustain an indictment for malicious nuschief. State v. Latham, 
18 Iredell, 33, In State y. McDuffee, 34 N. H. 628, which was like this, 
for maliciously shooting a dog, Power, J., says, “Weecan see no 
reason why the property of its owner in a valuable dog is not quite 
as deserving of protection against the wilful and maticious injury of 
the reckless and malignant, as property in fruit, shade or ornamental 
trees, whether standing in the garden or yard of their owner or in & 

ublie street, or any other species of personal property,” Dogs have 
Been included uncer ae rty” and their malicious destruction has 
been held indictable. harton’s Cr. Law, 1083. A fortiori is iv 80, 
when the owner is subject to taxation for his dog, _ 

it is objected that_the indictment does not describe the flog as "a 
domestic animal,” But thatis not required, if he be one, any more 
than it would be to say that.a bull, a ram ora sow is a domestic ani- 
mal, When the statute made it indictable “maliciously” te wound, 
kill, etc., any horse, cattle or other *'domestic beast. 7 an indictment, 
for wounding a hog, without averring that it was a ‘domestic beast,” 
was held on the Bnglish authorities to he good. The State vs. Hnslow, 
10 Iowa, 115. If the court will take cognizance that a heg or a bullis 
a domestic animal or beast without its averment ia an indictment, 
much more will they that the dog is such animal. 4 pe 

Reliance is placed on R. 8., ¢. 30, § § 2,3 and 4, which impose cer- 
tain liabilities on the owners of dogs, but these provisions, instead 
of sustaining, negative the defense. They apy ownership and 1ia- 
bility on the part of the owner. They assume the relationship of the 
househeld. Bhey recognize the domesticity of the dog—as having an 
owner or keeper, and of minors and servants as owners and keepers. 
and make the parent guardian, master or mistress oft such minor or 
servant responsible for the damages done by the dog so owned. The 
dog appertains to_the household of which the master or mistress is 
made Hable for his misdoings, The owner or keeper thus made re- 
sponsible for the misdoings of his taxable dog or that of his children 
should not be left without legal protection when this property is wil- 
fully and maliciously descrayed. , } 

Tt is true that by he any one may kill a dog under certam condi- 
tions therein set forth. But the very section impliedly negatives the 
right to killexcept only when those conditions exist, By its provi- 
sions "any person may lawfully kill a dog that assaults him or any 
other person when peaceuey walking or riding, etc. Butib gives no 

dogs. The 


general right to kil killing is only /arw/'nlly done when the 
4 ie killing is peaceably walking or riding, etc., and not ather- 
Be. 


Tt is said that “if a person is liable to be convicted for lnlhng of a doz 
under c. 127, he may be punished for what he has a legal right to, 
under ¢. 30," Not so. fe cannot bea punished under c, 127, if the 
killing was justified under the provisions of ¢. 80. The statutes are. 
perfectly c 


onsistent. i 
But iris argued that the indictment should negative the authority 


a AZ : 


to killin the cafes mentionedin§2, Such is not the law. The in 
dietment follows the statute. Tt sets forth clearly an offense. If 
committed. it is for the accused to establish a justification. When 
the enacting clause of a penal statute descvibes the offense with cer- 
_ tain exceptions 11s necéssavy to state in the indictment all the cit 
cumstances which constitute the offense and to hegative the ex- 


tions. State vy. Keen, 84 Maine, 501, But this principle is not ap* 


cep 

plicable here, 
itis to be remarked that the statin, c. 200, of the laws of 1877; re- 

quiring the licensing and registration of dogs and that they should 

ear # collar round, the neck with the owners’ name thereon; was 

Fepenled by c. 72, of the laws of 1878. Tf it would have been neeessary; 

iad the fi 

dictment; as in State v, MeDuffee, 


Sppealeds those allegations would no longer be required. 


he decisions cited in support of the defense do not apply. In Blair 


v. Forehand, 100 Mass. 187, and in the other cases in Massachusetts, 


the killing of dogs was justified under the police laws of ‘the State 


authorizing the killing of dogs not licensed nor haying a collar, But 


there are no such statutes in this State—henee their utter want of 


applicability: HMedeptions overruled, 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


E have got through the field trials at Shrewsbury, and 
There is now the 
Tt seems tio be generally agreed 
that the club’s were a bad second, The Shrewsbury people 
who have never acknowledged nor submitted to the ageresiye 
patronage of the Kennel Club were hardly treated by the 
weather, and partly to the weather must it be ascribed, I 
think, that the pointers results show up sohandsomely against 


those of the Kennel Club at Stafford. 
usual diversion of opinions. 


their long-haired field colleagues, 


Our Field has drawn attention to the fact that setters are 
first favorites on the bench and also points out with 


certain 


reeret that so few Gordon setters are seen in the trials, This 


is the more surprising because on the continent, and in France 


articularly, they are quite the favorite sporting dogs. The 


icld. reporter aiso utters a very old plaint, ‘‘that the Se 
ut 
veally attach ho value to that. I should scarcely expect the 
contrary with a dog that requires so much care and attention 
time can there be to break or 
work him? Against this, however, I set up that from these 
beautitul prize winners you can breed handsome pups to break 
It is the old argument in anothér more special 


soniest dogs oh the bench are not the best in the tield.” 


is a show dog does. What 


to your gun, 
form that for inteluigence and usefulness no patrician of the 
canine race can hold his own against the thorough bred 
mongrel, but I don’t think this trite saying which is seen 
through with a little trouble could eyer induce me to change 
my noble mastiff tor my butcher’s yard dog. 
fax the best report that has appeared of the trials is that 
4 the Stock Keeper. Gétieralregret was expressed that Mr. 


Aéwelhn Should have been out of it this year, butit speaks well 


for the conscientiousness of this gentleman that he did not 
send one entry from his kennel where distemper existed, to 
jeopardize the lives of other people’s dogs. In this honorable 


action he showed a yery different feeling to that displayed by 
the chief actor in the unpleasant case that is at present engag- 


ing doggy men’s attention in the ecolunins of the /ield under 
the heading or ‘Kennel Ulub Justice.” 


Besides their excellent report the Stockh Keeper this weelc 


rints some interesting notes on the competitors in the trials 
rom the pen of Mr. G. Morpe Bartram, who ought to be at 
home on this subject. The result of the Derby can hardly be 
considered satisfactory apart from the disappointment to 


Dr. Salteritseems barely just that his young pointer Paris 


should have lost a good chance of winning such a valuable 
stake fer bein only four minutes late on the ground. The 
Winner of the Derby was beaten in the all-aged stakes and 


Malt solaced his owner for the loss of the Derby by winning the 
Mr. Wim. Richardson has written to the Beers to 

ey de- 
clining to be guided by the rules of the Kennel Club of which 


first prize. 
complain of an unusual ocewrrence, that of Mr. Shir 


heischairman, It was about an undecided heat that should 


have been run off first of all next day, and Mr. Shirley ignored 


the rule to this effect. 


Mr, Herbert Watson, an undergraduate of Cambridge, has 


taken up the cudgel on behalf of Lawrence, a very respectable 


dog dealer of that town, who was lately convicted before a 


county court judge of stealing a lady’s black and tan terrier. 
The judgment was quite in opposition to the evidence, and 
shows what a lottery it is to take a dog or horse case before a 
law judge. The evidence proved clearly to a doggy man that 
Lawrence's terrier could not have been the one lost by Mrs. 
Murray, Part of the evidence in Lawrence’s favor turned 
lipon how Jong cropped ears take to heal. One of the marks 
by which Mrs. Murray said she would know her dog wag an 
enlarged navel, This is well known to be a very common 
thing indéed, but the judge, being an outsider, did not know 
it; and he made Bp his mind directly he saw the dog look 

leased ta see Mrs, Murray and lick her hands. He felt quite 

appy in the precedent of solomon and the babe, There are 
lots of pet dogs with little character who will fawn on any- 
body who speaks ta them, and especially on ladies, A good 
many of our dogs would pass out of our possession if this trait 
were to be accepted as a certain indication that dogs belong 
to those they jump and fawn upon. 

Tt is very hard lines upon Lawrence, who loses his dog and 
character, purse aud reputation, from the specialist ignorance 
of a lawtonger. 

Dr. Forbes Winslow and Messrs. Taunton and Portier are 
shill arguing over the award of the last-named at Warwick, 
where he gave the breeders’ prize to the progeny of Crown 
Prince and the stud prize to Cardinal. This is a smart reversal 
of judgment. Messrs. Portier and Taunton are racking their 
brains weekly to reconcile the contradiction with common 
sense, but the Doctor wins easily. 

To those behind the scenes the joke of the matter is that 
Dr. Winslow was lately the main stay of the British Kennel 
Association. This curious body was founded by Mr. Taunton, 
who, till then, had only been known as the runner of au ama- 
teur menagerie of foreign dogs. He founded the B. K. A, for 
what purpose except to make himself known has never heen 
made clear. The Association adopted the rules of the K, C,, 
nndertook to publish a register of dogs for sale and hold two 
shows a year. A good mamy men joined it, as they always 
will anything new. They held a show at Aston, which is so 
near Birmingham as to lead one easily to surmise that it was 
in opposition to the annual town show. ‘The schedule was 
the most perfect of its kind that has been composed, and the 
result was a fair entry, but nothing in proportion to the ex- 
pectations of the B, K. A, Their greatest disappointment, 
though. was in their “gate.” which produced an insignificant 
sum, The resulb was a big deficit to the society, which tlien, 
for all practical purposes, ceased to exist, | 

Tt would be churlish not to admit the extraordinary capacity 
for hard work displayed hy Mr, Taunton in the hour of their 
distress. Although not a popular man among his fellows, he 
is shrewd and practical. 

The Association has not been formally dissolved, but the’ 
resignations haye flowed in so freely from its independent 
members, who did not relish the role of bottle-holder to the 
K. C., that 1 think only two are left, Taunton and Portier, 

_ whose common fie is brindle anastiffs and black and tan ter- 

riers, Now and then one sees in the schedules, “A medal 

iven by the British Kennel Association;” but medals are 
cheap, and the outlay can’t ruin the dual control. 

The latest on dit is that Mr. Taunton has joined Mr. Morrel 
(of inky fame), one of his late B. K, A, supporters, in business, 

My. Portier is doing good work in the papers by standing: up 
for the Black and Tan Terrier Club and natural ears. lis 
most zealous opponent has been a Mr. Henry Lacy, of Man- 
chester, who che ADIOS cropping, and gaye all those who dis- 


agree with him 4 wholesale slanging », ortnight ago, Ha has | 


fst named statute been in force to have set forth in the in- 
: N. H. 527, the facts of such 
litense and registration. which we think it was not, the statute being 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


. since been effectually sat upon, and I think he must wish he 


had burnt his pen and broken his ink bottle. 


To put down eropping is, [ am afraid, more than lies in the 
power of a specialist club, but L commend thei humans 


spirit for trying. The Kennel Club conld do it—but won't, 


me good réason for their not moving in the matter is that the 


chairman is an active supporter of tropping by his own deeds. 


Why does not the Society for tlie Prevention of Cruelty tt 

Animals take it up? Let them make Mr, Shirley their test 

tase, he won't deny it, he will cena inform them that he 
m0 


érops all his own bull-terriers. Thé Society is an iniluential 


one, and as itis backed by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, they 
are not likely to want for funds to carry ovt what would most 


certainly be a successful prosecution, 


The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, true to her instincts of kind- 
ness to all dumb animals, has expressed her appreciation of 
the Black and Tan Terrier Club’s intention of prohibiting crop- 
I heard lately a 
She 
earned that ftrtune had frowned severely on a veterin- 
ry surgeon in the west énd of London; aman whose name 
slaves of their pets: She wrote 
In a few days he sent 
her one, with a note saying he had bought the accotipanying 
The Baroness kept the dog and 
sent a check for it with a nought at the end of the figures, 


ping by offering to become its patroness. 
ele ieneine anecdote of her Jadyship’s good nature, 
ad | 


had become endeared td Bray sla 
to the vet. that she wanted a nidstiff: 
dog for her ladyship for £14. 


and a kind little note hoping his luck would turn, 


The show organized by Messrs. Sanger, the menagerie 
people, at Margate, has passed over with the usual amount of 
It has always been a third-rate affair, organ- 
ized only fo put money in the pockets of Messrs, Sanger and 
Hach year they 
tempt exhibitors with the same false bait, one being to adver- 
tise thas the railway will carry exhibitors and their dogs at 
single fares, and when itis complained that this is not the 
case, the exhibitor is roughly referred to the railway com- |, 
pany, which “knows nothing about it.” They practice also 
the trick of refusing the money prize to a doy that wins the 
cup. One year an extraordinary disclosure of their meanness 
An exhibitor picked up a five-guinea prize (a 
erliet) off the stand and found the price marked in plain fig- 
This year the management 

One gen- 
was coolly 
dining to a 
member of the committee was bluntly infornied that he had 
no time to bother about it. Ino a competition for bad manters 
it is hard to say who would win, thé men of Margate or those 


unpleasantness: 


the hotel keepers of Shoreditch-on-Sea, 


was made, 


utes underneath—fitty shillings! 
and the keepers Tiedt all exhibitors right and left, 
tlenian, a member of the London Stock Wxchange 
called a liar by one of the keepers, and in compl: 


of Hertford. 
T observe in your issue of the Sth inst,, 4 report of the Wanr- 


wick dog show; your readers will have the amusement of 
comparing my notes with the opinion of your reporter, From 
the prize list of the New York show I see you had a remark 


able entry, I haye not heard yet who won in St. Bernards, 


but I would lay liberal odds against the Rev, Cumming Mac- 


dona, Your late importations have gone beyond his kennel. 
The schedule for thé Crystal Palace is out, It contains one 


improyement, that is, rescinding the rulé thatif four dogs 
compete in a Glass only one prize would be awarded: all will 
be given now. This is liberal and right; now I wonder whether 
they will abolish another objectionable feature of their shows 
which was far more reprehensively grasping; that of charg- 
AS 
there was no accommodation in the show it was more than 


ing re-admission, half a crown ata time on judging days, 


avaricious, it was brutal, 


The York show is very near and sportsmen wish them suc- 
entry for their new class for pomters and 
setters that have run at field trials, itis an excellent idea and 


cess and a big 


deserves support to make it worth copying at other shows. 


Mr. Murchison continues the Lochinvar correspondence in 
the Meld this week; and to the inexpressible astonishment of 


on-lookers has effectually secured the support of the editor 


A few new replies have been yamped up, but My, Muichison 
cannot get away from the fact that he suspected his dog to be 
sickening for distemper two hours before the judging and only 
thought it expedient to get him removed after he had won a 
The Hertford Committee will be blamed for the offen- 
have defended their manager’s 
ub Committee for the partiality 
shown to one of themselyes who was charged with a serious 
offense. Mr. Percy Reid is charged, tried and condemned by 


prize. 
sive manner in which they 
conduct and the Kennel © 


public opinion, 


Correction.—In my notes of April 8, for Dr. Maurier read 


Du Maurier. 


LILLIBULERO, 
May 20, 1884. ' 


BEAGLES AT NEW YORK. 


Editor Lorest and Stream: 
As the beagle judging at the late New York show seems to 
have given rise to some discussion among the members of the 


A, B. B. C., perhaps it would be well timed to quote a descrip- 


tion of this interesting little hound from some of our acknow!- 


edged best authorities on dogs, First let us quote Stonehenge: 


he distinetly says; ‘‘The points of the beagle are similar to 


those given for the foxhound, except as to head and ears, the 
former being much larger proportionally, both in width and 
height, while the latter are almost like those of the blood- 


hound in size and hanging.” 

Dalziel gives as_an illustration ‘‘measurements of two 
good dogs,” viz.: Mr, H. A, Clark’s Comely—Weight, 2744 
pounds; height at shoulder, 141g inches; length from nose to 


set on of tail, 30 inches; length of tail, 11 inches; girth of 


chest, 21 inches; girth of loin, 18 inches; girth of head, 181 
inches; girth of forearm, 514 inches; length of ears from tip 
to tip, 17 inches, Mr, H. A. Clark’s Crowner—Weight, 261 
pounds; height at shoulder, 15 inches; length of nose to set on 
of tail, 31 inches; girth at chest, 22 inches; girth of loin, 181g 
inches; length of ears from tip to tip, 1744 inches. 

Vero Shaw says: ‘In the present day the ayerage height of 
the working packis about 1444 inches, whichis sufliciently 
small for the purposes for which they are required,” and 
further, “As regards a standard of points for judging this 
breed, we cannot do better than refer our readers to that given 
in the foxhound chapter, as the beagle, with the exception of 
its size, can be satisfactorily judged by the scale used in judg- 
ing foxhounds,” In writing of the dwarf specimens, he says; 
“One of the most remarkable little packs which ever came 
beneath our notice, was shown by Mr, G. H. Nutt, of Maid- 
stone, ab the Alexandra Palace show of 1877. During the 
progress of the exhibition Mr, Nutt treated his friends to a 
glimpse of his pigmy pack at work, for he ran them a short 
drag in the grounds, much to the delight of many lady visitors. 
Mr. Nutt has since informed us that he has been compelled to 
give up his pets, as the difficulties he had to encounter in his 
breeding operations, from the small size of his bitches, fairly 
tired him out. As he somewhat pathetically remarked: 
“They had hardly the strength to produce their young, and 
when they succeeded in doing so, were actually too weak to 
bring them up,” And again, speaking of Mr, Crane’s noted 
pack, he says: ‘'The standard is kept up with much difficulty, 
many of his mothers do not rear their offspring, and distem- 
per carries them off in troops, specimens are found excessively 
dwarfed, and proportionally deformed.” 

_ The opinions of the above authorities should convince intel- 
ligent breeders, and by that I mean those who are trying to 
breed a useful hound, that an ayerage height of fourteen 
inches is sufficiently small for all available purposes. Let the 
A. E, B, OC, endeayor to improve the form of the beagle and 
breed out the open feet, weak pasterns, bad chests and weal 
loins that are too prevalent, and produce a dog that will-give 
ths keenest enjoyment in the chase and the least anxiety in 
the breeding kennel, Delicacy of scent and perseverance are 
essential qualities in the beagle, and. the tongue should he 


871 


rich and melodious, and to get the deep, rich note there will 
always be more or less dewlap or throatiness, 

The writer has enjoyed many capital runs in the west of 
England, and knows of no more beautiful sight than to see a 
pack of these little fellows on the side af a hill, where a sheet 
would almost cover them, and although it was tolerably easy 
to keep with them on a hilly countiy, they would test the 
ataying qualities of our most fleet-footed runners on ie 

MLAT. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK, 


Editor Morest and. Streai + 
Tcould hardly believe my eyes when I saw in your pages 
that Beaufort, the dog whom no less an authority thant 
ForEStT AND STREAM pronounced one of the best dogs of his 
kind in America; the dog whom some of the most experienced 
of breeders haye found to be almost the ideal of a pointer, 
answers (in the opinion of Mr, Cornell) to this description; 
“His legs are extremely bad, being crealed fore and aft, his 
pasterns are bent in so that the dog is actially how-legeed, 
and his hocks are likewise also bent,” Besides, ‘‘he is too long on, 
the legs and stilty, and has avery heavy throat,” Can it be 
ossible that so many of us, FoREST AND STRHAM ineltided, 
ave been admiring a pointer with such outrageous defects as 
these? Havé we been worshipping an idol so clumsily defect- 
ive as this? Otr ignoratice has certainly been pitiable, and 
kindly Mr, Cortell desires to remove the scales from our eyes. 
Not having seen Meteor and Bang Bang, [shall certainly not 
disagree with Mr, Cornell in his good opifién of them, But if 
his vision is as crooked with regard to them as itis with ra- 
gard.to Beautort, they may not be perfection afterall. Hither 
Beautort has become fearfully deformed since I sayy him last, 
or Mr, Cornell studies certain dogs through defective glasses, 
which distort the appearance of the object. Let Mr, Cornell 
back up Mr. Sterling’s judgment if he chooses, but let him not 
try to doso by maligning Beaufort. Ido not own a hair of 
Beaufort, but I love the dog for himself alone and am ready 
to defend him against all comers, That Mr, Sterling was 
wrong in his decision, I, not haying seen Meteor, do not 
pretend to say, That Mr. Sterling is no judge of 4 pointer, his 
opinion that Faust IT. was superior to Beaufort was enough to 
thoroughly convince me, T. B. DORSEY, 
E.uicorr Crry, Md, 


THE DOG POUND OPENS.—Mayor Edson yesterday reap 
pointed Jolin MeMahon keeper of the dog pound. ata salary of 
75 a month, with the following assistants: Edward J, Dunn, 
clerk, 575 a month; Michael Dempsey, Thomas Gillam, and 
Patrick Goodwin, workmen, $24 day, and George Riley, John 
Vandewater, and Michael Murtha, eatchers, Last year the 
catchers received # fee of 40 cents for each dog ¢aught. This 
year Mayor Hdson fixed the sama fee, despite the requests of 
the catchers that it be made 50 cents. When the catchers 
learned of the Mayor’s actions they promptly declitied the 
positions, but were finally induced by the Mayor's clerk, Mr. 
Augustus Walsh, to at least begin work atthe price offered by 
the Mayor. In determining whom he should select to fill the 
important positions connected with the capture and disposal of 
stray dogs the Mayor was materially assisted by a number of 
distinguished gentleman, among them Sheriff Davidson 
Senators Plunkitt and Cullen, Assemblyman Haggerty, and 
Aldermen Me@Quade, Dempsey, and De Lacy, So earnest 
haye these gentleman been in their desire to assist the Mayor 
in his arduous labors that they have, unwittingly, of course, 
made the Mayor’s life a burden to him and caused My, Walsh, 
who has had this subject upon bis mind, to fear that he would 
lose his reason. The ground taken by Senator Plinkith was 
that while the position of dog-catcher might be considered a 
pretty small matter for a Seuatior to worry himself about, yet 
he was obliged to ‘‘protect his district.” Senator Plunkitr’s 
“man” was not appointed, but Senator Cullen’s was and so 
were those of the three Aldermen named, All the appoint- 
ments were made subject to the appointees passing the civil 
service examination. Accordingly, yesterday afternoon the 
newly appointed city officers appeared before Civil Service 
Examiners Arthur H. Dundon, Chairman; Daniel B. Smith, 
and James Moir, in the College of the City of New York. Mr. 
Dundon did not consider it necessary fo examine the gentle- 
men regarding their acquirements in trigonometry or the exact 
sciences, but he interrogated them regarding their moral 
fitness for the capture of dogs. He questioned Mr, MeMahon 
to learn if they were ever sober, and after a course of sprouts 
he came to the conclusion that their intellectual and moral 
sensibilities just about balanced each other. The dog-catchers 
were informed that any well-grounded complaint against them 
would insure their immediate dismissal from office, and they 
were required to furnish references of character, The pound 
will be opened with imposing ceremonies to-morrow.—™, Y, 
Times, June 2. 


IMPORTATION OF BEAGLES.—Philadelphia, May 29,— 
Hditor Forest and Stream: The steamship Indiana, which 
arrived at this port from _Liyerpool May 25, brought a courle 
of beagles consigned to Mr. Louis D. Sloan of West Philadel- 
phia, They were purchased of Edwin §. Carew-Gibson, Esq. 
of Sussex, England, the noted beagle breeder, and wete 
selected expressly to order. The dog Bannerman, bred by 
Mr. J. Crane, of Southoyer House, I will describe first. Ban- 
nerman is a white dog with lemon head markings; he is 
eighteen months old, and stands eleven inches high; his head ~ 
is of the highest beagle type, and his ears, which have a spread 
of full fourteen inches, are grandly hung. In fact, they are a 
striking feature. Bannerman is cleanin throat, not a suspi- 
cion of dewlap, his neck, shoulders, chest and ribs are of the 
best, while his legs and feet are simply perfect, and a strong 
back and well arched loin gives him a harmonious finish. In 
coat he is wonderfully good. His tail is the true beagile’s, 
well brushed and elegantly carried. In general appearance 
he is jaunty and stylish, consider him the most desirable 
beagle dog I have ever seen, He cost his owner a high figure, 
but the best are almost beyond purchase. and his owner may 
congratulate himself on having a dog he may well be proud 
of, Bannerman’s full pedigree with particulars will appear 
in a later issue of the FoREST AND STREAM, It need only be 
mentioned here, that he is a worthy son of the famous English 
beagle champion Marchboy, After Bannerman the best will 
suifer im comparison, so we will merely glance at his kennel 
companion, the bitch Myrtle, to say that she isa neat beagle 
of about thirteen inches height, nice in color, excellent ears 
and good in general appearance, but bemg heayy in whelp (to 
champion Marchboy) is in no shape to submit to an extended 
criticism, therefore will be left for future commentis,—Rust1- 
CUS, 


THE RETRIEVING PRIZH AT NEW YORK.—The special 
prize for the best retriever at the New York show was 
awarded to Mr. A. C, Collins's Fritz. After the award was 
made it was discovered that owing to a ¢élerical error his 
number was the only one entered in the steward’s book. As 
there were other entries, the class was rejudged and the 
medal was awarded to Mr, Luke W, White's Grace. Mr 
Collins having gone home, did not compete. We received 
letters from both gentlemen last week, but too late for us to 
ascertain and publish the facts in the case, 


BLACKSTONE KENNEL,—Mr, W, Tallman, in connection 
with Mr. C, Fred Crasyford, of Pawtucket, R, 1, has fitted up 
extensive kennels at South Attleboro, Mass., for the purpose 
of breeding dogs, With champion Foreman and Mack B. in 


the stud, and the well bred bitches owned by them, they should 


succeed in turning out some fine animals, 


372 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Jone 5, 1884. 


KENNEL NOTES. 
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To insure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1, Color, 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2, Breed. buyer or seller, 

3, Sex. 7, Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 


5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED. 


Le See instructions at head of this column. 

OboG. By Mr, A. W. Griffiths, Newmarket, N. H., for black, with 
white on breast, cocker spaniel dog, whelped Jan, 28 1884, by Obo II, 
(A. K.R, 432) out of Ace of Spades (Lantern—Midnight, ) 

Jolly Planter and Lady Nimble, By Mr. E. W. Jester, St. George's, 
Del., for blue belton English setter dog and lemon belton bitch, 
whelped March 22, 1884, by champion Plantagenet out of Countess 
Flirt. 

Dashing Foreman. By Mr. C, Fred Crawford, Pawtucket, R, 1. for 
black, white and tin English setter dog, age not given, by champion 
Foreman out of Nellie Tl. (Count Sate Sisters 

Slam Bang and Princess of Thule. By Mr, Edward Dexter, Buz- 
gard’s Bay, Mass., for black and white pointers, dog and bitch, whelped 
Jan, 6, 1884 (Bang Bang, A.K.R. 394—Fan Fan). 

Fuiry, By Mr. BE, M: Crouch, Thomaston, Ct., for lemon and white 
pointer bitch, whelped Jan. 1, 1884, by Sam, Jr. (Sam—Countess Nelly, 
A.E.R. 913) out of Quilley (Spot—Countess Nelly, A.K.R. 913), 

Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of May 22, in claiming 
the names Count Ranger, Prince Ranger, Bang Ranger. Drake Ranger, 
Minnie Ranger, Drab Ranger and Nell Ranger, you give the color 
lemon and write. That is an error; it should be liver and white. 

ROSENDALE, Wis., May 24, 1884, 8, B. Dinizy, 


NAMES CHANGED. 


== See instructions at head of this cohimn. : 

Dashing Armand to Doctor T. Black and white English setter dog, 
jyr. old (Dashing Monarch—Armida), owned by Mr, Wm. Tallman, 
South Attleboro, Mass. aD 


(= See instructions at head of this column. 

Whiskey—Nattie. Mr. Charles Lincoln’s (Detroit, Mich.) fox- 
terrier bitch Whiskey to Mr, R. C, Cornell’s Nattie (Gamester—Feefee), 
May 25, 

Bigg—Tuweed Wf. Mr. Thomas H. Terry’s (New York) collie bitch 
Bigs (Gillie—Watch) to his champion Tweed Ti. (A. E.R, 894), May 22, 

obverto Laverack—Dash I. Dr. J. R. Housel’s (Watsontown, Pa.) 
English setter bitch Roberto Laverack (A.K.R, 1071) to Mr, A. M. 
Tucker's Dash III. ; 

Honor Bright—Priday Night. Mr, H,W.Smith’s (Worcester, Mass.) 
black greyhound bitch Honor Bright (A,K.R. 902) to his champion Fri- 
day Night (4.1K. BR. 753), May 29. , 

Doe—Chief, Mr. Max Weuzel’s (Hoboken, N, J.) red Ivish setter bitch 
Doe (Buck—Floss) to his Chief (A.K.R. 281), 

Beulah—Zanzibar.. Mr. E, W. Jester’s (St. George’s, Del.) English 
setter bitch Beulah (Count Derby—Dashing Countess) to his Zanzibar 
(A.K.R. 1182), May 25. fl ; 

Jessie Turner—Dashing Lion. The Ohio Kennel’s (Washingtonville, 
O,) Bnelish setter bitch Jessie Turner (Druid—Ruby) to their Dashing 
Lion (Dash Il.—Leda), May 14. £ 

Armida—Dashing Lion, Dr. R. F. Tull’s (Elkton, Md.) English set- 
ter bitch Armida (Leicester—Pocahontas) to the Ohio Kennel’s Dash- 
ing Lion (Dash II.—Leda), May 2. 

Feowte—Dash ing Lion. The Ohio Kennel’s (Washingtonville, O.) 
Engiish setter bitch Roxie (Leicester—Nellie) to their Dashing Lion, 
May 4. 

Gipsy Belle—Foreman. Mr, Wm, Tallman’s (South Attleboro, Mass.) 
English setter bitch Gipsy Belle (Gladstone—Pearl) to champion Wore- 
man, April 24. 

Forest Dora—Foreman. Mr. Wm, Tallman’s (South Attleboro, 
Mass ) English setter bitch Forest Dora (A.K.R. 500) to champion Fore- 
man. May 20, ‘ 

Cliney Carter—fForeman. Mr, J. J, Seanlan’s (Fall River, Mass.) 
English setter bitch Cliney Carter (Cashier—Flake) to champion Fore- 
man, May 11. 

Daisy 1.—Young Toby. Mr. W. D. Peck's (New Haven. Ct.) pug 
biteh Daisy Il. (Major—Beanty) to the Chequasset Kennel’s Young 
Toby (A.K-R. 473), April 18. : 

Jet—Black, Mv. OC, F. Keys's (Washington, D.C.) Gordon setter 
bitch Jet (A.K.R, 960) to Mr. H. Malcom’s Black (Malcolm—Dream 
IV.), eae ‘ ; 

Lady Mab—Knickerbocker. Mr. H, C. Miller’s (Hudson, N. Y,) 

ointer bitch Lady Mab (A.K.R, 1044) to champion Knickerbocker 
fA.K.R.19), May 27. 

; WHELBPS. 


(=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Daisy Deane, Myr. Elliot Smith's (New York) pointer bitch Daisy 
Deane (Old Zipp— Lady Flora), May 21, eight (one dog), by the West- 
minster Kennel Club’s Bang Bang (A,K.R. 394). 

Rose. The Westminster Kennel Citb’s pointer bitch Rose (A.K.R. 
214), May 15, ten (five dogs). by their Bang Bang (A.K.R. 394). 

Leah. Dr.J, R. Housel’s (Watsontown, Pa.) English setter bitch 
Leah (Royhel—Livy IJ.), May 26, six (three dogs), by Mr.Thos. Blythe’s 
Robin Hood (Carlowitz—True). 

Annie Laurie. Mr, W. A. Faxon’s (Dorchester, Mass.) collie bitch 
Annie Laurie (Marcus—Iisle), six (five dogs), by Rattler (Tweed IT.— 
Lassie). 

Fee aa Dr, M, G. Elizey’s (Washington, D.0,) English setter bitch 
Brenda (Pride of the Burder—Kirby), May 22, eight (seven dogs), by 
Mr, N. Jensen’s Cossack (Morford’s Don—Fairy), 

Flake IT. Messrs, Wheeler & Davis’s (Rockland, Mass.) English set- 
ter bitch Flake II, (A.K.R, 367), April 24, nine (four dogs), by Ben B. 
A.ER. 363). 

} Dashing Jessie. Mr. ®. W, Jester’s (St. George's, Del.) English set- 
ter bitch Dashing Jessie (A.K. R. $15), May 28, six (one dog), by his 
Zanzibar (A,K.R, 1182). - 

Winnie. The Kilmarnock Collie Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) imported 
eollic bitch Winnie (Gairlock—Laurie), May 25, nine (five dogs), by 
their Bruce (Mareus—Isle). 

Gen. Mr. Geo, L. Y. Tyler's (West Newton, Mass.) cocker spaniel 
bitch Gem (Suip—Feather), April 27, six (five dogs), by Obo IT. (A.K,R. 
482); all black; two dogs dead. ; : ; 

Queen Anna, The Ohio Kennel’s (Washingtonville, O.) English set- 
ter bitch Queen Anna (Zanzibar—Lady Elgin), May 15, sixteen (ten 
dogs), by their Dashing Lion, oat 


[GS— See instructions at head of this column. _ 

Sensation—Rose whelps. Leroon and white pointers, whelped Oct. 
29, 1883, by the Westminster Kennel Club, a dog to Mr, D.G. Elliot, 
New Brighton, S.L; a bitch to Dr. Twomly, Baltimore, Md., anda 
bitch to Mr. Elliot Smith, New York. j ; 

Robin Hood—Countess H. whelps. Lemon and white English setter 
dogs, whelped Jan. 18, 1884, by Dr, J, R. Housel, Watsontown, Pa., 
one to Mr. B. W. Prentice, Worcester, Mass., and one to Mr, A. 8. 
Oliver, Elberton,Ga. s . 

Lady Mab. Black pointer bitch (A.K.R. 1044), by the Kuicker- 
bocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr, H, @, Miller, Hudson, 
a Pa 

Doncaster. Liver and white pointer dog (A.K,R. 563), by the Knick- 
erbocker Kennel Olub, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr. Jas. H, Hildebrandt, 


hnstown, N. Y. 
Jonas Scotch deerhound bitch, 3yrs. old (Grab—Ready 


The Banshee. ] 
Money), by Mr. H. W. Smith, Worcester, Mass., to Mr. C. B. Gilbert, 


New Haven, Ct, 

Obo G. Black cocker spaniel dog, whelped Jan, 28, 1884 (Obo I1.— 
Ace of Spades), by Mr. Geo. H, Gilbert, Boston, Mass., to Mr, A. W. 
Griffiths, Newmarket, N. H. 

Warren. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Sept. 6, 1883 (Hicho, A.K.R. 
295—Zelda, A.K.R. 240), by the Shamrock Kennel, Beach Bluff, Mass., 
to Mr. A. O. Brewster, Boston, Mass, 

Nin and Tuck. Red Irish setter dogs, whelped Sept. 6, 1883 (Elcho, 
AK.R. 295—Zelda, A.K.R. 240), by the Shamrock Kennel, Beach Bluff, 
Mass,, to Mr. Hdward Jewell, Boston, Mass. 7 

Chief—Maul S. whelp, Red Irish setter dog, whelped April 8, 1884, 
by Mr, Max Wenzel, Hoboken, N.J., to Mr. MeMicken, New York. 

Hector. Mastiff doz, whelped Jan. 26, 1884 (Diayolo, A.K.R. 648— 
Madge, A.K.K. 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to Mr. 
Dwight Holbrook, Clinton, Ct. ‘ , 

Teddy Barr—Vic whelp. Liver and white cocker spaniel dog, 
whelped March 6, 1884, by Mr. Archibald Gordon, Middletown, N. Y¥., 
to Dr, J, Corbin, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Dixie and Silk, Foxhound dogs, by Mr, R. B, Houghton, Boston, 
Mass., to Mr. W. C. Crandall, Springville, N, Y. 

Toby. Pug dog, whelped Dec. 3, 1883 (Napoleon—Beauty), by Mr. 
W. D. Peck, New Haven, Ct., to Mr, A. C, Wandor, Hartford, Ct. 

Bess. Pug bitch. whelped Dec. 3, 1883 (Na olgor = Beanery, by Mr, 
W. D, Peck, New Haven, Ct., to Mr. Fred. E, Parker, same place. 

Calypso.’ Mastiff bitch (H.K.C.8.B, 10,567), by Mr, Jas, Hutchings, 
Pxeter, Eng., to Mr. W. D, Peck. New Haven, Ct. ‘ 
~ Ashmont. Red Irish setter dog, whelped March 17, 1884 (champion 


Nimrod. A.K.R. 63i—Romaine, A,K.R. 638), by the Ashmont Kennel, 
Boston, Mass., to Mr, Chas. 8. Dayol, Warren. R, 1. 

Dashing Armand, Black and white ticked English setter dog, lyr. 
old acer 585), by Dr, RK. T. Tull, Elkton, Md., to Mr. Wm. Tallman, 
Ree etry ae) UES 

Dashing Prim. Orange and white English setter dog, lyr. old 
(A.B.R. 586), by Dr, R. FP. Tull, Hikton, Md., to Mr, Wm. Tallman, 
South Attleboro, Mass. 

Gypsy Belle, Black, white and tan English setter bitch, age not 
given (Gladstone—Pearl), by Mr, F. J. Kinney to Mr. Wm. Tallman, 
South Attleboro, Mass, 

Pride. iver and white pointer dog, 2yrs. old (Croxteth—Royal 
Fan), by Mr. Wm, Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass.. to Mr, F, Tiernan, 
Fort Scott, Kan. “ 

Monarch S, Orange and white English setter dog, whelped Oct. 29, 
18883 (Foreman—Jennie), by Mr. Wm, Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass., 
to Mr, J. K, Smith, Waterbury, Ct. 

Foreman II, Black and white English setter dog, whelped Oct, 29, 


1883 (Foreman—Jennie), by Mr. Wm. Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass., 


lo Mr. N. Wallace, Waterbury, Ct. 

Foreman—Jenny whelp. Black and white English setter bitch, 
whelped Oct. 29, 1883, by Mr. Wm. Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass., 
to Mr. N. Wallace, Waterbury, Ct, 

Carl. Orange and white English setter dog, age not given 
(Waters’s Grouse —Daisy Dale), by Mr. W. Thayer, Boston, Mass., to 
Mr, P. P. Lewis, New York. 

PRESENTATIONS. 


Ee~ See instructions at head of this column. 
Sensation—Rose whelp. “Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped 
Oct. 29. 1883, by Mr. Elhot Smith, New York, to Major H, Platt, Ban- 


gor, Eng. 
DEATHS. 

= See instructions at head of this column. 

Bugle. Black, white and tan beagle dog, lyr. 10mos, old (Deacon— 
Midget), owned by Mr. W. H. Moller, New York, from dysentery. 

Dashing Prim, Orange and white English setter dog, lyr. old 
eee 586), owned by Mr. Wm. Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass., 

ay *d. 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


FIXTURES. 


June 210 9,—Annual Tournament Louisville Sportsmen's Associa- 
rset Long yile Ky. J, O, Barbour, Secretary, 157 Third avenue, 
ouisyville, 


RANGE AND GALLERY, 


CREEDMOOR. 


| Pease programme of the matches at Creedmoor during the present 
month include the following: 

The Champion Marksman’s Class Match, June 7 and 18.—Open to 
all members of the N.G.5.N. ¥. (except as hereafter noted), and 
members of the National Rifle Association, the latter, however, not 
being eligible to win the principal prize; 200 and 500yds., five shots at 
each distance; the Remington Rifle (New York State model); stand- 
ing at 200yds., lying head to target at 500yds.; entrance fee 50 cents, 
competitors allowed re-entries in each competition at the discretion 
of the executive officer, but only one score to count. Members of 
the N. G. S. N. ¥., in uniform (jacket, cap and belt), may record their 
scores in this match as qualified for the New York State marksman’s 
badge, provided that if ordered they haye attended (or do once dur- 
ing the season attend) general practice, and provided they have pre- 
viously qualified in the second class (100 and 300yds, See qualifica- 
tion match). First Prize—A gold marksman’s badge for 1884. The 
badge to become the property of the competitor who, at tke close of 
the season of 1884, shall have won it the greatest number of times. 
Ten other prizes (medals) presented by the National Rifle Association 
to the ten highest competitors in order of merit. Winners with a 
score of 36 points and over to receive a silyer, and winners having a 
score of under 36 to receive a bronze medal. The same man can only 
win one medal during the season. In case of a tie the highest aggre- 
gate score of all the competitions participated in up to that time to 
decide. Winners of champion marksman’s badges for the years 
1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883, namely, Messrs. A. B. 
Van Heusen, William Robertson, James L, Price. W. J. Underwood, 
Jr., Thomas J. Dolan, H. T. Lockwood and G, W. Munson, winner of 
the gold marksman’s badge for 1883, are not eligible to win the prin- 
cipal prize in this match. 

The Qualification Match of 1884, June 7 and 18.—Open to members 
N. G.S. N- Y., and N. R. A.; the former being in uniform (jacket, cap 
and belt) may count scores made as qualifying them to shoot for New 
York State marxsman’s badge, provided that they use the State Rem- 
ington rifle; 100 and 300yds., standing at 100 kneeling at 300yds.; five 
shots at each distance with any military rifle, special military rifles 
excepted; entries 50 cents each, re-entries permitted at the discretion 
of the executive officer, but only the highest score to count; to the 
competitors in each competition making the five highest ageregate 
scores, sixty per cent of the entrance money will be equally divided. 
On the days which the Q. and M. C. B. matches are to be shot the 
sale of entries will close at 5 P. M., and no shooting will be allowed 
after 5:30 P. M. 

Any Rifle Long Range Match, June 14.—For any rifle within the 
rules. Distance, 900 and 1,000yds.; 20 shots at 900yds. and 25 shots at 
1,000yds.; entrance fee, $1; time limit, 244 minutes to each shot; prize, 
a bronze medal of the National Rifle Association, value $25; to be 
won by the competitor making the highest aggregate score in three 
matches; match to commence at 3 P.M. Pool open at 900yds, from 
1 to 2:55 P. M. ‘ 

Off-Hand Match, June 25.—All-Comers’ match, distance 200 and 
300yds., 7 shots at each distance, any rifle; entrance fee, 50 cents to 
members of the National Rifle Association, to others the fee will be 
#1. Prizes to the value of at least $50 will be given at each match, 
TLe prizes are in duplicate sets: one set for the five best scores made 


with military rifles, and one set for the five best scores made with - 


rifles not military. The fishing tackle prize in the off-hand matches 
have been kindly donated for competition by Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie, 
No, 48 Maiden lane. 

Military Rifie Long Range Match. June 28.—Open to military rifles 
only; distance, 600. 800, 900 and 1,000 yards; 10 shots at each distance; 
entrance fee, $1. Prizes: First, a Remington M. B, L. rifle complete 
with 250 rounds ammunition, to be won by the competitor making 
the highest aggregate score in any three matches. Fiye matches to 
be shot during the season, and four prizes in each match, as follows: 
To the four competitors making the best scores on each day $25, to 
be divided in order of merit—to first, $10; second, $7; third, $5 
fourth, $3. Time limit, 244 minutes for each shot, Match open at 
i1 A. M, Pool open st 600 and 800yds. from 9:30 to 10:50. 


CALIFORNIA RIFLE ASSOCIATION. 


AN FRANCISCO, May 12,—The spring meeting of the California 
S Rifle Association was held yesterday at Shell Mound Park, Berke- 
ley. The weather was clear, and as a result the shooting was good. 
Following are the complete scores: 


Directors’ Match, 200yds. 


S I Kellogg, Jr.......-. 455555433 LR Townsend......... 3444444 —29 
75 GUM SH: reno adap 454444429 H D Ranlett............ 4334344 27 
Charles Nash.......-.. 455344429 WB Collier. ......-... 5440445—26 


Governor's Medal.—For the medal presented by Governor George 
C. Perkins, open to all members of the associrtion, the National 
Guard of California, army ard nayy. Entries unlimited. Rounds, 
ten, any military rifle, 200yds. Ten cash prizes in addition to the 
medal, which is the first prize. To become the property of the 
marksman who shall first win it three times at regular meetings of 


the C. A. R. 

PD Linville......... 555555554549 Sergt McDonald... 4544544355—45 
Lieut $I Kellogg... .4555555455—48 Lieut G N Brown, . .4445455545—45 
Priv L Barrere.....- 455455545547 Lieut JO Klein..... 5544545445 —45 
WCarson......, ---p545545455—47 Priv C F Waltham. 464455544545 
F Kuhoule.....,..,...4554544355—46 Priv C Cummings, ., 6456445 


rifle, at a ring target, entries unlimited, 10 cash prizes: 

Menten Ratholes cess 4 dade J. aves hveetiee 10 10 11 10 41 10 12—74 
TPAC ON Got nected oc mere tt 20 dee Jenn desr lO te lO) B28 9A 
Lieut J A CO McDonald...................2.:--. 710 8 6 1212 10-66 
Lieut J O Klein. 2.22... sess biveve pesaeeesdO0 10 41012 11 7-64 
Lieut S I Kellogg............--. sscearssaceeeeae 9111012 7 2 9—60 
¥ Cummings......, Tas58 4 eys Gost tne eae veer 1 % 8 6 DO B10—55 
Sergt C Nash....---.---.---.--+- veri re beers + 9 510 7 8 4 10—53 
Dear yn ri. bela ee Siesta ties soeees el GO, 1eLORl) ied — oe 
CP Waltham) .<c) cc penecnee ceereeceesseeep sacs OTL 4 OT 4 aoe 
Lient Mangels... 4... .2.-2- 420 hoeoesessons 1037 8 % ¥ 9-51 


California Powder Works Medal.—Five prizes, 200yds.—Open 10 all 
members of the Association, the National Guard of California, army 
and navy, distance 200 and 500yds., 7 shots at each distance with any 


tilitary rifle. entrivs limited to one each, to become the propery of 


the marksman who shall first win it three times at regular meetings 


of the C.R. A. Competitors for this trophy to us wder manufac- 
tured by the California Powder Works. Four cas prizes: x 
‘ 7 O0yds. 


PD Linvilenwur etree. ++, + .4555544—82 Ba5d4e5—38-—68 
Privy H Pierce: si... reden ce = AOS §445554—338—64 
Officer Peckinpah........... se». 4444445 99 5455555—44 63 
AF Fields: 15,3 lull eee eiedaasey= 99 4544455—31—63 
Lieut $ I Kellogg, Jr.......... ry. .15555044—33 5544444 _30—68 


Open Team Match.—Open to teams of six representatives from an 
military company, fleld and staff, board of i ficers, ‘police de art. 
rae ve rifle ene now reba hehehe With any military rifle at 200 and 

yds.; rounds, seven at eac ce, Fi i 
ised es First prize a trophy. _ Four 


Company A, San Trane Police, 


4 yds. 500yds. 
DeAcPackinpahies ck ao .ccsleeneees 55: 31 Peay caer ae 

GOEL Gano eels 206 See 4434554—29 5554555—84—63 
ONash ees dee Ue ete 4454445—20 45455453262 

MID U Bee sae aes Settee eran 4445445—80 4554445-—31—61 

PD iinyille level. eae ...5044444—30 4235555—29—59 
Jeeta Cartiysas, ave see eet ante 4424344 —25 4454584—27—52—361 

Board of Officers, Second Artillery, G. N. G. 
Lieut J Warren.. ....... ... . .4484554—29 4454555—32—61 
Lieut Laufenberg._.-...-......... 445444530 3454455—30—60 
Lieut A T Sime. te. 2: 454443527 5553535 —31—38 
Capt Ed Sprowl,..................5 4544544 30 444444428 _58 
Lieut Mangels,.........-.........-. 545454532 44334442558 
PiGUPAE. ats es aeeke ene ee A448 445 —28 4445434 98 —59 —851 
Company A, Fifth Infantry, C, N. G. 
Sergt Macdonald........... ranger ge 544445430 5b55555—85—6b 
Priy GC Waltham,,..:.2..24........ .4454444—29 9545445—80—59 
Privy Hd Pierce....... ........--..4544454—380 4454444 99-59, 
teri MOORE, feet e soso de eres Adame 5445434—29 3445354—28—57 
Priv McWwerilr 2)... ase. os 9344443 — 25 25445542954 
Priv Carroll..........- 06.205 .0- 2. dda ddd — 24 3424454. 26—f40—354 
Field and Staff, Fifth Infantry, C. N. G. 

Lieut Kellogg, Jt.........-...0-5. 5454544—+ 5544444 30—61 
Lieut F Kuhmile...........-....... 444454429 4643455—31—60 

Sit Ed Hover............ need Oar 4454455—31 4454344—27 — 58 
Lieut GA Brown.....-...... -.... 5545544—31 45433542657 

Set M Williams.....-../.-......0..2 4455445—31 8444354 2556 

Maj T Parsons... weeen0:.ccase-, 4494454—28 2245335—24—_52—344 

Presidio Rifle Team. 

Contiell’). ..- -sace-ysatau 24 seee eed aad = 99 4435454— 29—58 
Sergt Brackin....-...... pasney ss S444544—29 4583455—29—58 
NelSOU 4 nwie eres pes + +302 14885848—25 §484545—30—55 
Wearsley.... :..+.s-+-2ses-- + oye ne 4dddddQ—97 5454335— 29— 56 
Dougherty.........-- ey ooo 445544438 03324841949 

TYNE Ee os re pees See Pecan tie oper 544354429 0040584—17—45—821 


Military Team Match.—Open to teams of six men from any com- 
pany of the National Guard or Army and Navy, with Springfield 
rifles, at 200 and 500yds. Rounds, seyen at each distance; 3 individual 
prizes; first price a trophy, and second prize a trophy, to become the 
property of the winning teams; 2 prizes, 2 medals. 

Battery B, Second Artillery. 


200yds. 500yds. 
Priv Noltie......secs2+ eeeeees vee. 4445544 — 30 24453532556 
GeowWohnseni 7. sc. ecqescwi sense 5444244 27 4352453—26—h8 
Lieut HJ Sime....c.c.0...00-eueee 444455480 3543042258 
Sergt McClintock..............---. 4433443—25 443243323 48 
PIV AGL) cen: coe wre reals one on 3433408—23 4204435—22—45 
STE BGA Yat kat Paks epee (eee 4442444 26 2205342—16—42—296 
Company C, Second Artillery. 
Taieub Manges... 22.5.2 see aces aan 5545445—32 5553533—29—61 
PrivaulerDach.o...<+-s-- coe ecet ae 54434—28 3545554 —31—59 
Privy Robertson. ....... ..---+-+6+-- 8558444—28 2345438—94 59 
Sergt Lempke.....-----.. --rse- .. 4444454 29 209345593 59 


Corp Marcus........--.ss-+.-4 ’ 23002441543 
Lieut Huber é 2033200—10—37—303 
Collier Team Match,—Open to teams of six men from any company 
of the National Guard who have never made more than 70 per cent. 
in any of the California Rifle Association matches. Four individual 
prizes. Rounds seyen, with Spee rifles, at 200yds. First prize, 
a trophy given by Captain W. D, Collier, Company B, Second Artillery 
Regiment, N, G. : 


. 844454827 


Co, © (Petaluma) Fifth Infantry. Battery B, Second Artillery, 
Priv Houx.......-- . ..0545454—32 Priv Wiliott....... . 4435455—30 
Priv St. John...- ..6444455—31 Privy Ewell..... . .B44d444 27 
Priv Smith... .-- . .4444544—29 Priy Cummings . 4244454 27 
Corp Wallace. ..- 4445554—29 Sergt Beatty... . 4842443 —24 
Privy Zartman..........4444544—29 Priv Johnston.......... 454342323 
Capt Fairbanks........ §444243—26 Priv De Villers........, 4233433822 

176 155 
Company ©, Second Artillery. 
Priv Robertson......4448444—27 Priv Koch,...........4844343—25 
Priv Brooks....- 493444426 Priv Thresern. 2848445 —95, 


"344343425 Privy Sebe 


Corp Markus .......3443434—25 Privy Sebe............. 2283323—18—146 

“Duffer” Team Match.—Open to teams of six men from any com- 
pany of the National Guard who have never made more than 60 per 
cent, in any of the California Rifle Association matches, Individual 
prizes, Rounds seyen, with Springfield rifies, af 200yds, First prize 
a trophy. 


Company OC, Fifth Infantry. Company ©, Second Artillery, 
Priv St John, ,+.0054054—33 Priv Ralph..........:.. 444544—29 
Priv Aausce.. ..5d44445—30 Priv Koch...........- , .8448455—28 
Priy Smith.. 444455430 Priv Werguran......... 0444444 —24 
Corp Wallace. 4444d44—28 Privy Ruth........-.., , 889444324 
Capt Fairbanks. -4433453—26 Priv Robertson..... ... 444304423 
Priv Zartmann .......4442448—25 Priv Siebe,............. 0343248—19 

Le 147 

Company B, Second Artillery. Company B, First Infantry. 

Priy Johnson.......+--+ 3543445—28 Priv Nixon........, *....8453445—29 
Privy Elliott......-.-.--- 434444326 Sergt Burdick......... +3844544—27 
Priy Cummings. .. .4843445—26 Priv Knowlton...... .. B24444t —25 
Priv Ewell....... ...8643443—26 Capt Taylor............ 2433422—2 
Priy Pringle fe fis » 4482453—23 Privy Casey............. .0234023—14 
Priy De Villers... ...,.2532444—22 Priy Rignold............ 0043203—11 


151 ; 126 

Mid range match, open to teams of five men from any regiment, 
battalion, N. G, C.or N. N G., U. 5. Army, or company of police, any 
iilitary rifle, at 600yds. Rounds seven. First prize, a trophy; 5 im- 


dividual prizes: @ 
Vifth Infantry Battalion Team. 


Police Team, No. 1. 1 
Officer Gano .....:.....4545545-—33 Lieut SJ Kellogg, Jr...4555444—31 


Officer Peckinnah. .., ,.4555445-32 Privy C F Waltham.... .3423245—23 
Officer A F Fields...... 3355544—28 Lieub F Kubnie... ....0486843—22 
Officer McCarthy --...-. 5634484 -28 Priv Ed Pierce......... 224499 97, 
Officer N'T Fields..-.... 463334426 Sergt J Macdonald ...0024553—19 
146 5 
Police Team, No. 2. Presidio Rifle Club Team. 
Officer Linville........- 4455445—31 Priv Yearsley..-....... po44—31 
Officer Flemming... -,. 534553429 Priv Nelson ........... 5448544—29 
Officer C Nash.....---- 434035423 Priv Brackin,-......... BARS 242—21 
Officer Geary ........-.4542402—17 Priv Muller,........... 200532416 
Officer Hook..,. ...,,.00382405—i4 Privy Connell...,.........0283002— 9 
14 106 
Second Artillery Regiment, 
Lieut Sime....---------- §455048—28 Priv Last..........:...,2303082—12 
Lieut Mangels.......-.- 3532554—27 es 
Capt Sprowl......-..,-.234204419 104 
Privy Lodds.......--+-+: 2255400—18 


CAMDEN, N. J., May 21.—The Passynnk Rifle Company and Cos- 
mopolitan Rifle Club of Philadelphia, shot a firiendly mateh to-day 
at the Stockton Rifle Range. The eonditions were ten men from 
each club, off-hand, open sight and 200yds. distance. The score is ap— 


pended: i 
Passyunk Rifle Company, Cosmopolitan Rifie Club. 
Wm Kirshner a ee $534433484—36 Dr Shimwell........ 44440248432 
HS Hoffner...,....4444543344 89 F Jesser ........... 0545232342—30 
W M Hoffner...,..-3483345432—-84 L Dubois......,..... 34443435 
JD Hoffner...,.,....5524343448—37 J Dixons ively tives 323444429230 
Jas B Hoffner...... 4 —42 Peter Woods........ 34344) 83 
David Shetzline. .-.- 9443434434338 OC Greenfield......... 344485344488 
JT Dunlap.....-... 444244314335 Capt OCH Jones..., 2404444442—31 
T Hayes,--...-- . +» 433844334—36 George W Coulston .3544535485—48 
J Hinchman. ... .---4343253432—35 W Chambers......,.4444444454—41 
Capt J D Vautier., .4444545444 42 OC Bowers........ . « -»840420042—24 
369 342 


* MANCHESTER, N. H., May 24.—The wind blew strong from north- 
west this afternoon, and for a time offered an effectual barrier to the 
riflemen, who assembled at the West Manchester range, preventin 
them from raising their records of the three days’ meet. ewavia 
the wind blew less fiercely, and Messrs, Dodge, 


yening, however, 
eeheee, and Angell improved iheir records in the Creed- 


Palmer, Leighton 


moor prize match, the first named using a Maynard 32-caliber, new 
style crpiiee, iain the magpiacent string of 49 1 ouuk ¢ of a pesivis 


ve 
Mt. Bixby 


16 lead in this event over all competitors 


50, and taki his 
part: ipated it since the match opened six weeks since, 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


878 


a ST | 
a OOO ww SSE eerer 


is second with 48 to his credit. Messrs. Palmer, Leighton and Drake 
havewnsde } each, Mr. Potter has 45 and there are a large umber 
died on 44. The best scores made to-day are given below: 
_ Creedmoor Practice Match.—J. Fuller 27 and 26, F'. H. Waring 23. 
Creedmoor Prize Mateh.—A. B. Dodge 47 and 49, C. D. Palmer 44 
and 46, G, A. Leighton 44 and 46, A. R, Angell 42 and_ 44, J. A. Baker 
43 and 48, B. Cline 42 and 48, C. M. Henry 40 and 48, John Lawrence 
43 and 43, James Fuller 85 and 85, J. 8, Cole 33. 


BOSTON, May 81.—The third and last day of the penne meeling at 
Walnut Hill brought the largest attendance of the week. <A strong 
bafilling wind gave considerable trouble throughout the day, and but 
little improvement was madein the records over those of the two 
previous days, The prize winners with their three highest scores are 
appended: 

Creedmoor Match. 


G F Biisworth...... 34 34 35—103 P Wallace......... 38 83 $2-- 98 

MON BEY 0 py x ..84 84 35-108 JB Thomas.,......83 33 382— 98 

RF Richardson....34 85 84-108 SA Johms.......... 82 32. 38— 97 

WE Bixby... 84 84 34-102 G@ Warren..........381 34 32— 97 

W Charies........ ..84 B34 34-102. GD Hart..... ..,.32 48 32— 97 

A Mauthews,,..,.:. 84 84 34-102 E Burleigh ...,..,.82 382 82— 96 

J BFellows ........48 838 84—101 AD Alden...:,.,..81 81 338— 95 

AC ite P 34—101-.R Davis,. .,,-.:..81 81 32— 95 

NW Arnold... ..: 3 84—100 W Fisher 

AL Brackett,......38 88— 99 W H Morton ; 

Cc. 33— 99 S HNoyes..........3. 

E 33— 99 A Low......-...... 

ca) 3 &3— 99 LW Farrar .... 

GH Wentworth... .58 38— 99 H Worthington... 

WHrancist.s. u.3.. 32 838 34— 99 G@ Whitcomb. 3 : 

TMUPTMGAu cass 1..[ .....02 Jd 33— 98 CH Dnolap........ 30 28 27— 85 

BARGRH hed. Veh ees 82 84 32-98 SH Ring..........:29 29 26— 84 
Herald Cup Match, 

BJ. Cram. 0.6. ,..66 61 656—192 A Matthews...,,.. 60 59 57—176 

W Charles: ...2.. . 62 62 64—188 J Francis....,..... 58 57 58—173 

G F Ellsworth..,.,.61 61 68—1#5 A C White ,,..,.... 60 57 55—172 

E ¥ Richardson ....61 59 61—181 RReed..,..... .... 59 47 60—156 

RLUN Hy Gueesesns ote 66 62 69—177 GWarren........ ..50 50 55—155 

OM Jewell......... 56: 67 68—176 ReDavis..5.sj.54: 47 48 50—145 
600-Yard Match. 

J Francis....... ae eee ere ee ae te: £9 PREC EE ohoG 38 88 39—115 

PN Loree Pita cee SREP ARERR ER. p, BON IL GolW ua Shas 37 88 39—114 

Rp SHBUOWRSE PEeTe Ree SH OSHONUD ERNE RC SSA Wu ib aol reese 31 82 36— 99 


WALTHAM, Mass., May 31.—The Hillside Rifle Club, of Waltham, 
atits weekly shoot to-day, made the following scores cut of a possible 
50; Creedmoor practice. off-hand—L, O, Dennison 45, 8, A. Emerson 
44, H. L. Whiting 43, G. W. Bassett 43, Frank Dunlap 42, W. A. Coug- 
hay 42, W. H. Stone 42. J. Y. Williams 42, J. K. Lowe 41, W. Mitchell 
88, HE F. Webster 33, Creedmoor rest match—J. R. Monroe 49, L. O, 
Dennison 49, W. H. Stone 46, W. A. Courhey 45, W. W. Green 45, H. 
L. Whiting 44, G. W. Bassett 44, 0. H. Gray 44, J. K. Lowe 43, G. W. 
Strickland 42, W. Mitchell 40, E, F. Webster 41. 


BULLSHEAD RIFLE CLUB—Thursday, May 22, 12-ring target, 
possible 120: G. Zimmermann 118, CO. Rein 115, B. Walter 88, D. Lou- 
itzki 97, H. A. Wasmuth 97. J, Shaw 102. Thursday, May 29.—G, Zim- 
mIerman 116, C. Rein 113, J. Schrerder 112, J. Campbell 101, J. Jordan 
102, D. Louitzki 104, 8, FP, C. Weber 95, J. Shaw 102, G, Wettzie 102.— 
A, LOBER, Secretary. 


THOMASTON, Conn., June 2,—The shoot on Saturday last was held 
with a tricky ten o’clock wind blowing across the range, the result 
being low scores, W. H. Dunbar won the badge with a score of 99: 
C. L. Alling 95, E. Thomas 94, C. F. Williams 93. G. A. Lemmon 91, F, 
Cee 85, A. Fox €3, G. P. North 81, B. W. Pease 73, Barlow 68.—F. A. 

ERKINS. 


NEWARK, NeJ., May 30.— William Hayes, of this city, Henry Oehl 
and M, Dorrler, of New York, and George Joiner, of Brooklyn, shot a 
match at Schuetzen Park to-day, 200yds., 100 shots each, any rifle. 
Oehl won the contest, making 2,207 out of a possible 2,500, distance 
200yds. Dorrier scored 2,168. Hayes 2,180, and Joiner 2,076. Oehl 
used 9 Brown’s breechloader of .38cal. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on owe side of the paper only. 


THE CLAY-PIGEON TOURNAMENT. 


Editor Forest and Stream} 

The long talked of clay-pigeon tournament has passed into the 
category of the have beens. And it will be long remembered by those 
who participated as a most successfully conducted affair, The at- 
tendance was such as to make the gathering fairly national in its 
character, and the prizes are pretty well distributed over the country. 

Owing to the absence of one of the Chicago shooters, the ehampion- 
ship match was postponed from the first day to the second, and the 
first sweepstakes were substituted. There were 56 entries, 5 clays 
each, lbyds. rise: 

QO. B. Still, W.S. Perry, Fred Kimball, Geo, Williams, J. O. Jenkins 
an1H.S. Taylor tied on five straight birds, and divide'l first money. 

C. Calhoun and F, Drake tied on four birds and divided second 


money, 

Geo. Wilson, M. BE. Taber, G.S. Sampson, D,“C. Powers and Abe 
Kleinman tied on three birds and divided third money. 

Second match. sweepstakes, 74 entries, 7 clays, 18yds., J, A. Prech- 
tel, of Cleveland, O., took first; W.S. Perry, Worcester, Mass., second 
and IW. Gastright, of Newport, Ky., aud BH. W. Wick, of Colorado, 
divided third. following are the scores: 


OO) BStall eco epee teen 0011000—2 Herman......... ....... 1000100—2 |_ 
MW Kennedy... ..0000100—1 Roof ........ -1100000—2 
Crawford........ ..1011000—38 J J Kleinman... - 1010101—4 
SOVIONCICEE Lis nes aloe otros a oe 0010111—4 Amnderson.........., ,...-1101000—8 
Wal. tose ssc ee ecw ee 0000100—1 Alger,.......,....... ,. -.0101010—8 
- Van Slyck.....,-..--...-0010110—8 Dunean..........,...... 1010100—8 
Wiel b ee iaeahe negra pH 9 1111010--6  Maek................ ++ +-1101011—5 
UB tr) ae) rs Be eee Sse render 1001001-3, Riley ..........- pees -199010—5 
BHGHGN Be dieneae et eieis vies 0000010—1  Parker..............8 ,.-0011011—4 
Newberry........ veseves ALL00II—5 + Valentine...........256 0100110—3 
Williams...... havens pa 0000101--2  Wilson........ Ne one 1110001—4 
Gillespie..............-..0010010—2 Miles.... .....0...5 ,+,.-0101000—2 
AV Abts. kee eth as 1110100—4. Taylor........ .2....5 , .-0100000—1 
WAIN Hes te uee nesta PUA OU== 6 SBitithe. oo ea iceg sone . 0010111—4 
WC Oriy sean openness oe ORO, “Giotto ny 0010011—8 
PWASNED cles as sire sien tele 11001104 McKevitt ..............: 11011116 
REEPY Nisei renee. ,.. 1111110—6 Dorland........... 1 «-+,1110100—4 
Calhoun........ pelea se! DIGI1O=4 Bhan. ose Aiesacs tes 1101010—4 
Tabor..... BB id west Site 0101010—8 Runderson............... 0100110—3 
R Kennedy.............- 1100110—4 Lampon............... :0110100—3 
STIVCLGT: ser aitteteya sy uefa amietas OORINDO = 25 RG WETS Liste cl k's 1111010—5 
P eLGCHTCI tay csav encase ld =e Whee ny ee eh 0011110—4 
ba ei is ieee oy ,=...0110000—2 GCooper..-...........-5. ~1100111—6 
Afsrolra sil} pega ties EAP pee 0110110—4 Smedley ................. 1001111—5. 
AEA LOM errdng 2 ceecarpes ans es 0010100—2 Bradley .......,..-.,.-.,0100000—2 
PACESrIMAa Sieve wes .1101000—3 Gilman ..-................ 0100000—1 
Ghamberlain, .......... 0111010—4 Holiden................,. 1100000—2 
Sheldon.....-...--- Beets 0101110—4 Hayward................ 1110101—5 
IPE) ee ee Me penaeason 1100000—2  Wheal....-.............. 1001111—5 
Geo Kleinman,....-......1000011—3 Limneman............. . -0100000—4 
Metra lips nsettg ts eekwives: .0110010—8 Walker, 0. o..222. 0.2... 0000000—0 
AB (ya ]ta1 2) Op Brothas OLA00—4~ Volto eer 8. cee 1001000—2 
Drake. . . .0000100—1 
Houghton -0101001—3 
Gerrish -1110110—5 
Hager...... -.1100101—4 
Folsom..., _..0100000—1 
TBAT HIE Soret bteetinbies <i 0000011—2 


International championship match, clubs of 5 men each, 10 single 
clays per man, 18yds,, and 5 pairs at i5yds. rise, Following is the 
single bird shooting: 

Blue Island Gun Club. - Jacksonville Club. 
Geo Rirvy..... .0110110101—6 C Henry..........111100100i-6" 
G Roeber.....,... 0101701000—4 J Stice............1011101101—7 
¥F Bushnell...... 0001100011—4 B ne oom .0110001100—4 
T Igelhardt......1001000111—6 T Taylor... ... .0000000011—2 
Li bert a! bes .0001001001—8—22 © Spa Rn a 
cag . Chicago Diana Gun Club. 
A Kleinman, ....,1011010001—5 JC Muther.......1000011111—6 
: 0001110—6 .1410100019—5 


-_ 


Bradford Team No, 1. 
1001001000— 8 

¥F Gifford__.,....0010101710— 5 
0010110000— 8 
1100111110— 7 

J. Linneman... ..0010110010— 4—22 


Farmington Gun Club. 
G Woodrufé_.....0001000100— 2 
0110110010— 5 
1001100010— 4 
L Seales...,..,,..1100100100— 4 
0100010010— 8—18 
Kirtland lub, 
GVE-ROOLS eas 0010000001—2 
M EBaton....... ..0001101011—5 
J A Closse..... ..1100011101—6 


CF Wheal....,...1110010111—7—27 


Worcester Gun Club. 

.....1111000011—6 
ET Smith,.......1010000011—4 
GA Sampson... ..1001011010—5 


10100011 10—5—28 
Exeter Sportsman's Club, 


HW Hager... 


A F CGooper...... 1101111101—8 
CM Stark,....... 1110111110—8 
ALS Taylor..... , .1110001000—4+—35 


The double-bird shooting, 15yds., 
Blue Island Gun Club, 
Geo Rirey....00 00 10 00 10—2 
00 10 00 00 00—1 
¥ Bushnell, ,.15 60 11 00 00—3 
....00 10 10 11 00—4 
Lichtemeyer.10 00 10 00 00— 


Chicago Shooting Club. 
A Kleinman..11 11 00 11 10— 
10 11 11 10 10—7 
Norton..... ,-11 10 00 01 10—5 
10 00 10 00 10—3 
Wadsworth, .11 01 01 11 01—7—29 


Bradford Team. 
01 10 11 01 01-6 
Gifford... ..... 10 10 10 10 01—5 
01 10 11 10 00—5 
10 10 10 00 10—4. 
Linneman....00 10 11 10 00—4—24 
Farmington Team, 
Woodruif..... 01 10 01 11 00—5 
00 11 10 01 10—5 
Anderson ....10 00 00 10 11—4 
00 10 10 00 10—8 
00 00 10 00 11—3—20 
Kirtland Shooting Club. 
ff... ...., 01 11 10 00 01—5 
Hatom....... .01 10 00 00 00—2 
: 10 10 10 10 10—5 
00 00 11 10 10—4 
10 00 10.00 00—2—18 
Worcester Clit. 
11 11 10 11 10—8 
, ..00 11 11 00 10—5 
10 10 00 10 10—4 
. -.01 00 10 10 00—3 
01 11 10 11 11—8—28 
Exeter Club. 
11 11 10 11 10-8 
10 00 01 10 10—4 
01 01 10 01 10—5 
.. .;...10 11 11 10 11—8 
-,---11 11 01 10 11—8—83 


Match at 2 pair double clay-pigeons, 
Breanne bees tub bpao Ade 11 00—3 


SO io ik i ees 


Denman. .52.2.). 4. 5 
MeKevitt,.....- 


SCORER HK Oe He HR HOCH ORR HH Rete et 
BOM CH OCCOP BH ORR ER Oe eR HHH ERO 


Ra, eee ae 
t 


ee 


Bradford Team No. 2. 
F Bradley..:,. ,1010003111— 6 
W L Yelfon, ....1100001101— 6 
A B Walker, ...,0010 00110— 4 
J Sherley...,.,.001100010J— 4 
Q@ McKivett, ...1111111101—10—29 


Chippewa Gun Club. 


WUnGCAIG. © ata. 1110111001— 7 
Worley. 1 aves 01000101 10— 4 
Snyder_...,... , ,0000100610— 2 
Kennedy....,,.,1001010001— 4 
Herman ....... 1111110001— 7—24 
Capital City Gun Club. 
BL Mills..... ,...0100111111—7 
W Wagner....-.- 1100001110—5 
MeKildan........ 0110100100—4 
Bailey..-.....-...« 1110001100—5 
PSTLMLO LU Scureiend arith 1110110000—b—26 
Cleveland Gan Club, 
MSilsby....+ .+.- 1011110110 -7 


F Chamberlin. ,. .1001101100—5 
CA Calhoun,.... 1101100010—5 
DC Powers..... .0011000111—5 
RE Sheldon. ...1100111010 -6—28 


Cincinnati Indepsndent Club, 


A Bandle......... 1111000101—6 
J Miller....... 1101000000—2 
@:Hekert,, ..:.--. 1111110101—8 
IPATECT ee eee. es 1111000010—5 


HW MeMurehy, ....1111110001—/—29 


was as follows: 
Jacksonville Club. 


C Henry. ...- 10 01 00 10 10—3 
J Stiee. ss... 10 11 11 11 10—8 
SAPS es a op 10 00 00 01 01—2 


T Taylor...... 10 00 10 11 11—6 
O Strong..... i1 10 01 10 00—6—24 


Diana Club. 


Muther.-...., 10 01 OL 01 01—5 
Ehlers._..,,..00 10 00 10 00—2 
Smith .....-- 10 00 11 10 11—6 
Bagen........ 01 00 10 10 10—4 


Burmeister, ..00 00 10 00 00—i—18 
Bradford Team No, 2. 


Bradley .,.... 00 G1 00 141 11—5 
ito Se, 10 00 01 10 11—5 
Walker....... 10 00 10 11 10—5 
Shirley....... 10 11 11 10 00—6 


Chippewa Gun Club, 


Dnnean,....,.01 10 00 10 11-5 
Darlan.... 04. 01 10 1) 10 00—4 
Snyder, ...... 11 00 00 00 00—2 


Kennedy ..... 00 00 11 10 00—2 
Herman..-.,.10 01 10 00 00—8—16 
Oapitol City Gun Club. 


NES Peet 10 11 10 00 11—6 
Wagner...... 10 01 00 11 11—6 
MeKeldon.. .11 10 11 10 10—7 
Bailey. oo... 01 01 00 01 01—4 
Smith........ 00.00 10 00 00—1—24 
Cleveland Gun Club. 
Silsby...... 10 10 01 10 00—4 


Chamberlin. .01 11 11 11 11—9 
Calhoun..... Oi 00 17 11 01—6 
Powers......: 00 00 11 10 10—4 
Sheldon .....11 11 11 11 01—9—82 
Cincinnati Independent Gun Club, 


Bandle....... 10 11 11 11 11—9 
Winkler saps 10 00 01 11 00—4 
Wekert....... 00 10 01 141 10—5 
Parker. ...... 11 01 00 11 10—6 


McMurehy ..00 10 01 10 00—8—27 
Single. Double. Total. 
34 


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12 
Reon es eee ee Say Sh clemats coisa At ws 24 24 48 
Het Bean eee Bub Ut adcon oer 25 29 54 
Sa eat pcerd Bede a) hae ne eels Cyan Sh 24 18 42 
Lr Pr tens ber atabeld Seba avab enter nae os 22 24 46 
IBTAMLOPC Coline = petettete ae tS rade deihs os Lorine aietan i at ae 
pee ae eC Oise cantain £ iui eal Gh 24 40 
Pe Dosti ach ooh teh on oe ee oe aerials 27 18 45 
Cn eg gtr mc er pees 2 24 50 
ih iad a eee eet ert = Sen apuceieec 28 28 56 
RESP A twee cree ie err tre pre 28 82 60 
Sie sacar bossa dae syne ns soe teste Semi becy 30 33 68 


Picehteley wim sae eete 00 11—2 

LHGalse sete Henna swan | 11 10—3 
Gasteie hn Seis yyets S558 1 be shee! 
NDS ae eerie, Arua jee 11 00—2 
EICOI es 2 ess Sie re 11 00—2 
ATT COS ETS 5 eb eget PAL he ne 00 00-0 
LV OL Saco dg oe eee SON 00 0d0—0 
VIER OS casa ann wert ne 00 O1—1 
McKevitt..... sNSTAAT Sales 1i 11-4 
EVACIGY.. aan eran et tat dd = 4 
INGNFORDI VRE Sos 55: inetae 10 11-3 
Carmannas.....-........ 00 00—0 
Calhoun eter re e4 shah js. 01 CO—1 
Geo Raisohy.. 2. 322.05%5. 00 00—0D 
nore syste Saat een ans OL 00O—1 
DenmAnee prs h thse ee li 1i—4 
MGAGOWSTEpenice-sl stan: 10 11—3 
Watkins .,... (......+-.,.11 11—4 


MUCIGION, Rover tee teererts 11 01—3 
Me-singer.,.-...........- 01 01-2 
CSU GT ES he RB A tit 01 11—8 


nro Tn oOo ee = 


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Ackerman 
Weinman 


won on et & 


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ORR HOR R HOHE OR ERH ORE OD OHH EHH S 
= 
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MSSor oH CB HHHOOCOCOPMSCEHOSOH HS orerH 
BOP E EH OSCOHhORH OO Oe eet et petitet ps Set pt pie pt 
Se SORMSOSCSRSSOCOSSCOOOHHESCOSSCHHHHS 


5 


_ Stice & Kimball 1st, Shel 
Calhoun?d, Meaders & Watki 


ot 
3 
nh 


Match at five single clay pigeons, 18yds. riser 
Bey IB. 


Gastrifht: .....taedsanreses Bradley ....----. pee eee 11010—8 
ieadcre., Fe opiate eee elon OR es youu ns eare a .. 01111 —4 
1 WHOSSO:y Es ce ips sept sonernay 11100—3 

WURCHD het sn cas eee 11111—5 

POON ewan netes arr revc ets 11110—4 

ATIGCEEROML etch: tps: asec 11110—4 

CH SDI ce wcccciape's O88 10110—8 

SHANG a4 eeshadhbese kt 11111—5 

Sharks siqee ym he dicks cei 10111—4. 

Gerrishy erect sree bd 11110—4 

Jenkins..... 10110—3 

ALOR «stale onts 10010—2 

Prechtel ........ .. 01101—38 

Bande: fic eis 25 ,..,10111—4 

TPTTICO Ic Bex ck Nom ole the Sretetooe br Wdti—5 Teipel.:... 1... eee ---. .10111—4 
Valenting,........ vor enen OLOUI— 2 SDHOEN@s 2 iia arene (1110—3 
Sampson. A: 4.05. d i aweee LODO. W. -GEOTHO vee 25 = oy enters 11101—4 
TLinnenieitis sh aoe tee W11i—5 Newberry.......--::2.0.-. 10111—4 
NGISON i irosk hoe bte ean MII-G 9 Denman. .2)..c- et ce.ee. 11011—4 
Holetiingtpteesscleet ee are Wddil=shy MAGE. Poel ln. dene 11101—4 


TSO eats lnstun wats): Sie 1111I—5 

Ties on 6, miss and out; Gastright 2, Meaders 2, Still 1, Hager 8, 
Tinker 0, Linneman 0, Nelson 1, Holden 3, Olson 1, Wheal 1, Sheldon 
3. Tieson 4: Watkins 3, Perry 0, Williams 0, Beauyis 2, Siill1, Alger 
3, Anderson 1, Stark 8, Gerrish 3, Bandle 0, Teipel 4, George 1, New- 
berry 0, Denman 2, Mack 0, 


Match at 5 single live birds, 4 ground traps, 30yds., both ee tic 
111 


A Kleiman. ....2.5.:.. .. WWI—b ~MeKevitt..,..........2..45 1i—5 
NOIRON «eee wy pee tos toe AMOS cP UNA LEDs) so ce eat eters) etal 10101—3 
POLryr tence Reanrecktaves, 1TIRO Ay AF OWES Sosy en  -oeeb 11111—5 
ay Se) eee TOSS eeNNelw ay. cehretlb ai bed 11110—4 
[ye (ers i ee ai a 11110—4 Bradley........ ...:-.+, +. 11011—4 
Linneman..............055 11111—5 FB Watkins /......,..,.0... 01011—8 
Bailey MAt10—4. Meaders..,.-.-. 2... +. ner 1110i—4 
McKeldon .-10111—4 Millington..............:.. 01000—1 
Taber...... ..10001—2 Taylor 

Pardington.......... ..11111—5 Wagner 

SHEIGON cece castes dae tere 10111—4 Sage ...-. 

Casthiont erect eke 10100—2 Thorn.....-. 

AEG) mach doa cit ee daareienttoy-niss 10110—8 Hewitt 

John Kleinman..-....... ,11101—4. Parker 

WES GES dec eivcstarelc se kines nie CUW10— Fo Barer... oeun wt Alice ey 
Calhoun. ...,-...++ vey eees O01I—8 Williams, .......,..+.5--+ 11111—5 
UNE | afc) eee ee TW1LO0—8) Wilson. vi, eS eee eee. 11111—5 
Bandle .......... ag ee ld idee al herr ent thaasans. toawetece 01110—3 
SOLS Wite. Pose el gc cnt errs 11010—3 Walker... .......,.05 42. .00011—2 
Breer Sees cies pl del dA ER Vere ob mremes me weed orien or eg 11101—4 
Shatic aes yates SShprees eet Od loots SD GAIIIS poacenn att taitis steceee 101414. 
PRAChtel uke et oes ame tees SCO eh d=) a a ae 111104 
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First money divided by Abe Kleinman, Lineman, Bandle. J. Part- 
ington, McKevitt, Jones, Williamsand Wilson. For second money; 
on the shoot-off thirteen men dropped out, leaying six, who drew out 
$15 each and shot for the balance. Third money was divided in the 
same way among four shooters. 

A committee was appointed to draft a constitution for a National 
Sporitsman’s Association, 


THE ONE BALL COMPLAINT.—2£ditor Forest and Stream: We 
notice an article in your last issue from *‘A. C. G.,”’ Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y.. trying to make a great stress on-his Sapete ts with our balls, 
and seeking to condemn them because they would not in every in- 
stance break with a single pellet of No. 8 shot at 40yds. We wonder 
why he did not try the same thing al 60yds. We think that A, C. G.” 
makes a display of his ignorance, and shows that his expectations 
are far greater than his realizations when he thinks a target of any 
kind yet produced should break into atoms with a single pellet of 
No, 8 shot at40yds. We know that our balls can easily be broken by 
a single pellet of No. 8 shot at a reasonable distance, and the repre- 
sentative trap-shooters of Western New York, from Syracuse to Buf- 
falo, whose names appear in this issue and scores show that the balls 
are all we advertise aiid more. We will gladly furnish the address of 
any or all of these gentlemen, that are not beginners in the shooting 
art, and leave the yerdict in their hands regarding the superiority 
of our target balls. This learned gentleman from Poughkeepsie 
should take the kind advice of the editor of this paper and learn ta 
load a gun, and then learn to shoot it, or else get up the target 
alluded to ‘that will break automatically whenever a gun is pointed 
atit.” Capt. Bogardus and sons, with the Buffalo Bill Wild West; 
Capt, E. E. Stubbs, of Gainesville, Kan,; Messrs. Butler and Oakley. 
‘premier shots,” with Sell’s circus, and many others of professional 
fame, use our balls exclusively for their ball See and that glass 
Inust gois a certainty. To kill birds in the field, to kill them from 
the trap. to break clay-pigeons or ball pigeons or target balls of any 
kind with a single pellet of shot is unreasonable, to put it in its mild- 
est form,—F. J. Mover (Secretary Target Ball and Ball Pigeon Co., 
Lockport, N. Y.). 


LOCKPORT. N. Y., May 25.—Second match of a series of twelve 
under the management of the Target Ball and Pigeon Company. The 
shooting was by far the finest the city has ever seen, quite a number 
of noted marksmen from different parts of the State participating. 
The first contest was for 10 target balls. rotary trap: Geo, Luther 
8, E. Smith 8, J. Andrews 10, H. Howard 6, H. Whitney 10, J. H. 
Jewett 6, E. M. Moody 9, Dr. Moyer 9, John Pierce’7, R. G. Woods 9. 
Andrew and Whitney divided first money, Moody and Moyer second 
money, Luther and Smith third money. 

The second contest was for 10 ball pigeons: Luther 9, Smith 8, 
Andrews 7, Howard 10, Whitney 10, Jewett 7, E. Moody 10. Moyer 9, 
G. Moody 9, Pierce 8, Woods 7, Coombs 5, Isbester 10, Freeman 7%. E. 
Moody took first money in shooting off. Dr, Moyer and G. Moody 
divided second money, Smith and Pierce divided third money, An- 
drews and Jewett fourth ENE 

The third contest was for 15 ball pigeons: Luther 14, Smith 18, An- 
drews 11, Howard 18, Whitney 14, B. Moody 12, oer 15, G. Moody 15, 
Pierce 14, Jewett 12. Dr, Moyer and Geo. Moody divided first money, 
Luther and Whitney divided second money. Smith and Howard third 
money, E. Moody and Jewett fourth money. 


The fourth contest was for the championship ball pigeon badge of 
20 pigeons divided into 2 sweeps: Smith 20, Andrews 17, Whilney 20, 
E. Moody 18, G. Moody 16, Woods 4, Luther 16, Freeman 16, Jewett 17, 
Howard 16. Pierce 16, Moyer19. In shooting for the badge, Whitney 
won, taking first money and champion badge, Dr. Moyer took second 
money. 

The fifth contest was a double rise, 5 balls and 5 pigeons: Andrews 
9, Smith 8, Whitney 10, Jewett 6, Pierce 10, E. Moody 10, Howard 8, 
Luther 9, Moyer 9, In shooting off Whitney won first money, Andrews 
and Moyer divided second money, Smita and Howard divided third 
money, Jewett won fourth in shooting off. 

The sixth contest was 10 balls from a ball pigeon trap; Whitney, - 
Smith and G. Moody 10, Pierce 6, Andrews 9, EB. Moody 9, Coombs 9, 
Isbester 8, Moyer 9, Luther 8, Howard 8. In shooting off Whitney 
took first money, Moyer and Andrews divided second money, Howard 
third money, and Pierce took fourth money. 


SYRACUSE, May 29.—In a shooting contest at the Syracuse Driving 
Park this afternoon, sweepstake prizes were competed for, Follow- 
ing is the score in the first shoot at 10 glass balls: Morehouse 10, D. 
Walters 7, C. Walters 9, G. West 8, Emmett 7, Remer 4, Courtney 8, 
Chapman 7, Morehouse took first money. ©, Walters second. In 
shooting off ties on eight, Courtney beat G. West, taking third 
money. The second contest resulted: Morehouse 8, D, Walters 8, CG. 
Walters 8, Emmet 8, G. West 7, Chapman 6, Courtney 8, In shooting 
off the ties on eight Courtney and C. Walters tied on fourand divided 
first money, Emmett made a count of three, taking second money. 
Morehouse aud G. West broke two each. The third shoot resulted: 
Wilkins 2, G. West 5, Morehouse 2, ©, Walters 4, D, Walters 4. A 
grand glass ball and Glay-pigeon tournament is advertised to be xiven 
at the Syracuse Driving Park, on June 4 aud 5, under the auspices of 
the Onondaga Sportsman’s Club. Two hundred dollars in prizes is 
guaranteed! Special prizes for proficiency are offered by Messrs. 
Lodder, Prettie and Dugard. 


_ MILFORD GUN CLUB.—This club reorganized this week, taking 
in four new members. Our clubis now composed of practical sports- 
men, We have a Card’s and also a Davenport combination trap for 
clay-pigeons. Will practice weekly and will respond to all challenges. 
On Friday, June 6, the club will meet the Schenevus Gun Club tor a 
friendly contest. Other neighboring clubs are inyited to confer with 
us as to future contests. Address either L,-E. Sexton, Sec., or Chas. 
Armstrong, Pres, . 
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PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


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4 FOREST AND STREAM. | - [own 5; 1884 


Secreturies of yacht clubs will please send early notice of pro 


; + man of the sailing committee, Louis P. Bayard, 167 Broadway, by 3 Tt may not be unknown to i 
Machting + o'clock P. M., on June 12, accompanied by the measnrement of the constitution and by-laws OTS aeons balla aad 1S ate 
yacht entered, according to S. 0, Y. © rules, certified to by the meas- | crew for the first regatta of each year; and itis afact that no race 


urer of the club from which she enters or by her owner, together 
with a list of the proposed crew, their several occupations and ad- 
FIXTURES. dre ses. Blank forms of entry with the club rules for measurement 
will be furnished by the secretary, on application. 

Yachts may carry as crew, besides the helmsmap, one man for 


or regatta has ever been authorized by the club during its existence 
of thirteen years except with fixed ballast and limited crews. As a 
consequence, but few of our boats have large sails and spars such as 
are necessary to secu _e success in a race where shi ting ballast and 


ue Bi ack : unlimited crews are allowed. Furth 

posed mutches and. meetings, every five feet or fraction thereof of length on deck, but must be | of our members are imbsed with the idbatuat ours euliee ele pis 
June %.—Larchmont Y. C., Pennant Match. manned exclusively by amateurs, except on schooners and first-class | more in accordance with the advanced ideas of yachting, and better 
june 9—Portland ¥.C., Challenge Cup. sloops and cutters, on which members of the regular crew, to the | calculated to develop a genuine love for the sport among men of all 
June 9.—Savannah Y, C., Opening Cruise. number of five on schooners and four on sloops and cutters, will be | classes and conditions of life, than the olil-fogy notions that have 
June 10.—Atlantic ¥, C., Aunual Match. allowed, Their names must appear in the entry, and be subject to | prevailed for the last fifty years with owners of small yachts 
June 11,—Hudson River Y. C., Annual Match. the approval of the Sailing Committee. Itis apparent to every thourhtfinl mind that suen a system has 
June i2.—New York Y. C., Annual Matches. The following sails may be carried: Schooners—Mainsail, foresail, | ceased fo have any great amount of vitality, Thestrongest evidence 
June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C,, Annual Match. forestaysail, jib, flying jib, jibtopsail, fore and main ga topsails, | of this was manifested last year in the effort made to bring small 
June 16.—Newark Y¥. C., Opening Match. main topmast staysail and spinaker. Sloops and Cutters—Mainsail, | boats together. 
June 16.—New York Y. C., Race around Long Island. forestaysail, jib, flying jib, jibtopsail, zafftopsail and spinaker, Any In the race for 20ft. boats, only three starte1, notwithstanding the 
June ieee tue EEt City Y. G., Review and Harbor Oruise- of the above sails may be carried as balloon sails, gafftopsails ex- | immense amount of effort made; and in the race for 27ft. boats, bub 
June 19 —New Jersey Y. ©., Annual Match. cepted, Sloops and cutters of the fourth class may carry topsails | six could be gotten together, while in Hastern waters, where fixed. 
June 21.—Hull Y, G.. Pennant Match. extending above the truck. ballast is the rule, no less than two hundred boats started in a single 
June 23.—Newark Y.C, Open Matches. The start will be a flying one, as near 11 A, M. as possible, race, aud werarely hear a Union regatta in the vicinity of Boston 
June 24,—New Haven ¥.C.,+pring Match. The course will be as follows: with a less number than fifty purticipating. Why is sich the case? 
June 26.—Salem Bay Y, C., First Championship Match. Course—For schooners and first and second class sloops and cutters: | Is it because we lack means, courage, seamanship or water facilities? 
June 27,—Hastern Y. C,, Annual Matehes. from an imaginary line between the committee steamer and Fort No, nothing of the kind. We have them all; and when sailing recula- 
June 28.—Boston ¥. O.. Ladies’ Day. Wadsworth, to buoy 10,on the S. W. Spit, keeping it on tre port | tions similar to those adopted by the New Jersey 1. C. become the 
June 30.—Manhattan Y. C,, Annual Cruise. hand, thence to and around buoy 8'%, keeping it on the port hand, | rule and not the exception, there will be no difficulty in bringing to- 
June 30.—Qiiney Y. C., Second Match. thence to and around Sandy Hook Lightship, keeping it on the star- | gether in the bay of New York, a fleet of boats equal in every respect 
July 4,—Larchmont ¥, C,, Annual Open Matches, board hand, and return over the same course to buoy 15, keeping to | to that of any other city in the world. 
Jaly 4,5, 6.—Qunaker City Y. C., Corinthian Cruise. the eastward of buoys 9, 11, 13 and 15, on the west bank, and outside | The New Jersey Y. C. has made neffort in that direction during 
July 6.—Hull Y. C., Review and Annual Cruise, five days. of buoy 5, on the point of Sandy Hook, going and returning, the past two seasuns, by giving open regattas in the fall, with only 
July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. For third class sloops and cutters: from the same starting line, to | partial success, due to the fact that most of the clubs for small boats 
July 12.—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. buoy 10, on the 8. W. Spit, keeping it on the port hand, thence to and within convenient distance sail their races with shifting ballast and 
July 12.—H011 Y, C., First Club Match. around buoy 84, keeping it on the port hand, thence to and around | no limitation as to crews. 
july 19.—Hull Y. C., Ladies’ Day. the Scotland Lightship, keeping it on the starboard hand, andre-urn The reason generally urged against stationary ballast is the danger 
July 24,—Eastern Y. C., Annual Cruise. ; over the same course to buoy 15, keeping to the eastward of buoys 9, | of sinking in the event of a cap-ize. It’s an old saying, “‘to be fore- 
July 26,--Beverly Y. G., Nahant, Second Championship Match. 11, 13 and 15 on the west bank, and outside of buoy 5 on the point of warned is to be forearmed,"’ and our members fully appreciating this 
July 30.—Qiiney Y. C.. Third Match. ; Sandy Hook, going and returning. adage, have provided their boats with galvanized air tanks, sufficient 
Aug, 4.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. For fourth class sloops and cutters: from the same starting line to,| to buoy the greater part of the dead weight, thereby rendering them 
Aug. 9.—Boston Y. G.. Annual Matches. buoy 10, on the S. W. Spit, keeping it on the port hand, thence to and | safer thau sandbag ballasc without air tanks. 
Aug, 11-25.— Quaker City Y. C., Annual Cruise in Chesapeake and around buoy 8}4, keeping it on the port hand, thence to and around To capsize is a possible event; yet such an occurrence has not hap- 

Delaware Bays. buoy 5 on the point of Sandy Hook, keeping it on the starboard hand, | pened in our races with stationary bullast in six years, and never 

Aug. 16.—Salem Bay Y, C., Open Matches. and return over the same course to buoy 15. keeping to the eastward | have we lost a life in consequence, while no Jess than three boats out 
Ang, 16.—Hull Y. C., Open Matches. of buoys 9, 11, 13 and 15 on the west bank, going and returning. of thesix starting in. Lhe shif ing ballast sweepstakes race of last 
Aug 28.—Quincy Y. ©,, Fourth Match. The finish must be made across an imaginary line between the com- | summer were turned over, anda fourth carri d away the mast, 
Aug, 30.—Hull Y. C., Second Cheba ptone hip tok. mittee steamer or station boat, and buoy 15. In this conmunication, so far we have presumed that vour 
Sept. 8.—Hull Y. C., Third Championship atch, The management of the races will be in the hands of the Sailing | efforts would be directed toward a regular old-fashioned sandbig 
Sept. 4.—Salem Bay Y, C., Second Championship Match. Committee: Louis P. Bayard, 167 Broadway; Francis O, de Luze, | race. It may be that in this we are mistaken, and thatin the Oveanic 
Sepr. 13.—<oston ¥. C., Fall Matches. Walter L. Suydam, Alexander H. Stevens, 8. Nelson White. Y¥. C. we are to have an ally in our strugele for fixed ballast and 
Sept. 14.— Quaker City Y. C., Review and Cup Race. Copies of the rules and blank forms of entry may be had of the limited crews. Ifso most cordially will we extend a welcome, and 
Sept. 28.—Quaker City Y. C., Revi-w and Harbor Cruise. secretary, Mr. L. F. D'Oremieulx, No. 67 Exchange Place, you will find us ever ready and willing to co-operate with you in any 


Oct. 5.—Quaker City ¥. C,, Closing Review and Cruise. 


6 as spring matches of the Knickerbocker Y.C, were sailed on 
Friday, May 30, the course, except for the smaller boats, being 
around the Ganzway buoy. 

Forty-fonr of the seventy-six entries were ready at the starting 
line at 11:30 A.M. ‘The yachts were divided into eight classes. The 
wind was fresh from the southwest at the start, and there was 
enough all day to make the races interesting, besides some heavy 
sqiuls thrown in, which disable1 several of the boats, the Amazon 
losing her topmast, Lizzie R. springing her mast below deck and 
finally losing it, and Nettie Thorp splitting her mainsail. 

The times of the first ten boats at the Gangway buoy were: Lizzie 
R. 1:41:02, Gracie 1:42:10, Rosetta A. 1:44:00,. Adele 1:44:10, Daisy 
4:44:50, Nellie R, 1:46:39, Susie A. 1:46:35, Corinne K. 1:47:00, Nettie 
Thorp 1:51:28, Narrioch 1:57:50. 

The tun home with a free wind to Fort Schuyler, was followed by 
a beat up against the ebb tide, the finish being made at 4:30. The 
times of the yachts were as follows, the winners in the first and sec- 
ond class not being known, as they have not yet been measured 
under the new sailarea and j 


eitort you may make in that direction. 

To be perfectly candid, we have given much consideration to this 
communication, in the hope that we might induce’ you to co-operate 
with us—if not at present—at least in the near future. - 

In conclusion we must say. that under no circumstances could we 
be induced—as a club—to actin concert with you, in the interests of 
a Union Regatta that permits shifting weight and unlimited crews. 

Yery respec fully, 
Wm. H. Dinworts, } Com’t 
Ep. A. STEVENS, N.J. ¥.C, 


ATLANTIC Y. C, OPENING CRUISE. 


MNHE Atlantic Y. C. opened the season with a sail down the Bay on 

Decoration Day, in which nearly forty yachts took part. In ac- 
cordance with the programme, the fleet formed in two lines off the 
club house at 11.A. M., the offshore line, in which were the schooners 
and larger os) haying the Enterprise, Vice-Commodore Moffat at 
the right, while Rear-Commodore Wintringham, in his new sloop 
Nomad, was on the rignt of the inner line of smaller sloops. 

In the matter of wind the Atlantic was rather more fortunate than 
its neighbor across the Bay, as the boats were able to get over the 
course, though the light and va:iable winds prevented anything like 
atest of the boats. The schooners present were the Agn+s, Mon- 
tauk, Crusader, Varuna, Republic, Triton, Grayling, Haze, Leona and 
‘ioga. The sloops were the new Athlon, sertie and Nomad, the 
Thistle (lately rebuilt), Gracie, Mistral, Enterprise, Roamer, Truant, 
Parole, Fanita, Viola, Stella, Crocodile, Penguin, Kaiser. Yenvure. 
Ilderan, Pilot, Hilda, Lois, Amelia, Nita, Elephant, Daisy, Viking, 
Romeyn and Naney C. 

A gun was fired from the flagship at 11:30, and fifteen minutes later 
all were under way. The wind throughout the day was light and un- 
steady, and when Buoy 84 was rounded the signal was given from 
the flagship to return, the yachts finding a little more wind toward 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. C., 


SOUTH BOSTON Y. C. SPRING MATCHES. 


fj ers cold weather of last week had ended by Friday morning in a 

brisk northwest wind, which, though acceptable to the yachts- 
men, had sufficient frost in it to make the opening.match of the South 
Boston Yacht Club anything but summer suiling. 

The flagship of the South Boston Y. C,. the North Star, was moored. 
off Gity Point, to do duty as judges’ boat, the course being, for the 
first class, from the judges’ boat, jeayine on the starboard hand. 
Thompson’s Island, Rainsford’s Island, and Toddy Rock buoy; Long 
and George Islands and Point Allerton buoy to por; and on the re- 
turn, leaving Toddy Rock, Fort Warren, Gallop Island, bell buoy, 


ength rule. 


Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. | the close of the day, all coming to anchor off the club house about 5 | Long and Spectacle Islands also to port, finishing abreast the judges’ 
Wacondah li 32 58 4 40 39 5 OF 46 
Undine =I St 307 pres 4 92 31 1 Ag 59 P. M. boat, making fourteen miles. 2 £m nee a 
ae oak mtg! : cee fet LADIES’ DAY. JUNE 2. he second, third, and special classes were to leave Cow Pasture 
Peerlesss nee ee a 4 46 01 Nearly all the yachts that took part in the opening sail of Friday | buoy to port, buoy No. 7 to starooard, leaving Sculpin Lodge buoy to 
pa STE Set iat Hee 4 a7 45 5 05 46 were realy again ee OE aifernoen for pie nadie HER a the port, bugy No: 6, pass middle, = buoy Noy 9, upper salle, sao Ee 
Be oe BERS ges fo a Atlantic ¥. C. e boats of the various yachts and the little launch ort, and fiaishing at start. Distance nine miles. e foirth class 
wn hrel 11 33 25 ee Oe Bl 5 01 16 of the SUH wee busy Canine POTS AOC BY pet ene first out were no eane ug por’ cow uae mer ee ree Indenene 

5 Camu? Te Coots eae ehalrs was fired, and ten minnies later a third gun gave the fina signal. by | buoy No. 7, an usy No. 9, upper middle ishing at start, Dis- 
ceria SRE es ie a oS Ae geaed: 5 08 58 which time most of the twenty-two boats in the race had crossed the jones gix pURe neem tow, Os 2 3 " d ‘ 

Sa oh ie aT St Lah eee Tine. he yachts were signaled at 1;45 to take positions, and soou forme: 
SPANO Saaeacn te taer 11 be ay a 45 a i a ie The course was from the Atlantic Basin to a stake boat, moored off | in three lines. : , 
ReCkIEss <1 oases. eres 3l 1 = fy BE Oyster Island up the Bay, thence to another stake boat off Tompkins- The first. and second classes were started at 2:10, the third and spe- 
Amazon....,.-, --..11 31 59 4 41 52 5 09 58 ville, aud home, a distance of nearly eight miles. The wind was light | cial classes at 2:15, and the fourth at 2:20. To avoid any mistake in 
Gil Blas... .++.--.. Tbs 2 440 ft 6 06°61 from the south, and with a good flood under them the yachts strung | timing the 68 yachts starting. each was provided with a card bearing 
Nettie Thorp 11 29 36 me Aule d out in 4 line, the larger schooners leading the way over toward Bed- ie aly to her, which card was displayed on passing 

Byte tap ee ae * ris : 5 Goa: loe’s Island. the judges’ boat. ] 

GRACE 2 as 43 ergs 11°36 13 BOC) Seas ¢18 48 The first to turn was the Triton, at 4:00:08; followed by Grayling at | Over the first part of the course the big fellows carried spinnakers 
eae SS achtrriag toc ty <4 ue Net pak 4-45 BP 438 17 4:00:28: Agnes, 4:01:02; Thistle, 4:01:63; Athlon, 4:02:12. On theshort | and balloonsails. But few mishaps occurred, the most serious being 
Sina 27 a ee 11 27 16 Not tin aed aa: a < beat to the second mark the wind freshened, and Grayling took the | off Sculpin Ledge Buoy, where Niobe fouled Parole, and stove a small 
Bai f A eA: rfl oY 05 41950 442 45 4 84 85 lead, rounding at 4:24:03; the Triton next ao 4;25:10; Thistle at 4:25:25; | hole in her Rua rene eine occasion for a protest. The times of the 
Liddy Ee OE. 4 96 88 Reds 498 12 5 16 37 Athlon, 4:26:38; followed by Roamer, Agnes, Crocodile, and Enter- | 38 yachts vhat finished are: 
He RPT 5 Crd oy = Ise. 5ST CLASS (CENTERBOARDS), 
seers Bo veyere nee iq se a 4 th a4 ; a a ae meas’d | P aes ae eee on the short run home, the time of the i (¢ 4 cathe atiorbectad 
Sees iene sea © race being as follows; pele 3 : : ase 
CLASS IV = Clytie, F. Cunningham, Hastern......,-, General 34 0815 2 a7 24 
Why Not......2...4. 1241 46211 525380 5.2405 SCHOONBRE— CLASS A. sed, Corrected: | Magic BOuNeal, Dyas. ieee. secs anor 81.10 2 19 37 
Nimrod,... Sena dLeeneLss. 4 46 15 5 17 57 Not meas’d | gy ayling....-... --2 i dis oe, St O59 15 0-59 45 Shadow, J. Bryant, Boston ....,-..5.---.. eee eee 31.06, 2 25 08 
Minnie R vevall 27 36 4-40 36 5 13 00 ©: ORO pega, Ewe SCHOONERS—CLASS B. Kai e OE ee eae, beteeres dpapa gaat ah 3 ss Ne 
Nettie “EB Rarity ere 11 28 = 4 46 55 2 08 17 5 08 02 INGTAS. ode este ipa t ese Corte ca lece aicany cag 1 07 25. 1 06 10 Nimbus, B, Jenny, Jf., DOS seigmen nd te se neenes ‘ y 
Waddie... 0 oci.ct ss li 27 57 4 46 18 5 18 18 5 10 23 7 1 02 15 02 15 FIRST CLASS (KEELS). 
Dais : 14 27 44 413 41 4 45 57 4 44 97 Triton. eee street eee sea hee oR ee PAE 02 15 1 02 15 { 

AISYo.0. 2.4.) .=6 AL? eee 3) ai Leona........-2+5 SS aD Saree --..1 19 58 1 16 02 ae Sane EG elias aoe colada tate alee Vee es oe & ie 35 

inzi Ov i 3 io = r JEgir am MeQormick, Jeffries...........-+.-2 . 35% 
AGG Ask te | Re une aah Athlon... 5 ......2cceeseeeeeeneeneseeerect tents 10415 104.15 | Attaire, A, J. MeLeod, South Boston. .....-. -. 28.08 3 03 09 
Black Hawk........ 11 34 04 4 42 05 5 08 OL 5 00 O01 : SECOND CLASS (KEELS), 

CLABES Vis Z (, Braman, 8. Beens steph pense eee 27.081 1 29 45 
Gilt Bdge.....-..<..- 112318 894 28:12 5 04 59 5 Oz 0148 i i 45 await, © T. Pigeon, Safi Ati fis aye eehrow tits: 1 38 48 
payoue verre nee eens at a Me ee pe 4 5 07 00 5 05 25 1 02 00 Samer J aa Browns Poona ree or nine a2 ay : 29 58 

MEMME 6. - 2 es enes ue ‘ tritic, Otis D. Dana, B......--------52--e+ eee yess 23. 5 
Adele Lobel aps a Be 6 z = = a ae oS 4 Be Bote Bee RR Sea tet Br Obed Re Here OCB ES 112 38 Kitty, Tarbell & Adams, Bata Fuses) vec ee eS 09 1 26 A 
Narrick........-.+-. 427% 5 500 2046 | Mistral... 12. i... yeeeees nee eens 115 07 | Nydia, J.d. Galvin, 8 Bo o.u oie ceee tees een ee 23. eT) 
Gyprie -.. reese 1122200 44650 52480 5 2B Og | | | Hlephant.........seccceseege verter 10401 | Gem, Osgood & Savage, S. Be... .se..- eee eens 26.07 1 33 52 
Alive. ....2..-..6.54 11 20 21 4 86 23 5 16 02 Not meas’d | Qrocodile.........+e0re1 sees a. ‘1 104 51 | Celeste, Capt. Thomas, B. and H....--.....-.---- 26.00 1 51 48 
R 11 25 Be eS 19 5 00 27 4 50.01 Atte lish users a SNe wi ceaale Mee oa sn) retells eetraanenyn i 21 41 mele: 3 Thyyer, pet iaaee A UBT eae} j aN 2 

pesca eerie eae 25 52 2 a rinket, W. H. Buckley, 8. B -------..-- --.+..6 POR 

Pata eS 9 5 04 48 5 01 28 wai 
Benoa herp Pn ee gt is ne E a He 5 48 00 5 3h 00 eAeiSa HE ee ACO ee Pe ees ra ; Ne 8 SECOND GLASS (CENTERBOARDS).- 
1 20 5 36 Bi 5 27 5 PEN bana a Sg oS PS eae eee acts 2 | tizzie Warner, T. Luttard, 8. B.........-.--4-+- 25.08% 1 30 42 
Alerts ce coclbanwet ne 11 20 10 4 56 41 5 : 6 a Sette eeeptaed Me oR ben esse eee sb ME Loren 110 07 r 
Rittie B. 2.00... “H1 2313  —-‘Not timed. Mchniien Pa ee Sesesaraae Laer aie 1199) | Rita, AT, BUSS S Boia c asst enenees 25.0% 1 43 88 
CLASS VIII. E Rowieyne aby ovs/t i Leg tashepten eweeresere tas 1 08 18 Ape ng || Guetta We eS etree ne Dea eee 23 0804 neha 
Boer: ee EES c! at a a i a or , on 0 a an 1346 SLOOPS—CLASS G. ae aif aye a eet ee ac eas Fe Ripe a nee 

UCD IG aie oe beelal tok aie Re fa > 4 ADAG ar. | ari taye. Pepe tll sh Li adr ek ae teebebie husks ¢ B 4 ‘ . . ,, ¢ ee oe eee eee eee es . 

The dre erouiner Sirius accompanied the yachts and carried a large sViEiatehe Gees CAT RIGS—GLASS H. THIRD AND SPECIAL CLASS, 
number of guests. : Wanda.....-. hes beer eee awe sae S 288: 1 85 00 18500 | hayid Crocket, J. H., Putman, H. & B..,..--.. 21.04 1 30 23 

- Hypatia......-.-- Sr Pe Tete aoe, nae eee cs 1 at 00 _ 1-21 00 Parole, J. J. Bowers. Washington V.........---.. 13 108 Inj ured, 
; SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C: ‘after the return an entertainment to the guests of the club was | Joker, George Coffin, H........-..--+..- er CReRE 20 07 withdrawn. 
HE opening day of the Seawanhaka Y. ©. proyed to be anything given ai the club house. The annual matches of the club will be held | Niobe, T. L. Dunne, H........--.-.2-+ -+0e0s-200 20-05 1 Be iL 
fz) “a i: , ” re ] i >¥ic cee me book eee ~ 
A) but is “cutter day,” as the term is usually applied, at least so far postu: Sprays ere EH pu. pete pias: pi 10 1 28 54 
TRE oa an ee ea Te ene Hag ate), ANOTHER (BLOW IAT RE SON ee. Thisbie, 8, B. Freeman, 8B... eee a104 126 38 
‘ + . . 
which it left them at intervals to anchor or anit back as they saw fit. A FEW weeks since we noted the action of the Knickerbocker Y. FOURTH CLASS (CENTERBOARDS). 

Bedouin was detained at Newburgh. where she passed the winter Q. in the adoption of the sail area and length rule, and in limit- | Nancy, J. P. Grose, Jr., Wash. Village... 17.00 0 49 46 
and fitted out, so‘‘ommodore Rogers trapsterred his flag to the Ossa- | ing the crews fo one man to every 3fb. of deck length, both of which | Piora Lee, David Lincoln, 8. B...-..,- 1.00 0 4245 
bair, better known as “No. 100,” from which orders were given fora | steps tend to the exclusion of the saudbageers, and now the New Jer- | whiff, F, © Bullard: Si Bas Seesaw 16.00 0 46 15 
start. after which he went aboard the schooner Nokomis. sey Y C.,as will be seenfrom tke following letter, put themselves | Nana, Whitcomb & Gay, Dor..--.----.+- --» weno AT UBS 0 52 16 

Starting at 11:15, the schooners Wanderer and Ray; cutters Weno- | squarely on record as opposed to shifting ballast and unlimited crews, | PJsie, D, Hardwick. Q . -.----+-++2+-s-r ree e . 16.09 0 61 05 
nah, Teen and Oriva; sloops Mischief, Panny, Sagitta and Kelpie, | the reasons for which are clearly given below. #¢ _ | Grescent, T. M, Alley, W. Ly ---..-++--1---+ Rashes 0 52 OF 
and the little yawl Aneto, passed down between the club house and} If the clubs interested will but try the experiment of limiting their FOURTH CLASS (EEELS). 
tle Nokomis, dipping their colors as they passed. Tleen and Weno- | crews and prole shifting ballast, there isno reason why New : i Phoenix 21.00 1 46 49 
nah, working down out the tide, caught a breeze which carried them | York should be so far bebind in small boat racing. Itis certain that Cimbria, W. H. Wed Gre PBNERS 0d eee aeons a 3 inde te 
on down the Bay, and finally around the Scotland light, the course this kind of yachting is at the lowest ebb here, and equally certain | lielle, Gifford Bros., a Saree tt rciert Bate Tan 
ordered for the entire fleet; but the others, less fortunate, drifted | that it cannot be SANE as ee at pene rE and Bue poor SE ean ee , Ly.. plas is 1 48 04 
about the Lower Bay until all idea of going over the course was ae aes Oe EE gger disappears from our waters, the Seners B, Will Bhemington) + SR nae 91.07 withd’n 


abandoned, and Vice-Commodore Tompkins sipcalled to return. 
Coming home there was rather more wind, an 


anchor off 


The fourteenth Corinthian race of the club will be sailed on Satur- 
14, and will be open to the second class schooners, first, 
second, third and fourth class sloops and cutters, of the Seawanhaka, 
New York, Atlantic, Larchmont, Eastern, and New Bedford yacht 
clubs, under the sailing regulations of the Seawavhaka Corinthian 


day June, 


The following prizes are offered, besides personal prizes to mem- 
bers of the wi ming cr3ws: . 
Schooners—Second class, under 85ft. corrected length; value of prize 


8150 

Cabin Sloons and Cutter: First class, 55ft. corrected length and 
over, $150; 
third class, 85ft. corrected length and under 45ft., $100; fourth class, 
onder 5ft., We ; t. : A 
~ Bntries must bs made ir writing, and filed with the chair- 


Entries. 


Following is a list of winsers and prizes: 3 - 

First class: Centerboards—First prize, $25, Magic; second prize, 
$10, Shadow, Keels—Hirst, $25, Lillie second. $10, ir. 

Second class: Keels—First, $20, Kitty: second, $10, Zulu, Center- 
boards—First, $20, Lizzie Warner; second, $10, Greta. t 
> Third class—First prize, $15, Thisbie; second, $10, Spray; third, 35, 


Pet. P 
Fourth class—First, $10, Flora Lee; second, $7, Whiff, third, $5, 


Nancy. r 
Special keel class—Fir=t, $15, Vesper; second, $5, Delle, 
After the races the skippers of the Cone He boats and a number 
of io ritee. guests were entertained by Com. Hussey on board the 
or WF ; 
The Regatta Committee in charge of the races were John Bertram, 
CO. McKenna, J. H Chandler, H J McKre, F. G. Coole ) V. King 
and §, A Crowell, The judges were E.G. Kobinson, W- Tutchinson, 
G. Conant, T. Christian and William Morris. 


The influence of the sandbag boat on our yacht models has retarded 
yachting aboutia dozen years in this country, and though it is now at 
an end and virtually dead as far as large yachts are concerne |, its 
evil effects will be felt for some time. We have the men and the 
money to promote small safe yachts, and for every trap that disap- 
pears from the races we may expect in a few years half a dozen frim 
‘little ships, safe, speedy and roomy, with a crew of sailors to man 
them, The New Jersey Y. C. deserve all praise for the step they have 


taken. Who will be first to follow them? 
New Yore. May 6, 1884, 


Messrs. Frank McCown and C. W. Boughton, Committee: 
GENTLEMEN—Your communication relating to a union regatta dur- 
ing the commg summer was submitted ata meeting of our club on 
Thursday evening, 24th ultimo. After considerable discussiin rela- 
tive to the matey o committee was appointed to ascertam the facts 
> 


as far as possible, and to state the condition upon which our club 
would eo-vperate. 


the fleet came to 
the club house at 5:30. 


second class, 45ft. corvected length and under HSft., $1255 


= 


———V ll oe! — 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


THE MERLIN. 


\ \ / % give this week the sail plan of the Merlin, 5 tons, the drawings 

of which appeared 1n the previous issue. ‘The mainsail, though 
shown with a loose foot, is laced to the boom. The sail area is about 
760ft., and not as given last week: 


Mast from fore side of stem.....................2. 10ft. 
Mast deck to hounds - 520.5. 60. 0c00ee eect i loses 2Q3ft. 
Mast diameter at deck......... 0.0.02. ce ce ecee sees 6in. 
Topmast, fid to sheave ...............cceec eee eeeee at 6in. 


sq. ft. 


Mainsail Foot, 25ft. 3in.; luff, 19ft.; head 16ft. 6in.: leach, 33ft. din,: 
tack to peak, 33ft. 6in.; clew to throat, 30ft. . 

Jib—Foot, 15ft. 10m.: luff. 30ft. 8in.; leach, 22ft. 3in. 

Staysail—Foot. 10ft, 4in.; luff, 21ft. 6in,; leach, 19ft. 8in. 

Topsail yard, 238ft. 


LARCHMONT Y. C. 


if} eet first pennant matches of the season will take place on Satur- 
day, June 7, over the club course. Commodore Munroe offers a 
ppecial prize of the value of fifiy dollars tu the first, yacht in each 
class in which are four starters. 'IThese prizes, which will be of silver, 
are to be held by the winners, and are not subject to challenge. 
Notices of entries must be given to the Regatta Committee at the 
club house by Saturday morning, and all yachts must procure num- 
bers, which must be carried on the sail. The race will start at 10:45 
A. M. The races will be sailed under the follewing rules: The Re- 
Salita, BRE are Messrs. Chas. H. Jenkins, T. B. Brown and Capt. 

. B. Miley. 
pechiran trees shall be held in June and September of each year 
on a day to be fixed by the regatta committee. sie : ase 
| ‘pes yacht enrolled in the club shall be ¢ »nsidered as entered for 
ese races, Vireeyhkc F 


There shall bea challenge pennant awarded to the winning yacht. 


in each class. To beheld by such yacht for the rest of the season 
unless challenged therefore,as hereinafter provided. If, in any class 
only one yacht comes to the starting line, she shai] be entitled to the 
pennant of hi r elass. 

Any yacht winning the pennant in her class, shall be entitled to 
hold the same for thirty days from the date of the race in which the 
same was awarded to her; after which time she may be challenged 
by any yacht of her class as follows: 

The owner of any yacht desiring to challenge the yacht holding the 
pennant in the same class shall give a written notice to the owner of 
such yacht, and shall serve upon the commodore and corresponding 
secretary a copy of such notice. The commodore shall thereupon 
appoint a time for the race, not earlier than one week nor later than 
two weeks thereafter, and shall inform the corresponding secretary, 
wno shall tuereupon notify all the members of the club. 

Any yacht of the same clas may compete for the pennant by filing 
witb the :egatta committee an entry in writing, in the manner pro- 
vided in the sailing rules and regulations of the club. 

If at any time, from any cause, the pennant of any class shall be 
in the possession of the club, any yacht of such class may challenge 
for it by serving a written challenge on the commodore and corre- 
sponding secretary. The corresponding secretary shall thereupon 
notifiy all the respective owners of the yachts of that class that such 
challenge has been filed. In case no yacht of that class shall within 
ten days thereafter file an entry with the commodore or correspond- 
ing BOC CF eEY AOE such pennant race, the commodore shall award the 
pennant to the challenging vacht, and give notice of such award at 
next meeting of the club. If one or more yachts enter, the commo- 
dore shall appoint a time for the race and the corresponding secretary 
shall notify all the members of the eluh, 

The challenge pennants shall remain the property of the club, and 


shall not belong to the owners of the yachts winning the same, and. 


in case any yacht holding a pennant shall cease to be enrolled in the 
club, the pennant shall be returned to the club. 

Start: First Gun—For all yachts to approach the starting line. 
Second Gun—Five minutes af.er the first, for all classes to start, both 
open and cabin yachts, Flag signal on Pagoda will be lowered. 
Third Gun—Five minutes will be allowed to cross the line after the 
signal for the start, when a third gun will be fired. Flag signal on 
Pagoda rai-ed. Any yacht that does not cross the starting line within 
the time allowed 1s timed from the firmg of the third gun. It is par- 
ticularly requested that prompt notice of intention to race be given 
to the Regatta. Committee, Club House, Larchmont. 


* 
+ 


Ni A) mas ig gt ee a — ae ee : 7 r 


£ BS hs Ba aN 


“WACATION CRUISING.”’—Just at this time, a most important ques- 
tion to many is ‘‘Where shall I spend my vacation?” The problem 
being with some how to condense the u ost amusement into a limited 
time at some fashionable resort; but witha la:ge and constantly in- 
creasing number it takes the form of how to spend the allotted time 
so as to obtain the greatest amount of mental rest, healthy exercise 
and recreation at a reasonable cost. Among the latter is to be 
counted Dr. J. F. Rothrock, writer of ‘‘Vacation Cruising in Chesa- 
peake and Delaware Bays,”’ a book we can recommend to all who have 
a liking for out-door life about the water, and especially to novices 
in cruising and camping, to whom Chapter V, ‘*Who Should go Cruis- 
ing,” as well as who should not go, is specially directed. The writer, 
taking Herbert Spencer for his text, preaches like him the ‘‘gospel of 
relaxation,” and at the same time tells the story of three months 
knocking about in a small yacht in a way that is attractive and inter- 
esting. Dr. Rothrock is an earnest advocate of safe boats, and while 
alight draft was absolutely nece:sary for his work, he 1s a believer in 
depth. low weights, and those good qualities that FoREST AND STREAM 
has so long insisted on, and writes strongly in favor of the yawl rig 
for cruising. The book will be of value as a guide to all who visit 
Chesapeake Bay, and also to those who, while not yachtsmen, are in- 
terested in the places visited. 


NEWARK Y. C.—This club will hold a union regatta on Monday, 
June 16, over the club course in Newark Bay, there being six classes, 
as follows: Class A, cabin sloops; Class B, jib and maiasail 24ft. and 
over; Class C, jib and mainsail 20ft. and under 24ft.; Class D, jib and 
mainsail under 20ft.; Class E, catrigged over 19ft.; Class F, catrigged 
19ft. aal under. A prize of $20 will be given in each class. The en- 
trance fee is $8. The judges are: Messrs. Oliver Adams. Larchmont 
Y.C.; J. W. Thorp, Harlem Y. C.; William M. Clarke, Newark Y. C. 
Boats may be left at the Bay Shore House before the races or after 
they are over. Entries should be addressed to Charles #). Cameron, 
Treasurer, 717 Broad sireet, Newark, N. J. 


WINDWARD,—This little yawl, the first in Newport waters, arrived 
at New Dory on May 28. She was built for Mr. Hugh lL. Willonghby 
by W. P. Stephens, West Brighton, S:aten Island, and is i8tv. on 
water line, 6ft. beam, 4ft. dratt, 5ft. headroom in cabin; keel 1,700lbs,, 
ballast inside 2,016lbs., lower sails 385sq. ft. 


NEW JERSEY Y.C.—Asa change from the customary sail down the 
Bay, the New Jersey Y. C. sailed upthe Hud:on on Decoration Day, 


. taking dinner at Fort Lee, and returning in the evening. 


876 


—————— 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


(Jown 5, 1884. 


NEW HAVEN 


take part ii the opeuing sail, 


twenty miles. 


At 10/45 ten yachts started with a fresh northwest breeze: Starlight, 
_L. D, Ghidsey; Marguerite, Messrs. Peck and Sanford; Vixen, Messrs. 
Beecher and Seaman; Hndeayor, Rear Com. H, D. Billard; Acruse, 
Tt. D. Ranson; Ferguson, L, T. Pereu- 
sont Zephyr, G. E. Dudley; Rival, W, W. Converse; Wild Duck, Alex 


Com, C, W. Serantion; Ceres, 


tz. 

Nearly all were reefed at starting, Though not a regular race, the 
contest was lively. and exciting, the Ferguson coming in first at 2:48, 
and the Wild Duck 2min, later, The only accidents were the loss of a 
The club will hold a large reception at their 


couple of topmasts. 
new house on June 4. 


¥; 


WILLIAMSBURG Y. C.—The fourteenth annual regatta of the 
Williamsburg Yacht Club was sailed Monday, the course being from 
Pottery Beach to and around the Gangway bnoy and finishing 
Hunt's Dock, The judges were Daniel O'Brien, Daniel Lockwood and 
The General Sedgwick, her attractions tripled by 
the presence of two bands besides her well-known calliope, accom- 
panied the yachts, carrying the guests of the club. Twenty-seyen 
yachts had entered, but of these, only seyenteen started out at noon. 
The wind was very light, but the strong flood tide carried them 
through the Gate and on into the Sound, where they still drifted on 
until near Whitestone a breeze from the south came to their help. 


The times of turning the Gangway buoy were: 
5 i 


William Lyons. 


Mary Keegan.............. 85540 Lizzie V.-... ta tea 

Carrie Van Voorhis....... 4 01 40 Susie B...... 

NOU ZOD settee ee) see 4°06°85 Widal Wave. 20:00... 
Armenia J. Foster. ...--.... 4°23°38 “Sorceress... ..0...-------- 4d 51 54 
Grace Darling..-........., 427 08 James Tregarthen......-. 4 53 12 
Bulbiozery |... soo eae 87 00 Ua COD. © Petite adse ss mes 
Samuel G, Free..-.....:.- BADR. “Sally eamin Tyee eee 


the boats being: 


CLASS A—CABIN SLOOPS-. 


Start. VWinish. Blapsed. Corrected. 

©. Van Voorhis.-... Ii 59 50 5 44 32 5 44 42 5 44 42 
CISC 3 ee 12 00 00 6 26 36 6 26 36 6 20 06 
Sally Ann T......... 12 00 00 6 40 58 6 40 58 6 33 38 
Jas. Tregarthen....11 58 57 6 380 17 6 31 20 6 23 10 
1 Biba7 tee) Aw Cee ii 59 15 6 22 10 G6 22 5D 6 12 55 
Soreeress......-.,-,12 00 00 6 28 02 6 28 02 6 18 02 
W. R. Goodenough..i2 00 00 Did not sail the course. 
AAG RTT 5s a cs teens 11 58 43 6 47 30 6 48 47 6 23 27 

GLASS B—OPEN SLOOPS, 
Snoozer,......,,--- 11 55 00 5 46 17 5 51 17 5 51 17 
Mary Keegan..-.... 11 55 00 5 31 30 5 86 30 5 36 30 

OLASS C—OPEN SLOOPS, 
Tidal Wave.......... 11 46 00) 6 88 05 6 52 05 6 52 05 
Minnehaha... ....., 11 45 50 6 50 00 4 04 10 7% 02 00 

CLASS D—OPEN CATS. 

Samuel 5. Free 11 44 31 6 22 45 6 38 14 6 38 14 
A.J. Foster. .. 1i 41 39 6 20 50 6 89 11 6 80 21 
Narrioch....... 11 48 37 Did not turn gangway buoy. 
Bulldozer.......... 11 41 00 6 23 38 6 42 48 6 38 08 
Grace Darling.... .. 11 41 52 8 34 10 6 52 18 6 82 33 


ARRIVAL OF THE VERVE.—The Allan steamship Corean brought 
per deck,the famous cutter yacht 


over from Glasgow, on her up 
y all of the races for ten tonners on 


Verve, which last year won near 
the British coast, and has never lowered her racing flag in token of 
defeat. In future the Verve is destined to sail under the stars and 
stripes. she haying been bought from Mr. Clark, of Paisley, her 
original owner, by Mr. A. W. Sawyer, a grain speculator of Chicago. 
and formerly a banker of this city, The Verveis a perfect type of 
the racing yachts built cn the English deep draft principle. The bows 
are Jess fine than the run, which begins rather forward of midships. 
The counter is prolonged almost to a point and extends some six feet 
over the stern post, which has a considerable rake. The ballast, ten 
tons of lead. is in one piece, cast to fib the keel, to which itis bolted. 
Captain H. Esplin, a well known and exceptionally fortunate racing 
yacht skipper, with a crew, has arrived here from Chicago and will 
t is completed will sail the vessel to 
The Verve has been already entered for all of the 
regatias on the lakes including those at Milwaukee, Toronto, Chicago 


see to the rigging, and when i 


Lake Michigan, 
and Buftalo.— Montreal Star. 


QUAKER CITY Y¥. ©C.—At 10:50 A. M., on Monday, June 1, the time 
of starting of the ninth annual matches of the Quaker City Y.C., 
there was only a light breeze from the northeast, veering, after the 
start, to southwest, and finally dying out entirely at intervals during 
the day, making slow time and a tedious drift fora part of the way. 
Twenty-two yachts started, the well-known Minerva taking the lead. 
2 the T. J. Pratt, fourth class sloop, turned 
Chester buoy, the first boat around, but it was an hour later before 
the larger portion of the fleet had rounded. The flagship, Commo- 
dore Vallette’s Ploragar, lost her topmast and head sails in rounding. 
After a weary dritt homeward, the T. J. Pratt arrived first at 5:40:29, 
The other winners were: Sunbeam, 
. 8. Thomas, third class; Rich- 


At two minutes after 


her sailing time being 6h, 50m, 29s. 
first class; Minerva, second class; M 1 3 
mond, fifth class. The prizes awarded were champion flags, silver 


plate, and marine glasses, 


NEWARK Y,. C.—In common with the New York yachtsmen the 
sailors of the Newark Y. C. were disappointed in the weather of last 
Friday, as it was the same story over a. 
The race was over the club course in Newark Ba 
In the first class the 
wind euough to carry her around the buoy when the fiood tide helped 
her home first, leaving the Vixen and Bumie ©. becalmed for atime 
beyond the buoy. The prize was the 
The Rambler won in the second class, 
The race for third class boats was closer and more excit- 
ing, the winner being the Triton, while the Eddie won in the fourth 
After the races a brisk wind came up and hurried all of the 
poats on their homeward way. The union regatta of this club will be 


were smaller than usual. 


minutes. 
class, 


held on June 16, 


QUINOGY Y. C.—The Quincy Y.-C, held their opening sail on Deco- 
ration Day, eleven boats, from 16 to 2ift., taking part. 
for the three classes were 8, 7/4 and 6 miles, 
The start was made at 3 P. M, for the first class, the 
he David Crockett. J. R. Put- 
went over the course 
in the second class the Pet, J. W. MeFar- 
land, was first in 57m, 29s. corrected time; Niobe, F.L, Dunne, second 
the third class Flora Lee, D, H. Lincoln, was first, 
time 40m. 61s.; Elsie, C. F. Hardwick, second in 45m. 59s. The judges 


in each class, 


second at 3'10 and the third at 8:20. 
nam, 2ift. 8in., the only entry in the first class, 


in 1h, 25m. 55s, actual time. 


in 59m. 30s. In 


I 


were George Stewart, G. A. Ordway and N. B. Furnald, 


JERSEY CITY Y. C.—The yachts of this club sailed down the Bay 
on Decoration Day, most of them having parties of ladies on board, 


Cc. OPENING CRUISE. 


HE new club house of the New Haven Y. ©. was filled with guests 

on Priday, besides a large number of club members who were to 
The course was from the club house 
to Luddington Rock buoy, leaving it to starboard, thence to and 
around the buoy off Charles Island, and back, making a course of 


gain, of calms and stray puifs. 
, but the entries 
vey Hagle found 


challenge pennant, 36ft. long. 
beating the Leo hy a few 


The courses 
two prizes being offered 


An entertainment was given at the club house in the evening, 


Canoeving. 


FIXTURES. 
June 14 to 16.,—Merrimack River Meet. 


Jue 19.—Rochester GC. C., Summer Regatta, 


July 9 to 15.—Chieazo C. C., Annual Oruise,. 
July 14,—Allegheny ©, C., Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 


July 19.—Chieago C. ©., 
July 24 to 2t.—Lake George 


First Annual Regatta, 
Meet, Lorna Island. 


Aug. 1t012,—A, O, A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


THE TALE OF A BOAT. 


NOVICE the advertisement of I’. 
owned the first of these boats made, 


it after it had ac 
years ago the boa 
our lamented friend 


Boston, and mauy a time p 
The same 


peanbien yes ualities. 
the Rev. W: 


tioual boat he could use. With this re 
session, and 1 haye used it during several § 
the roughest carries and running 
taken this same boat or canoe to F 
west coast in hunting alligato 
time myself and friend rolled a 1 


we had despatched him, 
as he did, some 400 p 


are constructed, yielded always sufficiently 
boat. This adyenture oceurre 
sportsmen can bear witness to the 
taken deer from the water weighing 150 pounds, 


d at Homosassa, 


rs, and neyer had it fail ALO 
att. ‘ator into the canoe, believing 
He came to life sufficiently to squirm in 
such a manner as would have used up any ordinary boat, weighing, 
ounds, The light elmwood, cf which these boats 
to prevent staving the 
and seyeral reliable 
the fact. I have on seyera] occasions 
which is conclusive 


as to the staunchness of the canoe, — 


- 


Trondequoit Bay. 


D. Graves in your columus. 1 
and came into possession of 
wired something of a history. As many as te 

was used in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by 
and veteran fisherman, Mr, Alonzo Prouly, of 
nt the Indian canoes to shame for its 
boat was used in the Adirondacks by 
H. HU, Murray, and was pronounced by him tie only seu- 
cord it came into my own pos- 
easons in Maine. crossing 

the most rapid streams, I have 
lorida, using it there all alone the 
At one 


me, 


2 rh 
Thad come to believe the craft indestructible, and packed her, in 


4 dd 40 
. 4 48 83 
4 60 45 


fine condition, for another trip to the sunny South. This was in Jan- 
uary Jast, and the means of conveyance was the Ciny of Columbus, 
The poor little canoe, after its lone life of adyenture, met its fate 
along wilh so much of far greater yalne. [I secured another in sea- 
son to take on train with party four days after the disaster, This 
little boat was used in both salt and fresh water all along the west 
eoastof Florida, and was the object of particular attention at Tampa 
Bay and the Anclote River, 

It was afterward used as tender to the sloop yacht Breeze, and pen- 
etrated from Charlotte Harbor up the Coloosahatchie River, through 
the Hverglades. and into the mysterious waters of lake Okeechobee. 
The veteran canoeist, Capt. 8. D. Kendall, formerly of Massachusetts 
and now of Tarpon Springs. Fla., was with this party, and many a 
pleasant yarn of his beguiled the camp-fire smoking hour while cruis- 
ing up the beautiful Caloosa. The Boston Herald. of April, noticed 
the trip as the first ever made to Okeechobee in a sailing yacht of any 
size. The articles signed “Tarpon,” and published in the Forest AND 
Srream, relate to this same trip. My interest in writing this is purely 
and only that of a sportsman, in the hope that some of the brother- 
hood may notice and profit by a long boating experience. 

Boston, Mass. E, W. SourHEr, 


THE SPRING MEET AT NEWBURGH. 


I’ the ghosts of any of the old Continentals, who over a hundred 
years ago garrisoned Mecham’s Wort, erected to protect the chain 
stretched across the Hudson, were present in the old earthworks on 
Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights of last weelr, they must certainly 
have wondered what army had possession of their old camp ground. 
Tents, flags, camp-fire and war songs bespoke a warlike gathering, 
but the former were mostly of a pattern unknown to soldiers, the 
little silk flags bore no marks of bullet or battle, the ‘‘uniforms” of the 
party around the camp-fire were noticeable chiefly for their variety 
and total lack of uniformity, while the songs, which brought back to 
many of the older men present inemories both sad and pleasant of 
camp-fires of twenty years since, and of the dear compations to 
whose memory the holiday was dedicated, told of a later and fiercer 
war than that in which the Revolutionary patriots were participants. 
The intentions of those present were, however, of a peaceful nature, 
the only struggle was a friendly one, for the oceasion was the first 
local meet of the canoeists of the Hudson River, 

Following the example of the Springfield and Hartford Clubs of 
last year, the suggestion made last November inthe PorEst AND 
SrreAmM was taken up by canoeists, and arrangements at once made 
for a meet on Decoration Day, Several places were suggested, the 
final decision being infavor of a point about 244 miles below New- 
burgh on the west bank, just above the mouth of Moodna Creek. At 
this place there is 9 high bluff projecting into the river, and shut off 
on the shore side by a deep eut of the West Shore railroad. At the 
foot of the bluff is a level stretch of ground about 100£t, wide, elevated 
some 40ft, above the river, and on the outer edge of this plateau are 
the remains of the old earthworks. A roadway leads down to the 
beach, which is shelving but rather stony for beaching canoes. The 
property belongs to Mr. Verplanck, who kindly gave permission to 
the canoeists to camp on it. 

All the local arrangements have been in charge of Mr. N.S. Smith, 
of Newburgh, an enthusiastic canoeist, to whose hard work the suc- 
cess of the meetis mainly due. Through his exertions four beautiful 
flags were provided as prizes, two of blue and two of crimson silk, 
with deep gold borders, each having a handsome sketch im oils in the 
center, one of Washington’s headquarters, the others of views on the 
river. Flags were also offered by the Mohican O. C. and Gen. Oliver, 
a paddle by Mr. Rushton, anda Child’s folding centerboard by the 
New York C. OC. : 

Dr. Neidé was one of the first to arrive, and with some canoeists 
from Newburgh the camp was put in order, floats anchored, and the 
buoys set from ranges taken on the ice last winter by Mr. Smith, and 
on Thursday a number of canoeists arrived and pitched their tents. 
Thursday night the temperature fell to an extent that made camp 
life anything but pleasant after a winter indoors, but after that the 
weather was warmer throughout the meet, 

By Friday morning most of the eanoeists had arrived, and the camp 
was full of bustle and movement. To the north, in the fort, were the 
Knickerbockers, of New York, who mustered ten members; just 
opposite were Messrs. Newman and Neidé and several others, while 
on the south end of the row was @ large tent bearing the striking 
cipher of the Kit Kat Club, an association of New York artists, some 
of whom, Mr, Seavey among them, are also canoeists. Following 
the path downward to the beach, the first tent was that of the Ron- 
dout C. G,, with six men present. Just below, beside a rough fire- 
place of stones from the beach, was the Dot and the camp equipage 
of her owner, and above was a tent sheltering Messrs. Whitlock, 
Delavan and Stephens. also of the N. Y. C. ©., while further up the 
beach were other members of the club, making in all ten present. 

The most striking picture in the entire camp was that portion of 
the beach below "New York": where the boats of the Mohicans, of 
Albany, layin an irregular row along under the green banks, each 
covered with a canoe tent of striped blue and white, making—with 
their flags flying, a large lent here and there between, sails and 
paddles stacked in groups—a beautiful picture of camp life. Besides 
the nine men from Albany there were present members of the Lake 
George, Amsterdam, Rochester and St. Lawrence clubs, making over 
fifty canoeists in all, with forty-five canoes and eighteen large tents. 

The races were in charge of Mess s. N.S. Smith, C. B. Vaux and 
R. W. Gibson, Regatta Committee, who selected as judges, Messrs. 
Bartlett and Van Dalfsen, with Mr. Harrison as timekeeper. A nuto- 
ber of ladies were present from Newburgh. and among the spectators 
were Josh and Hank Ward of Cornwall, the famous oarsmen. The 
first race was called at 2:30 P. M. 

Glass 11.—Paddling—Course from float to buoy, thence to buoy 
ere the float, ending at starting point. Distance 1 mile. Prize— 
Si ug. 


Neversink..........-+ HE Gould, 229s 2 vs ersaae Tae OR 185 

Red Rover’ .........;: W.P: Stephens.......- ... N.Y, €.C. 
COQUBEON.. cours. aces J. L. Greenleaf. ...,...-.- eakstoe Kors 
OrAZy soso ssca cas R. Tompkins.... .. ... ..RondoutC. C. 


RRetig gs fey sees . M. Wackerhagen ....... M. C, ©. 
Geni: at eee Pe .W. Whitlock. ....... 222.4. N.Y. GC. CG, 
Aurora Pero ote Aa INGIOLG ee 2. seinen das tL. G&G... C 
NGL HIG. At tree decv ees . Powler. .....22-.:-5--:. et Ge 
Mingeen were eee M. V. Brokaw:.;.;:--.,- »-N. ¥. 0.0 


Prize—Silk flag. . 

The course was triangular, 114 miles, the wind being very light from 
the west. The order around the first buoy was Thetis, 3:10; Guenn, 
Nettie, Aurora, and Minx, with Thetis still leading at second buoy 
at 3:1514, which lead she increased on the run home, arriving at 3:23, 
with Guenn 114 minutes later. and Aurora third at 3:25}9. 

The third race, Class A, sailing, had meanwhile been started at 3:09, 
over the samé course, bringing ont 


MATION. - 2) tae ae gaa Ol eS RAS ooootin se M. G, GC. 
Helena .........-...Grant Van Deusen......... R. CG, G: 
TA OME Nhe fetes Grant Edgar............... Newburgh. 
Day Dream......... W.G. Van Dalfsen...- .... Newburgh, 


Marion led throughout, winning in 2imin., with Helena second, 22: 
and Dido third, the time over the course being the same asin the 
previous race. : 

Following this was a paddling race, Class 4, ee ve a a mile: 


La-Polksyi ie aseta-- W., P. Stephens,-........-. ev GEC 
Taps). eee Pept i R. J. Wilkin...... Pree ne 2: KC. Cc; 
Aurora...... eh Sh egy (Abo pel ECE Scere © pul etetah doe L. G. G.C, 
Uneag..-.. heetee Tip Pierson) = oe ee ee eer .M, G, C, 
Marixepee enw roga af M, VY. Brokaw,.. 2... 242: N, Y, ©. GC, 


inx 

Prize—Silk flag, 

Anvora took the lead, setting the pace for the others with a.9)sft, 
maple paddle, with Tip second and La Polka close behind. All were 
bunched at the turn, Aurora fouling the buoy with his paddle, but 
still pulling ahead for first place, though barred from taking the 
prize, The race was very close up the course, Aurora 4 little ahead, 
‘Tip and La Polka alternating as second and third, until Aurora halted 
a moment, La Polka tool first place and held it to the finish, beating 
Tip by three feeb, " 

‘After the races the visitors departed and the camp settled mtocom- 
parative quiet, the canoéists srouped in parties of three and four 
around their fires on the beach, one engaged with a frying pan of 
fish. another picking over strawberries for supper, Some busy with 
repairs fo sails and gear for to-morrow’s races, others setting up 
their boat tents for the night. / E 

After supper a large camprfire was lighted in the fort around 
which were forty canoeists. A business meeting was first held, at 
which a vote of thanks was passed to Mr, Verplanek for his kindness 
in allowing the canoeists to Occupy the camp ground. A yote ot 
thanks to it | Smith and the citizens of Newburgh was also passed, — 

After the meeting all present joined in singing, the songs ab first 
suggested by the day being those of the war, running as the evening 
wore on, in . 
general attack on ‘*Roll the Man Down,” which seemed to satisfy all 
hands. The musical portion of the performance was Seay 
improved by the efforts of the “windjammer” of the N, Y. 0, 0., 


- ————— es ll 


Sailurs’ Esa fee and college sougs, arid ending with a, 


| 


whose cornet solos were much more appreciated then than when in 
the early morning they awokethea lazy ones. | 

Finally the fire burned low, the songs were followed by quiet chat 
and stories, one by one the tired paddlers dropped out of the circle, 
lizhts disappeared as the moon shone down through the trees on the 
white tents, in the shadows of the old earthworls, om the river be- 
low and the Stormking towering above, and all was quiet, save 


“Like asentinel’s tread 

The watchful night wind, as it went 

Creeping along from tent to tent, 

Seeming to whisper ‘all is well.* 7 
BATURDAY, May 31. 


The main interest of the ecanoeists was centered on the race between 
the Dot, CO. B. Vaux, N.Y. C.C., and the Snake, R. W, Gibson, M. C.C. 
This race was arranged last fall, Mr, Vaux challenging the Snake ab 
that time, but it was postponed by mutual consent until the spring 
meet. The prize of the winner was to be his opponent’s private 
siznal—a trophy of priceless worth to @ canoeist, 

The prospects for a race were very poor early.in the morning, as 
there was no wind at all, but by afternoon a strong southerly wind 


| came up the gorge, driving a sea before it on top of the flood tide 


that promised wet jackets to the daring sailors. 

‘The course decided on was from the camp around Pollopel Island, 
directly opposite, a distance of two miles, to be made in one and a 
half hours ornorace, The start was made at 3:10 P. M, at which 
time it was almost impossible to keep the stake boat at her moorings 
in the strong tide and wind, while a heavy sea was running. Mr. 
Whitlock, bemg anxious to try his new cance Guenn, was allowed to 
accompany the others over the course, though not in the race, 

The Snake, under a mainsail of the Stoddart pattern only, with one 
reef in, making a lateen, started alittle ahead, but stood across at 
once, as her board prevented her running in on the flats, but Dot, 
having but a three-inch keel, stood well in toward Moodna Creek, 
having a single reef in each balance lug at starting, lowering the 


mizzen, however, after heating toward Cornwall and standmg 
across. Guenn ran down some distance and then altempted to work 
across. 


In the strong tideway the boats showed to theit worst possible ad- 
vantage, but finally worked across, though falling well to leeward of 
the island. All now tried short tacks down on the east shore, the 
Guenn finally weathering the island and rounding it, coming home 
fiying, but the others, finding it impossible to complete the race 
within the time limit, came home under sail, the owners exchanging 
flags, as souvenirs of the contest. 

The sneakboxes, for which such claims have been made, were un- 
fortunately absent, asno better water could haye been found for a 
trial of their merits. 

At the time of the next race the wind had subsided and thera was 
no sea. The race was for Class Il. canoes, Prize, Mohican flag. Dis- 


tance %4 wile: 
Heléia 72.52 Grant Van Deusen..-...-.... R,C. Cy 
Ta-Polka, 2: = OW 2. Shephens se). ohne NY, G. G, 
Both started together and turned very evenly, Ua Polka taking the 
lead ones but being passed by Helena at the finish, the latter win- 
ning by ift. 


_The next race was for Class B canoes, no limit of weight, Prize, a 
silk flag. Course, 2 miles: 
WENT eer asl. ee WI LIGGHae erro -i-acnh N. ¥-G. C. 
ATINOTA, oly wean GO. Ay Nelde™ oy. ye 2G, O.. 0% 


Both boats were of the same size, 1531, but of different models, 
and both were fitted with the Child's folding centerboard, The wind 
was very light and the time consequently slow, the course being com- 


pleted in ih, 9min. 


Following this race was a sailing race for Class A boats, for a 
Childs’s board, offered by the New York C. C., over the same course. 
rant Van Deusen........--. R, C. C. 

Siren? See eee Lt GB BUcGHeArie tony cee nee N. ¥. C.C, 

The Helena won in 1h. 10min. 

The Class 4 paddling race, for a paddle, presented by Mr. Rushton, 
brought out four entries, 


Siiake: agin 4-Ls RieWe Gibson... 0... sess M,C. C. 
JMUILOT Ae oc. Shed GA, Naidees ry: L. G, C.C. 
Mosquito .......... ..©. Delavan. 2..0.....t6 Mews CAGE 


TR ati aras eee ee aria Re Je Wilkin Vs ass K. C. C. 
The Snake wen, with Aurora second and Mosquito third. 
In the Class Brace, without ballast, for a flag, offered by the Mohi- 
can CG. @.. there were two entries, Distance, 2 miles. 
TREUB. oe jc. - re P.M. Wackerhagen,...-..... M.-C. Gy 
AnnieO........... H.. L. Thomas 
Won by Thetis in 1h. 4min, 
The final race was for Class B canoes, no ballast; prize, a fag given 
by Gen . Oliver; 2 miles, 


Grozyue ene ee ...W. Whitlock,.... itd Lacie ae N.Y, ©, G, 
Helena Be --Grant Van Deusen,......... Rees 
Siren...., DR Bouchard. 2 soso N.Y. G6. GC; 
Marion,... . CpWaltite. aes eters eer eal M,C.) 
Fior da Lice... ....B. Pernow... «0. satess esses NT, CA 


Won by Crazy in 39min,, with Helena second and Siren third, 

On Saturday night another camp-fire was held, and on Sunday 
nearly all broke camp, the Rondout canoeists running up to Hsopus 
Tsland to camp until Monday. the New York men sailing to Newburgh 
to take the steamer to New York, and the Mohicans accompanying 
them, some to take the steamer to Albany, while several willcontinue 
ona eruise down the Walkill and Delaware rivers, particulars of 
which we hope to publish later. 

The view on Sunday from Newburgh was very beautiful, as the 
river, asfar up and downasit was visible, was dotted with little 
CAN OER while the wind was strong enough to make their motions very 
rapid. 

Among the canoeists were a number of amateur photographers, 
and mauy views were taken, Mr. Joslin, a photographer from New- 
burgh, also secured five good pictures of the camp and races, particu- 
lars of which are given elsewhere. 

To those who were present at the first meet of the Association, and 
also at this meet, the improvement in boats, gear and camp equipageé. 
us well asin handling, was very noticeable. Many details that were 
new and useful must be deferred to another accasion, but mention 
may be made in passing of the outfit of the Mohicans, their cooking 
arrangements, canoe tent, deck seat, new sails, and the general com- 
pleteness of boat and outfit. That fhe local meet was in eyery way & 
success is the verdict of all present, and it wil! heheeforth tuke a 
place among the permanent institutions of American canoeing. 


MERRIMACK RIVER MEET- 


Editor Forest and Streams . . 

As a lover of canoeing you are cordially invited to attend a local 
meet of Eastern canoeists to be held on the Merrimack River, four 
miles below Lowell, Mass., June 14, 15 and 16, Please exteud the in- 
yitation to any of your canoeing friends. A beantifulsite has been 
selected, and permission obtained to camp, in a secluded spot near 
Deer Leap, on high, level land backed up by a wooded billy; water 
supplied by adjacent springs. Itis proposed to establish a genuine 
camp, and individuals or parties will, therefore, provide themselves 
with tents, blankets and three days' rations. 

Fleet will leave Lowell early in the afternoon of Fatt the 
i4th, and paddle down the river, running Hunt’s Falls, a hal -mile 
series of easy rapids, en route. Sunday will be passed quietly in 
camp and on Monday races can be arranged if desired, Break camp 
Tuesday mornmg and paddle six miles to Lawrence, from which 
point canoes may be shipped home or cruise continued to Newbury- 
port (thirty-six miles from Lowell), at mouth of river, 

Ship canoes ahead, care Geo. KE, Stanley, truckman, Lowell, who 
will transport them to river for 50 cents each. For fares and treights 
apply to your local railroad agent. The camp will be centrally 
located amid beautiful surroundings, and it is hoped that New Eng- 
land ecanoeists generally will attend. Further particulars by letter 
on application. ¥ 7 ‘ 

Canoeists attending this meet will please report at American 
House, Lowell, where some one will be in attendance to receive 
them, between 10 A. M. and 4 FP, M., on Saturday, June 14, But come 
eably, as fleet will leave public landing, Central Bridge, at 22. M. 
sharp. Don’t get left, Milk and eggs can be obtained at farmhouse 
near camp; other supplies must be carried, The prospect for a good~ 
sized party ig yery encouraging, Canoeists who can come are asked 
toadvise us, Our address is Lowell, Mass. . H, PULLEN. 

Lown, Mass., May 30. R, PY. HEMENWAY. 


VIEWS OF THE NEWBURGH MEET,—Mr, J. T, Joslin, of 73 
Water street, Newburgh, has for sale the following views: 6 lix 
17, from south of camp, showing Plum Point, with canoes, New- 
burgh Bay, ete,, mounted $1.25, unmounted 75 cents. Four views, 
8x10, Jooking south from the camp into the Highlands—No. 1, turn 
of paddling race; No. 2, startin Class A. sailing race; No. 3, finish in 
Class A, sailing race; No. 4, finish in Class B, sailing race;{price cach, 
75 cents mounted, 40 cents unmounted. 

OLEVELAND ©. 0.—The cold weather of the early spring has re- 
tarded canoeing it Cleveland, bul seyeral short trips Baye already 
been made, and the first capsize of the year recorded, Canoeing is 
firmly established in Cleveland, aud the club is srowing-_ A eruise is 
Becjected this suminer by steamer to Green Bay. by rail to Jenny, 

Wis,, down the Wisconsin River to Portage Ciry, ee cond over to the. 
GENE oe River,and back to Green Bay via Lake ape RTS aod 
‘ox River, : 


—- 


Jonm 5, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


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. THE MOHICAN SAIL. 


Editor Forest and Stream: « 

Tsaw with great interest the article on the Mohiean sail in your 
issue Cia tess 24, as [ have been working in the same direction as Gen, 
Oliyer. There is one detail which I would like some information 
upon, namely the position of the halliard block which is usually 
fastened at the foot of the mast, I should judge that in the Mohican 
sail this block must be fastened on the boom, because the sail is ar- 
ranged to be taken off the mast. Butifso, I don’t understand what 
is to prevent the boom jaw being pulled away from and off the mast 
when one hauls on the halliard to hoist the sail. Will Mr. Oliver 
please explain about this? 

The Mohican sail appears to be an excellent one, and I am heartily 
glad to see others besides me working at the problem of combining 
the lateen and the lug. My own effort.in that direction is calied the 
“fan mainsail,” and it has worked perfectly in the two trials I have 
givenit. Itis simpleand has much less gear than the lug. It has 
some advantages which the Mohican sail does not appear to possess, 
namely, part of the sailis forward of the mast, thus lessening the 
weight to leeward, and the sail cannot ‘kick up” when canoe is run- 
ning. I also think it will sit flatter than the Mohican sail. On the 
other hand the mast, though less than three feet high, is bifurcated, 
which may be considered an objection. 

T hope that [may have an opportunity of seeing the Mohican sail 
in actual operation next August. Rogserr Tyson. 
Toronto, May 24. 


PITTSBURGH C. 


Hditer Forest and Stream: at 

The Pittsburgh CG, C. held two sailing races on May 30, which were 
chiefly remarkable from the fact that no competitor in either had 
ever taken part in a canoe race before. The Class B race was sailed 
in the morning with very light breeze up the river; the Class A race 
in the afternoon with strong wind in same direction. 

The course was on Monongahela River from mouth of Nine Mile 
River to and around a pier of the P. McK. & Y. R. R. bridge and re- 
turn, about twe miles in all: 

CLASS B. ALL SHADOWS. ? 
Whiffler..W. E, Wocdwell...Lateen main and dandy..,Keel. ..43sq.ft. 
Mary C...W.H. Rea.......,.Lateen main and dandy..,Keel.,.37sq.ft. 
Reba...... G. A. Howe Lateen main and dandy...Keel...87sq.ft. 
CLASS A. i 

Marguerite.G. H. Singer....Settee main & d’dy.Goodrich b’d.64sq.ft. 
Flotsam....T. W. Bakewell.§. main & lat, d’dy.Goodrich b,d.44sq.ft. 
Blecta......J. K. Bakewell. Settee main and jib.Keel.......... 35sq.ft. 
Lady Jane..B. ©. Bakewell..Lateen main& d'dy.Atwood b’d...40sq.ft, 
Solitude....W. H. Mimick...Lateen main& d’dy.Keel........... 40sq. ft. 

mc B ein’ R. W. Bailey....Settee main & d’dy Atwood b’d...34sq.ft. 

The first race was rather tame, owing to the lack of wind, the Whiff- 
ler getting the best of start, and steadily increasing her lead in the 
Tun up, and reaching the bridge about 150 yards ahead of the other 
two which were close together. ‘The beat back was little more than 
a drift, and though Mary C. gained somewhat upon Whiffler, she 
could not catch that canoe and finished second. Reba paddled in. 

The afternoon race had quite as much wind as the inexperienced 
sailors cared to encounter, The sight was very pretty just after the 


C. 


start, with twelve boats flying along before the wind, and the excite- 
ment began with the capsize of a non centestant in a St. Paul, 

Marguerite started wing and wing, but her dandy jibed and flew off 
the mast, which threw her so far behind that her superior spread of 
eanvas only enabled her to catch the fleet at the turning point. The 
unnamed Voyageur belongs to a member who is now in Europe, 
and was sailed in this race by the purser of the club who, owing tothe 
Lansingbureh fire, has no canoe of hisown at present. To help out 
his small sail area, he hoisted a 15ft. dandy as a spinnaker on his ver- 
tical mainyard for a mast, and so managed to reach the turn with 
the others bunched close to his rudder. 

In gybing around the pier his dandy followed the example of Mar- 
guerite’s, and before he could reset it he nearly fouled the next pier, 
and had to go around it also, so that when he got fairly straightened 
away he was last boat in place of first. The beat down the river was 
a soaker; the water flew in sheets over the canoes, and as no one sat 
on deck the sails had to be kept shaking to stay right side up. : 

This would seem to be just the place for a sneakbox, but a 12ft. by 
4ft, example of that style of marine architecture which accompanied 
the race was both outpointed and outran by the three Class A canoes 
which managed to finish. Hlecta, Flotsam and Solitude all tool: in 
sail and paddled home, as did the Class B boats in company. 

Lady Jane took in her dandy, after which the Voyageur passed her, 
but the latter and Marguerite managed to struggle home, notwith- 
standing two or three knock-downs, the last having a 26lb. blade to 
her Goodrich ecenterboard, which was the only ballast she carried, 
and which finally brought her oyer the line a winner with consider- 
able to spare. 


AIR TANKS IN CANOES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

The subject of air-tight tanks for canoes was very fully discussed in 
your journal last winter. The writer, among others, was a believer 
in their necessity for the safety of the canoeist, and yesterday had an 
opportunity of testing their value. 

While sailing close-hauled in the bay from Greenyille to the Staten 
Island Kills, he fell into the unfortunate embrace of a shad pole, with 
the aid of his topping lift. There wasafresh breeze and a strong 
tide with a moderate sea, and after a few frantic attempts to disen- 
tangle himself he found his boat filled and sails laying flat on the 
water, While in this position he released the sail from the shad pole 
which he retained a hold of, and putting his weight on the outside of 
the boat, righted her and lowered the sails. The water was flush 
with the decks inside, and the coaming was all that prevented it from 
flowing in as fast as bailed ont; but knowing that she could settle no 
further, the bailer was used with great vigor and to such purpose 
that by the time a companion catboat had come back to offer relief, 
it was declined with thanks, except so far as picking up the hatch, 
which had floated away, and in about fifteen minutes the two were 
again cruising home in company. 

Now it may be asked, what has this todo with tanks? The same 
could have been accomplished without them, Iyery much doubt it. 
The boat contained besides the iron centerboard, a hundred pounds of 
lead ballast. But the most valuable part of the air-tight tanks is their 
moral effect, the feeling of confidence that you have something under 
you that can’t sink. I shall not seek opportunities of testing them, 

ut when again the occasion is foreed upon me, I hope to be as well 


Saal 


satisfied with the result as on this one. and I would urge upon every 

canoeist who sails, to make sure that his boat wili support him in the 

water in case of accident, SURGE. 
New Yorn, May 81. 


THE CHART LOCKER. 


X.—MISISSQUOI RIVER. 


Hditor Forest and Stream. 


The Misisquoi River does not run from Lake Magog, and the near- 
est point ig North Troy, distance ten miles or so, and from that point 
to Lake Champlain (distance nearly fifty mules) it is navigable for 
canoes. There are some carries at the mill dams, of which there are 
about ten, they are short carries of only a few rods at most, ‘There is 
some first-class fishing in some parts of the river, most notably near 
the mouth, But at Hast Berkshire there were some fine black bass 
caught last year. Below Troy, where the riverruns into Canada, some 
very nice pickerel have been caught this spring, Think that it will 
make a very pleasant voyage for a canceist, SNIP SNAP, 


ROYAL C, C.—The first sailing race of the season, reports the Lon- 
don Field, came off on Saturday, the 10th inst.. at Hendon, when the 
followin# canoes entered: Violet, W. Watney; Gladys, T. F. Knowles; 
Merlin, B. G. Wilkinson; Imogen, H. Chureh; Anonyma, R, H. Har- 
rison. The last named did not put in an appearance. They were 
started nt 3:30, when there was a nice breeze from the §. W., and all 
the little boats had a reef knocked down, Violet was first off, with 
Gladys on her weather quarter, Imogen and Merlin being somewhat 
behind-hand at gun-fire. At the buoy in the bight Violet had estab- 
lished a good lead, and they all settled down into their places, which 
were maintained to the finish, The wind in the second round fell 
lighter, and whole sails were now carried. Violet, however, seemed 
to do as well in the light wind as in the strong, and increased her 
lead. Merlin would probably have shown up better had her skipper 
given her more canvas at the start; and, as her gear has been 
hurriedly got together, this can hardly be considered a fair test, and 
she may be expected to show some of her old form later on, The 
times of the various rounds are as under: 


ist Round. 2d Round. 3d Round. 
Violet (ist prize), ....0 s6- 1... Sense ee 45 4 45 5 380 
G f ZG). bb dda eds td oe a 4 10 4 52 5 87 
MCR rr ee TS Stars} ap once tees aoe 4 11 4 55 5 40 
(Eerie tare rece Bye ere ayy Seales a 4 14 5 4 5 58 


A CANOE YAWL.—Mr. 8. W. Burgess, of the Hastern Y, 0., is 
having a new style of double-ended cruising canoe built at Lawley & 
Son’s yards. The boat is from an English design, and is 20ft. long, 
4ft. Gin. beam, 27in. deep. She will be rigged with a mainsail and 
will carry 1,5001bs, of lead on her keel.—V. Y. Herald. 


THE CONNECTICUT RIVER MEET.—The Hartford and Spring- 
field GC. GC. held their spring meeting at Calla Shasta Groye, above 
Hariford, on May 30 and 31 and Junel. The meeting was a success 
in every way, and will be followed by another later in the season, 


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The Willewemoc Club, 
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Is one of the most desirable trout preserves in 
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SPORTSMEN’S DELIGHT. 
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SOMETHING NEW! 


Ask your dealers for them. If he don't have 
them send us 40 cents for sample box of 256, and 
we will send, postage prepaid. Greatly lessens the 
recoil, keeps gun cleaner, gives better pattern and 
penetration than any other wad. One box will load 
twice as many shells as a box of eee Just 

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First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other kouse in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine firiish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft,, $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240Ft., $1.75; 300ft., $2.00; 450fb., $2.25; 600Ft., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts, extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 80yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks, 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.: treble, 30 cts, per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
package. Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 
Twisted Leaders, 3 length, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10.cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, 41.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
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MANUFACTURED BY 
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_ These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, Cost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and erimpers 
not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE. 


Brass Multiplyiag Reels with balance handles, first. quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00: 120ft,. $1.25; 
ASOEE., $1.50; 240ft.. $1.75; 300ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; GOOFE., $2.50; 750ft., 2.75; 900Lt , $3.00. Nickel sinus 
and Drags extra. Brass Click Reels, 25yds., 60 cts.; 40yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00. Kiffe’s 
Celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 80 cts. per 
doz. eons Gut Trowt and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 8yds., 15 cts. Double Twisted 
Leaders, 8 length, 5 ets. ; 4length, 10 cts.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15 cts.; extra heavy 4-ply, 
4iength, 25 cts. Trout Flies, 5 cts. per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per doz. Samples of our goods sent 
by mail or express on receipt of price. SHND FOR PRIGE LIST. 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Between Fulton Perry and City Hall. OPEN EVENINGS, 


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SEND FOR CIRCULAR. SOLD BY ALL GUN DEALERS AND WHOLESALED BY 


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FUME OLENE: 


A Lotion for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others, 


Protects persons using it from the attacks of MOSQUITOES, 
BLACK FLIES, and other insects, and from SUNBURN and the 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather. 

_Itis beneficial to the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; is color- 
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country. 


readily on the application of soap and water. 


MANUFACTURED BY 


THOS, JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor. 


Sold by the leading dealers in sporting goods throughout the 


Harrison’s Celebrated Fish Hook, 


Registered. 


Whereas, It having come'to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
approach ours, which are 1o be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade, 
< 1 he ngage Me BARTLEET & CO., 

ole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrat i 
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Manufacturers also of Wishing Tackle of every 
des¢ription, Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles. 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman’s 
Dinmg Room ever made. 
Natural “‘Dead Game” under glass, and no more 
bulky than an ordinary picture. 
Wil send per express C, O. D. subject to approval, 
on receipt of express vharges, 
Send for photograph and prices. 


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225 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, O. 


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satisfactory preparation I have ever used to keep 
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Gommissioner of Fisheries and Game for the 
State of Maine. 
Orders by mail solicited, Retail, 25 cts., postage 
free. Wholesale, usual discount. 
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Schwatka’s Search. 


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better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined. Price, $1.25. By mail, 10 cents extra. Ask 
your dealer for it. Discount to the trade. Circular 


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Hornbeam Rods 


A SPECIALTY. 
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whatever preference he may have these are the 
only thoroughly reliable rods, secure against break- 
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This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 lbs. weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate, 


mE. Cc. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N.Y. 


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—SUCCESSORS TO— 


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Nos. 1 & 2 are especially made for trolling with flies for Black Bass. 


A KILLING BAIT AND DURABLE. 


EiISHhiNG =TACK§ i iE: 


Of the best quality, all kinds and styles. 


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UP & MCS FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
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ASSORTHD COLORS. 

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Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 


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pockets and game pockets. Itis of strong material, 
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7g, | TREBLE MULTIPLYING REEL, 


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Following are its points of excellence: 


fe \ Center Action, an entirely new 
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Balance Handle, revolyng within 
a projecting metal band, no chance for 
ine to catch upon the handle, 

A Treble Multiplying Click, when 
the index is in the position as shown in 
the above illustration, 

A Treble Multiplying Free-Running 
Reel, when the index is pushed to the right. 

Raised Pillar, permitting the extension of 
the spool, thus increasing the carrying capac- 
ity of the reel fully one-third and greatly re- 


ducing the weight. Material and Finish, 
the best. Price, “within reach.” 

Please order the above ‘'Patent Perfectiou 
Reels’? through the Dealer in your place. If for 
any cause you can not so obtain them, please 
advise me and I will correspond with you. 

WM. M. CORNWALL, Importer & Jobber 
of Fishing Tackle and Gun Goods, 18 Wurren 
street, New York City. 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 


THE: WICHEOLS 


Hexagonal Split Bamboo Fishing Rods 


Were awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. Noted for excel- 
ence more than numbers, This is the highest prize awa)'ded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods, 


Manufactured by B. F. RICHOLS, 1/353 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 


Send for list with Massachusetts; Fish and Game Laws, 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman’s Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


“WVT~7ING SHoo Tin G” 


Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 


Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practical hints upon wing shooting; 


irections for hunting snipes, woodcocks, ruffed grouse and quails. 
Bee raataat rata sae sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00,- 


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NEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1884. 


{ VOL, XX1T,—No. 20- 
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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 
“American Kennel Register.” 
The Chicago Dog Show. 
The Non-Sporting Dog Show. 
Pointers at New York, 
The Proper Size for Beagles. 
The Bench Show Meeting, 
Kennel Notes, 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Army Rifle Practice. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
A Clay-Pigeon Puzzle, 
Reception of the Exeter Team. 


EDIvToriAL. 
First Rifle then"Shotgun, 
Interchangeability of Firearms, 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop.—i. | 
Lassoing a Man-Hater. 
How Old Mistis Kilt er Bar. 
Schools of Forestry. 
Naturan History. 
The Red-Headed Duck. 
The Couesian Period? ~ 
Bird Notes. 
GAME BaG AND Gun. 
Deer Driving. 


The Performance of Shotguns. | CANOEING. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles, Harvard C. C, 
Texas Game Prospects. Royal C. C. 


Amateur Deer Shooting. 
The Snipe Hunting Trick. 
Two-Hyed Shooting. 
SrA AND RIVER FISHING. 
Rhyme of a Bass. 
Rainbow Trout and Steelhead. 
Camps of the Kingfishers.—yv, 
The Color of Leaders. 
Fishing at Buzzard Bay. 
New Jersey Pike Fishing. 
FISHCULTURE. 
Destruction of Oysters by Nat- 
ural Means. 


The Newburgh Meet, 
A. New Boating Club. 
An Improved Lateen Sail. 
The Galley Fire. 
Rice, Cornstarch and Cereals. 
YACHTING. 
Newark Bay Y. C, 
Hastern Y. C. Annual Matches. 
Larchmont Y. C. 
A Candid Admission, 
Steel for Shipbuilding. 
A Tell-Tale. 
| ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, than is con- 
tained in all other American publications put together. 


FIRST RIFLE, THEN SHOTGUN. 


qe rifle goes first into a new country, then follows the 
shotgun. The former is a necessity, the latter a luxury. 
The rifle protects life and property from the marauder, say- 
age or civilized. Itsuppliesfood forthefamily. Itdestroys 
the wild beasts “that would prey upon the settler’s stock. 
The shotgun is used in the hours of leisure and recreation. 
Food captured by its aid isa delicacy. It is the implement 
of sport. Such has been the course of the two weapons in 
North America. 

The hardy pioneer disdained to kill his game with more 
than the single ball, which it was his boast that he could 
plant wherever he chose, and in his expert hands the old 
crooked stocked pea rifle became the terror of the savage 
tribes into whose territory he pushed his fearless way. 
Many years later, when the land had been cleared and way- 
ing fields of corn and wheat had taken the place of the wild 
grasses that once grew rank and thick over the prairies and 
along the valleys, when the larger game had almost entirely 
disappeared, the children or the grandchildren of the rifle 
man began to use the shotgun. Then the geese and ducks, 
the noisy grouse and the brown quail, the whistling wood- 
cock and the twisting snipe became the objects of pursuit to 
those whose fathers had killed the moose, the buffalo and 
the elk. 

The fathers hunted for meat. With them it was a fight 
for life, and each ball and each charge of powder was to be 
accounted for, and must do its work. The sons have in- 
herited the hunting spirit from their sires, but no press- 
ing need now drives them to the field, They shoot for 
pleasure—wildfowl and game birds when they can; but 
where these are not to be had, too often the tiny song birds 
become their prey. — 


—————— 


We have seen with our own eyes the expulsion of the 
rifle by the shotgun from more than one section of this 
country. Time was—and not so very long ago either—when 
the shotgun was scarcely known in Central Nebraska. Then, 
the Sioux or Cheyennes or Arapahoes had to be fought off; 
and the buffalo, the elk, the deer and antelope were needed 
for food. Years rolled by, and now the rifle has disappeared. 
Hither it has gone westward to the mountains with its owner, 
or rusty and dirty it stands neglected in a corner of the gar- 
ret. But all the men and small boys haye shotguns, and- 
the geese in the river bottoms, the ducks in the sloughs and 
the quail in the towheads have a hard time of it, 

There are many localities where, in the space of a single 
lifetime, the Indians and the large game have both been ex- 
terminated, The men, who in early years learned to use the 
rifle with deadly effect, find it difficult when middle life is 
past to adapt themselves to the handling of the shotgun. 
Such oldsters stil] carry the rifle, and, although the game for 
which the single ball is required has passed away, they are 
still able to do deadly execution on the tiny mammals that 
remain, Such men feel the mortification of a failure when 
they do not strike the head of a squirrel among the topmost 
boughs of a tall forest tree. This animal and the little gray 
hare now constitute the objects of their pursuit. 

There is a wide difference between rifle shooting at game 
and at the target, and the weapons used for these two pur- 
poses are not less diverse. There appears recently to be a 
demand for rifles which may be used on the small mam- 
mals, and such an arm is really needed. Some rifle of very 
small caliber and carying a proportionately small charge of 
powder, would be welcomed by many of our readers in the 
South and Southwest, and might be an extremely useful arm. 

We hear too little in the columns of Forrest AND STREAM 
of the sport of squirrel shooting in old-time fashion, and yet 
there are hundreds of riflemen to whom it is the most de- 
lightful form of sport. 

In British North America the shotgun has always been the 
arm of the Indians of both coasts and a considerable: part of 
the interior, but that is because the smoothbored musket was 
first introduced and the rifle is not to be had, The old- 
fashioned trade musket or the cheap double-barreled shotgun, 
loaded with a round ball and a few buckshot, is the deadli- 
est weapon known to these Indians. 

In the settling up of a country the weapon adapts itself to 
the game to be killed. So long as large mammals are abund- 
ant, the rifle will hold its own; but when these are gone, it 
must give place to the ‘“‘scatter gun.” 


What shall we use when the birds too shall have disap- 


peared? 


INTERCHANGEABILITY IN FIREARMS, 


N interesting article in the current number of the Waga. 
zine of American History throws some light upon the 
origin and growth of the interchangeable system in the mak- 
ing of small machines, more particularly in connection with 
the manufacture of small arms. The system of course is 
applicable to many branches of mechanical art, but it is 
specially adapted to firearms produced in large quantities, 
and where cheapness and uniformity area matter of such 
great consequence. There were in the devclopment of the 
idea a series of men engaged, and the present system of turn- 
ing out parts, which need only assembling to make the per- 
fect arm, was not brought about without much opposition 
and prophecies of failure. Eli Whitney stands out promi- 
nently as having hada clear idea of the interchangeable 
system, and as having introduced some of its features in the 
Whitneyville Armory even before the close of the last century. 
A Yankee school teacher in the South, he saw the need of a 
machine to do the work which his cotton gin now so well 
performs. His ingenuity was turned toward firearms, and 
he found abundant room for improvement in the old flint- 
locks of the period. 

The first breechloader invented by Hall was designed with 
particular reference to the use of a modified system of inter- 
changeable parts, but it was along time before the United 
States muskets could really be classed in the category of in- 
terchangeable arms. When in 1838 the new model musket 
was made by Benjamin Moore, the master mechanic at the 
Harper’s Ferry Arsenal, model arms were made and sent out 
with sets of gauges. All these efforts were, however, rather in 
the direction of getting uniformity, than in securing what we 
now know as the interchangeable system. 

The superior facilities of the Springfield Armory enabled 


it to outstrip the Harper’s Ferry establishment, and it was 


there that the system under discussion was most vigorously 
pushed. Thomas Warner, now in his ninetieth year, de- 


serves most of the eredit for bringing about the changes from 
the old hand method to the new machine modes in the Spring- 
field works, and the making of interchangeable breech 
serews by. Cyrus Buckland, in 1852, completed the first 
chapter in the story. These pioneers may see the results of 
their effort in the great Yankee workshops of to-day, in the 
watch factories and the sewing machine works, where the 
turning out of single parts by machine tools, swiftly and 
accurately, has completely revolutionized important branches 
of industry. 

The first step attempted in firearm making was uniformity, 
and the French mechanics in the National armories were 
very ingenious in this direction. The London Exhibition of 
1852 brought revelations to the European workmen, how- 
ever, in the exhibits of Robbins & Lawrence, of Windsor, 
Vt,, and the revolvers of Colt. These showed that tae 
American mechanics had far surpassed their transatlantic 
fellows in the direction of uniformity of parts, and that ad- 
vantage then gained has not yet been relinquished. 

A history of the manufacture of United States muskets, 
since the establishment of the Springfield Armory in 1795 
and the Harper’s Ferry shops in 1801, would include, if fully 
told, the story of the growth of the interchangeable system, 
Looking back from this date, it would seem almost as 
though the change was inevitable, but to many of those in 
authority from time to time there was a tendency to sharply 
snub the enthusiasm of mechanics who insisted that there 
was room for improvement in the methods then in vogue. 
There were notable exceptions, and in the long line of super- 
intendents and inspectors of the National armories have been 
many officers who brought encouragement to those men 
having the ability to devise and the skill to construct the 
needed machinery. Hand-filing gave way to machine cuts 
of the greatest accuracy, until now the most complicated 
parts of the too complex arms of to-day are cut quickly, 
automatically and exactly. Difficulty in getting skillful 
mechanics had much to do with forcing this use of machinery 
to the front. Sharp competition, demanding cheapness of 
production, had much more to do with bringing about the 
advance, but its importance can scarcely be overrated. Com- 
pared with other outcomes of the original idea, firearms 
have taken a colaparatively retrograde movement. ‘There 
are many points of real crudity about them, and it is time 
for the sister art of chemistry to come to the aid of the 
armorer and offer a substitute for ihe gunpowder of former 
days. 

It is no wonder that the writer, who, having watched the 
progress of this wonderful mechanical growth, should say: 
“Witnessing the results of the development of this mechani- 
cal idea, seeing them in the swelling tide of statistics, 
realizing them in their vast influences upon the conditions of 
human life, and dwelling with anxious concern upon their 
probable consequences on future culture and character, I 
plead no apology for ranking the mechanics among the 
great idealists in other fields of thought, while I reckon that 
the rise of many an empire is already dwarfed in historic 
moment by the rise of this mechanical ideal,” 


A Sort or Witpd ConTENTMENT. —Mr. Julian Hawthorne 
isa son of the man who wrote ‘‘The Scarlet Letter,” and 
the Century magazine is a publication which claims to repre- 
sent the better class of the periodical literature of the day. 
When the Century prints an article by Julian Hawthorne it 
ig not asking too much to demand that it be free from twad- 
dle, Here is an extract from an article contributed by Mr. 
Hawthorne to the June number of that magazine: 


The hunter and the sportsman are two very different persons. The 
hunter pursues animals because he loves them and sympathizes with 
them, as the champions of chivalry used to slay one another—courte- 


ously, fairly, and with admiration and respect. To stalk and shoot 


the elk and the grizzly bear is to him what wooing and winning a be- 
loved maiden would be to another man. Far from being the foe or 
exterminator of the game he follows, he more than any one else is 
their friend, vindicator, and confidant. A strange mutual ardor and 
understanding unites him with his quarry. He loves the mountain 
sheep and the antelope, because they can escape him; the panther 
and the bear, because they can destroy him. His relations with them 
are clean, generous, manly. Andon the other hand, the wild ani- 
mals, whose wildness can never be tamed, whose inmost principle of 
existence it is to be apart and unapproachable—those creatures who 
may be said to cease to be when they cease to be intractable—seem, 
after they have eluded their pursuer td the utmost, or fought him to 
the death, to yield themselves to him with a sort of wild contentment, 
—as if they were glad to admit the sovereignty of man though death 
come with the admission. The hunter, in short, asks for his happi- 
ness only to be let alone with what he hunts; the sportsman, after his 
day's sport, must needs hasten home to publish the size of the “‘bag,”* 
and to wring from his fellow men the glory and applause which he 
has not the strength and simplicity to find in the game itself. 


We advise Mr. Hawthorne to stick to his novel writing, 


8382 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


a 


Che Sportsman Canrist, 


UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP. 
I. 


(es night when the November wind was growling among 

the stunted firs that crest old ‘*’Tater Hill,” already 
grizzly with more than one snowfall, the brotherhood of 
hunters and fishers, story-tellers and listeners came stumbling 
along the rough frozen roads and across the frosty fields to 
Lisha’s shop. The little box stove was no longér cold; its 
red jaws grinned defiance at approaching winter, and its 
cheeks blushed with a ruddier glow than the summer's rust 
had given them, and its warmth heightened the odors of 
tannin, wax and moldy boots that always hold their own in 
the atmosphere of the cobbler’s shop. The firing of the 
stove would have unseated two visitors if a couple of sap 
tubs with a board laid across them had not made room for 
twice as many, and this was now the coveted first place for 
the coldest comers to sit in and thaw out their chilled mar- 
rows and their wells of conversation. To this extent had 
Sam Lovel been warmed when he opened his Jean jaws and 
said with a sigh of pent-up satisfaction, ‘‘Ah, wal. Lisher, 
I ketched a-nuther bear t’day.” : 

“Dew tell!” said Lisha, drawing hard gn the waxed ends 
with which he was closing upa ripped boot-leg. ‘Wal, 
Sam, was he ’s heavy ’s ole Cap’n Powerses hog was? 
‘Killed tew hogs terday,’ sez ’e, ‘both on ’em good ones, but 
one on em was a sollaker, I tell ye—weighed ninety!’ Was 
ye’ bear ’s heavy ’s that, Sam?” 

“Wal,” Sam asked, “haows three hund’ed an’ seventy- 
seven? That’s his heft ezackly.” ‘ 

“Real weight or guess weight?” some one asked. 

‘Why, real weight, “{ course, an’ no guessin’ *baout it.” 

“Where *d ye weigh him?” 

‘T’ hum,” Sam replied shortly. 

‘‘Sho!” sneered the doubter, ‘‘ye haint got no scales nor 
bolances! Haow could ye weigh imt? hum?” — 

“Wal, naow, | did weigh ‘im fair an’ hones’, an’ he weighed 
jist ezackly what I tell ye. I c’n lift jist three hund’ed an’ 
fifty paound, an’ I couldn’t lift him inter j-e-s-t twenty-seven 
paound. Naow ’f that don’t make three hund’ed and seventy- 
seyen, I] haint got no ’rethmytic.” . 

A long young man, whose arms and shanks seemed to 
have lengthened beyond his means to keep them clothed, 
ventured to say as he looked admiringly upon his new buck- 
skin mittens, too precious to be taken off his hands, but 
kept opening and closing and turning on them just before 
his eyes, ““‘The’s a painter a hantin’ on Hogs Back, I dew 
raly b’lieve, I hearn the gol darnedest yollupin’ up there 
tother night, julluck awomern a hollerin’, ‘n’ I hollered, 
*n’ it arnswered, an’ comin’ nigher, ’n’ then I started my boots 
fer hum, i tell ye!” 

“Sho! Sho! Peltier, yew git aout!” Lisha roared, for he 
thought it his exclusive right to see and hear all strange 
things first, ‘‘’T'wan’t nothin’ but a big aowl, 1 bet ye!” 

“Twan’t no aowl,” cried Peltiah, clapping his mittened 
palms together with a resounding smack, “‘ “twas a anny- 
mill! Guess | know a naow!] when I hear “im!” 

“Wal, mebby ‘twas alynk. A lynk ’l] git up a e’nsid’able 
*f a skeery yowlin’, ‘n mebby “twas tew ole tomcats a fightin’ 
_ up ’t ye’ west barn, D’ye ever hear, boys,” Lisha continued 
without waiting for any reply from Peltiah, ‘“‘baout Joel 
Bartlett’s Irishmun’t he sent up int’ the aidge o’ the parster a 
choppin’ one day? Didn’t ye, none on ye? Wal, up he went, 
and bimeby he come a runnin’ back scairt half ter death, an’ 
hollerin’ ‘murther! O, murther! it’s a painter 1 seen, sure ’s 
me name’s Pat Murphy!’ ‘Show!’ sez Joel, ‘haow ’d he look, 
Patrick?’ 

*« Wal,’ sez Pat, ‘he was yolly, sur, an’ he had a long tail 
on ‘im.’ 

***Wal, naow, Patrick, wa’n't it aour ole yaller tomcat?’ 

“Be gob, sur, it moight,’ sez Pat, an’ he lit his pipe an’ 
went back to his choppin’ ’s contented ’s if the’ hedn’t never 
ben a painter in V’mont.” 

Peltiah’s panther being thus contemptuously disposed of, 
the conversation turned for a time to owls. 

‘A owls,” said Lisha, as he rolled a waxed end upon his 
aproned knee, ‘ll make a turable onairthly an’ skeery noises, 
p tie’ly big aowls, which the’s more ’n one kind on ’em, boot 
aowls, an’ white aowls ’n I d’ know what aowls. I’ve hed 
‘em make my hair stan’ right stret up, sence | was older ’n 
Peltier is, tew.” 

‘Wal, I don’t keer a darn what ye say,” said Peltiah, after 
breathing through the back of his right hand mitten to as- 
sure himself for the hundredth time that it was genuine 
buckskin, ‘’twant no aowl ’t I heard, ’twas a nannymill! “FI 
hed me a rifle I’d go a huntin’ on ‘im,” but he could arouse 
no interest in his panther further than the offer from Jonas 
Gove of his rifie for half the bounty if the panther was 
killed, or a half a dollar a day for the use of the weapon, 
which wus declined. : 

Tom Hamlin said that he had heard ‘‘a dozen gret aowls a 
hootin’ an’ a shoutin’ as he come along.” 

“Yaas, Tawmus,” said Solon Briggs, who was weather- 
wise as well as otherwise, ‘‘so’d I, an’ the’s goin’ to be some 
kind o’ fallin’ weather ’fore long, you see ’f the’ haint,” 

“Wal, yas,” Tom assented, ‘‘most allus the’ is arter they 
hoot so. Haow d’ y’ ’caount for it, Sole?” 

“Waal, Ulltell ye, Tawmus. I’ve meddytated on. ’t c’n- 
sid'able an’ my idee ’s this’—crossing his legs and putting his 
right forefinger into the palm of his left hand—*‘D’ye ever 
have the rheumatiz?” 

‘Vas, I’ve hed ’em.” 

«NP wa’n’t they wus ‘fore a storm?” 

Tom nodded repeatedly, and said ‘‘they was wus.” 

“Waal, naow then,” Solon continued, ‘the aowls ‘t we 
hear is big aowls, an’ nat*ally they’re old aowls, ‘n’ they've 
got the i 


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Theumatiz, an’ when the’s a storm a-comin’ on the 
rheumatiz begin to rack ’em, an’ they holler aout. Haint that 
re’son’ble neow, and”—looking around upon the company 
and bringing down his finger with a clinking smack upon his 
palm—‘‘and phillysoffycable, so to speak?” 

«“P*haps,” said Lisha, as he rasped his knife upon the sand- 
stone, ‘‘somebuddy could tell us suthin’ ’baout shootin’ 
aowls; haow is it, Jozeif?”’ he asked, looking between his 
shaggy eyebrows and the top of his spectacles at a thickset 
fellow who was taking his ease in a further corner of the 
shop. i. 

ON AoW. Lisher,” said Joseph, ‘‘yeou keep on tellin’ yer 
stories an’ lemme ‘lone, if yeou please.”’ : 

“Jozeft,” said Lisha in a terrible voice, shaking his knife 
at the unwilling story-teller, “‘yeou tell baout ye shootin’ the 
aowl, er I will!” ‘—e Ar 

“Wal then,” said Joseph, slowly getting into a sitting 


. disappointed in you.” 


posture and knocking the ashes from his pipe, ‘I guess|citement. Just imagine you were there. I yelled as 


you'd make it wus ’n I would, ’n’ so I'll tell it. Ye see, the’ 
was a big aowl come, gol blast him, an’ kerried off half a 
dozen, Id’ know but more, no mebbe baout that *maount 0’ 
M’ris’ chickins, an’ I tole M’ri, I did, *t 'd fix him ’fore he 
knowed it, So next night, 1 guess mebbe next night arter, 
one er t’other anyhaow, I looked aout the winder an’ I seen 
him a sittin’ on a close pos’ an’ I got my gun, I did, an’ hid. 
Mri open the winder kinder easy, an’ I poked the gun aout 
an’ onhbitched on “im, I did; but somehaow the gun wa’n't 
loaded fur aowls, er I was too fas’, er suthin, an’ I never 
teched ‘im! Shot over, I s’pose, any way I thought I did. 
Wal, next Monday night when the close was all a hangin’ 
aout, he come agin, he did, an’ sot on the same close pos’, 
L hed the ole gun already, an’ M’ri opened the winder agin, 
an’ I run ‘er aout, an’ took dead aim a foot below th’ aowl, 
fur sez I to myself, sez I, I won't overshort this time, sez I, 
an’ I let flicker, an’ I be darned if I didn’t miss him, but, by 
gosh! I blowed my harnsome shirt *t hung right below “im 
all to flinders, I did. It tickled M’ri t’ think *f | made sech 
a good shot, an’ I spec’ she tole on it. I didn’t, not fust, L 
don’t b’lieve, *n’ Lisher, darn his ole picter, he got holt on it,” 
When the laugh subsided, Joseph added, ‘‘Wal, ’twa’n’t a 
peat *n’ he didn’t tear my insides aout, if my shirt did git 
ore!” 

Uncle Lisha tossed the mended boot to its owner, who 
sat nursing the stockinged foot to which it belonged, and 
laying aside his tools arose and took off his apron, which 
was a signal to bis visitors to depart, and so they faded 


away in the starlit night. AWAHSOOSE, 
VERMONT, 


LASSOING A MAN-EATER. 


I SPENT the month of February in Nassau, New Provi- 
dence, with two most congenial companions. While I 
am not much given to keeping an elaborate diary, still I 
could not refrain on this occasion from making a few notes 
of the events of each day, The following is just as it was 
written at the time and is merely a note book jotting: 

“Johnson, what is that dark object between us and the 
lighthouse?” I asked as something caught my eye bobbing up 
and down on the waves. 

“That, sir, is a dead cow, sir; they towed it out from 
Nassau this morning, sir, and it won't be long before the 
sharks have it eaten up too, sir.” 

Sure enough, scarcely were ihe words out of our skipper’s 
mouth before I saw a black fin slowly glide around the 
floating carcass, then a flap of a great tail out of water, and 
we could see the man-eater at his breakfast, 

“Quick! Johnson. Steer for it.” 

Nearer we came, and standing on the boat’s thwart, I 
counted seven sharks, some feeding, some circling about and 
others fighting; at least they seemed to be quarreling over 
the choice morsel that had fallen into their jaws. Oh, for a 
gun, revolver, or even a large hook ofsome kind. Here was 
a chance to gratify a long-cherished wish. How many times 
the Judge had said; ‘‘I don’t take any stock in this fishing 
for salt-water fish with a long hand line over the side of a 
boat, but I would like to catch a shark.” Now here was 
just the opportunity and we had nary a thing to make the 
capture with. By this time we had made the carcass fast to 
the boat’s stern with a light line, and the anchor had been 
dropped to prevent our being carried out by the tide, We 
sat in silence and- watched these tigers of the deep for per- 
haps an hour. By that time they had eaten the entire head 
and a large part of the body. They seemed to care not a bit 
for us, now rubbing against the frail boat’s sides, again dash- 
ing with head out of water clear on top of the cow. Some 
of them were monsters fully fourteen feet long, others were 
not more than one-half that length. The little fellows would 
watch their chance, when the big ones had taken their bite 
and retired, torush in, make a grab and scoot, and all this 
time we sat and looked on and could do nothing, Once the 
Judge remarked: 

“Billy, you have the reputation of always being loaded, 
or at least carrying a shooting-iron. Now Iam sorry to be 
“frequently a man has a tough repu- 
tation, Judge,” I replied, ‘‘but he is the victim of circum- 
stances. Now I will admit I look hard and tough, but 1 am 
not the cowboy in every sense of the word, though I get the 
discredit of it.” 

At first we were rather afraid of the great jaws and wicked 
eyes, but the old saying, ‘familiarity breeds contempt,” was 
again illustrated. I picked up a small sponge hook such as 
the sponge hookers of these islands use in bringing up 
sponges from the bottom. ‘The staff was broken, so it was 
only four or five feet long, but it was strong enough to hit 
oné a smart rap on the head with, and after rapping a few 
of them 1 had the monsters well stirred up, 

I had spent a winter on a cattle ranch in Texas some years 
before and there learned to throw the lasso, and the thought 
came to me that I might rope a shark, They had no horns 
certainly to throw the rope over, but I once could pick up a 
steer’s foot, when said steer was under tolerably fair head- 
way, and why not get a noose around a shark? 

The wind had nearly died out. Nassau lay two or three 
miles to the southward, as sunny and white as always. Had 
there been breeze enough we would have anchored the de- 
funct bossy and sailed to the town so near and yet so far, 
and got a gun or spear, and returned and filled the boat with 
sharks. But, of course, the wind had- failed us, besides we 
would in all likelihood have found the cow very much 
wasted upon our return, 

I took the main sheet, fastened one end to the mast and 
quickly made a noose in the other. I noticed that a number 
of the sharks came at a good speed, and as they neared the 
cutter they would turn nearly belly up, and grab a chunk 
from the under side. Ifit was not readily detached they 
would grab again for a fresh hold and frequently would lift, 
the entire body nearly clear from the water. 

I knew it would be no use to try for one of these under- 
handed chaps, but waited for one to tackle the outside hold. 
T had not long to wait, Some ten or fifteen rods away I 
saw one coming that I knew meant business. There was a 
sort of a ten-pounds-of-round-steak-and-give-it-to-me-quick 
expression about his countenance that I particularly liked. 
He was not as large as some of them, but would do fora 
starter. On he came, with no bashfulness or diffidence 
noticeable, and dropped his jaw or else raised his head and 
left the lower jaw where it was, I cannot say which, as I 
was becoming just a trifle excited. At any rate, about the 
time he had his head nearly two feet out of water and had 
made up his mind to grab right then, the rope was thrown 
and, as good luck would have it, struck in the proper place, 
and his head was well init as I straightened it out with a 
good strong jerk; the noose tightened eight or ten inches be- 
hind his gilis and then the fun commenced, also the ex- 


the rope fetched up with a savage yank that seemed 
about to take the mast out of the craft, but it 
did the business, as it tightened it so that Mr. Shark had no 
other wind than that tied up in him. He pitched, tugged, ~ 
plunged, twisted, reared, snorted and squirmed, He didn’t 
skip 4 note, and after he had finished all of these common- 
place maneuvers, he put in a few on his own hook (this is 
notapun), Though the rope was fastened to the mast near 
the center of the boat, the terrific exertions of the choking 
shark sent us whirling in every direction. After awhile he 
began to show signs of having enough of everything except 
stale air and strength, and as he quieted down wepulled him 
alongside and belabored his head with a club and I out with 
my knife and stuck it into him where I thought it would do 
the most good. He gave upcompletely. I think the life was 
choked out of him, With a strong pull and a puil all to- 
gether we brought him over the side and into the boat. We 
did not care to be on too familiar terms with him at first, as 
he might have'been playing *possom and come to, and one 
swish of that tail would have taken us off our pins, 

After the deed was done, we shook hands, the Judge and 
I, and thought how we could crow over Jack, who, as 
usual, was atraid it was going to blow and had us put him 
ashore that morning after we had started. Our next move 
was for shore, to glory over our fellow men. “Now, John- 
son, let go that bovine remnant, up anchor and for Nassau. 
This beats ‘groupers.’ No such fishing have they had here 
this winter.” The light breeze slowly fills the sail, and we 
glide toward the town, and all impatience, whistle for a 
stronger pufl, but whistling don’t always bring it, so we had 
to wait. It seemed as though we would never reach the 
stone steps marked by the flagstaff in the distance, but with- 
out many more tacks we are there. Jumping ashore, a dar- 
key is sent after a denkey cart, and the loungers always 
found on the wharf lend a willing hand—expecting the pen- 
nies, of course—to haul the captive ashore and onto the eart. 
Then the triumphal march begins. It is led by the Judge 
and myself, arm in arm, followed by the sleepy burro, draw- 
ing the cart, on which was laid the eleven feet and eight 
inches of shark; and as the papers say, ‘‘citizens on foot” 
brought up the rear, said citizens consisting of a string of 
twenty or thiry negroes in usual Nassau winter costumes, 
z, é., pants, part of a shirt anda hat. We proceed up the 
narrow street into the hotel yard, and halt at the doorway of 
the Royal Victoria, unload the freight on the greensward 
beneath the ‘‘cumber limber tree, sah.” 

Weare the herocs of the season, as we modestly relate 
the story of the shark, JI let the Judge tell it, his reputation 
for truth being better than mine. Jolimson and the dead fish 
verify his statement and no impertinent questions are asked. 
But whereis Jack? The Judge intimated that he is prob- 
ably in the shade keeping his ‘‘skin from cracking,” We 
easily found him and dragged him forth. 

‘Jack,” said the Judge, ‘what kind of fish do they catch 
here?” Without a moment’s hesitation he named the same 
old string that we had heard from every darkey on the 
island from one to six times. ‘‘Margate fish, hamlet fish, 
mutton fish, yellow snapper, tunner, grunt, hind,’ and ended 
as ever, ‘dar be de grouper.” , 

‘Well, so 1 have understood,” replied his Honor, ‘‘come up 
here, we have caught a grouper.” The story was gone over 
again, and we had a jelly cocoanut with Jack. So much for 
one of the most enjoyable of the many happy days at Nassau. 


1 have now against the wall of my den the backbone and 
tail, also the polished jaws with their six rows of serrated 
teeth of the man-eater, and they bring back to memory the 
sunny island with its white city set in verdure, its clean 
blue green waters and coral reefs, fruits and darkies, and 
plants, and there comes oyer me a wish to catch another 
shark ere I grow too old. Wm, B. Mersnon. 

Bast Saginaw, Mich. 


HOW OLD MISTIS KILT ER BAR, 


Ox bright Sabbath morning in the early spring, after 
eating a late breakfast, I lighted my pipe and strolled 
down to the border of the little lake, near which stood my 
modest domicile. There, squatted @ d@ Turk upon two 
cypress logs toggled together and projecting into the lake, I 
found my ancient colored friend Stephen Slaughter. Sitting 
there upon this quiet Sabbath morning engaged in kneading 
cotton lint into a ball of dough, at peace with the whole 
world and without a single care for the future, he was doubt- 
less happier than a billionaire would ever dare to be. 
Albeit never disposed to censure my fellow man for indulg- 
ing, even upon the Sabbath day, in any of those innocent 
pleasures or recreations that serye to lighten the burdens of 
life, and although in the present case Ifelt a sympathy with, 
and condoned the sin, if any, of the peaceful occupation im 
which my old friend was preparing to engage, yet envious 
perhaps of the happiness and contentment that shone in 
every linament of his dusky face, and hung in every fold of 
his tattered raiment, I began to lecture him upon its evil. 
He looked down shamefacedly, and listened in silence until I 
made an end of my sermon, by asking him if he was not 
aware that he was breaking one of the sacred precepts of 
the Decalogue. Pretending not to understand the meaning 
of my language, he looked around him, as if examining the 
stability of his seat, and replied very quietly that he did not 
think ‘‘dem logs were gwine ter break.” — - 
Feeling that my lecture was a failure, I sat down on the 
bank near him, and soon began to take an interest in his un- 
sportsmanlike proceedings. The game he was preparing to 
ensnare is a habitant of the waters of the South and West, 
known by the name of butialo—a scaly, sucker-mouthed 
fish, often attaining a weight of from twenty to forty pounds, 
They are rather a coarse fish and full of bones, but not un- 
palatable when caught at the proper season. Our colored 
friends sometimes jerk or dry them in the sun, but when 
cooked after undergoing this operation the aroma exhaled is 
not exactly that which 1s wafted from orange groyes or the 
“Gardens of Gull.’? My old friend’s manner of capturing 
these “buflers,” as he called them, was as follows: To the 
end of a short line, which was attached to the extremity of a 
stout pole, he fastened several large hooks so as to have their 
bearded points project all around from a common center, 
This he called agrab. Upon the same line, above the larger 
| hooks, he tied several small hooks, and these he baited with 

the dough into which I had found him kneading the cotton 
lint. The float upon his line, when the hooks were lowered 
into the water, informed him of a “nibble,’ when a quick 
jerk of the heavy pole drove the large hooks of the grab into 
his unsuspecting victim and he was lifted out of his element 
by main strength, and without either compunction or senti- 
ment on the part of his captor, _ 

Steve, after haying baited his hooks and dropped them 


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into the water, looked up, attracted by the noise made by an 
‘ox cart loaded with colored women who were on their way to 
chureh by the road that ran along the lakeside. Scratching 
his wooly head snd turning to me, he remarked that **dem 
ligous fokes too good ter keteh fish sundys, but dey buys my 
buflers, an dey cats em too.” By this time the cart had 
reached that point in the road where it ran nearest to the 
place where we sat, when an old colored mother in Israel 
lifted up her great black hands, rolled up her great white 
eyes, and in tones as if her very soul was tortured by the 
sight, exclaimed, ‘‘Why, bress de Lord, is dat you dar fishin, 
brer Steben? Fore de Lord, youis.” Brer Steben did not 
deign to make any reply, but when the cart had passed, he 
said, with a low chuckle as if talking to himself, ‘‘T bets I 
sells dat nigger one bufler yet fore she gits home,” 

He had hardly ceased speaking, when the chain or fasten- 
ing which held down the body of the cart in front, either 
‘broke or became unfastened, and turning upon its fulerum, 
‘the front end of the body shot up, and hind end went down, 
‘and the pious old mother and her scandalized sisters were 
dumped ont into the dusty road. 

“Dar now,” said Steve, as he witnessed the catastrophe, 
©‘T knode dat ar good oomans wer gwine ter hebin too fass.”’ 
Then turning and addressing me, he continued, ‘‘Dat ole 
Wagin turnin somerset minds me uy how my ole Mistis kilt 
wr bar,” 

Knowing from experience that it required no persuasion 
to induce Steve to finish his yarns when once he began to 
spin them, I puffed away at my pipe in silence. He there- 
fore went on with his story, which was as follows: 

“Twer while we alls lived in ole Firginny, fore Mars 
Weyum [William] fotched us out here. One day we all 
black Yokes wer sottin out terbarker, an Mars Weyum he 
wer dar wid us settin on he hoss, an he say, ‘Boys, deys er 
shower comin up, an you alls better be gittin ter de house,’ 
So we alls and Mars Weyum ridin long, starts fur de house. 
Den Mars Weyum tun youn on he hoss, an he look back 
ober todes de piny ole feel, an he say, ‘I behanged, boys, ef 
yonder ain’t er bar.’ Only he diden say behanged (to me), 
you know what he say, Mars John. Well sir, we alls looks 
an sure nuff dar wer de bigess black bar you eber seed, des 
tarein cross de feel and makein fur de pines. Arter de shower 
wer ober Mars Weyum he tucken put Unk Bob on de gray 
mare, an little Pete on er mule an sont um roun fur ter re- 
form de naberhood. Den he tell me fur ter kotch old Selim 
an ride ober ter ole Mistis, fur to noterfy Mars Garrett, an 
ter tell ole Miss, how she not ter git skeerd ef she hear um 
playin de dickens down in de piny ole feel. Only Mars 
Weyum diden say dickens, he say sumfin heap wus. Well, 
sir, [ des jumps on ole Selim an I tuck out fassern er railroad, 
an when [ gits dar ole Miss done gone ober ter see ole Miss 
Polly, an den [ noterfy Mars Garrett bout dat bar, an he say, 
‘You lyin, you dam black scoundul you.’ But I swar Laint, 
‘an den he blow he horn, an fore goodness he blow up more 
dem houns dan dar is fishes in dis here lake. Tis de blessed 
‘troof sir. I never did hear sich er yelpin an er yowlin. But 
\when Mars Garrett git he whip an slosh inter em er time er 
itoo, dey des fassen up dey mouts an trot long hine us ober 
iter Mars Weyums. 

“When we gits dar, sir, de whole endurin country done 
riz up. Bars diden trot roun dar like er passel er hogs, like 
dey does here, an de niggers dar wer des ez feer’d er bars ez 
dey is er ioms and tagers. Dat wer one stray bar what done 
straggle down from de Blue-ridge Mountin. Leasways, 
Mars Garrett he say he speck he wer. Well, sir, dey blows 
dar horns, an den dey all starts down ter whar de bar jump 
ober de fence, an Mars Weyum he say ter me, ‘You kin 
come er long, too, Steben.’ Den I say how I ride mighty 
ifass when I gwine ober ter old Mistis, I speck 1 better put 
@le Selim in de stable, caze I knode he wer mighty tired. 
But Mars Weyum say tired er no tired, I want him ter smell 
tis bar. An I say out loud, ‘yas, sir,’ an den I say ter my- 
self how ef ole Selim smell dat bar wid me on he back, he 
got ter hab er better nose dan ar houn Mars Garrett got. 
Den I rid long slow hive all un um. ; 

““Presenly Mars Garrett he say ter Mars Weyum, ‘Billy,’ 
he say, ‘des keep dem yuther dogs back twell ole Ratler git 
er sniff er dat bar heel.’ One time I bin hear Mars Garrett 
tell dat young ooman what come home wid Miss Sally from 
de high school dat ole Ratler nose so cole ole Marster sot he 
mint julups on it in de summer time, an dat how ole Miss 
put ole Ratler head in de milk pan ter freeze de ice cream 
she wer eatin, an she laff an she say she bedoggoned ef she 
éat any more. 

‘Well, sir, sure nuff fore ole Ratler git in er hundud yards 
uv dat ar bar track he des flung up he head, an he say come 
er long boys. Den dey had it. Up de hill, an by de big 
terbarker house, an inter de pines—way dey went, yow yow, 
yow yow, an evy wunst in er while I heer’d ole Music squeal 
out fine, des like Miss Sally do when she play on de pianner. 
Den sir I knode things wer gittin mighty hot fur dat bar. 
Ole Selim he rar an he pitch an he chomp he bit, but I hilt 

bim back twell we got inter de thick uy de pines, and den J 
‘stopt him. An TI say ter ole Selim, ‘Look here ole fellow, ef 
you hongry fur bar Taint. Den I lissen an I hear dem dogs 
way ober todes Roun Top mountin, goin yow yow, yow 
yow, an den dey went ober de mountin, an I diden hear 
nothin, 

“T des sot dar on ole Selim and Jet him browse round on 
de grass, an I gin ter think bout dem ar bad chillun what 
ole Migs read er bout de bars eat up inde bible lass sundy. 
I git so skeer’d I des tuck dat ole pack er cards outen my 
hat, an all dem marvels outen my pocket, an I drap um 
down on de groun under ole Selim belly an den I say my 
prayers ober twice. 

“Bout dat time ole Selim juck up he head and stick out 
he ears, an I lissen, an I hear dem dogs comin back ober de 
mountin, yow yow, yow yow, an sir dey des kep er comin 
closer an closer, an closer an closer, twell it look like de 
whole worl done tun ter houns, Fuss thing 1 knode ole 
Selim he gin er snort, an he rar right straight up, an I ketch 
holt de pummel er de saddle, an I snatch ‘up my legs, an 
bless yer soul Mars John dat ar bar an bout two hundud er 
dem dogs des shot under ole Selim belly like dem menny 

‘ ingines gwine fru er tunnel. . 

“When ole Selim come down sir, he look like he bin? hear 
Mars Weyum say how he want him smell dat bar. He des 
tuck right straight arter dat bar wid me scrooched up dar 
wid my foots on he back, des like one dem baboons what 
tides round in de show. 

*“*Presenly I hear sumfin go bou-e-e, bou-e-e, like fofe er 
July done come, and I looks down, an me an ole Selim wer 
des er flyin ober dat bar an bout er thousan er dem dogs 
rolled up in er knot bout big ez Mars Weyum’s gin house 
ober dar. 

“T think ole Selim muss er jump bout leas two hundud 
yards, but when he lit sir, I des Jet down my legs, an I stick 


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my heels in he belly, an I nuver let him stop twell we git 


clean back ter de house, 


“Ole Aunt Patsy, what wer cook, she come er runnin out, 
an she say, ‘Name er de Lord, is dat bar done kill evybody? 
I say, ‘Go way, fool, I done kill dat bar so ded he done cole ez 
Bout dat time Mars Garrett he ride up an 


ice by dis time,’ 
say how I muss git two dem mules, an put de geer on em, 
an drag dat bar outen de woods, I ast him easy, so 


had, He mouten be more’n haft ded so fur ez he knode. 


“Well, sir, I got dem mules an I went back wid Mars Gar- 


rett, an sure nuff dar wer dat bar stretched out flat he back, 
an des ez big, an des ez black ez dat pious colored ooman 
what roll her eyes at me while er go, 


goed up Red Hill. Des fore we gits dar, Mars Garrett he 
say ter Mars Weyum, ‘Billy,’ he say, ‘darn ef dat bar ar ded 
yet, I seed him kick.’ 


got legs kicks, Des den dem mules drug dat bar out inter 
de middle er de big road, an who should be gwine up dat 
hill in er ox cart wid ole Unk Dan er drivin her, but ole 
Miss. Ole Miss wer so fat she cooden git in de carige door, 
so she make Unk Dan drive her bout in er ox cart, an dat 
how come she dar, An when she see dat bar drug out inter 
de road, she tell Unk Dan stop, an she say. 
sake, Garrett, what make you kill dat great big hog sich 
warm wedder fur?’ Den she raise up and look ober de hine 
eend er de cart, an fuss thing ole Miss know de chain done 
buss, an ole Miss come rollin down de hill des like er hogs- 
head er barker. Bless yer soul, Mars John, ole Miss roll 
right smack ober dat bar, and she des spread dat bar out flat 
ez yer han, sir. Mats Garrett he jump down an run scotch 
ole Miss, an when he ax her ef she wer hurt an ole Miss say 
no, he say he needen ax dat bar ef he wer hurt, for he know 
ole Miss done squash evy breff he had outen him, An dats 
de way old Mistis kilf de bar,” said Steve, as, seeing the 
water dimpling around his float, he seized his stout pole and 
soon Janded a ‘“‘builer” for the pious old woman who had 
rolled her eyes at him, TUCKAHOR, 
Yazoo Rrver, Miss. 


SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 


{Gear very lately the American ideal of a skilled for- 

ester has been a man who could shoulder an axe, go 
into the tall timber, and there cut and pile his two or three 
cords of beech or maple a day. The early settlers had to 
make war upon the woods because they concealed prowling 
Indians and occupied room needed to raise crops. Harms must 
be cleared before the plow could run; wood was a drug, and 
timber that would be worth from two to four hundred dol- 
larg an acre were it standing to-day, was burned to get it out. 
of the way, Scarcely any one looked far enough ahead to 
keep belts for shelter or for future supply. Thirty-five years 
ago the upper part of the Genesee Valley was richly stocked 
with white pine and valuable hardwoods; to-day they must 
bring their supply from Michigan and Canada, New States 
have been overrun and their forests brought into market as 
fast as the store of the older States has been exhausted. 


As settlers have gone West from the originally well-wooded_ 


regions of the Hast they have carried the old notions with 
them, and in the precious timber tracts of the new States, 
where it was certain that there would very soon be a high 
price for all the working wood within reach, farms have 
been cleared, without leaving shelter belts or reserves, with 
the same lavish thoughtlessness which marked the early set- 
tlement of New York or Pennsylvania. 

We are just beginning to pay the penalties of this long- 
continued breach of physical law. The floods have lifted 
up their angry voicesin warning. Pen, camera and pencil 
have been busy in depicting the heartrending details of 
deluges in the valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries, 
and with few exceptions the press has attributed these floods 
to the truej cause—cutting off the woods from steep hill- 
sides, 

It is true that, as the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette said 
there were seven heayy snowstorms, with thaws and cold 
snaps coming between them in such a way that the couatry 
around the headwaters of the Ohio was sheeted in thick ice, 
then five great rains fell upon the impervious glassy surface, 
down which, as a matter of course, Undine went tobog- 
ganing at a portentous rate. But if the steep hillsides 
had been covered, as every such slope should he, witha 
thick growth of trees, for one thing the snows would not 
have been so firmly consolidated into ice, because the freez- 
ing and thawing would have been more moderate. Then 
again, the ground would have frozen very little underneath 
such a forest, so that when the thawed snow and rain-water 
began to run off, much of it, checked by the manifold hin- 
drance of standing and fallen treetrunks, roots, moss, leaves 
and undergrowth, would haye penetrated to the subterra- 
nean sources of springs; much would have been held, as in 
a vast sponge, by this undergrowth, etc., and the delivery of 
the remainder into the streams would have been so much re- 
tarded that by full and yet harmless stages those streams 
could have carried the water away to the sea. 

But the same denudation ihat caused the excess of precip- 
itation and its rapid delivery into the streams, prevented 
that excess being stored up to feed the springs, and so they 
will ry in the dry time when their water would be most 
grateful. 
definite and tangible, and as was said above has been quite 
generally assigned to the true cause—forest spoliation. 

But in the case of timber famine it is not so clear. A short 
supply of working wood impoverishes people in so many and 
such indirect ways that it is not at all sure that the real 
cause of the suffering will be seen by most people. There 
will be bard times, and folks will not know exactly why. 
The price of every article one uses will be a little dearer, and 
as every one is under the same pressure it will be harder 
to sell one’s labor or its products, Working wood is directly 
or indirectly needed for the economical production of every 
article we use, or for ils cheap conveyance and sale to the 
consumer, As civilization becomes more developed and 
complex, a great deficit like this of more than a half billion 
dollars a year will be distributed so that the pressure is 
not at one spot much more than at another; this is one great 
advantage in a complex civilization. But there is this danger, 
that the real cause of such a distributed evil will not be so 
clearly discerned by the great mass of people. Ina strong 
centralized soyernment this would not perhaps be very bad if 
ouly those controlling matters saw the true cause of any 
great widespread calamity and vigorously applied the right 


Aunt 
Patsy cooden hear, ef dat bar wer ded sure nuff, He say 
how he sperience diden certerfy how menny lives er bar 


Dey hitched dem 
mules onter dat bar, an wid me er leadin um, dey drug him 
outen dem pines twell dey comes ter de big road, whar it 


But Mars Weyum he laff an he say 
ez how Mars Garrett done hang roun dat young ooman what 
come home wid Miss Sally, twell he think evy thing what 


‘Pur goodness 


This harm done by droughts and floods then is: 


883 


remedies. The centralized governments of Europe have 
taken hold of this matter of the waters and forests with the 
strong hand, and public sentiment has mostly, come into 
accord with the action of the State. : 

But in a country like ours the legislative and executive can- 
not go farin advance of public sentiment, Congress has 
therefore done wisely in providing for such an exhaustive 
statistical exhibit of the amount and quality of our yet ex- 
isting forest wealth as that) which has beeh miade in tle Cen- 
sus Office of the Department of the Interior, under the direc- 
tion of Prof, C. 8. Sargent of Harvard University, These 
statistics, among other ways of putting the facts before us, 
are embodied in a series of maps of the whole country and 
of the several States, These show by colors, e. g., which 
regions depend partly, and which wholly, on wood for fuel; 
and what portions depend upon coal, One is amazed to see 
how large a part depends altogether and how large a part 
of the remainder depends partly on wood, Over thirty-two 
of the fifty millions of our people have no fuel but wood, 
and il is estimated that they use about four and one-third 
cords of wood each ina year, or 140,537,489 cords, valued 
at over three hundred inillions of dollars. Then for railroads, 
steamboats, mining and amalgamating precious metals and 
other mining operations, in the manufacture of brick and 
tiles, sali and wool, some five million of cords more are re- 
quired, making a tofal of over 321,000,000 worth a 
year used as fuel. The value of the charcoal used in the 
manufacture of iron and the precious metals, and in the 
twenty largest cities is over five millions of dollars. Of 
course, there is a yast amount of wood used for fuel and of 
charcoal of which no estimate can be made, but the above 
immense total is that which an estimate confessedly partial 
shows us, 

Another bulletin (No, 17) gives the value of the sawed lum- 
ber products of our forests as over $233,000,000; but this is 
considerably short of the full amount. Neither does this 
include tanbark, rosin, or turpentine, and many other forest 
products, 

When we come to consult the maps of Michigan and Wis- 
consin (Bulletins Nos. 6 and 7) and see what a small part is 
now left of their pine forests that used to be so confidently 
spoken of as inexhaustible, and then remember that had 
proper methods of cutting and marketing been used, the vast 
areas which, as the color shows, were originally covered with 
the precious white pine, but are now cut off, would haye 
continued for ages to yield this timber without diminishing 
the stock, it is not easy to feel kindly toward those who have 
so robbed the present and yet more the future generations. 
When the end of our present seeming abundance comes, every 
poor man will be burdened in a great number of ways in 
which he is not now. It will be much harder for him to get, 
decent clothes, furniture, lodging and wholesome food for 
his family, Many of those now earning a good living in the 
thousand and one trades into whose product wood largely 
enters will be out of employment, and will be added to the 
number of competitors for work in the occupations that re- 
main. It will take a good while for people to make up their 
minds to plant and plant and planton the scale that the case 
demands, and then more time and means will be spent in 
learning the exceedingly complex science and art of forestry; 
and after that it will take from twenty to fifty years before 
enough can be raised to supply the crying need. 

When that pinch comes a well equipped forest school like 
those which all leading and most of the smaller nations of 
continental Europe maintain will be an absolute necessity. 
Such a school is not organized and got at_ work in a day or 
a year, We cannot take the methods and curriculums and 
perhaps not even the teachers of the European schools of 
forestry and transplant them in block to American soil. All 
will need modification, just what and how much ean only 
be learned by experiment. 

The State of New York has either a very large elephant or 
a great treasure upon her hands in the extensive forests of 
the Adirondacks. Ifthe lumbermen are left to do as they 
please much longer those forests and the underlying sponge 
of vegetable substance, often three or four feet in depth, 1s 
in great danger of being burned up and washed downstream 
by freshets. In that case it will be almost impossible to get 
those areas clothed again with woods, and if they are not, 
then the Hudson, Mohawk, Black Grass, Raquetie, Saranac 
and other rivers which rise in that region will almost 


certainly become very dangerous and destructive torrents. 


The navigation of their now navigable portions and of the 
canals connected with them and fed by them will be so in- 
terrupted and so costly that it will not pay to keep it up. 
Very serious and permanent damage will be done to the ex- 
tensive manufacturing interests connected with these streams 
which do so much to give New York its place at the head of 
the manufacturing States of the Union, Agriculture, too, 
will suffer from droughts, failure of springs, and climatic 
irregularities. 

If the State is to protect this area it will cost an immense 
sum every year unless, by calling in the aid of forest science, 
it is made, as it readily can be, a permanent and lucrative 
source of those forest. products for which there will surely 
be before long a famine demand, This is a solution of the 
much debated and exceedingly perplexing question, which 
will be a vast benefit to the lumberman, the tanner, the 
charcoal burner, the paper-pulp maker, the health-seeker 
and, above all, the taxpayer, 

This result can never be reached unless a good forest 
school is established somewhere* in that region, and then, 
either by the State, together with the present owners of the 
lands (who hold all but about 750,000 of the 4,500,000 acres 
of the whole) or by the State alone, the entire tract should 
be set apart and kept in the highest possible condition as a 
scientifically administered forest reserve. 

Such a school and reservation would be a fountain head of 
the practical knowledge which we must before long call to 
our aid to deliver us from the intolerable gripe of timber 


famine, 5S. W. Power. 


BROOELYN. 
Sanne ee 


GAME IN THE NATIONAL, PARK.—Bozeman, Montana Ter,, 
May 31.—Concerning the list of species of animals, stated 
to be found in the National Park, the caribou has never in- 
habited that part of the country to my knowledge, and I 
haye hunted and trapped on the headwaters of the Yellow- 
stone and Snake River more or less since 1871, but I never 
haye seen nor heard of any caribou being killed in that 
region, nor did T ever see any tracks. The sume may be said 
in regard to mountain goats. On the western slope of the 
Rocky Mountain , near Bitterroot, Deerlodge and the head 
of Salmon River in the Saw Tooth Range of the Rocky 
Mountains, mountain goats are to be found, but I have never 
seen nor heard of any being killed inthe National Park,— 
Aw O~p Hunter, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Ton 12, 1884, + 


alatural History. 


THE RED-HEADED DUCK. 


BY. REV. J, H, LANGILLE, 
[From advance sheets of Birds in Their Haunts, ] 

Kay the 30th of March (1882), while Niagara River was 

lashed into a tempest by a raw west wind, I saw from 
the north side of Buckhorn Island a flock of hundreds of 
redhoads (Muligula ferina var. americana) viding down the 
middle of the current in the most perfect repose. Nearly 
every one had the head resting on the back, the bill under 
the scapulars. Only occasionally was there one which seemed 
to act as sentinel. 

Several widgeon, also, whose white crowns rendered them 
quite conspicuous, were in the flock. There was something 
peculiarly impressive in this long line of many abreast of 
living creatures, rocked and tossed on the foaming billows, 
and yet reposing as sweetly as if on some inland lake of 
glassy smoothness. Long did I scan them and much did I 
admire them, as the powerful field-glass brought them just 
before me. 

A more complete study “of these interesting ducks was 
reserved for me, however, on St, Clair Flats. Here they 
are most abundant in the migrations, and not a few remain 
to breed. In the bright hot days of June very considerable 
numbers may be seen diving leisurely for food along the 
deeper and more rapid channels, thus procuring their fare of 
small mollusks and fishes, the larve of aquatic insects and 
the roots and leaves of certain aquatic plants, Not infre- 
quently the males are quite noisy, loudiy uttering their deep- 
toned me-ow, which is the precise imitation of the voice of 
a large cat. The female, especially if rising from her nest 
or out of the water, has a loud, clear squak, on a higher 
tone than that of the mallard or dusky ducks, and so pecu- 
liar as to be readily identified by the ear even if the bird is 
not in sight. The gray aspect of the wings in flight is also 
very characteristic of this species. 

The nestis generally builtin the thick sedges over the 
water, and consists of the leayes of the cat-tail and of yari- 
ous kinds of marsh grass, a slight lining of down being 
added as incubation proceeds. The eggs; generally about 
nine or ten, but sometimes as many as fifteen, some 2.45x1.75, 
are nearly oval or oblong oval, having a very. smooth, firm 
shell, and ofarich light brown tinge, sometimes slightly 
clouded, scarcely, if ever, tinged with blue or green. When 
moistened a little and rubbed with a dry cloth, they are sus- 
ceptible of a high polish. The young in the down has the 
crown of the head and the upper parts generally, of a clear 
olivaceous green, the cheeks and underparts bright yellow. 
The eggs are fresh or nearly so the first week in June. 

A stately and beautiful bird indeed is the male, as with 
head well up he rides upon the water. A little over 20.00 
long, the bill, which is about as long as the head and rather 
broad, is blue, shading into dusky or black at the tip; the 
male has the head and more than half the neck brownish red 
with a violaceous gloss above and behind; the lower part of 
the neck, the breast, upper and lower parts of the back 
black; beneath, white sprinkled with grav or dusky; sides, 
scapulars and space between, white and black in fine wavy 
lines of equal width, giving a gray effect in the distance; 
Wing coverts, gray speckled with whitish; speculum gray- 
ish blue; iris orange. 

Female similar, with the head and neck grayish brown 
and the breast more or less mixed with gray, or whitish. 

Resembling the canvas-back, it is quite distinguishable by 
its shorter, broader bill, depression at the base of the bill, 
absence of black on the head and back of the neck, and 
broader lines of black in the penciling of the back. Abun- 
dant on the seacoast of the middle districts, but becoming 
less common northward and southward, it breeds in the in- 
terior northward, moying southward in October and return- 
ing north late in March or early in April. 


THE COUESIAN PERIOD? 


10 the Chairman Section of Avian Anatomy, A. O. U.: 

Sir—Your recent article entitled “The Couesian - Period” 
has aroused in me some curiosity; and [ should therefore 
like to ask a few questions, which [ expect you will be kind 
enough to answer, as Lam a member ofthe A, O, U. 

1. In your paper you subscribe yourself as ‘‘Chairman 
Section of Avian Anatomy, A. O, U.,” and date it ‘‘Amer- 
ican Ornithologists’ Union.” Does that mean that the docu- 
ment has any official connection with the said committee? 
Do the members not only agree with you, but have they had 
knowledge of the letter before sent? The answer to this is 
very important, as some one might think that the title men- 
tioned had only been appended in order to give increased 
weight to your propositions, as coming from the chairman 
of the anatomical committee of the A. O. U. 

2, Is it logical to name an epoch before the epoch has 
expired? You have fixed as its terminus the year 1900. 
How do you know that it will end there, and how do you 
know that no greater ornithologist will impress his name on 
the epoch when the time comes to name it? Whence comes 
the right or privilege of a professor of botany to name epochs 
in ornithological history before they are ripe for history? 

8. Is it logical to say thata period commenced with a 
text book (the ‘‘Key,” 1882), and that it-closes with another 
of the same author (the “Key,” 2d ed., 1884)? Is this to be 
regarded as a condemnation of the second edition? When 
the first edition started a period, the second edition ought to 
start a second period; how then can it close it? 

4. You assume that you speak in the name of all the 
American ornithologists; have you ever conferred with any 
eminent ornithologist about the matter before making your 
proposition? : 

5, When speaking of the Bairdian epoch as ending in 1872, 
are you aware that three volumes of the great “‘History of 
North American Birds by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway”’—cer- 
tainly the grandest work on North American ornithology 
since Audubon’s days—were published in 1874, the fourth in 


~. 1884, and that the fifth is still unpublished? 


6. Are not the leading features of the present North Amer- 
ican ornithology still “‘Bairdian” in the broadest and best 
sense of the word? Who is the North American ornitholo- 
gist who can proclaim himself free from the mighty influ- 
ence of that, great genius, and is not following in the foot- 
path trodden by Professor Baird? What are the scientific 
features distinguishing the new epoch from the past? 

7. And in conclusion of the last question, who is the orni- 
thologist—not botanist—who dare say that the Bairdian 
epoch has ended? 

Mr, Chairman, Section of Avian Anatomy, A, O, U.: If 
you can satisfactorily answer these questions, then are we 


willing to accept your propositions. If not, we will drop 
‘the Couesiam epoch” and ‘‘the Couesian period’’ until the 
tall 1900, or at Jeast until ‘‘the Bairdian epoch” has ex- 
pired. 

Of course, it is not our intention to depreciate Dr. Coues’s 
great merits as an ornithologist, but we contend that these 
can be duly acknowledged, without detracting an atom from 
the honor due to the father of modern North American or- 
nithology. We protest against prejudicing history, and we 
protest against the untimely and tactless intervention of a 
botanist seizing the opportunity of making himself agreeable, 

AMICUS SOCRATES, AMICUS PLATO, MAGIS AMICA VERITAS. 


BIRD NOTES. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

May 1.—Observed first chimney swallow and first sand 
martin; also, first brown thrush and first wood pewee. 

May 2,—Mourning doves, white-bellied swallows and 
sandpipers seen to-day. . 

May 3,—Saw the first white-ramped shrikes, 

May 6.—Saw first bobolink this morning; first myrtle bird 
or yellow-sided warbler. 

May 7.—Saw white-eyed vireo; wood thrushes abundant; 
first catbird. 

May 8.—White-throated sparrows plenty. 

May 9.—The orioles as punctual as ever, arrived this A. M. 

May 10.—Warbling vireo and worm-eating warbler. 

May 13.—Yellow-throated flycatcher abundant. 

May 14.—Saw first summer yellow bird, first night hawk, 
first great-crested flycatcher; two male rose-breasted gros- 
beaks were killed to-day, 

May 15.—Saw first large flock of warblers. noticed the 
black-throated blue warbler, American redstart, chestnut- 
sided, black and white creeper, myrtlewarbler. Found a 
golden-winged woodpecker’s nest in an old apple tree. First 
white-crowned sparrow. 

May 16.—Saw first humming birds at 5:30 o’clock A. M. 

May 17.—Saw first blackburnian warblers, first spotted 
warbler, Wilson’s thrush, first hermit thrush; also, killed a 
wild pigeon that measured 174 inches in length, 254 in alar 
expanse. Saw first indigo birds. 

May 18.—A. large flock of red crossbills made a short stay 
in our orchard, Saw first scarlet tanager. 

May 19.-(Saw two blue martins \by the Onondaga creek; 
also saw a warbler of a very curious kind—orange-colored 
body and dark brown wings and tail—about size of myrtle 
bird. First black-bill cuckoo. 

From May 20 to 271 saw a flock of crossbills each day; 
have neyer seen any until this year. 


G, ALBERT KwWApP. 
ONONDAGA, N. Y. 


Bditor Forest and Stream: 

Below please find result of my observations of the arrival 
of Insessores, as recorded by request of Dr, H. K. Fisher, 
Superintendent of the American Ornithological Union, 
Though not complete, it embraces nearly all of the 8. R. of 
this order visiting us: 

March 15th; robin; 16th, crow blackbird; 18th, bluebird; 
20th, meadow lark; 22d, night hawk; 28d, plover and chip- 
ping bird: 29th, cat bird; 80th, red-shouldered blackbird; 
31st, chewink. Aprilist, purple finch; i0th, belted king- 
fisher; 17th, purple martin; 20th, cedar bird. May 3d, 
brown thrasher; 12th, barn swallow; 15th, chimney swift; 
16th, bank swallow, crimson-throated humming bird and 
Baltimore oriole; 17th, scarlet tanager; 18th, house wren; 
19th, golden wren; 20th, kingbird; 28th, bobolink; 30th, yel- 
lowbird. 

The local conditions are not favorable for noting the 
Natatores or Grallatores, and I know of but three of the 
order Rasores found in this vicinity, and they are all R. 
Of the order Scansores grouped as 8. R., we have only the 
cuckoo, and it may be classed as rare. I have not observed 
a single individual. Of the Raptores found there I believe 
only the brown hawk, the osprey, and the ‘‘little corporal” 
should be considered as 8. R., and I havenot seen either as 

et. L, F. SPENCER. 

SPENCERPORT, N. Y. June 1, 1884, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Report of bird obseryations during May: 
Ts. 


May 1—Black and white creeper (Mnzotilta varia), 

May 3—Yellow redpoll warbler (Dendreca palmarum). 

May 4—Common American crossbills (Lomia curvirestra). 

May 4—Yellowshanks (Totanus flavipes), 

May 6—Water thrush (Siiwrus nevinus). 

May 8—Ruby-crowned kinglet (Regulus calendula)—female only. 


May 9—Maryland yellow throat (Geothlypis trichas). 

May 12—Chestnut-sided warbler (D. pennsylvanica),. 

May 14—Nashvyille warbler (Helminthophaga ruficapilla). 

May i4—Black-throated blue warbler (D. cerulescens). 

May 15—Black and yellow warbler (D, maculosa), 

May 15—Blue yellow-backed warbler (Parula americana), i. 

May 17—Canadian fiycatehing warbler (Myiodioctes canadensis), 

May i8—Morning warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia)— 

May 19—Bay-breasted warbler (Dendraca castanea). 

May 21—Blackburn’s warbler (Dendraca blackburni@). 

May 2i—Black-throated blue warbler (Dendreeca cwrulescens)—fe- 
males, 

May 23—Olive-backed thrush (H. ustulata swainsont). == 

May 23—Yellow-bellied flycatcher (Empidonag flaviventris). 

May 26—Blackpoll warbler (Dendraca striata). 

May 26—Brotherly-love greenlet (Vireo philadelphicus). 

5. R. 


2 House wren (Troglodytes domesticus), 
3—Kingbird (Tyraniwus carolinensis), 

May 4—Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula). 

5—Chimney switt (Chetura pelasgica). 

6—Uatbird (Mimus carolinensis). 

6—Brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus). : 
§6—Red-headed woodpecker (If. erythrocephatus), 
6—Yellow warbler (Dendreca cestiva). 

May 6—Red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis). , 
May 10—Black-throated green warbler ( Dendreeca viyens). 
May ii—Scarlet tanager (Pyranga rubra). 

May 12—Wilson’s thrush (Turdus fuscescens). <——~ 

May 15—American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). 

May 15—Red-eyed greenlet ( Vireo olivacers). 

May 15—Sparrow hawk (falco teehee 

May i6—Humming bird (Trochilus colubris). 

May i6—Pewee filyeatcher (Contopus virens). 

May 16—Wood thrush (Twrdws mustelinus). 

May 16—Indigo painted bunting (Passerina cyanea). 

May 17—Nighthawk (Chordeiles popetue). 

May i19—Rose-breasied grosbeak (Zamelodia ludoviciand). 
May 2i—Green heron (Butorides virescens). 

May 23—Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryztverus). 

May: 28—Bank swallow (Cotile riparia), 


May 


J. L. D, 


Locrport, N, ¥., June 1. 


New Brap Booxs.—We are informed that the second 
edition of “Coues’s Key to North American Birds,” has 


been published, but as we have seen no copy of the work 


we are unable to review it, 


~~ 


_ Hen AND Partrmen.—aA Maine paper reports that a man 
in Damariscotta discovered that one of his hens had strayed 
her nest and was sitting upon eight eggs in a pasture lot, but 
he also found that a partridge had added to the stock twelve 
eggs and was sitting in company with the hen. 


RECENT ARRIVALS AT THE PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL, GARDEN.—Pur- 
chased—One hippopotamus (A. amphibiis), two slender-billed cock- 
atoos (L. tenutrostris), one roseate cackatoo (C, rosetcapilla), two 
black swans (C, atratus), one night heron WN, grisea), three Garraney 
teal (Q. erecea), three tufted ducks (F, cristata), two red-headed poo 
chards (". ferina), one alligator (4. mississippiensis), one black snake 
(B constrictor), one rattlesnake (C. adamanteus). Presented—One 
common macaque (MM. cynomolgus), two common rabbits, eight white 
mice, one prairie dog (C. ludovicianus), eleven opposums (D. virgin- 
tana), three flying squirrels (P. volucella), one red-headed duek (7. 
ferina americana), three screech owls (8. asio), one broad-winged 
hawk (B. pennsylvamicum), one turtle dove (1. risorius), two Swain- 
son’s buzzards (2. swainsonz), one great-horned owl (B. virginianus), 
one land tortoise (C. clausa), one water snake (7. fasciatus), one pila 
monster (H. suspectum), two alligators (4, mississippiensis). Born 
in Garden—Twelve prairie dogs (C. ludoviciaius), one swift fox (7 


Game Bag and Gm. 


DEER DRIVING, 


Editor Lorest and Stream: 

I have for years obtained much enjoyment from the weekly 
perusal of the Forrest AND STREAM, and I have been espe- 
cially interested in the articles by O. H, Merriam, M_D., on 
“Deer in the Adirondacks” recently published by you, I 
have for the past thirteen years passed from three to ten 
weeks yearly in camp in the Adirondacks, and fully appre- 
ciate what he says regarding the various methods of hunting 
practiced there. But I think a little might be added to his 
remarks about “driving.” He says, ‘‘Of the three methods 
of hunting heretofore considered, driving is the least sports- 
manlike, and affords the deer the smallest chance of escape. 
Tt requires neither skill nor cunning on the part of the ex- 
ecutioner; for patience and a very ordinary amount of com- 
mon sense are the only essentials.” This is all very true as 
regards the particular method of driving which he describes, 
but I think that the following method, which our party and 
many others whom I could name generally pursued, is both 
sportsmanlike, and requires a considerable amount of skill 
on the part of the ‘‘executioner.” 

The last of September or first of October usually found 
our camp pitched either near one of the tracts of land which 
have been burnt over (called a slash), or on the banks of one 
of the’smaller rivers. At daybreak we were usually around 
the table partaking of our morning cup of coffee and a hastily 
prepared breakfast. As soon as possible we depart for our 
watch-grounds upon the slash, taking positions where the 
deer are in the habit of crossing the open land. The sports- 
men generally watch alone, so that as many runways as pos- 
sible may be watched, After a time, from the distant moun- 
tain side comes the faint note of the hound’s first bark as he 
strikes a fresh track; now fainter, as he circles around the 
hills and through the valleys. The watcher must be on the 
alert and cannot relax his watchfulness for a moment, for he 
knows not how soon the deer will rush by on the run, and if 
he is so fortunate as to obtain a chance, it requires a quick, 
sure'shot, to insure venison for camp. He cannot sit on the 
watch-ground, read or sleep, and leave the watching to his 
guide, and when the deer take water, be rowed within a few 
feet of the deer and then bang away until he succeeds in kill- 
ing him; but he must depend entirely upon himself and must 
be able to shoot quickly and accurately. 

Tf one wishes to enjoy the most exciting pleasure of all 
Adirondack sport, let him try this method of driving and 
experience the keen excitement which he will feel when he 
sees a fine buck coming toward him and realizes that he can 
only shoot once or twice, and that upon his skill depends 
the state of the camp’s larder. If any one wishes to enjoy 
this sport, let him camp next autumn, with good St. Regis 
guides, near the open land to the south of Round Pond, on 
the north branch of the Saranac, or upon the shores of Fol- 
lansbee Junior, which is on the border of a large tract of 
burnt slash, and, if the deer have not been driven from that 
section of the Adirondacks within a few years by the great 
number of summer visitors (not sportsmen), he can have if 
in abundance. 

In the case of river hunting, it is nearly the same, except 
that the deer runs up or down the river or crosses it, giving 
but a moment in which to shoot. I have known parties fo 
camp on the Meacham River and to have venison in camp 
all the time and to kiJ] no deer except in the manner men- 
tioned above. I could name a party of quite noted sports- 
men who did that very thing only last September. 'o be 
sure, it is not as lazy a way as killing deer in large waters, 
but it is more sportsmanlike, gives the deer a chance to 
escape and affords the sportsman much more real gratifica- 
tion if he is successful, AMPERSAND. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 


Huditor Horest and Stream: - 

One who has been familiar with firearms almost since the 
time he shuttled off his swaddling clothes, as I haye been, 
could not but be interested in the discussion in your columns 
concerning the performance of shotguns, I have more than 
once been on the point of adding my mile to the contribution, 
but so far have been deterred from doing so by my almost 
unconquerable bashfulness, and an unwillingness to vaunt 
my own exploits. Furthermore, J feel as all sensitive old men 
must, who look on this roaring, surging tide of modern 
progress, as if I-were a lumbering old craft, stranded on the 
shoals of old-time ideas. However, itis possible that I may 
give a hint or tyyo of yalue to some of those who are tossing 
so gaily down stream. , 

I haye used many guns from the hands of all known and 
many unknown makers, and though the best gun I ever shot 
(except one of my own inyention, described some time since 
in my Adventures) was a Manton-Richards. Greener-Tolly- 
Scott—Lefevre—-Coli-Remington—Baker-Parker—Sneider—Eng- 
lish-American hammered and hammerless, single and 
treble-bolted, rebounding breech, top, side, and under-snap 
action, muzzle and breechloading, cylinderchoke, 0 gauge 
and twenty-four pounds weight, ordinary charge, one pound 
best blasting powder and four pounds condensed shot with 
six gilt-edged spherical wads on powder, and two half-moon 
wads on shot, in paper and brass shell—I haye never found 
any difficulty in making any gun shoot tolerably well, and 
just.as I wished it to shoot up to a certain distance. No 
gun, save such rare and exceptional ones as the two aboye — 
mentioned can be expected to kill a chickadee clean over one 


F =") 4 *y : 
Jowm 12, 1884.) 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


hundred yards, and it is unreasonable to ask for greater ex- 
cellence. 
Now, if Iwish to make a Jong shot, and have the pellets 
‘delivered within a small compass, at-the instant of the igni- 
tion of the powder I give the gun a sharp and strong push, 
‘and in the next fraction of an instant a twirl and a slight 
movement backward. he first adds to the force of the 
powder, the second and third motions draw the shot together, 
wod produce a close pattern. If I wish to get any small bird 
for a specimen without injuring the skin and feathers, at the 
ae of pulling the trigger I jump backward, thus dimin- 
shing the force of the charge to almost any degree I desire, 
Tn shooting at 4 flock, whenit isdesirable that the gun should 
‘scatter, I give the muzzle a flirt from right to left just so far 
‘as is necessary as the shot are leaving it; In this way Lonce 
Killed fifteen wood ducks at a shot, though they were sitting 
on a Jog lying exactly at a right angle with the direct line of 
fire. So I once killed two deer running one behind the other, 
my rifle being charged with two balls, once a common prac- 
tice in Adivonda when muzzleloaders only were used. It 
took nice calculation to get the second ball out at the right 
‘instant, but I accomplished it, striking the first deer just be- 
hind the shoulder, the second in the back just forward of the 
hips (or perhaps I should say, one behind the fore shoulder, 
the other before the hind shoulder. As I often read of the 
fore shoulders of qaadrupeds, I suppose they must have hind 
shoulders). If any one doubts these statements, and some 
‘people are forever doubting the most reasonable statement of 
hunters and anglers, I can at any time show the guns with 
which the shots were made, and will be most happy to ex- 
hibit them toany who call upon me at my housein Adironda, 
Neither gun, however, is at all remarkable to look at. 
| "Yours for the truth, 
Mas. JosppH Vuriry, U.8.H.M. 
Anprroxpa, May, 1884. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


| Baditor Forest and Stream: 

The discussions in Fornst AND STRHAM On the choice of 
hunting rifles have been very interesting to me, ‘‘Penob- 
scot” wrote a very good article, and I corroborate his state- 
‘ments in regard to the .40-caliber, As I have hunted in 

Montana, Wyoming and Idaho for over fourteen years—part of 
the time for market, hides and specimens—l give you my ex- 
“perience 

Thave used rifles from .40-caliber up to .65-caliber, and 

‘the best killing gun J ever handled was a Sharps .40-caliber, 
70 grains powder. In 18721 killed two large buffalo cows 
‘with one single shot. The ball passed through behind the 
shoulders of the first and penetrated through, the heart of 
‘the second, thus killing both. I also found this gun (.40- 
caliber) to be ‘dead medicine” on bear, more so than larger 
bores. The reason that most buffalo hunters out West prefer 
‘the .40-caliber is easily explained, First, according to the 
weight of powder and lead, the .40-caliber gives the flattest 
trajectory as well as best penetration. Second, a .40-caliber 
bullet makes a very small hole, where it enters the body, and 
as bear and most other kind of game are generally fat during 
the hunting season, the hair and fat plug up the hole and pre- 
vent the escape of blood outwardly; and experience clearly 
‘shows that a wound which bleeds inwardly will kill 
an animal in Jess time than a wound that bleeds out- 
wardly. Theoretically the largest caliber rifles may be the 
‘best killing ones, but practically this is not so(¢. @., a .40-cali- 
ber compared to a .65-caliber). Like ‘‘Penobscot” I do not 
believe in the ‘shock paralyzing” theory.- I have also used 
repeaters of .44, .45 and .50 caliber, and have never had any 
trouble with them. I think that a ,40-75-225 or .40 90-240 or 
800 will be the favorite cartridge for hunting large game. 

At no distant date, the bunting rifles will have to take a 
rest, as the large ganie is fast disappearing in this part of the 
couutry. AN OLp HUNTER, 

Bozeman, Mont. 


TEXAS GAME PROSPECTS. 


HAYVE just passed through four counties of North Texas 
and took my time to notice our prospects for next Sep- 
tember. Forti Worth was my starting point. 
All through Tarrant county quail are breeding, and Bob 
White is heard on every side. Prairie chickens are not doin 
so well. 
in Cook county, quail are abundant, along the creeks they 
“swarm, and are to be seen running along the roads just before 

the sun goes down. Pinnated grouse are more plentiful than 
in Tarrant county, and good shooting can be expected. 

My next county was Montague, the noted home of Bob 
White. As usual, I found him on all sides. Creeks appear 
lined with them and the post oaks, known as ‘‘the cross tim- 
bers” areliterally alive. I do not know of any county so well 
stocked. Whenever I pass through Montague county, it re- 
minds me of Norfolk, England, and their large preserves. 
One thing, a spoitsman once he finds Montague, cannot go 
amiss, ‘Through the timber along the prairie creek, among 
the farms with a good dog, you are bound to fill your bag. 

The next county is Clay, and the beautiful little city of 
Henrietta, the home of Northern Texas cattle kings. This 
is a prairie county, Young chickens are numerous, and 
next August they will be in good shape, Chicken shooting 
will be my first out, and Clay county I have concluded to 
make my grounds. The county is just fenced up into large 

astures, and land that was culwvated turned into grass. 

hese old fields [ examined and found young chickens just 
hatched. I just put these fields down as where young 
ehickens will lie like rocks. JI baye commenced to count 
the days so as to have the dogs ready. Itis hard work in 
August, but our Gulf wind makes it cooler than the North- 
west States. Along the ereeks [ also found quail doing well, 
and what little timber the county has is alive with quail. If 
put in half a day looking up turkey on Big Wichita and was 
‘Surprised at the number left over to breed. Isaw droves of 
them, and flushed several hens from their nests. Young 
turkey I haye down on the Big Wichita for next November. 
T passed through info the Indian Nation and saw several 
bands of antelope. Took a look at Beaver Creek, and found 
turkey doing well. Went up to Cash Creek, and there 1 
‘saw too many signs of old camps and turkey feathers scat- 
tered around. J put Cash down as shot out, 

On my return home, I took a look at Red River. There I 
saw a little more corn planted than can be gathered. I put 
that down for geese next December. I have marked.out 
my blinds, and if the driver kills any more geese with No. 
10 after | have shot BBB I have made up my mind to keep 
quiet about it. I shall also mind and hold my old gun 
teady when drivers are around. 

I took in Red River and found chickens very numorous, 
e dry season having driven them along the well-watered 


oO 
5 


Red River Valley, Passing down the Little Wichita, I 
noliced the duck lakes well filled up and ‘“‘yonkerpins” in 
bloom, showing plentiful feed for ducks. I turned back over 
the rolling hills into Henrietta well satisied with the pros- 
pect of North Texas, and considered myself lucky to live in 
a country so plentifully supplied with game, AMO. 
HENRIETTA, June, 1884. 


AMATEUR DEER SHOOTING. 


OR the ordinary sportsmen it is generally best to possess 
himself of the services of a guide, if he is set on killing 
game. But it sometimes will happen that no guide can be 
procured, and the sportsman must turn his back to the 
woods and count his journey and expenses a dead loss, or 
rely on his own undeveloped resources, In company with 
sevoral other congenial spirits, I was camping on the shores 
of Connecticut Lake (second Jake), Deer were numerous, 
but wary, because of the constant jack-shooting that had 
been going on, Several deer had been secured, none of them 
with antlers, however—all does. The old ‘‘snorters,” as the 
puides called the bucks, suddenly withdrew at the sight of 
the familiar torch, leaving the sportsmen to take up with the 
unsuspecting females as his only reward in the chase. All 
the shooting had been done with buckshot, and, of course, 
at close range. It had occurred to me, on taking in the 
situation, that a change of tactics might bring better results. 
Why not use a rifle at long range and try them at daylight 
say the early morning? The plan seemed feasible to all 
the party. Lonly waited 2 good opportunity to execute it, 

Thad possessed myself ol a repeating rifle of .38-caliber, 
with which | was tolerably familiar, and a cedar boat, too 
large, however, for shooling purposes, but very light con- 
sidering its size. 

It was on a Monday morning, a heavy fog was brooding 
over the lake and surrounding woods; gnides and sportsmen 
were wrapped in happy dreams as I sallied forth, I had 
called a mate, who, though he could neither shoot nor paddle, 
was taken along as a passenger, About two miles from 
camp, near the foot of the lake, a deep hay, undisturbed by 
campers, became my objective point. My plan was to allow 
my companion to row me dewn the lake; but, judge of my 
surprise, when, after going, as I thought, the required dis- 
tance, | came in sight of the shore not far from where I had 
started, We had been moving about in acirele. This was 
not our only discouragement, however, for the loons allowed 
us to come provokingly near, and several times I brought my 
rifle half way to the shoulder with hopes of quieting their tell- 
tale screams. 

Taking a fresh start, for we were not to be discouraged, 
we at length came within half a mile of the shore I 
had selected, when, requesting my friend to Jay aside his 
vars, I took the paddle, and, without lifting it out of the 
water, sent it slowly but surely toward the bay. The fog 
had now lifted, and in a half Lour more the sun would be 
above the treetops, and the case began to look hopeless; but 
on rounding the last point that hid the bay from sight my 
friend*gave a start, as if he had come in contact with an 
electric battery. He was sitting in front of me, so that what 
he saw I saw not. On we went, however, till within forty 
reds of the shore, when, seeing nothing, 1 whispered my in- 
tention to go on and examine the shore for fresh tracks. It 
was now my turn to be startled, for my friend answered back 


in a hoarse whisper that seemed as loud as thunder, ‘‘For: 


heaven’s sake, look at that deer!” 

Turning the boat a little, sure enough there stood before 
us a noble buck, regarding us with the greatest apparent in- 
difference. On, on we went, my companion looking for all 
the world like a figurehead to a ship, so still and rigid were 
his muscles, though differing from most figureheads in that 
he wore a large white hat set well back on his cranium. I 
had now shortened the distance say ten ruds, when the buck 
in his quiet feeding gave me an excellent shoulder shot, so 
letting my paddle slip into the water, I brought the Win- 
chester, which had been resting across my lap, to a steady 
aim and fired. By good fortune the ball entered the spine 
and down came the noble game, to rise no more. 

“Wal, now, boys,” said Uncle Tom, speaking half to us 
and half to the guides who had come down to the boat land- 
ing to see our prize, ‘‘Wal, now, boys, that is the finest 
specimen of a deer that has been shot on this lake for many 
a year.” 


THE SNIPE HUNTING TRICK. 


\W J HEN | came to this State three years ago, being fond 
ot sport and haying been born with a rod and gun in 


‘my hand, and accustomed to handle both on all legitimate 


occasions wherever sport was to be had, I lost no time-in 
making inquiry as to where I could find some shooting. I 
may say that I was then in Saciamento, Having been 
directed to the tules, about forty miles from the city, but in 
what direction | do not choose to say at present, and, being 
accompanied by a‘friend, | took up quarters at a hotel in the 
neighborhood und proceeded to prospect. A goodly number of 
hangers-on were there, hoodlums, ranchers, etc., who, find- 
ing out that we were strangers in quest of sport, volunteered 
a prodigious amount of formation as to the rendezvous of 
myriads of geese, ducks, ete. (this was in December). Per- 
haps we looked a little verdant; at all events, our new friends 
took it for granted that we were, and. soon ventured to try 
“tricks upon travelers,” like Shaudy of old. After telling 
of prodigious feats in the shooting line, including a tale of 
the fellow who killed 100 geese at one discharge of his 
§-rauge muzzleloader, and who, 1t was said, was present, but 
being modest, allowed his chuna to tell the tale. A fellow 
who claimed to be a professional hunter inquired if we ever 
hunted snipe. Giving my companion a wink, I replied in 
the negative, whereupon it was declared on all sides that. the 
best snipe ground in the State was to be found within six 
miles. We expressed a wish to take a hand in, and the 
‘‘hoys” told us to be ready about dark the next evening. 

The night came and so did the “boys,” and my friend and 
self went off with them. As we were informed no guns 
were needed, and one of the boys carrying a lantern and a 
net we knew something was up, and Jay jow. After trayel- 
ing about six miles we came to a ‘‘slew,” across which we 
rowed in a flat-bottomed boat, and went on through tules 
and muda mile or two further, Here on an open grassy 
spot « halt was called and our companions, four in number, 
told us to squat down and hold the net, while they proceeded 
to beat the groundsfor the birds, which we-were informed 
would be attracted and bewildered by the light and would 
fall an easy prey tothe net. We promised obedience and 
expressed at the same time much curiosity to see how the 
affair would culminate. - 

As soon as our friends disappeared, Tom and ourself held 
a brief and hurried consultation, the result of which was 


that the lantern was fastened toa pole and we made ‘‘tall 
time” for the boat, Skulling ourselves across the ‘‘slew’' we lay 
low again for developments. Soon we heard our friends coming 
although it was too dark to see ten paces. They were laugh- 
ing and chuckling in high glee at the trick played upon the 
“greenies,” Theabsense of the boat caused them a good deal of 
conjecture, as the lantern being wp.they supposed we were still 
holding the nct. Being too far off to hear clearly or see their 
movements, but knowing well that they would haye a good 
eight miles to go round ere they got on the home trail, we 
left, and before 10 o’clock were sung in bed. 

When we came down to breakfast next morning, the” 
landlord expressed his intention to do the treating while we 
remained, and the barroom habitnés treated us with marked 
respect, but no further advice was volunteered. 

Abont a week after, just before leaving, we learned that 
the fellows got back abont 3 A. M,, wet, dirly and full of 
profanity at being outwitted. 

We spent a few days in that locality and had fine shooting, 

LEONIDAB. 

SoLANno County, California. 


TWO-EYED SHOOTING, 


Hditor Forest and Stream: ; 

In a late issue of ForEst AND STREAM, | note some obser - 
vations on the subject of ‘‘'Two-eyed Shooting,” or shooting 
with both eyes open instead of only one, It seems to be dis- 
covered at last, after centuries of profound ignorance on the 
subject, that this is the only sensible way to shoot, and it is 
now in order for all who have practiced two-eyed shooting 
to come forward and crow. I notice that ‘A Sportsman” 
from Georgia crows very loudly indeed, He says he is the 
only man in the entire South who has ever shot in this way, 
as far as he knows; in other words, that of all the other 
millions of shooters in the South, he is the only one who has 
had sense enough to understand the business, ‘Faithful 
among the faithless, only he.” 

This is high honor, indeed; but I can assure the Georgia 
gentleman that he is not alone in it. I can claim an equal, 
if not a greater honor than he. I have been a shooter since 
twelve years of age, and am now almost as old as the hills, 
I have shot with a great variety of pistols, shotguns and 
rifles, and have sometimes sighted and fired a cannon. And 
yet I never fired a shot in my life without holding both eyes 
wide open. 1 dare say that the Georgia gentleman cannot 
say as much as that. If he cannot, then I claim a greater 
honor than he has. If he can say as much, then I claim an 
equal honor. Moreover, it is my opinion that I heat him in 
the honor anyhow, for I cannot, to save my life, shut one eye 
and keep the other open, I never could do itin mylife, JE 
I shut one eye, the other closes simultaneously, in spite of 
all | can do. Therefore, in my case, “earning comes by 
nature.” At least it is so as regards shooting. When learn- 
ing comes by nature, it is genius of the highest sort; and 
genius is much more honorable of all men than mere talent, 
which has to have the learning driven into it by birch or 
hazel switches, hard work or long experience. If the 
Georgia gentleman’s two-eyed shooting has not come by 
nature, 1 am more honorable and admirable than he, in pre- 
cisely so far as genius is more honorable and admirable than 
talent. 

lt is my opinion that his two-eyed shooting did not come 
by nature, because he maps out a line of areument by which 
he reached the conclusion that it is the best way. No line 
of argument was needed to teach me that, it came the first 
time I pulled a trigger, by nature or genius. The Georgia 
gentleman and all other youths should take this considera- 
tion into their breasts and cherish it: namely, that find as 
great a man as you may, you will, if you look around, find 
some other man somewhere, who is just as great, if not a 
little greater than he.. If they cherish this consideration it 
will probably prevent them from making humiliating ex 
posures of themselves. Greatness is by no means singular. 
There’s lots of it in the world if one will only look around 
to find it. It is this consideration which withholds me from 
making too great a boast of myself, for while it is true that 
I do not know of another person in the entire South, or else- 
where, who is a two-eyed shooter by nature or genius, yet I 
am sure if I should boast of it I should find hundreds and 
perhaps thousands coming forward to dispute with and 
humiliate me. Therefore I wear my honors meekly, pre- 
pared to surrender them at any moment to some greater 
person who muy prove himself to be so, 

In regard to accuracy of fire, while I do not claim any- 
thing exaltive, yet it is due to science and the small brother- 
hood of two-eyed shooters to state the absolute fact that I 
am a good shot with pistol, shotgun, rifle, cannon or even 
hand-grenade. I haye never been with a company of shoot- 
ers with whom I did not hold a fair and even superior hand, 
so much so as to excite the envy and secret il will of msny. 
When a boy the other boys soon refused to ¢o squirrel hunt- 
ing with me, for it nearly always happened that they came 
back with nothing, or next to nothing, and I with a bag 
full. When a Texas Ranger, years ago, I was thoroughly 
hated by the brag shots of the company, for the reason that 
they always got left when it came to a trial of skill. One 
fellow by the name of John Myers quit speaking to me, and 
has never spoken to me from that day unto this. Fact is I 
believe he prayed nightly that the Indians might get my 
scalp, Poor fellow! Some years later the Indians got his 
scalp, while mine is stillon my head Hyen now I never 
go out with a company ducking, quailing or sniping with- 
out coming back quite as good a man as the best of them, 
and often the best. Thus it is that genius sticks to us to the 
last, while what comes by talent is often forgotten and lost, 

If I have talked too much of myself, if is well understood. 
whoisto blame forit. The Georgia gentleman proyoked - 
me to it. If have sinned in this respect, he caused me to 
do it, andis therefore the bigger sinner, If I am to be 
blamed, he should be blamed the more, and doubtless will be. 
However, we have both written in the interest of science, 
and if seems to me scarcely possible to sin in such an inter- 
est. 
In the same interest I will state that I shoot very quickly— 
almost the very instant that.the gun is brought to the shoulder, 
lil stop to “diaw a bead” or tuke sight, my gun goes to 
wobbling, and then 1 can scarceiy hit the side of a house. 
If I shoot instantly, the gun has no time to wobble, and then 
Tsend my lead to the spot I wanted itto goto. Asto 
whether I take sight or nut Icannot say, This is certain, 
however, that I see only the fore sight, and never see the 
hind sight, To me the hind sight isa perfectly useless in- 
cumbrance on a gun, This might not do for very long-range 
shooting, but it suits all my purposes exceilently, 

Now let us hear testimony from others on this subject, 


How do you aim, with one eye or both eyes? N. A, T, 
PALESTINE, Texas, May 27, 1884, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Jone 12, 1884. 


Hints on Snipe AND Quam SHoorinc.—l never hunt 
snipe with a dog.. I use the dog as a retriever. I hunt 
snipe down wind, because they almost always rise up wind 
and come to the gun, When they are wild and are hunted 
up wind to give a dog chance to scent them, they will rise 
wild, but when they see you bearing down on them, knowing 
they must go toward you when they rise, they will lie, and 
_ when they do rise they rise toward *you and you get your 
shot. In hunting quail, I never hurry after flushed birds for 
the reason that birds after being flushed bide. If you hurry 
after them they will rise in twos and threes, and sometimes 
most of the covey will take wing again. Let them alone for 
five or ten minutes, and when you go to where you have 
marked them they lie so close that sometimes it is a hard 
matter to make them rise, although you are only a foot or 
so away, Again, quail seem not to emit ax odor immediately 
on alighting. 1 have frequently marked them down and 
hurried after them and I could not find one. Calling off my 
dogs, I would wait ten minutes ard go back and yet up the 
whole covey one by one. And again, you give your dogs a 
fine lesson in staunchness by making them stand till you are 
ready to proceed after the birds, then “‘fetch,” and your 
dogs will not trouble you in their eagerness. I imagine 
some of your readers saying. ‘‘but it is cruel to keep your 
dog in a constrained position.” Itis not so. Dogs soon 
learn to shift position, My dogs will stard for half an hour 
or more if I do not find them (in cover), and it is not worse to 
make them stand tor five minues. 1t may seem to be waste 
of time (when time is limited), but one can fill his bag sooner 
this way,— SPORTSMAN. 


A BAR In Mapison County, N. Y.—Hamilton, N. Y., 
June 1,—On the morning of May 28 people in the vicinity of 
Lake Pleasant were startled by a report that, during the pre- 
vious night, a bear had made a descent from the mountains 
and attacked a fiock of sheep belonging to Farmer Sturges, 
who lives near the lake, killing and wounding three sheep 
and two Jambs. A hunting party was immediately organ- 
ized, Mr. Sturges offering a reward of $10 for bruin’s scalp. 
The gallant Nimrods, among whom were two Auburn sports- 
man, Mr. ©. E. Thorne and Dr. C. F, MacDonald, ascer- 
tained the line of the marauder’s retreat by the aid of dogs, 
and then divided into couples for the purpose of surround- 
ing and investigating the mountain, where he was supposed 
to be concealed. After the lapse of about two hours shots 
were heard in the direction taken by the Auburn sportsmen, 
and the remainder of the party, hastening to the spot, found 
the bear’s lifeless body stretched upon the ground, thercsult 
of a charge of buckshot and a rifle ball from the respective 
weapons of Messrs. Thorne and MacDonald. The carcass 
was borne to the hotel, and being placed on the scales, tipped 
the beam at 809 pounds. 


Gun Rust PREvENTIVE.—1 wish to call the attention of 
sportsmen to the cheapest and best ‘‘anti-rust” for guns (and 
any other metal bedies) that exists. 1t1s the cheapest article 
yet brought forward, can be obtained anywhere that an 
apothecary shop exists, and is not a “‘patent” or ‘‘propri- 
etary” article, to wit: the common ‘‘eacao butter.” A few 
cents’ wort will last any sportsman years, as the slightest 
amount on a metal surface protects it effectually. Itis at 
ordinary temperature a solid, but melts at a slight elevation 
of temperature, and has been found by European manufac- 
turers of fine surgical instruments as far superior to vaseline 
and other compounds in protecting from rust, even when 
these instruments are shipped by sea as far as India, proving 
entirely sufficient, I use notbing elseonmyown gun. Had 
formerly tried one thing after another and given them all 
up for this simple, easily obtained and cheap article.—C. W. 
E. (Boston). 


BALTIMORE AND W A&sHINGTON,— Your correspondent has 
lately returned from a trip to Baltimore and Washington and 
found the sportsmen of the two cities busily putting-in the 
dull period between times on clay-pigeons (which by the by 
they complain of not being able to hit) and thus keep in 
practice for the opening of the “‘timber doodle” season, as 
woodcock are affectionately termed in those sections. J am 
told there are many birds round about Baltimore and Wash- 
ington, especially the latter city. In Baltimore I learned 
there is a prospect of a good crop of celery the coming sea- 
son, which, of a consequence, will make a good year for 
ducking.—Homo, 


Arizona QuAm WANTED.—Toledo, O., June 6.—Is Mr. 
Brown, of Tucson, Arizona, to disappoint his triends who 
hoped to have some Arizona (California) quail through his 
kindness?—J. B. BATTELLS, 


Bauatrp Grexnse.—Concord, N, H., June 2—Mr. Frank 
Battles, a well known Boston sportsman now doing business 
in this city, killed a pair of large Canada geese in the Merri- 
mack to day. 

Vinersra Quar.—University of Virginia, Mav 80.—We 
have hud a dry spring, and I hear more partridges whistling 
than I have heard since I came here to live, two years agu. 


a a 5 SSS 


WueErE To Go,—At this season of the year the angler, 
whose impatience led him months ago to look over his tackle 
and get. rods, reels and fly-books in order, is in a quandary. 
He is trying to make up his mind where to go for his vaca- 
tion, and is balancing in his mind the attractions of different 
regions, And it is not remarkable that he should find it 
hard to make up his mind when we see how many spots 
there are. within comparatively easy reach, where the trout 
and the bass are still numerous. Going no further than 
our own advertising columns, we see noticed publications 
treating of a doz-n different sections. One may obtain 
maps and guide books of the Adiroudacks and may follow 
in the footeteps of glorious old **Nessmuk,” may be his own 
guide through Northern Maine, over Moosehead, or Tim and 
Seven Ponds, among the Androscoggins—country of mon- 
ster trout or may paddle his canoe lightly and easily among 
the Thousand Islands, where the bass abound and the mighty 
mascallonge has his lurking place. No wonder it is hard to 
determine where to go; but whatever the final decision it 
wilt be well for bim who is about to make an outing to learn 
all that he cau concerning the country he intends to visit. 
He should read up the guide books with care, and should, so 
far as possible, familiarize himself with the maps, He 
should do this, not merely because he desires to know as 
much as possible about the country he is going into—though 
this is reason enough—but also because there is a possibility 
always that he may have to put his knowledge to a practical 
use We have known of more than one fisherman in the 
wilderness who has been “‘turned” and unable to find camp 
when he wished to. 


aera and River LSishing. 


RHYME OF A BASS. 


a in the greenness wherewith hath summer them arrayed, 
A clear stream the willows and bending sedges shade, 

And spin down upon it slim threads of golden light 

Which the quiv’ring wavelets knot in meshes bright. 

In this tangled net of sunshine that ne’er holds him, 

A bass swims where the swirling flood enfolds him. 

As he with lazy fins the yellow meshes breaks, 

Aboye him fiits a gay-winged fly in merry freaks, 

Of hue s0 bright and strange that heis half affrighted, 

Tillin the stream has the silly thing alighted, 

Staggering o’er the swirling pools and rippling shallows, 

As drunk with sunshine, or giddy, dodging swallows. 

Then the bass bethinks him that this gay new-comer 

Naught but a blossom is of the air of summer, 

A ebrysalis the bud, this the gaudy flower, 

Drowning here its briefly blooming sunlit hour. 

Then up he darts to seize it witha sudden madness, 

Born part of hunger and part of that wild gladness 

Which moveth all things in this glorious season, 

Proving sometimes better, sometimes worse than reason. 

But how this gay-clad insect his attack resenteth! 

With sting so sharp that none but fiend inventeth! 

No blundering bumble bee, no wasp nor buzzing hornet 

Hath e’er so pierced his lip, nor e’er so torn it! 

Then he spies an angler on the brink above him, 

Intent upon him: does he hate or love him? 

An! The wand he holds nods to him, but restrains him, 

To its slender thread belongs the sting that pains him. 

To the depths he plunges with his dear-bought treasure, 

Wondering in this sport to whom belongs the pleasure, 

The coolest deeps, where he has had his life-long sport, 

Afford him now no help in this his sorry sort. 

Tn vain he grinds his wounded jaw upon the gravel, 

The barbed steel holds, though up or down he travel. 

Then tries the upper world where birds and insects live, 

To see what aid to hin this higher realm shall give; 

And as he cleaves the limpid wave he scatters pearls 

For ransom, brighter than shine in coronets ot earls, 

Twice his length he leaps above and in brief suryey 

Sees trees and banks and man turned topsy turyey, 

Their doubles quiv’ring toward him on the troubled stream, 

While he shakes his head to loose the torturing fleam. 

But naught he knows to try does in this stress avail, 

And courage, strength and cunning all begin to fail. 

Gasping, he sinks with languid fin beneath the flood, 

And slowly stains the current with his oozing blood. 

As down he floats, aweary and well-nigh spent of strength, 

Across a sunken limb the loose line drags its length. 

Last hope! He gathers all his weak remaining force, 

And back beneath the branch directs his feeble course. 

It holds, nor yields it te the angler’s fervent strain; 

The swift stream aids his flagging fins—he’s free again! 

Thanking, as he drifts away, this last entangler, 

A bappy fish leaves there a not so happy angler. 


AWAHSOOSE. 


RAINBOW TROUT AND STEELHEAD. 


WITH OTHER MATTERS SALMONOID. 

if DO not think that we should condemn the rainbow trout 

too severely for his supposed relationship to the steel- 
head. The latter creature, as I have k.own him, isa large 
trout of ten to twenty pounds weight, and looking somewhat 
like an Atlantic salmon. He is found in the Columbia River 
in the spring at the time of the early saimon run, a spent 
and worthless fish, apparently working his way back to the 
sea after a mid-winter spawning. The animal is structur- 
ally a trout and not a salmon, but it seems to live in the sea, 
and to ascend the rivers for a short distance to spawn, thence 
again returning, like a salmon. 

In this steelhead condition, the fish bears little resemblance 
to the rainbow trout, as we know the latter in the streams of 
California. It is, to begin with, nearly twice as large as the 
largest of the latter; it is lank and slab-sided instead of 
chubby, and its mouth and jaws are very much larger than 
in the rainbow trout. 

But in the study of Salmonide, we have learned how de- 
ceptive are differences in looks and differences in habits. The 
trout adapt themselves with wonderful readiness to differ- 
ences in their surrounding, and these surroundings in turn 
react on them and change their *‘looks,” 

On careful comparison of the rainbow trout with the steel- 
head, the only structural differences which appear are these 
two: The rainbow trout has a mouth which js small for a 
trout, while the mouth of the steelhead is large, the jaws ex- 
tending well behind the eye. In this regard, there is a 
marked difference between the largest rainbow trout (McCloud 
River) I have seen and the average steelhead, the caudal fin 
in the steelhead is truncate while in the trout it is Innate. 

But in all species of trout, the mouth grows larger in old 
fishes and is largest in spent males, and in the same way the 
caudal fin becomes more truncate with age. 

I do not know the young of the steelhead, nor do T know 
any character by which it could be distinguished from the 
rainbow trout. 

On the other hand, if the rainbow trout ran into the sea, 
and there grew more rapidly, changing its appearance and 
habits as other fresh-water salmonoids do when they get into 
the ocean, they ought to make exactly sucha fish as the 
steelhead. 

My present belief is (always subject to change on the in- 
troduction of more evidence) that the steelhead (Salmo gatrd- 
nert Rich,) isa sea-run form of the rainbow trout (Salmo trideus 
Gibbons), und that the two are not really distinct species, 
but forms of one species, If so, the name of the rainbow 
trout should be Salmo gatrdnert iridews. 

To what-degree the two forms may mix, I do not know, 
Tt is apparently certain that the great body of the rainbow 
trout of California and Oregon do not descend to the sea, 
and consequently never become steelheads, andI do not 
think that the steelhead matter has any great weight as an 
objection io the introduction of (he rainbow trout-into East- 
ern waters. Whether the species in the East will stay where 
it, ig put or go off somewhere else, we can only find out by 
experiment, 

Something similar to the change into steelheads seems to 
take place in the other Pacific coast trout. In Puget Sound 
the red-throated trout (Salmo pwrpwratus) abounds every- 
where in the sea as in the brooks, and large specimens (25 
pounds) are sometimes taken, which seem to be the ‘‘steel- 
heads” of that species. All of these spawn in fresh water; 
hence, they must be in some degree migratory. 


Again, the ‘Dolly Varden trout” or charr (Salvelinus 
malma) is ordinarily a brook fish, in size, habits and appear- 
ance altogether similar to our Eastern brook trout, But it is 
common in the salt waters of Puget Sound, and specimens 
weighing 11 pounds haye been several times brought to me 
by the Indians at Seattle and Victoria, ‘These large fishes 
are silver gray in color; they live in the sea, and consequently 
must run up the rivers in the spawning time; but of their 
identity with Salvelinus malma there is no sort of doubt. 
They are, I take it, the ‘‘stedlheads” of the species. 

Another case of the same sort, if the matter is correctly 
understood, is that of the Canadian sea trout (Salvelinus fon- 
tinalis immaculatus).- These seem to be sea-run brook trout, 
who have grown so large and become so peculiar in their 
habits, that it may be best to recognize them as a distinct 
subspecies, as we do the landlocked salmon. They are the 
steelheads of the brook trout, and their progeny, if planted 
in small inland brooks, would, I think, in time adapt them- 
selves to circumstances and become brook trout again. 

J am not much of an admirer of the rainbow trout, but 1 
do not see in what important respect it 1s inferior to the 
European brook trout (Salmo farte). In technical regards 
the two species are exceedingly similar. They are “‘as much ~ 
alike as two peas,” nor do I know of any difference in habits. — 

A finer fish than either of these, larger, gamier and hand- 
somer, is the species which I have called the red-throated 
trout (Salmo purpwratus Pallas), This is the trout of the 
Rocky Mountain region and the Great Basin, of the Yellow- 
stone, of Utab Lake, of Lake Taboe and of the Upper 
Columbia. In the Fornst anp SrreAm it has been called 
Clarke’s trout, but 1 submit the above ‘“‘common name” as 
one preferable for general usage, Lewis and Clarke had little 
to do with it. It has heen named Salmo clarkei and Salmo 
lewist, to be sure, but it was well described and well named 
long before the days of Lewis and Clarke. In all specimens 
I have seen of this trout, there isa deep red blotch at the 
throat, between the branches of the lower jaw. This was 
noticed by Pallas, and it may have suggested the name 
“nurpuratus” (empurpled) which he gave the species, 

I believe that this trout is better worthy of experiment for 
fishculturists than either Salmo fario, or its American double, 
the rainbow trout. 

While wy pen is in this matter I would like to say a word 
as to the relative merits of our American brook trout (Salve- 
linus fontinalis), and the brook trout of northern Europe 
(Salmo fario), , 

In the English usage of these names, our trout is not a 
trout but a charr, and I take it the highest praise that can 
be given to any salmonoid fish is to say that it is a charr. 
That is the superlative of trouthood. The genus Sa/oelinus 
stands at the head of the series, In beauty, in gracefulness, 
in wariness and’in gaminess all the true charr seem to sur- 
pass any of the trout, They are less hardy, as a whole, and 
inhabit only the coldest and purest waterst. Thus, where 
both charr and trout are found, the latter occupy a much 
wider range. 

The red charr of Europe, the silbling or ombre chevalier 
(Salvelinus alpinus), and its near relative, our Rangeley Lake 
blueback (Salvelinus oquassa), are delicate and beautiful. 
little fishes, Jess voracious than the average trout. ‘The least. 
graceful and most voracious of all the true charrs is prob- 
ably our American brook trout. He is more hardy and less! 
delicate than the ombre chevalier or the blueback, but leav- 
ing these ideal forms aside, in beauty and grace none of 
the true trout approach him, Davin §, JoRDAN- 

Inpiana UNIversiry, June 2. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


Black Lake, Michigan.—V. 


Vee our neighbor appeared next morning with the 

lumber he asked about the varmints, and when told 
they had failed to come and see us, said: ‘*Well, boys, guess 
you're all right now, for they hardly ever come after the sec- 
ond day. What’s to be done to-day, fish? I'll row a couple 
of ye to-day, and show ye the good places.” (Mem.—He 
charged $2 at the final settling up for showing the boys the 
good places that day, rowing thrown in.) 

While getting things in readiness for the day’s fishing we 
bad a chance to lock Brother M, over and size bim up, not. 
having had time in the hurry of putting the camp in shape: 
to do so before. His age, he said, if 1 remember rightly, was. 
past fifty years. He was nearly 5 feet 8 inches in height, . 
proad-shouldered, solidly built from the ground up, and stocd | 
firmly on a pair of large, well-shaped, muscular legs. His. 
arms were models of strength and muscle, and his hands,, 
large and sun-browned, looked—for lack of a betler com- 
parison—like a pair of ‘Pride of the West” hams, A full,, 
deep chest, with this development of limb, marked him a: 
man of great strength and a bad customer to deal with if it 
came to a matter of blows. A pair of keen gray eyes, under’ 
shaggy brows, a full, reddish brown beard, slightly grizzled, 
and a shock o2 hair that had originally been a crushed sweet- 
potato color, but now tawny and weather-beaten, com- 
pleted his make-up, This was neighbor Merrill, in physicall 
development a cross between a buffalo bull and a cinnamom 
bear, and with a voice to maich. He was companionable, 
too, and a great talker; in fact, as Ben said, ‘Blowin’ lis 
horn was one o’ his best holts;” but we bad no trouble im our 
dealings with him, as he filled to the best of his: ability all 
his agreements with us, and we treated him squarely in re- 
turn. By his own admission he had been one of the “bhoys” 
in days when he was younger and livin back in ‘York 
State,” having trained in the John Morrissey gang before 
that sweet-scented citizen aspired to Senatorial honors. The 
finish of many a tough scrap with the pugilistic fraternity 
had found him on top, but he had tired of these empty honors: 
and moved up here into the very wilds of Michigan to bring: 
up his boys in a pure atmosphere, away from the wiles and’ 
temptations that had encompassed their paternal parent in. 
his younger. days; away from evil companionship and) 
whisky. Whatever other shortcomings neighbor M. may 
have been possessed of, I honored him for his motives in this, 
and respected him for the example he set them by not touch- 
ing a drop of the cursed firewater himself, and I trust his 
boys will honor this teaching and_grow up to be useful 
and respected citizens of the great Wolverine State. 

But we were impatient to be off, and as the morning had 
cleared up with promise of a beautiful day, we left the camp 
in the best of spirits and ready as Ben said, ‘for a fight with 
anything from a pound up that wore fins.” 

Our camp was located in the bight of a small bay on the 
southeast shore, from which point we could command a full 
view of the lake with the exception of perhaps three miles 
of the lower end, and from here, before we start out for our 
first day’s fishing, we may as well jot dewn some of its 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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features as seen from where we stood and as afterward 
learned in different. excursions from camp. 

Sweeping around to the left the eye followed the shore 
northward to a point where the lake narrowed to about 
three and a half miles wide, from whence it trended off 
northwest and down to the outlet, holding a width of three 
to four miles, Around this point and well down to the head 
of Big Black River, the outflow, is a narrow strip of water 
runing back into the woods, a matter of an eighth of a 
mile, rush fringed and shallow, that is dignified by the name 
of Sturgeon Bay, and just at the mouth of this little bay 
flows in Little Black River, the name suggested no doubt by 
the very dark color of its waters, Up lake to the right of 
camp the shore swept around in a graceful curve almost to 
the extreme head of the lake, the dark green background 
broken only in one place by a rugged ledge of rocks a hun- 
dred yards or so in width, cropping out of the hill nearly 
flush with the water’s edge a short distance above the road 
coming in from Merrill’s place, This ledge, Merrill said, 
extended down the lake near the center in a straight line 
nearly to the point where it narrowed, under water from 
where it cropped off at ‘*‘the rocks,” a depth of fifteen, to 
thirty feet, but readily traced in a boat when the water Is 
quiet. On either side the water dropped off deep, and along 
this sunken ledge he said was to be had some extraordinary 
bass fishing later in the season. He forgot, however, to 
apprise us of the existence of this bass ground until the day 
before we broke camp, but as it is not in the nature of the 
“Kingfishers” to nurse a grudge, we have forgiven him long 
since, and even at this late day beg to tender him our thanks 
for the information so tardily given, 1s some of us will no 
doubt take a notion to pay Black Lake another visit. 

Nearly the whole of the southwestern shore line is fringed 
with a sealtering belt of bulrushes that grow out into the 
lake from a lew feet to a hundred yards, and out fr m the 
margin of this belt from 60 to 200 feet runsa bank, not 
rocky, however, which in places is ten to fifteen yards wide, 
in others only a few feet, and under water from one to three 
fathoms. This bank, or reef it might be termed, may be 
traced when the lake is quiet, nearly its whole length by the 
“musrat grass’—as Merrill culled it—and aquatic plants 
that reach up in many places an inch or two above the water. 
Along this streak of submerged grasses and water weeds is 
the abiding place of that long snouted cannibal, the pickcrel, 
and here, too, may be occasionally found the despotic king 
of all these northern waters, the mighty muskalonge, from 
whose path within the bounds of his chosen tezritory all fish 
must stand aside. 

Just out in front of the camp, Merrill pointed out the spot 
where the year before our friend Hughes had smashed his 
rod on one of these monstrous fellows without as much as 
the fish finding out that Hughes was there. 

‘Ves, sir,” he went on, ‘‘Mr. Hughes and another gentle- 
man of their party—and I tell you boys that man Hughes is 
a sentleman—Hughes and the other gentleman—I forgit his 
name-—was a fishin’ that day an’ 1 was a rowin’ for ’em. 
Right out there *longside o’ that grass, Hughes bung a pick- 
erel, mebbe a four or five-pounder, an’ was havin’ a mighty 
sight o fun with him, an’ jestas he got him wound up 
where we could see him, anothcr fish that looked nearly as 
long as lam made a rush an’ grabbed him, an’ that’s the last 
we seen o° that pickerel an* some o’ Hughes’s line. He jest 
made the water bile as he turned *round un’ started off, an’ 
that pole o’ Hughes’s wasn’t no more ’na bulrush to that fish, 
No, sir, be jest broke it up like he would a bulrush, an’ 
Huthes all the time a tryin’ to hold him. That’s jest where 
he missed it, an’ he felt mighty cut up about breakin’ his 
pole, but I tell you, boys, them little minny poles is no’count 
fur them big muskylunge, an’ the hull trouble was Hughes 
didn’t know it. There’s some mighty big ones inthis lake 
an’ you'll see some of em “fore you git through, mind what I 

.tell you.” 

This smacked of a very sizable fish story, but as we bad 
begun to find out neighbor M.’s capabilities for constructing 
big yarns out of a mere handful of material, we left a wide 
margin on this one for shrinkage, and remembering the 
string sent us, were prepared to entertain others that might 
follow, with a due allowance forthe old mossback’s fertile 
Tesources in presenting the points and avoiding the rough 
places ina good fish or bear story. However, what we 
afterward saw with our own eyes convinced us that there 
were “some mighty big ones in this lake,” and the tale, 
shorn of its embellishments, of Bro, Hughes’s disastrous 
encounter with one of these great fish was duly credited to 
our neighbor as a stray case or truth. 

In Merrill’s pet boat, a heautiful little douhle-ender—‘‘one 
o’ them weatler-boarded boats,” as Ben expressed it—Dick 
and l1ook our way down shore, intending to make the cir- 
euit of the lake by nightfall if possible, and study the water 
carefully as we went around. 

The other boats headed for the Rocks, where Merrill said 
“they could ketch jest as many bass as they wanted,” 

Clear down to the point where the shore took a turn to 
the northwest Dick and | fished slowly and diligently and 
carefully, without a solitary nibble to disturb the evenness 
of our pulse. This was not encouraging. 

Here we concluded to let the lower end of the lake go over 
for another day, and heading across, a pull of nearly four 
miles brought us into the sboal water near the further shore. 
J was at the oars pulling leisurely in toward a clump of 
bulrushes where we thought perhaps we migbt find a bass 
hunting around for a morning meal, when Dick, who was 
facing the shore, whispered excitedly, ‘‘Look! Look yon- 
der, quick, at them deer.” I turned quickly, in time to see 
two graceiul docs leap lightly over a fallen tree near the 
edge of the water and disappear at a couple of bounds into 
the woods. Dick said there was a buck with them, but I 
was too late in turning to geta sight of him. They had 
come down to the water for their morning drink from the 
plains just back of the belt of woods bordering the Jake, and 
were standing in the water when Dick first saw them. 

The rifle was lying alongside of me on the thwart but I 
never once thought of it til] Dick said, ‘‘What did you 
bring that rifle out for, to shoot pickerel?” I really had 
brought the gun along to try a shot at a loon, three or four 
of which had been laughing at us from a safe distance all 
the morning, but Lam afraid that had I got sight of the 
deer in time, and thought of the rifle, the blood of mv an- 
cestors would have asserted itself and one of those innocent 
creatures might haye come in violent contact with a .44- 
caliber bullet, in which case I would have been liable to a 
fine for infracting the game law of the great State of Michi- 
gan, besides feeling ‘meaner "na yaller stray dog” over it 
for the rest of the trip, for no sportsman likes to have the 
fact staring him in the face that he has broken a law of the 
land, Still, when opportunity offers for a shot ata deer, the 
temptation is great to shoot, so great that fey of us can com- 


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mand perfect control over the trigger finger even though it 
be the middle of July and the timid creaturesin the red coat. 
Who of us all that claim kinship in the brotherhood of sports- 
men and anglers will gainsay it? ; 

We pulled ashore to stretch our legs a few minutes and—I 
may as well confess it—with a sneaking desire possessing us 
to get another sight of the deer, although they were by this 
time probably a half mile away back on the plains snorting 
a wondering protest at being frightened from their morning 
drinking place, 

We shoved out after a short rest and headed up the lake, 
Dick saying naively as he took his seat at the stern, ‘‘Well, 
those were the first deer I ever saw in their native element!” 
his Scotch ire flaming up in the same breath with, ‘‘What 
the divil are you laughing at now? you ‘pear to be troubled 
with a protuberance of spirits this morning; better soak yer 
head in the lake awhile, it might take some o’ the hilarity out 
of you.” ‘Chis caused the hilarity to break out afresh, but 
Dick’s habitual good humor soon asserting itself he ‘‘jined 
in” with his high tenor and for five minutes the neighboring 
woods rang with a first-class laughing duett. Harmony was 


‘restored and quiet settled on the waters when he lit a fresh 


pipe, put on a live frog and made a long cast outto the edge 
of the deep deep water, remarking as he sat down, “I'll jest 
feel fur a bass out there.” No bass being there in a feeling 
mood we pursued our way, keeping a shoreward eye for 
another deer, but al] within miles of us had, no doubt, taken 
the alarm and ‘struck for tall timber,” as we saw no more 
that day, 

Along this shore we found shallow water extending out 
from twenty yards to nearly half a mile in places, the bottom 
hard sand and pebbles, and nearly free from grass or bul- 
rushes until well up to the head of the lake. 

The water gradually deepens from the shcre to the outer 
edge of this sandy bar, varying in depth along this line from 
10 to 20 feet. Here the bar pitches suddenly off to an un- 
known depth, the line being plainly marked by the difference 
in the color of the water, that outside having an almost inky 
black appearance, and all that shoreward a much lighter, but 
yet very dark hue. This body of water is tightly named 
Black Lake, for verily it is the ‘dake of the dark waters.” 

Along the break of this bar, straight across from our camp, 
the Hughes party had found their best bass fishing the year 
before, taking a great many of large size, but now the fish 
seemed to have ‘‘hied themselves,” as Ben would have said, 
to parts remote; for here were Dick and I, two old fellows 
that thought ourselves ‘‘purty middlin’ smart bass fishers,” 
fishing with the loveliest of speckled frogs, toothsome tc bass 
and pickerel alike, and not a solitary tug at the lines to 
eladden our hearts the livelong morning. We tried a Hill 
troller, a Chapman troller and a Buel spoon, but they were 
not spoony enough to be tooled by any such glittering 
shams. 

Dick finally said, ‘I don’t believe there’s a durned fish 
in four mile of us, an’ if there is, they’re like some o’ my cus- 
tomers” (Dick is a famous caterer to the public stomach in 
the matter of pies and things), ‘‘a little too facetious in their 
appetites to know when good things are offered to ’em,” 
Dick had hooked on to the wrong word again, and I was forced 
to nip an incipient snicker in the bud by seizing the frog 
bucket and bending over the side of the boat under pretense 
of refreshing the croakers by sousing them in the lake, and 
it, was only by a mighty effort that I smothered @ rising snort 
and prevented another temporary coolness, 

[TO BE CONTINUED. ] 


THE COLOR OF LEADERS. 


BY DR. JAMES A. HENSHALL. 


HAY Ebeen much interested in the various articles by prac- 

tical anglers on leaders, rod-joints, reel-seats, etc., that 
have appeared during the past few monthsin Formst anp 
Stream, and as the subject seems to languish, lately, I wish 
to add my mite. 

As to Jeaders and snells, 1 do not think it makes any dif- 
ference, practically, as to their color. The greatest desider- 
atum, it seems fo me, is to have them as fine as possible, con- 
sistent with the strength required, and this is not much with 
a flexible rod. A snell, or leader that will sustain a dead 
weight (out of water) of a pound, or even a half pound, is 
sufficient for black bass or trout fishing with a suitable rod; 
for the amount of strain exerted by a fish on the rod and 
tackle is very much less than is popularly supposed. 

The praiseworthy experiments to determine the color of 
leaders least visible to the fish as described by some of your 
correspondents, however commendable, are sure to end in dis- 
appointment; such, at least, has been my experience, Experi- 
ments to this end have been made by practical anglers for 
many years with no other result than to show that the finer 
the gut the better, without reference to color, My own ex- 
periments in this direction have not been few, and I have 
demonstrated, to my own satisfaction at least, that any color 
of leader or snell will answer equally well, from hyaline to 
black, though I confess that Iam partial to a slight bluish 
stain, or miss color, and perhaps without any well-defined 
reason, except that it owght to be least visible to the fish. 

But when we enter the province of speculation and con- 
jecture, and try to see for the fish, or in other words, to 
measure their visual capacity by our own, we are doomed to 
disappointment, though we bring to our aid all the known 
resources of the science of optics. I lately read, somewhere, 


that an English angler declared that the salmon took the 


fly under the delusion that it was ashrimp, because while 
said angler was beneath the surface of the water, the arti- 
ficial flies on the surface appeared to him like shrimps. To 
have made some show of proving his statement he should 
have first demonstrated that salmon could be taken with 
shrimp bait as successfully, and in the same situations, as 
with the fly. The only way to experiment with profit, in 
this direction, is to experiment with the fish themselves, 
otherwise our efforts will be like the play of Hamlet with 
the melancholy Dane left out. The sense of sight in fishes 
is but little understood, as is, indeed, the anatomy of their 
visual organs, which fact precludes all analagous reasoning 
from our own standpoint, alone. Ihave satisfied myself, 
however, that they see as well in their own element, perhaps 
better, than we in ours. 

That the color of the Jeader is not important is very evi- 
dent when we refiect that the boy with line of wrapping 
cord, red, white or blue, or the angler with line of twisted 
strands of black sewing-silk, to which the hook is affixed 
with leader or snell, is as successful in taking trout or black 
bass with bait, as others with lines of the most approved 
colors. And one of your correspondents affirmed that he 
was successful with a leader stained black, which, likewise, 
accords with my own experience in fly-fishing. Sharks do 
not hesitate to take the bait even with the huge hook and 


chain and swivel accompaniment, nor do codfish, and other 
marine fishes, refuse the bait because of the iarge hooks, 
wire snells, or coarse white lines; yet it is to be presumed 
that their discernment is as acute as that of a brook trout. 

Still, though any color may answer, I prefer lines and 
leaders of neutral tints as being more in accordance with the 
eternal fitness of things, than for any other good reason. IL 
have used, with success, snells and leaders of the finest silver 
suture wire, for trout and black bass, but, practically, they 
are not pliable enough, and are foo heavy. 

On the whole, then, I think we shall have to be content 
with our leaders and snells as we find them to-day, simply 
selecting those that are the finest, roundest, and most perfect, 
remembering, meanwhile, that a sight of the angler himself, 
is more fatal to successful fishing than a display of the 
coarsest leader, or of the most owfré in color. 

CyrnTaiana, Ky., June 6, 1884. 


NEW JERSEY PIKE FISHING.* 


Nee caught a pike! Well, unless Iam much disap- 

pointed there will be a dozen in this boat in two hours, 
and not of my catching either, We can’t help getting them. 
Everything is just right. The pond is not fished much. It 
is large enough to give room for all sizes of fish and for their 
food, but not so large that the fish can get into out of the 
way places where one may not find them, There are deep 
waters for the big fish, flats three or four feet deep for the 
medium-sized ones, and broad, weedy shallows for the small 
fry. 

The day is all we could ask, The gentle south wind just 
ruffles the water, muking a screen between us and the fish, 
The thin clouds keep off the glare of the sun, without being 
threatening or gloomy. It is seldom good fishing in a bright 
sun. Jt makes the fisherman show too plainly, and throws 
strong shadows of him and his pole over the water, 

Keep a sharp lookout for the path which the miller said 
would lead to the cove where the boat lies. Ispent half an 
hour trying to find the place when I came here the first time. 
But I caught my share of sixty-five fish in spite of the lost 
time. : 

The boats on these ponds in Southern New Jersey are 
mostly very simple affairs, mere shallow boxes, and their 
oars are made from slabs by trimming with an axe. 

Ah! there is the cove, and the boat is as I said, though 
the oar is better than is generally found. The boat is full of 
water, as usual. I never have found a boat in New Jersey 
that did not haye to be bailed out before it could be used, 

Fix up the tackle now, while I ply this /omato can. This 
bailing of a boat is a curious process, You dip and dip, 
and seem to make no impression, then, just as you think you 
will never get through, you find that the water is almost 
gone. 

What hook would Iuse? Why, that medium sized one, 
as, big round as the end of one’s thumb, with a ring on the 
shank, and six inches of iron wire fastened to the ring. That 
hook has caught nearly one hundred fish. Some people like 
iwo hooks, one a little above the other, but I haye found a 
simpler rig to be the surest. Never fasten the hook right to 
the line, A big fish may bite it off in two scconds. The 
only time I have tried it in ten years | lost hook and fish on 
the second bite, 

Now for the bait: Cut a piece out of this white perch; 
make it like a thin, slender isosceles triangle, two and a half 
inches long with half an inch base, and stick the hook 
through quite near the large end. When it is trailed through 
the water it will look quite like a little fish. When we get 
a small pike, a picce of his white underneath part will muke 
we best possible bait. This is what the poet, Holmes, says 
of it: 

‘* There’s a slice near the pickerel’s pectoral fins, 
Where the thorax leaves off and the venter begins, 
Which his bro'her suryiyor of fishhooks and lines, 
Though fond of his family, neyer declines. 


“ He loves his relations, he feels theyll be missed, 
But that one little tid bit he cannot resist; 
So your bait may be swallowed, no matter how fast, 
For you catch your next fish with a piece of the last.** 


Now we are all ready to get aboard. Take a seat in the 
bow, I'll take the stern and scull. Throw in as soon as the 
water is two feet deep; keep the line a little shorter than the 
pole, and let the bait drag through the water as a osh would 
swim; keep it six or eight feet off from the boat. The fish 
won't mind us; if we go over a pike he will only sail out to 
the bait. Shake the pole a little, or alternately raise and 
lower the tip. This makes the bait wriggle and run ina 
taking way. Exceptin very deep water don’t get deeper 
than a foot or two, and if the weeds are thick keep yery 
near or on the surface. That heavy sinker near the end of 
the line keeps the bait down and enables one to have better 
and quicker control of it. Steer the bait through any open- 
fhes in the lily vines, the pike are apt to lie there. 

Watch the bait, or the place in the water where it is; if a 
fish takes it he almost always makeaswirl. If anything stops 
the bait if may be a lily stem, or it may be a pike. A little 
experience will tell what is the cause. Bait stopped? That 
is only a weed; pull steady; now itis free. Ha! that was no 
weed, Drop the pole a little. What a pretty swirl he made. 
Now tighten the line gently on him, Feel him there? He 
thinks the little pull of the line is the struggle of his prey. 
Give him about half a minute to get the bait well into his 
mouth. When he moves off jerk sharply against the way 
heis going. Now! Lift him quickly. Ah! he’s gone over 
the other side of the boat. Never mind, he was rather small 
and there are plenty more. In hooking a fish, strike sharply, 
but afterward lift steadily, though rapidly, so that the fish 
will just swing into the boat or into your hands. Don’t 
seize the fish, but the line near—, another bite—Oh! don’t 
jerk the bait right out of hismouth. Slack the line instantly, 
then gently tighten it and wait—there, he has it again. 
That’s right, give him time. If he moves directly away, 
jerk straight up. ‘Try to draw the hook back in the corners 
of his mouth, Now pull. Well landed for No. 1, ~ 

Now we will have » good bait from him, Several in fact. 
Tt don’t spoil him any. It just takes away a little of the 
thin part. 

Throw out there and draw past that old stump. See that 
swirl where a fish jumped at the bait as it left the water, 
Always draw out carefully ina good place, A fish may be 
following the bait, deliberating about it, and finding finally 
that ‘‘Blessings brighten as they take their flight,” may jump 
just as it begins to moye rapidly away. However, try for 
him again. Ripple the bait along the surface and look out 
for a big flounce, There! My! how he made the water fly. 


* The pike of Pennsylyania and New Jersey is the same as the pick- 
erel of New York and New England, 


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Strike quickly now. No; he’s off. Never let a fish run to 
the end of the line without doing something, Hither pay 
out liue, or better still, strike quickly. If you just hold still 
he is not stopped sudden enough tv set the hook, yet he 
thinks something is the matter and lets go the bait, 

Put ona fresh bait and give him another chance, Never 
use a chewed or ragged bait if a good one can be had. There, 
he has it again. See how the water boils up as he works his 
fins. That is a sure sign of a large fish, Now strike. Don’t 
try to lift him; don’t get his head above water. Let him run 
a minute, but keep a tight line. Now tow him round to me 
and L-will také a short bold on the line and lift quickly. 
There he is, anda big one, too. Heis safe, but the hook 
‘ fell out as soon as he was fairly on the bottom of the boat. 
- Examine now his big jaw. See that long slit made by the 
hook. Ji would never have torn past his bony lips, but the 
hook could easily have been shaken out if the line had been 
slackened or the fish had floundered two seconds in the air. 
What will he weigh? Say a pound and a half, a first-rate 
fish. 

__ And this is another good one; no small fish are around 
igre If there were, those big fellows would have some 
~ dinner, 

Now, throw out beyond that group of Jily leaves. Work 
carefully, for the water is clear and shallow. There, that is 
just right. And sce that little swirl ten feet off, and this 
V-shaped ripple going toward the bait. More slowly. There, 
he has it. 

But the water is too shallow here for very large fish, See 
these small ones moving off as the boat nears them. Let us 
go across to that cove on the other side. I hear the fish 
jumping there, and we may get a few on the way over. If 
anything bites, strike quickly, for we will move too fast to 
allow time for chewing, Ha! well hauledin. There—no, 
we were too quick for him, and as he was well lifted from 
the water, he will probably not bite again now. But we will 
mnark the spot, and come around again in a few minutes, 
after he has had time to recover. He is pretty sure to bite 
again. ‘This willingness of the pike to bite a second time, if 
unhurt, renders a tough bait, such as we are using, of great 
advantage. For if you jerk the bait out of his mouth with- 
out hooking him, you keep your bait and he loses it, He 
wonders what became of it, and how it happened to get out 
of his tight grip, ‘Therefore, when he sees it again he is 
likely to take it more quickly and savagely than at first. If, 
however, you use a tender bait and leave it in his mouth, he 
will not bite again till that morsel is stowed away. 

Now let us try along this deep channel. Jf any fish is 
here, he is a big one, and lies deep. 50 put on a large bait, 
and fish well 1nder water. 

_ Can anything be nicer than this gliding along, over the 
slow-moving, clear, ecffee-colored, cedar swamp water, with 
the pine-covered banks on all sides. This is practically the 
piimeyal forest. We are fishing as the Indians might have 
done had they possessed our tackle. What a peculiarly de- 
lightful motion this sculling is. No noise, no apparent 
effort. There is no need of any hope of success to make our 
situation all-satisfying. But we have the hope. and well 
founded too. What's that, asnag orafish? A fish. Then 
wait till he runs. He ought to be a big one, for this is very 
deep water. Whew! how he rushes. Don’t pay out any 
line, keep the point of the rod down when he comes to the 
top of the water. Hold him back from those weeds. Now 
bring the line round slowly. There he is, a good three- 
pounder. Knock him on the head to stop his struggles, 
see how broad and deep he is, and what a pauach he has. 
He must have just breakfasted on a fourteen-inch relation. 

Noy let us turn toward the landing place, for the sun is 
too bright lor further fishing. Straighten out the fish so 
that we can see them. Sixteen in all. One of three pounds, 
two over one pound, none of them very small, ‘That is first- 
rate for a beginner. a: 


FISHING AT BUZZARD BAY. 


OW often information, a direction or a letter published 
in your valuable journal will give great enjoyment to 
its readers. Let me thank one of your correspondents, ‘‘The 
Doctor,” for pleasant fishing jaunts, and many happy days 
spent amoung the good kind people of Cade Cod. See For- 
EST AND SPREAM, Oct. 24, 1878, page 245, correspondence 
headed ‘‘Bass Fishing at Cohasset,” signed ‘‘The Doctor.” 
When I read that very excellent letter it fully determined 
me to make the same trip. I never filed away that number 
of Forms? AND STREAM; it is before me now. But not till 
the summer of *82 did I carry out the full instructions so 
carefully and truthfully given in ‘‘The Doctor’s” letter. I 
took the Fall River boat to Fall River, thence by Oll Colony 
Railroad to Cohasset Narrows (now called Buzzard Bay) via 
Middleboro; stopped at Parker’s comfortable hostelry; saw 
the fish caught as ‘‘The Doctor” describes; did not catch 
any ourselves, not having proper tackle for striped buss and 
bluefish, but determined to return next summer properly 
armed, 

We, still following ‘“‘The Doctor’s” directions, took the 
train down to that quaint old fishing town Provincetown. 
Fresh salt breezes, liearty appetite and good people made. the 
trip a joyous happy one. ‘I'he outlook from High-pole Hill 
is indeed charming and very extensive; white breakers line 
the shore, pretty Cape Cod Bay, sailing vessels, and the blue 
ocean form a delightful picture from that eminence; and if 
you are a single man be very very careful of the bright eyes 
of those smart and intelhgent young ladies of pretty Proy- 
incetown. 

On my next trip to Cape Cod we varied the route, and 
found it a very pleasant one, July 17, 788, found me aboard 
the magnificent steamer the Pilgrim. A joy was in store not 
anticipated by me. Down the wharf came Cappa’s splen- 
did baud, followed by that gallant body of gentlemen the 
veteran corps of New York’s favorite Seventh regiment, 
The Pilgrim’s great paddles turned, rounding the Battery, 
boat and corps flags flying. 

Wext morning we parted with the gallant corps, taking 
railroad to the beautiful city of New Bedford, thence by 
steamer to the blutts of Martha’s Vinyard, where if you wish 
to stop a while, pure air, comfort, elegance and good society 
await you. On again by steamer to quiet, sea-girt, pleasant 
Nantucket, Another steamboat ride carries you to Wood's 
Holl (salt-water fishing is said to he good here). Thena 
short railroad ride brings you to Buzzard Bay. Now for 
fish at last. Take a short stout rod, with 600 feet of cable 
laid line on a large multiplying reel, go to the railroad 
bridge, the tide rushing rapidly out to the bay, let out 100 or 
150 yards of line (after baiting a strong hook with menhaden 
or small eel) and when a bluefish bites, you will think fora 
moment that a portion of Plymouth Rock has struck the end 
of your rod: it will test your rod and reel, and well try 


your strength to walk to the beach at the end of the bridge 
and reel your fish in against the rapid waters, combined 
with the power of a nine or ten-pound bluefish wishing to go 
the other way, And what joy (providing you get the fish in) 
to see his bright sides lie on the white sandy beach, It is 
Tare, exciting sport, as ‘'The Doctor” truly writes. His re- 
marks are also quite correct about the striped bass fishing to 
be had, also off the same bridge. 

Buzzard Bay is beautiful and healthy, with fresh galt 
water breezes constantly blowing over the cape. Yachting 
is excellent. Sharks can be caught if parties like that kind 
of fishing. We caught quite a large one off Wing’s Neck. 
A pleasant visit can be made to Onset Bay (close by), where 
is held the annual camp meeting of the Spiritualists. 

How I should like to see ‘‘Kingfisher” on that bridge at 
Buzzard Bay, with rod and reel and 100 yards of line out in 
the rushing, roaring out-going tide; a ten-pound bluefish on 
his hook, rod bending and reel buzzing. I fancy hearing 
him say, ‘Well, well, well! I only wish Ben, Dan and 
Frank were here. Old Massachusetts for ever!” I hope 
that ‘‘The Doctor’ may see this note and know of the 
pleasure his letter has given to at least one of your readers, 

WILLOUGHBY. 


Sport AT BLoomine Grove Parx.—On May 29 the eyen- 
ing train on the N. Y. L. E. & W, Railway carried about 
fifty members and guests of the Blooming Grove Park Asso- 
ciation to Millville, where teams met them. Seventeen being 
the limit, that number of the paaty drove up to the club 
house, seven miles away, leaving the others at Mr, John 
Deming’s comfortable and delightfully clean and tidy house, 
which is especially fitted for accommodating the club mem- 
bers who choose to remain all night. Decoration Day, all 
having arrived, some went fishing for trout, others walked 
over to the breeding park, some joined in the rifle shooting 
contest fora badge, others in shooting clay-pigeons (‘‘mud 
birds” as Dennis called them) also for a badge. (Scores given 
elsewhere.) Our worthy president, H. W. Nason, captured 
both prizes, then ‘‘went for the boys” in fly-casting, but there 
met his equal in Mr. Frank Martin, who cast two feet further 
than any of the other contestants, Mr. Nason coming out 
second, There were some sweepstakes and private matches, 
and any amount of fun of various descriptions. Evening 
brought its indoor sport. Exchange of stories and very little 
in the line of absolute feats. As far as could be judged all 
were pleased with the housekeeping and gratified at John 
M. Stellenwerfs method of attending to the wants of mem- 
bers and guests. On the 81st, 20,000 trout fry, 400 yearlings 
and two year old trout were turned out in the streams of the 
preserve. Fly-casting.—D, H, Martin 58 feet, H. W. Nason 
56 feet, A. J. Post 53 feet, T. W. B. Hughes 50 feet, W. D. 
Baldwin 48 feet, W. Fielder 48 feet, W. H. McCord 465 feet, 
J. A. Yan Elden 45 feet, G. Hodgman 25 feet. Afterward 
Mr. John M. Stellenwerf, the superintendent, in a private 
trial of five minutes, cast 82 feet. 


Fisming in TEennessey.—Memphis, Tenn , June 6.—It is 
true, we catch no such different varieties of fish as are caught 
in those beautiful lakes of the North, but for black bass and 
speckled perch, I hardly think any Jake can beat those in 
our vicinity. Blackfish Lake is situated due west of Yiem- 
phis in the State of Arkunsas, twenty-five miles from Mem- 
phis, on the Little Rock Railroad. Its name is derived from 
a peculiar kind of perch caught there, which is perfectly 
black, and a gamy little fish. I have seen black bass caught 
with line and troll in the lake, weighing, on pocket scales, 
from seven pounds down, also fine specimeus of speckled 
perch, weighing as high as five and one-half pounds. Last 
season two friends and myself fished in this lake constantly 
and our largest catch on a two days’ fish, using Skinner’s 
fluted troll and cut bait (as we could not conveniently pro- 
cure minnows) was two hundred and sixty pounds of game 
fish. This, I think, your readers will admit to be a splendid 
catch, considering we did not have live minnows. 1| haye 
not been able to visit the lake this season, owing to the ex- 
treme high water, but am making arrangements to go at the 
earliest possible moment. Have heard of some very fine 
catches made this year, the parties reported black bass 
plentiful and biting well. We will let you hear from our 
party when we return, for we certainly expect to make a 
large catch,—J. §, K. 


Misstsguor MaArsues,—Hicheate, Vt.,. June 2,—The 
wiiter returned Saturday from a trouting expedition in the 
Megantic country, The cold weather and bigh water some- 
what interfered with our sport, though our knuwledge of the 
ground enabled us to make a fair catch of S. fontinalis, 
which opened the eyes of the natives. Mr, Parker Leach, 
of this town, and Messrs, Louis Cabot and Harry Dutton, of 
Boston, have leased the Bullard marsh, which lies on the 
south side of the mouth of Missisquoi River in this town. 
This gives the club complete control of the Missisquoi 
marshes, and they intend to protect these grounds during 
the close season, Our thoroughly-determined fish warden, 
Mr, F. H. Atherton, of Waterbury, Yt., up to May 10 had 
seized in this yicinity nine trap nets, three fyke nets and 
seven seines, and has succeeded in breaking the backbone of 
the gang of outlaws who haye been infesting our waters. 
His task has not been an easy one, but his indomitable cour- 
age has given him victory in every encounter with these fish 
pirates, and he will pursue his work until he has completely 
cleared out and stopped this illegal fishing, and I trust that 
the sportsmen of this State will, in a suituble manner, vive 
a public recognition of his services at an early date,—STan- 
STEAD. 


Sport IN CAtLIFoRNIA.—San Buenaventura, Cal., May 24, 
—Our sportsmen are all turning their attention to fishing 
now. 
init. The Ventura River, just at the edge of the town, is a 
fine trout stream, and many an angler has wended his way 
toward ils source and returned with a fine basket. Asa 
matter of course, we have a few trout hogs here, One of 
them caught nearly 300 in one day. The Santa Clara, 
Sespe and Piru rivers, or creeks, in this vicinity also, con- 
tain plenty of trout, especially the Sesze (pronounced Ses- 
pee). No very large trout have been caught, most of them 
averaging from six to ten inches, Our deer killing season 
opens in July, I believe. We have an abundance of them 
in some places, I know of a place within two or three 
miles of this place where I can get one or more almost any 
day, and will as soon as the season opens. But for all that 
they are not as ‘‘thick as ops” about here.—TyPo. 


Mosquito AND Biack Fry.—We have heard many com- 
mendations of the ‘‘black fly cream” prepared by A. 8, 
Hinds, Portland, -Me., as an effective insect repellent, The 
cream is advertised elsewhere. 


We have good fishing in the ocean, but few indulge |. 


_ Me. Hoacianp WILL WELCOME You.—lIn response to the 
Inquiry of a correspondent we print the following from the 
New York Sun in reference to the Pequest, a stream which 
traverses the picturesque valley of the same name, in the 
county ot Warren, New Jersey: ‘“‘For many years thisstream 
has been the favorite resort of a few fishermen, who have 
secretly Known it as one of the best troutstreamsin America, 
The hospitality of the good old farmers along the stream, 
with but few, if any, exeeptions, is proverbial, They seem 
to try to outvie each other in their efforts to make the sports- 
man happy while he is among them, The stream, as it 
passes through the property of Mr. Theodore Hoagland, 
located about midway in the hest fishing ground. is simply 
alive with trout of unusually large size. Two gentlemen are 
said to have taken 289 trout in one and a balf days’ fishing 
this spring, the smallest weighing eleven ounecs and the 
largest three and a quarter pounds. The trout here seem to 
be almost inexhaustible, owing to the many large springs 
which empty themselves into the main stream just at this 
point, thus affording an excellent feeding ground. Mr, 
Hoagland is a wealthy, intelligent, amiable and hospitable 
farmer, with a jolly red face, indicative that he is at peace 
with himself and all mankind. Haying comparatively re- 
tired from active farm duties, he loves to devote his atten- 
tion to the sportsman. He watches the stream for hours in 
the hope of seeing an angler enter his grounds, for his most 
exciting amusement is to observe an artistic fisherman cast 
his fly, and he lends excitement to the sport by his demon- 
strative actions when the artist succeeds in hooking a large 
fish, Mr, H. is rather old to fish himself, but he entertains 
right royally, and expresses himself as being only to happy 
when a real jolly sportsman favors him with a visit. Prob- 
ably the best and pleasantest way to reach this stream is b 
the way of Hackettstown. 1 have no doubt that the propri- 
etor of the American Hotel will be pleased to give the neces- 
sary details, The ride over the mountain is very inyigorat- 
ing, and the view simply superb.” 


THE Maryse Laxres.—Farmington, Me., June 2.—I send 
you copy of Phillips Phonograph, with an item of one day’s 
catch of trout in Oquossoc Lake: ‘‘Mr, Barry, a guest of 
Mr. Tuttle, at Lake Point cottage, brought in a beautiful 
specimen weighing 8 pounds and a fraction; Frank Bacon, 
a young novice, captured a plump 8-pounder; EH. H. Samp- 
son, Hsq., of Boston, brought one to his net that scored 74 
pounds; H. M. Whitney, of Boston, after a desperate strug- 
gle landed a 7-pounder, and Col. Rockwell, also from the 
‘Hub,’ killed one of full 5 pounds weight. Besides these 
monster specimeus a large number of lesser weight were 
brought in and served at the table in Kimball's best style. 
Within a few days there haye been taken from the Tittle 
steamboat wharf in front of the house one trout of 6 pounds, 
one of 5 pounds, one of 34 pounds, and several of minor 
weight, This isa record of which our visiting sportsmen 
are justly proud.” Oquossoe is the most accessible of the 
Rangeley Lakes, being only two hours’ carriage drive from 
the end of the Sand River Railroad. A line of steamers 
connects with the other five lakes that comprise the chain, 
I think the best fishing is to be found on the second lake, 
Mooseluemeguntic. A gentleman told me on my down 
train this morning that he caught, the last day he fished 
(which was Saturday, May 31), three brook trout that 
weighed 17 pounds, being of 8, 6 and 3 pounds.—F. N. B, 


Trou, AnD WATER SNAkns.—EHlmira, N. Y., June 7.—1 
noticed in ForEsT AND SPREAM of June 5 an account of 
“AH, G.’s” experience with water snakes and trout. Five 
or six years since, on Tim Gray's Run, a tributary of the 
Lycoming, near Ralston, Pa., I was fishing down stream one 
afternoon, and had nearly reached the mouth of the stream, 
I cautiously approached a favorite pool, which was perhaps 
thirty feet across and four feet decp at the center, and began 
casting at the outer edge, gradually working toward the 
middle. 1 was surprised that I did uot have a rise, as I 
always expected to capture eight or ten fine ones there. I 
was about leaving when I had a rise from a small trout at 
the further side of the pool. I cast four or live times at the 
same place, getting a rise each time, as 1 supposed, from the 
same trout, and at Jast fastened to him. But how hard he 
pulled for a small trout! As I drew him near I found a 
water snake oyer two feet long, fastened at about the middle 
of a six-inch trout. I drew them across the pool and as 
much as a yard on the sand before the snake let loose, when 
it made for the water before I could kill it. The marks of 
the teeth were plainly seen on the trout. I don't say the 
trout looked gratefully toward me as I tossed it back into the 
water, but no doubt it felt so. Now, tell meif you can, 
why did that trout try so persistently to take my fly?—W. 
N 


EAGLE River.—Milwaukee, Wis., June 5.—Included in a 
party of three who were in camp at Eagle River, and who in 
ten hours landed twenty-eight muskallonge, the aggregate 
weight of which was 415 pounds, was Fred Taylor, the well- 
known Chicago sportsman, Twelve of the scaly monsters, 
weighing 195 pounds, were captured by Mr. Taylor, who 
took them to Chicago aud for two days had them on ex- 
hibition in front of his place of business, nicely packed in 
ice. During the time they were so exhibited it required the 
attendance of two policemen to keep a passageway open on 
the sidewalk, so great was the crowd attracted by the mus- 
kallonge, A placard announced from whence they came, 
on the Lake Shore road, and it is noticeable that imquiries 
from Chicago made to the Lake Shore's passenger depart- 
ment, regarding rates, desirable fishing grounds, facilities 
for supplies, ete., have materially increased in number since 
Mr. Taylor’s free exhibition. ‘ 


Tap Arrican Pompano,—In a late number of Forest 
AnD STREAM is a note on the so-called ‘‘African pompano,” 
of our Florida coast, to which I may be able to add some- 
thing. This large pompano, which is rather common in 
Southern Florida and Cuba, is not an overgrown form of the 
common pompano, but a distinct species; nor, so tar as we 
kuow, bas it anything to do with Africa or with the African 
Trachynotus goreénsix, with which Dr. Ginther, and after 
him several American writers have confounded it. Ts right 
name seems to be Trachynolus rhodopus. Ttis known in 
Cuba as ‘‘palometa,” which means dove, and in Florida as 
“permit,” which is x corruption of palometa, There are four 
species of pompano known on our southern coasts and in 
the West Indies. (1.) Zrachynotus curolinus, the true pom- 


pano; (2.) Zrachynotus rhodopus, the big pompano or permit; 
(8.) Lrachynotus rhomboides, the round pompano; (4) Tra- 
chynotus glaucus, the gaittopsail or banner pompano,— 
Dayip 8, JorDaN. 


Pound Nets Serzmp iy tax Hupsoyx.—On Friday last, 
Mr. Matthew Kennedy. Game Protector, assisted by Deputy 
Sheriff Hallenbeck, of Hudson, and a representative of 
Forest AND SrReEAM, fook a steamer from Hudson and 
went down to Rhinebeck. They captured eight pound nets 
and took them back. The nets were all new and cost from 
$200 to $400 each. Last year there was one pound net put 
in the river and its success encouraged others. It is safe to 
say that the offense wil] not be repeated, as the men are 
mourning their loss and the prospect of being fined an 
amount equal to the cost of their nets, These nets were all 
between Rhinebeck and Claverack, and the meshes were 24 
inch, just right to take small fish, We saw white perch in 
the nets which would not weigh two ounces. The drift net 
and seine fishermen are rejoicing. 


Barnegat Bay.—Forked River. N. J., June 9.—Weak- 
fish are now coming into Barnegat Bay, and a number have 
already been taken with hook and line. Sheepshead are now 
here and biting well, and in the course of a few days we 
shal] have some fine sport. his place is about three hours 
from New York yia Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. 
There are one or two good hotels and, unlike most of the 
places on Barnegat Bay, we are situated directly on the 
water, thus avoiding Jong rides to the bay. Parties intend- 
ing to come here would do well to write a few days in ad- 
vance either to Capt. Thomas Potter or Gapt. Forman 
Mathews, so as to have bait, etc., ready, as the hotels are 
quite full and the boats well patronized most of the time,—A. 


Trou in Connecticut,—An official of the Hartford and 
Connecticut Western Railroad, writes under date of June 4: 
I wonder if trout fishing is as good everywhere as it is on 
our toad this season; we are having parties from both ends 
daily, They go from Hartford and come from Rhinebeck 
on the Hudson, where we connect with the New York Cen- 
tral railroad, and they all report more trout than there have 
been before for years, very plenty and good size. Two 
anglers came in to Hartford the other night after one day's 
fishing with 200 trout. Another the next night with sixty, 
and the next night two with each a large string, and they all 
report the sport so fine it’s giving us quite a travel among 
fishermen.—A., J. J, 


News From tam Bucrram.—tIn camp on the Tiadatton 
(Big Pine Creck). Have had one glorious week anyhow. 
Shall eo on down stream next week. Have a chance to send 
this out to-day, so T write. Will write up the log and for- 
ward it, if my paper has stood the pack-basket. The cruise 
has been aratter on the Bucktail. Her keel and garboards 
look as though she had been used asa stone boat. But, as 
the river broadens and deepens she jumps fewer stones, and 
the cruise becomes more tame, §0 far, about the only use 

forthe doubleblade has been to keep her off the rocks, I 
~ am full fed of fish, well slept on browse, and on the whole, 
content, It cannot last forever—more’s the pity, —NrssMuK, 


GurtA PmrcHaA Cramentr ror Rops.—I wish to express 
my thanks to Mr. Wells for the articles he has written on 
rod making. I can add that a gutta percha cement which 
does not have the horrid smell that he speaks of as so un- 
pleasant in that used by shoemakers, ete., can be made by 
dissolying gutta percha in chioroform, which is a better dis- 
solvant than the bi-sulphide of carbon, the latter being used 
in the common article because of cheapness. The strongest 
and best gutta percha is found af rubber stores in thin 
whitish sheets, looking somewhat like birch bark (thin). It 
Me pase in the chloroform (if left a few hours) perfectly. 


Rock Bass my tam Monawk.—Albany, May 31.—The bass 
(rock) are being caught now im the Mohawk in great quan- 
tities. Two of us on Decoration Day caught about one 
hundred, some being about nine inches in length and quite 
es ae did not see any black bass, nor did we want to.— 


WHEAKFISID are biting and the Staten Island fishing resorts 
are crowded with fishers. At Prince’s Bay, where is the 
New York Fishing Club House, August Collins, of New 
York, this week caught a weakfish weighing seyen pounds 
three ounces, said to be the largest taken there for many 
years. 


Aprmonpack Prine PLrayriye.—William Pickhardt, for- 
ester and general superintendent of the Adirondack Club’s 
tract in the southwest part of Essex county, last week sowed 
seven bushels of white pine seeds upon their Jands. The 
seeds came from Maine, where they were threshed from the 
cones, : 


Hishenliure, 


DESTRUCTION OF OYSTERS BY NATURAL 
MEANS. 


Y far the greater damage done to oyster beds, in certain 
rezionus at least, result from the ravages of two natural 
enemies, the common starfish (Asterias vulgaris and A. for- 
besit) and the oyster drill (Urosalping cinerea). The natural 
history of the former and the mode of operation of both are 
so peculiar as well as destructive and so little known thata 
description of each would not be out of place. 

Asterias vulgaris is the common starfish north of Cape Cod, 
while Asterias forbesid is common south of that point, but 
both overlapping and running into each other, while their 
Gifferences are so slight that it requires an expert eye to dis- 
tinguish between them. Asis common in most starfishes, the 
number of rays or arms are five, radiating from a central 
disk. The aspect of the starfish above is such that the com- 
mon name, starfish, can be easily accounted for. All of the 
rays as well as the disk, upon its upper surface, are coyered 
with spines placed near together, ee a frame work or skele- 
ton of calcareous matter not visible naturally and exposed 
only when dried and examined closely, or better by placing in 
weak caustic potash. A little to one side of the center of the 
disk and near the angle found by two of the arms, is a small 
plate called the “madreporic body” on account of its resem- 
blance to madrepore coral, which, if examined with a pocket 
lens, will show this resemblance very well. 

_ The object and use of this body will be explained presently. 
The under side of each arm contains several rows of suckers, 
placed in the middle and extending from the tip to the center 
of the under side of the disc, to which all the rows converge. 
Just at the center is a circular opening which serves as a 
month, and is protected by five sets of teeth, each set being 
composed of six spicules. Just outside of each row of suckers 
is a Tow of spines on each side, which can be and are closed 


bh. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


over the suckers when they are not in use, meeting in the cen- 
ter so as to form a complete protection. Outside of these are 
other rows which merge gradually into the spines upon the 
dorsal surface. At the tip of each arm is an eye which is very 
primitive, but prebably of some use. If one of the suckers be 
examined it will be found to be composed of a blind tube, 
opening into the interior of the animal, but presenting the 
closed end outward, If followed the sucker will be found to 
pass inside of the animal through an opening in the frame 
work of the under surface, each sucker passing through a sepa- 
rate opening, All of thesuckersin each arm connect with a tube 
which passes through the arm, allof the five tubes meeting 
near the gullet and forming a tube which connects with the 
“madreporic body.” Water enters this body, which serves 
the purpose of a sieve, straining the water, and thus prevent- 
ing the entrance of foreign particles; then passing through the 
circular tube into each of the five branches, and from there 
into the suckers. By contraction of any sucker tho water is 
forced out into a secondary vesicle, there being one to each 
sucker, and when it is needed that the sucker should be filled 
again, this vesicle contracts, thus driving the water back again 
into thesucker, By applying the end of a sucker to a rod or 
other object and then contracting the muscles and driving 
the water out, the sucker sucks, acting just like a boy’s leather 
sucker, and it is by this means that the animal moves around 
from place to place, frequently with a rapidity which would 
not be expected from such an inanimate looking creature, 

Upon. all the spines of the starfish are little pincher-like 
objects called pedicellarize, which serve the purpose of remoy- 
ing foreign particles which may happen to fall upon the back. 
By placing the hand near a live starfish in water, the pedicel- 
larize will grasp the hairs wpon the hand and hold on with 
such power that the starfish can be taken out of water by this 
means, The apparently independent action of these bodies 
led to the former belief that they were not a part of the star- 
fish, but parasites upon it. Other species of starfishes may 
haye as many as thirty-sixrays, In basket stars (Astrophyton), 
the primary five rays divide and subdivide toward the end, 
until several thousand are the result, 

In regard to its habit of eating, the starfish presents its 
greatest peculiarity. Its mouth being small, the first sup- 
position would be that it lived upon small animals, which is 
not the case, but on the contrary, oysters and mussels form its 
chief food, Approaching an oyster it crawls upon it and 
bends its arms down over, partly encircling it. The starfish 
then protrudes its stomach from its mouth, surrounding the 
oyster with it, and remaining in this position actually digests 
and absorbs the oyster with its stomach completely outside of 
the mouth. This operation can be watched at any time by 
placing a mussel or oyster in a dish of salb water containing a 
starfish. The manner in which the soft parts of a shellfish are 
thus digested without injuring or breaking the shell is a 
mystery, unless we suppose that some fiuid is secreted which 
paralyzes the oyster. Certain we are that it does digest it 
without leaving any mark upon the shell, and it must have 
some means of opening the tightly closed shell in .order that 
the digestive fluid may act. species of deep sea starfish con- 
tained a large sea urchin within the mouth, and it seems from 
this, that certain species do eat in a normal way. 

It may not be out of place to mention here the proper way 
to keep starfishes so that their natural shape shall be pre- 
served, this not being well Known to marine collectors gener- 
ally. By simply allowing them to dry naturally they entirely 
lose their shape and flatten down toashapeless mass. Kill 
them in fresh water and then dry in an oven, or, still better, 
kill in aleohol and diy in the sun or in an oven, and the natural 
shape will be well preserved. Upon the southern coast of 
New England starfishes advance in immense ‘‘schools,” deyas- 
tating large fields in a short time. As these animals form yal- 
uable manure, it would be worth the trouble of the oyster- 
men to obtain them for this, purpose. It was formerly the 
stupid habit of the oystermen to cut the Starfish into tyo, 
three or four pieces, not knowing that each piece would in 
time reproduce itself, and form two, three or four perfect 
animals instead of the one started with and supposed to be 
destroyed, 

The other pest, Urosalpinx, is a univyalve shell, not differing 
in any marked respect froin the ordinary marine gasteropods. 
It is very small and inoffensive-looking, but is capable of most 
disastrous work. All gasteropods possess what is called an 
‘‘odontophore,” or tongue. This consists of an elastic strap, 
upon which are arranged transverse rows of teeth. Hach end 
of the strap is worked by muscles, which, alternately con- 
tracting, cause the toothed strap to work backward and for- 
ward over the end of a pulley. The strap consequently acts 
after the fashion of a chain saw upon any substance to which 
it is applied, and the resulting wear and tear of its anterior 
teeth are made good by the incessant development of new 
teeth in the secreting sac, in which the hinder end of the strap 
islodged. As the anterior teeth are worn down they are ab- 
sorbed, and others formed in the sac take their place. The 
“oyster drill” approaches the oyster, and, placing the end of 
its pulley upon the shell, begins working his apparatus, and 
continues until a perfectly round hole is the result, for the 
soft carbonate of lime resists but poorly the continuous action 
of these siliceous teeth, The hole is always round and prettily 
made. Holes made by other similar species may frequently 
be seen in dead valves of shells washed ashore on beaches. 
Once getting the hole made, the rest is easy, for by applying 
its strap in a similar manner to the flesh, the oyster may be 
literally rasped up and eaten. Of course a whole oyster can- 
not be eaten by one little oyster drill, but it is probable that 
after eating his fill he moves off and attacks another. The 
oyster partly killed probably allows its shell to open, and then 
it is devoured by crabs (Panopeus) and the like. ‘The “drill” 
is the oyster’s worst enemy, for it will flourish in brackish 
water, while starfish need salt. Oyster beds upon the south- 
ern coast of New England suffer much more from starfish 
than do those in the Chesapeake, for this very reason. 

RALPH §. TARR. 


DISTRIBUTION OF CATFISH,—The Potomac River cat- 
fish has at last found a place inthe heart of the U.§, Fish 
Commissioner, and 300 of these fish are now en route to Wis- 
consin in the care of one of the Commission. They willbe 
distributed among the lakes and rivers of the Badger State 
and allowed to grow up with the country, For many years 
catfish were considered Eek food by Washingtonians unless it 
was the negroes, and they preferred any other variety, but 
of late they have come into the market and are extensivel 
used for making chowder, Someresidents of the capital declare 
they are better food fishes than the German carp, which is 
being so extensively propagated by the Government. The 
same car that carried catfish to Wisconsin also carried 
the last shipment of Potomac shad for this season. The ship- 
ment consisted of 950,000 young fish, They willbe distributed 
in the waters of Colorado. The station on Sixth street and 
the cars will soon be arranged for the fall distribution of 
young German carp.—Homo, 


MOSS FOR CRAYFISH.—The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald 
says that Capt. M. Hughes has discovered that the use of a 
layer of Spanish moss in a dike or dam prevents the damag- 
ing work of craylish in boring holes through them. 


There is a controversy as to whether an eagle will sit on a 
limb and let himself become encased inice. Edward P. Roe 
related an instance of that kind, and his accuracy was ques- 
tioned. John Holder now tells how, at Bloomington, Il, he 
had an eagle brought to him covered by ice so completely that 
it could nob move legs or wings, fell from the tree on which it 
had perched, and was captured by a boy, 


389 


The Kennel, 


FIXTURES, 
BHNCH SHOWS. 


June 10, 11,12 and 18.—The Second Annual International Bench 
Show Chicago, Il. Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Mr. P. C. 
De Saque, Secretary. 

Oct, 5, 9,10 and 11,—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn, EH, $, Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn, 

Oct. 14,—Non-sporting Bench Show of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, Madison Square Garden, New York, Mr. Charles Lincoln, 
Supermtendent, ; ; 


AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER. 
UR little monthly contemporary, the dinerican Kennel Register, 
continues fo meet with great fayor on all hands. The best evi- 
dence thatit was needed is seen in the anxiety of breeders and own- 
ers to register their stock, The June number runs up the entries to 
between 1800 and 1400, and the pressure for entries is so great that 
this month’s Register is again enlarged to twenty pages. The Register 
started fifteen months ago, asa twelve page paper, but for several 
months now it has been regularly printing sixteen and twenty pages, 
which is certainly a good deal for the merely nominal subscription 
price—one dollar. lt isa complete record of all events interesting 
to dog-owners and breeders, 


THE CHICAGO DOG SHOW. 
[Special to Forest and Stream,| 
CHIcAGo, June 10, 1884, 
"pes opening day of the second grand international bench 
show at D Battery Armory was all that could be desired 
in point of exhibits an The Hon. Carter H, Har- 


attendance. 


‘rison, Mayor of the city, formally opened the show at 8:30 in 


the eyening with a happy speech, The judges are Messrs. 

Mortimer and Taylor, and awards were made Tuesday in the 

English, Irish and Gordon setter classes. The champion Eng- 

lish setter prize went to W. B, Gates’s Paul Gladstone; extra 

eet prize Hnglish setter bitches, W. B. Shattuck’s 
ido IT. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I visited the last New York dog show with the ayowed 
intention of examining critically and thoroughly both the 
large and small size champion pointers, having in view chiefly 
Beaufort, Meteor and Bang Bang. The attendants of the two 
first named dogs allowed me to see them out of their stalls, 
and after a most thorough examination I could arrive at but 
one opinion, viz., that Beaufort is by far the grandest pointer 
I have ever seen, barring none. I did not arrive at this con- 
viction hastily, but studied them well from head to foot. My 
conviction was strengthened by corroboration on the part of 
several of the oldest and best pointer men, who not only have 
bred pointers, but won with them after they had bred them 
against all comers. Imagine, therefore, my surprise atter 
the show to read Mr. Cornell’s remarks, wherein hie states 
that Beaufort’s “legs are extremely bad, being crooked fore 
and aft.” I was dumbfounded at such words, and still believe 
my original criticism of the dog was correct. I again ex- 
arnined him more critically than before, only to be convinced 
he has the most magnificent set of legs and feet that ever a 
pointer stood upon, and not only that, but his hindlegs are 
most beautifully crooked as they should be. Mr. Cornel] is 
evidently much at fault here, and when speaking of Beaufort’s 
legs must have had Bang Bang’s,in his mind, which are 
wotully straight at the stifles, a most glaring fault. It seems 
strange that Mr. Mason, with his extended knowledge of 
pointers, would pay $1,000 in good money for a dog with bad 
legs fore and att. 

The articles in your paper after the Washington show of 
1883, both by your editor and Mr. Mason before he owned 
Beaufort, spoke only a part of his beauty. Mr. Cornell further 
adds that Bang Bang is the most strikingly handsome pointer 
dog in America. How Mz. Cornell, the Secretary of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, can make such a statement, Iam ata loss 
to understand, He must either be sadly deficient in knowledge 
of the points of the dog, or is carried away with the fancied 
superiority of his dog as viewed by his partial eyes. The first 
thing that struck me as [was examining him in his sta was 
his “black eyes and black nose,” Is this a charming attribute 
of a lemon and white pointer? Stonehenge says itis not ad- 
tiissible. Vero Shaw, in his article on pointers says, that in a 
lemon and white pointer this blemish is “sufficient for dis- 
qualification.” How in the face of such authority as Stone- 
henge and Vero Shaw can Mr. Cornell still claim that ‘Bang 
Bang is the most strikingly handsome dog in America.” Per- 
haps the first-mamed gentlemen are incompetent to state the 
points of alemon and white pointer. Will he throw lemon 
and white pups? Will some black and white ones creep in 
mysteriously? In that unfortunate event, they should be 
drowned. 

Heretofore Sensation has been held up as the typical pointer. 
Jf such is the case, what shall we do with Meteor? for they 
are opposite types. If Meteor is a good dog, how about Sen- 
sation? The tirst is long on the legs and short in the back, the 
latter short in the legs and long in the back. Which is the 
typical dog? Which shall I breed from? Both cannot be cor- 
rect types. Whoisat fault? The result is that the West- 
minster Kennel Club, instead of enlightening us as to correct 
type, has so confounded us that we areallatsea. Were I 
dependent upon the foregoing I should be equally ata loss 
how to act; but, relying upon my own judgment, I shall breed 
to Beaufort, as he comprehends my highest ideas of what a 
large pointer should be. As a stock getter Beaufort has no 
superior in this country, and is getting very fine stock. Bang 
Bang, on the other hand, I understand, gets black and white 
puppies from every bitch put to him. If so, why is this? It 
was reported at our last show that the Westminster Kennel 
Club offered $500 for Beaufort at the Washington show. 
Would they buy a dog with such glaring faults as they at- 
tribute to Beaufort? If the offer had been accepted they 
would have had at least one pointer to which they could have 
bred their bitches without being obliged to go outside their 
own kennel, 

Mr. Cornell claims Beaufort is throaty. Alllarge dogs are 
throaty, but there is no excuse for a small dog like Bang Bang 
being so, Let us try to improve rather than lead breeders 
astray by statements which are not verified, when lemon and 
white pointer bitches bred to lemon and white stud dogs throw 
black and white pups. A BREEDER OF SPORTING Dogs. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. Cornell displays such lack of knowledge in treating his 
subject that it would seem as if his real motive were only to 
belittle Knickerbocker and Beaufort, and to try to support 
Mr. #, C, Sterling’s most erroneous judging, To say ahelenes 
his letter displays very bad taste and is altogether uncalled 
for.’ His statement that Knickerbocker is ‘‘cowhocked,” needs 
no further commentthan that it would be well for Mr. Cor- 
nell to post himself on subjects of which he is ignorant, before 
passing public opinion. 

Mr. Cornell says ‘‘Meteor was the best of the lot.” Can hs 
conscientiously say so, when Sensation was considered by him 
atypical pointer? Verily, I think them the extremes of one 
another, He further states, ‘‘His (Meteor’s) one important 
fault is that his headis uot handsome, There is almost no 
stop below the eyes and little depth of skull,” Soin head he 
has an important fault; is dish-faced and hasno brain. His 
snipy muzzle, aud at times badly carried ears, he forgets to 
mention, Anda dog witha head that has not a redeeming 


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feature about it, not considering his other faults, he wants to 
See noticed at bench shows and thinks worthy of the title 
“champion.” 

That Knickerbocker is somewhat faulty in parts mentioned 
by Mr. Mason in his able article, “‘Pointers at the Late N, Y- 
Show,” I freely admit. and that he is a better pointer than the 
“plain dog” is saying but little to his credit. r. Cornell has 
either forgotten a great deal about pointers or else needs a 
httle more experience, He finds faults in others’ dogs where 
none exists, butis oblivious to thosé that exist in his own, 
Does he consider Bang Baneg’s short and throaty neck perfect? 
He, a small and young dog! Does he consider him perfect in 
stifles? I must admit his tail looked nice at the late show, but 
when I saw him before, the abundance of coarse hair and 
carriage of that appendage was most marked. Besides. does 
he think black nose and eyes the correct color for a lemon and 
white dog? 

Qn the whole, Mr. Cornell. we are well satisfied with our 
dog. Wili admit of the faults that exist but will always de- 
fend him from abuse, and in conclusion will state that he is 
getting good liver and white and lemon and white stock, and 
we are not troubled with a superabundance of black and white 
pups. Gro, L. WILMs. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

Since you have opened your columns to Mr, Mason to eriti- 
tise, and im my opinion, to misrepresent the pointers at the 
recent New York show, I feel safe in sending you the follow- 
ing, and while it refers only to the dogs in my kennel, I think 
you will accord me the same right to speak in their favor that 
you did Mr. Mason to speak againstthem. My kennel is a 
public one. I advertise my dogs in the stud and my pups for 
sale when [have them. I therefore don’t question any man’s 
right to criticise them, but I. do question his right to misrepre- 
sent them, when his purpose is so palpably to detract from 
their market value and to bolster up the market yalue of his 
own. LItake a great pridein my dogs, but I don’t pretend to 
ignore their value to mein dollars and cents, I would con- 
tinue my breeding kennel just as it is, whether or not I 
ever sold a pup or the service of a dog, My income is from 
another business, no more legitimate nor agreeable than dog 
breeding, but more profitable. To the pride which a breeder 
should feel in winning prizes with his animals in my case is 
the desire to add to their reputation and thus to the market 
value. J hope my position, therefore, will not be misunder- 
stood. When the day arrives, which I believe it will, that [ 
can win prizes with dogsof my own breeding, as I do now 
with dogs which my judgment proes ted meé to select and 
bring together to form my kennel, I will be still prouder than 
T now am, and I will consider them still more valuable than I 
now do. 

To criticise Meteor unfavorably at any other point than his 
head is, in my opinion, either ignorance or malice. If he 
were a trifle deeper through the nose and a trifle higher in the 
skull it would add to his beauty, net awhit to his worth. His 
head is not defective anywhere; it simply might be improved. 
Not a sixteenth of an inch could be added to or taken from 
the length or width of it withoutinjury. If his ears hung a 
trifle closer to his head I would like them better, His eyes 
are faultless. His neck is not equalled by any large pointer 
living. It is as clean and fine asasword. From the back of 
his ears to the tip of his tail the dog is simply faultless, and 
none know it better than his defamers. When he was shown 
in the ring at; New York in the champion class, in competition 
with Beaufort, there was not a well-informed pointer man 
among the spectators who did not see at a glance how far 
superior he was. Beaufort’s handler pressed the dog’s baggy 


throat up with his hand as well as he could and pushed his: 


head up asmuch as possible to make him stand light on his 
fore feet and not expose his Durham bull chest and shoulders, 
and with his other hand he held the dog’s tail out by the tip of 
it to make what otherwise naturally hung limp with a down- 
ward hook at the end look straight. Meteor was cut loose ny 
his handler to move around and show himself naturally, and 
when the judge ordered Beaufort turned loose and he moved 
off like a cow it was his Waterloo, Meteor suffered during 
the four days of the show from an abscess on his cheek, which 
probably a thousand persons every day handled and pinched 
and squeezed, simply because they saw the lump so promi- 
nent, and which burst on the third night of the show. It is 
not to be supposed he felt in very good show fix, but when he 
went into the ring he was in comparison with Beaufort as a 
thoroughbred to a plough horse. I say very freely that I don’t 
feel at all proud of his beating such a dog as Beaufort, for that 
dog’s reputation rests upon ngt a thing but his owner’s adver- 
tisement that he is the handsomest dog in America, The 
honor of his winnings at Washington and New Haven only 
needs to be scrutinized to be appreciated. Meteor’s first ap- 

earanee was at Cincinnati in March last, where in a class of 
Fovintden he won first, under Major Taylor’s judging. He was 
next shown at Toronto, in the same month, and won first un® 
der Mr. John Davidson’s judging, and I am informed Mr. 
Davidson pronounced him the handsomest pointer he ever 
saw. He was next shown in St. Louis, where he won the 
championship without competition, the owner of Faust decid- 
ing not to show his dog against him, and he also won every 
special for best pointer, under Major Taylor’s judging, At 

ew York he won the championship; the sweepstakes and 
all specials, under Mr. H.C, Sterlings judging. Thesoreheads, 
whose dogs could not win, may cast all the reflections they 
please upon Mr. Sterling’s interest in the dogs I exhibited at 
New York, I care nothing for their insinuations. Their re- 
fiections don’t change the fact that Mr. Sterling is one of the 
best judges of a pointer in America, liable as all men are to be 
wroug sometimes. I did not agree with him in all his decis- 
ions at New York, but this is only my opinion against his, I 
certainly thought Maxim entitled to second or third in his class, 
where he enly got vhe. _ cam 

I can’t see why there should be such a contemptible jealousy 
of my winnings. If my competitors will only spend their 
money and get dogs that are worth something, they can win 
prizes too; but just so long as they stick to the raongrels that 
are exhibited and advertised as pointers, just so long will they 
be failures. 1 am willing to go on record as saying that Meteor 
and Bang Bang are (barring the head of each, which, I think, 
could be slightly improved) the best pointer dogs in America, 
and the only type of the pointer to breed to. Had Bang Bang 
been shown in Cleveland in his New York form he would have 
won first, but I believe he was justly beaten there. To-day I 
don’t think he can be beaten by any pointes of his weight in 
America; and I don’t think a pointer willever be bred in 
America, except by chance, from the Glenmark and Girl, and 
Teicle and Lily and cee SOE eae eee will approach 

he true pointer type of Meteor and Bang Bang. 
f 3 : a Joun W. Munson, 
Sr, Lours, Mo. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 

Asa breeder of pointers, I cannot sit still and see a grand 
dog like Beaufort criticised as has been done in these columns 
by Mr. Cornell, I paid a visit to Mr. Mason last week ex- 

ressly to examine Beaufort, and I must say in justice to the 
dog and fairness to his owner, that I have never seen his equal, 
I failed to fiad more than one fault in him, 2 fault to be found 
in every large dog I haye seen. Heisa little throaty. His 
head, body and. tail are perfect, and he stands on the best legs 
and feet | have ever seen on a big dog. Ihave seen some of 
Beaufort’s get, including Fritz, winner in the large-size class 
at the last New York show, and Lam satisfied that Beaufort 
isnot only the best looking pointer we have, but what is of 
more importance, heis the best stock dog. It is worse than 
idle to compare Bang Bang with this dog, tt issilly. Mr, 
Mason’s criticism of Meteor was correct, he is not a shaw dog; 
his remarks about Brayo being a better dog than Bang Bang 1 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


also indorse. Asazstud dog Bang Bang is a failure, I mow 
that he gets black and white puppies from almost every bitch 
put to him; let Mr. Cornell deny this, If Bang Bang is a good 
dog why don't he win Sg under some other judges than 
those appointed by the Westminster Kennel Club? If he has 
a show with Beaufort, why did Mr, Cornell not accept Mr. 
Mason’s challenge? Was it because Mr, Mason insisted on 
having a competent and impartial judge? J will now give Mr, 
Cornell a chance: The most successful American exhibitor 
and breeder of pointers is Mr. Orgill, and he is known to be a 
man that influence cannot reach. I will match Beaufort 
against Bang Bang for any sum he names, or a cup of any 
value, and will agree that Mr. Orgill shall decide which of the 
twois the better dog. Something must be done for bench 
shows. Itis time that dogs, not owners, were judged; until 
this is done we must look for nothing but dissatisfaction, and 
improvement cannot take place, J, H, PHELAN, 
75 Cuirron Piacn, Jersey City. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 
In justice to my old favorite, I will state that all who have 
ever seen Beaufort (with but few exceptions) unhesitatingly 
ergot et him the best large pointer they haye eyer seen, 
e has grand legs and feet and I have hunted him for days 
over the roughest of our country, and I have never yet seen 
him legtired or footsore, and he does not lack points neces- 
sary to make him a good field dog, for no dog possesses more 
natural field qualities and endurance than Beaufort. And 
Mr. Cornell is mistaken about his being ‘‘stilty,” for he is 
not ‘‘stilby,” no matter how you may look at him, and no 
post in America is getting finer stock than Beaufort, and I 
elieve that he will find and point as many birds as any dog 
living. G. H, Nrxon. 
LeEspurG, Va., May 31, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

As I do not wish to be held accountable for anything I have 
not said I beg of you to correct a sentence in my letter to you, 
written last week. The printer makes me say in a sentence 
referring to Beaufort, ‘“His hocks are likewise also bent,” 
What i did say and what I say now is, ‘‘His hocks are also 
bent.” ‘Tjlkewise also” is a little teo much to say. 

Rost, C, CORNELL, 


New York, June 6. 


fiditor Forest and Stream: 

Thad a pointer bitch in the last bench show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, which (deservedly as I think) did not 
take a prize. 

Imagine my surprise a few days after the close of the show 
receiving the following letter signed by the name of a gentle- 
man with whom I haye no acquaintance, whose name has 
become. familiar to me through various controversies car- 
ried on the past year or two in the public newspapers over the 
comparative merits of certain dogs owned by him and those 
owned by the Westminster Kennel Club and others, and over 
questions of the proper and correct manner of judging certain 
breeds of dogs, a gentleman whom I have never seen but 
once, and that when he was pointed out to me at a dog show. 

The letter received by me is as follows: 

Dar Str—A protest, indorsed by fifty exhibitors and breeders of 
pointers, is to be published against the absurd decisions at the late 
N.Y. show. The protesiis already signed by manyof the most in- 
fiuential exhibitors, breeders and clubs. May Il add yours? 

If you have any friends interested in the welfare of the breed I shall 
esteem it a favor if you will ask them to add theirs also. 

An early reply will greatly oblige. Faithfully yours 

CuHaAs, H. Mason. 

No, 49 W. 24th St., New York City, May 21, 1884. 


I did net answer the letter, but I was rather indig- 


nant at it, If it had been signed by an unknown 
name or by one not so spublicly identified with ex- 
hibiting, breeding and judging as Mr. Mason, I should 


have regarded it as the effusion of a young and disappointed 
exhibitor, who, haying for the first time a dog in a bench 
show, had become incensed at not receiving a prize. Buo 
coming from Mr. Mason, I was at a loss how to regard it. 

In your issue of May 29 I notice that a letter, almost similar 
to the one sent me, was received by the manager of the ken- 
nels of J. O. Donner, Esq.. who, as I have been informed, was, 
like me, an unsuccessful aspirant for honors at the last show. 

My curiosity has become intensely aroused on this matter, 
and I shall not be contented until the following two problems 
have been solved: 

First—Has Mr. Mason written to other disappointed exhibi- 
tors any more letters similar to those above mentioned, and 
if so, how many such letters has he sent out? 

Second—W hat were his motives in writing and sending such 
letters? 

The solution of these two questions is of interest, not only 
as a matter of individual curiosity, but also that due weight 
may be given to the protest when it shall appear; and, further, 
perhaps it may prove of value in throwing some light on the 
character and temper of Mr, Mason and on the manner in 
which he conducts, has conducted and may conduct contro- 
versies, present, past and to come, as well as on the methods 
adopted by him to affect public judgment. r 

If through you and your readers I can obtain any answers 
to these questions, I shall feel yery grateful. 

C. D. INGERSOLL. 
Unryersiry CLus, New York, June 7. 


THE NON-SPORTING DOG SHOW. 
fiditor Forest and Stream: 

The managers appointed by the Westminster Kennel Club 
to conduct the show of npn SOLAS Goes, greyhounds, deer- 
hounds and fox-terriers, which will be held in October next at 
Madison Square Garden, New York, cordially invite all those 
interested in the improvement and development of these dogs 
tosend them such suggestions as to premium list, change of 
bench show rules, et¢,, as may occur to them, E 

Communications may be addressed to me at Box 1,512, New 
York post-office, and will be carefully considered by the man- 
agers. CHas. Lincouy, Supt. 


THE BENCH SHOW MEETING. 


Editor. Forest and Stream; ’ c?e. * 
We have only to-day discovered that the circular inyitation 
to American kennel ¢lubs asking a conference at Delmonico’s 
on June 21, named no hour. Kindly state that the time will 
be 5:30 P. M, RoBERT C. CORNELL, See’y W. KE. C. 


THE PROPER SIZE FOR BEAGLES. 
Editar Forest and Stream: 

Your correspondent, “Flat,” in your last issue, advocates a 
large-sized beagle as the best suited for foot packs, while that 
genial writer, ‘‘Lillibullero,” in a preceding number of FOREST 
AND STREAM, condemns fourteen-inch dogs as being too fast 
for the work, and cites an instancein his own experience to 
sustain his position, Both gentlemen being Englishmen and, 
therefore, presumably conversant with the topic, we are glad 
to have their views. But as they are arguing from a British 
standpoint it will be well to see how their opinions will apply 
on this side of the water. i : 

Here hunting with foot packs, exceptin some chance locality, 
is entirely out of the question. The habits of our little Ameri- 
can hare (Lepus sylvaticus), the game on which beagles are 

rincipally hunted, preclude the possibility of any party of 
Fier following the pack or seeing the beauties of the run. 
Our hare when started from his form, generally in some briery 
thicket, flies to the densest cover, the more difficult the ground 
the better it suits his dodging and doubling. Therefore, the 
only way we can use the beagle is with the gun, the shoater 
being stationed on a runway and killing the hare ahead of the 
hounds when opportunity offers. 


‘J, S. Niven’s Frank, 


[Junn 12, 1884. 


9 rr ree ee ee 
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For this purpose, I incline to think, the smaller-sized dog, 
say from eleven to twelve inches, is best suited, for the reason) 
that he drives his game slower and gives more chances for: 
shots, Larger beagles go too fast, and the hare, in danger of 
being run into and killed, turns down the first convenient 
woodchuck hole or takes refuge under a rock, and thus ends’ 
me on BHES : 

ope this question of the proper working size of beagles 
will be discussed at length in the Forust aap STREAM, Said 
that we will hear further on a subject so pleasantly opened 
by ‘Flat? and ‘‘Lillibulero.” RUSTICUS. 


PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB.—It is the wish of the 
Philadelphia Kennel Club that the readers of the Forest anp 
STREAM should know that they are not connected with the 
Philadelphia Kennels, The former is an association of canine 
lovers, who haye clubbed together for the purpose of hotding 
yearly dog shows and field trials, Their rooms are situated 
on the corner of Thirteenth and Market streets, to which all 
communications should be addressed. The Philadelphia Ken-— 
nels are owned by a firm known as the Bird Food Company, 
which does business on Highth street near Locust, and deals, 
generally in canary birds, chickens, ferrets, etc. This state— 
ment is made for the reason that the Philadelphia Kennel 
Club is daily receiving letters in answer to an advertisement. 
in FOREST AND STREAM of the Bird Food Company, or Phila- 
delphia Kennels.—Homo. 


THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.—_In September, 1879, I 
chanced to fall in with poor Daye Sanborn, who was then 
giving Count Noble his first field lessons in Martin county,. 
Minn, I got quite interested in his method of training, and 
for several days shot to his handling, On one oecasion a covey 
rose wild from a piece of tall corn, and on entering it we 
found Count and his companion lying close, both having 
doubtless dropped to wing. Dave instantly drew his whip, 
and commenced lashing poor Count, although from their rela-- 
tive positions it was evident that the flush had been made by 
the older dog. Of course, I was indignant at such gross injus- 
tice, but to my warm expostulation Dave quietly replied; ‘'It. 
may beso; there’s no telling; but in such cases Lalways give, 
a puppy the benefit of the doubt.”—W auz»r (Glen Allen, Va,),. 


PROPOSED ENGLISH BEAGLE CLUB.—A correspondent; 
writes to the London Field: “I think there would be little, 
difficulty in getting enough members to form an Hnglish 
Beagle Club. As regards forming a proper standard for judg- 
ing, I consider we cannot do better than judge our pets by the: 
standard laid down by the American Buglish Beagle Club, 
which J think is as near the mark of what a true beagle should 


be as possible. I inclose a copy of the same, and shall be 
pleased to send a copy to any brother fancier who would like 
one. I shall be pleased to hear from any brother fanciers on 


the club subject; and could not a meeting be arranged during 
the Palace dog show in July?” 


CLOVER BELLE.—At the late show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, the Messrs. Rutherfurd, at the request of the 
Clovernook Kennel, had their kennelman examine the fox-ter- 
rier puppy Clover Belle, to ascertain, if possible, her correct 
pedigree. He pronounced her to be indisputably by Joker 
out of Warren Wakeful, not by Joker out of Warren Bessie, 
as catalogued. The mistake came about through the fact that, 
she, in company with some twenty other puppies, were sold 
by the Messrs. Rutherfurd at auction, and it was impossible 
subsequently to identify her without their kKennelman’s assist- 
ance.—_CLOVERNOOK KENNEL. 


NEW ENGLAND KENNEL CLUB.—This new organiza- 
tion, formed in Boston, has secured very fine rooms at 15% 
Tremont street. in the new Emerson piano building, and an 
opening will be given in June. The apartments are yery 
pleasant and overlook the Common, taking in a full length of 
the green. A bench show, under the auspices of the club, will 
yery probably be given some timein February next, the next, 
sixty days deciding the matter—Homo. 


BEAGLE IMPORTATION,—Philadelphia, June 7.—WMditox 
Forest and Stream: I have entered my beagles, two dogs and 
a bitch, at the Crystal Palace Bench Show, July 1 to 4, 1884. 
Purchased from Edwin 8. Carew Gibson, of Sussex, England, 
They will be imported at an early date, when you will receive 
a full description of them. They are of the celebrated Crane 
stock.-—W. H. ASHBURNER. 


SPANIEL IMPORTATION.—E£ditor Forest and Stream: I 
notice in your last issue that you give Mr. Laidlaw credit of 
importing the cocker spaniel bitch Newton Abbot Lady from 
Mr. Jacobs. I wish you would say in your next issue that I 
imported her and sold her to Mr. Laidlaw after she landed in 
New York.—G, W. Leavirr (Boston, Mass., May 26). 


AN IRISH DAVERACK.—The following advertisement 
appeared ina late Baltimore paper: ‘‘Forsale. An Irish set- 
ter one year old, guaranteed of Laverack stock—father cost 
$500. Sold because owner is going to Hurope.” 


HE HAS A DOG.—Capt. Robert W. Andrews, age 93, is 
now afoot from Sumter county, South Carolina, to Mame. 
He is accompanied by a dog which is not more than half as 


old as he is, 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To sure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal; 


1, Color. §. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 
3. Sex, 7. Sire, with his sire and dam, 
4, Age, or i 8. Owner of sire. | 
5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam, 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 


All names must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer's name. 
NAMES CLAIMED. 
See instructions at head of this colunmn. . 
lla, By Miss Sai an bert ESR iil., for red Trish setter 
itch, whelped Jan. 21, 188: encho—Bess). : 
veil. By Mr. Eberhard Vollmer, Trenton, N.J., for red Irish setter 
bitch, whelped Jan, 21, 1884 (Glencho—Bess). { 
Juliet. By Mr. Wim. KR. Caminoni, Brooklyn, N. Y., forred Ivish 
setter bitch, whelped Jan. 21, 1884 (Glencho—Bess). , 
Lou. By Mr, Jerome B. Wheeler, New York, for red frish setter 
bitch, whelped Jan. 21, 1884 (Glencho—Bess). ; ’ 
Martha. By Mr, Walter B. Peet, New York, for red Irish setter 
bitch, whel Jan. 21, 1884 (Glencho—Bess), ; 
Norah. By Mr. Theodore Peroe, Madalin. N. Y,, for red Irish setter 
biteh, whelped Jan, 21, 1884 (Glencho—Bess). ier 
Fannie Qbo. By Mr. H, C. Bronsdon, for black cocker spaniel bitch, 
whelped April 29, 1884 (Smut—Obo IL.). BN 
Belfast, Gorham. Goodmin, Seth, Tom, Lizzie and Maud, By 
Major Loyejoy, Bethel, Me., for_red Irish setters, whelped May 15, 
184 (G. F. Crawford's ‘Atlington—Maggie O*More, A.K.R, 981). 
NAMES CHANGED, 
See instructions at head of this column. ; 
ee lo Marmion. Mastiff dog, whelped March 4, 1884 (champion 
Brenda, A.K.R. 1143), owned by the Stawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, 
Mass. 


BRED. 
Es— See instructions at head of this column. a 
Nellie—Frank, Dr. J. 8. Niven’s (London, Ont.) cocker spaniel 
jich Nellie to his Frank, ‘ 
wack Bess—Frank, Dr. J. S$, Niven’s (London, Ont.) cocker spaniel 


bitch Black Bess to his Frank. we) 
"Plora—Frank. Mr. Dan O’Shea’s coeker spaniel hitch Flora to Dr. 


Norah—Garryowen, Dr. J. §. Niyen’s (London, Ont.) Irish terrier 


Norah to his Garryowen. 


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~ Junm 42, 1884.] 


: | 
dy Vinem—Maa Adler, Dr. G.I. Royee's white and mouse Eng- 
Nae Sana an Tee Vinem (Count Custér—Lady Rose) to Max 


lay 4. 

a Dijrerin—Crosteth, Mr, J, C. Heckecher’s poston bitch Lady 
Dufferin to Mr. A. 1, En idaiiriy's Croxteth, May 12. 

Fan Fun—Crovteth. Mr, J, O. Donner’s pointer bitch Fan Fan to 
Mv. A. B, Goddetiroy's Croxteth, May 20, é . 

Vinne—Croateth. Mr, A, i. Goddefiroy's pointer bitch Vinne to 
his Croxteth, June 5. : 
_ Dot 1.—Scamp. Mer. Jolin A. Graham’s black, white'and tan setter 
bitch Dot 11. (Rex—Dot) to Scamp (Fred—Flora), April 26; . 

Laty N.—Joe Hinds. Mr. John A. Graham's liyer and white 
Bien, iat ad N, (Marshall—Talulah) to Joe Hinds (Hindoo— 

ieht), May 18,. x 

Flora Ti—Black Prince, Mir, Charles Wray's (Monsey. NY ) cocker 
spaniel bitch Mora IT, (Cumming’s Flora—Cumming's Snipe) to Mr, 
A. ©, Wilmerding’s Blagk Prince (A. K.R. 62), May 31, : ‘ 

Rose—Jack, Mr. H. #, E)ston’s dark red Trish setter bitch Rose 
perenese Huth) to Mr. Geo, W, Whelen’s Jack (Hicho—Nettie), 

une 1, . 

Beduty—Nupoleon. Mr, W. D. Peck's (New Haven, Ct.) pug biteh 
Beauty to his Napoleon, June 6, ; , 

Crickei—Rannermun. Mr, Arthur M. Wood's (West Philadelphia, 
Pa.) English beasle bitch Cricket (Bugler—Pitts) to Mr, Louis D, 
Sloan’s imported Bannerman, May 26. 

Kitty Wells—hyitz. Mr, J, H.'Thompson, Jr.’s (Patterson, N, Y.) 
Hointer bitch Kitty Wells (A,K,R. 1043) to his Writa (A.K-R. 268), 

une 4. ‘ 

Grand Duke—Rosy, Hon, Wdinund Sandy’s bull-terrier bitch Rosy 
to Méssrs. R. & W. Livingston's champion Grand Duke (Hink's Dutch 
—Youne Magnet), May 11. + F 

Ruby O More—Nimrod. The Ashmont Kennel’s red Trish setter 
bitch Ruby O’More (A.K.R, 689) to their champion Nimrod (A,K,R, 
681), May 28. Ae 

Madye—Hero IT. The Ashmont Kemnel’s gray mastiff bitch Madge 
(A.K.R, 548) to their Hero IL. (A-K_R, 545), May 30, Fat 

Lizzie—Hiram. Mx, Jas, Lindsay's (Jersey City, N. J.) collie bitch 
Lizzie (Rex—Topsey) to his Hiram (A.K.R, 882), May 10. cia 

Hairy—Brack, Mr. Jas, Liadsay*s (Jersey Sit, N, J.) collie bitch 
Fairy (Rex—Kitty Mac) to Brack (A.K.R.3), May 13, : 

Nannie 0.—Darnley, Mr. Jas. Lindsay (J piney City, N. J.) collie 
biteh Nannie O. (Rex—Ktily Mac) to Mr. I. Van Schaack’s imported 
Darnley, May 26, ; 

Chiguita—Qberon, Mr, 1. §. Hawks's (Ashfield, Mass.) English 
setter bitch Chiquita (Druid—Pocahoutas) to Mr, P. A, Poster's Oberon 
{Count Noble—Rosalind), May 8. 

Music U7.—Ringwood. Myr. H, 5. Hawks’s (Ashfield, Mass.) beagle 
bitch Musie (T, (Flute—Victress) to Mr. N, Elmore’s imported Ring- 


wood, May 13. 
ees WHELPS. 


(> See instructions at head of this column. 

Cricket, Mr. John Drus's (Little Rock, Ark.) Irish water spaniel 
bitch fee May 10, eleven (six dogs), hy cocker spaniel Lou; all 
solid liver, 

Myrile, Mr. Louis D, Sloan’s (West Philadelphia, Pa.) imported 
heagle bitch Myrtle, June 1, five (three aoe). by Mr, Crane's (South- 
over House, Eng.) champion beagle Marchboy. 

Little Maggie. Messrs. R. & W. Livinston’s (New York) bull-terrier 
bitch Little Maggie (Hink’s Dutch—Young Venom), May 29, six (five 
dogs), by their champion Grand Duke (Hink’s Dutch—Young Magnet): 
three since dead, i i 
- Fledd. Mr. Jess, M, Whaite’s (Chester, 5. C,) pointer bitch Fleda 
(champion Bow—Flight), June 3, ten (six dogs), by Young Sleaford 
(Lort—Lass), ft 

Graceful. Mr, Luke White’s Graceful, May 22, four (two dogs), by 
champion Bang Bang; three lemon and white and one liver and 
white. 

Grace. Mr, Luke White’s champion Grace, June 1, seven (three 
dogs), by Mr. G. H, Mason’s Beaufort; four liyer and white and three 
lemon and white. ' 

Maggie O' More. Majov Lovejoy's (Bethel, Me,) red Irish setter 
bitch Maggie O’More (A.K.R. 981), May 16, seven (five dogs), by Mr. C, 
F. Orawford’s Arlington. ; : 

Jeannie Nettles. Mr. Jas. Lindsay's (Jersey City, N. J.) imported 
collie bitch Jeannie Nettles (Old Sweep—Lassie), May 2, seven (five 
dogs), by champion Rex (A.K.R. 149). $ Leite 

Beauty, Mr. Jas, Lindsay’s (Jersey City, N. J.) collie bitch easy 
(Ayrshire Laddiec—Moosey), May 7, five (four dogs), by Rex (A.KLR, 
149). , 

Nellie. Mr. Jas. Lindsay’s (Jersey City, N, J.) collie bitch Nellie 
(Rex—Plora), April 30, nine (six dogs), by Ayrshire Laddie (A.K.R. 
145). ie $ 

Countess C. Mr. J, Yearsley, Jr.’s (Coatesville, Pa.) Mnglish setter 
bitch Countess C, (Dashing Tim—Armida), May 2, nine (four dogs), 
by Mr. J, M, Avent’s Rush Glacstone, 

SALES. 

e- See instructions at head of this column. PR. 

Leader, Beagle hound (A.K.R, 319), by Messrs. RB, & W. Livingston, 
New York, to Mr, A. Winsor, Providence, R. I. 

Nimbow. Red Irish setter dog, whelped April 9, 1884 (Nimrod, 
A.K.R. 68i—Cleo), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to Mr. F. 
M. Harris, Worcester. Mass. A , 

Ninvrod If, Red Irish setter dog, whelped April 9, 1884 (Nimrod, 
A.K.R, 68i—Cleo), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass., to Mr, A. 
L. Booote, North Parma, N.Y. . 

Castelar. Fawn mastiff dog,whelped Jan, 26, 1854 (Diavolo, A.K.R. 
548—Madge, A.K.R. 548), by the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass,, to 
the Philadelphia Kennel, Philad Bemis Pa. 

Benedict's Boy. Solid black field spaniel (A.K.R. 180), by Mr. Her- 
man F. Sthellhass, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Dr. H. C, Eno, New York 
City. 

Benedict's Boy—Lady Bub whelp. Black cocker spaniel bitch, by 
Mr, Herman F. Schellhass, Brooklyn, N. ¥., to Mr. Geo. W. Whitcomb, 
Boston; Mass. . ; 

Glencho—Bess whelps. Red Irish setter bitches, whelped Jan, 21, 

1884, by Mr. Fred. Waterman, Hudson, N. ¥,, one each to Mr, Walter 
B. Peet, Mr, Jerome B. Wheeler, Mn. Lawrence M. Kostwright and 
Mr. W, B. Wetmore, New York; Mr. F. Carroll Hankes and Mr, Henry 
M. Haner, Hudson. N. ¥.: Mr, Theodore Meroe, Madalin, N. Y.; Mr. 
Wm. R. Caminoni, Brooldyn, N. Y., Mr, Eberhard Vollmer, Trenton, 
N. J., and one te Miss Stella B. Jones, Chicago, Tl, ' 
_ Glencho—Daisy whélps. Ked Irish setters, whelped April 2, 1884, by 
Mr. G, Hills, Hudson, N. ¥_, to Mr, F. I. Church, Concord, N, H,; Mr, 
F. C. Herrick, Albany, N.¥.; Miss J. Stott, Stotbville, N. Y.; Mr, Chas. 
Hpelstyn, Hudson, N. Y.; Mr. Harry W. Livingston, Livingston, N. 
Y¥.; Mr. iH. Spencer, Catskill, N. ¥.; Mr. J. M. Leekley, Galena, Il.; 
Mr, H. BH, Chubb, Cleveland, O, ; 

Guard. Yellow fawh, black muzzle, mastiff dog (A,K.R, 1148), by 
Mr. J. A. 8. Gregg, Fordham, N. Y., to the Strawberry Hill Kennel, 
Leicester, Mass. ; . 

Norah Rock, Tish terrier bitch, by Dr, J. 5. Niven to Mr. Aug, Jay, 
Nova Scotia. . 

Tim. Trish terrier dos Lame Rock); by Dr, J. 8, Niven to Mr. 
Henry Young, New York. — ‘ 

Brin Badger. Wish terrier pup, by Dr. J.8. Niven to Mr. Henry 
Young, New York. 

Brahmin—Dolly whelp. Black spaniel, by Dr. J. 8. Niven to My. 

Thos. Myers, East Saginaw, Mich. 
_ Baronne, Burgee and Victor. Rough-coated St. Bernards, two 
bitches and one dog, by Rey. J. 0, Macdona, West Kirby, Enz. 
(through the Neversink Lodge Kennel), bitch Baronne to Mr. Pope, 
Boston, Mass.; bitch Burgee to the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, 
Mass. ; dog Victor to Lient. Ward, Newport, 4 

Laverack Chief. By Mr. H. ©. Waddell (through Neversink Lodge 
Kennels), dog Laverack Chief to Major Platt, Bangnor, North Wales, 

Creanteth—Dolly whelp. By the Neversink Lodge Kennel to Mr. 
Lynch, Newburgh, N. Y. . ; 

Fairy. Pointer bitch, whelped Jan. 1, 1884 (Sam, Jr.—Quilley), by 
MajomLoverps: Bethel, Me., to Mr, A. S. Hubbard, Thomaston, Conn. 

Cork, Red Irish setter dog. whelped March 14 (Ned Hicho. A.K.R. 
984 Bridzet O'More, AK... 64), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me,, to 
Mr, A. 8. Hubbard, Thomaston, Conn. 

Dash, Red trish setter dog, whelped March 14 (Ned Elcho, A.K.R, 
984—Bridget O'More, AJR, 964), by Major Lovejoy, Bethel, Me., to 
Mr, A. P. Stuck, Otsego, Nich. : 

Help. Fawn and while collie dog, whelped June 22, 1688 (champion 
Ayrsbire Laddie—ligzie), by Mv. Jas, Lindsay, Jersey City, N. J., to 
Mr. H. Belknap, Sweetwater county, Wyoming Ter. ; 

Major, Sable and white collie dog, Gmus. (champion Rex—Jeamnie 
Nettles), by Mr. Jas. Lindsay, Jersey City, N. J., to Mv. G, B. Grinnell, 
New York City. 

Fido. Black, white and fan collie dog, whelped Sept. 15, 19828 
(champion Rex—Beatty), by Mr. Jas, Lindsay, Jersey City, N. J., to 
Mrs. Barker, Williamsbridge, N. Y. 

Ivanhoe. Sable and white collie dog, whelped Aug. 4, 1883 (Robin 
Adair—Lark), by Mr. Jas. Lindsay, Jersey City, N. J., to Mr. Thomas 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Rifle and Crap Shooting. 


ARMY RIFLE PRACTICE. 
THE DEFECTS AND OMISSIONS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM, 


Aditor Forest and Stream: 

Having had something to say about the faults of the army 
system of target practice, perhaps you will indulge me in afew re- 
marks upon modes and methods that I consider better, stating at the 
very outset that IT can hardly present anything yery new, novel or 
startling, but only such ideas as my experience and reading dictate. 

To give ny ideas I must necessarily follow and criticise our present 
system to some extent, in order to point out by contrast what I claim 
should he the proper system. The germ of our present system lies in 
‘“TLaidley*s Rifle Firing,’ and passing over all preliminary instruction 
as probably 4s good as any that can be given to establish the elementary 
principle, and therefore needing no criticism, we come to the appli- 
cation of those priiciales in practice upon the range. 

Right bere begins the fault of our system, and let me say that T 
never believed if to be the original idea of Laidley that such 4 system 
should have been developed, and, therefore, the fault is not his, ex- 
cept that he confines the first practice to five shots, whereas I think 
the first practice should be unlimited in order to be able to teach im- 
provement by each successive shot, while ideas of improvement and 
errors to be corvected are fresh in the man’s mind, By the time five 
shots have been fired the man may be just on the point of compre- 
hension and success, and could he fire five more his success would be 
reasonably assured, But, stopping at five shots, and just at this 
point, before the next firing day comes around, his impressions and 
recollections are dulled, and he begins again almost at the same point 
he did the previous day, instead of at the point and with the knowl- 
edgé and impressions where he left off on thaiday, Existing orders 
allow fifteen shots per man at not to exceed tworanges, but the usual 
practice is to have each man fire but five shots; this obtains because 
there is not snificient time to shoot off every man on each firing day 
up to the limits of fifteen shots, and as each man must shoot his shoot- 
ing becomes limited to five shots only. 

ith this exception, had Laidley’s system been left alone, we would 
have been much better off, but, as stated in a previous letter, amplifi- 
cation of his system, under orders from the various Department 
Headquarters, the vicious system of reports, ete., has caused the first 
principles of success to be lost sight of, and the mennow are crowded 
too rapidly over the range in order to get as many men with marks- 
men’s, first class men’s, étc,, scores, in order to haye a good showing 
and a high figure of merit at the end of the target year. 

Let us analyze and explain my meaning: Laidley, par. 461 to 467, 
revised edition, gives the instruction for the first firing on the range at 
100yds. He says nothing about 50 per cent., or 66 per cent. in two or 
three best scores being any qualification such as to warrant the man 
being advanced and firing at 200yds. Im par. 468, he says: “Tle 
squad is next practiced at a target 200yds. distant, or such members 
of it as have attained the required skill” (the italics are mine), and 
right here comes in the vicious order, Laidley leaves it to the in- 
instructor’s judgment when the man has attained the required skill, 
The “cast-iron” orders leave the instructor no judgment, no disere- 
tion, but the man must be advanced when he has made 66 per cent, 
for three best scores at this 100yd. range, even though he knows such 
advancenient to be sheer folly and waste of time and ammunition. 

Now, who is the hest judge of when this man should be advanced, 
I, who stand and watch each shot fired, observe the errors and try to 
correct them, see whether the man comprehends and is applying 
proper principles and is bunching his shots close together somewhere 
on the target or is scattering them indiscriminately high, low and 
laterally, or the Department rifle mstructor, who, perhaps, never saw 
either me, My men, or my targeirange, and who judges from his 
office, perhaps a thousand miles away? He gets up these orders, he 
is dasirous of emulating with other Departments in the number of 
marksmen qualified, and he, therefore, with honest enough inten- 
tions too, under the system, causes this system to be followed. 

Right here let me say that I know the intentions and desires of the 
instructors are honest, and that these orders result from other causes 
as well as those mentioned, To particularize, I will say that, to their 
shame be it said, there are troop, battery and company commanders 
who are either lukewarm or indifferent to the requirements of target 
practice, whe perform their duty in only the routine manner neces- 
sary to keep themselyes free from censure, and they cause such 
orders to be originated; for, without a ‘‘cast-iron’”’ order to compel 
them to exert themselves, they neyer would advance any one, and 
their men not acquiring any enthusiasin from example, and becom- 
ing disgusted with their want of advancement, “shoot and shoot, 
and don’t hit,’ because they shoot in the same routine manner, sim- 
ply to get the duty done, and back to their quarters, where they can 
read, and loat and smoke. f 

But are such orders just? Is Captain John Smith to be bound down 
and held to an order he knows to be folly, and that does not instruct, 
simply because Captain Tom Jones is lazy and indifferent, and wants 
‘punching up,” finds target practice ‘‘distasteful,’? and not in ac- 
cordance with his ideas of “dignity?” Isay the order is eminently 
unjust, What have we post commanders for except to see that Cap- 
tain Tom Jones does his duty and does it properly, as well as Captain 
John Smith? If post commanders are also lazy and indifferent, then 
what more important duty haye the Department commanders to do 
than to “punch them up,” and “ride them around with a watering 
bridle and pair of spurs” until the laziness and indifference is taken out 
of them. What have we inspectors for except tu lookinto such things 
and “haze everybody around” that does not show competence, effi- 
ciency and interest in his profession? If every one was compelled to 
perform his duty properly by proper means, then neither I nor any 
other commander would be compelled to follow such an order as 
those given, laying out a programme that we know is not conducive 
to the best results in the simplest way. 

Let us seé what riflemen in civil life think about the efficiency 
requisite to be advanced from one short range to the next, as well as 
what my experience and judgment would dictate. 

Every book I have ever read that gave methods of becoming ex- 
perts in rifle shooting, lays great stress on preliminary instruction, 
and requires as near perfection in the preliminary exercises as possi- 
ble before advancement 1s made, in order to properly ground the rifle- 
mali, give him confidence as well as familiarity with all the require- 
ments of successful shooting, so that intuitively he always shoots 
properly and accurately at the shorter distances, and, therefore, 
males more rapid advancement when he comes to shoot at those 
longer. Every rifleman knows that constant practice at short ranges 
is beneficial even at the longest range, not only from the hardening 
of muscles to the exertion, but from the confidence acquired by the 
skill developed. And does 66 per cent. in three best scores give such 
training? Is the man ready to 5° baclc to the 200yds. range and do 
anything successfully who only has such qualification? Would it not 
be better to keep the man at the 100yds. target until he can do better, 
correct all his errors, and average 80 per cent. before being advanced? 
And when heis se qualified at 100yds., would he not then Be prepared 
to succeed much more quickly at the 200yds. range, overcoming the 
increased distance, the apparent diminution of bullseyé and target, 
and. from his training and steadiness, in « fewer shots again make a 
higher average? Instead of being a *'smatterer,’* would he not soon 
become an expert, able to put his bullets where he pleased, instead 
of as Hoy. once in a while, and, as the result of hard effort, making 80 
per cent, y 

Instead of being a high, impossible ayerage to obtain and maintain, 
I claim that 80 percent. at 100yds. is rather a low one with our 
present 8inch bullseye and 26-inch center ring. I thinkI can hear 
Inany riflemen say that any competent shot should be able to hit the 
bullseye from twice to three times out of five at this distance; but I 
put the average at 80 per cent because that is the best we can expect 
from the average man in the ranks, some of whom unfortunately are 
slow of comprehension, awkward in their attempt at anything, and 
from whom nothing else can be expected. Patience and perseverance 
overcome their difficulties so as to teach them to ‘bunch their shots” 
somewhere on the target, then to get them all into the 4 ring, but 
perhaps never succeed in getting them into the bullseye. Better 
this than any such scattering five as may make a 17 out of 25 and so 
make the required percentage for adyancement, to go back to the 
200-yard range and scatter so badly as to miss the target, and always 
be @ “seatlerer,”” eventhough the magical 80 per cent. is sometimes 
madé by contining the scattering to the4 ring. With such careful 
instruction and average requirements as I have mentioned, the rifle- 
man should soon become a good shot, off-hand: but when he comes 
to the 00-yard range a new difficulty presents itself, which, 1o ba 
overcome, needs an entire change of methad. 

The 100-yard practice gave him steadiness for off-hand shooting, so 
that he soon acquired skill at 200yds., and if allowed to try it, would 
soon haye also acquired off-hand skill at 800yds. When I first went 
back to the 300-yard target, ithe ae I could make 80'per cent. or 
more three times out of five at the 200-yard range, and could, stand- 
ing, do almost as well al the 800yds., yet I found 1 had something new 
to learn, and that ico at 800yds. distance. My off-hand practice had 
taught me steadiness with my left elbow unsupported, and all my 
deviations were in a yertical direction; hence] had only this devia- 
tion to combat, 

When kneeling, however, 1 found, my left elbow being supported, 
that all my deyiation was horizontal; my left hand and arm would 
Swing to right and left in spite of alll could do, and at this distance 
the target was hard to hit, The bullseye appeared yery small, and the 


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width of the ed very narrow, and bul a slisht horizantal deviation 
carried me off the target, My first score was five ‘‘goose eggs,” fol- 
lowed by 3, then 8, and so on with small scores for over eighty shots 
before 1 made 80 per cent, and a marksman's score, Afler T once 
“caught on’' I had no further very great difficulty, buf lam satisfied 
that | would have overcome my difficulties sooner had I been allowed 
to take the target at 200 yds. range as a place for my preliminary in. 
struction in kneeling, the same as the 100-yUs. range was my prelim- 
inary to the 200 off-hand; [ would then have commenced a new posi- 
tion and new instruction at the same range where I had acquired 
skill off-hand. I would haye not had 100yds. added on to the diffi- 
culties to be overcome in the néw kneeling position, and 1 would 
soon have acquired skill in shooting kneeling at this distance, so asto 
again have averaged high there as [ had previously at 100yds, befora 
shooting at 200, and when I went back to the 200-yard range I would 
ouly have had the distance to overcome, 

But the order and system prevents this; it does not recosnize the 
fact that although off-hand practice is beneficial and gives & man 
steadiness everywhere, there is nothing new—except the greater dis- 
tance—to be learned when the man begins to kneel, It only reeaz- 
nizés the increased distance and teaches that the kneeling position is 
riven as the steadier position to be taken because of this increase oF 
distance, and that before this new poswon has been learned and the 
new conditions of steadiness have become familiar. True enourhil 
is that the kneeling position is the steadier when Known; but who 
will say that the recruit can take it properly, and shoot properl 
from ib, until he has had time to become familiar with it? Would it 
not be better to try and learn one thing at a time, “make haste 
slowly,’ and adyance much more rapidly in reality than is the ease 
now? 

Then the system and orde? exacts another thing. No matter what 
a man’s individual peculiarities may be, or what the condition of his 
Strength, nerves or eyesight, of which only the instructor personally 
present can judge, he must follow the order. He must make a cer- 
tain percentage at each lower range before he is advanced to a 
higher, when perhaps his ability to shoot af short ranges is a mini- 
mum or even a minus quantity, whilahe may be able to male a fair 
or eyen an excellent shot at longer ranges, could he only be allowed 
to go back there and try it. But his commander and instructor has 
no discretion, cannot place him at the longer ranges because he has 
not ‘qualified’ at the shorter, and the man is never a good shot any- 
wheré because he is unable to stecceed at short ranges, and there- 
fore never has the chance to tty atthe long. Lhave just such men 
inmy troop. They cannot, from some individual peculiarity, suc- 
ceed at 200yds; they therefore never have the chance to iry beyond, 
never haye a chance to learn to shoot kneeling and lying, where the 
peculiarity would be overcome, and hence they stay poor shots 
always for want of opportunity to learn the conditions necessary to 
be learned at the distances and positions where they could learn. 

Again the orders and system are at fault in that they give uo disere- 
tion to the instructor in the handling of his men under yarions con- 
ditions of weather. To-day may be my day to shoot, but il may be a 
day eminently unsuited for practice at 200yds., where the man is 
buffetted about by the wind that is blowing. True it is that men 
should learn to shoot in all winds and weathers at al] ranges; bub we 
must ‘tereep before we can walk,” and to-day it is blowing too hard 
for the off-hand range, and yet when Jying down, good shoting can 
be done, and experience gained that will be of yahue to all, 

But my men haye not qualified at the short rangé, therefore they 
cannot be put to shoot at the long range, where they cam hedown and 
bé steady in the wind. Shoot at 200yds. they must, or not shoot at 
all, andifthey do shoot, which will be the exception and not the 
rule, there will he so much powder and lead thrown away uselessly, 
so many shots used up from the total allowance per man per year, so 
many the less on which to continue instruction, and no advantage 
gained, because they haye not yet advanced enough, from first shoot- 
ing in lizht winds to haye learned to acquire steadimess in the heayy 
breeze that is blowing. 

I claim that our orders and system should recognize the fact 
that is known to all riflemen, namely that there are three 
styles of shooting, almost entirely distinct from each other, 
and while some can succeed equally well in all others cannot, 
and each commander and instructor be given the necessary use 
of his judgment to place the man where he can succeed the hast, 
Short-range or off-hand, mil-range or kneeling, and long-range 
practice have each peculiarilies of their own, and because one suc- 
ceeds in one is no criterion that he will succeed in all, or because he 
fails in one no sure sign he will fail inall. And would not the man 
who can shoot at 600yds. be more dangerous ati that distance than a 
man who can’t, and who can’t because he n-ver learned from having 
failed at 200? The times when he will shoot at 200yds. agamst an active 
enemy may be and probably will be few and far between, while ha 
may be called upon frequently to exercise his skill or show his want 
or it, at the longer distance. Let meé quote Mr. Farrow on this nomt: 

“T do really think it far easier to become an expert marksman at 
800, 900 and 1,000yds. than at the shorter distance. In the former 
the position allowed the marksman is such that, after some practice, 
the rifle can be held as steadily on the bullseye as though fired from 
an artificial rest, and it is easier to become expert in estimating the 
varying forces of the wind and changes of light, which are the princi- 
pal difficulties encountered at these distances, 

“It is easier to do that [ will say than when ‘a marksman is stand- 
ing in the open, with no rest for his rifle but his own strength of arm 
and nerve, to maintain a steady hold upon the builseye, bringing 
the pressure on the trigger with suificient ferce to Gaise the dis: 
charge at the right instant, and following this in successive shots to 
the fulfillment of a complete score. Ah, yes! I could name you 
many who, with the experience of one season at the long ranges, 
have become so proficient that scores with but few points off from 
the ‘possible’ have been repeated many times, yet these same gen- 
tlemen, after years of practice at the 200yds., had become only me- 
dium in proficiency.” 

My experience and observation exactly agree with the above, so far 
as I have observed, up as far as we have ever shot at the long ranges, 
and the same doubtless holds true up the longest, and we therefore 
see that probably many men would succeed in becoming fair shots at 
the long ranges for all they may have failed at the short, provided 
they only could get there to shoot, and T would be glad of the author- 
ity to give me the use of my judgment and discretion to use in de- 
veloping men as shots where they cansucceed and not haye to keep 
them hammering away at a range where it is perfectly evident they 
cannot, and the waste of lead and their own discouragement and 
disgust as shots. And proper classification can be given such mén 
also; they could enter into themr proper place in the fizure of merit of 
the troop, battery or company; would have their usefulness on the 
field of battle, aid probably from the encouragement received from 
their success at long ranges would finally succeed at the short. 

But there are other kinds of shooting necessary to the field of hat- 
tle, and so far our orders and system have not developed them. We 
have seven targets to shoot at, calling for different styles of firing at 
fixed objects, and two calling for firing at moving or vanishing ob- 
jects, and yet I have never seen but three of these nine targets, much 
less fired at them. 

Beginning as we do at 100yds. at the beginning of each targzet year, 
and regen the men over the ranges” to make marksnhien for 
‘“‘elory and buncombe,”’ there has never yet been time to give the ab- 
tention to anything else but the regular range firing up to and to in- 
clude 1,0007ds, in somé few cases, generally only up to G00yds. Slkir- 
mish firing, than which there is no more important training that can 
be given, receives no attention whatever, except.at the annual com- 
petitions by a few men selected tocompete at Department, Division or 
Army contests, and perhaps even by these men for the first time in 
their lives, because why? Because all their time and energies hayé 
been deyoted to ane successful shots and marksmen on the rezu- 

lar ranges, and there being no comparative excellence established, 

and skirmish firing not entering into any classification, qualification 
or figure of merit, it is yiewed with indifference, because it does not 
help Captain John Smith's company to excel and take a high stand 
eae ber ey with that of Captain Tom Jones’s company in the tar- 
get reports. 

IT have been shooting at army target practice off and on since 1879— 
when first Laidley’s system was inangurated—and I have never seen 
targets D, B, F, G, or either the movable or vanishing targets, and 
have never seen skirmish firing except at target B, in competition at 
Department headquarters. 

Laidley, par. 478 to 487 inclusive, gives the instructions for file, 
yolley and skirmish firing, as well as at movable and vanishing tar- 
Fets, and an examination of these instructions shows a good system, 
except that only ten rounds annually ave required at skirmish 
firing, at distances from 400 to 200yds., showing how little importance 
was attached to this mode of firing by him; and but little more encour- 
agement has been given by the supplemental orders on the subject, 
G. O. 53—A, G, O., 1882, only meutionimg skirmish competitions from 
600 to 200vds,, and that “skirmish competitions will be encouraged 
and should extend to ranges of 800, 900 and 1,000yds.” 

How can men compete who have never been trained at this firing’? 
Twas a comipetitor last fall, and I never had fired before asa, ‘‘skir- 
misher™ in my life. All my time had been spent on the range from 
100 to 600y ds. , trying to follow the orders, and I had had neither time 
nor opportunity to practice as a skirmisher. I had even heen refused 
permission to puild along range up to 1,000yds. to éxercise the men 
atloog-range firing up to this distance, even although Laidley and 
the orders state that ‘marksmen will fire at targets wp to 1,2007ds, 
range,” and I was therefore debarred from any chance to practice as 
a skirmisher, as long-range practice for marksmen comes first i 
order and importance in the system and orders, 

Another yital fault in the system and orders is the want of recop- 


nition of the calyaryman and his carbine, The system andordersare | dence can he placed on weather bein 


all based on the infantryman with his rifle, and yet my troop of cav- 
alry, with their carbines, has to compete for excellence in figure of 
merit with all the infaniry companies in the Denariment, and receive 
censure if it does not come up to what is considered a fair degree of 
excellence, the infantryman with his rifle being the standard. 

Now for fiving on foot | hardly think there is any rifleman who will 
contend that the same average excellence can be obtained from a 
fun with 482inch barrel, 1644 inches between sights, and with 65 
grains of powder and 405 grains of lead, as from a gun with 3244-inch 
barrel, 2615 inches bet\yeen sights, and with 70 grains of powder and 
600 grains of lead. At short ranges the shorter piece may be held 
more steadily by some men; but Lhaye used both, and I know that 
for 21] distanees the rifle is to be preferred as the more reliable 
weapon. Good shooting can and has been made with carbine, but 
better with the rifle, and such will always bethe ease, for reasons 
well known to every rifleman and not necessary to mention here, 

The carbine isnot recognized by Laidley except by a description, 
Tt is not recognized in any orders except for mounted practice, and 
it is excluded from all Department, Division and Army contests, even 
though perhaps itis jhe only weapon the competitor has ever shot 
with. Practice on the range even, with the rifle, soon begets a want 
of confidence in the carbine in the cavalryman’s mind that is fatal 
to his suecess in the field, where he can use nothing but his carbine; 
and therefore cavalry commanders keep the rifle from the hands of 
their men, knowing that efficiency in the field depends upon their 
knowledge of their own arms, and in range practice try to beget con- 
fidence in and give knowledge of the carbine alone, 

Tt is useless to say that a good shot or an expert can shoot equally 
well with any weapon, and that therefore the weapon is only a mat- 
ter of branch of service. A food or an expert shot with a carbine 
has got to learn the rifleif he wishes to succeed well with it, and a 
good shot with the rifie would haye to use and learn the carbine also 
to succeed. Itis granted that an expert can soon learn any weapon 
different from his accustomed arm, hut he must learn it all the same, 
and become accustomed to the difference of balance, of recoil, of 
degree of elevation, ete., before he can hope to sueceed. 

Is it nob, therefore, unjust to classify and qualify and compare 
cavalrymen and infantrymen by the same standard? Is it not folly 
to expect that cayalrymen who haye never shot with a rifle can be 
expected to go to one of the anuual contests, take a rifle for the first 
time in his lite, and try to poe with men who have never shot 
with anything else? Last fall l saw disgusted cavalrymen for just 
such reasons; they had to take-a new and sirange arm,a kind they 
never had shot with before, and in three days* practice be supposed 
not only to learn the new arm, but also the individual peculiarities of 
the particular weapon they had neyer seen before, and be ready for 
the three days’ conipetition. 

That cavalrymen have ranked high on Department, Division and 
Army contests is very true, but they were exceptional shots; and not 
only that, they had had long practiced with the rifle before they ever 
entered the competition, and shot with the same rifle they had used 
before and Imew thoroughly. 

From what has been thus far written in this and previous letters it 
is perfectly plain that Ido not agree with our presént system in any 
of the points thus far mentioned, and I willnow discuss the perhaps 
greatest of all fanits, namely the ‘qualification’ and ‘‘classification,” 

Laidley, par. 622, states what such qualification and classification 
shallbe. He says nothing aboutits being 80 per cent, for either two 
or three best scores at 200, 800, and 600 yards thafi makes a man a 
“marksman; and my first idea on reading his book was that it was 
to be 80 per cent. of the “maximum possible” for all the shots fired at 
each of the three ranges during the year, and the same for the 66 per 
eent. necessary for first class men, and 50 per cent. for third class 
men. But orders have since defined this to be as it nowis, and as 
before stated, no account is taken of the worst shooting. 

That 80 per cent. isa high average for all the shooting at each of 
the three ranges 1 very well know, and so have shown; but cannot 
something more real than three best scores be taken as the necessary 
qualification? Cannot we have something that on its face tells the 
exact truth? Andifa proper systém from the 100yd. range up is 
followed, will it be so very hard to classify men on their average even 
though it be lower than 50 per cent,, as may be shown by experience 
to be necessary? We have placed the man at J00yd. range and have 
kept him there until he began to show some evidertice of proficiency, 
asa preliminary to his shooting at 200yds. Suppose now, when be 
goes back to 200 we give him a certain number of shots as prelimin- 
ary practice at this range, during which he learns the elevation ne- 
eessary, becomes used to the diminished size of the target and bullseye, 
etc., and then put him on his record, cach shot to count in his annual 
classification and qualification, will he not try harder with every shot 
and not throw away a single one for fear it will spoil his ayerage? 
And if he should make a ‘'3” will he not try harder for a 5," in order 
to balance it and Keep up his average if still kept at 80 per cent? 

The same way he should begin his preliminary kneeling at 200yds., 
keep on firing there until he has ‘become familiar with the new posi- } 
tion—but not for record in his 200yd, off-hand score—then be piven a 
certain number of trial shots at 300yds., to there learn his elevation, 
ete., before he begins to shoot for record. And this sume can be car- 
ried through all the ranges, 

Then why should a man go back to 10yds. October 1 and bepin 
again? If hehas been properly grounded here, as he should have 
heen before he ever fired a shot anywhere else, he needs no more 
practice there, and he should progress onward on October 1 from 
where he found himself September 30. Trucitis that some date is 
needed as ending the year and 10 make reports, classifications, etc., 
but because a man has failed to make his qualification good by mid- 
night Rapin Der 30, is he to go back and lose it all on October 1? Is 
he any the less a marksman because he failed to get in his last score 
on time, but would have gotten it in on October 1if he had had the 
chance to do it? True, he cannot be elassed as a marksman for + 
that year on the reports, for the reports bar him out, being made 
from what was the fact September 30; but could his credit not be 
carried oyer to the next year, and he be given the benefit of it so as 
not to haye to go back and begin over? So thatif he does not come 
in on this year he can on next, and his certificate would show the 
fact that be was from Oct, 1, 1882, to Ovt, 1, 1884, making his record, 
or whatever two or three or four years he qualified in, 

It is this continual going back which bars out so much necessary: 
practice. We “travel around in a pint pot” during the entire enlist- 
ment of the man and nevergive him a chance to progress. We keep 
on trying to perfect what should of itself have shown perfection, 
instead of going on to better and higher styles of shooting to obtain 
perfection there as well, 

My idea is that once 4 proper marksman always a marksman, and 
then pass that man on to the longer ranges, or to more difficult feats 
of marksmanship at movable and vanishing targets, as a skirmisher, 
ete., believing that there is no fear that his short-range work will 
ever fall off: for there will be days when the wind, lizht weather, or 
what not, will preclude him from long-range or difficult practice, 
and he can thea devote himself to short-range work to “keep his 
hand in.” 

Neither does our system recognize the fact that the personelle of 
our army is constantly changing, Fresh blood is coming in continu- 
ally. There are constantly new men toinstruct and take through pre- 
liminary training, and time should be given to them, leaving the 
ollJer and experienced shots to go on with their work which they have 
learned, and for which they have received instruction. More atten- 
tion could then be given to teaching the new men, to bring them up 
to the same efficiency as the old, and more rapid advancement made 
from not having needless work to go over. ; 

The recent orders raising the qualifications on which to qualify 
marksmen, ete., are, to my mind, nob in the proper spirit. Tncreased 
efficiency means the retaining of the same men who acquired pro- 
ficieney under the old qualifications. How many men are there left 
who entered it five years ago, and who last year helped swell the 
list of marksmen? Many, if not the most, of them are gone, and a 
higher qualification is set down for the reeruits who take their places 
and not for those who were discharged and who, perhaps, never will 
fire a shot again in the army. ; / 

As it affects officers it is all right, for they are in the army for life, 
and constant increase in efficiency should be demanded. If I made 
myself a marksman lash year on two best scores, it is to be expected 
that this year 1 can again become one on three, next year on four, 
and 80 on; but then Ido not expect my discharge until I resign, and 
T am not in the same category as the man who is in for five years 


only, 

1 the qualification had been raised for all thosé men who have yet 
one year to serve, and who had previously qualified as marksmen, 

erhaps there would have been some utility in the order; but as it ts, 
it, only increases and extendsthe errors of the present system, with 
but very little benefit to the service. Ib would have been better, to 
my mind, to have raised the qualification by including efficiency at 
skirmishers’, movable and vanishing targets.and so have inaugurated 
the progressive system so badly needed, ‘ : 

Another point is that no allowance is made for the various climates 
in which our army is scattered, By a positive order the practice al 
this post was arbitrarily stopped Jast fall long before bad weather 
seb in and When there were yet. many weeks of fine outdoor weather 
to be expected, All this fine weather, which lasted for nearly six 
weeks after the cessation of practice under the order, was so much 
time Jost on thé ranges. Men who were just ready to coniplete their 
practice by successful shooting at longer ranges were arbitrarily 
debarred froin so doing, and the time has been irretrievably lost, 

Diseretion should be allowe.l in this very matter in order to enable 
those who mow the climate they are stationed in to be best taken 


adyantage of. Our spring at this post is very late, and no depen- | petition or reward is neg 


FOREST-AND STREAM, 


g suitable for practice much be- 
fore June, ‘By order” target practice begins April 1, and there 
was not a single proper target practice day in the month, either this 
year or last, on the days sét apart for target practice, and { have had 
but two so farthis month, Perhaps it would be just as well if Ldid 
not have any now until the weather has fully settled, for Laidley 
says ‘the firing, however, when fairly begun, will continue on sué- 
cessive days, and long intervals between the firings will be avoided,” 
and bad weather makes long intervals at times, 
the 30th of September should make no difference in the practice, 
That date or any other can be taken as the time on which to render 
reports, classify, etc,; but men should be kept on with their indi- 
vidual practice from where they may he on that date, striving on- 
ward for something higher and taking advantage of every fair day 
until winter actually stops it. Even during the winter there are 
many fair days when men need not bé bundled up, and they should 
be Tuned to take advantage of them to have to shoot under any 
and all circumstances under which battles may be fought. Unfor- 
ee we haye not yet that control oyer wind and weather so as to 
preclude the idea of ever being required to fight in rai, cold wind or 
snow, and if progression was the rule instead of retrogression, we 
would soon be able to acquire efficiency under even these disadyan- 
tageous circumstances instead of always being ‘fair weather shots.’ 
n the South, where the weather is open the year around, out-door’ 

pracy can be had at all times. They of the South should therefore 

6 much more efficient than we of the North, where snow flies for at 
least six months in the year. The best we can dois to keep up our 
gallery practice an(l so keep up efficiency, so as to be ready to take 
hold again when spring opens, where we left off in the fall, But any 
out-door practice we may be able to catch should count, and any 
Scores made at any time during the target year from Oct. 1 to Sept. 
30, should he accredited to the marksman. In this Department 
such isnot now the case, audwe are debarred all credit for scores 
made between certain dates. 

Again, the system and orders, so far ag they affect cavalrymen, are 
very defective in the means and methods for exercising the men in 
mounted carbine and pistol practice. Laidley does not recognize any 
mounted practice at all, and G. 0. 57, A, G. O, 1882, is the nucleus 
about which all the mounted practice centers. 

Much bas been written much better than I can express it, upon 
mounted practicé, and much hag been done, particularly in the De- 
partment of California, in this practice; but if competition and re- 
wards are necessary to produce excellence, as would seem to be the 
casefrom the methods adopted for dismounted practice, then this 
mounted practice is wnrecognized, and it is only for the love of the 
thing and forthe sake of proficiency in ths field that any suceess 
whatever has been obtained, as well as its being in spite of and not 
hecause of the modes and methods recognized by orders. 

As before stated, G. O. No. 57, A. G. O. 1882, is the basis, and it starts 
out by “taking Laidley’s ‘Rifle Wiring’ (second edition) as a guide, so 
fay as applicable to the above named arms,” while, as before stated, 
Laidley does not recognize either of these arms—the earbine and 

istol. 

Then follows the method to be followed. The degree of proficiency 
required dismounted with the carbine should have first been attained 
(50 per cent. at 200, 800 and 500 yards) before any mounted practice is 
had, and therefore, it will be seen that there will be men in the troop 
who, perhaps, will never practice mounted, for, as stated above, 
the faults of the dismounted system debar a man from the chance to 
pesehice at the higher ranges until he has first attained skill at the 
ower, : 

I would ask, has dismounted firing anything whatever to do with 
monnted practice, except the first teaching of familiarity and dex- 
terity in the handling of the weapon, which can be taught and shoulda 
be taught at gallery practice and the 100 yards range? Has my ability 
to shoot and make even a perfect score at any range anything what- 
ever to do with my ability to ride a horse and “snap shoot’? with a 
carbine from his hack? Isay no, emphatically no. Range firing dis- 
monnted, as every one knows, who is a rifleman, tends to disqualify a 
man from rapid aiming and firing; it makes or tends to make a ‘“‘poke 
shot,” ene who dwells on his aim and hangs onto the bullseye until he 
has just the right pressure on the trigger to | 2ed the bullet to its 
mark; just the very qualities a mounted shot does not want for suc- 
cess in his mounted shooting, 

As I take it the very first practice for mounted firing successfully 
should be to teach horsemanship, with blank ammunition freely used 
to. aceustom the horses to the noise, and the meén to their seats on a 
plunging horse, being careful to repress all careless firing in the air 
or to the ground, as habits difficult to oyercome when onee con- 
firmed. No attemptshould be made to fire at the targetuntil a reason- 
ablé steadiness of the horses has been attained. and reasonable 

roficiency of the men in loading, aiming and firing their pieces 
from their horses’ backs, Then practice at the target should com- 
mence, not for record at first, but to gradually get both men and 
horses accustomed to the new exercise, and preferably with reduced 
charges. : 

The order and instructions teach a point with which Iam con- 
strained to emphatically differ. This point is as follows: “The gait 
will be the gallop, but at first the fire will be delivered ata halt, the 
trooper pulling up short to deliver it, and then immediately 1ésum- 
ing the gallop.”’ The italics"are mine and mark the point. 

Now it may be and doubtless is a fact that horses should be trained 
to stop quickly for any PUIRORe, but I will leave it to any horseman 
if this is the way to teach them a new exercise when the object is as 
expressed by therest of the paragraph of the order: ‘This will be 
continued until te men are sufficiently advanced to fire while the 
horse is moving at that gait’ (the gallop), — 

The horseman will see that the horse’s training is lost sight of. Thisis 
anew exercise to him as well as the men, He may haye become used 
to the noise by the preliminary practice with blank ammunition, but 
he has never yet been ridden at a target, for this preliminary blank 
cartridge firing has had no targets but from men in line, in columnof 
files, on, the skirmish line, ete., while exercising at the regular com- 
pany, or platoon, or skirmish drill; the horse, therefore, sees a new 
object, a big white target, which of itself is hard enough to ride him 
at until he is familiar with it, be has every inclination to stop, and by 
the order he is tenis to stop, 50 that he soon falls into the habit of 
halting from the gallop as he sees the man raise his piece to fire. 

The object being to fire while the horse is in motion, my méthod 
(and 1 claim no originality for it, for it is the method practically of 
the cowboy or Indian brought down to practice for the men) would 
be to place several targets on a line, one bebind the other, and with 
sufficient distance between for the man to be able to reload after 
firing at the first. before he reaches the firing point for the second, 
and so on, and then to move the men out individually or in columns 
of files and teach men and horses at the same time to keep up their 
fait and to fire at each successive targetas the firing point for each 
isteached. Both men and horses would soon thereby learn and both 
would soon acquire Steadiness and proficiency, and the horses would 
learn no habit of halting as they saw either the target or the man 
raising his piece to fire, The horse would only learn to go ahead 
under control, and after he had learned steadiness in this he could 
then be taught to halt in order to be perfectly trained for the excep- 
tional case ofa shot to be fired froma halt, _ 

The trouble is, in all the orders and instructions, that our men and 
horses are supposed to be tramed, and that only the necessary skill 
of the men is to be sought for in firing under new conditions, Unfor- 
tunately, however, our men are much more accustomed to the pick 
and shoyel, and familiar with their use, than they are to their seats in 
the saddle and to riding and training their horses. The horses, too, 
are badly trained, or not trained at all, from the infrequency with 
which they are ridden, and they need as much traiming as the men. 

With the pistol, dismounted practice is only first needed to acquire 
dexterity in its use and handling. Drills in_ pistol manual should be 
as much a part of pistol practice as “aiming and pointing drill’ are 

arts of dismounted carbine or rifle firing, and thereby quickness in 

oading, in cocking, in aiming and in firing properly can be taught. But 
the pistol is eminently a weapon for mounted work, and éverything 
should be made to tend to its legitimate use, and after skill m hand- 
fing has replaced awkwardness then mounted practice should be ex- 
clusively fcllowed, for he who can successfully snap-shoot from 
horseback can be reasonably expected to shoot well when on foot, as 
he may he called upon to do in exceptional cases. 

But from what 1 have said is it not sufficiently clear that our system 
and orders need overhauling? Is it not plain that, even so faras 
affects infantry, who have only one weapon, a better system can be 
devised, and when cavalry is considered with their four styles of 
practice—carbine and pistol, both mounted and dismounted—some- 
thing more rational is required? I have to haye four target practices 
a week to the infantryman’s two a week—iwo dismounted for carbine 
and two ditto for pistol. When the men become well enough trained 
at dismounted practice [ will have to have two more to give the 
mounted practice required, and yet keep up the dismounted practice 
to make marksmen first and second class men and a high “figure of 
qerit’’ in competition annual reports, as wellas to teach the skill 
now supposed by order to be required betore a man can practice 
mounted. That will be six target practices a week to keep my end 
np and stand wellin annual reports and yet acjuire the necessary 

roficiency for my legitimate work as a mounted man. Understand 
Pat not complaining as to the amountof work, for thatis what I am 
paid for and what f take delight in, for T would rather drill than not 
if Lonly could get the men to drill; but is it any wonder that some ot 
it is slighted and overlooked when itis understood that it is like **pull- 
ing eye teeth” to get the men for the work? Is it any wonder that 
that which is Spry eyes by a cast-iron order is what receives the 
most.attention? Is ib any wonder that that in which there is no com- 

oy) ected for that in which there is! 


Thelieyein emulation when properly regulated, as much asany one: 
but I de not beliave in “!buncombe.*! T Believe I should be arene 
i ee my men skill and pareereney, both mounted and dismounted: 
pos also believe I should be given a reasonable method with whiell 

o do it—and reasonable competion for which to strive, Why can- 
not the annual competitions and reports be so arranged as fo recogr- 
nie me asa Cavalryman, and my horse as a well-trained cayal 
Dees Why should I compete dismounted with an infantryman wi 

1s weapon and he not compete with me with mine? Why should I 
not he placed on # basis of my own, and compete with cavalrymen as 
cavalrymen—both with carbine and revolver’ Has not the time 
come for cavalry to be encouraged and brought up to the state of 


efficiency required by modern mores of warfare? Am I to practice — 


as_a dismounted man simply, and acquire skill to compets with 
infantry on poot when ny legitimate place is in the saddle use the 
weapons with which I am provided with all the excellencaattainable? 
On the field of battle has cayalry lost its usefulness, or are there hot 
Possibilities for its being put to a new use, and with carbine and re- 
volver raining lead upon an enemy to perhaps Save 4 battle? 

Tama marksman by our system, bui I am also a eavalryman and 
much more proud of that. Let us cavalrymen therefore have a Sys- 
tem that teaches us efficiency in our legitimate field, We will not be 
any the worse for it when we should find ourselves “fishting on foot,’ 


aud we would be what we should be when ink 
mounted mob” we now are. alain daa e pe 


Fort McKiyyny, Wyo. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


THOMASTON, Conn., June 4.—Yasterday several members of the 
Empire Rifle Club went to Collinsville to shoot the first of a series of 
matches with the Canton Rod ahd Gun Club. The terms of the match 
were for teams of ten men éach, ten shots per wan, distance 200yds., 
Massachusetts ring target. Following are.the scores: 

Canton Team. 
GPEAEL THING hey. © hate ee eye. di 11 10 11 10 12 11 43 12 9—108 


J Laubenstein....... re: 8 124142 91011 7 11 12 10—105 
IB CUT AL ey. SUG r awe ee eee: 9101211 61211 9 11 12-103 
J eisvssuesrin 9 910121011 811 9 10— 99 
els VONe, Dee pees ci se 91010 Y 810 9 11 10 10— 96 
J ANOGYEGWS.....;-2-- a ics bp 1070 8 810 9 8 911 12— 94 
GaROSen sane a ania 712 8 8 71110 9 11 1i— 94 
G icaests cee) 1002 640 S10 8ass= 0 
J i Seeee oe eee od To 889) D8 a SAS aR 
GaP Lewis... et ribo oe 11 8 8 71011 811 7 4— Bb—962 


Enipire Team, 


GR CaxtGles Ogeug ss a nee 9 91171010121 111810 §$-101 
HH Thomag.......,.,- enasc aaa 841 8 8 811 912.10 11— 96 
FAS MED TTR ARSC cha) Secs cee OG * 101011740 -8 6 11 11 11— 95 
aR CET cea heehee le sees oe patients 812 9 8 61012 9 10 11— 95 
W H Dunbar hie a ag Se nh W116 9 § 910 910 S 43 
TREE VY TT HIS 7h eo) Penne Tl 7 81011 811 12 fH H- 99 
GERI Bi rapeseed Pinar Pee § 5 911 7101012 8 10 10— 92 
HE Bennett.........-.. aby binke tees oe BELO Leal e Bait: UR aay 
GalsemimansAyaeese sen eeu. 6 810 712 7 912 911-1 
GER NOrihe yee ee nee been cee 69 9 610 9 9 4 9 9— S0—926 


This was the first match the Empire Club ever shot, and no mem- 
ber evertook part in a match before. 4 

At the weekly shoot, for some unaccountable reason the scores 
were very low. W.H. Dunbar won the badge with 95, C, F. Williams 
scored 92, F. Carr 91, G. P. North 88, G. A. Lemmon 86. 


BOSTON, Juue 7.—Had it not been for the intense heat to-day the 
few shooters at Walnut Hill would probably haye rolled up eréat 
scores. The attendance was small, as is usual after a semi-annual 
meeting, but the shooters had good weather conditions. Wir. Cush- 
ing put up two scores of 46 in the Creetimoor maich, and in the rest 
match Mr, Berry had a fine chance to fest hisnew 82-cal. Maynard. 
Te scored a fine 97, Next Saturday there will be a match batween 
teams of the Massachusetts Rifle Association and the Manchester 
Club, by telegraph. Following are the best scores to-day: 

Creedmoor Match, 


CUHSBELEY gee. e veer 546500bb44—47 W H Oler........,..d545554445—45 

Re-entry... ..22,--+ 4555445455—47 § BSpooner......... 5544145554445 
EL Cushing:...-.---.... boltd5o455—46 BA Lappen,........ 4544545454—44 

Re-entry.-..,.--.,- fbadh54646—AG AT Look..........., 441 54555453—d4 
IAD BYVIS (eso ge acces 4555455445—465 J E Darmodly, mil. ..4443544554— 42 
CB Edwards........ 955445544546 FW W Fowle, mil..... 4343413535—37 

Rest Mateh. 

(RUDE sie he ee AM ase BRR AeA 91010 1010101040 9 9—97 
SP URE EGK SOE y! BOAR EE BR SASA SHAS SS ARTE 1010 91010 8 910 9 10—95 
TS 9g Sty TaD ONT AE WIN OR KK Regen ek OTE EE” 910 71010 910 9 10 10-94 
Salem Wilder........ = are RATERS 1010 810 9 9 910 9 9—93 
POMTANCIR eo piadauunsne edhe Soll 9 9 810 910101010 &—98 
OMY LATTES po iret cradle eran seh telat 9 6 910 7 1010 10 40 10—93 
BVA Gap penn. 2 oo ek eo ean ...9 8 6 9 910 91010 9—91 
S B Spooner........-. ... 1070 4 910 7 8 9 9 10-51 
PP SyIWESERR 2 oe. csiepiare a syeds emis ys itn 10 68 9 810 810 810 9-90 
TX API ogy ee en =... 8989 9 9 9 910 9-8) 


GARDNER. Mass., June 6.—At the regular meet of the Gardner 
Rifle Club at Hackmatack Range yesterday only a half dozen of the 
members found the target. The American decimal was used, distance 
S00yds., shooting off-hand, with a possible 100. ‘The following is the 


score: 

CER VAIS Wont - ps) pies eal a ee 10 9 910 61010 8 9 9-0 
TANS ORE Guat eee eer Op ae ate 9 9 9 ¢ 8 910 ¥ 7-85 
ASAT DH OVE Se up eeetreeb le cee ara eidd feo 109 810 77 9 9 6 9-B4 
W CO Loveland............ ADO ost 9 56 910 8 81030 7 10—Bi 
G @ Goodale......0-..02.. 0 Gees 9-9 6 310 910 210 6—74 
H G Hicks..-... Se eee nes lsc o BA 67 8 Fb 6 9 % 4 ‘6—66 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 6.—The following scores were made to- 
day at the regular medal shoot of our rifle club, Creedmoor target, 
200yds., no wind and bright light. 


EY Perrys re: 645545444545 A F Wat'd........... Hodddddddd —dO 
Geo Shattuck .-.... 434454444440 AW Watner......... A4534444135— 40) 
HA Ahistrom.,.... 4444444d44—40 RH Buris,...... .. 55d 440 — 38 


NEWARK, N. J.—The shooting festival of the Newark Shooting 
Society opened Monday last at the Shooting Park, and continued 
four days. The target of honor was open to members of all societies 
that had contributed prizes, each shooter obtained but one ticket 
and one prize. The principal prize whieh was offened on this tareet is 
$100 contributed by the society. On the ring target $450 will be dis- 
tributed in 20 prizes; also premiums as follows for the best three 
tickets: $2, best three tickets; $3, best three tickets. Oa the main 
target the total amount of prizes was #275. The best target of the 
day was the bullseye, on which $450 was divided—for the best three 
bullseyes, for the second best three bullseyes, aud for the third best, 
and so on. 

FITCHBURG, Mass., June 4.—The following gentlemen were the 
successful conrpetitors for the six prizes offered by QO, W. Parsons, 
to be shot for in his rifle gallery, for the month of May. Target, 
200yds,, reduced to 20yds., 40 shots, possible 400; Prof, C, J, Becker 
a97, GC. C. Cutler 396, H, C. Kendall 391, W, P, Churchill 375, G. L. 
Jael 271, E. J, Whitney 369, 

BLOOMING GROVE PARK.—Match shot on Dacoration Day for 
prize medal: 


Nason cokes eee) SHAS UR tb we Liege 2 00083— 6 
Hughes. ........-.,..-0 223820— 9 (Dillingham..........., 2 000 

Wan Gelder...........: 2 -PB0SB—A1 VV GO oes cee perme 3 28425—16 
Miele. eevee tsscetacs 0 00002—2 Hodgman........ .... 3 W2d4—16 
Baw oa wasp teeta 0. 00882— 9 McCord...........-.... 4 (8201— 7 
Dennis Pete finis: 8 48848317 Post.....-.-..-.--. va eeO 242382—18 


BELLEVUD, 0.—Gallery shooting; range, G7ft.; 2gin. bullseye, 1gin. 
rings, paper targets; 10 shots in succession, possible 100, Average 
percentage for April and May: Bodette, 89.5, 86.7; Wollenslagel, 
67,1, 8.6; Bbertshauser, $7.4, 87.3; Aigler, 64, Bb; Sherk, 78.6, 4; 
Yearick, 78, 82; Webster, 75.2, $2.5; Gera, 84.6, 82: Lewis, 81.6, 54; 
Mayne, 78.5, 80; Headings, 87, 79,8; Higgins, 82, 'Thornloe, 72.3—H, Ef, 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores ure particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only, 


A CLAY-PIGEON PUZZLE, 


REQUENTLY when the cleaving of tffe smoke shows to the dis- 
it appointed hunter the frightened bird unhurt, only hastened in 
her flight, he is conscious of a degree of surprise mixed with his dis— 
appointment, He his fell sure that he was cool and held where he 
wanted to, and the result should have been an addition to his bag 
and the satisfaction arising from a thoughtful, saceessfal shot. 

Anxious tu find the fault or ocvasion of the miss, I think generally 
itis forced upon him that his judgment was in error, - If really he 
thought he was right andif really he was cool enough to do as he 
thought was right, it is clear thatin the judgment was the trouble. 
There 1s great chance here for many a failure, and [ think that a 
certain natural gift, an intuitive Knowledge of, ov covception of, suc- 
cesatul conditions is what places many ab one eysily first amoug his 
circle of sportsmen acquaintance, ; ‘ 

An error in placing the distance of your game, the direction and 
swiftness of flight, is sufficient to count a miss even before your fire, 
Experience develops imepeased capacity, and so Youns bunters, who: 


haye everything to learu, gradually become accomplished Nimrods 


‘and can talk of their long and wonderful shots instead of having only 
failures and “try, ty agains” fo mourn or laugh at, 


But T confess that 


fail in inaking more and nearly perfect scores, 


T refer to clay-pigeon shooting, In this sport, itis an assured fact 
that the target will start from a given spot, and that it will start at a 
known and arranged instant, and that in all human (aati a there 

that it cannot fly 

beyond the range of your gun (if you have one which is what it 
ought to be for such sport), And yet good shots as well as poor ones 
will miss again and again chances which are all in fayor of the 
shooter, and which at other times they have no difficulty in making. 
Tn other words, I am surprised that there are not more phenomenal 

4 shooters, whose scores are continually high and nearly perfeet, T 
wonder at myself that I do not do better; Tam amazed at my friends 
and their failures, Some of us are fairly good shots; we burn a good 
deal of powder, we are enthusiastic and regular in our shoots, and 
“eo in” for all we’re worth to force the average of our scores up near 


will be ample time to secure aim and to kill, and 


the ‘clean’ line, and we are not as yet happy. 


ry" 
Now, wliy does not this smashing of the clays become more me- 
chanically uniformand successful to those who shoot continually? . 
Ts there anybody “sure?” and if so will he please “rise in his place’ 
and tell us how he loads, how he holds on or ahead; in fact, just how 


he does tt, Ib will be instructive and interesting reading. 


RECEPTION OF THE EXETER TEAM. 


HE citizens of Exeter, N.H,, turned out to give the yictorious 
team a Utting teception on their arrival from Chicago, Mon- 


day, June2. The Hxcter News-Letter describes it as follows; 


SAt 8 oOelock the band, accompanied by a large number of torch 
bearers, marched to the armory, where the members of Company D 
had assembled, and the procession was formed. They marched to 
the depot, where the team found on their arrival 4 large crowd gath- 
Hach member of the team was pre- 
senied with a handsome bouquet, and they were placed in an open 
baronehe drawn by fon horses, and escorted in triumph to the 
square. The roid was thronged with people, and their Gongratula- 
tions of the team were enlivened with the firing of crackers and 
eqnnon. The bind played well, the soldier lads looked finely, the 
crowd was enthusiastic and the victorious marksmen were proud, 
tired and happy. Mr. Getchell can congratulate himself on the com- 
plete suceess of the affair, for not a single suggestion of addition or 
change in the programme could be thought of by themost confirmed 
grumbler that would not have marred the reception, When the pro- 
eussion reached the square in front of the Town Hall, they found a 
G, Weston Leavitt's 
store were decorated with lanterns and the windows of the house 
filled with admixing spectators. The sidewalks were quickly filled 
with the crowd, and after the earriage containing the team had 
stopped in front of thePown Hall, Hon, John D, Lyman made the 


ered to welcome them home. 


huge bonfire kindled, My. Heryey’s house and 


address of weleonie. as follows: 


“GENTLEMEN OF VHH EXETER SPORTSMEN’S OLUB! Welcone, 
thrice welcome home! The military and citizens, yea, and the Jadies 
come forth to bid yon weleome as victors and to rejoice with you 
over the binshing honors and triumphs won, while torches and illu- 
minalions fittingly light up these seences of our congratulations. 
No emotion is more natural to generous souls thin that which 
prompis then to weleome home the victors of heroic or artistic 
agluevements. We come out to-night to welcome the victors, as the 
Greeks and Komans and every noble people of antiquity were wont 
foro. If the Greeks. the most eulfured of all the ancient nations, 
and trom off whose altars American civilizalion is now daily pluck- 
jing livé eonls to add to the brillianey of its own enlightenment, 
‘thonghti it not unworthy to compute their time from eras marked by 
their sports anil Olympian games, we may well heed their example 
in duly developing the wondertul physical powers with which a 
kind Heavenly Father hus endowed us. Greece is scarcely better 
yemembered for her Socrates anid Demusthenes than for the mirvel- 
Jous ekil!l of her citizens with bow and javelin. The chisel of Phidias 
is 4s immortal as the pen olf Homer, and in sacred story the sling of 


David us the sayings of Solomon. 


“Gentlemen. the art of shooting is the art of national defence. 
is the i‘t practiced so well by the heroes of the old French and In- 
dian wars, some of whose headstones are hid from view very near 
where we now stinil; and again so well by Gen, Folsom and Light 

heir comrades in the Revolution and the later 
heroes of 1812; and never better than by those whose graves bear 
fresh decorations and the veterans who are here to welcome you to- 
Longs. long may they live to enjoy the land they saved! Were 
not the barrier between those departed leroes of old and the living: 
imyjassable, they might be here to-night to greet those who practice 
50 well the avt of shooting, by which they maintained the national 
liberty, As the law ot Jehovah came forth from amid the thunder 
and lightning ot Sinai, so liberty had her birth, and is maintained by 
the thunder and lightning of men who shoot. So farin this blootly 
world, shooting has seemed to be one of the fundamentally necessary 
arts, and Lhe sume steadiness of nerve wand accuracy of sight that 
hits the glass balls in your contests will cause the nation’s foes to 


tilantry Poor and t 


night, 


full at our country’s call. 


**Do goad to those who hurt you,’ say you, my good friend Chase. 
Well, no niin on earth ever tortured me worse than you have, Dr, 
Ge'rish. Now Lapply the good pastor’s rule and say most earnestly, 
may your joy over this triumph of tle skill of yourself and gentle- 
tlemen of the ¢lub be us intense and fur more lasting than wus my 
anguish when you applied your remorseless steel to my strongly- 


rooted! molars. Language ein wish no greater. 


‘You, my friend Sturk, won the diamond badge. Well, you could 
do no Jess and keep up the reputation of that Stark who taught the 
Indians of our wills und the red coats at Bunker Hill, and both at 
Bennington, of his shooting qualities. You, Taylor, miy proudly 
bear the name of him before whose shooting qualities the hosts of 
Mexico fled in despair. Cooper and Jenkins are worthy of such as- 
sociates. At Concord bridge, a century since, a few patriots fired 
shats that weve heard around the world as quickly as horses and 
sails conld speed, but Jove flashed your victory over continents and 
unier oceans in the twinkling of an eye. In presence of this vast 
auilience, stinding close by the historic spot whsre the first govern- 
ment upon the American continent in independence of the mother 
country was instituted. facing the yenerable building where Wish- 
lace of heroes of the 
old and recent times, and in the presence of yeterans from battles 
as nobly foucht as any in the annals of time, we pray that your suc- 
cess, gentlemen, in all noble,enterprises may be as great as that of 


ineton was entertained, near by the resting 


your shooting at Chicago, 
“Dr, Charles I> Gerrish responded on the part of the club; 


“JT thunk you for the kind reception you have accorded us on our 
return from Chicago, and can assure you this welcome is for us the 
prourlest feature of our trip, We left here a week ago last Saturday, 
fs you all know. to represent the Exeter Sportsmen’s Club at the 
Lizowsky Clay-Pigeon Match at Chicago. At Worcester we met 
the club from that city and continued in their company until we lelt 
And let me pause here to pay 
these gentlemen a well-deserved tribute for the large part they con- 
tributed toward making our visit and onr journey pleasant. Their 
kinuly wishes for ou1 success and their cordial congratulations when 
success wis achieve will long be remembered by each ot a side 

é ar- 
rived silely in Chicago, and put up at the Palmer House, where 
many of the clubs maile their headquarters, Tuesday the wind blew 
a wile, so itwas deciled te postpone the shoot until the next day, 
Wednesday moining when I arose I raised the curtain and suw a 
pennant standing out straight from its staff with the force of the 
wind, LT turned to my room mates—l may remark there were three 


them ut Woreuster on our refurn. 


by sile with this flattering reception you haye accorded us. 


of ns in the room—and said, ‘Boys, it blows like the devil, 


chanecs are good.’ We shot and scored thirty-five. It was nota 
large score—it was a very poor score not one of the teams who 
were present would have accepted. They would rather have shot. 


Yet when the thirteenth team finished, thirty-five led the list, 


next morning when 1 arose L looked out ot the window and saw that 
same pennant stunding out as flat as a pancake. *Boys,’ saiu I, ‘it is 
blowing liard, We have a good chance.’ Weshot and scored thirty- 
three. It ivas nota greafscore. No team present woul haye ac- 
cepted it, yebib was enough. The team has taken in prizes over 
$1,400 in the tonroament, in¢luding the grand prize of $750 and the 
diamond badre awarded to the best individual score, valued at $250, 
I thunk you in the name of the team for your welcome home, and 
hope that in tuture your welcome will be just as cordial whether we 


come is victors or yanduished. 


“At the conclusion of the doctor’s speech, he asked Mr. Stark to 
arise ani let the people see the diamond badge won by him at the 

_ tournament. He nt once arose, amid the cheers of the large assem- 
bluge. aud the badge, which was fastened to the white satin ribbon 
by which Mr. Stark giined admittance to the field, was plainly seen 
attached to the lapel of his coat. The badge is of fine golu with a 
large diamond in the center, surrounded Wy a laurel wreiith finished 
incolors, On the top is 4 pizeon with extended wings, also finished 
in color. It was made for the Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Cc, On therve- 


verse side is the inscription : 
: DUNATED BY THE 
LicgowskyY CLAY-PiGEON Co., OF CINCINNATI, Q., 
TO O, M, SPARK, 
_EXETER SPORTSMENS’ CLUB, 
__ INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP, 
Ist Ina, O. P, TOURNAMENT, CHICAGO, May, 1884, 


SS _ ———— 


am somewhat surprised whe many of these 
eonditions of uncertainty are remoyed—when, Within certain limits, 
# uniformity of conditions is assured—that so many good marksmen 


“Al the close of the louvhament it was at the option of My, Stark 
to take the badge or $250 in cash. He took the badge, 

The barouche containing the team was then escorted to the store 
of Mr. Getchell where they alighted, and the erowd slowly dispersed. 
At 10:30 the Sportsmen’s Club entertained the team” and a few 
friends at Bene ey 8 Where a sumptuous repast was served, and aii 
hour was agreeably spent in hearing pleasant reminiscences of the 
Chicago tournament. Regret was expressed by all present that Mr, 
‘Hervey could not enfertain a larger number at this time, so that the 
club vould haye made the invitations more general, 

The chib was organized several years ago to shoot at glass balls, 
which took the place of live pigeons owing to a feeling in the com- 
munity that the birds suffered during the sport, Before the organiza- 
tion of the club, there was an ‘annual pigeon shoot” that took place 
on ove or more May days, and the last one was so successful that it 
was decided to organize a glass ball club for practice, A ground was 
secured through the kindness of the late Mr, B, L. Merrill, on one of 
his pastures near Little River, and the same sport was indulged in 
with more zeal than success. Messrs. Cooper, Taylor and Gerrish 
were among the early members and haye continued their interest in 
the club ever since. The substitution of glass balls thrown from a 
trap for birds took every objection from the sport and the club 
flourished, 

After a year or two grounds were secured on the Kensington road, 
and afterward they removed to the rear of the jail where permanent 
quarters were ¢stablished, and the roll of membership increased very 
vapidly. A club room was secured on Water stieet where members 
could meet and transact business or talk over the incidents of the 
sport, This was, however soon abandoned, and the bouse on their 
grounds became their headquarters, About this time the club began 
to feel strong enough to meet other oragnizations. One of the 
strongest organizations in this vicinity was the Powow club, of 
Amesbury, Mass., and with them they tried conclusions several 
times, but were always overmatched. A short time ago a regular 
summer shoot was decided upon, and the first proved such a success 
that they have been kept up regularly. The home team has im- 
proved so steady that they have always held their own against all 
comers, and the interest of the annual shoot has given an impetus to 
the interest in the club that has carried it through the year, The 
club was néyer tn better condition than at present, and the skill of its 
crack team won the respect of all with whom it has come in contact.” 


MAINE.—Topsham, June 9.—The third match forthe Ligowsky 
medal between the Riversides and Bethels, was shot on Tuesday, 
June 3, ab the Fair Grounds in Topsham, resulting in favor of the 
Riversides, the following scores being made, uuder the conditions 
governing the medal, Bethels challenging: 


Bethels. , 

VOPIMW CL crn etki wiche te tt pera = 1111011010 10 11 O1 10 11—14 
OU res Pele a7 dase! 2111001111 11 00 11 01 N0—11% 
Clarke ee calc eae 1011110110 Of 11 10 01 10—18 
POWOES Ls 2kn eek ties tert eerey ened TOOL 10 10 10 01 00—i2 
Ballina yee sawp cede pens ees 111111122 10 10 11 10 01—15—- 6514 

Riversides. 
ASO GIOTIO Sate crime tek tac pgs 1111201111 11 10 11 01 00—14t6 
GH Goud........ ena tenes Pee ate ee AATRITITIT 10 11 11 01 10-16% 
SEBO reteset ie was 0121111211 O1 10 10 11 01-14 
Alexander, .7,---0...2-..--- --Adeetiddtd 11 11 11 10 11—18 
ETA, cine soe ek A 0100111111 10 O1 11 10 01—13—76 

BLOOMING GROVE PARK,—Decoration Day matches at clay 

igfeons = " 

Ams Gelder: soy eaeedas 111000010 Ww INGSOMS a eee ree nee ae 1111111111—10 
Baldwin.......... ...001100000w Van Gelder........ 0001109000 — 2 
Vyse....-- ,.. 0001000 w Bald with ...5. acdsee 1110100011— 6 
INELS OTIS serene ay eeteae ete t 0110111101—7 Smith.............. 0010000110— 3 
HR Opt 3 aYelstoregrapee tears hey" 0111110111—-8 lodgman. .. ......00100 Ww 
Fielder........ Bi ee 0000000 w Dillingham.......,. 0100100110 — 4 
aa QeYal=ava{chov eee Shite 01010000 ws Wyse....... 2.2.05. 1000100110— 4 
BINIGD ser ieatan eat erokSs 011101000w GUNS flab 01000 w 

PaO reed ee P ed Saree gy tl 0110011100—5 


KORTRIGHT SPORTING CLUB.—Kortright, N. ¥Y.—May shoot. 
Conditions: Standard traps, léyds. rise: 


He uisadlesyans Ieee ay eitieee detec dee eee 000119111110011—-9 
JN BURRS es t44 23 soso opsgoeaoadnG 001111001000110—7 
DHSS ee nS are eC Se oan A 111100061100001—7 
SWE IV SV Ise are nn ter ceehefercltacictcl ncletetsebelae ae LPOADPO OL 001.0T 00 1— 7% 
(GR MiP Ne RR ands ogee sacuconda aid 100001100010000- 4 
WV S tench: See inN yo’ eaevtareint tates <n ony O000C0000LTLTIL1L1L0O- 6 
SIMELA CHO: Ceoeiceetceki heae see lyatiin- ces, 10614110001110110—9 
MeDIUsbIOcee fees lee Mosc cladhaae 001010170117100—8 
LO feel KOT oh oot EBD y Ubeonced Phat COAL I Pit 1 at 0 0—11 
MONEE ATIC yen eh ape ce writes chelated 1117010111001 i 0--i0 
DEROWMSOLE ser dae teetene accent ns cent 1O0001000TO0L1110—6 

D.8. J. 


WELLINGTON, Mass., June 7.—The sultry air of the city and the 
incitement of the medal match tended to augment the number of 
shootists of the Malden Gun Club at the Wellington range to-day, 
The various events resulted as follows: 

First event, badge matech—Buffum, Nicholas and Sanborn, fifteen 
each, taking first, second and third respectively. 

Second event, five birds—RBrown first, Lewis second, Hopkins third, 

Third event, five birds—Dickey first, Scott and Snow divided second, 
Brown and Nichols divided third. 

Fourth event, seven birds—Hopkins first, Adams second, Pratt and 
Nichols divided third, Warren fourth, | 

Fifth event, five halls—Dickey first, Saunders and Brown divided 
second, Hopkins third, Nichols fourth. 

Sixth event, five birds—Dickey first, Short second, Hopkins and 
Warren divided third, Nichols fourth, 

Seventh event, three pairs birds—Hopkins and Saunders divided 
first, Brown and Scott divided second, Nichols third, Pratt and Snow 
divided fourth, 

Hight event, five balls—Dickey and Hopkins divided first, Warren 
and Shattuck divided second, Pratt and Lewis divided third, Scott 
and Short divided fourth. i - 

Ninth event, seven birds—Dickey first. Scott and Snow second, 
Hopkins third, Warren and Lewis divided fourth. 

Tenth event, five birds - Snow first. Short and Brown divided sec- 
ond, Shattuck, Hopkins and Warren divided third. 

eieventh eyent, five birds—Dickey and Snow divided first, Adams 
second. 


BOSTON, June 4.—To-day was shotgun day at Walnut Hill, and 
notwithstanding the—for this season—unusually warm weather, the 
attendance was fair, and the day was much enjoyed by the admirers 
of the sport. All day long, with the exception oF about half an hour 
at noonday, was spent discussing the merits of festive and nutritious 
baked beans and ample accompaniments provided by caterer Ken- 
dall, a vigorous and well-executed attack was kept up on the harm- 
less, featherless birds, and many were the innocents that, by the 
well-directed shots of the ‘skillful’? marksmen present, were brought 
to ground in a sadly disabled condition, never again so repeat their 
rapid and delusive flight. The interest In Wednesday’s shoot was 
largely enhanced by the presence of several shots of celebrity from 
neighboring clubs. One pleasing feature of the Walnut Hill shotgun 
meets is the marked good fellowship that always exists among the 
frequenters of this popular and cheerful place of resort, for lovers of 
both the smooth and grooved barrels. Possibly the good nature and 
cheerfulness so abundant there, is largely owing to the influence ex- 
erted by the distinctive Boston diet,so freely and frequently in- 
dulged in by the patrons of the place. The “spring meeting” of the 
Rifle Association, which closed on Saturday the 31st ult., the details 
of which you doubtless have received long ere this,was in all respects 
successful. The attendance, although not as large as on some pre- 
vious years, was fair, the financial results satisfactory, and thescores 
of the riflemen well up to the standard of former days. I think you 
are correct when you say, “You Boston people appear to keep up 
the rifle practice better than any other club,” 

The record to-day stood: 

First event, five clay birds—De Rochmont and Evans divided first, 
Hart and Cutting divided second, Nichols, third. 

Second event, five clay birds—De Rochmont first, Snow and Hart 
divided second, Nichols and Adams divided third. 

Third eyent, five birds, five traps—De Rochmont and Hart divided 
first, Byaus second, Nichols third. 

Fourth event, five clay birds—Rowell first, Hart second, Snow and 
Cutting divided third, De Rochmont fourth. 

Fifth event, five glass balls—Evans first, Snow and Rowell divided 
second, De Rochmont third. 

Sixth eyent, five clay birds—Rowell and Snow divided first, De 
Rochmont second, Belcher third, Cutting fourth, 

Seventh event, five glass balls—De Rochmont and Snow divided 
first, Evans and Nivhols divided second, Adams third. 

Highth event, five birds, five traps—Nichols and Hart divided first, 
Adams and Russel divided second, DeRochmont and Stanton divided 
third, Evans fourth, 

Ninth event, five glass balls—DeRochmont, Evans and Law divided 
first, Snow second, Belcher third. 

Tenth event, three pairs birds—Nvans and Hart divided first, Snow 
and Nichols divided second, DeRochmont and Russell divided third. 

Eleventh event, fiye clay-birds—Hart and Snow divided first, 


3938 


DeRochmont and Cutting divided second, Nichols third, Hvans and 
Law divided fourth, ie 

Twelfth event, five glass balls—Law first, Snow and Rowell divided 
second, Evans third. 

Thirteenth event, three pair birds—Lany first, Snow second, Nichols 
and Howe divided third, Hart and Rowell divided fourth. _ 

Yourteenth event, five clay-hbirds—Law and Hart divided first, 
Rowell second, Stanton third, Thompson fourth. : 

Fifteenth event, five clay birds—Law first, Adams and Rowell di- 
vided second, Stanton and Gooduow divided third, Nichols and Hart 
divided fourth, 

Sixteenth event, three pair glass balls—Nichols first, Rowell and 
vans divided second, Law third. ae 

Seventeenth event, five clay birds—Snow and Stanton divided first 
De Rochmont and Hart divided second, Hyans third, Nichols and 
Rowell divided fourth. 

Highteenth eveut, five birds, flve traps—Law first, Hart and Stanton 
divided second, Goodnow third, Nichols fourth. 

Nineteenth event, five glass balls—Law first, De Rochmont and 
Snow divided second. . 

Twentieth event, five clay birds—Hart first, Law and Stanton 
divided second, Russell third, 


SAGRAMENTO, Cal., May 25.—The Pacific Sportsmen’s Club held 
its monthly shoot at Agricultural Park to-day, ata lot of fast-flying 
birds, the following scores being made; first four at 26yds., resb ab 
21yds,: Routier 10, Graves 3, Nesbitt 7, Pedler 8, Bronner 7, Vaughan 
8, King 8, Swanwell6, Chapman 8, Davies 7. Routier won the first 
medal, and in the shoot-off of those killing 8 Pedler won the second 
medal, : 

The supply of live birds having been exhausted, thera followed 
some clay-pigeon shooting, with the following result at twelve birds: 
Chapman 6, Kunz 7. Pedler 9, Tebbets 7, Hopper 6, King 10, Routier 9, 
Nesbitt 7, Davies 6, Flohr 8, Morell 4. 

Another match followed, as follows, also at twelve birds: Tebbets 
5, Chapman 7, Flohr 6, Pedler 6, Kunz 8, Ring 7, Routier 5, Bronner 
6, Davies 6, Nesbitt 7, 


EXETER, N, H., June12.—The Exeter Sportsmen’s Club will give 
a tournament on their grounds to-day that promises all who attend a 
grand, good time. The programme is: Sweepstakes at singles, en- 
trance $1; sweepstakes af doubles, entrance $1; team match, three 
men, entrance $5. All at clay-pigeons, from five traps, constantly 
filled and changed. Sweepstakes at doubles, entrance $1, at clay- 
pigeons, from two fixed traps; sweepstakes at glass balls, entrance 
50 cents, from single and double traps continuously throughout the 
day. Ties will be shut off under the same conditions as the matches 
in which they occur. Ties of two divide, except by consent. Class 
shooting, 50,30 and 20 per cent. No postponement. 


~ WINCHENDON, Mass,, June 5.—The Winchendon Gun Club have 
voted to purchase a Holden glass ball trap. At the regular meet 
yesterday, clay pigeons, score was as follows; 


JonR Martin. 2 soos se 111111110I—9 PS Davis............ 1110010101—6 
FF Hopgood,,....... 1111110110—8 GS Loud........,.... 1110101000—5 
James Sutherland...1101110111—8 # 1 Mann....,....... 0010011101—5 


sd 

MENOMONHE, Wis., June 6.—The following is a score of a practice 
shoot of a few members of the Menomonee Gun Olub. Thelow score 
is owing to the fact thata perfect gale of wind was blowing at the 
time, making it almost impossible for the shooters to stand up at the 
score, to say nothing of doing good execution, 

First shoot, fifteen clay—pigeons each, 15yds. rise, fourth notch, use 
of one barrel: Wm, Wilson 13, EB. F. True 13, R. J. Flint 10, L. J, Sea- 
mans 10, G. R. Brewer 10,5. J. Bailey 10, J. R. Matthews 9, G. H. 
Seely 8, L. J. Hausen 5, 

Second shoot, 10 glass balls, 18yds. rise, rotary trap, use of one 
barrel: L. J. Seamans 8, Wm. Wilson 7, E. F. True 7, G. R, Brewer 6, 
2, J. ee 5,8. J. Bailey 5,G. H. Seely 3, J. R. Matthews 3, i. J- 

ausen 3. 


Canacing. 


Canontsts are invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 
club meets, information about canoeable waters, and other commiu- 
nications of interest. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forms® anp 
SrREAM their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc , of 
their clubs, and also notices in adyance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to ForEST AND STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of crnises, rsaps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or deseriptions of beats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt, 


FIXTURES. 


June 14.—Knickerbocker C. C., Spring Races, 152d St., N. R. 
June 14 to 16.—Merrimack River Meet. 

June 19.—Rochester C. C., Summer Regatta, Irondequoit Bay. 
June 21.—New York C. C., Spring Races, Staten Island. 

July 9 to 15,—Chicago C. C., Annual Cruise. 

dwy 14.—Allegheny C. C., Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 

July 19.—Chieago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 

July 24 to 26—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island, 

Aug. 1to 15,—A. C, A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


HARVARD CANOE CLUB. 


OMMODORE, Theodore Dunham; Vice-Commodore, Philip L, Liy- 
: ingston; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur G. Webster, Organ- 
ized eu 1884. Burgee 10X15, crimson ground, gold ring and shield, 
black letter H. j 


A NEW BOATING CLUB. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

After writing many articles on the subject and talking of its adyan- 
tages, a boat club has come into existence in Nashville. The practi- 
cal pioneer of the moyement was Capt. Fred Wright, an Englishman 
by birth but for many years & prominent cotton buyer in this city. 
True to his national fondness for outdoor sports, he was not long 
the city before he had possessed himseif of a new boat and enjoyed 
the healthful exercise of arow on the beautiful Cumberland, The 
temptation to follow suit was strong enough to induce others to order 
boats, until the number reached a sufficiency to organize a club. 

The name has not yet been decided NRE, though with such names 
as those of T. R. Thurman (president), James Bowron, H. B. Buck- 
ner, Jr., L. R. Campbell, J. D, B. De Bow, A. J, Dyas, Van Dronillard, 
Norman Reikman, Perey Kinnard and at least twenty more of the 
most reliable young gentlemen of the city, the club’s future is an 
assured success. 

As yet the class of boats and canoes owned by the members are of 
a composite kind, and not for racing purposes, though it is the mten- 
tion of the members to secure ab once shells for two, four and six 
oars, build boat houses, and at once establish a first-class club, 

During the summer months the waters of the Cumberland are as 
clear as those of a spring branch, the current is almostimperceptible, 
and the scenery through which it flows is equal to that of a diminu- 
live"Swilzerland. Teannot imagine a stream better suited to canoe 
excursions than it is, It abouwndsin game fish, and all along its 
wooded banks, deer, rabbits, hares and doyes can smill be found in 
abundance. TI sincerely hope the club will prove a suéecess, and, 
know of no better source for its members to gain aquatic lore than 
By Bie yanE. the yachting and canoeing columns of the Formst anp 

TREAM. 


NASHVILLE, Tenn, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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12, 1884. 


AN IMPROVED LATEEN SAIL. 


Editor Forest and Stream-: 

I haye been reading your articles on amateur canoe building in 
FoREST AND STREAM with considerable interest and a great deal of 
pleasure. I have been patiently waiting for the article on sails, to 
3ee what would be offered. For the past three years I have been 
experimenting with the different styles of sails, endeavoring to find 
which sail was best adapted to amateur canoe sailing, and find the 
lateen by far the best, for the reason that it gives the most power 
with the center of effort nearer the deck, but it was an ugly customer 
to arrange so as toreef. I send you herewith a diagram of a reefing 
lateen sail that I used on Lake Chautauqua last summer, and was very 
much pleased with it; indeed, it was a success. It can be reefed so 
quickly that in a sailing regatta Lreefed while coming in stays. 

The mast is about double the height of mast for ordinary lateen, 
and has sheave fitted at C to work fore and aft. Pennant D is spliced 
into the swivel eye of block, A, and in setting the sail is rove through 
mast over sheave at C to block on deck at P (port side, near mast), 
and thence to cleat, H, There is also spliced to the eye of block, A, 
the boom lift, F, which is put through the jaw, T, and knotted on 
underside at such length as you desire to have the boom from the 
deck. A metal strap is also fitted to block, A, as shown, into which 
topping lifts, G, are spliced. When the block, A, is drawn snug up 
to the mast at C the sail is resting in the lifts and the boom is in 
proper position for sailing. 

To hoist and lower sail, halliard I.is used, being made fast on gaff 


A 


at K, passed up through double block A to single block B, back down 
through block A and through a block on deck on starboard side of 
mast opposite block P to cleat on starboard side of deck vpposite EK, 
anil when thus rove need not be unrove further than the block in the 
deck, as in taking down the sail, drawing pennant D through its 
bearings clears the whole business, and all the gear can be rolled up 
in the sail and put away. In a sudden squall, by letting go pennant 
D the sail will immediately go overboard. 

To set sail, place mast, reeve pennant D through sheave O, block P 
_ to cleat E: halliard L through block in deck to cleat; haul pennant 
D taut and belay; haul balliard L taut and belay and the sail is up. 
To lower sail, let go halliard L and sail will drop. 

For reefing purposes, I splice into the eye at I a bolt rope, X, and 
sew to sail, as shown to H, where I fasten well, then extend through 
block at M to screw eye N and © on underside of boom (one block, 
M, on each side of boom for single and double reef), where a knot is 
tied. 

To Reef.—Slack halliard lL, draw taut reef pennant and belay 
by grasping boom and reef pennant back to screw eye with one hand 
and holding pennant while a loop is passed between main part and 
screw eye with the other hand as shown, then set up halliard L till 
sail is in position. 

To Shake Out Reef.—Take hold of end of reef pennant and pull 
out loop and tauten halliard L. In reefing it is not necessary to tie 
reef points, S,as the setting up of bolt rope, X, virtually makes a 
new foot to the sail. The points need only be tied for looks. I think 
itan excellent cruising sail as well as for beginuers. 

By carrying reef pennant well forward on boom a reef may be 
taken when before the wind, but-I have nob found a time when I 
wished to reef when before the wind. When it blows so hard as to 
make a reef necessary sailing before the wind in a canoe, I think the 
best way is to take in sail. LONG SHANES. 

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 16, 


THE NEWBURGH MEET. 


AM who visited Newburgh from New York have returned, but are 

still talking of the good time they had. We copy the following 
fromthe New York Times. There is no doubt that the local-meets 
will, in the future, be an important feature in the growth of canoe- 
ing, us they bring in many who would not visit the annual meet, and 
excite an interest in the sport over the entire locality where they are 
held: 

“The canoe meet held last week at Newburgh was a very successful 
affair. It was the first of a series of so-called local meets which are 
to take place in various parts of the country this summer. There can 
beno doubt that the American Canoe Association has done and is 


doing a good work. Including as it does members in every State of 
the Union and in Canada, it has had much to do in bringing about the 
‘canoe boom’ that has mave such marvelous progress during the last 
year. At the same time it is evident that the members of the asso- 
ciation are too widely scattered to make it possible that any large 
proportion of them can attend the annual meet. Hence it seems very 
advisable that the canoceists who reside within practicable distance of 
one another should have their annual local meets. There would be 
little difficulty, for example, in bringing together a large number of New 
York and New England men at some central point, and in like man- 
ner, the canoeists of the Middle States, of Canada, and of the North- 
west might form local subdivisions of the association. It would bea 
great pity if the American Canoe Association should be disbanded, 
or if it should cease to hold its annual camp, but the association can 
be made all the stronger by the help of local branches, each with its 
own special annual gathering.”’ 


ROYAL C. C. 


HE second race for first-class sailing canoes was held at Hendon 

on Saturday, the 17th inst., when, out of five boats entered, the 
following four started: Violet, Mr. W. Whitney; Gladys, Mr. T. F. 
Knowles; Imogen, Mr. H. Church; Merlin, Mr. E.G. Wilkinson. A 
fresh breeze from the southwest enabled the boats to make a fast 
race of it, in spite of double reefs, for nearly the whole time. Gladys 
rounded the lower buoy first, closely followed by Violet who, passing 
her on the run home, continued to increase her lead during the re- 
maining two rounds, eventually taking first prize. The times were 
taken as under: 


First Round, Second Round. Third Round, 
WIIG 25542000 bho Seats 05 O} 4 40 00 5 16 00 
Glave C8. 0 4 05 02 4 41 00 5 18 30 
Mmopenes, oho A eset 4 07 00 4 44 00 5 25 00 
UWierTigi 2), sa matey ss poe ee 4 11 00 4 52 00 


The third match of the season came off at Hendon on Saturday last, 
May 24, but only the two following canoes came to the line: Gladys, 
Mr. T. F. Knowles; Imogen, Mr. H. Church. There was a fresh breeze 
from east at the start, when Imogen got off with a good lead, which 
she maintained until reaching the end of the lake. As soon as it came 
toa turn to windward, however, Gladys overhauled her hand over 
fist, and soon took the lead from her, eventually winning easily at 
4:37, The race for the challenge cup will take place at Hendon to- 
day, when some good racing may be expected, Mr, D, Ashton having 
built anew canoe, and Messrs. W. Baden-Powelland A. H. Tredwen 
being among the entries. - 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


RICE, CORNSTARCH AND CEREALS. 


| Fags things are better or more easily prepared in camp than rice. 
Put some to soak at night and in the morning it will cook in a 
short time. Pour off the water m which it has soaked, and add again 
sufficient water to cook it, soas not to have the second watering. 
Coek slowly and donot stir, Always cookin cold water. (Hominy 
and meal are always stirred into boiling water). 
Plain rice and milk with sugar, rice with a dressing of butter, sugar 
and nutmeg, rice with whisky sauce, rice any way is ever agreeable. 
For whisky sauce, blend together a little corn starch, water, butter 
and sugar, let come to a boil over the fire. Search the *‘medicine 
chest’? until the proper label is found, and add a few spoonsful to the 
taste. Or a good dressing is made thus: One tablespoontul corn 
starch or flour stirred into half pint of water and let come to boul, 
sweeten with sugar and fiour, with nutmeg or vanilla. A small bottle 
of yanilla occupies little space, and is found very useful by the cook. 
There is nothing better among the nnecessaries of the commis- 
sariat than cornstarch; once taken it always assumes its lace in the 
list of supplies. It is good for dressings, custards, omelettes, or sim- 
ply boiled in milk. Its preparation is most simple, it is wholesome, 
nutritious. not bulky, and one package will supply any ordinary cruise. 
Let one pint milk come toa boil. While heating mix two table- 
spoonsful cornstarch and one egg, one tablespoonful sugar, pinch 
salt, and a little cold muk. When milk boils add mixture; let boil a 
few minutes, stirring the while; be careful not to burn. Flavor with 
yanilla or lemon. Cornstarch custard is made the same way, only 
substitute three-quarters for two tablespoonsful cornstarch. If 
larger quantity is needed use same proportions. 
If in a permanent camp, with the expectation of company to din- 
ner, you May surprise them with the regular old-fashioned custard 
for dessert. Beat up four eggs, three tablespoonsful sugar and 
inch of salt. Let one quart milk come’to a boil. Stir mixture into 
Soilinie milk and set pail containing all into kettle or other pail of 
boiling water and boil until thickened; or set cups containing mix- 
ture into frying pan of boiling water. > 
A person with a little ingenuity can always have sufficient variety 
of food; the various vegetables, cereals, berries, melous and fruits. 
Too much meat is eaten in warm weather for the general good, and 
no doubt the canoeist is benefited by his departure from the earniv- 
orous precincts of the city. re 
With the exception of a vial of ‘‘Jersey Blue” in the medicine locker 
and the ardent spirits which naturally belong to every canoeist, I 
would advoeate (like the “Kingfisher” and others) the use of nothing 
Siponeer than tea, coffee or spring water; though the lover of the 
sparkling beverage may contend with the ‘‘tar,” that “Tf wine's a 
oison so is tea, though in another shape. What matter whether one 
is killed by canister or grape?” 1 ' 


Aurora's coffee is of the right kind, simp] icab 
i ple, practicable and good, 
ay eHow receipts we see, about as intricate as the ra PER ES of 
ench pastry. A greenhora on the perusal of them would prefer 
spring water to the undertaking, The only suggestion I would make 
to Aurora is the use of a small piece of codfish ea for the purpose of 


‘clearing. A good cup of tea is made by simply pouring boiling water 


on tea, two tablespoonsful to a quart of boiling water, replace on fire 
let yer ue set HAR to steep. This may not suit the Taianee who: 
aiggrint Bs ie with & thermometer, but a hungry canoeist could never 
ow why can we not have a cook book of ivi 
some ideas and receipts until we make quite a, euttities ee isp the 
brotherhood work hard and tax its ingenuity for a food bed and a 
good dinner, for what is any cruise without either, . 


$$ eee 


TORONTO C. C. SAILING RACE.—As announced on the 23 

the Toronto C. C. were on that day to race fora clailienes “aap ait 
three prizes. The firein the Mail building, however, prevented the 
commodore from being present, so the race was postponed until last 
Saturday, when it came off. The course was from the foot of Lorne 
street to yacht Alarm, moored near the RC.¥.C. wharf at the 
Island and return, to be gone over twice. Entries as follows: Boreas 
Commodore Neilson; Isabel, Mr. Tyson; Sadie N., Mr. Nicholson: 
Whimbrel, Mr. Mason; No Name, Mr. Kerr; Racine, Vice Commodore 
Stinson, The Isabel, Boreas and Whimbrel carried heayy iron cen- 
terboards, the Sadie N. a wooden board, the No Name an Atwood 
folding board, and the Racine an iron keel. Wind was from the east 
a fresh breeze, making a rough sea for such small craft. The start 
was made at 3:10 P, M, the Sadie N. immediately crossing the line 
with a good lead, followed in turn by the No Name, Isabel, Racine, 
Whimbrel and Boreas. The No Name soon took the lead. and little 
change in position took place until the Alarm was reached,when the 
Boreas—which had been sailed a better course than the others— 
made a good turn, and taking the lead was never headed, winning by 
about a hundred yards from the Isabel and two hundred from the 
Sadie N., the Whimbrel making a good fourth; the No Name and the 
Racine having given up the contest. The No Name—a new craft by 
Glendinning—would probably have captured the cup if her rudder 
lines had not givenway. She showed great speed and weatherly 
qualities. The Atwood centerboari!, with which she is fiited, did its 
work well, and is no doubta great help to any small craft in going to 
windward. They are bein put into a great many skiffs, and now 
that they are manufactured in Canada by the Wildermuth Spring Red 
Co., of Gananoque, the cost will be much less than when E noorted, 
The Commodore, in addition to winning the enp, also won a board of 
the above description, value $5, presented by the above company. Mr, 
Tyson wona spirit stove presented by W. A. Sparrow & Co., and 
Mr. Nicholsona camp knife presented by Mr. McDowall, 174’ Kin 
street east. Next Saturday the club will have a race round the Islan 
for the sailing cup held by Mr. Tyson, and the following Saturday 
may see another race for the running cup.—Toronto Mail. 


ENICKERBOCKER C, C.—The annual regatta of the Knickerbocker 
C. C. will take place on Saturday next, June 14, at 3 P. M., off the 
club house, One Hundred and Fifty-second street, North River. The 
races, which are open to club members only, will be sailed under A, 
C. A. rules, they are: Paddling classes 2 and 4, 1 mile; sailing classes, 
Aand B, 8 miles; paddling and sailing, all classes, 1 mile; tandem 
race, open to all, 1 mile. First and second prizes will be given in all 
except the tandem, in which but one prize will be given, Mr. C. G. 
Y. King is clerk of the course, . . 


NEW YORK C. C.—The regular spring regatta will be held Jun 
21, off the club house at New Brighton. Faced called on aval of 
2P.M. boat. There will bea sailing race for classes A and B, dis- 
tance 3 miles; paddling races for classes 2and 3, distance 1 mile; a 
tandem paddling race same distance, an upset race and canoe gym - 
nastics. The regatta is open to all amateurs and suitable prizes will 
be offered. Written entries must be sent.to Regatta Committee, care 
of J. F. Newman, secretary, 19 John street. 


CANVAS BOATS.—Grand Rapids, Mich.—Will you please allow 
me to make a suggestion to your correspondent ‘Young Tenderfoot”’ 
of Philadelphia. It is simply this: If you buy a folding canvas oat, 
do not get one that has a seam through the center. I have tried two 
fifty-dollar ones. The first one gave out after using three times, the 
other leaked badky the second time it was used and had to be sewed 
all over. Should you decide to get a canvas boat, have it made from 
one piece of cloth.—_ ARTHUR Woop, 


THE A. C. A. MERT.—Dr, Neidé writes that by an arrangement 
with the publishers he is able to supply maps of the Thonsand Islands 
to members of the American Canoe Association at cost, forty cents 
each. The map is on a seale of one and a half inches to the mile, and 
includes the river from above Gananoque to Grenadier’s Islaud. It 
is neatly bound in pocket book form. Gopies can only be obtained at 
this price by A. C. A. members and from Dr. Neidé. 

CANOE PHOTOS.—We have received two photos of the Newburgh 
meet from Mr. Joslin of Newburgh, one 12% 14in., a fine view of Plum 
Point from the south, with canoes on the river, the other, an 8x10, 
showing both sides of the river toward Cornwall and the canoes turn- 
ing the lower stakeboatin Class A sailing race. Canoeists can ob- 
tain copies of these and the other three views from Mr. Joslin, No. 73 
Water street. Newburgh, N. Y. 

MERRIMAC RIVER MEET.—A large attendance of canoeists is 
promised at the meet on the Merrimac River below Lowell, on June 
14,15 and 16. John Boyle O’Reilly and other Boston canoeists will be 
present, and the canoe fever is rapidly spreading among local canoe- 
ists. 

BARK CANOES.—A correspondent inquires whether any other 
bark but birch is suitable for canoes. Can any of our readersinform 
us? : 


Pachting. 


FIXTURES. 


Secretaries of yacht clubs will please send early notice of pro- 
posed matches and meetings. 


June 12.\New York Y, C., Annual Matches. 


June 14.—Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., Annual Match. 
June 16.—Newark Y. C., Opening Match. 

June 16.—New York Y. C., Race around Long Island. 
June 17.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. 


19.—_New Jersey Y. C., Annual Match. 

June 21.—Hull ¥. C,, Pennant Match. 

June 23.—Newark Y. C., Open Matches. 

June 24.—New Haven Y. C., Spring Match. 

26.—Salem Bay Y. C., First Championship Match. 
27.—Eastern Y. C., Annual Matches. 


June 28.—Boston Y. C., Ladies’ Day. 
June 30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 
June 30.—Quiney Y. C., Second Match. 
4.—Larechmont Y. C., Annual Open Matches. 
July 4,5, 6.—Quaker City Y. C., Corinthian Cruise. 
July 5.—Hull Y. C., Review and Annual Cruise, five days. 
July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12.—Boston Y. C.. Second Club Match. 
July 12—Hnll Y. C., First Club Match. 
suly 19.—Hull Y. ©., Ladies’ Day. 
July 24.—Hastern Y. C., Annual Cruise. 
July 26.--Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship Match. 
July 30.—Quiney Y. C.. Third Match. 
Aug, 4.—Quaker City Y. C.. Review and Harbor Cruise. 
Aug. 9.—Boston Y. C., Annual Matches. 
Aug. 11-25.—Quaker City Y. C., Annual Cruise in Chesapeake and 
Delaware Bays. : 
Aug. 16.—Salem Bay Y. C., Open Matches. 
Aug. 16.—Hull Y. C., Open Matches. 
Aug. 28.—Quiney Y. C., Fourth Match. 


. 80.—Hull Y. C., Second Championship Match. 
Sept. 8.—Hull Y. C., Third Championship Match. 


Sept. 4.Salem Bay Y. C., Second Championship Match. 
Sept. 13.—Hoston Y. C., Fall Matches. 

Sept. 14.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Cup Race. 

Sept 


, 28.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. 
5.—Quaker City Y. C., Closing Review and Cruise. 


STEEL FOR SHIPBUILDING. 


eee the use of steel for shipbuilding is a novelty in this 
country, the subject is one of the greatest interest to American 
yachtsmen and shipowners. Althongh-steel yessels were built in 
England over twenty years ago, in 1265, six steamers, 5,342 tons m all 
being launched, its use was discontinued on account of bhe expense, 
but within the past five years itsdecreased cost, together with its 
many advantages over iron, have brought it into much more general 
use abroad, the cost now being about the same as iron, while its 
strength is much greater. : ( sages, 
The steel used i n the new government cruisers now building is made 
atthe works in Chester, Pa.. the plant for which was desi and 


erected by Mr. C. M. Rider, im 1881, and is capable of turning out coat- 
ings up to 40 tons weight. The arrangements are most complete in 


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all details, the ingots cast being sufficiently perfect to admit of roll- 
ing at once, without any cleaning or chipping, 

At the outset of the undertaking much doubt was expressed by ex- 
perts as to the quality of the metal to be made, ib being estimated 
that at least 25 per cent. would be rejected, the specifications requir- 
ing & tensile strength of 60,000 pounds per square inch, and not less 
than 23 per cent. elongation in 8in, Out of 38 consécutive heats made, 
howeyer, one only failed to meet the above specifications. 

An entirely new method of manufacturing steel plates has lately 
been brought forward by the inventor, Mr. Joseph Whitely, of Leeds, 
England, who is now experimenting with the process. " 

A hollow iron cylinder lined with fire brick 1s mounted on a hori- 

zontal axis on which it revolyes. A pipe perforated with holes con- 
ducts the molten steel to the inside of the cylinder, on which it falls, 
and is distributed in an even thickness by centrifugal force. When 
sufficiently thiel: this inner cylinder is drawn out, slit on a circular 
saw, flattened and rolled to the required thickness. 
_ if aplate is required for shipbuilding, a mold would be used, for 
instance, Sft, diameter and bft. long, in which a cylinder lin, thick is 
cast, making, when cut and flattened, a plate 5ft.xl6xtin. thick, which 
by successive rollings is reduced to Win. thick, growing to 80ft. 
lengths, the breadth being about the same. A mold has been used 
9tt. lone and bft. diameter, containing a plate of 830cwt. It is claimed 
for these plates that there is no risk of overheating or burning, the 
metal is homogeneous and of much freater strength. The process is 
also applicable to the manufacture of boiler tnbes. 


LARCHMONT Y. C. 


LTHOUGH all the boats enrolled in the club are considered as 
being entered for the pennant matches of each spring and fall, 
but thirteen appeared at the starting line on Saturday, June 7, for 
the first match of the season, Besides the attractions of the races, 
the occasion was, in a way, 4 housewarming in honor of the club's 
new and enlarged quarters, and a number of visitors, besides the 
club members were pl'esent. 
In addition to the pennants. special prizes were offered by Com- 
’ modore Monroe, of $5) to the winning yacht in any class having four 
or more starters, but this inducement failed to secure full entries, as 
but one class, the smaller open boats, mustered over three starters, 
while but one other class had more than two, as given below: 
SECOND-CLASS CABIN SLOOPS, 


Name Owner. Length. 
(ULUES | {Tae pee ee qe dae ALTON, ssa ae eae cases SA48bG 
Eelipse Se Seen A ye ns ee eereee 51.0 
THIRD-CLASS CABIN SLOOPS. 
DTPA My see He. al Gibbs a7 Ba benGin ne, bah: tees ness 41.6 
MCMMIHG ER is tay ee Le COM: MONTOG. sees stare ye ae 37.3 
FOURTH-CLASS CABIN YACHTS, 
EHO Ser We ec POET A Wosr COLO ca Sciank na bbas chee nt 22.0 
TMG Fee ea via OUVerPAM AMIS, Syaas2c se oe ue iene 21.2 
Weureiaie ee eet Lo. LOLLOM sete. eet: Pp ee —- 
OPEN BOATS 24 TO 27 FEET. 
Cheemaun __.... Pee AAT VEODUS, SOME tcarwle bess 24.10 
OPEN BOATS 20 TO 24 FEET. 
SGU Te a See oe, a C. E. Jenkins 


Fo oe eto ato H. Sanderson... .. 
. HE. Towle..:. 


a DEMIR Sahat pials| le ee a Ji 22.33 QGheemaun.-.........,. -.11 25 20 
SATICUR eae) Rotsedeciens sie Ujs22-64 Weclipsé. Jess. 2. sca... 11 25 31 
Garmoteec wees oe a. ae DT eesou AN listen ea tas Reber eae 11 25 33 
WnHIsGron a jaes ces Soe RIS Oe ACH OM tees pace. nee 11 25 58 
WADED AN 5.) epee age Te 2S wa” DYES ey Oe ee ke ye, 11 26 20 
yma phase) ese eens en ee -o 11 24.00 Sehemer.)... 2.2 .cccs css. 11 26 20 
Wanwaaeks) al ).eas «...-41 25 05 


On the beat out to Execution Light, Fairy held the lead for some 
distance, with Cruiser, Zoe. Hclipse and Athlon in the order named, 
until when near the buoy, Cruiser went to windward of her, holding 
her place, however, but for a few minutes, as big Eclipse soon passed 
her, rounding first at 12:17:00, the others following with Cruiser at 
estas Zoe 12:18:18, Athlon 12:18:40, Fairy 12:19.02, Cheemaun 12: 

by this time the wind had fallen so that the other boats dropped 
out except the Varuna, but after a time it breezed up-again. and all 
_ were off for Matinicock buey, Athlon being first to set her spinnaker, 

followed by Eclipse, while the little féllows had to content themselves 
with jibs boomed out, Helipse was first around at 1:24:20, Athlon 20 
seconds later, and Cheemaun, sailing alone, as there was no competi- 
torin her class, followed at 1:28:20, Cruiser still led the small ones 
ab 1:30:32, with Zoe at 1:31:00 and Fairy in the rear at 1:31:40, 

Here they parted company'with the big ones, making for Constable's 
Point buoy, and rounding as follows: Cheemaun 2:25:20, Zoe 2:29:00, 
Hairy 2:29:40, Cruiser 2:31:30. 

Meanwhile Athlon was doing her best. down the wind with Eclipse, 
and aiter the most exciting part of the day’s sport, sueceeded in 
rounding the stake boat off Captain’s Island, half a minute ahead of 
Eclipse, a 1:56:19, The beat to Execution was a very pretty sight, 
the advantage to windward apparently being with Athlon, but finally 
she broke tacks and stood well into Glen Cove, under the land, the 
Helipse passing Execution Light im, 40s, ahead. 

The little fellows meanwhile had made a goo fight of it, Cheemaun 
rounding the buoy at Execution Light at 3:18:45, Fairy 3:18:56, and 
Zoe 3:19:50, The run home was made with jibs to port on the open 
boats and spinakers on the sanie side on the two sloops. Cheemaun 
being first over the line, the times of the boats being: 

SECOND CLASS—CABIN YACHTS. 


Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected, 
FAT HTOn ae RReeBnne ewe, 11 25 58 a 57 33 431 35 4 31 35 
Mclipse. sy.c.. 006. Yo. di 25 a1 347 20 4 31 49 4 29 04 
FOURTH CLASS—CABIN YACHTS, 
DVATUNG. Fe Foe Shee 11 25 05 4 09 53 4 44 48 4 42 44 
OPEN SLOOPS—24 TO 27 FEET, 
Cheemaun........ .... 1 xa 20 8 ab 44 4 18 24 411 24 
OPEN SLOOPS—2U TO 24 FEET, 
airy cane ates 11 22 33. 3 52 43 4 30 20 4 28 24 
Oruiser.-.. 22. hye LL «11 22 54 3 57 08 4 34 14 4 30 23 
Zoe see pets gets 3 53 20 4 29 25 4 29 1016 


The next races of the club will be the annual matches on July 4, 
while another pennant match will take place in September. 


EASTERN Y. C. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


Hastern Y. G, will sail their annual matches off Marblehead 
; eck on Friday, June 27, at 11:30 A. M., or if stormy on the fol- 
lowing ay. 

All yaehts must be entered by 2 P, M, on Thursday, June 26, at the 
office of Edward Burgess, Secretary of the Club, No. 7 Exchange 
jAlace, Boston. 

The following prizes are offered: First class schooners. $250 and 
$100; second class schooners, $150 and $75; third class schooners, 
$502 first class sloops, cutters and yawls, $150 and $75; second class 
sloops, cutters and yawls, $75 and $35. The awarding of prizes will 
be under Rule.8 of sailing regulations. 

The first and second class schooners, and first class sloops, cutters 
and yawls wili make the first race and will sail one course. but they 
will start respectively as below stated. The third class schooners and 
second class sloops, cutters and yawls will make the second race and 
will sail one course, All starts will be flying. e first race will be 
open, under this cireular, to all yachts of any regularly organized 
yacht club. 
; STARTING SIGNALS, 

/#b 1 o'clock, or thirty minutes before starting, flags, bearing the 
~Humbers of the courses to be sailed, will be hoisted on the regatta 
committee steamer; the course for the first race above that for the 
second race. If only one flag is shown all will sail the samie course, 

At 11:25.— Warning signal fiye minutes before the start by lowering 
numbered flags, hoisting blue flag aud blowing a whistle. 

At 11:30.—Start of first class schooners by lowering blue flag and 
blowing a long whistle. Five minutes’ limit for this class to start. 
This signal will be the warning for the second class schooners. 

At 11:35,—Start of second class schooners and limit for first class 
schooners by lowering blue flag (whieh has been hoisted one minute 
Previously) and blowing whistle. Five minutes’ limit for this class to 
Start. 

At 11;40.—A short whistle marks the limit for second class schooners. 

At 11:45,—Start of first class sloops, cutters and yawls, which start 

signal, and no limit allowed. Their time will be taken from the 


whistle and the lowering of the blue flag (which has been hoisted one 
minute previously). 


cutters and yawls, which start at signal, and no limit allowed. Their 
time will be taken from the whistle and the lowering of blue Hag 
(which has been hoisted one minute previously). 


observed. Hvery yacht Sra 1e: H 
at the mainpeak. Only sails allowed by Rule 11, of sailing regulations, 
may be carried. Any yacht having cause for complaint must signify 
it in accordance wit 
ing line will be from 


Rowe’s wharf, Boston, at 9:45 A, M., and calling at Phillips’s wharf, 
Salem, leaving there at 11 A, M. sharp, landing at the same points in 
the evening. 


from the rendezyous at Marblehead and gomg around Cape Cod to 
the westward. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 


assing to the west of the same; thence to and around the Scotland 
Fehtship, keeping the same on the port hand; thence to and around 
Sandy Hook lightship, keeping it on the port hand, and thence home, 
going to the southward and westward of the beacon on Romer shoal. 

For class Ki the same course, to and around stakeboat near buoy 
No. 8; thence to and around Scotland lightship, keeping it ou the 
port hand, and thence home, 

For classes F and G the same course, te and around stakeboatnear 
buoy No. 8, keeping the same on the port hand, and thence home. 

Classes H, I and K had no starters. : ah. 

The following prizes were offered: <A first prize to the winning 
yacht in each class, in which at least two yachts shall enter and starts 
a second prize in each class, in which at least four yachts shall enter 
and start; and a third prize in each class, in which at least seven 
yachts shall enter and start. 

The “Livingston Memoriai” prize to be awarded to the first sloop 
of Class Din at home stakeboat, without time allowance, to be held 
on the conditions of its presentation. 

A noticeable feature of the arrangements was the size of the fig- 
ures on the mainsails of the competing yachts, which were really 
large enough to be seen at a considerable distance, enabling the spec- 
tators to place the boats throughout the race, 

The entries and allowances were as follows: 


At 11:50.—Start of third class schooners and second class sloops, 


In case of delay in the first signal the same intervals of time will be 
the race must carry her private signal 


rotest rule of sailing regulations, The start- 


arblehead Rock to a stake boat. — ; 
A steamer will be provided for members and their families, leavin 


The annual eruisé of the HE. Y. C. will begin on July 24, starting 


A TELL-TALE. 


In reading your paper I often see suggestions and inventions which 


i i i 7 inter : — vE M. 8. 
are given in your paper for the edification of those who are interested A dhe CLASS A—SCHOONERS, 
in the particular ites to which such things refer, You will remember | Grayling.......-.............. Beek e WISH. Fo sites g¢eh-t3 Le anew 4 aove 
some time ago I sent you an inquiry for ‘tell-tales,” as we call them | Crusader...................00 J.B. Maxwell. FLAC EAVeereooeatss ; , We 
here, or a flag to indicate the direction of the wind, to be used on sail- | Clytie AE Pi StOKGa Ss ceri teat coud daedeaas 


ing craft, You very kindly answered this inquiry, but not tinding any- 


OLASS C—CABIN SLOOPS, 


GTACIG i os ire sa sea eela sen .... Joseph P. Barle 

MMISGHIGIU A Ae Spices ye nye usne Joseph MBUsK sce ponseeeeust 

AUT as aah escheat an 8.omis,6 bons ot Me Gri get OF Sy. me eee eee 5 

AtTHIOTR et io peti Bi miahe Oe ALTON Ml Di ees ee 17 16 

WHS) LC oo ee Cae Weallinim Zieelere yas issa ses tes oa ly 16 
OLASS D—GABIN SLOOPS. 

HOHMED eed: hy sseek ee Id gauss Ue WOUOPEN celict corey oats Allows 

RNbenpnisesecssa-e sass sees. i GB Momats enc sicascscdene 4 10 

amitpgnees (esata tee oo George) «Gormley cere ieee 4 13 

tela yest ctethtew ade s oe Daody, Marcellus. 5.83 <<a yarn (gal) 

Litida ew ey ee arth HY @ROOMe2 22.532. cesss-5.-s_. eed 
CLASS H—OABIN SLOOPS. 

Crocodile... 2. ssc... . es ...J0,.G. Pragpue...._.. Allows 


...Miles Wood 


Una 


thing to suit me I have devised the following which I consider good | Daisy.....---...-... seein ae 0. ¥. Ulrich... 2... ees seen sents Allows 
in ayers way, being ornamental and sensitive to the wind, and not | Viking...................-..-. B.C. pees Benes Se cree teREierers 0 Rs 
liable to wrap around therod. Nomwelre scr nes Mine ete H. GC. W intringham, -...-...+.. +s. 0 

I take a brass rod, A, and put on ita washer, G, and a movable cap, Romeyn SSG einer sane W. R. } er yee SLES web I fi 
B. Ithen take a piece of brass wire and bend it from C to D then IG SP ATs Hy pelo) 2 tah ate Walter Southwiek..............2.. 5 I) 
from Cto Eand Dto E and twist the two together from E to E; I CLASS G— CABIN SLOOPS. 
then wind each end around the rod A, so as to form bearings, It is | Venture..............-...... Ty GS Peabo ys ry. uc. eee odes. Allows 
now ready for the bunting which is put over the frame CE DE, so | Amazon........ ......,...-.. Franklin Besnes....:--,...0. -... 3 18 


The Amelia was entered in Class H, but withdrew, Una taking her 
lace. 
c Most of the yachts crossed on port tack, the remainder foing about 
when well over, soon working short tacks through the Narrows with 
alight S. W. wind. At 11:40 Mischief was off Fort Tompkins, Fanny 
astern inshore and Gracie by the Seawanhaka Basin, where she 
bad run in, losing wind and tide by so doing, the schooners working’ 
down the Long Island shore, and once outside Crocodileran ahead to 
Coney Island Point. The order was Crocodile, Athlon, Fanita, 
Romeyn, Mischief and Thistle, with Gracie at the tail of the proces- 
sion, the remaining boats being scattered between her and Thistle. 
Off Norton’s Point, Fanita took the lead of Crocodile, who now gave 
second place to Mischief. 

Here Fanita stood to the eastward, losing ground by so doing. 
while Mischief, followed by the others, stood for Buoy No, 8, on port 


that the frame is entirely inclosed by the bunting, which is sewed ina 
small seam at $8, also sewed together atthe top and bottom. This 
makes the best tell-tale I know of, for itis a vane and flag combined 
—for the same height of rod can be longer flag, as the frame preyents 
its hanging down low. Jabs, On 


NEWARK BAY Y. C. 


hes complete times of the races of this club on Decoration Day are 
as follows, all being sailed over the club course in Newark Bay, 
a distance of twelve miles, There were twelve entries in four classes, 
cabin sloops, jib and mainsail, cats over 19ft. and cats under 19ft., for 
challenge pennants for each class, to be won three times hefore 
becoming the property of the winner. The wind was puffy and very 
uncertain, and the races were won more by luck than good sailing, 


CLASS A. tack, under a breeze that sent the water through her scuppers, and, 
Start Finish. Actual Corrected. | for the short time it lasted, made the prettiest sport of the day. 
Gray Eagle.....-...... 12 02 00 1 53 55 1515 15155 | Down they came, showing half their sides to the watchers on the 
Wak, satires eS GHARGe 12 07 50 2 02 55 1 56 05 15820 | judges’ boat. Mischief first around, and off on starboard tack, Panny 
dy euler aOR er aanna acne 12 06 53 1 06 00 1 59 07 157 49 | hurrying after, taking in jibtopsail as she came up, Fanita third, 
CLASS B. content with gaiftopsail only, and Crocoaile laying down under main: 
ste apace hacd ye AAR 11 59 52 2 20 00 2 20 08 2 20 08 sail and jib, having found her topsail too much for her. Thistle and 
Rambler ep.) -sjas0- 12 00 32 1 59 00 1 58 28 156 28 | Athlon, the latter heeling well down, followed next, then the eata- 
SUE aYs }:144 (2 ay nals See 12 00 21 : maran Jessie, notin the race, but traveling as thongh she was, while 
SS GC. close together came Grayling and Triton, followed by Romeyn, the 

HOTA ya naelddes de see 11 57 33 2 01 00 2 B2 07 2 03 (2 times being: 
Shadow. ..............- 11 57 60 1 54 00 1 57 00 15515 | Mischief.................... 180) Writer... .a... pists 1 26 08 
PRNICOM ete ecu ee 11 56 30 153 44 1 57 14 104-09. |} iamn yeaa ical ere 2 .5e 1 T8208 *Romeynt sows -tees eee ee 1 27 20 
Ripple ................. 11 58 09 = HaTitac ss ee ele: Meee wy) DIB: APNE sauce he tte -1 82 30 
SS D. @rocadiles ve assets se 120.58 Enterprise,..............-.. 1 32 45 
MaTiOM eG snes te) saclpacee ii 57 15 2 33 28 2 36 18 SOU L18y || DhishlOwa.» seen Le een a 121888 -Granie! AW svi cenesesus 1 33 00 
2 DCs h SABRE OSEAB OCHA OA ac 11 55 80 2 25 11 2 29 41 2.2984 | Athlon..............22.-2-05 122.05" Crusader.) 5 cc. desea, 1 84 55 

The club is bending every effort to make the open match of June | Grayling...........-...., .. 1 25 50 


16asnecess. There haye been received to date about forty entries, 
including the most of the erack small boats of this vicinity, with the 

romise of many more, It is especially desired that cabin sloops 
trom 25 to 85ft. long be well represented, and all owners of boats of 
this class may rest assured of haying good treatment and of meeting 
foemen worthy of their steel. There will be six classes, with a cash 
prize of $20 for each class; $3’entry fee. This club was organized in 
September, 1882, with nineteen members, and now has eighty mem- 
bers and twenty yachts. 


ATLANTIC Y. C. 


Ne first of the three principal matches that each spring excite 

the yachtsmen of New York, that of the Atlantic Y.C., sailed 
on Tuesday last, derived its interest mainly from the fact that 
some new boats were to be tried as well as several of the old 
ones which have been rebuilt or materialiy altered during the winter. 
The question of type, or of cutter ys. sloop hardly entered into races, 
the yachts, with one exception, being centerboard boats. The race 
may really be considered as the debut of Dr, Barron’s new sloop 
Athlon, as the previous occasions on which she has appeared have 


Short tacks followed, and then longer legs down the beach to Seot- 
land Lightship, the tug running ahead, the Columbia in company with 
her. 


hardly been fair tests of her merit, but after Tuesday he need not | Fanita...................... RAE TOs URTitorr ee eee 2 23 10 
be ashamed of the Wave’s successor. Another boat in the same | Crocodile....,......-..-.... M1420 (Gracie. : Suey se2say sede sok 22615 
class. whose performance was watched with some interest, was the | Athion............... ...... RAV 40 -Origaders.. ...euss04 oe: «2.2 28 07 
Thistle, an old boat, but lately rebuilt and new in New York waters, Gan pling Seer an. pee ee 21942 Hnterprise...4.-. U2, 23400 
and that has promised on the few occasions that they have met, to| Panny ..................... OUR Roamer..." 2. be, ee 2 34 50 


be a worthy antagonist of the Athlon. Grayling also has been changed 
considerably since her disastrous first season, her spars and ironwork 
having been greatly reduced. The boatsin the smalier classes are 
area pretty well known, the new one being Mr. Wintringham’s 
Nomad. 

The weather early in the morning promised a repetition of last 
year’s disappoiptment, with wind from the northeast and cloudy 
sky at 10 A. M., when the tug Luckenback, with the judges on board, 
left Brooklyn for Bay Ridge, the steamer Columbia, with the mem- 
bers and their friends, following shortly after, Off the Atlantic 
Basin the yachts, mostly under mainsail, jib and topsail only, were 
flying about waiting for the signal, while several steam yachts were 
taking guests on board to witnes the race. 

The classes were as follows: Class A, schooners, 72ft. and over; 
Class B, schooners, under 72ft.; Class C, cabin sloops, 55ft. and over: 
Class D, cabin sloops, 43ft, and under 55ft.; Class E, cabin sloops, 35ft. 
and under 48ft.; Class F, cabin sloops, 30ft. and under 35ft,; Class G, 
cabin sloops, 26ft. and under 30ft.; Class H, cabin sloops under 26ft.; 


No others were timed, the tug hurrying after the leading boats, 
now well to windward. Mischief and Fanita were now haying a bout, 
the latter having set jibtopsail in the light wind. Mischief was first 
around the lightship at 3:04:04, coming up under the lee ef the light- 
ship, having lowered jibtopsail. As she passed, her spinnaker boom 
was swung into place from forward, but on the port side, so that it 
had to be shifted 10 starboard. 

Fanita, at this time well below the lightship, now stood up, also 
dropping spinnaker boom to port, breaking out spinnaker at 3:08:30. 
and in orderto avoid shifting it, keeping her main boom to starboard, 
to do which she had to keep down toward the beach, leaving Mischief 
on astraight course up toward the bay. Grayling now came up to 
show that there were schooners as well as sloops in the race, passing 
third, while Fanny took fourth place, with Athlon close on her 
wealher beam and Thistle following, after which there was a lon 
wait for the stragglers, led by Gracie, the Haze and Agnes, wit 
several others having wandered off to the southward, and not com- 
ing up in time to be noted. 


Class I, open sloops; Class K, catboats. emia » O04 0: cat = 

At 10:36:10 in answer to a signal from the Luckenback, the first gun Mee POS = Meee f oe Me eee Wie muerte 3 a a 
was fired from the bluff, the understanding being that the second Grayling. 2... 3 07°40 Crusader........)..., nnn 3 a7 50 
gun was to go off three minutes later. Nearly all were well placed sph thes Ghee erat BOD CRUST et ses bos eae 
above the starting line, toward which an ebb tide was carrying them | Athion. 7 ....78 18 10. Triton... wees 1B 47 20 


while the wind had shifted to S. W. with no increase of force, Three 
minutes passed, all bore down on the line, Olytie ahead, but no gun 
was fired. Clytie was obliged to cross, tack, and work back above the 
line, losing all the advantage she had, Finally three loud blasts from 
the tug awoke the artillerist on shore, and at 10:52:50 the second gun 
was fired, the Thistle crossing first at 10:55:35, Crusader second, Mis- 
chief third, running up ae Pop eal) as she did so, the times being: 

Thistle 10 55 35 11 05 56 


PHistles ey een aes TMtErprise...-. eerie ssi sst both were at their best, Athlon carried away tl > a 

<p = l 3 ; A y the tack of her jibtop- 
yee Bb elelelee os eielele ee ieee Ay ee a ee Potomac eee i if ee sail, the sail running up the stay, but a hand climbed up the ee 
Acie aM dk eae 10 69 10 Ae angie hi 2a acer 11 07 12 thronek ee pon ane hauling it down, soon after which Athlon walked 

ee a ie 3 a ee \ Li 1fa's ee, 
cea deem ene eee eneseees i a ie are ee sayesh eects eee ae “eI Ht . Gracie, meanwhile, was doing her best work of the day coming up 
Gee piiieesrk teva WERE CROMER or oe ee i oF a5 and passing Athlon. Of the schooners the Grayling hail outrun the 
Fea ae ian Aandi ee, 11 02 25 ‘Vent sh Fae ae a eae ii 07 40 fleet, being the first in, her performance throughout the entire day 
Aepectnn dee Rn N GEE ORB ee: i1 09 20 having proved the value of the improvements made in her. The times 

Gite. oR 11 08 ri Linda’ wa rssssteaeedee rf 10 59 of finish and corrected times were: 
TON A. eee et ae +..11 08 12 Nomad........ yew saan eee 11 12 10 CLASS A—SCHOONERS, 
Tiferanses Arcpeeeeeeg ibs Oe 165 UNA ee aegis cat Wt ae 11 12 40 ; Start. Finish. Elapsed. Correcte 
Grocoditersansssmnnnee: 1104 28 Stellan... eee 11 12 65 | Grayling..............,.. 10 5 50 5 13 54 6 16 04 6 16 0 
Phantonre weet oo. 1 04 4 Crusaders: ei) i... 10 57 50 5 25 48 6 27 58 6.27 56 

Just before the start an old gentleman pulled alongside the judge’s | Clytie.....-.............. 10 57 50 5 56 03 6 58 13 6 54 OF 
boat in a light gig aud asked fora list of entries, after scanning CLASS B—SCHOONERS. 
which be quietly pulled off toward the Narrows. ERRIZO iar s cet ieiete:efotce ,....10 57 50 Not timed. 

€ course for A, B,C and D was from the anchorage off the club | Triton,........ 10 57 50 5 40 10 6 42 20 640 7 

house, foot of Fitty-fifth street, South Brooklyn, down purote TGs | CAPM CMI Me eo a 10 57 50 6 09 40 7 11 50 7 

arrows, to and around a stakeboat near buoy No, 8, off Sandy Hook, | Leona....................10 7 BO Not timed, 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


ULASS O—CABIN SLOOPS. 


RPESRUGTON (os [ot tteeyot he fols fay tod 10 57 50 5 30 03 6 32 13 6 82 13 
LOG 10th 4. el, ee 10 57 50 5:19 24 6 21 B4 6 16 11 
Mischief......., a A 10 57 50 5 18 21 6 20 31 6 11 10 
220) 5] S01 Re ee eda Ai sera 10 57 50 5 32 13 U. 34 23 6 17 07 
Thistle... a Seems pl EP sist 05) 5 41 08 6 45 33 6 28 17 
CLASS D—CABIN SLOOPS, 
LER TRO ST ede cor th onal Pee 11 03 20 § 45 18 6 41 53 6 41 53 
Enterprise....... FS cea 11 03 20 6 11 10 7 OF 50 7 03 40 
RGHAAN DER ar. Se ees csc ia sags 11 08 20) 5 83 45 6 30 85 6 26 22 
RaneaA Boma tor as fi aseok osc oa ae 11 03 20 Not timed, 
MER ay pane satis FE roe 11 03 20 Did not go course. 
GLASS E-GABIN SLOOPS. 
Gracodile; 20... ae ii 08 20 4 59 08 5 bo 48 5 5b 48 
Ra Ta eS pyle as ae ge ii 03 20 6 30 36 6 36 18 6 29 46 
Phantom. _..- .-..-11 03 20 § 32 01 2841 Not timed 
CLASS F—GABIN SLOOPS. 
Dea pe eee 11 08 20 3 62 51 4 49 81 4 49 31 
IV STS ie eds std 11 03 20 4 31 12 5 27 52 5 27 21 
“er aL) a, | ee 11 G3 20 8 58 30 455 10 4 54 1d 
ESOXKRESV Tal dhol a tee sew etl fee 11 08 20 3.29 38 4 26 13 425 11 
TUG Seri eee eee 11 03 16 4 00 OF 4 56 51 4 51 42 
OLASS G—CABIN SLOOPS. 
WeEnhITG - 1 vite ssf SiVEke’ 11 08 20 427 22 6 24 02 5 24 02 
ATHAZON: .. 22644 ek aes ees 11 03 20 4 22 05 5 18 45 5 15 27 


The only mishap was to the Una, who lost hertopmast. The win- 
ning yachis were; Class A, Grayling; Class B, Triton; Class C, Mis- 
chief; Class D, Fanita; Class 8, Crocodile; Class F', Romeyn; Class 
G, Amazon, Crocodile also takes the Livingston Memorial Prize, 
and Roamer second club prize in her class. 


QUAKER CITY Y. C. 


ea start at 10:50 A, M., on Monday, Jime 2, was one of the yery 

best. notwithstanding the light and variable airs. As predicted 
by the writer the wind swung around from the N. EH, to S. W, and the 

achts, with their light sails set, speeded away. At Gloucester the 
A eabeem having got her club topsail set had passed all the cabin 
boats, and much to the surprise of all was rapidly going through the 
fleet of open boats. Minerva No 2. ar more familiarly speaking, the 
“Old Reliable,’ was following close in her wake. It was supposed by 
the quick move of the Rosita that she would soon go to the front in 
her Glass and capture the Minerya, as it was the Rosita’s wind, but she 
had her match mm the Consort, and that settled it. 

After the regatta steamer came abreast of the fleet at Red Bank, 
it was discovered that the Pratt had gone down to show the rest of 
the fleet the way, the little J. Galligher keeping her company, with 
the Elwell a good third, Sunbeam fifth, Minerva, of Trenton, sixth, 
Esther seventh. Off Hog Island the Au Reyoir went to the front, 
Pratt a good second, Elwell third, Richmond fourth, Pierson fifth, 
Sunbeam sixth, Minerva No. 2 seventh, Soon after Flick got his 
work in, and by a masterly manipulation of airs the Pratt took the 
lead, keeping it throughout the race. 

TIRST CLASS CABIN BOATS. 
Chester Buoy, Home, 


Sumbeam, .-.- .-:.-- AS a2 OAS SASS S588 S848 1014 6 1134 
IMEI A ip ere wee pany ci I PRS Fp a eA AR ESB BErE 2 20 6 21 
6 2084 
6 2516 
6 2714 
6 30 
6 2514 
6 33 
6 35 
6 36 
5 4014 
5 46 
4 i) 5084 
MUpSMMST Sire ore cred Se Sk en ee aie oer eaiaw eA ee 6 5 5034 
Mier yaMTEORLON) .-2c28.. Uae sesaret esac! t= aaaee 2 1384 6 18% 
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Turning the lower buoy the flagship Florigar’s topmast slipped 
away from the heel fid and turned down, The run home was void of 
excitement on account of the lightwind. The Pratt stood over for 
Linicum Island, all bands following like sheep, until the Sunbeam 
rounded the buoy and went for the slack water under Jersey shore, 
Cap. Wyble caught eels years ago in the grasses along the Spanish 
main and knew just what he was about, of course he had many fol- 
lowers. 

othe Pierson, one of Jim Collins’s Jast and best, haying done phe 
nomenal sailing in last year’s regatta, was expected to take care 
of the Pratt, as she did last year. But the Elwell had something to 
say about that, and fought the Pierson every inch, making it quite 
exciting. especially at the Horseshoe; but shape, like blood, will tell, 
and she came in a good second. The Thomas got a puif or a luff, or 
something élse hitherto unknown, and came in with her tail up, as 
will be seen by the record. Commodore Hanigan felt good when the 
Richmond shcwed up so far ahead of her class and fourth boat in 

he fleet. i 
The. most remarkable feature of the whole race was the splendid 
performance of the Sunbeam in the light airs. Had it blown hard 
enongh to have canted her a single degree, the judges would not 
haye been able to take her time at the home flag boat, The grand 
old Minerva No. 2 again sweeps the deck, adding another to her 
many victories. R. G, W. 


IREX,—The notice of the new steel cutter Trex is taken from 
Land and Water: “The new $5-ton racing cutter, built by Mr. Pay, 
at Northam, Southampton, for Mr. John Jameson, owner of the 
famous racer Samoena, is from the designs of Mr, Richardson, who also 
designed the Samosna, Silver Star, Marguerite, etc.. and is of the 
steel-composite type—steel frames, with plankings of teak and pitch 

ine, the hull being of immense strength. It was originally hoped 
that she would be ready in time for the early matches, but strikes 
among the workmen on the Clyde at the beginning of the year created 
adelay in the supply of the steel, and for several weeks the work 
stopped at the casting of the lead keel, a ponderous monstrosity 
Sate iine close on 72 tous, this being the heaviest keel of the kind ever 
cast, It is in three or four sections, dove-tailed together, and secured 
by gun-metal bolts of enormous caliber; from this the Irex has been 
gradually built up, very much in the fashion that. a house is raised on 
its foundations, and the rapidity with which she has been completed 
up to the period of launching has been really marvellous, hardly 
three months having elapsed since the receipt at the yard of the first 
of the steel castings, She has been turned out in amanner which 
does Mr, Fay and whole staff the greatest credit, under the vigilant 
eye of Capt, O' Neill, of Myosotis, Annasona and Samoena, fame, who 
has literally surveyed every inch of stuff put into the ship, entering 
at the same time into a hearty spirit of co-operation with the builder 
that has done much to facilitate the progress of the work. We haye 
already given the principal dimensions of the yacht, but may repeat 
that she is 85ft. long on the water-line, and 99ft. over all—her counter 
thus being of great length, with a sternpost of tremendous rake—her 
outside beam is 15ft, and depth 13ft. The keel is 444ft. across the top, 
and about as deep in the deepest part, tapering fore and ait and yer- 
tically, and displaces over six tons of water. [tis hoped she will be 
ready for sea in about a fortnight, and will proceed to the westward 
when in commission, sailing her maiden race at Liverpool on June 19. 


SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO ASTEAM YACHT.—The Stella is a 
steam yacht of 26ft. length, and 6)4ft. beam belonging toa club of 
seven members, all of whom reside in Philadelphia, and who for the 
past ten years have taken weekly excursions during the season on 
the Delaware River and the neighboring streams. At half past 10 on 
Saturday night, she left her dock at Kensington waterworks with her 
owners on board beside two snests, being in charge of Alfred C, Neil, 
a licensed engineer, and Jame Cargill, a licensed pilot. Running up 
the Delaware, they turued into Rancocas Creek about 12 P, M,, and 
shortly after, as claimed, blew three signals of four whistles each for 
the drawbridge. As they neared the bridge, a man was seen coming 
trom the bridge tender’s house to the draw, but when near by they 
found the latter was still closed. An attempt was immediately made 
to turn the boat, but the flood tide ran so strongly that she was car- 
ried broadside against the bridge, the cabin roof striking the timbers 
of the bridge. keeling her over so that she filled and sank, Alfred 
Anderson.who was asleep in the cabin, was carried down and drowned, 
On the afterdeck were Robert R. Coster, Jr., and John Cuthbert, an 
old man with a crippled hand, both of whom held to the bridge, A 

arty arrived to help them, just as Coster after telling them to save 
Tre other, released his hold and was drowned, The remaming mem- 
bers of the party were picked up or swam ashore. It is claimed by 
the owners of the yacht that the bridge tender was asleep, while he 
makes a counter charge that they did not give the proper signals. 
‘The body of Mr, Coster was not found, and the yacht Lad not been 
raised at last reports, 


A CANDID ADMISSION.—*As the imported cutter Madge is again 
to make her appearance this season with a fighting crew on board,” 
said 4 yachting expert yesterday, “it may be well to reflect a moment 
on what has occurred in the American yachting world since her yic- 
tories in New York and Hastern waters in 1881. Up to that time few 
men were so bold as to say that a deep boat could sail with the world 
renowned skimming dishes, but the manner in which the stranger 
disposed of her antagonists, though the measurement for time allow- 
ance was very favorable to her, caused experts to conclude that, 
after all, Americans, perhaps, did not know everything about the 
principles of speed. Since that memorable yachting year a great 
many changes in type and ballast haye taken place among us in the 
designing and construction of pleasure yessels. Nowadays yery few 
yachtsmen will have a shallow boat. except that local causes compel 
the selection of the type. On the contrary the majority make it im- 
perative that they shall haye good draft of water,and once pro- 
nounced adyocates of light draft and light weight have made a 
complete aquatic somersault by building deep boats with heavy 
weights so that the fastest vessels of the present day in smooth water 
are those carrying a great weight of ballast. The feeling of the 
yachting public in this matter became so strong a number of cutters 
were built until now ‘the real Simon Pure’ housing bowsprit ‘and a’ 
that’ is frequently seen in American waters. And, really, you must 
allow me to say that the cutter rig is the more beautiful to 
the eye, while it is the best fitted to fight old Neptune yet 
deyised. Almost all our sloops have taken to the double-headed 
rig, so that long topmasts, backstays, runners, ete., are so com- 
mon, eritics make no remarks. except at the absence of them. 
All these things show that Americans have taken adyantage 
of an example set them, and not allowed prejudice to blind them. 
They haye adopted what seemed to be good for our waters, and, 
as experiments are yet being made, time alone will show what will 
be the final result. Boston yachtsmen haye taken to a type evolved 
from the wide sloop, und the result is a heavy draft sloop—in fact, 
more draft than that of a cutter of the same length and almost the 
beam of the sloop. The type carries as much, if not more, weight 
than the cutter, is as costly to build, and requires an enormous sail 
area to obtain speed. Length measurement, however, combined 
with canvas, restricts this type to very small boats, and though great 
internal room is obtained, the principle is carried far enough to de- 
yelop fatalerrors. That is to say, large boats cannot be made to 
carry such sails, and even if they could, the first time they were 
eaught outside with a big sea and no wind spars would be thrashed 
out of them or gear so worn or strained that owners would hesitate 
long before repeating the experiment. For these reasons Boston 
practice cannot be taken as a guide, except for very small boats. In 
New York the results of the trials with the Madge and other cutters 
have been to induce builders to timidly add more depth and slightly 
reduce the beam, and, while the centerboard is retained, the forestay 
has been put out on the bowsprit in orderto obtain a better shaped 
forestaysail. The measurement system adopted by the prominent 
sloop clubs has no doubt had much to do do with this, though the in- 
ability of many yachtsmen tor want of time tomake extended cruises 
and the shallowness of the water in numerous harbors are also 
causes which have their effect, Depend upon it, we are on the eve of 
a great change. The tendency is to restrict the beam and increase 
the depth. Once well started in this path, there is no telling where 
the stopping point will be, as it will soon be found that the ballast on 
the keel is worth more than the beam, The season of yachting now 
at hand may dispel much of the doubt surrounding the all important 
subject, and to this end the results of the many races arranged will 
Be eee OY looked forward to by all thoughtful yachtsmen.’*—WN. Y, 

erald, 

[A look at the fleet of yachts that will assemble three times this 
week on New York Bay will give convincing evidence of the vic- 
tory of FoREST AND STREAM in the long fight for honest boats. The 

resence of a fine feet of thoroughbred cutters, while important in 
itself, is no more so than the changes to be noted in the sloops of to- 
day compared with the same vessels of a few years ago, but besides 
such indisputable evidence, we quote the above as an index of the 
feeling among a large majority of yachtsmen, who haye burst the 
shell of habit, prejudice, ancient dogmas, and so-called patriotism 
that has so long retarded our yachting. and are willing to examine 
fairly and intelligently allthatis placed before them and to accept 
or reject on merit only. 

Theself-satisfaction,over confidence and unwillingness to examine or 
adopt anything new or unknown has virtually disappeared among the 
great body of American yachtsmen, while at the same time the sport 
has adyanced proportionately. Such truths as were proven so con- 
clusively by Madge, and were then only accepted unwillingly because 
they were beyond dispute, are now received regdily, weighed eare- 
fully and impartially, and adopted or condemned only after a fair 
hearing, 

The york of the last four years has made possible a fair ‘and 
thorough test of the quesfions in dispute, many of them have already 
been decided conciusively, and the contests of this week open a sea- 
son that promises to end the controversy finally.] 


SALEM, MASS.—While yachting is not as forward as usual at 
Salem (perhaps ewing to the backward season), there are yet signs of 
life. The Fortuna lays atthe wharf, Beverly, having just received 
her summer spars and rig. Alongside was the Latona fitting up, and 
the sloop Ariadne, now owned by H. B. Rogers, Beverly, will come 
out looking finely in a white dress with hard wood upperwork. The 
Haleyon is yet between the bridges, so are the Nita, Clochette and 
one or two others. The cutter Medusa, Rice’s Whitecap and Benson's 
Viva, with Upton’s Crest, are in commission. The Salem Bay Y. C., 
with its new commodore, Mr. Winslow, and his new schooner, the 
Cleopatra, will open the season lively. 


- MAGGIE.—This cutter will soon be ready for the season’s races, 
haying undergone several important alterations during the spring, 
Some 5,000Ibs. have been taken trom her inside and added to her keel, 
part in the shape of a shoe 4in, thick and 3in, wider than the old keel, 
thus projecting 1/4in, on either side, forming a shelf. The rest of the 
lead was cast in two’ plates, fitting each side of the keel and resting 
on the projecting shoe, all being held by peepee bands passing under 
the keel and through-bolted to the hull. In consequence of this 
change she has been fitted with longer spars and a new and larger 
suit of sails, 


ATLANTIC Y. @.—The times of that portion of the fleet that 
anchored in Gravesend Bay after the sail on Decoration Day were as 
follows: Daisy 3h. 1m., Tourist 3h. 6m., Viking 8h. 6m. 30s., Croco- 
dile 3h. 6m. 45s., Romeyn 3h, 7m,, Gleam 38h, 1im,, Venture 3h, 11m. 
15s., Genevieve 3h. 11m. 305,, Ideran 8h. 11m, 45s., Nomad 3h. 2im., 
Triton 4h. 10m, 80s., Gracie 4h. 15m., Agnes 4h, 20m. Im class © the 
Athlon won on Mondey and not the Thistle, as at first reported, the 
prize being awarded to the former. 


SOME NEW BOOKS. 


Evustms.—A noyel. By Robert Apthorp Boit. Boston; Jas, R. Os- 
good & Co, 

An AvrraGn Man.—By Robert Grant. Boston; Jas. R. Osgood & 
Co. A study of one phase of New York social life. 


Bur A Pamistine.—By Virginia lM, Townsend. Boston: Lee & Shep- 
ard. Thisis a new novel by a writer who is a great favorite among 
school girls. 

In THE SaAppLE.—A. collection of poems on horse-back riding. Bos- 
ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, A comprehensive. well selected, ele- 
gantly printed little book, with all the famous rides in the poetry of 
adventure, love and war. 

Srace-Srrucs; or, She Would be an Opere, Singer,—By Blanche 
Roosevelt. New York; Fords, Howard & Hulbert. Written ‘to per- 
suade American girls, who come over to Hurope to study music, that 
they might be wiser to study at home.” a 


WHIRLWINDS, CYCLONES AND ‘TORNADOES.—By William Morris Davis. 
Boston: Lee & Shepard, An essay on the theory of stornis, re- 
printed from Science. The illustrations and the text together afford 
an admirable exposition of the subject. 


Jiyrryvpopy’s Paint Boox,—A complete snide to the art of outdoor 
and indoor painting, By F. B. Gardner. New York: M. T, Richard- 
son. The special design of the book is to give full imstructions to 
those who wish to do their own house painting. 


PROFITABLE PoutTRyY Keupina.—By Stephen Beale. Edited with 
additions by Mason C, Weld. New York: George Routledge & Sons. 
Price, $1.50, A compendium of practical information about the vari- 
ous breeds of poultry, with directions for their management. 


THERE WAS OncE A Man.—A story. By R. H. Newell (Orpheus ©, 
Kerr), New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. A reprint of one of 
The Continent serials. Story opens in New York caerg years ago, 
thence scené is transferred to Borneo in the time of the famous Hug- 
lish Rajah Brook. 

Superior FisHina; or, the Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and 
Bluefish of the Northern States —Kmbracing full directions for dress- 
ing artificial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of 
@ sporting visit to Lake Superior, ete. By Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, 
New York: Orange Judd Company, A new edition of a work pub- 
lished in 1865, Contains a great deal of solid information, for the 
author isa thorough sportsman both withrod and gun, Mr. Roosevelt 
is a strong writer, and we have often pointed out both kis beauty of 
style and his faults. The former are apparent on every page and the 


| latter occasionally crop out, He has become careless in revising 


what was really a wonderful stock of fishing lore twenty years aro, 
and on issuing anew edition contents himself with adding new chap- 
‘ ters and letting the old ones stand. 

Puy-Fismine iy THE MAINE LAxkgs, or camp life in the wilderness.— 
By Charles W. Stevens, Boston: Gnpples, Upham & Co, This book 
was favorably noticed in our colurnns some months ago when first 
published, The present is a third edition, Several pages have been 
added, and there are numerous very crude illustrations contributed 
by the author’s friends. Barring these, the volume is 4 handsome 
specimen of the bookmaker’s art. 


Winup Woops Ling, or a trip to Parmachenee.—By Capt. Chas. A. 
J. Farrar. Boston: Lee & Shepard, This is a book about boys and 
for boys, The title page describes it as A realistic story of life in 
the woods,” It isnot very realistic. The boys go through scenes 
which are neyer to be found outside of book covers, yet, we presume, 
youthful readers will find it none the less entertaining on that ac- 
count, and we hope that Mr, Farrar may find a laree audivnce for his 
yarns, 


Answers to Correspondents, 


2" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


A. U.L., New York—The specimen appears to be the warbling 
yireo (Vireosylvia gilva). 

Pointer.—Bay snipe shooting in Shinnecock Bay begins im July, 
is best in September, and lasts into Noyember. 


QumstTion.—Are any bullets of .32-caliber made hollow or express, 
or would cartridge makers make them to order? Ans. Yes. 


J.T. G., Keyport, N.J.—We cannot tell of any cement that is én- 
tirely reliable for your purpose, Marine glue would probably answer; 
but it cannot be procured here, : 

C. P. B., Othumwa, Ta.—Oanoes carry two flags, a club signal and 
& private signal, the latter at the péak of the mainsail, the former a 
peak of mizzen when two sails are carried. 


F. P., New Bedford.—When is the law off for black bass in Rhode 
Island? Ans, The law Of 1876, and we know of none later, forbids 
their capture between March 1 and July 15. 


WISHCULTURIST.—_How can I get the reports of the American Fish- 
cultural Association? Ans. Ouly by joining. Tr costs $3 per year for 
membership, aud the reports are confined to members only. 


H.C, P., Orisco. Ia.—The best book for you is ‘‘Hallock's Sports- 
men’s Gazetteer,’ which contains desériptions of all thé game bird S, 
animals and fishes, and tells how to capture them. We can supply 
it. Price, $3. : 

Z, B. W., Gloversville, N. ¥.—The only change made in woodcoek 
law of New York was printed in our issue of May 22. The season for 
Delaware and Oneida counties was made Sept. 1—Jan. 1; elsewhere, 
Aug. 1—Jan. 1. 


Trovur,—i, Where can I get a book on trout raising? 2. Has a man 
a right, lefally, to net brook trout for stocking a private pond? Ans. 
1, Get ‘Domesticated Trout,” by L. Stone. We cansupply it, 2, Not 
in public waters, nor in private ones, without the owner’s consent, 
and in this case the waters must be strictly private. 


Novice, New Orleans,—l. Is alancewood rod # good durable rod 
for trout fishing, and what kind and size are the trout flies used? 2, 
About what would a first-class canoe cost, with paddles and sail? 3, 
What is the name of the best reel in use and whatis the price? Ans. 
1, Lancewood is good. Fhes of all kinds and sizes are used, accord- 
ing to the size of the trout and the kind of waters. 2. A first-class 
canoe, with paddles, sails and fittings, will cost from 100 to $150, ac- 
cording to size and finish. 3. We do not know whether you want a 
large or a small reel; they range in price from $1.50 to $18. Write to 
any of our advertising tackle dealers, they are all rehable. 


PrRcyyaL.—I am going to fish a lake in Berkshire this summer 
which has had 70,000 landlocked salmon placed in it im three lots, 
first lotin 1879. ‘The lake is fed by springs; deep in some places, 
shallow in others; in some of the shallow bays are pads. The bot- 
tom is partly weedy in shallow places, and partly sandy im others. 
The deep spots have stony hottom,no mud, The outlet is a good 
sized stream and there are pads, ete., around it. The lessees of the 
1. ke allow fishing from July 1 to Noy.1, The angling works tell yery 
litrle of value about this fish and so far as I know none have been 
caught since the lake was stacked. I[ intend to try and see if any 
have escaped the bass and pieckerel and would like to ask these ques- 
tions. 1, What weight should the first lot approximate? 8% Gan the 
fish be caught during the time mentioned? 3. In what part of the 
Jake would J be most likely to find them? 4, What kind and size of 
flies or bait. if they take if, should Tuse? Ans, 1 Four to six pornds. 
2. Yes. 3. In midsummer they will be in deep water, In thefallthey 
may be near the outlet for spawning. 4. Use ordinary sajmon flies 
if the shallow waters are cool. Use minnows in deep water, fishing 


as for lake trout. 
INFORWATION WANTED. 


CG, H.S., Philadelphia, wants to know who invented the frst Amer- 
ican breechloadng shotgun, when and where; also. whether Roper 
reyolying shotgun is older than, Colt's reyolving shotgun. 


InvAlip SpPortsmMAN, Binghamton, N. Y..—Wantsto know where 
he can locate in the South or Southwest, where winters are 
yery mild and short, where chills and fever are unknown, where 
small game is plenty, where air, climate and water are healthy. Ina 
not large village where the inhabitants are good. 


LONG ISLAND TROUT PRESERVES. 


Long Island brook trout is as pretty as toothsome, while 

the artificial creature taken from a private preserve is n0 
match for the wild specimen which, unfortunately for persons 
who are not million ires rapidly disappeared during the decade 
past, and sucha fish is now regarded as an extraordinary 
prize. The time was when every stream on Long Island 
abounded in this game fish, but various causes have led up to 
a point where an angler must own a preserve, or put himself 
under lasting obligations to a friend who does, in order to 
find opportunity to throw afly af all. While not a single 
stream has dried, business enterprises established along the 
banks have poisoned the waters so thoroughly that not even 
a sunfish could live in it. Other streams have been ut Jized by 
professional breeders to raise market trout and furnish young 
fry for stocking preserves, but the latter feature of the bust - 
ness, once profitable, cannot be considered so any longer, as 
the State Fish Commission is now supplying nearly all the 
young hatch that is demanded. Then, again, gentleman 
who have purchased and improved land extending over terri- 
tory miles long in any direction have had a sharp eye to the 
value of swift running streams as an adornment and eprich- 
ment to country seats, and itis such who have pratically 
monopolized the brooks where everybody was wont to fish 
on chance luck. This is especially true of the south side of 
Long Island, so that now there is no common fishing ground, 
and not one person goes trout hunting where 100 used to go. 
There are ponds to which persons may go and fish on the 
distinct understanding with the proprietor that for every 
pound of fish hooked lie shall receive the prevailing market 
price, so that after all the only difference between getting 
one’s supply from the pick of the market and the pond is the 
satisfaction of knowing and saying that he caught the fish 
and thus prove his ability asa fly thrower, though it is by 
no means difficult to catch fish when the thousands in the 
pond have been starved for days in make them eager to bite, 
Some breeders are on such good terms with the tenants of 
the water that a peculiar whistle brings them swarming to 
the bavk, and a fly thrown in from another quarter is made 
for with a rush, the deluded fish thinking il the regular feed- 
ing hour aud the fly the first installment of the customary 
meal, William Furman, of Maspeth, was a fish charmer. 
He has removed to Smithtown. The ordinary growth of s _ 
trout, he says, is three to four inches the first year, and the 
maximum growth is attained in four years, There ate ex 
ceptions, however. Some of the young fish grow so rapidly 
that they eat the smaller ones, and the careful breeder maxes 
a specialty of keeping them properly separated, Occasion- 


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ally a peculiar disease attacks the fish, killing thousands in a 
brief time, and ifisthen that the greatest ingenuity is re- 
‘quired to preserve any part of the stock. Hels, perch and 
-pickerel are deadly enemies of the trout. 

Perhaps the greatest private trout preserve in this country 
ison Long Island. It is owned by the South Side Sports- 
men’s Club, and is located at Oakdale. The club is composed 

of wealthy New York gentlemen, and the property is valued 
at $250,000. ‘When the late Recorder Hackett was president 
of the club he was the champion fly-thrower, and it was his 
boast that he never ate a fish (at the club) which he did not 
hook, and he could stow away five pounds of trout at a meal 
and not feel distressed. The pond in which the full-grown 
dish are kept covers several hundred acres, and the breeding 
houses are maintained on alarge and scientific scale. George 
‘Lorillard has a great estate and and an excellent and well 
stocked trout stream adjoining the club, and southward near 
the Great South Bay is the magnificent estate of Mr. William 
K. Vanderbilt, whose trout. excel in flavor by reason of the 
stream being rendered brackish by the overflow of salt water 
from the bay. Mr. Lorillard is yery ill in Florida, and his 


a 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


property, which has cost him $250,000, is for sale at the 
modest sum of $200,000. Mr, Vanderbilt’s place has cost 
him $300,000, He owns twenty thousand acres of land. 
Babylon is famous for its ereat ponds. 
are owned by Mr. August Belmont, Mr Austin Corbin, Mr. 
Phelps and Mr. Sutton. Mr. Belmont has been unfortunate, 
The poachers have troubled hima vreat deal, and stolen 
thousands of his fish, Sometimes if a pond is small, they 
drag a net through it. Into a large pond they throw lime, 
which causes the fish to show the white of their stomach and 
lay motionless, They are tenderly but quickly picked up 
and the fresh water, carried in barrels for the purpose, soon 
revives them, A moment’s delay sometimes kills them, as 
they are the most delicate of water game. On one: occasion 
it became necessary to clean Mr. Belmont’s pond. The men 
carelessly uncovered the fish and hundreds of them were 
killed by the heat of the July sun. Trout can endure cold, 
but not the heat. The fishing in this pond is now unsur- 
passed. Mr, Corbin, too, has had his share of trouble with 
poachers. He went in for prosecuting them at large expense 
of money and time, but got no satisfaction, as the jury ac- 


The notable ones: 


397 


quitted the prisoners on the ground, as was thought, that no 
man had any right to monopolize the products of the water, 
That was during the time when the common streams were 
rapidly falling under private control, and public sentiment 
was strongly opposed to it. There are some great trout in 
Massapequa Pond at South Oyster Bay and in the streams 
northward which feed it. In one stream running under the 
Montauk Railroad people familiar with the fact never lose an 
opportunity to catch a passing glance of the frightened fish 
that abound there and shoot out in small schools as the trains 
pass over. The brook is half a mile long and the fish find 
natural food in it upon which they thrive better than those 
artificially bred. Thompson's Pond at Noyac was once a 
famous stream, but at present is somewhat inferior through 
damages by freshets and the unneighborly conduct ot some 
of the residents. It is a picturesque place where the city 
folk go to enjoy a trout dinner instead of to fish, New 

Janaan, a wild region north of Patchogue, is the home of many 
professional breeders who, in very small-space, raise such an 
incredible quantity of fish as to place them in the category 
of poachers.—Brooklyn Eagle. 


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FAC-SIMILE OF No, 4. 


“THE IMBRIE” 


BLACK BASS REEL, 


PATENT COMPENSATING ACTION, 


By which more than one-half the friction (necessary to all other reels) 


is obviated. Multiplies twice and has adjustable click. 


WE MAKE FOUR SIZES OF THIS REEL: 


200yds. IN Ospes Sees 2. acrs 8 es Sra 1007 ds. 
Dames hls lame sata ttebid 150yds. INGOs So Laas pene did ar CU Ods 


If your dealer does not keep our goods in stock, or will not order them for 
you, send 50 cents for our 120-page illustrated catalogue. 


None Genuine without the name of 


"ABBEY & IMBRIE, N. Y.,” 


Stamped on Dise. 


SILK 


WORM GUT. 


BE. LATASA, 85 Broadway, INT. Y., 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 
Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 
Gut to Extra Fine. Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to fine, $5.00. 


For price list address 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, N. Y. 


Fishing Tackle. 


Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- 
ficial Baits 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


Flies for all Waters. 


Special patterns tied to order. 


APPLETON & LITRHPTELD, 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass, 


THE PETMECKY 


The only Gleaner that will thoroughly clean a gun 
barrel, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
without adjustment, Will do the work quicker and 
better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined. Price, $1.25, By mail, 10 cents extra. Aslt 
your dealer for it, Discount to the trade. Circular 
tree. J. C, PETMECKY, 

Wholesale Dealer in Guns, Fishing Tackle, ete., Aus- 

in, Texas. 


SPORTSMEN’S DELIGHT. 


Merino Elastic Felt Gun Wads 


SOMETHING NEW! 


™— - 

Ask your dealers for them, If he don’t haye 
them send us 40 cents for sample hox of 256, and 
‘We will send, postage prepaid. Greatly lessens the 
ae keeps gun cleaner, gives better pattern and 

enetration than any other wad. One box will load 
twice as many shells as a box of pink-edge. Just 
the wad to use over powder and fill up shells, as it 
is only half the ae of other felt wads. Manufac- 

ured only by THE MERINO ELASTIC FELT GUN 
D CO., 106 South Charles st., Baltimore, Md. 


' 
: GUIN CLEANER. 


S. ALLCOCK & CO., 


Fish Hook, Fishing Tackle Mfr's, 


REDDITCH, ENG. 
692 ER, Ras 


BY 

BY SPRING STEEL ¥ 
BY Lone Suanxs, # 
Ba Out Points, Ringed, 
a CARLISLE, & 
E S. ALLCOCK & Go. e 
4% No (Reppircu). 100, %& 


SSSR SEO a eee 

Hooks made of the best Spring Steel, Swivels, 

Phantom Baits, Patent Standard Fly Book, Patent 

} Waterproof Lock Joint, Trout Rods, Patent Spring 

Hook Swivel. All descriptions of Fishing Goods, 

which can be had through all wholesale houses in 
the United States. 

AWARDS: Gold medals at Paris, Berlin, Nor- 
wich, Wurzburg and Calcutta, and the highest 
awards at Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide, South 
Africa, Toronto, London, and other exhibitions. 


Hornbeam Rods 


A SPECIALTY. 
W. HUNTINGTON, 


WILTON, CONN., 


Makes a specialty of the manufacture of FINE 
HAND-MADE RODS of Hornbeam for fly-fishing. 
Every fly-fisher should have one of these rods, for 
whatever preference he may have these are the 
only thoroughly reliable rods, secure against break- 
age and capable of real hard usage. With one of 
these rods a sportsman may venture into the woods 
for aseason and take no other rod, and be fairly 
sure of returning with it in serviceable condition. 
As made from wood of my own eutting and season- 
ing, they are powerful, easy in action and full of 
endurance. For circular send to WALLACK 
HUNTINGTON as above. 


Black Flies--Mosquitoes. 
NO TAR, NO OTL. 


“T find the ‘Angler’s Comfort,” made by N. §S, 
Harlow, of Bangor, Maine, the most effective and 
satisfactory preparation I have ever used to keep 
off mosquitoes, black flies, etc.” HE. M. Srinpwein 

Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for the 
State of Maine. 
Orders by mail solicited. Retail, 25 cts., postage 
aes Wholesale, usual discount. 
N.S. HARLOW, Druggist, Bangor, Me. 


Oil-Tanned Moccasins. 


For Hunting, Fishing, Canoeing, &c. 

They are easy to the feet, and very 

" durable. Made to order in a 

variety of styles and warranted 

the genuine article. Send 

=Ss7yfor price list. MARTIN 

IUTCHINGS, Dover, 

; N. H., P. O. Box 368, - = 

Dame, StopparpD & Kenpati, Boston; Hmnry U. 

SQUIRES, New York; F, Cuas. Eicuen, Philadelphia, 
igents, 


_— 


SAS. EF. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Eine F‘ishing Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240£6., $1.75; 800ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600ft., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts. extra; nickel plated; 50 cts, extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 80yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts, per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
Packages Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds,, 15 cts. Double 

wisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Ply Rods, 10ft. long, $1.50 to $10.00, Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishi¥ 
pele s of hooks, leaders, ete., sent by mail on receipt of price in money or stamp. Send stamp . 
catalogue, 


Established 20 years, Open Evenings. Je F. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 


En YW OC E’Ss 


Patent “Perfect” Brass Shells, 
MANUFACTURED BY 


KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


_ These’shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No.2 primers. Oan be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, Cost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal, inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
Same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten. out to original shape when discharged, The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers 
not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American -Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


Elastic Heel-Plate for Shotguns, Hunting & Military Rifles 


SEND FOR CIRCULAR. SOLD BY ALL GUN DEALERS AND WHOLESALED BY 
HERMANN BOKER & CO., 101 & 103 Duane Street, New York City. 


oF O Mie Oise Es 


A Lotion for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others. 


Protects persons using it from the attacks of MOSQUITORS, 
BLACK PLIES, and other insects, and from SUNBURN and the 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather, 

It is beneficial fo the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; is color- 
less and cleanly, not staining the finest linen, and washes off 
readily on the application of soap and water. 


MANUFACTURED BY 


THOS, JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor, 


Sold by the leading dealers in sporting goods throughout the 
country. 


898 


PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE. 


| Brass Multiplying Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; 300ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; GOOEL., $2.50; 750ft., $2.75; Mott. aut, Nickel Fh dre 
and Drags extra. Brass Click Reels, 25yds., 60 cts,; 40yds,, 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00. Kiffe’s 
Celebrated Hooks snelled on gut. Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 ets, per doz.; treble, 80 cts. per 
doz. | Single Gut Tcout and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double Twisted 
Leaders, 3 length. 5 ets.; 4length, 10 ets.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15 cts.; extra heavy 4-ply, 
4 length, 25 cts. Trout Flies, 50 cts. per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per doz, Samples of our goods sent 
by mail or express on receipt of price. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Between Fulton Ferry and City Hall OPEN EVENINGS. 


PATENT BREECH & MUZZLE-LOADING 


PYacht Cannon, 
Sizes, 177, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length, 


MANUFACTURED BY THE 


STRONG FIRE ARMS CoO., New Haven, Ct. 


Also Mfrs. of Shelton Auxiliary Rifle Barrels, Combination Sights 
and Cartridge Grooving Machines. ; 
Send for Catalogue and Price List. 


Harrison’s Celebrated Fish Hook,| © 10 Beantifal Mustrated Books 
cn... PADDLE AND PORTAGE 


Canoe and Camera. 


BY THOMAS SEDGWICK STEELE, of Hartford, Conn. 


123 exquisite illustrations of life in the woods, 
with map in each copy. 

_The humorous as well as the serious side of camp 
life is vividly represented, while Mr, Steele’s well- 
known artistic perceptions, and a most intense love 
of nature, has made the work all that could be 
desired. 

Sryen Epirions of these works sold. Most popu- 
lar books in the market. Cloth. Price $1.50 each. 


A NEW MAINE MAP. 
The headwaters of the 


Aroostook, Penobscot and St, John Rivers 


Compiled by THomas SepGwick STEELE. 


The chart is 20x30 inches, printed on Govern 
ment survey paper and mounted on cloth. Sent 
postpaid on receipt of price, $1. 

FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
39 Park Row, New York, 


STORM-DEFYING WINDMILL 


Mark. - 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of Informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
appreach ours, which are to be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 

~ Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLERT & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
description, Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles, 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman’s 
Dining Room ever made. 
Natural ‘‘Dead Game” under glass, and no more 
bulky than an ordinary picture. 
Will send per express C, O. D, subject to approval, 
on receipt of express charges, 
Send for photograph and prices. 


il. E. CHUBB, Taxidermist, 
235 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, 0. 


Naturalists’ Supply Depot. 


Artificial Glass Eyes. 


TAXIDERMISTS. 


misses. 
after giving these a fair trial. Ask your dealer for 


Write for circulars to NIAGARA TAR- 
GET BALL CO., Niagara Falls, N. ¥- 


367 West Baltimore St., Baltimore 
Indorsed by all the leading players, and awarded 


hichest prizes at every exposition where ex- 
hibited "PROVED. 


them, 


Branc# Orrice, 409 Washington st., Boston. 
ELLIS & WEBSTER, Pawtucket, R. 1. 
gg. MoOoonRnReE, 
MANUFACTURER OF 
Of all Descriptions. Substantial, Serviceable Work. 
Leather Top Buggies and Phaetons......... $100 up 
Rockaways and Depot Wagons.. .........-- 100 up 
Elegant Jumpseat Carriages........--.+---- 135 up 
Handsome Surreys, Lawrences, etc.....-.-- 10 up 
Coupes and Coupe Rockaways.......------- 250 up 
Top Delivery Wagon...........-.+-. +:-+.+2- 125 up 
Road and Village Carts, Road Wagons, Sulkeys, etc. 
Excellent Light Buggy Harness.............- H0up | e*_ 
Grocers’ and Delivery Harness....- ... 18up wor pumping water for rural residences, foun- 
Light Double Harness... ... . 35 up | tains and fish ponds. A. J. CORCORAN, 76 John 
Farm Harness.......... Laas oo eck .. 22 up | street, New York City. 
And Horse & Stable Requisites of all Kinds. 
& 59 WARREN STREET, NEW YORE. A Skin of Beauty is a joy Forever. 
a DR T. FELIX GOURAUD’S 
BILLIARD AND 10-PIN BALLS Oriental Cream, or Magical Beautifier 
a a : Pree SMa Tan, 
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he test o. irty 
OHALK, Ete., * DOMINOES years, and it is 
: so harmless we 
PLAYING CARDS, Ete. taste it to be sure 
the preparer 
| is roperly 
Ivory, Shell, and Pearl Fancy Goods. a "Accent 
no counterfeit 0. 
TOILET SETS, CANES, FANS, Ete. similar name, 
The distinguish- 
Repairing done, Ten-Pin Alleys built and estimater ed Dr.L. A. Sayre 
furnished years = : said toa lady of 
arnt : the haut ton (a se Naa you ladies ee eee 
them, [recommend ‘Gouraud's Cream’ as the least 
14th t N Y harmful of all the skin preparations.” One bottle 
F, GROTE & CO., 114 E. SB tah will te ae months, using it every day. Also Pou- 
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THE ' thy we. Nt, B, , GOURAUD, Sole Proprietor 
me. M, B. T.G , sole Proprietor, 
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Successors to THE J. M. Brunswick & BALKE Co. ‘or sale by all Druggists and Hancy Goods deal 
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and tite FW .CouLENpEE, 00: found in'N. Y. City, at R. H. Macy's, Stern’s, 
=—— SS Bhrich’s, Ridley’s, and other Fancy Goods Dealers. 
= (@=>Beware of base imitations. | $1,000 reward for 
arrest and proof of any one selling the same. 
A NEW DISCOVERY! 
| THE NIAGARA TARGET BALL. 
Pr Patented December 18th, 1883. 
YF ekchat eee COAL BLACK AND BREAKS LIKE GLASS. 
Market & Huron Streets, Northside, Chicago. Impossible for shot to penetrate this ball without 
911 Market Street, St. Louis. Steph haying it re ig ee ue pele of SEU a 
: i ia. it; sure of shooters’ skill; 
I es Ske | ' Clubs will not use any other target ball 


hibited, ‘RIED AND 


OUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 


PRICE, $75 TO $250. 


Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 Ibs, weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate. 


i. C. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N.Y. 


Dame, Stoddard & Kendall, 


—SUCCESSORS TO— 


BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 


a ~ — a 


Agents for Skinner’s Celebrated Fluted Spoon, 


Nos. 1 & 2 are especially made for trolling with flies for Black Bass. 


A KILLING BAIT AND DURABLE, 


EISsSHniING TACKLE 


Of the best quality, all Kinds and styles. 


374 Washington Street, Boston, Mass, 
UP & MCS FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
AND THE 


HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


Of Waterprooted Duck, Dead Grass Color, [Trish 
Fustian and Imported Corduroy. 
ASSORTED COLORS. 


Unequaled in Convenience, Style or Workmanship. 


Sa - ~~.) 


Write for our new Catalogue and Samples, 


THIS 


Z ‘ 
EGR VE js our Skeleton Coat or Game Bag. Weighs but 16 ounces, 
Y Can be worn over or under an ordinary coat. Has seven 
pockets and game pockets. Itis of strong material, 
dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfuu 


AND 
McLELLAN, 
day without losing a hair or feather. We will mail it to 


Valparaiso, Ind. jou, postage paid, for $2.00. Send breast measure. 


The “0.C.” New Model Patent Perfeetion 


TREBLE MULTIPLYING REEL, 


WITH CLICK ATTACHMENT, 


Is the handsomest and most practical 
Reel Made. 
Following are its points of excellence; 

Center Action, an entirely new 

feature fora multiplying reel. 

Balance Handle, revolving within 
= a projecting metal band, no chance for 
line to catch upon the handle, 
=(©) A Treble Multiplying Click, when 
=> the index is in the position as shown in 

the above illustration, 
A Treble Multiplying Free-Running ~ 
Reel, when the index is pushed to the right, 

Raised Pillar, permitting the extension of 
the spool, thus increasing the carrying capac-— 
ity of the reelfully one-third and greatly re-- 
ducing the weight. Material and Finish,, 
the best. Price, ‘‘within reach.”* 

Please order the above “Patent Perfection | 
Reels” throuch the Dealer in your place, Tf for 
any cause you can not so obtain them, please 
advise me and I will correspond with you. 

WM. M. CORNWALL, Importer & Jobber 
of Fishing Tackle and 'Gun Goods, 18 Warren, 
street, New York City. — 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 


TxE: WICHOoOLS 
Hexagonal Split Bamboo Fishing Rods. 


ded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. Noted for excel-— 
sie ire ‘han numbers. This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods, 


Manufactured by B. F. NICHOLS, 153 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Laws. 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman's Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


CwiInGe SHOOTING” 


.Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 


Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practical hints upon wing shooting = 
directions for hunting snipes, woodcocks, ruffed grouse and quails. _ EM 
Tilustrated: Bound in cloth, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00, 


T. G. DAVEY, Publisher, London, Ont. 


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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE. RoD AND GUN, 


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NEW YORK, JUNE 19, 1884. 


VOL, XXIT.—No. 21. 
Nos. 89 & 40 Park Row, Naw Yors. 


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SSS SS SS a Sf 
CONTENTS. 


Nos. 39 Ann 40 PARE Row. 


BprrorTAaL. | Tae Kenner. 
June Woodcock. “American Kennel Register.” 
New York Moves to Increase Pointers at New York, 
the Oyster, Minstrel. 
The Pointer Discussion. The Chicago Dog Show. 
The Adirondack Forests. A Protest. 


Tur SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Unele Lisha’s Shop.—u1, 
A Summer Camp Ground. 

Natura History, 

A bit of a Sermon, 
North American Birds. 
Seasons and Birds of the Prairie 
The Couesian Period? 
Rodents as Caraivores. 
Fish and Snakes. 
GAmeE Bac AND GuN. 
The White Deer. 


The Bench Show Association. 
English Kennel Notes, 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
Boston Gun Club. 
Connecticut State Shoot, 
CANOEING. 
Potowonoe C. C, 
Knickerbocker ©, 0, Regatta. 
Connecticut River Meet, May 380. 
The Galley Fire. 


A Sunday Deer, Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
*Coons and ’Coon-Hunting. YACHTING. 
A Pen and Ink Sketch. New York Y. C. 


Camp FIRE FLICKERINGS. ; 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING, 
Camps of the Kingfishers.—y1. 
Rangeley Waters. 
Rod-Joints and Reel-Seats. | 
Salmon Casting in Hugland. 
FISHCULTURE. 
Salt as an Agent for the De- | 
struction of the Fish Fungus. 


Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, 
Hudson River Y. C. 
Jersey City Y. C. 
Boston Y. C, 
Around Long Island. 
Spring Matehes on New York 
ay. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT, 


JUNE WOODCOCK. 


EveRe year, as regularly as the seasons roll around, 
come the complaints of those various individuals who 
go out for game-bird fledglings. Our correspondents are 
quite inclined to find fault with the exploits of these gentle- 
men, and usually heap abuse upon them. This spirit is 
hardly commendable. Undoubtedly the aggravation is great, 
and writers lose their temper only under great provocation. 
They see the game birds destroyed out of season; and then 
they fly into a passion and write to us to denounce the men 
_ who cause their woe. ‘This is, we need not say, entirely 
wrong. Instead of getting mad and writing to a distant 
newspaper about it, they might better keep their temper and 
secure the punishment of the bird destroyer, 

There are two classes of these destroyers of the early bird. 
Each is made up of individuals whose mental and moral 
development has been stunted. There is the man who has 
some dogs to break, and thinks that he must go into the 

-game covers in the spring, rout the mother bird from her 
nest and let his canine pupil poke its nose into the eggs. 
Later in the season, if his pups can manage to catch some of 
the fiedglings, so much the better. He lacks the sense re- 
quisite to comprehend that a bird chewed up by a puppy 
is just as dead as if riddled by a large charge ofshot. The 
proper way to give hima hint on the subject is to enlarge 
his brain capacity by sequestration in a cell, or tapping his 

pocketbook to the extent of the fine in such cases made and 
provided. This is apt to accomplish even more than can be 
secured by writing to Forest AnD SrREAM, which we are 
quite willing to acknowledge is often an effective means. 

The idiot who takes his young dogs into the nesting 
‘grounds is an altogether different specimen from the sneak 
who goes in for getting the immature birds for the alleged 
reason that if he don’t some one else will. The former lacks 
common sense, the latter wants common decency. His plea 

is that of acommon felon. “If [ don’t some one else will’ 

__ has been the cowardly excuse for almost every crime known 

to the calendar. The man who slides off into the woods in 
June, and makes this a defense for his misdemeanors, has a! 


— 


spirit so contemptible that honest men will fail to under- 
stand it. How any one who professes to practice field 
sports for the pleasure there is in them, can find any enjoy- 
ment in lugging home at night a bag of birds, and with it 
the load of his consciuasness that he has done a mean and 
unlawful deed, is something quite beyond our comprehen- 


sion, Can any one explain it? 
A PORTION of the great mass of correspondence on this 
subject will be found in our Kennel columns; another 
portion we decline to publish. We have before called atten” 
tion to the fact that, if pointer breeders are to be benefitted 
by this discussion, it must be conducted temperately and 
must be confined to the question at issue. If this is not done, 
what should be an argument between gentlemen degenerates 
into an unseemly wrangle from which no one can emerge 
with any crecit. Some of the letters which we print this 
week we regret to say wander lamentably from _ the subject, 
and cover a vast deal of ground which is wholiy foreign to 
it. Is it quite impossible for those who write about dogs to 
stick to the point? The question at issue is about certain 
dogs. Can correspondents not confine themselves to those 
dogs and say where they are good and where bad? For 
ourselves we have no desire to mingle in the fray. Our de- 
cisions are matters of record to which any one can refer. 

It is somewhat amusing, however, to observe how those 
on each side in the debate seem to imagine that, because we 
do not at once espouse their cause, we are therefore secretly 
abetting their opponents. Within a day or two of each 
other, and just after our editorial two weeks ago on ‘‘The 
Pointers at New York,” we received among the numerous let- 
ters on the subject two from gentlemen on opposite sides of 
the question especially interested in the matter, from which 
we quote below: 


One said: The other said: 

If you have any personal; The fact that they know a 
reason for not wanting any-| good dog and are friendly to 
thing to appear in the paper| me should not be sufficient 
against or 1 | reason for putting their letters 
shall have nothing more to/| in the waste-paper basket. 
say, and will respect your 
private affairs accordingly. 


Now, of course, if these gentlemen had given themselves 
the trouble to think about the matter at all, they would not 
have taken the further trouble to write such silly stuff as the 
above, but they did not stop to think, It is rather late in 
the day for us to say that we are not pecuniarily interested in 
dogs, and have no private reasons for excluding communica- 
tions from our columns. But we certainly shall not publish 
matter that, in our judgment, will fail to interest our readers. 
Communivations must keep more closely to the subject in 
hand, and should contain something that will instruct. 
We hope that this hint will suftice. 


THH POINTER DISCUSSION. 


NEW YORK MOVES TO INCREASE THE OYSTER. 


(py OY EENOR CLEVELAND has just signed the bill 

which was introduced into the last Legislature of New 
York, by Gen. 8. W. Johnson, of Mamaroneck, Westchester 
county, which constitutes Mr. EK. G. Blackford, of the New 
York Fish Commission, also a commissioner for the protec- 
tion and propagation of oysters, This bill, which was sug- 
gested to Gen. Johnson by his constituents, reads as follows: 

‘For the Commissioner of Fisheries, appointed under Chap- 
ter 309, Laws of 1879, $5,000, to be expended as said Com- 
missioner may deem proper upon vouchers to be approved 
by the comptroller, for the purpose of investigating into the 
causes of the decrease of oysters in the waters of the State of 
New York, and into the extent of the injuries made by the 
starfish and other animals that attack the oyster, and for the 
purpose of ascertaining how the oyster industry may be pro- 
tected and the supply increased.” 

This is a good beginning, and will, no doubt, be followed 
with good results, We have on several occasions pointed out 
that New York should follow the lead of Connecticut, which 
has a perfect system of leasing oyster grounds, which, after 
three years’ trial, gives satisfaction to the oystermen. Mr. 
Blackford will avail himself of the experience of Lieut. 
Francis S$. Winslow, of the United States Navy, who has 
given much thought to the oyster question, and is familiar 
with the oyster grounds of the State, if he can be detailed 
for this purpose. Prof. H. J. Rice, whose labors in the study 
of the embryology of the oyster are familiar to our readers, 
will also be engaged on the work, and the hatching station 
of the New York Fish Commission at Cold Spring Harbor 
will, in all probability, be selected as the site for operations 
in oyster culture, as itis most favorably situated for the 
work. 


THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


T is understood that Governor Cleveland has withheld 
his signature from the Adirondack forestry bill, and 
consequently there will be no commission this year. There 
was, however, in the appropriation bili a clause devoting 
$5,000 to the employment of three experts to prepare a Tr 
port on the Adirondack forests, to be presented at the meu. 
ing of the next Legislature. ‘his clause, according to the 
published reports, has received the Goyernor’s sanction, and 
so We may hope for progress in the moyement to protect the 
Adirondack woodlands. 

We understand that before his recent departure for 
Europe Mr Morris K. Jesup made arrangements to have a 
party go into the Adirondacks at his expense, in case the 
State made no appropriation. This party was to be under 
the direction of Professor Sargent of Harvard. It is to be 
hoped that Comptroller Chapin will as soon as possible select 
the investigating committee, as he is empowered 1o do by 
the clause referred to, and that the board so appointed will 
at once enter upon their important work. 


PRESIDENT ARTHURS REcoRD.—Last Monday President 
Arthur and Secretary of War Lincoln went down to Long 
Island on an angling excursion, They fished for trout in 
the Massapequa Lake, which is a preserve owned by Mr. 
Williata Floyd-Jones. Now, the ordinary angler can go 
fishing and come home at night without saying boo to any- 
body. But when the President of the United States wets a 
line the great metropolitan journals send their representatives 
to intercept the tired fisherman and learn his luck. §8o 
when the two returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel the other 
evening, they found their passage blocked by a horde of 
reporters, who wanted to know all about it. President 
Axthur made a plea of having other fish to fry, and escaped. 
Secretary Lincoln consented to say something, but not much. 
He refused to tell how many fish were caught. Toa Times 
reporter who asked how the fishing was he replied, ‘‘Well, 
as good as could beexpected. It’s pretty late in the season;” 
while to a Sun reporter he explained: ‘‘We had a very en- 
joyable time, although it is a little early for good fishing,” 
What is to be inferred when a President and a Secretary of 
War go fishing, and in place of showing a handsome ‘‘mess 
of trout,” allege to one that it was too late for fishing, and 
to another that it was too early? We confess that it appears 
as if the catch that day must have been an exceedingly 
meagre one; but we shall not hastily, nor strenuously, insist 
upon such an interpretation of Secretary Lincoln’s prevarica- 
tion. 


Marxep Trovt.—It is the custom of some of our fish 
commissioners to attach metal tags to liberated salmon, that 
when captured again, the growth of the fish may be noted, 
We once knew an angler who was in the habit of putting 
his mark on trout; but he did not use a metal tag. It was 
arule with him to retain no trout that weighed less than 
one-half pound. When he landed one of less weight, he 
would carefully take it from the hook, mark it by biting off 
the upper portion of its tail fin, and throw it back into the 
water to grow. Sometimes he would catch these fish again 
after they had attained the proper size to find a place in his 
basket; and it was often a source of pleasure to him to 
receive a letter of thanks from some fellow angler who had 
chanced to take one of the marked big fellows. One day 
this biter of trouts’ tails was driving along some eighteen 
miles from home, when he came to a bridge over a stream, 
and in passing saw a big trout rise. The next day, with his 
tackle, he drove back over these eighteen miles and tried for 
arise. He found nota sign of trout. The next day he 
made the journey again, with a like result. The third day, 
nothing daunted, he drove out again. This time he pulled 
out a three-pound trout, The upper half of its tail fin was 
gone; and our friend has always believed that it was one of 
his marked trout. 


Tue Rerractrory Prezons.—The New York State As- 
sociation for the Protection of Fish and Game, are trying to 
find out where the wild pigeons are nesting, so that they 
may hire the professional nest robbers to collect a few thou- 
sands of birds to be proteeted by the Association at the Buf- 
falo tournament. This scarcity of wild pigeons is seriously 
interfering with the progress of game and fish protection in 
this State, and the protectors may well ask each other what 
is to be done about it. An unsubstantiated rumor is abroad 
that clay-pigeons may be substituted for the live birds, but 
as every practical man knows, there is nothing so potent for 
true game and fish protection as four or five thousand wild 
pigeons, captured on nesting grounds and shot. at the trap, 


402 


Che Sportsman Convrist. 


UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP. 
IIL. 


| pee ed in mid-day there was yet a hazy after-taste of 

the sweetness of Indian summer, thé season was be- 
ginning to have a smack of winter in its night air, On such 
an evening, as the first star began to shine above the rounded 
peak of Tater Hill, Lisha rubbed the mist off a pane of his 
long, low shop window, and stooping his eye to it peered out 
upon the darkening road. Out of the gloaming presently 
grew some dark shapes into men, the sound of whose foot- 
steps and voices came a little before them. When they and 
others had entered and been welcomed by Lisha, he having 
lighted his pipe and taken some work in hand, declared 
“the meetin’ open,” and that they ‘‘was all ready to tran - 
sack business.’ Little was said till some one remarked, 
““Pwheeew!” And then all became aware that an odor more 
pungent and powerful than those of leather and shoemaker’s 
Wax was pervading the atmosphere of the shop, 

“Good airth an’ seas!” cried Lisha, ‘‘I secont the motion! 
Le’s all whew! Some on ye stepped on suthin’ t’night, or 
somebody got skunk’s ile to sell.” 

Hach took a sniff of his neighbor till the source of the fra- 
grance was traced to Pelatiah’s corner, when he shame- 
facedly confessed that he “hed ben a trappin’ a leetle,” but 
said in extenuation, ‘‘I sot fer mink. I hed one trap sot in 
a holler log over to Hillses’ brook with a ruster’s head fer 
bait, an’ when I went tew it yist’day the trap was hauled’ 
ini’ the log. I pulled on the chain c’nsid'able stout, but it 
didn’t le’ goa bit, an’ then I god daown on all fours an’ 
peeked in to see what the matter was ailded it, an’—O, gosh 
all Connet'cutt! My eyes haint god done smartin’ yit! I 
rolled an’ I tumbied till I got to water, 'n’ then I washed an’ 
tubbed an’ scrubbed till I c’ld see suthin’ ’sides stars and fire, 
an’ then I went bum an’ berried all them close, an’ washed 
mein three waters an’ smudged me with hemlock browse, 
an’, gosh darn it all, I didn’t ‘spose I wa’n’t all sweetened 
aout! “F my ecmp’ny haint ‘greeable I'll dig fer hum.” 

“Sho!” Lisha shouted with hearty politeness, ‘‘Guess we 
c’n stan’ it f you can! ’S fer me, I ruther like a leetle good 
fresh skunk parfum’ry. The’s some ’at eats 'em’’—rolling 
his eye toward a known mephitipophagist—‘‘an’ I sh’d think 
them ‘at likes the taste would the smell. Furdermore, I’m 
beholden to skunks fer c’nsid’able myself. Keep yerself 
comf’table, Peltier.” 

No one objected to Pelatiah’s presence, and several asked 
Lisha how he was indebted to skunks for anything, 

““Wal,’’ said he, slowly scraping the sole of a boot with a 
bit of broken glass. while his thoughts went backward over 
the rough path of his life, “tin the fust place, when I was.a 
leetle chap they cured me o’ croup with skunk’s ile, which 
they gi’n it ter me spoo’ful arter spoo’ful, an' greesed my 
stomerk with it outside tew. An’ then arter I'd got growed 
up, skunk essence cured me of azmy. An’ then—I don't 
seasely b'lieve I'd ha’ ever got Jerushy *f ’t hed n’t a ben fer 
a skunk!” 

After the ‘‘wal I swan’s,” and “‘goshes” and ‘‘yeou don’t 
says,” which this declaration called forth, there was a general 
demand for an explanation, and Lisha laid down his boot 
and glass, and devoted himself wholly to the telling of his 
story, with his elbows on his knees and locking and unlock- 
ing his waxy fingers as he talked, as if so he wove the woof 
of his tale. 

“J never sot no sret on ole folks tellin’ of what they'd did, 
or ben, or hed when ’t they was younger, but when Jerushy 
was Jerushy Chase she was *baout ’s pooty a gal as c’ld be 
dug up in tew three taowns, an’ as smart and cap’ble, an’ 
nat lly she was sought arter, an’ none the less cause her 
father was tol’able well off, When I begin a sparkin’ on 
her, I hed n’t nothin’ much but my tew hands, was a workin’ 
aout by the month for this one an’ that one for six or eight 
months, an’ 'd larnt to shoumake a leetle so ’s ’t 1 ‘whipped 
the cat’ winters, so ye see I was arnin’ suthin all the time, an’ 
I wa’n’t sech a humbly ole critter ’s I be naow, so ’s ’t stood 
jes ’s good a chance as any o’ the fellers, till bimeby the’ 
coma chap to teach aour deestrick school, a college feller 
f’m-Middlebury. He was a clever creeter, an’ smart, an’ 
good natered an’ hahnsome, c’ld rastle like a bear, ’n’ sing 
like a boblink, ’n’ wore hahnsome close evey day, so all the 
gals ’most wus @ ravin’ an’ a ravin’ arter him. Jerushy 
wa'n’t, though, an’ that made him the faster and fircer arter 
her. An’ so arter a while his pooty talk an’ hahnsome close 
an’ all them college things begin to work on her, ’n’ she get 
so ’t she’d mos’ lives I would n’t come Sunday nights as not. 

“‘So it run along till tow-wards the middle o’ sugarin’, she 
a favorin’ him a leetle mor’n me of the tew, an’ the’ was 
goin’ to be a gret sugarin’ off to Hillses, ’n’ most everybody 
hed aznyite. I went ’*n’ ast Jerushy to go ‘long with me, ’n’ 
she said she ‘didn’t know; guessed she’d go ‘long with the one 
’at come arter her fust,’ Thinks sez I, Mr. Schoolmarster, ’f 
you get to Uncle Chase's ‘fore I dew, you'll hafter pull foot 
for it lively. So ’long in the middle o’ the art’noon I got my 
chores all done up, an’ dressed me an’ off. I put ’crost lots, 
’n’ IT hedn’t got fur when darned if I didn’t see that *tarnal 
schoolmarster jest agoin’ int’ the aidge o’ Meeker’s Woods, 
pintin’ for Uncle Chase’s, ‘n’ nearer tew it’n’ was. I doubled 
my jumps an’ got there, an’ tole Jerushy I’d got there fust ‘n’ 
she’d got togo’long with me, She kinder hung off, lookin’ outen 
the winder eyery onct an’ awhile, but nary a schoolmarster| 
An’ so bimeby she got rigged up an’ off we went an’ had a 
gret carummux to the sugarin’. She kep’ a-sythin’ an’ 
a-peékin’ ter a spell, but nary a schoolmarster, an’ then she 
got desput jolly ’n’ made more fun ’n the hull toot on ‘em. 
Goin’ hum in the moonshine, I ast her to jime me ina 
sugarin’ for life, an’ ‘fore we got to the chips in the do’yard 
she ‘greed she would, an’ here we be! Me on this ’ere shoe- 
bench, an’ she,” lifting his voice and pointing a waxy fore- 
finger at the door that opened into the kitchen, ‘‘an’ she 
a-peekin’ through the crack o’ that ‘ere door!” The door 
squeaked suddenly to, and the wooden latch clicked rather 
spitefully. : 

‘‘Wal,” said one disappointed auditor, breaking the short 
ensuing silence, ‘‘Wha'd all that hey ter dew with askunk?” 

“QO, nuthin’ much,” said ’Lisha, “only, ye see that feller 
was a shovin’ *long the best he knowed, through the woods 
in a wood road, an’ fust thing he run spat ont’ a skunk aout 
takin’ a walk. The skunk wouldn't run, an’ he wouldn’t, 
an’ it turned aout con’try to seriptur. The battle was 
to the strong, an’ the race was to the swift. The school: 
marster smelt loud ’nough to fill a forty acre lot, an’ so the 
wa’n’t no schoolmarster ta Chases’ nor t’ the sugarin-off, nor 

t’ the school in that deestrick that spring, nor nothin’ left on 
him in the deestrick but his parfume So ye see, a skunk 


— 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


hed suthin’ ta dew with his scaseness, which 1 c’nsider my- 
self c’nsidable beholden to skunks,” 

“Bah gosh!" said Antoine, ‘‘ah don’ fred for skonk, me! 
Ah tek hol’ of it hees tails an’ lif’ im aup, he can’ do some- 
tings! No sar!” 

*Tywouldn’t make no diff'ence tew ye if he did,” said 
Lisha, ‘‘a skunk’s nat’ral weepon haint nothin’ but double 
d’stilled biled daown essence of inyuns, *n ye couldn’t hurt 
a Canuck wi that,” 

“Bah gosh, guess you fin’ aout ’f he hurt you, you git him 
on you heyesight, whedder you Canuck or somebody. Ant. 
it, Peltiet, hein?” 

Said Solon Briggs, “Might I a-rise to ask you, Antwine, 
Anthony, or Anto ni-o, all of which Isuppose you ter be, 
haow dew you pervent the aout-squirtin’ of the viles o’ wrath 
whilst you air a-proachin’‘of the mestiforious quadruple head?” 

“Wal, M’sieu Brigg, dat someting you got t’ larn bah— 
ah—what you call it, pracsit?” 

“Prehaps Peltier ’d lend ye one o’ his’n to practyse on, 
Solon,” Lisha suggested, but Solon expressed no desire to ac- 
quire the art of capturing skunks by that method. i 

“The y ra’ly can’t scent when you hol’ ’em up by the tail, 
’n’ that’s a fact,” said Joseph Hill, “I remember onct when 
l was a boy ten ’r dozen year ole—I d’know, mebby I was 
fourteen—lemme see, ‘twas the year ’t father hed the brindle 
caow die ’t hed twin calves; got choked with an apple—no’t 
Wwa’n’t, ’ was a tater—they was fo’ ye’r oles when he sole ’em, 
the fall *t Iwas seventeen—no, I wan’t but thirteen—the’ 
was a skunk got int’ the suller, ’n’ of course we didn’t want 
to kill him there, so my oldest brother, Lije, he took a holt 
on him by the tail an’ kerried him aout the hatehway With 
a pair o’ tongs, an’ then he gin him to me an’ I hel’ him up 
while he shot him. He put the ole gun clus to his head an’ 
blowed him clean aouten the tongs as fur ’s crost this shop, 
‘n’ by gol, he never scent one mite till then, no more ’n a 
snowball.” 

“Did he die?” asked the ever alert seeker after useful 
knowledge. 

‘“‘Why, yes,” Joseph replied, “‘he jes stunk hisself to 
death then.” 

‘‘Jozeff,” said Lisha, ‘‘that ere puts me in mind of the 
Paddy. ‘Divil a nade o’ shootin’ him,’ says he; ‘laye him 
alone an’ sure he’ll shtink himself to death.’ What a *tarnal 
time the creeturs dew hey wi’ skunks ’fore they git ‘quainted 
with ‘em. “Member the ole story one on ’em tole? What 
wast Sam?” 

Sam repeated the time-honored tale. ‘‘The furs toime 
iver I wint hoontin’ in Ameriky was wan day whin I was 
gown to me worruk, an’ I kilt a boird call’t a skoonk. I 
threed hur undher a hayshtack an’ shot hur wid me sphade, 
an’ the furs toime I hif hur I misht hur, an’ the nixt toime 
J hit hur where I misht hur afore. An’ whin I wint to 
plook the feathers off hur, I was foorced to shkin hur, an’ 
in doun that I shtruck hur ile bag or hur heart I dunno, 
an’ the shmell nearly suffocaytit me, an’ I was near shtaryin’ 
afther, for divi] a dhrink cud I take, but the shmell of hur 
was in me nosbtrils to kape me awake all night.’ I like to 
died,” Sam continued, ‘‘to hear Joel Bartlett's Irishmun tell 
*paout the fust skunk ‘t he ever met, ’Twas when he was in 
Masschusitts, ‘Maxacushin’ he called it. He ben a workin’ 
on a—vailroad, an’ lived in a shanty as yit though he was 
workin’ fer a farmer. Sez he, ‘l wor a shpadin’ round 
threes in a yoong archard, an’ Tom Egan, the divil, was in 
id wid me, an’ I seen eaperin’ troo the grass a foine shlip ay 
a young cat, an’ says I to Tom, says I, begob, I'll capshure 
it to kill the mice in the curse o’ God shanty that’s near 
dhriyin’ me dishthracktit. ‘Do,’ says he to me, an’ the 
divil knowin’ in his own moind what it was, An’ away I 
wint in purshuit, an’ whin I was about to lay me two hands 
on id, 1 was shtruck in me face an’ the two eyes av me wid 
ashtream avy the divil’s own wather an’ I was blindit an’ 
shtrangled, entirely. But I joomped on the baste wid me 
boots an’ kilt it, 1 was that choked wid rage, an’ a grea’ d’! 
beside, an’ thin I wint away back to Tom, but divyil a near 
him wud he let me come, the bl’guart, an’ I call’t out, ‘Tom!’ 
says I, ‘am I kilt entirely an’ is it me, or is it the divil’s 
father of a baste that, be’s makin’ the notorious shtink alto- 
gether?’ says 1. ‘Be gob!’ says he, ‘its the both oy yees, an’ 
ye'll shmell that bad an’ may be worse for a year,’ says he. 
‘Ah thin,’ I cried, ‘millia murthers, I’m ruinaytit!’ an’ so 
skoolked away home to the curse o’ God shanty, an’ whin I 
wint in Biddy an’ the childher wint out, an’ I had the shanty 
an’ the shmel] all to meself. Well, I berrit me close, an’ I 
sailed back an’ forth troo the pond o’ wather till night, but 
divil a much betther did I shmell] fcr a week. Oh! bad luck 
to the counthry that nurtures such cats!” 

“Dat Arish,” Antoine remarked, “‘a’nt spik so good 
Angleesh lak ah do, don’t it?” 

The slim candle in the sconce had burned so low that 
Wlien Lisha attempted to snuff it with his fingers he pulled 
it out and it dropped upon the floor, and sputtering out left 
the shop in darkness except for the thin streaks of firelight 
that shone through the cracks of the stove, and the dim rays 
of stars slanting in at the little window. The mishap was 
accepted as a unanimous vote of adjournment, and stumbling 
and groping their way to the door, Lisha’s guests again de- 
parted. 


A SUMMER CAMP GROUND. 


Week Wheel Gap with its hot springs, fine scenery, 
altitude of 8,305 feet, invigorating air, abundance of 
all kinds of game and large trout, may not suit the tastes of 
all our Eastern tourists and sportsmen, so I will continue to 
give a few more of the many interesting points on this great 
mountain railroad, called by all who have ever trayeled it 
“the great scenic route.” ; 

The writer during last fall traveled over the Denver & Rio 
Grande Railroad from Denyer to Salt Lake and stopped off, 
camped, fished and hunted at six different points on the line, 
and all he can say is that no sportsman can go amiss for 
game of all sorts.and speckled trout in abundance, at any 
point he may select after the train leaves Pueblo, Colo. 

The first point of great interest to the tourist or sporisman 
is the Royal Gorge or Grand Cafion of the Arkansas. Here 
deer and mountain lions are plenty. The former are fre- 
quently seen from the windows of the passing train. ; 

The Grand Cafion has been lauded in many of the daily 
papers throughout the lund. It must be seen to be appre- 
ciated. The English language cannot describe it. From 
the entrance, for eight miles, there is an ever-changing scene 
of Nature’s greatest work, Above you the peaks rise to the 
giddy height of 3,000 feet. Below the river rushes and falls 
over the craggy rocks, As you penetrate deeper into the 
caiion the walls appear to close on you, until a mere fissure 
of thirty feet is left for train and river to pass, while the 
smooth granite soars to the yery clouds above. Here is an 


.) 
[Junn 19, 1884. 


iron bridge, built lengthwise, and suspended on steel trusses 


mortised into the rock at either side, At this point the 
grandeur of Royal Gorge culminates. The next point of 
great importance is Marshai] Pass, where you cross the 
Sangre de Cristo range, at an altitude of 10,508 feet, in a 
palacecar, Here thesportsman enters the great game country 
of the world. 

Continue to Sapinero, and if you desire elk, bear, moun- 
tain sheep, mountain lion, blacktailed deer, grouse and 
mountain trout as large as your arm, goto the Roaring Forks 
of the Grand River, about thirty miles from the railroad. If 
you want all but the elk, go to the eating station called 
Cimarron. Here are fine camping grounds and the very best 
fishing and game grounds, Here you can camp within a 
mile of the station and can start a @eer any time within one 
hour's travel. Grouse here are very plenty and easily got at. 
There is a large pool here formed by the confluence of the 
Cimarron Creek and the Gunnison River, which will suit all 
lazy fishermen. One ean sit on a large rock and drop his 
fly and take off from his hook fine trout just as fast as he can 
handle them. Last August the old Irish bridge tender was 
watching me play a taking fly at this point, when this pool 
seemed literally alive with large fish. 1 and my fifteen-year- 
old son had caught out of this one place thirty-seven pounds 
in less than one-half a day. Our Irish friend says: “By 
jabers, I hive bin troying to clane this houl out of thim for 
the past four months, and jist luck at thim. How miny do 
you think there is lef yit?” I answered him I thought by 
appearances that it must yet contain about twenty barrels of 
trout. 

One of the remarkable features of this great same world 
is that since the Indians have been removed game of all kinds 
is rapidly increasing. Many of the old Mormon settlers, 
who have lived in Utah for the past thirty years, say that 
deer are more plenty to-day than when they first came to 
Salt Lake. 

If onr Eastern men wish only deer shooting and trout fish- 
ing, let them go on to Pleasant Valley Junction and remain 
until late in October or November, when the deer cross in 
this vicinity from the Wasatch range of mountains to the 
south seeking a country having less snow than the northern 
range. Very little hunting is done in Utah, and deer and 
grouse are perhaps more abundant than anywhere in the 
world. The following seems almost incredible, but it is 
nevertheless based on facts: , 

The writer was one of a party of three 4t Pleasant Valley 
Junction on a deer hunt late last November, when the snows 
were heavy in the upper Wasaich range, and the deer were 
traveling south in great numbers. We killed eleyen in one 
day, and had all we wanted. While getting them to a wagon 
road to take them to the railrcad, the writer counted, in a 
barren space of their trail south, forty-seven deer passing in 
two hours’ time. Here much of the keen sport of hunting 
for this.game is lost to the true sportsman. On visiting this 
spot, through which no doubt thousands of deer pass during 
a,comparatively short time in the late fall, the snow was 
beaten down the same as though a large herd of sheep had 
been driven over it. 

These are all black-tailed or mule-eared deer. Colorado 
has many white-tailed or red deer, but Utah has none. This 
conclusion was formed last fall after hunting over a great 
portion of the Territory, and watching the market in Salt 
Lake City for the whole of last season and not seeing’ one 
red deer. To an old deer hunter of the Hastern States shoot- 
ing the black-tailed deer of the West would be tame sport 
indeed, because they have none of that foxy cunning which 
is always found in the red deer. The black-tail will often 
stand while a good marksman will kill five or six. I have 
known a market hunter to killa band of seventeen within 
a radius of less than 200 yards, and this was done without a 
magazine gun, by a Mr, Woodard on Powder River in 
Dakota. In that same vicinity I caught a large doe with a 
greyhound, dressed it and started toward camp; and inside 
of one hour we came across the same band, and our dog 
caught and killed the second doe, The reader will naturally 
ask how I know this was the same band. Because the first 
band had one buck and nine does, and when we came up to 
them the second time there were but eight does and one 
buck, a coincidence not to be accounted for in any other way. 
In my next I will describe how we caught a bulfalo calf 
with three greyhounds. Q. VAN HomMeny, M.D. 

” TpAno Springs, Colorado. 


Bhatuyal History. 


A BIT OF A SERMON. 


Y permission of the writer we are enabled to print some 
extracts from a private letter which furnish an eloquent 
sermon against summer shooting. The facts speak for them- 
selves so forcibly that no comment on them is required, ‘lhe 
observations here related will be no less interesting to the 
naturalist than the sportsman, and by whomever read, the 
story is an interesting one: 

While strolling on the banks of French Crcek, near Clay- 
ton, on Sunday Jast, June 8, in company with my wife and 
a friend, we started a woodcock, which feigned being 
wounded, and gave utterance to the most plaintive squeaks, 
from which we inferred the nest must he near. short 
search discovered it among some small bushes on the ground 
in a comparatively exposed position. The nest contained 
three eggs, whichewe, of course, did not disturb. Leaving 
the nest for over an hour, I cautiously returned, and getting 
on my hands and knees crept within ten feet of it without 
disturbing the old bird, After watching her for about ten 
minutes I saw her stand up in the nest and with her bill and 
one foot change the position of two of the eggs, after which 
she settled back on the nest, . 

She then evidently saw me, for she gave a sudden twist 
sideways with her head and then slowly and cautiously 
stretched herself out as flat as possible, her bill resting flat on 
the ground, She remained thus for fully five minutes, 
Presently I arose from my position and stepped forward, 
when the bird quietly sneaked away from the nest, seeming 
to crouch as near the ground as possible, until about twenty 
feet away when she arose with the usual cry, but immediately 
fell to the ground, fluttered up and down and finally turned 
over on her back fluttering her wings as if in the last agony, 
but as I approaciied she scrambled away, dragging one wing 
on the ground until she had led me fully two hundred yards 
from the nest, when suddenly she bade me aw revoir, and 
darted away like a rocket. Secreting myself some distance 
from the nest, in fourteen minutes I was surprised to see her 
sitting on it as quietly as before being disturbed, but how she 
reached there Iam unable to say, as I did not see her ap 


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proach, and half a minute before her reappearance on the 
nest nothing was to be seen or heard. As the woods were 
open I had an excellent opportunity of watching her interest- 
ing maneuvers and had hoped te be able to note the manner 
in which the return would be made. 

I wish that some of the advocates of July woodcock 
shooting could have seen the devotion of the mother bird, 
and their views might be modified; and should these eggs be 
hatched now what pleasure would there be in shooting on 
Aug. 1 a mere chick, six weeks old? 

_ 1 wish our State law for woodcock read for every county 
alike—Sept. 15 the first day of the woodcock season. 

As I wrote you some time since, I once found mere fledg- 
lings in July, but this was the first opportunity I ever had 
of watching the old bird on her nest, 1 had always sup- 
posed the nest was hidden in the depths of some swamp, but 
this was on high ground, in a maple grove interspersed with 
hickory and oak, and there was no apparent attempt at con- 
cealment, for ijt was visible anywhere within a radius of fit- 
teen or twenty feet, and was built entirely of grass and small 
leaves. ONONDAGA. 


NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 


4 ee years have elapsed since the publication of the first 

three volumes of ‘North American Birds,” by Messrs. 
Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, and now we have the fourth vol- 
ume. The first three covered the land birds, and the last 
two are to complete what will be the greatest work on Amer- 
ican ornithology since the time of Audubon. 

The delay in the completion of the work has been due to 
its great cost, no publisher having been found who was will- 
ing to assume the risk of carrving it out to its end, That we 
haye now the first of the two concluding volumes of the 
series is due to the liberality of Prof. J. D. Whitney, late 
State Geologist of California, and of the Director of the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology of Cambridge, Mass. The 
present volume is issued as the twelfth of the Memoirs of 
the Museum, and like those which have preceded it, reflects 
credit upon the institution which sends it forth. Although 
‘Sssued in continuation of the publications of the geological 
survey of California,” in its appearance, manner of illus- 
tration, and general make up, the present volume resembles 
the first three of the ‘‘History of North American Birds,” 
and the authors being the same, il is, as a matter of fact, the 
continuation of that work, It is true that the lamented 
Brewer did not live to see the printing of the first volume of 
the water birds begun, and that portion of the work assigned 
to him has suffered in consequence of his death, Prof. J. 
A, Allen has, however, econipleted some of the unfinished 
articles, and like all his work, it is well done. 

This work, therefore, coming fresh from the hands of our 
most eminent ornithologists, being the most recent work of 
the kind,and being gotten up without regard to cost, cannot fail 
to appeal very strongly to every ornithologist. Certainly it 
is high time that we had these volumes, for, with the -ex- 
ception of the materialin ‘‘Birds of the Northwest” and ‘‘New 
England Bird Life,’ nothing systematic has been published 
on the water birds of America for very many years. 

The present volume carries us, beginning with the herons, 
through the so-called wading birds, and well into the Anatine, 
the cinnamon teal (Querguedula eyanoptera) being the last spe- 
cies mentioned, The concluding volume, which is promised 
in September, will carry us through the water birds, and the 
greatest modern work on American ornithology will be com- 
pleted. The descriptive portion of the work is indeed quite be- 
yond criticism, and it is made more valuable by the numerous 
excellent figures of the heads, and outline sketches of bills of 
different species which are scattered everywhere through the 
text. At the same time we cannot help regretting that the 
part devoted to the biographies of the water birds should be, 
as is apparently now thé case, somewhat behind the times. 
Some years have elapsed since the manuscript was prepared 
for publication, and while the technical and descriptive por- 
tion of the work has been revised so as to bring it down to 
date, a considerable portion of Dr, Brewer's work gives no 
evidence of having been treated in the same way. 

Thus, the biographical sketches of the different species 
are much the least, satisfactory portion of the work. They 
consist almost altogether of citations from different authors, 
giving very fully the distribution of the different species, 
but not telling us as much about their habits—their real 
inner life—as we should like to know, and even as regards 
distribution we find that the work is by no means brought 
down to date, and that many interesting observations in the 
West and elsewhere by some of our best obseryers—men like 
Ridgway, Henshaw and Merriam, for example—are not men- 
tioned. 

The volume appears to be singularly free from errors, 
though occasionally a loose statement has crept in. Such, 
for example, is the statement that the habitat of the upland 
plover (Bartramia longicauda) is ‘“Hastern North America, 
migrating to Brazil and Peru and extending north to Alaska 
and Nova Scotia.” Asa matter of fact, the range of this 
species extends in the Northern United States west nearly 
if not quite to the one hundred and twelfth meridian, while 
further south, near the fortieth parallel, we have ourselves 
seen it near the bend of the Platte in Western Wyoming. 
Ridgway took it on Kamas prairie in Utah; Abert is reported 
to have sent one from New Mexico, and Henshaw took one 
in Southeastern Arizona. With all these references it seems 
soanpely. proper to callit an ‘Eastern bird,” as is sometimes 

one, 

The nomenclature employed in this volumeis, in the main, 
that announced by Mr. Ridgway in his important paper on 
the nomenclature of North American birds, published in 
1881, but here and there we note changes from that list. 
Thus, we find the so-called English snipe no longer called 
Gallinago media wilson, hut see that it has been restored 1o 
Specific rank, and that what we formerly thought of as 
Gallinago media has, as was predicted would be the case in 
Dr. Leonhard Stejneger’s paper on the subject (Proceedings 
U. 5, Nat. Mus., Vol. Y., 1882), taken Frenzel’s name, Gat- 
linago ceélestis. 

In this yolume we have set before ns, for the first time in 
an American work on ornithology, full and systematic de- 
scriptions of a number of extralimital species, of which one 
or two individuals have recently been taken within our 
borders, a fact for which those ornithologists who have 
not access to large libraries will be profoundly grateful. 

_ The present yolume and the one which is fo follow it will 
be gladly received by sportsmen generally as well as by nat- 


Geologist, | Volume lI, | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company, |'1884, 
Price (uncolored) $12 per yolume, Hand colored $30 Be SUBS 


uralists. The former will find in it so many of the species 
which they pursue, that the work is certainly one which 
should be in the hands of all our readers, who cannot fail to 


find in it pleasure as well as profit. 


Taken as a whole the work is monumental; its value and 
Praise is not 
needed for it, since the names of its authors are a sufficient 
fuarantee of the quality of the work, and to say that it is by 
Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, assisted by Allen, is only another 
way of stating that the very best minds among the orni- 
thologists of this country have combined to produce a work 


its importance can scarcely be overestimated, 


which shall do them credit. 


SEASONS AND BIRDS OF THE PRAIRIE. 


BY H. 8. WILLIAMS, M.D. 


7 HEN old Boreas bursts through the sun-bound confines 
of his summer home and comes rushing southward, 
driving the more tender birds to warmer climes, there are a 
few species which, more hardy than their followers, fear not 
the threats of the bluft old gentleman, butremain to buffet with 
Latest among the little wanderers that come rushing 
from the north with the first blasts of winter, are the long- 
spurs (Centraphanes lapponicus) and snow buntings (Plectro- 
Hardier birds than these there are none; the 


him. 


phanes nivalis), 
more boisterous the weather the better pleased they seem. 
Winter kings the country folks call them, and truly they 
deserve the name, 
regularly about the prairie barnyards in the winter. 
two species associate together to a considerable extent, 


but the longspurs seem more adundant and familiar. Seen at 


his best, the longspur is by no means a plain bird, but at no 
time will he bear a companion with the snowflake, The 
latter is indeed a jaunty fellow. How finely contrasted are 
the black and white of his wings, and what a warm brown 
hood he wears. Seen hurrying over the prairies, he is, with 
the exception of the snowy owl, the most. noticeable bird of 
winter. But I fear his fine feathers make bim vain, for he 
is something of an aristocrat, holding himself rather aloof 
from the society of man during fine weather, or so long as 
le can obtain food elsewhere. But during severe storms he 
sometimes comes familiarly about the stables in quest of food, 
This has led to the belief, common in some districts, that 
the appearance of the “twhite snowbird” predicts a storm, 
while the coming of the ‘‘black snowhbird” indicates the ap- 
proach of fair weather. This last is not necessarily the true 
hyemalis, which rarely remains in Northern lowa during the 
winter, but any of our darker winter birds. Many persons 
goon astep further and gravely assert that the sume indi- 
viduals actully change color from day to day, becoming white 
before a storm! 

Another strictly terrestrial bird, only less hardy than the 
last, is the shore lark (Hremophdla alpestris). Heisa resident 
here, yet somewhat erratic in habits asin flight. I am not 
surprised if L see him in the depth of the coldest winter, but 
then he appears only occasionally; and quite as frequently 
he is not seen at all during two or three of the coldest 
months. Some fine February morning, however, as I walk 
across a meadow or ploughed field in the open country, he 
starts up before me, and then, as he flies away, he sings. 
His notes are sweet, but so fine and feeble that you must 
listen intently or the breeze will bear them from you and they 
will be lost. The bird may have remained here all winter, 
but more probably he has just returned from a pleasure trip 
somewhat further south. At all events he has not sung 
before, and | herald the note as truly a spring sound. True, 
‘ pring wil not open for a month to come; we shall not see 
the bluebird, borne in the same breeze that brings the first 
whilf of that orange-blossom aroma which all await so im- 
patiently, for several weeks; but the lark’s song reminds us 
that nature is awakening. It gives us a foretaste of what 
may not come in reality fora long time. No matter what 
the weather may be after this, I see the lark daily, If it 
storms, he utters only a shrill cheep; but if it shine he is full 
of music. Seated on the ground or upon a fence post, he 
sings almost constantly. First comes an interrupted prelude, 
more faint even than the song itself, which is a peculiarly 
undulating sucession of lisping sounds, sweet, and at timés 
penetrating. But this is by no means his best performance, 
though his song is always the same, Later, while his mate 
broods her eggs on the ground below, he pours forth his 


music from the skies, as becomes a Jark. His ascent is song- 
less; obliquely, by successive stages he rises, alternately beat- 
ing a few strokes with those strong wings and gliding with 
But haying reached the height to which 


pinions motionless. 
he aspires, his song begins. As he sings, he floats motionless, 
slowly sinking. The strain ended, a few wing-beats brings 


him again to the desired height, and again his feeble liquid 
notes are heard. He isso high that he seems a niere speck 
against the sky, yet, feeble as are his notes, we hear them 


distinctly. We must not take our eyes from him or he may 
be lost, and we shall miss the best part of the performance. 


Having repeated the strain a score or more times, he pauses 


for a moment in air, gives a swoop downward, and then, 


closing his wings, falls like a thing inanimate, rushing earth- 
ward with almost meteoric rapidity. Surely he will be dashed 


in pieces; he goes to his own destruction and no power can 
save him. But no; when almost to the earth, see him spread 


those broad wings, swing outward and upward in a graceful 
curve, and go skimming off across the meadow. What a 


grand finale! one exclaims involuntarily, and ever afterward 


we regard the lark with a new interest and class him among 


the true avian poets. ; 
T have said that the lark is erratic in habit, but he is by 


no means as much so as a certain hardy little northerner 


who is not so exclusively confined to the prairie, yet is never 
with us found far from the open country. I refer to the red- 
poll linnet (yiothus linaria), This little fellow is some: 
times abundant throughout the winter, sometimes seen only 
in fall and spring, again is not observed at all during the 
season. The winter of 1878-9, remarkable for the large 
number of northern birds it brought to us, gave us among 
the others numerous redpolls. In the fall I found them in 
the open prairie, and later they came about the yards in 
town, associating with the goldfinches, which they resemble 
in size, in flight, and in one of their call notes. I know a 
sandy plot by the river, covered with weeds, where these 
birds could almost always be found, and there, too, perched 
on the topmost bough of a neighboring tree, might be seen 
the marauding shrike (Lanius borealis), which ever and anon 
darted with murderous onslaught into the ranks of the 
finches and, selecting a victim, followed it in hot pursuit 
through the air. Now up, now down, to this side and to 
that, darts the affrighted bird, and cloge behind, following 
each deviation with the unerring accuracy of asleuth hound, 
comes the blood-thirsty pursuer. Who would not, as he sees 
the exertions of the little finch become less and less power- 


They are almost the only birds that come 
The 


ful, put an end to the flight of the ruthless shrike? Gladly 
would we cut him down and tell ourselves that we but gave 
him his deserts. Yet he only pursues the dictates of his 
nature; he kills that he may live; and we who condemn him 
would pursue as eagerly a rare finch or warbler and shoot it, 
almost without a throb of compunction, merely that we 
might dissect and classify, or, giving it a wire skeleton, 
perch it in life-like attitude, mocking its once happy actions. 
But we think not of this as we see the frightened finch 
almost within the clutches of the shrike. We only wish that 
we might destroy the pursuer. But it is too late; they have 
passed in zig-zag flight, the shrike every moment closing in 
upon his prey. At last he makes an extra exertion, aud the 
victim is his, Seized in his bill he bears it sloping to the 
earth, there to perform the closing scene of the little tragedy, 

In glancing at the character of the shrike, 1 find much to 
admire, Though small in size, his superior strength and 
activity more than make up for this deficiency, and few, if 
any, are the birds to which he yields in open combat. In 
point of sportsmanship, what one of our hawks is his equal, 
though he be armed only half as wellas they? The little 
falcons are almost unerring marksmen, but they are pot- 
hunters. Failing to secure their victim at one sudden sweep, 
they leave it and go in search of another standing mark. 
Not so the shrike. True, he sometimes ‘‘pots” a bird; Iam 
not certain that he would not always do so of a preference; 
but, failing in this, he gives chase, like a true sportsmen, and 
the yictory is given to the switter pair of wings. 

The northern shrike, to which reference is here made, 
visits us only during the winter. His congener, the logver- 
head (Lantus ludovieianus), is a regular and rather common 
summer resident, found only in the open country, and nest- 
ing in hedges or groves of cottonwood, I have not known 
him to exercise his sportsmanship upon anything larger than 
a grasshopper, and think he confines himself largely, if not 
exclusively, to insectorial prey. 

One can scarcely speak of prairie birds and say nothing of 
the king of them all—the pinnated grouse—though he has 
been so often and so well deseribed that every one is familiar 
with at least the outlines of his history, With us, as else- 
where, he is termed a resident, yet I doubt whether many 
individuals spend the entire year in one latitude. Each fall 
large flights of grouse pass over the towns, always headed 
toward the southeast, and in the spring a corresponding 
number all northwest bound. These flights occur mainly at 
dusk and in the early morning. The birds fly in scattered 
companies, as low as barely to miss the tops of the trees and 
houses; the shrill whizzing of their wings tells of their prox- 
imity before they are seen, and a view of them gives one a 
conception of momentum which, it seems to me, could be 
made more vivid by nothing less than a cannon ball. At no 
other season are the grouse seen to make extended flights, 
and in spring and fall, as already mentioned, all move in one 
direction, northwest and southeast, respectively. This would 
seem to be sufficient proof that, with us at any rate, indi- 
viduals of this:species are migratory, though collectively 
they are certainly resident, being as abundant during the 
most severe winter as at any other season, and, of course, 
far more conspicuous, there being nothing to afford a hiding 


place. They begin to ‘‘pack” early in the winter, and some- 


times associate in immense flocks, numbering in some rare 
cases many thousands. This happens only when there are 
very large fields of unhusked corn in a particular section, 
affording peculiarly favorable conditions for the existence of 
a large number together. -Under such circumstances | once 
saw a flock of grouse which, when on the wing, extended 
continuously for a distance of fully half a mile, the stream— 
for such it seemed—hbeing perhaps fifty yards wide and three 
or four tiers deep; this entire space, be it understood, as 
closely packed as ample wing-room would permit, Such 


flocks as this are very unusual, but two or three hundred in- 


dividuals are frequently associated together. Outlined against 
the snowy sheet that covers the prairie, they are very con- 
spicuous and afford a great temptation to the sportsman; but 
they are so wary that it is almost useless to stalk them on 
foot, except during a storm. Inasled one can often approach 
within fair range; but he who would at downright and _ left 
now must be no novice, for the grouse is no longer the 
weakling that we knew in August, At best, only small bags 
are possible, and no one here thinks of doing much grouse 
shooting after the fall “‘packing” begins. 

To the Hastern man, traveling over our beautiful summer 
prairies, it is a matter for constant wonder that no grouse are 
seen, even though he is assured that he isin the midst of 
their haunts, From May till October one may ride con- 
stantly through a country where grouse abound without 
catching more than an occasional glimpse of an anxious hen 
skulking with her brood by the roadside. Even if actual 
search be made, itis a mere chance if it be successful; and 
we might as well hunt a fox without hounds as to hope to 
make a bag of grouse in the early fall without the assistance 
ofa dog. Itis much to be regretted that the grouse are 
yearly becoming less abundant in Iowa; but as we have a 
pretty generally observed game law, it will be many years 
before anything like complete extermination is threatened 
them, even in the eastern part of the State. The gradual 
and steady decrease in their numbers is, of course, attributed 
to the sportsman; but there is a cause over which man has 
no control that operates more efficiently than any other in 
deciding the relative abundance of grouse in any particular 
season, viz., the June freshet. If the backwardness of the 
season has prevented the grouse from mating early, and in 
addition the succession of June storms that we almost al- 
ways experience begins early, large numbers of the chicks 
are drowned; and it may safely be predicted that small 
“coveys’ will be the rule in the fall, Occasionally an entire 
brood is destroyed, im which case the mother bird again 
undertakes the maternal duties; and when the ‘season’ 
opens in the fali, her chicks will be no larger than half 
grown quails and barely able to make a feeble flight of a 
hundred yards. 

But I have given more space than lintended tothe grouse, 
and will only mention a few other common winter residents 
that help to add interest to the dreary aspect of the prairie 


“landscape during the season. The most conspicuous of these 


is the snowy ow], which is a regular, though not a very com- 
mon resident, The short-eared owl (Asie weeipitrinus) is more 
common, and is, furthermore, a resident, nesting in May or 
June on the ground among the grass in the open, unbroken 
rairie. The same remark will apply to the marsh hawk 
(Circus hudsonius), but these latter are more abundant during 
the summer, and are, no doubt, partially migratory. The 
marsh hawk is apparently afeebly organized bird, well fitted 
to prey upon small birds, frogs, ete., but he is capable, when 
pressed by hunger, of much greater feats, -I once witnessed 
a most exciting chase, in which one of these birds was the 
pursuer, and the pursued no less a bird than a full-grown 


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pinnated grouse. The latter flew with all the swiftness of 
which fear rendered it capable, yet the hawk, with apparent 
ease, flapping those broad wings steadily but in a leisurely 
manner, followed close behind, gradually shortening the 
distance that separated him from his victim. For more than 
a mile the race continued, and at last, the grouse, overcome 
by either fatigue or fear, came to the ground, and the hawk 
followed immediately. ‘Chey were by this time so distant 
that I could not see the final result, but I had little doubt 
that the quarry proved an easy victim and served for many 
a fine repast. 1 had not previously credited the hawk with 
80 much courage, and I think his prowess is not generally 
appreciated. 

With the first approach of spring, not the ‘‘ethereal mild- 

ness” of the past, but the stormy, disagreeable early spring 
of practical life, the prairie takes a still more uninviting ap- 
pearance. There was something grand, almost sublime, in 
the vast, unbroken, dazzling whiteness of the typical winter 
landscape, but this now gives place to a dirty, dismal, muddy 
expanse, which calls forth neither the sadly-pleasant reveries | 
-ef autumn nor the joyful vivacity of the late spring time. that he is a member of the Union, this is no reason, nor can 
The snow melts and stands in pools in the level prairie, and | be expect it, that I am called upon to answer an anonymous 
swells the “sloughs” and little ponds of the more rolling | letter. It is something I have never been guilty of, and I 
country into vast shallow sluggish rivers, and cold, dark, | 40 not intend to depart from my views upon such matters in 
silent lakes. Even the birds seem to have left for more | the presentinstance. J am prompted in writing this letter 
pleasant scenes, and for a few days a fertile soil has the | simply by the fact that I do not wish your correspondent to 
dreary visage of a desert. think me so discourteous as not to take any cognizance of 

But in 2 day all is changed. What seemed the fit abode his communication whatever, or much less that he has 
of death now teems with life. Ducks of a dozen species | Written something that is unanswerable. So soon as he does 
throng the ponds, and geese, brant, and cranes stalk about |™e this honor, and is manly enough to attach his proper 
on the higher grounds. Pintails and mallards, in flocks of | hame to his views, it will give me pleasure to respond to 
hundreds or even thousands, visit the last year’s corn and | him and answer his questions to the best of my ability. I 
oat fields, literally blackening the ground as they feed and | 2™ too old an ornithologist, to say nothing of my experience 
the air as they rise. An occasional blue heron (Ardea herodias) | in kindred matters, to be caught “gunning in the dark.” 
flies silently over the water courses, the brown bittern skulks R. W. SHUFELDT. 
among the slough grass and dwarfed willows, the Wilson 
snipe springs in erratic flight on every side, and the shrill 
whistle of the curlew breaks anon upon the almost audible 
silence that yesterday pervaded the very atmosphere. 

All this is but a transition scene, in a few weeks these 
welcome visitors have retired to their summer haunts, but in 
their places there are others who arc not visitors merely, but 
residents come to spend the entirc summer. And how differ- 
ent is the face with which nature greets them from that which 
of late she wore. All now is smiles and gladness, The ponds 
and sloughs have returned to their wonted limits, the upland 
is dry and its coat of dusky brown has given place to one of 
loveliest green, sprinkled here and there with golden butter- 
cups and subdued by the exquisite purple of the pasque 
flowers and violets. Now, indeed, does the face of nature 
smile as one who wakes gladly from a peaceful sleep. Her 
creatures of the prairie, though less varied in kind than those 
of the woodland, are sufficiently abundant to lend animation 
to the enchanting scene. Spermophiles, our most typical 
prairie mammals, whisk gayly here and there, or viewing us 
suspiciously from their door-sill, prepare to dive into the 
bowels of the earth at our nearer approach. Little sparrows, 
most conspicuous among which is the yellow-winged, make 
the air vibrate with their ditty, while the ubiquitous black- 
throat buntings chant their clinking strain on every side. 

And there, stalking so gracefully, with that slender neck 
responding to each motion of the body, or floating along 
with broad wings tremulously vibrating in a manner that 
marks him unmistakably, is our most characteristic upland 
bird of summer, the Bartramian tattler. <A little shy and 
reserved he was at ‘first, but now the very embodiment of 
confiding trust, and at all times a model of gentle graceful- 
ness aud meeckness. Knowing the characteristics of the 
family to which he belongs, and watching him individually, 
one would not suspect him of haying any other notes than 
the melodious, undulating chuckle which he usually utters 
as he takes wing. But he has others, nevertheless, and his 
song—for such it really deserves to be called—is the wild- 
est, shrillest sound to be heard on the prairies. It is not like 
a bird note, and, in fact, 1 think of nothing in nature which 
it resembles save the shrieking of a gale; and a poet, not 
seeing the bird, would doubtless attribute the sound to the 
prairie wind sporting among the clouds, for the tattler gives 
birth to his thrilling strain only while suspended high in air. 
A corruption of the sound may be brought to the mind of 
one who has never heard it by whistling shrilly an imitation 
of the sounds ‘‘wheep-cheer wyl,” the first two syllables being 
very much prolonged. Beginning low in the scale, a grad- 
ual ascent is made till a very high tone is reached, which is 
caught up by the second syllable and the scale descended to | my laboratory to play hide and seek among boxes and speci- 
the point of commencement, These notes, like the boomings | mens, but his partiality for bird meat, and ignorance of the 
of the grouse, are heard as distinctly, and seem as loud, at a | physical effects of arscnic soon cost him his life. 
great distance as when near at hand; but such is not the B. Horsrorp. 
case with a low, chuckling prelude which invariably pre- 
cedes them but is often lost in the air. The tattler’s return 
to earth, when he has tired of repeating his wild strain, 
reminds one of that of the shore lark, already described; bu: 
it is a little less bold and not absolutely perpendicular, th 
wings being partly unfolded. 

We would gladly bid time pause at this season that w 
might longer revel in the luxuriance of its pleasures; but 
cannot be. Spring shades gradually but all too quickly into 
early summer, and the vivacity of Nature gives place to a 
dreamy somnolence. Even the birds are listless and forget to 
sing, save the ever present black-throat bunting, whose chant, 
breaking in upon the Sey. stillness, becomes monotonous 
from frequent repetition. ‘The vegetation is assuming some- 
thing of a parched and withered hue, in keeping with the 
golden sheen of the harvest fields. ‘The sun’s rays fall with 
constantly increasing force. There is no shelter, and often 
for a whole day not a hand’s breadth of cloud dots the clear 
azure above. What wonder that the birds are silent? And 
yet, but for the heat, what surroundings could be more in 
harmony with poetic inspirations? An expanse of grass 
sprinkled with golden rods and asters, bounded only by the 
over-arching sky; absolute silence, broken only by the hum 
of insects, an all-pervading sense of vastness, of silent 

deur, of sublime peacefulness—surely no spot, unless it 
be the deep, primeval forest, could better engender a feeling 
of contentment and rest, an appreciation of the force of a 
dreamy, idealistic philosophy. 

Bui the summer days are also sped, and sadly, yet not 
without pleasure of a somber kind, we note that the year is 
dying. Our prairie now of itself has few charms; but the 
stir and bustle among it inhabitants afford new scenes each 
day for the observant eye. The more tender birds move off 
to the south, and each day some new migrant appears’ from 
the north to tarry for a few days or weeks before again 
taking up its journey. The warm showers have been suc- 
ceeded by chilling rains; the gentle breezes by cold, cutting 
winds; frosts nip the vegetation and crust. the ponds at night, 
though the sun still gives at midday resuscitating warmth. 


The wildfow! appear again and animate the prairie as in the 
spring time. A season of calm succeeds—the Indian sum- 
mer—that smoky, quiet season when all is serene and peace- 
ful, yet all suggestive of death, dreary, a change. And the 
change is at hand. A sharper frost kills the last hardy 
stems, and puts upon the water a coat that the wildfowl 
cannot break; the chilly blast whistles unchecked across the 
prairie, bringing the first scurrying snowflakes; the last 
goose honks his farewell for the season, and the stillness of 
the night of winter settles over the scene. 
CHARLES Crry, Iowa. 


THE COUESIAN PERIOD. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The letter in your issue of the 12th inst., addressed to the 
Chairman Section of Avian Anatomy, A. O. U., and signed 
by ‘‘Amieus Socrates, amicus Plato, magis amica veritas,” has 
just been read by me. I beg leave to say to your corres- 
pondent that notwithstanding the fact that he informs me 


WASHINGTON, June 13, 1884. 


RODENTS AS CARNIVORES. 


M* acquaintance with the muskrat has been intimate for 

some time. In the winter of 1822-31 saw a dead 
horse thrown down the river bank against some trees. The 
muskrats had a beaten path in the snow from a hole in the 
bank, some twenty feet distant, to the carcass, on which 
they fed half the winter. The inference is, then, a fair one, 
that they would gladly have added variety to their diet by 
fishing, if circumstances favored, and this is certainly 
strengthened by the fact that, in March of the present year, 
a man, fishing through the ice for pickerel, after a hard 
tussel with ‘‘a big one,” drew out a muskrat on bis hook. 
The skill of this animal in opening bivalves is proverbial, 
and yet he is often driven to straits for food in winter, as he 
does not hibernate. I once caught one burrowing under the 
snow, like a mouse or mole, gnawing grass roots from the 
frozen ground. 

But this is not the only rodent that has outraged ‘‘classifi- 
cation,” and eaten forbidden fruit. During my sojourn 
among the mountains the past summer, a young woodchuck 
fell into our hands, and was in many respects a petted favor- 
ite. My brother had already paid $5 bounty on dead ones, 
to save his clover fields from damage, but here was an inno- 
cent prisoner, and of course he was vot killed but fed. 

Ali through July, August and September, he was at meal 
times ‘‘a regular boarder,” pulling at my clothing until sup- 
plied. Bread, milk and cooked potatoes constituted his favor- 
ite diet, and he manifested a decided preference for cake. 
For this food he abandoned clover entirely, 

In October he dug a hole and foraged promiscuously upon 
any light cotton or muslin fabric fora nest. I found him 
dragging a large pillow into his hole, and stopped the busi- 
ness by placing armsful of rowen hay at the entrance. 
This soon disappeared, and his visits to the table were less 
frequent. Earlyin November he closed the blinds, pulled 
down the curtains, and we saw him no more. 

Late in March of the present vear, he came out in fair 
condition, resuming at once his place in the household and 
demanding the rations of the former year. One day we 
passed him sitting bolt upright holding half a sucker in his 
hands, just caught. He was biting off large pieces and eat- 
ing with all the seeming relish of an otter. Soon the season 
of family arrangements came on, and he left for a mate, per- 
haps to return, but most likely to meet his death at astranger 
hand, ; 

Nor is the squirrel family, preéminently “‘nut crackers,” 
exempt from the same charge. I once set one at liberty in 


SPRINGFIELD, Mass. 


FISH AND SNAKES. 


ee writer, who has fished more or less each season for 
many years, has long been aware of this habit of snakes 
taking fish, and after careful observation I am firmly con- 
vinoed that fish furnish a great source of diet to a large por- 
tion of the snake family. 

On Saturday last, the writer with a companion was fishing 
for pickerel in the outlet of a pond near this city, and while 
thus engaged we were treated toa very remarkable exhibi- 
tion of this habit among snakes, As our boat was slowly 
paddled along the shore among the lily pads, the writer, who 
wielded the rod, noticed a large striped perch alarmed at 
our approach, dart into a small cove, and the next instant 
there followed a great commotion in the water. As our boat 
was moved slightly so as to obtain a better view, We saw a 
large snake holding the struggling perch in its mouth above 
the water and making its way slowly to the shore. Scarcely 
had it reached the bank with its victim when there rushed 
from some hidden retreat among the bushes another snake at 
least a foot longer than the other, and instantly a terrible strug- 
gle took place between them for the fish. Over each other they 
rolled and writhed upon the ground. One instant both would 
be tugging at the fish, then the fish would lie upon the 

ound, and over his struggling form the snakes would roll 
in battle in a desperate struggle for the mastery. At last b 
a mighty effort the larger beat off the smaller, seized the fis 
in its mouth and glided into the water, whereupon the 
smaller became the attacking party and another terrible 
struggle took place in the water. At last, as though becom- 
ing tired of the unequal combat, the smaller onc disengaged 
itself from the fray, and with a slow, tired motion, swam 
slowly ashore among the bushes. The other, holding his 
ill-gotten prey aloft, at least a foot above the water, weut 
quickly ashore. i ‘ 

It was now time for us to show our hand, and picking up 


astone each (for we had previously landed so as to better 


view the fight) we cast them at his snakeship, and he was 
soon dead. 
_ The perch was afine specimen, eight inches in length, was 
in good condition, gills bright red, and had the luster in ap- 
pearance that denoted a healthy condition; it was quite ex- — 
hausted by the rough trestment and from being out ot the 
water so long, but after we returned it to the stream, after a 4 
few erratic movements it slowly swam out into deeper water. 
_The snakes were both bluish black in color on back and 
sides, belly was a deep bloody orange color, and the one we 
killed was four feet and ten inches in length. HEMLOOK. 


Lowery, Mass. 


[These snakes were no-doubt the common black water- : 
snake (Tropidonatus sipidon).] ” a 


Bounp To Raise A Famity.—Early in May a pair of 
robins built their nest in a cedar tree close to my bedroom 
window and soon three eggs were laid. Men working at a 
fence close by disturbed the birds and they shifted their 
home into the branches of an elderberry bush twenty yards 
away. A week after their removal I observed an English 
sparrow in the old nest, throwing out an egg, and in a few 
days more they had al] disappeared. When their second batch 
of ergs was partly incubated the proverbial bad boy “‘poked” 
the nest down, to the utter dismay of the mother robin. 
Nothing daunted, however, the couple seem bent on raising 
a family, and have again taken possession of their first 
quarters, This morning I noticed two eggs in their nest. A 
pair of robins have brought out two broods each year in this 
same cedar tree, the last two seasons, and I am inclined to 
think that this couple are my former visitors.—Post 
(Yonkers, N. Y., June 14). 


Late Goosr.—Saw a wild goose fiy in_a northwesterly 
direction toward evening on the 8th inst, This is the latest 
straggler I have ever observed.—Post (Yonkers, N. Y., June 


12), 
Game Bag and Guy. 


THE WHITE DEER. 
AN INDIAN LEGEND. 
PHANTOM there is in the far Northwest 
A shade of a deer that flees forever: 
Tt never stops and “tis never at rest, 
But onward it speeds over mountain and river: 


From the blue Coast Range to Sierras’ heights, 
Through the forests deep and by intricate ways; 

On the stormiest days, in the darkest nights, 
‘Neath the suliriest suns of the summer’s blaze: 


From Shasta’s base to his dome of snow, 
Around Lassen’s zone and a hundred lakes— 

Where thundering torrents incessantly fiow, 
And nothing may follow the course it takes. 


The dogs start up from the hunter's fire, 
And madly spring to a midnight chase; 
They baffled return after venting their ire, 
In baying the phantom that vanished in space. 


The hunter halts, where he steals along— 
And his rifle flames st a bounding deer— 
Ata mighty stag with many a prong, 
He fires again—and he shakes with fear; 


For the deer bounds on with never a wound, 
Though the mark was fair and the aim was true, 

And its heavy weight fairly shook the ground, 
As with miraculous leaps it evanished from view. 


The phantom will be when the men are gone, 
For ‘twill never be slain by a mortal’s might, 
And onward ‘twill speed, forever on, 
The deer is a spirit and snowy white. Esau. 
Suasra, Cal. 


A SUNDAY DEER, — 
BY D. D. BANTA. 


ey years ago last summerI made my first visit to 

the Twin Lakes in Montmorency county, Michigan. 
With my two boys, then mere lads, and a young preacher 
fresh from Princeton, I had been on the Au Sable a couple 
of weeks or so, having all the sport with the grayling of 
which I was at the time capable. How often in memory do 
T recur to those red-letter days! The Au Sable was popu- 
lous with a fish that has afforded me more real pleasure in 
the taking than any other fish l ever met with. And besides 
that, the navigation of the Au Sable in the summer weather, 
was replete with every fluviatile enjoyment. ‘The crooked, 
winding, spring cold waters, now dashing impetuously down 
the Huron slope beneath arboreal arches and between forest- 
fringed banks, and anon widening out into a broad, deep, 
sluggish stream, with low banks, whose timber was burned 
and blackened by former fires, presented a succession of pic- 
tures that never failed to charm even those least loving the 
wilderness. I have made eight voyages down that river in 
as many years, and as I sit by my coal fire and look out of 
the window at the fleecy flakes of this March snowstorm, I 
hear in fancy the rippling of the Au Sable’s stream, and I 
know that a brown hackle dropped lightly upon the surface 
of yonder dark pool, beneath the overhanging cedars, will 
be iollowed by a splash that will tingle every nerve of my 
body, and I want to make the journey once more. | 

Ball had quite recently built a cabin on the river about 
seven miles below the north branch—the only occupied cabin 
for forty miles up and down the river—and he was lond in © 
his praise of the Twin Lake region as a profitable place to 
go for bunting and fishing. Of both we could have a surfeit 
by sticking to the river, but ‘‘Man never is, but always to, 
be blest,” and so we listened with sharpened ears to the 
glowing stories told of the Twia Lake country. Ball had 
never been there himself, nor had Pancake Jack, a trapper 
staying at his cabin, but both had talked with Jand-lookers 
and trappers who bad, and it was made manifest to us that 
the sportsman’s paradise lay at the Twin Lakes. : 

The map showed that it was twelve miles to the lakes ina 
straight line; how far in a crooked one it remained for us to 
find out. A hay road bad been cut out half the distance, 
and both Ball and Pancake thought we would strike the 


plains shortly after passing the end of the road, and so haye 7 
unobstructed traveling most of the way. Leo 
Bob Greaves, a Canadian, who Ae out to soe -< 
mon and was able to own a wagon and team, hapy in, 
La 7 iz é 


— 


we en aged him to tote us out, and so, 


for the Twin Lakes, 


I need not stop to tell what 4 rough time we had of it 
I have 
been in my share of tight places by ‘‘flood and by field” 
rambling in the wilderness, but for twelve hours I am quite 
sure I never exerted myself su continuously as I did on this 


after we had gone as far as the road was cut out, 


trip, chopping and bridging 


the third day we reached our destination. 


The Twin Lake region isfamous for the number of its lakes 
11 is so named because of the two 
largest, which lie very close to each other, and are called 
‘There are a hundred Jakes,” said Ball, ‘tin one 
township up there,” which is perhaps an exaggeration, but 
there are a great many lakes, mostly land-locked, lying on 
ay 
River, which flows eastward into Thunder Bay on Lake 


and the beauty 01 some, 


the Twins. 


the plateau between the headwaters of the Thunder 


Huron, and Black River, flowing northward into the lake, 


and Big Creek, flowing westward into the north branch of 
The Twins and Wolf Lakes and Te Lake are 
There may be 
others, but if so { never found them. The ponds and smaller 


the Au Sable. 
of sufficient importance to give goou sport. 


lakes are too numerous to mention. 

The first lake we came to was Te Lake, so cailed because 
some early trapper or land-looker funcied he saw in its shape 
4 Teserablance to the Roman capital of that name, and could 


not let the opportunity pass to show his learning. The lake 
does bear a rough resemblance to a T, but it would make a 


better boot than T. It is true that the heel would be a little 
jong for a normal Caucasian foot; but, if we call it a boot, 
when I tell you that the leg lies north and south, with the top 
to the north, and the foot cast and west, with the long heel 
pointing west toward the upper or eastern Twin Lake, which 


is surrounded by a heavy forest and which is about three- 


fourths of a mile distant, and the toe poiated eastward toward 


- acluster of small landlocked lakes lying in the open, brush- 


covered plain, some of which are crescent-shaped und others 


circular, and others still irregular in outline, and that our 


camp Was established in a grove of beautiful Norways that 
fringed the sole from toe to heel, and that we were a third of 
the distance irom toe to heel, I think -you can find our old 
camping ground, should you ever visit the lake, much more 
readily than if 1 were to describe it by the letter it is supposed 
toresemble. South of our cump spread the open plain, dry 
and free from mosquitoes and no-see-ems, and north of us, 
across the foot, was a brushy plain, also of dry land. We 
were free from insects. Our teumster returned to the settle- 
ment at once, and Pancake Jack, after a vain effort to kill a 
deer, soon followed xfter. 

By some mischance we failed to take with us an adequate 
supply of flour—a mischance that oftener happens to a camp 
than any other, according to my experience. We did not make 
the discovery, however, until both teamster and trapper were 
goue, und as the teamster would reurn to Roscommon, thirty 
or forty miles (listant, and remain there until his appointed 
time to come after us, we saw that there was but one thing 
to do and that wus, eke out our flour so as to give us some 
bread at every meal iil his return. If he came at the time 
appointed, we found by actual measurement that we had a 
little less than three pints of flour per day for four mouths, 
and whatever may be the fact at home, that ratio will not 
begin to do in the woods, We had, however, a good supply 
of tea, coffee and sugar, a little meal, some rice and a tew 
potatoes, and the wouds were full of huckleberries, while the 
lake abounded in-buss, Fortunately we had with us a boat, 
an Te Lake produced bass running from one 2nd a half to 
three pounds, Neur the instep of our boot-shaped lake were 
two isiands, One of these, contaiming about an acre, rose 
eight feet or more above the surface of the lake and was 
covered by a forest of white pines and other soft woods, 
which was the only piue forest I ever saw in the Lower 
Peninsula, not showing any marks of fire. Not a charred 
stick, stump, trunk or lox was to be seen on that island. 
Around its shore was the best bass fishing 1 think | ever 
suw. ‘Two seasons, that one and the following, I fished off 
the north und east shores of this island with amazing sue- 
cess. And while 1 am at it [ may just as well say that while 
I never fished 1m either of the Twin lakes, norin Wolf Like, 
which lies a hiif mile or more north of the east end of the 
easternmost Twin Luke, yet both Ball and Jack told me the 
folluwing year and after they had fished them that all these 

| gave capital sport. These lakes are accessible from Gaylord and 
Otsego on the Saginaw aud Mackinaw Railroad, and the 
sportsman who will tuke his boat with him an.! set up his 
tent on the east shore of the easternmost or Upper ‘Twin 
Lake will be in one of the most delightful tenting grounds I 
eversuw, He will lack but one thing, and that is a spring 
ot good water. But the lake water is sweet and clear, and 
if he understands himself the water question will never vex 
him. ‘The spring is.at the west end, not far from the outlet. 
Notwithstanding Pancake Jack, who never scaled but 
skinned bis bass, could fry one better than any woods-cook 
T ever caw, and for that matter house-cook either, and im- 
parted to us something of his skill before he left us, yet we 
soon hegan to ‘lust after the Hesh pots of Egypt.” My ex- 
perience deer hunting was quite limited, and contrary to 
what I had expected, all the deer I came across were too 
smart for me, and 1 came across azood many. To save me 
I could not kill a venison, 
We had nearly stayed our two weeks. The weather had 
been delightful. Nearly every day the sun had sifted its 
yellow rays down through the waving Norway foliage upon 
our camp grounds, The Chaplain, as we termed the young 
preacher, had fished sme, hunted a little, read his Greek 
Testament more and slept most. The boys had picked huckle- 
herries, kept camp and rioted in all the joy of spirits that 
our vagubond life in the woods gave, As for me, I explored 
woods and plains for lakes and ponds, and at the same time 
thought 1 was hunting. Well, sol was, and 1 found some 
deer, too, but not until they had first found me, and then 
all they would show me was a flag of truce. It was peace 
between us in spite of allIT could do. At first I think my 
companions had confiled in my skill as a hunter. They had 
Seen me shoot one or two deer on theriver, But xs the 
descending suns had continued to bring me back to camp 
without the coveted venison, they cexsed to talk about it as 
a thing within the range of our possibilities, or even to ask 
me the stereotyped ‘‘What luck?” The last Saturday had 

come and gone, and I had cleaned my rifle and laid it aside. 


Monday was the appointed day for Bob to return for us, and 
as our flour was nearly gone we resolved to eat fish for Sun- 
day’s breakfast, dinner and supper, and bake the last bread 


on a drizaly, uncom- 
fortable August morning, with Pancake as guide, we set out 


in order to get through a 
swamp that interceptedeour progress. As the sun was going 
down on the second day, we emerged from the swamp to 
the plain, and were so exhausted with toil that we built a 
fire and slept, with the starry sky as our tent, By noon of 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Monday morning, for go out to Ball’s we would on that day, 


Bob or no Bob, 


Sunday came bright and breeagy. This was our day of 
rest, and as for me I was wearied enough with my much 
tramping during the week just closed to thoroughly eet 

i 


it. Amid much merriment, with not a few jibes at my s 


as a hunter, we had eaten our dinner with its small supply 
of bread, after which the Chaplain took his Greck Testa- 
meni and retired to a shady spot to read, meditate and, per- 
haps, sleep. The boys having rigged a blanket for a sail to 
[ was at our impro- 
I think it must 
have been about 4 o’clock when it occurred to me that I had 
At once 
I walked to the lake’s margin and looking westward say 
the boat sailing homeward with but one sailor aboard. At 
once it flashed across ucross my mind that George, the 
“unlucky boy,” had fallen overboard, and with that 1 des- 
perately called for tidings, as if I could have made myself 
heard the distance Charley was away. But ere I had time 
to catch the answer I hoped for, I saw through the open 
Norways the “unlucky boy” running toward me asif in a 
Very soon 
he came up puffing, and in an awful stage whisper be ex- 
claimed, ‘Deer in the lake!” and at the same time pointed 
Quicker than I can write it I had ‘‘old Smiley” 
out of the tent—and a large-bored, hard-shooting rifle she 
was—and with powder and ball rammed home set out for 


the boat had gone sailing on the lake. 
vised table writing in my camp journal. 


not heard any noise from the boys for some time. 


race, and at the same time motioning for silence. 
to the east. 


mIny game, that was from a quarter to a half mile away. 


Well up toward the toe of the boot on the south shore was 
a bit of rather low land—an acre perhaps—and it was covered 
by a thick growth of tall, slender Norway saplings. Into 
this clump of small trees I crept, and at about Rea baihe Seen 
II 


yards from the lake’s margin I stopped to reconnoiter. 
George had said was, ‘‘deer in the lake.” Where was it? 
I could see the shore at the very end of the lake and clear 
around on the further side, but no deer was there. Had it 
scented me from afar and fied as-all the others of weeks 
before? Or, is that red fringe I see through the brush at the 
edge of the water just in frent of me it? No. I came very 
near shooting at just such a fringe Saturday morning, and it 
turned out to be a bunch of red blossoms. Hold! It moves, 
I believe. Ah! To be sure it moves—that’s the deer. Heart, 
be still! It is feeding on the lily pads, and I must wait till 
it puts its nose to thepadsagain. ‘There! I creep to asapling, 
for somehow I find I um not over steady of nerve just now, 
and I must have arest. It is a bushy place to shoot through, 
but | fancy I can hit that red line. Drawing as fine a sight 
as I cun, I pull trigger, and as the report dies away, I hear 
a splash or two and then all is still. Did 1 kill it? Wichout 
the knowledge experience brings, I did not understand the 
significance of the splashing. Hastily re-loading, [ ran 
around to the end of the lake and there I fancied I found 
blood, but a secund look tuld me it was a bit of red moss. 
Examining the shore with some care, I could not find the 
place where I could feel certain it had left the lake. So 
many tracks were there, I became confused and despondent. 
After all, had I missed the thing clear? Dear me! The gun 
must surely shoot wild. I parted the fringe of brush and 
weeds at the margin and Jook over into the water, Stranye 
I had not thought of doing so before, tor there is the track 
of muddy watcr leading right tothe very place | am standing. 
Here then, the deer must have come out after all, and [ step 
back to look ouce more for the track, but failing to find it, 1 
return to the margin once more, and parting the fringe of 
bushes and weeds, I examine carefully to see, if possible, the 
animal's track. And as | do so, the Clearing water discloses 
my deer lying four feet beneath the surface, deau of course, 
and at once Lleap in and haul it ashore. 

“Whoo-ce!” it isashout of victory. Three answering 
shouts come back to me, and quicker than I had thought, 1 
hear the cracking of brush and the scraping over logs, and 
above all, the heavy slump, slump, of the Chaplain’s terrible 
boots. The good man had dropped his Greek Testament 
and was bound to be in at the death. No sooner did he get 
sight of me than he asked: 

“Did you gill it?” 

Ves!” 

“Good for you!” 

And next George’s bare head popped up over the crest of 
a ie hill. 

“Have you got it?” 

Yes!” : 

“Bully!” 

Our quarry proved to be a young and barren doe in fine 
condition, aud was at once taken to camp, where all hands 
turned to and it was soon flayed. Then we began to talk 
for the first time of our hunger. Till then each had eaten 
his share to the last crumb and said nothing. But now we 
began to complain. The Chaplain said he was “awful hun- 
gry—hungry enough to eat a piece of dead deer,” and I told 
them thut we would cut the big bones out and crack them 
and boil them as the primitive man was supposed to have 
done. And we did. And besides the cracked bones we put 
in the pot all the nice tid-bits, and then covered all with 
water and clapped on the lid and set the mess to simmering 
and stewing over a slow fire. After an hour had passed, 
the Chaplain’s irony became as sharpas his appetite, and he 
proposed that we go home and leave the pot till next year; 
and so to appease him our last potatoes were sliced and put 
in, and when these were cooked till done and some season- 
ing had been put in, we stirred water into a fourth of a pint 
of our precious flour till it was the consistency of thin cream, 
That we poured into the pot, which was boiled briskly as 
long as we could abide it, when the dish was pronounced 
done, anda more palatable, savory, satisfactory dish, not 
one of us ever tasted, I am sure, ‘ 

The next day Bob Greaves came after us and in due time 
we were back upon the swiftly flowing Au Sable catching 
grayling. 

Marcu, 1884 


THE Traprers,—Hornellsville, N. Y.—I hardly think that 
you will hear much from the trappers. They are not likely 
to write much about their art, tor those who excel in it do 
not care to tell what they know. Their secrets are jealously 
guarded. But on other points you might occasionally draw 
them out, on the improvement in traps, for instance: I 
should like to know where foxes are plenty, so that [ can 
trap them,—S. D. [Foxes are plenty in Accomack county, 
Virginia. | 

GAME IN Market.—The New York Graphic of June 18, 
says: ‘If our correspondent will take the trouble to go 
through the markets he will not find it a very difficult 
matter to obtain a brace of wild @ucks or some choice cuts 
of venison, even if it is the close season. Of course, the 
game laws are evaded. Everybody knows that.” 


ee — 
408 


Sxrpe.—The jacksnipe is a migratory bird, and, haying 
attained on the southern marshes that succulent obesity 
which is so highly prized by the epicure, he takes his way 
north to relieve the aristocratic canvasback and the conserv: 
ative redhead of their involuntary martyrdom in the Chesa- 
peake Bay. The snipe is known as the grayback, English 
or jacksnipe. He goes to marshy or boggy ground. His 
food is obtained from the mud, into which his long bill is 
thrust. He is a real game bird, with an erratic flight and an 
accommodating tameness. He does not become alarmed and 
fly up at fifty yards’ range, but he prods around in the soft 
ground with perfect unconcern until the sportsman or his 
dog is quite near him; then he darts up with sudden alarm, 
flipping bis wings with a queer motion that carries him in a 
zig-zag course, right and Jeft, giving utterance at the same 
time to an oft-repeated note like ‘‘Scaipe!” ‘‘scaipe!’ 1t 
takes a good, steady shot to kill snipe. A man who gets 
flustered and bangs away too quickly nearly always misses, 
The higher the smipe gets from the ground the more steady 
does his flight become, and it is only necessary to keep a 
steady footing and wait until his snipeship gets thirty yards 
off, then crack away in his direction with an ounce of No, 8 
shot, which at this distance scatters a yard square. With a 
good aim he is apt to come to terms. Jacksuipe livein Flor- 
ida, Texas and Louisiana in the winter, where the great flat 
prairie marshes afford them satisfactory accommodation, At 
this season of the year they go Noith with the ducks and 
swans, and raise a family in some swaiupy region, The 
Southern snipe is the best, because they are killed in the 
ear.y spring. During the fall their family cares make them 
thin, und they are no such choice sutijects for a generous 
palate nor such gamy birds to kill in the field, In nunting 
them a dog is not usually essential. They cun be more 
readily kicked up than the partridge or the woodcock,. 
Snipe showd be cooked like the wooucock, with all of his 
intestines left except the gall and crop. His head should be 
picked clean and his bill thrust into bis breast. If a little 
high in flavor he is more appreciated. —Baltimore Sun. 


Junge Woopcock.—Philadelphia, June 14.—Again I have 
to report this year the illegal shooting of woudcock, or I 
should say ihe intention on the part of those who should 
know better, to go out before the law allows the birds to be 
shot. Only to-day, while at a prominent gun store in 
Philadelphia, | asked the question of a gentleman whom [ 
thought posted on the subject, if woodcuck had bred in any 
numbers in a loculity he frequently visited. In reply L 
reccived the answer that many jad been seen and that next 
week he intended geiting inio his boat with his fishing 
tackle as a ‘‘blind”, and slip up a creek running into the 
Delaware River, and killa few birds. “1f I do not do this,” 
he added, *‘L will get none in July, as they will all be cleaned 
out.” ‘his is one contession of intentions of two that have 
been made to me. 1 would add that the ground proposed to 
be visited isin New Jersey, where of all places around us 
the law is supposed to be tue most strictly enforced,—Homo. 


Wants A Moose.— Philadelphia, June 6.—I wish this 
coming September to muke a trip after moose, Can you 
tell me Where to gu with any chance of success, or put me 
In communication with any oue who can give me tie re- 
quired tutormation, Tuis will greatly ovlige one of your 
carliest subscribers.—W., W. |Write to Ned Noiton, 
Colebrook, New Hampshire. ol. Uecil Clay, who wrote 
“Among the Moose” im vur last volume, could put you on 
the 1gut track, if he would, | 


GAaMEIN SuLLIvan County —Monticello, N. Y., June 
7.—“W, QO, M.” or otner puriaés wanting good bass fishing 
and partridge and woodcuck shooting 10 August und Sep- 
tember, will tind it wt this place. Trains leaving New 
York city in the morning via Erie Railway, arrive 4 P, M, 
sume day. ‘fo purties inclo-ing stamps 1 will give aby 
desired iuformation.—H'RANK Kent, 


Game Resorts,—We shall be pleased to receive for pub- 
lication information about desirable game resorts. Sports- 
men are Invited to send us notes of their experience, 


"COONS AND ’COON-HUNTING. 


[Read before the New Hampshire Fish and Game League, by Mr. 
Jobn Foster.] 
The naturalist has given the ‘coon but little attention, 
Usually he has been accorded a classitication, a half page 
of imperfect description and oblivion as to his real ments. 
The hunter has not generally adopted the ’coon as his favorite 
game, and he is less hunted than most of our game animals, 
His habits all have a tendency to conceal him trom the sight 
and knowledge of men, and it is not an Wnusuai thing to und 
in a good ’coon country those who, though living among them 
tor years, have never seen one, and whose ideas of their hab- 
its are vague and indistinct; nevertheless, those who do choose 
to hunt them become the most enthusiastic of sportsmen, and 
place the pleasures of the ’coon hunt foremost of all. ‘to all 
who are interested in animal life, either us scientists, spor'ts- 
men, or lovers of nature, we extend the assurance that u visit 
tu the haunts of the ’coon, an interview with him in his own 
forest domain, an examination of his habits, his food, and the 
ways and means of his capture, will prove a very pleasant ad- 
venture. An animal of marked and peculiar habits, a gcod 
liver, choosing a wholesome diet, possessed of the cunning of 
the fox, most affectionate to her nttle family, defending them 
at times with great bravery and a shrewdness which amounts 
to strategy, such is the ’coon in its native condition, 

The raccoon, Procyon of the scientist, but in familiar phrase 
the coon, is positively an American, His family is represented 
on both the American continents, and in no other jands. Our 
own North American ‘coon is found from Canada to the Fior- 
ida Keys, and westwaid to the Pacine coast. In different 
sections he undoubtedly has different habits; in the coid 
Northern States he reaches a greater development, and isa iar 
more gamy animal than inthe South. his average weight 
in our State when his fuil growth is attained is a littie jess 
than twenty pounds. ‘he females do not often weigh over 
seventeen or eighteen pounds, and the maiesseldom over twen- 
ty-two or twenty-three. We rarely catch one as heavy as 
twenty-five pounds. The largest one we ever caught tipped 
thirty pounds, We have heard of ’eoons being captured 
weighing as high as forty pounds, and we consider the parties 
who have given us this information in most cases reliable, 
We seldom catch the heaviest ’coons, for the reason that when 
they have reached their greatest weight they range but very 
little, and therefore the chances of the dog striking their track 
are greatly lessened. Their flesh is by some prized very highly 
it is whoiesome, and if properiy cooked is certainly very une 
food. One decided peculiarity of the’coon is the coldness ot 
his scent, as hunters term it; thau is the small amount of ani- 
mal scent which he leaves in his track, thus rendering it ex- 
tremely ditlicu.t for dogs to follow him. The characteristie 
is stronger at some times than others. Through the summer 
months, when the young are under the mother’s care, and are 


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unable to defend themselves, this lack of scent is most appar- 
ent, and through the month of September and the early 
weeks of October it is a good dog that can successfully follow 
their blind and puzzling track, Later, the scent becomes 
stronger, and in the months of November and December it is 
comparatively an easy matter for the dog to follow them, 
though then the track is cold compared with that of other 
animals, 

_ We think the ’coon prefers to live in the vicinity of civiliza- 
tion rather than in a wholly wild country. Insparsely settled 
districts, in the large tracts of forests which we still have left, 
the *coon makes his home. His domicile may be a secure and 
cosy cave in some ledge on the hillside, but perhaps it is more 
likely to bein a hollow tree; and hele, when the storms of 
winter come, the whole family go, to sleep the lone sleep of 
winter; to sleep free from the cares and dangers of their little 
worl |, to sleep forgetful of invading foes, the battle with the 
dog or the stern race for life. The warm thaws of February 
awaken them, and in obedience to their mating instincts, they 
travel long distances on the snow, and it is claimed by some 
that they then perish in great numbers 1f the weather becomes 
suddenly and severely cold. This may be the most probable 
theory of accounting for their great scarcity in some years. 

Tn general, the coon has many means of self-defense and 
self-protection; he is sly in his travels, even in the night; neyer 
emits a noise of any kind that may disclose his whereabouts; 
his extremely puzzling track protects him at all times from 
random, untrained dogs; seldom visible in the daytime, he is 
Safe from all day hunters; and though formed more for 
strength than speed, by adopting many a cunning ruse he can 
run far before the fastest hound; he will jump from a tree 
into the very midst of hunters and dogs, and lead them all a 
long and wearisome chase, and sometimes escape them entirely, 
The dog can undoubtedly run much faster than the’coon in a 
fair race, but he is greatly retarded by being obliged to un- 
ravel as he goes the cold, almost scentless track, and thereby 
the latter has a great advantage. 

_ The young ’coons appear about the middle of April, from 
four to sixina family, and long afterward they are under 
the control and faithful guardianship of the mother. In the 
hunting season she is with them, and under her guidance they 
are oftentimes saved when the hounds are on their track. 
She carefully guards them in their tender, helpless age, de- 
veloping in them the instincts by which they are to live and 
protect themselves. Unless disturbed and broken up by an 
enemy, the little family vontinues together for a long time; 
through the summer, autumn and winter they occupy the 
same home, and by some it is claimed that they breed but 
ounce in two years, and that the flock is not separated until 
the young are fully grown, which is at about two years of age. 
If thisisso, and there are reasons for thinking it may be, 
then the coon is without doubt the most faithful parent ani- 
malwe have, for we know of no other which cares for and 
retains the society of its young solong, Unlike the female, 
the male *coon is an unsociable, unfatherly, ascetic old fellow; 
solitude and silence best suit him; he ranges far and alone. 
To tree two old males together, or one with a female or young 
ones is a thing of the 1nost rare occurrence. 

Their food in the spring and summer consists of frogs, fish 
alid nearly all kinds of animal life that exists in and around 
our streams; and in meadows, bogs and marshes their tracks 
are often seen; here they will dig for grubs, lizards, frogs and 
snails. They are fond of berries in their season, and in Sep- 
tember their track is often started in a blueberry or black 
berry patch, Black cherries they are exceedingly fond of, 
and they will go far to get a meal of this favorite food. The 
cornfield they sometimes visit early in the season when the 
young corn is sweet and tender; this they are fond of, 
atid when once the field has Leen discovered it is sure 
to receive repeated visits, until the farmer discovers 
“signs of ’coons in the corn,” and then there is great 
preparation among the boys for a ’coon hunt; the neighbors 
are invited to the soiree; the family dog, whose recommenda- 
tion is that ‘‘he’s great on woodchucks,” is draited into ser- 
vice, and under the brilliant harvest moon the hunt begins 
with the cornfield as an objective point. Jf the dog succeeds 
in surprising the flock he may secure a trophy, but most prob- 
ably the result will be a general stampede for the woods with 
the pursuers in the rear; the hunters urging on the dog, who 
is, through no fault of his own, as incompetent to follow the 
track as his macter. And so the hunt winds up with a shadow 
of disappointment; but stillit has afforded an hour's recrea- 
tion for the overworked farm boys. And gentlemen, as true 
spoitsmen, we should ever extend our sympathy and encour- 
agement toward the sports of the boys of the farm; their 
hunting days are few, their business hours are fromsun tosun, 
they are toilers, and are to be the bone and sinew, perchance 
the brain, of the future, to them is given little chance to train 
the eye and nerve to the glass ball or the flushed bird, their old- 
styled guns cannot compete with your improved breechload- 
ers, their dog must be watch dog, farm dog, and hunter all in 
one, You invade their hunting grounds, and as they toil they 
hear the crack of your gun, and know that the fine coney 
which they have watched and doted on for weeks is being ex- 
terminated by skilled hunters and unerring dogs, and if, as the 
only way to compete with you, they gather their game a little 
early in the season, or here and there set afew snares in the 
woods on their own land, in rendering judgment or criticism, 
let us remember that it is but human for them to enjoy their 
own sport in the own way, that we shoot twenty birds 
where they share one, that we have never been favored with 
a revelation disclosing’ which is che proper method of slaughter, 
and therefore in construing the law we should be liberal, and 
in applying it we should be charitable. ; 

The foo of the’coon during the pest part of the hunting 
season is the masb of our various nut bearing trees, chestnuts, 
beechnuts, acorns of the different kinds of oak, Sweet apples 
are eaten when they canbe found. They have the fondness 
ot the bear for everything sweet, and when captured young 
are easily tamed by feeding them on sweetmeats. They eat 
insects of various kinds; have been known to eat grasshoppers, 
but whether from necessity or choice we cannot say. But the 
food relied on for the purpose of preparing for winter is cer- 
tainly beechuuts, chestnuts and acorns, the two former kinds 
being preferred. In years when nuts are scarce the ’coons are 
never found to be as fat, and in the winter following such a 
season they are ofcen found, even on the coldest days, search~ 
ing through the snow for food, sometimes going even so far 
us to enter the barns and outbuildings of thefarmer. They 
are then piteous looking animals indeed, and one would hardly 
have the heart to destroy them. They are very fond of water, 
and on starting out in the evening they immediately go first 
for drink; in a dry season they often travel far to find it, One 
learned writer says that they always dip their food in water 
before eating it; but, though knowing them to be strong tee- 
totalers, we do not believe they go to that extreme. 

lf we are to hunt the ’coon in early September, we shall ex- 
pect to find him in the lowlands, along brooks, and about 
ponds, meadows and marshes; black cherry trees in bearing 
are sure to attract him, evenif he makes along journey to 
find them. Later, after the early frosts, we should traverse 
the highland forest. where nut trees are in bearing, preferring 
@ erowth with beech or chestnut or both intermingled, but 
still remembering that among the oak growth they are often 
started. And it is well in going from one point to auother to 
follow in the line of brooks and water courses as much as pos- 
sible, for these are the chosen highways of the ’coon. 

In our judgment cornfield shooting is the poorest kind of 
?eoon hunting; they seldom pay wiuch attention to the corn- 
field except very early, and then many are too young, and all 
are too poor in furandfleshto kill. | ; 4 

Tie hunter, when he starts with his friends for a night’s 
spot, should know where the game lives, where the streams 


are, what food is in season and where it is to be found; he | 


should move first in reference to the home of the ‘coon, next 
in reference to the nearest stream or watering place, and then 
he should thoroughly hunt over the ground on which he is 
most apt to feed. Of course, a strict adherence to any rule in 
hunting is not to be expected, but our object is to suggest the 
conclusion that success isin a great measure due to the hunter 


be written on ’coon dogs alone. 


but once an actual being, the pride of his master and the ter- 


those which can do the work, for 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


and his methods of procedure, 
The subject of dogs is an exhaustive one. A volume might 
Every hunter at some time or 


other has his ideal dog; perhaps at the present only a tradition, 


ror of the coon, The hunter never wearies of recounting in- 
cidents of the past; and as the old soldier of the “Deserted Vil- 
lage” “‘Shouldered his erntch andshowed how fields were won,” 
so have we been entertained on many a tramp by some old 
veteran of the woods with graphic descriptions of the exploits 
of the ‘old dog.” How many times have we heard when on a 
hunt and our own dogs were working well, the expression, 
“Oh, if 1 only had the old dog!” How the love of the master 
for the *‘old dog lingers! There is true affection between the 
hunter and his dumb companion. He may be poor, destitute, 
almost hungry, but you cannot buy his dog. Through the few 
years of the faithful creature's life they liveand hunt together, 
and then the new dog comes, but he is not the ‘told one;” 
there can neyer be another “old dog.” His memory is ever 
kept green; stories of his prowess are ever at hand ready to 
eclipse the achievements of any living dog that comes up for 
praise. And as each hunting season returns and again we 
gather for the chase, while waiting for a bark, stories aré in 
order; the veteran hunter leads and in imagination the ‘told 
dog” hunts again. Though his kennel stands empty, ‘!Yet 
back from the hill the yoice of the hound inthe morn echoes 
still.” When old Polonins in the play asks Hamlet what he 
reads, Hamlet answers, ‘“*Words, words, words.” 

And when we answer the question, what insures success in 
hunting ’coons, we should in the same spirit answer emphat- 
ically, dogs; not this breed or that in particular, but dogs; 
edigree is no essential part 
of a’coon dog. He may be, as Kdgar in “King Lear says, 


‘Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, 
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,” 


but if he is the successful dog his yalueis assured, Of all 
dumb animals we place the dog first, perhaps not the most 
useful, though. Baron Cuvier, one of the world’s greatest 
naturalists, says of him, “It is the most singular, the most 
complete, and the most useful conquest that man has made.” 

By his intelligence, his adoption of reasoning methods, his 
great courage, his wonderful gift of the power of scent, and 
his affectionate devotions to his master, has the dog deserved 
that praise which the song and story of every age and tongue 
have bestowed upon him. 

The good *coon dog must have nearly all of the best qualities 
of the dog family; he must have intelligence, courage, 
patience, endurance, and above all, the strongest powers of 
scenting four-footed game, rarely are alJl these elements de- 
veloped in the same dog, hence good ’coon dogs are rare, but 
when these characteristics do appear, then with proper train- 
ing one can have a first-class dog. 

Although a good ’coon dog may be found in nearly every 
breed and grade of the canine race, still in certain breeds there 
are conditions which lead us to have a preference, and for 
ourselves we certainly look first among the best blooded 
hounds, and if we find one fulfilling the essential conditions, 
he is surely the dog we want, for if not already trained, he 
can, with proper care, be taught to forsake all other game, 
and his strong hunting instincts be trained to bear upon no 
other living animal. He becomes most devoted to his master, 
is cool, patient and enduring, and when in the hunt he has no 
other purpose but to press on to the end of the track, Usually 
a great ranger, he saves you much travel by fndmg his own 
tracks. He is kind and affectionate with his friends, but when 
aroused by an enemy is brave and tenacious; but over and 
above all these, he is the very personification of scent, and is 
therefore, other things being equal, the best track deg in the 
world, A common type of ’coon dog is a cross of the hound 
with other breeds. We have known the spaniel, shepherd, 
mastiff, bull and mongrel, each crossed with hound, to pro- 
duce good ’coon dogs. The cross hound aiid spaniel is a dog 
of good scent, but is very nervous and not a hardy dog. The 
hound and shepherd is well spoken of by those who have used 
them. They have intelligence, good scent, are good rangers 
aud are yery hardy. The hound and bullis a combination of 
scent and courage which often makes a very successful dog; 
he is generally, as it is termed, a good sticker. 

The hound and mastiff produce a dog that is quite sure to 
be a’coon dog if trained; he will not have the best of scent 
unless it is taken strongly fromthe hound. He will be a still- 
runner, dnd an intelligent, brave and faithful hunter, The 
cross with the mongrel or the mongrel himself is of course an 
experiment; as arwe it doesnot pay to train one, but still 
there are decided exceptions, and a common, homely, friend- 
less cur, picked up in the streets, has been known to make a 
most successful and valuable ’coon dog. 

A number of years ago we hunted a few nights with a com- 
mon black and tan terrier, alittle !arger than the ordinary 
size; he had received little orno training, and had taken natu- 
rally to *coons. His scenting powers were remarkable, and 
we remember him as one of the best still-running dogs we 
ever saw. 

Hence we reach the same conclusion which we premised in 
beginning our remarks on dogs; the ’coon dog comes from the 
canine tace at large and is confined tono particular breed. 
Some coon dogs run still, thatis, do not bark on the track, 
barking only when the game or the treeis reached. There 
are advantages in this class; the coon, haying no notice that 
he is pursued, has not the chance to lead off to avoid the 
danger or to choose ledges, bad trees or water, as is often the 
case beforea barking dog. But our own theory has been 
that the stillrunning dogs are, asa rule, the weaker scented 
class, and hence not to be compared in value to the stronger- 
scented, track- barking dog. ' ; 

To this rule, if it be oue, there are some strong exceptions, 
for we have known the best blooded and best scented hounds, 
naturally track-barking dogs, to have adopted, seemingly as 
the result of reasoning process, the habit of stil-running, 
No matter how hot or how cold the trail when he finds it, not 
a bark escapes his throat, but with nose to the ground, the 
still-running dog glides like a shadow through the dark forest; 
as he draws on to his game his muscles grow tense, and he 
steals like a cat on his prey, then with a rush and a roar he is 
upon it; the great caution of animal succumbs to fear, the 
mother ’coon and her family are stampeded in an instant and 
forced to seek the nearest tree, beit large or small. In this 
way a whole flock is sometimes secured; but, notwithstand- 
ing, we prefer the music of the barking dog; he is a more en- 
tertainine animal, generally has better scent, and, as a rule, 
is more successful in the end. 


The retreat of an old coon before a barking dog is some- 
times a finely executed affair; it is planned deliberately and 
well; it is conducted so as to puzzle and throw off the dog if 
possible, over ledges, along stone walls and rail fences; now a 
tree is climbed and from the extremity of along hmb he 
junips to the ground again; he wades the brooks, takes to the 
swamps, then back to the hills and runs round and round 
some dry knoll, repeating his tactics over and over again; and 
it is on such a track as this that the best test of the dog is 
made; here is where the cross-breeds give up in despair, while 
the grand old hound perseveres and secures the prize. 

When we start on a’coon hunt we should equip ourselves 
with an axe, a pair of climbers, a .58-caliber revolver, a cord 
of 100 feet in length, a compass and a pair of pincers to pull 
hedgehog quills with, for the best trained degs will sometimes 


_ ———————e— 


Heb SS, and they must be at once extracted or the dog is’ 
nined, 


as ina dark night you cannot have too much light, If you 
have a good chmber in the party a gun is not actually needed, 
as your climber can climb the tree and with the reyolver shoo 
out the game; if while in the tree he wishes for a lantern or to 
reload his revolver, he communicates with those below by 


*coon till he kills him, for nothing wears a dog out more than 
with which to hold the ’coon down as soon as possible after he 


taking him off, finish the °ceon as quickly as possible. Another 


[Jonm 19, 1ge4, 


It would be well if every person in the party took a lantern, 


means of the long cord. Never perinit the dog to fight the 
this, but be ready with crotclhed stftks (good strong ones) 
strikes the ground; then let the dog have a srip or two, and 


thing, never leave a ‘coon in a tree atter your dog has suc- 
ceeded in getting him up, if itis possible to get him. Stay at 
the tree till morning, exhaust every device before you give 
him up, for nothing encourages a dog more than to know that 
you are willing to work as hard ashe does to get the game; 
be true to him; get his game for him and he will be all the 
more true to you; he will work harder on the track, and stay 
at the tree all night if you do not come before. 

Gentlemen, I have exhausted my time and your patience, 


though not my subject, and in conclusion permit meto say, 


though hunters, like other men, grow old, and in time a new 
generation appears in thefield, long may it be ere thea mantle 
of the prince of ’coon-hunters shall fall from your president; 
long may the afternoon sun shine bright as thesun of the 
morning. 


A PEN AND INK SKETCH. 


HE heat of summer came with that day, when the first gather- 
ing of the faithful met in this present June. 

Im the preceding week sharp frosts, bold and adyenturous, and far 
from their “base lines,” had dashed through the later days of May, 
and wrought hayoe and carried chill and disaster along the entire 
track. With noiseless speed, and without visible smoke or tell-tale 
smell of burning, this squadron of frost left in its path the shrivelled 
leaf and drooping vine and blighted blossom, like a sharp aud un- 
sightly scar of a sabre cut across the soft and fair cheek of youthful 
promise. 

But this day was warm, nay, was hot; and fright and discourage- 
ment gave place to good cheer and confidence again, in Lhe presence 
of this friendly force for good. 

It was to be a “regular monthly meeting,” and ‘business of import- 
ance” called on “every member to be present.” Not every one who is 
called, however, comes, and many are the excuses which stamp their 
wakers with ‘found wanting.” 

One distinguished member, whose absence is always advertise b 
the.greater quiet which the Joss of his voice establishes, doubtless will 
plead the enforeed altendance at court, and the impossibility of 
leaving his clientage to compromise and settle their cases, simply and 
satisfactorily, during hisabsence, to his great and uncompensated loss, 

Another—whose large and growing practice claims from him 
twenty-four hours of the two dozen which each day aftords—will 
argue as excuse, the suicidal course which attendance at the grounds 
would prove, in that possibly during those few grateful hours of re- 
lief anu freedom, some patients might secure sufficient strength to 
shake off his shackles (and him, too) in a return once more to health © 
and vigor, . 

‘A third—whose time is heavy with opportunity and leisure. and 
who really is old enough to know the value of first impressions—will 
claim that, insiead of coming to the house and magnificently carry- 
ing off honors as figure-head (whieh he inwardly knows to be right 
and his duty), he must remain near the sound of the calliopic sereech- 
secking mspication for a newly to-be-devised “smoke stack,” lest 
some “consolidated” competitor should secure a further “bulge” on 
him. 

And so the list might be extended. Doubtless some would have 
pleaded that insanest of all excuses, “that they had married a wife” 
(in our club, itis not to be denied, we have many degrees of intellec- 
tual capacity), for as were absent, 

One bright, cheerful face and ready, steady hand, we think of in 
particular, A man who passes his lime withwndersianding, and who 
shoe-d know what was fitting, sole-d himself and staid away, after 
promising his fellows faitnfully that he would make a corn-er for 


-these days. 


But the faithful were there. The day was hot, the sun oppressive. 
Wirh windows of shooting house thrcwn wide opeu and doors fat 
back, however, a kindly and refreshing breeze drew through the re- 
treat, already shaded and cooled by the protecting arms of friendly 
trees, And here came in, in careless and happy irregularity, one 
after another, the faithful few whose names are inscribed m letters 
of gold in that book which records the list of good men, who shoot 
all they can, and wish they could shoot more, 

With chairs tipped back, with the curl of fragrant blue smoke 
rising like the incense from an acolyte’s swinging urn, in happy, lazy 
wailing, the “‘mecting’’ did not come to order, but chatted and talked, 
or were silent and listened, as the mood swayed. 

We wondered if the absent had been ‘ttaken’’in the raid of Jack 
Frost, referred to at the beginning. We wondered who would ‘take 
the cake’ in the afterneon's shooting, and after such wonderme 
now and then two or three would step ont to the “firing point,” and 
the sharp crack of a full charge of black, or the finty snap of wood, 
powder, showed that the answer was uncertain, and that perhaps 4 
little prelimmary practice would not be harmful for any. Never 
mind who really made the highest score; they were all high and 
always are. Weshoot very wel) and we know it, and we do not care 
to say any more about this; but a sketch, a pen and ink suggestion, 
of the faithful perhaps might serve as helpful models to those of 
your younger readers who are attracted by, and “know a good thing 
when they see it,” : 

A thrush filled the air with his sweet song in the edge of the woods 
across the field, while near by, little finches hopped to and fro, im 
happy security, and in the nests hiaden in the grasses here and there, 
little open mouths waited a providing parent's return. A pair of 
nighthawks, the first we had noted, made their way far off across the 
sky, while nearer the earth and nearer to us the cry of a Wilson’s 
peewee joined the restful harmony. Bees droned, and a fitful Hy or 
two buzzed with monotonous hum—and ib was hot. . 

Of the faithful, who more faithful in every sense thun he who ig 
invesbed with the key and strong-box of the club? It bas often been 
claimed that much practice has made him so proficlent in arresting 
the flight of these swiltly-moviug targels of ours, but f think itis not 
allogether that. Teaching young ideas how to shoot for many years, 
and being called upon to stop the flight of soaring imagination in 
others, he has unconsciously acquired this power hini-elf, and he 
stands among us to-day with his trusty full-cheke ready for trap or 
field—facile princeps, Or, if the failing score of some hitherto suc- 
cessful shooter seems to indicate a loss of ‘grip’? or power, what 
helpful aid to asturdy and vigorous ¢ffort to retrieve Jost power, 
does he give us, when drawing trom his store of classic Imowledge 
he assures us that eyen in Virgil's time it was neted and said: “Facilzs 
est descensus Averni; sed revocare gradum. hic labor, hoc opus est!” 
And familiar with the note of every winged songeter of the forest, he 
will, if you will, deseribe and recount concerning them, wutilit stands 
as a bar between yourself and any cruel shot, which # less fatwiliar 
knowledge might have permitted. ‘ 

‘Another and a younger faithful one, m quest of a fullness of robust 
health, which nothing in his bronzed and healthy look indicates any 
lack of, sensibly takes the “outing” which an afternoon af the range 
affords, aud thus fits himself for closer application to duty durin 
the week. And as he tells of his winter in and along the coast o 
Tlorida, there seems to come in through the open window the smell 
of the orange blossom and geranium, and we almost look for the 
ugly snout of some wanderiog alligator tO turn the corner of the 
open door, , 5 ay, a 

IN tha faithful is he who modestly disclaims his title of military 
distinction, but who gives evidence of his prowess whenever he faces 
the trap, and who illustrates the slaughter which would follow his 
opportunity, by the relentless way in which he smashes glass and 
clay. Devoted to the successful dev; lopment of teeming field, and 
showing in well-filled barns and increasing herds, the: intelligent 
management of a well-ordered mind, he yet seeks the rejuvenating 
and healthful ee of aday’s sport, and actually grows young 

hile years accumulate. 

Mon auather we see the evidence of the good influences of such a 
companionship and season of sensible recreation, As the day comes 
round to the ‘weekly field day,” so is this one found, generally with= 
out fail. Office deskis closed, the bum of machinery witb its busy 
wheels and industrious cogs is leff behind. Tired head and weary 
body are refreshed, and each breath drawn jn the free outer air 
furnishes its stimulant and invigoration, as an increased bank 3c- 
count to check against during the week, d , : 

‘And yet others—this lime 4 young man! Winding in this we 
afternoon a sort of De Soto’s fountain, he drinks deeply ef ib ant 
seems tu be finding the secret of perpetual youth therein, And im this 
flush of youthful strength he illustrates its power, in ea, turi, g the 
“championship” when he attempts it (and also the good nature of 


confident ability in setae aE go when some cantankerous competitor 


seems to require it to make him happy). ‘ 
And gorher who handles ainmonds as we othersdo pebbles—whos _ 


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touch is as familiar to gold as is the touch of many to dirt—he is faith. 
ful, and will be to death, His “sweeps” turn to gold and his ‘pots 
to silver, and we believe his ‘carats’ are finer by reason of these days 


ith the chosen few. , ; 
Withers is another, who means well, but who is not quite so faithful; 
'tishe of the ready hand. He delights in the sport for sport's sake. 
but also for what it brings in its train. For is not powder eet 
‘and da not shot and shell play their part, and are not guns needful to 
the play? he will give you (for your money) what you need, and 
perhaps a little more, for the influence of these days is healthful and 
elevating, (May-it continue to be so!) ; 7 
Good-fellowship, common juterest, cheerful spirit and proper emu- 
lation mark these shooting days in “red letter.’ And we pity the 
tired professional man, merchant, manufacturer, capitalist or em- 
loyee who does not belong to a ‘‘shooting club,” and who cannot en- 
Soy all that such a yaembership makes possible. B. 


Camp Lire Hlickerings. 


—  —— 
“That reminds me.” 


116. 
6 hoes following is related by Vol, Elder, a courteous and 
entertaining officer of the regular army, stationed at 
Fortress Monroe: 

Dr. 8. prided himself upon his skill as a woodsman and 
rifle shot; but his merit in this regard was not recognized by 
an uncharitable world, One day he and Captain B, went 
out deer hunting. They separated, and soon the Captain 
heard his companion shoot. A moment later a terror-stricken 
calf rushed frantically by, and had scarcely disappeared in 
the bushes before the Doctor ran up and inquired if the Cap- 
tain had seen the deer, which he was sure was mortally 
wounded, pass that way. ‘Why, Doctor,” exclaimed the 
Captain, ‘“‘is il possible that you took that calf for a deer?” 

The Doctor's countenance lengthened; and then ‘‘a light 
on his visage spread,” and he replied: ‘‘l was not certain 
whether it wasa calf or a deer, and I therefore aimed so 
that I would hit if a deer, or miss it-if turned out Aw sn a 
calf,” nish 


117. 

Away down in Dorchester, New Brunswick, lives Deacon 
Willard Lawrence, who, outside of his piety, is as fond of 
his gun as the most inveterate sportsman. Yesterday (Sun- 
day, March 30) on his way home from prayers, a small boy 
rushed excitedly up to him and pointed out a flock of about 
twenty wild geese that had settled on the marsh near the 
shore of the Memramcook River. They were the first of the 
season, and the deacon’s blood bounded; but with a mental 
“Get thee behind me, Satan,” he resolutely went into the 
house and took up the family Bible. 4 

Failing to get interested, he took down his gun and looked 
at the loads. Three A in one barrel, No. 1 in the other. 
He would just go down and see if he would have had any 
chance to get at the geese had it been a week day. In his 
absent-mindedness he takes his gun along and goes to his 
side-wheel punt on the river bank, and sits looking fondly at 
the huge birds which are walking slowly toward him. The 
tide, which has a rise there of thirty feet, soon lifts his boat, 
and he lets her slowly drift up the stream. 

Suddenly three black ducks swim out of a cove and come 
toward him inaline. Habit is stronger than faith, and he 
blazes away instinctively, and in a trice the three birds are 
in the boat at bis feet. But the noise of the gun startled the 
seese on the marsh and they lazily raised and swung over 
into the river about forty rods away. Alas for the orthodox 
deacon; the hunter’s spirit is mighty within him, and seiz- 
ing the cranks of his paddle wheels he slowly but steadily 
turns toward the game, each revolution of the paddle wheels 
bringing him nearer his quarry. Three birds in range; 
bang—and itis done, and with the six birds the good man 
returned to his home. 

Tn relating at the next class meeting his temptation and 
fall from grace, among his experiences, notwithstanding his 
self-abasement and repentance, it was thought there was just 
a slight ring of satisfaction in his voice as he described the 
way in which those three geese tumbled over at one shot. 

ARBHEE. 


118. 


Tt used to be common in the good old by-gone times for 
the rustic farmer boys on the banks of Holsten, a beautiful 
stream in Southwest Virginia, to fish of spring nights, under 
pine torches, armed with cedar bows and small ‘‘gigs” on 
their arrows, which, by the way, they shot with the accuracy 
almost of an Indian, 

Pete Totten, a conglomerate mixture of Dutch and Irish, 
a little dried up fire-and-tow fellow, tallow-faced, with little 
patches of thin beard, yellow, stringy hair, towlinnen 
breeches and Gue yarn ‘‘gallis,”’ lived near a large family of 
boys, whom he ealled ‘‘Grimeses,”’ a set forever torturing 
Pete, yet this had « charm for him. 

Pete and the Grimeses were one night at their favorite 
sport of torch fishing, and as they approached a long sandy 
bar Pete says: ‘‘Er, er boys, look ont for eels.” Pete, who 
was barefooted, had his bow at a present and arrow fast on 
the string ready to shoot, and instead of a noisy stride he 
kept his left foot stuck out in front, quietly sliding it along 
in thesand, Presently Pete squared himself and said, ‘‘Er, 
er stop; gad, boys, here’s the biggest eel in the Holsten!” 
Pete took a long, steady pull on his bowstring and ‘‘chuck” 
went the cruel arrow. “O, lardy, lardy! heavens and 
yeth!” cried poor Pete, as he involuntarily cast his bow over 
his head and fell backward in the water, his foot lifted 
aboye, with the barbed arrow through his bleeding big toe. 
The Grimeses carried him to the bank, where they forcibly 
extracted the arrow with the aid of a barlow knife, Pete 
now and then saying, ‘Er, er, darn you Grimeses, you’d 
Jaugh to see me die.” GRAEME, 


. 1 1 9. 

Some tcn years ago, in a village not fifty miles from 
Brooklyn Bridge, there was considerable rivalry as to who 
brought in the finest strings of trout. Among the lot who 
were striving for supremacy was my friend Dan C. He 
could generally tell of bigger strings and bigger trout than 
the others. 

Dan went off trout fishing one day, and just outside of the 
village he espied a small Dutch boy, with a bean pole and a 
cord for a line, swishing a very large fish about in the creek, 
Dan saw that it was a trout of over three pounds weight. 
The boy told how he had got it stuck fast between two step- 
ping stones in the creek and had struck it on jhe head with 
his pole, and then tied if to his line to have some fun with 

it. It did not take Dan many minutes to catch that trout 
from the boy with a ten cent bait, and both went off happy. 
Ina few hours Dan returned, went into the grocery as cool 


as his excitement would allow, and tried to make it appear 
an-every-time-I-go-a-fishing occurrence to catch a trout, ‘The 
palm was at once awarded. to him, and the fish spread a 
eleam of truth to his sitting-on-a-barrel stories. 

After the boys had all seen it, he presented it to the most 
popular gentleman in the village, That night the boys were 
in full force in the back part of the grocery, and Dan was 
reciting to them how he hooked the fish, the rushes for lib- 
erty it made, how he worked it up and down stream, the 
narrow escapes he had of losing it around a big boulder, how 
it got under a bank and sulked, then of how he had to get 
into the creek up to his middle in water to keep clear of the 
brush, and finally how he Jed the prize to a little sandbank, 

ot behind it, and threw it out on the bank. He had just 
finished his glowing description when a big Dutch woman 
and a little boy came into the back part of the store, The 
boy walked up to Dan, pointed his finger, and said ‘‘Him.” 
The woman held ouf the ten cent bait, and addressed Dan: 
‘Mishter C——s, the pig vish my poy catch vas ash pig ash 
vorth two tollar,” and she demanded the fish back or two 
dollars, or she would make trouble for him for cheating her 
little boy, Dan forked out the two dollars. A. Mac. 


— Sea and River ishing. 


‘CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS, 


Black Lake, Michigan.—V1. 
MILE or two from where we saw the deer, a small 
cleared spot in the woods at the water's edge, and the 
tinkle of a little stream: running into the lake, invited us 
ashore to slake our thirst with the first *‘‘clear, cool, spring 
water” we had found since leaving camp. On getting out, 
we found this cleared patch of a few rods in area to be the 
site of the Hughes party’s camp of the previous year, recog- 

nizing it by his description of the littie stream. 

The source of this stream, as near as we could see, was a 
snarl of cedar roots a short distance back in the swamp, from 
under which it gurgled into a clear, shallow basin, of per- 
haps fifteen or twenty yards in circumlerence, and found its 
way through a tangle of bushes into the lake four or five 
rods away, 

In this basin Brother Hughes had told us he saw three or 
four small trout the year before, but a cautions and careful 
scrutiny of the little pool failed to show us even u sign of 
any kind of fish, and we concluded that the aforementioned 
trout must have been small barred perch that had escaped 
from their minnow box, the remains of which we had seen 
at the mouth of the brook. 

Reasoning from this tale of the small trout some months 
before, we had hoped to find somewhere around the lake 
stream or two in which might be found trout of larger 
growth, but after a careful look into every one flowing into 
il, within the next four days, we were convinced there was 
not one in which a respectable trout could procure an honest 
living, and we were forced to appease the craving of our 
“trout tooth” with fish of grosser fibre. 

Leaving the basin we strolled around the clearing, finding 
plenty of “‘sign” of a not very old camp. Here stood a 
couple of upright poles with a ridge-pole still in place; over 
there against a tree was an old settee in the rough, which 
showed considerable skill in workmanship, and near by were 
the marks where the tents had stood. If all other signs had 
been lacking of some one having been there before us, there, 
lying in the sand was the tell-tale old oyster can and fruit 
can, battered and weather-stained, its mission performed 
and cast aside to be trampled under foot or be kicked out of 
the way by the next comer, Broken bottles scattered around 
in some profusion, several with the Jabels still adhering to 
them, proclaimed that the last campers belonged not to the 
‘prohibition party,” as the legends on the bottles were mostly 
in the French and Kentuck} languages, with Kentucky 
slightly in the majority. As we walked back to the boat, 
Dick remarked in his dulcet mezzo soprano, ‘‘Must a’ had a 
revival round here from the looks o’ the bottles; don’t. won- 
der at ’em seein’ trout in that little pond.” 

Back out to the edge of the bar again we went to fishing in 
earnest, but we must have done sometbing that day to set 
the fish against us, for not a fin could we stir, nor could we 
see a fish of any kind anywhere on the broad expanse of the 
shallows inshore as far as our eyes could reach; however, 
we were enjoying ourselves this quiet lovely day like a col- 
ored brother in a ‘‘water million patch,” and we persuaded 
ourselves that we didn’t care much whether we took any fish 
or not, we were merely exploring and studying the waters. 

Dick lit a fresh pipe, and hitching himself a trifle to star- 
board in obedience to a nod to trim boat, summed up the 
measure of his content by saying, ‘Now, some fellers want 
1o catch a fish every five minutes, but I don’t. Of course, I 
like to catch one once in a while’ to keep my hand in, but ’m 
enjoyin’ this boat ride [I was at the oars] an’ the scenery so 
well that it’s perfectly imperial to me whether I catch a fish 
to-day or not.” 

Dick is clearly a philosopher. 

A mile or two further up the aspect of the shore changed, 
a low wooded hill pushing down to the water in place of the 
flat strip of bottom land and swanip we had been coasting 
along ever since leaving the place we had first landed. 

The bank along here for some distance, and out into the 
water for several yards, was lined with a layer of boulders, 
large and small, so evenly distributed that in places it looked 
like a wall built by the hand of a master mason. Here, and 
at the ledge at the head, are the only rocky formations to be 
found around the whole shore line of the lake. 

We had reeled up and left the outer bar and as we rowed 
along close in shore a little stream trickling down through 
the rocks said plainly to us. ‘Come in out of the hot sun, ye 
luckless fishermen, and cool your parched gullets with a cup 
of my crystal waters.” In response to this invitation we 
pulled the boat up on the rocks and pushing our way through 
a fringe of bushes at the top of the bank found ourselves 
unexpectedly 1n a small hay field, surrounded on three sides 
by woods. The hay had recently been mown and cocked 
but nowhere could we discover a sign of a habitation except 
a small dog tent afew rods back in the field in which we 
found the household furniture of the party who had, no 
doubt, harvested the hav. This was in the shape of an old 
blanket, a small box containing a knife, fork, tin cup and a 
piece of bread hard enough to break up into fiints, and just 
in frout were an old frying-pan and a little black coffee pot 
near the remains of a small fire, all of which had the appear- 
ance of not having been used for a week or more. 


* This is solely a matter of information for brother ‘‘P. D.,’’ nofun- 
ahi to eae asa whilom contributor to the pages of YorEsT AND 
TREAM.—K, 


But as we were not particularly interested in_ this solitary 
camper, we left the meager outfit undisturbed; Dick remark- 
ing reflectively that ‘from the general look o’ things, that 
feller must have been playin’ hoss, as he could see nothing 
to eat around there but hay.” Down in a corner of the 
field, near the top of the bank, we found a cool little spring, 
walled up with rocks and nearly bidden by overhanging 
bushes, which proved to be the fountainhead of the rivulet 
running into the lake near where we had left the boat. 

After drinking our fill at the spring, we combined a stroke 
of business with the pleasure of our ramble by adding a half 
dozen frogs to the bucket, which we caught along the 
marshy strip on either side of the spring branch; not that we 
had found any special use for frogs that day, but it is always 
well to provide against being caught short in the matter of 
bait should the fish form a combination against you and call 
for more than you can put up, Dick must haye had some- 
thing like this on his mind, his look ahead tor sport to come 
taking shape and yoice as he made a sudden dive into the 
marsh, exclaiming, as he came to a perpendicular with a 
handful of mud, grass and frog, ‘Let no speckled frog 
escape!” 

Back in the hoat again, we pulled out to the break of the 
bar and began fishing, but with all our arts and wiles we 
could not induce a fish to accept any of our most seductive 
lures aud promises of gentle handling. All our knowledge 
of the gentle art availed us nothing; our ‘‘science” was 
wasted on the desert air, and we made up our minds that 
the whims of fish are governed by no conditions of wind or 
weather when they take a notinn that they won’t bite; that 
their ways are peculiar and slippery—fish ways, so to speak, 
and past the understanding of man. Here were Dick and I, 
two old yeterans of the rod, with venerable streaks of silver 
running through our (self) respected locks, fishing from early 
morn till high noon over miles of as good looking water as 
ever a cast was made over, on a perfect day, with the wind 
just right according to all traditions and teachings, and not 
2 single, solitary sign or symptom of a nibble. We had 
thought we knew a thing or two about the habitsof bass and 
where to look for them, but to-day the results of a patient 
study of years, all the well-thumbed and fine-spun theories 
beloved of the craft were knocked higher’n a kite, and our 
smartness as bass fishers received a shock from which it took 
many days to recover, and it is a matter of serious doubt if 
we ever do get entirely over it; at least, it will be a long 


‘time before we hear the last of that day’s fishing from the 


boys. 

‘Lereafter, let no brother, overburdened with ‘‘hass smart- 
ness”—as we were—have the hardihood to®€ay to Dick and 
the writer that he can pick out a day and go out and catch 
as many bass as he may have a mind to; we'll none of it. 

We were now well up to the head of the lake and in plain 
sight of the bridge over Rainy River, and as the sun had 
tilted over the noon mark some distance, we decided to beach 
our boat somewhere near the mouth of the river and eat our 
lunch, The water seemed to get blacker us we neared the 
upper end of the lake, and all along here, as far out as the 
deep water, we found streaks of ‘‘musrat grass” and patches 
of scattering bulrushes growing up from the bottoin—but 
no fish. 

A solitary Mossback in a boat, coming from the direction 
of the Rocks, wus hailed as he passed by us, and asked if he 
could point out any particular locality where a few bass 
might be found by diligent search. Pausing a minute, he 
replied, ‘‘You’re right on the best bass water in the part o’ 
the lake—ketched any?” ‘‘Nary a one,” was answered. 
“Well, if you don’t ketch ’em round here, you won’t ketch 
none nowhere. I’ve ketched many a whopper round here 
in this grass” (bet that’s » whopper, whispered Dick), and 
the oars fell, and he was off in the direction of the hay field 
we had just left—the same ‘‘feller,” Dick guessed, *‘that 
had been playin’ hoss.” As no whoppers or any cther kind 
scemed to be hankering after frog, fly or spoon, we reeled _ 
up and went ashore near the mouth of the Rainy to rest, eat 
a cold dinner, and figure up how many fish we should haye 
taken since leaving camp. 

The water of this river is very dark colored, but from 
where we stood on the bridge we could see the bottom 
plainly for twenty or thirty yards above. The stream here 
is not wide, sixty or seventy feet perhaps, with a depth of 
six or eight feet of water and asluggish current that is 
hardly perceptible. Swimming aimlessly along the bottom 
here and there we saw several great lazy ‘“‘red horse” and 
suckers, but we looked in vain for sign of minnow or other 
small fry that we might turn to account for bait. 

A few days after this we made the acquaintance of a Jum- 
berman who had alogging camp and a gang of men a season 
or two before on Rainy Lake, and who had explored all the 
region around the headwaters of the Rainy and Little Black 
rivers. Rainy Lake, he said, was five or six miles long and 
in places a mile wide, and was simply a widening out of the 
river twenty-five or thirty miles from the mouth, The 
stream reaches back forty or fifty miles into a very wild 
region, where none but the red man, afew hardy lumber- 
men, or an adventurous hunter have ever kindled a camp- 
fire or broken the silence of the woods with crack of rifle. 

To reach the Jake by boat or canoe would, he said. be a 
work of great labor, as a series of sharp and turbulent rapids 
some miles further up would have to be surmounted, yet it 
might be done with much muscle, skill and perseverance, 
but the better way would be to haul a boat from Black Lake 
over a sort of blind road they had mace going in and com- 
ing out as supplies were needed for their camp. He said the 
region around and above Rainy Lake was a paradise for a 
fisherman or hunter, deer and bear being abundant, and the 
lake swarming with black bass that ‘‘bit” so eagerly that it 
was only the matter of a few hours’ labor to jerk out enough 
three, four and five pounders fo last them several days, and 
furnish a party like ours rare sport for a week. 

All this, and more of the same kind was told us one day 
under his little open shanty near the mouth of the Little 
Black (he was waiting for a run of logs coming down the 
river), where four or five of us had sought shelter during a 
two-hours hard rain storm, and as he was a man of intelli- 
vence, a good talker and seemed to be thoroughly posted 
about the region he spoke of, his tales of the woods and ad- 
ventures on the Upper Rainy and Little Black rivers were 
keenly relished by every one of his listeners, and I believe 
we were all sorry when the rain storm was over and we went 
back to plain pickerel fishing. 

Neighbor Merrill told us, too, that he had been on several 
hunts in the wilds above Rainy Lake, and the stories he told 
about the big game of the region drained by the Rainy and 
Little Black so worked up the old nimrod in two or three of 
us that it came near resulting in our discarding the rod for 
the rifle and striking a bee line for Rainy Lake to spend a 
week or ten days in the heart of these solitudes in serene con- 


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[Jcwe 10, 1884, 


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tent, where the smoke of the camp-fire is rare and the ‘‘re- 
sorter” goeth not. 

“Why,” said Merrill, ‘‘deer and hear are as plenty rp there 
as partridges are around here in huckleberry time an’ wolves 
too,” and to ine he said in serious earnest, ‘‘an’ mebhe you 
won't believe it, but there’s some elk left in them woods yet; 
yes, sir, elk, an’ if my old Winchester could talk she'd tell 
youso. Jest shoulder your 1ifle an’ blanket and come with 
me a week an’ I’ll prove it to you. We'll take Turk an’ the 
black dog, an’ if 1 don’t show you some great sport then you 
can call old Merrill a liar” Old Ben and I were sorely 
tempted to take him at his word and go. but it was the close 
season and game laws are not made to be broken and set at 
naught by henest sportsmen, so the trip was abandoned. ~ 

We are not going to take any great credit to ourselves, 
however, for not going, for the truth is, Ren and I stand 
convicted of a violation of the game Jaw of Michigan, in in- 
tent, if not by overt act, but if the fates don't take sides 
against us we may, at some time in the future, visit this wild 
region when the season is open, and Tam convinced that 
with Turk and his master we could have some rare sport 
with the rifie, and not be ashamed to look the district prose- 
cutor in the face should we chance on him on our return 
from the woods, 

But this digression has no doubt lost Dick and J a chance 
of taking a bass ortwo on our trip around the lake, so to 
quote Old Ben again, we'll ‘‘jest hie along.” 

KINGFISHER. 
[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


RANGELEY WATERS. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

The ice went out on the 11th of May. On the 18th the 
first visitor at the Mountain View (Mr, Littlefield. of Bos- 
ton,) captured a five-pounder from the wharf. For a few 
days following the strikes were few and far. between, but the 
week commencing May 25 was remarkable for the number 
and size of those brought to the landing net. 

Of the cuests at the Mountain View four hearts were made 
happy by bringing lhome a trout each, weighing respectively 
74, 8, 84 and 8 pounds 10 ounces, the Jatter being the largest 
taken to date, and captured by the gentleman above named, 
while the number of fish weighing from two pounds up tu 
five taken by the party was quite sufficient to satisfy the 
most ambitious disciple of Izaak Walton. 

The Big Lake wus almost as productive. Every fisher- 
man and guide gvent for a ‘‘masher” of course, but the wary 
old fish came not toall. Brandy Point and Bugle Cove were 
the objective points, and long and faithfully were the shores 
skirted. Rangeley streams yielded arich harvest to the 
seductive red ibis. Fish were taken there weighing as heavy 
as five pounds. It is a fact that the early spring fishing in 
Rangeley waters has been most excellent, and the fishermen 
have rarely had better sport. 

An unusual number of ladies have gone in this year with 
their husbands and brothers, and the refining influence of 
their presence and their keen enjoyment of the to them new 
revelation of woods camp life and lake wilderness have added 
a zest to the trip which always brings color to the cheek, 
elasticity to the step, and joy to the hearts of all who haye 
the good fortune to visit this charming section. W. M. 8. 

STAMFORD, June 12, 


SALMON CASTING IN ENGLAND. 


FLY-CASTING tournament will be held in Bngland, 
July 26, under the auspices of the Fishing Gazette. We 
take from that paper the following particulars and call atten- 
tion to the rules, especially to the conditions governing the 
third prize, where the line must not be recovered. We 
understand that this so-called ‘‘switch cast” is the same one 
used by Mr. Harry Prichard in the contests here, and called 
‘water cast,” ‘‘hoop snake,” etc. The Gazette says: 

“The forthcoming tournament promises to be of a more 
generally interesting character than ever. Mr. George M. 
Kelson has kindly undertaken the management and super- 
vision of the salmon anglers’ competition, for which two or 
three pretty little prizes are offerrd. Hitherto, the salmon 
casts were demonstrated from a platform. Upon the last 
occasion. owing to an adverse wind, its position was not a 
favorable one, but, indeed, so unfavorable, that the record, 
though really good in the estimation of those present, will 
probably be exceeded this year. It is a good cast in dead 
water to propel 87 or 88 yards of line overhand with an 18- 
foot salmon rod in this country. Anglers know that our 
English lines are made heayy to throw from the butt of the 
rod, and that the American produce, in comparison, may 
almost be called ‘blow lines,’ as they are very light, and 
are mannfactured to suit their rods, which play only in the 
upper joints. The consequence is that in a gale of wind the 
Americans ‘walk in,’ and we hear if reported, and see it in 
print, that some one or the other of them has thrown consid- 
erably over 40 yards. We can only conclude that this was 
with the wind. Mr. Kelson will decide upon the day whether 
this platform is to be shifted to more favorable quarters, or 
whether the casts are to he made from the bank. The prizes 
for this section are: Prize .—Gold egg-cup, with suitable 
inscliption, for the longest overhind salmon cast, to be made 
with any kind of rod, not exceeding 18 feet in length from 
the button. Piize Il,—A silver ege-cup (also inscribed), for 
the longes cast with a rod not exceeding 16 feet in length 
fram he batton, Prize 111.—A folding salmon landing net, 
for the longest switch cast, when 6 feet only will be allowed 
behind the competitor, who will be disqualified if any part 
of the rod or line should, while making the cast, extend 
beyond that limit, 

“Five minutes will be allowed for each competitor to make 
his cast. Hach competitor must have a treble and single gut 
trace attached to his line, the former not to be less than one 
yard in length, the latter not less than fourteen inchvs. 
Fech competitor to use one of the flies which will be pro- 
vided. 

“The Americans declare they can cast as far with a 16-foot 
rod as with one 18 feet in length, Mr. Kelson has amply 
provided for this rather remote contingency, Any com- 
petitor entering for prize No. 2 who shall make a longer 
cast than any one of those competiog for prize No. 1 shall 
be entitled to his choice of any one of these prizs in ex- 
change. There are slso miny gentlemen in this country un- 
accustomed to an 18-foot rod, who fi-h and commana the 
catches in their own districts with a small rod—they, too, 
will be favored by this rule; but we doubt whether any 16- 
foot rod can possibly win the ‘golden honors’ Long cast- 
ing has been a subject for much comment from time to time, 
and aswe know it is absolutely necessary for a salmon fisher- 
man to be able to manage a long line occasionally, so we are 
pl sed to have an opportunity of encouraging it. Mr, 


Kelson holds that if a fish is properly ‘hit,’ as he described 
in the Fishing Gazette of 8th March last. it is immaterial 
whether the strike is made at twenty or thirty yards—the 
result is the same, or, rather, it should be. There can be no 
shadow of doubt the nearer one gets to bis fish the better it 
is under control; but often salmon anglers are engaged in a 
good ‘up and-down mill’ sixty, seventy, or even a bundred 
yards off, and when their fish has been struck in the way 
advocated in Mr, Kelson’s articles, how rarely it is that the 
‘hold,’ even after an hour’s fight, has! een torn or enlarged. 
Why did Mr, Kelson suggest the Jate improvement in the 
patent lever winches? Why did Mr. Ridley devote years to 
his lines? Because salmon originally out of reach might he 
booked and, when hooked, could be mastered. We suggvst 
that competitors should loop their single to the treble gut. 
There will be a few spare 14-inch lengths of single 1eady 
with a fly attached to each, in case of accident; but, what- 
ever accident may happen to either rods or Imes, Rule No. 2 
must be strictly adhered to, Mr. George M. Kelson’s address 
is No, 18 Colville Mansions, W.” 


ROD-JOINTS AND REEL-SEATS. 
BY DR. JAMES A, HENSHALL. 


fee leaving the tentative and uncertain subject of the proper 
color of leaders for the more tenable one «f rod-joints, 
we step at once upon solid ground. But after the able ex- 
position and defense of the non-dowel joint by Messrs. 
Wells, Alden, ‘‘Esprit Fort” and others, there remains but 
little to be said by me, except in the way of corroboration. 

If there were wanting any proof of the practical superi- 
ority of the flush, cylindrical, non-dowell joint over the 
tapered, dowel and mortise joint, we would find it in the 
fact that so many anglers, having the mechanical skill to 
construct their own rods, have discarded the latter for the 
former style of joints, as evinced by their articles in Forrsr 
AND STREAM during the past few months. And, moreover, 
they all seem to have arrived at this determination and con- 
clusion independent of each other. Many of the most yal- 
uable improvements and inventions have been made in like 
manner, each one supposing himself to be the sole inventor. 

It is now twenty-five years since I made my first rod with 
flush joints, having at that time never séen or heard of a 
joint without dowels, and ever since I have been a firm be- 
liever in that style of joint. One of the specifications of 
the Henshall black bass rod is for flush, non-dowel joints, 
with short, cylindrical ferrules, and as so many of these 
rods have been sold during the past eight or nine years it 
has had a great tendency to introduce and popularize this 
form of joint, which is now also applied to many fly-rods to 
their great advantage. 

I have often thrown apart the doweled joints of the old 
style rods in casting witb both fly and bait rods, and have 
tad them break near the lower end of the female ferrule in 
cousequence of too deep a mortise at that point, but with 
the cylindrical non-dowel joint I have never had either acci- 
dent fo occur. 

There is one point which I believe has not been touched 
upon by any of your ecrrespondents; the principal cause of 
the throwing apart of the dowel-mortise joint. The ferrule, 
dowel snd mortise being made tapering, the male ferrule and 
its dowel acts asa wedge, and the continual springing of 
the rod in casting tends to loosen this wedge and to event- 
ually separate the joint, in the same way that we extract a 
nail by working it from side to side. This fact can be easily 
demonstrated by separating the tapered dowel joint by work- 
ing it back and forth in this manner, with the hands close 
to the ferrules; but it cannot be done with the flush, cylin- 
drical ferrule joint; to separate the latter it is necessary to 
pull or twist it apart, for no amount of springing it back and 
forth will loosen it, This fact. renders nugatory and super 
fluous all locking devices, s@rews, cleats and strings which 
have been proposed to secure the joint and prevent its sepa- 
ration in casting. 

Mr. ©. F, Orvis, who was the first manufacturer to make 
the Henshall rod, was also the first professional rod maker I 
found who agreed with me in regard to the faults of the 
dowel-mortise joint, and the superiority of the other. He 
discarded the tapered dowel joint thirty years ago, his great 
est objection to it being its tendency to throw apart, owing 
to the wedge-like action mentioned, and for that length of 
time he has used the simpler and better non-dowel joint. 

Ferrules should be short and cylindrical. It is not neces- 
sary for the female hutt ferrule to exceed two and a half 
inches in length, nor two inches fer the second joint. The 
male ferrules should be of a corresponding length, say one 
inch, which will give all the *‘hold” necessary, and allow for 
a small space between the ends of the rod picces when put 
together. The ferrule should be perfectly fitted to each 
other, in some such manner as that so ably described by Mr. 
Wells, Thelower end of the male ferrule, and the button 
of the female ferrule should be protected hy metal caps or 
disks soldered on, to exclude moisture, in split bamboo rods, 
Ferrules for wooden rods may be fixed in the same way, or 
the exposed ends of the rod pieces may be simply varnished. 
The ferrules should he fitted without cutting the wood, and 
a wrapping of silk put on at the ends for a finish. A good 
plan is to wrap ona guide or ring immediately below the 
female ferrules, so that the upper wrapping of the guide ex- 
tends to the ferrule, which thus serves a double purpose. 

Swell ferrules are uhnecessary, and are neither so good 
nor strong as cylindrical and uniform ones. The ends of 
the ferrules may, huwever, be swaged into a hexagon form 
in split bamboo rods, to give a more perfect fit, without any 
disadvantage in other ways. Fcrrules may be banded if the 
metal is very thin, which is apt to be the case wilh those 
drawn from German silver, which cannot be drawn so thick 
as brass. Ferrules should be affixed with sheliac or cement 
instead of using the metal piu, which has a tendency to 
weuken the rod, and renders the removal of the ferrule more 
difficult to the angler for the purpose of repair. 

The advantages of the nun-dowel joint muy be formulated 
as follows: 1. The ferrules being shorter, are consideralsly 
lighter. 2 The ferrulrs being shorter, stiffen the rod less 
at the joint and allow a more uniform bending of the rod. 
8. The ferrules being shorter, are more easily put together 
and taken apart. 4. The ferrule being cylindrical, will not 
throw apartin casting. 6. The ferrules being cylindrical 
and fitting more perfectly, will not become loose aud shaky 
by use. 6, There are no dowels to stick and bind after get- 
ting wet, 7 They are more easily repaired. 8. There is 
no mortise to weaken the rod. 9. lt obyiates the use of all 
locking devices. 10, The cost is less. ; 

Toe bist reel-seat is the old shallow groove cnt in the 
wood, with reel-bands, It is lighter than any other reel 
fastening, and subserves its purpose better than any of the 


SSS See 


modern inventions. Any reel can be made to fit it in a few 
moments. If it is too shallow for the cross-bar of a reel, it 
is only necéssary to deepen it with a gouge chisel or a pen- 
knife. If the reel fits too loosely, a piece of paper or card 
board placed undr the cross-bar, tightens it. With solid 
metal reel-seats there is no remeay but by altering the cross- 
bar of the rec], which sometimes cntails a ¢ood deal of labor 
and no little skill; and it may have to be altered a second or 
a third time to fit the metal reel-seats of othir rods. 

The solid metal reel-seat subserves no good purpose, and 
adds from two to four ounces to the weight of the rod. it 
is idle to say that the additional weight gives the rod 2 better 
balance—it should balance without it; or that the wood may 
swell (without it) and cause the reel to stick—if the groove 
is well varnished and the rod properiy used it will not swell. 
The fact is the metal reel-svat is put on to make the rod 
“sell.” It givesarod a nobby, flashy appearance which 
pleases some, but old anglers are not to be cuught with such 
chaff. If rod and reel-makers would conform to the stand- 
ard sizes reel-seats and cross-bars, as udopted by the National 
Rod and Reel Association, it would suve anglers a vast 
amount of trouble and vexation, Will they do 1? 

CynTHiaAna, Ky., June 10, 1884. 


[In my article on “The Color of Leaders,” in last weck’s 
paper, puge 387, middle column, sixth line from the bottom, 
for ‘‘with leader or snell” read ‘without leader or snell.”] 


THe Puenaciry or Quatm.—Toledo, Ohio—In am in- 
clined to the belicf that we have still a great deal to learn 
and to unlesrn about this beautiful bird. My friend Willis, 
of New Jersey, insisis that quail in confinement will not 
show the slightest disposition tc breed, owing to their jeal- 
ous and pugnacious disposition, unless the number in the 
inclosure is limited to a single pair. It is mot unusual, he 
says, in a state of nature fora male bird to pair with two 
females, but ihis condition of thing would causé serious 
trouble with caged birds. The knowledge that Willis does 
not possess about quail is hardly worth having, and J believe 
that in the main he is correct; but I have quite recently dis- 
covered a case where two male and one temale quail have 
been living together most amicably for over a year—a clear 
and unmistakable instance of polyandry. Not only do these 
male birds never fight, but singular to relate both males dur- 
ing all the spring have been paying the mostmarked attention 
to the female, and both have reccived ber favors impartially, 
The three birds were kept 1m alarge wire cage about seven feet 
square and proportionately high, and as they are in a room 
through which there is conslant travel, pay no especial at- 
tention to persons passing and repassing. The hen bas thus 
far shown no disposition to lay. Will this hen now mate 
with a third cock, an entire stranger, if removed toa dif- 
ferent cage and placed with him alone under more secluded 
surroundings? I cannot answer to-day, but perhaps I can 
later in the season, Her new mate, a very Tine specimen of 
Orlye virginianus, has been in confinement a year and a half, 
and is tamer than the average domestic fowl—H. H. 


A State Spnatror Naseep.—Manchester, N. H.. June 
12.—Inclosed find an item clipped from Manchester Union, 
which will show to some extent which way the wind blows 
regarding the game and fish restrictions in this State. L 
have heard it said many times that those “in the ring” 
always had what they wanted of either, early or Jaté, in or 
out of season. Black bass have been caught and offered for 
sale at the markets here, and the open season is not here yet, 
The item runs; ‘‘A gentleman in this city has just received 
the following information from Wolfeborough. Fish Com- 
missioner Hayes, while crossing Lake Winnipiseogee from 
Wolfeborough to the Weirs last Thursday morning on his 
way to Plymouth, to get trout fry to be distributed in the 
waters of the southern part of the State, discovered some- 
thing that looked to him suspicious, and so took a boat, went 
back to the object and captured a trawl] 723 feet long and 
equipped with 125 hooks, and three men, one of whom is 
a State Senator and a member of the Fish and Game Levgue 
of Narhua, who was old enough, big enough and ought to 
know beiter than to have been engaged in such illicit sport, 
The violation will be punished to the fullest extent of the 
Jaw. Much complaint has been made of illegal fishing on 
Winnipiseogee Lake. The spawning beds of the lake trout 
have been robbed, very much to the detriment of fishing in 
those waters. Hayes has fired the first gun and others will 
follow.”-—A, B. D. 


Saratrooa Laxe.—Saratoga, N, Y., June11.—I think very 
few people know what a good fisbing ground this little sheet 
of water is. Although it has been fished for more than three- 
quarters of a century, both by legitimate angling and net- 
ting, the fishing is still good. The famous Saratoga Lake 
black bass, the necessary part of a dinnér at ‘‘the lake,” are 
still plentiful, and are as game as any fish thatswims. I 
admit the sport of trout fishing, and am as devoted to it as 
any ene; but I maintain that a two or three-pound bass 
fights harder and Jonger than any trout, Up toa year or 
two ago it was the practice of parties living in the large 
towns seuth of here to come up at evening with a large 
seine and at night drag tie sand flats where the bass spawu, 
taking in some in+tunces several wagonloads of these fish. 
This has been partly stopped, but scining is still continued, 
and Jarge quantities are caught iu f) ke nets. If this lake 
could only be preserved as Greenwood Lake is, Tam sure 
that in a few years the fishing would be very fine, as it still 
holds its own, and is as good us it was twenty years ago, 
according to all accounts, Can you inform me in what way 
the careful preservation of Greenwood Lake was attained ?— 
Sararoea. [@reenwoeod’s protection has been by clubs of 
anglers, who have made it their business lo see thut the law 
is enforced. ] 


Passarc Rrver has been cursed with net fishers. The 
Passuic County Fish and Game Protective Association, of 
Paterson, sevt a warden, June 9, und arrested one Jos: ph 
Durevt, Jr, who runs a saloon on the island off Lincoln 
bridge. Durget was convicted of having diawn a vet and 
was fined $24.48. . His friends paid it for him, 


Convy IsLanD CREEK —The Coney Island Rod and Guo 
Club, of Brooklyn, announces that there is good fishing how 
in Coney Island Creek and Gravesend Bay. Prizes are to be 
awarded to the members catching the lergest striped bass in 
these waters during the months of June, July, August, Sep- 
tember and October; also for the largest weakfish. 


“WAWAYANDA” AND “TRUTHFUL James” will try their 
luck in Canada this summer, They have an clysium of 
perennial bass somewhere in the wuods up there, and will 
camp out. fen ie 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


409 


Rainzow Trovur.—Caledouia, N. Y., June 10,—Last 
Tuesday evening a gentleman from our village caught with 
the fly in the Oataka or Allen’s Creek, arainbow trout weigh- 
ing- four pounds ten ounces; it was a perfect fish in marking 
and colors and gaye him great sport. He says that it was 4 
full hour before he could land it. The fish was taken below 
adam about.4wo miles below the mouth of Caledonia Creek, 
the stream info which the rainbows were first placed on the 
Atlantie coast—JAmms Annoy, Jr. Wellsville, N. Y., 
June 9.—In the summer of 1880 California trout were first 
placed in the Genesee River in this vicinity. Last Friday 

a, California trout was caught at Shongo, eight miles up the 
tiyer from this place, which weighed three pounds seyen 
ounces, The fact is demonstrated that our foreign friends 
will attain a good size in these waters.—CLaRnNcn A, 
PakNuM, 


Winn Fisa.—New York.—Perhaps I can help ‘‘N.” out 
as to the wind fish of the Hackensack, Two summers ago, 
while spending afew days at Rock'and county, trying to 
fake some pickerel, | heard a good deal about this fish, but 
could not get one, Not long after my return home two were 
sent me. IthoughtIl knew them, for I had taken them 
in streams in Michigan while fishing for trout, and at my 
old home in Canada, I took the specimens to a friend in the 
FoREST AND STREAM office, who said I-was right in calling 
one of them a dace and the other achub. These two were 
pot over three or four ounces in weight, but I have seen 
them as large asa half pound, I understand that the reason 
they were called ‘‘wind fish’ was not because they “bit” 
besi when the wind blew, but because of their large air 
bladder, or as the boys called it, “wind bag.”—NIA@ARA. 


Bass At St, Cham Frars.—Detroit, Mich., June 14,—I 
am glad to note that our Canadian friends at St, Clair Plats 
have stopped, or at Jeast have endeavored to stop, the catch- 
ing of black bass off the spawning beds, in or near Johnson's 
channel, For years, many Detroiters and others on this 
side of the creek, have regularly in May and early June 
faken enormous numbers of black bass from Johnson’s 
éhannel. As the spawning season in those waters lasts until 
June 15 or even later, anglers should have had more 
thought, Within ten days seyeral Canadian sportsmen have 
taken the matter in hand, and have politely informed 
parties fishing there that their laws probibit the catching of 
black bass between May 1 and June 165, and their notifications 
haye been the means of saying myriads of eggs and small 
fry. Good for the Canadians.—DeELta. 


Nuw Jersey Sanr-Water Fisnine.—June 14,—Weak- 
fish have begun to run into the bays on the New Jersey 
coast, At Barnegat, fair fishing is reported. Sea bass are 
biting, and a number have been taken inside the inlet near 
the ‘old wreck.” Have heard of but few sheepshead boated 
as yet. Itis beginning to be the time for them to appear, 
No bluefish yet.—Homo, 


AnotHER Mosquito REPELLENT.—The ‘‘Angler’s com- 
fort,” manufactured by N. 8, Harlow, Bangor, Me., is 
highly spoken of by those who have used if in their cam- 
palgns against the insects of Maine, the Adirondacks and 
Canada. 


CynTHran, Ky., dune 10,—Black bass fishing has not 
been so good as usual in this section this spring, owing to 
high and cool water.—J. A. HENSHALL, 


Hishculture. 


SALT AS AN AGENT FOR THE DESTRUCTION 
OF THE FISH FUNGUS. 


BY PROF, H. J. RICE, 
[Read betore the American Visheultural Association.] 


freee are very few persons who haye ever had anything 
todo. with the artificial rearing of fish; especially if the 
rearing is carried on in comparatively quiet and warm water; 
or who haye ever had very much to do with fishin aquaria, 
but have been more or less exercised over the decorations and 
ravages of that very insidious and annoying vegetable para- 
site, commonly known as fish fungus, eae a it occurs, in- 
deed, on many other objects than eggs and fishes. Many 
mImeans have been employed for its destruction and innumer- 
able efforts made to dislodge it from the tanks where it had 
obtained a firm foothold, Asphalt, tar, salycilic acid, salt and 
yarious other simple or compound agents of destruction have 
been employed, and while each and all of them have been pro- 
nounced beneficial, yet most of them are difficult to apply, 
and after being applied much care is necessary in order that 
the agents shallnot be the means of doing that which they 
were cmmployed to prevent; that is, cause the death of the eggs 
or fish experimented with. Of allthe agents thus far em- 
ployed for the purpose of destroying this fungus, or saproleg- 
nad, common salt is, taking everything into consideration, 
probably the most useful, sinte itcan always be easily ob- 
tained and quickly manipulated. But it is always well to 
bear in mind that with whatever agent the work is carried 
on, the agent will perform its part only when associated with 
yigilanee, persistence and zeal on the part of the operator. 
aving had occasion during the past season to make certain 
experiments mm the direction of dislodging and exterminating 
this undesirable form of vegetation, which had secured too 
firm a hold in certain tanks and upon certain animals and 
fishes in the laboratory at Fulton Mariet, N. Y., I determined 
to try the effect of the continual use of a strong solution of 
salt, and to note carefully the results. The work was thus 
merely supplemental to what has already been done in this 
‘direction, and, so far as it goes, corroborative of such previous 
efforts. ‘The animals upon which I experimented personally 
were goldfish of the Japanese variety, black bass and speci- 
mens of Necturus lateralis, or the mud puppy. I also induced 
Mr. Geo, Ricardo, fish warden of Bergen county, N. J., to 
undertake some experiments as to the efficiency of salt in 
destroying the fungus which collects so plentifully upon the 
trays and bunches of eees in the smelt hatching operations, 
The experiments with the goldfish were begun during the 
month of January, and continued several months. The speci- 
mens operated upon were from alot brought over from Japan 
and China in December by Capt. Jones, of the steamer Oxford- 
shire, and placed immediately upon their arrival in tanks of 
running water at the stand of Commissioner E. G. Blackford 
in Fulton Market, Thefish had been yery severely handled 
during their ocean voyage, many of them having large num- 
bers of the scales knocked from their sides, evidently from 
being thrown against the sides of their vessel as the steamer 
struggled in the rolling waves. 

From this cause, and undoubtedly also trom the fact that 
the water into which they were placed was too cold for their 
warmth-loving constitution, they commenced to die, one by 

within a day or two of their landing on our shores, Those 
dly more ibaa still before the velvet- 
egnia spotted their bodies or fins, or, in ! 


one 
thak died first were ha 
like plush of the sapro 


some cases, literally enveloped them in a robe of white. Soon 
not only the dead but the living were similarly decorated and. 
it became evident very quickly that if something was not 
done the saprolegnia would, before long, claim them all its 
victims, although it is hardly more than justice, perhaps, to 
state that the fungus in all probability was in these cases, 
whatever it may be in other cases, a secondary rather than a 
pean cause of death, While death was thus making sad 

avoe inthe ranks of those of these beautiful fishes which 
were kept in the running Crotou water down-stairs, those 
which I had taken, very soon after their arrival, up-staiis into 
the laboratory and placed in a small aquarium of moderately 
warm water, were getting along very nicely and were not 
troubled at all with the fungus. I then requested that four or 
five of those specimens affected with the fungus should be 
taken from the tank and sent up to me to be treated with a 
salj bath, I prepared the bath by placing three or four hands- 
ful of coarse salt in a small quantity of water and then heated 
it over the fire until the salt was all dissolved. 

Cold water was then added until the whole was a tempera- 
ture of about 60 degrees, when the fish were taken very 
gently out and placed in their new location. At first the 
change was not apparently agreeable, as they darted about 
in a furious manner, but some became quiet and were taken 
out after an immersion of abont one minute and returned to 
fresh water, but not to the same from whence they had been 
taken, Inthe course of half an houroran hour the fungus began 
to loosen from the body in quite large patches, showing that 
the connection of the hyphea, or rootete, with the skin had 
been destroyed, and the next morning I picked out quite a 
large number of these discarded fungus flakes which the fish 
had thrown off into the waters during the night. Jn order to 
make sure that the hyphe should be entirely destroyed, and not 
leave relics from whence new crops might be generated, I gave 
each fish two additional baths of the strong salt water,and until 
they were moyed from their aquarium and injured at a later 
period I found no traces of fungus on any of them. IJtis true 
that in some of the cases experimented upon the salt water 
did not cure the fish, but the salt water certainly killed the 
fungus, and undoubtedly if the fishes had not been very much 
debilitated before the bath was given them, their lives might 
have ‘been prolonged as in the case of some of the others, The 
black bass which was experimented with was literally loaded 
with a fluffy plating of fungus when it was first placed in the 
bath. It acted much in the same manner as did the goldfish, 
except that from its size and strength it produced « much 
greater commotion in the water. It was left in the bath about 
ten minutes and then replaced in the tank from whence it 
had been taken. The next morning the entire surface of the 
body looked as if astrong card had passed over it and had raked 
the fungus out into long filaments and strings and streams, 
teady to be pulled off with scarcely an effort. Two days aftera 
second bath was administered, but while still more of the 
fungus was loosened, the parasite had evidently been too long 
at work, the hyphe had penetrated too deeply and drawn 
for too long a time upon the tissues of the fish for it to recover, 
and in two days more it ceased to move, 

The next animals to be experimented with were nine speci- 
mens of the mud puppy or Necturus lateralis. These had all 
been more or less injured abont the mouth with the hook in 
their capture, and two or three had their tails badly mutilated. 
Some of them were very much matted with the fungus when, 
they arrived, while others were only slightly attacked, They 
were all placed in the bath and the fungus was loosened or 
killed upon ali of them, but the salt water had the effect, in 
the cases of those severely injured, of aggravating the injury, 
and by increasing the rawness of the wounds, re eares the 
field for a new crop of the fungus, since the water was full of 
the saprolegnia spores, ready, and indeed anxious to continue 
the old condition of atfairs whenever opportunity offered. In 
such cases the new crop of fungus sprang up with a rankness 
and a yeiocity which was truly surprising, and if [had not 
known that the salt water would kill the fungus, I should 
have been inclined to think that in these cases salt water 
acted as a fertilizer for the hyphe. I am inclined, however, 
to think that the true condition of affairs was that the salt 
water killed a part of the hyphe, and at the same time ren- 
dered the wounded surfaces much more suitable localities 


than eyer they were before fcr the growth of the fungus, and | 


then when the animals were replaced in the fresh water, the 
spores, which were there in countless numbers, finding suitable 
territory in which to develop, took root, and together with 
the remnants of the old hyphee, grew with wonderful 
rapidity. At any rate I succeeded in destroying the fungus 
only on here animals which were not badly wounded, The 
rest died. 

Tn the spring of 1877, while eugaged in studying the embry- 
ology of the smelt at New Brunswick, N, J., under the a- 
spices of the Maryland Fish Commission, I found that one of 
the most serious drawbacks in the manipulation of the jars in 
which the eggs were placed was the collection and growth of 
the saprolegnia upon the trays and upon the eggs, especially 
whenever the eggs were much massed together, as they often 
were in clusters of the size of a lange walnut or larger, With 
the arrangements which we then had we could not try the 
effect of salt upon this growth of fungus, but in my report to 
the Commission I expressed my opinion in fayor of testing the 
salt-water bath, as soon as arrangements for its use could be 
made. 

An opportunity to test this method with the smelt eggs did 
not occur until this spring when in talking with Mr, Ricardo, 
who was engaged in manipulating smelt spawn upon the 
Hackensack, I suggested that he should try the effect of im- 
mersing the small eggs in strong salt water, particularly such 
of them as had any fungus attached tothem. The method 
emplo ed by Mr. Ricardo in ptimehire the smelt spawn, which 
is sniber to that employed by Mr. C. G. Atkins in Maine, some 
years ago, that is by taking blades of sedge or water grass and 
dipping them into the pans of milted spawn prevents to a great 
extent, if not entirely, the massing together of the eggs, since 
the rough surface of the blades allow only a single layer at 
most to adhere to the surface; the result is pretty even distri- 
bution of the eggs over the blades and not much chance for 
the attachment of the fungus except on the dead eggs and the 
dead portions of the grass. Still there always is a greater or 
Jess amount of fungus present, and yery much in proportion 
to the greater or less fow of water over the eggs, 

Acting upon my suggestion, Mr, Ricardo prepared some salt 
water, strong enough, as he said, “to bear up a potato,” and 
placed some of the egg-bearing grass bladesin it. He took 
those blades which had considerable fungus upon them, and 
after leaving the blades in the water for fifteen or twenty 
minutes, he took them out and found that the fungus had 
been killed so com letely that it could bestripped from off the 
eggs like a slough, leaving the eggs nearly, if not quite as clean 
as when first taken. From that time on until the eggs hatched 
out, which was, I believe, a period of about two weeks, he 
gave them a bath every day or every other day, and no more 
fungus apeaneds and only about five per cent. of the whole 
number failed to hatch. Hyery experiment which he tried 
seemed to show the advantage of the salt bath in the destruc- 
tion of the fungus, and that little or no harm resulted to the 
embryo fish. In order to test the effect of continued immer- 
sion upon the embryo, he placed some ova in the salt water 
and kept them there forforty-eight hours. At this time they 
were all in good condition, and it was not until they had been 
kept constantly Immersed for from sixty to seventy hours that 
the embryos were unfavorably affected. 

Short immersions seem to have very little effect upon either 
the embryo or the adult fish, and, while there isa point be- 
yond which we cannot safely zo in our experiments with 


either the one or the other, yet of the two the embryo seems 
to. he able to stand a longer immersion than the 5 SSPECi- 


ally than these species which are not anadromous. Short and 


moderately frequent immersions, then, will in all probability 
accomplish what is desired, so far as’ the destruction of the 
fungus is concerned. This, at least, seems to have been the 
case in my experiments, but it is much better, in every case 
where it is practicable to do so, to give this salt bath as soon 
as any fungus is discovered and before the hyphe have pene- 
trated yery deeply into the tissues, for it seems to be beyond 
question that the saproleynia is one of these parasites that 
causes tissue destruction, as I have seen in numerous in- 
stances the erate extension of the velvety carpeting of 
hyphee branches, from some minute wound on one side of the 
body of an animal, until the entire body was girdled, By 
taking the animal in hand early, and, in case there is no serious 
wound to be aggravated by the salt, by using a strong solu- 
tion and using it for a short time and often, it seems to me 
that salt ay be a valuable agent in the hands of those who 
wish to vid their aquaria or their hatcheries of whatis often 
an intolerable pest. And above all must it be borne in mind, 
that when water is used that comes from rivers and lakes, 
like the Croton water of New York city, no matter how elear 
of fungus they may get their tanks or aquaria, the spores are 
in the water, arid any wounds in the fishes or nae or dead 
matter which may ab any time afterward get into the water 
offer fertile fields for renewed growths, which can only be 
disposed of by a new resort to the salt wash, 


THE OHIO COMMISSION.—We have the eighth annual 
report of the Fish Commission of Ohio, It opens with an 
account of the first breeding of fish in America, by Dr. Garlick 
and Prof. Ackley. Sixty million whitefish eggs were in the 
hatcheries at Toledo and Sandusky at the time when the re- 

ort was written. Itis thought that the eegs of the black 

ass can be taken and hatched and better results obtained 
than when the fish are left to do their own spawning. The 
game question is touched upon and it is recommended that 
all duck shooting in the spring of the year should be stopped 
and also that no amendment to the game laws be acted upon 
until the same has been considered by, and reported to, the 
Fish Commission by the Wish and Game Committe. An ex- 
cellent showing of worl is made in the tables which give the 
numbers and places of the distribution of fry, in which, by 
the way, Uli hater ale is misealled ‘‘jack salmon.” Extracts 
from Henshall’s ‘Book of the Black Bass” are given to show 
that there are two species, but sad work is made of names and 
technical terms in. the nomenclature, due to careless proof 
reading. Prot. Charles Dury contributes an article on the 
late Fisheries Exhibition at London; and Mr, C, W. Smiley 
one on the earp, 


Answers to Correspondents. 


Ee No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


G. A, C., Canton, Mo.—Your gun is of English make, 
aa aa Elmira, New York.—The recipe was given in our issue of Feb, 
W. A. R,, Portland, Me.—We think that there was such an article, 
but are unable to find it. 


J, H.5.—Will you please inform me how to raise young crows? 
Ans. Feed them as you would chickens. 


W. A., Bay View, Wis.—1, Some people eat red-winged blackbirds. 
2. The use of the grease in gun wads is as. a Jubricant. 


G. L, O., Boston, Mass._1. The measure of shotgun bores is an 
arbitrary one. 2. For rifles see our advertising columns. 


Reaper, New York.—We advise you to take your gun (for polishing 
the stock) te a gunsmith. Haye written you at address given, 


YANKEE.—The name Manitoba is pronounced with the accent on 
ee syllable, Manito-ba, the final a haying the sound of a in 
ather. 


HK. F. F., New York,—Where can the most profitable hennery be seen 
nae this city? Ans. Ask some of the Washington Market poultry 

ealers. 

J.H. R., Pottsville-—Where is a good place for camping out in 
Pennsylvania? Ans. Go to the headwaters of the Sinnemahoning in 
Tioga county, Pa, 

I, 8S. W., Providence.—Is the book ‘‘Wing-Shooting (advertised in 
your book list, by “Chipmunk”’’) the same as published by T. G, Dayey, 
Ontario, which formerly sold at $1.00? Ans. Yes. 

R. F. B., Troy, N. ¥.—We can supply you with a copy of Babcock's 
compilation of the New York game laws, price, 25 cents. The law 
permits killing of song birds to be used as natural history specimens. 

E. H. K., Elmira, N. Y.—The charge of 3 drams powder,1 ounce 
shotis better adapted to the 12-gauge gun than to the 10-gauge. To 
determine which gun will give the better pattern and penetration 
with that load, try them, 


C. W.5., Hudson, N. Y.—l. The open season for wildfowl in this 
State is from Sept. 1 to May 1. 2. Song birds may be shot for natvral 
history purposes. Game birds may not be captured, saye in the open 
seasons prescribed by law. 

Mac, Harrisville, Mich.—Which English weekly paper gives the 
best English rifle news, scores and general rifle matters? Ans, 
Volunteer Service Gagette, 121 Fleet street, London. Subseription 
price about $5 we presume. 


J,M. E.—Your correspondent ‘'J. M, E.,*’ May 15, 1884, would prob- 
ably find the “Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United 
States,” etc., by D. 8, Jordan, Jansen, MeClurg & Co., publishers, 
price $2.25, of considerable utility.—W. H.S., 

H. L. C., Cleveland, O.,—The ‘‘Adirondack cottages for the cure of 
all pulmonary diseases” are at Saranac Lake. Write to Dr. H. L. 
Trudeau, at that place. We understand that the institution is en- 
dowed and the expenses of patients are light. 


W.C. M., New York.—I wish to use the star wads to save the 
trouble of crimping my shells, butithas been suggested to me that 
they would be likely to scratch the gun barrels, Lusea choke-bore, 
Will you kindly give me your opinion on the subject? Ans. They 
will not scratch the gun barrels, 

D. F. E., Bos!on, Mass.—We cannot tell you where you will find 
“good partridge and duck shooting with deer and good fishing, within 
260 miles of New York.” There are few favored spots where one can 
killalt sorts of gameatasingls shot, Wor ruffed grouse try the 
interior of Connecticut. Por dear, go to Maine or thé Adirondacks, 
For ducks, try the south side of Long Island. 


G. G., Worcester, Mass.—Where can I get a pocket map of Hancock 
and Washington counties? Ans. There is a Hancock county in each 
of these States: Ga., Ill, Ind.. Iowa, Ky., Me., Miss., Ohio, Tenn. 
and W. Va.; and a Washington Sees in Ala., Ark., D. C., Fla,, Ga., 
Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La.,Me., Md., Minn., Miss , Mo., 
Neb., N. ¥., N. C., Ohio, Or., Pa., R. L., 'Tenn., Texas, Utah, Vt., Va. 
and Wis. Which State or Territory do you refer to? 


W. G.—If my question is not prom pted by stupidity will you kindly 
answer whence are the terms No. 10 gauge, No. 12 gauge, etc., as ap- 
plied to the caliber of shotguns. Ans. The numbers were originally 
used to denote the size of the bore by stating the size of the ball 
adapted to it, and the ball was designated by the number required to 
makea pound, Thus, a 10-bore was a gun which would receivea 
leaden ball 10 of which would weigh one pound, or, as it was said, 
would run 10 to the pound, 


B. B,, Boston,—i, Where could I buy a first-class male donkey 
(for mule raising) and what would be about the cost? 2. Where are 
the principal mule farms in this country? Do you know of any in 
the neignborhood? 3, Would you consider the South Carolina coast 
a good place for mule raising? Ans, 1, Probably no jack suitable tor 
your purpose in this neighborhood. er, one would probably 
cost you anywhere from $600 to $1,000, rite to Grabam & Grannis, 
Poplar Plaius, Ky. 2. Principal mule farmsin Kentucky and Missouri. 
We know of none im this vicinity. 3. lt would be an experiment, 


AmaTiuR.—Wortendyke, N. J.—Yesterday, while taking a walk, 
I found two birds under a pear trae on their backs, One was dead, 
and the other, although its toes were turned up, seemed all right, 
There are no marks of shot on either, and I cannot account for their 
presvauon unless it was the result of a fight. I can find no oneabout 

ere remembers having ever seen a bird like it. I have the live bird 
and I mail you the other, Please iaform me what ibis. Can you offer 
any explanation of their position asT found them? Ans. The bird is 
ie eeder pune or cherry pie ¢ A manele CA awidely Bt ae 
and abunda: species, which breeds with us In summer also often 
Se the winter here, We cannot account for the nonition of the 
ir ae 


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The Zennel. 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 

Sept, —,Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Mr. P, ©. 
De Saque, Secretary. 

Oct. 5, 9,10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn, E. 8, Dayis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 

Oct. 14.—Non-sporting Bench Shew of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr, Charles Lincoln, 
Supermtendent. 


AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER. 

OY little monthly contemporary, the american Kennel Register, 

continues to meet with creat favor on all bands. The best evi- 
dence that it was needed is seen in the anxiety of breeders and own- 
ers to register their stock, The June number runs up the entries to 
between 1300 and 1400, and the pressure for entries is so great that 
this month's Regisieris again enlarged to twenty pages. The Register 
started fifteen months ago, as a twelve page paper, but for several 
months now it has been regularly printing sixteen and twenty pages, 
which is certainly a good deal for the merely nominal subscription 
price—one dullar. Itis a complete record of all events interesting 
to dog-owners and breeders. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr, Corneil’s reply to my criticism of the poimters at the 
New York show afforded me much pleasure and considerable 
merriment, Ll haye for months wished to havea little talk 
about pointers with the Westminster Kennel Club’s genial sec- 
retary, whose knowledge of the subject, though limited, may 
at least be said to be varied. Unfortunately, Mr. Cornell does 
not appear to have read my letter carefully. If he did, he 
must intentionally have misconstrued its meaning and my 
motives for writing it. I do not remember suggesting to 
pointer exhibitors the advisability of lashing themselves into 
a rage and forthwith proceeding, in a rambling style, to 
attack either me or my dogs. What I said was that I would 
be glad if any one could point to errors of judgment on my 
part, and [ added that “impartial” criticism of our pets is con- 
ducive toimprovement. My report was a careful criticism of 
dogs, not their owners. Mr. Cormell’s reply is an untrust- 
worthy advertisement, One part of his letter reminds me of 
an amusing little incident which occurred at the dog show 
recentty held under the auspices of his club. As I was bring- 
ing my first prize setter puppy out of the judging ring, some- 
body asked, ‘‘Who has wou?’ The reply was as follows: 
“Mason again, but we couldnt stop him.” No, could not pre- 
vent it, and cannot now make me lay my pen aside until jus- 
tice, cr some sense of fair play, is discernible at the combina- 
tions very appropriately termed ‘‘bench” shows. 

Cornell first states that in his opinion Meteor was far 
and away the best dog in the large champion class. Mr. Cor- 
nell had him out, and Mr. Cornell handled him. Good judge, 
Mr. Cornell—understands a pointer—onece advocated the 
claims of lemon and white pointers, after that favored the liver 
and whites, pow breeds them black and white. Once wrote 
would not own a pointer by Faust so long as Sensation wasin 
the stud—sound judgment. A great believer in variety; owns 
the blood of almost every pointer in the world, good and bad, 
and fancies that a conglomeration of the bad is the necessary 
ay out of which to compose that which is good. Well, 
after Mr. Cornell had had the dog out, he discovered that he 
had a bad head with no stop “below” the eyes, and little 
depth of skull, The snipy muzzle, the high set on ears, the 
badly-carried tail, the short back and the long legs Mr, Cor- 
nell failed to see. He simply concluded “his one important 
fault is that his head is not handsome.” Still he is the “type 
of dog” Mr. Cornell wants to see noticed at a “bench show,” 
as he is fit for bench and field. I should like to see ‘‘pointers” 
‘win prizes at ‘‘dog shows;” therein lies the difference. Now, 
if Meteor has little depth of skull, he has clearly no brain 
capacity and consequently no brains. How then, in thename 
of common sense, can he be fit either for field or show pur- 
poses? Perhaps Mr, Cornell or some other luminary of the law 
connected with his club, will explain this. Does Mr. Cornell 
still advocate the breeding of insipid, senselessooking, wishy 
washy animals? I thought he had changed his views when I 
noticed that he and his club were carrying out the advice I 
gave them twelve months ago, and were breeding to dogs out- 
side their kennel. 

There is another question I wish to ask of Mr. Cornell. The 
Westminster Kennel Club has for years advertised in the pub- 
lic stud a dog named Sensation, whose value is estimated at 
the reasonable sum of $12,000, I found Sensation to be Don, a 
dog which when in his prime was offered for sale by a breeder 
and a judge for £15 15s, (about #75). Irefused to take him at 
the price, as did every other man who has had experience 
with the breed. Finally he came to this country, and with 
ywaarvellous rapidity his value increased in proportion to the 
pufang administered, untilit reached the modest sum I have 
just quoted. He was never a show dog, and on one occasion 
I remember his winning seccnd prize ata little Saturday after- 
noon show held in Oswestry. The first prize, I believe, was 
worth ten shillings ($2.50), the second, five shillings (b1.25), and 
the third, half a crown (60 cents). Can Mr. Cornell deny that 
for years this dog was advertised and lauded to the skies as 
no other dog ever was? And what is the result of this to-day? 
Look round oue of our dog shows and see! J am not digress- 
ing, neither will I be driven by personalities or abuse from the 
question at issue. Is it not possible to misrepresent two dogs 
equally as weli as one? 1 thinkso. Is this not being done 
with Bang Bang? Time will tell. 

Tf Sensation is a good-looking pointer how can Meteor claim 
tobe a pointer at all? Jf Meteor isthe correct type honest men 
cau hold but one opinion, Nobody can deny that Sensation 
is a very long cast dog, short on the legs with a round barrel, 
whereas Meteor is leggy and short in the back with a head 
different from anything I have ever seen on a pointer, and 
altogether different from Sensaticn’s. JI think pointer 
breeders should know why Sensition was ever allowed to be 
nlaced in the stud as a pointer if Meteor is fit for bench and 
Feld. T ask the question in their behalf. Mr. Cornell will, 

erhaps, kmdly clear away the yeil from before our eyes. 
My argument is that neither Sensation nor Meteor is a show 
dog. Ey could I consider them such when Wagg, Beaufort, 
Bang, Faust, Bow, Don II,, Sancho, Graphic, Bang U., Rap, 
Belle, Luna; Prude Il., Bow Bells, etc., are or were pointers, 
and have been proved to be such, not by men_who never 
bred a good one in their lives, but by authority. If influence 
is allowed to alter the type of dogs ‘to suit various owners I 
say the sooner dog shows cease to be held the better. 4 

r. Corvell appears to have taken offense because I said 
that Bravo was the gentleman of the small-sized classes, and 
should accordingly have won the sweepstakes. I did not 
allude to Bang Bang, for I thought it pleased Mr. Cornell to 
win a prize under the judges appointed by himself, viz., Mr, 
Sterling, of pointer ‘‘fame,” Mr. Higgins, a breeder of setters, 
and Mr, Tracy, the W. K. °C. artist. I certainly did not 
attach much value to a prize won under such conditions, and 
erhaps I did not sufficiently appreciate the club’s honest en- 
ae to have the prizes awarded to the best dogs, I am 
now. told that Major Taylor was not asked to judge the 
ointers ou account of his having expressed the opinion that 
ravo is, as lsay he is, a much better dog than Bang Bang. 
In defense of my criticism 1 will now endeavor to show Mr. 
Cornell why L consider Brayo superior to Bang ane. Itis 
uite as easy forme to support my opinions by sensible argu- 


“ . r ~ 


ment as it is for Mr. Cornell to refute my statements by no 
argument at all, Mr. Cornell tells us that Bang Bang beats 
Bravo everywhere excepting in hocks, whereas I most emphat- 
auetly. dissent from such a statement, calculated as it is to do 
much harm. Mr. Cornell possibly intended to say that Brayo 
beats Bang Bang everywhere ae Bite in muzzle. If he did, 
he was right or very near to it. Bravo, as I have already 
written, is decidedly weak from eye to nose, and isa trifle 
round in barrel. is legs and feet are exceptionally good, he 
has anice clean neck, good quarters, and a well-placed and 
well-carried tail. Ifreely admit he is not quite the type of 
Hop like, but he was the best shown and should have won 
y- 

_ When Mr. Cornell tells us that Bang Bang is the most strik- 
ingly handsome pointer in America, we either refer back to 
Sensation, look into the glass to see if we are out of our swad- 
dling clothes, or imagine oursélyes to be spending the summer 
months at Babylon, Long Island, Bang Bang is very heavy in 
head, he has the shortest neck I have ever seen on a pointer, 
andis very throaty. Most large pointers when they get to be 
four or five years old grow throaty, but no excuse can be made 
for a small-size three-year-old dog 
ders, and though some people object to his back, Ilkeit. He 
has good forelegs, with plenty of bone for a little dog, and 
then you have finished with him. Besides the faults enumer- 
ated above, his feet are too large, he is faulty in the stifies and 
hocks, has no second thighs, and possesses a very coarse tail, 
which he carries @ /afoxhound. His nose and eyes are black 
(serious fault). ‘The Book of the Dog” says, ‘The nose must 
be large and moist, not black. A black nose is an especial 
blemish in a lemon and white dog.” In regard to the eyes, the 
Same authority says, ‘The color depends on the color of the 
dog, and are, therefore, either dark or light as the 
case may be.” Besides these faults, the existence of 
which nobody who has seen the dog can deny, there 
is something of far more importance to breeders, A little 
something, which, in my opinion, Mr, Cornell ought to have 
made public long ago. Especially so when he and his club as- 
sume to haye the welfare of the breed at heart. Bang Bang 
gets black and white puppies from almost every bitch bred to 
him, and J am told that the Westminster Kennel Club has ad- 
vised the lucky owners of such stock to put itinto a pail of 
water, ank keep only the lemon and white and liver and-white 
puppies. i will not at present bring into discussion the cor- 
rectness of Bang Bang’s pedigree, for I have a good deal of re- 
gard for the gentleman who bred him. But there is a screw 
loose somewhere, without doubt. My opinion is indorsed by 
a well-known English breeder of pointers, who writes me as 
follows: *“Bang Bang did win first prize, but the class was a 
wretchedly bad one. The opinion here isthat the American 
who paid £50 for him got his fingers well bitten. The dog 
has another fault besides those named by me.” Isit an honest 
endeavor to improve our pointers to recommend in the public 
stud such a dog, simply because he is a fairly good field dog 
and is owned by the Westminster Kennel Club? I think not. 

When I formed wy criticism of the pointers at the New 
York show I passed over my own dog, as I did not think it in 
good taste to express my opinion of him. I therefore simply 
referred your readers to my notes on the dog in these columns 
before I purchased him. Ido not now propose to adyertise 
Beaufort. ‘Those who have seen him know what he is; those 
who have not seen him are not very likely to be led away by 
beginners or indiyiduals known to be prejudiced against his 
owner. My opinion expressed in this paper twelye months 
ago that ‘America can boast of having bred Beaufort, who is 
in my opinion the best pointer living,” has been indorsed by 
every judge of pointers who has seen the dog, without one 
single exception. Mr, Cornell now considers Beaufort’s legs 
crooked fore and aft. Yes, Mr. Cornell, his hindlegs are 
crooked, and pity my ignorance if you like when I place upon 
record. a confession that I like to see a sporting dog with 
crooked hindlegs. Grand judge of pointers Mr. Cornell, 
teaches one so much in a short space of time and at such 
little expense. Does Mr. R. ©. Cornell expect any sensible 
person to believe that L-whe am a stanch advocate for 
good legs and feet, I, whoa time after time have urged 
breeders of sporting dogs in this country to give more at- 
tention to legs, feet and bone than they were doing, I, who 
never in my life have conferred honors upon cripples—I paid 
the longest price ever paid by an Englishman for a pointer, 
and the dog J purchased is crooked fore and aft? It is scarcely 
worth my while to refute such reckless statements, for those 
who have seen Beaufort are aware that he stands on about 
the grandest forelegs and feet ever seen. What shall we hear 
next, 1 wonder? Iam well aware that it causes Mr. Cornell 
a good deal of uneasiness to know that a member of the 
Westminster Kennel Club, and the best judge in the club, 
is breeding to Beaufort, and considers him the best-looking 
dog he has ever seen. It must be equally galling to Mr. Cor- 
nell to think that the club’s breaker, Mr, Luke White, is 
breeding to Beaufort, and that he has told me he has never 
seen a large pointer that could equalhim, Im the face of 
these ‘‘facts,” and seeing that the name of Beaufort’s owner 
is written with blood on the pages of the great account book 
at Babylon, is Mr. Cornell’s attack not ill-timed—a failure? 

If Mr, Cornell writes what he believes to be true of Beau- 
fort, he acknowledges his ignorance and utter inability to 
understand the first and most important attributes of the 
breed. He does more than this, he holds himself and his club 
up to ridicule, Ihave before me here on my desk a letter 
from a gentleman in which he states, and will swear to it, 
that Mr. Cornell and a friend desired to purchase Beaufort 
for $500 at the Washington show, fifteen months ago, What 
is more, they engaged a gentleman whose name is familiar to 
all breeders of pointers to assist them in getting the dog. Mr. 
Nixon refused to sell at the price and acted wisely, for such a 
dog would be a gift at the money, not only for show purposes 
alone, but for stud purposes. He is getting better stock than 
any pointer living to-day, and is the best sire I have eyer seen 
with the exception of old Bang. I am importing some bitches 
to cross with him and Lhope to be able to show Mr. Cornell 
that I can breed good-looking dogs ,and raise them if the W. 
EK. C. cannot. Itisa pity Mv. Cornell and his club did not 
succeed in purchasing Beaufort, for they would have been 
able to say that they owned a good-looking dog, the first they 
ever did own. As it is they must plod along, honestly en- 
deayoring to show us the importance of establishing a new 
type of “black and white dogs.” This may be successtully 
accomplished when they have the new dog association well in 
hand, and can over-ride kennel clubs and dog shows through- 
out the country. 


Mr. Donner must excuse me from entering into a discussion 
about dogs with him. Though his letter was such as one ex- 
pects to see from this ect ae and stood outin broad con- 
trast from that of Mr. Cornell, I really cannot argue with 
those who when in the capacity of judge have awarded the 
highest honors to cripples. I am perfectly sure that after 
ne Isaw on that memorable occasion when Mr, Donner 
judged the setters at New York, our ideas about the legs and 
feet of dogs are altogether at variance. y Mr. Donner 
now wishes us to understand that the legs and feet.of horses 
are similar in formation to those of dogs, I cannot tell. What 
a charming picture a horse would present with a set of legs 
and teet under him suchas are to be seen on Mr. Donner’s 
peau ideal of an English setter. 


Mr. Donner is a member of the W, K. C.. He wrote to 
strengthen Mr. Cornell’s letter and indorse Mr. Sterling’s deci- 
sions. He failed to do either one or the other, but he did 
indorse public opinion that Mr, Sterling is either a very par- 
tial man or knows nothing whatever about dogs, Let us be 
charitable and incline to the latter opinion, In attempt to 
show my criticism of his bitch to be incorrect, Mr. Donner 


writes: “She (Fan Fan, winner of second prize) has intoler- 
ably bad feet; in fact I think a rooster has hetter feet, at least 


He has fairly good shoul-- 


for the purpose of sitting on the fence.” What do breeders 
and exhibitors of sporting dogs think of a ‘‘judge” who awards 
prizes to animals with worse feet than a rooster? And what 
do they think of the chib that indorses him? 


CHARLES H, Mason. 
TOMPEINSVILLE, §, 1., June 14, 1854, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

_Just a few words on “‘A Breeder of Sporting Dogs’” eriti- 
cism_on color, There is a saying that “a good dog is never of 
a bad color.” Just so with Bang Bang. Mr, Corneil finds him 
the most strikingly handsome dog he eyer saw. Your corres- 
pondent thinks he should be disqualified because his nose is 
black, and refers to Stonehenge and Vero Shaw, But Stone- 
henge doesn’t support him unless in some yolume I have not 
at hand. In his ‘Dogs of the British Islands,” he says: ‘In 
color (value 5) there is little eHoice in point of fashion between 
the liver and lemon and white, after them come the black and 
whites,” etc. Nothing about black noses. Vero Shaw gives 
it as his personal opinion that a black nose should amount to 
a “disqualification,” yet he frankly admits that “authorities 
of position” differ from him, He allows nothing for color in 
his scale of points. Yet despite Vero Shaw’s views, fortified 
as they now are by your correspondent and Mr. J, H. Phelan, 
Bang Bang won first at the Crystal Palace (England), the only 
time ever shown abroad. He has been once shown herefor 
general competition, and then in yery bad condition, and 
though defeated for first place, the judge did not “disqualify” 
him. Only once besides has he been judged, and that in the 
contest for the sweepstakes when under Messrs, Sterling, Hig- 
gins and Tracy, he again wou, Isn't it just possible that your 
correspondent may exaggerate the importance of that black 
nose? 

Let me add that lemon and white bitches bred to him throw 
lemon and white or orange and white pups, and liver and 
white bitches, black and white and liver and white. I haye 
twice bred a liver and white bitch to him and shall do so 
again, and until I get advice of greater importance than that 
of your above-named correspondents, I don’t think I shall 
SCE Sune black and white ones, ELLIo? SMITH. 

NEW YORE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Under the heading of ‘‘Pointers at New York,” in your last 
issue, there appear such extraordinary comments, not to say 
criticisms, that I yenture to say a word to the *‘Breeder of 
Sporting Dogs,” who seems too modest (2) to sign his name, on 
the part of the apparently unfortunate and misgnided West- 
minster Kennel Club. , 

He expresses surprise at *‘Mr, Cornell’s remarks wherein he 
states that Beaufort’s legs are extremely bad, being crooked 
both fore and aft.” My natural inference is that he has never 
seen the dog, and his surprise is that the dog should have been 
so freely (I use the word adyisedly) advertised in the stud. 
As to the remark, ‘‘All large dogs are throaty,” would not 
this axiom (7) be better in heayy type at the head of your 
kennel page? 

I would like, while not wishing to go into any controversy, 
to say, in referring to Beaufort that, while not ignoring his 
very many good Pe from which I do not in the least wish 
to detract—and I do not know Mr. Mason personally—the 
dog’s fore feet are badly put on at the pasterns, making him 
pigeon-toed. His hindquarters and legs curve like the wish- 
bone of a Rhode Island turkey, His stern is, in ‘show condi- 
tion,” brought to the finest possible shape, but the bend in it 
cannot be eradicated once he is away fromthe handler, His 
body and head are particularly good, but to bear the criticism 
of judges at any show let us try and produce something that 
can go alone. 

When Mr, Cornell says he is “‘stilty” I think he is wrong, 
because stilts must at least be straight, and even the clown in 
the circus has never ventured on curved ones. 

As to Bang Bang, I prefer to let some one else criticise him, 
as I bought him for the W, K. C,, and as his chief fault seems 
to be an occasional black and white puppy in a litter I must 
confess that I did not know that that. color was so hope. 
unpardonable a fault. His mother, Princess Kate, was black 
and white, and a rare good one she was, His daughter Lingo 
succeeded in pulling off the puppy stakes at Shrewsbury this 
year, and perhaps a black and white one my yet make a 
mark here, as they have often done on the other side of the 
water. G. pb Forust GRANT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

Allow me a few words in reply to the letters about pointers 
abt the New York show, which appear to me to contain more 
personal allusions to myself than to the dogs under discussion. 
‘As ta the challenge made in one of these letters, I have to say, 
asl have before annouuced in the sporting press, that the 
Westminster Kennel Club would take no notice of these windy 
offers. 

We put our dogsin open competition at the bench shows 
and field trials, and get our records eas and above board. 
These gentlemen of the Knickerbocker Kennel Club with a 
wonderful unanimity hurl at us the dreadful accusation that 
Bang Bang throws black and white pups. So he does fre- 
quently, and remarkably handsome they are too, Two were 
very highly commended at the last show, and well deserved 
the bere they got. This does not indicate that the pups trace 
back toacoach dog, or whatever it was that Mr, Appold 
showed to be the progenitor of the illustrious stud dog of the 
Knickerbockers of New Jersey, Bang Bang’s dam _ is black 
and white, and the dog hasa legitimate mght to his dark 

oints. 
e This is what ‘‘Wildfowler” says in the Shooting Times of 
May 28 last: ‘Princess Kate, Bang Bang’s mother, we (‘Wild- 
fowler’) shot: over for a season, and a better bitch was very 
hard to find.” This is published with a fine picture of our 
dog, and a half column devoted to his achievements and 
pedigrees 

One word more and I hope not to bore you or your readers 
for many a week again. J. H. Phelan says, ‘Something must 
be done for bench shows. It is time that dogs, not owners 
were judged.” I have read those very words once before, and 
from another source, and I say that this is an outrageous as- 
sertion and a vile aspersion of our judges. ‘Why does not 
Bang Bang win prizes under some other judges than those ap- 

ointed by the W. K. C,?” I am asked, and I answer that he 
ee He won the first prize at the Crystal Palace, the only 
time shown in England, and you see what Mr. Munson says 
ot him at Cleveland, ‘“‘As a stud dog Bang Bang is a failure.” 
His daughter, Lingo, has just won in the field trials at 
Shrewsbury, and hisson, Master Bang Bang, has just won first 
in a class of twenty-seven heayy-weight “age eta at Antwerp, 
Mr, Lort judged the class, and the Live Stock Journal declares 
that “this was an exceedingly fine lot,” 

In this country the dog has scarcely had a chance to prove 
his merit as he has not yet been here a year, 

Rost. C, CORNELL, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your two last numbers I find letters from several gentle- 
men, all claiming to know as much or a little more about 
pointers than Mr. Sterling or anybody that does not see fit to 
agree with them that Beaufort is the best pointer in America, 
After reading so much fromthe pen of Mr. Mason and the 
many admirers of Beaufort, 1 had made up my mind to see 
the model pointer, but am sorry to say I was very much dis- 
appointed on seeing him atthe late New York show for the first 
time. I was told by a number who had seen him at Washing- 


‘on that he had changed very much, and that they were very 

occasion, Bae was am fat 

giving him ago 
that he was a 


much disappointed: in him on this 
for show or any other purpose er 
amination, I came to the conclusion 


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what I want for a pointer dog. _ ey ; 
Mr, Dorsey says: ‘‘ Have we been worshipping an idol so 
clumsily defective as this? Our ignorance has certainly been 
itiable, and kindly Mr. Cornell desires to remove the scales 
om our eyes.” I would adyise Mr. Dorsey, now as the scales 
have been removed, to keep them clear, andif ever he sees 
Meteor or Bang Bang to look them well over and try if he 
cannot see the difference between a.cart horse and a thorough- 


The gentleman who signs himself ‘‘A Breeder of Sporting 
Dogs” has seen fit to belittle Mr, Cornell’s judgment of the 
ointer by referring to Stonehenge and Vero Shaw, and has 

isplayed as much ignorance as any of the would-be judges. 
Hesays: “The first thing that struck me as I was examining 
him (Bang Bang] in his stall was his black eyes and black nose, 
Is this a charming attribute of a lemon and white pointer?” 
In order to take the scales from his eyes I will say, in the first 
place, that Bang Bang is not a lemon and white dog, but is a 
dark orange and white, and when wet has more black spots 
than any other on him; besides, he came from black stock on 
one side, as his dam was black and white, soit is not surpris- 
ing that he should have black on him or that he should get 
black and white pups; and, again, if he is not color blind and 
will go and look at him again, he will find that Bang Bang has 
about as handsome soft brown eyes as any dog he ever looked 
at, and if he only saw him as he lay in his stall, as he repre- 
sents, he had better look him over before going into print, as 
he had a blanket on about all the time in his stall, and no 
man can judge a dog under those cirewmstances. I am afraid 
that Mr. ‘‘Breeder of Sporting Dogs” has so much Beaufort in 
his eyes that it was all the pointer dog he could see. P 

Mr. Geo, L. Wilms’s bitter remarks to Mr, Cornell [ think 
are all unealled for when he says, “Mr. Cornell trys to belittle 
Knickerbocker and Beaufort and supports Mr. Sterling's most 
erroneous judging.” Itried to get a good look at Knicker- 
bocker, but was not allowed to take him out of his stall, and 
as he had a blanket on most of the time, could not see him 
only when in the ring, and liked him better than Beaufort, 
but think Mr, Sterling showed good judgement in giving the 
prize to Meteor over them, as they are both too clumsy and 
are not to be compared with Meteor any more than a cart 
horse to a thoroughbred. As Mr. Mason has explained all the 
faults of the dogs shown against him, I will not paint any 

‘ood or bad for any of them, but am inclined to think when 

r. Wilms says that Bang Bang has a short and throaty neck 
he leaves off judgment, as I defy him to show a cleaner neck 
and throat on a pointer, He alsosays ‘that hemust admit that 
his tail looked nice at the show, but when he saw him before, 
the abundance of coarse hair and the carriage of that appen- 
dage was most marked, besides does he think black nose and 
eyes the right color for a lemon and white dog?” Now, as to 
his tail, it was natural and had not been clipped or sand- 
papered as some of the famous or would-be famous pointei's I 
saw at the show were, and his neck had not, been soaked in 

anything to shrink it up as some I saw there, and when he 
went into the ring he was a natural dog without any faking. 
That I can swear to, asI took him there and no man in the 
club had seen him for three weeks or more until the show 
opened. 

I must agree with Mr. Cornell when he says Bang Bang is 
the best luoking pointer dog in America, I willsay to Mr. J. 
H. Phelan, ‘‘Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise,” 
and if he thinks Bang Bang is a failure as a stud dog and pro- 
duces bad pups, I will show a pup eight weeks old avainst any 
he can produce of Beaufort’s, the same age, fur any reasonable 

amount or a piece of plate as he prefers, and if the club will 
allow me I will make the race against Beaufort with Bang 
Bang for any amount I am able to raise, and as he says, ‘Mr. 
Orgill is one of the most successful exhibitors and breeders of 
this country, he might not want to decide,” I will name as a 
man to judge, one | think as capable as any in this or any 
other country, John Davidson. Ashe has never seen Bang 
Bang or Beaufort he will be as good a man as could be found, 
and one who will give the best doe the award, [ haveshowed 
under him a number of times and he neyer placed one of my 
dogs, yet I give him credit as being the best judge of a dog I 
have ever met, and should we be able to come together with 
the dogs I hope that such a man will be the judge so as to 
have it settled which is the best pointer. 

As Mr. Phelan thinks Mr. Orgill the most successful ex- 


_ hibitor in America, I will say that Mr. Davidson has given as 


many of his dogs prizes as any one that ever judged them, so 
I don’t see why he will not suit to judge such a race as this, If 
Mr. Phelan or any of the above think Beaufort is the besti 
pointer in the field, I will be pleased to name a number against 

im on one, two, or as many days as he or they wish to run, 
and I think Mr. Munson would be pleased to give thema chance 
at Meteor at any time. One question I would like to ask 
Messrs, Mason, Phelan and others, why they do not find fault 
with the judge who gave Mr, Mason’s mastiff first prize, when 
he ought to have sent him out of the show if they wish to 
make bench shows improve, and not keep harping on the 
pointers , as I fail to find but a very few who are dissatisfied 
with the awards given by Mr. Sterling. To Mr. Ingersoll’s 
question whether Mr. Mason had sent out any more of those 
protest letters, will say, to my surprise, about one week after 
the show, I received one, the same word for word, and was 
not pleased with it, If any of the friends of Beaufort wish to 
accept any of the above offers they can do so by applying to 

T, M. ALDRICH. 
Manon, R. I. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I believe Mr, Cornell is something of a yachtsman, and that 
may account for the expression he used in his letter when he 
said Beaufort’s legs are ‘‘not straight fore and aft.” Iam not 
a yachisman, and what is more to the point, perhaps, I never 
owned a pointer and am never likely to, but I would like to 
get hold of Mr. Cornell's meaning. Will he kindly explain? 

Ican understand a sheet being straightfore and aft, or a 
boom in the same position, but legs are more like masts, and 
Idon’t see wherein the application of the term applies to 


masts. Possibly it is my ignorance, but all the same I am | 


puzzled and I want to know. 

Tn view of Mr, Cornell’s explanation in your last week's 
paper, will he also kindly supplement that by stating which 
is the part of the dog's leg he refers to when he says Beanfort’s 
hocks are bent. There seems to be a wide divergence of 
opinion as to the hock of a dog. Does Mr. Cornell mean the 
bone from the hock joint to the foot? If so, how is it bent? 

PUZZLED. 

New Yore. 


Editor Porest and Stream: 

In your last issue appears a letter from Mr. John W. Mun- 
son, In which he claims the privilege of saying a word in favor 
of the pointers in his kennel only, but abuses this poles by 
slurring dogs bred by others. His reference to Beaufort [ am 
not called upon to notice. No doubt Mr. Mason will take care 
of that. Inreference tomy own, hesays: “I don’t think a 
pointer will ever be bred in America except by chance from 
the Glenmark and Girl and Icicle and Lily and similar mon- 
grel breed that will approach the true pointer type of Meteor 
and Bang Bang. Of course not. Mr. Munson’s vanity would 
not let him think that others can accomplish (except by 
chance) what he hopes to accomplish in the ‘‘day when it 
arrives,” and he firmly believes ‘the day will arrive,” and he 
is going to be “so proud.” Of what? ‘Winning prizes with 
dogs of his own breeding?” He admits the future holds out 
to him what we have accomplished long ago. For Mr. Mun- 
son's benefit I will state that the Glenmark—Girl progeny are 
field dogs, true to the pointer type and have been winning 
‘prizes all these years. This the height of hi As 


1 ‘ is ambition! 
© seems ignorant of these achievements, I will call his atten, 


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MR. GEORGE K. REED’S GORDON SETTER DOG * FLASH.” 


Winner of Champion Prize, New York, 1884. 


tion to this progeny that never yet ‘“‘chanced” to be any but 
true to pointer type. Of the first litter Knickerbocker won 
first at Boston and champion at Ottawa, New Haven, Wash- 
ington and Toronto, besides specials, Glenwood was he. and 
the following year won second prizeat New York. Snowflake 
won third prize and repeated it the next year at New York. 
Glendale was he. at New York and shortly after lost. Flirt, 
probably the best bitch of this litter, her owner has never 
shown, as also Jean, but who was represented by her son 
Craft (vhe. at New York) and daughter Lady Bang (first and 
special at New Haven). Of her last litter but one was raised, 
Lennox, who won second at New Haven, So you see, Mr. 
Munsen, that this Glenmark—Girl stock is leading where you 
hope to follow. : F 

There is another part of Mr, Munson’s letter to which I wish 
to call attention, and that is his allusion to Mr, Sterling’s being 
interested in the dogs he (Mr. Munson) exhibited at the late 
New York show. If there have been any reflections printed 
in the sporting papers on this subject it has escaped my obser- 
vation. As Mr. Munson has introduced this matter we would 
be pleased to hear further from him about it. 

R. T. GREENE. 


A PROTEST. 


Jurssy Crry, 

\ Hy, the undersigned exhibitors and breeders of pointers, 
request you to place on record in the pages of FoREST 

AND STREAM our disapproval of the awards of Mr. E. C. Ster 
ling, at the New York dog show, held in Madison Square 
Carden, May 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1884: ‘ 

Allerton, David, 160 Broadway, New York city. 

Amory, G. W., 196 Beacon street, Boston, Mass. 

Baltimore Kennel Club, Baltimore, Md, 

Bringham, L,F¥,, Jersey City, N. J. 

Clarkson, Wm. H., South Orange, N. J. 

Dorsey, T. B., Baltimore, Md. 

Dwyer, T. H., New York City, 

Greene, R. T., Jersey City, N. J. 

Halstead, A. H., Moncton, New Brunswick, Can. 

Heath, Charles, Newark, N. J- 

Hepsley, William, Jersey City, N. J. _ 

Knickerbocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N. J. 

Lamb, Richard, 59 Carmine street, New York city. 

Mason, Chas. H., Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N. Y, 

McNiel, Geo. W., Jersey City, N. J. 

Moller, Christopher, 149 Madison ayenue, New York city. 

Moller, Wm. H., Salem Center, N. Y. 

Mills, Mortimer, Jersey City, N. J. 

McCollom, Dr. A., 52 Bedford street, New York city. 

New Haven Kennel Club, New Haven, Conn. 

O’Malley, James, 10 Whitehall street, New York city, 

Phelan, J. H., 75 Clifton place, Jersey City, N, J 

Piercey, G. H., Jersey City, N. J. 

Porter, E 8., New Haven, Conn. 

Roach, Garrett, 1305 Fitth avenue, New York city. 

Rogers, Frank i, 610 ERCa AY, New York city. 

Rowan, Geo, W., Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

Steel, Wim, F., Piermont, N. Y, 

Thompson, J. H., Jr., Paterson, N. J. 

Towner, H. D., Nyack, N. Y. 

Tozier, H. B,, 405 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Trissler, Joseph R., Lancaster, Pa, 

Underhill, F §., Newark, N. J. 

Vandevort, R. T., Homewood avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Vrendenburgh, A. P., Bergen Point, N. J. 

Waite, G. W., Elizabeth, N. J. 

Wanstall, John, Washington, D. C. 

Wilbrath, Fred, 97 Maiden Lane, New York city. 

Williams, W. R., 21 Platt street, New York city. 
~ Wilson, Robert, Brandford, Conn. 


Of the fifty exhibitors or breeders applied to, forty indorsed 
the protest. Among those who declined, three replied that 
they werein sympathy with the movement but feared the 
judges would be instructed not to give them prizes at the next 
show if they indorsed it. Another replied that he had made 
itarule to abide by the judge’s decisions no matter ‘what 
style” of competition he wasin. Another could not indorseit 
because in his opinion the dogs were not judged by the party 
to whom it applies, but by a kennel club; whereas another 
considered it useless ‘‘seeing that nobody took the slightest 
notice of the awards,” For Protest Committee, 

CHAS. H. MAson. 


MINSTREL. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tn your issue of March 6 appeared, besides others, a deserip- 
tion of my imported Hnelish beagle dog Minstrel. As full 
particulars had not then been received from England, the 
breeding of Minstrel was not given. Now, for the informa- 
tion of your readers who ure interested in the bsagle, please 
publish the following from the London Shooting Times of 
May 16: ‘‘Mr, W. H. Ashburner has sold his imported black, 
white and tan beagle dog Minstrel to Mr. A, C. Kvueger, 
Wrightsville, Pa. This doz was sent by us to Mr. Ashburner, 
and we had chosen him with great care. He is certainly one 


of the best beagles we had ever seen, but he will not show 


: 


himself when on a chain or a leash; hence he was only very 
highly commended at alate American show.* But judged 
by points, we doubt if there is a better beagle In America, 

owever, we have been disappointed by the party from 
whom we secured him. He promised to give us his breeder's 
name (a Cornish gentleman), so that we could find out Minstrel’s 
pedigree, and then refused to do so on the ground that the 
gentleman objected to being referred to at all, or even to have 
his name mentioned in the matter, Under the circumstances 
we at once wrote to Mr. Ashburner, explaining the matter, 
and offering to supply him with another beagle if he so de- 
sired. As to Minstrel, we repeat it, we doubt very much if 
there be such a beagle in America, As to judging of the true 
worth of a dog siraply by the position he gets in a prize list, 
istubbish. When we say the dog isa good one, he is a good 
one, let the judges place him as they like, either through their 
ignorance or through the dog’s own fault in not showing him- 
self, but nothing can alter his intrinsic qualities,” 

In a letter to me, dated May 27, ‘‘Wildfowler” says: ‘‘Mins- 
trelis a very fine dog. * * * Tothe best of my belief Mins- 
trelis thoroughbred. He looks a beagle every inch of him.” 

The above should remove all doubts concerning Minstrel. 
“Wildfowler” knows a good dog. 

There is no apparent necessity for any further pedigree be- 
yond importation if the dog was selected by an able judge, 
and is really a good specimen of the breed, The well-known 
Rowett stock of beagles nearly all run back to imported Sam 
and Dolly and imported Warrior, and at that point all pedi- 
grees cease, A. C. KRUEGER. 

WRIGHTSVILLE, Pa,, June 12, 1884, 


* This is an error, as Minstrel only got commended at the show in 
question. 


THE CHICAGO DOG SHOW. 


ees second grand international bench show of dogs held at 
D Battery Armory, Chicago, Ill,, was a marked success. 
The quality of the dogs in many classes was a decided im- 
provement on that of last year. Setters and pointers were 
well represented. The show of deerhounds was remarkably 
good the Landseer and Clovernook Kennels made a grand 
display of these magnificent dogs. Irish water spaniels were 
a strong class, these dogs having worked themselves into 
ereat favor with the Western sportsmen. The arrangements, 
under the careful superintendency of Mr, Charles Lincoln, 
were all that could be desired, and the benching and feeding 
left nothing with which to find fault. Major Taylor judged 
setters and pointers, and Mr. James Mortimer all other classes. 
We must here call attention of owners to the fact that a dog 
to be well shown should be at least clean. Many of the dogs, 
and especially the setters, were in a filthy condition, and in 
more than one instance a deserving dog Jost his commended 
card through the neglect of his owner. 

In champion mastiifs, Hero I1., the only entry, was con- 
spicuous by his absence. In the open class for dogs and 
bitches, Nelson, a grand brindle, carried off the highest honors. 
He is a wonderfully good dog in front, with grand, massive 
skull, but is weak on back and hindquarters. Queen Bess was 
given second prize. She is a brindle of great size and bone, 
stands on the best of legs and feet, but isa little snipy in 
muzzle, a fault she inherits from her dam, Speiro, given c. 
Juno, vhe., has good skull and muzzle, but is undersized and 
stands badly on her forelegs. Speiro II., vhe., isof good size 
and shape, lacks bone, and is long in face, 

Champion Rough-coated St. Bernards.—Mr, E. R. Hearn’s 
magnificent dog Duke of Leeds was the only entry. He has 
much improved on his New York form, has put on consider- 
able flesh, and was in grand coat. In the open class for dogs 
or bitches, first prize was withheld and second awarded to 
Samson, a fair young dog, with nice head, but badly shown, 
being out of coat. Barrie, c, was a very ordinary specimen. 

Champion Smooth-coated St. Bernards,—Leila was the only 
entry. She is certainly the finest bitch ever seen in this coun 
try, of great size and substance, grand head and correctly 
marked. In the open class there were no entries. 

Newfoundlands were not a good class, with the exception of 
the first prize winner, he is of good size, fair head and good 
coat. 

Mm champion greyhounds, Major beat the Toronto winner; 
in neck, shoulder and stifles. Heis a speedy looking dog, but 
was not in his best form In the open class, Twilight was 
piven first. She isa very truly made bitch, wvith beautiful 

ead, and shows great quality, but shown soft, and lacked 
muscular deyelopment. Snowiflight, given second, is an im- 
mense dog, with a coarse, badly shaped head, but has wonder- 
fully developed haunches, splendid chest, back and loins, and 
the best of legs and feet. You Know, vhe., was out-classed in 
the above company, as was Prince, he., and Prince Albert, c. 

In champion deerhounds Roy beat Osear. Roy isa very 
typical dog, butis somewhat weak in loin. Osear is a very 
large dog, woolly in coat, short in neck, and straight in shoul- 
ders and stifles, The open class for dogs or bitches was a yery 
strong one. Mr. Van Hummiell, of the Landseer Kennel, 
showed six excellent dogs, all of which were good ones. The 
Cloyernook Kennel’s Mac, howeyer, could not be denied. Hae 
is a recent importation, is of great: size, truly made, and being 
a youngster will improve; he was given first prize, Douglass, 
given second, is one of the best made dogs we have seen, and 


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has the proper coat; he is only fourteen months old, and will | very nice little bitch, beating Judy. In the open class for | com., Thos, Chandler s Jumbo, black, white and tan, 2yrs., imported 


make a clinker. 


ter a little short of coat, 
of correct type, but rather small. Lord Ryno, he., is a fair 
dog badly shown, Olga, he., isa good sort of bitch, with 
capital head and coat. Cluthan, a four-months-old bitch 
puppy, although unnoticed, promises to grow into a first-rate 
one. 

Chanipion English Setter Dogsi—Paul Gladstone had no 
difficulty in disposing of Dime, the Toronto winter, who, 
although a good dog, carried too much limber to please the 
judge’s ey6, In extra champion bitches. Dido II., shown in 
splendid condition, had a walk over, her only competitor, 
Peep o’ Day, being withdrawn. In the open class for dogs, 
Stanton was placed first, Dictator second, Glen Rock he. The 
winner is a well-made dog with nice head, good shoulders and 
chest, legs and feeb, butis a bit on the small side. Dictator 
has a heavy skull, short neck, and a badly-carried tail. Count 
Blythe, unnoticed, might have get a place but for his dirty 
condition. Inthe corresponding class for bitches Blue Sparx 
was given first, closely pressed by Lucy Dean, a very good 
little bitea but too curly im cost, Daisy Pembroke was vhe 
Jeanette and Neenah, he., were badly shown, but are both 
good ones, particularly Jeanette. Blne Queen, Flirt and 
Countess Adele, were each given a commended card. In the 
puppy Class, Countess Lill v as placed first, and Forrester 
second. There was not much to choose between these, the 
winner being a little the bestin back and loin, but they are 
both good ones; King Noble, vhe., is a well grown puppy with 
a very plain head; West, he., and Judge Lincoln and Lady 
Pembroke IT. were fairly good ones. 

Gordon Setters,—Grouse was placed first and Dan second. 
In the puppy class three unnamed ones Were placed first, sec- 
ond, and vhe. 

Champion Irish Setters, Dogs.—Brush was the only entry; 
he shows a good deal of quality and is of good coat and color, 
is rather light in bone and carres a proud tail, In the opeu 
class for dogs, Almont, given first, we do not like; he is coarse 
almost to clumsiness, and has a bad head and badly placed 
ears. In the corresponding class for bitches. Queen, shown 
too fat, was placed first, Romaine second and Nell vhe.; we 
thought Nell showed more quality than Romaine, had better 
head and coat, but was suckling a litter of puppies and con- 
sequently not in her best form. In Irish setter puppies Me- 
gora, a worthy descendant of champion Elcho and Kose, was 
placed first and an unnamed one second, 

In champion pointer dogs. any weight, Fritz, very much 
improved since the New York show, rightly won over Joe, 
who is bad in head and straight in his stifles. Fritz is a ver 
smart dog, with good head and neck, shoulders well placed, 
ribs, back and loin good, first-rate legs and feet,is a trifle 
straight in his hocks, In extra champion pointers, under 
55lbs., Bravo. too well known to need description, was the 

only competitor. He afterward won the special prize for best 
ointer in the show, Fritz making a very close ight with him 
or the honors, Pointers, dogs. any weight, were not a good 
class, with the exception of Pilot, given first. He is a trifle 
heavy on the shoulder, and not quite so good in lcin as he 
might be, but easily beat Donald IL, given second, who is 
rather a weedy dog, stilty and straight in shoulder, and has a 
nasty light eye. The others do not need any descripton. In 
the corresponding class for bitches first prize was withheld 
and second given to Venus (which was as much as she was en- 
titled to. In the class for puppies, Fly, a three-months-old 
daughter of Bang and Spinaway, was on exhibition only. She 
is a very nice puppy aud gives promise of maturing into a 
first-rate one. The prizes were withheld in this class. 

Extra Champion Irish Water Spaniels.—Old Barney, with 
the exception of being a little too fat, was in great form. He 
has all the old vim in him, was in wonderfully good coat, and 
looks good for nine more years, He was given the prize over 
Mike, who was out of coat and does not wear his age so well 
as his kennel companion, In champion Irish water spaniels, 
Count Bendigo, after a close fight, won over Storm, who was 
shown too fat, and is rather too short in the leg and swayed a 
little in the back, In the open class for dogs, Sinbad II,, 
though in poor coat, won over Dandy, given second, The 
winner is best in head and ears, also in bone. Dick, vhe., is a 
fairly good dog, as is Mack, he., though the latter is very 
faded and rusty in coat. In the class for bitches, Queen, given 

_ first, quite outclassed her competitors. Irish Queen, placed 
opis is a typical bitch, but rather light in bone. Fly, vhc., 
has a poor head, and her ears are small and badly placed. 
Juda aud Lady Amphitrite were absent. 
Field Spaniels.—Horneli Growler had virtually a walk over, 


the other entries being poor specimens, and second prize was | 


withheld. {fm champion cocker spaniels Hornell Silk was the 
only entry, and was rightly entitled to the prize. In open 
dog class for cucker spaniels the prizes were withheld, In the 
corresponding bitch class, Venus, a nice little cocker with 
good head and coat, but a little high on leg and light in bone, 
was given first and Cute he. 

Beagles.—There was little to choose between first and sec- 
ond, Scioto, given first, beat Myrtle, second, in chest, loin and 
coat; Hummer, he., is a nice puppy; Howler, c., will grow 
too lat'ge. 

Dachshunie were a strong class. Julictte, by Unser Fritz 
(ex Waldine) was given first; she is rather too large, but is 
very good in head, ear and crook, and is very lengthy and 
close to the ground. Goethe, second, is another good one, not 
quite so typical as the winner, while Pluesher and Diana, vhe.. 
and Faust; he,, were each good ones and fully deserved their 
cards. 

Champion Fox-Terriers, Dozs.—Vakeel, the first prize winner 
at Olevel and, wrone!ly entered in the open class, had a walk over. 
Inthe champion bitch class, the beautiful Village Belle had 
no trouble in disposing of Gypsey, who is not so good in coat 
an‘ has a very fulleye. In the open class for dogs, Scarsdale 
was far ahead of his competitors. Dash IL, placed second, and 
Junibo, vhe., were fair dogs of no particular merit. In the 
class for bitches, Judy, given tsb, beat Clover Belle, second, 
who was out of coat, and has not improved since we last saw 
her. In the puppy class, Trojan, a new importation, was 
given first, He is a smart puppy, but a little on the small 
side, Clover Belle was vhe., and Spy, he. Vhe latter is a 
nice-headed puppy, but light ot bone and weedy looking. 

Robin Adair and Effie were the only entries in the respect- 
ive collie champion classes. In the open class for dogs Rob 
Roy, a very nice sable, with splendid coat and of good size, 
was placed first, over Sharp, second. Sharp has a heavy 
skull and badly carried tail, but has a profuse coat and is a 
nicely marked black and tan. The bitch class was poor; first 

rize was withheld and second given to Prep, a well-made 
bitch, but quite ont of coat. 

The bulldog class had only one entry, of the mongrel type, 
and the prize was withheld. ; 

Tn champion bull-terriers President was the only entry. | Tn 
the open class for dogs and bitches, Joker, given first, is 4 
very good one, as is Neil, given second. There were twenty- 
one entries in this class, but with the exception of the win- 
ners they were all of the usual fighting-dog description, with 
no pretensions to good looks. i 

Black and tan terriers had only one entry, our old friend 
Bessy from Toronto; she was iu splendid condition. In the 
class for Bedlington terriers, Blucher carried off the honors. 
Tynesider Il. was absent. Elswick Jock, a promising puppy, 
was given second and Atlantic he. Hard-haired Scotch ter- 
riers brought out Heather and Tam Glen, placed first and 

second. These are two good ones, hard to beat. Nellie," c., 
shows age. In Yorkshire terriers, there was only one fit to be 
shown, 2 nicely-coated dog, rather taded in color. 

In champion pug dogs. rs. Hill’s Joe was the only entry, 
In champion bitches, Mr. J. Englehart won with bo Peep, o 


Lady Dare, vhe., and Sheila, c., are litter | dogs, Pudgie, given first, is a trifle large, has good skull and 
sisters of Douglass, and are both fine, roomy bitches, the lat- wrinkle, proper mask and good coat, Sol 5 


Heather, vhe,, is a well-made dog, | is a goorl specimen, but coarse in coat, three unnamed pup- 


Zero—imported Bell. 

Fox-terriers, Bitthes.—ist, Martin Kelley’s Judy, white, black and 
tan, 10m10s., Bob—Redden’s bitch; 2d, Clovernook Kennel’s Clover 
Belle, a ee and tan, 10mos., Joker—Warren Wakeful. High 
enm., , E. Willard’s Vicker, imported, white, black and tan, i8mos. 
Viper—Nell. Com., John F Ryan's (V. 8.) Beauty, while, imported 
Jim—imported Gip. 

Fox-terriers, Puppies.—ist, Cloyernook Kennel's Trojan, white, 
black and tan, imported, Very high com., Cloyernook Kennel’s 
Clover Belle, while, black and tan, j0mos., Joker—Warren Wakeful. 
High com,, #. B. Lysons’s Spy, white and fan, 1imos., champion 
Rattler—Lily. Com,, Martin KeUley’s white, black and tan, 2\41mos., 
Trimmer—Vicker, , 
eed Champion Collies—Thomas H, Terry's Robin Adair (A.K.R, 

Champion Collies.—Thomas H Terry’s Pffie (A.K.R. 1221). 

Collies, Dogs.—ist, J. A. Long’s Rob Roy, golden sable, i2mos,, 
champion Champagne—Maude; #d, W, B, Lysons’s Sharp, black and 
fan, 3yrs,, Imported, 

“ peer Bitches,—_tst withheld; 2d, John Kidston’s Prep, black and 
an, : 

Bnildogs, Bitehes,—Prizes withheld. 

Champion Bu'l-Terriers.—ist, E. Sheffield Porter's President, white, 
byrs.. Randall—Minnie, 

Bull-Terriers.—ist, Charles KH. Weller’s Joker, white, 2yrs., Joker— 
Russ; 2d, Charles HE, Feller’s Nell, white, 2yrs., Victor Nell. 

Black and Tan Terriers over 7 Ibs.—ist, John F, Scholes’s Bessy, 
2yrs.,imported Nep—imported Ton. 

Bedlington Terriers.—ist, John F. Scholes’s Blucher, liver, 2¥syrs., 
Winon’s Teachon—J. A. Batty’s Jess; 2d, W. 5. Jackson’s Elswick 
Jock, dark blue, 9mos., Elswick Lad—Tyneside If. High com., John 
Massey’s Atlantic, blue black, 3ai0s., Elswiek’s Lad—Tyneside IT. 

Hard-Haired Scotch Terriers.—1st, John H. Naylor’s Heather, 
brindle, 26n10s.; 2d, John H, Naylor’s Tam Glen, dark brindle, 2imos, 
eee Mrs. Dr. W. H. D, Lewis’s Nellie, blue grey, tyts., Flick— 

ock. ‘ 

Yorkshire Terriers, Blne and Tan.—1st, Lake Shore Kennel’s Silver 
II ; imported; 2d, withheld. Gom,, Charles Schwein’s Lillie, 2yrs., 
sandy—hbitch by champion Dreadnought. 

Champion Pugs, og.—Mrs. Geo. H. Hill’s Joe, fawn, 4yrs,, cham- 
pion Comedy — Clytie. 

Champion Pugs, Bitch.—J. Englehart’s Bo-Peep, fawn, 2yrs, and 
9mos., Fritz—Minnie May. 

Pugs, Dogs.—ist, Joe R. Richards's Pudgie, fawn, 15mos., imported 
Joe; 2d, Mrs. CG. S. Gummings’s Uolonel, ight fawn, 2yrs, Very high 
com., Mrs. (. §. Cummings’s Puppy, 9mos., Colon-l—Darkey. High 
com., Mrs, C, 5. Cummings’s Jumbo, light fawn, 5mos., Colonel— 
Darkey. Com., Mrs. 0.5. Cummings’s Puppy, §mos., Colonel—Darkey. 

Pugs, Bitches.—1st. Mrs. C. 5, Cumniings’s Darkey, fawn,2 yrs.: 2d, 
Mrs. F. P. Fisk’s Flirt II., fawn. 8mos., Bogie—Flirt I. Very high 
pos Mrs. C.S. GCummings’s Flossy, hght fawn, 5m0s,, Oolenel— 

arkey. 

Toy Terriers, Dogs or Bitches, other than Yorkshire, under 7lbs.— 
ist, Miss Mamie Lucas’s Fifini, black and tan, 17mos., Cricket— 
Fidele; 2d, Minnie St, Clair’s Gypsey, black and tan terrier, 4yrs., 
Jack—Fanny. Very high com., Mrs. H. 8, Sheplar’s. Topsuy, black 
terrier, 3yrs. High com,, J. F. Dagley’s Blue Bell, blue and tan, 
7i4mos., Paddy—Naney. 

italian Greyhounds.—ist, Mrs. C, H. McCulloch’s Rigoletto, fawn, 
Syrs., imported; 2d, J. Wngelhart’s Gip, fawn and white, 20mos. 
Very high com., J. Wngelhart’s Pedro, fawn and white, 3yrs. 

Toy Spaniels.—Prizes withheld, 

Miscellaneous, or Foreign Class,—Kqual ist, The Rambler’s Pluto, 
imported Ulmer, brindle striped, 3}4yrs,, full pedigree; R. P, Palmer's 
Warp, Dandie Dinmont terrier, pepper and salt, 2l4yrs., imported 
Darkie—imported Nell; John F, Scholes's Wornett 1L, Enelish ter- 
rier, white, 24yrs., Hornett—Diamond. Hxtra ist, Mrs. P, J, Con- 
lisk’s Tot, English tan terrier, 2yrs., Turner’s J ohn—Kodger’s Ripple. 
Very high com., Tony Denier’s Tom brown, Dalmatian, 2)yrs., ‘Tom 


Hughes—Rugby. 
4 i SPECIAL PRIZES. 


Class A, Best Bt setter—Gen. W. S. Shattue’s Dido I, 

Class B,- Best collection of sporting dogs—T. Donozrhue. 

Olass C. Best brace of English setuers—T. Donoghue’s Blue Queen 
and Blue Spark. 

Glass D. Best hard-haired Scotch terrier—John WH. Naylor's 
Heather. 

Class E. Best pug in open class owned by a lady —Mts. 0,5. Cum- 
mings’s Colonel, 

Class F, Best English setter over 12 and under 20mos.—T. Donog- 
hue's Blue Spark. 

Glass G. Best Bedlington terrier—John F. Scholes’s Blucher. 

Class H. Best Italian greyhound—Mrs. ©, H. MeCullochs Rigo- 
letto. 
2 Class q Best Irish water spaniel in open class—J. H. Whitman's 
Sinbad LL. 

Class J.. Best Irish water spaniel—Excelsior Irish Water Spaniel 
Kennel’s Barney. 

Class K. Best pointer dog—The Norbury Kennel’s Brayo. 

Class L. Best pointer biten—W. A. Thompson's Venus, 


Colonel, given second, 


ies were respectively vhe., he. and ¢. Bogie was absent. 

nthe bitch class, Darkey was given first. She has a good 
skull, large eyes, good mask, has a loose tail and is rather 
large, Flirt IL, second, is smutty, but well-shaped. Flossy, 
vhe., a fiye month’s old puppy, is nicely marked and looks like 
growing into a good one, 

Toy terriers were good, the first. and second prize winners 
being diminutive black and tans. 

Italian greyhounds introduced three very good ones, Rigo- 
letto, given first, is a beautifwlly-shaped one, rather large; 
Gip, second, just beat Pedro, yhe., in condition. 

the prize was withheld in the toy spaniel class. 

The miscellaneous class brought out a collection of all 
breeds, from the gigantic Ulmer to the toy tan terrier. Three 
equal prizes were awarded to Pluto, an Oise hound, Wasp, 
a Dandie Dinmont terrier, and Hornet II., a white Bnglish 
terrier; Tot was awarded an extra prize and Tom Brown, a 
Dalmatian, was given vhe. Outside of these there was ave: 
nice collection of Blenheim and King Charles spaniels an 
Yorkshire terriers, all very good ones, which were unfortu- 
nately entered too late for competition. 

Following is a full list of the 


AWARDS. 

Champion Mastiffs.—Absent, 

Mastiffs,_1st, Bb. B. Bullwinkle’s Nelson, brindle, 4yrs,., and 2d, 
Queen Bess, brindle, lyr., Nelson—Speiro. Very high com., E. Shef- 
field Porter’s Juno, fawn, black points, 2yr's., Turco—Queen; B. B. 
Bullwinkle’s Speiro IL., lyr., Nelson—Speiro. Com., B. B, Bullwin- 
kle*s Speiro, fawn, dyrs. 

Champion Rough-Ooated St. Bernards.—E. R. Hearn’s Duke of 
Leeds, imported, rich orange, brindle, 2yrs., Mount Zion II1,.—Novice. 

Rough-Coated St. Bernards.—ist withheld; 2d, Clovernook Kemnel's 
Samson, tawny and white, 1émos., Monk I1.—Sheila. Com., W. N. 
eee tae Barrie, imported, dark orange, tawny, 2lmos., Bruno— 

inka. 

Champion Smooth-Coated St, Bernards.—H, R. Hearn’s Leila (8.K. 
C.S B. 18,912), imported, tawny brindle, 244yrs., Roland—Nellie. 

Newfoundlands.—lst, §. R. Jreland’s Pete, black, 2i4yrs,, Barney— 
Vic. ; 2d, Fritz Moritz’s Melac, black, 17mos. 

Champion Greyhounds.—Geo, 5, Parvin’s Major, mouse, 2yrs,, 
Prince—Gipsey. 

Greyhounds,—1ist and 2d, The Landseer Kennel’s Twilight, brindle 
and white, 4yrs., imported Quicksilver—Stratagem ; Suowflight, white, 
8yrs., Son of Misterton—Bonnie Lassie. Very high com.. (arl Young's 
You Know, fawn, 3yrs., sire and dam imported, High com., H. 
Schanze's Prince, fawn, 20mos. Com., Mrs. Fred. W. Wadera’s Prince 
eee fawn and Maltese, 17mos., Ciyde of Scotland—Queen of the 

ains. 

Champion Deerhounds.—Clovernook Kennel's Roy, brindle fawn, 
2yrs., Paddy—Lassie. j : 

Deerhounds.—ist, Clovernook Kennel’s Mac, brmdle fawn, 2yrs., 
Paddy—Lassie; 2d, The Landseer Kennel’s Douglass, fawny brindle, 
14mos., imported Oscar—Olga. Very high conj., The Landseer Ker- 
nel’s Lady Dare, grizzly gray, 14mos., imported Oscar—Olga; Clover- 
nook Kennel’s Heather, blue, 16mos., Clansman—Countess. High 
com., The Landseer Kennel’s Olga, tawny brindle. 4yrs., Bruce— 
Whitman’s imported bitch, and Lord Ryno, grizzly gray, 15mos., 
imported Luke—Lorna II, Com., L. M. Hamline’s Archie, light 
brindle, iJmos., Rowell—Lnfra; The Landseer Kennel’s Sheila, tawny 
brindle, 14mos., imported Oscar—Olza, 

Champion English Setters, Dozs—W, B. Gates’s Pinl Gladstone, 
black, white and tan, 2yrs., champion Gladstone—Lavalette. 

Extra Champion English Setters, Bitches. W.B. Shatiuc’s champion 
Dido II., black, white and tan, 344yrs., Druid—Star, 

‘English Setters, Dogs —1-t, P. it Bryson’s Stanton, white, black and 
tan, 2)rs., champion Gladstone—Frost; 2d, J. I, Case, Jr.’s, Dictator, 
black, white and tan, 2iéyrs., Rake—Phyllis. High com,, Dr. BE. L, 
Mayo’s Glen Rock, blue belton, 2yrs., Druid—Princess Draco. 

English Setters, Biteches.—ist, T. Donnoghue’s Blue Spark, blue 
belton, 17mos., Hornet—Daisy; 2d, International Kennel Club’s Lucy 
Dean, blue belton, 2léyrs., champion Pa is—Coomassie, Very high 
com., N. B. Cook’s Daisy Pembroke, black. white and tan, 2yrs., Pem- 
broke—Royal Gift. High com., Lake Shore Kennel’s Neenah. white, 
black and tan, 18mos., Harrison’s London—Dawn, and Jeannette, 
lemon and white, 18mos., Dick Laverack—Twilight. Com., J. H. 
Whitman’s Flirt, lemon and white, byrs., Druid—Milley; T. Donnog- 
hue’s, Blue Queen, black, white and tan, 4yrs., Druiu—Leda; Lake 
Shore Kennel’s Countess Adelle, white, black and tan, 3yrs,, Count 
Noble—Princess Belle. 

Buglish Setter Puppies.—ist, Jno. L, Barker's Countess Lill, blue 
belton, Jimos., Gladstone—Donna J.; 2d, Joseph K. Dyer’s Forrester, 
black and white ticked, 11mos., Gladstone—Countess Druid. Very 
high com., Jno. L. Barker’s King Noble, blue belton, 9mos, Count 


Fi E ip a. tS F —F R. Hearn’s Duke of Leeds. 
Noble—Rosalind. High com., A. M. Weinhardt’s West, black and ClassM. Best St, Bernard—E. R. Hearn’s | ete 
white, i0mos., Jack, tay Rattler. Com.. Mxs. F.§. blint’s Judge ete N. Best hard-haired Scotch terrier—John H, Naylor's 


Lincoln, black, white and tan, 4mos., Judge—Lady Pembroke. Com., 
S. 8, Brewer’s Lady Pembroke II., blue belton, dmos., Judge—Lady 
Pembroke. 

Gordon Setters.—ist, J. H. Umberhine’s Grouse, black and tan, 
3yrs , Dart—Fly; 2d, ®. Thomas, Jr.’s Dan, black and tan, 2yrs., Shot 
—Slave. 

Gordon Setter Puppies.—ist. E. Thomas Jr,’s ——— black and tan, 
3mos., Shot—Fannie; 2d, E, Thomas Jr.’s black and tan, dmos., 
Shot—Fannie. Very high com., E, Thomas, Jr.’s black and 
tan, 8mos., Shot—Fannie. 

Extra Champion Irish Setters, Dogs,—Absent, é 

Champion Insh Setters—Dogs.—ist, J. A. J. Sprague’s Brush, red, 
5yr's., champion Elcho—Champion Rose, 

Irish Setters, Dogs.—ist, E. Thomas, Jr.'s Almont, red, 2yrs., cham- 
pion Elebo—Lina, 

Irish Setters, Bitches.—ist, T. Donnoghue’s Queen, red, 4yrs., Tol- 
leston—Bridget; 2d, Ashmout Kennel’s Romaine, red, 2eyrs,, cham- 
pion Eleho—Rose. Very high com., Frank H, Tuttle’s Nell, red, 
Yévrs., Branch—Star. 

tish Setter Puppies.—ist, J. A. J, Sprague’s Megora, red, i0mos., 
champion Eleho—champion Rose; 2d, Frank H. Tuttle's , red, 
6mos , Mike—Nell. ‘ . i~? . 

Chamrpion Pointers, Any Weight, Dogs.—C. W-. Littlejohn’s' Fritz, 
lemon and white ticked, 3yrs., Beaufort—Spot. 

Extra Champion Pointers Under 55 Ibs., Dogs.—Norbury Kennel’s 
Bravo, lemon and white, 4yrs , Bragg—Kate. ‘ 

Pointers, Dogs, Any Weight.—C, W, Littlejobn’s Pilot, lemon and 
white, 8l4yrs., Scout—Dame; 2d, C. M, Munhall’s Donald II, liver, 
white and ticked, 20mos., champion Donald—Devonshire Lass. 

Pointers, Bitches, Any Weight.—ist, withheld; 2d, W. A. Thomp- 
gon’s Venus. lemon and white, 2yrs. 2mos,,-champion King Bow— 
Chess. 

Pointer Puppies.—Prizes withheld. : ; 

Bxira Champion Imsh Water Spaniels—Excelsior Irish Water 
Spaniel Kennel’s Barney, dark liver, 9yrs., Shamrovck—Shannon. | 

Obampion Irish Water Spaniels.—T, Donnoghue’s Count Bendigo, 
liyer, 44yrs., Bob—Bridget. ' : 

irish Water Spaniels, Dogs.—ist, J. H. Whitman’s Sinbad IT. (late 
Bob) liver, 6yrs,, Sinbad—Queen; 2d, Charles A. Boxer’s Dandy, liver, 
BYoyrs.. Daniy—Judy. Very high com., Richard W. Stafford’s Dick, 
liver, lyr., Dan—Irish Queen. High com., Excelsior Irish Water 
1/mos., jonnegnes 9 


Olass 0. Best pointer under 18mos—J, Donoghue's Croxteth’s 
Rival Queen. 

Glass P. Best five English setters—Lake Shore Kennel’s Countess 
Adelle, Neenah, Jeannette, Lady Lucy and Lady Juno. 

Class Q. Best bull-terrier—E. S. Porter’s President. 

Class k. Best fox-terrier puppy—Clovernook Kennel’s Trojan. 

Ciass 8. Best black and tan toy terrier owned by a lady—Miss 
Mamie Lucas's Fifini. : 

Glass T, Gest png owned by a lady—Iirs. George A. Hill's Joe. 

Glass U. Best brace of setters the get of Pembroke—L.ke Shore 
Kennel’s Lady Lucy and Lady Juno. . ; 

Qlass V. Best five Irish water spaniels—Hxcelsior Irish Water 
Spaniel Kenuel’s Barney, Mike, Storm, Mack and Fly. __ 

Glass W. Best five cocker spaniels—J. H. Whitman's Jimmy Croy, 
Uhung, Venus, Cute and Ohloe. 

Class X. Best five fox-terriers—The Cloyernook Kennel’s Scars- 
dale, Clover Belle, Trojan, Pricilla and Spite. 

Oluss ¥. Best kennel deerhountts—Dr. Van Hummell’s Oscar, Doug- 
las=, Lady Dare, Olga, Lord Ryno, Sheila and Cluthan. 

Class Z. Best collection of pugs—Mrs, C, S. Cummings. 

Glass AA, Bestkennel English settors—Lake Shore Kennel, 


THE BENCH SHOW ASSOCIATION. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

We have become convinced that the invitation to kennel 
clubs to meet the Westminster Kennel Chib von June 21 
and discuss the advisability of forming a general associa- 
tion, has not given those interested in the subject sufficient 
tire for consideration. We feel, too, that the question of 
whether tae association should be one of individuals or clubs 
should be fully discussed, On the whole, it seems best to 
postpone the meeting, and we have so advised the various 
elubs to whom our invitation was addressed. « 

Notice of the meeting will be sent you when the date has 
been fixed. Rover ©. CORNELL, Secretary, 


THE PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW, 


Spaniel Kennel’s Mack, dark liver, . 
Trish Water Spaniels, Bitches.—1st,, T. Donnoghue’s Queen, liver, 
3 


s., Shady—Lotiie; 24, Richard W, Stafford’s Trish Queen, liver, A LREADY the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Societ 
wayrs., Champion Barney—Cricket. Very high com., Excelsior Irish has begun the erection of the several buildings in whic 
Water Spaniel Kennel’s Fly, dark liver, lyr., Mike—Lady. will be exhibited the live stock entered for competition at the 


Field Spaniels.—Hornell Spaniel Club’s Hornell Growler, black, 
3yrs., Brag—Nell; 2d, withheld. ; ; 

Champion Cocker Spaniels, Dogs or Bitches,—Horuell Spaniel 
Cluv’s Hornell Silk, black, 22mos , Champion Obo—Chloe IT. 

Cocker Spaniels, Dogs.-—Prizes withheld. ‘ 

Cocker Spaniels, Bitches,—ist, J, H. Whitman’s Venus, liver and 
white. 3iéyrs , Carly—Nellie; 2d, withheld, High com,, J. H, Whit- 
man, Cute, liver and white, 5yrs., Deck—Nelly Bly, 

Beagles.—ist, F. T, Lane's Scioto, white, black and tan, Max— 
Fanny; 2d, Charles Schwein’s Myrtle, white, black and tan, dyrs. 
Raltler—Lula. High com,, F.T, Lane’s Hummer, white, black an 
tan, 54mos,, Sam I1,—Scioto. Com., F. T. Lane's Howler, white, 
black and tan. S44mos., Sam 11.—Scioto. A 

Dachshunde, — 1st and 2d, Geo. Poppert’s Juliette, red, 8yrs., Unser 
Fritz—Waldine; Goethe, red, 22mos., Pluesher—Juhette. Very high 
com.. Wm. Loeffier's Diana, black and tan, 6mos,, Waldmann Il.— 
Babette; Geo. Poppert’s Pluesher, red and white, 2yrs , Waldmann— 
Gretchen. High com., Geo, Poppert's Haust, red, 22mos., Pluesher— 

uliette. 

» Champion Fox-Terriers, Dogs.—F. B. Iysons’s Vakeel, black, white 
and taw, 2gyrs., champion Volo—champion Spiteful. ; 

Champion Frx-Terriers, Bitches.—Frank C, Wheeler's Village Belle 
(B.E.C.8.B. 12,427), white, black and tan, 234yrs., champion Volo— 


State Fair, which hereafter will take place yearly m our city, 
The department to be devoted to dogs will be commodious and 
well ventilated, and within the grounds—thirty acres inextent 
—excellent opportunity will be given tor exercising all animals 
displayed. Both the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Readmg 
Railroad companies are laying their tracks directly into the 
inclosure, which will be the greatest convenience to both vis- 
itors to the beuch show and owners wishing to ship their ani- 
mails, 

The question of the appointing of judges for the dog show 
has been brought before a meeting of the Kennel Club and it 
is the intention of the organization to be careful in theirselec- 
tion. At this early date quite a long list of special prizes has 
been promised, and it is confidently expected that many more 
will be secured. Theregular prize list equals thatof any of 
fike bench shows yok held, but the puppy classes have been 
in ev instance dropped, a wise decision, it is said, for it 
has been often remarked of late that-every youngster sent to 
a dog show should be accompanied with crape on his collar, 
especially if the animal has not passed through a distemper 


ah ion Beauty. : ions pea 

ce Fog Tebnete, Dogs. —ist Cpoveriecte peahe le pomsral whiten aoes of five pee e He vai a Sa paver | Be orgies year 
ra 4,6 De Wee Jt = ", ne eit ~ tale Lh b Ton Te ” Pang D 7 =— 

Taek and tas’ 1en0s., sported Hagiciepered eae Very high when they are competing in the tists At the coming 


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show of the ebledelptin Kennel Club very rood opportunities 
will present themselves to exhibitors wishing to dispose of 
field dogs, as the time will be so short before the shootin 
season opens, when setters and pointers will be in demand, 
‘and well-bred noi-sporting dogs, especially collies, will be in- 
quired for by the farmer visitor to the State Fair. Homo. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


6 ‘N° DOGS,” murmured diseontentedly the multitudes on 

: Bpsom Downs last weck-: assembled to witness the 
olassic race, The regularity of his appearance has Jed holiday- 
makers to expect him, As soon as the course has been Cleared 
by the police for the great race, ind the green streak that 
divides the vast crowd is visible, then we expect “his coming 
and look brighter when he comes,” and this yeat we regarded 
itas bad omen that “the Derby is falling off,” ahd that no 
frightened mongrel tore madly along, wildly seeking a spot 
to hide himself from the exultant cheers of recognition that 
noisely hail his appearance, Of course, we all lost our money 
in consequence, and Lillibulero hadn’t even the decency to 
start. erhaps the “Derby dog” knew something—perhays 
he anticipated the cold reception of the invalid that won, As 
I sat after the race dangling my legs over the side of the coach, 
vainly hammering my disappointment on a lobster-claw that 
would not break, and heard the remarks, “Sir John is a 
hot ‘um ;” “So is the Captain;” ‘‘How does Plunger Walton lke 
it?? [thought the dog displayed his intelligence in not com- 
ing on ‘‘in that scene.” But the dear old dog was there for 
the Oaks and urged his wild career and brought back the 
backers’ luck, 

News reaches me the York show turned out better than 
expected; the entries, I believe, numbered about seyen hun- 
dred, The judging took place on Saturday. Among the 
judges is Mr, Hugh Dalziel, who is, I believe, within the recol- 
ection of New Yorkers from the time he judged in their city. 
T think Dr. Gordon Stables was his colleague on that occasion. 
I don't know how true itis, but I have heard that the latter 
gentleman offered to officiate on that occasion in ‘Highland 
costume,” if the promoters of the show thought it would im- 
prove the “gate”, I doubt not Sir Hugh was highly indignant 
at the suggestion, as he also hails from the “land of cakes,” 

Hugh Dalziel (pronounced DI. simply the first and last 
letters of the name, in Scotland) is the giant of our doggy 
press. He towers above all our scribblers in knowledge of the 
subject and ability to treat it. His specialist knowledge of 
medicine makes his advice on doggy ailments the best obtain- 
able and gets subscribers for the Bazaar who apply to him 
through the corresponcence column for gratis advice. 

His writings are clear aud concise, every idea i8 plainly ex- 
pressed and each argument as he writes it is hammered in 
with rugged Carlylese English. Hehas a broad, hard-hitting 
style devoid of flowery decoration. He ‘shoots folly as it 
flies” with cannon balls. He is essentially the free lance of 
journalism and it is owing to his blunt candor that he is not 
now sitting on the soft cushion of the Field editorial chair. 

It is his misfortune that in his frequent tirades against 
abuses, prejudice and ignorance, that friends often receive 
some of the indiscriminate blows that he freely rains about 
him. In his last fight, the ‘“Lochinvar” case in the field, he 
has maintained his reputation, and though the editor of that 
paper threw his fighting weight in the scale of his opponents, 
yet the impartial reader has seen that Mr. Dalziel has made 
outa very unpleasant case against the Hertford committee’s 
fairness, Mr. Murchison’s idea of duty toward one neighbor 
and Kennel Club justice. 

Years back Mr. Dalzicl wrote for the defunct Country, but 
heis permanently attached to no paper at present, though 
notes and letters signed ‘‘Corsincon” frequently appear in the 
Stock Keeper. Kennel Review, Scottish Fancier, Live Stockh, etc. 
He was one of the founders of the Dandie Dinmont Club and 
his heart has ever been true to that breed. He is an excellent 
judge of all breeds uf terriers. Ishould sum up his character 
as ‘an arveressively honest hard-hitter,” 

The English exhibitors at the Antwerp show did remarkably 
well, Mr. Lort judged the English classes, but as he was 
absent, on the second day the reporters of the Live Stock Jour 
nal (Mr. Gresham) and Shooting Times (Mr. Langdale) were 
called in to conclude his duties. The first named, I hear, ex- 
hilarated by the prominence, forgot that suaviter in modo 
should not be left at home when traveling. The English ken- 
nels present were chiefly represented by their ‘‘second string's,” 
though perhaps that expression is not fair to Mr Hdwin 
Nicholl’s exhibits, among which was his grand bloodhound. 
Triumph. who appropriately enough won the St. Hubert prize 
of the St. Hubert Club. It must have been with a pang of 
rezret that the Dutchmen saw him return to England. r. 
Alfred George brought away several prizes. 

The Paris show is now on and [hear the numerous packs 
make a fine sightin the Gardens of the Tuileries. They are 
attended by the huntsmen, who wake up the neighborhood 
each morning with the music of their curly brass horns. These 
gentlemen are wonderfully got up and their gaudy liveries put 
éyen the fierce Chasseurs @Afrique outof countenance, I 
don’t think many Englishmen ye considered it ‘‘gaod 
enough” to go over, for the show is dreadfully organized. It 
ought to be otherwise. There are sportsmen in Nrance who 
could do it better if they gotthe chance. Thereis Ernest 
Bellecroix, for instance, editor of the Chasse Jilustrée, and 
lately elected a member of the Kennel C:ub, surely he might 
induce the Kennel Club to assist him with advice. Why do 
they not invite Mr. Lewis Clement, proprietor of the Shooting 
Times, to help them? His French is so gocd that he speaks 
English with aGallic accent, his varied experience in dogsand 
Gag shows, acquired during his engagements as kennel re- 
porter on the Field and Beil’s Life, would be of invaluable as- 
sistance, “Barkisis willin’,” I am sure, and no one would be 
more in his element in the gay metropolis than the volatile 
“Wildfowler.” At present the Paris show is exclusively 
patronized by masteis of hounds and dog dealers, but give us 
ago od schedule and reliable judges and we shall not neglect 
the opportunity to show them the best. The time is favorable 
enoush, Auteuil races on Sunday, dog show all the week, and 
the Grand Prix to conclude with; there’s a programme to. stir 
the blood, though one’s sire do sit ‘‘cutin alabaster.” Even 
these gay Londoners would leave their ‘‘Empire” and ‘“Health- 
eries” for the “Eden” and ‘Bignon's.” 

Mr. Lewis Clement is not a man to lean against a tree and 
watch the sundial; there is a lot of enterprise in his little 
paper, the Shooting Times, and it contains an announcement 
this week that has knocked the breath out of the quiet old 
bodies in the Strand, Fleet street and Hampstead Road. 

In future subscribers can advertise Gozs forsale gratis. At 
first sight if loots two to one on the subscriber, butit would 
not do to imagine that ‘‘Wildfowler” had not a bit up his 
sleeve; besides, the plan is an old one on the Continent, and if 
it pays there it may have a like chance here. I shall opennext 
week’s number with amused expectation. 

I get the Shooting Times regularly. snd haying met the 
owner at one or two shown, [am able to appreciate his large 
persona! share in its columns. I believe the paper has passed 
through the troubled waters which everybody who starts a 
newspaper must expect to meet. Mr. Clement first became 
familiar to sporting readers for his punting articles under the 
nom de plume of ‘“Wildfowler” in the columns of Beli’s Infe, 
He left them to go on the field, He did their dog-show re- 
pots, and quite the best of the kind I have always considered 

hem, He wrote the report on the bloodhound Napier, which 
brought a libel case down onthe Field, “Wildfowler” has 
more than the courage of his opinions, he has the impudence 
of them; sometimes, oe course, he is wrong, and the Napier 

While engaged on the Field staff he did a very large busi- 
~pess in‘dogs, and this it was that brought him mto conflict 


GE i 


with the autocrat of the paper, Dr. Walsh, who put the alter 
native plainly, ‘Give up the Field or the dogs.” He gaye up 
the Field, went to the aogs and started the Shooting Times, 
and Vero Shaw reigned in his stead, The staff of the paper 
is @ small one, it consists of the editor, himself; a racing 
editor, Mr. Bromhead, of the Sporting Mirrer, who writes as 
Diomed; a gentleman who combines leader writer, dramatic 
critic and poet, Mr. W. Pocklington, and a reporter, Mr. Lang- 
dale, who was once among the exhibitors as a spaniel man. 

We are all much interested in the Paris savant’s discoveries, 
and if Mons. Pasteur’s commission of inquiry really decide that 
he has found out a cure for that terrible malady, hydropho- 
bia, no honor in the French Government's power will be too 
great to offer such a benefactor of humanity, [am promised 
a complete copy of Mons. Pasteur’s report, and if I get it will 
forward it to the editor 

Some notesfrom York show haye just reached me, None 
of the cracks turned up in the bloodhound class. Crown 
Princess was champion in the mastiffs, in open dogs Prince, 
Surajah and Commodore won, and Cleopatria, ford Claudia 
and llford Charity in bitches. 

In St. Bernards the prize winners were Glacier, Courage IL, 
and Storm-King; bitches, Cloister, Crevasse Il, and Khiya, 
Mr, Goodwin's new purchase, Silver King, by Hermit, won in 
RUBR Ce, The winner of the tield trial pointer class was Mr. 

oirish's champion Graphic, and for the setter prize there 
was a tie between Mr, He F. Grant’s Junior Carlton and Mr. 
Bowev's Bessie IV. ‘the Duke of Portland did some winning 
with his spaniels, and Mr. Hasten’s team also won in their 
own classes. Collies were a good show, Mr. John Pirie getting 
first and third in open dogs and pups with two litter brothers 
by Eclipse, a half sister to Eclipse, Mistress Beatrix, won in 
bitehes, In the basset classes all the winnérs came from one 
kennel and the cup went there too. Mrs. Merrick Hoare’s 
large entry won seyeral prizes in dachshunde. 

LILLIBULERO. 

JunE 3, 1884, 


RETRIEVER CHALLENGE,—E£ditor Forest and Stream: 
I hereby challenge Mr, Luke W. While to compete with his 
Grace against my Fritz in retrieving anywhere in New Eng- 
land the coming fall, the same to be judged by any one not 
prejudiced against a trick dog. Mr. White says Mr. J. R, Pi-r- 
son told him that ‘‘Grace could not be beat.” I would be 
pleased to have Mr, Pierson judge them. Intelligence, obedi- 
ence, style, delicacy, to be considered. The following to be 
used; ‘Tissue balloons, pins, eggs: men, live or dead birds 
(game or other birds), on land, water. or under water, I claim 
Fritz will retrieve any bird named that is thrown out, if there 
are twenty kinds, and willdo it blindfolded. Also retrieve 
two small birds at once. If Mr. White does not accept this 
challenge, it is open to any one, and barring no breed of dogs, 
—A. C, CoLuins (Hartford, Conn., June 10). 


DOGS ATTRACT LIGHTNING.—Richard Lowe and his 
men hurried into his barn ati Neshanic, N. J., when te shower 
came up last Friday afternoon, and an old shepherd dog ran 
inafterthem. “Dogs attract lightning,” said Mr, Lowe, anx- 
iously, ‘and we had better leave.” The words had hardly 
escaped his lips when a thunderbolt killed the dog. None of 
the men was injured.—Swn. 


YORE ROYAL.—We have received from one of ourregular 
English correspondents a report of the York Royal DogShow. 
Tt will be printed next week. 


How woutn you Liks rr to have your wife and children in want of 
the necessaries of lite? Many families have suffered this from the 
death of a protector who expected it as little as you. Moral; Insure 
in the Travelers, of Hartford. Conn,—Adv. 


Rifle and Grap Shooting. 
RANGE AND GALLERY. 


BOSTON, June 14.—There was a very small attendance at Walnut 
Hill to day, and most of the shooting was ia the Creedmoor practice 
match, There was also a team match by telegraph with the Man- 
chester (N. H.) Rifle Club, which was won by the M, R. A., though 
in their team there were some m.en who had never shot in a team 
match before. ‘Tresday next the ae will be open for the regular 
Tiflé matches, and the directors’ medal will be shot for. Wednesday 
the shotgun men will occupy the grounds. Following are the best 


scores! 
Creedmoor Practice Match. 
RMA WOU cater a ditties eek nahete ns ule oe 4555545 6 4 §—47 
RUSTE oe erin Leite tee ees eocciniine: castes 645544655 4 5—46 
GAVEHDURR porte Lenk tene atime trues 5644555545 4—46 
WAGCHATICS (Mee ceca ri Urea saack ae citiae arial pe 44554454 6 5—45 
CeEAB Erp yeh Ree Ran Cee tet t] aal-me Serna Ness 445545544545 
CeBeHUWardsinc)cceek oases sa nains DEAK 5 et haa 45544445 5 445 
AC Adams (ih) 7) nis st ancconsen Uo ceianacerecres 45444554 4 5—44 
Wel ord Gy (va bh anew wae hobo sneer tsnreacs 454444455 4—44 
eH eD APMC Cys (TOT Finn. saws 2 elec suee nharrison 554554444 3-43 
Decimal Mateh, 
O M Jewell........ Pes LO" 6G. 100 SO as05 Robe Bo ve 4-82 
RPEICIS a. sareueaee iteuane tees 8 6 em ea eee (ae tC 
W H Oler,....... imautnty Vnevera 2b, fa Say ay adie fi yak oe sseyil 
AaJ WOOK. ssl. dn tasacunsis Dee du Conese cee Ame Boob G 
BTA TA PPeMy cine eee te 6 49 7 6 6 9 8 G6 68 
Rest Match. 
SENAY CGLEY ey Gey pee ea near eee arabe 9 8 0 9 10 10 9 10 10—98 
PoSylvesters os se cect ssa TOS Oe  SeetOLe OS Om nge mel 97) 
EATICIS nant ee sor Genial 8 6 9 10 9 10 10 10 9 8—89 
: Team Match, 

Massachusetts Rifle Association, Massachusetts Rifle Club, 
OOVETE Well. on. asijalise 4 OSDIR Alert, . ites eee ee ed 45 

# BSouther.... 0.0... ee 45 Grays 45 2550 = BEA Sage Sek 44 

[OPT hes ye ee BH erie 45 BF LDrake eee ne 44 
ROCs uhaen ds danske le onan 44 GA Leighton ... ....... 42 
ipdasahulls (sc aay PSE Cree ie 43 Fb Porter.......,-. Bens ts 42 

H Cushing..............-) »41—264 AB Dodge....... .0....... 42—259 


GANANOQUE, Ont., June 10.—A rifle match was held at the 
Gananoque Assuciation ranges bere this afternoon between five men 
of the Kingston Kiil= Assuciation and five men ot Gananoque, which 
resulted in a victory for the Kingstonians by 80 points. The wind was 
puffy aud beavy across the range from the rignt, and the light was 
bad, making it impossible to getona good score, Tue folldwing is 
tlle score made wiih five shots each tan at each range; 


Kingston. Gananoque. 
200 400 500 200 400 600 

Capt Curry ...,.18 15 15—48 LieutSheilds,..14 17 11—42 
CaptCartwright.12 18 17—47% Corp Wright....18 14 id- 50 
Private Hora... ,16 23 19—58 A Petiie........ 19 20 19—57 
LieutCartwright.20 19 18—57 Maj Mackenzie.,14 (d 6-27 
dbergt Hora...... 1 18 4-55 JS Matthews...19 18 21—58 

265 285 


NEWARK, N. J., June 12,—ihe shooting festival of the Newark 
Shooting Society was very successfully conducied at the Shooting 
Park. ‘The spectators and participants in ibe spori were in exces: of 
preyious years, and many representatives were present from Wash- 
ington, Pitiston, Pittsburgh, Boston. Davenport, Ia., and otuer places, 
the shouting began on Monday and eeontinued uwnotil this evening, 
wien the prizes were awarded. The scores of the winners of the 
ehiet prizes were as follows: Man ‘T'arget—F. W. Schmucder 60, 5. 
Hilsw oftn 59, T. P. Delahanty, BH. Holeman and LE. Berg 58. Ring Tar- 
ge.t—H. Dehi, G. Quirmeyer aud EK. G, Zelier 71, L. Vogel, Wm, Hayes 
and J. Sehrnidt 7. Target of Honor—Win. flay es 68, Wm, Frommer 
aud BE, Kein 67, M. L. higgs 66, 

PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—The monthly contest for the cham- 
pion’s gold medat of the Passyunk hifle Company, or Philadelphia, 
took pluce at the Stockton hunge, Cumden, on Junell. A strong 
wind, almost a gale, was blowing across the range, making shooting 
extrimely uncei tain and diffivult. Quartermas.er Wallace M. Hoft- 
her, with a :core of 383, will wear the medalfor June. Distance 
200yd~., 10 shois, open sights, 

FORT KEOGH, M.T.—W. M. Farrow has reached this point on 
his westward tripandis the guertof Licut.J.M.T.Partello. The 
bwo crack shots eugoyed @ tis shooting at ay ass off-hand. at the 
ee Creednoor target, the score standing tor Mr. Farrow; 4° 6 5 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on ene side of the paper only. 


BOSTON GUN CLUB. 


AD weather did not prevent a large and influential attendance at 
the Wellington shoot June 11, Sbeoters from alarge pumber of 
the outside clubs coming to do justice to the aifferent matches whieh 
had beeu duly programmed ior some time past. The wind was 
shifty, straining the abili y of the trap shooters present 1o the utmost. 
The next shoot of this clul, on June 24, will cou plete the series for 
the elegant goid medal presented to the best three-men team, A 
large number have signified their intention to do honors by their 
j resencs on the occasion when the final ttruggle takes plave, The 
Massachusetts Rifle Association ut present have the best scores, but 
the last shoot may afford the chance of changing. 
Match 1.—5 single birds, 18yds., rise: 


BF Johnson, .....) secs. 11110—4 GF Cutting,........ veut 10011—8 
SH Wurms.,. -., .-..--- 10111—# WH Allem..........., »..,01011—8 
CG DeRochmont,..........-- 01110—4 J Bartlett .....-.,....... 1111-5 
FL Papanti.... 122, pee LOU DRG WOO sa ay Udo und 10101— 3 
Hedge first, Johnson and Wurms second, DeRochmonft and Allen 
third. 
Match 2.,—Conditions as above: 

DeRochmont.....--. ..... Tin—b ASSO ten opiate 10110-3 
WWAUIIS 2 ei Aae dee soeete ol 11111—5 Bartlett...............2, ,-11101—4 
CONMEOW ss srr vey cores cae (Cj WiC SS SCO hr nore ake eS ee eee ».10011—3 
2M iG) cep eey Sy an eer pee ,.10101—8 CGhamibers... ...0 .., 20 11011—4 


Wurms and DeRochmont first, Chambers and Bartlett second, Cut- 
ting and Johnson third. ; 
Match 3,—3 pair doubles, l5yds. rise: 


Bid Branciss di 01 11—5 Johuson.... ........0. 10 10 00—2 
FStrlew Oe teks oisinig lee: O00 TL <a> Ce Walbuby. sys oe 11 01 10—4 
DeRochmont.... ...... 10 10 10—8 WL Miner..........,, di 00 01-8 
AIGnEy. 3 fet stoke stasies fer 11 11 10=5 Thoward............. 10 1b 11—4 
SRASSATI TM relay Serie seen goers 00:01 11-3 Bartlett........,...0., 10 11 01—4 
SWEETS ty aye veka eee 11 01 11—5 


B Bee and Allen first, Howard second, Papanti third, Johnson 
ourth. 
Mateh 4,—? birds, 18yds. rise: 


DeRochmont...:..-,,...1011101—5 Howard,....... ........ 1100111—5 
Kirkwood), .....-: 242: ~ss 1111111—7 —Bartleth.-.....,..5-.:.-. 0101310 4 
Wa lOlig sc terse epee tte TG = 6" *Cinbtine tee ee ,.1001110—4 
ramcis.. pyssskee- saya ess 110100i—4_ Johnson.......-........ 1011100 4 
AMET We Siiuee we pctenent WI0III—6, Grandall..:..., 2... 2... 1011010—4 
WUT Sip animes. ese ers 1101111-6 EW Tinker. .......... ,-0111110—5 
Minere iu: Ga.iewstkes os , 0101101—4_ JB Valentine....... -,.-1 11010—5 


Jarkwood first, Wurms second, Tinker third, Francis fourth, 
Mareh 9.—5 pair doubles, liyds. rise. 
korkwood........ vl 0011 1) 01-7 Francis...:....... ii 01 10 11 11—8 


Howard. .3.2..... 10 10 11 10 11—7 Johnson,,........ 11 11 01 11 11—9 
Wilbur 258 2. ,10 10 00 01 O1—4 Tinker .. .....,.. 11 11 11 10 11-9 
WighMS ) eunwats 11 10 O01 11 11-8 8S Perry...,....... 11/00 11 11 10—7 
TLE Wickes) te) (ka Poe 00 11 00 01 O1I—4 Yalentine....,-.. 11 10 11 i1 11—9 


Tinker first, Wurms and Francis second, Kirkwood and Howard 
third, Law and Wilbur fourth. 


Mateh 10.—7 single birds, 18yds. 
Woe Seas adadeg doeut ee 1010111—5 -Francis......-...........1101171—6 
(Orie) 6119 hes Secombe brdl sie 1100017—4 Crandall...:,........... 1111111—7 
TG Stanton.........--.- 1010100—4 LLaw.... vee ee ec. ee eee ee 17111 11—F 
HE Souther: 0.0, 220 2teses. 1001101—4 Snow................ ..- 1011101—5 
Rerry,, 2 a ear, 0110011—4. Wurms......-.........55 1111111—7 
Wil Gute tele dean saa 1010NNI—5. Grahams... .2.2.040 1011001—4 
Bartlett... 2. ceca. ee cas 1100111—5. Tinker: ......4........08 1111110—6 
UT et We an oan en Cie .1011011—5 


Law, Crandall and Wurms first, Tinker and Francis second, How- 
ard and Wilbur third, Smith fourth. 
Match 11,—5 single birds, 


STINE East iytelrt osld ten) a. aI As SAG NS ey heat Bees ote ee 11001—8 
SITIGW OGG Sievers te oe elaslee 8: LOTTO SPOUT eI yee ee eo eee 10101—3 
AN PIE OS eR AGE See ore 01110—38 Stauton.............0....,. 10111—4. 
Papanti fil Ut, SS WR 5 ee se SO 11111—5 
Witienish 2 te ss floc. 11110—4 Crandall.................., 01011—38 
DANSON, meu seth onesies res 01010—2 Valentine.........0.0..05 01001—2 
Bartlett. /00 0.2... LORI Beri Tir Syste aeRO ater me 00103—2 
ISTIC yest EAAO aD aot else 10110—38, Cut ingi......-.. 6... e 10111—4 


Law and Tinker first, Stanton, Cutting and Wurms secona, Smith 
and Wilbur third, Perry fourth, « 
Match 12,—7% single birds: 


Wurms........ SEBO SS 5 4 111011—6  Miner,... ....2........-- 1100101—4 
Kirnkewo0d. 4, -<2.b0.teese TTLO1L0— 5 awe 2 ect on 0101101—4 
rani cisimieee seiec tne 0103011—4 Papanti....... . «..--0001011—3 
PILTL COW ge tute wahieleree sey 1010100N—3 Wilbur. ........,..,..... 1M10111--5 
AODURKOD proce daaee es 001G101I— 3 Snow,...0....,....0% ,-. -0110001—3 
SOMtder ee here eeee ne Lee 1000110—3 


Wurms first, Kirkwood and Wilbur second, Miner third, Stanton 
fo: rth. 
Match 13.—5 single birds: 


SOUNSOM a: ohn ceils. cot aos WOUUI—4. SHOW... 2,00. 0 ye eee peer eeee 11100—8 
WAIETIS SL. on ene MAR e 1011i—4 _Kirkwood........-........ 10101—3 
GID Ps ol ster cietivie siete = =e 10141—4. _Graham.........5..+-.2405 10001—2 
Baye ale satiate meses eee oe 11d OO — om WALD IE a3 eee ee 01111—4 
StAMEOM Ss el rence ance dish) ds ECrar CIStay ah) ecastewesy oa ee , 00111—8 
SOULNEIS 2! rad ee ae cote as 01010—2 Miner . sees eddie 


third, Souther fourth, 
Match 14,—8 pair doubles: 


Rigncigrs Wel! ere ays TOS =4eeWalburscsos coleeae. .»-11 11 10—6 
Wirkcwoodr ci eres os 1 el OPO MR 4 e Wams yor 5 geewer ee brent O01 11 11—5 
PS ELL LOL melelerra fiskeae tke tele 10 11 01—4 Johnson............,.. 10 10 01—3 
SHO Woseen aestiesie fee mare te WOE A— 5; (Graham yee leccr pees 10 10 01—3 
Wik at we tye tie 10 11 11-5 


Law and Wurms first, Francis second, Graham third, 
Match 5,—3 pairs double birds. l5yds. rise, 


RE DEWOOC anak ceeiteyis.e 23 111010—4 Howard..,,....... ssasue 111011—4 
V5 Lo) Ti tear ee een eae a ,-101010—8 Valentine ...............- 11101—4 
DYVLLETIIS tetas tatstncn ret steal= 111111—6 Johnson...........2.....: 101011—4 
Papanth, 22) 2h tenes 44-5 LOTTI b> Aen erie en- vere e se -111010—4 
Mirtker ps) fete os tScel ty 101100—3 Prancis..........-....-... 111010—4, 
Oramdalli y+ ii2 b roageca- 110111—5 


Wurms first, Howard, Crandall and Papenti second, Allen an 
Francis third, Tinker fourth. ; 
Match 6.—7% siugle birds, i8yds. rise. 


KITEWOOd Spina eee cine ee 0001111—4 Valentine.,............. 0111011—5 
De Rocbmont.... ....... 0111010—4 Bartlett....... ......2., 1011011—5 
PMs Avec cicock 29 tesa tts TIOMIO—S Cuttings... ee ecsunet 1101101—5 
OWar dees a cai wsasee 1111011—6 Wuorms..........,.-,..... 1111111-7% 
Bhi ey TL aie ae Se 1111110—6 Miner...... eS 1100101—4 


Wurms first, Crandall and Howard second, Valentine, Bartlett and 
Cutting third, Kirkwood fourth. 


Match 7.—8 pairs doubles, 15yds. rise, 

Karkwoods. (lisesgsoeied sss: 111010-4 Wilbur.......,<....... »..111010—4 
eI Nort No ek a ee pe 301010—8 Howard... .....c4..cece 101111—5 
De Rochmont........ ..,-101001-3 Valentine..,.... weed Se oa 011100 3 
ARE) TUSESTOD EL PR Je LOTOT mths eSiiO ww See Se a 601011 3 
\Wan ea, oS Siew Bae oeo Tio “Erineish.- ve. oe OTe 
randall cine esse sce eet 111110-—5 DH Graham.....,...../. 111001—4 
EY WeaG ae os 6 5a ou See 110111—5 


Wurms first, Crandall, Howard 
Valentine fourth, 

Maten 8.—New England three-men team gold badge match. Teams 
of three men, 5 single birds from five traps, 3 pair double birds and 10 


and Law second, Wilbur third, 


single birds from one trap. ; 

. Massachusetts Rifle Association. 

WAITS A aint esa SY eee WW 10 11 ii 1111111110—18, 

Ua Wares woe senescent peter ,01110 11 O1 11 1100110010—18 

DeRochmont..4;) 2.2.20 pen Mend 11110 =©0011 00 0001101000— 9—47 
Narragansett Gun Club. 

AMICI Seg urs eacias deote oe oe are esol Leal 10 10 i1 1110101110—15 

Orandall........-. Teta oy ea 11130 011010 111110010¢—18 

VEIGNtINGs ses eeeaen cee e sie -ae 01101 38642 11 00 §=—-101110000—12—40 

Port Roseway Shooting Club, 

NDA Cie ee Sale alt ate Here h ht 1i 11 10 1111001101—16 

ROW ANG poe cee dee titer teri 00110 12 0141 1111000011—13 

Wilbur... ..... WARS Agee a 00011 10 11 10. 1110010100—11—40 

Bostou Gun Club. 

Hawyer....., Aide TARAS AS oceaaac , 01101 O01 01 IL 1110711711—16 

RGEC Clty ce tite Gave loipio masa 00111 Ti 01 OL 110010C0C0—10 

JOUGSOD hie. seal bts ae tald en 111 00 00 OU 011000110U— 8—84 


Shoot off for s: cond money, 3 single and 1 pair doubles. 


ort Roseway Narragansett, 
Mrancis.......5..5-- lil 11-5 Tinker,........-.....111 10—4 
VV AUS esther ,-111 01—4 Crandall,......i.4: 111 10—4 
Howard ....../.. 111 —8—12 Valentine....... 1... 100 11-8—11 


Winners: Massacbusette Rifle Association first, Port Roseway 
Shooting Club second, Boston Gun Club third. 


BUFFALO, June 6.—At the meeting of the Audubons this evening, 
nothing was done about the State .hoot. The arrangements are at a 
stand for the ee by reason «.f the ecarcity of pigeons. The club 
will wait until the latter part of next month and watch for the nest- 
ing ground of the flock of young birds. If, by that time, the club 
finds there is no prospect of getting none birds for the teurnament 
they will discuss the feasibility of using clay-piggons, 


414 


CONNECTICUT STATE SHOOT. 


(HH State shoot for the Ligowsky clay-pigeon medal was held on 
the new grounds of the Parker Gun Club, Meriden, June 1, and 
Was won 4 second time by the Parkers. Twelve teams of four men 
each contested, and though it threatened to rain, as usual, and the 
day was cloudy, the attendance was larger than at any shoot this 
Season: 
ss Parker Gun Club. 


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iia sich 2b We es PS mn eee a 1100101101111119111111111—21—75 

Bridgeport, 

Adams .......-..--..--.-...-..- -- ~-.,0111701011101110111110011—18 

Pigusione eee eh ecce-\ bbe abst ones 1110111010011010111011111—18 

WEOUBG Ys piece menk here eb pceKona ca caees: 0110001011101101111111001—16 

IND GISGLSs Ser oie Bee tance, ee ee 1111010010011111110111111—19—71 
Winsted, No. 1. 

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DTS he 0a os. Oe ee RD 1111111000417 101111111010—19 

LINSIELSET SIU Rk 5 a ee Se 1111100100001011100011000—12 

Weel § jis eed gee ee Oe eo 8 va 0001111110011101111111111—19 69 
Winsted, No. 2. 

ISEMEIEDD aE. ON ts laste Be tty 1110010010010000111011011—13 

POMEGNSs WRAL nr Reapehh Weeeee ous 1001101101111001100110111—16 

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EVUT GUAR CY PE RO Ey ERO EERE Reet an 0000100100100010110011101—10—54 


Derby, Conn. 
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Wilson ...1001101100111100011110010—14 

Spencer, Z. Ay .. .0011001100001111101000000—10 

SES EDEL Noma LSE MN CN Ne wi yl ene Se = Sty 0010010010111010100111111—14—51 

Parker Club, Meriden, No, 2. 

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BOOT aam faa as eos ort te ete jae 25 0000000100111110110110011 1245 
Milford No. 1. 

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ADIT Bee) See ce ee, epates was 0110111111110100111001100—16 

Platt - ~ scenes -- eee. ------~., -0001001001001111011010000--10 

Plumb. Coons spews eee ees ~-eL104100111001111011011111—18— 60 

: Milford No. 2. 

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ISON we Seat ito tei0 da) eee 0110000000011170100001100— 9 

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Meridens No. 3. 

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SOON GE: (ees 35 44ae SAR AD a eka 6 aes 10001001 11001117011011111—16—65 

Spencer Gun Club, Windsor, Conn. 

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ISIS ec POOL Sve vo Sennoo a eek 111111103.1011100010111100—16 

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Sere 3444444445545 5545 Ra pede 1141011114011110100101000— 9—65 
Wallingford. 

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Goodrich, A..... Peep bo eerie sgose 1110111110110110101011100—17 

STCU ark, tak eek ah cee CO CON AODOR RUD - 1111010110101011010100111—16 

EU UESE On Oey Bo e\ sve garclet nies a cbelololons 011 1111001111101001000111—16—69 
New Haven. 

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PREIITIE eee, halccjeclelctebelal iaaia acelcl-ueetedehe 0010010111100010010110100 —14 

“OES be 29 AP bit 86 Sat = BBs BO BED Food .0110101111111111111110101 — 20 


TFAMGOUL En ccoe hie cor eki br cles one ae 010101010011010111101 —12—54 

For the individual medal, held by H. Nichols of Bridgeport, there 
were 30 entries, but only the following finished their scores, 50 pigeons, 
léyds, rise; Birdsey 41, Nichols 40, Bull 40, Goodrich 41, Ives 38, 
Blakeslee 35, Adams 85, Longdon 34, A. Tyes 34, Strong 33, Sterry 30, 
Deaa 30, Penn 26, Tie shot at 5 pigeons. 2lyds. rise, Birdsey 11010—3: 
Goodrich 10111—4. Before the match a sweepstake of 20 entries was 
shot in which Birdsey won first, Baker and Ives divided second, 
Nichols and Folsom third. Another of 27 entries, Strong and Nichols 
first, Folsom second, Minor and A, Ives third, Birdsey fourth. 


DETROIT, June 14.—The Terra Cotta Club, a recent organization 
are having bi-monthly shoots for a medal, to become the personal 
property of any member winning it three consecutive times. The 
first shoot was won by Wm. H. W. Avery, who broke 19 out of 20 
clay-pigeous. Mr. A. E, Brush won second, scoring 16 out of 20. The 
third shoot takes place next Thursday at Monroe, Mich., whither the 
club proeeed upon the invitation of Hon. Harry A. Conant, Secretary 
of Stale, whose guest the club willbe. The trip to Monroe will be 
made 6n Mr. Brush’s elegant steam yacht Lillie. There are several 
crack shots yet to be heard from on the medal question, notably Mr. 
Geo. EH. Avery, and young Mr. Gaylord. The latter shoots in fine 
form. He has not participated in the last two meetings, but is now 
on deck.— DELTA, 


SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, June 8.—The much talked of-match be- 
tween Fay and Burbank, for $100 aside, at 50 single birds, 20yas. rise, 
and 80 fall, was finally settled at the Oakland race track to-day. The 
day was a wost disagreeable one, there being a nasty, soaking rain 
all day, which not only made it bad for the visitors, but also prevented 
the birds from fying. The confidence displayed by Fay’s friends in 
his capabiity of winning the present match was chiefly based upon a 
fine HA eEIGO score he had made at San Bruno on Friday last, when 
he killed 40 out of 43 fast, strong birds. Slade acted as referee, and 
the yeteran Rice pulled the traps. The following was the score: 
Burbank. .-...... 111011119100011109 19. 11111111111111911101111 110111143 
HED Vi tee ss oes sb 14011101101119141141119191111911191101011111111101—44 


PAWTUXET, R. L., June 18.—Regular weekly shoot of the Narra- 
gansett Gun Club for silver trophies, at 10 pair of double clay- 
pigeons, 15yds. rise: 


RCSIBSRTE CERT SEIS eS iat elas folale le 00 11 11 11 11 41 Ji 11 «11 «10-17 
TA AM TET 1D) pee ke 10 11 00 11 11 11 41 11 11 11—17 
HD Mathewson..................0..05. 00 11 40 11 11 11 11:14 10 10—15 
SO CIM UT OY Sekine ser only sb cies pase cle pels 01 11 10 O1 01 11 11 11 10 10—14 
ED TEM Sa IT A'S S85 = gy ee Re ..11 01 11 01 10 10 11 00 00 10—11 
Mr Hayward ............--.---.--- oss 10 11 10 10 O1 10 00 10 10 10—10 


Ti {GJ Crandall,....... 10 11 11 10 11 1i—wins first prize. 
OSs) WelTinker ©. .0y- 0c: 01 11 11 10 0i—wins second prize. 
Ligowsky individual championship State badge, at £5 single clay- 
birds sprung from 5 traps, at 15yds. rise: 
H D Mathewson. Dade Soper ee 11111 11114 11114 11111 11111—25 


G J Crandall... ..-11171 11121 11111 11111 11111—25 
Un elo BER BR SB BE ORE ties 10111 11101 11111 11111 11111—23 
(Spl (Sibi ts She Sa eas AAS Sa ods sie. SK O1111 10111 11111 11111 11111—23 
Wa Se fo jo. fe aeleideines) ele oa 11101 11111 11111 11.011 10011—20 
SVS R EVEN VEWIEMIA UN saute ter ie ann: a ceiee 11110 10110 11010 00010 11111—16 


Mr. H. D. Mathewson wins badge for first time. This badge has 
been won nine times by our president, Mr. H. W. Tinker, and as the 
shooting ends July 1, he stands a sure winner.—H. W. 8. 

TROY, N. Y., June 11.—There was quite a contest between mem- 
bers of the Central Gun Club at Young’s Park to-day, each shooting 
at 25 clay_ pigeons and 20 glass balls. Mr. N. Lewis, the rifle muker, 
broke 21 clay pigeous and19 glass balls, 18 of the latter without a 
miss. This was thought pretty good for a man 75 years old. 

BROOKLYN, June 10.—Acme Rod and Gun Club, of Brooklyn, N. 
Y., Dexter’s Park, Cypress Hills, L. 1., June 10; glass balls, screened 
revolving trap, for gold badge: 


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PI GHONLIOTS coe ’ahy stv « deiewn.ct reo. tines 001110117170111011011 1-14 
TEGO TIL sso etclelopensisi«/aie-naneee 1101011111001101001 0—2 
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Tet 9 1) oa Se re ers wa 4 00100111111111010010-12 
TATISbeadt, 0.2... eee eee te 01411111001100100011 1—12 
Wve Fee Ry EEG AP ee 01101001100001101111%11 
CRITE Re nas Sopa eehse eee) 1TO00L1010011000001010—7% 
Pope=..... teres oe cere IOQVVTOODOLTO0LT000TO000T—5 
Ties: Short—i11111—6; Keppel—1110—3, The first annual picnic of 

1s Broadway Park. 


ae pe will be held on ‘Tuesday, July 15, at Hule 


MERIDIAN, Miss,—A tournament has been arranged to take place 
hereon June 17,18 and 19. The various matches are open to the 
world, and will be shot under the auspices of the Meridian Gun Club, 
under standard rules, <A full alitendance will be on hand, principally 
rural shots from the surrounding country, with delegations trom 
Selma, Montgomery, Mobile, and from New Orleans. On the first 
day there will be two matches at live pigeons, one at chimney swal- 
lows, one at clay-pigeons and one at glass balls. On the second and 
third days the erratic bat will be substituted, and the majority of the 
boys will get “eft” while trying to draw a killing ‘tbead.** No sueh 
shooting has ever been done on bats as right here at home by mem- 
bers of the Louisiana Gun Club, who ought to put in an appearance 
at Meridian and show the boys how to kill bats 

NEW ORLEANS.—Mr. Scooler, the jeweler, has donated a hand- 
some silver bat, to be contested forin a series of two matches at the 
erratic “leather wing.” The first to take place on Wednesday even- 

jing, June 18, and the second on tne 2oth, on Marengo street, back 


from St, Charles, shooting to be under rues of the Louisiana Gun’ 
n - *, . 1. 


Club, at handicap distances, from 20 to 25 yards, 20 bats (10 doubles) 
to be shot at in each match, and highest total score in both matches 
to take the handsome and very appropriate prize. Matches are open 
to all comers, and no entrance fee will be charged. 


DETROTT, June 11,—The Michigan Gun Club held its monthly shoot 
at the Park House, Hamtramck, to-day, 0. A. S. Haven putting up a 
handsome fishing rod as a prize for the winner. The shooting was at 
20 clay-pigeons each and the following scores were made: 


Donaldson....... -o- 2012011 01141111211002 1 0-14 
Stewart... -.1011100000001100411 1—10 
DATOS ee ele ee oe en 1011111111101111011 0-16 
deaniglois 222 j 0c Ue 1011100111010110101 0-12 
DAViS Re dita. Syadaddeee ay 00130110111101110011 0-12 
WiOOGS wipe pita torso 11021101011170117110111 1 
BETGOUR kee ees ener ice 11111101100101101010-%3 
TUELTTSS Seutenien conten 1011110111101110111 1—16 
SEVATICN (oe n TUPLE Steel etia 01010111110101001100—11 
IBQEBES.D eapie i es eee a ured 171011111110100110101—4 
Behwelkarte agate. be 11001011111111100100—18 
Worcester: Sis ulcmr) cue." 10701101111000100000—9 
Gilniane. yee aeee ein se ue 111017100110100010010—10 
EB VeUB Sei rsiee env eee Sa, 11011011110111101010—14 
Jardine and Larkins shot off the tie, and the former will go a-fish- 


ing with that rod. 
ieee BOGARDUS is with the Wild West show at the Polo Grounds, 
is city. 1 
ENGLISH PIGEON-SHOOTING BILL,—The bill to prohibit pigeon 
shooting passed the Commons and was defeated in the House of 


Lords. A new bill has been introduced forbidding the mutilation of 
birds before being liberated from the trap. 


Ganaeing. 


CANOEISTS are invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 
club meets, information about canaeable waters, and other commu- 
nications of interest. 


POTOWONOK C. Cc. 


GC. C., Fort Madison, Ta. John Rix, Captain; J. W. Albright, Jr., 
2 Mate; C. H. Peters, Purser; W. H. Atlee, Secretary. Organized 
March, 1882. Signal, red and white. 


CONNECTICUT RIVER MEET, MAY 30. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

The second annual meet of the Hartford and Springfield canoe clubs, 
held at Calla Shasta Grove, six miles south of this city, May 30, 31 
and June 1, 1884, was in every sense of the word a success. Thursday 
night three §. C. C. men and a cook went into camp, but in the morn- 
ing we found an intruder occupying considerable room and, generally 
speaking, a perfect nuisance, by name Jack Frost, 

friday, at 9 A. M., we saw our guests, the H.C. C., sailing before a 
stong northwest wind, coming under the south end bridge, making a 
beautiful picture, Nothing unusual in the trip, except an upset, 
which was promptly attended to, Breakfast was served and from 
this time until sundown members of each club were arriving at camp 
until our shore was lined with thirty-five canoes, a fair showing for 
two clubs. 

The camp photographer was early at work and many fine views ob- 
tained, especially the ‘‘first breakfast.’ Dinner having been dis 
posed of the national game of base ball was set in the field, with 
very damaging results to some. 

Owing to the strong northwest wind sailing races were postponed, 
and at 6:30 P. M. the paddling race was contested, five men from each 
club entering. At the finish, Messrs. G, L. Pratt and Paul Knappe, of 
the 8. C. Crwere declared winners of first and second prizes. It was 
none the less interesting to see Commodore Jones trying to defeat 
Vice-Commodore Hubbell, both H. C, C. men, for third place; bur it 
was a cold day for the Commodore. 

Aftersupper, a regular old-fashioned camp-fire was held, around 
which a jolly crew of canoeists told stories, jomed in a grand chorus, 
related their varied experience in canoeing matters, listened tu the 
banjo conceit by members of H, C. C., which was first-class, enjoyed 
every moment until the long hours closed in and good-night was 
sounded. 

Saturday morning early the campers were up and preparing for the 
days sport. First the cook fayored us with hot beef tea; later a 
breakfast was served—coffee, oatmeal, potatoes, beefsteak, mutton 
chops, ham and eggs, ete. Then another game of base ball, at which 
lawyer Clark, of Hartford, astonished the natives with his scientific 
pitching, so that one, two, three und out was in perpetual order. 
Next came trials of speed—running, jumping, hop, skip and jump, 
throwing the weight, vaulting and general gymnastics. We must 
confess that Hartford is about one foot ahead. At10A. M. twenty 
canoes set said for Springfield and enjoyed an hour in the city. 

After their return and dinner served, the wind had dropped to 
southwest, coming up river a perfect gale; light canoes were soon 
ashore. Then Hartford sent out one of her meu, only to be followed 
by an §. C. C. man to pick bim up. Then an §. C. C. man viewed the 
bottom of his canoe until rescued. On account of the fury of the 

ale, all sailing races were postponed, and Com. Jones presented with 
frst sailing prize. rept 

At evening we were busy with our large craft bringing in men from 
the opposite shore, who came from Hartford by train to-remain in 
camp over Sunday. A large company sat at table and enjoyed a 
hearty meal. Then canip-fire again, and canoeing in all manner of 
shapes was talked over. Considerable interest was manifested in 
the annual meet of the A. C. A. at Grindstone Island, and we hope to 
forward ten men from each club. Then three cheers were given for 
the second annual meet and for the success that has come from the 
original local meet in *83 by the same clubs, which has met with 
universal favor-throughout the United States. 

The Hartford men have made rapid progress in the management 
and equipment of canoes, are thoroughly interested in the sport. 
mInake a run every Saturday afternoon and camp until the following 
Monday morning. For this Com. Jones should receive all praise; is 
energy and enthusiasm has been adopted by his club, A Hartford 
man retired after otuers in the same tent. He was talkative, 
you know how that is, his bedfellow was sleepy and did not enjoy the 
story, so he made his wide awake partner a lemonade, adding a few 
drops of chloroform—really you can’t imagine how quiet that tent 
was in less than five minutes, Good scheme boys, book it. 

Among those who arrived this P. M, was the famous Hartford pho- 
tographer, Mr. Charles FP, Stewart, and assistant, Mr. Graham. They 
brought a canoe camera, the plate-holder of which is 26X38¥in., and 
the camera—well, it would make afirst-class Clydetent. He proposes 
to take in the camp, etc., if it’s possible. J - 

We had all kinds and models of canoes. One Racine (which is for 
sale),a large number of Rushton, Stephens, Eversou, Joyners and 
other makers. There were St. Pauls, Shadows, St. Lawrence, Rob 
Roy, Clyde, Stella Maris, Grayling, Springfield, Hillard, Princess, 
double cruisers, and last, but not least, a Kushton sneakbox, which 
did not outsailany canoe that we know of, y 

This afternoon we received a call from two canceists, one of the N, 
Y.G.0., the other a K. C. C., who had been to Springfield in their 
double canoe and were homeward bound. Sunday A, M, opened up 
fine as silk; warm, pleasant and agreeable to all hands. After break- 
fast Mr. Stewart erected his double-decked, fore-and-aft, three-story 
camera, mounted a ladder at the back door, and had hard work 
getting the focus of Mount Tom, twenty miles away. This having 
been accomplished, we were ‘‘sot”’ in position, and flatter ourselves 
we formed a pretty fair picture. : 

Camp was lively all day, until the latter part of dinner, that solemn 
hour glides silently in every encampment when the time for saying 
edadebye arriyes. It was then the fun was over and we all realized 
that the best of friends must part, Lawyer Clark, ina lively speech, 
congratulated the S, C. OC, on their entertainment, and promised them 
a “bang up’ time in the fall, The §,C, C, responded through the 


Commodore of the A. C, A, who can vouch for the hospit enjo; 
at the hands of the H.C. C. ohana ee 

At3P. M, the fleet started for Hartford. The almost deserted 
camp was soon made lively by arrival of friends overland from 
Springfield, and they were favored with a ee camp fire. Mon- 
day, A. M., the 8. C. C, broke camp, returned home only to find the 
eboe side of their caroe house three feet oub of water on the river 

IDK, 

Several hours’ work with jacks and timhers placed her safely in the 
water. The thorough method of its construction proved ‘teed a 
rane abe eee se case, for it Paeiod the terrible strain 
and 1s in good condition. Now prepare for the August meet of the 
A, C, A. at Grindstone Island, Aug, 1 to 15. Eyerybody on deck. 


GERI. 


KNICKERBOCKER C. C. REGATTA. 


N° day could have been more admirably adapted for this occasion 

than Saturday last. The sun shone brilliantly, but there was a 
cool, invigorating vitality in the air that is. as rare’as it is delightful 
at this sdvancea season of the year. The neihborhood of the club 
house, always attractive, was at its best, and there are few more 
charming spots on the Hudson. To the north lies the boldly-jutting 
point crowned by the mouldering ramparts of Fort Washington; ex- 
actly opposite, the gray, spectral Palisades keep their eternal watch 
and ward, lower down are the picturesque blutis and shaggy wood- 
lands of Fort Lee, while the eastern bank is dotted with villas whose 
Seri thee creeps down almost to the water’s edge. Throngh the 
mids 


, ‘The river nobly foams and flows, 

eA. hs The charm of this enchanted ground,” 
winding its stately way from storm-swept mountain, quiet islet and 
rippling. peOoe to the great unrestful city that seethes and labors at 
its mouth, 

That river was rufiled by fierce but intermittent biasts from the 
northeast. Close inshore it was in comparative calm, alternately 
blackened by passing catspaws and gilded by the sun, but out in the 
middie the surface was constantly torn and whitened by the fusts, 
and along the further shore the white caps tipped angry, formidable 
seas. 

Long before the appointed hour the river was dotted by canoes 
driven sturdily along by the paddle or wheeling in graceful curves 
beneath their snowy sails and the tiny flags that burnt in vivid tongues 
of color at their mastheads, each little craft experimenting in the 
varying and complex problem of wind, tide and current before its 
anxious captain. 

A large number of spectators watched the races from their car- 
riages or from the end of the adjacent pier, Here the resources of 
the club house were taxed tothe utmost to provide camp chairs, 
whence “‘ladies’ eyes ramed influence” on the contestants, “A hearty 
welcome was extended by the K. CG, C. to a representation of the Nep- 
tune Club, of Newark; to Messrs, Childs and Root, of centerboard 
fame; Mr. L. W. Seavey, of the Kit Kat Club, and other well-lmown 
canoeists, 

The first race of one mile paddling was called at at 3:30 by Mr. BE. A. 
Hoffman, who officiated as clerk of the course in the unayoidable ab- 
sence of Mr. C. G, King, It was hotly contested, Messrs. Greenleaf 
and Griffin coming in ahead of their respective classes. 

When the sailing race for Classes A and B was announced, the wind, 
with the historic perversity of regatta weather, was hauling round to 
the south, and seemed to blow in sharp, fitful puffs from every quar- 
ter of the known world. The course was laid to windward and return, 
and seven canoes started, presenting almost every diversily of bwld 
and rig, from the Shadow tu the Racine and from the halance lug to 
the leg-of-mutton. The race was a pretty one, the two rival Netties, 
sailed respectively by W. lL. Green and E, Fowler, crossing the home 
line considerably in advance of their competitors. 

In consequence of the lateness of the hour the combined paddling 
and sailing race was omitted, There were three entries for the 
tandem race, which was won, after and exciting mile dash by Messrs. 
‘reenleaf and Green, Subjoined are full particulars, with corrected 


time 
PADDLING RACE—DISTANCE 1 MILE. 


Class 2. ig 33% 
J. L. Greenleaf........ DS erceys COQUALO fs s.3.-5 iledes. ce pads 10 = 330 
nC CC COTE Ue La a macs oh A gy a Idler Se Ae es eee: SLO CAB 
H. T. Keyser ...... Mccti ens SED Nee ncoareteGaaa tra pa Cee 11 14 

Class 4 
LR OEM Maceo oy or Marguerite .......-4..,22+---65 10 44 
R. J. Wilkin y ye Ey a alle fe eo ee ae 2 11 38610 

SAILING RACE—DISTANCE 114 MILES, 
ass 

Piha WAG W.2e pepe a eet INGbiCet eee 20, 
Wee Dormnitzens 6... eee ,.Manche.- Bu) 
1S ly ANAL 5 ye. et ip 2) ae 36 
AOMORI CS SHET ReMNe SMR RBS Ae Marguerite 17 

Class A. 
Wik Greer pe ob ce Mien eel-Lajae NGUIB.” |... cosets crmtangss aoe 23 07 
oO: dy Greemear, a, lusts -e \Bfeyehreye(a vee eine ee 5 eS Re — 3B 
AMSAT GAMeTLOI jan en ese hee RedcRover. ooo. eons wotende ae Not taken 
A ietteeaeen TANDEM RACE—DISTANCE 1 MILE, 

. L. Greenleaf, F 

W.l, Gre en. Sera sb arse ht Tips payee arse iceetee ee te 8 36 
Re, ww. ilkin, oy - ( 
oh Gould. f ei eksti ites Fee Saskatchawan,.........-, 4... 8 39 
W. Dormitzer, | . 
BeRewler, Pees Pert ROG ROVGD tos ee ean aac 8 42 


The Knickerbocker C. C. is rapidly increasing in size. ‘There are 
thirty-two active members on its rolls and five applicants are now 
awaiting admission. A most prosperous career seems to be opening 
before it in its new home. 


THE GALLEY FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 


1V.— MEATS. 


Broiled Steaks,—lf the steak is tough beat it on both sides, but not 
enough to tear the meat and allow the juices to escape. Wipea grid- 
iron clean, heat iv well over a bed of coals, and then put in the steak. 
Turn often, and if the drippings escaping into the fire cause the latter 
to blaze or smoke, withdraw the gridiron for a moment, Season, 
after it is done, with pepper and salt, and if a gravy is desired put a 
half teaspoonful of salf, half as much pepver, and a piece of butter 
or fat as large as a duck’s egg into a hot dish, and add two table- 
spoonsful of boiling water. Pourit over the steak slowly, so that 
every part of the latter will be moistened. 

Broiling in a Prying-pan.—Broiling can be done as well with a fry- 
ing-pan as with a gridiron, and all the juices are preserved. Heat 
the empty pao very hot first, then put in the meat tobe broiled, cover 
over with a tin plate, and turn the meat often in the pan. 

Boiled Meat.—Put the meat inte enough boing water so that the 
former will be a litle more than covered. Cover the pot and boil till 
cooked, which will take about fifteen minutes for avery pound of 
meat, Skim constantly while boiling, and turn the meat several 
times. Replenish when necessary with boiling water. One teaspoon- 
ful of salt for each five pounds ot meat should be put into the pot a 
short time before the meatis done, If there isa layer of fat on top 
after the meat is cold, remoye it. Beef or venison fat may be used 
for ing. 

Boked Deer's Head.— Build a fire ina hole inthe ground. When 
it has burned to a good bed of coals put in the deer’s head, neclc 
downward, with the skin on but the eyes and brains removed. Cover 
with green grass or leaves, coals and earth, and build a new fire on 
top of all. In about six hours exhume the head, remove the sltin, 
and the baking is complete, This method of baking applies as well 
to the head of any animal. F 

Fried Sult Pork (or Bacon).—Good salt pork is smooth and dry, 
Damp, clammy pork is unwhoelesome. Slice thin, put in fryimg-pan 
with cold water enough to cover, let it come to a boil and boil two or 
three niinutes; then turn off the water and fry brown on both sides; 
or, soak one hour in cold water then roll in bread or cracker crumbs 
and fry with a little butter or lard in the pan. rhe = 

Broiled Salt Pork.—Slice thin, and broil same as steak on a gridiron 
or on the end of a green switch held over the coals, using extra care 
thatthe smoke and flame from the drippings do not reach the pork. 

Boiled Pork.—Soak over night in cold water and put into a pot af 
cold water over the fire when the boiling begins. Boil same as other 
meat and save the cake of fat that rises when itis cold for frying 
pulposes. Turnips, cabbage. potatoes and greens are good boile 
with pork, (See table tor boiling vegetables in 4 future paper). _ 

Baked Pork wand Beans.—A camping triend of mine takes two nights 
and a day to baxe pork and beans, and as his beat any “Boston 
baked beans” that were eyer canned, I give his method. In the 
evening he picks over, say, two quarts of heans, washes them, and 
soaks them in cold water until the next morning. Then he parboils 
three pounds of salt pork and cuts it into thin slices. The soaked 
beans are drained and put into a pot with enough cold water to coyer 
them and a teaspoonful of soda, the pot is covered. and they are 
boiled briskly for a quarter of an hour, the scum being removed as it 
rises, Then the water is poured off, fresh boiling water is put in jhe 
pot, and they are boiled with the cover ou tiltender. This is the time 
when I get tired and hungry, and eat the beans and pork without 
baking, but my friend digs a hole aud. builds a fire io it, as for all 

camp baking, puts one-half the beans into the bake Kettle (or bake 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Tum 19, 1884. 


AIS 


course of his own, and with excellent judgment had struck a strong 
ebb there which carried her down on the buoy in almost a calm. | 
At the buoy were a group of steamers, yachts and tugs awaiting 
the yachts, and by the time the Luckenbach had joined them, Espir- 
ito was about to luff, going round on port tack with gafftopsail and 
balloon jib set, taking in the latter and setting jib to the aceompani- 
ment of an infernal chorus from all the whistles within a mile, the 
melodious bellow of the Luckenbach echoing above all the others. 
Olytie came round next, Eclipse third, and the rest as below, all soon 
being scattered again in the beat off the point of the Hook. 


basins, described before), lays over them the sliced pork, over that 
the rest of the beans, pours a half pint or so of boiling water over 
them, and (it being by that time sundown) buries them, tightly coy- 
ered, among the coals, and foes to bed, At daybreak they are done. 

Hash.—¥our pounds of eold boiled meat (not pork) or corned beef, 
free from bone or gristle, one large parhoiled onion, and two pounds 
of boiled or baked potatoes are chopped and mixed together, seasoned 
with pepper and salt, and stirred up with about a pint of hot water. 
Put enough lard or butter into a frying-pan to well cover the bottom 
when melted, and when it is what '‘Nessmuk” would call “screeching 


hot,” put inthe hash. Stir it for a few minutes, then let it fry till it | Espirito.............-..... 2 sl 19 Hildepardé.............4. 2 - a 
is brown on the bottom, Corned beef hash requires little salt for | Clytie.................-.. iso) da Mien Aly reap ea epet 2 5 
seasoning. HIGIEDSS «Sten ees 2 40 17 Athlon .........6.6.sees 2 50 49 
Ham and Egqs.—Fry the ham first the same as pork or bacon, and | Wenonah,,............-.. me A 84 (GPAGIO! Hie ave ney es 2 51 a 
fry the eggs in the fat left in the pan, Break each egg separately | Crusader ,....... .....<., 4 82°21 OLIVA. eb ene metre eet. oeheea te 
into a cup, and thence transfer it to the pan, by which meuns the | Mischief ....,............. 2 44 61 Whileaway....,.........+ hate 
yolks are kept intact and bad eges are discovered before itis toolate, | Fanny...,....-...-.-.-... RAB dd CHO. cer ers sceenes os ® 5 3 
SENEOA. Montauk ...:.-.+.-4s- a ate ca ae eee aie Pee 2 58 56 
«rene Grayling ........ = eee ell WUSKENG ST. eran erty eee 3 00 bg 
ea NES RACES.—59 Banik PRC eel ae Bes wie WS? Onowreretpoties y a a "DDIGOM se Sa eed ee eet B02) 24 
rest cad Stream: our edili f the 5th inst. you have the ‘lip, C21) | hr ee cits 5 9 2 
Rd. Willink. Geass eotaiiee ast aa the padalinte race dpainst At 3:30 Mspirito still lead, but Wenonah had second place, half a 


mile astern, with Clytie halfas far behind her, and Gracie fourth. 
Fanny, Ileen and Mischief were standing down in the order named. 
Tleen ab 3:45 trying to pass through Wanny’s weather, The rest were 
wellstrung out along the beach, Athlon and Fanita standing im on 
port tack, the others mostly on starboard, with a fresh southeast 
wind. At4;10 a fog came up very suddenly, shutting ont everything 
for a few minutes, but it lifted as quickly, showing the yachts in 
nearly the same order. Athlon and Wanita in together near the beach 
were at it, hammer and tongs, neither having much the best of ib at 
any time. Hildegarde did little of note thus far, being sailed very 
close all day, but Neen was pointing up in a way worth seeing. 

Off the lightship there was no wind to speak of. Wenonah came 
about on port tack at 4:50, Mischief 4:52:50, rounding the lightship as 
below: 


the Snake, Aurora and Mosqnito. I would beg of you to correct the 
same, as neither the Mosquito nor Tip were im that race, I entered 
but one race, and gained second place. in that in a boat I had never 
betore been in till the night previous.—Tip. 


ROCHESTER CG, 0,—The summer races of this canoe club will tale 
place on Irondequoit Bay this afternoon. The course laid out is be- 
tween the club house and the Newport House. The entries will be 
about twenty in number, and the prizes, given by members of the 
club, will consist of silver cups, flazs, watches, headlights and camp- 
ing outfits. 

NEW YORK ©, C.—The spring races of the N.Y. C, C, will take 
Place on Saturday, June 21, at 3 P. M., off the club house, Staten 
Island, Visitors can take the North Shore Ferry to New Brighton, or 


the South Shore to Tompkinsville, the canoe house being between the | Mischief. ._- 46512 Oriva..........,... seceeeee ed 02 83 
two. Both ferries start from the foot of Whitehall street, New | Athion.._- 450 OLusader. (yee. rursuvtee:) 5 03 08 
York Li Fivine 1p pew ie LL 45559 Grayling ......... wrens) 5 05 08 
eS VEN UO TRE Grea pny Wee te ech eo Abe 19) Wald ex ard eh ees bas 5 OW 43 

. : Moribata yar soele sean eh te 458 29 Whileaway.... ........... 5 11 46 

achtin TECHy ee SNS RRA a 458 29 Helipse. 00.0... 5 12 19 

; 7 fl. Wenonsiy ect. etee cesccnt BOO OSIM Oly tie wee Pe Se 5 18 26 

HUSDITItOS sere ee einfltae atau op WccGy TSS ek eit. kip kee ee 5 18 41 

KQESCIEC Sofa ic acca gaan Aad + iele BO TO MetLon cass tat sro see aesteks 5 16 68 

WBA E Ne att trod dott aint rats. DER Cie sO Sia ne mest vere Ne tae eee 5 18 06 


NEW YORK Y. C. 


HE New York Y, ©,, on the occasion of their annual matches on 
Thursday last, were blessed with even worse weather than that 
which disappointed the Atlantic Y. C. on the previous Tuesday. ‘The 
day opened with heavy clouds and light wind from the east, with a 
thick fog during apart of the time. clearing as the afternoon ad- 
vanced, but at no time with sufficient wind to make an exciting race, 
Twenty-three yachts were entered, all but two (the Lotus and 
Bedouin) starting, the latter withdrawing on account of a death in 
her owner’s family. The keel schooners and Class 1 centerboards 
had no entries, those in the other classes being: 
SECOND CLASS SCHOONERS. 


0 

Athlon did a pretty piece of work on the turn, Deen gave way for 
Montauk, rounding immediately after her, and Clytie nearly picked 
up Isis on the end of her jibboom, by which time the rest were well 
on the way home, the kites all spread to thelight southeast wind, 

At 5:10 Wenonah lost all her kites in a moment, as it proved, by los- 
ing the head of her topmast, and was out of the race. All went mer- 
rily up for the Hook with clear sky, bright sunlight and a tearing 
flood i eips Mischief and Fanny neck and neck, Athlon some distance 
astern, Montauk fourth, Gracie fifth and Fanita hanging well to her 
lee quarter, while Crusader, Oriva, Grayling, Ileen and Vixen were 
in a pack astern. 

Fanny now led Mischief to the point of the Hook, where, at 6 P. 


—Allowances,— | M., the wind fell, and the question was asked anxiously by all hanis, 


Measure- Club Ghallenge | ‘Will they make the race in the time?” eight hours being the limit for 
ment. Prizes, Prizes. all classes or no race. After drifting in a calm for ten minutes a puff 
Name. Ft. In. M.S. M. §, | came out of the west, Mischiet’s crew walked away forward with the 
: Allows Allows | sheet, and as they did so she started as though they were pulling her 
417 417 | bodily, passing Fanny, who as yet hardly moved. yo ] 
5 02 5 02 At Buoy 10 the chances of a race were but small, Mischief coming 
6 40 6 40 | up ahead, rounding slowly, and starting off a little as her blocks were 
7 OF 7 25 | brought quickly together. Athlon now was after Panny in a way 
that promised that she might save her time from the pair, but in the 
Allows 15 47 | light wind it proved a hopeless task, and it was soon seen that even 
8 21 19 08 | Mischief could not make the race, 
MiSciietipery aupttte Pen mere 2 ee A Gracie Fa aD haven te f ie a 
wh Allows | Hannby,,...-...-..:.,...... 2,6 83 Be OTE BELL ae te os | mee ean ao lervea's i 47 18 
Fs es Hons |cAEtIS tee Soe ee A | 6.97 58 Grayling. 20002222010 6 49 22 
4A 49 MoS) | MUsiILH eee nny en, aoe 6 45 01 a , 
5 10 5 10 Up the Bay the order was little changed, Fanny's spinnaker set at 7 
6 02 6 02 | helping her a little; the tug ran up quietly in the twilight, stopped for 
3 6 46 6 46 | 4 few minutes and at 7:41 a long whistle announced te the leaders, 
Manilehra vate ciel Mee eR yng coe een 57.5 12 30 12 30 | still a mile or so away, that the eight hours had expired, Back went 
SNe! peo lee Rea ee, © ID ied 56.4 12 39 12 39 | the Luckenbach in the increasing darkness, hailing Mischief first: 
SECOND GLASS SLOOPS “No race; ready at il to-morrow.” “‘All right, sir,”* then away to 
MSS ere da EL lope eds MEE: ante 5A Allows i6 14 | Fanny and Athlon, Moutauk and Gracie, and down to the rest coming 
Riveter ee sae AA ST" A Wer tie 53.8 0 29 16 43 | up slowly. ~All were anxious for another trial, but when in the rear 
LATTE Cae PE DARE HUN OH 8 TOMAS PLE MCT, — — — | Wenonah’s broken topmast was made out a voice asked eagerly, 
UP ee ee ee OA ee 49.5 5 46 92 00 | ‘Do we try again to-morrow, sir?” ‘Yes, a cheer went up from all 
Sry Se ae a A NMR yc at 48.6 6 58 93 12 | hands forward with a heartiness that showed how keenly they felt 
Hspirito A ae a ae dite 49 5 8 28 24 42 | their disaster. On steamed the tug through the slowly moying green 
he course was from a line between the judge's boat and a mark- | @20d red lights toward the numberless white ones beyond; soon the 


fleet was seen dimly outlmed in the Narrows, and the race that was 
no Trace was over, 

As far as its effect on the main question at issue is concerned, the 
race so long looked forward 10 was of little value, no conclusive results 
being possible when, at three or four times during the day the con- 
testants were distributed about as much according to their size and 
merit as though they had been emptied from a bag. Light and flulky 
winds had spoiled a day for the finest fleet of sloops and cutters the 
New-York Y. C. has ever brought together. ¢ 

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 

The clear weather of the preceding evening was followed by 
another cloudy day with a drizzle in the morning that gave little in- 
dication of what it proved finally to be, a day of the grandest yacht- 
ing weather that has honored the spring races of New York yachts- 
men inalong time. None of Tuesday’s light winds or Thursday’s 
disappointments and flukes, but a day to test gear and rigging; when 
topmasts were best housed and spinnaker booms ashore, a day too to 
test the metal of the sailor men of sloops and cutters, as well as their 
respective boats, A rattling breeze over all the course, web jackets 
for everybody, a beat to windward that made it no child’s play, with 
a struggle for first place which made it worth haying, 

Of the 21 starters on Thursday, 5, Crusader, Triton, Whileaway,, Isis 
and Hspirito, were missing when the starting whistle blew at exactly 
noon, the first whistle sounding at 11:50, The rain then had ceased, 
though the sky in every direction was covered with a dull heavy 
cloud. The tide had just begun to ebb and the wind was so light 
from the northwest that light sails were spread everywhere. The 


boat near buoy 18, off Owl’s Head, thenee to and around No. 10, pass- 

ing to west and south of it, thence to buoy No. 814, passing south of 

it, north of buoy No. 5, to and around Sandy Hook Lightship, and re- 

peng: oyer the same course to a stake boat off buoy 15 on the West 
ank. 

A prize was offered in each class, provided two or more yachts 
start, besides a prize for keel schooners, and the Bennett challenge 
cups for schooners and sloops. 

y 10 A. M. besides the judge’s boat, Luckenbach, with Messrs. 
Tams, Stebbins and other members of the club aboard, there was a 
fleet of steamers off Bay Ridge, the Taurus, with members and guests 
of the elub, Columbia with a crowd of spectators, the Grand Republic 
with an excursion on board, and of the yachts Stranger, Corsair, At- 
alanta, Natalie, Gleam, Sentinel, Tillie, Promise, Theresa, Vision, 
Marina, Angler and several tugs. 

At i124, M., by which time the yachts were all near the starting line 
a thick fog shut in, with hardly any wind, the tide then having tured 
down. At the first whistle, 11:21, the Wenonah and Grayling were 
near the line, the vest of the fleet being seattered above it, the sloops 
ae inp topsails set over working topsails, the cutters with club top- 
sails only, ; 

The starting whistle blew at 11:31,and three mmutes later Deen 
passed slowly and gracefully over the line with boom to starboard, 
running up jibtopsail as she approached. Olytie followed, then 
Gracie, with Fanita and Oriva across together, the last whistle, at 
11:41, finding Misc) ief and Clio abreast, both handicapped, with 
Fanny and Montauk astern, and Ruseearde last of all. 


MEET eee we Re he ii 34 Wenonah ._..... cscs... 11 39 09 | Pleasure fleet of the previous day was nowhere visible, and the few 
Olybre pecan tees sah «11 84.21 Whileaway,............... 11 39 19 | 2board the tug were the only witnesses of one of the finest struggles 
Gracie........ Peet Ce iinardseeAtalony.etee ok ho teen) 41 39 58 known to American yachtsmen. The first across was the schooner 
I Ra cee ns ec Tio. Ols-Vaxank. ed Wer, opel ste 11 40 24 Benes next Clytie, Ileen, Fanita, Hildegarde, Oriva, Montauk, Clio, 
ORV eee RES ACCT . : Beso: OOS Ubi botreee Se. yes) eae ee 11 40 89 | 48 follows: ; 
Estelle.... ... Pia. Ter ey: HIESG ROT OIG eee ae. lee Tae 41 41 33 Estelle PP tet ennai 12 01 44. Heclipse.........0. . sey 2es 12 08 05 
RClIPRe a pee ANUS BESO MONTISCHi Gian emu. laerailal ile Aled) | CAvUleas eer eet ne 12 02 28 Grayling.................. 12 09 07 
Wrukader sch ae sealer TSA 5p eatin yey. wea estee ee eeeh 11 42 05 | Hleen..... ees 1z 04 OL Fanny..........--..05 25 12 09 18 
Gray line ye y= ses ays eae ll 37 59 Hildegarde....... wh aes Yd aoeed) | PMani bees eto pares sya tere ee Oe OAS me SVACIUE WN lactase steleik's wens 12 10 01 
Wigs RIA Go dee eel1eas By Montaulec. ae. so. 11 42 34.| Hildegarde...........,..4.. 1206 44 Gracie............ 2.4... 12 10 01 
HS DiTiion Ce. en a 11 88 63 ONE pers Oconee eer” dricren 12 07 08 Wenonah................. 12 10 15 
Mischief set spinnaker on the line, most of the others following, Oni ey pphie ees yen erect aes ee Ofety MISGHICL reser heeh hs been 12 10 30 
some of them starting with spinnakers to starboard and having to | Clio....- Da peatn saat oes 12 08 01 Athlon........... Ee matte ok 12 11 26 
shift them. Tleen one the ball with Fanita as partner in a pretty but very 
The tide carried them down, there being but little wind and above | brief lufiing match, in which the former showed what she could do 


the forts they loomed up like a procession of ghosts in the fog, the 
fleet being rather curiously in the shape of aletter L, one line down 
the Long Island shore, Teen well ahead with half a dozen strung out 
behind her, while at the end of the line a part of the fleet, one abreast 
of the other, made the bottom of the L, extending across the Nar- 
rows, 

At noon the fog lifted a litile, at 12:09 Tleen passed Fort Lafayette, 
and there came some streaks of wind that broke up the geométrical 


No loitermgy to-day, 
ree hours yesterday was made m one, and at 1:04 


order of the procession. Athlon first with clubtopsail and balloon jib | Montauk..-................ 10400 Gracie..............,..2... 1 11 35 
started ahead of the pack, helped by a puff from the west, taking a | MPayime.....1--.--.......,,1 06 28 Mischief.............2....., 1 15 20 
foremost position, Neen still leading to leeward, Gracie, Clytie and Wenonah ........-. tetasess it 15 50 
Mischief being well up to the front, Wenonah on the latier’s lee ixen..... tees eee 1 15 50 
beam. Fanny and Fanita tried a little bout at luffing, the former AOSD Ae Puy ene earn, 1 15 55 
proving victorious, when the wind fell, and at 12:40 the order was | H@00y........ ...-.......,.1 1005 Oriva,....... ......--25-... 1 1% 20 
Panny and Athlon abreast to windward, with Ileen to leeward ana | leen..-,..-......-.........1 1005 Athlon...............-..., vi 18 55 


Gracie, Olytie, Wenonah and Mischief between. All now stood over 
toward Coney Island Point, with a southwest wind. een well in the 
van, Clytie, enonah, Gracie and Athlon in pursuit, Mischief and 
Hanita close behind with Hildegarde and Oriva well under their lee, 
Isis astern in company with the big schooners. Athlon here did the 
best work of all the pursuers, and off the point was in hot chase of 
Teen, who was going like a steamer under a fresher breeze that she 
had felt all day. z 
At 1 o’clock [leen went on port tack and stood for the buoy, Clytie 
being second about and Gracie third, the rest soon following, with a 
breeze from southwest, Up to this time Neen had been doing splen- 
did work, and had put a mile between her and the pack; but standing 
well off to the eastward, a sudden shift of wind lost her all her ad— 
vantage and tumbled Fanita into first place near the Romer Beacon, 
with Mischief arid Wenonah, who had been making a good fight all 
ps Gis aetceny ab 1 hing the 
on the tug had been eagerly watching thevaryine chances of the 
Yachts to the eastward of them, when suddenly a rai of ‘Look ab 
Vixen,” caused alito turn to the west,where, near the buoy, was asmall 
sloop that had hitherto been unnoticed, ‘A glance showed that she 
was not Vixen. But who was she? Nobody knew: but she was finally 
identified as Espirito, a boat new last year and little known, Her 
kipper, an old pilot, had quietly stood up over the west bank, on a 


Montauk had her nose outside the Hook first, with Grayling close 
behind. Now, if ever, was Ileen’s chance—really her maiden race— 
and well she improyed it. On the previous day her own crew of four 
before the mast were helped out by Muriel’s men, all cutter sailors, 
but to-day her extra men were tecruited alongshore, new to the 
boat, and lacking of course the careful drill needed ina successful 
racing crew. Once outside, however, she settled down in earnest for 
the work before her. Hildegarde slipped astern of her somehow in a 
yery short time, while Fanny had to be content witha place on her 
lee quarter. Fanny finally worked up again, Hildegarde, however, 
still being last of the trio, Gracie astern of her, and Wenonah in hot 
chase for a place at the top, 

Meanwhile the schooners were hard at it, Montauk well ahead, 
Grayling second, Estelle to leeward, Clytie astern of ner and Clio last 
of all, Fanny had gained on Teen a little, but found her jib too much 
for her; working under staysail lleen finally passed her at 2:24, haying 
lett Gracie under her lee at 2:16, the latter also having taken in her 


ib, 

By this time there was a sea that kept the sloops jumping and toss- 
ing about in a way that suggested the propriety of a speedy return to 
snioother waters. Fanita bad enough some time before, Athlon 
did not want any more and Mischief was more than satisiied with her 


port chain plates started off, so all were off for the Hook, Estelle and 
Clio, the latter with bobstay and howsprit shroud parted, 

Oriva all day had been at her work steadily, having her old adyer- 
sary, Vixen, against her, and now was doing good work in the beat 
to windward. Onlv three boats were timed at the Lightship: Mon- 
tank, 2:45:22) Grayling, 2:55:26; Ueen, 2:06:28; the order of the olhers 
being Clytic, Fanny, Gracie, Wenonah, Hildegarde. Oriva, Vixen, 
Eclipse. 

Today the schooners were home far ahead of the others. Mon tak 
started up, with Grayling astern, passing Buoy No. 10 at 3:46:50, fin» 
ishing off Buoy No. 15 at 4:23:09. Ileen held her own well on the run 
up as faras Buoy No, 10, but when sheets were flattened both Gracie 
and Fanny passed her, all finishing as follows: ~~ 

SECOND GLASS SGHOONERS. 


Start. Finish, Ela’ ees ei 
MOntatke.)j-..jo0ge- oe nseede Oreos 4 23 09 415 24 5 27 
Ganrting ee ets, rye WYER 12 09 O07 4 38 40 , 429 33 4 25 16 
LOST 3) | (oe ER he SRO + Ae 12 O1 44. Withdrew- 
10) bt) eee Is lagu let 12, 02. 28 5 O04 11 5 O01 43 4 54 18 
THIRD GLASS SCHOONDRS. 
SH Sea ae beeen catia oe 12 08 01 Withdrew. 
FIRST CLASS SLOOPS. . 
ieee nes AB BPE COS BAe 12 10 00 4 59 08 4 49 05 4 49 08 
A hike Oe Oe Rae RE oe 12 09 12 4 5S 08 4 48 55 4 AF 37 
are Sees oon ee, 12 04 01 5 ee 4 57 24 4 52 45 
MMS CHIC te ears) cai eiat 12 10 00 Withdrew, 
Wildegarde............... 12 06 44 5 09 16 5 02 32 4 56 30 
Wenonah... 22-6. enw 12 10 00 Disabled. 
EN GHIORS Oise ute le s.< sare 12 10 00 Withdrew. 
SEGOND CLASS SLOOPS. 

OTE Eg bees eaten 12 07 O8 5 24 44 5 17 41 5 17 dt 
(De) Th TST Oy 4 Ss el 12 08 05 Withdrew, 

Tie LAT DSb es depeh cle chael apo) dtetesetel oie? 12 04 12 Withdrevw,. F 
Rib ee Oo eer 12 10 00 5 87 R27 6 27 27 5 20 58 


Wenonah parted two of her port shrouds and was oub of the race 
ou the run home, while Vixen lost a boat which was stove at her 
dayits. Montauk wins the club pee and Bennett cup, anny wins 
the same prizes in her class, and Oriva wins her class prize. 


JERSEY CITY Y. C, 


HIS club held their twenty-sixth annual matches on June 11, the 
courses being for classes A and C, starting at stakehoat between 
Bedloe’s and Ellis Islands, around buoy 84% on Southwest Spit and 
return. Class D, around buoy i4in the Lower Bay. Classes G and H, 
twice around Robbin's Reef. The wind was light irom northeast at 
the start at 11 A. M. 
The entries were: 
CLASS A—CABIN YACHTS. 


Name wner Ft. Th. 

Jaintias 92.6552 f ore fete hors: He Ge ROoMe, . sr. ertnrtpceenaeenasees 43 26g 

Ntiy2 SIS Ves eh A PeSeT fle De Utehe Vandy acceekuss cpeesueeran 1G 
CLASS C- CABIN YACHTS, 

Wit ASSO Sr ofocth tes cteianye Gils. Wants) 2 pase se tsi ees seteeeens at 716g 
CLASS D—OPEN SLOOPS, 

Knight Templar........... G. A, Bowker...: 0-2. 0s.-.--254-4-4: 80 6 
Alex, Forsyth... 2.22... 4: Alors MOVsyilie. (eee sk co ae me oa wt 29 234 
CLASS G—OPEN SLOOPS, 

LR Cee bast bontd, ar Scateoe FO. B. Ancher, ,-..2.2.6......5- 25-80 24 
Hoodoo................  OnrensWasleyece: 2 heehee 5 seus 19 1134 
OLASS A—GAT RIGGED, 

Annie Forsyth. .:....:..... Ales, Res ee ange ens SST SaR a ts 17 14 

All went over with booms to port, as follows; 
Annie Forsyth.......-..... 1i 04 00 Knight Templar .......... 11 06 00 
IMIDGY, 2. pucae een ein, ote AGLI O4 sO) REIT AR yy de ljaneldjasenn ee IL 0% 07 
WinIDASSOA| end eetecueden dus AObI00) Ele odgomy a vesiisee.s tenes 11 08 00 
Alexikorsytin vie yess ite OSS G.¢ Ban arlien * 4a, Reena ce 11 08 30 


In the Narrows the wind, by this time southeast, made a lively 
jump as it drove against the ebb tide. Wabasso gave up and returned, 
but Middy and Linda were making a close race. 

The Olass D boats were timed at Buoy No. 4, the Worsyth at 
12:33:27, and the Templar at 12:35:20, after which they started home. 

At Buoy No, 8% Middy led round at 12:57:30, with Linda at 1:03:05, 

Coming home the wind was at northeast again, all coming up close- 
hauled, the full time being: 

CLASS A—CABIN YACHTS, 


Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected, 
GETING A OG Fleece (olay of 11 07 00 3°24 03 417 03 417 03 
NMI yo REREeOn Cetera se 1L 04 30 3 id 00 4 09 30 3 52 37 
OLASS C—CABIN YACHTS, 
Wahbasgo. ews... 11 05 00 Did not go course. ; 
CLASS D—OPEN SLOOPS, 4 
Knight Templer........ 1i 06 00 3 06 30 4 00 30 4 00 30 
Alex. Forsyth.......... 1i 05 30 2 48 10 3 42 40 3 40 3814 
GLASS G—OPEN SLOOPS, 
HEVZ 2b J Gers oc. teeevh nl ae 11 08 30 3 05 25 3 56 55 8 56 55 
HOCH OR Ayers aerate. 11 08 00 2 47 45 3 39 45 3 38 00 
CLASS H—CAT RIGGED, 
Annie Forsyth....... -11 04 00 3 18 05 4 14 05 4 14 05 


HUDSON RIVER Y. C. 


HE twelfth annual matches of the Hudson River Y. G. on Monday, 
June 16, brought out nineteen boats, enough entering in each 
class to make a race. The wind was from northeast, making a beat 
up the river and a run down, the course being from the club house 
around a markboat off Yonkers and return for the larger boats, 
Class E turning a stakeboat off Spuyten Duyvil. 
OLASS A—CABIN BOATS. 


Name Owner. M. 8. 
Howard Sore 852 $252 spots JOR IRIS ENS ies ele hase a Allows 
WMCP Moe ees pees UA SCRIMIGia cote elle tee ree 40 20 
LiGbHiee Ne oe as ey se OAT OPE Wren it het. eepok ce ale 50 20 

CLASS B—OPEN SLOOPS, 
Woodpecker................ ULO Vere tri on ails Vcc See Allows 
Olarag een ey ee eee ODN OIy erect POUL L OL GL Lune an oath 50 

CLASS C—OPEN SLOOPS, - 

[aU Tabada Coveney een nN A. L. Kreymeyer,............ ,.. Allows 

Hrank-OlUvers --...- veer iat NVA EL AL ROLCL Ue fete ce eae a esl: 

[ele] esr OPP renee eas AM 2. MeGartyr cy ee I 20 

Julia G 4 Wile a ah eae ee wT” 0 10 

SIDE El stg eee Greate arog SFE TES saa aie eateee Penn aged 0 U5 
CLASS D—OPEN SLOOPS. 

BS GOGO WAT ts corsa sue ee ke T. Muller, Jr 

Ways NOE aetna toes oe. QO. Ohatiield. 550... 

NAL net a, Cee aS Ea, SRT LOU H pee eee 

VU AN sf ele, Fc ..o. Bridge... .. ee 

Wibratisles Apt ca) oases ayy pL Cetin wlan ee Bee 


«- Lewis Wolfe, 2.0.2.) ..-.--.eaee Allows 
wea VV ECO: WCLLITHER cg eee ee 0 62be 
BHR Gee wigs fee ee sent 2 380 
Aug. Hermann............ rapids eae 00 
The times of starting were; 
Clara seals | Soest aoe nile: Cstee wcUbTIO ECs A eee ee yr 11 45 45 
OW ard pette mesee nee Vie OPIN Aa duiteh apes el ET A 11 45 55 
MOG? ate Pee ke ei pene ti 4240 W. Trankle.. ............ 11 46 00 
GOUDIGT oo oe te tase dent eae LR s2y aOR BPWlat weneces vata ee ny ome 11 47 12 
Woodpecker............ ary Ll PA OG CVI toe oe ee ey ae 11 49 55 
Selenai iy Boe halsate ees ibe plrs Diyas ES) a ae 11 50 55 
SRULIBAGE, oe Vee meus atellaensae ii 48 50 HH Holmes.......... .11 51 00 
Prank Oliver... .......2..: 11 48 58 Why Not .11 51 00 
Sarpy Be © oii en eee AIP $5 30 Aye de 11 51 00 
BeGood winnie Ay kee di 45 00 


Beating up Olara §, Selena © and Lottie made a close fight, the 
Clara being first t6 jibe for home. The Frank Oliver capsized on the 
way up, but was towed in without any damage, and Edith was dis- 
abled and returned. The times at the mark boat were: 


Ulara Se, Sab stn sc iateays pS EES? AACN Meee ee 1 58 55 
JOAN GP Aa ee Bei ei A Th bas SOs SEL Oless yobs eee Oe 2 08 15 
Selenbet OAs AA usatcu J 'bo"15¢ Fmelies. 0. aes, 2 08 35 


CLASS A—CABIN BOATS, 


Name Start. Finish, Elapsed. Corrected, 
Howard........-..--+4. 11 42 20 3 46 00 4 08 40 4 03 40 
Hmilie......-.....,--..11 42 40 3 30 00 8 47 20 3 07. 20 
Lottie meeewece.dl 42 50. 3 18 05 3 35 15 2 44 55 

CLASS B—OPEN SLOOPS, 
GIADAC SS ci een eet pe os li 41 55 3 18 30 3 36 35 3 34 45 
Woodpecker __._..._.., 11 43 00 4 07 50 4 24 50 4 24 50 
CLASS C—OPEN SLOOPS. 
HH Holmes.....,.. . 11 51 00 3 02 00 3 41 00 3-41 00 
Frank Oliver, .....,,..,11 43 58 Capsized. 
Selena C..... se esdd 43.25 3 21 00 3 37 35 336 15 
AR UTENA Gets ea ee a meee 1i 43 50 3 59 50 4 16 00 4 16 50 
Sarah B......_. ee ep 11 44 30 Not timed. 
B Goodwi 4500 a dyeg 
odwin,._,.... Seen) 45 () 3 49 26 4 04 25 4 04 § 
Why Not...., -ssas At 51 00 3 26 85 3 384 85 8 384 a0 
AAU NA SEA Me cie’ 11 45 55 3 24 15 8 41 20 3-41 00 
Julia B ee Arte tay 11 45 44 3 43 80 3 OY 45 8 55 35 
W iirapicdes pi see: 11 46 00 3 51 00 4 45 00 4 02 50 
Ada 115100 8 6 
Eat eer Seaena: 26 25 3 85 2b 8 85 25 
Li ee ee 11 47 12 3.13 00 3 25 48 3 24 5516 
OGL UH GS 2 cae ald 50) GD. Disabled 
(Os ale See eT root ts 11 49 55 3 35 50 3.45 55 8 42 55 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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—e—vw—nrneNnNeeee— cS SSS  ————eoeoeoeoo 5S SS 


SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C., 


it Was very unfortunate for the Seawanhaki Y. C. that their races 
followed so close on the two of the N. Y. Y. C., coming in between 
them and the Lon: Island race of Monday. Several of those who 
were out on Wriday were disabled, crews were tired out, and on the 
others time was needed tu prepare for Monday, so that of fourteen 
Entries bub eight started. The wind an! water were but 4 repetition 
of Friday, with addition of a clear sky. Fanny. Mischief, lleen, 
Grayling, Crusader and Vixen were missing, Isis taking the latter’s 
place. 

The course was trom Fort Wadsworth around Baoy No. 10 and 
Buoy No, 8}4, thence to and around Sandy Hook Wightship and return 
over the sa he course to Buoy No, 15, the fourth class sloops only go- 
ing around Buoy No, 5 at Sandy Hook. The Luckenbach was on 
hand as usual with Messrs, Bayard, Suydam and De Luze, the regatta 
committee, on board; the Sirius cariied the members and guests of 
the club, and Sentinel, Gleam and Marina came out to see the start. 

Topmasts were housed on all except Amazon, one, and on some 
two reefs turned in, and Ray sent both topmasts ashore. 

The starters were but eight, as follows: 


SCHOONERS, 
Length 
LC) Rae) gl ee opie oe iD Pot 7 eerste rssaa doh New York 
RED yeah sd yee Soke ke tied cn Wad Sut 62:00. . cee Pt tee = | Seawanhaka 
FIRS GLASS SLOOPS, 
MGRACIGE ets t id tate tie des NOUN hse eaes 7 wate es oe New York 
Nine Ley YES Oe hee pee EE ee oa DOUG pada fees las! eee Atlantic 
SECOND GLASS SLOOPS, 
DTV hand § sed caeine aoaes Sheetont WSGe ois ohri eee nee aeiek Seawauhaka 
“LESTE ESS Heys cea Ae trPe iaiesei Fils Spats a vepeeuy ojtrece Sea wanhaka 
FOURTH CLASS SLOOPS, 
PEGE) sac sees esses scteaby setae De rete pare bag gii tied! Seawanhaka 
SWEOEE Ch eae ior ne tite tone OPE Se er odes Sas y eee Oe Atlantic 


PASM IG! is totes he daccks oes 11 4018 Amazon . ....... dativese 11 43 15 
OTR: es ee ar een eee AT 49 00 MP Str el snd Soasaee cu eho! 11 47 10 
TE) (aa pak eer rm 1142505: -GERCIG cat eetess .-1! 50 40 
MOIS ie Ae vce went. seek AIA 80 TRAY ae oa rt oot saredl 52 50 


The little fellows, Petrel and Amazon, snugly reefed, were bobbing 
up and down, the former soon ahead. Atazon parted the shackle of 
her weather shrouds when below the forts. both shrouds coming 
down. <As it was found impossible to repair the damage, the maiu- 
sail was lowered, and she ran under head of jibinto Perth Amboy. 
At 12:07 Gracie’s staysail came down, while Oriva, with tack triced 
up, was well ahead, Athlon next and Isis third, The bay even here 
was allin a tumble, with a promise of still more outside. Off the 
Upper Middle buey Isis passed Athlon and led for a short time. 
Smoother water was found at buoy No. 10, and Oriva and Athlon, 
after rounding, stopped for second reefs. 

MOTIVES cio ete hcko ek ahe? sa d 27S IOP AINION 2c eee comcast ans 12 44 25 
LVARG Is cots tata es dco suits» Berd AO elGi se veces y) ahee theeace 12 43 52 
aibcret se tetcenes ga ti es 12 43 40 

While lying under the Hook, Petrel appeared alone, Amazon being 
long out, Sheran under the Point, anchored, repaired a tear in her 
mainsail, her crew dined, and started on again around buoy 5 in time 
to fo home with the big ones. 

At1 o’elock Oriya and Athlon were busy with second reefs, while 
Gracie kepb on. passing both and gaining quite a lead on them, 
Rounding the Hook Gracie was butting into the seas, throwing spray 
all oyer her, while Criva with a steady swing went through them at 
@ pace that was taking her rapidly to the front. and at 2:15 she had 
Gracie under her lee, gaining on her steadily from there to tue Light- 
ship. 

by this time there was fun on the tug as the big seas came in, green 
and solid, on the bar, Down sbe went and up again, now and then 
taking a sea oyer her stern and soalong all on the after deck, and 
once, with a roll to port, sending stools, tables and passenzers into 
the leescuppeis, but once over the bar the seas were longer and less 
vicious, more attention was paid to the yachts and less to personal 
interests. Ray had been lo tyvight of until now, when she was seen 
astern, heading up and making good weather of it but going slowly 
over the ground, evidently bound on going over the course, thouzh 
all alone, Clytie having turned and given up just before with a broken 
bobstay. Isis soon followed, seemg which Athlon turned tail and 
made for the Hook also, leaving Oriva and Gracie to fight it out 
alone. [t was clear over head but wind and water were both cold for 
a June day, and there was no place for any but thorough sailors out- 
side the Hook. On the beat out all Oriva’s zood qualities were seen 
and appreci.ted, as she not only left big Gracie with her 2ift. of 
extra length astern but didit all ina way that was doubly to her 
eredit. Probably no other yacht in New York waters has been so 
heartily abused as Oriva, the first large cutter built here, and the 
name she has gained in the past two seasons, wiih the added vic- 
tories of Friday and Saturday, are due no more to her than to the 
ca eful handling and thorough seamanship of her owner and skip- 
per, a trie Corinthian in every way, Atthe Lightship her time was 
8:06, with Gracie ime minute later, the latter jibing at once as she 
rounded, while Oriva stood in to catch the early fiood up the beach, 
jibing further in shore and shaking a reef out, Running before 
wind and tide the seus were lignter and more to Gracie's taste, and 
size of cour.e began to tell Oriva was now under single reef, but 
losis z ground, rounding Buoy No. 10 at 4:24;04, Gracie having turned 
at 4:22:04. : 

When last seen Ray was hanging on bravely, still well to leeward 
of the Lightship, Coming up the Bay, Bevlouin met the leaders, 
standing up grandly under lower sail, and looking ready in every 
way for Monday's fight. AL 

Pelrel was also sizhted. under double reefed mainsail and reefed 
staysail. going along easily and steadily, Gracie passed the line at 
5:08:29, Petrel at 6:04715, and Oriva at 5:12:43, Ray not being timed. 

Jerseys and oilers were changed for snoregoing clothes and the 
(ired sailors were picked up by the Luckenbach off Stapleton, but im 
spite of frocis coats, linen collais and such disguises, it was easy to 
pick cut the sailormen from the crowd on the tng, by the salt-en- 
erusted faces, and hands that showed traces of an intimate acquaint- 
ance with wetropes. The crews of the winning boats were: 

Sloop Gracie.—J. Prederic Tams, captain; John E Roosevelt, O. D. 
Lovell, Sidney Chubb, William M. Wright, Alfred Roosevelt, W. 
Emlen Roosevelt. J. N, Winslow, T, A. Bronson, EH. Randolph, Jr., C. 
Randolph, H. Barle and Albert Meredith. : 

Cutter Oriva.—C. §. Lee, captain; A. B. Alley, R. C, Cornell, A. B. 
Simonds, W. Simonds, A. P. Montant, C. L. W. Hidlitz, Harold San- 
derson, W. S. Alley, L. D Oremieulx and G, Viliamoy. 

Schooner Ray.—Vice-Commodore W. W. Tompkins, captain; J. M. 
Breese, mate; C. H. Leland, F. L. Leland, J, Lentilhon and W. H. 
Colburn, 

Fetrel.—J. Hyslop, captain; Benj. Tuzo, B. A. Stevens, Thos. 1. 
Brown, A, Stevens. 1 


SPRING MATCHES ON NEW YORK BAY. 


ESIDHS half a dazen matches of the smaller clubs, New York has 
had during the past week four races, in which most of the larger 
sloops and cutters, with some of the best known of the schooners, 
have entered, and the resulis, though unsatisfactery in some re- 
spects, must be of value to all yachismen. 

Of course the main interest centered on the sloops and cutters, the 
latter haying afar better representation than ever before. Tleen as 
yet untried, Bedouin and Wenonah altered during the winter, Oriva 
in good shape as usual, while the new Isis, which phesreit for the 
first time, has beenlooked forward to with great interest by yachts- 
men of moderate views. mA 

The most important of all the separate points inyolyed in the great 
controversy that has divided yachtsmen during the past five years 
has been, of course, displacement, and intimately connected with it, 
that of depth as a factorof safety. Moderate beam, low ballast, 
double jib, keels, housing spars, loose mainsail, reasonable rig—valu- 
able as they all are—haye been subordinate to this main point, which 
is now conceded by almost universal practice as definitely settled, 
the old tl.eories of light displacement and draft being abandoned in 
New York and still more in Boston, : 

The change going on steadily season by season, of lead for iron, 
outside ballast in place of inside, on all classes of yachts, decides that 
point finally ; double head rig 1s now the rule and not the exception, 
while less hoist, more gaff, long topmasts, loose mainsails are too 
general to excite comment. The actual practice of yachtsmen of all 
opinions has thus finally decitied all the main questions at issue in 
fayor of Forrst 4ND STRPAM, and the work of this season is to decide 
the miuor details, keel or board, moderate or small beam, the pro- 
portion of draft best suited to our requirements, and various points 
of less importance. 

While a tree number of yachtsmen still sail under the flag of the 
thorongh cutter, most of those who once stoo! up stoutly for the old 
light displacement boats have abandoned them and shifted their 
guiora to a new t: pe of craft, deep, wide, large displacement, nixed 
Tig, centerboard, low weights; a type represented in Boston by the 


new Thetis, and in New York by Athlon. who has sailed her arst | 


races within the last two weeks, while a large contingent, still further + 
over the fence, have pinned their faith on the cutter Isis, a boat mod- + 
erately wide and deep. 

The presence of so many extters, and of the two latter boats in ad- 
dition to most of the older sloops, and the Thistle, new in these 
waters and just rebuilt, had raised anticipations of fine sport, which 
have been to a certain extent realized, though marred. by those acci- 
dents incident in yachting, and of which the cutters have had their 
full share. . 

Bedouin, of whom so much was expected, has been out of all the 
races, owing to the death of a child of her owner; Ileen has changed 
skippers but recently, and her new niaster, promotea from a ten-ton- 
ner, has not hadtime yet to learn his boat, while in Friday's race, 
being aresailing of the previous day’s contest, and not on the pro- 
gramme, she had no regular racing crew aboard, Wenonah has been 
equally unlucky. losing topmast on Thursday and parting her shrouds 
on Friday, so that the whole burden of the fight has fallen on Jittle 
Oriva, a task she has accomplished in a way creditable to herself and 
her owner. Of the sloops, the only mishap of moment was to Mis- 
chief, who varied her usual performance by starting her port chain- 
plates in the jump off the Hook on Friday. 

The paltry winds of the first two days made any real test impossi- 
ble. while the postponement of the New York race, with Monday’s 
contest so close, prevented several from entering it, and cut down the 
8. C. Y. U,'s entries on Saturday. ‘The Atlantic Y. CO. race was, of 
course, of less interest than the others,, the boats being centerboards, 
with one exception, the entries for large ~chooners small, and there 
waslittle wind, Mischief and Wanny did the best work of the day, 
being about even throughout, Gracia was hardly in the race at any 
time, and Athlon showed up once or twice, noticeably when near 
home, and Grayling beat her two competitors, no freat task, 

The light wind of Taursday, shifting as it did, with numberless 
flukes and no race at the end, gave no test of merit, bub some of the 
individual performances may b+ noticed in passing. Ileen at the 
start showed what she could doin a drift, and promised well until 
her chances were spoiled by a shift of wird. Athlon followed her 
for a time, and though making no hig off Fanita in their bsat down 
outside, made a better show in the even*ng when chasing the leaders 
inalight breeze. Mischief und Fanny did about as on Tuesday. 
Wenonah footed well but went out of her course before turaing the 
Lightship and lost her topmast afterward, her sailing whex there 
was a chance justifying her old reputation. Oriya and Vixen were 
about even all day; Gracie was astern again, and Isis did nothing of 
note, though of course allowance must be made for a boat in * race 
that was virtually 4 trial trip. Of the schooners, Grayling did the 
bést, Montauk not having wind to move her, 

Friday’s race, wich its wind and sea, sifted out the entries with a 
tude hand. Wenooah, Mischief and Clio disabled, Athlon and Isis 
turning back in the face of the beat out, and of those who went over, 
lleen, showing what she could do’ to windward. pointing, footing and 
going easily through all, beating Gracie and Fanny easily to the 
Liczhtship, leading them to the Southwest Spit. only losing her place 
after a splendid struggle on the final run home; while Oriya, took 
good care of Vixen all day. finally beating her home. 

Saturday's work under similar conditions was the same, but even 
niore so. Vixen did not start, Athlon and Isis looked around the 
Hook and came home. Gracie wen! over the course, led for a greater 
part of the way by little Oriya, while 28-ft Petrel hammered down to 
the Hook and home in grand style. Ofthe schooners, only the little 
keel Ray went over the course, Clytie, who started with her, turn- 
ing back disabled, the rest not Mo ea out. Neither side can thus 
far claim a decisive victory, bub certainly the laurels for the best, if 
not the only brilliant performance of the whole week, rest with Oriva. 


AROUND LONG ISLAND. 


S the Pete American yachts to go further and risk more in- 

creases, the desire to do so will grow with it. While itis true 

that long and dangerous cruises have been made at times in shoal 

boats itis equally certain that off shore cruising is becoming moe 

common than ever before in our yachting annals, and this year prum- 
ises to surpass all previous ones in the matter of long races. 

The first of the series, that around Long Island. was sailed this 
week, starting on Monday afternoon, fourteen yachts crossing the 
line, The prizes are a cup valued at $500 for schooners, presented by 
W. D. Travers, one of a like amount for first class sloops, presented 
by ex-Commodore J. D, Smith, and one of $3 0 for see nd class sloops 
presen ed by Mr. Archibald Rogers and Rear Com. 5. R. Platt. 

The race is a “fo as you please.”’ no time allowance and no limit to 
crews or course after rounding Romer Beacon, Thestarting line was 
between the forts ia the Narrows. and the finish on a line from Exe- 
cub on Light to Sands Point Lighthouse. ae 

At4o’clock on Monday the starters were ready about the line with 
the steam yachis Theresa and Vision, the catamaran Jessie, several 
sloops and schooners, and the Luckenbuch, with a number of the 
New York Y. C. members, including Mr, Montant, who had charge of 
the start, on board. A preparatory whistle was blown at 3;55 P. M., 
and at 4:05 a second one to start. 

The day was clear and warm, wind light from southwest, and water 
smooth away out, with an ehb tide. The yachts that started and 
their time of crossing were as follows: 


SCHOONERS. 
Name. Owner, ~ Start. 
Mlombavice sto een ne t= Rear Commodore Platt..............-+ 4 09 00 
i ee MTA CHIGN GE Ua eae, db cle Sscane tte ea he 4 06 50 
Henry 8, Hovey, 
H. Hathaway 
J. D. Smith 
RS. Elliot 
FIRST CLASS SLOOPS, 
NTI NCES VV TEL YS, br cores aber eter eatiet relate 407 13 
LYE RST aap ae JOSS PLA MALIG! A a ils li sess joes 411 03 
PIBBUL At eee aigctes era es ArthursPadalfond, Vo. 128 les ies 4 07 50 
WrenOMAab iis etd ues alee) SHUM AD © cae escent sole tese hae 4 06 50 
Hildeparde.... 2.66.0... Herman Oelrichs......-........+.-+-5 , £09 25 
SECOND GLASS SLOOPS. 
ATOM 236j.000-b ob} <hr ce oF J, G@ Barron, M. D..... Beh Rey AO BR ee 411 00 
ASG pee rere oot elec HG) MEA Wrenee, Ji oul er: «smvieca-oe te 4 06 40 
Ost hee ele eee Bee OAS mith ear oo ee oe 4 06 15 


Most of the sloops and cutters had club topsails set, the schooners 
under full sail, Ileen ran up balloon jibtopsail before crossing, Fleet- 
wing made a specially fine show with kites set, Oriva crossed first 
with her old antagonist, Vixen, right on her heels. / ; 

At 4:30 Fanny was ahead, Grayling close after her, Vixen, with 
Oriva tast on her weather quarter, Llildegarde jusb ynder Oriva’s lee, 
wilh Wenonah astern of the two, and Ileen astern but to windward 
of all four. Behind this group was Fortuna, with Athlon astern of 
her again, Gracie being among the stragglers. _ , 

Soon Oriva and Vixen had @ little bout of their own to windward, 
Oriya twice luffing up, while the two other twins, Ileen and Hilde- 
garde wereevidently happy in each others company. At 4:42 Hilde- 
farde went through Ileen’s lee; at 4:45 a spinaker boom came out on 
Fanny’s port, ready for the turn at lower beacon, others following at 
once. 

Fanny passed the Romer at 4:59, the others being timed as follows: 


Graydingee.. 7-2 eet. tdeee ee 4551100: -Orivas 22... se<t vices 4,8bS .. 4 57 OO 
Hildegarde......, bekagiccds SPD ATA Larieg epee ie eee eee 
WOYVtUME s— ooh sett get ks 455 00— Ruth....... 

WOT AIC. a2, a sits ne see ase ABS OO; MATARIOT hid anced dda tse eles 
Wenonah ,. .., 46600 Kleetwing. 

Vixen,::-,. seen en ....450 10 Estelle... 2... 

A (ithives sree eae pene ee ee eer 4 56 30 


When off Coney Istand at 5:28, Oriva parted her spinnaker halliards 
aud down came the big sail in the water, just as she was leaving 
Vixen. A hand was soon aloft repairing damages, and at 5;35 up 
went tne sailagain. As the ist as deepened they stood on in about 
the same order until lost to sight to those on the tug, and the race 
was fairly begun. 

On Tuesday evening, Commodore Munroe, of the Larchmont Y, C,, 
with the Regatta Committee and a party. of the club members, put 
off ina tug, lyiag all nighton the finishing line at Execution, but 
nothing was seen of the yachts, there being almosb a dead calm. The 
schooners Nokomis, Meteor, Tidal Wave und (Columbia, with Estelle 
and Bedouin, were awaiting the finish off Larchmont. ; 

At9 A, M, the leaders were reported off Mattinecock Light, and 
later Fanny appeared first, crossing the line at 11:42 with Grayling 
just astern. Gracie arrived at 12:07 and Montauk ati P. M. 


WHISPER.—This steam yacht has not had her pressure cut down 
as reported, being allowed 150 pounds, the boiler having stood a test 
of 225 pounss, Her owner, Mr. F, 8. Kinney, has made a.number of 
valrable experiments with wheels during the past year, both on her 
and with small models, and she now has a wheel of his own design 
with two thin steel blades bolted to a cast iron hub. 

MADGW.—After two years of idleness Madge turned up in the Bay 
Jastweek, She must haye been astonished at the change two vears 
had made in the fleet, double head sails, plumb stems, longer ov r- 
hangs, tall topmasts on avery hand, a result for which she may take 
4 large part of the credit. 

INDIAN RIVER ¥, C.—A yacht club was organized June 7, known 
as the Indian River Y. 0., PY: Rockledge, Wla, The officers elected 
ere: Gardner 5S, Hardee, Commodore; Lyman Barnes, Vice-Comrma- 
dore; H, 8. Williams, Oaptainj; B. O. Willard, Treasurer; Barton 
Smith, Secretary. ; 


interested in thé paper, 


THE SNYDER ENGINES AND YACHTS,—The steam yacht has 
now passed from the first stages of experiment and become an ac- 
complished fact, taking its place no longer as an article of Juxury for 
afew, but a necessity wherever water Lransit is needed, filling a posi- 
tion between the towibg and sailing boats and larger steamboats, To 
meet the increasing demand, the Snyder Engine Company are now 
building a line of engines and boilers especially designed for steam 
yachts, tugs and launches, besides which they also fuvvish the bull 
completely fitted up for use For the smallest boats they build an 
engine 294X414, 24in, high, and of but 50 pounds weight, with ahoiler 
of 24in. diameter and 42in, high, from which they run up to a 12%42 
eylinder with boiler in proportion. The small sizes are of very neat 
design, fitted with link and reversing lever, the parts being carefully 
proportioned and al) neatly finished. The boilers are of iron or steel, 
vertical tubular in type. and are specially designed to be easily cleaned 
and to do the best possible work with poor waters as is often neces- 
Sary in steam yachts. The company make a specialty of one size of 
yacht that has been found to meet the popular demand best, the hull 
being 30ft. x6ft. 6in. with 20in, draft. The engine is a 334X514, with 
boiler 2848, vertical tubular, wheel 24in, The hull is of oak, planked 
with cedaz, and finished either with awnings or light roof as desired. _ 
Besides the above, the company also manufacture propeller wheels, 
ode laree line of portable and stationary engines, boli vertical and 

orizontal, 


ANOTHER STEAM YAOHT DISASTER,—Following close on the 
sinking of the Stella comes the foundering of the Gaz-lle, a boat once 
known in New York, but since used in Florida and later in Baltimore, 
The Gazelle, 56ft. Jong, 18ft, beam, and 4igft. depth of hold, started 
out from Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, June 10, haying besides 
her captain, J. R. Mills, and a crew of tive, a party of seventeen ladies 
and sixteen gentleman, members of the Tuesday Club, besides a Ger- 
man band, all bound on an afternoon excursion to Annapolis. They 
Spent some time ashore and started at 9 P.M. to rnn up, but once ont 
of the Severn River a gale was met from southeast, kicking up @ sea 
that soon had the little craft leakmg badly and the situation became 

uite dangerous. Soon many of the party, though ignorant of their 

anger, became very seasick. Severul of the gentlemen, together 
with the captain, decided on making for a dredge known to be 
anchored off the Paiapseco River, but on reaching it the sea ran so 
high that it was almost impossible lo come alongside. After great 
difficulty, however, the ladies were safely landed on the dredge, in 
spile of the musicians, who insisted on landing first, bub were knocked 
down by some of the gentlemen. It was found that ihe yacht was 
sinking, so all Abandoned her, taking refuge on the scow, and shortly 
after she disappeared. The ladies were housed in the engine room, 
while the others had to pass the night on deck in the raiu, all beiug 
finally taken to the city by a tug the following morning. 


THE PENNSYLVANIA Y. C. held its fourth annual regatta onthe 
Delaware, on Monday, June 9, The course was from the Kensingion 
Water Works wharf to a buoy opposite Delanco, N, J., and return to 
a buoy opposite place of starting. Fifteen boats started, The sivnal 
was given at 11 o’clovk exaetly, On arrival at Delanco the little fleet 
met with quite a squall, but no accident o¢curred. Good sailing \as 
made the whole way, The crews were favored with glorious weather 
and light, breezy winds, Considerable amusement was caused by the 
efforts of one crew to cut out another’s boat. ‘The order of passing 


‘the liome buoy was: First, No. 7, Bessie; owaer, J. Lesli¢ Wood; 


sailed by George Smith; second, No. 5. Joe and Willie Sinith; owner, 
J. Leslie Wood: sailed uy John Smith; third, Jeouard Stadler, dis- 
ualified; fourth, No. 18, Mediator; owner. Walter Gildert: sailed by 
vhbn Armroyd, The rest camein siraggling, The first prize was 
$20 and the champion flag; second, $12; third, $6. The winer ar- 
Tived at the home buoy at 4:15 P. M. exactly.—Pjiladelphia Tinves, 


PROPOSHD FLORIDA CRUISE.—Cleveland, O., June 9.—J, W- 
Rusk, principal of the Rusk School of Hlocution, and wife are pre- 
paring for a trip to Florida in a small yacho. They will ship the yacht 
via O. P, R, R. to Wellsville, O., thenee down the Ohio to the Missis- 
sippl, down to the gulf avid around the coast to Florida, They ex- 
pect to be absent about seven months, leaving Cleveland about Aug. 
15, he yacht will be ntted out for comfort and staunchness rarher 
than speed. It is 24ft. by 8ft. beam, cabin 12ff, hey will use a 
Stranahan canvas boat for tender.—PEpAGoG, 


A FRENCH YACHT COMING. —Puiri , June 6.—Editor Fcrest and 
Stream: The following bit of news muy be of interest to some of 
your readers: Tue Nuvienne, 700 ton yachn, leaves Havre, June 10, 
for Quevec, Montreal and New York. She will be the first Prenco 
yacht that has ever erossed the Atlantic. Tuere will bé on board M, 
Ki, Blanc, her owner; M. B. Clerc, proprieter ot Le Yacht newspaper; 
M. ronade, the well-known owner of the 4)-ton racer Myosoiis, and 
M. Paul Sauniere.—B. C. 

CAPE MAY RACE —But two entries have as yet been made for 
the race around Cape May Lishtship o1 M mday next, Moutauk and 
Grayling. The coudition of the race, which is open to all yachts be- 
longing to any yacht vlub, are that it is to be sailed in cruis ng trim, 
Wivh boats at toe davits and anchors on bows. As itis without time 
allowance, itis not likely that the sloops and cutters will eater, 


BOSTON Y. C.—The annual review of the Boston Y. C, was hell 
on Saturday, June 14. in Dorenester Bay, the Adrienne. Commodore 
Pfaff's fiagship, taking her position off Tkomp-on's Island at P M, 
and firing a-sigual gun. The feat passed iu review with a Lresh 
southeast breeze, each firing a gun to leeward in passing, the smaller 
ones dipping thelr culers. After a sail down the Bay all spent the 
evening at the club house. 

NEWARK BAY Y. 0.—The wioners in the various classes in the 
Open inatcass of Monday were: Vixen, 1:26:34; Our Own, 1:30;244: 
Just Woke Up, 1:382:5Uh6, Cygnet, 1:35:31; Shadow, 1:32:28, and 
Teaser, 1:39:11. We will vive a fuller accoun, next week. 

EAST RIVE Y, C —But one boat, the Nettie Thorp, capsized on 
Monday in the races of the Kast River Y. 0, The course was f om 
Tne club house to and around the Gangway Buoy and bach, the li. H. 
Holmes winning, with Snoozer second. 

DAISY.—This cutter, lately purchased by Mr. Maunsell Van Rens- 
selaer, Jr., of this city, was sailed around from Southampton, Wng- 
land, Lo Liverpool, aod wil leaye on Saturday next for this county 
on one of the ocean steamers, 

THETIS.—The new one of which s0 muchis expected, was out on 
Saturday last, on Boston Bay. It is a pity that she was net ready 
for the Long Island race, but she will nuke her first appearance ab 
Marblehead soon, 

NEW HAVEN Y. C,-Great preparations are bemg made for the 
races of uhe New Haven Y, C. on Monday next, he club now has 
34 yachts, 30 beiug sailing craft, nearly all of wuich are entered, 

SOUTHWARK Y. ©,—The winners in Monday's races of this club 
were: Class 1, Maud; Oiass 2, Morgan; Class 3, Charles Benton; Class 
4, Amanda O, 

TOLA.—Mr. Oswald Jackson’s sloop came out last week with jib 
and staysail in-place of the single jib she has carried heretofore, 


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and out of season, the high and the low, the weak and the sick 
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CONTENTS. 


THE KENNEL. 
Pointers at the New York Show. 
The New England Kennel Club. 


EDITORIAL. 
Outers and Shut-Ins. 
A Public Enemy, 


Prairie Fires and Prairie A Street Scene. 
Chickens, Beagles. 
Use for the Bare-Foot. York Royal Dog Show, 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Kennel Notes. 


Unele Lisha’s Shop.—ty. 


RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Across the Cascade Mountains. 


The Remington Rifle. 


NatuRAL History. Range and Gallery. 
A Hybrid Sheep, The Trap. 
“The Couesian Period?” The Knoxville Tournament. 
Cunning as a Fox. The Clay-Pigeon Puzzle. 
Were we Successful? CANOEING. 

Camp FIRE FLICKERINGS. Royal C. CG. 


Game BaG AND GUN. 
Smoke Memories. 
The Turtle Lake Club. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 


Patching Canvas Canoes. 
Another Reefing Lateen. 
New York ©. C. Annual Regatta. 
A. CU. A. Official Programme of 


Notes on ‘*Wooderaft."* Races. 
Rifles for Small Game. Merrimack River Meet. 
The Choice of Hunting Rifles. Toronto C. C. 
Wildfowl in New Brunswick. The Fan Mainsail. 

SEA AND RIVER FISHING. YACHTING. 


Camps of the Kingfishers.—yn. 
The Canadian Sea Trout. 
Trout in Maine. 

Fishing in Texas Waters. 

The Newfoundland Codfishery. 


The Race Around Long Island, 
New Jersey Y. C. 

“The American Yacht List.”’ 
Dorchester Y. C.—80th Match. 
Hull Y. C. Pennant Match. 


Tim and Seven Ponds. New Haven Y. C. Annual 
FISHCULTURE, Matches. 
Protection of the Ocean Fish- | ANSwERs TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
eries. s PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT 


A PUBLIC ENEMY. 


H: is more commonly known as the dog-catcher, and is 

- found only in the larger towns and cities. Here in 
New York he travels about with a wagon, in which is a 
large cage to contain the prey, and an assistant. There was 
once a dog-catcher who was honest, but he died many years 
ago and left no descendants. .The present race consists, for 
the most part, of political heelers of- the lowest grade—what 
we call here ‘‘joughs” or “short-hairs.” They receive their 
positions through political influence. These men are ap- 
pointed in accordance with a city ordinance, which requires 
that all dogs shall be licensed. and shall have attached to 
their collars a tag bearing their license number. If allowed 
to run at large, such dogs must wear, in addition to the 
license number, a muzzle, ‘‘constructed so as to prevent the 
dog from biting.” If without a muzzle, the dog must be 
led ‘“‘by a cord, rope, or chain, not more than four feet in 
length.” Dogs whose owners do not comply with the pro- 
visions of this ordinance are to be captured by the dog- 
catchers and destroyed. 

From what we know of the life of a city dog-catcher 
before he comes to occupy this exalted position, we should 
expect that he would prove to be neither more nor less than 
a licensed dog thief. This is just what he is. Each dog- 
catcher receives from the city forty cents apiece for the 
dogs which he captures, and to earn this sum these men 
stop at nothing. Last year ‘one of them killed a boy in a 
dispute over the latter’s dog, and it isan every-day occur- 
rence for them to catch dogs which have been licensed and 
muzzied, according to the ordinance, and after having re- 
moved the collar and muzzle, to drive away with the victim 
tothe dog pound. Frequently they will snatch from its 
mistress’s arms a valuable pet dog, or will seize it-as it runs 
at the end of a chain, and, cutting the collar, will walk away 
with the prize. Such an act differs in no respect from snatch- 
ing the purse, except that the one who steals the property is 

a licensed official of the city, 


NEW YORK, JUNE 26, 1884. 


The ordinance forbidding dogs to be allowed to run at 
large is one which has much to recommend it, and it isa 
desirable thing that the homeless and useless curs, which are 
only less of a nuisance than the city cats, should be got rid 
of. But after the owner of the dog has complied with all 
the requirements of the law, it is an outrage that his prop- 
erty should still be exposed to the attacks of these legalized 
robbers. 

A few days since a gentleman, not a resident of the city, 

had occasion to bring his dog into town, and to lead him 
along the street for a few blocks. He had gone but a short 
distance when he was set upon by one or two dog-catchers, 
who ordered him to give up the dog. The gentleman in 
question, having his dog on chain, and feeling sure that for 
a non-resident no license was required, declined to yield up 
his property at the fellow’s demand, and as there happened 
to be a policeman among the throng attracted by the dis- 
pute, the owner of the dog appealed to that officer for pro- 
tection. The policeman, however, said that he could do 
nothing, but as a matter of private advice he recommended 
the owner, to ‘“‘bat” the dog-catcher. Having therefore 
found a good-natured and trustworthy bystander to hold the 
dog, the owner proceeded vigorously to “bat” the dog - 
catcher, and in a short time administered to him a severe 
thrashing, after which, amid the plaudits of policeman and 
street boys, he led away the prize of victory. 

The gentleman to whom all this happened was clearly in 
the right, for the ordinance says ‘“‘the provisions of this 
section [%. ¢. ag to procuring a license], except those relating 
to leading and muzzling dogs, shall not apply to dogs owned 
by non-residents, in remaining temporarily or in passing 
through this city, or to dogs brought into this city and en- 
tered for exhibition at any dog show or annual exhibition 
of dogs.” 

The moral of all this is that so long as matters in this city 
remain as they now are, a man is justified in using force to 
protect his property, and that when he does stand up for his 
rights in this way, public opinion and the officers of the law 
will uphold him init. — 


USH FOR THE BARE-FOOT. 


Te bare-footed boy is occasionally employed by the 
angler and gunner to direct them to the choice trout 
pools and game covers; or to give desired weight to the 


basket and rotundity to the bag. This isa high and honor- 


able service; and many a sportsman has in his soul a soft 
spot for the memory of the small boy who saved him from 
the chagrin of coming home empty-handed. 

There is another field of usefulness,- to which the talents 
of our stub-toed young friend might be most profitably 
directed. Why not induce the small boy to play detective? 
He is admirably adapted to the work. There are bare-footed 
boys and bare-footed boys. The one usually encountered in 
the field is sly, shrewd, circumspect and cunning. He has 
a sharp eye, knows a thing or two, and can draw his own 
conclusions. In short, he is just the material to convert 
into an amateur detective. He delights to catch a fish and 
sell it for ten cents. He might be taught to take pleasure in 
eatching law-breaking anglers, and receiving pay in pro- 
portion. 

Some of our game-protecting officials are making com- 
plaint that they cannot detect the fellows who infringe the 
game laws, because the miscreants know the wardens, and 
elude their efforts. But no one would suspect the smali boy. 
The most wary rascal who pursues the untimely search for fish, 
aud the most artful dodger who sneaks for June woodcock, 
would entertain no suspicion of the bare-footed, ragged- 
shirted, one-gallused, brown-faced boy. The probabilities 
are that he would tell the youth all about it, And the 
youth could tell the justice. 

It may be argued, with some show of reason, that this 
proposal to use the boy as a detective is foolish, because in 
every well-regulated instance of the sportsman and the bare- 
footed boy, it is the latter who catches the fish or snares the 
bird and sells them to the former. This is not an insuper- 
able objection. Now and then a small boy might be found 
of so guileless a nature that he would not only sell the man 
the contraband spoils at the best bargain he could drive, but 
would add to his emolument by afterward swearing with 
unblushing front that the man captured the fish himself, and 
he saw him doit. And.the fisherman would not deny it, 

lt is customary with regiments of troops to adopt a ‘‘Child 
of the Regiment.” This might be imitated by game protec- 
tive clubs, adopting a ‘‘Bare-footed Boy of the Club.” By 
taking the youth in hand at an early age and teaching him 
that to kill a bird out of season is a more heinous offense 


5 VOL. XXI1I.—No. 22. 
| Nos, 39 & 40 Park Row, New Yorks. 


than to slay a human being at any season, and that to de- 
stroy the trout before their time is immeasurably more wicked 
than arson, his ardor in the good cause might be kindled to 
such an intensity that, unaided and alone, the youngster 
would do as much for the cause of game protection, as is 
accomplished in the same direction by the monthly dinners 
of the club. ' 


PRAIRIH FIRHS AND PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 
N SOME parts of the West, the farmers fire their lands in 
the spring to insure an abundant crop of hay. They 
burn the ground as late in the season as possible, in order 
that the growth may be put back and the crop mature late. 
In this way they can put off their haying until after the 
wheat crop has been gathered. Just here comes a clashing 
of interest between farmer and sportsman. This late burn- 
ing of the prairies causes the destruction of the pinnated 
grouse eggs; for the birds are nesting when the late 
fires are set, The shooters claim that in this way more 
grouse are destroyed every year than falltothe gun. In 
some localities this is doubtless true. It is also claimed by 
the gunners that the farmers can just as well burn their 
lands earlier in the season, before the birds have nested, 
And in one or two instances the sportsmen have practically 
demonstrated their theory by actually firing the farmers’ 
lands. The burning was entirely successful, but in view of 
the damages awarded to the land-owners, the experiment 
will probably not be repeated. 

So far as our observation of the state of affairs has ex- 
tended, there is no way in which this conflict of interests 
can be reconciled. The “‘chicken crop” should be fostered 
by every means possible, but it is not so important as the 
hay crop. Much as the destruction of the birds by fire is to 
be regretted, the farmer can hardly be expected to sacrifice 
his hay to save the chickens. 


OUTERS AND SHUT-LINS. 
LUBS, whose members join together to take their vaca_ 
tions in company, are a familiar feature of our social 
life. The number of such clubs has wonderfully increased 
since we began to publish a paper in their interest and in 
the interest of individuals who take their outings alone. - 
With the ways and doings of the vast throng of out-door 
pleasure seekers we are all pretty well familiar. Week 
after week we have read of their explorations, adyen- 
tures, trials, joys and disappointments. The grand army 
of outers is doubling its hosts. * The veterans of the 
corps are looking with ever-growing jealousy upon the new 
recruits crowding into the old camping grounds, and, like 
the frontiersman, they are seeking new wildernesses, whither 
they may move on to fish and hunt unmolested. 

There is one association which is yery different from these 
bands of outers. Its exploits have never been told very fully 
in print, but like the shooting and fishing and camping and 
tramping clubs, its membership is all the time growing. 
This is ‘“‘The Shut-in Society.” Its membership is made up 
of invalids who are shut in from the outside world. The 
clubs of outers are joined together by their taste for out-door 
life and pleasure; the Shut-ins are united by one sufferer’s 
sympathy for another. The outers join to seek sunshine 
and balsam odors. The Shut-ins, while of necessity they 
cannot meet each other, are united to give one to the other 
consolation which may cheer—as by sunlight—the darkened 
chambers in which they are immured. 

The Shut-in Society was started in 1877, by an invalid 
lady of New Vernon, N. J., who, haying been an invalid 
for several years, sought to give and receive comfort by cor- 
respondence with some one who was, like herself, ‘‘shut in.” 
One and another was added, and in time a society was 
organized. It now numbers nearly two thousand members. 

The society publishes a monthly journal called the Shut-In 
Visitor, which is edited by Mrs. Kate Sumner Burr, Wal- 
worth, N. Y. The monthly arrival of the Visztor is, we may 
be sure, looked for with more eagerness than that with which 
the outers await the coming of their journal. 

It would be difficult to name societies in more pathetic 
contrast than those of the outers and the Shut-ins. 


Woopcock WorK.—The committee to receive money for 
a Long Island game detective fund acknowledge the receipt 
of $50, and more is expected. With this encouragement 
the game protector of that district ought to secure such 
assistance as will make sure the capture of the shooters who 
have openly stated their intention of shooting woodcock on 
Long Island next week. The open season for Woodcock will 
not begin anywhere in New York State before Aug, 1, 


422 


Che Sportsman Conrist. 


UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP. 
ry. 


Cee first snowfall of the season in the little valley was 
sifting down trom a dull sky one November evening 
not long after that just told of, when Lisha’s friends began 
to gather in his little shop. Each one, as he entered and 
Stamped the snow off his boots, made some remark coucern- 
ing this latest turn of the weather, as in duty bound by 
ancient usage: *,” “Snowin’ e'nsid’able kind 0’ 


“Snowin’, 
smart,” ‘“Gittin’ some snow at last,” said one and another, 
and one ventured to ‘‘Guess ’t we’re goin’ to git some sleigh- 
in’ fur Thanksgivin’ arter all.’’ 

“Wal, I d know ’baout that,” said the oracular Solon 
Briggs, seating himself in the best place behind the stove, 
with his elbows on his knees and his hands spread to catch 
the heat, *‘] knowed ‘at ’t was goin’ to snow, an’ said t’ was, 
an’ it does snow, baut 1 took a notice every sen’ 1 commenced 
my pilligridge (i wou’ say, my pilgigrim) that when the snow 
comes on ter the graound when it’s conjoled, that is, when it’s 
froze, it hain’t a goin’ t’ stay on an’ en-dure long. Why it is 
I do’ know, but so it is as fur as my observations has went.” 

Houh!’’ snorted Lisha, who was rummaging a shelf for a 
desired last, ‘““Mebby so, but I giwess—No. 12, that’s it—I 
guess ‘t we'll hey sleighin’ fur Thanksgivin’. But dum 
the sleighin’, I wish ’t I heda turkey fer Thanksgivin’ ’s 
big *s what my boy ’t live in the’Hio tells o’ hevin’ there, 
wild ones. tew, ‘t weighs thirty, forty paound! ‘What ye 
think o’ that?” 

“I daoubt it,” was Sam Lovel’s laconic response, and there 
was a stir of approval in the audience. 

“Daoubt it!” shouted Lisha, “Good airth an’ seas! My 
boy wouldn’t lie an aounce on the weight ofa elephant. Thirty 
‘n’ forty paound, that’s what he writ.” 

“Wal, I daoubt it,” Sam repeated, ‘‘jes’ think on ’t, that’s 
mos’ half as much as Oap’n Power’s hog weighed, ’n’ he 
was aSollaker, ye know. ‘Turkeys ain’t in the habit o’ 
growin’ so big.” . 

‘Not here, I know they hain’t,’’ Lisha admitted. 

“No.” Solon interrupted,” fer it hain’t their nart’ral cli- 
max. They hain’t abregoines here.”’* 

“No,” Lisha continued, ‘‘’n’ then things grows bigger 
there ’n what they does here. Why, the corn grows so high 
*t they have to climb up a ladder to bind the stooks, ’n’ my 
boy writ ‘tthe punkins grow’d so big in the ’Hio that a six- 
foot man stan’in’ stret up couldn’t tech the top on’em! 
What ye think o’ that?” 

“O shaw! Git aout! 
on this statement. 

“Yes, boys, it’s sartinly so,” Lisha persisted, with the 
twinkle of his eyes showing through his dim glasses, ‘‘I 
didn’t scacely b’lieve it myself, ’n’ I sot down ’n’ writ George 
a letter “n ast him ef that was r’aly so, an’ he writ back it 
sartinly was. A six-foot man. couldn’t tech the top o’ one 
on ’em—not *thaout stoopin’ jest a lee-tle. Haw! Haw! 
Haw! Ho!” 

“Oh, aw,” said Solon. 
sportyve jeest, as it ware.” 

“Wal,” said Lisha when he had done Jaughing, and had 
got the last inside of a great boot that needed tapping, ‘‘Le’s 
p’cede to business, ’s they say in the leegislatur. We was 
talkin’ *baout aowls t’ other night, wa’n’t we? Solon he 
tole what made ‘em hoot, ’n’ Jozef he tole *baout shootin’ 
one. Hain’t ye got nothin’ furder concernin’ the faowl, 
Jozefi?”’ 

“JT d’ know,” Joseph Hill responded. ‘‘Lemme see. Didn’t 
none on ye never hear how Zeve Burnham come it on his 
father?” 

If any one had heard it he made no sign, and Joseph pro- 
ceeded with his tale, 

“Yes, sir, his own father! O, what a darned crutter he 
was! Ye know the’ hain’t no spring nigh the ole man’s, so 
they’ve got a well; puty good water, tew, that is, for water, 
with a reg’lar ole-fashion sweep—do’ know though, mebby 
they’ve gotin a pump naow. Lemme see, didn’t Morrison 
sell’mapump? Seemt’ me’t he did. Wal, ’t do’ make no 
diffunce, they hed a well sweep, then. One night in the 
fall—I guess “twas; yes, know *twas well ’nough, for fall’s 
the aowliest time o’ year—Zene he come tippytoein’ int’ the 
haouse “n’ spoke low t’ the ole man, an’ sez he, ‘Father, the’s 
the all-tummuttablest gret hoot aowl a-settin’ on the top o’ 
the well sweep! Git the gun an’ shoot’im. You c’n shoot 
better ’n I can in the dark.’ The ole man kinder thought 
Zene was a-foolin’ on ‘im, but Zene said for ‘im to go an’ see 
for hisself; so the ole man got the gun ’n’ ’twas loaded for 
fox, an’ stuck a piece o’ white paper ont’ the sight, 
an’ crep’ aout the back door ’n’ raound: t’ the naw- 
west corner o' the haouse—lemme see; no, “twas the 
naweast—no twa’n’t nuther, ’t was the nawwest corner—an’ 
peeked raound, ’n’ there he seen the aowl, an ole whopper, 
settin’ up there, jes’ as demute! An’ he drawed up an’ took 
dead aim, he did, ’n’ onhitched, ’n’ the aowl never stirred! 
‘Wal, I'll be dummed to dummation,’ sez he, ‘What *n’ 
thuuderation ’s the motter [ didn’t kill’*im? You ben drawin’ 
the shot aouten this gun, Zene?’ ‘Hain’t teched the darned 
ole gun,’ sez Zene. ‘Yew hit ’im inthe head an” stunted 
*im; load up an’ give *im “*nuther dost,’ sez he. So they 
went back in an’ loaded up agin, an’ the ole man crep’ aout 
agin, ’n’ there sot the aowl yit, an’ the ole man blazed away 
agin, ’n’ by gosh! the aowl never stirred agin! Then the ole 
man he swore it beat the devil, if twa’n’t the devil hisself, 
but Zene tole him ’t he knowed he’d killed him, ‘Pull daown 
the sweep,’ sez he, ‘’n’ git him. He’s sartinly deader ’n hay.’ 
So the ole man sot daown the gun an’ begin te pull daown 
the sweep jes’ as keerful, a watchin’ the aowl all the time as 
he come daown, nevermakin’a motion. When he git him 
clus to an’ was jest agoin’ to take a holt on ‘im, he seen ’t 
wa’n’t nothin’ but a all-fired gret big cabbage tied on t’ the 
end of the sweep! My! ’f the ole man wa’n’t mad! Zene he 
put er for int’ the haouse ’n’ up stairs ’n’ int’ bed, *n’ by 
mornin’ the ole man hed got good natur’d agin, but ye didn't 
want to say ‘aowl’ to him right off.” ; a 

‘Did he hit the cabbage?” was asked by him of an inquir- 
ing turn of mind. 4 

“Those ’ere saw-whet aowls,” Solon Briggs remarked, 
clearing his throat, “is a curosity thing—a frik o’ natur’ 
comin’ daown to her onsignificantest teches—a nart’ral few- 
nonnymon, so to speak. A puffick aowl, mimus the gret- 
ness of the die-mentionest kinds.” , 

“Wal, they be smal], but reg’lar aowls,” said Sam Lovyel, 
“Out the head off ’m one ’n’ he 'll lack a aounce o’ weighin’, 


* Solon is supposed to have meant aborigines, 


Go to grass!” were the comments 


“Yes, George writ ironical, in 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


I shot one on ’em outen a tree jes’ to see what he was ’n’ he 
come « floatin’ daown julluk a bunch o’ feathers.” 

‘‘An’ their vocal voice,” put in Solon, ‘‘is the fact smile of 
sharpnin’ a saw.” 

“Guess ’t is,” said Sam, ‘“‘egs-zack! Makes me think o' 
one time ’t ole Mist? Van Brunt f’m New York, ’s up here a 
lookin’ arter his lumbrin intrus. ’T was long airly ’n the 
spring ’n’ he was ridin’ long hoss back ’n the evenin’, ’n’ 
when he got daown int’ Biibny Brook holler, he hearn 
somebuddy a filin’ a sawmill saw, screet er screct, er screet 
er, ‘Some o’ them damn maounting Aribs,’ sez he, ‘hes got a 
sawmill right here in the hairt o’ my woods! Hello you!’ he 
hollered, but the file kep’ a goin’, screet er screet, er screet! 
“You owdacious villing!’ sez he, he allus used high duck 
langwidge, ‘You owdacious villing! I'll prosecute ye to the 
extents 0’ the law,’ sez he, and he rid his hogs int’ the woods 
where he hearn the noise, ’n’ his sto’pipe hat ketched on a limb 
an’ tumbled off, ’n his boss stumbled agin a ruht ’n’ throwed 
him off ’n’ then the noise o’ filin’ stopped, n’ then in two, 
three minutes it. begin agin furder off. ‘The pirutical scoun- 
dril,’ sez the ole gentleman, ‘hez got his damp sawmill on 
wheels!’ ’n’ he got back int’ the path an’ rid ont’ the tarvern 
*thaout no hat. When he got there he tole Hamlin (he kep’ 
it then) what he’d hearn, ‘n’ Hamlin he laughed *n’ sez he, 
‘Mist’ Yan Brunt, ’t wa’n’t nothin’ but a saw-whet *t you 
hearn.’ ‘A saw-whet! sez th’ old gentleman, ‘I know it, 
but a two-legged saw-whet, sir.’ ‘Yes,’ sez Hamlin, ‘two- 
legged, but he wears feathers stiddy close,’ ’n’ ’*xplained. 
Then the ole gentleman laughed at hisself, an’ treated the 
hull craowd, a dozen on’em, to ole Jamaiky sperrits ’t he 
brought with him f’m York—twenty ye’r ole, they said ’t 
was.” 

“Gosh!” ejaculated Joseph Hill, with a watering mouth, 
‘wish *t Pd a ben there!” 

**Ben where?” asked he of the inquiring mind. 

“The study of nart’ral hist’ry things,” Solon remarked, 
“is a most stumenduous subjeck, cal’lated to fill the human 
mind of man with—er—er—ah—” 

*Puddin’ an’ milk,” shouted Lisha, as he drove the last 
peg in the wide sole of the hoot, ‘‘’n’ I ‘tend to ha’ some an’ 
go to bed.” 

So saying he took off his battle-scarred apron, and his 
guests departed and went out of sight with silent footsteps 
in the dusky whiteness of the snowy night. 


ACROSS THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS. 


WN the month of June, 1879, the writer and a friend E., 
feeling that a jaunt of a week or two among the moun- 
tains would be both beneficial and enjoyable, concluded to 
ride through the Snoqualmie Pass, in the Cascade Moun- 
tains. Twelve o'clock of June 27 found us on the backs of 
our steeds, with blankets and grub, guns and fishing tackle, 
etc., stowed and lashed in various manners about our persons 
and on our horses. The pass lies almost due east of the city 
of Seattle, and the summit is about seventy miles distant 
from that place. 

Our road, for the first fourteen miles, lay along the Du- 
wamish River, which flows into the Sound about a mile 
from Sexttle. Three hours’ ride through the cool shades of 
the gigantic firs and cedars and over the green meadows of 
the settled bottoms, brought us to the little town of Renton, 
situated at the confluence of Black and Cedar rivers. These 
two streams are cool and clear, and uniting, flow about two 
miles when they are joined by White River, and with that 
stream form tho Duwamish. They are model trout streams, 
swift and gravelly, just small.enough to be waded in the 
summer months, and are filled with myriads of trout, Ren- 
ton we had visited often on fishing excursions. It isa coal 
mining town. Although the memories of past triumphs with 
the pliant rod filled our brains, and the old familiar pools 
and riffles seemed to gurgle a musical inyitation to us to 
tarry a while, and greet their inhabitants with the deceptive 
fly, we had ‘‘other fish to fry,” our journey for the day was 
only half exded, and we bade farewell to Cedar River, and 
proceeded on our way. : 

Leaving the main road at this point, we took the cattle 
trail which runs through the pass. This road is used to 
bring over cattle for the Puget Sound market, from the fer- 
tile valleys of the Kittitass and Yakima, and presents a sin- 
gular appearance, The surface, wherever the ground is at, 
all soft, is cut into regular ridges about two feet from sum- 
mit to summit, with depressions between ull the way from six 
inches to two feet deep. ‘This is caused by the droyes Of 
cattle walking over the trail, though I have never been able 
to understand why if should have this singular effect. A 
more monotonous way Of traveling than riding over these 
ridges could not easily be imagined. In places they would 
stretch for a mile at a time, nearly as high as a horse could 
step. Otherwise our ride was pleasant enough. The road 
was shaded nearly the entire distance. Every half mile or 
so, a8 we rounded a bend in the road, our horses would be 
startled by the whir of a covey of grouse or pheasant, inter- 
rupted in their feeding or wallowing in the dust on th@trail, 
The thought occurred to us that half grown pheasants, 
broiled, would be a toothsome addition to our bill of fare 
for supper, so coming to a particularly large coyey, E. dis- 
mounted, and stepped into the brush, while I sat on a log 
and held the horses and smoked. In afew minutes I heard 
the bang, bang, of his gun, and almost immediately afterward 
two more reports, and he returned with five young pheasants. 
We tied these to our saddle horns and went on. 

Jogging slowly along, over hills and through grassy hol- 
lows, between rows of firs and cedars, about sundown the 
geveen fields of the Squak Valley came in sight, and stimu- 
lated by the thoughts of supper and rest, we spurred up 
our horses and were soon at the residence of George T., one 
of the solid farmers of the valley. Our day’s journey was 
ended, and we were twenty-eight miles from Seattle. This 
little valley is at the head of Squak Lake, and forms the 
bottom of a small stream which flows into that lake. It 
contains possibly three thousand acres of fine farming land, 
and is a veritable garden spot. It is nearly all settled, and 
the settlers occupy themselves cheifly with hop raising. A 
ton to the acre is the ayerage yield for vines more than one 

ear old 

Arising betimes the next morning we jointed our rods, 
and rigging a cast each, stepped out to Squak Creek, which 
runs almost at the door through the meadow. An hour’s 
fishing brought to our pockets (for we had no creels) twenty- 
seven fine trout, none Jess than eight inches in length, and 
the largest weighing two and one half pounds on my pocket 
scales. Hastily cleaning enough tor breakfast, we returned 
tothe house, and turning the fish over to the cook, took 


towels, and going down to a large pool in the stream, had a 


glorious bath, and on returning found our fish hot, brown 
and—but why say delicious? 


[Jone 26, 1884, 


We were to await the arrival of a friend, $., who was to 
accompany us. Now an unforeseen difficulty presented 
‘itself. E.’s horse, a great raw-boned creature, had been 
slightly lame during the last few miles of our ride the even- 
ing before, and this morning was dead lame, and manifestly 
unable to proceed further. This was atrial which it was 
difficult to meet with a philosophical spirit, and we were 
beginning to feel rather blue over our misfortune, when we 
were joined by our host, who upon hearing of our trouble 
sent one of the men out to the pasture, whence he soon re- 
turned with one of the finest little horses I ever saw. He 
soon changed hands, at the price of fifty dollars, and was 
christened Rex on the spot. The lame horse was left to be 
sent back to Seattle when he should recover. E. kept his 
new purchase for four years, and only disposed of him when 
obliged to do so, He turned out to be one of the best riding 
animals | ever saw, and thus was the old adage exemplified, 
“Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” 

Some desultory whipping the stream, varied by intervals 
of smoking on the grass in the bright sunshine, and enliy- 
ened by the occasional capture of an exceptionally large 
trout, brought noon, and within a few minutes of that time 
8. hove in sight. He was as anxious to rest as we were to 
start, so lying under the trees, while lunch was preparing, 
he enlivened us by the recital of an adventure which he had 
met with on the way out. Coming slowly alone the road, 
he had» met a good-sized black bear, whick had at first 
seemed inclined to dispute his passage. - He had no firearms, 
so, riding back on the trail a sbort distance, he gathered a 
handful of rocks and setting his horse into a gallop charged 
the bear and put him to inglorious flight. At1:30 we started 
for Falls City, on the banks of the Snoqualmie River, seven- 
teen miles distant. Traveling steadily along at an easy pace, 
over hills and spurs of the mountains, we reached that place 
at 6 o'clock, laden with some half dozen pheasants for sup- 
per. Falls City is not what the name would imply, as the 
falls are some six miles distant, and the city is wholly want- 
ing. There were, at the time of our visit, about three 
houses there, one of which was occupied. The location, 
however, is pleasant. ; 

The Snoqualmie River, a good-sized stream, flows by, and 
is joined by Raging River at this place. This stream is 
small and is easily waded. It is clear and cold, and one of 
the finest trout streams 1 ever saw. Coming from the snow- 
covered mountains, it is raised to a formidable river in the 
spring by the melting snows, and being so large at that time, 
it keeps the banks free from trees and brush, and affords, 
many fine places for uninterrupted casts. The Snoqualmie 
River here is also clear, cold and swift, and is navigable for 
steamers to this point, except at extreme low water, We 
camped for the night on the bank of Raging River, and pro- 
ceeded to make ourselves comfortable. 8. went to the only 
house and returned with hay for the horses and went back 
afterward for grain, while EH. and the writer busied them- 
selves about camp. ‘T'o get a fire started, cut some cedar 
boughs for a bed, joint a rod and take a dozen ten-inch trout 
for supper, was the work of a short time, and inside of an 
hour from the time we struck camp we were feasting on 
smoking coffee and trout, garnished with bacon. The night 
was cloudless, but a little cool, and our blankets were all re- 
quired tokeep us warm. But lulled by the rippling of the 
water and the music of the frogs, with now and then the 
hoot of an owl by way of chorus, [ soon fell asleep, and was 
only awakened by the shrill notes of some little songsters in 
a bush near my head, announcing that another day had be- 

un. 

E Coffee and pheasant was the bill of fare for breakfast, 
and by the time the sun had risen we were in the saddle and 
away. A short level stretch, and we reached the foot of a 
mighty hill, where we concluded to be merciful to our 
horses, and took to our feet. After two miles of climbing 
we were at the top, where a fine panorama of mountain and 
yalley, river and forest awaited us. A short rest and ou we 
went five miles further to Jerry B.’s place, at the lower end 
of Snoqualmie prairie. This prairie fills a level space be- 
tween two ranges of hills, and is about eight miles long and 
three or four in width. The Snoqualmie River is Formed in 
the prairie by the confluence of four forks coming down 
from different cafous, and a short distance below the foot of 
the prairie are the celebrated Snoqualmie Falls, which we 
intended to visit. Stopping at Jerry’s house we left our 
horses and crossing the river in a Ganoe started for the falls. 
A brisk walk of a mile and a half brought us within hearing 
of the falling waters, and pushing through the dense thicket 
of brush, which is watered by the spray of the falls, we 
came out about fifty feet down the river from the fulls, and 
about the same distance below the top, on the edge of the 
vast cauldron into which the waters plunge. rom our 
standpoint we had a fine view. ‘The sheer descent of the 
entire river is two hundred and eighty-five feet, and when 
one considers that thé river is so large at this point as to be 
navigable for steamboats nearly to the falls, and is clear as 
crystal, he can readily imugine the effect, with the sun shin- 
ing as it was that beautiful morning. 

After we had seen and heard enough, we went back up 
the river, stunned by the noise, and awed by the wonderful 
display of power we had witnessed. On arriving at the 
house, we mounted, and after a pleasant ride of five miles 
through the prairie, arrived at Lucinda G.’s place, on the 
banks of one of the forks of the river. This lady is some- 
thing of a local celebrity. She was born and raised in this 
county, aud so far as I know has never been out of the 
county. She is slightly inclined to embonpoint, weighing 
over three hundred pounds; is about five feet three inches 
tall, and is withal as jolly and good-natured a lady as could 
be found in a year’s journey. She has a herd of cows that 
she milks, and which she has trained to a remarkable degree. 
We witnessed their regular performance at milking time in- 
the evening, She seats herself on a stool ina corner of the 
barnyard, and the cows, some half dozen in number, 
come in their regular turn, or as she muy direct, calling 
them by name, to be milked, They scem almost to under- 
stand the English language, and obey her every order per- 
fectly and immediately. We stayed here the rest of the day, 
and all night, In the stream we caught trout in abundance, 
and E. went on a short hunting expedition, returning with a 
good supply of grouse. For dessert at our eyening meal we 
had salmon berries and cream, These berries look much 
like a raspberry, and grow wild in great abundance on all 
the streams flowing into the Sound. They are yellow and 
nearly twice as large as a raspberry, and are delicious, 

Arising in the morping refresned and invigorated by a 
good sleep in the pure mountain air, we set out atter a sub-_ 
stantial breakfast, and started tor the summit, thirty miles 
distant. Our road now lay along the branch of the river 
that we had fished in the evening before, and took us int 
the mountains in earnest, The first five miles after leavi 

: _- F i a 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


the valley lay along the top of a steadily ascending ridge 
called the ‘‘Devil’s Backbone,” This weary ascent made, 
we met with the river again and crossed it, The road then 
crossed the river seventeen times in less than that number of 
miles, but has been remodeled since so as to cut off some 
fifteen of the crossings. Some of the fords were particularly 
trying, being deep and swift, with huge bolders sprinkling 
the bottom of the channel. Our road this day was all up 
hill and yery muddy, In places the horses would sink to 
the saddle girths, and the day’s work wasa hard one. Riding 
Was an impossibility, and we walked all the way, towing 
our horses at the end of arope. We made only a brief stop 
for hunch, as we were anxious to get as near the summit as 
possible before night. - 

The monotony of the day was varied by nothing of inter- 
est. Though we were high up, we could see nothing on 
account of the tall timber surrounding us on every side. 
Bears’ tracks were plenty, but we did not search for the 
makers of the tracks. Night coming on, we stopped at the 
last cressing of the river, five miles from the summit. There 
was no feed for our wearied animals save leaves, and after 
a hastily-prepared supper of coffee and bacon, we rolled up 
in our blankets and slept. Tired as we were, with the first 
glimpse of day we were up; a repetition of the supper of 
last evening for breakfast, and we were off. This last five 
miles to the summit was the hardest of all. The mud 
seemed to be bottomless and the hijls interminable. At the 
summit we found about a mile of snow, from one to two 
feet deep, Just before reaching the summit we saw a large 
gray wolf prowling among the trees, but before we could get 
a shot at him he had disappeared. There are still a large 
number of these animuls in these mountains, but they are 
difficult to find, owing to their great cowardice, Arriving at 
the summit, we took a short rest and a smoke in honor of 
the event. We were then at an eleyation of about 3,500 
feet, in the heart of the mountains, with bristling snow-cov- 
ered peaks all around us. : 

Starting on the down grade we went a couple of miles, 
when the road changed as if hy magic, On the west side of 
the summit we had traveled through endless forests of fir 
and cedar, and the underbrush had been almost impenetrable. 
Now the scene changed. We were still in the midst of the 
peaks, but the timber had changed to pine, and the under- 
brush had disappeared, and in its place was the nutritive 
bunch grass growing luxuriantly. The mud had disappeared, 
too, and the road became almost dusty. This change was 
caused by our reaching the other side of the summit. The 
warm, humid currents of air, fresh from the Japan Current, 
which washes the shorcs of Washington Territory, are laden 
with moisture, and striking the mountains on the western 
side, cause an almost tropical growth of vegetation. On the 
other side, not reached by this damp air, the climate is 
totally different. Itis dry and hot, and as a matter of course, 
the vegetable growth is modified. 

We halted at the first stream we came to, and unsaddling 
our horses picketed them out, and allowed them to eat their 
fill. We also attended to our own wants in that line, and 
after noon started once more, feeling like new men with new 
animals. Lake Kichelass was to be our stopping place for 
the night, and following our road through pine groves and 
beautiful little grassy glades, on a continuous down grade, 
we were soon at the lake. This region is the paradise of the 
still-hunter. The vistas under and between the scattered 
pines give uninterrupted views for hundreds of yards, and 
the grass affords a fine feeding ground for deer. On the 
way down to the Jake wesaw a finedoe and fawn, and could 
easily have killed them both, but could not have used them, 
nor carried them out, so we refrained from shooting them, 

and with feelings of regret mixed wita pleasure, that, we had 
heen sportsmen enough to resist the temptation, we watched 
the beautiful creatures as they bounded away. To the grouse 
we were not so merciful, and a few reports {rom E.’s breech- 
loader were enough to insure us a good supper. 

Arriving at the lake, we found it was a veritable mountain 
jewel. It was about four miles long and two wide, and its 
setting was of snowy peaks on eyery side, This lake is the 
reputed home of trout of wonderful size, some of which are 
said to weigh a sufficient number of pounds to make the 
famous Rangeley trout ashamed of theniselves. We had 
no means of verifying the stories we had heard, as they can 
only be caught with a spoon hook by trolling, and we had 
neither spoon nor canoe. A fly failed to raise them, but in 
‘the Yakima River, which has its source in this lake, and 
‘which is here a small stream, we found all we wanted, and 
after picketing our horses and taking a short rest, we jointed 
our rods and filled the air for the rest of the afternoon with 
the merry click of the reel. Our count at evening gaye us 
about two hundred, with a three-pound ‘‘whopper” to E.'s 
eredit, taken on a royal coachman. Our most killing flies 
in this portion of the Territory are about as follows: Coach- 
man, royal coachman, Montreal, Canada, Seth Green, pro- 
fessor, both blue and yellow, claret, governor and alder. 
Brown hackles are of course always good; with a dash of 
color, as red tail or body, they are especially good. A gaudy 
fly with red or claret predominating, is best in our larger 
streams, coming from the snow mountains, while in the 
smaller streams, close to the Sound, a fly of quieter kue seems 
to be best. 

About sundown an acquaintance from Seattle hove in 
sight. He was returning from a trip to the Kittitass Valley, 
and when he came in sight of our camp was meditating on 
the probable amount of enjoyment he would be able to get 
out of a night spent alone in that wilderness. He greeted us 
with a shout of relief, and, if I could judge from the ex- 

ression of his countenance, was very much relieved at find- 
je us. He spent the night with us and was off early in the 
morning. Satiatéd with the spert of the afternoon, we be- 

thought oursclves of supper. Selecting a cosy place for a 

camp, E. and the writer prepared the meal of trout and 

rouse, while $. and our guest busied themselves in cutting 

Ban for bedding, looking after the horses, and getting 
firewood, After supper we turned in, as we fondly imagined, 
to sleep. But hardly had darkness settled down on the earth 
When our ears were saluted by the fiendish yells of what 
seemed like a thousand coyotes, but what was probably only 
three or four. The noise they make is almost indescribable 
to one who has never heard them, A sort of a combination 
of the howling of a dog and the braying of a jackass, deliy- 
ered in double quick time, would be as near as I could come 
to expressing it. These charming beasts kept us awake for 
some two or three hours, They kept just out of shotgun 
range, and after two or three ineffectual shots into the dark- 
ness, We gave it up in disgust, They finally left our neigh- 
borhood, and we settled down to «leep, 

After an early breakfast, we bade farewell to Lake Kiche- 

lass, and started for the foot of the mountains, Our road 
- followed the general course of the Yakima River through 


groves of pine, and through little prairies. We occasionally 
caught glimpses of the river, which grew larger and larger 
With each yiew, until at our first crossing it was quite a re- 
spectable stream, At this crossing we did not ford, but led 
our horses across a huge log hewed flat on top. Following 


down the river, on a conlinuous down grade, through a | 


beautiful country most of the way, after a thirty mile ride, 
we caine out upon the summit of a bare hill about a thousand 
feet above the Kittitass Valley. Below us was the level ex- 
panse of the valley, traversed by green lines, which marked 
the course of the streams, and checkered with green and 
golden wheat fields. Winding through the valley till it was 
lost to sight in the distance, was our friend the Yakima 
River, and some fifteen miles away, near the river, was the 
little town of Ellensburg, 

A gentle descent of about fivemiles brought us to the foot 
of the hill in the valley, where we found the residence of an 
old Seattle friend. We dismounted and waited while he 
had dinner prepared for us, and after partaking of that meal, 
started for Ellensburg, which we reached after a pleasant 
ride of two hours between grain fields and meadows. We 
had now reached the region where prairie chickens abounded, 
and we flushed great numbers of them, taking in a few on 
the way, At Ellensburg we put up at the only hotel in the 
town, and after supper hunted up some friends who were 
living there, 

The town was small. There were at the time of our visit 
about one hundred inhabitants, It is in the center of the 
Kittitass Valley, which is, perhaps, the finest and most 
fertile valley in the Territory. It is a great stock region, 
and is also a fine wheat country, and great quantities of both 
are raised. There is no outlet for the valley at present, how- 
ever. All freight has to be teamed from the Columbia River, 
nearly one hundred and fifty miles away. The country is 
quite thickly settled at the present time, though there are 
still large quantities of Government land open to settlement 
around the edges of the valley. A railroad across the Cas- 
cade Mountains will, in a very few years, become a necessity, 
and this road, when it is built, will unavoidably follow 
almost the same route we had traversed, passing through 
this valley and making it a very rich community with its 
great resources. 

The Yakima River runs close by the town, and the next 
day we amnsed ourselves catching salmon trout with bait in 
the river. They would not take a fly, but would take a 
baited hook the moment it struck the water, and being very 
gamy afforded fine sport. They averaged about two pounds 
in weight, and we kept the sport up until it became monot- 
onous, The next day was our national holiday, and ‘was 
celebrated in a becoming manner by the people of the valley. 
Several companies of soldiers were at this time stationed 
temporarily in the valley, about five miles from town, and 
thither we went to join in the celebration, which was to be 
held at the soldiers’ camp. A pavilion had been erected, and 
there were orations, dancing and dinner for all. During the 
day a summer shower drove us to shelter. I found it in the 
baker's tent, and spent a pleasant hour talking to him and 
feasting on his pies and cakes. 

We spent the night at Ellensburg, joining in the dance 
in the evening, and the next day was whiled away alternately 
with the trout and lounging about the town. In the evening 
we started for Yakima City, thirty-five miles down the 
river, having preferred to wait and travel by night, thus 
avoiding the heat. Riding all night, morning found us at 
the camp of a friend who had a contract for building a road 
through the Yakima caiion, about six miles above Yakima 
City. We yielded to his solicitations to stay a few days with 
him, and made preparations to camp, Trout were abundant 
in the river, so were prairie chickens in the fields below the 
caiion, likewise rattlesnakes on the rocky sides of the 
cafion, and we spent the next three days in making war on 
the three, with great success. Rattlesnakes were so 
abundant here (and these were the first that we had seen) 
that it was a common thing to kill twenty in a day’s fishing 
or shooting. After three days of this we moved on to 
Yakima City, a pleasant farming village of three hundred 
inhabitants. Here we found an itinerant photographer, and 
improved the opportunity to have our pictures taken. I 
regret that I cannot present them to the readers of the 
Forest AND STREAM, 

After a few days stay here, during which time we made 
numerous raids on the prairie chickens and trout, BE. found 
his time was growing short. So, as 1 had determined to 
extend my journey to Walla Walla, I left my companions to 
return the way we had come, and leaying them my horse to 
be used as a pack horse on their return, at 6 A. M. ofa 
beautiful morning, set out in a buckboard, in company 
with the driver and the United States mail for a 130 mile 
ride to Walla Walla. I reached that busy city after an 
uneventful ride of two days. 

Thus ended one of the most enjoyable trips it has ever 
fallen to my lot to make. E. and 8. returned home over 
the same route we had come, while I, after a two months’ 
stay in Walla Walla returned home via the Columbia 
River and Portland, Oregon. ADET, 

'PoRTLAND Oregon. 


alatuyal History. 


A HYBRID SHEEP. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

There is now to be seen in this city an interesting hybrid 
between a male bighorn (Ovis montana) and a female domes- 
tic sheep (Ovis aries). The animal is a male, and is about 
three years old, In size it is intermediate between the com- 
mon sheep and the wild species, being about as tall as a large 
Shropshire ram, but shorter-bodied and with the appearance 
of much greater strength and activity. Except for the differ- 
ence in the horns and the fact that it has a rather long tail, 
this animal resembles an undersized specimen of O, montana. 
The horns are like those of the male bighorn in shape, that 
is, they donot make a complete turn, but are very much 
more slender than in that species, being considerably longer 
in proportion to their thickness at the base. The general 
color of this specimen is very pale gray or whitish, much the 
same as that of Ovis montane in winter. It thus contrasts 
strongly with the male bighorn, which is its companion and 
father, It is wholly without-the distinctive markings of the 
wild species. Its domestic origin on one side is shown by its 
slender tail, whichis about seven inches in length, while that 
of the adult bighorn, an animal twice as large, is not more 
than two inches (one The coat of this hybrid, while show- 
ing a considerable admixture of wool, consists, like that of 


the wild species, mainly of coarse, brittle hair, beneath 


which the wool 
Cervus canadensis in winter. It appears to have somewhat 


rows, a8 on O. montana, Antilocapra or 


more wool than the wild species. Lam inclined to think that 
the animal has not yet entirely shed its winter pelage, and 
that when it has got rid of this, it will show no more wool 
than a wild sheep does in summer, and that it will then re- 
semble this species more closely in color than it does at. 
present. 

The history of this specimen, so far as it can be learned, 
is somewhat asfollows: Four years ago the Hrnest brothers, 
catttle men of Wyoming Territory, north of Rawlins, cap- 
tured a male mountain Jainb and tamed it. The same year 
they had about the ranche a pet female merino.lamb, and 
these-two grew up together. From their union this hybrid 
sprang. The male parent and this specimen were purchased 
by Wm. F. Cody for his Wild West show, with which they 
now are, 

Although I have, in the past, heard vague reports of the 
existence of hybrids, similar to the one above deseribed, I 
have never until now been fortunate enough to see one, Nor 
do I think that it is known generally that these occur. 

Gro. BrrD GRINNELL, 

NEw York. June 22. 


“THE COUESIAN PERIOD? 


Mr. Chairman Section of Avian Anatomy, A. O. U.: 

Dear Str—Thanking you for your courtesy in ‘taking 
cognizance of my communication,” I would remark that 1 
regret not to find any reasons for dropping my incognito, I 
asked a few simple questions. This did not pretend to be a 
“manly” deed, so I fail to see that it indicates a lack of 
“manliness” not “to attach my proper name” to them; my 
name is completely immaterial; any member of the A. O, U. 
might have put the questions (especially, perhaps, any mem- 
ber of the “Section of Avian Anatomy”), nor do I fully 
understand why it should be beneath the dignity of the 
esteemed chairman to be guilty of answering a few harmless 
questions of a purely technical nature, even if asked by an 
anonymous questioner; nor why it should be necessary to 
know the name of the writer who put such questions as: ‘Is 
it logical to name an epoch before the epoch has expired? 
How do you know that the epoch will expire in 19007 
Whence comes the privilege ofa botanist to name epochs in 
ornithology? Do you know that Baird, Brewer and Ridg- 
way’s grand work is still in course of publication? Are not 
the leading features of the present American ornithology 
still ‘Bairdian,’ and what are the scientific features distin- 
guishing the new epoch from the past?” I say why should 
it be necessary to know the name of the man asking these 
questions in order to answer them properly? The esteemed 
chairman asserts that he is ‘‘too old an ornithologist to be 
caught ‘gunning in the dark.’” Idonot know your exact 
age as an ornithologist, but I refuse to expose my proper 
name as target even for your ‘“‘gunning” in broad daylight. 
The questions are of importance, not my name. It is not a 
matter of persons, but of principles. 

I am extremely sorry that you refuse to answer these ques- 
tions until your curiosity as to the authorship be satisfied, 
not so much for my information, but for your own sake, as 
there really are persons so perverse that they insisted upon 
the article being ‘‘unanswerable” in spite of your assertion 
to the contrary. Of course I refused to listen to such talk. 

But my questions are not so purely anonymous as they 
seem tobe. We have an old saying in that part of the 
country in which I used to live: “Name me your friends, 
and I will tell you who you are.” Now that is-what I did, 
and so you should be able to tell who Iam, ‘Doctor Socrates 
is my friend, Professor Plato is my friend, but Miss Veritas 
is more my friend” is the fit translation of the very correct 
Latin of the very old phrase, 

AMICUS SOCRATES, AMICUS PLATO, MAGIS AMIGA VERITAS... 


WERE WE SUCCESSFUL? 


pee are times when one gets nearer to nature than 

others, and so there are times when one enjoys throw- 
ing aside the cares of business, and can go hunting, boating 
or fishing with more zest than at others, 

All will probably agree with me that the true sportsman is 
one who while keenly enjoying his sport, engages in it not 
for the amount of game he may secure, but for the recrea- 
tion and rest from business his excursions bring him, and 
who measures his success by the amount of pleasure derived 
from them. He enjoys a fine bag of game as well as any, 
but the mere securing it is not the highest and best part of 
his pleasure. To such an one a day on the water or in the 
field may be a great success, and he not have a feather or a 
fin to show for hisendeavors. One of the most pleasant and 
profitable days the writer ever enjoyed in nature's solitudes 
largely partook of this character. It was a bright warm 
day in early June as for time, and the locality Spirit Lake, 
Towa, and its vicinity, The day’s adventures began before 
sunrise, when, breakfast over, two of us left camp to visit 
a colony of cormorants that inhabit a small island in Loon 
Lake, a pretty sheet of water just over the Iowa line in Min- 
nesota, and on the banks of which we were camped. The 
surroundings were such as make one feel this is a lovely 
world, in which existence is a joy. 

On one side of the lake, for two or three miles, the forest, 
just putting on its freshest, brightest green, sloped gently 
down to the lake, while on the other side was the broad 
prairie, covered by an emerald carpet, coming in placesdown 
to the water’s edge so gently that one could scarcely dis- 
tinguish a mile away where prairie ended and water began, 
and again breaking in bluffs fifty feet high, almost perpendic- 
ular from prairie to water. In places here and there along 
the shore were bright-colored boulders, lifted by nature’s 
forces into symmetrical walls, for this is one of the famous 
walled lakes of this region, Directly before us was the 
island, rearing its head fifty or more feet almost sheer from 
the water, crowned by a clump of trees and bushes growing 
in such a position that it required no vivid imagination to 
fancy it some ancient castle, built there where it were easy 
to defend it from any foe. 

The bright waves were rolling directly toward us, driven 
by a smart breeze, while prairie and forest, water and land, 
bathed in the bright, warm spring sunshine (for in that lati- 
tude June is a spring month), form a picture of such en- 
trancing loveliness that one would seem never to tire of 
watching it. Nor was it a picture devoid of life—hundreds 
of cormorants wheeled through the air or swam on the water 
about their island home; here and there could be seen flocks 
of wild ducks, smaller birds of various kiuds were every- 
where, and an occasional splash in the water showed that its 
finny inhabitants were busy, and we knew from our experi- 
ence the day before that they were numerous. 

Our boat was a canvas skiff, ten feet long and weighing, 


oars and all, thirty-five pounds, and would skim over the 
water like a duck, especially when J. W-’s strong arms were 
the propelling power, and on this excursion, at least, it was 
my good fortune to lie in the stern pretending to steer the 
craft with a bit of a paddle, but really enjoying myself 
watching nature’s panorama as one only can when just re- 
leased from a long imprisonment at hard Jabor in a news- 
paper office. ; 

A close inspection of the cormorants and their island ‘‘pied” 
the romance of that baronial castle very suddenly, The 
east wall of the island is their nesting place; there were 
mImany generations of nest built on nest, probably for hun- 
dreds of years, every jutting rock or stunted tree that 
afforded a foothold being utilized. Not aspear of grass, a 
weed or a bush attempts to grow on this side, the rocks and 
clay being kept bare by the birds scrambling among their 
nests, the only yegetable lite being a scattering grove of dis- 
couraged-looking ash trees, small in stature, yet presenting 
the appearance of aged and bent men who had once been 
larger, bat were gradually shrinking up ready to blow away, 
as the Californians who never claim to die are supposed to 
do. Candor compels me to say that the home of these birds 
is the filthiest and worst smelling place I ever saw. Bull- 
heads seem to be their favorite dict. These they bite off 
just back of the gills, leaving the head to rot, and there 
were hundreds of them strewn all over the ground, 

An hour and a half from the time we started brought us 
back to camp; the pony was harnessed to the wonderful 
shay (a veritable rival to the deacon’s), our boat and accou- 
trements loaded, and in ten minutes we were off for Spirit 
Lake, two or three miles away. This is the most famous 
fishing place in Iowa, and we would fain try its piscatorial 
possibilities. Coming to Little Spirit Lake first by the route 
we took, however, fancy led us to try our luck, thinking to 
accomplish something, J. W. being intent upon specimens 
for a collection of shells, while I had an ambition for fish or 
fewl, and carried gun and tackle. 

The boat was soon launehed, but finding the water shal- 
low I did not attempt fishing. The ducks wouldn’t come 
near me or let me get near them, A large blue heron waded 
along the woody shore, almost within gunshot, but the sun- 
shine was warm, the-scenery was fine, and it required an 
effort to get over that ‘‘almost’’ and come within shooting 
distance, and where was the good of killing it anyhow. It 
loved life as well as I amd was no use to me dead, besides I 
would probably fail to get it if I tried, so drifted on and ieft 
it to its fishing. 1 watched a muskrat that probably took 
my boat for a floating log and wanted to get acquainted, and 
enjoyed myself hugely until a shout from J. W. warned me 
that he had made the detour of a long arm of the lake and 
wanted me, or more probably the boat, and I aroused myself 
and went to him. He had his shells, and I—I had a good 
time. Spirit Lake was reached long before noon, but so late 
that it was useless to attempt fishing, as they do not bite so 
well through the middle of the day, Shell hunting could go 
on, however, and did, but I not being an adept took myself 
to the clean sandy beach and laid down in the sunshine to 


watch the water fowl that came by, the wayes that ran from 


Ine, av occasional sailboat that seudded along perhaps miles 
away over the clear, sparkling water, to dream of the stories 
of this wonderful place and lazily wonder if ‘‘Minnie Wau- 
kon” was yet watched over by the spirits so feared and re- 
spected by the Sioux, and if-the ghost of old Inkpedotah 
ever comes back to visit the place where he made his last 
stand for the honor of his people, and if he did what would 
the old chief think of Hotel Orleans, that was visible eight 
miles away through the hazy air, looming up like some 
tower-crowned fortress, and to sleep, 

Drops of water on my face and a sharp crash of thunder 
started me, to see J. W. standing near, watching with an 
amused expression my awakening by the shower that had, 
while 1 slept, come up as noiselessly as the Indians I had 
been dreaming of. Rubber coats were donned and soon the 
shower passed away, leaving the air purer, the leaves brighter 
and the water clearer and usready forsport. Want of space 
prevents me narrating the successes of that afternoon, but, 
dear reader, I appeal to you, if this ended the day, were we 
not successful? W. 8. P. 


CUNNING AS A FOX, 


HE term “‘cunningasafox” is by no means an ill-jointed 

figure of speech, Those who know best the habits of the 

fox are the most ready to accord to him the well-earned 

epithet ‘fwily reynard,” Not only is he careful of his own 

reputation and life, but he has a sort of a masonic solicitude 

for all of his craft. Two incidents, as related by eye-wit- 
nesses, will serve well to illustrate this. 

Near the boyhood home of one of the writer’s old college 
professors there was a high hill. Its rocky sides were cov- 
ered with small trees and bushes, Here and there were fis- 
sures and small caves, occupied in earlier days by bears and 
other animals. The Jarger animals had all retired before 
the tide of civilization to more desolate solitudes. One old 
fox seemed to held undisputed sway of the wily throne. On 
a smooth surface of the rock near the summit she would re- 
main for hours planning hér campaigns and nightly raids on 
neighboring farmyards, while her young gamboled about 
her. From her outlook on the hill she could plainly discern 
the fow] in the yard of our friend, who lived under the 
shadow of her home, but her cunning (or reason shall I eall 
it?) would not allow the thought of molesting them, She 
seemed to well understand that she and her young could be 
seen by the family, hence she reasoned that if fow! disap- 
peared from the yard the theft would he charged upon her 
and her life would be sought, 

Whatever her mental processes, she was never known to 
molest the farmyards nearest her retreat, but would often go 
miles from her home and there make havoc at the expense 
of some poor farmer, Her cunning enabled her to surely 
retain her home and prolong her days, 

Another incident will show the solicitude that foxes have 
one for another. In Northwestern Maine there lives an old 
man who has become an expert trapper. One of his chief 
delights is to distance any other man in the number of foxes 
captured. While on a vacation last season I chanced one 
day to fall in with this famous trapper, and had from his 
lips the following; ‘‘I became satisfied years ago that foxes 
often helped their fellows out of trouble. Not Jong ago 1 
went out as usual in late autumn and set some traps for 
foxes. Sickness called me away from home, so that I did 
not get an opportunity to visit my traps for more than a 
week, Inthe mean time there had been a light fall of snow. 
When I had a leisure half day I shouldered my gun and 
went out to see what the sport was. My traps were all un- 
molested except one, that was nowhere to be found. I be- 
gan to circulate around the place where it had been, taking 


a wider and wider sweep every time. At length, abouta 
quarter of a mile distant from where it had been placed, in 
a dense piece of woods, I found my missing trap and a fox 
in it, fast by the leg. The old fellow was remarkably fresh 
and active, although he had been in the trap apparently for 
some days. The snow about him was well trodden down, 
and lying all around him, within liis reach, were an abund- 
ance of dead mice. If his fox friends could not release the 
captive they were determined that he should not starve.” 
B. 5, Riprovr. 


Birds AND THE Exrorric Ligur.—Probably few persons 
have an idea of the great numbers and varieties of birds 
‘which pass and repass usin their migrations in the spring 
and fall, The flight of these birds occurs largely at night. 
Lighthouses and lightships have usually been selected as 
stations for observing these migratious, On starlight nights 
no birds are seen from these stations, but on dark, rainy or 
foggy nights they apparently become confused in their fight 
and dash against the lights, to which they are attracted, 
with such yelocity that large numbers are killed, or, blinded 
and stunned, flutter to the ground. Tuesday and Wednes- 
day nights were favorable for making these observations 
about the electric light on the standpipe in this city. 
Between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock the birds were seen in 
swarms about the light, and more than a hundred fell to the 
ground, <A few were caught alive, but the larger part were 
dead, Prof. Holzinger, of the Normal School, reports the 
following species among those collected during the past two 
nights, through the kind offices of Engineers Botham and 
Higgins, at the water-works, yiz.; Catbirds, grosbeaks in 
variety, scarlet tanagers, golden-crowned thrushes, water 
thrushes, chestnut-sided warblers, magnolia warblers, 
Carolina rails, yellow-throated vireos, black and white 
creepers, Traill’s flycatchers, green-crested flycatchers, 
savanna sparrows, white-throated sparrows, Maryland 
yellow-throats, black-billed cuckoos, thelldivers. indigo 
birds, and yellow-bellied woodpeckers. On Tuesday night 
the grosbeaks predominated, and on Wednesday night the 
rails. Catbirds were numerous on both nights. The 
birds which breed in this locality were noticeably absent.— 
Winona (Minn ) Republican, May 23. 


Utiniey of THE Crow.—Few writers have allowed the 
crow any credit asa benefactor; and very few farmers can 
be found who are willing to add any testimony in behalf of 
its good character, if it really has any, Not long since, hav- 
ing occasion to bring up the topic of ornithology with a far- 
mer in this section, who is a gentleman of considerable 
observation, the immediate cause being the killing of a crow 
upon his farm, he said, that in yiew of the services the crows 
rendered him, he did not like to have them shot. Hundreds 
and thousands of them, he said, roosted in his pine wood all 
through the winter, and the result was an immense layer of 
manure, which was carried down when the snow melted and 
enriched his land more than all the fertilizers he knew of, 
The fact that few farmers are thus benefited, nullifies a_por- 
tion of his might-be-inferred good qualities, for these roost- 
ing places-are few in any one part of the country, since the 
birds collecting from far and near, pass the winter in one 
spot, where they can get an abundance of food. This gen- 
tlemen also states that in some mysterious manner (still more 
to the credit of the crow) his cornfields have been unmo- 
lested for some years past, and that too in the very face of 
the fact that the birds are unusually numerous at all times of 
the year. J would also say that the gentleman spoken of is 
well acquainted with the birds which frequent his lands, and 
is able to discriminate between their good and bad habits 
without prejudice.—C. EH. B., (Bridgeton, N. J.). 


Own AND StHEeL TrRarp.—On the Sth of June, H. 8. 
Spackman, of Delaware, Pike county, Pa., was out looking 
for crows, when his dog started a large bird from the un- 
derbrush. Mr. Spackman was where he could not see the 
bird distinctly, but, supposing it to be a hawk, fired almost 
afrandom. The bird fell, and he thought he heard a peeu- 
liar sound as it struck the ground. Judge his astonishment 
when going to the place he found a great horned owl (Budo 
virginianus), with a steel trap fast to one of its claws and 
three links of chain attached to the trap. ‘The trap was of 
the ordinary kind used in catching mink and muskrats. It 
was quite rusty, and appeared to have been in its present 
position for some time. The writer measured the spread of 
the wings of the owl after it had been skinned und found it 
three feet ten inches. The bird had been caught just above 
the first joint of the middle right claw. The joint was con- 
siderably worn, as though the trap had swung somewhat as 
the bird flew and had chafed a ridge in the horny substance 
of the foot, The ow] was in good order when shot and not 
as an owl that had to live by what it secured with one foot 
would be expected to be. How many poor mice, etc., must 
have been surprised by the rattling of a trap and the coming 
of a claw upon them at one and the same time? Mr. Spack- 
man now uses his trap for rats.—A. H. G 


A Race For Lire.—It was a sultry afternoon in July. 
No rain had fallen for weeks and the dead leaves of last 
year’s growth gave loud response to the lightest touch. 
Seated near each other on the banks of the Weoka Creek 
were Dr. Rawls and myself attempting to fish, but too 
languid to even strike at a ‘‘bite.’’ Suddenly, to our right 
and rear, we heard an animated rustling of the dry leaves, 
and quickly looking around beheld a trout making desperate 
leaps toward the creek, hotly pursued by a black snake. It 
was a most exciting race, and so closely contested that it 
was quite uncertain whether the trout would reach" water 
and safety or the snake win a dinner of fresh meat. Finally 
by one mighty effort, the trout leaped into the creek, and the 
snake halting on the bank, with head elevated, peered over, 
the very picture of blank dismay.—W a'roona. 


Fish anp Snaxes.—ditor Forest and Stream: In the 
issue of June 19 an article entitled ‘‘Fish and Snakes” recalls 
several incidents that have come under the writer's observa- 
tion during the past thirty years of fishing and sketching. 
Thirty or forty years ago Ulster county, New York, would, 
J think, have taken the prize for snakes in variety and num- 
ber, especially the Lower Esopus, for water snakes, four 
to six feet long, thick, of a grayish dark color on back, belly 
light and black, like a chess board. Several years ago, in 
Wallingford, Conn., I was walking along a brook. In a still 
portion among the weeds I noticed quite a disturbance im the 
water, I waited a few moments, when I noticed a snake, in 
a yery lively manner, leave the brook with something in his 
mouth. JT crossed the brook and followed the snake up an 
inclined bank among the grass. After it had reached some 
forty feet, I went up and struck it with astick, It had in 
its mouth an eel some fifteen inches long, After I had struck 


7 ————— rl 


the snake he dropped the eel, which immediately made a hee — 
line for the water, swimming rapidly away. This snake was 
in shape very much like the usual black snake, lithe and 
active, color—back dark, belly checkered of light and deep 
orange yellow, like deep orange chrome. Is the variety 
poisonous?—J. W. [No,| 


PamTep Fincn on Lone Isuanp.—Bay Ridge, L. L, 
June 16.—Editor Forest and Stream: While watching birds 
at the tank this morning, 1 was surprised to see a painted 
bunting (Cyanospiza ciris) among the number, The colors 
were well pronounced, the bird evidently having reached 
full plumage. No firearms being at hand, the specimen was 
unfortunately not secured, Wilson speaks of it as being 
numerous in Louisiana, and sparingly further north. Dr. 
Coues does not include it in his New Hneland list.—A, L, 
Townsend, [The occurrence is well worth recording, as 
this is entirely out of the bird’s usual range. At the same 
time, the species is a common cage hird and may have 
escaped from captivity. We have more than once freed 
specimens and believe that there are one or two records of 
the bird having been taken in this vicinity. | 


Camp Hire Hlicheyings. 
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“That reminds me,"” 
120. 

(iter “BILL ELDRIGE was just pulling his boat 

ashore after a duck hunt one day, when a glance across 
the Absecom meadow showed him the long head and neck of 
a blue heron. *‘That’s my blue-jimmy,” said the Captain as 
he threw himself on his stomach and began to wriggle lo- 
ward the game. Hvery now and then he would raise his 
head to be sure that his prey was still there, and then 
another rod of wallowing through the salt mud. At last he 
comes to an “‘aim,” and raises to lis knec—only to find that 
he had been stalking the flagstaff and pennant of a sloop in 
Beach Thoroughfare, three miles away! Fact. A. 


121. 

Years ago, before Jucifer matches and the percussion Jock 
were invented, when the old flint lock served the double 
purpose of “‘fire kindler” and ‘‘meat getter,” Jones owned 
one of these ancient pieces. During his absence, Smith, his 
neighbor, came to borrow it. Keeping it only a short time 
he brought it back before Jones’s return; and as he hung it 
on the wooden hooks above the fire-place, told Mrs. J. to be 
sure and tell Jones it was loaded, as it had no charge in 
when he teok it, Jones returned Jate at night after Mrs. J. 
bad retired, and went to bed. The next morning he arose 
before his spouse was awake and prepared to make a fire. 
Taking the gun down he put the tinder in the pan, pulled 
back the hammer and pressed the trigger, when boom went 
the gun. Mrs, J, sprang to a sitting posture in the bed at 
the report and yelled, ‘*That gun’s loaded,” Jones carefully 
looked atthe smoking piece, then at 4 hole made by an ounce 
ball in the head-board of the bed about six inches above 
where his wife’s head had been, and then drawlingly said, 
“Tl be durned if it is.” PEDAGOG. 


122. 

Uncle Jim C. was narrating to an appreciative audience 
some wonderful fish stories, and finally wound up by telling 
of an immense mud turtle he had caught with hook and line, 
the largest by far, he was very sure, that had ever been 
caught in this neck of woods. 

Walt W. (the old man’s nephew, standing near and listen- 
ing to all the stories) could stand it no longer. 

“Uncle Jim,” cried Walt, “1’ll bet anything I caught a 
turtle the other day that will lay right over yours,” ‘‘How 
big was it?” said the old man, ‘‘go ahead now and tell about 
it. Show us how large he was” (giving a sly wink at the 
boys). ‘‘All right,” says Walt, picking up a stick and pro- 
ceeding to mark out a circle on the ground about, the size of 
a large washtub, ‘‘Pooh! pshaw!” cried Unele Jim, “‘you 
don’t call that alarge turtle do you? That’s a mere terra- 
pin, a nothing; why boy, my turtle was’— ‘‘Hold on, Uncle 
Jim, hold up,” yelled Walt, (who saw that he was about to 
be crushed) ‘‘you are in too big a hurry, wait until I make 
the turtle, that’s only his head!” A. "tT. RK, 


THE WILD WEST SHOW. 


MAY of our readers may imagine that the Wild West 

Show, now open at the Polo Grounds, 110th etreet 
and Fifth avenue, in this city, is an ordinary circus perform- 
ance, and that the exhibition is in popular parlance a “fraud.” 
This is in no respect true. The men connected with it are, 
as a rule, just what they are represented to be, and the show 
gives, as a whole, a graphic picture of life in the Far Westas 
it was a few years since, and no doubt still isin many places, 
Curiously enough it happens that many of the scouts, cow- 
boys and Indians are men with whom in past years, long 
before the idea of this show was conceiyed, we have been 
associated in the West. Fifteen years ago this very summer 
we crossed the Nebraska sandhills under the euidance of 
Major Frank North, the daring white chief of the Pawnees, 
the hero then and since of many a hard fought battle with 
the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. As Ney was among 
the Marshals, so Frank North among scouts and Western 
men, is /e brave des braves, That same summer we first met 
Buffalo Bill, then post guide at Fort MacPherson. <A year 
or two later we made a summer hunt after buffalo with the 
Pawnees, at which time we first met old La-sharoo lowraheh 
(Good Ohief) and La-tah-kats tah-kah (White Bagle), Skeedee 
chiefs, who are now with this troupe. Later still we 
stopped for a month or two in different years atthe old ranch 
on the Dismal, where Buck Taylor was cowboy, riding the 
range and any bucking horses that showed up. Many others 
of those belonging to the troupe we have known, and the 
genial ex-sheriff of Platte county will remember having given 
us a “‘quict place to write’ some letters to Formsr AND 
STREAM, i 14. i 

Of the show itself, it may be said that it isin the highest 
degree realistic, Cody is perhaps the best horseback shot 
known. Bogardus’s skill with ihe shotgun is familiar to-all. 
The Indian fighting and buffalo hunting are very true to 
nature, while the roping and riding is superb. The Mexi- 
can Vaquero Escabel, who rides the bucking mule, is, we 
think, the best rider we have ever seen, though Buck Tay- 
lor, Jim Lawson and others, can ‘‘stay with” a horse about 
as long as any one, é 

The whole exhibition brings back to our mind so many 
happy memories of life in the Far West that we confess to a 
good deal of sywpathy with the New York gamin who said 
to his companion: “Say, Johnny, I'd like to 
show every day, and twice.a day on Sundays.’ 


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: E Game Bag and Gun. 


SMOKE MEMORIES. 


Tt makes & difference which end of a match you iry to light. 
B had inet for planning where to lay out our first day’s 
Y work ou woodcock for the season, The old set were 
here, Jim, the three Johns, viz., John, Ho-John and Demi- 
ohn, Jim said he would be obliged to be absent for one, 
{ a young man from New York, a first-rate shot and all 
that, would represent bim this time; he knew all about him, 
‘a cousin had written regarding him, and in his club he 
was counted authority on wl sports pertaining to dog and 
n, Jim also went on to state a good many things in his 
-good-humored way, trying to gain our good will toward the 
stranger, and as usual, said so much as to make us suspicious 
thatthe man was something of a boaster, or not quite up to 
his professed capabilities, 

With the evening train the man-arrived and was intro- 
duced to usas Mr, Abel Nye, of New York. He had a good 
lot.of luggage for two or three days’ shooting; and every- 

thing in the sportsman’s way had anew, unused look, The 
fun case wasn’t frayed, banged or rusty; the big sole leatber 
trunk, also new-looking, wasn’t our sort; but we greeted the 
newcomer cordially, and after a short chat he went into 

supper and we sized him. Jim had gone with him, and so 
we talked as wethought. John was the landlord, so Ho- 
John and Demi-John were the sizers. Ho said, ‘lhe chap's 
a fraud.’ Demi said let us draw him out and see. Agreed. 
Presently he uppeared with Jim, and feeling pretty nicely, 
as most people do after one of of John’s suppers, began to 

talk of what he had done in the past in the field and what 
he proposed to do on the morrow. We very soon had his 
caliber, He opened his gun case showing a brand new 

‘piece, and pulled out of an amunition case from his trunk 

some new-fangled shells, aud discoursed like a drummer 
over their virtues beyond other kinds; in fact he made an 
‘ass of himself. 

By and by he went out for a walk with Jim; then we 
put up the job. John, the landlord, joined us, having come 
to the conclusion we had during supper from overheuring 
his conversation. The plof was this; A bet was to be made 
and dollar évents were to be scored, based on his previous 
statements. First, that he would bave first shot and would 
not eet his bird; second, he would have the lowest score tor 
the day’s shooting; and third, he would not kill a 
Single bird in the whole day’s shoot. While away he had 
left his ammuwition box out upon the table, and we took a 
corkscrew and drew all the wads which covered the shot and 
repiaced the pellets with pieces of bar soap and then put the 
wids back agaiu. It was quite a job, but we had finished 
some time before his return. By and by he dropped in, 

Jim having bade him good night and gone home. He soon 
resumed his boastful talk, and this being what we desired, 
we soon. had our bets taken and went to bed contented, 

. Early in the morning we were out. Nothing could have 
been more superb—weather, dogs, birds, everything, Fan 
put up a bird inside of five minutes after we commenced 
work, and it got up lazy, too, giving Nye a splendid shot, 

_I watched him; he did throw up his gun as though he had 
hiad one in his hand before and wasn’t a bit excited; fired, 
and of course scored a miss, and John knocked oycr the 
bird on a long shot. Nye seemed surprised, but only re- 
marked, ‘‘I expected to lose the first bet.” As the day ex- 
panded and he missed good shot after another I really pitied 
dhe man, for | had long before come to the conchsion that 
he might be a ‘‘good un,” even if he did talk too much; and 

presently I suggested to John ihe idea of getting a real shot 
cartridge into Nye’s eun so he might kill one bird and win 
at least one event. But no opportunity offered, However, 
I saw that old John was getting close to Nye, and then | 
“smelt rat.” Presently up popped @ bird and both Nye and 
Johu fired and the bird fell, the guns making one detonation, 
Wye looked at John and not seeing him reload retrieved the 
bird exultantly, as well he might. J did not know this at 
the time. 

So0n afterward we started for home, and on our arrival 
laid out the birds on a table in the office, and we all laughed 
at Nye for losing all events, Much to our surprise, John, 
the landlord, informed us that Nye had killed a bird, which, 

of course, we all doubted and asked for proof. Nye, poor 

fellow, with his ill-luck all day bearing upon him, had for- 

“gotten his bird, and going to his shooting coat hanging 
against the wall, produced a fine woodeock, which he added 
to the pile on the table, Ho-John picked it up and looked 
it over. and handed it to me without a word. J looked it 

over also, and found a bit of soap under one wing iirml 
imbeded in the flesh. 1 laid the bird down with the remark, 

“You ean’t dodge that, Nye has won one event at least.” 

After supper we squared bets and smoked our pipes as 

only tired men can, Presently Nye strolied off to see J im, 

and we were free to talk about woodcock being killed by 

“soap. ‘‘Soup,” we knew, would buy them in and out of sea- 
son, but kiting them with soap was another thing. Land- 
lord John was called to assist us and explained matters 
after he found the bets were settled. While we were tall 

ing he had slipped out with a woodcock and placed ihe 
piece of soap where we found it, The joke was now upon 
us, and when Nye returned we told him the whole story— 
hy we had put up this job and how much worse we were 
old than he. We assisted him im replacing shot for soup, 
nd found the next day he could shoot almost as well as he 
could boast. P REIGNOLDS. 


RIFLES FOR SMALL GAME, 


T has never bern my good fortune to be so situated that I 

could du much hunting large game, so my rifle shoot*ng 
has becu confined to target shooting, bunting squirrels and 
Other small game, Squirrel hunting with a small rifle is my 
favorite sport, and a guod rifie tor that kind of work is what 
‘Thave been trying to get for some time. I formerly used a 

all muzzleloader that was all right in its day but is out of 
late now, for hunling, The past three or four years I haye 
used a Maynard .35-caliber, It is 4 good gun, but is too large 
liber for small game, so about two months ago I ordered 
.22-caliber barrel from the Maynutd Company to fit on the 
‘Same stock as the .35 barrel. Not having much faith in rim- 

ire cartridges (as they are now made), though I would ex- 
periment a little on a central-fire shell for .22-ealiher, Made 
few brass shelis long enough to hold 10 grains of powder, 
and large enough to take in the bullet full size at base. The 
let 1 made the same shape as the one used in the .35 eal- 
and it weighed 35 grains, one part tin to fifteen of lead; 
bered the barrel to fit this shell and bullet. After giv- 
ng them a thorough trial 1 was so well satisfied that I have 


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since made all that T need. They shoot very strong and 
accurate with the sights adjusted for 50 yards. J can use 


the same sights for any distance up to 78; for 100 yards re-- 


quires a little elevation, using Hazard’s electric powder No, 
3. The inclosed target is of 12 consecutive shots at 50 
yards, with muzzle rest, without cleaning. The string 
measures 6"; inches, This shows it to be accurate enough 
for all practical purposes at that distance, At 100 yards 
the accuracy is about the same in proportion, and that is 
about as far as a man generally shoots at small game. [ 
write the above for the benefit of sportsmen, and to try and 
induce manufacturers to make a better class of ammunition 
for small-caliber rifles. The rim-fire cartridge is good encugh 
for pistols but is no good for rifle shooting. They don’t 
hold powder enough, and the bullet being compressed at the 
base destroys the accuracy. What we want is a cartridge 
holding at least 10 grains of powder, and made thesame style 
as the best laree-culiber cartridge. Such a one might cost_a 
little more, but most any one would be willing to pay a little 
extra for a good cartridge. Ay 
Avrora, Ill, June 10, 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Kiitor Forest and Stream: 

Inve choice of hunting rifles, I would like to adil not 
arguments, but one or two plain statements of facts which 
may have some bearing upon the points of issue. In a tramp 
through Golorado and New Mexico, I used a .44-95-280 
Sharps ‘Old Reliable” My pard, Ignotus, clung lovingly 
ti his Winchester, model ‘76. One day we were up in the 
“Needles” after mountain sheep. Climbing one of ils steep 
trails, we thought we saw, on the face of the cliff above, in- 
dications of a silver ‘‘Iead.” Leaning our rifles against the 
cliff, we scrambled up and began prospecting. One of ‘us 
dislodged a stone, which rattled down, struck the guns, and 
knocked them over the cliff. They fell perhaps fifty feet. 
When picked up the Sharps showed several dints in the 
stock and one or two small scratches in the barrel and noth- 
ing more. The Winchester had the cock broken short off, 
the lever jammed so it could not be moyed and the maga- 
zine bent badly. It had to be sent to Denver and repaired, 
ut a cost of about twenty dollars. 

Again: We were out one day, Ignotus one side of a ridge 
and | the other. Suddenly I heard a furious fusillade from 
his direction, Climbing hastily to the top of the interven- 
ing ridge, I saw him “‘pumping lead” (pardon O King! but 
nothing else will express it) into a big cinnamon that was 
coming at him about a hundred yards away. Every time 
the Winchester cracked, *‘Old Ephriam”. would snarl, bite 
the spot where he was, struck and keep on. When I spoke 
to him through the medium of the Sharps, he tumbled over, 
rolled down the bill, recovered himself and lay moaning, 
The second shot killed him, Six Winchester bullets hadn’t 
pens his rush; one Sharps stopped him, the second killed 
rim. 

Again: He and Lhad to go out at once to shoot for meat 
to supply acamp of twentymen. Decr were tolerably plenty, 
but wild, and Jenotus could shoot and hunt ‘‘all around’’ 

me. Results—Winchester nineteen shots and six deer—one 

struck three times, three struck twice. Sharps, five shots 
and four deer, none struck twice. ‘The p’int of these facts 
lies in the application on’em.” You can draw your own 
conclusion. Mine is, as regards the Winchester, that ‘for 
people that like that kind of a thing, it’s about the kind of a 
thing such people would like.” H. P, Urrorp, 

DELAWARE, O, ; 


NOTES ON 


Editor Forest andStream: : 

‘‘Wooderatt” received, and it is needless to say, that, hav- 
ing once opened it, I didn’t lay it down till [ had finished it. 
Bless old ‘‘Nessmuk’s” soul! How i’d like to grip his hand 
once and sit on a log and hear him talk. And yet,though 
Vm probably not half his years, I have the impudence to 
differ with him on one or two minor points which I will 
have the boldness to unfold. 

First—As to knives. He says, “‘let their temper be of the 
best.” That, I suppose, means first-class steel. Experience 
has taught me that a finely tempered steel knife, away from 
“scissor-grinders” and ‘‘sich,” is a never ending cause of 
wrath and objurgation. The first week or two its razor- 
edge is admirable; then it gets dull and a nick or two comes 
in it, and your pocket wetstone (if you haven’t lost it) is but 


“WOODCRAFT.” 


| litle use to restore its pristine keenness, The best knife for 


“outing”? purposes that | have ever seen (and IL have tried a 
score or more), is the common, cheap, soft iron, Sheffield 
butcher knife. The blade is thin and will take as keen an 
edge as a razor, while, if in cutting it meets a sudden 
obstruction, the edge bends instead of nicks, and can easily 
be bammered straight again with a couple of stones, When 
dull, a razor edge may be given to it with the same labor 
that would hardly put a polish on the tempered steel kuite, 

Second—His four pans and camp kettle are good so far as 
they go, but a pressed tin coffee pot, made just large enough 
to fit snugly into the kettle, into which are supped his water- 
proofed muslin bags of coffee, tea and sugar, and two or three 
strong tinned teaspoons and a fork or two, will add nothing 
to bulk, but a few ounces to weight, and a hundred per cent, 
to convenience and comfort. 

Third—‘‘Chacun « son gout,” but I wouldn't wear a pair 
of boots in the woods if I had to go baretoot, Diu you ever 
try to get a pair of wet boots on over a pair of damp socks? 
“Nuff ced!” A pair of moderately high-low, strong calf skin, 
buckle shoes, with, for muddy or wet places, a pair of half- 
leg, thin canyas, three-buckle leggings, are, metninks, the 
née plus ultra of toot gear, 

By the way, may | suggest an addendum for a permanent 
camp, which | have found, if not *‘a thing of beauty” yet a 
‘joy forever,” where used? Itis the ‘“‘scrap-kettle.” On 
first going into camp, set aside for this purpose your largest 
camp-kettle, and into it put every day the scraps that would 
otherwise be thrown away—the heads and feet of small 
game, giblets of fowls, scraping of soup kettle, cold potatoes, 
beans, tontatocs, rice, crusts of diy bread, with an occasional 
onion or red pepper for those that like them. Fish are good 
therein, if you don't get in too many small bones. Anything 
eatable, in fact (and some that are uot, as marrow-bones, 
squirrel tails, e of) and clean, may goin. Keep the pot set- 
ting by a curner of the fire-place all tbe time, where it will 
keep warm, adding a little water, and when you want a 

‘burried meal occasionally, dip out a panful, heat up on the 
coals, and you bave a savory mess that will make you smack 
your lips with gusto. 

I wonder if your correspondent who, in a Jate number, 
recommended ‘*cheese and potash,” has ever tried his own 
recipe? I did, following out his instructions carefully, with 


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weighed and measured ingredients. Results, about a quart 
of thin, greasy fluid, which wouldn’t *‘set like a custard” 
for any consideration, and a mass of indigestible, stray-~ 
colored gutta percha stuff, as edible as so much raw-hide, 
The family turned up their noses at the mess, and voted 
“cheese and potush” a fraud and a sore. Will your corres | 
pondent “rise and explain?” H, P, Urrorp, 

DELAWARE, O, 


WILDFOWL IN NEW BRUNSWICK: 


Editor Fovest and Stream: 

in looking over some buck numbers to-day I saw in your 
issue of April 24a communication signed *‘C.,” in which 
be says he lives on the Straits of Northumberland, and never 
saw the time when 100 birdscould be bagged inaday. The 
statement may be truce, but | doubt if your readers are par- 
ticularly interested in what such correspondents have not 
seen. | have lived on the same shores all my life, and I can 
name several gunners who during the past spring have re- 
peatedly come ashore with a bag of over a hundred of geese, 
brant and dacks, not ‘including coors,” and the shooting 
was done from boats. True, an occasional tenderfoot, lack- 
ing the courage to try the hoats, sets up on the boar: ice 
with decoys, but by far the greater part of the gunners use 
the boats mentioned. 

During the week when '‘C.” said the largest score was 
five geese and one duck, three different gunners brought in 
bags ranving from forty-three to sixty. If you would like 
bottom facts about this matter inquire of Mr. Tom Tren- 
holm or J. O. C. Goodwin, veteran gunners of Cape Lor- 
mentine, who have killed thousands of shcre birds where 
“O.,” judging from his own statements, has killed units, 

CAPE LORMENTINE, N, B. J 


THE.TURTLE LAKE CLUB. 


rYXHE Turtle Lake Shooting Club was incorporated a few 

weeks sinee under the State laws. This is the orzani- 
zation referred to several months since in ForEsT aNnpD 
StrHAM as having secured the shooting and fishing privileges 
of one of the finest deer countries of Northern Michigan, 
The club starts with a paid in capital of $2,000; member- 
ship limited to twenty, and its headquarters are at Detroit, 
Mich. I know of no finer deer and ruffed grouse shooting 
than can be found in the domain controlled by the club, 
while the lake upon which their camps are situated swarms 
with black bass and muscallonge. The officers and members 
are; H. H. Gillman, President; W. C. Colburn, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Frank W. Eddy, Secretary and Treasurer; Fred. A. - 
Baker, Judge J. J. Speed, Howard Barnes, William P. Hol- 
liday, H. W. Avery, Directors; all of the foregoing are of 
Detroit; other members are—Col. Morrison, of Locke 
Haven, Pa.; M. 8. Colburn, Factory Point, Vt.; J. J. 
Parris, Bennington, Vt,; Harry 8, New, Indianapolis, Ind. ; 
Col. J, E, Pepper, Lexington, Ky.; J. J. Gore, Chicago, Il. ; 
Ira A. Paine, Providence, R. 1, with several other gentle- 
men whose names I have not by me. 

Such organizations ordinarily call for a simple notice, but 
this is, I believe, the pioneer in an attempt to preserve game 
right in the heart of a wilderness where game luwsare nearly 
unheard of, much lessever observed. The club have already 
sent a steward or rather a@ game keeper to Turtle Lake. 
Last summer over one hundred deer were killed in the red 
coat at that point and it is hoped that such illegal slaughter 
can be guarded against this season. The gamekeeper reports 
deer as very numerous, He also writes tuat the bass fishing 
is simply superb in Turtle Lake. Several bass he caught 
measured twenty-one inches in length. 

I heard of a mean performance the other day. A few 
days since Mr. Wm. Fisher, a jeweler of Detroit, sat in his 
store talking with several gunners, and in the midst of the 
conversation Mr, F. condemned in round terms the shoot- 
ing of woodcock during the close season. All present coin- 
cided or at least seemed to in deprecating the unholy prac- 
tice. But the very next morning; upon Mr. Fisher’s open- 
ing the door of his store, he found attached to the knob, six 
heads of as many woodcock, four of them having soit bills. 
And the end is not yet, for if the miserable, spiteful, sneak 
ing hypocrite, who killed the brood and hung the trophies 
on that door, can be discovered, he will be punished roundly, 
“Bad cess” to him any way. 

The Terra Cotta Club took a trip to Monroe, Mich., last 
Thursday, upon the invitation of Hon. Harry A. Conant, 
The trip was made upon the steam yacht Lillie, and whiie 
at Monroe the club had their reguiar shoot. Mr. Geo. Avery 
won the medal with a score of fourteen out of twenty. Mr, 
Gaylord took second, breaking thirteen clay-pigeons. 

Mr, Mershon’s account of *“‘Lassoing a Man Bater,” in 
last week’s ForEsT AND STREAM, was capital. He also has 
a. good story about a skunk eater, but I don’t believe that he 
can write this last tale nearly as grapuically as he can act it 
and speak it. LI wish he could, bowever, and the readers of 
FoREST AND StReAM would laugh. DrELTA. 

DETROIT, June 21, 1884. 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been much amused and some instructed by the vari- 
ous articles upon shotguns in your papir. My instruction is 
mainly in the lack of experimental knowledve with most of 
the writers. Butavery few know what they are writing 
about. General Verity is as quotable for facts as most of 
them. 

Every one knows who knows anything of mechanical 
work, that a piece of metal—iron, stecl or brass—fashioned by 
a good machine, just as parts of watches, pistols and sewing 
michines are, is betterin every respect of fit, finish and 
durability than hand-made pieces, anu lower in price. 

Take another fact, that two barrels of the same size and 
finish of bore, will shoot alike, whether made of iron, stvel 
or brass. Any one can, or should see plainly, that an 
American gun of low price cannot be excelled in durability 
and execution, by any high-priced gun of home or foreign 
make, 

In all gun trials in this or in other countries, by govern- 
ment tests, no account is made of price or quality of the arm, 
or of the kind of metul in the barrel, 

A trial of sporting guns of 12 gauge, of 28 ani 30 inches, 
cylindrical and chokebore, in England, tested ‘for sseed of 
shot by electrical apparatus and proportional velocities by 
Bushworth’s tables, shows the velocity uf shot at the muzzle 
and at different distances from the muzzle, It gives ulso the 
distance from tle muzzle, where the shot have one-half the 
force—striking energy—they had when they lett the muzzle. 
No, 8 shot at 80 yards and No, 5 shot at 70 yards have only 
one-half the force they had on leaving the muzzle, The 


smaller the shot the more rapid the diminution of force. 
Chokebores did not uniformly excel plain cylinders. One 
chokebore, which was almost a perfect. cylinder in addition 
to the choke, excelled. One good cylinder of 28 inches ex- 
celled several. chokebores of 80 inches. Too little is known 
of the shape of the inside of our gun barrels. 

Twenty-five years ago I stood on a yacht’s deck with seven 
other shooters. We were at anchor, resting after a coot 
shoot. A measured line of fifty yards was attached toa 
wounded loon and he swam out toits length. We had muz- 
zleloaders, double barrel, of various sizes and bores, 8 to 15 
pounds and from 12 to 8-gange. All were anxious for the 
first shot; all had their chance, Each one loaded to suit his 
fancy, as had been his habit, for coots. Every one of the 
sixteen barrels was discharged; the head and neck of the 
loon appeared well covered every time, but the loon was ap- 
parently untouched. The gunners were chagrined and 
astonished. The loon was drawn in to 25 yards. The six- 
teen barrels were discharged at him in succession as before, 
and the loon was unscathed. At 15 yards the first shot dis- 
patched him. Thegunners of that party learned something. 
Bear in mind that in the head and neck of a Joon, not over 
the size of one’s finger presented itself for shot. Thirty to 
40 yards is as far as sea. fowl are usually successfully killed. 
I have seen occasionally a fowl killed at 75 or more yards, 
but abba with a shot through the soft part of his head or 
neck. / 

Ask any one of those gunners what was the force of the 
recoil of their guns ou their shoulder, in pounds, with 8 
drams and 1 ounce in 8-pound gun, or 5 drams and 14 ounces 
in 12-pound gun, and he would say 10 to 15 pounds. By ex- 
periment it is 75 pounds in light guns and 100 to 125 pounds 
in heavy guns 10 to 15 pounds. Some gunners have an idea 
that gun barrels can be constructed by some shrewd makers 
of such a form at the breech that when powder explodes in 
them, it will manifest force only in propelling shot and have 
no recoil. Jf gunners would consider the propelling force 
requisite to drive Shot 50 yards through a duck, they would 
readily conceive, as the force of exploding powder is equal 
in every direction, that equal force must be exerted against 
the shoulder. Witness the pains taken to check the great 
recoil in heayy ordnance. AUSTIN. 

MAINE. 


Tse SHoveL Hunters.—A short time ago while out 
with dog and gun I meta couple of that peculiar type of 
“true sportsmen” who, instead of glorying in the skillful 
use Of a modern gun, go armed with impiements which re: 
quire less skill to handle and cost less money, namely, a 
pick and shove]. They had just finished a forenoon’s job, and 
the one stood holding a poor kicking ‘‘cotton tail” while No. 
2 cut its throat. As the rabbit was supposed to be breathing 
about his last breath, No. 2 suggested to ‘throw him down 
and let the dog smell ’im.” This was done as soon as sug- 
gested, but the dog never ‘‘smelled ’im,”’ as the rabbit had 
just cnouyh life leit to run a short distance and into another 
hole.—BERGOLD. 


Lone Istanp GAME [PRotecTION Funp.—New York, 
June 20.—Lditor Forest and Stream: We have received from 
the Brooklyn Gan Club the sum of $25, to be used for em- 
ploying detectives to seeure the conviction of game law 
breakers on Long Island, We have also received for the 
same purpose $25 from the Richmond County Game and 
Fish Protective Association.—FRANcIs EnpDicorr AnD Gus- 
YAVE WALTER. 


PennsyLvantA.—Mount Pleasant, June 19.—I hear Bob 
White in every direction. Bob wintered well here, partially 
owing to the tact that some farmers were unable to husk all 
their corn till spring. Fall shooting will certainly be grand. 
Woodcock seem to be plentiful also,—FarMmR, 


No Rurrep Grouss mv Aueust.—New York, June 19,— 
Editor Horest and Stream: J see My. Frank Kent, of Monti- 
cello, N. Y., advertises on page 405 of your paper, to furnish 
partridge shooting in August. How does he manage it? 
Where is the game constable?—W,. HoLsBerton. 


Nrw Yor Woopceck.— The general open season for wood- 
cock in this State has not been altered. It will begin August 1. 
This applies to Long Island as well, 


Sea and River Sishing. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 
Black Lake, Michigan.—VI1I. 


EH found the other boys enjoying their after-lunch 
pipes in the shade of some bushes not far from the 
ledge of rocks and pulled in to see ‘“‘what luck.” Here 
another serious backset struck us in the shape of a distract- 
ing string of fish—mostly pickerel—tied to each boat, which 
the boys had taken coming up and along the rocky shore 
near the Rocks, and from some of the remarks fired at us 
we concluded that this must be our day to cut hait, not to 
fish. Taking a path leading through the bushes and swamp, 
we started to find a spring that the Deacon said he had dis- 
covered a few rods back from the beach near an old deserted 
house, which we had passed shortly after leaving the Freuch- 
man’s, Dick remarking as he took the jead, tin cup in hand, 
‘Must be somethin’s goin’ to happen to the Deacon when he 
takes to huntin’ up springs and cultivatin’ a taste for water.” 
We found the spring, boiling up out of an old barrel sunk 
in the marshy ground at the foot of the low hill, a good 
strong stream, and for the benefit of any thirsty soul who 
may hereafter be fishing in the vicinity of the Rocks, { will 
say it is the sweetest and coldest water to be found anywhere 
around the lake. The waters of Black Lake are several 
degrees higher in temperature than the waters of any of the 
lakes in the Six Lakesregion, beginning at Fountain Lake— 
the upper one of the intermediate chain—and haying their 
outlet at Elk Rapids into Grand Traverse Bay on the other 
side of the State, and the streams and springs running into 
it are not nearly as cold and pure as those of the interme- 
diate region, but this particular one is an exception, and it is 
certainly worth a two miles’ pull in a boat at any time to get 
a drink of its waters, ' 

{Anent springs, streams, and water in general, I am moved 
to make another digression. My letters in ForREsT AND 
STREAM two years ago appeared to afford right smart amuse- 
ment 10 a few of tbe brethren on account of the frequent 
reference in them to “‘clear streams, cold springs, brooks,” 
etc., and 1 just want to say here that, should any of them 


hereafter be seized with a raging desire to have a little sport 
‘over the clearness and coldness of the waters { may take a 
notion to write about, they will be wasting their time, for I 
am a water bird, in camp and out of it; as Old Ben would 
say, *‘From my topknot, plumb down to the eends o’ my 
toes,” and I am going to talk, drink and write water per- 
fectly regardless of any little pleasantries that may be in- 
dulged in at my expense, and I want every brother of the 
rod who goes to these North Woods for recreation, sportand 
health to know where all the good springs and streams are 
at which I have cooled my thrapple, for one-half the comfort 
and satisfaction of a trip to the wilds of Noith Michigan is 
to be had in drinking of the waters of its glorious springs and 
streams, unsurpassed as they are anywhere for their sweet- 
ness, coldness and purity. As to ‘camp drinks,” I concede 
the right to every man to drink anything that seems best to 
him, but my voice will always be against ‘‘beverages in 
camp,” for they are a fruitful cause of ill-feeling, quarrels, 
broken friendships and accidents. They work harm a score 
of times where they do good not once. Let us older fellows 
of the gentle craft set an example to the younger generation 
of anglers coming after us, by convincing them by our prac- 
tice that spirits and fishing do not necessarily go together; 
that it only makes the load heavier to balance a lunch in one 
pocket with a bottle in the other. Let us teach them to shun 
all ‘‘beverages,” and encourage them, like our Deacon, to 
“cultivate a taste for water.” Here the digression ends, and 
I trust it may lead many of the bibulous brethren into a 
‘‘train of reflection” before the fit seizes them to air their 
cleverness in an attempt to make sport of pure cold water as 
a beverage, or hold up to ridicule those that prefer the odors 
of the virgin woods to the assortment of smells in a brewery. | 

Back in our boat again Dick and I felt it was high time to 
save our reputations from total wreck by taking a fish or 
two; and with this end in view we left the boys to their 
pipes and pulled along shore to the ledge where we were sure 
to find a bass or pickerel waiting to be snatched out of his 
native element without as much as a chance to say good-bye 
to his nearest neighbors, We felt we were capable of per- 
forming this feat with neatness and dispatch, would some 
fish of convenient size only give us the opportunity, but after 
pulling our boat up on the rocky shore and casting for half 
an hour over twenty yards of water in front and to either 
side, we scored another hackset by failing to raise a fin. 
Then we set our rods—a sure sign we were getting lazy—and 
picking out a soft place among the rough and jagged rocks 
near the foot of the low cliff a few feet back of us, we seated 
ourselves about twenty yards apart to study the case over 
and wait for a ‘‘bite.” 

For lack of something better to do while waiting for the 
long-expected nibble, | removed a good sized flat stone from 
its resting place in the clay, and in so doing left a tiny 
stream trickling from the rocks above soon formed a little 
“cool spring,” which afterward fully paid for the labor ex- 
pended in scooping it out. Stretched out there on the rocks 
waiting forthe spring to clear I fell into a doze, out of 
which I was presently aroused by the sharp chatter of a 
kingfisher winding up his reel, and looking sleepily up with- 
out changing position. there sat the emblem of our club bal- 
ancing himself on a limb of a projecting bush tbat found a 
precarious hold for its roots in a fissure in the rocks over my 
head. 

He was not more than four or five feet from me, but he 
was too busy trying to stop theswaying of the limb on which 
he sat 10 notice me at first, when, however, the limb stopped 
vibrating, he peered inquisitively down at me with his keen 
eyes, wondering, no doubt, how that curiously-shaped old 
stone had found its way there since: his last fishing excursion 
to this, his favorite preserve. 

I remained. perfectly motionless and he finally seemed to 
be satisfied in his mind that I was one of the original stones 
ineluded in the preémption claim, as after a careful scrutiny 
he settled down on his perch, meditating, I had a notion, on 
the chances of going supperless to roost, and on the ‘‘onsat- 
isfyin’ natur’” of fish as a regular diet, especially when the 
demand exceeded the supply—exactly Dick’s case and mine 
for that day as near as I could figure it out. Suddenly the 
emblem straightened up and unwound a few yards of line, 
‘with the familiar chatter that greets the angler everywhere 
in his wanderings where fish are and comfort is to be had 
with the rod. 

Then he stretched out one leg behind, as though to kick 
the cramps out of it, and then a like movement was made 
with the other one, clearly a case of “‘rheumatiz’’ brought 
on by too much dabbling in the water. 

Hitching along the limb an inch or two, he raised his tail 
with a preliminary flourish and made a profound bow in 
Dick’s direction, this unaccountable mark of politeness being 
repeated at short and regular intervals for at least ten min- 
utes, 

Maybe he had just swallowed a young perch and the 
spines of the dorsal ‘‘wus a trublin’ ov his innards,” or a 
fishbone had lodged crosswise in his throat and he was 
humping himself to get it down, and it may have been a 
habit of his nature, like the funny tilting up and down of 
the little ‘‘teeter’snipe” one sees wherever he goes a fishing. 

When this curious and ludicrous performance had con- 
tinued until I was righ bursting with smothered laughter, 1 
ended it by suddenly jerking my hat from my head and 
swinging it up near where he grasped the limb. Whish! 
Like a flash he went upward, rheumatics, fishbones and all, 
and shot out over the water, too badly scared to chatter till 
he was a hundred yards away, and the last I saw of him 
was a devious, blue streak of chatter, growing fainter in the 
distance, going down the lake in the direction of our camp. 

That ‘‘emblem,” I venture, did not light on another twig 
or dead branch that day, nor for a week without first making 
a careful survey of the adjacent surroundings to satisfy 
himself there were no odd-shaped rocks lying around loose 
not indigenous to the soil that were liable to blow up and 
scare him baldheaded. 


The interest I had taken in watching the kingfisher 
knocked all the doze out of me, and getting the rifle from 
the boat I found a place nearby where 1, with some labor, 
climbed the rocky face of the ledge and stood on top, where 
I got a very fine view of the lake, which fully repaid me for 
an abraded shin that came in contact with a sharp stone just 
at the hardest point of the climb. I took the rifle along be- 
cause one cannot always know what manner of varmint he 
may meet in these woods, and a breechloading rifle is a 
famous implement to have about you if caught in a tight 
place without having carefully mapped out your line of re- 
treat beforchand. I might chance on a bear in my contem- 


plated ramble in the woods, and we, the bear and I, might 
come to a misunderstanding about the right of way, and 
then the breechloader would be a strong argument on my 
side, The misunderstanding might bring on a difficulty, and 


as I was not in first-class practice on bears the result ou 
like as not, prove I would be knocked out in the first inning, 
in which case Dick’s verdict as coroner and jury would have 
been carried back to the boys in about this shape, ‘‘seryed — 
the durned fool right for not stickin’ to his fish-pole.” 

I struck back up the ridge into a burnt district of a few 
acres, but the traveling was so hard that by the time I 
reached the woods lying between the head of the Jake and 
the State road, I had enough of it and turned off the light 
and came out after a while on the Jake shore near Merrill’s 
Janding. J saw no bear sign nor anything larger than a 
ground squirrel in the shape of game. I met an old 
acquaintance, however, from ‘Eel River, Hel River,” as he 
persisted in telling me every few rods, in the person of a 
“sassy” bluejay that foHowed me for a quarter of a mile, 
scolding and telling me in the plainest of jay language just 
what he thought of me. until Iwas glad when he got so 
hoarse he had to hie away to the lake to wet his whistle and 
smooth his ruffled feathers. When I came out to the lake 
and started along the beach back to the rocks, I was 
reminded that my brief bear hunt was another failure as far 
as it had a bear-ing on a supply of meat for the camp, but I 
reasoned it was best perhaps as it turned out, for had I suc- 
ceeded in killing a bear, life would have been a burden for 
the next week by reason of the congratulations and bear 
stories MerriJ] and the boys would haye overwhelmed me 
with, and even now, as I write this, 1 feel profoundly grate- 
ful to any bear that may have been loitering in the vicinity 
that day, that he or she, as the case may have been, did not 
come within certain-death range of the breechloader. 

During my absence Dick, with a streak of selfishness not 
usual with him, had selected the very softest bed in the 
rocks along the shore, and when I came on him he was lying 
curled up in the hot sun sound asleep and snoring with a 
vehemence that threatened to loosen the roots of the few 
stunted cedars and bushes growing along the brow of the 
low cliff overlooking the water some thirty feet directly 
above him. Rousing him up, we reeled in our lines to find 
the frogs on the hooks dead and stiff without a mark to show 
that they had been disturbed. Another backset. 

After a hearty drink at the little spring which was now 
as clear as crystal, we got into the boat and pulled straight 
out from shore over sixty or seventy yards of rocky bottom 
that to a river angler would have indicated a ‘‘powerful good 
place for bass,” but all signs had failed us that day and we 
were not much disappointed at not taking a fish here, 
although the other boys had at this very spot taken their 
best bass during the forenoon. 

The botiom from the ledge nearly around to the mouth of 
the Rainy is rocky and free from grass and weeds, the water 
ranging in depth from one to ten and fifteen feet fora 
hundred yards or more out from the shore, and I am sure it 
must be as Merrill said, a famous place for bass in the 
fall. 

AStizosteth—(life is too short to waste on this word)—pike- 
perch also flourish in this lake, albeit those we saw were not 
in a very flourishing condition. We counted five, floating’ 
along this frocky shore, dead and bloated, that were from a _ 
foot and a half to two feet long, but an examination dis- 
closed no spear wounds or marks that might suggest they 
han been tampering with the fighting end of a maska- 
longe, or anything that would indicate the manner of their 
taking off, and as we were more interested just then in live 
fish than dead ones we spent little time in conjectures over 
them. . 

As thesun was now getting well down and our poor luck ap- 
pearing to stick to us like a ‘‘pheasant burr,” Dick suggested 
that” we ‘‘make a straight shoot for camp and not squander 
our time in follerin’ the synopsis of the shore”’—a suggest- 
ion that furnished an immediate excuse for me to lean over 
the side of the boat to again water the frogs and prevent an 
explosion, 

Synopsis was a good word, but it fell short a couple of 
syllable of the word Dick was reaching for; however, it 
answered his purpose just as well as though it were a yard 
long, and the satisfied expression of his countenance as he 
took a puff or two at. his pipe said plainly, ‘‘Old Webster 
mustn’t come foolin’ round me with his big dictionary, for 
if he does I’}l floor him every time.”’ = 

We finally decided to ‘‘foller the synopsis” and turning 
shoreward we fished along the streak of grass clear down to 
camp with—let me record it truthfully and without hunting 
around for worn out excuses usually taken to camp in cases 
of this kind—exactly the same results that had attended 
us the whole day; but Dick and I were in the best of huior 
and at peace with ourselves and all the earth, for we had 
enjoyed the lovely July day and the scenery around the 
lake thoroughly, and we felt that, as a lamented brother of 
the rod has said, ‘‘it is not all of fishing to fish.” 

We however put it down in our mental log book as 
“chronicles of an unsuccessful day,” (FoREST AND STREAM 
will please give us credit) for we had fished over fifteen or 
eighteen miles of good looking water without a solitary nibble, 
a day’s experience so unusual that I was not surprised when 
Old Knots said that evening as we surrounded the camp-tire, 
“Boys, Old Hickory has forgotton how to fish; his right hand 
has lost its cunning, and 1 move we break up his rods and 
start him on the back track for home.” KONGFISHER. 

[vO BH. CONTINUED. | 


TIM AND SEVEN PONDS. 


HE suggestion in your issue of June 12 that one may be 
oD undecided in selecting among the many advertised fish- 
ing grounds, prompts me to tell what I know about Tim — 
Pond and Seyen Ponds, having just returned from that local- 
ity, where I spent two weeks. 1 wanted trout fishing, and 
though I fully appreciate the satisfaction of taking and 
showing a seven-pound Rangeley trout, I did not want him 
this year. I wanted fly-fishing, and got il to a degree far 
exceeding all promises or my own anticipation. And lam 
fully convinced that this locality is the best in this country 
for my sport, ; ’ 4 
- The region of the Dead River is yet in its infaney, and I 
would feel like wishing it kept a secret, but believe that 
under the influence of the present degree of intelligence of 
the people, the popularity of fish protection and observance 
of judicious Jaws, that it will not, like Rangeley, ever become 
so depleted as to require restocking. ' : 

You will here find all and more than is promised by Ken- 
nedy Smith, who has done so much to make these ponds 
accessible, The buckboard roads through the forest have 
been cleared of all obstruetions since the gale of last year; 
and as evidence of their condition, 1 will say I made the dis- 
tance of thirteen miles between camps on foot, with my pack, 2 
in four and a quarter hours, and had my morning and 
evening fishing. —_ 


‘Toxm 20, 1884.) 


' 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


427 


The water of the ponds is as clear as 1 mountain spring, 
The trout rise to the fly in all the waters, and in all my expe- 
vience I neyer saw their equal in fighting qualities. They 
take the fly with 1 leap clear of the surface and contest their 
final capture like a black bass, Ineed not tell any angler 
that such @ trout is fat and solid, and when served on the 
table opensred as a salmon and is the finest fish in the world, 

The camps are built to accommodate parties of from two 
to ten, are made convenient and comfortable with stoves and 
Mosquito nettings, so one can rest undisturbed till late in the 
morning or rise at 4 A. M. and land twenty-five pounds of 
trout before breakfast, The table is served with sufficient 
variety and the food well cooked, The scenery and sur- 
foundingsare peculiar and enchanting. Sitting in your boat 
on one pond you can count forty-fwo cone-shaped peaks of 
hills and mountains around you, which are covered to the 
summit with a dense dark growth of spruce, sprinkled and 
dotted with the bright leaves of the birch, the two contrast- 
ing colors producing an effect seldom surpassed in nature or 
art, Iwas more than satisfied with my whole trip and _its 

‘results, and crave pardon if I am too enthusiastic Sa 


Pond and Seyen Ponds. 
‘Bromrizip House, Boston, June 16, 


FISHING IN TEXAS WATERS. 


ey OME two years ago my brother, stationed at Colorado, 
kK Mitchell county, Tex.—at that time the terminal station 
of the Texas Pacific Railroad—wrote for me to make him a 
visit, and, knowing my fondness for fishing, he advised me 
to bring my tackle with me, as all the streams in his vicinity 
were full of fish. I Janded in Colorado City, as it was then 
called, on the first passenger train ever run into the town. 
The car of Major Stocking, the terminal agent of the rail- 
road, and that of his genial, jovial cashier, Charlie Harris, 
made part of our train. They were leaving Abeline to make 
Colorado their headquarters. The ride from Abeline was a 
long and tedious one, owing to the many construction trains, 
loaded with material for the railroad, on the traek and on 
nearly all the side tracks. I was invited into the cashier’s 
ear, and then the time passed more quickly and decidedly 
more picasantly, a8 my kind host was well fixed. He had a 
good bed, soft chairs, a piano and guitar, and was no mean 
performer and singer. Add te the above plenty of cigars 
and tobacco, and I know you will saw this was good enough 
eveu for a fisherman. 

After a day well spent in witnessing the rapid extension 
of the railroad toward El Paso, we formed a small party to 
try the fishing in Morgan Creek, some six miles to the south, 
and on the west side of the Colorado River, into which it 
ran. We hada pleasant ride over a fine rolling prairie, 
covered with good grass and small mesquite trees. Our guns 
were popping away at jack rabbits, quail, and cunning little 
prairie dogs which remained just a second in sight, and then 
with an elevation and quivering of their tails, descended 
into their holes. As we neared Morgan Creek, I descended 
from the wagon to find a goad place to try our luck, and 
came upon a most inyiting spot, a pool, apparently six or 
eight feet deep, and extending some three hundred feet up 
and down the stream. I quickly had a Jine out, and baiting 
a good-sized bass hook with some bird entrails, | made a 
cast. My line had just straightened out when my cork was 
under in vigorous style,.and when I gave the pull I found I 
had hooked a good-sized fish of some kind. Up and down 
the pool he rushed. J let him have plenty of line, then 
would reel in till he was off again, You may imagine the 
excitement and delight of the party. They were soon at my 
side. When my fish was tired out, I reeled him to the bank, 
a cotton hook was used in place of a landing net, and my 
cateh proved to be a four-pound blue cat. 

Now all was excitement, Every line in the party wassoon 
at work, and all were kept busy, Dinner was eaten very 
hurriedly and we went back to our lines again. Our catch 
Was about one hundred pounds of cat, buffalo, and some 
few drum, All anglers who have fished in southern streams 
ave familiar with this fish. It bites Eee! and greedily, is 
easily hooked, and soon fired out and brought to hand. On 
our return, [ was telling Mr. Coleman (lately of your street 
department) about seeing beaver dams on fhis little creek, 
and all the trees around barked by them, He insisted I was 
mistaken, as he thought it too far south for beaver. Who 
was right? 

We were all so much pleased with our success, and enjoyed 
the fishing, the shooting and the ride so much that two days 
afterward Charlie Harris organized a party for another trip; 
this time our objecive point was Champlain Creek, some nine 
tniles south of Colorado, and emptying into the Colorado 
River on the east. After a charming ride, similar in every 
respect to the first, we reached Champlain Creek near the 
ranch of Mr. West. As it was near night we selected a place 
for camp a few hundred yards below this ranch. We sent 
our driver up to the house to see what he could buy for our 
table, and upon his return we found the traditional story of 
‘no milk or butter in Texas” was not true, as he brought us 
a bucket of good rich milk, one of buttermilk, and three 

ounds of sweet, well-made butter, This was a rich treat 

or us, and with some topknot quail killed on the road, 
made us a royal supper. For once in camp, I saw coffee at 
a discount, While our cook was getting supper for us, I had 
commenced fishing, expecting the fish to bite as freely as in 
Morgan Creek, but to the great gurprise of all, we did not 
get a nibble, so leaving our lines set we went to supper, Re- 
turning to my line after supper I found I had made a catch, 
and drawing in, found J had an eel about a yard long. From 
then till bed time, our party caught seven eels but not a bite 
from anything else, 

We were up early the next morning to find plenty of 
cream on our milk—I made a cream punch, which all pro- 
nounced ambrosial, After a good breakfast, we began to 

_ fish m earnest. using liver and bird entrails for bait. We 
tried every pool down the creek to its junction with the 

Colorado, but nota bite rewarded our efforts, We found 

the stream similiar to Morgan Creek, full of deep pools, 

varying in depth and length, and having the appearance of 

good fishing places. We heard afterward that some pot- 
unters had been using dynamite there. 

Just before reaching the mouth of the stream and in siglit 
of the Colorado River, I witnessed a battle royal between two 
large hawks. ‘They were on a sandbar, fighting away, all 
covered with blood and dirt, and looked as if they might 
have been at it for some time, Our approach did not frighten 
them in the least, and they kept on striking and clawing 
each other until weshot them. J never sawso game a battle. 

___ We were now on the banks of the Colorado River, where 


had fine fishing. the cat biting as freely and greedily as they 
did in Morgan Creek. We were greatly annoyed by the de- 
testable garfish—they would seize our bait, but a nie ee 
ou 

4 o’clock we came to a deep pool, with sandstone boulders 
at, each end and a hard sandy bottom, where we all enjoyed 
a fine salt bath. I neglected to say in our preparations for 
this trip we had to take with us a Keg of water, as the 

orado River are so 


and the hook was out of their hard, miserable bills. 


waters in Champlain Creek and in the Co 
salty we could not use them. 


We now had our 100 pounds of catfish, ranging in size 
On our return we 


from one to four pounds, and a few eels. 
got a shot at some antelope, but they were too far off. 


Shortly after, I saw a young rabbitt dancing around on his 
hind legs in a circle, and when I spoke of it Charley H. at 
once said if was being charmed by a snake, and so we found 
it as we drove up. A shot from our Winchester cut the 


snake in two, when the rabbit sank to the ground, exhausted, 


We found it half covered with slime, as if the snake had 


been preparing for his meal. 
I may 


Which spoke of a pair sent to Texas from New Mexico. Now, 


if they are the same, I saw hundreds of them in Mitchell 


county, Texas. 


At this, the close of my letter, 1 wish to give my testimony 
The pas- 
sengers on the train, from Dallas out and return, would 
compare favorably with the people met on any train from 
Maine to California, and the much-abused cowboy I found 
A heavy blanket, foreed on me 
by one of them at Colorado City, added much to my comfort 


to the kindness I received everywhere in Texas, 


kind and ready to help us. 


on our little excursion to Champlain Creek. JAY. 


[There are several species of topknotted quail in Western 
The Gamble’s partridge is perhaps the one referred 
This resembles in most respects 
the California valley quail, having the club-shaped, forward- 
directed plumes. The Massena quail and the scaled partridge 


Texas, 
to by our correspondent. 


have a full crest more like Bob White’s. ] 


TROUT IN MAINE. 


Bee Maine trout fishing season is proving one of the most 
satisfactory for many years. All reasonable sportsmen 
are returning satisfied with their success. This may he ex- 
plained in two ways, A strong sentiment in favor of saving 
the game fish, instead of wasting them, is opening the eyes 
of all true sportsmen and leading them to be satisfied with 
moderate catches—enough for the table while in camp— 
while the Maine law has effectually stopped much of the 
transportation, and hence the desire to fish for the market 
or to send home, On the other hand, the fishing in the 
Sebago waters, the Androscoggin lakes and Moosehead has 
proved unusually good, A gentleman who has visited the An- 
droscoggin lakes every spring for twelve years, and is well 
acquainted with guides and the sportsmen who usually yisit 
these waters, has just returned from a nine-days’ trip to 
Richardson Lake, and feels compelled to consider it one of 
the most pleasing he has ever made. Parties are returning 
daily from Moosehead highly pleased with their success, 
They report trout enough, but their enough is less than 
formerly. They are learning to appreciate the woods, the 
mountains, the forests and camp life more than ever, and to 
be satisfied with trout enough to eat, 
’-But for some reason unexplainable, unless the good work 
of restocking and the benefits of protection are being felt, 
the number of fish taken thus far from the Maine waters is 
gveater than ever, and the size is certainly larger. Some re- 
markable trout have been taken from the Androscoggin 
waters. The catches from Oquonoe and Mooselucmaguntic 
lakes have been remarkable for size of trout, some of which 
have already been noted in the ForEsr anp Stream. But 
lately comes Richardson Lake to the front, with a perfect 
sample of the male Salmo fontinalis, or brook trout, weigh- 
ing nine and one-half pounds. This noble trout was caught 
last Wednesday from the upper end of that lake and imme- 
diately brought to Boston, where it was displayed in Apple- 
ton & Litchfield’s window on Washington street. It drew a 
crowd of admirers and is probably the largest specimen of 
the charr on actual record, with the exception of the great 
fish taken from Mooselucmaguntie Lake at the Upper Dam, 
Sept. 29, 1880, weighing eleven pounds, and now in posses- 
sion of the Smithsonian Institute. Other fish are mentioned 
of various weights, from nine to ten pounds, but no absolute 
record of them is at hand. The nine-and-a-half-pound fish 
had the hook on the under jaw well developed for a trout 
in June, and the red on the sides was more like fall and the 
spawning season than the spring. 

Among the other remarkable catches this spring may be 
mentioned the landing from one cast four trout—one for 
each fly. The trout were not large, to be sure, but probably 
weighed over four pounds. Mr. Stewart, of New York, is 
reported to have landed at the Upper Dam two trout at one 
cast, the united weight of which was sixteen pounds. This 
same Mr. Stewart went into the lakes as soon as the ice 
cleared, and was to stay till about June 20. His skilled rod 
has supplied many an unlucky fisherman with a handsome 
trout or two, while the tables of the most of the hotels and 
camps in the vicinity can testify to his bounty and skill as an 
angler, 

What the late fishing may be is a question. At the An- 
droscoggins the case is doubtful, At the Upper Dam, which 
controls a fowage twelve feet on Mooselucmaguntic, the 
work of drawing off the water, preparatory to rebuilding 
the entire woodwork of the dam, has begun. The lake will 
be drawn down to the lowest possible limit, and probably 
remain so till early winter, since the work of rebuildin g 
cannot possibly be completed in season for any rains which 
would fill the vast expanse of lake before the late fall. 

Some anglers of long experience in this-yicinity believe that 
great numbers of trout will be driven into Trout Cove, and 
that the fishing there will be excellent. But the danger is far 
greater that the flowage will not be put on again till after 
the spawning beds are established in what then is lunuing 
water at the mouth of the in-running streams, and that the 
flowage then coming on will destroy a vast amount of trout 
in embryo. It is a great pity that any manufacturing 
interest should have the damaging of the best troutine 
grounds in the world at its disposal. Richardson Lake, be 
low the Upper Dam, will probably be kept more than 
usually full of water the most of the season, unless a long- 
continued drought should require the water to be drawn off 
for the factories at Lewiston. .. 

Joseph Jeiterson, the renowned actor, has had some rare 
sport with the landlocked salmon at his camp on Skiff Lake 


be wrong in calling the birds spoken of abeve quail; 
they were exactly like our Bob White, only larger, and all 
had the ‘topknot.” I read in the Fornsr anp SrRHAM of 
Jan, 31 an article headed ‘California Quail in Confinement,” 


in New Brunswick. Travel by the Eastern and Maine 
Central Railroads to the fishing resorts has been excellent 
thus far, and with good promises for the shooting season 4 
good year will be made, The stage and buckboard travel 
into the Wilderness is better arranged than ever this year, 
and later in the season the mountain roads are to be im- 
proved. The little steamers on Moosehead, Oquonoc and 
Mooselucmaguntic lakes are running regularly and promptly 
as ever, and the steamers on Richardson and Umbagog lakes 
are pleasing the public much better than for the past three 
seasons. SPECIAL, 

Bosron, Mass., June 16. 

[Tt is reported that Mr. George W. Dillingham, of New 
York, while trout fishing at the outlet at Moosehead Lake, 
Me., on Wednesday last, had the remarkable luck to strike 
four trout at one cast, whose united weight was ten pounds, 
and was so fortunate as to succeed in landing them all, 
There were with Lim at the time as witnesses of his wouder- 
ful teat Messrs, P, O, Vickery of Augusta, Me.; R. L, Keach 
of Providence, R, 1., and G. J. Geer, Jr,, of New York city. ] 


THE NEWFOUNDLAND CODFISHERY, 


ITS BARLY HISLORY IN NORTH AMBRICA,. 

Oe tt result, and the chief result of the discovery of 

orth America and Newfoundland by John Cabot, in 
1497, was the immediate establishment by Europeans, of a 
great fishery around Newfoundland and the shores of the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, England claimed the northern por- 
tion of the American Continent by virtue of this discovery, 
but strange to say, England made no use of the illustrious 
achievement; for half a century she sent no fishing fleet to 
North America. Hardy French sailors, Normans and Bre- 
tons, were the first. Grand Bank fishery; in poor, frail little 
fishing craft, not half the size of a New York pilot-boat, 
these bold, adventurous toilers of the sea, dared ll the perils 
of the great unknown occan of the west. At first they came 
alone to face the fog banks and the icebergs of Newfound- 
land in quest of cod; but as early as 1504, we haye an 
authentic account of their fishing expeditions to the New 
World; a few years later they were joined by the Portuguese 
and by the Northern Spaniards from the Basque Provinces. 
The manner in which these foreign fishermen took possession 
of the Newfoundland fishery, isa curious episode in our 
North American history; not only were they the first to 
eatch codfish on our coasts, but they were the first whalers 
and seal killers, and more than a couple of centuries later, 
when England began the northern whale fishery, Spaniards 
had to be taken on their first trip to teach English seamen 
how to kill whales. 

The explanation of these remarkable events in the history 
of commerce is not far to seek. It seems difficult for us now 
to imagine England with almost no commerce, and to think 
of a day when Englishmen were not sailors, but four centu- 
ries ago this was the true condition of our great mother 
country. In the reign of the seventh Henry and for a hund- 
red years afterward, she was only slowly following her for- 
eign competitors in the great Transatlantic codfishery, I 
was the pursuit of cod in Newfoundland that first drew 
English mariners from their narrow seas, and tempted them to 
brave the dangers of the Atlantic; and England’s maritime 
power and the vast commerce of our race, whose ships now 
whiten every sea, had its birth and its real commencement in 
the Newfoundland fishery. Lest many of my readers should 
doubt this statement, I will quote from therecords. In the 
reign of Henry VII. we have an account of only two voyages 
made to North America by English vessels. In the reign of 
his successor, the virtuous King Hal, we have only one, and 
as late as 1578 Antoine Parkhurst, a merchant of Bristol, thus 
writes of Newfoundland: ‘There were generally more than 
100 sail of Spaniards taking cod, and from 20 to 30 killing 
whales; 50 sail of Portuguese, 150 sail of French and Bretons, 
mostly very small, but of the English only 50 sail, Never- 
theless,” he adds, “the Englishmen are commonly lords of 
the harbors where they fish and use all strangers’ help in 
fishing, if need require according to an old custom of the 
country; which thing they do willingly, so that you take 
nothing from them more than a boat ortwo of salt in respect 
of your protection of them against rovers or other violent 
intruders, who do often put them from good harbors.” 

The question will naturally present itself, why did these 
Spaniards, Portuguese and Frenchmen leave the gold fields 
of Peru and all the riches of the southern part of the conti- 
nent for the stormy north, with its fogs and icebergs? Some 
great attraction must have drawn these southern Europeans 
to Newfoundland. That attraction was fish, and in these 
North American fisheries they found a perfect El Dorado, 
more productive to them than the diamonds of Golconda, or 
all the fabled gold of the New World. To appreciate how 
great was this mine of wealth to them, we must strive to 
comprehend the state of the food supply of Europe in that 
age. Two great staples of modern agriculture did not exist, 
there were neither potatoes, turnips, nor many of the yegeta- 
bles now in common use; tea and coffee were unknown: all 
the winter through fresh meat was almost unknown in Eng: 
land, fresh fish was uncommon; the monks and the wealthier 
classes had their fish ponds, and the very wealthy had game, 
but for the general population, salted meat and salted fish 
were the great staple food, and the latter was neither plenti- 
ful nor cheap. Imagine then, if you can, the effect on 
medieval Europe of this marvellous discovery of an un- 
limited supply of the finest fish food in the world. As a 
salted and dred fish, codis par eacellence the king of all fishes. 
When properly watered and properly cooked, the salted 
and dried codfish of Newfoundland is quite as good, if not 
better, than the fresh fish. In a warm country where meat 
will not keep a day, how great is the value of an article of 
delicious, relishing food that will keep any time, and only 
needs steeping in water and proper cooking 1o make it into 
a most palatable dish, Among the Spaniards, Portuguese, 
Brazilians and Italians ‘bacalao” (or dried sult. codfish) has 
for the last 400 years been a favorite article of food. One 
reason is that they thoroughly understand how to cook it, 
which Englishmen generally do not. Spain alone consumes 
about one million quintals of codfish. 

Great wealth was gathered by the Spaniards, especially in 
this fishery, and to this day the grand old mansions scattered 
about the Basque provinces, the Carlist country in Spain, 
attest the great proceeds of the whaling and fishing carried 
on by these ancient fishermen on the banks and shores of 
Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

In another paper I will endeayor to describe the manner 
in which these ancient mariners carried on their transatlan- 
tic fishery. Their fleet was a large one, and Spaniards, 
Portuguese and Frenchmen extended their operations from 


| Newfoundland to New England, fishing there more than a 


hundred years before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, 
Sv, Jouns, Newfoundland. D, W. Prowse. 


428 


——— 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


[done 26, 1884. 


THE CANADIAN SEA TROUT. 


ROFESSOR JORDAN, in an interesting paper in 

ForEst AND STREAM, June 12, admits “that it may 

be best to recognize the above fish as a distinct sub-species, 
as we do the landlocked salmon.” 

Anglers have, I think, always done so, although natural- 
ists have not. If, as ] understand, Professor Jordan is an 
apgier, the concession may be due to that'fact. Perhaps he 
may have killed the Canadian fish on his own rod, and may 
have noticed its coloration and habits, so different from those 
of the brook trout, and may have tasted its superior flavor 
ou the table. J notice that he gives it the name Swlzelinus 
jontinalis immaculotus—‘‘the unspotted trout,’ a name 
which, I think, was first used by Professor Storer, of Boston, 
on a specimen from Labrador. 

Now the Canadian sea trout, so abundant in the tidal 
waters and rivers of the Dominion, is a red-spotted fish, 
much more silvery and brilliant of hue than the brook trout 
taken in the same waters, So obvious is this difference, that 
all the guides and local anglers of those waters will point it 
out at onee. The fish vary in size in different rivers. Thus 
in the Restigouche, a large river, I have found them in com- 
pany with brook trout averaging in size about six ounces. 

In the Tabusintac, one of the most famous trout streams 
of New Brunswick, but a small river, I found the'sea trout 
very abundant, with afew brook trout, the averagé size of 
the former about ten ounces. <A lot of fifty, which I cap- 
tured there in about four hours, weighed thiriy pounds, 

Tn the Nouvelle, a beautiful river on the north shore of the 
Bay of Chaleurs, P. Q., my string of trout, fifteen in num- 
ber, averaged two and a half pounds. Few, but large, and 
no brook trout in the stream; all sea trout, almost as silvery 
as salmon. 

In Wilkie’s River, Prince Edward’s Island, sea trout and 
brook trout were found together, about three to the pound. 
In these waters the fly alone was used, and in the Notvelle 
the large trout were taken with the same flies which I had 
used for salmon the week before. In this river, which is 
very swift, icy cold, and clear as crystal, the trout lay in 
pools like salmon, and were to be found nowhere else. My 
Indian guides before coming toa pool would go ashore and 
climb the high hank to look forthe fish, which they could 
easily see in the clear water, then they would place the canoe 
near the pool for meto cast from. The trout took the fly 
under water, like the salmon, and their play was much like 
that of a grilse or young salmon of three pounds weight. 
Any one who has killed a grilse will appreciate this praise. 

1 have never taken this fish in salt water, and, therefore, 
cannot say anything about the sca trout described by Herbert, 
Perley, and others, as coming into the river mouths with the 
tide in great schools, like mackerel, I have only met with 
them in fresh water, and these certainly appear to differ more 
from brook trout than do the large and small-mouth black 
bass from each other. 

This Canadian fish seems to be a most Joyal subject of 
Victoria, alwavs. keeping within her daminions, and pever, 
as far as 1 know, straying, like its fellow subjects, iato the 
richer pastures of Yankee land. 

I could wish that some angler naturalist might do for the 
sea trout what Dr Henshall has done for the black bass, 
and settle the yexed questions of identity and nomenclature. 

Manrigrra, Ga, 5. C, C. 


Enguisny Trovur ror AMERICAN StReAMS.—Patersonu, N. 
J.—It is a deplorable fact that our brook trout is fast disap- 
pearing from the numerous streams where he once was plen- 
tiful. This would not have been the case if the streams 
were properly protected by Jaking care not to cut down the 
trees which shelter from the fierce rays of the sun the springs 
flowing into the brovks. In the spring such streams be- 
come torrents, and in the summer are almost stagnated 
water. In some of them not a drop of watr can be found. 
No trees in the near vicinity of a stream ought to be cut 
down. A great dealof money has been expended on re- 
stocking our streams, but without very satisfactory results, 
because our troul require cold spring water and will thrive 
in no other. The best trout for restocking our streams, I 
think, would be the English trout; they thrive in almost any 
slow running water, and I have caught some splendid ones 
in a sluggish canal. The trout of Great Britain grow rapidly, 
are a beautiful fith, and I think they possess more gameness 
than our trout, As a table fish he is excellent. I think that 
if {bis fish were placed in our streams he would do as well 
here as in England, and in a few years we would laye splen- 
did fishing for him.—Passaic, 


Micw1GAn Ftsaine. —The grayling fishing this season is said 
to be better than for several years. | haye heard direct from 
the Ausable River as well as several other streams containing 
the dainty beauties, and all reports coincide as to the fishing 
being above the average. Mr, E. 8. Baker, of Detroit, has 
just returned from a two weeks’ trouting trip to the Jordan 
River. During the expedition he had most excellent sport, 
landing in all over one thousand brook trout. The fish do 
not run very large in the Jordan. The largest caught by 
Mr. Baker weighed one pound, while the average of his 
catch was about six ounces. But their numbers make up. in 
part for their lack of size, for he caught in seven hours’ fish- 
ing over one hundred of the toothsome fishes. Black bass 
are being taken in small numbers from the Detroit River. 
The best catch Ihave heard of in the yicinity: of Detroit 
was that made by Mr. H. B. Bromley, who with his brother 
Janded nine bass the other day. ‘They also caught the same 
day thirty-six pickerel averaging in weight from two and a 
half to three pounds each, ‘These were caught near Belle 
Isle, and such sport to be had at home and inside three or 
four hours’ time taken from business makes me think that 
Detroit is a good place for an angler to live in.—DeLa, 


Micuicgan Came Grounp.—The finest bass and pickerel 1 
ever saw and the most of them were at Hubbard Lake, 
Mich., last fall. Also deer and ruffed grouse in season. Go 
to Alpena by boat, thence down to Ossineke by daily steamer 
(fare fifty cents), then by ‘‘tote road,” nine miles to the lake, 
it is right in the pine woods. Take tent along. Fine eamp- 
ing ground. Idon’t tell ‘‘fish stories,” but if the fishing 
there does not satisfy any lover of the sport, he must have 
‘“‘an awful appetite for fishing."—PEDAGOG, 


Oguossoc AssocraTton.—Officers of Oquossoc Angling 
Association were elected as follows in camp, June 4: Presi- 
dent, Weston Lewis, Boston; Vice-President, Senator Fran- 
cis Fessendan, Portland, Me,; Clerk, Galen C, Moses, Bath, 
Me.; Treasurer, James A. Williamson, New York. Mr, 
Carpenter,. of Providence, R. L, was elected Trustee in place 
of Mr. Lockwood, deceased. Other trustees were elected, 


West Vircinta Fisnine Grounps.—Mt. Pleasant, Pa,, 
June 16.—I spent a month lately on the trout streams of 
West Virginia, One can find excellent sport there. Unfor- 
tunately for me I was too early. The Upper Cheat contains 
many trout, and I’ve taken some of good size, say from 
fourteen to sixteen inches, that’s a good trout with us. If 
one should go to Cheat, Black Water or Greenbrier after a 
little while he could have rare sport. I take the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad to Oakland, Md., thence 28, 35 or 42 miles cross 
country to Cheat. Conveyance can be had at reasonable rates, 
Go well prepared to wait on yourself. I found the habitations 
of man scarce. The greatest event of my trip was the taking 
of a pike in the Middle Island, a small stream flowing into 
the Ohio, just above Parkersburg. The water was very 
clear; bait, a white sucker about eight inches long; tackle, 
pike hook and staging, and common chalk line; time of 
battle, twenty-two minutes. This magnificent, fellow meas- 
ured forty-two and a half inches, and weighed nineteen 
pounds, I have the head and tail of this monster in a good 
state of preservation, FARMER. 


SHAD IN THE ConnEctICuT.—Holyoke, Mass., June 23,— 
The prayers of the wicked availeth littlk—for between the 
wickedness of the Holyoke anglers, and the horde of cow- 
boys who are running the net at South Hadley Palls, and 
probably a few sins laying on the Fish Commissioner’s door 
steps, few shad have put in an appearance, eight shad only 
being taken with the hook, and not many more with the 
net. Several! hauls of the net this morning did not show a 
scale. The flow of water in the river this spring, up to this 
month, has been the best for many years, yet the shad don’t 
come. If the saying, ‘‘as good fish in the sea as were ever 
caught” is true, can’t ‘‘you uns down thare” suggest to some 
of the fish tribes that there would be room and a welcome for 
them up here, or are all the fish put on the Chinaman’s 
ticket; excluded and forbidden to enter the Connecticut 
River, on pain of a lingering death by poison?—THomas 
CHALMERS. 


Tum Winprisu.—Sing Sing, N. Y,, June 23.—In a late 
number of the Foresr AND STREAM inquiry is made as to 
the proper name of the windfish, which inhabits the streams 
of the lower Hudson yalley. The fish which is usually 
known by that name in this vicinity is Cliola hudsonia 
(Clinton) J. & G, Itis also known by the name of ‘‘river 
bass.” In some of the large streams, as the Croton River 
for example, it grows to the length of twelve to sixteen 
inches, and affords considerable sport to anglers.—A. K. 
FisHepr, M.D. [The C. hudsunia does not grow to a size 
to attract the attention of anglers. It is seldom above a fin- 
ger in length, and is known as ‘‘spawn-eater’ at Albany, 
We suspected the fish mentioned by ‘‘N.” in our issue of 
Jane 5, and by “Niagara,” June 19, to be the big chub, dace 
or fall fish, Semotétus bullarts, (Raf.) Jor., but the description 
was ~ meagre to decide. The size alone determined our 
guess, 


SaLMon AND TRouv my CanapA.—Montreal, June J6.— 
Some large catches of trout have been made recently north 
of here in the Laurentian waters. Reports of good sport 
from the eastern township waters are daily received. Camp- 
bellton, N. B, June 20.—Salmon fishing here so far this 
season has proved a total failure, as not more than three or 
four have been taken in the Restigouche and Matepedia 
rivers, and but a very few fish are taken in the nets below 
tidewater in Bay Chaleur. Tyrout fishing is also poor, but a 
few good catches are reported. The writer and a friend 
will to-morrow start for some small lakes back in thie in- 
terior, and will at a later date report success or failure.— 
STANSTEAD. 


Rice Lake Fisarnec.—Harwovd, Rice Lake, Ontario, 
June 17,—The prospects for summer duck shooting are good. 
A great many wood and black ducks ure batching here this 
season. The maskinonge fishing is good and has been since 
the season opened, May 24. Large quantities have been caught 
by the Indians and whites trolling. Black bass fishing com- 
mences about the middle of July. I see by your issue of 
June 5 that ‘*W. C. M,” wishes to find a place where good 
bass fishing and partridge shooting can be had in August 
and September, He can get both here, Abundance of 
partridges on the islands and main land. Partridge season 
commences Sept, 1.—OHAs. GILCHRIST. 


Tan MAryLANnp Coat or Arms,—Maryland is a paradise 
of anglers. The State motto is Crescite et maltiplicamind, in- 
crease and multiply, and the coat of arms consists of a man 
who hoids a spade with which he has been digging worms, 
and an individual on the right who has just returned from 
a fishing trip with a string of fish. He is evidently telling 
the other fisherman that he was only fishing half an hour 
and that he caught a lot, but having a very smali family 
threw the biggest fish back into the stream,—Newurk (NV. J.) 
Sunday Call. 


Buack Bass my Connecricut.—A friend and myself 
recently made a trip on the Hartford and Connecticut 
Western R. R., in search of reported black bass. At Copake 
Lake we found good fishing near the Beach House, and took 
many good fish, From there we went to Ancram and found 
fair sport on the upper and lower Rhoda, Long Lake, 
Snyder and Miller lakes, all of which are within easy reach 
from either Copake or Ancram,—PoxH 0-MoONSHINE. 


Buack Bass iy Orseco Lake.—Some years ago black 
bass were put in Otsego Lake, near Cooperstown, N. Y., but 
there have been no results from them until in the present 
month, Two small boys lately took over twenty fish which 
would average two pounds each, in a small stream at the 
head of the lake. 


St, Cuatr Fuatrs.—Star Island House, June 21.—Bass 
fishing has just commenced; Mr. Charles Miller, of Chicago, 
tnade a fine catch of 109 in four days. Mr. James Slocum, 
of the Star Island House, has made quite extensive improve- 
ments since last year, adding thirty-five large sleeping rooms 
and a dining room with a capacity for 260 people. 


Large Tavroc.—A large tautog, or blackfish (Zautoga 
onilis) was caught in Long Island Sound, at Little Captain 
Islawd, off Greenwich, by Mr. P. Scutt, of Riverside, which 
weighcd 10% pounds. We believe that the largest one on 
record weighed 13 pounds. 


SEVENTEEN THOUSAND Men in 1888 were paid cash benefits under 
accident po'icies in the Travelers of Hartford, or 54 for every work- 
ing day. —Adv, 


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Lishculture. 


PROTECTION OF THE OCEAN FISHERIES. — 
[A paper read before the American Fisheultural Association. ] 
BY H, G. BLACKFORD. 


Ore of the questions that seen ty perplexes the mind 
. of the fisheulturist and the legislator is, how to protect 
in the hest manner the valuable food fisheries of the sea coast 
and ocean. ° 

On the one hand, there are the market fishermen, who use 
sailing vessels, and work either in the deep outside waters, or 
with net and ‘hook, gather their prey along the shores and in 
the bays of our coast. This industry gives employment to over 
85,000 men, and a capital of over $30,000,000. : 

On the other hand, we have the large fleet of steamers that 
patrol the ocean catching the menhaden, and from them 
manufacture oil and fertilizers. An occupation mvolying 
nearly $3,000,000 and giving employment to oyer 2,000 men, 
These facts give some idea of the magnitude of the interests — 
involved and of the importance of the question under diseus- 
sion, = a 
For the last five years a large number of the former class of 
fishermen have claimed that the steamers seriously affected 
their business, stating that many kinds of fish that were form- 
erly abundant, are now scarce, and that, unless laws are passed, 
prohibiting the menhaden steamers from fish*ng within three 
miles of the shore, or in some way restricting their operations, 
many kinds of the valuable fishes will be exterminated or 
driven from our shores. In pursuance of this idea, they have 
petitioned both State and National Legislatures to that effect. 

The question has been largely discussed by the press, the 
State and National Fish Commissions, and in the United States 
Senate. The latter has appointed a Committee on Fisheries, 
with Hon. E.G, Lapham as chairman. This committee has 
tor the past two years taken the testimony of all classes of 
fishermen, and obtained the views and theories of fisheulturists 
and ichthyologists, And, in addition to this, we have the 
valuable information and statistics gathered with great care 
by Prot. 8. F. Baird, the eminent Commissioner of Fish and 
Fisheries of the United States. 

It has been my privilege to assist in obtaining information 
on the subject tor the Senate Committee, the United States 
Fish Commission and the New York State Fishery Commis- 
sion, and I have read with great interest all of the evidence 
that has been taken by them bearing on this subject. And 
now, in discussing the question as to the advisability of any 
legislation to protect the ccean or sea fisheries, ibis test to 
look over the facts which have thus far been brought out and 
see what would be the best way to provide for the continu- 
ance of the abundant supply that we now enjoy. : 

The first thing that we want to ascertain is whether what 
we know as salt-water fish, are scarcer now than in former 
times, and I would say here, that the absence of statistics 
covering any considerable space of time, makes an answer to 
this question somewhat difficult, but, than<s to the New York 
Fishmongers Association, and to the Boston Fish Bureau, a 
beginning has been made to supply this hiatus, and ibis hoped 
that the National Government will very soon take definite 
measures for the purpose of getting, annually, correct statistics 
of the amount of fish caught in the waters and-on the coast of 
the Untted States. Having been a dealer in fresh fish in 
Fulton Market, New York, for the past seventeen. years, [ 
have had the opportunity of noticing une this period, the 
varying supply of various kinds of ish, and | beg leave to sub- 
mit my views as to the scarcity or plentifulness of some of 
these various species, 

First and most important of all our fishes is the cod. I 
helieve that there has been no considerable diminution in 
quantity in the last decade, judging from the quantity brought 
to market an@ the prices obtained; and as some indication of 
the range of price, I may say that during the year 1853 cod 
sold as low as one dollar per hundred weight. In some years 
there has been a perceptible decrease in the catch, but it has 
been followed by such enormous catches that the markets 
have been glutted. ‘The statistics of the Boston Fish Bureau 
show the catch of the New England fleet to be; for 1851, 
775,027 quintals; for 1882, 898.904 quintals; for 1885, 1,061,698 
quintals, showing an absolute increase In two yea's of nearly 
300,000 quintals. Surely these figures need not occasion any 
alarm or fear that codfish cakes will be beyond the reach of 
the most impecunious fisheulturist, — . 

Next, and hardly second in importance, is the bluetish. Tt is 
a matter of historical record that these fish disappeared en- 
tirely from our coast in the year 1764, and did not make their 
appearance azain for several years, and then they were taken 
jn vast numbers. Suppose such a disappearance should take 
place thissummer, How quickly the fishermen would appeal 
to the Legislatures to abolish the menhaden steamers, and the 
angler would ery out for t 6 destruction of the pound and 
trap nets, Hach would probably claim that the scarcity was 
owing to these instrmmentalities, This one instance of the 
bluefish in 1764 should lead us to be careful and conservative 
in regard to legislation, and to carefully consider whether 
there are not some great natural laws that determine the 
appearance and disappearance of fish on our coast, rather than 
attribute it to the comparatively puny efforts of man to affect 
the supvly. ; . 

But let us turn to the question as to their present apparent 
scarcity or plentifulness. During the year 1882 bluefish were 
scarcer than they had been for some years, and the whotesale 
price did not go below five cents, This scarcity was particu- 
larly noticeable on the New Jersey coast. But, the season of 
1883 was unusually productive, and bluefish sold as low as two 
and a half cents per pound, and, had it not been for the large 
quantities that were taken out of the market and stored in 
refrigerators for winter use, the price would have declined to” 
one Gent per pound. 

Tt would seem to be a fair inference that the bluefish needs 
no protection at present. i f 

The fresh mackerel is another important factor in the food 
supply of the people, It h&s attracted a great deal of the 
attention of fish economists, and it is one of the tishes in re- 
gard to which, through the statistics of the Boston Fish 
Bureau, we can speak somewhat intelligently. : 

In 1825 the New England catch was 260,000 bbls.; in 1826, 
160,000 bbls. ; in 1827, 200,000 bbls, ; in 1828, 240,000 bbls., and 
in 1831 the largest quantity on record was taken, amounting 
to 590,000 bbls. After this wonderful catch the number 
steadily declined, until the year 1840, during which season 
only 55,000 bbls. were taken. In 185] there was another won- 
derful catch of 330,000 bbls,; in 1859, only 100,000 bbls.; in 
1863, 310,000 bbls. ; in 1865, 180,000 bbls. ; in 1870, 420,000 bbls. ; 
1877, 110,000 bbis,; in 1880, 245,000 bbls.; in 1881 and 1882 the 
number is the samre—260,000 bbls. ; 1583, 160,000 bbls. These 
figures, covering-a period of fifty-eight years, would seem to 
indicate that their plentifulness or scarcity is not goyerned 
materially by the purse seines of the Gloucester fleet. 

In my own experience in the New York markets I have seen 
just such fluctuations in the quantity brought to that city, 
and whenever there occurs a bad season the fishermen and 
others interested talk of the probability of the mackerel being 
all caught up, and of the necessity of some protection for the 
mackerel fisheries. 7 

The opening of the present season has been a remarkable 
one. ‘lhe first vessel arrived March 24, and the mackerel were ~ 
so small that the, captain refused to take off his hatches to— 
show the fish, and insisted npon selling them “‘unsight unseen,” 
and he was fortunate enough to find a purchaser on those 
terms, at two anda half cents exch, There were See 
like 100,00 fish in the load, and poe were 50 small that 1t too 
five of them to weigh a pond. The firm that bought them 

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succeeded in selling afew hundred at four cents each, and 
‘then the price rapidly declined, whtil the larger portion of the 
oareéo was Sold at 50 cents per 100, About that time the un- 
Laattlberttc ta pe ealled my attention tothe fact that it was a 
reat shame that such small mackerel were caught, and that 
Joneress ought to pass a law to prohibit such a wicked waste, 

The first 0ad_ of mackerel was followed by several loads 
with fish 4 very little larger in size, but about the 20th of Apri 
a new seliool made its appearance, the average weight of the 
fish being about one pound each, and at least 1,500,000 of this 
‘size have, up to the present time, been marketed, and a large 
Portion of them have been sold as low as two cents each. 

_ The porgy, or, as it is sometimes called, the scup, is another 
important. fish that furnishes abundant and cheap food, and 
about which considerable controversy has been had during 
the past few years between the net men on one side and the 
hook and ine men on the other, the latter claiming that the 
pounds and traps of the former were exterminating these 
sh, and efforts were put forth to have laws enacted that 
should restrict or abolish pound and trap fishing. But noth- 
ing came of such endeavors. This was in 1871, and fishing has 
heen carried on in the same manner ever since, and in the New 
York market last week porgies sold as low as 75 cents per 
barrel, or about one-half a cent per pound. 

f might continue on through the list of food fishes, and oc- 
cupy your time and, possibly, your attention, but [ think I 
haye said enough on this branch of the question. 

_ Now, let us consider the menhaden fisheries, against which 
is brought the charge that they are prosecuted to such an ex- 
tent, by both sail and steam yessels, that they have materially 
decreased the numbers of menhaden, and seriously impaired 
the cateh of food fishes. You will find, by referring to the 
reports of the United States Menhaden Oil & Guano Associa- 
tion, that in 1875, with 283 sailing vessels, and 25 steamers, 
492,578,000 fish Were taken, that in 1881, with 286 sailing 
vessels, and 73 steamers, 454,192,000 fish were caught, and in 
1862, with 85 steamers, and 212 sailing, only 346,638,000 were 
caught, and last year, 1883, with 136 sailing, and 69 steamers, 
there was the enormous catch of 613,461,000 fish, These 
figures, taken in connection with the statements that have 
been made to me by captains of merchant vessels and fishing 
smacks, that during tlic fall of 1883 they sailed through miles 
ot menhaden, would warrant the belief that this fish is ver 
far from being exterminated, and that, with them as wit 
the food fishes that are taken for market, there are seasons of 
preat abundance, and seasons of scarity, and that up to the 
present time, these seasons have not been affected, either one 
way or the other, by human agency. 

Another significant fact is, that during the early part of the 
menhaden season of 1855, and up to nearly its close, the 
fishing was so poor and wnprofitable, that the fishermen 
themselves began to think they had ‘killed the goose that 
Jaid the golden egg,” when all at once the fish appeared in 
countless numbers, and in a few days they had taken enough 
to turn, what had promised to be a most disastrous season, 
into one of large protit to all concerned. 

Now, haying presented these facts te you in a crude and 
disjointed form, permit me to say in closing, that although 
what are known as the hook and line fishermen, almost 
without exception, testify (and I believe truly) that they find 
their occupation and means of living seriously impaired, yet, 
from my experience and observation in the markets, I believe 
the facts to be that, with the exception of striped bass and 
lobsters, all kinds of sea food fishes are as abundant now as 
they were fifteen years ago, and, believing this, [am forced 
to the conviction that any legislation looking to the restriction 
of the fishing by the menhaden fishermen is unnecessary, and 
that any laws prohibiting pound and trap net fishing would 
cut off a large proportign of abundant and cheap food for the 
people, and nothing wotld be gained, ; 

But £ do hope that Congress. will take some action that 
will provide for the collection of statistics as to the quantities 
ot fish taken, so that in future, when questions affecting these 
vast industries come before them, they will then be able to 
frame levislation that will protect the fisheries, and not 
oppress the fishermen. ~ , 

Mr. Enpicorr—I would like to ask Mr. Blackford to 

- state whether in his opinion the pollution of the waters 
by gases and oils has a detrimental effect wpon the fisheries, 

Mr. Bhackrorp—That is a question which, I believe, re- 
ceived some attention at the last meeting of the Association 
in the Cooper Institue, New York. On that occasion some 
action was taken, which looked toward a petition for legisla- 
tion to prevent the pollution of the water. I think it was ad- 
mitted by all that it had been a source of great detriment to 
the fishing in our bays and especially in the New York Har- 
bor. I will quote from the Report of the Association for 1883, 
page 75. 

“Mr. Benkard: I would like to bring up the subject of the 
pollution of our waters, which brings many of our fishcultural 
efforts to nought. I would respectfully offer the following: 

“Whereas, \t is the sense of this Association that the contin- 
ual and increasing pollution of the waters of New York Bay 
from the reftise of certain factories, threatens eventually to 
kill or drive ayay all fish, shellfish and bivalves natural to 
said waters* ; 

“Therefore, Beit resolved that this Association beg to call the 
immediate attention of the Fish Commissioners of the State 
of New York and New Jersey, also of the members of their 
Legislature, to this impending calamity,” 

seconded that resohition and made a few remarks to the 
effect that a great many fish, which had fornierly been abun- 
dant in the Bay, were ie longer to be found there. Striped 
bass, and particularly lobsters, had been driven out entirely. 
These latter used to be taken abundantly on the Jersey flats, 
Shrimps, too, which were very numerous and formed food for 
larger fish, were almost exterminated, and whsetfew remained 
were tainted with a flavor of kerosene. Oysters and clams 
have been killea by thousands in the. yicinity of Rockaway. 
The water has been so polluted by the factories of Barren 
Island as to render a number of oyster beds, that used to he 
considered yaluable, of no importance whatever. I think, 
though I am not certain, that the New Jersey Legislature has 
talken some action, and 1 am of the decided opinion that if our 
Association moved in the matter, legislation could be brought 
about wilich would be able to control this matter at least in 
our ow State of New York. ; 

THE PENNSLYVANIA COMMISSION.—On June 16, Goy- 
enor Pattison appointed the following gentlemen to be Com- 
‘oissioners of Fisheries in place of the old board of which the 
first three Were members: James Duffy, Marietta; Arthur 
Maginnis, Swiftwater; John Gay, Greensburg; A, M. Bpang- 
der, Philadelphia; August Duncan, Chambersburg; Henry 

Derr, Wilkesbarre. 


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POINTERS AT THE NEW YORK SHOW. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

With humility and awe I have folded my hands and listened 
to the storm of ‘wordy war’ that has been raging on this sub- 
ject, till at last [have been impelled te haye a word to say, 
just to keep the fun going. 

First about Bang Bang. I do not quite understand the objec- 
tion to the black cropping out in his get. A few years ago, 
Princess, « black bitch, stood at the head of the heavy weight 
bitches, and I have never heard or supposed that biack was 
not apointer color, It black, why not black and white? It 
surely is not impossible, nor if so, discreditable, that some of 
Bang Bang’s ancestors may have been of that color. Is not the 
objection purely a matter of fancy? Mr, Wilms insinuates 
that the superfluous hair had been removed from Bang Bang’s 
tail, but even if it was,[ do notsee how the carriage of it 
could have been changed, Thad a capital chance to examine 
the dog, as he was taken down from his bench for me, and I 
must say that heisavery taking and handsome little dog, 
and that his tailis absolutely perfect in earriage, length and 
fineness of bone, however it may have been about the hair, I 
do not think that Brayo is better than or as good as Bang 
Bang. Bravo is a dog that I have never liked. I consider him 
very deficient in pointer character. 

When Mr, Cornell says, however, that Bang Bang is ‘‘the 
most strikingly handsome pointer in America to-day,” I won- 
der how he succeeds in blinding himself to the dog’s loaded 
shoulders and short neck. On the same principle, 1 suppose, 
that he sees the crook in Beaufort’s legs ‘'before and behind.” 
Mr. Cornell does not show very good judgment in calling re- 
newed attention to his remark about Beaufort, that ‘his 
hocks are [likewise] also bent.” The tautology was not the 
worst fault. The whole remark was either ‘too much to say” 
or a great deal too little, It is time that writers were more 
definite in theirlanguage and more careful to use proper tech- 
nicalities in criticising dogs. Would Mr. Cornell prefer to see 
the dog’s hindlee a straight line from the hip to the foot? A 
dog’s hindleg, being the motive power (Mz. Tracey to the con- 
trary notwithstandmg), ought to be bent at two places. The 
hip and the foothold on the ground are the two fixed points; 
the stifle (answering to the human knee) bent forward and the 
hock (answering to the heel) bent back are the two angles at 
which the whole leg is doubled up like a zig-zag spring. ‘The 
proper formation for any animal that has to gallop is—long 
from the hip to the stifle, long from the stifie to the hock, but 
short from the hock to the ground, and the hocks well bent, 
bringing the hindfeet under him. To say simply that a dog’s 
hocks are bent is to praise him at a most important point. If 
Mr, Cornell meant that Beautort’s are bent outward, or in- 
ward (cow-hocked), why not say so? I do not suppose he 
meant that they were bent forward, and the only other way 
possible is to be, as they are, bent backward, bringing his feet 
forward and the leg from the hock down well under him. 

As to Meteor—the exponent of blue blood and high breed- 
ing, long price and market yalue—how any one could put that 
bitch-headed brute before Beaufort J cannot understand. His 
head is hopeless, his loin is too much tucked up, his color is 
light and coarse, not the rich dark liver that Beaufort has, 


‘and heis utterly lacking in quality. He has good legs, feet 


and body; altogether he is a fair workmanlike dog, but miles 
away from champion form. Beaufort, on the contrary, 
though badly shown, is full of quality, and, except for a little 
“straddle” behind and the throatiness he gets from his sire 
Bow—who with Faust was held up for universal admiration as 
“the large pointer type” by Mr. Munson and his confréres 
of the St. Louis Kennel Club—he is beyond criticism asa 
show dog. Mr. Nixon speaks well of Beaufort’s field qualities, 
and I wonder if a bitchy head, poor color and general plain- 
ness make Meteora better field dog. A challenge on this 
point would be in order about the end of November. 

Mr. Munson gets a good free advertisement by doing what 
Mr. Mason very carefully refrained from—criticising his own 
dog, Mr. Mason refused to say a word about Beaufort ‘for 
obvious reasons;” the reasons are not sufficiently obvious after 
all, it seems. Next time let not My, Mason leave any reason 
unexplained because it is obvious, Hxplain it in capitals, 
underlined and with three exclamation points, and perhaps it 
will be understood. 

My. Munson’s fiat of ‘‘mongrel” fired at Glenmark and Lily, 
coming at this late day,is SLAY. amusing, Girland Icicle [know 
nothing about, but Glenmark was by Rush outof Romp, Rush 
by Flake out of the despised Lily._ Poor Lily! Why did she not 
peacefully turn her toes up toward the beautiful daisies with- 
out haying left any unfortunate progeny to fall under the 
crushing weight of Mr, Munson’s disapproval? Inshort, why 
did she dare to exist at all? A bitch that produced six prize 
winuet's in a single litter, and in the second and third genera- 
tion, more show wimmers amd good field dogs than I care to 
try and count,is a pretty good ‘‘accidental” breeder. Rush 
was beaten once when a pup by his sire Flake, (washe a mon- 
grel, too?) but never since in his class. I believe that he was 
beaten two or three times for specials and sweepstakes by 
heavy weight dogs. Whatsmall pointer had any chance against 
Rush and Rose, and later Rush and that Queen of beauty, 


little Rue (out of Ruby, by Flake out of Lily)? In merey to, 


the younger lot, the old dog was retired to giyethem a chance 
and, though nine years old, I doubt if any small pointer on 
this side of the water can beat him to-day. Not knowing 
what they have in Hngland, I do not want to claim absolutely 
that he can beat the world, but Lam willing to risk a few dol- 
lars on his ability todoso, With the exception of his tail, which, 
though fine and short, is not carried quitestraight, and avery 
yery little more finess than Ilike, [think him absolutely perfect, 
How many there are who agree with me, his record satisfac- 
torily proves, and I question the taste of impugning Mr. 
Orgill’s honesty and the “straightness” of the pedigree of his 
strain when he and the handsome and typical dogs he has 
bred (uot bought) and shown have taught Americans what a 
pointer should be. 

As might be expected from so thoroughly sportsmanlike a 
breeder, all Mr, Orgill’s core are field dogs, and Rush, though 
beateu by La Guy at the Hastern Field Trials in 1880, proved 
himself a game and level-headed little worker, It was thought 
(from the confused orders of the judges) that his turn would 
not be reached the first day, so, 4s he had had just a week's 

aration, the opportunity was seized by his handler to give 


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that day after all, about halfan hour after his well-earned 
dinner, he went rather stale compared to a fresh and fastin 
dog. He made one flush andafalse point where birds hx 
lately gone away, making out his mistake very nicely in the 
latter ease, thouch he got no credit forit, Nothing could be 
finer than his attitude, on that point particularly, and in shart, 
in spite of the disadvantage he was under, he proved himself 
a thoroughly good field dos, 

We breed pointers, J believe, for work and for looks, and 
when Rush himself and so many of his blood have proyed 
themselves as good as: the best for both, it is natural to con~ 
clude that the breeding is all right, I will yenture to say that 
the progeny and descendants of no one other pointer bitch on 
record, have been remarkable for so high an ayerage of excel- 
lence as those dogs that, to their honor and credit, number tha 
illustrious “mongrel” Lily among their immediate ancestry. 
The first pointerhitch in America to win at both bench show 
and field trial, darn of a dozen winners, grand dam and great- 
grand dam of numbers almost uncountable—if she is a mon- 
grel and her success as 4 brood bitch accidental, Heayen send 
mea few such accidents. Guo. D. MacbDouGaALL. 

New Yorr, June 17, 


Editor Forest and Stream: E 

For the edification of Mi. Mason and in justice to Mr. 
Cornell, allow me to state through your paperthat my breed- 
ing Grace to Beaufort did not in the least “gall” that gentle 
man, for [had the honor of consulting with him about the 
very breeding in question, and here are his own words before 
I bred to Beaufort; “I would prefer Vandevort’s Don on ac- 
count of his breeding, but if you can't get him I would advise 
you to breed to Beaufort, he is a good doz, but not the hand- 
somest pointer living by any means; I would be very sorry to 
let a feeling against the owner interfere with the use of a good 
dog, He is throaty, bad at the pasterns and crooked the 
wrong way behind, but Grace is old and he being a young 
vigorous deg, he should get something good, especially agsheis 
particularly good where he is faulty.” Those words clearly 
show that my breeding to Beaufort is not “ealling’ to Mr, 
Cornell, or 1 may add to any other member of the W. K. C., for 
I have given my opinion freely to several of them, and 
A eheuel hey, did not agree with me they showed no signs of 

galling.” - 

have broken dogs for the club, but am net entitled to the 
honor of being called the club’s breaker, for I am not the only 
one that breaks for the club, and lam just as independent of 
the club as Mr. Mason. I do entertain the highest respect and 
esteem for some few members of the W. K. C. whom I have 
the honor of knowing, and Mr, Cornell is foremost anyone’ them. 
I met him accidentally at the first New York show, and have 
very frequently met him and shot with him in the field since 
that time. He is a first-class field shot, an ardent lover of good 
dogs, and a perfect gentlemen, besides being a most excellant 
friend; and for those qualities alone and not because I care 
about breaking dogs for the club, do I hold him in the highest 
esteem that I am capable of, I did say, and 1 now repeat that 
Beaufort is {the best looking pointer of his size I éver saw, 
but if both dogs were the same age and I had my choice, I 
would take Sensation in preference, No matter where or 
what he won, he has the grandest head and neck that ever a 
dog possessed, I bred to him three times, got thirty-six pups 
and not a weed among them. Which one of them ever ran at 
a field trial or was shown on the bench without getting 
noticed? If ldo as well with Beaufort's get I will be happy. 

Much as [ admire Beaufort, Lam not so blind but I can sea 
some foundation for Mr, Cornell's criticism of him, and if those 
people who have lately made insinuations against Mr. Cornell 
will use reason, they will seethat a person arguing a point 
will always give as much force to his words as possible, and 
while Beaufort is not a deformed cripple, but a grand dog, he 
does toe in, is throaty, and stands so wide behind that a per- 
son might say he was extremely crooked, and still be a good 
judge of dogs and an honorable man. Mr. Mason does injure 
the looks of his magnificent dog by dragging and lifting on the 
chain and trying to improve upon nature. 

In justice to Mr. Cornell, I would here state (and parties 
you will remember the occurrence, Mr. Editor) that the same 
criticism of Beaufort, given. throngh your paper, by him 
lately, was made to me at the New York show of 1582. I 
talked of buying Beaufort for a friend, and knowing that Mr. 
Cornell had a knowledge of the dog which I had only heard of, 
LI asked his opinion, and here ishis reply: ‘A fine dog, but is 
bad at the pasterns. Very throaty and bent the wrong way 
behind. I would not think of giving over three hundred dol- 
lars ($300) for him,” Those words were spoken by Mr, Cernell 
to me long before Mr, Mason owned the dog, and will show 
clearly that Mr, C.’s opinion has not been changed on account 
of any feeling that may have since sprung up between them. 

I would respectfully ask Mr. Mason or some one else who 
has used the term “type” so mich lately, to define the mean- 
ing of the word as applied to pointers. I only know of two 
distinct types of pointers, viz.: the Spanish and Hnelish. A 
dog may differ a little in form from another of the same type. 
With propriety, 1 think, a long back is just as good as a short 
ong if well-ribbed and strong at the Join, or a short back is not 
afault if the chest is deep, shoulders long and flat, and stifles 
well bent. Solongas the general principles of equality are 
carried out, there is plenty of room for individual difference 
within the same type. 

There is also too much said about bone, I never saw a duffer 
yet but had '‘plenty of bone,” and would often prefer looking 
for more to hunting game, Mr, Donner’s remarks were cor- 
rect, and time will proveitso, We want quality, not quantity, 
of bone. 

A man who is not 4 practical sportsman will not be a suc- 
cessf breeder of pointers or setcers, neither cana man who 
has never handled a dog in the field be a competent judge in 
the ring of poihters and setters, andif we areto have “logical” 
judges, our sporting dogs will only be such in theory by and 
by. We want practical dogs, therefore, practical breeders 
and practical judges. Luxe W. WHITE, , 

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. 


Editor forest and Siveunu: : 

tn the American Kennel Register alone there are more than 
sixty pointers who trace more or less remotely to Lily. 
Among them are such dogs as Rysh, Rue and Sefton, Ac- 
cording to Mr. J. W. Munson she is a “mongrel.” Assumin 
that allowners are interested, and haying two of her blood 
myself, [now summon Mr. Munson to prove his assertion in 
the most clear and definite manner, or to stand convicted of 
something a little worse than the misrepresentation he objects 
to so forcibly, and { want proof and not assertions. 

Tn reply to Mr. Aldrich, I would simply say that if Beau- 
fort be a cart horse in his opinion, I am content to be with a 
good many breeders in thinking his opinion of not much 
value. When he talks of showing eight weeks? old pointer 
puppies on the bench he must want to show us how little he 
lImows of pointers. A dog that takes at least fifteen months 
to mature can scarcely, in my opinion, be fairly Judged at two 
tnonths, and Major ‘Taylor indorses this by his decision at 
Chicago last week. T, B. Dorsey 

HiLicorn Orry, Md. 


Hdiior Forest and Stream: 

To those who do not know the membeyship of the W. EK. C., 
it would appear that those gentlemen who have defended the 
recent pointer judyme at the New York show are disinterested 
persons, whereas they are either menahers of, or closely con- 
nected with, the club; therefore I would suggest to those gen- 
tlemen that in order to economize the space of the ForEST AND 
STREAM, they should all unite in oue article and sign it 
W.&K, C., and not their individual names, 

Mr, Smith says a “good dog is never a bad color.” A good 


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dog, Mr, Smith, may be of the worst possible color, butéa 

good-looking dog cannot be a bad color. When we breed 

Jemon and white bitches to lemon and white dogs, we want 

basa and white pups, not all the colors of the rainbow in one 
er. 

Mr. Tileston, in his “Points of Judging,” says the calor of 
nose should be black or very dark brown in all except lemon 
and white, In these 1t may be of a deep flesh color, not black, 
I do vot deny Bang Bang came honestly by his black nose and 
eyes, I simply state it as a blemish in a dos of his color. 

Mr, Aldrich states that there were few dissatisfied with Mr, 
Sterling’s decisions. The editorial remarks of the ForEsT AND 
STREAM twe weeks ago, don’t verify this statement. Of 
course, the members of the Westminster Kennel Club are sat- 
isfied with the decisions on their own dogs by judges appointed 
by themselves. No one else is. The protest of forty gentlemen 
proves the dissatisfaction to be very great. The protest ispub- 
he opinion, not that of the members of any.club. 

A BREEDER OF SPORTING Dogs. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Tn your issue of June 12 Mr. John W. Munson states in his 
letter that he was informed thatI pronounced Meteor the 
handsomest pointer Lever saw. There must be a mistake 
somewhere, as I find it impossible to make accurate eompari- 
sons between the forms of animals with only a part of them 
present. After seeing Meteor and his kennel companions at 
exercise, during the Toronto dog show last March, I did say 
he was the most handsome-moying pointer I had seen moye 
inthe country, and that would sooner own him than the 
balance of his Kennel companions, from which statement I 
make no retraction. JOHN DaviIpson. 

Mownrog, Mich,, June 17, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

For the benefit of any of your readers who have not an 
acquaintance with the members of the Westminster Kennel 
Club, I desire to say most emphatically that every insinuation 
and direct accusation conveyed in C. H, Mason’s intemperate 
Jetter are wholly and unqutalifiedly false. If my criticism of 
his first letter caused him merriment. as he says it did, his 
merriment partakes more of the form of rabies than rapture. 
For myself [ have had quite enough newspaper controversy, 

Rost, C, CORNELL. 

New Yor«k, June.21, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

As some stress seems to be laid upon the statement that the 
Westminster Kennel Club attempted, in 1883, to buy Beaufort, 
jet me say (though I fear itis not a matter of interest to any 
one) that Mr. Cornell and I, representing the club at Washing- 
ton, in that year offered $300 for the dog.on their behalf, and 
that I personally afterward raised the offer to $350. At this 
time neither of us had made a thorough examination of him. 
When later we had him out, the peculiarities (I use the word 
as there seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether they 
are points of merit or defects) which Mr. Cornell refers to 
were apparent, and we therefore made no further offer. 

ELLIoT SMITH, 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

Of the forty uames appended to the so-called protest of 
Messrs. G. W. Amory and others, appearing in your issue of 
19th inst., sixteen do:not appear in the list of exhibitors; two 
more did not exhibit pointers, and as to one (the Baltimore 
Kennel Club) it would he interesting to know by what right 
the name was signed, inasmuch as the club is said to have 

one out of existence long since. The Knickerbocker Kennel 

Jub add great strength to their signature by signing first in 
their corporate name and then adding a list of their officers, 
etc. ELLIOT SMITH. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Wothing less than the possession of exceptionally great 
knowledge can excuse the severity of tone assumed by Mr. 
Mason toward those who are so unfortunate as to differ from 
him, Nobody wili deny his long experience, but if that ex- 
perience has not brought wisdom it is all the more to his dis- 
eredit. In taking My. Cornell to task for haying admired 
pointers of several different types, Mr. Mason clearly implies 
that there is one correct type only and assumes tio Know that 
type himself beyond mistake, In this he puts himself in con- 
tradiction with the entire record of shows and field trials both 
liore and in England. It clearly appears from thisrecord that 
there are several types of form, any one of which may win ac- 
cording as its representative may be most perfect in his type. 
Nor do we even find that individual judges adhere very closel 
ta the same form through several classes. Even Stonehenge’s 
scale of points is quite elastic enough to cover a variety of 
forms, and it is manifest from his writings that he intended it 
should be so, (See remarks on fox-terrier judgment, page 
52, “Dogs of the British Islands.”) Indeed it appears that this 
scale was invented mainly as a check on those judges who, 
bélieving in unity of type, were prone to give preference to in- 
ferior specimens of their favorite types over better, but 
typically different, dogs. Mr. Mason seems, therefore, to as- 
sume that the judges of public events have hitherto been, on 
the average, 4 lot of dolts, since they have generally failed to 
recognize that perfect form that he knows so well, 

Let us see now how he makes good his claim to superior 
knowledge. What dogs has he put himself on record by 
denouneing? Croxteth, Sensation—and to draw an example 
from setters—Thunder, Now, all these have been publicly 
shown to be very superior field dogs. The record of their run- 
ning can be foundin the backuumbers of FoREST AND STREAM, 
together with comments by many sportsmen. Moreover, their 
qualities have been privately tested by so many persons as to 
have become notorious. But Mr. Mason says they are ill- 
formed. Experience and fact say that they must be well 
formed for their work, else they could not have performed it. 
Itis not to the purpose to say that two of them have been 
beaten. There probably are better performers in existence 
but these are uncommonly good ones allthe same. That Man 
S. has beaben Goldsmith Maid’s time does not prove the Maid 
to be aslow one. Will Mr. Mason try to evade this logic by 
saying that he referred to show form? He has. no right to do 
so in discussing the awards at the late show, at least such ones 
asl was concerned in, WhenI was called into the ring to 
take the place of a judge who would, if present, have doubt- 
jess given wiser decisions than I could, I was informed by the 
steward and the other judges that the basis of decisions was 
to be the best form for field work regardless of “‘bench show 
standards.” 5 F 

Lt that basis was improper, the responsibility should be laid 
upon those who established it. The judges could not do other- 
‘wise than conform to it to the best of their abihty, There 
has been a large class of breeders demanding such 4 basis for 
a number of years past, and I think it is well to haye made 
a trial of it, even if more or less error has resulted, which is 
likely énough, seeing that judges are mere fallible mortals. 
Tf errors there ave, it is important to have them corrected, 
and I hope it will be done, for though painful to the vanity 
of judges, it is for the good of the cause. Meanwhile no 
would-be authority, who selects for special condemnation 
such exceptionally good field dogs as does Mr, Mason, can 
hope to get “solid” with me by applying the flattering title of 
“Artist of the W. K, C.” It would be a pleasant and a profit- 
able title, but I haye no right to assume it, I am glad to boast 
the personal friendship of seyeral inembers of that club, and 
also that several of them have thonght well enough of my 
works to buy them, Qneot them has, as I understand, donated 
his purchase to the club. But all this is trne of several other 
clubs, and up to the present date [ have had no SULA 
to enlarge my bank account at the expense of the K. 0, 

T can only hope Mr, Mason’s fling may serve to “‘grease the 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


horse’s teeth,” Many good judges are being kept out of the 
ring by the latitude allowed in the press for personal attack. 
T affirm that an erroneous decision forms no ground for a per- 
sonal question with the judge. Nor should the remotest hint 
of such a thing be allowed, saye in the case of formal charges 
of intentional misconduct or collusion, substantiated by con- 
siderable evidence. 

If aman of great experience and undoubted probity, like 
Mr, Sterling, consented to act as judge, he is entitled to kind 
and considerate treatment, and if gentlemen dissent from his 
opinions they can certainly vindicate their own without going 
to such extremes as haye been witnessed. It is well known 
that Mr. Sterling and myself differed radically about some of 
the decisions. Yet, after hearing his reasons, if I continued 
to differ from him IT must.own to the passibility that further 
study and experience may show his views to be correct, Ican, 
at best, claim the Scotch verdict of ‘not proven” against him, 
and so, I think, his various opponents will find it if they will 
temperately consider the matter, Meanwhile, this avalanche 
of personalities puts vs further and further away from what 
ought to be the goal of all—the truth, JoHN M, TRACY. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In this week’s issue the New Haven Kennel Club are credited 
with having signed the protest against the judging of pointers 
at the late New York show. To begin with, the New Haven 
Kennel Club own no pointers, did not show any, and lastly, 
did not authorize any one to sign any such protest. The club 
are incapable of showing the discourtesy of “protesting” at 
another club's judges. We do not like to be ‘‘kicked” at our- 
selves, and cereal, would not protest at other shows, 
especially when we have no cause. By Mr. Mason’s explain- 
ing how and where he obtained the signature of the club he 
would greatly oblige G. E. OszorN, 

Ass’t Manager N, H. EK. C. 

New Haven. 

In response to Mr. Osborn’s request we wrote Mr. Mason, 
who replies as follows: 

Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. K, 8, Porter, Secretary of the New Haven Kennel Club, 
told me that he would in the name of his club sign a protest 
against the judging, which he said was infamous. I did not 
think it necessary to send the protest on to New Haven for in- 
dorsement aiter getting the word of a gentlemen in Mr. 
Porter’s position, Cuas. H, Mason, 

TOMPERINSVILLE, Staten Island. 


THE NEW ENGLAND KENNEL CLUB. 


pes New England Kennel Club, which was started in this 
city last March, is now in such a condition that there can 
be but little doubt of its success. At one of its former meet- 
ings a committee was appointed to secure quarters, and as a 
result of their labors the members were last Friday evening 
invited to the opening of the club’s headquarters, on Tremont 
street. The apartments are reached by an elevator, and are 
on the second floor above the street. They are large and 
roomy, and the main room overlooks the Common and its 
ever changing panorama. The furniture and fittings are of a 
dark cherry, with carpets and draperies to match. The walls 
are tinted, and the whole effect is pleasing and elegant, In 
one corner is a parlor grand piano, at which any of the music- 
loving members of the club may while away a few idle mo- 
ments. As might be expected, there are alarge number 
of dog portraits in the rooms, being from the brush of such 
artists as Alexander Pope, Henry Smith and W. Beaman. 
Among these pictures are portraits of Dr, Jarvis’s Eleho and 
Rose; Fay’s Coin, the famous Berkley, and Mr, Nickerson’s 
Newfoundland Sam. Dr. I. 8. Billings, a member of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee, in a short address of welcome, explained 
the objects of the club and its purposes, which is to have as 
soon as possible a country house and kennel, where members 
may send their dogs for breeding, treatment or breaking: The 
ciub intends, when it holds its bench show, to give a show, 
and all prizes will be awarded with reference to merit only. 
There was a large gathering, many well known gentlemen 
being present, The club rooms will be kept open until a rea- 
sonable hour in the evening, and will be the headquarters for 
all dog men. Hus. 
Boston, Mass. 


A STREET SCENE. 


it was a pretty, picture. The little girl with flaxen hair in 

profusion about her small head standing on tiptoe putting 
a letter into a street box on the lamp post at the corner. Her 
companion, a Scotch terrier, with well-kept, wiry hair, short, 
stubby tail, wagging with interest in his little mistress’ occu- 
pation, head on one side as much as to say, ‘I am mentioned 
in that letter and I want to see it properly mailed.” 

While the little miss was struggling with the perversity of 
the lid, which wouldn’t lift high enough for so short a midget 
as she, a big hulking navvy came along, and without a word, 
kicked poor doggy with his great hob-nailed shoe into the 
street with so much force that the poor little fellow was dead 
ere he struck between the rails of the street cars. 

A plainly, well-dressed young man, with a_heavy black 
mustache as his only marked feature, who had stood on an 
opposite corner watching the little maid and her companion 
with evident interest, upon the occurrence of the tragedy, 
stepped quickly across and confronted the ruffian with “Why 
did you do that?’ ‘‘You ——,” replied the rascal (calling 
him a brother of the dead animal), ‘cause I chose to,” 
“Well,” said our young friend, *‘I choose to avenge my 
brother’s death since you say I am one of his sort,” and 
with this gave hima left-hander which laid him upon his 
back minus seyeral teeth anda terribly demoralized counte- 
nance, 

Stepping toward the little one who was now thoroughly 
frightened, with afew words soothingly spoken, he took up 
her now motionless dumb companion tenderly in his arms, 
and with one cf the tiny hands of the little maid in his great 
red hand, soothing her ashe went, they passed down the street 
out of sight, 

The miserable fellow who had caused all the trouble looked 
after them as he held his aching face in one hand and mur- 
mured, ‘Be jabers, I believe it was ‘our John’ himself.” 

REIGNOLDS. 


BEAGLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Seeing in the columns of your valuable paper comments on 
the ‘Proper Size of Beagles,” written by “Flat” and ‘“Rusti- 
cus,” I propose to give my opinion as to the proper size of the 
working beagle and my mode of working them. ; 

I prefer beagles from thirteen to fourteen inches high and 
say from tifteen to twenty pounds weight, Dogs of this size 
can stand hard working, and have stronger notes, making a 
much more lively clash when in full pursuit of their game, and, 
moreover, dogs of this size can make a rabbit run when 
started and will not give him so much time to back track and 
bother the dogs, even in heavy cover. 

T can’t agree with some of my brother sportsmen when they 
say “the only way to use the beagle is to shoot the rabbits in 
front of the little hound.” : 

Tmoreoyersay any pack of beagles haying their gamealways 
shot in front of them will spoil any pack of dogs it is prac- 
ticed over. They will granary lose their ambition and per- 
severance, and on a bad lose of trail will come in atid give up, 
My mode of hunting is to let the dogs run down and catich 
some of the rabbits on every hunt, and sometimes hunt with- 
out a gun, and let the dogs chase and catch their game on fair 
footing, That gives the dogs perseverance, and makes them 
press their game, looking for the sight chase and close of race. 
There is but little amusement in the chase if the rabbit is not 


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made to run; that isthe fim when dogs and man are all ex- 
citement, and the rabbit is sighted from cover by the little 
hounds, and the rabbit gradually failing and the dogs well set 
to their work, and growing more eacerat the close of chase, 
What amusement can there be to only make a rabbit tip along 
in cover and at first opportunity shootit? That is to me tame 
sport, fit for pot-hunters. Dogs must be allowed to mouth 
their game, and do it by hard work, if you want them to stick 
and work well. I claim if a pack of beagles can’t catch on 
fair footing a majority of rabbits started, if the cover is not 
too dense and briery so the dogs can’t make a run at them, 
are not handled properly if well bred, Beagles, like setters, 
their instinctive qualities can be greatly improved by proper 
handling. PortrrnceR DORSEY, 


YORK ROYAL DOG SHOW. 


fee Royal York Dog Show’s second annual exhibition was 
held May 51 and June 2 and 3, with a total entry of 708. 
A great many entries were cancelled owing to some of the 
classes not fillmg, which seemed to give general dissatisfaction 
to exhibitors, who objected to have some of their entries re- 
turned and others held, as in many cases the entries returned 
were the ones they most desired to exhibit and the only ones 
depended upon winning with. In some cases the committee 
acted anything but generous, as knocking two classes into one 
for instanese, where dogs and bitches of one yariety were 
offered a separate class in the schedule and the entries in both 
classes were not satisfactory to the committee, they put the 
two classes into one. This departure from the ¢eneral rule 
also seemed to give rise to a deal of grumbling. The comfort 
of the exhibits seemed to be very well attended to under the 
management of Mr, George Hellewell. The judging was got 
through at a reasonable hour on the afternoon of the first day, 
owing to plenty of available space to provide rings for all the 
judges to be working at once. But «scarcity of keepers to 
ring the dogs into the severalrings was very apparent, which 
could be reasonably accounted for owing to so many rings 
being filled at once. However, taking everything into con- 
sideration, the committee worked well and things went along 
satisfactory. The weather during the show was everythin 
that could be wished for, but the attendance was very small, 
and no douht the result will be a financial loss to the commit- 


ee. 

The first class was bloodhounds (champion) for which there 
were two entries Nestor, and Lawyer, neither of which put in 
anappearance. In the next class for dogs and bitches, other 
than champions, first went to Dorset, a very well made dog, 
certainly the best in that respect, but not possessing the head, 
ears or expression of the third prize Phryne, which ws pre- 
ferred to any in the class, 

{ champion mastiffs Crown Princess was first, beating 
Cardinal, who was not in as good form as when we saw him 
at Warwick, The open dog class consisted of Monk, a small 
brindle, rather long of face, Cardigan also a brindle, rather 
weak in muzzle, Surajah, good ear and a fair typical dog and 
The Prince, first at Warwick and first again here, an easy 
winner. In bitches Mr. Taunton won first and extra prize 
with Cleopatra; Ilford Claudia, rather light in body, coming 
second, and her kennel companion coming third, The puppies 
eee, a very moderate collection, the winner a gcod way 
ahead. 

In St. Bernard champions, Ilfreda, looking well, was first, 
In the open class Glacier, first, we have often described, we 
preferred the vhe., Faust, to any in the class, bub his condition. 
is still against him. Cloister won first in bitches, she is a real 
good stamp and grand in color and markings: Crevasse II. js 
rather light in bone; Khiva, a well known winner, showing 
age: Lady Florence, he.,is typical and of good color and 
markings, but small. In smooth dogs, Bruce, the winner, is 
rather short on the leg. Her Majesty, first in the correspond- 
ing bitch class, was also winner of first at the St. Bernard 
Club Show. The puppies were’ a very moderate collection, 
none calling for special comment. 

In Newfoundlands, first went to Mr, Nichols’s Nelson 1I., 
looking well, and second to Sultan Il, a fair dog, whose 
appearance is much spoiled by the feather on his tail being 
quite gray in color; the Landseer Newfoundland Charlemagne 
coming third, He is a good up-standing dog, much the largest 
in the class, with a longer and different type of face. Towser, 
vhe,, is small and typical, but was in bad coat, The bitch 
class was cancelled, owing toinsuffiicient entries, and the three 
following classes for Great Danes were also cancelled, 

Tn deerhounds, the well-known Chieftain, looking as well as 
we ever saw him, was at the head of affairs, and no doubt 
was in his proper position, Lord Arthur Cecil coming second 
with Glengrieff, a mustard-colored dog. 

The well-known Bonny Lass won in champion greyhounds, 
and was looking remarkably well. The greyhound dog class 
was cancelled; Messrs, Hill & Aston wmning first in bitches 
with a brindle showing age, Second went to Acalia, a well- 
known brindle and white. 

In champion pointers, rene was first, looking in the pink 
of condition and good health. We consider him the best 
pointer at present going. In the open dog and bitch class first 
went to Mtr. Shorthose’s Quickshot, a good; stylish dog, 
rather deficient in head properties, and not the color of Mr. 
Norrish’s exhibits: second went to Revel U., whois a little 
weak before the eye, The well-known liver and white Ruby 
won for best bitch, the class having been divided, In small- 
sized pointer dogs, first went to Donald II1., a liver and white, 
with geod chest and shoulders, and good all through, He 
seems rather high onthe leg, whichgives him an appearance 
of being rather short in back and stilty. In bitches under 
50 pounds, first went again to Mr. Norrish’s Beau Ideal, a yery 
nice liver and white, There was a class for field trial dogs 
and Graphic won quite easily. 

In champion English setters, Sting, the winner at Warwick, 
wen first. Im the open classes of setters the awards seemed 
to cause a great deal of dissatisfaction. First went to Royalty, 
a very fine, strong, wellanade dog of good coat and color, but 
not as sweet in head as we would like him, Second went to 
Junior Carlton, a lemon and white, yery bad in coat and plain 
jn head, and with ears set on too high. Gleneaire, third, is a 
real good dog throughout. The he., Lord Westmoreland, is 
another good one, faulty in head, but we fancy him qtite as 
much as the winner, and certainly much more than the second 
prize dog. The vhe., King Ned, is another good dog. He 
was rather out of coat, In bitches, Plimsy, who won first, 
was shown in remarkable good condition, which was more 
admired than herself, Wild Rose, third, is small and was not 
in good form, otherwise she was the best in the class. Beauty 
Queen is plain in head and faulty in coat. Fernie, a lemon and 
white not mentioned, isa very good bitch and ought to be 
noticed. Belle of the Isle has Ey good head and ears 
but otherwise was out of form. Bessie IV.is only moderate and 
faulty in coat. Black and tan setters had not a good one in 
the class; the winning bitch, Kate IV,, was the best of the 
collection, The Irish setter classes were cancelled owing to 
want of entries. In the class for field trial setters the curly 
coated lemon and white Junior Carlton, second in open dog 
Glass, and Bessie LV,, were placed equal first, 

In champion retrievers, first went to Wonder, but we pre- 
ferred the same owner’s Doctor, as showing more quality, In 
the open dog class, first went to Mr, Skipworth’s Smiles, a 
good young one but rather leggy. In hitches, first went to a 
younz one wavy-coated; second to Jessie; we fancied Mr. 

eeson’s entry aS much as any in the class, she was a little 
faulty in tail and her name was not given in the catalogue, 

In sporting puppies, first and second went to Mr, Bower's 
spaniel and Mr, Hasten’s spaniel, As spaniels no doubt they 
were properly placed, but we think Mr, Hartley's setter, Lord 


Westmoreland, and Mr. Buckley’s pointer, Merry Duchess, 


ought to have held premier place in: class, 


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In water spaniels, first went to Mr. Hockey’s Lady, who was 
Jooking well; second was won by Mickey Free, who was not 
so food in coat as we have sesn him. _ ‘ 

Giamber spaniels were 4 200d collection, which were mostly 
all the property of His Grace the Duke of Portland, The 
Messrs. Gharles’s second prize bitch, Foxley Beauty, was look- 
ing very well; she is rather short in body. ¢ 

_ Sussex or liver-colored spaniels were moderate, the winners 
all well known. 

In black spaniels, champion class, the Messrs, Willets altered 
their Warwick decisions, where they placed Solus and Roys- 
terer equal first, now placing Solus at the head of affairs, and 
we think quite correctly, In the open dog class, first went to 
FBasten’s Bracken, He is rather thick in skull and shows haw 
in his eyes. Lord Bute, second, is deficient in character, short 
in coat and has white on chest. President and Le Role were 
equal third, the former is too high in legs and the latter has 
the same fault, with curly coat, The bitches were regtly Boot 
Basten’s Busy is a good specimen, but is out at elbows, ‘yra, 
second, is also a good one, a trifle short in face. Lava Jet, 
vhe., has witite on chest, but otherwise is the best in the class. 
Coy has her expression spoiled by a lump on her forehcad 
over her eyebrow. Silvia, third, is too fine in muzzle. 

Cockers, any color, were a moderate collection. Freda, first, 
is a mottled colored blue black, white and tan with quite too 
straight a head. Little Dan is only a puppy and will be quite 
too large, Nellie VIT,, by some accident was not taken out of 
her box until after the judging. She was the best in the class, 
but is wide in front and light of eye, also short of coat, but is 
the best stamp of a cocker, In any other variety, first went 
to Lass 0’ Deyon, She was looking better than we have seen 

her. In the open class, first went to Hasten’s Bruce, a liver 
and tan, He has a good head, is long and low with a good 
coat, but is not as straight on the leg as we would like, In 
the corresponding bitch class. Beauty IL, first, a black and 
white of good stamp, but out at elbows. Fanciful, second 
rize, a black, white and tan, and about the best in the class. 
Rasten’s Pride and Zuess were equal third, the latter was 
rather out of coat. In puppies, first went to Coy, second to 
Le Roi, both exhibited m the open classes. 

Champion collies had four entries, only Donald and Rutland 
competing, which made it an easy win for the latter, who was 
not as good in coat as we have seen him. In the open dog 
class first went to a bluish sable, a good, strong-bodied dog 
with good coat and head, but rather deficient in carriage of 
ears, which gives him anything but a showy appearance on 
the bench. He was, however properly placed. Second was 
won by a sable, tan and white dog with good face and ears, 
but light in body and out of coat. Third was a yellow-col- 
ored dog, too fine in bone and face. He has dew claws. In 
bitches first went to Mistress Beatrix, a nice golden sable 
ahd an easy winner. Lass, second, is light in bone and fine 
in face. Oola, third, is leggy, and short of coat. Novelty 
vhe., is good in coat, short in back aud out at elbows, an 
walks very badly. Insmooth-coated collies we preferred the 
second prize dog to any in the class. The puppy class was 
divided into dogs and bitches, the three winning dog puppies 
were also the three winners in the open dog class. In bitch 
puppies Glenrosa, first, is fine in bone. Novelty, second, was 
yvhe. in the open bitch class. 

Tn champion Basset hounds, first went to Fino V. Pallas I1., 
vhe., with Theo, in the open class, won the cup for the best 

aur. Inthe open class, dogs and bitches, Bourbon first, is full 

rother to the winner in the champion class. 

The champion class tor bulldogs had no entries. In bitches, 
first went to Redowa in the absence of Britomartis, who was 
entered but did not putin an appearance. In the open class 
for dogs, Robinson Crusoe, litter brother to Britomartis, won. 
He is particularly good in head and chop, has agood body and 
islow on legs, He was notin the condition he ought to be. 
He also won the cup presented by Spratt’s Patent, value 
£9 5s, The bull biteh class was cancelled. 

Dachshunde were a good collection, and, as usual, Mr. 
Jones’s awards were well received. 

Champion bull-terriers had no entries. The open class was 

-a moderate collection, and we preter the second and third to 
the winner, who is light in bone and hollow under the eye. 

In champion fox-terrier dogs Spice beat Climax, whose ears 
are still badly carried, Sutten Veda winning in the bitch 
class. In the open dog class first went to Splinter, the War- 
wick winner, second to Harl Leicester, a remarkably well- 
made dog with good feet, legs and shoulders, but coarse in 
head andears. Dandy Dick, third, isa compact little dog 
with one ear wrong. In bitches first went to Richmond 
Nettle, a well-known good one. Delta, second prize, is too 
fine before the eye. ichmond Patch, third, is a yery nice 
bitch all round, of good size and the best of feet, legs, body 
and bone. Sheisrather fine in coat. The winning puppies 
were aboye the average, allto be heard of again some day, 

The wire-haired terriers were very fair classes, but were 
faulty in coat. Scarcely two were coated alike, and few 
among them had the correct: wire-hair jacket. 

In champion Bedlingtons first went to Dina. Our fanev lay 
for Topsy. In the open dog class the winner, Bishop, is rather 
large and coarse, Tinner, third, is of good size, but is too 
broad in front and carries his tail too high. The bitches were 
only moderate. The second prize, Domino, we always ad- 
maired, and think that she has seldom got her dues, and we 
know many who hold the same opinion. Zulu, third, has not 
quality enough. 

We could not agree with the awards in the Irish terrier 
champion class. Sting, first, is a bad color and as smooth as a 
black and tan terrier. Playboy ought, in our opinion, to have 
won easily, Poppy being absent, The two winners in the open 
dog class also won in puppies. | 

Burke won again in black and tan terriers, with a very 
hancsonie little hitch coming second to him, 

Skye terriers were a good class; Scottish Queen, first, is 
much the longest and lowest; she would be improved were 
her ears better carried. 

In Scotch terriers, Capt. Mackie had everything his own 
way, his exhibits standing clear winners from the others, who 
can’t come near them in head qualities or texture of coat. 

Dandies had small entries, the winners are all well known. 
In bitches, second and third prizes were withheld. 

The classes for Pomeranians and poodles were cancelled. 

In champion pugs we would have preferred Challenger to 
Jenny, In the open class we would have placed Bradford 
Ruby first, being better in size, straight on legs, smaller in 
ear and better color and tail than the winner, who is a little 
Jarger in skull, In the bitch class it is only a matter of opinion 
which of the winners were the best. Only a second prize was 
awarded in the puppy class. 

The classes for Yorkshire terriers and toy spaniels were can- 
celled, Foreign dogs once more saw Mr, Taunton to the froat 
with our old acquaintance Sir John Frankland, looking well. 
No less tham six prizes were awarded in this class, and only a 
sum of £6 to he disposed of. There was nothing in the local 
classes to call for special comment. There was an auction of 
dogs held on the last day of the show, but nothing good being 
set up the prices obtained were small, one collie selling for 
#5 10s,, which we consider a very good investment, 

Following is a full list of the 


AWARDS, 

BLOODITOUNDS,.—ist, J, Harrison's Dorset; 2d, W. Marshall's Hot- 
spur; 3d, EK, Nichols’s Phryne. 

MASTIFFS,—Cnaampion—J_ Royle’s champion Crown Princess.— 
Orsay CLiassms—Dogs; ist, J. Royle’s The Prince; 2d, H, D. Tyrer’s 
Surajah; gd and breeder's prize, W. K, Taunton’s Commodore. 
Bitches? ist and breeder's prize, W. K. Taunton’s Cleopatra; 2d and 
ad, Capt, C, Dewar's Ilford Claudia and Tford Charity, Puppies: 
‘tst, G. Renton’s Guelph; 2d, OQ. A. Longest’s Imperial Chancellor. 

8T. BERNARDS.—CuamPion—Rouch on Smoorn-Coarep—H. ©. 
Joplin’s Hlfrida.—Oren Ouasses—Rover-Coaren—Dogs; ist, B. Hodg- 


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ad, W. G. Marshall's Courage IL; 3d, W. J, Orwin's 
Bitches; Ist and cup, W. G. Marshall’s Cloister; 2d, L. 
TI.; 3d, J. 1K. Kaye’s Khiya, Smoorm- 
Coarap—Dogs- ist, §, Smith's Bruce. Bitches! 1st and cup. G, Por 
ter's Her Majesty; 2a, T. H. Goodwin’s Nell Gwynne. Puppies: 1st, 
T, H, Goodwin's Silver King; 2d, J. K, Kaye’s Right Hon, W. H, Glad- 
stone; 3d, O, W. Jackson’s Hubert, 


NEWPOUNDLANDS, —Dogs; ist, E. Nichols’s Nelson 1.; 2d, M1, W. 
Hart's Sultan 11,; 3d, R, W. Moll’s Charlemagne. 

DEHRHOUNDS.—ist, H. C. Joplin’s Chieftain; 2d, Lord R, Cecil's 
Clengriff; $d, W. Gordon's Beatrice IT. 

GREY HOUNDS.—CHampron—H, P, & P. J. Charles’s champion 
Bonny Lass,—Opmn CiLass—Bilches: 1st, Hill & Ashton’s Nancy; 2d, 
H.P. & P. J. Charles’s Acalia; 8d, P: Hastie’s Meeéd. 

POINTERS.—Crampron—h, OG. Norrish’s champion Graphic,—Opran 
CLAsses—OyeEr 55iBs,— Dogs; 1st, J, Shorthose’s Quickshot; 2d, C. H. 
Beck’s Prior; 3d, J. Taylor's Barl of Croxteth, Bitches: Ist, Lieut.- 
Col. H. G. Leigh's Devon Waggz; 2d, BH. G, Norrish’s Revel Il. Unpnr 
5onps.—Dogs; Ist, BE, C. Norrish’s Donald III; 2d and 3d, Sir T. B. 
Lennard’s Belhus Hector and Earl, Bitches; Ist, B.C, Norrish’s Bean 
(deal; 2d, T. B. Issard’s Ruby of Homestay; 3d, Lieut.-Col. Leigh's 
Lotus, Iield Trial Class; B. C. Norrish's champion Graphic. 

SETTERS,—CnAmpion—J, H, Platit’s Sting.—OPen CLassms—EnG- 
LishH—Dogs: ist, J, Shorthose’s Royalty; 2d, H, F, Grant’s Junior 
Carlton; 3d, J. Royle’s Glengairn. Bitches: Jet, J. H. Platt’s Flimsy; 
2d,T,. B. Bower's Bessie TV.; 8d, Major H, Platt’s Wild Rose. Buack 
AND TAN—Dogs; ist, J. Shorthose’s Don I.: 2d, H. R. Gibb’s Heather 
Jock; 3d, H. R. Gibb’s Heather Rake, Bitches; Ist, R. Chapman’s 
Kate IV,; 2d, W. G, Sa ea Busy Body; 3d, H. R. Gibb’s Bella IIT. 
Hield Trial Class: Equal, H. F, Grant's Junior Carlton and T. B. 
Flowers’s Bessie 1V 

RETRIEVERS.—Onampron—§, Darbey’s champion Doctor.—Opmn 
Ciassrs, Any Conor.—Dogs: 1st, H, Skipworth’s Smike; 2d, J, T. 
Pilling’s Falcon; 8d, S. M, Thomas’s Silkstone, Bitches; 1s, Harding, 
Cox & E. Jaquet’s Black Satin; 2d, Major H, Platt's Wern; 3d, A. 
Large’s Jessie. Sportive Poppy, Any VArimry,—list, T, B, Bowers’s 
Le Roi; 2d, A, H, Easten'’s Busybody; 3d, Harding, Cox & BE, Jaquét’s 
Black Satin. 

WATER SPANTELS.—Inise on Enauise--ist and cup, G. 5. 
Hockey’s Lady; 2d, J. S, Skidmore's Mickey Free; 3d, G. F. Smurth- 
waite’s Barney Malone, 

OLUMBERS,—CuHampton—Duke of Portland’s Fairy Il.—Orsn 
CuassEes—Dogs, 1st, 2d and 3d, Duke of Portland's Damper, Dot and 
Dart. Bitches: 1st, Duke of Portland’s Riot; 2d, 8. W. Prankland’s 


s0n’s "Glacier; 
Storm King, 
C. R, Norris-Hlye's Crevasse 


Rose IIT.; 3d, Mr Charles’s Foxley Beauty, Sussmx on Liven CoLor— 


Dogs: 1st, 5. M, Thomas’s Guy; 2d, Messrs. Holley Bros,’ Horatio; 3d, 
CG. Newington’s Laurie. 

BLACK SPANTELS.—CrHAmpion—J. Royle’s champion Solus.—Opren 
Cuassrs—Dogs; ist, A, TH, Wasten’s Bracken; 2d, J. H. Hussey’s Lord 
Bute; equal 3d, J. K. Kaye’s President and T. B. Bowers’s Le Roi. 
Btiches; ist, A, H, Easten’s Hasten’s Busy; 2d, J. Btchell’s Thyra; 
3d, J. Hill’sSylvia. Cookers, Any CoLor.—ist, H. B. Spurgin’s Freda; 
2d, R. Lioyd’s Little Dan; 3d, A. H. Wasten’s Busybody. Any OTHER 
VarRinty—Champion; S. M. Thomas’s Lass 0°? Deyon.—OPrEn CLASSES — 
Dogs; 1st, A. H, Easten’s Kasten Bruce; 2d, H. B. Spurgin’s Counsel- 
lor; 8d, A. Heath’s Dash. Bitches, ist. J. Htchells’s Beauty Il.; 2d, 
H, B. Spurgin’s Fanciful; equal 8d, A. H. Kasten’s Basten Bride and 
J, Royle's Zuess. Puppies: ist, H. R, Spurgin’s Coy; 2d, T. B. Bow- 
ae Roi; equal 3d, A, H. Hasten’s Busybody and H. B. Spurgin’s 
Carol, 

SHEEPDOGS.—CrAmpion—S. Boddington’s champion Rutland,— 
Oppy Ouassus, RougH-Coatnp—Dogs: Ist, 8. Pirie’s Kintore; 2d, W. 
R. Dockrell’s The Squire; 3d, J. Pirie’s The Scott. Bitfches- 1st, G. R. 
Krebl’s Mistress Beatrix (late Myra III.); 2d, W. A. G. James’s Taw- 
nay Lass; 3d, M, C. Ashwin’s Oola. Smoorm-Coatep—ist, W, A. G. 
James's Lady Help; 2d, J. Royal's Clyde; 3d, W. A, G. Jamies’s 
Gazelle, RouGH on Smoora—Puprius—Dogs: Ist, J. Pirie’s Kintore; 
2d, W. ©, Dockrell’s The Squire; 3d, J, Pirie’s The Scot. Bitches: 
ist, W. A.G, Jumes’s Glenrosa; 2d, J. H. Turner’s Novelty, 

BASSET HOUNDS.—CHAmPIon—M. B. Kennedy’s Fino V, Very 
high com and cup, G. R. Krehl’s Pallas Il. Opan Cuass—ist, BF. W. 
ee Bourbon; 2d and cup, G. R, Krehl’s Theo; 3d, Rev. A. Carter’s 

arcissus. 


BULLDOGS.—CuAmpion—J. Pease’s Redowa. Oran CLuass—Dogs; 
ist and cup, G. Raper’s Robinson Crusoe: 2d, Mrs, F. Slinger’s Query; 
3d, J. Peace’s Nero, 

DACHSHUNDE,—Crampion—Mrs. P. M. Hoare’s Superbus.—OpENn 
CuAss—Dogs: Ist and cup, Mrs. P.M. Hoare’s Carlowitz; 2d. J. S. 
Pearson’s Zangwong; 3d, medal and cup, Mrs. P. M, Hoare’s Drachen. 
Bitches; 1st, J.C. L. Knight Bruce’s Lady; 2d, W. A. Benson’s Syl- 
via; od, EB. W. Haslewood’s Schlank. 

BULL-TERRIERS.—ist, H. C. Joplin‘s Bullet; 2d, H. Thompson’s 
Sheffield Prince; 3d, F. Jagger’s Marquis of Trentham. 

ATREDALE TERRIHRS.—Dogs: ist, J, Birkly’s Toss; 2d, J. Nay- 
lor’s Rodger; 3d, 8. Wilson’s Tanner, Bitches: 1st, T, Carr's Aire- 
dale Lass; 2d, J. Oates’s unnamed, 

FOX-TEEIERS (SMOOTH).—CHAmpron—Dog: L. Turner's Spice. 
Bitch: A. R. Wood’s Sutton Veda.—Oprn CLAssesS—Dogs: ist, A. R. 
Wood's Splinter; 2d, L, Turner’s Harl Leicester; 3d, F, Redmond’s 
Dandy Dick; 4th, A. H. Olarke’s Forest, Bitches: Ist and 2d, L. 
Turner’s Richmond Nettle and Delta; 3d, G. Raper’s Patch; 4th, A. 
H. Clarke’s Russet. Puprrus—Dogs; ist, G. Raper’s Raby Nailer; 2d, 
J. J. Stott’s Boswell; 3d, F, Redmond’s Doric. Bitches; ist, F. Red- 
mond’s Dusky; 2d, A. H. Clarke’s Douglas Nettle; 8d, G. Raper’s 
Richmond Myrtle, Wire-Hairep.—Chanipion: G. Welsh’s Mischief. 
—OPEN CiLAssEs—Dogs; ist, W. Carrick, Jr.’s Test; 2d, J. W. Corner 
and W. Marfitt’s Rocket; 3d, W.S, Heaton’s Badger Broom. Bitches: 
ist, J. W. Corner and W. Marfitt’s Ryedale Thistle; 2d, S. Boddineg- 
ton’s Rayleigh Stinger; 3d, H. Cox and EB. Jacquet’s Fedora Foiler. 
Puppies: ist, G, Raper’s Ringleader; 2d, F, W, Fellowes’s Voila; 3d, 
H. Cox and H. Jacquet’s Fedora Foiler. 

BEDLINGTON TERRIERS.— Coampron—J. A. Baty’s champion 
Diana,— Open Onasses—Dogs: Istand medal, J. A. Baty’s The Bishop; 
2d, A. N. Dodds’s Hairdresser: 8d, G. F. B. Milmer’s Tinner. Bitches; 
ist, J. Robson & Co.'s Lillie; 2d, A, Holcroft’s Domino; 3d, G. F. R. 
Milner’s Zulu. Puppies; Ist and cup, J. Cornforth’s Sentinel; 2d, J. 
Nixon's Byker Lad. 

IRISH_TERRIERS.—Ceameron—R, B. & T. 8. Carey’s champion 
Sting.—Opren ULasses—Dogs and Bitches: ist, W. Graham’s Gilford; 
2d, C. BH. Backhouse’s Buster; 3d, H. A, Graves’s Pretty Lass. Pup- 
pies: Ist. W. Graham's Gilford; 2d, C. H. Backlhouse’s Buster. 

BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS —Any Sizm—tist, J. Royle’s Burke; 
2d, R. Brew’s Wiz; 3d, J. HE. Croft’s Lady Langtry. 

SKYE TERRIERS —isti, W. E. Easten’s Scottish Queen; 2d, M. 
Gretton’s Kilt; 8d, W. HE, Hasten’s Warloek IL. 

SCOTCH TERRIERS,—Cuampion—Captain W.W.Mackie’s Dunolly. 
—OPEN Chasses—Dogs: ist and 2d, ‘Captain W. W. Mackie’s Dunve- 
gan and Dunara; 3d, W. W, Spelman’s Teazer. Biches: 1st, Captain 
W. W. Mackie’s Glen Gogo; 2d, C. ©. Hammond’s Rowdie. 

DANDIE DINMONTS.—Cuampron — ist, W. E. Hasten’s Border 
Queen.—Oprn OLAssEs—Dogs; 1st, J. Lock’s The Astrologer, 2d, J. 
Flinn’s Border King; 8d. H. Strong’s Habbie Ker. Bitches: ist, W, 
Tait’s Hannah; 2d and 3d, withheld. 

PUGS.—Cuampion—Mrs. M. A, Foster’s champion Jenny.—Oren 
Cuassps—Dogs: Ist, cup, 2d, and 3d, Mrs. M, A. Foster’s Diamond, Vic- 
tor Il. and Bradford Ruby. Bitches; ist, Mrs, M. A. Foster’s Maggie; 
2d, H. Maule’s Lady Cloudy; ad, Lady Brassey's Sunbeam. Pupyies; 
ist, withheld; 2d, H. Maule’s Little Dowager. 

EXTRA CLASSES.—ForgieN Varinry (not previously classified)— 
ist and 2d, W. K. Taunton’s champion Sir John Frankland and Chinese 
Ambassador: 8d, J. Peace’s Bob; 4th, J. Coleman’s Canton Ching; 
5th, A. Haskins’s Romus; 6th, F, G. Hawdon’s Dawney. Lirrers 

sporting and non sporting puppies, not over four months old, or less 
han three in a litter).—1st, J, Taylor; 2a, C, E. Hammond; 3d, J. W. 
Craven ; 4th, A. Sapcote. 

LOCAL CLASSES.— Fox-Turrimrs—ist, Montague Brougham’s 
Boao y 2d, J, Sharleston’s Snap; 3d, R. E. Waterhouse’s Sir Fred- 
erick, 

ANY OTHER PREED,—30Lens. ann Upwarp—tist, J. EF. Crofts’s 
Lady Agnes; 20, J. 8. Cowell's Clifton Ruby; 8d, Hon. K. D. St. Law- 
rence’s Empress. UnbEr 3(uBs.—ist, B. K, Dodsworth’s Grace: 2d, 
Miss £. 8. Ellis’s Zutven II. ; 8d, T. G. Mann's Jock. 

MISTAKE IN PEDIGRHE.—Rosendale, Wis., June 14.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: In an advertisement in your 
issue, June 12, by Mr. H. ©, Miller, Hudson, N, Y.. is offered 
for sale a bitch claimed to be by Croxteth} ex Royal Fan, I 
think there is some mistake in the pedigree of this pointer— 
three years old. I sold only one bitch from the issue of Crox- 
teth ex Royal Fan, namely, Cora C., who is about two years 
and six months old. Dolly was not imported. Will Mr, 
Miller please explain?—S, B. Druuy. 


SAN FRANCISCO,—The Sacramento Bee announces that 
a kennel club is being organized in San Francisco, There 
will probably be no bench show there this year. 


PHILADELPHIA ERNNELS.—Philadelphia, June 18.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: Your readers who read the com- 
munication of “Homo,” in your last number, wherein the - 
Philadelphia Kennel Club desires it to be known that it has 
no connection with the Philadelphia kennels, may have natue 
rally supposed that the latter was a swindle, and that the 
kennel of a firm who sell “canary birds, rabbits and ferrets” 
might be rather a mythical affair. Notwithstanding the fact 
that the selling of sniall pets of various kinds is one branch of 
our business, we haye a kennel covering five acres near 
Angora, Pa,, and are endeavoring to build up a business in 
selling dogs (more especially the non-sporting varieties) on a 
legitimate basis. The book (the one advertised in your col- 
unins) which we mail you with this will convince you that we 
at least give the biggest ten cents’ worth that has ever been 
gotten outin that line, We find no fault with the club in dis- 
claiming connection with us; that is but natural and perfectly 
just. The selection of the name, ‘*Philadelphia Kennels,” was 
rather unfortunate on our part, and was done unthinkingly. 
The only excuse we can offer is that at the time the name was 
adopted the club was not the active organization it is now, 
and we did not then see how ib was possible for the two 
names to clash, We desire just here to pay a tribute to the 
value of the FoREST AND STREAM as an advertising medium, 
From the little one-inch card inserted four times we have, to 
date, received 225 replies mentioning the name of your paper. 
Weare so much pleased with the investment that we shall 
continue it for a year.—ASSOCIATED FANCIERS. 


PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB.—It has been decided 
by the Philadelphia Kennel Club to abolish the black and tan 
setter class at the coming dog show of the society. At a meet- 
ing lately held to draft a premium list and standards for judg- 
ing, this was unanimously agreed upon, and a motion was 
made to adopt the Dixon standard for Gordons, which would 
have been carried had not the president of the club, Mr. J. G, 
Dixon, objected tio it as reflecting wpon himself, In justice to 
this gentleman it should be understood that he was in no 
manner a mover in this dropping of the black and tan setter 
class. Jt was evident to the members of the Philadelphia 
Kennel Club who attended the late New York bench show 
that justice was not being done to the breeders of Gordons of 
straight pedigree when they were compelled to compete in a, 
class where half Gordons and half Irish setters were allowed 
to enter, Breeders who are devoting thei energies to the 
improvement of this breed should be protected; and it seems 
to be the general opinion of the management of bench shows 
in this country that hereatter no black and tan class will be 
allowed at canine exhibitions, The dates for the holding of 
the bench show of the Philadelphia Kennel Clab will shortly 
be made known. Thespecial prize listis daily increasing in 
number and value,—Homo. 


WILD DOGS OF MATNE.—Machias, June 16.—Game pros- 
pects for this part of Maine are good. Deer are more plenty 
than last year at this season, as well as grouse; due to our 
present game laws, Commissioner Payson Tucker, and the 
efficiency of the game wardens. If we can retain our present 
laws and have the same appropriation for the next two years, 
we shall sée still greater changes. But the danger is that the 
market hunter will overturn the whole, for he cannot bear to 
seo game increase tor fear his neighbor may have a nibble, 
Wild dogs are increasing, but as soon as they can eat meat 
they will go the way of their fathers. There is not a well- 
trained dog in all Washington county or a proper kennel, 
They roam at will, breed, steal, destroy sheep and game, pollute 
with their filth, endanger men with their teeth and disease; in 
short, a complete nuisance, producing nothing and destroying 
much, They are all ‘tyaller” in this part of Maine. Ilike a 
well-trained dog that is properly used and kept; but I have 
seen so much of the natural cussedness of the dog as he exists 
in Maine, that I agree with others that he is wild, not domes- 
tic, In his place he isa luxury, but out of it, a nuisance.—H. 


COLLIE SHOW AND FIELD TRIALS.—Mm connection 
with the Toronto Industrial Fair this fall will be held under 
the auspices of the Ontario Cullie Club, a collie show and field 
trials. These will take place on the exhibition grounds Sept. 
16,17 and 18. In the bench show prizes will be given in four 
classes, each with sub-sections. There will be two sections 
(dogs and bitches) in the champion rough-coated class, and 
three sections (dogs, bitches and puppies) in the open rough- 
coated class. ‘There will be the same classes and sub-divisions 
for smooth and medium-coated collies. The field trials will 
probably be for each dog to take sheep between two posts 
and back to a pen, or such other trial as the judges will de- 
cide, There will be two classes (dogs and bitches), in each of 
which three prizes, $25, #15 and $8, will be given, Wurther 
information is to be had from Mr. H. J, Hill, secretary of the 
Industrial Exhibition.—Toronto Mail. 


DOGS AND RAILROADS.—The Chesapeake & Ohio and 
Kentucky Central Railway Companies will ‘receive and carry 
free of charge in baggage cars, at the owners’ risk, and with- 
out checks, bicycles, light equipment of sportsmen, and their 
game; also one dog free for each sportsman, when accom- 
panied by their owners, holding first-class tickets. Owners to 
load and unload their own property.” 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To iisure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST G1V#H the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


1. Color, 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2, Breed. buyer or seller, 

3, Sex, %. Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4, Age, or 8, Owner of sire. 


5. Date.of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. Owner of dam. 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


Ees~ See instructions at head of this colunvn. 

Keno Ranger. By Mr. §. B. Dilley, Rosendale, Wis,, for liver and 
eee dog, whelped April 3, 1882 (Ranger Croxteth—Fanuny 

aust). 

Glencho I, By Mr. H. P. Kent, Lancaster, N. H., for red Irish set- 
ter dog, whelped Oct. 15, 1883, by champion Glencho out of Lulu II, 
(Berkley—Lulu), ; 

Edgewood Jessie, By the Surrey Kennel, Hilicott City, Md., for 
black-gray, with white and tan markings, collie bitch, whelped 
span 1884, by Douglass (Lad 0’ Kyle—FPlora) out of Chloe (Ring— 

ane), 

Flora, By the Surrey Kennel, Ellicott City, Md,, for black and 
white pomter bitch, whelped Novy. 14, 1883, by Sport (Dick—Wan) out 
of Victress (Sancho—Nettie), 

Surrey Sam, By the Surrey Kennel, Dilicott City, Md,. for fox-ter- 
rier bitch, whelped April 15, 1884, by Flippant (Royal—Tusslé) out of 
Trix (Trig—Patch). 

Nun and Brenda. By Mr. Fred, W. Rothera, Simeoe. Ont., for 
tawny and white St. Bernard bitches, whelped April 25, 1854, by his 
champion Priam (AIK. R. 485) out of his imported Novice. 

Cohn, Donald, SteUla, Lorna and Lorne’s Luss, By Mr, Pred Ww. 
Rothera, Simeoe, Ont., for black, tan and white colliés, two dogs and 
three bitches, whelped April 30, 1884, by his Lorne (A, K.R. 446) out of 
his Lassie (A.K-R. 445). 

Hringe. By Mr. ¥. M. Shumway, Cooperstown, N. Y,, for liver and 
white cocker spaniel biteh, whelped Feb, 7, 1884, by Colonel Stubbs 
(A.K.R, 302) out of Daffodil (Sam—Daisy Dean), 

Jenny Glencho, By Mr. John R, Hope, Swanzey, Mass., for red 
Trish setter bitch, whelped Oct. 16, 1883, by champion Glencho out of 
Lulu I. (Berkley—Lulu). 

Praco, Brian, Milo, Leonora and Minerva. By Col, U. G. Sehoon- 
maker, Scranton, Pa., for mastiffs, three dogs and two bitches, 
whelped June 16, 1884 (Nevison—Jersey). 

Fanchon. By Mr, Tl, H, Adams, Pawtucket, RB. 1., for pug hiteh 


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whelped July 6, 1888, by Mrs. H. A. Recketson’s Echo out of Craw- 
ford’s Victoria. ' 

Pinkey By Mr. T. H. Adams, Pawtucket. R. 1, for pug bitch, 
whelped Jan. 25, 1884, by Mrs. H. A. Recketson’s Echo out of Racket, 

Rosalie. By Mr. C. T. Pierce. New York, for red Trish setter bitch, 
whelped Dec, 6. 1883, by Pat O’More (Rory O’More—Norah O*More) 
out of Pearl (Dash—Kate). 

Flirt Warren. By the Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass.. for 
black and white English setter dog, whelped Feb, 12, 1884 (Dash jII,— 
Matchless). 

Noreen fli. By Mr. T, H. Adams, Pawtucket, R. I., for red Irish 
setter bitch, whelped Feb. 16, 1884, by champion Bleho (A.K.R. 295) out 
of champion Noreen (A,K.R. 297). 

Scarlet WT. By Mr, Prank FP. Dole, New Haven, Ct., for bull-terrier 
bitch, whelped Feb. 26, 1884 (Young Royal—Scarlet 11.). 

Belle of Orange. By Mr. J.C. Vail, Warwick, N.Y, for orange and 
white English setter bitch, whelped Aug. 2, 1883, by champion Thun- 
der out of Mr, J, O. Donner’s Bessie. 

Count Bohdhu. By Mr. P. Moeller, Nyack, N. Y,, for white, black 
and tan English setter dog, whelped Feb. 27, 1884, by Gus Bondhu out 


of Countess Mollie, 
NAMES CHANGED, 


ES See tnstructions at head of this calumi. 

Minda to Norah Mavowrneen Red Irishsetter biteh. whelped July 
6, 1884 (Rory O’More—Norah O*More), owned by Mr, Geo. E, Styles, 
Burlington, Vb, i 

Guard to Marmion, Mastitt dog (AI. R. 1142), owned by the Straw- 
perry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass. 


BRED. 


bs" See instructions at head of this column. 

Speck—Blue Blood. My. J. A, Backus’s (Newark, N, J.) English 
setter biteh Speck (Roderick—Speck) to Mr, L, J. Gaines's Blue Blood | 
(Leicester—Doll), May 6. 

Peg—Don Juan, Mr. Jas. H. Goodsell’s (New York) pug bitch Peg 
to Mr. W. R. Knight’s Don Juan (Comedy—Cbloe), May 1. 

Fairy IL—Prince. Mr. James H, Goodsell’s English setter bitch 
ony. Als (Victor—Daisy) to his Prince (Pride of the Border—Petrel), 
May 10. 

Beauty—Coin. Dr. F. B, Greenough’s (Boston, Mass.) Bnglish set- 
ter biten Beauty (A.K.R, 122) to Mr. PF. B: Fay’s Coin (Leicester— 
Rose), June 8. 

Maude—Mack B. Mr. W. W. Higeins’s (Pawtucket, R. 1.) English 
setter bitch Maude (Sam—SmutIl.) to Blackstone Kennel’s Mack B, 
(Dick Laverack—Twilight), June 13. 

Critic—Obo II, Mr, Winchester Jobnson’s (Boston. Mass.) black 
spaniel bitch Critic (Brush I1.—Blackie IT.) to Mr. J. P. Willey’s Obo 
IL. (A. KR, 432), May 30. . 

Nettle—Flippant, Mr. W.H. Cookson's (Hudson, N. Y.) fox-terrier 
bitch Nettle (Gamester—Vixen) to the Surrey Kenneél’s Flippant 
(A. K.R. 528), June 12. 

Lufra—Friday Night. Mr. H. W. Smith*s (Worcester, Mass.) grey- 
ea a Lutra (A,K,R. 1138) to his champion Friday Night (A.K.R. 
753), Juue 15. i 

Lady Neli—Young Bil. Mr. Yrank F. Dole’s(New Haven, Conn.) 
bull-terrier biteh Lady Nell (Paddy—Daisy) to his Young Bill (Bil— 
Dutch), May 26, 2 

Flake—VYoung Bill. Vir, Frank H. Howe’s (New Haven, Conn.) bull- 
terrier bitch Flake (Mat—Vixen) to Mr. Prank F. Dole’s Young Bill 
(bill—Duteh), May 19, 

Trallee—Dan O'Connor. The Milwaukee Kennel Club's (Milwaukee, 
Wis.) Irish water spaniel bitch Tralee (Bob—Ivish Nell) to their Dan 
O’Connor (champion Barney—Kathleen), April 4. 

Trish Nell—Dan @ Connor, The Milwaukee Kennel Club's Trish 
water spaniel bitch Irish Nell (Patsey—Jess) to their Dan O'Connor 
(champion Barney—Kathleen), April 4, 

Isle -Seot Guard. The Kilmarnock Collie Kenrel’s (Mattapan, 
Mass,) imported eollie bitch Isle to Mr. P, C. Lounsbury’s Seot Guard 
(E.E.0,8.B 11,854), May 11. ‘ 

Lucia—Bang Bang. Mr. D. 5. Gregory, Jr.*s (New York) pointer 
bitch Lucia (A KR. 209) to the Westminster Kennel Club’s Bang Bang 
(A,K R, 394), May 26. 

Lass—Bang Bang. Mr. B. F. Seitner’s (Dayton, O.) pointer bitch 
Lass (Sleaford—Dawn) to the Westminster Kennel Club’s Bang Bang 
(A.K_R. 394), May 29, 

SGess—Prince. Mr, M. ¥, Gampbell’s (Kansas City, Mo.) Irish water 
spaniel bitch Bess (Cap—Neli) to Mr. W, J. Mente’s cocker spaniel 
Prince (Cash—Beauty). May 15. 

Myrtle—Briar. Mr. Q, Schwein’s (Cincinnati, 0.) beagle bitch 
Myrile (Rattler—Luln) to his Briar (Mose -Melody), May 25. 

Cleopatra—Tiny. Mr. W. Wade's (Pittsburgh, Pa.) mastilf bitch 
Cleopatra (A.K.,R, 258) to his Tiny, May 20. : 

Tantrums—Voung Toby. The Chequasset Kennel’s pug bitch Tan- 
irums (A.E.R. 220) to their Young Tooy (A.K.R. 473), May 8. 

Belle 11 —Hurry 8. Mr, Harry May’s (Augusta, Ga.) English set- 
ter bitch Belle II. (A.K. R. 862) to his Harry §. (A.K,R. 228), April 25. 

Chlo I.—Obo, Jr. Mr. F. F, Pitcher’s (Ciaremont. N. H.) cocker 
spaniel bitch Chloe Il. (Dash—Nellie) to Mr, J. P. Willey’s Obo, Jr, 
(Obo—Nellie), April 25. 

Lanny—Obo TI, Mr. ¥. ¥. Pitcher’s (Claremont, N. FL.) spauiel 
bitch Fanny to Mr. J. P. Willey’s Obo TI. (A.K_R. 482), April 26. 

Guiver—Silk IT. Mr, J- P. Stinson’s (Leavenworth, Kan.) bull-ter- 


| (A. KR. 473). 


rier bitch Quiver (A.K.R. 786) to his Silk IL. (A.K.R, 738), May 9. 

Spice—Savon. Mr. J. P. Stinson’s (Leavenworth, Kan,) by li-terrier 
ers Spice (A.K.R. 789) to his Saxon (Young Royal—Hmpress), 

ay 7. 

Titania—Young Toby. The Essex Kennel’s (Andover, Mass.) pug 
bitoh Titania (Mritz, A.K.R. 569—Beauty) to the Chequasset Kennel’s 
Young Toby (A. K.R, 473), Jnne 6. 

Daisy—Treasure. Mr. T. H. Adams's (Pawtucket R. I.) pug bitch | 
Daisy to the Chequasset Kennel’s Treasure (A.K.R. 472), June 5. 1 

Deborah—Foreman. Mr. W. H. Ashburner’s (Philadelphia, Pa.) 
pea bitch Deborah (A,K.R. 1119) tu his Foreman (A.K.k. 1120), 

une 1. 

Fily—forenan. Mr. J. Satterthwaite, Jr.*s (Jenkintown, Pa.) beagle 
biteli Fly (A KR, 1012) to Mr, W, H. Ashburner’s Foreman (A.K.R. 
1120), June 10, 

Daphne Il,.—Ceesar. The Essex Kennel's (Andover, Mass.) smooth- 
eoated St. Bernard bitch Daphne IT. (A.K.R, 489) to the Forest City 
Keunel’s champion Czesar (A,K.R. 22), May 25. 

Petrel Ti—Don Juan, Mr. Jas. H, Goodsell’s (New York) Enelish 
setter bitch Petrel IIL (Carlowitz—Petrel) to his Don Juan (Tam 
O'shanter—La Reme). May 22. 

Daisy, Laverack—Plantagenet. Mr, Jarsaes H. Goodsell’s (New 
York) ineiise setter bilch Daisy Laverack to his champion Planta- 
genet, May 22, k 

Queen Petrel—Plantuyenet. Mr. James TH. Goodsell’s (New York) 
Envlish setter bitch Queen Petrel (Thunder—Petre!) to his champion 


Plantagenet, May 24. 

Young Swan—Drake. The Milwaukee Kennel Club’s Irish water 
spaniel bitch Young Swan to imported Drake, April 12. 

Quail I—Tim O'Connor. The Milwankee Kennel Club’s Irish 
water spaniel biteh Quail IL, (Shamrock—Floss) to their Tim O’Connor 
(Dan O Connor—Queenstown), April 22, 

Rose—Promise. Mr, ". M, Pinkney’s (Madison, N. J.) setter bitch 
Rose (Ned—Rose) to Mr. Chas. NeRonge’s Promise (Pride of the Bor- 
der—Wlash), June 16, 

WHELPS. 


E> See instructions at head of this column, 

Bess. Mr. I. J, Goldwait’s(Goston, Mass.) imported red Irish setter 
bitch Bess (Gold—Siss), May 29, twelve (five dogs), by Mr. Jos. Hayes’s 
Suil-a-Mor (Claremont—Dido). 

fluke. Mr. J. J. Scanlan’s (Wall River, Mass.) English setter bitch 
ee Swaze), June 8, eight (three dogs), by Cashier (Dash 

.—Opal). 

Vietoria. Mr, A, EB. Burche’s (Washington, D. C.) English setter 
biteh Vicloria (Warwick—Belle), June 11. eight (four dogs), by Dash- 
ing Lion (Dash II,—Leda); all black and white. 

Hairy If, Mor, Jas. H. Goodsell’s New York) English setter bitch 
Fairy lil. (A. KLIK, 35), May 8, nine (tive dogs), by his champion Plan- 
tagenst. 

Civigiees Bess. Mr. A. Miller’s (Shickshinny, Pa.) setter bitch 
Countess Bess (fred—Wlirt), June 15, six, by Rex (Reed's Druid— 
Bessie Lee). 

Domina. Mr, A. G. Chisholm’s (London. Ont.) English setter bitch 
Domina (Prince Royal—Nettie), June 17, five (two dogs), by Harri- 
son’s London. 

fupsy (Queen. Mr. C. F. Kent's (Monticello, N. Y.) beagle bitch 
Gypsy Queen (Brier—Bush), June17, seyen (four dogs), hy Mr. N. El- 
more’s unported Ringwood, 

Datia, Mr. W. i. Sessious’s (Woreester. Mass.) mastiff bitch Lotta 
(Romeo—Juliet). Juue 15, five (three dogs), by imported York, 

Jersey. Col. U. G. Schooumaker’s (Seranton, Pa.) iastiff bitch 
Jersey (Phito—Jessey), June 16, five (three dogs), by champion Nevi- 
son (Gurth—Juno). 

Lussie. The Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer bitch Lassie 
nee 208), June 1, eigut (four dogs), by Vandevort’s Don (A,K.R. 


165), 

men, Mr. T, F. Nealis’s (Philadelphia, Pa,) pug bitch Laura 
(Punct—Minnie), June 12, six (two dogs), by Smut. 

Betsy. Mr. T. b. Nealis’s (Philadelphia, Pa.) pug bitch Betsy (Punch 
—Judy), five (two dogs), by Sout. 

Bertha. Mr, W. Wade’s (Pittsburgh, Pa.) mastiff bitch Bertha 
(A.K.R. 151), May 17, eleven (seven dogs), by his Tiny, 

Gipsey. Mr. W. Wade's (Pittsburzh, Pa.) mastiff bitch Gipsey 
(A. kK. 15), May 14, five (three dogs), by his Tiny, 


_Lodin, The Ashmont Kennel’s (Boston, Mass.) imported mastiff 
bitch Lodin, April &, eleven (four dogs), by Diavolo (A.K.R. £43). 
Junio, The Forest City Kennel’s (Portland, Me.) pug bitch Juno 
(A.K.R. 406), May 19. five (two dogs), by Young Toby (A. K.R. 473), 

Pe ene, The PE Tey ee ne (Blac Boe RNS Re ae 
bite bess (A, bin ay 9, eleven (nine do: champion 
Bonivard (A,K.R361), cde : 

Alma. The Chequasset Kenuel's St. Bernard hitch Alma (A.K.R, 
x7), May 12, eleven (two dogs), by Prinee (A.K.R. 1052): one living. 
eae ae eer ea AEN ae eres Falls, N. H.) cocker spaniel 
bite ackie IL. (A.K.R. di Til 19, seven (two dogs), by Gbo TI, 
(A.K.R. 432); all black, eee i : en 

Clio. Mr. J. P, Willey’s (Salmon Falls, N. H.) cocker spaniel bitch 
ae aso 429), April 16, three (one dog), by Obo IT. (A.K.R. 432); all 
black, 

Girl Mr, R, T, Greene’s (Jersey City, N. J.) pointer bitch Girl 
(A.K.R. 697), June 12, seyen (five dogs), by Glenmark (hush—Romp), 

Bush. Mr, A. H, Wakefield’s (Providence, R. I.) beagle bitch cham- 
pion Bush (A.K.K. 139), May 20, five (three dogs), by imported Fore- 
man (A.K.R 1120). 

ranchon, My, T. Wf. Adams's (Pawtucket, R. I.) pug bitch Fan- 
chon (Keho—Victoria), April 29, two, both dogs, by Young Toby 


Trallee. The Milwaukee Kennel Club’s (Milwaukee, Wis,) Irish 
water spamel bitch Trallee (Bob—Irish Nell). June 1, seyen (three 
dogs), by their Dan O'Connor (champion Barney--Kathleen). 

_ Irish Nell, The Milwaukee Kennel Club's Irish water spaniel hitch 
Irish Nell (Patsey—Jess), June 18, five (thrée dogs), by thei Dan 
O'Connor (champion Barney—Kathleen), 

Clio. Mr. H. W. Huntington’s (Brooklyn, N. Y.) black greyhound 
bitch Clio (Badger—Ian), June 11, eight fire dogs), by his Doubleshot 
(A. KR, 78); two black and white, one black, one blue and one fawn 
dog, and three black and white bitches, 


SALES. 


s~ See instructions at head of this column. 

Sweetheart. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K-R. 299), by Mr. James B. 
Blossom, Morrisania, N. Y., to the Ashmont Kennel, Boston, Mass. 

White Lily. Liver and white pointer bitch, age not given (Dime— 
Queen), by Mr, 8. B. Dilley, Rosendale, Wis,, to Mr, C, W. Stewart, 

ipon, Wis. ; 

Keno Ranger, Liver and white pointer dog, whelped April 3, 1884 
(Ranger Croxteth—Fanny Faust), by Mr. S. B. Dilley, Rosendale, Wis., 
to Mr. W. C, Perey, Bayou Tunica, La. 

Ruby, Red Irish setter bitch, 4yrs. old (Elcho—Rose), by Mv. H.H. 
Tate, Greensboro, N, C., to Mr. Max Wenzel, Hoboken, N. J. 

Dell. White, black and tan beaglé bitch (A.K,R. 319), by Messrs. 
ze Pate Livingston, New York, to Mr. Andrew Winser, Providence, 


fock—Kate whelps. English setters, age and color not given, by 
Mr, William Tallman, South Attleboro, Mass., a dog to Mr. W. W. 
Higgius, Pawtucket, R.1I,, and a bitch to Mr, J. I. Farrell, North At- 
tleboro, Mass, 

Dido, Ttalian greyhound bitch, age not given (Mayo—Vero), by 
Ma. e W, Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr. W. H, Wilson, Washing- 
ton, Pa. : 

Ida. TVtalian greyhound bitch, age not given (Mayo—Vero), by Mr, 
a W. Jester, St. George’s, Del., to Mr. George E. Numsen, Baltimore, 


Zoo. Italian greyhound dog, age not givan (Mayo—Vero), by Mr. 
EE. ie Fea St. George’s, Del., to Mr, G, E. Stockbridge, Kalama- 
z00, Mich. 

Ruth. English setter biteh, age and color not given (Dashing Lion 
—Armida), by Mr. E. W, Jester, St. George’s, Del., to the Highland 
Kennel, Ashfield, Mass. 

_Obo I1.—Smut whelp, Black cocker spaniel bitch, whelped April 29, 
1884, by Mr. H. C. Bronsdon, Boston, Mass., to My. KF. McDewell, 
oe place, who has resold her to Mr, Robert Walker, Franklin, 

Lennox. Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R. 1045), by Mr. H. W. 


Smith, Worcester, Mass., to Mr. Robt. M. Washburn, same place. 
flirt Warren. Black and white English setter dog, whelped Feb, 
12, 1884 (Dash I1T.—Matebless), by Mr. D, A. Goodwin, Jr., Newbury- 


port, Mass., to the Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass. 

Flake. Butl-terrier bitch, age not given (Mat— Vixen), by Mr. F. C. 
Wheeler, London, Ont., to Mr. Frank F. Dole, New Haven, Ct., who 
has resold her to Mr. Frank H. Howe, same place. 

Searlet If, Bullterrier bitch, 3yrs. old (Randall—Scarlet), by Mr. 
Geo, B. Foss, Dover, Me., to Mr. Frank F. Dole, New Haven, Ct. 

Scarlet IZ. Bull-terrier bitch, whelped Feb. 26, 1884 (Young Royal 
—Scarlet I1.), by Mr. Geo. B, Foss, Dover, Me., to Mr. Frank Ff’. Dole, 


New Haven, Ct. 

Sensation—Fhiirt whelp. Pointer dog, whelped April 11, 1884, by 
Mr, anes S. Thurston, Huntington, L.1., to Mr, A, L. Titus, Center- 
port, L. I, 

Qbo I1.—Gem whelps. 


Black cocker spaniels, whelped April 24, 
1884, by Mr. Gec. L. 


. Tyler, West Newton, Mass., a dog and bitch 


to Mr. N. P. Warren, same place, and a dog to Mr. George A. Mead, 
same place. - 
Black Rose, Black cocker spaniel bitch (A.K.R, 249), by the Surrey 


netinel, Ellicott City, Md., to Mr. C. EK. Lewis, Suspension Bridge, 
Nee, 

Success. Black field spaniel dog (A.K.R. 735), oF the Surrey Kennel, 
Dllicott City, Md_, to Mr. J, H. Winslow, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Growler. Black. tan and white collie dog (A,K.R. 759), by Mr, 
meulEe A. Fletcher, Milton, Mass., to Mr. David C. Smith, Lexington, 

Lass, 

Rover. Black, tan and white collie dog (A. K.R. 750), by Mr. Geo. A. 
Fletcher, Milton, Mass.. to Mr. Daniel Wheeler, Oxford, N, H. 

Jeannie C, Black, tan and white collie biteh (Sandy, A.K.R. 751— 
Daisy, A.K.R, 748), by Mr. Geo. A. Fletcher, Milton, Mass,, to Mr. Chas. 
W. Cook, same place. f 

Bruce Runger. Liver and white pointes dog, whelped Noy. 3, 1883 
(Ranger--White Lilly), by Mr.§. B, Dilley, Rosendale, Wis., to Mr. 
Amory R. Starr, Marshall, Tex. , 

Tell Ranger. iver and white pointer pu ene ey April 3, 1584 
(Ranger Croxteth--Fanny Faust), by Mr. 8. B. Dilley, Rosendale, Wis., 
to Mr, David Cratt, Wabasha, Minn. ; ; 

Minnie Ranger. Liver and white pointer bitch, whelped April 3, 
1884 (Ranger Croxteth—Fanny Faust), by Mr. 3, B. Dilley, Rosendale, 
Wis., to Mr. John 8. Dilley, Lake City, Minnn. 

Duke of York, Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 15, 
1863, by Sensation (A.K.R. 217) out of Lass (Sleaford—Dawn), by Mr. 
B. F_Seitner, Dayton, O., to Mr. O. B. Brown, same place, 

Dandy Sensation. Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Sept. 
18, 1888, by Sensation (A.K.R. 217) out of Lass (Sleaford—Dawn), by 
Mr B, F. Seituer, Dayton, O., to Mr, A, A. Winter, same place, 

Gus Bondhu—Countess Mollie whelp. White, black and tan Eng- 
lish setter dog, whelped Feb, 27, 1884, by Mr, P, Moeller, Nyack, N. 
to Mr, Bugene A, Austin, Providence, K, I, 

PRESENTATIONS. 


= See instructions at head of this column. lye 

Obo I.—Gem whelp. Black coeker spaniel dog, whelped Sept. 27, 
1884, by Mr. Geo. L. V. Tyler, West Newton, Mass,, to Dr. F. E. 
Croeket, same place. 


Aifle and Grap Shooting. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


-BOSTON, June 17.—Bunker Hill day brought a crowd of marksmen 
to Walnut Hill. The scores stood: i 

Creedmoor Practice Maten, possible 50—E, Burleigh 48, A. B. 
Edwards 47, C. B. Edwards 46, KR. Reed 46, W. Daly 44, G. J. Board- 
man (mil,) 48, F. Wallace 43, M. Willams 42, A, Steele 42, O. Smith 41, 
J. James 41. W. H, Ober 41, G, J. Boardman (mil.) 41, L. Winslow 40, 
H Newton 39, Frank Smith 38, F, Wilson 38, W. Jones a8. j 

Greedmoor Prize Match, possible 50—H. Cushing 47, ,. W, Perkins 
47, OC, H, Cushing 47, J. B. Fellows 46, J. N,. Frye 46, J. Armstrong 46, 
F, Wallace 45, 2 Sul MP W. French 45, F, J. Bent 45, B, Higgins 
44. O, Healey 44, J. Morse 43, ; 

Decimal Match, Rest, possible 100—W. Gardner 95, 8, Wilder 90, B, 
C. Booz 90, B. F, Clark 8), H, 8. Sturgis 80, Me: 

Decimal Mateh, possible 100—J, 8, Fellows 96, J. Francis 83, H, 
Steele 66, H. Newton 47. 

June 21.—The weather was so warm that but a few gentlemen were 
at:Walnut Hill to-day, but those who were there had an excellent 
chance to do some good shooting, for the conditions were superb, 
Messrs. J. P. Bates, R.Reed, E. B. Souther, J, B, Fellows and 1’, W. 
Perkins made 47 each ou the Creedmoor target, and Mr, W. D, Palmer 
of the Merrmuec Club made a fine 48 and a 47, Mr. J. B. Fellows, 
who won the Directors’ medal, had his twelve-year-old son Fred with 
him, and the lad made a fine 92 on the rest target. The following are 
the best scores: - 

Oreedmoor. Practice Matech,—W, D. Palmer 45, R. Reed 47, OC. H. 
Berry 46, W. H. Oler 45, A. J. Look 45, J. E. Darmoody (mil) 4i._ 

Oréedmoor Prize Mateh,—J. B. Fellows (E) 47, E, B. Souther (&) 47, 
I’, W. Perkins (B) 47, J. P. Bates (B) 47, W. H, Oler (B) 46, C. E. Berry 
(B) 46, pa amare ae 49, rover ‘obb (B) 45, W. C. Adams (EB) 45, A. 
J. Loc , B. A. Lappin 4 . : 

Decimal Mateh.—W. ‘Charles 84, J, B. Fellaws 78, A. J. Look 70, W, 
H, Oler 69, A. Darling 52, 


— 


Rest Match.—Ww, : ¢ 
| (A ay Charles (1) BL ag 


is (D) 92, C. Fr 
) 92, B, B. Souther (B) 79, S. Wilder (A) 75. (D) 92, ed Fellows 


Directors’ Match sible 25.—J, : ‘ . ig: 
Read 22, F Wallace Bes e 20.—J. 8. Fellows 24, J. Franvis 28, BR. 


BUFFALO, June 17,—The ninth annual spring mateh of the Ba 
View Rifle Association was shot at their Givae fede: The weather 
throughout the day was exceed inely fine, but the rays of the sun 
were s0 bright as to blur the eae on thelong runges. The pro- 
gramme of matches and prizes this year is nnusually large. and 
special inducements are offered to junior marksmen, The wotk of 
t fe day eae aan " 

ompetition No, 1, Directors’ Match—Open only to directors of t 
Bay View Rifle Association. Distance yds, rounds 10, Tene 
standing, weapon, any military rifle, entrance fee $1. 

Se ea uaa parce Dees gold badge. shot for annually, 

i held by the winner during the year: presented to the A: iation - 

by Brig.-Gen, Edgar B. Jewett, valie $25. peintlou 


ColsD 8 Wand. 4.5 ces 2850 7 eae 3 4 


844444 5 4-39 
Gapt HAP Ment ir bse lene, crepes cee 4443245 4 4 4-38 
Lieut Jas Sheldon, Jr._....., Tens bone: 3: so! 3 dh: od: 13) Sa eas 
Brig-Gen EB Jewett ....0.. 00... eee 023838348 4 8 4 4-30 
Capt Winibrankling). "ilo. cues 332438 440 0 06 2-2: 


Competition No. 2, Qualification Maten—Open to all members of 
the Association, Remington rifle (New York State model), 200 and 
500yds,, 5 shots at each distance, no sighting shots, 

irst Prize—A Remington, Keene magazine sporting rifle, presented 
to the Association by Col. P. P. Beals, to become the property of the 
ee aggre itthe greatest number of times during the season, 
yalue ; 

Competitors divided into three classes, third class allowed to shoot 
for any prize. second class for first three aca last four only. and first 
class for first two and last three ouly. be 


; 200yds, S00 yds. 

Lieut Jas Sheldon, Jr............... 3553 5—19 85 ¢ 1 52241 
Os piKEteATiieniken 2 Pe ug yeaa tae 4445 4—21 2044 4 -14—35 
CGT TES VV ae ee eeren Sr ie gat 4344419 424221534 
CorpiGray Gah act nhs tron Sper aden 3443 4-19 2438 3 3—15—34 
Co) William Bloomer.........--.... 443 3 4-18 343 28-15-33 
Brig-Gen HB Jewett..... ..... 1... 453 34-19 0.0 5 3 4—12—81 
Capt Wilham Franklin...,.-_-,.... 4444 3-19 00 43 4—11—30 
Sergt Matthew Wasser ...... ._..., 4538 4 2—18 02.0 0 4— 6—24 
GOED PSEGale a. -laicnbe att eee 4438 4 5—20 0 4 0 1) 4— B—28 
Private R EH Mmblidge..........._. .383843 2-15 0233 0— S836 
Capt Frank T Bloomer....... ....,.2 4 04 0—10 224 0) 4—12—22 


Competition No. 3, Champion Marksmen’s Class Match— Open to all 
members of the N. G, §. N. Y. and members of the Bay View Rifle 
Association, the latter, however, not being eligible to win the princi 
pal prize. 200 and 500yds., five shots at each, Remington rifle (the 
New York State model). 

First_prize—A gold marksman’s badge for 1884. The hadge to be- 
come the property of the competitor who, at the close of the season 
af 1884, shall haye won it the greatest number of times. Ten other 
pie (medals) presented by the Bay View Rifle Association to the 

ighest competitors inthe order of merit. Winners with a score of 
thirty-six points and over to receive a silver, and winners haying a 
score of under thirty-six to receive a bronze medal. The same man 
can only win one medal during the season. 


: 200yds. aN0yds. 
Lieut James Sheldon, Jr.........., 4444 49) 5 45 2 4—83—48 
Cola Awards Se ede ce eens 5665 45 5—24 25438 3-18-42 
Col William Bloomer ....-........ 4435 4-20 5 5.35 8—21—41 
GOT puGhaAVves is. on. sues ce abteee 454 43-20 85 4 2 4 18—38 
Priv R_E Wmblidge ..,...,..-..-.- 3444 3-18 5343 3—18—86 
Capt William Franklin............. 4855 3-20 403 5 4—16—88 
COUP EE Beals 1. a akbeetone helen o £3 424-17 242 4 5—-17—34 
Capt H A Menker................,. 44544 21 452 2 0—18—34. 
Sergt Matthew Wasser............, 3324 3-16 45 43 0-16-31 
SergieGeAs Rozensn sot seee eee 432 2 5—16 0004 3— 7—23 
Brig Gen EB Jewett ..............34 23 4-16 2004 0— §—22 
MieuitH i Olark tee. lesen vena 2043312 000 0 4— 416 


Competition No. 4, Scoville-Moulton Match—-Open to all members 
of the Association, Weapon, the Remington rifle (New York State 
model); distances, 200, 500 and 600yds,; seven shots av each distance; 
position at 200yds. standing, at 500 and 600yds, any with head foward 
target; no sighting shots allowed. 

First prize—The “Scoville” trophy, presented to the association by 
the Hon, N. C. Scoville. To become the property of the person win- 
ning it three times (not necessarily consecutively), yalue $100; second, 
the “Moulton” trophy, presented to the assooiation by the Hon. John 


Ff. Moulton. To become the property of the ‘person winning it twice 
(not necessarily consecutively), value $50. 
200y ds 500rds. 6ll0yds. 

Col TS Wad on, --Feinroe s 4444344 —27 5548238325 2343404 —20—72 
Col P P Beals......... ..., 4d24444—24 — OBHBBRA—18 BY BAAS —25— G7 
Lt. James Sheldon, Jr ...3434444—26 4531440—283 92025883 —17—66 
Capt H A Menker......... 4555443—30 203300311 = 2880880—28—64 
Capt Wm Franklin........ 4523435—26 = 420433- 21 —283830—-14—61 
Tt HGR Clark Ac. 2208. 4844534—26  0000285—10 4028528—19—55 
Corp Charles Graves 4023483—19  3308453—21 - 0522402—15—55 
Col William Bloomer 4434431—26 22504083—16  3020024—11—53 


Sergt M Wasser....-...... 03384434—21 200240442 3034000—10—43 

Competition No. 5, Junior Marksman’s Match—Open to all junior 
marksmen of the Association. Remington rifle (New York State 
model). 200 and 500yds; five shote each distance. Position, 200yds., 
standings at 500, lying with head toward the target. No sighting 
shot. 

First prize—Military rifle, New York State model, to be awarded to 
the competitor winning it the greatest number of times during the 
season. Presented by Col. P, P. Beals, value $25. 


200yds. S500yds. 
Sergt_GA ROgers, cece. ese ees 32338 4-15 084 4 3—l4—20 
Gen T B Jewett.....-....-...-. yee £43 04-15 0333 0— 9-24 
Capt Frank T Bloomer............. 4344 0-15 243 0 0— 9-24 
Corp EB A Smith..... michele rg dpa cy aur 2 3234416 0000 38— 38-19 
Sergt Matthew Wasser........... 80 2-2 3-10 0300 0— a—13 


Competition No. 6, Cleveland Matech—Open to all members of the 
Association. Weapon, Kemington rifle (New York State model); dis- 
tance, 100, 300 and 500yds.; rounds, five at each distance; position, at 
100 and 800yds., standing, at third-class target, at 5U0yds., any with 
head towards the Pare two sighting shots each at 300 and S500yds. 
First prize, a gold badge, presented by the Hon. Grover Cleveland, 
to be wou three times (not necessarily consecutive), value, $30, 


100yds, a00yds. 500yds. 
Capt H A Menker............ 5h455—24 45245—20) 44434 19—63 
Capt William Franklin...... 45554—23 44344—19 32435 —20—62 
WOE EeBeAlse.! sh, 54544—22 3444217 43544—20—59 
Corp Charles Graves........ 4444490 33544—19 24924 —14—53 
Col William Bloonier........ 56445—23 42053—12 42434—17—a2 
Privy R E Emblidge.......... 45443—20) 20805—11 48245—18—49 
Lieut James Sheldon, Jr... .44435—20 2d232—12 23354—17—49 
Col Thomas 8 Waud......... 24444 18 02043— 9 05535—20—47 
Corp H A Smith..........-.. 4343317 30322—10 54404 —17—44 
Lieut BR Clark: 7... 5... %2le6: 44435 —20 04324—18 50002— 7—40. 


A final award of first prize was made to Capt. H. A. Menker,h 
having wou it in two peeyicHe tTaatehes. ; 

Competition No. 7, Plumb Match—Open to all members of the As- 
sociation. Weapon, any military rifle; distance, 200 and 500yds.; 
rounds, ten at each distance; position, at 200yds. standing, at S500yds. 
any with head toward the target. Two claims on first prize have 
heretofore been won by Capt. Menker. 


First prize—The “Plumb” gold and silver badge; to he won three 

times (not necessarily consecutively), value, $25. 
nu0yds 500yds. 

Gol RR Beales: crssisbeleces (peages 552042444337 444546444442 —79) 
CGMS AWaud~ tees sos dee 4442433344 ~ 37 355343532—38—?5 
Lient James Sheldon, Jr........ .8554342443—37 $325053452—83—70 
Priv RB # Wmbridge.........---, , 45838345444 37 033245554233 —70 
Capt Wm Franklin....... .....-- 44534443 44—39 9405442330—3()—b9 
Capt HA Menker........ pose pe 3455244433 —37 2400443553 —380—67 
ColWrine Bloomers... dvcnsysenie 4444858244 —37 0002353234—22—59 
Lisitt Hey Olea aes. ow Sea peep 4554433454—21 0200330320 —13—54 


Corp Chas Graves--....-.:......-2024934333 —27 2000002224—12—39 


Competition No. 8, Short Range Continuous Matech—Open to all 
members of the Association, 200yds., rounds 5, standing, any military 


rifle, cash prizes: i , 
Capt H A Menker.... ...44555-—23 Capt Wm Franklin ....,.44434—19 
Cor 


Charles Grayes....-84454—20 Lieut J Sbeldon, Jr.,.-...34045—16 
Col T S Waud.....-......44454—19 Sergt C A Rogers,...,.,.d2434—14 
Lieut H R Clark..-.. --..35245—19 Col P P Beals,...,....... 0044419 
The next regular shoot will take place on Juty 8, when qualification 


and champion matches will be the order. 


THOMASTON, CONN., JUNE 21.—At the weelly shoot to-day of 
the Empire Rifle Club the following scores were made; 5, Hub- 
bard 104, W. H. Dunbar 103, G. P, North 101, G, A, Lemmon 99, B. W. 
Pease 89, F. Carr 87, C. L, Ailing, 87, A, Fox 83, C, F. Williams 7, W. 
Kerwood 74, E. Thomas 71. C. F. Williams’s low score was nodoube 
edly owing to his using a new gun, Holmes, of the Independent Gun 
Club, of Waterbury, visited the range and made ascore of 99. At 
the shoot a week ago C. F'. Williams won the badge with a score of - 
102, G. A. Lemmon made 102, A. 8, Hubbard 101, G. P, North 97, W. H. | 
Duubar 96, Fy Carr 93, O. iL: Alling BY, A, Fox #4, B, W, Pease 15, W. . 
Kerwood 75, G@ Smith 71. > P ad 


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RIFLES OF TO-DAY. 
THE REMINGTON RIFLE. 


HE story of the first Remington gun. the manufacture of which 
arm, under peculiarly adverse circumstances. Jail the founda 
tion of the largest armory in the world, has beer many times retold, 
and will probably be new to but few of onrreaders Briefly stated, 
it is as follows: In 1516, Eliphal+t Remington, the founder of the Rem- 
ington armory, was a boy working on his father’s farm in Herkimer 
county. N. ¥, Like other boys, be was very anxious to obtain a gun, 
but when the subject was broached to his father, he was told to make 
one. This advice, undoubtedly given in jest, he at once proceeded to 
act upon, and notwithstanding his tool: were of the rudest character 
antl his “plant? consisted of an ohsolete farm forge, the gun, when 
finished, proved sucha, success, that the young man, although un- 
tutored in mechanics, recognized gunmaking as his life work, to 
which business he thereafter applied himself assiduously. 

For nine years he continued the forging of gun barrels, making 
his Father’- farm the scene of his operations, and pluekily overcom- 
jing the difficuliies which the many disadvantages under which he 
labored. necessarily engendered. In additi nto the other work, he 
quarried the grindstones necessary for his use. Each piece of work 
was consientiously performed each barrel added to tLe reputation 
of the young gunmaker, and each test of his productions was the 
means of bringing new customers to his tumble factory. The most 
important part of a gun is the barrel,and there is no doubt that to 
the reputation for making safe and accurate barrels, thus early 
established and subsequently maintained, much of the success of the 
Reminetons may he attributed 

In 1825 Mr. Remington was enabled to purchase the present site of 
Tlion, N. ¥,, 4 few miles from the old forge—his reasons therefore 
being that he could obtain a betler water power, and the Erie Canal 
having recently been constructed, better facilities for transportation 
as well. His first venture in building was a modest one-story struc- 
fi,ré which still stands, forming a part of the forging shop, -Space 
will not permit a detailed account of the progress made in the manu- 
facture of arms, the various improvements in the way of machinery. 
and the enlargement of the plant. A casual mention, however, may 
proye interesting. The first contract for making a few thousand 
stand of arms was undertaken in 1835, at which time, and until 1840, 
there were but six machines in operation at the works, This contract 
was soon supplemented by others for 5,000 rifles each, which in those 
days were no doubt looked upon as important as contracts a score of 
times as large bave since been considered. As his three sons grew to 
manhood, Mr Remington admitted them to partnership, and naving 
been educated to the business, they at once took a prominent part in 
its Management. 

During’ the succeeding years the Remington arms, in a constant 
state of improvement, after subjection to the severest tests by gov 
ernment commissions, composed of the best mechanical and military 
experts, have been issued to troops in every quarter of the globe, 
placed in the hands of the most intelligent as well as the rudest and 
most ignorant soldiers, and have invariabl, withstood the consequent 
wear, exposure and abuses. There have been made at this armory 
1,500,000 stand of military rifles, 100,000 sporting arms, and upward 
of 600,000 pistols. Military arms have been furnished to the follow- 
Histiatned | governments, contracts for these guns being consummated 
by recommendation of the commissions appointed to test the best 

alleras manufactured; Spain, France, United States (for navy), 
igsypt, Mexico, Argentine Republic, Denmark, United States of 
Colombia, Spain (for Cuba), Sweden and Japan. After years of sub- 
jection to rough usage on land and at sea, no fault has been found 
with this weapon, it having successfully withstood that test of tests, 
aciiye military service. In official reports made by representatives 
of the different governments which have adopted this arm, the most 
complete satisfaction concerning its performance is expressed, their 
paar a eee being frequently accompanied with supplemental 
orders, 
_ Certainly, a weapon capable of withstanding such tests and service 
is sufficiently durable for use éither aS a military; hunting, or target 
nile. When the Remington rifle is cocked anJ the breechblock 
opeued, it is impossible 1o pull it off, as it is furnished with a locking 
lever, but a pull on the trigzer of some of the advertised imitations 
releases the hammer, which falls to half cock when the breechblock 
is closed, and if the point of the sear breaks, as it is very likely to do, 
the gun will be discharged. The function of the lockinz lever is two- 
fold; one of its offices being to lock the trigger, so that if cannot 
escape from its notch in the tumbler when the breechblock is opened, 
and a second to secure the breechblock when closed by the force 
directly transmitted of the lever spring. _ 
Notwithstanding the improvements made in breechloaing rifles and 
ammunition for many years past, and the attention that has been 
dévoted to their use, itis of comparatively recent date that the range 


of the arnis and their efficiency at long distances have been properly | 


understood, Tests: of the Remington military service rifle at a dis- 


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ty 


tance of 1,800yds. haye resulted in the penetration of two inches of 
seasoned timber end five inches of solid earth. the charge used being 
the regular Spanish cartridge, 5grammes (77grs.) powder and 385grs. 
lead. The accuracy attained—common military sights being nsed— 
fully established the fact that at the distance named a body of troops 
can easily be driven from any unprotected position. Well authenti 

cated instances are given in which men and horses have been disabled 
at a greater range than that mentioned. 

As an illnstra*ion of how work is done at the Remington Armory, 
we may instance the fulfillment of the French contract, begun in the 
fall of 1870, and finished in the following spring—155,000 stand of arms 
haying been made and shipped to France within seven months; a 
rate of production never approached by any similar tstablishment. 
On each of the last three days, 1,530 stand of arms were manufac- 
tured and 1,3°0 stand of arms on each of the fifteen workiug days pre- 
ceding, in addition to 200 reyolvers per day. Referring to this 
showing, the London Times asserted that the combined armories of 
England could not equal such a production. The Remingtons baye 
filled larger contracts—notably one with Spain for 265,000 stand of 
arms—but this is their most rapid rate of manufacture, 1,400 wor k- 
men being employed. 

Figures 1 and 2 are sectional views of the Remington rifle sys- 
tem used in the military service rifle and in the sporting rifles desig 
nated as Nos. 1, 134 and 2, No.1 varies in weizht from 8 to 12ibs., 
using cartridges of the following sizes; .22, .382, .88, .40, 44, .45 and .50 
cal., No. 144, 6 to 8lbs., .22, .82, .88, and .40cal., No. 2, 5 to 6lbs.. 22, .B2 
and .388eal., either rim or center fire, as may be adapted to same; 
there being no difference in price of same quality, only in caliber 
and weight. Figure No. 3 shows a plain sporting gun, many varieties 
of which are made by the addition of sights and other extras. The 
system is so well known as to render a technical description of its 
construction and operation unnecessary, - 

The Remington target rifles are intimately associated with the his- 
tory of Creedmoor and other rifle ranges, from the time that Major 
Fulton led the field by eigho points in the first international match, 
until Sergeant Dolan won the military championship match in 1883, 
made all compe itors eleven points and beating all former records 
by eight points, the Remington winting in each instance. Nearly all 
the expert long-range mark-men in the country use this arm, and_it 
ig also shot by some of the principal prize winners at Wimbledon. 
The annual reports of the National Rifle Association teem with vic- 
tories won by the Remington, and these are so numerous and this 
fact is so well understood, that it is not necessary to reproduce them 
here. It has won more matches than any other weapon and upheld 
its reputation from the shortest to the longest ranges. 

Like the soldier, the hunter requires a gun that is proof against all 
kinds of exposure. Asareliable hunting weapon, the Remington 
has an excellent record, all kinds of game being numbered among its 
vicuims. It has furnished food and protection to explorers in all 
climates, from the Arctic regions to Africa, its accuracy and effect- 
iveness re vaining unimpaired throughout years of exposure, when 
far from the reach of gunsmiths. Lieut. Schwatka, U, 8. A., whose 
explorations have given him a world-wide reputation, writes as fcl- 
lows concerning the Remington rifles; used by him during his memor- 
able search for relics of Sir John Franklin: 

“In justice to yourselves as generous contributors to my late expedi- 
tion in search of the relies of Sir John Frankiin from 1878-80, I would 
state that the two rifies furnished by you exceeded my expectations, 
They were frequently used during temperatures ranging from 50 to 60 
degrees below zero and at distances from 200 to 600yds. with perfect 
working of their parts, and with deadly effect, I consider that on my 
expedition the arms used were subjected to the severest practical 


test to which guns have ever been exposed. Compelled to be kept’ 


out of doors constantly to avoid the moisture of the igloos, lashed in 
convenient places for immediate use on constantly overturning 
sledges, used at a moment's notice under all variations of tempera- 
ture and weather, the Remingtons never failed us on this expedition, 
where the lives of nineteen human beings and an average of thirty 
drait animals depended for over ten months upon the efficacy of our 
firearms.” 

The subjoined extract from the journal of Chief Engineer Melville, 
U.S. N., kept by him during his search for the Jeannette officers and 
erew, was written, Mr. Melville states, just after shooting a ptarmi- 
gan at long range with the rifle mentioned, it having been fonnd and 
pulled out of the snow where it had lain for months after a long 
period of careless use by Alexy, [he Indian: 

March 20,—The Remington gun is the gun of guns, All of our 
other sporting rifles gave out one after another. We have one Rem- 
ington that Alexy used for two years, and then it hung out all win- 
ter, muzzle up, in snow and storm, and we go on shooting with it as 
if it came out of the armory to-day,”’ 

Gen, Thomas Jordan, speaking of the arms used in Cuba, says: 
‘Nowhere else in active service, in my belief, has any firearm been 
subjected to such trying tests as the Remington rifles in Cuba, both 
by Spanish and Cuban troops, taking into consideration the warm 


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damp, corrosive climate and the character of the men who handled 
them—very often negroes who had never before been used to hand- 
ling a gun of any sort, The mechanism proved as strong and endur- 
inf as it was simple and easy working. Searcely any sort of hard 
usage or any degree of moisture impaired its efficiency. Other 
breéchloading arms were in use, bofh by Cubans and Spaniards, but 
none gave the sanie degree of satisfaction. In close observation of 
the Remington arm, under circumstances daily of the keenest solici- 
tude, when a single firearm in thoroughly effective condition, more 
or less, was a matter of great importance to me, L.could discover no 
defect in it.” 

Numberless recommendations like the above might be cited, but 
these are merely given to show the behavior and satisfactory work- 
ing of the arm in climates of the opposite extremes. 

The Remington armory has five and three-iuarter acres of floor 
space, equal to one room 40ft. wide and 6,210ft., or nearly one and 
one-fifth miles, long. Machines to the number of 1,760 are driven by 
a foree of 900 horse pewer, with the aid of 4,900ft. of line shafting and 
70,400ft. of belting. The estimated value of the plant, not incliding 
either stock or materials, is $2,500,000. It is next to impossible to give 
an idea of the various styles of arms manufactured. in which are in- 
eluded military, sporting and target rifles, shotguns, pistols and rifle 
canes; the different patterns of sporting rifles alone, leneths, sights, 
chambers, etc., considered, being ‘too numerous to mention.”’ 

One feature of this industry is worthy of a special mention, as it un- 
doubtedly exerts a material influence in promoting the efficiency of 
the arms manufactured by this firm. We refer to the exhaustive ex- 
periments continually carried on with the view of deciding questions 
concerning calibers, rifling, chambering, the proper distribution of 
metal, and yarious other points relating to gun manufacture, as well 
as the correct ammunition for the differentstvles of guns. Giun- 
making is more than 4 trade in Dlion—it is ascience. The places of 
men grown old in the service are filled hy their sons, who, although 
using the prevailing ideas as a basis, ave fully alive to the necessity 
for continual improvement, and eager to detect any fallacies that 
may exist. Nc theory, however plausible, is accepted as correct until 
actual experiment has proved it fo be of practical value. 

Ilion has been represented on the battle fields and rifle ranges, as 
well as in the hunting camps throughout the world. In the principal 
expositions these guns have always held a leading place, and the men 
who make them take a pardonalle pride in their successes. Many of 
the gun makers are expert marksmen, as those who have seen the 
llion team on the rifle range will remember. Eliphalet Remington, 
Senior, the founder of the business, died in 1861, On January 1, 1865, 
the firm was incorporated, retaining the name of H. Remington & 
Sons, Samuel Remington, at that time president of the company, 
died in 1882, the stock being now controlled, and the business man- 
aged by the two surviving brothers, Philo and Elipbalet Remington. 

As a fitting conclusion to this article, an extract from an editorial 
in a former issue of this journal is appended: “It was the assurance 
from the Remingtons that arifie could and would be prepared in 
time for the opening contest which led to the acceptance of the first 
Trish challenge in 1878, and from that time on, at considerable inceen- 
venience and loss in a purely business point of view, the entire appli- 
ances of the Ilion armory have been at the disposal of American 
riflemen when trials on the ratice led them to think that certain 
changes in rifles and fixings would bring about better scores. Full 
credit has not always been given for these efforts to second the men 
who give time and labor to practice before the butts. The whole 
record of American yictories on the ranges here and abroad would 
haye been a series of defeats but for the rifles sent out by the 
lion armory. Withont going into the well-known story of these fav- 
orite ritles in the hands of a dozen foreign armories, the fact is now 
more than ever brought home to those who feel a patriotic pride in 
Ametlican successes that much of the cre?il of what has been done 
since 1873 properly belongs to this energetic American arms manu- 
tory. 


TORONTO, June 17.—Guelph vs. Toronto. An interesting match 
was fired by the above associations to-day. Ten men a side, at 200, 
500, and 600yds., 7 shots at each. Position—Kneeling at 200; prone at 
500 and 600yds., military rifles. The meeting took place on the Guelph 
ranges, and resulted in a victory for the Toronto by 70 points. The 
shooting was good considering the day, which was hot and bright, 


and a variable wind. making things difficult for the riflemen, A re- 
turn mateh will be fired soon on Garrison common. 
Toronto. Guelph. 
200 500. 600 200 500 600 

AreBel ee A etre 25° 28 29-—82 J Crowe:....--- 26 30 22-78 
Weavers Ss PAL shy ees weasel ee 20 21 1d—5d 
T Mitchell...... 31. 29 %i18—78 Sleeman,......: 24 18 23—638 
Grabam ....... 2] 25 1R—59) (Goldie. 1... 0.0. 20> 28 15—58 
8S FP Walker.... 28 25 27%—74 Root..-....,.... 30 28) «=—-:20—78 
Ah aie ay 28 26 17-66 Macdonald..... 2¢ 28 22-77 
G2 Bell sey ee, 19 26 19—G3 Armstroug...,. 28 19 29—T7t 
A Andergson.,-. 25 29 22—"77 Stewart.......: 15 24 7—49 
G Lewis........ 29 25 20—74 Smith.../...... 20 16 16—d2 
Mowatt ....,... 25 28 21—70 Wiedman.,.... 22 26 22—69 

248 264 210 722 281 231 190 652 

THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only, 


THE CLAY-PIGEON PUZZLE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

**B,,’ in your issue of June 12, puts some queries well and to the 
point. I have, with him, wondered how so many clay-pigeons get 
away. Of course we all know— 

Hirst—That it is possible to miss them clean. 

Second—That they get out through a hole in your *‘pattern.”’ 

Third— They ore frequently hit but not broken, They do not pre- 
sent much of a target; not nearas much as a bird on the wing. IT 
doubt very much thatany given system of loading or holding would 
surround these difficulties. In field shooting we ofteb miss very easy 
shots. To pool all the conditions of man, gun, powder, shot and bird 
and make them work together every time, “cannot be did.”’ ‘TrxAs. 


GALVESTEN, Tex, 


THE KNOXVILLE TOURNAMENT. 


QECOND annual touruament of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Gun Olub. 
KI Match No 1, first day, purse $200; 10 smgle clay-pigeons from 5 
traps, iSyds.: 


WS Perry......,-.--1111111111—10 A Ei Mead.....,..... 1111011001— 7 
Wm Jenkins,....... iit i1111—10 -§ BDow. lan. 1011010110— 6 
J W Slocum......... 1111111011— 9 J C Duncan........ ,1110111100— 6 
Hy valis Pa 1111110111— 9 J M Ross.... ..:...: 1011101001— 6 
F W Armstrong..... 1111111101— 9 C Deadrick.......... 1001011011— 6 
So Wothda ses fy: 1101111110— 8 MG McCiung........ 0010001111— 5 
MSMBDUBIC ME 2 gp t cae 1010111111— 8 TC Hidridge.... 1101000110— 5 
W #H Hicks. .:.-:..+. 1001111101— 8 W Sparger.......;.. 0101000111— 5 
GW Woods ....,..: 110111011— 8 R LCarter....,..:.. 1010101100— 5 
JA Campbell....... 1111110101— 8 W Rutherford.. ..,.111110000I— 5 
Capt Jacques....,... 1111100111— 8 R Cleveland.... .... 0010010011— 4 
W F Kerin.... +. 1100101011— 7 A. Hayward,........101000L001— 38 
W Wagneér.......... 0101111:10— 7 H Worsham......, , 0010601000— 2 
C OC Hebbard........ 1100101111— 7 DL Rogers.......... 0100000100— 2 
JW Jordan. ....2..,. 1111100101— 7 FW Harrison.....,.... 0000000010— 1 
8S Townsend.... .... 14111100101— 7 A MecInturff.....,... O0000L0000— 1 


Perry and Jenkins divided first, Slocum, Mills and Armstrong sec- 
ond, Campbell, Lusk and Rhea third, Mead and Wagner fourth. 

Match No. 2, first day, purse $120, club added $30; 8 single clay~ 
pigeons, 2lyds., use ef both barrels: 


A223 002) uA eu ee Wti11—8-Carter~.........,. +++. 11101010—5 
Pepi fant cee tect e W1111I—8_-—-Mead........ ........-.11011010—5 
DIBA eri Gioia ane)-1yiers CH cig bay bes 20 Dc ee 11011001—a 
Lea DST care a wera Ai aad 1:111011—7 French..__..-. Orr Ss 11100101—5 
SND eae Pt | Be et ae Ww1110—F ~McClung..............: 11010011—5 
Townsend............-, ATA TE Ge MOSSE ee SON apa ores 01101100—4 
SLOUGH. veces ciniemes 11111110—7 Capt Bob...... .......00001111—4 
ENISEUON Ess.) heen 01110001—6  Jenkins._...... Tiieaee 11100100—4. 
BE 2) 0) 07250 Begey res PPh 10101111—6 Campbell...-........... 10110000—4 
LOSES. rien etakie nee OUUOLIL—6 Misser.......,....2..... 11101000—4 
Woods............... :.11100111-6 Worsham... ... . L0001010—8 
Hayward -11111010—6  Cleveland.... -...01000011—8 
Slocum.... -.01100111—5 Rutherford,,-......... 01100001—3 
Hldridge........... \,.01101101—5 Franklin,........... +» - 00100001 —2 
DUCA. (ais ane ty TLO1001—5 =“ Jaques,,............... -10000001—2 
SES ee alee pee wes TLAOOW LOT boo Berit mo... .scn wily cicncnnerene O10T0000—2 
TROBOUSt Pa aeme. Dae Pane OLNIOHI—S Sparger........ ......,00101000—2 
Hicks..... panics reves y LOLOTIVI—5 


Wasnse and Perry divided first, Deaderick won second, Armstrong 
won third. 

_Match No. 3, first day, purse $75, club added $25; 5 doubles, liyds. 
rise; 


: —— a i 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[June 26, 1884, 


Jordan........... 11 11 11 11 1110, Mead............ 10 10 10 11 10—6 
Mills......-... 111071 11 11— 9 Woods...........01 11 00.11 01—6 
Jenkins..._....., 11 11 11 11 OJ— 9 Wildridge 1i 10—5 
ROSS. —.. ... eet ee 11711717 1010— 8 Deaderick 00 11—5 
Dittiean. 2222-3. 10 10 11 11 1I— 8 Rosg............. 10 (O—6 
Dow...... ..10 11 11 11 10— 8 Sparger Oi 11—5 
Wagner 11 11 10 01 Ji— 8 usk...... 00 10—4 
Townsend 10°01 11 11 10— 7 Carter 10 00—4 
Perry... ...11 11 09 11 (0— 7 Rogers...... 10 10 00 00 10—83 
BRIG) oh. ep 1111 101010— 7 Wornham 01 10 00 00 10—8 
McClung... ..-.. 11 10 11 10 10— 7 Slocum........... 10 00—2 
Armstrong ......0) 00 11 11 11— 6 Kerin............. 01 00—2 
Nicholson, ...._. 1010 1011 10— 6 Cleveland 00 10 06—2 
ERG was ...11 01 10 11 00— 6 


Jordan won first, Jenkins won second, Ross won third. 
ane No. 1, second day, purse $150, club added $50; 5 singles and 
5 doubles: 


Perry... ..:: 11111 11 11 11 11 11—15 Hicks ....11011 10 11 01 10 0i—10 
Mills....... 40111 11 11 10 11 Ji—18 Slocum, .,,11010 10 10 10 11 O1— 9 
ROSS... 1 11111 11 10 11: 11: Ol—18-— Jenkins...117111 01 11 00 10 00— 9 


Wagner.,.10110 11 10 11 11 11—12 
Dunean....11117 10 10 11 11 10—12 
Jordan....11111 01 01 11 01 11—12 
Tusk...... 11111 10 11 11 10 10—12 
Armstrong0ii1i 10 11 11 10 10—12 
Deadericl:.01201 11 11 01 11 11-12 Woods....11000 01 01 OF 01 01I— 7 
Dow..-....01011 11 11 01 11 01—11 


Townsend.01001 14 60 10 00 10— 6 
Eldridge ..00110 11 01 11 11 01—10 


Perry first, Mills and Ross divided second, Jordan won third, Dow 
won fourth. 


Kerin,..... 10011 10 11 00 11 10— 9 
Rhea...... 10101 00 10 17 11 10— 9 
00 10 11 11— 9 
1 10 11 10— 8 
Mead,..... 11101 10 00 10 01 10— § 


teehee No. 2, second day, purse $120, club added $30; 8 singles an 
Syds.; 
Ty as eee et 1111741—8 Hldridge .........,..,. 10011110—5 
CEU TST IS cil 5 oy a aly MLOTIIIS7, ROSH ey Sy acs ye caceee 01111100—5 
DORWEM G0 ss os + fie clael- 11110111—7 
JAQUES. oo. yg ee 11011111—7 
ead ...11110111—7 
Duncan 11101111—7 
Slocum...,....... 11101110—6 
Woods!’ 2.0 2-- on 10111011 —6 
Deaderick,............- 00111111—6 
SE a ir 11111100—6 
Townsend...,,.-.... ... 11100111—6 
Armstrong..-......+.+-. 01011101—5 


Lusk won first, Mills and Duncan divided second, Deaderick and 
Townsend divided third, 

Match No. 1, third day, team match, two men on a team, purse 
$100, club added $20; 4 doubles and 7 amo a 15 and 2iyds. rise: 


LUE ea 5 eereee re A eesti arse i1 10 11 1111111—7—18 
Aki e AW ee ES FE SAB Be BSGRS BSD ii il ii 11-8 1101110—5—13—26 
BRR oo rae e Nid clio) cecled 1 tl 11 7 1111110—6—13 
STEINEM al fe cou  wn bw apts cheie B li 11 it 11-8 0110110—4—12—25 
UNE TE ICE eh Ss A Cea ae Nn i1 10 0-5 1011111—6—11 
VU) IS eee rie neetated -felehete! note she -l1 01 11 01—f 1111111—7—13 —24 
OL Sai F222 oe SAP Ses SA 11 10 11 10—6 0010111—4—10 
DiRT Tue ye ECE 1 a | Ol 11 O01 10—5 1010114 _5—10—20 
WGAGECIICIS Pele. W-ke bebe oe M1 420 ii 1i—6 1010000—2— 8 
Poy even, pe AAAAB BBA ROLE BEIPBED | Wd i it 00—65 1110110 —5—_11—19 
al taGl ployee 2S Ses eas yeas adel ss OL 01 00 O1—3 1101001—4— 7 
“iiite tis Re Wa 5 BeBe eee O1 O1 O01 10—4 '1101011—5— 9—i6 
WNL GEECHISEREL: alctiypeziodyds) pts laha'bis [eh-in's o-0 Ol tt 10 O0—4 1000000—0— 4. 
(ofiino TS |Ma ana ae Bat ABs Bose 00 10 01—2 1110011—5— 7—11 


0) 

Match No. 2, third day, miss and out, purse $75, club added $25: 
Hebbard 5, Mills 5, Wagner 5, Jenkins 5. Ross 4, Jordan 3, Hldridge 3, 
Perry 2, Deaderick 2, McClung 1, Rhea i, Duncan 1, Lusk 1, Mead 0, 
Campbell0. Hebbard, Mills, Wagner and Jenkins divided the purse. 

Match No, 3, third day, purse $75, club added $25; 10 doubles at 


i5yds. rise: 

Jordan 11 Wi 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11—19 
..10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 01-17 

.-11 10 10 11 10 10 11 11 11 11—16 

VVULEARTY. apa B= 2S GCS EEE BE SCEE Bab od 11 11 11 01 10 01 01 10 11 11—16 

00 11 11 11 10 11 01 01 11 O1—44 

00 11 10 O01 11 10 10 11 01 11—48 


ROSS) ye 00 00 40 11 11 10 10 10 11 1112 
Deadlerick,..---...-..22s sce vecereresedl 00 41 10 10 11 01 10 11 00—12 
Sat ee das ry eth sap, 45 seach 14 10 10 00 11 10 10 10 10 1119 
SUG CIR ia oly Cp ae Pea ar ape Ce 11 00 11 10 11 10 00 01 10 1011 

aa atoe ot ke) WeUe Puree ne emer mbiiet 11 10 00 10 10 00 10 19 01 10— 9 
liapaee Ms ak eee center e 02 01 01 00 00 01 10 it, 10 10— 9 


MASSACHUSETTS STATE TOURNAMENT.— Wellington, June 17, 
—The fifth annual summer tournament of the Massachusetts State 
Glass Ball Association was held at Wellington to day, and the par- 
ticipants represented every club in the State. The result of the 
shooting was as follows: 

First event, 7 balls, 25 entries—Webber, Moses, Ball, Rowe and 
Carson divided first, Plympton, Barrett, Bragg, Keith and Hall 
diyided second, Barney, Lander, Griffin, Hatch and Davis divided 
third, Spofford, Braley, Plympton, Nichols and Field divided fourth. 

Second event, 7 birds, 25 entries—Keith, Davis, Bagge, Moses and 
Frost diyided first, Rowell, Noyes, Barrett and Wehster divided 
second, Spotford, Alien, Hall, Webber, Mayott and Hatch divided 
third, Reneaud aud Adams divided fourth, 

Third event, 5 birds, 33 entries—Perry and Davis divided first, Bart- 
lett, Low, Ricker, Reneaud, Souther, Stanton and Smith divided sec- 
ond, Bancroft, Rowe and Nichols divided third, Evans, Merrill and 
Griffin divided fourth. 

Fourth event, 5 birds, 3 traps, 21 entries—Holden and Keith divided 
first, Evans, Davis, Smith and Rowell divided second, Jones third, 

Fifth event, individual subscription match, 10 single balls, 5 prizes, 
f4 entries—Moses, Bugg, Schaeffer, Hal) and Landler divided first, 
Barrett, Whittier. Tidsbury, Rice, Evans and Barney divided second, 
Russell third, Webster, Rowell, Smith, Moore and Holden divided 
fourth, Kensard, and Howard divided fifth. 

Sixth event, grand champion contest for the individual gold badge 
of the Association, 15 single balls, 63 entries—Clark first, Howard, Gil- 
man, Hall, Law, Packard aud Plympton divided second, Bage, Schaef- 
fer and Webber divided third, Davis and Frost diyided fourth, Jones 
and Bartlett divided fifth. 

Seventh event, individual subscription match, 7 single clay-pigeons, 
5 prizes, 65 entries—Clark, Francis, Davis and Rowell divided first, 
Reneaud, Holden, Jones, Bartlett and Field divided second, Eager 
and DeRochmont divided third, Gilman, Barret and Robinson divided 
fourth, Russell, Eyans and Arnold divided fifth. : 

Righth event, three-man team match, 5 single clay-pigeons per 
man, 4 prizes, 16 teams entering—Worcester team, Smith, Houghton 
and Clark first; Worcester team No. 2, Perry, Hager and Holden sec- 
ond; Springfield team, Moses, Bagg and Keith, third; Massachusetts 
team. Hyans, Robinson and Sawyer fourth, 

Ninth event, championship contest for the team gold badge of the 
association, open to one team of five men from each club belonging 
to the association, 10 balls perman,8 entries. The two leading teams 
were as follows, the Worcesters winning the badge for the year, 


Worcesters. Springtields, 
Hager .....-.,,--1111111111—10 MOSES yrs. ees 1100110110— 6 
DaAvisS....-.:--- ,. 1111111211 —10 Barrett, ....---.05 1110111111— 9 
Webber,..-..:-.. 1111111001— 9 BU Rests »1111111011— 9 
Wihitter.......:, 1111111101— 9 BAPE retail oar te 1110111111— 9 
Glatle hie ee. cee 1111111111—10—48 Keith... ....... 1111111101— 9—42 


Tenth event, individual subscription match, 5 pairs clay-pigeons, 5 
prizes, 42 enuries—Kager, Dickey, Olark, Smith, Holden and Sawyer 
divided first, Hart and White divided second, Schaeffer third, Wilbur 
and Law fourth, Spofford and Rice divided fifth, : 

On the 18th the regular Wellington matches were held and liberally 
patronized. 


THE DISPUTE ADJUSTED.—It is said of the late Senator Nye of 
Nevada, that he would demolish a two hours’ speech ot an opponent 
with a two minutes’ story which could not be met with facts nor argu- 
ment. This was wellillustrated at the Exeter, N, H., Club, June 12, 
A dispute arose whether a bird was scored or lost, and opinions 
flowed in thick and fast. The judge was evidently lost, if the bird 
was not, and things looked a little squally, when P. of the Worcester, 
Mass., Club, who neyer gave much attention to the classics, but who 
is fond of using big words, and withal, is aright good fellow and 
splendid shot, rosé from his seat where he was chatting with J. of the 
Exeter Club, concerning their recent shoot at Chicago, and raising 
his voice above the din of words exclaimed, ‘Say, you fellers, don’t 
disintegrate that judge there!” This was too much, and while the 
rain came down in torrents, and the *‘boys” roared, the judge found 
his bearings, and, thanks to P,, everything was again lovely.—C.ay- 
Bir, 

BOSTON June 17.—The Independent Gun Club held a shoot on their 
grounds at Cliftondale to-day. The winners are named in their order; 
First event—% balls, rotary trap: Chaffin, Hedenberg, Willis, Hatch, 
Second event—Miss and out; Hedenberg. Third event—d balls, 
straightaway: Blinn, Chaffin, Hatch. Fourth eyent—7 balls, rotary 
trap: Gray, Wilhs, Blinn. Fifth event—5 balls,incomers: Heden- 
berg, Chaffin, Willis. Sixth event—Team match, 5 halls; Gray, 
Chaffin, Blinn, Kelley, McKay, first; Hedenberg. Willis, Gates, Hatch, 
Tutcle, second. Seventh event—5 balls, rotary trap: Blinn, Gray, 
Hedenhere. Eighth eyent—Miss and out: Gates. Nioth event—Match 
for club badge: Gray. Tenth event—Challenge match: Chaffin de- 
feated Gates. The next regular shoot occurs July 4.—Nixey, 


NEW ORLEANS, J une 18.—This evening a number of sportsmen 
assembled on the prairie near Marengo street, for the purpose 
of taking part in the bat shoot for the “Scooler Trophy.” The 
attendance would have been much larger but for the rain and wet 
condition of the ground; however, there was an abundance of fresh 
breeze, and all participating in this cheap amusement found it a de- 
lightful pastime and one worth taking advantage of. A greatdeal of 
skill was required to kill the birds, and the shooters with good scores 
had reason to be proud of their prowess. The bat contest first took 
place, Twenty bats were shot at in doubles at 25yds. rise. The scores 
made were as follows: 


Bickhamemee, os oe eee ae 00 01 00 O1 10 00 11 O1 11 OI—| 
eye Soe US qaaane BEA Star nce 01 00 00 00 10 10 10 00 00 00-4 
RGHISCR eels: tte edcselets bites ,,01 11 00 10 00 10 10 10 10 10—9 
NO GC OL poy fered eines ae en Ol O01 11 10 OO OO 11 10 1i1—10 
HUGHES Surette us eet) eee 01 Ol 00 11 10 00 00 11 00 9-7 
Lv BT aE Sra 4 6S SC CER -01 00 11 00 10 11 11 10 f1 10-12 
WL PEB Ey pect. eee ON 00 00 00 10 10 10 00 11 10 10—7 
Oarlotom sae oc ee et he 00 00 00 10 11 OF 00 10 00 OO—5 
Juanidinye sees sue ano aes 01 01 00 10 10 11 10 00 00 0O— 7 
ROUATIGE yoke eee sa eee OR OT) OF Si 10" ed ae OS ats 
BROWNS; oe Eocene em euLs 01 O01 00 11 00 10 10 10 11 10—10 
ASDTUBU pec hte eee ees een Oi 01 10 10 117 11 WO VW dd 11—15 
avis oy ui cue ete ee 00 00 11 10 00 10 00 11 00 10—7 
BORD: A ee ee LAER: ii 00 00 GO 00 11 11 10 10 10—9 
Goanester is) Vee sali, le erie 11 00 11 00 10 11 11 41 10 10-12 
Tyi1e) ifs) Pes es Se ae «01 10 11 10 00 10 11 10 00 00—9 
W6OUISS Siinanjaetoieins cee 10 00 14 10 10 10 11 00 OF 11—T1 
Buck yew eee a eacen 10 00 00 00 410 00 00 00 10 10— 4 
AAVOF cect A Cot eet eee tee, 00 11 10 10 11 10 11 10 10 OO—11 
BCOGIGE 4.2) 1 oe inepe ees 1i 10 11 10 00 11 10 00 10 OQ0O—10 
REO Yast e den Aceh Petia oc aebeLAe 10 10 10 10 11 10 10 00 0— 8 
Mardongii =. ciei a steeeess te 00 00 00 01 01 00 — — — — 8 

A sweepstakes was then indulged in, as follows: 

BOWE -e area ,----10 1010 10 10—5 Scooler ........ -10 10 00 00 00—2 
BY AAU UES ace ate 1i 10-10 10 10—6 A Druet.......... 11 10 00 10 41—6 
Buekley.......... 10 00 10 10 11—5 Cordona. ........ 10 11 10 11 10—7 
Febiger_.. .... ,- 10 11 10 11 10—/ Smith...-........ 00 00 10 01 00—2 
Gocwlhizys See 11 16.10 11 10—% Carver........... 10 10 11 10 01—6 
Carleton.......... 11 11 11:01 11—9 H Renaud........ 00 01 10 00 00—2 
Stevens....2..... 10 00 10 10 10—4 Davis. .. ..,..,..00 11 00 10 00-3 
Burton...... .....00 11 0010 11—5 Brodnax........, 10 11 11 10 11—8 
ie wakesee ea ost. 01.11 0010 11-6 Moret..-........, 10 10 00 10 10—4 
Geneste....... .. 11 00 11 10 00—5 Villars ........ , 00 11 10 10 10—5 
Landry......2.... 11 10 10 10 00—5 Dupre... ....... 00 00 10 00 10—2 
Bickham... ..... 10 10 11 11 00—6 Born.............. 10 11 00 11 00-5 


PORTLAND, Me., June 18.—The fifth competitive shoot for the 
Ligowsky medal came off at' Topsham yesterday, between the River- 
side Club, of that place, and the Willard Club, of Portland, resulting 
in a yietory for the Portland team by ascore of 76to 70. The day 
was very warm. Directly after the match terminated the Willard 
Club receiyed and accepted a challenge from the Androscoggin Club, 
of Lewiston, which will be contested on the ground of the Willards. 
Below is the official score: ‘ 

Riverside Club. 


Singles. Doubles. 
ANG) GOUGL sere ha vtele dle ee 0111201011— 614 1010011111713 
MSN ge caren een orem 0021100010— 314  0011110010—5— B14 
GIA Gouden eee aes ke 1022011111— 7 1111011000—6—13 
1 ECO Et UY pele yo gi Sao 1101111110— 8 1011111111917 
AS Alexander.,-.... vets pio sid 111111111110 1111001111—8—18 —70 
Willard Club. 
George H McKenney..-..... 1411211111— 9 11111110108 17144 
R Cl ent Soe Sane Se 1111110111— 9 1011010111—7—_16 
WaH Dodd eer eae is 1211211111— 9 1101111110—8 - 17 
George H Pierce........... .0001111011— 6 0100100000—2— § 
E G Farrington,....,........ 1111111112— 9146 1011101111 = 817144 


EMERALD GUN CLUB.—Match at 8 birds per man; W. Glaccum 


80yds.. H. Otten and J. Glaccum 25yds.; the rest 21yds.: 

MW Murphy........ _.11110111—” LH Veimeister......... 01100001—3 
W. Glaccum..........6- 01111110—6 J Howard. .......... .. 11011001—5 
H Veidt ... ..01100111—5 + Counseller Cody, -,.11111111—8 
J Measel.. .. . 01111111—7 J PConner...... -. -01110111—6 
EROtiene seer = ..11111011-7 J Mackin.............. 11000011—4 
EbUMackin 5s, .te5se ese 110001014 _N Measel........,...... 11111011—7 
Dr Hudson ............ AOOTHOI— 4. TERISB EM se corte orice ee 11111100—6 
P Keenan..........-. ~ 00010, 1—4 J W Godfrey. «......,.. 11111111—8 
oo GAC CUI ei cele 11101111—7 W Turner.............. 011011116 
13} lbyaited 1h Semen eign 01111101—6 © Measel.... ........... 11101000—4 
CM Grainger.........- 11011111—7 


‘he officers of the club are Dr. George V. Hudson, Pres,; John Glac- 
WW. Murphy, 


WINCHENDON, Mass.. June 18.—The Winchendon 6. C. had a 
clay-pigeon and glass-ball shoot at their grounds to-day, resulting as 


follows: ‘ 
‘ Clay-pigeons. Glass-balls. 

EAT Opeood ye ae sc om anae tate 8 7 
FH Monn.,.....-. 8 6 
J Southerland... if a4 
L F Martin....... Ar 8 
WS Davis... ....--.--.. 6 1 
TAPE UIE B3LOn ce Ne eee ee NLC tCten ese 5 


The new Holden trap was used for the first time, and the balls be- 
ing thrown with so much force will account for the small score. 


BOSTON, Mass., June 19.—Yesterday was the regular font 
shotgun day of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, and a liberal 
number of members and their friends from neighboring clubs, who 
were not a:nbitious to compete for honors at the State Association 
tournament being held at Wellington, assembled at Walnut Hill and 
participated in one of the most enjoyable day’s sport of the season. 
Many and varied were the events indulged in, several of which, 
especially the ‘walk up” matches, affording the contestants ample 
delight and satisfaction. Another especially pleasing and agreeable 
feature of the occasion was the delightful and refreshing breeze that 
made outdoor sport at Walnut Hill—which, by the way, is one of the 
most wholesome, charmingly rustic and picturesque Di etonnde in 
New England—particularly enjoyable to those who had the good for- 
tune to be there yesterday while their less fortunate fellows were 
sweltering in the sultry, stifling air of the city. Following are the 
day's records: r } ' 

First event, five clay-birds—Tinker won first prize, Lewis and Mes- 
senger divided second, and Tice won third. : ; 

Second event, five clay-birds—Tinker won first prize, Lewis second 
Tice and Nichols divided third, \ . 

Third event, three Paris clay-birds—Tinker won first, Messenger, 
Eddy and Little diyided second, Lewis and Thompson divided third. 

Fourth event, five clay-birds—Tinker and Knowles divided first, 
Lovejoy aud Little diyided second, Thompson won third and Lewis 
won fourth. ; . 

Fifth event, five clay-birds—Knowles and Thompson divided first, 
Tinker won second, Nichols third and Messenger fourth. 

Sixth event, three Paris balls—Nichols first, Lovejoy and Knowles 
second, Messenger and Thonn third, } ; 

Seventh event, five glass balls—Eddy won first, Nichols second, Lit- 
tle and Lovejoy divided third. f . 

Righth event, three Paris clay-birds—Thompson won first, Lewis 
and Tinker divided second, Knowles and Lovejoy divided third, 

Ninth event, five clay-birds, five traps.—Tinker won first, Nichols 
and Lovejoy divided second, Tice, Mlwell and Little divided third, 
Messenger and Eddy divided fourth. i 

Tenth event, five clay-birds, five traps—Tinker and Howe divided 
first, Eddy won second, Hilliard and Nichols divided third and 
Knowles won fourth. vy 

Eleventh event, three Paris glass balls—Tinker and Knowles divided 
first, Nichols and Little second, Hilliard and Scribner divided third, 

Twelfth event, three Paris clay-birds—Nichols first, Messenger and 
Howe second, Tinker third, Hilliard fourth. ; ; 

Thirteenth event, five clay-birds—Tinker first, Nddy and Lovejoy 
second, Nichols third, Howard fourth. 

Fourteenth event, five clay-birds—Howe won first, Knowles second, 
Scribner third, : § ’ 

Fifteenth event, three Paris yclay-birds—Nichols first, Howe sec- 
ond, Knowles and Little third. ; : 

Sixteenth event, glass balls, miss and out—Nichols and Little 
divided. 

Seventeenth event, three Paris clay-birds—Knowles first, Howe sec- 
ond, Little third. x ] 

Highteenth event, five clay-birds, walk up match—Lovejoy first, 
Hilliard second, Little third. ; ; 

Nineteenth event, five clay-birds, walk up match—Little first, Hill- 
iard second, Knowles third. J { 

.8.-In your issue of the 12th inst , you make us say in our re- 
marks regarding shoot of the 4th inst, that, ‘with the exception of 
about half an hour, the entire day was spent eating baked beans,” 
which, while we frankly acknowledge to « tree indulgence m that 
luxury, was a trifle overdrawn, it being our intention to have said 
that with the exception of about half an hour devoted to the agree- 


able entertainment of bean eating, the remainder of the day was 


spent in clay-bird shooting.—F. 


PICTON, Ontario, June 19,—A sweepstake match was held by the 
Picton Gun Club at elay-pigeons to-day, 10 birds each, ifyds. rise, re- 
sulting as follows; Soby 7, Jellett 6, Gilbert 6, Reynolds 6, Beaford 6, 
Gillespie 3, Wright 2, Miller 2. Orehard retired at his second bird. In 
Orns era the ties for second and third places Bedford and Rey- 


MMRIDIAN, Miss., Jan. 19,—The great shooting tournament here 
of the past three days brought together a large number of the finest 
shots in the South, The tournament ‘opened on Tuesday; the day 
was Tainy and the matches had to be shot between the showers, 
ote “tere 45 present. 

le first match, 24yds, rise, at 5 live pigeons, resulted as follows: 
Mobile shooters—W, G, Vass 5, Ladd 5) George 3, Ward 4, Nicholas 
1, Drey 1 and Tunstall 4. New Orleans shooters—Cousin 5. Chaudet 
4, Mayronne 4, Tuentes 3. Birmingham shvoters—F. W. Dunham 2, 
A. HE. Dunham 2, Selma shooters—Hrnest Field 8. Asheville, N. (ey 
shooters—Jordan 4, Crawford, Miss., shooters—S. 8. Scales 1, Cris- 
ler 3, Carr 3. Starkville shooters—W, W. Scales 4. Meridian shoot- 
ers—Dabney 4, Gallup 1, Cameron 3, Dobscn 3, Stroup 3, Kone 4, 
Brooksville shooters—N, Scales 3. Macon shooters—Sargent 4, Irion 
3. Vass and Cousin divide first money, Tunstall second, Stroup third. 

The second match at 10 clay-pigeons, 8yds., rise, 25 entries, except 
addition of Taylor, of West Point, and Hamilton, of Meridian. Vass 
wou first money, breaking 10; Ladd second, on 9, Cousin, Foot and 
Chaudet tied for third money, 

Chaudet won the third match at 5 live birds, same conditions as the 
first match, There were 30 entries, about the same as entered in the 
first match. Tunstall, Vass, Clauder, Jordan, Dabney, W. W. Scales 
and N. Carr, tied for first money. each lulling 5 birds, Chaudet won 
on the tie shoot, Nine shooters killed 4birds each, tying for second 
money, Richard and Ward Jed the score in the shoot off and divided 
the money, and Cameron andeStroup divided third money. 


OLD SQUIRE JACKSON got his gun ready, took his target, bullets, 
powder, etc., and walked fiye miles to a shooting match, and then 
discovered that he had left his gun at home.—KAnsas FARMER. 


WEBSTER, Mass,, June 19.—A challenge from the ¢lub at South- 
bridge has been accepted by the Webster Rod and Gun Club, and it 
will take piace at Southbridge July 4, The Webster Club are contest- 
ing among themselves for a gold badge, It is to be the property of 
the man that has the largest score at the end of the season, The 
first contest was yesterday, the largest score out of a possible 20 was 
13, that of Eugene Smith. 


achting. 


FIXTURES. 


Secretaries of yacht clubs will please sent early notice of pro 
posed matches and meetings. 

June 26.—Salem Bay Y, C,, First Championship Match, 

June 27.—Eastern Y, C,)-Annual Matches. 

June 28.—Boston ¥. ©., Ladies’ Day. 

June 30.—Manhattan Y. C., Annual Cruise. 


June 30.—Quiney Y. C,, Second Match. 

July 4.—Larechmont Y, C., Annual OpenMatches. 

July 4,5, 6.—Quaker City Y. C., Corinthian Cruise, 

July 4.—Hull Y. 0,, Review and Annual Cruise, five days, 
July 4.—Boston, open matches, City Point. 

July 9.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12,—Boston Y. C., Second Club Match. 

July 12.—HullY. C., First Club Match. 

July 19.—Hull Y. C., Ladies’ Day. 

July 24,—Eastern Y. C., Annual Cruise, ' 

July 26,—Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship Match. 
July 30.—Quincy Y. G.. Third Match. 

Aug. 2.—HMull Y, C., First Championship, 

Aug. 4,—Quaker City Y. C,, Review and Harbor Cruise, 

Ang, 9.—Boston Y. C., Annnal Matches. 

Aug. 11-25,—Quaker City Y. O,, Annual Cruise in Chesapeake and 


Delaware Bays. 


Aug. 16.—Salem Bay Y, C,, Open Matches. 

Aug. 16,—Hull Y. C., Open Matches. 

Aug. 23.— Boston Y. G., Third Club Match. 

Aug. 23.—Beverly Y. C., Open Match. 

Aug. 26.—Beverly Y, C., Special, Marblehead, 

Aug. 28.—Quiney ¥. C,, Fourth Match, 

Aug. 30.—Hull ¥Y. C., Second Championship Mach. 
Sept. 3,—Hull ¥. C., Third Championship Match, 
Sept, 4.-Salem Bay Y. C.. Second Championship Match. 
Sept, 6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Match, 
Sept. 11.—Quiney Y. C., Last Rane. 


Sept. 11.—krenton’s Reef Challenge Cup. 


Sept. 13.—Boston Y. C,, Ladies’ Day. 

Sept. 13.—Koston Y. C., Fall Matches, 

Sept. 14.—Quaker City ¥. C., Review and Cup Race. 
Sept. 28.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. 


5,—Quaker City Y, C., Closing Review and Cruise, 


NEW JERSEY Y. C. 


HE New Jersey Y. C., although their fleet numbers only small 
boats, haye taken a stand on the questions of shifting ballast 
and limited crews that puis them in the rank of yachtsmen ance 
Corinthians, and the club offers greater inducements to the lovers of 
small yachts than any similar organization about New York. While 
their boats are still, of necessity, of the small type of centerboard 
craft used here so long, they are so rigged and fitted as tobe easily 
handled by a small crew, and safe in case of a capsize, and should the 
club continue in its present course, we may hope to see some day ai 
numerous fleet of safe and wholesonie boats under its flag. 

Their 19th annual matches took place on the riyer and bay on 
Thursday, June 19, the course heing for Classes A and B, from a line 
off the club house, Hoboken, down past Robbins Reef buoy, and 
around Buoy 13 on the West Bank and bome, finishing off the Com- 
munipaw coal dock, Jersey City, the smaller class only going around 
Robbins Reef buoy, while Class OC rounded Vort Lafayette. Tne 
boats starting, all of which were sailed by their owners, were: 

“LASS B—OPHN SLOOPS, 


Name. Owner, Ft. In, 
OHANEN 2 By raat se ete ss) SOD. [Kebehatny .-seteites | seernnes 28° 06 
Meteor. 25, 00-422 - an, AVSLCANNGLALG cence seen tReet seer 28 dle 
Bagle Wing.....-..---..:+ tae) EAE) COL d seer ete le ee - 27 1046 
Tilyshoee teehee Peeone te Theo; Hy Rogersserr ica eeeee 27 05 
DareDeyal Peeves oS here W.#H. Dilworth.._... parbsaarastneee 27 04 

CLASS C—OPEN SLOOPS. 
LothienWeyeeotpears: saul We. Moms, 2. Secsenstaivabeiveee 25) 05 
Bambee ae ces, Stes aes by Jo EE VEOMN: 22eet foe sas otema ce ka 25 00: 
C@orinue. .))..)-2.<:.24. souls Kayseri.) Scars see co ee 238 OG 
Sophia Emma.-.-. -.---.Chaples B, Korff ... fre el 09 
Coquette. .....-... s..--- Tiucien Alces 2.2.02: 5-28 ccsveee seas 21 O04 
CLASS D—OPEN SLOOPS 
-. Frederick Baar... - 20 1014 
John Von Drathen - 20 00 
W. Ortriel. . 18 06 
Willian Tener ss. )2 css see) + aia 18 00 
SR stepety UNF Fir Ne Ie tony eh 17 +10 


Lottie M. following. ; : 

They went down under the Jersey shore in a long line, booms to 
port or starboard, what wind there was being north. Lily R. leading 
the way. As she passed the coal docks she caught a new breeze from 
the south, and stuod down and across on port tack, each boat as it 
reached the same point catching the breeze and following her until 
all were strung mm lime across the river, beating down. 

At noon the Bay above the Narrows was hidden by a thick smoke 
or haze, in which the yachts were shrouded, but it soon cleared away, 
leaving it hotter than before. Lily R. was still leading in the beat 


down. The times at Robbin’s Reef were: 

Tai yj-b 2 week Clear tree Ls OMNSETP so, aie oui tlalege ete 12 39 40 
Dare Devil Wwe oe--44-- +h 12,0013: Banirys soos seu se eee as 12 41 21 
Weber ape Waite eee coke 12 30 40 Lottie M............ HSseL 12 41 42 
Rambler_..c...0..-. 0-24-2292 /80 42: -Corinne. 62.02. few iw ts 16 
Sophia Emma.... ......-.. 12 3243 Coquette..___......,..-...12 46 31 
Gibarie ee eel eee es oe 12.32.45 Katty §...... Cap mre pea. 18 AF 4f 
BeGHtOMeres Lhe aon. t 12 37 36 


Dare Devil, Meteor and Rambler rounded together and were soon 
after the Lily, all on starboard tack, soon working short tacks down 
the middle in a fresh breeze. At the forts it fell caim and continued 
so for sometime. Lily R. went off into Gravesend Bay, and after a 
time found a breeze there that brought her up well ahead to Buoy 13 
at ee Dare Devil also followed the same course, though well 
astern, } ~ 

Now came the most exciting pact of the race, as Meteor caine down 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


———E=— a a 


435 


trom Dix Island on the starboard tack, while Dare Devil came out of 
ae fine on port, the former having the best of it, and turning at 


Tn Class ©, Senator was first around Fort Lafayette, fanny second, 
Kate third, Senator's lick forsook her when she gyhed off the Reef 
buoy, as she capsized, but no harm was done, 

The wind was light from south, and all hurried home with jibs 
boomed out, but Lily was still far ahead, crossing the line off the Com- 
munipaw coal dock at 3:47:25. 

QLASS B—OPEN SLOOPS, 


Name, Start, Finish, Blapsed. Corrected, 
[Sitch ide eee ™ -.11, 04 25 4 91 29 6 17 04 8A 04 
| 00) Seren ea ee eee 11 OF 36 4 1% 09 § 065 34 f O05 19 
Hagle Wing)......---.... 11 08 35 Not timed. 
TERS TE Stee tee ge ag 1i 09 05 3 47 25 4 38 20 4 36 10 
Dare Deri. fs. 11 08 54 4 12: 07 5 03 13 5 00 58 
’ OLASS O—OPEN SLOOPS. 
SURRY oie. ey di 03 35 Not timed. 
Rambler. ‘bas eageee ee reds 4 26 10 5 20°16 5 19 30 
Cormne,...._..,.--.,,,..11 08 06 Turned back in Narrows. 
Sophia Emma _..,,.._. 11 08 48 428 18 5 19 35 5 12 15 
Caniethel 11 08 54 Did not go the course. 
CLASS D—OPRN SLOOPS. 
11 02 0 4 03 31 6 O01 31 § O1 31 
Capsized off Robbins’ Reef.’ 
4 (1 41 4 69 11 4 $4 26 
3 47 46 4 40 29 4 84 d4 
4.07 28 5 01 16 465 11 


NEW YACHTS ABROAD. 


H English yacht fleet has been increased by the addition of 

three new vessels in the larger classes, besides a number of 
smaller ones, the largest of the three beimg Irex, lately described in 
our columns. She is 88ft. on loadline, 15.1ft. beam, ld4ft. draft, keel 
4% tons, composite build, steel frames and woodenskin, and was built 
for Mr. John Jameson by Fay, of Southampton, 

The next in size is Genesta, Sift. on loadline, 14.6ft. beam, 11.75ft. 
depth of hold, 18ft. draft, with 60 tons on keel and but 4 tons inside; 
racing tonnage, 60 tons, Her owner is Sir Richard Sutton, and she 
was buili by Messrs, Henderson, at Partick-on-the Clyde. In ber 
first race, New Thames Y, C., May 31, she won by three minutes even 
time from Vanduara, the latter also allowing her time, Erycina and 
Marjorie also being in. On the following Monday she gained but 
third place, Tara and Marjorie being ahead of her, but on the next 
day, in the Channel match, she won easily frem Marjorie and Ery- 
cina, Vanduara losing her bowsprit. On the 4th, in the Royal Thames 
mitiches, she was beaten by Marjorie, which performance was re- 
peated on-the next day in the New Thames match, Marjorie being 
again ahead and Genesta second, Vanduara, Erycina and Miranda 
also being in. In the Nore to Dover match, June 7, Genesta won 
again, with Lerna second, Marjorie third and Vanduara, Tara, Hry- 
eina and Miranda also in. On June’, at Dover, Royal Cinque Ports 
Y. ©., she was beaten by Lorna, an 86-ton yawl, aud met the same 
fate again on the following day. 

The last and smallest of the trio is Marguerite, a 60-tonner, ‘41, 
loadline, 13.5ft. beam, 12,5ft, draft, keel 61 tons, lead inside 6 tons. 
ee a composite build, steel frames, pitch pine bottom plank, teak 

opsides, 


THE RACE AROUND LONG ISLAND. 


j= the preceding races, that of last week around Long Island 
has done little to settle the questions in dispute, the wind being 
so variable, and flukes so numerous that the result is of little value. 

The victory remains with the sloops, and, of the schooners, with 
the Grayling, but the most that their advocates can claim is that 
under their most tavorable conditions, light winds and perfectly still 
water, the pick of our light weather fleet have beaten the deeper 
boats less than three hours in a race of 240 miles. Grayling defeats 
the deep Fortnna by 2h. 57m., while Fortuna in turn leads Montauk 
22m., and with the sloops, Rey. beats Teen by 2h. 37m., Gracie 
beats her by 2h, 4m., while Hildegarde has but 2im.lead of her; 
and in the second class, Vixen beais Oriva by 1h. 2m. 

After leaving the Bay, as told in Forms? Anp STREAM last week, the 
fleet stood on with spinnakers to starboard before the wind, theorder 
at 7 P. M. was, Fanny, Hildegarde, Teen, Fortuna, Grayling, Gracie, 
Athlon, Montauk, Oriya, Vixen, Ruth, Wenonah, Estelle, F eetwing, 
Light winds were found with occasional calms all Monday night, Fire 
Island being passed at 10 P. M., and Shinnecock shortly after 3 A. M., 
the wind being mostly from the west and north. At daybreak the 
order of the leaders was Montauk, Fortuna, Fanny, Grayling. 

Ato A, M. a calm ensued, the three leaders drifting close together, 
but a breeze from the north started them off again, Montauk ahead, 
and at? A. M, Montauk Light was sighted. Hera along calm ensued 
and it seemed as though che point would never be rounded, but at 
9:30 A. M. Montau«x passed it, Fanny being second and Fortuna third. 

All through the morning there was a suctession of light winds and 
exlms, provoking the yachtsmen and shifting the positions of the 
boats from time to time. Atnoon Wanny started through Plum Gut, 
passing out at2 P, M, with Yortuna half an hour behind, while Mon- 
tauk, having taken the Race, was becalmed there. Calms ensued for 
several hours, but at 4 P. M, a breeze from the southwest started 
the fleet again. gaining strenfth as the afternoon advanced, until 
kites came im, and there seemed some prospect of a sail at the end of 
the race, At6 P.M. the order was Fanny, Fortuna. Grayling, Hilde- 
garde, Athlon, Vixen, Montauk. 

Of Port Jefferson at9P. M. the wind died down, and a little later 
all was calm again, continuing so all night, the yachts merely drifting, 
At daybreak the fleet was well scattered, Grayling being ahead and 
een up in second place. The morning was unpleasant in eyery 
Way, an ebb tide carrying the boats back, no wind and a thick haze 
covering the entire Sound, but in the forenoon 4 light southwest wind 
woke all up again, Panny leading. For the rest of the way the wind 
was light, but it brought Fanny upto the line at 11:44:08, with Grayling 
close astern of her. Half an hour elapsed before Gracie came in to 
elaim third place, then a couple of hours more before Hildegarde, 
Vixen and Ileen made their appearance, Ruth carried away her jib- 
boom off Montauk and put into New Bedford, being unable to con- 
tinue. The times of the competing yachts were as follows: 


SCHOONERS. 
Start. Finish. Blapsed. 
2, Grayling. .......-.-cnenecsneeeee . 4 06 58 11 44 44 43 37 46 
MAeHODEN Ss SPOR... erronies 4 06 58 2 40 53 46 33 55 
ior Te eC L EL by -a Be bien 4 06 58 3 02 40 46 56 52 
LSRERUGHEN Qe AS Pace eee. 4 06 53 8 52 40 47 45 42 
TB LSet Wines SP PLES Ne RNS IR TNS y 4 06 58 Not timed. 
ae TTT el meee heh bk ny Ms Kaa 4 06 £8 Disabled. 
FIRST GLASS SLOOPS. 
SESE UP ATT etre =F bo BOR tote tee 11 44 08 43 37 10 
Bele VAClOGs cere cet gle Ueereee Ett ony 4 06 58 12 17 45 44 10 47 
4) Baldegardesy:.+sisticsie eee cece ae 4 06 58 2 00 57 45 53 59 
Oe) WATE fii cee a paper eMeree ia 4 Ob 58 2 21 238 46 14 25 
12. SWenbnah iy ts oe 4 06 58 4 03 00 47 56 02 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 
a Va SOR et ees Late ere te faa Ete 4 06 58 211 57 4 04 59 
NE HLOf ee ee eo yaks eee Pade 2d 258 2 35 25 46 28 27 
10, Oriva..._. dekh en teetd potas godt he 4 06 58 3 13 30 47 06 32 
At the finishing line, between Execution and Sands Point, was a 


tug that had been there since the preceding day, on which were Com, 
Monroe and Messrs, Stewart, Brown, Jenkins and Adams, of the 
Larchmont Y.C., who had offered to time the finish, After their 
arrival the yachts anchored in Larchmont Harbor, their crews being 
entertained by the Larchmont Y, C, 


NEW HAVEN Y. C. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


fae yachtsmen of New Haven haye been busier this spring than 
ever before, preparing for the third annual matches, which were 
sailed on June 24 on the Sound. Their fleet numbers 33 yachts, 
Steamers, sloops and cats, there being three of the former: Sophia, 
125ft,, ©, i. Osgood owner; Venture, 100ft., J. J. Phelps, and Beatrice, 
O. B. Paliner. The second division of the fleet, sloop yachts, is 
divided inta four classes, B, G, D and H, according to length over all, 
Olass B being 45ft. and over; Class C, 35 to 45ft.; Class D, 25 to 35ft., 
and @lass H, 15 to 25tt, The time allowance is based, however, on 
waterline plus one-hird overhang. 

The wind through the entire day was very light. The steamer John 
H. Starin accompanied the yachts over the course, carrying the mem- 
bers and theirtriends, while Mr. R. B. Rathbone’s steam yacht Pastime 
carried the judges, At 11312 A, M. all were ready, and a gun was 
fired from the Pastime as asipnal for classes E, sloops of 15 to 25ft., 
and G, catboats of 15 to 25ft., the Wild Bird being the first over the 
line and Trio second, no boats starting in Class G. At 11:18 Class D 
was started with Acme, Ceres, Defiance, Lorelei, Louise, Endeavor, 
Visen and Stranger in the above order; then followed Starlight, 
Flora, Happy Thought, Rajah, Viking, Wayward, Marguerite, Rival, 
Wild ‘Duck of Class C. with Wild Pigeon and Viola, Class B behind 

em, 

All went over on starboard tack, and most of them held on for some 
time, the wind, howeyer nearly dying out, Stranger took the lead 
after a time, with Ceres next, then Lonise, and at the turning mark, 
Charles Island Buoy, she had a good lead, lufiing around it in fine 
style, and running up balloon atari : 

‘Ceres was next around, then Vixen, Flora, Louise, Rival, Wild 


a 


Duck, Viking, Wild Pigeon, no others being timed, as the steamers 
ran on to overtake the leaders, now wellahead, Stranger still led on 
whe run home, and was first in of all the fleet, followed closely by 
Plora and Geres, who had stuck to her all the way home, In Class 
B, Trio came in just 8m. before the Stranger’s arrival, 

The times were as follows: 


CLASS B, F 
Yacht, Owner. Actial, Corrected, 
Midlds eects ete ean vd Chats RA eae 5 08 00 5 16 
Wild Pigeon... a «Vice G. Wheeler.......... 5 10 48 5 O06 43 
CLASS G. 
Wild Dueck... .... i... eats Vleet Capt, Lutz.......... 5 02 68 
Wayward... cc... 20. nO: Be WAINGP.. 6. caine soon 5 18 38 5 17 23 
WLV ELE ws rao _.«W. W, Converse..,.......6 00 66 4 58 58 
Staclizhier-- ss tee ees WO WHIGES | westore eet tetit 6 23 35 5 20 45 
MasCOtt. ot. stew tt Weld & Jacobs.....- syed 16 dd § 15 10 
Happy Thought........ . Geo. M, Grayes,....... .-D 26 21 5 20 10 
Wana Cee eno ese sas Coberkinse. ia. ssi See 5 05 04 4 54 11 
Marguerite._-.......---.- Charles M. Peek....-.. 5 17 48 5 11 42 
MiG UIUEs Ame Re nee Bb PQ Swall,.- 2. ssesceaics 6 18 48 6 05 28 
GLASS D, 
yD, Billard... 12) + -5°20-81 
ene eerie Parish & Rawson....,...5 08 38 5 OF 20 
i ‘Thomas H. Hall.... ..... 5 38 08 5 30 35 
4S Se4g600ab6 Age Allen Seaman...........,5 O0%53 5 03 49 
S17 W204 2) Ger OP J. N. Macauley........-.. 5 08 al 4 58 13 
CLASS B. 
Trio. 


Se bd esate! W. L. Cheney...-..-...-.5 04 30 


HULL Y. C. PENNANT MATCH. 


6 ax: first pennant match of the Hull Y. C, was sailed on Saturday, 
June 21, Six classes entered, but only four started, as the wind 
was light throughout. The courses were as follows: 

Second Class—From judges’ line to black brush buoy No. 1, half a 
mile south, leaving it on the starboard, to yellow barrel marked H. 
Y. C., off Pettick’s Island, leaving it on starboard; through Hull Gut 
to buoy on Wilson’s Rock, off Rainsford Island, leaying it on star- 
board; thence, leaving Hunt’s ledge and Point Allerton buoys on star- 
board, to bell boat on Harding ledge, eceeeue on port. Return- 
ing, leaving Point Allerton and Hunt’s ledge buoys on port, to judges’ 
Beet passing between it and flag beat—a distance of eleven natitical 
miles, 

Third Class—From judges’ line to West Gut, leaving Pettiek’s Isl- 
and on starboard; thence, northeast by north three-quarters of a 
tnile to black buoy on) Wilson’s Rock, leaying it on the starboard; 
thenee to striped buoy on Hunt's ledge, leaving it on starboard; 
through Hull Gut to the judges’ boat, passing between it and a red 
flag—a distance of seven nautical miles. 

‘ourth and fifth elasses—From judges’ line to steamboat barrel off 
Seal Rocks, leaving it on starboard, to buoy off Prince’s Head, leay- 
ing it on port, to No. 1 brush buoy (one mile south of starting point), 
leaving it on starboard, to yellow barrel buoy marked H.Y, C., off 
Strawberry Hill, leaving it on port, to steamboat barrel off Seal 
Rock, leaving it on starboard, to barrel buoy off Pettick’s (Cley- 
SHY 5), leaving it on starboard, to judges’ line—a distance of seven 
miles, 

“ The race was started at 3 P. M,, at high water, with the following 
oats: 

Second class, sloops, 25ft. and under 30—Transit, E, H, Ingalls; Ban- 
neret, J, F. Brown. 

Third class, sloops, 21ft. and under 25—Seabird, Geo. 8, Forbush; 
Kitty, E. H. Tarbel, ; 

a Hour class, cats, 20ft. and under 26—Joker, Geo, Coffin; Niohe, F. 
un, 

Fifth class. cats 18ft. and under 20—Imogene, B. T. Wendell, 
Myrtle, Q. H, & R. CO. Poor; Spray, H. M. Faxon; Mirage, L. M, Clark; 
Wildfire, H. M, Keith; Kismutch, H. H, Curtis; Samaria, L. G. King, 
The prizes in each class were champion pennants, to be retained by 
the winners. 

Transit was away, ahead of Banneret, who was in trouble with her 
jib, but righting matters, started in chase, making a good race but in 
second at the line, 

Seabird and Joker came in first in their respective classes, and Im- 
ogeve in the fifth class, with Spray second. The times were: 

SECOND CLASS, 


Length. Actual, Corrected, 
Transit, c. b., F, H, Ingalls,,....--..., 27.01 2 25 36 1 52 41% 
Banneret, c. b., J. F, Brown...,....... 25,01 2 380 15 1 55 05 
THIRD CLASS, 
Seabird, e, b., George §, Forbush,,... 23 O01 1 23 18 0 59 18 
Kitty, k., E. H, Tarbel:..:.......-s..24 23. 09 1 27 00 1 03 33 
} FOURTH CLASS. 
Joker, c. b., George Coffin,..... .,.... 20.08 1 49 50 1.23 44 
an C0] 9) <p come ope chet Weis B) 0) 0 enremeeen oS ia 20.06 1 57 15 1 80 62 
FIFTH CLASS, 
Imogene, c, b., B. T. Wendell........:. 2 00 08 1 31 59 
Myrtle, c.b., ©. H. & R. C. Poor....... 19.06 2 01 43 1 34 18 
Spray, c. b.. H. M, Faxon.............: 10 2 06 28 1 35 19 
Mirage, c. b., L. M. Clark.............. 17.10 2 15 38 1 46 20 
Wildfire, c. b., H. M. Keith...,........ 18.01 Not taken 
Kismutch, ¢. b.. H. H. Curtis......... 18 11 Not taken 
Samaria. c. b.,S. G. King.............. 19,01 Not taken 


The regatta committee of the club are: M. J. Kiley, chairman, J, 
z CBOOd, W..K. Miller, H, N. Curtis, ¥, M. Griffin, E, A. Dow, P. M 
ond. 


DORCHESTER Y. C,—80th MATCH. 


H 80th match of the Dorchester ¥. C., open, in the first class, 
to yachts of any club, and all other classes to yachts of clubs en- 
rolled in the New England Y. R. A., was sailed off Nahant yesterday, 
and was in every respect a complete suceess. Up to the time of clos- 
ing the entries for the race about 50 boats had been enrolled, and of 
these more than 40 put in an appearance and crossed the line in their 
various classes. ‘The first and second classes started in good order at 
12:30, followed 10 minutes later by the third class, all the boats mak- 
ing goad time in crossing the line. The course for the first and sec- 
ond classes was No. 3 from starting line, leaving Graves whistling buoy 
on starboard, Davis’ ledge buoy ou the port, Grayes whistling buoy 
on port, to starting line, 22 miles; limit of time six hours. The course 
for the third class was No. 6, from starting line. leaving Graves 
whistling buoy on starboard, Winthrop bar buoy on starboard, to 
starting line, 10 miles; limit of time 344 hours. 

The wind, which early in the day had been light from the south- 
west, shifted at about noon to the eastward and blew an excellent 
breeze, which continued throughout the day, siving the yaehtsmen 
& rare opportunity to show their crafts to the best advantage. The 
prizes awarded were as follows: First class—First prize, $60. Second 
class—First prize, $30; second, $20; third, $15; fourth, $10, Third 
class—First prize, $20; second, $15; third, 10; fourth, $5, In the 
second and third classes, the prizes were awarded tothe first two 
keel and first two centerboard yachts of each class. The captain of 
the Una entered a protest against the David Crockett for shifting 
ballast, and, although this does not alfect her as regards yesterday’s 
race, as she was among the last boats to come in, it will, if proved 
against her, debar her fron racing in any regatta of any club belong- 
ing to the New England Yacht Racing Association, under whose rules 
the regatta was bemg sailed. The #eho carried away her topsail, and 
thus greatly impeded her progress, and perhaps lost her a prize, as 
she was well to the lead of many of the boats at the time of the 
accident; and the Bannerett disabled her topmast early in the race, 
The new steam. tug, Wesley A. Gove, Capt. W. H. Jenkins, was used 
as a judge's boat, and every courtesy was extended the members of 
the press to witness the regatta, Capt, Jenkins ordered the boat run 
over the course while dinner was being served, Capt, 0. H. Whiting 
of the Dorchester Y. C. piloted the craft throughout the day, The 

udges were CO, H, Whiting, chairman; L, M. Clark, Erastus Willard, 

. G. King, H. B, Callender, 

The prize winners were as follows: In the first class the Huron, tn 
the second clase the Shadow, Nimbus, Lapwing and Percey H., in the 


order named, and in the third class the Kitty, Transit, Niobe and 
Black Cloud, respectively. Below isthe summary: 
FIRST CLASS, 


Length. Actual. Corrected. 

Turon, William Gray, Jr... 2... ee pees 53,08 4 05 48 3 33 26 
Maggie, G, H, Warren... vee AB OL 4 21 O1 8.43 46 
Adrienne, Jacob Pfaff..,..., ..-.-.. . 59 00 413 58 8 46 58 
Hesper, W; H. Forbes... ..-.....,-..- - 47, 06 4 Rd 26 8 48 38 
Nirvana,’S. Pi Freeman.:.. ...2...--.... 42.09 4°30 39 3 49 42 

SHCOND GLASS. 

Shadow, Dr. John Bryant,......-..-.++. 34.06 4 30 28 3 38 18 
Nimbus, B. Jenney, Jr........... ....-..83.11 445 42 3 d2 37 
Lapwing, J. Malcom Forbes....,........37.02 4 35 34 847 Rd 
Maric. By OV NBAL 1). 2 iia tice ee oeee 31.02 4 45 27 3 47 d2 
Peray:H..0os Halle-* fa) iiss: yetee ers 38.00 4 59 40 4 02 18 
Lillie; J. PB. Gale... ee eee 36,08 4 54 57 4 06 05 
AIC ON DEG OMMIGlE sh oss ssa e sre vee: 30.02 4 59 40 4 08 34 
THIRD GLASS. ; ‘ 

Kitty, Tarbell & Adams.......2.......-...28, (4 2 09 50 2 03 05. 
Transit, H. BH. Ingalls...-..-..--.... _... 26.08 2 08 40 2 05 34 
Niobe, W, L, Dunne.......... HORE: or att) 8 25 3H 215 53 
Black Gloud, BH. C. Cunningham,.... .. 22.11 2 26 29 91758 
Greta, J, We WS Hill os 23,01 2 29 40 2 22 37 
Saracen, W, P. & J. R. Fowle...........28,00 8 30 38 2 08 29 
Lizzie Warner, BH, Lutted ...-........... 26,01 2 28 20 2 23 46 
UD ar obi e Marit. eee Bonen ren enohe 80), 01 3 34 06 2 24 21 
Banneret, J. FP, Brown,.-.........--..65 24 OF 2 29 46 2 Pt RY 
Gem, W. H, Hammond and obhers..... 26.01 2 25 22 2 24 dd 
David Crockett, H, Putnam........ .... 21 04 2 84.04 2 24 dh 
PSE, We MG MAN BME TS.) aoa tebor lee eaeiee 21.00 2 37 46 2 20 01 
Echo, Putnam & Hudson,............... 25.04 2 80 36 2 26 08 


Boston Herald, June 18. 


“THE AMERICAN YACHT LIST.” 


pete growth of yachting in America is well shown by the increased 

size of its index, Olsen’s American Yacht List, a copy of which 
for 1884 has just come tous, The book is now an established institu- 
tion among yachtsmen, and has a place ineyery club room and cabin 
in the country. The main portion of the book, the list of yachts, is 
larger and moré complete than ever before, although some errors 
are still present, due to the carelessness of yachtsmen who neglect to 
send corrections. and notices of alterations i their craft, 

The labor of compiling 9 correct list is immense, and accuracy can 
only be obtained by the co-operation of yachtsmen, <A printed blank 
is inserted in each copy, and if every yachtsinan who finds an error 
in the dimensions of his boat will only fill out the blank and mail it, 
such errors will soon disappear, Besides the tables of signals and 
list of yachts there are many useful details—calendars. tide tables, 
eode list of the U. 8. Navy, lists of coast survey, lighthouse and rey- 
enue vessels, the old and new deeds of gift of the America Cup, the 
International Code, day and night signals, lists of secretaries, times 
of meetings, dues, ete., of the yarious clubs, alist of owners, and a list 
of American yacht clubs, with the fixtures for the year, The list of 
yachts contains nearly 1,600 names, while sixty clubs are given 
Copies of the book can be had of ForEST AND STREAM, the price 
being $3. 


SIGNALS OF RACING YAOTTS.—Editor Forest and Stream; 
T have witnessed the New York Y. OC. regatta for several years, and 
find strangers unable to make out the different yachts by their flags 
at the peak. They are not large enough, and when the wind is light 
hang lazily down the leach, the most powerful glasses failing to make 
them out. As many members of yacht clubs in different parts of the 
country annually come to witness these races, would it not be well to 
introduce a more distinct mark either of number or flag? The races 
of last week in New York have demonstrated that the American type 
of boat revolutionized, is the boat for our waters, and whilé we 
acknowledge the splendid sailing of the cutter Ileen in a ‘nose 
ender” covering less than one-fifth of the course, yet it will not do as 
a favorable result of the five-fifths. Still, the agitation of the subject 
in ForEsT AND StR4M has had a good effect. Our sloops have been 
improved in rig and ballast, and builders taking the hint have eur- 
tailed in width and have gone deeper. The medium boat will be the 
boat for-all-aruund sailing and for our waters. FOREST AND STREAM 
ean take the credit for all this; we preach up extremes, and feel satis- 
fied 10 have the “lay backs”* come half way. Even '\Delaware River 
Cninamen” have learned the value of the instructions laid down in 
your paper, and next year a class of honest seaworthy boats will 
make their appearance on our waters. ‘‘Planks on edge’”’ and “dish” 
boats will gradually disappear; they will have to make room for the 
coming boat.—Rk. G. W, [Our correspondent is right im regard to the 
signals usually displayed, as they are practically useless. The 

achts of the Atlantic Y. C. this season in their races carried num- 
Bere in the throat of their mainsails of such a size as to be visible at 
a long distance, enabling the spectators to distinguish the yachts 
throughout the race. We noticed in the New Jersey Y. C, races that 
some of the. boats displayed their numbers, which were too small in 
any case to be of use, under their flags at the peak, where they could 
not be read even when near by. We do not agree with our corre- 
spondent in his conclusions from the late races, and while we are 
with him in the fight for honest boats, we see no reason yet to be- 
lieve that the mean has been found in the late compromise Lype. | 


AFTER THE CUTTER MADGE.—There is a growing impression 
that if the English built cutters which have been thought to be inyin- 
cible can be beaten by American bottoms, the craft to beat her must 
be sent to New York from Boston, and appearances indicate that an 
effort in that direction will be made this season. Dr, John Bryant’s 
Shadow, and Mr, Charles G. Weld’s sloop Hera, and American cutter 
King Philip will probably be the vessels from which a choice will be 
made. Orders have already been given to put the Hera in perfect 
racing trim, and no expense will be spared to make her as fast as 
possible. Arthur Dean, one of the best sailing masters of pleasure 
craft in Hastern waters, is to command the Hera, which will hayea 
picked crew. The King Philip will be in readiness for racing very 
shortly. She will be sailed by Capt, Rickerson, another good skipper, 
and will also have a picked crew of eight men. Itis not improbable 
that the King Philip, Shadow and Hera will be prepared for a friendly 
trial, and will sail a series of races in order that their relative qualities 
may be properly tested. The winner in the races will be the chosen 
boat to sail against the Madge, The three pleasure and racing ships 
ma cae in the Hastern Yacht Chaib regatta next Friday.—Boston 

erald. 


YACHT RACING IN FRANOCE.—A series of matches, open to * 


yachts of all nations, will be sailed off Havre on July 12, under the 
auspices of the Société des Regates du Havre. The first match will 
be started at 10 A, M., over a course of 30 miles, and will be open to 
three classes, the first, 70 tons and oyer, Havre measurement, First 
prize, 1,500 franes and a telescope offered by the Admiralty; second 
rize, 500 francs and a binvcular, also offered by the Admiralty. 
Class 2, for yachts of 40 to 70 tons. Prizes: 1,200 franes and medal, 
400 franes and medal. Class 3, for yachts of 15 to 40 tons, 1,000 franes 
and a medal, 300 francs and a medal, The ‘prize of honor,’ a work 
of art, presented by the Yacht Club of France, will be competed for 
by the threa winning yachts, while a special prize, also a work of art, 
is offered by the President of the Republic for French yachts, After 
the above, a race for French pilot boats will be started, and at 10:80 
the small-decked and open yachts from 5 to 15 tons, will start over a 
20 mile course for three prizes of 500, 200 and 100 francs, The entrance 
fees are 50 francs for yachts not belonging to the society, and 25 
frances for members’ yachts. Sailing and rowing races will also tale 
pace Ba the 11th, 12th and 13th, and the Regatta Ball will be held on 
e 12th. 


GREENWICH HARBOR.—We havereceived from Mr. H. F. Wins- 
low a chart and sailing directions for entering this harbor. The fol- 
lowing marks and lights are now in position and will remain until 
Sept. 15: A spindle on Old Ledge Rock, with a red light at night. A 
spindle on Jones’s Stones, On the west side of the channel and N.W. of 
Great Captain’s Island. with red light at night. A green light on§.W, 
corner of Jndiad Harbor Hotel. Entering the harbor from the east 
when the spindle on Old Ledge bears W. by N. rum for it until Great 
Captain’s Island Lighthouse bears W.S.W., then sheer N.W., and 
when the green light on the hotel bears N.E. 34 N,, anchor, Entering 
the harbor from the west, leave the light on Jones’s Stones close on the 
port hand and steer N.H. 34 N. until within 14 mile of the green light on 
the hotel, and then anchor. The anchorage is good inany part of the 
harbor, the bottom being sticky and the holding-ground good. There 
is a small ledge with 4ft. of water on it, bearing about W. 14 8,,5¢ of a 
mile from the west end of Great Captain’s Island, on the port hand in 
entering. Yachts can obtain water and provisions at the hotel. 


YACHTING IN SAN FRANCISCO.—Hight yachts started for a cruise 
to Antioch on Decoration Day, sixof them reaching there in the 
afternoon, beating down on Saturday, Whitewing being first with 
Eva, Emerald, Frolic, and Ripple following, Fleur de Lis being hung 
up on a sandbank for some time. On the following day all started at 
9:05 A. M. for a race home, Avgie coming in first at 1:28, Chispa seo- 
ond, 1:26 and Fleur de Lis ati;1, On June a reception was given 
by the San Francisco ¥. CG. at their club house. The Aggie, Annie, 
Nellie, Frolic. Lurline, Emerald, Rambler, Lolita, Dawn, ‘Ghispa were 
at anchor at Saucelito, all decked with flags, The afternoon was 
spent by the yachtsmenin visiting among the yachts, a lunch under 
an awning by theclub house forming part of the programme, Ar- 
rangemeénts are on foot for a regatta on July 4, 


SO 


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436 _ FOREST AND STREAM. 6, 1984 
, : = = ~ =e Eee : - ee date a aa . - : 


ROYAL CANADIAN Y. C.—The annual meeting of this elub was 
held on June 7, at their club house, Toronto, Reports of the finan- 
cial condition of the club, showing its prosperous condition, were 
Tread. It was recommended that a series of yacht maneuvers be ar- 
ranged foreach Friday durmg the season, and also thata junior 
membership be established, to include members between eighteen 
and twenty-five years oJd,at an annual fee of $5. It was also 
recommended that the club join the Lake Yacht Raemg Association. 
.The proposal for a junior membership was so amended as td take 
in young men froin eighteen to twenty-one, at a fee of $10 per 
year, admitting them to full membership when twenty-one years 
old without an entrance fee. Tt was also moved and carried that the 
club should jointhe Lake Ontario Yacht Association, and that it 
should send délegates, and also a motion was passed changmg the 
number of the saling committee from five toseven. The following 


officers were elected; Commodore, John Leys; Vice-Commodore,: 


G. Gooderham; Rear-Commodore. J. Wier Anderson; Committee— 
W.G. Cassels, R. Cochran, E, H. Duggan. C. L. Ferguson, Bruce 
Hannan, Beverley Jones, A. B. Lee, H. Pellatt, ©. E. Ryerson. 


“A HOT!’—We have receive dfrom the publishers a copy of a new 
magazine with the above title, devoted to the interests of German 
Water sports of all kinds The prospectus sets forth that 4hoi in- 
tends to further the interests of the German yachtsman, whether they 
hoist up the sails on a 100-tonner or on a modest open 20ft. boat, 
and we wish them success in their endeaver. The following extract 
from ‘the programme of the expedition of the Aoi" is worth putting 
onrecord: “‘The 4hozt upper ten edition, For princes and other per- 
sous ot high rank, wealthy people, amateurs, two rare editions, A. O. 
5. Only about thirty copies of every number of this monthly are 
printed on tae best writing paper and elegantly furnished.’ This 
would not doin America. 


RAOING YACHTS’ TONNAGE,—A good racing tonnage rule is 
certainly a desideratum, and we should think the yachting com- 
munity will not much longer be without one. No rule can, we think, 
permanently place comfortable pleasure craft on an equality with 
racers, but it would be easy to reduce the present wide disparity, and 
afford room for the development of other and more desirable things 
than heavy lead keels. There is the further objection to racing 
yachts of the present type. that the lead keels aud its connections 
necessary, Make the vessel very costly, while as things have gone of 
late years she is only successful till a designer produces a vessel with 
still more lead, and then the ex-racer is next to useless.—Nautical 
Magazine. 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. C.—Yachts intending to start on the sum- 
mer cruise will rendezvous at Echo Bay, New Rochelle Harbor, on 
July 3. The flagship, Lara, Commodore Hobby, will leave Port 
Morris at 4 P. M. on Thursday, and the other yachts are requested to 
startin company with her. A meeting will be held at 8 P, M.on 
Thursday, on board the Sara to determine the direction of the cruise. 
All will return on July 6. 


YACHTING ON THE DELAWARE,—Commodore John Hanigan, 
1412 Belgrade street, Philadelphia, will match the-yacht Richmond, 
24 feet long, against any boat of her length in the State (the Pauline 
excepted) for $200 or $300. Apply to the Commodore or to R, G. Wil- 
kins, Cooper's Point, Camden, N, J. ‘ 

MEETINGS.—New York Y. C., fourth general meeting, Thursday 
evening, July 17,67 Madison avenue; Knickerbocker Y, C., Tuesday 
evening, July 1, at club house; Atlantic Y, C., Monday evening, July 
14, at club house, ; 

EASTERN Y, C.—The matches of this club will be sailed off Marble- 
head on Friday, June 27, The course and other details were given in 
Forest anp STREAM Of Jume 12. Bedouin, een and Wenonah are all 
enrered. 

MADGE.—This cutter was hauled up Jast week in Jersey City for 
repairs to her copper. Her owner will not race her this season, but 
will use her for cruising only, She is in charge of one of her old 
crew, 

,ROWBOAT WANTED.—We would call attention to an advertise- 
ment for a light rowboat in another column. Any one having such a 
boat to sell may find a purchaser by writing to the address given. 

CAPE MAY RACE.—The only entries for this race were Montauk 
and Ruth, and the latter being still at New Bedford, the race has been 
droppeddor the present, 

MAMIE H,—This yacht which was sunk by the catboat Stewart, 
during the races of the K. Y, C., on May 30, has been raised and is all 
right again. 

TORONTO GC, C.—This chib will open the season with a series of 
races for five-tonners, three prizes and a champion Hag being offered. 

NUBIENNE.—This steam yacht has arrived at Quebec from Havre, 
and will shortly visit Newport and New York. 


Canoeing. 


Canxonists are invited to send us notes und full reports of cruises, 
club méets, information about canoeable waters, and other commu- 
nications of interest. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested tosend to ForEs# AND 
Srream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete , of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races. and 
reports of the same, Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forest AND STREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt. 


FIXTURES. 


July 4,5, 6—Rondout C, C.,; Camp at Esopus Island. 
July 9 to 15.—Chicago ©. C., Annual! Cruise. 

July 14.—Allezheny ©. C., Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 
July 19 —Chieago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 

July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island. 

Aur. 1t015,—A. C. A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


- MERRIMACK RIVER MEET. 


HIS. the first general gathering of Eastern canoeists, duly came 
off as arranged by the two Lowell members of the A. GC, A., and 

was undeniably a success, notwithstanding the fact that fully ten 
outside canoecists who had promised to com e failed to show up at the 
time agreed upon; but the canoeing members of the Vesper Boat 
Club turned out in force, and with others from’ Lowell, Lawrence, 
. Haverhill, Salem arid Bosfon made up a party which numbered about 

fifty, with something more than half as many canoes. : 

Most of tue latter were of the open variety commonly used on the 
river, carrying two persons and propelled by smgle paddies; but 
there were also a number of cruisers, including the Everson Nauti- 
lus, Chemaun (which last year cruised on tne open ocean from Salem 
to Mt. Desert and appeared with the handsomest set_of lIsteen sails 


ever seen on a canoe), a Stella Maris and a Birdie Kane (both beau-_ 


ties), Racine Siadow, St. Paul, Princess and decked canvas canoes of 
the Rob Roy and other models. Comparatively little sailme was 
done, and there were no regular races, but nobody found time hang- 
ing idly on their hands. ; 

Satur ay afternoon, the i4tk inst,, a fleet of sever canoes entered 
the rapids at Hunt's Falls and ran them successfully, but the water 
was low and one frail 25-pounder came to grief im midstream, while 
several of the paddlers got a trie wet. Then the course lay through 
four miles of beantiful scenery until Deer Leap was reached and the 
eamp established, with new recruits constantly paddling up, <A huge 
tent sheltered twelve of the Vesper men and another somewhat 
smaller held those of the Crescent Club, while other tents of various 
sizes were soou set in a semi-circle around the camp ground, and two 
eanoes were turned into sleeping quarters, Flags were, of course, 
run up. and a mammoth A. C. A. burgee Hoated on the breeze. 

Upward of thirty canoeists were seated about a grand camp-fire 
in the evening, and a jolly time they had, some remaining up until 
midnight, Banjo playing, stories, songs and jokes enlivened the 
hours, and nobody seemed in a hurry toturnin, But tugs of war 
and 2 general frolic at last proved too much for endurance and sleep 
was in order, . 

Four o'clock found many up and, breakfast over, a quiet day was 
spentin paddling or sailing on the river, bathing and exploring the 
neighboring woods. Late in the forenoon two new canoes paddled 
up to the landing and everybody giadly welcomed Mr. John Boyle 
O Reilly, a canoeist of note, and his friend, Mr, Fred J. Stimson, both 
bronzed by a cruise ou the Charles and Concord rivers, They were 
at once tendered the hospitalities of the camp, and remained until 
after dinner, when they were obliged te leave and paddle on to Law 
rence, much to the regret oi all. New arrivals were reported ab m- 
tervals, and during the afternoon the camp was giaced by lady yvisit- 
ors, while many of the boys came down f.om the city on bicyeles, in 
carriages and on horseback. ‘ f 

Some amateur photographers were present and yiews were taken. 
Toward night most of the Lowell men returned home, and the even- 
ing was quietly passed around another camp-fire, Monday, those re- 
patiuiar broke camp and set sail for Lawrence, two canoes, Chemaun 


and Clytie, cruising down the river to Newbur}port and around the 
coast to Salem, where they arrived early Thursday morning. 
Canoeing in the Mer:imack Valley differs somewhat f om that at 
points further west, but the sport is steadily growing and the ‘‘meet’’ 
Seemed 10 stir up quite an enthusiasm, so that the experiment will 
doubtless be repeated at a later date with even more satistactory 
results, CLYTIR. 


A. C. A. OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF RACES. 


Turspay, Aug. 12, 1884. 
ADDLING Race. Class IT.. 9:30 A. M., distance 1 mile. 
over 16ft,; beam not under 26in. 
Sailing, Novice, any class canoe, 10:30 A. M., distance 114 miles. 
Canoeists who have never sailed a canoe before 1834. 
Paddling, Class TIL , 11:30 A. M., distance 1 mile. Length not over 
1ftt.; beam not under 28in. i 
Sailing, Class A, and B., 2 P. M., distance 8 miles. No limit as to 
trim or rig. Start 10 minutes apart. A.—length not over 16ft.; beam 
not over 28in. B.—Length not over 17ft., with a limit of 28l¢in. 
beam for that length. Beam may increase in. for each Gin. length 
decreased. 
Paddling. Tandem, 4 P, M,, distance 1 mile. 
Upset, decked canoes, 4:30 P. M.,44 mile. 


. _. WepyeEspAy, Aug. 13, 1884, 
Paddling, long distance, 4 P. M., distance 3 miles. Not under 27in. 
beam and not over 16ft. long. 


i TaHurRspay, Aug, 14, 1884. 

Paddling, Class I.,9 A. M., distance 114 miles. Length not over 1Sft. ; 
beam not under 24in. 

Paddling, Class IV., 9:30 A. M., distance 14 mile. Length not over 
16ft.; beam not under 30in, 

Sailing, Class A. and B., cruising, 10:30 A. M., distance 3 miles, 
Start together, A.—Not more than 50 sq. ft., any ballast. B.—Not 
more than 50 sq. ft,, any ballast. 

facing and sailing combined 1 mile each way, 2 P. M., distance 2 
miles. 

Sailing, light race. canoes A. without ballast; canoes B. with heavy 
board only,3 P. M,, distance 114 miles, 

Hurry Skurry Race, 100yds. dash for choice of boats, distance 220yds. 

Canoe gymnastics. 

Wm. Waittock, Chairman. } 
E. B. Epwarps, ~Regatta Committe, 
L, Q, JONES, \ 


Length not 


NEW YORK C. C. ANNUAL REGATTA. 


HE N. Y. C. C. held their annual regatta on Saturday last on New 
York Bay, off New Brighton. A tent was erected on the bluff 
above the beach, under which the friends of the canoeists were seated, 
with the course in full view, while a number of oarsmen in singles 
and fours were pulling about the start. Com. Whiting was also on 
hang in his little gig. 
The first race was for Class A, sailing, Class B, sailing, and junior 
race, the entries being: 


CLASS B. 
GTIBHI owe cee eo Com, Whitlock............. Do bee Sgn Oe EE 
NFORT ES eh eee Wh hoe tac OMB Vanika ee ee ebor cee crs Na Gi Gk: 
SURBESE eco lot ajo HN riers HORS aey ire. sles eee N.Y. 'C. C. 
MOSER EE OY A celles hehe C. V. BR. Schuyler.......... N.Y. O. C. 
CLASS A. 
SED BT ee ee Se seeps te yp atewl ss) BIEL It TAT Ore, Sepa eee, i Eber Ful OFF 
SVG ree: ee ee reed Vice Com. Munroe......... La ee Or Ge 
Rippledeiesenecc ee. .-e, 3 HE; O Delavan, Jr........... N. Y¥.C. Cf 
Pathfinder. ..........-.....- ded SH CHSET ree Peep. NAYS 205/C. 
JUNIOR CLASS B. 
MITES: ale cis eases hee er it 24 MIs Brokaw. toa: -osacucss N, Y¥. 0. C. 
THErESH. PNY Saco Dyes Od oer) 2e |) aa ee NISY. 10; GC; 
PILALO: Nae en ace cers A. K. MeMurray.........,.. West Brighton, 
APAMITEY = OS. Set weet Sec eeue S. BoCrane 25204 32s se04 Jersey City. 


The course was from the float out to Buoy 17 and return, 244 miles, 
the tide running a strong flood, with very light southwest wimd. <At 
3:32:20 the canoes were started, all lying head to wind and hoisting 
mainsails at the signal. At the start Pirate ran into first place and 
was soon ahead, wing and wing, Surge was to windward, Freak next. 
The aide set them all well up, there being too little wind to stem it 
rapidly. 

At Buoy 17 Dot and Guenn rounded together at 3:56, the former 
having rather the better of it, while Pirate was third and Freak fourth. 
On the beat home all set well up, Dot coming in ahead, but when near 
the line being becalmed and lying there. Guenn and Surge now came 
up, the latter crossing the line first, with Dot second, Guenn third, 
Times: Surge, 4:35:30; Dot, 4:35:00; Guenn, 4:38:30. 

In Glass A, the boats were carried far to_leeward, Ripple leaking 
badly and being unmanageable. Siren and Psyche, finding no wind, 
gave up and paddled home. In the junior Class Pirate came in first, 

The second race, sailing and paddling, was omitted, as there was 
no wind at all. : + 

The third, a paddling race for Class III., distance 1 mile, brought 


out: 

Weversink, .-7 i foi0.<00fo. EGOUld : ae A re pnd OH 
iter; hs s2A5k ieee + RP poBUcchard |. anu. dese W, ¥. C2, 
Deh Teele bey peanuts ey ee ZOEK WinrGe us, 25. eb eee Ney, C26 


Psyche and Siren are both of the old Nautilus model, Neversink be- 
ing a St. Lawrence, both smaller and lighter. Psyche led at first, 
dropping into second place and finish two lengths behmd, Time; 
Neversink 6:28:15, Psyche 5:29:00, Siren 4:29;15. 

The next race for Class 1V., paddling, 14 mile, brought out the fol- 
lowing men and boats: 


Se et tenho bree te lected H. O, Bailey....... ed eee N. Y, €, C. 
GAT ETO vietrcinis eee ae Com, Whitloek....... . VENT CEC: 

WS if ean sere SEP rots {EPS VGLULS aes eee bw cotake eri} en as 
Pirate. . wea aeke. K, MeMurray-.,........++ West Brighton 
Theresa MOU cr arsed ieee C. 


were awarded to the winners m1 each race, 


TORONTO C. C. 


HE Toronto GO, C. haye had two races for thenew cup. We copy 
a from the Toronto Globe the following: — 

“The members of the Toronto C. C. had their first race of the sea- 
son on Saturday, May 31. It was asailmg contest forthe new Run- 
ning Cup. sailing for this cup the course 1s chosen in such a way 
that there is no close-hauled sailmg. Six canoes entered, as follows: 
John L. Kerr, in Mr. A. H. Mason’s new canoe; Frank M. Nicholson, 
Sadie N ; Robert Tyson, Isabel; Hugh Neilson, Boreas; Fred W. 
Mason, Whimbrel; J. 1. R Stinson, Racine Shadow. 

“There was afresh breeze f om the eastward, and the course lay 
from the foot of Lorne street to the yacht Alarm, moored near the 
Island, and back again twice over. a total distance of about seven 
miles. The canoes got off in good style, and approached the first 
turn in the order above given, except Mr. Stinson, who did not start. 
Ir, Kerr bad a splendid lead, and was just rounding the Alarm when 
his tiller-line gave way and be had to retire from the race. Sadie N. 
and Isabel were a little slow in rounding the mark, enabling Boreas 
to cut in neatly and take the lead from them. The little craft 
went tearing and splashing back through the lumpy water under 
all the sail they could carry. Boreas had a.reefed racmg mamsail; 
{sabel and the new canoe carried full cruising sail: Sadie N. and 
Whimbrel were under reefed cruising canvas. Arrived at the city 
front again, the canoes performed safely the ticklish operation of 
jibing around the northern mark Mr. E. Lei b’s canve—in this 
order: Boreas, Isabel, Sadie N., Whimbrel. ese positions were 
unchanged tothe end. There was not more than ten or fifteen sec- 
onds difference in the arrival at the goal of the three leading canoes. 
Following are the prizes: Heigh Neilson, Running Cup and Atwood 
centerboard; Robert Tyson, spirit stove; Frank M. Nicholson, pocket 
knife; Fred W. Mason, prize given by commodore, 

“The canoe Mr. Kerr sailed in was built recently for Mr. A. H, 
Mason by Mr. John Clindinning, and Mr, Kerr isso much pleased by 
her performance that be at once ordereda similar one from Mr, 
Cundinning. As soon as she is ready he will challenge Commodore 
Neilson for the Running Cup.”’ : “ 

Boreas has had her after centerboard replaced during the winter, 
and is much improved. Isabel carried her new fan mainsail. - 

Another race was sailed on June 7, with the followmg entries: 
Isabel, Robert Tyson: Boreas, Hugh Neilson; Whimbrel, Fred W. 
Mason; _A.H. Mason, The course was from the foot of Lorne 
street to Block-house Bay, twice over, making nine miles, Boreas 
took the lead and held it throughout, winning by three minutes, with 
Tsabel second, the others withdrawing. The course was a reach out 
and back, and the passing steamers interfered greatly with 
racers, Isabel used her balance lug iu this race. 


———— 


ROYAL C. C. 


(has annual race for the challenge cup came off at Hendon on 
L Saturday, May 31, when one of the most interesang contests 
witnessed for years took place, and, we believe. the fastest time on 
record scored for the ten miles, viz.. three minutes under tve three 
hours. This, considering that halt the distance was dead to wind 
ward, is undeniably a creditable performanceé for such small craft. 

Race for first class canoes; course, five times round a wiangle 
marked by buovs, leaving all marks on the port hand, and finishing 
between the raft and a post on opposite shore, Prize, the challenre 
cup, value £50, tenable for the year, anda presentation prize, value 
£5. Entries; Violet, Mr. W. Watney; Merlin, Mr. EB. G. Wilkinson; 
Teaser, Mr, W. Baden-Powell; Imogen, Mr. H. Church; Gladys, Mr. 
T. F. Knowles: Irene, Mr. Dan Ashton; Pearl, Mr. A. H. Tredwen: 
Anonyma, Mr, R. H. Harrison. 

Mr. B. B. Tredwen, the holder of the cup, being abroad, it was gen- 
erally expected that his brother would sail the Pearl; he, however, 
did not put in an appearauce, much to the disappointment of the 
spectators. Anonyma was also an absentee. At the start, 3 P. M., 
the wind was N.E., makiug ita close haul in to the N. buoy in che 
bight, and arun on starboard tack from thence to the lower buoy. 
All got away pretty much together, with the exception of Gladys, 
who kept more in the center of the lake for the breeze. Violet, 
Gladys and Merlin rounded the first buoy in close order, Violet run- 
ning Gladys a little from thence to the hottom, Teaser setting a spin- 
naker to starboard and scuttling along at arare pace in pursuit. 
Imogen drew away gradually from Mr. Astton’s new boat, which 
seemed over ballasted and sluggish, and troubled with a mizzen of 
little or no use to her. In the turn to windward up the lake Gladys 
and Violet had a hot tussle of it, Violet just getting a start and com- 
pleting the first round a bare second to the good. Teaser, a diminu- 
tive 13-footer of doubtful age, and with a huge balanced lugsail, was 
being cleverly sailed, and had worked into third place, Imogen, Irene 
and Merlin following in the order named. In the next round Violet, 
for some unaccountable reason. fell off all together, ana Gladys was 
timed one and a half minutes ahead of Teaser, who by this time had 
worked into second place, and looked hke wresting the lea from her 
larger rival erelong. In the third round. however, She got ashore 
for two or three minutes, and Gladysincreased her lead as the rounds 
were ruled off, as the annexed times will show, Mr. Knowles securing 
a popular and well-deserved win al 5:57 P, M. 


istRound 2d Round 3d Round 4th Round 5th Round 
H. M, 8. H.-S. HM, S, HL. M. §. H M.S. 
Gladys...-..8 36 01 411 00 4 45 30 5 21 00 5 57 00 
Teaser ..... 3 37 45 4 12 30 4 50 30 5 28 00 6 03 00 
Violet ..8 36 00 4 id 15 451 00 5 32 00 6 07 G0 
Imogen ,..., 3 40 00 4 16 00 4 55 00 537 00 Not timed 
Irene 8 42 00 4 16 30 4 57 00 54030 Not timed 
Merlin...... Retired, —London Held, 


THE FAN MAINSAIL. 


FELLOW canoeist of mine in Toronto. who is a staunch advo- 

cate of the balance lug, as against Mobican sails, fan sails and 

such like devices, accuses me of incorrectness and exageeration 

when I say that my new fan mainsail “is the lug,” and he thinks T 
ar attacking the old Chinese favorite. 

But I too am an admirer of the balance lug, and asa matter of fact 
use it for my racing sail. That, however, is no reason why weshould 
not try to get a better sail than even the balance lng—if we ean. 
Every sail to be reefed when running, must have at least a halliard 
and a reef line. Then in addition to that, a balance lug ought to 
have two additional ropes—a topping lift and a jackstay. 

The published drawings of my sail show also two additional ropes 
—a hoistand anda guy. But these ropes are unnecessary in the im- 
proved form of my sail, and I shall not use themagain. Upto the 
present I have lett these two extra lines on the sail, because they haye 
not bothered me, and I have been too busy to take them off. Then, 
the reefing gear needed for the fan sail contains about half the lines 
and blocks necessary for a balance Ing reef,because no line what- 
ever is necessary at the luff of the sail. 

Take the Dot gear, for instunce, which is one of the simplest bal- 
ance lug reef gears. An adaptation of the Dot gear to the fan sail 
would contain only the double leach lime, married under the boom, 
and carried direct to mastfoot andskipper’s hand. My published 
drawing shows more reef gear than is absolutely necessary. 

In writing the paragraph of June 5, I had in my mind the improved 
form of the sail, which has only halliard and reef line, Isubmit there- 
fore respectfully, but firmly, that theimproved sail has “‘less gear than 
the balance lug;'’ not expressing an opinion as to whether I was justi- 
fied in using the wicked little adverb **much!”’ Rosert Tyson, 


ANOTHER REEFING LATEEN, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

LT have been turning over in my mind for the lastfew weeks how 1 
eould make a lateen sail for my Rice Lake canoe that should be reef- 
able with very little trouble. 1maturedmy plan some little time ago, 
and have overcome the difficulty of having the center of effort too 
high by being enabled to use the usual four-foot mast 

tT found your correspondent ‘‘Long Shanks,” has almost anticipated 
me in your issue of the 12th inst., by publishing his plan. Canoeists 
will, however, find my plan the easier worked, as it has only one 
rope to handle besides the sheet. : 

My chief difficulty was how to get the peak down. This I have 
overcome. I believe my plan of sail reefing will be of much benefit 
to canoeists, and I have much pleasure in offering it to them. I think 
they will coimcide with me in believing this to be the easiest plan for 
reefing published. 1am just having a sail for my canoe. which is 
15ft. long, fitted up, and it will contain 45ft. of cotton, 

-The boom and yard are hinged .og~- ther at their forward ends, the 
former having, in place of the usual jaw, a steel spring holding it to 
the mast. A parrel of copper wire 2ff. 3in. long is lashed at both 
ends to the yard, the lower end bemg #it. from the end of the yard, 
the upper end, of course, 4ft. din. This parrel holds the yard firmly to 
the mast, and is long enough to allow the yard to move in /reefing. 
A single halliard serves to hoist and lower the yard, the sail being 
taken in by the usual reef me GC. 0. D. 

Lonpon, Ont., June 16, 1564. 


PATCHING CANVAS CANOES. 


Haitor Forest and Stream: <3 
To patch holes or rents in canvas canoes at once, without waifing 
to heat piteh or caulking mixture, 1 have heard of using ‘'porous 
plasters.” Is not this a step fron: the sublime to the ridiculous? Last 
summer, while my canvas canve was on a steamer’s deck as freight, 
a preat deckhand deliberavely sat down on the deck of the cauoe, as 
he afterward said, “to see ifit would bear him.” Itdidn’t. Next 
day I had a new deck beam to putin. Asa precaution against this, 
a simple device is a stick exactly a tight tit in length between top of 
kéelson and under side of deck timber. Hinge one end to deck tim- 
ber underneath, and when not in use hook up to deck. When freight- 
ing canoe, drop stick and jam tight between keelson and deck, and 
freight fiends may then sit on deck with impunity if owner is absent, 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. FP, H. 8, 


A.C. A. ANNUAL MEET.—The New York, Ontario and Western 
Railway offer to sell return tickets from New York to the Thousand 
Islands for $15, and to transport canoes and kits free. There ts but 
one transfer, at Oswego, from the cars to the boat, a short distance. 
The general passenger agent, Mr. Anderson, writes us tbat there need 
be no fear oi canoes being handled roughly because carried free, but 
that they will receive the best possible care. Trains leave New Yo k 
at - P. M. and 8:30 A, M,, arriving at Oswego at 7:50.A, M. and 9:65 
P. M. 

BAYONNE C, C.—This club, established in 1881, now has a house 
at Bayonne on Newark Bay, and some ten canoes, both cedar and can- 
vas, many of them being built by their owners. On Thursday of iast 
week the club gave a dramatic entertainment in the little theatre of 
the Bayonue Boat Club, the performance including vocal and mstru- 
mental music, and a farce The Little Savage,” alter which the hall 
was cleared tor dancing. The clab wili hold their spring regatta on 
July 4, Mr. E. Smith is commodore, and Louis f’, Burke secretary, 

RONDOUT GC. C.—Will spend July 4,5 and 6 in camp on Esopus 
Island. On the afternoon of the 4tn they will receive their friends 
from Rondout and entertain them with impromptu races, open 10 
all comers. A.C. A. men will be welcomed fo the camp, and it is 
hoped that those in the near vicinity will come in force, 

ANOTHER NEW CANUVE CLUB.—A canoe club was organized 
in Tanuton, Mass., with nineteen members. The officers are; Com- 
modore, T. R. Breed; Vice-Cominodore, C, L, Bryant; Purser, Wm, 
Y. Fox. The burgee is 10x15 inches, a blue field with tue white letters 
T. C, C. in white. 

PITTSBURGH C. C.—This club propose te eruise down the Movon- 
gahela River from its head, spending several days at Lake Chataqua, 
several of them going also to the A. C. A. meet. ‘ 

ALLEGHENY C. C.—This club will visit Coneaut Lake next month, 
going by Tau to Meadville, sailing down French Creek and the Aile- 
gheny River to Pittsburgh. itty - 

CANOE PHOTOS.—We have received Photos of the Newbargh 


camp from Messrs. Jones, Seavey and Yan Deusen, 


OTTAWA C, C.—We have received a copy of the constitution, with — 
sketch of the flag, from Captain Baldwin. 


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.? = % - “Ta. ; 
cuswers to Correspondents. 
W. C. M.—See note from Rice Lake in our fishing columns. 
Tyyatip SrorrsMAn.—There is a letter for you at this office. 
ee S., New York.—Write to the Secretary of State, Lansing 
ich. : 
Cray, Solomon City, Ark.—See advertisement of the clay-pigeons 
elsewhere. 


YacuTsMAN, N, ¥.—Forreceipt for whitening see FoREsT anp 
Srruam for Sept, 13, 1883. 


L. WN. $., St. Louis, Mo.— We understand the word “Shack” to be a 
Dakota local term for cabin. 


 __ H. B.—FPor information about the Adirondacks see article on page 
362, in our issue of June 5, i884, 


D.C.5., Buffalo, N. ¥Y.—See Forms? anp Stream for Noy, §, 1883; 
Will be pleased to hear from you. 


__G. W. M., South Berwick, Me,—Hallock’s ‘“Sportsman’s Gazetteer” 
is the best book for your purpose. 

E. C,, East Hampton, Ct.—We do not consider it a “good practice’? 
to dock the tails of sétters and pointers, 


8. D., Mercersburg, Pa.—Can you inform me through your valuable 
paper where I can procure an army knapsack, such as is now used 


a =e. 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


Hauge army? Ans. Apply to Hartley & Graham, Maiden Lane, this 
city. : ! 
Inquirer, Butfalo.—tit is explained by the fact that the author 


| wrote ‘‘marsh wren,” not ‘marsh hen*’—p, 344, 3d col., line 55. 


_A. H. A., Buffalo, N. Y.—The depth inside from center of deck to 
garboards at side of reel must not exceed sixteen inches. 


L. H, R., Brooklyn, N. Y.—See Formstr Anp StREAmM for Sept. 27 and 
Oct, 4, 1884, One sail is not sititable, two, as shown, will be better. 


M.8., Falmouth, Mass.—The American Yacht List’ is just ready. 
We can furnish it and the other book you ask for. The prices are $3 
for the former and $4.50 for the other. 2. The expression is not 
correct, but is in common use, 


J.T, B., Ridgewood, L. I.—1, Is there avy way of preserving birds 
without taking the pelt offand then stuffing it? 2. I would like to 
know what preparation is used to preserve flowers their natural color, 
or can [ fet a book that will give me a thorough knowledge of stuff- 
ing birds and preserving flowers? Ans. 1. There are various prepara- 
tions for preserving birds without skinning, but none of them are al- 
together satisfuctory. It is much better to learn how to skin the 
specimens. Dilute carbolic acid injected into the body will preserve 
small specimens for a considerable length of time, so will a solution 
of bi-chloride of mereury (corrosive sublimate), so will the Wickers- 
heimer fluid, the formula for which was given in FoREST AND STREAM 
for Noy. 4, 1880. 2. We know of no method of permanently and sat- 

isfactorily preserving flowers as you wish. We have seen blossoms 


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retained their shape perfectly, and in some cases their color, but the 
dried blossoms were very fragile, To learn how to stuf birds, get 
Manton’s Taxidermy Without a Teacher,” price. 50 cents, or Batty’s 
“Practical Taxidermy,” price, $1.50. Wecan send both, 


F.H.S., Philadelphia, Pa.—The proper position for the centerboard 
is a little forward of midships, but ina canoe it must sometimes be 
placed further forward in order to allow room for sleeping. The only 
difference in this case is that less after sail is needed, 2. You have 
no right to copy any patented article or process. 

W, A. W., New York—What waters within a short distance of this 
city is there good fishmg in the months of July and August, and are 
open to the public? Ans. Greenwood, Croton, Wawayanda, Hopat- 
cong and Roekland lakes. The Hudson, Passaic, Hackensack and 
Shrewsbury rivers, as well as other waters about the harbor. 


C. F.K., Ashland, Wis.—Do the laws of Maryland forbid sportsmen 
shooting duck from sink boats or bushwhacking, between Nov. 1 and 
Apriliy Ans. There are many local laws on this subject, Write to 
Edwin Sehenek, Esq., 243 St. Paul street, Baltimore, for the digest 
prepared by the Maryland Association for the Protection of Game 
and Fish, of which he is secretary. 

J. R., Battle Creek, Mich.—1. I have invented a rod holder, which is 
clampe’ to the gunwale of a boat. . It has a socket which allows the 
rod to be set at any inclination and to reyolve about the boat. I drew 
the model, but have done nothing more. A man has stolen the idea 
from my drawing and is trying to pet ahead of mein the patent. Is 
there much yalue in the design? 2. ShallI go to law? Ans. 1. Very 


covered with perfectly dry white sea sand, and allowed to dry, which | little, ifany. 2. No. 


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armers, Stock Breeders, Livery Stable and 
Turfmen, Horse Railroads, Manufacturers, 
Coal Mine Companies, Tray’¢ Elippodromes 
and Menageries, and others handling stock, 
With perfect success. 
Humphreys’ Veterinary Manual, (33° pp.) 
sent free by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents. 
Pamphlets sent free’on application. 


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, Hlust, Catalogue free.) 109 Fulton St.. N. Y. 


Mounted in the most substantial manner on hooks 
a No.7. Wekeep the following sizes in stock: Nos. 


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If your dealer does not keep our goods in stock, or will not order them for you, send 50 cents for our 120-page illustrated catalogue. 


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particularly adapted to ae WATERS, This cut shows the exact size of 
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ABBEY & INMB RIB, 


Miamutiacturers of Fine E*ishing TWachkie, 


48 & 50 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 


SILK WORM GUT. 


mE. DATASA, 3S Broadway, N. Y., 


SAS. |. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 

Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 

Gut to Extra Fine. Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to fine, $5.00. 
For price list address = 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, N. Y. 


Fishing Tackle. 


Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- 
ficial Baits 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


S. ALLCOCK & CQO., 


REDDITCH, ENG, 
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Extra-Strong Spring Steel 

Wollow=Point 


Grey LIMERICK HOOKS: 
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Hooks made of the best Spring Steel, Swivels, 
Phantom Baits, Patent Standard Fly Book, Patent 
Waterproof Lock Joint, Trout Rods, Patent Spring 
Hook Swivel. All descriptions of Fishing Goods, 
which ean be had through all wholesale houses in 
the United States. 

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Registered. 


Flies for all Waters. 
Special patterns tied to order 


APPLETON & LITCHELELE, 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 


THE PETMECKY 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing fhe American 
and British public that such reports are utter] 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook for excellence 

- of temper, beauty and finish in any way to 
appreach ours, which are to be obtained from 
the most respeetable wholesale houses in the trade. 

Signed, Re HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, Hugland. 

Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles, 


GUN CLEANER. 


The only Cleaner that will thoroughly clean a gun 
barrel, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
_ without adjustment. Will do the work quicker and 
better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined. Price, $1.25. By mail, 10 cents extra. Ask 
your dealer for it. Discount to the trade. Circular 
trea, J, C. PETMECEY,, 
Wholesale Dealer in Guus, Fishing Tackle, etc,, Aus- 
tin, Texas. 


Refrigerator Baskets. 
The grandest thing ever invented for fishermen 
or for parties Jiving out of town, as articles of a 
perishable nature can be carried around all day in 
the hottest weather and will be kept cold as ice. 
These baskets being lined with tin and packed with 
: boiler felt are perfect portable refrigerators, pre- 
serving tee contents packs iving plone Slee ee 
7 a : . for drinking purposes. ey are made o e best 
Oil-Tanned Moceasins. rattan, with drop handles, double lids and straps on 
Hunting. Fishi wt top, and are the strongest and most handsome 
For Hunting, A! us, Canoeing, &c. | paskets ever made. Two sizes. Price $3.50 and 
prey ene SEY" oe re aaete wy $4.50. Sent by express on receipt of price by the 
variety of styles and warranted patentee, JOHN R. HARE, 63 Fayette street, Balti 

: the genuine article. Send 

23> for price list. MARTIN 


more, Md. 
; S. HUTCHINGS, Dover, | 
\ tees ms" N. H., P. O. Box 368,. 
_ Dams, SroppARD & Kenpat., Boston; HEnry U. 
auras ew York; F. Cuas. Hicurn, Philadelphia, | 
Agents. : , 


Pittsfield, Mass. Cuts Free 


Full-Length COT, in this case, 
$10. LOUNGE, in this case, $8. 
Sold everywhere by the Trade. 


Fish Hook, Fishing Tactle Wf''s, 


' 


Eine Fishing Vack le. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; 300ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600TL., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 ets, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 80yds., 75 cts.; 60yds,, $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra, Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O’Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
Reekage: Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders. lyd,, 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 

wisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. perdoz. Black Bass 
Hlies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft long, $1.50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishiv 
Saraplgs of hooks, leaders, etc., sent by mail on receipt of price in money or stamp. Send stamp « 
catalogue. 


Established 20 years. Open Evenings. Je F. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 
zs YY NW © CG Ez’Ss 


Patent “Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 
KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, Cost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger, Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tooland straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts a8 a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen, Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers 
not less than one dozen, by 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 1038 Duane Street, New York. 


Elastic Heel-Plate for Shotquns, Hunting & Military Rifles 


SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 
HERMANN BOKER & CO., 101 & 103 Duane Street, New York City. 


SOLD BY ALL GUN DEALERS AND WHOLESALED BY 


A Lotion for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others. 


Protects persons using it from the attacks of MOSQUITOBS, 
BLACK FLIES, and otber insects, and from SUNBURN and the 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather. 

Iris beneficial to the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; is color- 
less and cleanly, not staining the finest lmen, and washes off. 
readily on the application of soap and water. 


MANUFACTURED BY 


THOS. JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor, 


Sold by the leading dealers in sporting goods throughout the country 
Price, 50 Cents Per Bottle. 
N, B,—When ordering please mention this paper. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[JUNE 26, 1884. _ 


PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE. 


Brass Multiplyiqg Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft,, $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180fb, . $1.50; DORE, $1.75; S00ft., $2,003 450ft., $2.25; 600Ft., $2.50; 7O0ft., $2.75; OEE 8.00. Nickel Sees 
nud Dr ags extra, Brass Click Reels, 25yds. , 60 cts.; 40yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00, Kiffe’s 
palene ated Hooks snelled on gut. Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 80.ets. per 
oe Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 8yds., 15 cts. Double Twisted 
5 Sartor 3 length, 5 cts. in 4length, 10 cts.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15 cts.; extra heavy 4ply. 

ength, 25 cts. Trout Plies, 50 cts, per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per doz. Samples of our goods sent 
by mail or express on receipt of price. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Between Fulton Ferry and City Hall OPEN EVENINGS. 


OUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 


PRICK, S75 TO $250, 


Send for Illustrated Catalogue, 
This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 lbs. weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate. 


im. C. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N.Y. 


UP & MCS FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
AND THE 


HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


Of Waterproofed Duck, Dead Grass Color, Irish 
Fustian and Imported Corduroy. 
ASSORTED COLORS. 


Unequaled in Convenience, Style or Workmanship. 


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Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 


THIS 


Is our Skeleton Coat or Game Bag. Weighs but 15 ounces. 
Can be worn over or under an ordinary coat. Has seven 
pockets and game pockets. It is of strong material, 


UPTHEGROVE 
dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfu 


AND 
McLELLAN, 
day without losing a hair or feather. We will mail it to 


Valparaiso, Ind. you, postage paid, for $2.00. Send breast measure. 


The “0.0.” New Mode] Patent Perfection 


TREBLE MULTIPLYING REEL, 


WITH CLICK ATTACHMENT, 


Is the handsomest and most practical 
Reel Made. 
Following are its points of excellence: 

Center Action, an entirely new 
feature for a multiplying reel. 

Balance Handle, revolving within 
a projecting metal band, no chance for 
line to catch upon the handle, 

A Treble Multiplying Click, when 
the index is in the position as shown in 
the above illustration. 

A Treble Multiplying Free-Running 
Reel, when the index is pushed to the right, 

Raised Pillar, permitting the extension of 
the spool, thus increasing the carrying capac- 
ity of the reel fully one-third and greatly re- 
ducing the weight. Material and Finish, 
the best. Price, ‘within reach.” 

Please order the above Patent Perfection 
Reels” through the Dealer in your place. If for 
any cause you can not so obtain them, please 
advise me and I will correspond with you. 

WM. M. CORNWALL, Importer & Jobber 
of Fishing Tackle and Gun Goods, 18 Warren 
street, New York City. 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman’s Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


C—7TI NG Shoo TiN G” 


Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 


Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practical hints upon wing shooting ; 
directions for hunting snipes, woodcocks, ruffed grouse and quails. _ 
Illustrated: Bound in cloth, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1,00. 


T. G. DAVEY, Publisher, London, Ont. 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 
Tee: NICEOLS 
Hexagonal Split Bamboo Fishing Rods 


ere awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. Noted for excel- 
bee more than numbers. This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods. 


Manufactured by B. F, NICHOLS, 153 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Lays. 


PATENT BREEOH & MUZZLE-LOADING 


Yacht Cannon, 


Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length. 
MANUFACTURED BY THE 


STRONG FIRE ARMS CO., New Haven, Ct, 


Also Mfrs. of Shelton Auxiliary Rifle Barrels, Combination Sights 
and Cartridge Grooving Machines. 
Send for Catalogue and Price List. 


Eaton’s Rust Preventor. 


For GUNS, CUTLERY and SURGICAL INSTRU 
MENTS. Specially adapted for salt watershooting. 
For sale at all principal gun stores. Western 
wade pupeler dy H. EB. HATON, 53 State street, 


BRonan’s metal Sheil leg ners ee UE Obicago, vacearees ae ind 
eee é irade. Price $1. : ; 
Patan consalawe mai on receipt of price. J. F. @HO. B. EATON, 570 Pavonia Avyeune, 


RONAN, Box 34, Roxbury Station, Boston, Mass. Jersey City, N, J. 


fe or pumping ees ee Renee foun- 
ns and fish ponds, J. RCORAN, 76 
street, New York City. : pee 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman’ 
Dinmg Room ever made. 
Natural ‘Dead Game" under glass, and no more 
bulky than an ordinary picture. 
Will send per express ©. O. D. subject to approval, 
on. receipt of express vharges, 
Send for photograph and prices, 


H. E. CHUBB, Taxidermist, 
2385 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, 0. 


Naturalists’ Supply Depot. 
Artificial Glass Eyes. 


TAXIDERMISTS. 


Branou Orrres, 409 Washington st., Boston, 
ELLIS & WEBSTER, Pawtucket, R. I. 


PEHEOK & SNYDHR’S 


Celebrated Tennis Balls 
and Bats. 


Our new Franklm Bat 
cannot be surpassed. Price 
$5.50. Weare sole makers 
of the Rezulaiion Ball, adopted by the U.S. N, L. T. 
Assotiation, 4p: il 5, 1884, and by the Intercollegiate 
L, T. Association May 7, 1884. The Playing Rules of 
Lawn Tennis, with complete catalogue of our popu- 
lar goods, by mail, 10c. stamps. 

PHCK & SNYDER, 126, 128, 180 Nassau st., N. Y. 


SPORTSMEN’S DELIGHT. 
Merino Elastic Felt Gun Wads 


SOMETHING NEW! 


Ask your dealers for them. If he don't have 
them send us 40 cents for sample box of 256, and 
we will send, postage prepaid. Greatly lessens the 
recoil, keeps gun cleaner, gives better pattern and 
penetration than any other wad, One box will load 
twice as many shells as a box_of pink-edge. Just 
the wad to use over powder and fill up shells, as it 
is only half the price of other felt wads. Manufac- 
tured only by THH MERINO ELASTIC FELT GUN 
WAD OG., 106 South Charles st., Baltimore, Md. 


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Successors to THE J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE Co, 
and THE H. W. CoLLENDER Co. 


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Market ey Huron Streets, Northside, Chicago. 
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367 West Baltimore St., Baltimore 
Indorsed by all the leading players, and awarded 
the highest prizes at every ex osition where ex- 
hibited. TRIED. AND PROVED- 


EVERY PERSON WHO INTENDS VISITING 


The Sporting Wilds of Maine 


Needs one of the following books. 


EASTWARD, HO! or Adventures at Range- 
ley Lakes. Handsomely bound in cloth, 376 
pages; 5 illustrations. By mail, $1.25. 

WILD WOODS LIFE; A Trip to Parmache- 
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illustrations. By mail, $1.25. 

FARRAR’S Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake, 
and the North Maine Wilderness, a valuable 
companion for the Sportsman Tourist. Bound in 
Cloth. By mail, 50 cents, 

MOOSKEHEAD LAKE and the North Maine 
Wilderness Illustrated. The only complete 
and comprehensive Guide Book to Northern 
Maine. 206 pagesandlargemap, By mail, 59 cts, 

CAMP LIFE in the Wilderness. Second edition 
now ready, This story treats of ‘‘camp life” in- 
doors and out, is amusing, instructive and inter- 
esting: 224 pages, 12ills. By mail, 30 cents. 

FARRAR'S Pocket Map of the Androscoggin 
Lakes Region, including the head waters o he 
Connecticut River, Connecticut and Parmachenee 
Lakes, etc. Cloth bound. By mail, 50.cents, 

Richardson and Rangley Lakes Illustrated. 
‘A thorough and complete guide to the Andros- 
coggin Lakes region. 860 pages, 60 ills., anda 
large map. By maul, 50cents. ©. HS A. J. 
TARRAR. Jamaica Plain, Mass, or APPLETON 
& LITCHFIELD, 304 Washington st,, Boston. 


Aa BLAZE: 


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study and be guided by ‘*Nessmuk’s’”’ book on 


Wooverart. Its author has forgotten more about 


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that topic ever knew. WoopcraFris compact, clear, 
concise, comprehensiye, and full of sconce and 
gumption. Its price is $100. 


The English “ Fishing Gazette.” 


Deyoted to angling, river, lake and sea fishing, and 
Byery Friday. 18 pages: folio, price 2 
very. ay, 16 pages, folio ce 2d. 
Volume VI, commenced with fe tniiber for 
January 7, 1882. 
EpiTtor—k, B, MARSTON 


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any address in the United States. 

Sent direct from the office for any portion of a 

ear at the above rate. U.S. postage stamps can 

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Low, Marston & Co,, the propnetors, 

Contaims special articles on all fresh and salt 
water fish and fishing; reports of the state of the 
riyers; reports from engine claus fishculture and 
natural history; where to fish; angling notes and 
queries; angling exchange column; notices of — 
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A copy of the current number can be had (post 
free by sending six cents in stamps to R. B. Mars- 
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Fetter-lane, London, 

The FISHING GAZETTE circulates extensively 
among anglers and country gentlemen in all parts 
of the Empire. 


‘There is a large public interestin fishing. , . 
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The humorous ag well as the serious side of cam 
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Snven Eprrions of these works sold. Most popn- 
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A NEW MAINE MAP. 
The headwaters of the 


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Compiled by THomAs SHDGWick STEELE. 


The chart is 20x30 inches, printed on Govern’ 
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39 Park Row, New York. 


Profitable Poultry Keeping. 


By STEPHEN BEALE, 
Revised, With Additions, by- 


MASON ©. WELD, 
i2mo., Cloth, Price $1.50. 

‘No more comprehensive and practical resumé 
of the whole subject of poultry-raising could be 
giyen than in this yolume.”’—Boston Hvening 
Traveller. 

“Poultry raisers will find it a profitable work to 
consult, and one which ean be safely followed.”’— 
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Sold by all booksellers, or mailed on receipt of 
price by the publishers, 


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Largest, handsomest, cheap- 


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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. 


TERMS, $4 A Year. 10 Crs, 4 Copy. ; 
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NEW YORK, JULY 8, 1884. 


j VOL. XX1I.—No. 23. 
| Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 


CORRHSPONDENCH. 

THe Formst AnD STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- 
ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 
Communications upon the subjects to which its pages are devoted are 
respectfully invited, Anonymous communications will not be re- 
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CONTENTS. 


SEA AND River FIsHiIne. 
Trouting with a Worm. 
FISHCULTURE. 
Lobster Protection. 
Black Bass in Maine, 
Salmon for Maine. 
THE KENNEL, 
Pointers at New York. 


EDITORIAL, 
The Old Swamp, 
Rifle Shooting, 
Summer Shooting. 
Small Boat Sailing. 
Use for Sawdust. 

THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Unele Lisha’s Shop.—y. 


NaturAL History, Beagles. ; 
Electric Amphibian. Fox Hunt on the Roanoke. 
Birds in their Haunts. English Kennel Notes. 


Use of Field Glasses. 
GAME Bag AND GUN. 
Moose in Manitoba. 
Welcome Home. 
Two-Eyed Shooting. 
The Tamarack Swamp, 
In the Back Country. 
Michigan Preserve. 
The Performance of Shotguns. 
More Smoke Memories. 
Camp Hire FLICKERINGS. 
Sa AND River FISHiIne. 
Camps of the Kingfishers.—vutr, 
Philadelphia Notes. 
Bass in Lake Madison. 
Rod and Reel Association. 
Day at Minnetonka. 
Bow River Trout. 
Coast Fisheries. 
Gone to the Bass Elysium. 


Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery. 
Proposed Tournaments. 
The Meridian Guu Club. 
CANOEING. 
Oshkosh CG, C. 
The Meet at Grindstone Island. 
A Long Cruise in a Small Boat. 
Another Mohican Champion. 
A River and Coast Cruise. 
Races at Lowell. 
YACHTING. 
Eastern Y. C, Annual Matches. 
Lynn City Matches. 
Beverly Y. C. 
New Jersey Y.C, 
Knickerbocker Y. C.—Ladies’ 
Day. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 
amount of jirst-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, than is con- 
tained in all other American publications put together. 


A USH FOR SAWDUST. 


| Fi is generally easier for a mill owner to dump his sawdust 

into the stream for the water to wash away than it is to 
burn it or cart it off. The sawdust kills the fish in the 
stream, but he would be an idiotic mill owner who would 
permit such a public loss to interfere with his private gain; 
and so he dumps the sawdust, kills the fish, puts his hands 
into his pockets, and asks the public ““What are you going 
to do about it?” The States have enacted laws forbidding 
this disposition of sawdust and prescribing penalties for the 
offense, but the offenders usually manage to ignore the law 
or evade it entirely. Thousands and thousands of streams 
which once harbored excellent. food fish have been ruined 
by the sawdust. In the last report of the New York Com- 
missioners of Fisheries it is stated that “of all causes there 
is probably none that has exerted such an influence in expel- 
ling both salmon and trout from our spring streams as the 
presence of sawdust;” and the Commissioners go on to state 
that although there is a statute governing this, it is practi- 
cally useless because carelessly worded. 

The destruction of fish is not all that the sawdust must 
answer for. It kills human beings. Waters polluted by 
decaying sawdust spread malaria, and make miserable the 
lives of those who dwell on the banks of the plague-bearing 
stream. This is notably the case with the Raquette River, 
whose whole lower course is cursed with chills and fever; 
and Potsdam, where one of the State Normal schools is 
located, has become a very undesirable place of residence 
from this cause. 

When urged to burn, or in some other way dispose of their 
sawdust, lumbermen have objected that they could not af- 
ford the cost. There is hope that the perplexing problem of 
dealing with this nuisance may now be solved, for a process 
has been discovered by which the refuse sawdust may be 
made to yield a handsome profit, When dry it is carbonized 


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in iron retorts, and in the process there is given off 80 per 
cent. of volatile products, the remaining 20 per cent. being 
eranulated charcoal, which can be used in making gunpow- 
der, filters, lining refrigerators, and as a disinfectant, and 
mixed with a little tar it could be pressed into bricks and 
used for fuel; 22 of the 80 per cent. of the volatile products 
fire in the form of fixed gases, which can be used for heat- 
ing, lighting, ete,; 47 per cent. is pyroligneous acid, which 
is crude acetic acid, and ‘after being purified and concen- 
trated is used in white lead, color, print and vinegar manu- 
factories. 

There remain 10 per cent. of tar and one of wood alcohol. 
The tar has. the same properties as coal tar, the almost end- 
less uses of which, such as pitching roafs, lining water tanks, 
covering the bottoms of vessels, protecting iron from rust- 
ing, covering the wounds made in pruning trees, and in the 
form of benzole, naphtha, carbolic and sulphuric acids, and 
the whole splendid series of aniline dyes, constitute one of 
the chief glories of modern chemistry. The wood or 
methylic alcohol is used asa solvent for gums, in varnish 
making, in the manufacture of aniline colors. 

The sawdust from yellow pine and other woods rich in 
resin, yields also a considerable amount of turpentine, in 
gathering which so many trees are every year sacrificed. 

It is estimated that in sawing inch boards of pine, hem- 
lock, ete., the one-fourth inch saw-kerf uses up one-fifth of 
the log. When lumber is sawed by the billion feet, one can 
easily see that the question of disposing of the sawdust in a 
way to yield a profit, instead of a first-class nuisance, is a 
very important one. 


THE OLD SWAMP. 


He” many years it had been there no one knows. Per- 

haps it was only one of the minor depressions left in 
the surface of the earth after the passage of the great glacier, 
that swept over the land that is now ours when the race was 
young. Then our ancestors dwelt in caverns—true troglo- 
dytes—and slew the reindeer and the hairy mammoth and 
the horse, and perhaps now and then had fierce conflicts 
with the huge cave bear, which they conquered by their 
courage and their numbers, rather than by the excellence of 
their rude stone weapons. 

Or it muy have been once a broad yalley, down which 
hurried a sparkling brooklet, which twisted and turned, 
winding from one side to the other of the level meadow; 
here rippling in a yellow current over the smooth pebbles of 
the bottom, there burrowing its way beneath overhanging 
grassy banks, where its soft murmur alone told of its pres- 
ence; or again making some sudden crook and digging out 
for itself a deep, quiet pool, where the trout used to lie in 
summer, and in which the silent otter was always sure to 
find a meal. Then, perhaps, a little family of beavers 
passed that way, and seeing the brook and its possibilites de- 
termined that they would make it their home. So they began, 
by cutting down some of the trees that srew by the brookside, 
to build their dam, They brought mud and stones from the 
bottom of the stream and with their chisel-like teeth clipped 
off the willows and alders, and cut them into lengths, and 
their patient and unremitting industry finished the dam by 
the end of summer, Now a good part of the meadow was a 
wide but shallow pond. Next the houses were built and the 
winter supply of food laid up, and, not long after this, th 
pond froze over, : 

For years, perhaps for centuries, the colony of beavers re- 
mained here, always becoming more numerous. Sometimes 
they moved up or down the stream, and every few years 
they built new dams, and overflowed more of the low land. 
Those that they had first deserted had long ago rotted and 
broken down, and the ground which had first been grassy 
meadow, and then the bottom of the pond, was now a wet 
marsh, in which grew young alders and willows and _ bilber- 
ries, soft maples, cypress and tamarack, and a hundred other 
moisture-loving trees, while the foot of the passing deer sank 
deep into the spongy sphagnum or crushed the showy yellow 
lady-slipper and the delicate pink arethusa. As the years 
went by the forest growth increased in size, while the 
smaller shrubs beneath formed a tangled mass, impenetrable 
save to the wild creatures which made their home among 
the luxuriant vegetation. 

However it was formed, such was the old swamp, 

Here during the summer, before the berries were ripe, the 
black bear dug roots, and tore up the rotten logs or turned 
over great stones, for the ants, worms and bugs on which he 
lives, ‘The deer browsed on the water grasses and in winter 
nipped the tender shoots of the willows. The raccoon 
hunted frogs in the wet places, and at the approach of 


autumn grew fat on the thick-growing clusters of fox 
grapes, made sweet by the early frosts. All the other dent- 
zens of the forest found here a safe retreat, from which they 
made excursions out into the surrounding hills. 

So it was with the old swamp when our fathers first took 
possession of the soil. Game was plenty then, and a man, 
when he needed meat, had to go but a short distance from 
his own door to killa deer ora turkey. But as time went 
by, fire and the axe cleared away the timber from the sur- 
rounding hills. The hunter gaye place to the husbandman, 
The sickle supplanted the rifle. Now the game had become 
less plenty. Birds there were, it is true, but the larger game 
had disappeared from the land, except in the old swamp. 
That was as it had always been. The settlers had been 
busy, and it was the clearing of the land, rather than the 
actual destruction of animal life, that had driven off the 
game. Now and then a hunter had penetrated the tangle of 
the swamp in pursuit of a wounded animal, but its interior 
was still a mysterious unknown to all. 

Within its gloomy recesses there was not much change. 
Here the bear was still to be found and the deer fed there 
almost unmolested. The turkey gobbled in spring as of old 
and the ruffed grouse stalked among the trees with majestic 
tread. The pigeons still gathered here to roost, and the 
thunder of their wing beats at morning and at evening was 
like the rushing of a mighty wind through a ship’s rigging. 

It was to the old swamp that the hunters resorted now for 
game, and often the sharp crack of the rifle rang among the 
trees or the roar of the shotgun awoke its once silent echoes. 
The angler pushed his way down the course of the stream 
and caught the trout. One began to find pathsin the swamp 
that were not game trails. 

A few more years passed by with rapid changes. The axe 
had been at work. Now all the timber had been cut away, 
but there was still left the undergrowth. Deer and bear 
and turkey and wild pigeons had disappeared, but there 
were some grouse left, and the quail, when startled from 
the stubble fields about its borders, still sought safety in the 
old swamp. The closing change in the old swamp was yet 
to come. Trenches were dug through the swamp, The 
brush was cut down and burned. The brook dried up, The 
plow passed over the land, and the next year a crop of sod 
corn was grown where once the beaver had their homes. 
Such is the history of many an old swamp. : 

All this is progress—the march of improvement. It is also 
the reason why our streams are drying up, and why the farmer 
complains that each year there is less rain, and it is a harder 
matter to grow crops. It explains why ourrivers are gradu- 
ally becoming moreand more shallow, why tke water-power 
that turned a hundred mills, now turns none and is replaced 
by steam. It is something that is taking place all over our 
country. he clearing up of each swamp like this one is a 
misfortune to our people, and the aggregate of such misfor- 
tunes means a loss of material wealth that can scarcely he 
computed. This loss is widely distributed,and is not felt asit 
comes, but it increases year by year. The farmer knows that 
his land becomes each season a little less productive, but he 
does not know why. Perhaps he thinks that it is worn out, 
and strives by the use of fertilizers to renew its old-time 
luxuriance. Vain remedy. Without water no amount of 
manure will make crops grow, but water will make fertile 
the sands of Sahara or the arid sage-brush wastes of our 
Western deserts. Has not the valley of the Great Salt Lake 
béen made to blossom as the rose? 

The story of the old swamp is told of no one locality. 
Each one of us has seen the work going on in his own neigh- 
borhood, has witnessed the disappearance of the native 
fauna and flora, the drying up of the streams, What will 
be the end? 


SMALL BOAT SAILING. 

O those friends of small boats who have watched the 
limited entries and generally discouraging condition of 
the sport in and about New York, it will be gratifying to 
turn to the programme of races for the coming two weeks, 
issued by the Beverley Y. C., which we give in another 
column. The small yacht, as yet, has hardly a place in New 
York; on the one hand is the sandbagger, with which there 
is nothing in common; on the other, the large yacht, looking 
down contemptuously on the little ship, which, between 

these two, is left to sail alone, 

Racing small hoats, as formerly carried on here, with shoal 
boats, unlimited crews, and shifting ballast, is declining year 
by year, as is shown by the limited number of entries in such 
races of late, and it is bound to disappear entirely as the 
value of safety and comfort becomes more appreciated; but 
as yet there is nothing to take its place, A few clubs have 


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taken an adyanced step and limited ballast and crew, and 
several races each year are open to such boats; but there is 
little encouragement given them, and their increase is very 
slow, 

Looking in the East, however, we find a totally different 
condition of things, doubly encouraging, not only from the 
number of boats, but from their general good qualities. 

The race of the Beverly Y. C. last August brought out 
289 entries of all lengths from 60 feet down to 13. Only 21 
of the 178 that started were over 30 feet, and most of the 
remainder were sbout 20 to 24 feet loadline. Of the 75 
starters in the Hull Y, C, open race a week later but 12 were 
over 80 feet, most of them being nearer 20, and all honest, 
handsome and able little boats, whether cutters, sloops or 
cats. It is well worth a journey to South Boston to see the 
fleet at anchor there—several hundred little ships—small in 
size but trim and shapely in hull and rig, and each one repre- 
senting a crew of at least two ardent sailormen; or, it is 
better yet to go in winter, when all the boats are hauled up, 
and when one can count the keels, the number increasing 
faster each year, while the centerboards are growing fewer, 
many lying ashore from seasou to season. 

Of the general qualities of the boats now so common 
there, no better. evidence is needed than a look over our late 
files. Vayu, Neva, Caprice, Fad, Carmita and the others 
there shown are but types of dozens of similar craft, whose 
names head each list of winners—Hera, Gem, Lily, Beetle, 
Banneret, Transit. If Boston can boast such a fleet, why is 
New York so far behind? 

There is no lack here of suitable water. A draft cf five to 
seven feet can be carried without difficulty, or if that is the 
trouble, less can be taken, while good qualities are retained. 
Certainly our sailormen are no less bold and daring or less 
skillful than their Eastern brothers, and there are builders 
who are competent to turn out such boats as would be needed. 

Whatever the hindrance may be, the men interested must 
look only to themselves for its removal, they can expect 
neither sympathy nor help from the sandbaggers or the larger 
clubs, but must depend on their own exertions. 

Several attempts have been made to form an association of 
boat owners, but all have failed, and at present almost the 
only clubs offering any inducements to owners of small fixed 
pallast craft arc the Seawanhaka, Knickerbocker and New 
Jersey yacht clubs. An association is needed that will make 
a specialty of boats of thirty feet and under, prohibiting 
shifting ballast, limitimg crews, and enforcing such rules as 
will encourage a true Corinthian spirit, and make it possible 
for a man to own a yacht and enjoy real sport, both cruising 
and racing, with a reasonable outlay of time and money, 
Such a club once established would never lack support, and 
its value would soon be appreciated by the larger clubs, 
whose constant complaint is a lack of amateurs for their Cor- 
inthian races, 


RIFLE SHOOTING NOT DECLINING. 


f eee is a ery going up from those who see only what 

lies on the surface, that rifle shooting in this country 
is on the wane, and that the sport of target practice is soon 
to die out. There is really nothing to justify any such 
croakings, and he who indulges in them is plainly a very 
short-sighted person. The only ground upon which such 
an assertion could be founded is that the newspapers are 
paying less attention to the subject and are allowing the 
marksmen to enjoy many a day of exciting rivalry without 
the accompaniment of notoriety. There wasa time when 
every shot fired on the range at Creedmoor was duly entered 
in the next morning’s journals; now a regiment goes out for 
its regular practice and may, perhaps, get a two-line notice 
in some of the papers. Publishing scores and making them 
are two entirely different matters. Even in the papers more 
particularly devoted to the sports of the field, there is a 
recognition of the fact that the score of each weekly practice 
match of each rifle club inthe country may, with profit, 
give way to articles of general interest, in which topics of 
more permanent importance are discussed for the benefit of 
all. 

It is, indeed, true that there is a lull in the sport of rifle 
shooting compared with the excitement which held sway 
several years ago. his is particularly true in this locality, 
where the international fever ran very high; but to-day, 
taking the country through, there is an abundance of rifle 
shooting, and on many a range scores of marksmen are get- 
ting all that delightful combination of work and relaxation 
which rifie shooting alone can bring. Persons of sedentary 
occupation still find a rare profit to weary brain and listless 
fingers in an hour or so spent with friends upon the lawn 
where the varying fortune of the mimic warfare help to 
keep the interest sharp and the rivalry brisk. ‘These gentle- 
men do not seek to have their doings set forth in black and 
white through the press, but it is absurd to conclude from 
this that there is nothing going on. 

The slovenly control which has been shown in the manage- 
ment of the Creedmoor range has done much to create this 
impression, erroneous though it be, that rifle shooting is on 
the decline. The range of the National Association seems 
destined to show its worst season in that of 1884. That this 
should be so is not at all surprising. The range has really, 
by the closing of the railroad which ran to it, been cut off 
fromm the metropolis, and is truly nothing more than an 
abandoned rifle range. There is aroundabout way of get- 


ting to the place, but it is so far removed in time and 


travel from this city that it has ceased to be looked upon as 
a practicable shooting ground. 

What New York really needs is a convenient range for 
off-hand out-door practice. It should not be of less range 
than 200 yards,and we think that such a shooting park, 
properly located and equipped and liberally managed, would 
bea success as a private speculation. There is a good deal 
of nonsense, as we have at times taken space to say vety 
emphatically, about the manner of practice pursued by the 
National Guard of this city and Brooklyn. The thousands 
of officers and men in the dozen regiments here organized 
would form a clientele to such a range as we suggest, and 
there would besides be a large outside patronage. 

There are plenty of convenient spots about this city for the 
establishment of such a system of butts as would be required. 
We have no real estate scheme to further and therefore men- 
tion no localities, though an energetic man or company equal 
to the occasion would soon find the spot, and a moderate out_ 
lay would fit it up safely for the work in hand. Such an 
open air gallery could be made an attraction to any popular 
resort, and with it-Oreedmoor would soon be given oyer to 
its ante-range condition of daisies and desolation. It is a 
magnificent range, but if it cannot be put in use, an hundred 
instead of a dozen miles may as well separate it from this city. 

We only repeat, then, that because Creedmoor has been 
made the victim of a dog-in-the-manger management is no 
reason for thinking that all is blue in the rifle shooting 
horizon. We need civilian marksmen to keep our regular 
and militia army shooters up to their work, and that need, we 
think, will always be supplied. 


STARVING TO DEATH. 
r [ \HE brief dispatch in Monday’s papers from the Piegan 
Agency in Northern Montana was probably read by but 
few of our readers. Even to those who saw it, it did: not 
mean much. Northern Montana is a long way off, and be- 
sides that the Piegans are ‘‘only Indians.” ‘his is what the 
dispatch says: 

HeLena, Mon., June 30.—Major Allen, Piegan Indian Agent for 
Northern Montana, reports that the Indians are dying fast from star- 
yation, the food supply at the agency being very secant. The car- 
penter has furnished thirty coffins in the past month, but it is be- 
lieved that the deaths are fully thrice that number, as the Indians 
have a great dislike to burying their dead, preferring the old custom 
of placing the bodies in trees or in stone piles on high hills. The 
death rate is greatest among children from five to twelve years of 
age. In another week the supplies will be entirely exhausted, and the 
3,000 Indians on the reservation will be left to starve, or subsist on 
the eattle of the settlers. Trouble is feared. 


- If now we had heard that in some town down in Mississippi 

or up in Minnesota, three thousand people were perishing of 
hunger, we should, probably, feel somewhat interested. The 
mayors of cities would be telegraphing to each other, con- 
sulting what measures had best be taken to relieve those who 
were in need, The daily press would publish appeals, and 
call for subscriptions, the Federal Government would place 
its servants and its supplies at the service of the relief com- 
mittees. But these Piegans are “‘only” Indians—let, them 
starve. 

Tt is true that the Indian does not enjoy starvation much 
more than the white man does, and while he takes little 
pleasure himself in dying of hunger, he is even less contented 
to watch his hollow-eyed squaw as she sits beside the robe 
on which lies his poor little miserably starving child. The 
little ones go first. They are the weakest of the tribe; if 
they are without food they must perish. The women are 
stronger and can endure more, and the men haye still greater 
powers of resistance. So we find, naturally enough, that 
the mortality is greatest among the children from five to 
twelve years of age. Poor little things; we can’t help feel- 
ing a little sorry for them. Not that they are dying—that is 
rather a subject for congratulation than for pity; but that 
they should suffer so while they are dying. However, they 
are ‘‘only Indians.” 

The Piegans have for a long time been in a most miserably 
destitute condition, The buffalo on which they haye always 
depended have been destroyed and they have now literally 
no means of support. They are not in any sense an agri- 
cultural people, their sole food being meat, with the wild 
berries, which they gathered and dried. But the game is 
gone, and with it, unless immediate assistance is given, must 
go this pitiful remnant of a once powerful nation. 

We do not know who it was that in ‘bitter sarcasm first 
called the Indians the ‘‘wards of the nation,” They are 
such wards as Mr. Squeers had in his school, or, to come 
down to actual and recent facts, such “‘wards” as Shepherd 
Cowley had in his “home” in this city, and starved to death 
there. 

We do not profess to be sentimentalists. We know the 
West and the feeling there as well as we do the Hast. We 
have traveled and lived and fought with Indians. We know 
what they are better than ninety-nine out of every hundred 
men, be they Eastern or Western. The Indian is a human 
being like the white man, he loves his wild free life as well 
as we love our life, his wives and children as well as 
we do ours. He has his pleasures and sorrows as 
well as we, The treatment of the Indian by the 
United States Government has always been shameful, 
and the disgrace which attaches to us on this account 
can never be effaced, and is only paralleled by the way in 
which the British Government treated the East Indians 
Hach year adds fo the grieyousness of the injustice with 


which these peoples are being treated. We have fairly con — 
quered them in war, and have driven them on to thelr reser 
vations, and now we keep them there to starve. What- 
would be thought of a man who drove a lot of steersinto his 
corral or barnyard, and kept them shut up there without 
food? The law would be invoked to punish him without 
delay, yet this is what we are doing with the Indians. 

What recourse have these people? What hope have they? 
Surely it is better to break out, to raid the settlements, to 
have the excitement of war, even if they die in battle, than 
to perish miserably of starvation on the reservation. If they 
do break out, at least they will have plenty to eat, for are not 
the Montana prairies covered with catile? No wonder 
trouble is feared. Perhaps some one up there remembers 
the Cheyenne outbreak a few years ago, when the terrified 
Indians fled from the reservation in the Indian Territory to 
which they had been moved, and crossed Kansas and 
Nebraska, perpetrating atrocities too frightful to be men- 
tioned on the families of the innocent settlers, and killing 
men, women, children and cattle. Why should not the 
Piegans in Northern Montana do the same? No wonder 
“trouble is feared.” 

Eyen now it is not too late to avert this imminent danger. 
The Iuterior Department should, without delay. telegraph 
the agent to purchase the supplies necessary to temporarily 
telieve the suffering of these people, until some measures 
can be taken for their permanent relief. But the case is 
pressing, and aid, if to be of use, must be given at once. 


SUMMER SHOOTING. 

first editorial on game in the first number of Fornsr 

AND STREAM, published nearly eleven years ago, pro- 
tests against the summer shooting of woodcock. Each year 
since, at the coming of the summer, we have raised our 
voice in condemnation of the practice, and by “‘line upon 
line and precept upon precept” have endeavored to instill 
into the minds of the public the great importance of pro- 
tecting our game birds until they were full grown and full 
fledged. The summer shooting of woodcock is admitted by 
nearly all who indulge in the practice to be a murderous and 
destructive business, Not only are the broods exterminated, 
but in many instances the old birds share the fate of the 
young; and, unless by chance, the breeding grounds are bar- 
ren the succeeding year. This is especially the case where 
the breeding grounds are one side from the regular line of 
flight, and we have known many such places that remained 
desolate for years. 

There is another very important point in this connection 
that we do not remember to have seen discussed. Hvery 
close observer of the habits of the woodcock is acquainted 
with their different notes, and has heard the signal with 
which the occupant of some choice bit of feeding ground 
calls from the sky the companion whom he hears approaching. 
We have often, for hours at a time, lingered on the borders 
of some favorite flight ground, after it had become tea dark 
to shoot, listening to the music of their rustling wings, 


and have often heard the call of some bird in 
the covert to all appearances cause the quick- 
beating pinions to cease their flight and settle 


near the place. Now who shall say that in this flight 
from their breeding grounds in the north they do not pass by 
resorts that were once famous, simply because there is no 
one at home to let them know that the locality is desirable 
and to bid them welcome. The point we think worthy of 
consideration. We believe that with the abolition of sammer 
shooting the fall flight would gradually increase and that in 
a few years in a large proportion of our once famous **fall 
coyerts” the querulous whistle of gentle Pilohela would be 
something more than a tradition. 

In some portions of the country woodcock may be legally 
killed now, although more than one-half of the States that 
legislate upon the subject have fixed the date at least a 
month later, and one-half of these put off the evil day still 
longer. We shall preach no homily upon the enormity of 
the offense of him who breaks the laws, nor read a lecture 
to the“individual who chooses to broil his brains in the 
scorching heats of midsummer in the lawful pursuit of so- 
called sport, nor do we propose to repeat the arguments upon 
thé subject which are familiar to all, but we earnestly appeal 
to all lovers of woodland sports to heartily join with us in our 
efforts to rescue from his impending fate this beautiful sprite 
of ‘wooded copse and bosky dell.” Not alone in behalf of 
the present generation do we urge the protection and preser- 
vation of this royal bird. We plead in behalf of the sports- 
men of the future, those who areto come after us, that 
through the rapacity of those who have charge of their 
patrimony, they be not cheated out of its enjoyment, 


THe Earth anp tHe Suy.—Some of the savants are 
trying to prove that the earth is older than the sun. We do 
not care whether it is or not, but we are prepared to show 
that the joke about the man who shot New Jersey mus- 
quitoes for woodcock is much more ancient than our 
esteemed contemporary the Suv, in whose editorial columns 
it appeared the other day. - 


Nov tHE RanceLeys.—The name Rangeley Lakes is a 
misnomer for the Androscoggin Lakes, Rangeley is the 
smaller and upper one of the four great lakes composing the 
Androscoggin chain, the headwaters of the Androscoggin” 
Riyer, ; 


EST AND STREAM, 


Che Sportsman Caurist, 
UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP, 
Vv. 4 
A‘ the next gathering in Lisha’s shop, Antoine was pres- 
ent, and when the old cobbler became aware of him, 
he gave lima bearty welcome, for though he was always 
eracking rough jokes upon the Frenchman, he had a real 
liking tor him for his good nature and the kindness he had 
shown at the time of the memorable bear fight. 

“Hello, Ann Twine! Buzzhoo musheer! Cummassy yau! 
How dy do? Glad t’ see ye agin, Ob! you’ve missed it 
‘t ye hain’t ben here t? aour meetin’s, Sech stories as the 
boys has tole, an’ Solon Briggs has tole us lots 0’ things ‘t we 
dicin’t icnow—nor he nuther,” 

‘*Wal niow, one’ Lasha,’”’ asked Antoine in s low yoice, 
as he edged onto the ¢orner of the shoe bench, '*W'at kano’ 
langwizh dat wus, M’sieu Brigg he spik it, hein? °F dat 
wus Anglish ab can’t neyah larn’em, He broke ma jaw 
off, Guess he Sous Merican, don’t it?’ 

‘‘Nev’ mind, Ann Twine, you c’n onderstand it jes’ ’s well 
gs any on us—’n jes’ ’s well’s he ken I guess. It don’t hurt 
us none, ’n’ if does him lots 0’ good to Jet off them ’ere book- 
tionary words, Wal, Ann Twine, it’s your tum naow. You 
got to tell a story er sing a song, Le’s hey Pappy no, come. 
*Pappee no sa bum pay-raow,’” Lisha sang with a roaring 
yoice the first line of that once popular Canadian revolution- 
ary song, ‘Tune ’erup!” ; 

“Ba Gosh, one’ Lasha,” Antoine said with a sorrowful 
voice and face, *‘Ah ean’ sing, nor tell storec, ab feel so 
had!” 

‘What's the motter, man? Ye inyuns froze, er terbacker 
gin aout?” 

“No sah, one’ Lasha, ah got plenty onion, plenty tabac, 
plenty, plenty. But ah have sush bad dream Jas’ nat! Oh, ah 
feel so sorry, me!” 

“Tell it, Ann Twine, tell it,’. Lisha shouted, and all the 
others joined m the request or demand. 

“Al don’ lak tole it, mek you all feel so so bad jes like me, 
ah fred. Wal. don’ you ery. Las’ nat w’en ab go bed ab 
freegit pray. Wen ab git on bed eh tink oy if. Den fus’ 
ting ah say ah shet ma heye, den ah’ll beegin. As’ de bon 
Dieu mek me mo’ better as ah was—ef he can—an tck care 
hole hwoman an’ all the chillens, ’n’ mek it heat not quat so 
much ment, an more patac* and zhonnerkek dat was cheap. 
Den ah go sleep. Bambye ah dream ah go to lenfer, what 
you eail it, hell?” 

“Guless t was baout mornin’ when you dremp that dream, 
Ann Twine. Mornin’ dreams comes true, they say,” Lisha 
pul in. 

“Wen ah got dah,” continued Antoine, only noticing the 
interruption by a shrugand a wave of the hand, ‘‘de Dev’ he 
come as me what so good man ah be come dah faw? Ah 
say ah honly come faw fun, see what goin’s on, me. Den 
he say, ‘Se’ dawn, se’ dawn, M’sieu Bissette, mek it you- 
sefto home.’ §o ah’ll sitin ve’ warm place an’ look all 
‘ragun’. Bambye one holt man come, he don’t got any clo’s 
ou it, honly jes shoe mek it tool ond’ hees arm. Dev’ he say, 
‘Wheat you want it?’ Hold man say, ‘Dey a’nt have it me on 
tudder place, so ah’ll come heear, see ’f al’ can git it jawb 
mek jt vou some boot.’ Dev’ he stick it aout bose hees touts, 
one of it lak man’s, one of it lak caow’'s,den hesay, ‘You can 
mezzhy only but one of it for mek bose boot; tek it you 
choose,” Hole man he say, ‘Guess ah tek it de bes’ foot,’ so 
he mezzhy du man foot an’ go work rat off. Pooty soon rat 
off, bambye, he lave it de boot all do, an’ Dev’ he try it on, 
an’, by Gash, de boot fit de caow foot bes’, an’ he won’t go 
on tudder of *t all, no sah! Den Dev’ he mad, an’ keek dat 
poo’ hole man aow’ door in col’; an’ ah feel so sorree for it ah 
run rat back here an’ git it some clo’s, an’ fus’ one ah git hole 
of “it was onc’ Lasha clo’s, an’ bah Gosh! you b’lieve it me, 
dat clos fit dat hole man jes’ if dey been mek it for 
him, yes sah!” : 

The laugh. which the relation of this dream aroused was 
made Jouder by Lisha’s roaring “‘haw, haw, ho,”at the end of 
which he said, glowering at the narrator through his specta- 
cles, “You dremp that wide awake in the daytime, Ann 
Twine. You hen studyin’ on it up ever sin’ you was here?” 

©“ Nosah,one’ Lasha,ah dream datin a mawnin’; an’ he come 
true, you say? Wha’ you s’pose dat hole man go? Dey 
won't have it in de good place. dey won't have it in de bad 
place—wha’ you s’pose he goin’ go, hein?” 

“Guess he'll hafter go t’ the ’Hio,” Lisha answered, with 
a laugh that ended in a sigh; “‘to the "Hio, where his on’y 
chick an’ childis. Canucks,” he continued, ‘‘don’t never 
die, *s fur’s beard on, *ceptin’ the one ’at I spoke on, When 
they git old ‘hough to die they go to Colchester Pint, 
Forty, filty years 1’om naow you'll go there, Ann Twine.” 

*Weal, da’s pooty good place to feesh, don’t it? Ah rudder 
Zo dah as come dead.” 

“Mish! Yes; fish ’n’ inyuns ’n’ terbacker ’s baout alla 
Oanuck keers for. Ann Twine, you're the furderest Canuck 
fom where ye e’n kiteh bull-paouts an’ eels ’t I ever see, 
Give ‘em them an’ inyuns an’ terbacker, an’ an ole hogs, ’n’ 
a wuthless dog, “n’ they’re happy.” 

“You call it mu dog don’t good for somet’ing, one’ Lasha? 
You tole him dat he bit you, den he show he good, He fus’ 
rate dog, sah. He lay in haouse all a time honly w’en he 
barkin’ at folks go “long on road, ’n’ he jes’ fat as burrer.” 

“Good qualities, all on em,” said Lisha, “p’tic’ly in a 
Canuck dog, bein’ as fat ’s butter,” 

“Those ‘ere French,” Solon Briggs remarked to Pelatiah, 
who sat beside him, ‘‘is a jov-vial an’ a fry-volous race,” 

“Yus,” suid Pelatiah, sadly regarding the palms of his 
mittens, much soiled with handling cord wood since sledding 
had come, ‘‘I s’pose they be pooty smart to run.” 

Solon, disgusted with his unappreciative listener, raised 
his voice and addressed the Frenchman. ‘‘Antwine, didn’t 
your antsisters come from France?” 

“No, M’sieu Brigg, ma aunt seesters an’ brudder too, all 
bawnin Canada, Ma muddcr one of it, seester to ma aunt, 
prob'ly.” 

“You misconstrowed my inquirement, Antwine,” said 
Solon. ‘*‘[ meant to ast you, wa’nt their prosperity ’at was 
borned before ’em natyves of of France—reg’lar polly voo 
Franceys, so to speak?’ 

“Ah do’ know—yas, ah guess so, ah guess yes,” Antoine 
replied at random, having no idea of Solon’s meaning. 

“Shah! Fur’s any conjoogie satisfactualness is consarned, 
if a man hain’t a lingoist he might ’s well talk to a sawmill 
as one o’ these furrin Canucks,” said Solon, and added, “I 
bilieve ll take my depart an’ go hum,” 

‘Ah do’ know ’f ah got it rat, zhontemans,” said Antoine, 


*Canuck for potatoes, - 


———e im 


as the wooden latch clattered behind the departing wise man, 


language could describe, In pursuit of its prey, which may 


“but ah (ink wat you eall Solum in Anglish was dam hole | consist of small quadrupeds, the smaller ducks and waders, 


foolish, ain’t it?” There was not a dissenting voice, but 


Lisha said apologetically, ‘‘Oh, wal, Solon means well.” 


“Tl be darned if 1 know what he does mesn,” Sam Lovel 


said, 


“Wal,” said Lisha, ‘Il s’pose he ’s a well-read man, an’—” 
“Dum the wellred men!” Sam broke in, “I wish ’t they 
See haow they’se cuttin’ 


was all sick ’n’ dead, consarn ’em! 
up aout West ’n’ in Floridy!” ; 

“Ob, wall,” Lisha continued, ‘we're well red o’ him an’ 
them, so le’s don’t bother,” 

“Ef I was a Ninjun as I be a white man,” cried Pelatiah, 
rising and smacking his mittens together, ‘“‘while ‘t there was 
a pale face on the face of the U-nited States of Ameriky, I 
wouldn’t never lay daown my bow-arrers, my tommyhock 
an’ my Wampum; never, no, never!” 

“Guess ye’d ney to lay daown yer wampum ’f I mended 
yer boots, Peltier,” said Lisha, and Sam Loyel advised the 
budding orator to ‘‘save that ’ere fur the spellin’ school 
ex'cises next week.”’ 

There was not much further discourse, for Lisha was 
yawning and his guests took the hint, as broad as his jaws 
could compass, mule 


ened from their propriety, 


adatuyal History. 


“BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS.” 


We are promised about the end of this month a new 


book .on birds, from the pen of the Rey. J. H. 
Langille, It is to consist of brief descriptions aud full lite 
histories of all the species commonly found east of the 
Mississippi River, and will give special attention. to the 
songs and nesting habits. The work will contain about 570 
pages and will be illustrated by 25 cuts. 

The following sketch of the Cooper’s and sharp-shinned 
hawks are from advance sheets of the book: 


COOPER’S HAWK, 


In the top of a tall beech tree, I discover a hawk’s nest, 
and while I am querying whether it be new or old, the 
female of Cooper’s hawk CAccipiter cooper?) alights on a limb 
near the nest, and presently drops into it. At the same time 
I see a friend passing along the winter road near by, carrying 
a fine rifle, He is.a good marksman, so I beckon him to my 
assistance. As 1 strike on the trunk of the tree the bird 
leaves her nest, and my friend takes her on the wing. Down 
she comes, so gradually that she almost appears as if alight- 
ing, and skimming along the ground for some distance, 
finally drops, squealing loudly enough to alarm the whole 
feathered tribe in the neighborhood. As I approach her, 
she defends herself with the heroism of a true hawk. The 
bullet has passed through her thigh, shattering the bone 
thoroughly, and.the two outer pinions of one wing are cut 
away. But why should this simple shattering of the thigh 
bring down so strong « bird so readily? The explanation is 
to be found in the peculiar anatomy of the bird. In 1761, 
Peter Camper, a distinguished Dutch anatomist, discovered 
that the cavities in the bones of birds, which Gabbe had 
already observed to contain no marrow, were in direct com- 
munication with the lungs, and so participated in respiration. 
In 1774, John Hunter, the great English comparative 
anatomist, yerified the same in his marvelous researches into 
the anatomy of birds. Extending their investigations in the 
most able manner throughout the entire class of birds, they 
discovered that ‘‘the air-cells and lungs can be inflated from 
the bones, and Hunter injected the medullary cavities of 
the bones from the trachea. If the femur’—the thigh bone 
—‘into which the air is admitted be broken, the bird is 
unable to raise itself in flight. Jf the trachea be tied and an 
opening be made into the humerus’—the upper wing-bone 
—“‘the bird will respire by that opening for a short period, 
and may he killed by inhaling noxious gases through it. If 
an air-bone of a living bird, similarly perforated, be held in 
water, bubbles will rise from it, and a motion of the con- 
tamed air will be exhibited, synchronous with the motions 
of inspiration and expiration. 

My specimen of Cooper's hawk is one of the largest, some 
20 inches Jong. She is sometimes scarcely more than 18 
inches long, while the male is never more than 18, and may 
not exceed 16 inches in Jength. This species, which in 
structure and color is almost precisly like that of the sharp- 
shinned huwk, being, however, unmistakably larger, makes 
with it, and it only in this country, a strongly marked 
genus, the Acctpiter—the distinctive generic points being: 
first, that the feathers extend but {slightly down the tarsus; 
second, that the toes are Jong and very slender, much 
webbed at the base, and thickly padded; third, that the 
fourth primary is longest, the “second shorter than the 
sixth,” and the first noticeably short; fourth, the soft and 
finely blended character of the colors above, in maturity— 
being a fine ashy-brown, blackish on the head. The under 
parts of both birds are white, with fine cross streaks of light 
reddish. They bear about the same relation to each other 
as that of the hairy to the downy woodpecker. Cooper's 
hawk is especially a bird of the United States, most common 
in the Northern States, and extending but slightly into the 
British Provinces. The sharp-shinned hawk is sometimes 
found here in winter, but Cooper’s hawk goes further south, 
Barly in May is the time for the nidification of the latter in 
this locality. The nest, in the crotch of a small tree, or 
where several limbs join the trunk, always very high, is 
built of sticks and lined with dry grass, or strips of bark, 
sometimes containing feathers, the depression being but 
slight. The eggs, three or four, sometimes five, about 
1.90x1.50, are white, greenish or grayish tinged, often clear, 
sometimes slightly blotched with dark drab or brown. Mr. 
Samuels mentions a pair robbed of their eggs four times in 
the same season. ‘‘They built different nests in the same 
grove, and laid in the four litters, four, five, and three eggs, 
respectively. The eggs of the last litter were very small, 
but little larger than those of the sharp-shinned hawk.” 

The ordinary flight of this bird is rapid and straight- 
forward, the regular strokes of the wings being frequently 
relieved by sailing, In the mating season, when it is very 
noisy, having a note which sounds like chee-e-eah, I have 
seen it, high in air, above the tops of the tallest trees, shoot- 
ing toward one of its kind whose voice it heard in the 
distance, with half-closed and perfectly motionless wings, 
and with a rocket-like speed and a gracefulness which no 


‘is called the ‘‘chicken hawk.” 


went their ways homeward, Antuine 
singing ‘‘Papineau” at the top of his sonorous voice, and all 
Joining in the ringing refrain, ‘‘Hurrah, pour Papineau!” 
till the owls on the further steep of Hog’s Back were fright- 


| the right or left, as if by some continuous attraction. 


grouse, and the larger kinds of the common land birds, it 
moves with great spirit and adroitness, and seldom misses 
its quarry, So well known is it in the poultry yard that it 
When reared from the nest it 
becomes so thorougly domesticated as to need no confine- 
ment. 

THE SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. 


The sharp-shinned-hawk (Accipiter fusciws), in every way 
so similar to Cooper’s hawk, is some twelve inches long; 
brown or slate-colored above, with a few white spots on the 
back of the head and on the scapulars; tail also brown or 
ashy, but considerably lighter, with fine dark bands across 
it, sometimes tipped with whitish; the white under parts 
closely and narrowly barred with reddish; throat, narrowly 
streaked lengthwise with brown, Its nest is similarly placed 
to that of the former species, only not so high up in the tree, 
but is occasionally placed on a rock. The eggs, some four, 
are about 1.40x1.20, roundish, clear white, or perhaps 
slightly tinged with blue or green, heavily and distinctly 
marked—patched—with brown. 

This hawk reaches Western New York the latter part of 
April, and its eggs are laid earlyin May, It is readily dis- 
tinguished by its short, broad wings, and rather nervous 
and irregular flight; but it moves rapidly, and sometimes 
with great impetuosity, so that it has been known to pass 
through severa) glass partitions of a green house. Seizing 
its prey on the wing, in the manner of a true hawk, it dashes 
after it with the utmost directness, moving high or low, - 
Wit 
an unerring stroke, it wounds fatally in the very act of 
capture, and then bears its prey to a tree, to be devoured at 
leisure. In addition to the small birds thus taken on the 
wing, if may pounce ou one larger and heavier than itself, 
or it may swoop down upon the small quadrupeds, or, after 
the manner of the smaller hawks in general, make its repast 
even on insects, As with birds of prey in general, the surest 
way of escaping its clutches is by soaring; the thickets, into 
which the smaller birds generally dive when pursued, 
affording but little protection to its penetrating flight, Its 
note, which is bul seldom heard, issharp andshrill. Rangin 
over all North America, it may be found in New York an 
Massachusetts during mild winters. 


THE USE OF FIELD GLASSES. 


Ree EeaING to the use of field glasses for inspecting 

and determining the various species of our feathered 
songsters, Jet_me add, that during nearly three years’ study 
of birds, the field glass has given me more insight into their 
woys and habits than the close examination of inanimate 
specimens, 

The yellow-breasted chat, one of the birds most solicitous 
of concealment and difficult of apprehension when pursued, 
may be bronght close to and examined satisfactorily with a 
pair of glasses, for as soon as this eccentric individual finds 
that it is not sought, it leayes cover, and may then be seen 
scratching about in the leaves and brush in company with 
brown and wood thrushes, fox-sparrows and chewincks, the 
latter, although not being what may be termed shy birds, 
still prefer their thickets and groves to the near presence of 
man. Some of the warblers, Blaokbuivian, blue yellowback, 
Nashville and a few others, seek their food among the hirher 
terminal blossoms and twigs of our large shade trees, but the 
majority may be found lower down, in company with the 
vireos, thrushes and sparrows. A tub, shallow trough, 
or better, a small wooden tank, may be used to 
advantage, as the birds ean then be encouraged to bathe 
and at the same time be brought closer for inspection. Ina 
tank four feet by four and one foot deep, wilh a platform 
in middle; during the warm days of July and August, on an 
average sixty-five birds of different kinds bathed and plumed 
within one and one half hours, Birds were the wood, brown 
and tawny thrushes, catbirds, chipping and song sparrows, 
blackpoll, [??—Ep,] summer, yellowrump, black-throated 
green and Nashville warblers. Baltimore and garden orioles, 
kingbird, great crested flycatcher, phoebe bird, American 
gold and pine finches [??—Ep.] (the latter not often), red- 
eyed, warbling and yellow-throated vireos; and robins, cat- 
birds and red-eyed vireos most numerous. The “parasite” 
(P.. domesticus) also frequents the tank and much annoys the 
smaller birds, but as [have a smoothbore Flobert, with a 
dust shot cartridge, near by (especially for these pests), the 
rascals rarely escape to tell a tale. his tank is not more 
than twenty-five feet from the house porch, and if removed 
pero away the number of visitants would undoubtedly 
enlarge, 

Much might be said about the manner of bathing of the 
birds; how the red-eyed vireo plunges unhesitatingly into 
deep water, and the others step daintily down the incline, 
first dipping the bill, presumably to drink, but seemingly to 
test the temperature of the water. Any one who has seen 
their peculiar fuzzy appearance, as they stand all wet and 
dripping, shaking themselves and then go off with a chirp 
of delight to some bush to plume and arrange their dress, 
cannot but feel satisfaction in knowing that he has but 
taken his specimens with a field glass, Three of your readers 
practice this plan, let more try it, BITTERSWEET. 

Bay Rivage, Long Island, 


AN ELECTRIC AMPHIBIAN. 
BY GEO. T. ATKINS, 
[From a letter to the U. S. Fish Commissioner,] 


[ GOT in to-day quite a curiosify. An old fisherman on- 

Kim Fork of Trinity caught what seemed to be an eel, 
He caught hold of it to take it off his hook, and it gave bim 
an electric discharge, powerful enough to affect the muscles 
of side, shoulder and arm, and cramp the hand sufficient to 
make him halloo for a companion to come aid him in getting 
oose, 

I have the eel living in my store; it is a queer looking fish, 
has two feet or legs where the pectoral fins should be, each 
foot has four fingers to it, about one-eight to three-sixteenths 
of an inch in length. The mouth is broad, an eel’s mouth is 
pointed. This fellow’s head shapes down, more like the cat- 
fish; mouth rounder and broader than the ordinary eel. He 
has the regular opening for gills behind the head, but the 
lungs sit out on each side, dad Tange off upward from the 
head a perfect set of brachieted fern leaves—blood red to 
the center and pale dirty-tinged at the tips, He is about 
fiftcen to sixteen inches long, one inch in diameter, and 
about three inches from tip of tail has a natural cut in it on 
top separating it from the body. 

do not know what it is, nor whether it will live or not, 


ae? oe 
44S 


Tf it dies I shall put it in alcohol, Did you ever hear of 
the like? 

On the ground uses legs for motion and turning, otherwise 
appears to act in every way as an eel does, not offering to 
bite on being handled. 

DALLAS, Tex., June 11, 1884. 


[May not this be one of the Strentde?] 


Sr, Nichotas Acasstz AssocrAtion.—This most excel- 
lent little handbook of the Sf, Wieholas Agassiz Association, 
which we have just received, deserves something more than 
mere mention. The conception of the Agassiz Associa- 
lion originated with My. H. H, Ballard, the author of this 
Handbook, and was, as he says, ‘‘the outgrowth of a life- 
long Jove for nature, and a belief that education is incom- 
plete unless it include some practical knowledge of the com- 
mon objects that surround us.” As its name implies, the 
Agassiz Association is a uatural history society, and one 
which is intended to be broad enough to include all the youth of 
this country. The Association is made up of Jocal natural his- 
tory societies, chiefly organized in schools, by some instructor, 
or by some pupil who has an especial taste for some depart- 
ment of this study. The purpose of the Association is to 
foster in the young an interest in, and a love for, nature. A 
number of more advanced students in various branches of 
science, have offered their services in behalf of the Associa- 
tion, and such aid will be of the greatest assistance to begin- 
ners, The instruction and communication between the 
members of the different chapters all over the country, 1s 
carried on by correspondence, and thus each student. may be 
brought inte close connection with some one who is more 
advanced than he is, in his particular branch. We regard 
the originator of this plan for a wider diffusion of a knowl- 
edge of nature as entitled to the greatest credit for having 
inaugurated so good a work. By instilling into the heart of 
the child a love for nature, and a study of those of its forms 
which are constantly brought before us, inexpressible possi- 
bilities for added happiness are brought into the life of that 
child, And anus all the young students, who are already 
members of this Association, and who will belong to it, 
there cannot fail to be a number who will, sooner or later, 
add something to the sum of human knowledge. The Asso- 
ciation was started with the aid of the St. Vicholas magazine, 
of which the monthly reports have long been a department. 


UNDER WATER.—One afternoon recently, while walking 
along a stream a short distance from this place, 1 noticed a 
small slender bird with a disabled wing running a short dis- 
tance ahead, which, upon a closer view, I found to be of the 
wader kind; a little bird well-known about here as ‘‘knee- 
deep,” probably so named partly on account of its habits and 
partly on account of the fancied resemblance of its note to 
those words. It will be readily recognized from its tilting 
motions when running or standing. Bcing somewhat inter- 
ested and curious to note his movements under such condi- 
tions, and keeping at such a distance as not to cause any vio- 
lent demonstrations of alarm on his part, [found that he 
made no attempt whatever to hide, although in the midst of 
abundant opportunities to do so, but after twisting his way 
through the tall grass bordering the stream for some Lime, he 
quietly dropped into the water, and to my surprise, went 
quite to the bottom. This occurred ata point where the 
stream was ten or twelve feet’ wide and.as many inches deep, 
the water being perfectly clear, so that the bird was in plain 
sight as he deliberately struck out for the opposite bank 
under nearly or quite a foot of water. Watching him closely 
as he propelled himself rapidly across, keeping close to the 
bottom, much after the manner of a frog, 1 soon saw him 
‘*hob up seronely” near the other side, upparently without a 
wet feather. Then by swimming on the surface like the 

_ duck or other web-footed birds, he reached the further shore 
and resumed his former tactics’on land. The under water 
part of the performance, to say nothing of the surface swim- 
ming, is something entirely new to me with reference to this 
bird, although its regular appearance and ordinary movements 
and habits have been a familiar sight to me for more than 
twenty years, I would like very much to know whether or 
not this was an exceptional case.—W, D. Z. (Lancaster, Pa.). 
[The bird is the spotted sandpiper (Zringoites macularius). 
tt is not unusual for it when wounded to diye and swim 
some distance under water. | 


NAturg’s Huarme Anr.—Several years ago, about the 
first of September, our party was in camp on Follansbee 
Junior Lake in the Adirondacks, One morning a doe, driven 
by the hounds, plunged into the water and swam into the 
middle of the lake. Henry, the guide, jumped into his boat 
aud killing the doe, brought her to camp, and when we 
arrived the deer was dressed. The doe had but three legs, 
One of the hindlegs had been so completely severed from 
the rest, just where the thigh begins to enlarge into the 
quarter, that the detached part hung by a mere thread of 
skin. The lower part.was ina bad state of mortification, 
put the living part was nearly healed up and the flesh was to 
all appearance in as good condition as any. ‘The gencral 
appearance of the deer was also good and there was nothing 
to indicate a diseased condition. ‘The deer in all probability 
had been shot at by some night-hunter, as the wound looked 
like one made with buck shot, Does it not seem incredible 
that a deer wounded so badly could stop the bleeding and 
apparently so doctor the wound? Can any of the readers of 
the Forest AND STREAM explain it?—AMPERSAND. [We 
have occasionally seen deer, elk and antclope that had 
recovered from severe aud disabling wounds, but never any- 
thing that quite parallels the case mentioned by our corres- 

‘pondent. Several times we have seen antelope killed whose 
feet had been shot off not far above the hoof, and in all such 
cases the animal had made use of the legs and a hard horny 
pad of skin had formed on that portion of the leg which 
touched the ground in walking. | 


ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS ABUNDANT.—There seems 
to have been a flight of rose-breasted grosbeaks at this place 
during the past week, On Monday morning I collected a 
beautiful male of this species, and the next day secured a 
male and female that betrayed their presence to me by the 

owerful rich voice of the male. Thursday morning I 

eard another of these elegant songsters, and looking care- 
fully up saw him in the top of a large chestnut tree throw- 
ing out his beantifwl music on the cool still morning air. In 
afew moments he flew off and I heard his voice in a thick 
swamp a short distance off. As I turned to leave another 
male struck up his beautiful song until it seemed as if the 
woods was alive with the music. Ihave not noted any of 
these birds in this locality before this season,—J. C. Canoon 
(Taunton, Mass,, June 7). 


-pouted out when drinking into a spoonshaped form. 


to the pavement. 


OREST AND STREAM. 


Youne GortniaA In Capriyrty.—The first living speci- 
men of the gorilla ever brought to France was described by 
Prof. A. Milne-Edwards in a note to the Paris Academy of 
Science. If has since unfortunately died. The following 
abstract of the description is published in Nature: —*‘It had 
been imported from the Gaboon, and it was the first living 
specimen of this great anthropomorphic ape which had 
been brought to France. Its study would have presented 
many points of interest, not alone from the natural history 
point of view, but also from the opportunity if would have 
aftorded of studying the developments of its intellectual 
facultics. This young specimen is about three years of age; 
he had already his full complement of milk teeth, and the 
long and sharp canines were decidedly longer than the 
molars, In disposition he appeared to be very different 
from either the orang-outang or chimpanzee. While these in 
a state of captivity are mostly gentle and sociable, this young 
gorilla, on the other hand, was savage, morose and brutal; 
he never gave his keeper the least mark of affection; he 
never allowed himself to be touched without evidencing the 
greatest aversion, and for the most part he returned caresses 
by snappings. He never took the least part in the games of 
the other apes, and he most reluctantly tolerated having 
them near him, He was but little active, and most gener- 
ally kept himself crouched up in a corner of the cage, or 
sitting on a branch with his back up against fhe wall, and 
searcely eyer moyed but to look about for something to eat. 
He used his hands with much readiness, and they were ex- 
tremely well developed. His lips were less mobile than in 
the chimpanzee. especially the lower Jip, which was never 
His 
eyes were extremely mobile, and were crowned with im- 
mense superciliary ridges; his nose was flat, with excessively 
large nostrils, giving him a quite peculiar physiognomy. ” 


ORIOLES IN MassacnusEetts.—Boston, June 9.—/ditor 
Forest and Stream: My attention has been called to an 
article in your paper of May 15, headed ‘‘Decrease of Song 
Birds.” 1 think if ‘‘Reignolds” will take the trouble to read 
my advertisement he will find that it called for live birds, 
and not for specimens for stuffing. The birds were wanted 
for an aviary, and the few that would have been used could 
make no difference. There seems to be the impression that 
if amanis by profession a taxidermist he must be a con- 
temptible fellow, whose only ambition is to destroy every 
bird and bird’s nest that he can find. Now, I can assure 
you that this is not so in my case; nor do I think that any 
respectable taxidermist would kill birds for millinery pur- 
poses, nor take bird eggs to sell to boys at five or six cents 
each. I have been in my present store about fifteen years, 
and during that time have taken one bird’s nest, viz., hum- 
ming bird, and I think that I can safely say I have not killed 
fifty birds per year. I have always done what I could to 
protect game birds and have imported from.other States, and 
turned out in this several hundred quail within the last ten 
years. I donot think ‘“‘Reignolds” can be much of an orni- 
thologist or he would be able to distinguish the South Amer- 
ican from our native oriole. Had the writer, who laments 
thé absence of the oriole, waited a few days, he would haye 
been better posted and found that Lord Baltimore is in fuller 
force than usual this year.—C. I. GooparE. 


Birps AND TELEGRAPH Wrres.—Mr. Adam Dietz cap- 
tured a fine eagle yesterday morning. It had strayed into 
town, and, flying too low, became entangled in the net work 
of telegraph wires at the corner of Lee and Charles streets, 
After a sharp strugele it freed itself from the wires, but fell 
Mr. Dietz ran to seize it, and it eluded 
him and ran toward Barre street. The small boys of the 
neighborhood now joined in and ran the eagle down near 
Barre street, Mr. Dietz caught its wings just as it was at- 
tempting to rise, and carried it home. After deliberation 
the amateur ornithologists of the vicinity announced the 
prize to be a bald eagle, It appears to be young but well 
srown, Its wings, when outstretched, measure about six 
fect.-from tip to tip. Though languishing in the back yard 
and tied down by one leg, its spirit is unbroken, and a 
friendly tender of some food in various dishes last night was 
rewarded by a smash-up of the china,—Baltimore Sun, June 
23. 


RANGE OF THE Braver,—New York, June 26, 1884.— 
Editor Forest ‘and Stream: “Jay” wants some one to cor- 
roborale his haying seen beaver sign as far south as the 
Colorado River, in Texas. Ihave seen beaver and beaver 
sign at least two or three hundred miles further south than 
that, and if my memory is not at fault, there was a beaver 
dam in the Los Moras Creek a few miles below Fort Olark, 
Texas, in 1869. The blue topknot quail he speaks of are 
very common aloug the Deyil’s River, the Pecos and many 
other streams in Western Texas; I am not sure that they are 
identical with the California quail. If ‘‘Jay” had lied about 
the cowboys, as most people do who visit Texas, I would 
not have helped him out on the beaver business, but it 1s as 
he says, Texas people will compare very favorably with 
those of any other section “or country, and a cowboy’s 
friendship is one worth haying, because you are sure he will 
“stay with you.”—CrBoLo. 


TamE SQUIRRELS,—Mr. F., H. Furness, of Waterloo, N,Y., 
has made friends with the squirrels at “Fern Lodge,’’ where 
his summers are spent. A visitor there writes in the Phren- 
ological Journal: ‘But I leave the inventory to say that even 
the wild birds and squirrels have become tame by constant 
companionship with the lord of this sylvan manor. 1 saw 
him call sauirrels by name from out the tall trees and feed 
them upon hislap. The writer so farsueceeded with one 
of the little athletes as to give him a nut from his hand, 
which he partially shucked upon his knee, and then deposited 
his treasure sixty feet high in atall pine, and returning, 
chattered his gratitude at a cautious distance.” 


nani 


Tx tHe Aprronpacks.—Keene Valley, Essex County, 
June 24.—I wrote you hurriedly three weeks siuce, after re- 
turning to New York. This short time has greatly trans- 
formed everything here, and at this season of the year there 
is not a place in the State more picturesque than this very 
valley, It is but six miles from here to the Ausable Ponds, 
so well known by camping parties, and_the very double of 
the prettiest lakes of Switzerland. Keene Valley has its 
complement of efficient guides, and this is a central point to 
start from for almosi any trip. The hotels here are good, 
and are kept by Beede, Blinn and Hgglesfield. In the 
height of the season the yillage presents a bright and_life- 
like picture. A number of New York’s prominent land- 


scape artists have their summer residences here, ae Hise 


number I mention A, H, Wyant, John A. Parker,, 


leffe Robbins and others.—W,. L. Howanp. 


[Juuy 3, 1884. 


Game Bag and Gun. 


THE WELCOME HOME. 


F the sportsman’s welcome home ‘‘Piseco” writes pleas- 
antly, as follows: ; 

Not far from where I have in my lifetime spent a very 
pleasant year there is a cosy country home that has con- 
tributed much to my enjoyment of the period, for there L 
received always a hearty welcome, and after a fatiguing 
tramp for quail was sure of a compliment if T had been suc- 
cessful, apparent trust and belief in my excuses if non-suc- 
cessful, and in either case a cup of Old Government Java or 
soul-stirring apple toddy. 

My welcome began a long distance from the house; for 
rushing with clamor, soon turning from angry fo friendly 
fone, came the dogs, affectionate to an extent that I failed to 
appreciate, when arrayed in aught but my shooting attire, 
for the sacred soil is yery muddy soil, and dogs’ forepaws 
will pick up and transfer some of it. No common dogs 
were these; each had its own peculiarity. There was 
Woodcock, a graceful blue belton. Sucha dog as he had 
been! but now nervous and gun-sby, but a firm barker; 
and Meadow Lark, a young Irish setter, who no doubt 
would some day prove a fine bird dog, but now 
afflicted with a lame lee, and either deafness, a strong 
will of his own, or want of knowledge of the English 
language, for he disdained to mind a word; and there was 
Lucius, who was once ‘such a beautiful puppy,” but who 
now, after sundry attacks of epilepsy, stood out a monu- 
ment to the truth of the saying that the most beautiful chil- 
‘dren grow into the least handsome adults; and Bobtail, whom 
{think nature intended for 4 bull-terrier but made some mis- 
take in the plans, and art brought to bear had, by close am- 
putation of ears and tail, produced a rare specimen, but 
withal a dog who did not depend for reputation upon either 
the past or future, what he had been and would be he was— 
a savage-looking creature, whose appearance and bark proved 
good defense from wandering tramps. Finally came Part- 
ridge, a noble blooded English setter, staunch, fleet and faith- 
ful, but, alas, destitute of a peculiarity. 

A little closer to the house weleome was found in the 
tameness of the bronze turkeys, with tails so stiffly out- 
spread that one wondered if they ever got limber; fowls of 
various choice breeds, domestic and muscovy ducks, and 
splendid creatures, a cross between them;guinea hens and 
a lonesome rooster, who, because he alone ayoided instead 
of approached a new arrival, was reported as crazy. 

Then near the porch, on which, with a smile of welcome, 
stood the Colonel, some of the younger members of the 
family came forth to greet. And then the porch, and the 
Colonel, and the refreshments already mentioned, and a 
good cigar, ~ 

The Colonel makes no professions or claims to be an adept 
with a fowling piece, but now and then if becomes very 
evident that he does consider himself well qualified to judge 
of the skill of others. A case in point: He was one day 
witness to a very bad shot upon my part, one of those ‘‘un- 
accountable misses.” He said little but probably thought 
much. 

AsI returned from an unsuccessful tramp for quail, a 
couple of his big muscovy ducks flew in from the river, 
circled over our heads, and alighted not thirty feet from the 
porch, where we stood and admired them. They were half 
as big as turkeys and very handsome birds. 

“Colonel,” 1 remarked, ‘“you had better clip those fellows’ 
wings, or some day when out on the river for ducks I may 
mistake them for wild ones and let go at them as they fly 
over.” 

Fancy my feelings at his answer; ‘Let go now if you want 
to, you can’t hit them.” PIsEco. 


— 


— 
* 


THE OLD TAMARACK SWAMP. 


()* all the game resorts it has been my privilege to tramp 

over with dog and gun, I know of none that has in 
time past afforded such an amount and variety of sport as 
has the old tamarack swamp and its surroundings, situated 
in North Bloomfield, O, 

Indications are that the swamp, which contains some 2,000 
or 2,500 acres, was formed largely, if not wholly, by the 
beavers, as their works are visible even at this late day. 

Tt was the home of large game—bear, deer and wolves, 

for many years after they had been killed and driven from 
most of the surrounding country, owing, no doubt, to the 
shelter afforded them by the dense growth of alder and 
huckleberry brush covering the entire tract, and the exceed- 
ingly marshy condition of the ground, Asa pigeon roost, 
it was second to none within hundreds of miles, and as all 
that section of countty was well stocked with oak and beech 
timber, the birds used to visit us frequently or as often as 
there was a plentiful sapply of mast. 
Well do | remember in my early years the heavy clouds of 
pigeons, Many of these flights were miles square in extent. 
Nightly, for weeks and sometimes months at a time, they 
used to congregate in and about this old swamp to roost, 
until every bush was loaded to its utmost capacity, and prob- 
ably there were as many more in the surrounding timber. 
People came in from the country for miles around to hunt 
them, and many were the bags—and by this 1 mean two- 
bushel grain bags—that were taken out almost nightly, so 
long as they remained, amounting in the aggregate to a fig- 
ure that had better not be mentioned, for to those who haye 
never visited a large roost it might appear improbable, : 

The sight afforded one from the top of a tall tamarack in 
early morning, just before or about the time they were leay- 
ing their roost, was well worth going a hundred miles to see, 
and it must be seen in order to be anything like fully real- 
ized, One would naturally think the supply could never 
become exhausted; but how their numbers have been reduced 
during the past twenty-five years 1s only too well known, 
This continual netting for twelye months in every year, 
together with rather a free use of the shotgun, has not been 
without its result, and unless there is some protection 
afforded the pigeons, more than they are now getting the 
benefit of, I don’t think it would require much of a prophet 
to foretell their future. Why not have a closed season for 
them of, say, six or eight months in every year, throughout 
every State and Territory, in addition to the “dead letter 
now enacted for them. ) : 

During a severe drouth through Northern Ohio some twen- 
iy eight years ago, the glory of the greater portion of this 
old swamp asa pigeon roost and also as a resort for large 

ame went up insmoke. Deer did not long survive this 
destruction of their shelter. Wild turkeys, however, in 
fairly good numbers, for a country so long settled, remained, 


ai 


and grand was the sport occasionally to be had with them 
__ in winter, after the swamp was sufficiently frozen to enable 
one to follow them in among the wild grass and cat-tails, 
which soon took the place of the brush, and where they 
were almost sure to skulk, particularly if the hunter were 
_ between them und the timber, and at times they would iie 
very close, I shall never forget the surprise one old turkey 
_ gaveme. J think it was the first I eyer hunted in this way, 
and it was before L was altogether. acquainted with their 
habits. ‘The day was windy, and the dry rattling grass of 
course favorable to a close shot, as my approach could not 
beheard. I had followed the track some little distance as it 
erooked about in this nice cover, using the muzzle of my 
#un to open the grass when hecessary, to enable me fo see 
the track, when in separating an unusually thick bunch I 
 aciually uncovered the old thing before it got up, which it 
did without delay, and may be going yet for sught I know 
to the contrary_1, however, do know that I fired two shots 
and didn’t touch a feather, and that the turkey probably 
was not twenty feet away when the last shot was fired, and 

it looked as large asa haycock. 

The principal and about the only grain of comfort that 
came to me that day was a knowledge of the fact that I was 

out by myself. No one, not even a dog, witnessed my dis- 
gust, which, it seemed for a time, would choke me, 

Foxes, both red and gray, were quite numerous, also both 
white and gray rabbits for a number of years after this favor- 
ite Cover was urned. Ruffed grouse were also to be found 
in goodly numbers around its borders till withina few years, 
hut with the exception of a few gray rabbits, an occasional 
red fox, and a féw snipe and ducks for a week or so in 
spring, that section, as a game resort, isin the past. 

The land is being drained and farms laid out. The time is 
not far distant when all that will remain of the old tamer- 
ack swamp will be its history. 

On what used to be a beautiful little island in the southern 
portion of the swamp, are three Indian mounds—so called— 

indicating that it was once the home of a portion of that 
_ ancient race, of whom we know so little, EH. M. Grenn, 
New York, June, 1884. 


TWO-EYED SHOOTING, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
Thinking that perhaps it might interest some of those who 
are agitating the system of two-eyed shooting I send you a 
few extracts from an old Hnglish work on shootiug, by John 
Sherer. He says: ‘‘Much has been said on the superior 
advantages of the use of two cyes over one, in fact some of 
the advocates of the two-eyed system have spoken very dis- 
paiingly, and, as we cannot help thinking, with unbecoming 
severity, of those who support the one-eyed plan, the latter 
_ being represented as slow coaches, their practice behind the 
times, obsolete, etc. But is this the fact? We think not, 
and if we-may be permitted to judge from observation and 
_ experience, we should say the one-eyed man is quite as com- 
petent to ‘fill the bag’ as their opponents, simply because 
we believe each system to have its relative advantages and 
disadvantages, presuming cach party fo haye guns of similar 
make and construction, of like setting as to the barrels, and 
of equal elevation of the rib. But, if guns are badly set, 
and with insufficient elevation, then it must be readily ad- 
mitted that the two-eyed man will have a most decided ad- 
vantage in helping himself to that which the gunmaker has 
denied him. But with guns constructed and put together 
0D modern improved principles with proper setting, sufficient 
elevation, and peculiar fitness for the use of one eye, it 
strikes us that the two-eyed man has not all that superiority 
over his opponent of which he boasts; for, if the one-eyed 
man occasionally shoots under a rising bird, the two eyed 
Tan must sometimes shoot clean over a bird which is rapidly 
deseending if he shoots in a wild, hilly, and mountainous 
country. Ina flat, leyel country we are sensible that this 
latter case would rarely occur, consequently there the two- 
eyed man would have the advantage. 
“Having shot many years over an uneven and mountainous 
“country, where there were as many shots one way as the 
other, and being in the habit of using sometimes one eye and 
F ometimes both, we must admit having occasionally shot 
over birds quickly descending when using both eyes, and 
B siactimes having shot under rising birds when only ayail- 
‘ing ourselyes of one eye. Here we allude to snap shots pre- 
Senting themselves unexpectedly, in the taking-of which the 
most experienced may occasionally be surprised, and reverse 
the principles on which they generally aet. If, therefore, 
We may be allowed to judge equally from experience and 
from observation, we should conclude that neither system is 
perfect, cach being liable to occasional failure, and if both 
parties will dismiss @mouwr propre, and be candid, we think 
“they will arrive at the same conclusion. The use of both 
“eyes unquestionably gives extra elevation; in fact, almost in- 
nrely so, according to the judgmentof the sportsman. 
But is this necessary, and isit always an advantage? We 
think not, for if a gun be properly put together, we cannot 
see that this extra elevation is required, except for a small 
proportion of rising shots at long distances, and we believe 
that the difficulty presented even by these will be readily 
_ overcome by the one-eyed man of experience, who possesses 
herve and presence of mind. 

“Tf the two-eyed system be as superior to the one-eyed one 
“as its advocates Insist that it is, why require any assistance 
from the gunmaker in the setting of the barrels? Why have 
any eleyated rib? as it is evident all this is superfluous and 
tinnecessary for the carrying out of the two eyed principle. 
For, if we judge rightly of it from the statements of its 
‘most strenuous advocates, they despise the steady old plan 
of looking aiong, or in the direction of the clevated rib in 
line with the sight, holding their heads above the barrels 
and taking their own elevation and line of sight, exercising 
‘their own judgment on the spur of the occasion, so that in 
this speculative system much practice and experience are 
equisite in order to acquire the habit of accuracy and pre- 
‘cision. From this we think it may be fairly inferred with- 
ut illiberality toward the two-eyed men that their system is 
1ot infallible; that they sometimes err, and consequenily 
ihat their prectice has not that decided superiority over the 
‘one-eyed system which it is presumed to have; as the latter, 

s far as it yoes, is not liable to mistake, and is easily carried 
put—the precise extent of elevation being already determ- 
ined and arranged by the gunmaker on unerring principles. 
Phe hand will to a very great extent follow and obey the 


e, 

‘We are, therefore, convinced that in snap shots, even at 
uch large birds as blackcocks, when they slip off the high 
top of a mountain, instantly gliding down below, the two- 


man would, if he were inexperienced in that sort of 
hooting, shoot over many more birds than he would ever 
it, This result, We think, must strike every one, even if | 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


experience were not referred to for its confirmation; but let 
any one who doubts it test the point by experiment—bring 
the gun quickly to the shoulder, with both eyes directed to 
a particular object, and he will find, on immediately closing 
one eye, that the point of the gun is above the objuct aimed 
at. Now, if a similar experiment be tried with one eye, and 
the gun be brought up quickly to the shoulder, it will be 


found that the point of the gun will be under the object 


aimed at, which in snap shots at rapidly descending birds 
will be an advantage which the one-eyed man will unques- 
tionably haye over his opponent,” And. again in the same 


work, in reference to the proper charge, he says: ‘Mr. 


Greener (the elder), a gentleman of great experience of the 
gun, says, ‘Suppose you begin with two drams, and vary 
the charge one-eighth of a dram eack shot up to three and a 
half drams, or as may be required, according to the length 
and bore of the gun, and, for precision, taking three shots 
for each charge at a sufficient number of sheets of paper, 
which ever you find strongest, with the least quantily of 
powder, that is the best charge, as very likely the two addi- 
tions of powder will shoot equally strong, and yet not 
stronger, because more of it remaing unburnt,’” This is in 
favor of ‘‘Byrne’s” theory. The book was published just 
preyiously to or soon after the introduction of the B. L, 
guns, Mr, Greener refers to the M. L. gun. Hoping to see 
this printed, I remain, J, O. Yarns. 
MICHIGsN, 


IN THE BACK COUNTRY. 


if AVING been an invalid for some years, I have not been 
able to enjoy a tramp in the woods. However, like 
Goldsmith’s old soldier, 


“Who shouldered his gun, 
And showed how fields were jon,” 


I can recount some experiences of the past. 

A few years ago, 1 had occasion to visit the county of 
Huron in Ontario, Canada. I took my breechloader, as a 
good, honest. woodsman, at whose home I was to stay, had 
told me that the ‘‘patridgez were mighty plenty.” It was 
in the early part of December, when I left the train at the 
station about 9 o’clock, P. M. The moon hung like a gilyer 
globe in a cloudless heaven; the snow, white and glistening, 
covered field and forest, and as my friend did not know just 
what day to expect me, he was not at the station to meet me. 
I had some three miles to tramp by a narrow, lonely road, 
that ran for a good distance through a dense swamp; how- 
ever, the keen, fresh, wintry air, acted as a grand tonic, and 
what with the glorious moonlight, made one fee) just in trim 
fora tramp. Soon the crisp snow was crunching beneath 
my feet. Shortly after leaving the station the road entered 
the swamp, the tall and stately cedars spread out their eum- 
brous branches over the roadway, casting somber shadows 
on the virgin snow, but here and there, through the open- 
ings in the woods, the moon shining on the snow left path- 
ways of light through aisles of shadow. Not asound was to be 
heard save the crunching of the snow beneath my fect, and no 
sign of life was visible. In spite of the oppressive silence, 
the glory of the slumbering forest in its snowy covering 
made the heart beat with delight. After emerging from the 
woods the road wound through some fields, then struck into 
a beaver meadow, and just across the meadow on a rising 
slope I saw what 1 knew by description given to be the 
house of my friend. It wasa few hundred yards from the 
meadow—a primitive log dwelling and surrounded by woods. 
As I neared the house I heard the barking of the watchdoe, 
but fortunately he was within. Stepping to the door I gaye 
arap, and the good housewife gave me a hearty welcome. 
The woodsman, with his two daughters, were absent, having 
gone out Lo see a neighbor a few miles away, so I sat down 
by the fire and proceeded to make myself comfortable, while 
the good woman gave me a minute account of the white 
calf, the spotted pig and the yellow hen. It was not long 
before I heard the sound of approaching footsteps and a vig- 
orous stamping, when the door opened and in walked my 
friend. Spying me as I arose to greet him, he said: ‘Wall, 
now, here he be; how hare ye? sityerdown, Mary, Jennie, 
this be My, , from N. .’ That man’s grasp of wel- 
come was as hearty as the tonesof his voice, Tall and mus- 
cular, and honest as the day, he stood one of nature’s noble- 
men. The daughters in due form shook my hand in good 
pump-handle style, and I at once felt the glow of spirits and 
the sense of comfort that spring from a hearty welcome. 

In merry chat the hours flew by, and the time came for 
retirmg. My good friend informed me that he had just 
“abuilded this house,” but they had not had time to put the 
“pertitions in yit, Yer mustent mind, however, you sleep 
in Mary’s bed, the fur one; Mary and Jennie can sleep in the 
next, and the old woman and I'll sleep in the one t’other side 
the room.” You may be sure as a bashful man I was not in 
a hurry to retire, but all were so polite and easy I felt all the 
force of the old proverb, ‘‘Do in Rome as the Romans do.” 
I took a goog suryey of the room, and marked the exact 
locality of my bed, when the old boy pursed up his lips and 
sent forth a hurricane of wind that blew out the light. 
“Now,” he says, ‘‘good night to ye.” I remained by the 
fire with my back to the beds until I was assured by the 
sounds that Mary and Jenny were safely ensconced in their 
couch, when, with most cautious tread, 1 made my way in 
the darkness to my own retiring place. I reached it without 
any mishap, and im less time than would seem possible, was 
sate beneath the blankets. Silence soon reigned supreme; 
through the cracks in the logs I could see the white moon- 
light on the snow without, Soon I heard a dull, strange 
sound like a frog’s bass. It was the brave man of the woods 
snoring. His wife soon joined in musical rivalry; then a 
thin piping sound arose not far from me, and then’ another; 
all rising and falling in the clear frosty air, and as “music 
hath charms ete.,” 1 was soon Inlled to slumber, and pro- 
ba sent forth sonorous sounds from my ow aristocratic 
bugle. 

Thad determined to be up with old Sol and have a tramp 
through the woods in search of the ‘‘patridgez.” But, alas! 
when I did awake he was casting his beams through the 
curtainless windows, I quickly thoughtof the surroundings 
of the previous night, and cautiously took a survey of the 
room. Imagine my consternation when I saw that my 
friend and his family were all up and dressed. He was 
seated at the fire with his back to me, smoking away at his 
pipe. The good wife, with a large spoon, was stirring the 
contents of an iron pot; the two maidens were spreading the 
table, Crsar Augustus! Here was a fix. Not lmowing 
what to do, I gave a barely audible sneeze, but with no 
effect.on the company; then another louder, then another 
more emphatic, No go, Then I entered upon a violent fit 
of coughing, though, by the way, my lungs were as sound as 
abell, ‘This at last attracted the old man’s attention, when 


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he turned and said, ‘Yer got a purty bad cold, mister, beant 
yer?” I gestured wildly to him, Hetook the hint and gave 
me a sly wink and a smile, and said, ‘Mary, go and get a 
pail of fresh water from the spring, the gentleman's thirsty, 
Jinny, go and see if yes ken find him a fresh egg.” When 
the girls disappeared he whispered in the old lady's ear, and 
she beat a retreat. Now was the time for action. Out of 
bed in a jiffy and into my unmentionables. But, alas! they 
were drawn on hind before, and the sound of approaching 
footsteps warned me there was no time for 2 teversal of the 
garment; so, hitching them up behind as well as I could, and 
donning my vest and the coat, which had com fortably long 
tails, [ joined the party at the table. As soon as possible 
after breakfast I went to the barn to look at the white calf, 
the spotted pig and the yellow hen, and up in the hay those 
pants swung around to the wind, Returning to the house 
[joined my honest friend, who had a queer twinkle in his 
eye. 

We then made for the beaver meadow. He went inamoug 
the thickets of cranberry and other bushes that skirted its 
edge, while 1 kept out on the sloping ground among the 
beech, birch and oak trees. Here and there we passed 4 
dense clamp of hemlock, Having no dog, my friend under- 
took to search the dense thickets, while I kept in the open 
woods, Soon I heard him shout, ‘‘Look out!” then the rush 
of wings, and to my left, just aboye a clump of low trees, 
went a cock grouse at a rattling pace. However, I was on 
alert; the gun went instinctively to the shoulder, the clear, 
frosty air rang with the sharp report, the bluc smoke curled 
among the trees, and a cloud of feathers floated in the air, 
Soon soft and warm it lay in the game bag; and so shot after 
shof rang ibrough the woods, some missing-the swift birds, 
but the most of them sent the feathers floating, and soon 
filled out the game bag, 

Passing through a clump of beeches I heard a grouse take 
flight from the treetops; looking up I saw another poised 
erect upon the top of a beech, and as it was moying for 
flight 1 fired and down it came and lay almost buried in the 
fine snow. It was placed in the bag. About half an hour 
after, as we were trudging along side by side, I felt s move- 
ment in the hag, and away went this grouse out of the bag, 
gathering speed asit flew through the trees, but my gun 
went to the shoulder, and before it got out of range I brought 
itdown, Hurrah! Thatwas the best shot made that day. 
The man of the woods stood open-mouthed with wonder 
and said, “Wall now, that were a shot.” Wight grouse fell 
to the gun that day. 

Those were grand old times. I bade farewell that evening’ 
to my kind friend and his family. He walked with me to 
the station. As I left the house the old lady waved the 
soup ladle, the bashful “darters” flattened their noses against 
the window panes, the white calf bellowed and waved its 
tail, the spotted pig grunted, and the yellow hen ran off and 
laid an egg, so anxious were they all to do something to 
make the farewell affecting. Onip RAMROD, 

CANADA, 


MORE SMOKE MEMORIES. 

LD SQUIRE WN. was a character, He had held 

the office of Justice of the Peace, when governors 

were not. very particular as to whom they eave the office if 

well recommended. He used to read the Declaration of In- 

dependence and other Fourth of July documents, together 

with effusions, on the great and glorious day in his native 
town. 

In his later and less prosperous days he was easily 
coaxed by the boys to go through with the same performance 
for a few drinks when the day of all days came around. He 
was harmless and well liked by all. It was well known to 
the local gunners that he was partial to loons, so all the 
loons shot In his neighborhood were reserved for him, and on 
the return of the gunners, if one of these birds was in their 
bag, he soon had it, 

One time, two parties of four cach had been for shore birds 
on the bay shore, and happening to meet -on their way 
home, it was found that one of the party had a loon among 
the results of the day’s sport. The fowl was being carried 
home expressly for the Squire. He had said at the village 
post-office a few nights before that it was all nonsense about 
a loon being so hard to kill as some of the young men had 
stated then and there, so it was proposed that the loon should 
be put up and each of the eight gunners give it both barrels, 
No sooner said than done, and a worse looking wild fowl 
never was seen, although good distance was given on the 
shots. 

In due time the loon was presented and shortly heard 
trom, as one of the boys asked the old gentleman how he 
liked that fat loon, his reply was “‘Pretty good, pretty good, 
but badly shotted, You didn’t give him a chance to dive, 
did you? Sunk him, I reckon, ‘fore he gathered.” 

The old gentleman could catch more pickcrel and larger 
ones with a piece of salt pork, than any of vs could with all 
the Buell, spoons, or any of the ‘‘new-fangled notions,” as 
he called them; so we wise ones watched when the old gen- 
tleman went out, and happened on him with a small bottle 
of something good after he had secured a prize. He could 
not resist a good drink, and neyer gave us away as not be- 
ing the real capturer of the fresh-water leviathan. Peace to 
his ashes; he is gone, and we now have to capture our own 
big fellows or go without. REIGNOLDS. 


MOOSE IN MANITOBA. 
Editor Horest and Stream: 

I can tell your inquiring correspondent, “W, D. W.,” 
where he can find moose. Six miles from the railway station 
at Carberry, Manitoba, is a tract of woods covering twelve 
townships, extending from the Canadian Pacific Railway 
track south across the Assinaboine River, a distance of 
twenty-live or thirty miles, to the Tiger Hills on the Louris 
River, which shelters more of the deer family probably than 
any other portion of the Northwest of equal extent, Outside 
of the wooded district is a great extent of waste land, sand 
hills, lakes and ponds, and oak parks, extunding east and 
west along both sides of the Assinaboine from Burnside 
station to Chater, about sixty miles, 

This region, not being suited to farming, bas been lef as 
wild as when the Hudson's Bay Company alone ruled these 
fertile prairies, and is only invaded by white men at rare 
intervals, when some ambitious sportsman from the East. 
starts out for big game. In the whole distance I have named 
there are not more thau a dozen settlers visible from the 
railway, who have picked out some favored spot to make 
their home, One, a sturdy pioneer named Oswald, near 
Austin station, tells me has seen thirteen elk in his stable 
yard when he got upin the morning after the first snow 
last fall, and the sight of single animals or two or three at 
atime is not at all unusual. My team went to the woods 


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every working day last winter from the ist of November, 
and the driver said he seldom got to where he cut his load 
of wood without having seen the tracks of from one to five 
large deer, moose or elk crossing the road, and frequently 
saw them moving leisurely along. I have the Indian trade 
at this point, and last winter the hunters in one camp, four 
Indians, sold me at one time the hindquarters of eight moose. 
I bought none from them after Jan. 1, but they told me in 
the spring that they had killed twenty-nine during the win- 
ter, moose and elk, 

I can promise ‘‘W. D. W.” that there is plenty of his 
favorite game here, but about the chances of success I can’t 
say certainly. They will be small unless he is a skillful 
hunter, for a green hand has no business with moose. Jam 
very fond of sport, and have spent the last five years of my 
wandering existence between the Red River and the Rocky 
rauge, but have never killed a moose yet, and can amuse 
myself quite well with jumping deer, geese, ducks and 
chickens, of which there is no end. Nothing would please 
me better than to welcome ‘“W. D. W.” up here, but our 
laws will not permit him killing any of the deer family be- 
fore October. Carberry is 105 miles west of Winnipeg. 
There are good hotels and livery stables, and a horse and 
buckhboard can be driven to the haunts of the game, making 


the trip an easy one to take. NORTHWEST. 
CARBERRY, Manitoba. 


PROPOSED MICHIGAN PRESERVE. 


E have received from Mr. Frank N. Beebe, of Colum- 
bus, O., the following extract from a letter addressed 
to him by a resident of Michigan: ‘“‘Could a company be 
gotten up to buy from ten to thirty thousand acres of forest 
land lying on the shore of Lake Huron for a hunting and 
fishing park? The land could be now bought cheap, and 
the location I have in mind is as good hunting ground as 
there is in Michigan, and I think I would be safe in saying 
that the deer on 10,000 acres of this tract would not count 
less than 600 at present, and I am sure that as many as 200 
have been killed there during last season, for they were 
hunted all summer, and even up to the present time. The 
deer have been steadily increasing here for the past ten years 
tomy own knowledge, but now that Cheboygan is growing 
and hunters from other places are flocking in here in greater 
numbers, there is danger of the deer being exterminated. 
Now, I have an idea that a company could be gotten up to 
buy anywhere from 10,000 to 80,000 acres of this land, and 
fence it in with a high wire fence on three sides, with Lake 
Huron on the fourth. A great portion of this land is good 
soil and contains a large amount of timber (young pine), and 
would, [I think, proye a paying investment if it could be 
bought np at $8.00 per acre or less. There are two or three 
trout streams and several small lakes or marshes, where 
great numbers of ducks could be killed in the spring and 
fall, This tract would begin at a line joining my place, and 
running east on the lake shore.” Mr. Beebe says: “I know 
Mr. Elliott to be a practical and enterprising man. He has 
positively demonstrated this in his successfully pushing 
through to completion an enterprise in the nature of a stock 
stream and hatchery for brook trout, which he is now giving 
his attention to. Mr, Elliott is thoroughly reliable, and any 
undertaking he may assume will be carried through ‘to com- 
pletion to the best of his ability.” 


THE PERFORMANCE OF SHOTGUNS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

I suggest the loading of shells with nothing else but wads 
and let some of those who have so much faith in wadding 
try how their guns will shoot with that style of loading. 
Eyery one that owns a gun is not supposed to own a wad 
factory also. Ido not think a gun is much force that will 
not shoot decently with two good wads on powder and one 
on shot, if the man behind the gun is up to the mark. We 
are haying fine rains and the prairie is in fine condition, and 
the prospects are good for a fine crop of birds in the fall. 

GHORGH ARMSTRONG. 


Carrrip6e Loaprine,—The Chamberlin Cartridge Com- 
pany was recently organized in Cleveland, O., with a capi- 
tal stock of $250,000. The device was invented by F. L. 
Chamberlain, of the Variety Iron Works. The preliminary 
work has already been done by haying patents issued in the 
United States, Canada, England, France and Germany, in 
which thirvy-five different patent claims have been allowed. 
The patent is a machine for loading shells to be used in 
breechloading shotguns. The machine has a capacity of 
1,500 shells per hour, and will, as soon as the works are 
started, be put to work turning out if necessary 225,000 
shells per day. By this invention the shells will be filled in 
a much more uniform way than any heretofore used. 
Through a very ingenious device in the patent the pressure 
on the wads is adjustable up to 100 pounds. The company 
that has been organized for the manufacture of the shells 
under this patent intend to start a factory, making use of 
the latest apparatus and appliance necessary to the success- 
ful and rapid manufacture of this important article. The 
company expects to start with fifteen machines, and intends to 
be able to turn out twenty millions of shells this coming year. 
The men who have hold of this scheme and who constitute 
the company and directors are all prominent manufacturers. 
— Cleveland Herald. 


WILDFowL IN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEw J»ersEy.—The 
passage of the act relating to webfooted fowl by our Penn- 
sylvabia State Legislature, which forbids the killing of ducks 
excepting on every other day of the week, and the sailing on 
them with any sort of craft, gives great satisfaction to Har- 
risburg sportsmen, as duck shooting on the Susquehannah 
River in the section of the State near our capital had become 
a thing of the past owing to the continued harrassing of the 
birds. Now, | am told they will come up the river from the 
lower ducking grounds when it becomes ‘‘too hot” for them 
and will frequent the old resorts, Jf the law could he ex- 
tended so as to effect the Delaware River it would be a ben- 
efit, but we cannot expect this to be done until the State of 
New Jersey passes a similar act and both State shores be pro- 
tected, A law limiting duck shooting to every other day in 
the week in the Delaware on the Pennsylvania side of the 
stream while New Jersey allowed every-day shootin g on her 
shore would not work, and would result in endless dispute 
and allow many loopholes for escape to the violator—Homo, 


Taxp PARTICULAR Novice of this extract from a market 
report in the New York Hvening Post of late date: ‘The 
efforts of our chief dealers are to be used shortly to gain per- 
mission 10 refrigerate game in its season and sell it at all 
seasons. As itis, all refrigerated game goes direct to Europe, 
where it is to be had the year round.” 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


A Carp From Masor Verrry.—Adironda, June 28.— 
Editor Forest and Sireain: J notice that one of your corres- 
pondents, in writing of the performance of shotguns, says, 
“but few persons know what they are writing about” 
(further on giving the proof that he is not one of the few), 
and that ‘‘General Verity is as quotable for facts as any of 
them,” And why should not General Verity (I presume he 
means me) be ‘‘as quotable for facts’ as any cne who makes 
a plain statement of actual experience I would like to Know. 
If he intends to imply that any and all of my statements 
will not bear the most rigid scrutiny, he is as little acquain- 
ted with my character as he is with my proper title. Jn the 
corps to which I have the honor to belong, and which, I 
trust, has never been dishonored by word or deed of mine, 
there is no such rank as general. If there is any rank above 
that of major, it is hardly probable that after so many years’ 
seryice I should now be obliged to sign myself, yery truly 
yours, Major Josera VErtry, United States Horse Marines. 


Iowa GAmME.—Morning Sun, Iowa, June 24.—Farmers 
living to the west and south of us report plenty of young 
ie chickens, and [have no doubt their report is correct. 

he weather has been all that an old prairie hen could wish, 
and by this time there are many bevies that are large enough 
to stand quite a heavy rain, Our rains haye been so far 
slight showers, just enough to make glad the heart of the 
farmer, consequently crops never looked better in this sec- 
tion than now. Small grain is in abundance and, of course, 
there will be plenty of stubble. Then the corn is just im- 
mense; so look out for snap-shooting. Quail can be heard 
whistling at all times and in all directions during the day; 
in fact, | never saw the game outlook better. ‘Vhe fishing 
has not been as good as heretofore so they say; but ‘“‘they 
say” is such a liar that 1 won't believe until I iry it myself, 
so look out for some fishing notes before Jong.—MARK. 


New Jersey Woopcock.—lIf the dry weather which we 
have lately had should have continued until the opening of 
the weodcock season, many birds would have been killed 
ou the first day of the shooting, as they could have been 
located in the few wet places that would have remained for 
feeding grounds; but the deluge which visited us on the 26th 
thoroughly saturated the pees and will have the tendency 
of dispersing the birds, a fact your correspondent is glad of, 
for they will be more difficult to find and more will be left 
Aas autumn shooting, when they should only be bagged.— 

oMO, 


GROUSE IN SULLIVAN CounTy.—Monticello, N. Y., June 
27.— Editor Forest and Stream: I meant to have writlen in 
my former note that we have woodcock shooting here in 
August and ruffed grouse in September. Our jaw is strictly 
enforced here.—U. . Kent. 


Fiona Quar.—Denning’s Post Office, Hamilton County, 
Florida, June 14—The quail supply promises to be very 
good next season in this vicinity.—D. M. 8. 


Camp Sire Hlickerings. 


“That reminds me,”’ 
123. 

ERHAPS you never heard of old man Lewis. If you 
ever go to Lewis Center, in the southern part of the 
great State of Ohio, quail shooting, as I did a few years ago, 
you may runon to him. I wishI could photograph him, 
with his old, black, two-inch stemmed pipe, which he would 
puff energetically and parenthetically to enhance the interest 
of his narratives; his hair, which had never been combed 
since the day he was born; and his shirt, which apparently 

had never been washed since a long time before that. 
‘‘Talking about turkeys,” said he one day, ‘‘we used to 
have lots of them. Jonas Leach lives about a mile from 
here. We used to hunt them together. Jonas was a pretty 
fair rifle shot—used a small-bore—about 180 to the pound, 
In October, just eight years ago, there was a light fall of 
snow. Jonasand I started out about 10 o'clock in the morn- 
ing, I was on horsebock; we struck a track over east. Jonas 
cut across about two miles to the runway, for you must 
know turkeys have their runways just as deer have. I fol- 
lowed slowly upon the track. When I got pretty near where 
Jonas was stationed, I heard the sharp, whip-like crack of 
his rifle, and hurrying up found him composedly driving 
down another bullet, while about fourteen rods from him 
the turkey was executing a very complicated series of ground 
and lofty tumblings, I went over to the bird, and after 
careful examination, much to my surprise could not find 
where he washit, Jonas came up. Says he, ‘Open his 
eyelids.’ I did open them, and found the bullet had gone 
in one eye and out of the other, not touching the lids at all. 
Jonas said he came along broadside and 1unning likea 
quarter horse.” AZIQUIS. 


124. 

Some fourteen miles from this place are two notable 
mounds about a half mile apart. In an early day, some 
forty or fifty years ago, Uncle —— setiled upon the summit 
of one. Uncle is a slaid and venerable patriarch, hig. ly 
respected, but not given to telling stories, and particularly 
averse to sensational yarns. Not long since quite a crowd 
was gathered m a certain store, and the young bloods were 
telling of their great exploits and how they could “lametuem” 
at one hundred yards with the modern B. L. and No, 10 
shot, when Uncle cleared his throat—which caused all 
eyes to be turned upon him, for it was well known that any 
incident in his long and varied experience must ceriainly 
interest the present generation—and began; ‘‘About forty 
years ago, when I lived on the top of the knob, I got up one 
frosty morning and went out on the porch to wash, when 1 
happened to look over to the opposite knob, and there stood 
a yery large buck on the very top of the knob, his broadside 
to the sun, and at least a half a mile from where I stood. I 
concluded to try him anyway, so I went into the house and 
got down my old Kentucky flintlock, which had seen a good 
deal of service, but which had always proved reliable, and 
taking a dead rest from the railing of the porch, I drew a 
bead on the top of his shoulder and fired.” Uncle —,, 
resting his chin upon the top of his cane, stopped short, and 
seemed to bein a deep study, and from the gravity of his 
countenance it was not unreasonable to suppose that some 
sad reminiscence of the long ago was flitting before him, 
when the reverie was disturbed by the modern B, L. cham- 
pion calling out, “Well, Uncle —, did you_kill him? 
The reply was short and sharp: ‘‘No, sir.” OccmENT, 

Supa, Mo, 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


Black Lake, Michigan.—VIII. 


fie other boys came to camp a half hour or so after us, 

with a string of fish tied to each boat that made Dick 
and I feel like the tail end of a streak of bad luck, but -we 
consoled ourselves with anticipations of better sport next 
day, nor did we fail to hold up our end at the table when 
Frank served up three or four of the choicest of the day’s 
catch, crisp and brown and piping hot for supper. 

Jim and Knots had a fish story to tell us, about something 
that happened as they came down the jake that evening atter 
they had quit fishing, illustrating the boldness of the maska- 
longe when pressed by hunger, and that went far to confirm 
neigbor Merrill’s assertion that ‘there’s some big ones in this 
lake,” a story which we would haye given a wide margin to, 
had we known them other than as old and tried friends of 
unquestioned veracity. ‘‘Sid,” a lad of seventeen, the oldest 
of Merrill's boys, was rowing for them, and as they passed 
the mouth of Rocky Creek he cried out excitedly, ‘‘Lord 
what a fish!” and turning as quickly as they could, they saw 
the broad tail of a great maskalonge as he disappeared from 
sight near the stern of the boat with a swirl that made the 
water foam. He had actually madea dash at their fish which 
were towing alongside the hoat near the stern, but had 
missed them and his supper at the same time. Jim said, in 
reluting the story, that ‘it was the sublimest exhibition of 
colossal cheek that had ever come under his editorial eye,” 
and it certainly was a bad showing for the fish when the fact 
is borne in mind that Jim runs a weekly newspaper Jargely 
given to politics. : 

. Sid was the only one in the boat that got a good view of 
the fish, as Jim and the Scribe were facing the bow, and 
only turned in time to see his caudal as he gave it a mighty 
flirt and dashed ont of sight, I asked Sid how long the fish 
was, and he replied with simple candor, ‘‘He was about as 
long as Lam; I tell you he was an awful big fish;” and we 
could well believe it, for Sid was near five and a half feet in 
height. 

Old Ben sat off to himself smoking and addressing a quaint 
remark now and then to the mosquitoes, apparently absorbed 
in his own reflections, but after a while he hitched his stool 
nearer the fire and said in his deliberate way, ‘“Tell ye, boys, 
if there’s many o’ them kind o’ fish in the lake, 1’low Ben 
better do his fishin’ from the shore, where a feJler kin hey a 
chance to dodge”—two or three puffs at his pipe, which had 
gone out—‘‘but I hev my doubts about that bein’ a fish. 
seen & musrat this mornin’ swimmin’ ‘long nigh the mouth 
o’ that crick; wonder now”—reflecting—‘'if it wasn’t that 
musrat that was after them fish?” Here he swapped legs 
and winked violently at Dick. ‘ 

“Guess I know a musrat from a muskahinge,” said Sid 
quickly, and the Jaugh that went round effectually squelched 
Ben and his doubts about the maskalunge, and left Sid mas- — 
ter of the field. 

Ben made a pretense of being floored by seraping a match | 
on his breeches, lighting the brier-root and taking refuge be- - 
hind a cloud of smoke, through which we occasionally — 
caught a word of a desultory conversation he was holding | 
with the skeeters, but a suppressed chuckle now and then | 
indicated that the shot he had fired at Jim and the Scribe — 
was giving him vastly more satisfaction than his contro- | 
versy With the insects. But the fire was getting low, and | 
the experience of the day having all been gone over, the con- + 
versation flagged, pipes went out, the circle broke up and | 
the Kingfishers went to roost, a tired but happy family, I | 
will not attempt to tell about the delicious sleep I enjoyed | 
that vight on the fragrant bed of balsam boughs that Frank + 
had made in our little tent during the day, but will just | 
leave it to be guessed at by any unfortunate brother who has 
missed the Juxury of stretching his tired frame on a bed of ; 
“balsam feathers” after fishing all day without a nibble, 

Next morning, after an early breakfast, we decided to fish 
the lower end of the lake around the mouth of Little Black 
and Sturgeon bay; Dick and the Deacon preferring, how- 
ever, to try at the rocks again for bass, and also to fish the 
water carefully where the big maskalonge had been seen the - 
evening before, { 

Dan and I left camp some time after the others had gone, | 
and had barely cleared the streak of grass in front of camp. 
wher the old Pelican looked up, and said quietly, as a dozen 
yards of line ran slowly from the reel, ‘‘Hold on, Hickory! 
There he goes. Pickerel or masky, from the symptoms.” 

A long, sweeping ‘‘wipe” fastened the fish, and two strokes | 
of the oars sent the boat out into the lake, away from the 
grass, where neither could get an unfair advantage over the 
other in the coming fight. The fish made a dash for the 
weeds, but old Dan being up to about all the tricks of the 
pike family from a careful study of their habits, soon had 
him headed out into the lake, and then the fun began, for it: 
is fun to handle a powerful pickerel, boiling full of fight, 
which this iellow proved to be. Shortening the line as he 
came on, Dan was prepared for the usual plunge under the) 
boat; but a sudden and unlooked.for dive for the bottom by 
the fish took three feet of the top of the arched rod under 
water and nearly tilted the old Pelican into the lake, a calam- 
ity I averted by jerking the stern of the boat sharply to 
starboard, which restored his perpendicular and gave him’ 
time to whip the rod around clear of the boat and saye his 
line from parting. t . ae 

“Did you ever see such an obstinate devil as that?” said) 
the veteran, as he braced himself and tested the full temper 
of his rod in a desperate struggle to turn the fish, which had 
again started with a headstrong rush for the grass. For a 
half minute the issue was doubtful, but grit, grunts, and 4 
thoroughly trusty rod, prevailed, and he once more swung 
out into the lake still full of fight, while I kept the boat im 
just the right position to make the rod do most of the work, 
for it must be remembered that old Dan has only his left 
hand and arm with which to fight his battles. Another dash 
under the boat as he came around, and another last effort 
to reach the grass played the fish out, and he was brought) 
alongside, when I jerked a gaff into him and yanked him 
into ‘‘the middle o’ next week,” without giving him time te 
move a fin in remonstrance. He was a handsomely marked) 
pickere! of seven or eight pounds, and one of the games| 
fighters Dan had ever forced to yield to his skill, and he was 
highly pleased over his victory. First blood tor old Dar 
Bat my turn came soon after, and I had begun to think if 
fe time. : 4 a 

_ From here nearly down to the point a couple of miles be 
low, we took half a dozen more pickerel, but the bass we 
not pleased with our bait, and we took none. We bad 


4 


_ during the time I don’t helieve five minutes passed in which 


= > = ¥ ; 
the streak of grass running parallel to the shore, and while 
hunting for it found another narrow grass and weed-grown 
reef a quarter of a mile or more from shore. that led nearly 
straight out across the lake; and along this for three or four 
hundred feet we had some rare sport with the pickerel, when 
it, too, came to an eud in the deep water, We pulled back 
along the north side to where we had first struck it and then 
fished along the south side again back to thedeep water, and 


we were not handling a pickerel, several times both busy at 
the same time, At the end of the reef we had enough of it, 
and as this was the day we expected the Assistant P. M., we 


concluded to pull across the lake to the ‘“‘sand bank” and 


intercept him on the road we had passed along a few days 
before, and save him the long drive around the head of the 
lake, First, however, we selected a landmark on each side 
of the lake, by which we could readily find pickerel reef[— 
as we named it—again, should we want to pay it another 
visit, and Old Dan would be sure to do this, for he is ‘‘power- 
ful fond o’ pickerel fishin’.” Whe 

When a hundred feet or so from the last weeds growing 
up from the end of the reef, our blood was started into 
quicker flow by a sight that Lam certain neither of us will 
ever forget as lone as we remain ‘‘on the face o’ this livin 
earth.” We were watching our lines trailing astern when 
suddenly we saw an enormous maskalonge Jeap three feet 
into the air directly athwart our course and fall back into 
the water with a great splash ten or twelve feet, from where 
he left it, and disappear with a sweep of his tail that made 
the spray fly in a small shower, He was not more than 
sixty feet from the stern of the hoat, and we had a fair and 
full broadside view of him while he was in the air, lam 
now almost afraid to write down our estimate of the size of 
that) monster maskalonge lest the brethren brand Dan and I 
as a pair of lying old loons that have a fish story to tell, yet 
we are both willing to make solemn oath before any magis- 
trate in the land that this fish was six feet or more in length. 
He looked as large around at the ventrals as a common 
wooden bucket, and I am as sure as 1 can be without actual 
Measurement that his tail was a foot and a half broad from 
lobe to lobe, while his long, powerful jaws, slightly apart 
and armed, as they must have been, with rows of murderous 
teeth, looked like they could easily crush & man’s arm. 

Merrill had said to us, ‘‘Beys, there’s muskylunge in this 
lake six foot long, sure’s yer born, for I’ve seen *em!” and 
we had simpiy marked it down io him as one of his 
whoppers, but now, here, with our own eyes Dan and I had 
seen one out of water at close distance that was even larger, 
and we could not dispute the evidence of our eyesight. I 
would not have believed maskalonge attained to such great 
size had not Dr. Sterling (1 write this with nothing to refer 
to and will stand corrected if my memory is at fault) put 
one on record, killed some years ago somewhere neur the 
head of Lake Huron, that weighed eighty pounds, but 1 be- 
lieye old Dan and I would have been little more astonished 
than we were at sight at this one, had we seen another the 
same day that would have measured twelve feet. 
that tried to rob Knots and Jim off the mouth of Rocky 
Creek was no longer to be poked at them asa ‘‘mus’rat,” and 
we mentally took back a good many things we had been 
thinking about neighbor Merrill, we could even believe the 
very biggest bear story he could frame. When we told him 
next day what we hadseen, he said, ‘‘I told ye so; mebbe 
youll b’lieve some o’ the old man’s lies yet before you go 
home.” 

When the great fish struck the water after his leap old 
Dan glanced over his shoulder at me, and exclaimed, with 
more excitement than J had known him to display for years, 
“Great guns, Hickory! did you ever see such a fishas that?” 
or words to that effect. I don’t remember just now the 
exact reply 1 made, but it strikes me at this late date it was 
something more forcible than elegant, for I was like Major 
Lacey's “‘coon” during the war when the whiskey gave out 
on a hard march—“‘all to’e up in my mine”; but instantly 
dropping the oars into the water, a vigorous back stroke 
sent the little boat five yards astern, and reeling up quickly 
I made a long cast and drojped the frog several yards ahead 
of where old mossy was last seen, with a faint hope that he 
would take a notion that a speckled frog was just what his 
teeth were aching for, instead of the pickerel he had prob- 
ably made a dash at when he left the water, The cast 
availed nothing, and turning the boat quietly we fished for 
half an hour over twenty acres of water in a dozen direc- 
tions from where we saw him, but frogs and spoon victuals 
would not tempt his appetite, he was too ‘‘facetious,” as 
Dick would have said, and we were forced to abandon our 
designs on him and take our way across the lake with heavy 
hearts. 

Had we stopped to give the matter a serious thought, we 
might have had sense enough’ to know that the tackle we 
were using that day would have been just about as effective 
in stopping that fish as a mosquito net would a stampede of 
Texas steers; but our blood was up, and we never thought 
once about the frailty of our lines and rods until we had 
cooled off, and not until we had settled it in our minds that 
he would weigh not under eighty or ninety pounds did we 
realize what immense strength this tish must have been pos- 
sessed of, and how utterly futile our efforts to capture him 
would have proved with the means at hand. We determined, 
however, to contrive a rig on the morrow from material in 
my ‘‘calamity box” that would bring to grief this mighty 
warrior or any other fish that would attempt to fool with if, 
for once hooked, the victim would have to lose his jaw, be 
turned inside out or jerk the bow stem out of the boat, and 
failing in any of these possibilities, be towed ashore and 
scientifically knocked on the head with a club, made and 
provided for that purpose. 

We pulled across to the sand bank, a spot bare of trees 
which the Tumbermen had at some former time used as a 
place to get logs into the lake, where I left Dan to chuckle 
over the scheme we had devised to capture the great maska- 
longe, and pick huckleberries along the strip of low land 
between the beach and the foot of the hill, while 1 took my 
way up the steep, sandy log road leading out onto the plains 
to the main road, some twenty rods back, where Miller would 
have to pass along, 
“totem” in the shape of a couple of good-sized dead pickerel 
brought with me from the boat, and hung to the fork of a 
small bush which I cut, trimmed and drove into the sand 
two or three feet from the roadside, 

These would be sure tu scare the horses when they came 
‘along and attract the driver’s attention if he were not too 
full of huckleberry juice. To make it all clear, I tacked a 
leaf from my note book to a blackened stump a few feet 
further ‘along, on which 1 penciled a notice to follow the 
right hand road to the lake, where we would he waiting at 
the beach or jn sight, ‘ 


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At the forks of the road I left my: 


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If any of the readers of Forest AnD StRwAM should be 
in this part of the country and wish a good day’s fishing I 
would advise them to try Minnetonka. It is conveniently 
reached from either Minneapolis or St, Paul, and the hotel 
accommodations are first-class. It is necessary to get a guide 
to insure good sport, and Corbett is the man to get. He is a 
sober, honest fellow, and knows the lake from A to Z. Tis 
boat and general outfit are the best on the lake, and as an 
oarsman he is without a peer in this section of the country; 
his early training in rowing the ferry at Staten Island shows 
itself in every stroke. He is also an artist with the frying 
pan, and cooks fish to a turn. His address is Wxcelsior, 
Minn., and visitors will always find him ready and obliging, 
At present the fishing is at its best. and large strings of bass 
and pickerel are caught daily. One prominent Minneapolis 
insurance man caught 150 pounds of pickerel in one day last 
week. We shall try it again soon, and if all things are 
fayorable we hope to set a high mark for the rest of the 
boys, If luckis with us you shall know of it, Jupqie. 

Minneapouis, Minn,, June 14, 


Back in the boat again, we fished and waited around with- 
in half a mile up and down shore till 8 o'clock in the after- 
noon, without seeing or hearing anything of Brother M., 
when, becoming impatient to Know what the boys were 
doing, we pulled across down to the mouth of little Black, 
with our minds made up that should he come to the sand 
bank that day it would take the tallest kind of smoke signals 
to induce us to go back after him, _ 

On the way down, after crossing the lake, we passed the 
little side-wheel steamer City of Cheboygan lying at anchor 
near the shore, a short distance above the mouth of the river, 
one of the line that formerly carried passengers by the inland 
route—Crooked, Burt and Mullett lakes—between Conway 
Springs, at the head of Crooked Lake, and Cheboygan, but 
now kept here on Black Lake in the more humble service 
of towing logs to the outlet for their start down Big Black 
River to Cheboygan, 

To get this boat up the river and into the lake was a task 
that no one but a Michigan lumberman perhaps would have 
undertaken, as there are some bad rapids about three miles 
from the foot of the lake that no steamer or rowboat can 
surmount with any ordinary means of propulsion; but the 
difficulty was overcome, we were told, when the water was 
up in the spring by warping” her over the rapids and into 
the easier current above, 

But these Michigan lumbermen are a hearty class of men; 
quick to think and fertile of resource in emergencies that 
require prompt action and a cool head in solying on the spot 
a knotty (pine) problem, and no undertaking is too great for 
them when it comes to a matter of gelting logs to a market. 
Their education is not considered finished until they have 
learned how to ‘‘float a four-foot log on a foot o’ water,” 
and, indeed, water appears to do almost anything for them 
required of it except to run up stream. 

We found the boys surfeited with pickerel fishing and 
about ready to start back to camp, but Old Dan, as before 
mentioned, being powerful fond o’ pickerel fishin’, we con- 
cluded to hang around Sturgeon Bay till near sundown, and 
while fishing mainly for long snouts would not forget to 
“feel fir a bass” between times, as we had not taken one 
that day. 

I may say, too, that this matter of being fond of fishing is 
not to be all loaded on to Old Dan, for I don’t remember the 
time, in all the pleasant years we have been angling together, 
when one was anxious to quit before the other, in sun or 
rain, or wind or snow. We tied the boat to a small raft of 
squared timbers, firmly pinned and bolted together, an- 
chored fifty or sixty yards off the mouth of the river, and 
got out on it to rest a while and fish. This raft was a puzzle 
to us, and is yet, as we failed to ask any one its particular 
use, but we figured it out to be some kind of contrivance 
connected with the booming of logs, as near one end was a 
rude capstan, and to the shore end were chained two lines of 
boom logs running out to shore and up the river several 
yards, one on either side. Into this boom the logs are con- 
fined as they come down the river, and the capstan and coil 
of inch-and-a-half rope near it were used, we had a notion, 
to warp them into compact shape for towing to the head of 
Big Black River, 

If we are wrong, the lumbermen may laugh at us, and we 
will take a back seat until we have better learned their ways. 
One writer in Formst anp STREAM has called ita “head 
works,” but Old Ben christened it ‘the stem-windin’ raft,” 
and by this name we knew it. 

We spent a half hour on the raft without taking a fish, 
and getting back into the boat we pulled around into the 
little bay to the head and back, taking on the way a few 
long-snouts that hardly paid for the time wasted on them. 
We soon tired of this sport, and as the bass were not in a 
biting humor, we said we had enough, and started for camp, 
which we reached a little before dark, tired, hungry and 
happy, but a trifle disappointed over our poor luck with the 
bass. 

No smoke signal at the sand bank and no brother Muller 
that day. 

I don’t remember now the number of pickerel brought to 
camp that day by all of us, buf they certainly would have 
filled a flour barrel. No bass were taken, however, except 
three or four by Dick and the Deacon up at the Rocks, and 
these were kept for our own table, while the long-snouts 
were turned over to neighbor Merrill, who had said to us, 
“Boys, don’t throw away a single pickerel; bring ’em to 
camp for me an’ [’]l clean ’em an’ salt ’em down.” 

We kept no count of the number brought in and given to 
him during our stay, but Ben said, ‘‘Ef old Merrill lives long 
enough to eat all o’ them pickerel an’ stops to sort out the 
bones, he’ll be creepin’ up to old Methuseler that you read 
about in the Scripters, an’ he won’t hev no more hair on his 
head’n ai base ball.” GFISHER. 

[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


A DAY AT MINNETONKA. 


NY Gee and I have just returned from our long-expected trip 

fo our most beautiful lake, and we return loaded with 
fish and pleasant recollections. On arriving at Excelsior we 
were met by Bill Corbett, the best of the Minnetonka boat- 
men, and our genial host, De Groot. ‘‘Well, gentlemen, 
said Bill, ‘‘it’s 5 o’clock sharp to-morrow morning, for we 
must make a good day of it.” Five o’clock found us on our 
way to the bass grounds in Bill’s comfortable boat. After 
an hour's pull the fun commenced, We wanted a few crop- 
pies for lunch, so we stopped on a croppie bed the first thing ; 
this resulted in a dozen fine croppies and one bass of over 
four pounds’ weight, After a short row we reached our 
favorite bass grounds and prepared for business, 

Considering the weather, which was not favorable, we had 
very good luck, and were more than satisfied. At noon, we 
had twenty-five bass. Bill cooked some croppies for lunch, 
and we enjoyed them exceedingly. After lunch we were up 
and at it again, and when we started for home we had 
thirty-five bass, a dozen pickerel and twenty croppies and 
red-eye, or tock bass; the entire catch weighing over ninety 
pounds. We used 12-ounce rods, with both frogs and 
minnows for bait. The most successful way to fish here is 
to cast with frogs, Bill rows the boat slowly just far 
enough from the rushes so we can cast into the ‘‘pockets,”* 
as he callsthem. When one strikes a three or four pound 
bass there is plenty of business for him to attend to. We 
were fortunate in not losing many, and our string of bass 
were all very good size. We had one pickerel that weighed 
seven and one-half pounds, and several others of fair size, 

The Minnetonka bass are very satisfactory fish to catch. 
They are very stubborn fighters and are above the average in 
size. We brought home eleven that weighed thirty pounds, 


TROUTING WITH A WORM. 


XO one who is prevented by business cares and unkind 
fate from enjoying the sports of forest and stream in 
the wilds and byways where civilization has not yet en- 
croached, the weekly perusal in your columnsof the exploits 
and delights of those more fortunate is ever a source of 
pleasure. While reading many a wonderful tale of luck with 
rod and reel, where vigorous trout or gaumy bass were 
secured with scarcely an effort, it occurs to me that while 
repining at fate for the denial of such luxury, there may still 
be a redeeming feature, and that even the scarcity of the 
sport may give an added zest, and while to those of your 
readers who are accustomed to roam at will, wherever their 
fancy may direct them in search of sport, this article may be 
uninteresting; there may be those who, like the writer, must 
fain be content with humbler sport in whatever locality 
fortune has placed them. Among these then I may find 
sympathizing readers. 

from boyhood’s days, when my mornings and noonings 
while at school, during the season, were spent by the side of 
some favorite stream, have I been an ardent devotee of the 
rod and—I was about to say reel, but now T remember the 
reel was not considered then a necessary adjunct to the sport, 
nor have I ever with rod or reel experienced more pleasure 
than in those boyhood days when with birch or alder “‘pole” 1 
drew from beneath some sunken log or overhanging bank an 
unusually fine trout. With what pride did I exhibit my 
catch to a circle of admiring school fellows who usually ac- 
companied me to see the sport and carry the fish (usually 
strung on a willow ‘‘string”), and with what eager zest did I 
ply the rod under the banks and down the ripples of that 
willow-bordered stream, and seldom was I unrewarded, 

Mauy a happy hour since that day have I spent with rod 
and reel, and although not always with success numerically 
speaking, yet a day spent adown a mountain stream or 
through the grassy meadows, following the intricacies of the 
willow-lined banks, I count always a successful day; for it 
is.a quiet day, where one is sure to escape the worry and 
wear and tear of business life, and Father Time with his 
relentless scythe is cheated into many an hour of extra wait- 
ing. For the past few years circumstances have placed me 
within easy access to the streams of Berkshire and Hampden 
counties, Mass. Berkshire is called the Switzerland of 
America in point of scenery, and you will find among its 
glorious mountains many a secluded stream that would 
delight the eye of any angler, Hampden county is not 
behind, and 1 can recall many a delightful trip to its entic- 
ing streams. 

It was in the early part of June, one glorious morning, | 
found myself at the headwaters of a stream I had intended 
td visit several preceding seasons, but had been prevented 
for various reasons. I was alone, with miles of the glorious 
stream before me; one glance down its rocky course, its deep, 
dark pools and silent eddies was enough to put me in an 
ecstasy of delight, and before I cast a line in its enticing 
waters I had drank one deep draught of unalloyed perfect 
happiness. For those whose cultured tastes will allow them 
to use nothing but the fly in capturing their trout, this nar- 
rative will have no further interest, for candor compels me 
to say my bait consisted of worms, nothing but worms for 
bait. Although the fly is perhaps the neater way of captur- 
ing fish, yet 1 have been “trouting” with your expert fly- 
fisherman, who boasted of sixteen trout weighing sixteen 
pounds caught in Adirondack waters one morning before 
breakfast, and at the end of the day’s sport have given him 
my handsome “‘mess” of trout to fill up his empty creel, so 
that his TEE MIRON at home might not suffer, Somehow I 
then got the notion that perhaps there might be required 
some small degree of skill to entice little brook trout even 
with a worm. 

The day was auspicious; just warm enough, with moist- 
looking clouds that now and then obscured the sun and now 
and then a little spatter of rain. 

With cautious movement I cast my hook where experience 
taught me trout should lurk; into many a dark pool beneath 
some sunken log, or in the shallow ripple, but in vain. Al- 
though the stream was a picture that was ever a source of 
delight, still the trout were not there or would not bite. 

Still, not to be disheartened, on I went, ever casting with 
painstaking into most favorable localities, but ever without 
success. Once, while poising upon a boulder in midstream, 
I was nearly frightened out of my senses by an old partridge, 
the mother of a brood, which, with head depressed and 
Wings extended, darted suddenly at me from the bank with 
a hissing noise, and leaping into the stream beat across the 
Surface with her wings. 

‘Then I went on down stream where the water lay quiet in 
long, silent pools with alder banks, and still without success. 
There must be trout in the stream and they must be made to 
bite; but how? 

There was perhaps a mile of still water and then the 
stream once more babbled away in its rocky bed. Fed by 
one or two small tributaries it had increased considerably in 
yolume. Nowstop! Is it a snag? Wo, a bite, the yery 
first! Now he has it; with a quick turn of the wrist I secure 
him and lift him gently out—a little beauty. There was no 
whirr of the reel, no dexterity of handling and still, as I 
looked upon his plump symmetrical form with its spots of 
color, it was with no small degree of satisfaction. The first, 
trout; and pulling a bunch of cowslips to line the bottum of 
the creel, I place him tenderly on them. 

Now I go on with renewed zest. I feel that the luck has 


It was a very pretty string of fish, and the fun we had catch-| changed and my slightly waning courage is again revived. 
ing them is vend description, The pickerel and other fish | Lengthening my line, I made a cast across the stream to an 


we left with Corbett, enticing looking ripple under an overhanging bank, No 


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sooner cast than seized, and in a trice I land him, a plump 
‘quarter pounder.” 

With care I continue, omitting no ripple or pool, and in- 
creasing the weight of my creel materially. Now I ap- 
proach a long, shelving rock, down which the water glides 
silently and swiftly, pausing and swirling occasionally in 
little rifts and hollows, then on some sixty feet to a long, 
deep pool below. Will trout take the bait in snch swiftly 
running water? Although but a few inches deep, it nearly 
takes me off my feet as | wade out for a more favorable cast, 
which proves immediately successful, and jumping its 
length out of the water, down darts a trout to the pool below, 
Without changing my locality Ireel him in. Then I caught 
them all the way down the incline, and at the foot added 
four more to my already pretty solid basket. 

Half a mile further down, by its “rush and its roar,” I 
know | am approaching a fall of unusual height, and on 
reaching it I find myself on 4 cliff above the falls that drop 
perpeudicularly twenty feet, My basket has grown heavy, 
and by the size of the pool 1 see it is good for a balf hour’s 
work. So off comes the basket, and just then Il am reminded 
ofa lunch box in my pocket and I resolve to refresh and 
recruit before commencing operations below. But first I 
must take a peep at the beauties snugly tucked away in the 
basket, and they are beauties, looking so fresh among the 
green Gowslips and brook mint upon which they rest so 
sweetly. I have been more than busy the last half hour, 
taking one from a ripple and another from under the bank 
wherever a hiding place was found. 1 turn them out on the 
broad, flat rock, and placing them side by side, the largest 
wt the head, and count them. Forty as handsome trout as 
fisherman ever beheld; there were no ‘‘pounders,” neither 
were there any fingerlings; all fair fish of from three ounces 
{o six or eight ounces, 

Taking great care with my bait, J drop it down into the 
pool, but the water is so rapid that it sails away on the sur- 
face. Again I try, a little out of the current, but with no 
Suecess, and I am beginning to think it the biggest kind of a 
fraud, and with some indifference 1 swing the bait up into 
the white foam, It drifts behind the fall and remains sta- 
tionary. 1s it backwater or a trout? A gentle feeler con- 
yinces me that it is the latter, and that he is no mean fish. T 
rise from my sitting posture and cautiously try his weight, 
when, smarting from the prick, he rushes out and [ catch a 
glimpse of his glistening side in the white foam. A beauty, 
and if 1 don’t save him I will swear heis better than a pound. 
Tn all probability he is the largest fish I will hook to-day and 
he must be mine, and with all the skill I possess I play him 
from the rock to the pebbly beach below and land him, the 
crowning triumph of the day, and fully justifying my expec- 
tations as to size and weight. 

Oh, the witching of that fair stream! How it enticed me 
on and on; never monotonous, ever changing, some new 
beauty constantly arising— 


“Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing, 
Recoilmg, turmoiling, and toiling and boiling, 
And so never ending, but always descending.” 


If those Who delight in capturing with the fly the trout in 
Maine or Adirondack lakes are inclined to look down upon 
the commoner sport of catching trout with bait in mountain 
streams, let them one season try some of the streams in either 
Berkshire or Hampdeu counties, and, if they are lovers of 
nature as well as anglers, they can but admit that even this, 
too,, has its charms. Tonxis I, 

Ansonta, Conn, 


BOW RIVER TROUT. 


ERE TI am this early A. M. seated on the stump of what 

was once a huge cottonwood, just a quarter of a mile 

from the business center of the infant city of Calgary, on the 
Bow River, not merely to watch 


*\ The rippling, joyous waters as they playfully flow, « 
And upon the pebbly beach their passing kiss bestow.” 


but to throw the tempting gray fly 10 the speckled inhabit- 
ants of those clear, deep, blue waters. Calgary, the future 
capital of the proposed new province of Alberta, is a one- 
year-old infant, yet it has a population of 800, and it is des- 
tined to grow inashort time to the dimensions of a city. 
Tt is beautifully situated in a circular valley, a basin the 
yims of which almost surround it, leaving an open space 
along the trend of the river by which the Canadian Pacific 
Railway enters and pushes its way beyond to the great 
Canadian Alps. It is a lovely morning, and the Devil’s 
Head (a peculiarly dark-looking, dome shaped mountain) 
can be seen to great advantage. The eternal snow-clad 
peaks show above the rim of the basin, their tops and sides 
Jooking like huge sugar cones, cubes and pyramids, or like 
ereat circus tents, far beyond anything that Barnum has 
ever attempted. 

T am casting my line into one of the best and largest trout 
streatas in North America. The Bow isa large stream. but 
it is unnavigable on account of the swift current and rapids 
to be met along its course. Where I am fishing it is less 
than one hundred yards across, but the waters are deep and 
so clear that the bottom is visible at a great depth, The 
Bow is mountain fed, aud if abounds with mountain and 
brook trout. They are both numerous. The former grow 
to a very large size, but the average weight of those caught 
in this vicinity is from two to twoand a half pounds, They 
originate in the numerous lakes which find a bed in the 
many ridges which comprise the rocky chain. 

The brook trout hereis in all respects similar to that 
toothsome tish found in castern waters. It averages aboul a 
pound, and it is as wild as the rugged scenery which meets 
the gaze of the angler as he casts his eyes toward the sur- 
rounding horizon. J have fished all over the eastern prov- 
inces in the trout Jakes and streams, but the sport there is 
tame aud discouraging compared with this. Ihave already 
landed thirty-one, of which several are mountain, averaging 
from one pound to three and ahalf. They take the fly more 
readily than the bait, as there is a kind of river fly which at 
this season is theif natural prey. It isa dark gray, and the 
nearest approach to it I have is the common stone fly. The 
bustle and activity of a new town, however, are scaring the 
fish, so much so, indeed, that it will soon be necessary to 
fish two or three miies away from the town, far from the 
noise of hammer and cart. How the Eastern angler, who 
swelters all day in the heat, covered with mud and bored 
with flies, would like to throw a line into this stream if for 
only half an hour! He need not fear that the sport would 
surfeit, It is not acase of ‘‘fish murder” at all here, for, 
although the fish are plentiful, it takes work to hook and 
land each fish, because they are the shyest of the shy, un- 
used, of course, to be disturbed; however, there is plenty of 
sport.. I haye unearthed two or three real Waltons in Cal- 


‘forwarded in haste, but at present there is no way. 


gary. One of them, Mr. Wm. Bannerman, the postmaster, 
was formerly a member of Parliament at Ottawa for the 
County South Renfrew. He wears his casting line around 
his hat during business hours, and he is a most enthusiastic 
trouter, The other day he went up the river three miles 
and came home with eighty-six fish, or one hundred and 
twenty pounds of trout! An enterprising German has 
opened a sportsman’s supply depot on Stephen avenue, sup- 
plying a want that sportsmen will appreciate, though it is to 
be regretted that he is not a practical hand. Were such a 
one to come hither and open out he would certainly securea 
most remunerative trade, 

There is not sufficient hotel accommodation yet at Calgary. 
Moulton’s hotel, which has assumed the imperial title of 
“Royal,” is one of those portable shells which was manu- 
factured in Ottawa and shipped here and then put together. 


Tourists coming hither for information and sport should: 


provide themselves with tents ard the necessary camp 
equipage, They will enjoy the life much better besides 
avoiding imposition. Were it possible to send ForEst AND 
STREAM a sample or two of Bow River trout they would be 
During 
the summer I may haye an opportunity of sending a pre- 
served specimen. 

All the little streams which empty into the Bow are laden 
with the speckled tribe. The Elbow River, a smaller stream, 
which joins the Bow at this point, is a good trout stream, 
especially as you ascend it. My catch to-day has been 
forty-three, sixty-eight pounds, Think of it, and all 
this in less than three hours, and with the store fly, no 
vulgar bait, but the genuine casting line. JT have seen sports- 
men Hast who have traveled all day and never got even a bite, 
It is no greater undertaking to travel eighteen hundred or two 
thousand miles and strike a rentable trout mine than to 
wander all day without even a nibble. There is no poaching. 
The angler may come and goas he will, and evenif he should 
get surfeited with trout le is not likely to become weary 
of the sport. for there is nothing artificial in it. It is the 
real thing itself Bow. 

Caueary, Alberta, N. W. T., Canada, April, 1884, 


THE ROD AND REEL ASSOCIATION. 


MEETING of the Committee of Arrangements was held 
th at the Metropolitan Hotelon June 24, Hon. H. P. 
McGown in the chair. Mr. Yan Brunt moved that the 
tournament be held on Harlem Mere, the same as last year. 
Carried, The secretary read the following letter: 


CyrnTHiana, Ky., June 11, 1884. 
Hon. Henry P. MeGoun, Chairman Committee of Arrangements 
of Tournament of 1884 of the N. R. and R. A.: 

DEAR Str—I respectfully submit the following for the 
consideration of the committee of which you are the hon- 
ored chairman, and myself a member. 

I sincerely trust that at the Tournament of the National 
Rod and Reel Association, to be held in New York on Oct. 
7 and 8, 1884, there will be given an opportunity for the 
black bass bait-fisher to compete in a special class for ‘‘cast- 
ing the minnow for black bass.” This mode of angling has 
now become so universal, and the number of its practition- 
ers so great that it cannot in justice be longer ignored. 

Before the first.tournament of the Association I urged the 
inclusion of such a contest in the programme, but was met 
with the argument that there were so few anglers in the 
Eastern States who practiced that mode of angling that such 
2 Class would not fill, and that striped bass anglers outnum- 
bered black bass anglers more than a hundred to one. 

Previous to the second tournament i again advised the 
admission of such a contest, but ii was then stated that the 
conditions of such a class were virtually fulfilled by the 
contest for “light striped bass casting,” as the same weight 
of sinker, one and a half ounces, was used. 

Now, | have reason to think that the number of black bass 
minnow easters, even in the Eastern States, is not so small 
in comparison with striped bass casters, as has been stated, 
while in the country at large the reverse of the statement is 
more nearly correct. Jam of the opinion, therefore, that a 
special contest for their benefit would fill as readily as the 
stripped bass classes, for it may he remembered that in both 
tournaments the number of such contestants was not remark- 
able, Certainly, a black bass class could do no worse, 

Moreover, if the Association is designed to be ‘‘national” in 
its scope and influence, it seems to me that the programme 
of contests should be so arranged as not to favor, particu- 
larly, the auglers of any one section, All legitimate modes 
of rod-casting should be given a place in the programme, so 
that all anglers, of whatever section of the country, might 
have a chance to compete in the various classes and contests. 

I must respectfully dissent from the statement that the 
contest fcr ‘‘light striped bass casting,” with a sinker of one 
and a hulf ounces, virtually covers the ground of black bass 
minnow casting. In the first place, there is a wide differ- 
ence in the tools and tackle of the two modes of angling. 
Tn tie second place, the methods themselves are essentially 
different. Thus, casting for striped bass is practiced by 
using both hands, and an overhand cast, while in black bass 
casting but one hand, and an underband cast, isused. In 
the striped bass contest for light casting a sinker of one and 
a half ounces is allowed, while in a black bass class the 
sinker should not exceed a half ounce inweight; personally, 
I would prefer one of a quarter of an ounce. 

Should the committee having the matter in charge decide 
to try the experiment of presenting a contest for black bass 
minnow casting at_the next tournament, I will be pleased to 
give my views on the rules and regulations to govern such a 
contest; and, also, will use my best endeavors to procure 
some of the prizes for the same, and strive to be present in 
person at said tournament. Yours, very respectfully, 

J. A. HeNSHALL. 

The chairman stated that he favored the idea of Dr, Hen- 
shall, and had so replied to him, The Doctor had again 
Written the following: oy 
CyrnTai4na, Ky., June 20, 1884, 
Mr. Henry P. MeGoun, Chairman, ete., N. Y.: 

- Dear Srr—Your favor of the 17th inst. to hand, Iam 
pleased to know that you think well of my suggestion, and 
will advocate a black bass bait-casting contest at next tourna- 
ment. I wrote you that I thought I could procure some of 
the prizes for same, To-day I received a letter from Thos, H. 
Chubb, who says he will donate a ‘‘Henshall rod” and a 
“Fenshall reel,”’ and from Mr, B. C. Milam, who will donate 
a Frankfort black bass reel, latest pattern: Others will, I 
am sure, respond at my request. 

Yours very truly, 


J. A. ENSHALI,. 
Mr. Endicott thought the plan of Dr. Henshall was, judi-. 
cious, Two years ago the Doctor thought that a one-ounce 


P a 
sinker would represent the minnow, and that was the weight 
used in light striped bass casting, and, therefore, there would — 
be a sameness between the two styles. Now that Dr, Hen- 
shall has changed his views as to the weight of the minnow, — 
or its representative, he favored a black bass class, and 
moved that at the proper time a committee be appointed to 
draw rules for this class. Carried. 

Mr. Van Cleef asked what was the actual weight of the 
minnow used for casting for black bass. Mr. Mather replied 
that in his experience such minnows would vary from thirty 
to fifty to the pound. 

The Chairman then appointed the following sub-commit- 
tees: 

Grounds—M. B. Brown, J. L, Vallotton, J. Geddes, T, 


-Magoun, 


Reception—Hon, R. B. Roosevelt, Isaac Townsend, L. W. 
Winchester, L.. Wright, Rey. H. L. Ziegenfuss. 

Trout Casting—J. Benkard, C, Yan Brunt, J. 8. Van 
Cleef, H. Weston, C. H. Mallory, W. B. Lord. 

Heavy Bass Casting—J. L. Vallotton, 8, M, Blatchford, 
H. P. McGown, F. Endicott. i 

Light Bass Casting—E. G. Blackford, Dr, J. C, Ken- 
worthy, Prof. A. M. Mayer, F. Endicott, 

Salmon Casting—J. C. McAndrew, C, Van Briint, C. B. 
Evarts, D. W. Cross. ; yn: : 

Black Bass Casting—Dr. J; A. Henshall, Dr, E. Bradley, 
W. ©. Harris, Dr. J. C. Kenworthy. 

Prizes—F. Endicott, F. Mather, H. P, McGown. 

Programme—E. G. Blackford, F, Mather, M. B. Brown, 

It was decided to adopt Rules 1 to 10 of last year’s pro- 
gramme and leave the others to the special committees. The 
meeting then adjourned to meet on Aug. 4, when it is ex- 
pected that the sub committees will report, 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES; 


Qorr shell crabs have never been more plentiful than at 
\) present. Quantities of them are bein# sent to oiir 
inarket from the near New Jersey bays, and are attracting a 
more than tisual number of weakfish into these waters. This, 
a8 well as an absence of bluefish thus far, has made angling 
for weakfish excellent. 

White catfish have begun to run from the Delaware River 
up into the tributaries of this stream. Just now is about the 
ending of their spawning season and their flesh is not in as 
good order for the table as it will be next month. At Bet- 
terton white perch have begun to bite, but the fish are run- 
ning small. It is not until the middle of August or first of 
September that the large perch at this famous fishing ground 
are taken. 

Some large black bass have been caught in the Susquehanna 
River this month, a short distance above the bridge which 
crosses the stream from Perryville to Havre de Grace. I be- 
lieve Charley Vogel, of Philadelphia, was the first to dis- 
cover that the black bass congregated in any great numbers 
at this section of the Susquehanna. Heat once began fish- 
ing for them and being very successful in taking large fish, 
has followed it up every year since. But few black bass 
have been caught in the Schuylkill near this city this season, 
Sawmont Dam, about the nearest ground where any siticcess 
could be had, bids fair hereafter to be the center of sculling 
interest, as the river at this point offers a grand course for 
racing and was selected as a better site forthe late Collegiate 
controversy, than the old one on the Schuylkill at Rockland 
and Laurel Hill. So it may be expected that the patient 
bass fishermen after this will move up the river further if he 
does not wish to be disturbed. ; 

Perkiomen Creck, where it empties into the Schuylkill, 
will now be more frequently visited than formerly by bass 
fishermen, and I believe it to be the most likely ground near 
Philadelphia that can be reached and returned from in one 
day and find a day’s fishing. ; ; } 

The Schuylkill is very muddy since the rain of the 26th, 
the accumulated dust of over a fortnight has been washed 
into the stream, rendering all attempts at bass fishing, tor 
some time to come, useless, Homo, 
JUNE 28, 


ee 


GONE TO THE BASS ELYSIUM. 


A® “elysium of perennial bass” is good. The time was 

when to the editorial fancy the seeker for that land of 
the blessed had for his incentive houris, promised, in proph- 
ecy and song, dwellers in cloud land, where the dancers 
were never weary and the harp was never silent. Later, 
the dream of the sanctum sought its realization and looked 
for the locus of the myth in the vicinity of Hoboken. But 
now a revelation has come to the man of the pen; he has 
found a new elysium, its reward is ‘‘perennial bass,” and 
straightway, with all the liberality of the craft, he proceeds 
to give it away; it is in Canada, “somewhere in the woods 
up there.” Truthful James says 


“that itis not a proper plan 

Por any editorial gent to whale his brother man, 

And if a fellow don’t agree with his peculiar whim, 
To lay for that same feller for to put a head on him,” 


Now that the thing is out, we drop our traps fora moment 
and closing our ears to the wail of M. ‘‘perennial” dolomieu, 
crying to us from far off Frontenac to come and take them in 
out of the wet, turn to say good-bye to Forrst AND STREAM. 
You ‘‘hope we will have good luck,” thanks! Yes, ‘*Truth- 
ful James,” and‘‘'Wawayanda” and the “Reformer”—the 
latter so called by reason of his bearing the uname of Luther 
—“‘are going.” No, ‘‘the choice of hunting rifles” and “the 
performance of shotguns” don’t interest us and probably 
won’t, unless the persistence of the Reformer in using worms 
for bait may induce us to take some stock in the latter. 
“Shall you send us that?”—No, thanks, the Reformer raises 
an objection, something about “duty” or ‘‘custom,” which 
he don’t just get hold of, although Truthful James observes 
that ‘‘custom cannot stale ifs infinite variety;” perhaps we 
can get hold of it easier in Canada—the objection we mean— 
when the Reformer has had the time to explain. 

Oh yes, certainly we shall “keep an eye out for ‘babbling 
spring brooks’ and ‘clear cool spring water,’ ” for we are in- 
formed that in these Canadasurpasses Michigan, at least that 
portion of the State which lies along the fiery path of the 
Kingfishers. There, Truthful James says: ; 


“The wells are empty and choked with sand, 
And the springs have perished from the land." 


Itis this wanton destruction by sportsmen that has so 
prejudiced the rural resident against us as a class. a 
x o such things ever happened on the Bigosh; that beauti- 


ful stream rolls its burden, as of old, undiminished to the 
lake, and yet a tired angler camped and gazed for weeks on 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Aaa ro : 
e -waters.with never a temptation to impair in the least its 
facilities for navigation. 

But we must be off. Cross havds with Truthful James 
and us, lay the same with your blessing on the head of the 
Reformer, and be assured that whatever flotsam may 
drift under our canvas or beach itself onthe borders of 
our camp-fire, whether the same be catch, strike or bite; 
that whatever of inspiration may come from the pines, the 
balsams or the hemlocks, these the lone campers will send 
you with their grecting—Auf Wiedersehen. 


Bass in LAKE OnvTARIO.—Oswego, N. Y., June 27.—Now 
that the season is fairly open—tor in this country we don't 
count May 20, but wait until the ice breaks up—I may be 
permitted to tell you of our bass catches in Lake Ontario 
within ten miles of the mouth of the famed Oswego. Tor at 
least three weeks, at Lake View, Pleasant Point, Mexico 
Point, Texas and Ford’s Shoals, points both east and west 
from the city along the lake shore, the bass fishing has been 
perfect; and by perfect I mean this, that two fishermen with 
a boat, from 3 P. M. until dark, could catch from ten to 
thirty small-mouth black bass, none of them less than a pound 
in weight and some of them tipping the beam at from two 
and a half to three pounds, with an occasional big-mouth 
thrown in that might go even four pounds. Catches have 
ranged from eight fish weighing thirteen pounds, to thirty- 
seven fish weighing over eighty pounds, in an afternoon. 
This, too, when ten or twelye parties were fishing, each with 
a larve basketful at night, and there are more left. Wedo 
our fishing in the lake at thie season with trolling, minnow 
and fly. Later in the season fly alone. Night before last a 
bass that weighed four pounds was caught in the river 
within twenty rods of the heart of the city. —Lex. 


left, it is invaluable. Trip Pond, in Minot, Gardiner’s Pond, 
in Wiscasset; Gun Point Ice Company Pond, ii Harpswell; 
Hosmer Pond, in Rockport, Keazer’s Heald, and Cushman 
ponds in Lovell, and Little Pushaw, in Corinth, have all 
been stocked with bass this past year.” 

Messrs. E. M. Stillwell and Hon. H. O. Stanley, in the report 
for 1883, report as follows: ‘‘The black bass is still growing 
in popular fayor. We have had more orders this year for 
stocking ponds than in our power to fill. The great success 
met with at Pushaw Lake; the number and size of the fish 
taken, some turning the scales at four and one-half pounds, 
tend to popularize fish protection and fish planting; the in- 
crease in the product of fish, the result of the suppression of 
netting, all tended to produce a great and beneficial change 
in the public mind, giving firm and even enthusiastic support 
where hitherto we have been met by active opposition. ew- 
ae and Glenborn can now boast of two of the most beamti- 

ul and productive lakes in the State, destined in the future to 
become popular places of summer resort for devotees of boat- 
ing and angling, and where pretty cottage residences may be 
built for family homes at but trifling cost, and where easy 
access to telegraph and railroad would render their oceupants 
scarcely conscious of absence from city comforts. Cobossee- 
contee, Snow and Belgrade lakes are places of marked beauty 
and healthfulness, easy of access and where facilities for boat- 
ing and angling are unsurpassed. Homes for hundreds whose 
lives are dependent upon country air and exercise can be 
made in cottage and tent, while the expense of the more 
fashionable places of resort bars them from all but those of 
large means. We often wonder that our city residents do not 
appreciate at how small a cost a pretty summer cottage can 
be built upon the shore of any of these beautiful Jakes, 
abounding in fish, with health and exercise, and freedom from 
all the cares of city life.” 

Tn a letter dated Dixfield, Me., April 27, 1884, Mr. Stanley 
writes: “Yours of the 24th received. With regard to blac 
bass, [ know we have them here in preat abundance, the num- 
ber of ponds we haive stocked (all pickere! ponds) L think will 
reach to the hundreds. Wherever you put half a dozen, they 
are sure to take and will be heard from in two or three years. 
I have taken bass of two and one-half pounds in a pond that 
had only been stocked two years, and with young fry, so they 
could not be over two and one-half years old. There hag 
been a great demand for them in our State, and in many pond 
there is good bass fishing where there was none whatever 
before. I think they are a fish that cannot be thinned out by 
fishing with hook and line, I haye met with the best success 
with the fly from dusk till 10 P. M. at night, fishing close in 
shore in very shoal water, haye caught large fish when it was 
so dark I could not tell, casting from a boat, whether my fly 
struck on shore or in the water, and only knew I struck a fish 
by feeling the tug or hearing the splash. The Winthrop 
Ponds, Cobosseecontee, one of the ponds you stocked, Lake 
Maranocook and in all that chain of lakes,is good, I have 
taken in one afternoon in Cobosseecontee, sixty pounds. of 
from two to three and a half pounds each. Thereis also fine 
fishing in Belgrade ponds, Pushaw Pond, Bangor, and in 
scores of others. I mention these as they are easy of access by 
rail, and good accommodation can be had at hotels and farm 
houses, and at lowrates. Also pleasant places to camp. The 
inhabitants are always glad to welcome sportsmen and 
visitors, and accommodate thera with boats and information at 
low rates. [ think the black bass are a great benefit to Maine.” 

a 


WAWAYANDA. 


BASS IN LAKE MADISON. 


Qs Monday last, E. LL. Healy of this place caught at Lake 
Madison a black bass that weighed seven and one-half 
pounds. Onthe same day, Mrs. Geo, A. Clark, of Man- 
kato, took one “tin out of the wet” that ‘kicked the beam” 
at exactly seven pounds. Thisis no ‘‘fisherman’s guess” 
as to the weight of the fish, but the true weight as indicated 

* by a pocket scale carried by one of our party. Ithink Lam 
justified in culling them-a couple of fine fish. 

Lake Madison is located in Blue Harth county, Minn., and 
is about ten miles irom the city of Mankato. It is reached 
by way of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to Eagle 
Lake station, and from thence overland fourmiles. It is 
one of the most attractive sheets of water in the Northwest, 

-having about thirty miles of shore line, with high banks 
heavily timbered down to the water's edge, aud a number of 
high points projecting into the lake. On one of these is 
situated the Point Pleasant House, kept by Capt. John Fos- 
ter, an old Mississippi steamboat captain, well-known to a 
large portion of the traveling public of the Northwest, who 
Spares no pains to make it pleasant for visitors at the lake. 

Asa fishing ground for bass it has few equals in Minne- 
sota, Thirty bass, weighing one hundred and_ sixteen 
pounds, were the best afternoon’s catch of two of our party, 
during our recent visit. If your readers in the Northwest 
wint afew days’ splendid sport in a delightful locality. let 
them make a trip to Lake Madison. Cosby sie. 

MarsHann, Minn., June 25, 1884, 


A Tre Postponep,—Our well-known correspondent, 
“‘Piseco” (Capt. L. A. Beardslee, of the Navy), had a trout 
fishing trip to Maine planned for June. Messrs. Cheney, 
Wells, and others had given him directions just where to go, 
and if we are not mistaken were going with him. Routes 
were studied up, tackle prepared, all was 1eady, and 
“Piseco” impatiently waited for his expected leave of 
absence. A document finally came from the Secretary of 
the Navy, but instead of a leave of absence it was an assign 
ment to the command of the U. 8. 8. Powhatan, and instead 
of taking in some of those big Maine trout, ‘‘Piseco” is now 
on his way to the Huropean squadron. 


Strarn Forest Preservarion.—Albany, N. Y., June 28. 
—Comptroller Chapin has appointed, to investigate and 
report upon fhe system of forest preservation, Prof. Charles 
8. Sargent, of Harvard University; William A. Poucher, of 
Oswego; D. Willis James, of New York, and Edward M. 
Shepard, of Brooklyn. The appointees are to serve without 
compensation, as their expenses are likely to consume nearly 
all of the appropriation. 


PROTECTION OF COAST FISHERIES. 


HE following is a summary of the amended bill, entitled 
“A Bill for the Protection of Fisheries on the Atlantic 
Coast,” reported by Hon. H. G. Lapham, of New York, in 
the Senate of the United States: 
Be té enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States in Congress assembled: 

Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or 
persons, by day or night, to put, place, haul, draw, or in 
any Mapper use any purse net, pound, fyke, weir or other 
appliance for the capture of menhaden or mackerel upon the 
high seas within three miles of the Atlantic coast, or in any 
arm of the sea, river, ete., prior to the ist of June, south of 
a line drawn easterly from the southern cane of Chesapeake 
Bay, and prior to the 1st of July north of said line. 

See. 2 probibits the capture of any fish prior to those dates, 
and in the places described, for the manufacture of oil or 
fertilizing material. 

Sec. 8 makes persons convicted liable to a penalty of not 
Jess than ten nor more than one thousand dollars, which shall 
go to the U. 8. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 

Sec. 4 Any boat, nets, or apparatus used. hired or 
ae to violate this act, shall be forfeited, coufiscated, and 
sold, ; 

See, 5 provides that such boats, nets, etc., shall be liable 
for the penalty imposed by Section 3. 

Sec, 6. Al) nets in menhaden or mackerel fisheries shall 
have meshes-not less than one and a half inches, bar measure, 
under penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars for each offense. 


MAryLANnd.—Brady’s, Md., June 23.—The open season for 
bass on the Upper Potomac began June 1, but the catch is 
very light, owing, I believe, to the negligence and delay of 
the State Fish Commissioners in erecting ladders on Dams 
Nos. 5, 6and7. Very few fish over one pound are taken 
above No, 7, at Cumberland. Woodcock are scarce, but 
there is a splendid prospéet for quail this fall:—411-44, 


Prrrsrrecp, Mass., June 80.—The Rod and Gun Clubheld 
a meeting Saturday evening and appointed committees to 
see about their encampment at Onota Lake. They expect 
to be im camp some weeks. They will have notices printed 
and sent about the county notifying the people that. they 
must not fish for trout after Sept. 1 this year, which is a 
month eqplier-than in previous years. — 


LOBSTER PROTECTION. 


*T last a strong step has been taken in the right direction 
toward enforcing what is known as the ten-ineh lobster 
law here. The statutes of Massachusetts provide that ‘*‘Who- 
ever sells or offers for sale, or has in his possession with intent 
to sell, either directly or indirectly, a lcbster less than ten and 
a half inches in length, measuring from one extreme of the 
body extended to the other, exclusive of claws or feelers, shall 
forfeit five dollars for every such lobster, and in all prosecu- 
tions under this section the possession of any lobster not of the 
required length shall be prima facie evidence to convict.” Not- 
withstanding the fact that the law would appear to be strong: 
enough, yet it has been constantly broken, and it has been ex- 
tremely difficult to secure the conyiction of guilty parties, The 
lobsters under size have generally been left out of sight, How- 
ever, and used to supply other retail markets. 

But the lobster trade itself has at last become alarmed at 
the general destruction of this valuable crustacean, Commis- 
sioner E. M, Stillwell, of Maine, when here a year ago, tried 
to induce some concert of action with his State toward pro- 
tection of the lobster, but did not succeed in any marked de- 
gree, Messrs. John Fottler, Walter M. Brackett, fF. R. Shat- 
tuck, and several other members of the Fish and Ganie Pro- 
tective Association here have taken great interest in the sub- 
ject and tried to see that the law was enforced, but their 
efforts have been sustained by no State force until now. 

An informal meeting of the association was called on 
Wednesday evening, when several men from the lobster trade 
were present and pledged both money and influence to aid in 
enforcing the lobster law. Commissioner of Internal Fisheries 
EB. A. Brackett, has also obtained promise from State author- 
ities of all the aid he may require in the way of detectives and 
officers to enforce thelaw. Itisnow believed by the friends 
of lobster protection that matters are in a fair way to make 
those who have been in the habit of supply other markets with 
lobsters uuder size sick of the business. They hope that the 
day has gone by when a barrel of under-sized lobsters can 
easily be hustled out of sight before an officer can be obtained. 
Much of the work will probably be done by detectives. 

SPECIAL, 


Novet Brot of FAare.—The Lake View House, Elk 
Rapids, Mich., prints on its bill of fare a record of the fish 
caught in the vicinity. The bill for June 22 sums up the 
season’s catch to date as 778 trout and 166 bass. They were 
not all taken by hook and line; some were netted, 


Sishculture, 


BLACK BASS IN MAINE. 
[A paper read before the American Fishcultural Association. | 
BY GEO, SHEPARD PAGE, 


T is often difficult to determine the exact date, or obtain 
reliable information as to the original introduction of a 
new species of food fish into a river or lake, and particularly 
to ascertain the facts relative to the stocking of the water of 
a State for the firsttime. This is important, not only that 
the agents in the work shall be placed on record, but chiefly 
that we may know definitely the time required to disseminate 
fish over a large territory in such numbers that the people 
can rely upon them for food and sport. Experience with the 
black bass in Maine is one of the most pertinent and effective 
illustrations of the value of such labor. 

In August, 1869, accompanied by four friends, I left New 
York by Hudson River afternoon steamer for Newburgh. 
Arriving there about 7 P. M., my transportation box was 
conyeyed to the small private pond of Mr. Walter Brown. 
At daylight the next morning we literally surrounded the 
pond and began casting the fly, In an hour, thirty-five 
small-mouthed bass were placed in the box, and at 7 A. M. the 
steamer Mary Powell started with us for the metropolis, Ar- 
riving there at 11 A. M., the box containing forty gallons of 
water and thirty-five bass from one-quarter pound to a pound 
weicht, was taken to the dock of the Fall River line, and a 
stream of Croton water turned on until 5 P, M, Arrangements 
were made with the night watchman to work the air pump 
at intervals. Arriving in Boston an Carers Wagon conveyed 
the box to the Eastern Railroad, and during the jowmey at 
intervals of fifteen minutes I aerated the water by the use of 
the air pump. At3P, M. the train reached Monmouth in 
Maine, about fifty miles northeast of Portland. Very near 
the railroad station is Cochnewagn Pond. I selected twelve 
bass and quickly transferred them to the pond. The train 
moved on and a few minutes later arrived at Winthrop. A 
wagon was hired and the box taken to Hast Winthrop, four 
tiles distant, and twenty-one bass were liberated at the head 
water of the famous Cobosseecontee Pond, the largest of a 
chain of lakes thirty milesin length. Piacing the remaining 
pair of bass in a three-gallon pail, I started by team for Phil- 
lips, Franklin county, forty miles away. On the route one of 
them died. The remarkable vitality of the bass is exhibited 
in a strong light in view of the mode of capture, long and dif- 
ficult transportation and mid-summer temperature. 

The following October Mr, Charles G. Atkins, then Commis- 
sioner of Fisheries of Maine, procuring my transportation box, 
took thirty-nine bassifirom Mr. Brown's pond, which he placed in 
Duck Pond, near Portland, Me. Sofar as I know theseseventy- 
four were the first and only black bass deposited in Maine 
waters. Fourteen years haye elapsed, mark the gratifying 
results; The report of Hon. Henry O. Stanley, Commissioner 
of Fisheries for Maine for 1881, contains the following: ‘‘The 
black bass, prying vO its very game qualities, continues to bea 
favorite fish with anglers, and applications for introduction 
are received be RaS the power of the Commissioners to 


Trey FisHeD FoR THE Por.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 
Thad the novel experience last week of fishing a pool that 
had never been fished, bringing home-a basket of four dozen 
as the result ofa little over an hour’s work with the rod. 
The largest trout weighed a pound and a quarter and the 
smallest six ounces. Il was at the Lake House in Point de 
Bute, New Brunswick, and a friend offering me a seat in his 
boat we proceeded down the Portage Lake to Beach 
Point, when by dint of dragging and pushing the boat. for 
neatly 4 mile through a channel almost grown up with alders 
and *‘hard-hacks,” we reached Duck Lake run, at the point 
sought. Our tackle consisted of a couple of mackerel hooks 
suspended from alder poles by coarse linen lines, with sheet 
lead for sinkers and angle worms as thick as one’s little 
finger for bait. Being a guest, I reframed from criticising 
the outfit, and 1 was glad afterward, for my companion 
knew his business, and we had no more than got the boat 
steadied after dropping anchor, before he gave a seventeen- 
ounce trout what he called the ‘parliamentary yank,” and 
Janded him in the boat unaided by gaff or landing net, with 
the mackerel hook imbedded in a hold strong enough to lift 
ashad, The trout were very unsophisticated and unused to 
worm dict, and each time the hook was lowered it seemed to 
be arace among them to see who would get on first, with 
the adds in favor of the largest. 1am free to admit it was 
not yery scientific work, but then I never took much stock 
in fishing asa fine art, and the weight of the “pot” was a 
great satisfaction. The supply seemed to be unlimited,—B, 


Boston, June 20. 


SALMON FOR THE ANDROSCOGGINS. 


HE Fish Commissioners of New Hampshire have awarded 
10,600 salmon fry to Umbagog Lake, the lowest of the 
Androscoggin chain, and a part of which is in Maine and a 
part in the first-mentioned State. Last Monday, Fish Com- 
roissioner EK. B. Hodge left Plymouth in the morning: with the 
10,000 young fry in cans. At Groyeton Junction he missed 
the Grand Trunk train, necessitating a delay of three hours, 
in consequence of which he did not reach North Stratford till 
10:40 o’clock, Here he was met by Capt. Charles A. J. Farrar, 
of steamboat fame on the Androscoggin lakes, The Captain 
had a team ready, and after procuring a supply of ice to reg- 
ulate the temperature of the water in the cans, they started 
with the precious freight of 10,000 living fish for the long 
drive of nearly twenty miles to Errol Dam, at the foot of the 
Umbagoeg. 

Hrrol was reached without accident at-about 5 o’clock A. 
M., and it was found that the fish had stood the journey re- 
markably well. Only afew were dead, which were at once © 
removed trom the cans, By little steamer the living fry were 
taken up to Sunday Cove at the head of the lake, and thence 
-three miles by buckboard up the Rapid River, which flows 
five miles from the Middle Dam, Richardson Lake, to Um- 
bagog. Into a little stream, which flows into the river near 
the camps of the Oxford Club, a part of the fish were put, and 
the balance into the river itself. Within ten minutes after 
the fish were liberated from the cans they might be seen 
feeding and moving about as quietly as though they had not 
been hatched and planted for the future delectation of the 
angler, The planting of thsee fish is regarded as successful, 
since out of the whole 10,000 not more than 500 died from 
transportation. 


Lares LAxe Trour.—The Montreal Wétness says: “Lately 
Capt. W. H. McLeod, who is running one of the fishing 
boats belonging to Mr. D. McLeod, an extensive fish dealer 
in Southampton, caught an immense salmon trout, weigh- 

ing 80 pounds, measuring from the point of its nose to the 
end of its tail 6 feet 2 inches, and around the thickest part 

of its body 34 inches. The head was 10 inches in length, 

and the width of the tail, from point to point, was 12 inches. 

_ This is the largest fish of that species ever caught in that 
‘section, The monster was packed in ice and consigned to 

Mr, Furey, of Woodstock, where it is now held far exhibi- 

tion. ; ps 


LARGE TroutT.—New London, Conn,, June 21.—Strolling 
through the town, where I am a stranger, 1 noticed in the 
store of W. 8. Chappell two platters, each containing a large 
trout. On entering, I learned that they were three pounders, 
and were caught by Mr. F. H. Chappell, who also had a 
larger one of eight and three-quarter pounds on another 

platter, which he was showing to some friends. The fish 


E53 by 4 poary 5. Mig : eas spe wn rt te 5 tify, It should never be introduced into any waters where| ‘To Prof. Hodge much credit is due, Hehastaken great 
’ Bil hee ecu crey ae eal te eave i there ave trout, or from whence it, can gain access to trout | pains with his charge, and in his efforts for successful trans- 
Duets best A mee ths son dake, Me: wit 2 | streams. For ponds, whose stock of trout has been. ex- | portation he was seconded by Capt, Farrar. Both gentlemen 

dy.. The fish was very shapely for one’so Jarge.—Poxn-0- | hausted by poachers, whomurder the fish in their spawning | are pleased at being able to plant nearly 10,000 onde. Saaien 

3 ONSHINE, + =. a = beds, and where only yellow perch, bream, and pickerel. are!in the headwaters of this, once one o ,the most famous trout 


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450 


lakes of the Androscoggin chain. But the wise foolishness 
which hung about fisheulture twenty-five or thirty years ago 
put pickerel into this lake. Their shark-like propensities for 
destroying other fish long ago completely used up the small 
trout, leaying only the “old settlers,” too big to be eaten. 
But, as is usually the case with pickerel, they long ago began 
to prey upon the young of their own species, and are believed 
to Be fast disappearing from the lake. 

Under such circumstances it has been deemed expedient to 
try landlocked salmon in those waters. It is believed by the 
Maine and New Hampshire Commissioners, and others who 
have made the subject a study, that the salmon small fry re- 
main in the streams where they are planted till they are large 
enough to take care of themselves as against pickerel and 
other enemies found in the lake below. When old enough, 
they descend to the lake, as do the sea salmon to the sea, 
always returning at the breeding season to deposit their eggs 
out of danger in the very waters where the present fish them- 
selves prew up. If such be the true theory, and all the dis- 
coveries of the past dozen years point that way, and fish plant- 
ing is kept up, we, good readers of the FOREST AND STREAM, 
may yet find noble sport with the landlockers in the Umbagog. 

SPECIAL. 

Boston. 


HATCHING SHAD IN SPRING WATER.—It has always 
been thought by fishculturists that river water is necessary to 
the development of shad eggs, but papecine at Cold Spring 
Harbor bas proved that this is not only not the case, but that 
spring water is best. Mr. Mather, the Superintendent of the 
hatchery there, asked the United States Fish Commissioners 
for a few hundred eggs to test in spring water. Highty thou- 
sand shad eges from the Potomac River were forwarded to 
him and they were placed in the McDonald hatching jars, and 
hatched with not only a slight percentage of loss but without 
the development of fungus on the dead eggs. The fry, some 
78,000, were placed inthe Nissequogue River, at Smithtown, 
Long Island. The advantage that may be derived from this 
experiment is, that in future the distribution of shad eggs will 
probably be from the central hatchery at Washington to all 
points where there are hatcheries, instead of sending the fish 
aiter hatching and paying charges on the water that they re- 
quire, an item of importance when it is considered that an en- 
tire car with 2,000,000 shad fry is often sent to States as dis- 
tant as Califorma and Texas.—Long Islander. 


Answers ta Correspondents. 


(> No Notice Taken of Aronymous Correspondents. 


W, D, W.—See our game columns for moose hunting grounds. 


C.W.C., Woodside, N Y¥.—The New York law permits the coliec- 
tion of song birds for scientific purposes. 


A ReabeR.—Do shad take the fiy, and if so at what season of year 
and where are they caught? Ans, Shad are taken with the fly at 
Holyoke, Mass., from July 1 to August, 


Novice. New York,—1. What hook and size is best for worm fishing 
for brook trout in streams where the fish seldom attain one pound 
weight? 2. When split shot has been applied to the gut and it is not 
necessary to haye it on any more, how can the same be removed best 
withoutinjury to the gut? Ans. 1, Try a Sproat hook, No.1 or 2, the 
latter is the smaller. 2%. Open the shot gently with a pocket knife, If 
the gut is injured, cut if and wet the ends and tie it. 


0. GO, W., Warren County, N. Y.—I wish to ask you some questions 
concerning the black bass in Brant Lake, this county. Isay you can- 
not catch bass while they sre spawning. The bass have beds within 
ten feet of my shore, Can I not protect, for some distance, the wa- 
ters around my land? Hounds from below and other places, come 
here and troll with live bait, oyer the beds, and bass will always take 
the minnow. Can I only prosecute for trespass, if I can protect 
waters about my own land, or will I haye the only remedy of inform- 
ing on these fishermen (God save the mark!) to the game constable? 
Some people here say the law isup June 1; Isay not. The bass are 
now, at this writing, spawning all around my shore. I am sure one 
old rascal hooked a bass within twenty feet of my shore from the 
beds. Last year Il was away at this time of the year, and so was not 
able to locate the beds, and only last week hiye I been able to do go 
this year, there having been so many storms of wind and rain this 
season. Ans. The law of New Yorkallows black bass fishing from 
June 1 to Jan. 1, except in the following waters: Lake Mahopac or 
Dutchess county, July 1: Lake George, July 20; Schroon Lake or 
riyer, Paradox Lake, in the counties of Essex or Warren, July 1. 
You can forbid persons to enter your premises, and bring action for 
trespass, unless it could be proven that Brant Lake is part of the 
Schroon River, into which it empties. 


glew Publications. 


A Booxe or Fisnine wir Hooke anp Linz.—This rare old work, 
by Leonard Mascall, 1590, has been reprinted, with a preface, by 
Thomas Satchell, 19 Tavistock street, London. It is a yery curious 
work, and contains much of interest to anglers as well as fishcul- 
turists. We find so many quaint things in it that we propose to make 
a few extracts from the book in a future number. It is well printed, 
aud tha illustrations are jfac-similes of the original. 


BOOKS RECEIVED. 


Puato’s Repusiic.—A critique of pure unreason. By Paul Pastnor, 
Burlington, Vt.: Paul Pastnor, 1883, 


THE Diet QurEstion, piving the reason why. By Susanna W. Dodds, 
M.D. New York: Fowler & Wells Co,, 1884. 


To Mexico By PALAcE Car. By Jas. W. Steele. 
McClurg & Co., 1684. Price twenty-five cents, 


HANDBOOK OF THE S7. NicHoLaAs AGassiz ASsociATion. By Harlan 
fi. Ballard, Lenox, Mass,: Published by the author. 


RUSTLINGS IN THE Rocks; hunting and fishing by mountain and 
shige By G. O. Shields (Coguina). Chicago: Belford, Olarke & 
O., $ 


Tae Countess or Monrs-Oristo. Being the companion to Alex- 
ander Dumas’s ‘Count of Monte-Cristo.’’ Philadelphia: F. B. Peter- 
son & Bros., 1884. 


Chicago; Jansen, 


WHAT THEY SAY OF “WOODCRAFT.” 
A DELIGHTFUL little work has just been issued by the Forest and 

Stream Publishing Company, of this city, It is entitled ‘“Wood- 
craft,” and is wiitten by one who assumes the pseudonym *Nessmuk,"’ 
In just less than 150 pages the author inducts us mto many of the 
secrets of a “‘craft’’ which is certainly as wonderful in its way as 
many that are practiced among the city’s brick and stone. He reveals 
to us all that can be done with knapsack, hatchet, knives, tin ware, 
rods, fishing tackle and dilty-bag. He emphasizes the difference be- 
tween roughing it and smoothing it, and tells how to make both 
camps aud camp-fires. He explains the tactics of fishing, either with 
or without flies, and devotes two full chapters to the very important 
subject of cooking. The book is written seriously and with a pur- 
pose, yet there is nothing heavy in the manner in which the themes 
are handled. It is the peculiarity of an author who is full of his sub- 
ject that he remains full after haying exhausted himself without ex- 
hausting the reader. This is eminently true of ‘‘Nessmuk.”’—Wew 
York Hvening Telegram. 


$290,000 was paid ee for claims under the Ufe policies of the 
Travelers, of Hartford, Oonn., and $1,154,000 to life and accident 
claimnants together —Adv. 


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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


Sept, 16, 1” and 18.—Collie Bench Show and Field Trials of the 
Ontario Collie Club, Toronto, Ont, Mr. H.J_ Hill, Secretary, Toronto. 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Olub. Mr, Benj. 
CO, Satterthwaite, Secretary. 

Oct. 5, 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn. HE. 8, Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 

Oct, 21,22, 23. and 24,—Non-sporting Bench Show of the Westminster 
Kennel Olub, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Charles 
Lincoln, Superintendent. 


A. K. R. 


Cage AMNRICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

pedigrees, ete, (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 
lished every month, Entries close on the ist, Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope, 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in adyance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,’ P. 0. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1819. VolumeL, bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.5¢, 


POINTERS AT THE NEW YORK SHOW, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Now that the numerous members of the W.K.C. have so 
gracefully retired from the controversy, I will be brief in my 
reply to them, Let me first ask you to correct two slight 
errors in my last letter. You credit me with saying Sensation 
won second prize at a little Saturday afternoon show held at 
Oswestry, England. The dog won third prize on that occasion 
and therefore took the prize money—half a crown (sixty 
cents). The letter from an English breeder relating to Bang 
Bang should read as follows: ‘‘Bang Bang did win first prize, 
but the class was a wretchedly bad one. The opinion here is 
that the American who paid £50 for him got his fingers well 
bitten. The dog has another fault besides those named by 
you.” Mr. Cornell states that “every insinuation” and ‘direct 
accusation” conyeyed in my “intemperate” letter are false. 
In the first place, there were no insinuations in that letter, and 
in the second, every statement contained therein is as true as 
steel, and Iam prepared to prove such to be the case, My 
letter contained nothing but hard facts—the truth, mere denial 
of which is no argument, and only proves the inability of Mr. 
Cornell and his club to reply. There is still a chance for Mr, 
Cornell to redeem himself. I hold proof that the W.K.C. 
desired to purchase Beaufort for $500, Mr, Nixon refused to 
let him go at the money, and I suppose it is only human 
nature that Ma, Cornell and his club should feel disappointed 
and grieved when they saw the dog in the hands of a pointer 
breeder within a few miles from their own kennels. If the 
attempt has been to use Beaufort up, let Mr. Cornell admit it 
like aman. The dog still lives, and he neyer stood so high in 
the opinion of breeders as he stands to-day. It isnot sufficient 
reason to bury in oblivion the grandest dog of his day, simply 
because his owner is not popular with a few inexperienced 
grumblers, and has the misfortune to be one of Her Britannic 
Majesty’s bumble subjects. Our aim should be to improve 
the, beautiful pointer, and not to sacrifice his good looks on 
account of petty jealousy or envy. 

Lhave little to say to Messrs. Ingersoll and Grant, both 
members of the W.K.C, One says something about my 
character and temper, but has omitted to allude to my 
appetite or the cut of my clothes, The other alludes to 
turkeys, pigeons and circuses. Really, Mr. Editor, I thought 
the discussion was of the merits and demerits of certain dogs, 
and if so I do not propose to discuss either poultry or anything 
else. Too many fouls have already been introduced into the 
controversy. ¥ 

Mr. Elliott Smith overrates the performances of Bang 
Bang. The dog was first in England in a-very poor class, and 
second at Cleveland. I pass over the prize won at New York. 
Mr. Smith must advance some substantial argument to show 
the advisability of bre one to a little dog of Bang Bang’s 
type, that gets black and white puppies; so far, he has failed 
to do it. is gentleman wishes it understood that when he 
and Mr. Cornell offered $350 for Beaufort, they had not made 
a thorough examination of the dog. Two gentlemen, therefore, 
who consider themselves judges, offered $350 for a dog with- 
out examining him. That is funny. A little later the 
desired to pay $500 nee any further examination), whic 
seems ridiculous. ho examined Bang Bang before he was 

urchased, I beg respectfully to ask? Come, Mr. Smith, be 
Us You and Mr. Cornell took a great fancy for Beaufort, 
and pronounced him the best pointer you had ever seen. You 
did not care to buy a dog on your own judgment, and so you 
called in the assistance of a gentleman well known in con- 
nection with pointers, a man of undisputed integrity, He 
told you to buy Beaufort, because in his opinion he was the 
grandest dog ever seen—would be a credit to you, and raise 
the standard of your kennel, Is thisnot the truth and nothing 
but the truth? Mr. Nixon stopped the sale of the dog and 
refused to sell at any price. This is biAurs you made no further 
advance, and itis only since I became the lucky owner of the 
dog that you discovered that ‘this hindlegs are crooked.’ 
These are undeniable facts, and the public should know them! 
Further allusion to the matter is unnecessary. 

Mr. Aldrich (who admits he is employed by the W.K.C.) 
considers Beaufort a ‘good-looking big dog,” but not quite 
what he wants. I cannot stop to argue with Mr. Aldrich, for 
one of his best friends tells me he knows nothing about the 
points of a dog. One thing I will say, that is, Mr, Tallman, I 
believe, has pronounced Beaufort the best dog ever seen. Mr. 
Martin, manager for Mr. Goodsell, told me the same thing 


some time ago, and Mr, Mitchell wrote a gentleman in New. 


York City, to call on me, as I could show him the grandest 
pointer that ever stood on four legs, These gentlemen are 
not interested, and it is quite Bien any one of them is as 
good a judge as Mr, T, Aldrich. 

It is a httle late in the day for Mx, Tracy to come forward 
as a judge of dogs, and his adyent was by no means a brilliant 
one, nevertheless [ will give him a short reply, but I wish it 
distinctly understood that I do not intend to discuss dogs 
with this gentleman, not at least until he has shown that he 
has owned and bred good ones. Mr. Tracy says that I seem 
to assume that the judges of public events have hitherto been 
on the average a lot of dolts. What has this got to do with 
my criticism of the ‘‘Pointers at New York.” I assume 
nothing of the kind, bit on the contrary I have a great 

ersonal regard for some pdees: one of whom is Major 
Taylor. I Bee admit that 1 have seen dolts in the judg? 
ring, and it is about time they found the modesty, or regar 
for the feelings of others to stand out. Mr. Tracy next states 
that I have denounced Croxteth, Sensation, and the setter 
Thunder, and continues, ‘“‘all these have been publicly shown 
to be very superior field dogs,” By your courtesy, Mr. Editor, 
I willreply, but are we not getting a little wide of the question 
under discussion? Croxteth I pes over, my opinion of nim is 
well known, but he is a much better dog than Meteor. I do 
not say, neither did I ever say that Sensation was not a fairl 
good field dog. I do Bay: he was never a show dog, and 
repeat that no judge would pay $75 for him when he was for 
sale at that price. I did not consider him 4 goct loclenis do, 
the first time I saw him and I do not consider him a 
looking dog now. Iclaimto have aconscience, I dé 
Thunder was ever a ‘‘superior fleld dog,” or indeed a field_d 


¢ that Te’ 


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[Jory 8, 1884. 


Trials with four or five others—no birds) is the sg proof of 
his superior public field form. No dog formed as Thunder is, 
ever was. or ever will be, a field dog, I had the pleasure of 
meeting the breeder of Thunder not lon ago, and in justice to 
myself and for Mr. Traey’s edification, Cwish to say right here 
that he not only indorsed what L-wrote in the public papers 
twelve months ago, but added that ‘““Phunder is an idiot in 
the field,” Rest assured, Mr. Tracy, that when I write any- 
thing in a public paper about dogs, T am prepared, sooner or 
later, to verify my statements, Even our new judge could 
not see that Thunder’s legs are crooked, and so he painted 
them straight. I quite agree with Mr. Tracy that the qualities 
of some of these dogs have been “privately tested” by so 
many persops as to have become “notorious.” (“Experience 
and fact say they must be well formed for their work, else 
they could not have performed it.”) I once owned a black 
and tan terrier bitch that would tind birds and point them, a 
fact which never made her able to win a prize in a Class for 
pointers, A black setter distinguished himself at some recent 
field trial. That is no reason why he should win on the bench, 
I haye seen a Dalmatian de good work in the field, which 
does not say that any ‘“‘qualified judge” would give him a 
prize in a pointer class, No, no, Mr. Tracy, what we want 
are good-looking good dogs; such as Hamlet, Rap, Wage, 
Bang, Bow Bells, my own dog Don II. and many others, 
Such dogs are not bred every day. Neither are they the 
results of breeding at random from interior sires crossed on 
the most unsuitable dums. 

lf Mr. Tracy judged the dogs at New York, as he says he 
did, regardless of bench show standards, every exhibitor who 
showed under him (I did not and never will) can legally claim 
his entrance money, for one of the rules stated that the doves 
were to be judged by the standard laid down by Stonehenge 
in ‘Dogs of the British Islands.” I am gladitis now admitted 
the dogs were not judged after any recognized standard, Who 
ever thought that they were? 

Mr, Tracy alludes to an avalanche of personalities. ‘The 
only personal remarks so far have come from the W. K. ©. 
through Messrs, Cornell and Ingersoll; Mr, Tracy contents 
himself with insinuations. I hate personal allusions in a dis- 
cussion of this kind, but I do like facts—hard as granite—and 
those who cannot face the music had better not enter into a 
discussion of the relative merits of dogs with your humble 
servant. Cras, H, Mason. 

TOMPEKINSVILLE, 8. J., June 28, 1834, 


Editor Forest and Stream: é 
Ll -was very much surprised to find a protest in your issue of 
June 19, signed by forty, said to be exhibitors, a number of 
which I fail to tind in ‘the catalogue, and also that of T, B, 
Dorsey, as he declared in yonr issue of June 5 that he had 
never seen Meteor and would not pretend to say whether Mr. 
Sterling was wrong or not. Jt looks rather hard when men 
like this, who claim they were not there, iend their name to 


protest the judgment. T, M. ALDRICH. 
I HAD onthe 17th of March just passed one of the most 
laborious yet electrifying day’s sport in the field that 
huntsman ever had. The morning was well snited for a tox 
chase, and after an early breakfast [moved up the Roanoke, 
but keeping some two miles north of that stream, on the ridge 
between it and the Maherrin River, toa point designated as 
a meet by Basset Rawlings, Major Mason and William Valen- 
tine, of Virginia. We all were in proper time, meeting 
exactly at the appointed hour. I had all my young Byron 
bitches, and only four old trained ones. Betty was not car- 
ried out, she penne enough to do at homein caring for her 
four puppies. By the by, they are double Byron and a vely 
fine sample of the stock, and were sold long in advance of 
their whelping to gentlemen at the North. Rawlings had his 
ack (moscly Byron), old, true and well trained, with two 
plaek and tan puppies added. The usual salutation of men 
and hounds then took place, for on the meeting of two packs 
the ceremony of recognition invariably foilows before they 
move off to hunt. Every huntsman knows this, and usually 
awaits its termination before he attempts to encourage them 
onward, So did we on this occasion, : 
When the horn was sounded for a forward move, off dashed 
Rawlings’s Stonewall, a fine black tan, and as full of hunt and 
music as hound ever was, followed in close proximity by his 
Juno, Bill, Dixieand Screamer, the full litter sister of Tom 
Wilkins, and by the by the pride of his pack. My byron Pup 
pies were fully alive to the occasion, and in beautiinl style 
would earnestly come forward,smelling every stunipin the line 
of our route, Screamer soon struck a trail and Rawlings’s 
ack flew to her summons, evincing an eagerness which a true 
Round invariably excites. Rawlings’s hounds heed and hark 
better than most hounds. Ina very short while the cry was 
swollen to great dimensions, for my pack too had pa) ticipated 
in the rush to Screamer. The trail went due west for two 
miles or more, and over fields and through thik biiered 
branches, Beyond these, ina small pine thicket, a place not 
at allinyiting as a retreat for security, the fox dashed off, 
followed by a thundering sound of earnest pursuers. The run 
was due west and well contested for an hour, when a flock of 
sheep interrupted it. The break continued for twenty 
minutes. It was ma pasture clear of shrubs and briers, and 
the proper place to witness the sagacity of the packs. ‘This we 
onioved to its full extent, weremaiming still all the while, 
with hearts thumping with unpleasant viclence and eyes danc- 
ing in every way, directed by the rapid dashing around of the 


A FOX HUNT ON THE ROANOKE. 


hounds, The eneling was by the entire pack at first, sweep- 
ing around in a small circle, which was gradually and system- 
atically enlarged. 


Some three of these circles were made and no false sum- 
mons given. One of my Byron pups was first to quit the 
column. She was fortunate in her move, and gaye a loud and 
excited ery for aid. That is Sally; she is perfectly reliable. 
Hark! I hallowed; but that was not necessary. Screamer, 
Stonewall and Ringwood (all Rawhngs’s) were with her in a 
second—the pack tumbling in from every point, The rin was 
resumed, but its character had changed. Wrom aranting and 
driving run it had tamed down toa running drag. The fox 
availed himself of the opportunity to widen the space be- 
tween himself and his pursuers. He understood his business 
and passed over the most difficult places for scent—sometimes 
in roads, then open field just plowed, then among stock—never 
once stopping to ascertain if he was pursued. These tactics 
soon placed it out of our power to follow his track; but he 
tarried to give the dogs full opportunity to mark his direc- 
tion if nothing more, : ‘ 

When every effort to work it out had failed, and there 
seemed to be no chance to mend matters, it then became ne- 
cessary for the huntsmen to interfere. A circle was deter- 
mined upon, each huntsman making one with his own pack, 
one within the other. I touk the outside or widest circle. 
This move was asuccess. Westumbled up the fox and inter- 
rupted his slumber, In his contusion he dashed right back 
toward the packs, and t.iey frantically took back track and 
could not be recalled or sighted for some time; while oneof my 
Byron puppies (Brevity) and Sawineee Hudson (full brother 
of Tom Wiltsins) had run him out of hearing. Ab! how ex- 
asperating! But such mishaps have their pleasure. When 
we corrected the error of the pack, we went in the direction 
of the last notes of Hudson and Brevity, The pack tollowed 
the track over which they had run with hesitating earnest- 
ness, but finally came up to them stfault in an aven wheat 
field, Here we waited the work of the pack, and atter a 
while scent was regained, and with ety. regular str-de ald 

ird was ed again. But the old fellow Enew the 


him, and worked hard and cunningly to over- 


ds against : 
at all. His record (divided stakes at Pennsylvania Field i come thom, But the run increased in yim and the space every 


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moment grew less and Jess between him and the pack. But 
tie aa ae not yet over, The pemne and spsed of the fox 
as equal to hie stratezy, and all were wonderful, ‘Hands 
off, boys; no interference,” I exclaimed as the excited hunts- 
men would dash hy me. The order was obeyed, and the race 
was afairone. Two hours this state of things lasted and 
might haye continued longer but for the fox’s unfortunate 
. turn im the months, as it were, of Stonewall and four Byron 
puppies (who, by the by, run and trailin a group) Bluebell, 
awdy, Fairman and E'amous. j j 
_ This ended a most spirited and gamelike hunt, in which the 
Byron puppies (including Rawlings’s two black and tans) ex- 
hibited marked endurance. Werested a few minutes to eat a 
pocket snack that each bad provided for the occasion, It was 
now far advanced in the evening and we were some distance 
from our homes. Our way there was as we came, and by our 
morning's route. 

The fun had not yet terminated, though all of us had had 
the forepart of the day as much as a reasonable ambition 
could covet. Just.as we arrived at the place of our morning’s 
meet Stonewall struck a traveling fox, He, with several of 
Rawlings’s pack, took the back track, We held a conference 
and determined to have a second run. We stood still until 
Stonewall and company had corrected their error and had 
returned to try the right end. We then joined in with the 
whole pack in a, most enjoyable warm trail, resulting, after an 
hour’s continuance, in a run which, for dash and yigor, was 
neyer excelled, The fox ran back to our morning's grounds 
and spent his time in repeated rounds oyer the same ground, 
He, like the other, was game to the end, and a inuch gamer 
fellow. He stood a press from the very beginning and never 
ouce gave signs of distress. Nor did the hounds, 

The March wind had lulled, the evening dew had begun to 
fall, All this in favor of scent. The youDEEE huntsmen did not 
follow Rawlings aud myself in the exhilarating trail, but 
waited for us’ to rouse the game, After this was done they 
came in like charging cavalry and hung on to theend. My 
day was spent before the race closed, and to the eredit of the 
hounds let it be recorded. that no flagging, no change was ex- 
hibited from beginning to its ond. se Gea 


Gaston, F.C. 


THE PROPER SIZE OF BEAGLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Being a great admirer of the beagle, and having bred them 
for a number of years for my Own use, once haying as many 
as twenty-four and at no time since I became interested in 
them less than five, | was much interested in recent commu- 
nications from ‘Flat’ and ‘“Rusticus” concerning their proper 
size, and would like to give the measurements of my largest, 
smallest and al average size dog of my pack, the result of 
Many experiments and trials, and which, for this northern 
country, I consider the right size, 

My largest is 16 inches at the shoulder, girth of chest 24 
inches, girth of lom 1914 inches, from tip of nose to set on of 
tail 52 inches, length of tail i1!¢ inches, girth of forearm 6 
inches, tip to tip of ear 1724 inches. My smallest is 1444 inches 
at shoulder, girth of chest 2017 inches, girth of loin 17}4 inches, 
nose to set on of tail 291g iaches, tail 10 inches, girth of fore- 
arm 51g inches, tip to tip of ears 1614 inches; and my average- 
sized dog is 1514 inches at shoulder, girth of chest 211¢ inches, 
loin 1844 inches, nose to set on of tail 281¢ inches, length of 
tail 10 inches, girth of forearm 514 inches, tip to tip of ears 
I7 inches, 

The dog of 11 or 12 inches favored by ‘“Rusticus” may be all 
right for some sections, but here in the North, where we have 
long cold winters, the snow is too deep for them to run well, 
T think we are all agreed that in a beagle we must have keen 
seent, pace. yoice and lots of hang-on. I want more. I want 
a dog that at all times is ready and can run, and that means 
strength and height. Mine, I think, hunted on an average 
three days a week from October to March, and were never 
laid upa day, I use them after rabbits, foxes and deer, of 
which a number were killed in front of them last fall, all on 
runways, and they didn’t drive out of the country those that 
were not killed either. I have bred them, not for bench 
shows, but for my own enjoyment and use, and from experi- 
ence and numerous trials 1 claim that for a useful hound for 
the North 1514 inches is none too small. SIZE. 

Port Hanry, N, Y. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 


WAS afraid the York committee would feel the loss of 
royal patronage. The doggy part of their show was a 
success and [ sincerely hope the meagre attendance won't 
spoil the lool: of their balance sheet, Local shows are begin- 
‘ning to recognize the fact that to make success a certainty they 
must hitch the dog show on to some other local gathering, a 
flower show oragricultural meeting. Therustic magnates, their 
“aunts and their cousins,” might not think it worth while to 
drive Into the town to see the dogs only, but they are sure to 
visit the show after doing the flowers or cattle. No type of 
society is more guided by “‘what is the BEBPEP thing to do” 
than that composed of Huglish pecvaneia : 
There are many things to be thought of when getting up a 
country show, The most important position to be filled is 
honorary secretary. Everything depends upon this official. 
i is advisable to secure some doggy gentleman of the neigh- 
borhood who has plenty of time on his hands and knows 
eyerybody. Of course he is honorary secretary, and his labors 
should atterward be rewarded with a present in proportion 
to results, He inust be a mildsnannered man, for “rustical 
severity banishes all urbanity;’ he should contrive to have 
his own way with the committee in seeming to yield. His first 
duty is to call upon the lord of the manor, who is usually a 
nobleman, his name as patron is of value and he is also good 
for a subscription. When the minor notabilities of the neigh- 
borhood see hisname on the list they will also contribute 
donations toward the prize fund according to their means or 
social pretensions. he doctor and lawyer, and also the par- 
son can be counted upon for this purpose. The inn-keepers of 
the town will give a prize for the best bulldog, the brewers 
for the best mastiff, ete. Some BOREL secretaries are 
clever enough to get in this way most of their prize money, 
and will ayert failure by instituting among the committee a 
guarantee fund. The committee must be practical men and 
Yeady to their share of the work, 

Catalogues of big shows should be distributed among them 
and each man should take so many letters of the alphabet, 
say A to I, G to M, in the list of exhibitors’ names and write 
to them for entries. This is a great catch, and as the receiver 
of this special letter feels pleased with the attention, it gener- 
ally suceseds. The printing of schedules and catalogues 
should be given to the local stationer, who in return, will be 
expected to do the staticnery cheap and also give an advertise- 
ment. The large biscuit firms and disinfectant companies will 
also take page advertisements; publishers and authors of 
works on dogs can also be counted upon in this direction, 
During the show the committee should employ themselves as 
ring and bench stewards, A banquet should be held on the 
evening of the first day of the show, to which the judges 
should be invited. and the tickets should be cheap to allow all 
exhibitors to attend. A few Bercy can be Imade, every- 
body's health drunk, and the whole company is made happy. 
The successful fancier will naturally show again and the dis- 
appointed exhibitor forgets his NEES and hopes for better 
luck next time. Prompt payment the prize money is all 
that is needed to complete the popularity of the show. 

_ At York they had a little difonlty with some classes that 


did not fill, and where a certain number of entries were not 
received those who had sent had their money returned, This 


was unfortunate and showed some lack of judgment, because 
the effect was naturally intitating, 

One of the celebrities of the dog world has gone over to the 
Majority—Bill George, of Canine Castle, Kensal Town, He 
was personally better known to our sporting parents than to 
the present generation. No man’s name was more familiar in 
English-speaking doggy circles all over the world than Bill 
George's. His kennel was one of the show places to take for- 
eign sportsmen to; Many an instructive afternoon have I 
passed in the yeteran’s company as I sat in his yard pulling at 
a partagas and listening to the old boy’s reminiscences of mas- 
rd and bulldog lore, Pedigrees he knew by the yard, and 
strains by generations, He grew intolerant iu that good old- 
fashioned manner of modern dogs and men, and was natur- 
ally kind to the ‘fanciers of dogs in my time, sir.” He had 
executed orders in dog flesh to all parts of the globe, and his 
trade brought him into connection with the highest and the 
lowest in the land. 

Now heis sone, I dare say many will recollect anecdotes 
and sayings about him, One I heard is very funny. <A letter 
directed to “Bill George, London,” was, during the Postmaster- 
Generalship of Lord Manners, returned to its sender for insuffi- 
cient direction, and stamped outside ‘Not known,” The 
writer of the letter soon after went to London and called on 
George and related the incident. George heard him with un 
affected surprise and indignation, and looking round at some 
other visitors he had there, remarked: ‘Well, all I can say is, 
if Manners don’t know Bill George, then Bill George don’t know 
Manners,” He was not half satisfied with the laugh that 
preeted his innocent bon mot. 

Some of our papers are commencing an unwise attack upon 
M. Pasteur for the dogs’ lives the learned professor has had to 
Sacrifice in his great search for the antidote to hydrophobia, 
Could anything be more unreasonable? The infliction of pain 
upon dumb animals, howeyer necessary, is deplorable; but is 
it to be condemned right out and previed when the sought- 
for results are of such immeasurable importance to humanity 
ald dogs themselves? It always has been and always will be 
the fate of the few to suffer for the many. 

The continuation of the Lochinvar correspondence has 
brought a fresh combatant into the field in the person of Mr. 
G, EKrehl, well known as an exhibitor of Irish terriers. This 
gentleman complains that Mr. Murchison has accused him in 
strong terms of abusing the manager of the show, Mr. Krehl 
is well known among the inner social circle of doggydom, and 
will no doubtamply refute the charges brought against him. 
He has written a yery quiet letter asking for evidence. Danger 
is discernible in this quiet reserve, for the writer is an old 
hand at controversy. What must astonish most people, 
though, is that a man whose ‘‘public form” is so much ‘‘ex- 
posed” as Mr. Murchison’s, should be allowed to write the 
violent letters that have appeared on the subject. His coarse 
attacks upon well-known gentlemen would disgust, if they 
did not also amuse a little, those who get sick of seeing 
‘nothing in the papers.” The battle is proceeding in the 
Stock-Keeper, haying been stopped in the Field. 

From Murelison to Carter isan easy digression, and I am 
sorry to see an undignified attack on the latter in the current 
number of the Kennel Gazette, which is the official organ of 
the Kennel Club, Thefriends of this body must see with re- 
gret their powerful position used to kick a man when he is 
down. Lonece met Mr, Carter during one of our northern 
shows, and it was the opinicn of several of us that he had 
been made the victim of powerful foes. I haye heard that he 
has sold his paper, the Kennel Review, given up dogs and gone 
abroad. - F 

I observe that you, also, have your doggy quarrels in Amer- 
ica, but a much better tone peryades your correspondence 
than we can boast of over here, 

Tread with amusement a letter on dachshunde in your paper 
of May 29, signed ‘‘Aufwiedersehen” (whatever does it meun; 
if we were to adopt such noms de plwme our editors would 
tear their hair), our correspondent has added another puz- 
zle to my already confused notions of a dachshund, I have 
one myseli—a sweet little, queer, old lady—she is a glossy 
black and tan, not very long in the back, powerful forelegs 
very much bent, I was going to show her, but before risking 
the entry fee I consulted an authority on the breed. ‘Not 
worth the tax,” was his disheartening criticism. ‘Why, she’s 
the German terrier type; look at her broad skull between the 
ears and short muzzle.” “Well? I querried. “Well!” he re- 

lied, ‘it isn’t well; the hound type is the thing, long thin 

ace, weasel body; but mind you, my lad, I daresay she'll go 
to ground for you, kill rats, fight cats and all that sort of 
thing, but she won’t do for showing.” At the mention of rats 
Dinah raised her ears and looked at his calves. Terrier or 
hound seems a vexed question, as I understand German 
authorities go for the former, But what is the “Hanoverian 
type” and what is a “spielhund” spoken ot by your correspon- 
dent with the name of many consonants? LILLIBULERO. 

JUNE 17, 1884, 1 


THE KENNEL HOSPITAL. 
WOUNDS, 


HERE are various kinds of wounds. Incised or clean-cut 
wounds are the simplest and most easily treated, because 
the parts are not bruised, and no tissue is removed or destroyed. 
Such wounds may gape considerably, especially when they 
are made across the fibers of a muscle, but they admit of being 
drawn together, and then we obtain exact co-aptation of the 
sides of the wound. Clean cuts are usually accompanied by 
a good deal of bleeding. 
unctured wounds are those made by pointed instruments, 
are usually deep, and show but a small opening on the skin. 
They are dangerous, because they may penetrate deeply, and 
injure important organs. They require careful examination, 
because their extent is not visible, and some agent may be left 
in them, such asa Se of wood, which is certain to gravely 
interfere with the healing, Hyen when no foreign stibstance 
is left in them, blood from the injured tissues is apt to collect 
and form a clot. which causes inflammation. 

Lacerated wounds are those caused by tearing. They seldom 
present much bleeding, because the blood vessels being 
stretched and twisted contract at their extremities. They do 
not heal so well as incised wounds, owing to the damage done 
to the tissues by bruising and stretching, Not unirequently, 
too, some portion of skin or other tissue may be altogether re- 
moved, and thus prevent our being able to bring the edges of 
the wound exactly together. 

Contused wounds result from blows with blunt instruments. 
When the skin is not broken they are simply bruises, varying 
in severity according to the amount of damage inflicted upon 
the tissues beneath. This may be slight or of such a degree as 
to destroy the structures entirely. When the skin is broken a 
contused wound resembles a lacerated one, and its gravity 
depends upon the amount of damage done to the vitality of the 
injured parts. The proper treatment for wounds will be best 
understood if we first very shortly consider the mode of healing 
found to take place under different circumstances. 

Practically all wounds heal by one of two methods—by 
adhesion or by granulation. Healing by adhesion takes place 
in wounds which, when bleeding has ceased are brought 
closely and evenly together and retained in position. No 
matter is formed in such a process, as inflammation does not 
reach the stage at which euppucation is set up. The only 
exudation that oceurs is a thin layer of lymph on the cut sur- 
faces, and this becoming organized re-connects or, so to speak, 
glues together the divided tissues. This method of healing 
cannot take place if any foreign substance interyene between 
the surfaces of a Wound, nor even if a clot of blood be allowed 
to collect. It is prevented by splinters of wood, hair, or dirt 
being leftin a wound. It is oi impossible if the tissues 
are destroyed by bruising or by the application of caustics, 


and it is rendered ineffective by the too common practice of 
applying tinctures and ointments to a cut surface, When 
healing by adhesion does not take place a wound gapes, matter 
is formed as the result of inflammation, and im a short time 
the surface is seen covered with reddish fleshy growths, com- 
monly termed “proud flesh,” or by the surgeon pranulations. 
These growths continue until the whole wound is filled up, 
and then contract gradually, causing the edges of the original 
wound to approach each other. By the contraction compara- 
tively large gaping wounds are healed with a wonderfully 
small scar, The scar or cicatrix marks the place where true 
skin is replaced by fibrous tissue, skin itself not being re- 
produced, 

Just as the surfaces of a fresh wound may wiite by adhesion 
so may two surfaces covered by granulations adhere together 
if retained in apposition. In some positions this is to he 
guarded against, as, for instance, when grawulated sores exist 
between the thighs. Insome large woundsthis union of granu- 
lations may be takeu advantage of and the healing of a wound 
mueh facilitated by brinsinge in contact the two surfaces. 
Healing by granulation is always a long process, accompanied 
by discharge of matter and a good deal of pain. It should be 
our object, then, always to attempt healing by adhesion, mn- 
less the nature of the wound renders that method clearly im- 
possible, 

Bearing in mind what we have just said, the treatment of 
wounds becomes a very simple matter. Nature will effect the 
repair if only we put the parts in the most favorable position, 
The method of repair will depend upon the condition of the 
parts, and our assistance to be of any value must be directed 
to facilitate the method adopted by nature. Incised or clean 
culi wounds are most Hkely to be troublesome on account of 
bleeding. Our first endeavor, then, is to stop this, When a 
large blood vessel is cut its extremity must be tied—an opera- 
tion few amateurs could manage. Pressure directly upou the 
bleeding part is the next best remedy, and can be applied by 
means Of a pledget oftow or wool held in positon by a ban- 
dage. Wounds of the legs in which large vessels are divided 
may often have the bleeding stopped by a ligature tied tightly 
around the limb above the wound. This acts by checking 
the passage of blood from the heart, and is therefore only ap- 
plicable to wounds of arteries. When veins aie cut pressure 
on the cut spot or below is requisite, To know what kind of 
vessel is cut we must remember that arterial blood is bright 
red, and escapes in jets, while venous blood is dark red, and 
flows in a steady stream. The ordinary bleeding from a 
wound does not come from Targe blood vessels, and may 
be stopped by cold and pressure combined. The cold is 
applied by a constant flow of water from a sponge, and 
the pressure may he applied either by a bandage or by 
the fingers. Tt may be necessary to firmly bind up a 
wound to stop the bleeding, but if healing by adhesion is 
wished, it must be opened out again when Wleeding has 
ceased and any clots of blood removed. When an incised 
wound has ceased bleeding, and before the cut surfaces are 
dry, a little clear colored fluid exudes; this is the time to bring 
the wound together and firmly retain it in position, Of course 
before doing this all foreign matter is carefully removed. 
Pieces of glass are not so easily seen in the depths of a wound, 
but are easily felt if an examination is made with a metal 
probe, Wounds of dogs’ feet are often made by gilass, and 
should be carefully examined before being closed. To hold 
the lips of a wound together, either stitches may be employed 
orpins. Stitches, surgically called sutures, may consist of cat- 
gut, wire, silk, ov thread. Thetwo latter absorb fluid und 
may cause suppuration. Wire does not adapt itself easily 
unless very thin, and then is apt to cut before healing is com- 
plete. I prefer pins, which are easily used and very effective. 
The two lips of the wound are transfixed by the pin, and 
round the pin is twisted a piece of thread,. By this means 
the wound is firmly closed, and there is not much direct, pres- 
sure on the pin. Steel pins are sold for the purpose by sur- 
gical instrument makers, but they are objectionable as being 
liable to rust and not easily cut or broken. The ordinary 
draper’s pins ale best; they are tinned and never rust, and 
their points after insertion are easily vemoyed with a pair of 
pliers. The old dread of pins ‘‘cankering” a wound isa fallacy 
which might possibly have had some basis when pins were 
made of untinned brass wire, The pins in a moderate-sized 
wound should be about half an inch apart, and should be in- 
serted about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the wound, 
so as to have a firm hold. When the thread has been twisted 
round them, push the head of the pin close up to the thread, 
and cut off the points, About the fifth day every other pin 
may be withdrawn, and the remainder when healing is com- 
plete. Wounds may be closed and held together by means of 
strips of adhesive plaster. To render them effective the hair 
must be shaved or clipped very closely from the edges of the 
wound, so that they may stick to the skin. To obtain healing by 
adhesion, a wound after being closed must be kept dry and erie 
Nothing spoils the process so certainly as heat and moisture. 
To prevent a dog from tearing out the sutures, it is sometimes 
necessary to apply a dry bandage over the wound, but it is 
better to tie up the animal’s head, or muzzle him, leaving the 
wound uncovered and cool. 

Lacerated wounds require more judgment to treat properly 
than clean incised ones. They often result from dogs being 
partially run over, from bites while fighting with other dogs, 
and by tears from projecting nails. Im such eases sand and 
dirt nay be imbedded in the wound, portions of tissue may be 
crushed and completely disorganized, or portions may be so 
torn as to be left hanging in shreds. Careful washing and 
cleaning is the first thing to do, and as such wounds seldom 
bleed much, warm instead of cold water may be used to facili- 
tate the remoyal of dirt. All portions of positively crushed 
(issue must be removed, and shreds of flesh hanging by such 
small connections as to suggest their being hopelessly cut off 
from the circulation may also be cut off, It is a good rule 
neyer to cut off any shreds of skin from a fresh wound, They 
ofter a hold for sutures, and thus assist in bringing the parts 
together and helping to retain them in position; they protect 
the parts beneath, and can be easily reraoved when in time it 
is found impossible to save them. A badly lacerated wound 
will seldom heal by adhesion, yet we treat it at first as though 
it would by carefully adapting all the parts and firmly closing 
it. By so doing some parts will generally adhere, and if in 
three days it be found that no union has occurred, or sooner if 
pus be formed, we remove some or all of the sutures. In 
wounds so formed as to cause a flap of skin or other tissues to 
hang down, and which may probably not heal without sup- 
puration, we must remember that by closing them a sort of 
pocket is formed m which fluids may collect, prevent healing, 
and do much harm. In all wounds that do not heal by me 
hesion, we want free escape of fluids secreted. Naturally 
fluids find their way to the lowest part of a wound, and that is 
the position we must try to effect their escape from, In 
closing wounds, then, in which adhesion is nol expected, we 
should leave the lowest part without any sutures. 


Sometimes # wound is not detected till long after it has 
been caused, when the lips of the wound are swollen, and the 
surfaces dried. Insuch cases it is often impossible to brin 
the edges of the wound in apposition, and it must be treate 
solely with a view to healing by granulation. So also must 
all wounds where there is great loss of skin and all superficial 
sores in which suppuration has commenced. Heat and mois- 
ture favor the growth of pranulations, and in these cases these 
may be employed in the form of wart fomentations to a 
moderate extent. Heat and moisture, however, favor suppur- 
ation, and that we do not want. After the first day warm 
water is nob required, except to clean a wound. We can 
stimulate the growth of granulations by other means at the 
same time that we limit suppuration and preyent deleterious 
changes. For this purpose we use carbolic acid and, ol, come 
pound tincture of myrrh, etc, 


452 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Suny 3, 1884, 


When a wound is filled up by granulations, and they begin 
to rise above the surface, they must be kept down by astrin- 
gents, or even by caustics, and by pressure applied by means 
of a bandage. Solid sulphate of copper or bluestone may be 
rubbed on the surface of too exuberant granulations. Nitrate 
of silver or lunar caustic is also useful, 

Punectured wounds must be probed so that no foreign body 
is lef} in them. The probing must, however, be judiciously 
done lest damage be inflicted by the probe on some important 
structures, in the neighborhood of joints only the most care- 
fuluse of a probe is permissible, The direction of a punctured 
wound bears very directly on the course of treatment to be 
adopted, one on the upper part of the body being likely to heal 
less kindly than one on the lower part—this simply because the 
latter has a dependent orifice from which any fluid can drain, 
The wound inflicted by large canine teeth is often a punctured 
one, and therefore these wounds are lable to be complicated 
by the introduction of poisonous matter, about which we shall 
have more to say. 

Contused are to be treated in the same manner as Jacerated 
wounds, special attention bemg given to the amount of bruis- 
in inflicted on the tissues. [If this be out of proportion to the 
wound we treat as a bruise, and leaye the divided tissues as a 
secondary manner. If, however, the wound be of more import- 
ance than the bruise wefollow the principles already discussed, 
using, perhaps, a little more heat and moisture at first to allay 
pain and promote absorption of swelling than if less contusion 
existed. 

FRACTURES. 

In dogs the most frequently broken bones are those of the 
legs, but we occasionlly meet with fractures of the spine, jaw, 
and ribs. Whenever a fracture occurs, the general principles 
of treatment to be applied are the same, the practical details 
differing chiefly accerding to the manner and degree in which 
other tissues areinvolved. A bone may be simply broken across 
or it may be splintered into a number of fragments, whence 
we distinguish simple and comminuted fractures. When a 
wound exists ever the seat of fractire and penetrates to the 
bone, we haye whatis called a compound fracture. 

Tnall animals bone is one of the tissues most easily reproduced, 
and in dogs the repair of injured bones is especially active. 
Eyen when a bone is left to nature, union is usually effected, 
although at the expense of some deformity. What we have to 
do in rendering surgical assistance is to prevent this deformity 
hy replacing the injured parts in their proper positions, and 
retaining them there until nature has effected the repair. 

The repair of bone follows a regular course just as the repair 
of other tissues. It is interfered with by the inflammatory 
process, and facilitated by the perfect adjustment of the dam- 
aged parts. The union of a broken bone is effected by the 
production of new bone between and around the broken ends, 
but this is the last stage of the process, What first happens 
after a fracture is swelling at the part, due to the exudation of 
lymph. This exudation becomes gradually consolidated. Os- 
sitic matter is deposited within it, and while it is slowly con- 
verted into bone, it becomes smaller by absorption, The con- 
version of the soft swelling into bone causes a bony enlargement 
at the seat of fracture, and as this is not desirable, it should be 
remembered that the earlier a fracture is reduced and all 
movement of the broken ends of the bone prevented the less 
will be the amount of surrounding swelling, The soft swelling 
surrounding a fracture is called the temporary callus; the bony 
enlargement which replaces it is termed the permanent callus, 
Other swelling as the result of fracture we too often haye, but 
it is not connected with the process of repair. It is a compli- 
cation and an evil resulting from the damage done to the soft 
tissues by the injury which causes the fracture, or it may be 
by the broken ends of the bones cutting and tearing the parts, 
causing the escape of blood into and among the tissues. 

The symptoms of fracture are lameness, swelling from effus- 
ion of blood, distortion of the limb or changeof shape of the 
neighboring parts, twitching of the muscles, due to their being 
irritated by the sharp ends of the bone, unnatural mobility 
when the parts are moved into different directions, and crepi- 
tus, or a grating sensation when the fractured surfaces come 
in contact with each other. 

The treatment of fracture, especially of the limbs of dogs, 
requires provision to be made for the impossibility of keeping 
the animal quiet, In all cases, then, in which a fracture isat- 
tended toimmediately after the injury, and before much swel- 
ling has occurred, we advise the use of an immoveable appar- 
atus. Where, however, great swelling has taken place, a tem- 
porary arrangement must be applied which can be easily 
removed in a few days when the swelling has subsided. In 
eases, for instance, of fractures of the fore-arm due to great 
violence, considerable swelling occurs very rapidly. A per- 


manent bandage applied ta the swollen limb becomes in a few | 


days useless, as, When the swelling subsides, it no longer fits 
the part, and, from its nature, is most difficult to remove with- 
out causmg great pain, and probably interference with the 
fractured ends of the bone. 1t isstill more injurious if applied 
to a limb in which swelling is still going on, as, being unyield- 
ing, it causes great pressure and pain, It is necessary, then, 
to consider the state of a fractured part before anything is 
done, and to decide whether a temporary or a permanent ban- 
dage is likely to be most suitable. 

Inu the case of a simple fracture with much swelling we first 
approximate, as nearly as possible, the ends of the bone, When 
the ends of the bone override each other, the limb must be 
gently, but firmly, extended, so as to overcome the effects of 
muscular contraction, The use of chloroform facilitates this, 
and keeps the dog quiet while an apparatus to retain the posi- 
tion of the limb is being applied. Bandages and splints are 
our chief requisites, but they vary considerably in form and 
application. Their limited application to the mere site of injury 
is worse than useless, as they then not only cause pain by pres- 
sure on the part, but donot prevent movement of the ends of the 
hone, No fractured bone can be kept in position and movement 
prevented unless it be surrounded by an apparatus extending 
beyond the joints at each end of ib. In other words, you must 
fix the jomt above and below the seat of fracture if you wish 
to effectually prevent motion. In bandaging a limb it must be 
remembered that the pressure should be firm and even, always 
extending to the toes, By leaving the foot unbandaged the cir- 
culation below the bandage is interfered with, and swelling is 
certain, Thisisalways accompanied by pain, and in some 
cases followed by mortification. 

When bones are fractured in such a position as to render it 
impossible to apply a bandage which will fix the jomt aboye,no 
bandage should be used, as 1t and the accompanying splints are 
ouly so much extra weight on the injured limb. Fractures of 
the thigh and shoulder come under this remark, and can only 
be assisted by attempts to limit motion. This is effected by 
tying the dog uP short, and putting him in a cage or other con- 

ned space; and by applying to the affected part strips of 
adhesive plaster so arranged as to limit motion as much as 
possible. Adhesive plaster is quite useless unless the hair be 
first removed from the skin, : 

Splints for broken limbs may be made of cardboard, wood, 
leather, tin, or gutta-percha. They should be long enough to 
reach from the toes to the joint above the fracture. Two are 
required, and may be placed either on each side of the limb, 
or atthe front and back of it, Bandages should be about 4 
feet long, and from 14g inches to 2 inches wide. The material 
should be soft and strong. Cheap new calico does not adapt 
itself nicely to the limb, and nothing is better than a portion 
of an old linen sheet. 

After a fracture is reduced, and while the limb is kept ex- 
tended, a soft, dry bandage is applied to its whole extent; 
portions of cotton wool being placed in the cavity behind the 
toes, cver the prominences of joints, and also over the most 
prominent end of the broken bone. Thus we get a fairly level 
surtace, allowing firm pressure by the bandage. Over this are 
laid the splints, which are then ecient in position by another 


bandage. The ends of the bandages should be sewn, and to 
prevent the dog tearing it off, some adhesive matter should be 
applied to the extremities and free edges. Glue will do, or 
what I have found very handy, Prout’s elastic glue—a substanes 
sold by oilmen and leather dealers. Such an apparatus is 
easily removed, and is therefore most valuable when only re- 
guired for a short time, as when much swelling exists. When 
we have a fracture with no accompanying wound and not 
much swelling, a less easily moved arrangement is desirable. 
This may be formed by using gutta-percha softened in hot 
water and applied over the first bandage, moulding it with 
the fingers to the form of the limb and c eas firmly at its 
edges by a few touches with a hot knife, e most perfect 
form of immoveable apparatus is the starched bandage. This 
is simply an ordinary bandage, unrolled, saturated in starch 
prepared as for laundry PUSHORES: rolled up again, and applied 
over the first bandage already referred to. Until it becomes 
dry the position of the limb must be retained by two narrow 
splints placed over it and tied together by two or three pieces 
of tape. These are removed when the starch has ‘‘set,” and 
the dog may be allowed to run about at once without fear of 
displacing the bones.—Wm. Hunting in Land and Water. 


CURRENT DOG STORIES. 
XXXI. 

The dog which so gloriously distinguished himself by giving 
warning of the fire at the Hoffman has again been heard from; 
but this time ina matter not so heroic as the first attempt. 
Evidently the praises won by his intelligent act mentioned 
have so turned his head that the habits of the eanine mob and 
common herd are distasteful to him. As a Columbus avenue 
car was turning into Tremont street in its up-town trip the 
other day, it made the usual halt, and a medium-sized dog 
stepped aboard. Escaping the notice of the conductor, he 
jumped upon the cushion and gravely seated himself with the 
other passengers. After the car started the conductor noticed 
his fare, and stepping to the gentleman who sat next to the 
dog, informed him that the dog could not ride, The reply 
was given that the dog was a stranger to him, and the con- 
ductor proceeded to eject his four-footed passenger. The dog 
put on the amiable look that follows the command to ‘move 
up on the left there” so naturally, and resisted the attempt to 
dislodge him so doggedly, that a lady who recognized the 
animal as he came into the car recited his history to some of 
the passengers, and at their earnest request he was allowed 
his seat, while further developments were watched. His dog- 
ship rode in stately dignity, only needing a pair of classes and 
a journal to enable him to fraternize with his fellow-passen- 
gers, until the car stopped at Berkeley street, when all eyes 
were turned upon him; but no signs of alighting. The lady 
commenced to think it was a case of mistaken identity, but 
as the car started the dog coolly stepped to the floor, and, 
waiting till the platorn was opposite the main entrance of 
the Hoffman, which is perhaps two hundred feet from where 
the car stopped, wagged his tail to the conductor, with a ‘tra 
la, old man, don’t stop on my account,” sprang off and ran up 
the steps. Inquiry of the elevator boy at the Hoffman reveals 
the fact that for some time the dog has refused to walk up 
stairs, but has waited for the elevator or has signalled for it 
by whining or crying. Theories are left to logicians and meta- 
physicians. The facts can be substantiated by a number of 
witnesses.—Boston Journal, 

XXXID. 


There was great rejoicing in a South street household this 
morning over the restoration of a pet dog. Three weeks ago 
this day Dot was missed, and even a three-line advertisement 
in the best advertising medium in the county—the Advertiser 
—failed to disclose his whereabouts. The owner was plunged 
in grief at the unaccountable disappearance of the pet, and 
was nearly prepared to suspect the neighbors of foul play. It 
also worried the almost life-long employe of the family, and 
last night his sleep was troubled by dreams in which he con- 
stantly saw the missing dog in an old unused well, partially 
filled up with dirt and ashes, beneath the side piazza. He 
was so deeply impressed with the dream that he was unable 
to sleep after midnight, and at 6 o'clock this morning the 
family was startled by the sound of loud hammering on the 
side piazza, The man was remoying the flooring, and sure 
enough, when the well was exposed to view, there was the 
missing dog, alive and well, and overjoyed at the prospect of 
liberation. Although confined three weeks in this narrow 
prison, without food or water and air not of the purest, Dot 
seemed as lively as ever, with no appearance of emaciation.— 
Auburn (N. Y.) Advertiser. 

XXXIV. 

A Newfoundland dog, jumping from its owner's garden in 
England over a wall three feet high, fell upon the neck and 
back of a laborer who, in a bent position, was digging a hole 
in an adjoining garden, and injured him severely. The owner 
of the dog gave a couple of sovereigns to the injured man, 
who, not satisfied with this selatium, brought an action for 
damages in the County Court, but was non-suited. He ap- 

ealed to the Court of anon Bench. Lord Coleridge called 

is claim ‘‘preposterous,” but gave it a grave consideration, 
and affirmed the decision of the County Court Judge. 


JOHNNY'S ESSAY ON DOGS.—The Dogs isa great Sourse 
of national wealth but the Buffalows is nearly extincted. 
The Dog isa domestic animal like the Wolf and Fox but most 
dogs wont stand it if you tramp on their tale—he is 
knockternal in his habits but he dont squeel like the Mule & 
pig. We have three dogs and Uncle Ben says all 3 aint worth 
a damp plug of tobacco to hiss. If you dont give dogs enough 
to eat he becomes so avaricious he will attact Human people 
and on account of his great Fidelity to Man heis called the 
King of Beasts, The dogs are a ruminating animal and if 
he had horns he would chaw his quad, You can know he is 
dreaming when he wants to Bark and cant git his mouth 
open, but if something makes our dogs awake at night 
Uncle Ben says they make sich a Racket like if all the Hail 
was broke loose. Dogs is asourse of great Pleasure as the 
Faithful Companion of the lonely traveller and when our 
Watch sees a peadler or somebody going apast our house he 
lays low till he gets past then he sneaks np behind and bites 
his legs—Every dog has his day—Bill Thompson says that’s 
the Law and you cant git over it and he says the Dog Days 
was made so every dog could have their days all at once, our 
Teacher she says the dog belongs to the Wolf Family but 
Uncle Ben laughed, he said he knowed better than that with his 
one eye shut, for he said he bets a wolf would be a doggoned niee 
Parity Man. This Faithful Animal Guards the house at 
night while all the house is Rapped in Peace full Slumber 
and Bill Thompson he says if a Gog has wool in his teeth the 
next morning its a sign he te sheep that night. Anda 
dog aint no Beast of Pray, but our Teacher she says that don’t 
mean that he’s worse than other Jet for she says it don’t 
mean that kind of Pray—but the New Found Land dog is the 
yayriest of the whole Lot who can swim more than a week 
before he Ascends to the surface to Breathe, he is therefore 
called the Ship of the Desert, And a Inglish bulldog is awful 
onery to look at—Uncle Ben says if a Inglish bulldog looks 
like that he would like to see a Dutch one. Bill Thompson he 
says they are called Inglish Bulldogs because he says in Ing- 
land the people use them for bait when they want to ketch bul 
and that kind of ketching fish is called Bull baiting, and Bill 
Thompson, he says if a full bloody Inglish Bulldog etches a 
Holt of a Steer’s nose he is so sagacious that he wont let go 
even if you cut off one of your Hine legs. Dogs is like other 

0 
before the war: Dogs eo 


‘eatuies and. can’t talk, but Bill-Thompson he says in Qld 
Soyargetun geet oa 
‘can talk any more Do '@XCE ie" I 
Collidges, e dog is Up on the hole the Caninest animals 


——_— 


that ever was and when Prof. Daisyhead made a addfess m 
our schoo] he said if he had knowed as much about Scientit 
Animal as us Boys he would a had a show to be President too 
but he said in them Dark Ages where he was born boys had 
ho show to be President but Jo Simmings said he would sooner 
run a Engine than be President because Garfield killed ‘him, 
but Bill Thompson says Jo hasn't got Back Bones enough. 
Our teacher she learnt to talk french at Miss Kvautsch wanger’s 
eae ee a oe pave if you want to make a dog 
and on his tine legs in french 4nd make a Bough, you j 
say O Reservoir Mon Chair.—The Judge. eae aioe 


MISTAKE IN PEDIGREE.—Hnudson, N. Y.. June 28.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: rat atest Mr. Dilley’s assertion 
that the pedigree of my pointer bitch Fancy was not correct, 
would say that I purchased her from . Callender (Rory 
O’More Kennels) last February, and I inclose to you the ped- 
igree for inspection and publication that Mr, C. gave me at 
time of purchase, and which he said was correct; he also stated 
that she was about three years old. No oneismore interested 
in the matter than I am, and if said pedigree is proven to be 
incorrect I should be most happy to get all the information 
possible on the subject.—H. C. Minurr. [We have received 
from Mr. Miller what pur pors to be the pedigree of Fancy, 
the bitch in question. There are errors enough in the pedi- 
gree to condemn it as spurious, aside from the fact that Mr. 
Dilley states that she cannot he as represented, as there was 
only one bitch of the litter sold, Car‘a C., who is registered in 
the first number of the American Kennel Reyister.] 


FOX HUNTING.—The following which we clip from the 
Toronto Mail, of June 23, is respectfully submitted to our - 
cousins across the water who so freely criticise the Yankee 
method of sport with Vulpes: “The first meet of the Toronto 
Fox Hunt Club, took place on the lake shore of the island, on 
Saturday afternoon, quite a number of city sports participat- 
ing. Two foxes were taken out, and each, when released, got 
five minutes start of the dogs. Cooper and Donnelly’s bull 
terrier Oscar, caught both foxes after a hardrun. All breeds 
of dogs were entered, Greyhounds, Bedlingtons, pointers, 
collies, setters, terriers, etc. A large number of people. inclnd- 
ing many ladies, were present to witness the sport, It is the 
intention of the club to have another meet at an early day, 


BEAGLE LOST.—Mr. A. McDonald, of Rockland, Me., has 
lost his beagle dog, He stands about 15 in, at shoulder, and 
has more black than white, with dark tan markings on head. 
It was thought that he was taken away ona schooner, Any 
one learning of his whereabouts will confer a favor by notify- 
ing his owner, 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge: To insure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal; 


1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed, buyer or seller, 
3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 
4, Age. or 8. Owner of sire. 
5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam, 
of death. 10. Owner of dam, 


Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s hame. 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


> See instructions at head of this column. 

Hush Money, Hard Times, Highland Boy, Hard Cash, Barefoot, 
Hawthorn Bell, Hawkeye and Harmony. By Mr. H, W, Huntington, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., for one black, one blue, one fawn and two black and 
white dogs, and three black and white greyhound bitches, whelped 
June 11, 184, by his Doubleshot (A.K_R. 73) out of his Cho (Badger— 
Fan). 

Burr, By Mr. C. Frank Gram, Washington, D.C., for beagle dog, 
whelped Feb, 21, 1884, by Joy out of Nelly. J 

Snip. By Mr. Fred. McDewell, Boston, Mass., for black cocker 
spaniel dog, whelped April 29, 1884, by Obo 11. (A.K.R. 432) out of 
Smut I. (A,K.R. 858). 

Editor Forest and Stream: Surrey Sam, for whom name was 
claimed in your last issue, is a dog, nota bitch, as printed, Please 
Inake correction, and oblige SuRREY KENNELS. 


NAMES CHANGED, 


=> See instructions at head of this column. 
Rosa F. to Dashing Blue Belle. Toglish setter bitch, 1 year old 
(Dashing Monarch—Leah II,), owned by Mr, John G. Heckseher, New 


York. 
BRED. 


EE See instructions at head of this column, 

Vic—Glencho. Mr. C. HW. Dayton’s (Peekskill, N.Y.) red Irish setter 
biteh Vic (Elcho—Lady Helen) to Mr. W. H. Pierce's champion Glen— 
cho, May 5, 

Diphine U—Cesar. The Essex Kennel’s (Andover, Mass.) §t. Ber- 
nard bitch Daphne II. (A.K.R. 489) to the Forest City Kennels Czesar 
(A.K.R, 22), May 25. 
~ Judy—Young Toby. Mr. W. Jordan's (Portland, Me,) pug bitch 
Judy (A.K.R. 406) to the Chequasset Kennel’s Young Toby (A.K.R. 


AGE ne 20. 
ete WHELBPS. 


LE See instructions at head of thts column, 

Sihil. The Forest City Kennel’s (Portland, Me.) St, Bersard bitch 
Sibil (A,K.R. 757), June 21, thirteen (seven dogs), by their imported 
Ceesar (A.K.R. 22). : 

Juno, The Forest City Kennel’s (Portland, Me.) pug bitch Juno 
(A.K.R, 406), May 18, five (twodogs), by Young Toby (4.E-R. 473), 

Rita Croateth, Mv, Geo. 8. Tucker's (Peterborough, N, H,) pointer 
bitch Rita Croxteth (A,K.R. 168), June 10, ten, by champion Meteor; 
two since dead. 

Dashing Belle. Mr. E, W. Jester’s (St. George’s, Del.) English setter 
bitch Dashing Belle (A.K,R. 814), June 26, four (three dogs), by his 
Zanzibar (A.K.R, 1182), Rede 


= See instructions at head of this column. 

Breda Girl. Trish water spaniel bitch, whelped Sept, 30, 1883 We 
lace—Duck), by Mr. Win, Graham, Newtowubreda, Belfast, Ireland, 
to Milwaukee Kennel Club, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Noblesse. Smooth-coated St. Bernard dog (A.K.R. 803), by the 
Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass,, to Mr. J, Burk Wolfe, New 
York. : 

Hugo. Ovange tawny, with white markings, rough-coated St. Ber- 
nard dog, whelped March 6, 1884 (Caesar, A.K.R. 22—Nun, A.K.R. 24), 
by the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr, 0, P, Head, Pres- 
eott, Ariz. Ryo } 

Count Herod, aniel bitch, whelped March 
6, 1884 (Teddy Barr—Vic), by Mr. Archibald Gordon, Middletown, N. 
Y., to Mr. W. B. Allen, Indianapolis, Ind, 

Blossom. Liver and white cocker spaniel bitch, whelped March 6, 
4884 (Teddy Barr—Vie), by Mr. Archibald Gordon, Middletown, N. ¥.. 
to Mr. W. B. Allen, Indianapolis, Ind. _ 

Humboldt. Orange tawny and white rough-coated St. Bernard_ 
dog, whelped March 18, 1884 (Catsar, A.K.R. 22—Nun, A,K.R, 24), by 
the phere Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr. H. W. Weidman, 

leveland,O, — 

Ceaer St. Bernard dog (formerly Nestor) (A.E.R. &02), by the 
Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mrs. £.'5, Crowninshield, 
Boston, Mass. ; a 

Tar, Orange brindle and white smooth-coated St. Bernard dog, 
~whelped March 19, 1884 (Ceesar, A.K.R. 22—Brunhild, A.K_R. 28), by 
the Chequasset Kennel, Lancaster, Mass., to Mr. R. H. White, Boston, 


Mass. 

Snip. Black cocker spaniel dog, avhelped April 29, 1884 (Obo IT,— 
Smut), py Mr. H. GC, Bronsdon, Boston, Mass., to Mr, Fred, McDevwell, 
same place, 

Obo TL— Smut whelp. Black coeker spaniel bitch, whelped April 
29, ie. bya ee H. U. Bronsdon, Boston, Mass., to Mr, Robert Walker. 
Franklin, N. ¥. : . 

Eckhardt, St. Bernard dog (A.K.R_4i3), by the Mill Brook Kennel, 


New York, to Mr. N. 8. Hay, Boston, Mass. 


Liver and white cocker 


2 See instructions at head of this colu: OP pm 
inane, Red Irish setter biteh (AER. ott), owned by Mr. 
a 


Theo. L. Riddle, Guster City, Pa.. June 22. 
5 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


Rifle and Cray Shooting. 
RANGE AND GALLERY. 7 


BOSTON, June 28,—There was a good attendance at Walnut Hill 
to-day, and considerable shooting done in the different matches. 
The fact that the present matches, which have been running since 
Fast day, are to close on July 4, served to bring out a good company 
of shooters who found good shooting conditions. In addition to the 
regular matches a team shoot was had by telegraph with the Man- 
chester Rifle Club. In this match the Massachusetts “steer’* team 
was beaten by eight points. Mr. Francis made an elegant score of 48 
on a paper target, which would have counted 85 decimal, and Mr, 
Fellows closed with a 49, the best possible. Mr. Perkins proved his 
quality’ as a shooter by holding oft for a 47 in both the practice and 

reedmoor matches, On Wednesday next the shotgun men will try 


conclusions. The best scores made were as follows: 
Creedmoor Practice Match. 
J Francis ,......... .5555555544—48 WH Morton.....,.. Add d4t445 —42 
FW Perkins ....... 4544555555-47 DB Warwell. ...... 4444544444 —4 i 
Ci Berry..-.......- B455454545 46 J HW Darmody (mil.),5454344485—41 
CB Edwards....... 4554545544 45 D £ James (mil.)....3444545534—41 
AKeach. 0. .0.. 3 bd4445444—43 CChallet............ B448498544—A7 
Creedmoor Prize Match. 
0 B Pellows.......,.455555555549 W Wisher...,.,...... 4445544554 —44 
BW Perkins ........ 554554455547 J A Cobb,.........-. 445545544444 
BF Jones we ODd5d55455—47 A J Look......... , 444445455443 
j P Bates... ... 1,.po54525445—47 W H Kemip........ , 4544444543 49 
OB Berry. 2. 4445555545—16 A SSampson.,.. ... 244554d455—42 
CB Edwards..... . 564455445 —16 
Combination Mateh—Rest Target. 
WiWinatled< =. cia s.d \oeo cops ne SES 8101010101010 9 10 10—97 
AJ Look.... ... 9 9 91010 9 10 10-96 
J B Fellows... 810 8 7 9 § 91010 7—86 
1} B Souther 10 6 810 7 om 8 6 4 10—79 
eb. 
E 445454 5-45 
w 56444 4 6—45 
A [4545454 45 
Ww 654444 5—-d4 
A 8 Sampson 45555 4 444 
. Combination Match—Deciinal Target. 
PMIBESS OLA LEL OI & tara Peeve si iert eotee Leek poe 78989968 D9 6 5—"6 
A J Look........ oe AAD See eee 6 610 7 T 8 56 9 B 7-68 
: Rest Mateh, 
DEBE diesen 122 active... oe oe ek fax 101010701010 9 9 9 10—97 
SNE a ee ree ey Dep Oe 810 9 910 910 710 10—92 
BEASTS SGI fy sett w eg HW. Adem 2 sv 510 9 9 91010 9 9 9-89 
LR RSET a ae Ce PE le A ee 10 7 9 510 8 910 9 8&—85 
LESR IRA hei c hg ae ee 610 9 4% 7 810 9 10—82 
Manchester Rifle Club. Massachusetts Rifle Association. 

RP Riise oe eet at tree 49 BTS rae. ey ie RS ee gee; dj 
BELGE ates eve vib so.0 tty gt AG ey BREN CEs or ee sey 45 

BUPA: SATO. te oS rotsla ort ps Leer 45 GA WEBR ONS ites Es rete 45 

WW. DIT ECO reece ob, Soe cee 43 ig Wenn a yee oy es, 45 

TOS Fao) | ieee eee EO BES EB Southet, 0... ese eh 

(20) Th fee Se er ae AS —yOe We CHOI, 2 Seale tcl ne 40—262 


SAN FRANCISCO, June 20-—Four members of the Fifth Infantry 
shot a match at Shell Mound to-day, and endeavored to beat Lieut. 
Kuhnie’s record of 457 out of a possible 500 points. They each fired 
100 shots at the 200yd. target, Lieut. Kellogg's scure was: 


Ina ee. ee ule 6444545564—45. Sixth:......... 4444544554 —48 
Second..-....... et 444558455445 Seventh,....... 5445545445 —45 
ides es ss oa 45644454544 - Bighth........; 5435544555 — 46 
Modrhh eecoas.: owe 664545545446 Ninth,......... 6505545554 - 48 
Fifth..............4 4544455554—46 Tenth.......,.. 4544555545—46 —454 


The scores of his competitors were as follows: Kellogg 454, Moore 

| 424, Hovey 448, Waltham 438, 

_ Avregular match between four staff officers and four members of 
Company A, all of the Fifth Infantry, will take place at Shell Mound 
next Sunday, and the names of the marksmen are a sufficient 
fuaranty of an exciting contest. The officers are: Lient. Kellogg, 
Lieut. Kuhnie, Sergt, Williams and Sergt. Hovey, and their opponents 
are: Sergt. McDonald, Priv. Waltham, Priv, Burrell and Priv. Pierce. 
Col. Ranlett offer a handsome medal to any one in this match who 
beats the record of 457. Next Sunday there will be other interesting 
matches by members of the Fifth. Waltham No. 17 challenges Moore 
No. 4, Williams No. 11 challenges Carroll N3. 9, and Pierce No. 8 chal- 
lenges Kellogg No. 1. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us with club scores ure particularly re- 
guested ta write on one side of the paper only, 


PROPOSED TOURNAMENT. 


To the Gun Clubs: 

Ttis our opinion that gun club contests, if properly presented to the 
public, can be made sufficiently interesting to eventually place this 
sport on a broad national footing, similar to base ball. Therefore, 
with this end in view. it is our intention to organize clay-pigeon tour- 
naments in the principal cities, provided you give us your co-opera- 
tion. The general plan we desireto pursue is outlined in the follow- 
ing; if the offer is accepted, we guarantee to spend at least $250 in 
organizing and advertising same, etc., etc.; if this proves a success 
we will follow same yery shortly with a tournament at Boston, Phila- 
delphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Bradford, Buffalo, Cleveland, St. 
Louis, Cincinnati, Nashville, ete.: ; 

A two days’ programme will be held at New York city, Aug. 1 and 
2, 1884, provided at least 10 teams of 3 from organized clubs will enter 
for the principal contests by July 9, by remitting $10, part of entrance 
fee, to the undersigned, The principal contest will be: Entrance fee, 
$26; teams of 3 from any duly organized gun club, 10 single clay- 
pigeons, 18yds. rise; 5 doubles, liyds. rise; Ligowsky rules (June, 
1884) to govern; the singles to be shot the first day, doubles the sec- 
ond day (to be followed daily by sweepstakes). The purse will be 
divided as follows: To the winning team the whole of the entrance 
fee if only 10 teams are entered; if more than 10, then to the winning 
team $250, and the residue to be divided into 50, 30 and 20 per cent. 
(if the entries be 30 or less), as Second, third ani fourth prizes; if 
over 20 entries, the residue to be divided into four prizes, viz., 40, 30, 
20 and 10 percent, If less than 30 clubs are represented, then any 
club may enter as many teanis of 3 as it sees fit; clubs and members 
of teams must be of at least 3) days’ standing as such. Gale money 
(if any) to go to management. If the gate money exceeds the ex- 
penses, we guarantee to donate said excess as special prizes at the 
next tournament given under our auspices. Initial entrance money 
will be returned unless 10 teams enter before July 9; if they doso 
enter, the undersigned will at once secure grounds, advertise the 
shoot, etc. An early reply will oblige, 


J. BE, Buoom, 
For the Ligowsly C. P. Co., 59 Murray street, New York City, 


THE MERIDIAN GUN CLUB. 


-T the tournament of the Meridian (Miss.) Gun Club, shooters were 

. present from North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and 

Tennessee. As will be seen by the subjoined scores, the average 

shooting was good. Weather fine. Affair passed off ‘happily. An- 
roposed for the fall, 

First Day.—First Mateh—5 pigeons, 26yds.: F. W. Dunham 2, W, T. 
Vass 5; A. B. Dunham, 2, L. P. Chaudet 4, F. A. Cousin 6, Wm. May 
ronne 4, M. Daly i. W. W. Scales 4, N. Seales 3, §. 8. Seales 1, J. KF, 
Jordan 4, J. R, DeFuents 3, J. ©. George 3, F. 8. Ward 4, B. Nichols 1, 
Jno. M. Ladd, Jr. 5, G, W. Bookout 4, H. L. Foot 3, B. Crisler 3, G. W. 
Tuastall 4, BH. Field 3, 8. M. Irion 3, N.S. Carr 3, W. H. Dobson 3, B. 
H. Gallup 1, B. F, Cameron 3, W. W. Stroup 3, J. T. Sargent 4, J, J. 

Kane 4, W, T. Dabney 4, ‘Ties for first: Ladd missed his fourth bird, 
Money diyided between Vass and Cousin. Ten ties for second, won 
by Tunstall, Eleven ties for third, won by Stroup. 

Second Match—10 clay-pigeons, 18yds.: F. W. Dunham 7, B. H 
Gallup 5, KE. Field 6, J, F, Jordan 7, W. Mayronne 6, W. T. Dabney 6, 
J. M. T, Hamilton 6, W. T. Vass 10, B. Nicholas 5, W. Taylor 2, G. W. 
Tunstall 5, W. W, Scaies 3, M. Drey 6, N. Carr 4, J. M. Ladd, Jr., 9, 
W, W, Stroup 5, F. A. Cousin 8, H, L. Foote 8, G. W. Brookout 5, L. 
P. Chaudet 8, B. Crisler 1, Sargent 5, Cameron 6, 8. M. Irion 0, A. B, 
Dunham 7. W.'T. Vass wins first and J,M. Ladd second. Ties for 
third won by Chaudet breaking 3, Cousin 2 and Foote 0, 

Third Match—5 pigeons, 26yds.: Fields 1, Rich 4, A. E. Dunham 1, 
Tunstall 5, F. W. Dunham 2, T. P. Brown 2, Sargent 3, Mayronne 1, 8. 
5, Scales 4, N. Seales 4, Foote 2, Bookout 4, Vass 5, laylor 4, De 
Fuents.4, Chandet 5, Ladd 2, Cousin 4, Jordan 5, Drey 2, Cameron 3 
Dabney 5, Stroup.8, Kane 3, Ward 4, Dobson 2, Gallup 4, W. W. Scales 
5, N. Carr 6, Hamilton 2. Seven ties for first won by Chatdet on 
third bird, the others all missing. Nine ties for second divided be- 
tween Rich and Ward, they bemg tie after killing 9 birds on the tie 
shoot and proposing to divide. Hour ties for third divided between 
SiSoond: Daye first Match—3. double 2 ne 

e I .—Firs ouble pigeons, 2lyds,; Cousin 2 
mich 4, De Fuents 4, Mayronne 4, Chaudeb 4, JD paahaey Bat 

dup 1, Tunstall 1, Field 3, Stroup 6, Bookout 4, Scott 1, Ward 5, Sar- 


other tournament is 


gent 4, Jordan 6, Vass 5, Foote 5, F. W. Dunham 3, Ladd 4, Dabney 4, 
George 2. Stroup and Jordan divide first money. Tie for second: 
Ward and Vass tie on the third pair, Foote missed second pair, Ward 
and Vass divide. Ties forthird won by Rich on seventh pair. Score: 
Rich 14, De Fuents.13. Ties in double match were shot off by shoot- 
ing at pairs. 

Second Matech—i5 clay-pigoons, i8yds,: Mayronne 14, Chaudet 11, 
A. E. Dunham 9, Cousin 10, Tunstall 12, Ward 1, Rich 11, Jordan 12, 
Dabney 11, Field 8 Ladd 12, Bookout 14, Drey 11, J. F. Shackle- 
ford 9, Foote 13, Nicholas 8, J. Cokburn 7. Ties for first: Mayronne 
4, Gallup 5, Vass 4, Bookout4. Foote wins second. Three ties for 
third won by Jordan, he breaking 10, Ladd 9 and Tunstall 4. 

Third Match -10 glass balls, i8yds.: Cameron 5, F, W. Dunham 38, 
Vass 6, Foote 7, Mayonne 7, Bookout 8, Jordan 7, Gallup 2, Chaudet 
9, Cousin 7, Hamilton 6, Dabney 7, Tunstall 7, A, EH, Dunham 2, 
Nicholas 2, Ladd 2, Rich 1, Stroup 7, White 3, Ward 6, Brown 0, Dob- 
son 9, Sargent 7, Kane 5, Scott 4,,Drey 5, George 4. Ties on first 
te ties for second Bookout on seventh ball, ties for third 

ousin, 

Fourth Match—5 pigeons, 26yds.: Ff. W. Dunham 1, Jordan 4, 
Bookout 4, Vass 2, Sargent 3, Irion 3, Chandet 3, De Puents 3, Scott 3, 
Tunstall 5, Stroup 8, A. E. Dunham 4, Cousin 3, Rich 3, Mayronne 3, 
Foote 8, Kane 4, Dobson 2, Dabney 8, Ward 4, Cameron 4, Gates 4, 
Coburn 2, Ladd 3. Tunstall wins first. Ties for second Cameron on 
third bird, others all missing. Twelve ties for third, won by Chaudct. 

Third Day,.—First Mateh—5 pigeons, 26yds.: F. W. Dunham 0, 
Vass 4, Foote 4, Jordan 3, Bookout 5, Gallup 3, Chaudet 5, Cousin 4, 
Dabney 4, Tunstall 8, A. E. Dunham 1. Stroup 4, Ward 5, DeFuents 3, 
Sargent 4, Cameron 3, Gates 4, W. Shackleford 4, White 3, A. McCarty 
2, Trion 2, Kane 2. ‘ies for first won by’ Chaudet; for second, divided 
between Foote and Cousin after tieing on fifth bird, others all haying 
missed; six ties for third, won by Tunstall. 

Second Match—Pigeons, miss and out, 38yds.: Birds gave out after 
the third round, Money was divided betweén all who had killed three 
each, Chaudet, Scott, Cousin. Cameron, Dunham, F, W. Bookout, 
Mayronne, Jordan, Stroup and Ladd. 

Third Match—5 clay-pigeons, 2lyds. and 5 glass balls i8yds.: Came- 
ren won first, breaking 5 clay-pigeons and 5 glass balls. Four ties 
for second, won by Foote. Four ties for third, won by Vass. 

Fourth Match—10 giass balls, 2lyds. rise.: First divided between 
Dabney and Foote, Jardan won second, beating Vass and Bookont on 
tie, and Dobson won third. 


CONNECTICUT.—Match at Wallingford, June 25, for clay-pigeon 
individual State medal. 


Goodrich ......... 111111011114110001111111.00111111101911011111111010—41 
Wichols.... ...... 111111120101 101001111101011111111013.01111111111111—42 
Tousey.,......... 1111000011111 110111113.11 11111119101110101001111111—40 
1645). apg OF aes 1011111011001011011001011191111111100111 withdrew. 
Spencer..........: 10109911111411411190101001011011110101111111111111—40 
Bristol. i) oe 10001111011110100011111111101110011101011111011011—35 
BRIG T ean Ake oe 10001011011.0010110111101101111141111111001111194111—37 
Ite ems as ate oe 19499411019110011111110110111111111110111110101110—41 
Folsom... .... . .-OU400111101141911191990111119111111111001011011111—48 
Brogden.......... 11011109111101041001911 111111100111111110111110111— 40 
PRIN eteaies irs 1101011111011011100111111001110000101010001 withdrew 
Hamnson...... .... 1101110101000 withdrew. 

INS gby. See os cece (01.001111014.111 11901111109 1111111111101110110111101—41 
13k eee a or 1101111 714111107 1101311111031100011111111110041110— 40 
Talcott,.--.---.- 11111100110011111101110111111111101101101011001111—38 
PAS RVERICW one ann 4 1411110111971111011001310111101110111191101111011—89 
D Longden.,.,... 0141071071100191111111111111111111101111111110011—48 
Binkley 2 ee 5 13111010111 114111111010001110001111110171111111111—40 


used.—J. F. I, 

BOSTON GUN CLUB.—Shoot at Wellington, June. 25.—The final 
shoot for the gold badge by teams of three men at the grounds of the 
Boston Gun Club took place yesterday, and was won by the team 
from the Massachusetts Rifie Association. Following is the result of 
the other eveats; . 

First eyent, 5 birds, 5 traps: : 


MW Hager ...2.2-.2--... 0111—4 GB Clark... 2. BD hetae tase 11101—4 
WS EPOLb yi: actus cree cies ae 110114 HL Prescott... ....,....,.01077-4 
GA Sampson. once... ees 11101i—4_D Kirkwood....,.......... 1111i—5 
CH DeRochmont......... 10010—2 GG Tidsbury.............. 11010—3 
B F Johnson.............. QU1I—4 A FCooper..........-..0.. 11010—3 


Ow JEDKINS 2923.5 See: 11011—4 : 
Kirkwood first, Perry second, Cooper third, DeRochmont fourth, 
Second eyent, 3 pair doubles: 


Sampson.........-++) li 11 Ji—6 DeRochmont,......., 10 01 01—3 
POT se lots sacle ates tery ten 11 11 01-5 Jenkins............... 10 00 i11—3 
Kirkwood .....-.-.... Wi il O1—5 Cooper......:......-. 10 11 00-3 
Waren rl vam ccesy Pith” (lt Giaaityis stax occa t re 11 10 10—4 
Presqott. > +. se4 Soars 1i 10 11-5 Johnson.... pee aan LO TD O03: 

Sampson first, Kirkwood second, Clark and Hager third. 

Third event, 7 single birds: 
REGry). 0. cence eed eewsss 1011101—4 OOPETs SA Sa pea toe 1111010—5 
Jenkins ...-. 1114111—7 Tidsbury. .. O11 7111—6 
Kirkwood.... .s J101011—5 Prescott...... 0.00.0. 1110110—5 
Sampson...)---..--.-.--. 1111011—6 

Jenkins first, Sampson and Tidsbury second, Perry third. 

Fourth event, 3 pair double birds; 
LECT WERE BM eeea feck sort 1110 11—5 HH Francis,.... Res ee 11 01 01—4 
ager... oom: Sey ess 11 1071-5 HE WHEaw.. oss sis... 11 11 11-6 
Prescott... -. 22. sees aes 11 11 10—5 AL Brackett..,....... 10 10 0i—3 
Sampson, .....-+ + ..enes: 10 11 11-5 “J S Sawyer. .......,..: 10 11 10—4 
JONSON. 2. ct Hye ene .10 10 11-4 T Curtis............... 11 11 00—4 
Kirkwood, 22... .auqes fess 10 11 00—3 

Law first, Perry second, Francis and Johnson third, Brackett and 
Kirkwood fourth. ; 

Fifth event, 5 single birds, 5 traps: 
Jenkins... .......... +.-.10010—2 Sawyer:.-....2e.2...-. 00 01010—2 
DeRochmont.:...... +++. 11001—3 Johnson .. .............. 1110i—4 
SAOUSOI te en eer eee ee 10101—3 GF Cutting ....... .10100—2 
BP Give eerie ed. atnit faite 01111—4 BW Tinker.......... ... 10101—3 
@laric ce. ieee acer: 11d1—5 ~Coopery...-...5....5...00. 11010—3 
DO SOE Rel Sse nae ee aoc 11000—2 Tidsbury --............... 10111—4 
RENE Yee most s)s Knee ares OUI — 4. Prancigg seni. cecais cba ont 0010i—2 
Brackett .-......--: + apa 0 — 2a PReSCObt reso ee nt Ul bees leek 10010—2 

Clark first, Tidsbury second, Tinker third, Francis fourth, 

Sixth event, 7 single birds, 5 traps: 
Perry ooo) 0s Serpe. 3 1110111—6 DeRochmont............ 1001111—5 
DEM RIDS syeitses els tek .1011110—5 ~Law........... .1101111—6 
Prescotthiss.c.. Jcceccwes 1110101—5 + Cooper.... .0111111—6 
Johnson. 4% ..0011111—5 Francis. . .,-1011111—6 
WAGER) 25 stag cy te 1111001—5_-‘Sawyer........ .,....... 1011111—6 
PAT DSOM ey cose wes sae 1011110—5 Cuttimg........ .. ... ..1011110—5 
PII Ghia 6 enters alee leds kes 1111101—6  Tidsbury ............... 1111-7 
Gilaricien Mae he eae ob 1111000 - 4 


Tidsbury first, Cooper second, DeRochmont and Sampson third, 
Clark fourth. 
Seventh event, 7 birds: 


WPAN CESS 0. \-- lilo (cles lt ae 1110111—6 Jenkins....... seeeveee -LO1111I—6 
Sampson...) 1... eyes 100110i—4 Clark. 0.2.2.2... 6... 0111110—5 
DEOMI. bel bie ae cs ander sist 1114111—7 Johnson,...............4 1110110—5 
(UCT OL PR Ee BBE Be eee ebeione Add — 6 Dinkers Ae kota ie we 0101011—4 


1100011—4 Veseiq tote ia at tek eb 1101110—5 


Beemer tree re ee eens 


HAPEiieh ss. Sl hes seh ADVAN Loa eee cts be yc cote 1011110—5 
WONIIMS, erscnwdsiaws sre 1110114—6 Kirkwood.....5......... 0011111—5 
Rabitve eee Sr eh ioes he o QOTMIO=4 Pinker. Sole iee es pes 1111100—5 
Coupen., a sanaarsaenanttn 1000111—4 Francis................004 1110111—6 
NaMPSOMS ye sy ase nnet 0011110—4 Tidsbury,................ 1111111—7 


ATL Ie ee ai ae teatt. netics OFT ON = 8 WP ODE SI. yee de ne rere asnletoie 11111—5 
PING dee hk nes -10110--3 DeRochmont.............. 10101—3 
SAMPSON ee vases t= + eee 1II—4. enmkINs yo. ee ee 11011—4 
UOHDSON. |. vey sod ties 11010—3 “Prescott..:..-....-..05 we 00110—2 
CANES dene nea teest anes oe WOH I—4 Cooper... o..55 5 4005¢ se 11100—3 
Tidsbuwny 2.6.4 bee recs es od Qi 45 Tae ie sy). cee eo cleie 01110—3 

Die) Be hones BEE ots ares sree: 11101—4_ J Williams................ 01111—4 
Ging et rere ee 10100—2 Kirkwood................ .,.01011—8 
Hager’... .s. oreeyess eo TU—S 


Hager and Perry first, Sampson and Clark second, Tinker, Law 
and Cooper third, Cutting and Prescott fourth. 


Tenth event, 3 pair doubles: 
Francis. ...... TO Oe SRS SUR Rep erie li ii 1i—6 
Cooper ! 10 i1—4 Johnson.....,-..... Ol 12 115 
Jenkins, 10 10—5 Sampson.... ......,. 11 Ol 00-3 
Hager .......... TL di—6 leaw?..---.,--..... ,.10 10 01-8 
O19 a eae ee er att 10 O1—4 Prescott _---. 2.2... 10 10 11-4 
; ager first, Johnson and Jenkins second, Perry third, Sampson 
ourth, 

Bleventh event, 5 straightaways; 
Stanton.........:. Seapen ete 01010—2 Francis ........,. vtec ys ALOII—4 
Wichoigy see: 552. NS SOS 11010—3 Williams............. ,-.+,10110—3 
DeRochmont..............10101—3 Jenlcins..,....,......... ..01011—8 
Hidsbuy aes O01010—=2) “Hager, .....csessseeeeeee ,-10001—2 
Pat Saat Shea eed EEN a Nm 
Francis ‘Law first, Nichols and DeRochmont secon: yu 
and Hager third, 4 . rpg 
Team h for gold badge.—Conditions—Open to any organized 


chib in the New England States. Teams of three men, score to con- 
sist of 5 single birds from 5traps, 3 pair double birds and 10 single 
birds from single trap, per man: 

Boston Gun Club, 


VONDSON dicate ahs bees oe este oe 11001 11 00 00 0111119111—14 

PAPE WOOd)-tph02 20081, Ones 01010 10 10 11 -9101110011—12 

MEWS. fete obs, ed tee cmhes 10100 11 01 11 1000111110—13—a89 
Worcester Sportsman’s Club, 

Perry 1100 11 O1 OL 1111100111—15 
ger... Of 11 11 1011101111—15 
Sampson 10 11 01 1010011111—12—42 
Massachusetts Rifle Association. 

DeRochmont................. 01110 10 10 i1 1111101110—15 
Loe es ABBE RES A PREP RRR e O14 ii 11 10 1011101000—14 
THASHUUY 1ahais'thv oc re pad aac 41411 11 11 1 1110131111—20—49 
Exeter Sportsmen’s Club. 
Prescott... .... ies Geka, ~, 11110 10 11 01 1000111011—14 
COUP gl saree ears soccer eet DL 10 10 11 111010101115 
Acsyihiaty tay AAS eres eae 1111 li 11 11 11911113111—21—50) 
Independent Team, 
BpanGiny: Gov) sectcesr ders ee oie 11010 11 11 10 0111101011—15 
COPNISTOLTD REC Pees oe m8 cet 60100 10 11 11 1101100011—12 
TMNKEEs, oe at scene es toes 11011 01 10 11 1100111111—16—48 


On July 9, @ grand tournament will be held of the above elub, when 
a gold medal will be givenfree. Conditions—2-men team, 7 singles 
from one trap, 7 singles from 5 traps and 3 pair doubles, open to all 
New England. This will be upon the same date that the New Eng- 
land Trap Shooters’ Association will meet at Young’s Hotel, Boston, 


THE FINAL SCORE.—The members of the disbanded Long 
Branch Gun Club met at the old grounds, Deal Beach, N. J., to shoot 
for the possession of the Riverton Gun Club eup, won by the club at 
the Philadelphia meet in 1883. Conditions: Open only to members 
of the late Long Branch Gun Club; 10 birds each, 5 traps, handicap 
rise; Long Branch Gun Clubrules, Closed with 16 entries: 


PYRE Ter ale ers fc ae I ea, 5 1111111111—10 
JS Hoey, 29yds....... 1110111111— 9 


GHIDBErb SPO, OUY GBs pace ones bes agsa trite nee Heder ane .1111110111— 9 
UN STEMI cOW Clerk anatcts pies ve-bale bate gin hie claaieate wate conte sieiadla 1111110111— 9 
Rayos won dsen sce acl danee fs tee ot cu tear ani ee 1101111111— 9 
WaltervG Murphy 2Uyds atthe orbcarrit rst: oy 0141101111— & 
ce ROrds ot abel. aisrter niche mi vemuayedsca Makin | 0110111141— 8 
RG Murphy, 28yds....... .2..+-s.55: ha TAA poy oa SAIS 1011101110— 7 
Kae POMS. + Wi a tags sdN a fork e edats. Si sba5d se oe Wean ee 1010110111— 7 
SLOUP, Poss saee aa ad: Addn sun Sa Bana Tabi Roe ae 1011110101— 7 
WeEvel, cOVOR! shits taser ce io beeen bane heehee cee ker keh cle 1001010011— 5 
Buchs 2eyas ee mereeiae titer kes RRR Ck e Ahh Rbeeeree bee 11101100 Ww 
Brokaw, ceoy se, cenwsk hie tAlee cheek ene Rlee Recep enn cns 11010110w 
Caney dUyUs er pl cee ced eee he RR RGAUE ei ate er eiemeit re 111101110~Ww 
MinddlinetonnvSy Ser cep sacri nels ae) iefcl-linlefelel dee eee 1011100w 

Dy Aelners Soy deed: ayes iy, hn eee Pea ie 010107 


Itis reported here that the purchase of the effects of the club, a 
large club building and almost a mile of high board fence which in- 
closed the grounds, by Miles L. Johnson was in the interest of several 
gentlemen, members of the old club, who design to form another 
shooting club immediately. 


TORONTO, Ont., June 21.—A clay-pigeon match took place at 
Woodbine Park yesterday and this afternoon, when a number of 
valuable prizes were shot for. The first prize was a breechloading 
shotgun, and was won by Mr. J. R. Humphreys. The shoot was at 15 
birds, 18yds. rise, from two screened traps. Mr, George Smith was 
referee. The following was the score of the winners: 

JR ABumphreys 101111111111111—14 W MeDowal.. ..110111111111011—18 
J Townson ..... 111011111111111-—14 R Harris 101111111100111—12 
J L Rawbone., -.110111111111110—13.  W Roberts. -..011011011111110—11 
¥ Martin......-< 111111011110111—18  H Humphreys.010111111001111—11 

First Tie—J. E. Humyhreys 5, J. Townson 4. Seeond Tie—W. Me- 
Dowall 4, J. L. Rawbone 2, F. Martin 2. Third Tie—Kawhbone 3, Mar- 
tin 2. 

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.—To-day has been a very favorable one 
to the bird and target men. A number of the lovers of pigeon shoot- 
ing met at Birds Point, and shot at twenty-five birds each; the prizes 
being $50 for the first, $40 for the second, $30 for the third and $10 for 
the fourth. The entrance fee was $10. The shooting was good, Mr. 
Brown missing only one bird and the gentleman shooting under the 
name of Jackson only two. Mr. Lambert killed twenty-one, and four 
out of the remaining fire killed twenty each. On the shooting off for 
fourth prize, Mr. Pearson won with nine kills without a miss. Ap- 

ended is the-score. Next Sunday there will be another shoot at 

irds Point, but it is not decided yet whether it will be at fifteen or 
twenty-five birds. The entrance will be $10, 


CR BAS Tae Aa os ets hy ke cerry 01111101111011711101101111—20 
Jackson,.-...-..++;- Sa ipietg ss ph ethan oe ep 0111114111111101111111111—28 
SS Eis. Sa. WS 53 eee ee ino, ee 1111111111001110111310111—20 
MRT Rs tren sad ed aber ie of doe ae a@ber tot cece 1111111001114101010101111—19 
BVO WS Cos Ws ee Bee | es 1411111001117111111111111—24 
LS 1Giys- ea ora Ecreeer oho afer eae 0011111111010111111011171—20 
PUA OORG yb tor sg aislsbie ote wee shat 18 1111011111111 101110111110—21 
REELING Toh nse neesel ted eee ain omega ee 1111111111011011101101170—20 


After this, six gentlemen entered for a sweepstake of $2.50 each at 
six birds, Mr. Slade taking’ first money, with a clean score, and 
Messrs. Fisher and Coffin tying for second, with five each. 


The Lincoln Gun Club held its monthly shoot at Colon. The fol 

lowing is the score: 
First Class. Second Class. 

Bruns res rico se 111111011111000—11 Cohen..._...... 101410111011011—11 
Heine.....,....110111101010111—11 Sehendel.......100110111010111— 9 
War 264 isan 011111111100011—11 W Norton ..... 001110110110011— 9.- 
F Venker...... 110101101010011— 9 Karney........ 111110110111111—138 
Potter.i2 ts... 111110010101110—10 H Norton...... 000010111111110— 9 
Richter........ 110101011711011—11 Frisch..... .... 101011111701170—11 
PACKS he eee ot 110010111111011—11 Seyden......... 111001111101111 12 
H Venker......110111111010100—10 -Ford.... ......, 011111101100110—10 
Drinkhouse....103111011000111—10  Jones........ ,-2111100100v0010— 7 
Johnson... ... 101001111111001—10  Weymer........ 001000000001N11— 4 

MN? eae eee 100111001011110— 9 Christel........ 101101011000111— 9 
Baker... -ey 111111010100000— & 


Messrs, Bruns. Heine, Edlar, Richter and Parks tied on eleven birds 
each, and shot off at 8 pair double birds. Messrs. Bruns, Heine and 
Edlar again tying, with 5 birds each, and again shot off at 3 pair more 
double birds, Mr, Edlar taking the medalin the firstclass and Mr. 
Karney in the second. 

MALDEN GUN CLUB.—The club had a field day at Wellington on 
the 28th ult., the leading events being the close of the shoot for the 
class medals, The winners were: Fielding first, Nichols second, 
Scott third. The other events of the day were as follows: 

First event, five birds—Sanborn and Shumway divided first, Snow 
second, Brown and Field divided third. 

Second event, five balls—Snow, Brown and Hopkins divided first, 
Ellsworth second, Adams third. 

Third event, three pair doubles—Hopkins first, Field and Brown 
divided second, Pratt third, Scott fourth. 

Fourth event, five birds—Hopkins first, Snow and Scott divided 
second, Brown and Pratt divided third. Field fourth. 

Fifth event, three pair doubles—Field and Pratt divided first, Snow 
and Hunter divided second, Scott third. 

Sixth event, three pair doubles—Dickey first, Field and Sno w 
divided second, Hunter third, 

Seventh event, five birds—Snow first, Dickey second. 

Highth event, five birds straizhtaway—Hopkins and Field divided 
first, Short second, Shattuck third. 

Ninth event, miss.and out—Dickey first, Snow second. 

Toate event, miss and out—Dickey and Pratt divided first, Scott 
second. 

Hileventh event, five birds—Wiswell and Brown divided first, Dickey 
and Field divided second, Hunter third, Seott fourth. 

es event, miss and out—Snow and Scott divided first, Merrill 
second. 

Thirteenth event, miss and out—Dickey first, Snow second. 

Fourteenth event, miss and out—Dickey first, Scott second. 

Fifteenth event, miss and out—Dickey first, Pratt second. 
fie ene event, ten birds—Nichols first, Brown second, Adams 

ird. 

Seventeenth event, same—With same winners, 

Eighteenth event, five birds—Dickey first,Pratt, Sanborn, Snow and 
Brown divided second, Hopkins third, Short fourth. 

Nineteenth eyent, five balls—Snow and Dickey divided first, Blls- 
worth and Field divided second, Shattuek and Adams divided third, 

Twentieth event, five balls—Shattuck and Ellsworth divided first. 
roe and Brown divided second, Field, Edwards and Pratt divided 

ird. 

Twenty-first event, five birds, straightaway—Hopkins and Dickey 
divided first, Short second, Shattuck and Merrill diyided third, 

The annual shoot of the club will be held Friday, July 4, at 8:30 

-M. There will be a shoot for two medals, one of gold. the other 
leather, for the best and worst shots, The médals are to be shot for 
abt every regular shoot during the year, and are to become the prop- 
erty of the member winning them the greatest number of times, In 
addition there will be four events, at which the club will offer special 
prizes. 


CLAY-PIGEON TOURNAMENT.-—The Second International Clay- 
Sere ‘Tournament, under the auspices of the Lizowsky Company, 
wi nee pe at New Orleans, La., during Mardi Gras week, in Febrie 
ary 7 1 


a | 


ABA 


1. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


PORTLAND, Me., June 27.—The sixth contest for the Ligowsky 
nmiedal, held to-day, terminated in fayor of the Willard Club by 4 
birds, the score standing 8044 against 76144. These two scores are the 
highest that have been made in any match since the tournament held 
here in April last, Thesingles are thrown at 18yds, rise and doubles 
at 15yds_,all from 5 traps 3yds apart, and direction of each trap 
changed as it is refilled. A challenge has been received from the 
Bethel Club and accepted. 


Willard Club—Portland. 


Singles. Doubles. 
VLANTS ere Spee epee 1111122111— 9 10 10 11 01 10—15 
TERT EM es oo ee eee 1211111111— 916 11 Of 11 11 1i—1846 
ROME Pepe eke pepe: teks 1110711111— 9 10 11 10 00 10—14 
AMEN Yow fat liqcasade 1111021211— 8 1i 11 00 10 11—15 
OHSNCHET Ay ve letesviecs's 1111111111—10 11 01 11 11 10—18 —80b5 

Androscoggin Clib—Lewiston. 

Singles. Doubles. 
INSSOU? ube eat tobidde ot 1111111110— 9 10 11 11 11 Q1—-17 
DONOVAN on see eee 1411102121— 8 1i 11 11 1% 11—I18 
Petleneins 264 ttt eett 0011101000— 4 ~ 00 10 11 10 11—10 
NUDES pet etd ie econ y 2111111 211— 9 11 i1 10 11 10—17 
POA Soot 110011 0211— 616 11 10 11. 11 10—1444—7ble 


T. B. Dayis, Referee. 


Canoeing. 


QANOEISTS dre invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 
club meets, information about canoeable waters, and other commu- 
nications of interest. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Foresm anpD 
Srream their addresses, with name, membership, signals, ete. of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same, Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrest? AND STREAM their addresses, with 
logs Of eritises, tiaps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt. 


FIXTURES. 


July 4, 5, 6.—Rondout.C. C., Camp at Esopus Island. 
July 9 to 15.—Chicago C, 0., Annual Cruise. 

July 14,—Allegheny C. C.. Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 
July 19 —Chicago C. C., First Annnal Regatta. 

July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet, Lorna [sland, 

Aug. 1to 15.—A. 0, A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


OSHKOSH C. C. 


\ 


OMMODORE, A. M. Kaas; Vice-Commodore, F. H, Gary: Secre- 

tary, W. J. McKoy; Executive Committee, W. Sessions, Orto 

Schloerb, Organized March 22, 1684. Signal, pomted burgee, blue 
field with white letters. 


RACES AT LOWELL, 


eee annual regatta of the Vesper Roat Club, held on the Merri- 

mack River at Lowell, Thursday evening, June 26, included two 
canoe races, which deyeloped quite as much enthusiasm as the row- 
ing contests, The first was for single canoes, with double-bladed 
paddle. QOourse, one-half mile, with turn. Four canoes entered and 
paddled a pretty race, all keeping well together and finishing as fol- 
lows: Howard Gray, Stella Maris, first; Paul Butler, open cedar, 
second; Frank H. Pullen, Birdie Kane, third; Joseph Leatham, Stella 
Maris, fourth, Time, 5m, 52s. 

The second race was for open tandem canoes, using single blades. 
The club onzht to have turned out atleast ten canoes in this class, 
but most of their owners foolishly declined to enter for fear of defeat, 
and only two crews contested, the leaders having it all their own way 
and paddling a splendid stroke. Course, one-half mile, with tura, 
Result as follows; E. 8. Sherman and C. P. Nichols, Adirondack, first; 
J.C. Dayisand Howard Gray, Peterborough, second, Time, 5m, 10s, 
There were no sailing races. After the regaita there was a pleasant 
reception in the boat house, which was tastefully illuminated, Dan- 
cing from 8 till 11, 


THE MEET AT GRINDSTONE ISLAND. 


N FOUR weeks more the fifth annual meet of ihe American Canoe 
Association will be held at Grindstone Island, in the St. Lawrence 
River, and it will, without doubt, exceed in size any previous one. 
The spot is the most beautiful as well as the most central yet selected, 
near to Canada, a day’s ride from New York and the Hast, and readily 
accessible by way of the lakes from the West. Those who have at- 
tended previous meets are certain to be present this year, if possible, 
as wellas many who have lately joined, but besides these there are a 
large number to whom the meel offers every opportunity fora cheap 
and pleasant vacation. i 

Although firmly established in the Middle and Hastern States, the 
Oanoe Association, as yet, numbers few members in the West, while 
its aims and objects are but little known to outsiders not interested 
in canoeing. The former class, considering the distance too reat to 
attend the meet, have heretofore held aloof, declining all invitations 
to join the Association, and have gone on alone without any union 
among themselves, Of course, it is inypossible, even in these days of 
fast travel, for them to come to an Eastern meet every year, or for 
Eastern men to go far West, but they need not keep out of the Asso 
ciation for that reason. We have in the present Canoe Association a 
well-organized machine for the collection and exchange of such 
knowledge asis indispensable to all cruisers, whether by canoe or 
other eratt. which machine is willing and able to extend its jabors to 
any locality willing to render help in turn, and if the Western canoe- 
ists will but join, the services of the secretary are as much at their 
disposal as with members nearer to him. 

As concerns the meet, a plan has already been decided on of divid- 
jog the Association into several sub-divisions of convenient size, each 
Owing allegiance to the general government, but having its own 
funds, local self-government and officers, and annual meet, the offices 
going to each division in rotation, while each meet will. in turn, be 
the main Association meet, at which the officers will be present, and 
all business transacted. 

By this plan all will be equally represented, each locality having a 
mect of its own, attended by some members from other divisions as 
well, thus securing an interchange of ideas and a further binding 
together of the different divisions. Hach division would have to cen- 
tribute its proportion foward such geuerel expenses as the publication 
ofthe annual book, beyond which they would manage their own 
finances and be independent of the other divisions. 

This plan can be put into operation at any time, but the proper oc- 
casion to introduce it will, of course, be at the business meeting at 
the camp. All thatis needed is for Western canoeists to take the 
matter up, Jet them be as fully represeuted as possible at Grindstone 
Islana, where the entire matter van be discussed and setiled, Every 
club, large or small, no matter where located, should endeavor for its 
Own sake, to have one celegate at the meet, who will go there to rep- 
resent the club, and who will be prepared, on his return, to report to 
the club what he bas seen; canoes, rigs, fittings, all those numerons 
details brought out by so large a number camping together, and this 
is most important to the younger clubs in the smaller cities, who have 
little apucriuaity of knowing what is being done by candeists 
generally. 

Besides active canoaists there is another class to whom the meet is 
open, but who gs gst haye availed themselyes but slightly of the 
Brivdege—those who, though not canoeists, are fond of camping 
Aud wish to spend a short yacation in the woods. Every year a few 
pipadigers visit the camp by accident in thisway, aud some pf them 


have become enthusiustie canoeists. All such are heartily welcome; 
there is room for them, and to them the A, C. A. camp offers peculiar 
inducements, No guides are necessary, the expenses are but trifling 
and there is less of the drudgery and hard work of ronghing it in a 
large camp organized as this one is than where a small party go into 
the woods alone, a very important consideration to amateurs whose 
experience is confined to a week or two eyery year, and who are un. 
fitted to bear the hardships attendant on camp life in the wilderness. 
Ali such are heartily welcome to the camp. Whether canoeists or 
not they will meet with a cordial reception, and we hope to see plenty 
of new faces next August, 


A RIVER AND COAST CRUISE. 


i Fates G Deer Leap camp at the breaking up of thé Merrimack 

River canoe meet, Monday morning, June 16, canoes Chemaun 
and Olytie, A.C, A., ermised around to Salem, yia Merrimack and 
Plum Island rivers. Ipswich Bay, Squam Riyer and Canal, Atlantic 
Ocean and Salem Harbor. The trip occupied three days and proyed 
highly enjoyable, notwithstanding the fact that head winds were en- 
countered all the way after leaving Newburyport, and much of the 
distance was paddled against adverse tides, while a heayy sea was 
running along the coast as the result of continued southeast winds. 
Of the canoes one, an Eyerson Nautilus of 32-inch beam, was strictly 
a salt-water boat, haying cruised extensively on the open ocean, and 
carried two large lateen sails of a most beautiful pattern and admir- 
ably suited to rough water. The other, asmaller and lighter Birdie 
Kane of 27-inch beam, was also rigged with two small lateens and 
proved quite as steady on the open sea as on the calmer waters of the 
riverat home. Like all Racine boats, she was. of course, strong and 
tight. Both carried canoe tents and afforded very comfortable sleep- 
ing quarters at night, while the model cooking outfit of the former 
and the camera which accompanied the latter also added to the pleas- 
ures of the cruise. 

The six miles to Lawrence were trayersed leisurely under sail, in 
company with a Stella Maris, which had a loaded open canoe in tow, 
and a double eruiser bound for Haverhill. Persons familiar with the 
river below Lowell need not be told of its beauty; wooded bluffs, al- 
ternating with open reaches and everywhere abounding in the pic- 
turesque toa marked degree. At Lawrence there was a stop of oyer 
an hour, to repair damages sustained in running Hunt’s Falls, and 
inspect the fishway at the dam. 

The lock at the entrance of the northern canal was entered shortly 
after neon, and of course the three canoes attracted much attention 
from persons in and about the mills. Three more locks at the end of 
the canal lowered the boats a good many feet, and they finally 
emerged upon the river with a clear course to the sea, The wind now 
became fickle and squally, but sails were hoisted and occasionally 
proved of service, Two er three miles were passed, when suddenly 
a splash was heard, and the two leading canoeists turned to see their 
Haverhill friends climbing over the side of their canoe with an evi- 
dent desire ta inspect its keel. They had unwisely fastened the sheet 
of their sail and when struck by a squall capsized. But they were 
soon towed ashore, wrung out, put together again, and the fleet pro- 
ceeded under p:ddle, with a hearty laugh all around. 

_ Running Mitchell’s Falls afforded some fine sport—swift water with 
little danger of striking rocks—and the canoes were soon down to the 
limit of tide-water. Sails were agvin hoisted, after a refreshing 
drink at a cooling spring, and the fleet adyanced in good style, Ar- 
riving there, good-bye was said to the moistened crew of the Gyp, 
and the other two canoes sailed on side by side, catamaran fashion, 
to Groveland Bridge, where milk was procured and a lovely cam 
ground selected just below at an early hour. A grassy bank, shel- 
tered by stately trees and commanding 2 fine view of the river up 
and down, offered an inviting resting place for the canoes. which 
were quickly hauled out, propped up side by side, and the little canoe 
tenis pitched over them. Supper over, there was time to loll about 
and chat with a couple of yisitors before dark, after which came 
sound and refreshing sleep in the canoes, : 

During his brief stay at the canoe meet, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, 
who has done considerable canoeing, in addition to seeing a great 
deal of the world in other ways, let fall a remark which sounded the 
keynote to the whole sport of canoeing. ‘'Canoeists,” he said, 
“should never be in a hurry."’. And to this may be added the advice, 
camp early. There is always a temptation, when on 2 cruise, to-keep 
on and add a few more miles to the day’s score. But it doesn't pay. 
Darkness and dampness quickly gather; préparations for the night 
are hastily made, and the result is neither satisfaetory nor enjoy- 
able. Five, or six o'clock at the latest, should find the canoeist set- 
tled in camp, with ample time to cook and eat his supper and arrange 
for turning in. Those who habitually put up at hotels or farm houses 
may discard this advice, but they are always at the mercy of others, 
and lose much of the charm of canoeing. Mention has already been 
made of the model cooking outfit carried by the Chemaun. To this 
and its skillful manipulation by the skipper was due much of the 
pleasure of the cruise. The little stove, which everywhere attracted 
attention, was nade of sheet iron, hinged to fold fiat and stow away 
intoasmall sack. Whenset up with funnel attached a very little 
wood served to quickly cook a meal, three holes on top a¢commo- 
dating pot, kettle and frying pan all at the same time. Then the 
cooking utensils, plates and cups were all of granite ware, which will 
not rust and is easily kept clean, while the cooking ingredients were 
held by glass jars, fitting compactly into small boxes—the whole 
complete, convenient and portable. 

Tuesday morning opened fair, with promise of a delightful day. In 
fact, the weather throughout the trip was all that could be asked by 
the most fastidious. The camp was Roser phed breakfast eaten, 
and at 7:30 the eanoes set out under paddle with a favorable tide. 
Hvery where the scenery was fine, and the river gradually widened as 
it proceeded. At Pleasant Valley there was a stop for a swim, and 
from this point the fleet proceeded undersail. The old chuin bridge 
was photographed from Eagie Island, and shortly after the canoes 
pulled up ata wharf in Newburyport, while their occupants went 
ashore. Once more afloat, lunch was eaten in the canoes, while sail- 
ing on to the mouth of the river. Arriving there an attempt was 
made to cross the bar and run down the coast outside of Plum Island, 
but a strong tide had by this time set in, and although Chemaun sue- 
ceeded in getting pretty well out, Clytie gave it up after trying vainly 
for twenty minutes to pass a buoy in mid stream, and the two paddled 
back to the entrance of Plum Island River. The tide was now favor- 
able, but wind dead ahead, so that paddling was hard work, and it 
was nearly dark when the canoes were finally worked around to their 
destination on Ipswich Little Neck. The course inside of Plum 
Island was ote a pretty stretch of level marsh on one side, 
with hills of sand on the other, while nearly all the way the surf 
could be heard breaking on the beach outside. The last balf mile 
was paddled against the tide at the mouth of Ipswich River, and 
the paddlers were prepared forasolid sleep in a summer cottage 
owned by the captain of the Chemaun. 

Starting early on the following morning, the canoes were soon out 
side, past Ipswich light and tossing ona ground swell in the bay. 
Sails were set, but the light wind was stil] dead ahead, and a ‘‘spruce 
breeze” became again in order. Coasting along within a half mile of 
shore, and sighting occasional seals, Cape Ann loomed up in the mist 
ten miles away at the left. and after crossing the mouth of the Essex 
River, course was laid for the Squam, where a strong ebb tide lent 
aid to the windin opposing progress and frequent shoals were en- 
countered. Squam River is at times a pretty stream, winding a devi- 
ous course between rocky shores capped by summer cottages, but at 
low water it dwindles to a mud flat, and the voyager who strikes it 
when the tide is nearly out is sure to come to grief. So it happened 
in this instance, andafter ahard passage, with frequent grounding, 
the eanoes were at length hauled out on @ float at the first bridge and 
left to await the turning of the tide. .A two hours’ wait followed, ad- 
initting of a walk to Gloucester and dinner is town. . 

By 2 o'clock the water, had risen a little and was steadily deepening 
by the incoming tide, but it still failed to float the canoes, and the 
were dragged to the entrance of the canal connecting Squam wit: 
Gloucester harbor, Here a tremendous tide rip had to be stemmed, 
and the passage throngh was slow and tedious. Following came a 
pleasant paddle across the harbor, passing Stage Head, Field Rocks 
and Misele Point, and going outside of Norman’s Woe Rock. When 
off Eastern Point and fairly out of the harbor the canoes were on the 
open ocean, and found a heavy sea running, the result of a southeast 
wind which had been blowing for several days. ‘ 

This was the Clytie’s first éxperience in rough water and lying in 
the trough it was necessary to head her up to each rolier as it came 
on. But she rode them bugyantly and shipped less thau aviss of 
water while on the open sea. Chemaun kept well out, with sails set, 
but both settled down for a hard ten miles’ paddle along the coast in 
a broiling sun, The waves were beating high agaiust the rovks, but 
cutside the rollers only needed attention, Ketile Island and Great 
Ezz Rock were left to starboard and the course continued past Mag- 
nolia and Manchester-by the-Sea, the great Masconomo House form- 
ing a striking landmark at the latter place. At last the Clytie, which 
had kept well in and Jed thus far, worked in behind House Island, 
at the mouth of Salem Bay, just as the wind began to freshen, but 
going outside of Little Misery she got into a stronger wind whieh 

icked up a nasty sea, The shaper was soon wet from the shoulders 
down and water began to come aboard pretty fast, but @ few vigor- 
ous. strokes put the canoe around a point into calmer water just a6 
the other craft came up inside, The crew of the Chemaun seemed 
fresh and quite at bome, but his companion was tired, wet and a bit 
discouraged, sa both concluded to run sround under the shelter of 

Great Misery Island aud camp for the night rather than put in four 
av five miles more hard paddling up te the city, A quiet barbop Was 


found, when the canoes were beached, hauled up and unloaded, 
Then the yoyagers called at the house of Mr. Daniel Neville, a genial 
old gentleman who lives on the island, and came away with milk and 
eges for whieh the host generously refused payment. Quite a party, 
including several fishermen, came down from the house to inspect 
the boats, in which they took a lively interest, and before supper was 
over the twin lights flashed out from Baker's Island. It had been 
proposed to sleep in the canoes but the offer of comfortable beds in 
the loit of a fish-house was accepted instead and all hands tnrned in. 

Half-past three Thursday morning found preparations under way 
for an early start, and before 5 o'clock the canoes were headed u 
the harbor. A few boats were already out. Skirting along the nort 
shore there was opportunity to see and appreciate the Peautien of 
Beverly Farms, located on one of the finest bits of coast in the 
world. Everywhere the waters dash against ragged rocks on the 
crests of which stand costly residences amid beautiful grounds and 
supplied with all the luxuries which wealth can buy. Paddling 
leisurely on, Beverly light was left behind and one of the canoes 
crossed over to make a short callat the Willows. Continuing through 
Beverly Harbor, under the bridge and around into tne North River, 
the canoes were finally landed in the boathouse at 7 o'clock, haying 
completed a combined fresh and salt-water cruise of some seventy- 
eight miles without accident of any kind and furnished the means for 
a pleasant vuting to both their vrews. CLYTIE. 


ANOTHER MOHICAN CHAMPION. 


SATURDAY afternoon, June 28, at 5 o'clock, the first race was 
called for the new challenge prize offered by Capt. R, W. Gibson 
to his club—a silver badge, designed by him and executed by Burgess, 
of Albany, showing a canoe with a large lateen sail surrotinded by a 
circle, and hung to a bar, with the word ‘"*hampion™ engrayed on it, 
and the monogram M. C. ©. A small white streamer goes with it to 
be carried at peak so long as it can be kept. Considerable interest is 
shown in the prize and the contests will be very keen, although husi- 
ness engagements prevented seyeral entries in this, the first race. 
Sail is limited to 75ft., bal'ast to 7alhs.; course about three miles, tri- 
angular or to windward and return; A.C. A. sailing rules; to he sailed 
in two hours or no race; winner not to be compelled to sail on another 
challenge in less than a mouth, 

_The Snake did not enter, her owner acting as judge on this occa- 
sion. The entries were: Thetis, P.M. Wackerhagen; Lasca. George 
H. Thacher; Uneas, Henry &. Pierson, Jr,; Fior da Lice, B, Fernow. 
The start was made at 5:0914, with a light south wind, and the first 
stretch to the north was against the last of the ebb tide. The ecurse 
selected was up from the upper bridge to the second buoy and re- 
turn, @ little short of three miles, Thetis and Lasea alternately led 
up, the latter rounding the buoy first by about one minute. Coming 
to windward, however, Thetis got in front, making long tacks from 
shore to shore, while Lasca having found a streak of breeze on the 
west side kept in it by judicious short tacks and soon came to the fore 
a - Uncas was close behind until the windward work began, 
when the greater experience of her antagonists enabled therm to 
make a duel of it. Thetis lost all her advantage about half way hack 
and Lasca came in prettily at 6:32:45, Thetis 6:34; Uncas was a good 
third and Fior da Lice retired early in the race. 

Before the finish eight or ten canoes had got out and the river was 
gay with white wings. Mr, Yan Vechten had his new Rushton afloat, 
a very fine Ellard, the latest arrival. There was ‘considerable think 
ing” over the result, we had all thought that Thetis, the Newburgh 
winner, had an easy task. Mr. Thacher has been making such a dude 
boat of the Lasca, with nickle plating where other Mohicans have 
brass, and serew clamps where we have bits of string, that we had 
adjudged him the ornamental duties, still he gave us a warning of 
what was coming the first day he was out with us, with a No. 8 la- 
teen in a squally west wind. The Lasca carried a batten settee like 
the Snake’s, 52ft. and about 14ft. in dandy; Thetis a trifle more. 
This shape sail is a favorite already, and seems likely to cheek our 
hitherto continuous experiments. Another Mohican isready to carry 
the turtle to the front and half « dozen are waiting for the next chance 
to prove him. . SNARE. 


A LONG CRUISE IN A SMALL BOAT. 


a | BUILT that boat myselfin Sanford, Florida, last December, 

and since then have traveled fuily 2,000 miles init. I haye 
liyed and sleptin it, and there is the sleeping apartments of myself 
and crew.’’ As he said this the speaker pointed to two small covered 
apertures on each side of the centerboard of a ¢at-rigged batteau ly- 
ing. at Waters’s wharf. The batteau was but 19fb. long and 4ft. 10in. 
beam. “She draws 7in. light, but when we are in she goes down to 
llin.,”’ continued the speaker, who was Mr. George Ilis, a builder, of 
Akron, O., who went to Florida last fallto escape the rigors of a 
Western winter. He was accompanied by Walter Scott, of Mystic, 
Conn., who was sailing master of the frail-looking eraft, in which Mr, 
Tlis, Scott and a Sun reporter stood yesterday, with barely roem to 
turn around in the stem sheets. 

Mr. Iles gave The Sun reporter an ela a account of his 
travels. ‘‘In Florida,’’ said he, ‘transportation lines are few and 
far between, and specially soif you wantto thoroughly penetrate 
the interior waterways with which the State abounds. k was be- 
cause of this that I built this boat. 1 started from Sanford Jast De- 
cember, and followed the St. John's River to Lake Harney. I then 
had the boat hauled overland a distance of eighteen miles to the 
Tndian River, which runs paralell with the ocean, I sirnuck the Lucia 
River, and thence through Jupiter Sound to Jupiter Inlet. There I pro- 
cured the services of a half-breed Indian to pilot me through the Byer- 
glades, a distance of twenty-eight miles, to Lake Worth. Progress was 
slow, for we had to pole all the way. I spent three delightful weeks 
at Lake Worth in the month of January. where we were daily re- 
galed with ripe tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables. Ire- 
turned by the same route to Rock Ledge, on the Indian River, and 
again I had the boat carted three miles across the country to Lake 
Poinsett, the head of navigation on the St. John's River and 105 miles 
from Lake Harmey. The only inhabitants of that section were alli- 
gators. Not a person or animal were to be seen in that vicinity. I 
then returned to Sanford. 1 again left it on March 14 for Baltimore. 
The St. John’s River was followed to the bar, and after passing 
through Mud and Nassau sounds I arrived safely at Fernandina. I 
then skirted the coast to Cape Roman, in South Carolina, and then 
had 150 miles of the open sea tocontend with Of this stietch we 
made 76 miles in one day. We crossed heavy breakers al New Top- 
sail Inlet, which was the most dangerous of our whole experience, 
but were repaid by a good haven inside the mouth of New River, 
Passing through Pamlico and Albemarle sounds we entered Dismal 
Swamp Canal and reached Norfolk. On the route we spent several 
days at a time in various places, sometimes windbound or making in- 
vestigation of the country.” " 

Mr. Iles will sell his boat here and leave for his home in Akron to- 
morrow night, He has on board some heautiful specimens of pre- 
served pelicans, water turkeys, cormorants, ivory bills, curlews, pyles 
and loons, all of which he will have stuffed upon his arrival bome. 
He has besides many curiosities gathered on his long trip,— Balti- 
more Sun. 


ROYAL C. ©,—The annual long paddling race, from Teddington to 
Putney, took place on Saturday last. The entries were 5. Fulcher 
and Claud Seett. Scott took the Middlesex shore, and they got olf to 
avery good start. Fulcher was first to show in front, and at Eel Pie 
Island was about clear. The pace then became very hot, and Scott 
drew up once or twice, but could not get level, and Fulcher passed 
Richmond Bridge several lengths to the good. At Isleworth Scott 
had somewhat improved his position, but itwas his last effort, as in 
Zion Reach Fulcher drew rapidly away. and was about one hundred 
yards ahead at Kew Bridge. before reaching Barnes Bridge Scott 
fave up, and Fulcher paddled to the Thames Boat Llouse alone, 
reaching there at 5:10 P.M. The wind was ahead in nearly all the 
reaches, and especially strong in Zion Rea¢h aud off Chiswick. Ob 
Saturday, the 2ist inst., there will be a special race for cruising 
canoes, when, with a view to bring out the all-round qualities of the 
craft, one-half of the course will be sailed down wiud, and the re- 
mainder paddled back to windwai'd, It is hoped that all members 
having canoes of this class will endeavor to enter for this event,— 
London Field, Fune 14. 


N. Y¥. C. C.—The race for elass A canoes that was not finished for 
lack of wind on June 21, was sailed on June 28, over the same course, 
Of the three entries, Mr. Burchard was absent, and the water was 
too rough for Mr. Fraser's little open canoe, so Mr, Munroe, in the 
Psyche, had asailoyer. About fifteen members will go tothe August 
meet, by way of the Ontario and Western Railway. Thenew uniforms 
of the club will soon be ready. They areofa very dark en, Nor- 
folk jacket, knickerbockers. lone stockings, and hat of one color. Mr, 
Burchard, of the Siren, will shortly start on a Jong cruise with Mr, 
Stoddard. A series of races are talked of for the summer and fall, 
both sailing aud paddhne. 


PELICAN OG. C,—On June 14, thirteen members of the Pelican C.C. 
with two visiting men, met at Weirs, N. H., and launched their six 
canoes in Lake SV aanED Bee They paddled to Manchester, camping 
out nights and doing their own cooking. At Manchester all the party 
went home except two Hastern members, who continued on to Haver- — 
hill, Mass., camping one night at Deer Leap Falls, the seene of the 
Merrimack River meet of the idth and 16th. The members of th 
Vesper Boat Club were very kind to the two Hastern members, an 
re Shae soe with a cordiality entirely yaespected among strangers, 
— VV ENO. et oP ee ae We i 


[Fury 8, 1984, 


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DOWN THE CONNECTICUT.—Messrs. L. R. Ingraham and L. Q. 
Jones, both of the Hartford C. C , arrived here at 7:45 P, M. Sunday 
in Mr. Ingraham’s canoe, the Rambler, They left Hartford at 4 P. 
M. Saturday, staying over night at Hssex. The canoe is 16ft, long and 
carries two lateen sails, anp is as trim and pretty a craft as one often 
sees afloat, They hauled her outand stowed her away at Pegi Kelly's 
boat house, where she is to remain for a few days while Mr. Ingraham 
takes a trip inland, Mr, Ingraham is connected with the Gatling Gum 
Company of Hartford,—New London Day, June 30, 

NEWTON BOAT CLUB,—At the annual regatta of this club on 
Saturday, June 28, rowed on the Charles River, at Boston, there were 
two races for canoes, one for birch barks, in which F. T. Burdett and 
W. W, Cole paddled against J. M, Jennison and Thos, Cotter, distance 
one mile. e former erew won after a close race, in iim, 39s, In 
the Rob Roy race J. Fanning won, beating E. N. Markham, Fred 
Hervey and Otto Jost. 

PERSONAL.—Capt. S, D, Kendall is building several boats of vari- 
ous kinds at Tarpon Springs, Fla, One of his latest is a sharpie, 33ft. 
over all, 8fi. 10m, beam, 18in. draft; 900ft. of canvas in lower sails, 
yawl rig, 

OHICGAGO C. C.—Two gold badges have been presented to the 
Chicago C. C. as prizes for their races of July 19, All the boats of 
the club will be entered. 


Hachting. 


FIXTURES. | 


Secretaries of yacht clubs will please send early notice of pro- 
posed matches and meetings. 


7 July 4,—Beverly Y. C., Monument Beach, Sweepstakes, 
July 4,—Larebimont Y. C., Annual Open Matches, 
July 4,5, 6.—Quaker City Y. C,, Corinthian Cruise, 
July 4.—Hull Y. G., Review and Annual Cruise, five days. 
July 4.—Boston, open matches, City Point. . ‘ 
July 5—Beverly Y. C., Monument Beach, Championship. 
July 9,—Beverly Y, C,, Marblehead, First Championship. 
July 12,Boston Y. C.. Second Clnb Match. 
July 12,—Hull Y, C., First Club Match, 
duly 19.—Hull Y. C,, Ladies’ Day. 
July 24.—FPastern Y, C., Annual Cruise, 
July 26.—Beverly Y, C., Nahant, Second Championship Match. 
July 30,—Quiney Y. C.. Third Match, 
Aug, 2,—Hull Y, C., First Championship, 
Aug, 4,—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Crnise. 
Aug. 9,—Boston ¥. C., Annual Matches. ; 


Aug. 11-25.—Quaker City Y. C., Annual Cruise in Chesapeake and 
Delaware BaNe. 

Aug, 16,—Salem Bay ¥. C.. Open Matches. 

Aug. 16,—Hull Y, C., Qpen Matches. 

Aug. 23.— Boston Y. C., Third Club Match. 

Aug, 23.—Beverly ¥. C., Open Match. 

Aug. 26,—Beverly Y. C., Special, Marblehead. 

Aug. 28.—Quincy ¥. C., Fourth Match. 

Aug, 30.—Hill ¥. ©., Second Championship Match- 

Sept. 3.—Hull Y. C., Third Championship Match. 

Sept. 4—Salem Bay Y. C., Second Championship Match. 

Sept. 6.—Beyerly ¥. C., Marblehead, Special Match. 

Sept. 11.—Quiney Y. C., Last Race. 

Sept. 11.—trenton’s Reef Challenge Cup, 

Sept. 18.—Boston Y, C., Ladies’ Day. 

Sept. 13,—Boston Y¥. C., Fall Matches. 

Sept. 14.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Cup Race. 

Sept, 28.—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. 

Oct, 5.—Quaker City Y. C,, Closing Review and Cruise. 


BEVERLEY Y. C. 


HIS club has arranged the following series of matches for the 
summer: July 4, Monument Beach. open catboat sweepstakes; 
July 5. Monument Beach, first race for Buzzards Bay Ci eteRtens ins 
July 9, Marblehead, first championship regatta; July 26, Nahant, sec- 
ond championship tee Aug. 16, Swampscott, third champion- 
ship regatta; Aug. 23, Marblehead, (probably) open matches; Sept. 
6, Marblehead, fall matches. The dates of the open regatta at Monu- 
ment Beach and the last two races for the Buzzards Bay champion- 
ship are not vet decided upon, 

The first of the above—an open sweepstakes for catboats only—will 
be sailed on Friday, July 4, off Monument Beach, starting at 12 M., 
under the following conditions: Entrapee fee, $5 for each yacht. 
All entrance fees, after deducting expenses, will be distributed in 
first and second prizes. Second prizes will only be awarded where 
more than two yachts start. These prizes will be sailed for with the 
time allowance, and under the rules of the New HBngland Yacht 
Racing Association. The start will be flying, yachts crossing a line 


between the judges’ yacht and Tobey Island buoy, No.2. Four guns 
will be fired for the start, at intervals of fiyeminutes. The first, a 


preparatory gun, at 12 o’clock, when club flag will be lowered and 
oisted again at second gun, The first class will start between the 
second and third guns; the second class between the third and fourth 
funs, and the third class at the fourth gun, also being allowed five 
minutes for starting. A fog horn may be used instead of a gun. 
Yachts, on their return, will pass either way between the judges’ 
yacht and Tobey Island buoy No, 2. In case of unfavorable weather, 
the regatta will be sailed on the following Monday, 

Measurement and allowance—The racing measurement shall be 
length upon the water line, plus one-fifth overhang aft. Yachts to 
he measured with two persons and no more on board. Time shall be 
allowed for difference of measurement, according to the tables of 
allowances of the Beverly Y.C, Classes—The first class shall include 
all cat rigs measuring over 24ft. sailing measurement; the second 
class shall include all cat rigs measuring over 21 and not over 24ft. 
sailing measurement, and third class all cat rigs 21ft, and under, sail- 
ing measurement, All yachts will be required to sail in their re- 
spective classes, Sails—Yachts will carry mainsail only; no means 
except sails shall be used to propela yacht. Crews—Yachts to be 
allowed to carry one man for every five feet, and fractional pert 
thereof. Ballast—No trimming by dead weight or throwing ballast 
overboard allowed during therace. Entries--Entries may be made 
by letter addressed to George H. Richards, Tobey Club, Monument 
Beach, or in ners al the Tobey Club, so as to be received not later 
than 5 P. M. July 3, giving name, name and residence of the owner, 
and measurement of yacht. Hach entry must be accompanied by $5 
entrance fee. Yachts can be measured by applying to Mr, Richards, 
at the Tobey Club, at 9 A.M. onthe day of therace. Signals—Racing 
yachts will be furnished with numbers to be shown at the start and 
finish, and with pennants to be fastened to the leach of the mainsail, 
and to be carried throughout the race; blue for first class, red for 
second class and yellow for third class. Protests—All protests must 
be made to the judges within half an hour after the race, and all 
eR OUR will be decided by them in accordance with the rules of the 

everly Y.C. Time of race—Race must be made by one boat in first 
and secend classes at rate of two and three quarter miles an hour, in 
third class at rate of two and a half milesan hour, Courses will be 
indicated by white numbered flags, shown from judges’ boat. 

Courses for the first and second classes.—Nv. 1, From starting 
porns leaying Bird Island Buoy No. 18 on port hand; Scraggy Neck 

uoy No. 10 on port hand, to judges’ yacht, eleven miles, No.2. From 
starting point, leaving Seraggy Neck Buoy No. 10 on starboard hand; 
Bird Island Buoy No. 13 on starboard hand, to judges’ yacht, eleven 
miies. 

Course for third class.—No, 3. From starting point, leaving Black 
Buvy No. 3 on starboard hand; Abial’s Ledge Buoy No. 1 on starbeard 
hand, Dry Ledge Buoy No. 12 on starboard hand, to judges’ yacht, 
seven miler. No.4 Krom starting point, leaving Dry Ledge Buo 
No 12 on port hand; Abial’s Ledge Buoy No.1 on port hand; Blac 
Buoy No. 3 on port hand, to judges’ yacht. 

The first race for the Buzzard’s Bay championship will be sailed on 
July 5,at1 P, M, at the same place, and will be open to members' 
sloops under the following conditions; The first class to inelude all 
sloops not over thirty feet water line. The second class toineclude all 
cats over twenty-four feet sailing length, and not over thirty feet, 
The third class to include all cats of twenty-four feetand under. Two 
prizes will be given in eaea class, provided more than twe yachts 
start, These prizes will be sailed for with the time allowance of the 
club, A champion pennant will be awarded in each class to the boat 
making the best actual time, to be held till the next race, and becomes 
the property of the yacht winving it the greatest number of times 
during the season. In case of unfavorable weather, the race will be 
sailed the following Monday, A one-gun flying start will be used. 
Yachts crossing a line between judges’ yacht and a stakeboat moored 
off the north side of Tobey Island, in Phinney's harbor. 

Starting Signals—At 1 P. M, a preparatory gun will be fired and the 
club flag lowered. At 1:05, club flag hoisted and arsecond gun fired, 
when the first class will start, being timed from the gun, At 1:30 
third gun will be fired, second class to start. At 1:15, fourth gun will 
be fired, third class to start. No Kinde to cross the line befure the gun 
is fired, Should any guu be accidentally delayed, the succeeding guns 
will be fired at intervals of fiye minutes after that gun, Yachts are 
requested to carry their PH Ae SlenAlsSp the peak. Yachts on their 
return will pass between the judges’ yacht and the stakeboat, A 


a mi 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


white flag, with number of the course, will be shown on the judges’ 
yacht. Time of Race—Race must be made by one boat in first and 
ra pak elec av rate of 234 miles an hour; in third class at rate of 246 
es an hour. 
Courses—No. 1. From starting point, leaving Bird Island Buoy No. 
13 on port hand; Seragg'y Neck Buoy No. 10 on port hand to judges! 
acht, 11 miles. No. 2. From ee pea leaving Seraggy Neck 
noy No. 40 on etarboard; Bird Island Buoy No. 13 on starboard, to 


judges’ yacht, 11 miles. : 

The first Serra matches will be sailed off Marblehead on 
Wednesday, July 9, at 12 0’clock, M. Handsome prizes will be awarded 
in each class, A second prize wil be given proyided more than two 
boats start. The championship pennant will also be offered in each 
class, without time allowance, to be held till the second champion- 
ship match, and to become the property of the yacht winning the 
majority of races, A special prize, for first class schooners, will be 
offered, provided two boats start; should only one schooner start, all 
first class boats will sail together. Classes—Yachts over 23ft. Gin. 
sailing length, and not over 30ft. waterline, to form first class; over 
19ft, bin. sailing length, and not over 28ft. Sin, the second class; 19ft, 
6in,, and under, the third class. In case of unfayorable weather, the 
regatta will be sailed the following day. A one-zun flying start will be 
used, Yachts will cross the line between the judges’ yacht and a 
stakeboat moored off the Eastern Y. CO. house. Four guns will be fired 
for the start, at mtervals of five minutes. The first, a preparatory 
gun, at 12 o'clock, The first class will start at the second gun; the 
second class at the third gun, and the third class at the fourth gun, 
The club flag will be lowered at the first gun, and hoisted agair at the 
second gun, and yachts must not crosstill gun hasbeen fired. Should 
any gun be accidentally delayed, the succeeding guns will be fired at 
intervals of five mimutes, Yachts on their return will pass between 
the judges' yacht and the stakeboat. Yachts are requested to carry 
their private signals ul the peak. As soon as the courses are decided 
on, white Hage, bearing their numbers, will be displayed on the quekes 
yacht, No change of weight of ballast allowed on the day of the race 
in any class. Time of race—Race must be made by one boat in first 

and schooner classes, respectively, at rate of 284 miles an hour; in 
second and third classes at rate of 214 miles an hour, 

Courses for First and Schooner Classes,—No. 1, Leaving Red Buoy 
No. 6 on starboard; Bowditch'’s Ledge Beacon on sturboard; Ked 
Buoy No. 2 on Gale’s Ledge on starboard; stakeboat anchored off SE. 
Breakers on starboard; Half-way Rock on starboard; Black Buoys 
Nos. 8and 5 on poré, to judges’ yacht. 1044 miles, No, 2. Leaving 
Black Buoys 5 and 8 onstarboard; Halfway Kock, stakeboat anchored 
off SE. breakers; Red Buoy No. 2 on Gale's Ledge; Bowditch’s Ledge 
Beacon and Red Buoy No, 6 on pare to judgés' yacht, 1014 miles, 
Courses for Second and Third Classes,—No, 8. Leaving Red Buoy 
No. 6 on starboard; Bowditch’s Ledge Beacon on port; stakeboat off 
Curtis’s Point on port; Black Buoys 7, 5and 3 on starboard; Black 
Buoy on Selman’s Berth on starboard tw judges’ yacht, Tis miles. 
No. 4, Leaving Black Buoy on Selman's Berth on port; Black Buoys 
No. 3, 5 and 7 on port; stakeboat off Curtis’s Point on starboard; Bow- 
ditch’s Ledge Beacon on starboard; Red Buoy No. 6 on port, to 
judges’ yacht. 744 miles, ; 

The races will be under the management of the Regatta Commit- 
tee, Messrs. Gao, H. Richards, John Dane. Geo. B, Inches and W, 
Lioyd Jeffries. 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. C.—LADIES’ DAY. 


Mo DAY last was set apart by the Knickerbocker Y.C. as a Ladies 

Day, with the nove] feature of a race in place of [he customary 
sail, one-half the crew of each boat being composed of ladies. The 
grounds of the club were decorated with flags, and a large tent was 
erected in which dinner was served after the race. 

The yachts were divided into eight classes, the course for the first 
two being from a stakeboat off the club house to and around the buoy 
off Fort Schuyler and return, distance ten miles, that for the others 
being from the stakeboat to and around College Point buoy, thence 
around a stakeboat off Fish Point, and home to the starting point. 
The entries were: 

FIRST CLASS CABIN SLOOPS. 


Mean Length. 
Name. Owner. Ft. In. 
MWnGINe sedis 1.5 = cen die ds (GTEGley a hsches ade bie. dete ean s 80 10% 
Winsh 2 ees. a. Leek POwE wBarEKGGe | Nites beens. ee us 33 00 
Demarest......5....5.-+ Ceopnughtvier® Soa te oe kl ieee shies se —— 
WaHconds.. fll) ose Mayer & Doscher eo. 0-2) Ot es —- — 
SECOND CLASS CABIN SLOOPS, 
Sea Robin...:.......... Pearl & Walters..... -..-- ..-.. 23 0934 
GiBlads inch suse ese Sutin Serpent ies esses ly ET: —_- — 
: OPEN SLOOPS OVER 2IFT. 
Gracie: Nici cp cnes os WSR MOTH s yoo vse: erie cast te Ve cone 24 05 
Mamie Hl ..:...-.-.-545 EBM AN RA de donee ne teen arene 24 0815 
Rosetta A... .4.e...0-, Dae Eee LG ae on antes yieinew iene aa tee es 24 00 
Neli@vDnOrpe 225454 sd ee We LUOLDicae sect ceeeeeeviees = Lie 24 10 
OPEN SLOOPS UNDER 21FT, 
Maggie....... ..-0.-- EAN Arey ae: Rarant s Weneleh zara, Beery: ae OL 
: CAT-RIGGED, 25FT, AND OVER, 
Nettie R.. eA NEO IG ws ws. lunchy ag tnt 
Lizzie R.... ...Vice-Commodore Onderdonk. 3 
Black Hawk.....<..... Alexander Christie.......,-.....:2+---0 P 
CAT-RIGGED, +1 To 25FT. 
Gilt Hdge.,...42......% Meflerte sce Wilden a oon Ste ie va? 23 05 
Mayotta..............4. WALKS SROSCHOMES rate. tuts pees 24 0114 
TAC Glee rete sats tees George Grieve........ raters abot tg acute Saree 24 
N@NTIOCH ce weitere ne = on (OSE Wayave Olan arc. cinse sa galas SPrilaarce een 21 051g 
CAT-RIGGED, 17 To 21FT. 
WVU OR Sensatron FRITS CHALINES toh slanertula'salea time cketsa ey 19 O4ts 
7M Fv Sane eee toe Walter OUI sea bse es yee op sakes ie 3 17 04 
Odettecs-5 vctetess ates ss WS HEE ee obese anc surg ates eke ony 19 06 
MOAN Isa rites atest ae MICAS HOU Sane ae sheets ceisdaeaeeuahiinl —_- — 
URN Od oer eae oy ek McCormick & Martin............,...... 20 06 
Sus es Bis daateiek.c doa ARAM RRONGH pe 8 thay Poise ck eae At (O07 
CAT-RIGGED, UNDER 17FT. 
WWaGdieas -5.4 ra ioke.n ck e Wise Ar NESELGL Vre e nb cts sk bree blcltioct wey 16 06 
The race was started at 3:25 P. M., the wind being from southeas 
and tide nearly full. The times at the start were: 
Rosetta A,......... pecsgesesd BO 4 ALO, Rte Co ceess tals seieeeee 8 31 18 
Nettie Thorp............. PeDreOe. OUCLEOE Cvs ai ce behns tone nk 3 31 18 
‘Te eS nee Ae een ted Hebbel NIT ee Seiad saa anor eco 3 81 31 
TALE 723 (eee te Oat ae VIZIER ae fctln eee seeule 8 31 88 
nding, See cess FCI MBNOUAH Cue lees Liduecateea 8 81 41 
Mamie: eta ga le date ne ee B20 59! PNEUIOMR bese w epee eney mere 3 31 50 
Gracies yao esahhh ues ace peal Ses}: Woo (GW Rie a a een ..8 382 08 
Sen Rohit cj eerste eee eek 82744 Black Hawk...... ........ 3 32 18 
INES OUTS adie Ae cree eens 3 OUST MUAGCTO we cox ieled es nip eee 8 32 46 
PSIG SB Gee a ee Secon A aOL2G WBS soe sors fon cc et 3 32 49 
A eles. See ee cle: 23200 44 OWVRCONGAL, fa. c 5 sana eit cs oe 8 34 04 
Gall ee eee ee ee Dao lete ne Gil BAS. cor eevee rates ...0 41 41 


All went down the wind for the buoy with booms to port, the lead- 
ers well bunched. At College Point buoy the Alert, running free, 
struck the Jean amidships, disabling her so that she was compelled 
to withdraw, 

On the beat to the next mark, the gentler portion of the crews stood 
the showers of spray bravely, taking as greatan interest in the race 
as the others, though the boats were tossed about and heeled under 
the fresh breeze, but the run home was quieter, the winners being 
Flash, Sea Robin, Nettie Thorp, Maggie, Lizzie R., Mayotta, Nellie 
and Vaddie. Gil Blas mistook the course, so was out of the 1ace, and 
Sea Robin, Maggie and Vaddie had no competitors. 

The times of the boats were as Follows: 

FIRST CLASS ei NaBECOPE: 


Ss Finish. Elapsed. 
LUE eee er dee Oenpo a tt 3 32 40 5 OF 59 1 35 19 
WMGING Wee trenrtet tarts Pett eat 3 26 57 5 04 53 1 37 56 
DIOLS CSt aha nes eas stl! tel meas ah kg 3 26 21 5 09 20 1 42 59 
AWE COMOR nine beetle waa, f rare tare 3 34 04 Did not go course. 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS, 
SEADRODUD Tee cowpeas gee aittete Yue Deel 3 27 44 5 16 11 1 48 27 
(G5 Ee a] Se a oD ile Sr ee 3 41 41 Did not go course. 
OPEN SLOOPS, OVER 21 FEET, 
MESHOUEN ORD a acc essecene delete 3 25 58 4 28 21 0 57 28 
ITTHCIORN OT ite tchams ah ateee thet heen se 8 27 28 4 25 39 0 58 11 
Rosetta Ag iret, aN 325 41 4 25 08 0 60 22 
NMatnieari hiya reesraes aebeee rie 3 26 59 4 28 10 101 11 
j OPEN SLOOPS, UNDER 21 FEET, 
MAP RIO TL As duane eee ele ee 32 4 36 45 11012 
; CAT RIGGED, 25 FEET AND OVER. 
Nellie R........ . FE cg ean tf Be 8 21 50 4 30 05 0 58 15 
MIRO na wee Hee ne eecle cited hitters 8 81 88 4 27 26 0 55 48 
Black Ay GT nace tens lupe sick, aok he 3 32 18 4 35 08 1 02 50 
, CAT-RIGGED, 21 TO 25 FEED. 
Gilt Kdge......., 0 ae eas 3 31 14 4 35 37 1 04 23 
Mayotta....... Pe settee nt > rotate 3 31 41 4 34 29 1 02 48 
PAREN gigi tr eta ee testes Lanes nS BU Ad 4 34 53 1 04 09 
Nartioch.,...-.. -... OS Seer eee 8 30 13 4 40 48 110 35 
+ CAT-RIGGED, 17 To 21 FEET. 
Willie ; 8 31 1 4 40 05 1 08 47 
4 46 19 1 12 21 
4 45 48 1 14 30 
4 43 59 1 42 28 
Disabled. 


Not timed, 


 48B 


with the club flag in enamel on oneside. After the race, dinner was 
served and the evening was spent in dancing, finishing with a display 
of fireworks. The committe: in charge, to whose care and labor the 
success of the races is due, were Messrs. Morse, Varian, Mouton and 
Lichtenstein. 


NEW JERSEY Y. C. 


A MEETING of this club was held at the club house, Hoboken, on 

June 26. Reports of the Regatta Committee on the races of 
June a and of the Trustees on improvements, were read and ac- 
cepted, ; 

ah open regatta will be held on Oct, 2, for the following classes of 
yachts: i 

Class A.—For all catamarans, 30ft, and over, entrance, $5; prize, 
$30 cash. Course from Communipaw —the lower end of Jersey City— 
thence to and around buoy No. &s, Southwest Spit, leaving it on the 
port hand, and back to place of departure, finishing between the first 
dock at Communipaw and a stakeboat anchored abreast of it. The 
buoy ou Robbin’s Reef and the beacon on Romer Shoals will be kept 
to the eastward going and coming, Jib and mainsail only allowed. 
ite allowance will be calculated on the basis of one minute to the 

‘oat, 

Class B.—All yachts of any size, cabin or open, from 26ft, and up- 
ward. Sloops under 30ft. will he restricted to jib and mainsail only; 
over 30ft, will be alluwed working gafftopsails, and cutters may carry 
mainsail, working topsail, foresail and jib; entrance $3; prize, $30 
cash, The course for this class will be the same as that of the cata- 
mnaran class, excepting that buoy No. 18, off the Lower Hospital 
Island, will be the outer mark instead of huoy No, 8% on the spit. 

Class C.— All yachts, v1ft. and under 26ft.; allowed to carry jib and 
mainsail only; entrance, $3; prize, $25 cash, Course same as class B, 

Class D.— All yachts under 21ft.; entrance, $2; prize $15 cash, 
Course, the same as noted for the other classes in the matter of start 
and finish, but rounding Fort Lafayette in the Narrows, as the outer 
mark, and keeping to the westward, going and coming, of the buoy 
on Robbin’s Reef. 

Instead of starting the.yachts up the river at Hoboken, they will 
start from the Communipaw docks below Jersey Ciby, avoiding the 
North River ferries. No shifting of ballast will be allowed in the 
races, and crews are limited to one man for every five feet of mean 
length, Entries may be wade to any of the regatta, committee, 
Messrs. E. W, Ketcham, 55 Liberty street; H, C. Dilworth, 563 
Greenwich street; A. S, Barkelew, 19 Park Place. Entries may also 
be made at the club house, Hoboken, A steamer will accompany the 
race. 


EASTERN Y. C. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


1 Otte morning of last week found a fine fleet of yachts, Jarge 

and small, assembled in the pretty basin among the rocks, 
known as Marblehead Harbor. Schooners, cutters large and small, 
and sloops, with yachts’ boats and doriés afloat on every hand, the 
occasion being the annual matches of the Eastern Y.C. The oval 
bay, with quaint old Marblehead on one hand and the hills on the 
other, covered with pretty cottages, prominent among which is the 
club house of the Eastern Y, C., made a beautiful picture under the 
clear June sky. 

The queen of all the fleet in size and dignity was Fortuna, just back 
from the New York races, Of her smaller sisters the most notice- 
able was the Harbinger, a new schooner lately completed for Mr. J, 
M. Forbes, by Lawley & Son, from designs by Mr. A. Cary Smith, 
Her planking is in two thicknesses, the inner skin being lin. and the 
outer 2in., with canyas laid in crude turpentine between. New York 
was well represented by Bedouin, Ileen and Wenonah, none of the 
sloops, however, being present, while Huron, Hesper, Maggie and 
Shadow promised to make sportin the races, besides which were a 
large number of yachts not entered, but on hand to see the race, 

The course decided on was No. 6 of the club courses, starting off 
Marblehead Rock, thence to Pig Rock Stakes, leaving them on star- 
board, and thence around stakeboat off Egg Rock, leaving it to 
port; thence to Half-way Rock, Jeaving it to port, and to the 
starting boat, leaving it also to port; then out around Half-way Rock 
again, and finishing between the stakeboat and Marblehead Kock, a 
distance of twenty and three-quarter miles. The wind throughout 
the day kept about B.N.E., and was of constant strength, at no time 
too much for eclubtopsails, while the water was perfectly smooth. 
As the course lay spinnakers were carried from near the start to Egg 
Rock, six miles, then a beat to Half-way Rock, seven miles, and free 
again to. the stakeboat, with a final beat of twu and a quarter miles 
out to Half-way Rock again, and 4 run to the finish. The “racing 
length” on which the time allowance is computed is found by adding 
one-quarter of the overhang to the water-line length, two-thirds of 
which sumis then added to the extreme beam. Bya resolution 
passed this year, however, the Regatta Committee may adopt the 
present rule of the New York Y. C., at its diseretion. 

The tug Confidence was ready in the morning at| Marblehead Rock 
With the Regatta Committee, Messrs. Appleton, Jackson, Peabody, 
Haven and Goddard aboard, the members and guess of the club 
being on the steamer Twiligkt, in charge of Messrs, Blake and Thayer, 
whicn after calling at Salem for some members, arrived at the Rock 
at 11:45, by which time all were in position. 

The entries were as follows: 

: FIRST CLASS SCHOONERS, 


Racing Length. W.L, Allowance, 

Fortuna, Com, H, 8. Hovey..... .- .-.89,46 95.00 Allows 
SECOND GLASS SCHOONERS, 
AOTIGNNG Jy MPLATE one )oede ene: anewet ,-61 67 —.— 10 44 
COMES CG cOhase se Mi ere es 65.26 67.95 9 02 
Harbinger, J. M. Forbes.... .......-.... 63.11 65.30 9 58 
Rebecca, Geo. P. Upbam, Jr..,........- 69.72 73.32 6 40 
Sylph, A. C. Wheelright......-.-.-... .. 50.00 47.42 17 47 
Tempest, H. F. Whittier ................ 55.18 54.32 —-— 
FIRST CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 
Addie, M. K. Abbott .......... 2.2.22... 60.47 59.40 11 31 
Bedouin, Arch. Rogers ................. 64.43 70.00 9 32 
TES DEI ELEN OTUCR ee a. cick een oun veten« Aq AT 45.89 19 33 
LUPO, With Gray edlnnn h)-cilelek ainilewen 53 24 53 90 15 31 
Hleen, Arthur Paddleford............... 56.89 66.00 13 27 
Wenonah, James Stillman............... 55.88 60.00 14 01 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS, 

Clytie, F. Cunningham.................. 35.61 23.64 29 34 
Ferrey CiGaweldyien ins /ieddeead aaa. 37.96 34 92 27 32 
Lapwing, J. M. Forbes..........-. nebo, 36.57 35. 60 28 32 
Maggie, G. H. Warren.................0- 39.64 44.26 2a 38 
Shadow. John Bryant... .............-. 37.38 83 71 28 02 


At 11:55 the signal for the first class was given, Fortuna. going over 
alone, neither Gitana, or Alice, starting at 11:58:23. At12M. the signal 
for the second class sounded, Harbinger getting away first at 12:02:11, 
Admrenne second, Tempest, Clio, Syilph and Rebecca all within their 
time, crossing with booms to starboard. The signal for first class 
sloops followed at 12:05, the limit being 12:15, but all were handi- 
capped, Hesper leading at 12:11:23, een and Wenonah over together 
at 12:11:39, Bedouin 12:11:54, Huron 12:12 and Addie ab 12:12:51, All 
the cutters carried club topsails and full lower sail, Bedouin at once 
starting off through the weather of all for leading position, The 
second class were also handicapped, their signals being eiven at 12:15 
and 12:20, and the boats crossing with Hera first at 12:16:04, Shadow 
12:16:07, Lapwing 12:16:21, Maggie 12:17:06 and Clytie 12:17:12. 

By this time the leaders were well down the wind with spiunakers 
set, Tempest being noticeable through hers, which was of a deep 
blue tint, contrasting strongly with the white sails; Bedown, Lleen 
and Wenonah were all doing well, the first, well in advance, setting 
her spinnaker at 12:25, the other two following at once, while Huron 
and Hesper were two minutes later. At 12:30 Bedouin was still 
further ahead, een and Wenonah slightly om her weather, and 
Huron, Hesper and Addie in a string behind, the latter evidently with 
no show against her younger competitors, 

Even with so light a wind the run to Egg Rock was quickly made. 
Fortuna turning first, Clio second, then Harbinger, Adrienne and 
Rebecca, the judges’ boat not arriving soon enough to time them. The 
rest were timed as follows: Bedouin 12:51:52, Wenonah 12°53:39, Teen 
12:55:20, Huron 12:56:06, Addie 12:57:40, Hesper 12:58:00, Mageie 1:05:16, 
Hera 1:05:25, Shadow 1:06:25, Lapwing 1;06;48, Clytie 1:08.58. 

The beat of 7 miles to the next mark was very tedious in the light 
wind, the yachts being widely scattered, Bedouih haying worked 
ahead of all but Fortuna, while Wenonah was trying for third place. 
The first to approach Halfway Rock was Fortuna, coming up with 
both working topsails set, main club topsail, and maintopmaso stay- 
sail, Near the rock she was obliged to tack, while Bedouin, coming 
up with spinnaker boom allready, made the mark without tacking 
thus lesseniag still more the distance between them, 

The times at Halfway Rock were: 


Horiina sw i edaas 23155 Shadow... «: ee epees.e.3 09 18 
Bedonm Ss meeskada es, 280.40 SyIph. ecco orcas 4 fuepee Le AQ 
WHOM. Bony as beadacieieaes oe Se ABS PT OD A Paoch ic acetate wee Seen 3 12 08 
LAT Din DRO saline Sets 24510 Clytie............ - -...8 18 38 
Adrienne.......,, nota dnteee 24810 Maggie........525.1. 2602s 314 06 
Wenonihs. 9s ten Maelc, os RD ay AU dias. Sees ee eee 3 2% 45 

WES Ne eae tei 258 55 Lapwing ry eed 24 08 
COT Ho; a 5555 #300050) THospere.. esl. sesee es ..5 2€ 00 
Rebecca, ......... 3 08 20 


Tempest gave up, not rounding the mark, 

Sheets were eased off and spinnakers set for the short run in, Be- 
fore the tail of the fleet was clear of the rock Bedouin was seen 
coming up gradually for the second turn, to leeward of Fortuns, but 
so far ahead that near the rock she stood across the latter’s bows on 


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port tack, then tacked around the mark 2m. 30s, ahead of her, increas- 
ing itto 3m, 41§, on the shortrun home. Wenonah and Huron had, in 
the meantime, started baek, working short tacks further up the bay, 
the former increasing her lead to the finish. 
The times of the finish were as follows: 
FIRST CLASS SCHOONERS, 


Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
SEND GT sm gh We tae s POSTE ES ey fcr eiebe 3 52 48 3 44 25 3 54 2 
SeCOND OLASS SCHOONERS. 
UN poOaawedeechbescl cies ane ae . 4.09 52 4 06 34 3 57 32 
EAU ENS SS Pea b ey CLAP sc petiene vecma anton UG. 409 57 8.59 59 
CSU) 1 1 eR AR A RY A 4 18 46 4 16 01 405 17 
Rebecca ERO a ee eee SS 445 05 4 4] 14 4 34 34 
Ce aya saa es Daal en ae. an Se 8 ae, 4 57 58 4 54 81 4 36 44 
FIRST GLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 
IRedwiitiia. (i ae foe ae 8 49 07 3.39 07 3°29 35 
AWW OAV a). aepele 4 07 07 3 57 07 8 48 08 
TETRA 4 oe a eres APs a 418 21 4 Ob 21 3 52 50 
TEATS 5 Se RR Ste a a TN ae aan ar 4 20 25 4 10 25 3 56 58 
LUD eee ct let fl tlcbeeed-ehcbejaretelcdcheselelcisseieitat 5 07 38 4 5) 38 4 32 05 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTHRs. 
EEL tots te «bs Bee 4 34 08 4 19 03 8 51 01 
WESTER EEE ..4 37 49 4 22 49 855 17 
i 4 28 46 4 03 0S 
4 a8 50 4.09 16 
4 47 05 418 33 
Fortuna wins first prize in her class, $250; Clio first in her class, 
ger $75: Bedouin $150 and Wenonah $75, Shadow $75 
and Hera $85. ; 


MINES AND CUTTERS. 
Editor Forest and Streanv: ; 

Last bateh of papers reached our camp through several feet of 
snow in safety, and depend upon it they were read with avidity around 
our sheet-iron stove, with bacon and flapjacks pleasantly sizzling 
after a hard day's work timbering up 380ft. of shaft, which is to take 
us down to mineral and wealth, and of eourse finally evolve a full- 
fledged cutter. Twas glad to find the candid admission quoted from 
the Herald in relation to the changes effected during recent years in 
model and rig, which promise to lead up to a final type of which all 
foes sailors ean he proud for other ee than speed only, The 
etter or report signed by Com, W, H. Dilworth and Mr. KE. A. Stevens, 
which you appropriately head *‘Another Blow at the Sandbaggers, “is 
thoroughly on the right tack, and will not fail to influence for good 
the small classes about New York, in whose welfare I always felt 
special interest, 

The hills and mountains in this neighborhood for miles around 
have been stripped so bare of timber for mining work that little or 
nO game is to be met, though there is good trout fishing in Twin 
Lakes, some twelve miles away to the southward. I look forward 
with great expectation to the Jume races, and whatever the result 
may be, feel certain that the cutters will now receive full credit for 
their good qualities, whether they win or not. Kacing has always a 
large share of luck in it, and this may go against the cutters as long 
as they are still in the minority. Leadville is pretty dull just now, 
recuperating slowly from sundry bank failures, but the future promi- 
ises to see the mining industry put upon a stable and lasting basis, 
Success to ForEsT AnD STREAM, the first paper in America to make a 
specialty of yachting fwelve months in the year- 

©. P. Kunaarpt. 
FLorence Ming, Leadville, Col., June 21. 


LYNN CITY MATCHES. 


A SERIES of open matches will be given by the city of Lynn on 
July 4, the races being started at 8 A. M. so as to allow the boats 
to enter the Boston open matches. The races are in charge of a com- 
mittee from the city and the Lynn and West Lynn Y,C. The classes 
and prizes are as follows, the measurement being water-line length: 

First class, all yachts 20 and not.over 27ft, water-line; second class, 
all centerboard yachts 17 and not over 20ft. water-line; special class, 
all keel yachts 1+ and not over 20ft. water-line; third-class, all yachts 
12 and-nat over 17ft. water-line. 

The prizes are: First.class—First prize, $25; second prize, $15; third 
prize, $10, and fourth prize, $5. Second class—Virst prize, $20; second 
prize, $15; third prize, $10, and fourth prize. $5. Special class—Wirst 
prize, $20; second prize, $15: third prize, $5, there is no fourth prize 
for this class. Third elass—Virst prize, $15; second prize, $10; third 
prize, $7, and fourth prize, #5. 

The first course for first, second and special classes is from judges’ 
line off club house to fagboat off Point of Pines, leaving it on port, 
thenee to Western Lobster Rocks Buoy, leaving it on port. thence to 
judges’ boat, passing between it and the flagboat; distance. five 
toiles. 

Second course for third class: From judges’ line off club house to 
flazboat off Poivt of Pines, leaving it on port, thence to Sand Point 
Buoy, leaying 1t on port. thence to judges’ boat, passing between it 
and fagboat; distance, three miles. 

The following are the rules and regulations: No restrictions in re- 
fard to sails. Measurements shall be the length on waterline. In all 
other respects the rules of the New England Yacht Racing Associa- 
tion shall govern the race. The decision of the judges shall be final. 
All yachts intending to sail must be in position before 7:45 o'clock A. 
M. All yachts will come into line without regard to size as follows: 
First class between two flags bearing the number 1; second and 
special classes, between two flags bearing the number 2 and the third 
class between two flags bearing the number 3, A gun will be fired on 
the judges’ boat at 7:45 o'clock A, M., which will be the signal for all 
classes 16 formin line. At8o’clock it will be fired again, which will 
be the signal for the starting of the first class. Five minutes later it 
will be fired again, which will be the signal for starting the second 
and special classes. Five minutes later it will be fired again, which 
will be the signal for starting the third class. The committee will 
consist. of Alderman W. B. Moulton, Councilman F. BE. Wright and 
D. H. Taylor for the city; W. B, Newhall, F, 8. Newhall, Walter 
Hawkes and W. M. Rand for the Lynn Y. C,, and B, W. Rowell, 
Lorenzo Poor, Charles $8. Goodridge and William F. Walsh for the 
West Lynn Y. CG. The judges are: For the city, Joshua ©, Bldred; 
for Lynn Y. C., William B. Newhall, and Benjamin W. Rowell for the 
West Lynn Y.©. The judges’ boat will be for the exclusive use of the 
judges, regatta commiltee, press and members of the city government, 


TORONTO Y. C.—The Toronto Y. C. race for fiye-tonners on Satur- 
day proved quite asuccess, A finer day could not have been chosen. 
A ight breeze from the east enabled the yachts to cross the line with 
a tree sheet, the course being from an imaginary line off the club 
house. out through the western channel, thence to 4 buoy off Gibral- 
tar Point back again to the Queen’s wharf, thence to a buoy off Fish- 
erman’s Island at the extreme east end of the bay, and back to the 
cinb house. There was a great deal of speculation as to the result 
of the race, owing to two of the boats entered being very closely 
matched, and both having new canvas just bent, The entries included 
the sloops Iris and Mischief, the double lugger Midge and the single 
lngger Mascot. The scart was made ab3 P, M., and they all got off 
well together. with the wind directly atc, which enabled a large 
spread of canvas. The buoy at the Qneen’s wharf was rounded in 
the following order: Iris, Midge, Misebief and Mascot, After haul- 
ing their wind, the Iris gradually drew away from the rest of the 
fivet, and the Mischief t-ok second place, and the buoy at the point 
was rounded—Iris, Mischief, Midye and Mascot, which positions were 
kept 10 the finish, with the exception of the Mascot, which gaye up 
the race, she being too far behind to hope fora place. The Iris 
erossed the line a- winner at 5:18;30, beating the Mischief by nine min- 
utes and a half. The prize was a very handsome telescope, presented 
by the Vice-Commodore, Mr, John Cosgrave, and to be won three 
times before being retained, which will keep up the excitement for 
some time yet. Ifis proposed to have a race for standing keel yachts 
belonging to the club of seven tons and under on next Saturday, Joly 
5, the prize _a set of flags, presénted by a member of the club.— 
Toronto Mai 1, June 30, : 

QUINCY Y. G.—The entries in the second match of the Quincy Y¥. 
C. on Monday were very few, bub nine boats going over the course. 
The day was clear, with a ight wiad, The times were as follows: 

FIRST GLASS. 


Length, Owner. Jorrected, 
Queen Mab. ...-...-..-.. 2008.02 4.4. EH, L: Burwell...., inte. 1 14 40 
SECOND CLASS. ; 
1 en WSSESASORSS OS SEE 20.01..........Jdi) W, McFarland. ......- 1 15 27 
Spray ..-..-. (Sean eyone 19.04........H. M, Paxon....... pele 1 16 55 
ae tfe) TA ORR 9 5 del o).05,,..,--.Georze Coffin.,....-..., 17 46 
Panolem meses eee orenes 18 102. 22% BH. 8) Bowers v2. .... 0 1 20 50: 
THIRD CLASS, 
Wipe tna ee SESE ee ab Rit aE Sy ee UPS GI) Felice Rie yp new or 0 59 48 
Ina Toa saa oa elders 1G, 0¥ eit et: AA’ NERS eee ta ea behest 1 03 13 
Unt Sl aaa 68 Rede ae 16002 ioe C.F. Hardwiek..-....... 1 12) 38 


BOSTON Y. C, LADIBS' DAY.—Saturday, June 28, was the first 
“Jadies’ day’ of the Boston ¥. ©., and nearly three hundred ladies 
tumme | out to honer the occasion. A number of the club yachts were 
on hand in the afternoon, among them the schooners Adrienue, 
Brenda, Tempest, Princess, Lorelet and Alice, cutiers Edna, Vayu 
and Bila, May, sloops Echo and Nimbus, and the steamers Galatea, 
Anuie §.,.Marianna, Gracic, Juella and Nereta, The ladies were 
taken on Ay TS yachts and the fieet started down the Bay, with a 
Tight sout wae wind, returning at 6 P, M, to the club house, where 
supper wa _ after which the evening was spent in dancing. 


HASTERN Y. 0. BOOK, 1184.—The club list.of the Eastern ¥. C, for 
this year shows a fleet of 92 yachts, composed of 13 steamers, 36 
schooners, 26 sloops and 17 cutters, of which 37, or nearly 5) percent. 
of the sailing craft are keel boats. Of the new vessels added this 
year, King Phillip, Rondina and Teen are keel boats, and the Harhin- 
ger is a centérboard. Tlie club numbers 456 active members, the 
officers beiig Commodore, Henry §. Hovey, sehooner Fortuna; Vice- 
Commodore, J. Maleolm Forbes, schooner Harbinger; Rear Commo- 
dore, Wm, F. Weld, schooner Gitana; Fléer Captain, Jas, Parker; 
Secretary, Edward Burgess; Treasurer, P. T. Jackson) Measurer, 
Edward Burgess. Regatta Committee, Geo, A, Goddard, Daniel 
Appleton, E, B. Haven, Henry B. Jackson. Frank EB. Peabody, The 
book contains # full signal code, rules for colors, signals, ete , and the 
acts of Congress pertaining to yachts, besides the signals of ihe eliib, 
and table of time allowances. We noticé on page 92, under the letters 
M. and P. of the signal code, an expression that has evidently been 
overlooked by the compilers of the book, 


L, Y. C. CLUB BOOK.—We have received from the Secretary of 
the Larchmont Y. C, the club book for 1884, a handsecmely-printed 
little book, appropriately bound in white canvas, The list of yachts 
includes 114 boats, there being 10 steam yachts, 16 schooners, § cutters, 
1 yawl, 32 ¢abin sloops, 24 open sloops and 23 cathoats, the largest 
yacht, the Atlanta, being 250ff. jong, and the smallest, the Mary, 
15tt. Jin. The keels number 22 and the centerboards 82: nearly half” 
the fleet being small jib and mainsail and eatboats, The club has 
how 3i7 members. The clubhouse and anchorage are at Larchmont 
Manor, on the Sound, about fiffeen miles from New York, the club 
owning # handsome clubhouse, billiard parlors, bathhouse, ete., 
while the harbor affords a safe anchorage for large vessels. Good 
courses are laid ouf on the Sound for the club races, the longest be- 
ing twenty-eizht miles. A neat map of soundings and courses is 
given in the book, besidesttide tables, sailing regulations, instructions 
as to registry of yachts, United States rules as to lights and signals, 
and a colored sheet of the elub signals. 


JHE SHA GULL ABANDONED,—The steamer Richmond, Capt. 
Crossman, which arrived at this port yesterday from West Point, Va., 
reports that on Friday morning at 8 o'clock, oif Chincoteague, a 
small sloop yacht in distress was sighted, The steamer ran close to 
the vessel, and twund that her sails had been blown away and her 
rudder broken. Sheproved to be the Sea Gull, owned by Dr, Howell. 
of Philadelphia. avd from that city on a pleasure cruise. A son of 
the owner and Mr. K. Ui. Street, both of Philadelphia, were on board. 
As there was a northeast pale blowing and 4 heavy sea running at the 
time the yacht could not be taken in tow by the Richmond, so a boat 
was lowered, the two men taken off and broughtto this port. The 
yacht, if was ma Crossman’s opinion, would be picked up by some 
passing vessel when the weather moderated.—. ¥. Herald, June 29. 
Norfolk, Va., July 1, 1884,—The yacht was picked up near Cape 
Henry by a pilot boat and towed into Wampton Roads. 

BOSTON YACHTING.—Rondina has been hauled up and had 1,200 
pounds of lead removed from inside and let into her deadwoods, 
Messrs. Lawley & Son have nearly finished a litle Mersey canoe for 
Mr. S. W. Burgess, called the Tomboy. She will be decked with 
waterways, bulkheads fore and aft, full cutter rig, and carries 55) 
pounds of lead on her keel. The yawl Fad, building for Mr. Geo. A. 
Goddard, is in frame and paitly planked up. The first of the two 
launches building for Mr. Bennett, from Beayor Webb’s designs, is 
nearly planked up. Her skin is of mahogany, double, the inner plank 
being laid diagonally, and the outer, fore and att, with canyas, set in 
marine glue between them, all being copper rivetted. The boiler is 
nearly ready, but her engine has not arrived trom Kngland. 


SAN FRANCISCO.—Severalcruises will be made on the 4th, 5th and 
6th, TheS. F, ¥. C. will go to Napa, leaving San Francisco on the 
4th, stopping at Vallejo for the races, and on to Napa in_ the evening. 
On the néxt day they will tow to Vallejo, sailing home from there in 
the evening. The mosquito fleet of canoes and small boats will also 
eruise to Napa, while the larger yachts willgo to Santa Cruz. Several 
changes in ballast have been made lately, Aggie has taken ont another 
lot, 244 tons, leaving but 17 tons, Whitewing has taken out 1 Lon, and 
Casco 5, leaving but 25 tons in place of 50 originally. 

CITY OF BOSTON OPEN MATCHES.—These races will be held 
on July 4, off City Point, there being four classes. Class 1.—Sloops 
and schooners 38ft. and over, prize, $50 for schouners and same for 
sloops. Course, 20 miles. Class2.—Sloops and schooners 25 to asft, 
Course, 14 miles. Prizes for keel sloops $40 and $25. centerboard 
sloops $40 and $25, schooners $35 and $20. Class 3.—Keels and center- 
bourds, 20 to 26ft. Course, 8miles, Keels $40, $25, $15, $10, and same 
amounts for centerboards. 

HULL Y, C.—The start for the annual cruise will be madeat9 A, M. 
on July 4, the fleet, starting at a signal from the flagship, will pass in 
review, leaving the flagship to starboard, and heading southeast, 
saluting as they pass, a second gun at 9:45 signaling to get under way 
for the cruise. The first point .will be Marblehead Harbor, leaving 
there next morning. 

YACHTING AT GLOUCESTER.—A yacht race willbe sailed off 
Annisquam in Ipswich Bay. on July 4,starting at 1 P. M., for two 
elasses of boats, 20 to 26 and 15 to 20it. There are now near 100small 
yachts on the Annisquam River and Gloucester Harbor, mostly sloop 
or eat rigged. ; 

SALEM BAY Y. C.—The first championship match of this club 
will be sailed on July 4, the second on July 25, and the third on Sept. 
4, the open matches being on Aug. 14, _ 

ORIPNTA.—This steam yacht blew out both cylinder heads last 
week, off Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay, and was towed into 
Bristol by the tug Narragansett. 


PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


REPRESENTATIVE LONDON JoURNALISTS.—We haye received from R. 
Hoe & Co,, through Root & Tinker. the publishers, a copy of this 
engraving, The journalists whose portraits are given are; John 
Walter, Times; H. Labouchere, Truth; Edmund Yates, World; W. 
H. Mudford, Standard; J. R. Robinson, Daily News; J. L. Latey, 
Illustrated News; F. C. Bariard, Punch: Frederick Greenwood, St. 
James Gazette: William L. Thomas, Graphic; G. A, Sala, Paily Tele- 
graph; Edw, Lloyd, Daily Chronicle. 


Sarg RerreaT For MAp Dogs.—A terrible scare was created by a 
mad dog on Main street on Wednesday, He disappeared at ten 
o'clock on Wednesday morning and though thoroughly sought for, 
was not found Till nine this morning. It seems that the brute, wilh 
the cunning of a mad dog, had run into a Main street store, the 
proprietor of which never advertises, and had lain down directly 
under the cash drawer. This morning a clerk took in a nickle from a 
stranger, and on going to putit in the drawer the dog was discovered, 
The strangest thing was that the dog showed no signs of hydrophobia 
when found. Physicians all agree that the perfect rest and quiet 
that he found in this store where they didn’t advertise, had entirely 
cured him. He was allowed to go undisturbed, but his grateful 
owner has presented the keeper of the store wherein his dog’s life 
was saved, with a brand new pair of buckskin pants, which were 
highly appreciated, as the seat of the ones he was wearing were 
worn entirely through.—Hvansvelle Ind.) Argus. 


The great pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minne- 
sota are beginning to show the signs of exhaustion, There is 
a shortage of produccion this year in these States footing up 
about 600,000,000 feet. The ayerage of “first quality” lumber 
has run down fiom 12 per cent. ten years ago to 2 per cent. 
last year, showing the rapid deterioration of stock which is 
brought to the mills. The quality of the logsis much poorer 
than ever before, as many have been putin from land once 
cut over, and new land has been cleared of everything that 
will make a cull board. The improyident lumberman, who in 
the past only cut the choice pine and left the remainder to be 
devastated by fire, now saws down his trees close to the root 
to save an axe kerf, Rane the ground with a fine-tooth rake 
to get every log that will make passable mill culls, and will 
discharge a foreman that leaves on the ground a log six inches 
in diameter.—Northwestern Lumberman, 

“You know that pond near Chester that Charley Potter 
stocked with carp in 1878?’ ‘Certainly. The scheme failed 
and—’ “So eyery one thought,” interposed Mr. Benton. 
‘Well, last fall, Charley sold the place toa Dutch gardener. 
In Jume the Dutchman drained the pond.” “Did he find any 
carp?” Notascale. It took five weeks for the mud to dry 
out, Yesterday she was about right and the Dutchman 
began to plough. Well, sir, the first furrow the Dutchinan 
ran across the bottom of that pond raised his hair, for the 
plough turned up four of the biggest, fattest carp you ever 
saw. The gardenerhe ploughed another round and got tywo 
more fish. Then he carried the news over to the railroad 
depot and’a lot of people went back with him, and sure 
enough there were the fish Hopping around on the ground. 
One of ’em weighed six pounds, He went on ploughin; and 
turned out two and three-pound carp until a’couple of dozen 
neighbors got a mess apiece.” —Pennsylvania Hechange. 


AMERICAN ANIMALS IN ART, 


is the June number of the Century magazine Mv. Julian 
Hawthorn writes of the wild animal sculptures of Ed- 
ward Kemeys. A number of excellent illustrations accom- 
pany the paper and give a very truthful conception of the 
admirable work of the artist, We extract from the article 
the following: 

“The events of his life, could they be rehearsed here, 
would form a tale of adventure and vicissitude tore varied 
and stirr:ng than is often found in fiction, Te has spent by 
himself days and weeks in the vast solitudes of our western 
prairies and southern morasses. He has been the companion 
of trappers and frontiersmen, the friend and comrade of 
Indians, sleeping side by side with them im their wigwams, 
running the rapids in their canoes, and riding with them in 
the hunt. He has met and overcome the panther and the 
grizzly single-handed, and has pursued the flying cimarron 
to the snowy summits of the Rocky Mountains, and brought 
back its crescent horns as.a trophy, He has fought and slain 
the gray wolf with no other weapons than his hands and 
tecth; and at night he has lain concealed by lonely tarns, 
where the wild coyote came to patter and bark and bowl at 
the midnight moon, -His name and achieyements are 
familiar to the dwellers in those savage regions, whose 
estimate of aman is based, not upon his society and financial 
advantages, but upon what he is and can do. Yet he is not 
one who wears his merit outwardly. His appearance, in- 
deed, is striking; tall and athletic, broad shouldered and 
stout-limbed, with the lone elastic step of the moccasined 
Indian, and something of the Indian’s reticence and sim- 
plicity. But he can with difficulty be brought to allude to 
his adventures, and is reserved almost to the point of ingen- 
uity on all that concerns himself or redounds to his eredit, 
It is only in familiar converse with friends that the humor, 
the cultivation, the knowledge, and the social charm of the 
man appear, and his marvelous gift of vivid and picturesque 
narration discloses itself. 


“The studio in which Mv. Kemeys works is a spacious 
apartment between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, 
on Broadway. In appearaice it is a cross between a barn- 
loft and a wigwam. Round the walls are suspended the 
hides, the heads, and the horns of the animals which the 
hunter has shot; and below are groups, single figures, and 
busts, modeled by the artist, in plaster, terra-cotta, or clay. 
The colossal design of the ‘Still Hunt’—an American panther 
crouching hefore its spring—is not now here; it has been re- 
moved to the foundry at Hast Twenty-eighth street, where it 
will be cast in bronze, and will then be placed in its appointed 
site in Central Park, Tt will be a monument of which New 
York and America may be proud; for no such powerful and 
veracious conception of a wild animal lias ever before found 
artistic embodiment. The great cat crouches with head low, 
extended throat, and ears erect. ‘The shoulders are drawn 
far back, the fore paws huddled beneath the jaws. The 
long lithe back rises in.an arch in the middle, sinking thence 
to the haunches, while the angry tail makes a strong curve 
along the graund to the right. The whole figure is tense 
and compact with restrained and waiting power; the expres 
sion is stealthy, pitiless, and terrible; it at once fascinates 
and astounds the beholder. While Mr. Kemeys was model- 
ing this animal, an incident occurred which he has told me 
in something like the following words. ‘The artist does not 
encourage the intrusion of idle persons while he is at work, 
though no oue welcomes intelligent inspection and criticism 
more cordially than he. On this occassion he was alone in 
the studio with his Irish factotum, Tom, and the outer door, 
owing to the heat of the weather, had been left ajar. All of 
a sudden the artist was aware of the presence of a stranger in 
the room, ‘He was a tall, hulking fellow, shabbily dressed, 
like a tramp, and looked as if he might make trouble if he 
had a mind to. However, he stood quite still in front of the 
statue, staring at it, and not saying anything. So I let 
him alone for awhile; I thought it would be time 
enough to attend to bim when he began to beg or 
make arow. But after some time, as he still hadn’t stirred, 
Tom came to the conclusion that a hint had better be given 
him to move on; so he took a broom and began sweeping the 
floor, and the dust went all oyer the fellow; but he didn’t 
pay the least attention. I began to think there would proba- 
bly be a fight; but I thought [’'d wait a little longer before 
doing anything. At last I said to him, ‘ ‘Will you move 
aside, please? You're in my way.”’ He stepped over to 
the right, but still didn’t open his mouth, and kept his eyes 
fixed on the panther. Presently I said to Tom, * “Well, 
Tom, the cheek of some people passes belief!”’ Tom replied 
with more clouds of dust; but the stranger neyer made 
sign. At last I got tired, so I stepped up to the fellow and 
said to him: ‘ “Look here, my friend, when I asked you to 
move aside, I meant you should move the other side of the 
door,”’ He roused up then, and gave himself a shake, and 
took a last look at the panther, and said he, ‘ ‘“That's all 
right, boss; I know all about the door; but—what ar spring 
she’s going to make!” * Then,’ added Kemeys, self-reproach- 
fully, “I could have wept! 


“But although this superb figure no longer dominates the 
studio, there is no lack of models as valuable and as interest- 
ing, though not of heroic size. Most interesting of all to the 
general observer are, perhaps, the two fignres of the grizzly 
bear. These were designed from a grizzly which Mr, 
Kemeys fought and killed in the autumn of 1881 
in the Rocky Mountains, and the mounted head 
of which grins upon the wall overhead, a grisly trophy in- 
deed. The impression of enormous strength, massive yet 
elastic, ponderous yet alert, impregnable for defense as irre- 
sistible in attack; a strength whicli knows no obstacles, and 
which never mects its match—this impression 1sas fully con- 
veyed in these figures which are not over afoot.in height, asif 
yast the animal were before usin its Hatural size. You see the 
limbs, crooked with power, bound about with huge ropes and 
plates of imuscle, and cluthed in shaggy depths of tur; the 
vast breadth of his head, with its thick, low ears, dull, small 
eyes, and long up-curving snout; the roll and lunge of the 
gait, like the motion of a vessel plunging forward before the 
wind: the rounded immensity of the trunk, and the huge 
bluntness of the posteriors; and all these features are comi- 
bined with such masterly unity of conception and plastic 
vigor, that the diminutive model insetsibly grows mighty be- 
neath your yvaze, until you realize the monster as if he stood 
stupendous and grim before you. In the first of the figures 
the bear has paused jn his great stride to paw oyer and snuft 
ai the horned head of a mountain sheep, half buried mn the 
soil. The action of the right arm and shoulder, and the 
burly slouch of the arrested stride, are of theniselves worth 
a gallery of pscudo-classic Venuses and Roman senators, 
The other bear is Jolling back on his haunches, with all four 
paws inthe air, munching some grapes from a yine which 


———x&xo”  ° © 


ment gives a touch of terrific comedy to this design, 


‘he has torn from its support. The contrast between the say- 


age character of the beast and his absurdly peaceful af 8 

ter 
studying these figures, one cannot help thinking what a 
noble embellishment either of them would be, put in bronze, 


of colossal sizé, in the public grounds of one of our great. 


Western cities, And inasmuch as the rich citizens of the 
West not only know what a grizzly bear is, but are more 
fearless and independent, and therefore often more correct 
in their artistic opinions, than the somewhat: sophisticated 
critics of the Hast, there is some cause for hoping that this 
thing may be brought to pass. 

“Beside the grizzly stands the mountain sheep or eimarron 
the most difficult to capture of all four-footed animals, whose 


gigantic curved horus are the best trophy of skill.and enter- 


prise that a hunter can bring home with him, The sculptor 
has here caught him in one of his most characteristic atti- 
tudes—just alighted from some dizzy leap on the headlong 
slope of a rocky mountain side. 
but the cimarron could retain its footing; yet there he stands 
firm and secure as the rock itself, his fore feet planted close 
together, the fore legs rigid and straight as the shaft of a 
lance, while the hind legs pose easily in attendance upon 
them. “The cimarron always strikes plumb center, and he 
neyer makes a mistake,’ is Mr. Kemeys’s laconic comment; 
and we can recoenize the truth of the observation in this image. 
Perfectly at home and comfortable on its almost impossible 
perch, the cimarron curves its great neck and turns its head 
upward, gazing aloft toward the height whence if_has.de- 
seended, 
‘they give him warning of danger,’ It is a magnificent 
animal, a model of tireless vigor in all its parts; a creature 
made to hurl itself head-foremost down appalling gulfs of 
space, and poise itself at the bottom as jauntily as if gravita- 
tion were but a bugbear of timid imaginations. I find my- 
self unconsciously speaking about these plaster models as if 
they were the living animals which they represent; but the 


| impression of their excellence. 


On such a spot nothing | 


‘It’s the golden eagle he hears,’ says the sculptor; © 


al J 
more one studies Mr, Kemeys’s works, the more instinct with 


redundant and breathing life do they appear. 

“Tt would be impossible even to catalogue the contents of 
this studio, the greater part of- which are as well worth 
describing as those which have already been touched upon; 
nor could a more graphie pen than mine convey an adequate 
But there_is here a figure of 
the ’coon, which, as if is the only one ever modeled, ought 
not to be passed over in silence. In appearance this animal 
is a curious medley of the fox, the wolf, and the bear, 
besides I-know-not-what (as the lady in ‘Punch’ would say) 
that belongs to none of those beasts. As may be imagined, 
therefore, its right portrayal involves peculiar difficulties, 
and Mr. Kemeys’s genius is nowhere better shown than in the 
manner in wliich these have been surmounted. Compact, 
plump, and active in figure, quick and subile in its move- 
ments, the ‘coon crouches in a flattened position along the 
limb of a tree, its broad, shallow head and pointed snout a 
little lifted, as it, gazes alertly outward and downward. It 
sustains itself by the clutch of its slender-clawed toes on the 
branch, the fore legs being spread apart, while the left hind 
lee is withdrawn inward. and enters smoothly into the con- 
tour of the furred side; the bushy, fox-like tail, ringed with 
dark and light bands, curving to the left. Thus posed and 
modeled in high relief on a tile-shaped plaque, Mr, Kemeys’s 
‘coon forms a most desirable ornament for some wise man’s 
sideboard or mantel-piece, where it may one day be pointed 
out as the only suryiving representative of its species. 

“The two most.elaborate groups here have already attained 
some measure of publicity; the ‘Bison and Wolves’ having 
been exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1878, and the ‘Deer and 
Panther’ haying been purchased in bronze by Mr, Winans 
during the sculptor’s sojourn in England. Hach group rep- 
resents one of those deadity combats between wild beasts 
which are among the most terrific and at the same time most 
natural incidents of animal existence; and they are of espe- 
cial interest as showing the artist’s power of concentrated 


and graphic composition. 
both these instanccs with a masterly economy of material 
and balance of proportion; so that the spectators eye 
takes in the whole subject at a glance, and yet finds inex- 
haustible interest in the examination of details, all of which 
contribute to the central effect without distracting the atten- 


A complicated story is told in 


tion. A companion piece to the ‘Deer and Panther’ shows 
the same animals as they bave fallen, locked together in 
death, after the combat is over. In the former group, the 
panther, in springing upon the deer, had impaled its neck on 
the deer’s right antler, and had then swung round under the 
latter’s body, burying the claws of its right fore foot in the 
ruminant’s throat. In order truthfully to represent the sec- 
ond stage of the encounter, therefore, it was necessary not 
merely to model a second group, but ta retain the clements 
and construction of the first group under totally changed 
conditions. This is a feat of such peculiar difficulty that I 
think few artists 1 any branch of art would venttre to at- 
tempt if; nevertheless, Mr. Kemeys has accomplished it; 
and the more the two groups are studied in connection with 
each other the more complete will his success be found to 
have been. The man who can do this may surely be ad- 
mitted a master, whose works are open only to affirmative 
criticism, For his works the most trying of all fests is their 
comparison with one another; and the result of such com- 
parison is not merely to confirm their merit, but to illustrate 
and enhance it,” 


MONTHLY LIST OF PATENTS 


Inventions Relating to Sporting Interests, Bearing Date 
June 22, 1884, Reported expressly forthis paper by Louis 
Bagger & Co., Mechanical Experts and Solicitors 
of Patents, Washington, D, C, 


For 


299.162, Cartridges. H. Peters, Xenia, Ohio, 


299,302. Shell Extractor for Firearms.—N, O. Wayniro, Garfield. Kan. 
299,051. Hammock Canoe.—E. H. Brown, New York City. 

300,449. Cartridge Shell.—A. F. Dickey, Somerset, Pa. 

800,748. Firearm Lock.—Joseph Victor, Duquoin, Il. 


—THE MILD POWER CURES.— 


UNIPHREYS’ 


OMEOPATHIC 


SPECIFICS. 


Tn use 80 years.—Each number the special pre- 
scription of an eminent physician.—The only 
Simple. Sofe and Sure Med vines for the p»ople 


LIST PRINCIPAL NOS. OURES, PRICE, 
1. Fevers, Congestion, Inflamations,.... .25 
2. Worms, Worm lever, Worm Colic,.. .25 
3. Crying Colic, or Teething of Infants .25 
4. Diarrhea of Children or Adults...... 25 
4. Dysentary, Griping, Billious Colic,.. .23 
6. Cholera Morbus, Vomiting,...... 2 
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10. Dyspepsia, Billious Stomach,.. .... .25 

11. Suppressed or Painful Periods,..,. .25 

12. Whites, too Profuse Periods,...... 25 

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14. Salt Rheam, Erysipelas, Eruptions, .25 

15. Rheumatism, Rheumatic Pains... . .25 

16. Fever and Agne, Chill, Fever, Agties .50 

17. Piles, Blind or Bleeding,........ . oO 

19. Catarrh. acute or chronic; Infivenza 50 

20. Whooping Congh, violent coughs... .50 

21. General Vebility, Physical Weakness.50 

27. Kidney Diserse, ...<......-2. 2.2 wrens 50 

23. Nervous Debility,..-.......-:.-:.s005 1.00 

30. Urinary Weakness, Wetting the bed .50 

32. Disense ofthe Heart, Palpitation. 1.00 


Sold by druggists. or sent by the Case, Or sin- 
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Send for Dr. Humvhreys’ Book on Disease &c. 
(144 pages), also Iilustrated Catalogue FREE. 

Address, Hummhreys’ Homeopathic Med« 
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FISHING 


RODS. 


“Best” round section rods, 


serviceable at a moderate price. 


Having been the pioneers in the manufacture and introduction of Section Bamboo Rods, we have always 

taken great pride in securing and perfecting every improvement in order to maintain our position as the makers of 
the very best rods. Knowing not only theoretically, but also by long experience, that a properly made round rod 
is the only absolutely perfect rod, we have invariably refused, and still do refuse, to put our name on any but our 
Our prices for these rcund rods average only about 40 per cent. more than the prices 
asked by any other makers, while the rods are widely known to be incomparably superior 
on any angular) rod can be perfect, we long believed that with proper work: anship and material a really good angular 


While no hexagonal or 


rod could be made. Being much easier and cheaper to make than round rods, we hoped to be able to offer to those 
anglers who can not afford to pay the price of our ‘‘Best” round rods, a hexagonal rod that would be good and 
We are more than satisfied with the success which has attended our efforts, for we 


are now able to furnish a hexagonal rod that is really worth having, and at a price which is only a trifle in advance 


of that asked by other makers. 


In addition to the many styles of round and hexagonal Section Bamboo Rods, we wish to call the attention of anglers to our large 
yariety of fine Ash and Lancewood and Greenheart rods, 


If your dealer does not keep our goods in stock, or will not order them for you, send us 50 cents for 120-page Wlustrated catalogue, 


Every rod guaranteed absolutely hand made. 


ABBEY & IMBRIE, 


48 and 50 


Maiden Lane, New York CGity.. 


SILK WORM GUT. 


EB". DATASA, 385 Broadway, N. Y., 


Calls the attention of the trade.and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 
Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 
Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to fine, $5,00. 


Gut to Extra Fine, 
For price list address 


Fishing Tackle. 


Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- 
ficial Baits 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


eA 
oh 


BiTrade Mark 


No. ed.. I 
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Hooks made of the best Spring Steel, Swivels, 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, 
S. ALLCOCK & CO,, 


Fish. Hook, Fishing Tackle: Mfr's, 


REDDITCH, 


Extra-Strong Spring Steel 


SAS. &. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF x 


E“ine F"ishinege Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


N. Y. 


package. 


Flies, $1.00 per doz. 
ENG, 


catalogue, 


Ibollow=Point 


LIMERICK HOOKS 
S.Alleoek & Co. 


REDDITCH. 


Be 
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Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 
180ft., $1.50; 240fE., $1.75; BOOEt., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 6O0EE. , 
25 cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. 
nickel plated, 50 cts, extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks, 
Single gut. 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz ; put up one-half dozen in a 

; Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders..lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 
Twisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 

Trout and Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Fly Rods, 10ft. long, $1.50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishiv 
Samples of hooks, leaders, etc., sent by mail on receipt of price in money orstamp, Send stamp . 


120ft., $1.25; 
: $2.00. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 

gut, limerick, Kirby Limerick, 


Established 20 years, Open Evenings. Je F. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 


EY WO CED’s 
Patent “Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 


Flies for all Waters. 


Special patterns tied to order 


—APPLRTON & LITCHFIELE 


304. Washington St., Boston, Mass. 


a GOOD NEWS 
GREATAMERICAN T0 L ADIES ! 
: Greatest inducements ever of: 
fered, Now’s your time to get up 
orders for our celebruted Teas 
and Coffees, and secure a beauti- 
* ful Gold Band or Moss Rose Ching 
= == Tea Set, or Hanfsome Decorated 
Gold Band Moss Rose Dinner Set, or Gold Band Moss 
Decorated Toilet Set. For full particulars address 
HE GREAT AMERICAN TEA GO. 
“Pp. 0. Box 28%  3land23 Vesey St., New York. 


THE! 


“COMPANY 


aneer — 
Ronan’s Metal Shell Cleaner. Cleans with- 


out water. Forsale by the trade, Price $1, 10 & 


12-bore sample, by mailon receipt of price. J, F. 
RONAN, Box 84 oxbury Station, Boston, Mass, 


Phantom Baits, Patent Standard Fly Book, Patent 
Waterproof Lock Joint, Trout Rods, Patent Spring 
Hook Swivel. All descriptions of Fishing Goods, 
which can be had through all wholes-1* houses in 
the United States. 

AWARDS: Gold medals at Paris, Berlin, Nor- 
wich, Wurzburg and Caleutta. and the highest 
awards at Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide, South 
Africa, Toronto, London, and other exhibitions. 


Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hook, 


Registered. 


Mark, 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to gain their own unworthy 
ends, and to attempt to damage our good name 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false, The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce a fish hook fer excellence 


of temper, beauty and finish in any way to} 


approach ours, which are wo be obtained from 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 
Signed, KR. HARRISON, BARTLERT & Cv., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 
Hooks, Redditch, England. 
-Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
description. Sewing and Sewing Machine Neeilles. 
ere RS a 


Wan ou: 
=e EAE CUT 
% Malle, Cirenlar: 
& Co., 8 Dees ee 


KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


_ These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforcen base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes, Gost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be ‘effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged The erimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen, Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 


only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000 i 
not less than one dozen, by i e z SS 


HERMANN BOKER & CO., Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


Elastic Heel-Plate for Shotguns, Hunting & Military Rifles 


SEND FOR CIRCULAR. SOLD BY ALL GUN DEALERS AND WAOLESALED BY 
HERMANN BOKER & CQ., 101 & 103 Duane Street, New Vork City. 


A588 FOREST AND STREAM. 


a i lll 


[den 


8, 1884 


PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE. | STORMDEFYING WINDMILL, 


Brass Multiplying Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00;-120ft., $1.25: 
1SOFE., $1.50: 2W40£t.. $1.75; B00Ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; GOOF, $2.50; 750fE., $2.75; 900Ft , $3.00. Nickel plating 
and Drags extra. Brass Click Reels, 25yds , 60 cts.; 40yds , 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00. Kiffe’: 
Celebrated Hooks nelled on gut. Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. pei 
doz, Single Gut Tout and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 ets, Double Twiste: 
Leaders, 3 length, 5 cts.; 4 length, 10 ets.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts,; 4 length, 15 cts.; extra heayy 4-ply. 
4length, 25 ects. Trout Flies, 60 cts, per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per doz. Samples of our goods sen! 
by mail or express on receipt of price. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Betweeu Fulton Ferry and City Hall. OPEN EVENINGS. 


OUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 


PRICE, 575 TO $250, 


Send for Iilustrated Catalogne. 3 .~t pumping water for rural residences, .1., + 
This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 lbs. weight. The rifle is perfectly accurate. sins and fish ponds. A. J. CORCORAN, 76 John 


street, New York City. 
is. C. SMITE. Maker, Syracuse, N.WY. 
EXCELSIOR BAIT PAIL. 


a UP & MC’ 8 FISHING SUIT, poe . The Fisherman's Fiiend. 


There is an inside 
DARK LEAD COLOR, pail which can be re- 
AND THE 


moved and placed ir 
HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


a ‘fish car,’’ thus 
keeping the bait alive 
for an indefinite time 
Of Waterproofed Duck, Dead Grass Color, Yrish 
Fustian and [Imported Corduroy. 
ASSORTED COLORS. 


The pan which fits m 
Unequaled in Convenience, Style or Workmanship. 


the inside pail can he 
raised and lowered, 
thus affording an easy 
selection of bait with- 
out wetting the hand. 
The baitis kept alive 
during transportation 
. (the critical time) by 
zthe continuous flow- 
wing of the water 
Through the perfora- 
tions. thus causing a 
never failing supaly of 
fresh air. For sale by 
ali dealers, or will be 
sent on receipt of price. 8 Quarts, $2.50 each; 12 
uarts, $3.25 each. Manufactured only by DE LA 
ERGNE & CO., 176 Chambers street, New York. 


Chubb’s Game Pieces, 


The finest ornament for a Sportsman's 
Din-ng Room ever made. 


Natural “Dead Game” under glass, and no more 
oh bulky than an ordinary picture. 
por smen a ear. Will send per express C. O. D. subject toapproval, 
j on receipt of express charges. 
*&5 00 Send for photograph and prices. 


he 
Zi, 7 Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 
f tli 


UPTHEGROV priest 


js our Skeleton Coat or Game Bag. Weighs but 15 ounces. 


AND Can oe worn over or under an ordinary coat. Has -seven 

M LELL AN pockets and game pockets. Itis of strong material, 

C 5 dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfu 

= : day without losing a hair or feather. We wil] mail it to 

Val paraiso, Ind. you, postage paid, for $2.00. Send breast measure. 


No. A 4, Barnard Capvas Shooting Coat, 
. € aé et 


No 1, : anon if. E. CHUBB, Taxidermist, 


No. 2 “6 ‘6 6 6 : % 5O 
ae ‘6 ‘ 4s « $ 1% 285 VIADUCT, CLEVELAND, 0. 


For sale by all gun and sporting goods dealers. Ask for them; % 
see that our trade mark is on the lining, They are the best; take no| Naturalists’ Supply Depot. 


other. 


We also manufacture Hats, Caps, Leggins, Pants, Vests ° e 
Waterp oof Horsehide Boots and Shoes, Carryall Bags, Artificial Glass Eyes. 
Gun Cases, Cartridge Bag:, Shell Boxes, and every de- 
scr ptien of goods used by sportsmen, made from canvas, TAXIDERMISTS. 


Corduroy and Waterprocf Leather. Brancx Orrics, 409 Washington st., Boston. 


Dinstrated catalogue, sample and measurement blanks sent free 
upon application, eg y ELLIS & WEBSTER, Pawtucket, R, I 


GEURGE BARNARD & CO., 108 Madison St , Chicago. 
EASTERN AGENCY; 47 Murray st.,N.Y. F.N.Wuuits, Manager. 


ES JUWEBOLENE 


A Lotion for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others. 
eannot be surpassed, Price 


Protects persons using it from the aitacks of MOSQUITOES, $5.50. Wearesole makers 
BLACK FLIES, and other insects, and from SUNBURN and the of the Ke-ulation Ball, adopted by the J. S. N. L. T. 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather. Association, 4p il 5, 1884, and by the Intercollegiate 

Ir is beneficial to the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; iscolor- | 7"ip 4 cgociation May 7, 1894. The Playing Rules of 
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PEFEOK & SNYDER’S 


Celebrated Tennis Balls 
7 and Bats. 


Our new Frankhn Bat 


readily on the application of soap and water. Tae = t 3 
goods, by mail. 10c. stamp: - 
MANUFACTURED BY PECK & SNYDER, 126. 128, 130 Nassau st., N. ¥. 
——E se 


THOS, JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor. Refrigerator Baskets. 


Sold by the leading dealers in sporting goods throughout the country The grandest thing ever invented for fishermen 
a ote 50 panclnce eehitiee or for parties living out of town, as articles of a 

pei ; : ‘ ; perishable nature can be carried around all day in 
SNE oe War cts OR ETE SCA Se ERRORS apy: the hottest weather and will be kept cold as ice. 
These baskets bem lined with tin and packed with 
| ; ] boiler felt are perfect portable refrigerators, pre- 

n i d serving the contents and giving plenty of ice-water 

afsalns t al S ou e in every por sma S an S. for drinking purposes. They are made of the best 
rattan, with drop handles, double lids and straps on 

ait i eg ete Sub ee Ce ese ae Ae Sead GE top, and are the strongest and most handsome 


baskets ever made. Two sizes. Price $3.50 and 
Sw eiTe SsHoo TIN G” [es Sent. by express on receipt of price by, the 
p » atentee, YR, HAR aye a = 
Lett, and will be sold for 50 cents each, ae ; 
Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practical hints upon wing shooting; 
directions for hunting snipes, woodecocks, ruffed grouse and quails. . 
Mlustrated: Bamid in Toth. sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00, | H E PE | M EC KY 
? T. G. DAVEY. Publisher, London, Ont. nm 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 
Te WiCErOo1:s 
Hexagonal Split Bamboo Fishing Rods 


Were awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. Noted for excel- 
ence more than numbers, This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods. 
Manofactured by B. F, NICHOLS, 153 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 


Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Laws. 


PATENT BREEOH & MUZZLE-LOADING Z 
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Ya ch t C a rh nh O TL 3 A Cioee that will thoroughly clean a gun 


1, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length. ey aajesteiehts Will do the work quicker and 
Pee, her implements, for the purpose, 
EAR yes Combt Tn nes $125 By mail, 10 centsextra. Ask 

combined, 25, 
Bieta FIRE ABMS co., New Haven, Ct. vane dealer for it. Discount to the trade. Circular 


uxili f nation Sights | free. J. C, PETMECEY, 
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The English “ Fishing Gazette.” 


Devoted to angling, river, lake and sea fishing, and 
fisheultice. 
Every Friday, 16 pages, folio, price 2d, 
Volume V1. commenced with the number for 
January 7, 1882. 


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Sent direct from the office for any portion of a 
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Contains special articles on all fresh and salt 
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A copy of the current number can be had (post 
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The FISHING GAZETTE circulates extensively 
among anglers and country gentlemen in all parts 
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“There is a large public interestin fishing. . 

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Two Beautiful Ilustrated Books 
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BY THOMAS SELDGWICK STEELE, Of Hartford, Conn, 


123 exquisite illustrations of life in the woods, 
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The humorous as well as the serious side of cane 
life is vividly represented, while Mr. Steele's well- 
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SnyEn Epirions of these works sold. Most popu- 
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A NEW MAINE MAP. 
The headwaters of the 


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Compuled by THom4sS SepGwick STEELE, 


The chart is 20x30 inches, printed on Govern 
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CONTENTS. 


| THE KENNEL. 
Pointers at New York, 
Mistake in Pedicree. 
New York Fali Dog Show. 
Kennel Notes. 

RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
Range and Gallery, 


EDprrorran, 
Destruction of Sea Fowl. 
Salt-Water Fishing. 
A Departed Race, 

THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Unele Lisha’s Shop.—vz. 
Reminiscences of Shanghai. 


On the Guagus. The Trap. 
NATURAL History. Association of the Carolinas. 
The Flying Squirrel. CANOEING. 


Birds of the Gulf of St Lawrence 
Game Bac AND Gun. 

Days with the Prairie Chickens. 

The Game of Des Are 

Forty Years in the Field. 

A Maine Deer Case. 

Adirondack Deer Complications 

The Death of the Grizzly. 

The Choice of Hmmting Rifles. 

Two-Hyed Shooting. 
Camp Firm PLICKERINGS. | 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING. 

A Mid-Summer Lake Scene. 


Mohican C. CG. 

The A.C. A. Meet, 

Bayonne C, C. 

Rondout C. C. Camp. 

The A, C. A. Badge. 
YACHTING. 

Beverly Y. C. 

Lynn City Matches, July 4. 

Boston City Matches, July 4. 

The Association Races. 

Yachting on Lake Ontario. 

Cruise of the Mabel. . 

Hull Y. C. Review and Cruise. 


Philadelphia Notes. LarchmontY.C.Annual Matches 
Camps of the Kingfishers,—rx, Atlantic Y. C. Cruise, 
Maine Fishing, Knickerbocker Y. C, Annual 
The Canadian Sea Trout, Cruise. 
PISHCULTURE. ‘ La Nubienne. 
American Fisheultural Associ- | Answers TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
ation. PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 


DESTRUCTION OF SEAFOWL. 


HE northeast coast of North America has from time 
immemorial been a favorite resort of seafowl. There 
have been found, from earliest times, myriads of birds of 
all descriptions, from the unwieldy cormorant down to the 
tiny sea swallow, which make their nests on the rocky 
islands and stern cliffs of this threatening coast. Their 
numbers in bygone years have been such as almost to defy 
computation. ‘They bred there by millions. The accounts 
given by Audubon and Coues, Bryant and other ornitholo- 
gists, who years ago visited this coast, must be consulted 
to gain any adequate idea of the innumerable multitudes of 
seafowl which formerly made the region their summer 
home. 

The center of abundance of the feathered hordes was, and 

still is, about the mouth of the St, Lawrence River, Here 
the fish food, on which most of them subsist, is most abund- 
ant, and all the conditions are such as to be favorable to 
their well-being. But the increase in the number of the 
settlers, and the almost entire extermination of the large 
game on which the Indians once depended for food has 
wrought a mighty change in the bird fauna of this coast, 
Nowhere now are there the extensive colonies .of seafowl 
that once filled the minds of the observer with wonder. 

The adult birds are slaughtered on their nests for food or 
for fish bait, and the young or eggs are taken. 
once estimated to contain a hundred thousand birds are 
now without inhabitants. 

Iq an interesting paper on a cruise in the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, elsewhere referred to, Mr, William Brewster 
gives a number of facts on this subject, from which we may 
make some extracts to show the change that has recently 
taken-place here, and the method by which these birds are 
being exterminated. Of the eider duck he says, ‘The 

_eider is:still commoa along the north shore [of the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence], butits numbers are rapidly diminishing there. 
This is due largely to the depredations of the Indians of the 
; region who, during the summer, subsist largely on the birds 
and their eges. Their manner of taking them is peculiar, 


Colonies: 


They skirt the shore in canoes, keeping as close to land as 
the depth of water will permit. Meanwhile their dogs range 
about among the trees, quartering the ground like trained 
setters, and when a nest is discovered announce the fact by 
loud barking. The nests are usually within a few rods of 
the water, and the scent of the dogs is so keen that they 
rarely pass one. If the sitting bird can be caught or shot 
the opportunity is seldom neglected, for the half starved 
Indian neither knows nor respects considerations of merey— 
or, perhaps, we should ¢all it policy—which restrain more 
enlightened sportsmen on such occasions. Proceeding thus, 
two men in a canoe will frequently ransack twenty miles of 
coast line in a single day, and find, probably, nearly every 
eider’s nest. The result of this systematic persecution can- 
not be doubtful or long-delayed.” 

“Our personal experience with the eider was not exten. 
sive. We saw them frequently from Mingan Harbor east- 
ward, but the Indians had been before us everywhere, and 
we could find neither eges nor young.” 


This recital certainly needs no extended comment. Every 
one can see what the result of such systematic pursuit at; 
this season of the year must inevitably be, 

Passing on to the gannets, whose rookeries were once so 
celebrated, we find the following statements: ‘‘Although a 
few gannets are said to breed on Shag Rock, near Grindstone 
Island, most of those seen at the Magdalens evidently came 
from Bird Rocks. This famous rookery was visited by our 
party on July 4. Its wonders have been so well described 
already by Dr. Bryant and Mr. Maynard, that I shall con- 
fine the present narrative to a brief account of the changes 
which have taken place since their respective visits. In 1860, 
the number of gannets breeding on the top of Great Bird 
(then uninhabited) was estimated by Bryant at about 
fifty thousand pairs, or one hundred thousand birds. 
In 1872, Maynard found this portion of the colony reduced 
to about five thousand birds (a lighthouse had been erected 
on the summit of the rock and several men were living 
there). When we landed in 1881 the top of the rock was 
practically abandoned, although there were some fifty nests 
at the northern end which had been robbed a few days be- 
fore, and about which the birds still lingered. The shelving 
places and ledges around the face of the cliff, however, were 
still densely populated, and the colony on Little Bird was 
probably as large as the available nesting places there would 
allow. But the total number of gannets breeding on both 
islands did not, as nearly as I could estimate it, exceed fifty 
thousand, This number, although sufficiently astonishing 
and impressive when the limited area of the islands is 
considered, is, of course, insignificant, in comparison 
with that of the legions which Bryant found twenty-one 
years before. The decrease is casily explained, for the 


‘stringent laws framed for the protection of these and other 


seabirds breeding on the rocks, are—or were in 1881—but 
loosely enforced, and a day rarely passed when parties did 
not land on both islands to collect the ezes and shoot the 
sitting birds. The eggs are eaten and the flesh of the birds 
is used, in preference to anything else, as bait in the cod- 
fishery. The negligence on the part of the Canadian G@ov- 


ernment, which tolerates such open violation of its statutes, 


cannot be too strongly condemned.” 


The author mentions visiting other breeding places of 
the gannets, one of which, owing to its inaccessibility, is 
rarely despoiled, but the others had been recently robbed 
by the Indians. 

A similar story is told about the breeding places of the 
gulls and terns; of the latter Mr. Brewster says: ‘Poor sea 
swallows! they have nearly as hard a time among the Mag- 
dalens as at breeding stations along our own coast. Not 
that the birds themselves are as often molested, for the 
islanders are too chary of powder and shot to waste them at 
useless marks; but the eggs are duly appreciated, and parties 
of women and children visit the sandhills daily, taking every 
one that can be found.” 


The tale is a pitiful one, but it is the same that is being 
told everywhere on this continent—the relentless destruction 
of the wild creatures indigenous to the country. The sea 
fowl on the northeast coast are protected by law, as are our 
own birds and beasts, but the laws are not enforced, and re- 
main amere dead letter on the statute books, Each year 
fewer of these fowl return to their ancient breeding grounds, 
and each year those that return are harried on every hand, 
and at length forced to depart without reproducing their 
kind. Unless something is done, the end, except in a few 
isolated localities, cannot be far distant. 


Will the Canadian Government take the steps necessary to 
stop this slaughter? 


SALT-WATER FISHING. 


9 iis question has often been asked us why we have paid 
so little attention to salt-water fishing, and we have in- 
variably answered that there are few of the thousands 
who indulge in that sport who write about it, and but a few 
more who care to read of it. If we devote more space to 
salmon, trout and black bass than to sea fishes it is not be- 
cause we are indifferent to the charms of bluefishing, weak- 
fishing, etc,, bul because our readers do not seem to be inter- 
ested in sea-fishing. 

There is a wide difference between the salt-water and the 
fresh-water angler. | ‘he former is content to enjoy himself 
in his own way, and says no more about it, The trout and 
black bass angler, on the contrary, considers the fishing as 
merely part of his pleasure; the trip, the scenery, the grand 
old woods, all inspire him to fight his battles o’er again. 
There is nothing of this in the salt-water angler, be he a 
member of aswell bass club or an humble brother of the 
hand-line committee who takes the Staten Island ferry-boat 
in the morning and, with the patience of Job, goes to the 
rocks and oyster beds for weakfish and with crab bait.awaits 
a “‘tide runner,” as the big weakfish are called in his yocab- 
ulary, This sitting on a hard seat all alone waiting for 
something, which may or may not come, develops a reticence 
that the fresh-water amgler seldom acquires. There is no 
doubt that the surroundings influence the angler to a greater 
degree than has been suspected, and the depressing effect of 
the ocean is noticexble on those who angle in it. 

New York city has more good fishing near it than any 
city that we know of, such as it is. By this we mean 
waters where a man can go and catch enough tish to consti- 
tute what may be summed up in that vulgar term ‘‘a mess.’’ 
If that is the end of angling then surely the salt-water 
angler should be satisfied, for when the neap tides are on 
then the ‘‘school fish” will repay in numbers what the tide- 
runners make up in avoirdupois. 

We have yet to see the salt-water angler who possessed 
the fire and enthusiasm of the fresh-water fishers. It is 
possible that there may be men who love salt water as the 
trout anglers loves mountain streams. If so we do not know 
them. We do know, however, that angling for trout among 
the hills with the ever-changing scenery of a mountain 
trout brook brings out all the latent poetry in a man, which, 
if it does not break out in verse, leads him to tell his un- 
known fellow of the pleasures he has had, and of the means 
he has used to capture his fish, which he usually regards as 
a mere incident of the trip. 

The salt-water angler is seldom inspired by the beauties of 
nature because there are no such beauties in the surroundings 
to be inspired by, and no matter how many poems may have 
been written on life on the ocean waye, every man who has 
been oui of sight of land knows that they were penned more 
to create a taste for the monotonous sea than because the writ- 
ters really liked it. Therefore the salt-water angler is a silent 
man, He likes to-catch his fish, but the bald, flat, unpoetic - 
surroundings have never inspired him to write about them, 

Take a list of angling works and see what they treat of, 
Look over the indices of Forest AND STREAM and see who 
writes of his fishing and what his fishing is! Salmon, gray- 
ling, trout, black bass; these are the themes of American 
writers, while our cousins across the water add other fresh- 
water fishes. Whereis the salt-water Walton? Except Young, 
who wrote “‘Sea Fishing as a Sport,” he has not existed and 
never will; because, while there are salt-water anglers in- 
numerable, the inspiration is lacking in the element in which 
they fish. With the salt-water angler the capture of his fish 
is the only charm; there is no scenery to inspire bim, there- 
fore he is not inspired, and while he is often above fishing 
for the pot or for count, his spirit is depressed by what it 
works in: 

Whether this result is brought about by the monotonous 
sea, the use of heavy bluefish trolling lines or oily chum, or 
the companionship of the silent clam, which does alternate 
duty as bait or lunch, we know not, but the fact remains 
that of all anglers who not only love their art but seek to im- 
prove their tackle and teach others to appreciate it, the fly- 
fisher for trout and grayling stands at the head. Perhaps 
there is some other reason which we have not named which 
will account for the fact that fly-fishers love to write and to 
read of their sport more than the salt-water angler seems to, 
for with the latter the angler for maskalonge seems to vie 
in the matter of reticence. Can it be that it is the catching 
of heavy fish that thus affects the captors, or is it possible 
that baits and trolling spoons are the real cause? 


Wooncoc« are in season in New Jersey, but the bags have 
been light. In this State the season will open Aug, 1, 


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[dury 10, 1884. 


A DEPARTED RACE, 


pueey of men are yet living who remember when 
buffaloes in countless herds covered all of the vast 
plains between the Missouri River and the Rocky Moun- 
tains, from the borders of Mexico to the Arctic regions. It 
is not very lone since. Only about fifty years ago their 
slaughter, to supply the demands of commerce, began, and 
then it was inasmall way. The only article then sought 
was their skins, for conversion into robes. The trade was 
at first only with the Indians, and along the Missouri River 
and its tributaries. The Indian, as a rule, is not wasteful nor 
improyident in the destruction of game, He realizes that it 
is the mainstay of his life, and if he wastes this year it may 
cause him to suffer from hunger next year; hence he kills 
to provide meat for the present; and preserves for the future, 
The skins from animals so slain, after sufficing for his own 
wants, find their way to the trader, and thence into the 
channels of commerce. Thus began the trade in bufialo 
skins. As the white man became acquainted with the coun- 
try he saw profit in it, and about 1830 traders began to reach 
out into the buffalo country, accompanied by professional 
white hunters, who made a life business of slaughter. How- 
ever, they were not very destructive, mainly because of their 
indolence, and partially, perhaps, for the reason that their 
arms were very imperfect as compared with those of the 
present day. 

First, trading posts were established along the eastern edge 
of the buffalo range, upon the Missouri River and its larger 
tributaries. Then the traders crossed the plains and located 
a similar chain of posts, or forts, along the western edge of 
the range, These latter were close up to the foot of the 
great mountain range and at that time, the old employes 
tell, the great tide of buffalo migration, north and south, 
with the changing seasons, surged up against the foothills, 
and diverging columns turned up the larger streams into the 
mouutains and over the passes above the limit of timber 
growth into the parks and valleys, and even to the sage 
plains of our present Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Even then 
the white man’s methods in afew years had a marked effect 
upon the vast herds. The great column narrowed from the 
sides. The flanking columns were cut off from the mountain 
passes. The buffalo became rare west of the mountains. The 
trading posts moved westward from the Missouri and eastward 
from the mountains, At first the change was slow, then it in- 
creased year by year and the dates of the abandonment of 
old forts and the occupation of new ones, twenty-five or fifty 
miles further out upon the plains, would show exactly the 
ratio of decrease in the millions of wild cattle that formerly 
roamed there. So the destruction went steadily on, but, as 
it now appears, slowly, until twenty-five years ago, when 
civilization leaped in one stride from the Missouri River to 
the Rocky Mountains. Then the tide of travel across the 
plains by many routes became great and constant. For 
hundreds of miles the roads led through pastures yet plenti- 
fully stocked with buffalo. The writer has within twenty 
years traveled for six days in succession upon a stage coach 
without being at any time in daylight out of sight of herds 
of buffalo. Of course theslaughter increased with the influx 
of the white man. They were killed for meat, and when 
that was not wanted they were killed for sport—mere wan- 
ton destructiveness, or to brag about. In this epoch, if such 
the period may be styled, commerce and the world reaped 
no benefit from the slaughter, except in the little bit of the 
meat that was eaten by the butchers and their comrades. 
The skins were not saved. No meat was sent to market. 

Then came the railroads; two lines, the Union Pacific and 
Kansas Pacific, that penetrated the heart of the buffalo 
country in 1868 and traversed the entire breadth of it before 
midsummer of 1870. With them, in the hands of the masses, 
came also the deadly repeating and breechloading riiles, 
with which any pot-hunter could *‘ pump ” lead into a five 
hundred acre herd of buffalo with deadly effect, whether he 
could eyer find the careasses or not. That made no dif- 
ference. If he wanted one animal he might just as well kill 
ten, or if he wanted ten it would take but little longer to 
shoot fifty, and in either case he could then pick out the 
hest—provided the best did not go too far away to die. 
With the advent of the railways the buffalo killing was for 
a time all done ‘‘ for meat.” Hundreds and hundreds of 
men went regularly into the slaughter. The only meat they 
wanted was hams and tongues. The rest was left to rot. 
Even the hams were taken only from the best 
animals, judged by inspection after death, deter- 
mined by a kind of coronor’s inquest. Buffalo hams 
became one of the largest freight items on the railways. 
Car loads and train loads went to Eastern markets. Hun- 
dreds of tons rotted at the stations for want of shipping 
facilities, other hundreds or thousands of tons rotted before 
it could be transported from where killed 10 the railways. 

People got tired of ‘‘high” buffalo meat, and the next craze 
was for the skins. While they were being killed for the 
meat the skins were not saved. The skin ofthe hams went 
with them to market; the balance rotted with the meat. 
Now the meat hunters all went to killing for skins. A 
“shooter” would employ five, six or seven ‘‘skinners;” 
establish his camp in the buffalo range and go to work to 
keep his men busy. Thanks to breechloaders and repeaters 
he could “down” from seventy-five to one hundred buffalo 
per day on an average. Nothing was saved but the skin, 
and this was worth on ‘‘the range” seventy-five cents or one 


dollar, This was the campaign that exterminated the 
buffalo upon the middle plains. 

For two or three years after the opening of the railways 
named, a train seldom crossed the plains without passing in 
sight of buffalo, and it was not an uncommon thing for a 
train to have to wait for a moving herd to cross the track, 
Now buffalo are never seen from the trains, nor have they 
been for eight or ten years past. But there remained one 
more harvest to be gathered from the departed native life 
and grandeur of the great plains; poor, pitiful, post-mor- 
tem harvest of stinking bones. After they had surfeited the 
Hast with odorous hams and glutted the markets of the 
world with ‘‘robes’’ killed in season and out of season, these 
gallant hunters turned scayengers and gathered the rotting 
bones and blistering horns of the countless dead. Railway 
trains that had in former years groaned under loads of meat 


nd bales of hides were now loaded down with bones des- 


tined for Eastern manufactories of various kinds. The whole 
country was gleaned, 

At length the work was done. Destruction was complete. 
No sigu was left to show that a buffalo had ever existed in 
the country, and the vandals who had hounded them to their 
death and their bones to the sugar refinery, drifted off north- 
ward or southward to follow up the remnants of herds, to 
gather the bones along other railways, or to repeat the 
slaughter upon the noble elk that so recently peopied all the 
valleys and parks of the mountains. Such newspaper para- 
graphs as the following show their tracks: 

“Tt is said in St. Paul that hundreds of teams are now engaged near 
Bismarck in gathering buffalo bones, for which the sum of $6 a ton 
is paid by persons who send themto Philadelphia for grinding into 
fertilizing powders.” 

“The buffalo herds of Texas have been reduced to one small herd 
now feeding on the Pecos River, but this is fast being reduced and its 
days are numbered. This isa remnant of what was known a few 
years ago as the “great Southern herd.” 

And yet the country is full of sportsmen who clamor for 
more deadly repeating rifles. 


Che Sportsman Conrist, 


UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP. 


VI. 


SOFT snow haying fallen, not too deep for the com- 

fortable traveling of those so used to such footing as 

are the hill folks of Northern New England, almost all of 

Lisha’s friends who were wont 1o gather in his shop had 
fone fox hunting. 

Many times that day Lisha had stood in the doorway to 
listen to the voices of the hounds, now wafted softer to his 
ears on the heavy air from the snow-mufiled woods than in 
the brighter days of October, when each hound’s note was 
answered by a dozen echoes, all so sharp and clear that one 
could hardly tell the real voice from the counterfeit. And once 
when the music tended toward a runway two furlongs down 
the road, where the points of two ledges flanked the highway 
on either side, the old man had taken down his long gun and 
bare-headed, in his shirt-sleeves, and with his apron flopping 
about his legs, waddled like a hurried duck half way to 
the crossing place. But the fox then changed his course 
and drew the clamor tapering into silence beyond the crest 
of a great ridge, and Lisha, after some shivering waiting 
had cooled his ardor, went back to his bench. He was im- 
patient for evening to come that he might hear how it had 
fared with the hunters, but they were too Jeg-weary that 
night to leave their own firesides, even forthe pleasure of 
“swapping lies” and comparing notes concerning the day’s 
events. The next night, however, brought most of them to 
the accustomed meeting place, ready to talk or listen. Lisha 
missed the blonde-bearded face and tall gaunt form of Sam 
Lovel, the mightiest hunter of them all. 

“Where’s Samwill ?” he roared as if he was hailing the 
mountains, ‘Them ’ere long laegs o’ his’n hain’f gin aout, 
hey they?” 

“7 gh’d think not,” Joe Hill answered, ‘‘ he went tram- 
poosin’ off on’t the North Hill airly this mornin’ arter a fox. 
We hearn the ole dawg a tootin’ on it to him yit as we come 
along. °F Sam c’n git him off he ‘Il be comin’ ‘long this way 
hum to rights.” 

«“ What a darned critter!” said Lisha, his tone expressing 
more approval than his words, “up an’ at it, every day an’ 
all day!” 

‘‘ Samwell,” said Solon Brigs, “‘is a reg’lar Ramrod, so to 
speak; a mighty hunter afore the Lord. He ’ll foller a fox 
from Daniel to Bashaby afore he ’!] delinquish the pursooth, 
or less the nocturnity of night comes on to him, which that 
periodical of natur has now arriven an’ come, an’ therefore 
he will most proberble do likewise soon.” 

The sounds of heavy boots being rid of snow by stamping 
and scraping on the doorstep and the impatient whine of a 
dog were heard, and the predictions of Joe and the wise 
Solon were speedily fulfilled by the entrance of Sam and his 
gaunt sad-faced hound, with a whiff of chill outer air, as if 
the hunter had brought down a bagful of the North Hill’s 
breezy atmosphere to sweeten the shop with. As Lisha 
shouted his welcome the eyes of every one sought first the 
capacious pockets of Sam’s frock, and saw hanging out of 
one the flluffy brush of a fine fox. 

“Wal, Sam, ye got him, hey?” 

“(Got one on ’em,” he said, in a tone that implied no great 
satistaction with his luck, “Started two more, but one on 
’em holed in half an hour, an’ other one dodged me till it 
got so dark I couldn’t see to shoot, ’n’ so I called old Drive 
off an’ come along.” 

Drive, who had stretched his weary length by the stove, 
raised his head and cast a sorrowful look on his master. 

“Wal, dawg, ye didn’t wanter hunt all night for nothin’, 
did ye?” Sam asked, and Drive, sighing, laid his head again 
on ils pillow of leather scraps, and wagged a few feeble taps 
on the floor, so saying that he did not quite understand 1, 
but concluded it was all right. 

‘“Ffain’t hed a mou ful t’ eat sen mornin’, heve ye Samwill?” 
Lisha asked, and answered, ‘‘Course ye hain’t! Mother!” 
roaring to his wife as if she had been in the next township 


instead of the next room, and then, as Aunt Jerusha opened 
the door, ‘‘can’t ye give Samwill a bite?” 

_“‘No, don’t gim me a bite, Aunt Jerushy; 1’d ruther you’d 
gim me a kiss!” cried the gallant hunter. 

‘‘T shan’t dew nary one, Samwill,” said Aunt Jerushy, “T 
sh’d hev Huldy Purin’ton arter me, but I'll give ye some rve 
*y’ Injin bread an’ col’ pork ’n’ beans.” r 

“An’ give Drive that ’ere hasty puddin’,” said Lisha, as 
Sam and the hound followed Aunt Jerusha into the kitchen, 
Then Lisha asked, ‘‘Wal, boys, haow d’d ye make it a hun- 
tin’ yist'd’y. Any on ye kill anything?” 

“Yes,” Joe Hill answered, ‘Sam killed a fox;” [‘Of 
course,” said Lisha, in parenthesis,| ‘an’ the’ was one or two 
op us got shots at a fox,” 

“Which Jozeff P. Hill was one?” said Solon Briggs, ‘a 
firin’ of his gun one several time at two identickle foxes 
twicte, which opponent dew declare the heretobeforesaid 
Jozeff P. did not to no intense an’ puppuses tech ary one on 
"em if! 

‘*An’ Solon Briggs was another,” retorted Joe. 

“Nor dew I deny the acquisition intire, though my gun 
discharged an’ went off a pintin’ to a opposvte direction to 
what the fox was at them moments of time a occupyin’ of 
so it can’t be said with strict incoherence to the truth, thatT 
shot at him.” ; 

‘Haow did that happen?” Lisha asked. 

‘Wal, the circumstances was these an’ happened thus: 
I was a settin’ on a lawg a meditatin’ on the mutualability of 
the human life of mankind, pa’tic’ly in fox huntin’, for I 
hed n’t hear’d a haoun’ in an bour, when my intention was 
distracted by a leetle noise behind me, an’ turnin’ my head, 
there stood a gre’t big fox not more ’n three rod off, jes 's if 
he was an appargotion that had riz aout of the baowels of 
the airth, which I was flustrated to the extent of my gun a 
goin’ off an’ dischargin’ with the butt a pintin’ at the anymil 
fur cluster ’an what the muzzle was. It was one of the ac- 
cidentalist accidents that ever happened to my exper ence, 
for eee fust rate sight on that fox if my gun had only ben 

inted.’ 
3 ‘*An’ what hev yeou got to say fur yerself, Jozef?” 

“<Q, I d’ know nothin’ what the matter was ailded things,” 
Joe replied, looking up at the low ceiling as if he expected 
some solution of the cause of his unaccountable misses to 
come from above. ‘‘I guess the ole gun hain’t good for 
nothin’—or I d’ know but the gun’s good ‘nough, but the 
paowder; I dont b’lieve the paowder ’s wuth a darn! But 
mebby ’t wa’n’t the paowder—guess like ’s not the shot wa’n't 
big ‘nough, or I spilt some on ’em a loadin’ in a hurry or 
suthin’ or nuther—I d’ know.” 

“You're sartain *t wa’n’t no fault o’ your shootin’, hain’t 
ye, Jozeff? You shot stret’nongh: we allus dew, all on us,” 
said Lisha, his eyes twinkling like the gleam of his awl in 
the candle light. 

<‘Wal, I never hed no better sight on nothin’ in my life “n 
I did on both them ’ere foxes—” 

‘Not on thet aowl?” Lisha interrupted. 

‘Humph! We hain’t talkin’ *baout aowls! Come to think 
on ’t, I guess they was too fur off.” 

‘Guess they be naow,” from Lisha. 

‘Wal, anyhaow, I made the fur fly onct!” 

“No daouht on *t, no daoubt ont, both times, an’ jist as 
fass as four scairt legs could make it fly! O, good airth an’ 
seas! I wish ’t I’d gota shot! Id ha’ showed ye! When 
my old cannon gits pinted at ’em, it fetches 'em, I tell ye!” 

‘‘Haow clus does it fetch ’em naow, Unele Lisha?” asked 
he who never spoke but to prepound some great question, 

“‘So clus to,’’ Lisha answered impressively, “‘that gen’ally 
IT can git their skins off on’em. Peltier,” he continued, 
turning his glasses on the young fellow, ‘‘you hain’t ben 
hear’d from yit.” 

“OQ, I didn’t cal’late to shoot nothin’, only went for the 
fun on ’t. Didn’t see nothin’ nor git nothin’, only a 
pocket full o’ gum. Hassome?” he asked, passing about his 
big palm full of spruce gum, like a rudely molded ‘ray of 
clay filled with bits of rough amber, Hach one took a 
piece. The smokers laid aside their pipes, the tobacco 
chewers resigned their quids, and all went into a committee 
of the whole to ruminate on the resin of the spruce. 

After all the reports were in it was found that none had 
shot at a fox but Sam, Joe and Solon, and of these with any 
success only the first-named, who, having now strengthened 
his interior with a goodly lining of Aunt Jerusha’s pork and 
beans and brown bread, returned to the shop. Declining to 
exercise his jaw on an offered portion of Peletiah’s treat, he 
filled and lighted his pipe, and got himself into a restful 
position on a roll of sole-leather. ‘‘Wal,” he said, after get- 
ting his pipe in full blast, “I seen suthin’ on the North Hill 
’at’s an oncommon sight now-er-days.” 

‘What was that?” one asked, and others guessed ‘‘a 
painter,” ‘‘a wolf,” ‘‘a woolyneeg,” or the tracks of the ani- 
mals named, 

‘Was it the footprints of some avarocious annymill, or 
the annymiil hisself?’’ Solon Briggs inquired. 

“Nary one,” said Sam, and added after a few deliberate 
puffs, during which the curiosity of his auditors grew almost 
insupportable, ‘‘a deer track,” 

“Good airth an’ seas! Yeou don’t say so, Samwill? I 
hain’t seen nor hearn tell 0’ one a bein’ raound in five, I d’ 
know but ten, year. Did ye foller it, Samwill? It’s a tol’- 


able good snow fur still-huntin’,” 

“Poller it? No!” Sam answered emphatically, ‘“What 
would I foller it for? I-wouldn’t shoot a deer on these ’ere 
hills f I had a dozen chances at him!’ 

“T swan I would,” said Pelatiah. 

“Yas,” said Sam, with contemptuous wrath, ‘“‘yeou would, 
IT ha’ no daoubt on’t, aw’ so would three-quarters on “em 
shoot the las’ deer ’f he come to their stacks an’ eat along 
with their cattle, jest as Joel Bartlett did, consarn his giz- 
zard! JI wish’t was State’s prison to kill a deer any time o’ 
year, an’ hed ben, twenty year ago. Then we might hey 
some deer in these ’ere woods, wher the’ hain’t one naow to 
ten thousand acres, ’n’ where forty year ago the’ was hun-— 
dreds on ’em, ’n’ might jes’ as well be naow, if *t wan't for 
the dumbed hogs an’ fools. I knowed critters at went on 
tew legs an’ called ’emselves men, ‘at when I was a boy 
useter go aout in Febwary an’ March an’ murder the poor 
ereeters in their yards with clubs, twenty on *em in a day, 
when they wa’n’t wuth skinnin’ fer their skins, say nothin’ 
baout the meat, which the’ wa’n’t ’nough on tew carcasses 
to bait a saple trap. An’ some o’ them things is a livin’ yit, 
an’ would dew the same again if they hed the chance, If 
they wus gone an'a wolf left in the place of each one on 
‘em, the airth would be better off, a darned sight. Cuss ’em, 
they ‘re wus *n Injins!” 

he stillness that followed this outburst of the hunter’s 
1ighteous indignation was broken by Solon’s rasping pre- 
iiminary ‘‘Ahem! That ‘ere last remark o’ yourn is an on 


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dutible fact, ‘The abregoines would not perforate sech an 
act, because in so a dewin they would ampitate their own 
noses off, deer a hein’ their pret mainstayance, both intarn- 
aliy an’ out+arnally, that is to say, both food an’ rem- 
nants.” _ 

“Wal, said Lisha, as he soused a tap in bis tub, ‘‘the’ 
ean’t nobody say *t ever I crusted deer, but the’ was ‘nough 
on “em 't did, twenty, thirty year ago, an’ mis’able murderia’ 
business it was, tew. The’ was one man, though,”’ he con- 
tinued, affer some vigorous pounding of the tap on his lap- 
‘stone, ‘‘’at got cured o’ crustin’ for his life time, which it 
shortened it, tew.” ie 

“Tt ort t’ been shortened afore ever he went a crustin’,” 
said the relentless Sam, ‘‘Wal, haow was ’t, Uncle Lisha?” 

Wal,” said Lisha, taking the last pee from between his 
lips and driving it home, “I guess it’s gittin’ ruther late t’ 
begin a-story t night, hain’t it? *“Baout what time’s it got to 
be anyway? Peltier, you jes’ go +’ the kitchen door ’n’ ast 
Jerushy, won't ye?” ‘ 

“Hol on; I've got my crow monitor,” said Solon, tugging 
at a leathern thong that hung from his fob, and presently 
dragging forth what looked like a goodly sized copper por- 
ringer, he consulted it for a minute and proclaimed the hour 
to he “agoin’ on tew 9 o’clock,” 

“T want er know! Wal, bein’ it’s so late, ‘n’ some on ye ’s 
got quite a piece to go, I guess I won't tell baout it t’night. 
Nex’ time ye come I will ‘f ye’ll put me in mind on *t,” 

“Prawberbly, im consequent of the demoteness of the in- 
habitations of some here and present, and the a-proachness 
of the hour for expirin’ to bed, it would be more judiciouser 
to prefer the narrowation of Uncle Lisha’s story ontil another 
of aour conjovial gatherin’s’—which suggestion of Solon’s 
all fell in with, aud Sam Lovel, taking his gun from the 
corner and whistling up his chase-weary hound, all departed, 
leaving Lisha to smuif out the shop candle and retire to the 
kitchen, where, smoking the last pipe of the evening with his 
stockinged feet toasting on the stove hearth, the purring of 
the cat, the drowsy song of the teakettle, and Aunt Jerusha’s 
monotonous counting of the stitches as she narrowed the 
thumb of a striped mitten, ‘‘one—tew—three, narrer; one— 
tew—three, narrer,”’ soon set him to nodding. 

“Why, father,” said the good dame, casting a side glance 
at him from her knitting when his pipe dropped from his 
mouth, ‘why don’t ye go to bed, stiddy settin’ there a 
noddin’ like a hard’s grass head in a July wind?” 

“T wa’n't a noddin’ nuther, ‘n’ haint a bit sleepy,” he said, 
opening his eyes as wide as possible. ‘I was on’y medy- 
tatin’.”” But he went to bed. 


REMINISCENCES OF SHANGHAI. 


SETS, years ago the inhabitants of the foreign settle- 
ment of Shanghai, China, awoke to the fact that they 
as well as their neighbors, the Chinese denizens of the walled 
city a mile away, had some personal as well as business in- 
terest in the great movement which, known as the Tai-ping- 
wang Rebellion, was stirring slow and sedate old China to 
ifs very center. 

Tai-pings-wang was one of the names of a prophet who had 
arisen, and proclaiming himself a true Son of God, and thus 
younger brother of Jesus Ohrist, was considered a false or 
true prophet by about an equal number of his countrymen. 
Aj] government officials, from the emperor himself down to 
the humblest mandarin, who for income depended upon the 
process known as “‘squeezing,” remained unbelievers, for, 
not content with making war on polygamy, joss worship and 
opium smoking, three of the most important of Chinese in- 
stitutions, Tai-ping-wang aimed to become emperor as well 
as spiritual chief, and his progress was thus that of a rebel; 
and war encompassed his adyance. 

The principal scenes of his operations were the northern 
provinces, which included Pekin and Nankin, and but for 
the interruption of business by the failures of the tea and 
cotton growers to produce their usual crops, South China 
would have shown hardly a trace of the effect of the convul- 
sions going on further north, Like the anvil on the breast 
of the athlete, the solid, stolid mass of the people of China 
absorb, with little show of injury, blows which would dis- 
tupt another nation. It is the soldier’s business to fight, not 
ours, reasons this mass, and until the blows are delivered 
closer home they do not seem to feel or take interest in them, 
But the life of the dynasty was at stake, and the hundreds of 
thousands who joined the army of the rebel chief were con- 
fronted with the greater army of the empire. 

We who were then at Shanghai and who had not business 
interests at stake were, if anything, rather benefitted by the 
war, for our sole occupation was to enjoy life as much as 
possible, and the rather limited circle of foreign inhabitants 
was greatly enlarged by the addition of the officers of Amer- 
ican, English, French and German vessels of war and com- 
merce, the former detailed fo protect the interests and Iives 
of their countrymen, the latter idle through stagnation of 
commerce; and the long winter had passed merrily, Din- 
ners, prolonged from 7 P. M. till midnight, private theatri- 
cals, occasional spasmodic attempts at balls (for to one lady 
there were a score of men), and rousing games of tenpins— 
a dozen burly skippers on a side, with drinks bet on the re- 
sult. of every score—at the one hotel, the Astor House, occu- 
pied our nights, and the hours of daylight were too short 


for our field sports, which, in addition to fine pheasant, 


partridge, duck, goose and snipe shooting, from either of 
which one need seldom return with unsatisfactory. bag, com- 
prised a sport which most thoroughly dissipated the effects 
of our nightly dyspepsia accumulation, This was rabbit cours- 
ing. Ourselves the hounds, twenty or thirty of us, armed 
‘ouly with short hard-wood clubs, to be used as missiles, and 
accompanied by a couple of beagles to start the game, would 
surround a great cotton field and run many miles « day for 
a few rabbits and exercise. 

But the war came to us at last. 
ligent young Chinaman, who occupied the position of ‘‘boy” 
‘toa member of one of the English houses, heard daily the 
Views expressed aj the various dinners to which, as was the 
custom in Clina, he had accompanied his master, to wait 
upou him ; and securing a sufficient number of adherents 
he: had started a local rebellion, having taken good care to 
put himself and followers in commanding positions within 
the walled city, proclaimed himself its chief; and after cut- 
ting off the heads of quite a number of his countrymen, 
whose politics differed with his, ornamented with them a 
couple of hundred spikes, which surmounted the city gates 
and vicinity, and settled down in the ex-Toutai’s palace with 
his troops stationed along the wall, to hold the place until 
Tai-ping-wang and his armies arrived. 

Aling’s example was rather extensively followed. Local 
tebellions began to Dreak oul whereyer there was a walled 
_ town, within whose walls there was sufficient wealth to 

' a ] * ri ‘* : e - 


Aling, & bright and intel- 


encourage the braves; and the cause of religion was ad- 
vanced by unlimited looting of joss houses, the gods, jewels, 


money, carvings, paintings, and other ‘‘curios” thus obtained, 


making quite a comfortable little perquisite for Aling and 
At first we outsiders were able to buy from 
Aling first-class gods, richly decorated, at very moderate | 


his imitators, 


prices ; but it being discovered one day that built info some 
of these gods, were secret stow holes, in which jewels had 
been hidden, the supply ceased, and only quite badly 
mutilated remains were to be obtained. 


After a while trade reopened, and as a great favor several 


of us were permitted to buy a number of very fine josses, 
apparently sound as a joss need be. 
ation of the chance of the possible bonanza which we might 
be also buying, prices ruled much higher; but we went into 
the speculation with vigor, and kept it up in spite of draw- 
ing blanks, until in sawing wp a joss the carpenter discovered 
that the secret cavity had been already probed, opened and 
reclosed x0 skillfully that we could see no external sign. 
The raseals had first, knowing approximately the location in 
the back, bored with very fine bits, and the josses in which 
we found these holes plugged up, had in such as struck 
cayities, been thoroughly deprived of any valuables they 
may have contained. The ‘“‘ways that are dark and tricks 
not in yain” of those Heathen Chinee were too many for us. 


So looting exhaustively and living luxuriantly on the pro- 


ceeds, Aling and Co. had gay times, and were in ne burry 
for the arrival of Tai-ping-wang with his cohorts, to whom 
they claimed that they intended to turn over the captured 
city, and thus secure recognition as legitimate rebels. 
anticipation of this event, a few of the more sanguine had 
adopted thie ta a badge of the Christians by haying 
their queues cut off, and ceasing to shave the head, but the 
more astute had modified this policy and contented them- 
selves by coiling the tail neatly, and covering it with a cap 
and such hair as might grow, prepared thus to resume, with 
ight difficulty, their allegiance. 

They waited in vain though, for in due time, instead of 
the expected rebel leader, there appeared on the scene an 
imperial army, some ten or fifteen thousand strong which, 
haying selected an eligible, comfortable and safe location, 
settled down to besiege the city. I advisedly say safe and 
settled, for the distance of the spot selected was several gun 
shots from the walls; and then and thus they too enjoyed 
life, planting vegetable gardens, setting up shops of all de- 
scriptions necessary for repairs of shoes, clothing, ete,, and 
following the example of the ancient Romans in dealing with 
the Sabines, provided themselves with wives ad lditum. 
Extensive earth works were erected, which inclosed quite a 
number of the haycock-like mounds which served as look- 
out stations. These mounds had been erected by an an- 
cient dynasty as burial places, and were the only elevations 
visible above the flat plains for many miles. 

And thus the besieged and besiegers might all have re- 
mained until now, left to the full enjoyment of each other's 
society, for all the interest the foreigners might take in their 
doings; for trade went on as usual and the surrounding 
country remained peaceful. It was the soldiers’ business to 
fight, not theirs, argued the peasantry; and Chinamen grow 
rich by minding their own business. ‘‘No belongy my 
pidgin” in their motto. But the soldiers on both sides be- 
came addicted toa bad habit; and started a game in which 
we found it necessary to takea hand, Pretending a fight, 
a body of men from one side or the other would retreat into 
the suburbs of the foreign settlement; and this produced 
considerable hard feeling, for the fire of the pursuers would 
be in our direction, and sheltered by our houses, the retreat- 
ing band would break up into skirmishers, each individual 
devoting himself to looting and escaping with his booty. 

The foreign settlement of Shanghai consisted of a large 
number of stone houses, the business houses and residences 
of representatives of American, French, German and Eng- 
lish merchants, and were built along the banks of the narrow 
river, extending perhaps a mile inland. The river front was 
skirted by a broad, smooth road, with a sea wall, called the 
Bund, and in the rear of the town there was a large and 
well-appointed race course. The Bund and the race course 
were the fashionable resorts for driving, riding and promen- 
ades. The walled city, occupied exclusively by natives, 
was about a mile higher up the river, which it also fronted, 
and the space between was covered with squalid Chinese 
suburbs up to the edge of the Yan-kin-pang creek, which 
was the southern boundary line of the foreign settlement. In 
the rear of the city and about on line with the race course 
was the Imperialist camp. The four places, viz., the for- 
eign and Chinese cities, the race course and camp, thus oc- 
cupied the four corners of a somewhat irregular quadrangle. 

About midway between the two cities the rebels had 
erected an earthwork on the water front, from which there 
was a very frequent exchange of harmless cannonading 
with an Imperialist battery across the river; and occasion- 
ally a couple of Imperialist war vessels, one a refitted bark 
named the Sir Herbert Compton, would take position amid- 
stream, and give the rebs a very lively lime, most of which 
was, however, generally spent in getting out of reach of the 
shots. The Sir Herbert was commanded and partially 
manned by heach-comber white menand Portuguese. These 
little combats were plainly visible from our quarterdeck, and 
served to while away our otherwise dull watches, during 
which there was otherwise little variation; for eyen the 
floating by of dead bodies, at first rather interesting, became 
so common a sight as to attract but little attention, except 
when the tide swept them across our hawser and we had to 
bear them clear. We noticed, by the way, a peculiar thing 
in regard to these bodies. All those of the men floated face 
down, of the women face up, This probably was due to 
the buoying effect of the breasts of the latter. One day the 
exhibition was quite a good one. Through some unknown 
cause fire entered the magazine of one of the attacking vessels, 
the Antelope, I believe, and in an instant she was flying into 
the air in fragments, some of which descended uncomfort- 
ably close to ourselves. 

several events had taken place which led to an affiliation, 
to a certain extent, between the rebels and ourselves, 
Among them was first an affair with the Sir Herbert, which 
one day saw fit to bring to and seize a pilot boat, owned by 
two American pilots named Ayres and Linklater, haul down 
the American flag, and make prisoners of some of her crew, 
An hour after this event the Plymouth had slipped her moor- 
ings, dropped down the river, re-anchored between, and with 
her broadsides bearing on the two Chinese vessels, and the 
Compton’s captain, also the Toutai or imperial governor 
notified that if in one hour—noon—a salute of twenty-one 
guns to the American flag was not fired we would sink ther 
both at their anchors; and while this was pending a board- 
ing party under Lieut, Guest had released the prisoners and 
made others in their place. At noon the salute was fired, 


Of course, in consider- 


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and wé returned to our moorings. The rebels were, not 
unnaturally, well pleased with this act. 

It so happened one day that a little combat between the 
lwo forts resulted im quite a suecess for the rebels, for some 
shot was actually Janded in the fort across the river, an 
almost unprecedented event, and as these shots pe the 
way toa warm friendship between myself and Aling, the 
rebel chief, which produced among other results tlis yarn, 
I réfer to them, 

Two or three of us on liberty strolled info this fort, and 
there having been no firing that day owing to its being a 
holiday of some sort, we were a little careless and mounted 
the parapets. While looking at the enemies’ quarters we 
were saluted with half a dozen shots in quick succession— 
all landing in the river considerably short, We were young 
then and the challenge was not to be treated lightly. We 
manned the biggest of the rebel guns, and knocking out the 
quoin, which with Chinese guns takes the place of an ele- 
vating screw, but which, being immoyable, prevents any 
change in the elevation, pointed and fired, and after a couple 
of shots, getting the range, we succeeded in landing some 
shot in the fort, whose defenders fied, and the thoroughly 
silenced battery was abandoned. I shall never forget the 
absurd mixture of pluck and cowardice we displayed at 
first, for not one of us dared touch the gun off. From our 
point of view so dilapidated and rusty an old machine was 
it, with vent like a teacup, the chances were ten to one that 
we at the breech end would get the worst of the explosion, 
and it was nof till two or three exchanges had warmed us 
up that we failed, after fitting a long enough piece of slow 
match, torush behind a bomb-proof buttress for shelter until 
the explosion, Although the United States Consul and our 
Captain endeavored in vain to ascertain who were the 
officers who thus “gave aid and comfort,” etc., Aling knew 
very well, as did all of his following, and was very grateful 
and hospitable whenever, as we often did, we paid him 4 
visit, 

We were supposed to remain neutral, but were almost 
forced to take serious steps, To the race course all Shanghai 
foreigners resorted every afternoon, and during these hours 
there was safety in numbers; but very few dared visit it at 
other hours when every one was at business. One forenoon, 
though, it happened that an invalid English lady, accom- 
panied by an English gentleman named Caldecott Smith, 
w:? there riding in a palanquin. They were attacked, mal- 
reated and robbed by some bushwhackers from the Im- 
perialist camp, and probably would have fared even worse 
but for the opportune arrival of a squad of English sailors 
on liberty and donkeys, who had come out for a scrub race, 
hey soon cleared out the Chinamen and escorted the party 

ome. 

Then the music began, As had been arranged, a signal of 
“assistance wanted” went up to the English Consul’s flag- 
staff, and in less than half an hour, a body of perhaps a 
hundred men were marching double quick toward the Im- 
perialist camp, Of this body, the Plymouth, United States 
sloop of war, and the Encounter and Grecian, English war 
vessels, with some merchant ships in harbor, furnished four- 
fifths; the remainder were young men, clerks, partners and 
others, in the yarious houses. Without much time wasted 
in parley, the first of the earthworks reached was attacked 
and carried, nearly all of its garrison having fled incontin- 
ently. About twenty got left, and their detention became a 
permanent one, for the sailors were ugly; they had been 
spoiling for a fight. 

One little incident I remember combined to the most 
extreme degree the horrible and ludicrous. The captain of 
our after guard, Berry by name, chased a Chinaman, gained 
on him, until just able to reach him with his bayonet point, 
the bayonet being fixed. This he thrust into the poor deyil’s 
stern about half an inch, The prick quickened the fellow’s 
speed, and with unearthly yells and contortions of face 
through fright and pain he did his best. Berry, with -his 
arms and gun stretched out as far as possible, could do no 
more than just keep up; until at last the fugitive stumbled 
and in a moment it was all over. It seems heartless to say 
the sight had in it aught of Iudicrousness, but barring that 
the contortions and grimaces were due to pain, and that it 
was a struggle for life, the attitudes, gestures and efforts of » 
both men were exceedingly funny. 

After demolishing the fort the party returned, word haviug 
been sent by Captain Kelley, of our ship, and O’Callahan of 
the Encounter, to the Imperialist leader that the encamp- 
ment must be at once broken up, and the army removed to 
the other side of the walled city. Twenty-four hours were 
given in which to begin this evacuation, on 

The next day, April 4, 1854, there occurred the combat 
known throughout China as “The Great Battle of Muddy 
Flats.” The twenty-four hours grace would be up at 3 P.M. ; 
and at that hour about three hundred Americans and Eng- 
lishmen, commanded by Captain Kelley, he being the senior 
officer present, were posted at various commanding points: 
and we were awaiting the signal, which should start us on 
the Herculean task of combatting three times as many 
thousands as there were hundreds of our own men entrenched 
behind strong earthworks. We were watching anxiously 
for signs of a moyement of evacuation, but none appeared ; 
and at the appointed hour Captain Kelley opened fire. The 
effect of that first shot was simply wonderful. It was a 12- 
pounder shell, from a howitzer; and fell a trifle short. In 
an instant a score of Chinamen sprung over the wall, and 
rushed toward the spot where it had struck; in another 
moment there was an explosion, and the crowd was torn to 
fragments, some escaping with life, seeking shelter again, 
many without it were lying torn and mangled. They had 
never seen a shell before, and in attempting to carry out a 
superstitious belief, that to return the first shot of an enemy 
insures victory, they had scrambled for its possession. The 
fuse of the shell had been cut too long, and the delayed ex- 
plosion cost them dear. 

A series of deafening yells was heard, and quickly the rear 
portions of the wall and soon after the country beyond was 
yellow with a terror-stricken, stampeding swarm, and as we 
afterward found, by counting the dead, not more than three 
hundred (‘‘just one apiece for us,” ag] heard a sailor re- 
mark) remained to fight us. For half an hour we continued 
firing, then ceased and charged. 

During the firing an amusing episode occurred. The 
loader of a howitzer, which was worked by volunteers from 
various English and American houses, disappeared after the 
first fire. He was a popular man and a noted wag, whose 
grim humor at times was very eccentric. Hearing that he 
was hit, for some one had seen him running toward a ditch, 
several there sought him, and found him, not wounded, but 
sitting up to his waist in the water lighting a cheroot, “My 
God, Charley, what’s the matter?” sung out the first who 
saw him. “‘Matter! Why, 1 found I’ve made a great mis- 


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take, It’s the business of those navy men to fight; my busi- 
ness is to keep books for Hiram Hogg & Company, and 1’m 
going to stick to if. Jere’s your rammer,” 

Our charge was a brilliant suecess up to a certain point, 
and that was the edge of a wide and deep ditch, which, sur- 
rounding the forts, stopped us when within fifty yards evi- 
dently, However good sailors, we were poor engineers. As 
we stood puzzling, there was a sudden discharge of six or 
eight guns right in front, and although the greater portion 
of the missiles went whistling over our heads, yet enough 
dropped to kill three men and seriously wound several others. 
No attempt was made to reload the guns, for the fate of 
three men in succession, who, while vainly endeavoring to 
fire a large gun, were picked off with rifles through the em- 
brasure, deterred them. When we afterward drew the 
charge fram this gun we found over a peck of gingal balls 
of iron, an inch in diameter, in a canyas bag, in addition to 
a round shot, 

Whiie thus detained the Englishmen had made a flank 
movement, torn down a house, and with its timbers bridged 
or platooned the ditch, and soon their yigorous bhurrahs 
mingled with the Chinese yells. The latter soon ceased, 
and ascending smoke and fiames showed that the battle was 
over, the forts ours, and fired. Nota living Chinaman re- 
mained, and scattered throughout the inclosure were many 
roasted toa crisp. That night we bivouacked near the field 
and in the adjacent house of a missionary. 

At midnight I was roused up to take charge of a recon- 
noitering party, and in so doing 1 got, I think, the worst 
scare of my life. It was’intensely dark, raining heavily and 
cold. We were plodding along in perfect silence, The path 
through the clay field was excessively slippery. My foot 
came in contact with something. and I fell; stretching out 
my arms to save my face, one of my hands landed on some- 
thing cold and clammy, and into a cavity of this something 
two of my fingers entered, scraping on something as they 
did so. J shall never forget the horrible sensation which 
thrilled through me as if dawned upon me that my hand was 
upon the face and’ my fingers in the mouth of a corpse. 
Since then, when I have heard the expression ‘‘my blood 
run cold,” I have understood the meaning. 

The next day a permanent post was established on the 
Yang-kin-pang Creek, about midway between the contend- 
ing parties, for the Imperialists accepted the situation and 
began erecting new works on the location assigned, We 
took possession of a very large temple or joss house, and 
here in the midst of barbaric gorgeousness we remained 
some months, administering occasional thrashings to both 


parties as they deserved it, and establishing a code known’ 


throughout China as 
parties.” 

About once a week, on a fair day, we would be enter- 
tained witha grand battle. Not only ourselves, but the 
Chinese would gather in tremendous crowds to see the 
soldiers fight, never a man of them thinking himself called 
on to lend a hand. From one side or the other would issue 
first a tremendous din and clatter, gong beating, cracker and 

firing, rockets and yells. This continued long enough 
to put the enemy on guard. <A body of men, perhaps a 
thousand, would follow, and first rushing, then walking 
slower and slower, would halt at three or four gunshots dis- 
tance and begin a series of ridiculous maneuvers undoubt- 
edly intended as challenges. Then agile men, most gro- 
tesquely attired, marked with heads of dragons, tigers or 
devils, would rush almost into danger. shouting and prancing 
like clowns. One chap, | remember, wore on each arm a 
Jarge circular shield, placing which close to his side, the 
edges on the ground, he doubled up, and with one heel for a 
motiye power, resolyed himself into an animated vehicle. 

The challenge was always accepted and, the opposing 
force haying reached the other side of the danger belt, the 
firing became furious and dangerous, too, to those of us to 
the right or left and within distance, and from our position 
we could see the fall of many men on both sides. At once 
a lot of others would pick up the corpse and quickly trans- 
port it to the rear, drop it, and flee, the corpse at as lively a 
gait as his bearers. It was against such flights that we had 
to guard, for before our fight they were frequently into the 
foreign settlement, where there was both shelter and booty. 

Being on rather good terms with the rebs, we would now 
and then during these fights stroll over into their ranks— 
quite as safe a place as one could find within hearing dis- 
tance—and standing there one day I saw for the first time 
the power of a Minie rifle. An Englishman named Rey- 
nolds, commonly known as Pirate Reynolds, had espoused 
for a consideration the rebel cause. He was out this day 
and I was talking with him about his rifle, which he showed 
io me and explained, finishing the exhibition with, “‘D’ye 
see that chap with a red shirt, jumping?” he pointed as he 
spoke, ‘Yes.’ ‘‘Well, watch him,” and in an instant I 
saw the Chinaman Jeap into the air higher than usual, fall 
and lie quiet, and at the same moment heard Reynolds’s gun. 
Tt was a long shot but a good one, and settled the fight, and 
almost every battle had been settled In the same way—the 
Imperialists fled. It was the practice of Reynolds to let the 
fight go on as long as he felt in the humor, then he would 
stop it—thus he held the balance of power. 

A personal resource was the society and interchange of 
visits with Aling, the rebel chief, who, since the little bat- 
tery affair described, had become very friendly. One day, 
eniering the gate of the city, I was struck with the unusual 
number of tfreshly-severed heads which ornamented the 
spikes. Nearly every spike for a hundred yards in both 
directions bore its ghastly trophy, and they were not more 
than a yard apart. Hvidently there had been a row, and 1 
hurried to Aling’s quarters, formerly the palace of Toutai 
(Chinese Governor), Several days had elapsed since my last 
yisit, and a strange guard at the inner doorway detained me 
until Aling was communicated with, While thus waiting 
my attention was drawn to a bamboo cage in the darker 
part of the court,in which wasa prisoner, I strolled toward 
it, and the crouching figure sprang into life—a woman who, 
thrusting her arms through the interstices, grasped at my 
legs and poured forth a torrent of tears and (evidently) pray- 
ers. Aling, when I questioned him, gaye me explanation both 
as fo the heads and the prisoner. There had been a local 
insurrection and attempt by certain Toutai men (loyalists) 
to recapture the city, and a sharp fight had ensued. 

“But, Aling,” said I, ‘‘what fashion that piecy woman 
down side?” 

‘He belongy Toutai woman, he makee spy pidgin,” 

“What thing you makee he; you makee killum?” 

‘‘Killum he, no can; sposey he man, my makee killum; 
sposey he woman, my puttee stone he neck; puttee down 
sille water; bymby he dlown.” 

I resolved that if it were possible 1 wouldsaye that woman's 
life, though not for any very romantic notions, for she was 


“Shanghai neutrality—whip both 


neither young nor pretty. Persuasions were, however, in 
vain, although I did at one time get Aling’s acceptance of 
an offer I made for her life, he offering compromise on ‘‘my 
punish he litty,” but this from a Chinese point of view 
might mean most terrible tortures, to which death were pre- 
ferable, I had seen one poor devil punished, and I wanted 
no more of it. AtJastahappy thought struck me. Not 
long after our battle with the forts, Aling, impressed with 
the efficacy of shells, had begged me to teach him how to 
make them; this I had peremptorily refused to do, for as I 
told him it would be very wrong in me to give such informa- 
tion, and which (I did not mention) I really didn’t know 
myself; for thirty years ago midshipmen learned how to use 
guns and shells before learning how they were made, Tak- 
ing, however, the chances that I could learn from one of the 
lieutenants, I reopened the negotiations with an offer to 
teach him the secret; and the price was to be the woman. 
Eventually he stipulated that I should also furnish a fuse 
for a model, and permit him to retain the woman as a pris- 
oner, fo be comfortably lodged and fed, and 1 to have right 
to visit her, She became mine, my property, subject to the 
conditions, as much as my dog isnow. With looted cham- 
pagne, cheroots and pale ale the bargain was sealed, and 
Aling said and I said ‘‘my can secure,” 

I repaired on board ship, called the gunner and another 
midshipman (since become a lunatic) into my counsel, and 
we deyised a plan and made drawings of two hemispheres, 
on the peripheries of which were to be cut, on one a male, 
on the other a female screw, provided with which and a fuse, 
I again visited Aling and my property. Both were delighted 
£0 see me. 

Ten days afterI called again, Aling sat, as usual, at his 
table where writing materials had always given place to re- 
freshments on my visits. This time there was no move in 
that direction and Aling’s greeting did not seem as cordial 
as usual. He left the conversation to me, answering in 
monosyllables. There was a chilly, depressed sir about him. 
I endeavored to cheer him up and this conversation ensued: 

SELF (cheerfully)—‘‘You have makee that shell, Aling?” 

ALING (curtly)—‘‘Hab makee.” 

SELF—‘‘How many piecy hab makee?”’ 

Aume—‘‘Plenty piecy.” 

SELF—‘‘You hab make fire them?” 

Atmne—‘‘Hab makee flire one piecy.” 

SELF—‘‘How you likee he?” 

ALtmNG (excitedly)—‘‘My hab make flire one piecy; hab 
killum lum (eleven) man.” 

SELF (reassuringly)—‘'That very good, Aling, one piecy 
shell killum eleven men.” 

ALIne (bursting out)—Hab killum lum man, he no belongy 
Toutai man, hab killum my man,” 

Whether the gun burst, or the shell prematurely exploded, 
I never have found out. I called to see my protégé, but she 
was gone, PISECO, 


ON THE GUAGUS. 


HAD often heard glowing accounts of the trout fishing 
to be had at ““Guagus Cold Springs,” on the head- 
waters of Union River, three miles above Brandy Pond, Me 1 
had visited the place often enough deer hunting in winter, 
but had never seen it during the trouting season, So early 
last September a jovial party, consisting of Josi, Jim, Walt, 
Lou and the writer, well fortified with courage, hardtack 
and pork, started for that locality, which is by no means 
easy of access, except in winter. Josi and Jim, like myself, 
were old hunters and fishermen; Walt and Lou were 
brothers, sons of the aforesaid Jim, Walt was a good fisher- 
man, but on this occasion his whole soul was wrapped up in 
a brand new 10-gauge, 10-pound gun, with which he pre- 
pared to slaughter partridges innumerable, and he even 
darkly hinted of bears, which abound throughout that en- 
tire region. Lou was nota fisherman, neither was he a 
hunter; still he was considered the most indispensable man 
in the party, simply because he would eat anything and 
everything that could be caught or killed, and all that was 
cooked that the rest of us could not dispose of; so that with 
him in a party, culinary matters were brought down to the 
simplest basis—merely to find something and cookit. At 
this present writing, he is about receiving his diploma at the 
medical department of the Vermont University. 

An atrocious road, six miles in length, from Greenfield, 
brought us to the ‘‘Bxtract,” said Extract being a huge mill, 
furnished with an engine and scores of cauldrons and yats, 
where tens of thousands of cords of hemlock bark were 
ground and steeped, the liquor poured into barrels, each 
weighing when full 400 pounds, and representing one cord 
of bark with only one-seventh of its weight, making a vast 
saving in hauling and freight; it was then hauled by heavy 
teams to the station, eighteen miles away, and sent to tan- 
nevies all over the country. Two miles of impassable road 
brought us to the shore of Brandy Pond. A beautiful white 
sand beach almost surrounds this lovely shect of water, 
which is almost perfectly round, with an island gem set in 
its center. The lake is about two miles in diameter. It is 
two miles from where the road strikes the pond to the inlet 
on which are situated the Cold Springs. 

While tramping up the beach a shy and solitary lesser 
yellowlegs—a rare bird in that vicinity—arose from some 
rushes which grew around the mouth of a little brook, and 
alighted out of sight around a point a short distance in ad- 
vance. ‘‘Now, Walt, have your gun ready, and when you 
round the point you will probably get a shot,” said Josi, and 
when Walt, obedient to this advice, walked cautiously around 
the point, with -his much-loved Parker all ready to lift to 
his face, there stood the yellowlegs, stretched up and motion- 
less, a very long shot off indeed, ‘‘Try your new gun,” said 
I. Bang went the beauty, and the yellowlegs bounded two 
feet into the air and came down on his back, stone dead. 
Sixty-eight paces, with No. 8 shot; good forthe gun. Lou 
yiewed the bird with delignt. ‘‘We will fry him for din- 
ner,” he said, as he quietly poked him into his coat pocket. 

On reaching the mouth of the inlet we succeeded in find- 
ing a canoe, concealed in a swamp by a hunter, who had 
kindly given us directions where to look for it; but as the 
water was too low to float a canoe below the Palmer Dam, 
which is nearly a mile aboye the lake, we were obliged to 
c it that distance, and then when we launched it on the 
dead water above the dam we found that thefervent summer 
sun had melted the pitch off its sides, so that when heavily 
loaded the water poured in at such a rate that Josi and Lou 
volunteered to walk, This was no light task, as the entire 
distance to the Springs was.a soft bog, covered with hard- 
hack and labrador three feet high, making the walking hor- 
rible. Half way to the Springs we met a young fellow, who 
had been up the stream after cranberries, who informed us 
that a crew of cranberry pickers half a dozen strong had 
camped at the Springs for nearly a week, and had been gone 


——, 


: 
only twenty-four hours. All our visions of silence, solitude. ‘ 
and trout vanished instanta; sadness was depicted on all our 
faces, and even the dip of our paddles took on a subdued 
and quiet tone. Arriving at the Springs, we found abundant 
evidence of the truth of onrinformant’s statement, ‘There 
was a solid beaten path the entire length of the reach of 
water where the trout were wont to congregate. Tent poles 
and half consumed sticks of firewood could be seen on the 
knoll above, and to complete the desecration the ubiquitous, 
the irrepressible, the soul-harrowing tin can Jeered malici- 
ously at us from various little hollows, which ought to have 
been sacred to mosses and ferns, This infernal adjunct of a 
vicious and effeminate civilization has about the same effect 
on me when seen in the wilderness that a red rag has on an 
irritated bull. What lover of nature who, toiling with in- 
finite labor to the top of some rocky chasm, has not been 
filled with rage and disgust to see painted in enormous letters 
on the opposite cliffs, “Children ery for Mrs, Soothlow’s 
swindling syrup?” Thus doth the tin can affect me. 

The alder and choke cherry poles which lay on the bank 
were proof that the finer arts of angling had not been brought 
to bear on the pool, and we still hoped that some of the 
more aristocratic beauties had scorned such rude wooing, 
although there’s no denying that an alder pole will some- 
times do frightful execution in the hands of a rural expert. 
On jointing up my rod 1 made the pleasing discovery that 
in-changing my clothes at Greenfield | had left my entire 
outfit of flies and leaders in my inside vest pocket. This 
was the last straw! In sheer desperation I quitted the pool 
altogether and wandered off up the stream, first slrapping on 
a box of worms, with which we were well provided. A 
short quarter of a mile above the pool I found a rude bridge, 
which had been thrown over the stream the preceding win- 
ter by lumbermen; the two huge pines across which the 
poles were laid had been swung partially around by the 
spring freshet, and reached about half way across, with their 
outer ends under water, their inner ends high and dry, and 
part of the flooring still remaining. On the opposite shore 
the bank was steep and shelyed over, and altogether the 
place looked inviting. Carefully baiting with a lively worm, 
and creeping up behind the flooring, 1 made a casf just 
above the end of the lower stringer. An instantaneous tug 
followed the light plash of the hook, My reel gaye out merry 
music, and I barely succeeded in clearing the end of the 
upper stringer as the line spun through the water; then a 
few exciting moments of vigorous fighting and careful play- 
ing, and I dropped the luscious beauty into my basket with 
a sigh of content. Just as I made the cast I caught sight of 
Walt strolling listlessly up the opposite bank, as if his cour- 
age had all evaporated. All his languor disappeared when 
he saw the bent rod, and before I made a second cast he had 
spied the overhanging bank with the unerring eye of a true 
fisherman, and for half an hour our reels alone broke the 
stillness of the lovely September evening, Twenty trout 
rewarded our joint efforts at that old bridge, for which I 
shall always hold it in grateful remembrance, Then we 
lightly retraced our steps ta rejoin our comrades, who had 
succeeded in coaxing hulf a dozen fine trout out of the pool. 

Preparations were at once made for supper, Our cooking 
outfit was not extensive, consisting of a irying-pan and col- 
fee pot only, but great possibilities lie dormant in these two 
simple utensils, and we proposed to tax their capabilities to 
the utmost. Soon there arose the fragrance of what Theo- 
dore Winthrop called ‘‘the saline juice of fire-ripened pork.” 
The freshly caught trout, cleansed in the icy waters of the 
Springs, were dropped into the hissing fat, the fragrant cof- 
fee bubbled and sang, and as the soft September twilight 
deepened into darkness, the plaintive notes of the whippoo- 
will floated out clear and distinct on the eyening air, What 
language can describe the enjoyment of such a meal, and 
amid such surroundings? I pause as I write and try to im- 
agine how many brother sportsmen, at home and abroad, as 
they read this weak and inadequate description, will recall 
just such scenes in their own experience, and till in all the 
details from a loving memory; to all such, *‘Penobscot” ex- 
tends his right hand of fellowship. r . 7? 

While sitting around the camp-fire quietly enjoying our 
evening smoke, a sibilant sound cut sharply throngh the 
night air, ‘‘What’s that!” said Walt, bounding to his feet 
and feeling around for his gun. ‘'That,” said Josi, slowly 
removing his brier-wood pipe from his mouth and speaking 
with a deliberation strangely in contrast with Walt’s excited 
exclamation, ‘isan old buck which smells the smoke from 
our fire.” That’s the first one lever heard,” Walt replied. 
“Tt sounds something like a fox,” for while they were speak- 
ing the buck was keeping up a perfect fusilade of snorts, 
and he continued at intervals for a quarter of an hour. We 
had brought a camp spread with us, but not a tent, anda 
heavy shower coming up just before midnight, threatened 
to drench us; however, we protected our heads by turning 
the canoe over us, and just asit began to run through the 
spread in a way reverse of agreeable, it passed over and we 
slept the sleep of the just. . 

The next morning we were astir at dawn; the sky showed 
every indication of rain, but we vevertheless decided to go 
to Micketowas Lake, four miles distant, at the head of which 
is Coomb’s Brook, one of the best trout streams in the 
county, A lumbering road, which we knew led to the 
lake, passed within sight cf our camp grounds; but it was 
a new one, and none of us had ever traveled it, or knew 
where it struck the lake, and as the latter is nine mhiles long, 
it will be seen that this was an important point. But being 
determined to go, we just hoped that it came-out at the 
head and started off, The road lead away from the stream 
on which we were encamped for nearly a mile, and then - 
came in sight of it again for a short distance, but the water 
was only a few inches in depth and their were no sighs of 
trout grounds, After the longest four miles I ever recollect 
traveling oyer, we came_to the lake, only to find that the - 
road came ont at Norway Point, five miles below the head, 
The traveling on the bank of this lake is as bad as anything. 
can be, and as it began to rain, it was not to be thought of, 
So we took our back tracks in yery bad humor, and the 
abuse which we heaped on those cranberry pickers relieved 
our feelings, without injuring them, ; 

When we got back to where the road neared the stream, T 
proposed that part of us should follow the water down to the 
old bridge, as there might be some trout holes which would 
afford us a mess for dinner, but none of them believed there. 
were any trout in that shallow water, so L was obliged to go 
alone. | wanted some fish—pork, hardtack and coffee haymg 
lost their charms for me while in the army, A very short 
distance down the stream brought me to an abrupt bend, a 
pit of meadow ground, a tiny rivulet of spring water trick- 
ling into the bend, and yes, actually deep water. With 


active and eager fingers I jointed up my rod and attached my 
reel, The fan which had fallen yery lazily for two hours 


‘Tony 10, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


now ceased altogether, although the skies still wore their 
threatening: aspect a light breeze just ruffled the surface of 
the water, a long stretch of which I could see below me 
favorable for sport, with clean and grassy banks, and noth- 
ing to impede easting. A half pound trout rewarded m 
first cast, two more followed in quick succession, then 
noticed a couple of logs lying close to the opposite bank, 
with a covering of driftwood. An extra long cast planted 
the seductive worm directly between their ends. Heavens! 
What a tug followed that cast, A mad rush for the further 
bank followed the turn of my wrist, and I checked him so 
suddenly that he sprang a foot out of water, flinging a 
shower of silvery spray in all directions, Being without 
any landing net I was obliged to play him till _quite 
motionless, and then lift him carefully by the line. Just a 
pound and a quarter by the pocket scales; another of the 
same size was taken from the same place, and so I went, 
slowly down that reach of water for half a mile, taking the 
beauties from under the steep, grassy banks, and occasional 
bunches of overhanging bushes, totally oblivious to time, 
place and friends, The robin sang from the topmost branch 
of an old hackmatack, the purple grackle chattered among 
the spruces, the catbird squalled in the witch hazels, and the 
metallic notes of the hermit thrush tinkled melodiously from 
the dripping alders; all these sounds mingled with, and 
added to, my enjoyment, I remember, asa flock of ducks 
flew by me, within twenty paces, of vaguely longing, for a 
single instant, for my gun. Just as I came in sight of the 
bend, just below which 1 knew the bridge to be, my basket 
refused to receive another trout, and my worms were also 
exhausted. Quite a stretch of good fishing ground still re- 
mained between meand the bend, but I could do nothing 
without bait; besides I was frightfully hungry, as I had not 
eaten a mouthful since daybreak, and I found on eonsulting 
my watch that it was nearly 40’clock. I unstrapped my 
basket, emptied out my trout, and counted them back: forty- 
two, and six of ihem each a pound and upward'in weight. 

Just as I finished, [heard the dip of a paddle, and saw 

Walt and Lou turning the bend, in the canoe. ‘‘Halloo,” 
cried Walt, “what for Heaven’s sake have you been doing? 
Father says it is going to be a rainy night, and has started 
out the logging road, for the Hxtract, and we have got to 
hurry to get round before dark.” ‘‘All right,” I answered, 
“but just step ashore, and see if you can tell what kind of a 
fish this is, which I have caught.” ‘Where is the fish?” 
he said, stepping out of the canoe. ‘‘In the basket,” I 
replied, Walt lifted the lid and actually staggered back as 
he caught sight of the pile of trout. ‘‘Oh! What 
On infernal idiot [ am;’ he cried, ‘Il wish some one 
would kick me, Here I have been laughing and cracking 
jokes at your expense- for trying to wade through the wet 
bushes down this stream, when I might have known you 
wouldn't have staid all this time, and gone without your 
dinner, unless you were catching trout, We have brought 
our rods, but have forgotton the bait. Lou, hurry back and 
get some, I will never leave this place while there is a trout 
to be caught.” 

“Hold on, Walt,” I said, ‘I think I can better that arrange- 
ment, I have forty-two trout in that basket, and six of them 
are all that you and I and Josi can eat for supper and 
breakfast. The remaining thirty-six will keep Lou off the 
ragged cdge of starvation for two meals, I know. We will 
come up here at daybreak in the morning, catch what trout 
we can before breakfast, then they will be fresh to take 
home, and we shall have the balance of the afternoon io get 
a pile of wood which we shall need if it rains.” 

This was satisfactory, and we made haste to carry out the 
programme. Nota drop of rain fell during the night, and 
ou repairing to the spot at dawn, we caught thirty trout in 
an hour. Lou immortalized his name, and covered himself 
with glory, by catching twelve of the largest ones, without 
stirring from one spot, between two big bunches of bushes, 
None of us saw him catch them, and I more than half 
believe that a mink brought them ashore for him; but the 
number he caught were nothing to what he ate when we got 
back to camp. 

We were soon on our homeward way, Walt having 
several opportunities to try his gun on partridges. Just 
before reaching Jim’s house, the rain began in earnest, and 
we arrived there drenched, but happy, enjoying his dis- 
comfirture, at haying missed the sport, PENOBSCOT. 


atuyal History. 


THE FLYING SQUIRREL. 
(Pieromys volucella,) 
BY DR. MORRIS GIBBS. 


! | Theses interesting species is a resident in the Lower Penin- 

: sula of Michigan and, though not to be found abund- 
antly in any locality, is well known to the majority of huut- 
ers and collectors. I am unable to say that the flying 
squirrel is found in the Upper Peninsula, nor can I attest to 
its distribution throughout the entire Lower Peninsula. From 
observations in several counties in various parts of the State, 
however, it is reasonable to conclude that this little squirrel 
is well distributed south of 45° north latitude. 

Prof. A. Sager first mentions this handsome pet in a list of 
mammals published in a document of the State House of 
Representatives, 1839, and it has been also embraced in other 
lists, But little has been written on the habits of the flying 
squirrel, or, in fact, regarding the habits of any of the 
smaller Michigan mammals. ‘The lists are merely nominal, 
and with the exception of a few articles on the larger game 
very little has been accomplished, 

Jt may be truthfully said that the flying squirrel is no- 
where common within our boundaries. Several families are 
oceasionally found within a radius of a half mile in favored 
locasities; again, an enthusiastic collector will search over 
many square miles without success. 

In Southern Michigan (by which term the Lower Peninsula 
is here indicated) the haunts generally chosen are woods 
composed principally of white oak, Quercus alba. In fact, 
in my experience in Kalamazoo county, 42° 7 to 42° 28’ N. 
lat,, [ haye met with but one instance where the nest was 
not built in an oak, in this case it was placed in the dead top 
of 4 flourishing poplar, Populus tremuloides. 

At Howard City, Montcalm county, latitude 43° 25’, the 
species is often found occupying timbered lands, both hard 
wood and pine, as well as in low tracts, partially covered 
with hemlock, bass wood, elm and underbrush, “The nests 
are found on high ground in many instances, but as a rule 
are not far from water. A pond or small lake will generall 
be found within a few hundred yards of the stub Seen: 


a ready victim to a club or a cruel hunter’s boot, 


Tn those cases where the little fellows occupy low tracts, the 
locations of the nests are ustially near rivers or small streams. 


The nest is generally a rude structure and consists mainly 


of dried grass, leaves and pulverized dried bark. The material 
is piled into the cavit | 
free space is invariably left in the direction of the openings 
in the stub. In the autumn very compact and artistic nests 
can been seen, quite suggestive of comfort and warmth, but 
after occupancy for a length of time the materials become 
mixed into a terrible litter, and by spring have not so neat 
an appearance. 


and, as a rule, nearly fills it, but a 


As to the amount of food that is stored up by this squirrel 


in the fall, I have but little knowledge, but from a few ob- 
servations, where only asmall quantity of winter supplies was 
found, I judge that but few squirrels are in any way thrifty 
in this respect. 
cold, and when driven from its nest even in early November, 
acts quite differently from its usual custom in summer. Un- 
doubtedly it curls itself into a ball when the first severe cold 
snap appears, and remains in a partially dormant state until 
the warm days of spring produce their stimulatin 

and our downy friend again appears to sail throug 

and gladden our hearts with its graceful movements. 


The flying squirrel is very sensitive to the 


effects, 
the air 


The majority of specimens secured by the collector, are 


taken at times when the presence of the glossy-coated crea- 
tures is least suspected. 
and a number of collectors go out to secure the specimens, 
but the chances are ten to one that not one will be taken, 
unless it is known where they areto be found. 
returning home from a collecting trip in the evening, a 
shadow flits athwart the weary collector’s path and a scram- 
bling on the bark is heard as the graceful rodent ascends the 
tree to whichit has sailed. After reaching a ccrtam height 
the diminutive aeronaut again launches forth, and spreading 
its extremities sails to another tree, and continuing in a suc- 
cession of so-called flights, is soon lost to view in the gather- 
ing darkness, or else conceals itself in some neighboring cavity, 


A regular hunt may be instituted, 


Again when 


With suck precision does the animal calculate, that a 


failure to gain a desired foothold on the tree to which it 


springs is of very rare occurrence. When failure accom- 


panies the attempt, itis generally a result of the frenzied 
condition of the terrified jumper, as is sometimes the case 
with the fox and black squirrels when hard pushed by merci- 
less enemies. 


When a black squirrel falls, in a vain atlempt to jump 


from one slender twig to another, it comes lumbering down 
to the ground, or perhaps catches a twig twenty or thirty 


fect below the point at which it lost its hold. In some cases 
I have seen a black squirrel so stunned by a shock as to fall 
But the 
flying squirrel reaches the ground when necessary in a series 
of graceful spiral movements interesting in the extreme, 
When rudely shaken from a limb the little fellow spreads its 


membrane and with graceful movements of its tail wavers 
in the air in a series of undulating movements yery amusing 
to the observer, and finely illustrating the principle of the 
parachute. 


At once on reaching the ground our little friend 
strikes out for the nearest trunk, fence or building in order 


to gain another flight, and unless the dogs are quick or the 


boys are active with their sticks, Pteromys will soon be 
again out of our reach, 

I have a vivid recollection of hunting this squirrel one 
bright October day, some years ago, when several of us went 
together with the intention of securing live specimens for 


pets, Numbers of the animals were seen and many could 


have been shot, but as we were above shooting the delicate 
creatures, we only used our insect nets. All in vain. Sey- 
eral picturesque groups enlivened the proceedings, where 
boys, dogs and underbrush were indiscriminately mixed. It 
was really surprising to see how the squirrels eluded our 
attempts, but not one was taken alive. Finally poles were 
used to knock them off of the trunks, and we went home 
satisfied that our collection of skins would be enlarged eyen 
if we could not fill our carefully prepared cages. 

The movements of our friend are very interesting, and he 
is a dull observer who would not admire the swoop of a fly- 
ing squirrel. The greatest jump that I have seen made was 
something over forty feet, 2. ¢., from the base of one tree to 
another. The further apart the trees are, the straighter down 
the squirrel has to go. Yor instance, if the distance to be 
covered is thirty feet from the base of one tree to the other, 
the animal must jump from aheight of not less than fifty 
feet, or else it will reach the eround from lack of force. If 
the jump to be made is only tive or six feet, the space is coy- 
ered almost in a direct horizontal line; whereas if eight or 
ten feet are to be covered, a downward swoop must be made 
at an angle of 25 or 80 degrees, 

Those who have watched the movements of these airy 
creatures have observed that the older and stronger ones are 
much more capable of accomplishing a swoop, which un- 
doubiedly arises from the fact that the animal is stronger, 
and, therefore, can spring with much more force, and, 
further, the space covered by the membrane is greater, I 
have seen a large male spring from the top of a tree, as if to 
sail to another tree, but only go a few feet from the trunk, 
perhaps four or five, then drop directly down thirty or forty 
feet and sail gracefully back to the tree it had left. 

Such a move was undoubtedly premeditated. Perchance 
the animal] intended sailing to the next tree, and after launch- 
ing forth arrived at the conclusion that it had not sufficient 
force, or the distance was too great. However, it is reason- 
able to judge that 1t merely wanted to descend from its perch, 
and took this means, as it is not a rapid climber, 

Always ashy, nervous mammal, it is nevertheless decidedly 
unwary in many instances, and frequently brings destruction 
on itself and family. If a place of resort is discovered, it is 
an easy matter to discover their habits, and when the dead 
trees are found in which they nest, the chances are all against 
them if the collectors are on hand. The holes in which they 
remain during the greater part of the day, if ance located, 
can be relied upon as almost certain to produce specimens, 
and the collector can secure a series at any time during 
spring, summer or fall. ; 

A thump at the base of the stub brings out the heads, and 
bright, piercing eyes are directed toward the disturbers 
of their repose; another thump, and the shining-coated fel- 
lows rustle out on the decayed bark and ascend to the top of 
the stub or tree. _ 

J have never met with oycr five squirrels in one tree, and 
think that this number embraced the two old ones and the 
three young of the year, Such a series is only met with in 
the summer, and as two of the specimens were larger than 
the others and more complete in coat, the conclusion is un- 
doubtedly allowable. In the spring three full grown speci- 
mens are occasionally found occupying one hole, but gener- 
ally, from April to June, only a pair of old ones are found 


consorting, 


the situation, 


In those cases where there is but one opening’ into a nest 
there is 4 better chance of securing the entire family, Af 
the first thump the old male protrudes his nose and takes in 
The next thump brings out the male and 
another member of the family appears at the orifice, The 
first appearance is now shot as it reaches the top of the stub 
of after it alights on a neighboring tree. The report of the 
gun brings out another member, and in regular order all are 


secured, 


Jf however, as generally oceurs, all of the occupants 
appear at the various holes and sail out in different direc- 
tions, ne more than one or two will be secrred, as some will 
surely be soon concealed in. neiglboring trees, 

This unwary habit of leaving the nest when the tree ot 
stub is struck with a club frequently results in the extermi- 


nation of a whole family, The flying squirrel, as it is so 
improperly called, differs in this respect from other members 


of the family. A hunter would, indced, be unsuccessful in 
an endeavor to bring out a black or fox squirrel. 

The following dimensions are given of a fernale specimen 
taken in Michigan; Total length 12.02 inches, tail to tip 
6.15 inches, length of long hair at end of tail 1 inch, length 
of skull 1,49 inches, breadth of skull at zygoma, .84 inch, 

If any one can furnish any information concerning the 
breeding habits of this interesting squirrel let the Forusr 


AND STREAM hear. 


KALAMAZOO, Mich. 


BIRDS OF THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE, 


PAPER entitled ‘‘Notes on the Birds Observed During 
L a Simmer Cruisein the Gulf of St. Lawrence,” ap- 
pears in the Proc. Boston Society for October last, from the 
pen of Mr. William Brewster. Besides being an ornitholo- 
gist of eminence, this gentleman has also the art of record- 
ing his observations in a yery charming style, so as to claim 
for himself considerable audience outside of those who are 
strictly scientific, 

The cruise, during which the observations here recorded 
were made, took place during the summer of 1881, on the 
Seventeen-ton schooner yacht Arethusa. The party con- 
sisted of five gentlemen in the interest of the Boston Society 
of Natural History, to which institution most of the speci- 
mens collected were afterward given. Among the points of 
interest visited were Cape Breton, the Magdalen Islands, dif- 
ferent bays on Anticosti, Gaspé, the Mingan Islands and 
Percé Rock. As is usually the case on this coast, during the 
late summer the weather was anything but favorable, Mr. 
Brewster says, “Our log book records only eighteen moder- 
ately fair days out of the total sixty-two, and some of these 
were more or less interrupted by showers. Besides this, the 
season was too far advanced for eg collecting, so that, al- 
though the summer home of such desirable specics as the 
blackpoll warbler, Liucoln’s finch, the fox sparrow and 
others was reached, neither nests nor eggs could be secured,” 

The number of species noted is eighty-three, and, as might 
be imagined from the circumstances of the trip, an unusually 
large proportion, nearly one-half, are water birds. 

Without going into details as to the species observed on 
this cruise or their habits, we may note an occasional point 
of unusual interest in the present paper. Testimony col- 
lected from Indians and white men along the north shore of 
the Gulf makes it appear probable that the range of the 
ruffed grouse extends much further north than has hitherto 
been supposed. A white man who for several days acted as 
pilot of the Arethusa informed Mr. Brewster that Bonasa 
umbelius ‘ranges over the entire region between the Gulf of 
St, Lawrence and Hudson Straits.” The present paper con- 
tains a great deg] that is interesting relative to the habits of 
our sea birds, One point which the author had painfully 
brought before him at every extensive breeding place of sea 
fowl was the constant persecution to which they are sub- 
jected, All species from the little terns up to the largest 
fowl are constantly robbed of their eggs, and such species as 
are large enough to be worth a charge of powder and shot 
are killed and eaten by the Indians or used for fish bait by 
the whites. There appear to be few places where these 
birds are free from molestation, Percé Rock being almost 
the only breeding place seen by Mr, Brewster which was 
quite inaccessible. 

A suggestion in regard to the breeding of Wilson’s petrel, 
Occanitestoceanicus, made by Mr. Brewster, is very interesting, 
and in the light of our present knowledge of the habits of 
this species seems quite plausibe. It is a well-known fact 
that this bird is abundant off our coast during the whole 
summer, yet nothing is known of its eggs or breeding grounds, 
A. number of specimens seeured by Mr. Brewster between - 
June 17 and July 25 were dissected, and the sexual organs 
of all were found to be “‘at the very lowest stage of erotice de- 
velopment.” Inthe females no signs of recent ovulation 
were detected, A male taken June 18, however, showed by 
its plumage and the condition of its bones that it was very 
recently from the nest. These facts lead Mr. Brewster to 
suspect that *‘Wilson’s petrel breeds in winter or early spring 
in tropical or subtropical regions and visits the coast of the 
Northeastern United States only tn the witertm between one 
breeding season and the neat,” 

There are so many interesting points noted in the present 
paper that we can only allude to some of them, reeommend- 
ing it as a whole to all ornithologists. 


War A Toap Can Do.—Eiditor Forest wnd Stream: 1 
made some amusing experiments yesterday regarding the 
stowage capacity of a toad, an “ordinary, everyday toad,” 
us Thatcher, of the “Frisco Minstrels, says. I caught flies 
and, squeezing all but the last kick out of them, dropped 
them one by one, say about two inches from his nose, and 
one by one he gobbled ’em, and between 4 and 7 o’clock P, 
M. he had tucked away 104. Three of us kept score for 
him. At this stage of the proceedings his little belly was 
ridiculously plump, and he srew so stupid that I gave it up 
and let him go. Up to the seventy-tifth he took them ereed- 
ily, then the intervals were longer, but he did hate to let 
anything pass, and would stretch himself for all the world 
like a person after 4 big dinner. Lord knows what he might 
have done had his diet been more varied, but as it was 
straight tly every time you must acknowledge he did yeo- 
man’s work. I have known that toads were valuable as 
insect destroyers, but never put them to such a test as this 
before.—WiILMot (New York), 


A TovucH Turtrm.—On the 23d of last March I shot a 
turtle, putting the whole charge of_shot in its head, as it 
was within ten feet of me, secured it, took it home, and eut 
oft the head, intending to dress and cook it. It-is what we 
here call the mossback, which grows, as I haye observed, to 
the weight of twenty pounds, perhaps larger, Neglecting to 


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dress it for several daysand having heard that a decapitated 
turtle would liye nine days, I concluded to demonstrate the 
truth of the assertion. Strange to say the turtle on April 8 
was still alive. I found attached to the turtle many leaches 
which I removed carefully and put in a glass jar of water. 
Some of them have brought forth young which are growing 
rapidly. Think they bring forth their young alive. Have any 
of the reader's of FoREST AND STREAM ever noticed the manner 
in which the turtles dig the hole on hard ground in which 
they deposit their eggs? If so let them tell their observations 
and we willcompare notes, Iwas presented on April 1 with 
a fine swan (Cygnus americanus) that was killed March 31, 
on Cedar Point Marsh, which I haye mounted and added to 
my collection. Many thanks to the donor, Mr. Theodore 
Wells.—M. M. BenscuHorer (Berlin Heights, Ohio), 


ALBINO Woopcocn,—The Baltimore (Md.) Sun of July 1 
reports that ‘‘Mr, Rodman Cole, of thas city, killed a re- 
markable bird near Tolchester last week, He was after 
woodcock, and a pure whitebird, with the flight and twitter 
peculiar to these birds, flew up and he brought it down. It 
was a true albino woodcock, of large size and absolutely 
spotless. He is having it stuffed and mounted,” In the first 
volume of this journal (FoREST AND STREAM, I., p. 371) 
was recorded the capture of a snow-white woodcock, at Mil- 
ton, Mass. In Vol. XII, p. 146, was record of a specimen 
taken at Augusta, Ga., pure white, save slizht brown ring 
about the neck. Others have been recorded since then. 


Ross anp Fruce.—Hiitor Forest and Stream: Oannot 
some suggestion be made in the columas of your valuable 
paper by which the killing of so valuable a bird as the robin 

ay be avoided by the farmers who grow small fruits and 
berries? A bird so useful should be protected (and is by 
law) from destruction, although but few persons outside of 
the naturalists fully appreciate the fact. Something of the 
nature of a ‘“‘scarecrow’ might be used instead of a charge 
of shot, if farmers would only make the attempt,—Mount1oan. 


ALBrIno Rosin.—Editor Forest and Stream; I wasinterested 
in a recent note on an albino robin, as I have one, nicely put 
up, that I shot last fall while out partridge shooting. I first 
saw him flying in company with other robins. I followed 
them quite a distance and finally succeeded in bringing him 
down and found him to be surely arobin, but almost entirely 
white with pink eyes, I had the bird put up and heisa fine 
specimen,—F’, N. M, (Forestville, Conn.). 


Game Bag and Gun. 


DAYS WITH THE PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 


eS prairie chicken season is coming around again, and 
I take it that you may like to hear something of the fun 
ve had with the birds on the prairie last fall. I was out 
the three opening days with my old shooting ‘‘pardner” and 
two other gentlemen, and we had a splendid time. We left 
here with a three-seated wagon and a driver on the afternoon 
of Aug. 14, and drove to the house of a farmer friend, who 
lives about twenty-five miles from here. That has been our 
headquarters for a number of years. We arrived there late 
in the afternoon, and after breakfast the next morning we 
got loaded up and pulled out for the prairie. Both rigs took 
the same general direction and agreed on a place 10 meet for 
dinner. I took time by the forelock and put the basket con- 
taining the company’s dinner in the wagon I was going in 
(in case of emergency). We had four dogs, two old ones 
and two puppies who were on their first trip. We divided 
them up s@ as to give an old dog to each rig, my friend, 
R. M. Palmer, with whom usually shoot, was in the other 
wagon, as he and I owned the two old dogs, and we had to 
separate them so that all parties would have an equal show. 
My partner the first day was Mr. Prentice, of this place. 
Most of our shooting was done over my old pointer, Don, 
who did not act a bit good and flushed very many birds be- 
fore we could gct a shot. I felt like excusing some reckless- 
ness on the part of the old villain, as it was his first trip of 
the season, but I made up my mind that if he did not re- 
form I should cut a bean pole and goat him. We did not 
find as many birds as some preyious years, but found enough 
to haye a good time, To make a long story short, when we 
got to the house at night our bag was twenty-seven birds 
and the other party led us, having forty-five. After supper 
we drew the birds and stuffed them with hay and hung them 
where they would get cool, and the next morning packed 
them and sent them to a railroad station eight miles away 
and shipped them home and had them distributed among 
our friends, 

The next day was very hot and we did not do much; the 
dogs could not do much either, and we all lay in the shade 
from 10 o'clock until 4 in the afternoon. The total bag for 
that day was, if 1 remember right, about thirty-five birds, 
which were dispcsed of in the same way as the others, The 
next day I had a change of partners, and had for my com- 
panion Mr. Sunderland, of Freeport, Ill., who was here on 
a visit, and he was one of the most companionable men I 
have ever shot with, a rattling good shot (much better than 
myself) and full of fun. We had a circus of our own all 
day. it wasamodel day for chicken shooting—cool and 
cloudy, with a dash of rain, just enough to moisten things 
up—so that the dogs could show what was in them. My old 
dog redeemed his character and worked as well as a man 
could ask, 

We found more birds than on either of the previous days, 
and we managed to get them down in pretty good shape. 
One part of the duy’s picnic was this; the old dog commenced 
to wriggle himself in a way that showed me he was in the 
vicinity of chickens, so we got out of the wagon and went 
over to where he was, By the time we got there he had be- 
gun trailing, and from his action I knew the hens were run- 
ning. In the damp grass we could see a lot of parallel lines, 
showing that it was a covey. The scent was hot, and the 
old doz was going along, his helly almost touching the grass, 
and putting every foot down as if he was walking on some- 
thing that was going to break with him. He went along 
this way for some distance and finally began to straighten 
out, but just before he did so, he turned his head a little to 
see if we were on deck, and said just as plain as if he had 
spoke right out, ‘Here they are, boys, I’ve done my part 
of the business; come and do yours.” I told him to go on, 
and he madeafew quick steps and the air was full of 
chickens. ‘‘We got our work in” op them and ‘‘downed” 
four. The rest of the covey flew over the prairie; we could 
see them until they went over a hill, it was a rolling prairie. 


We saw them go over one swell but did not see them go 
over the next one, so we decided that they were somewhere 
between the two. We got into the wagon and drove over 
there, perhaps a quarter of a mile, and after plugging around 
for quite a while we found them; and my companion, Mr, 
5., nearly stepped on one, which caused the bird to get up, 
and about the time he got up he got down again. We were 
right among them, and they began to get up all around about 
as fast as we could attend to to them. We had seven birds 
down before we picked up one, and after we had got them 
picked up two more flipped up, where we had been tramp- 
ing and shooting all this time, and we gathered them in. 
There were two of the covey left for seed, one getting up 
out of range, the other while both guns were empty. This 
gave us nine birds, and the four we got the first raise made 
thirteen from that covey. You can imagine it was quite 
rich while it lasted. We did not strike any more bonanzas 
of that kind, but had a most beautiful day all day, and when 
we got through at night had forty-four birds. 

The other boys did not have as good luck in finding birds 
that day as we did. They brought in about twenty-five. 
Our host had brought a big piece of ice back with him when 
he came from town, so we drew the birds and packed them 
in ice, and the next morning decided to pull out for home, 
as the dogs were getting lame and we were somewhat. stiff 
ourselves, The first two days had been very hard on the 
canine part of the company. It was quite warm, and there 
had not been any rain fora long time and the grass and 
stubble were harsh and wore their feet more than hunting 
twice the length of time usually would. It being their first 
trip, too, they were not in as good order as Jater in the 
Season. 

The place where we hunted isin the midst of the best 
chicken country I know of, and where we stopped is a cap- 
ital place to stay. We of course always pay them, but they 
have always been very kind and did a great many things 
that they never got any pay for. I have put in the opening 
days of the season there for a number of years, and always 
had a big time, : 

It was a good thing we decided to go home as we did, as 
it turned out to be a very hot day, and we could not have 
done anything if we had tried. We were from 9 o’clock 
until 3 in the afternoon getting home, and our team were 
nearly played out before we arrived. We got all of our 
birds home in good shape and did not lose one. 

This was the longest hunt of the season with me. Iwas 
out for two days after that and out fora day a number of 
times, and had varying success, once being completely 
“skunked.” It is becoming so in this part of the country 
that a man cannot go out fora day and do much. LHvery- 
body that can lift a gun shoots, and the game within easy 
distance from town is soon killed off. I did not shoot any 
ducks to speak of this fall, although there was the best duck 
shooting here they haye had for a number of pees 

4, L. da, JR. 
ALBERT LEA, Minn. 


THE GAME OF DES ARC. 


EARS ago Arkansas ceased to be spoken of as desirable 

hunting range, but the renowned ‘ Traveller’s’’ State 

still offers some attractions to the lovers of gunning and 

angling, though the ‘‘ perfect glory” of other days has de- 

parted forever, There are but few localities in the South and 
West of which the same cannot be said, 

Large game of the dangerous class is very scarce. I heard 
last season of but four panthers being killed in this section 
of country. They had taken refuge from the Cache River 
overflow in an overhanging oak, and were discovered and 
killed by a settler named York, after a hard fight with one 
of them, which followed him through the shallow water and 
overtook the dugout in spite of York’s frantic efforts with 
the paddle. 

Bear are very seldom seen in this region, though they are 
scattered through the entire lowlands, if one may judge 
from the numerous tracks found in the vicinity of the 
tangled canebrakes. Good bear dogs would no doubt stir 
up their game in a few hours; without dogs it is useless to 
think of hunting them; and even when brought to bay, it is 
doubtful if the hunter could reach his dogs, through the 
matted cane, vines and briers, in time to save them from 
destruction. Bruin is never found here in the open woods 
of tbe uplands. 

Deer are still quite plentiful, and I suppose they will 
remain so for a century to come. It is simply impossible to 
completely exterminate them, as the vast swamplands to the 
eastward serve as a perfectreservoir of all kinds of game, 
from whence we have a new supply as often as the old one 
is exhausted, Last Sunday I rode down to the bayou to note 
the stage of the waters, and while seated beneath the shade 
of a tree, two decr came down to the water’s edge near me, 
and swam calmly across, remaining in rifle range for ten or 
fifteen minutes, It was truly a tantalizing sight. 

The gobbling season for turkeys lasted fully two months 
this spring. Hach morning the “‘king” of game birds sang 
his glad welcome to the glorious dawn, and every broken 
remnavt of a firearm was brought into requisition. The 
slaughter was something simply enormous. Most of those 
killed were gobblers—old ones—from eighteen to thirty 
pounds weight. The young gobblers secured immunity 
from danger by wisely abstaining from the garrulous habits 
of their elders, together with the hens, rendered by nature 
incapable of the amount of chin-music generally expected 
from females as a class. 

The favorite sport just now is spearing and shooting fish, 
Owing to the ate and continuous overflow of the spring, the 
buffalo were unusually late in beginning to “float” and 
“suck” at saplings and floating straws, and very few were 
killed until the first of this month. It is splendid sport for 
a short time, but the fish are so numerous that it gets rather 
monotonous to me after a while. For choice I prefer to 
throw the iron into the lazy gars, that lie as straight and 
inert as a stick on the surface of the bayou, and are appar- 
ently transformed into sections of doubled-triggered chain 
lightning as soon as they feel the stroke. Two weeks ago L 
saw a choice article of this description, It was fully eight 
feet in length, and would have weighed probably 150 pounds. 
He was lying fair twenty feet from the boat, but the youth 
who was paddling squarely refused to go an inch closer, as 
he hardly fancied the idea of *‘fastening onto him,” I 
dipped the boat nearly full of water in a vain atlempt to 
reach the giant with an eight-foot gig-handle and ten feet of 
cord, and my bad luck probably saved me a nice wetting, 
for he would certainly have ‘‘died game." rat 

Black bass are just begining to raise at bait. I think 
Bayou Des Arc will fully equal Reelfoot Lake for the game 
fish of the South, 

Of small game we haye an abundance. 


Squirrels are so! 


plentiful that they attract but little notice. Quail, or part- 
ridge, as the natives call them, are whistling in every thicket, 
and follow the furrows in a stone’s throw of the plowman. 
Rabbits and turtle doves are called game in some sections; 
here we rarely waste a shot on them. Duck shooting is 
splendid every fall. One of my neighbors killed and sold 
over one thousand mallards in the months of November and 
December last. 

I might go ahead and say more in praise of this region as 
a happy hunting ground, but I can better express my opinion 
by remarking that this point is my choice for a permanent 
location, after shooting over the best grounds in the pine 
swamps and on the frontier prairies of the Lone Star State. 


Dus Anc, Prairie County, Ark., June 2, 1884, Babak. 
TWO-EYED SHOOTING. 
I SHOOT with a rifle, shotgun or revolver. I raise my 


gun to my right shoulder, and close my left eye to aim, 
T hold a pistol in my right hand, close my lett eye, and fire 
the moment my eye catches the sight as I raise the pistol to 
coincide with the line from my eye to the object. I have 
shot nickels out of split sticks at thirty steps with my pistol 
four times out of five repeatedly; have shot the spots out of 
the five of clubs, and fired my sixth shot into the spot on the 
ace of clubs at the same distance; have shot glass balls in 
the air, and killed a deer by shooting it through the heart at 
fifty yards, measured, 

_T use an old-style Smith & Wesson in shot, square handle, 
six-inch barrel, .32-caliber, long cylinder, but for several 
years have shot nothing but .82 ex, short; rim fire. I believe 
all other .32-caliber cartridges too heavy for pistols. I use a 
.38-caliber repeating rifle; have never had a shell stick in 
the field, nor do I belieye any other man ever had if his ex- 
tractor was right. After repeated loading into and pumping 
out of the magazine the bullet is often driven further into 
the shell than it was originally, and if pure lead is flattened 
at the point, and a very quick motion of the lever will cause 
either this flattened bullet or the edge of the shell to catch 
on the upper edge of the barrel, particularly if the gun be 
held with muzzle down. Scarcely any zpse dixit would make 
me believe that a properly loaded new cartridge ever did 
stick or could be stuck in a repeater. 

Tuse a Clark & Sneider double gun, 12-gauge hammer 
gun, have broken eighteen glass balls out of possibletwenty, 
thrown from a rotating trap, double, eighteen feet from me, 
trap behind a heavy blanket for a curtain. I used No, 10 
shot, one ounce, three and a fourth drams ‘‘sea-shooting” 
powder, 

Jn regard to glass balls breaking from one or two pellets: 
Iwas shooting last summer at glass balls with a Stevens 
gallery rifle .22-caliber, balls pitched into the air by a friend, 
During the shooting I knocked both sides out of each of two 
amber balls, leaving in each case a circular ring of glass, 
surmounted by the neck of the ball, I have these balls yet, 
I preserved them because 1 deemed the circumstance rather 
unique, 

The first person of whom Lever knew shooting ‘‘with 
both eyes open” was my grandfather, who was born in 1790 
and died in 18638. His shooting was done with the flint- 
locks and the old percussion locks, and the crooked-stocked 
‘five-foot rifles” of the days gone by. Of course you know 
that in those days two hundred yards was a cruel dis- 
tance, but I have often heard the circumstance mentioned 
by others of grandfather’s killing a crow when it was 210 
steps trom where he stood to the foot of the tree on which 
the crow sat. He was an unerring shot and gave me my 
first lessons with a rifle. I may add that he shot ‘‘cross fire,” 
that is, he raised his gun to his left shoulder, though right- 
handed, and I have never seen a cross fire shot who was not 
amarksman, What do your readers say to this? 

A friend of mine, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was the 
next and only other ‘‘two-eyed shot” I have ever known. 
He uses a repeating rifle, and is, perhaps, better known than 
any other amateur in this section, but he should rather be 
called anexpert. He differs from my grandfather in his ex- 
planation of ‘‘two-eyed shooting.” Grandfather has often 
told me that it ‘‘made no difference to him about the sights 
on his gun, and he didn’t believe he ever saw them.”’ My 
clerical friend says he ‘‘sees the sights,” and the rear sight 
on his gun isa very fine one graduated to 1,000 yards; so 
fine, that I cannot ‘‘catch a quick bead” through it. In 
proof that he does see the sights, I know that on one occa- 
sion he missed twelve consecutive balls pitched by me; he 
then tried at a stationary target six steps away, and found 
that the rear sight nad been moved. This is strong evidence, 
but 1 do not believe any two-eyed shot sees the sights, 1 be- 
lieve they shoot, as bowmen do, by instinct, 

T would inuch like to see something from your readers on 
cross-fired shooting. AMATEUR. 

SomMERSET, Pa. 


A MAINE DEER CASE. 


Gace a eal game protection in some sections of 

Maine, matters are not just as they should be. Deer 
have greatly increased under tbe fostering care of the law, 
They are frequently seen in the open land where formerly 
they were very rare, and in the lake region they are getting 
to be quite abundant. But the vacationistb who would be a 
sportsman is interested. When he goes to the Androscog- 
gin or the Moosehead Lakes to spend his few weeeks from 
school or business, he takes his rifle or shotgun with him, 
for what? He knows that there is not a single species of 
game in that whole State that is not protected by law, and 
the man who kills it is liable to arrest and punishment. Just 
such sportsmen are causing the friends of game protection a 
ereat deal cf trouble. They demoralize the lowest and worst 
class of the guides with their money. They care nothing 
for the future of the game; they are not citizens of the State; 
their only object is to kill a deer or a moose, and come home 
to be regarded as a great hunter by their friends. Generally 
their friends understand them, however, and knowing them 
to be only lazy dudes, mistrust that the game was killed or 
thrown in their way by some guide. 

‘An actual case in point will best illustrate. A Sunday or 
two ago a two-year-old buck swam out upon Rangeley Lake 
in plain sight of the Mountain View House. A vacationist 
—he don’t deserve the name of a sportsman—named Ham- 
mond, from Boston or New Hayven—the registers disagree, 
but he is not worthy of either city—ordered a guide to 
paddle him out after the deer, The guide’s muscles soon 
brought the valiant hunter up with the poor, frightened 
creature, when, having po , the deer’s brains were beaten 
out with a paddle and his throat cut, ‘Lo the great discredit 
of all present the miserable law breaker and deer thief was 


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allowed to box up the carcass out of sight and send it home 
as a uoble trophy of his skill as a hunter, 

Well, that deer was killed in close time, and Mr, Ham- 
mond—it is to be hoped that these lines will be thrust under 
his nose, and that all his friends will see them—paid a fine 
of #50 and costs for the offense. He ought to have been 
more severely punished, and would have been, had the 
sentiment of those who knew of it been up to the standard 
of true sportsmen. As it is, a warden has been put on the 
watch for him, and if he ever comes into the State again, he 
will be fined for killing game on Sunday and also for trans- 
porting it out of the State, SPECIAL, 

Boston, July 7, 1884. 


THE DEATH OF THE GRIZZLY. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

It may not be amiss in these days of crying out for rifles of 
greater power for the slaughter of big and dangerous game, 
to tell a little true story of how simple a thing it is to kill 
the most formidable monster of America, 

Many years ago, during the heat of the gold fever, three 
miners were in camp in British Columbia digging for gold. 
Just ata time when their’stock of provisions was nearly ex- 
hausted they took sick with malarial fever, and by the time 
they were recovering they had nothing to eat, and worse 
still, no ammunition in camp. One of them, a Scotchman, 
named Donald MeTavish, who Lad just recovered and felt 
stronger than the others, saw a large grizzly bear one morn- 
ing quite near the camp. He told his comrades and said he 
intended to try to kill the animal. ‘They endeavored to dis- 
suade him from the dangerous act, and represented to him 
that the bear would tvar him in picces. He replied that he 
would as soon be killed suddenly as die of starvation, He 
then cut a heavy green wood bludgeon and started toward 
the monster. The bear came on to meet him, and when at 
close quarters, reared on his hindlegs, The bold Highlander 
swung his heavy club with both hands and by strange good 
luck it struck him a terribie blow across the nose, and down 
he went as if stricken by a flash of lightning. The animal 
was completely stunned, and a few thrusts of a long- 
bladed knife finished the business. Those skilled in ursine 
lore are well aware of the fact that the nose is the most 
vulnerable-part of a bear, in consequence of the concentra- 
tion in that organ of the nerves of sensation from the brain. 
At close, hand to hand range, with an ounce and a half of 
No, 8 shot and five drams of good strong powder behind it, 
J am of opinion that the largest grizzly in America can be 
killed more suddenly than a 350-grain bullet can do the work 
even if it passed through the center of the heart. I think no 
man with a No. 10 bouble breechloader, thus charged, need 
be one bit afraid of the grizzly, if he only keeps cool and re- 
members that the nose is the seat of death, I don’t mean to 
advocate the shotgun for grizzly hunting. I only state my 
belief. ALGONQUIN. 

Orrawa, Canada, June 23, 1884. 


FORTY YEARS IN THE FIELD. 


Fiditor Forest and Stream: 

I have had the pleasure the past year of perusing the 
columns of your valuable paper, which haye been both 
amusing and interesting, and having been in the field over 
forty years I am led to notice the change in style of hunting, 
which is very great. When I commenced handling the gun 
in my younger days, a majority of the people would say, 
“that boy will be a ruined child,” and there was so much 
opposition that 1 would keep the old flint musket out in the 
bush to avoid being detected. I recall vividly an incident 
of my boyhood, A lad about my age was always ready for 
alittle fun. The first opportunity we made tracks for the 
gun in the bush; we loaded the old musket and very soon 
spied two gray squirrels on a tree; we were about ready to 
give them the contents of the gun, having a good rest beside 
a tree. With much surprise we found the flint gone, which 
was a great loss to us. We concluded to go to the nearest 
neighbor and procure a lighted lantern. The boy made a 
very quick job of it. I had the plan perfected how to fire 
the old musket off; it was this: To light a hard stick with 
the candle in the lantern. I put the musket on the rest; the 
word was ‘‘make ready, take aim, fire.” Then I quickly put 
the lighted stick to the pan of the lock. Slambang was the 
report of fhe old gun, with a stream of fire at both ends, 
Down came one squirrel, and the other one was treated 
likewise. __ 

After a Tew years had passed, I heard of some one shooting 
birds when flying. This looked to me a very difficult thing 
to do with the gun. 1 resolved the first opportunity, I 
would see how the wonderful feat was performed. Fortune 
at last fayored me, Ihad at. that time a very cheap gun; 
however, the old thing would occasionally get a bird down. 
Ti looked tike a crooked iron bar in comparison with the 
uns at the present day. My wadding was of tow, paper, 
and hornet’s nest. Thirty-eight years ago I found a very 
fine little gun, 16-bore, 64 lbs. This is the gun I use today. 
Six years since I had it changed to a breechloader. I soon 
learned that the penetration was not as good; a little more 
powder is all right; how is that? I have used many other 
guns, but no other so reliable, v 

About thirty years ago I had a call from the Hon. George 
Ashmun of this State to accompany him for a few days 
shooting, J accepted, thinking it quite an honor to be in 
the field with such a noted man, He was very fond of 
woodcock shooting, so much so that he seldom raised his 
pun forspartridge or quail in those days. Asa sportsman he 

ad many peculiarities. His time for shooting was six 
weeks, commencing October first; he gave me the handling 
of the dog, as I was a little more expert in the brush, and he 
was somewhat oblized to make his footsteps easy; yet he 
was generally found in the right position. When 1 gave 
him the word ‘“‘point;’ never mind the footsteps then, he 
was soon there and spied the dog; he invariably uncovered 
his head as though he intended to make a speech, then a few 
words to the faithful dog, very soon giving me the word 
“ready,” 1 would put the bird to wing in his favorif I 
could. Mr, A. wasa very good shot; if he missed the bird 
he never was disposed to pursue that bird further. If it was 
wounded he would make quite an effort to bag the bird, 
We kept up this old-fashioned way of shooting, down to 
twenty-two yeurs since. In the meantime we losi our dog, 
I very soon had the good fortune to find one. Mr. A. 
bought the dog of 8. T. Hammond, of Springfield, Mass., 
‘and was very fortunate in the purchase, for he proved to be 
first-class, and was very highly prized by his master. We 
shot over this dog five years; he gave us some fine work. 


At this time Mr, Ashmun was obliged to lay by.the gun on. 


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account of feeble health; he was always interesting and 
instructive. 

From this time Mr, Hammond and myself took the field, 
when we continued much the same style, with a little varia- 
tion, which required us to empty our pockets oftener. It 
was a pleasure to me to be in the field with such gentlemen, 
from the fact that everything was smooth and agreeable; 
they delighted to do, or see, a good act executed with the 
dog or gun. While I review the past and compare if with 
the present, I yet find it a little pleasure to take the dog 
and gun and travel over those grounds where we have been 
so successfut in gone by days, and bag a few birds, verily 
by the sweat of the brow. 

The scarcity of game birds in most of our New England 
States at the present time is easily accounted for, about six 
to every town are killing the game birds in various ways, 
most of them for market. Our laws in Massachusetts are 
a good example to the States where game is plenty. In 
Massachusetts, if we could have had them passed twenty 
years ago, they would have been of great value, In my 
judgement it makes but little difference when the game is 
killed, a few days before, or two weeks after the law is off, 
as the destruction increases every year. We will see on the 
first of August an army of hunters and sportsmen; the 
hunters start early and stay late, with the breechloader and 
spaniel dog, one would think by their speed they were going 
to fight a fire, 

They do not find time to dress in the morning, and almost 
need self-buttoning garments. If the object of shooting is 
to kill off the game it is not the swiftest method to employ. 
It would take but a few days to poison about all of our game 
in the State of Massachusetts. Now let us all say we haye 
all been engaged more or Jess, in shooling off our own 
fingers and enact 4 Jaw to put them on, Don’r Purrer. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 


ADIRONDACK DEER COMPLICATIONS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Some weeks ago there was published a communication on 
the subject of enforcement of our game laws. The writer 
asked some questions, the answer to which would be very 
hard to give, but in the opinion of the writer the game pro- 
tectors were not doing their duty. I have been waiting some 
time for the settlement of some cases in this county that 1 
might be able to show these faultfinders some of the difficul- 
ties under which the protectors labor. 

Last September several parties were.indicted by our Grand 
Jury, both for killing deer and fishing for trout out of sea- 
son. All of these cases should have been brought before the’ 
December court for trial, but through some chance the dis- 
trict attorney did not furnish the sheriff with the necessary 
papers till the last day of court, and as none of the parties 
were nearer than fifteen miles and most of them thirty-five 
miles away nothing was done. Before the next court (in 
March) a new district attorney had come in. He started 
right, gave the papers to the sheriff, who, in some way, got 
so far behind in his business that they were not served 
in time for that court. Some subpeenas for one case, which 
the protector was very anxious to bring before the jury at 
that time, were put into the mail and did not reach the man 
who was to serve them till after the grand jury had been dis- 
charged. The witnesses went to Malone and cculd only go 
home again, At the court just held two of the parties who 
were indicted last September were fined $15 each, for kill- 
ing deer last June, two other men were placed under bonds 
to appear at the September court. The case of one man who 
is known to have killed at least six deer in the months of 
June and July, 1883, was brought before the Grand Jury and 
no bill was found, There were in that jury at least two men 
who have always bad the reputation of killing all the deer 
and fish they could, ut any time during the year. Several 
of the witnesses who had told of seeing the venison, and eat- 
ing of it, had also seen the fresh hides, swore before the jury 
that they had never known ef the party being hunting nor 
having venison nor hides in possession out of season. With 
such swearing what can the game protector do? Can you 
or your correspondent help him? 

I think our game protector (Mr, John Liberty) has tried to. 
do his duty, but with so many things against him, very little 
can be done. It has been suggested that these cases be now 
taken before a justice of the peace, with a good sharp lawyer 
to examine the witnesses in the regular way. I think it 
would be the better plan, as a justice can be found within 
the county so far away from the offenders that he will have 
no personal interest in them. This seems to me the only 
way to reach such cases. The witnesses would be more 
thoroughly questioned than by the foreman of a Grand Jury, 
who is very rarely posted in the law. 

What has been done has in most cases had a good effect, 
but the failure to indict some of the most notorious offenders 
has only encouraged others. One of the parties now under 
bonds to appear at the Sept mber court told me he had 
always killed deer when he wished to, and always would, 
and would catch fish when he pleased, law or no law. 

In the cases of the two who were fined, both poor men, 
they say they have had enough and have stopped. One of 
them was induced to hunt last June by a hotel keeper, who 
told him he would pay cash for all he would bring, and he 
got so much venison on hand in July he could not use it, 
and sent two saddles to another hotel fifteen miles away. I 
had a long talk with this hotel man, and he says his custom- 
ers call for venison and he must furnish it. 1 said to him I 
had no such trouble, and I am ten miles further in the woods 
than he is. I will not allow either venison or partridges to 
be cooked in my house out of season, and tke vuests of the 
house think lam right. By so doing, we can have good 
shooting in season, with venison and partridgesin good con- 
dition. There is now every indication of fine hunting this 
season, Deer are seen about the lake every day, and we see 
many broods of young partridges. - 

One man from Malone, here last week, tried to hire one 
of the guides to go night-hunting with him. I did not hear 
of it till the man had gone home, but was very glad to learn 
that none of the guides would listen to him. The answer 
was that the deer would be worth more to them in Septem- 
ber. This is what I have tried for ten years to make them 
understand. They ought to know it by this time. Such 
sportsmen are the ones who ought to be fined, and I think 
the guides are disposed to make such men pay a little more 
respect to the laws. 

A party of three young men from Syracuse last year 
camped at Gull Pond, Herkimer county. They went in 
about Aug. 1. In six weeks they killed twenty-three deer 
that they got, and they say they wounded many others that 
they did not get. They killed five in.one night in a strife to 
see who should kill the most, They could not use much of 
the meat, and Jet most of it waste. They were within the 


law; but what a record to boast of! I think they have much 
to be ashamed of. The Maine law ought to be put in force 
in such cases at least. 

Our fishing season has been a splendid one; the fly-fishing 
is now first-class At the mouth of the brook, within eight 
rods of where I sit while writing, the small trout are jump- 
ing by the hundreds. This is the stream into which most of 
my young fry are turned cach year, Those now jumping 
are evidently about two years old, on their way up to the 
headwaters of the brook looking for spawning grounds, 
The guests of the house acknowledge the corn. Stocking 
pays. A. R, FULLER, 

MracHam Lars, N. Y., June 16. 


THE CHOICE OF HUNTING RIFLES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Will you allow a stranger to ‘‘dip in an oar” in the con- 
troversy going on in your valuable columns in regard to the 
‘choice of hunting rifles.” Without attempting to argue 
the matter in a scientific point of view, I will briefly en- 
deavor to state my views in the selection of a weapon 
adapted to the wants of the practical hunters. As far as a 
rifle or shotgun alone is concerned, I think we have nearly 
reached the ultimatum, but | think that nearly every hunter 
will concur with mein the assertion that they don’t either 
of them alone ‘‘fill the bill” for an “all round” gun for 
shooting from a gray squirrel up to a grizzly bear. Of 
course no rifle that is adapted to squirrel shooting would 
have any more effect on a ‘grizzly than a popgun; still I 
think we might have a gun suitable for either. Now, my 
ideal gun is ‘a three-barrel, of which we have already one ~ 
(the Baker), but I think this gun might be simplified and 
improved to meet still further requirements, For instance, 
why not have an independent lock of its own, something on 
the hammerless plan, for the rifle barre], instead of having it 
complicated with the left shot barrel hummer, as they are 
now made? Now, why don’t some of our enterprising gun 
manufacturers start up a competition in the manufacture of 
these arms and not Jet one firm monopolize the entire market 
as is the case with the Baker three-barrel? I consider that 
a three-barrel gun, two shot and one rifle, if properly con- 
structed, would be the pwn excellence of shooting irons for 
the game hunter—say a .40-caliber rifle, and 12 to 16-gauge 
shot barrel, 28 or 30-inch barrels, and of a weight to suit the 
individual who uses it. I would regard it as a desirable gun 
for squirrel, duck, deer and bear, and with this muliwum in 
parvo, &® person would have all the gun he ever would need 
for practical purposes, W. H. DuB. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

I have had some experience in the use of a.repeater while 
traveling on the plains of Kansas and Colorado, also while 
living on Gypsum Creek,a tributary of the Red River, in the 
Indian Territory; while in my hands the repeater saw two 
and a half years of hard service. I have heard many people 
in the Hast say that a repeating rifle was liable to break or 
fail to work when needed, did not shoot hard enough, and a 
few more complaints of the same kind. Now, for the two 
and a half years I carried mine, I never had it break or fail 
me in any way, except to miss occasionally, and that was 
my fault and not the rifle. At sixty steps I could cut the 
bottom out of atomato can in five shots, and one of the 
boys shut down the air brakes of a grizzly in four shots with 
it; and yet I guess there are some who will say that because 
it is only a .44-40-200, it will not shoot hard. T'o those who 
want a bigger gun I would commend some special make of 
rifle, chambered to shoot the one-inch Gatling cartridge; 
then let them employ some one to carry their cartridges, 
think a plain coarse leaf sight and knife blade foresight the 
best for sporting purposes, as with a coarse sight you can 
catch aim quicker than with a fine sight. T know of many 
cowboys who carry carbines in preference to rifles on account 
ot the coarse carbine sight. Those who wish to learn the 
use of the sporting rifle, should go out in the West and rough 
it for a spell among the cowboys, who will treat them 
‘white’ and initiate them into all the mysteries of the art, 
while we Eastern theorists dream of trajectory, vernier and 
wind-gauge sights and many other mysteries of the Moors of 


Creed. CowBoy. 
BAutimore, Md. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The pressure of official duties has kept me from sooner 
noticing the recent articles by “‘G.” and “Skinner,” and even 
now I can give a very, brief answer. ‘‘G.” is welcome to 
adhere so his singleloader, but he must admit that even with 
it the man behind the gun has many things to guard against 
to meet with success. Ihave seen just as many accidents 
and failures with singleloaders as with magazine guns, and 
but little want of care is requisite to haye a jammed gun 
that will be of as little use as a crowbar. C. D. 

Fort McKinny, Wyoming, June 29. 


Was CowrPer A Wine SHor?—Cowper, although a most 
beautiful writer, evidences in his poem ‘The Symptoms of 
Love,” that he could not have been—using the hackneyed 
term—a true sportsman. In the second verse of the poem 
he says: 

“Let her guess what I muse on when rambling alone, 

I stride o’er the stubble each day with my gun, 

Neyer ready to shoot till the covey is flown.” 
Now, did Cowper expect to pot the covey? Could he shoot 
flying? Wethink not. What an abominable condition he 
must have fallen into nol to have had his loye reveries 
completely broken up by the whirr of the startled birds. We 
cannot think he uses a poetic license, and fear the poet was 
either unacquainted with the habits of the quail he hoped to 
see ‘‘before they had flown,” or was very ‘‘slow on the trig- 
ger.” Such lines sound harsh to a wing-shot. Granting the 
poetic license, does it not detract from the romance in read- 
ing such otherwise beautiful verses to suspect for one 
moment Cowper should be guilty of such a detestable act as 
heintimates? ‘The Symptoms of Love” is utterly ruined 
by this one tell-tale stanza.—Ilomo. 


A Drer ty A TREE.—While inthe mountains hunting a 
bee tree the other day, Mr. J, A. Devilbiss came across the 
skeleton of avery large buck which had got hung by its 
horns in the forks of a pine tree, and being unable to extri- 
cate himself had slowly starved to death. What must have 
heen the sufferings of the poor beast thus imprisoned? Mr. 
Devilbiss says the tree was worn by the horns in the deer’s 
vain efforts to escape, at least an inch and a half in depth, 
and the ground was pawed up all around the base of the tree. 
The buck was « large one, as the orns were at least fifteen 
inches long and hard,— Winters Hzpress, Sune 20. 


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[Jouy 10, 1884. 


Game Prosecutions.—The New York Association for 
the Protection of Game has for some time past been pushing 
vigorously ina quiet way a number of important suits, 
‘We haye a number of cases on hand at present,” said the 
partner of Mr. Whitehead, secretary of the Association, to a 
Herald reporter the other day, ‘the most important being 
the New York Association for the Protection of Game 
against the Washington Street Warehouse Company (Lim- 
ited), No. 178 Washington street, this city. The detectives 
of the Association discovered that the warehouse company 
had in its possession a very large number of quail, On 
April 18 a search warrant was procured, it probably being 
ihe first one of the kind ever granted. Our men found in 
the cellar of No. 173 Washington street seven barrels of 
quail. The birds were marked ‘poultry,’ Each contained 
374 quail, there being 2,618 birds altogether, As the fine is 
#25 each bird, the penalty would amount to $65,450. It 
was, however, thought expedient to only sue on 200 quail 
for the sum of $5,000, The suit comes up in the Supreme 
Court.” The other suits are against sundry dealers in this 
city, They are brought in the City Court, In this city, in 
the name of Robert B. Roosevelt, who is the president of 
the Association, They are as follows: Charles E. Nauss, 
No. 87 Second avenue, 60 quail; penalty, $1,500. Charles 
Kolz, No. 1,412 Third avenue, 19 quail and 5 prairie chick- 
ens; penalty, $600. Ed. Eckard, No. 37 Bond street, 10 
quail, 2 hares and 11 rabbits; penalty, $575. Frederick 
Piluger, No. 949 Sixth avenue, 48 partridges; penalty, 
$1,200,- Isaac Steigerwald, No. 199 First avenue, 19 quail; 
penalty, $450. Henry Steckler, Second avenue and Seyen- 
ty-third street, 2 partridges; penalty, $50. 


Manrroza.—Ottawa, June 23.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 
In your ‘‘Answers to Correspondents,” in your issue of June 
19, I notice that you say “the word Manitoba is pronounced 
with the accent on the last syllable, Manito-ba, the final a 
having the same sound of a in father.” That is the French 
mode of pronouncing the word, but it is not the correct one. 
Indian words are not subject to the rules of either French or 
English pronunciation. Manitoba is an Indian, not a French 
word, and according to aboriginal accentuation, the orthodox 
method of pronouncing it is Manito’ba, with the accent 
strongly marked on the penultimate. This would seem to 
bethe ease also with all Indian words of more than three syl- 
lables, Forinstance, Stadaco‘na, Dounaco'na, Monongahe'la, 
Hockela'za, Osceo'la, Caughnawa'ga, Susquehanna, Mada- 
was'ca, Petawa’wa, Powantona’mo, Catara’qui, Ononda ga, 
Tuscaro'ra, Winneba'go, and so on, ad infinitum, Aswill be 
seen, according to this arbitrary rule of American aboriginal 
accentuation, the home of the. Manitoo, or the land of the 
Great Spirit, ought to be pronounced Manito'ba. As an ini- 
tiated member of the Algonquin tribe of North American 
Indians, Ihave ventured to take exception to- what 1 con- 
sider and know to be an error,—WAH-BAH-MI-MI (Anglice, 
the White Bird). 


OrEcon Game ABunpANt.—Cove, Oregon, June 
Prospects for abundance of pame and fine shooting were 
never better than they are for this fall, Innumerable young 
ducks—mallards and bluewing teals principally—are spert- 
ing in the sloughs and river, numerous flocks of a dozen 
each of young sharptail grouse are met with in the meadows, 
while young geese not yet able to take wing scurry away to 
hide themselves in the tall slough grass. Along the foothills 
and in the mountains, young blue grouse are as abundant as 
they were ever known to be before. After all they are the 
game par excellence. Large, strong flyers and lying well, 
also unsurpassed on the table, they afford exquisite pleasure 
in their pursuit and much joy for the inner man. Last week 
the railroad was finished into this valley—the Grand Ronde, 
and doubtlessly sportsmen from abroad will be attracted 
thither by the large and varied game supplies. Duck shoot- 
ing commences Sept. 1, and then almost any species may be 


found excepting wood ducks and canyas-backs. ‘‘Boone” 
is at fault when he says sage hens never eat grain, I have 


shot them in barley fields and found grain in them upon 
opening the birds. Of course they subsist principally upon 
the sage.—J. G. 38. 


A Tropoy.—l am the happy possessor of the mounted 
head of a black-tailed deer, which has a set of antlers I think 
hard to beat. There are twelve prongs on the left horn and 
thirteen on the right. This buck was kilied in Middle Park, 
Colorado, last fall, and was a Christmas present from my 
brother.—C, G, Ferry. 


Farrsavutt, Minn.—The outlook for chicken shooting is 
splendid, Large numbers of old chickens left from last 
year’s shoot; and the spring has been very favorable for 
hatching, every one anticipates good shooting.—R. H. 8. 


DEER IN CaLrrornts.—The close season for male deer 
expired on Monday, June 30. Male deer may be shot in the 
months of July, August, September, and October. Does 
and spotted fawns must not be shot at any season of the year. 


Hic Port, N, C,, June 35,—The outlook for quail is 
excellent. I think we shall have three times as many birds 
here this year as we had last season.—A. E. 8. 


MARYLAND Quaru.—Cecil County, July 4.—The quail 
wintered well and there is promise of fine shooting when the 
season opens.—T. 


FISH LINES. 
Editor Forest and Streams: 
isend you herewith twelve rhymes. Will you publish the rhymes 

and ask your readers to fillin the blank spaces; and send to me, in 
care of your office, Here they are: 

—hole 

—pole 

—out 

—trout 

—sky 

—sheen 

—green 

—flash 

—splash 

—pool 

—fool. 

MraAt-HAWE, 


Camp Hire Mlickerings. 


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“That reminds me.’! 


125. 

Aes the early days of the Western Reserve, when wolves 

were more numerous than settlements, a man by the 
name of Guild, living not a thousand miles from Geauga 
county, had occasion to go to mill, some four miles distant, 
—the only road being a trail through the woods—and not 
being the fortunate owner of a horse, had to pack his own 
evist. Returning late in the afternoon had got within about 
half a mile of home when on happening to look back he saw 
two wolves some twenty rods away, following his track, 
Off went the grist and up a tree he started, calling for help 
till he made the woods ring. His father and brother, who 
were working near the house, hearing the cry, each taking a 
eun hastened tothe rescue. As they came up a little rise of 
ground near the source of all this noise the sight that met 
their eyes was one not soon to be forgotten. There the fel- 
low was bare-headed end every hair on end, with arms and 
legs tight clasped around a tree, sitting flat on the ground, 
and the wolves squatted on their haunches some ten rods 
away evidently enjoying the sport. TAMARACK, 

Hast BLOOMFIELD, O. 


Sea and River ishing. 


A MID-SUMMER -LAKE SCENE. 


NE sultry afternoon in July I was fishing in a boat on 
Lake Onaway, a few rods from the south shore. At 
about 5 o’clock the heayens became overcast, and for a few 
moments | was in the midst of a heavy shower, Soon the 
clouds opened, and the sun, just over the peak of old Bear 
Stone Mountain in the west, shone out in its full splendor, 
At the eastward arises the majestic Mt. Benson, covered 
with a forestry of varied hues, and a gorgeous and resplend- 
ent rainbow encompassed its huge form, the reflection of 
which extended down into the clear and shining lake at its 
foot, making a perfect circle of the bright and fascinating 
arch above. : 

Jt was without question the most beautiful sight that I 
ever beheld, and the most indifferent person could not have 
viewed it without experiencing feelings of awe and rever- 
ence for such sublime and wonderful handiwork of nature, 
suggestive of thought which carries one’s mind into an un- 
fathomable realm, bounded by the unknown and the myste- 
rious. 

Although the salmon were not abundant on that bright 
and glorious summer’s day, yet the scene to which I have re- 
ferred made a deep impression upon me, and was the source 
of more real enjoyment than the best string of fish that [ ever 
caught. And this suggests the idea oft repeated by summer 
pastime writers that the true angler isnot confined to “‘fisher- 
man’s luck” for pleasure and happiness while on his solitary 
tours. If the fish persistently refuse his proffered artifices 
and do not recognize his earnest efforts in their behalf, he is 
ever patient and forbearing, and being a true and faithful 
worshiper at the shrine of nature, he is always surrounded 
by that which affords true pleasure, and is ever amid delight- 
ful and pleasant objects, ever in an elysinm as perfect as can 
be known to any mortals. , If he cannot continually catch 
the wary and delicate trout for food in his festal forest camp, 
he ean every moment catch food for the hest and most en- 
nobling thoughts and gather inspiration from all about him. 

J. F, SPRAGUE. 


Monson, Me., Dec. 81, 1883. 


PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 


i lew was a great disappointment to those of our sportsmen 

who had planned woodcock-shooting trips for the open- 
ing day of the season to haye had their sport ruined by the 
late rains. Previous to these storms there had been a lengthy 
dry period which concentrated many birds, drawing them to 
the comparatively few feeding grounds that remained, The 
storm that took place but a few days before the open season 
so thoroughly scattered the woodcock that but very few 
were found in places where they had been ‘‘spotted.” The 
Tain which also visited our section yesterday finished the 
work, sothat we can safely consider July shooting will be 
of no account hereabouts. During June it was common to 
hear at the gun stores *‘I know where there are a dozen 
birds waiting for me when the season opens,” or some such 
remark. These collected birds in almost every Instance were 
not found, or at least in not such numbers as before the rains, 
The fall of water was a godsend to Mr. Longbill, for hefinds 
feeding places now where he can be in a measure safe, Very 
many birds, however, were illegally shot in June. Of this 
I wrote you at the time. 

Throughout our State the quail is everywhere whistling 
his nesting note, ‘“Boh White,” and there is a good prospect 
of a fair amount of birds for the fall, if the frequent rains 
do not drown the broods. The fact that the majority of 
the farmers begin to take an interest in the preservation of 
the quail during the winter is telling, and no doubt much of 
this is the result of a word spoken here and there by the 
sportsman himself, who now begins to find by paying a 
nominal sum to Mr. Rusticus he can have shooting secured 
forhim, Tf our game laws and game protective societies do 
not take care of the birds, each sportsman can accomplish 
much with the farmer in the manner described. All that is 
needed is to interest him if need be in a pecuniary way, anda 
guardian is at once made, [ once procured the finest of 
quail shooting on three or four adjoining farms in a yery 
primitive section of Delaware by sending to each tenant for 
two successive seasons, blue Kersey army overcoats, which 
cost me but a trifle, I mention this as an illustration of 
what can be done, and would add every covey was saved 
for me, aud 1 did not begin shooting until late in Novem- 
ber. 

The returning fight of bay birds from the North is looked 
for this year about the Ist of August. The birds generally 
show themselves from the 21st to the 25th of July, but this 
spring they were late in coming, and will be correspondingly 
tardy in appearing with their increase of family. rf 

Nowadays onthe New Jersey coast all the shooting had 
in the summer is at traveling birds, as they never stop longer 
than a tide to feed, and one requires to have a good blind 
and be able to whistle well or have a good whistler with him 
to have shooting at all. Iam now speaking of points north 
of Atlantic City and south of Long Branch, | 

-There is every appearance that we are going to have a 


good crop of reeds along our river flats this year, In times 
past this indicated corresponding good rail shooting, but of 
late years it scarcely pays one to be pushed over the grounds 
at either the Lazaretto or Chester, as but few rail are started, 
twenty to thirty being considered a good bag. At Port 
Penn or Motris. River, however, rail are always numerous, 
but it takes such a big tide to -giye successful shooting, 
These freshets are not often hit when we want them. 
PHILADELPHIA, July 5. Homo, 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 
Black Lake, Michigan.—IX. 


i er next morning it was agreed that I should fish alone 
that day, and work over to the sandbank in the after- 
noon, to bring Muller to camp in case he arrived, 

The ‘‘calamity box” had been searched the evening before, 
and two immense hooks fished out of its depths, which old 
Ben “calculated were strong enough to yank the innards out 
of a thrashin’ masheen,” and to each of these formidable- 
looking “‘innards agitators’ a chain a foot and a half long 
was attached, made of No. 12 copper wire, also found in a 
recess of the calamity box. To each of these chains a 
hundred feet or more of trot line—a hard-twisted cotton 
cord a quarter of an inch in diameter—was securely fastened, 
and war was right there declared against the kiny maska- 
longe of Black Lake, or any of his tribe, With one of 
these persuaders the Deacon and one of the other boys took 
their way up lake to look after the big fellow off the mouth 
of Rock Creek, while I with the other one and a little white 
boat started straight for Pickerel Reef, where Dan and I 
had seen the chief of the tribe the day before. 

At the shore end of the reef I took four or five pickerel, 
and selecting the smallest one of these—a three-pounder— 
the big hook was passed through both jaws, and he was re- 
turned to his native element alive, to be towed fifty or sixty 
feet astern, a tempting morsel for the monarch of Black 
Lake. ‘The other end of the line was tied to the painter of 
the boat and passed over the thwart, where eight or ten 
yards of it were coiled within reach of my foot in the bottom 
of the boat, ready to play out the instant the strike was fell. 

If that big maskalonge happened to be in that vicinity 
hunting around for a little morning diversion, all he had to 
do was to swallow that pickerel and the excitement would 
begin at once without any preliminary flourishes. 

I had studied the points of the prospective battle all over 
carefully beforehand, and was prepared to come out on top 
or go 1o the bottom. 

The loaded rifle was laid in easy reach, at half cock, and I 
had figured it out that if he had got the big hook tangled up 
in his corporation we would have it nip and tuck over the 
lake, for five or six hours, or until he was tuckered out, when 
I would pull warily up to bim, snatch up the rifle and send 
a ball through his head. This, I flattered myself, would be 
# move he would not be looking for, and I had my chuckle 
over it in advance, like the Irishman who was yoing to have 
‘a, bit av sphort wid the bull in the pashtur forninst.” 

It was a brilliant (?) conception, and it looks eyen better 
on paper, as I write it, than it did there on the lake; and I 
may say it would perhaps have been carried out had not the 
contingency of Burns’s line, “The best laid schemes 0’ mice,” 
ete., wrecked the whole plan of the campaign. 

I rowed all around the reef for a mile and for three hours, 
but the big fish had either changed his quarters or was too 
smart to be fooled with a common pickerel towing at the end 
of a quarter-inch cord, and 1 went back 10 the reef and plas- 
tered up my wounded smartness by yanking out a dozen of 
the snaky villains that claimed kinship with my bait, 

But it was another backset. ‘ 

The discomfiture of the Irishman when the bull tossed him 
over the pasture fence wasn’t a circumstance to my disap- 
pointment in not running across the track of the great mas- 
kalonge, and his remark when he picked himself up that “‘it 
was a foine thing he had his laugh first,” seemed to just 
about fit my case, 

The wind had been rising for the last half hour and was 
now blowing a topsail breeze from the direction of Lake 
Huron, causing the little boat to pitch up and down ina way 
that made it hard to hold her anywhere and fish, and in half 
an hour more nearly the whole face of the lake was covered 
with white caps, and the waves were running so high that 
fishing was out of the question. I reeled up and pulled across 
the lake to the sandbank, and taking the rifle, went out to 
the forks of the road to wait for brother Muller. I found the 
“totem” shriveled and sun-dried so hard that they might 
have served for ‘‘pickerel clubs” to knock their brethren on 
the head with, but otherwise undisturbed. I listened for 
the sound of a wagon, but hearing nothing save the whistl- 
ing wind, I strolled down the road a half mile, and turning 
off to the right, made a wide circuit through the aspens and 
patches of low bushes and huckleberries scattered over the 
plains, and back to the forks of the road again—just in the 
humor after the morning’s experience to fight anything, from 
a chipmunk up to a 600-pound bear, and I have no doubt 
that, had a deer jumped up within range, I would have 
taken a shot at it out of a spirit of pure cussedness. Noth- 
ing had, however, appeared in. sight on which to vent my 
spleen, and I stretched out in the shade of a young pine and 
studied over various schemes to capture the big fish until 
nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when, concluding that 
Muller had given up the trip, I went back to the hoat aud 
pulled along under the lee of the shore where the water was 
quiet to the mouth of the little stream near the Hughes camp. 

And, lest some readers who always want to know every- 
thing that happens may think it has been a long time be- 
tween drinks, I will record it here that I got out and took a 
long drink of ‘‘clear, cold, sparkling, spring water,” and be- 
fore stepping back into the boat the draught was repeated. 

All along this shore for nearly a half mile out the water 
was comparatively smooth, it being protected from the force 
of the wind by the woods and hill just back, but outside of 
this line the whole lake was a sheet of foamy white caps and 
tumbling waves rolling four and five feet high. From this 
point the wind blew nearly straight across to our camp, 
Hooking a dead pickerel onto the big hook I let out the 
whole length of the trout line and was soon plunging along 
through the foam at a pace that would have loosened the 
eye teeth of any maskalonge in the lake had he closed his 
jaws over that pickerel and the big hook. y 

The little boat sat low in the water, but she behaved weil 
in the rough seas and I was having a glorious ride, when, 
happening to glance in the direction of the sandbank I saw 
a wreath of blue smoke outlined against the hill, and I knew 
six feet of the Kingfisher club was there wondering how he 
was to get ‘across the stormy water,” and it did vot take 
long to make it out that he had come just at the wrong time. 
It would not do to leave him there over night without shel- 


a LJ 


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Tuny 10, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


469 


ter, to be devoured by skeeters and ‘‘croppies,” and the only 
thing to do was to bout ship and go after him, and this 
meant a hard pull of at least five miles, for 1 was not more 
than a mile from our camp when I saw the smoke signal. 
The dead Jongsnout was pulled in and the boat headed a 
couple of points above the sandbank to allow for leeway, but 
after a half hour’s pull against the heavy sea and fierce wind 
that was now on the starboard bow, I was almost ready to 
give up in despair, as the boat rolled and pitched so badly 
that it seemed I had not made a rod of progress. But] con- 
sidered that were I in Muller’s place I would not like to be 
left there over night, and I buckled to the oars again with 
renewed energy, and at the end of what seemed another hour 
was abreast of a charred tree that Dan and I had selected as 
one of our Jandmarks by which to find a pickerel reef, and 


this was fully balf way to tie bank. 


The gale had long since driven the other boys into camp, 
and they were now, as they told us in the evening, anxiously 
scanning, through the Scribe’s marine glass, every visible 
part of the lake for signs of “‘Old Hickory.” They had seen 
the smoke, and by aid of the glass could see Muller moving 


around on the beach, but had failed to get sight of the little 


white boat, although 1 was nearly in line with them and the 
bank, and could see the camp every time I was on top of a 
wave, They were really alarmed for my safety, but Old 
Knots comforted them with the remark that ‘‘the old sar- 
dine is probably asleep somewhere in the ‘bresh,’ ” and Dan 
said, ‘‘It may be he’s around in Sturgeon Bay wailing for 
the wind to go down. He’ll turn up all right yet,” 

When [I got into smooth water Old Ben, who was looking 
through the glass, relieyed the anxiety with, ‘‘Hooray, boys! 
there’s the old cuss now in that durned while pinted thing, 
jest a humpin’ fur shore like a yaller dog with a tin can to 


his tail;” and they raised a shout that would have made me 


feel legs tired perhaps could I have heard it. All this was 
told around the camp-fire that evening after pipes were 
lighted; and sitting here now, writing this a matter of 500 
miles from Black Lake, I take the occasion to thank the boys 
all for their good will and solicitude for the writer's well 
being on that not soon to be forgotten day. 

Nor must I forget that excellent boy, Sid Merrill, who had 
soon after discovering the signal, started from camp in a 
poat on the same errand, and when I reached the beach, 
“clean bushed,” as Jim would have said, and sweating at 
every pore, he was less than a mile out, pulling a sturdy 
stroke, as regular as the pulsations of an engine. Had he 
known [ was making for the same point, the trip would not 
have been undertaken, but the color of my boat was so near 
that of the foam-covered lake that no one, not even Muller, 
had made it out until I was in smooth water. He came 
ashore and we had a good rest before starting back, and as 
the wind and sca went down as evening drew on, the 
pull to camp was vastly easier, and brother Muller kindly 
furnished the motive power for the white boat going back. 
He had been detained a day on the road by washouts caused 
by the heavy rains throughout the middle portion of the 
State, and coming out from Cheboygan they had lost over 


an hour by an accident to the wagou; hence his late coming. 


The teamster had left him and his iraps at the beach and 
started back for town, but uot before he had pointed out 
some large bear tracks in the edge of the water, which he 
assured him, judging by the roily water in them, were not 
more than ten or fifteen minutes old. 

This was not very consolin’; in fact, it was rather calcu- 
lated to make the average “‘city feller’ feel slightly’ ‘‘tore up 
in his mind; but Muller is big enough to whip an average 
bear in a square fight, ‘‘bitin’ and gougin’ barred,” besides, 
he had his breechloading rifle with him, and he felt that he 
could introduce himself to Mister B. Ruin in a ereditable 
manner should he take a notion to return to the plains by the 
same road he came, He admitted to us, however, that the 
possible return that way of Mr. B. R, before he had time to 
frame a few remarks for the meeting, had raised a faint 
ripple on the usually quiet channel of his thoughts, and the 
moment the teamster was out of sight over the brow of the 
hill (brother M. is not given to undue precipitation) he un- 
locked his gripsack and taking out a handful of cartridges, 
slipped one into the rifle and would have stuifed in a half 
peck had it been that kind of a gun. ‘Then he paced 
valiantly up and down the beach right where that bear had 
passed along, Jooking every minute for—a boat to appear in 
sight to take him across to camp, 

That evening the smoke of the camp-fire was badly mixed 
with fish lies and bear storics, not a few of which would 
have disputed first place with neighbor Merrill’s ablest 
effort in this branch of camp oratory, and it was not until 
everybody had ‘‘run down” that the circle broke up and we 
went to bed the happiest camp in the North Woods. 

KINGFISHER, 
[TO BE CONTINUED. | 


THE CANADIAN SEA TROUT. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your issue of June 26 has an article with the above title 
from ‘‘S. C. C.,” in which he opens the question of the 
identity of this fish with the brook trout, and regrets that 
some one does aot settle it. I do not know who he would 
accept as authority on this subject since he appears to reject 
all those who have declared the two to be identical. Whom 
shall we look to for a settlement of the question? Certainly 
not men who are anglers merely, and who decide by the 
presence or absence of spots. Wor myself, 1 consider the 
question settled long ago, and that the so-called sea trout is 
merely a sea-run brook trout. 

Let us see who says they are not: Scott, Hallock, Roose- 
velt and other angling writers. On the contrary is the fol- 
lowing list of authorilies who are all more or less of ichthyo- 
logists, and some of them the first in the world: Gill, Bean, 
Jordan, Mather, Norris. If “‘S, C. C.” is still in doubt on 
this question he can make inquiries regarding the standing 
of fhe two classes of authorities and decide which of the two 
he will accept. 

The fact is that the case is settled, only some anglers do 
not seem inclined to accept the settlement. There is no 
doubt whatever about an angler being able to distinguish 
a “sea trout” from one that has strayed in the river, The 
signs are plain enough, just as you can distinguish a book- 
keeper who has had a vacation in the woods from one who 
has not, by his browned skin, but he is a book-keeper all the 


same. 

The South Side Club, of Long Island, has obtained eggs 
from the so-called sea trout, and the young cannot be told 
from ordinary brook trout. If they are distinct then they 
should breed true to kind. Let us accept the authority of 
the trained scientists, who all agree, and smoke the pipe of 
peace over the trout question. Poxs-o-MoonsHrye. 

Vv + 


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may appear it is sustained by facts, 


MAINE FISHING. 


HE Maine Fish Commissioners haye just completed their 
work of distributing 1,400,000 salmon fry to the dif- 
ferent waters of that State, in the order previously announced 
in the Forest AnD STREAM. They finished by placing 
50,000 landlocked salmon in the upper Androscoggin waters. 
One of them says: ‘We hope to continue as good a quota 
early until the waters are fully stocked. The most marked 
eature to me this year was the wonderfnl fecundity of those 
waters in trout and the fish food adapted to feed the trout 
family—no bass. either black or white; no perch; no bream, 
no eels; no catfish—all the enemies of the Salmonide, or 
at least not fit for their food, But the waters are literally 
crowded with Cyprinide of all sizes, the natural food of the 
trout.” | 
Of course the Commissioners went a fishing at the Audros- 
coggin Lakes, and they remark; ‘* We do not believe that 
there is scarcely a single day in the whole season when an 
ordinary angler who gave the fish a fair trial could fail to 
take trout enough for his daily consumption. On the shal- 
lows we invariably found an abundance of trout of from 
one-half to one pound, and even up to two pounds weight, 
rising readily to the fly. In deeper water, trolling with the 
minnow, larger fish were taken; but we took none of oyer 
four pounds. We are satisfied thut the better protection 
which the increased appropriation of the State has afforded 


us the means of giving 1s entitled to the credit for this great 


increase in trout during the past few years.” : 
To this sentiment should be added that it is only the faith- 


ful, earnest work of the Commissioners, which has ex- 
pended the limited means put in their hands by the State in 
a manner designed to be of so great and lasting value to the 
public. 
Boson, Mass., July 7. 


SPECIAL, 


How DenaAware River Fish ARE Destroymp.—There 


was a time when the Delaware River abounded with 
valuable food fishes from its junction with Delaware Bay to 
its source in the State of New York. It was once noted for 


the number, size, and excellence of its shad, perch, rock 
fish, sturgeon, and other varities of fish suitable for human 
consumption, If a like abundance now prevailed, instead 
of paying from fifteen to twenty cents per pound for fresh 
fish, we would haye them direct from that stream at less 
than half those rates, While the pollution of the waters of 
this fine river by gas works, coal oil refineries, etc,, has had 


much to do with the marked decline in its fish products, 


there have been for years and are to-day still more potent 
and harmful agencies in the form of fish baskets, nets, weirs, 
ete., in the localities where the shad usually spawn, and 
where their young are hatched into life. Only those familiar 
with the injury wrought to the shad-fishing interests of the 
Delaware by these illicit devices can form a proper concep- 
tion of its extent. There is good authority for the statement 


that in a single season as many young shad are destroyed by 


almost any one of the many well-constructed fish baskets in 
the upper Delaware as are anuually caught full grown at all 
the fisheries on the river. Extravagant as such an estimate 
A member of the 
Board of Fish Commissioners informed the writer a few 


years ago that young shad taken and drowned in one of the 


largest of those fish baskets had been hauled away by the 
wagon load and used as fertilizers for the adjacent fields, 


Formerly these fish baskets were constructed with wings of 
stone, but wire netting, which is much more easily put in 
position or remoyed upon intimation of an official raid, is 
now used, and with more damaging results to the fish. 
Dynamite and giant powder cartridges are also used in 
any streams, especially the smaller ones, such as the 

enn 
kill alike the large and the small fish. 
cocculus indicus, quicklime, and other stupefying and 
life destroying substances ate employed.—Philadelphia 
Ledger. 


ack, with equally disastrous effects, as the explosions 
At other places 


TPNNESSEH.—Savannah, June 30,—The bass season is open 


here all the year round, but unfortunately the greater num- 
ber are caught in April or May. The catch this year is re- 
ported as above the average in point of numbers, but the 
size is small. 
pounds and anothor of three pounds are the largest 


One sinall-mouth bass four and a 
have 
heard of. The Klaw Hammer Angling Association returned 
from its annual meeting at the Sulphur Spring camp grounds 
on Horse Creek last week. Business prevented my accom- 
panying the club. They report everything right except the 
fish, which failed to do their part toward the general good 
time. However, they caught enough to keep the frying pan 
at work .and all returned in good spirits. We expect to 
make another expedition early next mouth, and if we do, I 
will keep youinformed of the result. The fishermen are 
taking quantities of drum and small catfish on trot Jines in 
the river. The river is too muddy for bass fishing at present, 
although two or three weeks ago a party visited the island 
some four miles above town and took several fine bass and a 
great many large bream and sunfish, fishing on the bar at the 
head of the island.— Wim. 


Prince Epwarb Isuanp.—Charlottetown, July 1.—Trout 
fishing is good in most of the streams here at the present 
date. The fish are numerous and of good size, and. go for 
most any kind of a fly viciously, and are full of fight when 
hooked, Another thing which adds greatly to the enjoy- 
ment of the sport is that there are no mosquitoes and ‘‘no- 
see-ems” here. The largest S. fontinalis taken here was 
killed in the Morrelle and weighed four and a half pounds, 
and four of his mates were taken at the same time that 
weighed four pounds each. In the Guerney River a half- 
pound trout at one dash scooped up two of my flies, and 
when landed had them both well down his gullet.—Sran- 
STEAD. 


Tue West IspAnD CLuB.—Some fine striped bass were 
taken last week by members of the West Island Club. I met 
one of the club on the train who told me that Messrs. Isaac 
Townsend, R. L. Cutting, Chas. L. Tiffany, Chas. E. Miller 
and §. W. Milbank, of New York, and Mr. W. Sellers, of 
Philadelphia, were down at the club and were having good 
success. They took six large fish on Monday last, which 
was the first good day of the season, The largest fish taken 
this year weighed thirty-two pounds, —Pokn-0-MOoonsHINE. 


Bass GROUNDS IN VERMONT.—Small-mouthed black bass 
are reported to reward the angler who casts his flies in Lake 
Champlain, near St. Albans, Vt, Accommodations and 
boats can be found at the Lake View House, a notice of 
which is giyen im our advertising columns, 


ae RE 


Dap Fisu in LAke Onrarto.—This dispatch was sent 
from Ottawa yesterday: “The Marine and Fisheries De- 
partment has come to the conclusion that the millions of 
dead fish now floating on Lake Ontario are young shad 
hatched at Seth Green’s fish-breeding establishment at Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and placed in the streams tributary to the lake, 
It is also believed that the falling off in the catch of white- 
fish in Lake Ontario is due to the poisoning of the waters 
by the dead shad. Representations will probably be made 
to the United States Government respecting the matter.” 
“That's a very singular dispatch,” said Mr. Eugene. G. 
Blackford, ‘‘and I am convinced that there is an error some- 
where. Mr, Green has not hatched any shad at his breeding 
establishment in Caledonia, not far from Rochester. He 
hatches nothing there but whilefish, salmon and brook trout, 
The shad which he hatehed at Castleton, near Catskill 
Landing, were all turned into the Hudson River, The only 
shad hatched by the New York Fish Commission heside 
these were 80,000 at Cold Spring, Long Island, which were 
turned into the Smithton River. I think the Canadian Fish- 
eries Department are mistaken about the fish, I should not 
he surprised if they were fresh-water herring, which are in- 
digenous to the great lakes, and somewhat resemble young 
shad,” [The above appeared in the New York Times of 
July 8, and the annual appearance of dead fish in Lake On- 
tario, supposed to be shad, has been yearly noticed in our 
columns. Three years ago Dr. Bean pronounced the fish to 
be alewives, and we do not doubt that those of the present 
year are the same fish. Just why the papers should blame 
Mr. Green for introducing these or any other fish into the 
lake we do not see. He is merely a superintendent, and is, 
or should be, under the orders of the State Fish Commis- 
sioners, who alone are responsible for all plantings of fish, 
as well as for the acts of their subordinates. The hatchery 
near Rochester belongs to the New York Fish Commission, 
a fact that does not seem generally known. | 


SHEHPSHEAD AND WHEAFIsH.—Philadelphia, Pa., July 5, 
—Our rivers still continue to be very muddy, this condition 
having been increased by a second deluge of rain yesterday. 
There is no earthly use trying for bass within twenty miles 
of Philadelphia while the watcr is in this state and I fear it 
will take some days before it isclear. Sheepshead are biting 
well at both Barnegat Inlet and Little Egg Harbor Inlet. 
Weakfish and seabass are plentiful at these points, in fact 
one can always, at this season, be assured of sport at both 
places. No bluefish have thus far shown themselves at either 
Barnegat or Little Egg Harbor, Outside the beach scores of 
menhaden fishing steamers are plying their trade.—Homo, 


Mare Waters,—aAnglers’ Retreat, Middle Dam, June 
30.—June has been a splendid fishing month here, and last 
week Mr, G. H. Wellman, of Lowell, Mass., who was stop- 
ping here, had some very nice fly-fishing, taking one three- 
pounder and one of five pounds, besides numerous others of 
lighter weight. As the gates at the Middle Dam are now 
closed, and will remain so for several weeks, there will be 
good fishing on the river, at_the head and foot of the pond, 
Smooth Ledge, the Hop Yard, Cedar Stump, and other 
places where the trout congregate when the water in the 
river islow. Now is the time for anglers who would like 
to make a mid-summer trip to visit this place —L. L. S. 


Bass in tHE Poromac,—Moorefield, W. Va., July 7.— 
Continued rains and high waters have prevented bass fishing 
np to this time, but.the prospect ahead of us (owing to the 
unusual numbers of fish brought up by high waters in the 
spring and the clearing of the streams of all moss and brush 
by late freshets) is unusually fine. No finer waters can be 
found for black bass fishing than the water of the south 
branch of the Potomac at this place, either for fishing from 
shore, wading or from boat, with fly or live bait. Daily 
stages and livery connect from Keyser, on B. & O. BR, R.— 
COMMODORE, 


FAaRrBauLr, Minn.—I would inform sportsmen, who con- 
template a trip this summmer tothe Northwest, that the fish- 
ing in the lakes of this State has been and is now unusually 
good; apie very fine large catches have been made.— 


SpantseH: MACKEREL and sheepshead were taken last week 
for the first time this season off Bayshore, L. I, They have 
hitherto been caught no further north thon the southern 
New Jersey coast. 


Lishculture, 


AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting. 


i the evening at 8 o’clock an address was delivered by Hon. 

Theodore Lyman, of Massachusetts. Hon. Elbridge G. 
Lapham occupied the chair, The hall was well filled by an 
appreciative audience, of which about one-fourth were ladies. 
The chairman, in introducing the orator of the evening, spoke 
as follows: 

“TLapiIEs AND GENTLEMEN: Iam thankful for the honor of 
having been selected to preside over the ceremonies of this 
eyening. The subject which has called us together is one of 
far greater importance than the mass of the public conceive 
it tobe. The question of the propagation and preservation of 
the food fishes of our streams and along the ocean coasts is 
second only in importance to the propagation and preserva- 
tion of animal food. Indeed, the food which is furnished by 
the fish of our waters is free from many of the difficulties and 
dangers connected with the subject of animal food. We have 
in the former no trachine, pleuro-pneumonia, foot-rot or 
mouth disease. Fish are not controlled in their habits by 
man as animals are. The demand for fish as an article of food 
has of late years been rapidly increasing, Indeed such de- 
mand far exceeds the supply, and every year the interest 
taken in the subject is increasing, and this is fhe case not only 
in this country but in almost every civilized country of the 
earth. This subject has of late attracted special attention 
through the international exhibitions held at Berlin in 1880 
and at London last year, where 1am proud to say the United 
States bore off the honors for haying the best and largest 
variety and most perfect exhibits which were made. It is a 
subject, Lrepeat, of vast and deep importance to everybody. 
Alittle more than two years ago the State of New Jersey 
undertook the passage of a law to regulate the fisheries in the 
waters of the ocean, over which she supposed she had control. 
The Attorney General, however, decided that the State had 
no jurisdiction over the subject beyond low-water mark on the 
ocean zoast. A bill was introduced by Hon. Mr. Sewell, of 
New Jersey, looking to the passage of a national law regulat- 


ing this subject. This was referred to the Committee on For- 
eign Relations, te consider whether such a law would inter- 


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fere with our treaty obligations under the Treaty of Wash- 
ington, For two seasons a sub-committee of that committee 
has been investigating the subject, and has visited many of 
the principal points along the ocean coast from Fortress Mon- 
roe, Virginia, to Portland, Maine. A volume of valuable tes- 
timony has been gathered on the subject, and I confess that 
Thad no conception of the importance of this question until I 
entered upon that investigation. Itisalmost as fathomless 
as the ocean itself, We have met this evening to consider 
this grave and important subject, and I now take great pleas- 
ure in introducing to you the Hon, Theodore Lyman, of Mas- 
sachusetts, who will deliver the annual address of the Asso- 
ciation. 
SPEECH OF HON. THEODORE LYMAN. 


Old Rondelet wrote a great work at the beginning of the 
sixteenth century on sea fishes. His breadth of view included 
under the term ‘‘Fishes” almost every living thing that he 
found in salt water, Itis in relation not toa fish but to the 
radiated Medusa-head that he uses these fine words, more 
familiar, perhaps, to our older naturalists than to those of the 
rising generation: Jmmensa et summe admirabilis pot 
potentia atque solertia in rebus coelestibus visque que in aere 
et terra fiunt, maxime vero in mari, in quo tam varice et 
stupende rerum forme conspiciuntur ut qucerendi et con- 
templandi wullus usquam futurus sit finis—"Vast and highly 
admirable are the power and skill of God in things heayenly 
and earthly and in those of the air, but more especially in the 
sea, where are beheld shapes so various and stupendous that 
the study and contemplation of them shall never end,” 

He spoke thus in the spirit of prophecy. Three centuries 
have passed and wé are still contemplating and investigating 
the things of the sea. We have skimmed its surface with 
muslin nets in search of its infusoria, and we have let down 
dredges and scraped its valleys three miles deep, and still the 
shapes various and stupendous continue to multiply. The 
more workers there are, the more work remains ta be done. 
Humble clams, worms and urchins take on great importance 
ahd become marine Sphinxes, asking riddles that no one can 
answer. Creatures that once were conveniently dismissed as 
gelatinous, or gristly, now advance claims to an intricate cir- 
culatory system, to muscular fibres and to nervous ganglia, 
Nay, they proudly look down on the vertebrates, in the mat- 
ter of reproduction, as they pass gracefully through the 
varied stages of alternate generation and self-division, 

Rondelet lived near a sea whose inhabitants were well cal- 
culated to excite his wonder and delight. He was professor 
of medicine at Montpellier, not many miles from Aignes-Mor- 
tes, the port whence St. Louis embarked for his crusade, and 
whose walls, now surrounded by dry land, were in the middle 
of the sixteenth century still bathed by the waters of the 
Mediterranean, The shallows of the bay teemed with the 
smaller crustacea and shells, while the open sea beyond was 
then, as now, the home of many fishes, varied in form and 
brilliant in color—the whiting, the red mullet, and the tunny 
celebrated by classic writers. There, too, were found the 
darting squids and the great-eyed octopus, while from its 
depths came the rosy coral. 

In the ancient medical school of Montepellier, still hangs 
the portrait of Rondelet in his red gown. He has a placid 
look of a man who was master of his studies, and who stood 
well with science and with the church. For had he not asa 
patron, Bishop Pelicier? and was he not the first authority in 
zoology and medieine, at a time when a good scholar 
could acquire all that was Known of these and many things 
besides? 

Every gain in knowledge has a loss that balancesit. Asthe 
current of human thought grows wider, it becomes also more 
shallow, and splits into that infinitude of little channels which 
now are called specialties, In each of these channels may be 
seen a diligent investigator urging forward his little skiff, and 
well contented to be navigating what to him seems the great 
river of truth. } 

Learning has grown 80 great in our day, that the genius of 
one Man can grasp no more than a part of it; so that in pro- 
portion as learning becomes larger, generalization, which is 
the final end of learning, grows more difficult, Worse than 
this, the mind employed on particular investigations gets 
unsymmetrical. The side that is used is strengthened; the 
disused side fails, and there results a scholar who believes in 
one set of ideas only. 

After all then, we must look with a certain enyy at the 
state of mind of old Rondelet. Like most men of his. age, he 
had that richness of thought and expression which comes of 
many-sided culture, and a strong faith in things both material 
and immaterial. When he said ‘Dei potentia,” he distinctly 
meant power of God, and not ‘‘potentialities” or ‘‘molecular 
environment” or “power that works forrighteousness,” or any 
of those modern euphuisms which taste in the mouth like 
weak boiled arrow-root. Nevertheless, if we look closely, we 
can find the beginnings of that skepticism which plays so 
great a part in one day. Wor both he and his bishop Pelicier 
were strongly suspected of fayoring the Reformation, As to 

is colleague, Rabelais, he was noted for his unorthodox 
opinions, and went so far as to describe the future life asa 
“erent perhaps.” 

ut it is high time to leave Rondelet, and turn our attention 
to his sea-fishes. Their importance was great then; it is 
greaternow. We might know by analogy, did we not know 
by actual research, that fishes haye ever been of the first im- 
portance for men’s food. Their natural abundance and the 
easy capture of shallow species put them within the reach of 
the primitive savage. The skeleton of the pre-historic chief, 
found in the caye of Mentone, had a head ornament, a net 
strung with Trochus shells, showing that he had walked the 
beaches of the neighboring Mediterranean, whose waters 
doubtless furnished his food. 

The shell heaps of Scandinavia and of America, contain 
abundant bones of fish, Morton, of Merry Mount (1623), gives 
us a good idea how these shell heaps were formed, when he 
tells how the Indians came each year to the shore near Quincy, 
in Massachusetts, and there camped for a long time, feasting 
on the plentiful clams and lobsters, and alewives and striped 
bass, whose shells and bones combined with the camp offal to 
build those deposits that we call shell heaps. 

In New England it must have been the fish that furnished 
the surest support tothe native savages. HEyen in the depths 
of its Arctic winter there was a chance to get eels, smelts and 
clams, and at the first approach of mild weather the waters 
teemed with abundance. “It (Pawtucket Falls) is excellently 
accommodated with a fishing place,” wrote good Mr, Gookin 
in 1674, ‘and there is taken a variety of fish in their seasons, 
such as salmon, shad, lamprey eels, sturgeon, bass, and divers 
others. And this place being an ancient and capital seat of 
the Indians, they came to fish; and this good man (Mr, Eliat) 
takes this opportunity to spread the net of the Gospel to fish 
tor their souls.” 

That child of Belial, Morton, of Merry Mount, as keen a 
sportsman as any of our Bohemian backwoodsman, gives en- 
thusiastic accounts of the abundance and excellence of the 
fish which were in the sea convenient to his house. He is the 
first author that mentions cod-liver oil, which now plays so 
beneficent, though nauseous, a part in medicine, 

He writes: “The coast aboundeth with sueh multitude of 
eodd that the inhabitants of New England doe dunge their 
greunds with codd, and itisa commodity better than the golden 
mines of the Spanish Indes, * Greate store of traine 
oyle is mayd of the livers of the codd and is a commodity that 
arate ator will enrich the inhabitants of New England 
quickly. 

Almost coincident with the establishment of Piymouth col- 
ony, we find lays concerning the fisheries, proof positive of the 
esteem in which they were held. 

In 1633 was passed what I take to be the first law for the en- 
couragement of fisheultuve, in these words; ‘Ti is enacted by 


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the Court * * * butif any man desire to improve a place 
and stocke it with fish of any kind for his private use, it 
shal bee lawfull for the Court to make any such graunt and 
for bid all others to make use of it.” 

In 1637 the same court enacted, with the contrary-minded- 
ness of our Puritan forefathers, that six score and twelve 
fishes shall be accounted to the hundred of all sorts of fishes, 

In 1670, it was set forth with pious teleology that ‘‘the provi- 
dence of God hath made Cape Cod commodious for us, for fish- 
ing with seines;” implying that it might not be commodious 
for less religious persons. The act goes on to state that ‘care- 
less persons” must not interfere with the said providence, “‘by 
leaving the garbage of tish to lie there,” 

The country had not been settled a half century before there 

was complaint of the diminution of fish. The act just quoted 
foes on to speak of the great inconvenience of taking mackerel 
at unseasonable times, whereby their increase is greatly dimin- 
ished, and alaw was passed prohibiting the catching of fish 
before they have “spaumed.” This shows that our ancestors 
were not more logical than most of their descendants, who 
still hold, that to take a fish when ripe for spayyning is in 
some peculiar way destructive to the species. It is almost 
needless to say that fishes taken at any time of year are killed 
before they have ‘‘spaumed.” The only reason that it ismore 
destructive to take fish during the spawning season is because 
they are then tamer and are crowded together, so that greater 
numbers are likely to be captured, 
_ The river fisheries, too, called aloud for protection. In 1709, 
it was enacted ‘That no weirs, hedges, fish garths, stakes, 
kiddles or other disturbance or encumbrance shall be set, 
erected or made on or across any river, to the stopping, ob- 
structing or straitning of the natural or usual course and pas- 
sage of fish in their seasons * * * without allowance first 
had and obtained from the General Sessions of the Peace in 
the same country.” This law, especially applied to such fishes 
asTunup the riversto spawn, salmon, shad and alewives. 
The Indians, in their day, were wont to construct weirs and 
the like obstructions to capture these fishes. But the Indians 
were few and were idle and wandering. They took only what 
was necessary for their present use. Now, however, had 
come the white men, who put up permanent abodes and in- 
creased in humbers, year by year. They were money makers, 
who worked every day and allthe day. They would catch 
fish, not for themselves only, but to sell to strangers; and so 
they have gone on ever since. Patucket Falls, on the Merri- 
mac, where the Apostle Eliot spread his net of the gospel, now 
furnishes the water power for the great manufacturing city of 
Lowell. And Merry Mount, to-day the country seat of John 
Quincy Adams, is a suburb of the metropolis of New Hngland. 
The inhabitants no longer “dunge their grounds with ecodd” 
but are fain to buy that fish in the market at a round price 
per pound. 

The river fish whose protection has cost most law-making in 
the old commonwealth of Massachusetts is the humble alewite. 
In contradiction of the proyerb ‘‘mute as a fish” this one ma 
truly besaid to have made a great deal of noise in the world. 
Like some men they are small and humble, but persistent and 
numerous. In the spring time the alewives stand in from the 
sea, and push up the smaller fresh-water streams, seeking 
ponds wherein to deposit their spawn. They come in great 
armies and insist on entering those ponds. Nothing less than 
a vertical wall six feet high will stop them. Amid the clatter 
of mill wheels, and in the very face of the sweeping scoop net, 
they force themselves through rapids, over falls, and by long 
underground drains, regardless of their perishing comrades, 
who by thousands fall a prey to the fishermen and to hawks 
and eagles; or who run themselves ashore in their frantic 
efforts to get on. It may be that only a few reach the spawn- 
ing ground, and these are enough to keep up the race; for one 
female will lay a quarter of million of spawn. They are there- 
fore par excellence domestic and cultivable fish and have been 
so regarded in Massachusetts for generations. As early as 
1741 there was passed ‘‘an act made to prevent the destruction 
of the fish called alewives,” wherein it was provided that any 
owner of adam ‘‘shallmakea sufficient passagewaiy for the 
fe to pass up such river or siveam, through or around such 

am,’ 

Tt is, however, not until 1790 that the alewife fishery of 
Taunton Great River, first appears on the statute books, whose 
pages it was destined to encumber. If very few of my hearers 
know anything of Taunton Great River, the fact proves how 
miserably our system of popular education fails to instruct 
people concerning the most remarkable geographical features 
of the land. Taunton Great River was doubtless named in 
the spirit of contrary-mindedness already referred to as a 
characteristic in our Puritan ancestors, The unregenerate 
would be inclined to call it Taunton Small River, for it isa 
small stream, which heads in some ponds in the town of Lake- 
ville, and after a short and quiet course empties into the sea at 
Fall River. But not the mighty Mississippi itself bears on its 
bosom so great a mass of legislation. The great and general 
Court of Massa¢husetts invariably spends a portion of each 
session in trying to regulate the fisheries of this stream. The 
fishermen of the upper waters always complain that those of 
the lower waters get allthe alewives, while those of the lower 
waters maintain that their rivals feloniously conspire to shut 
the fish off from their Span nie grounds, And when by some 
special providence, both sets of fishermen are at peace with 
one another, they invariably make a combined attack upon 
the regulations of the State Fish Commissioners. The riparian 
inhabitants of other alewife streams, although not so com- 
batiye, are quite as much interested as those of Taunton Great 
River. Indeed it wasin such waters that.a sort of fisheculture 
first grew up. In some cases where a dam owner wished to 
save his water power by shutting up his fishway, he would 
agree to catch each year so many thousand alewives at the 
foot of the dam and to conyey them alive to the millpond 
above, and thus to keep up the crop. And it has been the 
custom for more than a century to regulate these little streams 
by special acts which govern the public sale of the fish, the 
days on which they may be netted and the fishways that are 
to be kept open for their passage. The law goes often so far 
into detail as to provide that each widow of the town shall 
have a barrel full for nothing. I have dwelt thus long on this 
humble fish because its successful culture gives encouragement 
to attempt that of others more difficult. 

I shall tollow briefly the decline of the fisheries in New Eng- 
land, because it is there that an organized system of fishcul- 
ture first in this country took its origin. That region has two 
rivers of considerable size—the Connecticut and the Merri- 
mac, Both rise in the cold streams of the White Monntains. 
The Connecticut, flowing south, empties into Long Island 
Sound, and the Merrimac, by a southeasterly course, reaches 
the Atlantic Ocean. A century ago hoth rivers abounded in 
shad, salmon and alewives, and would doubtless have con- 
tinued for many years to give a fair yield, in spite of over 
fishing, had it not been for the erection of impassable dams, 
which were intended to give water power to the manufactur- 
ers, or to furnish slack water navigation to lumber rafts, As 
early as 1798 the Connecticut River was thus barred at a point 
just within the northern limit of Massachusetts, but it was 
not until 1847 that the Merrimac was in like manner shut off 
by the great dam at Lawrence. In both cases the salmon, 
stopped on their passage to the spawning grounds, became 
extinct after a few years, while the shad and alewives, which 
could be bred in the lower waters, continued annually to re- 
yisit these rivers. 


What happened on the Merrimac and Connecticut happened 
equally on almost every lesser stream in that region. The 
peopleot New England, lacking advantages for farming, turned 
all their attention to manufacturing. ater power was then 
much cheaper than steam,so that before long there rose a dam 
wherever there was a fall great enough to turn a millwheel. 
Hixcept some simple trenches for the passage of alewives, no 


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fishways were then known. The complete ignorance of this 
subject may be illustrated by the great dam twenty-seven 
feet high at) Lawrence. The charter of the company per- 
mitted the building of a dam, proyided a pass were furnished 
for salmon, which should be satisfactory to the County Com- 
missioners, Before the dam was finished a solemn council of 
the best ichthyological and engineering talent was held to de- 
termine what Kind of pass would be suitable. The council 
based its judgment apparently on the cheap woodcut in the 
primary geographies of half a century ago, which represented 
a salmon briskly leaping over falls at least fifty feet hich, At 
any rate, the salmon pass finally approved by the learned 
Commissioners consisted of a simple plank trough, slopin 
from the crest to the foot of the dam, at an angle somewhat 
steeper than forty-five degrees. It is needless to say that the 
salmon declined to exhibit an 
trayed in the woodcut of the primary geography. 

There soon came to be a general feeling, and one under the 
circumstances quite natural, that manufactures and fish 
mutually excluded each other, and so things were allowed to 
drift at their pleasure. The streams that emptied into salt 
water no longer furnished such abundant swarms of small fry 
as had in former days served to toll the sea fishes toward the 
land, while the passage of boats and steamers and the in- 
crease of popwation and of fishing tended to destroy or scare 
away the fish of the small bays and coves. The balance of 
nature had thus been changed, and one part had reacted 
against another. 

The steady dimunition would haye gone unibterruptedly on 
but for the revival of fishculture. 

_The discovery of artificial impregnation of eggs is such a 
simple one thatthe only wonder is that it was not practiced 
long ago. Country boys. who watch the brooks in autumn, 
know how trout deposit their eggs; and fishermen, after haul- 
ing their seine ashore, are familiar with thespectacle ofspawn 
and milt flowing from the ripe fishés. Ibis more than likel 
that many persons have in the past tines practiced the arti- 
ficial fecundation of ova. The process was described in 1420 
by Dom Pinchon, a monk of the abbey of Réome, It was re- 
discovered by Jacobi, of Westphalia, in 1765, and seyeral 
naturalists availed themselves of this method in their embryo- 
logical researches, Among others, Louis Agassiz, who, in 
1838, hatched the impregnated eggs of Swiss whitefish by tying 
them in a muslin bag and sinking it on the margin of the lake 
of Neufchatel. . 

In 1845, two fishermen of the Vosges, Joseph Rémy and An- 
toine Géhin, not only hatched a large number of trout, but de- 
vised means of feeding them artificially, They succeeded in 
stocking several water courses in their neighborhood with 
these trout fry. Seven years later their results had become 
known to the scientific menin Paris. Napoleon the Third 
had already begun his elaborate measures for the material 
agerandizement of France and he took up fishculture and the 
acclimatization of new animals among other schemes. He 
disliked the professors of the Garden of Plants because of 
their Orleanist sentiments, and he set up a rival under 
the name of the Garden of Acclimatization, of which 
fishculture was in some sort a branch. Its apostle 
was Professor Coste. With large appropriations from 
the central government he established at Huningue, near 
the Swiss frontier, a large and elaborate station for fish- 
culture. His enthusiasm was great. He estimated that 
the yield of fresh-water fishes in France was not worth more 
‘than $1,200,000 annually, which he was confident could be 
raised by artificial fecundation to $180,000,000. Like many 
another inventor, Prof. Coste was doomed to opposition and 
disappointment. M. Rimbaud, Secretary of the Fishery Board 
of Marseilles, ridiculed what he called the unnatural watercul- 
ture. He said the machinery and labor for hatching and the 
artificial food would cost more than the fish would come to. 
He was not farfrom right. With plenty of money to work 
with, it was not difficult to build hatcheries, dig ponds, setup 
apparatus, and put in turbine wheels for pumping. The work- 
ing of the establishment was more dificult. The spawn, col- 
lected at distant points and sometimes in a careless way, often 
failed to hatch. The fry, carefully placed in suitable pools, 
disappeared in a way considered mysterious, until it was dis- 
covered that several large pickerel had found their way into 
the pools. The eminent engineers of the ponts ef chaussées 
contended in vain with the waters of the Rhine, which some- 
times backed up and flooded the pools and tanks, and anon re- 
ceded, leaving the turbine wheels high and dry. Yearsrolled 
on, and Prof, Coste was still struggling to make fish plenty in 
France, when the Prussian armies crossed the Rhine and ap- 
propriated Huningue to the use of the German Empire, : 

All these disappointed hopes had not been quite in yain. 
Many valuale experiments had been tried and precious infor- 
mation published, and, above all, it had been discovered that 
certain things could not be done. Meanwhile, knowledge ot 
these discoveries had crossed the Atlantic, and in 1553 Dr, Theo- 
datus Garlick hatched the artificially impregnated eggs of 
trout. Three years later commissioners appointed by Massa- 
chusetts published a yaluable report on the general subject of 
fishculture, and attempted unsuccessfully to hatch trout. In 
the same year an admirable report on fisheries was written 
by the eminent scholar, George P. Marsh, who had been 
appointed a Commissioner by the State of New Hampshire. 

he true beginning of fishculture, however, under the aus- 
ices of State governments, was in July, 1864, when New 
ampshire and Vermont passed legislative resolves calling on 
Massachusetts to re-establish a free passage for migratory sea 
figh through the dams on the Connecticut and Merrimac 
rivers, To the late Judge Henry A. Bellows, of New Hamp- 
shie, this country owes the successful beginning of the under- 
taking, He was anadyocate learned in the law and full of en- 
thusiasm for the restoration of the former runs of salmon and 
shad in the cool waters of the Pemigewasset and the broad ex- 
panse of Lake Winnipiseogee. He appeared before a commit- 
tee of the Massachusetts Legislature, and by their recommen- 
dation two commissioners were appointed, of whom I had the 
honor to be one. This was in 1865. Within a yearevery New 
England State was represented by Fishery Commissioners, 
They were accustomed to assemble from time to time for the 
discussion of their mutual interests, These modest gathermes, 
whereat the assembled authorities failed not to test the excel- 
lence of their own fish, weve the prototypes of the national 
fathering we celebrate this evening. 

The opening of the great dams by fishways led to several 
important results. In the first place the decision in the case of 
the Massachusetts Commissioners against the Holyoke Water 
Power Company has settled the law in regard to the rights of 
migratory fishes in rivers. This decision, which was confirmed 
by the United States Supreme Court in 1872, sets forth that a 
river was a public Ways and the passage of migratory fish in 
it a public right, Therefore, whoever builds a dam across a 
river must furnish a passage to its migratory fish unless ex- 
pressly exempted by the Legislature. ' 

Tt thus became easy to open the streams, and hundreds of 
owners of dams, who by adverse possession had considered 
themselves safe from intrusion, now found themselves obliged 
to construct ishways at their own expense, 

The second important step was alsoa legal one, It was the 
passage in 1869, by Massachusetts, of an act to encourage the 
cultivation of useful fishes, which was intended to embedy im 
one law all necessary regulations. Before that time the fsh- 
ery laws of that State, to the number of nearly four hundred, 
were for tlie most part special enactments, The new statute 
substituted general provisions. It established a board of 
fishery commissioners, and gaye them suitable power; gave to 
the riparian proprietor the control of ponds not exceeding 
twenty acres in extent, and regulated the times and methods 
of taking fish, é ; 

Tn attempting to restock the Merrimac and Connectient, 
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thatof building a fishway which would carry salmon, shad 
and Reta a a vertical dam nearly thirty feet high, In 
this tountry we had nothing to go by save the salmon passes 
of Great Britain, or the little water-steps over the low conti- 
nevtal dams, Through successive improvements we have now 
attained a fishway that will certainly carry salmon, slewives 
and the common river fishes over the most difficult dams. 
But the shad, with his love of the broad, gentle stream, and 
his suspicion of artificial contrivances, still remains rebellious, 
There is, however, a strong belief that the ingenious Colonel 
McDonald will irrisistibly inveigle the shad into his mysteri- 
ous pass. It is indeed a truly Irish pass, in which more water 
rns ih than runs out; and the arenes is the incline, the more 
rapidly the water runs up bill; so that a shad would think he 
was swimming toward Fortress Monroe when he was in 
reality going over the falls of the Potomae, From the outset, 
the Massachusetts Commissioners had foreseen that the build- 
ing of fishways on the Merrimac River was but a half remedy. 
Tt was further necessary to breed salmon and place them in 
the upper waters, that they might thence descend to the 
Ocean, and rettirm as marketable fish to their native river. To 
obtain impregnated eggs of salmon was at the time a work of 

eat difficulty and expense, In the autumn of 1866, Dr. W. 

’, Fletcher, of New Hampshire, placed 15,000 New Bruns- 
wick salmon eggs in the Pemigewasset; but it was not until 
1872 that 16,000 young fry were let loose in its Waters: and in 
1878, 185,000, Occasional captures of salmon in nets at various 
points ot Massachusetts Bay were soon after reported; and 
on the Sist of May, 1867, two full-grown salmon were dis- 
covered mounting the Lawrence fishway. Since that year, 
salmon haye been artifically bred at the headwaters of the 
Merrimac, and the full-grown fish have annually ascended a 
river in which for twenty-five years they had been extinct, 

The other chief river of New England, the Connecticut, 
was the scene of the first artificial hatching of the shad. 
With the encouragemennt of the Massachusetts Commiission- 
ers, Seth Green, of New York, began, in the summer of 1867, 
his experiments in shad hatching at Holyoke. Hissimple and 
ingenious invention of a hatching box, which kept up a con- 
stant current by floating, not horizontally but at an angle, has 
become a matter of familiar history. Great was the ridicule 
directed against Green, as he painfully waded about in the 
riyer nhder the hot June sun. But when, a few seasons later, 
the shad appesred in untisual numbers at the mouth of the 

yer, ridicule was changed to admiration, and the great crop 
of that year was called ‘'Green’s shad,” 

Tn the following year, 1868, shad hatching was established on 
the Merrimac and daily record was kept of the temperature 
of the air and water, of the number and sex of the fish taken 
and the quantity of eggs hatched. These tables were the first 
of the kind published in this country. 

The progress of this slight sketch has brought us to the ques- 
tion which wnderlies the subject of fishculture in its broadest 
sense, it is the question of the possible exhaustion of great tish- 
eries, and especially those of the sea, 

We have seen that soon after the first settlement of the 
country, complaints of the decrease of fish began toarise. It 
is very likely that those complaints came rather from the ac- 
cidental differences of seasons than from any real decrease, 
Nevertheless, they indicate that the relation between oyer- 
fishing and decrease of the crop was one that was early sug- 
gested to our people. The entire subject was brought into 
prominence in our own day by the report of the English Com- 
Iissioners to inquire into the sea fisheries of the United King- 
dom in 1864, Of these Commissioners it has been said: ‘‘Their 
industry was extraordinary, and the piles of evidence were 
such as to leave the impression that every fishwife in the 
three kingdoms had had her say. The trawlers were vehem- 
ent against the set-hook men, and the set-hook men were 
furious against the trawlers. The Commission decided that 
they all were right, and might fish when, how and where they 
pleased. But just then Mr. Bertram comes out with his ‘“Har- 
vest of the Sea,” in which by fact and figure he aims to show 
just the opposite, namely, that the open sea fish had decreasd 

y overfishing. 

The question of the progressive exhaustion of sea fisheries 
came up six years later in America in the form of a monster 
petition presented to the Massachusetts Legislature, which 
was asked to pass a law restricting fishing with weirs, seines 
and gillnets. The petitioners alleged that valuable fishes, 
such as the scup, the tautog and the striped bass, were taken 
by the above mentioned contrivances in so wholesale a way 
as to threaten their speedy extinction. The complaints ap- 
plied chiefly to the southern waters, including those of Narra- 
gansett Bay, where the inhabitants of Rhode Island were 
equally interested, and both States proceeded to investigate 
the subject, Their methods, however, were no better than 
had been those of the English Commissioners, and consisted 
chiefly in the examination of numerous witnesses. Ii was thie 
same story over again, The wei men swore against the 

-hook-and-line fishermen and the hook-and-line fishermen swore 
against the weir men. The moment had evidently arrived to 
abandon the methods of the court room and to take up those 
of scientific investigation. 

To this end the Massachusetts Commissioners, in the spring 
of 1881, bired a weir at Waynoit, on the south side of Cape 
Cod, and putitin charge of an observer, who kept a daily 
record of the fishes taken, of the wind and weather, and of 
the temperature of air and water. At the end of the season 
the results were embodied in a report, entitled Third Notice 
upon the Possible Exhaustion of Sea Fisheries. It was shown 

by this investigation thet the moment at which fishes leave 
the ocean to enter rivers is determined hy the temperature of 
the water. It further appeared that these so-called anadro- 
mous fishes are usually caught in weirs and in similar traps 
‘when hurrying along the coast in their northward migrations, 
whereas those that arrive near or at the mouth of their native 
river slacken their pace and cautiously feel their way, like a 
ship standing into a harbor. These last are more apt to avoid 
the nets ingeniously set for their capture. 

Up to this time the moyement in favor of fishculture had 
been confined to New York and New England, and chiefly to 
the State of Massachusetts. Dams hitherto impassable bad 
been opened to the passage of the anadromous fishes; fish- 
ways of an improved form had been built; a decision of the 

Supreme Court had given to fish the right of way in rivers; 
acts for the encouragement of the cultivation of useful fishes 
had been passed; the artificial hatching of shad and salmon 
had begun, and an investigation into the exhaustion of sea 
fisheries had been set on foot. All these measures, were, how- 
ever, partial and on a small scale. The moment had arrived 
for the interposition of a power stronger and more general in 
its character. 


That democratic and gregarious fish, the scup, was the 
founder of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 
Ii is a fish coeval with the first white settlements, In 1621, 
on the shores of Buzzard’s Bay, the hungry Englishmen were 
entertained by Massasoit with ‘two fishes like bream, but 
twice as big and better meat,” and Roger Williams says in 
1642, ‘‘Nishcup the bream, Of this fish there is abundance, 
‘which the natives dry in the sin and smoke, and some Hn- 
glishmen begin to salt,” With the first warm days of spring, 
the scup were wont to push into the bays and fiords and salt 
ponds in multitudes, standing in from the off-shore depths 
‘which had sheltered them and furnished them abundant food 
during the winter, Then followed a jubilee for poor and rich. 
Anybody who had a hook and line could catch a ‘‘mess of 
‘tish” before breakfast; scup he was sure to get, and he was 
ae to add a fat tautog or a striped bass. But when did a 
Yankee ever allow any peace to himself or his neighbor, or 
when did his mind, sleeping or waking, ever cease to dwell on 
the inyention of some labor-saving machine? Hook and line 
_ was foo primitive a methad to be permitted in this age of im- 

rovement. — pitt the year 1850, one Benjamin Tolima, 
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FOREST AND STREAM. 


being doubtless moved and abetted by the Evil One, conceived 
the idea of driving posts in a straight line running out to sea, 
and stretching thereon netting, so astomake a fence; and 
constructing at the end thereof a sort of inclosed yard, The 
schools of scup, as they coasted along the shore, ran against 
the fence, and turning their heads seaward were captured in 
the said yard, The inventor, in the pride of his heart, named 
the engine a “trap.” He little knew that he had only made a 
small copy of a contrivance that was know to the Phcenicians, 
who used it along the shores of the Mediterranean and éeyen 
on the coast of Spain. There, in later days, the Moors called 
it the almadraba, whence is derived the modern French word 
madrague. If the Moors created as much popular indignation 
with their almadrabas as Benjamin did with his ‘‘traps,” the 
fact may account for their expulsion from Spain by the 
Gothic tribes, For twenty years war and recrimination pre- 
yailed between the trappers and the hook-and-line men, until, 
at leneth, both parties, like the Jewish factions, determined 
to a peal unto Cassar, or as he is now called, Uncle Sam. 

On the 19th of February, 1871, was passed a joint resolution 
of Congress, the preamble of which says: ‘Whereas, it is as- 
serted that the most valuable food fishes of the coast and the 
lakes of the United States are rapidly diminishing in number, 
to the public injury, and so as materially to affect the mter- 
ests of trade and commerce,” therefore, resolved, that the 
President be authorized to appoint a Commissioner of Fish 
and Fisheries. 

Tt has been truly said that when the critical moment arrives, 
the man fad tae also; and this critical moment made no ex- 
ception to the rule. A man—nay, the man, was at once found 
in the person of Professor Spencer F. Baird. The Casar to 
whom the warring factions had appealed could not have sent 
forth a more judicious praetor. ercifully he was not one of 
those self-taught men (of whom, for some occult reason, we 
are so proud), but a man of careful scientific training, and one 
as industrious in collecting facts asin arranging them. Also 
was hea than of a pleasant countenance and conversation, and 
well calculated to assuage the irritated feelings of the hook- 
and-liner, or to soothe the exasperated nerves of the trapper. 
Indeed, he seems to be the only individual! in history who 
ever intervened between two combatants without receiving 
the blows of both. 

Henceforth the history of American fishculture is contained 
in that of the United States Fish Commission, Its work, wide- 
spread and pushed with extraordinary energy, attracted the 
attention of the whole country, A greater part of the States 
appointed Wishery Commissions, which codperated with, and 
were assisted by, that of the general Government. Its rapidly 
increasing value and power culminated in the great Fishery 
Exhibitions of Berlin and London, where the United States ex- 
hibits gained the chief prizes. 

The history of the moyement for the restoration of our 
fishes, may seem like a triumphal march; but in summing up 
its results, we cannot in honesty avoid the cold question cui 
bono? of what good is all this? 

Up to the year 1880, the Fishery Commissions of the States 
and of the general Government had had appropriated $1,306,- 
378. Has the country got a return of a million dollars’ worth 
of additional fish? 

In 1880, the total yalue of fishery products of the United 
States was $45,000,000, a Jess sum than that of the manufac- 
tures in a single Congressional District in the little State of 
Massachusetts. The two products show that real value is not 
always to be. measured by money. The people of this coun- 
try could have been deprived of the manufacture of that dis- 
trict, without recognizing their loss, but what an outery would 
rise, were they cut off, even for a month, from cod and white- 
fish, lobsters and oysters. 

Did the expenditure of $1,500,000 since 1866 add anything to 
the $45,000,000 which our fisheries produced in 1880? or did it 
pave the way for an increase? 

To define these questions we must define what we mean by 
a decrease in fisheries. 

When so many fish are annually taken from the waters, that 
the remainder are not numerous enough to produce anew crop 
equal in numbers to the old one, there must be a progressive 
decrease inthe yield, It is a very simple matter to demon- 
strate such a decrease in ordinary rivers or in lakes of moder- 
ate size, where it is easy to show that spearing and netting of 
the trout on their spawning beds has diminished their numbers, 
or that the establishment of weirs has made whitefish scarce. 
In the bays and coves of the-sea, also, where the waters are 
shallow ,itis not difficult to show thatthe use of numerous fy kes 
and trawl lines destroy the local fish, like tautog, rock bass and 
flounders. But, when we come to the schooling fishes of the open 
sea, itis very difficult to tell how mnch effect the hand of man 
has in lessening them, If, for example, we argue that traps 
and purse seines diminish the crop of menhaden by capturing 
them in enormous numbers, we leave out of mind the fact that 
these same traps and purse seines also capture bluefish and 
small sharks, which are thus taken from their occupation of 
killing menhaden. Again, when menhaden entirely disappear 
from a long stretch of coast, they are, in reality, no scarcer 
than before. They refuse to come to their wonted waters 
either because the temperature is too low, or because their 
favorite food is not to be found. They are not destroyed, only 
absent. There are familiar instances of such disappearance, 
The scup was plentiful when the whites first landed in New 
England; they afterward disappeared, and seein about 
the beginning of the present century. The bluefish was caught 
on the southern coast of New England from 1659 for more than 
a hundred years. In 1764 they disappeared, and after an 
absence of sixty-six years, they reappeared about 1830, 

Another element that must be borne in mind in estimating 
the total catch of fish is the number of men and the kind of 
engines employed, If, for example, the population of a coast 
is scanty and only a dozen men go a-fishing, each of them is 
likely to haye a good catch; but when the coast becoines thickly 
settled a hundred men will fish, and thougheach one may take 
but few, the catch of the hundred will be greater than that of 
the twelve. 

In the light of the patient investigations of the past dozen 
years, it is safe to assert. first, that our fresh-water fisheries 

aye in general greatly diminished since early times, and 
have in many cases been destroyed; secondly, that the local 
Bey fisheries have also to a greater or less degree dimin- 
ished. 

What have our Fishery Commissions done to remedy or to 
palliate these evils? It is fair tosay that they have done a 
good deal, and are in a good way to do more. 

Their first, and perhaps most valuable, service has been to 
excite universal interest in our fisheries, and to draw general 
attention to their importance. The second great step in ad- 
vance has been the accumulation of a vast amount of accurate 
information concerning the number aud yariety of our fishes, 
their food, manner of breeding, condition of life, migrations 
and stages of growth. The third degree of progress has been 
fishculture, which may be called negative and positive; nega- 
tive when obstructions to the increase of fish, such as im- 
proper apparatus and impassable dams, are removed; positive 
when fishes are artificially bred, or when new species are in- 
troduced from distant countries. 

It may be fairly said that both forms of culture have 
already given considerable results. Of the success of negative 
culture, a familiar example is that of the smelt, which a few 
years ago had grown scanty in numbers and small in size on 
the Massachuseets coast, because the breeding fish were cap- 
tured in the brooks when crowded together on their spawning 
beds. The prohibition of this kind of fishing was followed 
within three years by the restoration of the smelts to thei: 
former numbers and size. 

The best instance of positive culture is that of the Califor- 

nia salmon in the Sacramento River, where Livingston Stone, 
by annually turning into the river 2,000,000 young fry, arti- 


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ficially hatched, inereased the yearly catch from 5,000,000 
pounds to 9,500,000 pounds, ; 

Wide experience in the hatching of shad and whitefish 
proves pretty clearly that a marked increase may be obtained, 
if the work be done on a scale large enough and that an 
amount of work insufficient to produce a positive increase 
will, nevertheless, check the decrease of these species, 

In a word, artificial breeding, hy greatly augmenting the 
proportion of eggs impregnated and by protecting them until 
hatched, presents a great advantage over the natural process, 
and gives us an available method of preserving many impor- 
tant fisheries, But to produce results of commercial value, 
this waterculture must be practiced as universally and method- 
ically as is agriculture. 

lt is not the custom of Americans to stop half way in a 
profitable enterprise. Therefore I do not doubt that im the 
next generation some of our chief fisheries will he maintained 
by an established system of artificial culture, 

Perhaps, in that day the honorable guild of fishmongers 
will erect a monument of their gratitude, and will inscribe on 
its tablets the names of scientific men who have in our time 
labored, 

The chairman then introduced Hon §, 8, Cox, who spoke as 


follows: 
SPEECH OF HON. 8S. §, COX. 


LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: |t 1s my pleasure and privilege this 
evening to move a vote of thanks to the Hon. Theodore 
Lyman for his very felicitous and learned address upon this 
annual occasion, Iam told that by a custom which now ob- 
tains in this museum, T am expected to speak to my own 
motion. If [were in another body I think I should rule it 
out of order, hut I have a special gratification this eyening in 
haying a Congressman appear here so thoroughly Jearned in 
marine zoology. Thereissitting before me, I notice, an ex- 
member of Congress, the Hon. Mr, Roosevelt (and I beg to 
say thatin this particular province an x is not an unknown 
quantity), who has also devoted his services, his intellect, and 
sometimes his sportive nature to the same object as my dis- 
tinguished friend from Massachusetts, Buta New York man 
has not the same right to talk fish as a New England man. It 
is the peculiar privilege of, the latter, as any one can see who 
will examine the last census, and you may have noticed all 
through the remarkable address of our friend that he is 
associated with the fish interest and with the dams of Mas- 
sachusetts. I cannot say that I was shocked or astonished at 
his description, and at hearing the names of the yarious little 
streams of that State. We have always heard of them in the 
River and Harbor Bill, [Laughter,] But i was struck by one 
thing, namely, that he took very good care in his discussion 
to connect science with religion. And even at the 
falls of the Pawtucket, where he said the manufactur- 
ing interests did not harmonize with those of fish- 
eries, he associated the old Puritan doctrine with Tfeligion, 
revelation, science and fisheculture, which were almost ' 
one andthe same thing. Anditissimply true. If you look 
at the escutcheon of the State of Massachusetts you will 
find it to be a codfish, and nearly all the quarrels of that Pur- 
itan State have arisen from the same question that vexed the 
old Hollanders in early days as to whether the codfish took the 
hook or the hook took the codfish, [Laughter.] I do not 
know whether that pointis settled yet. The State of Massa- 
chusetts should be proud of her fisheries, I remember having 
the honor of being arrested at 3 o’clockin the morning with 
General Butler, inthe House of Representatives, inmry attempt 
to break down the proposition to pay over to England the 
$5,500,000 growing out-of the fishery award, I heard Mr, 
Rice, another member from Massachusetts, contend for the 
abrogation of the fishing treaty, which now allows fish to come 
in free from the Dominion of Canada, I sustained him in that, 
not because I was unwilling to haye fish come in free to this 
country, but because I did not want fish to come free from 
Canada or Great Britain, who had cheated us out of $5,500,000, 
Throughout this whole subject Massachusetts has played a 
most prominent part. Why not? In early days the Puritans 
came here to worship God and catch fish. [Laughter.] New 
England is the home, if not the mother, of invention. The 
feature which most interests us here to-night is the inventive 
faculty, It has been shown in such a remarkable degree 
in fishing, and chiefly in New England, in connection with 
improvements for the catching of fish, These were displayed 
oe a magnificent scale at Berlin in 1880, and in London in 

885. 

You may remember that a certain weaver at Lyous invented 
his famous net, which revolutionized fishing. They arrested 
him, and the great War Minister Carnot, sent for him tu come 
before the great Napolean. The Minister said: ‘‘Are you the 
man that ean do what God cannot# tie a knot on a stretched 
string?” And they put him gently under arrest, for fear he 
would go to England and there introduce his net, 

Since then we have moade remarkable strides in the inven- 
tion of fish apparatus. Our fishing schooner attracted uni- 
versal admiration in London, Wenow usesteam as an adjunct 
and the great purse-semne. In the whale fisheries harpoons 
are no longer of the old sort, but explosive. Not satisfied to 
blow up dynasties with dynamite, we blow up whales with it 
(Laughter.) 

But the great element of advancement was not discovered 
perhaps as early as some think—in Japan or China. Our 
learned friend fixed it at about 150 years ago, but I have data 
to show that this discovery of fishculture was made in Ohio! 
(Laughter). I know the man! (Prolonged laughter). His 
name was Dr. Garlick of Cleveland. Hisdiscovery like others 
was not complete at first, Iti was necessary that New York 
should perfect what Ohio had begun, and with the aid of 
several New York men, prominent among whom was my 
honorable friend in front (Hon. R. B. Roosevelt), this science 
was brought to pertection. By aiding nature, and with the 
skill of such men, these investigations have been prosecuted. 
Congress has been enabled to see something of the inestimable 
value of food fishes. Out of these investigations came the 
United States Fish Commission in 1871, for the creation of 
which I had the honor to yote. We should in a body pass a 
vote of thanks to Congress. From it came the appropriations 
that warmed wp the hatching places. They helped on the 
grand results. So that now we can send from one end of the 
country to the other over car-wheels, tanks of fish. We all 
have, I trust, or ought to have, a deep interest in the 
fisheries, 

But I forgot that I am speaking on a mere motion of thanks. 
Besides, I yesterday had occasion to speak at length in Con- 
gress ia favor of Professor Baird's bill for the preservation of 
the shad and herring of the Potomac. We carried it hand- 
somely. 

T have already spoken too long. I meant merely to refer to 
what my friend has stated so eloquently, and to make the 
motion which has already been made. I cannot, however, 
cease without referring to one matter, which is, that in our 
legislative action in Congress in connection with fishing and 
fishculture, we haye not been behind other nations, or rather 
legislative bodies. Itis pleasing to know that we have fur- 
nished all the BEPrOpNa none necessary ta enable us to meet 
the nations of the world, both at Berlin and at London. [ 
believe such appropriations should continue to be made. 
They will enable us to solve, as no other nation can, the prob- 
lem which you fishculturists are titying to solye here, and 
which France, Germany, and England are solying, With 
scientific applications to the multiplication of fishes, we shall 
always, with the aid of liberal appropriations from Federal 
aud State governments, not only be able to increase our food 
supply, but also to meet the nations of the world in happy 
viyalry and successful competition. I will say in conclusion: 
Ail honor to men engaged in this work! All honor to the 
Congressmen who can elucidate its value to the satisfaction of 
the people, All honor to the men, nay te this chief of men, 


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[Juny 10, 1884, 


MR. F. WINDHOLZ’S 


BLUE BELTON ENGLISH SETTER BITCH 
Winner of First in Puppy Class, New York, 1884. 


Professor Spencer F. Baird, who received the grand medal 
from the Emperor of Germany at Berlin, as the greatest of all 
liying fisheulturists. All honor to Professor George Brown 
Goode and his associates at Berlin and London, who bore 
away the highest prizes given in Germany and England. I 
want these honors to come while they are full of life, faith 
and hope, and can enjoy them. They are worthy of the com- 
mendation of Professor Huxley, who said that Professor 
Baird, Professor Goode and his associates, by their energy, 
patience, and scientific research, have made the world more 
and more comfortable for mankind, By their exertions they 
have advanced into high favor, the doctrine of applying 
science to human ends, I, therefore, ask you, Mr. President, 
to put the question of thanks to Professor Lyman for his very 
able address. Iwish I could add to it that emphatic senti- 
ment of the people, who in their homes all through the land 
gratefully commend the efforts of the United States Fish Com- 
mission. 

The president of the meeting proposed a vote of thanks to 
Hon, Theodore Lyman for his eloquent and instructive 
address. 

Hon, James B. Groome, referring to Hon §. 8S. Cox’s state- 
ment that Ohio had originated and New York perfected fish- 
culture, remarked; ‘'T beg to say also that Ohio produced, and 
New York perfected, the model Congressman.” (Applause.) 

The chairman proposed a vote of thanks to Hon. 8. 8. Cox, 
which was carried unanimously. 

The meeting then adjourned to meet next day. 


THE GREAT FALLS FISHWAY.—The plans for the Mc- 
Donald fishway at the Great Falls of the Potomac have been 
accepted by Prof. Baird and transmitted to Maj. Lydecker, of 
the U. 8. Engineers, under whose direction the work will be 
done, This insures more thorough work than if done by con- 
tract, and this fishway will give opportunity for careful and 
critical study of details, The total hight to be surmounted is 
71.9 feet, this rise being accomplished in a horizontal distance 
of 2,600 feet, measuring from the crest of the dam to the level 
of low water, The greater part of the ascent to be overcome 
is in the lower part of the section surveyed, the total elevation 
being accomplished by a succession of abrupt declivities, rising 
successively to higher levels. It is estimated that it will require 
for this work 202 cubic yards of cut stone masonry; 90 cubic 
yards of coping stone masonry; 479 yards of concrete masonry ; 

3,600 feet of timber, B. M.; 8,532 lbs. iron; 17,752 short bolts, 
2to6in,: 51,664 serews, 234 to 9 in,; 1,655 cubic yards of rock 
excavation; 750 cubic yards of earth excavation; and 110 cords 
ofriprap, The work will soon begin. Col, McDonald expects 
to sail for Scotland about July 10, the Scotch Commissioners 
having engaged him to construct a fishway on a salmon river, 
which he expects to complete in time for the fall run of fish. 


Some OrHER Man is always the one you think will get hurt by acci- 
dent, aad the ‘‘other man” thinks it will be you! If he is right, you 
will be sorry you didn’t insure in the Travelers, of Hartford—or your 


family will.—Adv. 
The Fennel, 


FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 


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Ontario Collie Club, Toronto, Ont. Entries close Aug. 23. Mr. H. J. 
Hill, Secretary, Toronto. » 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Mr, Benj. 
©, Satterthwaite, Secretary. 

Oct, 5, 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn. E. 5, Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. 

Oct, 21, 22, 23and 24.—First Annual Fall Bench Shew of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Chas. 
Lincoln, Supermtendent, 

FIELD TRIALS. 

Dee, 8 —Sixth Annual Trials of the National American Kennel Club 

at Canton, Miss. D. Bryson, Seeretary, Memphis, Tenn. 


A. K. R. 


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Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1, Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P. 0. Box 28382, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1319, VolumelI,, bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, 1,50. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. Aldrich seems to look upon the forty signers of that 
protest somewhat as Ali Baba did upon another famous forty. 
They are all very, very wicked men. But why should I be 
especially chosen out of the forty, to be the text of Mr. 

drich’s sermon, when so many of them are better known, 
both as breeders and exhibitors, than my humbleself. Ihave 
not said that Bang Bang was throaty. I have not said that 
he had a black nose, I have not said he was cock-eyed. What 
is the head and front of my offending? But to relieve Mr. 
Aldrich’s mind I will explain my position in regard to the pro- 
test, Iwas told that a protest was being signed against the 
judging of the pointers at New York, and asked if I, as a 
breeder, wished to signit. In my letter of Juned, from which 
Mr, A. quotes one paragraph, I expressly gaye my reasons for 
thinking Mr. E. C. Sterling no judge of a pointer. I readily 
then signed my name to a protest which J thought, and still 
think, was intended to conyey the objection of pointer 
breeders to that gentleman as a judge, and to prevent his 
being employed in that capacity at future bench shows. The 
PECuest as printed was worded a little differently from what I 

ad expected, but the substance being the same, I did not 
cayil at the form. 

As regards Meteor, I have never undertaken to pick him to 
pieces, but I frankly say that after hearing a full description 
of him from Major Taylor, who is an open admirer of the dog, 
and hearing more of him from others who know what a 
pointer should be, as well as or better than I do, I do not be- 
lieve he can beat one side of Beaufort in a large pointer class 
and under a judge who mows what a pointer is. Mr. Aldrich 
seems to be under the impression that I am fighting Mr. 
Mason’s battles against the W. K. C. Suchisnotthecase. I 
consider Mr. Mason Snub capable of taking care of himself, 
and when I condemn Mr. Sterling’s judgment it is with no 
feeling against the W. K. C. I am only championing Beau- 
fort against his foes, and would do so whoever owned him 
and whoever ran him down. If Meteor is such a grand dog 
why run Beaufort down? Were Meteor mine I should like 
Beaufort to be all his friends claim him to be when my dog 
had beaten him, Every fault that is found in him takes a 
leaf from Meteor’s laurels, and if he is as Mr. Cornell and Mr, 
Aldrich would fain paint him there is not much glory in beat- 
ing a cripple. And now I have explained, I want some expla- 
nation from Mr. Aldrich. What does he mean by ‘‘men like 
this,” as applied to me? If I have not forgotten my gram- 
mar “this”? needs another word to make sense, and applied to 
the rest of hissentence it is either ungrammatical or shows that 
Mr. Aldrich doesnot understand the wording of the protest, 
What is ‘‘hard” in my signing my humble name to that pro- 
test, and who it is ‘hard” on I cannot Bi Perhaps Mr, 
Aldrich can. T. B. Dorsey. 


Editor Forest and Stream; 

Tt is vain for Mr. Mason to say that Mr, Cornell began the 
fuss. He certainly cannot deny that his attempt on me was 
altogether without provocation on my part, yet he deliber- 
ately chose to make it a personal matter. / 

If he opines that only the owners of good ones are entitled 
to discuss dogs, I might call attention to the fact that I have 
owned, and indeed do now own, dogs that have won both in 
bench shows and field trials, first-class events at that, and not 
tail-end prizes either, But then, as we all know, Mr. Mason 
would say there was no competition, or if there was then the 
judges were fools. 

This hostility toa the record amounts, on Mr, Mason’s part, 
to an assumption of something like infallibility. Whenever a 
dog he dislikes, as Bang Bang or Thunder, wins, as such ones 
most commonly do, why then it don’t count, that’s all. But 
before he is publicly installed as pope of dogdom, he must 
make a better case than against Thunder, No such loose 
statement of the facts, even it what he states are facts, will 
suttice to discredit a public record. But take it all as he gives 
it, and it is as strongly against him as could be wished. 

There were no birds, he says. Well, then, what were the 
points upon which the decision yas reached? Hvidently 
range, pace, quartering, obedience, etc. If he was such an 
idiot as represented, itis apparent that he would lack in all 
those points which are dependent on intelligence, and there 
would be little left for him to winon but range and pace, 
which are precisely the points for which he would be disquali- 
fied if he ia such a defect as is affirmed. Mr. Mason will 
find that before he will be able to overthrow Thunder’srecord 
he will have no resource left him but a resort of personal yili- 
fication of those who made the record. ab. 

Now I want it understood that I never write anything in 
favor of my own works, and will not now do so, but I will 
give a little “fact, hard as granite,” that will show beyond dis- 
pute that either Mr. Mason is guilty of intentional unfairness, 
or of complete ignorance of the subject-he makes so free to 


‘open, dogs (26 Tbs, and over) 815, $5 and. 


“PRINCESS PHCEBUS.” 


discuss. In my picture of Thunder, with the dog in the posi- 
tion indicated and the spectator at the point of view chosen, 
and clearly established by the composition of the picture, 
such a crook as Mr. Mason describes in his criticisms of Thun- 
der’s leg could not be detected with the naked eye, or shown 
by a photograph, evenif it were present in the degree he 
claims, Now he either knows this or he does not, and I care 
not which horn of the dilemma he chooses, 

It is neither necessary nor proper to bring private persons 
or private expressions of opinions into a public discussion, 
What cannot be shown by proofs that are publie and open to 
the inspection and veriification of all, I am quiet willing to 
forego. So instead of giving the private conversation of any 

arty to show what ‘ notoriety ” there has been in regard to 

‘hunder’s field qualities, I will ailude to the tact that at 
Vincennes, Pittsburgh gentlemen, who were well acquainted 
with the dog and with his owner, backed him in the pools, 
and against no less a crack than Gladstone ! 

It is not news to anybody what kind of dog Mr. Mason 
favors, we all knew he went in for a distinctly show animal, 
as do a great many others, all of which is their right and 
privilege. There are, however, many who go in for field 
quality, and care less for ornamental points. Itis nob yet 
proven which of these opposing parties is in the right, The 
question is open for discussion, and any person, however 
humble, who can give valuable facts looking to its elucidation, 
wili be listened to with pleasure, but mere assertion, ‘personal 
denunciation and bounce will not impose upon anyhody. 

J. M, TRACY, 

GREENWICH, July 5, 1884. 


NEW YORK FALL DOG SHOW. 


HE first annual fall bench show of the Westminster Ken- 
nel Club will be held at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 21, 
22, 23 and 24, With the exception of bloodhounds, deerhounds, . 
greyhounds and fox-terriers, the show will be confined to the 
non-sporting classes, The premium list, which we give below, 
contains ninety-two classes. The prizes offered are liberal, 
and perhaps as well apportioned as possible, Should the fan- 
ciers of any breed feel that they are not sufficiently noticed, 
we can assure them that a full entry will result in a better 
classification and larger prizes next year, and we presume 
that the management would cheerfully sub-diyide at this show 
all of the classes where the number of entries is sufficiently 
large to make it advisable. Weare glad to notice that the 
club have taken a new departure, and adopted a rule debar- 
ring all dogs from the champion class who have not won three 
first prizes either in open, champion or extra champion classes, 
We trust that all future shows will, now that the ice has been 
broken, adopt the same rule. They have also added to the 
list of recognized shows those held at Crystal Palace, Alex- 
andra Palace and Birmingham, England. The entries close 
Oct. 6. Following is the premium list as corrected to date: 
Mastirrs.—Champion dogs $20, bitches the same; open, 
dogs $15, $5 and medal, bitches the same; an extra prize of 
$10 for best brindle dog, best brindle bitch the same; puppies, 
dogs $10 and medal, bitches the same, 
Sr. BERNARDS.—Champion rough-coated dogs $20, bitches 
the same; open, dogs $15, $5 and medal, bitches the same; 


puppies, dogs $10 and medal, bitches the same. Champion 
smooth-coated dogs #20, bitches the same; open, dogs $15, $5 
and medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs $10 and medal, 


bitches the same. { 

NEWFOUNDLAND.—Black, champion dogs or bitches $20; open, 
dogs $10 and medal, bitches the same; other than black, dogs 
or bitches $10 and medal, ‘or . 

GrREYHOUNDS.—Champion dogs $20, bitches the same; open, 
dogs $10 and medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs or bitches 
$10 and medal. _" 

DrERHOUNDS.—Champion dogs or bitches $20; open, dogs 
$10 and medal, bitches the same; puppies, dogs or bitches $10 
and medal, 

ENGLISH BLOODHOUNDS.—Open, dogs or bitches, $10 and 
medal, 

Fox-TERRIERS.—Champions, dogs $20, bitches the same; 
open, dogs $15, $5 and medal, bitches the same. Wire-haired, 
dogs or bitches, $10 and $5; puppies, dogs $5 and medal, bitches 
the same. 

Surrpr Docs.—Champion dogs $20, bitches the same; open, 
rough-coated, dogs $10, $5 and medal, bitches the same. 
Smooth-coated, dogs or bitches $10 and medal; puppies, dogs 
$10 and medal, bitches the same. 

Oe aera on dogs (any weight) $20, bitches the 
same; open, dogs (45 lbs, and over) $15, 85 and medal, bitches. 
(35 lbs, and over) the same; dogs under 45 lbs. the same, 


‘bitches under 35 lbs. the same; puppies, dogs or bitches $5 and 


medal, 

BULL-TERRIERS.—Champion dogs (25 Ibs..and over) $20 
bitches the same; dogs” under 25 ‘ibs! $20, bitches the same; 
medal. bitches ths, 


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Jow 10, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


473 


>a ,_™~ —n eee _—__o_0 OOS oor ——— 


same; dogs under 25 Ibs. the same, bitches the same; puppies, 


dogs or bitches, medal. _ 
"BrACK AND Tan THRRIERS.—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
Scorcn TERRIERS,—Hard-haired, dogs or bitches $10 and 
medal. ; 
TERRIERS.—Rough-haired dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
oe Dinmont TERRTERS.—Dogs or bitches $10 and 
medal. —_ 
Trish TERRIERS.—Dopgs or bitches $10 and medal. 
BEDLINGTON TERRIERS.—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal, _ 
Skyb TERRMERR.—Champion dogs or bitches, champion 
medal; open, dogs or bitches $10, $5 and medal, 
YORKSHIRE TERRIERS.—Champion dogs or bitches over 
5 Ibs., champion medal, under 5 lbs. the same; open, dogs or 
bitches over 5 Ibs,, $10, $5 and medal, under 5 Ibs. the same. 
Toy THERRIERS.—Rough-coatied, other than Yorkshire, dogs 
or bitches under 51bs. $10 and medal, smooth-coated the 
same. ; 
Kine CHARLES SPANTELS.—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
BLENHEM SPANIELS,—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal, 
JAPANESE SPANIELS.— Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
Pucs.—Champion dogs $20, bitches the same; open, dogs 
rae - and medal, bitehes the same; puppies, dogs or bitches, 
medal, 
MALTESE Does,—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
TrTALIAN GREYHOUNDS.—Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
PoopiEs.—Doegs (black) $10 and medal, bitches the same. 
white, dogs or bitches $10 and medal. ; 
DALMATIANS,— Dogs or bitches $10 and medal. 
MISCELLANEOUS.—Dogs or bitches not classed, over 265 lbs,, 
$10, $5 and medal, under 25 lbs., the same. Should there be 
two or more in either class of the same breed a separate class 
will be made for them, and regular prizes awarded, 


MISTAKE IN PEDIGREE. 


Editor Forest and Stream: - 

In reference to the above entitled article contained in last 
week's issue of FoREST AND STREAM I deem it a duty, not 
only to myself, but to others, who may be interested in the 
matter, to make the following explanation: 

The pointer bitch Fancy, purchased by Mr. Miller (about 6 
months ago), was originally owned by a Mr. M. Walrath, of 
Bast Albany, N, Y.; this gentleman obtained her from a Mr. 
P. Halie. Mr. Walrath obtained the pedigree from Mr. R, G. 
Wilbur of Albany, to whom it was given by Mr. Halie, pend- 
ing previous negotiations for the sale and purchase of the 
bitch between the two latter parties (the pedigree referred to 
is the one now in question). Mr. Wilbur told me afterward 
that he was assured positively that the bitch was as repre- 
sented; that she was one of a litter of nine puppies (four dogs 
and five bitches) and Weipa in November or December (I 
have forgotten which), in 1881; Here I desire to make a cor- 
rection on the part of Mr. Miller, who isin error (uninten- 
tional I feel assured, however) in regard to the age given at 
time of purchase by him, which was two and not three years, 
which corresponds with the date of birth as previously given 
to me, making the bitch about two years seven or eight 
months old at the present time, 

Tt is not my custom nor has it ever been to guarantee the 
pedigree of amy stock not bred in my own kennel or from my 
stock unless IT am positively assured beyond any question of 
douht as to the correctness of the breeding, and again IJ regret 
that Mr, Miller is laboring under an erroneous impression in 
regard to my certifying as to the pedigree’s being correct, 
not but what it may beso, and beyond a question of doubt 
with others, but simply because it is not my custom to do so. 
1 have always since my first acquaintance esteemed Mr, Miller 
as a gentleman, and I believe him entirely incapable of know- 
ingly misrepresenting any stock that he may have for sale. 
Both Mr. Walrath and Mr. Wilbur, the parties referred to, are 

entlemen that are held in high esteem, and both are positive 
in their assurances as to the bitch’s being bred as stated, Mr. 
Halie I never knew personally, but only through the above 
named parties, both of whom place entire confidence in him 
and his statement, 

In regard to a technical error in a pedigree, if the pedigree 
is otherwise correct (i. ¢., correct as to sire and dam), due 
allowance should always be made. Mr, Dilley should and un- 
doubtedly dees Know whether his bitch was bred to Croxteth 
at all, and if so at what time, and if there was any progeny 
what disposition was made of them. Hither of the parties I 
have referred to will sustain me verbatim et literatim in what 
Thave said, and any communications to them on the subject [ 
am stire will be cheerfully and promptly answered. My spe- 
cialty in breeding is almost entirely and exclusively Irish 
setters, and on the subject of pointers and their pedigrees I 
consider myself but a poor authority. W.N. CaLLenpsr, 


Appany, N. Y, 


DEATH OF GATH.—We have received-a dispatch from 
Memphis, Tenn., announcing the death, on July 1, of the 
famous English setter dog Gath, from the effect of a dose of 
poison administered at Fairmont, Minn, The history of Gath 
is well known to the readers of FOREST AND STREAM, A 
capital likeness of him may be found in our issue of Dec. 6. 
We then said of him; ‘The setters at this last meeting made a 
yery strong class, and Gath stands at its head. e believe 
him to be the very best setter in America to-day, and the 
work which he did in the concluding heat of the All-Aged 
Stake was marvelous.” Jn describing this heat we said: ‘The 
work in this heat was very near perfection, and fully equal if 
not superior to that in the heat between Gath and Pink B. 
Indeed, so bewildering was the nature of the performance 
that we could scarcely realize that we were not upon 
enchanted ground, and following the evolutions of super- 
natural dogs.” Gath made his first appearance in public in 
the National Derby of 1882, where he acquitted himself very 
ereditably, but was not placed. Last year, in the hands of 
Mr. H. M. Short, he won first in the Eastern Field Triais All- 
Aged Stake, secondin the National All-Aged Stake, and at 
the same meeting divided the champion prize with Bryson’s 
Sue. At the Southern States Trials, a week later, he won 
second in the All-Aged Stakes and the champion prize. He 
was shown on the bench but twice, At New Orleans last 
winter he won first in the open class, the special for the best 
English setter and three specials for dogs that had been placed 
at field trials. At St. Louis last April he won in the champion 
class. He was a finely formed animal with a wonderful turn 
of speed, and possessed one of the best noses that we ever saw. 
He was also very sey ust. when on game. Thisis a pecutier'y 
ageravated case of dog poisoning, and Mr, Crawford wi 
have the sympathy of all owners of valuable dogs. 


THE WARWICE SHOW.—London, S$. E., June 20,.—Hditor 
Forest and Stream: Your correspondent ‘‘Lillibulero,” in 
your issue of May 22 last, has indulged his imagination in a4 
description of the judging at this show, and has given it such 
reins that it appears to have run away with the owner, and 
it is a difficult task to find out where he gains control and is 
able to assume the sober, steady pace of truth. He says, 
“Well, but look here, this did not happen at Warwick, so 
adieu, imagination, and return hard facts.” The hard facts 
are hard, but the facts are mere presumptuous outpouriugs of 
an ignorant conjecture, which he seeks to impose on the credu- 
lity of his readers. His remarks which follow this announce- 
ment are directed against two gentlemen, most honorably and 
deservedly respected in the mastiff world, and are as far from 


the truth, as posers the inuendos which they contain, as any 
imagination, filed with ‘envy, hatred and all uncharitable- 


ness,” can make them. He, evidently, knows little of Mr. 
Portier or Mr. Taunton. He describes the former as “having 
ran ; hefore, but he does not remember where;” and says 


* 


he has written ‘‘over the nom de plume of ‘Anglo-American.’” 
It should be “Franeo-American,” some of whose letters have 
been among the most able of those appearing in our journals. 
But did your ‘‘Lillibulero” Know anything of mastiffs he 
would be aware that Mr, Portier’s letters on that subject were 
signed “County Monaghan.” I shall hardly be accused of 
partiality, for it is well-known that ‘‘County Monaghan” has 
been my fiercest and most powerful opponent in the contro- 
versy on ‘Mastiffs and their Points;” but always an opponent 
who tought fairly and gave his reasons for any differences of 
opinion, Mr. Taunton, as a gentleman of unimpeachable 
honor, and as a breeder of some of our best mastiffs and for- 
eign dogs, enjoys the esteem of all who are interested in, 
these breeds and is too well known to require any eulogies. 
The stud prize at Warwick, was awarded to Mr, Taunton’s 
Cardinal, and my own dogs, who represented the progeny of 
Crown Prince, were beaten. Under the circumstances of the 
case, as explained by Mr. Portier in the Live Stoek Journal, I 
see no reason to cavil at his decision, and feel quite sure it was 
a@ conscientious one. T do not like to see exhibitors grumbling 
atthe verdict of those judges whom they have themselves 
asked to adjudicate, and still more object to a reporter who 
tries to make people believe that he casts no “suspicion” on a 
judge’s “strict. probity,” at the same time insinuating that the 
judge and his friend are ‘‘Arcades ambo,” which those versed 
in the comic Latin grammar know how to translate. This 
is giving ‘‘a handle to the Party of envy, hatred and all un- 
charitableness,” in which malice may be yery safely invluded, 
Hoping you will find room in your paper for this protest, as I 
lnow Americans like fair play as well as Englishmen, I beg 
to sign myself.—I. SipNey-TURNER. 


DOGS BOARDED,—Mr. Wim. H. Pierce advertises to board 
and condition a few dogs. We have no doubt he will readily 
obtain all he wishes, as the appearance of his dogs when 
shown is ample testimony as to his ability to put them in 
condition and to keep them looking their best. 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. ‘To insure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 


i, Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. buyer or seller. 

3. Sex. 7, Sire, with his sire and dam, 

4, Ape, or 8. Owner of sire. 


5, Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10, Owner of dam, 
Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 
paper only, and signed with writer’s name, 


NAMES CLAIMED. 


f=" See instructions at head of this colwmn. 

Duke of Hudson, Don, Spot and Lucy. By Mr. Charles H. Malle- 
son, Hudson, N. Y,, for King Charles spaniels, three dogs and one 
bitch, whelped April 27, 1884, by Duke of New York out of his Jumbo. 

Belton II. By Mr. B, A. Gage, Pawtucket, R. I., for wlite, black 
and tan English setter dog, whelped April 30, 1884 (Yale Belton— 

opsy. 

Halka. By Mr. Lawrence M. Kostright, Bristol, R. I,, for red Irish 
setter bitch, whelped Jan, 21, 1884, by champion Glencho out of Bess 
(Chief—Tilley). 

Burr. By Mr. C Frank Greene, Jersey City, N. J,, for beagle dog, 
whelped Feb. 21, 1884, by Joy out of Nelly. 

Dave Bondhue. By Messrs. Walter and Mason; Providence, R. T., 
for black, white and tan English setter dog, whelped Feb. 27, 1884, by 
Gus Bondhue (Dashing Bondhue—Noyel) out of Countess Mollie 
(Count Noble—Spark), tees 


ees" See instructions at head of this column. 

Rena—Agrippa, The Riverview Kennel’s (Clinton, Mass.) mastiff 
bitch Rena (A.K.R, 262) to their Agrippa (A.K.R. 449), May 13. 

Delph Viva—The Prince. The Riverview Kennell’s (Clinton, Mass,) 
imported mastiff bitch Delph Viva (E.K.C.S.B. 14,738) to Mr. J, Royle’s 
(Manchester, England) The Prince (Crown Prince—Lady), May 2. 

Medea—Dash II. Mr. CG. D. Foss’s (Boston, Mass,) English setter 
bitch Medea (Bute—Pride) to Mr. A. M. Tucker’s Dash III., May 11. 

Hilda V.—Agripna. The Riverview Kennel’s (Clinton, Mass.) mas- 
tiff bitch Hilda V. to their Agrippa (A.K.R. 449),May 30. 

Antea—Agrippa. The Riverview Kennel’s (Clinton, Mass.) mastiff 
biteh Antea (A.K.R. 244) to their Agrippa (A. K.R. 449), May 2. 

CorreEection,—In the notice last week of the breeding by Mr. C. H. 
Drayton’s Vie to Glencho, Elcho is given as his sire, It should read 


Echo, 
WHELPS. 


=" See instructions at head of this column. 

Jumbo. Mr. Charles H, Malleson’s (Hudson, N, Y.) King Charles 
spaniel bitch Jumbo (Prince—Gipsey), April 27, four (three dogs), by 
ae A. W. Lucy's imported Duke of New York (Don Carlo—Queen of 

Ow). 

Nora. Mr. Joseph Hayes’s (Boston, Mass.) imported red Irish setter 
bitch Nora (Cigar—Belle), July 7, eight, by Mr. J. J. Giltrap’s (Dublin, 
Ireland) champion Garryowen (1.K.C.8.B. 8,262). 

SALES, 


E> See instructions at head of this column. 

Radnor—Nora whelp. Orange and white Hnglish setter deg, whelped 
April 25, 1884, by Mr. Manasseh Smith, Woodford, Me., to Dr. Charles 
D, Smith, Portland, Me. 

Ruth. White, with orange ears, English setter bitch, whelped 
August, 1881 (Dashing Lion—Armida), by Mr. H. W. Jester, St. 
George’s, Del., to Mr. E. 8S. Hawks, Ashfield, Mass. (Wrongly given 
as Highland Kennel, June 26), 

Belton If, White, black and tan English setter dog, whelped April 
30, 1884 (Yale Belton—Topsy), by Mr. H, A. Bailey, New Britain, Ct,, 
to Mr, B, A. Gage, Pawtucket, R. J, 

Pet Berwyn. Black, white and tan English setter bitch, whelped 
June 2, 1883 (Dashing Berwyn—May, Druid), by Mr, J, A. Rockwood, 
West Medford, Mass., to Mr, Walter B. Peck, Pawtucket, R. I. ' 

PRESENTATIONS. 

= See instructions at head of this column, 

Pride of Columbia. White, with orange markings, English setter 
dog, 24 years old, by Cossack (Don—Fairy) out of Ophelia (Pontiac— 
Mollie Bawn), by Hon. John W. Browning to Mr, Stewart M, McKay, 


New York. 
DEATHS. 


=" See instructions at head of this colunuvi. 

Gath. Black, white and tan English setter dog, 3 years old (Count 
Noble—Peep 0” Day), owned by Mr, W. J. Crawford, Memphis, Tenn,, 
July 1. at Fairmont, Minn., from poison. 

Taurus II, Mastiff dog (A,K.R, 1,152), owned by Mr. B. R, Hamp- 
son, St. Louis, Mo., June 17, from pneumonia, 

Lorna IT, Deerhound bitch, 14 months old (Oscar—Lorna), owned 
by Prof. Theodore A. Blake, New Haven, Ct., from distemper, 


Rifle and Gray Shooting, 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


LOCKLAND RIFLE RANGH,.—At their Range, June 27, the Lock- 
land Rifle Club made the following scores: Geiger 169, T. Smiley 168, 
Stickles 162, Best 161, Worbis 161, Critchfield 159. Neiman 157, R. Mace 
157, P. Mace 157, Richards 153, Poole 153, Dunn i51, Stevenson 148, 
Freechey 146, Roll 115, W. Smiley 145, Musselman 143, Potter 139, J. J. 
Smiley 188, Harrison 118. The average, 15144, is very good. The 
shooting was off-hand 200 yards at a Massachusetts target. Our range 
is situated _at Maplewood, just ten miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
When Mr, W. M. Farrow visited us we were organizing the Rifle Club 
and he set us a pattern of 165, stating that when any one of us beat 
that score he would come to our range and set us another pattern, 
We would be happy to see Mr, Farrow here once more and hope that 
this will be the means of inducing him to come.—A. R. R. 


GARDNER, Mass., June 25.—Members of the Gardner Rifle Club 
who went out to Hackmatack range eee made the followin, 
scores, using the American decimal target, distance, 200yds., shoot- 
ing off-hand, with a possible 100: J, M. Dodge 86, A. Mathews 62, G. 
Fr. Ellsworth 81, G. C. Goodale 73, W. C. Loveland 69, George H. His- 


RIFLE CLUB, July 3,—12-ring target, possible 120: 
Zimmerman 115, M, Dorrler 115, 3. Schrarder 112, G. 


BULLSHEAD 
A, raee 117; G, 


D, Johnson 141, C. Rein 111, D. Louitzki 104, 8. F, C. Weber 105, J. F. 
Campbell 102, W. Shaw 89.—A. Loser, Sec’y. 


BOSTON, July 4.—There was a large number of riflemen at Walnut 
Hill to-day, and, with fine conditions, some good work was done, A 
match was shot on the oe between teams representing the 
Lawrence Rifle Club and the home association, the tormer winning. 
Matches B, C and E, which had been running some time, closed to- 
day. The records made in these contests are appended, as wellas 
the scores in the other contests of the day: 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


JW Frost...-....... 556504454446 D Kirkwoed (mil,)...544d445444—49 
W Gardner ......... 5ddddb4455—44 A J Kempton....... 445445444442 
PAY NER Wass! Str Mes Serres 445455544444 J I Darmoody (mil,),4554334444 42 
G Whitcomb....,...38544454455—43 J L Fowle (mil,) ., ..4445554434—42 
W A Morton.......-. 448455544543 IP Dodge........... 444444445441 
Credmoor Prize Match. 
CE Berry.....2 .... 565545555549 J W Whitcomb .... .4545545545—46 
OM Jewell........-. 5665445555548 D Kirkwood (mil.). .5554544545—46 
FW Perkins....... 5bb55b5d54—48 W Wisher ........... 545455465446 
Ei FW Richardson.....5454545555—47 A D Alden.......... §444455455—44 
W Wallace -.....2:. 544555545547 A B Areher..,...... 5544445454— 44 
JB Fellows ........5555644515—47 WH Oler........... 4355545445 —44 
JN Brye) 55. ax: 54555455447 , 
Massachusetts Rifle Association, Lawrence Rifle Club, 
Oa Berry. 6 hase 5555555444—47 OM Jewell.......... 4545545555—47 
S-EYaMGIRs. th. Pat oss 46554544546 EF Richardson..... 645455545547 
F Wallace........:.. 445444545544 J W Frost........04: 445455555b5—46 
P Kirkwood ........ 444445643441 A D Alden.... ,,,,.,5454544454—44 
W Gardner....... _. 4444424545—40 W Wisher.,.,.......,4545445454—44 
218 228 
Match C. 

WY ORBrIGS 220 os te Sekt RE EES SE COU PE as aL cee ....84 86 81 78 —3R29 
VY RTG ey sk a aed aasdaunees ANAL e Pate 76 67 62 59+28—292 
Match E.—Decimal, Off-hand. 

WHGHAPIBS con, cue adelaide ph Wanted tbc aclis Ae tine 84-88 —172 
WY GALUMON a Jes gee ca dae trot tle AO d) Hoga jo Taba aden (i T5412 —164 
EINES V Gs saeeeecicras Epagcee tek chen Restrnt sheet 74 73+ 8 —155 
Ay SS OMLNCL S54. eateeie coe tense ecleses Notes 76 68+20 —164 
AP BP RETO WRU aay te cence cancel Mane ca thre ol epar ene 78 W+4 —162 
Decimal Rest. 
WA: HATO. -b SSD. Fes kon abe 20-3 s ores eco rer nes S tals ely vw 98 —190 
We GarealGinn: stds ics e a kote ot hod a ee er velsy ya uatew's ny 9 94 —189 
J N irye. BY ania rea anata Mere eh ae Melis Saar hah al 06 an , —189 
ELEN OI ae ats plow sinatra te er ua tptels ete ol krewoyemrees GOOG —15915 
Det Pollowsioas eke he tibee Leah vues! aie ontae ee ead 86 88 na 
Creedmoor. 
With arlesvce cone tsa ate aabah-ate) sh tethn aeurawh hots 49 474- 9H—458 
VY SGD GT eared tie ccaigevveven s gd at nang a ars 45 4543 93443 
SPUN rye cols earn he de ig eet ea ee 43 4512 90—484 
YB Sorter Foote eines once reser 47 4545 97—42016 
BAS aKAl (oy, pee ete wea neice ionic bere trees 47 444-1 92—418 
Match B. 
CSEABerry~ ecb eee eR eee es ews © muidensinneamnee, 47 AY 48 49-- 6—196 
FE NMRA Giaics rleie'o iol cteieleaclelgicse tie o 0 ant aed ce te 48 47 47 i 7—196 
HAS CHISHIT peat, ecw reac dabtoee snadaee etn Sak ins erien se 47 4% 46 46--10—196 
DLBSBaTeST, eiicee Fa oAd se dat dd atte tae Une nk he 49 47 45 45--11—195 
DS VCUOW Sank ee eee aed a deena snr > ie 49 47 47 474- 2-192 
GEE ewe ey ie keene ees wesceissen seep nee 48 47 47 4 —190 
DEAR OOOH THEE) pale eesea pees Gite eee bee cal ate 45 44 45 46410—190 
Fag a ae) coh apace eae ey LTA Ae KA WARM Sn 46 46 46 47-+ 4189 
Ay DE os ey See — eo ee a ae A5 45 45 46-- 8—188 
HG Bixby 2 beso ye Ce bythe cet aicaseelgeee inet etesed 49 48 47 438 —187 
Fe ROR TQnATdSON ase ee (kes soe aren ba pcm 48 47 47 47- —187 
GE WRItCOM BD. Cis cents. a swicme cu abren e pdilee 46 45 44 dd 9-184 
AMEE AT CHER el te desea le lelncledice dy te ew fe eras 44 48 44 42 9-180 


July 5.—There was a very slim attendance of shooters at the 
range at Walnut Hill to-day, in fact the regular “‘aiter a holiday 
crowd,” owing no doubt in part to the threatening weather. The 
clouds were dark and heayy, with alternating sunshine and shadow, 
with a stormy ‘‘fish-tail” wind. Despite this fact, however, Mr. Berr 
made a fine 47, Creedmoor, and Mr, 0, H. Brown aclean score of 100, 
decimal rest target, and followed it with § centers, makmg 18 consecu- 
tive shots put into a 3-inch circle. This is all considered remarkable 
shooting, when the weather conditions are observed and it is remem- 
bered that each gentleman was using a 32-caliber Maynard rifle. 


CREEDMOOR,.—The members of the Amateur Rifle Club of New 
York shot at Creedmoor on Thursday, July 3, for the Leech eup, 
given in 1875 by Maj. Blennerhasset Leech of Ireland. It was won by 
W. W. De Forest, who made the highest score ever made on the 
range. 221 out of a possible 225, namely 75 at S00yds., 74 at 900 and 72 
at 1,000. Before the 1,000yds. range was shot, a heayy rain storm set 
in, and the weather conditions at the range made the score most 


remarkable, There were but six competitors. ; 

B00yds. 900yds, 1,000yde a 
NW IWD BH OLOSU 2 ieee rire tle Dara ave pigie ne eieti nays 16 T4 72 —28 
TH RAQSN GMC ovesa ia fea taken ee wae nn tong snes Caen i “1 69—214 
@oleHyhy Glare eras iiesalees twee =e tceraw selon, 7 64 52—201 
TiiG@leOra, ceae surest suecte ht biseteewiss he et tee gies 68 70 61—199 
SNS Bip eet treree ier ae vn seerere te te ere eae = 75 69 55—199 
HIM GOB ds Bopeseo greene ere: 2 eon tes” 65 67 64—196 


THOMASTON, Conn., June 28.—At the weekly shoot of the Empire 
Rifle Club to-day, the following scores were made: 


WH Dunbaren oo ln. aaa: dates 10 1 10 11 21 10 «10 11° 9 12—105 
Ch AST emWiOn nee ak eee 9 9H ll Wd 9 11 10 10 12—103 
a EL OTNS cone Oe Gat eee 10. 105 13 °F AO Oe 12 3T A” B10 
@ FP Williams....).........0. 9) 2 12ra0e 12 ie YY 10. 19 108 
GOP MOTEL poets yoo tee pele 10) 1 Oe JON RO CO LTeOn Boe 
KEE WOO Giese an Seppe elds 6 5 11 BW Wi tl 5b 12 §— 94 
ASH OX tA. 123% wah ateet tie set eoman tate o ii tt tf 8.910) "9 Ay 9. (8—"9e 
GayeAv ine soo eee 9. SS BE 897 9, C8. 38 BS Bea 
Ginter ee) eed, eee ae 9 1% 1040 11 6) DB 5. 10° 9— (86 
BW Pease Se ee ee gs ey LO Sin 1b 6.11 9 12 12 2 


8 1 
The club are to have a shoot with the Canton Rod and Gun Club 
July 8.—F. A. P. F ; 

July 4,.—Team match, shot by members of the Empire Rifle Club. 


W #H Dunbar’s Team. 


Gi OrGantield es paises 10; 40 St 66 10 1D 10) AI— 97, 

W H Dunbar. 5. ....0.56 10 Ve Ott 10. So °9. Te at) ees ee 

AUS “Hhibbard: .2 605s. 55 4 ait 9) 87 Oe 8) BOR 07 -O= 89 

VO hes Sey sep faa B53 ns.s LTP TUG ATS AG. Le ee 981s G5 

Kerwood) -:..-<<ss0s44- pee fh Fc8a 86s 1.8 a Reb oe ite 

EQ aS oe Wannbae Bete oe 910 4 8 ¢@ 4 9 4 4 10-67 

[Pay Vinee re oercr pecs mB, by Os OG, a0) 8 8, Doers oth 
G Gilbert's Team. ul 

C F Williams........... 10) 10 Te Oe ho Bee 100 

Ge erie eee eee es BT iF gS) Teese OSs Be 

HE Thomas.....-..2---21- 8 10 10 8 12 2 8 10 6 10~— é& 

Ge ENON Ue Ae. a ries gy meen 9 12 10 10 6 10 9 8 2 8&8 

BeW Pease Senusret ss avee yeah 5.6 8 hol 64 10 :=60% COB 8 

CUTAN cictmn ae. tiy afore € (~ § 10 40° 4°98 7% & Jo— 73 

FW Ay Perkins,;....5,..-:. (4 9 2 7 8 10 9 8 8 71—5%5 

July 5.—Weekly shoot for badge: 

GP North. Je ace = AAA pr f 14 10.10 21 10 9 tf TL 9—95 

AL Hubbard,,...... Reet riealt 10) 2 9. 10,8. 10; 8.10 1 6 —97 

Wahl Dunbar. 9 cg sce cles 8 10 12 9 11 10 9 10 9 Hi—9r 

HEP INOTIEG = pitino nee 8 11 9 9 10 11 10 10 11 6—9%5 

CF Williams...............02 10. 3) <2 10 10\ 12778 i ii ~9—93 

BU CarB a: Cow ayons aREARR Ecce e 8 10 10 9 10 10 12 8 9 9-9) 

GA Gbemimene Scr. 2k. re: 6 10 11 12 10 10 5 7 il 8—90 

CAAT ee ne eee 8 10 7 9 8 10 8 7% 1 10—88 

CAGE SLES ee ciivsien tei ets SRIOM ASL Beetle chet b . 

KenwyOOGE Esc eu hy as tla nae 9 Se Sr OG EP 108 16" Be 

HARP OUIBA worse Cd nns.sasaeme I 18 OF °F tt 8 Oe 8 AY “Say 

BEWoRGas@s.be scot sven seats of Y 6 HW 8 8 £10 9-8 

Gps ole ese fe ghee eae hlale vale 6 % 6 6 5b 10 10 10 8 5—68 

ATORY OG Cea hon Pees: as eee 9 312 12 10 6 4 5 8 261 


THE JERSEY CITY SCHUTZEN CORPS held their regular semi- 
annual practice shoot at the Greenville Schutzen Park, on Friday, the 
26th ult. The target used was the German ring, 12ir. bullseye, 134in. 
center, counting 25: 


Geo W Plaisted 6... sect erseeeses 23 20 24 19 21 24 24 2B 21 2B—2i2 
Joe Reisenhour. eel 20 21 21 21 24 16 1g 21 20—208 
Joe Wilkinson. .... 2... eee seen ene: 17 22 16 22 28 22 19 22 17 19—199 


Capt Newman... 2... -+e.scecsveesees 19 21 18 16 22 20 24 21 19 17—197 


JOSBOC ee rite ete ee eee nee 12 20 14 17 23 24 00 28 19 20—183 
John @ Wenner... -.s.+-. sees enee - 11 20 25 16 19 22 — 22 20 19-174 
Bugeue Frank........,....-.eeseaeee: 08 11 22 19 23 — 23 28 11 21-151 - 
KR von Radonita .. 11....-..12.--s0. 28 19 08 21 14 05 22 19 — 21-100 
GiVeeBrinkerhoft. 0... Js.as +s «2 a 16 — 14 21 28 02 21 24 — 17-138 
SFRCMULGUIEY te ery Anette eee cca cea -...— 10 11 — 18 21 19 04 21 OV—I11 
THE TRAP. 
Correspondents who favor us with club scores are particularly re- 


quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


; ASSOCIATION OF THE CAROLINAS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

“The day we celebrate” is not an unfitting one on which to inform 
the readers of Forysr StTREsM, that the Sportsmen’s Association 
of the Carolinas propose have 4 trial of skill] at Columbia, S. C,, on 
July 29, 80and 31. I am authorized to state that visitors from all 
sections of the country are cordially invited to participate, and we 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Juny 10, 1884. 


promise to show them that whatever expertness they may exhibit, 

we haye several members who will be able to make their triumph an 

honorable one. Not being blessed with much spare cash, our prizes 

are not large, but such as they are, any one is welcome to get them, 

if they can, Hotel accommodations are good and the grounds are 

eligible. Weexs, President. 
RockmncHam, N. C., July 4. 


TOPSHAM, Me., July 4.—The regular shoot of the Riverside Club 
on this date was made a side shoot, and was a very interesting and 
somewhat exciting affair. Twenty clay-pigeons, 10 single and 5 pairs, 
an 120 glass balls, 10 singles and 5 pairs, the best individual score to 
take club badge: 

Wim, Dunning’s Side. 


Pigeons. Balls. 
Dunning... .0110220200 1100111000 00w — 8% 
Alexander.1111111011 10101011 11 1111111111 00 01 10 11 11—32 
Hall, M C..1111111171 01 10 00 11 10 «1111111010 410 01 13 11 11—31 
Goud ...... 2012111130 01 01111001 0101001101 10 10 01 10 01—23 
Hall, A O..1112110001 1011101010 1111110111 11 10 11 10 11—30}4 
125 
Wm. Tate’s Side. 
EEC aie ot 0000010101 1001 001100 liw —9 
Goud.......0111111010 101011 11 10 1110111010 11 11 11 10 10—29 
Purinton,..2111111011 11 01 11 1111 1011111001 10 10 01 11 11-31% 
Keene..... 2020111121 0011 001010 0000010111 11°01 O01 01 11—21 
Strout..... 1101101121 0010111010 0010221010 10 11 10 10 00—22%% 


, 1134 
Alexander wins the badge.—Cuas. Coun (Sec. Riverside lub). a 


NARRAGANSETT GUN CLUB, July 3.—Weekly shoot of Narra- 
gansett Gun Club at clay-pigeons, for silver trophies: 


(EA Oral: 2. ates hier asa sade oo 10 10 11 11 10 11 17:11 «11 «11—18 
MiMUSheld on asses. teketba wba ess ,..11 11 10 11 11 00 11 11 10 11—16 
TOPS al en fa o5 ee a eee oer -10 11 11 11 11 10 01 10 10 Di—14 
ET MAE AV SOND lr sess cst ei 00 10 11 11 11 11 10 10 11 10-—i4 
NEMS eae pe ren ahah ae nace ete op corm pega oe 1i 11 00 11 11 10 O1 10 10 10—13 
GH Brown. ......<.- wae ok RE SO 3 11 11 10 00 00 OT 10 10 10 10—10 
ASW aLOTIT On ues we veces cca t ieee eet 00 00 11 00 11 GO 11 00 00 00— 6 
CRE ES ert he eres Con Lee RE Bi 11 01 10 10 00 10 00 00 w 
Shoot for Ligowsky State Badge. 
FO AV EET OD ae cape coy Cho CCU We Gelants peek eeiats 1411110111911111111111141— 24 


GJ Crandall....,.... 
PERS TS (ni: een A are Se 
EL Sp ET Coy ry RR oP ene 


~ -1111110111111111111111111—24 
-0111011110111011111110111—20 
-1101011110101111110111110—19 


COAL E Yr cele ae aa napa ee nih ebmaieertees 0111111001 110011111111010—18 
OPISSL RS en pe RO Be yl sl 5 1110100101101110101111111—18 
HOTU GY sac vite ane dear malice were nib iis seis 101101111011101 1101011011—18 
PAWN MEE LTIER Sr Cee ea IE a ralale ate dearer eter ne SEATS: 0111111111111101010001010 —-17 
AVN OUN GOS ooaccodGadlnad.cenen nodes rie 1101100100111100010001111—14 
PART AMEN Sct ayers serie <rctee|e efeleeje ene s)3--= = tne .-0100000011111000101111101—13 
(GLAD Ctete) bstorer does. hoch eo gaadooe 1001110000000011010000110— 9 


Ties on 24: Tinker 4, Crandall 5. NARRAGANSETT. 


WELLINGTON, Mass., July 5.—There were. some forty-five sports- 
men gathered at the grounds of the Malden Gun Club, at Wellington. 
to-day. The leading events were the contests for the gold and leather 
badges, Wemyss taking the former and Scott the latter. The other 
events were: 

First event, five birds, straightaway, 2lyds._Snow and Dickey first, 
Adams second, Goodnow third, 

Second event, five balls,100yds. rise—Dickey and Symmes first, Nye 
second, Scott third. 

Third event, five birds—Shumway first, Scott! and Morrill second, 
Hopkins third. 

Fourth event, five birds—Hopkins' first, Morrill and Scott second, 
Goodnow third. 

Fifth event, three pair doubles—Hopkins and Morrill first, Adams 
second, Green and Scott third. 

Sixth event, five balls—Nye and Adams first, Morrill and Hopkins 
second, Green and Scott third. 

Seventh event, five birds—Morrill and Nye first, Scott second, 
Adams third. 

Highth event, five birds—Nye and Goodnow first, Nichols and Dickey 
second, Hopkins third, Adams fourth. - 

Ninth event, five birds—Dickey and Nye first, Hopkins and Morrill 
second, Scott and Nichols third. 
ra event, five birds—Snow first, Dickey and Morrill second, Nye 

ird. 

Eleventh event, five balls—Morrill and Dickey first, Scott and 
Symues second, Foster third. 

Twelfth event, three pair birds—Dickey first, Goodnow and Nichols 
second, Morrill third. 
paLbirpoth eyent—Morrill first, Dickey and Snow second, Nichols 

rd, 

Fourteenth event, miss and out—Dickey first, Nichols second. 

Fifteenth event, miss and out—Nye first. Nichols second. 

Sixteenth event, five birds—Law first, Snow and Saunders second, 
Ricker third. 2 

Seventeenth event, five balls—Law first, Symmes second, Russell 


hird. 

Highteenth event, five balls—Russell first, Snow second, Symmes 
and Ricker third. 

Nineteenth event, five birds—Snow first, Law second, Rockwood 


ird. 
Pa ah event, five birds—Law first, Nichols second, Russell 

third. 

Twenty-first event, five birds—Law first, Snow second, Symmes and 
Ricker third. 

Swenty-second event, five birds—Law first, Snow second, Russell 
and Nichols third. 

Twenty-third event, five birds—Law first, Nichols second. 


MAYNARD GUN CLUB, Maynara, Mass.—Glass-ball and clay- 
pigeon shoot on their grounds July 4. Representatives from many 
of the surrounding clubs participated in the sport. 

First event, 7 clay-birds—Dickey first, Cutting second, Wurm third, 

Second event, 5 clay-birds—Dickey first, Wurm second. 

Third event, 5 clay-birds—Dickey and Wurm first, Nichols and 
Johnson second, Cutting and McCoy third. 

Fourth event, 5 glass balls—Dickey and Wurm first, Cutting and 
Johnson second, Lawrence and McCoy third. - : 

Fifth event, 5 glass balls—Johnson and Wurm first, Cutting and 
Dickey second. Nichols and McCoy third. 

Sixth event, 5 clay-birds—Dickey first, Cutting second, Nichols and 
McCoy third. j 

Seventh event, 5 clay birds—Johnson and Wurm first, Dickey sec- 
ond, Cutting and WeCoy third. 

Eighth event, 5clay-birds—Wurm first, Cutting and Johnson second 
Newton and McCoy third, 

Ninth event, 5 glass balls—Wurm first, Cutting and Nichols second, 
Newton third. 

Tenth event. 5 glass balls—Wurm and Dickey first, Cutting and 
Newton second, McCoy third. 

Eleventh event, 3 pair glass balls—Dickey first, Wurm second. 
Pte event, 6 glass balls—Dickey first, McCoy second, Wurm 

ird. 

Match between B. PF, Johnson of the Maynard Gun Club. and G. H. 
Wurm of the Massachusetts Rifle Association; conditions, 25 clay- 
birds, 25yds. rise, 

PUVALPISENS Site) pacmare ta elena ernest meas 24 4001111111111111111110111—24 
SROUMISGOY eh ee ape abe oe eatew's Soe eae, cae 4111111111111111111011110—238 
G. F. Currie, Sec. 

WINCHENDON, Mass., June 26.—At the regular meeting of the 
Winchendon Gun Club to-day, only clay-pigeons were thrown from 
rhe trap. Thisis the second time it was used. The result was as 

ollows: 


I, F Martin.......... 111111111110 FM Brown.....-..... 1110101110—7 
James Southerland..0110111111— § F-E Monn.....,..,... 0011011000—4 
¥ F Hopgood........ 1101101111— 8 LP Ball.....-........0101000000—2 
PBDavis .2..)esic2: 1001110111— 7 : 


three yards. The first score was as follows: 
MAYO OP. Ascetic wets setae ett eee cone 00101001101000111110—10 
CEILBETG Fre ede Pee he RES Aan ee he bwhe ces Dice 41111111111011111111—49 
VAD LORI nie ee ee acca b ber nob hat 01102111111111111111—18 
Olisiorda-enray asst POLY 5 was eee AE ee ain ween ae 01111111111010111111—17 
Oy ee ay RS ene BREE AA + Aaa oe 01111111001111111111—17 
EB Durham.,........-. LLESEE Re SL EES Baran e ne 11111011111111111111—19 
10 Ch OE Ge on 2 a9 ea aR ee ve pay 11010111111111101101—16 
Ja SAN Fe felony ol 5 CaS a 4 A a Ry 01111111111010111111—17 
ci fa) STi 30 ee aE gare er ara eR, SIS Bele WN 49191111111011111111—19. 
PEVIEE eels sc ta ielalrin ini o lnlahacai [ela/a) [tau eM eintamn a ata 11111111111111110111—-19 
This gave Gilbert, Ed. Durham, Garvin and Johnston ties on 19 


of a possible 29. Mr. Johnston, who was second, is deserving of 
especial praise in his shooting, as ill health has preyented much prac- 
ticing, and his shooting in this connection was very remarkable. 


CASTLEWOOD, D. T., June 27.—This evening the gun club recently 
organized in this city had their first shoot. Taking into consideration 
that a strong wind was blowing, and the fact that the majority of the 
club never had any experience at trap shooting the score is not a bad 
one: Wm. Shanks 5, E. C, Webber 1, H. Ellefson 0, a, F. Swift 5, B. 
a ates 6, Bs Matson 1, A, F. Poulson 4, fF, Cheever 1, F, L, Page 8, W. 

, Fraser 9, 


SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 22.—The Foster Gun Club held its 
monthly pigeon-shooting contest in Agricultural Park to-day. The 
birds were a fine lot, ying swiftly, and as there was a strong south- 
‘erly wind prevailing nearly all were ‘“‘tailers,’’ and got out of range 
in short order, consequently the scores made may be considered uu- 
usually good. Several birds that were hit hard died out of bounds. 
Mr. Eckhardt, whose score is the lowest, was very unfortunate, hit- 
ting al! his birds, but only being able to retrieve 5. He shot a light 
gun. using wood powder, which is slow, and by the time the shot 
reached the birds they were most of them too far away to be stopped 
inside the 80-yd, circle. 

Following is the score of the main match to-day, John Gerber win- 
ning the first medal by a clean score: 


given to the canoe making the best average in all the races. Thesec- 
ond for the next bestcanoe. Also that the record of every canoe 
entering any race be taken (with three events cmitted to be named 
later), and after the races this record to give the exact position to 
every canoe having taken part. The same to be published: with the 
other results. The canoe with the best average to be classed No. 1, 
the next best No. 2, and so on down thelist. If twenty canoes take 
part in the races they will be numbered from one to twenty on the 
record, according to their deserts. J 

This record will be very simple to make up and of great interest to 
all, The canoeists entermg the races will do their best to get good 
places at the finish, not only for the individual race prizes but also 
for the average prize and for the place on the record, A man may 
be low on the record but ahead of any other one of his club’s mem- 
bers. This record will also show the club having the highest aver- 
age, @ very desirable thing, An average 14ft.x30in. canoe will be on 
a par with a canoe built to the full sailing or paddling limit if, for in- 
stance, it gets two third places in two races to the other's first place 
(sailing) and fifth (paddling)—average for both is six. = 

Now for the method: Suppose there to be thirteen events, and that 
ten canoes enter in one of them, the other races all having less than 
that number. The maximum number of points will then be 10X13. 
or 130 points. The first canoe in each race (no matter how many 
enter it) will receive 10 points, the second 9, the third 8 and so on, a 


Gerber, hy Qyds wae le beteleletebatsietalaleiotulefeds falls ts fale's ool ainfeielciat a= 111711111111—12 canoe not entered or not finishing to get nothin Of z 

1 , the thirteen 
Tedd. devas” PIV OS... 26 .e eee erence eee eee eee eee eee eee Tape ae she one cance can enter, perhaps eight, aud if it wins them all 
Millets Bhyas. ry vs-s;sceresd seh conte tedyeescabeactee MOAT ETI oe Rend oe Eee reRR Ee Aree e ee a ae 


to be No.1 on the record. In case of a tie at, say ten, then two 
canoes would be numbered 10 and 11 would be dropped. The clubs 
could also be numbered in the same way, and it would foster patriot- 
ism among members to push the club record up as high as possible, 


Watson, 2lyds. 
Stevens, 2lyds. . 
McKuno, 2iyds....... 


393: 33g bce 101111111111—i1 
. .111111001111—10 
$936 lao393°deccd00"” 111100111110— 9 


ZALVED LVS od settee: digits tee ines Cea SU rel meted 100110101111— 8 | thus securing more entries for the races 
Teabhotes Sly dae eels BTA ak ie Pee oo tee 001110011011 7 | "The tht : 
finccletpn dif tye ane oes EER pk oo Chak art rele w. ""011000091110— 5 Ee ARETT CED TEV EIS | RED" BO CO ULE SOTA Se De eee ees 


gramme to be omitted in the ayeraging—it being a limited novices 
race. No. 4 is really two events, A and Bsailing; No, 10 is also, for the 
same reason. Nos. 13 and 14 should be omitted. By this arrange- 
ment—which I hope to see made a permanent feature—the canoe in 
any class, built up to the limit, sailing or paddling, stands a very poor 
show of getting first place—and the canoe built and used for all 
around work will be pretty sure of getting a good place with fair 


A maten at a3lyds., both barrels, followed. Watson made a clean 
score and took first money, and Zuver and Nesbitt divided second 
and third money, with a score of four each. 

Several matches at elay-pigeons were shot. Thescore of a specimen 
ene is appended. 

Todd 114111011111_11 


Watson,...... ed § Bolg Rahs Maes be ea A Beto ee eee 110110111111_10 Management. Such a record will also help the novice to select his 
pee Une Pits ows Rate ce eee teresa Oe Al Pe Se 110111001411— 9 | eanoe with an eye to the “average,”’ the tae canoer’s aim being the 
CVCDS «otic eat ek ee See areca eee eee eee SNE we eeA 111011110011— 9 “happy medium.’ What have you to add, Mr. Editor—something, 
CAMA saat se rad eres ames Rant ae rere Pesan gsaslstaete 111001101311— 9 | T hope. Dor 
atte Regi yshres eres) voy igs Pewee NS Ne ah ales nen prays LT 8 ¥ 
CDW Yas ac ec kt gle eee a gree eee e ee fem oie ee aq ae deere i 0110— 7 
The entrance in this match was $2.50. THE A. C. A. MEET. 


To the Members of the American Canoe Association: 

The site chosen for the 1884 camp of the A, C. A. (Aug, 1 to 15) ison 
the northeust end of Grindstone Island. distant about four miles from 
Clayton, N. Y., and five miles from Gananoque, Canada, just sonth 
of the boundary line, and facing Canada on the north and Hel Bay 
on the northeast. The grove in which the tents will be pitched is on 


INDIANA.—The Crescent City and Lamasco Gun Clubs, of Indiana, 
met on the 4th inst., and had a friendly match. Sides were chosen 
from the members present. Live birds were. used and several good 
scores were made considering the birds were all as fresh as possible, 
having not been cooped up over twenty-four hours, 

Capt. Halwes’s Side. 


TRECEIEIN (och gn Annem a cn i pp nets el 04111110001411111101 15 the north side of the point, on arather sharp slope, with a stony 
M TOepKe eee es sts Peek ek Ace 14111111111001111111—18 shore, but the shore on the northeast side is a gently sloping one, 
Paibenlitie eevee Mies oo gk ree ee 01011110 1100111411114 with a sandy beach. 
Hahaviith een eee eORe Leet unter ara 001000110000001011C0— 6 _Atrangements have been made at the camp so that those who de- 
Batimapartiors ws s--cec cede. ase ds oe 10111110141011001141—15 sire todo so may get their meals at a regular mess, at which meals 
Culiyerhor. Lyte... Selo aen Oey 11101010000100110111—14 will be served at reasonable prices. There will also be a camp store 
AIWIMSHACHECEEEC Pela ete EEA reo a te 00101101001000000101— 7 established, at which campers may obtain groceries, provisions, etc., 
TRAM Gen the ons eee ECE eee 00111011140111411111—16 at Clayton prices. Milk, eggs, vegetables, fresh meats, etc., can also 
OMe nvatthaee pee alelae are alae prteeeebtota oleate 11141113111111011110—18—120 | be obtained at the store. Ice, which has been stored for the use of 
Capt. Grill’s Side. the Association, will be brought into the camp every morning. Wood 
TORE ee soesonettoor.ccoereen das sa 1101111111111111111119 inabundance, both for camp fires and cooking purposes, has been 
WiGuberhhteemes peemmeer there ree none mack 00111111001100111111—14 provided. Baal ‘ 
Cekrdtzr ee. ee re eee 0441411111110011111 17 The palatial steamer Puritain, connecting with the Utica and Black 
PAPAGEH ere te ce cr eek arate Beat 00011011011111111111—15 River Railroad at Clayton, and with the Grand Trunk Railroad at 
TPLE Tat Ll oes on, diane TN NAB stele tka 00001110111101001111—12 Gananoque, will land members at the camp whari, arrangements 
CUR Tatas tet eee pereie aber 11100011100010111111—12 having been made, by which, during the encampment, she will m- 
HAVvorhoiipeere tcc eLetter hoc lees 01110001100010111101—10 clude the camp in her regular stops, This steamer will carry canoes 
dehohrenhacher Sey irene eet en: 1111111111111111101—18 and kits free. The regular fare (25 cents) will be charged. No other 


steamer but the Puritain will be allowed to land at the camp wharf 
Biiigns a permit from the officer in command of the camp at that 
ime, 

The following railroad and steamboat lines in the United States 
have agreed to carry canoes and kits free, at owners’ risk, but in all 
cases members must goon same train or boat with their canoes: 
New York Central & Hudson River, New York, Ontario & Western to 
Oswego, thence steamer Ontario to Clayten: Utica & Black River 
Railroad, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s Rallroad, Ogdens- 
burgh & Lake Champlain Railroad, and the Lake Champlain Trans- 
portation Company (steamers on Lakes Seen and Champlain). 

The Canadian Southern Pacific Railway will issue excursion tickets 
at one and a third regular rates. Tickets one way will be at regular 
rates, The Grand Trunk Railroad will also issue excursion tickets at 
the same rate; regular tickets one way. The Ontario Diyision of the 
Canada Pacific Railway offers excursion tickets at sanié rates as 
those above, The Northern & Northwestern Railway will charge one 
fare for excursion tickets. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Com- 
pany will also sell round-trip tickets at onefare. All these railways 
and steamers will carry canoes and kits free of charge, but at own- 
ers’ risk of loss or damage. 

Members coming from the South via Jersey City, etc., wishing to 
ship their canoes by express to the camp, have an opportunity of 
doing so yia the National Express Co., which operates over the line 
of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad, and connects with the 
Adams Express Co. at Union Depot in Jersey Vity, t 

All mail matter intended for the camp should beaddressed A. C. A. 
Camp, Clayton, N.Y. Arrangements will be made to have it for- 
warded direct to the camp. The address of the secretary of the 
Association will be Clayton, N. Y., after July 15. 

Cuas, A, Nerpe, Secretary A. C. A, 

ScHUYLERVILLE, N. Y., July 2, 1584, 


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*Oniy shot at 10 birds. 

There is a movement now on foot to haye a two days’ tournament 
at live birds at an early day and to invite all neighboring clubs. The 
Crescent City Gun Club are anxiously awaiting challenges, Evansville 
Gun Club preferred. 


Canoeing. 


Canonists are invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 
club meets, information about canoeable waters, and other commu- 
nications of interest. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested tosend to ForEs@ AND 
SrrEam their addresses, with name, membership, signals, etc, of 
their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forrest AND SrREAm their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, riaps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
to the spurt. 


FIXTURES. 


July 9 to 15.—Chicago C. C., Annual Cruise. 

July i4.—Allegheny C. C., Cruise at Conneaut Lake. 
July 19.—Chicago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 

July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island. 
Aug. 1to15,—A. C. A. Meet, Grindstone Island. 


THE A. C. 


Editor Forest and Stream - , 

T have appointed as a committee on the A. C, A. badge question 
the following gentlemen: 

Wim. B. Wackerhagen, M. C. C., 41 State street, Albany, N. Y., 
Chairman, 

Dr. George L. Parmele, H. C. C., Hartford, Conn, 

James L, Greenleaf, K. C. C., New York City. 

Months ago I requested the members of the A, C. A. through the 
American Canoeist to send in designs for this badge, or to suggest 
designs that I might work out and present to the committee, thus 
giving them valuable assistance in tne selection of the badge. The 
result was the reception of designs from three members of the A. C. A. 
One of two eines appears as almost a certainty. Hither the Cunoeist 
reaches only afew A. C, A. men, or else very few A. C. A, members 
are at all interested in the badge question. Once more I will express 
my desire that designs be sent to Chairman Wackerhagen at the 
earliest moment possible in order to have the committee report at our 
annua! meeting. Respectfully, yours, 

F. A. DICKERSON, Com. A. C. A. 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 8, 1884. 


[The subject of a badge for members of the American Canoe Asso- 
ciation has been under consideration ever since the local meet; and 
as yet little has been accomplished, as will be seen from the above 
letter of Commodore Nickerson. It is a matter in which all canoeists 
are interested, and it remains for them to assist the committee in 
their labors, If every club will but send a design, there wall be no 
lack of material to work on at the meet. “‘Whatis every bodys busi- 
ness is nobody’s business," and each individual member is apt to 
neglect his part, but in such matters, the Commodores of the differ- 
ent clubs must take the lead, and if each will do so, he can readily 
obtain one design on behalf of his club; but the time is now very 
short, and what is done, must be done speedily. ] 


A. BADGE. 


CRUISING CANOES IN THE A. C. A. RACES. 


pas limit of sail in Race No. 10, Class B, should be 75ft, instead of 

50ft.,.as stated June 26. The following letter from the Mohican 
GC. CG. expresses the feeling of a large number, as under thepresent rules 
the allaround canoe of 14 to 15ft.x80in, is practically exclude 
from the races. It cannot enter Race 3 with any chance of success, 
ag it will meet a boat built nearer to the limit, 17x28, against which 
it would be hopelessly handicapped. In Race 4 there will be a chance, 
butin favor of the heavy boats, and it would be absurd for a 14x30 
boat to enter Race 7, as there will probably be a 17x28 boat or one of 
similar dimensions. Race 8 is out of the question, Race 9 handicaps 
it to the extent of 2ft. length, Race 10 will be better, but even that 
favors the cenierboard boat. Races 11 and 12 will allow it to enter, 
put the whole system of measurements, based on a division into 
sailing classes and paddling’ classes, tands to develop special boats 
for each class, to the exclusion of the all around boat, We would 
call the attention of the Regatta Committee to this fact, as the great 
majority of canoe owners are directly interested. Mixed races will 
tend, #0 a certain extent, to encourage the all around boat, and a 
plan is now under consideration to attain the same end. 


Editor Forest and Stream: p . 
Ataregular meeting of the Mohican C, O, of Albany, N. Y., held 
July 2, 1884, Gen. R. 8. Oliver offered the following resolutions, which 


were unanimously adopted: ; E 

Whereas, It appears from the published list of races ta be held at 
the A. C. A. meet for 1884 in Kel Bay, that no race has been proyided 
for Class B without ballast and without heavy centerboard; t 

Whereas, The majority of canoes in this club and many others in 
inland waters are oft Class B without heavy centerboards, and are 
usually sailed without ballast; 

Resolved, That we respectful request the Regatta Committee to 

lace upon the programme of the meet a sailing race for canoes of 
lass B, without ballast and without heavy, centerboard; 

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Commodore 
of the A. C, A,, to the Regatta Committee, to the editors of Forrst 
AND StREAM and of the Canoetst; 

Resolved, also, That should such a race be placed upon the pro- 
gramme, the Mohican C. C. will contribute a flag as first prize insuch 
8 race, if the Regatta Committee desire iv. ; ; 

B, Fernow, Sec’y M. C. CG. Rosert W. Gisson, Captain M. C. C. 


RONDOUT C. C. CAMP. 


HE Rondout Canoe Club enjoyed. a very pleasant outing on July 
Gh 4th at their camp on Esopus. Island, situated a few miles below 
Rondout, half a mile long, and a most beautiful spot for a camp. 
Camp was made on Thursday night, canoeists from Newburg and 
other places joining the R, C.C. 

The next morning nearly a hundred guests of the club, many of 
them ladies, came down on the little steamer W- B. Crane, chartered 
for their use by the club. Two cooks from Rondout were an board 
to look after the dinner, which included 10 gallons of clam chowder, 
1000 baked ¢lams, and unlimited ice cream. 

The following races came off in the afternoon at 3 P. M., the final 
one, a tub race, being omitted, as the water was too rough for such 
frm craft, a swimming race, won by OC, V, A. Decker, beg sub- 
stituted. 

Firt Race, Paddling.—Entries: Grant Van Deusen, Helena; N.S. 
Smith, Pixie; C. V, A. Decker, Glance: C. W. Crispell, Zephyr; Conrad 
B. Hasbrouck, Crazy. Prizes.—Firt, canoe lantern; second, flag. Re- 
neha §. Smith, first; C. W. Crispell, second; Grant Van Deusen, 


ird, 

Second Race, Sailing,—Entries: Grant Edger, Dido; Grant Van 
Deusen, Helena; Jansen Hasbrouk, Jr., Crazy. Prizes.—Virst, canoe 
ehair; second, flag. Result.—Grant Van Deusen, first; Grant Edger, 
second. 4 : 

Third Race, Paddling Tandem,--Entries:. Messrs. D, Vaux and N. 
-S. Smith, Dido; Grant Van-Deusen and H. 8, Crispell, Shum; C.¥. A, 


z = 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The official programme of races—A. C. A, Meet of 1884, regatta 
committee report—is before me, There are two points I notice 
about it—faults I might say—which could be easily amended. First, 
the average cruising canoe is systematically neglected, the very one 
the Association should encourage in every way possible. Itis handi- 
capped in every event on the list with perhaps three exceptions, viz. 
No. 10, limited’ ballast race; No, 11, sailing and paddling race, and 
No. 12, the light race. In these races its chances are slim with other 
boats built up to the limits. : 

Second, there is no inducement offered to the canoeist of average 
ability to enter any race. He naturally feels that his chance of get- 
ting a first or second prize is tuo small to pay for the exertion neces- 
sary to win sucha place. This has been the fauit of every programme 
offered at any meet thus far. Without chan aletter of the docu- 
ment as it now stands, I would suggest to the committee of three 
that they add two prizes to their already long’ list. The first fo be 


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Lege and J. Hasbrouck, Jr., Janet. Result,—Dido, first; Chum, 
secon . : 

The latter portion of the programme was interrupted by the usual 
pou of July storm, which drove all to the boats and hurried them 

ome, 

The Rondout C. C. seem to be able to have a good time on less pro- 
vocation than any canoe club we know of, and from what we hear of 
their doings the members are much to be envied. 


BAYONNE C. C. 


fj hag club, which started in a small way. two years ago is now quite 
flourishing, the members being all enthusiastic canoeists and 
hard workers, haying built (heir own house and many of their canoes, 
Their house is now too small to hold all the boats, and they expect to 
enlarge itsoon. Newark Bay is 4 fine place for canoe sailing, there 
being but little traffic, and the tides, though strong, being mueh better 
than in New York Bay or the Kills, while there is an excellent beach 
on the east shore. 

The first regatta of the club was held on July 4, there being four 
races on the programme. In spite ef the unpleasant weather the 
club and their friends enjoyed the sport 

The first event was a paddling race with seven entries, distance one 
toile with a turn, Won by F. b. Collius, with T. Garrett second and 
A. T. Fleming third. 

The sailing race, three miles, triangular course, was not finished, 
as the mark could not be found in the fog. The double paddling race 
brought out four canoes, the distance being one mile with turn, and 
was won by A. Weming and R. Vienot, by five lengths, with F. B. and 
J. L, Collins second. The Jast race, an upset, was won by Com, 
Smith, with L. F, Burke second, there being five entries, 


MOHICAN C. C. 


A Re Mohicans have lately increased their membership to twenty- 

eight canoeists and eighteen canoes, and numbers of them may 
be daily seen on theriver. Last Saturday, June 28, a championship 
badge and flag, offered by Capt. Gibson, was saile:l for in a race of 
about three miles, and won by a new member, Geo. H. Thacher, Jr., 
in the Lasea, a Rushton Huard: the Thetis, P. M. Wackerhagen, came 
in second, and the Uncus, H. R. Pierson, Jr., third, no other canoes 
Participatine, Mr, Thacher will have to defend his prize in a race on 
the 26th of July. 

Gen. Oliver offered a silver cup-as prize to be sailed for by eanoes 
of any class, sail limited to 60ft,, but the Executive Committee has 
not yet taken any action about, it. 

At the rezular meeting of the club, held to-day, several resolutions 
were adopted, viz.: Thatif the official programme of the A. C. A. 
meet is notamended to include a pplins race for canoes of B class, 
without heavy centerboard, the M. G, GC. will offer a fag, value $10, 
as first prize for such a race in Hel Bay; ana that in races of the M. C, 
C,, canoes with centerboards weighing more than fifteen pounds 
should not be admitted, 

Nine Mohicans talk now of going to the Thousand Islands, but it is 
not quite sure whether the club will be so well represented. 

Frior Da Lice. 


ROYAL OC. C.—The race of Saturday, June 14, was sailed in Ted- 
dington Reach, with three entries, Imozen, H. Chureh; Gladys, T. F. 
Knowles; Violet, W. Watney. There were four rounds to the course, 
the wind heing W. N. W. The times were as follows: 


: First Round. Second Round, Third Round, Finish. 
paplatert sree wes 3 55 00 415 00 4 36 00 4 56 30 
PMOPen Me. LY 3 53 00 4 i4 00 4 36 30 4 57 30 
GUaaysiw |...) on ory 3 55 30 416 00 4 36 80 4 56 00 


CRUISING NOTES.—Dr, Neidé and Mr, J. F, Newman, N. Y, OG. C., 

arted on a long cruise on July 3, leaving Caldwell at noon, Lorna 
Island at 9 A. M. on the 4th, Cook's Point 7 A. M. July 5, Ticonderoga 
2P. M, same day, and making camp near Crown Point that night in 
& heavy blow and rainstorm. The weather was very variable, dead 
calm or yery hot, wind light and squally or blowing very hard. The 
canoeists expect to be at Grindstone Island by July 20, or perhaps 
earlier. Mr. Alden is off again on his usual cruise down the Richelieu. 


A NEW CANOH GLEAT.—We have received from Mr. Tyson two 
cleats of a new pattern. designed by Mr. E. B. Tredwen, R, C. C. 
They are in one piece, light but very long, being 4in. and 6in., and 
are so shaped that the cord jams between them and the deck, and 
are recommended as superior to Paget's rocking cleat, while much 
cheaper. 

ATALANTIS.—Mr. Stoddart. L. G. C. C., resumed his cruise this 
week around the coast, in company with Mr. R. B. Burchard, N. Y. 
©. C, They were at Wood’s Hole on July 6, stormbound, but arrived 
at Hyannis at 6 P. M. on the 7th, leaving next morning, 


NEW YORK ©. C.—The club will meet on Saturday, July 12, at 3 
P. M,, at the club house. for a series of scrub races for practice. The 
programme will be decided on meeting. A janitor is now employed 


regularly by the club. 
Hachting. 


HULL Y. C. REVIEW AND CRUISE. 


HORT cruises in company are becoming more popular with our 
ee each year, and this season a better opportunity than 
usual is offered. as the 4th and 5th of July, as well asthe 30th and 81st 
of May were both generally observed as holidays, giving a chance for 
three days away from business. About New York, the Knickerbocker 
and Jersey City Y.C.,andin Philadelphia, the Quaker City Y. C., 
have taken advantage of the three holidays for their club cruises, 
and in Boston, the Hull Y. C. has called together all who cared to 
neglect the races for cruising. The programme called for a review 
of the fleet in the morning, the start for the cruise following. 

Friday morning broke with a promise of a storm, but by 8 A. M., a 
breeze from the southwest changed the appearance of things, bring- 
ing. ese and every prospect of a fine sail, which was fulfilled by 
10 A. M., by which time the Brenda, with Commodore @. A. Perkins 
on board, signaled for the fleet to pass in review. The Vif, Viee-Com- 
modore William H, Crane, led tle feet out into Nantasket Bay; then 
in with afree sheet, heaving up under the stern of the Brenda, and 
firing a gun to leeward, which was answered by one on the flagship, 
each yacht saluting in turn until all had passed, whén they hove to 
and waited for the Brenda to get under way. At 11 A. M., the signal 
to make sail was hoisted, Brenda haying taken her position at the 
head of the fleet, passed on through Hull Gut, followed by the 
schooner Titana, ex-Commodore William Wells; yawl White Cap, 
Rear-Commodore D, Hall Rice, Viee-Commodore William Crane: 
schooner Alice, Captaiu William Lockhart; schooner Tempest, Cap- 
tain Whittier; sloops Hera, Captain Weld; Echo, Captain Farrell; 
Nimbus, Captain Jenney; Gem, Captain Osgood; cutters, Sigdriffa, 
Captain Monks and Ella May, Fleet Caplain George Tyler, and other 
sailing and steam yachts. At2 P.M. the fleet anchored in Marble- 
head Harbor. 


BOSTON CITY MATCHES, JULY 4. 


pee city matches on July 4 brought out nearly one hundred yachts 
of all kinds and sizes, from Maggie, the stylish cutter of 441ft., 
to little Shrimp of 13ft. The wind was very light in the morning, but 
came out fresher from the east, and held there through the race. 
The courses sailed were for first class (sloops and schooners of 
over 38ft.), from the Judges* boat out Broad Sound, leaying Ram Head 
buoy on the starboard and Fan Bar buoys on the port, rounding Fo 
Whistle off the northeast ledge of the Graves, leaving it on the star- 
board; thence to the bell boat on Harding’s Ledge, leaving it on the 
starboard, up Lighthouse Channel, through the Narrows, leaving 
Fort Warren, Gallop’s Island and Nix’s Mate buoys and Spectacle 
Island on the port, to the judges’ boat, passing between it and the 
flagboat, a distance of twenty miles. For Olass 2 (sloops and schoon- 
ers 25to 88ft ), from the judges’ boat down the West Way, leaving 
Thompson and Rainsford islands on the starboard, Long and George's 
islands and Point Alderton buoy No. 3 on the port, and back through 
the Narrows, leaving Fort Warren, Gallop’s Island and Nix’s Mate 
aeeye onthe port, to the judges’ boat, passing between it and the 
Hlagboat, a distance of fourteen miles. For Class 3 (for keels and 
centerdoards 20 to 26ft.). from the judges’ boat round a flagboat 
moored off Cow Pasture Bar, hear the pumping station, leaving it on 
the port; thence to buoy No. 7, off Fort Independence, leaving it on 
the starboard; thence to Sculpin Ledge buoy, leaving it on the port; 
thence to buoy No, 6 on Lower Middle, leaving it on the port, to the 
judges’ boat, presage between it and the flagboat, a distance of eight 
miles. Wor Class 4 (keels and centerboards), from the judges’ boat 
to buoy No. 9, leaving it on the starboard; leaving buoy No. 7, off 
Fort Independence, on the starboard, buoy No. 6 (Cow Pasture Bar) 
on the starboard, passing between the judges’ boat and flagboat, a 
distance of five miles. | 
Messi's, Morton, Whittier, Nugent, Lappen, Farrar, Bigelow and 
gham, of the City Council, had charge of the arrangements, the 
judges being Messrs. Riley, Morris, Loriag, Palmer, Melvin and 
ild, The tug Wesley A. Gove carried the judges over the course, 
but it was impossible to see all of the boats on their different courses. 
At 10:20 the starting signal was given, the fleet getting away in 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


good order. No time was taken at the yarious marks, but by noon, 
when the judges’ tug returned to the starting pomt, Joker was not 
far away, the first home, the rest coming in in groups. 

To timesuch a fleet was no easy matter, but it was finally accom- 
plished, and the times computed as follows: 


FIRST CLASS—SLOOPS, 


Name and Owner, Length, Actual. Corrected, 
Maggie, George H. Warren.......-..--44.06 4 20 56 4 20 55 
Nirvana, 8. P, Preeman.........-....+: 41.06 4 48 30 4.39 20 

SECOND CLASS—CENTERBOARDS, 

Shadow, John Bryant, .......2........33.06 2 46 30 2 42 12 

Magic, B. C, Neale.............0.0.8--- 80.02 2 53-12 2 45 13 

Nimbus, B, Jenny.-......-......0..-- 53.0% 2 538 20 2 48 48 

Whi HolR Kye AM Ms Ts (ny Ly ee, SD ees 83.00 3 10 44 3.05 55 

SECOND CLASS (KEFLS), 

Hera. O-GseVKeld i. aa. vee ee are eae 39.00 | 2 50 27 2 47 40 

Lapwing, M. Forbes......... eas ase 36.00. 2 51 04 2 49 15 

gis, William MeCormick,........-.. 84 00 2 538 13 2 49 26 

inlliew lob PAG poe J. eee ean 36.02 3 00 00 2 58 22 

King Philip, ©. @. Weld,............--. 35.06 3 03 46 83 01 29 

Perey H., AdberHall Jo yo5 c=. 32.06 3 08 18 3 02 52 

Altaire, J. L. Crowley.,......--------: 28.08 _ 3 26.29 3 16 40 

SECOND CLASS (SCHOONERS). 
IBGHSIES COMP a OUNUS: ,.) see risk en Wades, 27.02 3 83 50 3 33 50 
THIRD CLASS CENTERBOARDS, 

Black Cloud, Brown & Cunningham. 22,00 1 34 12 1 30 29 
neen Mab, Burwell & Litchfield ... 21.00 1 36 50 1 82 08 
hisbe, S. A, Freeman. ,._,-.,..,-.-,20.04 1 38 40. 1 8% 08 

Seabird, George §, Forbush,..,....... 22.01 1 38 08 1 83) 82 

Amy; 5. W, Baxter =... ¢steec.. se 20,04 1 39 50 1 34 18 

J. &. Poyen, Jr., Pierce & Bowen...... 22.06 1 37 50 1 34 37 

Lizzie Warner, T, Lutted ...,...... ...24.06 1 87 50 J 35 31 

Greta Weoill’ Sie csasedeeseace 22 OF 1 40 50 1 37 43 

Posey, H. J. MeKee-. 21 01 1 44 23 1 39 41 

Herald, Frank Smith. . 20,00 1 48 20 1 42 24 

Maid, J.B. Farwell. ..21.10 1 47 00 1 43 06 

Una, John Marno.... . 20.00 1 53 20 1 47 24 

Bessie Ethel, Fred Hillis .........-.-.. 23.06 1 3 52 1 51 38 

Sadie, Charles Allenis oo. ce ke 22.00 1 67 25 1 53 42 

THIRD CLASS KEELS, 

Banneret, N. ¥. Brown.,.,....... ..<. 23.09 1 85 00 1 33 01 

Fancy, E. H. Ingalls....-.........0.5.5 25.11 1 87 40 1 37 36 

Cricket, W. H. Buckley.... ....,.....5 21.00 1 47 15 1 42 25 

Kitty. Hardell & Adams,... .......... 22 07 1 46 11 1 48 03 

Judith, BE. T. Pigeon......2.......2348, 22.09 1 46 02 1 48 04 

Echo, Putnam & Hudson.... ......... 24.09 1 44 23 1 43 18. 

Ibex, Williams & Knowlton,.-........23.00 1 48 OV 1 45 24 

Gem, Osgood & Savage.......... 5s 20-8002 1 48 10 1 47 12 

Emly, C. A, MeManus..-2......2...-. 20.06 1 48 16 1 47 50 

Inez, George W. Tappan...,....... .. 25.06 1 48 45 1 48 19 

N GUI, Gavan Dan” oes rirteers aces 23.02 1 52 17 1 49 44 

Volante, S. A, Crowell,...:..: isee.. es 21.10 1 55 55 1 52 01 

Ellen, P. X. Keating........ ee eet 20.10 1 59 05 1 54 07 

Cimbria, W. H. Wedger,...._..._...... 21_06 1 59 19 1 55 04 

Sheerwater, W. N. Merrill......., .. 18.00 1 45 49 1 44 14 

Pet, James McFarland ..,........... 18.07 1 45 38 1 d4 32 

Wild Fire, H. A, Keith........2........ 17.03 1 47 33 1 45 17 

Parole, Henry G, Bowers .......... .-17,10 1 48 00 1 46 17 

NUT Gr) Be ed mS I Eh olen Bore er A muer ine 15.09 1 50 05 1 46 25 

Albert, A, Rottman.................... 15 06 1 57 15 1 53 19 

Elf, W, H Besarick.......0...0.0eccc0 15.00 1 59 10 1 54 43 

Susie, William N. Fisher............... 15.08 21115 2 O07 04. 

Gertie, D, F. Pinkham................. 18.00 2 15 40 2 14.05 

FOURTH CLASS (KEELS). 

Meteor, William Parkinson 16.00 1 48 27 1 45 02 

Charlotte, Thomas Cross... . 17.01 1 4717 1 45 07 

INEMOV. De GEOSC IE ete ta fe oe cee 17.00 1 49 12 1 45 47 

Zitta, Fowler & Warren............... 18.09 1 46 55 1 45 57 

Hard Times, H. W. Geyer......-...... 18.06 1 47 45 1 46 36 

Delle; Giftord Brosvss. 2h. ee 19.06 1 46 58 1 46 85 

Unique, Jt Stowart..t i)... 04... er ethi 19.10 1 47 37 1 47 30 

McDuff, John 8. Garrick..,,........... 20.04 2 01 21 1 55 49 

Huntress, Samuel Webber............. 21.06 2 01 56 1 56 35 

Celeste, George Plummer.............. 25.04 1 57 35 1 57 08 

Willows Ay Hy dOnes?, fe ac.nkke teat hes: 22.00 2 06 30 2 02 47 

FOURTH CLASS (CENTERBOARDS). 

Joker, George Coffin .....-............5 19.07 1 34 00 1 88 41 

Seraphine, Borden & Temple.......... 19.06 1 34 51 1 84 28 

Flora Lee, D. H. Lincoln,............. 16.00 1 38 40 1 35 15 

Niobe, Ff. Li, Cunne, .. 0... ice scc ee kne 19.06 1 86 21 1 85 58 

Imogene, B. G. Wendall.............. 17.07 1 38 28 1 36 29 

Viva, Hutchins & Pryor... ........... 18.06 1 38.40 1 87 30 

Scamp, Frank Gray... ..2..-.....0.-5 17,10 1-39 15 1 387 32 

Spider, Walter Abbott ................ 17.08 1 39 40 1 87 48 

Rockett, B. F. Bass. ....5 2... .3....2. 15 10 1 42 05 1 88 30 

Tamaria, S Ga King..9.5).5...5 beaacee 16.09 1 41 20 1 38 38 

Spray, H. H. Waxon,. 22)... cc: .ss- 0. 17.07 1 42 21 1 40 25 

Nonpareil, E. Lanning ....... ........ 16.08 1 45 30 1 42 20 

Hornet, Harding & Merrill,...,....... 18.11 1 d4 16 1 43 26 

Yolande; H.W: Burr... 22 225...6...0.) 16.00 2 03 20 1 59 55 

Mist, John A. Sullivan...,.... -. 22... 18.08 2 01 41 2 00 18 

Pacer, A. A. Nickerson, -.............. 15 09 2 OF 15 2 08 85 

Sophia, William Duffy................. 13.06 2 10 44 2 04 32 

ates Oo. Willicubtee 2s ..0.5..05n. 17.00 211 00 2 08 32 

' A misunderstanding of the whistles gave grounds for several pro- 
ests. 


Cc. ANNUAL CRUISE. 


i obedience to orders from the flagship Sara, Commodore Hobby, 

the following yachts made sail at.4 P. M,, off the club house, July 
3; Sara, Gipsy, Lizzie R., Reverie and Gil Blas. The wind was lizhi, 
and the yachts did not reach Echo Bay, the rendezvous, till late in 
the afternoon. At8 P. M., the rest of the fleet were towed up by a tug 
chartered for the occasion, and under command of the elub’s busy 
secretary, W. R. Morse. ‘This fleet consisted of yachts Gracie, May- 
otta, Whimbrel, Maggie, Rosetta A, Adele, Mystery, Peerless. Sea 
Robin, Reckless and Waconda. ae reached Echo Bay at 11:30 P. 
as and were warmly received by the yachts which had preceded 
them, 

At§ A, M., July 4, a meeting was held on board the Sara, and the 
captains agreed to proceed to Larchmont, see the start of the Lareh- 
mont Y. C. regatta, and then make the anchorage off the Indian 
Harbor Hotel, Greenwich. The weather was threatening from the 
5.E., and by noon it blew ‘‘great guns” and heavy rain commenced 
to fall. When off Larchmont, Sara stowed large jib and set her 
storm jib, reefed mainsail and kept off for Greenwich, not waiting to 
see the race start. Some of the yachts followed her, but the fleet 
became somewhat scattered owing to the heavy weather. Lurline 
hauled her wind for Cow Bay, and Gipsy and Gracie ran for Milford, 

However, before nightfall most of the yachts reached the anchor- 
age agreed upon. The crews of the small boats, after dressing in oil 
skins and rubber boots, retired tosomewhat moist sleeping accommo- 
dations. Waconda reached Indian Harbor first, with Sara second. 

At six bells the next morning the fleet started for Oyster Bay in 
the face of the easterly gale and heavy rain. Sara reached Oyster 
Bay first. Peerless was struck by a heavy squall when in the middle 
of Sound and was blown to Bridgeport before she was able to spread 
any canvas. Maggie,a wee catboat under command of Capt. Gus 
Wagner, was pluckily handled and went the rounds with the fleet. 

On Sunday A, M., thefleet left Oyster Bay homeward bound, and 
arrived during the late afternoon and evening, At the start the 
Knickerbockers were joined by yachts from the Hast River, Yonkers, 
Harlem and Newark yacht clubs. That the cruise was brought to a 
successful termination reflects considerable credit on the seamarship 
of the members of the Knickerbocker, Three worse days as to wind 
and weather it would be hard to select from an entire yachting sea- 
son, 


KNICKERBOCKER Y. 


ATLANTIC Y. C.2 CRUISE. 


‘peels Captain R. C, Field has issued the following orders of Gom- 
"5 enon H. H. Hogins, regarding the annual eruise of the Atlan- 
Compe Bye 
GENERAL ORDERS NO, 4. 


Fragsurp Aenes, July 7, 1884. 

1, The rendezyous of the fleet of the Atlantic Y. C., for its annual 
cruise, will be on Saturday, July 26, at the harbor of Norwalk Islands, 
and off Wilson Point. 

Members and guests desiring to jom their yachts at the latest mom- 
ent can take steamboat leaving New York, pier No. 27 Hast River, at 
a quarter to3 P. M., or Thirty-first street at 8 P. M., or train at 4 P. 
M.from Grand Central Depot, connecting with Danbury and Nor- 
walk Railroad, at Norwalk, for Wilson Point. The facilities of this 
place as a rendezyous are represented as complete, particularly in 
the matter of railway. stezmboat and telegraph communication and 
dock accommodation. 

2. On a Sepa from flagship, after arrival of train and boat, the 
fleet will sail for Black Rock. 

3, On Sunday, July 27, service will be held on a yacht of the fleet to 
be hereafter designated. At half-past ten A. M. a gun will be fired 
from the flagship, when the service signal will be hoisted on the 

acht on which service will be held at eleven o'clock. General at- 

endance is desired, and captains are requested to have their gigs 
ashore to convey such shore guests as may desire to attend, 

4. There will be two divisions of the fleet during the cruise, classes 


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A,B, Cand D comprising the first and "all other classes the second 
division, and the signal for starting will be habitually as follows: 

First gun from flagship to Rrepare to sail. Ten minutes later— 

Second gun from yacht Nomad, Rear Commodore Wintringham, 
for the second division to start. Ten minutes later— 

Third gun from yacht Enterprise, Vice-Commodore Moffat, for 
fi'st division to start. 

5. On due signals the fléet will proceed as Follows: 

On Monday, July 28, to New London; on Tuesday, July 29, to Green- 
port; on Wednesday, July 30, to Stonington; on Thursday, July 31, 
to Newport; on Friday, Aug. 1, to New Bedford. , 4 

At New Bedford (or earlier) further or final orders will he issued. 

6, Any Captain in second division desiring to make the start for 
New London prior to the regular start will be permitted to do so on 
application to the Commodore, : d 

Attention is called to the fact that, with the exception of the run of 
July 28, the cruise has been so arranged as to make it feasible for the 
smaller cabin yachts of the club, and to avoid, as far as possible, the 
very early start heretofore necessary. It is greatly desired, there- 
fore, that the feet of such yachts will be large. 

7. These daily runs will to an extent be trials of speed, and the first 
yacht arriving at the destined port will take its own time of arrival 
and that of the other yachts of the fleet, selecting, if possible, a point 
for turning that will be equitable and fair to all, and report the result 
to the commodore, 

8. Yachts should be provided with red fire or Roman candles for 
use in case of fleet sailing at night, J ; 

), These orders are subject to alteration or modification as oeca- 
sion may require, 


LYNN OPEN MATCHES, JULY 4. 


a fies open matches of Friday last were the first held since 1880, but 

they were so successful that it is to be hoped they will be held 
every year, The entries numbered 41, of which 33 went over the 
course, the boats being from 18 to 27ft. in length. The course for the 
first, second and special classes was from club house to a fagbuat off 
Point of Pines, leaving it on port, thence to western Lobster Rocks 
buoy, leaving it on port, thence to judges’ boat, a distance of 5 miles; 
that for class three being from the club house to a tagboot off Pines 
Point, leaving it on port, thence to Sand Point buoy, leaving it on port, 
thenee to judges’ boat, 3 miles, The boats were divided as fol- 
lows; Class 1, 20ft. and not over 27ft,; class 2, centreboards, 17ft and 
not over 2ift.; special class, keels, 17ft. and not over 20ft.; third class, 
12ft, and not over 17ft, The prices were, first class, $25, $15, $10, $5; 
second class, $20, $15, $10, $5; special class, $20, $15, $5; third class, 
$15, $10, $7, $5, The judges were Messrs, W. B, Newhall and B. W. 
Rowell. 

The wind came from the east at 8°o’clock, freshing up sufficiently 
to make a good race throughout. The following table gives the full 
times of the classes.. 


FIRST CLASS, 


Name and Owner. Actual. Corrected. 
D. Crockett, H. Putnam...,....... 1 42 00 1 23.57 
Rear aE Ged. ee. a ae 2 03 30 1 46 53 
Viola, HeOo Simittie.=2 te se ee 1 41 00 1 21 44 
HG, IeDAVISU se seetceyitnettauetince 210 25 L55-23) | 
Jennie L., C. H. Lockhart 2a. 1 43 21 1 26 42 
Daisy, W. Hawkes............02ceeseee F 2 17 45 2 00 08 
Jantho, J. Coles ee sd ees 20.08 215 15 1 56 31 
Nora, J. McLaughlin.................0« 21.08 2 24 20 2 06 17 
Nellie J., M, Laké....................2. 21.00 2 10 20 1 51 50 
SPECIAL CLASS. 
AG Grates ae eer ae Seep me nere 17.00 2 52 45 2 31 50 
Vesper, Benner Bros..... 2.2 )..20. 00 18.09 1 58 45 1 38 35 
Inez, Goodridge Bros.....,...........- 18 09 2 00 10 1 40 00 
This aG WiliordUBrosy. soley tec hse eet on 17.00 2 14 05 1 52 25 
SECOND CLASS. 
Georgie, FW. E. Newhall....,........... 17.06 2 23. 05 2 02 45 
MRIS yy ayy ebI Tie! a pee eg sec 18, 06 2 21 00 2 00 34 
Twilight, A, K. Hall......., ....-2:-2. 18.01 1 56 00 1 35 17 
Raven, F. Steinbeck.................-. 18.01 217 45 1 57 02 
AVICE Lieb MsyeICMce ns (oy ae. nek oo te 17.03 2 14 10 1 52 43 
Rattlesnake, W. 1. Alley.............. 19.00 1 53 15 1 33 17 
THIRD GLASS. 
Mabel, F.W. Sawyer.......2.025 .22:5 15.04 1 29 00 1 15 01 
Imp, J. Renton......... neh seer 1 38 10 1 22 40 
Florence, —. Mansfield.,/ ............ 16.10 Ruled out 
Crescent, T..M. Alley......--.-.,< <... 16.07 1 18 15 1 00 01 
Wizard, J. Bertram.) ..23.0c..<-)2-00 13.00 1 2815 1 12 37 
Hisie, C. F, Hardwick...... -+~---+.16,04 1 21 00 1 08 30 
Flirt, F. A. Hildreth... 15.08 1 14 00 1 00 13 
A. B. C., —. Mansfield. . .. Ruled out. 
Hench hin et ee 14.00 1 21 15 1 02 22 


Davy Crockett, second, $15; Jennie L., third, $10; Pearl, fourth, $5. 
Second class—Rattlesnake. first, $20; Twilight, second, $15; Alice L., 
third, $10; Rayen, fourth, $5. Special class—Vesper, first, $20; Inez, 
second, $15; Iris, third, $5. Third class—Crescent, first, $15: Flirt, 
second, $10; Spray, third, $7; Hlsie, fourth, $5. 


iLARCHMONT Y. C. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


faked ete, northeast wind made plenty of work for the sailor men of 
the Larchmont Y. C., in their fifth annual matches, on Friday 
last, while the day was cool enough to make it pleasant for the spec 
tators, and excepting the rain squalls in the afternoon, the weather 
was all that they could desire, a strong wind from one quarter all 
day, and not enough sea to bother even the little fellows. 

The club is better situated than any other about New York, haying 
a good anchorage, plenty of water for sailing, and in addition, hand- 
some grounds and club house close to the anchorage, many of the 
members haying cottages near by, while some of the bachelors live 
in the club house. Although coniparatively a new organization the 
club numbers over 300 members with 114 yachts. Shifting ballast is 
still pene on the open boats, of which there are 50 on the club 
list, but the crews are limited to one man for 5ft. length, the latter 
being taken as the waterline plus 14 of overhang, the time allowanced 
being estimated on the same basis. 

The 24 entries included 6 classes; class C, sloape: cutters or yawls of 
Saft. sailing length, or over; class 1, the same of 42ft, and under 55ft. : 
class 2, 80ft. and under 42ft,; class 3, under 30ft.; class 4, open jib and 
mainsail boats of 23ft., or over; class 5, the same of under 23ft.: class 
6, catboats of 23ft,, or over: class 7, the same under 23ft. The prizes 
were, classes C, 1 and 2, each, $75.00; class 3, $60.00; classes 4 and 5, 


$50.00; classes 6 and 7%, $35.00 each, besides the ‘‘ Connor Cup™ for 
Hare O; value, $750.00, and the Gould Cup,” classes 1 and 2, value, 


The courses were, for classes one and two, from off Pagoda Point, 
Larchmont, to and around red buoy off Execution Reef, thence to 
and around buoy off Matinnicock Point, to and around a stakeboat 
off Captain’s Island, around Execution buoy again to the starting 
point, 22 miles. The smaller classes, after rounding Matinnicock, 
going to the black buoy off Constable Point, and thence home by 
way of Execution Point, making 17 miles. 

The steamer Belle Horton came down from the city about 10 A. M. 
with a large party of ladies and gentlemen on board, and after talk- 
ing on another party at the Horseshoe, steamed over the starting 
line, where the tug W, Goodwin with the judges, Messrs. W. H. Jen- 
kins, J. Lester Wallack and T. R. Fisher, and reporters, was lying. 

Of the twenty-four yachts entered, but eighteen were to windward 
of the line ready to start, their names being as follows: 


CLASS 1, 
Owner, Length 
dei@e BAUDONS WD oe woe sas deaecet 54. 
Se LUER ELS WWSIES ie eo te ee ns 50.08 
GeorgeUy Goulden. ee es 47.05 
CLASS 2. 
Crocodile .... 06 ccscscseen ePep Pe PES PUIG ues levi ep + cute tie ep oes 41,02 
Schemer .........+.. Paes Commodore Monroe................. 87.03 
CLASS 3. 
WOlanGGy ote t.n2453 cee C. A. Stevenson.....-.............-.. 28.08 
Varuna, Sorc sige sien ese Kdgar'S, Turton... .... 2 ek. sees 27.02% 
ATOZ. Satins hg pstee Dulre F Franklin Beams... ........... ......26.08 
Kathleen...) sc:-cessses ss G. R, Barreto,....... of Se ee eh aS 25.11 
FE DNGU ee aig dose Sesh Oifver AT aris cores eee eas heey 21.02 
CLASS 4, 
Florence.....,.,. So neti 1d NS ESA ESV eee Re ere peice. 28.00 
Meteor. ..).e2s2.. Sheen eee Pe Waln wren oe bob oe eng 26.06 
CHeEeMAliNs won ot feted ee W. I. Van Wart. _.._- iene mee EN ane 2410 
CLASS 5. 
ADCS ae Pe trees ek ,..-H, A, Sanderson........ Soe nna ee OB 
Shirt 1). bee Preis art oy LNA es VT Se a ee, pee OS SY 21.09 
G. B. Dean........ se resssede We VWOIGKEIMOFG, .., cac-+ or velesiads 21.05 
: cuass 6. 
Graisery Fes Woe ee ta ee AUB ry ANA eye) .; or utes de seek ee 20.09 
AES eae ee ea” a eh EHOMAS WOtG.). -.|.c)b owes ie ent 19 08 


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certainly did not rest with the Regatta Committee, as the signals were 
all worked properly, but the whole start was a bungling affair. 
Meteor was first over, hauling In her sheet as she crossed. Zoe 
came next, her crew busy with the bags, as the blocks came together, 
and she headed for Execution with wind abatt the beam, Then came 
Fairy with a still larger pileof bags, Cruiser came down, but stopped 
toreef, Florence, jibing as she crossed, and then came up, rounded 
the judges’ tug, and crossed a second time, jibing again. Then 
Cruiser, with her reef tied on, by which time the big ones were ready, 
and Schemer went over with full jib and mainsail and working top- 
sail; then Chemaun and Varuna under jib, main and topsail; Ama- 
zon with the same; Crocodile, Athlon and Fanita with jibtopsails 
set: Eclipse, showing a bright green bottom and red stripe at water 
line; Yolande, with big square header; Gannet and, last, Kathleen, 
each hauling in sheets as they rounded. The times of starting were: 


Meteor. o- ee snin. Ju a. 11,/26-83: Amiazon............-+05 yop, Ag 4at 
ARGS Seen lone nese 11 8012 Crocodile... ns. li 46 20 
TA ge gd 4 eel 11 30.35 Wanita............,......-5 14 46 55 
Miorencareed weenie sed 11 84.18 Jewel.............0.0..0..21 11 48 15 
Nymphaea: cere ee TISSbs 5s EAHIONY pan cles ete eceld ote 11 48 36 
SETISCESO Ay oe sod e tee teed SHES Ve CAR UI 2h eo eR di 49 05 
G. B. Deane......-..... £.0138-40, Nolandey iy oo Us. oy eae 11 61 04 
Schemer... 11 39 40 Gannet......0............ li 51 13 
KSDEDIVESIET rel jonuee sie li 41 39 Kathleen.................. li 61 a7 
SMBUS TIS We ce oes nts hs, data he 11 45 03 


The run to Hxecution was made so quickly by the leaders that it 
was too late to time them when the tug left the start, but the order 
was nearly the same as at starting. Down to Matinnicock was a 
beat, long legs on port tack and short on starboard, scattering the 
boats and changing positions, Schemer and Fanita taking the lead, 
the little ones doing well, though their crews weresoaked. Off Glen 
Cove the tug sighted a sailboat capsized with a man on her, and an- 
other one swimming near by, but two yachts were already trying to 
rescue them. Yolande, haying taken in her club topsail, was now 
beati-g to windward with her topmast on end. 

Ati2:15 a squall of rain struck the boats, returning at interyals 
throughout the day. Panita was first at the buoy, luffing around and 
standing over for oe Island on starboard tack, Schemer soon 
following. Zoe and Fairy had been having a charp tussle all the way 
down, and now, just as big Athlon luffed round, they passed through 
her Jee, easing sheet for Constable Paint, the bags flying at a lively 
gait to windward. Meteor, now astern, nearly fouled the buoy, and 
Yolande was hindered by a clumsy working schooner. Athlon and 
Varuna both set jibtopsails at the buoy, 


The times were: 
Mamnitsie irs cpeair <+2 Sons t 13.00" Chemaun’.;....-.51...4...- 1 26 41 
DGCMOMIAN pmeees ot oes ts ye Seg LAGS. oe RST aaalsee dene e 1 40 15 

Dome paceett se done 10D: WGaiseris 2222 seis nee ee 1 44 59 
MT OTOP gee rs see ee eh Lap -45" Jewel fee viv ee 1 45 39 
RUBY gine gins Seek yore d18°00° Varian etaedeiag ee tek 1 55 08 
TI AIISO Pues ree h ow ce Pheer ha AMD SATA ZO ey opens cree a ee 1 56 02 
WPOGGOIUG,.. se stesdensticnes see ae OS! Mola. a ote Men 1 57 14 
MPSTAOT | 4. eee ee ceva -1 26 00 


The four miles to Captain’s Island were soon made, the positions 
being the same, except that Schemer was fourth instead of second, 
as below: 

Chat gneiss 136.00 Schemer..... row cothta ee dae 1 45 00 
NSLS tes ixtatipeioh bieess sky Poe 1 43 00 

The fight was lost to view ina heavy rain squall, but all the boats 
were doing their best though invisible, the big ones hurrying under 
spinnakers to Execution, and the little ones when passed by the tug 
still bravely at it. No time was taken at Execution, the tug hurrying 
home for the finish, 

By_this time the wind was hauling to the south, helping all home 
rapidly, Fanita being first in. In spite of the blunders at starting, 
the boats were curiously Se ty together, Athlon. Fanita and 
eae conmung in close, Crocodile and Schemer, Yolande, Amazon 
and Varuna, Zoe and Fairy. 

The times of the race were as follows, the actual times of start and 
finish and time over the course being given, while the official time 
taken from the gunfire is given in the fourth column. 

CLASS 1—CABIN SLOOPS. 


Start Finish. Actual, Official 
Athi pit tet os de 11 48 36 3 03 10 3 14 34 3 27 10 
Helipse. ....--...+. saseell 49 05 3 04 47, 3 15 42 3 26 45 
Ania nse e sete 11 46 55 3 02 45 3.15 50 3 21 39 
CLASS 2—CABIN SLOOPS. 
Crocodile, -<. vecnei =! 11 46 20 3 13 20 3 27 00 3 37 20 
Schemer.....02.. --+..: 11 30 40 3 15 27 3.35 47 3 35 82 
CLASS 3—CABIN SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 
Wolsnde., 355.28 cans Il 51 04 3 36 57 3 45 53 4 00 57 
ACUI Pek weee ay 234 1i 45 03 8 35 08 3 50 05 3 57 48 
VATNAZOME joey eae os enes 11 45 47 335 37 3 49 50 3 57 38 
Kathleen. ..: ...0::se.. 11 51 37 Did not go the course. 
ATETINE es ants oe se 11 51 13 Did not go the course. 


CLASS 4—OPEN JIB AND MAINSAIL. 


Florence............+ ».11 34 18 Did not go the course, 

Meteor... 2.22.42. .-425. 11 26 33 3B 05 16 3 38 43 3 38 36 
Cheemann........--..5. ji 41 39 2 56 47 315 08 318 32 

CLASS 5—OPEN JIB AND MAINSAIL. 
THOT EE a goeatpacedey are 11 80 12 2 54 53 3 24 41 3 24 41 
Ayer cl nee 11 35 55 318 45 3 42 50 3 41 21 
stoves te Stier tue aos 11 30 59 2 54 58 3 28 59 3 22 27 
Geb Deg, fl. ee 11 38 40 3 18 25 3 39 45 3 40 16 
CLASS 6—CAT RIGGED. 

AO NUIS OTe yo) se) ) nal oh 11 a7 23 3 3 50 29 8 51 52 
WEWE cb cuits teliine 11 48 15 8 28 57 3 40 42 3 50 09 


The success of the races is largely due to the regatta committee, 
Messrs. Charles EH, Jenkins, Thomas B. Brown and J. B. Miley, who 
had charge of all the arrangements. 


BEVERLY Y. C. 


pHs eighty-fourth regatta, being an open catboat sweepstakes, 
was sailed at Monument Beach July 4, A Jarge entry of local 
boats not belonging to the club was expected, but they held aloof till 
after the entries closed, being afraid of the new Surprise, built this 
spring by Mr, Hanley, This boat had never been measured, it was 
known that she was very near the line between first and second 
classes, and she frightened all but the B. Y. C. boats and one boat 
from Chatham out of both classes When she was measured on the 
morning of the 4th and found to be im first class by four fifths of an 
inch, the local second elass boats wanted to enter, but ib was too late. 

At the time of the start, the wind at the judges’ yacht was brisk 


N. E., but some two miles down the bay it was 5. W.- The following” 


courses were selected: First and s+econd classes, from judges’ yacht 
off Tobey Island buoy No. 2, leaying Bird Island buoy No, 13 and 
Serage Neck buoy No. !0 on port hand on return, eleven miles, Third 
elass, leaying Dry Ledge buoy No. i2, Abial’s Ledge buoy No.1 and 
black buoy No. 8 on port hand, seven miles. The preparatory gun 
was fired at 12:04, being delayed four minutes waiting for tie Matta- 
poisett boats. 
The boats started as follows: 
FIRST CLASS. 


Name, Owner, Length, Start. 
Matthies. i. Vice-Com, Stockton, B.Y.C...... 25.10 12 09 32 
Violet ..Geo, BH. Riehards, B.Y.C .,. ,...24.0516 12 10 50 
Atalanta, ,.J.R. Thomas, B Y.C.......,..,.26 10 12 11 05 
Surprise ....... GO, OSEantery 9B 5".0. neat 24.01 12 11 40 

SECOND CLASS, 
TAU CE yee + are Geo. H, Lyman. Jr., B.Y.C,,..--22.09 12 15 03 
ibn RS a, Fi, A Bang, eB aye. a es 1.0846 12 16 20 
Tantrum,...... Jas. M. Codman, B.Y-C......... 22.01 12 16 35 
IMGBO Oe. repeal: A, W, Baker, Chatham.........- 21.10 12 16 48 
Lestris......... Dy OranewBaye Cust sey sceieces ei On 12 16 4846 
Eleanor........ Richard Codman, B.Y¥.C,,.. .--. 22.09 12 18 55 
GRU hee > sees B. B, Robinson, Pocasset......-. 22-10 12 19 00 

THIRD CLASS. 
Wiyians. co, R. ¥. Nickerson, Chatham ...,. 20.05 12 20 59 
lara rte. Outram Bangs, B.Y.@.......-.- 18.08 12 21 15 
DOTY puts sues AL A Hardy, 830 Gis eo. 20,01 12 21 49 


Romp was timed by request, having failed to enter in time. Flirt’s 
measurement is not official, Mystery, third class, was entered, but 
could not be got off the beach, where she had gone to clean her bot- 
fom, in time. 

The two larger classes carried the N.E. wind for the greater 
part of the run down; about a mile this side of Bird Island they struck 
a calm and the rear boats closed up, After some time spent driftin 
around in puifs coming from all directions, Mattie struck a 5.W win 
and began to beat for the buoy. Surprise and Atalanta took it next, 
then the leaders of the second class. 

Mattie rounded the buoy first and started free for Scraggy Neck. 
Surprise came next, gaining on her, then Atalanta, followed by Echo, 
Eleanor, Tantrum and Violet, 


Mattie and Surprise carried the 8.W. wind around Scraggy Neck _ 


buoy and started home before the wind, when Atalanta was three 
quarters, and Violet, who had passed Eleanor and Tantrum, half way 
across, the wind came out §.B, and they had to beat for the buoy 

which put the two leading a long distance ahead, Atalanta rounded 
third, then Violet and Echo together, Tantrum and Wleanor. 

All this time wind was N.E. at the judges’ yacht, Mattie and Sur- 
prise carried the 5,W, wind over the home line, but it immediately 
shifted back to the east. The others hadit N.B, running home, and 
as they approached the line found the wind east and crossed line close 


FOREST AND STREAM, 


hauled, as follows: Atalanta, Violet, Echo, Eleanor, Tantrum, Romp, 
Flirt, Lestris and Iris. 


—_————— aa 


CRUISE OF THE MABEL, 


The third class got into the edge of the calm, but when elear of it { Zdttor Porest und Stream: 


had the wind N.E,; ne stuck closely to each other, Vivian leading 
me way home, followed by Dolly and Clara 8B. Pollowing is the sum- 
ary: 


FIRST CLASS. 


Corrected, 
2 35 30 
2 40 33 


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RH ASASSSE F 
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44 158 87 
Surprise. Hleanor and Clara B. take first prizes; Mattie, Echo and 
Dolly second prizes, The race being an open one, was sailed under 
the rules and allowances of the N. BE. Y. R. Association. Judges, 
Hdward Bangs, A. H. Hardy, W. Lloyd Jeffries. Judges’ yacht, 
Madcap, B, ¥. C. 
EBIGHTY-FIFTH RACE. 

Saturday, July 5, opened with half a gale of wind from the §.W. 
and a pouring rain; the result was that only four boats started in the 
match for the Buzzard's Bay Ne aed and they were under 
three reefs most of the way, The B. Y. C. measurement was used in 


this race, 
" FIRST CLASS CATS. 

Name Owner, Length. Actual. Corrected, 
Mattie...... - Vice-Com, Stockton. ...25.10 2 00 31 1 51 42 
PRG Asses George H. Lyman...... 25.10 2 13 06 2 00 43 
Trige toa es wesw ese detehat dsp ree pga nee 24.02 withdrawn. 
Tantrum ......J.M.Codman...., +... .25,00 withdrawn. 


A one-gun flying start was used, Tantrum going off with the lead. 
Mattie overpowered the others in the beat down to Bird Island Light. 
Course same as on the Fourth. Judges, George H. Richards, J. P. 
Gardner, FP, 1. Amory and W. Lloyd Jeffries. Judges’ yacht, Maude, 
BY Le: BiLuE Wits A Goup CASTLE, 


LA NUBIENNE. 


peas steam yacht, the first that has made the voyage to America 

under French colors, arrived in New York on Saturday morning 
from Montreal, having left Havre on June 10 and arrived at Quebec 
June 23, She has on board her owner, Mr. Edmond Blanc, Mr. Paul 
Saunieres, owner of the famous 40-tonner Myosotis, now the va; Mr. 
Fonande of the cutter Flamberge, and Mr, B. Clere, proprietor of Le 
Yacht, The party left the yacht at Montreal, coming to New York 
by rail, visitng Niagara and Albany, joining the vessel here and 
leaving on Tuesday evening for Newport, where they spend a few 
days before returning to France. 

The Nubienne, formerly the Cumbria, is named after the famous 
mare belonging to Mr, Blanc, winner of the Grand Prix in 1882, is 
bark rigged, of 470 gross tons and 596 Thames measurement, and was 
built by C. Mitchell & Co., of Newcastle, in 1881, being intended by 
her former owner, Lord Lonsdale, for a voyage around the world, 
but on his death she was purehased by Mr, Blanc, 

She is 179.7ft. long on waterline, 27.1ft. beam, 13.7ft. depth and is 
built of iron, with five bulkheads and two decks, and is a splendid 
specimen of an ocean cruiser. Her fittings on deck are all of teak— 
houses, bulwarks and rail—while below she is finished with English 
oak. Forward are the crew’s quarters on the lower deck, aft of 
which is a handsome dining saloon for the officers, their stater2oms 
opening into it. 

On the main deck aft is a dining saloon on the starboard side, hand- 
somely finished in oak, and ornamented with a painting of the yacht’s 
namesake, Nubienne. Aftof thisis a stateroom, and further aft a 
bathroom, fitted with a very ingenious combination washstand, oc- 
cupying but little space, while on the port side are staterooms for the 
servants. Aft of allis the smoking room, a semicircular apartment 
over the wheel, very handsomely fitted up, with a small yacht piano 
of English make, the entire keyboard of which folds up out of the 
way, the instrument, though of good tone, occupying about half the 
space of a small parlor organ. 

The owuer’s stateroom is on the lower deck, and abaft it are the 
storerooms and magazine, The chartroom is a very cosy apartment 
in the forward end of the deck house, under the bridge. The latter 
is fitted with signaling apparatus of the usual construction, with 
Jever and dial, but in addition has on each side three electric buttons, 
set under the rail, for signaling ahead, astern, stop, all parts of the 
ship being also connected by telegraph. The engines are of excellent 
design, inverted compound 25 and 47in.x27in. 

The propeller is of bronze, two bladed, and so fitted that the piteh 
may be altered from 11ft. to 15ft., from inside the ship. Her arma- 
ment is remarkable fora pleasure yacht, consisting of eight rifled 
steel breechloading guns, mounted, four on a side, on the main deck, 
all being fitted with hydraulic recoils. Besides these she carries an 
enormous duck gun, while below are a rack of Chassepot rifles and 
a number of revolvers. 

After leaving the North River, the Nubienne steamed up through 
the Gate, and at 6P. M., when opposite the Knickerbocker Y. C. 
house, and running at a good speed, took the ground on the reef 
between the black buoys. The steamer Pilgrim, seeing her danger, 
whistled loudly, but the warning was not understood, and she struck 
with a loud crash; backing off, however, though listing badly to port, 
proceeding on her way, however, without assistance from the two 
tugs that wentto herhelp. The rocks were two feet out of water not 
100 yards off, and three sailors were on her forward deck when she 
struck. 


YACHTING ON LAKE ONTARIO. 


hee first yacht race sailed on the Bay of Quinte this year took 

place at Trenton on the 1st insb., Dominion Day. The contest 
was for second class yachts, under B. Q. Y. C. rules, over a course of 
iwenty miles, and the prizes were $60, $30 and $15. 

Unfortunately the contest was marked by an incident yery unusual 
in these waters, namely the capsize of one of the competitors—the 
Surprise, of Trenton. 

It was not until after the noon hour had passed that the four com- 
petitors were started, the wind being then southwest, and of fair 
sailing’strength. The order of going was as follows: Surprise (Tren- 
ton), 12h. 15m. Iolanthe (Belleville) 12h, 15m, 57s.; Gracie (Belleville), 
12h, 16m,.; Enid (Trenton), 12h. 16m. 38s. About three miles of the 
course was windward work, the first two legs of it being a straight 
run down wind and the second with the wind abaft the beam. 

All, except the Hnid, carried gaff and jibtopsails; the Surprise, 
which had been lightened by more than half her standing ballast, 
gaining somewhat, and the Gracie overhauling the Jolanthe. At the 
lower buoy light canyas was taken in, but the crew of the Surprise 
were not quick enough with theirs, and, a sudden puif of wind taking 
her, over she rolled, those on board shouting to the other yachts to 
keep on their course, which they did, and the crew of the unfortunate 
craft were rescued by the Dauntless. 

The Gracie was now in the lead, but was closely pressed by the 
Tolanthe, which, near Indian Island, was close alongside, bul to 
leeward. Wishing to avoid a collision, the Gracie went about, and 
this cost her first place, and possibly the race, as the Tolanthe stood 
on and was able to round the mark, which she turned 4 minutes and 
a half ahead. On the next round the Gracie gained half a minute, 
but Jost all she had made on the run to the harbor buoy, and from 
this out the Iolanthe gained rapidly, finishing at 4:27, ten minutes in 
advance, The Enid was fully half an hour behind the Gracie. The 
mishap to the Surprise was very much regretted, as she would other- 
wise have made a good race with the two Belleville boats, which thus 
won the two chief prizes. 

At Kingston on the same day there were 1aces for first, second and 
third classes—local cratt. The Gen. Garfield won in the first class, 
the Laura in the second class and the Merlin in the third class, 

Preparations are now being made for the regattas under the aus- 
pices of the Lake Yacht Racing Association, which promise to be suc- 
cessful, The Gracie having donned a new mainsail, will challenge 
the Iolanthe for the challenge cup held by the latter, and for which 
the former receives a handicap allowance of five minutes. 

The big sloops Atalanta and Norah are looking well. The latter 
will haye an entire new outfit of canvas from the loft of Oldreive & 
Horne, of Kingston, and will adopt the double head rig. _ 

The Iolanthe has been fitted with a new wheel and side and dead- 
lights of the most approved pattern. } 

e anticipate a rare contest on the 6th prox., with the Atalanta, 
Norah, Gartield, Aileen, Cygnet, -Verve, Oriole, Madcap, Coquette, 
Alarm, Lady Standly and ssibly others in the first class, and the 
Iolanthe, Gracie, Surprise, Emma, Laura, Katie Gray, Cricket and no 
doubt. other flyers in the second class, . 

There seems to be no prospect of a contest for the Fisher champion 
cup for sloops, which the Atalanta is ready to defend against all 
comers, Port TAcK, 

BELLEVILLE, Ont,, July 3, 


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It may interest you to hear the latest report from the yacht Mabel, 
0. ¥.C., Captain Jas, H. Stebbins, Jr., of this city, now on a cruise 
from Clayton through thelakes. 7 “fe Bana 

Mr. Stebbins reports that he left Port Calborne, at the entrance to 
the Welland Canal, on the 26th, before a heayynortheaster, and made 
Detroit in twenty-four hours, the distance logged being 285 miles, For 
six hours the only sail carried was the foresail, and the sea was so 
heavy that two of the crew, both old lake sailors. were sick. 

You may remember that the Mabel was changed last winter from 
a centerboard to a keel and given a cutter rig forward, Mr. Stebbins 
reports that the alterations not only make the yacht a better sea boat 
aud handier, but have also increased her speed. W. F, Hapgoon, 

(the log of af 

€log of a former cruise of the Mabel appeared in Formst AND 
Stream of Jan. 24, 1884, sce which ernise ite Ras been changed fo a 
keel boat with cutter rig.] 
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MIGNONETTE.—This cutter, described in Forest AND STREAM Of 
Mareh orev is how completed and has left her builders, Messrs, 
Wallin & Gorman, of Bay Ridge. We commend her to all those who 
are looking for something in place of the old-fashioned sloop, but are 
not prepared to accept the full cutter, as a great step in advance, 
and at the same time a boat they can step aboard of without doing 
violence to their patriotism, Shehas an iron keel of 1,700 pounds, 
3,000 pounds of lead inside, & roomy cabin with good head room, 
lockers, etc., large cockpit aboye waterline with secuppers, steers 
With a stick and has a housing topmast. Her jib traveler, instead of 
running on the bowsprit, runs on an iron red on top of the latter. 
The entire boat is handsomely finished throughout, mahogany in 
cabin and cockpit, pine eeiling and lockers, ail yarnished, deck of 
narrow pine, varnished, Her owner, Dr, Loring, isa member of the 
Larchmont ¥, ©,, but will use her about Boston this summer. 
Messrs, Wallin & Gorman haye also launched recently a very hand- 
some little cathoat, 17ft. on waterline, with 2ft, 6in. overhang, 6ft. 
6in. beam, bright finish in cockpit and deck, rather straight sheer, 
an(l a neat looking boat in every way. She is intended for use on a 
smal] lake, They have also afioat a cabin sloop of the usual American 
type, for Capt. Samuel Greenwood, 30ft. on deck and keel, 12ft, beam 
and 2ft. in. draft, besides a smaller nie sloop with a movable cabin, 
for Mr. J. L. Riker, of Shrewsbury. Length 22ft., beam 9ft., hold 2ft. 
5in. Her ballast will be all iron inside. 


ROYAL CANADIAN Y. C.—The R. GC. ¥. C. gave a sail on July 1 
to their lady friends, starting from the club house about 4 P. M., the 
flagship Aileen, Commodore Leys, leading. Seven yachts were in 
line—Aileen, Oriole, Verve, Alarm, Coquette, Kent and Madeline. 
The fleet executed a number of maneuvers, being directed from the 
flagship by a new and Soe system of signaling, worked by the in- 
yentor, Capt. Dupont, R. N. After formingz-a line each yacht tacked 
in succession, afterward following the flagship up the bay, Further 
maneuvers were prevented by a squall and a pour of rain, in which 
Alarm lost her mizzen, the yawl was washed off the deck of the 
Esperanza, and a sailboat was capsized. A collision nearly took 
place between the Aileen and a passenger steamer, the St. Jean: Bap- 
tiste. Next week’s cruise will be under the command of the Vice- 
Commodore, from his yacht Oriole. 


SEAWANHAKA ©. Y. 0. BOOK.—The club hook for 1884 comes 
to us in a very neat and shipshape cover of dark canvas, very much 
more appropriate and durable than the usual blue and gold, The 
list this year includes 227 members and 102 yachts, made up of 11 
steamers, 17 schooners, 21 keel boats (17 cutters) 23 centerboard 
sloops and 30 open boats, among which are 3 catamarans and 1 canoe. 
Besides the club signals, the book contains some useful notes on the 
barometer, the United States fog signals, ihe signal code, a map of 
the club course and rules for colors, salutes, éte. We notice that the 
expression “under weigh” still has a place in the signal code, as in 
several other club books, 


SHEAWANHAKA C, Y. C., CRUISE.—The following order has been 
issued to members, for the annual cruise: New York, June 28, i884. 
Dear Sir—The Club Squadron will rendezvous at Whitestone, Long 
Island, on Saturday, July 12, for the Annual Cruise. You are 
earnestly requested to communicate with the Secretary as promptly 
as possible, stating whether you will be able to join the fleet or not. 
The Secretary offers a prize of $25 in cash to the sailing master 
whose yacht upon inspection during the cruise is shown ty be in the 
best order and condition, due regard being paid to completeness and 
condition of outfit.—L. F. D’OrEMreuLX, Secretary, S. CG. YC. 


MAGGIE.—Mr. George Warren's well-known cutter Maggie was 
placed in Simpson’s dry dock last week and some 600 or 800 pounds of 
the lead recently added to her keel were remoyed, It was decided by 
her sailing master during the Eastern Club races that she was trimmed 
too much by the stern. The removal of the lead brought her back fo 
something more like her old trim, and although the Fourth was 
rather a poor day to determine how much improyement has been 
made, itis thought she willmakea better showing in tle races to 
come.—Boston Herald, July 5. 


DAUNTLESS.—This yacht arrived in Newport on July 6, having on 
board her owner, Mr. Caldwell H. Colt,and Mr. J. Neilson Howard. ~ 
She left Madeira on June 12, but was delayed by fogs, calms, and 
head winds. On her arrival she at once hoisted her quarantine flag, 
which was no sooner seen from theshore than the report spread that 
she had some contagious disease on board, to the dismay of the resi- 
dents of Newport. The Harbor Master, Capt, Townsend, boarded 
the yacht, however, and finding all well, ordered the flag to be taken 
down, 


A NEW BOSTON CUTTER.—A fine specimen of a moderate cutter 
has just been finished by Mx. Jacob Rood, Her length on waterline 
is 31ft., beam 7ft. 8in., depth 6ft. Keel, stem and stern of white oak, 
frames of the same, double 244x2%4 spaced 12in., planking of clear 
yellow pine in single lengths. Keel of lead, 214 tons, with composi- 
tioh bolts. Mast Tin. at deck, 22ft, from deck to hounds, head 5fi., 
with housing topmast 20ft, long. Main boom 26ft.. gaff I8ft. 6in,, 
bowsprit 14ft, outboard, fitted to house. 


SURF,—Yacht Surf, Capt. Rathborne, returned from her easterly 
cruise on the morning of July 4. She cruised as far as Gloucester. 
and met with some very heavy weather, Capt. Rathborne reports a 
series of calms, gales and fogs, which proved anything but enjoy- 
able. He thinks Chesapeake Bay offers many more attractions to a 
New York yachtsman, and intends cruising there next summer. 


* 

LARCHMONT Y. C.—At a regular meeting of the Larchmont ¥. C. 
on Saturday evening, the following members were elected: John W. 
Beers, R. H. Egleston, John Q, Underhill, Otto Sarony, HE, H. Chase, 
Arthur Padelford, Edward M, Padelfcrd, Henry 8, Hoyey, J. H. Wain- 
wright, H. Hllis Hart, Charles Elliot Warren, Charles J. Osborn, 
Howell Osborn, Alfred de Cordova and Lewis H, Spence, 


SAN FRANCISCO YACHTING,.—Halcyon, schooner, built last year 
for Mr. H, L. Tevis, has been sold to Mr, J, D, Grant, who will put her 
in thorough condition, making seyeral changes below, and will prob- 
ably put her in the races and cruisesof both clubs, Mr. Con O*Connor 
will present the yacht with a full suit of colors, imported for her 
from England, 


MERLIN.—This cutter was launched on Wednesday of last week 
from her builder’s shop, South Brooklyn, and now Nes afloat with 
mast and bowsprit and rigging in place, She shows to even better 
advantage outside than when in theshop, Her joiner work is partly 
in, and she will soon be ready for seryice. 


KINGSTON, ONT.—In the races held on Dominion Day, the Gar- 
field, in the first class, beat the Hebe by 24 minutes, the Lanra win- 
ning in the second class, with Una, Zeta and Victoria in order behind 
her, while Meriin won in third class. 


DAISY.—This yacht arrived in Boston on Thursday last, and will 
be sailed to New York, calling at Provincetown, Newport and New 
London. Her sailing master, William Martell, came with her on the 
steamer. 


Auswers ta Correspondents. 


{= No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents, 


TorekA.—Fort Davis, Tex.—i, The address is ae ea Kan, 2. 
He has pomters of Faust, Bow and Sleaford blood, a & strain of 
black pointers. * 


J.C. S., Pittsburgh.—1, What food willa chicken hawk eat besid 
raw meat? 2. What is the right food for raccoons? Ans. 1. Raw 
meat is the proper food. Ibwilleat only animal food, 2, A raccoon — 


—— 


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ens 
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Will eat almost anything, meat, raw or cooked, bread, eggs, green 
corn or fruit. Scraps from the table are as good food as anything 
you can give it. 


J. A. G., Washington, D, C.—The Denison target pads may be ob- 
tained through any dealer in firearms. They are specially prepared 
for testing pattern and penetration. 


B. R., Buffalo.—Will you kindly inform me if there is a polo 
elub organized in Chicago, or in any city west of Buffalo, and 
also give me their namesif possible?—Ans. We know of no such club. 


M, C. Waterbury, Ct.—At a Massachusetts target, out of a possible 
60, A, scored 9, 11, 10, 9, 11, total, 50. B. scored 9, 9, 10, 10, 12, total 50. 
Ts it a tie, or does A. receive the first prize ? Ans. A makes the better 
seore, 


G. W., Horicon, N. ¥,—It is our intention around Brant Lake. to 
have a petition in this fall at Albany to get our time, close, extended 
to July 1, Gan we do this? Ans. You need not petition the Legisia- 
ture. Your county supervisors have authority to extend any of the 
close seasons. <A local enactment will answer your purpose, 


TrquireR.—1. How does the sturgeon rank as a food fish, or is it fit 
forfood? 2. Where is it mostly found? Ans. In England itis the 
royal fish, and the first one of the season caught in the Thames goes 
tothe royal table. At Albany and along the upper Hudson, where 
the Dutch settled, itis a favorite. The fishermen of Long Island 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


flesh is oily, and if parboiled first it makes splendid cutlets. 2. The 
rivers of the Atlantic coast and the great lakes. It spawns in fresh 
water. 


C. A. R., Taunton, Mass.—1. What are the best places for trout 
fishing on the Lehigh Valley Railroad? 2. How is Match Chunk for 
fishing? 8. What kind of fish are to be found at or near Geneva, 
N.Y.? Ans. 1. Meshoppen, Mehoopany and Tunkhannock. 2. There 
is some trouting to be had in that vicinity. 8. Perch, sunfish, black 
bass, pickerel ete. 


H. B., Glaseco, N. ¥Y.—Will you be kind enough to inform me of 
the name of the bug inclosed in the paper. Ihave noticed its pres- 
ence among my bird skins to my regret. Ans, The beetle belongs to 
the genus Dormestes, a museum pest. Poison your skins well. If the 
bugs are among them in numbers, take the skms out and beat them 
at frequent intervals for a few weeks. 


A, J..0., Hydesville, Vt. A few days ago I shot a bird on our lake 
here that I cannot identify to my satisfaction, Isupposed it was a 
loon, but do not find any description that fits the bird in Coues’s 
‘Key.’ The bird measured 301g inches in length, is pure white from 
bill to tail on the under parts and under sides of wings; back of head 
and neck a brownish gray and also the back and tail, feathers on 
back brownish black, slightly edged with white, a short and well 
formed tail. Legs posterior; inside of legs white and the outside 
black,ifour toes on foot, rear toe quite small and the three front ones 
webbed, similar to a duck; nail on end of toes flat. There are no 
round spots on the bird anywhere that I can see. It is built the same 
as a loon, head, bill and neck, and in fact all parts, but the coloring is 


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different. The bird I shot. was in company with one other near the 
highway on the lake, as I was passing with my team and I fired from 
the buggy, killing it the first fire. The other one immediately dis- 
appeared and was out of range of any shotgun, when it made its 
appearinece, The other as near as I could judge was similar to the 
one killed, Ans. We presume from your description that the birds 
were either young loons (C. torguatus), or young black-throated 
divers (C. areticus). 


A. M.1., Liberty, Neb.—1. Is the bird called kildeer good to eat? 2. 
Isitaplover or snipe? Large numbers are coming on the prairie 
which is being newly broken. After the grass has been burned off 
the prairie, thousands of birds come which people here call snipe. 3. 
Ts it the habit of snipe to peck around on the burned prairie? 4. How 
many kinds of snipe are there? 5. Are turtle doves good to eat? 6. 
Do southern people eat robins? Ans.1. Yes. 2. A ployer. 3. Yes, 
snipe and plover are likely to do it. 4, About ninety species, of which 
perhaps thirty-five are found in this country, 5, Yes, 6. Yes. 


Parient, New York.—1, Can you lei me know of any book which 
treats of black bass and trout? 2. What bait is best for bass? 3. 
What places in the Green Mountains are those fish caught? Ans. 1, 
The Ameriean Angler's Book, by Thad Norris, price $5.50; maine in 
American Waters, by Genio C. Scott, price $3.50, treat of both. The 
best book on black bassis Dr. Henshall’s; price $2.50. We can fur- 
nish them. 2. Minnows, crayfish, helgramites and frogs. 3. There 
are trout in most of the mountain streams, but the fish are small. 
Black bass are not plentiful in the State, but some of the ponds on 
the west side of the mountains contain them, 


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boiler felt are perfect portable refrigerators, pre- 
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for drinking purposes. They are made of the best 
rattan, with drop handles, double lids and straps on 
top, and are the strongest and most handsome 
baskets ever made. Two sizes. Price $3.50 and 
$4.50. Sent by express on receipt of price by the 
patentee, JOHN R. HARE, 63 Fayette street, Balti- 
more, Md, : 


SAS. EF. MARSTERS, 


85 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


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First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120 25; 
180ft., $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; B00Et., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600ft., $2.50. Any of the ‘above eeoels with pas 
25 ets. extra; nickel plated; 50 cts, extra, Brass Click Reels, 20yds,, 50 cts,; 30yds., 75 cts,; 60yds. $1.00; 
me) plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
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PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
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Celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Single gut, 12 cts, per doz.; double, 20 cts, per doz.; treble, 30 cts, per 
doz, Single Gut Trout and Black Bass Leaders, lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double Twisted 
Leaders, 3 length, 5 cts.; 4length, 10 ets.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15 cts,; extra heavy 44ply, 
4 length, 25 ets, Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1.00 per doz. Samples of our goods sent 
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VOL. XXI1I.—No. 25. 
; Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, NEw YORE. 


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CONTENTS. 


EDITORIAL. THE KENNEL. 


An Afternoon on the Range. 
Tricks Upon Travelers, 

THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 

Memories of Senachwine Lake. 
‘“Wessmuk’s’? Poems. 
Facts and Fancies. 
Moosehead Lake Notes. 
Tateresting Figures. 

CAMP FIRE PLICGKERINGS. 

NaturAL History. 

The Arizona.Quail. 
Notes on Shore Birds. 
How Young Birds are Fed. 
The Oak Woods:-Sparrow. 
Friendly Squirrels. 

GamE BaG AND GUN. 

Open Seasons for Game and Fish 
New York Game Protectors. 
The Three-Days Ducking Law. 
Two-Byed Shooting. 

SHA AND RIVER FISHING. 

Camps of the Kingfishers.—x; 
Wanton Food Fish Destruction. 
His First Black Bass, 

Charms of Salt-Water Fishing. 
“Neéssmuk’s’: Bread Recipe. 
Fishiog in Colorado. 
Fly-Fishing for Black Bass. 
The Tale of a Fish, 

FISHCULTURE, 

Comparative 
Food Fishes. 

Notes Pertaining to Vishcuiture. 

Fish and Fishing at Point Bar- 
row, Aretic Alaska, 

THE KENNEL. 

Pointers at New York. 


Excellence of 


Shooting over Beagles. 
The Laverack Setters. 
Mistake in Pedigree. 
English Kennel Notes.—1x. 
Mr, Llewellin to American 
Sportsmen, 
The Kennel Hospital. 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
Boston Gun Club Tournament. 
New England Tournament. 
Clay-Pigeon Tournament. 
CANOEING. 
The A, C, A. Races, 
A Canoe Cruise on the Anclote. 
The Camp Fire. 
Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
Cruise of the Pittsburgh C. C. 
YACHTING. : 
Port Orange Y. C. Annual 
Matches, 
A Race Between 
Scbooners. 
Hull Y.C. Annual Matches: 
Hull Y. C. Cruise. 
“Kites Against Sails.”’ 
From Port Morris 
George. 
N. Y. Y. G. Cruise. 
American Y, C. Races: 
Pacific Y. C. Ocean Race. 
Beverly Y. C. 87th Regatta. 
Cutters on the Lakes. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Trading 


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AN AFTERNOON ON THE RANGE. 


(Pe escape from the noise and worriment of the city away 
to a restful afternoon on the range is a rare pleasure 
which many have learned to love. There is about the sport 
of target-shooting a fascination which is very powerful to 
certain men, ‘Those who are engaged in sedentary pursuits 
can find no better way of taking the air and securing a cer- 
tain share of field sport than in this quiet battering away at 

the bullseye. The mind is engaged at the same time that the 
body is taking a good share of exercise. The man very 
soon finds that, barring physical imperfections, the question 
of becoming a good shot rests entirely with himself. If he 
is in good condition or in fine form, the chances are that his 
score will be of a fine order, but a bit of dissipation on the 
night before comes back to him at once in a slipping from 
the bullseye, and a falling away in his average. The best 
man wins there in the great majority of the cases, and it is 
this which encourages men to’persevere even when they find 
themselyes far down in the list when first going upon the 
range. 7 
To the casual spectator there are many sights far more 
interesting than a rifle match, even when the fight is a sharp 
one. The looker on is very soon informed that he is to use 
hig eyes only, and to take no further part in the affair. 
Ordinarily, unless he has started in at the opening of the 
match and kept a very accurate tally, it isimpossible to deter- 
mine how the score stands and what the relative position of 
the contestants may be. The outsider is reduced to the 
necessity of sitting down, hearing the sharp bang of the rifle, 
followed by the puff of smoke, and then in time a bobbing 


—_— aa " 


up of the disk, white, black or red, asthe case may be. Very 
soon the watcher grows tired of this, and having no appre- 
ciation of what each shot means in the way of thought and 
effort, he wanders away and finds something to engage his 
attention in the neighborhood, 


While the visitor to the range who comes merely to look 
on, spends perhaps a very dull afternoon, it is entirely dif- 
ferent with the man who has entered his name on the list of 
competitors. To him the range is simply the place where he 
is trying the results of his previous precautions and judg- 
ments on a dozen points. It is not alone the buying of a 
good gun which makes a good rifleman. We have seen the 
finest sporting rifles in the hands of new comers or men who 
are not willing to take the working road to victory, beaten 
by the ordinary ‘‘gas-pipe” weapons issued under contract to 
troops, simply because the trooper puts a good percentage 
of brains and judgment behind his gun when he stood up to 
shoot. 


The trip to the range is always an enjoyable one to the en- 
thusiastic rifleman, because he goes along buoyed up by 
expectancy. He looks forward to a string of bullseyes, and 
once on the range he has a score of details to look after, 
When the ordinary visitor merely notes that it is a sunny 
afternoon, with a sharp wind blowing, the man who is to 
shoot-is already busy calculating precisely how much of an 
allowance he is to make for the condition of the light and 
the force of the wind. He has a book of past scores, not 
merely the total actually made out of a possible highest 
score, but a briefly-written history of each shot. He turns 
back over his records until he finds a set of conditions very 
similar or exactly so to the present. state of wind and 
weather, and then he duplicates the record on his front and 
rear gauges. Then comes the shot. It is taken with care, 
the holding was perfect, the spirit level in front had been 
kept at the dead-center point, there had been no error in the 
setting of the sights, the cartridge had been made up with 
the greatest care, and at the last instant before firing the 
cautious score-maker had quickly glanced about and made 
sure that there had been no little twitch in the wind, 
insignificant, perhaps, to the casual eye, but instantly 
detected by him, because he knew that a neglect 
to allow for it meant an outer possibly in place of 
the expected bullseye. Bang, and the bullet is off beyond 
recall on its way targetwards. The returns come quick, for 
the sharp reéchoing pig shows that the leaden bolt has 
flattened and melted itself against the target, and this report 
is verified a second or two later by the opening of the trap. 
It is time for the appearance of the disk, and it comes, not 
the expected white-faced one telling of a perfect shot, but a 
red one, which creeps up until it hides a good share of the 
bullseye and notes a hit close to its lower edge. 
feeling of disgust at even this loss of a single point, but the 
rifleman has caught his bearings. He goes up a point on his 
rear sight, holds as he had done in the previous shot, and 
there comes an encouraging bullseye disk in response. Again 
and again it comes up, and then the red disk reappears, only 
to remind the marksman that shooting is a very uncertain 
thing, and that ina little streak of forgetfulness he has 
allowed the wind to shift to the other side of the 6 o’clock 
point, and that he finds a bullet wafted away toa 5 o’clock 
center in place of taking its place with the bunch of hits in 
the 7 o’clock corner of the white iris. 


It has in it the delightful element of uncertainty which 
makes any sport enjoyable—victory is possible, but it must 
be worked for. itis a perpetual strugele from the firing of 
the first shot until the final one is safely lodged against the 
iron disk or it may be the grass parapet before it. Then 
comes the homeward run. Those who head the list are con- 
gratulated and explanations are in order. Those who won 
give minute explanation and hints as tothe precautions taken 
with every part of their work, from the buying of the 
empty cartridge shell, through the delicacies of loading, on 
to the manipulations of firing, and so to the final pull off. 
Riflemen, generally, are a generous set, and freely help each 
other to the good results of any discoveries made by them, 
There is such a large margin of uncertainty that there is 
ample room for a multitude of explanation, and unless every 
point is properly covered the chances are that a failure will 
he scored. The defeated ones are, of course, full of excuse 
during the homeward trip. Everything is held to blame by 
some over and beyond their own carelessness. There are 
cranks on the rangeas at every point, and to them there is 
a different wind of a peculiarly perplexing sort, and as they 
wind themselves up in apology the old range masters smile 
in a good-natured fashion and says truly, ‘‘Practice makes 
perfect.” : 


There is a 


TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS. 


Te: stroller along South street can find considerable 
amusement in the inspection of the motley collection of 
statues that keep watch and ward from the bows of the 
yarious ships; a collection that throws the Eden Musée, 
Barnum’s Menagerie, and the Cesnola Antiques, entirely in 
the shade, A notable addition was made last week to this 
happy family, in the shape of a huge black and gold griffin 
that gazed ferociously down from the balance dock on the 
heads of passers by, from the, bow of the French yacht 
Nubienne. 

The reason for the presence of the yacht and its fierce 
attendant was alluded to in Forumsr AND STREAM of Jast 
week, but further details of the mishap have since come to 
light. On anchoring oft Twenty-third street, Captain Miller 
applied for permission to land his boats there, and was 
approached by a person representing himself as a pilot, and 
bringing a note signed H. G. Boyton, Harbor Master, 
demanding a payment of $7.50 for the privilege of landing. 
The young man, who gave his name as Boulanger, also 
offered to pilot the yacht to Newport, and as he exhibited 
some Certificates, the captain engaged him. 

On coming aboard on Wednesday afternoon, he at once 
asked for a chart, which excited some suspicion on board 
the yacht, but he was allowed to take charge, and ran down 
the Hudson, up the East River and through Hell Gate safely, 
but when once clear of the Gate, he put her helm over, in 
spite of a loud warning from the steamer Pilgrim, and 
deliberately ran the yacht on the reef just south of South 
Brothers Island, the rocks showing plainly above water a 
short distance from her bows. 

Two tugs came to her assistance, and she was soon afloat, 
the pilot (7) getting on one of the tugs to come to the city 
for another pilot, first borrowing five dollars for his expenses. 
It is needless to say that neither man nor money has been 
seen since. The Nubienne leaked somewhat, so she ran 
back to New York, going on the dock on Thursday. 

The damage proved to be very slight, she having struck 
squarely on the keel, in two places, at each of which half 
a dozen rivets were cut out and replaced, no other damage 
being apparent. Her trip to Newport was, however, 
abandoned, and she left on Saturday for Hayre. ‘ 

An inquiry among pilots and officials failed to discover 
either the bogus harbor master or pilot, ncither of the names 
being in the directory, or known to the pilots. It also 
appears that there is no one whose business it is to detect 
and punish such rascals, as the laws are at present. 


Turnes Have Come To A Prerry Pass when men who 
have been detected in violating the fish laws are appointed 
to enforce these laws. A case in point is the recent appoint- 
ment by the Govetnor of New Jersey of one Abram Terhune, 
as Fish Warden of Bergen county. Terhune, it appears, has 
been somewhat notorious in connection with the law ap- 
plying to bass. He was once arrested by the Passaic County 
Fish and Game Protective Association for having caught 
bass out of season. Why the Governor of New Jersey should 
put such a man in the office of Game Warden is an “‘opaque 
conundrum” which we shall not try to solve. 


List or Ormn SEasons.—A list of the open game and 
fish seasons for several States are given in another column; 
others will follow as soon as we can get the information. 
Great care is exercised to make the list authentic and a safe 
guide to the reader, who eagerly scans it to learn when the 
law is off on his favorite game. Few changes of dates have 
been made during the past year. This is well. As the laws 
become better known they are better observed. - Frequent 
changes confuse the public. Last year we republished our 
list in convenient pocket form, and it has been in great de- 
mand, This year we shall do the same thing. 


Tan OnTARIO Conniz SHOw, which is to be held at 
Toronto, Sept. 16-18, should be well supported. The collie 
is a valuable dog. He ought to be better known. If farmers 
generally understood what a collie would do for them on the 
farm, the demand for good dogs would exceed the supply. 
Exhibitions like the one to be held at Toronto are useful, 
because they display in a very effective way just what the 
collie is and what he can do. Such an exhibition ought to 
be given at all the State agricultural fairs in this country, 

WHERE ARE THE Mirernarory Quain?—lIt is a long time 
since we haye heard anything about them, Did all the birds 
disappear never to be seen again? Who can give any infor- 
mation that will lead to a detection of their whereabouts? — 


4832 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


|JuLy 17, 1884. 


Che Sportsman Conrist, 


MEMORIES OF SENACHWINE LAKE. 
BY T. 8. VAN DYKE, 


First Paper. 

WENTY years have gone since first 1 trod Senachwine’s 
boggy shores and bent the oar in its shining surface; 
yet it seems as if it were but yesterday when I was there. 
Many a happy day before that had I spent along the rushing 
stream or in the deep dark. woods; and many.a bright day 
since has left its autograph in my album of delightful recol- 
leations; yet to no period does memory so fondly turn, and 
around none so lovingly linger as around the two months L 

spent at Senachwine twenty years ago. 
When scarcely out of childhood I had seen Bob White 


weight of bitter disappointment. 


high and hung in air fora second, then folding his wings 
descended into a heavy mass of reeds away on the other side 
of the main slough, Meanwhile my two wounded ducks, 
both flattened out on the water, were making rapid time for 
the thick reeds across the little slough and both disappeared 
in them just as I got one barrel of my gun capped. 

So it went on for an hour or so, There was seareely a 
minute to wait for a shot, yet in that hour J bagged only 
four or five ducks; and I should be extremely iAuebant to 
swear that two or three of them were not mudhens, 
I had already seen more ducks than JT had ever 


the full tide of pleasure I was slowly drowning under a 
The nice little gun that 
had cost so many guineas in London, that had such a deli- 
cate balance, such a perfect fit to my shoulder, whose joints 
were so perfect, and-whose locks had such an oily play and 
musical click, whose vent plugs, too, were of pure platinum 


horizon. But now from on high, with a rushing, 


But now from _ tearing 
sound as if rending in their passage the canopy of heaven, 
down they came out of the yery face of night. With wings 
set in rigid curves, dense masses of biuebills came winding 
swiftly down. Mallards, too, no longer with heavy beat but 
with stiffeued wings that made it hiss beneath them, rode 
down the darkening air. Sprigtails aud other large ducks 
came sliding down on long inclines with firmly get wings 
that made all sing beneath them, Blue-winged teal came 
swiftly and straight as flights of falling arrows, while preen- 


' wings shot by in volleys or pounced upon the se i 

seen before in my whole life, tame ones included. Yet in} rush if ees e waa 
trooping in in untold numbers, though few came near enough 
to give us a fair shot, 
gun, striking the earth with a crash that suggested the fall 
of one of the heroes of Homer— ae 


of a hungry hawk. The old gray goose, too, came 


One fell at a long shot from Hverett's 


Doupesan de peson, ete,, ; 


But nearly all of them steered high along the sky until over 
Senachwine Lake, or Swan Lake—a little below us to the 
northeast—then, lengthening out their dark strings, they de- 
sceuded slowly and softly in long spiral curves to the bosom 
of the lake. Brant, too, dotted the western and northern 
skies, marched along with swifter stroke of wing and more 
clamorous throats until over the water's edge, then slowly 
sailing and lowering for a few hundred feet in solemn 
silence, suddenly resumed their cackle, and like a thousand 
shingles tossed from a balloon, went whitling, pitching, tum- 
bling and gyrating down to the middle of the lake. Far, far 
above all these and still bathed in the crimson glow of the 
fallen sun, long lines of sandhill cranes floated like flecks of 
down in their southward flight, not deigning to alight, but 
down through a mile of air sending their greeting in long- 
drawn, penetrating notes, such a flight as he must often have 
seen who wrote: 


bounce fluttering along the frosty stubble, and at an age 
when few boys are allowed fo even touch a gun, had seen the 
woodeock furl his whistling wing amid the saddened foliage 
of autumn, and in the tangled cat-brier brake had hushed 
the obstreperous wing of the ruffed grouse. But when I 
saw Senachwine | found that I had only been playing around 
the gate of Elysium, enchanted with the first flowers that I 
met and little deeming of anything beyond. I had indeed 
shot some ducks along the sloughs and snipe meadow of the 
Atlantic coast, had read nearly all that up to that time had 
been written about duck shooting, and fancied that I knew 
something about it, But like a child at the theater an hour 
early for the play I had sat dreamily gazing at a miserable 
daub on a curtain supposing that to be the show that I had 
come to see. It was at Senachwine that the curtain was 
first lifted and the marvellous reality that lay behind it 
burst upon me in all its wildest and fullest splendors. 

At Henry, Marshall county, IiJinois, some two miles below 
Senachwine Lake, I stepped from the cars into the open 
arms of as noble a band of sportsmen as ever stopped a 
whizzing wing. ‘Though a stranger to them all, the mysteri- 
ous tie of the field was enough, That I was fond of the 
chase like themselves, and had come a thousand miles to en- 
joy it, was all they knew or cared to know of me. They 
gave mea key of the club boat house and placed at my dis- 
posal all hunting paraphernalia that I had not brought, took 
me along upon all hunts, placed me upon the best stands for 
shooting, and fairly pushed me upon pleasure in every pos- 
sible way. 

It was a bright September afternoon, the day after my ar- 
rival at Henry, that Charles Everett—one of the friends 
above mentioned—and I, were paddling up the crooked 
slough that leads from Senachwine to the Illinois River. 
Woodducks, mallards and teal rose squealing and quacking 
from the slough ahead of us, but Everett paid no attention to 
them, and 1 soon ceased dropping the oar and snatching up 
the gun and getting it cocked and raised just as the ducks 
were nicely out of range. When we reached Mud Lake—a 
mere widening and branching of the slough at the foot of 
Senachwine, we drew the boat ashore. Huge flocks of mal- 
lards rose with reverberating wings from the sloughs all 
around us and mounted high, with the sun brightly glancing 
from every plume. Plainly could I see the sheen of their 
burnished green heads and outstretched necks, the glisten- 
ing bars upon their wings, the band of white upon their tails 
surmounted by dainty curls of shining green. Everett paid 
no attention to them, But could I Idse such a chance to 
show nim that I could shoot? 

As my gun rang out with right and left at a roaring flock, 
and I saw two relax their vigorous hold on air and descend 
in a whirl of cinnamon, white, green and gray, I looked 
around at my new friend witha smile of pride. He too 
smiled, though for another reason, They had fallen on the 
other side of a slough, the mvd of which exhibited so morbid 
an appetite for my high-topped wading boots at the second 
or third step into it that ltoo smiled—after beating a safe 
retreat. The idea of considering where a bird was going to 
fall was something entirely new to me. Probably at this 
day one is glad to land a duck anywhere along those shores, 
but at that time ducks were so plenty that the first consid- 
eration was generally to Jand them where they were easily 
picked up. I never got those ducks, and I shot at nothing 
more until I saw Everett begin. He soon placed me in some 
high reeds on a broad tongue of land running out between 
two shallow sloughs while he went to another point some 
two hundred yards or more away. 

There was already in sight what seemed to me enough of 
ducks to satisfy any one. Long lines of dark dots streamed 
along the blue sky above Senachwine, up the Illinois and 
over Swan Lake—belween the river and Senachwine—while 


—I had carefully tested them with all the acids known to 
chemistry—that dear little pet gun that I had so carefully 
cleaned and polished and oiled and filled with tallow, if I 
laid it by for a week, that beautiful little gem that had killed 
so. many long shots at field plover and made so many bushy 
tails relax in the tallest hickory trees, would not stop the slow- 
est duck at thirty yards more than once in five or six shots. 
And my feelings were not soothed by the steady, dull ‘‘wop” 
that followed each report of Everett’s gun, no larger than 
mine and a cheap American potmetal at that. To tell the 
truth, I felt a slight nibbling of envy at my heart strings. 

While gazing a2 moment into the biank that despondency 
often brings before me, two blue-winged teal shot suddenly 
across the void. With the instinctive quickness of one trained 
to brush shooting, I tossed the gun forward of the leading teal 
about the same space that I had been accustomed to fire 
ahead of quail at that apparent distance, The rear duck, 
fully four feet behind the other, skipped with.a splash over 
the water, dead, while the one I had intended to hit skimmed 
away unharmed. I had fallen into the common error of 
tyros at duck shooting, viz., underestimating both the dis- 
tance and speed of the game. 

Some of my friends who had never been west, of the Alle- 
ghanies had often said that there was no sport in duck shoot- 
ing, that it took no skill to stop a clumsy duck in clear, open 
spate, and that the duck was not a game ‘bird anyhow, ete. 
How I wished for the presence of some of those friends 
that evening as old Phoebus entered upon the home stretch 
and his glowing chariot neared the gate of gilded clouds, 
The mumber of ducks increased by the minute. They 
came with swifter and steadier wing and with more of an 
air of business than they had shown before. Those hitherto 
flying were nearly all ducks that had been spending the day 
in and around Senachwine and its adjacent ponds and 
sloughs. But now the host that during the day had been 
feeding in the great cornfields of the prairie began to move 
in to roost, and the vast army of traveling wildfowl that 
the late sharp frosts in the North had started on their South- 
ern tour began to get under way. lJLong lines now came 
streaming down the northern sky, widening out and descend- 
inginlong inclines or long sweeping curves. Dense bunches 
came rising out of the horizon, hanging for a moment on 
the glowing sky, then massing and bearing directly down 
upon us. No longer ag single spies, but in battalions they 
poured over the bluffs on the west, where the land sweeps 
away into the vast expanse of High Prairie, and on wings 
swifter than the wind itself came riding down the last 
beams of the sinking sun. Above them the air was dotted 
with long wedge-shaped masses or converging strings more 
slowly moving than the ducks, from which T could soon 
hear the deep, mellow honk of the goose and the clamorous 
cackle of the brant, And through all this were darting here 
and there and everywhere ducks, single, in pairs, and small 
bunches. English snipe were pitching about in their erratic 
flight; plover drifted by with their tender whistle, little 
alarmed by the cannonade; blue herons, bitterns and snowy 
egrets, with long necks doubled up and legs outstretched 
behind, flapped solemnly across the stage; while yellow legs, 
sand snipe, mud hens, divers, I know not what all, chinked 
in the vacant places. 

When I shot the last one of the two teal ducks instead of 
his leader, I thought that I had discovered the art of miss- 
ing, and fondly imagined that the skill I had acquired by 
shooting in brush would now show my friend Everett some- 
thing worthy of his notice, How the bright bloom of that 
youthful conceit wilted under the fire that now consumed 
my internal economy! The nerves that felt but a slight 
tremor when the ruffed grouse burst roaring from the thicket 
now quaked like aspens beneath the storm that swept over 
me from every point of the compass. There I stood, the 


ithera trauant 
Cum sonitu, fugiuntque notos elamore secundo. 


Myriads of ducks and geese trayeling from the north, 
swept by, far overhead, without slackening a wing. Far 
above us, the mallard's neck and head, looking fairly black 
in the falling night, could be seen outstretched for another 
hundred miles before dark. ‘‘Darkly painted on the crim- 
son sky,”’ the sprigtails streamed along with forked rudders 
set fora warmer region than Senachwine, Widgeon sent 
down a plaintive whistle that plainly said good-bye. Blue- 
bills, woodducks, spoonbills and teal, sped along the upper 
sky with scarcely a glance at their brethren, who chose to 
descend among us. And far over all, with swifter flight 
and more rapid stroke of wing than I had deemed possible 
for birds so large, a flock of snowy swans clove the thicken- 
ing shades as if intending to sup in Kentucky instead of 
linois. 

Yet, of those that tarried there was enough for me. With 
tremulous hand I poured my last charge into the heated gun 
and raised it at a flock of mallards that were gliding swiftly 
downward, with every long neck pointed directly at my 
devoted head. Wheeooo shot a volley of greenwings between 
the mallards and the gun; /sssss came a mob of bluewings by 
my head as I involuntarily shifted the gun toward the sreen- 
wings; wif, wef, wif, wif came a score of mallards along the 
reed tops behind me, as, completely befuddled with the 
whirl and uproat, I foolishly . shifted the gun to the blue- 
wings. As I wheeled at these last mallards after making a 
half shift of the gun toward the bluewings, they saw me and 
turned suddenly upward, belaboring the air with heavy 
strokes, and just as I turned the gun upon them a mass of 
bluebills with the sound like the tearing of forty yards of 
strong muslin came in between, and just behind me I heard 
the air throb beneath the wings of the mallards I had first 
intended to shoot at. The gun wabbled from the second 
mallards to the bluebills and then around to the mallards 
behind me—each chance looking more tempting than the 
last—and finally went off in the vacancy just over my head 
that the mallards had filled when I raised it. 

Perhaps you think I sighed tor a breechloader about that 
time. IfI sighed for anything it was a garden rake, for it 
would have been about as efficient as the gun and consider- 
ably easier to load; and I don’t feel at all certain even now 
that I could not have raked down a few ducks before dark, 
while I feel quite positive that I could not haye done so 
with a revolving rack of loaded guns at hand, with a game- 
keeper to hand them to me. 

But in a moment I sighed for nothing. You who think 
you know all about duck shooting, if you have never been in 
such a position, haye something yet to learn. Excitement 
and success you may enjoy to the full but while your ammu- 
nition lasts you know nothing of the pleasures of contempla- 
tion. Amid the shock and jar and smoke, the confusion of 
even loading the quickest breechloader and retrieving the 


from down the slough, up the slough, from over the timber 
on the west, and the timber along the river on the east came 
small bunches and single ducks by the dozen, Shall I ever 
forget that big mallard that bore down upon me before I 
was fairly hidden in the reeds? He came along with sublime 
indifference, winnowing the air with lazy stroke, bobbing 
his long green head and neck up and down, and suspecti 
no danger. Ashe passed me at about twenty-five yards 
saw along the iron rib of the gun the sunlight glisten on his 
burnished head. I was delightfully calm, and rather re- 
gretted that letting him down was such a merely formal 

roceeding. If he were further off or going faster, it would 
e so much more satisfactory, efc., you know. Neverthe- 
less he had to be bagged whether skill was required, or not, 
so I resigned myself to the necessity and pulled the trigger. 
Had the sun dropped from heaven at the report of the gun 
Tecould hardly have been more surprised. The duck rose 
skyward with thumping wings, leaving meso benumbed 
with wonder that I never thought of the other barrel, 

But little time was Jeft me for reflection, fora wood duck, 
resplendent with all his gorgeous colors, came swiftly down 
from the other direction. Every line of his brilliant plumage 
I could also plainly see along the gun, for 1 was as cool 
as before, Yet this gay rover of the air never con- 
descended to fall sheer, rise or even quicken his pace, but 
sailed along at the report of each barrel as unconcerned asa 
gossamer web on the evening breeze, 

I concluded to retire from the business of single shots and 
gointo the wholesale trade. This conclusion was firmly 
braced by the arrival of fifteen or twenty mallards in a well 
massed flock, They came past me like a charge of cayalry, 
sweeping in bright uniform low along the water with soning 
necks and heads projecting like couched lances. I coul 
see four or five heads qlmost in line as I pulled the first 
trigger, yet only one dropped and that one with only a broken 
wing. As they rose with obstreperous heat of wing I rained 

the second barrel izito the thickest pul of the climbing mass 
and another one fell with a broken 


hausted, yet knowing that it would surely get away if 


wing, while another 
wabbled and wavered fora hundred yards or more, then rose | 


converging point of innumerable dark lines, bunches and 
strings all rushing toward me at different rates of speed, in- 
deed, but even the slowest still fearfully fast. There I stood 
bothering with a muzzleloader, loading it with trembling 
hands, fever heat and headache from its recoil under the 
heayy charges I was vainly pouring into it, with the last 
duck that had fallen swimming away only wounded, half 
afraid to reshoot it because my ammunition was getting es 
i 
reshoot it; painfully cozscious, too, that my chances of hit- 
ting a well duck were fragile compared with the certainty 
of ashot at the cripple, there I stood delighted yet bewildered, 
ecstatic yet miserable. And little conscious of how cruelly 
he was harrowing my feelings, Everett called out: 

“Let everything go now but mallards, and !and them close 
to your feet.” 

A fine sentiment! Very appropriate, neatly expressed and 
handsomely emphasized by the wop of a four-pound mallard 
in the mud beside him. He might, however, have spared 
his wisdom for a worthier subject. \ 

Never did nature make a fitter background for such a dis- 
play as appeared when twilight sunk over the carth, The 
sky was one of those rave autumnal skies, on which light is 
shattered into a hundred tints, when, above the horizon all 
is clear cut in sharp outline, and over all below it lies a pallid 
glow that intensifies all brilliant colors, but throws a weird, 
sepulchral gloom upon all somber shades, From the de- 
parted sun a broad, rosy light radiated far away into the 
zenith, while the clear sky on the east was changed by the 
contrast into pale gold tinged with faded green. North and 
south the deep blue changed into delicate olive tints, shading 
into orange toward the center of the great dome, On the 
west were cloud-banks of rich umber, fringed with crimson 
fire, on the east long banks of coppery gold, and aloft long 


fleecy streams of pale, lemon-colored yapor. Over such a 


stage now suddenly poured a troop of actors, that made the 


wonders of half an hour, aye ten, five minutes ago seem a 


mere puppet show, — - 
Hitherto the ducks had all come from the level of the 


ducks even with the best of dogs you see nothing compared 
to what you may see without a gun, 
walk to-day to see that scene once more and gladly would I 
leave the gun at home. 
jn the universe more or less reduced at Niagara, but now I 
felt completely annibilated, As I dropped the worihless 
gun upon a muskrat house and sat down upon top of it the 
whole world where I had been living vanished in a twinkling 
and 1 found myself in another sphere! filled with circling 
spirits all endowed with emotions, hopes and fears like those 
that Dante saw in Paradise. 


Many a mile would I 


I had felt my importance as a factor 


Oude si movous a diversi porti 
Per lo grau mar dell’ essere, eciascuno 
Con istiuto a lei dato che la porti. 


There indeed was the great sea of being, but all one vast 


whirlpool that engulfed the soul of the poor powderless 


“tenderfoot,” while his ears were stunned with the whizz 
and rush of wings all around his head, with the thump and 
bustle and splash of ducks alighting in the water before him, 
with the squeal of wood ducks, the quack of mallards, the 
whistle of widgeon, the scape of travelmg snipe, he aes 
syuawk of herons, egrets and hitterns, the honk-wer 
geese, the clank-a-lank of brant, and the dolorous grrrracce 
of the far-off sandhill cranes. < 5 

Thankful am I that so many Western readers have: seen 
the full intensity of “the evening flight.” For otherwise I 
should not have dared to tell half the truth, 


New Yorx Forust Commisston.—Albany, July 14.—The 
Commissioners appointed by the Comptroller to inyestigate 
and report a system of forest preservation will meet at 
Saratoga on July 23, Owners of timber and forest lands, 
and all who are interested in the subject have been invited 
to attend. An erroneous opinion has got abroad that 
Commission was appointed to look after the Adironc 
only. The act under which they were appointed applied to 
all the forest lands in the State. — : : 3 


el 


Tony 17, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM.. 


483 


“NESSMUR’S” POEMS, 
Fiditor Forest and Stream: ‘ R 

As you see, | have changed my spot; left Indianapolis and 
‘“roops of friends” and have made a camp here—Denver. 
The fishing was getting very feeble in White River and Fall 
Greek, The dynamite fiend and. the gentlemen with a seine 
have done the business, and so Major Arnold removed to 
San Antone and I came bere. He is baiting catfish with 
paste made of Limburger cheese and oatmeal. He says ‘‘they 
come right out on the bank to get it,” and while there he 
secures them: and [ am waiting till Colorado law allows me 
to fish in the neighborhood of Wagon Wheel Gap. I shall 
haye something to report. ; 

L reckon climate will have something to do with the weight 
and number of the trout that I shall say I have taken strictly 
with a fly, When lam by myself I do not disdain a worm, 
a piece of pork cut in the fashion of a frog, or even a grass- 
hopper. lam of a tolerant spirit, and am disposed to defer 
to the wishes of fish. All the same I own the lightest fly-rod 
in the State (four ounces), and when not entirely out of meat 
stick to it, 

“Wessmuk's” little hook came to hand. It is too little. I 
read it at one sitting, and cried for more, I have had some 
experience in camping and fire building and in cooking, all 
along from 1862 to late in 1865, and later in forest and by 
stream, and I thought I was an expert, but I welcome 
“Woodcraft.” Itis the best thing in its line eyer put into 
covers. Itis excelient from end toend, I recognize “the 
hatchet” and ‘‘the face.” 

T made the acquaintance of ‘‘Nessmuk” through your col- 
umns, and in the spring of 1882 I dropped him a line of 
inguiry as to the sport possible in the region of his home, 
Wellsboro, Pa. He answered promptly in that fine writing 
of his (he can get as much on a postal card as I can on a 
sheet), and one day in July thereafter 1 appeared to him. 
Found him at work on a boot. He rose from his seat, in- 
formed his brother that he should be absent a week or ten 
days, and took me over and introduccd me to the canoe 
Susan Nipper, his first love, I have not seen Sairy Gamp, 
and when seen, I shall not ride in her—‘‘she takes some- 
think,” and too much for my weight. 

Not soon will 1 forget the week we had in the neighbor- 
hood of Ansley’s. I haye nothing to say of the number 
of fish we brought in, although on occasion I can be poetic. 
We brought im enough. The camp and fire and cooking was 
as laid down in ‘“‘Woodcraft.” It was all too soon over, but 
I still see the face of my friend and hear ‘‘the whimper of 
the brook.” 

I am of an age that I carefully disguise except to my 
mother, but I have had no happier days than with ‘'Ness- 
muk” in the little camp some ten miles or so from Ansley’s, 
on a stream fished decently for a hundred years. 

“Woodcraft” and Forest AND STREAM have made us all 
in Joye with his practical prose. How I desire to see his 
poetry in “covers.” Not simply for my own sake. I have 
sat on a log and read enough of it to make a book. I wish 
it made into book for the sake of others like myself, who 
wish that a Robert Burns would reappear on this side of the 
Atlantic. Somebody who would sing the song of the men 
who must work and the women who must weep in the land 
of the free and the home of the brave. ‘‘Woodcraft,” ex- 
cellent as it is, is not the best and last of ‘‘Nessmuk.” He 
has concealed about his person poems of hope and patience 
and outlook that would speak to us in mines and mills who 
have no month or week for ‘‘woodcraft.” He is as skillful 
with the heart of man, its needs and cries, as he is with the 
Ways and appetites of the residents of forest and stream. 
‘“Nessmuk” is not only a trained observer of the habits of 
our dumb relations but a sympathetic and a powerful inter- 
preter of the needs of man, woman and child, Please now 
do for the people of mills and minés what you have done for 
the people of forest and stream. Myron W. REeEp, 

DENVER, Col. 


FACTS AND FANCIES. 


yee fishing for trout during the first week in June, 
in a pond near Umbagog Lake, I noticed a large 
white sea gull, such as winter on our northeast coast, on her 
nest, on an isolated rock about two feet above the water. 
Two pairs of gulls have had nests on two separate rocks in 
this pond durmg my past ten summers’ observation, As I 
neared the rock the old bird left and perched 100 yards 
away. ‘There were two eggs in the large and flat nest of 
moss. Size of hen’s eggs, blotched with black on a light 
brown ground. Hearing a gentle cry or chirp, I supposed 
it was the mother expressing her anxiety, but on my guide 
assuring me it came from the egg, onapplying my ear, found 
it even so. My surprise was lessened when I saw the end of 
a bill just protruding from the shell, though my guide 
assured me he had often heard the chirp of chicks before 
the shell was broken, 

The same day there was heard by my friend on the same 
pond, the unmistakable call of a moose for her calf, 200 
yards away. Wewere about two miles from Middle Dam. 
‘A lumber operator told me he knew cf moose in that locality 
Jast winter, but dared not inform his choppers, as they 
would prefer hunting to chopping. 

A citizen of Upton, at the mouth of the Cambridge 
where it enters Umbagog, told me that twice during the 
summer (having no fear of the law before his eyes) he left 
his house at 6 P. M., went up the Cambridge, and returned 
each time at 11 o’clock with a deer—hunted with a jack. 

There are severals pairs of bald eagles nesting near Um- 
bagog. - 

Saw a pair of sheldrakes (7, merganser), who have anest in 
a hollow tree near to a pond two miles from Umbagog. 
They do all their fishing for themselves and family in Um- 
bagog, a pickerel lake. 

A few years since, a friend informed me he shota shel- 
drake flying from the lake to his nest, On throwing him 
into his boat two live pickerel, about four inches long, 
dropped.from his mouth. This shows how pickerel may be 
transported accidentally to waters where they are not wanted, 

Umbagog, the lower lake of the chain of the head waters 
of the Androscoggin, while the Rangeley is at the head, was 
once a fine trout lake. Some one, out of spite so said, 
stocked it with pickere], and they are abundant. Will they 
go up Rapid River and into Richardson’s Lake, passing 
Middle Dam? <A few have been taken during the past two 
years at the foot of the dam in Rapid River. 

Land-locked salmon appear to suffer no detriment when 
associated with pickerel, as appears thus far in this State. 
But woe to the trout and to Maine’s great attraction for the 
angler if ever pickerel enter Rangeley waters. Umbagog is 

artly in New Hampshire and partly in Maine. The New 
feomaiine Commissioners, against the opinion of the Maine 


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Commissioners, have introduced black bass into Umbagog, 
How land-locked salmon and trout will thrive with black 
bass is an untried experiment in our waters, 

Was glad to see by your paper that land-locked salmon 
had been introduced into Umbagog by way of Rapid River. 
A few years since, the members of the Oxford lub, who 
have a club house on Rapid River, deposited a few land- 
locked salmon in the same place. ‘ 

A five-pound salmon has been taken in Umbagog. Hither 
one of the above, or one that has come down from Rangeley, 
as many will unquestionably, : 

I notice ‘“Major Verity’s” comments on my comparison of 
his statements with others on the performance of shotguns. 
Not being a professional in Horse Guard affairs, made a 
needless mistake in titling him General, for there was no 
general nor minor statement in his facts, All were major. 

T considered ‘‘Verity’s” article the most reliable of the 
many articles on guns, and intended that my allusion to it 
should be so understood, and entirely complimentary, 

In his line [ have a case in point; perhaps an old one. If 
so omit it, A friend of mine visited a pond, early one 
autumn morning, for black ducks. The pond was thickly 
eoyered with them. He blazed away both barrels for a win- 
row, To his amazement the whole surface of the pond 
appeared to rise—ducks and surface, The mystery was soon 
solved; the pond was frozen over and the ducks’ legs frozen 
in, and the live ducks lifted the whole frozen sheet of ice, 
faking the slaughtered with them. The sheet of ice made a 
few gyrations and started southward on a migratory tour. 
The gunner took the cars in pursuit and picked up the dead 
ducks as they fell out of the melting ice. He picked up 128, 
There was oakum over the powder, 

The pond is in existence and will be shown in proof to 
any doubter. AUSTIN. 

Maine Waters, July, 1884. 


MOOSEHEAD LAKE NOTES. 


ye back from my trouting trip to Maine. I never saw 

so many fish taken at Moosehead Lake and vicinity as 
this season, and I never saw such large ones before. _ I, indi- 
vidually, captured nothing over two pounds, but I took a 
companion with me and introduced him to Kineo for the first 
time, and he had to land a four-pounder, It takes these 
amateurs to hold the cards, A party brought in one night 
fourteen brook trout that weighed thirty-five pounds. At 
another time 160 trout that turned the scales (Fairbanks, not 
fish) at 128 pounds. Among the lot were two of five and 
quite a number of four and three-pounders. During the 
former seasons the fishing has been the greater part of the 
time on the west shore, but this year it seemed to be along 
the east shore. 

The new Kineo House is almost completed and built in 
modern style, aud contains over 200 rooms. What a pretty 
idea it would have been to have modelled it after a large log 
house, with as many piazzas, hay windows and as elaborate 
finish inside as you please, but to have its exterior in perfect 
sympathy with its surroundings. It’s a big hotel, but great 
Kineo Rock, towering above it, looks none the less majestic 
in comparison. 

The railroad is laid through to the lake, and is to be opened 
for passengers July 14. ‘The black flies were not numerous 
this season, and the fisherman when out on the breezy lake 
suffered little annoyance. 

There was fine fishing at Spencer Pond (off the bay of the 
same name) but there are only two spring holes, and the trout 
are small, seldom weighing over one and a half pounds each. 

On account of the lack of birch bark there is a steadily 
increasing demand for canvas canoes, the frame and outlines 
are the same, and the canvas issaid to reduce the weight at 
least one-fifth. 

This lack of the historic birch canoe is a greal, pity, as to 
me it has remained one otf the pleasantest sights about Kineo. 
The Indian guides, however, still stick to the birch, and as 
my old Aroostook guide, Tom Nichols, remarked, ‘‘Me not 
so hard up yet to use canvas.” 

Many fine large fish were taken at the Hast Outlet (Wil- 
son’s), and many more, but smaller, at Indian Pond, four 
miles down the Kennebec. 

The success of enforcing the game and fish laws the past 
two years can very easily be seen. When box after box of 
trout could be forwarded to fish dealers in Boston it was an 
object 10 capture more than was needed for daily consump- 
tion at the hotels. But now all is changed, only fifty pounds 
is allowed cach sportsman, and he must accompany the box 
in transportation. Hach trout must also be over five inches 
in length, and I sincerely hope the time will come when the 
use of the fly will only be allowed in its capture. 

With the increase of little steamboats on Moosehead Lake 
I think the guides are petting a trifie lazy. In former years 
a paddle to the head of the lake and back, forty miles, was 
considered nothing for a day’s sport, but to cross the lake, 
ten miles, to-day is quite an effort with afew of the guides, 

The weather was perfect for the enjoyment of fly-fishing, not 
arain or wind storm for weeks past, and although the mercury 
ranged from 90 to 100 degrees, 1t wasseldom uncomfortable. 
That box of fly ointment, made by the Bangor man, ‘‘which 
you sent me,” was a great success. 

On my return home 1 stopped off at Portsmouth, N. H., 
and visited the Isles of Shoals—it’s just lovely out there ten 
miles from Jand. J am sorry I cannot forward you some 
photos of this year’s trip, but itis the first time on record 
since its invention that [have visited the woods without my 
tourograph. I got it into my trunk, but on Mrs.8. remarking 
that ‘she believed I had photographed the Maine woods out 
of existence,” I reluctantly took it out—a fellow does 
have to accommodate his wife once in a while, you know. 

Hartrorp, Conn. T. 58, STEELE. 


INTERESTING FIGURES, 


Qu esteemed Chicago contemporary, the Current, hag been com- 

paring the quantity of matter published in its columns with that 
of other periodicals. We copy its figures, giving also those of the 
ForREesT AND STREAM. The typographical measurements of the several 
periodicals for six months past are as follows: 


_ Ems. Words. 
THe FOREST AND STREAM, -....-...-.0-..005. 6,250,000, or about 2,500,000 
MI SMOM ETCH Unt we baaiage toe eek et pe bea eee tol 3,710,000, nd 484,000 
Phe Wontiqenties: wht were suet ircuiee 3,171,000,  ‘* 1,268,400 
BBE SIT BAT ep tem let mip rec ets saa se is 2,376,000, v4 950,400 
Harpers onthiyy page stator costs eae fe. 1,626,000, 650,400 
THe VATanLiChy eyense estas tas thea 1,446,000, at 578,400 


The measurement is of the reading matter, exclusive of advertise- 
ments. The comparisonis interesting. It shows that the ForrsT AnD 
SrREAM has published more than the Current and the Century com- 
bined, nearly as much as the Current, Harper's and the Atlantic 
combined, and more than the Century, Harper's and the Atlantic 
combined, These figures are not at all surprising, 


Camp Sire Hlickeyings. 


a 
“That reminds me." 


126, 


| QEVERAL years ago at one of our military posts was 4 


French half-breed guide and interpreter named Battiste. 
One day Battiste went down to the sutler’s store and in- 
yested in a new Winchester rifle and a flask of fluid. The 
latter purchase haying its usual effect, Battiste returned to 
the post feeling very happy. Net far off he saw a pig 
belonging to the Major; and thinking to try his new rifle, 
fired at it and mortally wounded it, The next day the 
Major said to him: 

“Battiste, you killed my pig. 
it,” 

“Him dead?” inquired Battiste. 

‘Veg, ”? 

‘Well, give him to me then, I eat him.” 

“Oh!” replied the Major, ‘‘I had him for breakfast.” 

‘“T no eat him I no pay you,” said Battiste. 

*T have charged you $10 on the book,” said the Major, 
‘and you will have to pay it.’" Whereat Battiste went off 
highly incensed, muttering, ‘‘By gar! I no eat bim, I no pay 
him, I fix him.” 

In the winter the Majorand Battiste were running buffalo, 
and the Major’s horse jumped into a deep coulée which was 
filled with snow, and in the struggle to get out, the Major 
was buried under the horse, only his head being visible. 

“Battiste, help!’ cried the Major. 

“Yes,” said Battiste, advancing to the edge of the coulée, 
‘‘T help you, you scratch out him pees?” 

“Yes, yes,” cried the Major, I’ll scratch him out.” 

“Ver good,” said Battiste, “‘the old woman, you buy him 
dress?” 

“Yes,” said the Major, ‘‘come, hurry up.” 

‘Yes, I help you,” said Battiste, and he proceeded to ex- 
tricate the Major from his unenviable position, J. W. 8. 

Upprr Martras Rivar, M. T. 


I shall charge you 10 for 


12%. 

Some years ago H., one of our leading dealers in sporting 
goods and a jolly sportsman, told his friends that he had 
a way of loading his shells that prevented the shot from 
eo nteing over more space than could be covered by a man’s 

and, 

“O, yes,” replied R., a brother sportsman, *‘you hold the 
gun about six inches from the target; anybody can do that,” 

“No, you don’t,” says H., ‘*you shoot at forty, fifty, sixty, 
or even a hundred yards.” 

Of course it was worth twenty-five cents to be the posses- 
sor of such a secret, and the money was handed oyer. After 
being told the ‘‘secret,” R. looked very serious, and remarked: 
“Tll get even with you or revenge myself upon somebody 
else.” For two whole days R. in turn wanted to “‘sell” the 
secret, but nobody seemed to care whether his shot scattered 
a mile or less, He even offered to give C. the information 
gratis. But no; C., who talks of nothing but his gun, was 
so rushed with business that he didn’t even stop to say uo. 
In despair R. cried after him, ‘‘You use only one pellet in a 
load!” When the boys gather in the shop now, H. is the 
only one who smiles when **How to load a gun” comes up 
before the meeting. FRITZ, 

West DuBuQuE, Iowa. 


atuyal History. 


"NOTES ON SHORE BIRDS. 


Wye recently perusing the list of the ‘Birds of Hast- 

ern Massachusetts,” as found in ‘‘Maynard’s Natural- 
ists’ Guide,” I could but notice the difference between some 
of the notes there made and my own experience. 1 desire 
simply to notice the shore birds of interest to sportsmen, 
taking, as the first instance, the goiden ployer (C. virginicus), 
This species is given as ‘‘common spring and autumn mi- 
grant.” Now during the past twenty years I have never 
seen one of these birds in the spring, nor did I ever hear of 
any save once (in the spring), and then it was a single bird 
from Cape Cod, Their appearance in the autumn is of 
course admitted. 

The ‘‘beetle head” (S. helvitica) 1 have repeatedly seen in 
the spring; in fact I think they are seen and shot every sea- 
son, though not in Jarge numbers, 

The turnstone, ‘‘chicken bird” (4. interpres) is stated to 
‘frequent rocky shores.” So they do, yet I think they are 
as often shot over decoys set in pond holes on the marshes, 

The robin snipe (WW. griseus) is given as ‘not uncommon 
during the migrations.” This is one of the waders that I 
contidently look for any time after the 8th or 10th of July, 
and from then to and some seasons into September, though 
last season was an exception, it being decidedly an off year. 

The purple sandpiper (Arquatella maritima) is given as 
“found on the coast during spring and autumn.” I shot 
eight in the month of December some years ago, and saw a 
number of others. From this, and from the similar experi- 
ence of a friend, I think they sometimes winter here. I 
never saw any in thespring. 

The curlew sandpiper (Z. suberquata), as stated, is rare, in 
fact a straggler from other shores. Two or three have been 
taken on the New England coast. Ishot one at Ipswich 
in 1872, 

Tringa canulus, or as here locally known “blue plover,” 
is more, | think much more common in autumn than in 
the spring, though I have seen it at both seasons, It is not 

enerally met with until the last of August, or better yet in 
eptember, 

The red-backed sandpiper (7. alpina americuna), one of 
the ‘grass birds,” is rare in the spring but comparatively 
common in September or October, and perhups later. 

The pectoral sandpiper (7. maculata) is another and the 
commonest of the so-called ‘‘grass birds” from July 10 or 15, 
until quite late in the fall, but with us very rare in the spring, 
There seem to be two sizes of this species, and gunners com- 
monly cull them the ‘‘big” and ‘‘little grass birds.” 

The stilt sandpiper (AZ. himantopus), know about here as 
the ‘‘bastard yellow-leg,” though why I do not know, as its 
legs are quite dark, is given as “very rare.” This certainly 
differs from the experience of some others. As with all 
birds, there may be years when they are without apparent 
cause scarcer than usual, yet about every season when shoot- 
ing shore birds I have taken them. I know of eight shot at 
a single discharge at Hagle Hill, Ipswich. 

The white-rumped ‘‘peep” (7, bonupurtii) is given ag 


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“abundant,” The same is also remarked of the common 
“peeps” (A. semipalmata and minutilia), The expression 
applies well to the last two species, but to the first, certainly 
not so well 

The sanderling (@. arenaria) or “white beach bird,” is 
common, though not as abundant as perhaps it was when 
Mr, Maynard first took notes, Twelve years ago I saw two 
baskets, each holding half a bushel, and rounded full of 
these birds that Lewis Stone, of Ispwich, shot between tides, 
down Plum Island River. I have never seen them like that 
since, though -numbers of them doubtless are shot every 
season. 

As to he willet (Symphemta semépalmata) or “humility,” as 
we Call it, scarce a season gocs by without some being shot. 
1 much doubt its being a “‘summer resident.” 

The winter yellow-leg (@. melanoleuca) is given as ‘‘arriv- 
ing from the north nearly in August.” I have shot them in 
July and all along until into November, Their appearance 
in the spring, about May, is, of course, understood. 

The summer yellow-leg (G. flavipes) is mentioned as ‘‘sum- 
mer resident, common during the migrations.” I can name 
a dozen sportsmen who will corroborate me when I say this 
is a quite rare species to meet in the spring on our Hastern 
Massachusetts coast. By the middle of ie perhaps a 
little earlier, it may be expected confidently unless the off- 
year throws all plans out. 

The solitary sancpiper (2. solitarius) is nowadays and 
near the coast a rather rare specimen at all seasons. 

Of course, the spotted or ‘‘teeter” is one of the commonest, 
yet one almost always finds them scattered, 

The upland plover, so called, (7. bartramius) is given as 
‘not an uncommon summer resident.” I haye seen stra 
ones shot in the spring, but 1 think it is uncommon until 
the latter part of July and into August and the beginning of 
September, when some may be found almost any day, though 
to get them involves patient and persistent efforts, as they 
are pretty shy. They seem much less alarmed at the report 
of a gun than af sight of aman. As a rule, they will not 
decoy, still I have thus secured them. 

The buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites rufescens) is a rare 
bird, as stated, but those 1 have seen have not been ‘‘found 
on the sandy shores,” but the hills of lpswich neck, Gun- 
ners generally called it the ‘hill grass bird,” and to me it 
seems a fitting title. 

The marbled godwit (Z, jfedoa) I never have seen alive, I 
mean so as to know it positively, but its capture as recorded 
by ‘Mr. H. B. Farley, at Ipswich, on July 17, 1869,” is not 
at all unlikely. 

The Hudsonian godwit (LZ. hudsonica), or “‘biacktail,” is rare 
at all times, still I have shot it, and I think seattering birds 
are picked up about.every season. I never knew of one in 
the “spring.” 

Of the curlews, the ‘“‘old sicklebill,” or hen curlew CV. longi- 
rostris) is, and has been for years, the rarest. The jack cur- 
lew (WV. hudsonicus) is much more common, though scatter- 
ing birds only are shot, as they seem to be bound right along 
when passing south in July, 

The “dough bird” (WV, borealis), though the latest is generally 
the most common. Sometimes in August and in September 
they are found quite numerous, and often in company with 
the so-called ‘‘blackbreasters” (C. wirgintews) on the hills of 
Ipswich and Essex, and again on Cape Cod. 

Of the phalaropes, or, as sometimes named, the ‘‘web-footed 
peeps,”’ I have taken two species, (P. fulicarius) while on a 
fishing vessel well out in Massachusetts Bay, and (L. hyper- 
bereus) at Swampscott over decoys. I have known of a few 
others, but they do as stated, ‘“‘keep off the coast.” 

Various questions might profitably be discussed while 
criticising this “List.” They are about all within the limits 
of that very important matter to ornithologists and sports- 
men {00, the geographical distribution of species, a subject 
upon which much light may be thrown by observatiens and 
data yearly—yes, often daily—collected, and jotted down 
with but very little trouble. These data placed in the hands 
of some competent person, like Dr. Coues or Mr, Ridgway, 
of the Smithsonian, and in a little while we should be able 
to see appearing in our Fornst AND STREAM some of the 
results, and I am confident we should learn facts full of 
interest and now all too obscure. Before closing these 
remarks lei me say 1t is indeed surprising to see how little 
teal knowledge is possessed by the average sportsman, about 
eyen the commonest species. [It seems to be cnough for him 
to know a goose from a duck, a snipe from a woodcock, and 
afew other equally plain things. If my brother Nimrods 
would try and book up a little | am quite sure it would not 
detract from their sport (it never has from mine); and then 
we should, by interesting this large and important class, save 
valuable birds which now go to the larder and oblivion. 

RAYMOND LEE NEWCOMB, 


HOW YOUNG BIRDS ARE FED. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Ii may be interesting to many of your readers to know 
more about the family cares’ of our birds. In order to find 
out how often young martins are fed by their parents, and at 
what times the principal meals are served, I watched my six- 
teen feeding pairs during an entire day, June 24, from 4 A, 
M., til 8 P. M., marking every visit of the feeding parents, 
males and femules, separately. 

The martins began hunting at 4:15, but no food was 
brought until 4:30, 

The accompanying table shows that our young martins had 
to put up with a light breakfast, but the visits became more 
and more frequent as the sun and mereury climbed up, and 
reached their liveliest time between 9 and 10 A. M., 7, e., 
lunch time. After that a lull was noticeable, broken only by 
an approaching storm, which brought new life into the feed- 
ing business, but for a short time only, and to be reduced to 
a minimum during the light rain, 1:25 to 2:45. Even after the 
rain had ceased little feeding was done until the sky begun 
to clear up and the sun reappeared. 

From that moment the number of visits swelled with preat 
rapidity, and kept me hard at work for over an hour. It was 
the most substantial meal of the day, and the young martins 
may well call it their dinner, 

After this the parents took a well-deserved rest, but when 
the sun neared the horizon they were all off again, preparing 
for supper, which was not so hearty as one might expect. 

Asa rule, the older the birds in the nest, the oftener they 
are fed, and from the size of the insect which the parents 
bring, the age of the young may be judged. 

The youngest birds are fed at longer intervals with crushed 
insects, mostly small beetles, from the craw. About. a fort- 

night old, they are fed from the bill with soft insects of the 
size of large flies; but insects with stings, such as bees and 
Wasps, are never brought. When four weeks old, large 


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88°, rain commencing at 1; phe 16) 17 | 18) 12) 9] 7] 6 TH eee) OB Ss) SOL a A ee) ee] 82 
78°, rain ceases at 2:45 3 Of Wy) AB) 28) OF | Oe) ch 126) Od a) 7) ie) 2) gs) te) es ag aig 
80°, clearing, calm.... 4 % 41 | 88 | 35 | 45 | 31 | 88 | 35 | 40 | 32 | 24 | B2 | 88 | 18 | 15 | 14] 8 | 459 
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79° to 62°, wind §,W... paieu apt) | 20) 11 | 15 | 12) 12) 9) 14) 12/41) 7110 )40| 3) 7] 6 | i66 
BUC LON Lo CHM CLOAE Dae sesh s yy Holi ae Re eee G Mt jdt) 14 | 28) 5) 12) 15 | 24) 11) 10) 14112) 8] 4] 9) 7) 5 | 194 
BLPALOT HO 6, Bea TIT CLOD Bigs Mersey ths Ae Seer eek B “ | 45) 12} dt |} i1) 47) 4) 45) 10) 10) 10) 9) 10] 16] 15) 6) 7) i77 
B12 |284 |280 275 jR54 |249 |217 1208 |203 |192 |185 |149 |147 |184 [108 | 90 [se77 
a! rere ben hee a pk PE a fe 
Niimbet ofvyisitdiby male, e104). tc-, as: :-Lisjenesuee yack pened 119 /164 |140 /128 |127 | 92 | 88 119 | 98 | 61 | 78 | 39 | 63 | 58 | 57 | 88 |1454 
Numibet of visits by female: s soucdeseste i. Lawseee . t toeneeaiat 193 |120 |140 |147 |127 |157 |134 | S4 1105 |181 |172 |110 | 84 / 76 | 46 | 57 (1828 


ppecnbies grasshoppers and butterflies make the principal 
ood. 

The young martins do not leave their box until they are 
six weeks oli 

The table itself needs no further explanation, except that 
the occupants of the sixteen boxes were of all ages, from one 
week old in No. 6 to five weeks old in Nos. 12, 16, 17. 

The number of hungry mouths has something to do with 
the frequency of the visits. No. 7, which heads the list, has 
four young ones (four weeks old), while most of the other 
boxes have three. No. 16 has only two. O, WIpMANN. 

St, Lours, Mo. 


THE ARIZONA QUAIL, 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In your issue of June 12, I find an inquiry from Mr, J. B. 
Battelle, of Toledo, Ohio, relative to the Arizona quail I 
promised to send him and others. In reply I offer this ex- 
planation of the delay. My first proposition was to send the 
quail in September or October, when they become plentiful 
in our market here, but in reply to the various letters ad- 
dressed me on the subject, and the expressed desire to have 
the quail with as little delay as possible, I concluded to get 
them elsewhere and forward them to their-adinirers in time 
for them to test their ene and domesticating qualities 
during the present season. ith that end in view I sent to 
a friend at Fort Yuma for two dozen, to be expressed to me 
here. Thiswasin Mareh. He replied that on account of 
the lateness of the season the birds would be difficult to pro- 
cure, inasmuch as they were mating and consequently were 
shy of approach. He, however, sent me one dozen, which, 
in addition to two pair I already had, made up two-thirds of 
the number I purposed to send away. Unfortunately 
my. cage room was somewhat limited, so I put the 
dozen strangers into the cage with one of my domes- 
ticated pairs. Business engagements called me away for 
a week, and on my return I found that the pugnacious little 
rascals had been systematically killing one another off. I 
took eight birds out of the cage at one time, some dead and 
others so badly pecked up that I killed them for humanity’s 
sake. That left me so few, and as others were not procur: 
able, I decided upon letting the matter rest until the fall 
birds came in.. Recently, again they have been fighting, and 
one of the finest of the males has been so badly used up that 
I do not think he will live. I have one pair in a cage alone, 
and from them I expect a brood of little ones. The others 
are laying eggs all over their coop floor, Many of them have 
been broken, I have, however, just taken out ten good 
ones. The bulk of the remaining birds are females, conse- 
quently it would now be impossible for me to pair them for 
distribution. I can send two dozen in a cage by express for 
almost the price that half the number would cost, the weight 
of the cage being practically the same, and this on cost is 
quite a saving item. However, let those to whom I prom- 
ised the birds do as Mr. Battelle has done, deposit the cost of 
the expressage with the Fornmst anp Sram and I will see 
that in due time they get their birds. It will be necessary 
for me to prepay the charges here, consequently by the de- 
posit being made it will secure me against possible loss. I 
had a letter for eggs, but as I have mislaid the address I can- 
not forward them to the applicant. I trust that this expla- 
nation of the delay will prove satisfactory, for all may rest 
assured that they will get their birds. ADIOS. 

Tucson, Arizona. 


[As suggested by ‘‘Adios,” it may be well for those who 
are anxious to have quail of the first shipment to send the 
money to prepay express and boxing charges to us here. 
One gentleman has already sent us $4 for this purpose, 
which will be ample if enough birds are sent and they 
reach here in good condition. The expenses will be equally 
divided among those receiving birds, and if any balance re- 
mains over it will be returned to the sender. | 


THE OAK WOODS SPARROW. 
(Peucea eastivalis ialinoensts), 
BY G. H. RAGSDALE. 


I DEVOTED June 2 and 3 especially to a search for the 

oak woods sparrow, and traveled some fifteen miles 
through timber that seemed to invite them, but nota Peucea 
was seen or heard. 

On June 24, [ started on what might prove another wild 
goose chase after Vireo atricapillus, Having ridden on horse- 
back nine miles through intense heat, I turned from the 
prairie and rode into a woodland to rest and listen for Pew- 
cea. had not penetrated the wood a quarter of a mile be- 
fore my ear caught an indistinct sound, which caused me to 
suddenly draw rein; nothing more was heard for some min- 
utes, but 1 saw a brown sparrow light in a bush, at which I 
fired and missed. Tying my pony, I followed the course in- 
dicated by the bird’s flight till I came upon a flock of spar- 
rows, and fired at a supposed oak woods and killed a field 
sparrow (Spizella pusilla). I began to think 1 had only heard 
this bird, but as the locality looked so favorable, 1 concluded 
to put in an hour especially to determine whether the birds 
were present. . 

Stretching myself on the green sward in the shade of a 
post oak, I dreamed away about half the allotted time, when 
the faint, ventriloquial note of Peucea wstivalis Mlinoensia was 
distinctly heard. I was wide awake now, and used my 


even seen a feather. Calling Prince, 1 put him into the 
grass and tried to tramp up the bird, but it was no go. It 
was now high noon, and but few birds of any kind were to 
be heard. The field sparrows occasionally rested from feed- 
ing their young and uttered a trill, and some tits (Z. bicolor) 
were scrambling after their dinner in an elm, but with this 
exception it might have been presumed that no other birds 
were near, As J had not seen one of the looked for birds 
since 1879, I was loth to give up the chase and sat down and 
waited. At length I gave up the hope of getting a specimen 
on this trip, and I returned to my horse and was in the act 
of mounting, when I heard a song quite close at hand. On 
advancing directly toward the sound I caught sight of the 
bird on a dead branch of an oak tree and shot it without its 
having heard or seen me, as I was screened by another tree. 
it was a nice specimen and not badly mutilated, but showed 
the worn dress, It was now 2 o’clock, but I felt well paid 
as I mounted and started in a hurry after blackcaps, but 
before I had proceeded a hundred paces I heard another 
song and gaye chase. As I approached the bird would take 
short flights directly from me, and thereby be screened by the 
tree in which it was singing; finally I saw it fly and marked 
the limb it perched upon and secured it. I now ‘‘went on 
my way rejoicing.” 
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS. 


FRIENDLY SQUIRRELS. 


Vy fishing in Spencer Bay, Moosehead Lake, Me., 
one day this summer, a red squirrel was. seen swim- 
ming on the water. It soon discovered me and, swimming 
to the side of the canoe, made two ineffectual attempts to 
jump aboard, but fell back into the water. My guide then 
held out his paddle, on to which the animal jumped and 
gained a safe foothold on the boat. He ran about the canoe, 
climbed over my shoulder, and finally perched himself at the 
bow, and with blinking eyes attempted to understand his 
traveling companions, Having at last satisfied his curiosity, 
he again passed over_my shoulder to the stern of the boat 
and jumped off into the water, raised his bushy tail for a 
sail and swam ashore. A similar incident happened to 
another canoe a few days previous, the variety of which was 
increased by a party in a second canoe appearing and offer- 
ing the squirrel a Tings House doughnut, which, strange to 
relate, the animal devoured with avidity. On reaching the 
steamer which was awaiting the party off their fishing 
grounds, the squirrel jumped aboard, ran forward and 
climbed the flagstaff at the bows and remained seated on the 
golden ball top until it reached Kineo dock, when it disap- 
peared in ihe woods. T. 8. Sveenn, ~ 


Hoop Snaxe [procy.—The editorial hoop snake is rolling 
on, It was last seen in Virginia: ‘‘A green snake was found 
by a couple of gentlemen in the Roanoke Valley writhing 
and twisting at the foot of a beech tree. It proved 1o be a 
horned hoop snake, which in rolling down hill after some 
game, had struck the tree with such force as to drive the 
horn an inch into the solid wood.” 


WHAT THEY DID. 


HANK WILDS. 


Hank Wilds, of Chico, and a man by the name of Nelson, have 
been on an extended bear hunt near Berdan’s. While walling along 
the mining ditch of Holben Brothers they discovered & bruin upon 
the hillside, and Wildes took a shot at him. This infuriated the bear 
and he started in the direction of the men. Nelson dropped his gun 
and told his partner not to shoot again as the bear was coming that 
way, and skipped out across the ditch and down a twenty-seven-foot 
embankment. Nelson did not stop until he reached Holben’s camp, 
where he informed the boys of what had happened. They went to 
the relief of Wildes, and as they reached the place where Nelson left 
his partner they discovered the latter gentleman abouta quarter of a 
mile distant in the top of a ‘sturdy oak.” They called to him to 
come down, when he made a statement that the hear weighed 1,500 
pounds, anid that it had chased him to the tree in which he was found. 
The bear was found only a short distance below, but it was only a 
cub.—Chico (Cal.) Chronicle. . 


JOHN GRAY. 


Mr, John Gray has had a steel strap set for bears in the gorge be- 
Jow the falls. Last week upon reaching the trap he was confronted 
by an immense black bear that had been caught by the foot, and was 
making a fearful racket among the rhododendrons in trying to libe- 
rate itself. Mr. Gray was armed with a small shotgun loaded with 
bird shot. With this he banged away at the bear, which, at the re- 

ort of the gun, broke away with the trap, chain and all, and tum- 

led over a cliff fully fifty feet high, falling into the top of a spruce 
pine, from which Mr. Gray found it impossible to dislodge it, and he 
was forced to go ten miles down the river, where he collected a crowd 
of men, and upon returning the bear was found still in the tree, hay- 
ing been unable to descend with the steel trap. The bear was killed, 
and was found to weigh 400 pounds—one of the largest black bears 
that has been killed in this county for years.—Morganton(N. ©.) 


Mountaineer. STEVE MEEK. 


We were visited last week by Steve Meek, the pioneer hunter and 
trapper of California, Mr. Meek first set foot on California soil in 
1882. He remained here but a short time and then hunted and 
trapped in the Rocky Mountains,: returning to California in 1836, 
where he piloted the first erat’ train through to Oregon, He is 
now 79 years of age, and is afflicted with rheumatism, but the luster 
of the old man’s eyes show considerable vitality yet, His mind is as 
strong as ever, and he remembers clearly events occurring 50 years 
ago. like most California pioneers, he is not overburdened wi 
this world’s goods, and should receive a pension as a means Of sus- 
tenance. He resides in Fort Jones with his son.—Heading \Cal.) 

r - 


Democrat, June 25, . 
oa BILL ADAIR. 


Mr. Bill Adair killed another deer on Monday. Bill is beating all of. 
the boys, but they say he deserves no credit for the last one as the 
deer was foolish enough to come up in sight of the depot and stand 


utmost strategy to approach the music box, but at the end | there until Adair came up and killed it—Goldman (4rk.) Prairie 
of half an hour the note had entirely ceased and I had not | Farmer. 


Juux 17, 1884] 


- FOREST AND STREAM. 


485 


Gane Bag and Gun, 


OPEN SEASONS FOR GAME AND FISH. 
REVISED TO JULY 17, 1884, 


General Provisions. 


T is unlawful: To kill, have in possession, transport or sell 
game birds, animals and fish, save only in the open season 
foreach given herein: to net or snare game birds or animals ; 
to take or kill game fishes by any other means than angling; to 
shoot waterfowl at night, or with any other than shoulder- 
us; to hunt rabbits with ferrets; to enter inclosed land for 
ooting without consent of oyner; to kill (except for scien- 
tific purpose) insectivorous or song birds at any time, or to rob 
nests of wild birds (except birds of prey). 

Laws forbidding export of game obtain in Colorada, Con- 
necticut, Dakota, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 
Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, 
Ontario, ‘Wyoming. 

Diseriminations against non-residents obtain in Delaware, 
Towa, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Jersey, North Carolina, 
Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tennessee, 

(S="The daies given are those between which the game and 
jish named may be lawfully taken. 


British Columbia. 


Deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, hare, Sept. 1-Jan. 10, Grouse, 
artridge, prairie fowl, quail, snipe, robin, meadow lark, 
ept. 1-Feb. 1. Wild duck, Sept. 1-March1. Pheasant pro- 
tected to Sept. 1, 1886. P 
Connecticut. 


Ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Wild- 
fowl, Sept. 1-May 1. Rail, Sept. 12-Jan.1 (in New Haven, 
Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Aug, 20-Jan, 1). Game ex- 
portation forbidden. Wildfowl may be shot only with gun 
‘such as is commonly raised at arm’s length;” shooting from 
sailing or steam vessel, or sink-box on feeding ground, forbid- 
den, 

Speckled trout, April 1-July 1. Unlawful to net pike, 
pickerel, black bass, mascalonge. Local fish laws govern cer- 
tain waters, 


Delaware. 


Partridge, quail, pheasant, ruffed grouse, woodcock, hare, 
rabbit, in Kent and Sussex counties, Noy. 15-Jan. 15; in New 
Castle county, Nov. 15-Jan.1. Ortolan, reedbird, rail, Sept. 

-Jan, 1, Pinnated grouse (prairie chicken) protected to 1886, 

Birds and rabbits may be killed by any person on his own 
land at any time. Hntrance upon land for shooting without 
owner's consent, forbidden. Non-residents must become mem- 
bers of the Delaware Game Protective Association, fee, $5 
first year, $2 per year thereafter. Secretary, George Church- 
man, Wilmington, Del. Sunday shooting forbidden. License 
(fee $50) required toexport game for market. License (fee $25) 
required for buying game to sell again. 


Indiana. 


Ruifed grouse and quail, Oct. 15-Dec. 20. Woodcock, July 1- 
Jan. 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1-April 15, Pinnated grouse, Sept. 1- 
Feb. 1. Wild turkey, Nov. l-Feb. 1. Deer, Oct, 1-Jan. 1. 

Exportation of deer, ‘‘quail, pheasant, wild duck, grouse, 
prairie chicken or woodcock,” forbidden, 


Maine. 


Moose, deer and caribou, Oct, 1-Jan.1 (forbidden to hunt 
with dogs), unlawful for one person to take more than one 
moose, two caribou or three deer in oneseason. Mink, beaver, 
sable, otter, fisher, muskrat, Oct. 15-May 1. Wood duck, 
dusky, black or other sea duck, Sept. 1-May 1. Wildfowl 
law does not apply to seacoast. Ruffed grouse (partridge), 
woodcock, Sept. 1-Dec. 1; pinnated grouse, Sept. I-Jan. 1; 

lover, Aug. I-May 1. Woodcock and ruffed grouse may 
ie killed only for consumption within the State. Sunday 
shooting forbidden. 

Salmon, April 1-Sept. 15; netting salmon permitted only from 
April i-July 15. Angling for salmon within 100 yards of a 
fishway, dam or mill race, forbidden. Smelts, April 1-Oct. 1. 
Black bass, Oswego bass, white perch, July 1-Aprili, Land- 
locked salmon, trout, togue, May 1-Oct. 1; in St. Croix River 
and tributaries, and all waters in Kennebec county, May 1- 
Sept, 15; during months of February, March and April it is 
lawful for citizens to take ‘‘and conyey the same to their 
homes, but not otherwise.” Unlawful to take land-locked 
salmon less than 9 inches in length, or trout less than 5 inches; 
or take, transport or have in possession for transportation 
more than fifty pounds of land-locked salmon or trout, or both. 
Unlawful to take these fish in Kennebago, Mollychunkamunk, 
Cupsuptic, Mooseluemaguntic and Welokennebacook lakes 
and tributaries, between Feb, 1 and May 1; unlawful in said 
waters to use spawn bait In September, Unlawful to take 
trout or land-locked salmon in the Rangeley stream, between 
the mouth of Kennebago stream and Howard’s dam, from 
July 1-May 1, or at the South Bog stream from July 1-May 1, 
or in the Bemis stream from July 1-May 1, orin the Cupsuptic 
stream from July 1-May 1, or inthe Kennebago stream be- 
tween the foot of the first falls, near its junction with the 
Rangeley stream and the upper falis at the outlet of Kenne- 
bago Lake, from Sept. 1-May 1. 

The Commissioners of Hisheriesand Game are H. M. Stilwell, 
Bangor; H. O. Stanley, Dixfield. A digest of the laws may 
be had on application to them. i 


Manitoba. 


Deer, cabri, or antelope, elk or wapiti, moose, reindeer or 
earibou, Oct, 1-Jan. 1. ed grouse, pheasanis, partrid es, 
prairie vhickens, Sept. 1Jan. 1. Woodcock, plover, snipe, 
and sandpipers, Aug. 1-Jan. 1. All kinds of wild duck, sea 
duck, pigeon, teal, wild swan, or wild goose, except the 
variety of wild goose commonly known as the snow goose or 
the wavy, Aug. 15-May 1. Otter, fisher or pekan, beaver, 
muskrat and sable, Oct. 1-May 15. Mink and marten, Noy, 1- 
April 15. Exportation of game forbidden; consent of land- 
owner required before entering premises for hunting. To col- 
lect birds, etc., for scientific purposes, certificate must be 
obtained trom Minister of Agriculture. 


Michigan. 


Deer, in Lower Peninsula, Oct. 1-Dec. 1; Upper Peninsula, 
Aug. 14-Nov. 15. Ferbidden to kill deer in red coat or fawn in 
spotted coat, to kill in water or by pit, pitfall ortrap. Elk 
protected to 1889. Ruffed grouse, Sept. Jan. 1. Quail, Nov, 
1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, Aug. 1-Jan.1. Pinnated grouse, Sept. 
1-Noy. 1. Wild turkey, Oct. 1-Jan, 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1-May 
1, (Wood, mallard, teal and gray ducks, Sept. LJan, 1.) 
Snipe, Sept. 1-May 1. Swivel or punt gun and night-shooting 
wilafowl forbidden. Wild pigeons protected in vicinity (five 
miles) of nesting, Exportation of deer, ruffed grouse, quail, 
prairie chicken, wild turkey, forbidden. : 

Speckled trout, May l-Sept. 1. Grayling, June 1-Nov, 1. 
Forbidden to take trout from stream within three years after 
it has been stocked, to catch grayling or brook trout of less 
than 6 inches length, to take California trout prior to June, 
1885. Special laws govern certain waters, 

The State society is the Michigan Sportsmen’s Association, 
Secretary, 5. A. Rogers, Jackson, 


= _ Missouri. 
‘Ruffed Biouee and quail, Oct. 15-Feb. 1, Woodcock, July 1.- 
Jan, 10, Pinnated grouse, Aug, 15.-Feb, 1, Wild turkey, 


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Sept. 15-March 1. Deer, Sept. 1-Jan, 15, Plover, dove, 
meadow lark, Aug. 1-Feb, 1, - F 
Unlawful for non-residents to kill game for exportation 
from State. : 
New Hampshire. 


Plover, yellow-legs, sandpipers, woodeock, ducks and. rail, 
Aug. L-Feb, 1. Ruffed grouse, partridge, quail, Sept. 1-Feb. 1. 
Deer, moose and caribou, Sept. 1-Dec. 1. Mink, beaver, sable, 
otter, fisher, Oct. 15-April 1. Raccoon (coon), gray squirrel, 
Sept, 1-Jan. 1. Hare, rabbit, muskrat, Sept. 1-April 1. 
and-locked or fresh-water salmon, lake trout, brook or 

speckled trout (none less than four inches), April 30-Sept. 50, 
(alee trout may also be taken ‘with single hook and line 
only,” Jan. 1-April 30), Pike-perch, white perch, July 1-May 1, 
Black bass, June 15-April 30, Muskallonge, pickerel, pike, 
erayling, June 1-Aprill. Forbidden to take striped_bass of 
less than fifteen inches length. Fish introduced by Commis- 
sioners protected for five years. J 

Fish and Game Commissioners: George W. Riddle, Man- 
chester; Elliot B, Hodge, Plymouth; Luther Hayes, South 

ilton. 

New Jersey. 


Ruffed grouse and quail, Noy. 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 1- 
Aug. 1, and Oct. 1-Dec 16. Pinnated grouse, Oct. 15-Dec, 1. 
Deer, Oct. 15-Dee, 1, Rail, Sept. 1-Dec.1, Reedbird (marsh 
hen) Aup. 25-Dec. 1, Upland ployer, Aug. I-Jan. 1. Summer 
duck, Sept. 1-Jan. 1. Squirrels, Sept. 1-Jan. 1, Rabbit, 
Noy. 1Jan. 1. 

Salmon trout, March 1-Oct. 1. Brook trout, March 1-Oct. 1. 
Black bass, June 1-Noy. 1 

Non-residents must become members of a game protective 
society of the State to shoot or fish within its borders, under 
a penalty of $50, New Jersey Game and Fish Protective 
Society has jurisdiction over entire State. Fee, $2 annually. 
Secretary, Wm. L, Force, Plaintield, N. J. Or, non-residents 
to shoot or fish in Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cum- 
berland and Cape May counties, may obtain rae an cer- 
tificate of West Jersey Game Protective Society, Fee, $5 
first year, $2 annually thereafter. Secretary, Wm, T. Miller, 
106 Market street, Camden, N. J. 


New York. 


Ruifed and pinnated grouse, Sept. l-Jan. 1. Quail, Nov. 1- 
Jan. 1, Woodcock, Aug. 1-Jan. 1 (Oneida, Dutchess and Dela- 
ware counties, Sept. 1-Jan, 1), Wildfowl, Sept. 1-May 1 (in 
Long Island waters, Oct. 1-May 1): use of guns, except such 
as are habitually fired from the shoulder, shooting from sail- 
ing or steam vessels (excepted localities), use of battery or 
machine, decoys or bough houses at greater distance than 
twenty rods from shore (excepted localities), blind, net, snare 
or trap, unlawful. Deer, Aug. 1-Dec. 1; hounding, Aug. 15- 
Noy. 1, forbidden at all timesim St. Lawrence county, Un- 
Jawful to crust, to kill by trap or spring gun, or to kill fawn 
in spotted coat. Robin, meadow lark, starling, Oct. i-Jan. 1, 
Rabbit (hare), Noy. 1-Feb. 1; use of ferrets unlawful. Squir- 
rel, Aug. 1-Feb. 1. 

Speckled trout, April 1-Sept. 1. California trout, Sepé, 1- 
May 15. Black bass, Oswego bass, June 1-Jan. 1; in Lake 
Mahopac, Dutchess county, Schroon Lake and River, Paradox 
Lake, July 16-Jan, 1; Lake George, July 20-Jao. 1. Salmon 
(or lake) trout, April 1-Oct. 1; in Lake George, May 1-Oct, 1. 
Forbidden to take striped bass of less than one-half pound 
een, Unlawful to catch any fish within eighty rods of 

shway. 

Sunday shooting and fishing forbidden. Unlawful to export 
game trom Dutchess and Rockland counties. Non-residents 
must pay $10 license fee to shoot in Richmond county (Staten 
Island). Forbidden to shoot for market in Niagara county. 

Game protectors—See list elsewhere. 


Pennsylvania. 


Ruffed and pinnated grouse, Oct. I-Jan.1. Quail, Oct. 15- 
Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 4Jan, 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1-Jan. 1; 
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week only; 
shooting from steam or sailing craft forbidden, also netting 
and use of ‘‘other than such guns as habitually are raised at 
arm’s length and fired from the shoulder,” Wild turkey, Out. 
15-Jan, 1, Deer and elk, Oct. 1-Dec. 15; transportation allowed 
only Oct, 1-Noy. 30; forbidden to kill fawn in spotted coat, or 
to pursue or kill elk or deerin the water, or to chase them 
with dogs. Plover, July 15-Jan, 1. Rabbit (hare), Noy. 1- 
Jan. 1, Rail and reedbird, Sept. 1-Dec. 1. Grouse shooting 
at night unlawful. Wild pigeons protected on nesting ground. 
Sunday shooting and fishing unlawful. 

Salmon, speckled trout, Aprill-Aug. 1. Lake trout, Jan. 1- 
Oct. 1. Black bass, June 1-Jan.1. Green bass, yellow bass, 
willow bass, rock bass, Lake Erie or grass bass, pike or pick- 
erel, or wall-eyed pike, commonly called Susquehanna salmon, 
June 1-Jan, 1; does not apply to Lake Erie waters, save ponds 
on Erie Harbor peninsula. Speckled or California trout may 
not be taken less than five inches in length, nor black, yellow 
cr green bass less than six inches in length, 

Pike County: Deer, Oct. 1-Dec. 1; cannot be killed in the 
water. Squirrel, Sept. 1-Dec. 15. Rabbit, Oct. 15 to Dec. 15. 
Wood or summer duck, Oct. 1-Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 4-Dee, 
15. Quail, Oct, 15-Dec. 1. Ruffed grouse, Sept, 15-Dee. 15. 
aD, speckled trout, May 1-Aug. 1. Pike, pickerel, June 1- 
Feb. 15. 

Quebec. 


Moose and deer, Sept. 1-Feb. 1 (female moose may not be 
killed before Oct. 15, 1888). Caribou, Sept. 1-Mareh 1, Non- 
residents (except with permit) forbidden to take in one season 
more than 2 moose, 3 deer, or 2 caribou. Beayer, mink, otter, 
marten or pekan, Nov. 1-Aprill, Hare, Sept. 1-Marchi, Musk- 
rat (in Maskinonge, Yamaska, Richelieu and Berthier counties), 
April 1-May 1. Woodeock, partridge and snipe, Sept. 1-Feb. 1, 
Black duck, teal and wild duck of any kind, Sept. 1-May 1. 
Migratory quail protected to Dec. 31, 1886, 

Non-residents.—""No person who is not domiciled in the 
Proving? ot Quebec nor in that of Ontario, can at any time 

unt in this province . . . without being authorized thereto 
by license to that effect. Such permit may, on payment of a 
fee of twenty dollars, be granted by the Commissioner of 
Crown Lands to any person and is valid for a whole 
shooting season.” Permits may also be granted to non-resi- 
dents to take specimens for scientilic purposes. 

Salmon, May 1-Sept. 1. Speckled trout, Dec. 31-Oct, 1. 
Lake (salmon) trout, Dec. 1-Oct. 15, Black bass, mascalonge 
and pickerel, May 15-April 15. 


Canadian Non- Export Law, 


“The export of deer, wild turkeys and quail in the carcass 
or parts thereof, is hereby declared unlawtul and prohibited, 
and any person exporting or attempting to export amy such 
articles, shall, for each such offense, incur a penalty of $100, 
and the articles so attempted to be exported shall be forfeited, 
and may, on reasonable cause of suspicion of intention to ex- 

ort the same, be seized by any officer of customs, and if such 
intention be proved, shall be dealt with as for breach of the 
customs laws.”—Customs Act, 1883, 


Wisconsin. 


Ruffed, sharptail and pinnated grouse and quail, wood duck, 
mallard and teal, Aug. 15-Jan. 1. Woodcock, July 10-Jan 1. 
Deer, Noy, 1-Dee. 15. Fire-shooting deer, chasing with dogs 
and exportation forbidden; also wildfowl shooting with 
“other than a pun habitually raised at arm’s length and. dis- 
charged from the shoulder,” or by fioat, sneak boat, sail or 
steamboat, Otter, mink, muskrat, fisher, Nov, 1-May 1, 

Speckled trout, April 15-Aug. 15. Black bass, wall-eyed 
pike, May 1-Feb, 1, 


NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: ; 

In answer to your note of inquiry about changes in the 
corps of game protectors, 1 inclose you a list of the protec. 
tors and of their respective districts as reorganized by the 
Commissioners of Fisheries at their meeting at Albany in 
May last, viz.: 

First District. 
Richmond — George W. Whitaker, Southampton, 
county. 

Second. New York, Rockland and Orange—Joseph H, God- 
win, Jr,, Kings Bridge, New York. 

Third. Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene 
and Ulster—Matthew Kennedy, Hudson, Columbia county. 

Fourth. Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Delaware and 
Sullivan—Francisco Wood, Schoharie, Schoharie county. 

Fifth. Rensselaer, Washington, Warren,!Saratoza and the 
town of Indian Lake, in Hamilton—Seymour C, Armstrong, 
Weavertown, Warren county. 

Sueth, Hssex, Clinton and all of the town of Long Lake 
in Hamilton except that part lying west of the east line of 
great lots Nos. 4, 5, 41 and 42—John Liberty, Elizabethtown, 
Hssex county. ; 

Seventh. Mi, Lawrence and Franklin—Peter R, Leonard, 
Ogdensburg. 

Highth. Montgomery, Fulton and the towns of Benson, 
Hope, Wells, Lake Pleasant, Arietta and Morehouse, except 
that portion of Morehouse and Arritta lying north of the 
south branch of Moose River—Thomas Bradley, Rockwood, 
Fulton county. 

Ninth, All that part of Lewis lying east of the Black River 
and of the west lines of the towns of Diana and Croghan, all 
that part of Wilmurt, Herkimer county, and of Morehouse 
and Arietta, in Hamilton, lying north of thé south branch of 
Moose River, and all that part of Long Lake, in Hamilton, 
lying west of the east line of great lots Nos. 4, 5, 41 and 42— 
John L. Brinckerhoff, post-office address, Old Forge, Herkimer 
county, or Boonville, Oneida county. 

Tenth, Althat part of Oneida lying north of the south 
line of Verona, Rome, Marey and Deerfield, all of the county 
of Lewis lying west of the Black River and west of the west 
lines of Diana and Croghan, and all of the county of Herki- 
mer lying south of the south branch of Moose River—Nathan 
C. Phelps, Remsen, Oneida county. 

Eleventh, The counties of Otsego, Chenango, Broome, Cort- 
land and Tioga, and all the towns of Oneida county lying 
south of the south lines of the towns of Verona, Rome, Marcy 
and Deerfield—Frederick P. Drew, Washington Mills, Oneida 
county. 

Twelfth. Jefferson and Oswego—Wm, N, Steele, Clayton, 
Jefferson county. 

Thirteenth. Madison, Onondaga, Cayuga, Wayne, Seneca, 
and the waters of Oneida Lake in Oswego—Wm. H. Lindsey, 
Canastota, Madison county. 

Fourteenth. Schuyler, Yates, Chemung. Tompkins, Steu- 
ben and Allegany—A.N. Parish, Reading, Schuyler county. 

fifteenth. Monroe, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming, Genesee 
and Orleans—Geo. M. Schwarts, Rochester, Monroe county. 

Sixteenth. Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus— 
Stephen A. Roberts, Buffalo, Erie county. 

The new arrangement of districts was made especially to 
afford greater protection to the deer districts in the Northern 
Wilderness, and to the waters of the St. Lawrence River. 

Six protectors were detailed for service in the deer districts 
the present season, and the results of their services thus far 
have been very gratifying, In June eight violaters were 
detected by Protector Brinckerhoff in the Upper Moose 
River and Independence waters, where heretofore the poach- 
ers have defied law. Protector Leonard, of the St. Lawrence 
district, has had equal success on his beat. Protector Arm- 
strong, of Warren county, reports that the law was never so 
closely observed in his district as it is now, and good results 
are reported also by Protectors Liberty, of Essex, and 
Phelps, of Northern Oneida. 

The waters of the St. Lawrence and of Oneida and Seneca 
lakes have been swept of nets and other unlawful devices, 
and it may be safely said that there is, on account of. the 
good organization of the protector system, a more general 
and vigilant enforcement of the game laws than ever before 
existed in the State. R. U, SHERMAN, 

Sec’y N. Y. State Com, of Fisheries. 


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, New Hartford, N. Y., July 10, 


Counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings and 
Suffollc 


TWO-EYED SHOOTING. 


Hditor Forest and Stream: 

I have no fine-spun memories on the subject of one-eyed 
and two-eyed shooting, but for myself, | wish I had néver 
heard of sighting down the barrel. 

Any one shooting in { = woods who shuts one eye is liable 
to put the whole load in a limb ora sapling that he didn’t 
see when he pulled trigger; whereas, with both eyes open he 
would have seen the bird and all intervening objects. 
Again, if he aims with one eye at a bird coming overhead, 
the shot will pass under and behind the bird; and this must 
be so, because the line of fire and the line of flight are in op- 
posite directions, Obviously then, the only way, except by 
chance, to hit a bird as he flies head on is to aim in front, 
and this can only be done with accuracy with both eyes 
open, as anybody may see who will try the experiment, 
This is also true of cross shots, 49, 

VIRGINIA, 


THE THREE-DAYS DUCKING LAW. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The most encouraging reports are coming in concerning 
the quantity and quality of game for the coming fall shoot- 
ing. Quail and pheasants have wintered finely and are doing 
well, ducks will be found in the proper localities in abund- 
ance, and rabbits are now, as they long have been, predom- 
inantly on the increase, 

In a recent number of your journal, a correspondent 
speaks in the highest praise of the ‘‘every-other-day” law, 
regulating the shooting of ducks, Is it not in reality an ab- 
surdity tending to disgust, rather than to give satisfaction to 
the duck hunter, especially to him who travels a long dis- 
tance and has but a limited time in which to enjoy the pleu- 
sure of duck shooting? As an illustration of the fallacy of 
this law, suppose a city individual whose duties are of such 
a nature as to render his time extremely limited, manages to 
lock his safe, don his shooting suit, and joyfully depart for 
the duck pond or marsh for a week’s enjoyment. Arriving 
there probably on Monday, he awakes to an awful realization 
of the fact that out of six days set apart by him for duck 
shooting, three, at least, and probably four days, are irre- 
trievably lost. Yet his board bill and other incidental ex- 
penses run on with alarming regularity. Ducks may be, as 
they often are when you expect them otherwise, conspicuous 
by their absence, the weather may be in any other state than 
propitious for duck shooting, ete. Now let me ask the in- 
dulgent readers of Formst AND STREAM whether such a 
law has not a greater tendency to weaken rather than to 


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strengthen the moral observation of Pennsylvania’s game 

laws. Is it nota vice rather than a virtue? I would be 

Pleased to hear the opinions of others on this subject. Indi- 

yidually, I unblushingly say that I bear no love for the man 

who was instrumental in the bill making this law. an 
PrrTsBuRGH, Pa., July 10. 


Brars.—Many bear's haye shown themselyes this summer 
in the woods and mountains of Bethel, Sullivan county, Pa, 
Near Black Lake in that region five or six were seen by 
gentlemen from your city who lately visited this section to 
arrange for summer quarters for their families. While on a 
tramp through the woods Messrs. R. and 8. came to a large 
tract of low land with a great deal of fallen timber scattered 
about and many decaying stumps. Through it ran a small 
stream, and standing in the stream they saw a large black 
bear. Not one hundred feet from the pater familias, as he 
seemed to be, could be seen the mother and three cubs. She 
was busy pulling the bark from the old trees and stumps 
hunting for grubs upon which her little ones were feeding as 
the insects were brought to sight. Unprepared for any such 
sight the gentlemen thought it best to remain motionless, and 
haying no arms it is needless to say they were quite nervous. 
For over an hour the ursine family kept possession of the 
lowlands, until a huge stone was rolled down the ridgeand a 
terrific shout-was raised, when the bears snorted, drew 
together, and shuffled off out of sight. At least one dozen 
full grown animals haye been seen in this neighborhood, 
which has been famous for bears.—Homo, 


A Lone Ssor.—Gold Hill, Nevada.—After a fruitless 
day’s hunt after geese, Friend Bob and myself were tramp- 
ing toward home tived, hungry and wet, lamenting our bad 
luck and wishing that small boy who told us where there 
were ‘millions on um” was dead, when suddenly three 
geese were descried feeding about 125 yards beyond a ferce 
just in front of us. Almost wild with excitement we wormed 
ourselves under the shelter of the fence, loaded up and sur- 
veyed the ground. Bob was preparing to shoot when I 
assured him that the geese were fully 180 yards distant, and 
that although his gun was a good one, and his shells loaded 
with 5 drams and BB, he would never be able to reach 
them. But perceiving that the geese were feeding from us 
and the chances for a shot decreasing, in spite of my remon- 
strances, he “‘let go,” and to my surprise one of the big 
birds toppled over. ran to it and haying carefully examined 
it, assured Bob by way of explanation of his extraordmary 
shot, that one pellet had gone directly through the eye. 
With a fond look at his 10-bore and the most paralyzing 
cheek he told me that he ‘‘always shot at the eye, when 
shooting at such long range—it makes the business sure, 
you know.”—SANGRADO, 


W oopcock In On10.—W ooster, Ohio.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: During the month of March I predicted that wood- 
cock shooting this summer would be a failure. I based my 
predictions on the extreme cold weather we had during that 
month. The birds arrived very early and began nesting 
immediately ; cons«quently all eggs were frzen, What did 
escape to be hatched were driven out by the prolonged 
drouths, so at this writing there is no shooting. A svod 
shot with a good dog, might make a bag of from six to ten 
brace a day. Rauffed grouse are plenticr than for many 
years past; quail are doing splendidly, and are yuite plenty, 
the present and past dry weather being very favorable to 
them. Mr. Harry Miner of New York, and Mr. J. H. Mack 
of Haverly’s enterprises, and myself, spent a few days at 
Chippawa Lake, woodcoeck shooting, with only fair success. 
—JOHN BoLus. 


Jows Cuickmns.—Latimer, lowa, July 10.—The open 
season on chickens now commences Sept. 1 in this State 
instead of Aug. 15 The weather has been more favorable 
for then: while hatching than for several years past, and 
the coveys are all full, the most of them having at least a 
dozen. Saw ten or twelve coveys to-day and all of them 
could fly nearly as fast as the old bird. Do not think that 
any of the old ones will have to hatch the second brood this 
year. J caught three young mallards and put them with 
my tame ducks.—RANpD. 


Typrana.— Evansville, Ind., July 11.—I am happy to say 
that the game law is being rigidly enforced here. I have 
three good gun clubs who are aiding me in every way, and 
we haye been a terror to offenders, We have three suits 
with one party, who thought he could beat us, but we came 
out beautifully on top. The fish law is a dead Ictter here, as 
those most interested seem to take no interest in the matter 
Prospects for quail are better than for years past.—F. M, Gr- 
BERY (Game Warden First District, Indiana), 


ConoRADO.—Salida.—Have seen a few deer this spring and 
expect to find plenty in the fall, Of rifles give mea .40-70 
and [ ask no odds. Thay kill, are safe and sure. Any 
American 12-bore, 30-inch shotgun, modified choke, of 
reputable make, will do good work if you form the acquaint- 
ance of your gun.—Koxomo. 


THE Maw Tarcer Acatn.—Salt Lake, June 20.—Frank 
W. May and Joseph B. Tomlinson, both formerly of this 
city; went hunting near Belknap, M. T., Wednesday eyen- 
ing. May made a circle in his travel and in the dusk came 
upon Tomlinson, who mistook him for a deer and shot Muay 
dead.— Sacramento Bee. 


ARRIVAL OF SHORE Brrps. —Salem, Mass.—Saw four robin 
suipe (WZ, griseus) July 9, also about two dozen ‘‘pecps.” 
Summer yellowlegs are reported, but I have not seen any 
yet.—X. Y. Z. 


WHAT THEY SAY OF “WOODCRAFT.” 


6 PV CopoRArT” is the title of a book that should bein the 

hands of all who delight in an onting in the woods. It opens 
with a portrait of the author, that genial old hunter and fisherman, 
. “Nessmuk,*’ who graphically describes in his own easy way what 
should be taken on a camping-out trip. From years of experience 
he gives what he has found to be the best method for making camps 
and camp-fires, fishing with and without flies, the best tackle, etc., 
and deyotes some space to hints about cooking. Canoes, their build 
and qualifications, occupy afullchapter. The book contains many 
things that, though probably known before, are often forgotten, and 
being replete with useful practical infoimation, will undoubtedly 
supply a long-felt want among pleasure seekers,—St. Join (N, B.) 
Daily Telegraph, 


art and River Sishing. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


Black Lake, Michigan.—X. 

fh eee Assistant Postmaster was eager to ny one of those 

wonderful abortions lately inflicted on the craft in the 
shape of an automatic, stem-winding, cockless, chokebore, 
rim-and-center-fire, lightning geared, wind-em-in-without- 
touching-it reel, and accordingly the next morning we took 
our way in the little weather-boarded boat down to Sturgeon 
Bay, where we were sure to get as many pickerel as we 
would care to handle, if nothing else. We took with us five 
minnow buckets which we intended to fill with good min- 
nows to try on the bass in place of frogs, for pickerel fishing 
was beginning to be a trifle monotonous, and as I had not 
yet taken a bass, every jointin my frame was aching to feel 
the old-fashioned rush of a five-pounder and to experience the 
sensation of each individual hair straightening out at once 
when he made his first leap into the air, 

Dick and the Scribe were half a mile down the lake ahead 
of us, apparently in a difficulty with something, and as we 
neared them we saw that Dick was engaged in a glorious 
fight with a heavy fish of some kind that was fully trying 
the stuff his rod was made of, and we lay off fifty or sixty 
yards outside to watch the issue of the point in dispute. 

He was standing up intently watching the line as it cut 
through the water in a circle around the boat, the Scribethe 
while sitting placidly at the oars waiting, as he said, ‘‘to see 
Dick’s rod break.”” But Dick’s rod did not break, and we 
watched the progress of a splendid battle, that was hotly 
contested on both sides, until from sheer exhaustion the fish 
was compelled to succumb to Dick’s better staying qualities, 
skill and fine tactics. 

““Whoa there!” he shouted, as the fish made a powerful 
rush for the belt of grass. ‘Look at that, will ye?—must be 
that old he muskylinge o’ Dan’s an’ yourn by the way he 
pulls. Come out o’ that grass, durn ye, or Ill jerk yer 
jaw off;” and, as the Scribe swung the boat around, we could 
almost feel the rod crack in our own hands, so great was the 
strain on it and so intensely interested were we in the strug- 
gle. We could hear the Scribe’s quiet suggestion, ‘‘Give him 
a little line Dick, and let him clear that big weed or he’!l 
say good-bye to you,” and Dick’s vigorous rejoinder, 
“Who's a ketchin’ this fish? back “er up; swing ’er ‘round 
*tother way a little—there; now we've got him,” and as the 
rod straightened up a trifle the fish swung out into the lake 
and headed for our boat, A few strokes sent us out of the 
way, and Dick again addressed himself to the fish. 

“Wool old Richard by sneakin’ into the grass, will ye? not 
much, if this old rod’s as good as she used to be. I’ve been 
a lookin’ fur ye fur twenty-five years, an’ now I’ve got ye 
well haye it out right here without any more pollyfoxin’. 
Sucked in the wrong frog, didn’t ye?” 

Here he took off his hat and dropped it in the boat, the 
fish all the time taking the line out from under his thumb 
with a pull that must have nearly blistered it, but Dick’s 
Scotch was up and he would have paid no more heed to a 
blistered thumb just then than he would to a mosquito bite. 
When within twenty yards of our boat the strain was too 
great for the fish, and he came to the surface with a swirl 
and started back for the grass again. 

‘Must be a grass bass,” said Dick, as he shortened the 
line and prepared for another tug to Keep the fish out of the 
weeds. ‘‘lell ye boys, he pulls like a hoss, look at that rod 
will ye, ain’t she a daisy?” and then a few remarks to the 
fish, ‘think you'll git over there an’ profligate ’round ’mongst 
them weeds till ye saw the line off an’ git away, do ye? I'll 
jest show ye that it don’t lay in yer britches to work that 
little gume on Richard when he’s got his sinister eye on ye. 
Look out there now, you old sardine! or I’ll jerk ye 
whopper-juwed if ye wy to git into that grass ag’in.” 

We laughed ‘‘voriferously” at Dick’s quaint talk to the 
fish, but he had his hands too full to pay any attention to us, 
and the struggle went on. This time when he was pulled 
away from the bank of weeds the brave, game tish showed 
sien of having lost heart in the fight and after runn*ng most 
of the line off the reel he was brought back alongside under 
an easy pull, when the Scribe reached out with the gaff and 
lifted him into the boat, a dark-backed pickerel a liltle over 
three feet in length. He was a fine fish and had madea 
long and gallant struggle for his life, but Dick’s taking ways 
and the remarks he had made to him at eritical points in the 
battle had discouraged and bewildered him and he had lost 
his head (literally) and was now ready to take his place in 
Merrill’s bar’! with others of his tribe who had been lured to 
their duwnfall by the same hankering after speckled frogs. 
To say that Dick was inflated with pride over his victory 
would be drawing it very mild, and as we had enjoyed the 
sport nearly as much as he had, we gave him a cheer and 


left him hooking on a fresh frog, with the remark coming 


over the water to us, ‘‘I’ll jest angle fur another o’ them 
sardines,” : ( 
The wind was now rising-again, this time blowing straight 
up the lake, and by the time we passed Pickerel Reef and 
turned the point toward Black River it was blowing quite 
fresh and the little boat plunging her bows into the waves 
with thumps that made the spray fly. Dick and Knots were 
coming half a mile astern, and it was a plain case that 
Knots, who was ut the oars, had forgotten most of his early 
aquatic training (if he ever had any), as the boat would first 
shoot off with a sudden fit of determination toward the 
sandbank for a hundred yards, then by hard clawing with 
the starboard oar he would head her around and go lickety- 
split for the charred landmark on the opposite siore for a 
while; fierce clawing for five minutes on the larboard oar 
would then head her down lake fora short distance, and 
we could see them bobbing up and down like a cork, but 
evidently making little progress in the right direction. Sud- 
denly, the wind would catch her on the larboard bow and 
away they would go again for the sandbank, The zigzag 
of an old-fushioned rail fence wasn’t a marker to the erratic 
course of that ‘‘red cruiser of Black Lake,” and we were 
moved to much hilarity at the heroic efforts of old Knots to 
keep her head to wind, which truly impels me to say was 
not very brotherly in us, but it must be borne in mind that 
we were not wooden Indians. * , 
Knots would no doubt gladly have changed places with 
Dick, but the water was too rough to make the attempt, and 
with this in mind we let our boat drop back with the wind 
with the intention of taking them in tow and helping them 
down into the shelter of Sturgeon Bay, but when we came 
within hail Knots would not be towed, and when asked 
“Why all this meandering over the lake?” said, “Oh, Pm 
just rowing around for exercise, and as this boat is inclined 


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to be a little devious I though best to let her gang her ways; 


“‘An’ that ‘pears to be mostly sideways,” chipped in Dick, 
who seemed perfectly content to let the Scribe take all the 
exercise he wanted, 

This perversity scattered our good intentions to the winds, 
but Knots is nothing unless heis perverse, and it has become 
a settled notion with some of us that should the blessed old 
bundle of knots and gnarls ever falt into a stream and be 
drowned, his hody would never be found unless near the 
extreme headwaters, feet up stream, for he neyer would by 
any possibility be induced to float with the current. 

We left them to pursue their zigzag way and pulled 
down around the ‘‘stem-winder,” past the mouth of Little 
Black and tied our boat to a stake driven into the soft mud 
in six or eight feet of water, at the edge of the belt of water 
lilies fringing the point separating the river and Sturgeon 
Bay, to fill our buckets with minnows; and I will say here, 
for the benefit of any wandering brother who may go to 
Black Lake, that around this point and for some distance 
along the lilies up the little bay is the only locality we found 
where good minnows could be taken in abundance, and they 
had to be caught with hook and line, or they might perhaps 
have been taken with a buited dip net, but this method we 
did not try, mainly on account of the conspicuous absence 
of the dip net. Seining for them is out of the question. 

If a place is found around this lake, or most of the other 
lakes we have fished in this northern region where the 
shores are bare enough of grass, lily pads or rushes to make 
a draw with a seine practicable, right there you will be sure 
to find no minnows. We lost no time in getting to work, 
but a dozen casts around among the open places in the lilies 
led us to believe we were doomed to another backset, as we 
got nothing, nor could we see anything that looked like a 
minnow. <A sudden twitch at M.’s line, however, was a 
symptom, and an instant later a vigorous jerk sent a five- 
inch shiner sailing over his head, and the hook tearing out, 
the victim landed ‘‘sab” on a broad lily leaf ten yards back 
of the boat. A suggestion that “‘leetle more moderation” in 
the use of the flexors and extensors, as our worthy brother, 
Dr. Henshall, would likely record it, might produce better 
results, had the desired effect, and the next one was flipped 
quietly out and placed in one of the buckets. Soon they 
came from all directions, out of the srass and lilies, and in 
teu minutes there must haye been a solid half bushel of 
shiners in sight, all fighting eagerly for our baits the instant 
they were under water. ‘They were from three to six inches 
long and we had our pick of sizes to suit the most *‘facetious” 
bass, as Dick would have said. Now and then a four or five 
inch perch would dash in, and with a quick snap seize the 
tempting scrap of worm and the next moment be dangling 
and wriggling in the air, wishing, no doubt that he had stood 
back and strained his jaw laughing at the silly shiners instead 
of making a fool of himself. 

Occasionally a ‘“‘blue gill” or a ‘red eye” would suck down 
worm, hook and an inch of line, and then our little switch 
rods, cut in the bresh a half mile above, would be called on 
to show their best qualities and temper in the vehement 
struggle that would at once ensue. When one of these were 
returned to the water, they would dart away under the lily 
pads in open-eyed wonder, thinking, we had a notion, that 
some new kind of lightuing hud struck, and they had better 
hunt other diggings for fear of another stroke. 

But the silly shiners had no settled notiogs on the general 
effects of this kind of lightning, and just kept on fighting 
for the seductive worm—and even the bare houk—regardless 
of the fact that their comrades were being rapidly trans- 
ferred to our minnow buckets, with crushed hopes and badly 
yanked jaws. 

Tt was rare sport in a small way, and we enjoyed it vastly 
more than we would a whole day’s bass fishing, at least the 
bass fishing that J had been haying. 

Brother Muller avers that he took not less than two dozen 
of these simple-minded shiners without a sign of bait on his 
hook, and that he never in his life had as much fun con- 
densed into the same period of time. I taink [| hear some 
doubting growler say, ‘‘another fish lie naileu,” so I will just 
turn our worthy brother M. over to the tender mercies of the 
readers of FurrEst AND STREAM, to be dealt with by them 
as gentle as possible, knowing that this was his first day out 
and not in full practice. 

I believe, however, that he did take them with the bare 
hook, because I was there, but I hardly expect any one else 
to believe it; however. we have made up our minds that it 
is ‘perfectly imperial’ to xs whether they da or not, as life 
is too short to waste in trying to prove the truth of all the 
details of a small fish story. KINGFISHER. 

['rO BE CONTINUED, | 


WANTON FOOD FISH DESTRUCTION. 


F LT HE following correspondence fully explains itself; 

EF. Endicott, Hsq,, Stuten Islnd: Dear Sir —-1 was in- 
formed last evening by Mr. Fitzgerald, the proprietor of one 
of the hotels at the Great Kill (Giffords), that the crews of 
two sloops engaged in menhaden fishing have been hauling 
seine along the shores of Prince’s Bay for some days past, 
and have boasted that they took a few days avo at one haul 
5,000 weakfish. They haye been remonstrated with and re- 
quested to desist, but intimate that they will do as they 
please about it, and are disposed to be quarrelsoine. Two 
or three of the crew of one of the sloops came ashore at 
Fitzgerald’s float yesterday and, after threatening to clean 
out the place, engaged in a fight in which, I am pleased to 
say from all that I can learn, they came out second best. I 
was at the beach Jast night and endeavored to obtain the 
names of the vessels then lying at.anchor just under Great 
Kill point. One of Fitzgerald’s men, John Crocheron, 
promised that if they were there this morning to get the 
names and send them to me. Inasmuch as he failed in 
doing so 1 infer that they moved early this morning and 
have probably gone further down the bay. They are using, 
so | am informed, a net with two or two and one-half inch 
mesh, Cannot something be done to stop this lawless pro- 
ceeding? The resident fishermen of our own county, real- 
izing the justice and medium of the law, have for some 
years, in- response to earnest and persistent effort on the part 
of the Game and Fish Protective Association of our county, 
desisted from net fishing during the breeding season, Surely 
an effort equally as earnest and persistent should be made to 
prevent the wholesale netting of fish by non-residents on the 
spawning beds at this season, In haste, yours very respect- 
fully, Henry T. Mercaure. 

Henry T. Metcalfe, Bsg.: Dear Sir—On receipt of your 
letter I forwarded it at once to Mr. Blackford, and herewith 
append his reply. These people seem to be acting within 
the pale of the law as regards size of mesh, for by some un- 
accountable stupidity on the part of former legislators a two- 

| inch mesh is allowed in “the waters over which Riclimond 


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county has civil jurisdiction,” one-half inch smaller than in 
other parts of the State, while in nets used in taking menha- 
den no restriction whattver is made as to sizeof mesh, This 
discrimination was undoubtedly made to protect certain fish- 
‘ing interests in the county, perhaps to save some influential 
man from the expense of buying a new net, If it has proved 
to be a two-edged sword and now cuts on out side of the 
blade, I don’t see what we can do but grin and bear it until 
the next meeting of the Legislature. Still there is a way of 
getting at them, Tt unquestionably was not the legislative 
intent that the fishing for menhaden should be used as a 
pretext for skinning our waters of the more valuable food 
fishies, and if suflicient evidence is produced the Association 
will he slad to test the matter in the courts. Should you be 
able to give me the names of these ostensible bunkermen but 
actual destroyers of our food fishes, I think that we may be 
able to raise the temperature to an unpleasantly high degree 
for them. Itrust that this letter of Commissioner Black- 
ford’s will be given a wide publicity through the press of the 
county, so that all may be on the look-out to detect and 
punish the offenders, Thanking you for calling my atten- 
tion tathe matter. 1 um yours truly, Francis ENDiIcorr 
(Clifton, Staten Island, July 10, 1884), 


Orrick or Huemsxn G. Bhackrorp, Now York Stara 
Commissronnr,—My Francis Badicotl, President of the Game 
ind Mish Protective Association of Richmond County, N. Y.; 
Dear Sit—I am in receipt of a communication which was 
forwarded to mé, making complaints with regard to the men- 
haden yessels scining weaktish and other food fishes along 
the shores of Staten Island. If you will at any time send 
me the names of the vessels, and if possible the names of the 
owners,-who are engaged in this outrage, 1 will take steps at 
once which I think will prevent a recurrence. Respectfully 
yours, E. G. Buackrorp (Commission of Fisheries, State of 
New York, July 9, 1884).. 


HIS FIRST BLACK BASS. 


UR county is dotted with a great many small lakes, 
there being about sixty-five, averaging in size from the 
smallest covering three or four acres, to those covering two 
or three thousand acres. Hvery summer, since commencing 
with the proverbial ‘‘small boy” up to the present time, we 
have spent from two to three weeks camping out among 
these lakes. Of late years, however, having attained the 
dignity of a family man, we hive been obliged to abandon 
the camp and engage quarters at a farmhouse near some of 
the lakes, and so enjoy our ‘‘outing” with the family. 

Fish any? Oh, yes, some. Any one who went to the 
lakes was expected to fish, asa matter of course, and we 
think this was the reason that we fished, because it was ex- 
pected of us, more than from the real love of the sport, 
But a change came over the spirit of our dreams, and we 
found that the trouble was not with the fishing, but with 
the way in which we fished, Weare willing to leave it to 
any fair-minded man if he would consider it sport to sit for 
half a day ina small boat, in the middle of a lake, under 
the broiling sun, holding a pole with a line tied to it, and 
baited with a lowly ‘‘wum,” waiting for a stray fish to 
happen around and get caught? We think such ‘‘sport” 
would have discouraged Job himself. But we will tell you 
how the ‘‘change” came o’er us. 

At the farmhouse where we were stopping this summer, 
there were other boarders, and among them a gentleman who 
was a most persistent angler. He used to invite us to go 
with him on his fishing trips, but remembering our previous 
experiences, we did not think the inducement sufiicient. 

One bright morning, however, we told him we would row 
him round the lake, but it was done more to ‘‘put in the 
time,” than from any anticipation of sport on our part. 

He was provided with a fine rod aud recl, with the neces- 
sary fixtures for bass casting. Rigging up his rod, and bait- 
ing the hooks with minnows, he handed it to us, saying, 
**Wow make a cast right over there by that old fence close 
up to the shore, and you will get a bass.” We took the rod, 
and after making two or three trials, managed to drop tae 
minnows in the neighborhood of the desired spot. Suddenly 
there was 4 commotion in the water down by the fence, and 
sure enough, there was a hungry bass there waiting for his 
breakfast, and he went for it. too. 

“Hold still, hold still,” whispered our friend, ‘‘don’t jerk, 
wait till he runs with it.” Timely advice, indeed, for we 
were just getting up our muscle, intending to jerk the fish 
out on the bank acruss the lake, for it felt and looked like a 
whale when it captured our minnow, By this time the bass 
made up it’s mind that it had business somewhere else to at- 
tend to, and started to do it, Zip! How the line went out 
and how the reel did hum! It was an experience we never 
had before. Under the directions of our friend, who was 
managing the boat, we checked the fish after it had run 
about thirty yards, and when we brought him up, “he got 
on his ear’ about it, and jumping clear out of the water, 
shook his head at us, and then started off again as lively as 
ever. 

After making two or three dashes, he was working back 
near the old fence, where we hooked him, when we felt an 
extra jerk on the line, then it seemed as though our line 
was hitched to the bottom of the lake, and the rest of the 
inhabitants of the waters were trying to take that minnow 
away from our fish. The water boiled and splashed, and 
we could swear that that fish had fourteen fins and as many 
tails, for we saw them. We tried to work him away 
from the tence, for it was a dangerous place to get tangled 
up in, but the pull was so heavy we were afraid the rod 
would snap. Meanwhile the excitement in the boat increased, 
at least on the part of one of the occupants, and our friend 
had his hands full trying to keep us from stepping over- 
beard or on bim. He said alterward that we danced all 
around on the gunwale of the boat and kicked him several 
times in the bargain, ‘We don’t believe this story at all, but 
if he still persistsin repeating it, as we hear he is doing, we 
shall always feel giad that we did kick him, There seemed 
to be a change of tactics on the part of the fish, and instead 
of the long, quick runs, there was a heavy, steady pull, with 
short jumps and dashes first one way and then the other, in 
fact it looked as though there was a difference of opinion at 
the other end of the line. 

After playing the fish for a short time it gradually 
weakened and we reeled in our line. When it neared the 
boat imagine our surprise and delight when we found that 
we had hooked two fine bass. When we saw two fish we 
had another attack, but our friend reminded us that they 
ws not ours yet, or we would probably have lost them after 
all. Wesoon had them safely in the landing net and then 
in the bottom of the boat. Weren’t they fine? There was 


ever sich fish as those caught before, and they were ours} | 


a — 


We caught them. Just think of it, two atonce. They ‘hed for $2.60, Got up at 3 A. M., took a hoat and paid 


were both large-mouth black bass; one weighed three pounds 
two ounces and the other two and three-quarter pounds, 


We never knew before why anybody ever told ‘‘fish | 


stories” but found out then, We wanted to tell everybody 
within four miles all about those two fish and how they 
were caught, and all the other particulars. All our friends 
in this locality have heard about it so often that they will 
not listen any more, and we suppose this is the reason We 
send it to you. Wehave been converted and have joined 
the noble army of anglers. You will find us there any time. 
Before closing we want to give in our testimony in regard 
to our grand paper. We are glad that there is one paper 
devoted to sportsmanship that can honestly be called a clean 
paper, and by your success you show that there are gentle- 
men sportsmen indorsing you. We have never seen the 
necessity of a pocket-pistol attachment.to the rod and gun 
and we admire your nerve in attacking it. CUB. 
Cxutcaco, Ol. 


CHARMS OF SALT-WATER FISHING. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: ; 
Your issue of July 10 contains an editorial to which I take 
exceptions, 


the worst of it in the argument. 


L refer to is yours on ‘Salt water Fishing.” You say: 


“There is a wide difference between the salt-water and the 
fresh-water angler. 


old woods, all inspire him to tight his battles o’er again. 


There is nothing of this in the salt-water angler, be he a mem- 
ber of a swell bass club or an humble brother of the hand-line 
conunittee who takes the Staten Island ferryboat in the morn- 
ing and, with the patience of Job, goes to the rocks and oyster 
beds for weakfish and with crab bait awaits a ‘‘tide-runner,” 
as the big weaktish are called in his vocabulary. This sitting 
ona hard seat all alone waiting for something develops a 
reticence that the fresh-water angler seldom acquires. There 
isno doubt that the surroundings influence the angler to a 
greater degree than has been suspected, and the depressing 
effect of the ocean is noticeable on those who angle init. * * 
We have yet tosee the salt-water angler who possessed the 
Tt is possible that 
there may be men who love salt water as the trout angler 
If so wedo not knowthem, * * * 
The salt-water angler is seldom inspired by the beauties of 
nature because there are no such beatities in the surroundings 


fire and enthusiasm of fresh-water fishers. 


loves mountain streams. 


to be inspired by,” ete. 


Now, my dear sir, I must assert that you are not fully 


conversant with that of which you write. In the first place, 


an forget that such anglers as Genio C, Scott and Robert 


Roosevelt, both notably salt-water anglers, have been 


anything but “‘silent men,” have never been lacking in in- 


spiration or poetry of expression, and have been what seems 
to me very happy in their descriptions of the beauties and 
pleasures of salt-water fishing; and a score morel could 


name of our devotees to salt-water angling, whose souls are 


full of inspiration and sentiment derived from their associa- 
tion with the shores, rocks and waves of the ocean, while 
enticing its finny inhabitants with rod and reel, and even 
with the despised hand-line, at which let no one cast a sneer. 
Come with me, my dear sir, and stand on the ledges, near 
Which may be taken that royal fish, the striped bass, the 
bluefish, or the gamy and obstinate tautog, and let the 
bracing breezes of old ocean fan your cheeks and fill your 
lungs with the stimulus of pure ozone, while the breakers 
dash over the rocks, fling their spray in your face and eddy 
and boil around your feet, and as some noble fish dashes away 
with your bait and tries your skill and tackle, and you 
wonder whether the quarry is yours or whether fish and 
elements combined are notmore than a match for your prow- 
ess, and with the voice of the booming watersin your ears, your 
every faculty awakened ‘and aroused by the grandeur and 
beauty of your surroundings, come and you shall no longer 
say there is no inspiration in salt-water angling, but you 
shall feel the power of nature in your soul, and you shail 
say that angling has resources far greater, grander and more 
exciting than you ever dreamed of in your philosophy, and 
you shall envy the salt-water angler in that he has been all 
the while the possessor of joys such as had never before 
come to your knowledge. You will no longer call the sea 
‘monotonous; you will see that it is ever varying, ever 
changing and ever and always a source of new beauties and 
surprises and delights, and at the same time you wiil feel the 
resistless power which dwells there and cumpels your ack- 
nowledgment. I have stood on the brink of Niagara and 
felt silenced by its awful presence. Similar sensations come 
over one when he communes with nature in any of its 
grander developments, and the ocean has, perhaps {rom its 
very grandeur and force, tied the tongues und pens of many 
of Walton’s disciples; but there have been, and are, many 
who have described its delights and resources with a fullness 
and eloquence that need not blush beside the choicest efforts 
of those who only sing the praises of the mountain stream 
or woodland lake, The ink has long ceased to flow from 
the pen of the gentle ‘‘Genio,” but we bave still a Roosevelt 
and a Ward, and many there be like them, and to these [ 
say, rise up my brethren and assist me in the defense vf one 
of our grandest and most favored sports—salt-water angling, 
C. T. DuNcKuEe, 
Boston, Mass. 


Hiditor Forest and Stream: 


Having been a reader and contributor of the Formsr AND 
STREAM tor a number of years, and seeing an editorial in 
your last issue on salt-water fishing, I write you concerning 
that sport, lam one of those who indulge in that kind of 
fishing, and would like to give some of my experience, or 
rather inform those who love salt-water fishing how 1 have 
succeeded for the last three weeks. We all know that every- 
body is not placed in a position to go fishing for three or 
four weeks “at a lick,” nor write long articles about it, and 
some people don’t believe in fish stories sent on by parties 
hundreds of miles away, unless they put a little more salt 
in them. : 

I will give you an account of my sport and luck combined 
that I have had lately, hoping others will do the same, 
Friday eyening, June 20, a party consisting of mysclf and 
two friends took the last train on the New York, Wood- 
haven and Rockaway Railroad to Broad Channel, Jamaica 
Bay (you can start from Hunter’s Point, Bushwick, or Flat- 
bush ayenne as well). We stopped over night; room and 


Tam well aware that an editor, like a clergy- 
man, always has the floor, and,that any reader who males 
an issue with an editor in his own paper is quite likely to get 
However, when I see what 
Lthink to be injustice, it is my disposition to make my pro- 
test, let the consequences full where they may. The article 


The former is content to enjoy himself 
in his own way and say no more about it, The trout and 
black bass angler, on the contrary, considers the fishing as 
merely part of his pleasure; the trip, the scenery, the grand 


fifty cents for use of same, Pint of shrimp cost forty 
,cents, Started at 3:30 A. M., tide runoing in, and 
went east to the club house, or a little above it, 
belween the club house and a place they call the 
“Pot,” Known to most of our baymen, and dropped 
anchor, rigged our rods and commenced to fish about 4:30 
A.M. Iwas the first to get the line over, and soon hooked 
a two-pound weakfish, and a hungry fellow he was, for he 
had my bottom book away down in his belly. We fished 
until 6:30 A. M. The tide changing, fish stopped biting, 
and to be sure we stopped fishing, put wp our tackle, and 
took a bite ourselves, which we had fairly earned after one 
hour and three-quarters of exciting sport, for fish at that time 
in the morning bite fearful and almost take the rod and 
reel out of your hands. - We counted our fish, in sizes run- 
ning from one and a quarter to three and a quarter pounds, 
and 129 was the number, all weakfish. Now if this don't 
come up to your fresh-water fishing, I mean when you fish 
for about five or six hours and catch thirty or forty fine 
trout from five to six inches in length, or about six to the 
pound, and instead of sailing to your hotel in a boat you 
must walk from three to five miles and carry a heavy load 
of trout, then Lam greatly mistaken. We congratulated 
each other, divided our fish, and by 8 o’clock we fastened 
our boat to the float and took the first train for home, 

The following Monday, June 23, the same party with an 
addition of two boys, one nine and the other fourteen years 
of age, took the train for the same place, started out at 3 
o’clock on Tuesday morning, my two friends in one boat and 
the two boys in the boat with me. We took it very easy, 
for the largest boy pulled my boat up to the fishing grounds, 
the tide running in of course, and the two boats anchored 
close together. My friends began to catch fish while I rigged 
the boys with drop lines. The small boy on the start lost 
two fish, but the third one be pulled in with such a force, 
slapping the fish on the side of my head that my hat 
went overboard. He continued pulling in fish and caught 
nineteen before he was tired out. Good for a boy of his age, 
Fishing up to 8:30 A. M. we put away our tackle, counted 
our fish, and had 86 and my friends 59, making a nice little 
pile, 145 in all. We got back to the dock and took the 10:47 
train for Bedford Station, got home, and surprised our 
friends with a grand mess of fine fish. 

July 7 the same party, the two boys included, started from 
the float at Broad Channel for the fishing grounds at 3:30 
A. M., the tide running in, water smooth as glass, and full 
moon. It would curea sick person to be out on the salt 
water on such a lovely morning. You could hear the meadow 
hens cackle for miles around you, now and then you would 
hear ‘‘quack, quack” from large birds called by that name, 
and bluefish, or snappers, as they call them, could be seen 
breaking all around. We got on the grounds about sunrise, 
and such a beautiful sight! The boys felt delighted, We 
fished up to 7o’clock. The two boys and myself caught 
seventy-six and my two friends twenty-four, all weakfish 
except one bluefish and one blackfish. We started back for 
the dock, took the 8:47 train for home with as nice a lot of 
fresh fish as you want to look upon. Now, Mr. Editor, if 
anybody doubts my word, I live at 715 Myrtle ayenue, and 
can prove this to be a fact. 

If some of the salt-water fishermen will follow and give a 
true account of their luck or sport, you or your fresh-water 
anglers will begin to think that there is a good deal of sport 
and pleasure in salt-water fishing. Now where can you find 
more exciting sport than there is in trolling for blnefish with 
a seven or nine pound monster hooked on each of the four 
or five lines out? Tt takes men with good nerve to stand 
the excitement or they may get seasick or be pulled oyver- 
board’ by a fish. If anybody would like to catch sheeps- 
head, let him goto Holland’s Station, Rockaway Beach. 
Lewis Walton will furnish you with a boat, or tell you where 
to go or take you out himself. They catch them under the 
hotel dock or at the Neptune House wreck, and one or two 
places under the trestle works. Besides there are plenty of 
small fish in the bay and good sport for children, <A friend 
of mine caught a four and a half pound sheepshead near the 
club house while fishing for weaktish, using shrimp for bait. 
There is good weakfishing on the Rockaway side up the bay 
on the oyster beds or ‘‘Silver hole,” only bear in mind that 
fish will bite only at certain states of the tide, and that is 
the time you want to beon hand. This week I will try them 
below the trestle works in the channel or at the “Runt,” 
where they often catch very large weakfish. KNEBEL. 

BROOKLYN, 


“NESSMUK’S” 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I received my copy of ‘‘Woodcraft,” and find it extremely 
good reading. 1 should know something of its subject, but 
the extent of the information acquired by one who has really 
made a study of the matter for a half century, is something 
wonderful even to one who has often faced nature in her 
wildest moods. I observe that ‘‘H. P. U." is disposed to 
criticise a portion of the outfit recommended. I can stand 
‘‘Nessmuk’s” boots and cutlery well enough, but 1 am led 
to ask further light upon his method of making bread, Upon 
this subject I am not an authority. 1t would perhaps be 
hard to find a man who has camped as much as I, and made 
less bread. I found on page 98 of ‘*Wooderaft,” instruc- 
tions for the use of three (3) lablespoonfuls of baking pow- 
der to a quart of four, I thought it a big dose, and asked a 
member of my family, who said she thought the bread would 
not be good. AsI have been led to believe that she knows 
the most of what is commonly thought worth knowing on 
this subject, I was naturally confirmed in my opinion, 
especially as the quantity named far exceeds that given in 
any published recipe which I have seen. May it not be a 
printer’s error? [No.—Hp.] Inquirinely, KELPIE. 

CrentTRAL LAKE, Mich., July 9, 1884, 


BREAD RECIPE. 


THE TALE OF A FISH. 
YourtsH and maiden Maiden frantic Wonders if the 


Tn a boat, Tears her hair; Sealy thing 
On a lakelet Youth disgusted Could have dined ott 
Flirt and float, Has his swear. Darling's ring? 
Maiden thinks the Youth nextmorning So with great ex- 
Water cool, Vishing goes, Citement rife, 
Puts hand in it— Rod, line, bottle, Cuts fish open, 
Little fool, Rubber clothes. Big jack-knife, 
From her finger— Yanks a fish from Mystery 
Heedless thing— Out the tide, To unravel, 
Loses pretty Feels big lump Finds? Well, no— 
Diamond ring. Upon its side, Bit of gravel, 


—. H. C., in Berkshire Courier, 


488 


FISHING IN COQLORADO. 


(ees fishing season has at last opened. Think of what 
privation we readers of Forest AND STREAM have been 
subjected to, Ever since the first of May we have been re- 
galed with the stories of more fortunate wiclders of the rod 
in the East, but our turn is coming. Like dutiful followers 
of the immortal Izaak, we brought forth the long neglected 
rod, and the tackle being overhauled we sailed forth to do 
or be done, 

We found the streams much swollen by the reoent rains 
and there being considerable snow on the mountains, may 
expect them to remain so another month. Nothing daunted, 
fhowever, we sailed in (this did not happen until we had 
deen fishing for some time, however), and were soon midst 
the excitement of failing to strike our intended viect)m 
on his first rise and full of expectation. A flash and 
the usual accompaniment on our part, and we have 
him hooked, A few wild rushes up and down and one 
misguided one toward shore, in which we assisted, and 
he lies gasping on the ground, a fine red and black speckled 
fellow of about a pound weight, And so it goes on until sey- 
enteen arereposinginourcreel. Pretty good for the first day 
of the season, 

Most of our fishing is done in the South Arkansas River 
withits branches—Silver and Poncha creeks. In the fall 
there is fine fishing in the main river (the Arkansas), while 
acloss the range, Tomichi Creek afferds the best'ef gvod fish- 
ing. On this latter, about the best ground is in either direction 
from Sargent. Aboye.uson the main river there are,within an 
hour’s ride on the train, two good streams—Chalk and Cot- 
onwood creeks, 

We catch trout altegether, those in the small streams 
being the regular mountain trout, while in the main riyer 
salmen trout hold forth, Koxomoa, 

Sauna, Colorada. 


FLY-FISHING FOR BLACK BASS. 


Aditor Forest and Stream: 

see numerous accounts in your valuable paper of good 
catches of black bassin yarious parts of the country with 
bait, minnow and trolling spoon, but not many reports of 
good success in fly fishing for this royal fish. 1 do not know 
whether it is because bass do not rise to the fly in the places 
reported, or because the anglers have not yet learned the 
fact that the fly-rod and artificial fly is the most successful 
means ol capturing the bass, to say nothing of the great 
superiority of fly-fishing over every other methed, in the 
pleasures to be derived, 

During the past two weeks, the fly-fishermen of Syracuse 
have had excellent success upon Gnondaga Lake. Strings 
of from ten to twenty bass, ranging from one to three pounds 
in weight, have been brought in almost every day. These 
bass are all small-mouth, very plump and firm. Every one 
who has caught them, speaks of the extraordinary power 
and vigor with which they fight, making many leaps high 
in the air, frequently breaking loose, or tearing the hook 
from the mouth. 

No-such fishing has been had on our little lake for years. 
Men who never cast a fly are now eagerly learning the art. 
When one has once felt the thrill of a Uhree-pounder on a 
seyen-ounce rod he discards bait-fishing forever. 

With rod, landmg net and book of flies and leaders, the 
kit is complete. No trouble with bait, no searching after 
minnows to annoy and vex tle angler. Here the best fish- 
ing is from three o’clock to eight o’clock P. M. or so long as 
the flies can be seen to drop, The later the hour the darker 
the fly to be used. WAVERLY. 

Syracuse, N. Y., July 11. 

[Reports from Greenwood Lake, and other waters near 
New York, say that the bass donot take the fly well this 
season. Many fly-fishers haye been disappointed at this, 
especially as the bait-fishers have been doing well. | 


SAWDUST AND MALARIA. 


PotspAm, St. Lawrence County, N, Y., July 10, 1884, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

In the second paragraph of the article on “A Use for 
Sawdust,” printed on first page of Forest AND Stream of 
the 3d inst., is u statement so utterly baseless that it must not 
go unchallenged, After charging the destruction of the fish 
in the streams which flow. from the Adirondack forest to the 
presence of sawdust in the water—which is not reasonable, 
as fish, except trout, are more abundant below the sawmills 
on the Raquette River than aboye them—the article con- 
tinues: “Sawdust kills human beings. Waters polluted by 
it spread malaria. This is notably the case with the Raquette 
River, whose whole lower course is cursed with chills and 
feyer; and Potsdam, where one of the State Normal schools 
is located, has become a very undesirable place of residence 
from this cause.” It is this defamation of character which 
is odious, the more hateful because the statement is abso- 
lutely untrue, Plain language ou this writer’s part must be 
excused, because during his residence in Potsdam of sixty 
years he never heard that a case of chills and fever had 
originated here. Parties have at long intervals brought the 
disease here from the West; but in our ‘‘sawdust”-laden at- 
mosphere have been rapidly healed. Dr, J. Reynolds, our 
oldest physician and one of the most respected members of 
the medical profession in St. Lawrence county, authorizes 
the statement that in nearly thirty years’ continuous practice 
in Potsdam, and up and down the valley of the Raquette 
River, he has never known or heard of a case of chills and 
fever haying originated here. 

To those who have read the articlein Forpst AND STREAM, 
which has been under consideration, it has seemed very un- 
_ just, and that if Potsdam had heen a pest hole, and that the 
State Normal School was planted at a point especially ex- 
posed to contagion, the public would not have been more 
severely cautioned against both. Whereas the truth is that 
no fown in the State has been, or is, more exempt from dis- 
ease of any and all kinds, 

May we fairly expect that Forrsr anp Srream will be 
willing to repair the wrong which it committed? And to 
that end will it publish this communication, and thus re- 
moye as far as possible the stigma cast upon the town and 
the school? A. CITIZEN. 

[The evil effects of sawdust on fish are so well known by 
those who have given the subject any investigation that it 
is not worth our while to argue the point. We alluded to 
the malaria in the Raquette valley as something well known. 
It is. Weare surprised that ‘‘A Citizen” should regard the 
allusion as ‘‘odious.” The writer of the editorial article in 
question had, within his own experience, decidedly unpleas- 
ant evidences of what he was talking about when le wrote 
of the mularious character of the district in question; and 


————— el 


ee 


his @wii experience was confirmed by this part of a letter, 
fYeceived last April (1884), from a clergyman, who lives Hdt 


a thousand miles from Potsdam: ‘Yes, Potsdati has ii- 
creased greatly in its reputation fer maista, ad the entire 
Raquette valley is a malarial fete producing region, The 
flow and power of the stteara is far short of what they were 
yeats ago, while fidlaria years ago was unheard of, The 
Grasse Valley has not suffered so much, and malaria, in this 
valley is noj common, These are the joint cunéhisions of 

r. —— and myself. If I may ventule a, prediction I will 
say that the Normal Sehowl catalogue at Potsdam ten years 
from now will shewat léast 50 per cent. less attendadce 
from out of LeWhs and Whilé 1 have Bee made & Conipara- 
tive eXatiitation, yet I think that the attendance upon that 
school from out of town is mudi less to-day than five years 
igo The fault is net With the administration nor with the 
school, bit lies in the deservedly unpopular odium that rests 
upe@n the town in proportion to the increase ef malatia fe- 
ported. There is notin St. Lawrence eonty to-day a vil- 
lage that better merits growth by its enterprise and push 
than Potsdam, and yet thee is ndt one that is so ‘quiet.’ 
The town is in ‘stays,’ and all asI believe on account of 
its malaria, that ‘will out’ in spite of the general disposition 
of its filiabitants to ignore its presence.” Whether the saw- 
dust is to blame for all the malaria or not is a question that 
will admit of argument. Perhaps the sawdust is only partly 
to blame; and the damming and back-watering on: the 
Raquette also have their effect. Nothing was furthe® from 
our intention than to injure the citigens of Potsdani, We 
thought we were doing a public pood_ by pointing out how 
they and the dwellers in other malaria-placiied districts 
might benefit themselves by remoVing tlié refise satrdust 
pest, and so taking’away one source ef iigeust 4 


Se 


A Fisimraan’s BAD Luck.—A gentleman named Emory, 
residing it Baltimore, Md., but at present stopping iz West 
Chester, Pa., met with quite a thrilling adventure a short 
time ago while fishing along the Brandywine. He had béet 
visiting the farm of Mr, Charles Roberts, 4 extebsive 
breeder of Friesian cattle, and ‘while Hee expressed a 
desire to try his luck at ishing. fle Was supplied with rod 
and tackle, and as the stream Was élése by, it was not lone 
before he was dcftly vastingé the fly. After fishing a short 
time, he was apptoached by two men who engaged him in 
conversation. dicarning that he was by profession an 
engraver, and that he made the engraving of fancy stock a 
specialty, one of the strangers wanted him to go with them, 
and look at some they would show him. Without the least 
suspicion that anything was wrong he accepted the invitation, 
They had not proceeded far when one of them pulled a 
pistol from his pocket, and pointing it at Mr. H., demanded 
his money. He remonstrated, and was knocked senseless, 
When consciousness returned, he found bimself at Mr. 
Roberts’s barn, tied hand and foot, and minus a gold watch 
and over one hundred dollars in money. The case was 
reported to the authorities, but up to the present time no 
clue has been obtained to the perpetrators of this outrage,— 
OCCASIONAL. 


PHILADELPHIA Norms.—Our rivers.are commencing to 
clear up, aud should we have no severe rains, in a few days 
the water will be in a good condition for bass'fishing. The 
Perkiomen Creek will soon have a new railroad—the Schuy] 
kill Valley—running on the borders of the entire stream. 
This will make it of easy access. Now it is reavhed by the 
Reading Railroad, which lands one on the shore of the 
Schuylkill opposite the point where the Perkiomen flowsinto 
the river. This makes it rather difficult to reach without a 
rowbvat, which is not at all times easily procured, Parties 
who have lately returned from Betterton say the perch are 
not frequenting those grounds as yet this season, Such as 
have been taken are small.—Homo, 


Denyer, Col., July 1.—No fishing here yet; too much 
snow now and snow water.—M. W. R. 


LSishculture. 


———_+ 


COMPARATIVE EXCELLENCE OF FOOD FISHES. 
[A paper read before the American Fishcultural Association. ] 
BY DR, JAMHS A, HENSHALL. 


1G this paper I design considering the relative merits of cer- 

tain fishes as food, solely as to their comparative excel- 
Jence of flayor, and not, in any sense, as to their nutritive 
qualities, as commercial fishes, or as food for the masses. The 
inherent or innate excellence of flavor is alone considered; 
that is, the fishis supposed to be simply boiled, fried, broiled 
or baked, without the addition of extraneous substances, as 
sauces, condiments, etc., except the indispensable salt and 
perhaps a little black pepper. Moreover, I speak in the light 
of the ample personal experience of having eaten of all the 
fishes mentioned, from Montauk Point to Key West, and from 
Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, and, with the sole excep- 
tion of the salmon, of having eaten of them all perfectly fresh, 
or literally out of the water into the kettle, broiler or frying 
pan, which is the only true test of the peculiar flavor of each 
fish. Of course one is necessarily guided in such a matter by 
his own individual tastes and idiosyncracies, and due allaw- 
ance must be made for this ‘‘personal equation,” though I be- 
lieve that most persons will azree with the conclusions drawn. 
But there is no accounting for gastronomic tastes, likes and 
dislikes, which proverbially disagree, as evidenced by the old 
saying, ““Whatis one man’s meat is another man’s poison,” 
or to express 1b more appropriately, in this connection, and to 
perpetrate an old Auglo-Gallic-ichthyc pun: What is one 
man’s poisson is another’s poison. For the sake of conveni- 
ence I will separate the different fishes into several proups: 
(1) fresh water, (2) anadramous, (3) estuary, and (4) marine. 
The various fishes in the several groups are arranged in their 
sequence according to their degree of merit, 


FRESH-WATER FISHES. 


The whitefish (Coregonus clupetformis) isfar ahead of all 
other fresh-water fishes in its exquisite delicacy and richness 
of flavor. Its flesh is pure white, tirm, flaky and free from 
small bones; and while a ‘‘fat’ fish, does not cloy the palate 
like the salmon, mackerel, and other “‘oily” fishes. But to 
realize the delicious savor and flavor of the whitefish, it is im- 
perative that it be in its best condition, and that it be cooked 
as soon as possible atter being taken from the water; for when 
in poor condition, or long out of the water, it loses entirely its 
characteristic excellence, The whitefish is essentially a 
broiler, being excessively fat in the fall before spawning, 
when itis in its best condition. Those of Lake Superior and 
the Straits of Mackinac are preferable to those of other waters 
of the United States. I have eaten broiled whitefish at the 
Old Mission House, at Mackinac, for Frenty-one meals a week 
and like Ohver Twist, asked for more, It resembles, more 
than any other fish, the pompano in flavor, and in my opibion 


a 


[Jony 17, 1884, 


—— 


cn wniy $6 blab Beetles fish in its excellence for thé 
_ The. Brodle trdut (Salvelinus fontinalis) wheb fre ] y caught, 


I consider, aniong the fresh-water fishes, next to the white- 
fish for the table; but as Saath at the restaurants, I prefer 
the biack bass or pike-perch. Wheh, served tip iti camp Beside 
a trout stream (the small Ones fried, the large ones boiled), the 
esh is pilikish, very firm, and of a delicate, Gelicious avor 

though rather too dry,to suit some palates, Ih js 4 fi8h tha 
will not, bear transportat on, however Caretully packed, with- 
out losing its sdvorz atid this is likewise true of all delicately- 
flavored, Yshes, Moreover, it will absorb. and retaii ¢ 
“twang,” and stack of the packing material or the container, 
_ The Black Bass (Micropterus).—Next to the freshly-cai sit 
and cooked brook trout, I rank the black bags of, eitha’ ‘Bpe i 
Its flesh is pure white, firm, Saky; tree trot stiiall bones and 
of a rich sapid flayer wheliii proper condition, Just after 
the spawning petiod the flesh has a musky taste and odor, 
whien is disagreeable to some persons. The character of the 
water has much to do with the excellence of the black bass 
for the table, and as it inhabits so many waters of different 
conditions of purity and temperature there are as many 
opinions of its gustatory qualities, The small-anouthed bass 
is gonerally the best flavored, as it usually exists in the purest 
waters; but where both species co-exist in the same water 
there is no apparent difference in taste or flayor. I have eaten 
small-mouthed bass of some waters which were inferior to 
large-mouthed bass of others. Contrary to a popular itupres- 
sion, I will state that the fnest-flavored black bass I ever abe; 
aiid even sujeriér t0 any brook trout I ever tasted, were large= 
id@uthed bass of certain stieains in Porida, ee ef 


is 


Waters of St. Lucie River, oh thé east coast, 4nd the Wecka- 
wachee Kiver. Gn the west const; Tele are retiar ably tleat 
and pure waters. Blatk bass shotild be fried or boiled; ae- 


edrdite t6size.-~ -. 4. +) i ant hy. 

The pike-perch (Stizostediium vitrewm) is a staple fish diiring 
the early spring throughout the West, being shipped from the 
great lakes. It bears transportation well, the flesh being hard; 
white, flaky and of good flavor; consequently, it is, m ch 
esteemed during the Lenten season, it is a very desirable 
forlakes and rivers whieh haye a good depth of water, being 
yery hardy Sind projifie, and one of the best percoid fishes, 

He, smaller ones should, be fried, those of six pounds and over 
should be boiled, 

The mascalonge (Zsoa: nabilior) may be classed as a good 
dinner fish in the fall and winter, when it is in its best condi- 
tion; it has, however, been much overrated. It has yellowish 
or pinkish flesh, according to season, which is of good quality 
and fair flavor, with fewer small bones than any of the pike 
family. It is nevera “fat” fish, and should either be boiled 
or cut in vertical slices and fried, 

The Mackinaw trout (Salvelinus numayeush) varies greatly 
according to size, season and locality, as to its edible quali- 
ties. Inthe Great Lakes, where itis taken with the white: 
fish, it is Wghtly esteemed ih comparison. In other waters, as 
in the lakes of the Hastern States, it is mere hiehly prized, The 
flesh is yellowish white to red in different waters; and may be 
classed as rather good and well-flavored when if its best don= 
dition. In good sonditigonitis a very fat Gr Sily fish, dnd 
should bé bovled br clit into Vertical steaks and broiled. i 

Catiish (Siluridc). The various species of cattish and buli- 
heads are good, bad, and indifferent, as articles of fodd, Bonie 
of them are really excellent when properly cooked, and would 
prove ai agreeable surprise to, mest persons who are prejli- 
diced against them: Ths fuiked-tailed cat of the lakes and the 
Mississippi (A. atgricans), and the chatnel eat (1 punctatua), 
when of suitable size, and when parboiled ahd baked brown; 
are not to be despised by an epicure, the flesh being rich an 
savory, though not very firm: 

There are a number of fresh-water ‘‘pan fish,” fair in quality; 
Which I consider best in the order named; as white bass ih 
chrysops), croppies (Pornemys), robk bass (4. rupestris), th 
suiifish (Lepoiits), yellow perch (P. americand), etc; Last ant 
least. in point of merit among fresh-water fishes (and whith 
are jiist better than ‘no fish”) are’ the pike, pickerel, buttalo, 
suckers, ete, : , [lie 

ANADROMOUS FISHES, 


The salmon (Salmo salar) stands.at the head of this grou; 
when “fresh run” from the sea. [ts excellénte is so we 
kHdwh that if needs no further notiée here, more than to ob- 
serve that after spawnitg no fish is more sorry or ill-Haydred, 
The comparative excellence or worthlessness of anadromous 
fishes, before and after the breeding season, is mGre strikingly 
exhibited in the salmon than in any other of the group, 

The shad (Clupea sapidissima), Of the anadromous fishes, 
none is so well known or so much appreciated as the shad, 
whose rich, delicate and luscious flavor is pronounced by many 
to be superior to that of any other fish, Suffice it to say that 
he who has never partaken of that Lenten luxury, ‘‘planked 
shad,” has ah epictirean revelation in store that will surprise 
and delight him* The shad should never be served in any 
other way than planked or broiled. It well merits its name, 
sapidisstma, and one can tolerate its numerous bones in con- 
sideration of its fine flavor. 

ESTUARY FISHES. 

This group comprises so many species, and of so wide a 
range, and some vary so much in edible qualities in different 
waters, that it is difficult to institute a just comparison. 

The pompano (Trachynotus carolinus). Although a fish of 
southern waters, the excellence of the pompano for the table 
places it at the head, not only of the estuary tishes, but of all 
known members of the finny tribe. It is incomparable with 
any other. While in the restaurants of New Orleans and 
Mobile it is the fish beyond compare, it is worth 4 trip to 
Southern Florida to realize the delectable, luscious savor of a 
freshly caught and broiled pompano. The salmon, whitefish 
and shad alike pale before its superexvellence, A broiled 
pompano’s head isa bonne-Louche to eat and dream of for a 
life-time. See Rome and die, eat pompano and live! The pom- 
pano has a creamy white flesh, of a gelatinous richness, with- 
out the oily taste of most broiling fishes. Jt must not be con- 
founded with the dark-meated fish called pompano on the 
Carolina coast, which isa crevalle (Carana), The bones of 
the pompano are few and soft, and one can eat them” ‘bones 
and all,” 

The striped bass (Roceus sazatilis) enjoys a deserved repu- 
tation as a table fish, its firm, white and delicious Hesh 1s so: 
well known that it needs no further comment. The memory 
of its savory flavor and odor, broiled at camp fires on the 
Chesapeake, steals over me as 1 write, with a conscious yearn- 
ing for the flesh-pots of Egypt. . A 

The sheepshead (Diplodus prebatocephalus), while excellent 
in Northern waters, is only tolerable in those of the extreme 
South. North of Cape Hatteras it is justly considered a great. 
delicacy, broiled or baked; while in Florida it is not above 
mediocrity, having a piquant, pungent flavor that is decidedly 
unpleasant. 

he hluefish (Pomatomus saltatria) is another fish that 
varies in its eatable qualities in different waters, and which, 
perhaps, depends on the nature of its food, North of Cape 
Hatteras it is well-flavored, of good quality and much es- 
teemed, though inclined to be too oily; whilein Florida-waters 
it is excellent, far exceeding’ in richness and flavor those of 
t e North, Its flesh is firm and white, and it should always 
be broiled or planked. | 

The whiting (Menticirrus nebulosus) is a small, but good 
fish, one of the best for chowders. It has a fine, white, flaky 
flesh of rich flavor, and is much esteemed as a breakfast fish, 
broiled or fried. : i 

The weaktish (Cynoscion regale) is worthless, unless abso- 
lutely fresh, when it is peculiarly sweet and gelatinous, fried 
or boiled. The Southern species, the salt-water trout (CG. — 
maculatum), is equally as good a fish-for the table. : 


‘Lew 


Toux 17, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


A439 


‘The red snapper (Lutjanus blackfordii) has become a popu- 
Jar hotel and Pe aucunt fst throughout the South and West, 
where it is shipped from the Gulf of Mexico. It is also ex- 


ten shipped to Havana. Being of large size if is a good 
dinner fish, its flesh veer rather coarse, but very white, firm, 
flavor, It should be either boiled or 


ere juicy, and of goo 


baked, 

The tautog (Hiatula onitis) has fine white flesh, and broiled 
or fried is quite toothsome, with a rich lobster flavor. It does 
OF ag its good qualities when out of water, so soon as most 

es. 
_ The redfish (Scicenw ocellata) is essentially a Southern fish, 
though during the summer it se ae as far North as Cape Cod, 
when it is in its best condition, It grows to a large size, with 
firm white flesh, of no decided flavor. It is a tolerable dinner 
Hes and should always be boiled. It is also a fair chowder 
5 + 

Crevallé (Caranz). There are several species of creyallé, 
the O. hippos being the most common in Southern waters, 
They are dark-meated fishes, frm and flaky, with a sharp, 
strong fiayor, (similar to the bonito), which is relished by some 
but disliked by others, It isan oily fish and should always 
be broiled. It is easily cured by smoking, when it forms an 
appetizing dish, far better than when fresh, and superior, I 
think, to smoked halibut. There are quite a number of good 
estuary “‘pan-tish,” among the best being the Lafayette (L. 
xanthurus) and white perch (R. americanus). 

MARINE FISHES, 


The Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus) stands 
at the head and front of the pelagic or marineiishes. It is 
second as a table Juxury only to the pompano and whitefish. 
It is a creamy, white-meated fish of great delicacy and rich- 
ness of flavor when broiled. By many it is thought to be the 
best fish that swims. 

The common mackerel (8S. scombrus), when fresh and fat, 
as in the early fall, is one of the best fishes for broiling, Asa 
breakfast fish it is greatly and justly prized, and is too well 
known to need further notice here. 

The codfish (Gadus eallarias), I mention the codfish out of 
respect and sympathy for my fellow man, and not for any 
love that I bear for it myself. It is, perhaps only necessary 
to say that at thelast annual meeting of your Association 
your worthy recording secretary* declared that he preferred 


_ afresh codfish to the brook trout or black bass, 


: 


Un Ney h- 
field as.this, about half a, mile.lo pealieton ally afforded a liv-- 
] ing to most of the people in the vil age during the season of 


*Being a prominent member of the Ichthyophagous Club, any 
statement of his regarding the flavor of fishes should be received 
with due caution, inasmuch as by virtue of the onerous duties of his 
office—‘head taster’*—his sense of taste has presumably become per- 
verted or impaired. 


FISH AND FISHING AT POINT BARROW, ARC- 
TIC ALASKA. 


[A paper read before the American Fisheultural Association.] 


BY JOHN MURDOCH, 


i HAVE been spending the last two years among the Esqui- 

maux of Northwestern Alaska, and it has occurred to me 
that a short account of the fishes that they use for food, and 
the methods they employ in capturing them, might be of 
interest to the Fishcultural Association. 

Point Barrow, as you probably all know, is the northwest- 
ern extremity of the continent of North America, the place 
where the coast line, after running nearly northeast from 
Behring’s Strait, turns and runs in a direction a little south of 
east toward the Mackenzie River and the northwest passage, 
The point itself is a long, narrow sandspit, continuing the 
northeast direction of the coast line for some five miles, and 
then bending to the east-southeast, running on for some three 
miles more, thus inclosing a sheet of water known as Elson 
Bay. Just at the elbow of the point is a little knoll of land 
somewhat higher than the rest, and this is occupied by an 
Esquimaux, village. There is another village about eleven 
miles down the coast to the southwest, The inhabitants of 
these two villages together number about three hundred men, 
women and children. Fishforms an important articie ot their 
diet, which consists, I may say, entirely of animal substances, 
and occasionally becomes their chief dependence. East of 
Point Barrow, and the nearest about fifty miles off, are three 
large rivers running into the Arctic Ocean, and to these the 
Esquimaux resort for the purpose of catching the whitefish 
and burbot with which they abound. 

Early in October, as soon as the rivers are well frozen and 
enough snow has fallen to make sliding practicable, a number 
of families start out from both villages, with all their hunting 
and fishing gear, and proceed to these rivers, where they 
camp in tents, or build snow huts when they can find snow 
enough, and remain till the daylight gets too short for hunt- 
ing, which is about the middle of November. Those of the 
men who are well supplied with ammunition devote them- 
selyes to hunting reindeer, while the others and the women 
attend to the fishing. The whitefish are caught in gill nets 
made of reindeer sinew, which are set through holes in the 
ice and allowed to remain, being visited from time to time 
and the fish removed. 

Three species of whitefish are caught; a small species belong- 
ing to the same group as the lake herrings, which has been 
described by Dr. Bean with the name of Coregonus lawrettce 
the large Coregonus kennicotiz, found also in the Yukon, an 


another large species, also found in the Yukon, which Dr, 


Bean considers to be undescribed, and which he proposes to 
call Coregonus nelsont, The burbot, or titta’lti, as the Hsqui- 
maux call it, is the ordinary species Lota maculosa common 
to all our Northern waters, and is caught with hook and line, 
though one will occasionally try to swallow a small whitefish 
which is entangled in the gill net and become ‘“‘meshed” him- 
self in the attempt. 

They use a large bone squid, about four or five inches long, 
haying either a barbless hook of iron or copper, of their own 
manufacture, or a good-sized cod hook, bought from some 
whaleship. The bait is a large piece of whitefish, with the 
skin and scales left on, which is carefully mabe vest and sewed 
round the squid; much in the same way as fishermen on our 
own coast make an eelskin drail for bluefish. With this they 
fish through a hole in the ice and take a good many fish. 
They consume a good many fish, of course, on the spot, but 
the rest are carefully stowed away in a little house built of 
slabs of ice, and at that season of the year immediately frozen 
solid, When they are ready to leave camp, they break u 
this mass of frozen fish into lumps of a size convenient to joadl 
on. their dog sleds and bring them back to the village in this 
condition. 

The season of no sun and short daylight is passed atthe vil- 
lage. This lasts till about the end of January, and then many 
families again resort to the rivers, and stay, living in snow 
huts always at this season of the year, till the first or middle 
of April. Fish do not appear to be quite so plenty at this 
season asin the autumn, but they still catch a good many. 
In the meantime, those who have remained at home have not 
been without a supply of ishfood. There isa small species of 
codfish, the Polar cod (Boreogadus saida), which appears along 
the coast.in large schools about the end of January, or when 
the sun again begins to rise. We were unable to find ont 
whether the fish really leaves the coast to return in January, 
but at all events the Esquimaux do not fish for them until 
then, and say there ave none to be found. They would be 
likely to fish for them were any to be caught, because.just ab. 
this season of the year they are very apt to be pinched for 
food, as no deer are to be had, and if the ice happens to be 
unfavorable seals are yery scarce. __ 


_ Wherever there is.a level field of this season's icainelosed by’ 


the fish, are sure to } 


ce ae 


1883, because that year the ice was very unfavorable for seal- 
ing, and food was pretty scarce in the village. : 

e fishing is carried on mostly by the women and children, 
though one or two old men generally go out, and one or two 
of the youn men, when they cannot go sealing and food is 
wanted at the house, will join the fishing party. Hach fish- 
erman is provided with a long-handled icepick, which he fre- 
quently leaves sticking in the snow near the fishing ground, a 
long line made of stripsof whalebone, reeled lengthwise on a 
slender wooden shuttle about eighteen inches long and pro- 
vided with a copper sinker and two pear-shaped ‘‘jigs” of 
walrus ivory armed with four barbless hooks of copper, and a 
scoop or dipper made of reindeer antler, with a wooden han- 
die about two feet long. Hardly an Esquimau,and especially no 
Esquimau boy, stirs out of the house in winter without one of 
these scoopsin his hand. To every party of two or three 
there will also be a good-sized bag of sealskin, generally made 
of a piece of an old kayak cover, for bringing home the fish. 
Arriving at the fishing grounds, each proceeds to pick a hole 
through the ice, which is about four feet thick, clearing out 
the chips with the scoop. The “jigs” are then let down 
through the hole and enough line unreeled to keep them just 
clear of the bottom where the fish are playing about. The 
reel is held in the right hand and seryes as a short rod, while 
the scoop is held in the Jefti hand and used to keep the hole 
clear of the scum new of ice which, of course, is constantly 
forming. The line is kept in constant motion, jerked up 
as a short distance and then allowed to drop back, so 
that the little fish that are nosing about the white “Jigs” after 
ae manner of codfish, are hooked about the jaw or in the 
belly. - 

As soon as a fisherman feels a fish on his hook he catches up. 
a bight of the line with his scoop and another below this wit 
his reel, and thus reels up the line on these two sticks in. loose 
eoils till the fish is brought to the surface, when a skillful toss 
throws him off the barbless hook on the ice, where he gives 
one convulsive flap and instantly freezes solid. The elastic 
whalebone line is thrown off the sticks without tangling, and 
paid out through the hole again for another trial. If fish are 
not found plenty at the first hole the fisherman shifts his 
ground until he “strikes a school.” They are sometimes so 
plenty that they may be caught as fast as they can be hauled 
up. One woman will frequently bring in upward of a bushel 
of the little fish—they are generally about five or six inches 
long—from a single day’s fishing. This fishing lasts until 
about the middle of May, when the ice begins to soften. A 
good many are also caught along the shore in November in 
about a foot of water when there are tide cracks in the ice. 
At this season the Hsquimaux use a little red about two feet 
long with a sbort line and a little ivory squid at which the fish 

ite. 

During the summer, many of the natives are encamped in 
tents at a place called Perginak, just at the bend of Elson Bay, 
and after the ice leaves the bay, gill nets are kept constantly 
set, and visited from time to time. In these they catch white- 
fish chiefly, Coregonus laurette, afew salmon, Oncorhynchus 
gorbuscha, and another undetermined species, and occasionally 
large individuals of a sea-run form of Salvelinus malmc, the 
Pacifie red-spotted trout. 

This fishing lasts from the middle or end of July into Sep- 
tember, but is never very productive. The trading parties 
that go east to the Colville River in the summer, also catch 
large quantities offish. Salvelinus malmu was so abundant in 
the summer of 1852, that the degs were fed with it. 

Another food fish appeared on the coast in the summer of 
1882, which appears not to be utilized by the natives as the 
have no nets small enough to catch it. This is the caplin, Mal- 
lotus villesus, which we netted by the thousand in the outlet 
of the lagoon close to the station, and found most excellent 
eating. The natives who live on the river running into Wain- 
wright’s Inlet, seventy miles down the coast, also catch 
through theicea good many smelts, Osmerus dentex, which 
are as delicious as the smelt of our coast. Fish, when cooked 
at all, are always boiled; as, indeed, all Hsquimaux food is, 
but many are consumed raw or frozen. Very little of a fish 
is wasted except the scales and perhaps the larger bones. 

To close my account of the fish of thisregion, it may be well 
to say that the Hsquimaux tell of a large lake between Point 
Barrow and the Colville, in which there are fish ‘‘as big as a 
kaiak,” This certainly has the appearance of a ‘‘fish story.” 


NOTES PERTAINING TO FISHCULTURE. 
[A paper read before the American Fishcultural Association. | 
BY JAMES ANNIN, JR. 


Gentlemen and Memnters of American Fishcultural Associ- 
ation: 

Tt is with keen regret that I find at the last moment that I 

shall be unable to attend this, the thirteenth annual meeting, 
especially after such care and pains haye been taken by the 
committees in charge to make it of great interest and pro*t, 
Business prevents my preparing an extended or elaborate 
paper and I but briefly call your attention to one or two sub- 
jects. 
: The California, or rainbow trout, are they a success in 
waters of the Atlantic coast? In one stream in which they 
were planted some five or six years ago I consider that they 
are not. I have reference to Caledonia Spring Creek, Cale- 
donia, Livingston county, N. Y. This stream has contained 
them longer than any others east of the Mississippi River, but 
to-day you can catch no more, and no larger ones than you 
could the second or third is after the first plant was made. 
Wiere have they gone? I have not answered it satisfactorily 
tomyself yet. They could not have been all caught out as 
the stream is pecaynt cd From observations the writer thinks 
that many have gone down, finding their way into the 
Genesee River and Lake Ontario, just as the California 
salmon did several years ago; they have gone as suddenly as 
the salmon. Stories are afloat of large ones being caught 
mniles below. As the spawning season approaches they also 
Tun up stream just as far as they possibly can, and asthe 
stream is generally at its best at this season they cannot get 
back unless they do so before the water subsides. I have often 
found them in water holes that had no connection with the 
stream except during high water and where they would die in 
a short time. [heard of one found in a man’s garden this 
spring that was nearly a mile away from the stream, the fish 
had gone up there in a little stream that was formed by melted 
snow and rain, and which run dry in a week. Brook trout 
generally tind their way back and don’t get stranded. You 
would suppose that the natural increase would keep the stock 
up in a preseryed stream, but it does not in this case, and here 
I would call your attention to the fact that at the best, not 
more than 50 or 60 per cent. of the many rainbow trout eggs 
taken at the hatcheries at Caledonia can be impregnated. 
There is no such percentage of empty eggs of others of the 
trout family that are handled here. 

During the past winter I made an experiment with eggs 
taken from.a fine healthy brook trout, impregnated by a num- 
ber of good males of the same. First, [400 300 of her eggs, 
placed the milt with them and then washing it off as nareety 

as possible, and forty-five seconds after taking the eggs placed 
them on thescreens in the hatching trough, Next, [took 850 
more eaBs from the gaye fish and let them stand three min- 
utes hetore washing off the milt. Next, the remainder of the 
eggs the fish contained, 335 in number, I let remain in the 
ony a the usual length of time—about thirty minutes. 

three loteT carefully placed ontrays; picking out the bad 
oues'every day; until they were’ old enough to plainiy show 
thé eye spots, when I counted whatT had lett of each of them: 

sty Which had an exposure of forty-five seconds, only 6 
were iinpregnated. 


Of the second, with exposure of three minutes, 31 were im- 
pregnated, 
Of the last, thirty minutes exposed, 208 remained that were 


‘oad, 

This is only the resiilt in case of one fish, but if it should 
prove the same in all, is it any wonder that fishculture is a 
grand success? 


SHAD HATCHING IN CONNECTICUT.—The catching of 
shad for the purpose of securing the spawn for artificial 
Rr pagation on the Housatonic River, closed about July 1. 

r, Fenton, who has had charge of the hatching, pives the 
New Haven Palladiwm some very interesting facts in regard. 
to the mode in which the business is conducted. The total 
number hatched out and deposited in the rivers will exceed 
3,000,000, of which one half haye been emptied into the 
Connecticut River, at Enfield Bridge, and the remainder into 
the Housatonic. Mr. Fenton estimates the average number 
of eggs secured from each fish at 30,000, although at least in 
two cases he has secured fish that had ayer 60,000 eggs each, 
the eges from the two fish filling a common sized milk pan. 
The fish are emptied into the river at the turn of the flood 
tide so that, as the tide goes out, the young shad are carried 
down the river far enough so that the impurities emptied in 
the river from the paper mill may not killthem. Mr, Fenton 
seems to think that the acids discharged in the river are not 
so destructive to fish as generally supposed, and says: in 
support of his views that several days since, just after the 
hatching of several thousand shad, the vats of the paper mill 
were discharged into the river while the tide was rising and 
consequently the impurities were forced up the river to the 
hatching boxes, a few hundred yards above the mill, filimg 
them with impure water so that the young fish could not be 
seen; but after the tide went out and the water became pure 
no perceptible harm was done the fish. Besides the young 
shad placed in the river here, the United States Fish Commis- 
sioner had placed 1,000,000 fish in the river at Muford, although 
he is doubtful if many of these live to reach the Sound, as not 
only do they have to run the risk of being devoured by the 
bass and picke.‘el in the lake, but the passage over the dam, 
during the month of September, when the water is low, is 
doubtful, and if they take to the canal and pass through the 
water wheels of the different shops they go to sure death, as 
has been demonstrated at Windsor Locks. 


WISCONSIN.—The Fish Commission of Wisconsin has 
hatehed and planted 2,000,000 brook trout, 2,000,000 mountain 
trout, 10,000,000 wall-eyed pike, and 17,000,000 whitefish.— 


The Fennel. 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 


sept, ¥, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Montreal Ken- 
nel Club. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent, John F', Campbell, Secre- 
tary, P, 0. Drawer 1,955, Montreal, Canada, 

Sept. 18,17 and 16.—Collie Bench Show and Vield Trials of the 
Ontario Collie Club, Toronto, Ont. Entries close Aug, 23. Mr. H. J, 
Will, Secretary, Toronto, ‘ 

Sept. —.Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, Mr. Benj. 
C. Satterthwaite, Secretary. 

Oct, 6, 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
B. §. Davis, Superintendent, 


Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn. 
Danbury. Conn. 

Oct, 21, 22, 23 and 24.—First Annual Fall Bench Show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Chas. 
Lincoln, Supermtendent. 

FIELD TRIALS, 


Dec. 8 —Sixth Annual Trials of the National American Kennel Cluv 
at Canton, Miss. D, Bryson, Seeretary, Memphis, Tenn, 


A. K. R. 

HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, ete. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 
lished every month. Entries close on the 1st, Should be in early, 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (x5 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid In adyance, Yearly subscription $1. Address 
‘American Kennel Register,’ P. O, Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 140%. Volume L., bound in cloth, sent 

postpaid, $1.5°. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr, Tracy’s reply to my last contains nothing but irrelevant 
matters and is too weak for me to notice further, beyond my 
saying that Thunder has no field trial record, and that he was 
made notorious by a newspaper, the editor of which has pub- 
licly proved his ignorance of dogs ten thousand times over. 

I should have answered Mr. Munson before this, and have 
ouly waited until this late hour in the day expecting him still 
further to commit himself. Give him rope, said I, and he will 
hang himself; he has fulfilled my prophesy. A well-devised 
scheme for transferring this discussion to the columns of a 
contemporary has failed. The controversy must be brought 
to an issue on neutral ground, and in the columns of a paper 
conducted by gentlemen, 

A word here about the protest will be in order, An attempt 
is being made I am told by some unscrupulous individuals, to 
convey to the public the impression that the protest was pro- 
posed and framed by me on account of the decision which gave 
the money in the champion large class to those interested in 
Meteor, This is a deliberate wilful misrepresentation of fact, 
and is a report which is circulated for reasons obvious to all. 
Not only were those who indorsed the protest distinctly m- 
formed that it was general in its meaning and did not apply 
to any one decision in particular, but the very wording be 1b 
is sufficiently comprehensive to place it beyond misconstruc- 
tion by any person possessed of ordinary common sense, Some 
people, however, have none. The protest reads as follows: 
“We, the undersigned exhibitors and breeders of pointers, re- 
quest you to place on record in the pages of FOREST AND 

TRHAM our disapproval of the awards of Mr, E. C. Sterling, 
ai the New York dog show, held in Madison Square Garden, 
May 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1884,” The italics are mine, Does such 
language not equally apply to the unaccountable decision 
which gave the champion small pean bitch prize to a rank 
bad one—Vanity; and do such lines not apply with equal 
force to the absurd decisions in the open classes? 

A great laugh will go up on some irresponsible meddler 
when it becomes generally Known that the protesb was not 
suggested by me at all, but by a gentleman who was most out- 
rageously treated, and whose exhibit was placed behind an 
ammal entered for competition in Mr. Munson’s name, Let it 
be known, however, that I am willing to take every ounce of 
responsibility attached to that protest on my own shoulders. 
It was framed in the interest of the public, and of pointer 
breeders and exhibitors throughout the length and breadth of 
this great country. 

Let it be known, also, that I do not fear either the cow- 
ardice, the abuse or the slander of a Punic press, and that 1 am 
not to be retired with Mr, John Davidson’s pension, though T 
would appreciate the honor of being found in such company, 
for there, 1 am told, do good dog lovers dwell, I will write 
something more ahout the protest on.a future occasion, 

Mr. Mimson admits he has never bred a good dog, and for 
that reason it may surprise some people why [notice him. In 
his case I find if a duty to reply, a duty to myself, a duty to 


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my brother lovers of pointers, He has misrepresented dogs 
forfeited every confidence ever placed in him, and demonstrated 
beyond the question of a doubt that unless things are altered 
dog shows must degenerate into a complete farce, 1f indeed, 
they have not done so already, * 

Mr. Munson tells us there was not a ‘‘well-informed pointer 
man” among the spectators who did not see at a glance how 
far superior Meteor was to Beanfort, Mr, Munson cannot 
name one single pointer judge who indorsed that decision. Is 
Mr. Waddell, the well-known Western breeder, well-informed, 
and what did hesay about Beaufort? Here it is: ‘‘The best 
large pointer [ haye ever seen.” Is Mr, Hdmund Orgill (prob- 
ably the best judge in America) well informed, and what did 
he say? Here are his own words: ‘‘A grand fellow—same 
stamp as Faust and Bow, but beats them all to pieces—the best 
Thave ever seen—should like to breed to him.” What did Dr. 
Strachan say? and what was Mr. Steel’s opinion? How about 
Messrs. Gregory, Garrett Roach, Satterthwaite, Lamb, Tall- 
man, Martin. Phelan, and a hundred others could name. Is 
Mr. Thos. Orgill well informed, and what is his opinion? ‘I 
call Beaufort a srand dog, and fail to see where any one can 
find fault with him. In my judgment he is the best-looking 
large pointer in America, in which opinion I am backed by my 
father.” Americans give Mr, Wise credit for knowing a pointer, 
and that gentleman has said, ‘‘He (Beaufort) could win any- 
where,” and that Beulah, the dam of Beaufort, is one of the 
best bitches living in the field. Now for the press. FOREST 
AND STREAM has said, ‘We consider him the best-looking 
pointer that we haveever seen. We are assured by several 
gentlemen who have seen him at work, that he is 
also an excellent field performer.” The Kennel Register 
holds a similar opinion, and Turf, Field and Farm did not 
indorse the decision against him. The London Field says, 
“These questionable decisions positively sink into insig- 
nificance compared with what Mr. Sterling did with the 
poliets * « + altogether we must say that more dissatis- 

action we never heard expressed at any single-handed judged 
show. * * * The pointer awards were dealt out inastrange 
fashion by Mr. Sterling. He began with large champion 
pointers, and Mr. Munson’s Meteor beat Beaufort, Knicker- 
bocker, Don, Croxteth and Perth. Meteor was decidedly out- 
classed in such company. He has been the subject of a good 
deal of controversy, and at Toronto he was shown in another 
person’s name, but here he was, by coming inas Mr. Munson’s, 
rendered eligible for some extra prizes. He is bad in head, 
wants squareness, has a bad eye, ears set on too high, shoul- 
der blades wide apart at the top, shallow chest, short back, 
and a badly carried tail. * * * Croxteth also is much 
better than Meteor, * * * Beaufort was decidedly the best 
dog of that class.” The only paper that indorsed the decision 
was the one in which Messrs. Munson and Sterling have a largo 
sum of money invested. If lam wrong in this statement let 
Mr, Munson deny it under his own signature. 

Mr, Munson does not see any “honor” in Meteor’s beating 
Beaufort—neither do I—but let me say right here that Meteor 
never did beat Beaufort. Beaufort’s reputation does not rest 
on my advertisement that heis the handsomest pointer in 
America, It rests on the fact that he is the grandest pointer 
ever seen in the opinion of the best judges and every independ- 
ent paper. Thisis the more remarkable when a clique, as- 
sisted by a newspaper editor, has undertaken to annihilate 
both dog and owner. Mr. Munson is wrong when he predicts 
the New York show was Beaufort’s Waterloo. 1 am inclined 
Lg the opinion that it was Messrs. Munson and Sterling’s Water- 
00. 

It was reported before the N. Y, show that several mem- 
bers of the W. K. GC, had pronounced Meteor a very inferior 
specimen, and it is well known that Mr. Munson expressed a 
similar opinion of Bang Bang. Unfortunately I have not in 
my possession documentary evidence to sustain me in regard to 
Meteor, butIhold proof that before the téte-d-tétein New York 
Mr. Munson considered Bang Bang a very ordinary animal. 
Was a tacit understanding arrived at between Mr. Munson and 
the Westminster Kennel Club, whereby Mr. Munson was to 
pronounce Bang Bang the best small pointer in America and 
the club reciprocate the kindness by sending Meteor off as the 
best large pointer in America? Tam guided tosuch a conclu- 
sion by the following documentary evidence, which will also 
explain how Beaufort was placed behind Mr. Munson’s ex- 
hibit, entered in the catalogue as being by Garnet out of Jilt. 
Mr. Munson writes in your paper of June 12 as follows: “I am 
willing to go en record as saying that Meteor and Bang Bang 
ave (barring the head of each, which, I think, could be slightly 
improyed) the best pomter dogs in America, and the only type 
of the pointer to breed to.” Mr. Munson here admits Meteor 
and Bang Bang to be of the same type, and ta be perfect ex- 
cepting in head, in which respect they could, in his opinion » be 
sightly improved. I take him at his word, Let us now see 
what (ir, Munson wrote about Bang Bang in April, before he 
had “arranged matters” with the Westminster Kennel Club: 


Charles H. Mason, Esq., N. Y.: Sees area Tees 

Dar Sir—I expect to catch fitsin the papers for passing Bang 
Bang by at Cleveland, but Tam sure I put the ribbons where t 1ey be- 
longed, Iam not pleased with Bang Bang. * * * Iam told Beau- 
fort is a remarkably handsome dog. Yours truly, 

JxNo. W. Munson, 
r F Sr. Louis, April 15, 1484, 

Drak Sir—Your favor of the i2th to hand. If Thad thought Bang 
Bang the best doz at Cleveland he would have won first. I thought 
him good enough for second only, I don’t fancy his head—especially 
his front face—and eyes. The Jatter are black and cocked, showing 
the inside white of hoth when he looks at you. I don't think his tail 
good, nor his throat, In fact, 1 don’t think him a first-class dog. 

Very respectfully, 
Jno, W. Munson, 

Nowy, it is my turn to go on record, and I go there as Saying 
that Mr, Munson forfeits forever the good opinion of every 
po nter breeder and exhibitor in America, and he will never 
enter a judging ving again. I do not wish Mr, Munson to tell 
us that Bang Bang was not in condition when shown at 
Cleveland, for bad condition would rather hide the faults he 
alludes to than otherwise. Mr. Munson’s written opinion of 
Bang Bang in April was impartial and honest; he had not met 
the W, K. C. in New York and had no axe to grind, He thus 
conclusively proves, supported by the strongest: evidence—his 
own—that Meteor is not a show dog. Why, then, does he 
object. to_my criticism of his dog, every word of which was 
correct? Why also, may Lask, do the W. K. ©. refer your 
readers to Mr. Munson’s opinion of Bang Bang? 

Tnow repeat that Meteor is not a show doz and that judges 
of pointers such as Messrs. Whitehouse, Price, Brierly, Lort, 
Viscount Combermere and others would disqualify him or 
any other dog possessed of such a head, I repeat, too, that at 
the N, ¥. show Bravo was the gentleman of the small size 
classes, and Iam indorsed by no less authority than Mr. John 

- Munson. It has been a complete mystery to me how men 
who have had true pointers, such as Faust, Bow and Keswick, 
before their eyes, could come forward and tell us that Meteor 
and thait rank bad bitch, Vanity, are pointers at all, 

- The whole business 1s now explained. The love I have for 
my pointer, and a sense of duty compelled me to publish Mr. 
Mounson’s letter or I would not have done it. Important as are 
such matters to everybody interested in the breed, there is 
another question yet to be settled, a question ‘closely allied to 
mprovement, 4 question of grave importance with us all, and 
T now call on Mr. Jno. W. Munson, or whoever the owner of 
Meteor may be, to show in a clear and straightforward man- 
ner that Meteor is by Garnet out of Jilt, as advertised by Mr. 
Munson in the public stud. CHartes H. Mason, 

ToMPRINSVILLN, July 14, 1844, 


Liditoy Forest and Stream: 
1 cannot pass over the nnfortunate complexion the discussion 
of the pointer award at the late Westminster Kennel Club 


show has assumed, and must severely condemn the acrimony 
that pervades the majority of the articles written pro and 
con, and above all the ungentlemanly accusations and asper- 
sions reflecting on the honor and character of the gentlemen 
who generously braved the dangers of past experiences, One 
word as regards type. In my humble judgment the sole typi- 
cal pointerfrom A to Z, 1 would respectfully refer them to im- 
ported Snapshot, dead and worthless so far as individual field 
qualities are concerned, but he was par excellence the pointer 
so far as form, of theday. Iam not going to criticise Beau- 
fort, Bang Bang, Meteor, Croxteth or others, but I cannot oyer- 
look the fact of the childish peevishness displayed in advanc- 
ing as a damaging argument the quibble that Bang Bang begets 
blackand white progeny. . 


“Mad let us grant him then; and now remains 
That we find out the cause of this Hffect; 

Or, rather say, the Cause of this Defect; 

For this Effect, defective, comes by Cause." 


Certainly this coloring in the progeny is foreign to the argu- 
ment under discussion, and assumes the farcical phase of the 
two little hoodlums, When one threatened to whip the other 
for throwing'stones at him he yelled back in defiance, ‘Well, 
Pll call your sister names.” Ifa man should breed to Wyan- 
dotte Smythe’s pointer Bellicose, whose sire was one of Lang’s 
celebrated black pointers, or Mr, Whitman’s, or Old Phil, an 
orange or white or lemon and white pointer bitch, and among 
the result of this union came one or more black youngsters, 
would it damn the litter or prove acasus belli? Well 1 guess not, 
stranger, That men who wish the world to recognize them 
as breeders, judges and sportsmen should stoop to such cayil 
seems beyond the comprehension of intelligence. Then again, 
gentlemen, “ipees are switching on a siding when you drag in 
the merits of the deeds done afield by one or thé other; in a 
case like this it is but a secondary issue at the best. My good 
friend Donner harps on the ivory and texture of the bone. Is 
the outward size a sure indication of the quality, or is it im- 
possible for a small bone to be spongy and porous like the 
large,or vice versa? Lam seeking enlightenmentin this quarter. 
Tam hungry, Mr, Donner, but feed me sparingly of ivory, as 
my wobec ene pavers are but mediocrity. Brother sports- 
men, in a case like this, look straight over the gun barrels, 
hold right on, fire away if loaded with powder of truth, 
charity and justice, and take my word for it, you'll hit the 
bullseye every time, and the recoil won't be felt. 

WasHineton A. Cosrmr. 

FLATBUSH, July 13, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have been an interested reader of the controversy going on 
in the columns of your paper relative to the pointer judging at 
the late show of the Westminster Kennel Club, held in this 
city. Instead of confining themselves to the merits of jhe 
question under discussion, certain individuals have converted 
it into a mere personal wrangle, and made it the channel 
through which to bring odium on a gentleman whom but to 
know is toesteem. Ireferto Mr. C. H. Mason. In a Western 
paper I find a number of columns devoted to the yery chiyal- 
rous work of hurling abuse and epithet at Mr. Mason. Any 
one who is at all conversant with the style and tactics 
of that great exponent of knowledge, and will take the 
trouble to look beneath the surface of the article alluded 
to can only see therein an under-stratum of petty malice, hate, 
and cowardly innuendo. Doubtless this doughty editor thinks 
it brave to sit in his office and hurl mud ata man a thousand 
tniles away, and then deprive him of the opportunity to de- 
fend himself by closing the columns of his paper against him. 
And what crime, pray, has Mr..Mason committed, that should 
call forth this great onslaught upon him? From the moment 
his calm and temperate criticism of the pointers at the late 
show appeared until now be has been a target for shafts of fury 
and hate from all quarters. Where is the pointer breeder or 
lover that will not admit the justice of his criticism or does not 
feel indignant at the distribution of awards at the late show, 
in awarding the ribbon to the nondescript Meteor over the 
pointer Beaufort, or to Vanity over such bitches as Lady 
Bang or Duchess? Where is the judge of a pointer who will 
say that those were awards of merit? 

tt does not weaken the published protest one particle thata 

ortion of the signers were non-exhibitors. Any man who 
in the interest of the breed at heart had a right to protest 
against such infamous judging. “ Neither does all the abuse 
hurled at Mr. Mason weaken his statements, they stand out 
pillars of truth supported by plain facts andsound logic. The 
statement made by the writer to whom I have alluded, that 
Mr. Mason is not a breeder, is false, reference to the Hneglish 
Kennel Club Stud Book will conelusively prove that he has 
bred winners at the best show in the world, the Birmingham 
show, which takes precedence over all others. This unprin- 
cipled attack upon Mr, Mason will be the cause of drawing 
around him a host of defenders, American qentionisn love 
fair play and justice to all.* . HB. Dwyer, 

New Yorr, July 15, 1884. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 

In your issue of the 3d inst, Mr. Mason takes occasion to 
penn attack Thunder, and this time slurs the field qualities of 
the dog. - 

He has persistently hounded after this dog for a year or 
two, all of which I bore im silence, knowing that the reputa- 
tion of the bench qualities of the dog could not be injured by 
anything that he could say. 

So long as he confined himself to dissecting (no matter how 
he hacked him) the form and general appearance of the dog, 
it mattered not; but when he, not satisfied with that, has the 
presumption to publicly state that the dog has no field 
qualities it is quite time for me to speak, 

I most emphatically declare Thunder to be a most excellent 
a field dog. 

That he has no appearance of idiocy, but, on the contrary, 

possesses as much intelligence as is usually found in dogs, 
' How and-why a man, who never saw a dog at work in the 
field on game, can publicly assert him devoid of quality, 
and, even when the records show the contrary, passes my 
comprehension. 

Mr. Mason has posed as a self-constituted judge of not only 
dogs, but of the gentlemen who have been kind enough to 
judge them. Will the gentleman now assume the attitude of 
sportsman and field trial judge? 

Perhaps he may make it appear that the writer is no judge of 
field dog. BH. 8. WANMAEKER. 

ELMwoop, N.C., July 7. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

A Western contemporary, in a six-column editorial, devoted 
to slandering Mr. Mason, advertising the Munson kennel, and 
telling us what a wonderful man the editor is, gives it out 
that Mr. Mason has neyer won prizes at the best shows or bred 
poor. dogs, and consetjuently cannot be a judge of dogs. The 

nglish stud books, which are not ‘in the printer's bands,” 
prove that Mr. Mason bas won the highest honors at shows, 
and bred the winners at Birmingham, Crystal Palace, Man- 
chester, ete. [find thatin 1876 Mr. Mason won first in both 
the large classes ab Birmingham, and was breeder of the first 
and second prize winners in one class, a record I believe to be 
unequaled. He won the champion prize at the same show 
the year following and bred the Crystal Palace winner Mar- 
quis, who also won first at Birmingham. Mr, Mason’s name 
appa as the owner of the winning dog at the Crystal Palace, 
1580, and to go through his entire list of winnings would fill 
one issue of your paper. I believe that aman to be a judge 
must have owned and bred good dogs. Untilhe has accom- 
plished this he miisi not assitme to teach others, Will your 


Western contemporary reciprocate my kindness and tell us 
what good pointer it has ever owned or bred, and what sort-af 
company its dogs have been shown in? The editor micht have 
found Mr. Mason’s record by reference to the English stud 
books, but. possibl¥ he does not keep them, in company with 
the subscriptions to the National American Stud Book—in his 
pocket, FAIR PLAY. 


SHOOTING OVER BEAGLES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

Having for a number of years given attention to the breed- 
ing of beagles and collies, and their proper education for field 
work, I became much interested in articles recently published 
in your paper upon “‘The Proper Size of Beagles,” 

_AS reeds size, | herewith indorse the article of My. Pot 
tinger Dorsey, in one of your late issues. 

It has been my pleasure in times past, in company with Mr. 
Dorsey, to enjoy very many days’ sport “across the glen and 
EBee the hillside,” with our beagles ‘roading up” and chasing 
the timid yet swift rabbit. On account of strength, hardi- 
ness, industry and energetic work, I think it imprudent to 
reduce the size (height) below thirteen inches (L refer to 
beagles, not bassets, and I furthermore refer to beagles as 
used for rabbits exclusively). 

As regards the practice of shooting rabbits before a pack of 
beagles, I am of the opinion, based upon observation, that the 
practice is pernicious, and if persisted in may render a pack 
comparatively useless, and often cause the pack to bolt a hot 
foot when a neighborhood boy shoots ap a chipmuck or robin, 

I do not consider a pack of beagl pre erly qualified for 
field work if they have not the stamina to either kill or send 
everything that starts to the ground or hollow log. If *puss” 
gets under cover let her go; starta fresh one; she'll be out 
another day. Besides, dogs become more thoroughly in earn- 
esth when permitted to mouth their game, and to a sportsman 
the sport does not consist in the amount of game lulled, but 
in the manner in which it is done. 

lf the pot-hunter desires a quantity? of rabbits he starts out 
with a cur of his own, borrows a half-dozen more from some 
neighbor, and with the lot can under-run every brush-pile, 
bark around every bog, and start up every living thing in a 
neighborhood, and of course the master of ceremonies can 
sneak up and get a shot, and go home with a bag full of prey. 

The object of keeping a pack of beagles is sport as ex- 
emplified in the chase, Certainly any gentleman can become 
interested in watching the search for cold trail of the night 
befere and the maneuvering of the pack to ‘‘toad up” puss; 
presently the ‘‘fresh trail” is felt, the signal note of the chase 
sounded, and away they go in line, the scent being yet low 
down. Pussshows up at every turn, Shall the pot-hunter 
with his gun cut short the sport at the start? Do not do it. 
Wait a minute, puss feels anxious and begins to warm up, her 
“foot” is hot and the scent Hoats high, Now note the pack, 
lining or trailing is done; each dog is pushing for the lead, 
Here they come, three, four, six abreast, noses up, necks out- 
stretched, giving tongue most gloriously, Such music, Note 
and tone more harmonious than the bang of any shotgun. 
The chase cannot long continue at this speed. Let it end! 
What matter how? Puss in the bag or safely sheltered in the 
groundhog’s home. Is not the sport in either case the same 
to a true sportsman? 

Does the master of a pack of foxhounds permit reynard to 
be slaughtered by lead? No! Just asthe fox and hounds is 
to the mounted sportsman, so should the rabbit and beagles 
be to the sportsman on foot, 

Iremembei a two-days’ hunt in company with Dr, J. W, 
Downey, his brother Frank, and some gentlemen from New 
York city, in Berkley county, Va. During the hunt we had 
sixty starts and bagged fifty-six, and scarcely any of them 
were shot. 

We may sum up as follows the disadvantages of shooting 
game before a pack: Wirst, deprives the sportsman of the 
pleasure of the chase; second, causes the pack to be careless 
in hunting for a lost or oyer-run trail; third, loss of animation 
by not freely mouthing game; fourth, causes inattention to 
business, by ‘“harking” for the gun, all of whieh render a 
pack almost worthless for true sport. F.C, PHEBUS. 

BERNARDSVILLE, N, J., July 10. 


THE LAVERACK SETTERS. 


cee the controversy which took place a year or so 
since between the adherents of the Laverack setter and 
the breeders of the field trial or what has been lately termed 
the Llewellin setter, it was my intention to have added tothe 
long list of writers who ably defended their respective favorites 
that which I had learned of the filst-mentioned dog, but press 
of business prevented it. It wnay not be amiss at this late 
date to relate my experience with the Laverack setter, several 
of which 1 both imported and bred. It would seem that Mr. 
Laverack, jealous of the high standard he had attained in 
breeding his dogs and anxious that his setter should still hold 
the position they had gained under his management, over- 
stepped the limit and continued his inbreeding to such an ex- 
tent; that where he improved their wonderful scenting power 
and more firmly stamped their natural tendency to tind and 
point game, hemultiphed thatnervousness to which all inbred 
animals are prone until shyness of the gun has become such a 
part of the nature of the breed that itis an exception to the 
rule when the timidity in this particular does not show itself, 
Were it not that the Laverack setters have with me evinced 
intelligence in many ways, 1 would term the nervoushess an 
idiocy, but so conyinced have I become of their good sense in 
other important points, lL would select asa stud dog a pure 
Laverack for certain bitches, in order to procure in the pro- 
geny the exquisite scenting powers and innate faculty of point- 
ing game the youngsters of this most famous breed pussess. 
cannot make a better comparison in regard to the intense 
nervous organization of the Layverack setter when I liken the 
timidity the breed as a rule exhibits at the report of a gun or 
any sudden sound to a human being fearful of a thunder 
storm and not being able to overcome it, knowing the while 
he is enjoying full as much safety during its prevalence as his 
surrounding companions. So marked has this peculiarity 
shown itself to me that I denect it most frequently (far too 
often) in the field trial or Liewellin breed of setters where 
there is a preponderance of Laverack blood in them, aud they 
show the typical points of the older breed. While the Lay- 
erack setter is apparently courageous when allowed his own 
way in the pursuit of game and selfywilled in his method, hie 
will bear no correction. It becomes, then, a most difficult 
task even with the cord to train him to obedience or by taking 
advantage of his affections to guide him as he should go, In — 
all the setters of this breed that I haye owned or ever saw 
there seems to be a wantof knowledge on their pa)t that their 
powers should be coupled with those of their niaster im order 
to render themselves useful, my opinion, no setters are 
better formed for speed and endurance than the Laverzck, 
aud the only breed that is marked in typical points, The 
Llewellins so widely differ in this respect, it is a question with 
me if they yet deserve the distinctive ttle they bear, and 
just here is the proof that Mr, Laverack, breeding to gain 
that which in his. estimation was to be desired in a setter, ac- 
complished his object. In reaching this point, however, con- 
tinued inbreeding was resorted to and resulted in both in- 
creasing good quality and intensifying nervous temperament, 
ltis not my desire to haye this short article taken as an 
attack on the Layeracks. I consider the breed valuable be- 
yond question. Inthe stud they are priceless, iu the field 
useless. I haye now in my possession several letters from Mr. 
Layerack, written to me not very long before bis death, A 
through these epistles there runsa vein of matter which plainly 
shows that he was fearful the dogs I purchased from him would 
exhibit the same timidity and shyness of the gun many of 


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his own must have done, mating as he was at the time, unless 
I was very careful in handling them. His instructions, mi- 
nute and involving much time, were carried out to the letter, 
and but one of my importations proved of any value in the 
field, and she (Magnet), litter sister to Fairy Il,, became what. 
she was only by long and continued cautious treatment. I 
must repeat again that the scenting powers and innate desire, 
and I would say the determination to bunt, of all the Laver- 
acks I ever saw, was phenomenal, and herein consists their 
yery great value to breeders in this country, yeb | would warn 
sportsmen not to cross them where the same blood is very 
prominent, We must use the Laverack setters to improve 
our native stock; judiciously mate them, and for this purpose 
they will be most useful, Tomo. 


MISTAKE IN PEDIGREE, 


Rditor Forest and Stream: 

The pedigree of the pointer bitch Fancy, said to be by Crox- 
teth ex Royal Fan, about three years old, and so advertised 
by Mx, Miller, is undoubtedly a fraud, fromthefact, corrobor- 
ated by Mr, Dilley’s letters on the subject, and my personal 
knowledge, that the only bitch of that breeding was sent 
tome. This bitch pup was whelped Noy. 27, 1881, at Mr, 
Dilley’s kennels, Rosendale, Wis., was liver and white, and 1 
kept her in my yard till quite large, then I pas-ed her over to 
a friend, Thomas H, Connolly of this place, to break and train 
forme. Duting that early fall Tsent her to a friend in the 
South, to work her on quail. After some time I received a 
letter from him stating that she was so gun-shy and intensely 
neryous of every noise that she was worthless. I wrote for 
her and told my friend Hamiltot) he could have her under 
certain conditions, as I did not want to bother with her any 
more, He disposed of her, and at this present date of writing 
says hecan produce herin New York city in four hours. This 
bitch is the only one that came Kast, beyond a doubt, There- 
fore, the only construction in accordance with the facts in 
Mr, Miller’s explanation, is that Mr, Callender has been made 
the victim of a rascally imposition, and in all innocence has 
transterred with the biteh Fancy this imposition to Mr. Miller. 
Who the originator of this is, deponent saith not, but one 
thing issure, whoever itis, all subsequent purchasers have been 
most shamefully duped, and I feel it my duty to advise Mr. 
Miller to ferret out this originator. I will cheerfully give and 
obtain all facts, dates, etc., and personally aid him with my 
best endeayors. He has my sincere sympathy, as I have suf- 
fered some few years ago in the samemanner, W..A. Coster, 


FLATBUSH, L. I. 


ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 
rx. 


AIDSTONE show has given us plenty to talk about. The 
entries did not reach 500, and the attendance on both 
days fell equally short of expectation. I trace the falling 
off in entries to two causes. In the first place there are toa 
many shows advertised this year, and owners of valuable ken- 
néls justly decide that their dogs can’t stand the racket. A 
show is a great strain upon a high-bred dog’s system, Your 
dogs generally lose a pound or two in flesh from pining and the 
confinement, 

IT know that at most large shows they announce in their 
schedules that the dogs will be taken off the bench once a day 
to ease themselves, but [ have not much faith that this is 
carried out. Take the Kennel Club winter show at the Crys- 
tal Palace, forinstance. The dogs are benched in the galleries 
within the palace. It would be an impossible task to loosen 
1,300 dogs daily, lead them down the staircase, through the 
palace, its corridors, and thence into the grounds. I am sure 
this feat is not attempted, nor do I think the Crystal Palace 
Company would allow their grounds fo be used for such a 
purpose. What happens then? Why, your dogs are hitched 
to two feet of chain, cooped up in a few square inches of room 
for four days and nights. This unsanitary confinement 
shortens the days of show dogs. We cannot be too grateful, 
therefore, to the Warwick executive, who peemide a large in- 
closed green to which all the dogs are regularly taken out for 
exercise, etc 

Lam aware that there must be difficulties in the way, but 
surely itis playing rather small for the Kennel Club to even 
have others set them such an example, and still more pitiful 
that they are tnable to follow it. The club is rich, why do 
they not purchase a piece of ground and put up an iron build- 
ing. If they chose a plot in a good neighborhood, they would 

robably be money in pocket at the end of the year by letting 
it for flower shows, bazaars, and other shows. They should 
also have their own benching and fittings. If the Crystal 
Palace Company were to refuse to allow the Club to hold their 
shows on thei premises, [ think the committee would be at 
their wits’ end. Where could they go? The Agricultural 
Hall is closed to them, the neighbors objected to the uproar 
made by the dogs, and obtained an injunction. The Alexan- 
dra Palace, the best of all places, is closed. There might be 
another 2 ace; | remember some two years ago, the late 
General Burnaby, uncle of the author of the ‘‘Ride to Khiva,” 
showed me some plans for the construction of a huge building 
on the Agricultural Hall plan, in Kensington near the Addison 
road, It was designed to be let for the Royals and other big 
shows, IL have not heard of it since his death. and don't know, 
therefore, if the works are in progress, or if eyen they were 
coismenced. London is really in need of a large show ground. 

Ti is surprising that this subject of not taking the exhibits 
off the bench has not excited more attention in a kennel press 
ever ready to encourage the ventilation of subjects that lead 
to prolific discussion and make capital ‘‘copy.” 

Tn all our catalogues one reads among the regulations: “‘Any 
person found wntying or removing a dog from its number dur- 
ing the hours the exhibition is open, without the permission 
of the committee, chairman or secretary, will be expelled 
from the show; and if an exhibitor, the dog so removed will 
be disqualified from winning any prize at the show.” This 
rule, however, is wisely not too strictly adhered to. Most ex- 
hibitors take their dogs off for a minute or two and thatis 
long enough ror the purpose. There is another way of looking 
atit of course, and that is from the public’s point of view. 
They have paid their entrance money to see the dogs and 
they feel disappointed and consider they have been treated 
with bad faith if they find empty benches under prize cards, 
but the next time they come round that way they will usually 
find the tenant returned, looking all the better and more com-~ 
fortable for the few minutes he has been down, But there is 
another regulation that I think managers should not yield 
upon, that is not to allow owners on the last day of the show 
to remove their dogs before the time advertised to the minute. 
I know exhioitors, particularly those of the sex, incorrectly, 
so far as concerns those who show dogs, deseribed as the 
weaker, pester and whaedla the good-humored secretary to 
“let me take my dog out at half past four; will you, please, 
Ive got to travel forty miles and I’m very anxious to 
get home to-night, which [ shall not do if I miss this 
train,” but the official should be film, for if he gives 
them a pug they'll take «a mastiff, and it is an intoler- 
able nuisance to the public, who are quite prepared to 
clear out of the show at the hour they know it will 
close, and who came in expecting to have a quiet look round 
fill that time, to be hustled and bustled by selfish dog owners 
husthing along through the gangways with their four-footed 
obstructions, They are ‘going to catch the train,” so get out 
of the way. Here comes a man leading six collies; you screw 
yourself against the bench to let him pass, feeling very nerv- 
ous, because you have heard collies are treacherous dogs, 
when one, a nervous biteh perhaps, starts round your legs. 
While the owner tries to disengage the poor creature that is 
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are jumping up at you. Another fellow comes along with 
some fox-terriers, who immediately fall out with the collies, 
ald you dance about in a surging mass of canine profanity, 
treading on everybody’s tail and getting snapped at generally. 
You will fee] quite relieved when you are released from the 
confusion of chains and breathlessly jerked on to a bench 
where, while you lie panting, the occupant, a sedate bulldog, 
will patiently chew your coat collar. When the collie man 
and the terrier have told you all they could think about your 
clumsy conduct, they will leaye you to struggle out to seek 
caustic for your wounds and needle and thread for your 
breeches. When you get home you will probably recall the 
story of the young diplomatist who was sent out to a new 
colony to report upon the customs of the natives. The dis- 
pateh he sent home will strike you as applying with some 
truth to doggy men: ‘They haye no manners and their cus- 
toms are beastly.” 

Maidstone again, Another fact te account for the few en- 
tries is, that the Palace show was fixed for a few days later, 
and many did not think it worth while to give dogs 4 gruel- 
ling at, Maidstone that had a good chance at the Palace. The 
attendauce was sa meager as to lead one to seek for local 
reasons, The secretary lacked neither zeal nor energy, but 1 
think he was deficient in experience. On a former occasion 
the show was run by tyo local dogey men, Mr. Towsley, a St. 
Bernard breeder, and his partner, Mr. Carr. They madea good 
thing ont of it. This time, as usual, the committee stood the 
judges a dinner. I have tried to find out what happened at the 
dinner, but I knew nobody who was present intimately enough 
toask, I suppose there were the conventional speeches, 
hear that the chairman did his share, that Mr. Mellor replied 
for the judges, ‘‘Capting” Langdale (who also judged) for the 
press—Mr. Langdale’s title is not a military one, but it is ex- 

lained that the sons of the clergy are all ““captings”—and Mr. 

rehl for the successful exhibitors, and a member of the com- 
mittee for the disappointed exhibitors, That seems rather 
hard. The party, I hear, was a jovial one, and only broke 1p 
when the lizht went out. 

The awards were well received. Mr, Mellor, as usual, had 
most of the hard work. The St. Bernard classes were not 
quite up to the mark in quality, and as Sultan III. was 
superbly shown, he wou in spite of his faults. It has usually 
been ‘‘body he wins, tails he loses” with him. 

It was a hard case for the owner of the winning pointer to 
have his dog disqualified for being overweight. Sir Garnet, 
they say, was below the stipulated weight before the judging, 
but when it was over and he had won, his owner gave him a 
good “tuck in,” but the treat cost him the prize, for when the 
wily objector came along, poor Sir Garnet turned the scales. 
Hard lines indeed, and there’s 4 moral attached to the lesson. 

Foxhounds, harriers and beagles gave the show quite a 
bright and novel aspect. Mr. Langdale here blundered a little, 
but should be spared censure as he undertook to judge them 
pul a oblige, and confessed he was not well up in those 

reeds. 

The tallest dog I have ever seen made his successful début 
in the boarhound class. Adric the Saxon was imported by 
Mr. Pemberton. He is a fine, raking young dog, with great 
bone, full of muscle, and gives one the idea of immense power, 
but withal an elegant creature. He has a true head, and the 
only ‘but I heard about him was his color, which is a yellow 
red. He fairly beat Nero and Leal, both giants. The same 
kennel supplied the winner in bitches. I haveseen larger, but 
never a truer, more typical specimen than Else. 

Mr. Clarke, of Nottingham, won in fox-terriers, with Result, 
a smart terrier, and the same gentleman I heard claimed a 
pupin the show for £10 that he declared to be better than Re- 
sult for whom Mr. Redmond offered £140. 

The only unpleasant incident connected with the show was 
the poisoning of two collies. One of these expired in the show, 
the other, Sky Fox, who took first prize, was immediately sent 
home, and as his death has not been announced, I hope tor 
the sake of his ownér that he was able to throw off the drug. 
Of course, fhe scoundrel will never be discovered, nor haye any 
motives for the crime transpired. The owner of the two dogs, 
I am told, is a London gentlemen, and popular among his 
fellows. I hope the fear of haying our dogs poisoned is not to 
be added to the sufficient anxieties that already surround dog 
shows. 

With regard to the proper size of foot-beagles, when I com- 
plain of fourteen-inch hounds being too large I am naturally, 
as “‘Rusticus” points out in your columns, speaking from the 
English point of view. I say that when the fourteen-inch 
beagles break away on the straight they run right away from 
you and you see none of the fun, and [think that by neglecting 
the smaller dogs, one body of their admirers will be lost and 
go ever to the bassets. The basset men are not letting the 
grass grow under their feet. I have seen in the papers that their 
club has founded a club hunt. I will write to a friend who 
takes an interest in the breed, and ask him to get me some 
particulars of their hunting capabilities. In their native land 
I know they are chiefly used by shooting parties to put up 
game in covert. I have also written to some masters of 
beagles for their opinions, The last time Iwas in the neigh- 
borbood of Tunbridge Wells I saw several good wire-haired 
beagles, allratheriarge. — 

The latest about the fox-terrier bitch claimed by Mr. Clarke 
for 10 guineas at Maidstone is, that her breeder sold her for 
50 shillings to his brotherin-law, who made 100 per cent, on 
her in getting £5 from the man who has just lost her at £10. 
What will Mr. Clarke get fer her? is now tie question. 

Correction—In notes of May 20, for Morpe Barham read 
Thorpe Barham. LILLIBULERO. 


Juny 1, 1884, 


MR. LLEWELLIN TO AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


EKditor Forest and Stream: 


There appears to have in some way arisen considerable mis- 
apprehension concerning the class of dogs I have sent to 
America, which I think it is due, both to the American sports- 
nen and to myself, to correct. Such correction is necessary, 
in view of certain willful calumnies which have appeared in a 
contemporary of yours, founded, as it appears to me, on the 
use of the word “culls” in a letter from me to an American, who 
wished to persuade me to sell Count Wind’em. a dog which an 
offer of fifteen hundred pounds would not have parted from 

CA 

The real fucts of the case are, that I have invariably kept 
for myself the first pick out of all litters bred in my Kennel, 
and the second pick I have sent tothe Americans. Those in- 
ferior to the second pick I have disposed of to Hnglishmen, 

I wish itto be distinctly understood that the dogs which 
Americans obtained were only inferior to those which I re- 
tained for myself, and superior te any which I sent elsewhere. 
Thus Americans have had the best dogs in the world of my 
breed, with the exception only of those picked by me for my 
own reserved kennel, Whateyer changes may take place in 
those dogs which I have sent to America, after they have left 
me, and encountered yarious altered surroundings, I have 
nothing to do with, if any such thers may be. The class of 
dogs sent to America, which I referred to as second choice to 
my own reserved ones, were of so superior a character thab, 
unless fortunately for me America had not been open to me to 
send them to, I might possibly have been even driven to the 
extremity of taking seriously into consideration the question 
of destroying them. The reasons why I might have been 
placed in this extremity are the following; 

For nany years a dead set was made against me, with the 
object of driving me from the field, by a.ring of men whom 
my great success with this breed at field trials and dog shows 
had maddened into hostility, and finding that in fair competi- 
tion it was useless for them to try and put down my breed, 
they descended to detraction and misrepresentation of all 


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sorts to damn the solid reputation of the breed. Since this 
was the state of affairs, I determined that as they wilfully 
denied credit to my dogs for real excellencies which they pos- 
sessed, they should be compelled to stand to their words, and 
should not be permitted to enjoy excellencies whose existence 
they denied, nor to have the chance to improve their beaten 
dogs by a cross with mine, and then boast that any improve- 
ment that might result from such cross was owing to the 
blood of their dogs and not of that of theirconquerors. Until, 
therefore, a day should arrive when they would be forced hy 
the force of public opinion upon them to fully and freely 
acknowledve the superiority of my breed, and change their 
tone altogether concerning them, and should come forward 
desirous of obtaining them, I would take care that they should 
not be suffered to procwve from me anything like the second 
choice of my kennel, If therefore America had not been open 
to me I should haye been puzzled to know what to do with 
those dogs of the second choice, which were too good to fall 
into the hands of the enemy, and which I could not keep my— 
self, as my kennel was amply stocked with those superior to 
them, which I reserved to myself, 

All those times are, however, passed away, the breed has 
outlived opposition in this country, and their nigerene as 
now fully recognized, their advance in public estimation, like 
the incoming tide, has steadily and surely made its way, in 
spite of all obstacles, until their position is now a fact, whose 
existence stands simple proof of its bemg. Iam not, there 
fore, now placed on the horns of the dilemma deseribed 
above, and no longer need preserve my dogs jealously from 
being sold in England. I am now free to sell in this country 
dogs which heretofore Americans only could obtain. 

[need merely point to the case of the famous bitch, Countess 
Bear, which I sent to America, thinking I could spare her, 
and having done so found 1 could not do without her, and was 
obliged to buy her and get her back here again. The class of 
dog which I sent to America was so near in yalue to what I 
kept myself that I sailed too close to the wind sometimes, as 
in the aboye instance, and sent away what I aiterward found 
I could not afford to spare. R, Lu. PuRCELL-LLEWELLIN, 

RAnvTon ABBEY, Stafford, July 1. 


THE KENNEL HOSPITAL. 
PARTICULAR FRACTURES. 


RACTURE of the lower jaw sometimes happens, and when 

not implicating both sides is curable. The difficulty is to 
fix the parts, after approximating the broken ends, so that 
fluid nourishment can be admitted. This is done by placing 
between the teeth on either side narrow plates of thick leather 
and then passing a narrow bandage around the nose and jaw. 
To prevent the broken end of the bone inclining inward, the 
hollow between the two sides of the under jaw is padded with 
cotton wool ortow. Itis necessary to obtain exact approxi- 
mation of the fractured ends, toremove any splinters of bone 
or loose teeth which are in the way. Having set the jaw prop- 
erly and bandaged it, not even food or water should he 
allowed to interfere with the parts for at least a whole day, 
and then only fluids must be allowed until some reunion has 
taken place. This will require about ten days. 

Fracture of the Nose.—The nasal bones are when fractured. 
always depressed. No apparatus is required to hold them in 
position when they are raised to their proper place. This can 
be effected by passing up the nostril a strong metal probe and 
gradually forcing the bone back to its proper level. Oecasion- 
ally pointed instruments penetrate the nasal and facial 
bones. Instch cases when bleeding has ceased remove the 
hair and apply an adhesive plaster. In some instancee such 
wounds do not heal, and a sight watery discharge constantly 
oozes from them. ‘This is when the duct which leads from 
the eye to the nose is injured and a lachrymal fistula is estab- 
lished. It is incurable, and the application of caustics or 
astringents is simply inflicting pain with no chance of success. 

Fracture of the Orbit.—Blows just above the eye may 
fracture the bone arch which forms the roof of the cavity in 
which the eyeball lies, The bone is depressed, and causes 
protrusion of the eye. To eleyate the bone a flattened steel 
instrument about the size of a penholder is required. A 
dentist’s tooth-eleyator does very well. This is introduced 
through the skin above the fracture, pushed forward till in 
position under the bone, and then steady pressure will effect 
what is requisite. No plastermg is necessary. 

Fracture of the Ribs is not very common in dogs; eyen aiter 
a, cart wheel has passed over an animalit is rare to find any 
of these bones broken, When it does occur the ends of the 
bone are usually depressed toward the lungs, and therefore 
nothing can be done except to place a wide bandage round 
the chest to limit the movement of the ribs. No pad is to be 
placed on the site of the fracture, as that would only make 
matters worse. 

Fracture of the Spine is followed immediately by paralysis 
behind the seat of injury, It usually occurs about the loins, 
and, when not traceable to direct injury, may be mistaken for 
paralysis of the hind-quarters due to some other cause. In 
many cases manuipulation fails to detect the injured spot, and 
we can then only diagnose the case by the aid of the history, 
the circumstances accompanying it, and the abscence of other 
diseases, Paralysis appearing suddenly, being very complete 
and not responding to treatment in a few days, may usually 
be associated with spinal injury, and is incurable. 

Fractures of the Hip Bones are not uncommon, and can 
seldom he benefited much by surgical interference. Rest is 
the great essential, and recovery may be looked for at the ex- 
pense of some deformity. The advisability of killing an animal 
with a broken hip depends upon the extent of the fracture and 
its exact position, and also upon the requiremeuts of the dog. 
If lameness for life is probable, it is no use treating sporting 
dogs. Pets, in whom a deformity is not seldom an extra 
cause for attachment for the owner, may always be treated. 
Bitches which are suffering from fractured hip bones or 
pelvis should be carefully examined as to the amount of 
damage and deformity resulting, as it may be sufficient to 
prevent parturition. In such cases death can only be the 
result of pregnancy. 

Fracture of the Thigh.—l haye referred to and need only 
repeat, that no bandaging can do any good, and in most cases 
must do harm. Adhesive plasters may be employed with a 
view to limit motion, and the dog must either be kept in a, 
confined space or tied up very shortly, 

Fracture of the Shoulder Bone isnot common. In addition 
to adhesive plasters, a bandage may be used with advantage 
to limit motion. It passes first round the chest behind the 
shoulder, is brought back between the fore legs, and may 
include the elbow of the injured limb if the position of the 
fracture renders it advisable. 

Fracture of the Llbow.—Strietly speaking the elbow is a 
joint, but I here use the term to denot: a region. It is very 
far from tare to have a young dog brought for examination 
said to have ‘‘something wrong with his elbow.” ‘lhe history 
is nearly always the same—a fall from a chair or a table, or 
down stairs, The elbow 1s swollon and painful, but no 
crepitus can he detected. The swelling is not at the point of 
the elbow, but toward the upper part of the joimt, These 
cases ave partial fractures of the lower end ot the bone that 
runs from the elbow upward to the shoulder. ‘Lhere is no 
crepitus, because the bone is only broken partially through. 
The end of this bone contains a deep notch, mte which a 
prominent point of the other bone forming the elbow joint 
fits. The arrangement may be likened to a cleft in the end of 
a stick into which a wedge is placed. Force the wedge 
violently to one side, and you fracture one of the extremities 
of the stick, This is just what en ad with the bones, The 
treatment Is to press back the broken part into position, and 
then retain it there with strips of adhesive plaster. Place 
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outside on the swollen part, and very little pressure is requisite 
to nearly replace the broken end, Unfortunately, the fracture 
is most likely to extend into the joint, and we find as a 
consequence that this lesion is usually followed by more or 
less permanent stiffness. 

Fractured Claws.—W hen the skin is broken, and the amount 
of injury done to the bone is yery great, it had better be 
removed at once with a pair of scissors, When all or many 
of the bones of the foot are broken, they must be placed in 
position as well as possible, cotton wool put between them 
and behind them so as to preserve the form ofthe foot, and 
strips of adhesive plaster so arranged as to firmly retain 
them in siti. 

Fractured Tailis often very difficult to treat. When the 
injury is near the root, a long splint must be fixed along the 
back, and extend sufficiently over the tail to afford support to 
a starched bandage enveloping the injured member. When 
near the point, amputation is the simplest course, but if the 
beauty of the animal would suffer by this, a starched bandage 
will prove effectual. 

No lotions or liniments should be used to a fractured part, 
but the bandages and other appliances should be kept dry, 
Care should he taken to see that no chafing of the skin 
occurs. If it does, cut away the offending substance as far as 
necessary. 

Bandages should be retained for at least fourteen days, and 
if they are causing no great discomfort, for three weeks, 
When a broken leg, especially a front one has weight placed 
on it too soon and no artificial support, it is apt to become 
bent. When deformity is no object, or when permanent 
Jameness may be forgiven, fractures in dogs which do not 
injure any vital organ may be treated with every prospect of 
saving life, Hyen when a bone does not reunite, the parts 
adapt themselves to circumstances. Wounds heal maryel- 
lously, and very ugly compound fractures make good 
recoveries. Hardly any case is hopeless if nature be given a 
fair chance. 

DISLOCATIONS. 


Compared with other domestic animals, dogs are rather 
liable to dislocations, but they are not nearly so often sufferers 
from this accident as the human subject. The difference is 
accounted for by the formation of the joints. In those joints 
in which the formation is such as to Jimit motion to one 
direction, or in which strong short ligaments are strengthened 
by the passage over them of broad tendons, dislocation is rare. 
In those joints where motion is freely permitted in many 
directions, dislocation is common. <A short explanation of the 
structure of a joint will show how this results. The simplest 
moveable joint consists of the junction of two bones, which 
are held tocether by ligaments. The ends of bones entering 
into a joint are smooth, and covered with a thin layer of 
cartilage, or what is commonly called gristle. Completely 
surrounding these ends is a thin membrane containing the 
synoyia, or joint-oil, which lubricates the gliding surfaces of 
the bones. Outside of this thin membrane are strong fibrous 
bands or ligaments, which hold together the bones and limit 
motion to certain directions, and in a definite degree. These 
ligaments are inelastic, and, if the moyement of a bone be 
forcibly carried beyond its normal distance, they become 
stretched, or even lacerated, In those joints where movement 
in difterent directions can be freely effected, such as the hip 
and wrist, the ligaments are long and comparatively loose; 
consequently any violent extension of the bones is not only 
sufficient to stretch them, but is also liable to cause displace- 
ment of the joint surfaces, in other words produce dislocation, 
In those joints where movement is more limited in degree 
aud direction the ligaments are shorter and firmer; therefore, 
while stretching or sprain is readily induced, dislocation seldom 
occurs. It may, in short, be said that the greater the freedom 
of movement possessed by a joint the greater the liability to 
dislocation; the more limited the movement the greater the 
liability to sprain, but the Jess the risk of dislocation. In the 
joints of the limbs of horses we find a formation limiting 
motion in a remarkable manner nearly entirely to one 
direction, and we seldom see dislocation. In the joints of the 
limbs of man we find a construction giving great facility of 
motion in various directions, and dislocations are common. 
The joints of the limbs of dogs take an imtermediary position, 
and we find dislocation only in those joints possessing’ the 
ereatest freedom of motion. 

The cause of dislocation is always external violence, such as 
kicks and blows, or falls, when the animal's own weight is the 
foree causing the injury. I have never known acase of disloca- 
tion in a dog to result from its own muscular action. When 
dislocation is complete and the two bones forming the joint 
are quite displaced a further separation is caused by the con- 
traction of the muscles, which pull upward the lowermost 
_ bone, thus causing the limb to become shorter, and producing 
deformity at the point affected. Another characteristic 
sympton of dislocation is the immobility of the joint, not only 
by the animal, but by any one examining the limb and 
attempting to moveit. This fixedness does not exist to the 
same degree in an old-standing dislocation; in fact, in some 
cases of the dislocation of the hip movement is free enough, 
but deformity is most apparent, bemg increased by wasting 
of the muscles. The existence of fracture, with or without 
dislocation, is detected by the crepilus or grating which 
accompanies movements of the limb. Fracture is met often 
found wtth dislocation, especially at the elbow. When it 
exists adaptation of the parts is more difficult, as a simple 
dislocation when once reduced remains in its place, but when 
the bone is broken separation of the parts takes place again 
immediately the extending force is removed. : 

Treatment,—To reduce a dislocation we have to forcibly ex- 
tend the limb, so as ta bring the head of the displaced bone to 
a level with the surface of the other bone forming the joint, 
and to direct it by pressure back into the position from 
whenceitcame, In many cases simple extension is sufficient. 
as when the bone arrives at the requisite level, it is ‘pulled 
into its place by the muscles attached to it. In others 
some manipulation is required, and that, of course, differs 
according to the form of the joint, and the direction in which 
dislocation has occurred. In dislocation of the higher joints 
of the limb where large muscles are found, extension is painful 
and difficult, In these cases the greatest assistance is derived 
from the administration of chloroform, which in dogs is un- 
fortunately not very sate. A dislocated joint is for a long 
time liable to a recurrence of the accident. 

The Hip Joint is the most common seat of dislocation in dogs. 
In nearly every case the thigh bone is driyen backward and 
upward, causing a deformity which cannot be mistaken, Hx- 
tension must be made in the direction of the bone, 2. e., dowu- 
ward and forward. In large dogs a bandage may be fixed 
above the hock to assist in extending the limb; in small ones 
sufficient grip can be obtained with the hand, In all casesthe 
hip bones must be fixed by an assistant, who keeps the parts 
steady by firmly holding the dog by the loins, and if necessary 
the tail, When reduction is effected a firm adhesive plaster 
should be placed over the seat of injury. and movement limited 
as much as possible for a week or two. 

The Stifie Joint is often the seat of a most troublesome dislo- 
cation, especially in young dogs. The large bones forming the 
joint are not implicated, but a small one which plays m a 

‘Toove on the upper and front part of the joint, The stifle of 

ogs and other animals is the analogue of the knee in man, 
and the knee-cap or patella is the boue I am now referring to. 
This little bone moves upward and downward in a shallow 
fProove and is held in its place by ligaments on either side. 
Should it be violently foreed imward or outward the 
ligaments are stretched, and it slips off the groove. The 
result is the leg is drawn up, the stifle more or less fixed, and 
the whole limb carried’ behind its normal position, The 
displaced bone is easily felt in its altered place on the inside or 
outside of the joint. ~ 


ee ee 


So long ag the stifle remains flexed it is impossible to replace 
the bone, but if the limb be extended by drawing the foot for- 


ward and downward it is easily pushed into its place. 
Unfortunately it is easily displaced, and very often few 


steps 

are taken by the dog before the bone is, by the action ie the 
n old 
case of this kind is almost hopeless, but a recent one only 
requires a. firm adhesive plaster to be applied after reduction 


muscles attached to it, again pulled from its groove. 


and aapeenient of the limb to be limited by a splint, to recover 
rapidly. 

The Wrist is seldom completely dislocated. It is a very 
complex joint, including in its formation about a dozen 


different bones, a number of which are arranged in two 10ws 


placed between the larger bones forming the joint. Occasion- 
ally one or more of these small bones become displaced, and 
are not easily reduced. Slight extension of the foot is made 
while a movement backward and forward is given with one 
hand, the other being employed in pressing back to its proper 
place the prominent bone, The majority of dislocations of 
the larger bones of the wrist are accompanied by fracture, 
and are to be treatea accordingly, 7, e,, by reduction and a 
fixed bandage. 

Dislocations of some weeks’ standing are nearly always in- 
curable, The joint surfaces of misplaced bones soon undergo 
alterations of form which prevent their again being adapted 
to each other, Cavities become filled up and prominent ridges 
flattened down. The ligaments also adapt themselves to 
altered circumstances, and when much inflammation occurs 
exuded material becomes organized and entirely alters the 
structure of parts. 

Dislocations do not kill, although they cause great deformity 
and lameness. Dogs whose usefulness does not depend chiefiy 
on their soundness of limb may therefore live ‘a long time 
without pain or inconvenience after the acute symptoras of 
an unreduced dislocation have passed off, : 

Immediately a dislocation has occurred is the best time to 
effect its reduction without chloroform, as then no inflamma- 
tory changes have taken place and the shock to the system 
renders the muscles less acfive in counteracting extension of 
the bones. As effective extension is often sufficient to produce 
replacement of the bones an amateur is justified in attemptin 
Aa ee in ah emergency,—Wm. Hunting in Land an 

ater 


WARWICK SHOW.—Pittsburgh, Jnly 11.—Xditor Forest 
and Stream: When I read your bright correspondent’s arti- 
cle on Warwick show and the mastiffs there, I thought he 
was going it a trifle too strong. So Isent a copy of the paper 
to a mastift fancier, who was in no way interested in any of 
the dogs exhibited, nor in any of the exhibitors, and asked his 
opinion as to the correctnessof Mr. Portier’s judging. His 
reply was: ‘‘He (Mr. P.) evidently knows the correct thing 
when he sees it.” This is from one of the oldest and most criti- 
eal judges in England. As to Mr. Taunton, I have always 
heard him spoken of in the yery highest terms, as a gentle- 
man above reproach. A well-known breeder in this country had 
considerable correspondence with him, and says thatif it had 
been possible for Mr. Taunton to take advantage of any one, 
he gave him the chance, and it wasnot taken. Mr. Richard 
Cook, Hon. Secretary of the old English Mastiff Club, a gentle- 
man. certainly of spotless character, always writes of Mr. 
Taunton with the utmost respect. Mr. Wm. Graham of Bel- 
fast, who knows doggy men as well as any man in England or 
Treland, and who was admirably described as “downy but 
straight,” also spoke of Mr. Taunton as above allsugpicion of 
underhand dealings. I do not remember the exact words 
“Tillibulero” used and cannot find his article, but I dis- 
tinctly remember that it was calculated to create the idea that 
Messrs. Taunton and Portier were colleagues in an underhand 
way. This may not have been his intention, and if it was not 
I think he should make an explanation. This is apropos of 
Mr. Turner's letter in yours of the 9th.— W. W ApE. 


CHAMPION BUSH.—Providence, July 11, 1884.—ditor 
Forest and Stream: In your paper of July 10, Mr. Frank 
Kent, of Monticello, New York, advertises beagle pups for 
sale out of his champion Bush. I being the owner of cham- 
pion Bush and a litter of six weeks’ old pups out of her, thmk 
there must be some mistake. Arethere two English beagle 
bitches named champion Bush?—A. H. WAKEFIELD, 


PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW.—The list of special prizes 
which have been promised by leading firms in Philadelphia is 
daily increasing in number, and the building in which the ex- 
hibition will be held has already been erected. Numerous 
letters have been received by the Kennel Club inquiring for 
particulars, These willbe sent you in time for your next 
publication.—Homo, 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge: To insure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animal: 
1, Color, 


, Name and residence of owner, 
2. Breed. 


6 
buyer or seller. 
3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 
4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 
5. Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam, 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. : 

Allnames must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 

paper only, and signed with writer’s name, 
NAMES CLAIMED. 


(=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Cad L. By Mr. T.-M, Steele, Dover, N. H., for blue belton English 
setter bitch, whelped Feb. 28, 1884, by Cashier (Dash I1I.—QOpal) out 
of Jersey (Blue Dan—Flake). 

Badger Queen. By Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., for black, white 
and tan English setter bitch, vated Feb. 15, 1884, by Captain 
Snoozer (Rake—Phyllis) out of Blsie Belton (Layerack Chief—Fame), 

Belle Rogers. By Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., for black and white 
BPoglish setter bitch, whelped Jan’ 14, 1884, by Prince Al (Leicester— 
Dodge’s Rose) out of Moll (Belton—Snow). 

Storm. By Mr. EB. H. Lathrop, Springfield, Mass., for black, white 
and tan English setter dog, whelped September, 1882, by Mr, J. Y. 
Ross's Carl (Leicester—Dart) out of Countess Vesta (Dan—Countess). 

Echo. By Mr. Herman F. Schellhass, Brooklyn, N. Y., for black, 
white and tan beagle bitch, whelped April 15, 1554, by imported Ring- 
wood out of Trinket (Flute— Queen). 

Bron. By Mr, EB. 8. Gaylord, New Haven, Ct., for black cocker 
spaniel dog, whelped April 29, 1884 (Obo IIL., A.K.R. 432—Smnut, A,K,R. 
858) 


Belle Gladstone. Gy Mr, John Bolus, Wooster, 0., for blue belton 
English setter bitch, whelped April #1, 1654, by champion Gladstone 
out of Jessamine (A-K-R. 1062), Ae 

Virginia. By Dr. Geo, A, Quimby and Mr. C. W. Littlejohn, Lees- 
burg, Va., for jordan. nud white pointer bitch, whelped Oct. 39, 1883 
(champion Sensation, A,K.k, 217—Rose, A.K.R. 214). 

Clifton. By Mr. Guy reeds Summit, N. J., for liver and white 

ointer dog, whelped April 18, 1884, by Donald (A.K.R. 1246) out of 

race (A, JR. 1250), ORES 


=> See instructions at head of this column. 

Glenjinlass—Dick Laverack. Mr... G. Davey’s(London, Ont.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Glenfinlass (A.K.R. 558) to his champion Dick Laver- 
ack (Thunder—Peeress), J ay. 4, 

Tonsey—Jake, Mr. Geo. EH, Browne's (Dedham, Mass.) Gordon sect- 
ter bitch Topsey (Bailey’s Tom—Panny Rupert) to Mr, Wm. Quiggle’s 
Jake (Tom—Bers), June 1. : , 

Bellona—Sensation, The Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer bitch 
Bellona (A.K,R. 204) to their Chaeiplon Sensation (A.E.R. #17), July 5. 

Blonde—Blue Dick.. Mr, John Bolus’s (Wooster, O.) Englich setter 
biteh Blonde (Carlowitz—Magnet) to his Blue Dick (Blue Dash—Jolly 
May), July 5. 

Dei —Blue Dick. Mr. John Bolus’s (Wooster, G.) English setter 
bitch Daisy (Belton—Floss) to his Blue Dick (Blue Dash—Jolly May), 


uly 8. 
fn WHEILPS, 


’ = See instructions at head of thas cohunn. iy 
Bee Me Te a packaed Cowark, NJ) English setter bitel 


18, 1884, by the Clifton Kennel, Jersey City. 
Whaite, Elizabeth, N. J.; a dog to Mr. C. R. Thorburn, Ridgefield, N. 
J,;a dog to Mr. Guy Tremelling, Summit, N, J., and a bitch to Mr. L, 
B. Kline, Huntington, P 


Speek (Roderick—Foster’s Speck), July 7, ten (two dogs), by Blue 


Blood (Leicester—Doll); one dog living, 

Young Suan, The Milwaukee Kennel Club's (Milwaukee, Wis,) {r- 
ported Irish water spaniel bitch Young Swan (E.K.C.8.B, 12,671), June 
ae RE sale dogs), by Blair’s imported Drake (Connaught Ranger 

Pord, Mr, C. M. Munhall’s (Cleveland, 0.) pointer bitch Dora (Sen- 
sation, A.K.R. 217—Devonshire Lass), .June 28 eight (two dogs), by his 
Donald If. (Donald—Devonsbire Lass); a!] liver and white, — 
_Aellve, Mr. J. Crompioi’s Gordon sétter bitch Nellie, June 5, ten 
(font dog's), by Mr. Geo. E. Browne’s Glen Il. (Dr. Aten’s Glen—Border 

i 


y). 
Polly, The Westminster Kennel Club’s pointer bitch Polly (A.K,.R. 
212), June 26, eight (five dogs), by their imported Bang Bang (A.K.R, 


394). 

Lulu I, Mr, J, J. Scanlan’s (Fall River, Mass.) red Irish setter 
bitch Lulu II, (Berkley—Lulu), July 5, eleven (eight dogs), by cham- 
pion Glencho, 

Delph Viva. The Riverside Kennel’s (Clinton, Mass.) mastiff bitch 
Delph Viva (E.K,C.8.B, 14,788), July 4, eight (six dogs), by The Prince 
(Crown Prince—Lady), ’ 

fend. The Riverside Kennel’s (Clinton, Mass.) mastiff bitch Rena 
(A.K.R. 262), July 12, eight (five dogs), by their Agrippa (A.K.R. 444). 

SALHS. 


=~ See instructions at head of this column. 

Dash, Lemon and white pointer dog, whelped Veb. 19. 1882 (Sensa- 
Ss A.K.R. 217—Lill), by Mr, W. Phillips to Dr, A. McCollom, New - 

ork. 

Obo IL—Smut whelp. Black, with white on chest, cocker spaniel 
dog. whelped April 29, 1884, by Mr, H. C. Bronsdon, Boston, Mass., to 
Dr. Gaylord. New Haven. Conn. 

Belle’s Pride. Blue belton English setter bitch, tyrs. old (champion 
Paris—Harrison’s Belle), by Mr. T. G. Dayey, London, Ont,, to Mr. 
Hugh Hill, New York. 

Canadian Queen. Black, white and tan English setter biteh, Vayre. 
old (Lava Rock, A.K.R. 369—Liddersdale, A.K.R. 592), by Mr. T. G. 
Davey, London, Ont., to Mr. Geo. ©. Sterling, New York. 

Storm. Black, white and tan English setter dog. whelped Septem- 
ber, 1882 (Carl—Countess Vesta), by Mr. R. B. Nesbitt, Storm Lake, 
Ta., to Mi, E, H, Lathrop, Springfield, Mass. 

Echo. Black, white and tan beaglé bitch, whelped April 15, 1884 
(imported Ringwood--Trinket), by Mr. N. Elmore, Granby, Conn., to 
Mr, H. ¥. Schellhass, Brooklyn. N. Y. 

Gludstone—Jessamine whelp, Black, white and tan English setter 
dog. whelped April 21, 1284, by Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., to Dr. §. 
D. Woods, Connellsville, Pa. 

Topsy. lack, white and tan English setter bitch, 2yrs. old (Blue 
Dick—Burlesque), by Ma, John Bolus, Wooster, O,, to Mr, Wm. Fies, 
Marion, O, : 

Bonner. Black and white English setter dog, whelped Dec. 24, 
1883 (Blue Dick—Bramble), by Mr. John Bolus, Wooster, O., to Col. 
W_ H. Rankin, Paducah, Ky. 

Topsey. Gordon setter bitch, whelped August. 1881 (Bailey’s Tom— 
Fanny Rupert), by Mr. BH. C. Alden, Dedham, Mass., to Mr. George f. 
Browne, same place, 4 

Bron. Black cocker spaniel dog, whelped April 20, 1884 (Obo IL. 
A.K,R. 432—Smubt, A-K.R. 858), by Mr. H. C. Bronsdor, Boston, Mass., 
to Mr. B. 8. Gaylord, New Haven, Conn, 

Bang Bang—Rose whelp, WGiver and white pointer dog, whelped 


May 15, 1884, hy the Westminster Kennel Oiub to Mr, A, Diaz Miranda, 
Philadelphia, Pa, 


Katherine. Red Irish setter bitch (A.K.R. 1085), by Dr, Wm, Jarvis, 
Claremont, N. H., to Mr. R. R, Howard, Devil’s Lake, Dak. 
Glencho—Juno whelps, Red Irish setters, whelped April 6, 1884, by 


Mr. Geo. Langran, Yonkers, N, Y.. a dog to Mr, Rudolph Hickemeyer, 


same place; a bitch to Mr. N, Putmam, same place, and a dog to Mr. 


Frank Harmon, New York, 


Donald—Grace whelps. April 


Liver and white pointers, whelped 
x. Mr. G. W. 


J.,adog to 


a. 
PRESENTATIONS, 


[2=> See instructions at head of this column. 
Donald—Grace whelp, Liver and white pointer dog, whelped April 


18, 1884 (Donald, A.K.R. 1246—Grace, A,K.R, 1250), by Mr. G.W.Whaite, 
Elizabeth, N. J., to Mr. Chas. HE. Seott, Bristol, Pa. 


A Deriyitn Amount or Insurance, lowest cash rates, plain con- 


tract, ample security—such are the specia] advantages offered hy the 
Travelers, of Hartford, Conn.—Adv. 


| Kifle and Grap Shooting. 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 


GARDNER, Mass., July 9.—The regular meet of the Gardner Ritle 
Clib occurred to-day, The American decimal target was used; 


shooting off-hand; distance, 200yds., with a possible 100. The score 
tells the work of each; 


GF Eulsworth..... eee » 83 W'@rboveéland. .c: 2220.02. jcc. 80 


G E¥ordyce.......- ee ..88 GH Heywood.................. VW 
AvMatthewsyt fgi.-) fesse lees St Th Perkins ceneees sine oe ane 62 
VINA ATE GHig fens ee ei: + <n eres 80. 


BOSTON, July 12.—The attendance atthe range at Walnut Hill to- 
day was very small, most of the gentlemen being away on their vaca- 
tions. Those that shot had to contend with a strong, uty wind, 
which blew from 6 o'clock. In the Victory mateh, Mr. J. B. Fellow 
made a good 80. Inthe rest match, Mr. G. H. Brown made one 97 
and one 91. In the decimal match, W. Charles scored two 65's off- 
hand. Appended are the best records of the day: 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


RiReeds..... 08 20es 456445655446 J Darmoddy (mil). ..5444454845—42 
W J look......,... .4544465545—45 J C Mallory (mil). .,.4444454344—40 
EC Barnes. ......-.- 54ddd54554—d4 

Creedmoor Prize Match. 
FW FPerkins........ 444554555546 F Wallace......... , 4545554544 —45 
RReed......-. .....4454554355—46 WJ Look........... dd44544d55—44 
T Hiverett.......-... 445554454545 J A Cobb..........,. 444545444442 


MONTREAL July 12.—The annual prize meeting of the Quebec 
Rifle Association has been fixed for the 12th of August at Pomt St, 
Charles range. he battalion teams are reduced to six men, Incon- 
sequence of the rule at Wimbledon the shooting with Martinis has 
been changed from 800 to 500 and 6U9yds. 


THE TRAP. 


Correspondents who favor us.with club scores are particularly re- 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION. 


Editor Forest and Stream + 
At a meeting held in Boston, July 9, steps were takeu toward form- 
ing a ‘New England Trap-Shooters Assoc*‘ation,” and a committee 
appointed to draft by-laws and shooting rules, [ would like to be al- 
lowed to offer for their consideration the following suggestions: 
First—W ould, it not be more satisfactory to 1rap-shooters generally 
to charge each individual member of the association a certain sum 
as annual dues, imstead of a certain amount for each club, as is the 
case now in the Massachusetts State Association, and at the time of 
joining, the person to state what club he identifies himself with, 
Which would do away with all liability of dispute in the case ofa 
erson who is a member of several different clubs, as to which club 
fe should shoot with, as has sometimes been the case in the past, 
Sevond—Should the association oifer badges for competition, to 
make all maiches open to all member's of the association, the winner 
of the badge to name time and place of the next match, Under the 
present rules of the Massachusetts State Association, all badges are 
subject to challenge, aud if several parties ehallenge the holder 
nearly simultaneously the first challenge received by the secretary of 
the association is accepted and the others are obliged to wait until 
after the match takes place before they can challenge again, when 
the same thing is liable to happen again, thus disappointing many 
who would like to contest for the badges. Under the proposed con- 
ditions I think more interest would be taken in badge matches 
a larger attendance secured, the badges more likely to be distributed 
among different clubs, and more satisfaction given to the shooters 
generally. T, §, Han, 
‘VALE fbr, Mass. 


Editor Forest and Stream: . 
In conformity with the call extended to the New England ee 
men. a ahs Reid held at Young's Hotel, Boston, July 9, A Jarge 
number attended, and the New England Trap Shooters’ Association 
sae MEN Poe er Gas URE eet OE 
+ Presid A » Gi » N. HH. Vice-f : P a 
Tinker, Providence, R. T., and L, a waite, ‘Worcester, “Miace,s Boove. i 
- F J 


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“a 
ast Providence, R. 1.; Col. H.C. 


foe: ‘C H. Orr, Boston; Treasurer, A. F. Adams, Boston; Dir 
. Kir 


ikwood, Bostan; KE. 8, Luther, 


Farrington, Portland, 


ot 
_ 


Me.; ©. ™M. Stark, Dunbarton, N. H.; Harry 
Nichols, Bridgeport, Conn. The meeting passed off in the best siyle, 
hud augurs well for the future of this organization. 


BOSTON GUN 6LUB TOURNAMENT: 


7 AST Wednesday foiind a thron 
New England States assemb] 
boyided by the Boston Gun Club, and the day beme well 


ts} 


got the strongest Shodters it thé 


to run through the prozrapime 
adapted 


‘or Clay-pigeon shooting found LU Sirona tes from Portland, 
7. 


eter, N, H., Providence, R, T. 

oters In, the lists. 

vel heen biought togéther:, The 
ended his: agreeably 


shooters; 

First event, 5 birds, 18yds. rise: 
CB R\ (I 1c) Sa ea Se 01011—3 
AIRED HS Ol es a A 01110—38 
CSPIFIADGOI saiten teases aad 11111—5 
W Webher.......... 05.0000 01101—8 
C DeRochmont,........... 10000—1 
OD JenidNS:...........0565 10011—3 
ADRS ELC Pr iosie sicacsips tims 11111—5 
D Wirkwood........ ps Bers 11111—5 
DEAL ORIG cn cisemisonsces ,. OLLI1—t 
und, Petry aiid Webber third. 


40 00 


Ae 


Second evetit, § pait Carn ‘y 


Hacer. .., 


en Or bab 
eRochmont,... . 


to. fhe comfo 
the meeting in the afternoon of the 
sociiition narrowed the time limit, some 3,5 ; 
inasummary manner. Below records the success of the different 


y. 310 00 
ad DeRoéchmont and Smith thii'd, 


6, 
assachusetts also haying their best 
_In fact, no stronger lot of 50 trap-shooters have 
ony ok fh awning recently added, 


4 of Sie sportsmen, and although 
ew Hngland, 'lrap-Shsoting As- 
0 birds were, disppsed of 


Sb Bartlett .-. :-,.s--.-. 01i11—4 
M Plympton .............5 Q1000—1 
GA Sampson......-...-..10110—8 
GHMcKenney.... .....-. 01001—2 
TRAD AVIb.weckore fh 4-lne 00011—1 
Eis ETS hone ae yer 00900—0 
WPS aT ee ee AR ee 111—5 
OPUS Tas) [io eee 11111—5 
HE Harmon... ......-.. 11110—4 


rds riset 


meen de 


snee e 10 ay u—s 


-lyiiptop first; Stark. secdrd, an 
third sue 7 birds; igyds. Hse atin: Ea ives ae 

BIL ee ae Pfs. os AGL i—® gheldbn; OM............ o110i—5 

BITY.-+-veceeceeeeees ed111110--6 Payne, d.B..2001.002.. = 401010 

Jienking.2i.-..2.- s...1110011—5 ~Plympton........... /:.0111011—6 
De Rochmont........... OMWM11—6 Liuther.... ............0100101 -8 
SVEN ee es ep ees H11111—¥ Sheldon, W H..........- 1111111—7 
Bartlett... s.-. ese. ee ,.1000111—4 Webber................5 1114111—7 
LOR LO eer pl sae an 0100000—1 Hloughton............... 0101000—2 
LE a oo eee 1101111—6  _Kirkwood............... 00110. w—2 
Samipsonee ls. s seve. 1111001—6 ~Hlarmon,..........-...-. 00010 w—1 
a i aan Oe eee, OLOLON0O—2 Snow..... 2.2.05, - wean 1114110—6 
Roberts..........-.--....1010111—5  Rowell.................. 0111110—5 
WinRorwens halts sees 111011—6 Crandall, G,...........4, 0100111—4 
OE: te) Mia 54 eee acer 0101000—2. Cooper. -....-.......--..- 00100 Ww —1 
Oarey ..... ee AP el ae ..-J410101—5 Johmnson.......-......... 1010010—8 
Loh, 2 a ean Oda E—6" Braenisy. scl le ol ee: 1110111—6 
Payne, CiBe 5 .11001i—5 ‘Crandall, W............. 1101111—6 


Petry. 3... =: 
Tinker. (s.. ...-:: -4001 17 11—7 
Kirkwood ... . 10 10 10 115 


W UL Davis 11 10 11 10—6 
owell 11 11 11 11—8 
DeRocliniott.... ...10 10 11 10-8 
GO OGray.w. wc. t.: 10 11 1d 11-7 
Th Pei ae ae a Oe 00 11 11 00—3 | 
Gogperses ese sy. 2. 10 11 11 11--7 
_ Row 


éll first, pe and Gray second 


Sah sin asics te alr a 1411111—7 
Gooper......2..... .....1101101-5 
PEWS acess.) Sess oon 1001010—3 
ERY. 2. + ekece ove. - p< OL0001—3 
fenet cApdae teedae yee seset110110—5 
Pinker... .....0........1900101=—4 
Siriciee . AF. 1110000—8 
Plympton. ....5--....- 11001014 
ole, ...... Nepeptin eS 11001145 
MD Gitmai............. 10011115 
Stables pal e29) Jo 0001711 — 
Catey ows Waves eee OLouitO— 
ANCIS...-..--.+-.......0110010-$ 
MeKenney eo ,.... .1010100—2 
toughton......-........0100011—@& 
Rolerts| nosey ne 0100101 —3 
3M Sheldon............ 11114016 
AV AVES, cg cocky sss. c 1120011—5 
Gray ...... eT nate 1110111—6 
DeRochmiont............ 0110110—4 
Kirkwood........ .-- .--1000110—3 


ifyds, rise: 


Jenking............. di 40 00 11—5 
Moughton...........14 11 10 190—6 
ifancis.y | 0c. ken 10 10 10 115 
RT Llnteee es aeSee a) 10 40 11 11—6 
Snow 10 11 11 10—6 
Webber 11 10 14 11—7 
Stark... i 10 11 11-7 
Crandall ..10 10 11 40-5 


Sam qi 00 Ti 10—5 


W Sheldon............ --1111101—6 
Paynes. ...... 0.0.0... 2 1010011—4 
JR Payne............ +3.1101000—3 
Weber vueese: sel +.1001000—2 
M Plymptom............ 3011001 —4 
Barmy ......--...-.--.:-1111]10—6 
PRAT OR Th. Wh sno reser 1111100—5 
Beret... 2-2 ease -. -1001011—4 
BARStie ahs eee. fos 0110011—4 
| & F Cutting... .....,.. ,0010111—4 
Snow fan sarees 41001115 
EMIGNOF Sok peat pease omy thHO01t1—6 
Rowell .........,-.--2+-1011111-6 
MOHISOM be cn asyaieg yess 1102010—4 
$x Orandalh. ....52.-2- 9: 0001101—3 
H D Mathewson.... .... 1101411—6 
GG Tidsbury .......--..1111011—6 
L A Adamis.... ..,....,.0111111—6 
AL Papanti..........0.. 0111010—4 
J Nichols.........5:.- -. .0111010—4 
T GStanton........ ..--.4110101—5 


Sampson first, Tidsbury and Sheldon second, Eager third, Lorett 


fund Plympton fourth. 


‘Sixth event, 6 pair doubles, 15yds. rise: 


Kirkwood 10 11 41 00 11 % W Crandall......01 10 14 41 10— 7 
Roberts... ....10 01 10 00 0i— 5 Gray... ........ 11 01 10 01 00— 5 
Sin eee i1 11 01 10 11— 8 G1 11 11 11 11— 9 


PGRiY a. wy 2c. 201 11 11 14 10— 6 
Gooper ........ Ai 11 01 11 O1— 8 
Jenkins........ fi 11 1 11 11—10 
SHamipson........ 11 00 10 01 ti— 6 
Rowell......... 11 11 11 10 10— § 
Houghton....... 10 11 11 11 10— 8 
Davis......-.....d1 li tf 11 11—10 
Gilmore .. ....- 10 10 11 11 11— 8 


61 01 11 11 11— 8 
11 01 11 11 10—8 
..10 10 11 11 11— 8 
..10 11 10 11 1i1— 8 
..11 11 11 11 O1— 9 

R ..10 11 11 11 11— 9 

i 11 10 11 11 OI— 8 
Mathewson...... 11 01 11 00 00— 5 


Johnson......-..- 11 10 O1 11 O1— 4 
Gn OWeb cea eaes oe 10 10 11 10 10— 6 


ISDREGIE 6 6G) ae ger -110101i—5 Sampson......-........- 1011001— 4 
Pe@rryinls. soo. eee en ed LOOIII-5 Addams, ...-....5..+-22 «3 110101!—5 
DeKochmont........... WOH —5. Stank. esse ees eo ,....0110110—4 
Gibaan jj... we = (ee TILE heS RoR Gee an eee Gre bioe 11011116 
Smith.......-<.-,..- ,-,.1111011—-6 CP Plympton........... 1111111— 

TRODGRGS = so eaes Sees tenes 11001115 J HW Brady.... .........1010001—3 
We Orandall.. -...3. see: G1i001—4_ -Rowell..............+).. 1111111—7 
BeANDOI asics esis flacl 1010011—4 M Plympton........ ....1101111—6 
(SC hr. Ou ee eeene Aba Bade 0111001—4  Kirkwood,.........-... .0171110—5 
Garey et iukesss nla LOLOMMR— Sa Coles aL) eo ei ne 1100110—4 
JB Sapo BREE Soothe’ 54 10101115 Johnson.... -....-...... 0110001—3 
Bartlett....... pert eae W1OMOI—5. Davis. .-. 2... ee 4010011—4 
OM Sheldon...... pee. TiMt010—b. “Houghton !)))2yi.44) 0.5 11111117 
SAGSTTECLYIS tte gee ieee ee itddOG— 5 a Mlraicereee. Wires! even sae 1101111—6 
Gutting..,......-.. ...@10011/1_5 Papanti............-...6 01000Ww— 

(hits) 8) [SPB sere noes 1111110—6 Francis........5. .. .,..0100101—8 
Siow de ween ..-..,..1001011—5 Mathewson............:. 1111710—6 
(OUST Aes cic sisrean ss ays eee 0100110—8 G Orandall.............. 111:1111--7 
W Sheldon........... 2: 1111100—5 Tidsbury~-..........-... 1111101—6 
Cooper......-.. os pe aden TT10=6 Waatherse 22 eA. 1100134 - 5 


fourth. 

Eighth event, 7 birds, i8yds. rise: 

DeRochmont. .. . LO0TIH0— 3 Ataris sae eee ees 0111001—4. 
Dodd.. , .11/1017—6 Sampson...,........... 1110111—6 
Cole... .., ---- 1110101—6 Mathewson........ .... OJ1M10—5 
Hager...--2. -,,- -l011017—5 Gray.-...-.. + .. Q0010L0 ~ 2 
TA Wom cinerea a tale OOlI—5 Tidsbury 1111101—6 
LBREINS Spee eee eee O111111—6 Smith,.... 1101011—5 
Shelian..... sees seee ps 1141111—7% Orandall.... -- O111110—5 
Minmicone t.\.0s eee |... d0i1171—7 M Sheldon...........-.. 1110110—5 


and Stark fourth. 


inker 5 
Sheldon and Tinker first, Sampson and Cole second, Eager third 


Ninth ¢yent, Bostou Gun Club medal mateh, open to all clubs in the 
New England States. Conditions: Two men,? birds from 5 traps; 7 
birds from one trap; ears double from 2 stationary traps: 

: orcester Sportsman Club, 


6 traps. Doubles. Singles, 1 trap. 
WOR 0 co race cy 7 serasa-mecns OS LOOITE Ii 10 11 GOL 80 
1 Fe se ER etre EE 1110111 10 11 11 1110011 | 
Worcester Second Team. 
GUTH bb = bce pace or aoc . 0110001 Ti. Ad 0111110 { 80 
SamMpson.,...5.; «+... haan «1011101 i iW i 1011110 
Worcester First Team. : 
Sprite ees sess sate levee LOL 000 li 1 00 0110111 {2d 
Houghton. .......,.. --..-.,.1010110 00° 10 OL 1071011 
Exeter Sportsman Club. 
Coo elt taee ae cS PS eS 101110 O1 00 OL d1i1101 | —30 
Je Wine eee TOT di di iW didi ¢ 
Jarragansett Gun Club, of Providence, R.T 
Slat Cue ER ere ES IPT das 0111010. 40 
i Pee reelet aces sans had Paatell 1100 it ib ii titi ee: 
7 * “= : 


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1 right or: 


Watchembket Gain Club, of East Providence, R. 1. 


TANGR ER os a Fs cok tese otek iee g100 1110 1100011 | __o4 

Ba ectt tr. oor Mae 1111100 oo Oo 11 0011011 § 
Massachuset Fufle Assoeiation, 

TROON chou he eco celeaty ste Payee skast ot OO O Han ¢—2 

THASOUNY-6 Loch srede creo ecos tT LOL OL It 1t 11 1114111 
Nairagansett Independent Team. = 

OV eukuckiey fey fat hs RAPA LOLOL o1 11 10 0110001 } og 

ETAT EL A cn teas ait nace ares’ s 0111110 1i 10 10 0000111 f 

tae South End Club of Worcester. 

Davis 1101114 di 00 11 I111111) 99 

Webbe : 10 11 10 Vii; 

: Unidn Gin Club of Pawtucket. 

Pays... acm, reves hex Migs tds ee 00 A 1111101} oy 
IRUGLUS Ss ebb hbo edr eters neat 1170171.,, OL i 1010010 y~*" 
Narragansett hid Team. 

HEL rs RCs, settee. 0101101 ft 1 10 0111101) 94 
Waray verte enh posh caine diene 1001011 Tt ds ul 1111111 § : 

. Boston Gun Club. 
GHOWsy eest bees wars sane akveyk 1110011 10 10 it wnt ¢—22 
prt ete aye eine wy Be Sr 0101101 Wii 11 1111111 

Union Gui Club, Second Team. 
Bitty he ety ti+ss Sader a. 100i = 00 id 1 1HOL001 | yg 
JR Payne, ....-..-....-. ... , 0110000 1 10 10 1101111 
Brockton Club. 

Used LT oy seen a was ree Se 0111001 Win i 1111210 | _ 94 
PRN Sctea de aa oo sas on ice 110111 li iit. ti 4412011 j 

Willard Shooting Association, Portland, Me.; Fitst Team. 

Ben ere eee eaten 110001 w. 

MGIC OND RVs owe cela ree tre tye UI1001iw. 

Willard Shooting Association, Portland, Me., Second Team. 
VATION sees ee adele ».... 1000101 w, 
NDE Kah hey Pye gee iat ee 111110iw. 


Rowell and Tidsbury first money and the beautiful gold badge pre- 
sented by the Boston Gun Club, Bartlett and Francis second, Davis 
and Webber third, Sheldon and Carey fourth, The two teams from 
the Willard Club had te withdraw for an early train. 


CLAY=PIGEON TOURNAMENT. 


HE inter-state clay-pigeon tournament, mentioned in these col- 
uinfis the other day, lias been arranged. It will be held at the 
Metropolitan Basebdll Park, tlis city, Ang. 14-16, The full pro 
gramme of the itie&ting is now in preparation, and may be had on ap- 
plitation. to the Ligowsk¥ Clay-Pigeon Company, 59 Murray street, 
New York. This is the frst of a contemplated series of similar tour- 
naments, coficerning whith further particulars will be given in our 
next issue. ; 

Following is the programme; ‘1 qs, 

Thursday, August 14,—Matoh No. 1, purse $200, individital sweep- 
stake, entrance $5, 7 single clay-pigeons, 18yds. rise. Metch No. 2, 
purse $300, individual sweepstale, entrance $6, 7 single clay-pigeons, 
use of two barrels, break with second barrel to count 14, rise 2lyds., 
four monies, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Inter-State team champion- 
ship contest.—Match No. 3, at 2 P. M., purse $500, open to teams of 
three from any duly organized gun club (Members of teams must be 
of at least 30 days standing as club members.) Entrance fee $25, 7 
single clay-pigeons, 18yds. rise, 3 doubles, 15yds, rise, no class shoot- 
ing. A printed list of the clubs entered will be circulated on the 
grounds, 

Friday, August 15,—Match No. 4, purse $250, individual sweepstake, 
entrance $5, 7 singles, 18yds, rise. Match No. 5, purse $300, open to 
any team of two. entrance $7, 7 singles, 2iyds.rise. New York Har- 
ber team, championship contest.—Match No. 6,2P.M., purse $500, 
open to teams of five from any duly urganized gun club (members of 
teams mist be of at least 80 days standing as club members), entrance 
fee $25, 7 single clay-pigeons, 18yds. tise, 4 doubles, 15yds. rise, class 
shooting, In this match, No. 6, the club of the team coming from 
within a radius of 50 miles of New York city, making the highest 
score of similarly loeated clubs shall be entitled to the New York 
Harbor championship medal, donated by the Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon 
Co, Also the elub of the team of N, Y. State making the highesst N. 
Y¥. State team score shall be entitled to the N. Y. State championshi 
medal, donated by the Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co, Also, the clu 
of the team of New Jersey making the highest New Jersey State 
feam seore, shall be entitled tothe New Jersey State championship 
medal, donated by the Ligowsky Clay-Pigeon Co. Also the elub of 
the team of Connecticut making the highest Connecticut State team 
score shall be entifled to the Connecticut State championship medal. 
(Through courtesy of present holders of said medals at request of the 
donors;said medals to be subsequently subject to challenge in accor- 
dance with the original conditions. 

Saturday, Aug. 16—Match No. 7, purse $250, individual sweepstake, 
3 pairs doubles, 18yds. rise, entrance $5. Match No. 8, purse $300, in- 
dividual sweepstake, entrance $5, 7 single clay-pizeons, 24yds. rise. 
At 2 P.M. the finishing of match No. 6, viz., the New York Harbor 
teant championship contest. Match No.9, purse $200, the Ligowsky 
walking mateh, 2 pairs double birds, entrance $5. 

Ligowsky rules (June, 1884) tozovern unless herein otherwise stated. 
The angles of the traps shall be fixed (and not changed) similar to the 
arrangement at the first international clay-pigeon tournament, held 
at Chicago. May 27-81, 1884. 

The traps will be reloaded after each shot. Shooting at sweep- 
stakes, as per programme (supplemented by extra sweepstakes when- 
ever oecasion offers, under direction of the officers of the day), will 
begin daily at 10 A. M, and last until 2 P. M., when the championship 
matches will commence. Sweepstakes will be ‘‘class shooting”’ unless 
otherwise stated. Purses will be divided into 50, 30 and 20 per cent., 
and use of single barrel only, unless otherwise stated. All sweep- 
staies shall be handicapped. The records of this tournament only 
to govern the handicaps (see rules), Sweepstakes open to all ama- 
teurs. In sweepstakes, ties in double bird shooting shall be shot from 
traps No.2and 4. Ties in single birds shall be shot from trap No. 3, 
miss and out. 

All matches will be from 5 traps (screens), 3yds. apart, Charge of 
powder unlimited; charge of shot 14%ozs. Ties for championship 
matches shall be shot at 5 singles 2lyds..rise. and 2 doubles 18yds. 
rise. The new Ligowsky rules are principally those used at the 
Chicago tournament, 

All entries close with the firing of the first gun in each match, In 
the championship contest (matches 3 and 6) choice of position will be 
awarded in the order of entering, Clubs can enter at once, and thus 
gain this advartage, by remitting $5. 

In the championship matches, Nos. 38 and 6, each team will finish 
its singles before shooting doubles; each member of team willremain 
at the score until he finishes his "!singles,”’ etc. 


TRENTON, N. J., July 10,—The Trenton Gun Club had a glass ball 
and clay pigeon shoot at Trenton to-day, 20 glass balls, i8yds., Card 
rotary trap, and 10 clay-pigeons at 1byds. rise, resulting as follows: 


Glass Balls. 
Jas M Allen,.... A ..04111111410111111101—17 


Win Mickel......-. .-11110111110111110110—16 
AS eight... se eceeeee eeeeeees + e-01001110101010110000— 9 
ELMAOVELERS Jeet Cen MOUbAsmsisetines socks Sauvage 11000111000000000016 — 6 
[Gia th Ms de boot eo bp otdobbh hdc bboddc tan rer 41111111111111101000—16 
rife DAD AP OTS) UU es veces wate 6 Sess he ces ners a ee 10010900000101101011— 8 
(CER ES aie an dd sborepioctia  UOCB Gostee nearest 00001000001000000000— 2 
Wale saul: WAS On nite; en alent pe een ea C mBrasri a: 00001111010101001001— 8 
Clay-Pigeons, 
Jas M Alien ......... 1111101111—-9 J Dumount..-...-..-. ,0111111101—8 
Wm Mickel. ......... 1011110000—5 CP Barwis........... 0001000001—8 
ACSTeISH! Foye. As: 1111000101—6 W L Barwis.......... 0001010010—8 
HLoveless........-.. 0001000101—3 M Quinton........... -0111110100—6 
O@Wealer. eet ee 00111111107 FE Arrend.... ..... 1110101101—7 


MERIDEN —Connecticut State Clay-Pigeon Shoot, July 9.—Six 
clubs were represented by four men from each club, 25 pigeons each 
man. Shooting for the Ligowsky medal, won by the Bridgeport team 
with a score of 81 outof 100 pigeons, which wasthe best shooting 
done thisseason, Following is the score; Bridgeport 81,Spencer Gun 
Club (Windsor, Conn.) 78, Parker Gun Club (Meriden) 74, Wallingford 
Gun Club 75, New Haven Gun Club 71, Parker Gun Club Wo, 2, 64, For 
the individual State medal, Folsom and Goodrich tied on 46 out of 50, 
and in shooting off tie Folsom broke 5 straight and Goodrich 3, The 
next individual match will be shot in Windsor, July 23. 


THE REFEREER’S POSITION.—Wallingford, July 11.—I was referee 
at a clay-pigeon shoot the 10th. There were about 35 shooters and 
they had two judges, one judge said broken bird, the other said lost 
bird, one judge was on one side of the trap and one on the other, and 
then I spoke up and gave my decision after one had said broken and 
the other lost. Itookit that they disagreed and gave my decision, 
Everything went all right untill got bome and then some of the boys 
said 1 had not ought tohave said anything untill was asked. I did 
that way to keep the shoot agoing and have no delay, when one 
judge said broken and the other said lost. I thought that was disa- 
FWronee] enough and rendered my decision, was I right or wrong? 

TOng, , 

When there are two judges, one on one side and one on the other 
side, so they can see the birds that happen tozo that way, the boys 
said thabif oné said lost bird the other had no right to say a word 
betause the bird did pot come his way. I claim that either judge 
had a right oP iene, in was What they were put therefor; was L 


. * » 2 


“had a field day on the 4th. 


DIDUTLO BT HM, Sect 113911110—8 
J BE Christopher...,,,1111111#11—9 
Jas’ Miller. orevei oe 1011111011—8 
Ei Biekhoff, 12. ....0.+- 10000111116 
J DWannamaker...,. 1111110101—8 
H DGrindle.......... {1011311119 
J D Van Riper,...,.;- 1011111140—8 
Bert Moeller........ ».1111011101—8 
Fred Tomkins....;:.. 1111110101—8 


Ties for the first prize (a gold 
won. Second prize (bex of shells), 


GOW Hageman...,,..1001101101—6 
W #H dersey... ..,,--1101110011—% 


J Van Blatcom , - ,.201#011111— 
F Blackledge.... ,,..1100017f14—7 
H D ‘Towner,.,.-.-.. 010100004 1—4 


badge), miss and crt, C. B. Fisher 
J. Dunlop and J. Miller divieted 


MONTGOMERY SHOOTING CLUB.—The elub celebrated the 
Fourth by a tournament at Jackson’s Lake, Mo., 150 persoris being 


present to take 
number of the 


art in the shooting and feasting that followed, A 
est shots were engaged, including some from the 


Snowdoun Club, and Mr. G. W, Tunstall of the Mobile Gun Club. 
Several others were expected from that city and New Orleans, but 
failed to arrive. Some yery fine shots were made. Match at65 birds, 


25yds., plinge traps; 

Wek tones Ct Pee an 4144014 
WwW Tunstall ii. cess 11000—2 
Pe Barnes. i tenets. Paes 1011-4 
B Fitzpatrick s....0.).-5 2 1111—4 
Dihehyarae si ole owe 11011—4 
George Marks... ....-.-.- 11101—4 
A:T Wéstcott.........-..5- dj11—5 
V Rowland ic.scas cesses 11011—4 
W T Pinketon...... Foo 11111—5 
W  MeGehee............. 11001—3 
H Crommelin....... oe 11111—4 


Ties of 5, 40y¥ds,—Westcott won. 
Marks and Hole diyided on 4 each, 
Hutchins won third with 6. 


Second match, 4 birds, re 
DOMES S: sr es! Sh ete ..-1111—4 
Vitzpatrick....... ,.0111—8 
DedV ara evs. ese eesrecss 11114 
TT Sea Pere ye als lerert.k 5 a toate 1111—4 
SOT oh eethed pahcirecred =niceits 1110—3 
Bulle see saetenewes Ale wd 1111—4 
SU GTIS ricci atthe & Aa scettye ate ~ .0000—0 
PITICSEOI teri heey ces aeh et se 1111—4 
OLVERA hues chockned..seet 1111—4 
Otitis ola ae aes 1100—2 


TOW: Over. 2.20 ee capes -. - ALI —5 
a Ofc S015 ci] ca Sei »., 0111 —a 
AJ Taylor.....---... ....10001—2 
BoD ong. sp) eae  JD1—6 
John Crommelin ......... 1141— 
BG Randolph............. 01171—£ 
pe bee, eee teresa he! 11101—£ 
W L Hutehings...........: 00111 —s' 
PLUG S82 a a ei ne | 10111—4 


W T Atkins...,,-..-....-..01011—2 


Ties of 4, 40yds., miss and out.— 
Ties of 3, 80yds., Iniss and ont— 


§., class shooting: 


WU hee oy PER 8 5 Basen 
Rowland. 
Randolph. ete 
Me@Ghee.... ......... 
J Crommelin 
ID Valea ee en esa ee 

an Ee ee ee ae a a Sr p 

H Crommel)lii¥............-., 0101—2' 
Westcott. .....:s..2 ..../,..4110—3) 


Ties of 4, miss and out, 35yds._—Jones won with 5. ‘Ties of 3, niiss 


2Qayds. rise: 


Randolph, .. 0. ....s0+: 00 1 Mi cipliss Se es eee 11 10 H—6 
LOGY Ory iyee eens e ce enee 01 00 11-8 Firzpatrick.,........... 11 11 Ji—6 
Trnstall..........c.00es 11 10 13-5 Rowland ......-. .4,.,; 10 10 10—# 
TBR yivee Fi ei eoere ita on 10 11 10—4 Westcott............... 10 00 10—2 
Olives es ne fa sarivrs.on sce 10:10 d01—5. Jonés-. 2. -.-4 2.0... ii li H—6 
SOC Ee ten nee ietae ore ..-11 16 00O—8 SGrommelin.... . ...i1 11 11—6 


£ i Pte 
Ties on 6,at2 paitss Crommelin 0; Fitzpatrick and Jones divided 


on3each, Ties of 5, at 4 pairs; Tunstall 6, Oliver 5, Marks 7. 


Match at 3 pairs, 30yds. A 


Werke *. rasta nici teen steel 2yr D0 = 2-9 QUVERS . Pine eee 11 1—3 
Westeoth.. ........8..265. dot 0=8- Pinkstens 2 ss asec 100—1 
STi bles teers ate eater ee OO ELEN Poe Soe Peek 508 ee 111—3 
LEE i oe tote GbE leQ al? Tones ga 8 Tee 11-2 
B Fitzpatrick . ....--... 100—1 RK Fitzpatrick,.... | 


Oliver and Hall divide first, 
Long 0, Jones 6. 


yee He Ear 
Ties of 2: Marks 2, Westcott 1, Smith 1, 


KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—At the regular monthly shoot for the club 
médal, 15 clay-pigeons, 18yds. rise, trap at fourth notch, the following 


scores were made: 
Jenkins 


Sloeumiys Petree rea tees 
Duncan 
KiOnIHS SG]. tees cee sees pte oes 
1 Rays Se ih ISS cel eee Quieter tye 


Inpte) ete) (S000) are ae Dabier oe oenpcre 


Armstrong 


DO@AGETICR Sows ot bs fate wwe cine ne 


French 
Campbell 


Hehbard, A Huréichen sirtes tinny 

sdb A 2 414111410111011133 
OB SAES Sen cos. ame NaN Nimes 3 (0111141111101 12 
MRTOTES Ae 001111111111101—-12: 


eters Ce ests ie poleealndielale 


iconoclast 1101711111 11411—_1@ 
AE ied RP cb 111111101117171—14 


A ERs BARS Saar 111110111110111—-13, 


He Pip asard hee. 011111011100111—14 
2h Gates Seep nice 110110111010001— 4 
5 pea crag ttt, 110011111100001— 4: 


Plesemeent ereerlaseeet 001101001110111— 9 
prcotpret tact nee 111010100101100— & 
soi fuseopeecebs 601110111001101— i 
See eee sa eRe e 000111101101100— 8 

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WORCESTER, Mass., July 8.—The contest for the badge offered by 
the South End Club was continued to-day at their grounds, Mr. W. 
L. Davis, who had it, having been challenged by HK. T. Whittaker 
There were ten strings of fivé balls each. On the third string Davis, 
broke the lock of the left barrel of his gun, yet he successfully com 


peted with his rival, 


Messrs, C. B, Holden and BH, §. Knowles were: 


the judges, and Mr, Alba Houghton referee. The score is as follows; 
DAVIS .elses.. eee 4111111210111111110011110111139111119117111110111111—45, 
Whittaker... .. ..1114942119111111141119 11011111111111711011110161100—44 

WINCHENDON, Mass., July 9.—At the regular meet of the Win- 
ehendon Gun Club, the members tried their hand at clay-pigeons. 


The result was as follows: 


O11111111—9 “LF Martin.,......--. 0000011111—5 

....1110110010—6 James Sutherland... 100100101—4 

11100010015 LP Ball.............. 0001011000—3 

FF Hapgood.,..... 01000111J1—6 Chas Cram.......... 0C00000000—0 


On the Fourth the menibers had a series of matches. 
land, H. E. Curtis and William A. 


B, F. Love- 
DeLand were the judges, The 


results of the several matches were as follows: 
Pigeons—J. Sutherland first, P. 8. Davis second, F, HE, Mann third. 
Pigeons, open to outsiders—f, W. Loud first, H, HE. Washbuyn 


second. 


Sweepstakes, 5 glass balls—C. 5, Lord first, §. Davis second, J. 


Sutherland third. 


Sweepstakes, 5 clay-pigeons—P. 8. Davis first, F. F. Hopgood sec- 


ond, J. Sutherland third. 


Sweepstakes, 7 clay-pigeons—J, Sutherland first, F. ¥, Hopgood 


second, G. A. Taggart third. 


Five glass balis and 6 Clay -pigeoas—J , Sutherland first, F. F, Hop- 


good second, L. F’, Martin third. 


f OUTHBRIDGE, Mass., July § The Quinebaug Rod and Gun Club 


The attendance and mterest was good, 


The first event was the match between the Quinebaug and the 
Charlton Gun Club, each has previously won one of the threein the 


series. The result is as follows: 
Quinebaug. 
¥ BHowe... .... 1010011011—6 
W H Campbell... .1101111111—9 
W Harrington ...1100000111—5 
C Bradford....... 1011111010—7 
EC Bllis,...... .1111111011—9 
YM Marble...... 1010101101—6 


EM Phillips...... 1011111110—8 
O W Williams, . . .0101110101—6—56 


Charlton. 
H i Brown....... 1011001011—6 
J W Cundall...., 1131011000—6 
BV DG one meee): 1011110111—8 


F Pike.... .. -« -1010111100—6 
JR Warren. .....1101111110—8 
L.E Stewart... ..0101011101—6 
W L Bradford, - ..0010000101—8 
I Bradford. .-_-., 114) 100111—%— 50 


The remainder of the day was.occupied in shooting sweepstakes as 


follows: 


First event, 7 glass balls—Stewart, Todd, Bates, Warren and Pike 
divided first, Harrington and Campbell divided second, L. W. Brad- 
ford and Howe divided third. J. Brantford fourth. 

Second event, 7 clay-pigeons—Graham first, Cundall second, Har- 
rington third, Mllis and Stewart divided fourth. 


Third event, 5 


lass balls—Pike and stewart divided first, Howe 


second, Todd and Graham divided third, brown fourth, 

Fourth event, 5 clay-pigeous—Marble first, Harrington second, 
Williams and Campbell divided third, Cundall fourth, 

Fifth event, 6 glass balls—L. W. Bradford and Deon diyided first, 
Bates second, Brown third, Stewart fourth 

Sixth event, 5 clay-pigeons—Harrington and Todd divided first, 
Stewart. second, Harrington third, Cundall fourth, 

Seventh eyent, 5 clay-pizeons—Todd first. SteWart second, Har- 


rington third, Cundall! fourth, 


Highth event, two-men team, 5 glass balls each—Graham and 
Bates, Cundall and L, W. Brandfor divided the first, Campbell and 
Poccisecond, Howe and Ellis, Harrington and Marble divided the 


vhird. 


MILFORD, Mass., July 8,—The Milford Sportsmen's Club, with 
queets from Holliston, branklin, Mendon and Hopkinton, had @ field 
ay on Wilkinson ground, where the Milford range islocated. The 


several events resulted as follows: 


Hirst sweepstakes, 11 entries, 5 bails—Howe 5, Kinsley 


4, Connors 4, 


G. Whitney 8. Brooks 8, Cook 2, Hancock 2, Carpenter 2, J, Whitney 


2, Fleteter 2, Wilkinson 1. 


Second sweepstakes, 14 entries, 6 balls-Howe 4, Cook 4, Wales 4, 


Phipps 8, Wilkinson 3, Brooks 3, Ca. 
Conner 1, 


ter 2; Shiner 1, Kinsley 1 
Third syecpeiaes 5 clay 
Kinsley 4, 1 anchester: 4. 


Fletcher 2, J. Whitney 2, Shiner 2, 


enter 2, G. Whitney 2, Manches- 
letchey 1, J. Whitney 1. 


ei aera 12 pa Nl e eos 4, 
4 itney ; itney 2, Conners 2 
Phipps 2, Walls 2, Sbiber 2, Cook 2, ; °: y 

Pourth sweepstakes, ? clay-pigeons)14 entries—Cools 


Carpenter 1. 
3, Phipps 2, 
Car 


Wales 2, Conners 1, penter 1, 


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G. Whitney 1, Kinsley 1, Brooks 1, Manchester 0, Howe 0, Wilkinson 0. 

Fifth sweepsty kes, 5 balls,15 entries—Cook 4, Shiner 4, Manchester 
4, Howe 4, Connor 3, Kinsley 38, Wales 8, Phipps 3, J. Whitney 2, Car- 
penter 2, Wilcox 2. . ilkinson 2, Bass 1, Whitney 1, Bennett 0, 

Sixth sweep-takes, 7 balls. 10 entries—Martin 7, Wilkinson 6, Coolc 
6, Shiner 6, Howe 5, Kinsley 5, Whitney 4, Pletcher 4, Connors 3, Man- 
chester 2, 

Seventh sweepstakes, 5 clay-pigeons, 7 entries—Howe 5, Martin 5, 
Kinsley 3, Whitney 3, Cook 3, Wilkinscn 3, Shiner 1. 

Eighth sweepstakes, 5 balls, 6 entries—Howe 5, Wilkinson 4, Kins- 
ley 5, Martin 3, Whitney 3, Cook 1, 

inth sweepstakes, 7 balls, 5 entries—Howe 7, Wilkinson 6, Cook 6, 
Martin 5, Kinsley 3 

Tenth sweepstakes, 5 balls, 6 entries—Howe 5, Cook 4, Linsley 2, 
Martin 2. Wiikinson 1, Brooks 1. 

Shooting for prizes. 14 entries—ist prize, keg of powder, Howe; 2d, 
bag of shot, G. Whitney; 4d, 5lbs. powder, Connors; 4th, box shells, 
Wilkinson; poorest shot, box wads, Avery. 

WELLINGTON, Mass., July 12—The Malden Gun Club had its 
regular shoot at Wellington to-day. Messrs. Sanbora and Pratt at- 
tempted to take the gold medal away from Mr. Wemyss, but failed, 
Mr. Scott had the leather medal in his pocket, but no one appeared 
to shoot for tt, and so he still holds it. The other matches were: 

First event, five birds—Lewis first, Shumway and Snow divided 
second, Morgan third. 

Second event, five birds—Snow first, Morrill second, Pratt and Lewis 
divided third. 

Third eyent, three pairs—Brown, Loring and Shattuck civided first, 
Adams secend, Snow third. 

Fourth event, three pairs—Snow first, Hopkins second, Lewis third, 
Adams fourth. 

Fifth event, five birds—Snow and Hopkins divided first, Lewis and 
Sali divided second, \orrill third, Brown and and Morgan divided 

ourth, 

Sixth event, five balls—Snow and Hopkins divided first, Shumway 
and Pratt divided second, Short third. 

Seventh event, five birds—Hopkins and Snew divided first. Adams 
and Lewis divided second, Brown and Scott divided third, Loring and 
Shattuck divided fourth, 

. Righth event. five birds—Brown first, Scott second, Morrill third. 

Ninth event, five birds—Morrill and Hopkins divided first, Snow 
second, Adanis third, 
ee event, three pairs—Snow first, Shattuck second, Hopkins 

ird. 

Eleventh event, five birds—Suow and Lewis divided first, Hopkins 
second, Short and Morgan divided third. 


Twelfth event, five balls, both barrels—Shattuck first, Pratt and, 


Hopkins divided second, Snow third. 
Thirteenth event, five birds—Hopkins first, Short and Shattuck 
divided second, Morgan and Pratt divided third. 


Canaecing. 


CANOEISTS are invited to send us notes and full reports of cruises, 
club meets, information about canoeable waters, and other comma- 
nications of interest. 


Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested tosend to Foresw anp 
Stream their addresses, with name,.membership, signals, ete. of 
their clubs, and also notices in adyance of meetings and races, and 
reports of the same. Canaeists and all interested in canoeing are 
requested to forward to Forest anp SrREAM their addresses, with 
logs of cruises, aps, and information concerning their local waters, 
drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating 
te the spurt, 


FIXTURES. 
July 19.—Chicago C. C., First Annual Regatta. 
July 24 to 26.—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island, 
Aug. 1t015.—A. C. A. Meet, Grindstone Island, 


A CANOE CRUISE ON THE ANCLOTE. 


A BEAUTIFUL morning in May, one of Wlorida’s fairest rivers, a 

little canoe, a double blade, basket of lunch, bottle of coffee, 
and the old man and the Madam. The canoe swings away from the 
wharf, the flood tide catches her. and with now and then a dip of the 
paddie we float lazily up the Anciote. 

Nature is at its best this morning, The marsh, lately burned over, 
has put forth a fresh ee and lays under the shimmering sun like 
a carpet of greenvelvet. Fringing the marsh stand the cabbage 

almeitos, their feathery tops quivering in the morning air; over and 
Pevond is the dark background of stately pines; everything is bright, 
fresh and joyous, Nature is smiling thismorning, The birds are out 
in force; there is a blackbird piping his liquid notes; beyond swings 
a cardinal pouring out his song to nii mate, and near by sits a mock- 
ing bird nearly bursting his throat trying to outsing them both. Over 
on that dead cedar a snake bird is drying his wings in the sun, his 
long neck twisting and turning, his bright eye glancinz warily 
around on the lookont for foes or prey. Here and there a fish leaps 
from the dark water, his sides gleaming in the sunlight like molten 
silver. 

But the scene ehanges rapidly. The marsh is left behind; the river 
banks are closing up nigher to each other and getting higher. Trees 
begin ito overhang the water; live oak, water oak, maple, haw, 
holly, the cypress, and many others mingle their branches along this 
beautiful river. Wild grapevines hang from nearly every free. The 
long gray Spanish moss, the many varieties of air plants, and other 

arasites of the woods all contribute fo make a lovely picture. We 
Boat on under the shades of the high trees; itis cooland refreshing, 

ust beyond the reach of the paddle blade. 
is fall strength. 

We glide along without a sound, taking nature unawares. We see 
many sirange and curious things. A huge turtle sunoing himself on 
an old log never dreams of the approach of strangers until we are so 
near as to almost brush him of, when with most ludicrous haste he 
Makes a scramble, asplash,andheisgone. _ 

Yonder sits a black squirrel; yes, and there is his mate. They see 
us, but do not appear to be frightened. Ah! there they go, buf only 
one branch higher, where they stop and peer after us as long as we 
Bee in sight. Rounding a little point we almost run over a wood 

uck. 

Now we run under a grand old live oak, its trunk nearly covered 
with parasites its branches draped with festoons of the Spanish moss. 
As we look up among the wilderness of foliage, we get a glimpse of 
that quaker of the woods, the swamp pollet, his sober plumage so 
near the color of the surroundings as to be nearly invisible. 

Hark! we hear a sharp little note, and looking closely discover one 
of the numicrous family of flycatchers; the little fellow is intent on 
breakfast; how he darts from leaf to leaf, peering under each one; 
how closely he examines eve: y twig and every crevice in the bark, 
and what a cunning little fellow he is tuo, scarcely lar er than a 
bumble bee. his back of steel blue, white bars on his wings, and his 
throat a beantiful yellow. fy 

The banks are qiite high now, the stream scarce thirty feet wide, 
the timber too is different, ash, hickory, buy. and here and therea 
Magnolia; yonuver is a beauby, tall and siraight, its a a wealth of 
snow white blossoms, that fill the whole atmosphere with fragrance. 

Itis about time to lunch, and this is as good a place as any. We let 
the cano? drift under the thickest shade we can tind, secure it with a 
hanzimg vine, and pulling out the lunch pasket dine like princes, To 
be sure we bave only boiled eggs, brea! and butter and coffee, but 
food iso’t all there isto adinner. The bright sunshine and the coo)- 
ing shade, the glad songs of the birds, the beautiful scenery, the 
baliny southern air, load 3d with the perfume of magnolia and palm- 
etto blossoms, altogether make a scene which, with the appetite in- 
dived by out-door exercise goes far ioward a glorious feast. 

Dinner over, the pipe lighted, we cast off and on again, our course 
stillup stream. We soon come toa rustie foot-bridge, formed by 
pe oes across the stream, and twisting vines from branch to 
branch to make a hand rail; it is a pretty picture. 

Toe stream is narrower still, our progress becomes more and more 
difficult, until we finally come to a stand still some sixteen miles from 
our starting point. We land and climb the high bank fo find thatthe 
beauty is not all on the river. 

Tall, graceful pines, each one alone and still all together; how they 
not and whisper to each other, the soft summer wind making rare 
music among the rolden green needles in the tops. Then tuere is 
the willow oak, with its feathery foliage of indescribable beauty; the 
black jack, the dwarf paJmeito and the evergreen ti-ti, with hun- 
dreds of wild fhowers, Birds are everywhere; blackbird3, mocking 
birds, cardinals, thrush, flycatchers, ete. Anon a quail starts out 
almost from under our feet, and making a terrible bustle is soon out 
of sight. Yonder is an owl, alittle bit of a fellow scarcely the size 
of 4 rooin, blinking at the sunlizht from his hole in the stump of an 
old black jack. 

Bub the sunis past the meridian, we have sixteen miles to paddle 
and must he off. Going dowu stream we paddle for a few yards 
Tight in the wake of a huge alligator, He never suspects our prox- 
imity nnli] making a short tum he gets sight of the canoe. What a 


The sun pours down in 


ais! Who would think such an unwieldy brute could move so 
tick. 

As we float noiselessly down the stream we come again to the rustic 
foot bridge. Struttinz back and forth on the logs are two wild tur- 
keys, so intent_on love making they never see us until we are within 
fifty yards. Whatluck! I, who have so wanted to shoot a wild tur 
key, have hunted and tramped, waited and watched times without 
number, and never gota shat at one yet. And here I am within fifty 
yards of a brace, and Ive gotno gun. I suppose it’s fate and I may 
as well bow to the inevitable and make up my mind to die without 
even the pleasure of shooting at one. 

Well, they look better alive anyhow. I couldn't eat a whole one if 
Thad it, it’s mating time too, and I don’t care much for turkeys any 
way. All at once they catch sight of us, whirt-r, they are gone, and 
we go, tov. A few more miles and we sight the marsh, the sun is get- 
ting down among the trees, we settle down to puod solid work, the 
Eric scents home. soon she rounds up to the little wharf. the crew 
disembark, and later under the cool veranda we review the day's 
cruise and vote it a success. 

Reader, go thou and do likewise, and may you enjoy it as well as 

K, Noo. 


CRUISE OF THE PITTSBURGH C. C. 


O* the morning of the 22d day of June five members of the Pitts- 

burgh C. C, embarked in their canoes at Mayville, on Lake 
Chautauqua, in the western part of the State of New York, They had 
arrived at Mayville the day preyious by rail from Pittsburgh, and 
were now started on their annual club cruise. It had been expected 
that a much larger number would participate in this cruise, but at the 
last moment several members were compelled to give it up on account 
of pressure of business and other engagements. 

For two days the club remained on Lake Chautauqua, slowly sail- 
ing down the lake toward Jamestown. The winds were regular all 
the morning, blowing up the lake, and in the afternoon changing and 
blowing steadily in the opposite direction. As a consequence, the 
cruisers had abundant opportunity to practice sailing both with and 
against the wind, something which was much neéded by the club. as 
the home waters are not especially adapted for sailing, the rivers 
bemg narfow and the winds af ail times uncertain and puffy. For- 
tunately the trip was made without a capsize, althouch several narrow 
escapes were made. 

At Jamestown a portage of a mile and a half had to be made 
around several dams before the cruise could be continued, which 
portage was made by wagon, Tuesday morning the five cruisers 
started on the Conewango Creek, which uname is said to he a corrup- 
tion of the sentence, ‘‘Canoe won’t go," which about expresses the 
state of the case, for the canoes had to be hauled over shoal waters 
and lowered over no less than nine dams and dragged across nearly 
as many booms before the Allegheny River was reached at Warren, 
Pa. The distance from Jamestown to Warren by road is only twenty 
miles, but by water it must be nearly seyenty. To do justice to the 
Conewaogo as a canoeing stream it should be stated that from 
Frewsburg to Warren is a splendid run, the creek being one succes- 
sion of swiftrapids. If any canoeists contemplate the Chautanqua- 
Allegheny trip the P. C. C. would advise them to ship their canoes 
from Jamestown to Frewsburg rather than put them in the water at 
any point aboye that place. There are about three dams between 
Frewsburg and Warren, which can he easily carried over. 

At Warren the Pittsburghers were met by the Warren C. C., who 
treated them most royally, doing everything in their power to make 
the eel in Warren a pleasant one, in which they were eminently suc- 
cessful, 

On Friday morning the cruise was continued, there being fiye ac- 
cessions to the party, four of them members of the Warren club and 
ope & member of the P. C. C. who had concluded to come up and join 
us, Therun that day was most enjoyable, there was a good wind 
down stream so that matters were taken easily, and when the even- 
ing camp was made on a beautiful little island the hungry cruisers 
had journeyed somewhat over thirty miles. Here twoof our Warren 
friends left us, the remaining two concluding to continue the cruise to 
Pittsburgh. 

The trip down the Allegheny has been written up before, soitis not 
necessary to go into further particulars, sufficient to say that it was 
a delightful experience to every one. It took twelye days to make 
the entire journey from Mayville to Pittsburgh, it could be done in a 
ee shorter time, but the P. C. C. were inclined to take things very 
easily. 

In conclusion a word about Lake Chautauqua. It is a magnificent 
sheet of water, about twenty-five miles in length and varying from 
two to four miles in breadth. It would be a splendid location for a 
meet. At Warren one of the W.C. C. proposed that next year an 
endeavor be made to get the Rochester and Cleveland clubs to join 
with Warren and Pittsburgh in holding a meet there during May or 
June. The lake is easily reached by rail from these cities. It is to 
be hoped that the project may be successful. REBA. 


THE A. C. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

In replying to the criticisms on the published programme of the 
American Canoe Association races, I would call your attention to the 
fact that. in the first place, your announcement was incorrect in 
seyeral particulars, some of which misprints have not even yet been 
corrected, the fault for which is certainly not with the committee, 
and in the second place, the committee worked under certain definite 
orders from the Executive Committee, given in meeting at Albany 
last October. These were “to cut down the official races in every 
way, if possible to have only two days’racing.”’ The programme as 
arranged, gives the classes, as they now exist, each an cfficial race 
atthe usual distance and ata convenient hour, and in the sailing 
races, each of the two classes has a race for eyery usual condition, 
racing trim, cruising trim and without ballast, In the last race, which 
has always been for any canoe, the divisions into A and B classes be- 
comes unnecessary, but account is taken of the fact thata good num- 
ber of boats have now fixed boards of considerable weight, and these 
are permitted to start for a separate flag, at the same time. 

The Executive Committee very wisely, in the writer’s opiuion, de- 
cided to have only such races under their auspices as would do jus- 
tice to existing classes, but they encourage and uone to see many 
other races, designed to bring out special points, take place under 
private or club auspices during the camp. Further, the Regatta 
Committee have no power to make a special race for the numerous 
boats which are about 14%30, The present classification does work 
well, we know, and any regrets which the canoeing editor of FormsT 
AND STREAM may feel for his own former and superceded classifica- 
tion, should not, in common. justice, be pub inthe mouths of an un- 
known ‘large number” of canoeists—the editorial we, perhaps? 

‘“Dot’s” suggestion in the last number I consider an admirable one. 
Ti is simple, will encourage entries, and give the all-round value of 
each boat as wellas encourage a nice esprit de corps among club 
members and generous rivalry all round. I sincerely hopeit may be 
adopted as a permanent feature. : ; 

The Mohican request being already provided for, their resolution 
was unnecessary Do they want all the flags? 

As tothe American Canoe Association hadges which Commodore 
Nickerson writes about, L would like to express an individual opinion 
against such ascheme. We are not like a lot of boys who must have 
a secret society pin displayed at alltimes. Badges of all kinds savor 
of display, and are, in my opmion, in questionable taste. But this, of 
course, is only my own feeling. If the majority want something of 
the kind, [ hope the Committee will decide on some plain design with- 
out enamel or other mixtures of color, and the smaller the better. 

Wu. WuirLoce, Chairman Regatta Committee. 
|Mr, Whitlock has certainly misunderstood the tenor of our note in 
last week’s issue, as there was no intention of finding fault with the 
Regatta Committee, and there was nothing to justify that conclusion. 


A. RACES. 


We are aware that they were acting under definite orders and as . 


far as the programme ifself is concerned. it is by far the best yet 
arranged. The faults lie with the present rules, and we simply 
called the attention of the Regatta Committee to them, as they are 
the proper persons to remedy them in the future. Our authority for 
the programme published June 26 was the copy furnished by the 
Regatta Committee, in which there were two errors, both of which 
appeared in our report exactly asin the copy. We need not notice 
the personal allusion of Mr, Whitlock’s letter, further than to 
repeat our assertion that the present rules are unfair to the cruisers, 
and we are content to leave it to canoeists themselyes to say whether 
we correctly represent their opinion. } 


Editor Forest aud Stream: f 
After talking with members of the Toronto U. GC. on the subject of 
Mr. Vaux’s proposal about an “average prize’? and an “average 
reco-d,’ I have a few words to say aboutit. _ 7 ' 
The “average prize’ idea appears to require some modification. 
Objection is taken to the plan of counting in every man who starts 
in 4 race, no matter if he is nearly last, Would not it be better in 
making up the average, to count in only half of the total number of 
the starters? For instance, if nine start, countin only the first five 
who cross the line. This would insure some merit on the part of 
those counted in for the average prize. but the last few men in the 
race may have made a wretched showing, yet they would be counted 
in; and several quite inefficient sailors or paddlers might start, with 
no chance for a place, and the result would be poe to push tp the 
average of some man or men who otherwise would be nowhere, 


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Then it must be borne in mind that the average prize is to a con-— 
siderable extent @ prize for entering a great it . 

The*'record”’ plan appears to be Open to very serious objectian, 
There are first class men with sail or paddle who either would not 
desire to enter more than one or two races, or might be prevented by 
circumstances from doing so, It would be very unjust to such men 
that they should be placed in a low position on an official record, 
which would be extensively read among canoeists. Then, as to tue 
clubs, if would be placing the smaller culbs ata great disadvantage, 
because, of course, the large chibs would take the cake. If a prize 
is to be given to the largest chib on the ground, putitin that shape, 
and not under the guise of a record, 

Mr. Vanx's plan is one requiring careful consideration and thought 


befure adoption by the A.C. A., especially as to details. Would it 
not therefore be better for some large club to give it a trial hy offer- 


ing an ‘average prize?’ Weshould then see how it worked. and if 
it worked well, the A. C, A. might adopt it for 1885. ISABEL, 

[The above letter suggests Several objections to the proposed plan 
which are worthy of consideration. Un the first poini the result 
that “Isabel” anticipates is exactly what has long been desired, an in- 
ducement for all to enter races. In nearly all races the chances are 
in favor of one or two of established reputation who are almost sure 
of first prize, and men will not enter agamst them; but here we have 
a strong inducement for every man to énter and work for a place, 
even though he may feel certain it will be neither first or second, 
and aman who under such circumstances does enter deserves some 
recognition. In the second place, it would not be unfair to the ‘‘first- 
ciass men,” as they would in any event take a first prize in each race 
while the record would be something additional to work for, an 
their chances would be the best for a ‘-aouble first,? fo borrow an ex- 
pression. «As far as the clubs are interested, their reputation seems 
to be independent of the size of their membership roll, success de 
pending more on the spirit shown by a few than by the presence of a 
large number, and a club represented by five or six men of average 
skill and spirit would have a chance of coming out firston the record. 
If putin practice this year the scheme will be carried out by a few, 
entailing no additional labors on the present officers, and certainly 
ean work no harm,] 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

The Mohicans have read the suggestions made by ‘‘Dot,” that prizes 
be offered at the A. C. A. meet for ‘‘all round” or averaged merit, and 
they express general approval of them and will if they are put into 
practice, give them cordial support. 1tis conceded that the A. C, A. 
classification, while it is good and probably the best attainable, does 
tend, as any classification must, to develop separate types unless 
recognition is given to the canoe which can do fairly well in many 
things because it is not specialized for any particular one of them. 
Some of us have agreed to take notes and construct a record upon 
the plan recommended of our club races by way of experiment, and 
see how it results. It is evidently advisable to make one or two trials 
and observations before making assertions. 

So much for our club opinion; doubtless some others will give indi- 
yidual views. For my part, 1 would advise, first. that the extra 
trouble of trying the experiment at the Thousand Islands should not 
be put upon the regular regatta committee, because they have (as 
has been seen) as much to do as an average committee is capable of; 
and, second, that the matter should not be allowed to drop, even if 
it does not secure immediate official sanction. I am yery willing to 
assist if I can, to this end, as follows: I will join Mr. Vaux in keeping 
the record necessary (and perhaps some other A, C. A. man will be 
willing to make a trio of tais self-constiluted committee), and present 
areport or a petition or a resolution, or any other advisable docu- 
ment, to the A, C. A. meeting and abide by the decision the meeting 
may arrive at as to the desirability of the scheme. If necessary, we 
can furnish the prizes, and simply say that such and such canoes 
have done such and such things, and that it is desirable to recognize 
the merit reported, and, therefore, Mr. Mr. Vaux moves and we sec- 
ond that the A, C. A. present these as official prizes, and that in future 
meets the programme shall include similar prizes as the regatta com- 
mittee may arrange. 

I suggest this course because I think that under some cirecum- 
stances action is better than argument. Just now there is scarcely 
time to revise the official programme without making confusion, and 
moreover, this experimental method will do no harm. T? it is Mr. 
Vaux’s opinion that these suggestions are uot good I will support his 
scheme in any cther desirable way. If we try it, or he tries it, and 
the experimentalists find, or the A. C. A. finds that it is not good, 
there is no harm done; but in any case Mr. Vaux deserves credit for 
an effort for the general good. 

I have no doubt that with the improyement and simplification 
which a little working will put into it, the scheme is a very good one, 
and I shall be glad if lam allowed by its author to join in the ex- 
periment, R. W. Grason, Captain M. ©, 0. 

AbBaAny, July 11, 1864. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

I have read the above letter from Mr. Gibson. The regatta com- 
mittee, I suppose, will appoint a time keeper for the races, To get 
the record complete it is only necessary that he should note the time 
of finish of every boat entering a race instead of the first three, as 
heretofore. No work need devolve upon the committee. The writing 
up the record, when all the facts are in, will be a very simple cleri- 
eal matter, I will gladly do this myself; or, I will accept Mr. Gib- 
son's proposal, and with him and perhaps one cther gentleman at- 
tend to the whcle matter of the record and the average report. The 
time is so short now before the meet that perhaps we had better wait 
till we m-et at Grindstone Island and then arrange details together 
and get official sanction for our work, or do it unofficially and report 
result for future A. O, A. approval. The prizes for the winners is a 
very tninor matter, andif the Mohican Club will furnish first prize, as 
Mr. Gibson proposes, the N. Y, C. C. will supply a second prize—fag, 
of course. a 

In writing my letter last week I had no thought of revising or 
changing the programme as if now stands, but suggested that the 
record be kept by the clerk of the course so it could be written up as 
per plan proposed. I heartily indorse Mr, Gibson’s ideas. . 

To try the experiment in the clubs will require careful arranging of 
races. I would suggest tora clubrecord that the winner of a race 
be credited only with as many points as there are canoes entered. It 
would be fairer for all this way for club work, but tot so for the 
Association races. At least this is how 1t seems to me. For two years 
I have been tying to mature such a plan for our own club. Hoping 
to see it go through in some form, I remain, etc., C._ Bowyer Vaux, 


THE CAMP FIRE. 


CANOE AND CAMP COOKERY. 


: V.— GAME. ic 

Fried Pigeons.—Dress them, pa boil until they are tender. then cut 
off the legs and wings, slice off the breast pieces, roJlin flour or 
meal and fry in hot pork fat fill they are nicely browned. Grouse, 
ducks, quail, snipe and plover may also be fried, but are better 
cooked as given below. Snipe. quail and plover need no parboiling. 

Fried Sqvirrels.—Skin and clean, cutting off heads, tails and feet. 
Parboil aud fry same as pigeons. , ’ 

Roast Quail, Snipe or Plover.—Dress and impale each on 4 stick 
with a piece of fat pork in each bird. Set the®stick in the ground be- 
fore a big bed of live coals in a slanting position so that the heat will 
fall evenly on all portions of the bird, and turn frequently tll a sharp 
sliver will easily pass through the breast. Catch the drippings im a 
tin cup and pour over the birds again and again, and if they are 
served on toast pour the drippings also on the toast. The black- 
smnith’s pliers mentioned in a previous paper will come in handy for 
turning the birds before the fire on their sticks and holding the cup 
to catch the drippings. Without this tool the cook’s hands are likely 
to be roasted by the time the birds are done. 

Ruast Ducks and Grouse.—Parbvil till tender, then roast as above. 

Roast Woodcock. Pick but do not clean; roast as above without 
parboiling. Remove the entrails atter the bird i- done, 

Rabbits or Hares require considerable parboiling unless young. 
They may be fried, like squirrels, cutting them into pieces, or mate 
into stews or soups. 

Stewed Rabbit. After skinning and cleaning the rabbit cut it into 
pieces, and wash again in cold water. Mince an onion, cleanse and 
cut inte small pieces one half pound of fat salt pork, and put with 
the cut-up rabbit into.a pot with about a pint of cold water. Season 
with pepper and salt, cover the pot and let it simmer till the ftsh can 
be easily pierced with a sharp sliver, Take if up whtn don» and seb 
where it will keep warm, and make a gravy by adding to the water 
left in the pot one cup of boiling milk or water, stirtmy in gradually 
one well beaten egg and one or two tablespconfuls of flour, Boil one 
minute and then pour over the rabbit. 

Stewed Ducks or Pigeons.—Exactly the same as the above recipe 
for stewed rabbits. ‘ veh. ; 

Roast Venison.—The saddle is the best portion for roasting, and 
after this the shoulder, Hang it by a cord over a huge bed of coals, 
with thin slices of salt pork or bacon inserted in gashes cut with a 
knife where the flesh is thick enough to admit of ‘‘gashing,”* or 
skewered on with hardwood twigs where it isnot. Tura frequently. 

Woodchucks and Porcupines do not properly come under the head- 
ing of game, but when peaerdy, cooked they are little inferior to 
many Kinds of game. ey must be thoroughly parboiled before 
cooking, and may then be roasted or stewed. A yotin 
or porcupine may be baked in the groynd with the 
being drawn, and is very palatable. 7) 


ied eto 
de on after 
SENECA 


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= AORONTO C, C.—At a meeting of the Toronto (. 0. held on the 3d 
of July it was decided to give prizes for two races at the A. C. A, 
meet, First—Two prizes given by the club tor asix mile sailing race 
sa Sal all A, O, A-canoés, no limit asto rig or ballast. Second— 
vO prizes, given by the commodore. for a sailing race before the 
wind, not less than a mile, open to all canoes, sneakboxes, or similar 
traft, No sails to be hoisted until the starting signalis given. By 
this race the commodore hopes to show the superiority of a sail hoisted 
‘by a halliard over lateens, ete. It is quite possible the superiority 
may not be shown to ely great extent, bun at any rate it will be an 
amusing race, and one that ought to have a large number of entries, 
TM running, length is probably the most important factor, and as 
canoes do notyary much in that measuremeut all should have a 
chance, Now don't forget your spinnakers when starting for the 
Meet. The date for these races will probably be the 10th of August, 
when all likely to particip tte in races will be present, It was also 
considered that the A, C, 4, should give prizes for reefing fears, 
canoe tents, sleeping outfits, cooking kits, ete. Such contests would 
not be apen to the objections urged against racing. If the A. C. A. 
does not move in the matter perhaps clubs might,—Borwas, 


MONTREAL C. C.—The officers of this club, elected July 22, are: 
President. Forbes Torrance; First Vice-President, Chas. M. Whitelaw; 
Second Vice-President, D. R. Ross; Treasurer, R. Campbell Nelles: 
Secretary, H. A. Patterson. The Executive Committee is formed of 
the gentlemen mentioned above. The club is composed of several 

divisions, each haying a vommodore and vice-commodore, as follows: 
Si, Anne’s, R, M. Esdaile, Commodore; L. Dowker, Vice-Commodore; 
Pointe Clair, J. EB. Rendell, Commodore; — Campbell, Vice-Commo- 
dore; Lachine, W. de Blaquiere, Commodore; A. Kohl, Vice Commo- 
dore; Vaudreuil, D. W. Allen, Conimodore; , Vice-Commmodore: 
Valois, J. Paton, Commodore; J. G. Ross, Vice-Commodore; Dorval, 
, Commodore; . Vice-Commoafore; Longueuil, A. M’Keand, 
Commodore; C, 8. Shaw. Vice-Commodore. These gentlemen with 
the executive committee, form the general committee of the club. 
Delegates will be appointed by the executive committee to attend the 
A.C. A. meet. A constitution and by-laws, club colors and motto 
will shortly be decided on. Applications for membership should be 
made to the Secretary, No. 226 UcGill street, Montreal, 


NEW YORE GC. 0.—A sailing race took jas on Saturday, July 12, 
at New Brighton, between the Dot, C. B. Vaux, Freak, C. V. R. 
Sehuyler, and Tramp, 0. A. Steyens, over a triangular course of 
about turee miles. The tide was running down, with a fresh breeze 
up, when the boats got away at 4:30, Freak leading. Tramp dropped 
out on the first leg, Dot Jed at first mark, a bark anchored off the 
cotton docks, and kept her lead on the run to Buoy 17, but coming in 
Freak passed her, winning at 5:25 P.M. Mr. King. Clyde C. C., was 
present, and took seyeral photos. After the race the eanoeists sailed 
up tne Kills and took supper at Marmalade Lodge. spending the night 
there, Another race will take place next Saturday at4P. M, ‘ir. 
Newman is away with Dr. Neidé at the geet Mr. Gurehard is eruis- 
ing with Mr, Stoddard, and reported at Provincetown on the 11th, Mr, 
Alden is on his annual cruise down the Richelieu, Messrs. Norton and 
Van Rensselaer are cruising in the latter’s yacht Daisy. 


ROYAL C, C.—On Saturday last a race came off at Teddington 
under novel conditions, which it was thought would prove attractive 
to many of those members owning cruising canoes of paddleable- 
Sailing type. Only four entries were received, however, and of these 
only two were of the class for whose benefit the prizes were offered. 
Paddling and sailing race; sail down wind and paddle back; three 
times round—Zoedone, Mr. A B. Ingram; Windrush, Mr, C. Penrose; 
Mignon, Mr. F, T, Miles; Foam, Mr. H. Chureh, Windrush did not 
start. They started paddling down stream, Ingram soon showing to 
the front, followed by Church. Miles was ina heavy canoe, and 
failed to keep up with the others. Ingram maintained his lead until 
sailing uptor the last time, whera Church got a breeze and closed up 
eonsiderably. Ingram was similarly favored shortly afterward, and 
won a food race by over 50yds.—London Field, June 28, 


OSHKOSH C, C.—ditor Ferest and Stream; The Oshkosh G, C. 
held their first race on July 4, around a triangle. 1 mile on-each side, 
for three prizes, The entries, with time, were as eS 


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if Finish. 
ARCS ies 53 pqabae? OHO eSCHIOUN" 9. ous. etna: 3 17 00 3 57 00 
rch SOR ABS pay Seu a Cre eee ets Aree 3 17 00 3 57 30 
SUCUIGES Sos cc ota PPV TTISCRSIO( ys ah Ge seus’ os bs 3.17 00 3 58 20 
Doiliedieus ..oceewavm A Radford: .....004- 31700 Nottaken 
LGR Way on be ewe dna ed MCKAY SL iy aa eanedle 00 Not taken 
PAD? Os s3725 2, ., Frank Hellard...- ,......,..3 17 00 Not taken 
mee ees eer. seme, 2 ke ees 3 17 00 Not taken 
Wind light from the west. Judge, D.H, Montgomery. The club 
will have have a race July 16 for the championship.—F. H, G. 


PETERBORO BOATING CLUB,—A parade of canoes by moon- 
light took place on Little Lake, Peterboro, on July 4. nearly fifty 
eanoes of the P, B. 0, taking part. Bach canoe carried one or two 
lady passengers and was decorated with several Chinese lanterns, 
Tue procession formed in line across the lake at 8 P. M.. under com- 
mand of the president of the club and Col, H. @. Rogers, rear-com- 
modore of the A. C. A., after which they paddied down, performing 
a number of maneuvers, finally returning to the starting point, 
after which all the canoes gathered together and songs were sung. 
the meeting breaking up ati10 P.M. Thursday evening of each week 
will be Set apart for similar squadron drills and parades, in prepara- 
tion for the A. C. A. meet, 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.—It is probable that a number of 
canoeists who will attend tne meet next month will take their cameras 
with them. Would it not be a good time for an exchange of experi- 
ences on the subject of amateur photography? If such an expert as 
Mr. L. W. Seavey, of New York, is present, he would no doubt give 
@ mostinteresting discourse on the subject, and such amateurs as 
Messrs. Pullen, Fraser, Taylor and others could give beginners the 
benefit of their experience. Views of camps, canoes, etc., might be 
exchanged. Letws hear from all canoe and camera men. —BorEAsS, 


A. 0, A, MEET.—Dr. Neidé isnowin camp at Grindstone Island, 
and his address until Aug. 15 will be ‘‘A, C. A. Camp, Clayton, N. Y.” 
We note in another place a moonlight parade of canoes m Peterboro. 
Why would not a similar display be possible at the meet? In view of 
such an eventeach canoeist should provide a few Chinese lanterns 
and candles as a part of his equipment. 


AMSTERDAM C C.—This club enjoyed a run down the Hudson on 
the night of July 3, camping out and spending the following day 
sailing, there being a fine breeze all day. 


Machting. 


FIXTURES. 


Secretaries of yacht clubs will please send eurly notice of pro- 
posed matches and meetings. 


July 24.—Wastern Y, U., Annual] Cruise, 

July 26.--Beverly Y. C., Nahant, Second Championship Match. 
July 30.—Lake Y. R. A.. First Matches, Oswego, N.Y. 

July 3),—OUswego Y. C., Annual Matches. 

July 30.—Quinvy Y. C.. Third Match, 

Aug, 2.—Hull Y, C., First a 

Aug. Y¥. C., Review and Harbor Cruise. 


4.—Quaker CaN 

Aug, 9.—Boston Y. C., Annual Matches. 

Aug. 11-25.— Quaker City Y. C., Amnual Cruise in Chesapeake and 
Delaware Bays. 

Aug. 16,—Salem Bay Y. C., Open Matches. 

Aug. 16.—Hull Y, C., Open Matches. 

Aug. 23.— Boston Y. Cy Third Club Match. 


Aug, 23.—Beverly ¥. C., Open Match. 

Aug. 26.—Beverly Y, C., Special, Marblehead. 
Aug. 28.—Quincy Y. C., Fourth Match. _ 

Aug. 80.—Hnll ¥Y. C., Second Championship Match, 


Sept. 38.—Hull ¥. C., Third Championship Match. 
Sept. 4.—Salem Bay Y. 0.. Second Championship Match, 
Sept. 6.—Beverly Y. C., Marblehead, Special Match. 
_ Sept. 6.—HullY, C., Third Championship Match. 
Sept. 11.—Quincy Y. C., Last Race. 
spt. 11.—lrenton’s Reef Challenge Cup. 
Sept. 13,—Boston Y. C., Ladies* Day. ~ 
Sept. 18,—Boston ¥. C., Fall Matches, 


Sept. 14,—Quaker City Y. C., Review and Cup Race. 
Sept, 28,—Quaker City Y. O., Review and Harbor Cruise. 
Och 5.— ker City ¥. C., Closmg Review and Cruise. 


np charge of yachts, hayé been working so long in one rut there is no 
possibility of their leaving it, With many pees racing simply 
‘means hoisting sails, and then if the wind blows hard enough so that 
the hig jib cannot be carried. why—they zo home. This has been the 
time-honored custom, but it cannot be so much longer. The yachts- 
aan who has the enterprise to rie his boat with chain halliards, so 
as to be ready for all kinds of weather, will be the yachtsman who 
will win cups when the water is rough.—N, Y, Herald, July 12. 


Joel BIG JIB MUST GO.—The fact is some yachtsmen, or those 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


FROM PORT MORRIS TO LAKE GEORGE. 


i of mine, being anxious to fakea sailboat to Lake George: 
we determined to sail it up ourselves, Thetrip presented many 
amusing incidents, which I now will endeavor to jot.down. 

We started from Port Morris, near Harlem, three of us, in the 
Breeze, which we had converced from a sloop into a catboat, She is 
about 25ft. long, 10ft. beam, stiff as a house, and quite fast. It was 
Sunday morning, which day wé had chosen because fewer ferry and 
other boats run on that day, We passed Hell Gate in fine style, a 
strong wind blowing at the time; down the East River we proceeded, 
the wind Designing to die out, There was sc little little left when we 
reached the bridge that we merely drifted under it, and kept on drift- 
i + too, until, to all intents and purposes, we seenied bent on a trip 

o Burope. 

By and by a little breeze sprang up, and we were enabled to go up 
the North River and managed to reach Yonkers thateyening. Here 
we acroe for the night and took our last ineals on shore for quite 
a while. 

Next morning before we sailed away, the little oil stove was put 
into requisition, hot coffee, bread, corned beef, hot corn, sweet peas, 
and a can of peaches furnished that morning’s entertainment, which 
the cook for the day, an honer evenly divided between us, called 
“just a light breakfast,” which we ianocently took assuch. As we 
had a heavier lunch and a still more weighty dinner, followed by a 
mild supper, I shall not refer to food again, therefore, let at once 
the alarmed reader know that starvation was no part and parcel of 
the programme. 

The next day’s sail was very pleasant up the broad Hudson, with 
its beautiful lofty banks, here and there dotted with pretty, cool 
summer residences. Reaching the Tappan Zee, a good wind blew 
over the broad expanse of water, and pleasant indeed was the sail- 
ing then, after the hot daysin New York, That evening we reached 
Haverstraw, and anchored near some brick works in a very pretty 
little bay. Next day we started somewhat late, and with httle wind 
and a great deal of drifting, we reached West Point, where we stopped 
all night near the railway track, and the thundering of trains and the 
big swells from the night steamers kept the others awake, but not 
the writer, who sleepeth the sleep of the just at all times, and hath 
even, but calumniously, been accused of snoring, albeit the flood 
gates of heaven and the peals of thunder have poured forth the vials 
of their wrath on the thin and only blanket which hath at such time 
been his sole covering under such aforesaid heaven. 


The next day was uneventful, we only reached Poughkeepsie, and 
anchored near there; saw none of the maidens that dwell within the 
caves of Vassar, but we allowed ourselves to dream of them at 
leisure—lots of leisure. Next morning we mildly drifted up with the 
tide for one or two miles, when just before noon the wind began to 
blow great guus, and we, before dark, covered the fifty-odd miles up 
to Catskill, making a splendid run. the wind right behind and blow- 
ing so as to make us feel glad the Breeze had a good solid mast. 
Next morning the wind kept up and we finished the distance up to 
Albany in about five hours—some thirty and a few miles. 

Here we had our mast unshipped and were compelled to say good 
bye to one of our party who was obliged to return to New York, so 
that my friend, the owner of the Breeze, and myself, with Jim. an 
Trish setter, were left to go on with the journey. 

From here we were towed up to Troy, and thence to West Troy, 
where we urrived in the afternoon; we then went to Waterford, 
where the Northern Canal to Whitehall begins, 

Here we happily fell in with an exceedingly intoxicated but withall 
friendly gentleman, who many times consigned himself, his eyes and 
his eis everlasting perdition in endeayoring better to prove his 
high regard for my friend and myself, and who gave us much infor- 
mation as to canalsin general and his own disinterestedness in par- 
ticular, The result was that we got a clearance that evening and en- 
zaged a native to tow us to Whitehall. 

We lay ourselyes down to sleep in the boat near the canal, after 
carelessly exhibiting several firearms, and assuring the trusting 
aborigines that Jim the setter has been found guilty of manslaughter 
ou several occasions. Poor Jim! Thou oft calumniated canine, I 
must doubt whether thou ever hast tried to bite aught but a flea, and 
even then hast thou probably not succeeded, 

Next morning, after passing through locks innumerable until our 
heads felt dizzy, two unfortunate Columbuses might have been pre- 
ceived seeking new worlds to conquerin a canal, meandering through 
the complicated curves of said canal. 

Our paiLter was hitched onto the back of the craziest buggy I have 
ever seen, in fact quite a new thing iu the way of buggies, resembling 
a daddy longlegs after a stampede. The driver was peacefully nod- 
ding away the stilly hours, seated with great daring on that very 
buggy, and drawn by a quadruped whose back might have shed the 
rain beautifully on account of its sloping Gothic shape, and whose 
head in profile resembled that of a goat, and in full face that of a 
bald eagle. 

On this canal new things were revealed unto me, the factis, I really 
had never heard any swearing betore. Many times in the Forgeous 
Maine woods hud I heard a guide deliver an oration so interlarded 
with profanity that the cold shivers ran down my back. On many 
other occasions, as a wanderer over the face of the earth. had [heard 
a thing or two in that line: notwithstanding all this, I was really 
innocentas a child unboru in blasphemous literature until I came 
across these sturdy champions, I haye recently read of a man who 
described a cerlain variety of pie, manufactured by his fond maternal! 
parent, as being almost religion; this was notreligion, butit decidedly 
belonged to the book of revelations. We often could see a set of 
canal mules trudging toward us a quarter of a mile away, the sweet 
strains of blood-thirsty endearments «ould reach our ears, louder 
and louder would they grow, the canal boat would pass us, our driver 
and their diiver would cheerfully salute each other with sundry 
absolutely ferocious insulis; our hairstood onend. With an extra kick 
at and from the mules they passed on, and the sweet music would 
last until they were lost in the distance. 

Two days were thus whiled away, and one afternoon we reached 
Whitehall. We had been informed that we could that day take the 
Canada tow, which conveys many Jarge canal boats to Canada, and 
was to start at4o’clock. We arrived at the locks and managed to 
get through them at about five minntes past four, in excellent time 
to see the tow puffing away in the distance, We tried to row the big 
cathoat ip and reach the tow, aud our efforts were proving unayail- 
ing, when two kind gentlemen who were enjoying a row offered us a 
help, and taking our painter they pulled us up manfully, and we suc- 
ceeded inreaching the tow. We hitched on to one of the boats and 
enjoyed a good rest, 

The boatman informed us that we would reach Ticonderoga at or 
about one in the morning, a cheerful prospect, and then asked if we 
had any whiskey on board, We had to acknowledge the soft impeach- 
ment and pull out about half a quart that was left of a solitary bottle 
(upon my word) which we had laid in in New York, for possible medi- 
cal use. There were four men on the canal boat, and I have carefully 
since computed that their stomachs can stand a pressure of about 
seventeen atmosphers, for in a few seconds the bottle was empty and 
the whole gone, not to join the angels. 

One of the men assured us that he would let us know when we 
reached Ticonderoga; he said we could not mistake it anyhow, and 
described it lucidly, saying that there was a point and thina bay, 
and old ruims on top of the point; that was very clear, of course, as 
poiots and bays were as thick as peas, and the darkness of Hgypt 
prevailed. We suddenly, at about] o’clock, thought that we must 
be about there. We could see a bay anda point, of course,as we 
could haye done anywhere, our friends we)e all asleep, so trusting 
to luck we cast off our line; my friend had seen Ticonderoga in the 
day time a few years before, and thought this might be it. 

We pulled the boat toward shore and anchored for the night, after 
haying had our blood half curdledin our yeins by a set of the most 
demoniacal yells 1 have ever heard, but which probubly really con- 
sisted of the dilettante efforts of some amateur bullfrog, 

At dawn of light next morning, we found that we Seally were righ t 
near Ticonderoga, so we pulled the boat a few hundred yards up the 
river, and majestically anchored in two feet of water on a tenacious 
mud bottom. 

That day we could proceed no further, but we made arrangements 
with a teamster to take us into Lake George. for the boat had to be 
taken out of the water, placed on a wagon and taken to the lake, a 
distance of about a mile and a half. Wearranged to have everything 
done the next morning, and for the first time since we left New York 
we went and partook of most excellent hotel fare. During the night 
it poured hard, and we took refuge in the hotel. We had arranged 
to be at work next morning at 7 o*clock, but seeing that it was pour- 
ing hard at about half-past 6, we turned on our pillows and slumbered 
on, persuaded thal no oné was anxious to get drowned. 


_ The first thing we mew our teamster friend made a yiolent irrup- 
tion into my room, a cloud of vapor arising from his garments, and 
with the peculiar husky voice which so generally results from much 
water “extra” and much whisky “‘intra,”’ informed me. that he'd be 
considerably perditionized if he was going to wait any longer, L put 
on my rubber coat, rubber hip boots and rubber hat, my friend did 
about the same, and we sallied forth. When we reached the river we 
found a large wagon, on which two large timbers had been bolted to 
hold the keel. The wagon was backed into theriver by our man, who 
was at that timeat the happy stage of intoxication, and who was 
backing bis horses into the river in an aimless way, with great danger 
of drowning himself and his horses, Atlastit was far enough out, 
and the boat was floated onto and made fast to the wagon. Then, 
with perfect happivess, we found out that neither two nor four 


1 horses could draw it out, the wheels being a foot deep in the mud, 


495 


At last we managed to procure a@ set of blocks, and making every- 
thing fast, with a team of horses on the fall we got her out. 

The teamster meanwhile had mostly looked on, sworn at the by- 
standers, and taken frequent swigs at a pint bottle of fluid hehtning: 
and had become half maudlin and half uproarious, as he wanted to 
boss the whole busines, and did everything wrong. This was a big 
nuisance, and we planned several ways of getting md of him, I pro- 
posed knocking him over several timés, and then laying him in the 
boat, but we thought the remedy was slightly harsh. Then we 
thought of giving him more lightning, hut we remembered again 
that Ticonderoga was but a small town and probably did not contain 
enough of it to soak thoroughly such a sponge. Finally we managed 
to get on, as he became affectionate and only wanted to Kiss us.. We 
promised we would let him if he behaved, and finally reached Lake 
George. where the wagon was again backed in the water, and the 
Breeze afloat once more, A 

Next day the mast was shipped, the sail bent, and ballast put in, as 
we had removed what we had in before taking the boat across. In 
the afternoon we sailed, but as the wind died out we only reached 
Rogers Rock, and we stopped all night at the hotel there. 

Next morning we sailed off once more, but the wind blew so hard 
that we had to take in a reef, for the first time during the voyage. 
The wind being dead against us we had to tack about a great deal, 
and, though going very fast, we did uot get on very rapidly toward 
our destination, During the afternoon we were struck by two or 
three yery violent squalls, in which the Breeze behaved nobly, 

Toyard evening the wind died ont and we were doing nothing for 
quite a while, Toward our left on shore we could preceive the Hori- 
con Pavilion, and we tried to reach that. I got out in the skiff, tied 
the Breeze's painter to the seat of the skiff, as [ had no ring behind, 
and began tugging toward there, It had become pitch dark then, 
but we could see a faint lizht toward the pavilion, The water was 
smooth and glassy. thesky cloudy and dark. 

Suddenly, like a lightning flash, the water became one white sheet 
about a quarter mile north of us, and in one moment the squall 
struck our sail that had been flapping idly before. Fortunately our 
main sheet was loose, but the shock was so sudden that the bow 
swung round, dragging my skiff and myself sideways. I shipped 
almost half the skiff full of water, but managed to saye myself 
from upsetting and reached the Breeze. I made the skiff fast and 
rushed forward, My friend had already let down the peak, and I 
let down the throat, and we got the sail down on deck, for we could 
not think of sailing in such a squall, in absolute darkness, among 
hundreds of rocky islands. Wedrifted slightly toward shore, where 
we could still see the lizht burning, and made ready soon to cast the 
anchor, when suddenly the light went out, leaving us in the darkness 
of Kgypt. We guessed at how near we were to shore, and shortl 
after cast our anchor. Ahoutsixty feet of chain rolled out and if 
stopped; we let out about thirty feet more and waited anxiously. 
It was holding. 

The wind was whistling furiously through the rigging, huge waves 
were tossing us about, but worst of all was the darkness. At 11:30 
we began dragging, let out more chain, dragging still, all We had, 
dragging again; we suddenly stopped a moment, a big wave lifted us 
up, we felt a shock and the big anchor and a hundred feet of chain 
were gone, Now we began drifting; it was about 1 o’clock; we made 
a drag with our pail, buf it did not help us much. In that way we 
drifted, how long I hardly know, through a maze of islands which 
made me shiver hext morning when looking at them. We suddenly 
were stopped, in the dark, and we knew we had stranded somewhere. 
Regardless of the boat or anything else, we hopped into the water, 
nearly to our waists, and made for shore, a few yards distant, where 
we froze all night on a Mixurious granite couch, 

When morning came we saw we were in the only place where the 
Breeze could have stranded for miles without hurting herself, and, 
euriously enough, hardly two hundred yards from the Hundred 
Island House, which was our destination, The Breeze was safe and 
so werewe. Thus ended a pleasant trip, and thus ends, lam afraid, 
a long and perhaps tedious narrative. G. V-S. 


“KITES AGAINST SAILS.” 


HE following account, as promised in my last letter to Forrest AnD 
STREAM, of one of the races in which a kite-drawn boat was en- 
gaged, is copied from an English magazine of 1880: 

“Io was on a fine August morning, forty years ago, when we made 
our way to Rownham Ferry to try what we could do with the Laura 
against the Gipsy yacht, whose owner, proud in her achievements, 
had laughed to scoro our willingness to match our kite-sailed boat 
against her from Rownhxm to Old Passage and back. 

“Our parfy was a numerous one, mustering upward of a dozen, and 
very merry were we, but anxious witnal, asthe Gipsy was well-known 
for her fast sailing qualities, and the wisd was of just that nature 
that best suited our opponents. 

“The kites and apparatus we had sent on before, and when we 
arrived at the Ferry we found the Laura all ready for us and the 
Gipsy just getting out into the stream, After a little delay we started 
about 10 o’clork, but in the meantime the wind had dropped and 
shifted so that our expectations were somewhat more cheerful than 
they had been as we journeyed to the river. It uid not take long to 
get off, the pilot kite ran up in rare style, and the main followed with- 
out trouble, and was soon brought into work. Away we went, but 
not so the Gipsy, for the wind had fallen so that she scarcely moved, . 
and after we had gone as far as the Hotwells it became obvious that 
if there was to be any race at all it must begin lower down, 
and so we threw the main kite on the wind, and stood by 
to allow the yacht to slowly overtake us. When she did so 
her owner confessed that we had the better of him in the 
narrow gorge, as his sails could get no wind, and ours, right 
away above the crest of the downs, were as fullas we wished, but he 
was convinced we should have no chance further on. and so we sailed 
for Pill, and waited till the Gipsy, by sailing and tigging and the aid 
cf the stream, floated downto us, At Pill rhe race really bezan, 
and the yacht bad decidedly the best of the start. ‘lhe breeze had 
freshened, and away both boats bowled past Broad Pill and the Gib- 
bet Pole into the Channel. 

“If soon became obvious that we could do as we liked with the 
Gipsy, who only led for afew hundred yards at the beginning, and 
as we got off Chittening Wharf, we were leading so far that we ran 
across the bows of the yacht, and allowed her to pass to port of us. 
No sooner bad she gone by than we crossed back into our own course 
and came up to her hand over hand. In vain she maneuvered, in 
vain her captain endeavored to shake us off. Weslipped past her 
as if she were standing still, and off Aust Cliff, which was the end of 
our outward journey, we were half a mile ahead. 

“We turned and waited till the yacht came up, and when she went 
about we followed her, and commenced her return. But if the kites 
had beaten the sails easily on the journey up the Channel they fairly 
made an exhibition of them on thé run home, for the wind had backed 
and we could sail much nearer it than the Gipsy could, so after a 
pond deal of ‘chaffing’ and sailing around her once again, we bid 

er crew good-bye, and giving an extra pull at our braces to bring the 
kites intofull action, literally jumped off from her, and sped away 
to Rownham to order the dinner at the expense of her owner, which, 
by the terms of the match, the loser hau to stand.”* 

Iwill sometime or other copy out from the same magazine a 
description of the kites used on this and similar boats, and perhaps 
sotne small yacht may put one on at the bow and go “kiting” to vie- 
tory “Hollis.” ELLIOT, 


HULL Y. C. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


HIS club held their forty-second matches on Saturday, July 12, 
over their course off the club house at Hull. The race was open 
to yachts of the club only, which were classified as follows: first 
class, sloops and cutters of over 30ft., $25; second class, sloops, 25ft. 
and under 30ft., prizes, $20 and $15; third class. sloops, 2Ift. and 
under 25ft,, prizes, $15 and $10; fourth class, cats, 20ft. and under 
261t., prizes, $15, $10, $5; fifth class, cats, 18fp. and under 20ft., prizes, 
$15, $10, $5; sixth class, cats, under 18ft., prizes, $10, $5. 

Each yacht was allowed one man per 4ft. of length. In third class, 
sloop: were allowed only muinsail, jib and gafftopsail, catboats being 
allowed but one sail. 

The course for first and second classes was: From judges’ line to 
Black Brush buoy. No. i, half a mile south, leaving it on starboard, 
to yellow barrel markei H.Y.C., off Pettick’s Island, leaving it on 
the starboard, through Hull Gut to buoy on Wimslow’s Rock off 
Rainsford Island, Iraving it on starboard; thence leaying Hunt's 
Ledge and Point Allerton buoys on starboard to bell boat on Hard- 
ing Ledge, leaving same to port; returning, leaving Point Allerton 
and Hunt’s Ledge buoys on port, to judges” boat, passing between it 
and flagboat; distance eleven miles. Course for third class—From 
judges’ line to West Gut, leaving Pettick’s Island on starboard; thence 
northeast by north three-quarters of a mile to black buoy on Wilson’s 
Rock, leaving it on starboard; thence to striped buoy on Hunt's 
Ledge, leaving it on the starboard, through Hull Gut, to the judges’ 
boat, passing between it and the red ilag—seven nautical miles, 
Course for fourth, fifth and sixth class6és—From judges’ line to steam- 
boat barrel off Seal Rocks, leaving if on starhoard, to buoy off 
Prince’s Head, leaving it on port, to No. 1 Brush buoy (4 mile south 
of starting point), Jeaving it to starboard, to yellow barrel buoy 
marked H.Y.C., off Strawberry Hill, leaving it on port, to steamboat 
barrel off Seal Rocks, leaving it on port, to buoy on Prince's Head, 
leaying it on starboard, to barrel buoy off Pettick’s, leaving it on 
starboard, to judges’ boat, passing between it and flagboat, F 

The Regatta Committee were Messrs, M, J, Kiley, chairman; J, A, 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[Jou 17, 1884. 


Osgood, W. H. Miller, BH. N. Curtis, ¥. M, Griffin, B.A. Dow, and. P. 
M. Bond secretary. The judges, Messrs. H. BH. Orowell, F, C. Brewer 
aud Cul. Harrington, were on board the sloop Bertha. 

_ The wind was light from southwest, treshening later on. At 8:15 
P, M, the first gun was fired, the second following at 3:20, Nimbus 
crossing the line alone in her class, <A third gun fired at 3725 
sent off Banneret, Him’ly, Transit, and Altaire, and at 3:30 came Sea 
Bird, followed by Davy Crockett and Alda, The large cats went over 
at 3:35, Queen Mab ahead, Joker, Niobe. Amy and Thisbe after her, 
then at 3:40 came Hornet, Viva, Kismet, Myrtle, Sheerwater, Spray, 
Spider 4nd Imogene, while the smaller ones came last at 8:45, Char- 
lotte G,, Mirage, Samaria, Zip and Idlewild. Thilga, somehow or 
other managed to start in second class, although belonging in third. 
Thisbe was unfortunate enough to carry away the jaws of her gaff, 
soreturmed. About 3P.M. the hoats began to come in, and made 
lively work for the judges in taking their time correctly. 

The following table gives the result of the race; 
FIRST GLASS. 


Name, Rig and Owner, Length, Actual, Corrected 

Nimbus, c. b,, B, Jenney, Jr.._.... ...34.05 1 49 54 1 28 41 
SECOND CLASS. 

Transit, k., H. H. Ingalls.............., 27.08 165 23 1 22 39 

Banneret, k , J. Brown. ..,.... ...0..05 25.01 2 01 35 1 26 25 

Emly, k., ©. A, MeManus._..,..... ...27.00 2°08. 49 1 30 49 

Altaire,k., J, H, Sherburne...,...,.... 25.0916 2:09 55 1 38 45 
THIRD CLASS. 

Sea Bird) c,b., G, 8S. Purbush........., 23.01 119 51 55 51 

Davy Crockett, c. b., H, Putnam......21.06 1 25 12 5Y 46 

Aida, c, b., W. H. Wilkinson, 24 _...... 24,01 1 27 50 1 04 39 
FOURTH CLASS, 

Queen Mab, c. b., Burwell & Litchtield .22.06 1 23 35 59 04 

Amy, ¢,.b., H,iW. Baxter...,... ....) 72105 1 25 33 1 00 03 

Niobe; 6) bh) Dunne?) aad 20 06 1 27 19 1 00 56 

Joker, c, b,, George Coffin... .. anata 20.08 1 28 48 1 08 26 

Thisbe, c. b,, S$. A. Freeman........... 21.05 No time taken. 
FIFTH CLASS, 

Hornet, c. b., H. L. Harding and A. B. 

BVEEEALT tee cotcdehnt heats als adele Selne 19.03 1 36 13 1 08 81 
Viva, c. b., Hutchings & Prior....,... .19.06 1 30 56 1 03 81 
Eisnet, <Caiekl. NeCurtis se. 16.41 1 35 12 1 07 09. 
Sheerwater, c. b., W. M. Merrill....... 18,09 1 338 02 1 04 48 
Imogene, c. b., B. T. Wendell.......... 18.10 1 $4 16 1 06 07 
Myrtle, c. b., C. H. & R, 0. Poor....... 19.06 1 85 22 1 O07 57 
Spider, ¢. b., Jere Abbott... ......24.. 18.11 1 33 26 1 05 25 
Spray, c. b., H, H, Faxon........ ... . 18.10 1 38 10 1 05 01 

SIXTH GLASS. 
Mirage, c: b,, G. Me Glark... 1. ....., vi 1 33 00 1 08 42 
Samaria, c, b., S. G. King... 22.2.0... 17.09 1 35 59 1 06 35 
Charlotte G., c. b,, S. A. Freeman,.... 17.11 1 39 31 110 18 
Zip, ¢, b,, G. W. Morton....-.. .-......16,09 1 46 05 1 15 25 
Idlewilds ¢. b., Henry Taggart.,.....,. 17,03 1 50 40 1 20 38 


Next Saturday will be ladies’ day, and the club will join in a sail, 


A RACE BETWEEN TRADING SCHOONERS., 


HE schooners Hines and Judy, which were racing from Baltimore 
to Morehead City, reached that point yesterday morning, the 
Judy being ten minutes ahead. Thisis, perhaps, one of the closest 
ocean races on record, and excited much comment in the city yester- 
day. But there seems to be some doubt about surrendering the 
purse of $350. Mr. Thomas B. Schall. owner of the Hines, claims 
that the arrangement was that each boat was to go round the sea 
buoy of Morehead City. and that his vessel did this, while the Judy 
ran round the inner buoy and thus got in ahead, In fact, he claims 
that the goal was the sea buoy referred to, and that the race ended 
there. He therefore refuses to surrender the money. Mr. Schall 
bases his action upon the following telegrams: 

“MorEHEAD Crry, N. C., July 11, 1884—We made the sea buoy and 
went round. Thoy made inner buoy and claimrace. Do not give up 
money. Will write particulars. , EF. Terry.” 

“MorEHHAD City, N. C., July 11, 1884.—Your referee left it'to crew, 
They admil they never made sea huoy. Could not have made it first, 
as they were off the course: -C, BE. Tmrry.” 

Terry is the commander of the Hines. 

“MOREHEAD City, N. C., July 11, 1884—Give no money up. Will be 
some trouble. Things going crooked. T. B. ScHAnn, Jn.” 

*Moreneap Crry, N. C.. July 11, 1854.—Arrivedthismorning, Judy. 
passed buoy ten minutes ahead, W. T. Smarr.” 

Smart is Ma. Schall’s referee. He stated yesterday that he had tel- 
egraphed Mr. Smart to the effect thatthe race was to the sea buoy 
above referred to, and he must make his decision accordingly. Mr. 
Schall elaims that he has witnesses to prove this. Mr. M. Garrett, 
owner of the Judy, claims that the race was finished in accordance 
with the terms of agreement, and has the following telegram from 
his referee to show for it: 

“MornxEaD City, N. C., July 11, 1884,—Arriyed this morning. Judy 
passed buoy ten minutes ahead. W. W. Manrsx.” 

Capt, J. R. Billups, commander of the steamer Havana, in speak- 
ing to a Sun reporter of the race, said it reminded him of the old 
days of the Baltimore clippers. From 1855 to 1858 he was in the ser- 
vice of Mr. Pendergast, running a clipper schooner between this 
port and Charleston, 5, C., and the West Indies. There were many 
vessels of this class engaged in the trade, and the competition 
between them was hvely. Two would leave here together and race 
all the way to their distant port. At night each would hoist a lantern 
to the topmast-head to let the other know whereshewas. Frequently 
when one vessel had clewed up her sails in Charleston harbor the 
other clipper would put her jibboom over her stern and tie up to the 
dock, Sometimes a number of them would leave Charleston together 
and race all the way up the coast. If it happened that they 1eached 
Sandy Point at night they anchored there and waited for morning, 
In those days vessels would not come through Bodkin Swash at 
night. but rode at ancher until morning. Many atime the crews 
would sit up all night and wait for the first streak of dawn, so as to 
take advantage of the earliest moment of starting. It was not at all 
unusual for them to enter Union Dock several together, or at inter- 
yals of a few minutes.—Baltimore Sum, July 12. 


HULL Y. C. CRUISE, 


Gia second day of the club cruise opened on the fleet in Marble- 
head Harbor, bright and pleasant on the morning of the 6th 
instance, and the signal was hoisted on the flagship Brenda to get 
under way promptly at 8o’clock A.M, Allofthe yachts that were 
to accompany her made sail,and the schooners Brenda, Captain 
Abbott, fying the pennant of Commodore Perkins; Vif, Vice-Comimo- 
dore Grane; yawl White Cap, Rear Commodore Rice; schooners 
Alice, Captain Lockhart, and Tempest, Captain Whittier, and sloops 
Ninibus, Captain Jenney, and Gem, Captam Osgood, and cutters Sig- 
driffa, Captain Monks, and Ella May, Fleet Captain Tyler, stood out 
of the harbor to eastward before a gentle southwest breeze. The 
Tempest laid to off Lowell Island to take aboard additional guests, 
and so was delayed for some minutes. 

Ruuvning out through Salem Bay past Baker Island lights, the fleet 

lunged into a heavy southeast swell and bore up for Cape Ann. Off 
Bioucester the Brenda signalled for all to make for Portsmouth Har- 
bor, and the fleef passed Thatcher's Island with the White Ge in the 
lead, closely followed by the Alice, Brenda, Nimbus, Gem, Ella May, 
Sigdriffa, Vif and Tempest in the order named. Hauling up under 
the cape in smooth water, the Alice rapidly forged ahead, and 
heavy puffs of wind came off Gloucester Head, one of which carried 
away the topmast of the Gem, forcing her to turn back, and parted 
the sister hooks of the topmast shroud on the White Cap, as she was 
carrying gatitopsail, while the other schooners had topsails clewed 


up. 

ie the fleet. cleared the Jand the wind gradually moderated into a 
steady southwest breeze, and the run across Ipswich Bay was made 
in fine style, the larger yachts gradually leaving the smaller onés in 
the heavy rell of the sea, Of Whaleback Light the leading yachts 
laid to, to await the smaller ones, the Alice rounding to about four 
minutes in adyance of the White Uap, which led the Brenda by about 
the same distance, while the Tempest came next, and the Vif, with 
the two cutters and the Nimbus followed with the latter in the lead. 
Asthe last yacht came up ail stood up Portsmouth Harbor, and 
rounding to above the fort, dropped anchor off Neweasitle, 

After dinner, all hands wenf, on shore fora visit to the ‘‘Went- 
worth,” about a mile from the landing, a part of the number taking 
a barge while the larger number preferred the exercise of a short 
walk, under the Jead of the sturdy commodore, An hour or two was 
very pleasantly spent at this noted summer hotel, already crowded 
with yisitors, its grounds and yerandas brilliant with electric lights, 
which shine far out over the apen sea to where the “flaming signal” 
on White Island, at the Shoals, 

‘‘Ansgwers you, passing the watchword on.” 

On the return all took to the barges, which, by the way, can be had 
at Newcastle for a moderate expense (and are very good) for a visit 
to any place in the vicinity, 

After a few songs from the Temple Quartette on the Brenda, and 
au impromptu quarteite on the White Cap, christened the ‘‘Pagodas” 
by the boys, all bands turned in, 

At 8 o’clock.on Monday morning the smaller yachis got under way, 
in charge of Vice-Commodore Crane on the Vit, followed by the four 
larger yachts an hour later, heading for Portland iafter rounding 
Whale Kock Light with a light westerly breeze. The day was perfect, 
and only the long, heavy southeast roll of the sea continued to im- 


pede the progress of the fleet. Off Wells Beach the westerly breeze 


Curtis's Point on port hand, B. buoys 7, 5, and 3, and buoy on Sel- 


died out and a southerly one sprang up. The Tempest béing in the | man’s Berth on Starboard, and return, 714 miles. 


lead slightly, and outside, caught it first and shot ahead, while the : 


other large yachts took it later. Off Cape Elizabeth the larger yactits 
again laid to, and all came up; the Tempest having held her lead, 
followed by the Alice, Brenda, White Cap and olhers. ‘The fleet then 
stood in for Portland Breakwater iu clase order. 

On the way up, and while lying to, a large coasting schooner ex- 
hibited a specimen of yiciousness only too common. She first tried 
to run into the Brenda while the latter was lying to, and only missed 
her by about thirty feet by the activity with which she was kept 
away, Afterward as the White Cap was passing to windward of 
her, within about fifty feet, to avoid a buoy on a dangerous ledge 
the captain of the schooner deliberately ordered his helmsman to luff 
sharp up out of jis course, to run into the yacht, but the latter 
was brought up just in time past the buoy to escape by superior 
speed in shooting ahead under a quick luff, As it was, the great 
jib boom of the schooner just touched the yachts mizzen as she 
forged ahead. Such conduct when the wind was fair and done so 
maliciously, certainly deserves the most severe condemnation, if not 
some penalty to be imposed. 

The fleet rounded the breakwater in close order and came to an- 
chor opposite Portland, thus bringing to its limita successfil cruise, 
which will long be remenibered by those who enjoyed it. From here 
the Tempest kept on to the eastward, the White Cap visited Gasco and 
Booth bays, ard then with the rest of the fleet returned, filling up 
five days out and back. 

The Hull Y. C, has displayed a spirit of enterprise in these eruises, 
which is greatly to the credit of its members, The owners of the 
small yachts particularly deserve great credit for so boldly display- 
ing the merit of their craftin the long run in a heayy sea in company 
with such larger ones as Brenda, Alice, Tempest and ,White Cap. 
They have demonstrated that the club cruise nred not be confined to 
large yachts, and that its social enjoyments are within the reach of 
th EONner of thesmaller boat, which is well equipped for the open 
water, 


AMERICAN Y. C. RACES. 


HE American Y, C. will hold their first steam yacht races on the 
_ sound, on Aug, 7, the particulars of which are giyen in the fol- 
lowing circular, issued by the secretary, Mr. Henry A. Taylor: 

There will be a rendezvous of the yachts of this club. prior to a re- 
Rattia and cruise, at the Larchmont Club House, on Wednesday after- 
noon, Aug. 6 next. 

From thence, at 10 A. M. on the following day, there will be a race 
around the lighthouse off Stratford to abreast the lighthouse at New 
London, and prizes of equal value are to be competed for in two 
classés of yachts, yiz , first class, all exceeding 100 gross tons; second 
class, all under 100; two or more entries in a class necessary to make 
a race, 

The restriction of yachts to but two classes is for this occasion only 
and is the consequence of there being but two prizes for competition, 
with allowance of time. A third prize will be awarded to the yacht 
ea the least time over the course without reference to allowance 
of time. 

Owners of steam yachts of any organized club are invited to enter 
and to compete for the prizes under time allowance. 

The allowance of time is that recommended and reported by a 
select committee and which has been adopted by the club. 

Owners of yachts desiring to enter for competition in the above 
Tace, or in any that may occur during the cruise, are required to fur- 
nish the measurer, Charles H. Haswell, Post Office Box 2,961. New 
York, on or before Monday, Aug, 4 next,at2P. M., at which time 
the entries will close, with the name, tonnaze—as taken from their 
register issued during the current twelye months—area of grates and 
character of combustion, as whether natural draft, jet, blast or ex- 
haust, also with a copy of their signal, provided if is not already 
furnished. 

The Regatta Committee will make the necessary arrangements, 
compute the time allowance and have direction of the race, or any 
that may occur during the race; and all questions arising between 
competitors will be decided by them, under the rules and reculations 
of the club, so far as they may apply, and the decision of the com- 
mittee will be final. 

The Larchmont Y. C. haye offered the use of their house and 
grounds to the A. Y. C. on the occasion of the rendezvous, which 
ofter they have accepted. 


PORT ORANGE Y. ANNUAL MATCHES. 


Editor Forest and Stream: : 
The fourth annual regatta of the Port Orange Y. C. took place 
July 4, 1884. The race was rum oyerthe Port Orange Y. C. course. 


Cc, 


Seven boats entered. The day was fine and the wind light from the 


east, which gave the boats a run over most of the course, but on Lhe 
homestretch the wind freshened up so as to cause some of the boats 
to reef and others to take in their light sails. The wind also shifted 
to southeast, making it a beat most of the way home. The boats had 
a chance to try the wind in all wuys,from dead ahead to right aft. 
The time made and names of boats are as follows: 


FIRST CLASS. 


Ft. In. Actual. 
1249 0) 92 (Pym oma ab m0 Eh 80 (2 26.00) 2 37 40 
Gretchen, Fred. Knappe.... ............ e+ Bp SBE 20.04 2 34 02 
Gretchen winnuning with time allowance in 9.23. 
SEGOND CLASS. 
AT Tey EL Ey ROIS OTS. Ob eee cu celneld werede tl bel sel apehe 18.06 3 00 53 
VoLe/ peer ob Ed: CCI He RED o/s) OREM OBOE E oO Seu OB oats 18.06 3 09 33 
Magnet, George W. Johnson ..................-.---.- 15.03 Withd. 
Annie winning with time allowance in 8.50, 
THIRD CLASS. 
Momst WV IVa ANOB sos anes dele inas taesee i... tt see 18.00 3 34 25 
Maids red) Wowie) tos tees ere ee eee bo -..,18.00 3 43 10 


Judges—Hugene Marcile, W. L, Bunker, Capt. A. L, Daggett. 
Port ORANGE, Fla, Joun B, ALLAN, Secretary. 


NEW YORK Y. C. CRUISE. 


ICH-COMMODORE E. EB. CHASH has ordered the squadron to 

rendezvous at New London on Aug. 9, forthe annual ernise. 

From New London the fleet will cross to Newport, where a number 
of races, both for sailing atid steam yachts will take place. 

Commodore Bennett Has offered the following prizés: A cupof the 
yalue of $1,000to the steam yacht winning with time allowance, a 
eup of the value of $1,000 to the steam yacht making the shortest 
time over the course, a cup of the value of $500 to the steam yacht 
arriving secoud without allowance of time. The above race to be 
over a course of not less than sixty statute miles, and no race unless 
five vessels start. Cups of the value of $500 each to two classes of 
schooners, and cups of the value of $500 each to two classes of sloops, 
to be awarded to the winner's of a race from Brenton’s Reef Lightship 
to. and around Sandy Hook Lightship and back to the starting point. 
The race to be without time allowance. 

Araee will probably be arranged for two classes of lannches not 
over 60ft. waterline, the prizes being handsome cups, also presented 
by the Commodore. ‘The race for the Goelet cups will also be held 
at Newport, over a triangular course of 45 miles, with time allowance, 
the prizes being two cups valued at $500 each, for the two classes of 
schooners, and cups of the same value for two classes of sloops. 


BEVERLY Y. C. REGATTA. 


J HE first championship matches of the season were fixed for 
Marblehead, July 9, and for the third time this season the race 
was spoiled by bad weather. The th was thick and fogery, prevent- 
ing the south shore boats from coming over, and the $th opened with 
a strong northeasterly wind, making a dead bent across and preyent- 
ing their arrival in time. . 
Just before the start the wind died out, the start was made ina 
light N. EB. wind, making it a dead beat to Bowditch’s Ledge; after 
they had been out about half an hour, they ran into a flat calm, last- 
ing three-quarters of an hour, which was succeeded by light winds 
from every direction, shifting round so that the first class had a beat 
all the way over their course, and the small boats almost all the way. 
The result was that the race was not made in lime, Peri came in 
first about twelve minutes over the time, with Witch one minute 
later, then Hoiden, Spider, ete. In first class Thialfi and Countess 
made a very ¢lose Trace, Countess came iuto Marblehead Harbor 
ahead, but while she was beatinp for the line, Thialfi got a breeze 
under the shore and crossed without tacking, about half an hour 
over the time, 7 
At first it was intended to postpone the race till Saturday, the 12th, 
when a good entry would have been assured, but fhis idea was 
abandoned when it was found out thatthe Holl and Boston Y. Gus 
had races on that day, aud the race was resailed on the 10th, with a 
very small entry, a8 several owners were unable to devote two days 
to a race in the middle of the week. ; 
The boats went off to a one gun start; first class at 12:20, and the 
others at fiye minute intervals, with a brisk W. N. W. breeze. The 
course for first.class was: Leaving R, buoy No. 6, Bowditch’s Ledge 
beacon, Gale's Ledge buoy, stakeboat off 8, EB. breaker, and Halfw 
Rock on starboard hand and return, 1014 miles, For second an 
third elasses, leaving Bowditch’s Ledge beacon, and stakeboat off 


The wind died out at the finish and the boats drifted aver the line. 
Summary as foliows: 


FIRST CLASS. 


; Sailing Gength. Actual. Corrected, 
Thialfi, slp.. Amos Cotting...., eet aint 8 20 45 314 to" 
Countess, sIp,, Geo. B. Chase.__....... 31.6) £23,383 317 27 
Bessie, schr., Chas P. Curtis ...........27 not timed, 

: SECOND CLASS, 3 
Witch, cutter, B. B. Crowninshield.... 22.6 1 BY 28 1 26 20 
Peri, cat, Com, Parkman ........_,.,,20.% 1 41 86 128 27 
Spider, cat, Walter Alibott.... ..-._.. 20, not timed, 

: THIRD CLASS, 
Mirage, cat, LL. M. Clark.___.......... 19.4 2 04 10 1 49 48 
Tulip, cat, Gordon Dexter,...... .... 18.7 ¥ 19 53 4 32 


Countess and 
BLUE wiTH 4 Goup Gasrin, 


PACIFIC Y. C. OCEAN RACE. 


AN FRANCISCO yachismen have made a departure from the 
usual routine of bay cruises, and on July 5 the Pacific Y, C. 
turned out for an ocean race. There was plenty of variety—light + 
winds, calms, and at last a tearing breeze with rough water accom- 
paniment. making liyely work and an exciting finish, 

The fleet was ready early in the morning, but there was very little 
wind, what there was being from S.B. A large number of specta- 
tors were present at Santa Cruz to witness the start, which took place 
at 0A, M., Annie crossing at 10:17, Nellie 10:21, Lurline 10:24, Fleur 
de Lis 10:25, Aggie 10:27. Besides the racers were Casco, Nautilus, 
Lady Mine and Clara to witness the race. : 

Hleur de Lis started far Monterey, carrying a breeze for some two 
miles, when it left her becalmed, the others, who had gone further 
off shore in search of wind, being in a like predicament. When the 
wind did come, it was from northwest, Annis catching it first and the 
others a little later, all but Fleur de Lis, which lay way astern until 
11:50, when a breeze found her, and away she went with all drawing 
to. cateh the leaders, only Aggie being within sight of her. 

Running on to the stakeboat, the Lurline turned first, then Nellie, 
Lady Mine, Aggie, Annie, ail passing Pleur de Lis going one way as 
they went the other, the leader being ten miles ahead of her. 

For atime the wind was light, with calms at intervals, but Fleur de 
Lis sull held on, overhauling the others, and at passing Aggie. the 
latter withdrew soon after for no apparent reason. After the tempers 
of the yachtsmen had been thoroughly tried by calms and catspaws, 
old Molus relented and sent them wind enough in a lump for two ar 
three good races in the shape of a blow from the west, soon rolling: 
up an ugly sea. 

Annie lost her jib at once, and ran into smoother water to set mat- 
ters right, while the others quickly reefed down. Now was Fleur de 
Lis's chance, and she was driven through in a way that soon pit, 
Annie under her lee, and finally placed her less than a minute behmd 
Lurline at the finish, the full nme being; 


, Start. Finish, Actual. Corrected, 
Un] ne ys 2 EROS ELE Oe 10 25 48 5 03 20 6 87 82 6 37 32 
Mleursde-LiS ai. 2 ses. we. 10 26 48 6 08 33 7 36 50 7 22 48 
Neiie “ton oom er erars 10) 22 04 6 05. 34 7 43 30 7 26 00 
ATIICHS a ae neei semen 10 17 43 7 02 05 8 44.22 § 14 34 


The prizes, which are of silver, were awarded; first to Lurline, 
second to Fleur-de-Lis, third to Nellie, and fourth to Annie. In the 
evening a ball was given at the Ocean House, ab which the prizes 
were presented. 


CUTTERS ON THE LAKES. 


gee contesb between sloops and cutters has at lash extended to 
Lake Michigan, and the cutter has scored a grand yictory on 
the occasion of her introduction to Chicago yachtsmen. The follow- 
ing letter and the extract from the Chicago Tribune tellthe story 
plainly. In a storm that scattered the fleet, forcing the large yachts 
to seek a harbor and disabling several of them, the little Verve, 42it. 
on waterline, was first in at Milwaukee, some Six hours ahead of the 
famous Idler, $6.5ft. long. The race that followed was no less 1e- 
markable; in weather in which the racers declined to sail, Verve 
started out, the Wasp alone caring to accept the challenge, and in a 
race of 18 miles the cutter was beaten by but 13min. 51s., the sloop 
being 4 new jand powerful boat, 64ft, on waterline, 19ft. 10in. beam, 
and 6ft. draft. Our correspondent writes: ‘Wasp is a 50-ton center- 
board sloop, Verveis ai0-ton, deep draft entter, recently imported 
from Glasgow. Shéis the first cutter on Lake Michigan, and is, as 
the clipping says, & *revelation;’ it having been freely asserted, 
publicly end privately, that she could be no match for the loval 
yachts. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and Chicago 
yachtsmen are eating ‘cutter pudding’ just now.” The following 
details are from the Chicago Tribune, July 5: 

The members of the Chicago Y, 0. are thoroughly disgusted with 
their trip to Milwaukee. For nearly two days and nights they were 
eibher drifting hopelessly along without the faintest suggestion of a 
breeze, or were tossed and tumbled about by the turbulent waters of 
Lake Michigan. They have been chilled through by murky fogs, 
drenched to the skin by heavy seas, and scorched by glaring sun- 
light until sharp rheumatic pains dart through every limb, while 
their burnt and blisted faces have much the appearance of boiled 
lobsters. There is not one but wished he had stayed at home and 
enjoyed the quiet seclusion of his club, but it would be unsailorlike to 
admit his wealmess, so he smiles a ghastly smile and tells about the 
rollicking jolly time the boys had after the gale caught them. 

All of the boats, with the exception of the Wasp, left the Govern- 
ment Basin at Chicago about half-past 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, 
and slowly drifted ouf between the opening in the breakwater onto. 
the lake, It was ten minutes of 5 when the Wasp got away, and at 8 
o’clock in the evening the boats were scattered along the shore from 
Lineoln Park to the crib, their sails flapping against the masts aud 
scarcely a breath of air stirring. About 10 o'ciock a squall from the 
northeast struck the squadron square in the face, and they flew down 
the lake under double-reefed canvas. The crew of the Zephyr got 
all they wanted and ran back home. The other yachts separated and 
saw no more of each other until morning. The Wasp and Verve shot 
ahead of the others and were soon lost in the darkness. The Idler 
stood out into the middle of the lake in order to prevent collision or 
from being blown on the beach. Then the rain fell in torrents and 
the gallant commanders and their guests went below. 

Capt, A. P, Seymour's new sloop-rigged yacht. the Mamie, was the 
first to suffer disaster. Capt. Seymour was at the wheel when the 
squall came, and had just given the order to take in sail when the 
topmast snapped like a pipastem and went by the board, A heayy 
séa swept over the decks at the same time and she was thrownon her 
heam ends. When she righted it was found that the small boat and 
dayits had been carried away. She hove to and cast anchor just 
astern of the flagship Cora, A few moments later she narrowly es- 
caped being run down by a lumber schooner, and throughout therest 
of the night torches were burned. There was a narrow escape from 
loss of life on the Cora. Two of her crew were washed from the 
deck by the sea, but life Jines were thrown to the almost drowning 
men and they were picked up and saved, 

The squall died away before daybreak and was followed by a dense 
fog, so that the boats lost sight of each other most of the time. 
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the wind freshened np considerably 
and steadily increased in violence till afler 9, when 4 brisk gale was 
blowing from the southeast, Under its influence the yachts fairly 
fiew through the water, and atan early hour this morning three of 
them had east anchor in Milwaukee Bay, As they came straggling 
inatthe peep of day an object was seen on the waters which ap- 
peared to be alarge-sized pumpkin seed with a stiek standing up in 
the middle of it. The squadron Ap EEger ay it, and fennd it was an 
odd-iooking boat lying atanchor, On thestern they read the name 
Verve. 

That little pumpkin seed, built on the Olyde and brought over the 
salted deep, to Chicage, had been _the first of the Qhicago fleet to 
veach Milwaukee, and was awarded the basket of wine, Sbe cast 
anchor at 11:30 Friday night. The Wasp got in nearly a half hour 
later, and the Idler, Cora and Harry Burke about breakfast time, 
The Una and Mamie were missing. Atd o'clock this afternoon the 
Mamie arrived in tow ofa inug. She ran into Oak Creek about haif 
way between here and Racine for shelter, telegraphed for o tue and 
was towedin, The Una has not been heard from, but she was in 
company with the Cora off Racine and probably made that port for 
shelter. r 

It isnot decided yet when the yachts will return, but they will all 
go back mdependent of cach other. ‘Phe owners and their guests are 

uartered at the Plankinton House, and are bee entertained at the 
Milwaulees Club to night. The Mamie will be repaired here, and will 
leave Monday for Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, on a three weeks’ 
fishing cruise. The Rey. Luther Pardee, rector of Hipage Church, 
and the Rey. T. D. Phillips, both of Chicago, and the Rey. W, F, Tay- 
lov. of the Springfield Diocese, are on board. s 

In some respects the regatta that was arranged to take place this 
morning was 4 failure, In other respects ifwas the most exciting 
exhibition of yacht sailing ever witnessed on Lake Michigan. The 
wind was blowing a living gale from the west, fhe yelocity being esti- 
mated at Salle tarey, miles an hour, It was a gale that drove 
large vessels into the harbor for shelter, and it is Jittle wonder that 
all of the Milwaukee yachtsmen and all buf two of the Chicagos re- ' 
fused to venture cut, dl ye j4 isp at no 

Tt had been arranged to sail an eighteen-mile triangular course,and — 


“Suny 17, 1884] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


497 


‘the ‘United States revenue steamer Andy Johnson marked off the 


ice arent early hour, The Johnson and the propeller Michigan 
had € parties of visiting guests, among whom were several dis- 
tinezuished statesmen, members of the Board of Trade, and a liberal 
sprinkling of ladies. 

At 11:15 the: pean out was fired, but none of the yachts made 
any preparation for the race, although the Idler and Wasp had their 
mainsails set. Then it became rumored that the majority of the 
yachts would not sail on account of the heavy weather, and that the 
race had been declared off, 

Buti the British cutter Verve made sail and commenced cruising 
around the bay. Her graceful evohitions excited Capt. John Prindi- 
ville, and he ordered the Wasp got underway. At 11:36:20 the Wasp 
crossed the line under double-reefed mainsail and staysail and sped 
along the course. She proved to be a marvelous seaboat. She stood 
up beautifully before the gale and fairly flew through the water, 
the wind abeam of her. The Verve followed. crossing the line at 
11:38:05, The Verve was a revelation to yachtsmen. It-haa been 
pret that she could not stand a gale of wind. She didn’t stand. 

ut she laid down and skimmed along the white-capped waves with 
the speed of an eens Jerry Stever, her owner, lashed himself to 
the rail, while his Hn¢tish sailing-master stood in the cock-pit at the 


tiller. The crew of eight were lashed to prevent being washed over- | 


board. At times boat and erew were completely buried in the sea, 
with only 2 porticn of the mast and canvas above water, The main- 
boom was under one third of the time. The guests on board the 
Johnson momentarily expected to see the Verve swamp, and both 
cutters filled with life-preseryers were cleared away and made ready 
to launch at a moment’s notice. They were not needed, however. 
The Wasp rounded the first stake boat at 12:06:11 «nd the Verve at 
12:15:04. In rounding the second stake the Wasp missed stays and 
was obliged to wear around, and in doing so sprung her mainboom 
and carried away her jib sheet, She got around the stake at 12:47:50, 
but was so badly disabled that she hoisted a flag and signaled fora 
tug to tow her in. The staysail was finally set, however, and she 
started for the finish. Oscar Krause was on the Wasp, and in jibing 
was swept by the mainboom into the scuppers. He Was caught by the 
heels and saved from being washed overboard. The Verve floundered 
along and rounded the second stake at 1:02, The Wasp finished at 


BAY OF QUINTE Y.C.—Ata meeting of this club on July 8, the date 
of the anntal matches was fixed for August 6, the start 10 be at noon. 
This will be the third race under new Lake Yacht Racing Association's 
management; large entries are expected. The circuit fixed on is from 
Oswego on July 30, to Kingston, Aug, 2, Belleville August 6, and afver- 
ward to Cobourg and Toronto, all the clubs being represented, The 

tizes for the races on the 6th will be for first clas $150, $75, $30 and 

10; second class, $100, $50, $25 and $10; entrance fees, first class $10, 
second class $7. 


Answers to Correspondents, 


=" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 


Ff, EH. W., South Manchester, Conn.—Will five medium-size brook 
trout live in a well? Ans. They may live but will not grow much. 


_J, M. M., Toronto,—Can you tell me if quassia is a good Rep aern for 
flies and mosquitoes? Ans. It is said to be, but we never had much 
success with it, 


Park, Red Hook, N. ¥.—What DORON did Congress make of 
the Yellowstone National Park bill? If passed, did it pass as pub- 
lished in ForEST AND StREAM? Ans. The bill referred to passed the 
Senate, but is, we believe, still in the hands of the committee of the 
House to which it was referred. 


ReAveEr, Astoria, N. Y.—Is therefany difference between a black 
bass and a sea bass? Where are they found and where do they 
spawn? Ans. The black bass is a fresh-water fish, found in Jakes and 
rivers; it spawns in June in this locality, 
fish, which spawns in July and August. 

W.S., Tampa, Fla.—Can you tell me where the orchid is to be 
found in Florida? It resembles the passion flower rather, Ans. The 
description is too vague. There are many members of the orchid 
family growing in Florida, We have seen twenty in one collection, 
and know of none that can be said to resemble @ passion flower. 


he sea bass is a salt water 


half dozen of my largest iish to astonish our Jocal fishermen with, 
and had thought of using Réx Magnus, but of course do not want to 
do so unless if is perfectly safe. Ans, We believe the preparation to 
be perfectly safe, Have used it ourselves without any il] effects, anid 
have heard it recommended by chemists inno way mterested in its 
sale. We believe that the Brooklyn Health Board pronounced it 
deleterious, but bave not the particulars. 


POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 


Goop ro TAkr ALONG.—The Sun cholera mixture is a remedy 
for the ordinary summer complaints, colic, diarrhoea, dysen- 
tery, etc. Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, timcture 
of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint, and 
spirits of camphor, Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops 
in a wineglass of water, according to age and violence of the 
attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief 
is obtained. 


The personal appearance of the catfish is against him. 
His moustache, although thin, is too prominent, and_ his 
forehead altogether too wide to be in keeping with his chest 
measurement. Then his complexion is bad, and when he 
smiles he exposes rows of pale guts totally destitute of 
teeth. No, the cattish is certainly not-prepossessing. But he 
must not be judged by his looks. Beauty is but skin deep, 
any way, and beneath the dark coat of the catfish there lies 
meat as tender as that of any fish that swims, It is time that 
justice were done the catfish. He is humble and unobtrusive, 
and has been content to lurk in obscurity while earp and 
pretentious fish have paraded themselves for the admiration 
of the’ multitude. Yet there, are few of the finny family 
worthy to be compared with him im those solid qualties 
which fit a fish for the pan, For it is in the pan that the 
catfish is pre-eminent. Other fish may do well enough to 


1:23:09 and the Verve at 1:37. Archie Fisher says he has seen man 
exciting contests on salt water, but none of them compared with 


to day’s,exhibition, 


_ SALEM Y. C,—None of the yachts succeeded in sailing over their 
courses in the allotted time on July 4, so that the race will be sailed 
over on Thursday, July 17, under the same regulations as the pre- 


vious match, 


SEAWANHAKA CRUISHE.—The secretary has issued a notice, dated 
July 9, stating that the eruise has been indefinitely postponed, by 
order of the commodore, Notice will be given of the time appointed. 


east of Florida. 
York. 


for use? 


me something that will euab 


D.C, Minneapolis.—1. Is the red snapper caught in the waters of 
Mississippi Sound? 2. Whatis the best time to catch them? 3. Do 
they sell readily in the markets of New Orleans and Mobile? Ans. 1. 
They are caught in the Gulf of Mexico mainly, but some are taken 
2. In the winter and spring. 3. Yes; also, in New 


F. W.G., Erie, Pa.—Is the preparation called “Rex Magnus” safe 
Some time ago I saw it stated in the New York papers that 
the Board of Health had condemned its use as dangerous, 
to take in the Nepigon, etc., this season, and would like to take with 

le me to bring home in good condition a 


broil, or for chowder, but who shall say that the catfish can 
be surpassed in the pan? TheS8. F. Hachange and other dys- 
peptic journals may carp at the catfish as they please, but 
let the catfish be properly cooked and he need fear no rivalry. 
He is as tender in death as he is tough in life. —Sacramento 
(Cal.) Bee. 


Kerr pace with the times. Thisis what the Fsterbrook Stee) Pen 
Co. ure steadily doing with regard to quality, new designs and gen- 
eral perfection of their goods.— Adv, 


I expect 


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Manufacturers also of Fishing Tackle of every 
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55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


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First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Brass Multiplying Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
180ft,, $1.50; 240ft., $1.75; B00ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600ft., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
25 cts, extra; nickel plated; 50 cts. extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 
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wisted Leaders, 3 length, 5 cts.; treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. Trout Flies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 
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mYTWwocH’s 
Patent Perfect” Brass Shells, 


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_ These shells are made of extra fine thin pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 
only about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. They shoot stronper and closer, and admit 
of a heavier charge, as owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. Or can be effectually 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen. Sample 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in ease lots only, (2,000), and erimpers 
not less than one dozen, by F 


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Brass Multiplying Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, V5ft., $1.00; 120ft,, $1.25: 
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will make no more double guns at present, except on orders, at full prices, The undersigned, havin 
purchased all their stock of Wox guns, some 300 in all, of the various grades, No. 5 list and above, wi 
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EXCELSIOR BAIT PAIL. 


The Fisherman’s Friend. 


There is an inside 
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>} The pan which fits nm 

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ithe continuous flow- 
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GUN CLEAN HR. 


The only Cleaner that will thoroughly clean a gun 
barrel, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
withonf adjustment. Will do the work quicker and 
better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined. Price, $1.25. By mail, 10 cents extra. Ask 
your dealer for it, Discount to the trade, Circular 
free. J, C,. PETMECKY, 

Wholesale Dealer in Guns, Fishing Tackle, etc,, Aus- 
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- Pocket Mosquito Bar. 


(Holden’s Patent.) 


- 
« 'No discomfort in wearing day 
ornight. Wo trouble to put on, 
~% convenient tocarry. Try one 
ZW unless you are mosquito 
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CONTENTS. 


EDITORIAL. | Tum KENNEL, 
The Greely Rescue. The Laverack Setter, 
A Sports Defense Society. Crystal Palace Bench Show. 
THE SPORTSMAN TouRIST. Sale of Sporting Dogs 
Memories of Senachwine Lake. Aldridge’s. 
A Lo Hunt in the Staked Plains. English field Trials Rules. 
“Woodcraft.” Kennel Notes. 
Rescue of the Greely Party. RIFLE AND TRAP SHooTING, 


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Natura History. Range and Gallery. 
The Ground Snake. The Trap. 
A Visit to.a Heronry. Clay-Pigeon Points, 
An Amphibious iusect. CANOEING. 


Domesticating Quail. | 
Game Bag AND Gun. 

Open Seasons for Game and Fish. 

A Word for the Old Gun. 

Bullet yersus Buckshot. 

Reloading Ammunition. 


Weight of Centerboards. 
Royal C. C. Annual Regatta.— 
June 28, 
Cruising Canoes and the A. C, 
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The A. C, A. Races. 


Summer Woodcock Shooting. The Log Book. 
Sma AND River FIsHine. A Cruise on the Merrimack, 
Camps of the Kingfishers.—x1. | YAouTING, 


A Morning’s Fishing. Dorchester Y. C. 


Fish-Hating Plants. Yachting in San Francisco. 
“Salt-Water Fishing.” American ¥. C. Steam Yacht 
The Schoodies. ces, ‘i 
Size and Weight of Black Bass. Beverly Y.C. Second Champion- 
FISHCULTURE. slip Race. 
Natural Causes Influencing the; Steam Yachts and Steerin g 
Movements of Fish in Rivers, ears. 


THE KENNEL, 
Pointers at New York. 
Collie Show and Field Trials. 


Quaker City Y.C. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT, 


With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnisheseach week a larger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, than is con- 
tained in all other American publications put together. 


THH GREBLY RESCUE. 


Ye the week the wires have flashed around the 

world the news that the Greely party had been 
rescued. The pitiful remnant of seven out of the twenty-five 
men who made up the expedition have been found alive. 
They were starving, weak, almost in the death agony, when 
the rescuing ships reached them—only just in time. Two 
days more of this weary waiting would have ended the 
struggle for all. The eager hands that have now brought 
life and happiness to the survivors, would have had only the 
mournful task of carrying to the ships, which were to bear 
them home, the lifeless forms of the whole party. It would 
have been another DeLong tragedy, 

The sorrowful tale of suffering and death is told on an- 
other page. The heroism of each member of the little band 
is unconsciously brought out in the graphic narrative of the 
survivors. Everywhere throughout the account appears the 
fact that the success of the expedition was very largely due 
to the fortitude and ability of its commander. For the 
expedition was successful, notwithstanding the fact that 
three-fourths of its members perished miserably of starva- 
tion, During the three years of their sojourn at Lady Frank- 
lin Bay, there was but a single death, and they did not be- 
gin to suffer seriously until, despairing of a rescue, they left 
Fort Conger in August of last year, and moyed southward, 
leaving behind them eight months’ provisions. The difii- 
culties and dangers of the march greatly reduced the stock 
of food which they had taken with them, so that throughout, 


the winter passed at Cape Sabine, they lived on quarter ra-. 


tions. At length their provisions entirely gave out, and they 
were reduced to eating their sealskin clothing. - 

Up to the time of the arrival at Cape Sabine the health of 
all the men had been excellent. Scurvy, the most dreaded 


disease to. which travelers in the Arctic are exposed, had not. 


attacked them, Their camp at'Cape Sabine was opposite 


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the spot where the Proteus sank in 1883, and yet no'adequate 
supply of food was found to have been deposited here for the 
benefit of the explorers. A few stores had been tossed ashore 
and abandoned, but nothing had been done in the way of 
establishing a depot of supplies, Lieut. Greely is reported 
as saying that if £00 pounds of meat had been left at Cape 
Sabine by the Proteus the lives of his whole party would 
have been saved. 

The terrible loss of life appears to haye been due wholly 
to the mismanagement of the authorities at Washington. 
Garlington was ordered to push through to Lady Franklin 
Bay, and in trying to do so lost the Proteus, and turned 
back. By some strange fatuity he had been ordered to 
leave provisions on the east side of Smith’s Sound instead of 
on the west side, where Greely was stationed, and where the 
latter had directed that supplies should be left. Even with- 
out such instructions it might have been supposed that in 
the event of a retreat being made the natural thing for the 
party to do would be to make its way south along the coast 
as rapidly as possible. Smith’s Sound in the late suammer— 
the time at which such a retreat would be begun—is often 
partially open water, and impassable for heavy boats or 
sledges. 

The Greely party—as was to have been expecled—retreated 
down the west coast of this body of water, while the care- 
ful authorities at Washington had laboriously placed all the 
provisions on the other side of the sound, at Littleton Island 
and elsewhere. Thus, when the party under Greely reached 
Cape Sabine they found no stores, although two costly ex- 
peditions had been fitted out and despatched to their rescue. 
Through sheer stupidity and blundering at Washington 
nineteen out of the twenty-five men belonging to the party 
were thus allowed to perish. 

The work done by the expedition is said to be most im- 
portant. A vast quantity of meteorological and magnetic 
observations have been made, and many photographs secured. 
We shall know better what the scientific results of the expe- 
dition are after they have been submitted to the examination 
of specialists. 

Tt is apparent that if the work of Arctic exploration is 1o 
be continued, those who are to engage in it must be pro- 
tected in every pdssible way from the dangers to which the 
dweller in the Arctic is inevitably exposed. Of all the 
circumpolar meteorological stations, Fort Conger was.in the 
most dangerous position, from the fact that it was accessible 
only about once in three years, and yet these men were 
allowed to station themselves there without having any base 
of supplies on which they could depend. They were to rely 
for rescue wholly on the chance of an open summer, when a 
ship could come through to them. There are many people 
who believe that this exploratory work should cease—that the 
results to be obtained from it are not commensurate with the 
suffering and death which has ensued. The work of the 
Greely party, however, shows very clearly that such Arctic 
observatory stations can be supported, and that the observers 
may maintain themselves, even in this rigorous climate, with- 
out any great degree of suffering and in perfect health. But 
to do this they must haye food, 

Beginning at some point which is always accessible, on 

the west shore of Smith’s Sound, houses should be built at 
short intervals, certainly not more than fifty miles apart. 
Hach of these houses should he as well fitted up and as well 
supplied with provisions, tools, and all the implements and 
articles required in Arctic travel and living as if it were to 
be the winter home of an expedition for several years. 
Then from the northernmost of these houses, a short ad- 
vance should be made and another station built, fitted 
up and supplied. No long advance northward should 
be permitted, no matter how apparently favorable the 
conditions, but a slow and steady progress should be 
made, each summer being devoted to the establishment of a 
station further north than the last. one. Hach summer. ves- 
sels should be sent out carrying men and material, which 
should be left at the northernmost station accessible, and 
thus the waste at the northern end of the line would be 
constantly supplied. The obseryers would be always within 
easy reach of warm quarters, and the supply of food. could 
be made inexhaustible. 

It may be objected that the plan suggested would be 
enormously costly and very slow, but even so, it would be 
sure to accomplish what is required, and the money would 
be well spent which should save human life and lessen 
human suffering. . 

If these explorations are of real scientitic value, as we be- 
lieve, it is certainly worth while that they should be carried 
on with such system that they will be productive of the best 
results. 


A SPORTS DEFENSE SOCIETY. 


j ie its original form the bill introduced into the English 

Parliament to suppress pigeon shooting contained a 
clause extending the operation of the act to ‘‘any vertebrate 
animal, whether of domestic or wild nature, kept in confine- 
ment or captivity.” This was a blow at the sports of hunting 
the carted stag and coursing bares in inclosures. The fol- 
lowers ot these three pastimes, with other sportsmen, re- 
garded the billas “the thin edge of the wedge,” and they 
thought that in time other sports, fox hunting and grouse 
shooting, would beinterdicted. Accordingly a society known 
as the National Sports Protection and Defense Association, 
has been formed. Its avowed purpose is to resist all measures 
intended to interfere with the various forms of sport men- 
tioned, and our English exchanges report that the member- 
ship of the association is sufficient guarantee of its influence 
in this direction, 

We surmise that the society will be powerful so far as it 
keeps abreast of and reflects the popular sentiment of the 
times. If public opinion in Great Britain condemned 
hunting a carted stag and chasing rabbits in imelosures, as . 
public opinion does in this country, no society could with- 
stand the attacks that would be sure to be made—and 
eventually with success—upon these practices. No society 
could ever be formed in this country strong enough to bolster 
up the repute of such exhibitions as, for instance, are occa- 
sionally given by the Newport huntsmen in their chase of 
maimed foxes, 


“Wao Wins?”—This is the query propounded to news- 
paper editors by anxious correspondents. Most often the 
dispute is over a game of cards, or a bet on a horse race, or 
a presidential election. Our esteemed contemporary, the 
Spirit of the Times, usually attends to the card and horse 
puzzles, and the New York Swan, in addition to its matri- 
monial advice, dispenses oracular utterances on election 
bets. ltis with no little jealousy that the Formst AND 
STREAM Witnesses the confiding trust of the bet-befogmed 
public in .other journals, while its own opinion on similar 
themes is seldom sought; and it is with a genuine thrill of 
complacency that we once in a while read a letter like this: 
“Hamburg, N. J., July 11. Editor Forest and Stream: Will 
you be kind enough to decide the following bet through the 
columns of your valuable paper? A bets B that he can tell 
him where he got his supper on a certain night. They bet, 
A names the place where he supposes B ate supper, and B 
says ‘I had no supper.’ Is the bet a draw, or who wins?— 
Stir.” Now, if we should devote our time and intellectual 
powers to the earnest consideration of such intricate prob- 
lems as this, we might in time convert the Forrest anp 
STREAM into a vehicle for the dissemination of useful in- 
formation; but we shall do no such thing. We smother 
the ambition that would lead us into such an exalted path, 
and deeply as we are touched by the confidence displayed in 
us by “Stiff,” we must content ourselves with keeping the 
Forest AND STREAM what it is to-day, a journal of shoot- 
ing and angling, the best in the world, and we shall do this 
even though A and B and all the rest of them remain for- 
ever suspended on undecided bets. 


THE Foop or Nesting Brrps.—The very interesting 
communication on this subject published in our natural his- 
tory columns last week deserves more than a passing notice. 
The observations there recorded by this careful observer 
teach a lesson to the agriculturalist which he will do well to 
lay to heart, They show how important it is that our insee- 
tivorous birds should be rigidly protected, not by law alone, 
but by public opinion as well. If we assume that at each 
visit to the nest. but a single insect was brought—and prob- 
ably five would be neurer the trath—we see how great a 
check these birds are on the rapidly multiplying insect life 
of our summer months. Of these insects a large proportion 
unquestionably belong to species injurious to vegetation, and 
their destruction is of the greatest benefit to the farmer. It 
is this class above ull others. that is especially interested in 
the protection of our small birds. The care and patience of 
the observer during his long vigil deserve high praise. 


THE MaryLAND Assocrarion.—The Maryland Associa- 
tion for the Protection and Preservation of Game and Fish 
has gone out of existence, owing, it is said, to the indiffer- 
ence of its members. This is the more to be regretted be- 
cause of the importance of the work which the association 
was organized to do. We hope to see a revival of the. 
society. 


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Che Sportsman CGourist. 


MEMORIES OF SENACHWINE LAKE. 
BY T. 8. VAN DYKE. 


Second Paper. 
se een D Senachwine Lake I spent that fall nearly three 

= =months in uninterrvpted shooting, for in those days I 
cared nothing for the difference between rain and shine. 
Many a day | threaded the driftwood, snags and elbows of 
the slough below Senachwine, where the wedge-shaped wake 
of the muskrat or the dart of the pickerel rippled the dark 
water before the boat, and ducks rose quacking or squealing 
from every little cove or inlet or from behind lodged masses 
of driftwood. Yellow-legged snipe, both large and small 
yarieties, trotted along the shores of open mud or stood bob- 
bing and craning their long necks until I could almost reach 
them with the oar; then rising, with clear and penetrating 
ery and long legs dangling behind, tlrey would wing their 
way with avast display of fuss and feathers some ten or 
twenty yards further up stream, to repeat the same pro- 
gramme in about half a minute. Upon the same open, 
muddy shores the English snipe were about as abundant as 
the others, for in the West they frequent this kind of ground 
about as much as any kind, At almost any time I could sce 
two or three of these shipe and often more trotting along the 
water’s edge, probing the soft mud at every few steps with 
long black bills, scarcely noticing the boat until it came 
within a few feet, then with a sudden scape and erratic twist 
one would twitch himself away, dart skyward, pitch to the 
right, pitch to the left, deliver himself of many a scape, then 
after a long detour make a sudden wheel and, like the thread 
of a corkscrew, come down about fifty yards further up 
stream, Wisps of small gray snipe, sandpipers, etc., often 
whisked by with soft, insinuating whistle, and an occasional 
flock of ployer skimmed along the muddy bars. 

But at such times the gun was hardly ever raised from its 
resting place in the boat. When I wanted snipe shooting I 
had far better opportunities. There were still many warm 
autumn days, when the ducks were lazy through the middle 
of the day and flew but little until toward evening. Onsuch 
days I had such snipe shooting as I had never seen before and 
have never seen since. J haye seen snipe in greater abund- 
anee, but for easy, tranquil sport, freed from the wear and 
tear, from the work, mud and: annoyances of ordinary snipe 
shooting, without the tremenduous strain to which patience 
is often subjected until broken on the wheel of waiting, I 
have never sven anything that approached the shore shooting 
along Senachwine Lake in those days. Along its shores was 
a boggy strip for from five to fifteen yards wide. For a 
few feet along the water’s edge this was soft open mud. 
This soon merged into thin, short grass, which grew taller 
and thicker, with the ground drier as the shore receded 
from the water; the width and wetness of the two strips de- 
pending upon the rate at which the water had fallen in the 
two or three weeks preceding. On some days there would 
be two or three English snipe to almost every yard of this 
strip of shore, and when the wind blew up or down the lake, 
grand was the sport that could be had with this wayward 
little beauty, Though fat and untroubled by hunters, he 
was still saucy and swift, and up wind would test severely 
your quickness and your gun. But when you were walking 
down wiud along that strip, he pitched and tacked about on 
your right or left or shot skyward over your head in raptur- 
ous style. Rarely was there any need to fire at those that 
might fall into the lake, for there were birds enough that 
went by on the land side, 

Along the shore at the foot of this lake occurred that fall 
a remarkable piece of “‘pot-shooting” that will give some 
idea of the abundance of snipe. My friend, Henry Ruggles, 
of Henry, a capital duck shot and one of the best hunting 
companions that ever lived, had long looked with pitying 
eye upon my total deprayity in shooting such small birds 
as English snipe, 

But once, about the middle of the day, when ducks were 
unusually slow in coming to our blind, and Ruggles was 
tired of smoking and picking cold roast duck, and the flies 
would not let him sleep, he actually condescended to shoot 
a snipe, it being absolutely necessary to do something to kill 
time. He left me, and was gone lessthan an hour. During 
that time I heard him shoot twelve or thirteen times, cer- 
tainly not over fourteen times at the outside, and all of these 
shots came from the same place. He came back and tossed 
a bunch of Enalish snipe at me and said; 

‘Hanged if I didn’t just sit down behind a bush on the 
edge of the lake and pot ’em all in one spot, sometimes three 
or four at a shot,” To my certain knowledge he had not a 
snipe when he left me and there was no one near from whom 
he could have got them. Iam almost afraid to tell the num- 
ber of snipein that buoch. There were exactly twenty- 
seven. And recollect that they were all English snipe 
and that Ruggles had nothing but coarse duck shot with 


im. 

Though ducks in the West do not come to decoys in the 
autumn as Well as they doin spring, there are still many 
days when they come quite well, especially wood ducks, teal 
and bluebills, Many atime during the middle of the day 
we pulled the boat into a blind of reeds and_ willows, and 
set out decoys in the open water a few yards oatside the 
brush, and many a time did I have to drop the roasted snipe 
or pumpkin pie and snatch up a gun as the air began to sin 
beneath descending wings. And many a time, when yield- 
ing to the soporific influence of a heavy lunch on a soft 
Indian summer day, did I suddenly start from the land of 
Nod just in time to hear my comrade’s gun from the other 
end of the boat, to see two or three ducks come whizling and 
splashing below, while the rest of the flock were towering 
nicely skyward just as I got hold of my gun. 

What camp-fires roared along the Illinois in those days! 
Ti saddens me to think that such days may come no more 
for me. Driftwood piled as high as we could throw it shot 
a glare across the river until the dead cottonwoods upon the 
other side looked like imploring ghosts with arms stretched 
heayenward, and we could almost see the white collars on 
the necks of the geese that passed high above us. Bunches 
of mallards, wood ducks, sprigtail, etc., hung around the 
fire, with every color glowing brightly as in the evening sun, 
and naught was needed save a string of trout or a deer to 
make the scene complete. Cold and all other jars that shiver 
this mortal crockery were banished there, and all thought of 
the whole outside world went whirling away into the vortex 
of flame and sparks that streamed skyward through the tree- 
tops, Little did I hear of the song or jest or the laughter 
that almost woke the echoes from the eastern bluifs, For by 
some strange principle of suggestion, some mysterious mental 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


connection, the whole outer circle of darkness was to me a 
picture gallery upon which I could lie and gaze by the hour, 
The walls of that dark rotunda beyond the fire were for me 
full hung with the brightest scenes of the new life I had en- 
tered, and they drew with them by association all those that 
I had passed through before. There again was the bright 
sky swept by long strin gs of whizzing life widening out and 
Streaming toward me in swift descent; and by its side was 
the old dog rolling with happy gallop over the buckwheat 
stubble, slackening into a catlike tread as he swings to lee- 
ward of the clump of brush in the corner of the field, stiffen- 
ing into rigid faith as he crawls under the fence and enters 
the tangled woods beyond. There again was the stately 
mallard or more gorgeous wood duck relaxing his hold on 
air and falling a whirl of brilliant colors, or the wary old 
goose, with drooping neck and folded wing, coming to earth 
with impetuous crash; and by their side the catbrier brake or 
hemlock-clad slopes, where the wintergreen fills the air with 
its fragrance, while the ruffed grouse shoots like a shaft of light 
among the dark ranks of tree trunks, And bright among 
them all were those autumn days, when the bloody sun 
struggles down through smoky air, and the whistle of the 
woodcock’s wing in the sapling grove sends through the 
heart a more tender thrill than ever. Succeeding years have 
hung many a new picture in the dark rotunda that sur- 
rounds the camp-fire; but none of them in all the freshness 
of youth shine with more brilliancy than still through the 
mist of years shine those around the camp-fires on the Ilhi- 
nois. 

Lulled to sleep by the too-whoo of the great owl, the scape 
of traveling snipe, the frequent honk of passing geese, the 
clank-a lank of brant, the quack of mallards in the lake 
near by, or the grr7voooe of the sandhill cranes traveling far 
up in the dome of night, we got up before daybreak to get 
upon our stands for the morning flight of ducks. 

Though the morning flight of ducks is often very heavy, 
it generally lacks that tumultuous intensity of presence that 
characterizes the evening flight. Beginning with the first 
gray of morning, when a lonely mallard perhaps comes 
winging his way slowly out of the circle of darkness around 
you, crosses the open sky above in dim outliné, doubles up at 
the report of your gun and sinks at your feet with a sullen 
whop, the flight increases with every new beam of light that 
struggles through the misty morning, They fall no longer 
from above, as in the evening, and stream in from every 
other quarter of the horizon about as much as from the 
north. There is less rush and bustle, but they move with 
steadier march. They are not shot by you in volleys like 
prejeeies from some uncontrollable impulse, but they move 
with more majestic sweep and more as if they had some 
inkling of what they are about. At the first report of your 
gun the air throbs beneath the beat of thousands of wings, 
and a wild medley of energetic quacks, dolorous squeals, 
melodious honkings and discordant cackling as the myriads 
of ducks, geese and brant still roosting in the ponds rise in 
a clamorous mob, Again, for a few moments the tyro ma 
lose his wits as the vast horde breaks into a hundred divi- 
sions, each circling perhaps a dozen times through the light- 
ening sky and streaming oyer his head without remembering 
or caring that it was from that spot that the fire just spouted 
skyward. As the fire again leaps upward the circle of sky 
overhead is cleared for an instant as the ducks sheer and 
climb the air out of danger’s reach; butin another moment 
it is thronged again with rushing wings. | Beware, now, how 
you waste your fire upon this flock of teal just emerging into 
the gray, for you can hear the mallards’ heavy wings, a hun- 
dred strong, beating the dark air close behind them. Be- 
ware how you waste your fire even upon the mallards, for 
upon the right the deep-toned honk of the goose sounds most 
thrillingly near. But, alas! how can the tyro reason calmly 
when the hiss of a sailing flock of mallards is heard just be- 
hind his head before his premises are thought of, and his con- 
clusion is rudely hastened by a deep, dark line of bluebills 
pouring out cf the remnant of the night upon his left? 

This lasts, however, but a few minutes, As soon as dawn 
has fairly begun the wildfowl travel wider and higher, you 
must keep yourself well concealed and do your very best 
shooting, Foran hour or two, and often Jonger, the flight 
may be strong and steady and then it will shade gradually 
off until you may find yourself waiting fifteen minutes for a 
shot. The evening flight rises by rapid steps to an over- 
powering climax, while the morning flight tapers away into 
all the flatness of the anti-climax. 

One scarcely needs to be told that neither the morning nor 
evening flight is always during duck season such as I have 
described it. There are days when ducks will not fly as they 
will on other days, though they still throng both lake and 
siough in myriads. At such times the flight of those that 
do move is more over the face of the water than elsewhere, 
and then [ have had rare sport from a big barrel sunk almost 
to the edge in the mud and water of Swan Lake, a little 
below the foot of Senachwine. Through a fringe of reeds 
around the edge of that barrel I haye watched great flocks 
of mallards skim low along the water until the long green 
necks glistened within ten yards of the barrel. Then as I 
suddenly rose to my feet, what a glorious medley of flashing 
bars on terrified wings, of shiny cinnamon breasts, white 
banded tails, with curls of burbished green, red legs and 
beaded eyes rose whirling and quacking upward. There, 
too, I have watched the geese winding slowly down out of 
the blue sky until near the center of the lake, then, with set 
and silent wing and every honking throat hushed as if in 
death, every neck and head immovable, drift softly along a 
few feet above the water, until, as close as the corner of the 
ceiling where I sit writing, Icould see their eyes sparkle in 
the sunlight. And then what an uproarious w@f, waft, wif, 
of sheering wings, what a honk-wonk-onk-kwonk, and what 
a confusion of white collars and black necks, of gray wings 
and swarthy feet would crowd upon my eye as I rose and 
looked along the gun! 

It is gad to think that such scenes are fading fast into the 
things that were, There are, perhaps, parts of our country 
where the scenes of Senachwine twenty years ago are still 
repeated. But it may be doubted ifthey are repeated on so 

rand and varied a scale; and even if they are it will not be 
for long. The increasing interest in game protection will 
preserve many kinds of game to such an extent that our 
children’s children may see shooting of some kinds better 
than we now see. But no legislation can recall from the past 
the mighty hordes of wildfowl that once darkened the 
waters of the West, that dotted its skies and made its corv- 
fields alive with roaring wings. Nor can any public senti- 
ment, whether expressed in laws or not, bring back the 
primeval solitude of those swamps and river bottoms which 


were such an important condition in such scenes as I have | 


described. Those vast stretches of timber, broken only by 
ponds and their margins of mud and reeds, or by the long 


~~ 


[Tory 24, i8B4. 


lines of the winding sloughs, those wide reaches of open 
land covered with wayy grass or reeds, cut with sloughs or 
broken by rush-fringed ponds of acres and acres in extent, 
over all of which one could see no sign of civilization saye 
an occasional road, and hear none of the sounds of progress 
saye once ina while the far off puff of the high pressure 
steamer that was trailing its sooty banner along the distant. 
sky, can never be restored, 

t was at the head of Senachwine Lake that 1 first made 
the acquaintance of a nuisance that, in his full development, 
can be seen only on a Western duck stand. He forms 50 
decided a feature of Western duck shooting that any sketch 
of that shooting would be incomplete without him. 

Mr. Peter Popper, a Chicago paryenu—one of the first of 
the shoddyites created _by the war—had come down for a 
few days’ shooting. He came out to Senachwine in a buggy 
and planted himself on a piece of dry and open ground about 
one hundred and fifty yards from where I, hidden in reeds, 
was standing knee deep in water. 
rubbers also, but he did not incline to mud andreeds, There 
were also hundreds of acres of ground just as good as where 
I was shooting. Yet he drifted as naturally to where he 
saw some one else killing ducks, as a boy does to the ‘‘hole’’ 
from which his comrade has just pulled a fish. 

The first intimation I had of his presence was the sheering 
of a flock of mallards that were coming directly 1oward me, 
followed by a bang whang of Popper's gun some hundred 
yards away from them. 

‘Most too far,” Lremarked tentatively. 

“Oh, no!” he replied. ‘“This gun will killa hundred yards. 
Cost three hundred dollars in England.” 

Having seen plenty of hundred yard guns atid their own- 
ers, I knew the futility of any reply. It was but a few 
minutes before a pair of mallards, coming down the water 
opposite me, rose high with heavy beat of wing, and bang 
went the first barrel of Mr, Popper’s gun again, Fnowed by 
the other as they got well skyward. ; 

“Those are too far anyhow,” I called out rather de- 
cidedly. 

“Oh, I’m only shooting for sport anyway; I couldn't hit 
a flock of barns,” replied Mr. Popper with consoling tone, 
He evidently thought that I felt pas to see him miss, 

“Why don’t you get in the reeds and not let. them see 
you?” I called out in as argumentative a tone as an interrog- 
ative sentence would permit. 

“Too muddy, I can get all the mud I want in Chicago. 
Here comes a lot,” he replied, with a bang whang at an in- 
coming flock that would surely haye given me a food shot if 
he had been out of the way. 

“You are scaring all the ducks,” yelled I, somewhat in- 
dignantly, 

“By Jove,” my friend, that’s the best I can do, I’m only 
shooting for fun anyhow, I couldn't bit a flock of barns.” 

A few minutes passed away, during which I revolved un- 
utterable things in mind, and in my indignation executed 
some artistic misses on ducks coming from the direction 
opposite Popper, Presently a flock of mallards, coming 
down along the water a hundred yards or more from Pop- 
per, but headed directly for the point where I was standing, 
sheered and sprang skyward at the report of lis gun. 

“Why don’t you let them come further down?” 1 bawled, 
somewhat hoarsely, for I was getting mad. 

“That's what I’m trying todo. But they won't come 
down, yah-yah-yah.” 

“But you are disturbing all the ducks. You don’t—” 

I finished the sentence with a savage bang whang at a 
auc that came whizzing down the pond, while Popper was 
oading. 

“That's what I came for,” replied he, blandly. “I don’t 
see as you are disturbing them much more seriously though,” 
he added, as my duck went on undamaged. 

‘But you are spoiling my shooting. Logk there, those 
would have come close to me if you had kept out of sight,” 
said I, as a flock of sprigtails, with long, forked tails trailing 
behind, sheered off from Popper. Bang went his gun at 
them, and one, struck at about nimety yards just over the eye 
with a stray shot, dove head first into the mud. 

“Plenty close enough, You only want a good gun,” said 
he, with exultant laugh, 

“That was only a scratch.” 

“Tt's a wonder you don’t makea scratch or two for a 
change,” he replied. 

Completely snuffed out, I shouldered my gun and left him 
master of the field where, far into the twilight, he held un- 
disputed possession, 


* And from about him fierce effusion rolled 
Of smoke and bickering fame and sparkles dire.” 


A LO HUNT IN THE STAKED PLAINS. 


] WAS in East Las Vegas, N. M., running a store and res- 
# taurant for a man during the summer of 1881, I had 
worked hard seven days in the week and was worn down, 
One day my friend Lew came in and wanted me to quit the 
store and take a liquor dealer down the Pecos River to the 
small Mexican plazas in a buggy, as I knew the country and 
could talk Mexican. 

Knowing it would be a pleasant trip and improye my 
health I consented, and a week from that time found me on 
the road south. A top buggy and a span of good ponies 
constituted the team, I had a repeating rifle and a six-shooter 
revolver, while Singer, the spectacled Hebrew, who was my 
passenger, had a ‘British bulldog revolver, He was very 
captious and fault-finding, and told me several tales of which 
he was the hero, seeming to wish to impress me with the 
idea that he was a brave man. Ihave since thought he was 
afraid of me on account of my arsenal. 

We went along from town to town with varying success, 
selling some Soot by sample, Starting from Fort Sumner 
at about 7 one morning we drove ten miles and came to 4 
large ranch near the road. As we drove up we observed a 
stir among the people, and when I got out to get a drink of 
water | was met by Tom 8., who owned the ranch, After a 
hurried hand shake the dialogue was as follows: 

“What are you doing down here?” 

“Driving that drummer who is selling wnt ‘ 

“7 lost all my horses last night; stolen by Indians or rust- 
lers [white horse thieves]. I have found the trail; it leads 
for the Staked Plains. I have got three horses and three 

ood men. Take your horses and come with me after them.” 

“J will if I can get my Jew to consent,” said I. 1 went 
out to the buggy and explained the affair to the fellow but 
‘he would not vo nor let me go. Tom came out and we both 
begged him to let me go, and Singer ‘‘jawed” until Tom got 
mad, and turning to me said, ‘Will aon go, Dick, if I will 
square it at home?” I said ‘‘yes,” So Tom coolly unhitched 


He had high-topped ~ 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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the horses from the bugey, leaving Singer sitting in it and 
told a Mexican peon io draw the accursed Hebrew around 
into the shade of the house. Singer vowed he would not get 
out of the buggy. Tom remarked that he could sit there 
till Hades froze over, if he wanted to, and told him that he 
would pay him for his time when we got back. We saddled 
the horses. I filled my pockets with crackers and jerked 
beef, bung a gallon canteen of water to my saddle, took my 
én and pistol and my old cavalry overcoat for bedding, and 
# lariat, and off we rode, followed by awful talk from 
Singer, woo threatened me and my employer with a suit for 
damages; said he would expose me—that threat seemed rather 
indefinite, As we faded away in a cloud of dust, I turned 
jn the saddle and could see him stamping around and Jectur- 
ing in broken Spanish to anappreciativeaudience of Mexican 

eons. 

4 We were five in number. Tom had a Sharps .45-100; one 
one man a ,60-caliber Springfield needle gun, commonly 
called a ‘flop over” down here, because ithe breech opens in 
# peculiar manner; the two others and myself were firmed 
with Winchester rifles—model of 1873. Every one liad a 
Colt’s .45-caliber revolver, single action—the popular pistol 
of ihe West. We crossed the Pecos River at the ford and 
soon found the horses’ trail running straight east up on the 
Staked Plains, The northern and western edge of the plains 
are at least 300 fect above the prairie, and when you ap- 
proach them they look like a range of hills, but when you get 
on top itisarolling prairie. They are called the Staked 
Plains because a certain Government survey marked out a 
trail across them with stakes, as there are no Jandmarks, 
They are of an oval shape, hundreds of miles in length and 
breadth, and said to be waterless. I asked Tom after we 
had gone a few miles how far it was from the Pecos to water 
the way we were going, and he said about eighteen miles. 
By the way, on the road home he confessed to me that it was 
the first time that he had ever heen over ten miles out on the 
plains, but he dared not say so for fear we would turn 
back. 

We had to travel slowly as the trail was on the grass and the 
ground hard. Tom lost the trail several times where the 
horses scattered, but we found it again and found a water 
hole toward evening, Turning the horses loose with the sad- 
dles on so that they could eat, we chewed away at the 
crackers and jerked beef, and washed them down with 
water. We ate up half we had and I wasstill hungry. Then 
filling my canteen, we pushed on till ii was so dark we could 
not see the track, and made a dry camp on the trail. As 
Soon as it was light in the morning we saddled and rode. In 
about a mile we came to a well beaten road about four feet 
wide, with several patlis on each side of it running parallel 
to the main trail. The middie trail was made by pcnies 
dragging tent poles, It must have been used for years. Tom 
said that he had heard of the path though he had never seen 
if: before, It is the road used by the Comanche Indians and 
white renegades, who still find a refuge in the Staked Plains 
when they raid the upper Pecos, and it is called the Coman- 
che War Trail. The horses we were after traveled in the 
track and we could ride as fast us we dared push ourhorses, 
After we had ridden about twenty-five miles from the last 
water we came to a big water hole that looked like perman- 
ent water, finished our crackers and beef, and rode on at a 
steady gait. 

About an hour before dark we saw a big valley ahead. 
The trail was very fresh, horse droppings not dry yet. We 
rode cautiously, Tom in the lead. At the last ridge he dis- 
mounted, crept on hands and knees to the top of the ridge 
and peeped over into an oval yalley about half a mile long 
and a quarter broad. It was a sink hole about twenty feet 
deeper than the surrounding prairie and partially walled by 
a ledge of rock about ten feet high. There was a large pond 
in the center and the ground around it was worn bare by the 
constant use of animals, till it looked like a corral. Seven 
Indians were near the water cooking at a little fire, and the 
nine stolen horses and two Indian ponies were feeding about 
half way from usto them. Tom came back and we held a 
council of war. I was in fayor of getting around to the 
edge about 200 yards from them and trying to kill them 
with a volley, but Tom was afraid that the survivors would 
set away with the horses and so we decided to all go over 
the ridge on horseback and make a charge. Three of us to 
go straight at the Indians and not shoot till we got close to 
them; and to do the shooting with our pistols; the other two 
meanwhile driving off all the horses. We tightened our 
girths, and suddenly it flashed through my mind what a fool 

_ | was to come out there to ight Indians, but it was too late. 
And here we went, well spread out, with a mad rush over the 
ridge and at them. They did not see us until toc late. One 
ran a few steps toward the horses, two grabbed their guns 
and fired, but did not hit anything; and then we were almost 
on top of them, and were shooting as fast as we could; and 
they all ran through the water, making it fly, and up among 
the rocks and bushes on the east side, leaving their stuff 
scattered around. My horse ran into the water. I jumped 
off, went down on all fours and had a drinking match with 
my horse. Tom unslung his rifle and fired a shot or two 
while I drank, and then I filled my canteen, took my gun 
out of its seabbard and watched for something te shoot at 
while he was drinking, but did not see anything. 

Tom picked up a needle gun and hung it on his saddle and 
stmnashed two or three old rimfire Winchesters. I took a good 
blanket that was lying by an old bug of an Indian gaddle, 
and we started back as fast as our water-filled horses could 
carry us, followed by a few shots, When we had ridden 
about two hundred yards Tom looked back and said, ‘‘Hold 
my horse and 171 make that Comanche fellow stop that,” 
only he didn’t say fellow, The gentleman in question was 
lying on his back on a sloping rock, about four hundred 
yards away, with his heels in the air and making insulting 
gestures. Tom jumped down and shot. I saw a streak of 
dust fiy off the rock about six inches to the right of Mr. 
Indian, and while he bounced off the rock and took to the 
brush we made tracks toward our retreating horse herd. 
When we caught up the boys were hurrying the horses along, 
still hobbled, with theiy ankles cut and bleeding. Westopped 
when we reached the outfit, caught fresh horses and turned 
our tired ones loose, unhobbled the rest, and by dark were 
len miles away on the back track, After it was fully dark, 
so that. uo one could see our trail, we rode off the trail at 
right angles and camped two miles north, with a chew of 
tobaceo for supper and the canteen dry; the boys had emp- 
tied it when I came to them, for they had not been able to 
get to water, I passed a miserable night, very thirsty, and 
niore sick than hungry. We took turns standing guard. 

At dawn we saddled and rode for home, a Hieonsslate: 
looking party. About five miles from water we rode past 4 
buck antelope about 400 yards away. ‘Tom told me to shoot 
him, but I was atraid I should miss, and proposed that four 


inn a Am 


of us should get down and all shoot at once. Wedidso,and 
killed him “too dead to skin,” as the Texan cowboys say, 
Every ball hit him. We rode out to him and got down, and 
some of the boys drank blood, It made me sick to think of 
it, but L ate a little piece of raw liver, and then we cut the 
carcass up and started for the water, We got there by 9 A, 
M,, and how we drank! My tongue was swelled and my 
lips cracked and dry. ‘The trip did not tell so badly on the 
others, as they were used to exposure and an outdoor life, 
and I was right out of a store, Tom cautioned me, and I 
only drank a little gt a time. We built a fire of horse and 
cow chips, and broiled meat; some of the boys couldn't wait 
to much more than scorch it on the outside, and we all ate 
it rather rare and dirty, and with no salt; but it was filling. 
Away we went as soon as we could on the trail for 
home, all the time expecting to see a big gang of Indians 
after us. 

At about 3 P. M. we reached the next water, cooked and 
ate more antelope, and just before dark started our weary 
horses for home—eighteen miles away—crossed the ford at 
about 10 P, M,, and at 11 were eating chizle con huevas (red 
pepper gravy with eges dropped into it after frying them in 
lard), tortillas (Mexican bread) and some coffee, black and 
strong. Mr, Singer, strange to say, was in good spirits, anc 
seemed as much at home asa tame cat, There was a Mexi- 
ean lady at the ranch who was very handsome and quite 
friendly, and he had been giving her lessons in English, 

I slept well on a big wool mattress, and the next morning 
Tom gave Singer $20 for foreible detention, me $20 for my 
employer and my pick of the two Indian ponies for myself. 
We all went up to the Plaza that evening. Tom and the 
rest, including Singer, got very full on Anheuser lager beer 
at fifty cents per bottle. I don’t drink, and so the evening’s 
entertainment was an awful bore to me. 

When gat back to Anton Chico I sold the Indian pony to 
Mr. Monk, who keeps hotel, for $30, and the next week was 
back at the old job in Las Vegas with a good appetite, 
thanks to my excursion, W. J. Drxon. 

CoLoRADo, 


*“WOODCRAFT.” 


HE little book ‘*Woodcratt” has been received with such 
general favor and treated so leniently that 1 would not 
advert to the few critical exceptions only that they are cal- 
culated to mislead. I wish to be brief. 
One writer criticises the light boots recommended on page 
5 of ‘‘Wooderaft.” He prefers shoes every time and 
always, because the boots will get wet and can’t be drawn 
on and off, Quite right as regards the average boot usually 
bought of dealers; wrong as regards the boot I recommend. 
I have a pair of them on my feet as I write, This is the 
third season J have worn them. They have been worn on 
two rather rough cruises in the North Woods; have been 
waded in for nearly a day at a time through the muddy 
ditch called ““Brown’s Tract Road,” where shoes would be a 
nuisance; haye been worn on three trips down the Tiadatton 
the present season, where I was overboard a dozen times a 
day among the rapids, and they have never bothered me two 
minutes at a time in drawing on or off. They are water- 
proof at this time, and easy as a pair of moccasins. They 
weigh two pounds six ounces, Any competent bootmaker 
should be able to get up such a pair for $d or $6. 
Exception is taken to the hunting knives described on page 


18 as being of too high temper, liable to ‘‘nick,” and hard 


to sharpen. I did not and do not recommend high temper, 
but the best. And the best is the tough, tenacious steel that 
will hold a keen biting edge, without being hard or brittle. 
The strong double-blade shown in the cut does not come up 
to my idea of a pocket hunting-knife, but is the best I could 
find on sale, Hin passant, | have just received a lot of pocket 
hunting knives made after a model whittled out by myself. 
Ihave sent one to the hunting editor of Formst anp 
STREAM, who, I presume, will be pleased to show it to any 
reader who takes an interest in camp kit, and I will only 
add that it pretty well represents my idea of a model pocket 
hunting knife. 

Another writer takes exception to my directions for using 
baking powder (three tablespoontuls to one quart of flour), 
and thinks it may be a printer’s error. The directions are 
substantially correct—for the woods. Experience and experi- 
ment will prove to ‘'Kelpic” that the quantity of baking 
powder which may be suflicientin a dry, warm kitchen, will 
have but little effect in the cool, damp atmosphere of the 
forest, particularly if there happens to be a brisk wind whif- 
fling fitfully around the camp. | soon learned this, and came 
to think that the powders would uot work well in out-door 
cooking. I found some old guides and woodsmen, how- 
ever, who made good bread, and I wasnot long in picking up 
the ‘‘kink,” which was simply, that the euides who used the 
powders most freely always had the lightest bread. Of course 
a good deal depends on the mixing, handling and baking, 
Iwas with a Brown’s Tract guide in the summer of 1880, 
whose bread and pancakes were always light. 1 am loth to 
say how many tablespoonfuls; he used to a quart of flour, 
much more than three, however. And he remarked that 
making bread in the woods was expensive, because the pow- 
ders cost more than the flour. 

Among the many newspaper notices of ‘‘Wooderaft,” I 
note one in the New York Avening Post, wherein commenda- 
tion and criticism are so neatly blended that I would not say 
a word were the criticism sound—which it is not. Firstly, 
the writer objects to the ‘‘general fishing rod,” which, he 
says, “‘most people consider, and justly, anuisance. Not 
poor for bait-fishing and almost worthless for fly-fishing.” 

the writer will select the best eight or ten-ounce bait-rod 
he can findin New York, he will probably admit that it is 
“good for bait-fishing.” Then let him adda good fly-tip, 
and if he cannot make it something more than ‘‘worthless 
for fly-fishing,” I venture to suggest that the fault will be 
found somewhere near the butt of the rod. 

Again, the writer says: ‘The description of the head- 
light, used almost entirely for shooting deer out of season, 
might have been omitted.” Just so. The headlight being a 
most useful and handy article in a woodland camp, and the 
best light to float a deer in season, is to be “omitted”? because 
a poacher may use it out of season. And the boat and the 
10-bore, being necessary to float a deer in the hands of a 
law-abiding sportsman, had better be omitted, because they 
can be used as well by the poacher. A lame and impotent 
sort of logic. The witty allusion to the soap and towel, 
carried for seyen weeks in the Wilderness without being once 
used, with the suggestion that ‘‘probably the portrait of 
‘Nessmuk,’ which forms the frontispiece, was taken just be- 
fore the seven weeks were up,” are so neatly put that I will 
not say a word in explanation, especially as the writer con- 
cludes that ‘on the whole, the book is sound and practical, 
and well worth the reading.” NESsMUK. 


RESCUE OF THE GREELY PARTY. 
id [eee International Geographical Congress at Hamburg, 
in 1879, adopted a scheme for the establishment of cir- 
cumpolar stations for scientific observation in the Arctie 


regions. The locution selected for the United States station 


‘was at Discovery Harbor, Lady Franklin Bay, in latitude 


81° 45' north, longitude 64° 45' west. This was the most 
northerly and difficult of access of all the projected stations. 
Lieut, A. W. Greely, Fifth United States Oavalry, was ap- 
pointed to the command, and on the Fourth of July, 1881, 
the colony left St. John, Newfoundiand, in the steamship 
Proteus. ‘The expedition opened most suspiciously. The 
Proteus found an open passage and made a run quick be- 
yond purallel, Within one month from leaving port she 
reached her destination, On the day of their arrival the 
party killed fourtecn musk oxen, which dressed 300 pounds 
each—three months’ rations. The men set about building 
their house, which had been already prepared in this coun- 
try, with its double frame—a house within a house; two 
years’ stores of proyisious were landed, and there were dogs 
and sledges, with Hsquimau drivers, boats, and a steam launch 
and coal, With letters full of confidence and hope, written 
by Lieut. Greely and the others, and parting directions about 
the relief vessels which were to come in thesummers of 1882 
and 1888, the Proteus sailed away, Ang. 18, and left the 
Greely colony in their snug quarters at Discovery Larbor, 
According to arrangement, in 1882 and 1883 relief ships—the 
Neptune, the Proteus and the Yantic—set out to carry sue¢- 
cor and supplies to the party, buf, as is well known, they 
failed fo accomplish thei mission; and from the 1sth (lay of 
August, 1881, until the wretched survivors were brought 
back to St. John, July 17, 1884, no word came of the fate of 
the Greely colony, Last Thursday the telegraph brought to 
us the news of their rescue, and a story of heroism, endur- 
ance, suffering and self-sacrifice well wortliy to rank with 
the most thrilling chapters in the annals of Arctic explora- 
tion. 
IL—CAMP CONGER. 

They named the station Camp Conger in honor of the 
Michigan senator, who had been instrumental in securing 
the Government appropriation for the expedition, Scientific 
observations (meteorological, astronomical, magnetic, etc.) 
were begun immediately and continued while they were at 
the post, The long Arctie winter was necessarily monoto- 
nous, but the regular routine of observations coupled with 
such military discipline as was not Inappropriate to the 
climate and the mode of living rendered it more tolerable. 
One hour’s exercise daily was exacted of all. Themen were 
required to bathe once a week, and great care was taken by 
frequent inspection to see that the quarters and particularly 
the berths were kept clean. The efficiency of the hygienic 
arrangements adopted is fully demonstrated by the fact that 
there was no scurvy in the expedition, notwithstanding that 
the water used was from melted iceimvariably obtained from 
the floe. Thanksgiving and national holidays were always 
celebrated by a good dinner, and the first Christmas wis 
rendered pleasant by presents for every member of the ex- — 
pedition from unknown but thoughtlul friends. 

Meanwhile they were making expeditions to explore the 
country in different directions, The number of dogs had 
been sadly reduced by sickness and death, but those left 
were carefully looked after and by breeding Lieut, Greely 
was able, in the spring of 1882, to pul two good teams in the 
field. In nearly all of his explorations, as ever In Arctic ex- 
peditions, the dogs were found most useful and almost indis- 
pensable accessories. 

These exploring trips were always attended with peril, 
often with great suffering. The men af one time, under Ser- 
geant Brainard, experienced the lowest corrected mean tem- 
perature ever known in the annals of Arctic travel—viz,, 
minus sixty-one degrees. On another trip by Dr. Payy, Mr. 
Rice, with the Esquimau Jens Edwards, aud a team of dogs; 
to discover land to the north of Cape Joseph Henry, Rice 
and Jens traveled fifty miles on foot in a temperature of[—40°, 
without sleeping bag or tent, and later the party were adrift 
on an ice pack and driven miles from land, escaping as by a 
miracle over the grinding, crumbling ice. 

Again, Lieut. Lockwood with Brainard and Frederick 
Christensen with a dog team, set out to explore the northern 
shore of Greenland, crossed tne Polar Ocean direct to Cape 
Britannia, thence through regions neyer before trodden by 
man, to a point they named Lockwood Island, the highest 
northern latitude ever yet attained, 83° 24.5’, in longitude 
40° 45' west—and would have gone further yet, but that the 
long shadows of Arctic cliffs prevented a determining of the 
latitude, so their instruments failed them before their courage, 
They found animal life abundant with scant vegetation similar 
to that met within Grinnell Land. Traces of hares, lemmings, 
ptarmigan and snow bunting, and the tracks of a bear were 
seen, and droppings of the musk ox as far as twenty miles 
north of Cape Britannia. Looking to the northeastward 
from an elevation of about two thousand feet, the land was 
seen for about fifteen miles, the furthest point, Cape Robert 
Lincoln, being in about latitude 85° 35’ and longitude 48° 
west. Aithough the weather was unusually clear, no other 
land could be seen, the horizon being examined carefully to 
the northward and northwestward. Ou the 15th they started 
south, picking up en rowle the union jack and sextant left hy 
Lieut. Beaumont, of the Nares expedition, during his extra- 
ordinary retreat with a scurvy-Stricken party in 1875, and 
returned to Fort Conger, where they arrived on June 1, 
after an absence of fifty-nine days, all in good condition ex- 
cept that two were snow blind and had to be Jed into camp, 

uring the season of 1882 Lient. Greely made two jour: 
neys into the interior of Grinnell Land, leaving Mort Conger 
on April 23 and June 24 respectively, Winter quarters of 
Hsquimaux were found and some relics showing that they 
had possessed dogs, sledges and iron, Two ranges of moun- 
tains running nearly parallel with the United States range 
were called respectively Conger and Gartield range, and a 
lotty peak, the highest in Grinnell Land, Mount Avthur. Of 
glaciers there were many, the largest of which was called 
Henrietta Nesmith Glacier, Great hardships were endured 
on the second of these journeys, when Greely and Linn, 
leaving the supporting party, traveled with packs, which 
weighed on starting about eighty pounds, fording and swim- 
ming many streams and being otherwise subjected to much 
poe without, howeyer, any eventual il] resulting there- 

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Game was abundant, more than one biundred musk oxen 
beimg seen, besides hares and birds. From the summit of 
Mount Arthur, Lieut, Greely, who was alone able to make 
the ascent, was satisfied from the trend of the mountains 
and the appearance of the country that Grinnell Land ended 
but a short distance to the westward, and that its coast line 
must run nearly southwest from the extreme point reached 
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Lieut. Lockwood made two journeys in the launch, on the 
first to the head of Archer Fiord, bringing back large quan- 
tities of game, and on the second he entered Weyprecht 
Fiord, but was unable to advance far on account of the ice. 

Much disappointment was felt at the non-arrival of the 
expected relief ship, with, first, stores, and above all, news 
from home, and many were the conjectures as to the cause 
of her failure to come; but no discouragement was felt, and 
feeling a pardonable pride in their achievements of the past 
year, they prepared to attempt even more in the next. The 
winter passed away more rapidly and pleasantly than would 
be supposed possible. There was plenty of reading matter. 
Lieut. Greely and Dr, Pavy delivered occasional lectures, 
and holidays were celebrated as before. Another feature 
suggested by Lieut. Greely did much to promote contentment 
and good feeling, Each man was allowed on his birthday 
to select the dinner, of which all partook—a privilege which 
was greatly appreciated and never abused. 

On Feb. 1, 1883, twenty-six days before the sun reap- 
peared, a cache of provisions was made at Cape Baird, and 
these were increased from time to time during the month 
with a view to retreating southward in the fall should the 
relief vessel again fail to urrive. 


li.— THE RETREAT. 

Finally all hope of a relief vessel failed them, and early in 
1883 they made ready to retreat southward, wherein accord- 
ance with the directions he had sent home by the Proteus, 
Lieut. Greely was confident a cache of supplies would be 
found awaiting them. But it was not until Angust that the 
ice broke up so they could move, 

The boats taken were the steam launch Lady Greely, the 
whaleboat Narwhal, both built in the United States, the 
jolly boat Valorous, left at Cape Hawkes by the English 
and brought up in the Proteus in 1881, and aniceboat which 
had been left by Beaumont at Thank God Harbor. Two 
tons of coal and about eight months’ supplies were left in a 
secure place, to be ready sbould a return be made necessary. 
A number of barrels of blubber, spoiled meat and bread were 
broken up to'serve as food for the twenty-three dogs which 
were left in possession. 

At 2 o’clock on the afternoon of Aug. 9, 1883, the party 


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of twenty-five bade farewell to the place which had been to 
them for two years not only a home but a home fraught with 
so many pleasant recollections that they still speak of it as 
the paradise of the Arctic. The steam launch towed the 
other three boats. Three tons of coal and a quantity of pro- 
visions had been stowed at Cape Baird, and that was, there- 
fore, the first objective point. Arriving on the morning of 
the 10th, they took on the provisions and left at midday with 
fitty days’ supplies. Passing around Cape Leiber they en- 
countered a moving pack from the northward, and were 
compelled to run in to Cape Crocrofft and tie up to the land 
ice. Here they took up forty-eight pounds of corned beef, 
left by Lieut. Greely the previous year, and, the tide having 
drifted the ice off shore, they ran on to Cape Bock and Carl 
Ritler Bay, finding comparatively open water. 

The provisions left here by the Proteus in 1881, 200 
rations, and those cached at Cape Cullinson by Nares in 
1575, 240 rations, were taken on board. The small stores in 
the Nayres cache, such as tea, tobacco and sugar, were bad, 
as well as a barrel of bread. About midway between Capes 
Leopold, Bon Bouche and Lawrence they were frozen in tor 
five days, when they forced their way out, and after various 
detentions from the boats getting ashore and several severe 
nips, which the launch stood well, the other boats being 
hauled up, they finally reached Cape Hawkes on Aug. 26. 
They landed and left a record on the summit of Washington 
Irving Island and took on the small quantity of potatoes, 
pickles and bread found in the English cache, except about 
three or jour hundred pounds of the latter, which was too 
mouldy for use At4 P.M. the same day they started for 
Cape Sabine, having clear water until 10 P. M., when the 
wind off shore drove the pack out and compelled them to 
make fast during the night. Young ice several inches thick 
formed off the mouth of Allman Bay, so that they were 
unahle to extricate the launch, but drifted slowly to the 
southward with the pack. The tide occasionally would 
open a lane and they worked through it a short distance 
only to be brought up again. For the scason of the year 
the temperature was uuprecedentedly low, being generally 
below zero, and the party suffered much with cold. In order 
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a tripod was erected on the ice and a flag hoisted at an ele- 
vation of thirty feet to attract attention. They were finally 
driven to within about six miles of Cape Albert. 
Here Lieut. Greely determined to abandon the steam launch 
and Valorous, two small sleds being made from the inside 
works of the launch, With these and the twelve-man Rng- 
lish sled, which had been recovered from Thank God Har- 
bor, where it was left by Beaumont, and had been brought 
along to meet such an emergency, the party set out across 
the ice for the nearest point of land above Cape Sabine, some 
eleven miles distant. It was 1 weary journey, the ice was 
rough and hummocky, and two journeys were required with 
the small sleds for the provisions and two with the larger 
one to transport the boats, Even then they accomplished 
only about one mile daily. Officers and men worked alike 
at the drags. On Sept. 18, finding that the large sled was 
weakening, the whaleboat was abandoned and only the Beau- 
mont remained. Twice driven back into Kane Sea by south- 
westerly gales, and fearing as much that they would he 
driven to the southward past Cape Sabine as that they would 
not reach that point, the floe on which they were traveling 
was driven, on Sept. 22, by a northwest gale, down by Bre- 
yoort Island to the mouth of Baird Inlet, where it was 
stopped by grounded bergs and so broken up that they were 
left on a small piece only about fifty yards in diameter, The 
floe continued to come down from the northward, and grind- 
ing and crumbling together, piled up in some places to a 
height of twenty-five feet. Their encampment of snow 
houscs and tents was broken up and they were forced to at- 
tempt a landing, which they finally effected on the north 
side of Baird Inlet on Sept. 29. 


Two men, Rice and Esquimau Jens, were at once sent to 
Cape Sabine to examine into the state of affairs there, while 
the remainder, except Long and Esquimau Frederick, who 
were detailed as hunters, set about constructing winter 
quarters, Game, however, was very scarce and only three 
seals and afew ptarmigan were obtained. Rice and Jens 
returned on the 9th of October with the discouraging news 
of the Proteus disaster and the scanty supply of provisions 
at Sabine. That meant that the store of provisions on which 
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furnished, and this meant, in all probability, ultimate 
starvation. ‘Lieut. Greely upon hearing their report an- 
nounced that the party must abandon Esquimau Point, as he 
‘had named it, and transfer the camp to a place nearer the 
base of supplies. 

A start was made on the next day, when one load of pro- 
- visions was advanced as faras Rosse Bay, and on the 11th 
the remainder. They then traveled along a strait discovered 
iby Rice, and named after him, which connects Rosse Bay 
with Buchanan Straits, placing Cape Sabine on an island in- 
stead of the mainland, as was formerly supposed. - Rice and 
Jens having gone to Cape Isabella to ascertain whether any 
supplies had been left there last year, found only the 144 
pounds of meat lett there by the English in 1875. 

The people had been on reduced rations since September 
25, when the allowance of meat was made twelve ounces, 
and at Eskimo Point one-half that quantity. On the evening 
of October 15, they reached the Proteus wreck cache, with 
all their provisions except one load, which had been cached 
at Cocked Hat Island, and set to work on winter quarters. 


1l,—CAMP CLAY AT CAPE SABINE. 


A hut was built of stones, roofed over with the whaleboat 
from the Beebe cache, the oars serving asrafters and covered 
with canvas, the sides being banked up withsnow. Of 
course, there were no means of heating it, as barely fuel 
enough was left to warm the food. 1t was never cooked. 
On the ground eanyas was spread and over this buffalo over- 
coats, on the top of which the sleeping bags were placed, 
and yet these were generally frozen stiff throughout the 
winter, The boat left by Beebe was in good Condition, 
except for a hole about ten by six inches, made probably by 
the paw, of a bear, As soon as the state of the ice permitted 
the stores from the different caches were collected at Camp 
Clay. These may be summed up as follows: viz., Beebe 
cache and English cache 240 rations each. In the latter con- 

_ siderable tea, sugar, chocolate, bread and dog biscuit unfit 
for use. The rum and alcohol were missing, Garlington 
cache, 000 pounds of bread, ninety of pemmican and a few 
cans each of roast mutton, peas, string beans, green corn and 
two boxes of lemons, These last were in excellent condi- 
tion and proved a rare treat in more respects than one. 


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THE POLAR BASIN. 


FISK & RUSSELL, NEW York. 8O 


On the 2d of November a party was sent to Cape Isabella 
fo secure the meat which had been found there. It was 
composed of Rice, Linn, Elison and Fredericks, with the 
small sled and several days’ provisions. On the 9th, about 
midnight, Rice returned and reported the party at the head 
of Rosse Bay suffering severely with cold and Elison dying 
with frost bites. Relief was at once sent, and about noon of 
the 12th Brainard reached them in a severe gale with food 
and medicine, and found Elison badly frozen and delirious. 
Fredericks and Linn were in the sleeping bag with him try- 
ing to keep him warm, and the three were literally frozen in 
the bag, and had to be cut out. They would undoubtedly 
have perished but for Brainard’s timely arrival, as the tem- 
perature was minus 30° Fahrenheit, and they were without 
atent, With the assistance of a party under Lieut. Lock- 
wood, which had also come to the rescue, they were gotten 
to Camp Clay, Elison having both hands and feet frozen 
stiff, so that he never used them again. They had been com- 
pelled to abandon the meat at Baird Inlet, with everything 
not absolutely necessary to save life. 

During the latter part of October, Long, with the two 
natives, was stationed at the junction of Rice and Buchanan 
straits for the purpose of hunting, and suffered greatly with 
cold and hunger. They had only a tent to live in and were 
on reduced rations. They returned about November 8, 
badly frost bitten, having killed only three seals. From 
November 1 the command was placed on further reduced 
rations, which had been accurately estimated to last until 
March 1, with a reserve of ten days’ full rations for the trip 
to Liftleton Island when the sound should freeze over. This 
reduced ration was composed as follows: Meat and blubber, 
four and one-third ounces; bread and dog biscuit, six and 
one half; canned vegetables and #ice, one and two-fifths; 
butter and lard, three-quarters; soups and beef extracts, nine- 
tenths; cloud berries, pickles, raisins and miik, oné ounce; 
making a total of 14,38; ounces per day. About this time 
the whaleboat Narwhal, which had been left on the fioe, 
dritted down near Cape Sabine and was wedged in the ice 
between Brevoort Island and the main land, She was 
secured and used during the winter for fuel. After the mid- 
dle of November hunting became impossible on account of 
the darkness and cold, besides being useless, as there was no 


game to be had, so they waited patiently for the closing of 
the sound by ice, but waited in vain. 

Throughout the entire winter open water separated them 
from Littleton Island, where there was an additional cache 
of provisions which, though not large, would hve been suf- 
ficient, with economy, to pull the entire party through, and 
near at hand were natives on whom they might have relied 
for assistance, as did Kane and Hayes. Every effort was 
made to preserve cheerfulness in that little band, so neces- 
sary to its very existence. Conversations were kept up on 
all sorts of subjects, however frivolous, and they talked when 
they felt least like it, because they deemed it their duty. 
The few books that they had were read and re-read by the 
dim light of a blubber lamp with moss wicking, and a statis- - 
tical almanac was a perfect mine of wealth. ‘The survivors 
speak in the warmest terms of Greely’s powers of con- 
versation and the gallant efforts which he made to keep up 
the spirits of his little band. Notwithstanding their desti- 
tute condition, Thanksgiving and Christmas days were ob- 
served as usual. For more than a month they saved from 
their scanty rations in order that they might have, at least 
by contrast, a good dinner on those days. It consisted prin- 
cipally of rice pudding, with a glass of ram punch to wash 
itdown. March 13, 1884, Long was sent with Frederick and 
Jens to Alexandra Harbor to look for game, the English ex- 
pedition of 1875 haying reported abundant traces in that 
quarter, They returned exhausted, however, after an ab- 
sence of three or four days and empty-handed. Long, how- 
ever, had made the important discovery of new land in 
Hazen Sound, having seen from the western side of Mount 
Carri three capes beyond the furthest reported by the Nares 
expedition, 

The life at Camp Clay during that terrible winter and 
spring is’simply indescribable. Rice discovered galt shrimps, 
with which they eked out their suppers, but they contained 
yery little nutriment, and the labor of catching them ma 


‘be imagined when it is known that it required 1,300 to fill a 


ill measure. This fishing was done by hauling bags or nets 
from the ice with bare hands and with the temperature 20° 
below zero. The suffering’ entailed was tremendous. 
Lichens gathered from the rocks, saxifrage and boiled seal- 
skin were also eaten. Twenty-four foxes, weighing about 


four pounds each, were killed with shotguns as they prowled 
around the camp, and with the return of daylight fourteen 
ptarmigan, sixty dovekies, a small seal and, in April, a bear 
which netted them 257 pounds of good meat. Nothing was 
wasted, and this last undoubtedly saved the lives of the few 
who survived. Sergt. Brainard had charge of the issue of 
provisions, which were carefully weighed in an improvised 
scale, cartridges serving as weights, and equitably distrib- 
uted, In March it was found necessary to again reduce the 
ration, there being nothing left then but bread, meat and tea. 

The first death was that of Sergt Cross, who had been 
the machinist of the steam launch, and then there was a 
long lapse of time until Esquimau Frederick gave in. This 
last, together with the death of the other Esquimau, Jens 
Edward, by drowning, proved a serious loss, as they were 
both good hunters, and without the kyak much of the game 
that was killed could not be secured. Long, however, was 
the main reliance of tbe patty as_a hunter. He is an old 
frontiersman and a dead shot, Had if not been for the 
scarcity of game he would have had no difficulty in providing 
for the entire party. 

Sergt. Julius R. Frederick relates a mournfully tragic 
story of the sad death on the ice-covered ground of George 
Rice, the artist of the expedition, on April 6. Rice and 
Frederick volunteered to leave the camp to proceed a dis- 
tance of twenty-five miles for some meat that was cached 
near Cape Isabella. They had a sled, rifle and hatchet, and 
provisions for five days. They traveled for three days, but 
failed to find the cache. On the way toward their camp 
Rice became weak, and finally gaye up. He was attacked 
by a blood flux that gradually wore him down, and he suc- 
cumbed on the floe. His last words were: ‘'Tell Lieut. 
Greely that I tried very hard to get the meat, but could not 
succeed.” Frederick remained with Rice until he died, and 
camped out that night under the fragment of a boat, and 
next day revisited his companion to pay a last tribute to his 
remains. Frederick retained sufficient strength to drag back 
the sled, with the hatchet, rifle and cooking utensils, to the 
camp. During his absence Cross and Lockwood had died. 
Others followed in rapid succession. 

On May 4 the winter hut, which was only six feet from 
high water mark, was abandoned, and the party took up 
their quarters in a wall tent further up the hill. 

On May 14, the last issue of provisions was made. This 
consisted of six ounces of meat, everything else being ex- 
hausted. Some ate it at once, others hoarded it as long as 
possible. Then some lived and some perished on a starva- 
tion diet of seaweed, shrimp and lichens. 

The rest is heartrending. They burned the hair off their 
sealskin boots and coats, eut them into strips, boiled them 
into a stew and ate voraciously of them till the stomach re- 
belled, and nausea and weakness ensued in several cases. 
Nature gave no call for twelve, fifteen and eighteen days, 
and then bloody hemorrhage and consequent weakness en- 
sued, prostrating the victims for several days. The difficulty 
of keeping heatin the body was very great. The rule of the 
camp was to permit no one to sleep longer than two hours. 
He was awakened roughly and called upon to shake himself, 
beat his hands and pound his feet and restore circulation. 
This was found absolutely necessary to prevent torpor and 
possible death, the usual accompaniments of intense cold. 

Mr. Israel, the astronomer, perished on May 27, Lieut. 
Kislingbury died on June 1, and Dr. Pavy, the naturalist, 
slept into death on June 6. Not one of the victims realized 
that death was near. They all died a tranquil, painless 
death. On June 18, Schneider, the nineteenth man, diéd. 

Of the twenty-five only seven were left: Lieut. Greely, 
Sergt. Brainard, Sergt. Fredericks, Sergt. Long, Hospital 
Steward Biederbeck, Private Connell, and Sergt. Ellison. 
Finally all'strength failed them. On the 22d of June the 
tent blew down upon them and they did not attempt to raise 
it. The seven starved wretches lay helpless beneath its folds, 
waiting for death to end their terrible agony, 


T¥Y.—THE RESCUE. 


But succor was at hand. The relief ships sent out from 
New York in May, were breaking their way through the ice, 
and making all speed to Cape Sabine. On the 22d of June 
the Thetis and the Bear lay off the shore, while their crews 
were exploring the land for traces of the Greely party. 
The Thetis whistled to her boats. The half-conscious men 
in the tent heard it. Sergeant Long and Sergeant Brainard 
were the first to hear the sound, and they helped each other 
to craw] out of the tent. When Long got clear of the en- 
tanglement of the tent, which had been swept to the ground, 
he rose to his feet with great difficulty and succeeded in 
clambering up to a rock that gave the most extensive view in 
that neighborhood. Intervening hills hid the ships from 
their view and they returned disappointed with their 
melancholy report. Brainard says this was the bitterest 


moment of his life, and that he then gave up all as lost. | 


Long, not yet fully satisfied, went out again, and climbing 
to the hill top remained looking out searchingly in every 
direction for some strange object. At length he saw an 
unwonted sight—a large, black object about a mile distant, 
which at first looked like a rock, but he knew there was no 
rock in that line. Suddenly the approaching steam launch 
changed its course, and Long recognized the approach of 
rescuers. He came down from the rock, went toward the 
camp, raised the flagpole and flag, which had been blown 
down during the gale, and held it for about two minutes, 
until his strength gave out, and it was blown once more to 
the ground. He then advanced totteringly in the direction 
of the little steamer, and, too overjoyed to contro] himself, 
almost too weak to stand, he tumbled rather than ran down 
the hill to meet his rescuers, and was the first of the party to 
arrive on board the ship. 

Norman, the ice pilot of the Thetis, who was mate of the 
Proteus in 1881, and the last person to say good-bye to Greely 
at Lady Franklin Bay, was also the first to greet him here, 
haying accompanied Lieut. Colwell was in the Bear’s steam 
launch, and being the first to arrive.at the camp he jumped 
ashore at once. Upon landing, with his pockets full of 
bread, he heard from Long the melancholy news that there 
were but seven left, and knowing that Greely was one of 
them he ran up the hill to within hailing distance and called 
out, ‘*You are all right, Greely; there are two ships here for 
you.” Greely recognizing the voice replied: “Is that you, 
Norman? Cut the tent.” 

Maurice Connell had no recollection of anything that 
transpired. He did not hear the awakening scream of the 
whistle. When his comrades shook him up from his 
prostrate position in the camp and told him of succor at 
hand he wildly exclaimed, ‘‘F'or God’s sake let me die in 
peace!” A teaspoonful of brandy applied to his lips called 
back the fleeting life spark, for Connell could not have 
survived more than a few hours. He was by far the weakest 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


of the seven survivors, and the strongest must have 
succumbed within forty-eight hours. 

Ellison, who, because of his frost-bitten hands and feet 
had not moved all winter, would have lived longest without 
rescue, as his subsistence was provided for, waiter bag 
filled, which he could open with his teeth, had been placed at 
his head, all spare food was at his side, and upon the stump 
of one arm a spoon was fixed to carry food to his mouth. 
He was taken on board the Bear, and his limbs amputated. 
He went mad with the agony and died. 

The rescue took place under circumstance of great 
difficulty. The Thetis and Bear lay off from the shore 
about 300 yards. There was a terrific gale blowing from 
the southwest, a heavy sea was running, and a formidable 
ice nlp was apparently inevitable. Lieut. Greely and the 
other six survivors had to be transferred from their camp to 
the steam launch and whaleboat in their sleeping bags, and 
while steaming from the land to the ships the destruction of 
the whole party at one time seemed certain. The sea swept 
furiously over them, and the fury of the wind threatened at 
every instant to capsize them. At length they were safely 
placed on board the rescuing squadron, where every possible 
preparation had been made to insure their recovery and 
comfort. Then the rescuers went back to the graves—ten 
of them—on the hill, and brought thence the bodies of the 
dead. Five bodies buried in the ice fort near the camp were 
Swept away to sea by winds and currents and could not be 
recovered. 

Then the ships turned southward, and on July 17, with 
the six survivors, steamed into St. John, Newfoundland. 


Batuyal History. 


THE GROUND SNAKE. 


According to the Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer there is, in a collection 
of curiosities in that city, what is called a ground snake, which was 
caughtin Hawleyville. Only one is known ever to have been seen 
before. It is quite similar to the ordinary snake, but cannot be in- 
duced to withdraw from the loose earth in which it is kept. When- 
eyer uncovered it makes haste to bury itself again.—Boston Journal. 
f] Nes brings up an’ article written years ago, and which, 

like the snake and many other things in my posses- 
sion, has been waiting for some circumstance—some jog on 
my constitutional indolence—to bring it out. I have had 
four of these reptiles; two are in my possession at present. 
The first was brought from Enfield, Conn., twenty years 
ago, thrown out while digging tish-worms, and said to ‘‘run” 
under ground. I looked the creature over to see what modi- 
fication of form and what power of locomotion would be 
necessary in this new arrangement of. animal economy, it 
being at once apparent that running under ground was a 
different matter from running on it. Itben pickled the 
specimen and awaited further light. The second was turned 
out by the plough in Agawam, Mass., and brought me with- 
out note or comment. Thethird was hoed out in his garden 
by my old and tried friend, J. H. Batty, whose contributions 
to natural history speak for themselves. He represented the 
snake as very active, striking out at random and quickly 
burying his body in the soft earth, and with true philosophy 
coiling his tail around a stick or other object and pushing 
from that base. Color, a light brown above, white below, 
the entire length. The body, some eight inches long, is 
as round as if turned in a lathe, the tissue hard and compact 
beyovd any reptile 1 ever handled. The broad, flattened, 
angular head and the narrow neck of solar reptiles is en- 
tirely wanting. The body tapers down to an ovate termina- 
tion with «very small mouth, incapable of distention, and 


with a pair of eyes of doubtful utility crowded close upon it. 


Here is evidently room for research. J preserved the first 
specimen for future reference and comparison as corrobor- 
ative facts should arise. These have now brought up phil- 
osophic questions which must be met and answered, else our 
children, old as well as young, will miss intelligence just 
where they need it most, 

Is the creature sightless, as striking at random seems to in- 
dicate? The eyes of mine changed to white opaque in alcohol, 
which prevented microscopic examination. Does the creature 
breathe, or does it draw oxygen from other sources? 
Is iocomotion by the usual method of reptiles, by short 
curves, pushing from every object it touches, or is it like the 
worm, drawing the body together and from that base pushing 
its head forward? The snake method above ground would 
hardly work below the surface, nor would the worm method 
do better, except by modification or absence of ‘the spinal 
column, and yet for which the firm, muscular body might in 
a measure compensate. 

The question is not when was the reptile created, not who 
first saw one, nor yet who first counted the scales on his tail, 
if he had scales; but, does he or does he not hold the position 
of connecting link between two great orders in lower organic 
life, partaking of both? If he does, as I am ready to believe, 
we have one of those (not the missing link in evolution, as 
commonly understood) but connecting links of harmony and 
continuity in nature, an overlapping of the functions of life 
which, like that of instinct and mind, leave no break in the 
chain, no point unoccupied. ; 

But this is not the only illustration of the question. I 
have in mind a vegetable which seems actually to possess the 
instinct of the eyeless worm and to unite the animal and 
vegetable by a shorter route than any usually followed. Not 
springing from the earth at all but uncoiling, precisely like 
the embryo serpent from the egg, then, from a elub toot as 
a base, thrusting the head forward to an object, then draw- 
ing up the body ieft behind, The consideration of these 
connecting links in organic life, and over which science 
blunders with hybrids and crossings in the dark passages, re- 

uire another paper. They are no part of nature’s work. 
‘hey are pure accident, or a human device and belong ex- 
clusively to artificial or domesticated life. ; 

lt is hardly necessary to say there is very little at present 
known in regard to this saake, My purpose is to submit one 
of my specimens to the mercies of microscope and dissecting 
knife on my return to Springfield. Presuming on its habits 
or food is hardly safe until thatis done. B. Honsrorp, 

Nortu THETFORD, Vt. : 

[Is not this the ground or worm snake (Carphophiops 
amena)—a true ophidian? Information as to its habits Is 
greatly to be desired. | 


Fisning Sprpers.—Prot. Berg, in Buenos Ayres, has dis- 
covered a spider which at times practices fishing. In shal- 
low places it spins between stones a two-winged or conical 
net, on with it runs in the water and captures smal] fish, tad- 
poles, etc. That it understands its trade well is shown by 
the numerous shriyelled skins of the little eel pouts which 
lie about on the web of the net.—Deutsche Fischeret Zeitung. 


- A VISIT TO A HERONRY. 
ohne years ago the writer, who at that time was an 

ardent student of ornithology, heard ol a tract of forest 
on the shores of Massachusetts, in which a colony of night 
herons (Vyctiardea gardent) had bred for may years. Procur-- 
ing a team, we started with a companion for the place, which 
was located in the township of Rawley. This towz is sit- 
uated on the Rowley River, a small stream, and about two 
miles back from the coast. Between the town and the sea 
1s a strip of salt marsh extending for miles and intersected by 
numerous small inlets and ditches of varying depth, accord- 
ing to the state of the tide. 

About two miles north of the town we found a strip of 
forest perhaps a mile long and a half mile wide on the edge 
of the marsh before mentioned. Above this piece of woods 
herons could be seen flying back and forth, so that we knew 
that this must be the place we were in search of, Ata farm 
house near by we put up our horse and proceeded to the 
grove. As we reached it a most interesting sight presented 
itself. The trees were mostly of the beech variety, forty to 
fifty feet tall, with a smooth bark and not a limb projecting 
in the first thirty feet; then would come a few dead limbs, 
killed and stained white by the excrement of the birds, and 
followed by the live limbs, on which were heron’s uests. 
These birds are gregarious, and a half a dozen families build 
ina single tree. Almost every tree in the grove had from 
one to six nests in it, and as it was hatching time, the noise 
made by both old and young birds was déafening. This 
heron is a lazy bird and does not believe in taking any 
chances in constructing his dwelling place. Therefore he 
builds but a small nest to start with, just large enough for 


-| the four eggs, and as each young one hatches out, he builds 


on an L, large enough to hold #, so that if an egg fails to 
hatch, no labor has been done in vain, Above our heads 
were nests of all sizes and shapes, and those to which addi- 
tions had been made, were very one sided, and on the plat- 
form thus constructed could he seen an awkward squab try- 
ing to keep his balance. : 

Some nests had four young ones sitting on the edge. 
These were of enormous size, made of sticks thrown together 
in the most careless manner and were very clumsy-looking 
affairs: 

Occasionally a tree with but one nest could be seen, and 
these were generally those ot the green heron (Gutorides vires- 
cens), who lived thus with his cousins. The uproar in this 
grove was simply frightful. Young birds squawking for 
food in every direction, old ones on the nest and at the side 
of it, and others departing for the shore and creeks to fish, 
and arriving from these places with fish in their mouths, 
their arrival was greeted with much enthusiasm. Our pres- 
ence surprised these new comers so much that they must 
needs exciaim about it, and in so doing they would drop the 
fish which they were carrying in their mouths, letting it fall 
at our fect. It is a little singular that a bird which displays 
so much shrewdness in its nest building, should be so fool- 
ish as not to pick up a fish it had dropped; but such was the 
case, aud the birds would turn immediately about and go 
back for another. The condition of the ground from this 
cause and the ordure of so many large birds can be well im- 
agined. <A more filthy or odorous place it would be hard to. 
find, and the deposit of lime made there had killed nearly 
eyery species of vegetation. Mosquitoes of large size and 
ferocity abounded, and our stay there was not a happy one. 
We made several attempts to climb the trees to nests that 
looked as if they still had eggs in them (forit was early July), 
but the slippery bark and ihe distance the limbs were [rein 
the ground made our attempts futile. Each of us, aided by 
boosts from his companion, would climb within a few feet 
of the limbs, when his strength would give out, and down 
he would slide, landing with much bunched up clothing 
and scratched arms and legs. After a number of attempts 
with the same results, we decided that we conld not (al- 
though we considered ourselves experts) climb those trees, 
and we sadly wended our way back to the farmhouse to get 
our horse. Arriving there, we related our ill luck to the 
farmer, when he said: ‘‘Wall, my darter was out thar the 
other day, and she clim’ up and got some eggs, and ma’hap 
she'll sell ‘em.’ We asked to see her, when a buxom six- _ 
foot daughter showed herself. We looked af her and ac- 
knowledged to ourselves that she was smarter than we were, 
as she could shin those slippery trees and we couldn't. She 
had four light green eggs for sale, and we asked her the 
price. ‘‘Well,” she said, ‘‘would we think ten cents for the 
four too much?” We eagerly replied that we would not 
(we would haye given hera dollar as quickly), and took 
thera, feeling that we had secured a prize, and unwilling to 
say a word against the tree-climbing qualities of the Rowley 
women. After a long and hot drive we reached home. 

A year later we again visited this heronry, and it was as 
silent asa tomb. The quabirds, after breeding in this spot 
for twenty years or more, had taken alarm at something, 
and gone, probably toa more remote and less disturbed 
locality. Curtis. = 

MAINE. 


DOMESTICATING QUAIL. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 

My pair of Virginia quail are in excellent health and plu- 
mage. June 291 first saw unmistakable indications that 
they had mated. On the 10th of the present month the pair 
weut to work building a nest in the long grass of their coop, 
the floor of which is the natural sod. Bob, the male bird, 
seemed to take principal charge and direction of the work, 
although Betty’s interest increased very perceptibly after the 
first day or two. On the 16th (last Wednesday) the hen laid 
the first egg, and to-day (July 19) the nest contains three, all 
of which seem perfect in every respect. Perhaps you can 
guess how much J am pleased with my prospects of success 
in this most interesting experiment. 

I propose to let the birds entirely alone, so far as any out- 
side aid or interference is concerned, since TJ am confident 
that they will hatch a larger percentage of the eggs than if 
they were removed and placed under a common fow! or even 
a bantam. So far, [have never touched the eggs on the 
nest, but the birds show a singular absence of fear or dis- 
trust when I go into the coop, which I have been in the 
habit of doing once or twice a day for some time. Sinceshe 
has begun to lay, the hen makes a point after I visit the coop 
to go immediately to the nest, as if to satisfy herself that 
nothing has been taken, and both the birds, instead of 
attempting to conceal the nest or distract attention from if, 
appear quite proud of their achievements. ; \ 

My coop, which is 16 feet long by 3} feet wide and 4 feet 
high, is both cat proof and rat proof. In other words, it 


cannot be climbed, burrowed under or gnawed into, and 
hence the chances of accident are reduced to a minimum. I 
shall be greatly disappointed if I do not have a bevy of 


Jour 24, 1884.] 


FOREST AND STREAM. 


BOT 


young chicks in August, hatched by the parent birds them- 
selves, and I hope to be more fortunate than my friend 
Willis last August. He succeeded in saving only the ‘‘old 
man,” but I confidently count on saving the aah sis all 


the family. 
Tonmpo, Ohio, July 19, 1884. 


AN AMPHIBIOUS INSECT. 
af WAS lying for ducks one evening in a Kansas cornfield. 
We had been having heavy rains and a portion of the 

field was submerged, 1 had taken my position as close to 
the water as the soft ground would permit. After getting 
settled so that I could give heed to sights and sounds, I be- 
came conscious of a peculiar noise, which I at first attributed 
to the splash of rain on the dry stalks of the standing corn, 
but as it was not raining 1 was soon convinced I must look 
to other causes for the phenomenon, Ina little while my 
attention was attracted to an insect, whose gyrations greatly 
excited my curiosity. There were numbers of them, and an 
individual would rise in an irregular spiral to a height of 
twenty or thirty feet, doing if in a strong, bold, aggressive 
manner, and then when at that height would turn and plunge 
downward with the speed of a bullet, some impinging on 
the corn would produce the noise spoken of, others falling 
clear would strike the water and disappear instantly, a little 
swirl on the surface being the only indication of their dis- 
appearance. As well as I could observe, the creature ap- 
peared to be about an inch and a haif in length, shaped gen- 
erally like a beetle, with two plumes projecting from the 
head. 

I have watched fishhawks and terns by the hour drop from 
a height on to the water, but here was an insect equally at 
home in the air and yet would dive under water and remain 
I know not how long, Noneof the sportsmen of the locality 
had noticed their peculiarity, and in none of the works on 
entomology that I have seen could I identify the insect, 
What was it? R. K. B. 

[It would be impossible to determine from your deserip- 
tion what the insects were. Very probably they were beetles, 
of which many species are aquatic. The families Dytisctde, 
Gyrinide, Hydrophilide, and others, spend most*of their 
time in the water; or, it may haye been one of the larger 
Hemiptera, many of which live in the water. | 


How Turties Die Taer Hoes.—In an article in For- 
Est AND STREAM of July 10, entitled “A Tough Turtle,” 
written by M. M. Benschoter, the question is asked if any of 
your readers ever noticed the manner in which turtles dig 
the holes in the ground in which they deposit their eggs. 
Yes. A case of this kind came under my observation while 
a mere lad, living in Kentucky. Iwas plowing corn ina 
field near which ran a creek of considerable size, and on 
going to a famous spring near its margin I saw a turtle upon 
the bank about fifteen feet above the water. 
be awtully busy about something, and as I was in no haste 
to return to my plow I stopped and watched it for a while. 
Tsoon saw it was digging a hole in the hard, dry ground, 
not having noticed me; but what surprised me most was the 
fact that it moistened the earth with what I then thought 
was its own urine, repeating the moistening process as often 
as it became necessary to soften up the earth. When I 
thought, it time for me to get back to my work I drovethe 
turtle away by approaching closer, when it clumsily crawled 
down the bank and rolled into the creek. The dirt exca- 
vated from the hole was simply mud, while the earth there- 
abouts was dry as powder. [ have always believed that 
turtle expedited its labors in the manner mentioned, though 
it may be that the water used was carried in the mouth. At 
all events, it drew its supply of water from its own tank.— 
Burr H. Pow (Lincoln, Neb.). 


STRANGE ANTICS OF AN Own.—Mr. J. Willard Schultz, 
author of the very interesting series of letters on the Black- 
feet Indians recently published in Forust anp STREAM, 
writes me from his ranch in, Northern Montana that he ‘‘saw 
a very queer thing this spring,” and goeson tosay: “It 
was nearly sunset. An owl flew down into my garden and 
after hooting a few times flew up and slowly rose to a height 
of several hundred feet, his great wings flapping so slowly 
that by actual count they about kept time with the beat of 
my pulse. Suddenly he dropped swiftly toward the earth, 
and ashe came he beat his wings together in front of his 
breast, making a sound like the rattle of a pair of bone clap- 
pers. It seemed as if merely the tips of his wings touched, 
and when he was doing it he was descending very rapidly, 
He kept the performance up at intervals until it was so dark 
1 could see him no longer.” Judging from a rough skelch 
inclosed by Mr. Shultz, the species seems to have been the 
sreat-horned owl (Buble virgintanus).—C. HAR’ MrrriaM, 
M. D, (Locust Grove, N. Y.), 


Donations REQUESTED.—iditor Forest and Stream: I 
am making collections for all departments of the museum of 
Chaddock College, located here at Quincy, lll. 1 am not 
being paid a penny for my time, or for the specimens placed 
in the collection, This much by way of preface. Among 
the readers of FoREST AND STRHAM are very many lovers 
of nature who are constantly gathering from woods and 
riyers and lakes things that would be of great value in a 
museum. Ihave wondered if among the generous-hearted 
there could not be found some to help mein my work. I 
wish I could offer them pay for specimens, but I cannot, If 
any of them can send fossil, or shell, or snake, or bird, or 

fish, or skeleton, or horn, or antiquity, or other specimen, 1 
will gladly attach their name to it as the donor on placing it 
in the museum.—RrcHaRrD G. Hopss (Quinby, Ill, July 11). 


Quait’s Fricur AGaryst A Hovse.—Pittsburgh, Pa., 
July 19.—One day in the summer of 1877, when I was living 
in Columbiana county, O,, we were startled at our midday meal 
by a sharp bang against the side of the house, as if some one 
had thrown a brick against ic. I rushed out to see what was 
the cause of the racket,and just as I turned the corner I saw 
a hawk turn abruptly in his flight away from the house. 
Looking at the end of the house I saw a full-grown quail 
sticking up against if. The quail had flown with such force 
in its vain endeavor to save its life that it sprung the weather 
boards enough to allow the feathers on the breast to pass in 
_ between them and pinion it fast in death.—S. C. G. 


THE SEWAGE QUESTION.—Professor—What is a sewer! 
Student—A course for liquid refuse. Professor—What kind 
of refuse? Student—All imaginable kinds from dwellings and 
factories. Professor—Good; give an example, Student—The 
Schuylkill River.—Philadelphia Hachange, 


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Game Bag and Gun. 


SUMMER WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 
dee July noonday swoons with heat, 
Yet pleasant is the wood’s retreat, 
Wor there the drooping branches spread, 
A chequer’d umbrage overhead. 


Where scarce the sun-spears, quivering bright, 
May pierce the foliage with their light, 

Ah! There so shadowy sleeps the wood, 
Where hermit woodcock seek their food, 


(Piercing with bill the oozy edge 

Of stream, where bends the water-sedge) 
That well the gunner may inyade, 

The cool recesses of the shade. 


The alclers there weaye densest screen, 
The willows lift their shields of green; 

The woodbine twines its glossy crown, 
The grapevine drops its garlands down. 


There coppice thick, and thicket dense 
That hem the brook with thorny fence; 
Unite their verdurous shades to greet, 

In woodcock haunts, the sportsman’s feet. 


Turn gunner then from harvest vale, 
From wheat fields haunted by the quail, 
For not yet may the gun molest 

The bevies of the quail in nest. 


Spare thou those russet-plumag’d flocks, 
Till ripen’d corn is heap’d in shocks, 
And all the sumptuous golden grain 

Is garner’d from the harvest plain. 


For then in sharp October days, 

The quail-flock thro’ the stubble strays; 
And pealing shot and smoking gun 

Will boast of ample triumphs won. 


But rather seek the plashy swale, 
Low in the moist and boggy vale, 

Or pass thro’ bushy swamps that hide 
With briery hedge the brooklet side. 


These shy, secluded birds, all day 
In cool, thick-shaded haunts delay; 
But when the woods at eve are dim, 
To open feeding grounds they skim. 


They bore for larva in the soil, 

Or marsh worms, with a greedy toil; 
Loving in spring time to arise 
Inspiral cireles to the skies; 

But ever ‘tis a welcome mark 

In open glade or woodland dark. 


GREENPORT, L.I., July 18. Isaac McLEuan. 


OPEN SEASONS FOR GAME AND FISH. 
REVISED TO JULY 17, 1884, 


Minnesota. 

Woodcock, July +Noy.-1. Pinnated and sharptail grouse. 
Aug, 15-Oct.1. Quail, pheasant or partridge} Oct. 1-Jan 1. 
Dueks and geese, Sept. 1-May 15. Deer and elk, Dec. 1-Dec. 
15, (may be had in possession to Jan. 1.) 

Exportation from State or possession for purpose of exporta- 
tion is unlawful. The Minnesota State Sportsmen’s Associa- 
tion (W. S. Timberlake, Secretary, St. Paul) offers $25 reward 
for information leading to conviction. 

Mississippi. 

Ruffed grouse, quail and wild turkey, Oct 1-May 1. 
Sept. 15-March 1. Meadow lark, Sept, 15-March 1. 

Deer and wild turkey law repealed in counties of Clark, 
Simpson, Smith, Covington, Greene, Wayne, Perry, Calhoun 
and Newton. 


Deer, 


A WORD FOR THE OLD GUN. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

When a sportsman of the present day contemplates his 
gun, he is glad he did not live and shoot in the “‘good old 
times.” When he goes shooting his feelings are very apt to 
be reversed. In other words, we have an advantage in 
weapons, equipment, et¢., over our fathers; but the general 
decrease of game within, say, forty years far more than bal- 
ances the account. I, for one, would gladly go back to the 
muzzleloading gun, if I could then find three birds where I 
now find two. Of course this is out of the question, and, of 
course, I do not expect to permanently abandon the breech- 
loader until, from necessity, I lay aside all firearms, I may 
abandon it temporarily; as, for example, if I should receive 
an invitation (now quite unexpected) to skoot with some 
veteran aud conservative sportsman, who ‘‘allows no breech- 
loaders” on hisisland. And in some other contingencies 1 
may take for a time to the muzzleloader. 

till, although I shall do most, if not all, of the shooting 
that remains to me with the modern gun, I don’t feel that 
going back to the old muzzleloader would be in itself a 
dreadful calamity. The pleasure of shooting would not be 
for me materially diminished. To illustrate, suppose two 
men, A and B, both being equally good shots, start ont for 
a day’s quail shooting. A carries a muzzleloader which, 
thirty years ago, was much admired, and is still in good 
order. B uses a well-made breechloader with the modern 
improvements, rebounding locks, pistol grip, snap fore end, 
etc. Now what will the result be? If A is a careless man, 
he will be more likely to shoot himself than will the equally 
careless B, A’s hands will probably be grimed with powder 
dirt, more or less, before the day is over. 
pariy cleans his own gun, A’s work will not be quite so eas- 
ily done as B’s. If they do not shoot together B may get 
over a little more ground than A, but the latter can go over 
erough to satisfy a reasonable man who is out for a day’s 
pleasure, and not ona ‘‘go as you please” walking match. 
So B has some unquestionable advantages, but after all, luck 
being equal, A will bring home just about as many birds as 
he will. If bis gun is a full choke, A will probably beat 
him, unless the parties shoot with uncommon precision, and 
in that case, A’s birds will be in better order—not so much 
riddled with shot. Possibly A will Jose a shot or two in the 
course of the day from not being able to load quickly enough. 
But this is not very likely to happen in quail shooting. I 
have heard of a flight of woodcock coming to a given point 
in such quick succession that a muzzleloader would not 
meet the emergency, but I haye never had the Inck to seeany- 


If at. night each, 


thing of the kind, Leaving such extraordinary cases out of 
consideration, A’s chancesgfor game will be just about as 
good as B's, 

In duck shooting the conditions are somewhat different, 
There, I suppose, the breechloading chokebore has a great 
advantage over the muzzleloading cylinder. 

There is one point worth considering in fayor of the old- 
fashioned gun, viz., the effect on the dog. When muzzle- 
loaders were used, it was a necessity to haye the dog drop 
to shot and remain steady at the ‘down charge” while the 
gun was being loaded. Now, ® pause of a moment is all 
that is required, and I suspect the change is responsible not 
only for a good deal of “‘breaking shot,” but also for some 
unsteadiness in pointing and backing, I do not speak from 
my own experience on this point, but should like to know 
what the veteran sportsmen think of the theory. I have 
enough faith in it so that ifl ever again have a young dog 
to handle I shall be tempted to sboot over him the first sea- 
son with a muzzleloader, and to brave the scorn and pity I 
may thus incur. 

If any man who has an old-fashioned double barrel gun 
that serves him well, cannot afford a good breechloader, let 
him possess his soul in patience and stick to the old gun. 
Especially, let him not trade it for a single barrel breech- 
loader, unless, perhaps for duck shooting. A heavy ange 
gun is 10 mean weapon in that sport, But in the field L 
value the second shot to send after the flying bird more than 
all the “‘modern improvements.” 

I believe the introduction of breechloaders is not in any 
great degree responsible for the great decrease of game 
which has taken place within the memory of middle-aged 
men. I[think so because I have shot in company with 
muzzleloaders that did much more than their even share of 
destruction, The principal causes of this decrease are: First, 
the snare; second, the tenfold multiplication of sportsmen; 
and third, the lax enforcement of the laws. PICKET, 


RELOADING AMMUNITION. 

Hiditor Forest and Stream: 

- lt being so perfectly eyident to me from what has been 
thus far written, particularly by the opponents of the re- 
peater, that proper care is not exercised by riflemen in the 
selection and reloading of their ammunition, and their own 
faults being afterward laid upon the guns, perbaps it may 
be of interest to the many if I call attention to the various 
styles of cartridges, or more properly speaking cartridge 
shells, and give the method of loading followed by the army. 

To begin with shells, the main point of importance to the 
rifleman is in the character of the ‘‘head,’” and the kind and 
quality of the material from which the shells are made. The 
head should always be of the solid form for long use, those 
with folded heads having but short life and being mainly 
intended for army use, to be thrown away after their first 
shot, and notto be kept for reloading. Folded interior-primed 
shells cannot be reprimed readily, and are not intended 
for such reloading, so they can be omitted from further 
mention, Folded exterior-primed shells can be reprimed 
and reloaded, but they are weak and dangerous from liability 
to rupture under the folded head when used any number of 
times, and although cheaper at first cost than the solid heads, 
they are the most expensive in the end, and their use should 
never be depended upon. We thus have the ‘solid head” 
formas the best for constant use, and the next point to con- 
sider is the character of the “‘seat” or ‘‘cup”’ prepared to 
take the primer. 

There are several different styles, going by various names, 
and all good for the first fire, but some are better than others, 
and as we are looking for the best, let us see which they are, 
and the reasons, 

It may be taken as an axiom in all matter pertaining to 
arms and ammunition that the best is that which is the 
simplest, provided strength and durability has not been 
sacrificed to simplicity. This rule, therefore, excludes all 
forms of shells with movable anvils, or removable heads, as 
they want simplicity and have no additional elements of 
strength or safety over those that are more simple. I have 
forgotten the names of these two forms of shells, but I have 
used them and know from experience that they are only a 
nuisance. 

Coming then to shells without movable anvils, and with 
non-detachable heads, we have first the “Lowell” shell, and 
my objection to this is that the pocket for the primer is too 
small and not deep enough, and I have never sueceeded in 
re-seating primers as they should be seated in this shell. The 
face of the primer cannot be seated deep enough beneath the 
face of the shell head, and it is, therefore, too liable tu acci- 
dental explosion. The Lowell shell is made purposely to 
hold the primer very tightly, and a great deal of force is 
needed to seat the primer, causing a good deal of loss from 
primers prematurely exploding while being set, This form 
of shell was the first form of reloading shell furnished to our 
troops, and its use had to be abandoned for want of satis- 
faction, and the difficulty of setting the primers. I have 
had shot after shot accidentally fired from the face of the 
breech block striking against the exposed primer on closing 
the gun, and this, too, when care was exercised, from the 
fact of the primers being exposed being known, and I have 
had to abandon entirely the use of those shells. 

Then we have the ‘‘Berdan” shell, the form made by the 
Bridgeport Company, and this shell strikes me as defective, 
inasmuch as it requires a special tool with which to extract - 
the primers. The pocket has three vents to allow the pas- 
sage of the flame from the primer to the powder, and a 
raised conical anvil in the center of the bottom of the pocket, 
on which the primer is exploded. Besides the difficulty of 
removing the primers,* this “anvil,” being of brass, is easily 
battered down by repeated blows of the firing pin, causing 
frequent missfires, as the shell becomes old, from frequent 
reloading, and rendering it unserviceable long before the 
‘“‘life” of the shell itself has become exhausted, I haye just 
cut open one of these shells and found it to be with folded 
head, although I think that they are also made with solid 
head. Ofa lot that I bought for Winchester shells, there 
being no mark on the box; as soon as I learned that they 
were Berdan, I laid them away, and have never used or in- 
tend to use them the second time. 

There is another form made by the Bridgeport Company, 
and stamped U. M. C. Co. on its rear face, which is much 
preferable. This shell has a solid head, and a central 
vent to the pocket, and is primed with a primer which con- 


*Thave never yet seen a tool that gave satisfaction in removing 
prions from shells that had no centralvent. The ‘Bridgeport tool 
urnished us to extract primers from Berdan shells, is simpl worth- 
less, and the tools made by the Remington Company for their ‘‘steel- 
coned” shells is but little better. The shells and anvils will become 
damaged by the aw] or chisel cutting through, or slipping off of the 
primer in spite of the care that may be exercised, ' 


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tains its own anvil, ‘The main objection to the shells, how- 
ever, is the fact that the pocket does not receive the primer 
dicep enough (as explained for the Lowell shell) and like this 
latter, is too thin in the flange, so that the extractor is liable 
to cut through in trying to extract a swelled shell, or one 
that hangs in the chamber from sny cause, 

The Winchester and Frankford strike me as the best shells 
for general and continuous use. The heads are solid and 
heavy, there is a central vent to the pocket, so that the 
primer can be driven out of the discharged shells with 
the simplest of tools and the greatest ease, and the pocket 
is deep enough to allow the primer to be, seated deeply, 
and away below the rear face of the shell. ‘There probably 
are folded-headed shells made by the Winchester Company, 
ae all that I have in my possession are of the solid head 

orm. 

Tn buying shells if therefore strikes me that the rifleman 
should be careful and look for certain points and exact that 
his shells should comply therewith. He should call for ex- 
terior-primed, solid-headed shells, with deep pocket for 
primer, and with one central vent for the flame. 

As to material, there is yet no settled opinion, some claim- 
ing that hich brass makes the best, others that a composition 
called ‘‘gilding metal’ possesses superioradvantages. Those 
made for the trade are generally of fine brass, those made by 
the Government of gilding metal or copper. My experience 
is—and I have used all kinds—that those of fine brass have 
the longest life, and will stand heavier charges of powder 
and a greater number of reloadings. 

But with the best shells in the world one cannot succeed 
without proper reloading tools with which to do his work of 
reloading, and this leads me to this subject. I have looked 
and looked and looked in vain to try and find such reload- 
ing tools in the market and for sale by the trade. Various 
styles of so-called reloading tools are to be found, but they 
do not satisfy all the conditions requisite for success; and I 
ean find no tools outside of those supplied by the Govern- 
ment that will do their work properly. Let us examine some 
of the tools to be had in the market, and from this examin- 
ation see what is lacking. 

The Marlin Company advertises ‘reloading implemenis 
for all sizes Ballard and Marlin cartridges,” comprising 
bullet-mould for either grooved or patched balls, ball-seaters 
re-capper and de-capper, powder scoop. wad-cutter, wood 
mallet, and swage for bullets. Very good, so far as it goes; 
but where is the resizing or crimping die? They also adver- 
tise a combination tool that they claim to de-cap and re-cap, 
seat the ball, and crimp at the same time (a thing that cannot 
be done properly in one motion with certainty), and this tool, 
it will be observed, does not resize the shell. The Winches- 
ter Arms Company also advertise reloading tool sets, but 
they are not complete, and will not give complete satisfac- 
tion. In 1876-77 I had a set of reloading tools for the Sharps 
44-90 rifle and could do nothing with it, as there was no re- 
sizing or reloading die, and I found that my shells continu- 
ally ‘‘stuck” from haying become swelled, and I had no 
means of resizing them; neither could 1 seat a ball properly 
and accurately, as I had no guide to enter the ball in the 
shell, The Whitney Arms Company advertise and illustrate 
only a eap-extractor, ball-seater, and bullet-mould. The 
Providence Tool Company used to make reloading tools, but 
they did not comprise all the parts needed, although they 
were very good tools as far as they went, everything being 
done by the pressure of long lever handles. The “Brown 
yariform reloader”’ does not comprise all the tools required, 
and, in fact, 1 never have seen a combination tool yet—and 
T have seen, or examined from advertisements, a good many 
—that filled its expectations, or that would do all that was 
claimed for it; and I have never seen but one advertisement 
of a resizing die, calculated to resize the entire length of the 
shell. 

In order to tell exactly what is wanted I will have to go 
through the entire operation of reloading a shell as practiced 
in the army, properly, so as to give Constant and proper 
results, 

First—De-cap the fired shells, This is done usually with a 
primer punch, the body of which fits closely but not tighlly 
in the side of the shell, there being a fine steel punch in 
the end that passes through the central vent and drives out 
the exploded primer. This punch may be a plain round 
piece of steel, the shell in such case being seated in a recess 
in a block of iron or steel, with hole to allow the old primer 
to drop through, or it may be in the form of a pairof pliers, 
the punch being then pressed in by the handles. 

Second—Wash the shells in boiling hot-water until all the 
residuum has been removed, then bake the shells in a hot 
oven until they are thoroughly dried, Any remaining dirt 
muy be taken out with a stiff round brush. 

Third—Lubricate and resize each shell by driving it into 
the resizing die with steady and straight blows of a mallet. 
The resizing die should rest firmly on a support, and is pro- 
vided with a punch for driving, out the resized-shells. The 
die and shells should merely be greasy and not-wet with oil, 
as too much’ oil causes the shells to ‘‘buckle” in the die. 
Always resize each shell before recapping or reloading. 

Fourth—As the resizing die punch is apt to leave a slight 
burr on the mouth of the shell, each shell should be lightly 
scraped with the shell scraper (a three-cornered piece of tem- 
pered steel set in a handle) on the inside edge around the en- 
eee to take off this burr, but not so as to thin the 
shell. 

Fifth—Re-cap, seating the primers well home, and being 
careful to see that pocket is free from dirt and the vent 
properly clear. Primers should preferably be seated by 
pressure, and the tool seats the primer the exact depth each 
time, so that there can be ro exposed primers if the tool is 
properly used. The end of the screw or plunger which 
presses in the primer is‘so made as to insure the primer being 
seated at least 0.005" below the surface of the head. 

Sixth—Hnter the re-capped shell into the reloading die, 
place the latter thus in the safety socket, measure out the 
powder with the powder measure, seeing that it is set to the 
proper weight, pour the powder into the shell through a fun- 
nel placed in the mouth of the reloading die (the longer the 
funnel the more powder can be got inthe same space up to 
certain limits. I have used a funnel with spout over two 
feet long to get large charges in small shells), press down 
the already lubricated bullet through the mouth of the re- 
loading die, observing that the cannellures are all full of 
lubricant, and drive the bullet home with the reloading 
punch, driving fhe latter until if is clear down with its 
shoulder on top of the reloading die, The bullet is then 
sented home and the cartridge will be of the exactly proper 
length. Press the loaded shell from the reloading die and 
it is ready for 

Crimping —Press the loaded shell into the crimping die, 
the head of the shell resting in a recess:in the safety socket. 


the bore was carefully wiped after each shot, 
bore is to be wiped the disk is not needed, its office being to 


Drive down the crimping die upon the shell with the mallet 
as far. as it will go. Press out the shell now completely re- 
loaded. 

We therefore need a de-capper and re-capper. These may 
be separate or may be combined in one tool. In the army, 
for rifle shells, ete,, they are generally separate; for shotgun 
shells they are combined in one tool, which can also be used 
for rifle, carbine and revolver shells. We need a resizing 
die: This is a tube of steel hardened, the interior being the 
exact shape and size required to resize the shell to its proper 
dimensions. The resizing die is five-thousandths of an inch 
less in internal diameter than the average chamber of thie 
gun, hence resized cartridges will always fit even the Ghati- 
bers of guns that are of minintim diameter, and abotit he 
exact length of the shell. The punch is 4 cylindrical piece 
of steel, with an ogival point and a shoulder that fits the 
mouth of the shell exactly, the diameter of the punch body 
being that of the exterior of the shell. The shell being coni- 
cal, but a light blow is needed on the punch to start out the 
resized shell. A suitable anyil should be provided with re- 
cess for the end of the resizing die to rest in both in driving 
in and driving out the shell, a hole being drilled through the 
anvil for the shell to drop into or through when being driyen 
out, Shells should be resized after every fire, for otherwise 
there is no telling when a shell may stick in the chamber, 
and resizing after every fire prolongs the life of the shell, 
for it may spread in two or three fires when not resized, 
enough to prevent its being resized at all; whereas, after 
each fire the operation is comparatively easy and does not 
injure the shell. 

_ Areloading die is absolutely necessary for accurate load- 
ing. It is again a tube of steel with interior the same size 
as the average chamber of the gun, and counter-bored on the 
end to receive the head. The upper interior end is slight! 
smaller for a length down to about the top of the shell (it is 
of the exact diameter of the bullet) and serves to gitide the 
bullet properly into the shell, and hold it straight and con- 
centric with the shell while being driven honie. The reload- 
ing puuch, with which the bullet is driven home, enters a 
certain fixed distance, so that the bullets are all seated alike, 
provided this punch is driven home, and when the punch is 
home the die then becomes an exact gauge as to the proper 
dimensions of the loaded shell. Any cartridge that fits this 
die, with punch inserted up to its shoulder, will fit the gun 
to a certainty, and each shell is rigidly gauged and inspected 
by its use while being loaded, 

For cartridges that are to be used at once, or are not to be 
subjected to severe use, the crimping may be omitted, but I 
have found it better to always erimp. My cartridges are 
then waterproof, and are ready for any amount of knocking 
about, and i do not have to make allowances in aiming, as I 
would have to when using part crimped and part uncrimped 
cartridges, Crimping lessens the velocity slightly, and there- 
fore changes the trajectory and necessitates changes of ele- 
vation from what would be necessary for those not crimped, 
leading to confusion when used together. 

Never prime 4 loaded shell, nor attempt to primeit. This 
is one of the rules that always should be followed, It may 
be that a primer will jar out of its seat winle the bullet is 
being driven home. In sucha case throw the shell away, as 
it has become worn in the pocket until it is toolarge to hold 
the primers properly, and, even if it could be primed while 
loaded with safety, taé primer is apt to work out again in 
the magazine of your gun, or while in your belt, and perhaps 
be the very cartridge you might load with for a very risky 
shot—to ‘‘get left” as a matter of course. 

Now all this:operation and description doubtless appears 
long and tedious, and it doubtless is so—but ‘‘whatever is 
worth doing at all is worth doing well,” and certainly the 
rifleman should reload his ammunition as carefully as does 
the man of the ‘scatter gun,” and I claim he should be 
more careful, for the man with the shotgun fires a scattering 
shot anyway, and a little, more or less, makes uot so much 
difference. but the man with the rifie has but one bullet, and 
he wants that to go true to its mark and to go every time, 
for he hunts more valuable and more dangerous game than 
the shotgun man, and this cannot be guaranteed unless he is 
as careful about his ammunition as he is about his gun, The 
strictest and most scrupulous exactness should be demanded, 
and never rest content with ‘“‘Oh! that will do; what is the 
use of being so blamed particular!” That one sometimes 
hears too often. 

The man with the shotgun can and does generally provide 
himself with the best reloading tools the market aifords, not 
only for rapid but exact work, Tools are to be had for the 
shotgun that fill all the requirements, therefore why should 
they not be provided for the rifle, where exactness is so much 
more needed? 

And now I would ask sportsmen and manufacturers if we 
have any reloading tools that will do the work described 
above? Has there been any real effort to produce proper 
tools, and will any “‘makeshift” answer? Is it any wonder 
that some manufacturers refuse to warrant their guns unless 
their manufactory ammunition is used? For do not the 
manufacturers know that there are no proper tools, and that 
shells cannot be loaded properly with tools to be had? 

As to the laber of reloading I cannot but admit that it is 
hard work, but the results more than repay for the exertion. 
One can choose his own powder, can regulate his own 
charges within certain limits, and can in every way produce 
better cartridges than those of the manufactory, while the 
expense becomes much less, By taking one operation at a 
time (such as resizing all, recapping all, etc.), the reloading 
can be done quite rapidly, and one soon acquires skill and 
exactness. Ihave reloaded hundreds of shells, have neyer 
met with any serious accident, and have had more faith in 
my cartridges than in any I could buy, 

I would not advise any one to try and make their own 
bullets, Cast balls are not as accurate in their flight nor so 
invariable in their work as are those made at the factories. 
These latter are swaged from lead wire by powerful machin- 
ery, and are much more homogeneous and symmetrical than 
any home-made balls can possibly be, even when the latter 
have been swaged by the swaging mold and punch. 

I would invite attention to the fact that nothing has been 
said about the “‘lubricating disk’ in the above description, 
and this simply because it is no longer used. I know that it 
was used, and that some authorities still claim adyantages 
for it; but it is not used in the army. I used it some years 
ago and found no good results therefrom, and abandoned it, 
L found that it fouled the bore and caused the gun to lead 
more with if than if did without. The carbonaceous matter 
contained in the disk would burn and leave a crust to adhere 
to the bore in addition to the residuum of the powder, and 
wilder shooting resulted than when it was not used, unless 
But if the 


keep the bore lubricated for each successive shot when not 
Wiping. Perhaps a thick felt wad would prove beneficial as 
tending to clean the gun and prevent leading where non-wip- 
ing matches are being shot. But it must be remembered 
that this wad would be between the bullet and the powder, 
and would not be in position to sweep out either lead or 
residuum from in front of the bullet, sothat the bullet would 
yet have to encounter the residiitum from the preyious shot. 
and the wad would not prevent such residuum being left hy 
the powder burning hehind it: so 1 think it of little value, 

For htinting, if the ball has been properly lubricated be- 
fore being seated in the shell, there is no great necessity for 
ally additidnal lubrication. At target practice I have ob- 
tained the best results from wetting the point of the bullet 
with saliva; this reduces friction as well as grease, and there 
is no residuum from the saliva on the pun. Many dip the 
bullet in oi], but I claim that this fouls the piece more than 
saliva and does not give as good results, In hunting with 
singleloaders the bullet can be thus moistened in the mouth; 
but for magazine rifles this is of course impossible; but then 
it is not so ‘very great importance after all. If one uses 
good clean powder fhe fouling from even ien consecutive 
shots will be but a trifle, so little that one can still see the 
glitter of the iron the whole length of the bore (I have fired 
over an hundred shots from a Ballard gallery rifle hefore it 
was cleaned, and we were shooting at five-cent pieces at fifty 
feet and still did good shooting), and one has plenty of time 
generally to pull a field cleaner through his gun after every 
few shots even when hunting, What one wants in.a maga 
zine gun more than ina singleloader, although it 1s of im- 
portance there, is to see that his pfimers are properly set, his 
shells properly sized, his- bullets properly seated, and theh 
he can go forth confident that He has done his duty by the 
gun and the gun is teady to do its duty by hit. 

The primers for cartridges’ should be carefully selected 
according to the shells used, and no attempt be made to use 
anything except just exactly the right thing, No make- 
shifts will do; but the exact primers for the shells must be 
had to insure success, That this want of uniformity in 
shells and primers causes confusion, discontent and disgust I 
am well aware trom experience, and I know, for I have tried 
it myself, the temptation to make something do that is wrong 
because that which is right cannot he obtained. One may 
have Winchester shells and be only able to obtain (close at 
hand and in a hurry, because one is out) the Berdan primers, 
or some other form that is not suitable, or nice versa, and be 
disabled for the time being, The only remedy that | know 
of is to adopt some uniform shell for use and keep a stock of 
shells and primers always on hand, in quantity sutlicient to 
mneet any emergency. 

For repeaters, do not use too sensitive primers. The main- 
spring should be tested, and if found too weak for thick 
primers, replaced by a stronger one. It is always well to 
have an extra mainspring or two on hand at all times for 
possible accidents; but a weak mainspring may be stiffened 
temporarily by putting an auxiliary spring, made from any 
thin piece of spring steel, either under or oyer the spring, 
depending upon its position or bend. 

Examine and see that your shell heads are large enoughin 
diameter to fill the counter-bore completely yet easily, and 
that they do not slip by the extractor in singleloaders, for 
some day you may get badly “‘left” if you do not. 

In all singleloaders that I know the extractor fits into a 
recess in the counter-bores and must go home hefore the 
shell, so as to be in position to extract, If the shell slips by 
you cannot get the extractor home and cannot either close 
the piece or get out the cartridge that has slipped by, except 
by pushing out with a rod or jarring the butt on the ground, 
and you are temporarily disabled and perhaps just when you 
need the shot the most. 

To the many this may seem to be a needless precaution, as 
they naturally suppose that all shells of each caliber are the 
same by all makers, but from experience I know this is not 
the case. Another reason for my abandonment of the 
Lowell shell; for I had fifty of them that I tested one after 
another in a Government curbine and they all shipped by, 
and other ammunition, made by the Government, fitted all 
right; and yet we were supplied with the Lowell ammuni- 
tion for campaign against Indians; if was entirely new, just 
out of the factory boxes, and was caliber .45 and intended 
for caliber .45 guns such as our carbines, ; 

Perhaps it may serve as a lesson to some to hear how I 
came to learn this, It was in this wise: While on White 
River, Colorado, in the fall of 1879, my atlenlion was called 
to a carbine that was disabled by the shell haying slipped by 
the extractor. The officer who had the carbine had just 
come back from looking for grazing ground, and while out 
had run across a large wildcat, and had got down from his 
horse, slipped a cartridge into his gun, and started to kill 
the cat. The gun was a D. 8. Springtield carbine in perfect 
order. He found he could not close the breech block, and 
on looking to see why, found the shell filled the counter- 
bore and closed up the recess in which the extractor should 
lie when home. aving no red he could not drive the sheil 
out, and had to abandon his shot, leaving the gun in a dis- 
abled condition until he could get back to camp and have it 
repaired, Aten’. 

1 examined the gun carefully and tested if with every car- 
tridge there was in the officrr’s belt, as well as others from 
other belts, and all slipped by when dropped into the re- 
ceiver and pushed home. All these shells were the Lovell 
shells and were a trifle smaller in diameter and a good deul 
thinner in the flange than the Governmet ammunition proper, 
none of which slipped by or could be forced by, as was found 
on trial. Since that time I have always looked to see that I 
had what I should have and ina thoroughly reliable condi- 
tion. It might have been something worse than a wildcat 
that had been found, and it so happened that only a few 
days before the same officer was jumped by the Utes and 
corvaled in aravine all the afternoon with his entire escort; 
but on that day he had regular Government ammunition and 
found no trouble in using his piece. 

But I have said enough, perhaps nothing that is new to 
the many, but again perhaps a good deal that is new to 
some, and my desire to see this important subject properly 
recognized has been my excuse, 1 hope that others may give 
their experience, either agreeing with or cae niine, 

WYomine, ~ D. 


Mare Laren GAMA.—Munson, Me., July 16.—The won- 
derful increase of caribou and deer since the game laws have 
been enforced in this region is acknowledged by those wha 
have been the most bitter opposers of these enactments, One 
day during the past. month a caribou was seen in the orchard 
of a farmer near this village, and during the day he swam 
across the Jake to the forest within yiew of the Lake Hetwon 
Hotel.—J. F. 8. | - 


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Héitor Forest and Stream: 

I wish to eall your own and your readers’ attention to a 
subject which has occasioned me much surprise, and if it 
astonishes and chagrins a frontiersman, who is familiar with 
rough experiences, how much more should if engender a 
kindred feeling among the more refined of sportsmen? 

I have read carefully your columns for the past four years, 
and to them is due the credit of educating out of my nature 
many pot-hunting proclivities; 7, ¢., if taking sitting shots 
be pot-hunting, and I believe a majority of your correspon- 
dents are of that opinion, At present your columns are sin- 
gularly free from those two nauseating terms, ‘‘pot-hunter” 
and “wentleman sportsman,” which have pervaded nearly 
évery communication published the past few years, This 
result is due, or largely so I believe, to your own caustic edi- 
torials on these subjects. 

And now allow me to suggest another abhorrent practice, 
a relic of barbarism, which ought to have been relegated to 
the past centuries ago. I refer to the brutal practice of 
shooting deer with buckshot. , 
_ Itis difficult to believe that men exist in this nineteenth 
century so little adyanezd beyond savages that they have the 
heart to deliberately shoot a charge of buekshot from a 
hand cannon into the body of the most beautiful animal in 
creation; but evidence of such taste comes to us in nearly 
every issue of ForEST AND STREAM, in some inquiry for 
the best gun to shoot buckshot, or in a glowing description 
of some hunt where the writer lauds his prowess and boasts 
of his wonderful gun that sent its dozen buckshot clear 
through the body of a deer at a hundred yards, 

Any manner of killing game is cruel, but those methods 
which require a little skill and give the game some chauce of 
escape are the only ones which sportsmen should ever 
practice. 

Ifa weapon could be deyised which would make a clean 
kill or leave the game untouched, it would be a glorious 
thing; but there is no such thing known, therefore the arm 
which approaches nearest to that result should alone be used. 

If a man were starving and bad no weapon but a shotgun 
he would be justified in killing a deer with it, but under no 
other circumstance, and then he ought to haye decency 
enough to keep his deed to himself, and not publish to the 
world his disgrace, 

It was my fortune not many months since to be one of a 
party which went in search of a grizzly. It was a mixed 
crowd of army officers, clerks and farmers, One of the 
latter was armed with this same phenomenal shotgun charged 
with buckshot. We did not find the bear. We did happen 
onto a deer which received the contents of the shotgun at 
about fifty yards and of course left on the jump, Another 
of the party opened fire with a Henry rifle, and knocked him 
down, but again he jumped and ran for life. He left a plain 
trail of bluod which was followed. Ata distance of fully a 
mile he was found dead. The rifle bullet had done the work 
of quick killing. Upon skinning, one buckshot was found 
to have entered the paunch and lodged under the skin on the 
opposite side, Enough to have killed the poor animal after 
a few days of most intense suffering, and that would surely 
pave eeE his fate had not the more human rifie come to his 
relief. ‘ 

The brutality of the shotgun man deserves to be annonnced 
by all sporting journals. A thorough ventilation of such 
“sport” would, I believe, educate men above it. If the use 
of the shotgun on deer were entirely discontinued, deer would 
increase largely, for the majority of these which are struck 
by buckshot escape, crawl away and die, doing the hunter 
no good, affording him no sport, and diminishing the supply 
for breeding purposes. 

Tn this day of cheap and reliable firearms, a good, accurate 
rifle can be bought for a trifle, say $20 or $25. Every man 
or boy in America, who can find time to hunt, can possess 
one if he choose. If too poorto buy one, borrow for the day’s 
hunt, a few hours’ practice will make you sufficiently pro- 
ficient in its use, to hit the vital part of a deer at. ordinary 
shotgun range, Then if your hunt be successful you have 
not committed a deed which will trouble your conscience the 
remainder of your days, Prore. 

Fort BrnwEtt, Cal., July 5, 1884. 


Or»EGoN Sxoy Hountrers.—John Dunphrey, an engineer on 
the west side road, who isin the habit of taking a yearly 
hunt for deer in the mountains of Southern Oregon, a few 
days since received a letter from a friend at Grant’s Pass, of 
which the following is an extract: ‘‘I expect you will be out 
this fall to take your annual hunt. You had better come as 
soon 48 you can if you want deer, as the skin hunters are 
killing them off very fast. You will hardly believe me 
when I tell you that two of these fellows now encamped 
eight miles helow this place, brought in and sold here last 
week 130 skins, all killed during ten days in June. One of 
the hunters said that he killed twelve deer in one day. and 
in two days caught ten fawns, which he marked. When 
asked what he did with the venison he said he did nothing 
with it. His name is Stonebreaker and his partner’s name 
is Ferrin. They got ninety-eight dollars for their load of 
skins. I saw the skins and the blood was not dry on some 
of them, Ican prove every word of this. Skin hunters 
have been slaughtering deer all this summer, along the cafion 
by the railroad. The small mountain streams are dried up 
and the deer are obliged to gather along the larger streams 
for water and there is where they catch them. These 
scoundrels defy the law and say thcy have a perfect right to 
hunt on Government lands. It is high time this business 
was stopped. Just think how many poor little fawns these 
rascals have caused to starve and die,” The above is from 
a responsible person, and there is no doubt of its truthful- 
ness. The authorities of that section must be very remiss in 
their duties to allow such wholesalé violation of the game 
law. The first game law passed in Oregon was originated 
in that part of the State, and was intended to prevent just 
such scandalous slaughter of deer for their skins as is 
mentioned above, Those skin hunters should be’in the 
penitentiary, or better have their hides made into drum heads: 
the huiking, Jazy, useless brutes are worse than wolves or 
coyotes. The people of Southern Oregon should combine 
-and hunt them out of the country.—Portland Oregonian. 


Grass PiLover,—Philadelphia, Pa,, July 21.—A great 
many grass plover are being killed in this section. The sea- 
son is just about in, but the birds are yet in poor condition. 
The pastures about Philadelphia are thronged with them, 
and their whistle is hear nightly as they arrive hereaway. 
Many gunners are after them, and about one or two birds 
fall to the share of each gun, Well may the grass plovers 

4 this region whistle ‘‘we are all surrounded.”—Homo, 


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Spiper Lake GAME.—Sherbrooke, Quebec, July 12, 1884. 
—Have just returned to-day after spending a week at Spider 
Lake. Good bass trolling in the lake, and trout fishing on 
the Upper River. Saw deer every day and tracks of moose 
are numerous. Haye neyer seen a season at Spider that 
looks more promising than the present for large game, and 
only hope they may be protected until the open season, Sept. 
1, so as to give us all a chance, The existing game laws 
prohibit the hunting or killing of any female moose until 
Oct. 15, 1885, Am glad to see your correspondent 
‘Penobscot’ again to the front. He is familiar with the 
locality referred to, Haye been very much amused with 
that character ‘‘Antoine,” who visits ‘Uncle Lisha’s work- 
shop.” I can pick out half a dozen French Canadians who 
would answer for his original so far as the broken English is 
concerned,—D. Tomas, 


W ooncock In New HAmpsutre.—Doyer, N. H., July 21, 
1884.— Hditor Forest and Stream: Woodeock in this section 
are not very plenty, while on the other hand partridges seem 
to outnumber them five to one. I know to my certain 
knowledge that parties have shot woodcock here this season. 
Our open season commences Aug. 1. It seems a shame that 
persons, for they can’t be called brother sportsmen, should 
so lose all sense of what becomes a true sportsman, as to shoot 
game out of season, and especially woodcock, to secure 
which a sportsman has to journey many miles to make a lair 
bag. These parties should receive the full letter of the law 
in their nefarious business.—Woopcock. [Why does nol 
“Woodcock” lay his evidence before the game wardens and 
secure the punishment of the offenders?”] 


ArTER ApirenpAck Dppr Kiuuprs.—After working 
almost alone for four years or more fo get something done 
to stop the slaughter of deer in the region south of here 
during the spring and early summer months, I have at last 
got the State Game Protector of St. Lawrence county to 
visit that region, He went up last week and procured 
eyidence that will, lie says, convict three of the parties, and 
he will prosecute them to the full extent of the law, He 
also appointed a deputy protector residing in that vicinity, 
whose duty it will be to watch for and prosecute all caught 
violating the game law.—A. ©, 


A CHATEAUGAY LAKH AssocrIATION is being talked up, 
and a meeting for organization will be held at ‘‘Ralph’s” 
Aug, 18. Its membership will embrace any visitor to or resi- 
dent of the whole Adirondack region, ‘wo of the most 
important purposes of the association will be the employ- 
ment of men to look after the game interests of the moun- 
tains and the raising of a fund to yearly place in the various 
lakes, ponds and streams young fish, All who may wish to 
join this proposed association in any way can address Mr. 
W. 8. McKean, Rogersfield, 


Buack-Tamep Drnr AntTners.—Mandan, July 15.—In 
No, 24 I read of a correspondent that has a black-tailed 
deer’s antlers with twenty-five prongs. I saw a black-tailed 
deer’s head, that was killed sixty miles north of Mandan, 
that had thirty-two prongs.—Huntsr. 


Sea and Biver Mishing. 


CAMPS OF THE KINGFISHERS. 


Black Lake, Michigan.—xXI. 

W ITH characteristic pluck and perversity Knots had 

' stuck to the oars; the devious course was ended; and 
he and Dick were now resting in the shade just across the 
little bay from us. When we bad filled our last bucket with 
most exc: lent minnows and a few barred perch of the right 
size, we gave up our stake to three anglers, who had come 
up out of big Black River in a yawlin search of the King- 
fisher party, as they said, but as they did not introduce 
themselves we failed to learn their names. They were not 
inclined to be very communicative, but we learned that two 
of them were from Detroit, while the other was an ‘‘Ohio 
man,” and that they were fishing over at Long Lake, five or 
six miles below. They had taken a notion to try the bass in 
Black Lake a few hours and at the same time hunt up our 
camp. They had walked across from Long Lake to the 
river, 2 mile and a half, got a boat of a Mr. Cross, living 
near the head of the rapids, and here they were, fishing for 
black bass with worms. Just think of it, ye honest anglers. 

They had stopped awhile at the stemwinder and one of 
them had taken a four-pound bass witha bunch of wriggling 
worms, a proceeding that so disgusted old Dan, when told of 
it, that he straightway exploded with, ‘‘deliver me from a 
worm fisher, any how!” We left them tied to the stake 
catching minnows, and pulled over to the raft to stretch our 
legs and try for the mate to their four-pounder with legiti- 
mate bait, for we were something of Ben’s mind when we 
summed up his opinien of worm-fishing for bass in about 
this shape: “Hf | can’t ketch bass without fishin’ fur ’em 
with bait that’s only fit fur white suckers and red hoss, I 
don’t want no bass.” 

When the strangers had filled a bucket with minnows 
they came over to the raft, and soon after Knots and Dick 
pulled across io us, and the stemwinder bristled with 
seven rods, all feeling for the mate to their big bass; but a 
half hour’s patient work failed to induce a strike except by 
an eighteen-inch pickerel that one of our party took, which 
was kept alive to bait the big look for the big mascalonge ag 
we went back to camp. 

Our three anglers soon Jeft for Long Lake, but before go- 
ing they told us they were having fine sport over there with 
the bass—nearly all of the wide-mouthed tribe—and they 
were doing their fishing with worms. Now, this manner of 
bass fishing may be a pardonable offense among some fisher- 
men; but were a “Kingfisher” caught angling with a squirm- 
ing worm he would be drowned on the spot, or drummed 
out of camp to the tune of the ‘‘Pot-fishers Quick March.” 

Long Lake muy be reached from Black Lake by going 
down the river to Cross’s, a matter of three miles, and trom 
there a mile and a half will take one to the head of it. A 
team may be had of Mr, Oross almost any day to haula boat 
over, and on the lake shore is a very good little tavern, at 
which accommodations and boats may be had. The better 
wey however, to reach this lake is by team from Cheboygan. 

eaving the stemwinder, Muller and I started to fish 
around the shores of the little bay with our new bait, and 
before we had gone a hundred yards IJ struck and persuaded 
my first and only bass in Black Lake—a black-backed hard 
fighter of three and three-quarter pounds. I don’t like to 
say this was the only one | took, but truth is nudging me 


to stand firm and I must so record it, Did I feel good over 
that first and only bass? Why, that fight was just an even 
balance for four days’ first-class pickerel fishing, but I will 
not try to describe it lest, in the attempt to do it justice I 
overdo it, lt was simply a glorious fight, and it was more 
good luck than skill, T think, that brought me out on top, 
for I confess to being a trifle nervous at points in the strug- 
gle where a hair would have turned the scale in favor of the 
fish. 

Here at the mouth of the bay we saw another great masca- 
longe, near six feet, we judged, from the hasty glance we 
got of him. Muller had hooked and was playing a five or 
six pound pickerel, and as he was Jed near the boat and 
when only a few yards away, the mascalonge made a swipe 
it him, but missed by barely a couple of inches, a sudden 
twist on the part of the pickerel saving him from being 
crushed by the powerful jaws of the big fish only to meet 4, 
milder death by the club. He was a monstrous fish, prob- 
ably as large as the one Dan and I saw, as Muller will be 
qualified that his head was fully eight iaches broad at the 
eyes. Wedid not fish for him, as it would haye been utterly 
useless to fight him with our tackle, among the grass and 
gigantic water weeds that grow around the mouth of the 
river and little bay, for to handle a fish of this size would 
require plenty of sea room in water clear of grass and weeds, 
and we did not feel like breaking up our rods in an encoun- 
ter that would be sure to result in disaster tous. Here were 
three of these great fish seen by us ina few days, some miles 
apart, and J am convinced that the lake contains many 
others of the same kind, and possibly a few that are even 
larger. than those we saw, but this is hardly probable. 

Another hour's fishing resulted in more longsnouts, but 
not another bass, and we lett for camp very much impressed 
with the belief that we were there quite two months ahead 
of the season for them. We fished awhile around Pickerel 
Reef as we went up, for the old chief that Dan and I held a 
special claim on, but the eighteen-inch longface on the big 
hook failed to attract his attention, and we went on to camp 
with another backset added to my score. 

The day’s fishing had, however, put us in possession of 
the fact that the ‘‘automatic abortion” is a fraud and a delu- 
sion as a bass reel, and subsequent performances of the ma- 
chine has not altered our convictions. I expect this will 
raise a howl from the sun fishers and fingerling trout mur- 
derers, for the contrivance is specially adapted to this kind 
of fishing, but our minds are made up, and we are prepared 
to be covered up with abuse rather than concede a point in 
favor of this ingeniously arranged, but *‘wuthless affair.” 

At camp we found the other boys had not been out, owing 
to the rough water, but they had passed the day pleas- 
antly in “reminiscences,” smoking the pipe of contentment, 
ete., and Jim had actually distinguished himself by picking 
a camp-kettle full of huckleberries, and that evening Dick 
promised he would make a huckleberry roll next day big 
enough to kill the whole party. The roll was planned and 
constructed with perhaps the best intentions on Dick's part, 
but as he had forgot to put any shortening in it, his promise of 
a wholesale slaughter of the camp came very near being 
made good, as all who partook of that mass of tough dough 
and berries will remember it, if they live to be as old as 
‘“Methuseler.” °*‘Talk about eatin’ crow,” said Ben. ‘Crow 
ain’t a marker “longside o’ that roll; Dick must a shortened 
that dough with injen rubber and b’iled owl.” 

Next morning the wind was an early riser and the lake 
was foo rough to fish. We hung around camp till noon, but 
as the blow showed no sign of abating, Muller and I took our 
rifles and went back on the plains for a bear hunt; but it 
wasn’t a good day for bear, and we came back to the camp 
after tramping down several hundred acres of huckleberries, 
and told the boys a half dozen barefaced lies about bruins 
that we expected to see, but didn’t. 

The nearest we came to seeing a bear was once when Mul- ° 
ler called to me to come and look at some large tracks in the 
sandy road leading to Black River, which he said were tracks 
of the very varmint we were looking for, but on close inves- 
tigation they proved to be the tracks of one of Merrill’s old 
oxen. 

This discovery moved us to make tracks straightway back 
to camp, where we were overwhelmed with congratulations 
on getting back alive, and next day the Assistant Postmaster 
was laid up with an attack of acute camp diarrhea, from an 
overdose of huckleberry, which kept him in camp all day, 

The wind was blowing a stiff breeze next morning, but 
the rest of us managed to fish all day with good results, as 
far as Merrill’s bar’]l was concerned; a few bass were taken, 
none, however, by the rod of ye writer. 

We were now growing a little tired of bass fishing, and 
that evening around the camp-fire a five or six-days’ trip to. 
the Ocqueoe for grayling was planned, but when Stewart 
came to camp next day to arrange for the trip, he told us 
there were no grayling in the stream, but plenty of trout 
might be found if we struck it high enough up—some fifteen 
or twenty miles from our camp. 

We began to consider whether the sport in prospect would: 
pay for the trouble of reaching the stream by arough, tedious 
road, and the trip was finally abandoned as one likely to 
prove unprofitable in the end. ‘‘hen symptoms of Pve-got- 
enough-of-this began to float around through the air, and 
next day Knots proposed that we break camp the following 
Tuesday instead of going to the Ocqueoc. 

He gave as a reason for this move that the time of four of 
the party was nearly out, and as Dan, Ben, the Deacon and 
I wanted to go over to the Intermediate Chain before return- 
ing home, it would hardly pay them to go with us for twoor 
three days at the old camp, I did not want to break camp, 
for I liked Black Lake, and I wanted to make a trip to the 
Oequeoc; but a yote settled it, and the majority—in fact 7 to 
1—earried it to break up. (Mem. for November—There’s 
nothing like being crushed by a majority, and submitting to 
it with grace and serenity.) 

The reasons given by Knots for wanting to break camp 
were good in their way, but we had a faint notion that the 
eround work of his structure rested on the fact that the ‘‘fes 
tivities” had.about run out, and he wanted to get back to a 
base of supplies. Butit was settled that we were to leave 
our pleasant camp, and next morning, Muller and I started 
in a boat for Cross’s, down the Big Black, to get him to help 
with his team to haul us and our traps to town. We fished 
to the foot of the Jake, not forgetting to spend a half hour 
or so around Pickerel Reef after the big masky, but he was 
not at home, and it was perhaps well for him that he was 
not, for we were fully determined 1o turn him inside out 
should he swallow the pickerel and big hook trailing at the 
stern of our boat. The ride down the river was a very pleas- 
ant one, and we enjoyed ourselyes like two schoolhoys out 
for a frolic, pulling here and there sweet-smelling water 
lilies that grew in patches in the water along shore, or stop- 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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[Juny 24, 1884. 


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ping oceasionally to pluck a wild rose that hung over the 
stream, {ill we had the boat full of rare perfume. 

Mr. Cross was not at home, but his wife, a sweet-faced, 
middle-aged matron, told us he would be engaged with his 
team the next Tuesday, and could not promise to help us 
for a day or two after, Another backset. 

The Cross farm is a little cleared patch right on the low 
bank of the river, and is as lonely a looking place as one can 
imagine, but Mrs. Cross said she had become accustomed to 
the solitude and did nol mind itso much now as when they 
first settled there. The children and the deer that visited 
their little wheat field in front of the door at this season kept 
her company, and she was contented with her lot. She said 
that had we come a few minutes sooner we might have seen 
a deer swim the river just above the house, but we were 
glad we did not see it, tor flesh is weak and Muller had his 
rifle along. We said good day to the matron and took our 
way back up the lovely stream and to camp, satisfied that 
contentment abideth not alone in the great cities, If this 
ever meets the eye of the gentle-mannered and kindly lady, 
she will recognize the writer as the smaller one of the two 
that drank up all her buttermilk, and asked if there were not 
a few drops left; and she may call to mind how we laughed 
when she told us she-preterred a pickerel for the table to “a 
nasty thick-skinned bass.” And she may be assured too, that 
brother Muller and the writer join in wishing her many 
years of quiet happiness in her little cabin on the bank of 
the Big Black, and we trust the ‘‘Crosses” she may be called 
on to carry tbrough life may not be more of a burden than 
the little flaxen-headed ones we saw playing around the 
door. Blessed are they that dwell in peace and content in 
ee virgin woods, for they are the “‘salt o’ this livin’ earth.” 
(Ben.) 

Back in camp again long before sundown, we had pleasant 
yisitors that cvening in the person of Judge 5. N, Maxwell, 
an enthusiastic member of the Cincinnati Canoe Club, and 
three companions, who were camped for a day or two at the 
saudbank. ‘They had ceme up the river in their canoes to 
the foot of the rapids, had then hauled around and were 
here for a couple of days* sport. and sailing on Black Lake, 
and had come over to our camp this shank of the afternoon 
for a brotherly call, The Scribe acted as master of cere- 
monies, and notwithstanding the low state of the festivities 
they were not allowed to take their Way across the lake with 
dust in their throats.. They left for Cheboygan next day, in 
order to run the rapids in their canoes before a promised 
ran of logs would most likely form a jam and force them to 
make another portage around. 

Just below the roofiess loggers’ cabin, a stone's throw from 
our camp, two wandering brethren had pitched their tent a 
day or two before, but they, too, left us. next day, in order to 
be ahead of the logs in going down the rapids. They had 
been wandering around over the North Woods for a couple of 
weeks, wherever they could find water to float_their boat, 
and hearing of the attractions and beauties of Black Lake 
they had come up here to enjoy a few days’ sport and com- 
fort. If I remember, they were a Mr, Arthur Clement, from 
Joliet, I1L., and a younger companion from somewhere in 
New York Siate.. They were pleasant, companionable gen- 
tlemen, and we were sorry when their boat disappeared from 
sight around the point below. 

Thal. night neighbor Merrill walked two miles in the dark- 
ness to get another neighbor, Mr. Bush, to help Stewart get 
us to town, and the arrangement was made for us to take 
our outfit in the boats to the landing below the sandbank 
where we first struck the lake, where they would meet us 
with the wagons. 


A MORNING’S FISHING. 


fe is a necessity in our very natures for relaxation, 

not so much for rest as for change. It may and gener- 
ally does require more exertion and actual expenditure of 
physical force to hunt or fish for a day than is required for 
several days devoted to our usual vocations, yet for all of 
that the day’s hunting or fishing is restful, and one works 
better for the indulgence. A few weeks ago “‘our print 
shop” finished the big job of the season, one that had kept 
the full force hard at it to complete within contract time, 
and fully believing in this law of relaxation it was decreed 
that the day after ihe completion of the given work should 
be a holiday for all, from the editor to the urchin with 
the profane cognomen who is supposed to preside over the 
inky domains. 

The foreman of the compositors and myself decided to go 
fishing, and fishing we went early in the morning. It was 
arranged to start at 4 o’clock; our team was engaged, tackle 
and boots placed in readiness the evening before, and a 
basket of provisions packed under my supervision. Our 
objective point was some seven or eight miles away where a 
broken and abandoned dam obstructed the Iowa River, 
affording superior fishing. 

We were off on time, and before sunrise were at our fish- 
ing grounds. The foreman wae detailed to make coffee and 
ge breakf ast while compositor and myself took the minnow 
seine, donned our rubber boots and finding a sandy shallow 
bay proceeded to supply a goodly quantity of bait, which 
we were not long in doing, but not before a pot of splendid 
coffee was waiting for us, and hurriedly disposing of our 
breakfast, for which we had an abundant appetite, we 
betook ourselves to the anticipated sport. The lowa River 
this near its source is not a large stream, being only six or 
eight rods wide, and quite shallow. No such strings of fish 
are to be taken from its waters as can be from the lakes or 
the rivers in newer parts of the country, yet it abounds with 
black bass, pike, pickerel, catfish, and many other varieties 
of that joy of the small boy, the sucker tribe. It is a clear, 
limpid stream, running over a rocky and sandy bed, and 
among some of the finest scenery in all prairiedom. Many 
a fishing excursion has the writer taken along its pleasant 
banks, seldom returning without a very fair string of fish. 

On this occassion we industriously fished the eddies and 
pools about the stranded logs and scattered rocks below the 
old dam and were fairly rewarded therefor. Tbe compositor 
was the first. to land his fish, but soon the rest of us had 
done as well. We quit in time to get home by noon, and 
upou counting them found we had seventeen fine bass. 

It was a pleasant trip for us all, and although we worked 
harder than we should have done had no holiday been taken, 
we felt better for it and the next day took up our work with 
more energy, and I believe there was no loss to the. business 
because of the diversion, 

By the way, there is one stock subject or theme, upon 
which much is said by certain of your correspondents, 
which Ido not quite understand, and 1 know that many 
who keenly enjoy angling can join me in this, and that is 
the clement of ‘‘gaminess.” Is not this a kind of fashion or 


“Oscar Wildeism?” One will write of taking a little bass 
or pickerel weighing a pound or two, and tell how it fought, 
and how it made his pulses beat, Some of them even time 
the “struggle,” giving the number of minutes, as one did 
lately, saying ‘time of fight, 20 minutes.” Now I do not 
exactly understand this. I have caught such fish and much 
larger ones in both lakes and running water, and I have 
tried to get up such combats and failed. I have let a five or 
pound six pickerel have the line to run with, and they will run 
until it fairly hisses through the water, but I know that fish is 
fast and unless the line is thrown slack he cannot get off 
the hook, and I also know that I can stop his race at any 
time I see fit, and take him out of the water, and that almost 
without his pickerelship making a strugele. I can see no 
rare sport in letting a fish swim about in the water, thinking 
it can get away, when J know it cannot, and that I can take 
it from the water at any time I please after the hook is 
struck, and such sport seems to savor more of cruelty than 
is necessary. I think any fair-minded man who will take 
the trouble to catch the ‘‘critter” will agree with me that a 
sucker or red horse will, pound for pound, ‘‘fight” harder, 
and give its captor more trouble in getting it out of the 
water if he will attempt to take it as soon as it is hooked, 
than will a pike, pickerel, or black bass. This may be rank 
heresy, but it is my experience, W'S? B 
Enpora, Ja., July 12, 1884, 


“SALT-WATER FISHING.” 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Your article ou sea-fishing and the replies lately published 
were read by me with much interest. I am as fond as any- 
one of trout fishing, but I do not consider that the only kind, 
nor do I sympathize with the pharisaical spirit which holds 
that among sportsmen, he who wades the stream and throws 
the fly has the sole monopoly of virtue, poetry, and peace of 
conscience. The truth isthe two kinds of fishing are dis- 
tinct. Each suits its own mood; each satisfies some bodily 
or spiritual want which the other cannot meet; each demands, 
und so fosters in its votary, certain valuable but different 
qualities, moral and physical. 

Salt-water fishing, however, undoubtedly occupies but a 
small space in sporting papers. It is probable that if more 
interest were shown and more written about it, its methods 
might improve; and, conversely, such improvement would 
create interest. Last summer | tried for the first time troll- 
ing with rod and reel for bluefish. The result seemed to me 
so satisfactory and such an improvement over the hand line, 
that 1 send you the following account, in the hope of inter- 
esting, and perhaps calling out suggestions from some of 
your readers. i 

The ground we visited was Nantucket. Off the extrenie 
point of this island are bars, over which, at low tide, there 
is a considerable surf. In this rough water bluefish were 
nearly always to be found, For the most favorable condi- 
tions the tide must be on and the wind off. This enables 
you to sail along ihe edge of the rough water (to go through 
it would drive out the fish), the tide carrying the trolling 
lines into it. For tackle, we used the ordinary bass rod of 
about sixteen ounces, though I have no doubt a lighter 
weight would do, and about one hundred yards of twisted 
linen line, rather light. We found this length sufficient, 
though some might feel safer with more. ‘The spoons wete 
rather small size, made by Gregory, which we refitted, using 
but one set of larger hooks at the tail, rigged with copper 
wire instead of gimp. This gimp or fiddle string, by the 
way, seems a special favorite with tackle makers, the theory 
being that a fish cannot bite it off. This is probably true, as 
they always break it. In trolling we were more successful 
when at moderate speed. In high winds we hooked fish 
nearly always when going about. A strike when under way 
makes lively work for afew minutes. As your reel starts 
the skipper throws the boat into the wind, and your com- 
panion gets in his own line to give you room, meanwhile 
you must handle your rod, control the line without losing a 
finger, keep clear of the main sheet, see that you are not 
knocked over by the boom, and remember to smile and pre- 
tend to like it when the sea shoots overand soaks you, which 
it is sure todo. As the boat loses way your fish is just get- 
ting under way; the reel probably stops and the line siackens 
until you think he has probably left you. After a moment 
of dreadful doubt and rapid reeling you find he is still fast 
and may then address yourself to bringing him to gaff with 
what skill you are master of. Not being in the season for 
the largest'fish, the heaviest we caught weighed ten pounds. 

In closing, I may state that the catch will not be large, 
probably not above one-fourth of what would be taken with 
hand lines under the same conditions. There are several 
reasons for this, Where four hand lines can be used, not 
more than two rods can troll with any comfort; otherwise 
tangles and maledictions are inevitable, Again, the time 
required to land a fish is much greater, during which, also, 
the other rod iy out of the fight, and can enjoy himself only 
as an altruist. I suppose, too, there are not many spots 
where, as here, the fish keep in a comparatively small space. 
At sea, or where a school must be followed up, the rod would 
be still more unproductive. Yet, where it can be used, the 
capture of a large fish will inspire the true angler with a feel- 
ing of self-respect and deep satisfaction which mere numbers 
cannot yield. CO. E. P. 

PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 

[The second paragraph in this article is exactly the idea 
we wished to convey, ¢. ¢., if more were written about salt- 
water fishing the interest in it would increase. The tone of 
our much-criticised article was that sea fishing does not 
seem to inspire its votaries to write about it; they are con- 
tent to catch fish and to trust to makers of tackle to improve 
their tools. There 1s no experimenter like Mr. Wells among 


them, | 


Editor Horest and Stream: -" 

Your editorial of July 10, on ‘‘Salt-water Fishing,” has 
stirred up a brace of correspondents to write in defense of 
(he charms of their sport. They seem to me to bear witness 
to the truth of your remarks rather than to controvert them. 
Mr. ©, T. Duncklee mentions Scott and Roosevelt as authors 
who have been poetically inspired by sea fishing, but a peru- 
sal of Scott will show that it is only in salmon and trout 
angling that he becomes enthusiastic on the subject, and 
that when he treats of salt-water fishing he merely gives 
directions for the capture of the fish. The same may be 
said of Roosevelt, whose sense of humor makes him always 
readable no matter what may be the theme. His other author, 
Ward, I do not know. 

Your next critic, ‘‘Knebel,”’ proves the truth of your 
statements, for he measures his sport entirely by the pounds 
of fish caught. He says: 

“T will give you an account 


of my sport and luck combined 


that I have had lately, hoping others will do the same. Fri- 
day evening, June 20, a party consisting of myself and two 
friends took the last train on the New York, Woodhaven & 
Rockaway Railroad to Broad Channel, Jamaica Bay (you can 
start from Hunter's Point, Bushwick or Mlatbush avenues 4s 
well). Westopped over night; room and bed for $2.50, Got 
up at 3 A. M., took a boat and paid fifty cents for use of same. 
Pint of shrimp cost forty cents. Started at 3:30 A. M,, tide 
running in, and went east to the club house, or a little above 
it, between the club house and a place they call the ‘‘Pot,” 
known to most of our baymen, and dropped anchor, risged 
our rods and commenced to fish about 4:30 A, M. I was the 
first to get the line over, and soon hooked a two-pound weak- 
fish, and a hungry fellow he was, for he had my bottom hook 
away downin his belly. We fished until 6:30 A, M. The tide 
changing, fish stopped biting, and to be sure we stopped fish- 
ing, pus up our tackle, and took a bite ourselves, which we 
had fairly earned after one hour and three-quarters of excit- 
ing sport, for fish at that time in the morning bite fearful and 
almost take the rod and reel out of your hands, We counted 
our fish, in sizes running from one and a quarter to three and 
a quarter pounds, and 139 was the number, all weaktish. 
Now if this don’t come up to your fresh-water fishing, I mean 
when you fish for about five or six hours and ¢atch thirty or 
forty tine trout from five to six inches in length, or about six 
to the pound, and instead of sailing to your hotei in a boat 
you must walk from three to five miles and carry a heavy 
load of trout, then Iam greatly mistaken, We congratulated 
each other, divided our fish, and by 8 o'clock we fastened our 
boat to the float and took the first train for home.” 

_ This probably was sport, but it contains nothing instruc- 
tive except the locality, expense, and the pot. Nothing of 
tackle, no observations on the surroundings except a refer 
ence tothe bird called the quack, and is wholly destitute of the 
inspiration of the angler, It reminds one of the idea of fish- 
ing expressed by John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, who 
wrote of the fishing in Virginia as follows: ‘‘And is it not 
pretty sport to hale up two pence, six pence and twelve 
pence as fast as you can hale and reare a line?” ; 

A trout fisher often has an enjoyable day on the streams 
when his catch is not worth mentioning, and he finds plea- 
sure outside of the weight of his creel. Tt would appear that: 
salt-water anglers, as a rule, have little besides their catch to 
rejoice in, because, as you have hinted, their surroundings 
are not of an inspiring kind. I troll for bluefish and also 
take them with the rod, but the prospeet of a day’s sport 
with them does not produce the pleasures of anticipation that 
an appointment to fish a mountain stream does. Nor does 
the retrospect of a day spent weakfishing linger in the mem- 
ory as does the same time in the woods. 1 think it is fhe 
woods themselves that cause this difference. FonsTINALTs. 


SIZE AND WEIGHT OF BLACK BASS. 
T is a most difficult thing to get a rule that will give an 
approximation of the weight of any fish, taking its longth 
asabase, This is especially true of the black bass, which 
varies so much in depth and thicknsss, 

The largest bass which I ever weighed and measured was 
one from Rice Lake, Canada, of 6 pounds. It was 20 inches 
from nose to end of the caudal fin; 14 inches in virth and 
3} thick, Another fish of the same length and thickness, 
but only 18 inches in girth, weighed 5% pounds. A bass 
taken from Lake Champlain, 163 inches, the other dimen- 
sions not recorded, weighed .3} pounds. Small fish weigh 
less in proportion to their length than larger ones, _From 
sotse Crude memoranda I condense the following table of 
relative lengths and weights of black bass, the lengths being 
from nose to end of tail fin: 


Length. Weight. 

SB) inches.) eas dash em w Ue e ore ‘5 pound. 

LS SE cer Pe cee red ihe 11 ounces, 

Ga. i acted et tare eet epee eee bot 15 ounces. 
TO: en 1 pound 2 ounces. 
10% ** 1 pound 6 ounces, 
11 B 1 pound 8 ounces. 
TOG eats coocat tahitian Deo 1 pound 12 ounces, 
12 a 2 pounds. 
13 2 .2 pounds 4 ounces 
T48 'e .2 pounds 10 ounces, 
144% * .3 pounds 2 ounces, 
15 y 3 pounds 8 ounces. 


There is always a difference in females at the spawning 
season, and this table is not to be considered as infallible. 
Poxn-0-MoonsHrne. 


FISH-EATING PLANTS. 


| ata Baird has just received from Prof. H, N, Moseley, 
of Oxford University, England, a specimen of an aquatic 
plant holding in its fond embrace a considerable number of 
young fish which it has caught and killed, ; 

This plant is the Great Bladderwort, known to botanists 
as Utricularia vulgaris, L, "The species is widely distributed 
over England, and has been introduced into our waters 
where it is often found in abundance in fresh-water ponds 
and ditches and in the shallow coves along some of our river 
banks, It is a large plant, with stems often attaining a 
length of two or three feet. It has no roots, but floats free 
in the water, its root-like branches being covered with 
pinnatified capillary leaves, each bearing one or more small 
transparent hollow bladders, with openings at one end, 
which serve as traps to catch newly hatched fishes, minute 
crustacea, worms, and infusoria. It has no digestive appara- 
tus, but is thought to derive nutriment by absorption, from 
the decomposing animals, 

The bladderwort has long been known to catch the lower 
forms of animal life, but it was only recently that its fish- 
catching propensities were discovered. Mr, G. E. Simms, 
of Oxford, was the first to call public attention to the fact, 
on finding that a specimen which had been placed in his 
aquarium for supplying oxygen to the water was actually 
catching and killing large numbers of newly-hatched perch 
and roach which had hatched from a mass of eggs lying at 
the bottom. ‘The little fish were usua!ly caught by the head, 
but some were caught by the tail, while others were doubly 
trapped, the heud being held fast by one trap and the tail 
grasped by another, the body of the fish forming a connect- 
ing bar between the two. : } 

To learn something of its destructive powers, Mr. Simms 
placed 150 perch fry in a glass vessel containing specimens 
of Utrieuluria, and at thé end of two days all but one or two 
had been trapped, oat J . 

Prof, Baird thinks the discovery has an important bear- 
ing on the future abundance of several of our important 
food-fishes. | 

Twelve to fifteen species of the genus, some of which 
have a wide geographical range, are found within the limits 
of the United States, and millions of fry must be annually 
caught in the little bladder traps. : 

The Utricularia occurs in abundance in carp ponds 
throughout the country, including the U, 8. Fish Commission 


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ponds in Washington, and in some localities has heen in- 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


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troduced at considerable trouble and expense, as it was 
thought to be excellent food for the carp. Prof, Baird will 
cause every vestige of it to be immediately removed from 
the Government ponds, and will warn carp-culturists 
everywhere fo examine their ponds and destroy any that 
may be found there, 

The specimen received from England has been placed on 
exhibition in the Fishery Section of the National Museum, 
where it can be seen by any who are interested in the 
subject. R. Epwarp EARL. 

NATIONAL Musupm, July 10, 


THE SCHOODICS. 


A’ the Schoodies some good fishing for landlocked salmon 
has been enjoyed, though there comes the same com- 
plaint of unfavorable weather. The mystery is as great as 
ever why these lakes afford no large fish, unless the food 
theory is correct, There is no appreciable difference be- 
tween the Grand Lake salmon and those from the Sebago 
waters, except in point of size, and yet fish have been taken 
from the latter waters weighing twenty-five pounds, while 
the salmon from the Schoodics (Grand Lake) seldom go 
above two pounds, and four-pound fish are very rare, The 
explanation of both Messrs. Stillwell and Stanley, Fish Com- 
missioners of Maine, is that the food in the one lake is abun- 
dant and of the right sort, while in the other waters It is a 
quantity unknown or but litle understood, This theory 
would seem to be confirmed, from the fact that large salmon 
are already being fourid in the Androscoggin lakes, although 
they have been but a few years stocked with these fish, A 
salmon was hooked the other day in Mooselucmaguntic 
Lake, which was large enough to break away from a rigging 
which would have been ample to have secured an eight- 
pound ‘‘red spot.” A five-pound salmon has also lately been 
taken from Umbageg Lake, of the same chain. Besides, 
Mr. Stanley mentions seeing one on the spawning beds in 
Rangeley Stream (Androscoggin waters) when taking brook 
trout for propagation, in the fall of 1882, which must have 
weighed ten pounds, The abundance of fresh-water smelts 
in the Sebago and the innumerable chub and dace (Cyprinidae) 
in the Androscoggin waters are doubtless the cause of the 
large size of the “‘black spots” (landlocked salmon) as com- 
pared with the Schoodie fish. SPRHCIAL. 


GREENWOOD. Ponp,—Mounson, Me., July 16.—The num- 
erous visitors to Lake Onaway (Ship Pond), in Elliottsyille 
township, will be pleased to learn that E. H. Gerrish, the 
wellknown guide, will open his camps at that beautiful re- 
sort about Aug, 1, and will remain there about two months. 
Ispent four days a short time ago, camping and fishing at 
Greenwood Pond, one mile from Onaway, which is the 
water crossed by the trayeler in his route to the latter place. 
Lake and spotted trout from two" pounds to four pounds in 
weight were quite plenty. Many lake trout are taken in 
this pond which weigh six, eight and ten, and sometimes 
twelve pounds. The scenery is good, and although there 
are no Jand-locked salmon here as in Onaway, I helieve the 
other fish are much more abundant, and I advise those who 
intend to visit Onaway the present season to tarry for a while 
at Greenwood, where they will undoubtedly find satisfactory 
sport, The spotted trout, will rise to a fly, and the angler 
who retains the habit of the fathers by fishing with “‘live 
bait” snd worms cannot fail of haying a ‘‘good time.” The 
laws against poaching and the special laws against winter 
fishing on several ponds are well enforced, and their good 
results are already upparent to all observers.—J. F. 8. 


Croron Laxn,—New York City, July 19.—Hditor Forest 
and Stream: Oroton Lake, in Westchester county, is a splen- 
did place forihe New York business man to spend afew 
days fishing for bass. Every sammer I make it a point to 
spend several days on this lake. The lake is filled with bass, 
white and yellow perch; the largest bass I ever saw taken 
there was last August; if weighed exactly 5 pounds 5 ounces, 
there are a great many taken weighing over 3 pounds, 
but the usual size is three-quarters toa pound, In one day’s 
fishing my companion and myself took 279 bass, weighing 
147 pounds, I have also, with two companions, taken a bushel 
basket full of perch in one day’s fishing. The bass do not 
take a fly well and will not often bite at the spoon. I have 
always found the grasshopper and especially the cricket the 
most effective in killing. I write that you may let your 
readers know that they can have some tair sport fishing 
within an hour’s ride by rail from New York'city. Take the 
New York City & Northern Railroad and get out at South 
Croton, As for accommadations, they are fair, as there is a 
gvod hotel on the lake.—H. L, L. 


No MAscALoNnes IN SARATOGA Lake.—Your correspond- 
ent from Saratoga asks if any mascalonge have ever 
been captured in Saratoga Lake, I would say, having shot 
and fished in and. around that lake for over 15 pears, and 
being peronally acquainted with all the fishermen of local 
celebrity, such as old Pete Francis, Jim Black, the Averys, 
Rileys, old Unele Bill Valentine, Harvey Cook, Dutch Henry, 
that was drowned in its waters, and a host of others, and 
spent many days fishing in their company, [ never saw in 
all that time a true mascalonge (Hsow nobilzor) taken from its 
waters. I have seen the great northern pickerel (sow laeivs) 
shot in the spring weighing as high as thirty-three pounds. 
Have seen them caught by fair angling on hook and line to 
weigh from seven pounds to fifteen pounds. In conclusion 
would say I think if any mascalonge had been taken, as I 
know the fish well, I should have known it, but the vulgar 
error or localism there is to call ali those big northern 
pickerel mascalonge.—W AsHINGTON A, CosTER. 


New Broyswick Saumon,—Several Boston sportsmen 
have within a year or more become interested in leases of 
salmon waters in New Brunswick, on the Restigouche and 
other favored localities, Some of them have just returned 
from a fishing trip, and they are much pleased with the local- 
ity and the waters, but they report the fishing as haying been 
very poor up to within a week or more, when some good 
sport was had, but no very large fish, The weather has been 
unfavorable and the salmon have failed to rise till of late. 
Good weather promises better things of the waters where the 
lamented Dawson’ so charmingly depicts the struggles of 
Chester A, Arthur with his salmon rod landing twenty and 
even thirty-pound fish. The rod was not burdensome, but 
the face of the President—that was to he—was disfigured by 
amalignant carbuncle, the burnings of which none but a 

_ true sportsman with a lion heart could have ‘‘endured with- 
out a groan,” and—kept on fishing.—Spxcran, 


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Broruer Strrves.—A man who calls himself ‘‘Brother 
Page Stites,” at’ Schellinger’s Landing, near Cape May, has 
issued a card that reads thus; 

“Tf you have been wishing 
For to go a fishing 
Tale the ears for Sewell’s Point, 
Where you will find in waiting 
Hook and lines and baiting, 
And ask for Brother Page Stites 
Who will take you where you 
Can yank ‘em,”’ 


SHEBPSHEAD oN Lone IsuAnp.—West Hampton, L. I. 
I, July 15,—Four sheepshead were caught in Shinnecock 
inlet, with a seine, about four weeks ago, In the same haul 
were caught nineteen striped bass, and 125 blucfish. Bay 
snipe haye not made their appearance here yet to any extent. 
—BayY SNIPE. 


One THousanp Bass.—Philadelphia, July 21.—The Pres- 
byterian Fishing Club caught 1,000 sea bass last Wednesday 
on the Fishing Banks off Cape May, N. J. Dr. Moffatt, one 
of the leading spirits of the organization, says it was the best 
fishing he ever had,—Homo. 


Hisheulture. 


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NATURAL CAUSES INFLUENCING THE MOVE- 
MENTS OF FISH IN RIVERS. 


[A paper read before the American Fishcultural Association. | 
BY MARSHALL M’DONALD. 


F we will consider for a moment the varieties of conditions 

that concur in and modify agricultural production we will 

be better prepared to appreciate the multiple influences that 

enter into the question of maintaining and increasing the pro- 
duction of our fisheries. 

The farmer of to-day has as 4 guide in the conduct of the 
practical operations of agriculture, the collective experience 
of all who have preceded him. The observations of many 

enerations condensed in proverb and apothegm, and handed 

own from father to son, gives to the unlettered peasant the 
interpretation of natural signs, the forecast of seasons and the 
empirical rules by which he tills and sows and garners the un- 
equal harvests, which the unequal seasons bring. 

Less than a century ago, chemistry allying herself with agri- 
culture, laid the foundation of rational methods and since then 
chemists and botanists, physicists and physiologists, have been 
busy with their investigations, each contributing in some es- 
sential particular to the solution of the important probiem of 
increasing and maintaining the fertility of the soil. 

In those countries, like England for example, where the re- 
sults of scientific investigations haye been formulated into 
rules of practice, the average production of cereals per! acre, 
now exceeds two-foid, and often three-fold, the average pro- 
duction per acre two hundred years ago. 3 

This result has been accomplished in the face of an intensive 
system of cropping which long ago would haye rendered the 
fertile fields of England unproductive moorlands, or barren 
wastes, but for the lessons taught by chemists in its applica- 
tions to agriculture, and appropriated and applied in practice. 

Just in proportion as man has learned to dominate the con- 
ditions which influence agricultural praduction, he has been 
enabled to raise the average yield per acre; but, unequalities 
of production from. year tu year, resulting trom the influence 
of natural conditions beyond his control, still persist. 

Confronted with those adverse infiuences, all the toil of the 
husbandiman, all his stores of experience, all the resources of 
science, are powerless to avert scanty harvests, or absolute 
failure of crops. 

What is true ot agriculture is equally true of aquiculture, 
and more particularly of pisciculture in rivers. d 

The restoration and maintenance of our river fisheries de- 

nds upon our ability to promote conditions favorable to pro- 

uction and exclude those which are adverse, 

First—The seed of the future harvest must be sown. Where, 
in consequence of the interference of man by excessive fishing, 
or by the destruction of spawning grounds, natural agencies 
are inadequate to produce the young fish in numbers sufficient 
to repair the inroads made by capture or by natural casual- 
ties, we must supply the deficiency by artificial propagation. 

But the breeding and planting of shad or herring by the 
million or tens of millions, in an area like the Potomac or the 
James or the Susquehannah rivers, cannot carry the annual 
product of the fisheries in these rivers beyond a certain maxi- 
mum limit, which is defined first, by the extent of the breed- 
ing and feeding area acceptable to the fish, and second by the 
abundance of food for the fry which is to be found in this 
area. ; 

Second—The extension of the breeding and feeding areas to 
their natural limits, by providing practicable passes for our 
anadromous fishes over the artificial or natural obstructions 
which have contracted these areas, is a second essential condi- 
tion to be fulifilled, and is one of equal or even greater impor- 
tance than the artificial propagation and planting of the fry, 
because it is possible by this means to secure the permanent 
restoration of our river fisheries under natural conditions, 

A third condition, exercising an important influence upon the 
permanence of our river fisheries, has only recently attracted 
apis p ie and offers an inviting and important field of investi- 
gation. 

We may plant the young of shad or herring in our rivers in 
countless millions, we may extend the breeding and feeding 
areas to their natural limits, butif the agency of man has so 
modified the natural conditions that the proper food of the 
young fish during their river life is no longer found, or occurs 
in much less than the necessary abundance, then the effort 
to increase supply by artificial propagation and planting will 
prove a dismal failure. 

How far the pollution of our rivers by sewerage, gas tar’, 
refuse chemical products, etc., has changed the original con- 
ditions of our rivers, is a matter inviting exhaustive and ecrit- 
ical investigation. 

Fourth—A rational code of laws, relating to the fisheries, 
may exert an important conservative influence, by imposing 
such restrictions upon the time and methods of capture, as 
will pete some considerable portion of the shad and herring 
which enter our rivers to reach their spawning grounds an 
Gepeerh their eggs without molestation. 

y the observance and enforcement of the conditions above 
indicated, we may reasonably expect to greatly increase the 
avetaEe annual production of our river fisheries, but we can 
never hope to eliminate great unequalities in the product of 
the fisheries in different seasons. 

Natural conditions, apparently beyond the control of man, 
will determine disastrous and discouraging failures one season 
and the next a teeming abundance in the same river. 

The influence of water temperatures, in determining the 
presence or absence of ‘certain species of fish in certain areas 
of water, has been abseryed both in regard to the ocean and 
the river species which are the object of commercial fisheries, 
Observation of water temperature and its relatious to the 
migrations of fish have not been continued long enough to jus- 
tify us in formulating conclusions, but the drift of investiga- 


tion and observations goes to show that there is for each. 


pecies a normal temperature in which it prefers to be, and 


that its migrations are determined by the shifting of these 
areas of congenial temperature under the influence of the 
seasons. 

Observations, now continued for several years, have led ta 
the conclusion that, in the case of the shad, the normal tem- 

erature, toward which if isever moving, is about 60 degrees 
abr. The data upon which this conclusion is based are as 
follows; 

First—The shad make their appearance in the St, Johns 
River, Florida, as soon as the temperature of the river falls to 
60 degrees, or thereabouts, which takes place from the middle 
of Noyember to the Ist of December. At this time the river 
is colder than the ocean plateau outside, and the movement or 
migration is from warmer to cooler areas in the direction of 
the normal temperature of 60 degrees, : 

Second—The shad which are spawned in the Potomac in 
April, May and June remain in theriverall summer, Schools 
of them may be frequently seen in the river in front of Wash- 
ington. They continue abundant until the latter part of Octo- 
ber or Ist of November. When the temperature falls below 
60 degrees, they begin to drop down the river in their migra- 
tions seaward. In this case they are moving from cooler to 
warmer waters and toward the normal temperature of 60 de- 
erees. , 

Third—The beginning of the spring run of shad into the 
Potomac River is about coincident with the date when the 
river temperature rises above that of Chesapeake Bay. In 
this case, too, the shad are moving from cooler to warmer 
waters, and inthedirection of the normal temperature of 60 
degrees, for the temperature of both bay and river is at the 
beginning of the season always helow 40 degrees. 

It will be seen, therefore, that wherever we have been able 
to intercept the shad in its migrations and place it under ob- 
servation, 1 is always moving in the direction of the normal 
temperature of 60 degrees. 

Assuming it to be true asa general fact that the shad in 
their ordinary migrations are ever traveling on temperature 
paths which lead to the normal temperature of 60 degrees, it 
becomes possible to determine the law, the rate, and the limit 
of their movements in a certain area, by tracing the shifting 
of the areas of congenial temperature under the influence of 
the seasons. 

The data for the discussion are furnished by the records of 
observations of water temperatures, made at the lighthouses 
by the direction of the Lighthouse Board, and at Washington 
by an employe of the U. 5, Fish Commission. 

The three stations: selected for comparison of ocean, bay 
and river temperature are (1) Winter Quarter Shoals for the 
ocean plateau, (2) Wolf-trap Light for Chesapeake Bay, and 
(@) Washington, D, C., for the Potomac River. 

The station at Winter Quarter Shoals isup the coast about 
fortiy miles north of Cape Charles, and is about eight miles 
from shore, It is close to the edge of that cold Arctic current 
which wedges itself down between the Gulf Stream and the 
shore, and, bringing with it the temperature of Arctic lati- 
tudes, builds a wall of minimum temperature beyond which 
the shad probably never pass in their migrations. 

The only records of bay temperature available for the season 
ot 1881 were the signal service observations in Norfolk Harbor. 
These records, which give the temperature of Hlizabeth River 
rather than the bay, indicate more rapid fluctuations than is 
possible inthe general temperature of the bay, and give a 
cauy. range of temperature several degrees higher than that of 
the bay. 

This correction I have approximately applied in ‘the discus- 
sion of the temperature observations of 1881, in order to bring 
them into harmony with the observations of bay temperature 
oon 1882 and 1885, which were made by observers at W olf-trap 

ight. 

This locality is on the west shore of the bay, half way be- 
tween the Rappahannock and York rivers, and being sell off 
from the shore, little influenced by local variations, the tem- 
peratures taken here may therefore be taken to represent the 
geeral temperature of the bay waters for corresponding 

ates. 

The result of the study of the dita above indicated are 
graphically presented in three outline maps of the Chesapeake 
and Delaware basins, illustrating the movements of the areas 
of congenial temperatures under the influence of the seasons, 
and in the chart showing the relations between the tempera- 
tures of the Potomic River during the fishing seasons of 1881, 
1882 and 1853, and the fluctuations in the shad fisheries of the 
river for the same period. 

(The rest of Col, McDonald’s remarks were oral and with 
reterence to the maps and charts exhibited.) 

The conclusions deducted by him from the discussion of the 
data presented were as follows: ; 

The temperature records for 1881, ’82 and 7835 indicate that 
forthe winter months the area of maximum temperature is 
not in the rivers or in the bay, but on that ocean plateau out- 
side. extending from the capes of the Chesapeake to the Dela- 
ware breakwater, The presumption, therefore, is that the 
schools of shad belonging both to the Chesapeake and the 
Delaware, have their common winter quarters on this plateau. 
When under the influence of the advancing seasons the waters 
of the Chesapeake and the Delaware Bays become warmer 
than on this plateau, the migrations into continental waters 
begin. The proportion of the entire run that will be directed 
to the Delaware or the Chesapeake, will be determined at this 
time. If the northern end of the area warms up more rapidly 
than the southern, then an unusual proportion of the shad 
will be thrown into the Delaware. On the other hand, cold 
waters coming down the Delaware, may effect a contrary 
movement, and throw the schools of shad almost entirely into 
the Chesapeake; thus leading to a partial or total failure of 
the shad fisheries of the Delaware for the season. 

When the schools of shad have entered the Chesapeake, their 
distribution to the rivers will be determined in the same way 
by temperature influences operating, Ifthe season is back- 
ward, so as to keep down the temperature of the larger rivers 
which head back in the mountains, then the run of shad will 
be mainly into the shorter tributaries of the bay, which have 
their rise in the tide-water belt, and which, of course, are 
Warmer at this season than the main rivers. 

Again, warm rains at the beginning of the fishing season in 
our large rivers and the absence of snow in the mountains will 
determine the main movement of the shad into the larger 
rivers of the basin; and if, when the schools enter the estuaries 
of these rivers, they encounter a temperature considerably 
higher than that in the bay itself, the movement up the river 
will be tumultous; the schools of shad and herring all enter- 
ing and ascending all at once, producing a glut in the fisheries 
such as we sometimes have recorded. 

Tt follows, therefore, in the light of these facts, that we may 
have a successiul fishing on the Delaware accompanied by a 
total or partial failure in the Chesapeake area, and vice versa; 
and considering the Chesapeake area alone, we may have a 
very successful fishery in the aggregate, yet accompanied by 
partial or total failure in particular streams under the in- 
fluence of temperature conditions, as aboveindicated. Statistics 
of the shad fishery, if they are to furnish a measure of increase 
or decrease, must include the aggregate catch of the Chesa- 
peake and Delaware River, and indeed of the rivers much 
further to the north. Statistics based upon a comparison of 
the catch in the same river in ditferent seasons, are of no yalue 
as serving to give a measure of the results of artificial propa- 
gation. 


A WATER SNAKE KILLED BY A CARP.—(Hrom a 
letter to Prof. 8. F. Baird, by Milton P. Peirce).—Philadelphia, 
Pa., May 14.—The following very singular incident has just 
been related to me by the owner of some carp ponds in 
Southern New Jersey, and it oceurs to me to forward it, A 
gentleman was sitting upon the bank of the pond with a gun, 


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[Suny 24, 1884, 


watching for snakes. Suddenly there was great commotion 
inthe water near by, which he soon discovered was caused by 
alarge ca The water being quite clear and shallow he 
could see what appeared to be a large water snake hanging to 
the anal fin, The fish moved with great rapidity in various 
directions as if endeavoring to free itself from thesnake. After 
awhile its moyements became spasmodic, for a time rapid 
and then slow. Finally the fish passed slowly near the water's 
edge and close to the gentleman, who discovered that instead 
of the snake haying hold of the fin that it was itself clasped 
under the fin some three inches back of its head and was ap- 
parently nearly lifeless, though a short time before there was 
a lively writhing action of the tail, The gentleman now went 
to dinner but returned as soon as practicable to further observe 
if possible the strange aquatic episode. All was quiet, but he 
soon found a dead snake at the water's edge, with distinctly 
perceptible lacerations about three inches back of its head. 
Who will say that the carp is not a “‘game fish?” The serrated 
precess or ‘strong ray,” seems to have its uses besides that of 


tangling a net. 
Che Kennel. 


FIXTURES. 


BENCH SHOWS. 


Bayt i to 6.— Bench Show of the Lancaster County Fair, Lancaster, 
a, 

ae 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Montreal Ken- 
nel Club. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. John I’. Campbell, Secre- 
tary, P. O. Drawer 1,955, Montreal. Canada. 

Sept. 16,17 and 18.—Collie Bench Show and Field Trials of the 
Ontario Collie Club, Toronto, Ont, Entries close Aug, 23. Mr. H. J, 
Hill, Secretary, Toronto. 

Sept. 16, 17, 18 and 19.—Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel 
Club. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. Mr, Benj. C. Satterthwaite, 
Secretary. 

Oct. 5, 9,10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agricultural Society, Danbury, Conn, E, S. Davis, Superintendent, 
Danbury, Conn. , 

Oct. 21, 22, 23 and 24.—First Annual Wall Bench Show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Chas. 
Lincoln, Supermtendent, 

FIELD TRIALS. 


Dec. 8 —Sixth Annual Trials of the National American Kennel Club 
at Canton, Miss. D. Bryson, Seeretary, Memphis, Tenn. 


A; K. RR. 
A hes AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTHR, for the registration o¢ 
pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 
lished every month. Entries close on the ist. Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope.. 


Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted unless paid in advance, Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,” P. O, Box 2882, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 140'%7. VolumeL, bound in cloth, sent 
postpaid, $1.5¢. 


POINTERS AT NEW YORK. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr. Wanmaker’s reckless letter in your last number is not 
likely to benefit him or weaken my position. I canassure Mr. 
Wanmaker that [excuse the tone which pervades his com- 
munication, but in the future I would advise him to think (if 
he ever does think) before he sends such an illogical and un- 
trustworthy production toa public paper. Thunder was not 
introduced into this discussion by me, he was resuscitated by 
Mr. Tracy. Leven apologized for having to trespass on your 
space to reply. The discussion was of the relative merits of 
certain pointers, not of Thunder or lightning, neither of which, 
or both combined, can affect the issue. ~CHas. H. Mason. — 


Editor Forest and Stream: 
The pointer breeders who own descendants of old Lily, wait 
to hear from Mr. J. W. Munson. T, B. Dorsny. 
Ex.icorr Crry, Md., July 21. 


COLLIE SHOW AND FIELD TRIALS, 


HE Ontario Collie Club will hold a bench show and tield 
trials of collies at Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 16, 17 and 18, 
in connection with the industrial fair. Wehave no doubt 
that the affair will be successful, Following is the bench show 
premium list; Champion, rough-coated. dogs $10; bitches the: 
same; open, dogs $15, $10 and $5; bitches the same; puppies ! 
$5, Champion, smooth and medium coated, dogs $10; bitches 
the same; open, same as rough-coated. Animals to compete 
in the champion classes must have won first at the Toronto, 
Ottawa, London, New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chi- 
eago or Cleyeland shows. The field trials will take place be- 
tween the hours of 5 and 4 o’clock each day. The dogs will 
be required to take their sheep. between two posts and back to 
a pen, cr such trial as the judges may decide on. The prizes 
offered are as follows: Dogs, $25, 415 and $8; bitches the same. 
We hope that all of our prominent breeders will send repre- 
sentatives from their kennels to compete in both events. En- 
tries close Aug. 23. Blanks may be obtained by addressing 
Mr, H. J. Hill, secretary, Toronto, Ontario, or at office of 
FOREST AND STREAM, 


THE LAVERACK SETTERS. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Iam mystified by ‘‘Homo’s” article on the Laverack setter 
in your last issue. JI quote and comment on some of the more 
emphatic passages: 

‘lf would seem that Mr, Laverack, jealous of the high 
standard he had attained in breeding his dogs and anxious 
that his setters should still hold the position they had gained 
under his management, overstepped the limit and continued 
his inbreeding to such an extent that where he improved their 
wonderful scenting power and more firmly stamped their 
natural tendency to find and point game, he multiplied that 
neryousness to which all inbred animals are prone, until shy- 
ness of the gun'has become such a part of the nature of the 
breed that it is an exception to the rule when the sony in 
this particular does hot show itself.” * * * “So marked 
has this peculiarity shown itself to me that I detect 1b most 
frequently (far too often) in the field trial or Llewellin breed 
of setters, or where there is a preponderance of Layerack. 
blood in them, and they show the typical points of the older 
breed, While the Laverack setter is apparently courage- 
ous when allowed his own way in pursuit of game and 
self-willed in his method, he will bear no correction. 
Tt becomes then a most difficult task even with the cord to 
train him to obedience, or by taking advantage of his aifec- 
tions to guide him as he should go. Im all the setters of this 
breed that I have ownea or ever saw there seems to be a want 
of Enowledge on their part that their powers should be coupled 
pau those of their masterin order to render themselves use- 

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Further on in his article he says; ‘In the stud they are 
priceless, in the field useless,” and winds up by saying. ‘We 
must use the Laverack setter to improve our nativestock, and 
for this purpose they will be most useful.” 

From the foregoing, if ‘‘Homo” is correctia his premises, the 
Layerack is the embodiment of all that is worthless in a field 
dog, an unmitigated brute, stupid, nervous, gameand gunshy, 
earning the whip at every turn, yeb too cowardly to bear 
chastisement, a cowering, skulking wretch. And yet this dog 
is eagles in the stud, though useless in the field, 

Like will beget like, this isa well established law in breed- 


ing and every stock breeder of experience admits the sound- 
ness of that other law in breeding, viz.- that inbred sires are 
prepotent in transmitting their moral and physical character- 
istics to their progeny, overwhelming, so to speak, the weaker 
individuality of the dam. Therefore the inbred Laverack sire 
is either a dangerous or useless factor in setter breeding. If 
the law of nore is carried out his produce will resemble 
him in morale and like him be useless in the field; if on the 
other hand they take after the dam, and notwithstanding 
their Laverack sire they prove good field dogs, then he is 
shown to he a complete nonentity, subject to no known law, 
an incestuous abortion, Rusticus, 


CRYSTAL PALACE BENCH SHOW. 
[From our Regular Correspondent, } 


Rie the grounds of the Crystal Palace the Kennel Club 
held their twenty-third exhibition of sporting and non- 
sporting dogs, on July 1, 2,5 and 4. The total number of en- 
tries as per catalogue was 1,286, which, of course, included 
douole entries, nearly 200 in number, The benching, as usual, 
was done by Spratt’s Patent, and the tents were also supplied 
by the same firm. During the show the weather was warmer 
than any we have had previously this season. The attendance 
was only moderate, but, taken altogether, the show was a 
very good one and the quality good throughout, 


BLOODHOUNDS, 


There was a small collection of nine entries in the three 
bloodhound classes, the well-:mown Nestor winning first in 
champion, having no competitor, In the open dog class, first 
again went to Triumph, who was followed by Mr, Tinker’s 
Duncan, who is well on his feet and legs and a good color. but 
lacks the grand head qualities of Triumph, the winner. Only 
three bitches were shown, Mr. Nichols winning first and sec- 
ond with Pattie and Phryne, both good ones. 


MASTIFIS, 


Champion Cardinal got only yhe. He was not locking as 
well as when he was at Warwick, First and the 40-guinea, 
challenge prize went to Crown Prince, looking well. Rosa- 
lind, belonging to the same kennel, winning first in champion 
bitches, The open dog class was. a good collection, Maximil- 
ian, late Hampton, who made his first appearance last Novem- 
ber at Edinburgh, made his appearance here greatly im- 
proved on his old form, and won first and the 5-guinea prize 
for the best mastiff in the open classes, and also secured a 5- 
guinea cup for Mr. Woolmore as the breeder of the best mastiff 
under two years old. Moses, second prize, is much improved 
since Warwick. Rudolph, third, is good in body but his ears 
are not correctly carried and his eye is against him; in fact, 
we preferred the yhe. Bismark, and think he ought to have 
been further up in the prize list. Dictator, fourth, has good 
head, feet and legs. é will never be a large one and is very 
coarse in coat and in color, but is only ten months old at pres- 
ent, and of course may improve, he won first in puppies. There 
was a very strong class of bitches, the bestseen for years. 
First went to Hlaine. She is small but of good type. and well 
shown; she also won special for the best bitchin the show, 
Vixen, vhe.,is larger in ear than the winner, and is not so 
good incolor, She is also slacker behind the shoulder and not 
so well made up or furnished. Lady Hlla, second, is a good 
bitch, larger and not exactly of the same typeas the winner. 
Lorna Doone, the same type as the winner, but not in asgood 
condition, won third, and was claimed at the catalogue price. 
Princess Ida, vhe., is leggy, light of bone, long of face, and 
narrow skull. There were only six entries in the two classes 
for brindles, and with the exception of the first prize bitch 
Lily Il., we saw nothing fit to compete against the fawns. In 
mastiff puppies (dogs), first went to Dictator, fourth in the 
open dog class. Second to The Doctor. only a moderate speci- 
men, In bitch puppies, Princess Rita, iirst, issmall but of 
good type. Second wert to Princess Ida, shown in the open 
elass. 

ST. BERNARDS. 


The champion class had five entries, but the competition 
really lay between Bayard and Save, the former being better 
in muzzle and having dew claws, won, but as Saye is so much 
his superior in every other pot we would haye had no hesi- 
tation in giving him first. In champion bitches, first went to 
Cloister, who was looking remarkably well and won quite 
easily. In the open class for dogs (rough-coated) Silver King, 
vhe., is very large, but a cripple behind. Leonard, in most 
perfect condition, won somewhat easy; he also won the chal- 
lenge prize, beating Bayard, and the decision seemed to give 
general satisfaction. Gaylord, vhe., is a good type of dog, 
with good color and markings, but out of form, and we don’t 
fancy his coat, Correze, fourth prize, has a good head and 
good color, but issmall and short of bone. Plinlimmon, sec- 
ond prize, is a remarkably large dog of his age, which was one 
day too old for a puppy; he has greatly improved since we 
saw him at Warwick; he is still too long in face and large of 
ear, nevertheless he is so good in size, feet, legs, coat and color 
that we consider him a dog likely to be hard to beat should 
nothing happen to him. Valentine, third, was about the 
most typical dog in the class. He was not in full coat. In 
bitches (rough-coated) Briseis, the fourth prize, had bad ears 
and bad coat, and stands too high on her legs. Khiva, vhe., 
isa good stamp and well known, She shows age. Seiva, 
second, is a good bitch all through and deserved her position. 
Crevasse II., first and cup, never looked better. In smooth 
dogs Mr. Murchison won first and second with Sirius and 
Dignity, correctly placed. The former has improved since we 
last saw him, while the latter has alteredin no way. In smooth 
bitches Her Majesty, well-known, won well. Bon Bon, second, 
is another good bitch of good color (brindle) and markings. 
In puppies, dogs, (rough) Beaulieu, first, isa good puppy with 
no dew claws. Leicester Lion, second, is a good young 
one, but is too long in face. In the corresponding class for 
bitch puppies, Thisbe, hc, in open class, won, closely pressed 
by the second prize winner. In the class for smooth-coated 
puppies, first went to Brennus, a very nice young dog and 
cheap of his price, £20. 
Leonard, his dam won second in smooth bitches. 


NEWFOUNDLANDS. 


Nelson I. won again in the champion class, heis well-known. 
Trafalgar had an easy win in the class other than black. In 
the open dog class Bruce II. was first and no doubt deserved 
the position, but we fancied the c., King Bruce, equally as 
much as any of the others. 


GREAT DANES OK BOARHOUNDS 


were one of the best if not the best class in the show. It is 
really surprising to note the improvement that this breed has 
undergone within this last few years. Mr, Onderwater, of 
Holland, exhibited several very good animals, among which 
were a pair of whiteones, They were fairly good animals, but 
quite out-classed by the quality against them. Champion 
Sultan IT, had the champion class to himself, but was afterward 
beaten by Cedric the Saxon for the challenge prize, and as 
grand a dog as Sultan Il. is he was correctly beaten, if the 
unanimous voice of exhibitors goes for anything, Nero, the 
winner at Warwick, came second in the open dog class. Mr. 
Onderwater'’s Victor, a grand brindle with the best of feet and 
legs, lots of muscle and the best of movers, showing great 
uality for the amount of substance he possesses, came third, 
Bitches were equally as good as the dogs and any of the 
noticed ones are fit to show and win. The winners will require 
a lot of beating and we have no doubt but there will be some 
hundreds bred befors they will have their colors lowered. 
DBERHOUNDS. 
Lord of the Isles won in the champion class. He seemed 
scarcely as full of go as we have seen him,. Chieftain was ab- 
sent on this occasion. Gunter, first In open dogs, has good 


He was claimed by the owner of |) 


bone, He stands a trifle low on leg. Sir Max,second, does 
not move so well. The well-known Minna won in bitches, 
She was looking well. Mr. Taunton, as usual, made a wonder- 
ful display in the foreign classes, all of which, with the excep- 
tion or Sir John Franklin in the champion class, were entered 
not for competition. 

GREYHOUNDS. 


The dogs had only three entries, first and second oing to the 
well-known Memnon and Whiskedale IT. Bonn eee from 
the same kennel, looking well, won in bitches, followed by a- 
good lemon and white bitch, which would be improyed hy a 
little more condition, : 

HARRIERS, 

There was only one pair entered. 

BEAGLES. 


There were eight entries, two of them being absent. Sparts- 
man II., unnoticed, is small, thick and cobby, Honesty IL, 
pedigree unknown, vhe, and reserve, is a fair specimen, 
Myrtle, first, is good. She was closely pressed by Freeland 
Countess, the second prize. 

POINTERS, 


Graphic, looking well, won with no competition in the cham- 

ion class. The bitch class had four entries, Beryl absent, 

aphne was rather heavy in flesh. Belle of Bow, in good 
form, won, Young Dick, first in open class over 55 pounds, is 
a good dog, but rather coarse. Belhus Hector, equal second 
with Grandee, is not quite good in head, while Grandee shows 
ereat quality, but falls off in his loins. Devon IIT., second 
prize, is coarse and throaty. Harlof Croxteth should have 
been mentioned, Mr. Norrish won well in large-sized bitches 
with Revel Ifl., second going to Nan, too long and tine in face 
with too light aneye. We think Peach, third, should haye 
occupied that position. In dogs under 55 pounds Naso of 
Kipping won; he is rather light in eye; he was closely pressed 
by Donald Ill. Third, Sir Garnet, is rather light of bone in 
hocks, In bitches under 40 pounds Mr. Norrish was again to 
the front with Beau Ideal, the York winner, Zasme, second 
prize, is light in bone. Jetsam, third, is a fair good black 
bitch, with litter sister Flotsam unnoticed, but worth a card. 
There was nothing really first-class in puppies, 

ENGLISH SETTERS. 


Sting, reported upon at Warwick and York, had little ditti- 
culty in disposing of Sir Alister, who is decidedly coarse in 
head and too heayy in ears, a fault which is yery noticeable 
in his stock. Im open dogs Prince Fred, first, isa liver and 
white with fair head, but too long in body and slack behind 
shoulder. Heis a bad mover and too short of coat on body. 
Sir Kent, second, is of better type. He isa trifle high on leg, 
Sit Colin, third, israther coarse in head and heavy in ears, 
Lord Westmoreland, unnoticed, was shown too heavy in flesh. 
Heis plain in head, otherwise we consider him and Glencairn, 
he., the two best in the class, In the bitch class first went to 
Plimsey, the York winner, shown in the best of condition, 
Rose, second, is anything but ashow bitch. In puppies we 
preferred the second prize winner to the first, and only for the 
low condition of the vhe. Blue Peter 0. we think him about 
the best in the class. 

BLACK AND TAN SETTERS 


were well represented but the quality was only moderate; we 
can see no improvement in this variety. 
IRISH SETTERS. 

Garryowen, looking well, won in champion class, with noth- 
ing against him, Geraldine winning in the corresponding bitch 
class. In open dogs, first went to Tyrone, a good, strong dog 
lacking the quality of the true red setter. The second an 
third prize dogs were nothing above the average, The bitches 
were better in quality. Frya, third, is of good type but short 
in coat. Ruby VIL, vhc., was out of form, as also was Nellie 
Ill, First wentto the well-known Lady Palmerston. She 
wasin good condition. The winning puppy was a promising: 
young one but quite too young to show. 

COLLINS 
were good classes and we never remember hearing so much 
satisfaction expressed by exhibitors; every person seemed to 
think the asyards were correct and satisfactory. Charlemagne 
won quite easily in champions from Helipse, Peggie Il. win- 
ning in bitches with nothing against her. In the open 
dog class the black and white Sly Fox won. Heisa good 
dog, but would be improved with more frill and a better 
texture of coat. Kintore, the York winner, sadly out of 
form since then, coming second, and another of the blueish 
gray color third; this dog is particularly good in face, frill, 
coat and ears, which are properly carried, but we don’t 
like his quarters or carriage of tail. The Squire, yhe., is leggy 
and out of coat, Charlatan, fifth, is fine of bone. General 
McPherson, fourth, wants more coat and better texture. 
Collie bitches introduced us to Lady of the Lake, 
one of the best young ones we haye ever seen. 
She was an easy winner and won the special for the hest 
bitch in the open class and first prize in bitch puppies; 
second, Mistress Beatrix, the winner at York, was an easy 
second; third, Young Meg, is short of under coat and carries her 
tail rather hi h, otherwise she is a good collie. Lady Lorne, 
fourth prize, is black, tan and white, fine in coat, but smadl in 
face and a trifle coarse in shoulders; fifth prize, Plaidie, is a 
black and white, short of coat. The Lily, vhe., is light in 
bone and short of coat. In champion smooth, Sattie was in 
bad form and Lady had an easy win; Clyde won well in 
smooth dogs. Gazelle, who won second, has ears @ la fox 
terrier. Nullamore, second in dog puppies, is a good specimen, 
sable tan in color. General McPherson, third, was fourth in 
the open class. Kintore, first, was second in the open class, 
Bitch puppies, except the winner, were moderate, The collie 
derby was,won by Lady of the Lake, second going to Kintore. 


BASSET HOUNDS. 


There were four classes with a total entry of thirteen, six of 
which were Mr, Krehl’s and three Mr. Blain’s. The winners 
were all good ones and well known, 

DALMATIANS 


had five entries; only two put in an appearance—Treasure and 
Nelson, both well known. ; 
POMERANIANS, 

First went ta the black dog Scoff, well known, who was 
looking better than usual, Second went to the equally well- 
Enown white Charlie. 

POODLES 
were a really good class. Lyris, who won first in the open 
class, is a clinking good black, as also was Boy, the second 
prize winner, The well-known Fairy Queen, with her long, 
white cords, much longer than herself, won third. The class 
was a remarkably good one. 

BULLDOGS, 

In the champion large class, Taurus won; in champion class 
for dogs under 60 pounds and bitches under 50 pounds, Mon- 
arch and Britomartis were not to be denied. In the open 
class for large-size dogs and bitches, Big Ben won well. 
In dogs under 60 pounds, the York Winner once more 
came to the front. He is own brother to Britomartis, 
and resembles her very much. In fact we consider 
him about the best in head of any bulldog we know, 
He has immense chop and good expression, Bessie, vhe,, 1s 
too leggy. Castor, also vhc., is too bullet-headed. Cossack, 
second, has drop.ears which are rather large, and we certainly 
think the third prize, Black Prince, ought to have been second, 
although he might be shorterin barrel, In bull bitches not 
exceeding 50 pounds Acme, first, isa yery good one, Ariel, 
second, who is in whelp, is alsoa good one, die smut in 
color. Third, Scissors, is too light in bone. tm small-sized 
dogs first went to Royal George; he has a brindle head and 


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hite body; he is too leggy; we preferred Bacchus IL, who 
won second, 4 white dog with marked ears, Sedan, third, is 
egey and light of bane. Imsmall bitches Jonny Howlett IT,, 
first, wou well, with the second and third correctly placed. 
Ridotto, vhe., is a nies little bitch; she might be better shown ; 
She is a trifle jong inear, There was nothing specialin puppies, 
TRISH WATER SPANIELE, 
in dogs first went to Blair, winner at the last Dublin show. 
6 was Correctly plated, bit was not in the best of trim. 
ckey Pret was sevond, Barney O'Toole is rather ¢oarse if 
ead and defitient in feattier. hi bitches Young Hilda and 
Lady were placed equal. It has always been a matter of 
prion which of these should be first; we prefer Young Hilda, 
CLUMBER SPANIELS, 

The champion class had only one entry, the well-known 
Psycho, who shows age. He was claimed at his catalogue 
price, £15 15s., and now goes to Wales, In open dogs Boss LIT: 

- won, owing to his condition. Heis plain in head, Duke, vhe, 
-veserye, is of better type but was badly shown, In bitches, 
Foxey Beauty and Rose III. were equal first and second, the 
former was looking well, the latter in bad condition. 
LIVER OR SUSSEX SPANIELS. 
Harvester, ninoticed, is a good spaniel, but with wrong 
_ type of head for a liver or Sussex, Guy, first, we consider the 
best of the class going at the preseut time. Bachelor IIT., 
who won third, is coarse and has bad eyes. Horatio, second, 
is legey and short of coat. In bitches Aureola, second, is out 
at shoulders. The third prize, Petrel, has the same fault, 
Brida IL, placed first, was much the best, and possessed good 
color and Goat. Easten’s Bee is not of Sussex type. 
; » I'TELD SPANIELS, 
Solus and Sqtiaw very properly divided the champion prize. 
Ii the open class for blacks. Newton Abbot Nigger is of good 
tamp and a good dog; with rather crooked legs. Hasten’s 
Be eken, third, is coatsein head and has bad eyes. Lord 
Btite; secotid, is also coarse in héAd and short of feather, 
Castle Raven, vic. reserved, is légey and short in hedid: In 
bitches Hasten’s Busy, second, a long, low and gtod speci- 
men, isimproyin,, Newton Abbot Bess, first, lone arid low, 
- with a good coat anda fair head. Alva, Jeb and Thyra we 
fancied as much as any in the class, Only for white on the 
former we consider her the best we know. In cocker dogs 
there were only tywo entries, and neither of them cockers, In 
bitches first went to Dolly Obo, a clinker, Lilac, vhe., ought 
to have been second. In cockers (dogs) other than liver and 
black, all were tield spaniels, not cockers, In the correspond- 
ing bitch class Zuess, second, was short of feather. Fanciful, 
first, has ashort, round head. She is good in coat and feather; 
black, white and tan in color, 
‘ FOX-TERRIERS, 
- Inchampion fox-terrier dogs, first went to Spice, who was 
looking well, Sutton Veda winning in champion bitches, with 
| Dianasecond, In the open class for dogs, first went to a young 
| dog, Result, with a heavily marked head. He was bred from 
a brother and sister, and a grand result it has been. We con- 
sider him the best we have seen since Buffet first came out. He 
also won the grand challenge cup, beating Spice and Sutton 
Veda, and the decision was pretty well indorsed.. He also won 
_ & special 5-guinea and another 10-guinea cup, presented by the 
Fox-Terrier Club. Hognaston Rebel made a good second. 
Nothing extra turned up in bitches, the winner is too much of 
atoy and not enough terrier, Had she been placed in the list 
of the he.’s, the other awards would have done. The second 
prize, Nettle, isa good one, and the third, Poppy IT., a puppy, 
is also a fairly good one. Sheis a trifle large in ear and fine 
-in muzzle, otherwise a good terrier. She won first in bitch 
puppies. The Right Hon. Harl of Lonsdale won in wire-haired 
champions, with the well-known Briggs, and first and second 
in champion bitches, with Miss Miggs and Vora, and again in 
open dogs, with Lord Randolph, He is a good sort, but rather 
soft in coat for a wire-haired. We prefer Jack Frost. the 
second prize dog, who also won first in puppies, with the vhe. 
and reserve Ringleader second to him, Taken altogether the 
Wire-haired terriers are improving, except in coat, and we 
think they are losing one of the most yaluable and character- 
_ istic points of the breed. 
BULL-LTERRIDRS, 

Cairo once more came to the front in the champion class. 
Tn open dogs Count won somewhat easy. Murderer, second, 
is rather coarse in head, and Crown Prince, third, is shelly in 
body, In bitches, Magpie, first, is a good-hodied bitch; she 

might be longer in face. Maggie May, second, is Jong in face 
tout too high on her legs. In the medium class the third prize, 
Ditchman, is light in body. Grand Duchess, first, is light all 
through; we preferred Nelson, second, who may be a. little too 
strong in liead, Ih the smaJj] class Quick was an ounce over 

Weight in the ring. When weighed the night before he was 
one-half pound under, so some kind friend eyidently fed him 

_ before the judging, otlierwise he no doubt would have won. 
Peurly was also over weight. The winners were only mode- 
fate specimens, 


ATREDALES. 


First and second prizes were awarded to the two largest 
and coarsest dogs in the class, We consider the third prize, 
Fritz, worth all the others. 

BEDLINGTONS. 


Mr, Batty had things mostly all his own way. In champions, 
Dina beat Topsy, owing to the condition of the latter, In the 
open Class, Sentinel, vhe., is too light in color for his age, 10 
months. The well-known Tinner was here unnoticed, Ran- 
dolph, vhe., 1s a light blue. He is undershot and has bad 
guarters. Hairdresser, second prize, is of good color and 
coat, and # good dog. First was wou by the well-known Lord 
Stowell. Scotch Mist, third, is a good one and will improve. 
WVhe., Bishop, is good but coarse. In bitches, Lass, first, has 
a good head butislegey. Datfodil, second, isa liver, 3, well- 
‘mown good one. Salters, unnoticed, is as good as any, but 
was badly shown. Violet, vhc., was another good one shown 
badly. In dogs and bitches that never won a prize, first went 
to Scotch Mist, third in open class. Sentinel won in puppies, 
foliowed by Julius Cassar, who is good in style and the best 
eolor, 


TRISH TERRIERS. 


In champion dogs first went to Playboy who had no com- 
petitor, iA bitches Poppy was absent, and Sting looking well, 
won. In open dogs first went to the York winner, Gilford, 
who alse won in the puppy Class. In bitches we preferred 
Pretty Lass to the winner, who was claimed at the catalogue 
rice, £10, so evidently the judge thought more of her than 
: erowner. The puppies, except the winner, were a moderate 

ot. 


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BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS. 


Tn the champion class first went to Wallace, who was too 
heavy in flesh, we preferred Burke, who was in better form; 
however, the judge thought different and said that Burke was 
too thin, Florence I1l,, unnoticed in open class, we thought 
should haye been second. Nellie, who won first, is plain in 
head and has no feet markings. Robin Hood, second, is rather 
foo large, Welfare, he., we would have put second and Robin 
Hood first, the remainder were a poor lot. In the class under 
16 pounds, Streamlet, first, had an easy win. Harvester, 
cond, is dished in face; Sissy, third, should haye been second, 
we would haye put her first in puppies where she only 
‘othe. Sir Wiltred, the second prize puppy, has a bad eye 
and islegezy, Harvester, first, was second in the open class, 


é should have been second here with, 43 we said before, Sissy 


first. 

ood collect in Pratt the d dge. sho 
eas collection, Mr. Pratt, the judge, showing a grand 
m, entered not for competition: Tn the champion clase for 


fogs there were three entries, and bitches had two, all bred 
by the judge, and good specimens. Inthe open class for dogs 
we preierred the second prize to the winner, The first prize 
bitch is a rare good one; she might be better in head. 


HARD-HAIRED SCOTCH, 


The hard-haived Scotch were a good collection and pretty 
well handled, We missed Capt. Mackey’s dogs on this oc- 
casion, 

DANDIE DINMONTS 


were also a good collection, Astrologer winning well in cham- 

jon dogs, There was only one entry in the bitch class, Jennie 

eans, who no doubt frightened away the others eligible to 
compete, In open dogs Mr, Ball’s Roderiek, notin as good 
bloom as we have seen him, had to stand back before Tip, 
who was cheap at his price, £25. Lochinvar, whose namé has 
been so much before the public since the last Hertford show, 
got vhe. and reserve, also special for best mustard colored dog: 
or bitch: In 6pen bitch class Hannah and Queen Mary were 
first and second, The latter was heavy in whelp or she might 
have béen & step higher, There was nothing special behind 
them. 

PUGS 


came out in good force. Stingo Sniffles, well-known, beat 
Challenger in champions, Jenny winning in champion bitches, 
with nothing against her, In open dogs Bradford Ruby was 
first, and correctly so, being good in marking, good ears and 
tail, and cobby, is only drawhack is light-colored toe nails, 
which is generally the case when distinctly marked every way 
else, The bitches were a good class, all the noticed ones being 

uite up to show form. Puppies were arather large class, 
They are bad to judge as they alter so much, 


MALTESE, 


Lady Giffard, as usual, had the whole class to herselt’, and 
they were quite a show in themselves, 


BLENHEIMS 


made a, good show; most of the winners were conspicuous for 
having ho spot, otherwise they seemed good, with large 
skulls and <0od eyes, 

KING GHARLES SPANIELS, 


Mrs. Btiggs had ayer ines mostly her own way, Mr. Forder 
coming secénd with Jumbo I1.; rather larger and darker in 
tan than Bénd Or 6r Yotiig Prince, 

There was only one entry in Italian greyhounds, 

TOY DOGS. 

In rough toys, champion class, Mr. Trotighear had’an easy 
win over Mr, Foster's pair. In smooth toys there was keener. 
competition than we have seen for some tinie. However, Sibyl 
won well, being the best In face, a thing so difficult to get on 
a toy. Second and third were also fairly good. There was a 
goo a class of rough toys, a great many of whieh changed 

ands, 


CHOW CHOW DOGS. 


First went to Chow IV. and second to Chow III, We may 
remark all these chow chows seemed very much alike, in 
fact when they are well mixed up it is difficult to tell Chow I. 
from Chow II, 

JAPANESE SPANIELS. 


’ First went to Tokio. He appears to be crossed with King 
Charles blood, and we preferred any of the others to it; .par- 
ticulary the second prize Chang, which we thought was better 
in skull and eye, and being pure black and white and free from 
tan markings. Following is a list of the 


AWARDS, 


BLOODHOUNDS.—Cuampron—M. Béeaufoy’s Nestor —Oren—Dogs: 
ist, H. Nichols’s Triumph; 2d, J. C. Tinker’s Duncan. Bifehes: 1st 
and 2d, E, Nichols’s Patti and Phryne; 3d, W. Foster’s Duchess of 
Ripple. 

MASTIFYS,—CramPion—Doys; ist, Dr, Forbes-Winslow’s Crown 
Prince; 2d, M. Geaufoy’s Pontiff. Bitches: ist, Dr. Forbes-Winslow’s 
Rosalind.—Opmn—OTHER THAN BrinpLE—Dogs; ist and cups 3 and 4, 
Dr. Forbes-Winslow’s Maximilian; 2d, J. Evan's Moses; 8d, J. L. Pid- 
docke’s Rudolph; 4th, E. Nichols's Dictator. Bitches: 1st and cup 2. 
J. Evan's Elaine; 2d, H, Oldham’s The Lady Hila; 3d, R. Cook’s Lorna 
Doone,—BriIndDLE.—Dogs: Ist. W. K. Taunton’s Commodore; 2d, J. 
Hutchings’s Gwalior. Bitches: 1st, Dr. F. J. Campbell's Lilly I.; 2a, 
W. K. Taunton’s Cleopatra —Puprres—Dogs: 1st, EH. Nichols’s Dicta- 
tor; 2d, G. M. Allender’s The Doctor. Bitches: Ist, M. Beaufoy’s 
Princess Rita; 2d, E. Nichols’s Princess Ida. 


87. BERNARDS.—CHampron—Dogs: 1st, J. C. Macdona’s cham- 

ion Bayard; 2d, J. F. Smith's champion Save. Bitches: ist, W. G. 
Neanenatia Cloister.—Oren—Roueu-Coatep—Dogs: 1st, J. F. Smith's 
Leonard; 2d, Rey. A. Carter's Plinlimmon: 3d, 8. W.Smith’s Valen- 
tine; 4th, H. I. Betterton’s Correze. Bitches: 1st, L. GC. R. Norris- 
Elye’s Creyasse II.; 2d, Farmer & Dixon’s Seiya; 3d, L. C. R. Norris- 
Elye’s La Mascotte: 4th, G. R. Krehl’s Briseis.—Smoora-Coarmp— 
Dogs: 1st and 2d, J. H. Murchison’s Sirius and Dignity. Bitches: 
ist. Geo. Porter's Her Majesty; 2d, W. B, Megone's Bon Bon.—Purrins 
—RovGH-CoarEep—Pogs; ist, J. H. Rutherglen’s Beaulieu; 2d, W. Pot- 
ter’s Leicester Lion; 8d, Lord Camoys’s Cis. Bitches: ist, Rev, A. 
Carter’s Thisbe; 2d, §. W. Smith’s Duchess of Leeds; 3d, Mrs. A. 
Mansfield’s Lady Burghley.—Smoora—tist, W. B, Megone’s Rrennus; 
2d, J. C. Macdona’s Snowstorm IT. 


NEWFOUNDLANDS.—Cxuampron—Brack—OCup and ist and 2d, B, 
Nichols’s champion Nelson I, and Lady Mayoress.—OpEn—Dogs,_ ist, 
Bi, Bird’s Bruce I1.; 2d, H, R. Farquharson’s Courtier; 3d, T. BE, Mans- 
field’s Leo VY. Bitches; 1st, E. J. Bird’s Isla; 2d, EH. Nichols’s Queen. 
—OTHER THAN BLack—Champion—ist, H. R. Farquharson’s Trafal- 
gar. Open—Dogs: ist, E. Nichols’s Admiral Drake; 2d, A: Moore’s 
Ajax. Bitches: 1st, J. & W., H. Charles’s Bonnie Maid; 2d, J. H. 
Turner's Superba. Puppies; 1st and 2d, E. J. Bird's Islaand The 
Black Prince; 3d, H. R. Warquharson’s Rescue. 


GREAT DANES OR BOARHOUNDS.— Cxuampron—(, Petrzywalski’s 
champion Sultan I.—Oprn—Dogye; ist and challenge cup, R. L. Pem- 
herton’s Cedric'the Saxon; 2d, Hi. G. Martin’s Nero; 3d, F. A. Onder 
water’s Victor. Bitches: 1st and challenge cup, Drew & Bolton's Hise 
Il.; 2d, C. Petrzywalski’s Mirza: 3d, F. A. Onderwater's Selma JI. 
Puppies: 1st, G, R. Krehl’s Siegfried; 2d and first special, C. Petrzy- 
weileeieg Turco; 3d and second special, KR. 0. Bryan's Ida; third special, 
N. J, M. Hughes’s Mirza IT, 


DEERHOUNDS.—Crampion—G. W. Hickman’s Lord of the Isles. 
OpEN.—Dogs: ist, H. P. Parkes’s Gunner; 2d, W. J. M. Temple-Bar- 
row’s Sir Max; 3d, Mrs. R. Peck’s Bevis III. Bitches: ist, A. Max- 
well and BE. Cassel’s Mina; 2d, W. Gordan’s Beatrice; 3d, G, W, Hick- 
man’s Barra, 


GREY HOUNDS.—Dogs; 1st and 2d, H. P. & P. J. Charles’s cham- 
pion Memnon and Whiskedale II,; 8d. J, L. Yates’s Chimney Sweep. 
Bitches; Ist, A. P. & P. J. Charles's champion Bonny Lass; 2d, J. 
K. Kaye's Heather Belle. 


‘ ARR RS E28; H. Cox & E. W. Jaquet’s Witchcraft and Rasse- 
as IL, 


BEAGLES,—1st, C. H. Beck's Myrtle; 2d, W. H. Parker’s Freeland 
Countess. 


EXTRA CLASS.—Any known breeds of foreign dogs which have 
not got a separate class provided for them,—CHAmPion—Prize, W. 
K, Taunton’s champion Sir John Franklin.—Orpren—Dogs; Prize, Miss 
M. Peel’s Asgard. 


POINTERS.—CrAmpron—Dog: EB. C. Norrish’s Champion Graphic. 
Bitch: B. Field’s Belle of Bow.—Opsn, 55LBs. AND UPWARD—Dogs: 1st, 
B, Viela’s Young Dick; 2d, D, R. Scratton’s Devon 111.; equal 3d, Sir 
1. B. Lennard’s Belhus Hector, Major H. Ashton’s Joe IL., E, C. Nor- 
tish’s Grandee. Bifches: Ist, E. U. Norvish’s Revel IIl.; 2d, C ‘A. 
Beck’s Nan: 3d, A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale’s Peach. Unpur 55nBs.— 
Dags; H. 8. H. Prinee Albert Solms's Naso of Kipping; 2d, B. C, Nor- 
rish’s Donald III.; 3d, J. Whitley’s Sir Garnet. Bitches: 1st, BE. C. 
Norrish’s Beau Ideal; 2d, J. HE. Lioyd-Lloyd’s Zasme; 3d, Addie and 
Carr’s Jetsam. Puppies: ist, Lieut-Col. C. J. Cotes’s Lady Di: 2d, J. 
Stedman’s Nymph. 


ENGLISH SETTERS,—CHampron—Dog: J. H. Platt's champion 
Sting,—Oren—Dogs; Ist, Castle's Prince Fred; 2d, J, Hogarth's Sir 
Kent; 3d, T. Cunnington’s Sir Colin Ken@al. Bitches: ist, J. H.Platt’s 
Plimsey; 2d, Lieut,-Col. C, J, Cotes’s ee Rose; 3d, T. Cunning- 
ton’s Lady Westnoreland,—Puppras—Dogs- ist, F, RB. Moser’s Avon 
Tyrrell; 2d, F, Damm’s Rector VI. Bitches: Ist, W. Parrott's 
Flossie. : é 

BLACK AND TAN SETTERS.—CHampron—T, Jacobs’s Czarina,— 
OPren—Doges: ist, T, Jacobs's Newton Abbot Duke; 2d, H, L. Parson's 
Beaumont; sd, P, Caillard’s Young Duke Il, Bitches: 1st, G. lL. Par- 
son’s Floss TV.: 2d, T, Jacobs's Newton Abbot Kate: 8d, Mre. WA. 


513 


Manning's Juno V, Puppies; ist, J, Borland's Sir James; 2d, Capt. 
P. Priestley’s Huxton Roek, 


TRISH SETTERS.—Ceampron—Dog; J. J, Giltrap's champion Garry- 
owen. Bitch: Rev, R, O’Callazhan’s pa a eds ist, 
Rey, BR. O'Callaghan’s Tyrone; 2d, L. F, Perrm’s Scamp; 3d, H. M. 
Wilson's Mountaineer. Bifches; ist, J. J. Giltrap'’s Lady Palmerston 
If.; 2d. L. F. Perrin's Wee Kate; 8d, G. Liedman's Freya. Puppies? 
Ist and 2d, D. Sullivan's Lady Garmet and The Marquis. 


_RETRIEVERS.—BLAck —W Avy-coatep.—Champion—Lieut,-Col. H- 
G, Legh’s champion Mabel. Opgn—Doys; ist, H. Cox and B®. W, 
Jaquet’s Black Diamond; 2d, G. Foster’s Poppery ; 3d, BE. G. Warquh- 
arson’s Joey. Bitches: 1st, i. G, Wheeler’s Deltas 2d H. Cox and H- 
W. Jaquet’s Zealous; 3d, A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale’s Merry Meg. Pup- 
pies; Ist and 2d, H. Cox and EH, W. Jaquet's Black Diamond and Blacle 
Satin: 8d, E. G. Warquharson’s Marvel, Ourny-Coarep — Buacok.— 
Champion: Hqual ist, G. H, Granville’s Chicory II, and G. Culley’ 
champion Jet Il.—Opren—Dogs; ist, the Duke of Hamilton's The 
Chief; 2d. G. Culley’s Crown Prince; 8d, W. Parrott’s Berry. Biteles: 
ist, the Duke of Hamilton's Lady Nell; 2d. 8. Darbey’s Pearl of 
Devon; 6d, J. H, Fisher’s Lune. Puppies: the Duke of Hamilton's 
The Chie'; 2d, W, Parrott’s Berry, Ornagr THAN BLAGK.—Isl, Sir W- 
N. Abdy’s Prince Rupert, 

SHEEPDOGS.—Rover-Co4ren—CramPion—Dogs: ist, J. Bissel's 
Charlemagne; 2d, G. R. Krehl’s Eclipse. Bitches: Rey. H. F. Hamil- 
ton’s Peggie Il —Oprn—Dogs/ ist and No, 1 special, A. Rulph’s Sly 
Fox, 2d, W. R. Dockrell’s Kintore; 38d, J. G. R. Homfray’s Scottish 
Hero; 4th, W. Adam's General McPherson; 5th, W. R. Dockrell's 
Charlatan. Bitches: 1st and No. 2 special, A. L. Chance’s Lady of 
the Lake; 2d, G, R. Krehl's Mistress Beatrix; 4d, J, & W. H. Charles's: 
Young Meg; 4th, S. Boddington’s Lady Lorna; 5th, Dr. G. C. Thom- 
son’s Plaidie, Smoorn Coarep,—Champion—A. H, Wasten's Lady. 
—OpEn—Ist, J. Royle's Clyde; 2d, Dr. W. A. G, James's Gazelle; 3d_ 
W. H. Beach’s Baronet. Puppins,— Rouge anv SMoorH-CoaTmp—Dogs: 
ist, W. R. Dockrell's Kintore; 2d, J, Forrest’s Nullamore; 3d, 
Adamis’s General M’Pherson, Bitches: ist, A. L. Chance’s Lady of 
the Lake; 2d, $8. Boddington's Discount; 8d, H. Ralph’s Fedora, Hon- 
TAILS.—ist and 2d, D.P, Thomas's Sir Guy and Weish Boy, Fifth 
Collis Club Derby, for rough or smooth collie dog or bitch puppies,— 
ist, A. L. Chance’s Lady of the Lake; 2d, W. R. Doekrell's Kintore: 
3d, H. Ralph’s Fedora. 

BASSET HOUNDS.—CuHampion—M, B. Kennedy's champion Fino 
V.—OpEN—Dogs: ist and 2d, F. W, Blain’s Bourbon aid Bavard- 
Bitches: {st and 24, G, R, Krehl’s Theo and Gavotte. Puppies; isi, 
W. Biain’s Bavard; 2d, L, Pelly’s Mioche. 


DALMATIANS.—ist and 2d, J. Fawdry’s Treasure and Nelson, 


POMERANIANS.—1st, J. K, Kaye’s Scoff; 2d, J. Fawdry’s Charlies 
8d, Mrs. . M. Monk's Coco. 


POODLES,—CHAmpPion—Miss J. Quain’s Zulu.—Oren—ist, P. Law- 
Ghee, Lyris; 2d, S. Howell's Boy; 8d, Mrs. M, A, Tronghear’s Fairy 

ueen, 

BULLDOGS.—CuHampPron—Dogs over 601bs. and bitches over 501bs = 
J. L, Elias’s Taurus. Dogs under 60lbs.: Prize and challenge cup; 
H. Layton’s champion Monarch. Bitches under 50lbs.: Prize and 
ehallenge cup, perenion Bribomartie.—Opmn—Does over 60lbs, and 
bitches under 50lbs.; Ist, A. T. Foreman’s Big Ben; J, H. Blias’s Paul 
Clifford. Dogs not exceeding 60lbs,: Ist, G. Raper's Robinson Crusde= 
J, H. Blias’s Cossack; 3d, C. R. C. King’s The Black Prince. Bitches 
not exceeding 50lbs,: Ist, F. Adeock’s Acme; 2d, Dr. WR, Lyddon’s' 
Ariel; ad, Rey. J. W, Mellor’s Scissors. Dogs not_exceeding 45lbs. : 
Ist, F. Stevens’s Royal George; 2d, A. K. Smith’s Bacchus I1.; 3d, 1. 
H, Eliis’s Sedan. Bitches not exceeding 35lbs.; ist, H. Layton’s Jenny 
Howlett 1f.; 2d, J. 5. Fbus-Sellon’s Belladona; 8d, A. I. Nash's 
Dolores. Puppies; ist, W. A. Williams and G. J. Padbury’s Burlona 
Chancera; 2d, A. F, Nash’s Dolores. 

IRISH WATER SPANIELS.—Dogs: 1st. Captain G. H, Dwyer's 
Blair; 2d, J. 8. Skidmore’s Mickey Wree. Aitchess Equal ist and 2d, 
G. 5. Hockey's Young Hilda and Lady. 

CLUMBER SPANIELS.—Champion—N. P. Stilgoe’s Champion 
Psycho,—OPrpen—Dogs: 1st, J. Allen’s Boss IT.; 24, ¥. W. Rouse’s "be 
Dodger. Bitches: Wqual 1st and 2d, H. P. and P_ J. Charies’s Foxley 
Beauty and J. W. Frankland’s Rose Jl. Sussex Anp LIvVER-cOLORED- 
—Dogs, over 25lbs.: Ist, Captain 8. M. Thomas’s Guy; 2d, Holley 
Bros. Horatio; 3d, T; Jacobs’s Bachelor If. Bitches, over 25lbs,: 1st. 
s . Partridge’s Brida I1.; 2d, Holley Bros. Aureola; 3d, W. Connah’s 

etrel, 

FIELD SPANIELS.—CuHAmpron—Eq ual prize, J. Royle’s champiow 
Solus and T. Jacobs’s champion Squaw.—OPpEen—BuAcK.—Dugs, vver 
201bs.; Ist, T, Jacobs’s Newton Abbot Nigger; 2d, J, H. Hussey’s Lord 
Bute; 3d, A. H. Easten’s Kasten’s Bracken. Pitches, over 25lbs.: 1sb. 
T. Jacobs's Newton Abbot Bess; 2d, A. H. Hasten’s Hasten’s Busy; 
8d, Holley Bros. Althea, 


COCKER SPANIELS.—Not ExckEDING 25LBs,—Dogs: ist, R. Lloyd's 
Little Dan; 2d. G. W. Carter's Jingo, Bitches: 1st, J, Farrow’s Dolly 
Oho; 2d, G. J. Newson’s Queen Adelaide. Any o1nER CoLor—Dogs, 
exceeding 25lbs.; Equal ist and 2d, T, Jacobs’s Newton Abbot Beau 
and A, H. Hasten’s Hasten’s Bruce. Bitches; ist, H. B. Spurgin’s 
Fanciful; 2d, J. Royle’s Zuess. 


FOX-TERRIERS.—Smoornm — CHampron — Dogs: ist. L. Turner's 
champion Spice; 2d, A. R. Wood's Splinter; 8d, Rev. ©. T. Fisher's 
Richmond Jack, Bitches; Ist, A. lt. Wood’s Sutton Veda; 2d. L. & 
W. Rutherfurd’s Diana; 3d, J. C, Tinne’s Deacon Ruby. Oprn—Dogs: 
ist and cups1,3 and 5, A. AH, Clarke's Result; 2d, A, Hargreayes’s 
Hognaston Rebel; 3d, J. A. Doyle’s Beggerman; 4th, A. H. Clarke's 
Forest; 5th, G. ap ms Raby Nailor. Bitches: 1st, A, Hargreaves’s 
Dame Verity; 2d, L. Turner’s Richmond Nettie; 3d and cup 6, J. J, 
Pim’s Poppy II.; 4th, G, Raper’s Richmond Olive Bud: 5th, A, H. 
Clarke’s Douglas Nettle. Purpres—Dogs; 1st, A. H. Clarke’s Result: 
2d, G. Raper’s Raby Nailor; 3d, ¥, Burbridge’s Hunton Tip. Bitches: 
J. J. Pim’s Poppy IL.; 2d, G. Raper’s Richmond Olive Bud; 3d, F. 
Redmond’s Dusky. 


WIRE-HATRED FOX-TERRIERS.—CHAMpPIoN—Dogs; ist and cup 2 
Earl of Lonsdale’s champion Briggs: 2d, H. Cox and B. W. Jaquet’s 
champion New Boy. Bitches: ist and 2d, Harl of Lonsdale’s cham- 
pion Miss Miggs and champion Vora.—OPEN—Dogs; ist, Earl of Lons- 
dales Lord Randolph; 2d, A. Maxwell and Cassel’s Jack Frost; 3d and 
cups (and 4th, W. Carrick, Jr.’s Carlisle Bruce and Master Tiger 
Bitches: ist_and cups 4 and 8, W, Carrick, Jr.’s Carlisle Gipsy; 2d. 
P. C. Reid’s Grand Duchess; 3d, Earl of Lonsdale’s Black Watch; 4th. 
H. Cox and E. W. Jaquet’s Sissy la Muguet. Pupprzs—Dogs- ist, A. 
Maxwell and W. Cassel’s Jack Frost; 2d G. Raper’s Ringleader: 34. 
W. W. Pugh’s Harfat Surprise. Bitches; ist, H. Cox and B. W. 
Jaquet’s Sissy la Muguet; 2d, W. Carrick’s Miss Tiger. Second divi- 
sion of the fifth Fox-terrier Open Produce Stakes,_SmoorH— Dogs; 
ist, W. Hurst-Wright’s Holm Track; 2d and 3d, J. A. Doyie’s Indus 
and Ingomar, Bifehes: ist and grand prize, J, GC. Tinne’s Broken- 
hurst Gem; 2d, F, Redmond'’s Diamond Chips; 3d, J, A, Doyle’s Tu- 
cense., 

DACHSHUNDH.—Cuampion—Dog; Prize and Cup 1, H. A. Walker's 
Maximus. Bitch: C. H. W. Woodroife’s Fliege.—Oran—Dogs: ist 
and No. 2, Mrs. P, M. Hoare’s Kossuth; 2d. H. A. Walker’s Culoz: 3a. 
J. 8. Pearson's Zagwong. Bitches: 1st and Cup 3. Mrs. P. M. Hoare’s 
Zither; 2d, J. C. Knight-Bruce’s Lady; 3d, H. Jones’s Jessica. Pup- 
Prins—Dogs. ist, 2d and 3d, Mrs. P. M. Hoare’s Kossuth, Thaler and 
Faust IV, Bitches: 1st, H. Jones's Jessiea; 2d, W. J. Ingram’s Zebra; 
3d, Mrs. P. M. Hoare’s Rapunzel TIT, The Dachshunde Chib Sweep- 
Stakes.—ist and 2d, Mrs. P. M. Hoare’s Kossuth and Drachen. 

BULL-TERRIERS.—OveEr 2518s.—CHameron—A. George’s Cairo.— 
OPEN—EXCHEDING 25LBS.—Dogs: ist, J. R. Prati’s Count: 2d, T, A. 
Hewitt’s Murderer II. ; 3d, A. George’s Crown Prince. Bitehes- ist.'T, 
Wright's Kettering sett 2d, A. George’s Magsie May Ii.—Not px- 
CKEDING 25LBS,—1st, H. G. Martin’s Grand Duchess; 2d, T. L, Puttoek’s 
champion Nelson I,; 3d, A. George’s Dutchman.—Nor ExcEEDING 
18uBs.—ist, F', Hinks’s Vinnie; 2d, §. P. Shaw’s Yokum. 


ATREDALE TERRIERS.—ist, T. Horsfall’s Trimmer; 24, H, C. 
Groye’s Roy; 3d, W. Tatham’s Fritz, 

BEDLINGTON TERRIERS.—CHampion—J, A, Baty’s Diana,—Oran 
—Dogs; 1st, J, A. Baty’s Lord Stowell; 2d, A. N. Dodds’s Hairdresser: 
8d, J. A. Baty’s Scotch Mist. Bitches: ist, J. A. Baty’s Durham Lass; 
2d, Captain 5. M. Thomas’s Daffodil; 3d, EK. Margetson’s Orinoline. 
Dogs and bitches that haye not won a prize up to day of entry.—ist, 
J. A. Baty’s Scotch Mist; 2d, A. N, Dodds’s Mark Tapley. Puppies: 
Cup and ist, J. Cornforth’s Sentinel; 2d, J. A. Baty’s Julius Ceasar. 


IRISH TERRIBRS.—CHAmpron—Dogs; Prize and No. 1, H. A. 
Graves’s Play Boy. Biiches; Prize and No.2, R. B. & T.S. Carey’s 
champion Sting.—Opmn—Dogs: ist, W. Grabam’s Gilford; 2d, A, 
Krehl’s Cauheen; 3d, R. B. & T. S. Carey’s Banagher, Bitches: ist 
and No. 3, R. Clifton’s Merry Lass; 2d, H. A. Graves’s Pretty Lass; 
3d, A. G, Momber’s Gramacbree. Uncropprp HARs—ist and No. 4, 
Major J. H. Annand's Fury IT.; 2d, A. G. Momber’s Buckshot. Pup- 
pies: Ist, W, Graham’s Gilford; 2d, BH. N_ Kent's Rufus, 

SMOOTH-HATRED TERRIERS—Excepr Buack AnD Tan.—ist, @. FP. 
Copeman’s Leading Star; 2d, Mrs. M, A. Tronzhear’s North Star. 

BLACK AND TAN TERRIERS.—CrHampion—J. Grayett’s Wallace, 
—OpEN—EXcCEEDING 16LBs.—Ist, W. J, Tomlinson and G..S, Mamuelle's 
Lady Nellie; 2d, W. Joyner’s Robi Hood; 8d, W. J. Tomlinson and G, 
S. Manuelle's Nes USSR BXCEEDING. 16LBs.— 1st, W, Adams’s 
Streamlet; 2d, J. W. Pestell’s Harvester; 3d, J. Vaylor’s Sissy Il, 
Puppies: 1st, J. W, Pestell’s Harvester; 2d, J. & R. 
Biv Wilfrid, 

SEYE THRRRIBRS,—Prion ox DRov-WArsn—Onsmpiow—Piize and 


'B. Tronghear’s 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


[JuLy 24, 1884, 


medal, Mrs. Jacobson’s Cuthullin,—Orpsxs—Dxrop-HarEep—Dogs: Ist, G. 
Earley’s Donald McBain; 2d, J, Henderson's Pibroch; 3d; ©. B. Wind- 
éler’s Donald McPherson. Aizichés: 1st and medal, Mrs. Jacobson’s 
Maggie McDonald and Blue Bell. Prick-Harep—Dogs! 1st, Rey, T. 
Nolan’s Kingston Roy; 2d. J. Davidson’s The Earl. Bitches; Ist, J. 
Davidson's Missie; 2d, A, Todd’s Lothian Queen. 

SCOTCH TERRIERS.—Hanrp-Harrep—ist, H. J. Ludlow’s Worry: 
2d, J. M. Marshall's Marjory and E. M. Bristowe’s Brick. Puppies: 
Equal ist, H. J. Ludlow’s Tatters IL., J. M. Marshall’s Marjory. 

DANDIE DINMONT TERRIERS.—CHampion— Dog: J. Locke’s 
The Astrologer. Bitch; G.S: Ball’s Jennie Deans —OPEN—Dogs: 1st 
and No. 1, W. W. Reid's Tip; 2d, G@. 8. Ball’s Roderick; 3d,J, Flinn’s 


Border King, Bitches: ist and No. 2, W. Tait’s Hannah; 2d, D. B, 
ee Queen Mary; 3d, J. C. Garrick’s Effie. Puppies: H,8, Whipp’s 
ess I. 


- PUGS.—CHAmPION—Dogs-: ist, W. L. Sheffield’s Stingo Sniffies; 2d, 
Lady Brassey’s Challenger, Bitches: Mrs. M. A. Foster’s champion 
Jenny. OPEN, NOT EXCEEDING 20LBS.—Vogs; Ist and No. 1, Mrs. M. A. 
Foster's Bradford Ruby; 2d, Mrs. R. H. Denne’s Beau; 3d, Mrs, Hem- 
ming's Lorj Fritz. Bitehes: Ist.and No, 2, BE. M. Monck’s Little Gipsy 
Queen; 2d, H. Maule’s Lady Cloudy, Puppies: ist, Mrs. V. M. L. 
Newton-Hidershaw's Ikey Mo; 2d, Mrs. F. Stephens’s Punch VIII. 

YORKSHIRE TERRIERS. ist and 2d, Mrs. M. A, Foster's Harry 
and Effie. 

MALTHESE.—ist, 2d and 3d, Lady Giffard’s Hugh, Rob Roy, and 
Lord Clyde. 

BLENHEIM SPANIELS.—Rep anp WHits—CHAmMPIon—Mrs, L. HE. 
Jenkins’s champion Flossie I1.—Opnmn—tst, H. E. Jenkins’s Valentine 
Trixey; 2d and 3d, F, Keehner’s Sir Garnet and Prince Leopold, 

KING CHARLES SPANIELS.—BiLack anp TAN—CHAMPION—Mrs, J, 
A. Bugegs’s Alexander the Great.—Orrn—ist, Mrs, J. A. Buggs’s Bend 
ee 2d, Mrs. W. Forder’s Jumbo I1.; 8d, Mrs. J, A. Buggs’s Young 

rince. 

OTHER TOY SPANIELS.—1st, C. Thorpe’s Toffy; 2d, Mrs. Beavan's 
Princess Alice. 

ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS.—Prize, Mrs. M, A. Tronghear’s Little 

Gem. 
TOY TERRIERS—Smoore anp RovGH, NOT EXCEEDING 6LBS.— 
CHAamPion—Mrs. A. Tronghear's Conqueror,—Opry—SMooTH- 
Hatrep—ist, J. K, Kaye's Sibyl; 2d, R. Fulton's Sampson: 3d, C. 
Whitehouse’s Whist.—) ouGH-Ha1rED—Ist, Mrs. E. M. Monck’s Dolly; 
2d, Mrs. M. A. Foster’s Lady Bective; 3d, C. Walker’s Rose II, 

CHINESE CHOW-CHOW.—Dogs. 1st, Mrs. F, Porter’s Chow IV,; 
2d, C. F. M. Cleverly’s Chow III. #iiches; 1st and 2d, Lady M. O. 
Gore’s Papoose and Peridot. 

JAPANHSE DOGS.—I1st, Mrs. VY, 'T. Poynder's Tokio; 2d, Mrs, E. M. 
Monck’s Chang. . 


SALE OF SPORTING DOGS AT ALDRIDGE'S. 


HE fourth sale of the season was held by Messrs. Freeman 
yesterday, the feature of which was the dispersing of the 
well-known kennel of pointers belonging to Mr. 'T. Pilkington, 
which included the grand old dog Garnet, a pointer who carries 
his head better than any other pointerin Hngland, and he has 
carried it to yictory more than once both at field trials and on 
the bench, Mr, Pilkington’s dogsare so well known that a large 
attendance was the consequence at the sale, and prices were 
good accordingly, as there were those men there whom prices 
would not stop when the animal in question was the best of its 
kind. Mr. Barclay Field whs a large purchaser, and so was 
Mr. Haywood Lonsdale, who secured that grand dog Lake at 
11l0gs. Below we give the prices with the names of the 
purchasers, The whole of the dogs were sold without reserve, 
with the exception of Laurel, which it) was stated would be 
bought in. Co), Cotes sent to the sale four well-broken, flat- 
coated retrievers, which did not go above their value. The pick 
of the basket, in our opinion, being Duck, who Mr. Haywood 
Lonsdale got for 30gs. Three partly-broken young ones from 
the same kennel averaged 10gs. each, and there was a rare good 
one in the lot, A Jot of Irish and Laverack setters of fair 
quality were sent by Mr. T. D, Hine, and mostly went very 
cheap. Altogether Mr, Parmer disposed of 68 dogs. 
° MR, PILKINGTON’S POINTERS, 

Lot 1, Tory IL, Duke of Portland, 25¢s.; %, Guard, Mo. Bris- 
towe, 29¢s. ; 3, Garnet, Mr. Peters, 30g. 5 4, Druid, Mr. Bristowe, 
46gs,; 5, Lake, Mr. B. Field, 61gs.; 6, Dingle, Mr. B. Field, 63gs. ; 
7, Justice, Mr. Cash, 25gs.; 8, Moffat, Mr. B. Field, 55gs. ; 10, 
Lilac, Mr. B. Field, 6igs.; 11, Peace, Mr. Haywood Lonsdale, 
60gs.;12, Pardon, Mr. B, Field, 56gs.; 13, Lincoln, Mr. B. Field, 
hivgs.: 14, Lundy, Mr. Bristowe, 46gs,; 15, Lymm, Mr. H. Lons- 
dale, 110gs.; 16, Lace, Mr. Bristowe, 54gr.; 17, Law, Mr, Sel- 
lars, 15gs,; 18, Zeus, Mr. Part, 18gs,; 19, Crozier, Mr. Pleydell, 
22g8. 

= COL, COTES’S RETRIEVERS, 

Lot 40, Merle, Lord Alfred Fitzroy, 28gs.; 41, Major, Col. 
Campbell, 20gs.; 42, Mars, Col. Campbell, 26gs.; 43, Duck, Mr. 
H. Lonsdale, 30gs., 44, Magic, Mr. Somervell, 9gs.; 45, Mab, 
Mr. Sebright, 1/gs.; 46, Daphne, Mr. Somervell, 10gs.—Land 
and Water, July 5, 


ENGLISH FIELD TRIAL RULES. 


AcE a meeting of the committee of the National Field Trials, 

held on June 6, at 23 Grosyenor Square, London, W.., 
A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale, Esq. in the chair, the following 
resolutions, with a view of strengthening the hands of the 
judges in the case of disobedient and noisy breakers, and for 
the protection of those who sutier from the unruly actions of 
their opponents, were passed, viz. ; 

1. That at the National Field Trials Meetings of the future 
the judges be requested by the committee and empowered to 
first caution, and, upon repetition of the offense, turn out of 
the stake any breakers not beating the ground to their satis- 
faction, not keeping together, or outwalking their opponents, 
or unduly or unnecessarily whistling or shouting, or in any 
way behaving in such a manner as in the opinion of the judges 
is detrimental to the chance of success of their opponents; and 
that it shall be permitted for any breaker or owner feeling 
himself aggrieved upon any one of these points to request the 
interference of the judges. 

2. That the judges be requested in giving their awards to take 
into their very serious consideration the manner in which the 
ground is quartered and beaten, and not to award a prize to 
any breaker or dog who does not beat his ground and work ex- 
actly as he should do were he actually out shooting. 

8. That at the National Field Trial Meeting, 1885, a prize of 
£10 be awarded to the breaker who, in the opinion of the 
judges, beats his ground in the most sportsmanlke manner, 

(Signed) A, P, Heywoop-LonspALeE, Chairman. 

Samuel Ebrall, Secretary. 

[We think the Committee of the National Field Trials 
have not taken this matter in hand one moment toosoon. We 
haye time after time called attention to the manner in which 
the ground is wasted at field trials, and the “jockeying” that 
is occasionally practiced is yery reprehensible.—Ep. L. & W.] 
—Land and Water, 


THE PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW.—The Philadelphia 
Kennel Club, in connection with the Fair of the Pennsylvania 
State Agricultural Society, will hold a bench show at Phila- 
delphia on Sept. 16, 17, 18 and 19, Sheep dog trials will also 
be held at the same time. The premium list, we understand, 
will be liberal, and a Jarge number of special prizes will be 
offered. Mr, Charles Lincoln will superintend the show, which 
is a guarantee that the arrangements will be first-class. We 
Lane suggest to English exhibitors who intend sending their 
éntries to the New York show in October that they can also 
show their dogs at Montreal Sept. 9, 10 and 11 and at the Phil- 
adelphia show a week later and then have ample time to get 
their dogs in condition for New York, 


ADDRESS WANTED.—Mditor Forest and Stream: Can 
you or any of your readers inform me of the address of Mr. 
John B. Summer, who at one time was a breeder of Chesa- 
peake Bay dogs?—M, G, . 


_A STORY FOR THE COMPOSITORS,—The remarkable 
intelligence of the dog has been very many times illustrated, 
and in Hartford, too, but we cannot forbear to instance a still 
further example of what he will do when pressed by hunger. 
This morning the unofficial dog of the Evening Post office en- 
tered the ee room, wagged his tail to all the ‘comps’ 
in great good humor, and after sniffing around in an innocent 
manner, slyly unearthed the dinner of an epicurean type- 
sticker and made a huge and hasty meal of it. Then he 
trotted off and, coiling wp, went to sleep to dream of boned 
turkey, lollipops, cheese, crustacea, and all the other good 
things that make a paradise of this world in a dog’s eye. The 
consternation and despair wf the compositor, as he beheld the 
remains of his dinner and realized that the afternoon would 
have to be spent on an empty stomach, with all the ills that 
that implies, will remain forever fresh and horrible.—Hartford 
Eventing Post. 


TEST OF RABIES.—'When a person hath been bitten by 
a dog that 1s apprehended to be mad it commonly happens 
that the dog is killed before one is assured of his condition, 
and the person bitten continues in a cruel uncertainty. Mr. 
Petit, the surgeon, hath an expedient for putting an end to 
this uneasiness. He rubs the throat, the teeth, and the gums 
of the dead dog with a piece of meat that hath been dressed, 
taking care that there be no blood to stain it, and then offers 
it to a living dog. If he refuses it with erying and howling 
the dead dog was certainly mad, but if the victuals have been 
well received and eaten there is nothing to fear.”—Memoirs 
Royal Academy at Paris, 1753, 


MISTAKE IN PEDIGREE.—Rosendale, Wis., July 14.— 
Editor Forest and Stream; In regard to the article of Mr. 
W. N. Callender, in your isswe ot July 10, in reference to mis- 
take in pedigree of Fancy, I wish to remark it is ingeniously 
worded, but at this time the only point at issue is, is this 
pointer bitch Fancy ‘Cara C,?” if not, then the pedigree, by 
whomsoever given, is fraudulent, is not ‘‘correct as to sire and 
dam” or ‘technical error,” and it is for those gentlemen, with- 
out special communication with them, to explain. This bitch 
Fancy was advertised with a given pedigree, is it fraudulent 
or not?—s. B. DILLEY. 


THE AMERICAN ENGLISH. BEAGLE CLUB will offer 
one or two special prizes at the Philadelphia bench show in 
September. The beagle classes will be judged entirely by the 
standard of the club.—A, C. KRUEGER (Sec’y and Treas.). 


KENNEL NOTES. 


NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge, ‘lo sure 
publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 
ticulars of each animel: 

1. Color. 6. 
2. Breed. 


Name and residence of owner, 
buyer or seller, 


3. Sex, 7. Sire, with his sire and dam. 

4, Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 

5, Date of birth, of breeding or 9. Dam, with her sire and dam. 
of death. 10. Owner of dam. 


Allnames musp be plainly written, Communication on one side of 
gaper only, and signed with writer’s name, 


NAMES CLAIMED, 


pes See instructions at head of this column. j 

Pichet. By Mr. D, 8, Gregory. Jr., 2d, for liver and white pointer 
dog, whelped April 16, 1884, by Scout (A.K.R. 216) out of Ruby (Wood- 
ruff’s Dick—F'an). 4 ‘ 

Sultana, By Mr. Erastus Corning, Jr., Albany, N. Y., for red Irish 
setter bitch, whelped April 10, 1884, by champion Glencho ont of 
Claire (A.K.R. 233). ; 

Lady Grace. By Mr. Erastus Corning, Jr., Albany, N. Y., for 
liver and white pointer bitch, whelped April 10 (Ducalion—Fancy). 

Malite By Mr. J. W: Munson, St. Louis; Mo., for liver and white 
pointer bitch, whelped April 18, 1884, by imported Bang out of Kate 
(Croxteth—tTrinket). 

Millie. By Mr. J. W. Munson, St. Louis, Mo., for liver and white 
pomter bitch, whelped May 6, 1884, by champion Meteor out of Dell 
(Croxteth—Trinket), , 

Lady Alice, Maud and Blanch. By Mr. C. F. Wilson, Palmyra, O., 
for mastiff bitches. whelped April 19, 1884, by his Ceesar (A.K.R. 12) 
out of his imported Oma. 

Phallas, Fantine and Monice. By the Shamrock Kennel, Beach 
Bluff, Mass.. for red Trish setters, one dog and two bitches, whelped 
Sept. 6, 1883, by champion Elcho (A.K.R. 295) out of their Zelda 

ALK.R. 240). 

’ Mack Duff, Mack B. 11., Peck’s Bad Boy and Peck’s Bad Girl. By 
Mr. W. B. Peck, Central Falls, R. I., for two white, black and tan and 
one lemon belton dogs and lemon belton bitch, whelped May 8, 1854, 
by Mack B. (Dick averack—Twilight) out of Chica (Royal Blue— 
— Diana). 

Dave Tue By Messrs. Austin & Mason, Providence, R. I., for 
black, white and tan English setter dog, whelped Feb. 27, 1884, by Gus 
Bondhue (Dashing Bondhue—Novel) out of Countess Mollie (Count 
Noble—Spark). eee 


= See instructions at head of this column. 

Nell Kelley—Blue Gound. . W. R. Trayers’s (Washington, D.C,) 
English setter bitch Nell Kelley (A.K.R. 286) to Blue Gound (Frank— 
Vietoria), May 14. 

Fanny—Watty, Mr. G. Sanderson’s (Moncton, N. B.) imported 
prick-eared Skye terrier bitch Fanny to his imported Watty, June 30. 

Daisy Starlight—Count Paris. Mr, H. W. Durgin’s (Bangor, Me.) 
Rnglish setter bitch Daisy Starlight to Count Paris (Royal Bluae—Mod- 
jeska), May 28. 

Pet Rerwyn—Foreman, Mr. W. B. Peck’s (Central Falls, R. 1.) Eng- 
lish setter bitch Pet Berwyn (Dashing Berwyn—May Druid) to Mr. CG. 
Fred. Crawford’s champion Foreman, June 22. 

Rosa—Beaufort. The Clifton Kennel’s (Jersey City, N, J.) 
bitch Rosa (A.K.R. ) to Mr. C. H, Mason’s Beaufort (A.K.R, 


July 19. 
WESLPS, 


(=> See instructions at head of thas column. 

Nancy Rake. Mr. H. 1. Millme’s (Flatbush, L. I.) English setter bitch 
Nancy Rake (A.K.R. 42), July 18, seven (two dogs), by Mr. W. A. Cos- 
ter’s Buckellew (A,K.R. 30). J ; 

Bessie. Mr, A. Weeks’s (Locust Valley, L. I.) English setter bitch 
Bessie (Gypsum—Jessie), July 12, eleven (six dogs), by Tilley’s Bang 

Duke—Dot). : 

~Snipe. Mr. Edward Lawrence, Jr,’s, (Boston, Mass.) red Irish setter 
bitch Snipe (Palmerston—(Quail), July 14, nine (six dogs), by Mr, Joseph 
Hayes’s Suil-a-Mor (Claremont—Dido), 

Snowball, The Millbrook Kennel’s (New York) St. Bernard bitch 
Snowball fetal 416), July 1,two dogs, by Prince (A.K.I%, 1053); one 
since dead. 

Flash U7. Mr. J.W.Munson's (St. Louis, Mo.) imported pointer 
bitch Flash iT. (Bang—Pride), July 18, ten (three dogs), by champion 
Meteor, 

Queen Maud. Mr, BH, 8. Hawks’s (Ashfield, Mass.) English setter 
bitch Queen Maud (Racket—Kelp), June 22, nine, by Count Oberon 
(Count Noble—Rosalind). 


ointer 
694), 


SALES. 


(S> See instructions at head of this column. 

Nancy Rake. Black, white and tan pales setter bitch (A.K.R. 
4). by Mr. Thos. F. Connolly, Flatbush, L, I.,to Mr, H. 1, Milline.same 

ace. 

P Critic. Black spaniel bitch (A.K.R. 408), by Mr. Winchester John- 
son, Boston, Mass., to Mr. W. O. Partridge, same placc. 

Prince Bow. Pointer dog, elon and age not given (King 
A.K.R. 83—Chess, A.K.R. 77), by the Detroit Kennel Club, 
Mich,, to Mr, John Gross, Jr,, Junction City, Kan. j 

Peck’s Lad Girl. White, black and tan paar tae setter bitch, 
whelped May 8. 1884 (Mack B.—Chica), by Mr. W. B. Peck, Central 
Falls, R. 1,, to Mr. C Fred. Crawford, Pawtucket, R. 1. 

Mack Duff, White, black and tan English setter dog, whelped May 
8, 1884 (Mack B.—Chica), by Mr. W.B. Peck, Central Falls, R. I., to 
Dr. James BH, Tobey, same place. 

Mack B.—Chica whelps. Lemon belton English setter dogs,whelped 
May 8, 1884, by Mr. W. B. Peck, Central Falls, R.1., one to Mr, Law- 
rence Lockwood and one to Mr. Ban). A, Guage, Pawtucket, R. I. 

Princess Pearl. White, black and tan English setter bitch, age not 
given (Druid—Princess Draco), by Mr. C, R. Dufour, Washington, D, 
C., to Mr. W. R. Travers, same place. ; 4 

Pet pes tay ee Black, white and tan English setter bitch, 
whelped Noyember, 1888, by Mr, Andrew J, Ward, Boston, Mass,, to 
Mr. W, D. Wilson, Augusta, Ga 


Bow, 
etroit, 


Peck's Bad Boy. Lemon belion English’setter dog, whelped May 8, 


1884 (Mack B.—Chica), by Mr. W. B. ae i 
#, Bastvood, same mit y r. W. B. Peck, Central Falls, &; 1,, to Mr, 
on Gus. ack, white and tan English setter dog, 3yrs. (Gladstone — 
—Juno), by Dr, Otto Mobes, Rowland, Ala.. to Mr. ae rf faves Ash- 
miner White, 1 
Oreman. ite, lemon and tan imported heagle dog, yrs. (Bravo 
—Honesty), by Mr, W. H, Ashburner f } i ie 
Hawks, Ashfield fas , Philadelphia, Pa., to Mr, E. 8. 
fountess Lill. ack, white and tao Bnuglish setter biteh, tyr 
(Gladstone—Donna J.), by Mr. J. L. Barker, Raci is, to Mr, ES. 
Haws, AShfetd, Si 2 y cine, Wis, to Mr. BE. 8. 
essie T, ack, white and tan English setter bitch. 4yvs. (Glad- 
stone—Fly), by Mr. Geo. H, Tousey. Mandan, Dak., to Mr, nS. an wee, 
ae Mass. 
raft. Lemon and white pointer dog (A.K.R, 1038), by the Knick- 
as Olub, Jersey City, N.J., to Mr. J. 8, Bor ieeene: 
elair, N. J. 

Chief, Black pointer doz, ave not given (Stocking—Lady Mah), 6 
the Knickerbocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N, arta Mr. BP. Bell \. 
Rees fs J. . 

enmark. Lemon and white pointer dog. age not siven (Rush— 
Romp), by the Knickerbocker Kennel Club, aiSee City, N. TS to Mr. 
Geo. 8. Tucker, Peterborough, N. H. = 

Jimmie. Liver pointer dog, 2yrs. (Start—Mand), by the Knicker- 

bocker Kennel Club, Jersey City, N, J., to Mr. Louis §. Livesey, same 


place. 


Lady Isabel, Lemon and white pointer bitch (A-K.R. 461), by Mr. 
Geo. 5S, Tucker, Peterborough, N, H., to the Knickerboeker Kennel 
Club, Jersey City, N. J. 

Essex. St. Bernard dog (A.K.R. 931), by the Hssex Kennel, Andover, 
Mass,. to the Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass, 

Flirt Warren, Black and white Euglish setter dog (A.K.R, 1368), 


by the Strawberry Hill Kennel, Leicester, Mass., to Mr. Calvin Perry, 
same place. 


Primer (A,B. R. 227)—Jessy Gyp (A.K.R. 107) whelps. English set- 


ters, whelped March 3, 1884, by Mr. W. E, Rea, Hackettstown, N, J., a 
white and lemon dog to Mr. Theo, A. Weller, Middletown. N. J., and a 


white and black bitch to Mr. W. H. Larison, Madison, N. J. 


A SURPLUS OF NEARLY $2,000,000 is the solid guaranty offered by 


the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn.. that all just claims will be paid i 
full, as they always haye been.—4dv. 


Hifle and Cray Shooting 


RANGE AND GALLERY. 2 


THOMASTON, Conn., July §.—The Canton Rod and Gun Club and 


the Empire Rifle Club shot the second of the series to-day on the 
range of the latter club, near Reynold’s Bridge, in which the Empires 


were victorious by 30 points in a possible 1,600. Partof the match 

was shot in the rain, which made a rather bad light, The conditions 

were teams of nine men each, 10 shots per man off-hand, distance 

200yds,, Massachusetts ring target. Following are the scores: 
Canton Team, ¢ 


@tB AAs, eed A, 20" 1210: 11 Nd “Ao a2. “sos 

SJ Lyons.......... * 9 dd dd, 39) a01a 97 1.05 aa e108 

GA Case) haya) ere 10) 12125 76. 9 JO, 9 Oe 1G aie g5 

G Barbour_......-..-,.- 9° 71 Os OS FOe eek ide ey 

J IDTAMATAWS.” eo necer):+ o DOS 412 8 VE 10 10" SD) 0 G8 

J Laubenstein.....,.... 1S GB. eee 0S ioe el 

BOOBIES by se.itesnss Pas 11 6 pie 8s 10) 89) FO eG iy 

CE RUE Wisess -aleate eet ss. 4.69: 6. 8° 8 94 “a 6971. Het 

ARGS E NH er hrces sp upter be ee f 10. "R> 8 5.8 <9 8 6 Sed =sit 

Empire Team, 

WeHeDun DEirey ke py ves 9 10° 9 M1" 1p 70! 10) so at i t09 

CGAL tis co Sawa tos Soe (B12 10 SO ens 

GO Ganfield...,.... -..42 10 10 5 42 10 10 10 12 7— 98 

GA Lemmon.......-- OF 39 109 39> 0. ds Te et Sor 

OF Williams,........... " 11 10 10 9 8 9 10 10 N— 

E Thomas.. ..-.- tT 10s 00s Th Tie eS eae 

HY Cant. (rae eeaee a oT set ct Ainge te Be re ir), 

AS Hubbard®...-....., G6 10.0%. 11 AG GS o% TH Siet0—i89 

HW Bennett... 4. ..- W911 5 0 4 7 10 12 8— 87/—4h 
Atthe weekly shoot for the badge, July 12, the following scores 


weremade: F. Carr 102, C. F. Williams 98, 0.1L, Alling 96, G. A. Lem- 
mon 93, G. P. North 88, A. Fox 84. 

GARDNER, Mass., July 17.—Yesterday was the regular day for the 
meet of the Gardner Rifle Club at Hackmatack Range. The Ameri- 
ean decimal target was used; distance, 200yds.; shooting off-hand, 
with a possible 100. Only afew members faced the bullseye, their 
seores being as follows: J. N. Dodge 86, G, F. Ellsworth 84, A, 
Mathews $1, W. C. Loveland 77, 


JAMESTOWN, N. Y.. July 18.—Regular medal match; Creedmoor 
target; 200yds. off-hand; 10 rounds, wind ab 9 o’clock light, bright 
light: S.N. Ayres 45, H. V. Perry 45, N. J. Fenner 44, R. H. Burns 
44, A. W. Ward, 43, F. K. Dowler, 41, A. F, Warner 41.—R. H. Burns. 


THOMASTON, Conun., July 19,—The weather conditions at our 
weekly shoot to-day were very unfavorable for high scores, Part of 
tne match was shot during a thunder shower, with a strong wind 
blowing directly across the range. Following are the scores; 

LOD oes. 9 12. 912 1241-98 
910 711 9 10 11—94 
9 Fil 9 10—982 | 
) 5 9 10 71—89 
7 810 8 9 9 Dd 9 10=—88 
71010 61011 6 B B86 
9 8 7 8 610 9 8 11—86) 
7 11 11 10—85 © 

BOSTON, A 19.—There was a large attendance at Walnut Hill 
to-day, and while the gentlemen found a very perplexing wind from | 
6 o’clock, stillit was a delightful place to spend a summer «4 ffernoon. 
No very high scores were made, and nol many were finished, the 
gentlemen preferring to experiment rather than to struggle fer high 
record. A team match was shot between two teams of the associa- 
tion, which resulted in a victory for Mr. Berry’s team. Following are 
the best scores: : 

Creedmoor Practice Match. 


ee ee ee 


H Cushing....---- -. §554445545—45 R Borden........... 444344445440 
EQ Barnes. ...-.... 444455554444 H M Cross..,.._.....4845332444—36 
W Oarter)... .-...-. 4444544445—42 A FW Hall (mil.)...... 245433432536 
Creedmoor Prize Match, 

FW Perkins.......- 455545456547 EC Barnes.......... 5d4dd44h54—43 
W Fisher.... ..-... 445454544544 J A Cobb wees. --$4455985d54—43 
E BSouther......... 44444555544 Re Emery: .......,... 4444544445—42 
R Gardner.......-.. 445544554444 W Warden.--.---.-.- 45444454442 
UCP Bates... 2. as. §554444544—d4 


Captain Berry’s Team. Captain Perkins’s Team. 


J Francis...... 4564454555—46 QM Jewell,.... 54-41555455—46 ) 
GE Berry...... 4554455544415 RiReed? eee 444445545443 
E BSouther., ..4445544545—44 Ef Richardson, 4545454444 —43 

JB Fellows... .4845555445—44 FW Perkins. ,..4544444544 49 

W Visher..... 445445444412 Wide) lero 4444544444 


r) ' ,, i A —f J 
H A Lewis(mil).4435043448 —34 FG Ames...... 224154445539 954 


2 points for military rifle... 2-257 


THE TRAP. | 


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Correspondents who favor us with club scores are purticularly ve | 
quested to write on one side of the paper only. 


CLAY-PIGEON POINTS, 


Editor Forest and Stream: fs } 
Will you kindly allow us to answer a few criticisms lately passed 6 
us? With reference to inaccuracies in the count of the number 
elay-pigeonsin a barrel. Any such mistake (for such they are) made 
by any of our packers will always be cheerfully remedied by us bese: 
authoritative representation through the trader of whom the club 
urchased same. No honorable sportsman and no sensible man can- 
Pelieve for a moment that such a miscount has been made mtention- 
ally. We have three packers’at work, the public are welcomed to 
inspect our packing department atany time. The clay-pigeons are / 
first “strawed’’ in groups of five high, which groups are then placed 
in a crate beside the packer, who then counts the number of groups 
of five high he places in the barrel, afew odd ones being used now 
and then to fill the interstices, Weare doing and have been doing all 
we could to avoid miscounts, which, if they occur now, are due to 
fallibility of man, and which we always ‘‘make good.” It has been 
suggested that we pack the clay-pigeons in boxes h lding’ 10) each, 
This we are prepared to do at the extra charge of fifteen cents p 
box. Should any ciub prefer same lef them give their orders for 
same through their nearest traders and we will ship same at twenty 
four hours’ notice. _ a 
Secondly—With reference to the “aggravating tail.” We tho 
we had overcome this difficulty, judging by the numerous conve’ 
tions with sportsmen at the Chicago clay«pigeon tournament, 
ever, by Aug. 1 we will be prepared to Fupply clubs, ete., with a de 
i“ % e 


 ipon the market, 


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ested, in due time for them to make all arrangements, and have | allowance for the different characters of combustion of the fuel, 


“tachable “spring” metal tongue, to be used when the pasteboard 


“tongue is torn off by the carelessness of the trapper or becomes use- | requested T, H, Gibbes, Esq, to make all needful communications in | viz.: heen 
Jess through pioktures This substitute will nan prove equal to the the matter, At present I am inclined to think the shooting will take 4/66 V, of Roth words, 
steboard, which we predict will always make our present clay- pane in Charlotte, N. C., during the latter part of August,—WBELLs, W/ Ts ees 


resident. 


LOWELL,—The Lowell (Mass,) Rod and Gun Club’s second annual 
tournament will be held at the club grounds, July 80, clay-pigeons 
and glass balls, open to all, Wor programme address the secretary, 


BH, W. Lovejoy, 
Machting. 


DORCHESTER Y. C. 


a Nac eighty-first matches of the Dorchester Y, 0. were sailed in 
Dorchester Bay on July 15, in a strong breeze from north- 
west. The course for first class, 21 and under 27ft., was froma 
line between the judges’ boat and a stakeboat. to Cow Pasture buoy 
No. 6, leaving it to port, to buoy No. 7 off Fort Independence, 
leaving it to starboard, Spectacle Island, Sculpin Ledge buoy and 
buoy No. 6, Lower Middle, on port, Cow Pasture buoy No. 6 on star- 
board, to finish—94g miles. The second class, 15 and under 21ft., and 
third class, under 18ft., started from the same line, leaying Warm 
Bar buoy on port, Old Harbor buoy, Half Tide Rock buoy, Farm Bar 
buoy for the second time, Old Harbor buoy, Half Tide Rock buoy on 
starboard, and finally Farm Bar buoy on port, a total distance of 746 
mniles. The sloop yacht Lydia Adams was used asa judges’ boat. 
Seventeen yachts started, all being double reeled, and fourteen went 
over the course, as follows: 


igeou the best substitute for the live bird which will eyer be placed 


The velocity of a vessel is assumed as the cube rootof the quotient 
of the product of the area of her grate surface, and constant due to 
the character of combustion, divided hy the cube root of the square 
of her gross tonnage. ‘ a 

The constants being for natural draft, 1; jet, 1.25; blast and ex- 
haust,1.6, and in order to farther equalize competilion we recommend 
that the yachts be divided mto three classes, thus; 1st class, 250 gross 
tons and exceeding that. 2d class. 100 gross tons and less than 250, 
8d class, allunder 100 tons. Respectfully yours, 

J, G. HoaGbanD, 

Grow W. Hann. 

CHas. H, HASWELL, 
Henry A. Tayior, Secretary American Y. 0, 


-Thirdly—With reference to the legality of our patents. We must 
decline to discuss our legal attitude in a sportgman's paper, but will 
do sq in the U.S. courts of justice whenever the occasion offers, We 
have repeatedly offered (and hereby repeat the offer) to any would-be 
competing manufacturer—both through the press and to individuals 
—to enter a full, personal, legal discussion, and to expose our eévi- 
dence, toshow cur books as to cost of manufacture. Any one who 
will do. so will undoubtedly withdraw from his contemplated opposi- 
tion enterprise. 

Pourthty—As to the costof the clay-pigeon; irrespective of ‘patent 
or “no patent, we desire to say (though we presume many of your 
readers will nob believe this) that our profits are less than the same 
capita! would earn if invested in any stable manufacturing busi- 
ness not protected by patents. As partial proof (and we trust all 
candid sportsmen will listen fo us on this point) we will mention the 
following: (a) In Holland (where there is no patent law whatsoever) 
some manufacturer tried to make the clap-pigeon and failed utterly, 
(b) An English company, after canvassing the whole of Great Britain, 
found one firm who undertook to make che clay-pigeon at £3 (about 
$15) per 1,000, upon a contract to manufacture 150,000; result, a fail- 
ure, though the retail price in England is $30 per 1,000. (e) A firm in 
France made a similar failure, (d) A firm in Toronto, Canada, tried 
4 sinular experiment; result, a failure, though the duty thergis 25 per 
eent, on the Invoice price of the import. Weclaim broadly that no 
Petter in this country can manufacture sameé in quantity at less than 
$15 10 $18 per 1,000; if any man thinks otherwise, a walk through our 
factory will convince bim to the contrary, Therefore, we trust that 
sportsmen will cease to backbite us on account of the price. Those 
who do not wish to use them, need not do so; all weaskis that they 


BEVERLY Y.C.SECOND CHAMPIONSHIP RACE. 


TP \HE second race for the Buzzard’s Bay championship was sailed 

on Saturday last, the day opening witha S.W. by 8. wind, so 
strong that the second class cats did not start. In the large eat class 
Tris was disabled and could not start, and no club member could be 
found to sail Lestris and Violet. 

The preparatory gun was fired promptly, and at 1:12 the boats went 
off to a one-gun start, Tantrom and Whisper coming almost on the 
second, with Flirt, Atalanta and Mascot just astern, and Mattie, who 
was caught napping, just two minutes later, : 

Mascot crossed just to windward of the stakeboat, and would haye 
been ruled out if she had come in first. Atalanta and Whisper carried 
single reet's, the other boats double reefs. 

They had it kot and heavy beating out to Scragey Neck, then a run 
across,to Bird Island, and home with the wind on the quarter, Com- 


FIRST CLASS, 
Length, Actual. Corrected 


cease to Compare the price with that of the insipid glass ball, but | Sea Bird, G. L. Forbush............-.. 23.02 1 50 57 1 18 29 ine in Tantrum and Flirt shook out their reefs and crossed the line 

rather with that of the game, pallant bird it strives toemulate,and | Amy, KE. W. Baxter..................-. 21.00 1 57 18 1 22 05 aiie te side. 

with the success how universally recognized, Thisbie, 5S. A. Freeman.--.... .--. .-«; 21.02 1 58 16 1 28 21 z 4 Length. Actual. Gorrected. 
Filthly—With reference to reloading the trap after each shot. | Saracen, W. P. Fowle.......,.-..:--- 22.10% 2 06 02 1 34 22 Atalanta, I, R. Thomasi. .)..::.:.- .. 29 0114 «9-2 02 17 1 54 02 

When shooting at five traps we are decidedly in favor of same in SECOND CLASS. ; Whisper, F. W. Sargent.............- 98 00 92 05 15 1 55 30 

order to assimilate live bird shooting in the field. Trap-shooting, to | Scamp, F. Gray...._..... Boye peas np ko 4b. 1 31 00 1 00 17 Mattie, Vice-Gom. Stockton........-:. 2B 10 205 46 1 56 47 

preserve its charm. and above all ta raise this sport from the level of | Niobe, F, L. Dunne.. see ope amss Ae: 20.01 1 30 29 1 01 46 Tantrum, J. M. Codman.......- -+:.:. 35 00 213 32 2 0 27 

the pure gamester to that of the sepoMadt sportsman, must be | Water Witeh, T. W. King.-...,-. --. .19.05 1 30 49 1 02 21 Flirt. Geo. H. Esynienibaliteader sams 25 02 218 3214 2 00 4514 

made as nearly analagous as possible to field shooting, preserving all | Madelon, W. A. Tucker... ....,-.-..-. 20.07 1 82 25 1 04 15 Mascot. F. BE. Bacon, Jr.........2:. "24.06 withdrew. ‘ 

the wncerfainties of the latter. The man who shoots for money only TR Judges: Bdward Bangs HE, A. Bangs, W. Lloyd Jeffries. Judges’ 

wants no uncertainties whatsoever; he who shoots for pure love of ce CMD ws AC Let ieee, Jeee ay 1 4, 3 yacht, Madeap, B. Y. C. : BuvuE with A Gotp CASTLE. 

the sport (even though some “‘sugar’’ be mixed in the ‘tea’’) prefers TS ates Soe 06 te i 

the uncertainties of field shooting, and desires to see those uncertain- Do she at Oie 

ties incorporated in any artificial trap-shooting: Now this is a point | Juliet, H. L.Mamn............. ...-.. : STEAM YACHTS AND STEERING GEARS. 

on which honest sportsmen may differ, and J doubt notthe sentiment | Yolande, C. H. Nute..... ............. yp 


NEW device for quickly Landling a steam vessel has been applied 

to the steam yacht Vixen, built by Mr. John Samuel White, of 
East Cowes, for Lieut.-Gen. Baring, and deseribedin the London Field 
of June 28. 

Two balanced rudders are emplbyed, the larger, of 8sq. ft. area, 
being fitted abaft the wheel in the usual manner, but the smaller, 
of 4sq, ft.,is hung directly forward of the sternpost, the deadwood 
being nearly all cut away, the rudder fillmg the space between the 
keel, stermpost and shaft. The rudder heads, above deck, are con- 
nected by chain gearing, oné wheel, of course, operating both. In a 
trial of her speed in turning, on the helm being put hard over, an 
angle of 45°, the time occupied being 7 seconds, the boat turned in a 
circle of two and one-quarter times her length, or 137ft., in 38 sec- 
onds. The dimensions of the yacht are: Length over all, 62ft.; 
length on water-line, 6ift,; extreme beam, lift.: depth, 5ft. lin.; ex- 
treme dratt, 4ft. 10in.; displacement, 18 tons; cylinders, 84% and 13in, 
by 9in. stroke; screw, 4 blades, 8ft. 8in. in diameter, 4ft. 144in. pitch. 

Mr. Stewart Clark, owner of the Vanduara, has lately had built for 
him anew steam launch named Morna, from designs by Watson, 
She is intended fora tender to the Vanduara, and is spoken of as a 
very handsome vessel, - 

The Kunstadter screw has lately been tested in this country by the 
Naval Board, who will report initsfayor. The trials were made at 
Newport, ending on July 9. Inthe first trial the boat was reversed 
from full speed ahead to full speed astern in 2m1. 48s., the helm being 


is equally divided on this subject: therefore, Mr. Editor, let us have a | Ethel, W. H. Cutter ......,..-..--.--+ A 
full discussion from all sides. Our desire is to see trap-shooting 
contests placed on a high level, so that the thousands of amateur 
gentlemanly sportsmen, who to-day hold themselyes aloof from 
tournaments May he induced to participate, We would like to see 
trap-shooting contests on a large scale and of Frequent occurrence in 
all our principal cities. There are thousands of people to-day who 
attend baseball contests, who never bandlea bat; and we wish to see 
these same people witness gun club contests, though they never 
handle a gun. Rob trap-shooting of ifs uncertainties and this can 
never be accomplished; giveit allthe uncertainties practicable and 
success will surely follow. Do not the baseball pitcher and batter 
vary their balls? In billiards do not contestants haye uncertain con- 
ditions? How stupid a championship game of billiards would be, if 
each player had the same certain shot instead of the present varied 
uncertainties, Let trap-shooters do likewise, if they would triple and 
quadruple the number of contestants at their tournaments, whether 
Joeal or national. 

We trust no man will take offense at the above criticism; we wish 
to antagonize no man, we care not what the motive may be which 
prompt a man to enter a shooting contest. What we wish to do is to 
mcrease the present passive interest of the public in shooting matters 
to the mutual interest and pleasure of the present shooting. Let us 
ask ourselves why shooting has heretofore failed to draw an audi- 
ence? Isnotthe gun much more attractive than the bat? Is it not 


YACHTING IN SAN FRANCISCO. 


HE run of the Pacific Y. C. from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, 
ou July 2, proved by far the most interesting race yet sailed by 
the elub, ; 

The start was made early in the morning, the yachts towing out 
from their rendezyous off Front street to the Heads. 

The competing yachts were, Haleyon, 72ft. waterline; Casco, 85ft. ; 
Lurline, 72ft.; all keels, Aggie, TOft.; Annie, 45ft. 6in.; Ariel, 69ft.; 
Nellie, 48ft. 6in.; Fleur-de-Lis, 59ft. 10in., centerboard, and Lady 
Mine, a. keel pilot boat. Haleyon was first away at 8:48 A. M., 
standing off shore to windward, with kites set, Lurline over 
within a minute of her, but keeping in shore, Aggie starting with 
the pack, soon Jett them and overhauled the two leaders near Point 
Pedro about 10 0’clock, Lurline dropping astern shortly after, the wind 
being very light, 

The after diyision were having a race to themselyes meanwhile, 
Nellie taking the lead finally and holding it, with Annie last. The last 
twenty miles was in a fine breeze, in which Nellie gained on the Aggie 
but could not pass her, the latter crossing the line one minute ahead. 

The full times were as follows: 


amore manly sport? Youall answerin the affirmative. Wuherei Start. Finish, Elapsed. Oorrected, | hard over, changing the head eight poinis, the same maneuver with- 
then, lie the faults of the past, sae what showld be done to ere Haleyon, k........ .:.+. 8 48 00 4 34 00 4 46 00 727 2% | out the extra screw occupying six minutes five seconds. The inven- 
shooting on so broad a basis that a man need not blush to be known | Lurline, k..-..... 6 7 t tion in question consists of a small screw, connected by a universal 
asa “sportsman” or to participate in a trap-shooting contest under | Aggie, c. b.....-....-..- § O1 22 425 40 W 24 18 70116 | joint with the main shaft, butso hung abaft the rudder post as to 
his proper name, in place of a nom de plume? Doubtless this latter | Lady Mine, k - ....... 9 36 40 5 27 20 i 50 40 75040 | turn with the rudder, the thrust of the screw acting directly to 
remaric will astonish some of your readers, but it conveys the truth | Nellie, c. b.............. 9 38 28 5 34 30 7 36 10 ¢ 1145 | throw the hoat’s stern around. 

a8 we have ascertained through contact with devotees of the gun | Casco, k.... ............ 9 38 50 5 34 00 i 5b 10 % 53 10 

throughout the countiy. Our remedy is conveyed in the above sug- | Fleur de Lis, c. b... ... 9 39 50 5 40 55 8 01 25 ( 22 09 QUAKER CITY Y. C. 

festion, viz.: 10 assimilate ‘‘trap-shooting” to “field-shooting’”’ so as | Annie, ¢.b.............. 9 40 40 Oey ay 3 a mm Be i 


so 
= 
zs 


Editor Forest and Stream, 

The weather was thick and foggy at the start for the cruise, and the 
sea rough jn the bay. Still, the fleet held together, and it was one of 
the most enjoyable and successful trips in the annals of the club. All 
the yachts behaved creditably: Most noticeable was the Consort and 
the Ariel in the third class cabin. It was a hounce after jhe yachts 
reached the open waters of the bay. The Minerva and Sunbeam, first 
class, being the big ones, fell into their work like good staunch ships 
should do, Though the Sunbeam came out ahead, it was clearl 
demonstrated that the narrower boat, with greater freeboard. was a 


Jb wilh Yoda i tbe 

The four prizes are of silver, their total value being.$500. 

The'San Francisco Y. C, contented themselves with a quieter cruise 
than that of their more daring rival, braying the dangers of the Napa 
River in preference to the Pacific savells. 

The fleet sailed on Thursday evening from San Francisco, Sea 
Nymph going in advance, the others—Startled Pawn, Whitewine, 
Chispa, Rambler, Lolita, Emerald, Frolic, Dawn, Ripple, Nellie, 
Magic, Spray, Idle Hour, Neva. Eva and Thetis—arriymg at Vallejo 
by moonlight, 


to preserve all the uneerfain conditions possible; it will place the 
amateur on a par with the PrOESSSIOn Dy; it will increase the interest in 
all shooting contests, it will draw the public, it will greatly merease 
the ranks of the shooting fraternity. 

J. E. Bioom (for L, C. P. Go.). 


CONGCINNATI, July 11, 1884. 


DETROIT, Mich.—Maine Gun Club,—The following scores were 
made at the last match of the club: ~ 


Rebenet ...-......,-.110111111—9 Robenet.............. 1111101011—8 Some smallboat races were promised on the morning of the 4th, | the time the ablest and safest boat. Captain Krouse made a mistake 
Pndriss..........-....1101111011—8 Endriss............... 1111010111—8 | but none took place. At 9 A. M. all sailed for Napa, the only inci- | jn his course, and that beat him. wide boats, however well shaped, 
TES Bee AOMIT10—8 “Bryant.....-.....,... 0011111110—7 | dents of note being the grounding of several yachts, which occurred cannot cope with narrower ones in a sea. 

BOWELS... eens owe 0111101110—7 _Bowers.....!......... 0111111010—6 | sufficiently often to justify the suspicion that more than one San Your readers, will remember in the report of the annual regatta, 
Peaselus,.... Hs 4 AP 0110100000—3 Peaselus.,............ 1101100000—4 | Francisco yachtsman used his chart of the Napa upside down, Lolita | June 2, Quaker City Y. C., the Thomas won ihe first prize and the 
meek seen nen. 111000111i—7 Heeck.......-...,..... 1017111011—8 | was first in, then Emerald, Rambler and Fawn. Commodore's challenge eup. The Nahma, wioning second prize, 
MDE ba ee ae eno 1O01110111—% Moebs....... .....-.. 1001001001—4 After some boat races, the party gathered on board the Whitewing challenged the Thomas for the cup, according to the rules of the gift. 
JC Fe eae asia al lag ge 1011111100—7 Maller .....2..-.. -_., 0011111110—% | and Chispa, where several hours were passed pleasantly, the fleet | The boats sailed on J uly 14, over the Q, C. Y. C. course, starting at 
[UE a A AE, 10011170101—5_—- Martz................ 1010000111—5 | starting down in the evening in tow of two steam launches. Chispa | 10-05 A. M., wind blowing hard from N.W.., going with nearly a square 
[SERRE ag eae BRB er 0011110111—7 Besser....,....--..,.1111101010—7 | grounding and lying ashore all night. The others left Vallejo atnoon | boom. The Thomas with a single reef in the mainsail, whole jib, the 
RGAStEt. oi as 12000111117 Reaster.... ...-,...- 0101011111—¥ | on the fith, arriving in the evening at their moorings. Nabma with a double reef hauled down. The boats ran side by side 
Robenet.-...... ..- --1111101011—8 Robenet..-..--. ..- --1111100011—8 2S Pee until reaching the Horseshoe, where the river turns to the westward, 
OAUISS Sy Le = ees 111)010111—8 Hndriss... ..-...,.... 1111010110—¥ bringing the boats sharp on the wind. The Thomas outlooked and 
piyent Oe meee teeta ; Nee rp eny bear poraee ee AMERICAN Y. C., STEAM YACHT RACES. outfooted her opponent, and kept opening the gap to the buoy on the 

Pees a9 Dryas; : UN H— Ls 5 5 Ieee ; \— 4 r 5 r spit of C zl ; ming it 11:55, Na 01, $ i 

Peaselus..:.......-.+ .0111010010—5 Peaselus.... -...-.... 1001000000—2 i ees following circular and the report appended have been issued ae ana Grenade aon ats teat eee heater Nabma, 
Teed ely a Ee TOUMTOTI—8 Heele.. 0.2.0... 20 .,.1111000100—5 by Mr, Henry A. Taylor, secretary of the American Y. C., con- coming along with her two lower sails only, gradually bul surely 
Moebs...-.., .-.,-..-0101100111—6 Moebes............... Oni pa to nngseEs| Gennine the comne paces Of ibe club tyont Larchmont to-New Lon |i ioaing: the pap. Passing inside of Ironside Shoah sho came up 
PvraMesric asi iitae sey eye PO — 9 Ter ye ema, wen 0111100010—5 | don in August. The club haye accepted the invitation of the Larch- abreast and the Thomas set working topsail, but without avail, and 
Mariz , ....-. veee+ QOOTLONINN—3 Martz. .....-...2. 02. 10100000018 | mont Y..C. to rendezvous at Larchmont,for the'start: rounding the Shoe, the Nahma went to the front in good style, her 
MOGSSCM... jasa9scs2e0-5 1101010110—6 Besser................ 1100100001—4 There will be a rendezvous of the yachts of this club, prior to a powerful wide headsail making her jump. For myself I can say, as 
Reaster...::..:..:: ..011/101171—8 Heaster.............. 017100100—4 | regatta and eruise, an the Larchmont club house, on Wednesday. Gth | an old yachisman generally steady under excitement, I caught the 


of August next, P.M. From thence, af 10 4. M. on the following day, 
there will be a race around the hghthouse off Stratford to abreast 
the lighthouse at New London, and prizes ef equal value are to be 
competed for in two classes of yachts, viz.; first class, all exceeding 
100 gross tons; second class, all under 100; two or more entries in a 
class necessary to make a race. : 

The restriction of yachts to but two classes is for this occasion only, 
and is the consequence of there being but two prizes for competition 
with allowance of time. A third prize will be awarded to the yacht 
making the least tine over the course without reference to allow- 
ance of time. 


“thrill,” and was just as crazy as any one else. It was now anybody's 
race, The yachts winded each other alternately. It was nearly a 
dead beat from the Shoe to the home stakeboat, which was reached: 
Thomas, 2:10 P. M.; Nahma, 2:10:08. I desire to return thanks to the 
Thomas’s crew, one and all, for their courtesy to me as the Nahma’s 
judge. R, G, WILEINs. 


CAPSIZE OF A SANDBAGGER.—A race between open boats took 
place on July 19m Newark Bay, the course being 10 miles. There 
were eight entries, and the wind was squally. Just Woke Up cap- 
sized near the Nawark Bay Bridge, her crew of sixteen men being 


THE MISSOURI STATE SPORTSMEN’S ASSOCIATION will prob- 
ably not have a meeting this year, as there are no wild pigeons to be 
Cee LEA, Misn., July 17,—Combination traps, 18yds. rise, first 
noteh: 
MES SWINE SS anc: 017001010011071010011000001001011110101010101100011 —24 
B Pinkham, ......10011010111011000101700001110011100110110000101011—26 


WINCHENDON, Mass., July 17.—The Winchendon Gun Club had 
their rezular shoot yesterday. Out of a possible 10 clay-pigeons, the 
result, was as follows: 


Grea oud Mewes. sat O100111111—7 PS Davis............1001000110-4 | Owners of steam yachts of any organized club are invited to enter | thrown into the water. The leading boat, Maggie P,, went to their 
LW Martin..._.__-...1010101110—6 Dr J G@ Henry....... 10000100103 | 4nd to compete for the prizes under time allowance. The allowance | rescue, taking four on board, the Emma, C. also rendering necessary 
EP Ball. ........-....1011010100—5 James Southerland ..0011010000—3 | Of time is that, recommended and reported by a select committee, | asgistance. Maggie P. went on finally winning on time, Emma, losing 
Moses Manzer........001010110i—5 FM Brown..-....... oN0HH0110—2 | Sud which has been adopted by the club, a copy of whose report is | her chances b staying to help her unfortunate competitor. The 


herewith inclosed. 

Owners of yachts desiring to enter for competition in the above 
race, or in any that may occur during the cruise, are required to fur- 
nish the Measurer (Chas. H. Haswell, Box 2,961, N. Y.), on or before 
Monday, the 4th August next, at2 P. M., at which time the entries 
will close, with the name, tonnages as taken from their register issued 
during the current twelve months, area of grates and character of 
combustion, as whether natural draft, jet, blast or exhaust, also with 


times were as follows} 
VIRST CLASS—JIB AND MAINSATL, 
Finish. lapsed, Corrected, 
Just Right...,..-;, ve see Did 5 29 45 1 44 15 1 44 16 
Manas. sega sce ae Did not go course, 
Just Woke Up.....-.... d Capsized. 
Maree Pays cliseds bs dt 5 28 00 1 48 00 1 42 00 


THE NEW YORE TOURNAMENT.—In our last issue was given the 
rograminé ot a three days’ tournament, which will be held at the 
elropolitan Base Ball Park, in this city, Aug, 14-16. That the meet- 
ing will be an interesting one is already assured by the entries which 
have been made. They comprise the Wxeter (N. H.), Massachusetts 
Rifie Association, Boston, Worcester, Windsor (Conn.), Jersey City 
Heights and Capital City (Washington) clubs, and about as many 


more are expected. a copy of their signal, provided it is not already turnished. WritoM oc... peeeeees a ane ee awe ia ii lhe 36 15 1 36.05 
TRAP SHOOTING GROUNDS IN NEW YORK.—One great draw-| , The Regatta Committee will make the necessary, arrangements, | Whisk......,...+.+:.... 3.4130 Did not go course 

back iio the sport of trap-shooting in New York has been the neces- | COMpute the time allowance, and have direction of the race, or any | Zephyrs... 2.6212! 3 40 00 5 27 00 1 47 00 1 47 00 

sity ot crossing the ferries to find suitable grounds, There are many | 'bat may occur during the cruise, and all questions arising between | Ron Ton....... |. 8 40 15 5 20.00 1 39 45 1 38 55 


competitors will be decided by them, under the rules and regulations | 
of the club, so far as they may apply, and the decision of the com- 
mittee will be final. 

Report of the Committee on Time Allowance: 

The committees to whom was confided the préparation of arule for 
the determination and governing of time allowance of steam yachts 
in a competitive operation, respectfully submit that, haying cou- 
sidered the subject and communicated with several engineers and 
owners of yachts in 1 elation thereto, they find, that in order to attain 


suitable grounds in the upper part of the city, but shooting there 1s 

rohibited by & city ordinance. Through the exertions of Mr. J. B, 

| Bicomn. of Oincionati, the New York Aldermen last week adopted a 

resolution permitting the use of shotguns in the Metropolitan Base 

Ball Park, at the corner of Tirst avenue and 107th street, reached via 

the Third avenne Blevated to 106th street. We presume that the 
#rounds could be secured hy gun clubs on very reasonable terms. 


TOPSHAM, Me., July 18.—Regular shoot of Riverside club for club 


EAST BOSTON YAOCHTING.—The Jeffries Boat Club, of Bast 
Boston, held their races on Saturday last. The boats were divided 
into two classes, the prizes for the first being $20 and $10, and for the 
second $15 and $5. The course was 12 miles for first class and 6 for 
secoud, with a strong northwest wind blowing, the start being made 
ab 3:22, but two boats entering. 


Length, Actual, (Corrected. 
Tras Oren Ors el leer tates a ae tates 20.00 1 50 15 1 45 50 


oe : 7 : : 3 

barge, 20 clay-pizeons, 10 singles, 5 pairs, 3 traps, use of hoth bar-| 9 condition of competition approaching to that of exactness, that it J udith, TOM gE FZe7 orl Gd aeeig neeey ~ 26106 = 1 59 16 1 59 16 

Tels: would be necessary to ascertain the displacement of the vessel, the | The second class got away at 3:31, finishing as follows: 

~Goud...-. cote stent ster eeet eee eters 1011111111 10 11 11 ii O1—14 | ayea of her freeboard at different drafts of water, the weight of the Fagor . Actual. Corrected. 

Plo xATIOOr ly hoses ps hee rece cache 1111212010 = 10 01 10 10 00-11 | Fue) carried, the character of its combustion, a reliable report of its | Hard Times, Geyer & Moore...........,.........., 16 40 16 40 

BE IWAREN tks pinata tty 3 agit 1020010112 10 10 11 11 01—12_| consumption, anda visual verification of the pressure of steam, | Zetta, Warren & Fowle..........--..-) wal 6 44 16 32 
CERAM MGS oe eee gee cecrs ests eee eet OMIITO © i, 1) dd. dd 10-17 point of cutting off, number of revolutions, ete. The first two of | Uskuown, Ambrose Martin ....,......... erp. ee -.18 16 18 03 
WIMslOW cee specs tcne wee weet es 101111001010 11 10 00 1112,_ | which elements would involve the mitiatory computations of an ex-| Mr. B.S. Palmer was time keeper and judge, The next race will 
PHORIG Urata reves tetees eee SIOUIOUSIO! — i00%1100.10. 00— 8 ert. and the least of the latter, the presence of a capable and disin- | 0¢cur Saturday afternoon next, at 3 o’clock. 


erested party to yerify, whenever the vessel was in operation. Added 
10 which, the attainment of the initiatory elements of displacement 
and areas would inyolye a character of labor and amount of expense 
wholly impracticable for the club to provide for at this time, 
in view then of the assent that has been given to the report of Mr. 
Haswell on this subject’ to Secretary te eh in June last, we haye 
decided to adopt the method therein detailed. with the units for 


Greenleaty 0) sis. -esepeees nen --2- 110010010 11.00.11 01 00— 9 DORCHESTER Y. C.—The next meeting of this club will be held 


on July 28, and will be open to boats of the clun of 18 and under 21ft,, 
the courses being 734 miles, The prizes offered are: For first class, 

12 and $6; second Class, $10 and $5, The first signal will be given at 
2:55 P. M., the starting signal at 8 P. M. for first and 3:05 for second 
class. One man is allowed for every five feet of deck length, and ng 
shifting ballast is permitted, 


ASSOCIATION OF THE CAROLINAS.—Rockingham, N. ., July 
16.—Elitor Porest and Stream. The tournament (?) of the Sports- 
men’s Association of the Carolinas, will not take place in Columbia, 
8. C., on the 20th inst., as] advised your readers. Ithas been post- 
poued so as to get a day which will suit better the convenience of 

ome of our members. Iwill endeavor to inform all persons inter- 


[Jury 24, 1884. 


. AN ADVENTURGUS VOYAGER,—Captain W. Johnson, a Norweg- 
jan, arrived at the Town Quay, Southamption, on Saturday, in his 
little craft Neptune, a boat somewhat of the whale-hvat type, rigged 
with wo masts, carrying a jib, lugsail, and mizzen, Captain Johnson 
early in Jasb year sailed this boat from Drontheim, in Norway, to 
London Bridge, his narrative of the voyage afterward attractin; 
much attention. The Nephine was shown in the lake at the Horti- 
cultural Gardens, South Kensington, during the time the Interna- 
tional VWisheries Exhibition was on yiew, being in company with 
many other curious craft. She is 26ft. long over all, with a beam of 
Sft. 2in , and is decked in with waterproof weather cloth to cover up 
the well. Captain Johnson sailed fram the Thames on April 1, his 
only companion being 2 cat, and he has been cHaesoe along the north 
coast of France, and, crossing to Worthing, had his little boat hauled 
up on the beach, where she was an object of much curiosity, a 
hotograph being taken of her and her owner, The Neptune is now 
auled up in Stockham and Pickeitt’s yard at West Quay, and is 
having an iron keel put on, Captain Johnson intends to cross the 
Atlantic in her if possible, and will commence his voyage at the 
Town Quay some time during to-day,—Land and Water, July 12. 


« EASTERN Y. C.—The prize which was won by Fortuna at the 
annual regatta on the 27th of June last, has been returned as a cup, 
by Commodore Hovey, to the regatta committee, who have decided 
to offer it to be sailed for on the annual crmse of the club, at New 
Bedford, on Monday, the 28th July (or, if stormy, next day), open to 
first and second class schooners of any club, HE. Y, C. measurement 
and allowances, The course will be notified to the boats hereafter. 
Therace will be sailed in cruising trim, with anchors and chains on 
board, boats at davits, etc., but sails allowed by E; Y, C. rules may 
be carried. There will also be sailed at the same time and place, a 
race for first and second class sloops, for a ‘cup offered by Commodore 
Hovey, over the same course, and under the same conditions, These 
races will be started as near to twelve o’clock as possible, and the 
committee’s boat may be used asa stakehoat at the beginning and 
finish. Entries may be made to the fleet captain, at the flagship 
Fortuna, up to eleven o’clock on the day of the race.—Daniel 
Appleton, George A. Goddard, Edward B, Haven, Regatta Committee. 
(Boston, July 15, 1884). 

TORONTO Y, ©,—A race for yachts of 7 tons and under was sailed 
on Saturday, July 19, with three entries, Iris, Mischief and Kestrel. 
The start was made at3 P, M. from the club ‘house, in a northwest 
blow that put all under close'reefed mainsails and storm jibs. Mis- 
chief crossed first, with a good lead over Iris, Kestrel being delayed 
eonsiderably. The time at the first buoy was: Iris 3:16, Mischief 
3:18;30, Kestrel 3:27:20, Iris having more than made up her loss. In 
the run to the buoy off Gibraltar Point, Tris still/held het place, round- 
ing at 3:29:45, Mischief 3:31:15, Kestrel 3:40, Here Kestrel had a mis- 
understanding with her spinnaker boom, which went overboard, aze 
of her crew going over as well, but both being picked up. So much 
time was lost, however, that she withdrew. Iris rounded the next 
buoy at 4:08:15, and Mischief at 4:12:45, and started for a run down, 
Tris with galitopsail over close-reefed mainsail, Mischief could not 
carry her spinnaker, though she tried. Iris finished at 41:44, beating 
Mischief S5min. on corrected time. Ivis has to win once more before 
owning the prize. 

HULL Y. C. OREGON HOUSE MATCHES,—A match will be 
sailed on Saturday, July 26, off the Hull ¥.C, house, open to all 
yachts of the club, for prizes given by the guests of the Oregon House, 
near by. There will be four classes of yachts, asfollows: First class, 
keel sloops, Measuring 21ft. and under 2Sft.; second class, center- 
board yachts, measuring 20ft. and under 25ft.; third class, cat rigs, 
measuring I8ft. and under 20ft.; fourth class, cat-rigs, measuribe 
under 18ft. The prizes are: First class, first prize $25, second $10; 
second class, first prize $25, second $10; third class, first prize $20, 
second $10, third $5; fourth class, first prize $15, second $10, third $5. 
The courses will be 10 miles for first and second classes, and 6 miles 
for the third and fourth. The first signal will be given at 3,40 P. M., 
the starting signal at 3:40 for first class, the others starting at 3:45, 

50 and i755 respectively. The committee are Messrs. Harrington, 
anne ae Brown; judges, Messrs. L. J. and ©. ¥. Harrington, and 

. J, Kiley. 


OPEN BOAT SATLING IN NEW YORK.—Our columns every week 
ear testimony to the popularity of smaliboat sailing in Boston, 
nd this week the Beverly, Lynn, Dorchester, Hull and Salem 

elubs are on record with matches just suiled or about to be. In New 
York the record is easily summed up; a race on Newark Bay on the 
19th. in. which the capsize of one boat in a strong tideway placed the 
lives of her crew, sixteen men, in great danger for a time; another 
race on the following day in the Sound, with another capsize, the five 
men being finally rescued, and an upset of a small, shoal sailboat, 
with a party of six, half of them women,in the Hudson, These last 
also were saved, but only by chance. How much longer are we to 
wait, and what emphatic warning to come, before the advent of safe 
boats, limited crews, and fixed ballast? 

HULL Y. C., LADIES’ DAY.—Thirteen yachts took part In_the 
ladies’ day sail of the Hull ¥. C. on July 19; the schooners Silvie, 
Com. Perkins; Vif, Vice-Gom. Crane; yawl White Cap, Rear-Com, 
Rice; schooners Geo. H. Warren, Alice, Marion Wentworth and Tem- 

est; sloops Anna, King Philip, Ella May, Ariel, Vishnu, and cat 
Barebler. With a fresh wind trom southwest the ficet started off 
under single and, in some cases, double reefs, the signal being given 
ab 2:45 P, The fleet sailed past the Silvie in review, then stood 
out through Hull Gut, down almost as far as Minot's Light, then 
turning sailed in, arriving at about 6P, M. The ladies were taken 
ashore in the tug Wesley A. Gove to the club house, where supper 
was served, after which a dance occupied the rest of the evening. 


BEVERLY Y, C. BOOK.—The Club Book for 1884 sho ws a mempber- 
ship of 127 with 88 yachts, allbeing under 30ft., among which are 8 
cutters, 2 yawls, 19sloops, 1 schooner and 59 cathoats, 3 keel and 
65 centerboards. The success this club of small boats has met with 
may he judged from the list of its matches last year, a full account 
of which is given. The entries for the eleyen matches sailed during 
the season, were no Jess than 3035, nearly all the boats starting. The 
grand occasion of the year was the open race in August, iv which 
190 yachts entered, by far the largest fleet ever brought together in 
aracein American waters, while the arrangements were so perfect 
that the large feet were started and timed with hardly any mishaps. 


NEW HAVEN Y. C. CRUISE,—A start was made on Saturday, 
July 19, delay being occasioned at first by a violent thunder storm at 
the hour appointed, The fleet includes the Minerva, Mascotte, Zephyr, 
Acme, Wild Pigeon, Vixen, Endeavor, Rajah, Flora, Marguerite, 
Ceres, and Wild Duck. On Monday at? A: M. the yachts left Stony 
Creek, arriving at Greenport in the afternoon. Endeavor and Mas- 
cotte put back owing to the heavy weather on the Sound, On the 
run across Rajah arrived first at Greenport, haying been lost under 
way at Stony Creek, The fleet will proceed to New London, Newport 
and New Bedford, where a race will be held. Thestartfor home will 
be made on the 28th. 


LAKE YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION.—The new Lake Yaeht 
Raeing Association will hold their first matches at Oswego on July 
30, and a large unmber of boats will probably enter- The following 
prizes are offered: First class, first $150, second $76, third $50; sec- 
ond class. first $100, second $65, third $35—a third prize only being 
given if four boats start, and a second if three start, The second 
race for the championship pehuant given by Commodore Mott will 
be sailed by all yachts of the Oswego Y. C, over the second class 
course, Allraces will be sailed under the rules of the L. Y. BR. A. 
pees must be made in writing to W, E. Lee, secretary, on or before 

uly 28. 

A NARROW ESCAPE.—A party of six, three of whom were ladies, 
were thrown into the Hudson on Sunday by the capsize of the cai- 
boat Edith, a trap of the usualmodel. Im this ease the presence 
near by of the police boat, Patirol, prevented the customary tragedy 
attendant on such accidents, If men choose toperil them own lives 
im such machines perhaps they have a right to do so, but risking the 
lives of women who are ignorant of the danger and trust in their 
superior knowledge is a different matter. 


A NEW YORE BOAT IN HASTERN WATERS,—The owner of the 
open jib and mainsail boat Cruiser, well-known in the Seawanhaka 
and Larchmont clubs, will take his boat to Boston next month, for a 
series of races with Eastern boats. The following races have already 
been arranged: Aug, 18, A, M., Thisbe; Aug. 18, P. M., Viva; Aug.19, 
A, M., Hornet; Aug. 19, P. M., Hoiden; Aug, 20, Amy; Aug. 21, Queen 
Mab; Aug, 22, Sea Bird: Aug. 23, Black Cloud, The Cruiser will also 
enter the matches of the Hull Y. 0. on Aug, i6and Beverly, Aug, 23. 


BRVERLY. Y. C.—The second cha ponnae matchés sill be sailed 
on July 26, at Swampscott, ap 12M. he classes are: First, over 23ft. 
Gin. and under 30ft., wafer-line; second, over 19ft. 6in. and not over 
21f( ; third, 19ft. Gin. and under. No change of ballast may be made 
on the day of the race. The time of the race is limited to 244 miles 
per hour for second and third classes, 284 miles for all others, A 
special prize forfirst class schooners, and also one for second class 
keels, will be given, provided two start in a class. 


OPEN BOAT RACE ON THE SOUND,—A race was sailed on Wed- 
nesday, July 16, from Bridgeport Lightto Westport and return, 20 
miles, between theopen yachts Americus, Hugh Masterson, and Alice, 
BH. W, Smith, both of Bridgeport. The Américus won in 4.37, beating 
the Alice 24 minutes, corrected time. The race was sailed under the 
rules of the Dorchester Y_ C. 

LYWW Y. 0.—The Lynn Y. ©, will hoid their matches on Saturday 
next, off thew club house, starting at 1 P,M. There will be three 
clagses, 


_WREOK OF A YACHT ON LAKE ERTE.—The Peirel, a schooner 
yacht 30ft.x11.1ft., parted her moorings on July 13 and went ashore 
near Angola. proving a total wreck. Her crew were en shore at the 
Keath The Pétrel was built in Buffalo, where she was owned, in 


QUAKER CITY Y. C.—A sweepstakes race has been arranged be- 
tween the fourth elass yachts Minerva, Adelphia, Bhwell, T. J. Pratt, 
and Francis K. Pierson, to take place over the usual course from 
Market street wharf. Camden. around Obhester Buoy and return. 


SALEM BAY Y,.C,—The matches of this club, postponed until 
July 17, were not sailed on that day, owing to a heayy thunder storm 
al the time of starting, so they were postponed for the third time, no 
date being set. 7 Y 


VIKING.—This steam yacht, built by Roach & Son in 1883, has been 
sold by her owner, Mr. G. 8. Scott, to Mr. Samuel J. Tilden. 


Canoeing. 


CANOEISTS cre invited to send us notes and full reports of crises, 
club meets, information about canoeable waters. and other commu- 
nications of interest. 


FIXTURES. 


July 24 to 26,—Lake George Meet, Lorna Island. 
Ang. 1to 15.—A. C. A. Méet, Grindstone Island. 


WEIGHT OF CENTERBOARDS. 


HEREAS, The use of heavy centerboards has made it desirable 
to define the limit of weightat which it may be claimed a board 
is not used as ballast, 

Resolved, That to be eligible for races without ballast, the center- 

board, with case complete, should not exceed 15 pounds in weight. 
_ The above resolution was unanimously aston’ to at a regular meet- 
ing of the Mohican C. ©, ‘There are no heavy centerbeards in the 
club, and none of the members use ballast; but an expression of opin- 
ion was made with a view to directing attention to an important sub- 
ject. The captain or some other M. C. C. man will move as above at 
the next A. ©. A. meet in order to put an end to the vague terms 
“light” and ‘‘heayy,”’ as applied io boards, and for the guidance of 
future regatta committees, 

The Mohicans reeognize the heavy board as a legitimate appliance, 
and ballast as an advantageous aid under certain circumstances; but 
they like to keep their boats light, because they paddle as well as sail, 
they travel by rail and by steamer quite frequently, and they like to 
float in a few inches of water as they explore creeks and streams near 
home and rifts and rocky rivers away from home, end they like a. 
buoyant boat, because they have lively squalls and pretty rough 
water, and notinfrequen capsizes (which are, under the circumstances, 
very good fun), 

And the Mohicans believe that quite a number of other canoeists 
agree with them, Therefore, they desire in their own club, and in 
the Association, to have races wherein the light all-round canoes can. 
compete apart from racing sailboats, although they are not afraid to 
try conclusions with the veriest racing machines in any weather, in 
other raves. 

And this resolution is published in order that proper consideration 
may be given to the question before it is put to the vote. 

[There would probably be some difficulty in limiting the weight of 
board and trunk, as the latter is a fixture in the canoe, and in many 
cases its weight, if not ascertained when building, could not be after- 
ward determined. Would it not be best to limit weight of board only, 
as the board can, in almost all eases, be detached and weighed ?] 


ROYAL C, C. ANNUAL REGATTA—-JUNE 28, 


6 Royal C, C. were again favored with glorious weather for their 

interesting and popular annual meeting. The entries for the 
paddling races were not perhaps as numerous as on some previous 
occasions, but the events were for the most part hotly contested, and 
afforded considerable amusement to the spectators. The entries for 
the sailing race were good, and much interest was centered in Mr. 
Baden-Powell’s new Nautilus, Unfortunately, however, he was un- 
able to get a suit of sails made for her in time, and was therefore 
compelled to stand out from this eyent. In the running race, how- 
syer, the new boat showed considerable speed, and won, afterm good 
race with the old Pearl, now Violet, During the day the band of the 
H, A. C. performed a selection from their repertoire, and greatly 
aided to the enjoyment of the meeting. The resnuits of the various 
events were as follows: 

Half-mile Cee race, any canoes.—Claud Scotp, 1; 5. Putcher, 
2, Asplendid race, Putcher leading at the start; Scow passing him 
at the balf distance, aud winning by a bare five feet. 

Paddling and sailing race; sail before wind, and paddle back.—A, 
B. Ingram, 1; J. V. Vesey-Vitzgerald, 2. Fitzgerald Jed in the run 
nae but gol in a mess with his sails on rounding, Ingram winning 
easily. , 

Mile Paddling in Rob Roys.—C@laud Scott, 1; P. Nisbet, 
how, Nisbet giving up at half distance. ; 

Half-mile double canoe race, lady and gentleman in each canoe,— 
F. W. Lewis-Farrar and lady, 1; P. Nisbet and lady; B, L. P. Nisbet 
and lady, 0. Won easily. 

Sailing race, four times round.—T, PF. Knowles,Gladys, 1; B.A. Leach, 
Wave, 2; W. Watney, Violet, 0; H. Chureh, Imogene, 0. Violet got 
away first, but was passed by Gladys. In the second. round, how- 
ever, Violet got away again and hada good Jead, when her skipper 
got literally up a tree,” and extinguished his chance, Imogene got 
an unlucky , which nearly filled her, so the Wave was left to walk 
in for second place, 

Miie pa dling: challenge cup.—M. A, Ord-Mackenzie, the holder, did 
not putin an appearance, and the race lay between Claud Scott and 
Puteher, the former winning, after a good race, by about three 
Jengths, Both men steered miserably, 

Sailing race. running only.—W. Baden-Powell, Nautilus, 1; W. Wat- 
ney, Violet 2; J. Vesey Fitzgerald, Zoedone, 8; H. Church, Tmogene, 
0. Thenew Nautilus, witha small sail borrowed for the occasion, 
sailed a good race and won, 

Your-paddle race.—Claud Scott, E, L. P, Nisbet, H. K. Bridger, P. 
Nisbet, 1; 8, Futecher, W. EB. Graham, G. V, Gaskell, A, B. Ingram, 0. A. 
splendid race, the boats being neck-and neck all the way, Scott's crew 
just winning by half a length. . 

Chase over land and water.—P. Nisbet, 1; S. Futcher, 0. Futcher 
was first across the river, but hurried too much on getting his canoes 
out of the water and in again; Nisbet taking matters more voolly, got 
his eanoe in right side up and won easily. 

Scratch Fours, half mile.—First heat; H. Davenport, G. V. Gaskell, 
W. O’Mally, and P. Hart 1; E. L. P. Nisbet, Carpenter, P. Nisbet, and 
W. Scott, 0. Won by three lengths —Second heat: H. Tuppin, C. L. 
O’Mally, Chancellor, and Claud Scott, 1; G. J. B. Porter, H. Morley, 
H, Church and G. Ingram, 0.—Final heat: C. Scott’s crew, 1; Dayen- 

ort’s crew 0, A splendid race, resulting in fayor of Scott’s crew by a 

ength.—London Field, July 5. 


Won any- 


CRUISING CANOES AND THE A, C. A. RULES, 


Ree the publication of the official programme of the annual 
races, the attention of canoeists generally bas been drawn to & 
most important feature of the present racing rules, their influence 
on canoe models. It will be admitted without question that the main 
end in view in all canoe legislation is the encouragement of legitimate 
cruising, and to that end the development of the best possible model 
for general cruising work and the limitation of extreme types and 
‘racing machines. - , 
The value of canoe races'in the Serene and promotion of the 
sport is beyond dispute. They add greatly to the interest of canoe- 
ing. They can be held at all times, on any afternoon through the 
season, and so are open to many who cannot spare time for cruising. 
To their influence we owe many of the most valuable improyements 
in boats and gear, and they occupy deséryedly a prominent place in 
ourmeects; but with them comes the necessity for fixed and carefully 
prepared rules. Even without racing some limit or definition of a 
canoe would be necessary, but to class the boats prope:ly for the 
races is the first requisite. Those most interested in such work would 
naturally be racing men, and the chances are that in their eagerness 
to provide sport for all they will forget the medium boats and favor 
the racers, both sailing and paddling. , ; : 
In criticising any set of rules, the test question is, ““What is their 
inftuence on canoe models,” or what classes of canoes will be built 
unger them,'and in conmmection with this, it must} be considered that 
the records of all sports prove, that where a limit is set, competition 
will always force the contestants to build up to it in time. 


The history of the present rules is known to all canoeists; in 1881 


| acommittes of three was appointed by the A. ©. A. to haat iI 


aud sailing regulations; their work was subniitted to seven other 
canovists, representatives of various clubs, aud-the work amended in 
accordance with their suggestions, after which the miles were dis- 
tributed among canoeists for their opinions, before being finally sub- 
mitted to the Association and being ado After a limi in 


‘ ra - u . 
one regatta, the regatta committee of 188? and 3 rejected them, in 


favor of thuse at present in use, which have thus 
season's tial. Pp d far had also one 

nthe former rules, every canoe was placed definitely in a fixed 
class, according to ils leading dimensions, races being sl Hele dp for 
that class, both paddling and sailing, the consequence being that the 
same boats came together in each race, and if one improved his ad- _ 
vantages as a sailing boat by an undue sacrifice of paddling req'tis- 
ites, he paid for it by being ata disadvantage in paddling, and vice 
versa. Of course there will always be some boats difficult to place 
in any one class under apy rules, but the difficulties arising under 
the former rules. owing to diversity of sizé, there never haying beeu 
any standard or limit previously, would disappear in a few seasons, 
as the rules were built upto, The new rules were based on an en- 
tirely different plan, the primary distinction being sailing canoes, 
and paddling canoes, or two totally distinct classes, the limit of size 
for each being widely different, The immediate tendency of such a 
rule is evidently to develop special boats, some fast under paddle, 
and others only fast for sailing, and while one year is hardly lone 
enough to test the matter conclusively, the coming meet will prob- 
ably prove the truth of the above, bybringine out boats built {> the — 
limit in one class, but useless in the other, such boats of course tak- 
ing the prizes, to the exclusion of the all-around canoe ~ 

For instance, taking a ganoe of 1428. it is called wpon to paddle 

against a canoe of 1728, a handicap of 3ft. in fayor of hie latter boat, 

certainly an immense advantage, other things being equal. In sail- 

ing it is brought agaimst a boat 1628, or 2ft. against it. The smaller 

or Rob Roys, 26in., must paddle against a boat 2ft. longer, and their 

only chance for a sailing race is with a canoe 1628, in which their 
chances are decidedly poor, The 14380 canoes must also give 2ft, of 

length, and even then there is but one paddling race that they can 

enter, while in sailmg,in the three races they can enter they are 

heavily handicapped. The entire pressure of the rules then, is to 

boats either 1628in. or 16X30, both of which sizes are but little used, 

and by the general practice of canoeists are far from the best, and 
while, at present, the small intrinsic value of the prizes makes the” 
pressure comparatively light, as races increase in the clubs, as they 

are rapidly doing, canoes of other dimensions must withdraw almost 

entirely from them. 

It will be easier to say after the present season how far this eyil 
will extend, but we would call the attention of all canoeists to the 
rules, as worthy of their most careful consideration, with a view to 
theirimprovement. One of the first requisites of a measurement 
rule is stability, thatit should remain as far as possible unchanged, 
in order that boats builf, under it may not be outclassed in a year or 
So, and we would not advise another ill-considered and radical change, 
oe a peeeul effort on the part of allfor the removal of the present” 

ifficulties, 


THE A. C. 


Editor Forest and Stream: 

Mr, Whitlock’s letter and the editorial note following it give a dif- 
ferent aspect to the programme question, but there is sill an uncer- 
tainty about some points, First let me say that the Mohican resolu- 
tions were Proiey by the programme published in Forest aAnb 
STREAM, which Mr. Whitlock has declared incorrect, but which was 
nearly the same asa proof which he offered far my perusal some 
time previous, and against which I protested, without effect, as Isup- 
posed, since the chairman of the Regatta Committee wrote to me un- 
favorably and then published a letter defending outside ballast (which 
Mr. Tyson has ably met). Therefore we had every reason to believe 
that the programme in Formst AND STREAM was authentic, But re- 
ferring to Canoeist, 1 find: 

12, Sailing light race, 3 P. M., 144 miles 

(a) Canoes without ballast. 

(b) Canoes with heavy board only. 

T infer from Mr. Whitlock’s last letter that the a and & do not refer 
to classes. The use of these letters is somewhat misleading, there- 
fore, but this does not matter much if it is clearly explamed. 

_ But the next inference (or rather consequence) is that in light races 
Classes A and Bare to compete together, in fact, Mr. Whitlock writes 
that in that race, ‘which has always been for any canoe, thediyi- 
sions into A and B classes becomes unnecessary.’ Now, referring to 
the no ballast race in last year’s programme, I find classes A and B- 
mentioned, and I remember that, although sailed together, they were 
separate races with separate prizes, and it seems to me that the idea 
of cutting down the programme is not furthered by adding a light 
race for canoes with heavy racing appliances, if it has to be done by 
crowding the real light boats into a single race where Class A boats 
have no chance against their bigger opponents. It simply alters our 
complaint that there was no light race for Class B to one that there 
is nove for Cjass A, aid asJ have not, from the commencement of 
this. discussion, wished to obtain advantages for my own boat but 
have only asked for an equitable arrangement, | think the situation 
is not improved. 

Only one Class A Mohican canoe is likely to be at the next meet. 
the Marion, and it was her owner who offered the resolution petition- 
ing in favor of Class B, Now itis her turn to be advocated, She was 
proved at Newburgh to be a good boat and skillfully commanded, yet 
itis well known that against three Inches more beam ‘she has no 
chance worth speaking of, and that too,in her proper and fayorite 
trim of no ballast. There are many canoes of the same type: I speak 
of the Marion only.as an instance of ber class. 

It saems to me to be evident without argument that each of the 
classes, A and B, should havea race without ballast. I think they 
were the most valuable races on the programme and the ones most 
likely to encourage good canoeing in fair boats not over-rigged. Atthe 
same time I personally, and the Mohicans as a club, are sorry ta be 
thus at variance with the chairman of the Regatta Committee, know- 
ing how able and beneficial his previous services to the A. C. A, have 
been. For my part I would withdraw everything and say no more 
vather than assume the responsibility of being a useless critic. I 
commented as a petitioner, circumstances have since put me in the 
attitude of a eritic. TI have no moré to say on this question unless ib 
is the opinion of the A. C. A, that enough is not yet said. 

oBnRT W. GIBSON. 

[As stated last week, the error alluded to was in the original copy 
sent to us by the Regatta Committee. It would be very easy to divide 
the canoes 1n the first division of race No, 12 into A and B classes, 
starting all together, of course. The main difficulty, as we have 
pointed out elsewhere, hes in the basis of the present rules. 


A. RACES. 


THE LOG BOOK, 


IX—A CRUISE ON THE MERRIMACK. 


BAVING Salem by the first train on the Fourth of July, the canoa 
Joie started for a cruise down the Merrimack, from Lawrence 

and throngh to Ipswich, The Joie is a canvas canoe of the Rob Roy 
style, decked over, and isa home-made craft, Leaving the canoe at 
North Andover, being nearer the river than Lawrence, I went invo 
the city, my object being to see if Lcould get a friend, who is a canoe- 
ist ef some Dote, to accompany me a short discance down the river; 
but on reaching his house I learned that he had left early in the morn- 
ing to go up the river, so J returned to North Andover alone. 

ith a little assistance I got the canoe into the water and started 
down the river. There was a slight breeze up the river, so the crew 
was obliged to take tothe paddle. Moving slowly down, and stop- 
ping occasionally to go ashore, it was nearly noon before the Joie 
reached St. Mitchel’s Falls, which she ran in safety luckily, as they 
were her tirst rapids. A short distance below I m+t a couple of boats, 
whose occupants were camping further down tor the day. They 
kindly invited me to stop and take dinner with them, whicd invitation 
I accepted, and remained there until 3 o’clock, when, bidding them 
zood-by, I continued on my journey. 
Passing by Haverhill and Groveland, I reached a good camping 
ground about a mile and a half or two miles below Groveland bridge 
on the right hand side of the river. It is around a curye that hides & 
icnic ground below the bridge from sight, on a grassy bank amid a ~ 
arge group of trees. There is plenty of: wood and a farmhouse near 
by, Where you can obtain milk, etc. Landing there I pulled the Joie 
on the bank and pot up my canoe tent and prepared for the night. 
About eleven o'clock J was awakened by the sound of rain on the 
tent, but as that was waterproof it did not trouble me. It rained 
until seven o'clock the next morning, so the Joie did not get started — 


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‘was @ strong current and wind against me through the river, and so 

> ee obliged to paddle. On reaching the SoundI was completely 
lost, having no landmarks to steer by, fer it was dark and the wind 
was blo hard, At last, seeing a lightinshore, I decided to paddle 
for itand learn where l was. Onreaching it and finding a beach, I 
went ashore and learned that I was up Parker River. 

As it was then about 9 o’clock I decided not to go any further that 
night, and on being offered a bunk in a small shanty, I accepted and 
passed the night there. In the morning, atter a hearty breakfast in 
a cottage, the Joie started for the Little Neck again. There was a 
stiff breeze blowing against her, so the crew were obliged to paddle 
across. It was a hard, wet struggle, but the Neck was reached at 
last, and there the Joie stayed until the next morning. I met some 
Salem friends and remained there that nighv. 

In the morning I paddled up to Ipswitch and took the train for 
Beverly, where I put the canoe overboard again and paddled ie 
the wharf, reaching itat10 o’clock in safety. Thus ended my first 
cruise, but I hope not the last. : Jorn. 


GRUISING NOTES.—Messrs. J. L. Greenleaf, Knickerbocker C. C., 
Frank J. Proctor and A. G. Webster, Harvard C. C., called at this 
place (Newburgh) July i7,Mr, Greenleaf being on a cruise to Albany 
and the Messrs. Proctor and Webster en route to the Lake George C. 
G. meet at Lake George and the A. C. A. meet at Grindstone.— 


Eg. ‘ 

Dr, Neidé and Mr. Newman reached Plattsburg on July 9, Rouse’s 
Point, 10th, and crossed by rail to Ogdensburg on the 1ith, starting 
up the St. Lawrence on the 12th. For two days progress was very 
slow against wind and current, while rain at intervals made matters 
worse. On Monday the wind came from the east, so an early start 
was made, the remaining run of nearly thirty miles being made in 
five hours, before the wind, both canoeists being soaked with spray. 
The wind changed back again just after theirarrivalin camp. Dr. 
Neidé is now hard at work on the island, and reports that he cannot 
hire any help, There are, no doubt, plenty of canoeists who have time 
to spend an extra week in camp, and a little help from some of them 
now will be very acceptable. 


CANORING IN PITTSBURGH.—Canoeing is rapidly becoming 
more popular in Pittsburgh, and aside. from three perfectly organized 
- and equipped eanoe elubs, every urchin and street gamin that enjoys 
a love for aquatic sport, has drawn upon his limited amount of genius, 
and conyerted an indescribable mass of driftwood into a canoe 
shaped ‘‘something,’’ which he paddles to and fro with a broken oar, 
or a piece of board, with all the pride and satisfaction of the com- 
mande,r of the finest lapstreak.—C. A. R. 


CANOE PHOTOS.—We have received from Mr, F. H. Pullen, two 
handsome photos of the Merrimack River meet. 


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FOREST AND STREAM. 


A NEW NAUTILUS CANOE.—Mr. Baden-Powell has just completed 
anew Nautilus canoe for eruising and oceasional racing, and will 
“trial trip” her in the regatta races of the Royal C. C. to-day at Ted- 
dington. As regards model, she looks ‘‘fairness itself; there is not 
a hollow line in her, She has a considerable rise of floor, with a rak- 
ing midship section, and a long, fine “run.’’ Her designer’s aim is to 
create 4 craft which, under light spars, and with only stores for bal- 
last (in addition to a cruising centerplate) shall paddle easily, sail 
well, and at the same time afford sleeping accommodation, and yet 
not be too heavy tor her crew to haul about on shore, These qualities 
from the look of her, will no doubt be attained; and, further, when 
ballasted, sparred, and ‘-plated” for a race, she should cause a flutter 
among the bashful ones of the racing fleet. Her leading dimeusions 
are, length 15ft, beam 2ft, 7igin.. depth 1éin, There are several noyel 
features about her—notably, in that she has two complete watertight 
bulkheads, which preyent any possibility of a wash ot water fore and 
aft in the event of shipping a sea, or filling the cockpit in a squall, the 
fore and aft compartments being got at by means of deck hatchways, 
jnstead of bulkhead doors. The after end of the “‘well’*is so arranged 
as to seat a passenger for short trips, and forms, when not so used, a 
comfortable head and shoulder rest for her skipper when sailing. 
She has no side deck flaps, but is so constructed that the skipper can 
lie down at full length under the side deck and steer with his feet. 
Her sheer and general appearance are very taking to the eye, and 
suggest good sea-going qualities. Her own sails are not yet ready. 
However, an old suit is being fitted to her for theregatta; but even 
then her owner will have all his work cut ont to get her fitted by the 
time of the first race. She has been put together in little more than 
a forinight by the able R. C. C. builder, Mr. Turk, of Kingston, and 
shows considerable excellence in material and workmanship. The 
Nautilus will compete in the cruiser race and in both the sailmg races 
to-day at the R. C. C. regatta at Teddington.—_London Hield, June 28. 


OSHKOSH C. C. ANNUAL RACES,—The Oshkosh C. C. held their 
first annual races on Wednesday, July 16, The course was three 
miles triangular, the wind very light from the Hast, The start was 
made at 3 P. M., the following boats crossing: Aloka, W, J. MeCoy; 
Alice, Otto Schloerb; Sis, A. M. Von Kaas; Reine, W. A. Session; 
Meta, Oscar Timm; Bon Ami, R. P. Finney; Dollie R., W. A. Rad- 
ford, and Jen, Wm. Brand. The race was very slow owing to the 
lack of wind, Bon Ami winning in 1:28:20, with Jen, Lisand Keine fol- 
lowing. Afterward a scrub race was sailed, in which Alice was first, 
Reine second, and Aloka third. Bon Ami takes the champion flag 
for the balance of the year, and holds the challenge prize until won 
by another boat. = 

SHAWANHAKA ©, Y. C. RACE FOR CANOES.—The annual open 
boat races of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C., on July 30, will be open to 
canoes of all recognized canoe clubs, a prize valued at $30 being given. 
The conditions are given in our yachting columns. : 


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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Nep, Allegany.—See our last issue for fish seasons. 
N. J. O., Blairsville, Pa.—The gun has a good reputation. 


Cc, C. M.—Please give me the names of five or six most important 
flies for trout fishing in the Adirondacks the first of August., Ans, 
ea Professor, Red Spinner, Montreal, Red Ibis, and Queen of 

e Water, 


_ J.T. G., Keyport, N. ¥.—1, You can carry 50ft. in mainsail and 20f0. 
in mizzen, for moderate cruising rig. 2. Step mainmast 2fb. Gin. from 
ners ae 2ft. Jin. from stern. 3, Write to C. A, Neidé, Schuyler- 
ville, N. Y. 


X.Y. Z—In an ash and lancewood, 7-ounee, three-joint fly-rod 
should the middle joint be of ash or lancewood? Ans. It is largely 
a matter of taste. Lancewood is heavier than ash, and the latter is 
generally used. This would be our choice. 


Pirricus—Will you kindly inform me (1) if the fishing in Lake 
Ronkonkoma, L, I..is good enough to warrant going there fora week? 
2, Are there any fish in the lake which are forbidden fo be caught? 
3, Could I camp out there? Ans. The fishing is fair there but at times 
is overdone. 2, No. Yes, 


J. L. L.—What varnish is best to use in revarnishing a split bamboo 
rod, and I would also be obliged for any other points as to keeping a 
rod of that kind in good condition, Ans. Shellac dissolved in alcohol. 
ee! the rod well varnished and do not tie it too tightly in the case. 
Let it lie down instead of standing. 

GRAYLING.—1. Where is the best fishing among the ‘Thousand 
Islands, especially near Kingston? ¥. At what date does duck shooting 
commence? Ans. 1. Inside of Howe Island, and between that and 


* Grindstone on the east. South between Wolfe Island and Cape Vin- 


cent, 2. On the Canada side Aug. 15. New York side Sept. 1. 


AmaTEUR, Paterson, N. J.—l. How is the silk prepared for tying 
guides on a fishing rod? 2. What is the best wood for the butt of a 
light trout rod, the wood to be light and of sufficient strength? Ans, 
1, No preparation is necessary; take silk thread and wind it around 
the guides and finish with an invisible knot. 2. Ash is commonly 
used and is as good as apy if tough and close grained. 


Ewor.—Can you inform me what is the togue, its scientific name 
and habitat; also tne best work on ichthyology? Ans, Togue ia 
merely a local name for the fish otherwise known as lake trout, 
salmon trout, etc, (Salvelinus namaycash). Get Synopsys of N. A. 
Fishes, by Jordan and Gilbert, Bulletin 16 of the U S. National 
Museum. It may be difficult to obtain now. You can get Jordan's 
Fe of the Vertebrates” from Jausen, MeClurg & Co., Chicago, 
or $3. 


UMPHREYS | 


MOTE RINARY 


Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs & Poultry. 


CURE OF ALL DISEASES OF 
For Twenty Years Humphreys’ Veterinary 
Specifics have been used by Farmers, Stock- 
breeders, Horse B.R.,Travel’g Hippodromes 
Menageries and others with perfect success. 


Fever, Spinal Meningitis, Hog Cholera, 75c. 
.B. Cures Founder, Spavin, Stiffness, 75c. 
©.C, Cures Distemper, Nasal Discharges, 75c. 
.D. Cures Bots or Grubs, Worms, - - - W5c. 
_ E.E. Cures Cough, Heaves, Pneumonia, 75c. 
.F. Cures Colic or Gripes, Bellyache, 75c. 
.G. Prevents Abortion, - - - --- - 75e. 
«H, Cures all Urinary Diseases,- - - - 5c. 
1.1. Cures Eruptive Diseases, Mange, &c. F5c. 
J. Cures all Diseases of Digestion, - - Tac. 
eterinary Case (black walnut) with Vet- 
erinary Manual, (330 pp.), 10 bottles of 
Medicine, and Medicator, - « - - - .00 
Medicator,- -------+-+:+*-- 35 
("These Veterinary Cases are sent free to any 


address on receipt of the price, or any order for 
Veterinary Medicine to the amount of $5 or more. 


Mumphrev’s Veterinary Manual (S30 pp.)sent' ~ 
free by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents. 
{-Pamphlets sent free on application. 


HUMPUREYVS HOMEOPATHIC MED.CO. 
. 109 Fulton Street, New York. 


states the length and quality of the leaders in it. 


illustrated catalogue. 


“MIST COLOR” LEADERS. 


Being consumers of nearly three-fourths of the total amount of silk worm gut imported in this country, and 
haying im Murcia, Spain, increased our facilities for the manufacture of silk worm gut, we are enabled to secure a 
selection of material for our leaders beyond what even we have ever had. The leader being one of the most im- 
portant articles in an angler’s outfit, we have long given particular attention not only to the material of which it 
is composed, but also to the manner of making or tying it. 
quadruple by looping, so that the flies can be easily adjusted and will not wear the leader unnecessarily. 
our leaders are “Mist Colored.” “Every envelope contains one dozen leaders; has our name and trade mark on it; 


All of our leaders have a place every three feet, made 
All of 


If your dealer does not keep our goods in stock, or will not order them tor you, send us 50 cents for our 120-page 


ABBEY & IMBHIE, 


Manufacturers of every description of 


Fine Fishinag TWackie, 


48 & 50 MAIDEN LANE, AND 33 & 85 LIBERTY STREET. NEW YORK.” 


SILK WORM GOUT. 


™. TATASA, 85 Broadway, N. WY., 


Calls the attention of the trade and dealers in fishing tackle to his extensive assortment of 
Valencia Silk Worm Gut in all grades, long and extra long, and from Extra Heavy Salmon 
Gut to Extra Fine. Sample thousand, 10 different grades, from extra heavy to tine, $5.00. 


For price list address 


F. LATASA, 81 New St., Rooms 43 & 45, N. Y. 


Fishing Tackle. 


Rods, Reels, Lines, Arti- 
- ficial Baits 


OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 


—— 


Flies for all Waters. 


Special patterns tied to order 


APPLETON & LITCHFIELD 


304 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
JOHN MOORE, 


MANUPACTORER OF 


Carriages and Harness 


Of all Descriptions. Substantial, Serviceable Work. 


wich, Wurzburg 


awards at Sidney, Melbourne, Adelaide, South 
Africa, Toronto, London, and other exhibitions, 


S. ALLCOCK & CO., 


Fish Hook, Fishing Tackle W's, 


REDDITCH, ENG. 
OSE SEER ORS 
185 R—E.S, 


Extra-Strong Spring Steel 


‘Trade Mark 
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p SPN Da it OS PET 
PRES SEE 
Hooks made of the .best Spring Steel, Swivels, 
Phantom Baits, Patent Standard Fly Book, Patent 
Waterproof Lock Joint, Trout Rods, Patent Spring 
Hook Swivel. All descriptions of Fishing Goods, 
which can be had through all wholesale houses in 
the United States. 
AWARDS: Gold medals at Paris, Berlin, Nor- 


Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hook, 


_ Registered. 


Whereas, It having come to our notice that some 
unprincipled house, to 
ends, and to attempt 
having spread reports to the effect that the manu- 
facturers of the above hooks are defunct, we now 
take this opportunity of informing the American 
and British public that such reports are utterly 
false. The same efficient staff of workpeople is 
employed as heretofore, and we challenge the 
world to produce 2 fish hook for excellence 
of temper, beauty and finish in any wa, 
approach ours, which are to be obtained trom 
the most respectable wholesale houses in the trade. 
_ Signed, R. HARRISON, BARTLEET & CO., 
Sole manufacturers of Harrison’s Celebrated Fish 


" Manufacturers also .of Fishing Tackle of every 
description, Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles, 


Brass Multiplying 
180ft., $1.50; 240f6., #1 


package. 
Twisted Leaders, 3 leugth, 5 cts,; 
Flies, $1.00 per doz. Trout and 


catalogue. 


bollow=Point 


LIMERICK HOOKS 
S . Alleoek & Co. 


REDDITCH. 
Ringed ..100,_ 


wee 


and Caleutta. and the highest 


not less than one dozen, by 


ain their own unworthy 
oO damage our good name 


to 


treble twisted, 3 length, 10 cts. 
Black Bass Bait Rods, 9ft. long, $1.25 to $5.00. Trout and Black Bass 
Bly Rods, 10ft. long, $1.50 to $10.00. Also forty-eight different styles of rods for all kinds of fishing. 
Samples of hooks, leaders, ete., sent by mail on receipt of price in money orstamp. Send stamp for 


SAS. |. MARSTERS, 


55 Court Street, Brooklyn. 
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER OF 


Fine F'ishine Tackle. 


First Quality Goods at lower prices than any other house in America. 


Reels with Balance Handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft,, $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
8 75; 800ft., $2.00; 450ft., $2.25; 600£t., $2.50. Any of the above Reels with Drags, 
%5 cts. extra; nickel plated; 50 cts, extra. Brass Click Reels, 20yds., 50 cts.; 30yds., 75 cts.; 60yds., $1.00; 
nickel plated, 50 cts. extra. Marster’s celebrated Hooks snelled on gut, Limerick, Kirby Limerick, 
Sproat, Carlisle, Chestertown, O'Shaughnessy, Kinsey, Aberdeeen, Sneak Bent, and all other hooks. 
Single gut. 12 cts, per doz.; double, 20 cts. 
Single Gut Trout and Black 


er doz.; treble, 30 cts. per doz.; put up one-half dozen in a 
ass Leaders. lyd., 5 cts.; 2yds., 10 cts.; 3yds., 15 cts. Double 
Trout Plies, 60 cts. per doz. Black Bass 


Established 20 years. Open Evenings. J. KF. MARSTERS, 55 Court St., Brooklyn. 
re YN O&O CH’ Ss 
Patent Perfect” Brass Shells, 


MANUFACTURED BY 


KYNOCH & CO., Birmingham, Eng. 


_ These shells are made of extra fine thm. pliable metal, with reinforced base; are adapted to either 
Winchester or Wesson No. 2 primers. 
oniy about half as much. Weight less than paper shells. 
of a heavier charge, a8 owing to the thin metal. inside diameter is nearly two gauges larger. Load 
same as any brass shells, using wads say two sizes larger than gauge of shells. 
crimped with tool and straighten out to original shape when discharged. The crimping tool also 
acts as a reducer, an advantage which will be appreciated by all experienced sportsmen, 
shells will be mailed (without charge) to any sportsmen’s club or dealer, and prices quoted to the trade 
only. For sale in any quantity by gun dealers generally, or shells in case lots only, (2,000), and crimpers 


Can be reloaded as often as any of the thicker makes. Cost 


They shoot stronger and closer, and admit 
Or can be effectually 


Sample 


HERMANN BOKER & CO,, Sole American Agents, 


101 & 103 Duane Street, New York. 


SEND FOR CIRCULAR. SOLD BY ALL. GUN DEALERS AND WHOLESALED bee 
HERMANN BOKER & CO., 101 & 103 Duane Street, New York_City, 


| - —- 


818 FOREST AND STREAM. — pou $4, 1088 
PRICES OF FISHING TACKLE.| THE PETMECKY | amex « S5=02* 5... 


Brass Multiplying Reels with balance handles, first quality and fine finish, 75ft., $1.00; 120ft., $1.25; 
I8OFt., $1.50; 240Ft.. $1.75; 300ft., $2.00; 450Ft., $2.25; GOOF, $2.50; 750ft., $2.75; 900Lt , $3.00. Nickel plating 
and Drags extra. Brass Click Reels, 25yds , 60 cts.; 40yds , 75 cts.; 60yds., 85 cents.; 80yds., $1.00. Kiffe’s 
Celebrated Hooks -nelled on gut. Single gut, 12 cts. per doz.; double, 20 cts. per doz.; treble, 30 cts. per 
doz, Single Gut T. out and Black Bass Leaders, lyd.,.5 cts.; 2yds., 10 ets.; 8yds., 15 cts. Double Twisted 
Leaders, 3 length. 5 cts.; 4length, 10 cts.; treble, 3 length, 10 cts.; 4 length, 15 cts.; extra heayy 4-ply, 
4length, 25 cts. Trout Flies, 50 cts. per doz.; Black Bass Flies, $1,00 per doz. Samples of our goods sent 
by mail or express on receipt of price. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. : 


HERMANN H. KIFFE, 318 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Between Fulton Ferry and City Hal. OPEN EVENINGS. 


GUR NEW MODEL 


THREE BARREL 
GUN. 


PRICE, $75 TO $250. 


. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
This gun is light and compact, from 9 to 10 lbs. weight, The rifle 1s perfectly accurate. 


iL. Cc. SMIiT of, Maller, Syracuse,N.WY. 


UP & MC’S FISHING SUIT, 


DARK LEAD COLOR, 
AND THE 


HOLABIRD 


SHOOTING SUITS 


Fustian and Imported Corduroy. 
ASSORTHD COLORS. 


Unequualed in Convenience, Style or Workmanship. 


———-. 


a, 


I Write for our new Catalogue and Samples. 


THISt= 


is our Skeleton Coat or Game Bag. Weighs but 15 ounces, 
Can oe worn over or under an ordinary coat. Has seven 
pockets and game pockets. It is of strong material, 
dead grass color, and will hold the game of a successfu 
day without losing a hair or feather. We will mail it to 
you, postage paid, for $2.00. Send breast measure. 


Ses on 
UPTHEGROVE 


McLELLAN, 


Valparaiso, Ind. 


The American Arms Co., manufacturers of the Fox patent double guns, are now running their entire | )Pockets for caps, ete. 


gun machinery on the single semi-hammeriess guns and their new double-action extracting pistols, and 
will make no more double guns at present, except on orders, at full prices. The undersigned, havin, 
purchased all their stock of Fox guns, some 300 in all, of the various grades No. 5 list and above, w: 
offer them to sportsmen—“‘first come, first serve’’—at 25 per cent. discount from the regular list while 
they last. Here is an opportunity to purchase a fine gun at an unprecedentedly low price. They are all 
warranted of the finest qualities in every respect, and cannot be duplicated when this lot is exhausted. 

Orders may be sent as usual to the AMERICAN ARMS CO,, or to F. H. RAYMOND, Treas- 
urer, 103 Milk Street, Boston Will be sent C. O. D, for trial and examination. 


Sportsmen’s Wear. 


No. A i, Barnard Canvas Shooting Coat, - #5 00 
No. 1, " ts " - 4 00 
No. 2, ae ac ee ce i yd 5O 
No. 3, a . ae és - 175 


For sale by all gun and sporting goods dealers. Ask for them; 
see that our trade mark is on the lining, They are the best; take no 
other. 

We also manufactute Hats, Caps, Leggins, Pants, Vests, 
Waterp:oof Horsehide Boots and Shoes, Carryall Bags, 


seriptien of goods used by sportsmen, made from canvas, 
Corduroy and Waterproof Leather. 


Tilustrated catalogue, sample and measurement blanks sent free 
upon application. - 


GEORGE BARNARD & CO., 108 Madison St , Chicago. 
HASTERN AGENCY: 47 Murray st.,N.Y. F.N.Wuurre, Manager. 


Ss JU MB OLE NE: 


A Lotion for Sportsmen, Excursionists & Others. 


Protects persons using it from the attacks of MOSQUITOES. 
BLACK FLIES, and other insects, and from SUNBURN and the 
disagreeable effects of exposure to the weather. - 

Tt is beneficial to the skin, and has no disagreeable odor; ‘is color- 
less and cleanly, not staining the finest linen, and washes off 
readily on the application of soap and water. 


MANUFACTURED BY 
THOS. JENNESS & SON, 12 West Market Sq., Bangor. 


Sold by the leading dealers in sporting goods throughoutthe country 
Price, 50 Cents Per Bottle. 
N, B.—When ordering please mention this paper. 


Bargains that should be in every Sportsman's Hands. 


A FEW COPIES OF THE SECOND EDITION OF 


“WWinNnGe SHoo Tin G” 


Left, and will be sold for 50 cents each. 


Methods for cleaning and loading the modern breech-loader; practical hints upon wing shooting; 
directions for hunting suipes, woodcocks, ruffed grouse and q a 
ted: Bound in cloth, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, 50 cents; formerly sold for $1.00, 


IDustra: 
T., G. DAVEY, Publisher, London, Ont. 


Of Waterproofed Duck, Dead Grass Color, Trish | Pecgrted Toret er OM RICAN TRA GO 


Our new Frankhn_ Bat 
cannot be surpassed. Price 
; $5.50. Weare sole makers 
of the Regulation Ball, adopted by the U.S8.N. L. T. 
Association, April 5, 1884, and by the Intercollegiate 
L, T. Association May 7,1884. The Playing Rules of 
Lawn Tennis, with complete catalogue of our popu- 
lar goods, by mail, 10c. stamps. = 
PECK & SNYDER, 126. 128, 130 Nassau st., N. Y. 


Refrigerator Baskets. 
The grandest thing ever invented for fishermen 
or for parties living out of town, as articles of a 
perishable nature can be carried around all day in 
the hottest weather and will be kept cold as ice. 
These baskets being lined with tin and packed with 
boiler felt are perfect portable refrigerators, pre- 


GUN CLEAN BR. 


The only Cleaner that will thoroughly clean a gun 
barrel, doing the work equally well in choke bores 
without adjustment. Will do the work quicker and 
better than all other implements, for the purpose, 
combined, Price, $1.25. By mail, 10 cents extra. Ask 


your’dealer for it. Discount to the trade. Circular | Serving the contents and giving plenty of ice-water 
free, J. ©, PETMECKY, for Uva OT Toate They are made of the best. 
Wholesale Dealer in Guns, Fishing Tackle, etc,, Aus- | rattan, with drop handles, double lids and straps on 


top, and are the strongest and most handsome 
baskets ever._made. Two sizes. Price $3.50 and 
$4.50. Sent by express on receipt of price by the 
eee at JOHN R. HARE, 63 Fayette street, Balti- - 
more, : = 


tin, Texas. 


A NEW DISCOVERY! : 


THE NIAGARA TARGET BALL. 


Patented December 18th, 1883. 
COAL BLACK AND BREAKS LIKE GLASS. 


Impossible for shot to penetrate this ball without 
having it fly to pieces; one pellet of shot will break 
it; sure test of shooters’ skill; no unaccountable 
misses, Clubs will not use any other target ball 
atter piving these a fair trial. Ask your dealer for 
them. Write for circulars to NIAGARA TAR- 
GET BALL CO., Niagara Falls, N. Y. 


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orders for our celebruted Teas 
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ful Gold Band or Moss Rose China 


SAS Ten Set, or Handsome Decorated 
Gold Band Moss Rose Dinner Set, or Gold Band Moss 


J. N. DODGE, 


Detroit, Mich. 


276 and 278 Division street, 


Ue HE ss A 
~GREATAMERICAN 


Manufacturer of Decoy Ducks of all kinds. First 
quality, $9 per doz,; second quality, $7: third qual- 
ity, #5. Also geese, brant, coot. swan and snipe 
decoys. Duck and turkey calls. Decoys made like 
any pattern furnished, without extra charge. 
Large stock. 


P. 0, Box 289  3l and 33 Vesey St., New York. 


GUNNING COAT. 


Edge of game pocket turned up to 
show the net bottom, which permits 
ventilation, drip and distention. 

Right and left sides alike. 


OUTSIDE, INSIDE. 


Corduroy Oost; Zo lse feet Wane! ee wes | $10 00 
it Wiese H ye), aaa re lat ne 8 00 

ig rowsers. = 20hreses wk. 5 00 
Linen Duck Coat..... 5 00 
Pf Vest.. 2 00 

Ws Pants, 3 00: 
Cotton Duck Coat.. 4 00 
A Vest... 2 00 

“ Pants 2 50 

#| Cap of Corduroy........ 2 00 
e Duele oy advsew tee 1 00 


Sent everywhere in the United States on 
receipt of price. 


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HENNING, CLOTHIER, 


410 Seventh Street, 
WASHINGTON CITY. 


AT THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION 
TEE: WIiCHoLsS 
Hexagonal Split Bamboo Fishing Rods 


Were awarded Three Silver Medals and the highest special prize—10 Sovereigns. Noted for excel- 
ence more than numbers. This is the highest prize awarded to any American for Split Bamboo Rods. 


Manufactured by B. F. NICHOLS, 153 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
Send for list with Massachusetts Fish and Game Laws. 


INTER-STATE CLAY PIGEON TOURNAMENT 
Under the auspices of the 
Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Co., Cincinnati, O., 


At Metropolitan Base Ball Park, N. Y. City, Aug. 14,15 & 16. 
(Cor. First ave, and 107th st., via Third ave. Elevated R, R.) Admission 25 cents. 


E—Exit from game pocket. 
F—Entrances to game pocket. 
G—Net bottom game pocket, 
H—Game pocket. 


A—Opénings to game pocket. 
B—Pockets for empty shells. 
\—Pockets for loaded hells. 


Gun Cases, Cartridge Bag:, Shell Boxes, and every de- | For full programme, ete., send to above Company at Cincinnati, or at 59 Murray street, New York City. 


HEADQUARTERS: ASTOR HOUSE, EUROPEAN PLAN, 


PATENT BREEOH & MUZZLE-LOADING 


Yacht Cannon, 


Sizes, 17, 24, 28 and 32 inches in length. 
MANUFACTURED BY THE 


STRONG FIRE ARMS CO., New Haven, Ct. 


Also Mfrs. of Shelton Auxiliary Rifle Barrels, Combination Sights 
- and Cartridge Grooving Machines. 
Send for Catalogue and Price List. 


TARGET BALLS AND BALL PIGEONS. 


New and Superior to all others. 


Sample barrel of the New Ball and a handsome silver 
badge sent te any address for $3.00, The Moyer “Ball 
Pigeon’’ and trap will be ready about April15. Trap, $15; 
Pigeons, $18 per ML. Any club desiring to test the new ball 
thoroughly we will send 1000 for $5, after which the regular 
price will be inflexible at $9 per M, Card’s Jatest ball trap, 
the only one we guarantee and recommend, and 1000 balls for 
$14. The trap in exchange for your old ball trap and $6.50. 

TARGET BALL AND BALL PIGEON CO., Lockport, N. ¥. 


hes 6 
TARGET BALL 


Send for circular. 


Fragrant Vanity eee 


Cloth of Gold 
CIGARETTES. 


ih icarettes cannot be surpassed. If you do not use them, a trial will convince 
youtube ey have no equal. Two hundred millions sold in 1883. i 


183 First Prize Medals Awarded. 
WM. S. KIMBALL & CO. 


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